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Ya basta! : ten years of the Zapatista uprising / writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos ; forewords by Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein ; edited and with a contribution by Žiga Vodovnik

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Author
Marcos subcomandante
Vodovnik, Žiga
Subject
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)
NMAI copy 39088019496595 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema.
Contents
Forewords. Chiapas : symbol of resistance / Noam Chomsky -- The unknown icon / Naomi Klein
Introduction. Žiga Vodovnik : the struggle continues ... -- 1. Conquest and human progress -- 2. Ceteris paribus or little has changed -- 3. Before the dawn -- 4. Waging war -- 5. Beneath the mask -- 6. Marcos on neoliberalism -- 7. It's up to you
ch. I. Subcomandante Marcos : 1994-1996 : spreading the word -- 1. There will be a storm -- 2. The long journey from despair to hope -- 3. We know what we're doing ; it is worth it -- 4. The story of the question -- 5. Letter to Ernesto Zedillo -- 6. The Zapatistas hike up the price of the indigenous Mexican blood -- 7. Death has visited us dressed in olive green -- 8. The retreat is making us almost scratch at the sky -- 9. Welcome to the Ecuador-Peru border -- 10. Durito II (neoliberalism seen from the Lacandon jungle) -- 11. Zapatistas Guadalupanos and the Virgin of Guadalupe -- 12. A year of the Zapatista government -- 13. Far inside of the cave of desire -- 14. That reason wins always and never force -- 15. Durito III (neo-liberalism and the labor movement) -- 16. A history about herons and eagles in the Lacandon jungle (letter from Subcomandante Marcos to John Berger) -- 17. Why Marcos is not at the dialogue -- 18. Marcos invites the government's delegates to a community consultation -- 19. Dignity cannot be studied, you live it or it dies -- 20. Mexico : the moon between the mirrors of the night and the crystal of the day -- 21. Power as mirror and an image -- 22. Durito IV : neoliberalism and the party-state system -- 23. The tale of Durito's return -- 24. Durito : neoliberalism the chaotic theory of economic chaos -- 25. Today ends the national plebiscite for peace and democracy -- 26. Letter to the people of the U.S. -- 27. The history of the little mouse and the cat -- 28. To solidarity groups meeting in Brescia -- 29. What price is dignity? -- 30. Of trees, criminals, and odontology -- 31. The story of the cold foot and the hot foot -- 32. Like here in Chiapas? -- 33. 12 women in the twelfth year -- 34. Support letter for Leonard Peltier -- 35. Our people cannot continue in this dialogue -- 36. The sea shell of the end and the beginning -- 37. Urgent telegram to civil society
ch. II. Subcomandante Marcos : 1997-1999 : building the world -- 38. The story of the noise and the silence -- 39. Letter to indigenous leadership in U.S. -- 40. To the solidarity committees of the Zapatista struggle in all the world -- 41. Marcos on May day, Tupac Amaru and Fidel Velazquez -- 42. Letter to "commander in chief Zapata" -- 43. The seven loose pieces of the global jigsaw puzzle (neoliberalism as a puzzle) -- 44. Beads and accounts of numbers -- 45. The tale of the little newspaper vendor -- 46. The table at San Andrés -- 47. Three tables for the end of the century dinner -- 48. An inverted periscope or memory, a buried key -- 49. Above and below : masks and silences -- 50. The history of the measure of memory -- 51. It continues raining here -- 52. The state government is stealing the humanitarian aid intended for the victims of the flooding -- 53. The always' and the nevers' imposed by those from above -- 54. The invitation for a dialogue between the EZLN and civil society -- 55. These bridges which are little unarmed paper boats -- 56. I will deal with you later -- 57. The Day of the Dead -- 58. History of the one and the all -- 59. Are the Zapatista indigenous communities worse off than before the uprising? -- 60. The International Consulta and the International Jornada for the excluded of the world -- 61. The little tree and the others -- 62. To musicians all over the world -- 63. We want to go with everyone -- 64. People in the most unexpected places are participating -- 65. We ask that you provide economic help -- 66. The Consulta, the victories and the questions of the moment -- 67. Subcomandante Marcos to Mumia Abu-Jamal -- 68. Demand justice in the case of mister Mumia Abu-Jamal -- 69. The dawn is heralding heat and flushes -- 70. "No!" to the war in the Balkans -- 71. We do indeed support the UNAM strike movement -- 72. The UN's complicity in the war in Europe was obvious -- 73. The parrot and the macaw -- 74. Duality and remembrance -- 75. Fifteen years ago -- 76. The hour of the little ones, I -- 77. The hour of the little ones, II -- 78. The hour of the little ones, III -- 79. The hour of the little ones, IV -- 80. The hour of the little ones, X -- 81. Subcomandante insurgent Marcos to Leonard Peltier -- 82. Between the satellite and the microscope -- 83. The machinery of ethnocide
ch. III. Subcomandante Marcos : 2000-2003 : (r)evolution continues ... -- 84. Every time Zedillo comes to Chiapas -- 85. One day things will go straight -- 86. A university filled with soldiers and a jail filled with students -- 87. Chocolates yes, injections no -- 88. Marcos on windows and reality -- 89. Marcos to the insurgentas -- 90. To the relatives of the politically disappeared -- 91. The alone-and-abandoned poll -- 92. Why do we all agree the global market is inevitable? -- 93. Zedillo's last moments! (the political class) -- 94. To Senor Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon -- 95. 2 years without Vocho, TV's or little shops -- 96. Withdrawing with a great public show -- 97. The Zapatista information center -- 98. 7 years from what we call "the other uprising" -- 99. How are we going to eat with our ski-masks on? -- 100. While they discuss ski-masks or no ski-masks -- 101. To the community of Tephe -- 102. To the cybernauts -- 103. Recipients of the world, unite -- 104. FAQ on march -- 105. The devils of the new century -- 106. To the boys and girls of the Isidro Favela neighborhood -- 107. Our word for everyone -- 108. Words of the EZLN in Juchitan -- 109. Marcos reports back in Oventik -- 110. We are in silence, and the silence is not being broken -- 111. EZLN sends greetings to the Madrid Aguascalientes -- 112. The Basque country : paths -- 113. The Zapatistas can, and should, speak only about the indigenous question? -- 114. I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet -- 115. Durito and one about false options -- 116. Chiapas : the thirteenth Stele -- 117. A death has been decided -- 118. Each Caracol now has a name assigned -- 119. We are Mexicans ... but we are also indigenous -- 120. The story of the rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities -- 121. A good government -- 122. A postscript -- 123. The death train of the WTO -- 124. Launch of "EZLN : 20 & 10 : Fire and Word" campaign -- 125. Fire and Word
ch. IV. EZLN communiqués -- 1. First declaration from the Lacandon jungle -- 2. Second declaration from the Lacandon jungle -- 3. Third declaration from the Lacandon jungle -- 4. Fourth declaration from the Lacandon jungle -- 5. Fifth declaration from the Lacandon jungle
Summary
The anonymous Marcos, a spokesman for the Zapatistas, whose uprising began in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994, presents a collection of his messages in chronological sections through 2003. Also included are five EZLN (Zapatista) communiques.
2004
20th century
Type
Books
History
Physical description
687 pages ; 23 cm
Place
Mexico
Chiapas (Mexico)
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Government relations
Social conditions
Social movements--History
Politics and government
Record ID
siris_sil_1089444
Metadata Usage (text)
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