[Onthebarricades] World Campaign for the Defense of Land and IndigenousTerritory and Autonomy.

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Subject: [BlackGreen)] World Campaign for the Defense of Land and IndigenousTerritory and Autonomy.


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World Campaign for the Defense of Land and Indigenous Territory and Autonomy.

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The Zapatistas, meanwhile, have just launched a World Campaign for the Defense of Autonomous Indigenous and Peasant Land and Territory in Chiapas, Mexico and the World. Inspired by the heightened struggle to defend their territories in Chiapas, the Zapatista-launched campaign has already received letters of support from João Stédile of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement and Rafael Alegría ( see his picture above and my translation of his letter below), along with over a thousand signed supporters from throughout Mexico and the World.


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The Global Struggle for Land and Agrarian Reform

Compañeros and Compañeras Zapatistas:

I write you in the name of the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform of Vía Campesina International. Vía Campesina is an international movement of peasant, indigenous, landless, rural workers, and peasant women and youth organizations. The Global Campaign supports local and national struggles for land and territory, and we fight against privatization and the mercantilization of land and natural resources. 

Vía Campesina has a history and a debt with you, compañeros and compañeras of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. In 2003, when Vía Campesina helped to mount the great mobilization of Cancún, against the train of death, the World Trade Organization, the cards and recorded messages of Comandanta Esther, of Comandante David, and of Subcomandante Marcos, were what motivated and inspired us in that battle in which we obtained a powerful victory, although at the cost of the delivery of the life of a member of the korean peasantry, and martyr of the peasant struggle, Lee Kyung-Hae. Thank you, compañeros and compañeras; in Cancún we felt that our struggle was your struggle. It's more, the Zapatista struggle is a struggle that inspires all of us peasants throughout the world. 

And as peasants, indigenous and landless peoples, we feel that your struggle to defend your lands and recuperated territories is our struggle. We recognize the validity of the agrarian reform made by the Zapatistas in their territories, based in the Agrarian Revolutionary Law of 1993, and we denounce the coordinated 'counter-reform' agrarian campaign, in which paramilitary groups, the military, the agrarian magistrate and press, and the government conspire to displace the Zapatista communities of the land and territory recuperated as part of their 1994 uprising. 

The Zapatistas made a true agrarian reform in their territories, and now, just as in other countries where agrarian reforms have been made, the powerful seek to reverse these reforms, with the use of paramilitaries and extra-judicial violence, intimidation, fear, and the so-called 'rule of law' in which they use the judicial authorities to unmake the reforms, reconcentrate the land in a few hands, and attack the territories of the people. It is the same throughout the world. 

Because of this, the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform of Vía Campesina completely supports, and is a part of, your World Campaign for the Defense of Land and Indigenous Territory and Autonomy. We are in the same struggle, compañeros y compañeras, and together we will win! 

That We Globalize Struggle!
That We Globalize Hope!

Rafael Alegría
http://zapagringo.blogspot.com
http://narconews.com


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http://www.aut-op-sy.org
http://narconews.com
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~archive/chiapas95/
http://noborder.org
http://slash.interactivist.net/
http://ainfos.ca
http://www.metamute.org
http://lists.perthimc.asn.au/pipermail/blackgreensolidarity/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity
http://www.metamute.org/en/Precarious-Reader 
https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/ipsm-l/2005-July/000781.html 
http://www.deletetheborder.org 
http://www.nettime.org
http://www.pochanostra.com/dialogues/
http://www.aspaceoutside.org/wp-content/uploads/Space_Outside_Reader.pdf
http://www.prol-position.net/ 
http://stateofemergency.nomasters.org/ 
http://www.infoshop.org/inews
http://www.eco-action.org/dod
http://www.16beavergroup.org/drift/overview.htm 


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the ankle bone, connected to the thigh bone ;)

http://del.icio.us/dr.woooo

http://www.aut-op-sy.org
http://narconews.com
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~archive/chiapas95/
http://noborder.org
http://slash.interactivist.net/
http://ainfos.ca
http://www.metamute.org
http://lists.perthimc.asn.au/pipermail/blackgreensolidarity/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity 
http://www.metamute.org/en/Precarious-Reader
https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/ipsm-l/2005-July/000781.html 
http://www.deletetheborder.org
http://www.nettime.org
http://www.pochanostra.com/dialogues/ 
http://www.aspaceoutside.org/wp-content/uploads/Space_Outside_Reader.pdf
http://www.prol-position.net/ 
http://stateofemergency.nomasters.org/
http://www.infoshop.org/inews
http://www.eco-action.org/dod 
http://www.16beavergroup.org/drift/overview.htm 


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