Comandanta Grabiela: “We Are Here Because We Have Completed Our Work. Now We Get to Return, but You All Will Not Remain Alone”

By Amber Howard- December 3, 2006

Today, after a long journey into the forgotten corners of the country of Mexico, the Zapatista Other Campaign tour begun on January 1st finally came to an end… and a new beginning.

To celebrate, adherents of the Other Campaign met together Mexico City to compare notes and shed light onto some of the results of the tour. The theme, the Other Campaign and the Anti-Capitalist Struggle, brought together eight panelists who addressed these topics …

A Call from the Zapatistas: Oaxaca Is Not Alone
Shut-Down of Roads, Highways and the Media on November 1;
General Strike Called for November 20
By the Sixth Commission of the EZLN, The Other Mexico

October 30, 2006

Message from the CLANDESTINE REVOLUTIONARY INDIGENOUS COMMITTEE-GENERAL COMMAND of the ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION MEXICO.

October 30, 2006.

To the people of Mexico:
To the people of the world:
To the Other Campaign in Mexico and the other side of the Rio Grande:

To the entire Sixth International:

Compañeros and compañeras:
Brothers and sisters:

It is now known publicly that yesterday, 29th of October 2006, Vicente Fox’s federal forces attacked the people of …

By Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
The Other Mexico
October 26, 2006

Bueno, Compañeras and Compañeros:

First we just want to thank the Monroy family, who is receiving the Sixth Commission and the Karavana’s compañeros, who are giving us lodging here, in… Rancho el Peñasco is it called? Thank you Compañeros and Compañeras. And thank you to all of you who have endured the six hours that we have been here, and I hope you have a little patience for what I am going to say.

We especially want to thank the traditional O’odham authorities. Don José, Doña Ofelia – I don’t see …

The Kiliwa Had Declared a “Death Pact” After the Government and Gringo “Conservation” Groups Forbade Them from Fishing; Next Fishing Season Will See a Zapatista Camp on Their Lands

By Kristin Bricker
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Baja California

MEXICALI, BAJA CALIFORNIA: Delegate Zero announced a bold new step in the Other Campaign October 20 in El Mayor, Baja California: a Zapatista camp in the Cucapa and Kiliwa indigenous communities, located just outside of Mexicali, to protect them during the upcoming fishing season and prevent a “death pact” from being fulfilled. He also shed further light on the next phase …

Two Indigenous Comandantes Will Travel to Live in Each State; Later, “We Will Travel To Every Part of the United States and Canada”

By Simon Fitzgerald
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Baja California
October 21, 2006

On the night of Thursday, October 19, at the end of two days of meetings, rallies, and events with the Other Tijuana and the Other Campaign on the Other Side, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos explained in more detail how the Other Campaign will function after the current tour around the country ends in Mexico City on November 30.

In the MultiKulti Theatre in downtown Tijuana, Marcos clarified …

By Greg Berger, October 22, 2006

Only six short months ago, the town of Texcoco, in Mexico State, was made infamous throughout Mexico and the world as the place where one of the worst police massacres in recent Mexican history began. Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left’s most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular …

Delegate Zero Presents Seven Zapatista Comandantes to the Other Campaign in Mexico City
By Al Giordano, The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Mexico City

October 2, 2006

MEXICO CITY, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2006: Two thousand organizers of the Zapatista Other Campaign convened today in the Pantitlán neighborhood of Mexico City for a conference to “analyze the national situation,” a task made still more complicated nineteen hours earlier when the Mexican Armed Forces conducted helicopter surveillance flights on Saturday over the city of Oaxaca, six hours to the south of the nation’s capital. The flagrant participation by the national army added the …

Pedro Jiménez Gómez and Juan Jiménez, Adherents of the Zapatista Other Campaign, Are the Latest Political Prisoners in Mexico
By Al Giordano
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Chiapas
September 9, 2006

On Friday, Juan Jiménez, 33, and Pedro Jiménez Gómez, 18, armed with gardening rakes, walked out to work the field where they cultivate radishes, cucumbers, carrots and flowers to sell in the markets of San Cristóbal, Chiapas. Agents of the federal attorney general’s office (PGR, in its Spanish initials) seized their rakes and placed the two men under arrest. As of Saturday morning they were still imprisoned in the PGR …

Words of the Sixth Comission of the EZLN for the Second Indigenous Gathering of the Yucatan Peninsula
By Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, The Other Mexico

SECOND PENINSULAR INDIGENOUS REUNION
Candelaria, Campeche, Mexico

August 2006

Compañeras and compañeros:

We thank the Peninsular Indigenous Coordination and the National Indigenous Congress, who have given us a space for this meeting.

We also thank our friends of Candelaria, Campeche, for being the place where our words and thoughts find their place and march onward.

This is our word as the Zapatista indigenous that we are, not only greeting the Mayan roots that unite us to the Indian peoples who dignify the lands and …

The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the narco-traffic in Chiapas “are factors that affect the national security,” says an internal document of Superior Center of Naval Studies (CESNAV) of the Secretary of the Navy. Developed for students of national security, high command and officers of the Navy of Mexico with the participation of officials with the rank of captain of the Navy, colonels of the Army and high-level functionaries of the secretariats of Exterior Relations, Government, Communications and Transport and the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN) the paper warned that the state of Chiapas confronts “threats and …