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ON AYOTZINAPA, THE FESTIVAL, AND HYSTERIA AS A METHOD OF Analysis AND A GUIDE FOR Activity

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

Zapatista National Liberation Regular army

Dec 2014

To thecompas of the National and International Sixth:

To the National Indigenous Congress:

To the family members and compañeros of those killed and disappeared in Ayotzinapa:

Sisters and brothers:

Compañeros andcompañeras:

At that place are many things we want to tell you. We won't tell you all of them because nosotros know right now there are more than urgent and important bug for all of u.s.a.. [i] Thus we ask for your patience and your circumspect ear.

We Zapatistas are here. And it is from here that we see, hear, and read that the vocalism of the family members andcompañeros of the murdered and disappeared of Ayotzinapa is beginning to be forgotten and that now, for some people out in that location, the more than of import things are:

-the words coming from other people that have taken stage;

-the discussions over whether the marches and protests belong to the well-behaved or the badly behaved;

-the word virtually any information technology is that appears most frequently and rapidly in social media;

-the give-and-take over what tactic and strategy volition "move beyond" the movement.

And we recall that the 43 from Ayotzinapa are however missing, as are the 49 from the ABC Daycare, the tens of thousands of murdered and disappeared citizens and migrants, the political prisoners and disappeared prisoners.

We recall that the truth is still kidnapped, and justice is still disappeared.

And nosotros think that the legitimacy and autonomy of this move [of the family unit members and compañeros of Ayotzinapa] must exist respected.

Nosotros Zapatistas heard their voices in person. Thousands of Zapatista bases of back up heard them and their voices were then carried to tens of thousands of indigenous people. Their voice thus also spoke in Tzeltal, Chol, Tojolabal, Tzotzil, Zoque, and Spanish to our collective middle.

Those voices are wise, they know what they are talking about, and their heart is like ours when information technology becomes hurting and rage. They know their path and they are walking it.

They know themselves. We know ourselves in rage and pain. Nosotros have zero to teach them. We have everything to acquire from them.

That is why now, equally their voice is stifled, silenced, twisted or forgotten, we send them our discussion as an embrace.

That is why we say that the showtime, most important and urgent thing is to listen to the family members andcompañeros of the disappeared and murdered of Ayotzinapa. These are the voices that have touched the hearts of millions of people in United mexican states and around the world.

These are the voices that accept marked the hurting and rage and have denounced the law-breaking and pointed to the criminal.

The importance of these voices is also recognized as much by the government, which tries to delegitimize them, equally past the vultures that attempt to twist them.

We want to help these voices retake their place and their path.

These voices resisted the slander, the bribery, and the buy-off.

These voices did not sell out, did not surrender, and did not requite up.

These voices are in solidarity.

We found out, for case, that when immature people were piling upwardly in the jails, and the "well-behaved" advised these voices not to intermission for the prisoners, that their freedom wasn't that important given that the regime was of course "infiltrating" the protests, those dignified and business firm voices of the family members andcompañerosof the 43 said, more or less, that for them the liberty of those detained was part of the struggle for the render of the disappeared. That is, as they say, these voices did not let themselves be blackmailed nor did they buy that cheap bit about the "infiltrators."

Of course, these voices have had the fortune of encountering a population receptive at the central level to being both fed up and empathetic—fed upwards with the "archetype" forms of Power and empathy among those who endure its habits and abuses.

But this already existed in diverse calendars and geographies. What puts Ayotzinapa on the earth map is the dignity of the family members andcompañeros of the murdered and disappeared young people, and their stubborn and uncompromising insistence on the search for justice and truth.

In their voice, many people all over the planet recognized themselves. Their words spoke to other hurting and other rage.

And their words made us think many things. For case:

-that the constabulary do not investigate theft; the police kidnap, torture, disappear, and murder people, whether or not they have political affiliation.

-that the electric current institutions are not the place to take our rage for indictment; they are the places that provoke our rage.

-that the organization has no solutions for the problem because it is the problem.

And that for a long time now, and in many places:

-the governments don't govern, they pretend;

-the representatives don't stand for, they supercede;

-the judges don't impart justice, they sell it;

-the politicians don't exercise politics, they do business;

-the public security forces are not public and don't impose guild other than that of the terror they carry out at the service of whoever pays all-time;

-that legality is a disguise for illegitimacy;

-that analysts don't analyze, they make their phobias and affinities into reality;

-that critics don't critique, they have and distribute dogmas;

-that those responsible for informing don't inform, simply produce and distribute slogans;

-that thinkers don't think, they swallow whatever is in style;

-that crime isn't punished, but rewarded;

-that ignorance is not fought, but extolled;

-that poverty is the wage for those who produce wealth.

Because information technology turns out, friends and enemies, that commercialism nourishes itself from war and destruction.

The era in which capital needed peace and social stability is over.

And in the new hierarchy within capital, speculation reigns and commands, and its world is made of corruption, impunity, and crime.

As it turns out, the nightmare in Ayotzinapa is not a local, state, or national trouble. It'south a global i.

And information technology turns out that it is non only against young people, nor only confronting men. Information technology is a war of many wars: a state of war against the other, a war against indigenous peoples, a war against youth, a war confronting those who with their labor make the world go round, a state of war against women.

Because it seems that femicide is such old news, and then everyday and ubiquitous in all ideologies that it at present goes downward as "natural death" in the records.

Considering information technology is a war that every few minutes takes on a proper noun in whatsoever calendar and geography: Erika Kassandra Bravo Caro: young adult female, worker, Mexican, nineteen years old, tortured, killed, and flayed in the "pacified" (co-ordinate to civil, military, and media authorities) Mexican state of Michoacán. "A crime of passion," they will say, just similar those who say "collateral victims," or "a local problem in the municipality of the provincial Mexican state of… (enter the name of any country in the federation)," or "information technology's an isolated event, nosotros must move on."

Information technology turns out that Aytozinapa and Erika are not the exception, only rather the reaffirmation of the rule of capitalist war: destroy the enemy.

Considering in this war the enemy is all of u.s.a..

And this is a state of war confronting everything, every thing everywhere.

Because equally it turns out, this is what information technology'southward nigh, what it has e'er been almost: a war, which is now a war against humanity.

In this war, those below found in the family members andcompañeros of those taken from Ayotzinapa an amplified repeat of their own history.

And now not only in their pain and rage, but likewise and to a higher place all in their stubborn endeavor to find justice.

And with their voices the lies of conformity, of "we can put upwards with it," of "nothing is wrong," of "changes is fabricated within oneself."

Only, in the midst of pain and rage, there above, once again, the vultures circle over the great stain of death and disappearances that carry names.

Because where some count unjust absences, others count votes, windows, job opportunities, memberships, leaderships, marches, signatures, likes, and follows.

But that doesn't hateful that the count that counts and means something is forgotten.

We, Zapatistas of the EZLN, believe that it is so important that the voices of the family members andcompañeros of the murdered and disappeared of Ayotzinapa retake their place that we accept decided the following:

1. To cede our identify at the First World Festival of Resistance and Rebellion confronting Capitalism to the family members andcompañerosof the Ayotzinapa students who were murdered and disappeared. Nosotros recall that in their voices and ears in that location will be generous echoes for all of those who, present or not, participate in the festival.
2. That is why nosotros are asking thecompañerasandcompañerosof the National Indigenous Congress in the distinct locales, the Articulation Commission of the CNI-Sixth for the Cultural Festival, and those who would accept been offering transportation, lodging, food, security, and health support to our delegation, to dedicate and orient their efforts toward the families andcompañerosof the Ayotzinapa students who nosotros all miss today. We inquire that you lot nourish to them, listen to them, and talk to them as if they were whichever of the 20 Zapatistas, 10 women and 10 men, who would have formed our delegation.
3. This is why nosotros respectfully ask the family members andcompañerosof those absent-minded from Ayotzinapa to accept our invitation and name, from among yourselves, a delegation of twenty people, 10 women and x men, and participate every bit honored invitees in the World Festival of Resistance and Rebellion confronting Capitalism to be celebrated from December 21, 2014, through January 3, 2015. It was very of import for us, equally Zapatistas, to listen to yous directly. We think information technology will be very good for all of those who attend the festival to accept this same laurels. And we also believe that all of you will proceeds much from coming together other sister resistances and rebellions from United mexican states and around the world. You will see then how great and extensive this "you are not alone" really is.
4. The EZLN will participate in the Festival. Our circumspect and respectful ear will be there as i more among all of ourcompasof the Sixth. Not on stage or in special places. Nosotros will be similar shadows, alongside everyone else, among everyone else and behind everyone else.
5. Our word for the commutation is already on video. Nosotros have indicated to "The Odd Ones OutCompas" [Los Tercios Compas] that they should get it to the diverse Festival locales and to the gratuitous, alternative, and independent, autonomous, or whatsoever you call them media who belong to the Sixth so that they can air it, if they come across fit, according to their own times and methods.
6. On December 31, 2014 and the first day of the year 2015, information technology will exist an honor for u.s.a. to receive as honored guests, in the Oventiccaracol, the women and men who, with their pain and rage, have raised across the planet the flag of dignity that nosotros below and to the left are.
7. And not just that, nosotros likewise desire to use this infinite to invite anybody from the National and International Sixth, masked or not, to participate in this bully exchange, to share their stories and listen to Others. [ii]

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On hysteria as a method of analysis and guide to action

We, as Zapatistas, are here. And from hither we meet, listen, and read.

In the recent mobilizations for truth and justice for the Ayotzinapa students, the dispute over who sets the tone of such mobilizations has been repeated, to the extent now of criminalizing those who coincide with a detail overplayed stereotype: immature people, with their faces covered, dressed in black, that are or announced to be anarchists; in sum, those who are desperately behaved. And as such, as the debate goes, they should be pointed out, expelled, detained, tied up, and handed over to the law or but to the ire of the progressive sectors.

This issue has been met with reactions close to hysteria in some cases, and schizophrenia in others, impeding a reasoned argument and necessary debate.

Although nosotros accept witnessed this before (in the UNAM strike of 1999-2000, in 2005-2006, and in 2010-2012), the re-launch of this method of analysis and guide for action by the well-behaved left requires some reflection:

The family members andcompañeros of the murdered and disappeared of Ayotzinapa, like the tens of thousands of murdered and disappeared, do not inquire for charity or pity; they need truth and justice.

Who is anyone to say that these demands, that could be those of whatever human in whatever role of the globe, should be expressed in this or that particular mode? Who gets to write the "manual of good and bad methods" that expresses pain, rage, and nonconformity?

In any case, ane tin can and should debate howcompañerismois best expressed: whether from a haughty vocalism onstage or with a broken window; whether with a "trending topic" or a police machine in flames; whether on a blog or with graffiti. Or maybe through all or none of those, and each person creates and constructs their form of back up with whatever they have.

Simply non even those with the moral say-so and human stature to say "yes, that manner" or "no, not like that," that is, the family members andcompañeros of those absent from Ayotzinapa, have done so.

So, in that case, who assigned the jobs of commissioners of good behavior for support and solidarity? Where does this joyous pointing out of "government agents," "infiltrators," and, horror of horrors, "anarchists" come from?

The statement "those aren't students, they are anarchists," is ridiculous. Whatsoever anarchist has more cultural baggage and scientific and technical knowledge than the boilerplate person who, working as the idea police, points them out wanting them burned at the pale. And that's not even mentioning those who are filled with praise and pride over the stupidity and illegality used as a class of policing (please who it may) by the government of Mexico City.

But of course, they can create a harbinger man that represents electric current trends (some version of region 4 [iii] insurrectional anarchist) and tin can build a caricatured theoretical torso around it that makes it look ridiculous, and so that it tin and so exist dispatched without delay to the nearest government department, whether juridical or media-based (of course, if their arrest is defenseless on video; if not, well, who is going to miss them?). After all, "journalistic" information comes from reliable sources: betrayal and political policing.

It isn't the aforementioned thing to single someone out (one who points out, accuses, judges, condemns, and demands that the constabulary execute the sentence) as it is to debate. Because in order to single someone out, it is but necessary to be caught upwardly with the latest trends (what is comfortable, piece of cake, and well, increases "likes" and "follows"). Singling someone out does not require investigation or argumentation; it is enough to "post" a few photos. And that is where the cracking romances between the "leaders of opinion" and the masses of "followers" are built-in: blind faith synthesized in 140 characters.

From the "I follow you and you follow me" to the "and they lived happily ever afterward," to the "You don't love me because y'all don't re-tweet me or make me a favorite or give me a "like." "I'm going to go with a unlike hero." [iv]

In order to debate 1 has to investigate (yeah that'south right, turns out in that location are unlike anarchisms: right on again: turns out that "straight action" isn't necessarily violent), call back, argue, and argghh, the most unsafe and difficult: reason.

Debating is hard and uncomfortable. And there are consequences for those who fence (I mean, more than thumbs downwardly, middle finger up, and "a pour of "unsubscribes").

Only oh well, there are in fact people who don't walk through life trying to delight people, conform, fit, and attract.

Behind every disquisitional existence there is a long list of "followers" deserting them, moving somewhere 1 doesn't have to think and re-tweeting doesn't involve self-critique.

And when progressive journalism replaces the functions of the government office and accuses, interrogates, concludes, and condemns, is that singling out or debating?

Or is that a course of debate? With the anarchists in the jails or pursued or exiled, and the "well-behaved" in the presses, the microphones, and the little blue bird?

Okay, okay, okay! But we are in understanding that we must support the family members andcompañeros of the murdered and disappeared from Ayotzinapa, or is that no longer important?

Not the children of the ABC Daycare either? The disappeared of Coahuila, the ignored migrants, and the women assaulted and murdered every day at every hour everywhere in all ideologies? Or is the only affair that's important is irresolute the name of the person that sits in the chair or promotes employment in glass, window, and shelving companies?

No one has accused those who insist on the electoral path as the only and exclusive pick of being "infiltrators," "police," "provocateurs," or "soldiers dressed in street clothes." They may exist defendant of being fools, naïve, impaired, stupid, opportunists, careerists, intolerant, ambitious, vultures, tyrants, and despots; and, well, of being fascists. Only non "infiltrators," fifty-fifty though certainly more than a few fit quite well the profile of government agent and political constabulary.

Nosotros know that some are slap-up strategists (its plenty to expect at their achievements); they think, propose, and impose the idea that "we must move across the mobilization." So in that location are some with their well dressed and well behaved marches trying to contain and control, and others with the straight action of an exclusive and tearing rage.

Some with a vanguardist enthusiasm for being an sectional elite fix to directly, create hegemony and homogenize the diversity of manners, times, and places.

From "if you interruption a window you're an infiltrator" to "and if you don't break it… still an burglar."

For some, what is important is the geographic center and what converges at that place: political, economic, and media power.

If information technology doesn't happen in Mexico Metropolis, it doesn't happen, information technology is non valid; information technology doesn't count. Being "historic" is their exclusive patrimony.

For them, the mobilizations in Guerrero, Oaxaca, Jalisco, Veracruz, Sonora, and in other corners of United mexican states and the world do not exist.

Only considering belittling laziness reigns among them, they exercise not realize that the center of Power is not located there.

In that location above, things have inverse, and they take inverse a lot.

Equally long as they go along to abandon serious and profound assay of the new character of Power, post-obit their noses to the calendars higher up (electoral and institutional) and being led from one appointment to another, or with the urgent claim that "we must do something, anything," fifty-fifty if its useless and sterile, they volition continue repeating the same methods of struggle, the same regurgitations, the same defeats.

Toward a serious debate:

Regarding the straight deportment in Mexico Urban center that took place with the marches of November 8 and 20 and December i, 2014, it is worth remembering the words of Miguel Amorós:

"In such events, the mere presence of citizenists and their allies is enough to create defoliation and transform the all-time radical intentions into pure activism, seamlessly integrated into the spectacle and thus hands manipulated, either by those who govern to justify the excesses of public strength, or past the citizenists to justify the failure of the action to live up to their own expectations. Activism—whether violent or only ideological—is the greatest testament to the obsolescence of revolt; it reflects the theoretical poverty and strategic weakness of the enemies of uppercase and the Country. Activists, spurred by the need to do "something," sign up for everything and thus fall into the trap of a media that seeks to describe them as hooligans and provocateurs. The result is only useful for the governments, the parties, or the pseudo-movements—that garbage that if it exists it is simply in social club to foreclose even the most remote possibility of any autonomous struggle or revolutionary thought." Amorós, Miguel. "The Decline of Revolt," October 2001, inPunches and Counter-Punches, Pepitas de calabaza, ed. & Oxígeno dis. Espana, 2005.

What comes next: The requirements for protest

Ellos [men]: A credential from the National Electoral Institute or an identity carte, proof of residence (if you don't own a business firm, a copy of your lease; if you accept a mortgage, what exactly are y'all doing here?), a pants suit and tie (no, non a tuxedo, in that location'southward no need to overdo it—that'south for when we cantankerous triumphant, on the shoulders of the crowd, through that sacred door that those thoughtless people had sought to destroy), make clean face up and easily, no visible tattoos, no piercings, and no outlandish hairstyles (outlandish: anything that does not announced in the manner magazines), clothes shoes (no sneakers or boots), your signature on a memo of understanding where you promise to respect all signs of authority and/or power in all of its forms and to call attention to any mental attitude or intention that deviates from said rules.

Ellas [women]: All of the above except with a brim adjust rather than a pants suit. Oh, and deplorable, yes, you have to do your pilus.

Elloas[5] : Non eligible to participate. Please proceed to the nearest closet.

On the vanguard of the proletariat, the well behaved, and the badly behaved:

We would like to allow you lot know, in instance you haven't heard, that the Mexican Electrical Wedlock (SME) refused to let the states, the CNI and the EZLN, infringe one of their facilities for the celebration of cultural events in Mexico City during the First World Festival of Resistance and Rebellion against Capitalism: "Where Those Above Destroy, We Below Rebuild."

Before the campaign "Comport Yourself and Simply Say NO to the Masks," the SME had granted, generously, one of its facilities for the cultural festival. As the campaign progressed into "Don't Fright the State; Fearfulness what is Different," the excuses began to roll in: "Well, since it'due south the holiday flavour; nosotros don't accept anyone to take care of the infinite; we're not going to spend Christmas like that."

Later they were more clear and told us, "at that place is a sector inside the SME that is against supporting other struggles, and in the assembly they proposed that we needed to put a stop to this consequence of involvement with the people from Ayotzinapa, because it is not possible to negotiate with the government on the one hand, and on the other be involved with a movement of masked, pissed-off youth responsible for actions like the ane at the Palace. They had to stop these youth from coming to thedeportivo (that's what the SME calls the facility that they were going to permit us borrow), where the caravans were going to come and where later on you (the 6th and the CNI) and your mask-wearers (in the function of the mask wearers: the EZLN) wanted to put on your festival. It volition no longer exist possible to have the festival there; that you will need to find another location. We promise you sympathize."

They said other things, but those things have more to do with internal goings-on in the SME and it's not our place to echo or spread them.

And so how about that? Thecompas from the National Ethnic Congress had proposed an SME facility as a show of recognition and every bit a salute to the SME's struggle and resistance, and we supported their proposal. Nonetheless there are still some people out in that location who think that the expulsions will be necessary until the improbable moment when the proletariat vanguard takes Ability.

And well, the Zapatistas, we get information technology. But we don't understand. We don't sympathize how a movement that has suffered a entrada against them of every possible type of slander, lies, and harassment (fifty-fifty more than what today's youth, anarchists/non-anarchists, mask wearers/non-mask wearers, students/studied go through) has given into the trend of criminalizing that which is different. We don't empathise how they can subscribe to this electric current fad and decide to enter the "circle" of the well-behaved and divide themselves from those who not merely respect(ed) them but as well admire(d) them. Is that separation part of the principles upheld by the new political party that they're building? Is it office of its 100-twelvemonth celebration?

Information technology would have been much easier for them to do similar they do nowadays in United mexican states City and put up a sign at the door that says, "No masks immune," and that would have been it. It is true that we wouldn't have come in, only your struggle would have been seen, enlivened by all the colors that make upward the color of the globe in the National Indigenous Congress, equally well every bit the diversity of resistances and rebellions that, although they don't have facilities to hold cultural festivals, bloom in diverse corners of Mexico and the world.

In any case, in accordance with our limited ways, nosotros will go on supporting their just struggle. And, of course, nosotros sent them an invitation to the Festival.

Select the correct response:

"Vile mask wearers" (or their equivalents in the new synonyms: "anarchists," "infiltrators," "provocateurs," "students," "youth"), was said, tweeted, alleged, signed, sung, painted, drawn, or thought past…

a). – a columnist, intellectual, caricaturist, journalist, commentator from a conservative paid media outlet.

b). – a columnist, intellectual, caricaturist, journalist, commentator from a progressive paid media outlet.

c). – a conservative artist.

d). – a progressive creative person.

e). – a armed forces general.

f). – a person from the managerial grade.

g). – a union leader from the vanguard of the revolutionary proletariat.

h). – a leader from a political party aligned with the right-wing.

i). – a leader from a political party aligned with the far right-fly.

j). – a leader from a political party aligned… Ok, in curt: a leader of any party.

k). – epi[half dozen]

l). – Enrique Krauze.

m). – All of the above.

Answer: Any alphabetic character selected is correct. If y'all selected the last option, you are not only right, you have likewise conducted an exhaustive monitoring of social media, paid media, and free media. We don't know whether to congratulate you or send you condolences. Read: in today's times, if you're not really confused, and then you're not really informed.

On the stage of social media:

A typical tweet from the well-behaved after the November 20, 2014 march in Mexico City: "Why did the police arbitrarily detain civilians instead of detaining the anarchists?" Take note: Not merely is it okay to arbitrarily detain the anarchists, they are also not considered "civilians."

A commentary from the well-behaved in seeing a photo of Mexico City police beating upward, in the "whetheryoulikeitnot" kind of style, a family on the outskirts of the city's principal square on November 20, 2014: "I know them and they are not anarchists." Take notation: If nobody knows y'all or if you are an agitator, you lot deserve to get beaten upwardly.

An argument from the well-behaved at the first of the movement, or maybe later on, information technology doesn't really thing: "For sure thoseaytozinacos [vii] were asking for information technology. Who told them to go around looking like anarchists?Notation: no comment.

The impossible dialogue:

"What do y'all mean you don't understand this whole thing about how mask-wearers = anarchists = infiltrators? Look, those people are not interested in politics, they only want to create disorder. That'due south what "riot" means: disorder. This whole covering your face thing is only cowardice. And the thing about the infiltrators is that they're working for the authorities. What? Yep, the Zapatistas are also masked, and and so are the ones who confronted Ulises Ruiz in Oaxaca, and so are some of the people who are at present mobilizing in Guerrero and Oaxaca. Aye, just they aren't here in our metropolis (stress on the "our" with a look of alarm). The Zapatistas, the Oaxaquistas, and the people from Guerrero, well, they're good-hearted trivial Indians; of class, without clear political leadership. Plus, they're far away. Nosotros can send them humanitarian assistance—past which nosotros mean getting rid of those things that we no longer want, that are no longer useful, or worse yet, that accept gone out of fashion. Just these fucking anarchists are here and they have taken our streets (await of alarm once more on that "our") and well, how can I say it? They ruin the scenery. Nosotros're hither trying our best to brand this place cool, like real retro, like the sixties. Yous get me? Very peace and beloved, Historic period of Aquarius, flowers, songs, soft drugs, smart drinks, good vibes, you know? Check it out! I have an app on my phone that makes the lights glimmer to the tune of any ringtone I choose. Huh? No, I don't march with a group, I walk along the sides and I climb on pinnacle of a… No, it's not to get a better view of the march, it'due south and so that the masses can go a better await at me. Look dude, dudette, whatever y'all are: protesting should exist like going to a club, you lot get me? It's not almost protesting just near seeing everyone, saying what's upwards, and the adjacent day confirming that nosotros are what we are, and not in the media's social section merely in the national section. As well, this thing in Ayotzi… No, nobody says Ayotzinapa, its way libation to say "Ayotzi." Well, as I was saying, Ayotzi has international repercussions, I hateful, similar it gives us a certain cosmopolitan air. Whatever, with all the attention given to the socialites; that'south for the right. We modern leftists let ourselves be known through these types of events. Adjacent time, if thosenacos [viii]  don't step back, we're thinking nearly inviting Mijares. That's correct, and so that he tin can sing "Soldier of Beloved" to u.s.a.. And to keep with the vibe, Arjona should as well come up so we tin have him belt out "Private Soldier." Yes, everyone will look amazing marching to the beat, property hands with the presidential guards and the police. Maybe it would exist improve at night and we'll break out our lighters while we sway our arms to the rhythm of "soldier of honey / in this state of war betwixt y'all and me…" and with Arjona, "I am marking the passage / while I survive / I don't take acrimony / oblivion has won out." Yes, nosotros tin can see information technology already, side by side time Eugenio Derbez volition be the keynote speaker. It will be brilliant! We volition infiltrate Televisa and get them to switch over to our side! Huh? No, nosotros're non going to demand the resignation of Peña… Well, because the deadline has passed and now we have to prepare for 2018. Huh? Who cares nearly those people's original demands. Sure, poor things, but that'south exactly why they have to accept the direction given by those who know, and by those who know I mean us. Look, what this country needs is not a revolution simply a massive "feat," with united states in the lead and merely role and the common people in the chorus or backstage. Yes, the story that matters is a "selfie" of usa in the front and the masses in the background and below, enchanted by the states, hailing us, and… yes, I already know what I'll say when they beg me to go up on stage… "Hey! Await! Why practice you refuse to engage in dialogue? Fucking agitator! Yeah, you ameliorate put on a mask because you lot can see thenaco on you from a mile away! Ugh, this is exactly why this state doesn't advance. No worries, I already took his picture and I'll put information technology on my Facebook so yous all can get a skilful expect at some other guy who's an infiltrator. Or was information technology a girl? Well, I didn't get a good expect; they dressed real sloppy, very typical. Oh Mexico, you lot pain me…"

Other lines of investigation:

1. – The few words that most helped Abarca, nether protection in the Altiplano penitentiary, and the house arrest on his Region Six [nine] iron lady—both of them out of the media's reach—were the words: " it was the feds ." Later on that, they asked them cipher else. Not because they didn't desire to know, but because they already knew.
2. – Now that those higher up are seriously considering the possibility of a replacement in Los Pinos (which explains the sudden eloquence from national defense officials and the dizzying strategy of the media to distant itself [from Peña Nieto] are those who before December 1 demanded Peña Nieto's resignation going to now produce a certificate called "The Defense of the Institutions and the Rejection of a Presidential Resignation, version June 1996, updated for 2014-2015″?

What singling out and denouncing really looks like

1. – Any analysis that blames repression on the trigger-happy directly actions of "anarchist" groups should exist consistent and, in the case of United mexican states, as well hold responsible the one who broke the and then-called "white house" scandal that provoked the ire of the presidential couple (although that person subsequently made up for this by playing the prosecutor [of protestors]). Simply no, distributing blame is likewise a classed activity, and information technology is upwardly to the well behaved to foist the criminalization campaign onto the poor youth (according to the chain of equivalence: infiltrator = masked = anarchist = immature = poor), which is exactly what set off the long nightmare that we know today every bit "Ayotzinapa."
2. – Co-ordinate to the latest that we've seen, read, and heard, actual infiltrators do non hibernate their faces. Infiltrators working on behalf of the Mexico Metropolis government ("the institutional left as an alternative") and their employees have been filmed attacking protesters, arbitrarily detaining them, and "planting" masks on their victims.

Now then, post-obit a method of analysis guided by hysteria and the impeccable logic of the thought and fashion police, we understand that all the protesters who do not wear masks are potential "infiltrators" and need to be pointed out, detained, and handed over to the authorities "in club to permit the masked protesters to march for their demands." So now, whenever anyone without a mask is spotted at a march, they should exist pointed out and expelled to the sound of the refrain: "No to violence; No to violence."

3. – Let's practice a bit of remembering: Aren't the ones who today critique "violent" actions against the "historic," commercial, and financial patrimony that take place in demonstrations for Ayotzinapa in Mexico Metropolis the aforementioned people who blocked banks, shopping centers, had that "historic" sit-in on Reforma in 2006, and harassed the employees in the orangish uniforms for existence "accomplices" of the 2012 balloter fraud? Oh yes, information technology'southward because electoral fraud is more serious than 43 disappeared indigenous people and tens of thousands of persons in the aforementioned state of affairs.
4. – The clamor of this hysterical campaign has resonated and at present achieved its offset victories: a few shine operators are detained in a toll berth, far from the march, while they collected money for their ain benefit; they are tied upward and triumphantly displayed in the "taking of United mexican states City" on December half-dozen, 2014. After, through the magic of the media, they become "infiltrators" of the march, and it is claimed that at least one of them was police and one of them military. About the supposed police, cypher more was said. Most the supposed armed forces type: he's 17 years old and "confessed" that he was joining the army in a month. Nobody bothered to recall that all Mexican youth, the moment they plough 18, are obligated to fulfill their National Military Service. Even so, the action was applauded. One hopes that hysteria as a method of assay and a handbook for activeness will reach its height when a lynching takes place. At that point, everyone will await the other way.

The dreaded issue of a resignation, in half dozen acts (Complete the following names):

1. – A political party in last crunch. Card_ resigns from the political party, declaring: "I volition alive out my life as an ordinary citizen."
2. – In the face of the crisis of the political party organization, the "denizen option" begins to exist put forrad. The press andprogressivecircles begin talking about the rising of "Social Card_ísmo."
3. – The movement grows and calls for unconditional unity in support of "citizen" Card_.
4. – Lop_ refuses.
5. – Another electoral fraud. A massive gathering in the capital's town square. Amongst the protesters 1 notices paper-thin signs reproducing the latest cartoons by the progressive cartoonists: "The students from Ayotzinapa were an invention of Salinas" being the common denominator. On stage, Ele_ mentions Lop_. The masses hiss and boo on cue. The next twenty-four hour period, Ele_ clarifies that the mention of Lop_ was not intended maliciously and that he personally has a lot of appreciation for him.
6. – Later the demonstrationde rigueur, Card_ announces that the struggle must proceed… creating a new party in order to run in the upcoming elections. No, if victorious, Epi will not be assigned to director of social communications and that idiot fromdesfiladero [ten] will not serve as the presidential spokesperson. Or maybe they volition? Gulp.

The story that doesn't count for the world of progressive happenings:

Yeah, there are some who recall that December 6 of this year marked the entry of Villa and Zapata's armies into United mexican states City 100 years ago. We, on the other hand, remember the Zapatistas' negative gesture and rejection of the presidential throne. It is said that the leader of the Liberation Army of the Southward had this to say well-nigh it: "When a good person sits in that location, they become evil; when an evil person sits at that place, they get worse." And if he didn't say information technology, without a doubt he was thinking it.

Unsolicited advice which, of form, nobody will follow:

1. – Enough searching for the mockingjay . Abandon that train of disillusion. Its next stop is "Apathy and Pessimism," and its final destination: "Defeat."
2. – Don't go caught up in thetrending topicor whatever it's called. Aforementioned thing with the tweets coming from the "famous" people, the "opinion shapers," or the allegedly "intelligent" people. Expect for the common people's tweets. There y'all volition detect real literary gems in miniature, the thoughts of those who really matter—that is, those who forcefulness u.s.a. to think. At that place is no small tweet there.

Thetrending topics (the "latest happenings") merely function as a deformed mirror and are as ridiculous as an enormous masturbation salon: everyone comes out beaten and unsatisfied. Presently we volition be seeing tweets that look like a porn script: "Oh! Aye, yep, but similar that, don't stop!" Or maybe it's a real victory to beat out the hashtags #WeLoveYourNewHairJustin or #Sammy?

3. – Valuing somebody for the number of followers they take and not for their thoughts and their actions is pointless and useless.

If shit had a Facebook account, information technology would have "likes" (and "licks") from hundreds of thousands of flies.

4. – In defence force of social media, or rather, in defense force of using social media, we think that it also counts as a sharing if one chooses where to shift their gaze and their ear.

There are bang-up writers, thinkers, analysts, critics, and social justice fighters who exercise not appear and will not announced in the paid mass media. And for many of them, it's not because they oasis't been "discovered," but because they take chosen a unlike mode of expressing themselves. This should not only be saluted but also nurtured.

5. – Just if the possibilities of social media are great, so are its limits. Likewise the obvious, that silences and gazes cannot be tweeted, as gigantic every bit the social media universe is, a far greater universe remains excluded.

Social media cannot supervene upon basic communication (seeing, speaking, listening, touching, smelling, enjoying); it can only augment it.

"If you aren't on twitter you don't exist," mimics that expired erstwhile maxim, "if yous aren't in the media yous don't exist."

Whether you believe information technology or non, there exist many worlds outside of cyberspace. And information technology's worth lifting one'due south caput upwardly to take a expect.

We'll be (and have been) seeing you lot

Yeah, we already know that we make some people uncomfortable. For some, nosotros are radicals; for others, we are reformists.

Everyone, above and below, is going to need to accept this:

Hither below, at that place are more than of us each day
who insist on engaging in struggle
without asking forgiveness for existence who nosotros are
or asking permission to exist it.

 From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

Mexico, December 12, 2014. In the twentieth year of the state of war against oblivion.

Notation: The monitoring of the paid media, the free, autonomous, independent, alternative or any they're chosen media, the social media, besides as all the selfless contributions of sarcasm, gratuitous psychoanalytic therapy, investigative tips, useless advice, the 140-grapheme long directly jacket in some places and other special furnishings are courtesy of the "LosTercios Compas" [Odd Ones OutCompas] who, equally their proper name indicates, are neither media, nor free, nor autonomous, nor culling, but they arecompas. Copyright annulled for using a mask. This text may be cited, recited, and recycled by pointing to the source as an "burglar." Reproduction is authorized in full or in part in front of the police, uniformed or not, whether behind a gun, a shield, a camera, a microphone, a smartphone, a tablet, or in internet.

We have religion: "Wintertime is coming, so don't forget your blankets" (that'due south something one of the Starks say in the upcoming season ofGame of Thrones. Spoiler courtesy of the "Tercios Compas." Nah, don't mention it.)

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[i] The text uses "todas, todos, todoas" to requite a range of possible plural gendered pronouns including male, female, transgender and others.

[two] The text uses "otra, otro, otroa"to give a range of possible gendered "others" including male, female person, transgender and others.

[iii] Region IV refers to Latin America on DVD coding. Referring to someone as "región IV" is a putdown, something like saying "oh, you're then tertiary world."

[iv] The text uses "sinsajo," which is the Spanish translation for mockingjay in the context ofThe Hunger Games. Could be read to mean switching to a unlike favorite or hero to root for.

[5] The text uses "ellos, ellas, elloas" once more to requite a range of possible gendered "others" including male person, female, transgender and others.

[vi] Likely refers to Epigmenio Ibarra, producer and journalist, twitter activist, and frequent correspondent to Mexico'south "progressive" printing. Ibarra carried out the commencement videotaped interview with and then EZLN spokesperson Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos in 1994.

[seven] A play on Ayotzinapa and "naco" which is a derogatory term like "hick," implying poorly educated, ill-mannered, and with poor gustatory modality.

[viii] See footnote iv.

[ix] Run across footnote iii.

[ten]Desfiladero is a column in the Mexican daily newspaperLa Jornada.

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Source: https://chiapas-support.org/2014/12/19/ezln-on-ayotzinapa-the-festival-and-hysteria/

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