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

Object Details

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

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