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Subcomandante Marcos speaks on the mobilization
against neoliberalism in Cancun, Mexico
Sept. 13-- Brothers and sisters of Mexico and of the world
who are in Cancun at this mobilization against neoliberalism: Greetings
from the men, women, children and old ones of the Zapatista Army of National
Liberation. We are honored that, in the midst of your meetings, agreements
and mobilizations, you are making a place to listen to our words. The
world movement against the globalization of death and destruction is being
most brilliantly embodied today in Cancun.
Close by to where this mobilization is being held, a handful of slaves
of money are agreeing to the forms and the timeframes for continuing the
lucrative crime of globalization.
The difference between them and all of us is not in their bags and ours.
Even though their bags are overflowing with coins and ours with hope.
No, the difference is not in the wallets, but in the heart. You and I
have a tomorrow in our hearts which is yet to come, that is, which is
yet to be built. They have only a past which they want to repeat forever
and ever.
We have life, they have death. We are fighting for humanity, they are
fighting for neoliberalism. We want liberty, they want to make us slaves.
It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that those who think
they are the owners of the planet have had to hide behind high walls and
their pathetic security forces in order to make their plans.
Like in a war, the high command of that Transnational Army which is planning
on conquering the world in the only way it is possible to conquer it —
that is, by destroying it — is meeting under a security system as
large as its fear.
While previously the powerful met behind the world’s back in order
to plot their future wars and expropriations, today they must do so not
only in front of everyone, but also, now, against thousands in Cancun
and millions on the entire Earth.
Because that is what this all has to do with. With a war. With a war against
humanity.
The globalization of those above is nothing other than a world plot which
feeds on blood and excretes dollars. And, in the complex scales which
translate deaths into dollars, there is a group of human beings who are
valued at a very low price in the global butcher shop.
We are the indigenous, the young people, the women, the children, the
old ones, the homosexuals, the lesbians, the migrants, the different.
That is, the great majority of humanity. The World War of the powerful
wants to turn Planet Earth into an exclusive club, reserving for itself
the right to admission. For the powerful, all of us have the choice of
being inside that exclusive area, but as servants, or of remaining outside
the world, or life. But we do not have to obey and choose between living
as servants or dying.
A new path can be built — one where living is living with dignity.
One where living is living with liberty. Building that alternative is
possible, and it is necessary. That alternative is necessary because the
future of humanity depends on it. That future is at stake in all the corners
of each one of the five continents. And that alternative is possible because
there are people throughout the world who know quite well that “liberty”
is a verb which is either conjugated plurally or it will be nothing but
a poor alibi for cynicism.
Brothers and sisters: There is a fight going on all over the world between
two globalization plans. The one of above, which globalizes conformity,
cynicism, stupidity, war, destruction, death, forgetting. And the one
of below which globalizes rebellion, hope, creativity, intelligence, imagination,
life, memory, the building of a world where all worlds fit. A world with...
Democracy! Liberty! Justice!
From the Mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
By the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command
of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
Mexico, American Continent, Planet Earth.
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