EZLN Communiqué:
Stage Two of the 'Other Campaign' begins
March 24, 2007
The EZLN, by means of their Sixth Commission, announces to the compañeras
and compañeros adherents to the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign,
to the Zezta International and to the people of Mexico and the world the following:
First: Due to the new offensive against the Zapatista communities carried out
by paramilitaries affiliated with the PRI and PRD and supported by the state
[Democratic Revolution Party] and federal [National Action Party] governments,
the Zapatista leadership has had to make some adjustments that will allow continued
protection of our communities and at the same time fulfilling their commitments
with the Other Campaign.
We will resist the attacks of the paramilitaries in an organized and civil form.
With the mobilization of our communities and calling on the solidarity support
of the honest people of Mexico and the entire world, we will continue to link
our Zapatista struggle for indigenous rights and culture with other Indian peoples
of Mexico and the American continent, and with the struggles maintained by organizations,
groups, collectives, families and individuals of the Other Campaign in our country.
Second: Furthermore, over the next few days, the Sixth Commission of the EZLN
will initiate the second stage of its direct participation in the Other Campaign
in Mexico with a delegation consisting of seven comandantas, seven commandantes
and one subcomandante.
For their participation in this second stage the Sixth Commission of the EZLN
has established a sort of territorial distribution in zones and regions. The
different delegations of the Sixth Commission will spread out throughout the
entire country, during this year of 2007, to work jointly with the organizations,
groups, collectives, families and individuals adhering to the Sixth Declaration.
Third: Simultaneously, in addition to their territorial distribution, the Sixth
Commission will have a special delegation that will participate directly in
the works undertaken by the compañeros and compañeras of the National
Indigenous Congress with the Indian peoples of Mexico.
A delegation from the Sixth Commission will also be present in the international
encampment “The Indigenous Peoples in Defense of Life, Culture and Nature:
Below and to the Left,” in the territory of the indigenous Cucupá
people in the community of El Mayor in Baja California, Mexico, in the months
of April and May of this year.
Fourth: This second stage will begin on March 25, 2007 and will start off with
the concentration of the delegates in the city of San Cristóbal de Las
Casas, Chiapas. There, together with NGO’s adherent to the Otra in Chiapas,
an international solidarity campaign with the Zapatista indigenous communities
and in defense of indigenous autonomy will be announced.
Afterwards they will set off to install the delegations of the Sixth Commission
to the National Indigenous Congress and the Northern Zone of Mexico. These delegations
will be working with the compañeros and compañeras of the Otra
in the states of that part of our country until the beginning of June 2007.
In the second half of the year, the delegations in the center and southern zones
of Mexico will be installed.
Fifth: A delegation of the Sixth Commission will also participate in the mobilizations
marking the first anniversary of the repression against the noble people of
Atenco, the Popular Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) and the Other Campaign,
demanding the freedom of our compañeros and compañeras prisoners
in the prisons of Texcoco, Santiaguito and La Palma, which will take place in
several places of the other national and international geography, on May 3,
4 and 5, 2007.
Sixth: In spite of the attacks, silences and contempt, the EZLN will carry on
with the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, and, in doing so, demand:
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR ATENCO!
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR OAXACA!
From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
For the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee – General Command
of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Sixth Commission of the EZLN
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Mexico, March 2007