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The "Other Campaign" begins in Mexico!

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January 1st, 2006 was the first day of the "Other Campaign." The EZLN, or Zapatista Army for National Liberation, has begun its tour of Mexico. They began in colonial San Cristóbal de las Casas, the city that was taken over on 1st January 1994 by some two thousand masked, armed, and defiant indigenous men and women, who from the balcony of city hall sent their message of war to the federal government. This began a 12-year political journey in Mexico. The first phase of the Other Campaign will conclude on June 25th, which is also the closing of official electoral campaigns for president, congress, the senate, and, in some states (including Chiapas), governors. Schedule

Photos 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

The Amado Avendaño Figueroa Brigade, which formed last month to provide an other kind of journalism to cover the Other Campaign, has filed its first report. Read Reports

Links: EZLN | IMC Chiapas | EZLN Communiques | Nacro News | La Jornada

After consulting with the autonomous Zapatista communities in Chiapas the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee (General Command of the EZLN) announced a new strategy. In the 6th Declaration of the Selva Lacandona said:
"We are inviting all indigenous, workers, campesinos, teachers, students, housewives, neighbors, small businesspersons, small shop owners, micro-businesspersons, pensioners, handicapped persons, religious men and women, scientists, artists, intellectuals, young persons, women, old persons, homosexuals and lesbians, boys and girls - to participate, whether individually or collectively, directly with the zapatistas in this NATIONAL CAMPAIGN for building another way of doing politics, for a program of national struggle of the left, and for a new Constitution."

What is the Sixth Zapatista Declaration?

Recent Aotearoa IMC features about the Zapatistas:
Mexico, the Other Campaign Begins! (27th September 2005)
EZLN announces new strategy (13th July 2005)
The June 19th Communique: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos: Red Alert (22nd June 2005)

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