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EZLN Sixth Commission Communique
May 14, 2006
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Mexico
Sixth Commission of the EZLN
To all the adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign:
To the coordinators, commissions, state committees, regions,
subregions, municipalities, and sectors of the Other in all of Mexico:
Compa~eras y compa~eros:
Receive our greetings. Yesterday, May 13, some of the organizations, groups, collectives, families, and individuals from 17 states of the Mexican Republic who are adherents of the Other Campaign met in the Auditorium “Che Guevara” of Ciudad Universitaria, UNAM [National Autonomous University
of Mexico]. In this meeting we looked at how the struggle is gong for our compa~eras y compa~eros repressed and prisoners since May 3 and 4 in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State.
We have come to a few agreements that we want to PROPOSE to you, all of the compa~eras y compa~eros of the Other Mexico:
1. To maintain our demand to free all of the political prisoners
2. To convoke the Other in Mexico and on the Other side to a period of information diffusion, promotion, and activism, in the entire country and around the world, on the following points:
-This happened: explain what happened in Atenco May 3 and 4 of 2006.
-Explain that the same has happened, is happening, or could happen to whomever of those of us from below, to humble and simple people
-What we want: that all [political prisoners] are set free
-Invitation to participate in the programmed events
3. To summon the Other in all of the states of the country, regions, subregions, municipalities, and sectors to carry out civil and pacifistic actions, everybody in their own place and in their own way, Friday May 19th, 2006, at 8 a.m., with the central demand of freeing all those detained in Atenco May 3 and 4.
4. To convoke all the adherents of the Sixth and the Other Campaign to a national gathering in Mexico City, Sunday, May 28th, 2006, meeting a the Angel of Independence at 10:30 a.m. to march to the Mexico City Zocalo town square]
We invite all the people of Mexico to participate in this march.
5. To convoke a national assembly of adherents, that will take place Monday, May 29th, 2006, at 10 a.m. in the auditorium “Che Guevara” of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM.
May we each participate with and from our own difference and identity within the Other. That is, as states, regions, subrgions, municipalities, families, individuals, sectors; as women, children, elderly, lesbians, homosexuals, transgendered, sex workers, laborers, peasants, indigenous peoples, students, teachers, artists, communications media, environmentalists, believers, street workers, scientists and researchers, intellectuals,
rockers, all of us that are below and to the left.
Vale. Cheers and may the cry of “You are not alone!” break down the walls of the prisons.
From the Other Mexico City
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Mexico, May, 2006
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May 19 and 28: No one can hold back our mobilizations
Communiqué from the Intergalactic Commission
By Lieutenant Colonel Moises
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
May 17, 2006
EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL
MÉXICO
INTERGALACTIC COMMISSION
To the people of the world
To all the adherents of the Zezta Internazional
Compañeras y compañeros:
Our compañeras and compañeros adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and La Otra Campaña in México are preparing and organizing, to continue the struggle for the freedom of all the political prisoners taken the 3 and 4 of May in San Salvador Atenco in the State of México.
We want to communicate our words to continue to call for peaceful protests and for the continual support of our compañer@s. In Mexico, they are planning for a day of action and mobilizations the 19 of May at 8 in the morning. The proposal is that these also take place at an international level and that people mobilize within their respective countries.
The second national mobilizations are being planned in Mexico for the 28 of May 2006 at 10:30am. The Proposal is that we organize ourselves also all over the World.
Compañeros y compañeras:
We know and believe that mobilizations of all types will be organized, with the goal of expressing what we all feel they have done with our compañer@s from Atenco, because they have done that to us as well, and because they will continue to do so if we do not unite and support each other.
No one can hold back our mobilizations. For they are just and necessary for our struggle.
Freedom for all of our compañer@s from Atenco!
From the mountains of the Lacandon Jungle
Intergalactic Commission
Teniente Coronel Insurgente Moisés