Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:09:13 -1000
From: Steve Wright <sjwright-AT-vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Zapatista Support Group, Melbourne


http://www.monash.edu.au/arts/ces/zap.html

For those who might be interested, here is the home page for the upcoming regional 
conference of the local Chiapas Support Group. We're still working on our draft statement 
though . . .

Steve

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>                         Against Neoliberalism
>                           and For Humanity
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>   Preparatory Meeting Towards the First Intercontinental Encounter
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>                 Saturday, 15 June 1996, from 10:30am
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>                    North Melbourne Uniting Church,
>                       4 Elm St, North Melbourne
> 
>                         Melbourne AUSTRALIA
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>   [Image] Organised by the Committee in Solidarity with Chiapas and
>                         Mexico (EZLN)[Image]
> 
>  "Structural Adjustment". Austerity. The end of the social contract.
>         Privatization. Mass poverty. Precariousness. Boredom.
>   Militarization. "Internal colonization". The widening gap between
>   rich and poor. Environmental destruction. Crisis. The collpase of
>   real wages. Misery. Corruption. "Free trade". The global power of
>  money. The global pillage by capital. The sterilization of life . .
>                                   .
> 
>   In presenting the conditions of neo-liberalism, we begin to look
>                     into the heart of capitalism.
> 
>    Behind the wall of death of the Mexican army, in the jungles of
>   southeastern Mexico, in a place called REALITY (La Realidad), the
>   EZLN are gathering national and international forces of struggle
>  against neo-liberalism and for the humanity it tries to bury. From
>    the corners of the planet they are asking people to compare the
>    experiences of and to build the resistance to this pathological
>   Power. So, people from around the world will gather in Mexico in
>      late July for the First Intercontinental Encounter Against
>                    Neoliberalism and For Humanity.
> 
>   It's a long road to REALITY. But there are always things you will
>                      see and pick up on the way.
> 
>                     Accumulate them. Share them.
> 
> [Committee in Solidarity withChiapas and Mexico at May Day March, Melbourne 1996]
> 
> In response to the EZLN's call for a regional preparatory meeting on
>   neo-liberalism, the Zapatista Solidarity Committee is organising
>  such an occasion in mid-June. It is an opportunity for all groups,
>  forces and individuals in opposition to the dominant order to come
>  together and debate, discuss, clarify what it means to live and to
>       struggle in the world of the very late twentieth century.
> 
>    We would like this to happen in various forms and from diverse
> quarters. At least part of the meeting will be dedicated to debating
>    a Resolution to contribute to the Intercontinental Encounter in
>    July, representative of what we find and how we struggle in the
>    region of Oceania, and how we are tied into the world system by
>   Power and struggle. Our Draft Resolution can be found amongst the
>                  preparatory materials listed below.
> 
>   Papers, workshop ideas, bookstalls, presentations, videos etc are
>  all welcome. We would like to circulate papers prior to the Meeting
>   to facilitate discussion. Please forward copies to us by 8 June.
> 
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>                         Preparatory materials
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>                       CISWCAM Draft Resolution
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>       Two Turin comrades Proposal Tabled at the Turin Encounter
>              Pino Caputo Account of the Turin Encounter
>  Harry Cleaver The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle
>   Massimo De Angelis The Autonomy of the Economy and Globalization
>  Irish Mexico Group Statement from Organising for Change conference
>                     Will Kemp Report from Chiapas
>  Monty Neill Mexico: February 1995 -- Some Excerpts from a Political
>                                 Diary
>     Con Wayne Wadsworth Power To The People through the "Party of
>                          Community Councils"
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>                              En espaņol
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>                                 Links
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>                            EZLN Home Page
>                   The European Preparatory Meeting
>                          Irish Mexico Group
>                The North American Preparatory Meeting
>                             Zapatista Net
>                         Chiapas 95 news list
>                             Chiapas Menu
>                           Accion Zapatista
> 
>                              More links
> 
>        [Image] You can contact us at zap-AT-xchange.apana.org.au
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>    And a big "thank you" to those from whom we borrowed graphics!
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