Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 13:45:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris <red-AT-iww.org>
Subject: signatures wanted in support of Zapatistas (fwd)


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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:55:08 -0800
Subject: signatures wanted in support of Zapatistas
Original Sender: moonlight-AT-igc.apc.org (National Commission for Democracy in Mexico, USA)
Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l-AT-gnosys.svle.ma.us)

PLEASE SIGN THIS LETTER IN SUPPORT OF THE ZAPATISTAS!!!  We plan to publish
this as a letter to the editor in La Jornada on February 9, 1997.  Send your
signatures - of organizations and/or individuals by Saturday February 8th.


If you wish for the zapatistas to know you are supporting them,
please sign this letter and e-mail it to their US representative:
Cecilia Rodriguez at:  <moonlight-AT-igc.apc.org> or fax it to:
(915) 532-8382, or mail it to: NCDM, 601 N.Cotton St.#A103,
El Paso, Texas, 79902

We also recomend sending copies to:
Presidente Zedillo at e-mail: webadmon-AT-op.presidencia.gob.mex
or fax from US: 011-52-5-277-2376 and
President Clinton: e-mail: president-AT-whitehouse.gov
fax: 202-456-2461
La jornada: e-mail: jornada-AT-condor.dgsca.unam.mx
fax: 011-52-5-521-2763

In solidarity with the struggle of the zapatistas,

Susana Saravia-Ugarte
for Nuevo Amanecer Press/USA

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To the men and women of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation;
To the families of the Zapatista communities;
To the indigenous people of Mexico;
To the people of Mexico;

Brothers and Sisters,
     Through this letter we simply wish to say that we stand at your
side.  We are aware of the contents of the agreements of San Andres.  We
have carefully watched and understand the actions of the federal
government of Mexico.  We are also painfully aware of the intrusion and
manipulation of our own government, the government of  the United States,
which at this point seems only to hear the voices of large multi-national
corporations and banks, instead of the voices of the millions of citizens
of the United States who disagree with those policies that are provoking
such a large  degree of human suffering in Mexico.
     We have stood at your side since we first began to understand the
real Mexico on January 1 of 1994.  We have demonstrated at Mexican
consulates, carried out marches, gathered petitions, read each one of your
communiques on the internet and in newsletters and magazines.  We have
also packed our bags and traveled to your communities as students of your
will to organize a different kind of society. Each of us, in our places,
as social activists, organizers, parents, as university professors or
students, Mexican immigrants or displaced workers have done what is
possible.  It is difficult for us at times.  This is a cold culture which
makes everything, even human solidarity a commodity.  This is a culture
which manipulates information that creates confusion and hopelessness.
This is a culture which seduces us with its comfort and foments fear and
hatred by claiming that our greatest enemies are the poor who cross
theU.S. borders, and the poor who live forgotten in the ghettoes of our
big cities and the crevices of our mountains.  This is a culture which
above all wants us to believe that we are powerless and can be successful
only if we act alone.
     We have seen how with your patience, wisdom and unity you have
constructed a different path against enormous odds. It is an example
burned into our memory.  During this crisis, we want you to know that we
are struggling to apply that example.  We will still demonstrate, march,
and write letters.  We realize however, that as residents of the United
States, our responsibility for constructing a strong opposition movement
to U.S.  policies is great.  If we are to stand at your side, we must also
use patience, wisdom and unity to organize ourselves and overcome this
low-intensity war which  threatens us all.
     We simply want to say, we have not forgotten you. We are here.  We
will continue to resist. With respect and admiration,

Signature



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