Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 22:55:39 +0200
From: Ilan shalif <gshalif-AT-netvision.net.il>
Subject: Re: AUT: missing declaration - translated already into English ?


Hi Massimo De Angelis.
You wrote:

> Finally, I have found it! Here it is, the final declaration of El
> Indiano, one of the documents concluding the second encuentro and
> talking about networks. We need English translation.

I have found somewhere in my archive a translation of
that paper?

To my feable recolection you sent it and I asked comrades
of a-infos to translate it.

I wonder if other final papers are avilable?
Subject:(en)Texto Final del 2do Encuentro ? Espan~a Julio 1997(ca)
        Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:32:16 -0700
        From: prat-AT-chem.ucsb.edu (Luis Prat)
 

Final Declaration of the 2nd Encounter for Humanity and against 
Neoliberalism, in Spain, July 1997.

Translated by Luis.


A little over three years ago, in different parts of the world collectives 
in support of the zapatista revolution appeared. Later, the EZLN comrades 
convened the First Encounter for Humanity and against Neoliberalism, where 
it was decided to start the building of a network which would look into 
coordinating groups throughout the planet for the struggle against a system 
that has a planetary base and vocation: neoliberalism and the attendant 
economic globalization, with its brutal economic, social and ecological 
consequences for the different peoples and territories of the Earth.

We have arrived here from the five continents to help build a world of 
dignity and humanity.

The richness of our discussions, the color of our exchanges and the humanity
of our experiences and struggles have shown that we have dignity. However, 
neoliberal capital tries more and more to rob us of our dignity.

We come from the five continents, but there are millions of brothers and 
sisters that remained behind.

Among us there's an unemployed worker forced to compete against all the 
others because a competitive labor market is good for the economy.

Among us is a woman who walks several kilometers every day to bring water 
home because there isn't any in her village, but there are golf courses in 
the desert.

Among us there is a student reading a book at night in conditions of poverty 
who must memorize dogma to be prepared to better compete.

Among us there is a mother who goes to the market in any southern country 
and buys less every day because her money is being swallowed up by 
international banks.

Among us there are those who work too much because they might be
unemployed 
tomorrow.

Among us there are those who believe that there's no tomorrow, that there's 
no today and no yesterday.

We are those ripped apart, those classified, those trapped in hierarchies 
and forced to fight among us so that the global factory may continue 
spinning without anybody stopping it in a senseless and endless motion.

We are the isolated, the atomized the divided by race, gender, occupation, 
status, nationality, color, sexual preference, those made to believe that by 
virtue of our differences we must not unite, that crime must continue,  that 
hunger must continue, that the silence must continue, that censorship must 
continue.

Now we say enough! and begin to do things our way. It will take time, but 
we've started.

The First Declaration of La Realidad proposed that we build bridges among 
ourselves, many bridges that are also rainbows. The Second Declaration of
La 
Realidad proposed a network of struggles and communication to begin to 
materialize these bridges among ourselves. We have taken a step forward.

Today faced with the fragmentation and the isolation that social and 
political struggles have historically shown and still continue to show, 
neoliberal capitalism offers a cohesive and global, though not centralized, 
model, whose versatility and ability to adapt and absorb everything that 
questions or opposes it, forces us to search for new ways to articulate that 
seek maximum efficiency in the struggles and resistances towards its 
definitive transformation and replacement.

The concept of a network, because of its flexibility, versatility, low 
maintenance cost and capacity for the continuous opening of multiple 
concrete fronts, is the paradigm of this new way of confronting the 
overwhelming reality of the system.

By network we understand a movement under permanent construction of
people 
and organizations interconnected among themselves that will link, 
communicate and coordinate the different struggles of prevention, resistance 
and action for Humanity and against Neoliberalism.

Made up of organized entities, individual or collective, interrelated among 
themselves, without a specific center, with a horizontal structure, that 
send and receive information and are capable of orgainizing themselves for 
the undertaking of common acts, using all technological means available and 
all forms of social relations. As the Second Declaration of La Realidad 
says: "The net is all of us who talk and listen ... all of us who resist. 
With local, supralocal, national and international levels until we build the 
Planetary Net for Humanity and against Neoliberalism." One in which the 
objectives, the information, the groups and the actions enrich themselves as 
they travel through the net, proposing without imposing, one in which all 
the parts are the whole and the whole is in each of the parts.

We propose an open network knitted with information, connection, integration 
and mutual help in the knots of encounter, one that finds its strength in 
its plasticity. A network with the dynamic organism of a living being, which 
allows for the inmediate activation at the opportune moment, in response to 
concrete needs and conflicts, but at the same time in step with the emergent 
coordination of the plurality of our struggles, consciences and diverse but 
converging conceptions of reality.

The network must allow the incorporation of all the organizations, 
collectives and citizens, based on absolute equality, who answer the call to 
combat neoliberalism and the alienation and suffering of humanity without 
central power nuclei and empowering the autonomy of the experiences thus 
created and the organizational ways each especific reality demands. 
Empowering in turn the human contact, the affection among peoples which 
allows for the social growth of the fabric of struggles and resistances in a 
continuous and alive fashion.

The esential objective of the network is to fight all forms of oppression, 
degradation and destruction of persons, peoples and the Planet incarnated in 
the Hegemonic System, and to simultaneously build a new world in which all 
worlds have their place, those of today as well as future ones.

Functionally the network is:

- A net of information, which sets up in a space of communication a 
continual flow of data, facts and claims generated by the daily practice of 
each and every one of the collectives and individuals who make it up.

- A net of prevention and action, which permits us on the one hand to 
anticipate and resolve problems before they cause irreversible results, and 
on the other to achieve maximum efficiency in the actions to be undertaken 
towards the multiplication and combination of varied forces.

- A net of continuous intercation of experiences, conceptions, methods and 
capabilities and personal relations that allow for the coming together and 
enrichment of peoples, cultures, collectives and individuals, and the 
finding and promotion of social and economical alternatives that allow for 
vital options respectful of people and the planet we inhabit.


Network of nets and contact with other networks.

On the one hand, there is the progressive consolidation of this network on 
an international scale, worldwide as well as regionally planetary, 
attempting to incorporate local networks. In this sense, the realization of 
this encounter means an advance, because although there are still important 
holes in the structure of the net, everything indicates that those holes are 
step by step being filled. The Network for Humanity and against 
Neoliberalism is taking concrete form primarily in the European space and in 
the Americas, but we have also seen how this encounter has brought together
representatives from all parts of the globe: Asia, Africa, eastern countries 
and Oceania.

However, there remains much road to travel. Perhaps a way to consolidate 
this dynamic is to take advantage of and enlarge the regional coordination 
structures that have been set up for this Encounter.

But besides this problem of network consolidation on a regional and 
planetary scale (Europe, America, Africa ...) it can be seen more clearly 
that there is a need to connect this proccess with the progressive 
crystallization of networks of a sectorial character, likewise on planetary, 
regional and local levels. In this way we will gain in efficiency and in 
capability for political influence. Some of these nets are being built 
starting from sector nets already in existance, and others are being pushed 
forward as a result of this Encounter.

What networks are we talking about? Networks which, for example, will 
coalesce groups and collectives that work in the fields of health, 
antinuclear struggle, ecology (particularly oil), information and mass 
media, feminist and lesbian women, free circulation and global citizenship. 
At least these are the ideas and proposals that have surfaced at this time.

However, we must take into account that the practice of resistance and 
transformation, as well as that of elaboration and reflexion are not 
exhausted within the environment of the networks we have launched or 
connected with our dynamic.

There are likewise many nets, groups and dynamics, worldwide, regional and 
local which oppose in one way or another, in greater or lesser degree, 
explicitly or implicitly, the neoliberal logic. And it should be an 
objective to keep in mind to establish relations with them and to promote a 
creative promiscuity for all, each one keeping their respective autonomy, 
which will contribute to the ends we pursue. This is a way to bring into 
practice the plurality and diversity which animates the zapatista comrades, 
with the goal of proving that in this world there's room for many worlds.

We have to make these coordinations go further than the purely informational
or virtual coordination which propiciates the transmission of information 
and theoretical elaborations. To incite them to become a true mechanism for 
unity in the struggles and for the enrichment and extension of their 
experiences.

But it must go further still. It must become an instrument that allows for 
the transmission of humanity and facilitates personal and collective 
acquaintance.

We should congratulate ourselves because in spite of the difficulties we 
face, this proccess, with all its imperfectioons and criticisms, is under way.

Out of this great reunion there should come a collective and individual 
compromise in three spheres:

1. The compromise to activate from the moment we end this II Encounter the 
exchange of information among individuals and collectives, taking advantage 
of the contacts made among comrades and organizations worldwide. This 
information must not consist solely in the circulation of data, but also in 
a permanent stimulus for all kinds of political, theoretical and cultural 
debates.

2. The compromise of each comrade to propose and promote internal debate
in 
their organizations, collectives and social environments, about the network 
of struggle and resistance and the conclusions of this Encounter.

3. The compromise to foment and spread the concept of the network of 
struggles and resistance and the starting of local networks in the concrete 
space of the daily struggles of our comrades.


PROPOSALS FOR CAMPAIGN AND CONCRETE ACTIONS

Among the multiplicity of proposals and concrete actions generated by the 
tables and sub-tables, we have extracted the following, as the most general 
and important, even at the risk of not including some which are considered 
by their originating working groups as interesting from their view point. In 
any case they are all amply considered in the conclusions by the different 
tables and sub-tables.

* Campaign against the World Trade Organization. Alternative Summit in
March 
in Geneva and coordinated actions throughtout the world in parallel with the 
official summit in May 1988.

* Support of acts and mobilizations denouncing neoliberal policies, 
Maastritch and the unique currency, which will be promoted on a European 
scale the first week of December, in a decentralized fashion in the 
different countries, in accordance with the proposal by The Alternative 
Forum of Amsterdam.

* Mobilization campaigns October 8-12 denouncing Northern imperialism that 
oppresses and exploits different peoples worldwide. Coordinated with the 
human chain shoulder to shoulder with will culminated in New York on October
12.

* Boicott of especific transnational corporations against their labor 
practices and attacks on indigenous peoples. Campaign against Shell
(because 
of the situation of the Ogoni people in Nigeria). Campaign against Nestle. 
Campaign against Siemens (nuclear).

* Support of the summit parallel to the Climate Summit in Tokio, on December 
this year.

* Acts to denounce the situation of political prisoners, on February 9, 1988.

* Acts against patriarchy on November 25.

* Acts for the participation of women on January 1 1988, anniversary of the 
Chiapas uprising.

* A Day to demand healthy nourishment on December 14.

* The creation of a technical group on ecological information and education.

* Support of campaigns to denounce the Schengen Treaty promoted by 
inmigrant's associations, as well as denouncing internment centers and 
international segregation zones for inmigrants.

The building of this network on an intercontinental level is part of a 
process of struggle for a better future, of learning to organize political 
debate among ourselves. Thus it is very important that we analize and 
discuss among us the conclusions of this Encounter in our local, national 
and international nets. To guarantee continuity in this process, we propose 
the celebration of regional encounters for evaluation, in principle from now 
until December of this year.

At the same time we recommend to enlarge the periodicity of the encounters 
(perhaps every two years). The greater coincidence generated thanks to the 
net and the communication achieved among ourselves must now feed the 
different local perspectives and from there to backfeed the Intercontinental 
Encounters.


 
   Luis
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