From: "ratnamala --" <nuppets-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: silence
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 09:17:47 PST


I know I'm ignorant but I can't be silent about it -what are chiapas and 
zapatistas-I would love to know-They sound exciting? Ratnamala


>From: Cyberdiva <radhik-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu>
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>To: sa-cyborgs-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: silence
>Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:18:34 -0500
>
>Sometime ago we started talking about silence. within that context,
>schizoid said... (see below)
>
>-
>does anyone have any comments to make on the chiapas and zapatistas
>and how they are using the Internet?
>
>thanks,
>r
>
>
>Subject: Fwd: Re: silence
>From: schizoid <schizoid-AT-pacific.net.sg>
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>>On Wed, 3 Feb 1999,
>>cyberdiva wrote:
>>> "The risk of mistaking the
>>`culture of silence' for
>>ignorance or
>>> indifference is one to which
>>the powerful are inherently
>>prone."
>>>
>>>                      - Deborah
>>Eade - 1998
>>
>>If silence isn;t ignorance or
>>indifference, then what does
>>it
>>signify please?
>>
>>paula
>>
>
>i would say that it (meaning 'silence') could mean a refusal of the
>current paradigm - which is clearly one of the modes of resistance
>adopted by the Zapatist rebels in Mexico, when the situationn turned
>decidedly violent through methods of low-intensity warfare employed by
>the government.
>
>schizoid
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>
>"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of
>that which others have made of us"
>-  Franz Fanon
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