El CLACSO Working Group Body, territories, resistances supports and adheres to the following collective communication regarding the situation in Chiapas.

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To the people of Mexico and the world
To the governments of Mexico
To all people willing to live, that is, to fight

The recent attacks on Zapatista authorities are the culmination of an escalation of attacks and provocations against communities – Zapatista and non-Zapatista – in Chiapas by paramilitary groups whose true nature is known to everyone: the corrupt governments seek the surrender of those who resist the dispossession they promote, or worse still, they want to provoke a tragic violent confrontation that would serve as a pretext for widespread repression, in order to remove obstacles from their destructive path, which equally devastates Mother Earth and the social fabric. 

We will not allow it!  

These corrupt governments, along with their henchmen and lackeys, must know that they face not only the well-organized force of the Zapatista people, clearly determined to exercise their legitimate right to self-defense. They have tried every peaceful means of agreement and reconciliation and have encountered only indifference and irresponsibility. Their patience is running out. Together with them, with the Zapatista communities and peoples, with the hundreds of communities attacked by the current regime, we are determined to stop this criminal impulse that seems to have no other outlet than violence. 

On the 24th, we will demonstrate our resolve to react. In silence or with shouts, in streets and squares, in front of embassies or public buildings, in workplaces, wherever we are and by all means at our disposal, we will show our solidarity and resistance to the absolutely illegal abuses carried out with the open complicity of those who have the legal and political obligation to prevent them. 

The paramilitary mask doesn't fool us. It's the State. We will not accept its cult of death. We will take to the streets this Friday the 24th to defend life. 

If you wish to join this call, please send an email with your name and the information you wish to share to: [email protected]

MORE INFO

http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2021/09/19/chiapas-al-borde-de-la-guerra-civil/

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To the governments of Mexico
To the people of Mexico and the world
To all those ready to live, that is, to fight

The recent aggressions against Zapatista authorities are the culmination of an escalation of attacks and provocations against Zapatista and non-Zapatista communities of Chiapas at the hands of paramilitaries whose character the whole world knows: the bad governments seek the surrender of those who resist the dispossession they promote. Or worse, they provoked a tragic, violent confrontation that would be a pretext for great repression, in order to remove obstacles from their destructive path, that lays waste to Mother Earth as to the social fabric.

We will not allow it. Those bad governments should know, as should their officials and lackeys, that they not only confront the well-organized force of the Zapatista peoples clearly determined to exercise their legitimate right to self-defense. They have tried all the peaceful means of accord and reconciliation and they have only encountered indifference and an irresponsibility. Their patience now wears thin. Together with them, together with the Zapatista communities and peoples, together with the hundreds of communities assaulted by the current regime, we are determined to halt this criminal impulse that doesn't seem to have another way out except through violence.

We will demonstrate on the 24th that we are determined to react. In silence or shouting, in the streets and plazas, before the embassies or public buildings, in places of work, wherever we are and by any means at our reach, we will show our solidarity resistance to the absolutely illegal abuse that takes place with the open complicity of those who have the legal and political obligation to stop it.

The paramilitary mask does not deceive us. It is the State. We will not accept its cult of death. We will come out this Friday the 24th to defend life.

If you want to join this call, send an email with your name and the information you want to share to: [email protected]

22 2021 de septiembre
CLACSO Working Group
Bodies, territories, resistances

SIGNATORS
Dawn. Blog of spirituality, philosophy and mysticism; La Vaquita Athenaeum - Argentina; Water Council of Cuenca, Ecuador; Chiapas Women's Rights Center, Mexico; Center for Intercultural Encounters and Dialogues, Mexico; Chto Delat Group, Russia; Collective of Anthropologists of Ecuador; Caldas Southwest Colombian Collective, Colombia; Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada Collective; Color Tierra, Colombia; Ecumenical Commission for Human Rights; COMUNALISIS, Ecuador; DECOIN, Ecuador; Space for Struggle against Oblivion and Repression, Mexico; Indigenous Futures Network; Marxist Studies Group in Public Administration (GEMAP) – Higher School of Public Administration, ESAP – Colombia; OMASNE Project Network – Northern Resistance Front of Ecuador; Indigenous Videographers of the Southern Border (PVIFS-Chiapas) Mexico; Network of Resistance and Rebellion (AJMAQ) Mexico; Transnational Network of Other Knowledges (RETOS); University of the Earth in Oaxaca; YASunidos Guapondelig, Ecuador; 16 Beaver Group, United States

Alfredo Pérez Bermúdez, writer, university professor, Quito, Ecuador; Aída Luz López, Autonomous University of Mexico City; Alan Eladio Gómez, Arizona State University, United States; Alberto Acosta, President of the Constituent Assembly (2007-2008), Ecuador; Alberto Chirif, Peru; Alberto Velásquez, Yucatán, Mexico; Alejandro Olmos Gaona, Argentina; Alessandra Pomarico, Free Home Universities / Ecoversities Alliance, Italy; Ana Cecilia Salazar Vintimilla; Angel Tipán Santillán, Kichwa Nationality – Panzaleo People; Annie Paradise, Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, United States; Antonio Elizalde Hevia, President of the Board of Directors of Chile Sustentable, Chile; Arlete Maraia S. Alves, Professor, UFU, Brazil; Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Colombia; Atawallpa Oviedo Freire, Movement for Good Living Global and School of Otherness of Higher Studies, Ecuador and Bolivia; Axel Köhler, Chiapas, Mexico; Ayreen Anastas, 16 Beaver Group, United States; Breno Bringel, Netsal-UERJ, Brazil; Cândido Grzybowski, Sociologist; Carlos Calvas, Quito, Ecuador; Carlos Castro Riera, University of Cuenca, Ecuador; Carlos Galano; Catherine Walsh, Andean University Simón Bolívar, Ecuador; Cecilia Molina Loyola, Ecuador; Cecilia Zeledón, Unitierra Puebla, Mexico; Christopher McAuley, UCSB Black Studies, United States; Danilo Quijano, Network of Decoloniality and Social Self-Government, Peru; Dante Marcelo Faure Novelli, Ateneo La Vaquita, Argentina; David Barkin, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico; David Fajardo Torres, Water Council of Cuenca, Ecuador; Diego Cano, Ecuador; Dimtry Vilensky, artist, Chto Delat Collective, Russia; Dunia Mokrani Chávez-Feminist Territory, BUAP, Bolivia/Mexico; Elías González, Unitierra Oaxaca, Mexico; Emanuele Braga, artist, MACAO, Milan, Italy; Enrique Leff, Institute of Social Research, UNAM, Mexico; Federico Aguilera Klink, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Federico Demaria, University of Barcelona, ​​Spain; Fernando Carvajal; Francesco Martone, former senator, Italy; Franco Augusto, Global Network of Alternatives, Argentina; Fred Moten, United States; Gabriela Eskola; Gustavo Esteva, Unitierra Oaxaca, Mexico; Harry Cleaver, writer, Austin, Texas, United States; Hugo Blanco, Peru; Inés Durán, Jalisco, Mexico; Jesal Kapadia, MIT, United States; John Byrne, John Moores University, United Kingdom; John Cajas-Guijarro, Central University of Ecuador, Ecuador; Jorge Riechmann, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain; José Francisco Puello-Socarrás, Higher School of Public Administration (ESAP), Colombia; José Luis Grosso, PIRKA International Research Center, Colombia; José Rafael Escobedo, Unitierra San Pablo Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico; Juan Cuvi, former leader of the ALFARO VIVE CARAJO! movement Ecuador; Juan Fernando Vega, Cuenca, Ecuador; Juan Mayorga, Unitierra Oaxaca, Mexico; Judit Bastidas Torres, activist and promoter of Human Rights, San Vicente de Andoas, Pichincha - Ecuador; Lena Lavinas, University of London. United Kingdom; Lola Cubells, Valencia, Spain; Luigino Infanti; Luis Tapia Mealla, CIDES-UMSA, Bolivia; Manolo Callahan, Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, United States; Marco Baravalle, Sale Docks, Venice, Italy; María Daquilema, Ecuador; María Graciela Muñoz, Constituent Assembly Movement, Santiago, Chile; María Patricia Pérez Moreno, Bachajón, Chiapas, Mexico; Marilyn Machado Mosquera, Kuagro ri Changaina, Colombia; Mencha Barrera, Collective of Women Anthropologists, Ecuador; Miguel Ángel Aguilar Arreola, Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada Collective, Mexico; Miriam Lang, Ecuador; Mónica Baltodano, former guerrilla commander of the Sandinista Popular Revolution, President of Popolna, Managua, Nicaragua; Nicholas D. Mirzoef; Nidia Arrobo Rodas, Indigenous People's Foundation of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; Nikolay Oleynikov, artist; Pablo Reyna Estevez; Pablo García Bachiller, architect, Madrid, Spain; Pablo Ospina Peralta, Andean University Simón Bolívar, Ecuador; Patricia Botero, Global Network of Alternatives, Colombia; Patricia Viera, Mexico City, Chile; Pocho Alvarez, filmmaker, Ecuador; Raúl Prada Alcoreza: Critical writer, anarchist activist, artisan of poiesis and environmental militant, Bolivia; Rene Gabri, 16 Beaver Group, United States; Raúl Zibechi, Uruguay; Ricardo Domínguez, University of California, San Diego, United States; Rosa Elena Orellana Gutiérrez; Sonia Gau, Uruguay; Theo Prodromidis, artist, Institute of Radical Imagination, Athens, Greece; Ulrich Brand, University of Vienna, Austria; Valentín Val, Chiapas/Argentina; Vik Bahl, Green River College, United States; Viviana Aketzali Hernández Angeles, San Juan Yucuita Community, Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico; Wendy Juárez, Unitierra Oaxaca, Mexico; Xavier Maldonado, Latin American Association of Social Medicine, Ecuador Chapter; Xóchitl Leyva Solano, RETOS, Chiapas, Mexico; Yaku Pérez Guartambel, Indigenous presidential candidate, Ecuarinari leader, Ecuador; Yusmidia Solano Suárez, Caribbean Women's Network, Colombia; Uwe Leon Hasert, Ecuador

This statement expresses the position of the Working Group Bodies, territories, resistances and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.