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<h1 class="reader-title">The Extemporaneous and a National
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<p><span>Jul</span><span>18</span><span>2021</span></p>
<p><strong>ZAPATISTA SIXTH COMMISSION.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Mexico.</strong></p>
<p>July 2021.</p>
<p>To the adherents of the Declaration for Life:<br>
To the Europe from Below and to the Left:<br>
To the National and International Sixth:<br>
To the National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Governing Council:<br>
To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion:<br>
To the Collective «<em>Llegó la Hora de los Pueblos</em>«:</p>
<p>From: <b>Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.</b></p>
<p><em>Compañeras, compañeroas, compañeros:</em></p>
<p>Sisters, brothers, and <em>hermanoas</em>:</p>
<p>I greet you in the name of the children, women, them, elders and
men of the Zapatista communities, and I communicate to you the
following:</p>
<p>First.- We already have a strong Zapatista airborne company of
177 Zapatistas ready. It is made up in its totality by nativeso f
Mayan roots, from the Cho’ol, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal and
Castilian languages. We were born in the geography called Mexico.
Our ancestors were born and died in these lands. As the Mexican
State does not recognize our identity and origin, and tells us
that we are “extemporaneous” (so says the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs, that we are “extemporaneous” Mexicans), we have decided
to baptize this unit of Listening and Word [<em>Escucha y Palabra</em>]
as “The Extemporaneous.”</p>
<p>As we saw in the dictionaries, “extemporaneous” means “that it
is inopportune, inconvenient”, or “that it is inappropriate for
the time in which it happens.” In other words, that we are
inopportune, inconvenient and inappropriate.</p>
<p><u>Never before have we been so adequately defined. We are happy
that at last the Mexican State recognizes that this is how it
considers the original peoples of this geography called Mexico.
I think that’s how it laments not having annihilated us… yet;
and that our existence contradicts the official discourse about
the «conquest.» Now it is understood that the demand of the
government of Mexico to that of Spain, demanding that it ask
forgiveness, is for not having exterminated us.</u></p>
<p><u>Of the 177 delegates, 62 of us still do not have a passport.
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs is in a bind due to the
«inconvenience» that we represent. Despite the fact that we have
demonstrated our identity and origin, it continues demanding
more and more documents. The only thing left for them to do is
to ask the governments of Central America to say that we are not
citizens of those countries.</u></p>
<p>2.- The airborne company «The Extemporaneous,» with me in the
lead, has been preparing since October 2020 and we have been in
quarantine for almost a month. It is composed of:</p>
<p>– Several groups of «Listening and Word.» <em>[Escucha y
Palabra] </em>Indigenous Zapatistas whose existence and memory
cover the history of our struggle from the years before the
uprising to the beginning of the Journey for Life.</p>
<p>– A women’s soccer team. It is made up of 36 <em>milicianas</em>
(who are also “Listening and Word”) who have taken the name and
example of the late Comandanta Ramona, the first Zapatista to
leave Chiapas, and identify the team as “Ixchel Ramona” and thus
they will go out into the sports fields of Europe.</p>
<p>– The self-styled «Popcorn Command.» <em>[Comando Palomitas</em>]
They are 6 girls and boys from the group «Play and Mischief» [<em>Juego
y Travesura</em>]. Like all of us, they have been preparing.</p>
<p>– The coordinating group of the invasion. They are those who will
be in charge of organizing and, where appropriate, reinforcing the
“Listening and Word” groups that will be distributed in the 5
areas into which we have divided the European continent. They will
also attend to the free and paid media, participate in round
tables, conferences and public events, and will evaluate the
development of the invasion.</p>
<p>With Squadron 421 we will complete the Zapatista first wave and
begin the visits to those who invited us and, with attention and
respect, we will listen to them. If they ask, we will tell them
about our little story of resistance and rebellion.</p>
<p>3.- A delegation from the National Indigenous Congress-CIG will
travel with us, strong in 10 indigenous languages: original Maya,
Popoluca, Binizá, Purhépecha, Raramuri, Otomí, Naayeri / Wixarika
and Nahua, as well as 3 brothers/sisters from the People’s Front
in Defense of the Land and Water of Tlaxcala, Puebla y Morelos. A
total of 13.</p>
<p>4.- Since I am in charge of the Journey for Life-European
Chapter, I have entrusted Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano to take
command in Mexico and to initiate, as soon as possible, contacts
with the National Indigenous Congress- CIG, with the National
Sixth, with the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion, with
Non-Governmental Organizations for the defense of Human Rights,
with groups of Victims of violence, relatives of the disappeared
and similars, as well as with artists, scientists and
intellectuals, with the aim of making them aware of a new national
initiative and inviting them to organize for it. And thus to open
a front of struggle for Life in our country.</p>
<p>5.- In a few more days, which we will inform you in due time, we
will start our trip. Now all of us are trying to get vaccinated so
we don’t bring you health problems, and waiting for the so-called
“third wave” of infections in Mexico to decrease a bit.</p>
<p>Then we will go to the <em>Caracol Jacinto Canek</em>, in <em>San
Cristóbal de Las Casas</em>, and there we will concentrate. From
there we will move to Mexico City where the 177 delegates will go
to the offices of the SRE (Secretary of Foreign Affairs) to be
told, to our faces and in public, that we have no rights because
we are “extemporaneous”, and that its “aspirations” force it to
delegate its responsibility to racist and ignorant bureaucrats.
Then, perhaps Paris, France.</p>
<p>We will tell you the precise dates later, because it seems that,
for the French government, we are also inopportune; In addition,
of course, to the world’s new wave of COVID 19. Oh well, it must
be globalization.</p>
<p>6.- We are a little nervous but happy -because it is not the
first time that we will do something without knowing what awaits
us. We already thank the Europe from Below, the National Sixth,
the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion,NGOs in solidarity from
this and the other side of the ocean, and the collective «The Time
of the Peoples has arrived»[<em>Lleg</em><em>ó la Hora de los
Pueblos</em><em>]</em> for the economic and in-kind support
that will allow us to make the air trip. The cost of maritime
travel and passports (between 10 thousand and 15 thousand pesos
each, for the continuous trips to and from our towns to meet the
ridiculous requirements of the Mexican State for being
«extemporaneous»), was fully covered by the EZLN and left us
without a reserve fund. But it did not represent, for any of the
delegates, any personal expense.</p>
<p>7.- Regarding the national initiative – of which SupGaleano
remains in charge -, I can only foretell that it will begin with
our call to participate in the so-called “Popular Consultation» on
the 1st of August, and to answer “Yes» to the question about
whether or not something should be done to comply with the right
to truth and justice of those who have been victims by actions and
omissions of the Mexican State (that that, and nothing else, is
what is indicated by the question elaborated by the Supreme Court
of Justice of the Nation of the country called Mexico). Those up
there, in the «opposition» parties, who are resisting the
consultation, are not only afraid of what will come out of it;
they are also terrified that the victims will recover their
demands from the dastardly and perverse use that the ultra-right
wing makes of their pain. Because pain should not be an electoral
business, and even less for such shitty purposes as the return to
the government of those who are some of those mainly responsible
for the violence, and who before only dedicated themselves to
accumulate money and cynicism. That is why the INE (National
Electoral Institute), which also considers the indigenous people
to be «extemporaneous» and denies us our ID cards, is doing
everything possible to make the consultation fail, because it
knows that it also has its share of the crime due to its exclusive
policy in favor of the light-skinned and urban.</p>
<p>We have to make a start, not looking up, but looking at the
victims. We must turn the consultation into an «extemporaneous»
consultation, in order to start, independent of those above, a
movement for a Commission for Truth and Justice for the Victims,
or whatever it may be called. Because there can be no life without
truth and justice.</p>
<p>That’s all for now.</p>
<p>From the Mountains of the Mexican Southeast.</p>
<p>For the extemporaneous Zapatistas.</p>
<p>Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.</p>
<p>Still in Mexico, July 2021</p>
<p>«Bella Ciao» versión trombones, Germán El Trombón & El Clan
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