The latest words from Marcos

Words of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos on Friday, September 16, 2005 (Excerpts):

Compañeros and compañeras, in keeping with our brief tradition, I am informing
you how the campaign of support closed as of this September 11, two months
after we began the call: 55 political organizations of the left have joined, a
month and a half ago there were 30; 103 indigenous organizations and Indian
peoples of Mexico, and there were 32 a month and a half ago; 162 social
organizations and movements, and there were 47 a month and a half ago; 453
non-governmental organizations, collectives and groups, and there were 210 a
month and a half ago; 1624 individuals or persons representing their families,
barrios or communities, and there were 690 a month and a half ago.
***

We have to prepare ourselves for a mobilization, but compañeros and compañeras
also have to be preparing themselves for repression. When Lieutenant Colonel
Moisés spoke to us, he explained how the replacements were planned and
organized. We are recommending that the social, political, non-governmental
organizations, all of them, clearly establish their replacements, in such a way
that any repressive action doesn’t leave the Other Campaign without leaders,
and it will be able to continue forward.

We have to learn to name our prisoners and to name our repressions. At one of
the meetings there was talk of the case of repression in Guadalajara against
the young altermundistas. The ones who were speaking couldn’t give the
prisoners names. That’s incredible. We, as the Other Campaign, cannot do that.
We have to be loyal to our compañeros and not leave anyone alone, nor forget
about anyone. And I’m going to name here, at one of the extremes, two
compañeros, a man and a woman, who are prisoners and who – if we believe their
relatives who came to one of the meetings – joined the Sexta. They’re the
compañero Jacobo Silva Nogales and the compañera Gloria Arena Asís, prisoners
from the Revolutionary Army of Insurgent People.
***

I’m going to present the criteria by which the Sixth Committee of the EZLN will
be going out:

Finances. There will not be any bank accounts. The Sixth Committee’s delegation
will travel and be housed and fed solely through the support of those who have
organized in states, regions and municipalities. What is received will go to
and be collected by the delegation, or they will send them money so they can go
to their location. The zapatista delegation will present an accounting of what
it receives in each place.

Personal gifts will not be accepted, not even symbolic ones. Anything anyone
wishes to send, should be sent to the communities.

Historians recount, if we are to believe them, that the first places in Mexico
where critical anti-capitalist thought, and the effort to build a new society
with new social relationships, arrived were the Chiapas coast and the Yucatán
peninsula, among coffee and agave fiber plantation workers. That is where the
Other Campaign is going to begin.

The zapatista delegation will begin where it began twelve years ago, one first
of January, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, the first of January of 2006.

The week of January 2 to January 8: Chiapas
>>From January 9 to January 15: Yucatán and Quintana Roo
>>From January 16 to January 22: Campeche and Tabasco
>>From January 23 to January 29: Veracruz
>>From January 30 to February 5: Oaxaca
>>From February 6 to February 12: Puebla
>>From February 13 to February 19: Tlaxcala
>>From February 20 to February 26: Hidalgo
>>From February 27 to March 5: Querétaro
>>From March 6 to March 12: Guanajuato and Aguascalientes
>>From March 13 to March 19: Jalisco
>>From March 20 to March 26: Nayarit and Colima
>>From March 27 to April 2: Michoacán
>>From April 3 to April 9: Guerrero
>>From April 10 to April 16: Morelos
>>From April 17 to April 23: Mexico State and the Federal District
>>From April 24 to April 30: Federal District and Mexico State
>>From the first of May to May 7: San Luis Potosí
>>From May 8 to May 14: Zacatecas
>>From May 15 to May 21: Nuevo León and Tamaulipas
>>From May 22 to May 28: Coahuila and Durango
>>From May 29 to June 4: Chihuahua and the first meeting with the chicano
compañeros on the other side
>>From June 5 to June 11: Sinaloa and Sonora
>>From June 12 to June 18: Northern Baja California, Southern Baja California and
the second meeting with Mexicans from the other side.

>>From June 19 to June 25: We are proposing that on Saturday, June 24, on the
night of San Juan, a Plenary-Report be held in the Federal District and Mexico
State.

On June 25, we will return to Chiapas, and we will wait for whatever happens.

The first departure, as I have already explained, will begin in the month of
January and end in the month of June. Delegate Zero, which we call ourselves,
I, will travel the country for six months on a first trip in order to hold
state meetings of the Other Campaign and see to the transportation, lodging and
feeding and movement plans for the Sixth Committee. Bilateral meetings will
also be held with compañeros who request them in each state.

The second departure will be in September of 2006 until March of 2007. Another
delegation will appear, which will be the national delegation and the regional
or state delegations. The Sixth Committee of the EZLN is going to have a group
that moves throughout the country, and other groups which establish themselves
in the states or in the regions in order to conduct the Other Campaign.

The national delegation will hold bilateral talks and meetings throughout the
country, by states. As that moves forward, regional delegations will be
established, and they will begin the visits to the struggles, resistances and
rebellions.

In April of 2007, the national and regional delegations will be replaced by a
new team.

And so on, until we finish, if we finish.
***

Teams will be organized in the states for making a social evaluation regarding
the situation in each state and for going about collecting the demands, and the
struggles, as they discover them in the advancement of the Other Campaign, by
states, regions and sectors.

We are proposing that there not be any special committees. The only thing that
would do would be to duplicate duties and create bureaucracies.