VICTIMS OF CLASS WORK POLICY FOR TRANSNATIONAL
defend their lands, ejido ONLY CRIME OF PRISONERS BACHAJON: Zibechi
Hermann Bellinghausen, Messenger, newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday May 4, 2011, p. 16
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chis., May 3. "The only crime committed by the ejido of San Sebastian Bachajón is wanting to live on their land, the land of his grandparents, his more distant ancestors, who now want to be appropriate by the multinationals of money and death. Ejidatarios five prisoners from the February 3 and Patricio Dominguez Vazquez, arrested in mid-April at the Monte Redondo ejido in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, are victims of politicians who work for multinationals ".
That said political analyst Raul Zibechi in a message sent from Montevideo, Uruguay, to which is added to international demands for the release of five prisoners from Bachajon, adherents of the Other Campaign, and Domínguez Vázquez, Zapatista support base Township Autonomous Land and Freedom, who recently was expressed in 33 cities, only in France, and in twenty countries.
"War today is for the land, to appropriate the life within it and play, and that the Indians and peasants are mere nuisances of which is necessary to dispose. Since capital decided that everything is good, no is no room or corner of the planet that can get rid of that ambition.
to grab the land, sparked what the Zapatistas call World War IV, which in Latin America goes to expel millions of people from more than 100 million acres in dispute. The major projects open pit mining, monoculture sugar cane, corn and soybeans to produce fuel, and planting trees to make pulp, are killing the life and people from south to north.
In some cases, he says, as happened to Patrick, not only prison but they burned their houses because really looking to leave their land. That war has been sixty years in Colombia, which has allowed more than four million hectares of farmers to pass the paramilitaries, as they are offered as security for the multinationals. A war that seeks to expel farmers, more than three million in the past 20 years, and clearing areas of the capital for speculation.
In Colombia, the territories of war coincide exactly with those who aspire to the mining and infrastructure megaprojects.
The same is happening now in the rest of the continent, Uruguayan writer adds: The Brazilian government is turning Amazonian rivers of cheap energy sources for large companies, with huge dams, "in which construction work 10, 15 and 20 thousand workers poorly paid and poorly housed, new slaves in the service of Governments subordinate to capital, and when they rebel, as happened in Jirau (Roraima state) in March, are accused of 'bandits'.
"What hurts the most, and what I teach, is how the political class who once said being on the left is united with the political class was always right to expel and imprison farmers and indigenous people, showing are all equal when it comes to attacking below to do business for the above. And take arguments 'green' because they learned the politically correct excuses to hide the theft. "
Addressing the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, New York, from this corner of the continent, Zibechi joins the campaign to free five of Bachajón and Patrick, and expresses its solidarity and fraternity among the people knows no boundaries and can not expect anything from the top or institutions. Only depend on ourselves.
A contunuación, the complete text of the letter from Raúl Zibechi:
Raúl Zibechi LETTER TO THE OTHER NEW YORK
Montevideo, May 2, 2011.
@ s Dear comrades of the Movement for Justice in El Barrio and the Other Campaign in New York:
The only crime committed by the ejido of San Sebastian Bachajón is wanting to live on their land, the land of his grandparents, his more remote ancestors, who now want to be appropriate by the multinationals of money and death. Ejidatarios five prisoners from the February 3 and Patricio Dominguez Vazquez, arrested in mid-April at the Monte Redondo ejido in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, are victims of class policy that works for multinationals.
The war today is for the land, to appropriate her home life and plays, and that the Indians and peasants are mere nuisances of which is necessary to dispose. Since capital decided that everything is good to do business and accumulate more capital, there is no room or corner of the planet that can get rid of that ambition. To grab the land, sparked what the Zapatistas called as the fourth world war in Latin America goes through the expulsion of millions of people over about a hundred million acres in dispute. The major projects open pit mining, sugar cane monoculture sugar, corn and soybeans to produce gasoline, and the planting of trees to make pulp, are killing the life and people from south to north.
In some cases, as happened to Patrick, not only imprisoned but was burnt and destroyed his house because really looking to leave their land. This is the war which has already been sixty years in Colombia, which allowed more than four million acres passed from the peasants by paramilitaries as they are offered as security for the multinationals. A war to evict farmers, more than three million in the last twenty years, to clear areas that are converted into spaces for speculation capital. In Colombia, the territories of the war are exactly the territories they covet the large mining and infrastructure megaprojects.
same thing is happening all over the continent. The Brazilian government is turning the Amazon rivers of cheap energy sources for large Brazilian companies and the North. For that built giant dams on which construction work ten, fifteen and twenty thousand workers poorly paid and poorly housed, new slaves submissive governments serving capital. When they rebel, as in Jirau (state of Roraima) in March, are accused of "bandits."
What hurts the most, and more teaches, is how the political class who once said being on the left is united with the political class was always right to expel and imprison farmers and indigenous people, showing that they are all equal when it comes to attacking below to doing business for the above. And take arguments "green" because they learned the politically correct excuses to hide the theft.
From this corner of the continent, I join you from New York that made the campaign for the release of five of Bachajón and Patrick. The Movement for Justice in El Barrio, whom I met in January 2009 during the Festival of Dignified Rage in San Cristobal de las Casas, shows that solidarity and brotherhood among peoples knows no boundaries and can not expect anything from the top or the institutions, and only rely on ourselves. Health
Raul Zibechi
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