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from the zapatistas 'sixth declaration of the lacandon jungle'
even with all this mess the neoliberals are making, there are mexican men and women who are organizing and making a resistance struggle.
and so we found out that there are indigenous people, that their lands are far away from us here in chiapas, and they are making their autonomy and defending their culture and caring for their land, forests and water.
and their are workers in the countryside, campesinos, who are organizing and holding their marches and mobilizations in order to demand credits and aid for the countryside.
and there are workers in the city who do not let their rights be taken away or their jobs privatized. they protest and demonstrate so the little they have isn't taken away from them and so they don't take away from the country what is, in fact, its own, like electricity, oil, social security, education.
and there are students who don't let education be privatized and who are fighting for it to be free and popular and scientific, so they don't charge, so everyone can learn, and so they don't teach stupid things in schools.
and there are women who do not let themselves be treated as an ornament or be humiliated and despised just for being women, but who are organizing and fighting for the respect they deserve as the women they are.
and there are young people who don't accept being stultified with drugs or persecuted for their way of being, but who make themselves aware with their music and their culture, their rebellion.
and there are homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, and many others who do not put up with being ridiculed, despised, mistreated, and even killed for having another way which is different, with being treated like they are abnormal or criminals, but who make their own organizations in order to defend their right to be different.
and there are priests and nuns and those they call laypeople who are not with the rich and who are not resigned, but who are organizing to accompany the struggles of their people.
and there are those who are called social activists, who are men and women who have been fighting all their lives for exploited people,and they are the same ones who participated in the great strikes and workers' actions, in the great citizens' mobilizations, in the great campesino movements, and who suffer great repression, and who, even though some are old now, continue on without surrendering, and they go everywhere, looking for the struggle, seeking justice and making leftist organizations...and they are just not quiet and they know a lot because they have seen a lot and lived and struggled.
and so we see in general that in our country, which is called mexico, there are many people who do not put up with things, who do not surrender, who do not sell out . who are dignified. and that makes us very pleased and happy, because with all those people it's not going to be so easy for the neoliberals to win, and perhaps it will be possible to save our patria from the great thefts and destruction they are doing.
- CRIC
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