[Imc-uk-features] Feature proposal: EZLN Lifts Red Alert ThroughoutZapatista Autonomous Areas

Thu Jul 21 03:01:58 PDT 2005

Yes i think it should go on the UK front page - as that is where most
people visit and it is also good 
to get a new feature up above the G8!

cheers tony

Original Message:
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From: maqui maqui at syndicate.org.uk
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:57:49 +0100
To: Imc-uk-features at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: [Imc-uk-features] Feature proposal: EZLN Lifts Red Alert
ThroughoutZapatista Autonomous 
Areas

Hello

I've put together the feature below and I propose it for the World and  
Zapatista sections.

Actually, when the EZLN announced the red alert a month ago, we had a  
feature in the front page. Should this one about the EZLN lifting the  
Red Alert and announcing their next political steps, make it also to  
the front page? ... What do you all think?

Cheers
maqui

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Title:
EZLN Lifts Red Alert Throughout Zapatista Autonomous Areas

Pic:
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/b17-1.jpgupqeqa.jpg

ABSTRACT:

Almost a month after the <a href="http://www.ezln.org/">EZLN</a> 
announced a <a href="/en/2005/06/314733.html">Red Alert</a> in all the 
autonomous Zapatista communities, the Clandestine Revolutionary 
Indigenous Committee – General Command of the Zapatista Army of 
National Liberation announced on July 11 that "with the completion 
of the internal consulta the EZLN has decided to lift the Red Alert 
which it has been maintaining since June 19, 2005". The EZLN also 
informed that "the Zapatista Caracoles will be reopened" and 
that "the different Good Government Juntas will also once again 
begin their work in their respective headquarters". [ <a 
href="/en/2005/07/318922.html">Read full Communique</a> ]


This follows a period of internal consultation with the Zapatista 
autonomous municipalities and support bases, where "meetings and 
assemblies were held in more than one thousand indigenous communities 
in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas". On June 26 a new <a 
href="http://www.ezln.org/documentos/2005/ 
ezln050626.en.htm">Communique</a> announced that "the results were 
that more than 98% approved the new step, and less than 2% decided not 
to support the proposal", and that over the next few days, the EZLN 
would make public a series of texts which would form the "Sixth 
Declaration of the Selva Lacandona."


On June 29 the <a 
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/ 
display.php3?article_id=113973">First Part of the Sixth Declaration of 
the Selva Lacandona</a> is published. This is followed with <a 
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=114072">Part 
2</a> in which the Zapatistas describe how they "see what is going 
on in the world and in our country", and <a 
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=114057">Part 
3</a> that not only states what the Zapatistas "want to do in the 
World and in Mexico" but also how they are going to go about doing 
it.


On July 13, the CCRI-CG of the EZLN publishes <a 
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=114331">two 
further communiques</a> in which the Zapatistas explain the "Ways and 
Means" of the new phase of the Zapatista struggle to all those 
"individuals, organizations, collectives, groups and associations of 
the left who support what has been proposed in the Sixth Declaration of 
the Selva Lacandona".


Zapatista breaking news:
 
<a href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/">IMC-Chiapas</a> | <a 
href="http://www.ezln.org/documentos/2005/index.htm">Archive of 
Zapatista communiques 2005</a>

CONTENT:

Since the EZLN made public the Sixth Declaration of the Selva 
Lacandona, national and international civil society has been discussing 
and debating the document and the new political initiatives that the 
EZLN proposes.
 
Below there are a few reactions, analysis, comments and critiques that 
have been published recently about the Zapatista's Sixth Declaration. 
These are all in Spanish language, so please use the comments link to 
add any texts or reactions in English to the Sixth Declaration that you 
may know of.

<li><a  
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/ 
display.php3?article_id=114247">Magdalena Gómez</a><br>

<li><a  
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=114246">Luis  
Hernández Navarro
</a><br>

<li><a  
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=114240">Neil  
Harvey</a><br>

<li><a  
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/ 
display.php3?article_id=114109">Carlos Fazio</a><br>

<li><a  
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/ 
display.php3?article_id=114241">Guillermo Almeyra </a><br>

<li><a  
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/ 
display.php3?article_id=114245">Sergio Zermeño</a><br>

<li><a  
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=114244">Luis  
Javier Garrido</a><br>

<li><a  
href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/ 
display.php3?article_id=114242">Francisco López Bárcenas</a>

<p>
On the other hand, the <a href="http://chiapas.pangea.org/">Solidarity  
Collective with the Zapatista Rebellion</a> of Barcelona has called for  
an <strong>European Zapatista Encuentro from the 22 to the 24 of  
July</strong> to discuss the Sixth Declaration in the context of  
European Zapatismo [ <a  
href="http://chiapas.pangea.org/foroencuentroeuropeo/marco.htm">See  
Open Forum and Proposals (Sp)</a> ]
</p>

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