[Peace-discuss] our friends in Cancun

[Lisa Chason]

Check out www.ucimc.org (the IMC website in Urbana-Champaign) for Meridith
Kruse's extremely moving reports direct from the alternative globalisation
conference, taking place alongside the WTO global trade negotiations in
Cancun, Mexico.


The following is from The Guardian, a transcript of the message
 delivered by Subcomandante Marcos, leading voice of
 the Zapatista movement, in Cancun


 http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1039754,00.html
>
> The slaves of money - and our rebellion
>
> Subcomandante Marcos
> Thursday September 11, 2003
> The Guardian
>
> Brothers and sisters of Mexico and the world, who are
> gathered in Cancun in a mobilisation against
> neo-liberalism, greetings from the men, women,
> children and elderly of the Zapatista National
> Liberation Army. It is an honour for us that, amid
> your meetings, agreements and mobilisations, you have
> found time and place to hear our words.
> The world movement against the globalisation of death
> and destruction is experiencing one of its brightest
> moments in Cancun today. Not far from where you are
> meeting, a handful of slaves to money are negotiating
> the ways and means of continuing the crime of
> globalisation.
>
> The difference between them and all of us is not in
> the pockets of one or the other, although their
> pockets overflow with money while ours overflow with
> hope.
>
> No, the difference is not in the wallet, but in the
> heart. You and we have in our hearts a future to
> build. They only have the past which they want to
> repeat eternally. We have hope. They have death. We
> have liberty. They want to enslave us.
>
> This is not the first time, nor will it be the last,
> that the people who think themselves the owners of the
> planet have had to hide behind high walls and their
> pathetic security forces in order to put their plans
> in place.
>
> As if at war, the high command of the multinational
> army that wants to conquer the world in the only way
> possible, that is to say, to destroy it, meets behind
> a system of security that is as large as their fear.
>
> Before, the powerful met behind the backs of the world
> to scheme their future wars and displacements. Today
> they have to do it in front of thousands in Cancun and
> millions around the world.
>
> That is what this is all about. It is war. A war
> against humanity. The globalisation of those who are
> above us is nothing more than a global machine that
> feeds on blood and defecates in dollars.
>
> In the complex equation that turns death into money,
> there is a group of humans who command a very low
> price in the global slaughterhouse. We are the
> indigenous, the young, the women, the children, the
> elderly, the homosexuals, the migrants, all those who
> are different. That is to say, the immense majority of
> humanity.
>
> This is a world war of the powerful who want to turn
> the planet into a private club that reserves the right
> to refuse admission. The exclusive luxury zone where
> they meet is a microcosm of their project for the
> planet, a complex of hotels, restaurants, and
> recreation zones protected by armies and police
> forces.
>
> All of us are given the option of being inside this
> zone, but only as servants. Or we can remain outside
> of the world, outside life. But we have no reason to
> obey and accept this choice between living as servants
> or dying. We can build a new path, one where living
> means life with dignity and freedom. To build this
> alternative is possible and necessary. It is necessary
> because on it depends the future of humanity.
>
> This future is up for grabs in every corner of each of
> the five continents. This alternative is possible
> because around the world people know that liberty is a
> word which is often used as an excuse for cynicism.
>
> Brothers and sisters, there is dissent over the
> projects of globalisation all over the world. Those
> above, who globalise conformism, cynicism, stupidity,
> war, destruction and death. And those below who
> globalise rebellion, hope, creativity, intelligence,
> imagination, life, memory and the construction of a
> world that we can all fit in, a world with democracy,
> liberty and justice.
>
> We hope the death train of the World Trade
> Organisation will be derailed in Cancun and everywhere
> else.
>
> · Subcomandante Marcos is the leading voice of the
> Zapatista movement, which fights for the rights of
> Mexico's 10 million indigenous people. This is the
> transcript of a message - Marcos's first international
> communiqué for four years - delivered on Wednesday to
> the anti-globalisation conference taking place
> alongside the WTO global trade negotiations in Cancun
>
> http://www.ezln.org
>
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