Question 1: Who are the Zapatistas? (0:04)
Answer: The people from below, common people, men and women rebels, the children and the old; rebellious dreamers. Indigenous Mayas, who twenty years ago were awakened with the cry and anthem, "we are tired!"
Question 2: Tired! Of What? (0:18)
Answer: Tired of violence, deaths, exploitation, possession, humiliation, contempt and repression, the fight against the indigenous peoples, women, and nature.
Question 3: What are they asking the government? (0:30)
Answer: Nothing. They ask nothing in government. When they started in 1994, they published eleven requests. They talked with the government and they signed accords that would never be applied. Faced with this betrayal, the Zapatistas decided to reach their territory to build their own autonomy from the bottom up, and the government responded with war.
Question 4: What have they done in the 20 years? (0:54)
Answer: They are organized, they have created another world that people of all types have experienced. The free world, where there is no exploitation, nor oppression, nor violence, no hierarchy other than to serve the community. This other world with the "Juntas del Bien Gobeirno" (boards/meetings of good government); there are autonomous schools, clinics, and hospitals with economic resistance and collective workers who demonstrate that is it possible to live in another manner. They're constructing this new world with their hands and with good hearts despite the constant harassment and attacks of the government and paramilitaries.
I'll be translating more later.
Answer: The people from below, common people, men and women rebels, the children and the old; rebellious dreamers. Indigenous Mayas, who twenty years ago were awakened with the cry and anthem, "we are tired!"
Question 2: Tired! Of What? (0:18)
Answer: Tired of violence, deaths, exploitation, possession, humiliation, contempt and repression, the fight against the indigenous peoples, women, and nature.
Question 3: What are they asking the government? (0:30)
Answer: Nothing. They ask nothing in government. When they started in 1994, they published eleven requests. They talked with the government and they signed accords that would never be applied. Faced with this betrayal, the Zapatistas decided to reach their territory to build their own autonomy from the bottom up, and the government responded with war.
Question 4: What have they done in the 20 years? (0:54)
Answer: They are organized, they have created another world that people of all types have experienced. The free world, where there is no exploitation, nor oppression, nor violence, no hierarchy other than to serve the community. This other world with the "Juntas del Bien Gobeirno" (boards/meetings of good government); there are autonomous schools, clinics, and hospitals with economic resistance and collective workers who demonstrate that is it possible to live in another manner. They're constructing this new world with their hands and with good hearts despite the constant harassment and attacks of the government and paramilitaries.
I'll be translating more later.
Question 5: And the media says nothing? Not a word about the Zapatistas? (1:33)
Answer: A war that comes from above against the people, a war full of attrition that has affected the indigenous peoples for more than 500 years, and if we observe well, is being replicated world wide. The media belongs to those who lead this war: the owners of large capital. That's why we have our own free media; to be truly informed.
Question 6: Why does the government want to end the Zapatistas? (1:59)
Answer: They want to conquer the land, because in addition to being filled with petroleum and uranium, it's filled with the indigenous. And the indigenous, in addition to not speaking Spanish, don't want credit cards and have dedicated their lives to cultivating the Earth. They are neither consumers or producers for the system. They are too much, and all that too much is too much to eliminate. But they don't want to abandon anything or stop being indigenous. Their struggle is to be recognized as indigenous peoples: recognition of their right to exist unchanged; exist without becoming someone else.
Question 7: Why don't they respond with armed forces, if they have an army? (2:33)
Answer: They don't confuse the National Zapatisa Liberation Army with their Zapatista support bases who are the families of the villages that organize themselves. The army has indicated that "we are soldiers so that there are no more soldiers". And they (government forces) are increasingly invisible, leaving the Zapatista bases by obedience to the people (the people govern and the government obeys).
Question 8: And why do they hide behind a hood/mask? (2:56)
Answer: They explain: "We had to hide our faces so that we could be seen by the power; the ski mask is a symbol of resistance. Behind the mask there is not only my face, but yours. "
Question 9: And what about the women? (3:10)
Answer: They participate in everything in the organization, as written in the law of revolutionary women.
Question 10: What about Marcos, the Mestizo leader? (3:18)
Answer: Marcos is a megaphone (mouthpiece) as is Moses. There are no leaders of the Zapatistas. Those who build autonomy are common men and women, rebels, insubordinates, and organized.
Question 11: And how many are there? (3:33)
Answer: It's enormous!
Question 12: Where are you? (3:41)
Answer: Everywhere! The pain and the rage now extends worldwide! The Zapatista movement flourishes everywhere there are pacifist movements. This world is made of many worlds. Dozens of countries are finding that the Zapatistas are everywhere, and that we will enormously defend liberty, autonomy, and are ever more weaving our networks of solidarity.
Question 13: And today, how are the Zapatista villages? (4:08)
Answer: Daily, we build our autonomy and must resist military, economic and ideological attacks. Violence, harassment, assassinations, imprisonments, expropriation are the daily bread.
Question 14: How do you give out justice? (4:24)
Answer: They say they seek justice and not vengeance. They face those above without fear with, "La Digna Rabia" (dignified rage), with memory and community service. They show us that the best way to do justice is self-organization, and to construct autonomy daily. Each from his own country, without negotiating, selling out, not realizing or weakening.
Question 15: What can I do? (4:49)
Answer: Our pain is yours, comrade. With everyone we fall, or with everyone we all rise up. This is the hour for action. The reality is yours : http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/
Answer: A war that comes from above against the people, a war full of attrition that has affected the indigenous peoples for more than 500 years, and if we observe well, is being replicated world wide. The media belongs to those who lead this war: the owners of large capital. That's why we have our own free media; to be truly informed.
Question 6: Why does the government want to end the Zapatistas? (1:59)
Answer: They want to conquer the land, because in addition to being filled with petroleum and uranium, it's filled with the indigenous. And the indigenous, in addition to not speaking Spanish, don't want credit cards and have dedicated their lives to cultivating the Earth. They are neither consumers or producers for the system. They are too much, and all that too much is too much to eliminate. But they don't want to abandon anything or stop being indigenous. Their struggle is to be recognized as indigenous peoples: recognition of their right to exist unchanged; exist without becoming someone else.
Question 7: Why don't they respond with armed forces, if they have an army? (2:33)
Answer: They don't confuse the National Zapatisa Liberation Army with their Zapatista support bases who are the families of the villages that organize themselves. The army has indicated that "we are soldiers so that there are no more soldiers". And they (government forces) are increasingly invisible, leaving the Zapatista bases by obedience to the people (the people govern and the government obeys).
Question 8: And why do they hide behind a hood/mask? (2:56)
Answer: They explain: "We had to hide our faces so that we could be seen by the power; the ski mask is a symbol of resistance. Behind the mask there is not only my face, but yours. "
Question 9: And what about the women? (3:10)
Answer: They participate in everything in the organization, as written in the law of revolutionary women.
Question 10: What about Marcos, the Mestizo leader? (3:18)
Answer: Marcos is a megaphone (mouthpiece) as is Moses. There are no leaders of the Zapatistas. Those who build autonomy are common men and women, rebels, insubordinates, and organized.
Question 11: And how many are there? (3:33)
Answer: It's enormous!
Question 12: Where are you? (3:41)
Answer: Everywhere! The pain and the rage now extends worldwide! The Zapatista movement flourishes everywhere there are pacifist movements. This world is made of many worlds. Dozens of countries are finding that the Zapatistas are everywhere, and that we will enormously defend liberty, autonomy, and are ever more weaving our networks of solidarity.
Question 13: And today, how are the Zapatista villages? (4:08)
Answer: Daily, we build our autonomy and must resist military, economic and ideological attacks. Violence, harassment, assassinations, imprisonments, expropriation are the daily bread.
Question 14: How do you give out justice? (4:24)
Answer: They say they seek justice and not vengeance. They face those above without fear with, "La Digna Rabia" (dignified rage), with memory and community service. They show us that the best way to do justice is self-organization, and to construct autonomy daily. Each from his own country, without negotiating, selling out, not realizing or weakening.
Question 15: What can I do? (4:49)
Answer: Our pain is yours, comrade. With everyone we fall, or with everyone we all rise up. This is the hour for action. The reality is yours : http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/
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