[OccupySheffield] [Squares] [oh15] The movement of the indignados began in the Lacandon Jungle

Thu Jan 19 12:57:50 GMT 2012

Hi Mark, this article was published on january 5th in spanish here
http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/el-movimiento-de-los-indignados-empezo-en-la-lacandona-acampadabcn-15m-acampadasol-ows-spanishrevolution/


Now you have both, spa, eng versions

Hug, Hector

2012/1/19 Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com>

> Cheers Anna.
> Have reposted
> http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/01/indignados-and-the-lacandon-jungle/
>
> Do you have the Spanish ?
>
> Mark
>
> On 19 January 2012 07:55, Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> The movement of the indignados began in the Lacandon Jungle:
>> Pablo Gonzalez Casanova
>>
>> Pablo González Casanova, now nearly 90, is a former rector of UNAM
>> (National Autonomous University of Mexico). A sociologist, academic and
>> researcher, he is one of Mexico’s most respected intellectuals. This
>> article was his contribution to the recent seminar “planet earth:
>> anti-systemic movements” held in Chiapas on the 18th anniversary of the
>> Zapatista uprising.
>>
>> (Many thanks to Neli for her translation of this very difficult article)
>>
>> ** “The good living of some must not depend on the bad living of others”
>>
>> ** “The 99% are going to win”
>>
>> ** “The Zapatista movement walks through the whole world, not as an
>> echo, but as the voice of the same thoughts and desires”
>>
>> If we consider the knowledge and actions of a worldwide movement such as
>> the “indignados”, we soon notice theoretical and practical problems
>> considerably different from those raised within academia, parties or
>> governments. Fortunately, we have the opportunity to enrich our
>> knowledge through the questions people ask and the answers they are given.
>>
>> Theories and practices that come “from below and to the left" genuinely
>> criticize power, when it is seen as different from society, and when it
>> is separate from society.
>>
>> The new peoples’ movements propose a democracy that corresponds to the
>> decisions of the people, and that if it becomes distant from the people,
>> it ceases to be a democracy.
>>
>> Impoverished and excluded “indignados” and “Occupy movements” formulate
>> theories that contain strong empirical support. These consist of
>> explanations and generalizations, based on a great quantity of
>> experience. Knowledge, arts and techniques that correspond to the
>> knowledge and the ways of being of the people; that knowledge which the
>> anthropologist Andrés Aubry so exalts, in which, instead of the
>> individualistic “I”, the Tojolabal “we” appears, that concept rescued by
>> Carlos Lenkersdorf  for the philosophy of human solidarity.
>>
>> Theories and practices have much of the particular and also of the
>> universal ...And I do not exaggerate. Think of the huge “indignado” and
>> “Occupy” mobilizations which are struggling for another possible world.
>> Today –two admired English professors write–, the mobilization is
>> gigantic. Never before has one of this magnitude been presented, and all
>> the mobilizations (they add) “began in the jungles of Chiapas with the
>> principles of inclusion and dialogue”.
>>
>> Thus we see that "from below and to the left", and from the tropical
>> forests, a movement is arising that not only fights to defend the rights
>> of indigenous peoples, but also for the emancipation of all human beings.
>>
>> And this universal movement, amidst all its differences, faces similar
>> difficulties. Moreover, it finds similar solutions through the creation
>> of another world and another culture, so badly needed, which the peoples
>> of the Andes call “living well", whereby “the wellbeing of some does not
>> rely on the bad living of the rest". (el vivir bien de unos no dependa
>> del mal vivir de otros”.
>>
>>
>> To the contributions provided by the American Indians, many more are
>> added, corresponding to the experiences of different cultures and
>> histories, which all make up the world history of the struggle for
>> freedom, justice and democracy; the slogan the Zapatista movement uses
>> walks through the whole world, not as an echo, but as the voice of the
>> same thoughts and desires.
>>
>>
>> And there are the Greek youth fighting against the tribute of foreign
>> debt; the movements of the Arab spring that the military cannot force to
>> compromise; the Spanish “indignado” assemblies that articulate vital
>> interests that the system can not satisfy; the young Americans occupying
>> Wall Street as the centre of corporate power we all struggle against;
>> the young Chileans who give up their lives so their schools and
>> universities are not taken away.
>>
>> In all these demonstrations there is a lot in common. All, or almost
>> all, agree with "inclusiveness" and "dialogue" and, in increasing
>> numbers, with the idea that corporate capitalism is the source of all
>> the problems that affect and threaten humanity.
>>
>>
>>
>> They also agree that the solution is democracy from everyone, for
>> everyone, and with everyone, which is not delegated; some call it
>> democratic socialism or the socialism of the 21st century, and others
>> just call it democracy; and it is that and much more, it is a new way of
>> relating to the earth and human beings ... a new way of organizing life.
>>
>> And it is in the midst of the richness and novelty of this global
>> movement that a series of reflections coming from below and to the left
>> have been understood, and a response arises seeking the triumph of the
>> indignados and the poor of the earth.
>>
>> The richness of the reflections and calls is huge; it demands attention,
>> and a deepening study; I here list briefly some of these calls which we
>> must now work on:
>>
>> 1. Above all the call to lose fear, which the Zapatista movement has
>> highlighted as a requirement for thought and action.
>>
>> 2. To not only think of "what to do", but "how we do it".
>>
>> 3. Setting out with whom -we do it- in the different circumstances.
>>
>> 4. To clarify our internal differences with a new style for discussion
>> and agreement.
>>
>> 5. The complete rejection of the logic of charity. And also the logic of
>> paternalism, as both of them disguise manipulation. Charity and
>> paternalism are the good side of the authoritarian culture.
>>
>> 6. Combining the struggle for the rights of the peoples, workers and
>> citizens with the struggle to build an alternative society in which good
>> government collectives practice "governing by obeying". Give detailed
>> examples to clarify what constitutes the practice of governing by
>> obeying. (mandar obediciendo)
>>
>> 7. Take the necessary steps for the project of emancipation to be truly
>> inclusive, and to provide a space for the respectful treatment of
>> differences in race, sex, age, sexual orientation, religion, ideology
>> and level of education.
>>
>> 8. Redefine the concepts of liberty, equality, fraternity, justice,
>> democracy ... Redefine them in everyday life here and now.
>>
>>
>>
>> 9. Clarify that networks are not only networks of information. Clarify
>> that networks of collectives and of collective systems have been and
>> will be organized, which will: enable  horizontal organizations to
>> predominate over the market and the state, encourage cooperation and
>> solidarity against the individualism of the market, and allow those
>> responsible for governing by obeying to follow the guidelines set by
>> horizontal organizations and never even for one minute to feel above
>> them. At the same time create centralized and decentralized
>> organizations, like the EZLN, like the police from the people of the
>> southeast, and like the municipal autonomies.
>>
>> 10. Deepen and promote solidarity and cooperative systems through flows
>> and exchanges that bring production, consumption and services closer
>> together, eg education, health, social security.
>>
>> 11. Constantly update knowledge about contradictions within the
>> emancipation movements themselves, and not only update about external
>> contradictions.
>>
>> 12. Encourage respect for the dignity and identity of individuals and
>> peoples, without falling into individualism or provincialism, and before
>> cultivating universal emancipation.
>>
>> 13. Combat Manichaeism [belief in religious or philosophical dualism],
>> and renew the type of discussions that invoke the classics to understand
>> the here and now, and include their narratives and reflections in the
>> creative memory of our generalizations.
>>
>> 14. Recognize that, in all great movements, the people - for reasons of
>> enormous importance - do not favour violent revolution but massive
>> peaceful occupations of society and the earth.
>>
>> 15. Realise that the 99 per cent of humanity is going to win this
>> struggle, and that its triumph, and the society that will be built, will
>> depend on the ecological creation of a sustainable land system, able to
>> meet the vital demands of a growing population when currently hundreds
>> of millions suffer from hunger and cold, and able to prevent the
>> continuation of an economic and political system in which the industry
>> of war is the main engine of the economy.
>>
>>
>> 16. Identify how to fight and win peacefully in a "broad spectrum" war,
>> as designed by the Pentagon. If one of the "spectrums" is an armed and
>> violent war, we can fight in the others,  which cover information
>> technology and cyber war, the war on education, the war on culture, the
>> economic war with foreign debt and derivatives, the social war which
>> destroys the fabric of the community, family and class; the
>> pseudo-scientific and ideological neoliberal war, cynical, re-colonizing
>> and neo-fascist: the war that destroys the biosphere, and the war that
>> sows terror and which accompanies the immoral war intended to co-opt,
>> macro -corrupt and subject a human race which has given up and sold out.
>>
>> 17. Insist that the poor of the earth and those who are with them must
>> challenge the broad-spectrum war in all possible peaceful spectrums: in
>> the realm of education to think and do, in the realm of the economics of
>> resistance that takes care of bread and water, home and hearth, services
>> of health and security: the social fabric of family and community, and
>> of a working class that rebuilds the essential union of regulated and
>> unregulated workers; in the ideological struggle against the
>> corporations, the yellow leaders and the gangs who hide their predatory
>> war behind other no less infamous wars – like those against terrorism,
>> drug trafficking and confusion ... And to be ever more aware that the
>> current war of intimidation and corruption seeks above all the plunder
>> and dispossession of the communal lands, the farmers' fields, the
>> national lands, of the forests and mines, the oil reserves and
>> groundwater, the soil and subsoil, the coasts and land. And not
>> satisfied with oppressing the poorest of the poor and the inhabitants of
>> the margins of the world, they are more and more openly impoverishing
>> the middle class and depriving them of their rights, and the youth and
>> children of the world of their future.
>>
>>
>> Alongside the outraged (indignados) of the earth we must stand against
>> the new policy of the carrot and the stick, of corruption and
>> macroeconomic repression that corporate capitalism employs, with its
>> allies and subordinates. Against their plans of intimidation and
>> universal corruption, we will brandish the moral struggle and the
>> courage of the people. We will do it, we know that there are more of us
>> all the time, and that more and more people throughout the world are now
>> struggling for what in 1994 seemed to be only a “post-modern indigenous
>> rebellion”, but in reality was only the beginning of a human
>> mobilization considerably better prepared to achieve the liberty,
>> justice and democracy we all deserve.
>>
>>
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