Ya basta! : ten years of the Zapatista uprising / writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos ; forewords by Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein ; edited and with a contribution by Žiga Vodovnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcos, subcomandante

Contributor:

Vodovni, Žiga.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Peasant Uprising, 1994-.

Chiapas (Mexico).

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico).

Mexico--Politics and government--1988-.

Mexico.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

687 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Ten years of the Zapatista uprising

Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Place of Publication:

Oakland, Calif. ; Edinburgh : AK Press, 2004.

Contents:

Chiapas - Symbol of Resistance / Noam Chomsky 13

The Unknown Icon / Naomi Klein 15

Introduction: Ziga Vodovnik: The Struggle Continues

1 Conquest and Human Progress 25

2 Ceteris Paribus or Little has Changed 27

3 Before the Dawn 33

4 Waging War 37

5 Beneath the Mask 40

6 Marcos on Neoliberalism 43

7 It's up to You 46

Chapter I Subcomandante Marcos: 1994-1996 - Spreading the Word

1 There will be a Storm 53

2 The Long Journey from Despair to Hope 54

3 We Know What We're Doing; It is Worth It 63

4 The Story of the Question 68

5 Letter to Ernesto Zedillo 74

6 The Zapatistas Hike up the Price of the Indigenous Mexican Blood 83

7 Death has Visited us Dressed in Olive Green 86

8 The Retreat is Making us Almost Scratch at the Sky 90

9 Welcome to the Ecuador - Peru Border 98

10 Durito II (Neoliberalism seen from the Lacandon Jungle) 103

11 Zapatistas Guadalupanos and the Virgin of Guadalupe 109

12 A Year of the Zapatista Government 114

13 Far Inside of the Cave of Desire 119

14 That Reason Wins Always and Never Force 125

15 Durito III (Neo-liberalism and the Labor Movement) 126

16 A History about Herons and Eagles in the Lacandon Jungle (Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to John Berger) 133

17 Why Marcos is not at the Dialogue 138

18 Marcos Invites the Government's Delegates to a Community Consultation 144

19 Dignity cannot be Studied, You live it or it dies 146

20 Mexico: The Moon between the Mirrors of the Night and the Crystal of the Day 149

21 Power as a Mirror and an Image 153

22 Durito IV: Neoliberalism and the Party-State System 160

23 The Tale of Durito's Return 168

24 Durito: Neoliberalism the Chaotic Theory of Economic Chaos 171

25 Today ends the National Plebiscite for Peace and Democracy 177

26 Letter to the People of the U.S. 195

27 The History of the Little Mouse and the Cat 198

28 To Solidarity Groups Meeting in Brescia 200

29 What Price is Dignity? 202

30 Of Trees, Criminals, and Odontology 204

31 The Story of the Cold Foot and the Hot Foot 220

32 Like here in Chiapas? 223

33 12 Women in the Twelfth Year 226

34 Support Letter for Leonard Peltier 234

35 Our People cannot Continue in this Dialogue 234

36 The Sea Shell of the end and the Beginning 235

37 Urgent Telegram to Civil Society 240

Chapter II Subcomandante Marcos: 1997-1999 - Building the World

38 The Story of the Noise and the Silence 245

39 Letter to Indigenous Leadership in U.S. 248

40 To the Solidarity Committees of the Zapatista Struggle in all the World 249

41 Marcos on May day, Tupac Amaru and Fidel Velazquez 253

42 Letter to "Commander in Chief Zapata" 254

43 The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle (Neoliberalism as a Puzzle) 257

44 Beads and Accounts of Numbers 279

45 The Tale of the Little Newspaper Vendor 281

46 The Table at San Andres 283

47 Three Tables for The End of the Century Dinner 296

48 An Inverted Periscope or Memory, a Buried Key 307

49 Above and Below: Masks and Silences 319

50 The History of the Measure of Memory 341

51 It Continues Raining Here 343

52 The State Government is Stealing the Humanitarian Aid Intended for the Victims of the Flooding 346

53 The Always' and the Nevers' Imposed by Those from Above 348

54 The Invitation for a Dialogue Between the EZLN and Civil Society 349

55 These Bridges Which are Little Unarmed Paper Boats 351

56 I will Deal with You Later 353

57 The Day of the Dead 354

58 History of The One and The All 356

59 Are the Zapatista Indigenous Communities Worse off than Before the Uprising? 359

60 The International Consulta and the International Jornada for the Excluded of the World 365

61 The Little Tree and the Others 369

62 To Musicians all Over the World 371

63 We Want to go with Everyone 373

64 People in the Most Unexpected Places are Participating 374

65 We Ask that You Provide Economic Help 377

66 The Consulta, the Victories and the Questions of the Moment 378

67 Subcomandante Marcos to Mumia Abu-Jamal 380

68 Demand Justice in the Case of Mister Mumia Abu-Jamal 384

69 The Dawn is Heralding Heat and Flushes 385

70 "No!" to the War in the Balkans 389

71 We do Indeed Support the UNAM Strike Movement 391

72 The UN's Complicity in the War in Europe was Obvious 395

73 The Parrot and the Macaw 403

74 Duality and Remembrance 406

75 Fifteen Years Ago 414

76 The Hour of the Little Ones, I 420

77 The Hour of the Little Ones, II 430

78 The Hour of the Little Ones, III 433

79 The Hour of the Little Ones, IV 436

80 The Hour of the Little Ones, X 438

81 Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to Leonard Peltier 442

82 Between the Satellite and the Microscope 445

83 The Machinery of Ethnocide 449

Chapter III Subcomandante Marcos: 2000-2003 - [R]evolution Continues

84 Every Time Zedillo Comes to Chiapas 465

85 One Day things will Go Straight 465

86 A University Filled with Soldiers and a Jail Filled with Students 469

87 Chocolates Yes, Injections No 472

88 Marcos on Windows and Reality 473

89 Marcos to the Insurgentas 485

90 To the Relatives of the Politically Disappeared 494

91 The Alone-And-Abandoned Poll 497

92 Why do We All Agree the Global Market is Inevitable? 498

93 Zedillo's Last Moments! (The Political Class) 502

94 To Senor Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon 505

95 2 Years without Vocho, TV's or Little Shops 508

96 Withdrawing with a Great Public Show 509

97 The Zapatista Information Center 509

98 7 Years from what We Call "The Other Uprising" 512

99 How are We Going to Eat with our Ski-Masks on? 513

100 While they Discuss Ski-Masks or no Ski-Masks 514

101 To the Community of Tephe 515

102 To the Cybernauts 516

103 Recipients of the World, Unite 518

104 FAQ on March 520

105 The Devils of the New Century 532

106 To the Boys and Girls of the Isidro Favela Neighborhood 543

107 Our Word for Everyone 546

108 Words of the EZLN In Juchitan 548

109 Marcos Reports back in Oventik 550

110 We are in Silence - and The Silence is not being Broken 554

111 EZLN sends Greetings to the Madrid Aguascalientes 560

112 The Basque Country: Paths 569

113 The Zapatistas Can, and Should, Speak Only About the Indigenous Question? 578

114 I Shit on all the Revolutionary Vanguards of this Planet 583

115 Durito and One About False Options 588

116 Chiapas: The Thirteenth Stele 589

117 A Death has been Decided 593

118 Each Caracol Now Has a Name Assigned 601

119 We are Mexicans... But We are also Indigenous 606

120 The History of the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities 611

121 A Good Government 619

122 A Postscript 623

123 The Death Train of the WTO 626

124 Launch of "EZLN: 20&10: Fire and Word" Campaign 627

125 Fire and Word 629

Chapter IV EZLN Communiques

1 First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 643

2 Second Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 645

3 Third Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 653

4 Fourth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 660

5 Fifth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 670.

ISBN:

1904859135

OCLC:

56759661