Our Word is Our Weapon Selected Writings,9781583224724

Our Word is Our Weapon Selected Writings

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ISBN13: 9781583224724
ISBN10: 1583224726
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Pub. Date: 2002-05-07
Publisher(s): Seven Stories Press
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Summary

This is a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.

Author Biography

SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico. He first joined the indigenous guerrilla group that would become the Zapatistas in the early 1980s. Marcos is author of several books translated into English, including Shadows of Tender Fury (Monthly Review Press) which featured early letters and communiques, and a children's book Story of the Colors (Cinco Puntos), which won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Prologue: Chiapas, a Name of Pain and Hope xix
Jose Saramago
Editor's Note: Traveling Back for Tomorrow xxiii
SECTION I Unveiling Mexico
PART ONE Names the Unnamed
Twelve Women in the Twelfth Year: The Moment of War
5(8)
War! First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle
13(4)
Dying in Order to Live
17(1)
In Our Dreams We Have Seen Another World
18(1)
Votan-Zapata or Five Hundred Years of History
19(3)
A Storm and a Prophecy---Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds
22(16)
Who Should Ask for Pardon and Who Can Grant It?
38(2)
Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance
40(3)
Second Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle
43(9)
The Long Journey from Despair to Hope
52(10)
Mr. Zedillo, Welcome to the Nightmare
62(10)
Come, Brothers and Sisters
72(3)
The Word and the Silence
75(3)
Fourth Declaration of the Lacondon Jungle (excerpt)
78(4)
Closing Words to the National Indigenous Forum (excerpt)
82(6)
Today, Eighty-Five Years Later, History Repeats Itself
88(10)
The Unjust Sentencing of Elorriaga and Entzin
98(3)
Opening Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
101(6)
Tomorrow Begins Today: Closing Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
107(9)
Second Declaration of La Realidad for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
116(4)
Civil Society That So Perturbs
120(5)
The Spiral from the End and the Beginning
125(5)
An Urgent Telegram
130(1)
Do the Pictures Lie?
131(1)
For Those Who Protest with Us after Acteal
132(5)
The Sea of My Insomnia: The Table at San Andres
137(6)
Tlatelolco: Thirty Years Later the Struggle Continues
143(4)
Under Siege: The Zapatista Community of Amador Hernandez
147(4)
A Play (ha!) That Says What It Says
151(4)
Mexico City: We Have Arrived. We Are Here: The EZLN
155(8)
The Other Player
163(3)
Why We Use the Weapon of Resistance
166(7)
PART TWO One World
Flowers, Like Hope, Are Harvested
173(2)
From Vietnam to Chiapas, Twenty Years Before
175(3)
A Call to Latin America
178(2)
On Independent Media
180(3)
From Here to There and Back Again
183(5)
On May Day and Tupac Amaru
188(1)
This Ocean No Longer Separates Us
189(3)
Letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal
192(4)
``No!'' to the War in the Balkans
196(2)
For Maurice Najman, Who Keeps Feigning Death
198(9)
Letter to Leonard Peltier
207(6)
SECTION II Beneath the Mask
To Open a Crack in History
213(4)
We Know What We're Doing; It Is Worth It
217(9)
The Library of Aguascalientes
226(4)
The Retreat Is Making Us Almost Scratch the Sky
230(10)
Death Has Paid a Visit
240(5)
A Year of the Zapatista Government
245(5)
Zapatistas, Guadalupanos, and the Virgin of Guadalupe
250(6)
A Land to Harvest a Future
256(2)
Letter to Eduardo Galeano
258(5)
Letter to John Berger
263(5)
Dignity Cannot Be Studied; You Live It or It Dies
268(3)
It Continues Raining Here
271(3)
Democratic Teachers and the Zapatista Dream
274(4)
Closing Words at the National Encuentro in Defense of the Cultural Heritage
278(11)
SECTION III Creating Memory
PART ONE Tales for a Sleepless Solitude---The Stories of Don Durito
Ten Years Later: Durito Found Us Again
289(2)
To Mariana Moguel (age ten)
291(3)
The Glass to See to the Other Side
294(3)
Deep Inside the Cave of Desire
297(5)
Durito and Pegasus
302(6)
The Story of the Tiny Mouse and the Tiny Cat
308(2)
The Story of the Cold Foot and the Hot Foot
310(4)
The Story of the Bean-brown Horse
314(2)
Love and the Calendar
316(2)
Another Cloud, Another Bottle, and Another Letter from Durito
318(3)
P.S....that Fulfills Its Editorial Duty
321(1)
Durito the Pirate
322(9)
The Hour of the Little Ones
331(4)
The True Story of Mary Read and Anne Bonny
335(6)
PART TWO Tales of Many Others
The Tale of the Ever Never
341(1)
The Parrot's Victory
342(1)
Tales of the Seahorse
343(2)
The Tale of the Little Seamstress
345(1)
The Tale of the Little Newsboy
346(1)
The Tale of the Little Wisp of a Cloud
347(2)
The Story of the Schizophrenic Pig
349(2)
The Tale of the Lime with ann Identity Crisis
351(1)
The Tale of the Nonconformist Little Toad
352(3)
The Tale of the Pink Shoelaces
355(1)
The Tale of Always and Never
356(1)
The Little Tree and the Others
357(2)
A Light, a Flower, and a Dawn
359(5)
The Words That Walk Truths
364(9)
PART THREE Old Don Antonio
The Story of the Colors
373(3)
The Story of the Mirrors
376(4)
The Story of Dreams
380(3)
The Story of the Seven Rainbows
383(3)
The Story of Noise and Silence
386(3)
Making the Bread Called Tommorrow
389(1)
The Story of the Others
390(2)
The Tale of the Lion and the Mirror
392(3)
The Story of the Measure of Memory
395(2)
The Story of One and All
397(2)
The Dawn Is Heralding Heat and Flashes
399(3)
The Story of the Milky Way
402(3)
The Story of the False Light, the Stone, and the Corn
405(2)
The Night Is Ours
407(6)
The Story of the Questions
413(4)
Afterword: Chiapas, the First Postmodern Revolution 417(28)
Ana Carrigan
Zapatista Timeline 445(8)
Tom Hansen
Enlace Civil
Bibliography 453(2)
Contributors 455

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