"they did not conquer us, we are still here resisting"

June 25, 2021 1:01 AM

"Five hundred years after Hernán Cortés and his men conquered Mexico, a small boatload of indigenous Zapatistas are making the return journey across the Atlantic to “invade” Spain, rail against capitalist oppression, and perhaps throw the odd cumbia party."

They arrived

Videos from the event: EL DESEMBARCO

Their original call to arms from January 2021:

Only very few things unite us:

That we make the pains of the earth our own: violence against women; persecution and contempt of those who are different in their affective, emotional, and sexual identity; annihilation of childhood; genocide against the native peoples; racism; militarism; exploitation; dispossession; the destruction of nature.

The understanding that a system is responsible for these pains. The executioner is an exploitative, patriarchal, pyramidal, racist, thievish and criminal system: capitalism.

The knowledge that it is not possible to reform this system, to educate it, to attenuate it, to soften it, to domesticate it, to humanize it.

The commitment to fight, everywhere and at all times – each and everyone on their own terrain – against this system until we destroy it completely. The survival of humanity depends on the destruction of capitalism. We do not surrender, we do not sell out, and we do not give up.

posted by kmt (5 comments total)

Previously.
posted by trotz dem alten drachen at 1:47 AM on June 25, 2021

This is brilliant, much more relevant and poetic than Greta's crossing, and yet almost no one is talking about it. Thanks for the post!
posted by Tom-B at 7:56 AM on June 25, 2021 [3 favorites]

Oh hey, my partner told me about this! I'm glad they made it.
posted by aniola at 8:36 AM on June 25, 2021 [2 favorites]

Viva Zapatistas!
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 9:52 AM on June 25, 2021 [3 favorites]

this is fucking cool. awesome.
posted by wibari at 11:27 PM on June 25, 2021