Eleven years after the unjust imprisonment of twelve Zapotec men and women from the Loxicha region, the undersigned collectives, spaces, persons, and organizations demand:

 

 

December 30. Very early in the morning we heard the voices of the Zapatista compañeras calling on all of us to keep up the work at the Encounter. The next to speak were the comrades from Caracol I “La Realidad.” The grandmothers told us a little about how they lived before the “war,” as they call it. They spoke in their own language, and what they said was translated by other women: “When the 7 comrades got here, they told us that we should get organized.” The main role the women played for the first ten years was preparing food for the insurgents, always at night because everything was clandestine. They also told about how they were repressed under their old masters—receiving blows for any little thing, being forced to work for more than 12 hours, even when they were pregnant and 5 days after giving birth, and about the problems they had in the communities due to the consumption of alcohol.

 

 

 

Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.
Mexico
September 22, 2007
To the People of Mexico:
To the adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign:
Brothers and Sisters:
Compañeros and Compañeras:

The EZLN communicates to you the following reflections and decisions we have made: