Mexiko: "tutte bianches" begleiten EZLN bei Karawane nach Mexiko-City

The White Overalls with the EZLN in Mexico City
THE FUTURE BEGINS HERE

On 25 February our sisters and brothers of the EZLN take up their march once
again. We shall be beside the EZLN and Subcommandante Marcos as they cross
Mexico in public to cross the world. We shall accompany them to Mexico City
for 11 March, together with the mass of people who dream of dignity, freedom
and justice.

As in that first January of 1994, Zapatism, a new idea for global
transformation, sets us in motion once again: we shall march with questions
on our lips for thousands of kilometers, to open up new roads in the hearts
and minds of those who fight throughout the planet against the barbarity of
neoliberalism.

As always our brothers and sisters of the Lacandona Forest encourage us to
return to our march. They suggest that we cover ourselves to become visible
and we take up the suggestion, wearing our white overalls, just as they wear
their balaclavas. They have suggested that we address civil society,
finding there the people who will listen and we have tried to learn this
lesson. They have showed us that it is more revolutionary to speak of
democracy and of dignity in the face of despotism and violence, than to
speak of crusades and absolute truth.

>From them - the least powerful - we have learnt that memory - even the
memory of centuries - should be used for the future and not for the past.
That different backgrounds are no problem if they are all on the same side.
They have taught us to smile in the face of power and of those who want to
reach it. They have encouraged us to dream of a different world, with more
justice for everyone and not only for us and now there is no need to close
our eyes to do this. They have taught us to march with questions on our
lips, to abandon the useless certainties deriving from ideology to search
for new ways and join with others as we march.

Since then we have always been on the move, body and soul. We may pause for
rest but the important thing is that we always set off again in the
direction of the horizon that we dream of reaching.
We can count on everything that we had with us when we learnt to dream again
in 1994: a compass set firmly in the direction of humanity, a map to follow
the stages of our journey and those that remain, something to cover us so
that we are visible (and to see us through the night).

We shall set out as Zapatists from our communities in Europe and arrive as
Zapatists to join our people from the rest of the world, united in Mexico,
and we shall return as Zapatists to the forests of our cement cities after
this long journey.

We shall bring news of Seattle, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Prague, Davos, Nice,
Porto Alegre to our sisters and brothers?we shall hear from our sisters and
brothers the news of their experiences in Chiapas, in Ecaudor, El Salvador,
Korea, Guatemala, Australia, Oceania, Norway?

Together we shall draw a wider map. Together we shall set our compasses
more accurately in the direction of humanity. Together we shall cover our
faces and our bodies, to reveal everything that the empire hides. Together
we shall build up civil disobedience against injustice and neoliberalism, in
favour of humanity and democracy.

The white overalls will travel to Mexico from Italy on 3 jets, departing on
20, 21 and 22 February. With them there will be members of civil society,
the Zapatist community of the 99 Posse, associations and collectives.

The entire caravan will be accompanied by 111 White Overalls representing
the 111 Zapatist communities of the Lacandona Forest but there will be many
more women and men (and perhaps children as well) who will set out on this
journey. In March we shall wait in Mexico City for the arrival of other
sisters and brothers of the civil society to join us from Italy.

THE FUTURE IS HERE, IT STARTS NOW

EUROPEAN ZAPATIST MOVEMENT OF THE WHITE OVERALLS

For info on travelling:

Milan tel. 02 6705185 -  yabasta@tin.it