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The Commoner Issue 12
Reinventing An/Other Anti-Capitalism in Mexico The Sixth Declaration of the EZLN and the “Other Campaign” Patrick Cuninghame1 Well, then, in Mexico what we want to create is an agreement with people and organizations that are decidedly of the left, because we believe that it is on the political left where the idea of resisting against neoliberal globalisation really lives, and the struggle to make justice, democracy, and freedom in any country wherever it would be, where there is only freedom for big business and there is only democracy to put up election campaign signs. And because we believe that only the left can come up with a plan for struggle so that our country, Mexico, does not die. And, then, what we believe is that, with these people and organizations of the left, we will chart a course to go to every corner of Mexico where there are humble and simple people like ourselves. (The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle, 2005) The struggles of dignity tear open the fabric of capitalist domination. (John Holloway, 2003) 1 Originally published in Werner Bonefeld (ed) Subverting The Present - Imagining The Future: Insurrection, Movement, Commons, New York, Autonomedia, 2007. The author is a sociology lecturer and researcher at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Email: [email protected]; Fax: (+52) 656-6883812. 79 thecommoner :: issue 12 :: summer 2007 Preface This paper seeks to draw some lessons at a global level from the ongoing “Other Campaign” (so-called in mock reference to the 2006 presidential electoral campaigns), catalysed by the Zapatistas with their call for a renewed anti-capitalist resistance movement “from below and to the left” against neoliberal capitalism in Mexico and internationally, in the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle (the Sixth) in July 2005. -
Film Reference Guide
REFERENCE GUIDE THIS LIST IS FOR YOUR REFERENCE ONLY. WE CANNOT PROVIDE DVDs OF THESE FILMS, AS THEY ARE NOT PART OF OUR OFFICIAL PROGRAMME. HOWEVER, WE HOPE YOU’LL EXPLORE THESE PAGES AND CHECK THEM OUT ON YOUR OWN. DRAMA 1:54 AVOIR 16 ANS / TO BE SIXTEEN 2016 / Director-Writer: Yan England / 106 min / 1979 / Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre / Writers: Claude French / 14A Paquette, Jean Pierre Lefebvre / 125 min / French / NR Tim (Antoine Olivier Pilon) is a smart and athletic 16-year- An austere and moving study of youthful dissent and old dealing with personal tragedy and a school bully in this institutional repression told from the point of view of a honest coming-of-age sports movie from actor-turned- rebellious 16-year-old (Yves Benoît). filmmaker England. Also starring Sophie Nélisse. BACKROADS (BEARWALKER) 1:54 ACROSS THE LINE 2000 / Director-Writer: Shirley Cheechoo / 83 min / 2016 / Director: Director X / Writer: Floyd Kane / 87 min / English / NR English / 14A On a fictional Canadian reserve, a mysterious evil known as A hockey player in Atlantic Canada considers going pro, but “the Bearwalker” begins stalking the community. Meanwhile, the colour of his skin and the racial strife in his community police prejudice and racial injustice strike fear in the hearts become a sticking point for his hopes and dreams. Starring of four sisters. Stephan James, Sarah Jeffery and Shamier Anderson. BEEBA BOYS ACT OF THE HEART 2015 / Director-Writer: Deepa Mehta / 103 min / 1970 / Director-Writer: Paul Almond / 103 min / English / 14A English / PG Gang violence and a maelstrom of crime rock Vancouver ADORATION A deeply religious woman’s piety is tested when a in this flashy, dangerous thriller about the Indo-Canadian charismatic Augustinian monk becomes the guest underworld. -
2.4 the Fourth World War: the EZLN Analysis of Neoliberalism
We Are from Before, Yes, but We Are New: Autonomy, Territory, and the Production of New Subjects of Self-government in Zapatismo by Mara Catherine Kaufman Department of Cultural Anthropology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Orin Starn, Co-Supervisor ___________________________ Charles Piot, Co-Supervisor ___________________________ Anne Allison ___________________________ Kathi Weeks ___________________________ Michael Hardt Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Cultural Anthropology in the Graduate School of Duke University 2010 ABSTRACT We Are from Before, Yes, but We Are New: Autonomy, Territory, and the Production of New Subjects of Self-government in Zapatismo by Mara Catherine Kaufman Department of Cultural Anthropology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Orin Starn, Co-Supervisor ___________________________ Charles Piot, Co-Supervisor ___________________________ Anne Allison ___________________________ Kathi Weeks ___________________________ Michael Hardt An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Cultural Anthropology in the Graduate School of Duke University 2010 Copyright by Mara Catherine Kaufman 2010 Abstract The 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, created a rupture with a series of neoliberal policies implemented in Mexico and on a global scale over the last few decades of the 20th century. In a moment when alternatives to neoliberal global capitalism appeared to have disappeared from the world stage, the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) initiated a movement and process that would have significance not only in Chiapas and for Mexico, but for many struggles and movements around the world that would come to identify with a kind of “alter-globalization” project. -
Maya Spiritual Praxis in the New Baktun: Ritual and Reclamation in 21St-Century Chiapas
MAYA SPIRITUAL PRAXIS IN THE NEW BAKTUN: RITUAL AND RECLAMATION IN 21ST-CENTURY CHIAPAS BY KELLIE CAVAGNARO A Thesis SubmitteD to the Graduate Faculty of WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Liberal Studies May 2014 Winston-Salem, North Carolina Copyright Kellie Cavagnaro 2014 ApproveD By: Steven Folmar, Ph.D., Advisor Jeanne Simonelli, Ph.D., Chair Lucas Johnston, Ph.D. ii This work is DeDicateD to my mother, Anne, Who inspires my choice to live in an animate Universe, AnD to Laine, my better half—there is no one With Whom I would rather journey. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With gratitude, I sincerely thank my beloved mentors in this project: To Jeanne Simonelli, for the guiDance, the fielD WisDom, the community introductions, and the WorDs that Will guiDe my career…To Steve Folmar, for your endless advice, the acaDemic fathering, and for always keeping your Buddhist cool…To Lucas Johnston, for the tireless eDiting and professional advice…and to WanDa Balzano, Who has been there for me since this journey began, my enDless gratitude for a decade of friendship and support. To Leslie Sponsel in HaWaii, Who learneD the harD way that acaDemia’s fear of goD is an entirely Different beast, thanks for your Work on Spiritual Ecology. I’m reaDy for the fight…To Flori, Goyi, Chepita, Alej, anD the Women of Lunatik Collective Who Were so founDational on my quest to aprender obedeciendo…AnD to the many Dear frienDs anD community partners Who, Due to a Greater WisDom, shall remain nameless: My soliDarity. -
Salt Spring Film Festival March 1-3 2019 Gulf Islands Secondary
20years OF FESTIVALS Film Festival Gulf presented by Islands presents March Secondary Salt Spring 1-3 School Salt Spring Film Festival th Film 2019 20 Festival www.saltspringfilmfestival.com Welcome to the Festival Welcome, one and all, to the 20th Anniversary of the we are keeping the wildly popular popcorn, too!) We Salt Spring Film Festival! We have a few special things have also changed the Saturday/Sunday physical layout planned for you to mark the occasion, so be sure to a little to ease congestion and make it quicker for you take a good look through the program this year. We to access food and drink. Look for our new food area have added an extra room to allow for more films and down the hall past the washrooms. Take a left from more repeat screenings. We know you love the extra there to seek out a comfy secluded relaxation area. Just value of discussing films with filmmakers. This year for want a coffee? You can grab one from Ometepe at the the first time we will give the filmmakers a chance to far end of the multi-purpose room near the elevator. interact not just with the audience but also with each Saturday night we are having a 20th Anniversary film other at Saturday’s Attending Filmmaker Discussion. Metamorphosis with filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow The Friday gala is better than ever, with the return of Ripper in attendance. And be sure to check out the the scrumptious gala hot dinner, plus celebratory wine, display commemorating our 20 years of film at GISS all beer and special non-alcoholic drink. -
Films for Spanish and Latin American Studies at Dupré Library
Films for Spanish and Latin American Studies at Dupré Library List created Fall 2007 by Carmen Orozco, Richard Winters, and Leslie Bary (Department of Modern Languages). Major funds for the enhancement of the Latin American film collections at Dupré from BORSF / LEQSF Enhancement Grant (2006-2007) ENH-TR-75 (P.I. L. Bary, Co-P.I.s D. Barry, I. Berkeley, J. Frederick, C. Grimes, B. Kukainis, R. Winters). 25 watts PN1997 .T94 2004 DVD Director: Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll. Spanish with English subtitles. [2004] This affable low-budget affair from Uruguay captures a day in the life of three friends--Leche (Daniel Handler), Javi (Jorge Temponi), and Seba (Alfonso Tort)--as they bumble their way through a lazy, hungover Saturday in Montevideo. Along the way, they encounter a series of bizarre characters who remind them of just how unfocused and boring their lives actually are. Directed under the influence of American indie auteurs such as Jim Jarmusch and Richard Linklater by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, 25 WATTS is a universally charming comedy.—www.rottentomatoes.com [94 minutes] 90 miles E184 .C97 N56 2003 DVD E184 .C97 N56 2001 VIDEO Director: Juan Carlos Zaldívar. Spanish and English. [2003] "A Cuban-born filmmaker recounts the strange fate that brought him as a groomed young communist to exile in Miami in 1980 during the dramatic Mariel boatlift. The story of an immigrant family and how the historical forces around them shaped their personal relationships and attitudes towards the world around them"--Container. [53 minutes] 1932, Cicatriz de la Memoria F1414.2 .A15 2002 VIDEO Director: Carlos Henríquez Consalvi. -
O Ciborgue Zapatista: Tecendo a Poética Virtual De Resistência No Chiapas Cibernético
SARAH GRUSSING ABDEL-MONEIM Macalaster College O Ciborgue Zapatista: tecendo a poética virtual de resistência no Chiapas cibernético Resumo: A circulação global, entre 1994 e 2001, do neo-zapatismo e do ativismo solidário não-indígena como símbolos de resistência no ciber-espaço sugere a necessidade de novas formas de leitura dos movimentos sociais na era digital. Uma leitura feminista do binarismo local/global do espaço discursivo em torno da rebelião maia em Chiapas tanto afirma quanto contesta teorias predominantes pós-modernas sobre a relação entre corpo humano e tecnologias cibernéticas. Esse espaço híbrido transgride e confirma fronteiras entre ator/atriz e audiência, escritor/a e leitor/a, humano e máquina. A relação entre o teatro da resistência material na Zona de Conflito e o crescimento da resistência virtual no Ciber-Chiapas ilustra a natureza ciborgue material/tecnológica da rebelião de Chiapas. Palavras-chave: zapatista, Chiapas, México, Internet, feminismo, movimentos sociais. Coyright 2002 by Revista A circulação de ativistas de solidariedade neozapatistas Estudos Feministas e não-indígenas como símbolos de resistência no espaço cibernético durante os últimos sete anos sugere a necessidade de métodos novos para entender os movimentos sociais nesta 1 Uma versão preliminar mais era virtual. Esta monografia1 é parte de um estudo maior sobre reduzida deste trabalho foi implicações teóricas do papel da tecnologia na criação e publicada na edição de expansão desse espaço discursivo e do teatro global da outono1999 do boletim resistência associada à recente rebelião indígena em Chiapas, Feministas Unidas sob o título 2 “Virtual Voices, Electronic México. Bodies: Women and the Eu gostaria de concentrar-me aqui na “des-locação” Poetics of Resistance in Cyber- dos corpos e das vozes indígenas de “Um lugar chamado Chiapas”. -
Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of Chiapas
Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXXV, Núm. 228, Julio-Septiembre 2009, 887-903 BRIAN GOLLNICK. Reinventing the Lacandón: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of Chiapas. Tucson: U of Arizona, 2008. En años recientes el interés en el estado de Chiapas, México, ha aumentado notablemente debido a la insurgencia del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional y los escritos del Subcomandante Marcos. En este contexto la Selva Lacandona ha cobrado no sólo una nueva imagen en el imaginario global sino también una nueva función en términos de la refl exión sobre el proceso de modernización en América Latina y la gestión de sujetos subalternos. En Reinventing the Lacandón: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of Chiapas, Brian Gollnick se propone recorrer la trayectoria histórico-literaria de la imaginación moderna sobre esta región para situar una gestión subalterna subyacente en discursos dominantes, desde la novela y la poesía hasta el cine, la fotografía y la antropología. No sólo contextualiza la trascendencia de la realidad actual de Chiapas sino también reexamina la larga historia de explotación y resistencia, para mejor comprender el confl icto entre la tradición indígena y la modernización occidental. La “Introducción” coloca la escritura sobre la Selva Lacandona en el marco de literatura regional en América Latina y de la imaginación latinoamericana tradicional sobre espacios ‘salvajes’ como la selva. El objetivo principal de Gollnick es reformular la selva, no como un paisaje natural ligado a instintos básicos o revelaciones espirituales (como se caracteriza comúnmente) sino como un espacio social habitado por gente cuya experiencia ha sido en gran parte excluida por las formas dominantes de expresión (15). -
Note / Nota Adiós Marcos
Vol. 12, No. 2, Winter 2015, 401-421 Note / Nota Adiós Marcos: A Fond Farewell to the Subcommander Who Simply Ceased to Exist Nicholas Henck Keio University At 2:08 a.m. on May 25, 2014, Zapatista military leader and spokesperson, Subcommander Marcos, declared that he had ceased to exist.1 Regardless of whether it signals, as some have suggested, a stepping down of the Subcommander,2 or merely represents the latest 1 The Subcommander’s full statement can be found at: (in Spanish) http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/05/25/entre-la-luz-y-l a-sombra/; and (in English) http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/05/27/between-light-a nd-shadow/. For audio-visual coverage of the declaration see: http://radiozapatista.org/?p=9766&lang=en . 2 See, for example, the BBC’s piece entitled “Mexico’s Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos steps down”, (May 26, 2014); posted on the Internet at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-27569695. Although the BBC report does not provide it, there exists (contextual) evidence to support such an interpretation: the previous year, on February 14, Marcos had introduced to the world a new Subcommander, Moisés. This was a highly significant promotion (from Lieutenant Colonel) since it Henck 402 transformation of a man who was born Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente and subsequently underwent numerous incarnations,3 Marcos’ May 25th declaration, in which he looks back on and assesses his role in the Zapatista movement over the last two decades of its public life, affords an ideal opportunity to take stock of the Subcommander’s impact and achievements. -
Performing the Mexican Revolution in Neoliberal Times
ABSTRACT Since the time of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, images associated with this nation-defining event have been presented in an array of media and cultural productions. Within the past two decades these images have been re-imagined, re-coded and re/de- constructed in reaction to social and cultural changes associated with a crisis of political legitimation and the demise of hegemonic revolutionary ideology, as espoused by the long-ruling Party of the Institionalized Revolution (PRI), amid the generalized implementation of neoliberal policies in the county. My dissertation argues that the ascendance of neoliberalism, with the opening of Mexican economic and political systems, has resulted in changes in the socio-cultural work performed by the Revolution- Nation-Gender triad. This trinity, solidified in the post-Revolutionary national imaginary, weaves the three notions together such that as hegemonic discourses of Revolutionary nationalism enter in crisis, discourses of gender are also destabilized. The dissertation consists of three main sub-arguments. First, I argue that the discourse(s) surrounding Revolutionary heroes has been integral to the (re)definition of the Mexican nation and that analyzing recodings of this discourse through the example of Emiliano Zapata reveals a destabilization of hegemonic nationalism. These changes have allowed alternatives to surface both in Mexico and across the border as part of a recoded ii transnational Revolutionary nationalism. As cracks opened in the Revolutionary edifice allowing alternatives to emerge, they have also opened space for alternative gender discourses. I next argue that a close analysis of representations of masculine gender roles as manifested in a variety of cultural texts, specifically through Revolutionary icons Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, reveals a crisis of the macho archetype in the contemporary Mexican nation. -
What Is the Sixth Zapatista Declaration? a Bit of History As the “Other Campaign” Begins in the City of San Cristóbal De Las Casas
What is the Sixth Zapatista Declaration? A Bit of History as the “Other Campaign” Begins in the City of San Cristóbal de las Casas By Concepción Villafuerte Reporting from Chiapas with the Amado Avendaño Figueroa Brigade January 1, 2006 The sixth comes before the seventh and after the fifth. What was the Fifth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle? Few remember, but the history of the Zapatistas is written through the declarations that the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) has released, beginning with the first: the declaration of war. The second: a call to civil society. The third: a call for the creation of a National Liberation Movement. The fourth: the formation of the Zapatista National Liberation Front. The fifth: the Consulta Nacional, the great dialog with all Mexicans except the government. And now, the Sixth, the initiation of the “Other Campaign,” the political struggle that exists outside the electoral farce. In the words of Subcomandante Marcos, “Together, we’re going to shake this country up from below, lift it up, and stand it on its head.” Mexico’s geographic shape resembles a cornucopia, the mythological “Horn of Plenty,” but in reverse; the horn’s fruits tumble out toward the United States of America, toward the gringos. It is a funnel shape, the top wide and the bottom thin. Chiapas is the country’s “last frontier,” the north being its “first” one. But on the other hand, Chiapas forms the crown of Central America, the beginning of the great nation; Chiapas is a strategic point for North American business. The Sixth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle proposes realizing a national campaign for the building of another way of doing politics, for a program of national leftwing struggle, and for a new Constitution. -
Conversations with Durito: Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism
Conversations with Durito: Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism Subcomandante Marcos Edited and introduced by Acción Zapatista Editorial Collective Autonomedia This collection is anti-copyright 2005. Texts may be freely used for noncommercial purposes; the publisher, however, would like to be informed at: Autonomedia P. O. Box 568 Williamsburgh Station Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568 http://www.autonomedia.org email: [email protected] ISBN 1-57027-118-6 Book design & typesetting: Kernow Craig Thanks to Erika Biddle, Lea Johnson, Carla Verea Hernandez, Ben Meyers Printed in Canada All rights to illustrations in this collection reserved by the respective artists: Beatriz Aurora: Love and the Calendar (p. 215); Alonso Alvarez de Araya, Off the Record: La Realidad (p. 276); Erica Chappuis: The Cave of Desire (p. 57), The Story of Dreams (p. 147), The Story of the Bay Horse (p. 152), The Seashell and the Two People (p. 226), Forever Never (p. 233), Hour of the Little Ones part 1 (p. 236), Hour of the Little Ones part II (p. 249), Hour of the Little Ones part III (p. 255), Hour of the Little Ones part IV (p. 258); John Dolley: Story of Durito and Neoliberalism (p. 41), Durito II (p. 44), Durito Names Marcos Squire (p. 64), Durito III (p.71), On Bullfighting (p. 81), Durito V (p. 95), Durito's Return (p. 99), Durito VI (p. 104), Story of the Little Mouse (p. 117), Of Trees, Transgressors (p. 120), Story of the Hot Foot (p. 138), Durito to Conquer Europe (p. 160), Durito IX (p. 176), Magical Chocolate Bunnies (p.