Actividad en San Francisco, EU, 20 de marzo
El 20 de marzo salimos a las calles de san francisco para decir ¡¡L@s Zapatistas no están sol@s!! y sumarnos a la jornada nacional e internacional convocada por colectivos, organizaciones e individuos de La Otra Campaña, la Red Contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad y la Campaña Primero Nuestrxs Presxs.
También marchamos para denunciar las guerras en Irak, Afghanistan,
Palestina, Haiti, Chiapas, y en nuestras comunidades en el área de la
bahía.
This March 20th we marched
against imperialism and militarization everywhere. We see these as
interrelated components of a general state of warfare, one that is
being waged in:
together with corporate US mercenaries, have killed at least one
million Iraqis, displaced countless others, and forever transformed the
lives of tens of thousands of US soldiers, who bring the effects of the
war home with them. All of this is committed first in the name of
“global security” and then under the pretense of “freedom and
democracy.”
AFGHANISTAN, where since 2001 (and really since
the 1970s…) US military forces have been inflicting terror on millions
in the name of the “war on terror” and the “liberation” of Muslim
women. This paradoxical strategy is a fundamental condition of US
warfare, and underlies the imperialist ambition of a “benevolent
state.”
PALESTINE, where since 1948, the US has directly
supported the Israeli occupation through both economic and military
aid, and the criminalization and dehumanization of Arab and Muslim
peoples, all of which amounts to the moral and material endorsement of
an apartheid state.
HAITI, where since the earthquake of
January 12th US military and corporate interests have dominated the
“philanthropic” relief efforts in an application of disaster capitalism
reminiscent of post-Katrina New Orleans. Such devastation could only
have been produced by the intent to isolate the first free black nation
liberated by its own anti-colonial struggles.
CHIAPAS, where
since 1994 the Mexican government and its military and paramilitary
agents—with the support of the Washington and its corporate
backers—have attempted to eradicate rebel Zapatista communities that
continue walking the path of over 500 years of anti-colonial indigenous
resistance.
the BAY AREA, where every day police and
militarized security forces murder, harass, profile, displace, and
poison communities of color…
Those invested in these wars
make every effort to isolate each of these “sites,” to erect material
and conceptual walls in order to divide us from each other, and from
ourselves.
We who reject and stand against these wars see
their interconnectedness manifested in multiple forms—common impacts on
youth, rampant displacement of marginalized communities, and
psychological and physical damage—all of which are justified through
overlapping discourses of “security.”
Although specific
strategies differ from site to site and from time to time, we are all
experiencing their violence today through invasions of our communities,
our hearts, and our minds. This is why today we stand in solidarity
with all peoples affected by endless and global war, and say ¡YA BASTA!
ENOUGH!
