Commorating Those Who Have Died in the Struggle
Article by Simon Walker
September 16th, during the first Plenary Session of the Otra Campaña (the EZLN´s push to unite Mexico´s non-electoral left), participating groups and individuals of civil society decided their first act would be to commemorate, during Day of the Dead, the missing and murdered that the social justice movement has lost.
Thus, as October came to a close, San Cristobal activists and organizations celebrated in style, renaming streets with names of massacres and "desaparicidos," organizing mobile altars and presentations in three different neighborhoods, commemorating all 46 of the Zapatista killed in 1994 and organizing marches and cultural events throughout the weekend in the town square. With banners reading "those who have died in struggle have allowed us to live," 200 people particiapted in a march on November 1st honoring political prisoners, people "disappeared" for political reasons, and international human rights activists and revolutionary leaders such as Pablo Freire, Digna Ochoa and Che Guevara.
Likewise, the people of Acteal honored the 45 killed in the massacre in 1997 with altars and ceremonies.
Source : La Jornada
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/10/29/023n1pol.php
September 16th, during the first Plenary Session of the Otra Campaña (the EZLN´s push to unite Mexico´s non-electoral left), participating groups and individuals of civil society decided their first act would be to commemorate, during Day of the Dead, the missing and murdered that the social justice movement has lost.
Thus, as October came to a close, San Cristobal activists and organizations celebrated in style, renaming streets with names of massacres and "desaparicidos," organizing mobile altars and presentations in three different neighborhoods, commemorating all 46 of the Zapatista killed in 1994 and organizing marches and cultural events throughout the weekend in the town square. With banners reading "those who have died in struggle have allowed us to live," 200 people particiapted in a march on November 1st honoring political prisoners, people "disappeared" for political reasons, and international human rights activists and revolutionary leaders such as Pablo Freire, Digna Ochoa and Che Guevara.
Likewise, the people of Acteal honored the 45 killed in the massacre in 1997 with altars and ceremonies.
Source : La Jornada
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/10/29/023n1pol.php
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