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Subject: <nettime> Zapatistas, part 333 From: ricardo dominguez <rdom@thing.net> Date: 24 Jul 1997 20:15:31 +0200 * * * * * Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-nettime-l@Desk.nl Precedence: bulk The Zapatista Encuentro "FOR A WORLD WHICH CONTAINS ALL WORLDS" We live in a period when human relations are intensely colonized. Every where the same social system subjects humanity to the law of money and homogenizes life, generating poverty and devastation. Faced with the ruins inflicted by this relentless machine, resistances arise from other ways of life, yet these seem condemned to isolation. The time has come to break the vicious circle which prevents humanity from bringing together its unease, its struggles and the will for change. In Mexico the armed revolt of the indigenous community of Chiapas, organized by the EZLN, has opened the way towards a different future for us all. Since the 1st January 1994 the imaginative struggle of the Zapatistas has spurred people worldwide to create alternatives to neoliberalism. Their initiatives have been created outside the bounds of traditional institutional politics and always seek to involve the greatest possible numbers, especially among marginalized people. In this spirit the First Intercontinental Meeting for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism was organized in August 1996, hosted by five indigenous communities in Chiapas, despite the military occupation and siege by the Mexican Federal Army. The first Encuentro attracted more than three thousand people from 43 countries in five continents. They gained the opportunity to meet each other, to reflect and express themselves, in an unprecedented act of solidarity. These participants dared to cross the threshhold opened by the Zapatistas and sought to cross to the other side of the looking-glass. There everyone could be equal, precisely because they succeed in being different, so that various ways of life co- exist, all joined in rejecting the present system with the desire to construct a world which includes many worlds -- the 'humanity' of which we speak. Everywhere there are people who are fed up with the dominant values, who seekto change their own lives, to open new spaces and construct a more dignified present. Everywhere there are willing accomplices desiring to live an adventure. To achieve this, it is worth extending the Chiapas initiative and creating the network of resistance which was proposed by the first Encuentro: 'An international network of resistance in which people help each other, a network without an organized structure, without a central command, without a hierarchy. A network comprising all those who resist.' For all those aims we announce the next Encuentro: 2. PROGRAM : *25th July : MADRID Reception of people from around the Planet (Earth) First Party or the starting of new relationships *26th July : MADRID reception of the rest of the people evening : Opening act + mad party until late *27th July : MADRID Demo in Madrid centre (12 pm). Bring banners, noise (whistles, drums, other instruments, ...) and lots of energy and good mood . evening : depart of the anti- neoliberalism caravans to the different venues. *28th - 31st. July : VENUES Reception in the different venues and tables work ( debates in the different tables and subtables ). Tableswork will be combined with parallel events : concerts, exhibitions, video showings,... Farewell in the different venues and travel to El Indiano . *1st. August : EL INDIANO Reception and public event. *2nd. August : EL INDIANO Conclusions of the Gathering and Farewell party. Train back to Madrid (on the 3rd.) _______________________ In Britain please contact: fHUMAN (for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism) London Committee, c/o BM- CRL, London WC1N 3XX, email fhuman@hotmail.com Website address for English-language documents is: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3849/gatherdx.html In the US please contact: ricardo dominguez. rdom@thing.net. Website addresss http://www.thing.net/~rdom --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de