CONTENTS
Editor's note .................................................................. 11
FOREWORDS
Noam Chomsky: Chiapas - Symbol of Resistance ............ 17
Naomi Klein: The Unknown Icon ...................................... 19
INTRODUCTION: Ziga Vodovnik: The Struggle Continues…
1. Conquest and Human Progress ................................... 29
2. Ceteris Paribus or Little has Changed .......................... 31
3. Before the Dawn ........................................................ 37
4. Waging War .............................................................. 41
5. Beneath the Mask ....................................................... 44
6. Marcos on Neoliberalism ............................................. 47
7. It’s up to You .............................................................. 50
CHAPTER I: Subcomandante Marcos: 1994-1996 — Spreading the Word
1. There will be a Storm ................................................... 55
2. The Long Journey from Despair to Hope ....................... 56
3. We Know What We're Doing; It is Worth It .................... 65
4. The Story of the Question ............................................. 70
5. Letter to Ernesto Zedillo ................................................ 76
6. The Zapatistas Hike up the Price of the Indigenous Mexican Blood ..............................................................................................85
7. Death has Visited us Dressed in Olive Green ................. 88
8. The Retreat is Making us Almost Scratch at the Sky ....... 92
9. Welcome to the Ecuador - Peru Border ........................100
10. Durito II (Neoliberalism seen from the Lacandon Jungle) ..... 105
11. Zapatistas Guadalupanos and the Virgin of Guadalupe .111
12. A Year of the Zapatista Government ........................... 116
13. Far Inside of the Cave of Desire ................................ 121
14. That Reason Wins Always and Never Force ............... 127
15. Durito III (Neo-liberalism and the Labor Movement) ..... 128
16. A History about Herons and Eagles in the Lacandon Jungle (Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to John Berger) ...................................................................................... 135
17. Why Marcos is not at the Dialogue ............................. 140
18. Marcos Invites the Government's Delegates to a Community Consultation ...................................................................................... 146
19. Dignity cannot be Studied, You live it or it dies ............ 148
20. Mexico: The Moon between the Mirrors of the Night and the Crystal of the Day ...................................................................................... 151
21. Power as a Mirror and an Image ................................ 155
22. Durito IV: Neoliberalism and the Party-State System .... 162
23. The Tale of Durito's Return ......................................... 170
24. Durito: Neoliberalism the Chaotic Theory of Economic Chaos ..................................................................................................... 173
25. Today ends the National Plebiscite for Peace and Democracy ..................................................................................................... 179
26. Letter to the People of the U.S. .................................... 197
27. The History of the Little Mouse and the Cat ................... 200
28. To Solidarity Groups Meeting in Brescia ....................... 202
29. What Price is Dignity? ................................................ 204
30. Of Trees, Criminals, and Odontology ............................ 206
31. The Story of the Cold Foot and the Hot Foot .................. 222
32. Like here in Chiapas? .................................................. 225
33. 12 Women in the Twelfth Year ...................................... 228
34. Support Letter for Leonard Peltier ................................. 236
35. Our People cannot Continue in this Dialogue ................. 236
36. The Sea Shell of the end and the Beginning ................... 237
37. Urgent Telegram to Civil Society .................................... 242
CHAPTER II: Subcomandante Marcos: 1997-1999 — Building the World
38. The Story of the Noise and the Silence ........................... 247
39. Letter to Indigenous Leadership in U.S. .......................... 250
40. To the Solidarity Committees of the Zapatista Struggle in all the World .......................................................................................... 251
41. Marcos on May day, Tupac Amaru and Fidel Velazquez .. 255
42. Letter to "Commander in Chief Zapata" ........................... 256
43. The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle (Neoliberalism as a Puzzle) .......................................................................................... 259
44. Beads and Accounts of Numbers .................................... 281
45. The Tale of the Little Newspaper Vendor .......................... 283
46. The Table at San Andrés ................................................ 285
47. Three Tables for The End of the Century Dinner .............. 298
48. An Inverted Periscope or Memory, a Buried Key .............. 309
49. Above and Below: Masks and Silences ............................. 321
50. The History of the Measure of Memory ............................. 343
51. It Continues Raining Here ............................................... 345
52. The State Government is Stealing the Humanitarian Aid Intended for the Victims of the Flooding ................................................................................................ 348
53. The Always' and the Nevers' Imposed by Those from Above .... 350
54. The Invitation for a Dialogue Between the EZLN and Civil Society ............................................................................................... 351
55. These Bridges Which are Little Unarmed Paper Boats ....... 353
56. I will Deal with You Later .................................................. 355
57. The Day of the Dead ....................................................... 356
58. History of The One and The All ......................................... 358
59. Are the Zapatista Indigenous Communities Worse off than Before the Uprising? ............................................................................................ 361
60. The International Consulta and the International Jornada for the Excluded of the World ............................................................................................ 367
61. The Little Tree and the Others ........................................... 371
62. To Musicians all Over the World ........................................ 373
63. We Want to go with Everyone .......................................... 375
64. People in the Most Unexpected Places are Participating ..... 376
65. We Ask that You Provide Economic Help .......................... 379
66. The Consulta, the Victories and the Questions of the Moment ...... 380
67. Subcomandante Marcos to Mumia Abu-Jamal ................... 382
68. Demand Justice in the Case of Mister Mumia Abu-Jamal ... 386
69. The Dawn is Heralding Heat and Flushes........................... 387
70. "No!" to the War in the Balkans ........................................ 391
71. We do Indeed Support the UNAM Strike Movement ........... 393
72. The UN's Complicity in the War in Europe was Obvious ..... 397
73. The Parrot and the Macaw ............................................... 405
74. Duality and Remembrance ............................................... 408
75. Fifteen Years Ago ............................................................ 416
76. The Hour of the Little Ones, I ............................................. 422
77. The Hour of the Little Ones................................................. 432
78. The Hour of the Little Ones, III ............................................ 435
79. The Hour of the Little Ones, IV ............................................ 438
80. The Hour of the Little Ones, X ............................................. 440
81. Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to Leonard Peltier .......... 444
82. Between the Satellite and the Microscope.............................. 447
83. The Machinery of Ethnocide ................................................ 451
CHAPTER III: Subcomandante Marcos: 2000-2003 — (R)evolution Continues...
84. Every Time Zedillo Comes to Chiapas.................................... 467
85. One Day things will Go Straight ............................................ 467
86. A University Filled with Soldiers and a Jail Filled with Students . 473
87. Chocolates Yes, Injections No .............................................. 474
88. Marcos on Windows and Reality ........................................... 475
89. Marcos to the Insurgentas ..................................................... 487
90. To the Relatives of the Politically Disappeared ......................... 496
91. The Alone-And-Abandoned Poll .............................................. 499
92. Why do We All Agree the Global Market is Inevitable? .............. 500
93. Zedillo's Last Moments! (The Political Class) ............................. 504
94. To Senor Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon .................................. 507
95. 2 Years without Vocho, TV's or Little Shops ............................... 510
96. Withdrawing with a Great Public Show ....................................... 511
97. The Zapatista Information Center ............................................... 511
98. 7 Years from what We Call "The Other Uprising" ......................... 514
99. How are We Going to Eat with our Ski-Masks on? ....................... 515
100. While they Discuss Ski-Masks or no Ski-Masks ......................... 516
101. To the Community of Tephe ...................................................... 517
102. To the Cybernauts .................................................................... 518
103. Recipients of the World, Unite .................................................... 520
104. FAQ on March .......................................................................... 522
105. The Devils of the New Century ................................................... 534
106. To the Boys and Girls of the Isidro Favela Neighborhood ............. 545
107. Our Word for Everyone ............................................................ 548
108. Words of the EZLN In Juchita'n ................................................ 550
109. Marcos Reports back in Oventik ................................................ 552
110. We are in Silence - and The Silence is not being Broken ........... 556
111. EZLN sends Greetings to the Madrid Aguascalientes .................. 562
112. The Basque Country: Paths ..................................................... 571
113. The Zapatistas Can, and Should, Speak Only About the Indigenous Question? ..................................................................................................... 580
114. I Shit on all the Revolutionary Vanguards of this Planet ..--.......... 585
CHAPTER IV: EZLN Communiqués
1. First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle .................................. 593
2. Second Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle ............................. 595
3. Third Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle ................................. 603
4. Fourth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle ............................... 610
5. Fifth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle .................................. 620
Acknowledgments ........................................................................ 632
About the Contributors ................................................................ 633
Permissions ................................................................................. 634