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Beyond Resistance: EVERYTHING! An Interview with Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Wednesday Apr 2, 7PM @ Red Emma's
As political parties and their candidates vie for power in the highest ranks of the electoral sphere of US politics above, what is the situation of those below in the United States and the possibilities for doing politics at this level? This tour will look to the Zapatista social movement in Mexico and their national initiative taking form in the Other Campaign as an example of what politics from below looks like, both in Zapatista communities and at the national level, as well as at the level of the "intergalactic" the Zapatistas have proposed for creating a global network. Drawing from the Zapatista model and on historical examples and contemporary movements in the United States, what might a movement from below look like in the US? This unique interview with the Zapatista spokesperson and military commander, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, was created and conducted by a community assembly (El Kilombo ) in Durham, North Carolina, as a direct conversation between people in struggle in the United States and the EZLN. A year into the Zapatista Other Campaign in Mexico, this conversation marks a moment of change and transformation in how the EZLN has seen and spoken about the possibility of alternative politics in the US and the role of migrants, people of color, and others from below in creating such a politics. Don't miss your chance to talk with members of the El Kilombo social center about this historic exchange of ideas!
Who: Members of El Kilombo Intergaláctico , a social center based in Durham, North Carolina, home to a progressive bilingual bookstore and multiple community programs involving student, working class, migrant and people of color communities.
Why: After two years of the Other Campaign in Mexico, and at a significant electoral, economic, and political moment in the US, this tour also coincides with the launching of El Kilombo's new press, PaperBoat Press , and its first publication entitled Beyond Resistance: Everything, a momentous interview with Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista movement, created and conducted by El Kilombo, in which he discusses Zapatismo in the context of the North American continent, alliances with and the struggle of people of color in the US, and the centrality and importance of the migrant political movement in the current globalized political moment. .
"In this interview with El Kilombo, Subcomandante Marcos articulates more
clearly than ever before how Zapatista practices can inspire and link up with
liberation movements around the world. Read it and imagine how we can begin to do politics differently."
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, co-authors of Empire and Multitude
In a time of acute political crisis, widespread state repression of social movements, and increasing environmental devastation, the Zapatistas have re-emerged as a force for change, this time unarmed, coming down from the mountains and out of the jungle to meet with Mexicans across all sectors and people from all over the world to organize a new social force for anticapitalist struggle.
Includes an introduction by the El Kilombo Collective and Community Assembly , the interview with Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, and the EZLN's Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle.
Proceeds from the book will go to the Zapatista communities in resistance.
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