Thursday, October 19th, The official caravan of The Other Campaign of the Zapatistas, which includes Delegate Zero, will be in Tijuana holding a public event discussing the struggles of the local community and The Other Campaign. The event will be in the evening at Multikulti. Details to be announced soon.

In addition, in San Diego, those who can't make it to Tijuana can come to Voz Alta for a live video simulcast hosted by the Colectivo Zapatista of San Diego, Voz Alta, the borderlands Hacklab and San Diego Indymedia. If the technology gods don't smile upon us, it may be an audio simulcast, but there will definitely be a way for those in San Diego to participate in the events of the Other Campaign. This event probably will take place 7-10pm, with more details to be announced soon.

Updated info at:
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org
 http://laotrasandiego.blogspot.com/

San Diego side of Trans-border Zapatista Encuentro for the Other Campaign
October 19th 7-10pm
Voz Alta
1544 Broadway
Corner of 16th and broadway next to landlord jim's

The First Cross-Border Encuentro of La Otra Campaña was held in Tijuana and San Diego September 15-17.

In Tijuana, 250 compañer@s heard from activist panels discussing women in resistance movements; indigenous struggles; autonomy; culture and art; culture and media; resistance against borders; and resistance against climate change and environmental destruction; as well as music, dance and theater from the struggle.

In San Diego, parallel meetings on the 15th and 17th were organized as freeflowing, participatory roundtable discussions that covered diverse topics, including women, patriarchy and machismo; personal connections with La Otra; listening as a tactic; maquiladora workers; struggles and resistance north of the border; and community building vs. armed revolution.

english and spanish reports, photos, audio and ongoing coverage

The organizations, groups, collectives and individuals from both sides of the US-Mexico border who are part of the National Campaign with the Other Politics for a National Program of Leftist Struggle and for a New Constitution (The Other Campaign), call to friends and adherents and sympathizers of the 6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, to laborers, youth, indigenous people, those in social struggle, intellectuals, artists and all those out there who identify with struggles from the left and from below to participate in the First Across-Borders Encounter, taking place in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on the 15, 16 and 17 of September, 2006.

Las organizaciones, grupos, colectivos y personas en lo individual que a ambos lados de la frontera México-Estados Unidos forman parte de La Campaña Nacional con Otra Política por un Programa Nacional de Lucha de Izquierda y por una Nueva Constitución (La Otra Campaña), convocan a comp@s adherentes y simpatizantes a la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona, a chambeadores, jóvenes, indígenas, luchadores sociales, intelectuales, artistas, y a todas y todos aquellos que se identifiquen con las luchas desde la izquierda y desde abajo, a participar en el Primer Encuentro Transfronterizo que tendrá lugar en Tijuana, B.C. México, los días 15, 16 y 17 de septiembre de 2006.
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The organizations, groups, collectives and individuals from both sides of the US-Mexico border who are part of the National Campaign with the Other Politics for a National Program of Leftist Struggle and for a New Constitution (The Other Campaign), call to friends and adherents and sympathizers of the 6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, to workers, youth, indigenous, those in social struggle, intellectuals, artists and all those out there who identify with struggles from the left and from below to participate in the First Cross-Border Encuentro, taking place in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on the 15, 16 and 17 of September, 2006.
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La Otra San Diego with Borderlands HackLab and San Diego Indymedia will be presenting a video simulcast of some of the events in Tijuana. radioActive sanDiego will be broadcasting from the event. More details available soon...

NarcoNews By RJ Maccani
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign on the Other Side

August 31, 2006

Inspired by the Black Panther Party and Chicago’s Young Lords, the New York Young Lords Party launched a surprising first campaign in the summer of 1969. Called “The Garbage Offensive,” it was designed to force the New York City Sanitation Department to make more frequent pick-ups in East Harlem (often referred to as Spanish Harlem or simply “El Barrio”). The Garbage Offensive won the trust and respect of their neighbors and garnered the Young Lords Party local and national visibility. Although inspired by the Black Panther’s community-based programs, the New York Young Lords didn’t expect to be picking up garbage when they discussed forming an organization to improve living conditions in their primarily Puerto Rican neighborhood. Before launching their first campaign, however, the Young Lords went to their neighbors to find out what they most wanted to see changed. The Garbage Offensive was the fruit of this dialogue, the will of the people. Proudly inclusive of their Latino and Black neighbors, the New York Young Lords’ center of gravity was Nuyorican (Puerto Rican New Yorkers), and the independence of their homeland, Puerto Rico, a central concern.

From the open publishing newswire: On Saturday, after leaving Rad Rich's Birthday Bash at the Meridian and grabbing a bite to eat, I found myself driving through second ward trying to find the Freniticore Warehouse space to attend an event hosted by Grupo MAIZ (which i think stands for Movimiento Accion Internacional Zapatista, or the International Zapatista Action Movement).

I evetually found Navigation blvd, and heading east I suddenly came across a scene that made me feel like I had fallen into a different world. There was a beat up red pickup truck with a giant canvas banner written in spanish talking announcing a Houston event with the Otra Campaña or other campaign, being waged by the EZLN of Chiapas building a network of social movements from below and to the left...

The film was very good, if you have 45 minutes, you should watch it! It breifly lays out the context of Atenco as an agricultural community that successfully resisted the plans of the Mexican government to develop an airport on their farmland, and how the community became adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle. It then launched into the campaign of of police terror launched by the Federal Preventative Police and the State Police of Mexico State against this community. 3,500 cops raided this community just outside of Mexico City, breaking into privated residences, beating people bloody, fatally shooting a 14 year old boy and blaming it on the community members of Atenco, arresting more than a hundred people and raping more than 20 women.
[read the full article] Photos | Zapatistas community dislocated your help needed now.

Over two dozen demonstrators gathered outside the Mexican Consulate in downtown Austin on Wednesday to call attention to recent acts of repression by the Mexican and Oaxacan governments. In May roughly 3,000 state police officers raided an encampment of striking teachers in Oaxaca City’s zócalo, injuring nearly 100 people. A month prior State and Federal Preventative Police attacked and attempted to displace flower vendors in Texcoco, a town outside of Mexico City. After being repelled in their initial attack, the police (again numbering around 3,000) regrouped and attacked the near-by autonomous municipality of San Salvador Atenco, where residents fought a successful campaign to save their land from becoming an airport integral to President Fox’s plans for a neo-liberal infrastructure project known as Plan Puebla Panama (PPP). The events that unfolded around this attack have brought international outrage upon Fox’s government, and reminded people of Mexico’s brutal "dirty war" in the 70’s and 80’s against political dissidents. This was the second demonstration at the consulate in as many months.

On June 26, the International Civil Commission for Human Rights Observation presented its Preliminary Report on the events in Atenco on May 3 and 4, 2006. You can download the report in English here (.pdf) In it you will read about the murders of two people (one child) and rapes and sexual abuse of nearly 50 women by Mexican police.
You can also download a video documentary about the Atenco attacks here
Documentation on the history of the Mexican State's brutal repression of political dissidents here

More photos of the demonstration at the consulate

El dos de julio significa la eleccion nacional de Mexico pero para mucho/as la lucha desde abajo sigue. Como parte de los eventos nacionales y internacionles en apoyo de La Otra Campana Mexicana, varios Adherentes de La Otra Campana en Los Angeles estan pidiendo Otra Consulta Internacional y Nacional. Por Favor de Participar.
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• Vota en "La Otra Consulta Mexicana de Los Angeles" AHORA
• by ZAPA-CALIFA
• La Otra Eleccion by Por Margarita Salazar

Reports from Joaquin Cienfuegos from his trip to Mexico: Report from the Struggles in Mexico 06/16/06-06/29/06; Report Back from Mexico City and Toluca, Mexico 06-28-06, 06-29-06.

This article focuses on the Costa Chica communities of Guerrero, Mexico where for the past ten years they have organized their own police for their protection and from there have launched their search for autonomy.

Ostensibly,the Mexican government is welcoming Delegate Zero's tour throughout Mexico but several communities participating in the Other Campaign have reported harrassment and threats from government and paramilitary agents.

Presuntamente, el gobierno mexicano ha dado la bienvenida a la gira del Delegado Zero a través de México, pero varias comunidades participantes en la Otra Campaña han reportado hostigamientos y amenazas por parte del gobierno y agentes paramilitares.

Ostensibly, the Mexican government is welcoming Delegate Zero's tour throughout Mexico, but several communities participating in the Other Campaign tell a different story. People from the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Campeche and Mexico have reported distinct forms of harassment. During their twelve-year public existence, EZLN communities have suffered attacks, killings, intimidation and harassment from the likes of Mexican political parties and paramilitaries.

Read More on Indybay's Americas Page y en español

Update: Come out to Chicano Perk on 25th and Imperial Saturday night at 7pm for Son Del Centro, live in concert!

Tune into the Critical Mass Radio Network on Saturday, January 28th for a broadcast from 6 cities across the US and Mexico reflecting on La Otra Campaña of the Zapatistas and what it means for our communities...

Listen online at  http://criticalmassradio.net

The schedule is (all times PST):

Radioactive sanDiego 12-1pm
August Sound Coalition, NYC 1-2pm
Black Box Radio, Michigan 2-3pm
Portland Indymedia Radio - 3-4pm
Kill Radio, Los Angeles 4-6pm
Radio Zapote, Mexico City - 7-9pm

Critical Mass Radio Network (CMRN) is a decentralized international radio network composed of independent community radio stations. CMRN is organized for the purpose of broadcasting a coordinated signal over the internet that is broadcast quality and capable of being delivered over the FM band.

"That we will make a collective network of all our particular struggles and resistances. An intercontinental network of resistance against neoliberalism, an intercontinental network of resistance for humanity.

This intercontinental network of resistance, recognising differences and acknowledging similarities, will search to find itself with other resistances around the world. This intercontinental network of resistance will be the medium in which distinct resistances may support one another. This intercontinental network of resistance is not an organising structure; it doesn’t have a central head or decision maker; it has no central command or hierarchies. We are the network, all of us who resist."

- Statement from the First Intercontinental Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism

The Other Campaign reaches Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of the State of Chiapas, where the Subcomandante Marcos, now known as Delegate Zero, invites a large crowd of people gathered in the main square to join them in the construction of a better reality outside of the old political system. Later on, a community meeting is held at the local Teachers' Union Hall.

See Also: The Other Campaign begins! | Global IMC story

The Zapatistas began yesterday the first of a series of town-hall like meetings that will comprise the bulk of a six-month nationwide caravan dubbed as the “Other Campaign.” The campaign will touch every state in Mexico and aspires to form a wide-ranging non-electoral and anti-capitalist alliance that can be a powerful enough of a force to implement a new constitution for Mexico.

On January 1, 2006, the convoy that accompanied Subcomandante Insurgent Marcos departed from the Garrucha Caracol to San Cristobal de las Casas. With that marked the the first step in the new Zapatista political initiative known as The Other Campaign, which hopes to forge an anti-capitalist alliance of the non-electoral Left in Mexico. The journey culminated with a public rally in the Cathedral Plaza, known as the Plaza of Resistance, where members of Zapatista Command spoke. Nearly 300 people of the Highlands region of the state of Chiapas, who have signed on to the Zapatista initiative gathered with subcomandante Marcos, now called Delegate Zero, in his first day of the Other Campaign.

The Other Campaign was emerged as part of the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona. Sumcomandante Marcos (who is now know as Delegate Zero) has left Zapatista territory on a motorcycle and began the 6 month tour of dialog with civil society and social movements in Mexico.

Delegate Zero's Blog | Comprehensive Feature from Indymedia Global with photos, audio and video | Blow by blow coverage from NarcoNews | Continueing coverage from Chiapas Indymedia [ES/EN]

Marking the twelfth anniversary of its uprising, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) launched the next phase in its struggle Jan. 1 to a thunderously warm send-off from thousands of supporters in the overfilled Plaza de Resistencia in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.

The six-member Zapatista command, four men and two women, assumed the stage with a backdrop bearing a mural of Emiliano Zapata as a sea of black balaclavas, red bandanas, banners, Mexican citizens, internationals-in-solidarity and tourists cheered on. Banners lifted high in the air announced, “Long Live the EZLN” [read more]

The Other Campaign, the Zapatista political initiative which hopes to forge an anti-capitalist alliance of the non-electoral Left in Mexico, has officially begun. Thousands who have signed on gathered with subcomandante Marcos, now called Delegate Zero, in his first day. [español aquí]



Photos: 1 | 2 | 3

Video: frecuencias libres

Words: Account of Jan 1st 2006 | Speech of Comandante Tacho | Speech of Comandanta Kely | Speech of Comandanta Hortensia | Junta de Buen Gobierno Camino del Futuro celebrates 12 years of the struggle of resistence

Audio: Speeches at the beginning of The Other Campaign | Delegate Zero (Sub Marcos) beginning the Other Campaign | Delegate Zero-mp3 | Delegate Zero-ogg | Tacho | Kelly | The voices on the streets of Garrucha and San Cristobal | Hortensia | David | Zebedeo | cml-free radios-the beginning of the Other Campaign in Coyoacan | Radio Insurgente | Radio Zapote | Radio Ke-Huelga

Read more: Chiapas Indymedia | Mexico Indymedia | Centro de Medios Libres D.F. | San Diego Indymedia | NarcoNews | Enlace Zapatista | Zezta Internazional | The First Plenary of the Other Campaign | Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle

Translations of EZLN communiques: 1 | 2 | 3

Radio Transmission from the beginning of the Other Campaign, from San Cristobal de las Casas:
Ke Huelga Radio - 102.9 FM desde la Cd. Monstruo
En San Cristóbal de las Casas - 107.5 FM
Internet: mp3 | mp3 | ogg
Crónica 31 de diciembre - La Garrucha | Discurso de la Junta de Buen Gobierno

From Mexico Indymedia - See also Centro de Medios Libres D.F.

Reports from San Cristobal de las Casas, where the EZLN embarks on the Other Campaign, the movement to build a new non electorate left.

Zapatistas have arrived early in San Cristobal, Chiapas to begin The Other Campaign. Subcommandante Marcos, renaming himself "Delegate Zero", is going around Mexico for the next six months to forge alliances with the non-electoral, anti-capitalist left, as was planned in the Sixth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle.

For translations of Zapatista documents, go to www.zaptranslations.blogspot.com

Radio Transmission from the beginning of the Other Campaign, from San Cristobal de las Casas:
Ke Huelga Radio - 102.9 FM desde la Cd. Monstruo
En San Cristóbal de las Casas - 107.5 FM
Internet: mp3 | mp3 | ogg
Crónica 31 de diciembre - La Garrucha | Discurso de la Junta de Buen Gobierno

From Mexico Indymedia - See also Centro de Medios Libres D.F.

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. Bases de Apoyo Zapatistas han llegado desde temprano a las afueras de San Cristóbal de las Casas para tomar de nuevo la ciudad, esta vez para comenzar la gira del delegado Zero, el subcomandante Marcos, para la primera etapa de la Otra Campaña.

Zapatistas have arrived early in San Cristobal, Chiapas to begin The Other Campaign. Subcommandante Marcos, renaming himself "Delegate Zero", is going around Mexico for the next six months to forge alliances with the non-electoral, anti-capitalist left, as was planned in the Sixth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle.

For translations of Zapatista documents, go to www.zaptranslations.blogspot.com

Transmisión del inicio de la Otra Campaña desde San Cristobal de las Casas:
Ke Huelga Radio - 102.9 FM desde la Cd. Monstruo
En San Cristóbal de las Casas - 107.5 FM
Internet: mp3 | mp3 | ogg
Crónica 31 de diciembre - La Garrucha | Discurso de la Junta de Buen Gobierno

The first plenary of the Other Campaign, a 10 year initiative of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation to build a national plan of struggle, came to a close this Sunday afternoon in the community of La Garrucha, Chiapas.

The plenary was organized into six themes dealing with the organization and character of the Other Campaign. Subcomadante Marcos, spokesperson for the EZLN, made it clear that the form of the Other Campaign must be decided by all those who take it up. "The Sixth and the Other Campaign, " he said, "no longer belong just to the EZLN, but to everyone who embraces them". He also announced a proposal for the next stage of the campaign: a tour, to begin in January, of consultations in every region of the republic. Marcos himself will be the primary actor of the Sixth Committee, and, in order to perform the post, will be stepping down as spokesperson for the EZLN.

The meeting was transmitted in internet by indymedia chiapas and a coalition of independent and participatory media gathered for the event. It was relayed in FM in Oaxaca and Mexico City, among other places. In addition, the independent media activists present in the La Garrucha formed a proposal for a national network of independent media.

Present in the Plenary were 91 social organizations from throughout Mexico, 36 political organizations, 129 groups, collectives and NGO's, 26 indigenous organizations, 196 individuals.

audio: 1 | 2
video: 1 | 2
photos: 1 | 2 | 3

The 27th and 28th of August a meeting of the Other Campaign was held in the autonomous Zapatista community of San Miguel, Chiapas, Mexico.

Called by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation , over 1,000 individuals attended. Collectives, artistic groups and NGO´s were invited to this forth of a series of meetings between the Indigenous Guerrilla army and civil society.Presentations ranged from the dry readings to hip-hop performances and lottery games.

Subcomadante Marcos Announced the Other Campaign in the Seveth Declaration from the Lacadona Jungle, a non-electoral alternative to election year politics.

The Seventh Declaration marks a divergence in Zapatista history. While the rebel organization has always called for national and international solidarity, it has always limited its objectives to those defined by the indigenous struggle.With this declaration their goals have expanded to the recreation the left and the definition of a new constitution.

indymedia chiapas | revista rebeldia | EZLN: Out of the Jungles and Into the Streets | Zapatistas: The Second Stage | Zapatista Solidarity in Mexico City
fotos: I | II