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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:18:26 -0600
From: "Irma L. Muniz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ramsey Muniz Still in Solitary Confinement
Dear Friends:
Enclosed are writings from Ramsey Muniz, who suffers in the dungeons of
solitary confinement. Please distribute widely. I will be visiting with
Ramsey on December 30th, to send him the love and strength needed to endure
all injustices committed against him.
"We, the Mexicas of the Rising of the Sixth Sun, must demonstrate
that the culture of resistance, which has forever shaped Mexica history, is
still a formidable challenge in the 21st Century."
Culture of Resistance
The term "culture of resistance" cam into my heart in the middle of
the night, like a flash of lightning and drums of thunder pounding in my
heart and mind. It's all about resistance. We must have it in our hearts
to resist the evils and misgivings, slavery, oppression and injustices of
the new world order. We must have it in our hearts to resist the evil
temptations of the existing political parties in this society. We must
resist all ignorance, self-hatred, jealousy, and malinches within
ourselves.
In ancient times our people resisted and finally conquered,
building the greatest civilization ever. I was there when the invaders
came, infested with the parasites of injustices, and destroyed our people
and records. We resisted and fought like the mighty warriors we are today,
leaving a message for the future generations - those not even born. We
continued to resist throughout our times of slavery. We refused the chains
of slavery and the injustices preyed on the lives of our families.
In 1531 Tonantzin (Mexica Earth Mother) suddenly became Virgin of
Guadalupe. Tonantzin's local name was "Coatlatica", or "Coatlazupeo."
Translated to its nearest Christian cognate, it becomes "Guadalupe."
Remember Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who early of the morning of
September 16th, 1810, rang the church bells of Dolores to proclaim the
independence of his nation with hoarse cries of Viva Mexico!
Remember "los ninos heroes" (the heroic children), who on September
13, 1847, were charged with defending Chapultepec castle against the
American invasion. Rather than submitting to surrender, the Mexica lads
clad themselves in Mexican flags, and leaped to their deaths from the
ramparts. Here we are in the present days of America, begging to be
accepted into a nightmare, refusing truly that our hearts await the
awakening of our culture which is resistance.
Remember Benito Juarez - a Zapotec indian from the sierra of Oaxaca
who in April of 1867, escorted the last French troops from Mexico City, and
where we now celebrate "Cinco de Mayo." So far our culture of resistance
has driven out two invaders - the Spaniards and the French, and this is due
to the resistance in our hearts.
Remember Ricardo Flores Magon, in the formation and declaration of
a revolution in 1908/1910, who later was killed during his political
imprisonment in the USP in Leavenworth, Kansas, where his spirits of love
and resistance remain.
Remember Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, and the young Mexicas who
were massacred on October 2, 1968, on the Plaza of Three Cultures in the
labyrinthine Tlatelolco - the site of Cuauhtemoc's final battle with
Cortez. Is it destiny, is it visionary, or is it resistance? Que no se
les olvide el d�a dos de octubre. Never forget October 2nd! Mexico and
Aztlan never have. Tlatelolco has become a part of our history handed down
from one generation to the next, and honored as the place where the waters
parted and the resistance of the Mexicas to this oppressive system was
incubated.
Remember el maestro Lucio Cabanas Barrientos - son of campesinos
from San Juan de los Flores. Lucio's grandfather, Pablo, was a Zapatista
General under Emiliano Zapata. Lucio was supposed to have been killed by
an army ambush, cornered in a sierra ravine on December 2nd, 1974, under
the regime of the then president Echeverria of the oppressive political
party (PRI). One day it will be RIP (rest in peace).
Remember Fernando Yanez, "Comandante German," and "Subcomandante
Marcos,"who formed the Zapatista army of national liberation (EZLN) in the
lacandon jungle of south eastern Chiapas, fighting against the annexation
of America's economic, political and hatred intervention into the holy land
of Mexico, and presently trying to destroy the hearts and minds of our
Mexicas here in Aztlan - trying but not succeeding, because now we will
witness the resistance - the cultural/spiritual resistance of the Mexicas
of the Rising of the Sixth Sun. It is the resistance that will lead us
into the 21st Century. Even at this hour, where I find myself in solitary
confinement, in the cold mode of darkness, I proudly raise the spirit and
Mexica banner of resistance. I will never, never submit to the manner and
means of enslavement. Take my life first, because I will break the chains
of injustices!
I am alive when all others feel dead,
But I am death
For all who fear life.
I am the Warrior Mexica of the
Sixth Sun awakened from the slumber
of 500 years of enslavement.
I am all that I will, I am all that was,
I am all that will be.
I am the Mexica of the Sixth Sun.
Ramiro R. Mu�iz - Tezcatlipoca
http://home.earthlink.net/~aou/
Please write a letter to your congressman or congresswoman, asking that
they call and write the Bureau of Prisons on Ramsey's behalf. Contact the
following:
Greg Hershberger, Director
North Central Region Bureau of Prisons
Gate Complex Tower II - 8th Floor
4th & State Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66101-2492
(913) 621-3939
(913) 551-1130
Kathleen Hawk, Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20534
(202) 307-3198
(202) 514-6878
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