> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 01:52:07 -0800 (PST) > From: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Chiapas: Indicators of Impending War > > > Subject: Your help urgently Needed For Chiapas World-Wide Online Campaign! > > ***Please immediately forward this message to all progressive websites, > listserves,*** newsgroups, and individuals with which you are aquainted. > This is an emergency. > > > To: All concerned individuals and webmasters > From: Chiapas Alert Network > http://www.stewards.net/chiapas/10.htm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi there, > > With just a two minute effort, you can help to end the brutal paramilitary > and military violence and intimidation currently directed by the Mexican > government and its ruling party against Indigenous civilians in Mexico's > southern state of Chiapas. Many respected international human rights > organizations such as Amnesty International have roundly denounced the > recent violence in Chiapas as an extreme violation of human rights. > > If you are an *individual*, please go to > http://www.stewards.net/chiapas/47.htm where you will find an automated > messaging system which will enable you to instantly and automatically send > copies of a strong pre-prepared letter of protest, or a letter of your own > design, to all three Nafta governments - Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, as > well as the European Union. These protest letters will carry both your own > name and your email address. > > If you are a *webmaster*, please go to > http://www.newhumans.com/chiapas/hotlogo1.html, where you will be able to > obtain an attractive and poignant animated icon which can be placed on your > website. When clicked by visitors to your site, this icon will take them to > the automated messaging page to send the protest letter. > > Help us bombard the Nafta governments and Eu with our message! > > Eric > > P.S. When the numbers warrant, we will also announce the campaign - and the > results - to the world media. > > P.P.S. There's a `notification system' at the page which allows you to > automatically inform your online friends and acquantances about the campaign. > > > BACKGROUND > > Right-wing violence and intimidation aimed at civilian Indigenous people in > Mexico's southern state of Chiapas has not ceased since a brutal massacre > (people were hunted like animals for 5 hours) in Chiapas at the little town > of Acteal took the lives of 45 people at prayer in a church, most of them > women and children, on Dec.22 last year. > > The Mexican government has used this massacre as the pretext to greatly > expand its aggression not only against the Zapatista Indigenous Army, camped > in the jungle at the extreme southern tip of Chiapas, and with which the > government has a supposed peace agreement. But the `crisis' has also been > used to justify using the army to attempt occupations of many civilian > communities in Chiapas, in an attempt to break the power of the civilian > Indiginous cooperative economic and political organizations, and the Chiapas > indigenous automony movement, which are consciously seeking to pursue a > path of cooperative ecological development in the region, and which in many > cases are not even closely aligned with the Zapatistas. > > Deaths, injuries, terrible fear, and thousands of refugees have been > generated by this military activity in the past 10 days. There is every > reason to fear that a still more aggressive campaign, and far more deaths, > may be on the immediate horizon. > > Your help is needed. Please forward this message. Please go to our website. > > > > > >
