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Campaign in a recent speech in san francisco can download the speech at
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Summary: JOHN ROSS speaks on the Sexta - The Zapatistas and Mexico's
Presidential Election
Credits: L.A. Sound Posse
... with thanks to Mike Alcalay for the dvd
Notes: Tuesday, November 15, 7:00 pm
JOHN ROSS speaks on the Sexta - The Zapatistas and Mexico's
Presidential Election
New College Theater, 777 Valencia St., San Francisco
John Ross, award-winning journalist, activist, poet, human shield and
globetrotting troublemaker, will present a public lecture at New
College, updating the on-going Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas and its
plans for Mexico's 2006 presidential election.
This June, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation issued the Sixth
Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (La Sexta) calling for an alliance
of all non-party struggle groups in Mexico to forge a new constitution
that would abolish neo-liberal outrages. The Zapatistas' La Otra
Campana (The Other Campaign) will unfold parallel to the 2006
presidential election year.
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Michael Novick wrote:
From: Alberto M. Giordano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Other Journalism About the Other Campaign
Announcing Authentic News Reporting of the Tour by Subcomandante Marcos
Throughout the Mexican Republic
By The Amado Avendaño Figueroa Brigade *
We are citizens and journalists who have joined together in the Amado
Avendaño Figueroa Brigade, publishing through the Internet at
http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/ news, analysis and information
about the travels that Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos known as “Delegate
Zero” will conduct for the Other Campaign beginning on January 1, 2006,
throughout the entire Mexican Republic.
The members of this brigade have followed the indigenous movement of the
Zapatistas during the past twelve years. Based on that experience, we are
certain that the mass media will not truthfully report what occurs during
the Zapatistas’ “Other Campaign.”
The Zapatistas have sent Marcos to the states outside of Chiapas “to listen
to the simple and humble people who fight.” We will work to assure that when
the people speak, they will be listened to throughout the country and the
world. Toward this end, we have joined forces to report on the first steps
of the tour by Delegate Zero which begins January 1 in San Cristóbal de Las
Casas, and will head out of Chiapas on January 9 beginning in the states of
Yucatán y Quintana Roo.
Our reports will be published on the Internet in Spanish, English,
Portuguese, French, Italian and German at:
http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/
There, we will make them available to the public free of charge and without
accepting any paid advertising: written investigative reports, video and
radio reports, documentaries and interviews, photos, analysis and
commentaries. These reports will be available, also without charge, to
community radio and TV stations and other independent media on the condition
that they be published in full without censorship and, in the case of online
media, that they include all the links to sources of information and
audio-visual evidence contained in the original reports.
Since, at present, we don’t count with the resources to cover all legs of
the delegate’s travels over the six months in which it is scheduled, we have
decided to join forces and concentrate our efforts reporting on the events
of January 1 in Chiapas and then on the Yucatán Peninsula, where our team
will go in ahead of Delegate Zero’s January 9 arrival to interview the
simple and humble people who struggle and who await his visit. Then we will
crisscross the peninsula a second time to report directly from their
meetings with him.
On January 16 we will take a pause to conduct an evaluation as to whether
our efforts were worthwhile and if there are sufficient resources and
interest to continue reporting from other parts of the six-month tour.
We invite sincere colleagues who believe in hard work to join forces with
us, by writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by contacting or visiting
our spokeswoman Mercedes Ozuna in San Cristóbal, de Las Casas, Chiapas,
México, telephone: 967 678 36 98.
Salud y abrazo from the simple and humble people that are your journalists
in struggle,
The Amado Avendaño Figueroa Brigade
Mercedes Ozuna, general coordinator
Concepción Villafuerte, correspondent and January 1 coordinator
Al Giordano, correspondent and road team coordinator
Gerardo Ozuna, technical coordinator
Gregory Berger, documentary director
Sarahy Flores Sosa, cinematographer
Quetzal Belmont, audio and radio
