Entrevista al Jorge Vélazquez sobre el legado de Samir Flores
#samirflores
Surprise Action by Zapatistas Six Years after the Murder of Samir Flores
Mexico City | Desinformémonos: “The murderers of comrade Samir are still free and governing,” reads one of the banners that the support bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) raised this morning in Chiapas, in protest of the six years since the murder of Samir Flores Soberanes, Nahua defender and communicator from Amilcingo and one of the most visible faces in the struggle against the Morelos Integral Project (PIM).
In the early hours of this February 22nd, thousands of Zapatista men and women went out with candles and banners to join the Global Day of “Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes!” and denounce the impunity that prevails in the crime, perpetrated on February 20th, 2019 in Amilcingo, a day after the defender questioned the Hugo Erick Flores in a public meeting and pointed out the negative impacts of the federal megaproject.
“Is it right that we are asking for justice from the one who ordered his death? Are they going to imprison themselves, judge themselves and punish themselves? Today it is the Fourth Transformation, but before, how much impunity was there and how much impunity will there be from now on?” questioned the Zapatistas in a statement, which they distributed in the streets during this morning’s protest, broadcast by Los Tercios Compas.
While lighting the path with candles and raising banners with slogans such as “The 4T is advancing on the second floor of impunity,” “The justice we need will come from below, to the left and in common” and “How many eras and generations are we going to wait for there to be truth and justice?”, the Zapatista support bases also shouted slogans to denounce the government’s participation in the murder of Samir Flores and to vindicate the defender’s struggle.
“Samir fought with courage, the common people remember you with rebellion,” “Justice for comrade Samir, the people will build it in common ,” “If Obrador was a traitor, Claudia is and will be worse,” shouted the women and men support bases, who accused the federal government of being responsible for the community division.
“Behind those from whom we demand justice is the real culprit who ordered the murder, they are the transnational drug businessmen because they want the Morelos Integral Project (PIM),” the Zapatistas reiterated. For this reason, they insisted that justice for Samir Flores is in the hands of the people in the city, the countryside, the streets, the colonies and the neighborhoods. This Saturday’s protest is part of the global day that began on February 19th in various communities and cities in Mexico and the world to remember the Nahua defender, denounce the impunity in the case and demand punishment for those responsible.
Original article at Desinformémonos, February 22nd, 2025.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17173
#chiapas #ezln #mexico #northAmerica #SamirFlores #zapatista
"February 20, 2025 marks 6 years since our brother Samir Flores Soberanes was assassinated, 6 years since another bullet was fired at the forces of rebellion and autonomy. The cowardly bullets that are aimed and fired at the struggle for life that rises with dignity in thousands of places on planet earth are not few, and when the bullet touches a compañero like Samir, that death becomes a seed, an example, a dignified memory, and it is there that justice from below for our compañero, begins to blossom."
Pronouncement 6 Years After the Murder of Samir Flores, Impunity and Imposition Reign in the Mexican Narco-State -FPDTA-MPT
This February 20 marks 6 years since our brother Samir Flores Soberanes was assassinated, 6 years since another shot was fired at the forces of rebellion and autonomy. The cowardly bullets that are aimed and fired at the struggle for life that rises with dignity in thousands of places on planet earth are not few, and when the bullet touches a compañero like Samir, that death becomes a seed, an example, a dignified memory, and it is there that justice from below for our compañero, begins to blossom.
Because in the face of the storm, the organization, the flower, the song and the memory will be our guiding ship to attain collective justice for our brother Samir Flores Soberanes and the struggle for life.
This year marks 13 years of attempts to impose the Integral Morelos Project (PIM), 6 years of the bloody betrayal by López Obrador and the 4T of the native peoples of Mexico and the Popocatépetl volcano, 6 years of that February 10 where Samir along with representatives of dozens of peoples affected by the PIM saw the change of heart of the President who in his campaign declared himself against the PIM, and when he came to power, now supported it. Samir and the people shouted to Obrador: “Water yes, thermo[electric] no! Life yes, gas pipeline no! We demand that you keep your word and cancel the PIM!”
An irate López Obrador pointed out to them: “even if they shout, even if there is shouting and hat-waving”, “leftist radicals, who for me are nothing more than conservatives,” “And so they did not vote or they have already forgotten it, those so-called radicals, who are nothing more than conservatives, in not voting.” We did not know that this day was the battle cry, the death sentence for our compañero Samir, assassinated 10 days later.
The Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water has denounced the network of power and relationships that exist between the intellectual and material authors of the murder of Samir. Obrador’s battle cry was given from above, so that the federal superdelegate Hugo Erik Flores (lawyer for the murderers of Acteal and leader of the PES) would handle it, along with the commitments made by the ex-governor of Morelos Cuauhtémoc Blanco with the Jalisco Cartel New Generation “in exchange for pacification” ordering the criminal group “Los Aparicio” to execute Samir.
Hugo Erik Flores was Obrador’s envoy to operate the PIM consultation in Morelos, Samir confronted him and exposed his lies in front of hundreds of attendees who attended the forum of the Federal Government in Jonacatepec on February 19, 2019 and drew applause from the audience.
From Radio Amiltzinko, Samir informed the eastern part of Morelos and part of Puebla about the consequences of the PIM and Obrador’s betrayal when in 2014 he said “we do not want a gas pipeline in Morelos, installing a thermoelectric plant in the land of Zapata is like installing a landfill in Jerusalem, what is wrong with them, they are crazy” in so many words. His amplified words against the PIM and his conviction cost Samir his life.
Why Samir? Because he committed the gravest of sins that power cannot tolerate: to continue fighting when the circumstances seem hopeless and, to overcome… to build autonomy, to continue fighting… The construction of the gas pipeline was imposed in Amilcingo in 2014 by means of public force and gunfire on the population, 5 of the community were wounded by bullets and dozens of police officers were injured by the stones hurled at them in waves by the community. The people defended themselves with everything, but the power of the government-capital was too great against a single community and they buried the gas pipeline. But the people did not stay still, nor were they defeated, on the contrary, they woke up more, they continued to fight, to throw parties and to rebel, building up the radio, community health, solidarity, government by uses and customs, the defense of their educational spaces and the promotion of new educational spaces, as was the last demand that Samir left unfinished in Amilcingo, (besides the cancellation of the PIM), a high school for the community.
The violence, illegality, racism and arbitrariness with which the Morelos Integral Project has been imposed has reached the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), so in the coming months the peoples of the volcano and the Mexican State will deliver to the IACHR the evidence and arguments about the problematic installation of the PIM in an area of eruptive risk and without the consent of the peoples. We demand justice for Samir and the peoples of the Popocatepetl volcano!
Hundreds of communities and cities are immersed in a narco-state that is displacing our peoples, instilling terror and disorganization. Murdering and disappearing journalists and defenders of mother earth and human rights, but also thousands of sisters and brothers in the country who have been touched by organized crime and bad government. Yes, there is a narco-state, Samir is proof of this, of the murder of a defender by the narco-state in the interests of gringo, European and multinational capitalism, who benefit from the PIM.
Claudia Sheinbaum says that there is no narco-government in Mexico, but the criminal network behind the murder of Samir says otherwise, we see that in the municipal authorities of this narco-government, there are criminal groups, that the middle managers (state government) are many times tagged in narco-banners and their photos expose them with leaders of the drug cartels. Cuauhtémoc Blanco, ex-governor of Morelos and Hugo Erik Flores, ex-federal superdelegate in Morelos sent by López Obrador, are examples of this and so are hundreds of politicians- deputies, congressmen, senators, all levels of government, in the 3 branches in the country, there is the narco-state. What are we going to do, sisters and brothers, we ask ourselves? The only answer is to organize ourselves, to imagine, to build ties, and to not let go.
We demand progress in the investigations, prosecution, capture and punishment of the material and intellectual murderers of Samir, mainly, we DEMAND:
1. Dismantling and capture of the criminal group of “Los Aparicio” and punishment for their participation in the murder of Samir;
2.Investigation, prosecution and punishment of the intellectual authors of Samir’s murder, such as Hugo Erik Flores, Cuauhtémoc Blanco and Andrés Manuel López Obrador;
3. Cancellation of the Morelos Integral Project.
Here we are the rebellious dignity, the forgotten heart of the land.
Samir lives, the struggle continues! Water yes, thermo no! Stop the war on the Zapatista communities! Stop the genocide and displacement of Palestine! Death to the narco-state and the bad government! Death to capitalism, long live life! Long live the peoples of Mexico and the world!
Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala
National Indigenous Congress
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17115
#chiapas #ezln #mexico #northAmerica #SamirFlores #zapatista
Six years ago, Indigenous Nahua community organizer Samir Flores was murdered in Amilcingo, Morelos, for his work opposing the neoliberal Morelos Integral Project (PIM). Over the past few days, there have been mobilizations in Mexico to protest his assassination, the government's role in it, and the ongoing impunity in the case: https://itsgoingdown.org/global-days-of-action-justice-for-samir-flores/
As part of those mobilizations, this morning inhabitants of the 12 Zapatista caracoles organized candlelight vigils condemning the government and calling for justice for Samir. Videos of the vigils can be found here: https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2025/02/22/jornadas-globales-justicia-para-samir-flores-soberanes/.
While appreciating that there is a time and place for each tactic - from the armed uprising to the peaceful vigil - it is striking to me the evolution of Zapatista struggle over the past 31 years. What started as a clandestine armed movement that took over a third of the state of Chiapas is now holding unmolested candlelight vigils in the face of government-backed executions of Indigenous comrades in the struggle.
What to make of this? I don't have any profound conclusions, nor am I looking to condemn, but rather to offer an observation. I have several thoughts on the Zapatista trajectory and its manifestation in the current moment, but those are too lengthy to get into here. What do you think?
“Samir no murió, el gobierno lo mató”, gritaron manifestantes en #CDMX como parte de la Jornada Global: ¡Justicia para Samir Flores Soberanes! son 6 años desde que lo asesinaron, 6 años de injusticia.
📸 Regina López
#samirfloressoberanes #SamirVive #SamirFlores #Zapatistas #EZLN #Samir6Años
Open Call to Join in the Days of Global Action! Justice for Samir Flores! 6 Years of Impunity
OPEN CALL TO JOIN THE GLOBAL DAYS:
JUSTICE FOR SAMIR FLORES SOBERANES!
6 YEARS OF IMPUNITY
On February 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 or any other dates that in your own time you consider appropriate.
WHEREAS it has been 6 years of impunity since that February 20, 2019 in which our brother Samir Flores Soberanes was murdered at the hands of “organized crime with the bad government,” that promoted the bloody consultation of the Morelos Integral Project (PIM).
Megaprojects are a cancer that capitalism, in any of its populist or fascist faces, imposes on our territories, killing Mother Earth and killing us along with her.
Samir was murdered by the narco-state that Claudia Sheinbaum denies exists, but that millions in Mexico see and suffer.
Samir was killed by organized crime and the bad government for organizing and telling the truth about the Morelos Integral Project, and for defending life and denouncing the betrayal of Obrador who promised to cancel the PIM if he became President.
The increase in organized crime throughout the national territory is a reality, cities with curfews and “tolls,” displaced and besieged towns in Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Sonora, Michoacán, Morelos, Colima, Veracruz, Jalisco and practically the entire country, disappeared and disappeared… mega-projects of environmental destruction are accompanied by “organized” crime, but organized with the bad government, at the municipal, state and federal level, generating conditions of terror and war in the country.
War extends throughout the world, which brazenly intends to evict the Palestinian people from Gaza and repopulate it with Israeli and gringo capitalism; there they bomb us from above, here they attack us from below, but for the same reason of dispossessing us of our territories.
War is spreading with the massive deportation of our brothers from the north of the country who are in what capitalism calls the United States, without respecting the right that every human being should have, to live and work honestly in any part of the world.
That war, the storm, is everywhere, in thousands of towns and cities in America, Europe, Asia, Africa or Oceania. Instilling fear, disorganizing life, escalating in Mexico, in the period since the 4T, the murder and disappearance of more and more comrades who defend life, probe and spread the truth like Samir. That is why Samir is in many places, has many names and different genders, but with a common trait: rebellion.
Despite the storm and because of it, here we are, the struggle for life, the rebellious dignity, the forgotten heart of the earth.
In order to grow our word, our cry, our demand for justice for Samir and for the peoples of Mexico and the world, today we call to meet to build justice and memory for our brother Samir Flores Soberanes; registering to date the following activities:
Tuesday, February 11:
- Initiative for Samir-Kinoki, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Saturday, February 15:
- Sharing of Zapatista experience 31 Years of Resistance and Rebellion, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Red de Solidaridad con Chiapas Buenos Aires, in conjunction with the Libertarian Federation of Argentina (FLA).
- Mural by Samir, Elaborarte Manos Vivas Querétaro, Comida No Bombas Qro.
- Echos of the Commons: Conversations about the Zapatista Encounters of Resistances and Rebellions, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco sala 2, Red Universitaria Anticapitalista, CdMx.
Sunday, February 16:
- Cultural and informational day at Foro Abierto de la Casa del Lago, Bosque de Chapultepec, CdMx, CLETA.
- Talk and Video “JUSTICE FOR SAMIR FLORES SOBERANES”. Community of Xochitlanezi (114 El Molino St., La Planta neighborhood, Iztapalapa) (RAIS) Iztapala Sexta Support Network and its member collectives, community of Xochitlanezi and its member organizations, Mexico City.
- Mural for Samir, El Tejocote, Tequisquiapan, Milpa Constelación, Querétaro
Wednesday, February 19:
- Artistic day for Samir Flores. Islas de Ciudad Universitaria – UNAM
- Placement of banners and leafleting, Cuauhtémoc, CdMx, Frente del Pueblo Resistencia Organizada, 16:00 hrs.
- Flyer “From the Word of Samir to the Heart of Abisaí”, February 19 and 20, Pueblos de Tecámac, State of Mexico.
Thursday, February 20:
- Commemoration in Amilcingo: Memorial mass, civic act Escuela Samir Flores Soberanes, wreath at Samir’s grave, Amilcingo, Morelos, 8:00 – 14:00.
- Public event in memory of Samir, Psychology Area of the University Center of Health Sciences (CUCS) of the University of Guadalajara, Brigada Ignacio Martin Baro, 11:00 hrs.
- Rally in front of the Mexican Embassy in Rome, Nodo Solidale, 11:00 hrs (Rome time)
- Fogata Rebelde – Casa de los Pueblos Samir Flores Soberanes, CdMx, 17:00 – 2:00 hrs
- Hacktivist party against digital capitalism, talks and video, Okupa Che,CU, CdMx, Laboratorio de Medios Libres
- Political-Cultural Meeting: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! Six years of impunity, Zócalo de Cuernavaca, Morelos, Red Morelense de Apoyo al CNI-CIG/Colectivity Nuestra Alegre Rebeldía
- Tree planting day, El Salto and Juanacatlán, Agrupación Un Sato de Vida, Jalisco.
- Banner for Samir “Samir lives, the struggle continues!” Milpa Alta, Communal School Casa del Arte Tlaixco, Council of Communal Resources Nahua Indigenous Community Tlacotenco Nahua Indigenous Community CNI Milpa Alta ILANCUEITL dance of the Tlacualeras Communal Guard Santa Ana Tlacotenco, CdMx
- Collective Painting of the Mural “JUSTICE FOR SAMIR AND FOR OUR DISAPPEARED”. Community of Xochitlanezi (114 el molino street, colonia la Planta, Iztapalapa) (RAIS) Iztapala Sexta Support Network and its member collectives, community of Xochitlanezi and its member organizations, community of Xochitlanezi (RAIS) and its member organizations (RAIS).
- “Samir y el común”, La Ezkina located in Infonavit del Río, Tijuana, La Ezkina, Baja California.
- Exhibition of canvases demanding justice for Samir, Proceso de Articulación de la sierra de santa marta /CNI, Veracruz.
- Screening of Samir’s documentary without reversal, Cuba 34 corner with allende, La Resistencia Café Galería, CDMX
- Memory and Struggle: Samir Flores Soberanes, Conscience and Freedom, CDMX
- Flyer in the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara, National Indigenous Congress, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, Signers of the Declaration for Life, Communist Youth of Mexico, Party of Communists, Jalisco.
- Special radio program: “Samir lives” in “Lo conseguí soñando / otrxs mundxxs al aire”, FM quimunche, red de comunistas, Jalisco. FM quimunche, red enfoques and repeater radios.
- Demonstration in front of the Mexican Consulate, 2401 W 6th St, Los Angeles, California “Eagle and Condor Liberation Front, La Otra Califas: Ramona Vive”, Sexta Grietas del Norte.
- Premiere of the song “”Samir“”- Sergio Marcos ‘Ik”, Regeneración Radio.
Friday, February 21:
- Unveiling of Samir’s bust in Normal de Cuautla, Morelos, Normal de Cuautla, APPM, FPDTA-MPT, 13:00 hrs.
- March from the Secretaría de Gobernación to the Zócalo of Mexico City, 16:00 hrs.
- Monumental painting – Zócalo, Contrayendo el común, CdMx
- Documentary-charla-Casa de Arte, downtown Cuautla, Morelos;
- Community Conversation, San Francisco, USA, Grietas del Norte, 17:30 hrs.
- Mural painting for Samir, Tepic, Partido de los comunistas, Nayarit
- Leafleting around the city, Guadalajara, Party of Communists, Jalisco, Jalisco
- Film Debate: “Samir”, Documentary, Casa Obrera Tlaxcala and Hijxs del Maíz Pinto, Tlaxcala
- Discussion “Water Struggles: from Morelos to Southern California”, East Los Angeles, California, Eagle and Condor Liberation Front, La Otra Califas: Ramona Vive
Saturday, February 22nd:
- Rallies in each of the 12 Zapatista caracoles, Chiapas, EZLN.
- “Samir, junk capitalism and the resistance” (Conversation/Unveiling of Samir bust, rally and cultural events) – Sit-in against the Cholula garbage dump, Puebla, 11:00 – 18:00 hrs.
- Book presentation – La Vulcana, Santa María La Rivera, CdMx
- Cultural event – La Bigotona, Plaza Moctezuma, Cuernavaca, Morelos
- Text reading in memory of Samir (with bust present) at the anti-fascist march in memory of Valerio Verbano, Nodo Solidale.
- Screening/conversation, San Francisco, USA, Northern Cracks
- Ajmaq-Frayba Network Film Debate. Dialogues of Resistance and Rebellion. Six years after the murder of Samir Flores, for the defense of Territory and Life, Kinoki, Red Ajmaq and Frayba, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.
- Exhibition of posters Justice for Samir Flores, 6 years of Impunity Projection of videos about Samir’s voice and struggle. Nodo de Derechos Humanos and Terraformar, Puebla
- Leafleting and broadcasting in Plaza Principal Tepic, Partido de los comunistas, Nayarit
- Poster-pasting around the city, Los Mochis, Partido de los comunistas, Sinaloa;
- Conversatorio en la Casa de fuego con Adherentes de la sexta, Partido de los comunistas, Sinaloa; Conversatorio en la Casa de fuego con Adherentes de la sexta, Partido de los comunistas
- Rally, Monterrey, Red de Resistencia y Rebeldía NL, Nuevo León
- Video and poster pasting in the city of Zacatecas, Party of the Communists, Zacatecas
- Poster pasting, Playas de Rosarito, Partido de los comunistas, Baja California
- Leafleting and poster pasting, Playas de Rosarito, Baja California
- Leafleting and pasting of posters, Culiacán, Party of Communists, Sinaloa
- Cultural event, Andador Benito Juárez, Party of Communists and Communist Youth of Mexico, Aguascalientes
- Distribution of information in connection with the Jornada Justicia Samir Flores Soberanes!” Liège, Collectif Chiapas de Liège, by Grupo CafeZ, Belgium.
- Poster pasting, Bahia de Banderas, Party of the Communists and Adherents to the Sixth, Nayarit
- Central Event at Casa de fuego, Donato Guerra 430, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, Signers of the Declaration for Life, Communist Youth of Mexico, Party of Communists, Jalisco.
- Screening and discussion “Megaprojects and struggles for life,” Barrio La Misión, San Francisco, California, La Otra Califas: Ramona Vive, Sexta Grietas del Norte
Sunday, February 23rd:
- Flyering, clothesline/poetryline – Bellas Artes, CdMx, Redmyc Zapatista.
- Photo exhibit Samir Flores: Seed of resistance, El parque la llanta, Nos Queremos Vivas Neza, CdMx.
- Informative demonstration, Guaymas, Communist Party, Sinaloa.
- Informative table to demand justice for Samir Flores Soberanes, Zócalo de Puebla, Puebla.
- Public act in the esplanade of the expiatory, Guadalajara, Party of Communists, Jalisco
- Talk in the Xochicalli neighborhood, Mexicali, Party of Communists, Baja California, 10:00 – 12:00 hrs.
- Video and diffusion, Ensenada, Party of Communists, Baja California, 10:00 – 12:00 hrs
- Poster pasting in the city, Rosamorada, Party of Communists, Nayarit, 10:00 – 12:00 hrs
- Meeting and graphic exhibition, National Indigenous Congress, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, Signers of the Declaration for Life, Communist Youth of Mexico, Party of Communists, Jalisco.
- Informative exhibition and screening of the documentary SAMIR, San Gregorio Atlapulco, Casa del Pueblo Tlamachtiloyan de Atlapulco and Asamblea General Permanente del Pueblo de San Gregorio Atlapulco, CdMx.
- Collective letter to the community of Samir Flores Soberanes, Mazatecas for Freedom.
- Conversatorio Samir Florece. Justicia x Samir y la lucha contra el PIM, Sendas, Colectivos autoconvocados del mundo en San Cristóbal. San Cristobal de Las Casas.
Monday, February 24th
- Documentary screening about the life and murder of compa Samir. Je’ Xo’o (el Ombligo),Coyoacán Mexico Cdmx
Saturday, March 1st
- Conversation and murals for justice by Samir Flores Soberanes, Santiago Mexquititlán, Amealco, Querétaro.
FIRST: To carry out widespread actions at a global level demanding justice for Samir. To meet again and talk about the struggle for life and autonomy, about the construction of common justice, about enough is enough, about dreams and nightmares in our places and in other parts of the world.
SECOND: To strengthen and disseminate the activities listed here.
THIRD: To continue registering their activities at cnicomunicacion@gmail.com, sending posters of the events, photos, videos, poems, songs and/or stories of their actions.
For the Complete Reconstitution of Our Peoples
Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra y el Agua – Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala
Agrupación Un Salto de Vida/Jalisco
Antsetik ts’unun/Chiapas
A.P.E.C/CDMX
Área de Estudios Urbanos UAM Azcapotzalco/CDMX
Asamblea General Permanente del Pueblo de San Gregorio Atlapulco/CDMX
Asamblea Nacional por el Agua y la Vida/México
Asociación de Exploración Científica y Recreativa/CDMX
«Bicis Tierra y Libertad» (colectiva ciclista)/CDMX
Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer, E.M. A.C./CDMX
Brigada Dr. Ignacio Martín-Baró/Jalisco
Brújula Roja/CDMX
Café “Zapata Vive”/CDMX
Casa Obrera de Tlaxcala COT/Tlaxcala
Casa Ojalá/CDMX
Casa Samir Flores/CDMX
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas/Chiapas
Centro de Investigación en Comunicación Comunitaria/México
Cholultecas Unidxs en Resistencia-CHUR/Puebla
Colectiva Nuestra Alegre Rebeldía/Morelos
Colectivo 16 de Octubre-Calpulalpan/Tlaxcala
Colectivo Aequus.- Promoción y Defensa de Derechos Humanos/CDMX
Colectivo Criptopozol + DDHH/México
Colectivo Cuaderno Común/CDMX
Colectivo de apoyo al EZLN y al CNI – CIG Llegó la Hora de los Pueblos/México
Colectivo de profesorxs en la sexta/CDMX
Colectivo de trabajo Cafetos/CDMX
Colectivo Gavilanas/CDMX
Colectivo La Otra Justicia/CDMX
Colectivo Luz de Esperanza Desaparecidos Jalisco/Jalisco
Colectivo Luz de Esperanza sin fines de lucro de Guadalajara/Jalisco
Colectivo panadero La Grieta/CDMX
Colectivos autoconvocados en San Cristóbal/Chiapas
Comida no bombas, Qro./Querétaro
Comité de Padres y Madres de los 43 de Ayotzinapa/México
Comité pueblo originario de Tlaxcalancingo/Puebla
Comunidad de Tlanezi Calli en resistencia/CDMX
Comunidad de Xochitlanezi/CDMX
Comunidad Indígena Nahua CNI Milpa Alta/CDMX
Comunidad Indígena Otomí residente en la Ciudad de México
Concejo Autónomo de Santiago Mexquititlán/Querétaro
Consejo de Bienes Comunales Indígena Nahua Tlacotenco/Milpa Alta, CDMX
Consejo Nacional Urbano y Campesino C.N.U.C./Tlaxcala
Cooperativa Café Tepeyolo/Puebla
Cooperativa Tlapaltik b’e/México
Coordinación Metropolitana Anticapitalista y Antipatriarcal con el CIG/CDMX
Coordinadora Común Contra el Porrismo y la Represión/CDMX
COTRIC/México
Ddeser Jalisco/Jalisco
Dejar de Chingar/Jalisco
«Del Barrio News» (comunicadores populares)/CDMX
12 Pueblos Originarios de Tecámac/EDOMEX
El grupo de la puerta/Puebla
El Tekpatl – Periódico crítico, independiente y de combate/Puebla
Escuela Comunal Casa del Arte Tlaixco/Milpa Alta, CDMX
Espacio de Lucha contra el Olvido y la Represión/Chiapas
Fanzinoteca guerra idealista/Puebla
FotorreporterosMX/CDMX
Frente por la Defensa de los Derechos de Pueblos y Barrios Originarios del Anáhuac (Frente Anáhuac)/CDMX
Frontera con Justicia – Casa del migrante de Saltillo/Coahuila
Geo-grafías Comunitarias/Puebla
Grupo de Trabajo No Estamos Todxs/Chiapas
Grupo Tlali Nantli/Puebla
Guardia Comunal Santa Ana Tlacotenco/Milpa Alta, CDMX
ILANCUEITL danza de las Tlacualeras /Milpa Alta, CDMX
Instituto Cultural Autónomo «Rubén Jaramillo Ménez»/Morelos
Instituto de Investigaciones Pedagógicas/CDMX
«Je’ Xo’o (espacio común)/CDMX
Komunidad Autogestiva Organizada Subversiva/CDMX
Korima Educación/México
Laboratorio Popular de Medios Libres/CDMX
La Ezkina/Baja California
La Otra en el Sur de Morelos/Morelos
«Lxs Trollingstones»/CDMX
Los Zurdos Teatro/México
Lxs Hijxs del Maíz Pinto/Tlaxcala
Mazatecas por La Libertad/Oaxaca
Mexicanos Unidos/CDMX
Micelias/CDMX
Movimiento Agrario Indígena Zapatista/Puebla
Movimiento por la Libertad de los Defensores del Agua y la Vida de Tlanixco/EDOMEX
Mujeres y la Sexta – Abya Yala
Nodo de Derechos Humanos (NODHO)/Puebla
Observatorio Memoria y Libertad/México
Ojarasca/México
Organización campesina de la Sierra del Sur Tepetixtla/Guerrero
Organización Político Cultural CLETA/México
Partido de los Comunistas/México
Periódico La Flor/Puebla
Periodistas Unidos/CDMX
Proceso de Articulación de la sierra de santa marta /CNI /México
PRADE/Puebla
Radio Altepetl Zoquitlan/Puebla
Radio Ecos de la Sal, Zapotitlan salinas/Puebla
Radio Zacatepec/Puebla
Raíces en resistencia/CDMX
Rebeldías en Común/México
Red de apoyo Iztapalapa Sexta (RAIS)/CDMX
Red de radios indígenas y comunitarias del sureste mexicano
Red de resistencias y rebeldías Ajmaq/Chiapas
Red de resistencias y rebeldías en Tijuana/Baja California
Red Mexicana de Trabajo Sexual/CDMX
RedMyCZapatista/CDMX
Red Morelense de apoyo al CIN y CIG/Morelos
Red Universitaria Anticapitalista/México
Regeneración Radio/CDMX
Resistrenzas-Puebla/Puebla
RR/México
Pueblos Unidos de la Región Cholulteca y de los Volcanes/Puebla
Periódico La Flor/Puebla
Tejiendo Organización Revolucionaria/CDMX
Unión de Pueblos y Fraccionamientos contra el Basurero y en Defensa del Agua/Puebla
Unión Popular Apizaquense Democrática e Independiente UPADI/Tlaxcala
UPREZ Benito Juárez/CDMX
Vendaval, cooperativa panadera y algo más/México
Voces de la educación/Veracruz
Voces desde los territorios/CDMX
Voces y Memoria por Nimai/CDMX
Alba Olea
Alberto Colin
Alberto Xicotencatl Carrasco/Coahuila
Alejandro Meléndez/CDMX
Alondra Fierro
Alonso Gutiérrez
Ángela Camacho
Armando Soto Baeza/CDMX
Atahualpa Sofía Enciso/Jalisco
Atzelbi Libertad Hernández
Carla Isabel Suárez
Carlos Alejandro Hurtado
Carlos Enrique González Álvarez/Jalisco
Carlos Francisco Betancourt
Carlos Ricardo López
Cora Jiménez Narcia/CDMX
Daniel Pérez Martínez
Dara Asalia Vilchis Avilés/Morelos
Diana Itzu Gutiérrez Luna/Chiapas
Diego Hernández
Diego Osorno/Sonora
Efraín Rojas Bruschetta/Morelos
Eliana Acosta/CDMX
Elvira Madrid Romero/CDMX
Emma Insu/CDMX
Emilio Mora
Felipe I Echenique March
Fernanda Galindo
Filiberto Margarito Juan
Gabriel Santiago/Puebla
Gabriela Villarreal/Puebla
Georgina García
Gerardo Vázquez
Gilberto López y Rivas
Humberto Laguna
Itzael Magaña
Ignacio Salazar
Jesús Batta Fonseca/Morelos
Jimena Sánchez
Jorge Alejandro Méndez
Jorge Meléndez Preciado/CDMX
Juan Pi/Chiapas
Julia Moreno
Karla Edna García Rocha/CDMX
Katia Cisneros
Katayoun/CDMX
Lena García Feijoo/CDMX
Luis Alberto González Arenas
Luis Hernández Navarro
Luz María Moreno Medrano
Ma del Refugio Montoya Herrera/Torreón
Marco Antonio Degollado
María Guadalupe Rocha Aguado/Querétaro
María Trinidad Cevallos Rodríguez/Morelos
Martha Lechuga Luna
Mercedes Tecuapetla/Puebla
Miguel Angel Rangel Chavez/CDMX
Olar Zapata/CDMX
Oralba Castillo Najera/Morelos
Orlando Balderas/Tlaxcala
Ramón Vera-Herrera
Rodrigo Alexander Uribe Cevallos/Morelos
Rosalva Margarito/CDMX
Rubén Colmenares
Rubén Matias
Santos Alejandro Alvarez Zetina/EDOMEX
Selene Laguna
Sofía Beatriz Acosta
Tania Lara
Teodulo Alejandro Cuaya Teutli/Puebla
Tomás Antonio Baroja
Valentina Leduc
Valeria Saraí Velázquez
Vicente Parra Sosa/Morelos
Víctor Gutiérrez Torres/Veracruz
Xóchitl Guzmán Delgado/Morelos
Yolanda José/Puebla
Colombia
Extinction Rebellion Medellín/ Antioquia
Pueblos en Camino
Vilma Almendra
Perú
Periódico Lucha Indígena/Cusco
España
Asamblea de Solidaridad con México/Valencia
Batec Zapatista Barcelona/Barcelona
Confederación General del Trabajo
Lumaltik Zaragoza/Aragón (Estado Español)
Pallasos en Rebeldía/Galicia
Estados Unidos
Eagle Condor Liberation Front/ California
La Otra Califas:Ramona Vive/California
Sexta Grietas del Norte
Francia
Collectif Paris-Ayotzinapa/París
Comité de solidarité avec les peuples de Chiapas en lutte/París
Grecia
Asamblea Libertaria Autoorganizada Paliacate Zapatista
Argentina
Colectiva Corazón del tiempo / Abya Yala rompe el cerco/Puelmapu, nor patagonia
Finlandia
Colectivo Armadillo Suomi (Finlandia)
Euskal Herria
Ermuko komite internacionalista
TxiapasEkin
Lumaltik Herriak
Braulio Montequin
Dinamarca
Foro Internacional, Grupo México
Suiza
Colectivo ¿Y tú qué?/México-Suiza
Soli Chiapas Zurigo/Zürich
Sonia Brechbühl/Zürich
Bélgica
Grupo CafeZ/Liège
Chile
Movimiento por el Agua y los Territorios MAT
Pancha Fernández Droguett
Yonny Torres Valenzuela
Italia
Gaia Capogna
Uruguay
Raúl Zibechi
Congreso Nacional Indígena
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
Original text published in Enlace Zapatista on February 13th, 2025.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.
#SamirFlores: Seis años después, su legado sigue siendo semilla de resistencia y esperanza
👉 https://avispa.org/?p=119013 🐝
#SamirVive #Zapatistas #ezlnchiapas #resistencia #Latinoamérica #américalatinaunida #PueblosIndígenas #PueblosOriginarios #DDHH #EZLN #mexico #ezln #mexico #samirflores #resistencia
Global Days of Action: Justice for Samir Flores!
"Six years since the assassination of Samir, we invite the adherents of the Declaration for Life to dedicate a moment, an instant, a sowing of memory, life, and rebellion of our compañero Samir Flores Soberanes on February 20, 21, 22, or 23, constructing in a decentralized manner the “Global Days of Action and Solidarity: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! Six years of impunity!”
https://itsgoingdown.org/global-days-of-action-justice-for-samir-flores/
Call for a Global Day of Action: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! After Six Years of Impunity!
TO THE SIGNATORIES OF THE DECLARATION FOR LIFE
SISTERS, BROTHERS:
It has been 6 years since they took the life of our brother Samir Flores Soberanes, six years that those who ordered him to be killed still govern, six years of continuous deceit, suppression and contempt for our peoples, six more years of resistance, of rebellion, of struggle for life, of being Samir, inspiration, seed and encouragement to build autonomy, of another possible world.
“Justice for Samir!” cries the resistance for life against the Morelos Integral Project and against the narco-government, and justice cries out in each one of the towns, places and hearts that knew him before or after his death. “Justice!” we shout from the struggle for life in Gaza, in Chiapas, in Ostula, in the struggle against the Cholula garbage dump, in the clamor of the families of our disappeared sisters and brothers, in the struggle against the military so-called Mayan train, against the inter-oceanic corridor, xenophobia and forced displacement, the mine, the dam, the train, the corridor, the gas pipeline, the thermoelectric plant, fracking, the real estate cartel, the garbage business, the defense of rivers, seas and bodies of water, of forests and autonomous spaces on earth or in the air. Samir built justice during his life.
Six years after his cruel murder on February 20, 2019 in Amilcingo, Morelos, three days before the consultation imposed by Lopez Obrador to “legitimize” his change of heart and finish imposing the Morelos Integral Project (PIM), Samir’s murderers are still free and in power. It has been 6 years of impunity, 6 years of the impossibility of the guilty being punished because the guilty are in the government and can easily escape the justice of the State, because they are the State….
But justice is in the struggle for life, and yes, in our demand, perhaps absurd, to demand that the executioner be prosecuted and punished, to strip the capitalist king, the Mexican narco-government that ordered Samir’s death.
Six years after Samir’s assassination, we call on the signatories of the Declaration for Life to dedicate a moment, an instant, a sowing of memory, of life and rebellion to our comrade Samir Flores Soberanes on February 20, 21, 22 or 23, to build in a dislocated way the “Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity.”
On those days, in Mexico, the United States, Euskal Herria, France and Italy, 6 busts of Samir will be installed, sowing his memory in the dignified territories of our sisters and brothers, in countries whose companies are or were involved in the crime of the PIM: Elecnor (Euskal Herria), Saint Gobain (France), Bonatti (Italy), Macquaire (United States), NarcoGobierno (Mexico), so that the responsibility of the capitalist global government for the death of Samir and the struggle for life will not be forgotten.
But not only do we plant the memory of our comrade with the installation of these busts, but also in the struggle for decent housing of the Otomi community of Mexico City that founded and resists the House of the Peoples “Samir Flores Soberanes,” formerly the central offices of the INPI. In a tree in the resistance camp in Lutzerat, Germany, in a song, a poem, a drawing, a talk, a video, a conversation, a photo, a painting, an engraving, a flower or a fruit, in all of them is our brother Samir Flores Soberanes.
We call on the signatories of the Declaration for Life to join with an action or a word to the “Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity,” on February 20, 21, 22 or 23, 2025 or when their realities allow them to do so.
Justice will come from below and to the left, in common.
For the integral reconstitution of our peoples
Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala
National Indigenous Congress
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=14058
#chiapas #ezln #mexico #northAmerica #SamirFlores #zapatista
Llamado a la jornada global: ¡justicia para Samir Flores Soberanes! ¡6 años de impunidad!
"Son 6 años desde que le arrebataron la vida a nuestro hermano Samir Flores Soberanes, seis años que gobierna quien lo mandó a matar, seis años de continuar con el engaño, la imposición y el desprecio hacia nuestros pueblos, seis años más de resistencia, de rebeldía, de lucha por la vida, de ser Samir, inspiración, semilla y ánimo de construcción de autonomía, de otro mundo posible".
"Justicia para Samir, grita la resistencia por la vida contra el Proyecto Integral Morelos y contra el narcogobierno, justicia grita en cada uno de los pueblos, lugares y corazones que lo conocieron antes o después de su muerte. Justicia gritamos desde la lucha por la vida en Gazza, en Chiapas, en Ostula, en la lucha contra el basurero de Cholula, en el grito de las familias de nuestras hermanas y hermanos desaparecid@s, en la lucha contra el Tren militar malla, contra el corredor interoceánico, la xenofobia y el desplazamiento forzado, la mina, la presa, el tren, el corredor, el gasoducto, la termoeléctrica, el fracking, el cartel inmobiliario, el negocio de la basura, la defensa de los ríos, mares y cuerpos de agua, de los bosques y espacios autónomos en la tierra o en el aire. Justicia construyó Samir durante su vida".
For four years, the former state “Institute for Indigenous Affairs” (INPI) in Mexico City has been occupied. Now renamed “Casa de los Pueblos Samir Flores” (House of the Peoples Samir Flores), it has become a center of indigenous resistance against social marginalization and destructive megaprojects. Additionally, it serves as a hub for the EZLN’s support network in the capital.
October 12th marked the fourth anniversary of the occupation, but it is also the 532nd anniversary of the colonization of Latin America—a day to celebrate the resistance that has managed to fight for and preserve indigenous cultures, languages, ways of life, and self-governance.
But how did it come to be that the Mexican government’s Institute for Indigenous Affairs was occupied by the Otomí people?
The Background
Joaquina, one of the residents of the occupation, told me that many Otomí, including her parents, came to Mexico City from Santiago Mexquititlán in the 1980s.
“When they arrived here, they had no place to stay and had to sleep on the streets. When it rained or thieves passed by, our parents and their children were in great danger.” When the 1985 earthquake damaged and destroyed many buildings in the city, they took over some of the vacant properties and made them habitable again. “Our community organized and decided to occupy these empty spaces in Colonia Juárez and Colonia Roma to at least provide a roof over their children’s heads.” She grew up in one of these occupations. However, the 2017 earthquake changed everything—the houses completely collapsed, and from that moment on, they lived in tents on the street in front of their former homes.
“We suffered a lot because we didn’t have water. We had to walk far to fetch water so that we could bathe our children so they could go to school.” She points to a tree by the roadside and explains that they got water from wherever they could find it—often from the irrigation of parks and roadside trees.
The Occupation
Their attempts to find other buildings or negotiate a loan with the state for a new one were unsuccessful. They were attacked by neighbors, and once, their camp was violently dismantled by a hundred police officers, leaving around 20 injured. The conditions were unbearable.
“We had been outside for a long time. I think we had already lived there for about three years, and it was the rainy season. We told the government to take our side, as we were suffering, our children were suffering, and we couldn’t sleep because the heavy rain soaked the tents and everything in them. But unfortunately, we had to stay there because we had no other place to go. During this time, the community continued to organize and hold meetings. In our assembly, we said, ‘They will never defeat us.’ We must keep going, and that’s why we, as a community, decided to take over this building.”
On the morning of October 12, 2020, they entered the INPI offices—not to negotiate, but to take them over.
Initially, the occupation was only intended to last for one or two weeks, but the supposedly progressive, left-wing government didn’t respond. To this day, the Otomí have not been offered a loan or alternative housing, so they have stayed.
More Than Just Housing
The community’s children perform a play to celebrate the four years of the occupation—and the 532 years of indigenous resistance. For 532 years, the Otomí have not lost their culture and language. They celebrate the resistance they have built over these four years. On the other hand, it also highlights the city’s failure—four years of inaction. And even more years in which the government has ignored the Otomí’s basic right to decent housing. But their struggle is about more than just meeting basic needs.
“They didn’t care about the indigenous peoples; on the contrary. That’s why we decided to truly use this so-called Indigenous Institute for the peoples.” “Here, he (Adelfo Regino Montes, the head of INPI) also gave the approval. He signed off on the construction of destructive megaprojects like the Maya Train, the Interoceanic Corridor, and the Santa Lucía Train. The Maya Train, the comrades from Oaxaca and Puebla, whose water was stolen, right? That’s why we were angry and decided to occupy this building, to tell them to stop. All the different collectives and peoples from different regions should come here, speak their word, and share their struggles. Every people, and we still uphold this, this is now the House of the Peoples.”
The former office building, now the “Casa de los Pueblos Samir Flores,” serves as a gathering place and a center for political organization for many indigenous peoples resisting the Mexican government and international corporations. Events of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) are held here, as well as meetings to organize against megaprojects like the Maya Train and the planned Interoceanic Corridor, the movement for water, and many others. The occupation also coordinates the EZLN support network, the indigenous paramilitary group from southern Mexico that launched an armed uprising for the self-determination of the peoples and a dignified life in 1994. From a state agency meant to control and assimilate, the building has become a center of indigenous resistance.
Repression and Attacks
In these four years, the government hasn’t simply stood by and watched as its former building was taken over. “They cut off our electricity so that we would leave the building; they’ve done this six or seven times.” When the power is out, the residents can’t use the stove, the refrigerator stops working, there’s no water, and the toilets don’t function. “It limits us a lot, that we can’t go to the bathroom, that the sewage pump doesn’t work. But even then, we show them that we will continue, even if they do a thousand things to us. We will continue resisting.”
The strongest repression came last year. Just days after the 3rd anniversary, the police attempted to clear the occupation with about 500 riot police. The quickly mobilized resistance networks prevented this, but 20 residents were injured. That same night, masked motorcyclists drove by the house and fired shots at residents standing outside. Fortunately, none were hit. But the shock remains.
The Future of the Occupation
“I don’t want my son to experience the same conditions we lived in, where we had no water, electricity, or sewage on the properties. I don’t want my children to live without these things. I want them to have a home so they can live well. I don’t want the same story to repeat itself, the one I lived through.” Their goal, the community’s goal, is to finally secure decent housing. No more half-collapsed houses without water and electricity, no more tents, and no more occupied office buildings. “We are not exhausted by staying here, but we also want a place where we can finally live in peace, because they have tried to evict us here.”
On October 23rd, they have a meeting with the newly elected city administration. Their goal is to finally establish a dialogue to secure a loan for a new property. It could mean that the Otomí finally move into proper housing after decades, though the response of previous governments, regardless of party, leaves them with little optimism.
#ezln #mexico #MexicoCity #northAmerica #repression #SamirFlores
Grassroots, independent, autonomous media or whatever you want to call us, are in resistance to the persecution and attacks by the Mexican State.
Members of grassroots and independent media organizations are fed up with constant harassment by the Mexican government that have taken place since the beginning of the AMLO administration. Not only have we been criminalized, persecuted and murdered, as in the case of Samir Flores Soberanes, but they are also trying to impose their own narrative on independent media, organizing international events for “independent media workers” while the main speaker is the president of the republic.
The recent aggressions by paramilitaries from the mayor of Xochimilco and the police of Tlalpan are clear examples of how authorities from all political parties are attacking independent media outlets and all those in solidarity with the struggle of the people. In a single day, comrades who were marching against criminalization were beaten, sexually assaulted and robbed in two brutally repressive attacks. We have counted 50 injured, 5 seriously, 4 sexual assaults and 11 members of independent media were attacked, in addition to the 5 comrades who were detained for 10 hours, deprived of communication.
On the morning of September 5, 2024, a peaceful demonstration was taking place in front of the Xochimilco City Hall when a paramilitary group attacked, under orders from municipal officials. The violence was directed against independent media collectives who were covering the peaceful protest. The complicity of the police, who withdrew from the scene while the attack was taking place, was evident, allowing the massive robbery of telephones and cameras to systematically destroy evidence. The repression continued with 5 arbitrary arrests, accompanied by physical, psychological and sexual torture.
At night on the same day, while comrades stood in solidarity and demanded the release of the 5 detainees, the State (this time with official uniforms of the “Zorros” group) repeated the repressive acts at the Tlalpan Public Ministry, where the Xochimilco detainees had previously been illegally transferred. The riot police beat, dragged and gassed protesters and once again stole evidence from independent media outlets documenting the situation. This action is neither new nor isolated; it reflects a policy of repression and public scorn that the government has undertaken against all those of us who dare to contradict the official narrative. It is important to mention the repression was not only carried out by the Morena government of Xochimilco and Mexico City, but also by the PAN, PRI and PRD that govern in Tlalpan. The entire political spectrum was united in repression.
The press equipment that was stoled is valued at 4,500 USD. Our comrades have head injuries, broken ribs and psychological scars. Even so, our spirit of resistance remains intact. The struggle for independent media and the voices of the people will not cease.
That is why we demand:
– An end to acts of violence, intimidation and criminalization against members of the independent media who defend the rights of the peoples.
– The disappearance of the police force known as “Los Zorros” (The Foxes) and the disbanding of Mexican police operatives trained in Israel.
– The resignation of Francisco Pastrana, Legal Director of Xochimilco, and Guerrero de la Cruz Clavel, General Director of Environment and Sustainable Development, involved in the events we denounce in this statement.
We ask for the support of the organized neighbors of Xochimilco and all collectives attacked.
But, above all, we make an urgent call to organize! We call for resistance and to continue grassroots and independent media! The storm begins. Let’s take care of ourselves in the streets, let’s organize and bond together because together we communicate better and farther. If we are in the government’s sights, it is because our voices are more necessary than ever. Don’t be afraid, lets continue to speak out!
Join this call to action!
Take your camera, recorder, microphone, pencil, stencil. Get organized, protect your compas and spread the word!
Long live Samir Flores!
Long live the struggle of the organized peoples!
Long live grassroots voices in resistance!
NO MORE REPRESSION!
NO MORE IMPUNITY!
If you support this statement, write your name and country, your media/organization or collective at the link below:
https://encuestas.redcoral.la/index.php/825222?newtest=Y&lang=es-MX
source: Voices in Movement
Más de 800 personas en la Casa #SamirFlores coinciden sobre avance de #megaproyectos junto al crimen organizado, un proceso de acumulación militarizada y criminal
#EZLN #Zapatistas #ezln #CDMX #Mexico #Latinoamérica #AMLO #ClaudiaSheinbaum #cni #mexico #ezln #Zapatistas #zapatistas #mexico #latinoamerica #americalatina #agua
La Casa de los Pueblos #SamirFlores se prepara para un posible desalojo violento. Hace tiempo que les cortaron la luz y el agua
👉 https://avispa.org/?p=116993 🐝
#cdmx #mexicodespertó #amlo #ClaudiaSheimbaum #PueblosOriginarios #pueblosindiegnas #Zapatistas #latinoamerica #ezln #mexico
BEENDIGUNG DER GERICHTLICHEN SCHIKANEN GEGEN DEN AKTIVISTEN DIEGO GARCÍA BAUTISTA.
Solidaritätserklärung und Forderung nach einem Ende der politischen Verfolgung.
via @rrr_ajmaq
#Mexiko #Menschenrechte #AJMAQ #Frayba #CNI #CongresoNacionalIndigena #SamirFlores
FPDTA-MPT Communiqué 5 Years After Samir’s Murder: The Pieces Are Seen but Not Touched
During the morning of February 20, in Amilcingo, Morelos, men and women arrived little by little to the Flores Velazquez family home, the majority with a bouquet of baby’s breath flowers beneath their arm, and as is custom in the region, a clay vase to put them in. With solemn faces, they sat down to listen to the priests and the seminarian who began the mass in honor of Samir Flores.
Meanwhile, Samir’s wife, Liliana Velázquez, ran from place to place without respite. Their daughters were with their friends and they entered the house to play. The neighbors greeted them with a quick handshake, and a hummingbird pecked at the flowers adorning the table where pictures of the deceased were displayed.
Tuesday, February 20, marked five years since the assassination of Samir. That day an armed group knocked on his door and shot him twice, changing his history, the history of his family, and of the entire community. Five years without justice.
While quite some time has passed, it also seems like it was just yesterday that he was walking through town, greeting the neighbors, and sharing news on the radio. In Amilcingo his presence is felt close, his name continues alive. His life and death mark the history of the community because Samir was assassinated for resisting the Morelos Integral Project (PIM), a megaproject of death that passes through the three states of Morelos, Puebla, and Tlaxcala, also passing through the community of Amilcingo.
The megaproject meant the construction of an aqueduct, a combined cycle thermoelectric plant, and a gas pipeline. The last of which passes through Samir’s home town. The three levels of governmenfxt are implicated in the construction and imposition. Many of the early supporters of the megaproject continue serving in the current government, although the colors of the political parties have changed with the elections. The forms and discourses have changed with the different administrations, yet the people continue to resist the PIM.
The priests who led the mass remember the history of Samir as one of struggle in defense of territory, land, campesinos, and water. And the PIM is a serious threat amidst the current water crisis through most of the country, especially in the center of the country where Amilcingo is located.
Residents of the community know very well the implications of megaprojects, and the PIM is not the first struggle that the community has carried out. It is the latest in a long history of popular organization. It goes back to the revolution when the inhabitants joined the Zapatista army, the Southern Division, to struggle for land and freedom. Elders in the community still recount the experiences of their mothers and fathers, maintaining the Zapatista memory alive.
Afterwards, many of the residents became jaramillistas and in the ’70s they organized for the autonomy of the communities against the large landholders of the municipality. This struggle resulted in the creation of the municipality of Temoac—the current municipality of the community—and led to the defense of the rural teacher training colleges, led by Vinh Flores Laureano, a teacher and political organizer.
Vinh was assassinated together with his two compañeros before the Normal Rural Emiliano Zapata of Amilcingo was founded, yet the people continue remembering him with love and pain. The street where Samir lived was even named after him. Curiously, Vinh was Samir’s uncle.
At the end of the mass, the people began a walk toward the cemetery of the community. The family and close friends of Samir led the walk. Children from the elementary school joined with signs and posters bearing the name of the person who years before has been their organic agriculture teacher.
The first stop was in front of the community radio station where Samir was a DJ for two programs, and also the founder. In the radio station, the comparsa, a group with masks, was waiting to welcome the procession with guapachosa and protest music. The radio station is located in a family home who lent their space for the radio ten years ago. The wall that faces the street is painted with a mural of different faces from the popular struggle, among them Lucio Cabañas, Genaro Vázquez, Subcomandante Marcos, an Adelita, and now Samir Flores.
The second stop was the elementary school that now bears his name. The school exists because after the earthquake of September 19, 2017, the community prevented the state from demolishing the primary school, historically the only one in the community. The state’s intention was to close the school in order to divide the community and force them to relocate to another school constructed with funds from the gas pipeline company on the outskirts of the community.
For almost two years, the school lacked official recognition. However, the community organized to continue giving classes autonomously. It was then when Samir began as a teacher of organic agriculture. In March of 2019, the people obtained official recognition of the school and changed its name to the elementary school Samir Flores Soberanes. The director spoke of the life of Samir and those responsible for his assassination. After presentations from the children, the walk continued toward the cemetery where Samir currently rests together with the ancestors of the community.
Since his assassination, Samir’s name has resounded in different geographies, crossing territories he didn’t know in life, being named and respected by people who he never met or knew. His name, life, and struggle are now a reference when talking about the defense of land and water. To remember his name and continue demanding justice is also an act of resistance against the war on Indigenous peoples.
During these five years, the memory has been indispensable for the inhabitants of Amilcingo. To remember is not only an act of resistance, but a tool for the construction of alternatives. It is from remembering of what was that one can glimpse and construct an alternative to the dispossession. Like Jorge Velázquez of the People’s Front explained: “We will continue resisting, we will continue with what our grandparents taught us.”
In your memory, compañero.
Source: Avispa
#Amilcingo #indigenous #northAmerica #SamirFlores #zapatista
Fifth Anniversary of Amilcingo Without Samir Flores
#SamirFlores #Amilcingo #Zapatista
Via @AvispaMidia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/01/fifth-anniversary-of-amilcingo-without-samir-flores/
Fifth Anniversary of Amilcingo Without Samir Flores
#SamirFlores #Amilcingo #PIM #Mexico
https://avispa.org/fifth-anniversary-of-amilcingo-without-samir-flores/
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