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DESCRIPTION:Demonstration planned on November 17, the 20th anniversary of the founding 
 of the EZLN. \nIn San Francisco: Monday, November 17, 12: 00 pm-1: 30 pm, 
 Mexican Consulate, 532 Folsom Street, San Francisco. \nGroup demands: No 
 Plan Puebla Panama. No evictions of Indigenous Peoples from Montes Azules. 
 Implement the San Andreas Accords \nSponsored by the Chiapas Support 
 Committee \nEndorsed by Mexico Solidarity Network, MarinInterfaith Task 
 Force (MITF), Center for the Study of the Americas(Censa), Pena del Sur, 
 and Global Exchange\n\nOn November 17, the EZLN, Ejercito Zapatisto de 
 Liberacion Nacional (Zapatista National Liberation Army) will celebrate its 
 20th anniversary of existence fighting for the rights and dignity of 
 indigenous peoples in the southeastern state of Chiapas, Mexico. \n\nThis 
 demonstration is part of Rebel Magazine’s EZLN, Fire and Word 20 & 10 
 celebration. 20 years of Zapatistmo and 10 years of Resistance and 
 Rebellion. Solidarity groups around the world are celebrating the 20th 
 Birthday and the 10th Anniversary of the Uprising in Chiapas. \n\nThe 
 Mexican government for last 3 years has been trying to implement Plan 
 Puebla Panama in order to pave the way for CAFTA, the Central American Free 
 Trade Agreement. This agreement will further erode the livelihood and way 
 of life of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas as well as the rest of Central 
 America from the Mexican state of Puebla to the Nation of Panama. The Plan 
 Puebla Panama has been resisted by indigenous people as a threat to their 
 way of life, from projected Dams flooding indigenous valleys to Railways 
 cutting through centuries old villages, this Plan will not be tolerated by 
 the native peoples of the region. \n\nIn accordance with the Plan Puebla 
 Panama indigenous people living in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve are 
 facing the threat of eviction -- by force if necessary. Many of these 
 people are living in harmony with the environment with no threat to their 
 surroundings. Organizations like Conservation International are trying to 
 use the environment’s safety as an issue against the indigenous people of 
 the Montes Azules Villages. On the other hand Conservation International 
 sees no problem in allowing large transnational firms to harvest the 
 bio-diversity of the Montes Azules for their own private means. \n\nThrough 
 all these struggles, current and past, the indigenous peoples of Chiapas 
 have fought hard for their basic dignity and human rights. The most clear 
 and concrete step toward achieving justice for these indigenous peoples is 
 to implement fully the San Andres Accords. These Accords were brought 
 before the Mexican congress and cut down into a shadow of itself, but their 
 full acceptance as originally written would be a great step in assuring 
 dignity and respect for the many indigenous peoples of not only Chiapas, 
 but the whole of Mexico. \n\nNovember 17 is considered by many as the birth 
 of the EZLN. It is when the first commandantes of what would become the 
 EZLN entered the jungle surrounding the indigenous peoples of Chiapas to 
 join them in their struggle and in the process become changed by that 
 struggle for land, justice and dignity. 10 years later this movement of 
 indigenous people shook the world when they took Chiapas’ state capitol 
 on New Years Day to protest the implementation of NAFTA, which endangered 
 the livelihood and centuries old cultures of the indigenous people of 
 Chiapas.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/27183.php
SUMMARY:Demonstration for the 20th Anniversary of the EZLN
LOCATION:Mexican Consulate, 532 Folsom Street, San Francisco.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/27183.php
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