Call for massive mobilization in support of indigenous rights

A call for mass mobilization

Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Friends:

We have a unique opportunity to add our voices, our solidarity, our dreams, to the great popular movement emerging in Mexico. On Friday, December 1, Vicente Fox Quesada became president, and immediately began to make those changes that the overwhelming majority of Mexican people clearly wanted when they threw out the long-ruling corrupt and dictatorial PRI in the federal election last July 2. One short day after Fox\'s inauguration, on Saturday the 2nd, the Zapatistas issued four communiques setting forth their conditions for resumption of the dialogue for peace, which Ernesto Zedillo, Fox\'s predecessor, had sabotaged. Brief, direct, and forceful with the moral authority they have well earned, the Zapatistas \"laid it on the line.\" And Fox responded positively, saying his government would comply. The Zapatista communiques, well worth reading, are available in English. The four communiques are at:

1. http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12530

2. http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12543

3. http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12544

4. http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12545

Two days from now, on Friday the 8th, in what is at least as stunning a victory as that at the federal level, opposition candidate Pablo Salazar Mendiguch