General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous
Committee ?
General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
Mexico. July 13, 2005 To the People of Mexico: This is our word:
First - The EZLN has now designated a committee from its
leadership in
order to take responsibility for everything having to do with
the work of
carrying forward the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona.
It will work,
jointly and respectfully, with those organizations, groups,
collectives and
individuals who join with us in this new civil and peaceful
initiative in Mexico.

Second - The Sixth Declaration is clear in its contents and
purposes, and
it has been so understood by its recipients. Only the
politicians and
businesspersons of Mexico have demonstrated that they do not
understand
anything, and they have not missed the opportunity to behave
ridiculously.

Third - The EZLN has read, with respect and attentively, the
different
analyses which have been made of this initiative. We are
grateful to those
who have warned of risks and dangers and who have given their
opinion as
to the best direction and steps for moving forward. The EZLN
has, in
addition, taken note of the many messages of support which it
has received
through various channels.

Fourth - In order to organize and systematize all of this, and in
agreement with the Mexican magazine of the left, ?Rebeld?a,?
the EZLN is
advising that messages of support, of willingness to work
together,
positive and negative comments, constructive and destructive
criticism,
help, rejections and repudiations of the Sixth Declaration of
the Selva
Lacandona will be accepted at the following email addresses:

In order to subscribe to the Sixth Declaration and in order to
start
working, jointly with the EZLN, in the Plan for a National
Campaign with
Another Politics, for a National Program of Struggle of the
Left and a New
Constitution, the email address is
conlasexta [at] revistarebeldia.org. We are
asking you to please include some means of communicating with
you so that
you can stay informed about everything and so you can be
invited to the
meetings and activities which will be held.

For everything against the Sixth Declaration of the Selva
Lacandona, the
email address is contralasexta at revistarebeldia.org . All of the
opinions against will be read and seriously analyzed.

For all and any general information, consult the web page:
http://www.revistarebeldia.org

Fifth - The EZLN committee responsible for the work for
achieving the
Sixth Declaration will ? on August 1, 2005 ? prepare a
preliminary list of
those persons and organizations of the left who have joined in
with this
work, in order to carry out a series of discussion and working
meetings
with them. They will be scheduled by groups and will be given
sufficient
notice.

Sixth - We respectfully ask the political and social, indigenous,
non-governmental, cultural, artistic, scientific, gender,
homosexual,
lesbian, transsexual, everyone-in-their-own-way organizations,
groups,
collectives and any other kind of associations ? to promptly
name their
delegates or representatives who will be attending these
working meetings.

Democracy!
Liberty!
Justice!

>From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee ? General
Command of the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

Mexico, July of 2005.

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The Second...

Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

Mexico.

July 13, 2005:

To those individuals, organizations, collectives, groups and
associations
of the left who support what has been proposed in the Sixth
Declaration of
the Selva Lacandona:

Compa?eros and compa?eras:

Greetings from all the men, women, children and old ones of the
EZLN. I am
writing in order to tell you a little of how we?ve been
thinking we might
move forward in the work for the National Campaign with Another
Politics,
for a National Program of Struggle of the Left and for a New
Constitution.

Hmm?Perhaps we?d move forward a little if we began by changing
the name,
because it?s so long that once you?ve reached the end, you?ve
already
forgotten how it started. Fine, but we?ll see about that once
we?re all
working together, we will reach agreement on that and other
things. For
the moment, in order to abbreviate and synthesize, we?ll call
it ?The
Other Campaign.?

Fine, then I?ll tell you first about how we organized the EZLN
for this
work. We agreed to divide up the tasks and, as is our way, to form
committees. The committees are groups of compa?eros and
compa?eras who are
in charge of a work and who inform everyone how that work is
going. And
they don?t just do whatever they feel like, but rather
according to how
they are told. Then the zapatista leadership divided up the tasks:

One part, the majority, will be in charge of the zapatista
towns, of
defending them, of helping them in their autonom?a and in
giving them
guidance in the struggle. This group is, in fact, the CCRI-CG
of the EZLN.

Another part of the CCRI-CG, a small one, will be in charge of the
international efforts proposed in the Sixth Declaration of the
Selva
Lacandona. We are calling this group the ?Intergalactic
Committee of the
EZLN,? or, simply, the ?Intergalactic Committee.?

And another part of the CCRI-CG, also small, will be in charge
of the
national arena, concerning the national campaign, etcetera, or
?The Other
Campaign.? We called this group the ?Sixth Committee of the
EZLN,? or,
simply, the ?Sixth Committee.?

Fine, right now I?m going to talk to you about the ?Sixth
Committee,? and
then another time I?ll tell you about the ?Intergalactic
Committee.?

The ?Sixth Committee? is the one which, firstly, is going to
meet with all
those of the left who are in agreement with ?The Other
Campaign? and who
are not people or organizations who participate in elections.
Then, with
everyone, it is going to make a plan for traveling all over
Mexico. Well,
not all over. Only where they invite us. If there is a place
where they
don?t wish to receive us, then we won?t go. Because we don?t
want to
impose a way of thinking by force either.

This ?Sixth Committee? has already reached agreement with the
compa?eros
and compa?eras of Revista Rebeld?a, and, on August 1 of this
year, the
Rebeld?as are going to send us a list of all those
organizations and
persons who noted that they are in agreement with the Sixth and
with
working in ?The Other Campaign? (remember that the email
address is
conlasexta at revistarebeldia.org ). Of course, there might be
some
organizations which have not finished reaching agreement on the
Sixth, or
which are waiting to see if L?pez Obrador announces his
candidacy, or to
see if C?rdenas leaves the PRD or runs as a candidate for
another party.
Or it might be that some people are still reading it or are
waiting to
receive it, and then they won?t manage to send their word prior
to July
31. Don?t worry, you can come in at any time and join the work
at whatever
stage we?re at.

Fine, but as for those who let us know no later than July 31
that they?re
ready and willing, we?re going to meet with them first in order
to begin
reaching agreements on ?The Other Campaign? plan. These
meetings will be
in the month of August and part of September, because we?re not
all going
to meet en masse, rather first some, then others, and then
everyone. This
will be in Chiapas, in some of the zapatista communities which
agree to
receive us for this work. We have chosen weekends so that you
won?t have
to miss work?or not much. The calendar we?re proposing to you
is the
following (note: there might be changes, but we?ll let you know):

- Political organizations of the Left: Arrival on Friday,
August 5;
Meeting on Saturday, August 6, and Departure on Sunday, August 7.

- Indigenous Organizations and Organizations of the Indian
Peoples of
Mexico: Arrival on Friday, August 12; Meeting on Saturday,
August 13, and
Departure on Sunday, August 14.

- Social organizations of the Left: Arrival on Friday, August
19; Meeting
on Saturday, August 20, and Departure on Sunday, August 21.

- Non-Governmental, artistic, cultural organizations, groups,
collectives,
etcetera: Arrival on Friday, August 26; Meeting on Saturday,
August 27,
and Departure on Sunday, August 28.

- Women, men, old ones, boys and girls, as individuals, as
families, from
communities, streets, barrios or neighborhoods: Arrival on Friday,
September 2; Meeting on Saturday, September 3, and Departure on
Sunday,
September 4.

- Others (those who were unable to attend any of the previous
dates):
Arrival on Friday, September 9; Meeting on Saturday, September
10, and
Departure on Sunday, September 11.

We think that, with the wind in our favor, we will be able to
make a joint
public statement (not just by the EZLN, but by everyone who has
reached
agreement) on September 16. With this public statement, and
then with a
committee of all of those who are going to engage in the work,
we will
continue meeting with groups and persons as they join in with this
initiative.

Fine, we?re letting you know early on so you can see to how
you?ll be
going about naming delegates or representatives, paying for the
trip,
lunch, blankets, nylon (it?s raining a lot, and it?s going to
be raining
more), flashlights, batteries, boots for the mud, documents,
notebooks and
pencils for taking notes and thus fully informing others,
etcetera.

We?re asking you to please bring some food you can prepare for
yourself,
so that we don?t add to the burden of the communities who,
generous as
always, will be welcoming us.

And to the organizations, groups and collectives, we?re asking
that you
not come en masse, but rather name some individuals for this
work, so that
we can discuss and reach agreement. If there are a lot of us,
then it will
be bedlam, and we?ll spend our whole lives discussing, and the
politicians
will end up doing away with our country before we end up reaching
agreement in order to prevent it.

And, to everyone, we?re asking you to really put a lot into it,
because we
do indeed have something to lose: the Patria.

Vale. Salud, and may the heart beat where it, in fact, does,
that is, on
the left.

>From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

By the Sixth Committee of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous
Committee ? General Command of the Zapatista Army of National
Liberation.

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.

Mexico, July of 2005.