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Subcomandante Marcos Invites the Braceros to Meet Mexicans that Live and Work In the US
Gatherings Set for June in Tijuana and Juárez: “The Other Campaign Is also on the Other Side”
By Al Giordano
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign, Reporting from Tlaxcala
February 20, 2006
ZACATELCO, TLAXCALA, MEXICO; FEBRUARY 20, 2006: More than a thousand “ex-Braceros” – who once worked the fields and railroads in the United States, only to see their earnings stolen by the Mexican State – gathered today in Zacatelco, Tlaxcala with Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos. There they received a special invitation to go with him to Tijuana and Juárez in June to meet and listen to the word of those Mexicans who today live and work on “the other side.”
“The other campaign is not only in Mexico,” the rebel spokesman explained. “It is also on the Other Side.”
Marcos – now in the ninth of 31 states plus the Federal District of Mexico City that he is visiting between January and June to listen to the grievances of the people and sew many struggles into one big fight – also asked the Braceros to march with him en masse on May 1st in Mexico City (Labor Day here and in much of the world). “Right now, it’s just me going,” he quipped. “Let’s go together and march.”
The proposals by “Delegate Zero” were met by thunderous applause and shouts of agreement; there is no doubt that both his invitations will be accepted and that the border meetings are gaining traction and importance in the Other Campaign. And thus, today, the historic journey of Marcos from Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas to the United States border takes on a new context with the news that he will be joined by many Mexicans who once crossed the Rio Bravo, but decided to come back.
“We Listen to Our Elders”
They came from many parts of Mexico, but especially from the central farming regions: elder men in cowboy hats; gray-haired women carrying plastic tubs and clay vats of food; rice, beans, eggs, nopal cactus, chicken, beef, red and green salsas to be folded into hand-made tortillas of locally grown (non-transgenic) corn… Broad-shouldered, brown-skinned, beaten down for decades but never defeated, these men and women are of the age group that in gringolandia is referred to as “senior citizens.” Here they still chop the firewood, pick the crops, care for the grandchildren (whose parents, in many cases, left to do the heavy lifting from California to New York that North Americans don’t want to do), and on top of all that, they do something else: Organize and fight to change their country.
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http://narconews.com/Issue40/article1634.html
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign, Reporting from Tlaxcala
February 20, 2006
ZACATELCO, TLAXCALA, MEXICO; FEBRUARY 20, 2006: More than a thousand “ex-Braceros” – who once worked the fields and railroads in the United States, only to see their earnings stolen by the Mexican State – gathered today in Zacatelco, Tlaxcala with Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos. There they received a special invitation to go with him to Tijuana and Juárez in June to meet and listen to the word of those Mexicans who today live and work on “the other side.”
“The other campaign is not only in Mexico,” the rebel spokesman explained. “It is also on the Other Side.”
Marcos – now in the ninth of 31 states plus the Federal District of Mexico City that he is visiting between January and June to listen to the grievances of the people and sew many struggles into one big fight – also asked the Braceros to march with him en masse on May 1st in Mexico City (Labor Day here and in much of the world). “Right now, it’s just me going,” he quipped. “Let’s go together and march.”
The proposals by “Delegate Zero” were met by thunderous applause and shouts of agreement; there is no doubt that both his invitations will be accepted and that the border meetings are gaining traction and importance in the Other Campaign. And thus, today, the historic journey of Marcos from Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas to the United States border takes on a new context with the news that he will be joined by many Mexicans who once crossed the Rio Bravo, but decided to come back.
“We Listen to Our Elders”
They came from many parts of Mexico, but especially from the central farming regions: elder men in cowboy hats; gray-haired women carrying plastic tubs and clay vats of food; rice, beans, eggs, nopal cactus, chicken, beef, red and green salsas to be folded into hand-made tortillas of locally grown (non-transgenic) corn… Broad-shouldered, brown-skinned, beaten down for decades but never defeated, these men and women are of the age group that in gringolandia is referred to as “senior citizens.” Here they still chop the firewood, pick the crops, care for the grandchildren (whose parents, in many cases, left to do the heavy lifting from California to New York that North Americans don’t want to do), and on top of all that, they do something else: Organize and fight to change their country.
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http://narconews.com/Issue40/article1634.html
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