A report from the Zapatista Commission meeting in Tijuana: Subcomandante Marcos (Delegado zero) took notes and listened to representatives of the South Cental LA urban farmer coalition, gay Chicanas and Chicanos, Food Not Bombs, the IWW (Patricia Nuno), homeless coalition organizers, student activists from UCLA and CSU Northridge and immigrant rights representatives. The day before focused on maquiladora workers, mostly women, who are exploited by U.S. companies in northern Mexico. The Brown Berets provided security for Marcos, as well as speaking about counter military recruitment and immigration.


"The Wall is is not just along the border," Marcos said. "The walls are put up against Chicanos, against those who speak in Spanglish, against women, gays, children and elders. The wall reproduces itself in each part of each home, in the street and it is not just erected by those above. We build them ourselves."

Before the commission hearing, "El Sub", as the locals call him, spray painted his revolutionary placaso on the walls of the mulitkulti, a movie theatre on Constitution Avenue. The day before, he got out of the Zapatista bus and pissed on the border fence.

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