From: twright@orion.it.luc.edu (Talmadge Wright) Subject: March in Mexico City ("We Are All Marcos!") (fwd) To: psn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 00:05:15 -0600 (CST) Status: RO Forwarded message: > From root Sun Feb 12 16:20:19 1995 > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 14:16:29 -0800 > Reply-To: 187-L - Resisting and Organizing Against Prop 187 > <187-L@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU> > Sender: 187-L - Resisting and Organizing Against Prop 187 > <187-L@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU> > From: Nathan Newman > Subject: March in Mexico City ("We Are All Marcos!") (fwd) > Comments: To: 187resist List <187-l@cmsa.berkeley.edu>, > LEFTNEWS List , > ACTIV-L > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 11:25:08 -0600 (CST) > >From: Elliott Young (Colegio de la Frontera) > >To: chiapas-l@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx > >Subject: Marcha in Mex City > > > > > >Yesterday, Satruday, a march was held in mexico City, from the Angel to > >the Zocalo. What the Friday protest lacked in numbers and militancy, the > >Saturday march made up. Virtually all of the civic organizations were > >represented, including the CND, the organizacion de barrios, the > >Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM), CONAI, Frente Popular Francisco > >Villa, and the PRD, of course. Thousands upon thousands of people filled > >the Avendia Reforma and marched, chanting "Todos Somos Marcos", "Zapata > >Vive, La Lucha Sigue," "Se Ve, Se Nota, Zedillo es un Idiota," "La UAM No > >Es Cuartel, Es Universidad," (referring to the invasion of the University > >by soldiers), and "Duro, Duro." > > Graffiti decorated the pathway all along Reforma and Calle Madero > >leading > >up to the Zocalo. Targeted especially were the banks, expensive hotels, > >jewlery stores, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Arbys, and McDonalds, and all of > >the bus stops. The graffit read "Todos Somos Marcos," "EZLN," and "Fuera > >Capitalismo Internacional" (especially on the US fast-food franchises). > >Cornel Sanders was painted so that he looked like a masked zapatista. > >the paint covered walls and also windows so that painting over it will > >not be such an easy task. > > The march began at 4 pm and began arriving at the Zocalo by 6pm > >where a whole stage of people gave speeches. By 8 pm the enormous march > >was still entering the Zocalo, which by that time was completely filled. > >The regulars spoke, Cardenas, Porfirio Munoz ledo, Rosario Ibarra de > >Piedra, in addition to many others, including the actress Ofelia Medina. > >The speeches were even more animated than usual, with Cardenas even > >working up some emotion. Rosario related information that she had on the > >people who had been arrested. All of them, she said, had been forced to > >sign confessions under physical and psychological torture. She described > >tortures, such as electric shocks, beatings, and physical molestation of > >women. Porfirio made the point that it took the government oer a year to > >figure out that the movement was armed. Also, among the items the > >government captured, proving that the arrested were zapatistas, were > >books, videos, and posters, all of which are readily available in the > >Zocalo any day of the week. Ofelia Medina held the attention of the > >whole audience with her emotional speech in which she said that one drop > >of Indian blood is worth more than 51 billion dollars. She also asked > >the people of the US to listen and realize that their consumer life is > >bought at the expense of the blood of Indian Mexicans. We are the voice > >of those without voice, she continued, somos todos indios. > > A representative from Chiapas announced that the UAM (Marcos' > >alma mater) would now be known as La Basilica de San Marcos. A PRD > >delegate informed that on Monday there would be a motion in the Che > >Guevara auditorium at the UNAM to grant Marcos an honorary doctorate in > >filosofia y letras for his great intellectual contribution to the > >nation. He also compared marcos' qualifications to those of Alzati, the > >former sec. of education, who pretended to have a doctorate that he never > >had. So I guess he will be Dr. Subcomandante Marcos from Monday onwards. > > The rally ended at around 8:30 pm. There was a noticeable > >absence of police throughout the march. In the US, one could expect > >thousands of cops in full riot gear, ready to make arrests and prrovoke > >violence. The only police that I saw, there were of course undercover > >cops, were about 100 riot cops in front of the US embassy (very appropriate). > > On Tuesday, the CND will hold an open-air meeting to discuss > >future actions at the Angel. I will do my best to keep you posted. > > > >Ni Un Paso Atras, > >Elliott Young > >eyoung@colmex.mx > > > > > -- ********************************************************************** Talmadge Wright (312)508-3451 * Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology FAX:(312)508-3646 * Loyola University Chicago twright@orion.it.luc.edu * 6525 N. Sheridan Rd. * Chicago, Illinois 60626 * **********************************************************************