Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Then Came the Humans - The Zapatistas Refine the Revolutionary Art of Listening
“He who proposes assumes responsibility.”
– Caravana Para Todos Todo (“Everything for Everyone”)
DOLORES HIDALGO, AUTONOMOUS MUNICIPALITY OF SAN MANUEL, CHIAPAS, MEXICO, SEPTEMBER 2005: Then came the humans.
This past weekend, for the first time in the twelve years since the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials), human beings without organizational affiliation were handed the microphone. It marks an evolution in Zapatista history. And it results to be a profoundly revolutionary act.