MAGDALENA, SONORA, Mexico – Subcomandante Marcos urged Indigenous in the United States and Mexico to rise up as warriors from the shadows and defend their lands and people from the corporate and political greed that is advancing as a death march.“We were already dead and we were called upon to become warriors, according to our legend”, Marcos told O’odham and others gathered here during the Other Campaign’s tour of Indian country in northern Mexico on Oct. 21.
Speaking in poetic verse in the border region, Marcos told how the Zapatistas emerged in Chiapas, dying to live again.
“We were dead, we became what we are: shadows. And in a strict sense we are that: ‘shadow’s warriors or warriors of the shadows.’
Speaking in poetic verse in the border region, Marcos told how the Zapatistas emerged in Chiapas, dying to live again.
“We were dead, we became what we are: shadows. And in a strict sense we are that: ‘shadow’s warriors or warriors of the shadows.’
Photo by Brenda Norrell
Jose Garcia, lieutenant governor of the O'odham in Mexico, passes the mircophone to Mayo Governor Victoriano Huichileme, both from the states of Sonora, Mexico, as Subcomandante Marcos listens to Indigenous in northern Mexico near the border.
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Jose Garcia, lieutenant governor of the O'odham in Mexico, passes the mircophone to Mayo Governor Victoriano Huichileme, both from the states of Sonora, Mexico, as Subcomandante Marcos listens to Indigenous in northern Mexico near the border.
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