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Nations are not Nations anymore, although their
respective governments might not have noticed it
yet. Their flags and emblems are threadbare and
discolored. Destroyed by globalization from
above, sick with the parasite of Capital and with
corruption as their only sign of identity, the na-
tional governments try with inept haste to protect
themselves and attempt the impossible recon-
struction of what they once were.
In the airtight compartments created by their walls
and customs checkpoints, the system drugs the
middle sectors of society with the opium of a re-
actionary, nostalgic nationalism, with xenophobia,
racism, sexism, and homophobia as a plan for
salvation.
Borders multiply within every territory. Not just the
ones that are drawn on maps; also, and above all,
the ones that are erected by corruption and crime
turned into government.
The postmodern bonanza was nothing but a bal-
loon inflated by finance capital. And then reality
came to pop it: millions of people displaced by the
great war fill the land and waterways, they pile up
in customs and begin making cracks in the walls
already raised and the ones still to be built. En-
couraged before by big Capital, fundamentalisms
find fertile ground for their proposals for unifica-
tion: from terror will be born a single way of think-
ing: ours. After being nourished with dollars, the
beast that is terrorism threatens the house of its
creator.
In the face of Capitals walls: resistance, rebel-
lion, solidarity, and support from below and to
the left. With the objective of calling for organi-
zation and global resistance in the face of the
aggressiveness of big money and its respective
overseers on the planet, which already terror-
ize millions of people all around the world:
We are calling for people to organize themselves in
autonomy to resist and rebel against persecutions,
detentions, and deportations. If someone has to
go, let it be them, those above. Every human be-
ing has the right to a free and dignified existence
in the place that they deem best, and has the right
to fight to stay there. Resisting detentions, dis-
placements, and expulsions is an obligation, just
as it is an obligation to support those who are re-
belling against those arbitrary actions REGARD-
LESS OF BORDERS.
It is necessary to let all those people know that
they are not alone, that their pain and rage are
seen even from a distance, that their resistance is
not only welcomed, it is also supported, even with
our limited possibilities.
It is necessary to get organized. It is necessary to
resist. It is necessary to say NO to persecutions,
expulsions, prisons, walls, borders. And it is nec-
essary to say NO to the national bad govern-
ments that are and have been accomplices to that
policy of terror, destruction and death. Solutions
will not come from above, because thats where
the problems were born.
The time has come to create solidarity committees
with the criminalized and persecuted of humanity.
Today more than ever before, their house is also
our house.
As the Zapatistas we are, our strength is small
and, although our calendar is wide and deep, our
geography is limited.
For this reason, and to support those who are re-
sisting detentions and deportations, over the last
several weeks the Sixth Commission of the EZLN
has begun contacting individuals, groups, collec-
tives and organizations around the world that are
adherents to the Sixth, to figure out how to send
them a small bit of assistance that may serve as a
base to launch or continue all kinds of activities
and actions of favor of the persecuted.
We invite all of the Sixth and anyone who is inter-
ested to the seminar of critical reflection,
THE WALLS OF CAPITAL, THE CRACKS OF
THE LEFT, to be celebrated April 12-15, 2017,
We will provide more details soon.
We convoke all artists for the second edition of
CompArte for Humanity with the theme:
Against Capital and its Walls: All of the Arts
to be celebrated around the world and in cyber-
space. The real part will take place between July
23-29, 2017, The virtual edition will be August 1-
12, 2017, on the web. We will provide more details
soon.
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We also ask that you be on the lookout for the
Since Trumps election, EZLN has worked with its
activities to be convoked by the National Indige-
international support group, the Sixth Commis-
nous Congress as part of its process of formation
sion, to support the resistance and rebellion of
of the Indigenous Council of Government.
those who are persecuted. This includes calling
We convoke the scientists of the world to the sec- for boycotts of pro-Trump commercial and media
ond edition of ConCiencias for Humanity with organizations while providing free legal assistance
the theme: The Sciences Against the Wall, to be to those in need.
celebrated December 26-30, 2017, at CIDECI-
The EZLN has also announced plans to present an
UniTierra, San Cristbal de Las Casas, Chiapas,
Indigenous female candidate in Mexicos 2018
Mexico and in cyberspace. We will provide more
details soon. election. Their proposed candidate, who has yet
to be named, is described as someone who will
call for Trumps wall to be torn down.
Thats not all. It is necessary to Despite the EZLNs participation in fundraising
resist, it is necessary to rebel, it and electoral politics, the group continues to ad-
vocate for mass civil resistance as its primary form
is necessary to struggle, it is of struggle.
necessary to get organized. Always remember that we must resist, we must
rebel, we must fight and we must organize,
Moises and Galeano also wrote in the statement.
We must fight for those people who today are
persecuted simply for having a certain skin color,
culture, belief, origin, history and life.
The EZLN, inspired by Mexican revolutionary Emil-
iano Zapata, was founded in the early 1980s, and
became active in 1994 after Mexico joined the
North American Free Trade Agreement. Since
then, thegroup has declared war against the
Mexican government and its allied multinational
corporations.
-radiozapatista.org

Trump Wont Continued from front page- deal for them since a wall on our side along the common Rio Grande border
would in effect deed the river to Mexico.
People dont want war,much less the 10% tip that Trump is offering as a bribe
Then there is the War against the Planet. Trump wants no Climate Agree-
to the Big Brass for their bloated military budget.
ment and hisalliance with the Russian energy oligarchs aims to put our spe-
Why should any of us 99% pick up the tab for Trumps Federal Govt De-
cies in the ground instead of keeping oil, coal, natural gas there. Who needs
struction Derby? The Trumpsters are having all the fun and pocketing all the
to pay for this?
cash. And when their failure becomes catastrophic, they hope to keep profit-
Reinvest those refused taxes in our community where the actual clean-up
ing with the Pence New Orleans model low wages, no taxes, Blackwater
takes place. Reduce our use of dollars (whose picture is on the bills?) and in-
patrols shock therapy Chile style. We must disassociate ourselves from the
stead barter, trade, use alternate currency, freecycle. Create an economy
psychopathology of this politics.
outside the withholding system but inside the Community. If youve already
What about WALLTAX RESISTANCE? While Trump estimated the cost of a
paid federal withholding taxes for 2016 then consider changing your W-4
border wall at $8-12 billion, the MIT Technology Review estimated $27-40 bil-
withholding so that you dont give money to the government up front. Then it
lion. A leaked report from the Department of Homeland Security estimated
will be your choice to refuse or not.
$21.6 billion for a combination of solid walls and fences, without factoring in
The history of Revolutions demonstrates that abortive left revolutions make
geological and geographical challenges that could raise the cost even higher.
way for fascism. But what about this busily aborting right revolution of the
Maintenance of the wall alone could cost over $750 million per year. Add to
Trump gang where would its collapse take us? Is the Chilean experience,
that dollar figure the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)s budget: over
evolving from a brutal fascism to a democratic socialism, relevant? Before
$13 billion for fiscal year 2017. This figure is likely to increase in future years,
Bernie, there was Martin Luther King, a democratic socialist with Presidential
as Trumps executive order also instructed the Border Patrol to hire 5,000
possibilities, murdered 49 years ago by our American Deep State, as Chilean
more agents. Heightened enforcement at the border also means more money
President Allende was a few years later. Will the failure of our own native fas-
spent on immigration detention centers funded by Immigration and Customs
cism lead us to some M.L. King kind of American socialism? A nation-wide
Enforcement (ICE). ICEs budget in 2017 was over $6 billion. Trump continues
tax strike would be a good beginning for us.
to claim that Mexico would ultimately pay for the wall, although it might be a
-Paul Encimer

National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

(NWTRCC) P.O.Box150553, Brooklyn,NY 11215-0553
(718)768-3420 (800)269-7464 www.nwtrcc.org