Sunday, November 04, 2012
Criteria for Solidarity
As Zapatista autonomous communities struggle to survive attacks
by Mexican police and vigilantes, speakers for the Zapatista movement
of liberation are reaching out to the world to prevent further massacres
by the stormtroopers of Free Trade. When the choice is between
assimilation or annihilation, one has to reconsider non-violent
restrictions as criteria for solidarity. As privileged members of the
first world, do we have a right to insist that the people of the Fourth
World not defend themselves?