axis
Fair Use Notice
  Axis Mission
 About us
  Letters/Articles to Editor
Article Submissions
RSS Feed


Statement from the October 2 prisoners in Oaxaca Printer friendly page Print This
By Political Prisoners in Ixcotel Jail. Translated for Axis of Logic by Scott Campbell
Axis of Logic
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009

October 2, 2009, marked 41 years since the Tlateloco Massacreof hundreds of students by the Mexican army.  The massacre and the demand for justice are marked by marches all over Mexico every October 2.  They also incorporate demands around poverty, corruption, political prisoners and more.  Two of the three October 2 marches held in Oaxaca earlier this month were attacked by the police with at least 18 young people arrested.  They remain detained.  Below is a statement they released last week.  As well, the anarchist contingent of the Oct. 2 march in Mexico City was met with severe police brutality and arrests.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

To the brave and conscious people:
To the democratic and combative teachers:
To the independent media:
To the Other Campaign:

Dear comrades,

Today we ask for your solidarity because we are a part of the social movement in Oaxaca, we are participants in the barricades, in the mega-marches, and in other forms of protest against the government. We are youth with the goal of completely changing this system and because of that we feel driven to continue fighting for the freedom that the brave people have instilled in us, that the people have seen arise in the majority of us, the prisoners from October 2, 2009.

We are active members of the movement where we join in and scream the slogans of freedom for political prisoners, for respect for the indigenous peoples and in defense of the earth which is as sacred and dignified as our lives which we have been building little by little, constantly struggling through the day, giving us strength to pick up a piece of paper and a pen which, like our lives, is so important because our paper is our life and the pen is what we do every day to work as always for a bit of bread and water, if we are able to get that much which is so necessary.  Yet for the members of congress it is not so important, or for all of those who spend more than 2,000 pesos for food or those who want to increase their pay by more than 150%, which continues to increase the poverty in our Mexico with a hidden tax, saying that it is up to the poor to defend ourselves from the corrupt ravages of the major political, financial and economic (IMF, WB, IB) interests.

Because of this and more, comrades, we have decided to continue to support all those who need us and who we are able to help, even if it costs us our freedom.  Because of this, comrades, we reiterate that now, by chance of fate, we need your support, whether it is communal, verbal, moral, economic, emotional.  Whatever happens we will continue to resist because there is no other option for us, just like you who are on the other side of the bars, who in spite of having the word “freedom” in your mouths, on your lips, in your hearts, the reality is different.  We are prisoners because every day that we breathe we have to risk our lives for a piece of bread which isn’t nearly enough.  Every day it is more difficult to find that which we call food. 

Because of this, comrades, we need your legal support in order to fight for our freedom, as none of us on our side have stopped fighting.  Not only physically, but mentally we’ve had to be in solidarity together as the government, with the charges against us, wants to separate us and all of us who fight for a better world have to be strong.  We are asking for the help of Section 22’s legal department, so that they may join up with the comrades who are monitoring our cases so that together they can mediate a solution and obtain our freedom which we lost last October 2 while we were remembering our comrades, who like us fought for a just cause, and lost their lives.

Because of this we ask for your immediate, kind and valuable intervention in our cases so that shortly we will again be in the streets enjoying the freedom that they so unjustly robbed us of.  We know we’ve always struggled together, shoulder to shoulder.  One of those struggles we’ve been through was the change in [the leadership of the teachers’ union] Section 22, the other was the second state congress of the APPO from which emanated many agreements, one of which was the immediate and unconditional freedom for all political prisoners of poverty and from the social movement in this country. 

We will continue advancing shoulder to shoulder, elbow to elbow. As well we need to understand and accept our mistakes.  We should learn from them in order to continue moving forward, even though we may have to lose more comrades, perhaps kidnapped by the state or like the case in San Pedro Jicaya where we lost two comrades.  And despite this we have not stopped fighting, just as we haven’t stopped fighting for the others who have died.  Also we should keep fighting against the supposed Alliance for Quality Education (ACE) which is nothing more than the privatization of education.  Because of this and because of so much more we must keep fighting.

A combative greeting from the comrades who are prisoners and as Mercedes Sosa said, “For the caged bird, for the fish in the tank, for my friend who is a prisoner because (s)he said what (s)he thought, I call you FREEDOM.”

FRATERNALLY,

POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM OCTOBER 2
LOCKED IN THE IXCOTEL JAIL

READ MORE TRANSLATIONS AND ESSAYS BY SCOTT CAMPBELL

Visit Scott Campbell's Website: Angry White Kid


Original in Spanish:

FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS

Al pueblo valiente y conciente:
Al magisterio democrático y combativo:
A los medios libres de comunicación:
A la otra campaña:

Miércoles 7 de  octubre 2009

Queridos compañeros hoy les solicitamos su apoyo solidario porque somos parte del movimiento social en Oaxaca somos participantes de las barricadas, de las mega marchas y demás formas de manifestación en contra del gobierno,  somos jóvenes con la idea de cambiar este sistema  totalmente y por eso nos sentimos con el compromiso de seguir luchando por la libertad que nos inculco este pueblo valiente que nos vio nacer a la mayoría de nosotros press del 2 de octubre del 2009.

Somos integrantes activos del movimiento donde compartimos y gritamos las consignas de libertad  a press políticos, de respeto a los pueblos indígenas y defensa de la tierra que es tan sagrada y digna como nuestras vidas que hemos construido poco a poco luchando constantemente medio a día esforzándonos por llevar un trozo de papel y pluma que como nuestra vida  es tan importante porque nuestro papel es nuestra vida y la pluma es lo que hacemos día a día al trabajar como siempre por un trozo de pan y agua si sen que llegamos a alcanzar esto que es tan necesario por que para los diputados no es tan importante o para todos aquellos que gastan mas de 2000 pesos por comida  o aquéllos que quieren aumentarse mas del 150% del pago que reciben con esto siguen aumentando la pobreza en nuestro México con un impuesto disfrazado diciendo que es pa los pobres para defendernos de esta marabunta corruptela con mega intereses políticos, financieros, económicos, (FMI, BM, BI)  por esto y por mas compañeros hemos decidido seguir apoyando a todos aquellos que necesiten de nosotros a los que podemos ayudar aun si nos cuesta nuestra libertad por eso compañeros les reiteramos que ahora por disposición del destino necesitamos de su apoyo ya sea comunitario, verbal, moral, económico, emocional cual sea el caso seguiremos resistiendo porque no nos queda mas que hacer así como ustedes que están del otro lado de las rejas que a pesar de que tienen la palabra LIBERTAD en sus bocas, en sus labios, en sus corazones, la realidad es diferente somos presos porque todos los días  que respiramos tenemos que arriesgar nuestras viadas por un pedazo o trozo de pan que llevamos  escasamente a nuestra boca cada día es mas difícil conseguir esto que llamamos comida por eso compañeros necesitamos de su apoyo jurídico para que peleen por nuestra libertad pues nosotros de nuestro lado en ningún momento hemos dejado de pelear pues no solo es físicamente también mentalmente hemos tendido solidarizarnos pues el gobierno en los hechos que nos implica nos quieren separa entre nosostros y esto tiene que ser mucho mas  fortaleza para todos  los que peleamos por un mundo mejor por eso les pedimos ayuda a la secretaria de asuntos jurídicos de la sección 22 que se solidaricen con los compañeros que están viendo nuestro asunto jurídico para que juntos aboguen por nosotros y alcancemos la libertad, la cual perdimos el pasado 2 de octubre cuando recordábamos a los compañeros que, al igual que nosotros luchaban por una justa causa y perdieron la vida.

Es por eso, que solicitamos su inmediata, amistosa y valiosa intervención en nuestros casos para que en un corto plazo estemos de nuevo en las calles gozando de la libertad que nos robaron muy injustamente. Si como bien sabemos siempre hemos luchado hombro con hombro. Una de las luchas que hemos vivido fue el cambio seccional otro de ellos fue el segundo congreso estatal de la APPO que de ahí emanaron muchos acuerdos  uno de ellos fue la liberación inmediata e incondicional de todos los presos politicos por la pobreza y la lucha social en este país seguiremos avanzando hombro con hombro codo con codo así como también debemos comprender y aceptar nuestros errores debemos aprender de ellos seguir avanzando aunque haya que perder mas compañeros, tal vez secuestrados por el estado o también como lo fue el caso de San Pedro Jicayan donde perdimos dos compañeros y no por eso hemos dejado de luchar así como otros que han muerto, así es que debemos seguir luchando en contra de la supuesta alianza por la calidad de la educación (ACE) que no es mas que la privatización de la educación por eso y por mas hay que seguir luchando.

Reciban un saludo combativo de los compañeros que estamos presos y como dijo Mercedes Sosa “por el pájaro enjaulado, por  el pez en la pecera, por mi amigo que esta pres@ porque ha dicho lo que piensa yo te nombro LIBERTAD”

FRATERNALMENTE PRESOS POLITICOS DEL 2 DE OCTUBRE RECLUIDOS EN EL PENAL DE IXCOTEL

PRESOS  POLITICOS LIBERTAD

© Copyright 2014 by AxisofLogic.com

This material is available for republication as long as reprints include verbatim copy of the article in its entirety, respecting its integrity. Reprints must cite the author and Axis of Logic as the original source including a "live link" to the article. Thank you!


Printer friendly page Print This
If you appreciated this article, please consider making a donation to Axis of Logic. We do not use commercial advertising or corporate funding. We depend solely upon you, the reader, to continue providing quality news and opinion on world affairs.Donate here




World News
AxisofLogic.com© 2003-2015
Fair Use Notice  |   Axis Mission  |  About us  |   Letters/Articles to Editor  | Article Submissions |   Subscribe to Ezine   | RSS Feed  |