________________________________________________________________________________ ZAPATA VIVE! JOIN ZAPATISTAS AROUND THE WORLD IN AN ACT OF ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TO STOP THE WAR IN MEXICO. IN CONJUCTION WITH RECLAIM THE STREETS DAY! JOIN US ON JUNE 18, 1999 IN A VIRTUAL SIT-IN ON THE MEXICAN GOVERMENT AT: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html FROM 10:00 AM TO 4:00 PM (MEXICO CITY TIME) FROM 11:00 AM TO 5:00 PM (U.S.A) FROM 4:00 PM TO 10:00 PM (GMT- GREENWICH MEAN TIME) *Remember to Disable your Java Script before entering the Virtual Sit-In on the day of the action.* * How to disable your Java Script instructions will be available in the Foyer area before you join the Sit-In.* **P.S. Many consider this act illegal. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> For those of you who wish to participate in the Action--but do not want to do the Virtual Sit-In. A *Search for the Truth* in remembrance of the Dead of the Acteal Massacre URL will also be made available. Each time you download the *Search for the Truth* URL--will question President's Zedillo's Homepage Search Engine concerning Human Rights and Justice. This URL will also be made available on June 18th at: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html <<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In the past others have joined us and enhanced our on-line actions with their own code. While we do not participate publicly in net-art-activism that goes beyond the symbolic gesture, we certainly support others who, in their quiet and private way, act to the degree their conscience and skills allow. Make it so! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> INFO about RECLAIM THE STREETS DAY! http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca Reclaim the Streets is both a mass action of civil disobedience and a movement to reclaim public space from the corporations that are turning our cities into shopping malls. Reclaim the Streets European Headquarters http://www.gn.apc.org/rts/ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> WHY ARE WE DOING THIS: ACTION ALERT! 5,000 Indigenous People Flee from Mexican Military President Zedillo and Roberto Albores Guillen, governor of Chiapas, have completed operations that have led to the displacement of some 5,000 more Zapatista sympathizers to other communities and to the mountains of the Canadas. A year after the last massacre in El Bosque Chiapas the Mexican military is still invading communities and carrying on its War of Extermination against the indigenous communities that are Zapatista bases of support. The Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center and the Fray Pedro de la Nada Human Rights Committee reported that this Sunday the Army carried out a new operation in another town in the conflict zone. They said this was the sixth operation that the Army and the police had carried out over the last few days. They stated that three other communities, among them La Garrucha, seat of the Francisco Gomez Autonomous Municipality, are threatened with being seized by Army troops and state police forces, since hundreds of forces are now concentrated on the outskirts of the towns. These activities by the Military and the State Police are setting up the stage for another massacre in Chiapas. Governor Albores Guillen has helped devise every calculated movement of the Mexican military to ensure that the circle tightens around the communities as they occupy strategic sights and attack pro-Zapatista communities. The Mexican government has implemented this cruel and inhuman strategy for four years and they have time and again tried to provoke the EZLN (Zapatista Army for National Liberation) into a direct military confrontation. Throughout these five years the Zapatistas have maintained a peaceful position and have participated in the San Andre's Accords for Indigenous Rights, which the government now refuses to implement. The U.S. is unwilling to stand up for peace and human rights of the indigenous people of Chiapas but instead has formed alliances with the drug infested PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) Mexican government. The New York Times and Washington Post revealed that Mexican President Zedillo's Secretary was connected to the drug cartels, yet, Secretary of the State Madeleine Albright continues to defend the innocence of the PRI government. The highest Mexican Military leader, Cervantes, was cited by the U.S. press as having ties to drug cartels. This is the government that is expected to carry out a peace process in Chiapas, Mexico. This same government applied tremendous pressure on Bishop Ruiz of the Diocese of San Cristo'bal de las Casas and the entire diocese until he disbanded his mediation team. Clinton claims to have taken action in Kosovo to help a people whose "only hope was that the world would not turn away in the face of ethnic cleansing and killing, that the world would take a stand," but in Chiapas, Mexico, indirect U.S. aid and impunity fortify the War of Extermination against Indigenous Communities. How can the Mexican government continue to pull the wool over the eyes of the U.S. President? Why is the U.S. covering up the same kind of activity that they so strongly condemned in Kosovo? How can the U.S. government continue its military and economic assistance to the Mexican government under these conditions? How can the U.S. overlook the long list of human rights abuses in Chiapas? We must not allow the long list of human rights abuses in Chiapas to continue to grow. The American Public cannot continue to be fooled by the Mexican government about the war in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. In order to establish the conditions necessary for a peaceful resolution, three points must be addressed: 1. The San Andre's Accords for Indigenous Rights must be Implemented 2. The Federal troops must be withdrawn from Zapatista communities in Chiapas and the displaced be allowed to return to their communities and live in peace 3. The U.S. must stop all military aid, advisors and economic aid to Mexico until the Human Rights abuses are addressed What can you do? Please help us build and create the momentum that will finally bring to a halt the atrocities being committed against indigenous people in Southern Mexico. Talk to your friends and encourage them to help. Everyone can participate to bring about peace with justice in Chiapas by creating "a world that will make all worlds possible". It is urgent for you to do the following: #1. Write/Call your local Congresspersons asking that the human rights abuses stop #2. Write a letter asking that the human rights abuses stop: President Clinton White House Address 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20500 Tele: 202-456-1414 Fx: 202-456-2461 President@whitehouse.gov Madeleine Albright Secretary of the State U.S. Dept. of the State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tele: 202-736-7555 Fx: 202-647-7120 Secretary@state.gov #3. Call and register a complaint with: Local Mexican Consulate #4. e-mail/letter and register a complaint with: Mexican Embassy Ambassador's Office 1911 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20006 www.embassyofmexico.org #5. President Zedillo: webadmon@op.presidencia.gob.mx [Source: Prensa Nuevo Amanecer ] <<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Free Disturbance Developer Kit (DDK) For Virtual Sit-Ins NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD at: http://www.thing.net/~floating/flood.html <<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Send feedback to Ricardo Dominguez, rdom@thing.net, and Stefan Wray, sjw210@is8.nyu.edu Join the action on JUNE 18th, 1999 http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html Thank you y muchas gracias. Un mundo para todos los mundos! The Electronic Disturbance Theater - Ricardo Dominguez - Carmin Karasic - Brett Stalbaum - Stefan Wray ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 1999 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org