- Gebundene Ausgabe: 518 Seiten
- Verlag: Seven Stories Press; Auflage: A Seven Stories Press 1st Ed (5. Dezember 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1583220364
- ISBN-13: 978-1583220368
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,5 x 4,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.234.132 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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John Charles Chasteen, in the final chapter of his Born in Blood and Fire [BKL Ja 1 & 15 2001], describes the neoliberalism that currently dominates Latin America. Our Word Is Our Weapon displays the most visible and articulate opposition to that neoliberalism and the globalization it serves: the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico. The first section of this collection of the writings of Subcomandante Marcos describes conditions in Mexico in the context of the world economy, while the second section includes Marcos' more philosophical writings. The third section gathers Marcos' fables and parables, among them the tales of Don Durito of the Lacandon, a beetle who is a knight-errant, and of Old Don Antonio, a Mayan shaman. In political communiques and poetry, letters to writers and political leaders, and homely celebrations of traditional wisdom, Marcos insists on the dignity and value of an indigenous culture and people. With a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago. Mary Carroll
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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On January 1, 1994, an indigenous guerrilla group, the Zapatistas, named after the early 20th-century revolutionary Mexican leader Emilio Zapata, seized several key towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The most significant uprising in Latin America in the last 20 years, this act focused Mexican military and political attention on the region and caught the imagination of the world's leftist community. A major reason for the international interest centers partly on the elusive figure of its spokesman leader, known only as Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. This mysterious character, who has remained unidentified and appears in public with his face partially hidden, declared that this movement would focus not on the battlefield but on winning worldwide public opinion and support over the airwaves and Internet. As a result, Marcos's poetic and articulate writings, including an awarding-winning children's book, Story of the Colors, are essential elements in understanding this movement. A good compilation of translations of his more important writings, this volume will be of interest to university research libraries and public libraries with an interest in Mexico and revolution.DMark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, UT
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Senior Marcos, wohin geht die Gerechtigkeit? Während viele Amerikaner und Europäer davon überzeugt sind selbstbestimmtes Handeln würde zu unvorstellbaren Erfolgen führen, belehren uns die Völker Südmexikos vom Gegenteil. Wer selbstbestimmt handelt landet vorzeitig im Grab. Worauf ist diese Erkenntnis zurückzuführen? - Auf den Freiheitskampf der indigenen Völker, denen jegliche Selbstbestimmung mit Waffengewalt und Folter verboten wird. Brauchtum und Tradition wird mit Füssen getreten und jegliches ursprüngliche Denken vergewaltigt. Doch ist Sozialismus die Lösung für das Neoliberale Debakel und den neuen Ablasshandel mit den Entwicklungsländern. Oder hätte ich damit Ihre Intelligenz beleidigt, wenn ich zu der Selva Lacandon sage, sie sei ein Entwicklungsland. Vielleicht sind wir westlichen Nationen es, die uns erst zu mehr Solidarität und Menschlichkeit hin entwickeln müssen. Fort von Heuchelei, Betrug, Folter und Mord im Namen der Höheren Zivilisation.
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"This hits like fists, bomb with the left and don't miss."
11. Februar 2001
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This is no doubt the most interesting book I've come across about the Zapatista movement. There are 3 parts to the book. The first part is about the story of how the Zapatistas came to be, about Marcos' declarations of war, and his reasons behind the uprising. The second goes deeper into the conflict and it's relevance to the world. The third is a colletion of Marcos' stories and poetry. The book initially caught my eye, with Marcos' infamous masked stare, but it's his words that open up my heart and mind. It's outstanding, I'd recommend it to anyone that's interested in this struggle and it's politics.
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A movement of Now.
24. November 2002
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Too often those of us who seek social justice for people who have been traditionally oppressed tend to just reminisce on the past.
However, this book proves that there is a great social movement that ordinary people CAN , RIGHT NOW make a diffrence about
The history of Mexico, like the history of Latin America, is a history of pain, struggle, and exploitation.
Marcos shows us a movement that seeks to right some of the wrong, and leads a movement of the oldest of the old, the oppressed of the oppressed: Indigenous campesinos (farmers) of Southern Mexico. Where pictures of Jesus Christ stand right there alongside of.....Che Guevara.
A people that have been traditionally been treated like dirt, for lack of a better word, now taking an inspirational and highly moving stand and demand an end to exploitation and a better way of life.
Through their charismatic and briliant leader, Marcos, he tells us the story of the people known as Zapatistas and their struggle for dignity.
The dignity of a people no longer willing to tolerate centuries of injustice.
What human being cannot be moved by such extroadinary courage?
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this is what a best seller should contain!
8. März 2001
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I have sporadically read and been inspired by the writings of El Sup over the last few years - his poetic brilliance, his lyrical poignancy to strike a blow while planting seeds - and to see the collected works of this remarkable thinker and revolutionary is simply incredible. I encourage anyone who is involved in a struggle, anyone who seeks light in an increasingly dark world, and anyone who believes that a better world is still possible, to get this book. Not a cover to cover read, but an activist manual, a delicious serving brain food and heart food. Again, simply wonderful.
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