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Zapatista book release and discussion 5/10 at Lucy Parsons Center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (poetry and revolution before break)
Sun May 6 00:24:02 2001
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 00:23:52 -0400 (EDT)
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> Auroras of the Zapatistas:
> Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War
>
> Book Release Presentation and Discussion
> by the Midnight Notes Collective
>
> Thursday, May 10, 7-9pm
> Lucy Parsons Center
> 549 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA
>
> for more information, email: midnotes@aol.com
>
> ==========================================
>
> >From the introduction: The Hammer and... or the Sickle
>
> "... The importance of the Zapatistas for Midnight Notes lies in
> their
> ability to open up a space (at great cost to themselves) wherein they
> are
> helping all of us to shape a halt to globalizing capital... Isn't it
> strange that a peasant army from the poorest state of Mexico should
> play
> such an important role in the formulation of a movement that can stop
> the
> headlong progress of globalizing capital? No, for we must remember
> that
> this is not the first time a "peasant revolution" (the "sickle") has
> reached into the most advanced points of capitalist production (the
> "hammer").
> One might say that the whole problem of twentieth-century
> anti-capitalism is to be found in the enigma of the hammer and the
> sickle, and that the Zapatistas have tried to answer it in a new
> way...
> [t]he Zapatistas have had to remind us [that] the land is the source
> of
> tremendous revolutionary power and those who wield the sickle are
> often
> the instigators of revolutionary change even in the stratosphere of
> high-tech production because they have the power to subsist without
> capitalist mediation...
> [T]he contemporary wielders of hammers [...made either of real
> steel, silicon chips or DNA chains...] must learn a few things from
> the
> most humble of the earth... This issue of Midnight Notes does some
> work
> of defining the elements of this new political chemistry of the
> planetary
> working class... What the Zapatista movement means for the U.S.
> anti-globalization movement is still an open question more than siz
> years
> since the dawning."
>
> Midnight Notes, PO Box 204, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
> http://www.midnotes.org
