AUT: 2nd American Encuentro Webpage goint up

["Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks: Some months back we received an elegant invitation to a 2nd
American Encuentro (1st was in Chiapas in Spring 1996) but then nothing
more since. Now the EZLN has publically endorsed this conference and put
out its own call. So it looks like its really going to happen.

Therefore, I propose that we begin now to prepare for this event in two
ways. First, and most practically, think about how to get the funds to go
--Brazil is a long ways to travel for many of us, and second, as with the
2nd Intercontinental Encounter in Spain in 1997, this is an occasion to
reexamine the phenomena and discussions of earlier Encounters, to learn
from them and pick up, at least to some degree, where they left off. To
facilitate this process of reexamination and preparation, I will put up a
website on the 2nd American Encounter that will include on the one hand,
material about it as it appears and on the other pointers to materials
already on the web from the earlier encounters. To this I propose to add a
web forum where people can discuss plans for and ideas for the December
meetings in Belem.

Therefore, I suggest two things: that you check the document of links
called "Zapatistas in Cyberspace" to see if it is missing any links to
earlier encounter materials and let me know if it is and second that you
think to send to me any papers you may prepare for the 2nd Encounter and
would like those going to be able to read and think about, and even react
to before they go. There is no reason discussions cannot commence now. I
will have the bare bones of the page up in a day or so and will post the
URL here at that time.

Any other ideas about how we can begin to prepare/build for the encounter
would be welcome, on this list, or on the forthcoming web forum.

See you on the web and then in Belem.

Harry

P.S. that remembers to give you mention that "Zapatistas in Cyberspace" is
on the Chiapas95 website whose url is given below.

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, irlandesa wrote:

> Originally published in Spanish by the EZLN
> ___________________________
> Translated by irlandesa
>
> Date:   Wednesday, June 30, 1999 17:45:57 -0500
> From:   fzln-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *****************************************
>
> Zapatista Army of National Liberation
> Mexico
>
> June of 1999.
>
> To:  The Peoples of America
> To:  Committees in Solidarity with the Zapatista Struggle in Latin America
> To:  Committees in Solidarity with the Zapatista Struggle in the World
>
> Brothers and sisters:
>
> A message has reached us from the Brazilian Amazon.  The echo comes from
> the Andes and Patagonia.  The winds carry it from the waters of the
> Caribbean.  The drums in North America repeat it, and swift messages cross
> Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile.  The voices rise up from the mines
> in Bolivia, the same from under the heights of Macchu Pichu.  They are
> singing it in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.  Nicaragua makes it a poem,
> and in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Panama it is a serious
> manifesto.  The Antilles are dancing it.  The word goes out from the
> Amazon, and begins to move throughout all of America, and in all the towns
> they are preparing for long trips, like those undertaken from sorrow to
> hope.  And from all the continents of the American continent, from all the
> worlds they inhabit, men and women begin moving.
>
> What is the reason for this continental chaos?  A new measure by the
> International Monetary Fund?  Another meeting of Chiefs who are not Chiefs,
> of States that are not States?  A soccer match?  No, the reason is an
> invitation.  From dignified Brazil, Belem is calling us to the:
>
> SECOND AMERICAN ENCUENTRO
> FOR HUMANITY AND AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM
>
> It will be in Belem Do Para from December 6 to 11, 1999.
>
> And so I am just letting you know:  the America of the dignified
> resistance, of the committed struggle, of the foolish hope, she who is
> forgotten by everyone but herself, turns now to Brazil.  And we are going
> there as well.  If the piranhas of imperialism do not hold us up too much,
> we will disembark in Belem in the dawning of December.  We will not be
> taking much baggage, just, perhaps, what is necessary in order for us to
> repeat, in the Brazilian Amazon, that, against Neoliberalism and for
> Humanity, we are struggling here today so that in all of America, for
> everyone, there might be...
>
> DEMOCRACY!  LIBERTY!  JUSTICE!
>
> Vale.  Salud, and all the winds and all the boats are now bound for:
> Belem Do
> Para, Brazil.
>
> >From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.
>
> For the General Command of the
>    Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee of the
> Zapatista Army of National Liberation
>
> Subcomandante insurgente Marcos
>
> Mexico, June of 1999.
>

............................................................................
Harry Cleaver
Department of Economics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1173  USA
Phone Numbers: (hm)  (512) 442-5036
               (off) (512) 475-8535   Fax:(512) 471-3510
E-mail: hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html
Accion Zapatista homepage:
http://www.utexas.edu/students/nave/
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