As Women That We Are, Indigenous Zapatista Women

To the indigenous teachers of the CNTE.

In the audio of this video, you can hear a poem that, in a native language of Mayan roots, was presented at the arts encounter “RebelArte y RevelArte,” in April 2025. The poem presented by the 3 young Zapatista women from Caracol Jacinto Canek is called “Soy Mujer” or “I am a Woman” or “I am an Indigenous Woman,”, and was made with a previous work of investigation of what is talked about in the groups as women that we are in that zone. The poem is from the education promoters of that area who, in common, came up with the idea. They talked, but above all they listened to women who were already of age (of judgment, as we say here), their grandmothers and great-grandmothers; they talked to their mothers and older sisters; and they looked at themselves in the mirror of their being young Zapatista women today. Then they looked for who might present it and these young women joined in. The video shows images of the courses in Herbalism, Midwifery, Bonesetters and General Health, as well as the advances in the construction of the Quirófano and bicycle workshop, with the participation of Zapatista women compañeras.

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In the translation of the compas of that puy it would be, more or less, like this:

“I am an indigenous woman / running into problems / in my gaze you see the gleam of sadness / in every step I take there is a trace, a mark / of the wounds that have made me, that have hurt me / men and capitalism. It’s not like being a rich woman / but it’s different / the rich also look down on me / just like men. I dressed as they wanted / to forget that I am woman that I am / the eye of man / turned me into a thing / that I am not worthy / that I am less / that I am weak, without strength / so that I am very unhappy / so I learned that life is shit / suffering led me to hate my body / to hate what I am / to forget that I am beautiful, beautiful / that entered my head. The word Zapatista became / like my best friend / or my salvation / today is my beginning / because I learned / to love myself as I am / and to love my being a woman / I learned that I was not born / to serve or to please men / or to obey someone / but I was born to love myself and to love myself / as the woman that I am / and I will not be happy until they stop exploiting me. Today I celebrate for being the woman that I am / for my courage / for my strength / because I have understood that I am a woman. From now on I will be a woman / with a firm step / determined to fight for life. My brave heart / beats with strength to be free / my heart, courage and strength / will help me to be free / with the butterfly / I will go forward / with my fighting spirit.”

But every female ear, another poetry.

Other Tzeltal-speaking compañeras, but from other areas (Tzeltal varies from one area to another) explain: “what the poem says is that she was sad, that she does not get through the day, that the rich despise her for being a woman and also the rich women treat her like she is a thing, not a person. In other words, being a rich woman is not the same as being a poor woman. And being a woman from the city is not the same as being an indigenous woman. The same goes for the men in her town, which is what we call machista.

Then, as pure sadness, she learned to hate herself, that’s how she got in her head, she hates her own body and she even forgot that she is beautiful. And then came the struggle and there she learned that there is nothing left but to fight and now she is learning other things and jobs. And her heart is happy that she is worth it, and that she is beautiful and that she has strength and courage, and that is why she has value as a woman. I believe that this poem was written by a compañera. A Zapatista, that is.

Maybe it is less seen, but when they end their participation with “Long live the women!,” they also shout, we shout, “Long live the Palestinian women!”.

For now that is all our word and our images as the women that we are.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

Indigenous Zapatista women.

June 2025.

Original text published at Enlace Zapatista on June 10th, 2025.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.

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2025-06-15 03:57:01

As Women That We Are, Indigenous Zapatista Women

To the indigenous teachers of the CNTE.

In the audio of this video, you can hear a poem that, in a native language of Mayan roots, was presented at the arts encounter “RebelArte y RevelArte,” in April 2025. The poem presented by the 3 young Zapatista women from Caracol Jacinto Canek is called “Soy Mujer” or “I am a Woman” or “I am an Indigenous Woman,”, and was made with a previous work of investigation of what is talked about in the groups as women that we are in that zone. The poem is from the education promoters of that area who, in common, came up with the idea. They talked, but above all they listened to women who were already of age (of judgment, as we say here), their grandmothers and great-grandmothers; they talked to their mothers and older sisters; and they looked at themselves in the mirror of their being young Zapatista women today. Then they looked for who might present it and these young women joined in. The video shows images of the courses in Herbalism, Midwifery, Bonesetters and General Health, as well as the advances in the construction of the Quirófano and bicycle workshop, with the participation of Zapatista women compañeras.

-*-

In the translation of the compas of that puy it would be, more or less, like this:

“I am an indigenous woman / running into problems / in my gaze you see the gleam of sadness / in every step I take there is a trace, a mark / of the wounds that have made me, that have hurt me / men and capitalism. It’s not like being a rich woman / but it’s different / the rich also look down on me / just like men. I dressed as they wanted / to forget that I am woman that I am / the eye of man / turned me into a thing / that I am not worthy / that I am less / that I am weak, without strength / so that I am very unhappy / so I learned that life is shit / suffering led me to hate my body / to hate what I am / to forget that I am beautiful, beautiful / that entered my head. The word Zapatista became / like my best friend / or my salvation / today is my beginning / because I learned / to love myself as I am / and to love my being a woman / I learned that I was not born / to serve or to please men / or to obey someone / but I was born to love myself and to love myself / as the woman that I am / and I will not be happy until they stop exploiting me. Today I celebrate for being the woman that I am / for my courage / for my strength / because I have understood that I am a woman. From now on I will be a woman / with a firm step / determined to fight for life. My brave heart / beats with strength to be free / my heart, courage and strength / will help me to be free / with the butterfly / I will go forward / with my fighting spirit.”

But every female ear, another poetry.

Other Tzeltal-speaking compañeras, but from other areas (Tzeltal varies from one area to another) explain: “what the poem says is that she was sad, that she does not get through the day, that the rich despise her for being a woman and also the rich women treat her like she is a thing, not a person. In other words, being a rich woman is not the same as being a poor woman. And being a woman from the city is not the same as being an indigenous woman. The same goes for the men in her town, which is what we call machista.

Then, as pure sadness, she learned to hate herself, that’s how she got in her head, she hates her own body and she even forgot that she is beautiful. And then came the struggle and there she learned that there is nothing left but to fight and now she is learning other things and jobs. And her heart is happy that she is worth it, and that she is beautiful and that she has strength and courage, and that is why she has value as a woman. I believe that this poem was written by a compañera. A Zapatista, that is.

Maybe it is less seen, but when they end their participation with “Long live the women!,” they also shout, we shout, “Long live the Palestinian women!”.

For now that is all our word and our images as the women that we are.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

Indigenous Zapatista women.

June 2025.

Original text published at Enlace Zapatista on June 10th, 2025.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.

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Something that came to mind from @pluralistic 's post that featured a band in Atlanta drowning out some wingnuts formerly known as proud boys with "Bella Ciao".

We don't have artists that have the balls to write and perform protest songs today, do we?

We don't have a Woodie Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Hill, Bob Dylan or Billie Holiday.

After what happened to the Dixie Chicks, artists are too afraid of losing 100 followers on Instagram to speak up.

Or am I wrong? I hope I am.

"Israel broke the fragile truce, murdering civilians with increased frequency. The Israeli army shot at close range over a dozen marked medical rescuers and a UN worker, then buried their bodies along with the ambulances. It bombed the last standing school buildings and hospitals. It has starved thousands of Palestinian children, maintaining an almost complete blockade of international humanitarian aid for twelve weeks.

It took the levelling of over 70 per cent of Gaza for Germany’s leader to make such a groundbreaking declaration as “what’s happening in Gaza can no longer be justified by the fight against terrorism.” Merz added that he had “stopped understanding what Israel is trying to achieve,” though Netanyahu and his people openly state that the goal of the ongoing “military operation” is the annexation of the Gaza Strip.

The German government even considered such “radical” steps as stopping weapons shipments to Israel – as reported by Israeli public television Kan 11, Tel Aviv undertook intensive diplomatic efforts against such ideas. With positive results – Johann Wadephul, head of Germany’s Foreign Ministry, has already assured that deliveries are not under threat."

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#Germany #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #HumanRights

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable

Link: ourworldindata.org/childhood-l…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable

Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.

^{Saloni Dattani (Our World in Data)}

Massive demonstration for Gaza and against genocide today in Brussels.

75.000 participants according to the police, and 110.000 according to organisers.

Inspired by the Dutch sister demo, “Draw a Red Line for Gaza” was the largest demonstration in Belgium for years.

#Gaza #Activism #Palestine #Israel #EU #RodeLijn #Genocide #Belgium #Belgie #Belgique #Belgien #EU #UE #Europe

Israel completament aïllat del món exterior.

Cap colon pot fugir.

Cap colon pot tornar.

Cap aerolínia vola a Tel-Aviv.

Ni es pot entrar per terra o mar.

El Genocidi de Gaza té un alt preu.

█ L'ús de pirotècnia, possible causa d'un incendi de 10 hectàrees a Masquefa, a l'Anoia ▓▒░ El foc ha afectat camps de conreu propers a la urbanització El Maset
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#324cat #bombers #incendis

“BREAKING: Indian company Adani’s cargo facility worth $4.2 billion in Israel’s Haifa port destroyed by Iranian strikes”

via Global Impulse on YouTube

@palestine
@israel

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#Press #Israel #Iran #War #Haifa #Adani

Post from global impulse

#BREAKING: Indian company Adani's cargo facility worth $4.2 Billion in Israel's Haifa port, destroyed by Iranian strikes.

^YouTube

Jesus Christ God. This is horrifying.

'One particularly alarming anecdote, due to its potential for harm in the real world: a woman who said her sister had managed her schizophrenia with medication for years — until she became hooked on ChatGPT, which told her the diagnosis was wrong, prompting her to stop the treatment that had been helping hold the condition at bay.'

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ChatGPT Is Telling People With Psychiatric Problems to Go Off Their Meds

For some people, obsession with ChatGPT has gone so far, it's exacerbating their mental illness — and causing them to go off their meds.

^{Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)}

Source: libsoftiktok

North Carolina Rep Mark Harris calls out Leftists for encouraging political violence

Original tweet : xcancel.com/libsoftiktok/statu…

Import the 3rd world...

Britain is turning into a Third World country
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#nsfw #barelife #nude #naked #nudist #naturist #nudism #naturism #getnaked #staynaked #chillnaked #fkk #normalisenudity #nudistworld #naturistworld #casualnudity #normalstuffnaked #nudefreedom #nudistfreedom #bodyfreedom #nudistlifestyle #clothesfree #nakedactivities #nakedisnormal #normalisingnaturism #newd #nekked #nakey #nuditea

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China has made no commitment to export key magnets for US defense needs, Reuters reports, citing sources familiar with the progress of the negotiations.

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#usa #china #technology