2nd Intercontinental Encounter of Peoples against Neo-liberalism

WORDS OF THE EZLN DELEGATION AT THE CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE SECOND INTERCONTINENTAL GATHERING FOR HUMANITY AND AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM.


Compaņeros and compaņeras:
We want to thank you for the great effort of hope and harmony in our 
hearts.
Hand in hand we will create a stronger, more human unity. We will give 
form to our moments of struggle, in our countries, in our world.
We hope this second gathering for humanity and against neoliberalism 
will benefit our lives both today and always.
Let us not forget that our unity is very strong, stronger than that 
which opposes us, the exploited ones, the humiliated ones.
In this way we can learn of the strength of our humility, our 
simplicity, together with our unknown companions. And yet we know each 
other through struggle.
We are equal, there is nobody who is more important. We are all 
important.
We thank the Andalusian compaņeros for their hospitality and for the 
example they have set us. They tell us they prefer to be poor but 
free, and not to lose their dignity as humans.
We will meet each other through our sense of struggle, and we will all 
learn some more.
Likewise, we thank our brothers and sisters in Madrid for their 
hospitality and their attention.
Those in Barcelona, for their affection and the courage of their young 
people.
The compaņeros in Ruesta, for their ideas about the differences 
between peoples, which the world must learn to respect. And those who 
came together in Almuņecar, we thank them for their hospitality in 
struggle.
And all those here, on our farm which is called El Indiano, an example 
of the good way in which humanity resists, by working and setting an 
example.
Brothers and sisters we ask you to continue resisting, as we do.
Your future - and ours - is to triumph.
You also show us that there must be everything for everybody, and 
nothing for us.
Thank you brothers and sisters. We will see each other again soon.
That is all, compaņeros and compaņeras.
Yours,
(Signed)
Compaņera Dalia and Compaņero Felipe, support bases of the Zapatista 
Army of National Liberation (EZLN).


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