A friend called me yesterday at half past eleven in the night, to invite me to his house today at 7.30pm. It was not a standard invitation…
He has gone with his girlfriend to Mexico on holiday. One day they came across a demonstration in Oaxaca, they asked a group of people the reason for this demo and they ended up inviting various members of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca
http://www.nodo50.org/cipo/
to come on a talk tour to the UK. It was coincidence that they were planning to send some of them to Europe, so it was only a question of asking an extension for their visa and graciously jumping to this ireland from the continent…
So there I was today, in their home, interpreting a "preparatory" talk with friends and other acquintances.
What can I tell? That, apart from listen to them and interpret them, I have met so many so valid people, but hey this happens in any event like this doesn’t it? That we have talked about how to help, how it compares the action here and the action there…
More links here,
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303427.html
The presentation that they will give this coming Friday in London will probably be documented (and I will probably help interpret), but for now… well it is amazing how these people organise themselves, they already have their autonomous communities, organised so much outside the capitalist system that for some one who may have found this blog by chance would be difficult to imagine.
Is this a dream? No. For some, life in these communities is rather a nightmare. So much, that, whoever wants to join "the fun" is sent back home to ask permission to
their parents and other family members to join a community whose members are systematically arrested, kidnapped, tortured, jailed, and some times killed.
Why? Because they are no longer from this [capitalist] world. They are no longer part of avarice and selfishness with which governments interact best. And since governments can’t understand them, they try to eliminate them.
If you have a better explanation…
In the one hand we envy them, we would like to spend 24 hours a day in an alternative economy and system, chosen by ourselves. In the other hand, are we prepared to pay the price? The price can be everything. And I think that we value that everything too much, i.e. we have too much to loose…
