Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 22, 2009

Zapatistas: 'Words in the Second Wind'

Address for the First Festival of the Digna Rabia
By Oscar Olivera F.*
January 8, 2009
Brother and Sisters, CompaƱeras and compaƱeros:
For me it is an enormous privilege and honor to be able to be here, together with you all in this territory—brown, simple and noble, like its people.
This privilege and honor would not have been possible without that enormous, dignified, enraged and collective effort by thousands of men, women, young people, children and elderly of my people, of our peoples, who don’t just make real history, but who also are the ones who write our history. It would no be possible to be here—nor could the EZLN be seen and felt today as a great example of dignity and hope—without that effort by our indigenous brothers and sisters, by our brothers and sisters from the cities, by our Mexican brothers and sisters.

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