Dear friends,
Please find below some additional information following the Zapatista's request.
ps: for those who are worried about having meetings during the pandemic - there's also the possibility to organize something online! there is still a chance to send an invite despite the deadline.
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Dear friends and comrades,
now we got the information that a vanguard delegation of the delegation will already head to europe on the 10th of april and arrive mid of june! They want to visit all the people/groups who invited them before the actual delegation comes.
More delegations will follow and visit the places they're invited to. Confirmed are: Germany, Austria, Belgica, Katalunia, Denmark, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Nethterlands, Basque Country, Poland, Portugal, Great Britain, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey. We are still in communication, because friends in some countries, for example Czec Republic or Russia, also invited them but are not listed.
If you want to organize something with a part of the zapatista/CNI-delegation invitations can still be send until 5th of April. That's six months after declaring their journey to europe. So it is very few time but we are trying to reach people/movements from places where wasn‘t made an invitation to the zapatistas yet. But even if this information reaches you too late or you don‘t have enough time to decide it in this few time, please tell us if you want to invite the comrades. And if you want to invite them directly write to: laotra@ezln.org.mx and notienlacezap@gmail.com
And there was also a message from the Zapatista women which the Sup Galeano forwarded in the last europeanwide meeting: „The comrades greet and embrace the women of that geography with the same affection, respect and admiration that they embrace the migrant woman or not, without organization, name or surname, without race or language that distinguishes her, who in the streets or in her place in Europe suffers disappearance, aggressions, dismemberment and death. They salute their resistance, their struggles; be they big or small, be they mediatic or not, be they fashionable or not, receive or not much diffusion, solidarity, support and coverage. So the comrades want to make clear that there is no interest in priviledge one group of women above another.“
There has been also been some critiques from the zapatista comrades towards organizing/thinking too much nationwise. And also about the lack of organization from left and below (which became visible again in the organization for the zapatista delegation).
As there is a European coordination to organize in between different countries/movements/places for the visit of the zapatistas/CNI we can also connect you there if you are interested. And if you have questions you can write us to this mailadress: oeag@ya-basta-netz.org
Our conclusion at this time is: we have to continue with the planning and preparations while staying really flexible about all the circumstances. It remains being a challenge - the zapatistas are giving us real-time lessons in organizing...
In solidarity and rebellion, wanya from the network to organize the zapatista/CNI delegation