From: Prison Radio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OUR WORD IS OUR WEAPON CD Selected Readings in English by SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS
http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100961390 This original and historic CD, recorded by "Radio Insurgente" somewhere in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, presents Subcomandante Marcos reading selections from the English language edition of his acclaimed book, OUR WORD IS OUR WEAPON published by Seven Stories Press. CD CONTENTS Track 1 Excerpt from the Opening Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism 11:37 On July 27, 1996, El Sup introduced the Zapatistas to the those who travelled to Chiapas for the first Intercontinental Encuentro by saying "Let us introduce ourselves. We are the Zapatista National Liberation Army. For ten years, we lived in these mountains, preparing to fight a war. In these mountains, we built an army. Below, in the cities and plantations, we did not exist. Our lives were worth less than those of machines and animals. We were like stones, like weeds in the road...This is who we are..The voice that arms itself to be heard.The face that hides itself to be seen.The name that hides itself to be named. The red star who calls out to humanity and the world to be heard, to be seen, to be named..." Track 2 To Plant The Tree of Tomorrow 11:28 During the August 1999 Encuentro in Defense of Cultural Heritage held in La Realidad, Chiapas, some one asked the companeros, "What do the Zapatistas want?" By way of an answer, El Sup described how fifteen years earlier, when he first arrived in the mountains of Chiapas, he was told a story in one of the guerilla camps. Listen to El Sup tell the story in English for the first time... the story of a man in a village who didn't want to plant beans or corn or coffee like the other members of the community, he wanted to plant trees on the mountain... Track 3 Why We Use the Weapon of Resistance 22:36 In October 1999 El Sup participated (by way of video message) with Zack de la Rocha, Yaotl, Herman Bellinghausen, Nacho Pineda and Javier Elorriaga in a aroundtable discussion about underground culture and resistance. This track is an excerpt from El Sup's presentation. "We have the arm of the word. We also have the weapon of our culture, of being what we are. We have the weapon of music, the weapon of dance. We have the weapon of the mountain, that old friend and companero who fights along with us, with her roads, hiding places, and hillsides, with her trees, with her rains, with her suns, with her dawns, with her moons..." Track 4 The Word and the Silence 1:57 In this communique dated October 12, 1995, and signed "The Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army," Subcomandante Marcos reads "What matters is our eldest elders who received the word and the silence as a gift in order to know themselves and to touch the heart of the other...When we are silenced we remain very much alone.Speaking, we heal the pain. Speaking, we accompany one another. Power uses the word to impose his empire of silence. We use the word to renew ourselves. Power uses silence to hide his crimes. We use silence to listen to one another, to know one another..." ---Total audio playing time: 50:09 BONUS VIDEO Track 5 Video message: On Independent Media 9:19 The CD also features a Quicktime video file - Subcomandate Marcos's video message to the "Freeing the Media" radical media gathering organized by Paper Tiger TV, FAIR, and others in New York City, on January 31, 1997. Video originally shot by Kerry Appel of the Human Bean Company. Marcos speaks Spanish in the video, which has subtitles in English. "By not having to answer to the monster media monopolies, the independent media has a life's work, a political project, and a purpose: to let the truth be known. This is increasingly more important in the globalization process. Truth becomes a knot of resistance against the lie. Our only possibility is to save the truth, to maintain it, and distribute it, little by little, in the same way that the books were saved in Fahrenheit 451..." Our Word is Our Weapon CD by Subcomandante Marcos ISBN: 1-58322-663-X $14.95 | Soon to be available in bookstores Available now from http://www.sevenstories.com or call 1-800-596-7437 All royalties from the sale of the CD benefit autonomous media projects in indigenous communities in Chiapas. ============================================ Prison Radio challenges mass incarceration and racism by airing the voices of men and women in prison. Our educational materials serve as a catalyst for public activism. To subscribe to the Prison Radio Zap-email list, send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In order to be on the mailing list, send us a contribution of $25 or more. Prison Radio P.O. Box 411074 San Francisco, CA 94141 www.prisonradio.org --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP74W.bOcAsf.YW50aXJh Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5F6XtA/.WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
