Gustavo Esteva: La Realidad is ours

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Everyone please read and share this everywhere. It is inspiring and heart lifting. To be attacked by paramilitary death squads and have a loved one murdered and be able to overcome the pain, sorrow and rage to respond in this beautiful way is the best example of the new world, of 5d consciousness, that I have ever seen.
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“Ten years ago, Arundhati Roy anticipated what is happening: “Not only is another world possible,” she pointed out “it is underway. If one listens with attention on a quiet day, one can hear its breathing.” This Saturday, in La Realidad, we entered it. It is already among us. The thing is to multiply it everywhere, in its thousand different forms.” )

Chiapas Support Committee

LA REALIDAD IS OURS

Marcos wearing a black glove with bones painted on it in white

By: Gustavo Esteva

This Saturday we were able to see, with complete clarity, what that other politics is.

The caravan from San Cristóbal, with dozens and dozens of vehicles of all sizes, was a serpent of many kilometers. After the very long trip, not immune from tension and tribulations, they arrived in La Realidad, a teeming reality of Zapatista support bases that had arrived from everywhere to defend what is theirs and to show the vigor of the response.

The Caracol’s esplanade was filling up little by little. When no one would fit any longer and the sun began to shrink, Subcomandante insurgente Marcos appeared on horseback. On his left hand he wore a black glove with bones painted in white. Instead of his usual weapon he was carrying a machete on his back…

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When we look deeply into
the heart of a flower,

we see clouds, sunshine,

minerals, time, the earth,

and everything else in the cosmos in it
Thich Nhat Hanh

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light
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Cheers to you from Queen Elizabeth Gardens Vancouver BC~

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Marcos Announces His Disappearance

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Chiapas Support Committee

SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS ANNOUNCES HIS DISAPPEARANCE

The Sup in La Realidad wearing the black eye patch with a pirate skull design on it.

At 2:08 AM this morning, Subcomandante Marcos announced that starting at that moment he ceases to exist. In a press conference before the free media that attended the homage to Galeano, the Zapatista assassinated in the Zapatista com munity of La Realidad, the military chief of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista deLiberación Nacional, EZLN), indicated: “if you permit me to define Marcos, the personage, then I would tell you without hesitating that it was a motley one.”

After more than 20 years at the front of the political-military organization that rose up in arms on January 1, 1994, Marcos announced his relief. He indicated that after the Zapatista Escuelita courses last year and the beginning of this year, “we realized that now there…

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These lies — there have been only two verified accounts of wolves killing humans…

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