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[edit] Subcomandante Marcos
Subcomandante Marcos (allegedly born 19 June 1957 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a Mexican political organisation.
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- From 'Do not forget
- ideas are also weapons'
- Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons [1]
- The prince has consequently issued orders: "Attack them! I shall supply the army and media. You come up with the ideas." [2]
- From 'Chiapas
- The Southeast in Two Winds; A Storm and a Prophecy'
- Antonio dreams of owning the land he works on, he dreams that his sweat is paid for with justice and truth, he dreams that there is a school to cure ignorance and medicine to scare away death, he dreams of having electricity in his home and that his table is full, he dreams that his country is free and that this is the result of its people governing themselves, and he dreams that he is at peace with himself and with the world. He dreams that he must fight to obtain this dream, he dreams that there must be death in order to gain life. Antonio dreams and then he awakens... Now he knows what to do and he sees his wife crouching by the fire, hears his son crying. He looks at the sun rising in the East, and, smiling, grabs his machete. [...]
- The wind picks up, he rises and walks to meet others. Something has told him that his dream is that of many and he goes to find them.
- Everyone is dreaming in this country. Now it is time to wake up...
- The storm is here. From the clash of these two winds the storm will be born, its time has arrived. Now the wind from above rules, but the wind from below is coming...
- The prophecy is here. When the storm calms, when rain and fire again leave the country in peace, the world will no longer be the world but something better.
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- His response to rumours about him being gay to discredit him.
- Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
- Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable -- this is Marcos.[4]
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