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Tables of Contents for Our Word Is Our Weapon
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Prologue: Chiapas, a Name of Pain and Hope
xix
Editor's Note: Traveling Back for Tomorrow
xxiii
SECTION I Unveiling Mexico
PART ONE Names the Unnamed
Twelve Women in the Twelfth Year: The Moment of War
5
8
War! First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle
13
4
Dying in Order to Live
17
1
In Our Dreams We Have Seen Another World
18
1
Votan-Zapata or Five Hundred Years of History
19
3
A Storm and a Prophecy---Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds
22
16
Who Should Ask for Pardon and Who Can Grant It?
38
2
Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance
40
3
Second Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle
43
9
The Long Journey from Despair to Hope
52
10
Mr. Zedillo, Welcome to the Nightmare
62
10
Come, Brothers and Sisters
72
3
The Word and the Silence
75
3
Fourth Declaration of the Lacondon Jungle (excerpt)
78
4
Closing Words to the National Indigenous Forum (excerpt)
82
6
Today, Eighty-Five Years Later, History Repeats Itself
88
10
The Unjust Sentencing of Elorriaga and Entzin
98
3
Opening Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
101
6
Tomorrow Begins Today: Closing Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
107
9
Second Declaration of La Realidad for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
116
4
Civil Society That So Perturbs
120
5
The Spiral from the End and the Beginning
125
5
An Urgent Telegram
130
1
Do the Pictures Lie?
131
1
For Those Who Protest with Us after Acteal
132
5
The Sea of My Insomnia: The Table at San Andres
137
6
Tlatelolco: Thirty Years Later the Struggle Continues
143
4
Under Siege: The Zapatista Community of Amador Hernandez
147
4
A Play (ha!) That Says What It Says
151
4
Mexico City: We Have Arrived. We Are Here: The EZLN
155
8
The Other Player
163
3
Why We Use the Weapon of Resistance
166
7
PART TWO One World
Flowers, Like Hope, Are Harvested
173
2
From Vietnam to Chiapas, Twenty Years Before
175
3
A Call to Latin America
178
2
On Independent Media
180
3
From Here to There and Back Again
183
5
On May Day and Tupac Amaru
188
1
This Ocean No Longer Separates Us
189
3
Letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal
192
4
``No!'' to the War in the Balkans
196
2
For Maurice Najman, Who Keeps Feigning Death
198
9
Letter to Leonard Peltier
207
6
SECTION II Beneath the Mask
To Open a Crack in History
213
4
We Know What We're Doing; It Is Worth It
217
9
The Library of Aguascalientes
226
4
The Retreat Is Making Us Almost Scratch the Sky
230
10
Death Has Paid a Visit
240
5
A Year of the Zapatista Government
245
5
Zapatistas, Guadalupanos, and the Virgin of Guadalupe
250
6
A Land to Harvest a Future
256
2
Letter to Eduardo Galeano
258
5
Letter to John Berger
263
5
Dignity Cannot Be Studied; You Live It or It Dies
268
3
It Continues Raining Here
271
3
Democratic Teachers and the Zapatista Dream
274
4
Closing Words at the National Encuentro in Defense of the Cultural Heritage
278
11
SECTION III Creating Memory
PART ONE Tales for a Sleepless Solitude---The Stories of Don Durito
Ten Years Later: Durito Found Us Again
289
2
To Mariana Moguel (age ten)
291
3
The Glass to See to the Other Side
294
3
Deep Inside the Cave of Desire
297
5
Durito and Pegasus
302
6
The Story of the Tiny Mouse and the Tiny Cat
308
2
The Story of the Cold Foot and the Hot Foot
310
4
The Story of the Bean-brown Horse
314
2
Love and the Calendar
316
2
Another Cloud, Another Bottle, and Another Letter from Durito
318
3
P.S....that Fulfills Its Editorial Duty
321
1
Durito the Pirate
322
9
The Hour of the Little Ones
331
4
The True Story of Mary Read and Anne Bonny
335
6
PART TWO Tales of Many Others
The Tale of the Ever Never
341
1
The Parrot's Victory
342
1
Tales of the Seahorse
343
2
The Tale of the Little Seamstress
345
1
The Tale of the Little Newsboy
346
1
The Tale of the Little Wisp of a Cloud
347
2
The Story of the Schizophrenic Pig
349
2
The Tale of the Lime with ann Identity Crisis
351
1
The Tale of the Nonconformist Little Toad
352
3
The Tale of the Pink Shoelaces
355
1
The Tale of Always and Never
356
1
The Little Tree and the Others
357
2
A Light, a Flower, and a Dawn
359
5
The Words That Walk Truths
364
9
PART THREE Old Don Antonio
The Story of the Colors
373
3
The Story of the Mirrors
376
4
The Story of Dreams
380
3
The Story of the Seven Rainbows
383
3
The Story of Noise and Silence
386
3
Making the Bread Called Tommorrow
389
1
The Story of the Others
390
2
The Tale of the Lion and the Mirror
392
3
The Story of the Measure of Memory
395
2
The Story of One and All
397
2
The Dawn Is Heralding Heat and Flashes
399
3
The Story of the Milky Way
402
3
The Story of the False Light, the Stone, and the Corn
405
2
The Night Is Ours
407
6
The Story of the Questions
413
4
Afterword: Chiapas, the First Postmodern Revolution
417
28
Zapatista Timeline
445
8
Bibliography
453
2
Contributors
455