The Caracoles is a way to organize self-government in the five Zapatista controlled zones in the state of Chiapas, they were born on August 8, 2003 in substitution of the Aguascalientes. This change marks a new marks a new stage in the political development of the EZLN that can be analyzed from different angles.
The "caracol" has been a constant representation for the indigenous peoples of the Mexican southeast since time immemorial. The ancient Maya used it not only as a symbol to represent the zero 0, they used it to make music, to call the population to concentrate or to perform religious ceremonies. Today it still used in the area to call community assemblies.
The pu'y or Caracol represents the collective heart where knowledge comes from, symbolizes the way in which the heart (i.e., the community) expresses itself to the world. to the world. The Zapatistas call this dialectic way of relating to the external "life". called "life", which would be the form in which the internal heart manages to communicate with the other, understanding the with the other, understanding communication in its double channel, speaking and listening. Thus, the snail represents the call to dialogue.
Ja ma' 'ay ya'tel kujtiki, an idea that Lenkersdorf (German Language) translates in his Tojolabal-Spanish dictionary as "the authorities elected by us are commanded by us", and expresses one of the basic premises in the indigenous political tradition that the Zapatistas have taken up to organize themselves within the Caracoles.
In the indigenous cosmovision, the capacity of the rulers to listen and to decide or think from the "we thinking from the "we" is inseparable from the heart. Thus, to be a good ruler is to to have the capacity to develop an empathetic relationship with the problems of the community in order to community in order to make decisions from the inside out, from the heart of the we. us, what the Zapatistas call "to command by obeying".
Ancestrally, this organizational form of "commanding by obeying" has had as its objective to achieve an equitable to achieve an equitable distribution of power and to promote the active participation of the people. In this way, it seeks to avoid the concentration of command power in the hands of one group. Thus, decisions are not delegated to the authorities, but are directly dependent on the people's decision, participation being not only a political right but also an obligation linked to a sense of responsibility to the community.
In this sense, the main task of the indigenous authorities would be to listen to the demands of the population and act according to them, i.e., to exercise command in a process of "walking the in a process of "walking the walk by asking", leaving behind the Western political vision of representative democracy that unilaterally exercises power.
How are Caracoles Organized?
The self-government exercised within the rebel zones is organized by the communities at the local level, by groups of communities at the regional level and by a group of regions at the zone level, so that each Caracol is in charge of one of the five zones in which the recovered territories are grouped.
The thirty Zapatista Autonomous Rebel Municipalities (known by the Zapatistas by the acronym MAREZ) are declared "existing" with the rupture of the military siege on December 19, 1994. With this begins the process of building Zapatista autonomy driven by the grassroots communities. Currently, the Autonomous Municipalities exercise their right to self-determination independently.
Now, the function of the Good Government Boards, constituted on August 9, 2003, is to counteract the imbalance in the development of the autonomous municipalities and communities, mediate in conflicts that may arise, deal with complaints of all kinds, oversee the implementation of community projects in the MAREZ and promote support for community projects, monitor compliance with the laws, and link the EZLN and the CCRI with the civilian Zapatista support bases.
Each of the constituent parts of the territory or rebel government receives a name assigned by its inhabitants through an assembly consensus.
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She seemed nice but dropped some casual racism about Korean hikers
OK what does that even entail. "Korean backpackers be like" what do they be like according to her
American boomers working overtime to be the worst posible turists
What an incredible trip campa! What is your impression of the trail---does it seem like the route has been very corporatized or is there still a soul to it? It has been my dream to walk the Camino de Santiago someday but I feel bad to fly so I am waiting until I can afford a very long trip to go.
I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere except a Muslim shitposting group I follow, but apparently Sinead O'Connor converted to Islam a few years ago and her name was actually Shuhada' Sadaqat, or she was using both names, i'm not clear. But it hasn't been mentioned almost anywhere I've seen discussing her death. And I believe at some point prior to that her name was Magda, as she felt "Sinead" was tied up in the abuse of her childhood and didn't want it anymore.
It's hard to find much information about it all, though. But it feels some kind of way for a woman to be celebrated in the media, but not under the name she used for herself. Idk. I thought it was worth brining up so people would know something was up. If you find out more about it please let me know.
liberals when they successfully lower global poverty by narrowing the definition of poverty
we have China's poverty reduction schemes at home!
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I think it'd be so funny if someone on here @ ed you with a long reply on a struggle session that you haven't even participated in yet. Like just anticipating that you'll have a shit take and acting accordingly
One time I posted an example of a terrible meme and everyone responded with like "This is the worst thing I've ever seen on this website" and "why would you expose me to something like this" and I was genuinely afraid I had started a struggle session
My grandpa's PC is very slow, I opened the task manager and saw that some McAfee stuff is draining all his CPU, with Windows Defender being good it should be safe to remove McAfee right?
remove McAfee
Good luck with that. That shit is more insidious than most viruses.
I’ll never not be amused by the fact they were ordered by a court to make an accessible guide on how to uninstall their shit.
No, I do the same thing. And I'm sure several other people do too.
I do that, probably because I think of my mind and my body as two separate entities so to speak, like:
"Alright 72, we've gotta go down to the store today. Yes, I know it's a bit of a walk but you'll manage."
That observation is the first step in a road to awareness and understanding that you're not your thoughts, you don't have a responsibility to your thoughts, the state of thinking is not permanent, your thoughts are not necessarily indicative of reality, overthinking contributes massively to your unhappiness, and you can be free of excessive thinking.
You ever hear of Alan Watts? He is much more entertaining, persuasive, and informative than I could ever be on the subject. Because if I just typed that you're the universe experiencing itself it wouldn't do much for you.
Consciousness! Which is separate from the mind in the sense that your consciousness is like an eye looking out at your mind and through your senses. The mind is constantly changing and evolving while your consciousness is constant. Our minds also are constantly churning thoughts out but it's the thoughts that arise to the top and that we decide to accept is what decides who we are!
Probablu. I do it too. I tend to think of myself as a part of whatever org or group I'm with.
Not weird. The self is a collection of several different things. I am a meat puppet that contains a brain which houses a collection of thoughts and ideas that my consciousness analyses. Each of these things is separate but completely dependant on each other. Saying "we" is just a sign that you understand these separations.
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terrarium update
New plants include some succulents, it remains to be seen how they'll fare in the humidity, but they're still strong after a couple weeks already. The aloe has regained some green after starting out as a brown, shrivelled plantlet. There's also a strange teardrop string-of-pearls looking one which is very pretty.
The syngonium up top, both ferns, and both...
fittonias?peperomias are the plants purchased for this, everything else has been found around the place.
The single leaf cutting next to the ivy might be a fittonia, idk what I'm doingooooh, very nice!
is this for a lizard friend? or the plants themselves?
Just the plants! Plus bugs to keep it all clean.
I've put maybe 20 pill bugs in there for detritus, a mantid for unwanted flying insects, and I'll occasionally see a little jumping spider that has avoided the mantis somehow.
I'd like to do a bigger one with which to keep frogs, but that's a much bigger step than I'm able to take at this point lol. It's very fulfilling even just watching for changes in this one day to day
Despite my best efforts!
Noticed this morning that some of the scale moss seems to be dying back, but the other moss is thriving so maybe it's a competition thing.
Bugs and plants are v cool
I know every one is kind of sick of all the new movies based on things that ought not be movies, but you all are gonna love this. They're making a movie based on my penis. It's a short film.
It goes some exotic places but doesn't get too deep into exploring them.