John Holloway: Zapatismo Urbano

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On 7 August 2013 22:32, Orsan Senalp <orsan1234@...> wrote:
> Zapatistas celebrate 10 years of autonomy with ‘escuelita’| ROAR:
> followiung is an email from OWSZapatista and attached is the last
> communiqes from SupMarcos...
>
> The Zapatistas invite 1.500 activists from all over the world to a
> ‘Little School of Liberty’ in Chiapas to learn from their experiment
> with autonomy.
>
> It was 10 years ago, on January 1, 2003, when — having exhausted the
> road of dialogue with the government as well the one of a “big R”
> Revolution that would overthrow the Mexican state — the Zapatistas of
> Chiapas decided to “abandon the politics of demands, and with it, all
> contact with the state.” Instead, they chose to concentrate on
> building their own autonomous, horizontal forms of self-government
> within their own territories and with their own means.
>
> In other words, to ignore the state as an institution and “act as if
> they had already won”, comrade ‘Bruce Lee’ of the CCRI in San
> Cristobal declared during the commemoration of the 1994 uprising that
> “we don’t have to ask the government’s permission to be autonomous.”
> Or, as Major Infantry Insurgent Moses put it in an interview with
> Gloria Muñoz:
>
> The dialogue with the government didn’t work but it enriched us,
> because we met more people and it gave us more ideas. After the “Color
> of the Earth march” in 2001 we said that with or without a law we were
> going to build our government the way we wanted.
>
> It was 10 years ago, on August 9, 2003, when the Zapatistas announced
> the death of the Aguascalientes and the birth of the Caracoles. Five
> caracoles were created, each with its own Junta de Buen Gobierno (JBG)
> established within it, responsible for its own Zapatista Autonomous
> Rebel Municipal Zone (MAREZ). The five caracoles are the following:
>
> “The Mother of Caracoles — Sea of Dreams” (La Realidad)
> “The Whirlwind of Our Words” (Morelia — 17 de Noviembre)
> “Resistance Until the New Dawn” (La Garrucha — Fransisco Gomez)
> “The Caracol That Speaks for All” (Robero Barrios)
> “Resistance and Rebellion for Humanity” (Oventik)
>
> The municipalities and communities in each zone are not only divided
> on the basis of geographical criteria but in other ways (like ethnic
> composition and distance from the caracol) as well. Each caracol has
> its own autonomous health clinic, normally a primary and/or secondary
> school, and each of them is also involved in one form or another with
> one of the five Projects of Zapatismo: health, education,
> agro-ecology, politics, and information technology.
>
> It was 10 years ago when the Zapatistas announced that they don’t need
> anyone’s permission to be autonomous, and started to work on what for
> them constitutes liberty and autonomy. And now, 10 years later, on
> August 8, 2013 the Zapatistas invite the world to a three-day fiesta
> to celebrate the ten years of Zapatista autonomy, in the five
> caracoles in Chiapas!
>
> And not only that. When the fiesta is over, in one of the very few
> public initiatives they have undertaken since the Sixth Declaration of
> the Selva Lacandona (La Sexta) in June 2005, and since the start of
> the Other Campaign (La Otra Campaña) in January 2006,  the Zapatistas
> now invite the world to an initiative that they call “the Little
> School of Liberty according to the Zapatistas”.
>
> For this Escuelita, around 1.500 activists from all over the world
> have been invited to visit Chiapas and study the Zapatistas’
> experiment with autonomy through lived experience. The teachers will
> be the Zapatista communities themselves, which will host each and
> every student in their lands, one with every family, and let them
> experience what it is like to be member of the Zapatista Bases of
> Support; in other words, what it’s like to be a Zapatista.
>
> There will be students from five continents. Some of the countries of
> origin of the students in the course, Freedom according to the
> Zapatistas, include: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,
> Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, the United States of America,
> Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic,
> Uruguay, Venezuela, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Slovenia, the
> Spanish State, France, Greece, Holland, Italy, the Basque Country,
> United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden, South Korea, India, Iran, Sri
> Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Canary Islands.
> The furthest point of origin of students is Sri Lanka, which is more
> than 17 thousand kilometers from Zapatista territory. Then follows
> India (more than 15 thousand kilometers away), Australia (more than 13
> thousand kilometers away), and new Zealand (more than 11 thousand
> kilometers away).
>
> More than 30 students have PhDs in various fields, while more than 50
> are professors and researchers in various universities. Some 200
> students will also attend the Little School through video conference.
> Just like the Zapatistas did in the years of the Global Justice
> Movement, with their Encuentros in their territories, now, in the
> years of the Real Democracy Movement, they again invite the world to
> come and see what autonomy and freedom looks and works like for the
> Zapatistas.
>
> “What for?” some may ask. “The Zapatista example is one that cannot be
> followed everywhere: we don’t live in the jungles of Chiapas to create
> rebel armies and autonomous communities,” others say. You may have
> heard these arguments before, as have I. Well, the answer is simple:
> the Zapatistas never projected themselves as the one and only example
> to be followed. They have constructed a world in which they have
> realized their own vision of freedom and autonomy, and continue to
> fight for a world in which other worlds are possible.
>
> That’s the world they invite us to experience. And, on the last day of
> theEscuelita, the Zapatistas will tell the students: “the school is
> over, what are you still doing here? Go back to your lands!” After
> all, “We didn’t invite you in order to recruit you, train you,
> un-train you, program you, or, like they say, “reset” you. We have
> opened a door and invited you to come in and see our house, to see
> what we have constructed with the help of people all over the world…
> The outcome of the Escuelita is not militancy, belonging, submission
> to command, nor fanaticism. What follows the Escuelita is something
> that you, and only you, can decide… and act upon.”
>
> In the next days, ROAR will keep you updated on the fiestas and the
> Escuelita. For those of you who would like to be part of it, the
> Zapatistas are organizing another course, in December-January
> 2013-’14, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the original
> Zapatista uprising of January 1, 1994. Those interested to participate
> in person or through video conference will find information on how to
> do so on Enlace Zapatista.
>
> Vale. Salud y hasta la próxima.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: OWS Zapatista <owszapatista@...>
> Date: 7 August 2013 19:09
> Subject: Corrected typo (sorry) Fwd: Zapatista Freedom School to
> Implement a Language Justice Program! Starting next Monday!
> To:
>
>
> Ø  The Zapatista School to implement a language justice system -
> students will know how ii is to live in the language of a conqueror.
> There will be simultaneous translation from a Mayan language into
> Spanish.
>
> Ø  Their government system to be against dogmatism: “What you will see
> here works for us now. New generations will build their own paths, in
> their own ways and their own times. A concept of freedom does not
> enslave its future inheritors” their collective speaker says.
>
> Ø  The “Freedom According to Zapatistas” School is coming up this
> Monday August 12! Occupy Wall Street people are invited to watch it
> online in two different schedules for people who work at night!
>
> Ø  Still don’t know how to access online next Monday? Want to go to
> Chiapas for the next cycle of workshops in December? Write to us at
> owszapatista@... for more information. (We don’t want your
> money, your vote or your admiration. We are not seeking to control
> you. We are just a source of information about Zapatistas.)
>
> “Your Reality will be your Test”
>
> The Zapatista Freedom School will implement a language justice system
> - students will know how it is to live in the language of a conqueror,
> without understanding it (just as immigrant workers in the US!).
>
> Each student arriving to the autonomous communities in Chiapas will be
> assigned one family to stay with for a week. He/she/he-she will taken
> care of, fed and shown the everyday life of an autonomous Zapatista
> family. However, the student will not be able to understand what the
> family is saying, because they don’t speak Spanish. They speak in one
> of the Mayan languages.
>
> Their teacher “Votán” (meaning “guardian” in Mayan) will be their
> translator. “Your female/male/femalemale guardian will also be your
> simultaneous translator who doesn’t need batteries. Because here, as
> far as it is possible, you will be spoken to in our native languages.
> Only your female or male guardian “Votán” will speak to you in
> Spanish. This way you will experience what happens when an indigenous
> person tries to speak in a dominant language. The fundamental
> difference is that here you will not be treated with disdain or
> mockery for not understanding what is said to you or for
> mispronouncing words”, Subcomandante Marcos says.
>
> “In the meeting that you will attend with your classmates in the zone,
> you will not be able to ask questions directly to the teacher; rather,
> you will ask your female or male guardian “Votán” and they will
> translate the question for the teacher, who will respond in their
> mother tongue and your guardian will translate back to you. You will
> of course be left with the doubt as to whether your question was
> adequately translated and if the answer you got is the same as that
> which the teacher gave. But, isn’t that exactly what an indigenous
> person is subject to with a translator in the government courts of
> justice? This way you will understand that what they call “equality
> under the law” is just one more monstrosity of illegitimate justice in
> our world. Where is the legal equality if the translation of things
> like ‘freedom,’ ‘democracy,’ and ‘justice’ are made with the same
> words of those who want to enslave, dispossess, and disappear us?
> Where is equality if accusation, trial, and sentencing is made by a
> legal system that, in addition to corrupt, is imposed in the language
> of the Ruler? Where is justice in a system whose judgment is based on
> the premise of cultural dispossession? That is why the school will be
> like this. That is why the guardian will have this purpose. Because…
> They are us… Your Votán is a wide collective voice concentrated in a
> person. He or she will not speak as an individual. Each Votán is all
> of us Zapatistas.”
>
>
>
> The “Freedom According to Zapatistas” School is coming up this Monday
> August 12! Occupy Wall Street is invited to watch it online in two
> different schedules for people who work at night! If you need more
> information, write to us at owszapatista@...
>
>
>
> Below please find the complete English translation on the last
> Zapatista communiques about the upcoming “Little School”
>
>
>
> -----------------
>
> VOTÁN II.
>
>
>
> The Guardians.
>
>
>
> July of 2013.
>
>
>
> Now we want to explain to you how the little school will work (the
> list of school items you’ll need, the methodology, the teachers, the
> course subjects, the schedules, etc.), so the first thing is…
>
>
>
> What you will need.
>
>
>
> The only thing that you need, objectively, to attend the Zapatistas’
> little school (in addition to being invited, of course, and your one
> hundred pesos for the book-DVD packet), is the willingness to listen.
>
>
>
> So there’s no reason to heed the advice or recommendations of those
> people, however well-intentioned, who say that you need to bring this
> or that equipment, based on the fact that “they have been in
> community.”
>
>
>
> Those who really have been in community don’t go around bragging about
> it, and they also know well that what one truly needs is to know how
> to look and listen. Those who have come to community to talk (and to
> try to tell us what to do, or to offer us charity in the form of money
> or “wisdom”) have been and will be many, too many. And those who have
> come to listen are very few. But I’ll tell you about that on another
> occasion.
>
>
>
> So you don’t need to buy anything special (I read that someone only
> had some old tennis shoes to bring, that’s cool). Bring a notebook and
> a pen or pencil. It is not mandatory that you bring your computer,
> smartphone, tablet, or whatever you use now, but you can if you like.
> There won’t, however, be a cellular signal where you will be. There is
> Internet in some “caracoles” (Zapatista autonomous communities,
> meaning snails-conchs which is the symbol of Mayan time and the spiral
> of History),  but its speed is, how shall I put it, a little like
> “pegassus,” Durito’s mount [a turtle]. Yes, you can bring your
> whatever-you-call-it that you use to listen to music. Yes, you can
> bring a camera and a recorder. Yes, you can record audio and take
> photos and video, but only according to the rules, which Sub-Commander
> Insurgent Moisés will tell you about. Yes, you can bring your teddy
> bear or equivalent.
>
>
>
> Other things that might be useful: a flashlight; your toothbrush and a
> towel (if you want to bathe and it is possible to do so); at least one
> change of clothes, in case you get covered in mud; your medicines, if
> they are necessary and a trained capable person has prescribed them; a
> plastic bag for your identification and money (always keep these
> things with you—we will only ask you for your identification at
> registration, to see if you are really you); another plastic bag for
> the study materials you will receive here; you should also put your
> (under—if you use it—and outer) wear in plastic bags.
>
>
>
> Remember: you can bring as much stuff as you want, but everything you
> bring you will have to carry yourself. So none of this “I’m going to
> take the piano just in case I have time to practice my
> do-re-mi-fa-so-la.” And no, you can’t bring your Xbox, ps3 wii, or
> that old Atari console.
>
>
>
> What is in fact essential to have, you cannot buy. It is what you
> bring already incorporated within your person and can be found, if you
> start at your neck, below and to the left.
>
>
>
> Okay, having clarified that, I will here list what you do need to
> attend the little school in community. Without the following
> requirements, YOU WILL NOT BE ADMITTED:
>
>
>
> -Disinclination to talk or to judge.
>
>
>
> -Willingness to listen and watch.
>
>
>
> -A well-disposed heart.
>
>
>
> Your race, age, gender, sexual preference, place of origin, religion,
> scholarliness, stature, weight, physical appearance, equipment, “long
> experience” on Zapatismo, or what you wear or don’t wear on your feet,
> none of that matters.
>
>
>
> The Scholarly Space and Schedule.
>
>
>
> According to the Zapatistas, the place of teaching and
> learning—school—is the collective. That is, the community. And the
> teachers and students are those who make up the collective. All of
> them. So there is no teacher, but rather a collective that teaches,
> that demonstrates, that trains, and in it and with it—a person who
> learns and, at the same time, teaches.
>
>
>
> So when you attend your first day of class in community (this will be
> different if one is taking the course another way), do not expect to
> find yourself in a traditional school. The classroom that we have
> prepared for you is not a closed space with a blackboard and a
> professor at the front of the room imparting knowledge to the students
> who he or she will then evaluate and sanction (that is, classify into
> good and bad students), but rather, the open space of the community.
> And this community is not a “sect” (here Zapatistas, non-Zapatistas,
> and, in some cases, anti-Zapatistas live together), nor is it
> hegemonic, homogeneous, closed (here people from different calendars
> and geographies visit all year around), or dogmatic (here we also
> learn from Others).
>
>
>
> So you are not coming to a school that operates on the traditional
> schedule. You will be in school every hour of every day during your
> stay here. The most important part of your time in the little
> Zapatista school is your living experience with the family with whom
> you will stay. You will go with them to get firewood, to the
> cornfield, to the river/stream/spring, you will cook and eat with them
> (of course, you will only eat what doesn’t harm you or go against your
> convictions—for example, if you are vegetarian or vegan, they won’t
> give you meat, but please let us know beforehand because the compas,
> when they are happy with a visit, often cook chicken or pork, or the
> community or autonomous municipality or Good Government Council might
> take one of its collective cows and make a stew for everybody), you
> will rest with them, and, above all, you will get tired with them.
>
>
>
> All in all, during these days you will be part of an indigenous
> Zapatista family.
>
>
>
> And that is the reason why we can’t accept people coming with their
> camping tent or RV. That is why there is a limit on the number of
> people who can come. Because many people do indeed fit on these lands,
> but under the little Zapatista roofs only a few fit. If you want to
> camp, to live close to nature or its bucolic equivalents, fine, but
> not here on these dates.
>
>
>
> So you won’t be living with your gang, group, or collective. Nor with
> other “citizens” [like city-dwellers]. If you come with your family,
> partner, or your not-so-much-a-partner, you can be together if you
> like, but no one else. None of this “all of us who came from
> such-and-such place are going to get together to hang out or talk or
> sing around the campfire or whatever.” This you can do in your
> geographies and calendars. You (or you and your family, or partner, or
> not-so-much-a-partner) are coming here to participate in the daily
> life and knowledge of the indigenous Zapatista people, and, of course,
> the daily life of non-Zapatista indigenous people.
>
>
>
> The Zapatistas are a people that have the particularity of not only
> having challenged the powerful, nor only of having maintained their
> rebellion and resistance for 20 years. They also, and above all, have
> managed to build (in conditions which you will become personally
> acquainted with) the indigenous Zapatista definition of freedom: to
> govern and govern ourselves in accord with our ways, in our geography
> and our calendar. Yes, this part about “our geography and our
> calendar” defines a considerable distance between ours and other
> projects. We warn you that this is not only not a model to follow
> (some things have worked for us and some things haven’t), a new
> evangelism, or a new fashion for export; it is also not a
> “construction manual for freedom.” It is not that for the other native
>  peoples of Mexico, much less for all of the peoples who struggle in
> all of the corners of the world.
>
>
>
> In addition, take careful note, we are defining a time. What you will
> see here works for us now. New generations will build their own paths,
> with their own ways and their own times. A concept of freedom does not
> enslave its future inheritors.
>
>
>
> For us, this is freedom: to exercise the right to construct our own
> destiny, with no one that rules over us and tells us what to do or not
> do. In other words: it is our right to fall and pick ourselves back
> up. We know well that this is built with rebellion and dignity,
> knowing that there are other worlds and other ways, and that, just
> like we are building ours here, others are going about building their
> identity, their dignity.
>
>
>
> During the week that you live with the Zapatista communities, you will
> only twice go to a meeting in the Caracol with all of the students of
> the zone that you are assigned to. In this meeting, where many
> different colors and ways from many different calendars and
> geographies will meet, there will be a teacher dedicated to trying to
> respond to any questions or doubts that have come up during your stay.
> This is because we think that it will be good for you to hear the
> doubts that arose for someone from another country or another
> continent, another city, another reality…
>
>
>
> But the most fundamental part of the little school you will learn with your…
>
>
>
> Votán.
>
>
>
> Over the course of a few months, tens of thousands of Zapatista
> families have been preparing to receive those who come to the little
> school in community. Along with them, thousands of women and men,
> indigenous Zapatistas, have become a Votán, simultaneously individual
> and collective.
>
>
>
> So you should know what role the Votán will play, because the Votán
> is, as they say, the backbone of the little school. It is the method,
> the study plan, the teacher, the school, the classroom, the
> blackboard, the notebook, the pen, the desk with an apple, the recess,
> the exam, the graduation, and the cap and gown.
>
>
>
> A lot has been written and said about what Votán (or “Uotán”, or
> “Wotán”, or “Botán”) means. For example, that the word doesn’t exist
> in the Mayan language and is just a misunderstood or badly translated
> version of “Ool Tá aan,” which would be something like “The Heart that
> Speaks.” Or that it refers to an earthquake; or the growl of the
> jaguar, or the beating of the heart of the earth, or the heart of the
> sky, or the heart of the water, or the heart of the mountain, or all
> this and more. But, as in everything that refers to originary peoples,
> these are versions upon versions from those who have tried to dominate
> (sometimes with knowledge) these lands and their inhabitants. So,
> unless you have interest in contemplating interpretations of
> interpretations (that end up ignoring their creators), here we refer
> to the meaning that the Zapatistas give to the Votán. And it will be
> something like “guardian of the heart of the people,” or “guardian and
> heart of the earth,” or “guardian and heart of the world.”
>
>
>
> Each of the little school students, regardless of their age, gender,
> or race, will have their Votán, a guardian (or guardiana) [feminine].
>
>
>
> That is, in addition to the family with whom you will live for those
> days, you will have a tutor who will help you understand what,
> according to the Zapatistas, freedom is.
>
>
>
> The Guardians [masculine and feminine] are people like all common
> people. Only these are people that rebelled against the powerful who
> exploited, dispossessed, disrespected, and repressed them, and they
> are people who have given their life to that rebellion. Despite this,
> the Votán that we are does not preach the cult of death, glory, or
> Power, but rather walks through life in a daily struggle for freedom.
>
>
>
> Your personal Votán, your female or male guardian “Votán”, will tell
> you our history, explain who we are, where we are, why we fight, how
> we struggle, and alongside who we want to struggle. They will talk to
> you about our achievements and our errors, study the textbooks with
> you, resolve any doubts they are able to (and for when they are not
> able, we have the larger meeting). They are the ones who will speak to
> you in Spanish (the family with whom you live will always speak to you
> in their mother tongue), they will translate for you what the family
> says, and will translate to the family what you want to say or know.
> They will walk with you, go to the cornfield or to bring firewood or
> water with you, they will cook and eat with you, sing and dance with
> you, sleep near you, accompany you when you go to the bathroom, tell
> you which bugs to avoid, make sure you take your medicine; in sum,
> they will teach and take care of you.
>
>
>
> You can ask your Votán anything: if we are really the offspring of
> Salinas, if SupMarcos is dead or just tanning himself on a European
> beach, if SubMoy is going to show up at some point, if the world is
> round, if he or she believes in elections, if he or she is for the
> Jaguares [Chiapas’ Mexican professional league soccer team], etc. etc.
> In contrast to other teachers, if your female or male guardian “Votán”
> doesn’t know the answer, they’ll say “I don’t know.”
>
>
>
> Your guardian “Votán” will also be your simultaneous translator that
> doesn’t need batteries. Because here, as far as it is possible, you
> will be spoken to in our native languages. Only your female or male
> guardian “Votán” will speak to you in Spanish. This way you will
> experience what happens when an indigenous person tries to speak in a
> dominant language. The fundamental difference is that here you will
> not be treated with disdain or mockery for not understanding what is
> said to you or for mispronouncing words.
>
>
>
> There might be laughter, yes, but out of sympathy for your effort to
> understand and make yourself understood. And note, your Votán will not
> only translate words, but also colors, flavors, sounds, entire worlds,
> that is, a culture.
>
>
>
> In the meeting that you will attend with your classmates in the zone,
> you will not be able to ask questions directly of the teacher; rather,
> you will ask your female or male guardian “Votán” and they will
> translate the question for the teacher, who will respond in their
> mother tongue and your guardian will translate back to you. You will
> of course be left with the doubt as to whether your question was
> adequately translated and if the answer you got is the same as that
> which the teacher gave. But, isn’t that exactly what an indigenous
> person is subject to with a translator in the government courts of
> justice? This way you will understand that what they call “juridical
> equality” is just one more monstrosity of justice in our world. Where
> is juridical equality if the translation of things like “freedom,”
> “democracy,” and “justice” are made with the same words of those who
> want to enslave, dispossess, and disappear us? Where is equality if
> accusation, trial, and sentencing is made by a juridical system that,
> in addition to corrupt, is imposed in the language of the Ruler? Where
> is justice in a system whose judgment is based on the premise of
> cultural dispossession? That is why the school will be like this. That
> is why the Votán will have this purpose. Because…
>
>
>
> They are us.
>
>
>
> Your Votán is a great collective concentrated in a person. He or she
> will not speak as an individual. Each Votán is all of us Zapatistas.
>
>
>
> A few weeks ago, Subcomandantes Moisés and Marcos gave the
> responsibility of spokesperson to thousands of indigenous Zapatista
> men and women to hold for the days of the little school. During those
> days in August (and later next December and January), the EZLN will
> speak through their voice; through their ears the EZLN will listen;
> and in their heart will beat the great “we” that we are.
>
>
>
> So during the days of the Little School, you will have a teacher who
> is nothing more and nothing less than the maximum Zapatista authority,
> the supreme head of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation: Votán.
> And the Votán will also be in charge of…
>
>
>
> The Children.
>
>
>
> One guardiana for each child/student who is a minor (12 years old or
> younger) will accompany the mother and/or father all of the time,
> helping to take care of the child, making sure they don’t get sick,
> that they take their medicine, that they play, learn, and are happy.
> If the child knows how to read, the guardiana will study our textbook
> with the child, and tell stories of how the indigenous children lived
> before the uprising and how they live now. They will tell terrible and
> marvelous stories, and jokes, and maybe even sing the children the
> song about “the moño colorado.” And if the children misbehave, they
> will tell them not to act like that, because if they do SupMarcos will
> come with his great big bag of cookies and won’t give them even one,
> even if they are animal crackers, and that the great Don Durito of the
> Lacandón will not tell them the story of how he fought, all by
> himself, against 3.141592 toothless dragons, nor the marvelous story
> of Lucezita and the Cat-Dog that, they tell me, leaves Ironman,
> Batman, The Avengers, Spiderman, X-Man, Wolverine, and anything else
> that comes out, in the dust.
>
>
>
> All of the children, with the family members that accompany them, will
> be assigned to the zones closest to
>
>
>
> San Cristóbal de Las Casas, under the best conditions we can offer.
> They will have specially prepared lodging with their mother or father
> so that they do not get cold or wet if it rains. There will also be
> compas present who know about health and first aid. And in the case of
> an emergency, two ambulances and two other vehicles will be available
> 24 hours a day to take the child to the city if a doctor is needed, or
> to get medicine if needed. If it is necessary for a family to return
> to their own particular geography before the school is over, we have a
> small economic fund to help them with their tickets or gasoline.
>
>
>
> In short, the children will have very special treatment. But neither
> they nor the adults will escape the…
>
>
>
> The Test.
>
>
>
> It is the most difficult test you can imagine. It does not consist of
> a written exam, a thesis, or multiple choice questions; and there
> won’t be a jury or a council of judges with university titles to grade
> you.
>
>
>
> Your reality will be your test, on your own calendar, in your own
> geography, and your council of judges will be… the mirror.
>
>
>
> There you will see if you can respond to the only question on the
> final exam: what is freedom according to you and yours?
>
>
>
> -*-
>
>
>
> Vale. Cheers and believe me, I say out of my own experience, what one
> certainly learns best here is to ask questions. And it’s worth it.
>
>
>
> From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
>
>
>
> SupMarcos.
>
>
>
> Mexico, July of 2013.
>
>
>
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