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The Zapatista’s New Year
By Greg L | 6 January 2007 | Zapatistas, Manassas City, Prince William County | 7 Comments
According to this IndyMedia article, representatives from Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, the Woodbridge Worker’s Committee and a couple of other local Virginia front groups for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation travelled down to Mexico in order to ring in the new year Zapatista-style. These little shindigs involve plenty of speeches reminiscent of Chairman Mao and Ho Chi Minh, black ski masks and red bandannas as a de-rigeur fashion statement, and lots of communist indoctrination. They also always seem to involve a lot of military pagentry. It is an army, after all:
The article describes the participation of our local terrorist supporters like this:
As the clock struck 12:00 last night hundreds of soldiers from Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN in spanish initials) and hundreds more civilians from the Zapatista civil society organizations assembled on the basketball court before the mainstage of the International Meeting between the Zapatista People and the People of the World. Around the perimeter of the zapatistas were thousands of international supporters and rebels who had come to participate in the meetings. In this crowd of internationals were representatives from organizations working in Virginia, including the Woodbridge Workers Committee, The Committee of Indigenous Solidarity, Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, The Snails Pace Collective, and Richmond Indymedia. Moments after midnight, dozens of members of the EZLN comandancia dramatically took the stage…
Now when the Woodbridge Workers Committee and Mexicanos Sin Fronteras spend time in front of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors along with Unity In The Community to protest local attempts to control violent criminal illegal aliens in our midst, they embrace the rhetoric of the civil rights movement and at least make an attempt to sound and look somewhat harmless. When they join up with their EZLN buddies, it’s time for ski masks and the language of armed revolution. It seems pretty clear the innocence ploy is a thin subterfuge.
When Ricardo Juarez, leader of Mexicanos Sin Fronteras and the Woodbridge Worker’s Committee says “my country, Mexico” in front of the county council while lobbying against the Section 287(g) program, the press yawns. When he seemingly threatens war in front of the Manassas City Council, the local press ignores it. When Ricardo Juarez shows up in Culpepper wearing military insignia, the press pays no attention. But if the Washington Post, the Culpepper StarExponent, the Manassas Journal-Messenger, ABC 7 News, The Potomac News, or any other media outlet (need I continue?) needs to do a story on “undocumented workers” they run right to Ricardo Juarez for quotes. You’d think that with all the face time Juarez has had with local media outlets, they would have taken a few minutes to check his background.
Perhaps they did, and just don’t care, as I see plenty of media organizations reading this blog.
What will it take for the local media to finally start looking into the connection between Mexicanos Sin Fronteras and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation? And when will they ever take notice of how some organizations such as Unity In The Community work so darned hard to support these folks?
I am deeply concerned about the intent, capabilities and plans of the Zapatista movement in Northern Virginia. While they attempt to influence policy decisions at the local, state and national level, there’s good reason to believe the spectrum of their political activities may be somewhat broader than strictly organizing boisterous protests and lobbying our government on behalf of illegal aliens. The press, and the authorities need to be looking into this.
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Greg,
The Gainesville Times has an interesting article on the Woodbrige Workers. The Times is usually pretty good at telling it like it is, when I find a chance to read it.
http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab6.cfm?newsid=14395344&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506108&rfi=6
Here is another interesting site.
http://www.ciepac.org/archivo/otras%20temas/migrantes/permigrante.htm
Oh after you see the second site, you tell me if the illegals are not depressing wages.
I stand corrected. (Gainesville Times) It must have been an op-ed piece because it was by Robert Mouller.
$6-$10 per hour? And only 80-90 hours per month?
Huge oversupply of labor right there.
Of course this will also find its way into the MJM, since the paper has a down the middle approach to illegal immigration. The MJM is getting pretty good at putting a good spin on illegals. But void from the paper are the most serious issues connected with illegals, such as police killings and other crimes commited by these “hard working” folks.
Hard “working the system” folks.