{"id":10018,"date":"2012-06-03T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elenemigocomun.net\/?p=10018"},"modified":"2016-10-12T19:14:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T02:14:20","slug":"autonomous-paths-converge-cheran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elenemigocomun.net\/2012\/06\/autonomous-paths-converge-cheran\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous Paths Converge in Cher\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Cher\u00e1n K\u2019eri uprising on April 15, 2011 and the process of self-government now underway in that community is, for many, a source of inspiration, a strong show of resistance to be defended, and an experience to learn from. That\u2019s why around 500 people from 15 cities in Mexico and 11 countries in the world set up camp just outside this Pur\u00e9pecha town in Michoac\u00e1n on May 24-27, 2012, as part of the National Encounter of Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Resistance. The idea was to lend support to the Cher\u00e1n community and share experiences of autonomy, options of self-organization, and ways of living in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n

During three marches through the streets of the town, people shouted: We\u2019re with you, Cher\u00e1n! You can count on us, Cher\u00e1n!<\/p>\n

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Guille, a Cher\u00e1n woman, speaks<\/a> | Voices of the Community Patrol<\/a> | From Radio Fogata, \u00c1ngel y Mauri talk about their project<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the inauguration ceremony in the main plaza, the Town Council of Cher\u00e1n welcomed everyone, and spiritual leader Jos\u00e9 Merced pointed out that this is not Cher\u00e1n\u2019s first insurrection. During the Mexican Revolution,\u00a0 Cher\u00e1n rose up in arms. He said, \u201cIn Cher\u00e1n\u2019s new self-government the K\u2019eri are the councils directly chosen by the people, shutting out the political parties and politicians seeking power. In Cher\u00e1n K\u2019eri they\u2019re a thing of the past!<\/strong>\u2026 We welcome you with all our heart regardless of age. Youth is something we carry in our hearts. We\u00b4re forever young in our hearts and souls — young warriors forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the ceremony, Eduarda of Radio \u00d1omndaa read a document about autonomy that spoke of Cher\u00e1n as an example of struggle, dignity and resistance. A statement by the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Resistance Network was also read which defined four avenues of resistance: blocking the flow of capital, ending the war on the people of Mexico, defending Mother Nature, and building autonomy. Messages of support were read from Occupy Oakland and Barcelona\u2019s indignant movement. The announcer asked for a moment of silence for ten community people killed in defense of the forest and the community, and a traditional ceremony was then held in which four young girls presented the beautiful flag of the Pur\u00e9pecha nation with the symbol of the great fire in the center and the inscription Juchari Uinapikua, Our Force, written below.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same afternoon in the main plaza, the first forum was held with speakers from the Brigada Callejera, FPFVI-UNOPI and Radio \u00d1omndaa, groups that have spent years on paths of resistance, autonomy and self-organization. The first group began organizing sex workers in the area of one of the oldest urban markets in Mexico City and now has chapters in 28 states, the second has concentrated on housing problems and the creation of cultural and educational spaces in urban neighborhoods, and the third helped establish the autonomous municipality of Suljaa on the Costa Chica of Guerrero and set up a radio station in the amuzgo language, Radio \u00d1omndaa, Word of the Water, under heavy repression from local power bosses and governments of all political parties.<\/p>\n

In the days that followed, activities included fire ceremonies, workshops, dialogue tables, forums, video screenings and cultural programs featuring traditional music and dances of Cher\u00e1n along with a little rap, reggae dub and ska.<\/p>\n

On May 26, the last night of the Encounter, a forum was held in which Ignacio del Valle of San Salvador Atenco was one of the speakers. He recalled the words of a federal police chief: \u201cGet out of our way because we\u2019re going to sweep you off the streets.\u201d \u201cBut we decided not to be swept off the streets,\u201d said Nacho. \u201cWe will never forget the way they attacked us, but we have to move on ahead, refusing to give up or give in.\u201d Other participants from Cher\u00e1n included the young people of Radio Fogata and the Community Patrol, as well as a member of the Cher\u00e1n Town Council, who recalled that the community had been divided by the indolence and selfishness of six political parties that allowed the destruction of the forest, the water, and the life of the community until a group of brave women, along with the youth of the town, put an end to the abuses. He stressed that there are no leaders in Cher\u00e1n, where \u201ckeeping a tree alive is support for life itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The applause was overwhelming when Angelina took her place on the platform.\u00a0 She reminded people that before April 15, 2011, townspeople weren\u2019t free to walk in the streets at night. \u201cWe had to take action for our children\u2019s sake,\u201d she said. After running out the clear-cutters, the women spent many cold nights around campfires in defense of the community. \u201cWe used to be afraid,\u201d she said, \u201cbut now I\u2019m happy because we\u2019re doing pretty well and we’re freer than we were before.\u201d\u00a0 The next speaker was Alicia, a member of the Dialogue Commission, who spoke about how a handful of women had to break with despair and humiliation in order to take the lead in the defense of the forest and the community.<\/p>\n

In the forum, the anthropologist Gilberto L\u00f3pez y Rivas reminded everyone of the military and police penetration of the United States in Mexico and of that country\u2019s imperial strategy. He said that in Cher\u00e1n we have seen how autonomy can be a way to struggle against organized crime, but autonomy is not always a positive thing. We have to give it content, he said, and the key to that is self-transformation.<\/p>\n

On May 27, the Encounter ended with a spirited march (the third) from the camp to the center of town. A contingent of townspeople joined in, dancing joyfully in lines that wound through the streets to the music of the Cher\u00e1n brass band.<\/p>\n

At the closing ceremony of the Encounter, participants voiced our support for the freedom of political prisoners Alberto Patisht\u00e1n G\u00f3mez and Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez, demanded justice for San Juan Copala, and repudiated the evacuation of the Alt\u00e9petl occupation in Mexico City. We reiterated our support for Cher\u00e1n and approved a proposal of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Resistance Network to hold a series of national solidarity activities with the people of Cher\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

The voices of some people of Cher\u00e1n interviewed by this reporter are transcribed below; in two cases other members of the free and independent media participated in the interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Guille, a Cher\u00e1n woman, speaks:<\/h3>\n

\u201cIt was really early in the morning. A lot of people hadn\u2019t gotten up yet. I was one of the first people to respond to the call for action. I was really worried because of all the fireworks set off in the area where the conflict began. Here, we use fireworks to communicate with each other when something important happens in the community. When people hear them, we unconsciously count how many have sounded. If there are more than three, we go out into the street to see what\u2019s happening. That day it seemed like hundreds were set off. Then the church bells began to ring and that\u2019s always a sign that something really big is happening. It\u2019s like saying: Watch out, Cher\u00e1n. We\u2019re in deep trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI work in a nursery and before that day I just did my job. I hardly ever went to meetings. When they were clear-cutting, a lot of people were threatened and there were even kidnappings and extortions. After 7 o\u2019clock in the evening, we couldn\u2019t walk around in the streets. We had to stay inside because that\u2019s when they came in to cut down trees, and if they saw people on the streets, they threatened us. They began to come down the mountain with the wood around 3, 4, or 5 o\u2019clock in the morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were meetings to talk about what to do, and they were held more frequently after three people from the Communal Property Commission were disappeared on February 10, 2011. In the meetings, there was a lot of division over peoples\u2019 proposals and none of us dared to say \u2018enough is enough\u2019 because we were afraid. But April 15 wasn\u2019t a day like any other.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I went to see what was going on, I found out that a neighbor had been wounded and that there was a need to support the women who were taking action. I started walking through the streets telling everybody to block the roads because the trucks were no longer allowed in the community. I wanted more people to come out to support these women. So from the very first day, I was with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll just explain what they were doing there. Every Friday it\u2019s customary for all the women to sweep the streets of the town really early in the morning, around 6 o\u2019clock. So that day, the group of women sweeping in the area of El Calvario church were the ones who started the whole thing. There must have been about twenty of them. It was always a sad sight to see those trucks coming down the mountain loaded with wood, and that day several of them came down at the same time right around 6 o\u2019clock in the morning. Those women just started throwing stones and fireworks at them. Nobody said, \u2018Today\u2019s the day\u2019, or \u2018We\u2019ll begin at such and such an hour\u2019. Things just kicked off. It was spontaneous\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they heard the fireworks and the church bells, a group of young people joined in almost immediately, and then a lot more neighbors did, too. Seven trucks were burned and five men were detained. The rest got away with the help of our local police. From that time on, we stopped recognizing the authority of the police. Most of them weren\u2019t even from here. And in fact, they were working with the organized crime group.\u00a0 The people detained were held for seven days.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom then on, we began to have meetings every day at 6 o\u2019clock in the evening, at first in the El Calvario neighborhood and then at established points in each of the four barrios. The general meetings were held in the center of town. It was really heavy because we\u2019d never been through anything like that before. Some people took quite a long time to get over their fright and come out of their houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost impossible to say what I felt at the time. I felt a lot of impotence when I thought we weren\u2019t going to be able to stop them because they were armed and we weren\u2019t, but at the same time, that very impotence made me angry enough to keep on. We couldn\u2019t stand by and do nothing just because they had arms. We didn\u2019t know what was going to happen, but fortunately, I think we\u2019ve put a dent in the number of trees they were chopping down, and above all, I think we\u2019re more free than we were before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe barricades were put up that same day. Campfires were also lit on the street corners every night. How? We don\u2019t know. It was almost instinctual. \u2018I\u2019m here on this street corner and I\u2019m going to protect my area.\u2019 Nobody told us: \u2018You, make fires. You, put up barricades.\u2019\u00a0 There were no leaders, and the community patrol wasn\u2019t organized until later on. We were unarmed. All we had were the groups of guards organized around the fires. Women, men, young people and children joined in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we began to practice autonomy the moment we decided to stand up to those people. Why don\u2019t we want municipal presidents and all that? Because they\u2019re part of the game. If we accept them, it would be the same thing as allowing our forests to be destroyed even more than they already have been. The politicians are hand in hand with organized crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom that day to this, we\u2019re different. And struggling, fighting to be different has cost lives. But in honor of those people who have given their lives for this struggle, we\u2019re going to keep on doing all we can to protect Mother Nature, which is our life. I feel calm and peaceful. I identify with what\u2019s going on because I lived it from the very first moment. I don\u2019t have children, but I have nephews, and I want them to live free.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still a lot of uncertainty because we haven\u2019t achieved all that we want to. We haven\u2019t been able to get them to leave our territory alone. Even though they\u2019re not clear-cutting here, they\u2019re taking out wood from other areas. Not as much as before, but we still can\u2019t breathe a sigh of relief. We want them to leave our forests in good shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are brigades of men who go up the forest every day to watch over them, reforest, rehabilitate, and clean them. It\u2019s really dangerous. Unfortunately, we\u2019ve lost more lives in our attempts to rescue the forest.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people are sorry they got involved, especially those who had an interest in the power struggles of the political parties. But those who were looking for a position of power in the town government were shut out, and in a way, defeated. Once again, they\u2019re trying to disintegrate us, but we hope they won\u2019t be successful. We\u2019re still strong and we\u2019re united. We\u2019re in the majority. In our movement there are people who never had anything to do with the political parties. I think we\u2019re on the right track. We haven\u2019t gained everything we want to, but we\u2019re safer than before. And we\u2019re free.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing I\u2019d like is for people who read your article to analyze the movement and see that it has nothing to do with the interests of a small group of people. The benefits are going to be for everybody. We all love the planet. The trees give us life. They give us water. And we have to respect their lives, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Voices of the Community Patrol<\/h3>\n

Interview done in conjunction with Mar\u00eda X and Elena<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they were cutting down trees up on the mountain, they passed through the town and we had to get out of their way because they were armed. That\u2019s why we were afraid. We had asked the government to stop the clear-cutting, but as usual, those authorities don\u2019t do a thing for the people. It\u2019s just one promise after another. Even now, nothing at all has been resolved by the government\u00a0 \u2013\u2013 only by the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen this movement got going, the people who started it were the women. It was around 4 o\u2019clock in the morning when they began to stop the trucks and set off fireworks. And people started gathering near the chapel in the third barrio called El Calvario. That\u2019s where it all began. A lot of people turned out. We blocked the street with stones. Nobody could come into the town. We put up the barricades and lit the campfires, and people brought us food at night. But at first, the Community Patrol didn\u2019t exist. We rose up unarmed, and it wasn\u2019t until later on that we armed ourselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the people proposed the formation of the Patrol and invited young people to sign up. I was invited to join, and I\u2019ve been part of it since two months after the conflict began. Why? Because I wanted to be on the side of the people. I wanted to defend them. I wanted to make sure those criminals couldn\u2019t come back. That\u2019s why we got organized.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re volunteers. Nobody says: \u2018You, come over here\u2019. From the first, we were the ones who started arming ourselves. Personally, I really like this movement. It\u2019s against those guys who were cutting down our forests. We have four barrios here, and we each watch over our own barrio. At first it was pretty tiring to be here day and night, but now we\u2019ve gotten a little better organized. We come in at 10 o\u2019clock in the morning and leave at 10 o\u2019clock at night. Then another shift comes in and we can rest for a while.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have any bosses. All of us are together here. Anybody in the Patrol can answer any question you want to ask us. We all know what\u2019s gone on here and what\u2019s going on right now. We\u2019re here of our own free will. Now we have coordinators, but the decisions are made by all of us.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve achieved some of our goals. Now they\u2019re not clear-cutting around here, although they are still\u00a0taking out wood from that hill over there through a ranch called Cerezos. But since we\u2019ve been standing guard, the situation has calmed down. They haven\u2019t disappeared any more people here in Cher\u00e1n. People can walk around freely at night because they know we\u2019re here at the entrances to the town. We\u2019ve set up our own government. We don\u2019t want to have anything to do with the political parties because all they do is create divisions. Instead, everybody is working together now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people who are against the movement. Most of them are in the wood business, but they\u2019re only about an eighth of the community. Most people agree with us. The situation is still tense. In April two community people were killed and today they found the body of another person. We still don\u2019t have all the details of what happened. All the people we kicked out probably want to come back. But they\u2019re not going to be able to. We want to thank all the people who\u2019ve supported us.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

From Radio Fogata, \u00c1ngel y Mauri talk about their project<\/h3>\n

Interview conducted along with Alejandra of La Voz de Villa Radio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> The name of the radio has to do with the way the community got organized around the campfires when the movement first started on April 15, 2011. We chose the name Radio Fogata because of these campfires and also because, for the Pur\u00e9pechas, fire is a major symbol and a way to get organized. The radio began as a workshop for young people \u2026. Most were between 15 and 20 years old\u2026. We talk about problems of migration and the environment and about women\u2019s issues. Other community groups also participate in the programs. We\u2019ve invited the children several times, for example. They\u2019re really interested in taking care of our natural resources.\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong> One of the reasons we decided to start a radio is to inform the townspeople and communicate with them. In the past, there wasn\u2019t a way to communicate with people when there were meetings or events or when something important happened. There is another radio in Cher\u00e1n, but it belongs to the government and it\u2019s never broadcast information about what\u2019s really happening.\u2026<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> Yes, as a matter of fact, that radio was once taken over. The whole community came out against it because it never said anything about what was going on here. Then, after the workshop, we started this radio with people who\u2019ve never worked at a radio station but who want to support the community somehow…<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong> Beforehand, I was a high school student. At the time, there were no classes and I didn\u2019t have anything to do, so I decided to pitch in. I was just staying at home doing nothing, and we\u2019re never going to get anywhere that way, are we? So one day I decided to get out of the house, and I heard about the radio workshop. I said to myself: Come on, let\u2019s go. Let\u2019s see what this is all about.<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> I didn\u2019t have any experience in communication. I also heard about the workshop and it sounded interesting. I never believed I\u2019d be part of a radio project one day and that I\u2019d be broadcasting programs about the environment, which I did have some experience in. I used to study in the School of Biology in Morelia and I\u2019m really interested in nature. So when I did join the radio collective and saw a lot of the environmental problems we have here in the community, I decided to do a program with a comrade and get out information to all the youth, all the people, all the children, telling them that we have to change our way of relating to nature and start taking care of our resources so we can be in peace with ourselves and our natural environment.<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong> The main satisfaction you get from working in a radio collective like this is that you change as a person. You stop thinking that everyone is happy and that everyone is a good person. You totally change your way of thinking about the political parties, about the way people get organized, about what\u2019s happening in the world. You get more interested in what\u2019s going on around us.<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> You learn a lot from everybody that comes to visit, from all the collectives that come here from other parts of the country and other parts of the world\u2026We\u2019ve realized that we\u2019re not the only ones with community problems\u2026You have a lot of new experiences and you learn a lot from them, and you feel good because you know people are listening to you on the radio and you can change the way a lot of people think.<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong> A message to other young people? Open your eyes. Don\u2019t be fooled.<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> Yeah. Don\u2019t believe what they put out on the major news media. Get motivated. Pick up a microphone.\u00a0 Pick up a camera. Pick up all possible tools of communication to get out the whole truth and not just part of it\u2026. We young people are the ones who can change society. We can demand a lot of things because we\u2019re the ones who are going to be here later on and we\u2019re going to suffer the consequences of all the bad things that are being done right now\u2026 There\u2019ve been a lot of changes here in the community. I feel safer now, because in the past, even the policemen themselves were corrupt. There was no security at all. There was no trust\u2026 But now a lot of people think different, and with this movement the whole community has gotten organized and protected each other. Now I feel safer and really happy because I belong to Radio Fogata and I\u2019ve been able to express myself.<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong> Before April 15, there was a lot of talk about the problem of our trees being cut down and people felt really bad, but because of the fear of so many things like forced disappearances and shootouts, nobody wanted to stand up and say, \u2018No. Stop. This is mine. You have no business here. You\u2019re not part of this community.\u2019 People really wanted to do something, but fear stopped us until that day when we saw the chance to rise up and kick those people out who were robbing our wood, our trees.<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> The problem that made people decide to rise up had existed for a long time, two or three years before April 15. And because we were afraid those people were going to do something to us, nobody did anything until then. In reality, people began to get organized on April 14, then the next day they decided to meet those people with sticks, stones, bottles full of gravel and gasoline with a piece of flannel stuck in them. People were tired of seeing those trucks come down loaded with wood \u2013\u2013not 2 or 3, but 20 or 25. So when the community was getting better organized, people decided to meet them on their own terms. It was ugly. I\u2019ve never forgotten and I\u2019ll never forget the women screaming and children crying. The church bells were ringing and ringing. There was a lot of fear. You wanted to go out and stop those people who had done so much harm to our forest anyway you could, with gunfire or stones. The deep-seated anger against them was really ugly. People were able to capture several of them. And that\u2019s how our movement began. That\u2019s how more movement got started here in the community towards more organization, and we were finally able to set up our own government.<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong> That day I felt really frightened because my school is right there on the road out of the community\u2026I saw one of those 4-wheel drive trucks piled high with people trying to get away.\u00a0 There were a lot of students out there. A disaster. The teachers were really concerned. I felt like running out and doing something, but then that fear come over you. You ask yourself: What do I do now?<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> People got fed up. And since the government didn\u2019t want to do anything against them, the community decided that we ourselves had to stop them. That\u2019s how it happened. There was no strategy or anything like that. Just rage. Since the clear-cutters were armed, people were afraid of getting shot down \u2013\u2013up until that day when they hid behind bushes and on street corners and lay in wait for them. One community person did get shot in the eye and ended up in a wheelchair, but he was brave enough to do something for his community, so he must feel good about that.<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> [The process of organization] was a long one. That day after running them out of town, even though people might have wanted to get together and get better organized, there was still a lot of fear. Cher\u00e1n was a ghost town for months, maybe three months, where hardly anybody dared go out in the streets, not even the dogs\u2026. But at night, groups of people went out to protect people, made up of maybe 30 people who lived on the same block, 10 at a time while the others rested. That\u2019s the way people gradually got organized and the community began to recover. The barricades are still there, but the campfires are not. Things have gotten back to normal. We have our community police and good organization.<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong> [We began to talk about autonomy] when people realized the government wasn\u2019t going to do anything, mainly because of one of the political parties.\u2026 But we didn\u2019t want to go on that way. We were tired of all the lies, so much talk and no action. And that was one of the main reasons we decided to govern ourselves. Now people are chosen to serve on a council not because they are popular, but because of their character, their values, their knowledge, which may come from schooling or from life experience. There\u2019s a lot more trust in them and I think they\u2019re going to do a much better job than the political parties.<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> The political parties don\u2019t do anything right. It\u2019s better to have organization like we have now here in the community and choose our own self-government without the involvement of any political party. They don\u2019t do a thing for the community, only for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong> The radio workshop was held three months after the confrontation when everything had calmed down. A concert was planned and one workshop participant said, \u2018I\u2019ll get you a transmitter and if we can\u2019t get hold of one, we\u2019ll make some radio speakers. We can have an event to talk about what\u2019s happened since the very first day up until now\u201d. Then some people from his collective helped us do our first broadcast and encouraged us to set up our own radio.<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> Our friend at Radio Vecindad really supported us. She loaned us her tape recorder and suggested that we go out to the campfires to interview people so we\u2019d have material to broadcast over the radio. And with her tape recorder, we began to ask people about the uprising that happened here and about what they had against the previous government \u2013\u2013 the lack of security, the overprotection of the clear-cutters. As a matter of fact, in YouTube there are videos of their communities. If you type in \u2018Capacuaro\u2019, you\u2019ll see videos that they themselves made, showing how they cut down the pine trees. And they show newscasts making fun of our community and our government. They\u2019re not interested in how people got organized and stopped the destruction of the forests. They\u2019re protected by the government.<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel:<\/strong>\u00a0Thank you for visiting us. I hope people who hear about all this will want to do something for our environment, for our society so we won\u2019t keep on falling into the traps of the self-serving political parties.<\/p>\n

Mauri:<\/strong> We\u2019re not making up stories. We\u2019ve talked about things happening in our communities. We urge people to get organized and put an end to injustice.<\/p>\n

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