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General Strike Council
Press Bulletin
Resolutions for the March 11,
2000 session.
1. Pronouncements 1. Normality has NOT returned to UNAM. In UNAM normality does not exists,
despite of what authorities and the government are persisting on imposing and
their campaign which has been as such, believing that by repeating over and over
again their lie it will somehow become true. We tell all the workers, all of the
students of the country and all of the people, that the struggle continues and
the CGH is standing. Whom would have given us up for dead, whom would have sang
our defeat and the sadly celebrated group of threesome composed of Zedillo,
Labastida, and De la Fuente, have had to keep silent amidst the multiple
evidence that the CGH lives and is enjoying good health. Those who hurried up to
cover all trace of our struggle by painting over the walls of the University,
today have finished by declaring that they regret no having achieved the
normality that they decreed since the very moment in which they were given back
the buildings by hands of the military dressed in gray. With firm footing, we
students are reinventing the forms of struggle and recovering confidence. The
indignation is turning into action in multiple corners of our halls of study.
They can no longer silence that there are strikes and closures to classrooms in
multiple schools and faculties. There is no way to hide that students are
challenging the presidents and are closing their offices. It is commented all
over the place that the best representatives of the right-wing and the groups
that hold power at the University had to flee like rats down the sewer drains
amidst the student indignation that transformed into slogans and complaints. No
one can be deaf in front of the student marches through the halls of various
schools and faculties that slowly but surely are awakening the restlessness of
those that were pressured into returning to attend classes. They can not detain
the discussion by denying auditoriums and conference halls, because the forums,
the debates and the cultural political acts are developing in court yards and
open spaces. Who can speak of normality, when De la Fuente performs on the sly
acts behind closed doors, the CGH arrives to intercept and reprehend him.?
We do not renounce any of the points of our petition because, now more than
ever we are convinced that it barely contains the minimum conditions so that the
University can be in conditions to debate and transform itself. We do not accept
and will never accept the intention to do away with the freedom of education, or
the desire to throw out from the University those whom it costs great effort to
study. We shall continue fighting so that our University remains open for the
children of the workers and so that each time more of the can attend. Because,
this University which is autonomous really assumes the evaluation of its
students. So that the political persecution and political espionage can end in
our University, and for a true democratic and resolvent congress which defines
the future of UNAM.
Those of us who are outside of our jails now very well that if we fight we do
so we are putting at risk our permanency at the University and including our
liberty. But that no longer frightens us. And, we feel really proud of our
compañeros when we receive their communications telling us that all confidence
is laid on the CGH, to never exchange points of our petition for them (political
prisoners), that this struggle will not end until there is a resolution to all 7
points of the petition. It gives us pride but it does not amaze us because we
know the type of compañeros with whom we have worked with for more than 10
months and we know that they are ready for anything and more.
Our political prisoner compañeros have given us a great lesson in dignity and
integrity. They have demonstrated that it is true that conscience and commitment
can not be incarcerated. They have taught us that prison is also a trench of
struggle. From them we have learned that he who leaves the struggle, the one who
shirks his duty or surrenders, is really the one who is imprisoned.
The repudiation and condemnation that you carry on your shoulders, señores,
and which does not allow the centering of national attention from your farce of
an electoral process. It will not diminish when opportunities are opened so that
some compañeros may be released but leaving others in their prisons, you lose
all hope. For us, all of our compañeros are the CGH. And while part of that CGH
, which is part of our own selves, is incarcerated we will not stop invading the
streets with brigades and marches, of covering the walls with posters, to take
our word to the buses and the metro, to raise our scream of "POLITICAL PRISONERS
FREEDOM." And there will be no normality, there does not exist a possible return
to normality while the demands are not resolved, while there are political
prisoners compañeros, while they maintain their taxing politics.
2. De la Fuente almost has 4 months and can't do anything. It has almost been
four months, and what has he done? Nothing has been resolved. More than four
months ago the inept De la Fuente was imposed into the rectory who has done
nothing more than to make the conflict more acute. You who are a professional
liar has failed even in your intent to deceive the university community, with
your masks of conciliator, of dialog, of negotiator, of normalized academic
life. You who are a professional hypocrite, can no longer achieve to coax anyone
with your double discourse of "I wasn't informed until 7," "we are going to drop
all charges," "the dialogue will continue," "UNAM will not be dismembered," etc.
You who are a professional repressor, has not been able to annihilate the CGH,
failing in your order given to you by your boss. You who are a coward without
limits, have hidden behind the walls of the rectory, since you launched the
military to open the doors for you, incapable to respond to the university
community. In front of any manifestation of the student's movement struggle for
the resolution of the petition and the liberty of our imprisoned compañeros,
nothing else occurs to you but throw your directors and the group of researchers
and academics who lend themselves to the game of confrontation, nothing else
occurs to you than to threaten with the head of the PFP. Nothing else occurs to
you but to increment your political police, to fill the university campus with
judicial police, to plan the shaping of a new policing body with dissuasive
equipment in the university. Nothing else occurs to you but repression. The
"normality" that you proclaim only exists in your schizophrenic mind, Dr.
psychiatrist. Your impotency has led you to use the services of the military
police looking to defeat the student movement. You sent to detain a thousand
university people, many of which still remain behind these walls, behinds these
bars. Liberate the immediately, solve the problems posed by the student
movement, do not be uncompromising, do not stretch out the matter. Respect the
agreements of the 10th of December. Do not continue lying, do not even fool
yourself.
3. We call on all the students to participate in the assemblies of their
schools and faculties, to form part of them, of the discussions, the decisions
and actions impelled by these and the CGH, taking their resolutions into the
same action. We make a call to define your position in respect to the dialogue
(no dialogue if there are prisoners, summon a dialogue now, not summon a
dialogue for the moment until the situation has been evaluated in keeping with
the conditions given for it). The congress, a metropolitan strike for the 6th of
April, a work day of creating awareness for the compañeros of new admissions and
the functioning mechanism of the CGH. The next reunion of the CGH will happen
next Monday, March 20, at 12PM in the Faculty of Political Science.
II. Plan of Action
Wednesday, March 15: Massive Concert on the grounds of the Rectory from 11AM,
to commemorate the year of struggle already achieved in defense of public and
free education for all. Everyone to the concert for the resolution of the
demands of the movement with base in the April 10th accords and the immediate
liberation and absolute to ALL of our compañeros!
Thursday March 16: Reception for the march of the Zapatista Coordinators who
are coming from Contreras to the Rectory, on the open grounds, at 5:30PM.
Friday March 17: As part of the National Day of Protest driven forward by the
National Council of Struggle, the CGH impels the taking over of all the
government buildings of all the institutions, or the actions the assembly
considers pertinent with the following core elements: Saturday March 18: MARCH!, from the Monumento a la Revolución al Zócalo at
2PM as part of the National Work Day of Struggle with the core cited above.
Everyone to prepare the national consultation for the end of March with the
core:
1. Liberation to ALL the political prisoners. EVERYONE CONTINUE STRUGGLING! At the achievement of one year of struggle and resistance, the CGH lives,
EVERYONE drive forward the plan of action of the CGH!
Press and Publicity Commmittee
a. Total and Immediate
liberty to all of the political prisoners and the presentation, with life, of
all those disappeared.
b. Against the neoliberal privatization.
c. Free
higher education and the fulfillment of the CGH petition.
d. Against
repression and the desolution of the anti-constitutional bodies of the PFP and
the riot police.
2. Free education.
3.
Against privatization.
4. For the renunciation of De la Fuente (on behalf of
the political prisoners of UNAM)
EVERYONE PARTICIPATE!
General Strike Council - UNAM