July 30th, 2017
Good Morning Compañeros and Compañeras
From the anniversary of Ejido Tila, we send you a cordial greeting.
To all of the national and international nongovernmental organizations,
The peaceful march today is the celebration of 83 years of Ejido Tila originating with the presidential resolution of July 30, 1934. The resolution was published in the official newspapers and embedded into the federation on October 16th of that year. That year, the ejido was granted to 836 people. Now we are more than 10,000 people of different ages, living in different neighborhoods and zones, on the 5405 hectares. Our houses and workplaces are established here, where we cultivate collectively to harvest our food. Here too we are sheltered and dressed.
Our grandparents did not know what footwear was, and the people much less knew how to read and write, but they put all their force into the process of legalization of the 5405 hectares. It is an inheritance they gave us that will never go away. They taught us that we are the color of the earth and we remember well the great General Emiliano Zapata Zalazar. The Plan de Ayala provides for the recuperation of the land; for the Indigenous peoples, a true agrarian reform, returning to the people their ejidos, waters, and natural resources that have been dispossessed.
The Ejido Tila recuperated the land that had been dispossessed by the Finca Pensilbani (2466 hectares) to complete the 5405 hectares. Today, we see in the different media outlets, that they threaten us with the energy reform to privatize communal resources, to give way to the neoliberal capitalist free trade of Plan Puebla Panama. This plan seeks the natural resources, to privatize education, health, water and electricity. It seeks the destruction of Mother Earth, the contamination of the natural environment and the displacement of the peoples and communities. It does this through the resurfacing of highways, offering helicopters and ambulances in the hospitals, and sending strange people to take photos of the people and communities.
From the central plaza, we make a call to develop consciousness through the unification of our forces and voices, men and women, boys and girls, to unite ourselves as Indigenous peoples to defend our ejidos and constitutional rights (1,14,16) everywhere in Mexico. We must not change our dignity as human beings for programs and support. It is no longer time to be carried by them. We shall reject all types of manipulation to exclaim that all political parties are the same. The campesinos are the past, we are today, and forever: never more a Mexico without us.
Long Live the Ejido Tila
Love Live the Autonomy of Ejido Tila
Love Live the Original 836
Translated from the original here: http://laotraejidotila.blogspot.mx/2017/07/83-aniversario-de-nuestro-ejido-tila.html