Snails: The New Ways of Resistance

"They say that someone said, that were told

that the snail called

the collective so that the word

became of one and agreements were born.

And they also said, it was said

that the sound of the snail helps so that the ear

enables to listen to the most distant of words"

★ Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos ★ 

Chiapas, México, Julio del 2003

We need a world where many worlds can coexist.

We don't need to change our culture, the way we dress, our language, our ways to pray, our ways of working and respecting the land, more so, we don't need to leave our indigenous background to be recognised as Mexicans. They can't take away what we are. If we have a darker skin, they can't make us white, because our ancestors resisted humiliation, contempt and exploitation for more than 500 years. And we're still here, they will never be able to erase us, exploit us or humiliate us.

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