** Acknowledgments

*** Juana Ponce de León

** Prologue

*** Chiapas, a Name of Pain and Hope

*** Traveling Back for Tomorrow

* SECTION I — Unveiling Mexico

** PART ONE — Names the Unnamed

*** 1 — Twelve Women in the Twelfth Year

**** I. Yesterday ...

**** II. Today ...

**** III. Tomorrow ...

*** 2 — War!

*** 3 — Dying In Order to Live

*** 4 — In Our Dreams We Have Seen Another World

*** 5 — Votán-Zapata or Five Hundred Years of History

*** 6 — A Storm and a Prophecy

**** The First Wind: The One from Above

**** The Second Wind: The Wind from Below

*** 7 — Who Should Ask for Pardon and Who Can Grant It?

*** 8 — Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance

*** 9 — Second Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle

*** 10 — Aguascalientes

*** 11 — The Long Journey from Despair to Hope

**** 1994: REACHING THE MEXICAN PENTHOUSE

**** INSTRUCTIONS TO BE NAMED MAN OF THE YEAR

**** TO GET TO MIDDLE MEXICO ...

**** LOWER MEXICO ...

**** BASEMENT MEXICO ...

**** JANUARY 1994 ...

**** THE WOMEN: DUAL DREAM, DUAL NIGHTMARE, DUAL AWAKENING

*** 12 — Mr. Zedillo, Welcome to the Nightmare

*** 13 — Come, Brothers and Sisters

*** 14 — The Word and the Silence

*** 15 — Fourth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle

*** 16 — Closing Words to the National Indigenous Forum (excerpt)

**** The Counselors

**** The Participants

**** The Press

**** P.S ... DISGUISED AS A VIDEO CLIP.

*** 17 — Today, Eighty-five Years Later, History Repeats Itself

*** 18 — The Unjust Sentencing of Elorriaga and Entzin

*** 19 — Opening Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neoliberalism

*** 20 — Tomorrow Begins Today

**** First

**** Second

*** 22 — Civil Society That So Perturbs

*** 23 — The Spiral from the End and the Beginning

*** 24 — An Urgent Telegram

*** 25 — Do the Pictures Lie?

*** 26 — For Those Who Protest with Us after Acteal

*** 27 — The Sea of My Insomnia

**** I. The Dispute in San Andres: Oblivion against Memory

**** II. A Fight of Many Rounds

**** III. In This Cornerrrrrr: The Federal Government!

*** 28 — Tlatelolco

*** 29 — Under Siege

*** 30 — Why We Use the Weapon of Resistance

** PART TWO — One World

*** 31 — Flowers, Like Hope, Are Harvested

*** 32 — From Vietnam to Chiapas, Twenty Years Before

**** Americans

*** 33 — A Call to Latin America

*** 34 — On Independent Media

*** 35 — Letter to the Indigenous Leadership of the United States

*** 36 — From Here to There and Back Again

**** I.

**** II.

**** III.

*** 37 — On May Day and Tupac Amaru

*** 38 — This Ocean No Longer Separates Us

*** 39 — Letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal

*** 40 — Letter to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, USA

*** 41 — “No!” to the War in the Balkans

*** 42 — For Maurice Najman, Who Keeps Feigning Death

*** 43 — Letter to Leonard Peltier

* SECTION II — Beneath the Mask

*** 44 — To Open a Crack in History

**** Letter Two

**** Fifteen Years Ago

*** 45 — We Know What We’re Doing; It Is Worth It

*** 46 — The Library of Aguascalientes

*** 47 — The Retreat Is Making Us Almost Scratch the Sky

*** 48 — Death Has Paid a Visit

*** 49 — A Year of the Zapatista Government

*** 50 — Zapatistas, Guadalupanos, and the Virgin of Guadalupe

*** 51 — A Land to Harvest a Future

**** Complementary Protocol for the Universal Social Convention

*** 52 — Letter to Eduardo Galeano

*** 53 — Letter to John Berger

**** I. December 1994

**** II.

**** III.

*** 54 — Dignity Cannot Be Studied; You Live It or It Dies

*** 55 — Letter to the Eureka Committee[101]

*** 56 — It Continues Raining Here

*** 57 — Democratic Teachers and the Zapatista Dream

*** 58 — Closing Words at the National Encuentro in Defense of the Cultural Heritage

**** To Plant the Tree of Tomorrow

**** Memory Has Its Own Reality

* SECTION III — Creating Memory

** PART ONE — TALES FOR A SLEEPLESS SOLITUDE— The Stories of Don Durito

*** 59 — Ten Years Later: Durito Found Us Again

*** 60 — To Mariana Moguel (age ten)

*** 61 — The Glass to See to the Other Side

**** Durito

*** 62 — Deep Inside the Cave of Desire

**** The Cave of Desire

*** 63 — Durito and Pegasus

*** 64 — The Story of the Tiny Mouse and the Tiny Cat

**** The Story of the Tiny Mouse and the Tiny Cat

*** 65 — The Story of the Cold Foot and the Hot Foot

**** The Story of the Cold Foot and the Hot Foot

*** 66 — The Story of the Bean-brown Horse

**** The Story of the Bean-brown Horse

*** 67 — Love and the Calendar

**** Love and the Calendar

*** 68 — Another Cloud, Another Bottle, and Another Letter from Durito

**** The Story of the Magic Chocolate Bunnies (Neoliberalism, a Rabbit’s Libido, and the Children)

*** 69 — P.S.... that Fulfills Its Editorial Duty

*** 70 — Durito the Pirate

*** 71 — The Hour of the Little Ones

**** I. Those Below

**** II. The Undocumented Others

**** III. Above and Below are Relative to the Struggle Waged to Subvert Them

*** 72 — The True Story of Mary Read and Anne Bonny

** PART TWO — Tales of Many Others

*** 73 — The Tale of the Ever Never

*** 74 — The Parrot’s Victory

*** 75 — Tales of the Seahorse

**** Roman Numeral One Tale: The 600s

**** Roman Numeral Two Tale: The 100

**** Roman Numeral Three Tale: The 1

**** Roman Numeral Four Tale: The 200s

*** 76 — The Tale of the Little Seamstress

*** 77 — The Tale of the Little Newsboy

*** 78 — The Tale of the Little Wisp of a Cloud

*** 79 — The Story of the Schizophrenic Pig

*** 80 — The Tale of the Lime with an Identity Crisis

*** 81 — The Tale of the Nonconformist Little Toad

*** 82 — The Tale of the Pink Shoelaces

*** 83 — The Tale of Always and Never

*** 84 — The Little Tree and the Others

*** 85 — A Light, a Flower, and a Dawn

**** The Light, a Flower and Dawn

*** 86 — The Words That Walk Truths

** PART THREE — Old Don Antonio

*** 87 -The Story of the Colors

*** 88 — The Story of the Mirrors

**** The Story of the Mirrors

*** 89 — The Story of Dreams

**** The Story of Dreams

*** 90 — The Story of the Seven Rainbows

**** The Story of the Seven Rainbows

*** 91 — The Story of Noise and Silence

**** The Story of Noise and Silence

*** 92 — Making the Bread Called Tomorrow

*** 93 — The Story of the Others

**** The Story of the Others

*** 94 — The Tale of the Lion and the Mirror

**** The Story of the Lion and the Mirror

**** The Fish in the Water

*** 95 — The Story of the Measure of Memory

**** The History of the Measure of Memory

*** 96 -The Story of One and All

**** The Story of One and All

*** 97 — The Dawn Is Heralding Heat and Flashes

**** Dawn!

**** The Story of the Calendar

*** 98 — The Story of the Milky Way

**** The Story of the Milky Way

*** 99 — The Story of the False Light, the Stone, and the Corn

**** The Story of the False Light, the Stone, and the Corn

*** 100 — The Night Is Ours

**** The Story of the Night

*** 101 — The Story of the Questions

**** Prologue — Chiapas, The First Postmodern Revolution

**** I. Origins of the Rebellion

**** II. Chiapas: Backdrop to the Rebellion

**** III. The Arrival of Marcos

**** IV. A Revolution Foretold

**** V. Conversations in the Cathedral

**** VI. The Zedillo Years, 1995–2000

**** VII. Zapatismo

** Zapatista Timeline

** Bibliography