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Once upon a time, in the land of Aztlan in a village called Sacra, there lived an energetic young Chicano named Beto who lived in a small house with his dog Pedro. His village duty was to keep an eye out for any fires in the village, as no reliable fire patrol was nearby in his barrio.
On his front porch, Beto kept big barrels of water and stacks of buckets to fight fires. Whenever he spotted smoke in the sky or smelled fire he would check it out and his dog Pedro would start barking crazy. If Beto spied a fire up the street or across the street he would issue a Sacra Village Fire Alert via Emails from his Internet-computer out to his Fire Alert Yahoo Group Members, who were usually super-glued to their Internet computers at home and were volunteer fire fighters. Then, his group, along with other local villagers, would rush up to his front porch, fill up their water buckets from the water barrels and they would unite to put the fire out!
One dry hot day, while he was in his living room on the Internet, his dog Pedro ran up to him barking crazy. He got up and went outside. There was a fire in a house right across the street from his ‘casa’. From his front porch he saw flames leaping up high into the sky. He rushed into his house, hopped on his computer and issued a Sacra Village Fire Alert.
His Group Members and others came out in the streets, rushed to his front porch, and they all grabbed water buckets from the water barrels and carted them across the street in a line to the house on fire again and again. Finally, after a few hours of fire fighting the fire was put out, but the house was destroyed!
The small family who lived in the house was not home at the time as they had been together at a Peace Demonstration downtown. So when they got home and saw their house had been burnt down they were sad, but they were able to stay with Beto’s Tia Concha for a spell.
After his crew had put out the fire across the street, some of them hanged around on Beto’s front porch, drank some café, smoked, talked about the fire and rested up. It had been a hard fire to put out and they had used up all their water from the barrels. They talked about the need to roll the barrels to the nearby Sacra River later on to fill them back up with water for the fire next time. So they figured they could wait until ‘manana’!
So Beto sat back on his front porch chair, smoking a Camel, then, Pedro started barking like crazy again and his big nose smelled paper burning in the air. He looked around, stepped halfway into the street and saw gray smoke curling up in the sky from his own backyard!
He ran around back with Pedro trailing right behind him. He saw a pile of old dry recycled newspapers was on fire by his back door. He got most of his news from the Internet so he just collected old newspapers for extra cash. He quickly took off his favorite jacket and smacked the burning pile to put out the fire. His jacket was ruined, but the fire was out and his house was safe.
Thus, Beto learned that though it is good to help his neighbors with any fires it was important to make sure he had extra barrels of water in his backyard to put out any fire in his own backyard in order to be better prepared for the fire next time!
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http://liberation-now.blogspot.com/2006/11/parable-of-house-on-fire-by-peta-de.html
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11-03-06
Friday, November 03, 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
More Re: [Aztlannet_Action] Re: Angel's comments and Revolution
Noviembre 1, 2006 @1:15 AM ~
In a true spirit of unity, we all need to agree on the basics of survival for our people, work together on a common agenda, share the same general strategy and continue to develop a comprehensive set of tactics in harmony with the connected reality before us HERE NOW; with total liberation projected for the future in a socialist democratic society.
Revolution entails a total transformation in property relations and would be a quantum leap in human evolution, but revolution is era specific. Capitalism was revolutionary when it transformed feudalism, as socialism is revolutionary when it transforms capitalism. One economic system gives way for a further breakout and development in the material forces of production usually via violence aka: class war!
We should by now comprehend the totality of combat in relation to practical creative action. Total combat entails all lines, all angles, all trajectories. Whatever works works and each of us has unique qualities to offer the Movimiento, though, no one is indispensable.
Recall: politics is the continuation of war by other means and war is the continuation of politics by others means. Thus, politics and war are intrinsically interconnected and can often overlap.
Our historical enemies know we are coming and they know their days are numbered. Our historical enemies are like conscious dinosaurs fearing their eventual extinction. The sheer hungry of the people alone will demand the social transformation of class society via liberation by any means mandatory, including class war. Let us not kid ourselves companeros. It is as predictable as nightfall.
For sure, to paraphrase a wise old Chinaman, if there is to be liberation that must be a liberation party, at least, there must be a collection of structured vehicles led by vanguard elements that can offer our people true leadership, help raise consciousness and be open to learning from the genius of the people.
The USA is extremely complicated, contains the brain of the beast and we are already within its central nervous system.
By its very nature the sublime truth is revolutionary and real education is liberating, its frees us of our own inner fears, fallacies and falsehoods.
By its very nature the sublime truth is revolutionary and real education is liberating, its frees us of our own inner fears, fallacies and falsehoods.
The key is to raise a kind of cosmic consciousness that helps us see the big picture, at least on a global level. We do what we can with what we have as we work on our own spiritual growth and maturity. Simplify the complex and strive not to complicate the simple.
We feed consciousness by feeding people and there are many kinds of foodstuffs. It is silly to pretend we can meet all the people's needs when the necessary resources are not in our hands. If we could feed all the people why on earth would we strive for revoluton {the poor often abused word used so much it loses its meaning}??
Only the people can make the revolution, not cadres alone. One must lead, follow or get the hell out of the way when the people are on the move and a movement must move forward!
We already have a great wealth of real experiences, direct and indirect, that can help us help the people and we are never alone in our struggles. The most we can be is dedicated servants who stick to our guns, hold onto our principles and always respect each other as comrades even if we disagree over tactical considerations.
It also helps if we have the same general definitions for certain terms and keywords. If we all could sit around the same mesa, break bread together, we would be able to communicate better with each other and learn from each other in all true humility as humbleness helps us advance
Threads often end up in a tangled mess, but at least we are communicating via Emails. WE should try communicating via a group chat or even a conference call.
Our perspectives will naturally differ with our own personal experiences and analyses of our experiences. We are ignorant of all that we do not know and we can help guide each other. Love for the people should be our guiding light.
Come Together and Create! ~Peta-de-Aztlan~
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"Ernest M. Saenz" <zdproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Ernest M. Saenz" <zdproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have seen the jungles of the sur, transverses mountains with
obscure militias. I have lived through bombings, bullets and have
the scars to prove it.
You do not know who I am, who I know, nor the life that I have
lived. To say one must be a member of some CIA infiltrated group to prove they are revolutionary is a crucial mistake.
I'll stop here before I too much is said.
--- In Aztlannet_Action@yahoogroups. , mexicanoatucla@com ... wrote: Aztlannet_Action@
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> You must not know who I am and what organization I am part of. We are not rookies and we have connections all over the world to rev. movements. Unless you are part of a revolutionary organization or party, your words are just that; words. Our people have done much more than the basic questions that you pose. Like you, I am a student of the movement. I hope you are putting theory into practice like we are. Take care. pe@ce
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> www.uniondelbarrio.org
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zdproductions@...
> To:yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 2:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Aztlannet_Action] Angel's comments and Revolution
>
> I like seeing the seed we planted in the 60s start to grow and
enjoyed reading your dream of Aztlan.
>
> Answer these questions:
>
> 1) how would you feed 10,000 people 3 times a day for 1000 days?
>
> 2) how would you dispose of their waste on a continual basis?
>
> 3) where will you get water for these people?
>
> 4) how will you clothe them?
>
> 5) how will you give them shelter?
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> When you can not only answer these questions, but implement the program, you will have taken your first baby step towards considering the concept of revolution. There are five more questions that need answering, but these are a good start.
>
> Keep learning and don't stop dreaming - I haven't!
>
>
> mexicanoatucla@... wrote: Aztlannet_Action@
> It IS completely impossible to be a revolutionary and support the USA. That would be a complete contradiction. For some Aztlan is a "concept" or a "state of mind" but not for all. Some of us want our land back...not mentally or spiritually...no, no, no....we want it back PHYSICALLY! The American revolution was NOT a revolution. It was a war between Indian and African killers but there was nothing revolutionary about it. All of it was fought on stolen land and at the expense of people of color.
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> We need our OWN land back and we need our OWN government, one that will work to benefit ALL people, not just rich Whites. This government CANNOT and WILL NOT be a capitalist one. Therefore, it CANNOT and WILL NOT be the US of A Gov, regardless of whether its Republican or Democrat. Both represent the same thing. Both benefit the elite. Both benefit the capitalist state.
>
> Don't let the liberals brainwash you with thier Democratic Party or Green Party crap. Democrats were the ones that implemented Operation Gatekeeper and most Democrats just voted for the 700 mile Border Fence and for HR 4437. Nothing short of a totally new Revolutionary government will adress the needs of our people and poor people in general.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: madscottsman76@...
> To:yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 1:57 PM
> Subject: [Aztlannet_Action] Angel's comments and Revolution
>
> Angel,
>
> It is entirely possible to be a revolutionary and still support the
United States of America.
>
> Aztlan is not anti-America (or, anti United States, if you will.)
>
> Aztlan does not attempt to supplant the US of A, or replace it with another authority. Reconquista is NOT a physical transformation of the authority of Washington, D.C., by a new authority. It is the Revoutionary spirit of the American Revolution that should never die in the hearts of all Americans.
>
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