Global Days of Action: Justice for Samir Flores!

Call for Global Days of Action and Solidarity: Justice for Samir Flores! Six years of Impunity!

To the Adherents of the Declaration for Life,

Brothers and Sisters,

Six years have passed since the life of our brother Samir Flores Soberanes was taken from him. Six years that the government who had Samir killed has governed. Six years of continued deceit, imposition, and contempt for our people. Six years of resistance, rebellion, and struggle for life. Six years of Samir being an inspiration and seed in the construction of autonomy, of another possible world.

“Justice for Samir” shouts every single community, place, and heart of those who knew Samir before and after his death. “Justice” we shout from the struggle for life in Gaza, in Chiapas, in Ostula, in the struggle against the trash dump in Cholula, in the shout of the families of our disappeared brothers and sisters, in the struggle against the Military Maya Train, against the Interoceanic Corridor, against xenophobia, forced displacement, mining, dams, trains, industrial corridors, gas pipelines, thermoelectric plants, fracking, real estate cartels, the trash business. “Justice” shouts the resistance in defense of rivers, oceans, and bodies of water, of the forests and autonomous spaces on the earth and in the air. Samir constructed justice during his life.

Six years since the cruel assassination on February 20, 2019 in Amilcingo, Morelos, three days before the consultation imposed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador to legitimize his change of mind and to impose the Morelos Integral Project, the killers of Samir Flores continue free and governing. Six years of impunity, six years of the impossibility of those responsible being punished because those responsible are the government and they can easily escape the justice of the state, because they are the state…

But justice can be found in the struggle for life, and yes, in our demand, perhaps absurd, of the killers being punished, of undressing the capitalist king and the Mexican narco-government who ordered the killing of Samir.

Six years since the assassination of Samir, we invite the adherents of the Declaration for Life to dedicate a moment, an instant, a sowing of memory, life, and rebellion of our compañero Samir Flores Soberanes on February 20, 21, 22, or 23, constructing in a decentralized manner the “Global Days of Action and Solidarity: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! Six years of impunity!”

During these days in Mexico, United States, Euskal Herria, France, and Italy, folks will install six statues of Samir, sowing his memory in the dignified territories of our brothers and sisters in countries whose companies are or were involved in the Morelos Integral Project: Elecnor (Euskal Herria), Saint Gobain (France), Bonatti (Italy), Macquaire (United States), Narco-government (Mexico), so that the responsibility of the global capitalist government for the death of Samir and the struggle for life isn’t forgotten.

But not only with statues is the memory of our compañero being sown, but also with the struggle for dignified housing of the Otomi community in Mexico City who have founded the House of the Peoples “Samir Flores Soberanes,” which was before the offices of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples. In a tree in the resistance camp in Lutzerath, Germany, in a song, poem, drawing, discussion, video, photo, painting, recording, flower or fruit. In all of those our brother Samir Flores Soberanes is present.

We call on the adherents of the Declaration for Life to heed the call with an action or a discussion for the “Global Days of Solidarity and Action: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! Six years of impunity!” on February 20, 21, 22, or 23 or when your realities allow it.

Justice will come from below and to the left, in common.

For the integral reconstruction of our communities.

Peoples Front in Defense of Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala

National Indigenous Congress

Zapatista Army of National Liberation

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