JANUARY 27, 2025
TO THE SIGNATORIES OF THE DECLARATION FOR LIFE
SISTERS, BROTHERS:
It has been 6 years since the life of our brother Samir Flores Soberanes was taken, six years that those who ordered his death still govern, imposition and contempt towards our people, six more years of resistance, of rebellion, of struggle for life, of being Samir, inspiration, seed and spirit of building autonomy, of another possible world.
“Justice for Samir!” cries the resistance for life against the Morelos Integral Project and against the narco-government, justice cries out in each of the towns, places and hearts that knew him before or after his death. We cry out for justice from the struggle for life in Gaza, in Chiapas, in Ostula, in the struggle against the Cholula garbage dump, in the clamor of the families of our missing sisters and brothers, in the struggle against the military so-called Maya train, against the inter-oceanic corridor, xenophobia and forced displacement, the mine, the dam, the train, the corridor, the gas pipeline, the thermoelectric plant, fracking, the real estate cartel, the garbage business, the defense of rivers, seas and bodies of water, of forests and autonomous spaces on land or in the air. Samir built justice during his life.
Six years after his cruel murder on February 20, 2019 in Amilcingo, Morelos, three days before the consultation imposed by López Obrador to “legitimize” his change of mind and finish imposing the Morelos Integral Project (PIM), Samir’s murderers remain free and governing. It is 6 years of impunity, 6 years of impossibility for the guilty to be punished because the guilty are in the government and can easily escape the justice of the State, because they are the State…
But justice is in the struggle for life, and yes, it is in our demand, perhaps absurd, to demand that the executioner be prosecuted and punished, to strip naked the capitalist king, the Mexican narco-government that ordered the killing of Samir.
Six years after Samir´s murder, we call on the signatories of the Declaration for Life to dedicate a moment, an instant, a sowing of memory, of life and rebellion to our compañero Samir Flores Soberanes on February 20, 21, 22 or 23, to build in a decentralized way the “Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity.”
In those days, in Mexico, the United States, Euskal Herria, France and Italy, six busts of Samir will be planted, sowing his memory in the dignified territories of our sisters and brothers, in countries whose companies are or were involved in the crime of the PIM: Elecnor (Euskal Herria), Saint Gobain (France), Bonatti (Italy), Macquaire (United States), NarcoGobierno (Mexico), so that the responsibility of the global capitalist government for Samir’s death and the struggle for life is not forgotten.
But not only do we plant the memory of our compañerowith the installation of these busts, but also with the struggle for dignified housing for the Otomi community of Mexico City that founded and resists the House of the Peoples «Samir Flores Soberanes», formerly the central offices of the INPI. In a tree in the resistance camp in Lutzerat, Germany, in a song, a poem, a drawing, a plastic art, a video, a conversation, a photo, a painting, an engraving, a flower or a fruit, in all of them is our brother Samir Flores Soberanes.
We call on the signatories of the Declaration for Life to join with an action or a word the “Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity”, on February 20, 21, 22 or 23, 2025 or when their realities allow it.
More information and registration of activities at: cnicomunicacion@gmail.com
Justice comes from below and to the left, in common.
For the integral reconstitution of our peoples
Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala
National Indigenous Congress
Zapatista Army of National Liberation