The Italian club have received a letter from the indigenous movement, based in the southern state of Chiapas.
Team manager Bruno Bartolozzi paid a visit to a village in Chiapas last June, bearing donations from the club and its owner, Massimo Moratti. During the trip, he was approached by a Zapatista commander.
Zanetti, an Argentine, also wrote a letter to express his support for the rebels' "struggle to maintain your roots and fight for your ideals".
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For helping with water and health projects here in Britian or to arrange solidarity football matches locally or whereever, contact the Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Campaign:
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Relevant Football:-)
13.05.2005 16:09
Direct Action Away team
Hang on
13.05.2005 17:29
the middle finger
Yes middle finger, of course
15.05.2005 18:17
I thought you were for real.
Now I'm not convinced your not taking the piss!
But if you're not... what's with all this hatred of people who have money? What does hating anyone achieve? Some people are hard not to hate - Rupert Murdoch for instance - it's DIFFICULT to try not to hate him, I'll grant you that ;-)
But what's "rich sportsperson" actually done that's so deserving of sticking them against a wall. I'm not sure I want to be part of a revolution that sticks people against walls - sounds quite fascistic to me. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Who was it who said that makes the whol world blind?
Hey, I'd prefer to see Inter Milan promoting the Zapatistas than promoting Nike trainers!
Anyway my main message is that we don't need to be hating people. It's the system we need to change. There aren't good people and bad people - there are just different people in different situations. If you'd been born in different circumstances it might be you being someone's boss or selling "defence" equipment or whatever. So don't be so sodding self-righteous as to make out that you're a good guy and the bad guys are the bad guys and the bad guys need to be SHOT. Because that's just reactionary.
Human beings all have the capacity to fuck eachother over. And the ones at the tops of hierarchies have that capacity unleashed rather more. But evil resides in all of us. If you want to stick people against walls then you're no better than them. That's what I reckon anyway. But then what do I know, I'm just a hippie ;-)
sectarians of the world unite
in this incidence, I WAS taking the piss
16.05.2005 03:33
the middle finger