International support

CHARACTERIZATION

It is important us to leave established very clearly what we understand by international support so that confusions or espectativas are not generated in another sense, but the one that really it has within the framework of as we are considering this activity, that by the way, does not obey to tastes or desires, but that tries to respond to a reality of our towns and to own conditions of our organization.
We will begin to make a distinction between support and observation.
Us to observe it is to be a little from outside, of passive way in the communities. Maintaining until certain point an impartial paper. Observaci&aocute;n at the most takes the registry of the events in each reality.
The support builds the framework for a little more commitment, certain type of performance, that it does not correspond to a member of the organization or the community, but that is not either reduced single to watch what happens around to his, but that it walks to our side, to side of the organization and the community. That is to say, the support is to go one next to the other, to become jumbled in which they invite to us, to be part of the growth process, is to be with the other, to eat with the other, to live with the other, to learn with the other. To accompany itself is pués to overcome the solitude of the one and the other, to feel and knowledge that we are not single, but that is somebody always next to us.
In such sense the support for us implies to become jumbled of some way in the daily life of the organization and its members.
We know that this represents the risk of which they are known like are our towns and our organization, her virtues and contradictions and, therefore, that can disappoint who could have thought that the fight or the indigenous life, in its members, organizations and communities are the ideal, where contradictions do not exist and everything is happiness. Nevertheless, we thought that the only possibility that we pruned to construct global networks of revolt to the neoliberalism happens because the movements and the people are in real contexts and that they learn and they construct and they sound in the same context.
For that reason we have paid attention the necessity to construct a model of roundtrip solidarity, where each one of the participants we give what we have and what makes lack we constructed it, for example the magonistas communities we are professional of the expert hope and the optimism as well as in pacifica resistance, among other things, and that we contributed which they visit to us.
Who accompany to us protect to us with their presence, ademas of which they teach to us what they know in the computation, the language, the field, the bakery, the health, the education, infinity of saberes that they have.
Thus the things, our idea of support would have the following ones...

PROPOSITOS

1) Frenar a little the federal, state and local scaling of violence against our organization that make the different police bodies, military, paramilitary and authorities.
2) Intercambiar experiences of work with the communities, in especificos projects that are being developed then.
3) Encontrar the organizativas experiences and of revolt that each one of the participants we have in our respective places.
4) Fortalecer which each one knows with the knowledge of the other, in concrete works.
5) Fortalecer the bows of solidarity between the towns, as well as the hope of which the unit of the fights and the efforts are possible beyond the sea.
6) Proporcionar the greater amount of information with respect to the realities of each one of the participants, to sensitize to us and to fortify the commitment of participation in each one of our places.
7) Establecer concrete commitments of pursuit as much of which they remain in the communities like which they return to his places of origin.

THE TYPES OF SUPPORT:

Given the diverse characteristics of our work, that has unevennesses in each one of the communities, as much in its organizational process as Popular Indigenous Advice of Oaxaca "Ricardo Magón Flowers" and community, we have raised the following types of support with certain particularitity of characteristics.

Communitarian support:
This it is made directly in the communities, where the acompanantes will have to all along live and single to lower to the meetings of evaluation with the Council of the Councils, the Organizing Meeting or the person in charge of the area.
It is possible to mention that in these same communities we have different levels from participation in the organization and in some cases the internal situation is complicated, thus we have the communitarian support is possible to be given in three levels:
a. Communities where the majority we are of the CIPO-RFM. In these communities: Santa Maria Yaviche, San Isidro the Reformation, San Isidro Aloapam, Plan of Zaragoza, Yucubey de Cuitlahuac, the Hill, Jaltepetongo
b. where we are in equilibrium of forces: Union and Progress, Santiago Yagallo
c. where we are minority: Santiago Nuyoo, San Cristobal Amoltepec, San Pedro Juchatengo, Oaxaca, The Crucesita Huatulco

Support to the Organization:
This it is made participating in all the activities that become in CIPO-RFM, as much in the house of the organization in Oaxaca, like in the communities. But the permanence fixes is in the City of Oaxaca, although it permanently accompanies to the different people in charge of the areas from work from the communities or the different regional, state or national events.
In the case of this support it is to participate in factories, meetings of information, text translation, elaboration of communication, qualification, information materials, etc, elaboration of projects, education of languages, education of computation, Internet and others.

Customized support:
This it is made with the intention to give protection to the commissioned companeros of the organizing meeting, of the advice of the advice or of the communities and to avoid that they stop them, they kidnap, they disappear or they kill. Who hecen this type of support goes to all sides with compañero/a that is assigned. Of direct way they are put in agreement with compañero/para to see as this activity is made. The place of residence of this companion is the same one that has he or the assigned companion, that is to say, can be in the community or Oaxaca, but what if must be clear it is that this type of companion has much mobility and is required of people who can hold a shaken rate, of constant movement and traveling much.

METHODOLOGY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SUPPORT:

a) interview with us or some of the meeting points that exist, segun the country: (Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Spain, England, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland)
b) In these meeting points, it develops factories, to char them, readings, etc., to have the greater number of information on the indigenous CIPO-RFM and communities, to approach Mexico, Oaxaca and political, economic, social and cultural the reality more of our towns.
c) When arriving at Oaxaca, it will be entrevistará with the CIPO-RFM and it will develop collaboration sessions, of practical knowledge, exchange of information of the CIPO-RFM and in his form of life, in work and everything what can be useful, after this first approach it is participated in a factory with or the commissioners of the CIPO-RFM for knowledge of the organization.
d) To participate in some communitarian activity of the CIPO-RFM, accompanying to some by the members of the CIPO-RFM, preference in the communities where it is possible that it makes the support and on the basis of the work of some of the projects that are being made
e) After this, the organization will define if the support is made and in which places. The decision of the place is done counting on the participation of or the acompñante.

The international companions

a) selection criteria:
The idea is not that they are a series of rigidos and unremovable aspects, but that serve as reference so that we pruned to have people to the present necessities closest. For that reason the elements that are enumerated can be fulfilled all, the majority or some whatever. The final election to grant or not it recommendation certainty, finanlmente will depend on the personal treatment that is had with each one of the interested ones, but always taking into account, somehow, the criteria that consider.
- That knows to make something practical: seam, medicine, culture, bakery, computation, theater, music, languages, manualidades, cook, handling (to lead), mechanics, electricity, etc.
- disposition Must to contribute something concrete to the organization, who can serve for the own work of the organization or for the communities. For the contribution, the dialogue with the organization is due to consider to see that it is what it is needed and to where is destined. It is not possible to give things to people in individual. If one thinks to give something to some community it will have to engage in a dialog first with the organization to make the valuations respective.
- To participate in the factory of approach with the organization: This activity realizaráa in the country of origin of each one of and the internacionalist ones, having like objective to sensitize them on the situation of the indigenous towns, on the way in which they live, of the risks that represents to accompany the communities that are part of the CIPO-RFM.
- To count on a recommendation of organizations, people, universities: Ninguno/a will be aceptada/o for support to the communities if it does not take the recommendation of one of the following organizations who appear in the annexed relation by paises.
- To be arranged to respect the rules of coexistence of the communities and organization.
- To accept that it will not put reluctance to the conditions of life in the community or organization, since it is not counted on comfort some. The previous thing implies a personal behavior of respect to which it is possible to be provided by the communities, organization or people, according to with whom are called on to him to make the support.
- and the companions must have the disposition to spend at least one week as minimum in the community and at the most a month or according to they are suitable it after the first month with the organization, internacionalist community and. With the support to the organization and the customized one, at least 15 days and at the most the time that is agreed between organization and companion.
- the poverty of our towns prevents us to be able to pay for the expenses of and the companions, thus, each one by those who accompanies the community, organization or personnel, they will cover its expenses of feeding and transport, or they will help in which can to the families where they are stayed or with the transport that takes them.
- Although it is not necessary that they dominate the Spanish perfectly, is necessary that or the companions, at least understand it or can communicate in the basic thing with him.
- It would be good that who accompany to us they find had previous communitarian experiences or of support, but if there is no it, she does not matter, which counts is the disposition that it has to share, to coexist, to support and to interchange experiences, and mainly, that exists sensitivity to understand to our communities and our organization like part of a process in construction, with many errors and faults.
- and the companions if they do not have experiences in the fight and solidarity, must keep at least one attitude from solidarity with the towns and the fights of them. A predisposition to contribute to its effort in the organized fight of our towns and organization. - To accompany to previous visits to the communities for the initial approach and that the same companion is becomeed aclimated, they know it and it can also have some opinion with respect to his stay or no.
- Given the dificiles experiences that we have had, for the case of taking of videos, photographies and demas recordings, single will take control of the express agreement of the community and organization.
- With respect to saberes, traditions, plants, ancestrastrales knowledge of all type, they are not due to register by any means, unless specifically they establish the communities and organization for aims previously defined between the companions and we.
- To daily attend the meetings of evaluation and pursuit that develop the organization in the places, dates and times that are necessary.

b) plan of specific work:
Each one of the companions will have to make a plan of work with the community where it will need with all clarity that it tries to do during his stay, taking into account always the two realities, the one of the companion and the one of the community, which knows to make the companion and what the community is doing and what proposes this.
As far as the companion to the organization, equally a plan will have to become of work with the different areas from the organization.
The customized support is freer and single it will be due to put of acurdo with the organizing meeting of the CIPO-RFM and with the person who is going away to accompany.
What it is important to emphasize is that the support we considered as a possibility of the rest participating. Reason why also in this plan of work it must consider, somehow, to express nitidamente as it is the commitment that the companion acquires when returning to its country and as the one of the organization and community to give pursuit to the relation.

The commitments of the CIPO-RFM/ community
As organization and community our greater commitment is to facilitate the access to the communities, to provide the greater possible information, to guarantee safe lodging and places to live on the acompañtilde;antes. In that sense the information which we provided initially in the factories will be:

- context of Oaxaca
- history of the CIPO-RFM and the community
- as the CIPO-RFM/ arises location from the community
- that makes the CIPO-RFM/ community
- the levels of organization of the CIPO-RFM/comunidad
- the problems that have faced CIPO-RFM/comunidad
- main projects of the CIPO-RFM/comunidad
- force of the CIPO-RFM/comunidad
- conditions in which the CIPO-RFM/comunidad works
- the forms of violence against the CIPO-RFM/comunidad
- the more well-known forms of repression
- the lack of human and financial resources
- the relation with other organizations
- objective of the CIPO-RFM: communitarian, state, national and world-wide
- work structure: communitarian, state
- operation: people in charge and attributions, communitarian as as much state
- Limitations and faults of the CIPO-RFM: political development, relations with other forces, etc.

Popular Indigenous advice of Oaxaca "Ricardo Magón Flowers"
CIPO-RFM

Street Emilio Carranza 210
Santa Lucia of the Way
Oaxaca, Mexico
e-mails:
ciporfm@yahoo.com.mx
los_magoneros@hotmail.com
mujercipo@hotmail.com

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