The Zapatistas are at it again!

See this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4573512.stm

I was a student at U.C. Berkeley when these guys were still pretty big, but I thought they had fizzled out a long time ago. (I think I even won an EZLN poster at a raffle, shows you where I have been!) But while I am all for the under-dog, these guys really do frustrate me. Like the New Left in this country, their activism often degenerates into narrow provincialism and self-absorbed personalism ("The Revolution is all about ME!!!") My friend Marcos up there is a prime example of this.

If you really want to do something for the down-trodden, put away the creative acts of civil disobedience and personal self-expression and do something concrete for a change.