In This Land No More

 

 

In this land no more

will peasant and Indian

suffer individually.

In this land no more

will man and woman

fight for the same

and different causes.

In this land no more

will mal goberno

bleed our spirits dry

and force us onto lands

with desolate and ungiving soil.

Lands that have skin-burrowing insects

that do more than poison our health.

Lands with no hospitals,

running water, education.

Lands were they can ignore us.

Lands were they hide us from the world.

 

Zapata Vive, Vive!

La Lucha Sige, Sige!

 

Our masks swallowed our faces

so that we can be mirrored in every pueblo

that you exploit and ignore.

 

We will no longer hide,

we will no longer sit quiet

while you deceive us time and time again.

Your laws do not feed us,

your elections rip our lands from underneath us,

and your authority only leaves dead carcasses

and deeper poverty.

 

We are more than armed revolution,

we are more than the land of Chiapas.

We are the exploited, the sick, the hungry,

the uneducated, the oppressed people of

colonization, capitalism, and many other names

but all the same form of greed and power.

In this land no more will we fight separate,

In this land no more will we allow our fight to be heard just by the sky's ears.

In this land we will reach across nations to be one solid voice

against your oppression.