OK, so this Zapatista tattoo was done on a white guy (solidarity) by Mike Moses of Enigma in Richmond, but still, pretty interesting… I’m not surprised when I see a Che tattoo, or a communist icon, or Hitler even, but I wasn’t expecting to see a Zapatista tattoo.
Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a gang member in Neza, a rocker in the National University, a Jew in Germany, an ombudsman in the Defense Ministry, a communist in the post-Cold War era, an artist without gallery or portfolio…. A pacifist in Bosnia, a housewife alone on Saturday night in any neighborhood in any city in Mexico, a striker in the CTM, a reporter writing filler stories for the back pages, a single woman on the subway at 10 pm, a peasant without land, an unemployed worker… an unhappy student, a dissident amid free market economics, a writer without books or readers, and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains of southeast Mexico. So Marcos is a human being, any human being, in this world. Marcos is all the exploited, marginalized and oppressed minorities, resisting and saying, ‘Enough’!
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Posted on 12-01-2005 16:37:30 by J
RVA represent!
Posted on 12-06-2005 01:25:06 by mexica
QUE VIVA LA RAZA! y gracias por una idea nueva poara un tattoo
Posted on 12-08-2005 00:02:37 by Ryan
WHAT?
Posted on 12-14-2005 03:24:53 by whatever
Gay in SF? Shouldn’t that be Kansas or something?
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Posted on 12-01-2005 16:37:30 by J
RVA represent!
Posted on 12-06-2005 01:25:06 by mexica
QUE VIVA LA RAZA! y gracias por una idea nueva poara un tattoo
Posted on 12-08-2005 00:02:37 by Ryan
WHAT?
Posted on 12-14-2005 03:24:53 by whatever
Gay in SF? Shouldn’t that be Kansas or something?
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Posted on 12-01-2005 16:37:30 by J
RVA represent!
Posted on 12-06-2005 01:25:06 by mexica
QUE VIVA LA RAZA! y gracias por una idea nueva poara un tattoo
Posted on 12-08-2005 00:02:37 by Ryan
WHAT?
Posted on 12-14-2005 03:24:53 by whatever
Gay in SF? Shouldn’t that be Kansas or something?
The following comments were imported from our old comment system:
Posted on 12-01-2005 16:37:30 by J
RVA represent!
Posted on 12-06-2005 01:25:06 by mexica
QUE VIVA LA RAZA! y gracias por una idea nueva poara un tattoo
Posted on 12-08-2005 00:02:37 by Ryan
WHAT?
Posted on 12-14-2005 03:24:53 by whatever
Gay in SF? Shouldn’t that be Kansas or something?