The people are thinking that we no longer want article 27 of the constitution which didn't do any good anyway. People from the communities are saying that they might as well suspend the present education because it is being imposed from above. So now we are calling on all the teachers to elaborate a new educational project that is supported by the community bases and that is based on the four main themes mentioned. At this point all the schools are closed which was agreed on by the base communities. Autonomy is all about bringing both parts together so that we ourselves will develop our own education.
Education is our priority because that is where the manipulation of the government comes in.
Starting with free text books that don't do us any good. We should have our own territory, our own education, administer our own resources. In every community there are 2 or 3 being formed that little by little replacing the old authorities. We are no longer going to have municipal agents, municipal judge, rural judge, commissioner of the ejido. Now there will be Parliamentary Councils that will form an Elders Council, a Youth Council, a Women's Council - this is what is already happening at the base.