1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.
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| Zapatista asterix flag |
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is an armed revolutionary group based in Chiapas, one of the poorest states of Mexico. Their social base is mostly indigenous but they have supporters in urban areas as well as an international web of support.
Their most visible voice, although not their leader, is Subcomandante Marcos (currently a.k.a. Delegate Zero in relation to the "Other Campaign"). Their leader is Comandanta Esther. Unlike the Zapatista comandantes, Subcomandante Marcos is not an indigenous Mayan.
09:00
1989 Mass protests of Velvet Revolution begin in Czechslovakian capital of Prague as student demonstration against Communism crushed by police
09:07
Downloading rain by broadband connection to the sky. Scanning for viruses. Install winter.exe. Creating files. Run program. Would you like to share? Sending. Done.
13:00
How long will it be before I have to intervene to prevent a murder? The Man of Wind dives out in front of the armour piercing bullets, in his attempt to save the innocent Dubliner from obliteration/forced redundancy.
17:52
50 extra gardai drafted in to Dublin to fight gun crime. Great. More screeching. The temperature ratchets up a notch. It's all these headshots, wrecking the head. I think it's gonna make a good Playstation game. Grand Theft Auto crossed with Resident Evil meets Hitman crossed with Railroad Tycoon. Let's call it, "Dirty Dublin".
18:26
This scuttered Isle. A relationship forged in battle, over the phone.
21:19
The spit on the sidewalk could carry the birdflu. The first three people to die of it were announced in China today. There's 1.3 billion left to go. What are the odds? Try on some rattlesnake shoes, scum, you'll be dead before the year's out. And your family will be too. Bullets or bird flu make you want to spend, spend, spend. I don't want to die in a Mondeo on the Northside. I want to die in a Lexus on the South.
22:44
DUB SLANG DEFINITION
scooter, pronounced skoot - t(h)er, meaning to glance at something undefined by walking briskly around a corner, looking for something in a casual manner,
Usage: semi-urgent, when no other word seems appropriate.
Example
"Yeah we'll just have a skoot-ther around here for a second."
23:01
Dublin's the nation's murder capital and all. There's some thick eight inch shites out there.
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| Commandante Marcos and his horse, Zapatista |
Got some earplugs. Now wearing them. Seven sirens a half hour. They like to use the mean street as a nexus, heading north and south, east and west at the same time. The downward flow of human dignity congeals at the mouth of the quays, encrusting the shopping trollys and traffic cones spread along the river bed in filth at low tide.
Goonygoogoos whirling around with their blue hats and anoraks like squads of cubscouts. The Cobras.
23:55
INT, MURPHYS BAR
COVERT VIGILANTE and BARKEEP leaning close, deep in discussion
BARKEEP
I've two cousins now fighting them full time.
COVERT VIGILANTE (secretive)
Really? Where're they working?
BARKEEP
They're working all over. The head quarters is in Harcourt St.
COVERT VIGILANTE (probing)
Special Detective Unit?
BARKEEP
Aye, in this "response unit" and that. They get sent to different places.
COVERT VIGILANTE
Where, like Limerick?
BARKEEP
Yeah. Different places in Dublin too.
COVERT VIGILANTE
Cork I betcha.
BARKEEP
Sure I think all them fuckers should be dragged out and shot.
COVERT VIGILANTE
There's enough of them getting killed at the minute.
BARKEEP
Ah but there's loads of them. Sure they're breedin' them!
(He looks off into the west, glowering, rumbling sounds, bar lights dim and flicker.)
23:59
The Minister for Defence, Willie O'Dea, has said he did not intend to offend anyone by pointing a gun at a camera and smiling for the media while posing for photographs yesterday. Speaking on RTÉ Radio's News At One, Mr O'Dea said it was by no means his intention to glamorise gun crime.
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