Joining the Revolution and a call for help.

Well we are now in Chiapas the Southern most province of Mexico. We are working with a gentleman that has been doing work with Zapatistas in the area for over 15 years. Great guy, he is a good friend of Nicks and absolutely first rate. We visited a Zapatista community yesterday that was recently pushed off their land by brutal force. The paid police burned their houses, killed their livestock, burned their houses, led cattle through their land to destroy all their crops and pushed them off the land completely. Two months later the Zapatista community (about 300 of them) reinstated the people on their land. They helped by planting new fields and donating a lot of food. It was absolutly amazing being able to film these people yesterday. I think it was my proudest moment as a documentary filmmaker. Even though they had been reduced to nothing their spirits were high and laughter was often. They speak a different language called chol. It has a lot of clicks and deep throat sounds. They also speak spanish so we were able to communicate. After they took us around the entire property to show all the destruction of homes and crops we went back to the only structure that was on the property and kept talking. They answered any questions we had. They wanted to tell their story to get the word out about what had occured. Then they fed us. This was absolutely astonishing. They have nothing I mean nothing and still they find it so customary to feed guests. What amazing people. At the moment they still fear that another raid will happen but their are international peace observers on the premises as insurance. It was a magical moment. Now we are off to deliver Niem trees to another comminity near San cristobal de las Casas. Niem is a tree that origanated in India and has all kinds of amazing medicinal purposes as well it makes for great building material. So that it the part we get to play in this wonderful program that Schools for Chiapas has set up for us. We feel that we are actually doing work that will benifit some needy people and that is what we came here to do. To try to make a difference with our time in this country and not just take from it and leave. I would like to ask everyone who reads this if you would like to make a difference please donate some money to these people who were dirven off their land. All you have to do is donate it to us via our donation button and then we will give it to them. We are thinking of buying them chickens. One chicken is about ten dollars. Not to bad. If you do donate in the next couple of days please e-mail me at binobitz@yahoo.com and tell me the amount so we know what to take out of our bank account. Remeber anything helps. Thank you all and be well...