Rebellion Against Time In Mexico – TDV Week In Review, Sunday April 12, 2015
In Mexico, time is governed by nature, not government, at least for many. We here at The Dollar Vigilante would like to pledge our support to the indigenous peoples of Oaxaca who have refused to observe government time.
Instead, they observe the time of their ancestors. As Mexico News Daily reports,
It could be said that time has stopped in some rural areas of the state of Oaxaca, but it certainly didn’
t change last Sunday morning when most of the rest of the country advanced their clocks by one hour.
In San Pedro Quiatoni, for example, the church clock marks the hours, but the indigenous villagers prefer more traditional methods of keeping time and dictating their daily routines, such as observing the movement of the sun.
“
The ‘
King of the Sky’
comes out from the east and sets in the west, and when the roosters crow it is time for work,”
says Gregorio Santos, a farmer in the village located in the Sierra of Yautepec, in the Tlacolula district.
“
I have no clock, that’
s only for rich people.”
Primary school teacher Ramó
n Ló
pez says in rural areas nobody “
can force the towns to observe government time, for the clock of the locals is biological.”
Members of Section 22 of the radical teachers’
union CNTE say their opposition to the time change has its origins in their historic struggle against the state, one that has carried on into strong opposition to education reform.
“
The stance of the people isn’
t a rebellion,”
says Ló
pez, “
but rather the recognition of their own rights which have nothing to do with the governance of those above them. They are asserting the will of the people.”
The will extends to some 13,000 schools, where more than a million students attend class, that refuse to conform to the government-mandated Daylight Savings Time, or DST.
As part of an agreement reached by Section 22, over 1.3 million students returning to classes on April 13 will not be complying with DST, along with 81,000 teachers in 13,000 educational facilities, as well as 70% of the entire indigenous population of Oaxaca.
Instead, they will go by the clock of their ancestors.
For government spokesman Carlos Santiago, the actions taken by a significant number of municipalities against DST reflect the full autonomy awarded indigenous peoples of Oaxaca to live by their own rules.
He said municipalities and local businesses are searching for solutions to avoid problems arising from the two different manners of observing time.
Mexico first adopted DST in 1996 due to increasing economic ties with the United States. Until then, Baja California was the only state to observe it. The U.S. changed its schedule for DST in 2007, but only Mexican municipalities less than 20 kilometers from the U.S. border made the same changes.
We leave the comments to you, dear Vigilantes…
This month'
s TDV Newsletter is filled with information. First, Jeff discussed the great paradigm shift currently taking place and his big predictions for how to survive The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI), and then Ed Bugos detailed financial cycles and their human causes, and what this means for your investment portfolio. Then the TDV Team took you on a journey to Buenos Aires for a report on life there as an expat.
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THIS IS THE VIGILANTE ON AYAHUASCA – THE WEEKEND VIGILANTE APRIL 11TH, 2015
April 11, 2015
Well, it'
s been a few weeks since I dropped everything and flew to Monterrey, Mexico, to try Ayahuasca.
I'
ve received dozens of messages asking me about the experience and I mostly wanted to take a few weeks to reflect on it before coming out with a comment on it.
As preface, and as I'
ve said before, I like to try everything once.
I really dislike people who have never had a drink but hate alcohol.
Or who have never had a puff of marijuana but demand that people with guns, being paid with extorted money, go out and kidnap people caught with it.
THE MASK OF GOVERNMENT IS FALLING OFF BOTH LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY
April 9, 2015
Post by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick
Larken Rose once told me that the government can'
t continue to govern (for long) once they begin completely dominating by force without the approval of at least a sizeable amount of support from the citizenry.
Or, as he said, "
once they remove the mask"
that they are here to help us and show themselves for what they really are.
In more ways than one the US government is showing itself for what it really is.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Communist Party-Conn.) has been pushing the
Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act.
April 8 2015
Post by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick
On Tuesday, Rand Paul announced that he was running for Misleader of the Unfree World… or, as they call it, President of the US.
This announcement has caused a rapacious debate in the libertarian community which, as an umbrella, includes anarchists and small government minarchists/constitutionalists.
THE SNOWDEN HOLOGRAM: MARKETS VERSUS THE GOVERNMENT
April 7, 2015
Post by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick
When people look back at the Soviet Union or Mao'
s China they can clearly see the misery that happens when a government is in charge of nearly everything.
Even in the now fasco-communist US soyuz you can see public housing areas that are similar.
Everything is grey, square, uncreative and devoid of any sort of color or life and the people there live mostly in misery.
"
HIDDEN INFLUENCE – THE RISE OF COLLECTIVISM"
HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED!
April 6, 2015
Post by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick
Richard Heathen'
s new movie (part 1 of 3) has just been released and is now on YouTube for free.
"
Hidden Influence: The Rise Of Collectivism"
may be one of the best films yet that gives proof of how nearly all of the problems of today have been planned for decades.
It gives an incredibly fascinating insight into the financial and social engineering that we have been subject to and how it is playing out in our lives today.
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