What the Zapatistas Say about the Faculty of the Contra Costa Community College District

From La Sexta (The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle):

"In the beginning there were not many of us, just a few, going this way and
that, talking with and listening to other people like ourselves. We did that
for many years, and we did it in secret, without making a stir. ... We
remained like that for about ten years, and when we had grown, we were many
thousands."

That's the story of the Zapatistas as they came together, in the years leading up to
their remarkable appearance in the streets of Cristobal on New Year's Day 1994.
And it seems apt to the situation faculty find themselves in these days of separation
and division, after the progressive voices have been driven from the forefront of our
union's discussions, marginalized by the management-friendly cries of the ascending
faction, those who spoke out against factions, in the name of their faction, swearing the loyalty
to the district and not the union, as they took over the union.

Leaving the rest of us to go this way and that.