Oaxaca under attack: 4 killed, 30 injured, 2 missing
Over the last forty-eight hours there has been severe state repression in the southern Mexican city Oaxaca where teachers have been on strike for the last five months. "Groups of gunmen", including paramilitaries and police, attacked members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) evicting them from occupied streets and attacking barricades.
The repression has cost the lives of four people. The dead are Emilio Alonso Fabián, a teacher from the Los Loxicha region; Bradley Will, a New York City Indymedia journalist (Left: a photo of Brad interviewing an Oaxacan resident at a barricade); Esteban López Zurita, an Oaxacan resident; and Eudocia Olivera Díaz.
"Following a declaration by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) to launch an all-out work stoppage and boycott to force the hand of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (known as “URO”), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) supporters, both police and private individuals, assaulted the population in several different areas of the city on Friday." Read More
There is a long history of Mexico using government sponsored paramilitaries to repress social movements, including a massacre of hundreds of students in Mexico City in 1968. As reports of protesters surrounded by armed government forces and police continue to pour in, activists in cities around the world are planning protests at Mexican embassies in outcry against the violent aggression against the people of Oaxaca.
Update: Around a dozen people went to the Mexican embassy in Wellington on Monday to express their disgust at the murder of four people in Oaxaca over the weekend and the continuing repression targeted at the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). [Report + Photos] A small but vocal crowd held a demonstration in solidarity with APPO on Friday in Auckland. [Report + Photos]
Links: Last Communique from NYC Indymedia Journalist Brad Will | Indymedia Oaxaca | el enemigo común | Narco News | Radio APPO | Audio from Oaxaca | Photos | Timeline of Events | The Oaxaca Uprising - Mexico (AIMC) | Aotearoa IMC Statement on the situation in Oaxaca, Mexico
Narco News Reports (english/español) A Day Of Killings While Teachers Negotiate in Mexico City | Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly Throws Down a Challenge to the Governor | The Toll of Friday the 27th | Brad Will, New York Documentary Filmmaker and Indymedia Reporter, Assassinated | Federal Police Authorized to Enter Oaxaca
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What is at stake in Oaxaca
What is at stake in Oaxaca is the beginning of a revolution against US imperialism and its Mexican lackeys the PRI, PAN and PRD(Obrador's PRD left-of-centre party has state governors that oversaw similar repressions at San Salvador Atenco in May and Sicartsa steel mill in April) who administer and enforce the US plunder of Mexico.
For a Leninist Trotskyist analysis of what is wrong and what to do read:
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
http://redrave.blogspot.com/2006/10/all-power-to-people.html
Re: Oaxaca under attack: 4 killed , 30 injured, 2 missing
latest news: unconfirmed reports that power to the university has been cut. internet streams from radio APPO are down - possibly because of this power cut - people are trying to establish communication with people in the radio station now.
Radio APPO is currently the only source of information/media (not state-run) that has escaped the media blackout in Oaxaca. Currently it is really the only way that anyone really knows what is going on in Oaxaca - they have an open phoneline and are broadcasting live reports from callers around the area.
www.indymedia.org has a link to the live stream (if/when it gets back up) and irc.indymedia.org #radioappo has a live english translation
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radio is back broadcasting.. thank goodness!
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photos
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061029180930632
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Brad Will's last video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxlwcfldxIw
Re: Oaxaca under attack: 4 killed, 30 injured, 2 missing
I guess you guys Know that one of our own was shot dead in Oaxaca, Brad Will, god rest his soul. Gunned down filming on a barricade by a plian clothes cop. Cheack out GNN for more details includeing photographs.
Nancy Davies Report Tues 31st
What is going on, is that the plenary of APPO met today and decided that people should not defend to the death. That said, calls are going out from the radio for people to come and defend. The PFP entered at 8:00 PM the area where the offices of finances are located. If they take them, the APPO may try to retake tomorrow -(?) The highest priorities are Santo Domingo and radio universidad. The entire board of 27 directors of UABJO declared that the university property is autonomous, and eight officials of the university joined them in signing a declaration. Furthermore, the rector went on the air to congratulate the APPO and add his voice to why and how this is happening. -this means, that if radio universidad were invaded, that would constitute a serious infringement of autonomous university rights. The problem for the feds is that autonomous universities are THE system of public education in Mexico, and they would be opening a hornet's nest --so I think maybe the radio station will be interfered with by other means. That leaves other barricades and areas to defend.
Tomorrow the Day of the Dead will be a big memorial to the teachers, appo people, Brad Will, the boy who was killed, ---big. That will take place in Cal y Canto, and I'm real sorry I can't tell you where that is exactly, but it's probably close to where Brad Will was shot --if you get directions, please post for everyone.
The other news is that other nations, and even Guatemala, cities in the USA, Europe, etc are joining. The most important here are Sonora (northern state) Michoacan, Guerrero, Chiapas --states which are tipping right into the APPO mode . The national teachers strike - national anything, for that matter, will be a problem for Fox.
I also heard on the radio that the PFP were vandalizing the zocalo, but I'm not sure I believe that - they seemed very disciplined. What do you think, Max?
It's 9:00 PM, so I'm quiting for the night.
Everyone, please stay safe.
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Go hard our brothers & sisters. Much support, and love for the peoples of Oaxaca. Respect to Brad Will, guerrilla journalist getting to the world the story from the grass roots. Love and support to his indy-family in this time of grief.
Ka whaiwahi tonu matou ake,ake, ake
Imágenes de solidaridad con los pueblos de Oaxaca
http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=83
Oaxaca 27/10/06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJyDHzc43M
Oaxaca Updates and Translation from Arizona Indymedia
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061031130559888
Re: Oaxaca under attack: 4 killed, 30 injured, 2 missing
I've written an open letter to the Herlad over their coverage of the events in Oaxaca:
http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/2006/11/open-letter-to-new-zealand-he...
Report of Coalition of Indigenous Teachers in Oaxaca
Colleagues, I just received a call from the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers in Oaxaca. Some updates:
1. The government has accomplished little through its violent attacks. They have not "retaken" the center of the city. They are in the Zocalo, but the popular movement has encampments at Sto. Domingo and the UABJO, and sporatically controls various streets leading into the Zocalo. I was told that the PFP are actually "surrounded" by the movement.
2. Their greatest defeat is that the people are no
longer afraid of them. The movement is not going away.
3. The teachers as a movement are still supporting
the APPO and the strike. Yesterday when the APPO
called for three marches, rank and file teachers turned out in mass. It is the leadership of Seccion XXII that is waffling. They called a meeting of the leadership at the same time as the marches, and only incorporated themselves when the marches were getting close to their destination. The CMPIO does not necessarily believe that
the leadership was "bought out"; they may simply be afraid.
And their fear is warranted. But, according to the CMPIO, their actions now are embarrassing and shameful. The teachers are NOT behind them.
4. While most schools in the Isthmus are open, very few in the central valleys and none in Oaxaca City are open.
Even private schools have been closed in the city. The city teachers will not easily return to classes.
5. Yesterday, I believe, three teacher political prisoners were freed by the government, supposedly to comply with the negotiated demand to return to classes. The three called for teachers to return to classes. The teachers movement rejected this call, even suggesting that it would be better if the three freed prisoners return to jail! Since then, the three have changed their tune. But the resolve of the teacher movement to continue the strike, at least in and around Oaxaca City, until URO is booted, seems clear.
6. Most businesses in the center of the city have been closed. Gasoline supplies are starting to be depleated.
7. The hunger strikers continue in D.F. Three are in delicate condition and were admitted to hospitals. The others continue.
8. Apparently there is much agitation in the Congress to resolve the Oaxaca situation. The CMPIO feels it is now almost likely that URO will be gotten rid of.
electronic blockade
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/oaxaca2/index.php
In response to a call to action to remember Brad and all the
companer@s killed in the popular struggle to oust the bloody tyrant
Ulises Ruiz, to show solidarity with the teachers and protesters of
Oaxaca, and to attempt to interrupt the invasion of Oaxaca that
Mexican President Vicente Fox is beginning, join this electronic
blockade of the websites for all of the Mexican embassies and
consulates in the United States and Canada.
________________________________
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/oaxaca2/index.php
PFP fail to take the university and shut down radio
An attempt by the Federal Military Police on Thursday was driven back after attempting to take the university
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2289.html
But recent reports say the PFP have retreated to the central square, and the army is preparing to move in.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/message/1382
Follow events on Radio APPO streaming text in English
http://www.iteration.org/radioappo.txt
The Battle of Ciudad Universitaria
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2296.html
Oaxaca teachers call for nationwide strike 9-10 November
Good article by Alan Benjamin of San Franscisco Labor Council on the current plans to generalise and coordinate actions in support of APPO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Argentina_Solidarity/message/4966
Report from Nancy of APPO resolution to go on offensive
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/message/1475
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Can you get rid of this spam above?
Heres photos of the megamarch on Sunday
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photos of Sunday's megamarch
http://www.amauta.inf.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&...
Rally in Solidarity with Oaxaca
A group of around 70 people staged a noisy protest in Melbourne on Monday to show solidarity with the people of Oaxaca, Mexico who are currently experiencing murder, torture and disappearances at the hands of the Mexican government.
and with whanau Maori tautoko for our brothers & sisters fighting oppression in Oaxaca.
Rally in Solidarity with Oaxaca
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/129586.php
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Programme about Brad and Oaxaca. http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/knash@igc.org/123-1-20061104-oaxacawi...
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