The point is really what can we do here?
Over there the Feds have occupied the Zocalo with around 4 dead, 50 arrested and 30 wounded. The APPO deliberately told people to avoid confrontations and most seem to have taken that advice. But now the people have come out in huge numbers and are surrounding the Fed in the Zocalo and having big 'discussions' with the soldiers.

So as Nancy Davies (who writes for Narconews) says, bringing in the troops just as the teachers voted to go back to work backfired, and is a defeat for Ruiz and Fox, because it has mobilised a hell of lot more people and this is going to get much bigger.

The best thing to have happened around this fight is the coming together of the Zaps with its rural comunity support bases on the one hand and the unions on the other. The Oaxaca teachers have been the catalyst for this unity. They blazed a trail in breaking with their corrupt union leadership, and have stood strong against any attempt to back down from sacking Ruiz.

Now its a matter of taking this same fight into the big industrial unions like the miners and metalworkers which has 270,000 members. Once the mass memberships of these unions starts to unite around the APPOS that are being built, the puny paramilitaries that we saw shooting Brad Will will flee in terror and the pressure on the rank and file of the army to refuse to shoot the people will be that much stronger.

What can we do here?
We need to build a solidarity movement for the long haul. There will be many more such mobilisations and military attacks. Not just in Mexico, but already today happening in Bolivia, Chile and breaking out again in Argentina. Protest actions are important but so are meetings, video showings and educationals that inform people and get the message into the unions and social movements.

A protest is being planned in Auckland in the next couple of days and a video showing for next week.
Stay tuned.
Dave