JUSTICE FOR BRAD!

...and for Emilio Alonso Fabiánm, Esteban López Zurita and Eudocia Olivera Díaz!

"Aye" it's not about one person (brad being murderd although this is disgusting) it's about people in revolt who fight on despite the threat of mass murder.

Yeah. Your absolutely right. I guess I just feel a bit shaken up about Brad Will in particular, being that the murder of an Indy journalist hits so close to home.

there's not a mexican consulate in auckland?fuck, I thought there was, what should the Aucklanders do?We NEED a protest in auckland though...

Heya, for Akld'ers, this link takes you to details of Mexico's representation in NZ. There is an Auckland listing, but the Simpson Grierson email address suggests it is a lawyers office on their behalf???
www.mfat.govt.nz/Embassies/Foreign-Embassies/countries-m.php

Embassy of Mexico
HE Mrs María Angélica Arce de Jeannet, Ambassador

Street Address Level 8, Perpetual Trust House, 111-115 Customhouse Quay, Wellington
Postal Address PO Box 11-510, Manners Street, Wellington
Telephone +64 4 472 0555 Facsimile +64 4 496 3559
Email mexico (at) xtra.co.nz
Website Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mexico
Office Hours Mon-Thurs 0900-1600 hrs, Fri 0900-1500 hrsConsular Mon-Fri 0900-1400 hrs

Consulate of Mexico, Christchurch
Telephone +64 3 343 6744 Mobile 027 432 2353

Consulate of Mexico, Auckland
Street Address 88 Shortland St, Private Bag 92 518, Wellesley St, Auckland
Telephone +64 9 977 5041 Facsimile +64 9 977 5078
Email denis.mcnamara (at) simpsongrierson.com

Alright then, I thought we had a consulate over here. When should the protest be?should it involve property destruction etc? because they don't give a fuck about a few people picketing outside their consulate

demo anytime u want, often if possible

There's no point picketting a law firms office in Shortland St. It probably only deals with visas and small stuff like that.
Anyway the real enemy of the Oaxaca teachers, are the paymasters and backers of Ulises Ruiz and Fox and co - the US ruling class. They have made Mexico into a virtual colony and want to grab whatever resources, oil, copper, electicity, land etc there is.
Better targets would be the US consulate and any of the big US corporates who have their dirty fingers in Mexico.
See
MEXICO: ITS ABOUT OIL
indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/71907/index.php

arrgh! it's not all about the oil! This is a culture war, damn it. it's a war between those that want to control and those that want to be free from that control. To always see things in terms of geopolitical struggles for strategic resources without understanding the local context, the reasons why people on street are fighting against their government will always lead you to marginalise the people struggle...

Rubbish. Don't you know what the teachers are fighting for? Sure they want to be free to teach culture, but they can't do it without any money. Ruiz cut state funding to run their rural schools so Ruiz could pay for his election. Budget cuts in education and health in Mexico are part of the neo-liberal/imperialist prescription for Mexico. Wake up and smell the oil.

resource wars,power struggles, colonialization and brutality - go hand in hand.

the point is they are under siege, by the government and military of the state of mexico.

You are all correct in your assessments, Mexico is my country and we know the main cause of the problem in Oaxaca is that the corrupt government doesn't want to spend in education of lower class citizens, they are racists that don't want to face the needs of the people, they don't care about providing jobs, they don't promote investment, they work only for their own enrichment by corrupt means, they steal from public funds, they steal elections, they sell everything they can and cheap, to friends, to colleagues, corruption in Mexico is at an all time high and possibly among the first three most corrupt nations in the world.

The only kind of investment the Mexican government wants is foreign investment, and they do everything in their power to keep the people poor to offer the cheapest labor force as possible, Mexico is an oil producing country, but the income from the oil sales is never honestly declared and is spent on God knows what because they never meet the needs of the country, they don’t build infrastructure, they don’t provide welfare to needy people, they don’t work for the country, but for themselves, they don’t fight crime, which is at 98% impunity, up from 96% in the year 2000… they don’t fight drug dealers, but instead have non aggression policies towards them, drug dealers contribute for political campaigns and have the freedom to work later as payment for their contributions. 50% of Mexico’s wealth is in the hands of 15% of the population, and there are plenty of millionaires but from 65% to 80% of the population is poor, with around 20 million in the poverty level. Mexican Presidents work for the American Government and the neo-liberal formula has been strongly applied in the last 25 years, which has taken around 50% off of the average working class wages or acquisitive buying power, while creating some of the richest men in the world, the third most richest man in the world Carlos Slim Helú, got that rich about 13 years after buying the Mexican telephone state owned monopoly, and charges for telephone use are the highest in the world. The man’s fortune is 30 billion US dollars and he along with a few other known people control the faith of Mexico along with it’s politics and impose the president of their choice by financing their campaigns and electoral fraud. We call those people “the owners of Mexico”, because that is how they act… Mexico is not a free or democratic country, the government controls the mass media and use them to suppress the news and control what people know and what they ignore, and now that the American control of our country is out in the open and strongly applied, freedom seems like an illusive dream for Mexicans, and Democracy is something that seems so close but so hard to reach.

The problem of Oaxaca started with the electoral fraud that imposed Ulises Ruiz as the governor of the state in 2004. In the month of May of this year, the state teachers union, requested for government funds to improve the education with the acquisition of school materials, which up to that date teachers had to buy from their wages due to low funding from the government, also better wages and funds to improve general conditions since the state is the poorest in the nation and schools need attention to preserve the buildings. So after five weeks of the “sit in” (planton as we call it) manifestation, State and Federal riot Police were sent in to punish the teachers by repressive means, the police were repelled and returned to the take over of the central square they occupied up to June the 14th, but this time ordinary citizens joined them in the protest, so for five months the state governor sent mercenaries to carry out drive by shootings during which up some people were killed, the attacks occurred after dark and the people decided to pile up barricades to prevent free flow of traffic for their protection. Things remained the same, for five months during which negotiations were carried out between the teachers and the federal government, they demanded from the federal government that they remove the state governor and improve funds for schools as a condition for their return to class rooms and on the 19th of October the Mexican Senate deliberated to remove the Oaxaca Governor but decided to leave him in office as the result of the PRI extorting the PAN (official party) to leave Governor Ulises Ruiz as head of the Oaxaca State or they would no recognize Felipe Calderon as the new President knowing that he was imposed by means of electoral fraud, as was negotiated during election day, recordings of deals between the two parties have proven the PRI party sold votes from their candidate to the PAN party candidate to defeat the PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who was the favorite among the people of Mexico, as the PRI candidate was far behind in the election day preliminary vote count and the PRD seemed to be leading the count.

So after the Senate decided to keep the Governor in Oaxaca, the people did not loose faith and remained in protest with the only demand left on their conditions; to remove Ulises Ruiz from state office… but on October 27th Ulises Ruiz feeling an untouchable, sent his shooters to kill some protesters and stir trouble as a likely plan to have Federal Police sent in to retake the city of Oaxaca from the teachers and the APPO people and American Journalist Brad Will was shot during that afternoon.. The people of Oaxaca had been in control of government offices and a radio station which they took control of after the June 14th repression by State and Federal Police.
They were the authority and kept a hold on the state in demand for the murderous Governor to be removed, among the governor’s faults are corruption, association with criminals, a repressive manner of governing, murder and drunkenness, so their demands were fair and just, but the federal government does not faithfully represent the will of the Mexican people and protect their own as members of the same crime organization in control of the country,… and on Saturday the 28th five planes full of federal police arrived in Oaxaca City and other parts of the State to take control from the teachers and people of Oaxaca, or APPO (People of Oaxaca Popular Assembly) as they call themselves.
On Sunday morning Federal Police had been waiting for orders and had not been fed, so the people provided them with something to eat and drink as some of the policemen had fainted, but in the afternoon they began the repression during which they hurt people and used water cannons with acid mixed in the water and even fired live bullets at them and a couple of people were killed, one of them a young boy. Men, women and children fought and even old people joined in the defense of their positions. By early night police had taken control of the city square and had arrested people. We are still waiting to hear as the events develop.

It is believed the police were actually military forces dressed in police anti-riot gear.

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

cheers dave mate, hope it won't coincide with the street party, you coming?I have a question though, how do you know so much about this?
Also indymedia, you may be infected, when I run peer guardian (a program which blocks pings from spyware, advertisements, anti-piracy organisations etc) it blocks connections to here.
"Serverbeach Emule Servers|p2p fake files" 64.34.176.147
any idea?
Cameron

Well since Indymedia.org.nz is an html/php server not an eMule P2P server it's hardly surprising your software is confused. Are you sure it's connecting to Indymedia that's doing it?

BTW Please send tech comments/ complaints to imc-aotearoa-tech (at) indymedia.org as the geeks we lock in the cellar to run our site aren't usually allowed to read the comments. Down boy - get coding or you'll get the TAZER on your tonsils again!

I am impressed for the world's solidarity with Oaxaca. I agreed that this kind of support is needed in many parts of the world in which politicians and pro-globalizatiio powers neglect people's basic needs.

Salud! Keep it up!!!

In GLOBAL solidarity,
A.M.A.I. from Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mex.

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Sigh. Sorry about my random comment. I did not realise I was making a comment. I thought I was adding a sig....

It is a great and constructive idea to inform the teachers, miners annd healthworkers unions where you are about what is happening in oaxaca and throughout mexico...(google sicartsa for recent info on miners situation.is terrible...)
The best form of solidarity at this moment,when people are being randomly attacked, tortured,detained and killed in Oaxaca is to inform and unite fellow workers in these areas around the world with the peaceful protest against these atrocities.These people being attacked are like you.
Imagine if you went on strike in your town as a teacher or university professor asking for fair pay,shoes and uniform allowance for children and freedom to teach and you were attacked, put in jail,anonymously,illegally........Imagine if you were beaten,tortured, or even killed for standing up for the basic human rights of your community.
This is what is happening in Oaxaca.
Throughout Mexico, the majority of the population has endured centuries of oppression, persecution and subordination.
The straw has broken the camels back!!!!!!!!!
At this moment ,we need all your support,although this battle must be fought on its own ground...
Solidarity through creative and peaceful actions,strikes(particularily within the Education sector) and petitions/letters to embassys consulates are valuable and muuuchisssimosss appreciated!!!!!!
United we are INVINCIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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