Aqui se encuentra las voces de maestr@s y luchadores de Oaxaca, Zapatistas de Chiapas, politico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, y mas, placticando sobre la jornada larga y dificil para encontrar cambio social en Mexico y en cualquier pais del mundo en una documental de 58 minutes.

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Slideshow with Captions in English

Aqui se encuentra un video corto con imagenes de Oaxaca con explicacion en ingles:

Here’s a short slideshow with pictures from Oaxaca with some context in English (apologies for the low quality)

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mas fotos de danielsan y ariel con titulos (more photos by danielsan and ariel with captions):
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/14/18427404.php

The next morning, the evidence was on the streets: military boots made footprints in pools of blood outside of a University building near Santo Domingo.

The targeted property destruction that marked Saturday night’s battle touched the tourism sector as well as representatives of the government. The sticker on the window reads: ‘Oaxaca is no army base! Army out of Oaxaca!’

mega bus

The 7th MegaMarch made its way from the Casa de Gobierno in Santa Maria Coyotepec outside of the city center, passing the airport and arriving at the PFP lines with the stated intention of surrounding the military for forty-eight hours. Early on APPO leadership and Radio Universidad were concerned with infiltration and provocation within the march.

frida presente!

The street battle started soon after at several of the intersections where PFP set up their own barricades with dumpsters and barbed wire.

Video: Matamoros enfrentamiento
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14.3 MB .mov video (about a minute) of the people confronting a PFP line on Calle Matamoros

Audio: APPO mensajero .mp3 file (Spanish)

An APPO spokesperson encouraging people to stop attacking the PFP and warning people about detentions happening by plainclothes police. APPO leadership declared the protestors to be beyond their control after trying unsuccessfully to fully encircle the PFP.

resolutions fire

APPO had been distributing the results of the Congress held over the 10-12 of November; Saturday night they became fuel for the fires as more direct action-oriented Oaxacans attempted to hold off the PFP street by street, intersection by intersection.

boot

The next morning, the evidence was on the streets: military boots made footprints in pools of blood outside of a University building near Santo Domingo. A handprint nearby suggests this was quite a violent assault. One headline of the daily paper ‘Noticias’ read ‘Washing the Blood Off the Streets’ and was accompanied by a photo of the high powered pressure washers that snaked through Oaxaca City Sunday morning, along with lots of work crews who removed all evidence of what happened Saturday night,…
except for the still-lingering smell of teargas.

visit oaxaca incendio

The offices of the Association of Hotels and Motels were burned Saturday night, along with many other buildings related to the state government, big business, tourism, a grocery store chain with ties to ex governor Murat (Pítico), and others. Fires also engulfed the offices of oft-visible APPO member Flavio Sosa, the Servicio de Administración Tributaria, and others in what appear to be fires set by PRIista loyalists.

source and more photos: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/27/18333705.php

The 4:45 transmission said that Ministerial Police have a warrant to enter the campus and search the station backed up by the PFP. The signal was then blocked yet again by la canción that has been overriding the AM broadcast for more than three weeks. The song is audible in the webcast as well, in addition to the sound of low-flying helicopters.

The barricade at Cinco Señores is now being reinforced and broadcasters are uncertain of what will happen next. Earlier in the week, a PFP spokesperson declared that the very same police force was out of control, but they seem to be cooperating nonetheless.

The station has continued to broadcast from the campus of the UABJO despite the occupation of Oaxaca City by federal police, and students and APPO adherents won a significant street battle shortly after the arrival of the troops in order to maintain both the campus and the signal.

They are calling for water, vinegar, gasoline, glass bottles, fireworks, and cola (to counter the effects of tear gas) in order to defend ‘the voice of truth.’ The webstream and the AM broadcast are both unstable due to interference.

They are also advising (all) women to avoid the city center and the PFP lines because of escalating male violence against women. See earlier post http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/20/18331444.php with information about a sexual assault perpetrated by the PFP last week (2.7 MB MP3 file called ‘gender war‘).

Since Saturday night’s street battle, the PFP has occupied Santo Domingo, the plaza APPO occupied after they were forcibly removed from the central Zócalo. Today tanks and police lines had replaced the tents set up by Campesino groups, Human Rights organizations, and TV monitors showing (and selling) video footage of the PFP occupation, the battle to defend the radio, the initial June 14 eviction/massacre…

(x)Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) has asked for huge increases in the budget for 2007, including huge expenditures explicitly for guns and tanks in order to reestablish his power in the state he can barely set foot in for the protests that explode whenever his helicopters fly him in. The PFP have begun, for the first time, to patrol the city. Houses have been searched and the numbers of arrested and disappeared is growing as more and more people tell what they saw Saturday night. State police have recently been visible (in uniform) for the first time in months.

Please continue to monitor the situation in Oaxaca.

Radio APPO: http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/appo.mp3.m3u

source: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/27/18333679.php

The PFP is saying there were no deaths Saturday night, with others claiming four or five. It is difficult as always to get any number confirmed, and the dead are so far unidentified, with reports that bodies were removed by the PFP.

This list is the only I have seen.

In accordance with the state government, those detained in the facility at Miahuatlán at the disposition of the Public Ministry are:

Hilario Jorge Reyes Hernández, Adrián Bautista Espinosa, Agustín Cruz Bautista, Avelino Salona Luján, Avelino Santiago Rivera, Misael Velasco Fabián, Rolando Reyes García, Buenaventura Hernández Cruz, Roque Coca Gómez, Raúl Ramírez Matías, Juan Martínez, Luis Pérez Suárez, Alberto Santiago Pérez, Regino Sánchez Gómez, Pablo Solano Martínez, Juan García Aguilar, Rigoberto Vásquez Torres, Isidro Vásquez Cruz, Álvaro Rodríguez Damián, Francisco Muñoz Cruz, Javier Sosa Martínez y Miguel Santiago Rivera, Lourdes Soriano Sanjuán, Jenny Araceli Pérez Martínez, Elia Copla Gómez, Aurora Ruiz García, Sandra Pérez María, Florinda Martínez Jiménez, Hilda Coca Gómez, Rosalba Aguilar Sánchez, Socorro Antonio Soriano Sanjuán, Celia Salazar Hernández, Esperanza Ofelia Robles, Maria Cabrera, Marcela Contreras, Esmeralda Velasco, Paulina Ramírez, Jovita Sánchez Cruz, Edith Coca Soriano, Carmen Sánchez Cruz, María del Socorro Cruz Alarcón y Blanca Martínez Ramírez.

Others detained:
Julio Alberto López Hernández, Jorge Sánchez García, Roberto Morales Hernández, Antonio Abad Mendoza Olivera, Oscar Marcelo Abad Pobrete, Miguel Ángel Martínez García, Juan Carlos Méndez Martínez, César Pérez López, Javier Álvarez Ramírez, José López Morales, Cristian Marcelo Cebollero, Jairo Vásquez García, Jorge Rosales González y Héctor Hernández Martínez.

Meanwhile the following are being detained at Tlacolula:
Jesús Manuel Cruz Cruz, Eréndira Garnica Aragón, Aurelia Santiago Reyes, Elizabeth Cantón, Marcela Velasco Balsea, Guadalupe Orea Hernández Rosario, Silvia Suárez Hernández, Rosario Alicia López López, Victoria Francisca Santiago Reyes, Florinda Aragón Peralta, Juan Carlos Domínguez Martínez, Rosen García, Adán Baños Flores, Jesús Santiago Apolinar, Ismael Sánchez Estrada, Giovani Alonso Palomec, Lamberto Miguel Cruz Cruz, Ignacio Mendoza, Heladio Guzmán Valdivieso, Manuel Ventura Santiago, Wenceslao Bautista Jiménez, Alejandro Luna López, Vladimir Vásquez Reyes, Gilberto Toledo y Morelos Treviño Rubén Elbert, Jorge Armando Islas, Abel Vásquez Moreno, Humberto Luis Gallegos, Abisai Hernández Ojeda, Gerardo Juárez Martínez, Miguel Ángel Maza González, Benito Santiago Caballero, Reynen López Niño, Kidiel Cervantes Ventura, Salomón González Aguilar, Jesús Bolaños Santiago, Severiano Vásquez Ortiz, Armando García Salas, Julián Alejandro Ortega Gómez, Isaías Cruz Martínez, Gerardo David Morelos Treviño, Joel Zaragoza Carrera, Marco Antonio Aquino Silva, Teodulfo Luis García, Pedro Antonio José Pérez, Gerardo Alberto Bonilla Lezama, Correa Orozco Alberto Alejandro y Eloy Morales Pastelín, Reynaldo Contreras Santiago, Porfirio Domínguez, Fortunato Morales, Gonzalo Santiago Orea, David Melchor Cervantes, Uriel Julio Méndez Hernández, Daniel Hernández Pacheco, Cornelio López Sánchez, José Luis Oropeza Hernández, Jaime Martínez Bordillo, Gerardo Silva Rodríguez, Gildardo Herrera Flores, Eber Ignacio Olegario Hernández, Alejandro Ortiz Ortiz, Teodardo Martínez Canseco, Justino Gil Bautista, Eusebio Bautista Cruz, Ciro Pedroza Guadarrama, Carmelo Cruz, Zerelio Leyva, César Agustín Cruz Campos, Jaime Valdés Álvarez, Edgar René Cruz Campos, Jaime Legaria Ramírez, Filemón Ortiz García, Miguel Pérez Méndez, Nicolás Hilario Vásquez, Isaí Padilla Todán y José Luis Ramírez Morales, Edgar Alejandro Molina Cueva, Felipe Sánchez Rodríguez, Rufina Martínez López, Bernardita Ortiz Bautista, Martha Méndez Pérez, María Pérez Gutiérrez, Mayra Maceda Bonilla, Paula Santos Reyes, Juana Reyes Espinosa, Rosita Rodríguez Sánchez, Ana González Rodríguez, Juan Reyes Martínez, Andrés Juan Santiago, Jorge Pérez López, Gabriel Luis Barrera y Abraham Reyes Herrera.

They emphasized that some of those detained are from other states, among them Elizabeth Cantón, from Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua; Rosen García, from Copainala, Chiapas; Alejandro Luna López, from Puebla, Filemón Ortiz García, from Huamantla, Tlaxcala; Martha Méndez Pérez, from Chiapas, Ciro Pedroza Guadarrama, from the State of México, and Jaime Valdés Álvarez, originally from Cuba living in Costa Rica.

(translation mine, from today’s ‘Noticias’
http://www.noticias-oax.com.mx)

source: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/27/18333677.php

The graffiti reads: ‘We don’t recognize the government’

The day began with a march from the Cuarteles outside of town (the army base and recruiting station) in comemmoration of the Revolutionary anniversary, in response to a sexual assault on a local woman by the PFP (listen to audio below), and with the stated goal (according to the APPO website) of encircling the PFP in the Zócalo and taking back the Palacio del Gobierno (the capitol building, of sorts).

Almost as soon as the march arrived in the city center, marchers confronting the PFP lines were met with tear gas, and a street battle ensued lasting the entire afternoon. Countless canisters of gas were fired; the fancy pants hotel where URO and the PFP bosses like to stay came under attack when marchers below were hit by rocks thrown from the roof.

Read more, view photos, listen to audio

en cola

mcappo

We passed a large McDonald’s on the way–it didn’t fail to attract the attention of some painters.

Read more, view phows, listen to audio:
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/20/18331444.php

Read more, view photos and listen to audio

English Translation of APPO Press Release

Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca

Press Release November 16th 2006

Regarding the Plan of Action from the Constitutive Congress of APPO:

Our Constitutive Congress defined continuing our path of struggle until the fall of the tyrant Ulises Ruiz Ortiz by resolving to continue to take the offensive in our mobilizations in our community, with the following activities:

*The Reactivation of the mobile brigades to close once again the offices of the state government

*Bringing in motor Caravans from all over the state to come to Oaxaca City

*The 20th of November we mobilize to greet these caravans and mobilize in general to declare this date (which is the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution) the BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION OF THE 21st CENTURY.

*On November 25th, a state-wide MegaMarcha starting at 10 AM from the Casa de Gobierno, with the objective to encircle completely the PFP in the Central Zócalo for an indefinite time.

*On November 30th we initiate a large state-wide, national, and international movement to demand the removal of Ulises Ruiz and to stop to taking of power of Felipe Calderón as president of the Republic.

*Within the next days we will fortify the blockade in front of the Senate and mobilize against the embassies of other countries.

*Within the next few days we will put forth our legal case against URO.

REGARDING THE KILLING OF NORTHAMERICAN JOURNALIST BRADLEY ROLAND WILL:

Today more than fifteen days after the killing of northamerican journalist Brad Will, after international and national public opinion remains clear that it was government thugs in service of URO who killed him, now the government intends to create a smokescreen, changing the facts of the case, including to the point of implicating members of APPO in his death, which we totally reject, for the following reasons:

*The character of our struggle is pacifist and at every moment we are living with the aggression of the ministerial police and the thugs of URO who create fear and terror in the streets of Oaxaca each night with the objective of frightening people out of the movement for the ouster of Ulises Ruiz, adding to the aggressions we’ve suffered even before the arrival of the PFP.

*On the 14th of June, APPO made a call to the national and international press to come to Oaxaca, to communicate to the public the true situation of our struggle for justice, and together with other organizations in defense of human rights, to act as shields for the movement and since then the presence of the national and international press has grown, breaking the silence that our own government had implemented in the case of Oaxaca’s popular movement.

*Just like other members of the national and international press, Bradley Roland Will came to Oaxaca with the same idea of breaking the silence and informing the world about what was happening in Oaxaca via the website New York City indymedia.

*With the arrival of national and international press as a diverse solidarity brigade from all over the country and the world, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz began a campaign of terror against them, in some cases accusing them of being advisors to the Oaxacan movement, and opening files on many of them over the course of time.

*Before Bradley’s death, at many points in our path of resistance local, national and international press had been threatened, assaulted, even injured by fire-arms, by hired thugs, provocateurs, in all cases because they were doing their job with honesty and objectivity.

*When URO was at his most desperate, he organized a plan for the invasion by Federal troops, to get a breath, for his earlier solicitations for intervention had gone nowhere due to differences between his group (the PRI) and that of Pres. Fox (PAN). On October 27th, as APPO`s strategy of shutting down developed, URO and his thugs organized provocations at more than fifteen points in the city. This aggression began with the shots fired at Radio Universidad and a fire in an office on the campus of the Ciudad Universidad at 10 AM, followed by shots fired at the barricade at Cinco Señores, and at 4 PM attacks on Coyotepec, and at the PGJE. In said places we saw disappearances, arrests, and killings, at the same time as the group of thugs headed by the municipal police of Santa Lucia del Camino and sent by the Municipal President began its attack on the Barricade at Calicanto and Av. Ferrocarril, in which they fired various guns at the barricade. At this place there were many members of the press, among them Bradley Roland Will, who was shot and killed. Other members of the press also were shot as well as members of the barricade.

*This killing was totally planned with the object of getting international pressure on Fox to send federal troops to Oaxaca, and it was successful, since after the death of Will the US government ordered the Mexican Government to send federal forces to violently occupy Oaxaca.

*For these reasons APPO totally rejects the perverse accusation that members of APPO were involved in the killing.

*We hold responsible Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, Helidoro Diaz Escarraga, Lino Celaya Luria, and Manuel Martines Feria as the intellectual authors of this killing, just as the head of Public Security of Santa Lucia del Camino Abel Santiago Zarate, the personnel boss of the same PRIista outfit, Manuel Aguilar, who is the cousin of the CROC director David Aguilar Robles, who is also local representative of the PRI, municipal police officer Juan Carlos Soriano Velasco, alias El Chapulín, and Pedro Carmona, ex president of the neighborhood Felipe Carrillo Puerto of Santa Lucia, as the material authors.

For all of these reasons we demand punishment for the authors as much planning as executing, the killing of Bradley Roland Will, and we state that it is not possible that the PGJE can investigate this crime, as it is acting as judge and jury in this investigation, resulting in error.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
APPO

Read more, view photos and listen to audio:
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/18/18330840.php

TO THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA:
TO THE APPO:
TO THE MEDIA:
TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO IN GENERAL:

At present, the popular Oaxacan movement is in the vanguard of social movements in Mexico and in Latin America, and finding itself snared by the political class and its imminent demise, the 2nd National Student & Youth Conference, held November 11th 2006 proclaims its solidarity with the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) and calls attention to communities of resistance as follows:
(mensaje en español)

Photos on Santa Cruz IMC

1. We consider maintaining the barricades until the removal of both Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and the PFP from the state of Oaxaca, and in fact their strengthening, to be living evidence of the momentum of the movement, and support those who are maintaining them, and thus are against the negotiations for their removal.

2. Continuing to protect the installations of Radio Universidad (as well as the campus) as a territory in resistance, we reject the return to class and demand that the faculty and administration also take this position. We hold responsible for any act of repression Luís Martínez Solís (UABJO administrator), Leticia Mendoza Toro, Martín Gamboa, and their collaborators or any others who promote the return to class in order to favor the strengthening of groups of hired guns and PRIista militants who foster confrontation with the University students who guard the Radio station at UABJO.

3. The reestablishment of Radio Universidad´s signal, being the most accessible media for the citizenry, which facilitates their participation in the popular Oaxacan movement.

4. The immediate release of political prisoners, as well as the presentation of life of the disappeared of Oaxaca and Mexico.

NOT ONE STEP BACK IN THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA!!

ULISES RUIZ ORTIZ AND THE PFP: GET OUT OF THE STATE OF OAXACA!!

FRATERNALLY,

The 2nd National Student & Youth Conference
November 11th 2006

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Palabra del 2do Encuentro Nacional Estudiantil y Juvenil efectuado el 11 de Noviembre 2006 en la UABJO.

AL PUEBLO DE OAXACA
A LA ASEMBLEA POPULAR DE LOS PUEBLOS DE OAXACA
A LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN
Y EN GENERAL AL PUEBLO DE MEXICO:

El movimiento popular Oaxaqueño es hoy, la vanguardia de los movimientos sociales en México y América Latina y al encontrarse asechado por la clase política para su pronto disolución, EL SEGUNDO ENCUENTRO NACIONAL ESTUDIANTIL Y JUVENIL EFECTUADO EL 11 DE NOVIEMBRE DEL 2006 se solidariza con la APPO y en atención al llamado del pueblo en resistencia no pronunciamos por:

1. El no levantamiento de las barricadas hasta la salida de Ulises Ruiz Ortiz y la PFP del estado de Oaxaca, así mismo, llamamos al fortalecimiento de estas, ya que consideramos que es la evidencia viva y contundente de este movimiento así como la no negociación a espaldas de los integrantes de las barricadas.

2. Continuar el resguardo de las instalaciones de Radio Universidad y al mismo tiempo de Ciudad Universitaria como un territorio en resistencia, por lo tanto, rechazamos el retorno a clases de los universitarios y exhortamos a los directivos de las diferentes facultades a pronunciarse a favor de esta postura. Así mismo, responsabilizamos de cualquier acto represivo a Luís Martínez Solís (abogado general de la UABJO), Leticia Mendoza Toro, Martín Gamboa, y compinches, quienes promueven el regreso a clases para favorecer el fortalecimiento de grupos porriles y de militancia priista que tiendan a confrontar a los verdaderos estudiantes que resguardan Radio Universidad.

3. El reestablecimiento de la señal de Radio Universidad siendo el medio más accesible para que la ciudadanía participe e impulse el movimiento popular oaxaqueño.

4. La libertad inmediata de los presos políticos, así como la presentación con vida de los desaparecidos en Oaxaca y el país.

¡¡NI UN PASO ATRÁS EN LA LUCHA DEL PUEBLO DE OAXACA!!!

¡¡FUERA ULISES RUIZ ORTIZ, FUERA LA PFP DEL EDO DE OAXACA!!

FRATERNALMENTE:

2DO ENCUENTRO NACIONAL ESTUDIANTIL Y JUVENIL
A 11 DE NOVIEMBRE DEL 2006

source and photos: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/13/18329467.php

Rumors are flying, but COFEDAPPO is trying to verify the whereabouts of political prisoners and gather statements by witnesses and family members to document disappearances, torture, and detentions.

As of this morning, the ninth of November, the Committee of Friends and Family of the Disappeared, Assassinated, and Political Prisoners of Oaxaca (COFEDAPPO) is circulating petitions on behalf of the following people:

Disappeared:

1. Alejandro Merino Garcia
2. Angel Santos Callejas Rodríguez
3. Angel Soto Gallegos
4. Armando (or Arnaldo) Rojas Galan
5. Benito Zarate
6. Camilo Domínguez de los Santos
7. Carlos Alberto Hernandez Cardenas
8. Carlos Santorio
9. Carolina Juarez Vasquez
10. 3 personas
11. 5 personas
12. Cesar Santiago Reyes
13. Daniel Olmedo
14. David Ricardo Ramirez Zarate
15. Diego Magdiel Rodríguez Hernandez
16. Eduardo Hernandez Mendoza
17. Eliud Martinez Gonzalez
18. Erick Ortiz Lopez
19. Felipe Perez Tomas
20. Felix Ricardo Mendez Venegas
21. Fernando Ruiz Santos
22. J. Antonio Aparicio Garcia
23. Jesús Martinez Hernandez
24. Jose Jiménez
25. Juan Flores Cruz
26. Juan Jose Flores Hernadez
27. Luis Antonio Vasquez Hernandez
28. Marcos Garcia Martinez
29. Mauricio ‘N’
30 .Maximo Reyes Perez
31. Pedro ‘X’
32. Pedro Martin Utrera Sanchez
33. Rene Trujillo
34. Teodoro Tiño Verado
35. Ubaldo Garcia Guzman
36. Ulises Lopez Luis
37. Victor Garcia

Detained / ‘Arrested’:

1. Abel Martinez Pacheco
2. Adelfo Garcia Lopez
3. Alfonso Rutilio Garcia Martinez
4. Benjamín Gonzalez Trejo
5. Calixto Perez Rosas
6. Carlos Santana Tavira
7. Diego Nicolas Hernandez Lopez
8. Eulogio Alfredo Ramirez Perez
9. Feliciano Jiménez Damian
10. Francisco Nuñez Basan
11. Humberto Jiménez Rios
12. Jose Antonio Ruiz Ruiz
13. Juan Alberto Vasquez Martinez
14. Luis Antonio Fuentes Domínguez
15. Martin Cruz Rodríguez
16. Victor Javier Cruz Garcia
17. Amado Aguilar Bautista
18. Anibal Matus Gomez
19. Carlos Javier Arlazon
20. Daime Guerrero
21. Daniel Eliseo Olmedo
22. Gerardo Martinez
23. Gerardo Osorio Santiago
24. Hector Guzman Acosta
25. Joaquín Benjamín Lopéz Castillo
26. Jorge Flores Manuel
27. Jose Angel Garcia Hernandez
28. Marcos Garcia Martinez
29. Norberto Navarro Reyes
30. Osvaldo Jimenez Garcia
31. Samuel Cruz Ortiz
32. Sergio Alberto Rojas Juarez
33. Valentin Perez Hernandez
34. Miguel Angel Garcia
35. Victor Hugo Martinez Toledo

People have been taken off the street by unmarked cars, taxis, and even a white van marked ‘Press,’ according to Radio Universidad, which remains ‘on the air’ although their signal is being pirated across most of Oaxaca City by someone broadcasting THE SAME SONG over and over (and over and over) for almost a week now. Someone fired shots at the barricade outside of the University again yesterday, but hit no one. The PFP has raided homes, arrested people at barricades, and targeted organizers, teachers, and students. Those who have been release (see photo below) have told of torture and interrogation. Stay informed and make your voice heard at the closest Mexican consulate or embassy.

List of those already freed

Posters are showing up all over town with the faces of lost sons and daughter, friends, parents… COFEDAPPO is trying to keep an accurate and current count of those who have been taken, and those who have been freed. As APPO meets to plan its next moves (today, tomorrow, and Saturday), the men and women whose whereabouts are unknown must not have their voices silenced through absence.
The next few pictures already got posted, but they are more than relevant here.

source: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/10/18328715.php

The story of the takeover of Canal 9, the state-run TV station taken over by a group of women on August 1st. They maintained a blockade of the station for almost three months, until the PFP arrived last week and removed them. We talked to two teachers (and one of their daughters) outside the station a couple weeks ago about the takeover and the situation for teachers in Oaxaca. It was an interesting conversation–of particular note is the file ‘Is APPO Feminist?’ Appartently ‘feminism’ is a bad word in México, just like it is in the states. While the teacher discussed the efforts of APPO members to support gender equality, she explicitly states that it is *not* a feminist movement because it doesn’t exclude men. I guess it all depends on how we’re socialized to define the word. We also discussed the role of the Catholic Church in the movement and heard from a teenage student about the lessons being learned in the streets.

Listen in Spanish, read translations in English. Thanks.

Audio on Santa Cruz IMC

Download a video clip (9.2 MB)

source and audio mp3s: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/08/18327952.php

November 7th, 2006 – danielsan writes: Another day passes in Oaxaca City. Another day without Radio Universidad… its not that it was raided by the PFP and taken off the air–people rose up and defended the station and the University campus to prevent just that on Thursday. But since the weekend the signal has been overpowered by THE SAME SONG. Its only a couple of minutes long, instrumental, and frenetic. It sounds like bag-pipe rock. Everyone checks every hour or so to see if they can get the signal for Radio Universidad, so everyone catches themselves humming or whistling it. Its maddening. The Radio keeps broadcasting, but even on campus right underneath the antenna you hear la cancion. They failed to raid the station, but they’ve done better–they’ve made the frequency 1400 AM a constant headache. They shot a student a couple mornings ago. Hey fell asleep on watch at the front gate of the University. He’s still in the hospital, I guess. Looks like he’ll pull through.

Photos on SC-IMC: La Lucha Sigue || Caras de Oaxaca by Ariel

A couple other quick observations, that haven’t seemed relevant to other posts. People here are fiercely aware of the lies perpetrated by TV News. If nothing else, the media here have alienated their viewers to the point where a TV Azteca crew was chanted out of the ‘New Zócalo’ the other day, to the sound of ‘Fuera! Fuera!’

Scented Maxi Pads apparently help protect you though their powers of absorbtion, even on tear gas. I never thought I’d see men covering their faces with Maxi Pads, but when the tear gas falls…

It’s interesting to watch resources get reappropriated. The Radio station needs water. A water truck arrives. People need soda (another cure for teargas: Coca Cola) and vinegar. Cases and cases appear. People are hungry. Food is delivered. A lot of it is donated. I’ve helped more than a few older women carry huge pots of food to barricades. Ive heard stories of tremendous generosity on the part of neighbors, strangers. A lot of it is reappropriated. Trucks are comandeered for barricades, their booty distributed to weary marchers and teachers without pay for months.

The walls are being painted over almost as fast as they are again covered with slogans and calls for the ouster of URO. Yesterday I saw one that said ‘Well stop painting when URO leaves.’ I saw one that said ‘If you paint over the messages well burn the curtains.’ Amazing stencil art is painted over one day and replaced the next. The worst part is that the repainted walls are UGLY! Beautifully colored walls, with slogans and tags and stencils painted over by crude swabs of whitewash… the images below are of a wide variety. Thanks for reading and scrolling down.

On my way here I stopped to eat at an empty restaurant; before the food arrived thousands of women had passed by, marching from the Fountain of the Seven Regions to the city center carrying candles and flowers and signs with pictures of disappeared loved ones. It began to rain just as they passed…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/revolucionoaxaca

source: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/07/18327643.php

manos blancos

Caras de Oaxaca
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/07/18327621.php