Barucha Calamity Peller is a writer and photographer, high school dropout, and rabel rouser. For years she has worked within and reported on Mexican social movements. Her photographs and analysis have been widely distributed through alternative media outlets such as Counter Punch and the Independent Media Center. Peller reported from Lebanon during the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon war just before entering Oaxaca. She is known for getting herself into very dangerous situations and then escaping with photographs that depict both old women and young anarcho-punks fighting for peace and justice in the streets. Peller asserts that Oaxaca could not have been reported from the safety of a hotel room, but only from the barricades themselves.
Mexican activist also arrested say police threatened them August 7th, 2007 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: The four Catalans who were taken off the street in Oaxaca City at 9:30pm on Sunday, August 5th, the night of the state legislative…
3 people taken off the streets on election night still not found, among them 2 Catalans and 1 Mexican August 6th, 2007 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: Last night at approximately 10 pm, while the votes were being counted that…
Oaxaca is Not Over August 4th, 2007 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: “Don’t let another six months go by before the world turns around and sees Oaxaca again.” -APPO representative Eric. Has the world forgotten about Oaxaca? Political activity, from…
Remaining Movement Media Outlets Continue to be Sabotaged by the Government Barucha Calamity Peller writes: Today, August 1st, 2007, thousands of women marched in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico, on the one year anniversary of the historic takeover of the Oaxacan…
Ruiz’s protested government is forced to pay state workers to fill Guelaguetza auditorium; tens of thousands march in Oaxaca City despite recent repression July 30th, 2007 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: Today, on the 30th of July tens of thousands…
One Person Confirmed Dead, 62 Detained, Disappearances July 16th, 2007 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: Today in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, a confrontation between the APPO (Popular Assembly of The Peoples of Oaxaca) and security forces of the State of Oaxaca…
Jun 15th, 2007 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: At around five in the morning on Thursday, June 14th, 2007 hundreds of fireworks cracked the quiet dawn and burst in the sky above Oaxaca City, Mexico. Though the streets remained still,…
April 30, 2007 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: At approximately 5pm, Radio Universidad in Oaxaca City, Mexico, was re-occupied by sympathizers of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) and students from different departments of the Benito Juarez…
Amongst flames of resistance came death, torture, and a movement forced into clandestinity. December 2nd, 2006 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: Latin Americas’ “dirty war” of the 70s and 80s has reemerged in its most blatant form in the case…
November 25th, 2006 – Barucha Calamity Peller writes: The Seventh Mega March of the APPO has begun with hundreds of thousands marching from Santas Maria Coyotepec, 8 kilometers outside of the capital to the central zocalo of Oaxaca City, which…
