CUNY In Solidarity with Striking Teachers

PSC-CUNY [Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York] continues to mobilize solidarity with striking Mexican teachers in Oaxaca, marching on a picket line on June 28th, passing a resolution of support at the June Delegate Assembly and…

With Impunity, Ruiz Ortiz, the Face of Repression

A year ago members of Austin Indymedia traveled south in order to investigate and document flagrant abuses of human rights at the hands of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI in Spanish initials) in Oaxaca. A member of ATX Indymedia…

From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power

August 30, 2006 by George Salzman The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. These three bastions of extreme poverty, albeit among the richest…

Operation “Clean-Up” in Oaxaca

Following the CIA’s “Psychological Operations” Manual for the Nicaraguan Contras, the State Government Has Unleashed a Bloody Counterinsurgency Strategy to Eliminate the Social Movement

People and Media Critical of Ulises Ruiz are Under Attack

Paramilitaries and police in Oaxaca have begun a violent campaign to shut down all media operations that are in opposition to PRI governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, and to silence the people’s movement, APPO, which has taken over governing the state.…

The Taking of the Media in Oaxaca

Made by Jen Lawhorne and Arnaldo Peña, sound editing from Radio Zapote. This is a documentary that follows a popular uprising in Oaxaca during 2006 where at various stages of the rebellion, different organized groups seized media outlets to defend…

Oaxacan People’s Popular Assembly Declares Red Alert in Oaxaca

TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS TO THE PEOPLE Oaxaca de Juarez, Monday 7th of august 2006, 5:47 PM Indian Organizations for Human Rights in Oaxaca (OIDHO)- member of the provisional collective directorship…