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Wednesday November 01, 2006 11:04 by Martha - DUBZAG
![]() Urgent solidarity needed tomorrow Thursday 2nd of November at 6 pm at the Mexican Embassy. The Dublin Zapatista Action Group will picket the Mexican Embassy this thursday 2nd of November at 6pm in protest at the Mexican government's decission to take military control of the main square in Oaxaca by sending in a large contingent of the federal army accompanied by tanks. The square had been occupied for several months by the Popular Assembly of the people of Oaxaca (APPO), and by striking teachers who could no longer afford to live in this city. They had already been attacked on several occasions by federal and state police forces, as well as pro-fovernment paramilitaries, and there had beena number of deaths. In the last week 5 people have been killed by military/paramilitary/police forces and hundreds more have been injured. Among the death there were a 12 year old child, a young indymedia journalist, a teacher and two members of the APPO. At present there are 60 people detained and 30 people missing.We would like to see everyone concerned about peace and justice in Mexico on the picket. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Protesters arrested and paint thrown at the London Mexican embassy.
Friends of Brad Will website-news of the situation in Oaxaca and protests around the world.
http://www.friendsofbradwill.org
This is the map to the Mexican Embassy.
We hope you can come to support the picket!!
Bus lines: 7, 45, 46A, 10
DART: Sydney Parade
The APPO are a populist movement, it started out as a strike.
Brad Will was a photo-journalist covering something that the media ignore.
The unrest was flared up by the US fixing of the Calderon/Lopez election.
Mexico City was paralysed by a seven week protest because of the fraud/rigging claims.
The democracy movement was an off-shoot of this unrest and was put down by the
PRI/Federales. The soon to be President Calderon- is a Bush Man. His only comment
on the 16 murders is that Oaxaca is an isolated incident.
On the second of October the forces loyal to Ruiz,( the governor- the teachers were protesting
because they could not afford homes ) began an incursion involving 5000 armed men
to put down a democracy movement.
The victims are:
A School teacher.
A nurse.
A 12 year old kid.
An indymedia activist.
a Local Organiser.
There are no police fatalities or casualities.
Now 'commies' are a bit better organised than a democracy movement and the
forces of 'Law and order' are getting outside help. The communications and radio
were the first targets- they were based on Oaxaca Campus.
Some people like to live in the illusion of democratic representation and believe
idealistically that when they put their 'x' on a bit of paper that the man/woman
who is representing them is doing whats best for them and some people
are very aware that this is not so. The democracy movement grew out of
protests about the Calderon Presidency's rigging.
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/oaxaca2/index.php
Shutting down all mexican embassy pages.
http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/78621.html