El Enemigo Común

14 de Junio de 2007 - danielsan escribe: En el aniversario del desalojo de l@s maestr@s de Oaxaca, publico por primera vez un audiodocumental con las voces de luchadores para el cambio social en Oaxaca, Chiapas, y en todo Mexico. En estos dias, hay muchissimas gentes buscando maneras cumplir el cambio, unos politicalmente, unos con accion directo, unos con guerra guerillera.

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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November 27th, 2006 - danielsan writes: Photos, audio, and a video from November 25th’s 7th MegaMarch and the street battle that followed.

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.

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November 27th, 2006 - danielsan writes: Radio Universidad, 1400 AM and streaming on the internet, has announced once again that it is expecting an attack (as of 4:45 PM).

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.

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November 27th, 2006 - danielsan writes: A list of those taken off the streets Saturday night in the battle that followed the seventh Megamarch, taken from the daily ‘Noticias’ here in Oaxaca. Various bodies have issued widely differing statistics, with the largest number of detained coming from Ulises himself, who claimed 160 detentions. APPO and Radio Universidad, the state government, and the feds have all offered varied numbers. The list below is the list of those officially detained according to the state.

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November 20th, 2006 - danielsan writes: November 20th marks the anniversary of the 1910 Revolution in México, observed today in the streets of Oaxaca City and beyond.

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.

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Nov 18th, 2006 - danielsan writes: As the official investigation into the killing of Brad Will goes on, legitimate questions are being asked but it is increasingly obvious that the state government is not acting as impartial investigator, but rather as ‘judge and jury,’ in the words of APPO spokespeople. This week, the PGJE (Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado: roughly equivilent to the state attorney general’s office) has attempted to blame APPO and its supporters for the killing, saying that they executed him at close range after he was taken away from the scene of the first shot.

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November 13th, 2006 - danielsan writes: A statement from the 2nd National Student & Youth Conference, held November 11th 2006 at the Autonomous University of Oaxaca - Benito Juarez

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

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November 9th, 2006 - danielsan writes: A newly formed organization, the Comite de Familiares y Amigos de Desaparecidos Asesinados y Presos Politicos de Oaxaca (COFEDAPPO), has been collecting the testimonies of family members seeking word about where their loved ones have gone. The paper said they took 20 people off the street in one day this week.

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:

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