Reply #1: Unsigned AP article. AP is the Faux News of newsprint. They always manage [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

to dis democracy, peoples' movements, the poor and the brutalized, and to glorify MONEY.

"Wednesday marked the six-month anniversary of the conflict, which has cost Oaxaca state millions of dollars in business, including tourism, and 1.3 million children hundreds of hours of schooling."

No mention of more than a dozen murders of peaceful protesters by Gov Ruiz's death squads. No mention of the magnificent organization of this peaceful movement over six months time, and the orderly, Constitutional basis of their alternative government. No mention of the inspiration they have been to poor and oppressed people everywhere. Just money, money, money. It has cost Oaxaca "millions of dollars in business." And no mention of who those dollars go to--and who they don't go to. Oaxaca is one of the poorest states in Mexico, with a mostly indigenous population, and the parade of tourist riches through the ancient city is obscene in its ostentation, in the midst of such poverty, with parasitic fascists like Ruiz skimming off the top, protecting the wealthy elite and killing, torturing, kidnapping, raping and bullying the poor peasants and indigenous people. Like the typical corporate shills they are, AP pities the rich and paints these poor and entirely peaceful people as trouble-makers.

The protesters live there. They ARE Oaxaca! Old hardworking peasant farmers, old grandmothers, elders, community leaders, workers of every kind, teachers, children. These children have had a political education, and an education in living history, such as few children are privileged to witness and participate in. "Hundreds of hours of schooling" could not have not have taught them more about their world than the teachers strike, the governor's brutal attack on their teachers in the middle of the night, the creation of APPO, the many community meetings at all hours, the rise to leadership of ordinary people--the people they know and live with every day--the struggle against Ruiz, the federal government's entry into their city with an army on the side of the bad guys, and all that they have personally witnessed. The corporate lapdogs at AP don't know what education is.