Update from Oaxaca: Eduardo Orantes Nov 2 2006

[EFerrari]

via Indy Media

STOP THE REPRESION!!!!
OAXACA
Eduardo Orantes 02 Nov 2006 01:01 GMT (translated by Eduardo Orantes)


Dear friends, today it is cold here in Oaxaca, cold into the bone. Outside town thousands of policemen are lined up, preparing to walk in. First there are about 30 tanks with water canons, then there are riot police with masks, shields and tear gas and after that heavily armed federal police. It is totally unacceptable that the government sends in police against a pacific demonstration against a corrupt governor that took power almost two years ago after an obvious fraudulent election and since then has dedicated himself to repress any opposition like the local newspaper Noticias de Oaxaca, the teachers labor union, civil organizations who fight for the rights of the indigenous people and human rights organizations and others.

People are very angry with the governor, Ulises Ruiz from the PRI party, and have been asking for his destitution since the 14th of June when he violently and with tear gas tried to repress the teacher unions pacific demonstration at the center of town. There have been five huge demonstrations, one with over 800,000 thousand participants, in a state with only 3,300,000 inhabitants. In the international news they say that the uprising is over... I am afraid it has just started. Over 14 people have been killed so far, many more are wounded, all victims are on side of the teachers and APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca an organization conformed by over 350 different civil organizations). There are at least five political prisoners and more who were kidnapped or just has disappeared.

As the police are walking in towards the city the APPO calles for calm on their radio (listen to it at www.mexico.indymedia.org ). They are not taking away the barricades that has been up constantly since Thursday night and are reinforced by huge trucks with de inflated wheels. They tell people to demonstrate pacifically (do they have any choice?), not to provoke the police and not to panic. People are going out by the thousands on the streets to protest against the entrance of federal police. Would it not just be easier to take away one corrupt governor instead of repressing a whole people with police? Please write to the president Vicente Fox and tell him to respect the people of Oaxaca. His address is [e-mail] Write to interior secretary Carlos Abascal and ask him to respect the people and to destitute the governor Ulises Ruiz right away. His address is [e-mail] Write to Amnesty International http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR410422006 No more repression in Oaxaca, support the brave and heroic people in their fight for dignity and freedom. Demand the immediate release of political prisoners, economical support to the families of the people who were shot and murdered!

21 teachers are in hunger strike in front of the Mexican Senate, today it is the 13th day and since Friday they are not even accepting liquids. If the governor Ulises Ruiz resigns the teachers will go back to work and the barricades will be taken down.

Here are the latest news from http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35281 MEXICO: Killings in Oaxaca Prompt Fox to Send in Federal Forces Diego Cevallos MEXICO CITY, Oct 28 (IPS) - The Mexican government announced Saturday that it was sending federal police to the capital of the southern state of Oaxaca to restore law and order, after four people were killed and 23 injured there Friday. Striking teachers and hundreds of local residents living in camps have occupied downtown Oaxaca City for five months to demand the resignation of Governor Ulises Ruiz. Ten protesters had been killed so far, but Friday was the most violent day since the conflict began, bringing the total number of victims to 14. President Vicente Fox decided to send in federal forces after holding an emergency meeting with his top security officials into the wee hours of Saturday. According to radio reports from Oaxaca City, hundreds of federal police officers had arrived to the state capital by air on Saturday.

The Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO), which is demanding the removal of Governor Ruiz, who they accuse of corruption and authoritarianism, declared itself on maximum alert and called on its members to put up resistance to any violent actions of which they are the target. APPO, made up of 350 Oaxaca social organizations, emerged in June after Ruiz sent police to break up a protest by teachers who went on strike in May for better salaries. On Friday, heavily armed men in civilian dress, who witnesses identified as police officers and municipal authorities, reportedly opened fire on members of APPO, who were defending barricades they have set up to block streets in the city centre. The protesters, whose blockades have frequently been the targets of drive-by shootings, have armed themselves with sticks and Molotov cocktails for protection.

The men who were fatally shot Friday included a teacher, a resident of a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Oaxaca, and a freelance U.S. journalist and cameraman. A fourth victim is still unidentified. The U.S. reporter, Bradley Will, 36, was working for Indymedia, an Internet-based alternative news agency. He was killed by two shots to the abdomen while attempting to film interviews for a documentary he was preparing. Osvaldo Ramírez, a photographer with the Mexican daily Milenio, was among the injured. The U.S. embassy in Mexico lamented Will's death, which, according to Ambassador Antonio Garza, "underscores the critical need for a return to lawfulness and order in Oaxaca." The embassy also said the men who shot at the protesters may have been local police. APPO blames the 14 deaths on paramilitary groups made up of police officers and hired killers allegedly contracted by Ruiz.

On Friday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urged the Fox administration to get involved in a more decisive manner in the Oaxaca conflict. Meanwhile, the International Federation for Human Rights expressed its concern for the growing disrespect of human rights in Oaxaca. APPO said several of its members had been arrested Friday, and that no one knows where they are being held. Although Ruiz, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has been urged by the Fox administration, the ruling National Action Party (PAN), and a number of PRI leaders to step down or take a leave of absence, he has consistently refused.

The conflict in Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest states, broke out in May when the local teachers' union went on strike. As a result, some 1.3 million public school students were unable to start the school year in September. This week, the teachers voted in assemblies to return to the classrooms.But after Friday's violence, and because of the decision to send in federal police, that decision could be revoked, APPO said. Since it emerged in June, APPO has occupied public offices and several local private radio stations, while setting up barricades cutting off streets in central Oaxaca City. For the past few months, Ruiz has governed from a luxury hotel in the Mexican capital. Human rights organisations say the security forces in Oaxaca work against social movements in the state through repression, bribes or threats.

Ruiz, who blames the crisis in Oaxaca on APPO, belongs to the most conservative wing of the PRI. While the party, which governed Mexico from 1929 to 2000, has lost its hold over most of the states and at a national level, it remains all-powerful in Oaxaca.. (END/2006) By my friend Anna Johansson Circuito Ruiz Cortinez 121 Fraccionamiento Popular Guadalupe Victoria 68030 Oaxaca, OAX. Mexico tel: [phone] celular 044 951 5472095 http://www.alquimia.se http://www.pinapalmera.org

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/849867.shtml

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[roody]

1. k

[Nabia2004]

2. Wow - nt

[EFerrari]

3. The corporate press keeps saying it's over and the people

keep saying, we're just starting.

Very dangerous. :(

[annm4peace]

4. Thanks for writing this so well.

I will cut and paste and send to others. It is so hard to explain to others what is going on there.. this really helps.
We had a solidarity rally here in MN also. So many people are with you in prayer, in spirit and are calling their consolutes.. The main stream media seems hopeless.


:grouphug:

[EFerrari]

5. Kick for justice in Oaxaca

:kick:

[EFerrari]

6. from Narco News 11/1: Mexico City-Acapulco Superhighway Blockaded

Members of the Zapatista Other Campaign Blockade the Mexico City-Acapulco Superhighway in Defense of the People of Oaxaca

http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2281.html

On the Day of the Dead, Mexico’s Busiest Highway is Brought to a Standstill to Demand the Immediate Withdrawal of the PFP from Oaxaca

By Greg Berger
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Morelos

November 1, 2006



Photos: D.R. Greg Berger

Tens of thousands of people from Mexico City and surrounding states headed south today towards the beachfront resorts of Acapulco to celebrate Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). It is one of Mexico’s most sacred days, when the dead are believed to walk the earth once again and return to visit their loved ones. It is also a national holiday and the start of a long weekend. As leisurely tourists approached kilometer 114 along the Autopista del Sol Highway in the State of Morelos, near the town of Alpuyeca, thousands of motorists had to hit their brakes, suddenly coming to the realization that millions of Mexicans chose today to honor their dead not by going to the beach, but by demanding justice for those killed by paramilitary groups loyal to Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, and by the Federal Preventative Police (PFP).


As readers of this newspaper know, on Sunday Mexican President Vicente Fox sent thousands of members of the PFP to dislodge the five-month long peaceful occupation of Oaxaca’s capital city by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). For months, the newly formed APPO has struggled to bring to national and international attention the numerous and well-documented human rights abuses committed by Governor Ruiz in Oaxaca. Fox justified his use of force in Oaxaca as a necessary step to bring order to the region after three people were murdered last Friday on the APPO’s barricades, including our compañero, authentic journalist Brad Will. What Fox has failed to explain, however, is why the PFP chose to go after the APPO instead of members of the paramilitary groups loyal to Governor Ruiz that were captured on photo and video murdering Brad and members of the APPO. Fox also claims that no civilians were killed on Sunday’s raid. Footage obtained by Narconews and available for viewing on salonchingon.com show the death of Jorge Alberto Lopez Bernál, a nurse who was killed by a projectile fired by the PFP. Two more are said to have been killed during the PFP raid.



On Monday, the Sixth Commission of the Zapatista Other Campaign called for a “nation-wide shut down” in solidarity with the APPO and the people of Oaxaca. In a communiqué read aloud by Subcomandante Marcos, compañeros from the Other Campaign throughout Mexico were called upon to blockade highways and means of communication throughout the country in demand of an immediate withdrawal of the PFP from Oaxaca. Members of the Other Campaign in the State of Morelos met yesterday to determine when and how to heed to this call. Although the clear strategic choice was the Autopista del Sol Mexico-Acapulco, the plan was kept secret in order to avoid a police ambush. Members of the press were not informed and rumors were intentionally circulated that the blockade would happen in the Eastern part of Morelos State. It would be a relatively small group of people that would conduct the operation, but no matter; what numbers could not provide, logistics and careful planning would.


More:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2281.html

[ConsAreLiars]

7. Thanks - The Hubris of this particular gang of imperialist warmongers

has resulted in a crippling of Korporate AmeriKa's capacity to suppress people's movements in Latin America. That is why the Corporate media has begun letting some of the truth of their crimes be heard. The people of Oaxaca have been organizing for a long time, and although they face the thugs of the Mexican oligarchy, their US backers have lost some of their power, and there is a chance for a lasting victory. Best wishes to them.

[gorbal]

8. Thank you for the update

I have been following this, but not getting much regular information from the english language press.

[EFerrari]

10. What little there is, is misleading.

Thank god for Indy Media and Narco News.

[Vidar]

9. Bless the Mexican patriots. Thanks for the update.

[EFerrari]

11. I'm stunned by how brave these people are. n/t

[mom cat]

12. Protest Rally and vigil in Boston Thursday, Nov 2nd at the Mexican

Consulate: 2o Park Plaza. Bring a candle.

[althecat]

13. Ty sfexpat.....

Viva!

[msedano]

14. Here's additional insight & a monton of resources

This info received from [e-mail]
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Wed Nov 1, 2006 1:48 pm (PST)
Gracias Dorinda por la information...

Friends,
Let me know if you would like to get involved in community action.

Gracias,
Mercedes.
>

Friends,
-Military in Oaxaca to support Ulises Ruiz. It is now evident that the
military was sent into Oaxaca not as a neutral action but to support Ulises
Ruiz:
1. The federal government continues to claim the city has been successfully
"retaken".
2. PRI governors jointly proclaim "Con Ulises Hasta la Muerte/With Ulises
Until Death".
3. Ulises made a public appearance in Santa Maria Coyotepec, a small and
formally tranquil town 20 minutes outside Oaxaca that he is using as his
base, with around 500 troops as security force, among whom were photographed
PRI members known to be directly responsible for the killing of teachers.

-Rage is Building over the Pretense of Justice, Brad Will. The government
has moved quickly to arrest and charge the men who shot and killed Brad
Will; Brad had his camera in his hands when he was shot, his final images
are of his murderers. There is also plenty of visual and verbal evidence
surrounding other killings at the barricades, of Mexicans. None of the
killings of Mexicans have been investigated: Marcos Garcia Tapia, Andres
Santiago Cruz, Pedro Martinez Martinez, Pablo Martinez, Jose Jimenez
Colmenares, Florenzo San Pablo, Arcadio Fabian Hernandez, Alejandro Garcia,
Panfilo Hernandez Vazquez, Emilio Alonzo Fabian, Esteban Zurita Lopez, Jorge
Alberto Lopez Bernal, Fidel Sanchez Garcia. Other bodies have been found,
victims of executions. Many people are missing.

-Support for Oaxaca Growing:
1. Francisco Toledo, Internationally respected Zapotec artist and activist,
is holding a news conference at IAGO, the graphics museum and the largest
art library in Mexico that he established, which is just across from Santo
Domingo. He also published a strong letter against the military occupation
of Oaxaca in Monday's La Jornada. (posted below)
2. Rosario Ibarra de Piedra's son was disappeared in 1968 during military
reprisal against students demonstrators. She has become an esteemed
activist for government transparency, free speech, and human rights. Rosario
is in Oaxaca and will speak in front of the Santo Domingo Cathedral, the new
base of APPO/The Popular Assembly of Oaxaca.
2. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the ex-governor of Mexico City who won the
majority of votes in the recent presidential election announced a
demonstration in Mexico City for Wednesday.
3. Zapatistas announce they are closing all roads in Zapatista territory in
Chiapas today, November 1, and will close roads in the state of Chiapas on
November 20, anniversary of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. November 20 is
also the day Lopez Obrador will be sworn in as the president of Mexico. The
fraudulent president-elect Felipe Caulderon will be sworn in as president of
Mexico December 1.
4. Massive demonstrations were held in Mexico City yesterday, including the
temporary closing the the Mexico-Pueblo Freeway.
5. There were and continue to be demonstrations demanding the Federal troops
be removed from Oaxaca and that Ulises step down to avoid any further
bloodshed.
6. Portland, Oregon: Two activists chained themselves to the door of the
Mexican Consulate yesterday morning. Interestingly, police mounted a curtain
to conceal the lengthy arrest and removal of the activists. In the
afternoon, speakers addressed an extensive crowd and media, and marched to
the Federal Building. Two consuls made an appearance requesting a passage
through the crowd be cleared for people trying to access their offices, and
requesting a written statement from the crowd.

-Day of the Dead Altar for Ulises in the Zocalo. People will be testing the
governments claim that civilians now have "limited" access to the zocalo
when they set up a Day of the Dead altar to Ulises Ruiz there today.

-Zocalo Businesses Emptied. Owners of the small shops inside the kiosk at
the center of zocalo issued a public statement yesterday after the shelves
of their stores were raided and emptied: "The teachers were here five
months and nothing was ever stolen from us. The military is here one night
and our shops are emptied. This shows you the kind of people we are dealing
with".

-InterAmerica Human Rights Commission continues to maintain a table in front
of Santo Domingo to receive family and friends of people who have
disappeared.


Francisco Toledo's letter to Mariano Palacios Alcocer, president of the
PRI/Partido Revolucionario Institucional/Institutional Revolutionary Party:

LIC. MARIANO PALACIOS ALCOCER
PRESIDENTE DEL PARTIDO
REVOLUCIONARIO INSTITUCIONAL
PRESENTE;

As you surely must know, the social and political conflict of Oaxaca has
entered a period of uncontrolled violence; before the eyes of public
opinion, especially of the Oaxacans, the political class has acted with
disdain, calculated party interest, nefastic euphamisms.
Since last Sunday, with the arrival of the PFP (Policia Federal
Preventativa), there began a series of detentions and kidnappings against
supporters of the social movement; these actions, outside the law and the
margin of human rights guarantees, has converted these three days into
political occupation on a daily basis, demented and pernicious.
I call to you, to you and your party, to respond to the exhortation,
growing, urgent, nearly unanimous, to solicit Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to leave his
post as governor of the state of Oaxaca with the intention to generate
better conditions towards the resolution of the shameful crisis. There is
not the least doubt that this urgent decision is the next step in the
promised transition, transparent, truthful, safeguarded, while the lives of
Oaxacan citizens are at risk of being incorporated in the statistics of
those killed in the conflict.
In anticipation of your honorable response, aware of your civic committment
y ethic to this moment, I take advantage of the occasion to greet you.

Atentamente,
Francisco Toledo

thanks,
un abrazo,
ann


HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS:
-Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/contact.html <http://www.hrw.org/contact.html> .
-Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org <http://www.amnesty.org>
-The Right Livelihood Award
(Right Livelihood recognized Francisco Toledo in 2005)
PO Box 15072
S-104 65 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
-Indigenous Organization For Human Rights in Oaxaca/
Organizaciones Indias Por Los Derechos Humanos en Oaxaca- OIDHO -
Capulines #4B Prolongación Buenavista
Col. Forestal
Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, México
C.P. 71 220
tel.: [phone]
e-mail: oidho@yahoo <about:blank> . com.mx

MEDIA:
http://www.refdesk.com <about:blank> lists direct contacts for media
contacts. They each have a "contact us" somewhere on their main page.
IndyMedia, BBC and Democracy Now have been most consistent with information
on Oaxaca.

GOVERNMENT:
Phone and fax; there was a cyber blitz on these gentlemen, but some emails
do get through.
Carlos Abascal
Secretary of State/
SECRETARIO DE GOBERNACIÓN
FAX + 55 50 93 34 14,
[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>

President Elect Felipe Calderon Hinojosa:
[e-mail] <about:blank>

DR. JOSÉ LUIS SOBERANES
President of the National Comnission on Human Rights/
Presidente de la Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos
FAX + 55 56 81 71 99,
[e-mail] <about:blank>
DANIEL CABEZA DE VACA
PROCURADOR GENERAL DE LA REPÚBLICA
FAX: [phone],
[e-mail] <about:blank>

Lic. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
Governor of the State of Oaxaxa/Gobernador del Estado de Oaxaca
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail] <about:blank>
Vicente Fox Quesada
(Presidencia, Los Pinos)
Telephone:
011 52 (55) 2789 1100
011 52 (55) 18 7501 Atencion Ciudadana
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail] <about:blank>

There is a list of Mexican consulates in the US and Canada at
http://elenemigocomun.net/128 <http://elenemigocomun.net/128>
Portland, OR-
503 274 1442
m-f 8:3 2:00
1234 SW Morrison, 97205
San Francisco- 415 354 1700

Reliable current and background information:

-Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org <http://www.amnesty.org>
-APPO/ the People's Assembly of Oaxaca
www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com <http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com>
-Free Media Center of Mexico City/Centro de Medias Libres
http://www.vientos.info/cml <http://www.vientos.info/cml>
-Contra G8
http://contrag8.revolt.org <about:blank>
-Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com
-Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org <http://www.democracynow.org>
articles regularly
Oct 4 article:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/04/1428217 <about:blank>
-Democratic Underground
www.democraticunderground.com <http://www.democraticunderground.com>
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&addres
s=364x2502968
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&ad
dress=364x2502968>
-El Enemigo Comun
Oaxaca Facing Imminent Attack: http://elenemigocomun.net/127
-El Universal
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html
-Google
Google Alerts <about:blank>
[e-mail]
-Indigenous Organization For Human Rights in Oaxaca/
Organizaciones Indias Por Los Derechos Humanos en Oaxaca- OIDHO -
Capulines #4B Prolongación Buenavista
Col. Forestal
Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, México
C.P. 71 220
tel.: [phone]
e-mail: oidho@yahoo <about:blank> . com.mx
-Indymedia
-KPFA Radio Station
www.kpfa.org <http://www.kpfa.org>
[e-mail].
-La Jornada
www.jornada.unam.mx <about:blank>
articles daily in Spanish
-The Internationalist Group
in NY: 212) 460-0983 or [phone]
-Movimiento Socialismo
www.movimientoalsocialismo.com <http://www.movimientoalsocialismo.com>
-Narco News
www.narconews.com <about:blank>
-Oaxaca solidarity list: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/oaxaca
<about:blank>
-Oregon Peace Worker
www.oregonpeaceworker.org <http://www.oregonpeaceworker.org>
-Progressive Independent
www.progressiveindependent.com <about:blank>
Oct 4 article:
http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104
&topic_id=44834&mesg_id=44834
<http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&foru
m=104&topic_id=44834&mesg_id=44834>
-Radio Universidad
their number to call to give support to the people over the air:
011 52 951 527 5624
-The Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer>
-Radio APPO: Radio en Linea off the air
http://elenemigocomun.net/133 <http://elenemigocomun.net/133> ,
http://elenemigocomun.net <about:blank>
-Upside Down World
www.upsidedownworld.org <http://www.upsidedownworld.org>
Sept 11 article: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/426/1/
<about:blank>
-Zapote Free

[EFerrari]

15. Excellent! Thank you.

[countryjake]

17. Thanks for all of this info, msedano! There is such a news blackout...

on this, it is very hard to find out what is happening NOW down there. We need to hear from all the resources we can.

[countryjake]

18. Oaxaca Solidarity Demonstrations in the US on Thursday, November 2nd

Austin: Solidarity encampment at Mexican Consulate (corner of Brazos & 9th)
http://austin.indymedia.org/feature/display/34291/...

Boston: 4pm New England Day of Action at Mexican Consulate (20 Park Plaza)
http://nyc.indymedia.org/or/2006/10/78337.html

Chicago: 3pm “Day of the Dead” Alters at Plaza Tenochtitlan (18th and Blue Island in Pilsen)
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/7461...

Los Angeles: 10am Demonstration and 5pm Vigil (Park View & 6th St)
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/185894.php

Los Angeles: 7pm Cuauhtemoc Mexica Dance at Mexican Consulate (Park View & 6th St)
http://elenemigocomun.net/305#comment-233

San Diego: Ongoing Protest at Mexican Consulate (1549 India St Little Italy)
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/120376.sh...

San Francisco: 7pm Day of the Dead in the Mission District (24th & Bryant)
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/01/18325572.p...

Sacramento: 3pm Protest and Day of the Dead at Mexican Consulate (8th & J St)
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/31/18325321.p...

San Jose: 2pm Day of the Dead march, protest and vigil at Mexican Consulate (540 North First St.)
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/01/18325479.p...

Seattle: 11am Protest at Mexican Consulate (2132 3rd Ave)
http://elenemigocomun.net/323

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Oaxaca solidarity:

El Enemigo Común (film and news)
http://elenemigocomun.net

email ‘announcement’ list
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/oaxaca

events and actions
http://elenemigocomun.net/category/solidarity



I found all of this here:

http://elenemigocomun.net/344#more-344

[EFerrari]

16. Breaking on Democracy Now! The five men who shot and killed

Brad Will are NOT in custody but are missing. The local mayor insists the APPO initiated the attacks and the shooters acted in self defense. (John Gibler reporting from Oaxaca)

Altars to honor the Day of the Dead and the recently dead protestors and journalists have been built all over the city.

[countryjake]

19. Thank you, sfexpat, for trying to bring us news on this!

[countryjake]

20. evening kick

[countryjake]

21. Midnight kick for Justice in Oaxaca!

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!

[msedano]

22. radio oaxaca link

http://elenemigocomun.net/133

i get a lot of static. that's a good thing; it reminds me of when i was a kid listening on an earbud to a crystal radio. then the transistor came along. but then, we didn't have macintoshes that stored all the programs on a hard drive.

[countryjake]

23. The station seems to be down...

something was wrong with their antennae, but that wasn't verified. I'm trying real hard not to have bad feelings, but this is yet another Friday (as tho that matters anyway, last Friday most of America never even heard about those murders, at all, the news blackout is any day of the week if it concerns the people of Mexico) & the federale troops are massed on the brink of something...yesterday's victory was only one battle. Must think positive!

Here's the translation page for Radio APPO:

http://www.iteration.org/radioappo.txt