Photos From Today's Battle Of Oaxaca

[Wiley50]

Indymedia By John Gibler

[cspanlovr]

1. God bless them.

[leftchick]

2. very powerful

thank you

[In Truth We Trust]

3. K&R for the oppressed! Never give up in the face of fascism!!!

[Rainscents]

4. Thanks for sharing the photos!

[pnorman]

5. K &R!

Is there a way that such magnificent photo collections can be classified into a separate category (like the video clips)? These are valuable resources, and I frequently borrow them for usage elsewhere. Also, likewise with those editorial cartoon weekly roundups.

pnorman

[proud patriot]

6. K and R

:kick:

[Greyhound]

7. K & R

Why are we not seeing this reaction here? :kick:

[Nostradammit]

26. People are not yet as desperate. n/t

[cui bono]

47. A better question might be...

Why are we not doing this here?

[ProudDad]

8. Viva el Peublo!!!

Siempre La Lucha!

[robertpaulsen]

9. K & R! Sending good thoughts out to indymedia & the people of Oaxaca.

:kick:

[Wiley50]

10. .

[seemunkee]

11. Sling shots and wooden shields against tear gas and armored vehicle

And they don't show fear. Brave people

[countryjake]

19. Inspiring photo!

And this, Oaxacan fists!

[Bucky]

12. You know what this looks like to me? Cleveland 2009, if we're not aggressive enough now

I see the future here.

[paparush]

38. Amen to that, brother!!

[Jcrowley]

13. Live report

Nancy Davies continues to file live reports from Oaxaca:

"At noon it looks like the troops are landing helicopters on university property to invade the station. Invading an autonomous university is a huge mistake on the part of Fox.

People are gathered and resisting with paint (throwing it on the armored cars), nails on the tires, gasoline (that sounds like fires). The military may be reinforcing, but this has not verified. Human rights observers, anybody with a camera or video should go to the University; people are wounded and are being arrested.

Tear gas is all over Cinco Señores and the residents are taking to the streets. Tear gas was also used in the morning. Sorriano area at Plaza del Valle is under attack, apparently there's a UABJO building there in the vicinity.

The call is out for everyone to resist.

Shades of 1968"

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/comments/2006/11/2/13616/4864/1#1

:kick:

[phusion]

14. Power to the peaceful. n/t

[Robeysays]

15. i've really been thinking about going down there...

i really have. i would leave right now, if i had the funds...

[Phrogman]

16. Love the PVC bottle rocket launcher and homemade shield..

Necessity truly is the "Mother of Invention".

[rman]

33. yes nice, but i don't see how that fits with the non-violent resistance

I don't even have to think which side to support, but when they say non-violence and then they bring out home-made rocket launchers or somesuch, i can't help noticing some discrepancy...

[John Gauger]

39. Some shall always resort to violence.

While most are in the crowd are peaceful, some will always take matters into their own hands. We live in a violent world and we are not always successful in advocating peace, not even to our own comrades.

That said:
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." - Malcolm X.

When those police come a-knockin', it's good to have a method of self-defense.

[here_is_to_hope]

44. Well put... eom

[countryjake]

52. Many people can't help but become defensive when friends are shot dead...

in the street. This action has been mostly peaceful & effective for the past five months, but last Friday the ante was significantly raised when several protesters were shot & killed, including two journalists covering the movement. Firecrackers vs. bullets, stones vs. armored vehicles, flipjacks vs. helicopters, gasoline bombs vs. federal troops...yup, there's a discrepancy alright.


photo from IndyMedia

[countryjake]

17. Evening kick & recommendation!

This bravery is overwhelming!

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!


Edited to add a link to the blogging translations from Radio APPO, straight from Oaxaca, of today's events:

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

[struggle4progress]

18. Our American brothers and sisters from Oaxaca!

[Wiley50]

20. .

[upi402]

21. Power to the people

looks like it has mad a comeback the past few years.


Is that a potatogun the one guy has???

[countryjake]

22. Do you mean this....?

Looks like a fireworks launcher, to me.

REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (MEXICO)


Protesters hold hands in front of Federal police officers outside the University Benito Juarez in Oaxaca City, Mexico November 2, 2006. REUTERS/Henry Romero (MEXICO)

Question is, what is this guy armed with?

REUTERS/Henry Romero (MEXICO)

And these?




Earlier this week:



Riot police backed by helicopters and armored trucks advanced on the Mexican tourist city of Oaxaca on Sunday, meeting little initial resistance from protesters demanding the removal of the state governor. ~ 30 Oct 2006 REUTERS/Henry Romero

[upi402]

23. teargas launcher

it looks like.

I'm sure the TV News hairdo's will be all over this:sarcasm:

[countryjake]

55. Yup. And cannons mounted on armored vehicles shooting acid-laced water..

Not one word on network news.

[Q3JR4]

37. Doesn't look like a homemade rocket launcher,

that's for sure....

[countryjake]

54. Just a glorified bottle...

kids around here use PVC pipe to shoot off bottle rockets, too.

[EFerrari]

24. We should all mail this thread to our papers and ask them

if they are still in business.

:nuke:

[countryjake]

25. I've already done that, but just the pics I've been collecting all week...

not these new ones. Check out the ones found here:

http://cryptome.org/oaxaca-01/oaxaca-03.htm

[jarnocan]

46. WOW great pics ! BRADLEY Will-American journalistkilled pic here.HIT above link!

OMG this is him? http://cryptome.org/oaxaca-01/oaxaca-01.htm whoever it is what a shame and a sham.
why haven't I heard this on the Today show news???? http://www.indypendent.org/?p=652
“One more martyr in a dirty war – One more time to cry and hurt.”
By Brad Will
From the November 1, 2006 issue | Posted in International
Early Dawn, OCY 16

yesterday i went for a walk with the good people of oaxaca – was walking all day really – in the afternoon they showed me where the bullets hit the wall ....
one bullet they didnt number was still in his head.... alejandro garcia hernandez – at the neighborhood barricade every night – that night he came out to join his wife and sons to let an ambulance through – then a pickup tried to follow – he took their bullet when he told them they could not pass – they never did – these military men in civilian dress shot their way out of there

a young man who wanted to only be called marco was with them when the shooting happened – a bullet passed through his shoulder – he was clearly in shock when we met – 19 years old – said he hadnt told his parents yet – said he had been at the barricade every night – said he was going back as soon as the wound closed – absolutely

...what can you say about this movement – this revolutionary moment – you know it is building, growing, shaping – you can feel it – trying desperately for a direct democracy
...waiting for november when he can sit with his loved ones on the day of the dead and share food and drink and a song – waiting for the plaza to turn itself over to him and burst – he will only wait until morning but tonight he is waiting for the governor and his lot to never come back – one more death – one more martyr in a dirty war – one more time to cry and hurt – one more time to know power and its ugly head – one more bullet cracks the night – one more night at the barricades – some keep the fires ....

now he is also dead, and quite a few more.... I did not hear this news on the MSM/TV? Why? They are protesting this around the world, even Istanbal, but here? Let's go shopping.
one more time to cry and hurt? hundreds of thousands more since now that BU**SH** rules

[hunter]

41. They are scared to death it will be here next.

This is the domino next to us, and it's tipping.

Close your eyes, cover your face, and whatever you do, don't lean left!

[EFerrari]

42. They're not too scared to stop screwing us, though.

I guess that would be too obvious. :)

[autorank]

27. THANK YOU for this great thread. These people are "Heroes of Democracy"

Period.

[autorank]

28. GREAT THREAD. These people are the heroes of democracy...

Period.

[jarnocan]

53. thanks absolutely/good link nt

[mogster]

29. K&R n/t

[Pooka Fey]

30. Wow. K&R

[leveymg]

31. These are the images the MSM can't deal with

The international staffs of major network news departments are so gutted at this point that they literally wouldn't know what to do with this footage.

Pretty sad.

[jarnocan]

32. thanks At the Day of the DEAD in Greensboro, Mexicans were asking

if I knew about this, and handed out some flyers. Some also had this sign.
I will send the link to this to them, and link it at this photo, http://ncwcw.blogspot.com

[gorbal]

34. Good news, the mainstream press is being more accurate

Even Reuters is reporting on the police retreat

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2594346

[jarnocan]

36. it amazes me that the TV news,often still does NOT follow up

on reports even in the mainstream press, so still most people are clueless, but they get some good recipes and celeb gossip.
BU**SH** and other repukes get tons of coverage when they lie and smear, usually without any corrections, but when dems tell the truth about something important they get criticized for using the FACTS politically, as if we have no right to know the truth until AFTER elections (if then

nyc.indymedia.org/en/index.html an American reporter / film maker was amongst the recently murdered

[jarnocan]

35. PLEASE click on link for orgin of photos as well for NEWS/ Brad Will murdered ...

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/index.html I feel guilty because I had not even heard about this atrocity! I am way up on the news as compared to the general public. How sad we know so much BU**SH** about stuff that doesn't matter, but important stories do not matter to the MSM if that coporate masters don't want them too.

[pberq]

40. Kick & Nominated - great photos! - very inspiring

[Wiley50]

43. .

[donsu]

45. did you notice the many brave Mexican women freedom fighters

wishing them well

hugs and kisses

[obreaslan]

48. It looks eerily similar to the Bloody Sunday and similar events in N. Ireland in the 70's...

:scared:
And we saw how that all went...

[mom cat]

49. Thanks for the pics! Just wanted to let you know that the Boston Rally

for OXaca went reall well last night. About 200 people showed up (most with only a day's notice) for a very spirited show of solidarity. It was mostly unscritted and was filled with spontaneous singing, chanting, rapping and poetry. The croud ranged in age from about 15 to 85 and was blessed to have companieros from Mexico and a rappre from Nigeria. The building that housed the Mexican consulate locked the doors after earlier refusing to tell me if the Mexican Consulate was even IN the building. I was ushered out, making sure to take all the time I needed not to harm the leg that just had surgery! Cats can be VERY slow when they want to be.

[dogday]

50. And the MSM continues to be very silent

about this... I wonder why :shrug:

[jarnocan]

51. even when an American journalist was murdered! isn't that an international incident?

not that he matters more than the others- (he would likely feel that way) but he was holding his video camera- They are silent because the current regime in Mexico-is of course the one BU**SH** is backing. http://www.indypendent.org/?p=652 http://cryptome.org/oaxaca-01/oaxaca-01.htm so sad.
http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/ much more info here.

[nashville_brook]

56. this is a massacre waiting to happen

look at all those people... especially seeing the woment standing in defiance at the front of the surrounding gaurds... this is powerful on the level of the famous Tiennamen photo of the guy in front of the tank....



:cry:

wtf is going to happen to these people? those stormtroopers aren't going home without some meat... does anyone else see this?