Oaxaca: One Year Later
by - 16.06.2007 19:46
14 de Junio: Ni perdon, ni olvido!
A un ano de la represion
Oaxaca
One Year On in Oaxaca, Mexico
14 Junio, Oaxaca
14 Junio, Oaxaca
19-20 Mayo, Encuentro
By Barucha Calamity Peller
At around five in the morning on Thursday, June 14th, 2007 hundreds of fireworks cracked the quiet dawn and burst in the sky above Oaxaca CIty Mexico. Though the streets remained still people began waking up and movement chants could be heard coming from the windows of houses. "If Ulises doesn't go there will be no peace!".
This is not like any other day in Oaxaca. Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the violent attempted eviction by the state police of the Section 22 teachers sit in strike in the Zocalo, and what happened that day set off a chain of events that led to a state wide uprising and a popular movement with millions of participants to remove the right-wing governor Ulises Ruiz from office and replace the entire state government with popular assemblies. An organization of thousands of civil groups was formed, called the People,s Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO). Physically removing local governments from office, the APPO the people of Oaxaca lived autonomously in the capitol city and other communities for nearly five months until the entrance of the Preventive Federal Police in the last days of October.
In the early afternoon of June 14th a megamarch of over 300 thousand participants began to arrive in the Zocalo of Oaxaca City. The march began at the airport nearly 8 kilometers away, and as the beginning of the march entered the Zocalo people were still leaving from the airport. Contingents from Chiapas and Michoacan and other states in Mexico participated in the march as well.
At approximately 7pm barricades reappeared for the first time since November throughout the city. People spontaneously constructed barricades, and at least two major thoroughfares were blockaded using buses and cars. Crowds gathered to reinforce the barricades, and a festive mood took over Oaxaca City.
Though the movement to remove Ulises Ruiz from office and replace the existing government with popular assemblies was brutally repressed and many members of the movement were forced into hiding after the violent battle between protesters and police on November 25th, 2006, the struggle in Oaxaca is far from over. On May 1rst and again on June 14th, 2007, hundreds of thousands of people marched in Oaxaca City in a strong show of force of the remaining presence of dissent among the Oaxaca people and their continuing demands for justice and autonomy.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/or/2007/06/87260.html
Images: Oaxaca, 18 al 20 de mayo de 2007: Encuentro Nacional de las Resistencias de los Pueblos
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http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=146151
14 de Junio: Ni perdon, ni olvido!
A un ano de la represion
Oaxaca
La detonacion de los cohetones de las 4 a 6 de la manana en diferentes puntos de la ciudad daban inicio a lo que hoy seria el primer aniversario de la resistencia popular, para que poco despues en el crucero del aeropuerto de la ciudad de Oaxaca, alrededor de las once de la manana, partieran los contingentes de miles de manifestantes, entre maestras y maestros, campesinas y campesinos, indigenas, estudiantes y otros sectores sociales, para reivindicar la resistencia hacia la agresión que el gobierno de Ulises Ruiz ejercio contra la Seccion 22 del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion (SNTE). Dicha accion marcaria el inicio de un movimiento social sin precedentes en Oaxaca.
At around five in the morning on Thursday, June 14th, 2007 hundreds of fireworks cracked the quiet dawn and burst in the sky above Oaxaca CIty Mexico. Though the streets remained still people began waking up and movement chants could be heard coming from the windows of houses. "If Ulises doesn't go there will be no peace!".
This is not like any other day in Oaxaca. Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the violent attempted eviction by the state police of the Section 22 teachers sit in strike in the Zocalo, and what happened that day set off a chain of events that led to a state wide uprising and a popular movement with millions of participants to remove the right-wing governor Ulises Ruiz from office and replace the entire state government with popular assemblies. An organization of thousands of civil groups was formed, called the People,s Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO). Physically removing local governments from office, the APPO the people of Oaxaca lived autonomously in the capitol city and other communities for nearly five months until the entrance of the Preventive Federal Police in the last days of October.
In the early afternoon of June 14th a megamarch of over 300 thousand participants began to arrive in the Zocalo of Oaxaca City. The march began at the airport nearly 8 kilometers away, and as the beginning of the march entered the Zocalo people were still leaving from the airport. Contingents from Chiapas and Michoacan and other states in Mexico participated in the march as well.
At approximately 7pm barricades reappeared for the first time since November throughout the city. People spontaneously constructed barricades, and at least two major thoroughfares were blockaded using buses and cars. Crowds gathered to reinforce the barricades, and a festive mood took over Oaxaca City.
Though the movement to remove Ulises Ruiz from office and replace the existing government with popular assemblies was brutally repressed and many members of the movement were forced into hiding after the violent battle between protesters and police on November 25th, 2006, the struggle in Oaxaca is far from over. On May 1rst and again on June 14th, 2007, hundreds of thousands of people marched in Oaxaca City in a strong show of force of the remaining presence of dissent among the Oaxaca people and their continuing demands for justice and autonomy.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/or/2007/06/87260.html
Images: Oaxaca, 18 al 20 de mayo de 2007: Encuentro Nacional de las Resistencias de los Pueblos
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=146151
14 de Junio: Ni perdon, ni olvido!
A un ano de la represion
Oaxaca
La detonacion de los cohetones de las 4 a 6 de la manana en diferentes puntos de la ciudad daban inicio a lo que hoy seria el primer aniversario de la resistencia popular, para que poco despues en el crucero del aeropuerto de la ciudad de Oaxaca, alrededor de las once de la manana, partieran los contingentes de miles de manifestantes, entre maestras y maestros, campesinas y campesinos, indigenas, estudiantes y otros sectores sociales, para reivindicar la resistencia hacia la agresión que el gobierno de Ulises Ruiz ejercio contra la Seccion 22 del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion (SNTE). Dicha accion marcaria el inicio de un movimiento social sin precedentes en Oaxaca.