DAILY OAXACA NEWS THREAD Monday Nov 06 06 Issue #3

[Wiley50]

Friends,
I have decided that the best way to facilitate my volunteered position as a "funnel" to try
to smuggle news around the corporate media blackout of the heroic struggle of the oppressed people of Oaxaca
is to produce a daily news thread similar to the one produced in the ER&D forum.

All are invited to post new information into this thread as it becomes available and I will continue to do the same.

I would request that those here who do not support this struggle to not kick this thread, but, instead,
start your own thread.

I realize that our First Priority here at DU is to win what I hope this time is a fair and honest election on Tuesday and take
a majority in at least one house of congress, thereby, being able to bind at least one hand of the corrupt and fascist Bush Administration and begin the investigations to expose and remove them peacefully. I, in no way, wish to distract anyone from this urgent endeavor.
However, although the polls and negative GOP news look very promising, the past electronic corruption and nasty suppression
that have occurred in the last three elections, seems sure to be repeated this time, despite our best efforts and the almost miraculous reporting (finally) of the Infernal machines (in spanish: Machinas Infernale) in the mass media. ( These animals are cornered, desperate and they were vicious all along)

Therefore, should we awake Wednesday morning with the GOP still in full control of both houses and reports of
wide-spread election fraud and other corruption, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DECIDE HOW WE ARE GOING TO ADDRESS THE SITUATION> I, FOR ONE, DO NOT INTEND TO SIT ON MY HANDS THIS TIME! AND I HOPE I HAVE MANY COMPADRES!

Here we have the HEROIC EXAMPLE OF THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA MEXICO WHO, IMHO, OBVIOUSLY ARE DOING IT RIGHT!

Relevant Links:

APPO
http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com /
website of the revolution in spanish

OSAG
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup /
Oaxaca Study Action Group in english and spanish, but mainly english

Radio Universidad/ Radio APPO

Current list of mirror streams (spanish)

http://stream.wrct.org:8000/appo.mp3.m3u
http://208.99.202.72:8000/appo.mp3.m3u
http://vancouver.indymedia.org:8000/appo.mp3.m3u
http://freeit.org:8000/appo.mp3.m3u
http://webradio.podzone.net:8000/appo.mp3.m3u
http://vancouver.indymedia.org:8000/appo.mp3.m3u
http://compi.ath.cx:8000/appo.mp3.m3u
http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/appo.mp3.m3u
http://ahimsa-radio1.indymedia.org:8300/appo.mp3.m3u
http://stream.r23.cc:2323/appo.mp3.m3u

Live Text English Translation
(refresh every 20 seconds)

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

CONTACT INFORMATION

RADIO UNIVERSIDAD
UABJO
Av. Universidad S/N Ex-Hacienda de 5 Señores, C.P.
68120, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax.
Tels. 01 (951) 516 58 43, 516 57 83, 516 53 44

-http://www.uabjo.mx/radio/radioOnLine.php

ANYONE WISHING TO MAKE DONATIONS THAT WOULD BE BOTH GREATLY NEEDED AND APPRECIATED
AS WELL AS TAX DEDUCTIBLE AS RADIO UNIVERSIDAD IS PART OF THE UNIVERSITY
BUT YOU WOULD BE ACTUALLY HELPING THE APPO PEOPLE"S MOVEMENT AS THE STATION
DISTRIBUTES FOOD AND SUPPLIES TO THOSE IN NEED, PLEASE MAIL<WIRE OR CONTACT DIRECTLY

You can Email Radio APPO directly to the announcers and send messages of support
(helpful if you can write in spanish but they do have some translators there at times

Radio@http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com /

PROJECT TUPO:
Probably the most important reason that the APPO movement has been so successful for so long
has been RADIO APPO/ Radio Universidad
While a revolutionary runs on food, a revolution runs on communication
That's why the Govt wants to put the station off the air so bad
ProjectTUPO.org
is a non- profit organization devoted to supplying radio transmitters to third world peoples movements.
one of their most important projects right now is acquiring and shipping self contained radio stations
to the APPO movement in Oaxaca. I spoke with their director Stephen Dunfer yesterday and was amazed at
their organization and his determination in helping the people of Oaxaca.
They are currently collecting funds for a shipment to Oaxaca very soon as the transmitter at Radio APPO
is old and tired and may die at any time. Please take a moment to check out their website and, as always,
green energy is vital

www.projecttupo.org

If You Have IRC you can also get translation on channel #radioappo,#oaxaca,#oaxacatrans,and #mexico
#radioappo is STRICTLY TRANSLATION OF RADIO UNIVERSIDAD NO TALKING NO CHAT

If you want your own quick and awful translation, I'm using Babelfish:

http://babelfish.altavista.com /

[katinmn]

1. Thanks. K&R

[Wiley50]

19. OOPS! BAD LINK! should be RADIOTUPA.ORG

My bad. I talked to the guy yesterday and then was so busy covering the megamarch
that I hadn't had time to ckeck out their website yet.

But, I think it's an AWESOME project!

radiotupa.org

The only way to get around the corporate media
is
BE THE MEDIA!

The past five months in Oaxaca has certainly proved that.

By ALL reports a peaceful march.
One student shot by PRI Govt Paramilitaries early in the day
before the march. after surgury, looks like he'll be OK.
Also a report of a teenager injured after the march.
I'm still trying to find details on that one

Whew! Yesterday was a very very busy day for me.
See Oaxaca thread #2 if you missed it.
Hope things are slower today

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. Thousands tell police to get out of Oaxaca

Thanks Wiley!

Thousands tell police to get out of Oaxaca
Nov. 6, 2006. 01:00 AM
IOAN GRILLO
ASSOCIATED PRESS


OAXACA, Mexico—Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched through this tense colonial city yesterday, demanding security forces abandon camps they set up last week to end a five-month protest.

Masked police officers clutching automatic weapons watched from rooftops as protestors marched to a nearby plaza yelling "Get out federal police!"

The leaders then formed a human chain to keep the crowd of 20,000 from confronting police, but about 400 people broke through and attacked officers with stones and bottles. A 21-year-old student was reportedly shot earlier by police.

About 4,000 federal police swooped into the city on Oct. 29 to restore order following a five-month protest that had rattled President Vicente Fox's administration, scared tourists out of Oaxaca and left at least nine people dead, mostly protestors shot by armed gangs. On Saturday, masked protestors detained and blindfolded two men near the university, accusing them of being spies for the federal police.

a little more - http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162770306929&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

[EFerrari]

3. hundreds of thousands in a march three miles long:

John Gibler / Indy Media NYC

[Wiley50]

4. Camera His Wapon vs Injustice Excellent art on Brad Will

Camera His Weapon vs. Injustice

By Juan Gonzalez

November 1, 2006, New York Daily News



When the bullets started to fly, New York photojournalist
Bradley Will was clutching a camera, doing what he loved most
- filming a group of downtrodden people fighting for respect
in some forgotten corner of our world.

This was last Friday, on a narrow street on the outskirts of
Oaxaca, Mexico, where Will, 36, a longtime member of New
York's radical IndyMedia Center, had gone in early October to
document an amazing story.

It is one our own national media somehow managed to ignore for
five long months.

Since June, residents of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest
region, have been in open yet relatively peaceful rebellion
against the abuses of their governor, Ulises Ruiz.

Thousands of teachers have shut down all the public schools
throughout the state. Their supporters in the student and
trade union movements, numbering in the tens of thousands,
occupied the grand old central plaza in the capital city.

The protesters chased Ruiz and his administration out of the
state capital. They took over the radio and television
stations and organized spontaneous so-called Oaxaca People's
Assemblies in dozens of smaller towns across the state.

They vowed to keep up the protests until Ruiz, a leader of
Mexico's corrupt Institutional Revolutionary Party, resigned.

Not since China's Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989 had
a Third World nation witnessed such a massive and intractable
public protest.

But you couldn't tell that by watching network news reports in
this country or reading the national press. Here was Mexico,
our next-door neighbor and one of the world's most populous
nations, in the throes of a huge crisis, and the big American
media paid no attention.

So Jenny Smith, Will's close friend for many years, wasn't
surprised when she heard he was heading for Oaxaca.

Smith first met Will back in 1993, when she was 19 and they
were both budding poets in Boulder, Colo., enrolled in
something called the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics.

"Every issue that involved people being oppressed or needing
help, Brad wanted to be there," Smith said yesterday. "He was
just fearless."

For a few years, Will wandered the country, first as a tree-
sitting environmental activist in the Pacific Northwest, then
as a squatter and defender of community gardens on the lower
East Side. At some point, he picked up a camera and turned to
documentary films.

He took his camera to Ecuador and Brazil to do stories on
peasants fighting to recover their land, and to Prague to
chronicle protests against the World Trade Organization.

Wherever there was a cause the big commercial media ignored,
Will headed there to tell the story.

"He went to places where popular movements were trying to
create direct democracy," said Eric Laursen, another longtime
friend. "Sometimes, he seemed to defy gravity."

There are more than a few in our modern media who desperately
want to dismiss social activist-journalists such as Will, the
same way that a hundred years ago others sought to discredit
muckrakers like Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair.

Last Friday, Will was filming on the outskirts of Oaxaca in a
place where no other American journalist had bothered to go.

His film, available on YouTube.com , shows a large red dump
truck drive onto a narrow street. A few dozen protesters start
throwing rocks at the men in the truck, who are supporters of
the government.

Suddenly, men in plainclothes from the truck begin to fire
guns. The crowd retreats. Another shot is fired and Will is
heard crying out.

His camera, still running, falls to the ground. Will, shot in
the stomach, would die minutes later.

Initial press reports in this country claimed he died in a
crossfire. His 80-second film clip, however, shows no
crossfire. All the shooting came from one side.

The next day, thousands of federal police moved in and retook
the city's downtown in a show of force. Early this week,
Oaxaca's governor refused a request by both houses of Mexico's
congress for his resignation, so the crisis continues.

Maybe now it will get a little more attention.

(c) 2006 Daily News, L.P.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/jgonzalez/story/467259p-393057c.html
____________________________________________

[Wiley50]

5. PHOTOS of MEGAMARCH

EL PUEBLO UNIDO JAMAS SERA VENCIDO!! Fotos de la megamarcha dia de h

http://www.amauta.inf.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3613&Itemid=32

[pberq]

15. Great photos! these people are heroes

[Selatius]

6. They really can't get enough of participatory democracy, can they?

Long live direct action and collective action.

[Wiley50]

7. More PHOTOS

http://www.amauta.inf.br/index.php

[Wiley50]

8. AP PHOTOS of Oaxaca

Someone at cryptome.org is compiling photographs from AP Photographers
on their site. Seems to be updated daily...

Currently it has photos from the 30th of October to the 5th of
November, with the AP captions still underneath.

the link is here:
http://cryptome.org/oaxaca-04/oaxaca-01.htm

[Wiley50]

9. LaJornada video: Policías de Puebla en Oaxaca

http://www.jornada.unam.mx:8080/tv/2006/11/policias-de-puebla-en-oaxaca/
Policías de Puebla en Oaxaca

La Policía del estado de Puebla....

This is the direct link to the video (WIDE-SCREEN!):

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8980827469713522799

(If it doesn't work, try the first link to the article)





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Si usted no cuenta con una conexión de banda ancha a la Internet y está experimentando problemas para visualizar los videos, le recomendamos presionar el botón de pausa y esperar a que el video se descargue por completo antes de intentar visualizarlo.

[Wiley50]

10. APPO Press Release on MegaMarch

5 of November of 2006, 9º day of occupation of Oaxaca by the federal forces Balance of the day of today: * 1 severely wounded * 1 lengthy one * Increase of the interference in Radio University Under protection of the presence of the Preventive Federal Police in the capital of our state, paramilitary from Ulises the Ruizes Ortiz, without concerning the presence including of children, returns to shoot to the university campus, approximately to 7:50 hours, hurting of gravity to the student of 21 years of age, Manuel Marks Sanchez Martinez, by bullets of heavy caliber that damaged several internal organs to him. Until the moment it follows burdens because of internal hemorrhages. The companion Jesus Perez Hernandez, coming from Santa Maria Peñoles, was stopped in one of the detents of the PFP, while he was transferred to 6ª made Megamarcha today to demand the presentation with life of the disappear, the liberation of the prisoners and the exit of Oaxaca de Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and of the Preventive Federal Police. What they could not do by the force: by means of the evacuation of the facilities of the University nor by means of the firings to the antenna, carried out the day of, that managed to do a perforation to him, now they are yesterday doing it by technological means. The reach of the transmitter has diminished significantly, no longer arrives not even at all the city. OUTSIDE OAXACA ULISES RUIZ And The FEDERAL FORCES OF OCCUPATION! FREEDOM IMMEDIATE And UNCONDITIONAL To The POLITICAL PRISONERS! RESPECT To The HUMAN RIGHTS IN OUR STATE! BY OUR DEADS, PRISONERS And DISAPPEAR, NOR An ONE STEP BACK! COMMITTEE OF DEFENSE OF THE RIGHTS OF THE TOWN POPULAR ASSEMBLY OF THE OAXACA TOWNS

[Wiley50]

11. Small bombs hit Mexico election court, party HQ

Small bombs exploded on Monday at Mexico's top electoral court, the headquarters of an opposition party and a bank in the capital but there were no injuries, Mexican media reported.
The bombs went off simultaneously just after midnight.
The court, known as the Trife, drew protests by leftists in September for ruling that conservative candidate Felipe Calderon won July's presidential election fairly.
Judges threw out claims of fraud by leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost narrowly.
A building at the headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was also damaged by a bomb, media said.
The party, which ruled Mexico for 71 years until President Vicente Fox beat it at elections in 2000, is now the third force in Mexican politics.
The PRI governor of the state of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz, is under pressure to resign after large street demonstrations by opponents who accuse him of corruption and using heavy-handed tactics against striking teachers.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched on Sunday in the state capital Oaxaca city where demonstrators clashed with police last week in the deepening conflict.

Small bombs hit Mexico election court, party HQ
06 Nov 2006 09:01:44 GMT
Source: Reuters
MEXICO CITY, Nov 6 (Reuters) -

AlertNet news is provided by

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Has all aspects of a typical PRI/PAN/CIA/SAS action, however one doesn't know for sure. But it was just after that a peacefull massive demonstration had ended. The only violence was a boy shot by some PRIist and this provocation wasn't followed by counter violence. So it seems obvious who did the attack, just after the demonstrations turned out to be non-violent...

All articles (english):
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061106.w2mexico1106/BNStory/International/home

Todos articulos:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=es&ned=es_mx&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://actualidad.terra.es/internacional/articulo/ciudad_mexico_oaxaca_1189660.htm


MORE from Mark at OSAG

They destroyed the MegaMarcha news; Re: Small bombs hit Mexico election court, party HQ

Immediate effects of these small bombs were that almost no news about yesterdays succesfull, massive and peacefull (except for a PRI hitman) MegaMarcha was transmitted.

That is their standard tactic; just make an excuse to transmit something else, like for appr.11 days the false fisherman's story, taking the force out of Lopez Obrador's movement after he'd brought 2-3 million people to the Zocalo in Mexico-city.

This Oaxacan movement is dangerous for the whole country and its getting dangerously close to December 1st, when Calderon should become the new president 'elected'.
So the same game as with AMLO, only a bit different story to control and manipulate the news and giving most people the idea/believes that this all is accidental; how newsitems are changed.

[Wiley50]

12. RSS feeds on www.oaxacarevolt.org

Four RSS feeds on www.oaxacarevolt.org:

1) English Articles (Updated daily)
2) English Urgent Bulletins (Updated more often)
3) Spanish Articles
4) Spanish Urgent Bulletins

I get most of my news from this list, narconews, and Indymedia IRC.

Also has an events calendar. This is heavily text-based news. Not too
much multimedia (yet!) but it will be expanding.

[Wiley50]

13. Eyewitness Estimate of March Numberes

From Jill at OSAG

i haven't read over all these emails. i don't have time. i was filming the march. it left the monumento at about 11am. arrived in the centro around 2pm. that's three hours.

when we were entering the centro (passing La Soledad / Plaza de la Danza) someone called a reporter friend of mine from the monumento and said people were still leaving from there in the march.

so that sounds like a ton of people to me, and a hell of a lot more than 80,000. i've seen marches of 80,000 people and this was way more. WAY more.

counting the numbers once the march started to enter the centro is not accurate, because from what i saw, there wasn't enough space for people, and a lot of people turned off onto other streets and dispered. In other words, not everyone went all the way to santo domingo.

the number of people who are involved in the APPO or who guarded barricades has nothing to do with the number of people who came out in the march. Marches are for everyone, guarding barricades is not. The march was headed by municipal authorities from all the regions of Oaxaca. People from those regions came with their authorities, so this wasn't just a march of people from Oaxaca city, nor was it a march of just APPO participants.

i think La Jornada's estimate is very low.

from K. Flores at OSAG:

i think the pictures all around, universal, the website from brazil, these: pretty much somes it up as far as support for appo and the teachers...if people want to do a numbers thing, i would suggest a scale weighing this march w/the anti-appo/pri one i read about a week or so ago...what did they estimate on the high end? a thousand---these pics show the people coming down hills from everywhere, hardly any space to move...the megamarches in LA were similar, no where to move and in the numbers game...the police said tens of thousands, and the la times at 500k , the conversitive estimate of the media

jill

[Wiley50]

14. From Radio APPO: Let's DU the guy jamming their signal

luna try this at home
04:58 * luna LUNA OROZCO ALBERTO
04:58 * luna [email protected]
04:58 < psuedo> we are not going to negotiate if they keep violating our rights, without our political prisioners, our signal beeing sabotaged, and we keep being shot at the university
04:58 * luna 9515236069
04:59 * luna extension ( 8 19 ) 15110
04:59 < psuedo> (Nice luna)
04:59 * luna fax:[phone]
04:59 * luna address:Av. de Las Telecomunicaciones Tlacochahuaya Tlacolula, s/n,
04:59 < luna> CSCT_Oax_Estacion_Rad_Oaxaca,SECCION: Oficinas
04:59 < luna> Oaxaca, Oaxaca
05:00 < psuedo> lets reinforce our barricades....
05:00 * luna if you are reading this,in a transcript log, etc
05:00 < psuedo> they are really pissed of after seeing all the people, over a million, who came to support us
05:00 < psuedo> (Music)
05:01 * luna that are the detail of the guy in charge of the radio monitoring station
05:02 * luna of the secretary of communications and transport, responsable for the jamming of radio appo, the voice of those without a voice
05:02 * luna http://portal.sct.gob.mx/SctPortal/appmanager/Portal/Sct?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=sct_book_68
05:02 * luna give them hell
05:03 * luna and the guys name really is > LUNA OROZCO ALBERTO < not taking the piss
05:09 < pseudo> Lets stay alert at radio universidad
05:09 < pseudo> if you hear an alert from radio universidad, please notify all people by phone
05:09 < pseudo> we need organization and discipline
05:10 < pseudo> unders the sky there is nothing more beautyfull than freedom, and nothing more powerfull than unity
05:11 < pseudo> you may cut all the flowers, but yo

[Kurovski]

16. K&R

[Wiley50]

17. Project TUPO Link should be RADIOTUPA.ORG

Sorry

radiotupa.org

[Wiley50]

18. Great Photos from Francisco Alvarado

-----Original Message-----
From: franciscoaj@...
To: franciscoaalvarado@...
Sent: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 12:27 AM
Subject: Oaxaca Mega-Protest-March / Mega Marcha (Sunday, Nov. 5)

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Today's peaceful Mega-Protest-March approximately 5 kilometers long or about 500,000 people is taking place without any confrontation. It started in the outskirts of the City of Oaxaca and arrived at the famous Church of Santo Domingo in the Historic District, only blocks from the Main Square or Zocalo. Women, children and men led the way against the invading Federal Preventive Police (an elite unit of the national riot police) and the army. Many artists created "performances" for the occasion.

The Federal Preventive Police entrenched themselves in the Zocalo using the same barricades the teachers had put-up and that they claimed to have come to Oaxaca to demolish.

Enclosed is today's selection of my photos. You will also find some links to my earlier work including the new "June 14-15", the day the teachers were forcefully removed from their protest, teargas and beaten by the state police and the following day when they again claimed the Historic District.

The photos are not in their original size, for those organizations that may need to see the originals, please let me know. Please keep on circulating them.
Francisco
www.franciscoalvarado.com

http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_November_5_2006.pdf -NEW (NUEVO)

http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_June_2006.pdf -NEW (NUEVO)

http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Day_of_the_Dead_in_Oaxaca_2007.pdf

http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_October_2006-1.pdf

http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_October_2006-2.pdf


Oaxaca, 2:40 PM, 5 de noviembre, 2006

Estimados Amigos y Colegas:
La Mega-Marcha pacífica de hoy un aproximado de cinco kilómetros de personas (500,000) que inició en las afueras de la ciudad y entró hasta el Centro Histórico congregándose frente a la Iglesia de Santo Domingo a unas cuadras del Zócalo, continua sin ninguna confrontación. Mujeres, niños y hombres forman parte de la protesta contra las fuerzas invasoras de la PFP y el ejército. Adjuntos a la marcha, muchos artistas crean "performance".

La Policía Federal Preventiva se atrincheró en el Zócalo utilizando las mismas barricadas de los maestros. Les incluyo una selección de las fotos de hoy. También encontrarán "links" de mi trabajo anterior y especialmente la nueva página del "14-15 de junio" cuando los maestros fueron violentamente desalojados del Centro Histórico por la policía estatal a punta de gas lacrimógeno y golpes, y el día siguiente cuando se volvieron a tomar el Centro Histórico.

De nuevo les pido que por favor hagan circular estas fotos. Los archivos son pequeños. Para los medios de comunicación o quien las necesite en su tamaño original, favor dejarme saber.

Saludos,
Francisco
www.franciscoalvarado.com

[Wiley50]

20. French Article on Oaxaca Megamarch ( translated by that half-assed Babelfish)

demonstration has Mexico City in support has oaxaca solidarity with oaxaca Nov. 05, 2006 22:46 GMT joint has this article a call so that cease the censure on the French official mediae on the fate of the population of oaxaca Demonstration has Mexico City in support for Oaxaca Radio operator Orderly of Mexico City announces that a demonstration monster of several hundreds of thousands of anybody has mile this Sunday has Mexico City in support has Oaxaca However the Ruiz butcher and his sicaires and killers continue their fascistic provocations has Oaxaca and Uro does not want to still resign very bad news on the face of repression Pfp and other bodies of the Mexican police force continues their exactions daN the town of Oaxaca as usual the French media censure or lie on Oaxaca In spite of that of many actions continued has Oaxaca as said it international Radio France or Rfi this morning while lying as usual that "calms it would have returned has Oaxaca" and well it is completely false bus living them of Oaxaca go up the barricades each time Pfp destroy them with their trucks water cannons bulldozers and of many confrontations one still take place this Sunday downtown Also as Frenchwomen interdependent of the Mexican people we reiterate this international call have to put an end to the censure of the French official media and have to bombard blows of téléphoes, fax, of email the "social" siéges and the drafting of these media If Net surfers could translate this message into Spanish and to relay it on all the indymedia of Latin America let us thank we them in advance The censure of the French official media on Oaxaca that is enough The censure of the French official media on Oaxaca that is enough Call has the French civil company interdependent of the people of Oaxaca call has all the French-speaking and Spanish-speaking mediacktivists For one week the people of Oaxaca have resisted courageously the fascistic aggressions of the killers in "civil" of Pri of the governor of Oaxaca Uro Ruiz, with the murder of Pfp or policia federal preventiva which assassinates stop, bludgeons torture violent one the prisonie-éres like has atenco, and in more which plunders the residences of living city and the small shopkeepers in all impunities Official mediae presses radio operator French Complices Since months and the massacre of Attento not only one information or almost on the French news services, of vague comments on France "culture" the week derniére making pass the movement of Oaxaca "for a romantic populist social movement" and "without future" dixit Adler the Atlantic one on this "chain" of radio, only one article in release since one month, and any, absolutely aucunes new on the televised "newspapers" France télevision 1 3 3 4 5, Arte, Lci, TF1, I TV, Bfm, Euronews Rfi M6 France infos France culture RTL Europe 1 and consorts For all French media oligarchy, Mexico does not seem or not to exist any more on the chart of the world This is obviously a censure concerted and on orders of in "top" or the embassy of Mexico on all these media Also we invite all the interdependent Net surfers to bombard malls, fax, telephone calls the "mediators" and the "journalists of these chains, made similar with press of the capacity and the money Frenchwoman so that cease this censure manifest here the addresses you know that to make some all on its sites "forums" contact of the "journalists is" contacts of the directors of chains, contacts of the "mediators" contact of mails of the televiewers-trices http://www.france2.fr/ http://jt.france2.fr/ http://www.france3.fr/ http://www.itele.fr/ http://www.bfmtv.fr/ http://www.tf1.fr/ http://tf1.lci.fr/ http://www.artefrance.fr/ http://www.itele.fr/ http://www.rfi.fr/ http://www.arte.tv/fr/70.html France infos France culture Radio France International of the radios which censure all what occurs has Oaxaca http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-info/accueil/ http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/accueil/ http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/sommaire/ http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-blue http://www.rtl.fr/ http://www.europe1.fr/ http://www.m6.fr/html/index-tease.shtml http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php it is time of our comrades and friends of Mexicain-es fight know that in France country of the "lights" and the "humans right" of alleged "the journalist" assume the right to censure any information basic on terrifying the repression which falls down on the people of Oaxaca as on the Mexican people, yes the French media with the orders do not have anything has to envy in the allegiance the capacities in places the wretched Mexican official media which daily, insult, scorn, calumniate the Mexican people and that of the population of Oaxaca, as they had already done at the time of the massacre of the town of Atenco in May and June nsurer toute informations basique sur la terrifiante répression qui s' abat sur le peuple de Oaxaca comme sur le peuple mexicain, oui les médias français aux ordres n' ont rien a envier dans l' allégeance aux pouvoirs en places aux ignobles médias officiels mexicains qui quotidiennement, insultent, méprisent, calomnient le peuple mexicain et celui de la population de Oaxaca, comme ils l' avaient déjà faits lors du massacre de la ville de Atenco en mai et juin 2006 $$#43@ SOLIDARITY WITH THE MEXICAN PEOPLE AND POPULATION MARTYRISEE OF OAXACA NOT A CENSURE OF The MEDIAE TO The FRENCH ORDERS PRI SIDE ULISSE ORTIZ RUIZ CALDERON VICENTE FOX ASSASSINS

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21. Massive March in Oaxaca--IndyMedia, John Gibler

November 05, 2006 10:18PM EST Download Article (PDF) < insert language bar >

Massive March in Oaxaca

11/06 | Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets to demand Gov.'s ouster

By John Gibler

Today the Oaxaca People’s Popular Assembly (APPO) offered its response to Gov. Ulises Ruiz’s claim that the conflict in Oaxaca is limited to “one avenue in the capital.”

They filled over 3 miles of federal highway 190 with hundreds of thousands of protesters all shouting for the governor’s ouster.

See Also: Photos and Audio Report from Oaxaca: November 5th by Calamity | More Photos from John Gibler

Keywords: Analysis, Global, War & Peace, Activism,

Massive March in Oaxaca

Today the Oaxaca People’s Popular Assembly (APPO) offered its response to Gov. Ulises Ruiz’s claim that the conflict in Oaxaca is limited to “one avenue in the capital.”

They filled over 3 miles of federal highway 190 with hundreds of thousands of protesters all shouting for the governor’s ouster.

“This shows the people’s unity,” said one marcher who declined to give her name.

At 10 AM, members of the APPO and supporters from across the state and the country began to gather at the monument to Benito Juarez about 4 miles outside of Oaxaca’s historic center.

The day before a caravan of nearly 100 cars, trucks and buses left from Mexico City to join the march. It took them over twelve hours to reach Oaxaca City—twice the normal travel time—do to military roadblocks set up to intercept them along the way. The caravan also had trouble getting gas as most stations had been ordered not to serve them.

Early in the morning, in anticipation of the march’s arrival, the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) closed off all entrances to the Zocalo with six-foot-high barricades made of razor wire. They also stationed special operations officers on the roofs of surrounding buildings and doubled the ranks of riot police guarding the barricades.

The march seemed relatively small, around 4 thousand people, before leaving from the Juarez monument, but quickly expanded as people began to walk and found thousands more supporters waiting for them along the road.

Only 30 minutes into the march it was impossible to see the end from pedestrian bridges that cross over the highway.

Throughout the entire length of the march, hundreds of people from surrounding neighborhoods gathered to applaud, offer marchers water and oranges, and then file in behind.

There were relatively few puppets, signs, and banners, mostly just everyday folks walking under the clouds, chanting slogans against the governor.

Tensions rose briefly as the marchers entered the historic center, passing within two blocks of the reinforced police barricades. The cars leading the march turned up Porfirio Diaz but several marchers shouted to continue straight, towards the Zocalo. APPO organizers quickly linked arms forming a human wall to shut off the street and guide the march up toward Santo Domingo Cathedral.

As the marchers poured into the plaza in front of Santo Domingo, a few hundred people walked down to the Zocalo to shout at the police, but once again APPO organizers linked arms in front of the razor wire and urged the other protesters to avoid confrontations.

“We want to show that our struggle is peaceful and just,” said a middle-age teacher from Tlaxiaco who declined to give her name. “Ulises Ruiz is the one who sends people out to kill. How is it possible that he is able to hire killers and stay in office?”

When asked about Thursday’s battle outside the state university, she responded that the students: “did not attack; they defended themselves from an attack in an unequal battle because those wretched police are armed to the teeth. If they start to attack, well people have to defend themselves as best they can.”

ATTACK AGAINST RADIO

For the second day in a row, shortly before 7 AM, armed gunmen again opened fire on the university radio station, this time wounding one student, 22 year-old Marcos Sanchez Martinez. He was in critical condition at a local public hospital this morning.

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22. Caravana Arrives in Oaxaca for Megamarch

Caravana Arrives in Oaxaca for Megamarch
In Support of the APPO, Mexico City Residents Weather a Military Search Before Arriving in Oaxaca

By Julie Webb-Pullman
Special to The Narco News Bulletin

November 5, 2006

Yesterday, as the caravana of supporters from Mexico City left Hemiciclo at noon for Oaxaca, hundreds crowded the streets to cheer them on their way. This scene was repeated throughout their journey, with cheering people lining the highway at several points. The ten buses and fifty cars that left DF had been joined by scores more along the way, and despite several “arms searches” by military, carrying assault rifles (the only people actually carrying guns), the caravana arrived after a twenty hour trip. Scores of appreciative locals, including and a brass band beneath the monument to Juarez at Crucero de Viguera, greeted them.


D.R. 2006 Julie Webb-Pullman
Following the gross and systematic human rights abuses of the past week, a contingent of human rights observers accompanied the caravana, and despite the military reinforcements brought in during the night by helicopter, today’s march drew between 15,000 and 20,000 people. The demonstration was peaceful and without incident, apart from a Technological Institute student shot in the chest in front of Radio Universidad before the march began. According to local reports, Marcos Manuel Sanchez Martinez is alive and receiving medical care.

Locals thronged the streets and over-bridges cheering, clapping and shouting support to welcome the marchers from Mexico City and other states.

Entire families turned out, from the oldest to the youngest, just like they did last Thursday to defend the University from the threatened military invasion.

Police presence was minimal. Even at the endpoint of the march, when they reached Church, the only police were plains-clothed officers who were spying on and filming the crowd. For that small mercy, at least, Oaxaca can be thankful today.

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- The Fun

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23. call the bogota mexico consulate and request to speak to consul

Hi friends of Brad and Oaxaca,

The phone-demo tactic insures that the solidirity protest held outside is also felt inside. Request to speak to the council about travel or business issue in order to get past operater. I found the numbers on the web.
The following are the numbers;
Cancillerìa: ( 571 ) 6 29 49 89
Consulado: ( 571 ) 6 29 49 92
CONSERJERÍA COMERCIAL ( 571 )6 40 06 15


This long distance demo is done cheaply by buying a calling card. The guys at the bodega know which is the cheapest for certain countries. For 2 dollars you can speak for about an hour.

VIVA BRAD

By CMer [email protected]

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24. La Noticias blurb from APPO website

Looks like a slow news day in Oaxaca, Folks
Guess everyone is resting up from yesterday
I know I am




Writing by Press in the News

THE SIXTH MEGAMARCHA WAS A ÉXITO:



From very early torrents of people they ran by the streets of the colonies to meet in the cruise of Viguera, at the Foot of the Monument to the Meritorious one of Americas thousands of people arrived to authenticate that his spirit is no muerto… that his spirit follows present today but that never between the town of Oaxaca and which guides to us in each one of our actions.

To 10:30 it gave to beginning sixth megamarcha, thousands of women, men, women, children, old carrying placards, blankets, allusive fine cardboards when coming out of the tyrant and of the invader to firm step they advanced towards Santo Domingo… at first it had been programmed to make it towards the socle, nevertheless arrived information from provokers whom URO would send, before which, was preferred not to risk.

By kilometers the human tide extended, but in a million people they participated in this mega marches.

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25. RED ALERT AGAIN!! per OSAG NANCY DAVIES nov6 4:48 pm

red alert again
The call is out on Radio Universidad that the PFP is once again moving toward the university grounds from Parque La Amor.

The attempt to block the Radio Universidad is annoying, but not entirely successful. I tried walking around the house with a transistor in my hand like a dowsing rod and indeed found the spot where I could hear it. I can also pick up the broadcast streaming on the internet, but accompanied by the same interference. Intelligible, though.

Another good note is that Noticias is broadcasting at 2:00 the daily news -not blocked. They were reporting on the federal financial investigations of URO, the debate going on in the PRI of how to get rid of him and still maintain the PRI in power in Oaxaca, the non-opening of the schools, since the teachers are not safe, the occasional assaults by sicarios --the whole thing. So that's a good back up.

I went down to the zocalo post-march this AM to have a look, and it is a dismal scene - the police are surrounding the entry streets but letting people through along the sidewalks, one by one. Inside the zocalo the police boys are lounging in every area, eating their ice cream cones and adding to the gray - the zocalo has gone gray. A few Oaxaqueños and a few tourists and ex-pats were walking through. It doesn't look like a place where you want to linger.
When I stepped out onto the pedestrian Alcala, it was like Dorothy dropping into Oz -color, music, energy, all the vendors of clothing and food as well as the encampment have transferred themselves to the entire length of Alcala, the Parque Labastida, the Plaza del Carmen Alto, the Santo Domingo grounds --I'd guess about 3,000 people are there.

I heard on the radio that the marches continue, and the blockades, especially on the southern area in Juchitan where the highways will be held -the PRI is calling for an opposition march to break the barricades.

There was an APPO meeting today. Tenacious - they keep saying they're on the brink of winning, and I tend to beleive them -the state is ungovernable, that's for sure.

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26. ON RED ALERT: from RADIO APPO via OSAG

PFP approaching cinco senores

tune in: http://streaming.com.mx:8006/

(17:32:51) mahtin: maximum alert- the pfp is approaching cinco senores
(17:32:58) mahtin: (intersection)
(17:33:19) mahtin: get in touch wtih the colonias and keep your eye on
what is happening, we don't want them near university city
(17:33:51) mahtin: again, people at the barricade at 5 sen~ores please
pay attention
(17:34:24) mahtin: we call upon the high command (pfp) to stop this
advance on 5 sen~ores
(17:35:10) mahtin: (giving out phone numbers_
(17:35:42) mahtin: we also want to say, to the communication people,
that you should stop interfering with the signal of radio universidad
(17:35:49) mahtin: you are violating the university's autonomy
(17:36:25) mahtin: we will continue monitoring this red alert over at 5
sen~ores
(17:36:44) skep|away is now known as skep
(17:36:54) mahtin: the pfp has no reason to be here, they are committing
a series of grave actions...
(17:37:00) Coyote^ <~who@...> entered the
room.
(17:37:05) mahtin: the pfp doesn't guarantee the governability of oaxaca
(17:37:13) mahtin: as a dignified people, we will not allow them
(17:37:31) mahtin: we continue here at the microphones of pfp, and we
have a guest)
(17:37:50) mahtin: (i am missing most of this)
(17:38:29) mahtin: over 14 men have died at the hands of this government
(17:38:36) mahtin: they were assassinated, fighting for a just cause
(17:39:59) mahtin: ...
(17:42:03) mahtin: we will continue to demand a oaxaca where our human
rights are not violated with impunity...
(17:42:30) mahtin: a lot of these pfp/paramilitaries are from around
here, they don't respect women, community values, etc
(17:43:54) luna: theare are moving towards parque del amor
(17:44:02) luna: not in 5 senyores yet
(17:44:13) luna: not confirmed yet
(17:44:23) luna: we are monitoring the situation

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27. Monday in Oaxaca: "the zocalo was completely full of PFP who looked like they were getting ready to

go somewhere"
From OSAG: Nov 06 5;10 pm
monday in oaxaca



Santa Domingo church, early afternoon, thousands, maybe 4 or 5, (out of 17,000 in total in the vallies)of teachers from the vallies crowded around and discused things after a march today. They decided that they will not return to classes untill Ulises Ruiz is gone. Other teachers who teach in la sierra are in really bad situation (it was always tough, but...) because some who want to start up classes again are being rejected by the townspeople because they were on strike for so long, damn commies. For others it's even worse. Many mountain villages as well as some larger towns, are threatening to expell any teachers who break the strike and turn traitor, and by "expell" I mean "show up here again after turning on the movement and you'll really regret it, cabron." In the sierra juarez people weren´t taking any particular side untill the army moved into the area, and they hate the army. Now they say that since the teachers started this they had damn well better finish it, and no classes untill Ulises ya se cayo por completo.
Walking all across the city the last few days, a city with no police on the streets for a long time now, I can't work up even a little bit of woory about being mugged or omething. Safest city in Mexio probably, after reading the national news. Seems odd somehow, but that's how it is, folks..
Fresh new barricades of "liberated" buses on the perifetico this afternoon, and the zocalo was completely full of PFP who looked like they were getting ready to go somewhere. The radio station is so jammed with that god-awfull celtic/heavy metal noise track that I can't stand hearing it anymore. People are buying all the antenna wire in town to try and get better reception, I guess I'll do the same. The racoon radio (priista) never has any decent music, just a bunch of whining unpleasant pendejos calling in and comlaining and saying the dumbest stuff., often the same callers every damn day.
All's ever so quiet in the village as always
Saludos,

Charlie

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28. UPDATE on RED ALERT: per RadioAPPO

22:32 < luna> theare are moving towards parque del amor
22:32 < luna> not in 5 senyores yet
22:33 < luna> not confirmed yet
22:33 < luna> we are monitoring the situation
22:33 < luna> we have some compas that have gone that way
22:33 < luna> to check the situation
22:33 < luna> wed like to say...
22:33 < luna> >music<
22:40 < luna> we are monitoring the pfp
22:41 < luna> it is confirmed now
22:41 < luna> by the appo security team
22:41 < luna> but they report
22:41 < luna> that they will be basing themselves in the parke del amor
22:41 < luna> so keep calm
22:41 < luna> but stay alert
22:42 < luna> the pfp is now positioned in parke del amor, the airport and zocalo square
22:42 < luna> -
22:42 < luna> we also have reports of provocator
22:42 < luna> s
22:42 < luna> going round oaxaca
22:42 < luna> so check it

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29. OSAG: Good Article on March (spanish w/ eng translation)

From Colin Mckensie on OSAG

Here is an English translation of what Nancy posted earlier.

Gives a wonderful sense of what the march--and Sunday--was like.

Does anyone know where did this article come from? Nothing coming up on google for me, but then again google is not the be and end all of searches.

A couple of idomatic phrases I could translate, i.e., No faltó el que llamara a ''romperse la madre cuerpo a cuerpo'' con la policía. Anyone? Also, ''¡Son un madral!''???

For those that were attempting to calculate a number for the march, you'll appreciate the comment, here, that "It was practically impossible to calculate the number of marchers..."

A couple humorous anecdotes: Y vaya qué ojos. Una fuente del gobierno estatal aseguró que el cálculo fue obtenido por un matemático y un jefe policiaco ''que sabe de esas cosas''; with a rough translation: "And what eyes! A state government source assured that the calculation was obtained by a mathematician and a police chief, who 'know these things'."

And, "Y como el ingenio popular no tiene límite, el dueño de un cocker le colgó un cartón en el que se leía: ''¡Protesto! No soy hermano de Ulises''; "And, as popular ingenuity has no limits, the owner of a cocker <-spaniel (dog)> affixed a box to the dog which read: 'I protest! I am not a brother of Ulises .'"

-Colin
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La megamarcha cumplió su objetivo; PFP sólo observó

The "mega-march" accomplished its objective; Federal Preventative Police (PFP) just observed



Lunes 6 de noviembre de 2006

Pese a la zozobra generada terminó pacíficamente

La madrugada hubo tiros fuera de la UABJO; un herido

GUSTAVO CASTILLO, ENRIQUE MENDEZ; OCTAVIO VELEZ ENVIADOS Y CORRESPONSAL



Monday, 6 November, 2006

In spite of the uneasiness it generated, the march ended peacefully

During the morning there were gunshots outside of the "Benito Juárez" Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO); one wounded

GUSTAVO CASTILLO, ENRIQUE MENDEZ; OCTAVIO VELEZ (CORRESPONDENTS)



Oaxaca, Oax., 5 de noviembre. Una operación de tejido fino entre la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) y la Secretaría de Gobernación permitió que este domingo la megamarcha en contra de la permanencia de la Policía Federal Preventiva (PFP) y por la salida de Ulises Ruiz Ortiz cumpliera su objetivo de iniciar y terminar de manera pacífica y llegar al corazón político de esta capital sin confrontarse con las fuerzas federales.



Oaxaca, Oax. 5 November. A fine dance between the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) and the Secretary of Governmental Affairs allowed for this Sunday's "mega-march" against the presence of the Federal Preventative Police (PFP) and for the removal/resignation of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to accomplish its objective of being carried out peacefully and arriving at the political center of this capital without confrontation with the federal forces.



Sin embargo, al amanecer de este domingo -una semana después de la incursión policiaca en las calles oaxaqueñas-, el entorno adelantaba una jornada turbia: los universitarios que resguardan la estación de radio despertaron con un tiroteo desde afuera del campus, que dejó herido a uno de sus compañeros, y la PFP tomó precauciones extremas: instaló barricadas de alambre de púas y se valió hasta de contenedores de basura para cubrirse, en espera de una eventual agresión durante la megamarcha.



Nevertheless, at daybreak this Sunday—a week alter the police incursión into Oaxacan streets—the environment advanced the day's murky waters: university students who guarded the radio station awoke to gun shots fired outside the campus , which left one of their compañeros was wounded, and the PFP took extreme precautions: they installed barbed-wire barricades and even used trash containers as barricades, in the event of an eventual aggression during the mega-march.



La precaución policiaca avivó la zozobra, sobre todo porque en el zócalo incrementó sus movimientos con el equipo antimotines, e inclusive se prepararon los elementos de las Fuerzas de Reacción y Alerta Inmediata, que se pertrecharon con bombas de gases lacrimógenos y máscaras antigas. Hubo, sí, algunos roces en la esquina de Alcalá y Morelos, y lo más extremo fueron dos policías, trepados en una azotea, que se dedicaron a disparar canicas con una resortera a los manifestantes calle abajo.



The precautaions taken by the police furthered the anxiety, above all because they increased their movements in the zócalo, with their anti-riot teams; they even prepared elements of the Immediate Reaction and Alert Forces, which stocked up on tear gas bombs and gas masks. There were some confrontations at the corner of Alcalá and Morelos , the most extreme being two policemen who, having climbed onto a roof, shot pieces of marble from a sling-shot at protesters in the street below.



En los mercados la asistencia de consumidores era baja, y no había otro tema de discusión: cómo terminaría la marcha, luego del enfrentamiento del jueves en las inmediaciones de la Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (UABJO).

Pero, como habían anticipado los dirigentes, la convocatoria a una marcha para repudiar la incursión policiaca e insistir en la caída de Ruiz Ortiz hizo eco en decenas de miles de oaxaqueños, inclusive en los de la Sierra de Juárez, que mandataron a sus autoridades a converger en la caminata.



Few people went to the markets , and there was not other diccussion but of the march: como it would turn out, after Thursday's <2 Nov.> confrontation at the UABJO.

But, as the leaders had anticipated, the convocation for the march to repudiate the police incursions and to insist in the fall of Ruiz Ortiz was echoed among dozens of thousands of Oaxaqueños, including among those of the Sierra Juárez , who demands of their to join the march.



La cita había sido a las diez de la mañana, y a esa hora apenas se atisbaban unos pocos contingentes. No obstante, al salir del monumento a Juárez, en el cruce de Viguera con la carretera a México -a 5 kilómetros de la capital-, la columna que se formó parecía interminable. Era prácticamente imposible hacer un cálculo del número, aunque cuando la cabeza de la marcha llegó a Pueblo Nuevo, distante 2 kilómetros del monumento, la retaguardia del contingente apenas salía del punto de partida.



The march was supposed to start at ten in the morning, and at that time only a few contingents had arrived. Nevertheless, upon leaving the monument to Juárez, at the intersection of Viguera and the highway to Mexico City—5 km from the capital —the march seemed interminable. It was practically impossible to calculate the number of marchers, even though when the front of the march arrived at Pueblo Nuevo, two kilometers from the monument, the rearguard of the contingent had just left from the point of departure.



En Santa Rosa se unió el ex dirigente magisterial Erangelio Mendoza, quien salió de la cárcel como parte de la negociación con la sección 22 del SNTE, y fue recibido con una ovación. Las hermanas María Elena y Viviana, quienes habían llegado con sus padres al tianguis de autos en Brenamiel, que se reinstala por primera vez en dos meses, se acercaron a ver pasar el contingente, donde identificaron a sus maestros. Una de ellas, sin más, soltó: ''El gobernador Ulises debe irse para que no sigan echando bombas a los maestros''.



In Santa Rosa, Evangelio Mendoza, ex-­leader of the teachers' union who had just been released from prison as part of the negotiations of section 22 of the national teachers' union (National Syndicate of Educations Workers—SNTE), joined the march and was received with an ovation. The sisters María Elena and Viviana, who had arrived with their parents to the Brenamiel auto-market, who are reunited for the first time in two months, came closer to view the passing march, where they identified the teachers. One of the sisters, shouted—nothing more—"The governor Ulises should leave so that they don't continue bombing the teachers."



Y como el ingenio popular no tiene límite, el dueño de un cocker le colgó un cartón en el que se leía: ''¡Protesto! No soy hermano de Ulises''.



And, as popular ingenuity has not limits, the owner of a cocker <-spaniel (dog)> affixed a box to the dog which read: "I protest! I am not a brother of Ulises ."



Para donde se viera, la columna parecía no tener fin. ''¡Son un madral!'', exclamó un vecino de la calle Manuel Sabino Crespo, después de cansarse de ver pasar y pasar gente. Aun así, por la tarde el gobierno del estado aseguró que la cifra era de ''¡7 mil 500 personas!'', pero los ojos de la PFP vieron unos poquitos menos: ''6 mil 900''.



Wherever you looked, the march seemed to be endless. "You are all a madral!" exclaimed one neighbor on Manuel Sabino Crespo , after tiring of seeing people pass, and pass. Even then, by the afternoon the state government assured that the number of protesters was "7 thousand, 500 persons!", but with the eyes of the PFP, they calculated a few less: "6 thousand, 900."



Y vaya qué ojos. Una fuente del gobierno estatal aseguró que el cálculo fue obtenido por un matemático y un jefe policiaco ''que sabe de esas cosas''.



And what eyes! A state government source assured that the calculation was obtained by a mathematician and a police chief, who "know these things".



Para evitar cualquier confrontación, la APPO puso sus propias medidas de seguridad y evitó que los manifestantes pasaran cerca de los elementos de la PFP. Los seguidores de la Asamblea Popular marcharon a dos calles de distancia de los uniformados.



In order that any confrontation be avoided, the APPO used their owns security methods and avoided that the protest would pass near the PFP. The members of the APPO marched two streets away from the uniformed .



Como esta caminata tenía sus propios simbolismos en contra de la represión, al entrar al centro histórico avanzó por la calle Morelos, pero dio la vuelta en Díaz Ordaz, para no acercarse ni un poquito a las vallas de la Federal Preventiva, y enfilar rumbo a Santo Domingo. Arriba, insistente, sobrevolaba el avión espía traído a tierras zapotecas por el gobierno de Vicente Fox.



As this march has its own symbolism, against repressions, upon entering the historic center , they advanced by way of Morelos street, but turned around at Díaz Ordaz street, so as not—even just a little—to go near the PFP fences, and made filed their way toward Santo Domingo . Insistently, a spy plane flew above, which was brought from Zapotec lands by the government of Fox.



El aforo de Santo Domingo no fue suficiente para concentrar a esas miles de conciencias, y muchos se desviaron por Alcalá para acercarse aunque fuera tantito a ''las fuerzas represoras'' y reírse de sus barricadas de púas, algunas tan endebles como los palos de escoba con que se levantaron. En plena mañana, un automovilista desaceleró para gritarles: ''¡Cobardes!'', mientras unos policías se herían con los filos. De entre las filas, un federal no se resistió y le devolvió el grito con una mentada de madre.



The capacity of Santo Domingo was not enough to hold the thousands of protesters, and many had to fill Alcalá street in order to get close, even though just that little bit closer to the "repressive forces", laughing at barricades of barbed-wire. In the middle of morning, a car driver decelerated to shout, "Cowards!" while a few policemen wounded some protesters. Finding himself amidst the march, a federal did not resist and returned the shout with an insult of the driver's mother.



''¿No que venían a darnos la gloria? ¿Esta es la gloria?'', les gritaron desde el contingente que no quiso esperar en Santo Domingo y se apersonó en las otras barricadas, las de la policía. Así que otra voz les lanzó un reclamo que es ya usual: ''¿No que venían a quitar las barricadas? ¡No! Vinieron a aprender cómo hacerlas. Ahora estamos peor''.

Algunas de las provocaciones se rompieron en ese ambiente. No faltó el que llamara a ''romperse la madre cuerpo a cuerpo'' con la policía. Nada, no prendía nada hasta que, en García Vigil, dos sujetos -uno en bicicleta, que había insistido en subir de tono la protesta- comenzaron a arrojar piedras a los uniformados. Su acción fue secundada por un grupo con el rostro cubierto que se hacían pasar por anarquistas. ''Parecían chilangos'', dijeron algunos.



"You didn't come to give us glory? This is the glory?" they shouted from those in the march who couldn't wait in Santo Domingo and return went to the other barricades, those of the police. There, once again, they launched the now familiar demand: "Didn't you come to take down the barricades?" No! You came to learn how to make them. Now we are worse <-off>".

Some of the provocations were started in this environment. They did not lack in calling for "romperse la madre cuerpo a cuerpo " with the police. Nothing; they didn't press at all until, on García vigil street, two subjects—one on a bicycle, who had insisted in matching the tone of the protest—began to throw rocks at those in uniform. Their action was seconded by a group with their faces covered, which turned them into anarchists. "They looked chilangos ", some said.



Sin más, ésa fue una señal para que desde la azotea del Palacio de las Gemas dos elementos de la PFP armados con resorteras lanzaran canicas contra los manifestantes. Nada letal, pero sí hiriente. Total, que la comisión de seguridad de la APPO funcionó para evitar, como en las luchas, alguna rudeza innecesaria.



Without more, this was the signal for the two members of the PFP, armed with sling-shots, to launch pieces of marble at the protesters, from the roof of the Palacio de las Gemas. Nothing lethal, but it was wounding. In sum, the security commission of the APPO did function to avoid, as in the fights, unnecessary roughness.



Finalmente, los reporteros, fotógrafos y camarógrafos ya no salen a estos actos sin chalecos antibalas, máscaras contra gases y cascos de minero, de motociclista, para ciclismo, montañismo y hasta para andar en patineta.



Finally, reporters and photographers now do not come to these events without bullet-proof vests, gas-masks and miner's hats and motorcycle-, bicycle-, and mountaineering- helmets, even skateboarding helmets.

[Cleita]

30. Thanks for posting.

I've been a bit tired these past days to get fully invested in this, but thanks for keeping us up to date.

[Wiley50]

32. Thanks, Cleita!

Hope you feel more energized after tommorrow

[Wiley50]

31. Another Great Article on March

Another good article fro OSAG
this time translated with Babelfish
(sorry)



Subject: Re: SURPRISING! Result of a telefonica survey (presented/displayed in the news of Radio It formulates first of November of the 2006). Ronald Waterbury wrote: The idea that the people opposed to the regime PRI member are an insignificant minority does not fit with the fact that megamarcha after megamarcha can attract participation in 6 digits. One would think that him people would still not hold another one megamarcha, but sixth she was gigantic also. To see fotogafia attached. RW =============================== The news 6 of November, 2006 Monday 06 of November of 2006. Núm. 10721 SURPRISING! Tens of thousands demand that PFP and Ulises go away OCTAVIO VÉLEZ ASCENCIO In spite of the priístas versions of a possible intervention of the forces of security and aggressions of porros and gunmen, tens of thousands of oaxaqueños, men and women, returned to go out yesterday to demand the exit of Ulises governor Ruiz Ortiz and the retirement of Polici'a Federal Preventiva (PFP). He was so great the Sixth Megamarcha Magisterial and Popular that when the vanguard as opposed to happened a embotelladora located in the Oaxaca Avenue, in environs of the municipal agency Santa Rosa, the rear as soon as it was leaving from the cruise of Viguera, on the Wagon International "Cristóbal Columbus". Old children, young people and, walked around 12 kilometers until arriving at the vestibule of the temple of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, where now the long wait of the Popular Assembly of the Towns of Oaxaca is located (APPO), while the agents of the PFP intrenched in the Seat of the Constitution. Even, in the corners of the intersections they placed barbed wire and they closed the transit of people completely. "Shoulder with shoulder, elbow with elbow, the APPO, the APPO, the APPO, we are all", "That raises, that lowers, Oaxaca does not crack", "it is seen, note, in Oaxaca is no defeat", "Ulises said that we are minority we demonstrated here to him that we are majority", "Ulises, assassin, the jail is your destiny", "Not that no, if that if, already we returned to leave" and "Either it fell, or it fell, Ulises or it fell", the participants in the mobilization corearon very insistently. But also there were phrases for the PFP. "Oaxaca is not quarter, outside Army of" and "Police of Ulises, in Oaxaca you could not", before the resistance offered by the town to its entrance to the organization for eight days and in recently in the operative one made in environs of University City. In the vanguard of the protest, he advanced the Committee of Relatives and Friends of the Disappear, Assassinated and Imprisoned Politicians of Oaxaca (COFAPAPPO), later the provisional coordination of the APPO, municipal authorities of different municipalities and agencies, contingents of the teaching oaxaqueño of Central Valleys, Juárez Mountain range, Mixteca, Gorge and Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the social caravans coming from the City of Mexico and organizations and unions. Between the COFAPAPPO, the ex- Secretary General marched Section 22 of the National Union of Workers of Educacio'n (SNTE), Erangelio Mendoza González, recently released after more two months of imprisonment in the penitentiary of Cuicatlán. To its step, by the Wagon International "Cristóbal Columbus" and later in the Oaxaca Avenue, Road Log and Independence, hundreds of people they were bet in peatonales sidewalks, bridges and gardens to vitorear and to applaud to the participants in the manifestation. Others, gave to water in bottles and bags, as well as fruit, bread and other foods. In answer, the marchistas thanked for the endorsement "the united town, never will be overcome", "it is seen feels, the town is present" and "That support if one sees, that support if it is seen", they shouted. In the meeting, made in the vestibule of the temple of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, in name of the provisional coordination of the APPO, Robert Garci'a Lucero, it emphasized that the alliance of organizations has had the capacity to interpret the ideals, the feeling and the demands of our town. "Here all the sectors of the town are represented, are organized here and fighting farmers, natives, housewives, colonos, teachers, craftsmen, students and all", it indicated. It emphasized that the repressive policy "died the 2 of November in which the battle of Oaxaca has been called, where the town defeated to the federal forces". And it conditioned the renewal of the dialogue to the destitution or resignation of the governor Ruiz Ortiz, the exit of the PFP and the Mexican Army of the state, the liberation of the prisoners and the suspension of the detents and prospections, "that are true levellings of dwelling". Before, the ex- magisterial leader, Erangelio Mendoza González insisted to the town to follow in the fight by the exit of the governor Ruiz Ortiz and emphasized that he left the jail "without no commitment with the federal or state government". "Neither with Fox nor with Ulises; I leave (of the jail) by the force of this movement of the heroic town of Oaxaca ", seated. Thus, it emphasized that it will follow "in the fight with the town, the APPO and the democratic teaching". Also, it demanded the liberation of all the prisoners, the exit of the PFP and to their masterful companions not to return to the classrooms "by not having conditions to work". In name of municipal authorities of the districts of Choapan and Ixtlán, High Villa, the municipal agent of San Miguel Cajonos, Francisco Jiménez Zárate, also demanded the exit of the federal forces "and not more deads on our earth". "we do not love more martyrs we do not want more deads on our earth; that they remove from our towns to the punitive forces ", insisted. And it stood out that the municipal authorities "serve the towns and not like the governors who kill, they jail and the money bags fill". It also offered that the communities of those districts have decided in their communitarian assemblies "to continue giving to the battle with the men and women of the city". In as much, between shouts of "With Wheel or without Wheel, Ulises pá goes it go" in reference to the supposed betrayal of the magisterial leader, Enrique Wheel Pacheco, the secretary of Relations of the Section 22 of the National Union of Workers of Educacio'n (SNTE), Bernabé Jiménez Rivers, left in clear that the magisterial movement is part of the APPO. "Mañosamente the ominous Ulises Ruiz and the mediocre Carlos Abascal, have said that the APPO is a thing and that Section 22 is another one, but we demonstrated here that we are a single thing". Simultaneously, it emphasized that several sectors of the teaching oaxaqueño are impelling the accomplishment of the State Assembly "to redefine the fight strategy and to formulate a new plan of action". "the teachers we are not going to leave single the APPO", added. Later, Mario Cross Lopez, union representative of the teaching in Central Valleys, presented the agreement the regional assembly of the eight sectors in this region "to front follow in the fight" until the fall of Ruiz Ortiz and the exit of the PFP, "not to exist the minimum conditions for the performance of the scholastic activities", which implies the delay of scholastic cycle 2006-2007. "We ratified our commitment with the education, but we will be returning to the classrooms until the exit of Ulises Ruiz and the Preventive Federal Police", stressed. Also, Arturo Leon spoke, in representation of the Caravan in Solidarity and Observation with the Towns of Oaxaca and the secretary of the Interior of the Mexican Union of Electricistas (SME), Javier Mounts of Oca. Agents of the PFP, that was parapetados behind a bus burned in the corner of Independence and 20 of November, attacked the participants of the Sixth Megamarcha Magisterial and Popular who returned of the temple of Santo Domingo. To two young people, they threw Chile piquín in the eyes when they happened near his line of formation. Whereas others, sent stones from their positions. One of them, fell in the awning of a particular vehicle, Ford, Celebration, plates of circulation TJP-3150, that was lead by its proprietor in those arteries, causing some damages. Some more, located in the roof of the offices of Telecommunications of Mexico, sent to marbles and stones through resorteras to the passers-by. Everything a town in a single demand: high to the government and the PFP.

[Wiley50]

33. Televisa pic's gallery: Explosions & APPO-PFP fight

Televisa pic's galery: Explosions D.F. & APPO-PFP fight

from Mark on OSAG

Se registran explosiones en el DF (14 pics):
http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/galerias/4169/

Se enfrenta APPO con la PFP (21 pics):
http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/galerias/4146



from the to TV Televisa related newssite & this article about the last events:
Grupos guerrilleros se atribuyen bombazos
http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/580057.html