[IPSM] Video + Debat: Rebellion Populaire a Oaxaca, Mexico!

[Fred Burrill]

 Hey folks,
Here is some updated info on the attack of the PFP on the peoples of
Oaxaca. We sought to confirm to our best each information, but this is
info that is not getting out there at all down here.
Please distribute.
En solidaridad
Antoine

*GENERAL TIMELINE OF EVENTS SINCE THE ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE AND THE
ENTRANCE OF FEDERAL FORCES*

*_FRIDAY 27_*

Ulises Ruiz's paramilitary groups shoot at the barricades of Santa Maria
and San Bartolo Coyotepec, injuring approximately 20 people, and
assassinating 3 people: Esteban López Zurita, the teacher Emilio Alonso
Fabián and Brad Will, correspondent from Indymedia New York

The "death caravan" (paramilitaries in unidentified vehicles) continue
their random attacks on various barricades

At least 15 people are reported to have been kidnapped at different
barricades, being brought the following day to the military base in
Miahuatlan.

*_SATURDAY 28_*

Elements of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) arrive at the Oaxaca
airport and begin to surround various barricades. Shots are heard in
various neighbourhoods.

The Secretary of the Interior (/Secretaria de Gobernacion/) gives an
ultimatum to the APPO to hand over the city and the government offices
that very afternoon

Radio Universidad, the radio of the movement, starts coming under attack.

*_SUNDAY 29_*

At 7 a.m., the PFP begin advancing on the city accompanied by armored
vehicles to lift the barricades, riot police armed with clubs and
shields, backed up by federal units with firearms. Approximately 4,500
elements of the PFP try to enter the city with armored vehicles and high
pressure water canons (water which was mixed with chemicals), shooting
teargas and firearms, and backed up by helicopters pertaining to the PFP
and the Army.

The APPO calls for peaceful resistance. To impede the advance of the
armored vehicles, people take the streets creating human shields by
laying down in the streets. Among the nonviolent actions, citizens
distributed flowers and food to the Federal officers, formed human
shields, and even sung the Mexican national hymn 10 meters from federal
forces. In further protest of the violent incursion by these repressive
forces, many citizens confronted the police, cutting themselves and
letting their blood fall to the ground in a symbolic act.

Attacks against Radio Universidad continue with unmarked patrols
shooting towards the installations, blockage of their signal, and even
at one point cutting the electricity to the station. The transmission
went in and out throughout the night, due to various attempts to silence
the last voice of the APPO in their disinformation campaign (Radio APPO
can be heard on their website at http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com
<http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com/>).

An accident involving PFP forces is reported in Tehuacan, Puebla,
resulting in 14 wounded, among them 3 seriously, and 1 killed.

The operative this Sunday, October 29^th , leaves a toll of 4 dead,
among them a nurse, two teachers (one man and one woman) and a child of
12 years. As of 1 p.m. on Monday, October 30^th , Radio Universidad
reported a total of 40 disappearances. For its part the APPO (Press
Release, 10/30, 11 a.m.) reports more than 60 people detained, many of
whom were transported to military bases, illegal under Mexican law.

Police begin raiding houses in search of members of the APPO.

The PFP evicts and occupies the zocalo (main plaza) of the city. APPO
members withdraw to the university campus (ciudad universitaria), only
to return with more strength and surround the federal forces that occupy
the zocalo.

Section 22 (the teacher's union) informs in a communiqué that they will
not return to classes.

The National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE) announces a
indefinite national strike in the states of Guerrero, Michoacan,
Tlaxcala, Morelos, Zacatecas, Mexico City, and Oaxaca

On Sunday 29/10, the bodies of 6 APPO members who were assassinated are
found in the mountains of Oaxaca – at every moment the number of
disappeared continues to increase.

In Mexico City, 20 protestors are arrested at the demonstration in front
of the Secretary of the Interior (Segob): 8 women and 12 men. Today,
Monday 30/10, the twenty were set free with legal conditions.

* *

*_MONDAY 30_*

At one in the afternoon, a large mobilization departs from three
different places in the city of Oaxaca (Procuraduría, IEEPO and Santa
Rosa) in order to arrive at the city´s zocalo. The marchers surrounded
the police that were guarding access to the central plaza with tanks,
clubs, tear gas and assault rifles. Mexico City's Independent Media
Center reports that 20,000 people were present in the march.

The detention of at least 23 people by the special operations unit of
the PFP this past Sunday has been confirmed. Before being turned into
the prosecutor's office, these people were transported to the 28th
military zone.

A caravan of 6 buses carrying students from DF to Oaxaca is detained by
members of the PRI (Party of the Institutionalized Revolution – to which
URO pertains) in Nochistlan. The students are beaten and at least 3 of
the buses (each carrying 45 people) are reported disappeared.

The sixth commision of the EZLN and the Other Campaign block the bridge
that links Sonora with the United States. A call is made to close
streets, highways and airports all over the country on the 1^st of
November and to convene an indefinite national strike on the 20^th of
November in protest against the repression in Oaxaca and calling for the
exit of Ulises Ruiz from the position of governor of Oaxaca.

With the exception of the PRI, the remaining sections of the House of
Representatives reach an agreement to ask the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises
Ruiz, to request resignation or step down from the position, with the
objective of recuperating the governability of the state. URO refuses to
receive the correspondence from the mentioned office.

Fox declares that the PFP entered the city without fire arms although
there are photos of agents with AK-47s and R-15s.

A contingent of the APPO installs another encampment in front of the
Santo Domingo.

*SOLIDARITY ACTIONS*



*Solidarity actions are reported in:*

MEXICO:

Mexico City, Merida, Michoacán, Cuernavaca, Tlaxcala, Pachuca, San
Luis Potosí, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Sonora, Chihuahua, Jalisco

USA:

Austin, Chicago, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Raleigh, New
York City, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle,
Miami, Tucson, Washington DC, Fresno

Montreal, Quebec

Vancouver, Canada

Sao Paolo, Brasil

Londres, Inglaterra

Barcelona, Cataluna

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Madrid, España

Milan, Italia

Munster, Alemania

Berlin, Alemania

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Caracas, Venezuela

In a joint statement, organizations from Honduras, El Salvador,
Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay demand that Vicente Fox
and Felipe Calderon resolve the problems in the state of Oaxaca, and
holds them accountable for all of the deaths. They make a call to all of
the people of the world to work in solidarity with Oaxaca.

On 10/26/06, hhazel at gmail.com <hhazel at gmail.com> wrote:
> English Below
>
> Soiree Debat - Video: Rebellion Populaire a Oaxaca /
> CIPO-RFM
>
> Dans le cadre de la tournée du CIPO-RFM (Conseil
> Indigène Populaire de Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magon) au
> Québec et en Ontario, nous vous invitons à une soirée
> de discussion avec deux représentants autochtones
> mexicains, Asunción Lopez et Pedro Bautista.  Suivant
> la répression du 14 juin 2006 contre le syndicat des
> professeurs-es qui réclamait une augmentation
> salariale et l'amélioration des infrastructures pour
> l'éducation, le peuple de Oaxaca est descendu dans la
> rue pour exiger la démission du gouverneur Ulises
> Ruiz.   Avec plus de 360 organisations, le syndicat
> des professeurs-es  a formé l'Assemblée Populaire des
> Peuples de Oaxaca (APPO) dont fait partie le CIPO-RFM.
>   Devant la perspective d'une nouvelle attaque du
> gouvernement, l'APPO s'organise pour résister et
> demande la solidarité internationale. Venez connaître
>  la lutte pour la dignité du peuple de Oaxaca!
>
> Le jeudi 2 novembre, 18.30h
> Coop Genereux, 4518 ruelle Genereux, 3ieme etage
> (sur Papineau juste au nord de Mont Royal)
> Organise  par: Fédération des Communistes-Libertaires
> du Nord-Est (www.nefac.net), La Otra en Montreal,
> adhérents à la sixieme déclaration de l'EZLN
> (ici_lasexta at yahoo.ca)
>
> Evening of Video and Debate - Popular Uprising in
> Oaxaca / CIPO-RFM
>
> As part of the Quebec - Ontario Caravan of the
> CIPO-RFM (Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca –
> Ricardo Flores Magon), we invite you to an evening of
> discussion with 2 indigenous Mexican representatives
> of CIPO: Asuncion Lopez and Pedro Bautista. Earlier
> this year, the Oaxaca teachers union was demanding
> salary increases and improvement of education
> infrastructure and state responded with repression the
> 14th of June 2006.  Since then, the people of Oaxaca
> have taken the streets to demand the removal of
> governor Ulises Ruiz, and more than 260 organizations
> have formed the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of
> Oaxaca (APPO), of which CIPO-RFM is a part.  Facing
>  the prospect of further repression, APPO is organising
> to resist and is asking for international solidarity.
> Come get acquainted with the struggle for dignity
> among the peoples of Oaxaca!
>
> November 2, 2006 at 6:30
> Coop Genereux, 4518 ruelle/alley Genereux, 3rd floor
> (on Papineau just north of Mont Royal)
> Organised  by: Fédération des Communistes-Libertaires
> du Nord-Est (www.nefac.net), La Otra in Montreal,
> adhering to the 6th declaration of the Lacondonian
> Jungle EZLN (ici_lasexta at yahoo.ca)
>
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