[Onthebarricades] OAXACA: Protesters mark anniversary of unrest

[Andy]

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=13266&sectionid=3510207

      Mexican protesters mark riot anniversary 
      Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:05:15  
              
      Thousands marched the streets in Mexico's southern city of Oaxaca to mark the first anniversary of a clash between police and striking teachers. 

      Thursday demonstrators were carrying photos of their jailed leaders and chanting "June 14 is not forgotten, nor forgiven!" the demonstrators marched to the central square of the city and held a peaceful meeting, AP said. 

      Last years' demonstrations erupting in June had plunged the country into chaos which lasted for several months. 

      On June 14, 2006, Oaxaca Governer Ulises Ruiz sent police to dislodge striking teachers from the square but the demonstrators retook the square and chased police out of most of the city. 

      Later in October the federal police recaptured the city, and arrested some protest leaders on various charges including property damage for the buildings and vehicles burned during the five months of unrest. 

      Protesters continue to demand the ouster of Ruiz, who they say used excessive force against protesters last year. 

      MRJ/HAR 
     

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/87260.shtml

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Hundreds of Thousands March and Reconstruct Barricades in Oaxaca City 

June 14th-one year anniversary of the attempted eviction of the teachers strike in OAxaca 

  By Barucha Calamity Peller 

  JUne 14th one year anniversary-barricades are reconstucted in Oaxaca CIty as thousands march on the capitol 

Keywords: Analysis, Global, War & Peace, Bradley Will, 

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 doesnt go there wil be no peace!". 

This isnt 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 beggining of the march entered the Zocalo people were still leaving from the airport. Contigents from Chiapas and Michoacan and other states in Mexico particiapted in the march aswell. 
At approximatly 7pm barricades reappeared for the first time sinse Novemeber throughout the city. People spontaneaously constructed barricades, and at least two major thourofares 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 assmeblies was brutally repressed and many memebers of the movement were forced into hiding after the violent battle between protesters and police on Novemeber 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 Oaxacan people and their continuing demands for justice and autonomy. 
By Barucha Calamity Peller macheteyamor at gmail.com 

http://www.ww4report.com/node/4074

Oaxaca: "mega-march" commemorates start of uprising
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 04:46. 
In a "mega-march" extending more than 10 kilometers, thousands of teachers from the Section 22 union and their supporters in the Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) marched through southern Mexico's Oaxaca City June 14 to mark the first anniversary of the clash between police and striking teachers that sparked months of political unrest.

The marchers chanted "June 14-not forgotten, not forgiven!" and carried posters with the faces of imprisoned APPO leaders Flavio Sosa y César Mateos, two of the nine Oaxaca activists who remain behind bars. The march finally assmebled in the city's central square, where the initial clash took place one year ago, and which subsequently became the nerve center of their movement. There a public meeting was held, presided over by Section 22 leader Ezequiel Rosales Carreño.

Smaller groups of protesters blockaded streets with rubble and commandeered buses-a tactic used during the 2006 protest, in which the plaza was seized and held for months. Most of the barricades erected at Thursday's commemoration protest were removed after a few hours, however.

The protesters continued to demand the ouster of Oaxaca's Gov. Ulises Ruiz, which became the central demand of the movement following the June 2006 violence. (El Universal; AP, June 14)
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