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Amid widespread detentions and disappearances of activists, as well as paramilitary attacks, the people of Oaxaca are continuing their resistance and demanding the ouster of corrupt governor Ulises Ruiz, the removal of federal troops from Oaxaca and the release of all political prisoners. As APPO forms a permanent government, the corrupt regime claims that APPO assassinated NYC Indymedia journalist Brad Will, instead of the armed PRI-associated paramilitaries caught on film shooting at him and the compener@s at the barricade.
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Summary of Events Since the 6th MegaMarch on Nov 5:
Women's March Nov 7: 10,000 women marched from the outskirts of Oaxaca to the central square today, carrying flowers and wearing black in honor of all who have been murdered and disappeared, throwing flowers and screaming "Asesinos" at riot squad police at the Zocalo. As old women were crying from emotion, police fired from their water cannons and APPO supporters took aim at the PFP with their slingshots Read More Also: 1 2
March for Radio Unidersidad: Students and others marched to protest intentional interference with the signal of Radio Universidad. Read More
APPO Constitutional Congress Nov 10-12: The goal of APPO's Constitutional Congress was to choose a leadership and fortify the direction of the organization in the most democratic way. Along the walls were banners of APPO in action. They showed young people with molotovs, women stringing out barbed wire, people with slingshots and bandanas over theor faces or playing the guitar, a woman with a baby facing the riot cops. Read More
APPO Forms Permanent Government Nov 10-12: Three thousand Oaxaqueños responded to the first call of APPO to forge a new constitution for Oaxaca, self-dissolving in favor of a permanent structure of government which includes an executive and legislative branch. The new organ is the State Council of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (CEAPPO). Read More
Threats/Detentions/Disappearances Nov 10: Yesterday, as a 5.1 earthquake shook the city, more students disappeared and received threats, prompting the occupied university to declare a red alert. Four APPO leaders with warrants on their names sought asylum in the Catholic Church for the night [and were later refused asylum]. Many members of APPO´s 350 integrated organizations have abandoned their homes and offices because of threats and violence from PRI party members or supporters. Read More
Student and Youth Conference Nov 11: At present, the popular Oaxacan movement is in the vanguard of social movements in Mexico and in Latin America, and finding itself snared by the political class and its imminent demise, the 2nd National Student & Youth Conference proclaims its solidarity with the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) and calls attention to communities of resistance. Read More
Government Claims APPO Assassinated Brad Will Nov 15: Brad Will will not be able to rest peacefully. The people of Oaxaca have given their lives . Today the government wants to think we are also assassins. The Mexican government wants to attribute his death to members of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) to exonerate the true assassins... Read More
Recent Reports/Reports with Photos from Oaxaca: Names of the Disappeared | Communications War in Oaxaca | APPO | Dirty War in Oaxaca
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