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The march will be starting on April 25 at 6pm at the Benito Juarez statue in Pantoja Park on G Street between Kettner Blvd and State Street:

http://tinyurl.com/yp4et3

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox, responsible for brutal police repression in Oaxaca, Atenco and Chiapas, is coming to receive the "Award for Democracy and Peace", given by the Americas Institute, a right-wing organization located on the UC San Diego campus. On April 13, several participants in the non-violent Reclaim the Streets were victims of police brutality. In the past year at least 17 people have been murdered by police and the border patrol in SD County. We need to show them that we will NOT be intimidated by their violence! Bring your bike! La lucha sigue!

This will be a march against police brutality in all its forms in all locales, whether it is Oaxaca or San Diego. The march will end with a demonstration at the intersection of Broadway and 4th St, the location of the police violence against the peaceful Reclaim the Street participants and coincidentally the location of the U.S. Grant Hotel where Fox will be receiving his award.

There will be a planning meeting for the march at the Zapata statue in Chicano Park at noon on Saturday, April 21, during the Chicano Park day festivities.

For more information about the excessive force and police violence ordered by San Diego Police Department Central Division Captain Chris Ball, click on the following link:

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/125771.shtml

We in the coalition vAPPOroaxaca believe that giving the award to Fox is a grave insult to all people who have been affected by the gross violations of human rights committed by his administration. The human rights violations perpetrated by the Fox administration are well documented:

http://hrw.org/reports/2006/mexico0506

http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/mex-summary-eng

http://mostlywater.org/vicente_fox_not_welcome_in_vancouver_rally_at_2_pm_at_gm_place_on_iwd

For more information on the recent surge in murders by the police and the border patrol in San Diego over the past year, click here:

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/125627.shtml

If you have any questions, please send an email to vappor-oaxaca@riseup.net.

Question: Who is shooting at activists during the protests in Oaxaca, Mexico? Police? Paramilitaries? Answer: Fox

Vicente Fox, el ex-presidente de Mexico, responsable por masacres de gente indígena en Chiapas, por las desapariciones de participantes en la lucha en Oaxaca y por la negligencia en el caso de las mujeres asesinadas en Juarez y Chihuahua, viene a San Diego el 25 de abril para recibir el "Premio de la Democracia y la Paz", dado por el Instituto de las Americas, una organización derechista que está ubicado en el campus de la Universidad de California de San Diego.

Como la coalición vAPPOroaxaca, creemos que premiar a Fox es un insulto profundo a toda la gente afectada por las grandes violaciones de derechos humanos hechas por su gobierno.

Como respuesta, hacemos una llamada de accion a toda la comunidad de San Diego a participar en la marcha "Fox, NO estás bienvenido!" que empezará a las 6 pm en frente de la estatua de Benito Juarez en Pantoja Park (en el G Street, entre las calles Kettner y State) y terminará en una manifestación en la esquina de 4th y Broadway, frente al hotel US Grant donde Fox recibirá su premio:

http://tinyurl.com/yp4et3

Habrá una reunión para planificar la marcha en la estatua de Zapata en Chicano Park a las 12 pm el sabado, el 21 de abril durante las festividades del día de Chicano Park.

Las violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas por el gobierno de Fox están bien documentadas:

http://hrw.org/spanish/informes/2006/mexico0506

http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/mex-summary-esl

http://mostlywater.org/vicente_fox_not_welcome_in_vancouver_rally_at_2_pm_at_gm_place_on_iwd

Si tiene preguntas, por favor mande un correo a vappor-oaxaca@riseup.net.

El capitan Chris Ball de la division central del SDPD, el hombre que mandó la violencia contra los manifestantes pacificos durante la accion de Reclaim the Streets el 13 de abril.

SDPD Central Division Captain Chris Ball, the man who ordered the violence against the peaceful participants in the Reclaim the Streets action on April 13.