Oaxaca

Protests Against Mexican Governors in Chicago, New York and Dallas

On August 16th, email alerts were circulating that Oaxaca governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) and other governors from Mexico were visiting Mexican Consulates in Chicago on August 17th, New York City on the 18th and Dallas on the 19th to discuss migratory reform. Activists quickly organized demonstrations in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca, and all of Mexico, as well as the millions of Mexican migrants living on the northern side of the US/Mexico border.

A flyer passed out in New York City labeled Ruiz Ortiz, “a co-conspirator with the US government and multinational corporations in the imposition of a political economy, which forces entire communities from his state to migrate north in search of better lives.” The flyer, composed by the Ulises Ruiz Welcoming Committee, also explains that, “Ruiz has attempted to quell social unrest through the criminalization of dissent, the militarization of communities, and the direct support of paramilitary groups in his state.”

To those familiar with the cowardliness of Ruiz Ortiz, it was not a big surprise that he failed to show up with the delegation. Even though he was the focus of the demonstrations, his absence did not prevent activists from protesting the rest of the Mexican Governors and representatives of URO who were with the CONAGO (National Conference of Mexican Governors) delegation. Read More

Calls to Action | Chicago Protest Against Repression in Mexico | Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Unwelcome in Nueva York | Protest of Mexican Governors’ Meeting in Dallas

Section 22 of the SNTE and the APPO set up encampment in Oaxaca's Zocalo

Articulo original en Español | Photos at http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com

Notimex / La Jornada On Line
18/06/2007 15:44

Oaxaca, Oax. The encampment is made up of around 2000 administrative workers of the SNTE and members of the APPO who set up a barricade today (Monday) in the Zocalo and Alameda of this city to demand the release of prisoners, the removal of the orders of apprehension and the exit of the Oaxacan governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz...

Barricades are Reconstucted in Oaxaca City as Hundreds of Thousands March on June 14th, 2007


Photos on Chiapas Indymedia
and APPO's site has photos of the barricades.

From El Enemigo Común - Jun 15th, 2007 - Barucha Calamity Peller writes: 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 doesn’t go there will be no peace!”.

This isn’t 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 statewide 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 Peoples’ Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO). Physically removing local governments from office, the APPO 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, 2007, 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 beginning of the march entered the Zocalo people were still leaving from the airport. Contingents from Chiapas and Michoacan and other states in Mexico participated in the march as well.

At approximately 7pm barricades reappeared for the first time since November throughout the city. People spontaneously constructed barricades, and at least two major thoroughfares were blockaded using buses and cars. Crowds gathered to reinforce the barricades, and a festive mood took over Oaxaca City...

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Also, Oaxaca Journalist Investigating Brad Will’s Murder is Shot

Marcha en contra de la represión policiaca desde Oaxaca hasta SD / March against police repression from Oaxaca to SD

español al fondo

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.

Quienes somos / Who we are

vAPPOroaxaca (Vencerá la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca en Resistencia) es una coalicion de gente de la region de San Diego que se solidariza con la lucha en Oaxaca. Esta se manifiesta en muchas formas: eventos beneficos, marchas, protestas, educación popular entre otras actividades. Se puede contactarnos en la direccion siguente: vappor-oaxaca@riseup.net.

vAPPOroaxaca (The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca in Resistance will Triumph) is a coalition of people from the San Diego Region that does solidarity work with the struggle in Oaxaca. This manifests itself in many forms: benefit events, marches, protests, popular education among other activities. You can contact us at the following email: vappor-oaxaca@riseup.net.

Carta, Dibujo y Poema de la lucha en Oaxaca / Letter, Drawing and Poem about the struggle in Oaxaca

Una carta al consulado mexicano de la coalición vAPPOroaxaca, un dibujo hecho por nuestra miembra mas jovencita y un poema hecho por otra miembra que fue leido durante el festival político-cultural en el Chicano Park el 22 de diciembre.

A letter to the Mexican consul from the vAPPOroaxaca coalition, a drawing by our youngest member and a poem that was read by another member during the Political/Cultural Festival in Chicano Park on December 22.

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2007/02/125059.shtml



Companeros por fin pude poner el poema que lei en el evento del 22 de Diciembre en indymedia y también a la lista ya que por falta de tiempo no lo habia podido hacer y muchas gracias a las personas que me apoyaron con sus palabras de aliento despues de haberlo leido el poema no saben lo bien que me hicieron sentir GRACIAS

Mi SENTIR

Despierto como de un letargo de un sueño apesumbrado
Aun me encuentro cocinando, Volteo a ver el reloj
Son casi las 6:00 de la tarde, mi hijo no a vuelto y ya es muy tarde
Un vuelco da mi corazón asi que apago el fogón y salgo a buscarlo,
Toda la gente viene corriendo y gritando ( corran que nos alcanzan, estos canijos
Nos quieren agarrar.) de repente veo a un conocido y le pregunto,
¿Que si a visto a mi hijo? Lo acaban de secuestrar, me dice gritando,
El helicóptero se lo acaba de llevar, no es posible me grita mi corazón.
¿adonde se lo han llevado sigo yo preguntando? A una cárcel para torturarlo,
Me contesta aun gritando, un grito que taladra mis sentidos y hace que casi me desmorone
Pero reacciono porque tengo que ir a buscarlo.!!No puedo creerlo solo tiene 16 años.
¿Como es posible que quieran encarcelarlo? Y en un penal de máxima seguridad
No sea que se les vaya a pelar me dijo el federal al que le acabo de preguntar.
Vaya y busquelo a Nayarit o tal vez a Michoacán a ver si se lo quieren entregar
Me dijo riéndose no sea que no lo vaya a encontrar!! Y se aleja aun burlándose.
Yo corro despaborida no puedo creer que esto sea verdad y que me este pasando a mi
(ya que siempre uno cree que a nosotros nada nos va a pasar)
Sigo buscandolo por las calles de Oaxaca todas ensangrentadas,
llenas de cuerpos pues aun no han venido a quirarlos.
Oigo quejidos es un muchacho que está agonizando,
Parece que veo a mi hijo ahí tirado y corro a abrazarlo y cuando llego
Muere en mis brazos, lloro de pena y angustia,de rabia y enojo.
¿Como es posible que el propio gobierno nos este matando?
Mi mano cierra sus ojos y la pena abre los mios, tan solo por poder y dinero
A nuestra gente la están masacrando. Oigo una voz es otra madre acongojada,
Porque no encuentra a su hijo, me mira y emite un grito que me desgarra el alma.
Pues es su hijo al que en mis brazos haya. Volteo a verlo con mas claridad
Y mi alma llora de felicidad, pues yo aun tengo una esperanza.
Esa pobre madre al contrario acaba de perder toda la razon de vivir
La patria, nuestra tierra mi Oaxaca son todas esas madres desesperadas
al ver como la sangre de sus hijos bañan sus calles. Con la sangre de hombres y mujeres valientes,
Sangre que aun no se apaga, pues mientras en nuestra tierra haya hambre,
Pobreza y miseria habra valientes que con gusto seguirán luchando y protestando
Y miserables que sin conciencia y sin piedad de sangre sigan regándola.
Hay Oaxaca de mi alma entiendo tu sufrir, hoy a mi me han quitado un hijo,
Pero a ti llevan tantos años que te matan a tus hijos, te violan a tus hijas
Y explotan tu tierra que me siento egoísta al solo importarme mi sufrir
de repente oigo sus gritos ya se acercan asi que enjuago mis lágrimas
Corro a ver que pasa? Y siento madre mia que pronto mi sangre sera la que
Bañe tus plazas.

Marcela Ramos

Evento Benefico para los presos politicos / Benefit Show for the political prisoners

english translation at end

La organización vAPPOroaxaca está patrocinando el evento benéfico ¡Presos Políticos Libertad! que se va a realizar el viernes, el 2 de marzo de 7 a 11 pm en la Voz Alta, ubicada en la direccion 1544 Broadway en la esquina de Broadway y 16th St. El propósito del evento es recaudar fondos para el equipo de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) para la defensa legal de los presos políticos que fueron detenidos por el cuerpo represivo de la Policía Federal Preventiva represiva. Va a haber música en vivo, testimonios de los miembros de una delegación que se fue a Oaxaca, arte interpretativo, la proyección de unas grabaciones sobre la lucha en Oaxaca, una rifa y comida oaxaqueña típica en venta. Los boletos son $5 pre-venta o $7 la noche de evento. Para reservar tu boleto o si tienes preguntas, se puede contactar a vappor-oaxaca@riseup.net o llamar a 619.580.8060 . ¡Aparta la fecha! ¡Nos vemos alla!

The organization vAPPOroaxaca is sponsoring the Freedom for Political Prisoners! benefit event on Friday, March 2 from 7-11 pm at Voz Alta at 1544 Broadway on the corner of Broadway and 16th St. The purpose of the event is to raise funds for the legal defense team of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca for the political prisoners that were detained in the past few months by the repressive Federal Preventative Police. There will be live music, report-backs from members of a delegation that went to Oaxaca, performance art, the showing of some footage about the movements in Oaxaca, a raffle and typical Oaxacan food for sale. The ticket price is $5 pre-sale and $7 at the door. To reserve your ticket or if you have questions, you can contact us at vappor-oaxaca@riseup.net or call 619.580.8060. Save the date! See you there!

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