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DESCRIPTION:Lessons from Oaxaca \nSaturday, December 2nd \n2pm at The Women's Building 
 3543 \n18th St. San Francisco, CA (2 blocks from 16th St. 
 BART)\n\nSpeakers: \n   Jessie Muldoon, member of OEA* and the 
 International Socialist Organization \n    Miguel Robles, Comite Defensa 
 del Voto*\n    Alberto Rojas, United Front of Mexicans Abroad,* spend last 
 week in Mexico as eye-witness for mass marches \n \n\nOaxaca, Mexico is 
 occupied. In late October President Fox sent in the \nfederal police to the 
 state of Oaxaca to crush a six-month strike and \noccupation by teachers, 
 indigenous groups, and social movement activists. \n70,000 teachers in 
 Section 22 of the SNTE union went on strike in May to \nstop the 
 privatization of their public education system, and demand higher \npay and 
 better working conditions. Since then their struggle has been met \nwith 
 violent repression by police and paramilitaries which has killed at \nleast 
 15 protesters, including U.S. Indy Media photojournalist Brad Will. \nYet 
 dozens of civic groups in Oaxaca have united with Section 22 to support 
 \nthe teachers strike and have formed a broad coalition, the Popular 
 Assembly \nof the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), which has mobilized activists 
 across the \nstate to demand the resignation of Oaxaca's Governor, Ulises 
 Ruiz Ortiz, and \npush for wider economic demands to improve the lives of 
 ordinary Oaxacans.\n\nAfter 12 years of the ravaging effects of NAFTA's 
 neo-liberal policies in \nMexico, the heroic struggle in Oaxaca by the 
 teachers of Section 22 have \nshown that there is way forward in building 
 grass roots organization in \norder to improve the living conditions of 
 ordinary people. Here in the U.S. \nworking people are also confronted with 
 worsening conditions in the public \nschool system, lack of affordable 
 health care, downward trend in wages, and \na government bent on waging war 
 for oil and profits abroad. Come to this \npanel and hear how we can take 
 from the inspiring lessons from the struggle \nin Oaxaca, for our struggles 
 here at home.\n\n*for identification purposes only.\n\nMeeting will be 
 translated.\n\nMeeting sponsored by the International Socialist 
 Organization publisher of Socialist Worker newspaper\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/27/18333668.php
SUMMARY:Lessons from Oaxaca
LOCATION:Women's Building, corner of 18th Str and Valencia
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/27/18333668.php
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