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Mexican Government Snubs Immigrant Demonstrations Supporting the Fight of the APPO in the US
“We will use other methods,” if the repression continues, warn Oaxacans; In California, New York, Texas and Massachusetts preparations are made for protests against the government
By Margarita Salazar
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign on the Other Side
October 9, 2006
LOS ANGELES, October 3, 2006: The sense of community is always a prevalent one among the Oaxacan people, and these changing times are no exception. Until three o’clock this afternoon, a demonstration of around two hundred people had gathered at the steps of the Mexican Consulate-General in Los Angeles to show their support for the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in its Spanish initials) demanding the dismissal of Governor Ulises Ruiz and condemn the presence of armed forces in the state.
Beginning at eight o’clock this morning, the demonstration, having been announced by the Broad Front of Solidarity and Support of Oaxaca, began to draw Oaxacans from various regions of the state. Mexicans from a diverse mixture of states, as well as sympathetic locals, also arrived in support.
The Oaxacans wrote messages on straw mats in support of the popular struggle, repudiating the government. In view of a large number of citizens who came and went from the consulate building, the protesters expressed themselves with phrases like “Oaxaca will not be silenced with tanks and bombs,” “Long live the APPO,” “God bless the Oaxacan teachers” and “No to repression, yes to education.”
Like so many times before – since the early 1970’s, when Oaxacan immigrants began to organize – the protestors sang the hymn that has since become their symbol of cultural resistance: the Mixteca song. “Oh land of the Sun, I yearn to see you,” repeated voices laden with profound emotion.
The majority of those present took the opportunity to speak or shout their feelings and thoughts about what is happening in their homeland from the microphone. At noon a commission was formed to pursue an interview with the Consul General, Rubén Beltrán Guerrero. As had happened this past August 30th, when immigrants delivered a letter directed at president Vicente Fox, the public servant was unavailable to respond to their request.
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http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2119.html
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign on the Other Side
October 9, 2006
LOS ANGELES, October 3, 2006: The sense of community is always a prevalent one among the Oaxacan people, and these changing times are no exception. Until three o’clock this afternoon, a demonstration of around two hundred people had gathered at the steps of the Mexican Consulate-General in Los Angeles to show their support for the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in its Spanish initials) demanding the dismissal of Governor Ulises Ruiz and condemn the presence of armed forces in the state.
Beginning at eight o’clock this morning, the demonstration, having been announced by the Broad Front of Solidarity and Support of Oaxaca, began to draw Oaxacans from various regions of the state. Mexicans from a diverse mixture of states, as well as sympathetic locals, also arrived in support.
The Oaxacans wrote messages on straw mats in support of the popular struggle, repudiating the government. In view of a large number of citizens who came and went from the consulate building, the protesters expressed themselves with phrases like “Oaxaca will not be silenced with tanks and bombs,” “Long live the APPO,” “God bless the Oaxacan teachers” and “No to repression, yes to education.”
Like so many times before – since the early 1970’s, when Oaxacan immigrants began to organize – the protestors sang the hymn that has since become their symbol of cultural resistance: the Mixteca song. “Oh land of the Sun, I yearn to see you,” repeated voices laden with profound emotion.
The majority of those present took the opportunity to speak or shout their feelings and thoughts about what is happening in their homeland from the microphone. At noon a commission was formed to pursue an interview with the Consul General, Rubén Beltrán Guerrero. As had happened this past August 30th, when immigrants delivered a letter directed at president Vicente Fox, the public servant was unavailable to respond to their request.
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http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2119.html
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