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150 March on Mexican Consulate in San Francisco Solidarity with Oaxaca
In San Francisco yesterday, about 150 people gathered in small groups responding to an international call for shows of solidarity for the people of Oaxaca. Folsom street and entrances to the Bay Bridge were blocked by cyclists and marchers carrying symbolic body bags, colorful banners and puppets, and chanting slogans like "La lucha Sigue" ...<the Struggle Continues,> celebrating over six months of struggle by the people of Oaxaca to build community in resistance to the corrupt state government of Governor Ruiz.
In San Francisco yesterday, about 150 people gathered in small groups responding to an international call for shows of solidarity for the people of Oaxaca. Folsom street and entrances to the Bay Bridge were blocked by cyclists and marchers carrying symbolic body bags, colorful banners and puppets, and chanting slogans like "La lucha Sigue" ...<the Struggle Continues,> celebrating over six months of struggle by the people of Oaxaca to build community in resistance to the corrupt state government of Governor Ruiz.
Police escorted marchers on a number of marches around the Mexican Consulate, only to return to find the consulate was barricaded with bicycle u-locks, in response for people internationally to set up blockades in solidarity with the blockades in Oaxaca. After breaking into the embassy and spending about an hour inside, the Police found out that that being inside the embassy was not the best place to remove u-locks on the outside of the building. At this point, the doorways were splattered with red paint and piled up with body bags, representing the people who have been killed in state violence against the APPO insurgents in Mexico.
Bay area resident Tristan, recently returned from Oaxaca calls the "APPO" coalitions one of the most directly democratic groups that he has ever seen, despite the Mexican government's use of deadly force to try and disband protestors. Dozens have already been killed or "disappeared" by police in a recent attempt by the state to reclaim what was once a thriving people's city right in the center of town, replete with popular kitchens, pirate radio, convergence centers, Indymedia centers, teach-ins and barricades armed with makeshift weapons like fireworks and molotov cocktails.
This weekend saw massive actions around the world and in Oaxaca, where people have regained many of the areas that the police had captured by killing people in the street including American Indymedia Journalist Brad Will.
More info on Oaxaca and "APPO" on this site and at mexico.indymedia.org
Police escorted marchers on a number of marches around the Mexican Consulate, only to return to find the consulate was barricaded with bicycle u-locks, in response for people internationally to set up blockades in solidarity with the blockades in Oaxaca. After breaking into the embassy and spending about an hour inside, the Police found out that that being inside the embassy was not the best place to remove u-locks on the outside of the building. At this point, the doorways were splattered with red paint and piled up with body bags, representing the people who have been killed in state violence against the APPO insurgents in Mexico.
Bay area resident Tristan, recently returned from Oaxaca calls the "APPO" coalitions one of the most directly democratic groups that he has ever seen, despite the Mexican government's use of deadly force to try and disband protestors. Dozens have already been killed or "disappeared" by police in a recent attempt by the state to reclaim what was once a thriving people's city right in the center of town, replete with popular kitchens, pirate radio, convergence centers, Indymedia centers, teach-ins and barricades armed with makeshift weapons like fireworks and molotov cocktails.
This weekend saw massive actions around the world and in Oaxaca, where people have regained many of the areas that the police had captured by killing people in the street including American Indymedia Journalist Brad Will.
More info on Oaxaca and "APPO" on this site and at mexico.indymedia.org
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Thx so much for putting all those pictures up.
For people who weren't there, in addition to the paint and ulocked doors, two banners were dropped one reading "Oaxaca! APPO! Popular Power!" and the other "Barricades: the Weapon of the People." Temporary blockades were also set up about 150 ft from the consulate with enormous construction barrels. Others dressed up as construction workers and temporarily shut down a highway onramp a block away from from the consulate.
For people who weren't there, in addition to the paint and ulocked doors, two banners were dropped one reading "Oaxaca! APPO! Popular Power!" and the other "Barricades: the Weapon of the People." Temporary blockades were also set up about 150 ft from the consulate with enormous construction barrels. Others dressed up as construction workers and temporarily shut down a highway onramp a block away from from the consulate.
That banner drop was great! Here are some photos that i hastily posted, unedited, the day of the demo, one of which is of that banner.
CLICK HERE
For more information:
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/20/18...
Ayer en San Francisco, California, alrededor de 150 personas se agruparon en grupos pequeños como respuesta a la llamada internacional para mostrar solidardad con el pueblo oaxaqueño en México. La Calle Folsom y las entradas al Puente de la Bahía fueron bloqueados por ciclistas y manifestantes cargando bolsas para cadáveres simbólicas, mantas de muchos colores y títeres, y gritando esloganes como "La Lucha Sigue", todo en celebración de las seis plus meses en lucha del pueblo oaxaqueño para construir una comunidad en resistencía al gobierno estatal corrupto del gobernador Ruíz.
La policía acompañió l@s manifestantes en varias giras por el consulado, y al regreso descubrieron que el consulado se encontraba clausurado con candados tipo "U-lock" para bicicleta. Se supone que eso fue hizo como respuesta a la llamada internacional para construir barricadas solidarias con las de Oaxaca. Despues de forzarles adentro el consulado y pasar una hora, las unidades policiacas descubrieron que adentro no era el lugar propicio para quitar candados puestos afuera. En este momento las entradas fueron salpicadas con pintura roja y montados con las bolsas para cadáveres, las cuales representaron personas asesinadas por violencía estatal contra l@s insurgentes de la APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca).
Tristan, un residente local de la área de la Bahía, recientemente regresó de Oaxaca. Según él, la APPO es uno de los grupos mas ejemplares de la democracía directa que aún ha visto, no obstante el uso por el gobierno mexicano de la fuerza mortal en contra de ellos. Docenas ya han sido asesinado o "desaparecido" por la policía oaxaqueña en un atentado reciente de retomar lo que era un campamento popular en el mero centro de la ciudad de Oaxaca, repleto con cocinas comunales, radio libre, centros de convergencía y de medios independientes, talleres y barricadas defendidas con armas caseras como cohetes y cokteles molotov.
Este fin de semana pasado vimos acciones masivas en todas las partes del mundo y en Oaxaca, donde la APPO recuperó muchos sitios que hace semanas la policía tomó por asesinato, entre ellos el periodista Indymedia norteamericano Brad Will.
La policía acompañió l@s manifestantes en varias giras por el consulado, y al regreso descubrieron que el consulado se encontraba clausurado con candados tipo "U-lock" para bicicleta. Se supone que eso fue hizo como respuesta a la llamada internacional para construir barricadas solidarias con las de Oaxaca. Despues de forzarles adentro el consulado y pasar una hora, las unidades policiacas descubrieron que adentro no era el lugar propicio para quitar candados puestos afuera. En este momento las entradas fueron salpicadas con pintura roja y montados con las bolsas para cadáveres, las cuales representaron personas asesinadas por violencía estatal contra l@s insurgentes de la APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca).
Tristan, un residente local de la área de la Bahía, recientemente regresó de Oaxaca. Según él, la APPO es uno de los grupos mas ejemplares de la democracía directa que aún ha visto, no obstante el uso por el gobierno mexicano de la fuerza mortal en contra de ellos. Docenas ya han sido asesinado o "desaparecido" por la policía oaxaqueña en un atentado reciente de retomar lo que era un campamento popular en el mero centro de la ciudad de Oaxaca, repleto con cocinas comunales, radio libre, centros de convergencía y de medios independientes, talleres y barricadas defendidas con armas caseras como cohetes y cokteles molotov.
Este fin de semana pasado vimos acciones masivas en todas las partes del mundo y en Oaxaca, donde la APPO recuperó muchos sitios que hace semanas la policía tomó por asesinato, entre ellos el periodista Indymedia norteamericano Brad Will.
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