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The Blood Flows from the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 8:42am PDT
Despite Increasing Threats, Uribe’s Police Cut Back Security Measures for the Unionist and Outspoken Critic of a U.S. Coal Company with Close Ties to the Administration...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 8:41am PDT
When Cochabamba Said "Enough!"...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 7:09am PDT
Chilean police have fired water cannon and clashed with high school students who were protesting in the capital, Santiago, over education reforms....
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 9:10pm PDT
“Let’s invite the indigenous people of Canada and the United States... and let’s invite the indigenous people of South America and Central America”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 6:26am PDT
“The intensification of the repression is nothing but the intensification of the federal and state war against the people.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 6:25am PDT
another murder in the months long struggle in oaxaca...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 4:59pm PDT
Ali examines Hugo Chavez’s influence and his legacy and how Chávez’s views have polarized Latin America and examines the aggression directed against his administration. Together Ali argues Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba form an “Axis of Hope.”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:56am PDT
Voting in the fierce battle for one of Latin America's UN Security Council seats will go into a second day after delegates failed to end a deadlock....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:40am PDT
Tensions are mounting in Ecuador as the result of Sunday's presidential vote is awaited amid allegations of fraud....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:39am PDT
The Mexican government has threatened striking teachers in the city of Oaxaca with police and military repression this week unless they accept a negotiated agreement between the Vicente Fox government, the teachers union and the Oaxacan Peoples Popular Assembly (APPO). On October 12, striking teachers voted to reject the deal....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:36am PDT
As Stalemate Continues Between Federal Government and Popular Uprising, APPO Holds a “Dialog for Peace,” PRI Supporters Burn Indigenous Radio Stations, and Soldiers Shoot a Protester Dead...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:24am PDT
In the past week, gunmen have killed one and wounded four protesters from the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). The recent killings heightened tensions as the conflict again enters into a critical moment with the Minister of the Interior threatening to withdraw the federal government’s settlement offer if teachers do not end their strike by Monday, October 16....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:23am PDT
When balloting stopped on the evening of July 2nd at the end of Mexico’s 2006 presidential election, the eyes of the nation turned to the two main tv networks to await the result of exit polls. Most unusually, Televisa and tv Azteca both announced they would not reveal their figures. At 11pm the chairman of the Federal Electoral Institute (ife), Luis Carlos Ugalde, appeared on screens across the country to say he would be withholding the agency’s own ‘fast result’ tally. But the ife’s ‘prelim...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:23am PDT
GUERRERO NEGRO, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; OCTOBER 16, 2006: On Sunday evening, as the Zapatista Other Campaign winded its way sixteen hours up Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula toward the US border, communal farmers of the Ejido Benito Juárez and the Ejido Diaz Ordaz, along that route, timed their occupation and shutdown of the largest salt mine in the world with the arrival of Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:21am PDT
The Other Campaign Meets with Relatives of Victims from Mexico’s “Dirty War”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:20am PDT
The Bolton-bulldozered UN, with it's sell outs at the top, must be bribed, threatened and forced in whatever way possible to vote for a seat for US slave state Guatemala. For humanity, brutes like Bolton and his greedy ilk are deadlier than the pest....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 3:11am PDT
Declaration of Solidarity with the People of Oaxaca
Documento distribuido en el primer Foro de Solidaridad Nacional e Internacional con el Pueblo de Oaxaca, 14 de octubre, ciudad de Oaxaca, Oax. (english translation following)
This document was distributed at the first Forum on National and International Solidarity with the People of Oaxaca, October 14, in Oaxaca City....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 1:02am PDT
John Ross delivers a report back from the social upheaval in Mexico that followed the stealing of the 2006 presidential election, and its message for frustrated U.S. voters at New College, 777 Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission district Friday evening October 27th at 7 PM....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 12:23am PDT
38 minute interview (in Spanish) with two Oaxacan teachers recorded 10.14.06 at La Ley Barricade, which protects an occupied Radio in Oaxaca City. Posted to radio.indymedia. English language transcript below....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 6:13pm PDT