Oaxaca

Reporter kidnapped and tortured in Oaxaca

angrywhitekid — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:24:23 +0000

By Scott Campbell

Pedro Matias, a well-known reporter who writes for Noticias, a local daily paper, as well as the national weekly Proceso, was kidnapped, beaten, tortured and robbed on Saturday night in Oaxaca. Reporters Without Borders states that,

Notes from Oaxaca

Rob Ray — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:21:02 +0000

The background:

In 2006 the Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least eighteen deaths and the temporary occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).

To Lorenzo San Pablo Cervantes

Khawaga — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:18:24 +0000

“The true man goes to the roots.

To be radical is no more that this: he who goes to the roots.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself radical.

Nor that man who does not aid the security and speech of other men.”

José Marti

Compañero Lorenzo San Pablo:

Oaxaca: Overcoming the Fear. The long struggle for dignity

Khawaga — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:15:00 +0000

(This article was prepared for a special edition of the magazine “La Guillotina” dedicated to the topic “Re-thinking the Left in Mexico”)

“This is not a movement of leaders, but of bases”

The APPO two years on: Where now for Oaxaca's social movement?

angrywhitekid — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:23:49 +0000

This fall in Oaxaca marks a season of commemorations. Already marches for fallen APPO members Jose Jimenez Colmenares and Lorenzo San Pablo Cervantes have woven their ways through the streets of the city, pausing at the spots they were murdered in 2006, holding ceremonies at the Cathedral. Twenty-four more such processions await Oaxaca in the coming months.

Anarchism and libertarian currents in the Oaxaca insurrectionary movement

David in Atlanta — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:26:11 +0000

SERGIO DE CASTRO SANCHEZ
Originally published in Spanish on oaxacalibre.org and in Rojo Y Negro, newspaper of the CGT
Translated by a comrade of Capital Terminus Collective

Oaxacan teachers reach agreement with their union and local government

Alan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:19:07 +0000

The strike (previously reported on Libcom here and here), a contrast of almost blanket support from union members and almost blanket condemnation

Mexico: teachers' strike spreads up the Pacific coast while Oaxaca cautiously holds firm

Alan — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:50:13 +0000

On Friday 30th, the strike by the Oaxacan SNTE local (Sección 22, around whose strike coalesced the 2006 revolt) entered its 12th day, with more motorways blocked, more tollbooths closed down and more education buildings occupied throughout the state.

Oaxaca in revolt again: the Zócalo reoccupied, motorway tollbooths "liberated", roads blockaded

Alan — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:25:52 +0000

The teachers' strike has various demands, although it's mostly calling for the freedom for all political prisoners, an end to the arrest orders and ongoing intimidation by the judicial authorities against the movement, new elections within the SNTE, and the handing over of all Oaxacan schools controlled by the pro-government Sección 59.

Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond - Collective Reinventions

Ret Marut — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:06:57 +0000