Does Anyone Know The Current Situation in Oaxaca?

[BayCityProgressive]

I mean since the new year. I can't seem to find any info and am wondering if the All-People's Front is still sharing dual power through their People's Assemblies? I think Mexico is stumped on what to do here..if they allow the People's Assemblies to rule Oaxaca the rest of the country may follow and this would almost CERTAINLY cause the US to invade to "restore law and order" but if they attack and kill masses of people this could also start a nationwide revolt. The country is already on edge with the Zapatistas and the shadow gov. of Obrador...

[oldlady]

1. kick, because I want to know too

[Breeze54]

2. Oaxacan Teachers Support the APPO and the Ninth Megamarch

http://www.narconews.com/en.html

Oaxacan Teachers Support the APPO and the Ninth Megamarch

New March Proves Movement is Alive; State Government Blocks Access to Public Spaces with Razor Wire and Dogs

By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca

February 5, 2007

Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) keeps one law for the people and another for his government of Oaxaca. Supporters of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in its Spanish initials) have been thrown in jail on charges of “impeding public transit,” or blocking access on public roads, or access to public buildings. URO repeatedly has maintained the Oaxaca Zócalo and the plaza in front of Santo Domingo Church as “no-go” areas in order to prevent a return of the APPO encampments. On February 3 he outdid himself by erecting razor wire barriers, bringing in attack dogs, police with billy clubs wrapped with barbed wire, and the presence of 4,000 riot police (as reported by Las Noticias), many of them mounted on horses.

More at Link...

[BayCityProgressive]

4. THANKS!

I hope the people are victorious in creating a powerful progressive state. Latin America is being turned on it's head by people sick of being taken advantage of and I hope the US follows shortly..

[Breeze54]

6. YW! Found a more recent article.

The APPO Comes Back Strong in Oaxaca
The Teachers, Indigenous Peoples and Civil Society Regroup

By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca

February 23, 2007

http://www.narconews.com/Issue45/article2571.html

Section 22 of the National Education Workers Union (SNTE, by its Spanish initials) decided that the truce asked for by the state governor was without value and took over the government office of the Secretary General (Segob, as it is referred to) in the city of Oaxaca on February 21, along with thirty-two other offices statewide. The popular assembly movement has regrouped and caught its breath. It’s now in a new phase of the struggle for Oaxaca, which I call the 2007 pre-electoral phase.

How the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in its Spanish initials) has been able to recapture its former strength has three answers; the teachers, the indigenous peoples and civil society.

The internal union housecleaning involved displacing the former secretary of Section 22 of SNTE, Enrique Rueda Pacheco, who is regarded as a sell-out. Rueda’s formal status appears to be irrelevant at this moment; he no longer has major input into union decisions. Section 22’s strength has rebounded despite the fracture caused by the collaboration of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in its Spanish initials) governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) and national SNTE president, PRI member Elba Esther Gordillo. Between the two of them, they split off Section 59 of SNTE, a group of between 2,000-4,000 teachers out of the 70,000 Section 22 membership. Along with Section 59, the Central Council for Struggle (CCL) set up by Ruiz has been holding 200 schools, locking out the Section 22 teachers who were on strike for more than five months. The substitute teachers, along with parents in sympathy with the governor, refused to permit Section 22 teachers to return to their classrooms.

The post November 25 struggle has been violent, with state police coming into classes to arrest teachers who are APPO supporters and with the two union factions coming to blows outside schools in some areas such as Juchitán. Near Oaxaca, in the suburb of Viguera, according to one teacher who lives there but who teaches in another town, round-the-clock guards (called topiles in the usos y costumbres vernacular) patrol to forestall invasion, capture or shooting of Viguera residents.

More at link.....

[TomInTib]

3. Dancing on the edge of the feather

The Governor said he would negotiate with the teachers if they would go back to work.

They did, he didn't (or hasn't yet).

This is a crazy thing. It has gone on for years, but this time the (local) Government forced the issue.

It will only get worse. The locals are divided, either scared to death or ready to take it back to the streets.

Manana.

Remember, manana does not mean "tomorrow".

It really means "not today".

[joshcryer]

5. All I know is that the teacher unions in Mexico...

...are some of the most corrupt people I have ever witnessed. I originally supported the teacher union strike, but now that I have read, and indeed, seen first hand what is going on there, I think that it's just a travisty.

[FyurFly]

7. Off topic question...

How is Oaxaca pronounced?

[spag68]

8. wa-hac a

[FyurFly]

9. Thanks n/t