Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Nuevos enfrentamientos en Oaxaca, un muerto reportado/ New confrontations in Oaxaca, one death reported.




¡NUEVA ESCALADA DE REPRESIÓN POLICIACA CONTRA MOVIMIENTO POPULAR EN OAXACA!

Este lunes 16 de julio, aproximadamente a las 11:30 a.m., elementos de la Policía Municipal, Policía Preventiva y Policía Bancaria e Industrial enfrentaron, con bombas de gas lacrimógeno y piedras, a manifestantes de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca y maestros de las Sección XXII del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación que intentaron subir al Auditorio Guelaguetza, localizado en el Cerro del Fortín de la Ciudad de Oaxaca, como parte de los festejos de la Fiesta Popular de los oaxaqueños. Lee mas...
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Today in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, a confrontation between the APPO (Popular Assembly of The Peoples of Oaxaca) and security forces of the State of Oaxaca as well as Federal Preventive Police has left at least one movement participant dead as a result of police violence, at least 62 detained, and an unknown number of people disappeared.
According to an APPO press statement released today, the police launched “a broad offense” against the people of Oaxaca who were celebrating their alternative and popular guelaguetza (an annual Oaxacan cultural festival) in the Guelaguetza auditorium. Read more...

1 comment:

waragainstwar said...

there are a few translations i made of notes by raoul vaneigem (author of "the revolution of everyday life" and other radical books) on Oaxaca, over at
http://situationist.gq.nu
i think you'll like all the stuff i do. check it out! tell me what you think.
jordan