Revolution!
Section 18 of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE, a teachers' union) in Michoacán announced the departure of three thousand teachers yesterday headed for the state of Oaxaca, and an indefinite work stoppage at the over ten thousand schools where the union is represented, in support of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
Representing the teachers and the members of the Popular Assembly of the People of Michoacán (APPM), José Luis Zarco García declared his non-cooperation with Sunday's incursion into Oaxaca by elements of the PFP.
He pointed out that the entry of state forces into the city was a surprise, since the dialog with the APPO and the Oaxacan teachers had not concluded.
He said that [the SNTE teachers] would not allow the PFP or the Army to stay in Oaxaca, and that "Michoacán is getting organized to add approximately three thousand comrades to the caravan that is leaving the DF (Mexico City) for Oaxaca."
The teachers of Michoacán and the APPM will declare this Tuesday when the work stoppage will begin in the over ten thousand schools of Michoacán, and will march from the offices of the Interior Department to Plaza Melchor Ocampo [a central square in Michoacán adjoining the cathedral]. ...