STARBUCKS UNION SUPPORTER IN GRAVE DANGER IN OAXACA 2NITE

------------EMERGENCY: STARBUCKS UNION SUPPORTER IN GRAVE DANGER IN OAXACA

TONIGHT------------

Friends:

Eric Larson, an IWW member and long-time supporter of

the SWU, is in grave danger along with many indigenous

workers in a home in Oaxaca. Eric and his companeros

could be seriously wounded or worse tonight and

they're asking for help immediately. Eric is a

thoughtful, kind, and generous unionist and his

comrades are remarkable activists as well. I know you

receive many e-mail pleas but I implore you to take

the time to respond to this one immediately. The

ruling party could lay siege to their home any minute

now. We don't need anymore martyrs ripped from their

families and friends in Oaxaca. The call for help

from Oaxaca follows.

In Solidarity,

Daniel Gross

Please forward widely

Priistas are planning to remove CIPO [grassroots

indigenous organization] out of the neighborhood by

force!

This part of Santa Lucia is enemy territory. It is

near Barricade Three, the Príista attack of last

Friday, and the site of Brad Will's murder. It's also

where the CIPO house is located. When the Príistas

first set up their barricades, some were directly in

front of the CIPO house, one using materials that had

been propped up against the outside wall.

Now, less than a week after Brad Will's murder, some

of the same Príistas have agreed to "dislodge" CIPO

from the neighborhood. If history, recent and

distant, teaches us anything, their method will be

violence. It is important that they know that acts of violence

will not go unseen, even in this small neighborhood

that they control.

Please contact some or all of those listed below; tell

them that if CIPO is attacked, that the Mexican state

is responsible. And please also keep this in mind as

solidarity actions are planned and carried out.

Contact the State Commission on Human RIghts in Oaxaca

at:

Central Oaxaca - 011 52 (951) 513 51 85

011 52 (951) 513 51 91

011 52 (951) 513 51 97

la Red Oaxaqueña de Derechos Humanos

Tel. 011 52 (951) 5141634

rodhmx@prodigy. net.mx

rodhmx@yahoo. com.mx

Vicente Fox Quesada

Presidente de la Republica

Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Aleman

Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850

Distrito Federal, Mexico

Telephone: 011 52 (55) 52772376

Fax: 011 52 (55) 527 723 376

E-mail directory at: [http://www.presiden] cia.gob.mx/

directorio/

Contact Nearest Mexican Consulate

Directory at [http://mexonline]. com/consulate. htm

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