¡Viva la lucha popular libertaria de Oaxaca!
Fund-raising events for the OAXACA POPULAR LIBERTARIA TOUR** Evento recauda-fondos para la gira OAXACA POPULAR LIBERTARIA PRESENTED BY Colectivos Libertarios*
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 28 Jueves/ Thurs. 6:00 PM FILM: “Sembrando Esperanza” (documentary about the indigenous council of Oaxaca CIPO-RFM) Location: YJC 253 W. Martin Luther King Blvd. (corner/esquina Broadway) L.A. 90037
OCTOBER 5 Jueves/ Thurs. 8:00 PM FILM: “Granito de Arena/ Grain of Sand” (film about Mexican public school teachers fighting for labor rights & against the privatization of public education. This is the story of their struggle and endurance against brutal repression in this 25-year struggle for social and economic justice). Location: Southern California Library 6120 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90044
OCTOBER 12 Jueves/ Thurs. 7:00 PM FILM: “Granito de Arena/ Grain of Sand” and “Confrontacion” (raw footage about the armed repression against teachers and supporters). Call (323)313-8562 for location info.
(FILM SCREENINGS ARE - DONATION, BUT NOBODY’S TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. FOOD/ REFRESHMENTS SOLD DURING FILM SCREENINGS)
OCTOBER 21 Sat./ Sabado 6:00PM NOT TURN’D AWAY FOR LACK OF CASH MUSIC SHOW/ TOCADA MUSIC BY: Los Angeles Chaos / Sherman Austin / DJ Cole Minor and Cookie Jar from the Philistines / Flattbush / Pachamama / War Club / Colectivo Error... AND MORE... Location: 1000 Cesar Chavez (corner with/ esquina con Mission) Los Angeles
*Colectivos libertarios: incluyen/ includes Amanecer: por un anarquismo popular, Los Angeles Labor Collective, Copwatch Los Angeles, **Various organizations for social justice throughout the West Coast are raising funds to finance a series of events throughout California and Oregon that would feature delegates from Mexico's National Union of Education Workers -Seccion 22, community organizers from the Indigenous Peoples' Council of Oaxaca (CIPO-RFM), and human rights (OIDHO/ CAMA), indigenous rights Magonista organizations from Oaxaca (AMZ). The Oaxaca Libertaria Speakers Tour will take place in November. For more information contact us at (323) 313-8562 email: CiPORFMSOLiDARiDAD@YAHOO.COM
Contact us at (323) 313-8562 email: CiPORFMSOLiDARiDAD@YAHOO.COM
What’s been going on in Oaxaca?
May 22nd, 2006: Thousands of Oaxacan teachers went on strike demanding a pay increase to cope with the high cost of life. June 14, 2006: State repression, tear gas canisters and bullets shot from helicopters left some dead and many injured; this radicalized the teachers, who urgently added to their demand the destitution of the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz. After the fraudulent state elections, Ruiz became governor and soon banned protesting as a means of popular expression in Oaxaca. This added to the discontent of the wider community of Oaxaca, Hundreds of thousands of them joined the Teachers in the streets and in at sit-in's. Since May 25th, the Negotiating Popular Commission concluded its last meeting with the governor, the Commission has not seen him again. The people no longer present their demands before him or his representatives, they won't accept their money or their "proposals." The people want to rule themselves. July 11th, 2006: Over 350 popular organizations, indigenous communities, labor unions, and civil organizations formed the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). APPO entered the arena with a wave of peaceful and civil disobedience with which it sought to mark their discontent against the government. The people are APPO, APPO is the people, and as such they have assumed the political role in Oaxaca. If APPO chooses to, they block entrances to downtown's luxurious resorts, the airport, the streets, etc. Its popular strength has grown so much that the state government had no choice but to cancel the official Guelaguetza celebration. The teachers and organized citizens organized their own alternative Guelaguetza. July 22nd, 2006: Radio Universitaria (University Radio), controlled by the movement was attacked by 20 unknown men, using highly sophisticated weapons. That same day, unidentified men threw molotov cocktails into community organizers' homes. including Human Rights organizations and the Section 22 of the National Union of Educational Workers. In Oaxaca, the civil disobedience is turning into a popular uprising that is far from vanishing, one that radicalizes itself by the day.
Colectivos Libertarios are raising funds to finance a series of events throughout the West Coast that would feature delegates from Seccion 22, community organizers (CIPO-RFM), and human rights (OIDHO/ CAMA), indigenous rights organizations from Oaxaca (AMZ).
Contact us at (323) 313-8562 email: CiPORFMSOLiDARiDAD@YAHOO.COM
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