Se Organizan en Nueva York - Apoyo a Oaxaca

2nd attempt
> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:33:55
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> -- Todd Eaton wrote:
> Hi, Here's an announcement for a city-wide Oaxaca
> solidarity meeting. This is a good opportunity
> to broaden the base of local efforts. -Beka
>
> COME TO THE FIRST NYC MEETING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLES OF OAXACA,
> MEXICO
>
> Thursday, December 14th, 2006
> 7:30PM
> Hunter College
> Room 436 North Building ­ 4th floor
> enter 69th street between Lexington & Park Avenues
>
> The Mexican Federal government has chosen the
> path of violence and repression instead of
> negotiation to resolve this conflict in Oaxaca,
> Mexico. This conflict began on June 14th when
> Oaxaca's governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz sent in state
> police to break a peaceful teachers' strike that
> was camped out in the center of Oaxaca
> City. Gov. Ruiz had already alarmed
> international human rights organizations,
> including Amnesty International, for atrocities
> committed before the June 14. The actions on June
> 14th further ignited people’s anger throughout
> the State who responded, by forming the People's
> Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) who reinforced
> the teachers' encampment in Oaxaca City. The
> single demand of the APPO has been the resignation of Gov. Ruiz.
>
> Since June 14th, the violence against the
> teachers and the APPO by paramilitary forces and
> police aligned with Gov. Ruiz has escalated and
> on October 27th, independent journalist, Brad
> Will, as brutally murdered at the hands of
> plainclothes police officers and local government
> officials in Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca.
>
> Two days later, on October 29th, the Mexican
> Federal government dispatched several thousand
> Federal Preventative Police (PFP) troops to
> remove civilian protesters supporting the APPO
> from their encampments throughout the city. There
> were the recorded deaths of at least three
> civilians as a direct result of the excessive
> force that the PFP used to dislodge the
> protesters, despite official comments from the
> State and Federal governments to the contrary.
>
> On November 2nd, the PFP tried to enter the
> Benito Juarez Autonomous University in an attempt
> to shut down the university radio station
> critical of Governor Ruiz. Mexican law prohibits
> the incursion of law enforcement onto autonomous
> universities, unless requested by the university
> rector. The rector of the Benito Juarez
> categorically rejected the presence of the PFP in Oaxaca.
>
> Oaxaca City is now living under a state of siege.
> Since June 14th, at least 20 people have been
> killed, over 500 people have been imprisoned,
> more then 100 people have been disappeared and
> hundreds wounded. Pick-up trucks carrying PFP,
> State and Municipal Police are now patrolling the
> city, randomly detaining people without arrest
> warrants. Most of the people detained are unable
> to contact family members and are being moved to
> prisons outside of the state. Teachers are being
> pulled from their classrooms. Many of the people
> detained have been tortured. An illegal radio
> station, Radio Ciudadana, affiliated with Gov.
> Ruiz is broadcasting the names of APPO members,
> Human Rights workers and others, giving their
> addresses and offering a reward for their assassination.
>
> The only way to resolve this conflict is through
> dignified, peaceful negotiation, and respect for human rights.
>
> Please come to this meeting where we will plan
> how we can be supportive of the people in Oaxaca, Mexico