Military attacks the people of San Jose del Progreso
By Labor • Sep 5th, 2010 • Category: News & Analysis
military with no search warrants
broke into the homes of some of the people known to oppose the mine,
ostensibly looking for firearms.
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San Juan Copala: Urgent call for solidarity and defense of the encampment
By Labor • Sep 5th, 2010 • Category: News & Analysis
Our indigenous Triqui people continue to be attacked, there is no disastrous day which our people are not familiar with, the pain and rage are in our hearts, women, children, old people, men, all of us and them, suffer injustice from institutions, from paramilitaries, from the death of comrades who are merely counted as unending statistics.
Sleepless in Oaxaca: Stirrings of the People’s Giant
By Labor • Aug 20th, 2010 • Category: News & Analysis
Other civilizations give way to barbarian hordes. Some societies
transform themselves through revolutionary change .What is Oaxaca’s
future? It could be continued stagnation under a kind of “Dark Age.”
Or the “sleeping giant” of the people could once again awake, this time
bringing truly revolutionary transformation. One thing is certain: only
the last offers hope for genuine progress for the people
Union Leader Gunned Down in Southern Mexico
By Labor • Aug 19th, 2010 • Category: News & Analysis
Matus’ murder follows the slaying last weekend of eight young men who were out rabbit hunting in the Papaloapan basin, an area on Oaxaca’s border with the neighboring state of Veracruz.
In April, two activists – one of them a Finnish citizen – were killed while traveling with a humanitarian caravan to a strife-torn Indian community in Oaxaca
Protesters seize Bolivia airfield, seal off Potosi
By Labor • Aug 12th, 2010 • Category: News & Analysis
The action was the latest in a series of demonstrations by local residents, miners and peasants seeking the construction of a new cement factory, a larger airport and other actions from the government.
Triqui Women Prepare For Third Peace Caravan to Mexico
By Labor • Aug 12th, 2010 • Category: News & Analysis
Women in resistance from the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, announced that, faced with the constant danger of being beaten, murdered, or sexually abused, they are preparing the “Third Peace Caravan,” which will depart from Huajuapan de León and end in Mexico City.
Unofficial strike by Air India workers against austerity
By Labor • Aug 8th, 2010 • Category: News & Analysis
Almost simultaneously with the British Airways workers’ strike on 24th May 10, around 25,000 workers of Air-India throughout the country went on unofficial strike on 25th May 2010. The strike continued on 26th, but was called off after the Delhi High Court declared it illegal and an expression of irresponsibility of the workers. The strike was led by the two major unions, the ACEU and the AIAEA, the latter being the union of the engineers.
Oaxaca’s Government Employees’ Ultimatum to the Pension Fund Grabbers
By Labor • Aug 8th, 2010 • Category: News & Analysis
Leaders of government employees in the city of Oaxaca threaten a strike to paralyze the city if 22 million pesos missing from their pension fund are not returned.
Marcelino Coache Verano, a leader in the employees’ union, announced the union would call on APPO (Assembly Popular People of Oaxaca) to seize all city offices if necessary.
Oaxaca: Attempts to repress peasant uprisings have backfired
By Labor • Aug 6th, 2010 • Category: News & AnalysisGUNFIRE rings out almost every day around the village of San Juan Copala, as marksmen in the woods take potshots into the town. Eight residents are recovering from injuries, including an eight-year-old girl who was hit twice as she tried to leave the village. The gunmen have cut electricity and blocked access roads, allowing only a single party of women out once a week on an eight-hour hike to fetch food. The siege is entering its ninth month.
Residents of Mitla, Oaxaca Protest Actions of Anthropology Institute
By Labor • Aug 5th, 2010 • Category: News & AnalysisResidents of Mitla, Oaxaca are troubled by the actions of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) for promoting UNESCO’s declaration of the prehistoric caves of Yagul and Mitla as “cultural patrimony” without discussing the proclamation with the community.
The President of Mitla, Jaciel Garcia Ruiz, said the announcement promotes questions and doubts because the proclamation could affect the area negatively.
