Oaxaca’s APPO Forms Permanent Government; Announces Escalation of Resistance
3,000 Delegates Meet in the Midst of State Repression and Reorganize for the Struggle Ahead

By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca

November 14, 2006

Three thousand Oaxaqueños responded to the first call of the Asamblea Popular de Pueblos de Oaxaca (Popular Assembly of the Peoples’ of Oaxaca, or APPO) on Friday, November 10, to forge a new constitution for Oaxaca. The APPO sprang into life in the two days following the attempted eviction of striking teachers from their zocalo encampment on June 14, 2006. It has guided the social movement in …

By George Salzman - After some weeks of relatively quiet nights, beginning Friday 27 October with the by-now infamous attack on one of the barricades in Santa Lucia del Camino,[1] the entire relatively peaceful complexion of the struggle [2] has become badly tainted by the presence of the so-called Federal Preventive Police (PFP in its Spanish initials). Under PFP ‘protection’, and with PFP participation, the combined level of the dirty war by the Oaxaca PRI contingent of Ulises Ruiz and the PFP mushroomed — so intolerably in fact that the church offered asylum to members of the popular movement …

Michael McCaughan

A virtual state of siege prevails in Oaxaca City where thousands of military police have occupied the central square and surrounding streets, clearing barricades and detaining dozens of opposition activists. The city’s emergency services are idle while banks and schools remain closed and the city center, usually bustling with tourists, has the air of a ghost town. The hub of activity has shifted to the Santo Domingo church where thousands of activists gather daily to swap news, make plans and denounce police brutality.

The federal police occupation began on October 28 with an aggressive push toward the Zocalo (town …

By Patrick Harrington - Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) — Ulises Ruiz, governor of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, said he will not heed calls that he resign to restore order after more than five months of protests.

The country’s congress, which passed a resolution Oct. 30 urging Ruiz to leave his post, is violating state sovereignty, Ruiz said during a radio interview on Grupo Formula.

Mexican President Vicente Fox sent more than 4,500 federal police to occupy Oaxaca City after protests against Ruiz had led to 13 deaths.

Other Recent News:

Oaxaca teachers agree to return to work

Mexico: Oaxaca barricaded again…

A Call from the Zapatistas: Oaxaca Is Not Alone
Shut-Down of Roads, Highways and the Media on November 1;
General Strike Called for November 20
By the Sixth Commission of the EZLN, The Other Mexico

October 30, 2006

Message from the CLANDESTINE REVOLUTIONARY INDIGENOUS COMMITTEE-GENERAL COMMAND of the ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION MEXICO.

October 30, 2006.

To the people of Mexico:
To the people of the world:
To the Other Campaign in Mexico and the other side of the Rio Grande:

To the entire Sixth International:

Compañeros and compañeras:
Brothers and sisters:

It is now known publicly that yesterday, 29th of October 2006, Vicente Fox’s federal forces attacked the people of …

By Greg Berger, October 22, 2006

Only six short months ago, the town of Texcoco, in Mexico State, was made infamous throughout Mexico and the world as the place where one of the worst police massacres in recent Mexican history began. Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left’s most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular …

Delegate Zero Presents Seven Zapatista Comandantes to the Other Campaign in Mexico City
By Al Giordano, The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Mexico City

October 2, 2006

MEXICO CITY, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2006: Two thousand organizers of the Zapatista Other Campaign convened today in the Pantitlán neighborhood of Mexico City for a conference to “analyze the national situation,” a task made still more complicated nineteen hours earlier when the Mexican Armed Forces conducted helicopter surveillance flights on Saturday over the city of Oaxaca, six hours to the south of the nation’s capital. The flagrant participation by the national army added the …

At a cusp in human affairs, by G.S.

There are some people who you’ve just got to love, people like Peter Kropotkin, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, Bertolt Brecht, Pablo Neruda . . . people both fully aware of the terrifying challenges most humans face in their everyday struggles, and who yet keep their hearts open to all — especially the humble — and to keep alive their hopes and efforts for a better world, where all people can live with dignity.

The struggle for life with dignity is surging in the …