[Imc-birmingham] Indy Oaxaca tour feature proposal

[dougbrum at tiscali.co.uk]

Have you done a flyer/poster for the 16th? We could also do with a 
flyer for the screenings at the custard factory/Drum so we can pass it 
out on the 16th and the coming weeks. If you send me all the details of 
what you want on the flyer I'll try to get one knocked up and a few 
hundred printed off.

D
>----Original Message----
>From: phunkee at aktivix.org
>Date: 08/05/2007 17:51 
>To: "Brummie DIY indymedia"<imc-birmingham at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subj: [Imc-birmingham] Indy Oaxaca tour feature proposal
>
>Hi List, just put this on the newswire, it's just the text from the 
Indy 
>Oaxaca tour but i'd like to turn it into a feature, maybe with 
something 
>about the imcista Brad Will who was murdered in Oaxaca:
>
>Indymedia Oaxaca Info-night comes to Birmingham
>
><p>An IndyOaxaca compañero who is indigenous to the mixe territory of 
<a 
>href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxaca">Oaxaca</a> and an avid 
>community radio, video and print and independent media activist with 
<a 
>href="http://mexico.indymedia.org/oaxaca">Indymedia Oaxaca</a> is 
coming 
>to talk and show films in Birmingham on Wednesday 16th May @ Rooty 
>Frooty at Digbeth's Custard Factory from 7pm - 9pm.</p>
>
><p>2006 was a tumultuous year in Mexico and there is still no end in 
>sight. Above stands a highly contested presidential election and 
from 
>below there is a Zapatista campaign to focus the grassroots, 
>anti-capitalist Left all over the country.</p>
>
><p>The annual teachers strike in the south-eastern Mexican city of 
>Oaxaca and the subsequent movement protests became the largest 
popular 
>rebellion in over a decade. Then, hundreds of illegal detentions, 
>disappearances and injuries, and at least eighteen documented deaths 
>followed.</p>
>
><p>2006 was a tumultuous year in Mexico and there is still no end in 
>sight. Above stands a highly contested presidential election and 
from 
>below there is a Zapatista campaign to focus the grassroots, 
>anti-capitalist Left all over the country.</p>
>
><p>The annual teachers strike in the south-eastern Mexican city of 
>Oaxaca and the subsequent movement protests became the largest 
popular 
>rebellion in over a decade. Then, hundreds of illegal detentions, 
>disappearances and injuries, and at least eighteen documented deaths 
>followed.</p>
>
>Read more about the <a href="/en/actions/2006/oaxaca/">Oaxaca 
>Uprising</a> pages on Indymedia UK
>
><p>In Oaxaca, a broad-based movement to unseat an unpopular and 
corrupt 
>governor turned into a grassroots uprising for direct democracy. For 
>months, hundreds of residents in the half million people City and 
>surrounding area took part in and maintained more than 1,000 street 
>barricades, protest camps, occupations of government buildings as 
well 
>as the literal takeover of mainstream media outlets. Mexico's 
federal 
>government later sent in thousands of militarized police to crack 
down 
>on the popular uprising and prop up the regime of the status quo. 
Taking 
>part in all of these events is a lively independent media movement . 
. .</p>
>
><p> We will screen short films and hear straight from the horse's 
mouth 
>the reasons behind last year's events in Oaxaca, bad governments, 
land 
>struggles, exploitation, migration, the destruction of the 
environment, 
>the continuing annihilation of indigenous cultures, ways of life and 
in 
>mexico, their eternal refusal to conveniently make way to projects 
like 
>the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Puebla_Panama">Plan 
>Puebla Panama</a> and disappear for the benefit of the rich and for 
“the 
>North”. We will look at what this means, to
>be indigenous, to be autonomous, to be rebellious, to organize and 
>resist. Resist dams, roads and agribusiness, biodiesel plantations 
or 
>corporate T.V. We will update on the Zapatista Army of National 
>Liberation (EZLN) campaign of continuing resistance, and look into 
>European and UK involvement in the area, dissect it and draw 
parallels 
>with local plans and struggles, community organisation and 
independent 
>media. We expect people's involvement and hopefully we'll get to 
look 
>inside our own reality, actions and beyond...</p>
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