[IMC-Video] Fwd: Radio Universidad Under Attack AT THIS MOMENT

[Gregory Berger]

The situation in Oaxaca is getting worse...please
circulate...

PARAMILITARIES ARE PARTICIPATING IN THIS OPERATION

Read below.  This is happening at this moment.

For more info call 
Greg Berger 646.330.5397, 52 777 382 5620, 52 777 211
0024

or David Riker
1 718 554 0316

--- David Riker <riker at igc.org> wrote:

> From: David Riker <riker at igc.org>
> Subject: Radio Universidad Under Attack
> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:33:03 -0600
> To: David Riker <riker at igc.org>
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> As you may already know, this morning, November 2,
> at approximately  
> 8AM, Radio Universidad came under attack by the
> Federal Police (PFP)  
> as well as an assortment of paramilitaries and
> municipal police. As  
> of 10:30 the radio is still on the air, though the
> announcers have  
> already been exposed to the tear gas that surrounds
> the building.  
> There is a major mobilization under way. The Federal
> Government has  
> announced that the operation is only to clear the
> barricades on the  
> major road that runs alongside City University where
> the station is  
> located, and that they have no intention of invading
> the Autonomous  
> campus. The radio announcers are saying that there
> are PFP in  
> civilian clothes among the paramilitaries and that
> the operation is  
> designed to appear as though no Federal Police are
> involved in the  
> invasion. The Rector of the University has just come
> on air, from one  
> of the barricades, calling on all students and
> university colleagues  
> to come to the defense of the station.
> 
> The next hours are critical and all efforts of
> solidarity are urgent.
> 
> David
> 
> 
>