[www-features] PROPOSAL: Oaxaca's Popular Movement Suffers Yet Another Brut al Day

[onto]

Looks great. Thanks for posting it, whoever did.
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/875599.shtml

Let's be ready for Dec 1st/2nd breaking news coverage as well, since
that is when the new president Calderon comes to power, and APPO + EZLN
called for a 'civil uprising' . . .

besos,
onto

jen wrote:
> I would highlight the low intensity warfare being experienced by the people.
> 
> Here is what I would like to add to the abstract:
> 
> After peacefully protesting the presence of federal police forces in the
> city, the people of Oaxaca were blitzed by police agents and
> paramilitaries.  The low-intensity warfare experienced by the Oaxacan
> people intensified to a new level as police and paramilitaries coordinated
> together to open gunfire at protesters. Hundreds of people have been
> arrested, disappeared, wounded and hiding in houses for fear of their
> lives. Terror permeates the city as the popular movement of Oaxaca
> regroups for another day of struggle and the exit of Ulises Ruiz.
> 
> List of the arrested:
> http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6972
> List of injured:
> http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6971
> 
> fotos:
> http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=139472
> http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=139479
> 
> 
> On Sun, November 26, 2006 11:25 pm, onto wrote:
>> Title: Oaxaca’s Popular Movement Suffers Yet Another Brutal Day
>>
>> subtitle: APPO and PFP battle in Oaxaca After March
>>
>> http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/26/18333290.php
>> urls: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/25/18333275.php
>>
>> image:
>> http://www.indybay.org/uploads/admin_uploads/2006/11/26/libertad-nov-25.jpg
>>
>> ABSTRACT:
>>
>> <strong>November 26th, 2006 - <em>B.C. Peller</em> reports</strong>:
>> There are reported to be 4 different armed groups operating in Oaxaca
>> City at the moment, PRI backed
>>
>> paramilitaries, the Federal Preventative Police (PFP), the state police
>> and the Federal Investigative Police (AFI). <b><a
>>
>> href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/26/18333521.php">Read
>> More</a></b><br><br>
>> <br><br>
>> <strong>November 25th, 2006 - <em>radio zapote</em> writes</strong>:
>> Today, after the seventh megamarch in Oaxaca, members of the APPO
>> attempted to form a human fence around
>>
>> the federal preventative police (PFP), but were attacked with gas. This
>> unleashed a series of clashes with violence again igniting in the city.
>> Many have been arrested and there are reports
>>
>> of many wounded, some by gunfire. It is confirmed that three people were
>> killed.
>> <br /><br />
>> The march unfolded in a festive atmosphere until it reached Oaxaca’s
>> downtown. There began the attempt to form a human fence around the PFP
>> forces in Oaxaca's zocalo. Groups of PRI
>>
>> members started provoking the demonstraters with insults and shooting
>> slingshots with marbles. Later, the PFP began using tear gas to disperse
>> the people. People started to withdraw, but
>>
>> police kept moving forward and then began the riot. While shooting off
>> tear gas, police kept charging on. People tried to resist in a peaceful
>> way, but couldn't stand up against the tear gas.
>>
>> The people began to defend themselves with rockets, homemade bombs and
>> stones. <a
>> href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/25/18333275.php"><b>Read
>> more</b></a>
>> <br /><br />
>> <img src="http://www.indybay.org/im/imc_photo.gif"> <a
>> href="http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/79912.html"><b>Photos on NYC
>> IMC</b></a> || <a
>>
>> href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/25/18333212.php"><b>Minute
>> by Minute for Nov. 25</b></a> || <img
>> src="http://www.indybay.org/im/imc_audio.gif"> <a
>>
>> href="http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/appo.mp3.m3u"><b>Listen to Radio
>> APPO</b></a>
>>
>> <br><br>
>> <A href="http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6957">Minute to Minute Nov. 26
>> (en)</a> | <A href="http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6929">Minuto a
>> Minuto 26 de noviembre</a>
>> <br><br>
>> <A href="http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6935">Minute to Minute Nov.
>> 25(en)</a> | <A href="http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6908">Minuto a
>> Minuto 25 de noviembre</a>
>> <br><br>
>> <A href="http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6924">Video of the march</a>
>> <A href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/index.php?category=13">Sigue la
>> Represión en Oaxaca: Detenciones Arbitrarias y Tortura / Repression
>> Continues in Oaxaca: Illegal Detentions
>>
>> and Torture</a> | <A
>> href="http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-index.php?page=RepresionOaxaca">Lista
>> de los disaparecidos //List of the disappeared</a>
>> <br><br>
>> Photos: <A
>> href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=139429">1</a>
>> | <A
>> href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=139479">2</a>
>> <A
>> href="http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=139472">3</a>
>> | <A
>> href="http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com/galeriafotos/gal.html">4</a>
>> | <A
>> href="http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=99">5</a>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> TEXT:
>>
>> <div class="heading"><strong class="heading">Oaxaca’s popular movement
>> suffers yet another brutal day</strong></div>
>> <div class="author">by radio zapote
>>
>> <br /><em>Saturday Nov 25th, 2006 11:18 PM </em></div>
>> </div>
>> <blockquote class="summary">A peaceful protest in Oaxaca was repressed
>> by the federal police stationed in the center of the city. By nightfall,
>> a few people were reported killed, hundreds arrested and hurt and many
>> disappeared. <br /> </blockquote>
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>> <div class="article"><br>
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>> src="http://images.indymedia.org/imc/chiapas/251106appo5a.jpg"></center>
>> <br>
>> Today, after the seventh megamarch in Oaxaca, members of the APPO
>> attempted to form a human fence around the federal preventative police
>> (PFP), but were attacked with gas. This unleashed a series of clashes
>> with violence again igniting in the city. Many have been arrested and
>> there are reports of many wounded, some by gunfire. It is confirmed that
>> three people were killed.
>> <br>
>>
>> <center><img
>> src="http://images.indymedia.org/imc/chiapas/pict0031.jpg"></center>
>> <br>
>> The march unfolded in a festive atmosphere until it reached Oaxaca’s
>> downtown. There began the attempt to form a human fence around the PFP
>> forces in Oaxaca's zocalo.  Groups of PRI members started provoking the
>> demonstraters with insults and shooting slingshots with marbles. Later,
>> the PFP began using tear gas to disperse the people. People started to
>> withdraw, but police kept moving forward and then began the riot. While
>> shooting off  tear gas, police kept charging on. People tried to resist
>> in a peaceful way, but couldn`t stand up against the tear gas. The
>> people began to defend themselves with rockets, home made bombs and
>> stones.
>> <p>
>> The situation became very tense toward the area north of downtown where
>> the police attempted to surround the protesters. At some point, the PFP
>> entered Santo Domingo, which is occupied by an APPO encampment, and then
>> set fire to the camp. Many fires started throughout the city, which were
>> set by saboteurs. A bus near the University City, a door of the Hotel
>> Camino Real and then the legislative palace and external relationships
>> buildings were all set aflame.
>> <p>
>> The police started using gunfire and also shot gas cans at the
>> protestors. This practice has killed people before in Oaxaca on Nov. 2
>> and in other places like Atenco. Radio Universidad made a general call
>> to withdraw and to get off the streets. Three people were shot by police
>> from two pickup trucks using heavy gunfire near the College of Medicine.
>> Reports indicate more than one hundred shots heard. The killers took two
>> of the bodies and left the third one lying at the spot.
>> <p>
>> Near a place known as El Pochote, a big group of people were surrounded by
>> the police. Also in the streets of Fiallo y Colón, a big number of
>> teachers and workers of the health department were detained and removed
>> in two buses. To the north of downtown, several reports indicate that
>> there were massive arrests of up to thirty people who were sprayed with
>> gas after being detained. In a place called El Fortin, witnesses report
>> how
>> police were beating up and torturing detained ones before moving them
>> from the spot aboard pickup trucks. Radio Universidad keeps transmitting
>> and making announcements and denunciations.
>> <p>
>> The pacific mobilization received an attack from the federal police with
>> gases and gunfire. Then protesters faced a wave of represion by armed
>> police officers and paramilitary which resulted in the deaths of three
>> people, many injured individuals, more than 60 detained protesters and
>> innocent bystanders and an unknown number of disappeared people. The
>> numbers are increasing because violence has not ceased in the streets of
>> Oaxaca.
>> <p>
>> People caught on the streets are looking for safe places to hide as the
>> night promises more terror.
>> Radio Universidad is asking its listeners to open their doors and allow
>> people to hide. Now the PFP is entering people’s homes to ransack them
>> and search for protesters. The APPO has made a plea for all national and
>> international organizations in solidarity with the Oaxaca struggle to
>> protest where they can against the brutality of the Mexican federal
>> government in its support of Ulises Ruiz.</div>
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