[www-features] PROPOSED: Student March, Climate & Oaxaca in Mexico

[Reclaim The Commons]

this draft text as it's written may be too long for a feature, and still it
only scratches the surface
of the tremendous movements happening now in mexico, but i'm proposing it
because it connects 3 major events (a huge student march in mexico city, the
red alert in oaxaca, and the g8+5 climate meeting) happening this week in
mexico!

feature picture - http://www.tvazteca.com/hechos/vidimg/138063a.jpg

<p>Through showers of rain, more than ten thousand students, workers,
survivors and <i>companeros</i> marched October 2nd in the streets of Mexico
City to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the Mexican goverment's<a href="
http://contrag8.revolt.org/es/node/41"> 1968 massacre at Tlatelolco</a> that
killed hundreds of student protesters. Members of the Popular Assembly of
the People of Oaxaca (APPO) led the march with a banner saying: "To avoid
future repressions, punish the genocides of yesterday and today." In
solidarity with the <a href="http://mexico.indymedia.org/oaxaca">pro-democracy
uprising</a> now in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, and against the
massive Mexican military assault against their movement that observers <a
href=http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2105.html">report may be
imminent</a>, chants and banners denouncing repression in Oaxaca resounded
throughout the march.  <a href="
http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=74">pictures</a>
| <a href="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/10/02/021n1pol.php">theater
action (es) </a> | <a href="
http://www.tvazteca.com/hechos/archivos2/2006/10/138063.shtml">report
(es)</a></p>

<p>Also in Mexico, in the northeastern city of Monterrey on October 3rd and
4th, Energy and Environmental Ministers from the G8 industrialized countries
and five "emerging" economies (Brazil, India, China, South Africa and
Mexico) are meeting for the <a href="
http://globeinternational.org/home-page.html">G8+5 Gleneagles Dialogue on
Climate Change</a>. Environmental activists against climate change are
holding an alternative <a href="http://risingtidenorthamerica.org/g8">Climate
Justice Dialogue and Convergence</a> in Mexico City. The G8+5 meeting is
focused on "market-based mechanisms" such as "carbon trading" that climate
activists say enrich corporations without actually reducing emissions of
greenhouse gases that cause global warming.</p>

The struggles against repression in Oaxaca and catastrophic global warming
can be seen as linked by <a href="
http://www.chiapas-support.org/plan_panama.htm">Plan Puebla Panama</a>
(PPP), a  trans-continental "infrastructure development" project planned by
the Mexican state that includes expansion of fossil fuels extraction,
creation of new <i>maquiladora</i> industrial zones, and a super-highway
slated to run through Oaxaca. Failure now by the people by the people of
Oaxaca to reclaim their social rights and political empowerment will be a
victory for the capitalist, anti-democratic forces pushing the PPP - and
this is one reason underlying the Mexican government's brutal response to
Oaxaca's uprising.

<p><a href="http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/119023.shtml">Stop the
G8+5, Defend Oaxaca! Virtual Sit-In</a> | <a href="
http://contrag8.revolt.org/es/node/7">Climate Justice Now! Mexico Call to
Action (en)</a> <a href="http://contrag8.revolt.org/es/node/6"> (es) <a
href="http://contrag8.revolt.org/fr/node/32">(fr) | <a href="
http://contrag8.revolt.org/es/node/28">Climate Justice Schedule of Events in
Mexico City (en)</a> <a href="http://contrag8.revolt.org/es/node/27">(es)</a>
| <a href="http://narconews.com">Oaxaca updates at NarcoNews</a> | <a href="
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/187795/index.php">Boston
Action in Solidarity with Oaxacca</a> | <a href="
http://mexico.indymedia.org/oaxaca">Indymedia Oaxaca</a>