I feel pride in thinking about my connection to Mexico, when I read of these types of demonstrations of solidarity and actualized struggles for real justice, not the pretend kind, not in the movies (that fade after two hours), not the georgewbush kind—not the celluloid bullhorn kind of righteousness. The kind, instead, that inspires people who feel they are the victims of corruption to do all these people have done. Stop the crooked system in its tracks, open their homes to each other; discourage tourism dollars and not even think about it; remain vigil, give their life, surrender comfort, and at the end of it (one hopes) walk—numbered in the thousands—almost 300 miles to the capital. These aren't athletes. These aren't marathoners. These are just people. Just people living in their country feeling that injustice is being done to them, and not being able to sit still until it is undone.

Thousands of protesters from Oaxaca have marched to Mexico City to demand their state governor's resignation.

They accuse Ulises Ruiz, governor of the southern state, of rigging elections and using brutal force to put down protests.

The protesters have been involved in a bloody struggle with security forces in which five people have died since May.

Mr Ruiz has denied any responsibility for the violence and has refused to step down.

—BBC News

Depending on what sources you read, it either looks like the teachers will be hard to please, or that they are all close to a deal. Even if they reach a deal, time will tell if it is a fair one. And while that part is very important to them in a practical way—as of course it must be to motivate such action—already, the important part has happened, in terms of what I began this post talking about. Because regardless of the final outcome, what has already happened is inspiring, and a model for human behavior. It is a model that Gandhi (an Indian man) taught, a model that Rosa Parksacted out (a woman), and Martin Luther King, Jr (a black man) spoke of. It is a model that ought to resonate with every human of every nation, shape, size, color, sexual orientation and stripe. It is the model of love-made-action; a model of anti-complacency, anti-apathy, pro-truth, pro-justice, pro-love, pro-life (in the honest sense of the word). and an important tale to remember to tell to your chavalitos, And to yourself. To use to reinforce what you're doing now.

We are alive now to take note of this part of the Story. I feel the history being made, don't you? Let's use our presence and energy to celebrate it, remember it, tell it, retell it. After all, this is not a seismic shift of the political landscape due to scandal, manipulation of the media, or lies from the bully pulpit. This is The Human Seeking Change, and with my own hands, as Ben Harper said.

'If they kill us, then we were born to die,' says María, a Mixteca indigenous woman who teaches in Mixteco and Spanish in a rural elementary school, a five-hour walk from the nearest road.

'We are not afraid,' she adds, 'because we are here defending a just cause.'"

—blog.anarchy.org.au

My energy and my heart goes out to these people—and to Africans, and to North Koreans, and to Americans (though less there, for we have much more means)—and to all people all over this world who suffer from injustice and oppression at the hands of those stronger, more strapped. It the age-old battle, la lucha siempre pasando. May we all find a way to enjoin it—on any and every level possible—and every day.