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1 de Noviembre, 2006
¡No Represión!
Categorized under Oaxaca , Protesta | Tags: APPO, Oaxaca, Police Brutality, Ruiz
In the video, demonstrators speak out and carry signs directed to the gathering riot police. One handpainted sign says "We are brothers..." A woman can be seen attempting to reach out to standing riot police, crying out "No puedes massacre a su jente!" ("You can't massacre your people!") and other pleas. She places a flower in the armor of one smiling policeman as bystanders applaud, but another officer behind him removes the flower and tramples on it. Protesters can also be heard shouting "Ulises has fallen!" and various other slogans while armed riot police bear down, beating their batons against their shields as they march, eventually dispersing the protesters with tear gas as tanks fire water cannons and choppers fly overhead.
—Raw Story, Oct 31
This video is some coverage of the events of the 29th in Oaxaca, when Mexican police moved against the citizens of Oaxaca. The moments between the woman with the flower and the wall of police is strong. When he won't take it, she finally slips it behind his bulletproof vest. It is an especially strong moment to me because it evokes images of the time when I was young, and Americans placed flowers in the barrels of guns here at home. Trying to stop the very same war machine, the greed machine, the violence and corruption machine. It dresses up in different flags over time, but its hunger is always the same. Its methods are always the same.
The clip is moving. Watching the black armored wall of batons, riot shields, boots, helmets and armored vehicles moving on the wall of civilians, all to the sounds of a klaxon-fest of horn-honking tells you everything you need to know about government control of the human being. Watching the People moving together; chanting together; shouting hoarse-throated and rallying each other; speaking from the heart to the camera and defying the faceless, weaponized police-entity tells you everything you need to know about the human heart.
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kick it, ése.