Oaxaca Entries

7 de Julio, 2008

¡Brad Will Resurrected!

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Oaxaca , Política México , Violencia | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, CIA, Citizen Journalism, Oaxaca, Ruiz, truth

THE SPIRIT OF BRAD WILL shall not be forgotten so easily. The fight for the telling and finding of truth and the placing of oneself into harm's way to do so will go on. Bradley Roland Will is a spiritual guide for this fight, and his name and cause...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 7:39 AM.  | | (4)

17 de Abril, 2008

Open Threadito

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Latin America , Oaxaca , Violencia | Tags: Burger King, Chevron, Democrats, Ecuador, Farming, Mexico, misogyny, Oaxaca, Power to the People, Radio

O, IF ONLY blogging paid me enough to spend the hours writing here I'd love to. It does not. And yet, there are so many things to talk about between us, and that help inform in such important ways. Burger King, for one thing, who sees "no legal way"...

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28 de Enero, 2008

Eufrosina for Mayor!

Categorized under Indígena , Oaxaca , Política México , Sexismo | Tags: indigenous, Mexicans, Mexico, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Zapotec

THOUGH IT IS TRICKY to judge other cultures by our own standards (especially when we have so far to go ourselves), I don't think there's any question that this is a pretty unacceptable situation for las mujeres. It reminds me of the perverse idea that makes the rounds in the...

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15 de Enero, 2008

Oaxaqueño Youth Under Attack

Categorized under Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Oaxaca

AND THE CORRUPTION IN OAXACA refuses to die a quiet death. Urban Paramilitaries Provoke and Attack a Youth March Today, January 15th, 2007, before the beginning of a youth march for the liberation of political prisoners, Urban Paramilitaries (porros) have initiated a series of provocations to defame the social...

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27 de Agosto, 2007

Atenco, Oaxaca, Chiapas

Categorized under Gobierno , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Atenco, Chiapas, Mexico, Oaxaca

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25 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira Brings the Fight to México

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Latin America , Medios , Migra , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Elvira Arellano, migra, Oaxaca, Power to the People, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Ruiz

ELVIRA WON'T REST, and though she was prevented by men with guns from showing up in D.C. to step to what she felt was unjust persecution and law, she now speaks her peace to the government of Mexico. I have a feeling this mujer is determined to confront the...

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22 de Julio, 2007

Violent Showdown in Oaxaca...Tomorrow?

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: APPO, Calderon, Guelaguetza, Oaxaca, Power to the People, Ruiz

A VOICE THAT BRINGS US THE NEWS of Oaxaca on a regular basis, Nancy Davies, warns of the possibility that the corrupt Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, installed Governer apparatus extraordinaire, may be determined to foment violence in Oaxaca: On Friday June 29 a signed letter appeared in Noticias warning the...

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20 de Julio, 2007

Oaxaca's Truth

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Guelaguetza, Hope, Oaxaca, Power to the People

As one of the anonymous women in an APPO artisans collective put it, the night after the repression, The government can rob everything, but it cant rob your dignity, your culture, your customs and traditions. In Oaxaca, because theres culture, theres resistance. Teacher-activist Roman had this to say after...

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22 de Junio, 2007

Mexican Supreme Court to Investigate Oaxaca Oppression

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Hope, Oaxaca, Ruiz

THE CITY WHERE JUSTICE CANNOT SLEEP: The Supreme Court of Mexico has decided to appoint a commission to investigate serious violations of human rights which occurred in Oaxaca between May 2006 and January of 2007. Those violations included the attack on sleeping protesters on June 14, 2006 and the...

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16 de Junio, 2007

Oaxaca Anniversary - Solidaridad con Sección 22

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Oaxaca, Power to the People, resistance, Ruiz

AT AROUND FIVE in the morning on Thursday, June 14th, 2007 hundreds of fireworks cracked the quiet dawn and burst in the sky above Oaxaca City, Mexico. Though the streets remained still, people began waking up and movement chants could be heard coming from the windows of houses. “If...

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15 de Junio, 2007

Investigator of Brad Will's Death Shot Twice

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, CIA, Mexico, Oaxaca

IF THERE WAS EVER ANY DOUBT in my mind that Brad Will was shot as part of nefarious agendas designed to silence truth, that doubt is now completely gone. Misael Sánchez Sarmiento, the Oaxaca-based Tiempo reporter who was investigating the shooting, has now been shot himself. MEXICO: Oaxaca journalist...

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7 de Mayo, 2007

Oaxaca Earthquake

Categorized under Ciencia , Historia , Oaxaca | Tags: Earthquake, Oaxaca

OAXACA gets shaken up by a 5.1 earthquake. Sounds like it was mild, but of course any earthquake news in Mexico brings up some bad memories....

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1 de Mayo, 2007

Stronger Than Police

Categorized under New Mexican Memes , Oaxaca , Resistencia , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: Hope, Mexicans, Mexico, Oaxaca, resistance

REPRESENT, Oaxaca! Show us how it is done. Beauty and hope fills my heart! Admiration for the unfettered human spirit, hope for all of us. More like this! At approximately 5pm today in Oaxaca City, Radio Universidad was re- occupied by APPO sympathizers and students from different departments of...

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28 de Marzo, 2007

Bullets That Cannot Kill Truth

Categorized under Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: APPO, Oaxaca, Power to the People

OAXACA. Tuesday, November 2007. Oaxacan Peoples Popular Assembly (APPO) member Marcos Garcia is ambushed by four men strapped with assault rifles, who fire over 140 bullets at his vehicle. Eight of those hit Garcia. But he lives. And now he tells his story. This is an interview conducted by four...

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25 de Febrero, 2007

APPO on the rise!

Categorized under Corazón , Oaxaca | Tags: APPO, brown pride, derechos de mujeres, EZLN, Hope, Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People, Ruiz

AS THE CRUEL, HARD, HANDS OF OPPRESSION, deception, and greed cannot hope to be stronger than the heart, the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) is only gaining support and energy as a reaction to the fascist, violent tactics of installed governor Ulises Ruiz. Once again the...

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19 de Enero, 2007

I Just Want His Bones

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Oaxaca | Tags: bush, Capitalism, eat the rich, Hope, hypocrisy, New York City, Oaxaca, resistance

I HAVE NEVER BEEN AS THEY WOULD HAVE ME BE, not that they didn't try. Not that the schools didn't try; not that my legal-adopted-whitedaddy didn't try; not that those around me didn't try to control me, my feelings, my memory, my actions, my heart. They same machines that...

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21 de Diciembre, 2006

Mexico Profundo and A New Way Forward

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México , Resistencia | Tags: APPO, borders, Calderon, Capitalism, EZLN, False History, Hope, Imperialism, indigenous, Mexico

GUSTAVO ESTEVA has written an amazing three-part article on Mexico's divisions and decay, her history, the effects of NAFTA, Neoliberalism, the EZLN (and why they are a hugely important fact), Globalization, and the roots and reasons for what is going on right now in Oaxaca. But more than some...

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Oaxaca Call for Global Solidarity

Categorized under Acción , Oaxaca , Política México , Raza , Resistencia | Tags: activism, brown pride, EZLN, indigenous, Mexico

FRIDAY, EL 22 DE DICIEMBRE (TOMORROW) is the day that Solidarity Actions with Oaxaca begin. If you have only come across this post and are wondering why this would be important to you, read here, and there's much more here. EZLN llama a Movilización Mundial para Oaxaca (EZLN calls for...

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20 de Diciembre, 2006

OAXACA: what happens in the space of darkness?

Categorized under Globalización , Oaxaca , Raza , Resistencia | Tags: APPO, indigenous, Mexico, Oaxaca, Police Brutality, Power to the People, resistance, Ruiz

THE BUSH JUNTA is not the only gang that does not understand that you cannot forever stomp all the bollweevils under the putting green for your happy, greedy, golf game; that you cannot trick justice into the minds of the masses, or scare people into happiness, or wring gratitude...

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18 de Diciembre, 2006

Jungles of Injustice and You: the Big-Hearted Guerrilla

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Derechos Humanos , Hipnotismo , Oaxaca , Raza , Resistencia | Tags: activism, Child Abuse, Oaxaca, Protest

ART HAS BEEN ON MY MIND. And "art" has been on my mind. And Doing Something to Help has been on my mind. And ideas have begun to come together for me as if revelatory. Which is funny, because the ideas that have been ringing out (like fat raindrops on...

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14 de Diciembre, 2006

Catch A Fire, Oaxaca Style

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Ley , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: APPO, Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, Election, False History, Hope, hype, Mexico, Ruiz

IT LOOKS LIKE HELPFUL MINIONS OF FLAME have smiled up at Oaxaca's Governor Ulisses Ruiz, for records kept in his offices that would most likely have shown many illegal exchanges are now...ash. Ruiz of course, claims it was the APPO's use of molotov cocktails, but there are many who...

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9 de Diciembre, 2006

Mexican Feds Chase State Cops

Categorized under Ley , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, Oaxaca, Ruiz

WHETHER CALDERON IS GOING AFTER THE OAXACA STATE POLICE and prosecutor so soon after his installment for purely political reasons or because he cares about those people and what happened to them is secondary to the fact that he is going after them. So let's see what the "evidence" shows....

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6 de Diciembre, 2006

cuarenta horas...ish.

Categorized under Blogando , Globalización , Oaxaca | Tags: brown pride

I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS where you say "if I had known ahead of time, I probably wouldn't have done it. Jeje. Not really. I had to do it. And I'm rather elated. There are a few bugs to fix yet in the code, and minor...

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16 de Noviembre, 2006

Crumbs in Oaxaca

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Oaxaca

Brad Will shot a second time at point blank range 15 minutes after first bullet downs him?...

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9 de Noviembre, 2006

Unrelated Quotes, Part 5.

Categorized under Globalización , Oaxaca , Protesta , Unrelated Quotes | Tags: 9/11, eat the rich, Oaxaca, poverty, terrorism

The media and the public eye tend to focus on the actual act of the protest and not the content of it. I think we need to put the issues in people's hands because then you get a chain reaction of accountability happening. If people get angry enough they will...

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5 de Noviembre, 2006

A Pattern of Attacks

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Oaxaca

FROM Oaxaca Study Action Group: (posted at 08:58:48, timestamped earlier for page placement)) During the night helicopters brought military troops into the city. According to La Doctora, impeccably calm and intelligent as ever on Radio Universidad, the people must remain non-violent - she mentioned Mahatma Ghandi - to avoid the...

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2 de Noviembre, 2006

¡Brad Will Presente!

Categorized under Música , Oaxaca | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, YouTube

Something so fitting about Brad Will coming back on El Día de Los Muertos to sing a song called I Really Like The Cops....

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War in Oaxaca

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Oaxaca

FROM Oaxaca Study Action Group: The war is on in Oaxaca. It began at 8:00 AM with the gathering of the PFP and an inflitartion [sic] of porros and state police in plain clothes.There are 5,000 PFP and many people if they're out there. The Rector of the universidad has...

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We Are Your Overlords

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Gobierno , Oaxaca , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Imperialism, indigenous, Oaxaca

A MAINSTREAM POLITICAL SITE offers a good insight into why the Democratic party produces "lords" who think those underneath them are there to serve them, thank them, or be thought of as chattel, doing their rightful work to support them. It attempts to explain the existence of people like...

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1 de Noviembre, 2006

So Far From God...

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Oaxaca

Basically, [North American ambassador in Mexico, Tony ] Garza ordered to send the PFP (Preventive Federal Police). What a pity...eleven years of war (1810-1821), and the Reforma by Benito Juarez, Mexico's victory over the French army, the Mexican Revolution and the so many deaths and still, we receive orders...

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The Movement is Not Going Away

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Oaxaca

FROM OAXACA: Colleagues, I just received a call from the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers in Oaxaca. Some updates:1. The government has accomplished little through its violent attacks. They have not "retaken" the center of the city. They are in the Zocalo, but the popular movement has encampments at Sto. Domingo...

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¡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...

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31 de Octubre, 2006

You Are Not Alone

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: EZLN, Marcos, Oaxaca

From Marcos: We, the zapatistas, will not stay quiet and we will mobilize in support of our brothers and sisters, the compañeros that are the people of Oaxaca. [...] The message that the Zapatistas send and will sent to the people of Oaxaca is only this: YOU ARE NOT ALONE,...

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The Shadow Shifts, the Light Lifts

Categorized under Corazón , Oaxaca , Palabras , Protesta | Tags: activism, APPO, Bradley Roland Will, Oaxaca, Power to the People, RNC

AFTER BRADLEY ROLAND WILL WAS SHOT and killed, I have had a lot of feelings. Not that watching the events in Oaxaca haven't given me feelings anyway. They've given me more feelings and thoughts than I've noted here by far. And even in the posts I have written, my...

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30 de Octubre, 2006

Thousands March in Oaxaca

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Oaxaca

Oh, man. beautiful. At least ten thousand people march through Oaxaca City, coming within two blocks of the police-occupied Zocalo before turning up to Santo Domingo Cathedral where they will now install a new protest camp. The march showed the incredible support of local residents for the APPO and...

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29 de Octubre, 2006

Bradley Roland Will

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Oaxaca

THERE'S A LOT OF WRITING going on online commemorating the career and untimely end of Bradley Roland Will, the independent reporter who got shot covering Oaxaca. I salute him for his bravery in general. And for his causes. He has an inspiring record. William Bradley Roland, also known as Brad...

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20 de Octubre, 2006

Mexican Senate Refuses to Oust Ruiz

Categorized under Oaxaca | Tags: Oaxaca

THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO BACK ULISES RUIZ ORTIZ, even if the Senate's approval is couched in terms of Constitutional requirements, conflicts and metaphorical hands being tied due to legal terms that can not take into account la realidad y la compleja vida actual—"the reality of the present complexity...

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11 de Octubre, 2006

The Story Always Unfolding

Categorized under Historia , New Mexican Memes , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Oaxaca

MEXICANS SHOW US HOW TO DO IT, once again, inspiring (or shaming, whichever works best for ya) by comparison. It's good to be taught about the positive aspects of your heritage. This is important to give to your own young. To give them positive memes and thoughts and truths,...

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Mel Escapes Oaxaca But Abandons His Soul

Categorized under Humor , Medios , Oaxaca | Tags: Oaxaca

HERE ON THE UNAPOLOGETIC MELWATCH®, we have been alerted to the reemergence of The Gibson by various sources, and as we have sworn a life-long vow to call attention to la locura de Gibson Jr., the path remains clear. While some of our dear readers may protest and think...

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8 de Octubre, 2006

Alarming Insights - Sunday Comix

Categorized under Los tebeos del Domingo , Oaxaca | Tags: arte, fotoshop,