I have been meaning to write this, but, once again Blogger was not cooperating.
On October 27, 2006 Indymedia journalist and videoblogger Brad Will was the killed while covering the teacher�s strike in Oaxaca. He was known to have supported the protesters and their cause New York City Independent Media Center reported that Will was shot [...]
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It looks like things are still not looking good in Oaxaca. It looked like the APPO, teachers and government were about to reach an agreement to allow the police to enter, until the police and roving band of strikers wearing hoods and carrying clubs and rocks started shooting at members of APPO and some university [...]
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One of the best thing about small town newspapers, sometimes you get better reports than you major mainstream media. One of the best and clear explanations of the issues in Oaxaca happens to come from Border Hotline – an online news magazine for Texas’ Big Bend Area and northern Mexico. The only downside it is [...]
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At this moment, the strikers of Oaxaca are beginning to barricade in the streets as they are preparing an attack from the military. Narco News is reporting that the Mexican Navy have been carrying out reconnaissance operations over the buildings and public spaces occupied by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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