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Oaxaca: Myths and Dreams by David Kane, Maryknoll Office for Global
Concerns, November 27, 2006
Sunday night we watched
as the thousands of marching, heavily-armored riot police neared the bridge
flanked by a dozen crowd-control tanks spewing colored water from their water
cannons. The hundreds of neighbors from nearby poor colonias who
gathered on the bridge seemed a hopeless mismatch for this impressive show of
force.
Resistance and Repression in Oaxaca
by Luis Hernández Navarro, Opinion
Editor at La Jornada (Mexico), November 17, 2006
A severe crisis in
the model of control has eroded relationships of domination in many parts of
Mexican national territory. People accustomed to obeying have refused to do
so. People who think they are destined to rule have been unable to impose
their command. Those from below have become disobedient. When those on the top
want to impose their opinion from above, in the name of the law, they are
ignored from below. Nowhere is the breakdown in control and the effervescence
of rebellion as obvious as in the state of Oaxaca.
Oaxaca Fights Back
by Laura Carlsen, International Relations Center, November 8, 2006
The Oaxacan protest
movement burns slow, but deep. Oaxacan teachers, who mobilized for a pay raise
last May, consciously built on years of protest against social inequality in
their state.
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