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Friends,
-Military in Oaxaca to support Ulises Ruiz. It is now evident that the
military was sent into Oaxaca not as a neutral action but to support Ulises
Ruiz:
1. The federal government continues to claim the city has been successfully
"retaken".
2. PRI governors jointly proclaim "Con Ulises Hasta la Muerte/With Ulises
Until Death".
3. Ulises made a public appearance in Santa Maria Coyotepec, a small and
formally tranquil town 20 minutes outside Oaxaca that he is using as his
base, with around 500 troops as security force, among whom were photographed
PRI members known to be directly responsible for the killing of teachers.
-Rage is Building over the Pretense of Justice, Brad Will. The government
has moved quickly to arrest and charge the men who shot and killed Brad
Will; Brad had his camera in his hands when he was shot, his final images
are of his murderers. There is also plenty of visual and verbal evidence
surrounding other killings at the barricades, of Mexicans. None of the
killings of Mexicans have been investigated: Marcos Garcia Tapia, Andres
Santiago Cruz, Pedro Martinez Martinez, Pablo Martinez, Jose Jimenez
Colmenares, Florenzo San Pablo, Arcadio Fabian Hernandez, Alejandro Garcia,
Panfilo Hernandez Vazquez, Emilio Alonzo Fabian, Esteban Zurita Lopez, Jorge
Alberto Lopez Bernal, Fidel Sanchez Garcia. Other bodies have been found,
victims of executions. Many people are missing.
-Support for Oaxaca Growing:
1. Francisco Toledo, Internationally respected Zapotec artist and activist,
is holding a news conference at IAGO, the graphics museum and the largest
art library in Mexico that he established, which is just across from Santo
Domingo. He also published a strong letter against the military occupation
of Oaxaca in Monday's La Jornada. (posted below)
2. Rosario Ibarra de Piedra's son was disappeared in 1968 during military
reprisal against students demonstrators. She has become an esteemed
activist for government transparency, free speech, and human rights. Rosario
is in Oaxaca and will speak in front of the Santo Domingo Cathedral, the new
base of APPO/The Popular Assembly of Oaxaca.
2. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the ex-governor of Mexico City who won the
majority of votes in the recent presidential election announced a
demonstration in Mexico City for Wednesday.
3. Zapatistas announce they are closing all roads in Zapatista territory in
Chiapas today, November 1, and will close roads in the state of Chiapas on
November 20, anniversary of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. November 20 is
also the day Lopez Obrador will be sworn in as the president of Mexico. The
fraudulent president-elect Felipe Caulderon will be sworn in as president of
Mexico December 1.
4. Massive demonstrations were held in Mexico City yesterday, including the
temporary closing the the Mexico-Pueblo Freeway.
5. There were and continue to be demonstrations demanding the Federal troops
be removed from Oaxaca and that Ulises step down to avoid any further
bloodshed.
6. Portland, Oregon: Two activists chained themselves to the door of the
Mexican Consulate yesterday morning. Interestingly, police mounted a curtain
to conceal the lengthy arrest and removal of the activists. In the
afternoon, speakers addressed an extensive crowd and media, and marched to
the Federal Building. Two consuls made an appearance requesting a passage
through the crowd be cleared for people trying to access their offices, and
requesting a written statement from the crowd.
-Day of the Dead Altar for Ulises in the Zocalo. People will be testing the
governments claim that civilians now have "limited" access to the zocalo
when they set up a Day of the Dead altar to Ulises Ruiz there today.
-Zocalo Businesses Emptied. Owners of the small shops inside the kiosk at
the center of zocalo issued a public statement yesterday after the shelves
of their stores were raided and emptied: "The teachers were here five
months and nothing was ever stolen from us. The military is here one night
and our shops are emptied. This shows you the kind of people we are dealing
with".
-InterAmerica Human Rights Commission continues to maintain a table in front
of Santo Domingo to receive family and friends of people who have
disappeared.
Francisco Toledo's letter to Mariano Palacios Alcocer, president of the
PRI/Partido Revolucionario Institucional/Institutional Revolutionary Party:
LIC. MARIANO PALACIOS ALCOCER
PRESIDENTE DEL PARTIDO
REVOLUCIONARIO INSTITUCIONAL
PRESENTE;
As you surely must know, the social and political conflict of Oaxaca has
entered a period of uncontrolled violence; before the eyes of public
opinion, especially of the Oaxacans, the political class has acted with
disdain, calculated party interest, nefastic euphamisms.
Since last Sunday, with the arrival of the PFP (Policia Federal
Preventativa), there began a series of detentions and kidnappings against
supporters of the social movement; these actions, outside the law and the
margin of human rights guarantees, has converted these three days into
political occupation on a daily basis, demented and pernicious.
I call to you, to you and your party, to respond to the exhortation,
growing, urgent, nearly unanimous, to solicit Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to leave his
post as governor of the state of Oaxaca with the intention to generate
better conditions towards the resolution of the shameful crisis. There is
not the least doubt that this urgent decision is the next step in the
promised transition, transparent, truthful, safeguarded, while the lives of
Oaxacan citizens are at risk of being incorporated in the statistics of
those killed in the conflict.
In anticipation of your honorable response, aware of your civic committment
y ethic to this moment, I take advantage of the occasion to greet you.
Atentamente,
Francisco Toledo
thanks,
un abrazo,
ann
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS:
-Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/contact.html <
http://www.hrw.org/contact.html> .
-Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org <
http://www.amnesty.org>-The Right Livelihood Award
(Right Livelihood recognized Francisco Toledo in 2005)
PO Box 15072
S-104 65 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0) 8 702 0340
Fax: +46 (0) 8 702 0338
info@rightlivelihood.org <mailto:info@rightlivelihood.org>
-Indigenous Organization For Human Rights in Oaxaca/
Organizaciones Indias Por Los Derechos Humanos en Oaxaca- OIDHO -
Capulines #4B Prolongación Buenavista
Col. Forestal
Santa MarÃa Atzompa, Oaxaca, México
C.P. 71 220
tel.: 951 54 91916
e-mail: oidho@yahoo <about:blank> . com.mx
MEDIA:
http://www.refdesk.com <about:blank> lists direct contacts for media
contacts. They each have a "contact us" somewhere on their main page.
IndyMedia, BBC and Democracy Now have been most consistent with information
on Oaxaca.
GOVERNMENT:
Phone and fax; there was a cyber blitz on these gentlemen, but some emails
do get through.
Carlos Abascal
Secretary of State/
SECRETARIO DE GOBERNACIÓN
FAX + 55 50 93 34 14,
cabascal@segob.gov.mx <mailto:cabascal@segob.gov.mx>
President Elect Felipe Calderon Hinojosa:
felipe@felipe.org.mx <about:blank>
DR. JOSÉ LUIS SOBERANES
President of the National Comnission on Human Rights/
Presidente de la Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos
FAX + 55 56 81 71 99,
correo@cndh.gob.mx <about:blank>
DANIEL CABEZA DE VACA
PROCURADOR GENERAL DE LA REPÚBLICA
FAX: +55 53460908,
ofproc@pgr.gob.mx <about:blank>
Lic. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
Governor of the State of Oaxaxa/Gobernador del Estado de Oaxaca
Fax: 011 52 951 5020530
gobernador@oaxaca.gob.mx <about:blank>
Vicente Fox Quesada
(Presidencia, Los Pinos)
Telephone:
011 52 (55) 2789 1100
011 52 (55) 18 7501 Atencion Ciudadana
Fax: (55) 52 77 23 76
vicente.fox.quesada@presidencia.gob.mx <about:blank>
There is a list of Mexican consulates in the US and Canada at
http://elenemigocomun.net/128 <
http://elenemigocomun.net/128>Portland, OR-
503 274 1442
m-f 8:3 2:00
1234 SW Morrison, 97205
San Francisco- 415 354 1700
Reliable current and background information:
-Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org <
http://www.amnesty.org>-APPO/ the People's Assembly of Oaxaca
www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com <
http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com>-Free Media Center of Mexico City/Centro de Medias Libres
http://www.vientos.info/cml <
http://www.vientos.info/cml>-Contra G8
http://contrag8.revolt.org <about:blank>
-Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com-Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org <
http://www.democracynow.org>articles regularly
Oct 4 article:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/04/1428217 <about:blank>
-Democratic Underground
www.democraticunderground.com <
http://www.democraticunderground.com>http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2502968
<
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2502968>
-El Enemigo Comun
Oaxaca Facing Imminent Attack:
http://elenemigocomun.net/127-El Universal
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html-Google
Google Alerts <about:blank>
oaxacastudyactiongroup@yahoogroups.com
-Indigenous Organization For Human Rights in Oaxaca/
Organizaciones Indias Por Los Derechos Humanos en Oaxaca- OIDHO -
Capulines #4B Prolongación Buenavista
Col. Forestal
Santa MarÃa Atzompa, Oaxaca, México
C.P. 71 220
tel.: 951 54 91916
e-mail: oidho@yahoo <about:blank> . com.mx
-Indymedia
-KPFA Radio Station
www.kpfa.org <
http://www.kpfa.org>news@kpfa.org.
-La Jornada
www.jornada.unam.mx <about:blank>
articles daily in Spanish
-The Internationalist Group
in NY: 212) 460-0983 or (917) 209-4380
-Movimiento Socialismo
www.movimientoalsocialismo.com <
http://www.movimientoalsocialismo.com>-Narco News
www.narconews.com <about:blank>
-Oaxaca solidarity list:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/oaxaca<about:blank>
-Oregon Peace Worker
www.oregonpeaceworker.org <
http://www.oregonpeaceworker.org>-Progressive Independent
www.progressiveindependent.com <about:blank>
Oct 4 article:
http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=44834&mesg_id=44834
<
http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=44834&mesg_id=44834>
-Radio Universidad
their number to call to give support to the people over the air:
011 52 951 527 5624
-The Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?<
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer>-Radio APPO: Radio en Linea off the air
http://elenemigocomun.net/133 <
http://elenemigocomun.net/133> ,
http://elenemigocomun.net <about:blank>
-Upside Down World
www.upsidedownworld.org <
http://www.upsidedownworld.org>Sept 11 article:
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/426/1/<about:blank>
-Zapote Free