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HEyHEY

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Sun Sep-09-07 01:17 PM
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Let's discuss Oaxaca

So, last night I went to a meeting of CIPO in my city for a story I'm doing. Very nice bunch of people who really care about the situation in Oaxaca. It seems as though Mexico's human rights abuses there have, amazingly, gone unnoticed. It's a shock because of how tight Mexico is with Canada and the US. You'd think more people would care about the situation because of us having trade agreements and the like.

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NoodleBoy

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Sun Sep-09-07 01:21 PM
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1. it is quite amazing, and I've got to say I'm ashamed for not knowing more about it

Edited on Sun Sep-09-07 01:21 PM by NoodleBoy

here I am, right over the border, and I rarely get information about the various rebellions going on in Mexico.

It could be because we're too busy blaming illegal immigrants from "Mexico" (meaning all of Latin America) for all of our problems for our media to give a damn about reporting what our neighbors to the South are up to in their own countries.

The amount of insulation the United States, and especially the American Southwest, has from our hemispheric brethren is really amazing. We here more about what's going on in Europe than we do the rest of the Americas.

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L. Coyote

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Sun Sep-09-07 01:50 PM
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6. Try listening to radio over the Internet, like Radio Oaxaca or Radio Universidad

http://radiostationworld.com/Locations/Mexico/radio_websites.asp?m=oa~

This is the station taken over by students during the fracas.
Universidad Autonoma "Benito Juárez" de Oaxaca
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mex.
RADIO EN LÍNEA
XEUBJ Radio Universidad de Oaxaca
http://www.uabjo.mx/radio/radioOnLine.php

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Colorado Progressive

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Sun Sep-09-07 01:22 PM
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2. Well for starters, do you have a link to an article that could enlighten some of us? nt

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HEyHEY

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Sun Sep-09-07 01:24 PM
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3. haha - good call

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/380636.html

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ret5hd

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Sun Sep-09-07 01:33 PM
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4. Heres a good article on the reporter Brad Will who was killed there:

http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=6202

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HEyHEY

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Sun Sep-09-07 01:35 PM
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5. Yeah, you guys are right... screw it

This cause hasn't been endorsed by a dem-candidate yet, hence it is irrelevant.

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madrchsod

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Sun Sep-09-07 02:59 PM
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7. this and other mexican protests were covered here

several months ago then nothing. although i rarely replied i did note that i did read all the posts that i saw on these subjects...the steel strike down there rivals anything that happened in the usa in the 1800 and 1900`s. ya the free trade agreement is working out real well....

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EFerrari

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Sun Sep-09-07 03:01 PM
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8. There's been a news blackout up here -- just like the fact

that BushCo helped steal that election is.

They elected a progressive. The progressive wasn't seated. Sound familiar?

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HEyHEY

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Sun Sep-09-07 04:17 PM
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9. It really is shocking how much coverage they AREN'T getting

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EFerrari

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Sun Sep-09-07 04:37 PM
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10. It's not once you understand that the United States has always

Edited on Sun Sep-09-07 04:38 PM by sfexpat2000

preyed on Latin America. In all probability, my tax dollars are being used to prop up the oligarchy in Mexico, to imprison protesters and pay for riot police to beat up on lawful dissenters.

If most Americans knew that their own government made illegal immigration a matter of survival because we keep destablizing democracy in Latin America, they wouldn't be able to take it in.

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