Saturday, July 31, 2010

Solidarity Action in Ciudad de Oaxaca

*Click on title for link to article with photos by Scott Campbell @ El Enemigo Comunún



On Saturday, July 31, around 50 individuals from various collectives and organizations in the city of Oaxaca blockaded Calle Benito Juárez in front of the federal courthouse for two hours to protest the escalating aggression against the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala. Reports from the region indicate that 400 paramilitaries from the state-backed Union for the Well-Being of the Triqui Region (UBISORT) have entered the autonomous municipality accompanied by 300 Oaxaca state police in an effort to crush the autonomous project underway in San Juan Copala, a municipality of 70 families who have been under siege by UBISORT and the Movement for Triqui Unification and Struggle (MULT) paramilitaries for seven months.

Protesters demanded an end to the siege, an end to state-backed paramilitary aggression, the immediate exit of paramilitary, police and military forces from San Juan Copala, implicated Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz as the one responsible for the violence, and expressed their support for the autonomous municipality. After two hours the blockade was lifted and a march made its way through town to the city’s central plaza.

Basta de represión contra el Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Copala

A los pueblos de Oaxaca

A la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca

Al pueblo de México

A los pueblos del mundo

A la opinión Pública

“Basta de represión contra el Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Copala”

El día de hoy 30 de Julio de 2010 aproximadamente a la 12:15 del medio día un grupo de hombres fuertemente armados de la UBISORT y acompañados por policías estatales también fuertemente armados, entraron a San Juan Copala disparando al aire y golpeando a compañeras, para posteriormente ocupar violentamente las Instalaciones del Palacio Municipal.

Stop the repression against the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala

Oaxaca de Magón, City of Resistance, July 30, 2010

To the peoples of Oaxaca
To the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
To the people of Mexico
To the peoples of the world
To the general public

Today, July 30, 2010 at approximately 12:15, just after noon, a group of heavily armed UBISORT men accompanied by state police who were also heavily armed, went into San Juan Copala shooting into the air, striking the women comrades, and then violently occupying the Municipal Government Building.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Desalojo violento de comerciantes en el zócalo/ Violent removal of merchants in zócalo

Entre los detenidos José Armando Méndez de 13 años. 13 year old José Armando Méndez is among the arrested.
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