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Oaxacan Teachers Support the APPO and the Ninth Megamarch |
Submitted by: Felix / 11 Feb 2007
Publisher: Nancy Davies / Narco News
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Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) keeps one law for the people and another for his government of Oaxaca. Supporters of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in its Spanish initials) have been thrown in jail on charges of “impeding public transit,” or blocking access on public roads, or access to public buildings. URO repeatedly has maintained the Oaxaca Zócalo and the plaza in front of Santo Domingo Church as “no-go” areas in order to prevent a return of the APPO encampments. On February 3 he outdid himself by erecting razor wire barriers, bringing in attack dogs, police with billy clubs wrapped with barbed wire, and the presence of 4,000 riot police (as reported by Las Noticias), many of them mounted on horses. |
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The Black Cat Is Awake |
Submitted by: Felix / 28 Oct 2006
Publisher: Porkupine blog
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The Confédération nationale du Travail(CNT- F) (1) is undergoing a revival, due in particular to disaffection with the larger union federations. Meet the members of this trade union which stands for self-management and direct action.
A black cat with hair standing on end, back arched as a sign of anger... In the March demonstrations, one saw the famous black and red CNT flag waving. One could also notice the significant number demonstrators in its ranks, in particular young people. A significant revival, which delights the old militants and gives weight to their arguments. |
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Federal Police Authorized to Enter Oaxaca - A Day Of Killings While Teachers Negotiate in Mexico City |
Submitted by: Felix / 28 Oct 2006
Publisher: Nancy Davis / Narco News
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October 28, 2006: President Vicente Fox, through his Secretary of Internal Affairs Carlos Abascal, has authorized the entry of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP in its Spanish initials) into Oaxaca, in direct response to the events of October 27 in Oaxaca. Following a declaration by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) to launch an all-out work stoppage and boycott to force the hand of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (known as “URO”), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) supporters, both police and private individuals, assaulted the population in several different areas of the city on Friday. The result, according to the Radio Universidad, was four dead, thirty wounded. The dead have now been identified as Emilio Alonso Fabián, Bradley Will and Eudocia Olivera Díaz. The fourth reported death, of Esteban Zurita López, is at the center of accusations by both sides of the conflict, with each blaming the other. |
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Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly Throws Down a Challenge to the Governor: General Strike on October 27, 28, and 29 |
Submitted by: Felix / 27 Oct 2006
Publisher: Nancy Davis / Narco News
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OCTOBER 26, 2006: After five months of struggle, the Popular Assembly movement in Oaxaca has reached an impasse. Many fear the solution will come through violence, many still hope that the governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (known as “URO”) will end the confrontation by resigning his office when confronted with even fiercer ungovernability. He says he won’t.
Meanwhile, the APPO issued a “call for a popular peaceful insurrection” on December 1 if the state’s governor, Ulises Ruiz, has not stepped down by then. The immediate plan for October 27, 28 and 29 is a complete blockade of highways and roads, and complete closure of all businesses. It is supposed to be not only a state strike, but a national one, and one that will foreshadow the speed, progress and strength of the Popular Assembly movement. |
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Oaxaca Teachers Refuse to Budge, Reject Order from their Own Union Leadership to Return to Classes |
Submitted by: Felix / 24 Oct 2006
Publisher: Nancy Davis
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The state was in a grim mood, as the teachers’ union returned to its base for another consultation about returning to the classroom. Many teachers viewed themselves as facing a choice between death or continuing to fight. But for the first time, I saw on Saturday a spray-painted wall saying. “Rueda P, you are a traitor to the teachers and to the APPO.” Enrique Rueda Pacheco, the head of the teachers’ union, had announced the return to classes on national television. His declaration was “illegal,” in the sense that no consultation with the base – required under Section 22 principles ¬– had yet taken place. When teachers received their ballots to vote on the future of the strike, the ballot questions asked only when they thought classes should resume; continuing the strike was not offered as an option. |
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The Bosses War of Attrition: One Third of Union Members Could Disappear |
Submitted by: syndicalist / 20 Oct 2006
Publisher: Patrick Star (NEFAC-Boston)
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In the US health care, living wages, pensions, job protections, the weekend -- all this could be taken away from as many as eight million already unionized workers, based on a ruling made by The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). |
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News From Iranian Workers’ Movement |
Submitted by: Felix / 01 Oct 2006
Publisher: Iranian Labour News Agency
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According to ILNA (Iranian Labour News Agency), Mr. Borhan Divargar a May Day organizer and labour activist has been sentenced to two years in prison. His attorney Mr. Mohammad Sharif by announcing his client’s convictions added that his charges are assembling and conspiracy to commit a crime. He also added that he would file with the Higher Kurdistan province Court of Appeal to revise his clients’ sentences. Mr. Sharif also mentioned that a hearing is set for October 16 through 18 at first division of Saqez Revolutionary Court for Mr. Mahmoud Salehi and Jalal Hosseini who are the other Saqez Labour activists that have been charged. |
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South Korea: Solidarity needed! The crack down on the KGEU still continues today! |
Submitted by: Chris Enquist - IWW / 01 Oct 2006
Publisher: Laborstart.org
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KGEU Breaking News 060927
September 27, 2006
[URGENT]
Your solidarity is needed!
Today is the 4th day of the crack down on the KGEU local offices. 111 local offices were forcefully closed down nation wide. Every working day has seen the violent attacks on the union offices and the arrests of the union members since last Friday. The riot police and the specially hire thugs have raided the union office from dawn till midnight.
Many KGEU offices were violently broken into and closed down. Riot police and thugs armed with fire extinguishers, fire-fighting dust, hammers, claw hammers, hammer drills and power saws broke through the windows or even by making an opening in the wall to storm into union offices. KGEU members were forcefully pulled out of the union offices and arrested. The union offices the union offices were sealed off with iron plates or bars in many cases. |
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