Octubre 29, 2006

More About what's Happening in Oaxaca

The federal police are apparently moving into the areas of Oaxaca City that have been controlled by the protesters. They have small tanks and lots of riot troops.
Apparently people are putting their bodies in front of the tanks. calling it "human rugs" in front of the tanks.
This is according to the live APPO radio stream coming from the University radio station there, which has been operated by protestors for some weeks.

The names of all 4 dead from Friday: Emilio Alonso Fabián,
Bradley Roland Will, Emilio Alonso Fabian,Esteban López Zurita.

a bunch of links to stuff:

  • A page about Ulises Ruiz, the governor of Oaxaca, who the protestors want out.
  • a link to the APPO radio stream.
  • a map with some landmarks of Oaxaca City.
  • the Centro Medios Libres, Free Media Center, in Mexico City, which currently has the best, most up to date breaking news of what's happening. seems to be based on the radio stream.
  • the indymedia irc channel where you can see translations live of the radio stream.
  • the first hand account of the attack that killed 4, including indymedia videographer Brad Will and 3 Oaxaquenos, written by 2 activists from pittsburgh who were there.
  • a series of Reuters photos from the last couple days.
  • a minimally edited video from Brad's last footage. this is very intense. he was rolling tape when he was shot.

    I feel really helpless sitting here listening and reading, all i can do is cut and paste links while the goons roll in with their tanks and tear gas a thousand miles away. this is horrible. and I feel foolish. i read articles yesterday about Fox sending in these federal police and i optimistically believed "restoring lawfulness" and "stopping the violence" meant simply preventing the thugs and corrupt local police from further attacking the APPO protestors. but no, apparently it meant going in and finally smashing these brave people. how naive and gullible i still am.

    Posted by steev at Octubre 29, 2006 12:20 PM
    • Comments
    Hey Steev, you have the Reuters photos linked twice, so we can't find the video Brad shot. Posted by: McChris at Octubre 29, 2006 09:52 PM