On the One-Year Anniversary of the Police Occupation of Oaxaca City, the Popular Assembly is Still Fighting

By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca

November 27, 2007

The peoples of Oaxaca marked the first-year anniversary of the fierce state and federal police repression of the Oaxaca social movement on November 25. There was not a cop in sight.

The first event of the day marched into the Oaxaca zocalo around noon, a procession of peoples and banners reminiscent of all the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in its Spanish initials) marches of the past year and a half. Nothing impeded their entry; a speaker’s platform and various banners were set up in much the same way as we have seen them, both before and after the repression of November 25, 2006. The APPO refuses to give up.....read on >>>>