Davies: 10th APPO Megamarch Observes Women's Day

Davies: 10th APPO Megamarch Observes Women's Day

Dear Colleague,

This past Thursday Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in its Spanish initials) fully recovered and reloaded after the federal police assault which began on November 25, organized its tenth megamarch in defiance of the repressive policies of Governor Ulises Ruiz.

Narco News' Nancy Davies continues her commentary on events from Oaxaca:

"The Zócalo once again was blockaded with troops behind metal blockades, and razor wire. The water tanks reappeared along with the firemen, while the marchers, shoulder to shoulder, elbow linked to elbow, shouted 'We are all the APPO!'. The march, as much a social event as a political one, never approached the Zócalo.

"...The women demanded the freeing of all political prisoners, the departure of the military police and likewise the departure of URO. The women from the indigenous communities of the Isthmus also spoke against neoliberalism, the Plan Puebla Panama, and the current despoliation of their lands by the transnationals who have embarked on the construction of a wind-generating project. The rightful owners of the land do not agree. A hydroelectric dam is also in the planning phase, and the indigenous people along the southern coast are taking up defense of themselves and their livelihoods."

Read this story in it’s entirety, along with breaking news and commentary on Oaxaca, the House of Death and the Drug War, and more from Latin America at Narco News:

http://www.narconews.com/Issue45/article2583.html

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