[noborders-brum] Indymedia Oaxaca Info-night comes to Birmingham: May 16th
phunkee
phunkee at riseup.net
Tue May 8 17:46:31 UTC 2007
*_Indymedia Oaxaca Info-night comes to Birmingham_*
An IndyOaxaca compañero who is indigenous to the mixe territory of
Oaxaca and an avid community radio, video and print and independent
media activist with Indymedia Oaxaca is coming to talk and show films in
Birmingham on *Wednesday 16th May @ Rooty Frooty at Digbeth's Custard
Factory from 7pm - 9pm.
*
2006 was a tumultuous year in Mexico and there is still no end in sight.
Above stands a highly contested presidential election and from below
there is a Zapatista campaign to focus the grassroots, anti-capitalist
Left all over the country.
The annual teachers strike in the south-eastern Mexican city of Oaxaca
and the subsequent movement protests became the largest popular
rebellion in over a decade. Then, hundreds of illegal detentions,
disappearances and injuries, and at least eighteen documented deaths
followed.
Read more about the Oaxaca Uprising pages on Indymedia UK:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/oaxaca/
In Oaxaca, a broad-based movement to unseat an unpopular and corrupt
governor turned into a grassroots uprising for direct democracy. For
months, hundreds of residents in the half million people City and
surrounding area took part in and maintained more than 1,000 street
barricades, protest camps, occupations of government buildings as well
as the literal takeover of mainstream media outlets. Mexico's federal
government later sent in thousands of militarized police to crack down
on the popular uprising and prop up the regime of the status quo. Taking
part in all of these events is a lively independent media movement . . .
We will screen short films and hear straight from the horse's mouth the
reasons behind last year's events in Oaxaca, bad governments, land
struggles, exploitation, migration, the destruction of the environment,
the continuing annihilation of indigenous cultures, ways of life and in
mexico, their eternal refusal to conveniently make way to projects like
the Plan Puebla Panama and disappear for the benefit of the rich and for
“the North”. We will look at what this means, to be indigenous, to be
autonomous, to be rebellious, to organize and resist.
Resist dams, roads and agribusiness, biodiesel plantations or corporate
T.V. We will update on the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)
campaign of continuing resistance, and look into European and UK
involvement in the area, dissect it and draw parallels with local plans
and struggles, community organisation and independent media. We expect
people's involvement and hopefully we'll get to look inside our own
reality, actions and beyond...
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2007/05/370028.html
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