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Global Support for the APPO

by Narco News (reposted)
The popular movement of Oaxaca has gained ground and legitimacy in the world of resistance. It is no longer only the repression that has brought together activists, collectives, political, religious and human rights groups, people of the art community, and academic and cultural representatives of more than 20 countries, but the expression of an organized form of autonomy that has become, little by little, a referendum of political transformation spurred from below.
An act of repression instigated the creation of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) this past June, as well as another sudden attack from the federal and state governments, initiated October 27 and 29, that included nine new assassinations, detentions and the occupation of the city by the Federal Preventive Police (PFP), detonated an international solidarity movement comparable in intensity only to that which has brought together the Zapatistas and the people of San Salvador Atenco (with their own and unique histories).

Up until this moment more than 160 actions in solidarity with Oaxaca have been registered in different international communication sites in less than one month. During the workday of November 20 alone, brought about and driven by the Zapatista National Liberation Army and guided by the appropriate legitimacy the movement has gained, 47 mobilizations in 46 cities across the planet were reported.

The Mexican embassies and consulates have been blank regarding the protests against the political repression of the government. Marches, political meetings, evening gatherings, conferences, blockades, performances and other cultural activities have accompanied these actions. People have taken to the streets not only to condemn the wave of institutional violence, but they have now initiated informative talks and debates in Europe, the United States and Latin America about the importance of accompanying an autonomous movement that confronts power on a daily basis with a practice whose principal force and drive is its own people.

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http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2388.html
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