Fwd: Democracy Now tomorrow

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>]

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> From: Lois M Meyer <lsmeyer@UNM.EDU>

> Please send this on to any relevant listserves. Thanks. Lois
>
> ANNOUNCEMENT: Tomorrow (Aug. 18) on Pacifica Radio's
> Democracy Now, Amy Goodman will interview Jill Freidberg
> and others about the present situation of the teachers'
> strike and massive popular movement in Oaxaca, Mexico.
> Please tune in either on the radio or on the internet
> (www.democracynow.org) if you are interested in the latest
> developments. Jill also hopes to provide recent footage of
> events in Oaxaca for broadcast on the internet.
>
> Jill is the producer of the powerful DVD, "Granito de Arena",
> the history of the teachers' movement in Mexico to democratize
> the union itself and now to fight neoliberal policies and the
> privatization of public education. She is in Oaxaca now, filming
> the deterioration of the situation as teachers and movement leaders
> are detained, disappeared and assassinated by state and federal
> police repression.
>
> In an email this morning, Jill reported that the teachers
> are quite discouraged. They are tired, and a lot of them have mixed
> feelings about the decision not to return to begin classes next Monday.
> The movement has decided that teachers will not return to their
> classrooms until the governor is removed and made to abandon the state.
> The teachers' encampment has now spread out all over town (in front of
> state and federal government buildings, state prisons, government TV
> channel 9 which the popular movement took over, as well as broadcast
> antennas, etc). This makes the teachers' numbers appear smaller, though
> the total number of teachers is still large (the striking union numbers
> 70,000 teachers).
>
> On the other hand, there are encouraging signs. Yesterday the
> state health workers announced an indefinite strike in all state
> public hospitals and clinics until the governor is removed and
> leaves the state. A caravan of women from TV channel 9 went to
> Mexico City and the as-yet-unconfirmed rumor is that they were
> able to prevent the governor from going on the air on Televisa
> last night.
>
> If any of you are interested in supporting the Oaxacan teachers
> with a contribution, please contact me at <lsmeyer@unm.edu>.
> Thanks for your interest and support. Lois
>
>
> Lois M. Meyer, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies
> College of Education
> Hokona 267
> University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM  87131
> Tel: 505/277-7244