Right now, in this very moment, state policemen dressed
in civil clothes are attacking the barricades maintained
by the Oaxacan people and their teachers. They are
shooting them with machine guns and the teachers and
the people are defending themselves with stones and
machetes. It is a real massacre organized by the
ulises ruiz administration (Oaxcan Governor). There
are many teachers hurted and at least one American
reporter from New York City (Indymedia), killed by the
State police. The local Red Cross is not caming to
attend the urgent help calls because they have got
orders from the state goverment not to do it. Please
help all concerned.

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77757.html
>>
>>A shootout has occurred in the municipality of
>>Calicate, in Oaxaca City, Mexico today, leaving New
>>York City Indymedia journalist Bradley Will dead after
>>being shot in the chest. He died before reaching the
>>hospital, according to La Jornada. A photographer from
>>the newspaper millenio diario, who was at Wills side,
>>was shot in the foot and reported injured, his status
>>unknown.
>>Radio APPO, the radio of the Assembly Popular of the
>>Oaxacan People,
>>are reporting truckloads of armed paramilitaries
>>entering the city.
>>There are also calling for people to reinforce the
>>thousands of barricades that have been constructed for
>>months as part of the statewide teacher strike and
>>popular uprising that has demanded the removal of PRI
>>governor ulisis Ortiz Ruiz.
>> www.vientos.info/cml
>> www.lajornada.com

Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:00 pm (PST)
My entry to OSAG site is being repeatedly blocked, as well as receiving, so forgve repetitions.Try to spread alarm, that's the bottom line. Dan, can you put up something?

Anybody else write for indymedia or other outlets, to send immediate alarm?

What I have heard up to 8:00 PM from Radio Planton

man abducted by police at noon in Cinco Señores, taken to prison in Tlocolula

student shot in arm on barricade

three dead:
teacher
indymedia reporter, from USA, shot dead, confirmed
photographer from Milenio - ?

23 wounded at San Bartolo Coyotepec, and 3 dead, who I think are those named above. (Also several wounded by sticks and rocks)

all shot by ministerial police or others in service of government

a call is out for flashlights, drinking water, food, reinforcements.

What is URO thinking of?







Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:54 pm (PST)
At Least Three Killed by Police, Including U.S. Indymedia Journalist
Massacre Under Way in Oaxaca

URGENT ALERT – PROTEST SATURDAY,
OUTSIDE MEXICAN CONSULATE IN NYC

OCTOBER 27, 11 p.m. – In response to a state-wide work stoppage in Oaxaca,
Mexico today, plainclothes police and gunmen linked to state governor Ulises
Ruiz have unleashed a bloody massacre. So far today, there are at least
three people confirmed dead, and reports of two more killed, with scores
wounded in the shooting. Among the dead are Brad Will, a video journalist
for Indymedia, and the teacher Emilio Alonso in San Bartolo Coyotepec, near
Oaxaca city, where 23 others were shot.

The Internationalist Group is issuing this bulletin to alert unionists and
others in the U.S. of the need for urgent action. A protest has been called
for tomorrow, Saturday, October 28, at 3 p.m. outside the Mexican consulate
at 27 East 39th Street in Manhattan. We urge people elsewhere in the country
to likewise protest outside Mexican government installations denouncing the
massacre.

According to Radio APPO, the radio station of the Popular Assembly of the
Peoples of Oaxaca, truckloads of armed paramilitaries are entering the state
capital. During the afternoon motorcycles and pick-up trucks with
plainclothes ministerial police roamed through the city. As part of the
ongoing strike by the state teachers union, now in its sixth month, there
are hundreds of barricades in Oaxaca city and strikers are calling to
reinforce the barricades and resist the "caravans of death."

Seventy thousand teachers have been on strike in the state since May 22.
They have been joined by the APPO, including representatives of the 16
indigenous peoples in the state. The struggle has convulsed Mexico, as
several thousand teachers and APPO strikers marched on Mexico City, where
they have been camped out in front of the Senate.

Yesterday, under heavy pressure from the right-wing federal government of
Vicente Fox, the teachers union, Section 22, SNTE-CNTE, voted by 30,000 to
20,000 to go back to work. However, they made this conditional on receiving
guarantees of safety for the strikers against threats by the murderous state
governor Ruiz and his PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) which has
ruled the state for the last 75 years. This massacre is the government's
answer.

There have been repeated solidarity demonstrations with the Oaxaca strikers
in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere in the U.S., as well as
internationally, from Barcelona, Spain to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where
teachers called for workers' strikes against the repression in Mexico. Now
is the time for international working-class action.

News stories on the killings are available on the web sites of Indymedia
(http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml ), NarcoNews
(http://www.narconews.com /), the Mexico City daily La Jornada
(http://www.jornada.unam.mx:8080/ultimas ), El Universal
(http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html ).

For more information, call (212) 460-0983 or (917) 209-4380.
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