APPO denounces rebellion against the police
“Nos desvinculamos de los actos vandálicos que se están haciendo en nombre de la APPO” - César Maeto, vocero de la coordinación provisional de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
"We disavow the acts of vandalism that are being made in the name of APPO" - César Maeto, spokesperson of the provisional coordination committee of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
(El Universal, Oct. 29, 2006)
After calling for peaceful resistance to yesterday's violent invasion of Oaxaca City by the Mexican federal police, after calling for the people of the city to not fight against the police (describing such actions as "provocations", as if the police were not the people doing the "provoking"), the leadership of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in Spanish) denounced acts of "vandalism" (one wonders what they refer to specifically, the burning of police vehicles or the puncturing of their tires?), according to the corporate media webpage El Universal. In one of the APPO leadership's statements, posted on the internet, they claimed that the violent resistance of many people to the police was the work of police infiltrators who are trying to justify the cops' violence against the people (as if the cops needed a justification, as if the violent resistance of the people against the the police raid in June hadn't given life to the current rebellion). ( The above mentioned statement by APPO can be found here: http://codepappo.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/urgente-la-pfp-en-oaxaca )
From June on, rebels in Oaxaca City have used all manner of simple weapons to resist the police. When the federal police invaded yesterday, rebels used slings and slingshots, Molotov firebombs and rocks against the police. This is not a peaceful rebellion. This rebellion is not just APPO or its representatives.
Many "ordinary" people, without connections to the APPO, are in resistace in the streets, with violence, with simple weapons and burning barricades. Calling the rebellion peaceful does not make it so. The violent rebellion of the oppressed is justified by the violent and systematic oppression carried out by the ruling class and their minions.
As the Oaxacan revolutionary anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón said: "Preaching peace is a crime". Peace allows the ruling class to preserve their loot. The President of Mexico declares that there is now peace in the center of Oaxaca City (now that the police have taken it by force, causing more injuries and death). There is peace in the graveyard.
The following reports by James Daria in part describe the rebellious people of Oaxaca acting independently from APPO:
( Chronicle of the Battle of Oaxaca: Stage Three, Day One
http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2259.html )
( Two Days in the Life of Oaxaca's Revolution
http://narconews.com/Issue42/article2021.html )
Solidarity with the rebellion of the oppressed, not with those who represent and attempt to control the rebellion!
Window Smashed at Mexican Consulate in Sacramento
"We disavow the acts of vandalism that are being made in the name of APPO" - César Maeto, spokesperson of the provisional coordination committee of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
(El Universal, Oct. 29, 2006)
After calling for peaceful resistance to yesterday's violent invasion of Oaxaca City by the Mexican federal police, after calling for the people of the city to not fight against the police (describing such actions as "provocations", as if the police were not the people doing the "provoking"), the leadership of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in Spanish) denounced acts of "vandalism" (one wonders what they refer to specifically, the burning of police vehicles or the puncturing of their tires?), according to the corporate media webpage El Universal. In one of the APPO leadership's statements, posted on the internet, they claimed that the violent resistance of many people to the police was the work of police infiltrators who are trying to justify the cops' violence against the people (as if the cops needed a justification, as if the violent resistance of the people against the the police raid in June hadn't given life to the current rebellion). ( The above mentioned statement by APPO can be found here: http://codepappo.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/urgente-la-pfp-en-oaxaca )
From June on, rebels in Oaxaca City have used all manner of simple weapons to resist the police. When the federal police invaded yesterday, rebels used slings and slingshots, Molotov firebombs and rocks against the police. This is not a peaceful rebellion. This rebellion is not just APPO or its representatives.
Many "ordinary" people, without connections to the APPO, are in resistace in the streets, with violence, with simple weapons and burning barricades. Calling the rebellion peaceful does not make it so. The violent rebellion of the oppressed is justified by the violent and systematic oppression carried out by the ruling class and their minions.
As the Oaxacan revolutionary anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón said: "Preaching peace is a crime". Peace allows the ruling class to preserve their loot. The President of Mexico declares that there is now peace in the center of Oaxaca City (now that the police have taken it by force, causing more injuries and death). There is peace in the graveyard.
The following reports by James Daria in part describe the rebellious people of Oaxaca acting independently from APPO:
( Chronicle of the Battle of Oaxaca: Stage Three, Day One
http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2259.html )
( Two Days in the Life of Oaxaca's Revolution
http://narconews.com/Issue42/article2021.html )
Solidarity with the rebellion of the oppressed, not with those who represent and attempt to control the rebellion!
Window Smashed at Mexican Consulate in Sacramento
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Monday, October 30, 2006
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