Photos from 6th Mega Marcha in Oaxaca

Contributed by: Rochelle Gause

Hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets of Oaxaca today in support of the popular assembly (APPO) and continuing the demand for both Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and the Federal Preventative Police to go. The decision had been made for the march route to not go near the Zocalo to avoid opportunities for infiltrators to violently confront the federal police. The police installed razor wire and barbed wire at each entrance to the Zocalo. Although there were no attacks during the march, at 7 this morning government gunmen shot at the APPO radio station on the university campus and critically injured Marcos Manuel Sanchez Martinez, a student at the Technological Institute.

In addition to the thousands in the march, the streets were lined with people of all ages applauding and chanting. What looks like the thumbs down by the crowd is actually the chant: ya cayo, ya cayo, ulises ya cayo meaning he's fallen, he's fallen, Ulises has already fallen.

for more pictures of the amazing struggle in Oaxaca...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72025498@N00/

for a list of international solidarity actions...

http://nyc.indymedia.org/es/2006/11/78763.html