Oaxaca Update, Saturday November 11

Here's some more news of the week, regarding what's going down in Oaxaca.

"The resistance of the people of Oaxaca has created a worldwide solidarity chain of actions and protests. In support with the resistance, campaigns and solidarity actions have been started everywhere...

Elsewhere there have been actions to support Oaxaca, in diverse cities such as San Francisco, Boston, Berlin, Germany and Melbourne, Austrailia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in the states of Washington and North Carolina, U.S.A.

"In open disagreement with the office of the president, Mexico's Council on Tourism has instructed Mexican travel agents around the world to discourage tourist visits to Oaxaca de Juarez..." ('Mark in Mexico')

"Mexico, Nov 9 (Prensa Latina, Cuba) While the removal of Gov. Ulises Ruiz is still in the waiting, leaders of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), are pending Thursday an refuge request to be honored by catholic officials of that Mexican state.
Flavio Sosa, Florentino Lopez and Zemen Bravo said that the demand is founded on latest threats that they could be killed or detained by the ministerial police or groups working for the local governor.
As relatives and friends of APPO leaders have been also harassed and menaced by the local government, they asked for refuge in any building of the church to continue leading the popular movement from there.
Likewise, the popular assembly announced its action plan for the next days, which includes a siege-rally around the transition residence of president-elect Felipe Calderon, taking cashboxes along nationwide roads and surrounding the federal police headquarters."

"MEXICO CITY: President Vicente Fox is calling for constitutional reforms that would allow Mexican leaders to travel abroad without congressional approval, a day after lawmakers irked Fox by refusing to grant him permission to go to Australia and Vietnam... Legislators said they were upset that Fox wanted to travel abroad even as a political conflict in the southern state of Oaxaca continues to smolder, and small bombs presumably planted by guerrilla groups exploded Monday in Mexico City." (AP)

This news comes amidst rumors that Fox wanted to go to Australia to visit his daughter. (Well, remember he made a 'vow' that he would resolve the Oaxaca problem before he leaves office, which is in about 1 month now!)

"Mexico, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) The Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca(APPO) will hold its first Congress to appoint a permanent leadership and outline its action plan to settle the five-month conflict with the governor that has cost 17 lives to date.
The agenda of the APPO Congress -- sessioning from Friday through Sunday-- includes a declaration of principles, an action plan and election of permanent leaders."

See the side bar links for other sources of recent news, and for video on the street see:
http://www.oaxacalibre.org/libertad/