The intention to concentrate efforts in organizing direct horizontal and community, and the refusal to rely on political parties, government or organizations is very promising hierarchical
Scott Campbell ceremonies at the Cathedral. Oaxaca in the coming months will see more mournful marches twenty-four and this figure will only grow as efforts are made to identify at least eight bodies discovered in clandestine graves recently in Oaxaca's main cemetery. In
representing an entire life from the perspective of social movements and just a blink for lengthy history, have gone little over two years since the people of Oaxaca erupted in spontaneous but deep-seated rebellion against of brutal rule by Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) and all it represents. The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) was formed just few days after the assault troops URO organize raids in the center of the city on 14 June 2006 in an attempt to remove the encampment of striking teachers (after regrouping, the teachers and their supporters retook the Zócalo .) In essence, the APPO was born as a horizontal group consensus-driven and rooted in ancient indigenous practice of assemblies. David Venegas, APPO participant and member of the anarchist group VOCAL, recently wrote in the Oaxacan daily Noticias that "forget and ignore the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca is naturally opposed to power. For the horizontal, respect for consensus and respectful dialogue are the principles core assembly. "[1]
This disagreement has resulted in reducing displays of social mobilization under the banner of the APPO and, dealing another blow to the organization now lacks capacity to act, the disputes between the two sides tend to be public. An example of this mutual animosity occurred during a march held on 10 August to commemorate the murder of Jose Jimenez Colmenares. As the procession stopped at the place where Jimenez fell, anarcho-punks group left graffiti on the walls building from which Jimenez was shot to death. A couple of pints denounced Zenen Bravo: "Our dead do not fit in the polls. Understand, Zenen!" Screamed the walls.
Bravo, former board member of the APPO and organizer of the Popular Revolutionary Front (FPR), a Marxist-Leninist group - Stalinist, is now a state representative. Elected in 2007, his decision to contest jointly by the PRD-TConvergencia (political parties' center-left ") was a terrible blow to the integrity of the APPO which as a rule, rejected any involvement with political parties and electoral politics.
Then, during the march, Germain Mendoza Nube, another leader of the RPF, his speech was interrupted with cries of "traitor." RPF members who ran for shouting (anarcho-punks, members of the anarchist group VOCAL, and others) and almost broke a street brawl between members of the APPO. The next day, on par with the dispute referred to in the media, the site's "official" APPO exaggerated the incident and denounced VOCAL. The following week there was a march by Lorenzo San Pablo, another member of the APPO who was killed, organized by VOCAL, but the site's "official" APPO did not see fit to talk about it.
While this dispute is evident in the streets and on the Internet, members of the APPO who are thirsty power remain in full affair with their former oppressors, now colleagues, while those who wish to remain loyal to the original premise of the APPO propose to construct something new. It is precisely this stage of consolidation, deliberation, and reconstruction that fuels the hope of a successful social movement. In recent weeks, several initiatives were consolidated as an example of this new path:
* We conducted a five day citizens' forum in the residential area of \u200b\u200breform in early August. The forum took up the encouragement of community success in preventing the construction of a Chedraui, a Wal-Mart supermarket kind, after the company, at 4 am, Talara 200 trees in the park where they hoped to build the store. The forum did not just discuss what to do with the thin space, also addressed the theme of "participatory democracy, the city we love" [3], and the problems facing each neighborhood in the city and what steps can be taken collectively solve these problems independently of political parties and government.
* is ongoing degree of "barefoot researchers", organized by VOCAL and alternative education project Universidad de la Tierra (Unitierra). This project arranges free entry and free five-hour meetings every two weeks for several months in order to perform, among other activities, "a systematic reflection on the economic, social and political life of Oaxaca, national and global perspective, with emphasis on autonomous social movements, ie those who struggle from the grassroots to transform society without taking power the state. "[4]
* More recently, held the First Assembly of Community Radio Stations and Free / Pirate in Zaachila, Oaxaca, in late August. Participating stations created a permanent assembly to promote and defend the community radio stations and Indians, one of the most important tools for social movement and a subject of constant attacks of the state. [5]
In a recent interview with Noticias, Gustavo Esteva, president of the board of Unitierra long-winded and academic specializing in social movements, noted that "no doubt" ... in 50 years of study of the social situation in Oaxaca, "I have never seen such movement and effervescence down", which should worry the government ... He explained this social effervescence is "invisible to the media because there is nothing spectacular, is not defined by marches but concretized in initiatives for the generation of a new social fabric." [6]
Reflecting on this new movement, KIAD Cruz proposes naming "comunalicracia:" It is important to reflect in our actions if our movement is beyond the ideological or we are a movement that has a face and a heart that we intuitively know is from the depths of our way of thinking, feeling and acting that we inherited from our ancestors ... If this intuition is confirmed between
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building roads we can define that action. "[7]only hope the outcome of these forums, seminars and meetings. However, it is clear that though the APPO may be fragmented, both by internal divisions as government repression, the people's will to continue the fight remains steady. The intention to concentrate efforts in organizing direct face to face, and horizontal community and the refusal to interact with or depend on political parties, government or hierarchical organizations is very promising. Ensures that what emerges will be a genuine movement of the Oaxacan people. A movement whose direction, actions, and victories will of the people.
As noted David Venegas, "The power, more than superficial wounds to lick that body has made action on the rebellious town in 2006, and although they paint and decorate with words of social peace, reconciliation and development in its horrendous body will not be able to heal the deepest wound caused by the people in 2006, the wound on the source of its strength by the consciousness gained by our people of the unsustainability of the situation and the need to fight tirelessly to obtain justice, freedom, dignity and true peace. It is this mortal wound that remains at the heart of power and which has never recovered. "[8]
Notes 1. Venegas, David." The balance of power. "Noticias - Voz e Image of Oaxaca. 13/08/2008.
http://vocal.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=179 . News did not publish the Opinion section on its website. http://www.lahaine .org / index.php? p = 32214
2. Cruz, KIAD. "Turning the corner."
Oaxacalibre.org
. 24/08/1908.
3. Http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/oaxaca-ciudad-de-ciudadanos
4. Http://lahaine.org/index.php?p=17134
5. Oaxacalibre.org 6. Matias, Pedro. "Incompetent play with fire: Gustavo Esteva"News - Voice and Image Oaxaca. 03/08/1908.
7. See Cruz, KIAD, op. cit. English Translation Atenea Acevedo. VOCAL,
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