Fresh from the people's battle in Oaxaca, two anti-authoritarian eyewitnesses will discuss what theyexperienced on the ground as well as thoughts for carrying the struggle forward. The pair's activities centered on Santa Lucia del Camino, which was where beloved journalist Brad Will was murdered. Footage of the street battles in Oaxaca will be screened. Much work remains to be done in Oaxaca and NYC on many fronts, so please join us. The event is free and everyone is welcome:
Alfonso Pérez of CIPO - RFM, (Consejo Indígena Popular de Oaxaca - Ricardo Flores Magón); CIPO is a Oaxacan Magonista organization that was very active at the barricades and in the assemblies; www.nodo50.org/cipo/ [1]
Eric Larson of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a chronicler of the street battles in Oaxaca; www.iww.org [2]
Facilitator: Daniel Gross, Organizer- IWW Starbucks Workers Union; www.StarbucksUnion.org [3]
Sunday, February 25 1-3pm
Where: Sixth Street Community Center 638 E. 6th St.
between Aves B & C in Manhattan
L train to First Avenue or F train to Second Avenue
Free of Charge,
Everyone is Welcome
Espanol y Ingles
Hosted by the IWW Starbucks Workers Union (NYC)
November 1, 2006 Dispatch from Oaxaca:
"Priistas are planning to remove CIPO [grassroots indigenous organization] out of the neighborhood by force! This part of Santa Lucia is enemy territory. It is near Barricade Three, the Príista attack of last Friday, and the site of Brad Will's murder. It's also where the CIPO house is located.
When the Príistas first set up their barricades, some were directly in front of the CIPO house, one using materials that had been propped up against the outside wall. Now, less than a week after Brad Will's murder, some of the same Príistas have agreed to "dislodge" CIPO from the neighborhood.
If history, recent and distant, teaches us anything, their method will be violence. It is important that they know that acts of violence will not go unseen, even in this small neighborhood that they control."
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