Tag archive for ‘mexico’
The World in Brief
Laughter was Forgetting? Recently released Soviet era documents, though often considered questionable sources, have revealed that Milan Kundera, celebrated Czech author of such works as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Ignorance–most dealing with themes of displacement, sacrifice, sex and Totalitarianism–may have informed on a spy friend in order [...]
Oaxaca cont’d
More thousands out on the street in Oaxaca this week and more of them killed by police anti-demonstration forces. Photos tell at least a lot of the story. Peeps on the barricades don’t look like no organized guerillas, like no fake revolutionaries with an agenda, because they look more like everybody– men, women, kids, grandmas [...]
over there
Meantime… The unbelievable “teacher strike” continues in Oaxaca, land of mountains, delicious food, Zapatista rebels and screwed governance.
The strike has been on for more than half a year and the numbers are outrageous. For perspective: the civil rights march on Washington in 1963 drew a crowd of 250,000; the Oaxacan strike at its peaks [...]
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