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<h1><b>The APPO
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</a></font><h2><b>Communiqué from Somewhere in the State of Oaxaca, from
the State Council of the Popular Peoples’ Assembly of Oaxaca<br><br>
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</b></h2><h3><b>By the CEAPPO<br>
The Other Oaxaca</b></h3><font size=3>December 3, 2006<br><br>
PEOPLE OF OAXACA! PEOPLE OF MEXICO! PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!<br><br>
From somewhere in the state of Oaxaca, as the State Council of the
Popular Peoples’ Assembly of Oaxaca,<br><br>
<b>WE DECLARE:<br><br>
FIRST:</b> The APPO is more alive than ever in the hearts of the workers,
indigenous people, <i>campesinos</i>, housewives, students, youth,
children, and all the exploited and oppressed in Oaxaca and Mexico. The
State Terror that has been unleashed on the people of Oaxaca and the
international community with increased brutality since November 25 has
not weakened our desire to be free men and women.<br><br>
Nor has it made us change our minds about whether our struggle should
continue to be a political, peaceful and mass movement, despite the fact
that 17 people have been killed during this stage of the struggle, dozens
of people have disappeared and hundreds are political prisoners; we
consider this toll to consist of crimes against humanity.<br><br>
<b>SECOND:</b> The APPO continues to act permanently; although we are not
visible at sentries or heard over the radio 24 hours a day, we still live
and communicate with the same indomitable spirit which we have inherited
as exploited people. We are fighting and will continue to fight intensely
for the fall of the tyrant and his dictatorship, the dictatorship of
capital.<br><br>
This new stage of struggle that we have named the “Stage of Peace with
Justice, Democracy and Liberty without Ulises Ruiz Ortiz” is, at the same
time, a novel exercise to continue the struggle that the APPO is learning
to build with patience, perseverance and wisdom.<br><br>
Our original peoples taught us this on November 28 and 29 at the Forum of
Indigenous Peoples of Oaxaca, when they told us that the “path must be
taken slowly,” which is what we are doing now, without losing sight of
the common objective, which is the profound transformation of living,
working, academic and recreational conditions for our people. As the
faithful puppet of the wealthy and the drug traffickers who he defends
and represents, URO (Ulises Ruiz) stood in the way of this path. As
representatives of a people who decided to embark on the route to their
own emancipation, we will remove him from this path that belongs to
us.<br><br>
<b>THIRD:</b> The Council is calling all people of Oaxaca from now until
December 10 to organize and carry out mobilizations and protest actions
to spread the “Stage of Peace…”, the call for the release of political
prisoners, the return of the disappeared, the cancellation of orders of
apprehension, an end to illegal arrests, an end to gag orders, the
withdrawal of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP), and what brought us
all together: the departure of the murderer Ulises Ruiz from Oaxaca. We
call for this to happen in all regions of the state through our regional,
municipal and sectorial Popular Assemblies. We do so because on December
10 we will hold a “Grand Concentration,” meeting at 10am at the monument
to Juárez, located at the Crucero de Viguera in Oaxaca City, to express
our condemnation of and opposition to the baton and rifle policy to which
this group of murderers and thieves who call themselves the government in
Oaxaca want to subject us.<br><br>
FRATERNALLY,<br><br>
“ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE”<br>
STATE COUNCIL OF THE APPO<br>
December 2, 2006<br><br>
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