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Date: 1/1/2007Call Number: CD 630Format: DVDProducers: Tami Gold, Gerardo ReniqueCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Land, Rain and Fire: Report from Oaxaca
What began as a teachers’ strike for better wages and more resources for students has erupted into a massive movement for profound social change in the state of Oaxaca. Police attacked more than fifty thousand teachers camped out with their children. They were awakened to tear gas, pepper spray and helicopters. But the attack backfired as public anger transformed the strike into an unprecedented democratic insurgency, demanding the resignation of Governor Ruiz. Hundreds of unions, indigenous and women’s organizations, neighborhood groups, students and professional associations came together and created The Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) and a massive campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience has brought the state government to a standstill.
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