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Kill the Teachers

Robert Joe Stout

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Description:An attack by heavily armed Mexican federal police on unarmed civilians culminated nearly eighty years of repressive political rule that impoverished the state of Oaxaca and made virtual kings of its governors. Although the savagery went unnoticed in the United States, primarily because of fallacious reports by wire services dependent upon Mexican government information, it aroused indignant and angry responses from intellectuals, human rights organizations and indigena, women’s and teachers’ groups within Mexico. Kill the Teachers takes readers through this agonizing period of contemporary Mexican history, much of it told in the exact words of the participants. It begins with the decision by the 70,000 member Section 22 of the national teachers’ union to stage a sit-in in the city of Oaxaca’s Zócalo and chronicles the brutal state police attack on the strikers, which included the beatings of women and children. The teachers fought back and not only retook the Zócalo but aroused the sympathies of hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans. Within less than a week a huge organization—the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO)—had formed. The protesters set up barricades throughout the city and others in the state to prevent death squad nightriders from entering residential areas. Thousands of Oaxacan women, clanging spoons and pans and skillets, invaded the state television station and began broadcasting. In late October gunmen storming citizen barricades in the city of Oaxaca shot and killed American news photographer Brad Will and several others. Photos of Will’s assassination flashing around the world provoked the federal government to send over 4,000 heavily armed soldiers and federal police to tear down the barricades. A month later a force backed by armored vehicles, state police and hundreds of non-uniformed vigilantes attacked a fleeing crowd which included street vendors, workers, passers by, women and children. The police and paramilitaries arrested, tortured and sent over 140 innocent civilians to maximum security prisons "to each the protesters a lesson.". Eyewitness accounts and on the spot interviews, including testimony given to members of a human rights delegation of which the author was a member, dramatize this miniature war that rivaled events in Afghanistan and Iraq for brutality, bloodshed and mendacity. Billions of pesos missing from the state's treasury depleted health and education services as conflicts continued to erupt throughout the following decade. They culminated in another armed police attack in 2017 on unarmed protesters in the town of Nochixtlan. Militarized forces killed eight teachers and townspeople and wounded over 140 others.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kill the Teachers. To get started finding Kill the Teachers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 316

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Release: 2018

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Description: An attack by heavily armed Mexican federal police on unarmed civilians culminated nearly eighty years of repressive political rule that impoverished the state of Oaxaca and made virtual kings of its governors. Although the savagery went unnoticed in the United States, primarily because of fallacious reports by wire services dependent upon Mexican government information, it aroused indignant and angry responses from intellectuals, human rights organizations and indigena, women’s and teachers’ groups within Mexico. Kill the Teachers takes readers through this agonizing period of contemporary Mexican history, much of it told in the exact words of the participants. It begins with the decision by the 70,000 member Section 22 of the national teachers’ union to stage a sit-in in the city of Oaxaca’s Zócalo and chronicles the brutal state police attack on the strikers, which included the beatings of women and children. The teachers fought back and not only retook the Zócalo but aroused the sympathies of hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans. Within less than a week a huge organization—the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO)—had formed. The protesters set up barricades throughout the city and others in the state to prevent death squad nightriders from entering residential areas. Thousands of Oaxacan women, clanging spoons and pans and skillets, invaded the state television station and began broadcasting. In late October gunmen storming citizen barricades in the city of Oaxaca shot and killed American news photographer Brad Will and several others. Photos of Will’s assassination flashing around the world provoked the federal government to send over 4,000 heavily armed soldiers and federal police to tear down the barricades. A month later a force backed by armored vehicles, state police and hundreds of non-uniformed vigilantes attacked a fleeing crowd which included street vendors, workers, passers by, women and children. The police and paramilitaries arrested, tortured and sent over 140 innocent civilians to maximum security prisons "to each the protesters a lesson.". Eyewitness accounts and on the spot interviews, including testimony given to members of a human rights delegation of which the author was a member, dramatize this miniature war that rivaled events in Afghanistan and Iraq for brutality, bloodshed and mendacity. Billions of pesos missing from the state's treasury depleted health and education services as conflicts continued to erupt throughout the following decade. They culminated in another armed police attack in 2017 on unarmed protesters in the town of Nochixtlan. Militarized forces killed eight teachers and townspeople and wounded over 140 others.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kill the Teachers. To get started finding Kill the Teachers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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