Friday, July 21, 2006
SWOP homepageTomorrow on KUNM: Teacher Strike in Oaxaca, Mexico
From an Email:Colleagues/Colegas:
Susan Loubet of KUNM's "Women's Issues" program has asked to interview me tomorrow, Saturday, July 22, at 12 noon. The topic is the massive strike of 70,000 teachers in Oaxaca and the brutal police action against the teachers' encampment that occurred last month on June 14. I was with the teachers that evening and early morning in the encampment and was swept up with them in the police action. A massive popular resistance movement has developed in Oaxaca, including a "shadow government of the people", due to rage at the armed repression of the teachers.
There has been almost no coverage of these continuing events in the mainstream U.S. press. In our conversation tomorrow, Susan has asked that I talk about the strike itself, the armed police repression and its connections to the
Mexican presidential election, the silence of the U.S. media, and what U.S. teachers might learn from our Oaxacan colleagues about the role of teachers as political actors for social change.
I welcome you to listen in.
Lois M. Meyer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies
Hokona 267
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Tel: 505/277-7244
