Mexico Is Erupting

"It is not, contrary to what it might appear to be, a photograph from a scene from a Marx Brothers film. It is, rather, the true history of yesterday’s session of the Mexican National Congress, the distinguished hall in Mexico City where, on Friday, according to the Constitution of the Republic, Felipe Calderón must take the oath of office and put on the presidential sash in order to legalize his status as the nation’s top executive. Not all the members of that esteemed lawmaking body are in agreement that Calderón was elected to the presidency last July 2" [photo: DR2006, La Jornada]

The following digest is from NYC Indymedia :

The Coup d'Etat in Mexico:
As a new regime prepares to seize control Dec. 1, proming a new wave of repression, the antidote is being born from below... A report by Al Giordano of Narco News

PFP expanding operations to towns surrounding Oaxaca City: The Federal Preventative Police is expanding its operations, deaths and dissapearances mount.

Mexico: A Powder Keg: On the walls of La Realidad, the base-village of the Zapatista movement deep in the Lacandona jungle, the paintings of Emilio Zapata, Che Guevara and Subcommandante Marcos have faded over the last three years.

Mexican government squash the popular movement in Oaxaca [es]: Human rights repression in Oaxaca

Killing in Oaxaca, a dispatch from a friend's daughter: This day will go down in local history as the most intense fighting of the movement so far. Perhaps it will go down in national history as a battle of the revolution.

Comments

[Nobody here but us chickens...]

I am honestly asking how we can support the people of Mexico in struggle.

Mexico is rising. We can be pretty sure our government's not helping out the good guys. What can we do to ever the score?

[the burningman]

In the sense of directly supporting any organizations in Mexico, I don't know what to tell you.

Projects like NarcoNews and Indymedia are getting out information and reporting – and that takes money. It also doesn't involve any legal issues of "materially supporting" various political factions abroad.

They are linked above, with means to donate easy to find.

If anyone else with more intimate knowledge of Mexico has more to add, please do so responsibly.

[the burningman]

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/80374.html

Leaders of APPO have been arrested and the city is under lockdown.

This link goes to APPO's statement on what is afoot, in english.