Thanks to all the 100,342 People join Cinco de Maya VR Sit-In!
Update - Friday May 5, 10:00 pm
Marcos has just arrived in Atenco with 4000 individuals representing
students, workers, farmers, teachers and and community organizations.
Mexican mainstream media is reporting agression on the part of the
marchers - the truth appears otherwise . The Other Campaign will stay
in Mexico City indefinitely. A peaceful meeting is scheduled in
Atenco tomorrow at 12 noon.
The Indigenous Congress is holding a meeting in this moment with over
800 attendees.
Live web streams are available from:
Radio Sabotaje
Radio Kehuelga
http://www.kehuelga.org/stream.m3u
Radio Insuregnte
http://radioinsurgente.org/
Radio Pacheco
http://www.radiopacheco.org/2005/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=669&Itemid=93
for archived reports.
Radio Insurgente has reported 275 arrests in Atenco - see the list.
http://radioinsurgente.org/index.php?name=pagetool_news&news_id=183
For breaking news, please see:
Mexico Indymedia
http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-index.php?page=Atenco
Chiapas Indymedia
http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/
Narco News
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Esta es una alerta roja contra el gobierno mexicano por su agresion
violenta contra la gente de Texcoco, Mexico el 3 de mayo del 2006.
Decimos no a la violencia todo el 5 de Mayo El Hacklab y el teatro de
disturbio electronico estan haciendo un llamado a un golpe virtual contra
el gobierno mexicano una protesta virtual en solidaridad con la gente de
Texcoco en el 5 de mayo.
Gente de todo el mundo estan en solidaridad con la otra campaña de los
zapatistas y han estade siguiendo de cerca al recorride de la caravana
desde abajo y de la izquierda por todo Mexico. Aunque no podemos estar ahi
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This is Red Alert Action Against the Mexican Goverment for its Violent Agression Against
the People of Texcoco, Mexico on May 3rd, 2006.
We say no to the violence All CINCO DE MAYO (ALL OF MAY 5th).
The Electronic Disturbance Theater and the borderlands Hacklab call for a virtual strike against the Mexican Goverment May 5th, 2006.
People all over the world are in solidarity with The Other Campaign of the
Zapatistas and have been closely following their tour, from below and to
the left, all over Mexico. Although we cannot be in the streets in Texcoco
with them, we will make our bodies felt virtually by joining together in
this Virtual Sit-In against the website of the bad Mexican government of
Vicente Fox.
Other Campaign Suspended: Red Alert in the Zapatista Good Government Councils of Chiapas
By Juan Trujillo,
Posted on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 09:17:17 PM
MEXICO CITY, MAY 3, 2006: As the political demonstration in the Plaza of the Three Cultures, in this city’s Tlatelolco neighborhood, came to an end, in reaction to the confrontations between flower producers and police in Texcoco leaving one dead -14 year old child Javier Cortéz- , Delegate Zero-Subcomandante Marcos decreed a red alert in the Zapatistas’ Good Government Councils in Chiapas and the temporary suspension of the Other Campaign’s activities.
The preceding information has been confirmed by telephone from Tlalteloco by Narco News/Other Journalism correspondent Roberto Chan Kin Ortega and by Hermann Bellinghausen of the Mexico City newspaper La Jornada.
Through this morning and afternoon the clash between flower growers and police has been reported mainly by a few radio stations and briefs on the La Jornada website. Just a few kilometers away from the battle-tested town of San Salvador Atenco, according to information from La Jornada reporters René Ramón and Javier Salinas, “at least nine municipal police and six flower sellers were injured in a confrontation that occurred this morning when the farmers, supported by the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land (the organization of Atenco farmers that successfully blocked an airport project on their land in 2002), tried to set up in front of the Belisario Domínguez market to sell their products. After the scuffle about 50 Atenco residents took refuge in an apartment building armed with sticks, machetes and rocks. Meanwhile, around 500 riot police remain in the streets and 500 Atenco residents are blocking the Texcoco federal highway.”
Ramón and Salinas’ reports in La Jornada maintain that “the tension rose in the area as federal forces and several helicopters arrived. In total there are 800 riot police in the zone. One of the people holed up in the apartment building is Ignacio del Valle, leader of the Peoples’ Front in Defence of the Land. Around 2:45 pm another clash occurred due to an attempt to remove the Atenco residents from the Texcoco highway. The protesters began throwing Molotov cocktails and burning tires.”
According to Narco News correspondent Chan Kin Ortega at 6:20 p.m., people are marching toward the office of the federal government’s Interior Minister tonight. Tomorrow at 8 a.m. the Other Campaign will assemble at the University of Chapingo (in Ecatepec, near the scene of today’s violence in the state of Mexico). A mobilization has also been called tonight for adherents to the Other Campaign and people in general at the Fierro Bridge and the University of Chapingo to support the people under attack