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June 29, 2006Megamarch Draws 500,000Photo From "Oaxaca Noticias" The local "Oaxaca Noticias" newspaper estimated 500,000 marchers at the 4th Oaxaca Megamarch...a historic event that included supporters from several neighboring states. Starting with a...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 29, 2006 08:02 PM
TrackBack | Category: Mexico, Oaxaca, Politics, Touching Experiences June 26, 2006One Oaxacan Migrant FamilyYesterday I went to Tule...a small town of about 15,000 near Oaxaca City. What a charming place. Most of the men are gone up north, my driver said (as a...Read this update June 24, 2006Other Groups Move InThe following information was sent out in an email on Friday, June 23, by a volunteer with one of the indigenous activist groups: The week following the early morning police...Read this update June 23, 2006The "Governor's March"Since he cannot run again the Governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, is intent on installing his "man" from his own PRI party into power during the elections July 2....Read this update June 22, 2006Asamblea PopularIn the meantime the teachers have reorganized and two community assemblies have been held which many see as an extremely important development for Oaxaca. According to a recent report by...Read this update June 19, 2006Market In TlacolulaYesterday my friend Sharon and I hopped a diesel-spewing bus for the hour ride to Tlacolula, southeast of the city, where vendors from multiple little villages around the Oaxaca...Read this update June 18, 2006My Friend's Trip To OaxacaThis is an eye-witness narrative written by my friend Patricia Gutierrez from Querataro who, with her luck and mine, visited me the night of the attack on the teachers in...Read this update June 14, 2006University Contacts In Beijing?My son Josh Goetz, 33, who has been a chef in Manhattan New York for the last five years has accepted a position opening a new restaurant in the Hilton...Read this update Police Try To Rout TeachersPatty Gutierrez, my long-time friend from Oregon, recently married a Mexican national, Jose, from Queretaro, north of Mexico City, and is now living there. They made the 6 hour drive...Read this update June 11, 2006Mexican Salsa DancingI had forgotten how much fun it is to dance to Mexican music! I think I am a Mexican trapped in a gringo body! Last Friday, Gerardo and his mom,...Read this update June 05, 2006A Field Guide To Getting LostMy son, Josh, the little weasel, asked me what it felt like to be living alone in Oaxaca. It got me to thinking. Then I picked up a book at...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 5, 2006 10:06 AM
TrackBack | Category: Mexico, Oaxaca, Reading, Reflections June 04, 2006El Pochote Market & CinemaNorth and east from my apartment on Fiallo St., through the Zocolo, under tents and guy-wires, I walked to meet my new friend, Sharon, at an organic market called El...Read this update June 02, 2006Oaxaca CityAfter three weeks in Salem sorting through 40 years of junk...one pile for St. Vincent de Paul, one pile for the dump, one pile to sell at the Assistance...Read this update |
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