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Oaxaca Zocalo Planton 2007

There are no uniformed police in the Zocalo where a new planton (encampment) of teachers and the APPO constructed its plastic awnings and banners on Monday June 18, but there are plenty of undercover police. You can tell…beefy well-fed hombres…nice new polished shoes…cell phones in use or on hips.

Teachers have not closed the classrooms this year. Teachers and APPO have established a rotating presence in the Zocalo…there are no tents and participants retire elsewhere for the night. But the Zocalo is alive with vendors, disco music, crowds of people watching video replays of government attacks.

Less confrontational now, civil society groups just seem to be keeping up a slow steady pressure.



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