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August 31, 2006Foreign Interference?I am in Oregon for the next 10 plus days...running errands and picking up my car to drive back down to Oaxaca. The night before I left Oaxaca a Mexican...Read this update August 26, 2006Oaxaca SignalsWhen the planton (encampments of strikers) feel they are being attacked, it will signal the campers to gather together to help. Fireworks will sound throughout the city. One bang means...Read this update Body Snatchers In Bangkok2006-08-26 International Herald Tribune Por Tek Tung - The Body Snatchers Fighting for a Gory Prize - A Race to the Death in Thailand They are not rewarded with money,...Read this update August 25, 2006Willing To NegotiateProtest leader Roberto García told The Associated Press on Thursday that demonstrators would accept an offer earlier this week from President Vicente Fox´s government to sit down at the negotiating...Read this update August 24, 2006Return Visit To HuayapamAugust 24, 2006 Two days ago I made a return visit to Huayapam...with Francisco... Fortunately, the taxi driver was able to negotiate around a blocked road for the 20 minute...Read this update August 23, 2006Letters From A TeacherA University of Kentucky professor received an email from a Oaxacan teacher who took his undergraduate classes in Oaxaca. Teacher's Letter Tuesday August 22, 2006 "I received your message and...Read this update August 22, 2006News From An Email FriendFrancisco just came to my apartment this morning Aug 22 for coffee...he said he heard in the Centro this morning, August 22, that the "church people" are upset that the...Read this update August 21, 2006Getting Visa At ImmigrationWent to the zocalo at 7am...burned out car half a block from zocalo on Bustamante. Wanted to go to immigration to get my visa...waited half an hour for bus on...Read this update Voices On A LoudspeakerI live on Fiallo about 4 blocks from the zocalo... at 4am I woke up hearing what could have been semi-automatic gun-shots in the direction of the zocalo. Then I...Read this update August 20, 2006Red Alert AgainNotice from the Oaxaca Study Action Group yahoo discussion site posted in the evening of Sunday August 20: "Friends this is a red alert indicating that Noticias (newspaper) warehouse was...Read this update Speaking To The FutureAPPO (the popular assembly) held a national forum to discuss ungovernability and a new constitution last Wednesday and Thursday, August 16th and 17th in Oaxaca that was reportedly attended by...Read this update Sunday MorningI am cranky this morning. I was up all night because of a very noisy wedding party in the courtyard below my apartment window. So I went to my favorite...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 20, 2006 12:15 PM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Mexico, Oaxaca August 18, 2006Lovely Oaxacan FamilyLast night I visited a gentle sincere Oaxacan family that lives about 20 minutes in the mountains northwest of the city in San Andreas Huayapan. The couple roasts fragrant locally...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 18, 2006 08:30 PM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Mexico, Oaxaca, Politics Democracy Now InterviewYou can view a video of an interview of Jill Friedberg, who made a documentary video of the teacher's union movement, called Granito De Arena, and several Oaxacenos and other...Read this update August 16, 2006Teachers Close BanksToday all the banks were closed by teachers who were blocking entry. Teachers sitting on the sidewalk...all in a row...blocking buildings. A familiar sight by now. Today, maybe ten to...Read this update Shirin EbadiIn Bangkok, in April of 2005 at the Thailand Foreign Correspondent's Club I listened to a talk by Shirin Ebadi...a strong brave woman lawyer who won the 2003 Nobel Peace...Read this update August 15, 2006The WomenI have been hanging out with Francisco who is from Mexico City but loves Oaxaca and comes often to sell books in Spanish at a cut rate to the teachers....Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 15, 2006 10:17 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Mexico, Oaxaca, Politics A Hidden WarThe last few days, just to see what tourists see, I have deliberately not checked in with www.narconews.com, a leftist web site that often posts summaries of actions in the...Read this update August 13, 2006Why BlogIt's a quiet Sunday morning...as Sundays are in Oaxaca...people home with their families. I often think of this blog...and other blogs...and wonder what is the value of putting so many...Read this update August 12, 2006Nomad Summary & UpdateBackpacked The Hippie Trail In The 60's? If Not It's Not Too Late! Taking the kids to Mexico, the grandparents to Hawaii and ourselves to Central Asia in the mid...Read this update Whats To Love About OaxacaJuanita, the Mexican-American woman I met at Pachote Market, will ride down here with me in my car in September...a road trip to Las Vegas to see Greg, to Phoenix...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 12, 2006 07:53 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Expats, Mexico, Oaxaca August 11, 2006Funeral In The ZocaloI was sitting on a sidewalk in the Zocalo today trying to read my Spanish language notice from the post office when all of a sudden hundreds of people started...Read this update August 10, 2006Teacher Killed TodayEl Universal.com reported tonight that a teacher was killed and several injured shortly after five armed men approached a teacher march that began in Oaxaca City today at 4pm. The...Read this update August 09, 2006Long Bus TourTook a tour of Colonial Reforma today...in the northern part of the city. Went to immigration to get my year-long visa and on the way the bus driver got into...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 9, 2006 04:11 PM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Mexico, Oaxaca August 07, 2006More ActionsAPPO is planning on blocking roads into Oaxaca City...when I don't know..supposedly today. But La Jornada newspaper has reported this morning that 500 national military troops came in on buses...Read this update Search For Truth In OaxacaThere has been an on-going dialogue. so to speak, between some expats in Oaxaca City who are trying to understand, from the outside of course, what is going on here....Read this update I Could Be In IndiaI was reading through some of my blog entries about India the other day and then I came upon this Slate.com article about India and laughed so hard I nearly...Read this update August 06, 2006Early Morning In The ZocaloVendors with hot chocolate, atole and red and green tamales stood at each end of the Zocalo at 7am...one giving free pan (sweet bread) and chocolate to two indigenous women...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 6, 2006 07:48 AM
TrackBack | Category: Food, Mexico, Oaxaca, Restaurants August 05, 2006One East On ThirdOn the e-hotelier.com web site a friend found this description of son Josh's restaurant in the Hilton Hotel in Beijing where he is the Chef de Cuisine: Hilton Beijing stars...Read this update FranciscoFrancisco wears a red T-shirt and straw hat and sells books in Spanish on the sidewalk in the Zocalo. Yesterday I noticed that some of the books were by the...Read this update August 04, 2006SerendipityWhen I was in China a couple years ago, I met a lovely British woman in her 30's using an internet next to me in the bar at the Camellia...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 4, 2006 08:34 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Mexico, Oaxaca August 02, 2006Update on Living In OaxacaI have almost finished my application for a Mexican FM3 year-long visa. Forms have to be filled out exactly right...with copies...and money paid to a bank. About $200 for the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 2, 2006 06:10 AM
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