With Brian Haw, 24-hour anti-war protester who lives
at Parliament Square
Photos from protest in Parliament Square, London, 4 Aug 07
in support of Public Trial in Mexico City for crimes against
humanity in
Oaxaca,
Mexico
An extraordinary community-teacher movement has been unfolding in Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest, mostly Indigenous states. For months, 1.5 million people out of a population of 3.7 million have been on strike, have marched, held sit-ins and occupied radio stations, to protest electoral fraud and the most violent repression Oaxaca state has ever seen. Women - teachers, housewives, students and others - have been prominent throughout. All sectors - priests, nuns, vendors, nurses, environmentalists and other professionals are involved.
