EMERGENCY: IWW Member and Starbucks Union Supporter in Grave Danger in Oaxaca Tonight
Submitted on Thu, 11/02/2006 - 3:16am
Friends:
Eric Larson, an IWW member and long-time supporter of the SWU, is in grave danger along with many indigenous workers in a home in Oaxaca. Eric and his companeros could be seriously wounded or worse tonight and they're asking for help immediately. Eric is a thoughtful, kind, and generous unionist and his comrades are remarkable activists as well. I know you receive many e-mail pleas but I implore you to take the time to respond to this one immediately. The ruling party could lay siege to their home any minute now. We don't need anymore martyrs ripped from their families and friends in Oaxaca. The call for help from Oaxaca follows.
In Solidarity,
Daniel Gross
Please forward widely:
Priistas are planning to remove CIPO [grassroots indigenous organization] out of the neighborhood by force!
This part of Santa Lucia is enemy territory. It is near Barricade Three, the Príista attack of last Friday, and the site of Brad Will's murder. It's also where the CIPO house is located. When the Príistas first set up their barricades, some were directly in front of the CIPO house, one using materials that had been propped up against the outside wall.
Now, less than a week after Brad Will's murder, some of the same Príistas have agreed to "dislodge" CIPO from the neighborhood. If history, recent and distant, teaches us anything, their method will be violence. It is important that they know that acts of violence will not go unseen, even in this small neighborhood that they control.
Please contact some or all of those listed below; tell them that if CIPO is attacked, that the Mexican state is responsible. And please also keep this in mind as solidarity actions are planned and carried out.
Contact the State Commission on Human RIghts in Oaxaca at: Central Oaxaca - 011 52 (951) 513 51 85;
011 52 (951) 513 51 91;
011 52 (951) 513 51 97
la Red Oaxaqueña de Derechos Humanos Tel. 011 52 (951) 5141634 rodhmx@prodigy. net.mx
rodhmx@yahoo. com.mx
Vicente Fox Quesada Presidente de la Republica Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Aleman Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850 Distrito Federal, Mexico Telephone: 011 52 (55) 52772376 Fax: 011 52 (55) 527 723 376 E-mail directory at: http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/directorio/
Contact Nearest Mexican Consulate Directory at http://mexonline.com/consulate.htm