Zapatistas Call For International Day of Protest in Solidarity With Oaxaca

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It was the eve of the international day of solidarity with the people of Oaxaca and I was at the prison on the outskirts of Oaxaca City where a few people trickled out of the prison after having been detained since late November. One young man (who asked not to be filmed or identified) was a bus driver who got caught in a crackdown on November 20, 2006. With tears in his eyes, he described the conditions of his detention and noted that the saddest part was that he was falsely charged with robbing the bus and pulling a knife of a police officer. To read the transcript of this report I filed for Democracy Now click here.

For a little update: Friends and relatives of prisoners in Oaxaca formed a human chain around the Tlacolula prison today.