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Helicopters were used from the first days of the teachers’ strike in Oaxaca, for surveillance, intimidation, bombarding protesters with tear gas canisters.

 

Although the police were initially successful in removing the teachers from the planton, the June 14th police attack outraged the Oaxacan public as word spread of its ferocity. Within the next few days, striking teachers were joined in solidarity by members of other unions, workers, indigenous councils, women’s groups, non-profits, university students, artists, professionals and neighborhood groups, leading to the formation of an umbrella organization calling itself APPO (Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca or Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca).

 

Within 24 hours, the teachers re-occupied the zocalo, their numbers greatly increased, and three days after the initial attack, APPO held its first state-wide assembly, attended by representatives of over 300 social and activist organizations.

 
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