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mexican teachers run proper pub sec action

if you're a pub sec union

u fuckin' better

  have the public welfare and the center of your fight

if its self serving bull shit

sit down and shut up

 the teachers of oaxaca do it proper



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OAXACA, Mexico, Aug. 23 — For three months, civil unrest has gripped this

> lovely colonial city like a hound with a rabbit, leaving two people dead,

> crippling the tourist industry and shuttering schools.

>

> The original cause of the strife — a teachers' strike for better pay — has

> become lost in the escalating violence and the revolutionary demands of the

> protesters, who now demand that Gov. Ulises Ruiz step down.

>

> The teachers' union has been joined by scores of social organizations, some

> of them with leftist philosophies.

>

> They have shut down highways, taken over five radio stations, burned more

> than a dozen buses, blocked off the city's historic square, seized

> government offices, destroyed the stage for an annual cultural fair and

> barricaded tourists in their hotels. The state government has lost control

> of the center of the city, including its own offices, and is working out of

> improvised quarters with cellphones. 

Posted by gale at August 25, 2006 02:32 PM

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