Wellingtonians Take Action To Expose Mexican State
Violence
At 12 noon on Wednesday 18th June 2008,
people concerned about the recent military harrassment of
indigenous communities in Mexico will stage a demonstration
outside the Mexican Embassy (111 Customhouse Quay,
Wellington).
In the last month, there has been an
alarming escalation of military and paramilitary harrassment
of Zapatista indigenous communities in Mexico. Troops have
invaded several communities, destroying food crops, cutting
off electricity supplies and attacking and intimidating
people - some of whom subsequently needed to be
hospitalised. After being driven from communities in the
caracol of La Garrucha on Wednesday 4 June, the Mexican army
has threatened to return tommorrow, June 18.
Therefore
members of the Wellington Zapatista Support Group (a group
which fundraises to support community health services in La
Garrucha) and others have organised this action to denounce
the violence of the Mexican Government, to inform members of
the public, and to express their solidarity with the
affected communities.
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