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  1. The Battle of Oaxaca
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    This is not just another of the many Oaxacan wars. It is part of a much more profound and extensive war that is by no means contained within the national territory itself. But the battle being waged in Oaxaca has a special meaning in that war, in the larger war.
    It is a battle long overdue. In Oaxaca people knew that many aspects of the ongoing confrontation were being postponed due to the elections. It was evident that after the elections, the attacks, provocations, and the final assault would intensify. Everywhere, preparations began.
  2. Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
  3. An Experiment in Democracy - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico by Maria Lorena Cook. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 359 pages. Hardback: $55, paperback $19.95.
  4. Oaxaca protests 2006
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    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
  5. Two Years Later in Oaxaca
    Commentary from Oaxaca

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    A sketch of what has changed since the brutal repression of the 2006 social movement’s five month control of the city of Oaxaca.
  6. We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Stephen emphasizes the crucial role of testimony in human rights work, indigenous cultural history, community and indigenous radio, and women's articulation of their rights to speak and be heard. She also explores transborder support for APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca), particularly among Oaxacan immigrants in Los Angeles.

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