(from Kolectivo Todxs Somos Presxs)
 
San Isidro Aloapam. Ixtlàn de Juàrez. Oaxaca
June 20, 2007

End to the violence of the PRI party, paramilitaries, lumber poachers, and police against the compañeros, compañeras, defenders of the forest of San Isidrio Aloapam, CIPO-RFM members, and adherents of the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign!
 
To the people of the world:
To the people of Oaxaca:
To the people of Mexico:
To people, groups, and collectives:
To the anarchists of the world:
To all the compañeros and compañeras that make up the Other Campaign:
Compañeros and compañeras:

On the morning of June 18, approximately 600 lumber poachers from the municipality of San Miguel Aloapam entered the ecological forest reserve under the care and protection of San Isidro Aloapam with sharpened sticks, firearms such as rifles and shotguns, machetes and axes. Under the pretext of an insect plague, they entered with the intention to clear the forest that does not belong to them.

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June 20, 2007

To the People of Oaxaca, Mexico, and the World:

The situation in the state of Oaxaca continues to be delicate, and now, in the indigenous Zapotec community of San Isidro Aloapam, in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a dangerous agrarian conflict between the community and the municipal capital is returning. Though the conflict is decades old, on June 18, upon finding out that Sam Miguel Aloapam authorities had entered San Isidro’s forest under the pretext of treating an insect plague, San Isidro residents continued their difficult resistance to San Miguel’s aggressions, and they went up to forest to initiate a dialogue so that the forest would not be cleared. With this, those from San Miguel responded violently, insulting, striking, detaining six and shooting at men and women, all of which led San Isidro residents to flee, running. In the midst of the pursuit, two people from San Miguel were shot, by their own people.

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