*Stop the G8+5, Defend Oaxaca! Virtual Action

To join the virtual action, click here:
http://sdhacklab.org/oaxaca

As the Mexican government tries to play host to the G8+5 Gleneagles
Dialogue on Climate Change, it is mounting a massive violent attack on
the people of Oaxaca. Apparently the Mexican government thinks it can
cleanse the country of its growing pro-democracy rebellion while laying
out a red carpet to world politicians including the G8 Energy
Ministers.
The neoliberal project of corporate globalization and fossil-fuel-based
"energy security" that causes global warming is built on massive
violence, from armies to riot police to militarized borders, to turn
the
global south into its sweatshop and repress the uprisings for justice,
democracy, and sustainable livelihood of the people in Mexico and other
countries.

While the neoliberal model of industrial "development" sees the
remaining indigenous and "undeveloped" lands of the Earth as
territories
for capitalist exploitation of natural resources and human labor, the
schoolteachers leading Oaxaca's popular pro-democracy strike have a
different vision. By taking direct action to shut down the tyrannical
rule of their state governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the people of Oaxaca
are
teaching that another world is possible.

During the protests in Oaxaca, at least six people have been killed in
violent incidents which apparently involved irregular armed groups
linked to the Ruiz administration and the police, according to human
rights organisations. A number of demonstrators have also been arrested
and injured, and further assaults perpetrated against them by
organized,
unidentified gangs of thugs have been reported.

One example of neoliberal "development" in Mexico with major
implications for Oaxaca is Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), a transnational
"mega-infrastructure" project that would transform the region's
geography and economy if implemented. While claiming that one of its
main goals is to improve the conditions for the people of the region,
PPP is stealing land from indigenous people for infrastructure projects
to move resources more quickly into the hands of multinational
corporations and commodifying their culture for the tourist industry.
One of the projects affecting Oaxaca is the creation of a super highway
at Mexico's skinniest point, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in order to
move resources more readily across the land from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. This transportation corridor will be surrounded
with sweatshops, maquiladoras, operating without labor and
environmental
protections. For all of these objectives, neoliberal control over the
government of Oaxaca is key to the realization of the PPP project.

Mexico has an ugly history of military repression that coincides with
major world gatherings occurring inside the country. 38 years ago
today,
October 2nd, the Mexican military massacred hundreds of student
protesters at Tlatelolco, just days before the 1968 Olympic Games began
in Mexico City. If military violence against the pro-democracy
protesters of Oaxaca occurs before, during or after the G8 meeting in
Mexico, the G8 leaders as well as the Mexican military must be held
accountable for the injuries and death. To prevent this, we demand that
the G8 officials who are meeting this week in Mexico must publicly
speak
out to condemn the possibility of another Mexican massacre at Oaxaca.

We demand that the G8 end its support of destructive "carbon trading."
The G8 is composed of the leaders of the richest 8 countries in the
world, who are responsible for the policies of war, criminalization of
cross-border human migration, and massive environmental destruction.
While they claim to be meeting to solve the climate change crisis, they
are in fact discussing carbon trading agreements that will allow
corporations to profit while exporting their pollution to the global
south. Carbon trading threatens to turn countries like Brazil into a
"carbon sink" for the global north while ignoring the underlying
capitalist ideology of endless growth and boundless consumption that is
creating massive climate change.

Help us stop the G8 by slowing the propaganda systems that the G8+5 and
the Mexican Government will be using during the meetings and the
attacks
to spread disinformation about their actions. As in our previous
actions, people from all around the world will make their virtual
presence manifest on the doorstep of the G8+5 and the Mexican
Government.

To join the action, click here:
<http://sdhacklab.org/oaxaca>http://sdhacklab.org/oaxaca

UPDATE: As of 10:50pm sunday night, there were reports that the attack
had begun and that members of the PRI forces had begun attacking
barricades which were defending radio antennas.

More news and updates about the unfolding situation in Oaxaca at:
http://narconews.com

More information on resistance to the G8+5 meeting in Mexico City at:
http://contrag8.revolt.org

To join the action, click here:
http://sdhacklab.org/oaxaca