And of course what happens after the International Corporations have
sucked the last drop of blood from the Planet and all of its Flora and
Fauna, the Monsters will fall upon themselves and commit mass suicide.
And like Mars, we will spin silently around our dying Sun.
A bobbing, rolling, spinning tombstone. A reminder that Mankind was
just brilliant enough to destroy all he touched.
Carl Jarvis
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Subject: State Terrorism and Education, the New Speculative Sector in the
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Date: Friday, June 24, 2016 4:03 AM
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** State Terrorism and Education, the New Speculative Sector in the Stock
Market
June 22, 2016
By Renata Bessi and Santiago Navarro F.
Translated by El Enemigo Comun
The reasons why the Mexican government wants to impose the Educational
Reform, even if it means killing people, as with the massacre in Nochixtlan
by repressive state forces on June 19, are rooted in economic objectives
guided by international financial organizations. The reform, proposed by
the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with the
OECD-Mexico Agreement to Improve the Quality of Education in Schools of
Mexico, aims to lay the groundwork to shift education from being a State
responsibility to instead being resolved in the realm of the financial
market.
One of the state’s actions accompanying the Educational Reform is the
issuing of bonds to the speculative market. Just over a year after the
adoption of the reform, in December 2015, the first educational bonds or
National School Infrastructure Certificates (CIEN) were issued by the
Mexican Stock Exchange, which investors BBVA Bancomer and Merrill Lynch
purchased for 8.581 billion pesos.
When a company or state issues bonds, the investors who buy them are
lending
them money in exchange for the issuer--in this case the Mexican
State--committing to pay the interest at fixed intervals over a
predetermined period of time. These payments will be made every six months
and by the states and their inhabitants.
With the educational bonds, the state aims to attract investors to this
sector and, in a first stage, aims to renovate existing infrastructure and
promote the development of new schools and basic services. That is, the
state has converted the bonds into a given number of common stocks to
attract investors to this sector that, since its establishment, is seen as
another company that will have to generate profits for shareholders.
The Educational Reform is part of the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP),
guided by the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In total, 11 structural reforms have
been approved: labor, the treasury, education, finance, energy, reform on
transparency, political and electoral reform, reform in telecommunications
and broadcasting, the new court-ordered protection law, the national
criminal procedures code, and reform in economic competition. Twenty-two
more reforms still need to be approved.
According to Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics and former vice
president of the World Bank, the Structural Adjustment Programs have four
steps: privatization, in which the government sells companies and public
institutions to private investors; the liberalization of financial markets,
when controls are reduced on the entry and exit of money in the country--in
order to attract investors--interest rates are increased; the introduction
of market prices, when the government allows the prices of basic food,
water
and energy to rise; and free trade, which means removing barriers (taxes
and
tariffs), to foreign products that protect local producers and industries.
If the national teachers movement manages to bring down the educational
reform, there will be a path to bringing down all the structural reforms
that are occurring in the country’s strategic sectors, such as the energy
sector. This is the assessment that teachers are making. This is precisely
the fear of the federal government. The government remains closed to
dialogue because it already signed all of the international agreements.
** Layoffs
The CNTE argues that the educational reform is a model seeking to outsource
education by replacing their positions with new contract workers without
labor rights, until it turns into a privatized service. The reform is
focused on recruitment procedures and teacher supervision and not on true
changes to improve education and the working conditions of the teachers.
According to Maria Bernardita Zamora, a history teacher in Iztapalapa, one
of the poorest areas in the Federal District, and a member of the CNTE (the
teachers union fighting the reform), the estimate is that with the reform
60% of the 1.2 million teachers in Mexico today will lose their jobs. So
far, 4,000 teachers have been fired for rejecting the educational reform,
according to the teacher.
** State Terrorism
The teachers of the CNTE have been on a general strike since May 15. Since
that date there has been intense plan of mobilizations by the movement, and
the state response was brutal repression. In the last week barricades were
erected in all regions of the state of Oaxaca, where countless acts of
repression by federal and state police were recorded.
On June 18 and 19, the repression led to a massacre. Starting on the 18th,
in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the battles that began in Zanacatepec
extended to Juchitan, Ixtepec, Tehuantepec and Salina Cruz. All barricades
reorganized themselves after those failed attempts. Later, on the 19th, the
focus of the repression spread to the Mixteca region in Nochixtlan, where
for a week teachers, parents and the community in general had maintained
barricades to keep the police out of the city of Oaxaca. The repression
left
at least eight people dead, 27 disappeared and a hundred injured and
arrested.
IFRAME:
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[1]http://www.youtube.com/embed/5G3cZ7tqdc4?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Despite this situation, the police had to retreat and try at all costs to
clear the roads to advance to the state capital. The federal police managed
to pass the blockades at Nochixtlan and Huitzo in order to enter the city
of
Oaxaca, while they received support from reinforcements who were waiting at
the airport and other sites.
Hours after the massacre in Nochixtlan, about 20 blockades at the entrance
to the city of Oaxaca were attacked. There was at least one person killed
by
the repressive forces of the state, and hundreds injured and arrested.
IFRAME:
[2]http://www.youtube.com/embed/yQ7PTpQBcwU?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
On the same night, the next location expecting repression was the center of
the city, specifically the Zocalo (main square), where since May 15
teachers
have maintained their encampment. Electricity to this area was cut for a
few
hours, later being turned back on. Barricades were erected around the
Zocalo. In the end, there was no eviction and the camp remains until now.
Meanwhile, the Interior Minister of Mexico issued a statement on Sunday,
June 19, where he stated that photographs shared on social networks, which
show federal police using firearms against protesters, are totally fake.
"The actions of the federal troops are in line with the protocols
established to enforce the law without violating human rights," he said.
IFRAME: [3]https://player.vimeo.com/video/171695692
Moreover, a gathering of more than 70 civil society organizations issued a
humanitarian alert in response to the armed State attack on the civilian
population.
Today, June 19, we are witnesses to the extremely violent actions of the
Mexican State to repress the teachers and organized society in resistance
in
various areas of the state of Oaxaca, including the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,
Nochixtlan and the city of Oaxaca. As a result of excessive use of force,
at
least six people are dead and dozens wounded and detained.
Similarly, they say that:
So far the whereabouts of detainees, or the total number of injured and
dead
are not known. Medical care has not been guaranteed and the civilian
population has had to create emergency care sites to meet the overwhelming
need of those injured.
Among other points, the statement by civil society organizations denounces
the constant criminalization of social protest in Oaxaca. Among the main
instances regarding this, it is worth noting:
* In May 2013, the arrest of five teachers from Oaxaca: Damian Gallardo
Martinez, Lauro Atilano Grijalva Villalobos, Mario Olivera Osorio, Sara
Altamirano Ramos and Leonel Manzano Sosa.
* In 2015, criminalization and smear campaigns by the media against the
teachers have been constantly increasing, along with the process of
dismantling the IEEPO (Oaxaca State Institute of Public Education) that
happened in July, leaving thousands of teachers in particular risk of not
receiving their salaries.
* In October 2015, Juan Carlos Orozco Matus, Othon Nazariega Segura, Efrain
Picazo Perez and Roberto Abel Jimenez Garcia were arrested and dozens of
arrest warrants against members of Section 22 (the Oaxacan branch of the
CNTE) were issued.
* In April 2016, Aciel Sibaja Mendoza, finance secretary of Section 22 was
arrested.
* In May 2016, Heriberto Magarino Lopez, another leader of Section 22 was
arrested.
* Finally, on June 11, Francisco Villalobos Ricardez, secretary of Section
22, and a few hours later on June 12, Ruben Nunez Ginez, secretary general
of Section 22, were both arrested.
Similarly, various United Nations officials have issued urgent appeals to
the Mexican authorities, voicing their concern about human rights
violations
reported in some of these cases, in particular, arrests without an arrest
or
search warrant, the use of torture during the subsequent arbitrary
detention, and other violations of the rights of detainees.
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** Political Prisoners
On Saturday, June 11, 2016, at approximately 11pm, more than 1,000 police
violently removed the teachers of Section 22, who belong to the CNTE in
Oaxaca, the state with the highest concentration of teachers affiliated
with
the CNTE, 83,000 of the 200,000 in all of Mexico. The teachers were in an
encampment in front of the Oaxaca State Institute of Public Education
(IEEPO).
The police attacked the teachers from various positions, firing tear gas
canisters directly at the teachers. Meanwhile, the teachers reorganized
immediately, together with neighbors and anarchist youth, resisting with
stones and barricades. After the repression, the teachers went to the
Zocalo, where their encampment remains at the moment.
The eviction came after a team of special forces on Saturday afternoon
arrested Francisco Villalobos Ricardez, Organization Secretary of CNTE
Section 22, in the city of Tehuantepec in southern Oaxaca, for the theft of
books in 2015. Those books are distributed to students for free and are
considered property of the Ministry of Public Education. During the theft
one person was injured, according to the charges filed against the
secretary. Early Sunday morning, the same day as the repression in Oaxaca,
Secretary General Ruben Nunez was arrested for the alleged use of illicitly
acquired funds. Altogether, seven CNTE members have been detained. Another
24 members of the CNTE in Oaxaca have arrest warrants out against them.
In a press release, the CNTE said that the government has publicly shown
that today’s teachers are treated as the worst offenders in the country as
several of them are held in maximum security prisons, as they represent a
threat to the government of Enrique Pena Nieto and by not allowing the
passage of a reform that was dead on arrival, as it is being buried in
Oaxaca.
** Negotiating Table
The teachers’ movement is calling for an immediate start to negotiations,
but the government refuses to open up such a space. Isabel Garcia
Velazquez,
a teacher and member of the CNTE political commission in Oaxaca from the
Coastal region, said:
We are willing to have a national dialogue on education because we have a
proposal. An alternative education model is needed in the state of Oaxaca,
one that respects the customs, the culture and that is evaluated according
to how we live. But they want to impose a reform exclusively in accordance
with their own policies. It will not be possible here in Mexico, not here
in
Oaxaca.
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June 21, 2016
Translated by Scott Campbell
Our rage cannot be contained by police bullets, by the State’s jails, by
the
media’s lies. Our dead will not be forgotten, their combative spirit has
spread so that we may take justice into our hands.
Nochixtlan and Oaxaca resisted as the Isthmus region has resisted,
demonstrating to the powerful that we don’t fear them, that we will
confront
them, we will defeat them; in the cold Mixteca the frontline has not been
neglected. In spite of the pain that invades the people, they know the
worst
way to remember those who died in battle is to abandon the war.
To remove a blockade and its barricades incites them to place more
closures,
more people in the avenues, highways, towns and in the struggle. The
regions
remain alert, the solidarity shows us that the struggle lives. The
attempted
State occupation by federal forces only heightens the tension and revives
the rebellion.
The State sends winks and nods to the teachers union after the massacre;
the
media applauds, we condemn it. We don’t trust in any dialogue with the
authorities, especially now that the CNTE has managed to agree to one,
after
a brutal massacre of people who acted in solidarity with them and supported
them. The blood of our dead cannot be negotiated with for reform, not even
for the removal of politicians from ministries and governments.
Nor will we allow for audacious politicians to hop on the tragedy. The
resignations, the appearances, the support from these
individuals--now--does
not remove the betrayals already committed and those that they surely have
planned. Organization by community, neighborhood, groups and relationships
is necessary in order to block the opportunism and leadership that those
sick from power so crave.
The battle against the State should happen on all fronts. The street is
ours
but we have to win on the media and ideological fronts, to strengthen the
resistance, to organize the rage, to spread and expand the revolt is the
way; and not just in Oaxaca--which is filled with marches, barricades and
protests--but elsewhere. Conflict is necessary, the placid peace of the
State must be interrupted.
The siege by federal forces gathered in several positions should be
acknowledged, the arrival of more reinforcements is a reality and the
objective is clear: the pacification by force of the Oaxacan people. But we
will not give up, we have learned that repression should not provoke fear,
to the contrary it should nourish our highest ideal: freedom.
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