The Tale of Disaster (in Oaxaca)

NACLA web magazine, 2016

This articles provides a glimpse of life in Oaxaca in the aftermath of the 2016 repression of the Oaxaca education workers' (CNTE) struggle against neoliberal education reform. The education workers are known well beyond Mexico for their role in the Oaxaca insurgency of 2006 and the creation of the APPO (Popular Peoples' Assembly of Oaxaca).

Aether: the journal of media geographies, 2010

Journal of Social History, 2018

On August 16, 1906, the people of Valparaíso and central Chile experienced a massive earthquake and raging fires. In the aftermath of the event, the local authorities in Valparaíso sought total control of the city population, lashing and killing many and requiring written permission to traverse the city. Meanwhile, in Santiago, the prolabor Partido Democrático first interpreted the disaster as affecting all classes equally. But party leaders soon recognized that the state was abandoning their working-class comrades. Using archival documents and periodicals, this article follows the path of recent scholarship that has denaturalized “natural disasters.” I emphasize how a political party with roots in working-class activism interpreted and integrated the social disaster into its politics. The state and local elites attempted to use the earthquake and fires to their advantage, yet in so doing they pushed a portion of the labor movement to the left. By working to help the victims of the earthquake and of the state, the organizers of the Partido Democrático forged bonds of “affective solidarity” that enabled workers to advance economic demands and to produce a radical critique of the state.

Antipode, 2010

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Radical Teacher, 2008

Antipode, 2008

This book describes the short history of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca, APPO) in 2006. It consists of nine chapters and conclusions, accompanied by a website: http://faceofoaxaca.uoregon.edu which contains twenty-six testimonies and a wide collection of photographs, thus directly presenting the reader with the participants of this movement. Click the following address for a free copy TF. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Vt3qeB4kGGEAEXeNaaPR/full#.VNuY3kITqF0

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