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Coding

2:03pm JST Sunday 13 August 2006

Good progress this morning on my maps code. I am definitely closer than I was last night. Now it can read from the DB the names of the routes. Next step is to select a name and actually load the route. Pretty sure I know how to do that, and get all the points from the db loaded into my javascript points array.

At this rate, I will probably have my first day of TJ Bike trek available by tonight!

I know *I* will be able to see the route, but will the code be good enough to let everyone bang on it? That's the question..

Right now, it's showertime, cause it's been a couple days..

5:15pm JST Sunday 13 August 2006

Crud. Closer, but a bit stuck (mostly lack of concentration) but only a bit. Naptime.

3:17am JST Monday 14 August 2006

Ah. Nice. I figured out how to get the script to work.

1. The points in Google map's API are not just arrays of points, but actually objects of type GLatLng.
2. GLatLng is only defined once the page has loaded, so can only be used inside function definitions.

Tomorrow: hopefully, something worthy of public display.

Found archives!!

2:51pm JST Sunday 13 August 2006

Not sure what is on them, but these were made during PB 49, I believe. Or just after, wiping stuff off my machine before Palestine. Perhaps I'll find some pictures Kris and I hoped to find some weeks ago.

Hitomi

8:59pm JST Sunday 13 August 2006

More fighting tonight. This time via gmail-chat, which certainly makes it easier to step away. I'm going to make it more of a priority to pay her back.

1:49am JST

I'm emotionally shattered.

rochelle in oaxaca

##21:43 Sunday 13 August 2006

Hello all…

So things in Oaxaca are intensifying and fast.

Last week there was a 2000+ womens' march of the Popular Assembly of the

State of Oaxaca (APPO). A quick recap, this is the organization that

formed after the June 14th police repression of the striking teachers

union SNTE Section 22. APPO is made up of the teachers as well as a huge

variety of social organizations who support the teachers. Since APPO's

formation the main goal has been to force the resignation of the

right-wing corrupt governor of Oaxaca State, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. The main

method being used to acheive this is to use nonviolent tactics to stop the

state government from functioning. The state Government House, the State

Congress and the Oaxaca Superior Tribunal of Justice, the Department of

Finances, the General Attorney’s office, the penal tribunals, and other

facilities have all been blockaded.

So back to the women, after marching for five miles they nonviolently took

over the state tv station and have controlled it ever since. It took them

a few hours to get it up and running but since then they have been playing

the footage of the June 14th repression, the march of 400,000 teachers and

growing number of supporters 2 weeks later, and other indymedia style

documentaries of class struggles going on throughout Mexico. They even

played a documentay on the oppression faced by the Palestinians. The

media here is controlled by the wealthy and those in power, like in the

states, so these things had never made it on to television. The televison

station also has two affilited radio stations which the women now control

as well.

The movement has truly been growing, the largest mass movement I have ever

witnessed. It is spreading throughout the whole state of Oaxaca. 40

municipalities and towns around the state have made changes to those in

power, 20 municipal town halls are currently occupied. Nineteen

municipalities have joined APPO and have sent people here to Oaxaca city

to further the struggle. APPO has set up road blockades through out the

state and have taken over 6o public buses and 18 government cars.

Last week it was clear that APPO was acheiving its goals. The movement

was growing and its voice was loud and clear through the women on the

television and radio stations and the university radio station. Then on

the night of August 6th, although denied by President Vicente Fox, 300

officers of the Federal Preventive Police arrived in the city. On the

8th, 30 police men dressed in civilian clothing tried to disperse one of

the blockades in front of an occupied public building with tear gas and

gunfire. One woman was shot in the leg. Then the repression began to

show up all over the city in a series of events which I will list below to

keep it short...

August 7th

Two men start a bus on fire outside the university radio station as a

distraction, they then proceed to throw acid on the transmitter. Radio

Universidad is shutdown.

A NGO leader is disappeared.

A university professor is shot dead in his car.

August 8th

A leading indigenous rights advocate and active in APPO, who is wheelchair

bound from past police torture, is picked up by masked men in an unmarked

car and disappeared with two men who were with him.

Two men enter the state newspaper, Noticias, which has been sympathetic to

the struggle and shoot into the air.

August 10th

The government of Oaxaca announced arrest warrants for 50 leaders of APPO,

including many NGO leaders and leaders within the teachers union Section

1. According to the Secretary of Public Security, this is to “guarantee

the safety” of the state.

Also yesterday, a march was called by APPO against this repression and for

the release of those who have been disappeared. At least 20,000 people

marched through the streets. From the sidelines of the march shots were

fired killing one man, the husband of a teacher. The house that the shots

came from was rented by the police and a federal police badge was found

inside. Today APPO held a huge procession for the man who was killed

during the march into the center square, thousands attended the funeral

and chants that the struggle will continue were repeated for hours.

I believe the movement in Oaxaca has become a strong and diverse class

struggle against the corrupted officials and business-people who have been

in power in Oaxaca for decades. The state of Oaxaca is 70 percent

indigenous and has a long history of resistance and struggle. Those in

power have begun a dirty war against the movement and I fear for these

brave people who continue to take a strong stand against extreme injustice

and corruption even as they see their fellow compañer@s fall.

The photos I took at yesterday's march can be seen at

https://www.flickr.com/photos/72025498@N00/

And I encourage any of you that are able to make a call or write to

Vicente Fox and others to demand an end to this repression and respect for

human rights in the state of Oaxaca. Contact info to follow...

with love,

Rochelle

Vicente Fox Quesada

Presidente Constitucional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos

Teléfono: (55) 52777455

Fax: (55) 52772376

radio@presidencia.gob.mx

presidencia@gob.mx

vicentefox@presidencia.gob.mx

Carlos M. Abascal Carranza

Secretario de Gobernación, México, D.F.

Fax: (00 52) 5 55 546 5350,

(00 52) 5 55 546 7388

segob@rtn.net.mx

Jesús Enrique Jackson Ramírez

Presidente de la Mesa Directiva

del Senado de la República

Teléfono 53.45.30.00 Ext: 3165, 3274

Fax 53.45.30.00 Ext3164

ejackson@senado.gob.mx

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