Friday, June 16, 2006
Photos of June 14 and report from Oaxaca!
I just got an e-mail from Ana Maria, our contact from El Instituto Tecnologica de Oaxaca, and she wrote, "Aqui las cosas no han mejorado y mañana por la tarde tendremos una megamarcha con mas de 200 mil personas." (Here things have not gotten better and tomorrow (Friday...today) afternoon we will have a mega-march with more than 200,000 people.)
I'm posting photos for you to see. (All of the photos, except the first one, have been posted in a smaller size. I wanted you to be able to enlarge the first one of the poster to read the teachers' concerns.)
The first photo was taken by me on July 13 of a poster that was near our hotel entrance on the street Cinco de Mayo. The rest of the photos were taken by my husband, Blair, on June 14. The second photo is looking down at the street from our roof. You'll see Giselle and Jewelette with towels at the ready. The third photo is of the tear gas clouds with Camille hanging over the rooftop taking photos. The fourth is of a helicopter. (A state police helicopter dropped tear gas. Tear gas cannisters were also thrown by the state police into the teachers on the street.) The fifth is of our group getting ready to leave La Casa de La Tia to head for Posada El Cid, and the sixth is of our daughter with "tear gas" eyes several hours after we'd come into contact with the gas.
I'm posting photos for you to see. (All of the photos, except the first one, have been posted in a smaller size. I wanted you to be able to enlarge the first one of the poster to read the teachers' concerns.)
The first photo was taken by me on July 13 of a poster that was near our hotel entrance on the street Cinco de Mayo. The rest of the photos were taken by my husband, Blair, on June 14. The second photo is looking down at the street from our roof. You'll see Giselle and Jewelette with towels at the ready. The third photo is of the tear gas clouds with Camille hanging over the rooftop taking photos. The fourth is of a helicopter. (A state police helicopter dropped tear gas. Tear gas cannisters were also thrown by the state police into the teachers on the street.) The fifth is of our group getting ready to leave La Casa de La Tia to head for Posada El Cid, and the sixth is of our daughter with "tear gas" eyes several hours after we'd come into contact with the gas.
