The Education Workers' Movement in Mexico Has Become a Peoples' Movement Clayton Conn - teleSUR
go to original July 20, 2016

“When a law is unjust, the correct thing to do is disobey.” Mahatma Gandhi (teleSUR/Clayton Conn)

One month after the Nochixtlan massacre that claimed 12 lives in the state of Oaxaca, it has become clear that rather than impeding the struggle of the National Coordinator of Education Workers, or CNTE, state repression has only served to accelerate the momentum of the teachers' and students' struggle, as well as the broader fight of Mexican workers and Indigenous people – while also strengthening their spirit of defiance versus the unpopular government of Enrique Peña Nieto.

Mexico City has witnessed constant demonstrations against the government's neoliberal agenda, not only in relation to the education workers' fight but also the social demands of Mexico's restive and primarily Indigenous rural regions, who have been waging an effort to halt extractivist projects such as large hydroelectric dams, wind farms, and mining operations. Social movement organizers have also called on the government to free all political prisoners, end "state terrorism," and stop the criminalization of social protest.

teleSUR takes a look at the latest march in Mexico's capital, where thousands of teachers from across the country have converged to pressure the Mexican Interior Ministry during its ongoing negotiations with the CNTE.

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Related: Mexico Government Moves Forward with More Reforms Despite Teacher Demands (teleSUR)

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