<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Oaxaca</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2:40 PM</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">November 5, 2006</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear Friends and Colleagues:</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Today’s peaceful Mega-Protest-March approximately 5 kilometers long or
about 500,000 people is taking place without any confrontation. It started in the outskirts of the City of </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Oaxaca</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and arrived at the famous </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Church</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> of </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Santo Domingo</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> in the Historic District, only blocks from the </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Main Square</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> or Zocalo. Women, children and men led the way against the invading Federal Preventive Police (an elite unit of the national riot police) and the army. Many artists created “performances” for the occasion. </SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Federal Preventive Police entrenched themselves in the Zocalo using the same barricades the teachers had put-up and that they claimed to have come to </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Oaxaca</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> to demolish.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Enclosed is today’s selection of my photos. You will also find some links to my earlier work including the new “June 14-15”, the day the teachers were forcefully removed from their protest, teargas and beaten by the state police and the following day when they again claimed the Historic District. </SPAN></DIV> <DIV
class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The photos are not in their original size, for those organizations that may need to see the originals, please let me know. Please keep on circulating them. </SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Francisco</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.franciscoalvarado.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow _><FONT color=#003399>www.franciscoalvarado.com</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#003399></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_November_5_2006.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow _><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT color=#003399>http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_November_5_2006.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>-NEW (NUEVO)</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><A href="http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_June_2006.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow _><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
color=#003399>http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_June_2006.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>-NEW (NUEVO)</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Day_of_the_Dead_in_Oaxaca_2007.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow _><FONT color=#003399>http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Day_of_the_Dead_in_Oaxaca_2007.pdf</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT:
14.4pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_October_2006-1.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow _><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT color=#003399>http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_October_2006-1.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #003399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_October_2006-2.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow _><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT color=#003399>http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Oaxaca_October_2006-2.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in
0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Oaxaca, 2:40 PM,<SPAN> </SPAN>5 de noviembre, 2006</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Estimados Amigos y Colegas:<BR>La Mega-Marcha pacífica de hoy un aproximado de cinco kilómetros de personas (500,000) que inició en las afueras de la ciudad y entró hasta el Centro Histórico congregándose frente a la Iglesia de Santo Domingo a unas cuadras del Zócalo, continua sin ninguna confrontación. Mujeres, niños y hombres forman parte de la protesta contra las fuerzas invasoras de la PFP y el ejército. Adjuntos a la marcha, muchos artistas crean “</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">performance</SPAN><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">”.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">La Policía Federal Preventiva se atrincheró en el Zócalo utilizando las mismas barricadas de los maestros. Les incluyo una selección de las fotos de hoy.<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> También encontrarán “links”<SPAN> </SPAN>de mi trabajo anterior y especialmente la nueva página del “14-15 de junio” cuando los maestros fueron violentamente desalojados del Centro Histórico por la policía estatal a punta de gas lacrimógeno y golpes, y el día siguiente cuando se volvieron a tomar el Centro Histórico.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">De nuevo les pido que por favor hagan circular estas fotos. Los archivos son pequeños. Para los medios de comunicación o quien las necesite en su tamaño original, favor dejarme saber.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Saludos,</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-HN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Francisco</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.franciscoalvarado.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow _><FONT
color=#003399>www.franciscoalvarado.com</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV><p> 
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