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This episode of It's the End of the World

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as we know it and I feel fine

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was made possible by contributions

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from slaves like you.

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Spank you very much!

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Nice little revolution we're having here.

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Revolution? What do you mean revolution?

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Please... don't try to tell me about

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revolution.

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I know all about the revolutions

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and how they start.

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The people that read the books

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they go to the people who don't

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read the books,

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the poor people, and they say

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the time has come to have a change, huh?

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Shhhhhh!

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Shhh-shhh-shhh shit shoosh!

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I know what I'm talking about

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when I'm talking about the revolutions.

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The people who read the books

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go to the people who can't the books,

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the poor people,

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and say we have to have a change.

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So the poor people make the change.

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And then the people who read the books,

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they all sit around the big polished

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tables, and they talk and talk and talk,

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and eat and eat and eat...

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But what has happened to the poor people?

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They're dead!

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Goooooooood morning slaves

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and welcome to another sedition of

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It's the End of the World as we Know it

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and I Feel Fine

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the show where athletes double

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as travel agents.

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We did get word that a famous

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Brazilian football star, Rivaldo,

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who's hugely famous, did make some

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very controversial comments...

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Rivaldo has called on tourists

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not to travel to Rio de Janiero

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for the Olympic Games.

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And what he said is

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international visitors should stay away

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from the Olympic Games.

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They'll be putting their lives at risk

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if they do come.

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Uh.... I'm not going.

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I am your host the Stimulator

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and ten years ago, leftists worldwide

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were celebrating the so-called pink tide

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that was sweeping across Latin America.

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Like the commie domino-effect

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nightmares that keep Henry Kissenger

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up at night...

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THE HORROR

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in country after country

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socialist heads of state were[br]

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elected into office,

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promising to break their countries free

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from the shackles of the IMF

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and to slap down the corrupt

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local mothafuckin elite,

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who for decades had grown accustomed

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to treating national economies

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like their own personal

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fucking piggy banks.

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In many ways this gauchismo was fuelled

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by the explosive growth

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of militant social movements,

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comprised of a dynamic mix

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of urban proles,

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landless peasants,

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and Indigenous peeps.

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Buuuuuuut while it's undeniable that

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the past ten years has witnessed

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important gains in the region,

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from declining rates of poverty

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and illiteracy,

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to massive increases in social spending...

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the reality is that this experiment

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in Socialism for the 21st Century

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was still capitalist as fuck

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and largely financed by

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the historic high price of oil

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and other export commodities.

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And now that the party’s over,

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the pendulum is starting to

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swing back to the right.

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While Dubya and his batshit cabal

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of neocon advisers were too distracted

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by their crazy fucking obsession

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with bombing the Middle East

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into freedom,

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the Obama administration

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has quietly been hard at work

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re-asserting the Monroe Doctrine

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of American hemispheric dominance.

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From the Hillary-orchestrated

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coup d'état in Honduras, in 2009,

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to Obama's historic meeting

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with Raul Castro, that helped open

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Cuba's proud and culturally-rich nation

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to the plague of American tourists....[br]

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the United Snakes sits poised and ready

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to capitalize on the economic

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and political chaos currently

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destabilizing the region.

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The point is...

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the United States will not be

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imprisoned by the past.

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And at the top of their list is Venezuela,

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the oil-rich nation currently

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wracked by hyper-inflation,

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shortages of food and basic goods,

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and an energy crisis that has

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given rise to daily rolling blackouts.

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Scenes of mass looting

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and violent street clashes between

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opponents and supporters of

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President Nicolas Maduro,

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have American policy-makers

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and oil companies salivating at the

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prospect of imminent state collapse.

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For his part, Maduro has declared

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a state of emergency,

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and has given a tentative green light

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for workers to start expropriating

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closed factories,

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in a desperate effort to shore up

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his declining support,

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and kick-start the economy.[br]

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Maduro is facing the prospect of

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a recall referendum,

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a constitutional process which he has

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decried as a Washington-backed

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coup d'etat,

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echoing the language of his former

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fellow comrade-in-chief, Dilma Rousseff

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who was suspended from office[br]

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following an impeachment vote

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in Brazil's senate on May 12th.

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I have not committed any crime

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under the constitution and law

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to justify an interruption

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to my mandate.

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To condemn someone for a crime

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that they did not commit,

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is the greatest violence

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that can be committed against

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any person.

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Leftists and so-called progressives

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around the world have faithfully

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echoed the Telesur line,

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describing the opposition's power-grab

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in Brazil as a coup,

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or golpeachment.

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Buuuuuuuuuuuuut many of the peeps

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taking to facebook to valiantly decry

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this gross breach of democratic process

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seem perfectly fucking content to ignore

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the fact that Dilma had become

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a widely hated figure, with an

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approval rating of just 9 fucking percent

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and millions of peeps regularly taking

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to the streets to demand her resignation.

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Or that she was president of

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the board of directors of

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the state oil company Petrobras,

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while upwards of 33 billion

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fucking dollars was lost to corruption,

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in a giant fucking scandal

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that implicated more than half of

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the country's sitting politicians,

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including many members of her own party.

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Or the inconveniently neoliberal character

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of her government itself,

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which oversaw the violent pacification[br]

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of the county's favelas

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by heavily militarized BOPE pigs,

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and the massive waste of money

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spent on useless fucking infrastructure

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to prepare the country to play host

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to the World Cup in 2014,

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and the FIVE COCK RINGS OF DEATH

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this summer....

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which, by the way,

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look like they're slated to be

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an epic fucking disaster.

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So... while it's true that

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the old-guard of Latin American politics

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are corrupt, neoliberal pieces of shit,

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in the pocket of Uncle Sam,

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it's also long-time past due

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that leftist commentators

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got over their moralistic

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and hypocritical rhetoric of democracy

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and realized that

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class war is a gruelling process,

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and that the impetus for

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revolutionary transformation

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comes from below,

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not from top-down state structures,

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no matter how revolutionary

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their leaders claim to be.

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This year marks the tenth anniversary

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of the mothafuckin Oaxaca Commune,

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a seven month long popular insurrection

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in the land of tacos,

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dubbed by some commentators as

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the first Latin American revolution

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of the 21st century.

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For those not familiar with

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this epic fucking chapter in

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the annals of revolt,

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the Oaxacan uprising began in May of 2006

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when members of the famously militant

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Section 22 of the national teachers union,

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the CNTE, went on strike

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and occupied the central square,

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or Zócalo, in the state's capital

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of Oaxaca City,

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demanding that the government invest

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more public skrilla in education,

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and specifically in schools located

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in the state's remote rural areas,

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where the majority of the students

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come from the families of

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poor Indigenous farmers.

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Buuuuuuuuuuut rather than

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break them off a bigger piece,

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on June 14th,

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Oaxaca's fascistic fucking governor,

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Ulises Ruiz Ortiz,

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sent in a squad of 3000 pigs

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to violently clear out

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the teachers' occupation,

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and shut down their radio station,

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Radio Planton,

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which had been broadcasting updates

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about the strike,

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alongside interviews with grateful

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parents and students.[br]

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Well.... as shit turns out,

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that was a big mothafuckin mistake![br]

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Responding immediately to

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this blatant act of aggression,

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thousands of peeps

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took to the streets,

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kicked the pigs outta dodge,

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and set to work building barricades.

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At its peak, the Oaxaca Commune

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was dotted with over 3,000 barricades,

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which completely paralyzed the pigs

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ability to operate,

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launch raids, or make deployments

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anywhere in the fucking city.

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In other words... for months

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there were no fucking police!

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BASS DROP

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Within this power vacuum,

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a horizontal structure

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of popular self-governance,

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called the Asamblea Popular

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de los Pueblos de Oaxaca,

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or APPO,

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was formed to take over the coordination

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of self-defense and organization

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of everyday life in the commune. [br]

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The revolt spread quickly across Oaxaca

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with students occupying their universities

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and other peeps occupying

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government buildings,

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and forming popular assemblies

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in cities and villages across the state.

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All of these assemblies issued

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repeated demands that the state’s governor

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step down and fuck off.[br]

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On August 1st,

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a mob of revolutionary women

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seized the state radio

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and television stations,

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transforming them into vital hubs

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of communication and coordination,

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broadcasting regular

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revolutionary programming, and updates

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of activity within the liberated area.

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Women took a leading role in many other

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aspects of the insurrection as well,

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from organizing rallies and marches,

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to defending barricades,

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and by doing so were able to

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temporarily liberate themselves

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from the patriarchal division of labour

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that had traditionally relegated them

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to roles as domestic caregivers

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Tragically, the Oaxaca Commune

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had its beating heart ripped out

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in late October,

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when an army of Federal police

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managed to clear out the

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occupied Zócalo in Oaxaca City.

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While sustained resistance continued

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for another two months,

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these were dark fucking days,

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in which many revolutionary militants

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were detained and arrested

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on trumped up charges,

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and dozens more disappeared,

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or assassinated by mothafuckin

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paramilitary death squads

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working for the Mexican security forces.

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Buuuuuut while the Oaxaca Commune

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was ultimately crushed by

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this grim fucking wave of repression,

0:10:24.695,0:10:26.924
the spirit of revolt it inspired

0:10:26.924,0:10:29.248
and drew upon has lived on.

0:10:29.248,0:10:31.402
Today, Oaxaca remains a site

0:10:31.402,0:10:33.107
of militant resistance to the

0:10:33.107,0:10:35.549
neoliberal fuckery of the Mexican state.

0:10:35.549,0:10:37.904
And the teachers from section 22,

0:10:37.904,0:10:40.222
who helped kick things off a decade ago,

0:10:40.222,0:10:41.606
are still at the forefront

0:10:41.606,0:10:42.785
of this resistance.

0:10:42.785,0:10:44.278
For the past several years,

0:10:44.278,0:10:45.422
they have been fighting against

0:10:45.422,0:10:46.562
attempts by the country's

0:10:46.562,0:10:47.824
gringo-hugging jefe,

0:10:47.824,0:10:49.289
Enrique Peña Nieto,

0:10:49.289,0:10:51.115
to enforce capitalist reforms

0:10:51.115,0:10:52.821
on the state education system.

0:10:52.821,0:10:54.853
So... to learn a bit more about

0:10:54.853,0:10:55.910
what's been going down,

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I recently caught up with Cesar Chavez,

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a teacher from Oaxaca,

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and member of Section 22 of the CNTE.

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Hey Cesar… how the fuck are you?

0:11:05.463,0:11:09.146
Well... we are working hard. We're tired

0:11:09.146,0:11:10.422
Shortly after being elected,

0:11:10.422,0:11:11.686
Mexico's current President

0:11:11.686,0:11:13.157
Enrique Peña Nieto passed a series

0:11:13.157,0:11:15.720
of neoliberal reforms called

0:11:15.720,0:11:17.266
the Pact for Mexico.

0:11:17.266,0:11:19.503
One of these reforms was an overhaul

0:11:19.503,0:11:21.373
of the Mexican education system.

0:11:21.373,0:11:22.841
Can you explain the motivations

0:11:22.841,0:11:24.060
behind these reforms,

0:11:24.060,0:11:25.565
and why they've sparked resistance

0:11:25.565,0:11:26.859
from teachers in Oaxaca?

0:11:27.859,0:11:29.257
In 2012,

0:11:29.257,0:11:31.253
in the Presidential elections in Mexico

0:11:31.253,0:11:33.291
the PRI came back into power,

0:11:33.291,0:11:34.756
the party that has been abusing

0:11:34.756,0:11:35.694
the Mexican people

0:11:35.694,0:11:37.555
for most of the last 100 years.

0:11:37.555,0:11:39.520
The Pact for Mexico is basically

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a plot to reform various

0:11:40.984,0:11:42.654
government-run institutions,

0:11:42.654,0:11:44.355
which requires changes to

0:11:44.355,0:11:45.704
the Mexican Constitution

0:11:45.704,0:11:47.614
being pushed for by the United States.

0:11:47.614,0:11:49.732
They want to privatize all of

0:11:49.732,0:11:51.271
the productive sectors of the country

0:11:51.271,0:11:53.841
– energy, labour, finance, even water –

0:11:53.841,0:11:56.483
and one of the specific reforms

0:11:56.483,0:11:58.070
deals with the third article of

0:11:58.070,0:11:59.412
the Mexican constitution,

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which the government needs to change

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in order to allow for

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the privatization of education.

0:12:03.803,0:12:06.162
So the state is seeking to avoid

0:12:06.162,0:12:08.116
its obligation to guarantee free

0:12:08.116,0:12:10.066
public and non-religious education,

0:12:10.066,0:12:12.952
which in its basic form covers children

0:12:12.952,0:12:15.423
from the age of 3 to 15 years old.

0:12:15.423,0:12:16.975
And one of the principal obstacles

0:12:16.975,0:12:19.081
is the rights of teachers to

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permanent labour contracts.

0:12:20.469,0:12:22.503
So they've invented an evaluation

0:12:22.503,0:12:24.290
that will allow them to lay off teachers

0:12:24.290,0:12:25.990
without any legal recourse,

0:12:25.990,0:12:27.993
and they are proposing this as

0:12:27.993,0:12:29.461
a federal education model.

0:12:29.461,0:12:31.618
But here in Oaxaca, we teachers

0:12:31.618,0:12:33.651
are continuing to struggle and to fight,

0:12:33.651,0:12:35.523
as always, because we are against

0:12:35.523,0:12:38.123
the privatization of educational services.

0:12:38.123,0:12:39.629
Their proposed reforms would mean

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three years from now,

0:12:40.721,0:12:42.767
that many poor children from the barrios

0:12:42.767,0:12:44.270
won't be able to go to school.

0:12:44.270,0:12:46.915
Without offering basic education services,

0:12:46.915,0:12:49.320
they are dooming our children to misery.

0:12:49.320,0:12:51.189
And it's clear that this is a model

0:12:51.189,0:12:53.584
being imposed by the World Bank and IMF.

0:12:53.584,0:12:55.451
They are imposing this type of model

0:12:55.451,0:12:57.159
in Latin America, and they have

0:12:57.159,0:12:58.662
already experimented with this model

0:12:58.662,0:13:00.282
in other South American countries,

0:13:00.282,0:13:01.462
and now they want to

0:13:01.462,0:13:02.731
implement it in Mexico.

0:13:02.731,0:13:05.131
But here in Oaxaca we are going to resist.

0:13:05.131,0:13:06.592
Because children deserve free

0:13:06.592,0:13:08.627
public and non-religious education.

0:13:10.807,0:13:11.833
What types of tactics have teachers

0:13:11.833,0:13:13.220
been using to resist

0:13:13.220,0:13:14.800
the government's proposed changes?

0:13:14.800,0:13:17.689
At this time the resistance is civil,

0:13:17.689,0:13:19.064
peaceful and organized.

0:13:19.064,0:13:21.186
In Oaxaca we have been constructing

0:13:21.186,0:13:23.462
an anti-hegemonic educational project.

0:13:23.462,0:13:25.373
We understand this as a project

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against the imposition of

0:13:26.787,0:13:28.467
an educational curriculum model

0:13:28.467,0:13:30.094
that will favour the private sector

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- that will favour capitalism.

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We have a model based in

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our own cultural diversity.

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We make up part of the original

0:13:36.522,0:13:37.939
inhabitants of this land.

0:13:37.939,0:13:39.736
And what we are proposing is

0:13:39.736,0:13:41.153
the empowerment of the culture

0:13:41.153,0:13:42.421
of our people.... our language....[br]

0:13:42.421,0:13:43.642
our way of living...

0:13:43.642,0:13:44.575
our way of organizing.

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We are trying to create a model

0:13:46.285,0:13:48.566
in the almost 13,000 schools

0:13:48.566,0:13:49.869
in the state of Oaxaca.

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And we have a general project,

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but each community

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- each school according to

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their geographical area,

0:13:55.765,0:13:58.163
their culture - will adopt and will create

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these resistance models in their schools.

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We're including ways

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of working with textbooks,

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but also with oral history.

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And it doesn't only include teachers.

0:14:05.829,0:14:07.134
It involves the community.

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It includes workers, peasants,

0:14:08.963,0:14:11.079
the ladies preparing tortillas...

0:14:11.079,0:14:12.951
because we believe their knowledge

0:14:12.951,0:14:14.652
is important too and we want to

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value these types of knowledge.

0:14:16.437,0:14:17.493
Teachers in Mexico,

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particularly in its southern states,

0:14:18.955,0:14:20.733
have been at the forefront of many

0:14:20.733,0:14:22.294
recent popular struggles,

0:14:22.294,0:14:24.072
and have also been a primary target

0:14:24.072,0:14:25.750
of state and paramilitary repression.

0:14:25.750,0:14:27.411
A dramatic recent example

0:14:27.411,0:14:29.407
is the 43 missing Normalista students

0:14:29.407,0:14:31.082
in the state of Guerrero.

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Why do the struggles of teachers

0:14:32.872,0:14:34.254
resonate so strongly with

0:14:34.254,0:14:36.415
other sectors of Mexican society?

0:14:36.415,0:14:37.998
And why does the state see you

0:14:37.998,0:14:39.175
as such a threat?[br]

0:14:39.175,0:14:41.250
The struggle of the teachers has been

0:14:41.250,0:14:43.527
going on in this country since the 1960s.

0:14:43.527,0:14:45.185
And it's been very linked to

0:14:45.185,0:14:46.900
the resistance of the original peoples

0:14:46.900,0:14:48.241
- to the Indigenous peoples.

0:14:48.241,0:14:49.866
And that's the reason the state

0:14:49.866,0:14:51.370
sees us as such a threat.

0:14:51.370,0:14:53.078
We've been speaking about other ways

0:14:53.078,0:14:54.538
of doing politics, outside of

0:14:54.538,0:14:56.738
parliamentary or electoral politics,

0:14:56.738,0:14:58.326
and questioning the true roles

0:14:58.326,0:15:00.277
and functions of political parties.

0:15:00.277,0:15:02.186
And so the state is trying to destroy

0:15:02.186,0:15:02.959
the resistance of

0:15:02.959,0:15:04.789
the education teachers of Oaxaca.

0:15:04.789,0:15:06.497
The disappearances in our country

0:15:06.497,0:15:08.896
has had a lot of international coverage

0:15:08.896,0:15:10.241
because these young people,

0:15:10.241,0:15:12.024
these Normalistas, were training

0:15:12.024,0:15:13.412
to put themselves at the service

0:15:13.412,0:15:15.201
of the education of our people.

0:15:15.201,0:15:16.860
They were brutally disappeared,

0:15:16.860,0:15:18.901
and it's a totally atrocious act,

0:15:18.901,0:15:20.364
but we have to insist that

0:15:20.364,0:15:21.903
they are not just 43.

0:15:21.903,0:15:24.836
After the 43 there have been more killings

0:15:24.836,0:15:26.095
in the state of Oaxaca.

0:15:26.095,0:15:27.886
We can count 260 teachers

0:15:27.886,0:15:29.146
that have been killed,

0:15:29.146,0:15:30.612
and others that have disappeared.

0:15:30.612,0:15:32.754
And we can also say that there's over

0:15:32.754,0:15:35.159
30 people have had to leave into exile.

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This is only in the state of Oaxaca.

0:15:36.987,0:15:39.672
In 2006, teachers rose up

0:15:39.672,0:15:41.988
against former Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz.

0:15:41.988,0:15:43.208
That same year, [br]

0:15:43.208,0:15:44.711
President Felipe Calderón

0:15:44.711,0:15:46.571
launched Mexico’s War on Drugs.

0:15:46.571,0:15:48.205
These intervening years

0:15:48.205,0:15:49.709
have witnessed a sharp escalation

0:15:49.709,0:15:51.651
of neoliberal capitalist restructuring

0:15:51.651,0:15:53.892
and further militarization of

0:15:53.892,0:15:55.925
the Mexican state security forces.

0:15:55.925,0:15:57.836
How have these changes affected

0:15:57.836,0:16:00.031
the situation on the ground in Oaxaca?

0:16:00.031,0:16:01.849
The movement of 2006 was

0:16:01.849,0:16:03.197
a massive social movement

0:16:03.197,0:16:05.147
that involved many aspects of society.

0:16:05.147,0:16:06.447
The federal government immediately

0:16:06.447,0:16:08.440
militarized these peaceful protests,

0:16:08.440,0:16:09.902
like they are militarizing now

0:16:09.902,0:16:11.042
the state of Oaxaca,

0:16:11.042,0:16:12.833
where there's currently 25,000

0:16:12.833,0:16:14.176
police deployed.

0:16:14.176,0:16:16.451
By comparison, back in 2006,

0:16:16.451,0:16:18.651
they deployed approximately 14,000.

0:16:18.651,0:16:19.790
At that time, we faced

0:16:19.790,0:16:21.579
incredibly high levels of repression.

0:16:21.579,0:16:23.933
There was more than 26 people killed

0:16:23.933,0:16:25.926
- 26 that we can confirm,

0:16:25.926,0:16:27.310
but there's testimony that

0:16:27.310,0:16:28.803
hundreds of people were disappeared.

0:16:28.803,0:16:29.866
So, the government,

0:16:29.866,0:16:30.883
along with the Narcos,

0:16:30.883,0:16:32.467
declared a war against the people.

0:16:32.467,0:16:33.810
It takes men with sick minds

0:16:33.810,0:16:35.882
to declare a war on an entire people.

0:16:35.882,0:16:37.104
Those are decisions that

0:16:37.104,0:16:38.764
obviously reflect the logic of

0:16:38.764,0:16:39.942
a broader system

0:16:39.942,0:16:41.574
- an international capitalist system.

0:16:41.574,0:16:42.909
So, in this war there's been

0:16:42.909,0:16:44.830
more than 200,000 disappearances.

0:16:44.830,0:16:46.580
And its principally innocent people,

0:16:46.580,0:16:48.330
the sons and daughters of peasants,

0:16:48.330,0:16:49.794
- who are very much the lifeblood

0:16:49.794,0:16:51.008
of their communities - that are

0:16:51.008,0:16:52.841
being picked up by these organizations

0:16:52.841,0:16:54.164
- by these criminal gangs

0:16:54.164,0:16:55.407
of drug traffickers.

0:16:55.407,0:16:56.798
And so for all this time

0:16:56.798,0:16:58.332
we've basically been living

0:16:58.332,0:17:00.103
in an extended state of siege.

0:17:00.103,0:17:01.552
In 2010, the ruling PRI party

0:17:01.552,0:17:03.591
lost the state elections in Oaxaca...

0:17:03.591,0:17:05.703
the first time in 80 years.

0:17:05.703,0:17:07.712
Governor Ulises Ruiz was succeeded

0:17:07.712,0:17:10.271
by Gabino Cué Monteagudo,

0:17:10.271,0:17:12.666
a member of the supposedly left-wing

0:17:12.666,0:17:13.620
Citizen's Party.

0:17:13.620,0:17:15.072
Buuuuuuuuuut under his rule

0:17:15.072,0:17:17.185
the pace of neoliberal reforms

0:17:17.185,0:17:18.442
has only increased.

0:17:18.442,0:17:20.227
What effect has this had on regular

0:17:20.227,0:17:22.382
Mexicans' faith in the electoral system?[br]

0:17:22.382,0:17:24.658
Well yes... after more than 80 years

0:17:24.658,0:17:25.876
of the PRI in Oaxaca,

0:17:25.876,0:17:27.542
we finally have a new government.

0:17:27.542,0:17:29.453
But that's not just an internal matter.

0:17:29.453,0:17:31.205
We believe that this situation was

0:17:31.205,0:17:33.362
manipulated by the gringos in Washington

0:17:33.362,0:17:35.638
- and not just for this part of Mexico,

0:17:35.638,0:17:37.265
but for other parts of Latin America

0:17:37.265,0:17:39.166
where they implanted, or granted

0:17:39.166,0:17:40.843
a so-called left-wing government

0:17:40.843,0:17:42.104
only to control and manage

0:17:42.104,0:17:43.404
the general discontent

0:17:43.404,0:17:45.190
of Latin American populations.

0:17:45.190,0:17:47.065
And in Mexico it was presented as if

0:17:47.065,0:17:48.687
this alternative would change our lives

0:17:48.687,0:17:50.271
for the better, and alleviate

0:17:50.271,0:17:51.735
the grievances of the workers

0:17:51.735,0:17:53.272
and the population in general.

0:17:53.272,0:17:55.272
Of course that is not how it played out,

0:17:55.272,0:17:56.556
and in the case of Oaxaca,

0:17:56.556,0:17:57.874
everyone understood that this

0:17:57.874,0:17:59.411
so-called leftist government

0:17:59.411,0:18:01.052
that we've had for the past six years

0:18:01.052,0:18:02.263
wasn't brought into power

0:18:02.263,0:18:03.400
to support the workers,

0:18:03.400,0:18:04.954
but was rather just an extension

0:18:04.954,0:18:06.740
of the traditional ruling parties.

0:18:06.740,0:18:08.243
Politically, nothing has changed

0:18:08.243,0:18:09.704
and regular people understand this

0:18:09.704,0:18:10.519
very well.

0:18:10.519,0:18:12.021
So in Oaxaca, there's no less than

0:18:12.021,0:18:14.459
36 major capitalist projects underway

0:18:14.459,0:18:15.961
funded by the World Bank,

0:18:15.961,0:18:17.585
and international capital.

0:18:17.585,0:18:19.053
Canadian capital is invested

0:18:19.053,0:18:20.468
in mining in Oaxaca,

0:18:20.468,0:18:21.536
and they are being supported

0:18:21.536,0:18:23.243
in their operations by this new

0:18:23.243,0:18:24.751
so-called leftist government.

0:18:24.751,0:18:26.947
These projects are displacing communities

0:18:26.947,0:18:29.304
and contaminating our natural resources.

0:18:29.304,0:18:30.841
Our water is being contaminated.

0:18:30.841,0:18:32.394
So this is the kind of situation

0:18:32.394,0:18:33.939
we're living in in our state...

0:18:33.939,0:18:35.894
and we are trying to resist and organize.

0:18:35.894,0:18:37.760
And we really want people to know this.

0:18:38.860,0:18:40.235
What is the level of coordination

0:18:40.235,0:18:42.112
between revolutionaries in Oaxaca

0:18:42.112,0:18:43.688
and other popular movements

0:18:43.688,0:18:44.961
such as the Zapatistas,

0:18:44.961,0:18:47.723
or the auto-defense forces of Michoacán? [br]

0:18:47.723,0:18:48.741
Well...

0:18:48.741,0:18:50.897
there's various organizations that resist.

0:18:50.897,0:18:53.093
This includes groups like the Zapatistas,

0:18:53.093,0:18:56.106
or EZLN, and the insurgents in Guerreo

0:18:56.106,0:18:57.365
and other organizations

0:18:57.365,0:18:59.509
that don't compromise with the state.

0:18:59.509,0:19:00.942
They demand autonomy.

0:19:00.942,0:19:02.653
This is what these struggles are about.

0:19:02.653,0:19:04.488
This is why the state wants to militarize

0:19:04.488,0:19:06.680
and paramilitarize these spaces.

0:19:06.680,0:19:08.670
For example in Michoacan,

0:19:08.670,0:19:10.783
which is talked about a lot in Oaxaca,

0:19:10.783,0:19:12.083
these people have decided to

0:19:12.083,0:19:14.038
defend themselves from larger forces

0:19:14.038,0:19:15.423
that have been trying to impose

0:19:15.423,0:19:16.800
these criminal ideas.

0:19:16.800,0:19:17.949
And we are trying to coordinate

0:19:17.949,0:19:19.699
with these forces that resist.

0:19:19.699,0:19:20.878
And we believe it's going to be a long

0:19:20.878,0:19:22.144
and difficult process,

0:19:22.144,0:19:23.729
because there's repressive conditions

0:19:23.729,0:19:25.193
that make it hard to organize.

0:19:25.193,0:19:26.979
The state will never give us what we need

0:19:26.979,0:19:28.694
or what we want without struggle,

0:19:28.694,0:19:30.606
so we need to do our best to fight back.

0:19:30.606,0:19:31.942
And so this is what we think

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we are going to do,

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and this is how are going to triumph.

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Thanks Cesar.

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And that about does it for this sedition

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of It’s the End of the World

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as we Know it and I Feel Fine.

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I wanted to let y’all know that

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during the summer months

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we will be closing down the firehose

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output of videos to a comfortable

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garden hose cadence.

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Did that metaphor make any fuckin sense?

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Anywho, you fuckers should not be

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sitting in front of your computer

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when it’s hot.

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You should be outside

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making fuckin trouble.

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Buuuuuuuuut don’t worry

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this shit should be out

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about every three weeks until August,

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when we will be back full force

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with more seditions,

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new A is for Anarchy shorts

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and mini reports from

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the global muthafuckin resistance.[br]

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That said, a virtual fist bump

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goes out to the following slaves

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who gave us a hand at making this

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Soliloquy of Seditious Savagery.

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So big ups to:[br]

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Sebastian, Yifan, Renzo, Christopher,

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Michael, Reto, Gavin, Jeremy, Debbie,

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Raul, Daniel, Maciej, Willie, Justina,

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Kirk, Rob, Mason, John, Michael, Itay,

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Romain, Marisol, Joseph, Andrew,

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Lauren, Ina, Coby, Sebastien, Stephen,

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Juliano, Joseph, Gabriel, Willam, Bear

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Michael, Flyn, Per, Jamie, Andrew, Jan,

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Jane, Brina, Jonathan, Steve,

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Blade and Karils.[br]

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Tlayudas!

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I also want to send a warm welcome

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to the newest member of the Taconspiracy:[br]

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Laura.

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Mescalito!

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Stay tuned to subMedia.tv for more news

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from the global muthafuckin resistance.[br]

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Hasta la pasta compañeras!