GATO

Organized by the Indigenous Popular Council of Oaxaca here in vancouver (CIPO-VAN) and in Oaxaca city, GATO (Grupo de Apoyo y Trabajo por Oaxaca) is a proposal to arrange international presence in Oaxaca via:

• personal accompaniment to those most threatened and
• a delegation January 3-10 (the Zapatista Intergalactica meeting is Dec 31 - Dec 2).

The delegation will be a team of about ten intersectoral, high-profile and personally politically experienced people meeting for a packed-itinerary week of on-the-ground observation and research, and a subsequent media effort to both sensitize the public in Canada (and perhaps the US) and exert more international political pressure to stop the violence.

The GATO project is outlined in the document GATO.pdf. Please express your interest and/or pass the document on to anyone interested.

For information about the project, please contact:

In Oaxaca:

Rosario Gomez (Spanish)

ciporfm@yahoo.com.mx
Telephone in Oaxaca, Mexico: 011-52 (951)517-8183 and 011-52 (951)517-8190


In Vancouver, Canada:

Sara Kendall, Raul Gatica and Emilie Smith
SARA: kendall.ms@gmail.com (604) 253 9294 (English/Spanish)
RAUL: raulgaticabautista@yahoo.ca (778) 862-6955 (Spanish)
EMILIE: emilietsmith@hotmail.com