The here and now... and what and why

Complacency is a trap. At least that’s what I was thinking when I up and left the comfort of a Yankee prep school gig, where I taught music, amongst other things, for 28 years. There was also that life long career as a composer, musician and artist.

First, it was a year in St. Thomas, USVI, working as a reporter and shooting photography and then, a year in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Time passed.
More time passed and a year back in the Athens of America followed by a hasty return to Oaxaca where it is all happening.
A couple of years in San Sebastian Etla and now, just down the road in San Pablo Etla. Life is good.

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Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Attacking the Press

This is what's up on Google News.  This seems like a slow response to something that happened a week ago.  Maybe it is a weekly.  Noticeras is one of the sources for stories on this blog.

from Journalism in the Americas
A group of demonstrators threatened and beat three Mexican journalists from the newspaper Noticias, Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca after invading the newspaper's offices in the city of Oaxaca, in Southeastern Mexico, and painting the newspaper's facade with anti-press slogans, reported the National Center of Social Communication (CENCOS).
The reporters, Ismael García, Luis Ignacio Velásquez and Citlalli López were attacked when they tried to record and take photos of the incident, June 2, according to Noticiasnet. López blamed the teachers union for the aggression, and said that one day later, three individuals in a car with tinted windows made threatening gestures at him when he was walking on the street with his family, according to Ciudadanía Express.
According to the report, the teachers were protesting articles in the newspaper about recent union mobilizations. Among the slogans painted on the wall were "You have forgotten dignity," and "Sold press."
The Journalists Association of Oaxaca (APO in Spanish) and the National Union of Press Editors organized a march on Tuesday, Jun 7, to protest the aggression against Noticias, Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca and demand respect for freedom of expression and an end to attacks against journalists, reported Radio Fórmula and E-Oaxaca.
Freedom of expression organizations Article 19 and CENCOS noted that in 2006 and 2007, Oaxaca was the state with the most aggression against journalists perpetrated by persons supposedly linked to political groups or social movements, reported IFEX.
See here a video from Noticiasnet about the jounalists' march.

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