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70,000 teacher in Oaxaca, Mexico return to the streets. « Fred Klonsky's blog

70,000 teacher in Oaxaca, Mexico return to the streets. « Fred Klonsky's blog

70,000 teacher in Oaxaca, Mexico return to the streets.

Back in 2006 union teachers on strike in one of Mexico’s poorest states were brutally attacked by the state government.

But now they are back on the street.

Thousands of teachers turned out for a march in Oaxaca city, the capital of the like-named southern Mexican state, at the start of a strike that is affecting 1.3 million students.

SNTE teachers union Local 22, which has 70,000 members, staged four marches