-----Original Message----- From: Antti.rautiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, 19 March 1999 17:53 Subject: Mexico: Million March Against Privatization >From the BBC . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_299000/299389.stm Friday, March 19, 1999 Published at 05:07 GMT World: Americas Million strong march in Mexico City Many marchers wore Zapatista style face masks By Mexico Correspondent Peter Greste For Mexico City's 20 million residents, demonstrations have become a fact of life but it's been a long time since they've had to face one on this scale. With the help of an advertising campaign to publicise the protests, electricity workers and students managed to draw almost a million people into the central Zocolo Square. The electricity workers and the opposition Revolutionary Democratic Party are protesting against plans to privatise their industry, whilst the students from the autonomous university are rebelling against the introduction of fees. Governement blames oil prices Although it's yet to respond to the latest demonstrations, the government has so far shrugged off the demands of both groups. It insists its empty coffers mean there's no way it can continue to subsidise higher education or electricity. The government blames plunging oil prices for its latest problems. As one of the world's biggest oil exporters, any price shift affects it deeply. But there's also a presidential election due early next year and unions, the opposition and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party are expected to use every opportunity between now and then to score political point -- For MAI-not (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and links to other MAI sites please see http://mai.flora.org/ Antti Rautiainen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please sign the online-petition for the animals of the Karttula breeder! http://www.enviroweb.org/karttula Allekirjoita vetoomus Karttulan kasvattamon el�inten puolesta! ***** "Messages sent on the IWW-news mailing list are the opinions of the individual senders; they do not necessarily represent the views of the IWW. IWW-news is for posting information which is relevant to the struggle of the working class against our bosses. Visit http://www.iww.org/ for more information." To subscribe/unsubscribe from the IWW-news mailing list please send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" as the subject of the message. Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
