LA PUENTE, CA, 7 May 2006--Forty people lined the entrance road to WalMart in La Puente today, part of a trio of protests in California to end government oppression in the indigenous town of San Salvador Atenco. They were standing up against a government land grab and police brutalization in Atenco, in the state and country of Mexico nearly 1400 miles away. In all, they had broken through the mainstream media disinformation about "crazed" and "hysterical" farmers in the small flower-farming community of San Salvador Atenco, and connected the farmers' plight to globalization, land rights, and Indigenous oppression.
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Atenco No Está Solo
by Leslie Radford
Atenco No Está Solo