ESSAYS :: FOX HUNTING



Firstly, I and the rest of the Band would like to thank everyone who came to our concerts at UTA REVOLUTION in Mexico City, on 14th and 15th October 2006, and to all the staff at UTA REVOLUTION, in particular, Murphy, Lalo and Estopas who organised the whole event. We were shown the warmest hospitality, and the visits to Hildago, Texcoco and the Pyramids at Teotihuacan will stay with me forever. Great people and fond memories.

EDUCATION IS A DANGEROUS THING........
In Hildago, a small village outside Mexico City, there is no school for the children that live there, so UTA REVOLUTION are building one. They have also encouraged and shown the villagers there how to earn a living through Eco-Tourism, by developing and utilising the natural beauty of the local area. They have helped to give back to these impoverished villagers their own sense of worth. I know, because we spent a whole day meeting and talking with them. Meanwhile the government does nothing to help these villagers and thousands of other villages throughout Mexico which lack proper schooling facilities, a decent water supply, the things we tend to take for granted elsewhere in the world. Instead government officials just sit back and grow fat on the crumbs thrown to them by Washington, payment for helping to keep the status quo, where the rich get fatter, and the poor stay poor. A great country and a great people, shamefully let down by their government.

REMEMBER, EDUCATION IS A DANGEROUS THING.......
Towards the end of October, 2006, in Oaxaca, a poor region which also lacks proper schooling, people demonstrated against further government cutbacks in education. The army was sent in, and several demonstrators were shot dead, including a U.S. film cameraman. Since then there have been further demonstrations and more violence. Many people have since 'dissapeared'. Back in England, there has been nothing on our news channels about what is happening in Oaxaca. The silence of cowards? How can this be so? We live in an age of 'instant news coverage.'...or so we are told. The people in Oaxaca are fighting for a just cause, they are outnumbered and surrounded by heavily armed state forces, and cut off from the outside world.... Injustice can only happen when the perpetrators are allowed to get away with it. They can only get away with it if the rest of the world doesn't know about it! So click onto the links below and find out what's really going on down there, and then pass the word, pass this email on, put the spotlight on them and don't let the bastards get away with it! Knowledge IS power! Be a warrior not a slave, and remember Oaxaca!

Links:
www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/oaxaca/en.html
www.indymedia.org/en/


December 2006.

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