What's happening in the streets? 10th Megamarch

M8: Oaxaca

Oaxaca libre reports from the city of Oaxaca | video of the march | broadcasts resumed at 92.1 Radio Plantón |

14:35 Thousands more people come marching in from different parts of the city. After marching for four hours, the contingent of teachers and social organizations belonging to the APPO arrive at the esplanade of the Plaza de la Danza. Stay tuned.
14:25 International Women’s Day is the context for the rally now beginning. Many different organizations are represented as well as many unaffiliated women and men. The chants are "Si Ulises no se va la paz no llegará" (If Ulises doesn’t leave there’ll be no peace) and "El puño de la mujer atenta contra el poder" (Women’s fists raised high strike a blow at power). We listen to a woman from Section 22 of the Teachers’ Union.
14:18 The large contingent heading up the 10th Megamarch is now approaching the Plaza de la Danza. The size of the crowd is difficult to estimate. Under the hot sun, high in the sky, the mood is not euphoric. The chants ebb and flow in waves on a sea of sombreros and umbrellas.
12:23 According to our reporters, more and more people are joining the march. The “tail” is just now leaving the Viguera intersection, while the “head” is arriving at Canal 9. Our people at Brenamiel continue to keep us informed.
11:54 As the 10th Megamarch arrives at Brenamiel, the number of participants is incalculable but there’s no doubt that it’s in the thousands, as well as many other people waiting at key points to join in. Our reporters have just informed us that a large contingent in the Brenamiel area is marching towards Viguera to meet up with the other demonstrators.
In the context of International Women’s Day, the march called by the APPO and the Teachers’ Union starts out at Viguera, headed towards the Plaza de la Danza in the Historic Center.
Access to the Zócalo is restricted although it is still possible to enter the area. The restaurants are open as usual although very few tourists are now having breakfast or walking around downtown.
The police forces set up metal, barbed wire fences, and the dog squad and the firemen’s water tanks arrived at the Zócalo.
In the early morning hours several different police forces (Preventive, Municipal, Banking, and Ministerial), as well as the Firemen’s Corp launched a mega-operation in the downtown area of the capital city in response to the Megamarch called by Section 22 of the Teachers’ Union and the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).