A second friend told me the APPO is suffering an internal battle with hard-left elements who want some kind of “party-line” top down control. I suppose they also want armed struggle, a ludicrous proposition for peoples who own the high moral ground, machetes and home-made sandals. I translated the minutes of the meeting with great caution.
My first friend actually attended the meeting; the second reported hearsay. They’re both kind of excitable types but quite reliable for all that. Thus I conclude that whatever stress fell on the assembly, they got it under control at least for the moment, and produced a firm document in which the struggle over the upcoming elections resolved along the original lines decided in the APPO’s first declaration, last year. It’s clear that CIPO-RFM was disgusted by the internal wrangle over the APPO’s role in politics (APPO is not supposed to play that game), but each group will do its own thing and the APPO looks to me like it remains clear about its position. The vanguard will have trouble “leading” if nobody is behind them.
That’s good. The one hope I see is that the APPO represents everybody, as in the slogan “We are all the APPO”.
The council has set an agenda which anticipates wide participation. Right now every pundit remarks on the spontaneous continuation of the uprising, without agendas. People are just too pissed and they won’t get over it, as surely they should not. Twenty-six murders, and huge sums of money for bail! Plus nothing solved, resolved, improved, ameliorated or paid for. The zocalo is decorated with huge posters of URO’s “achievements” while the situation on both La Costa and the Isthmus will inevitably lead to arrests and/or murders - I’m pessimistic, but full of admiration for the peoples, who are wising up.
There’s a definite push visible here to get URO on criminal charges. I don’t think it will happen, but the graffiti is quite lively. My heart goes out to the Will family who have just begun to get the bureaucratic runaround. Don’t give up! Think Jennifer Harbury, guys!
