May 2006-Early June 2006: Teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico Begin Protest Against Economic Conditions

Members of the Local 22 of the National Education Workers Union (SNTE) delivers a list of economic grievances to Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the governor of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. After receiving no official response, hundreds of teachers start to encamp themselves in the state’s historical center with the support of numerous anti-neoliberal organizations. The movement manages to block five access ways to the Oaxaca international airport on June 1 and attract a “mega-march” of around 80,000 people the next day. [González and Baeza, 7/2007]