a choice between a right wing neoconservative and a neoliberal business friendly 'leftist' ? change of government, same old world capitalist powers behind.

never mind the elections, here is the Other Campaign.

from bellow, by bellow, not- from above 'for' bellow but without bellow.

la otra campanya se organiza!

mexico is not venezuela, lopez obrador is not chavez, not that it matters.
enough straight jacketed vertical leftist rethorical vampirism - horizontal grassoots organisation, power within and not from above, dont beg, organise !!

dont waste your tears for a puppet of power, fight for the blood that fell from the grassroots. WHO IS MISSING? THE PRISONERS ARE MISSING! ATENCO RESISTE!

check  http://mexico.indymedia.org

>enough straight jacketed vertical leftist rethorical vampirism - horizontal grassoots organisation, power within and not from above, dont beg, organise !!

millions of mexicans are organising and protesting against having their vote stolen. they are facing repression from the state because they dare to challenge the results of the fraud. just cos u don't care doesn't mean it doesn't matter!

 http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1972.html

Death by Video: Mexico’s Election Fraud Is Coming Undone

At six p.m. last night, Monday, July 10, neighbors of the office of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) in Comalcalco, Tabasco, witnessed a crime against democracy. They didn’t just stand there. They did something about it. And this one small example of the fighting spirit of the Mexican people explains why the historic presidential election fraud of July 2, 2006 will not stand.

Nine days after the fact, neither the IFE, nor President Vicente Fox, nor his National Action Party (PAN), nor their candidate Felipe Calderón, nor the Commercial Media at their service, have been able to reassert control over the juggernaut of facts, audio and video evidence, and public outrage that today tramples their anti-democratic gambit. The Fraud of 2006, and those who attempted it, are drowning under an authentically democratic tide. Take, for example, what just occurred in the Tabasco town of Comalcalco.

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 http://www.gregpalast.com/florida-con-salsa

FLORIDA con SALSA - THEFT OF AN ELECTION: MEXICO

GREG PALAST: July 3rd, I was in my office in London when the phone rang. It was Mexico City. I was told, “Take a look at the Mexican papers.” The exit polls in the presidential election there showed a clear win for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left wing’s candidate for president, but the official count gave the election to George Bush’s ally, Felipe Calderon, of the rightwing ruling party, the PAN. Hmmm. Exit polls that don’t match the official vote count. I had heard that story before.

In Ohio in 2004, John Kerry led Bush in the exit polls, and in 2000, Al Gore won in the Florida exit polls. But in both cases, George Bush won in the official count.

So I booked the first flight out to Mexico City to answer the question: ‘Did Felipe Calderon of the conservative PAN, the party in power, win the presidential election fairly or was this just another Florida con salsa?’ The official numbers just didn’t add up. So my first stop was to meet one of Mexico’s top numbers experts, statistician Victor Romero of Mexico’s National University. Dr. Romero had charted the official government elections returns from each of Mexico’s 113,000 voting stations.

VICTOR ROMERO: The way I did this was, a friend of mine, that he had the results second by second.

GREG PALAST: Well, randomly, this can’t happen.

VICTOR ROMERO: Can’t happen.

GREG PALAST: So what did happen then? Beside — there’s a miracle here.

VICTOR ROMERO: It’s a miracle.

GREG PALAST: How did the miracle occur?

VICTOR ROMERO: How did the miracle occur? I don’t know.

GREG PALAST: On a computer printout, Dr. Romero showed how the official tallies matched the exit polls, with challenger Lopez Obrador ahead by 2% all night. That is, until the very end, when several precincts came in for the ruling party by 10-to-1, and then 100-to-1, putting their candidate Felipe Calderon over the top, literally in the last minutes. The doctor found that statistically improbable.

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all my respects for the Otra Campaña, but still millions of ordinary workers and peasants in struggle (even many who supported the Otra Campaña) did vote for Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and the PRD as an expression of their will for fundamental change

1.2 million came out on the streets of Mexico DF one year ago when the ruling class wanted to prevent AMLO from running, more than 500,000 came out on July 8th to protest against electoral fraud, more than 500 PRD activists have been killed for being on the side of the workers and poor, the heroic Oaxaca teachers on struggle en masse organised the election campaign for the PRD in that state, this is a real movement

on the other hand, la Otra Campaña, called for a rally in el Zocalo against the elections (unfortunately they took a position of boycott which ruined quite a lot of the good work they had done) on July the 2nd and no more than 10,000 turned out (according to their own account)

as one who has always defended the zapatistas against state repression, and who has been in Atenco and in Chiapas, and many other places, the struggle against electoral fraud in Mexico is worth supporting (though Obrador is no Chavez, the people who support him are Bolivarian)

flores magón