Thursday, 2 November 2006. A day late perhaps, but comrades in Canberra , Australia mobilised as part of a global wave of solidarity with the revolt in Oaxaca and against the repression of the Mexican state. 

These mobilisations were in part an answer to the call for mobilisation from the EZLN. Both actions were held outside the Mexican Embassy. The first action was held at 4.30:  a half an hour picket attended by three comrades, one placard and 4 officers of the Australian Federal Police. A bureaucrat from the embassy came to speak to us. He was told politely that in line with the Other Campaign we had nothing to say to the political class but we were here to express our solidarity with people in struggle.  After attending a demonstration outside Old Parliament House (where Richard Armitage was rallying the ruling class at a posh dinner) another group, this time 10 strong returned to the embassy to raise our voices in protest. We were a diverse group of militants, including a number of comrades for various parts of South and Latin America.  We understand that that we may be small, but as one comrade said “don’t think small things matter? Try sleeping with a mosquito in your bed”. And we know that we are part of something bigger, a struggle for dignity; the many rivers of resistance that are for humanity and against  neo-liberalism.