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Athens News Agency: Gov’t again appeals to teachers

The government on Monday repeated its call to teachers to end their strike and return to classrooms. Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos stressed that, while everyone respected the important work that they did, state finances made it impossible to meet their demands.

Znet: Community Radio Central To Struggle In Oaxaca

Under multicolored tarps, thousands of teachers are asleep on the streets of Oaxaca City, Mexico. Their bodies lie within inches of one another in a sea of blankets, the sleeping figures separated from the pavement with only pieces of cardboard. The sounds of guard shift changes occur every two hours throughout the night. Small hand-held radios hum “Friends, compañeros, its exactly 17 past 1 in the morning on this Friday the 21st of September 2006. Another day of struggle, another day of advancement. At a winners pace.” The radio has become the life blood of this teachers strike turned popular movement in Oaxaca. Not only giving voice to the traditionally voiceless, the radio also serves as an organizing and coordination tool. It is the main communication between the tens of thousands of teachers who began in one encampment on the main square and who are now blockading over 20 government buildings, have exiled the state government from Oaxaca and are creating a democratic alternative.

Nigerian Tribune: Teachers begin strike in Delta

TEACHERS in Delta State public primary and secondary schools have been directed to stay away from schools as from today.

The National: Teachers win case

THE National Court last Friday upheld the legality of the strike by teachers in July this year.
Deputy Chief Justice Salamo Injia upheld the applications by legal counsel representing the teachers’ union Ben Lomai that there was no cause of action to warrant the case to proceed and that there was irregularity to the mode of proceedings.