Oaxaca… the next step

Jennifer Rogers is a PhD candidate who has been in Oxaca since October.  With an MA in Sociology and a concentration in social movements, globalization, and gender:

I am fascinated with the current situation in Oaxaca. I am working on my dissertation for the PhD (in actuality, a book). My primary goal in Oaxaca was not to study the APPO, it is rather to study the movement to protect the biodiversity of seeds, particularly maize. However, a study of the effects of NAFTA, globalization, capitalism, racism, and the activism against it, is a study of many movements with many different groups involved. I am interested in these connections, the discourse around it, and particularly women´s role in this movement and discourse.

From a recent post:

The majority of the people in this movement want to see a peaceful change in the governing of their people. They want recognition of their traditional ways of governance that is representative of all people, especially the indigenous, and uses consensus. However, every meeting, event, march, and barricade is a negotiation between communities, families, businesses, organizations, ideologies and goals. If the incoming government of Calderon pushes harder, the debate over violence or nonviolence will be decided.