: Free Atenco Prisoners - protest at Mexican Embassy

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On 3 and 4 of May, 2006, more than 2,500 state and federal Mexican police arrived at the small town of San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, to repress members of a social movement (People´s Front in Defence of Land, FPDT) protesting in support of local flower sellers who had been displaced from their traditional place of work because the government was planning to build there a Wall Mart.

Demo at the Mexican Embassy, London at 1130AM on Tuesday 29th June 2010

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