![Revolution-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-11908 Revolution Vegetarian Vegetable Soup](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Revolution-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-11908.jpg)
Walls and signs of politics as expressed on the walls of Oaxaca.
![Revolution: Vegetarian Vegetable Soup](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Revolution-b-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-11908.jpg)
I particularly liked this play-on-Warhol soup can revolution graphic. Vegan revolutionary?
![Zapata graphic](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Zapata-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-18673.jpg)
An iconic image of Emiliano Zapata.
![Zapata graphic](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Zapata-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-17076.jpg)
The same image of Zapata, an agrarian (farm land) revolutionary, used in a broader Communist context.
![Anti-Nieto graphic](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Nieto-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-12039.jpg)
Winner of the 2012 Presidential election Enrique Peña Nieto portrayed with suposición; ‘assumption’
!['Nieto No' graphic](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Nieto-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-17725.jpg)
The somewhat locally universal symbol for No Nieto.
![Doubts About the Presidential Election with the IFE](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/IFE-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-11809.jpg)
Much suspicion has been expressed about election irregularities and fraud with the IFE election officials.
![The actual IFE election results poster in Teotilan](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/IFE-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-18054.jpg)
As we walked in the deserted midday streets of the small weaving town of Teotitlan (near Oaxaca del Valle), this actual IFE official election results poster drifted around our feet. It clearly shows the lack of local support for the PRI party.
![Anti PRI poster](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PRI-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-11903.jpg)
![Variation on the Uncle Sam - I Want You](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/I-Want-You-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-18889.jpg)
Without seeing the rest of this mostly torn down poster, it evokes the ‘I Want You’ of an Uncle Sam recruiting poster of another era.
![Che Guevera + Jim Morrison - the usual revolutionary suspects?](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Che-Guevera-Jim-Morrison-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-18002.jpg)
These images were in a small, very poor cafe for/by politically active young people.
![Watch Out! ¡Cuidad! The Actual local usual suspects](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Watch-Out-Cuidado-Oaxaca-2012_KE17205-copy.jpg)
¡Cuidad!Watch out for these people poster, in one of the large indoor mercados. It was hung in one of the many, many barely passable narrow aisles.
![No Military Service](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Servicio-Militar-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-18576.jpg)
A faded commentary demanding no military service. One of the rare graffiti that I saw on older walls. Most of this kind of writing was on newer smooth walls.
![Putos los Policias](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Putos-los-policias-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-17310.jpg)
Translate on your own…
![Sad - Locked Out](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-11857.jpg)
I don’t know the intent of the ‘sticker’ artist, but I took the whole composition as a statement.
![For Peace - Gandhi](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Gandhi-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-11969.jpg)
Not to be overly negative, there was a presence of peace related graphics as well.
![Gandhi Che Zapata and friends](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Gandhi-Zapata-Che-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-17562.jpg)
A broad mixture of icons, only some of which I’ve been able to identify. Gandhi, Zapata, Che Guevera, but I have heard mixed things about who the others are. Got info?
![Plastic Bottle Christ with Frida and Diego](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Plastic-bottle-Christ-w-Diego-Frida-17561.jpg)
Recycled plastic bottles Christ on the cross with Frida and Diego.
![Timezones as political statement](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-12255.jpg)
I read this display in a politically oriented cafe, art gallery, meeting center as a statement. What does it say that the time in Tibet is soooo different?
!['You Are...' eyes scratched off](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/You-Are-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-17014.jpg)
![I am You are ! ok.](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/I-am-you-are-ok-Oaxaca-2012_KE17338.jpg)
Ok. Now I’m reassured.
![Journalists around the world: Help Us Please](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Journalists-Around-the-World-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-16851.jpg)
![They don't want to hear our voice](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Journalists-Around-World-Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-16851.jpg)
Statements overseen at a large student rally in the Zócalo in Mexico City. I know, I know, Cuidad de Mexico is not Oaxaca. But It is relevant, at the least, for me.
![Protest display and texters](http://kenstorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ken-Storch-Oaxaca-16831.jpg)
In a large display at the student rally, I saw this juxtaposition. I believe that the photographer of the original image is James Rodriguez. His site where ihe describes himself as “Independent documentary photographer and photojournalist” is well worth a look. MiMundo
While this post hints of political unrest and distress in the region, I must say that everyone we encountered was friendly, polite, and considerate of us in our travels.
such a great post!!!!
glad you like it.
cheers
Great stuff. In 2006, a teachers’ strike in this peaceful city spread into a violent 7 month protest.
There are still echoes of the teacher strike in protests about the current elections, and signs around town.
Love the wall stuff especially Zapata graphic.
There are a few recurring iconic images, with Zapata probably the leading one. Thanks