January 10, 2007
A Twelfth Night Tale
A Walk in Oaxaca
By PETER LINEBAUGH
"This is the story of how we took a walk in Oaxaca and went to the zócalo, or city square, for a shoe shine.
We were there for Christmas with friends and a winter holiday. Flying from the Ann Arbor ‘peace movement’ with its silent [sic] vigils and its Zionist virus we were aching for a change of scene, weather, and political outlook. There were three of us, and we were bearing gifts: Michaela, my partner, carrying medicines, Riley, a sophomore in high school, our daughter, bringing an abundance of expectancy, and me, historian, bringing a copy of my study of the commons and Magna Carta. We wanted somehow to step into another possible world, healthy, hopeful, and chartered."
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