On June 14th 2006, when police forces attacked thousands of striking teachers in the center of Oaxaca City, the annual strike turned into a widespread popular rebellion, demanding the governors' resignation.

A broad social movement, comprised of the teachers' union SNTE Sección 22 and the APPO - a variety of social organizations, unions, students, activists and indigenous communities - took over the city. Through massive actions of civil disobedience, takeovers of government buildings and cars, blocking of highways and calling for general strikes, they ousted the governor without spilling a single drop of blood. After a few months, federal forces reinstated the governor, and intensified the ongoing repression against the social movement.

"From the Edge of the Blade" tells the story about the 2006 popular uprising in Oaxaca, as put by some of the teachers, activists, workers, students, human rights workers, tortured and imprisoned.