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Immigration Setback Blacks, Poor Whites
Stewart A. Alexander,
The increasing number of immigrants entering the U.S. has been sanction by Washington D.C. to satisfy the growing demand from corporate America for cheap labor; and the failure of U.S. policy has been a setback for all Americans on both sides of the border.
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Photos - May 1, El dia sin migrante, SY, 2
lotu5,
mas fotos. more photos.
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Photos - May 1, El dia sin migrante, SY
lotu5,
Some photos from the San Ysidro march and rally, part of the nationwide general strike/walkout/boycott.
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As Bush Militarizes Border, Local Communities Say No.
Ella,
Border communities are united in their opposition to the Goode Amendment, and fear that the placement of National Guard troops on the border with Mexico will further exacerbate the state-of siege mentality that has extended over the region since militarization of the region began, in the name of immigration enforcement and the war on drugs, over a decade ago. Currently, border communities face arbitrary detentions and arrests by the Border Patrol, racial profiling is rampant in Latino neighborhoods, the presence of military vehicles and infrastructure are pervasive, and the use of deadly force by Border Patrol agents claims innocent lives each year.
See also: Bush sending thousands of National Guard troops to Mexican border | No Troops at the Border!
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San Bernardino Anti-Immigrant Legislation
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
The city government of San Bernardino is considering groundbreaking legislation that would bar illegal immigrants from renting or working within the City.
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Film Exposes Negroponte’s Human-Rights Abuses
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
John D. Negroponte has steadily risen through the ranks of the U.S. government, from ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980's and Mexico in the early 1990's to Bush's ambassador to the U.N. in 2001, ambassador to (and effective ruler of) Iraq in 2004 and now the head of ALL U.S. intelligence. But a Norwegian documentary, "The Ambassador," explores Negroponte's involvement in political killings and other human-rights abuses in Honduras when he was ambassador there. The film was screened May 10 at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest and Andreas Tomás Gutierrez, who defied Negroponte at his confirmation hearing for the U.N. appointment on September 13, 2001, spoke about the film and his work with Honduran human-rights activists who documented — and sometimes experienced — Negroponte's abuses.
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Genocide in Northern Uganda
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
On May 8 Activist San Diego moved its regular monthly meeting to the Alliance for African Assistance in the College area to hear Ugandan émigré Charlie Lakony of Friends for Peace in Africa and Kathy Smith of Amnesty International discuss the Ugandan government's human-rights abuses against the Acholi people in northern Uganda. Though the government blames the situation in the north on a religious-Right guerrilla movement called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Lakony and Smith argued that the government, not the LRA, is responsible for 93 percent of the over 3,000 people, many of them children, who die in northern Uganda every week. They also said Uganda has used the concentration-camp strategy to cut off northern Ugandans from their homes and land and render them vulnerable to deaths from disease and kidnapping by both LRA forces and Uganda's own army.
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Walkout, The Chicano Movement, and Mayday
Dr Rich Gibson, San Diego State ,
Chicano nationalism undermines the key messages of a fine film now being premiered throughtout California. This article takes a critical look at "Walkout" in the context of the role of youth in social change and the recent Mayday marches.
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Police Brutality in Atenco and Texcoco
John Gibler,
Police Siege Town, Take over 200 prisoners. Over three thousand police surrounded Atenco and invaded, filling the streets, cutting down everyone in their way with clubs and firing tear gas, both to disorient, and to kill. Several protestors were shot in the head at close range with metal gas pellets three inches long and an inch in diameter.
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May Day San Ysidro
Sargeant Snorkel,
This is a late description of the second San Ysidro march on May Day, that involved shutting down what I have been told is the busiest border checkpoint in the world.
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Over 200 Attend Anti-War Demo on Iran
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
Despite only two days' notice, over 200 people attended a demonstration at the Federal Building in downtown San Diego May 6 to protest the Bush administration's plans for war against Iran. Speakers at the rally highlighted the similarities between the ways the Bush administration is pushing for an attack on Iran — including manipulating the media to create an atmosphere of fear that will lead the public to support the war — and the ways it previously pushed for the war on Iraq. There was also a lot of concern about the reports that the Bush administration plans to use so-called "tactical" nuclear weapons in any attack on Iran.
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Atenco prisoners launch hunger strike
jen lawhorne centro de medios libres d/f/,
217 prisoners began a hunger strike in central Mexico Friday protesting the conditions of their arrests and their treatment at the hands of local police. Reports have been filtering out from jail of rape, physical and mental abuse experienced by people who were arrested for their involvement in the defenses of Texcoco and Atenco. Meanwhile, five foreigners are facing deportation, about sixty people are missing, independent media makers have been targeted for arrest and one 14 year-old boy is dead.
LA OTRA SAN DIEGO | LA OTRA TIJUANA
ENGLISH language coverage at Mexico Indymedia
See Also: Watch video on IMC Chiapas | Lista de detenidos y desaparecidos (ATENCO) | PROTEST REPRESSION AGAINST LA OTRA CAMPANA | Video from Atenco | MARCOS EN SAN SALVADOR ATENCO
Live radio coverage from KeHuelga radio, rebroadcast on radioActive sanDiego which you can also hear on 106.9FM in San Diego | Kehuelga stream here
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Guest worker programs DON'T WORK!
Bob,
Demand legalization, not amnesty! Human rights, not guest worker programs! Freedom of movement, not borders!
This is taken from a middle section of an article titled, "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" reposted in the Western Service Workers Association's publication California Service Worker, San Diego Edition.
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Audio: Discussion of Human Trafficking
queer-j brad,
On March 28 at Voz Alta, SDIMC and the San Diego Chapter of the Peace and Freedom Party presented the film Darkside of Cancun, which exposes the sharp economic divide between wealthy tourists and indigenous peoples in the resort town of Cancun, Mexico, and the widespread sex tourism and trafficking in women and children in Cancun. Following the film, Manolo Guillén, Program Manager for the B-SAFFE Project on Human Trafficking at San Diego Youth and Community Services, spoke about the human trafficking in the San Diego/Tijuana region, and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, outreach coordinator for Free the Slaves and lecturer in Political Science at San Diego State University, spoke about the global context within which human trafficking takes place.
Audio 38 min. click here
 http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/9622.php
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Trafficking in Children
Manolo Guillén ,
The Trafficking of children through the U.S.-Mexico border runs rampant. The U.S. State Department estimates that each year up to 17,500 people, primarily women and children, are trafficked into the U.S. to be sold or subjected to labor or commercial sexual exploitation. The United Nations lists Mexico as the number one exporter of exploited children into North America.
For Manolo Guillén's article, click Read more.
For an audio discussion of human trafficking by Manolo Guillén, Program Manager for the B-SAFFE Project on Human Trafficking at San Diego Youth and Community Services, and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, outreach coordinator for Free the Slaves and lecturer in Political Science at San Diego State University, click here
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/115534.shtml
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Link to Video of May 1 San Ysidro Speech
Bob Davis,
Here is a link to a Quicktime video of the speech given by Dr. Roberta Alexander at the May 1, 2006rally at :Larson Park in San Ysidro. Some of the march after the speech is also present.
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Tear Down This Wall
Anti Racist,
We as free people will go into the desert and free the border, free the people, and (literally) tear down the border! It is not often that we can literally tear down our national borders to open it up to the free movement of people. This is a chance for us to literally and legally tear down an apartheid wall!
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Awesome Photos from Tijuana Mayday
repost from boingboing.net,
http://flickr.com/photos/uncut/sets/72057594122478300/
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San Ysidro, May Day March to Border
Mike,
Photos from May 1st protest/march at San Diego (San Ysidro) border.
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MayDay Breaking News
,
Please post and tell us about your day! or call in your reports and personal experiences to radioActive sanDiego, 619-269-4693. Listen online or @ 106.9FM
San Diego - May 2nd - THE SECOND MARCH IN SAN YSIDRO | Great photos from Tijuana on flickr | Morning audio from radioActive sanDiego | rdom's blog entry | Lying Media Bastards blog entry | News roundup from DeleteTheBorder.org | Primero de mayo: Tijuana IndyMedia
San Diego - 10:00 PM PST - Corporate media reports state that a demonstration in Vista of 800-1200 people began throwing rocks and bottles at police.
San Diego - 8:20 PM PST - Photos from San Ysidro march
San Diego - 7:45 PM PST - A huge, spontaneous march has left the Balboa Park rally and is in downtown. It has "tens of thousands" of people present and is headed up 5th Avenue.
San Diego / San Ysidro - 5:56 PM PST - A phone call into radioActive sanDiego reported that a second, spontaneous march took place in San Ysidro and that the march moved onto the highway and temporarily blocked the border crossing preventing cars from going from the US into Mexico. The police attempted unsuccessfully to make arrests.
Nationwide - 5:20 PM PST - The Guardian UK reports: "police estimated 400,000 people marched through Chicago's business district and tens of thousands more rallied in New York and Los Angeles, where police stopped giving estimates at 60,000 as the crowd kept growing. An estimated 75,000 rallied in Denver, more than 15,000 in Houston and 30,000 more across Florida."
Tijuana - 5:07 PM PST - The SD Union Tribune is reporting that "about 20 U.S. immigration officers briefly faced off with 1,000 protesters standing just inside Mexican territory as the protesters tried to blockade northbound traffic around 11:20 a.m... On the Tijuana side, police arrested at least seven people during the daylong protest. One Tijuana officer was hit in the head when demonstrators started throwing bottles while police tried to arrest one protester; his condition wasn't known."
San Diego - 4:55 PM PST - An employee at PB Middle School reports that half of the students did not show up today.
San Diego - 4:45 PM PST - A phone report from a student organizer in Santa Cruz described how they set up a mock border crossing at both entrances of campus and later joined a march with over 500 people.
San Diego - 3:52 PM PST - The march in San Ysidro has over two thousand people. Estimates were up to 2,500. It has returned to Larsen Park and a large rally is underway. Protesters on the Tijuana side of the border successfully shut down the border for traffic coming into the US. After a while, police pushed demonstrators back and cleared 3 lanes of border traffic.
San Francisco - 11:42 AM PST - Protesters blocking cable car on California street.
San Diego - 11:31 AM PST - Large rally at Chicano Park wrapping up and moving on to San Ysidro rally.
San Francisco - 11:20 AM PST - Indybay is reporting that the mission district is full of marchers with white shirts and that most businesses are closed. There is a very large march starting at 3rd and market.
Tijuana - 11:18 AM PST - The Union Tribune is reporting that protesters in Tijuana are blocking traffic lanes near the border crossing.
San Ysidro/Tijuana - 10:18 AM PST - The local NBC affiliate is reporting that the border crossing is extremely slow. The McDonalds at the crossing, usually packed with people, is so empty that they are sending employees home. They also showed video of a protest taking place in Tijuana near the border crossing, with Mexican flags waving, encouraging people not to cross. It is apparently very successful as an employee of a shop near the crossing says that it's "dead".
San Francisco - 10:01 AM PST - Indybay is reporting that half of Balboa Park High School didn't show up today
Los Angeles - 8:40 AM PST - LA Indymedia is reporting that the truckers have successfully shut down 90% of Los Angeles Harbor. So far only 5 trucks have shown up.
New York - 6:43AM PST - Images of closed businesses in New York
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May Day Virtual Sit-In! NO ILLEGAL BORDERS!
EDT and borderlands Hacklab,
Join May Day Virtual Sit-In! All Day Long on May 1st.
Bodies On-line and Bodies in the Street Together.
NO ILLEGAL BORDERS! NO ILLEGAL LAWS!
CLICK HERE*CLIQUEN AQUI
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/MayDay2006/Start.html
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Enrique Morones and the March for Migrants
Enrique Morones and the March for Migrants,
Throughout February Enrique Morones, founder of the Border Angels, led a nationwide trip called the "Marcha Migrante" or "March for Migrants." In a presentation on April 10 — one day after the big downtown march for immigrant rights that attracted 100,000 participants — Morones talked about how the contacts he made on the "Marcha Migrante" helped build the big nationwide immigrant-rights protests in March and April. Morones will be repeating his presentation May 12 at Chicano Perk in National City, 616 National City Blv’d., (619) 474-7375, www.chicanoperk.com, www.borderangels.com; for more information see http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=12427
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Immigration Blues
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
This editorial, published in the May 2006 issue of Zenger's Newsmagazine, argues that immigration is not as simple a problem as either the Right or the Left makes it out to be; that the real issue is the economic and social inequity both within and between countries, and the ways the corporate ruling class exploit these inequalities; and the short-term solutions are to treat undocumented immigrants already here with respect and enforce the labor laws to protect the wages and benefits of American workers, whatever their citizenship or residency status.
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May Day - List of Southern California Events
Jonathan,
All over the US, massive actions are being planned as part of the call for a General Strike / Walkout / Boycott // No Work, No School, Buy Nothing, Sell Nothing. Take part! Help organize your community to join the General Strike and Walkout against HR4437 and for Amnesty!
Freedom of movement!
Equal rights for all people regardless of immigration status!
An end to deportations and detention centers!
MayDay 2006 will be a day remembered for a long, long time. Get involved and let your voice be heard! If you want to make a live report call into RadioActiveRadio.org at 619-269-4693. At the end of the day please post your photos to http://sandiego.indymedia.org. If you have a camera phone email your photos during the day to imc-sd(at)lists(dot)indymedia(dot)org
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MayDay General Strike / Walkout Action Roundup
Delete The Border,
All over the US, massive actions are being planned as part of the call for a General Strike / Walkout / Boycott // No Work, No School, Buy Nothing, Sell Nothing. Take part! Help organize your community to join the General Strike and Walkout against HR4437 and for Amnesty!
Freedom of movement!
Equal rights for all people regardless of immigration status!
An end to deportations and detention centers!
Use these posters locally:
http://deletetheborder.org/node/932
http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/41377.php
http://news.infoshop.org
http://crimethinc.com
List of Southern California Events
Local Events:
* San Diego March & Rally: Larson Park (Cesar Chavez Community Center) 455 Sycamore Road in San Ysidro at 12:00pm sponsored by March 25th Coalition against HR4437 San Diego
* International Workers Day Forum: Senior Center, 30th and Oceanview, Barrio Logan, from 6:00-8:00pm sponsored by the Raza Rights Coalition
* Rally and Candlelight Vigil: Balboa Park, corner of 6th and Laurel St. San Diego, from 5:30-7:30pm sponsored by San Diego Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
* Tijuana March & Rally: “Centro Comercial Las Brisas” in Boulevard Diaz Ordaz in Tijuana at 12:00 (the march will proceed to the American Consulate in the Colonia Hipódromo) Sponsored by la “Otra Campaña” in Tijuana
UPDATE: Before you go to the march, join the MayDay Virtual Sit-In against Lou Dobbs, SOS and Sensenbrenner!
For a longer list of events, click here and here. Infoshop.org's wiki page has a large list of local events. Check it out.
May 1st has been celebrated for more than a century as International Workers Day, commerating the struggle for the eight hour workday in the US and the state murder of anarchist labor organizers in Chicago in 1887. The militant labor movement in Chicago was largely due to the influence of radical immigrant workers from central Europe, who were the most exploited of the working class. May First is celebrated worldwide with the exception of a handfull of countries including the United States.
As millions March in the US and Mexico, there are also events planned all over Europe for EuroMayDay, more info at EuroMayDay.org.
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radioActive sanDiego taking calls on May1st
dj lotu5,
radioActive sanDiego will be taking calls from the street all day on MayDay, from 10AM to 6:30PM.
CALL IN LIVE FROM THE STREET @ 619-269-4693 and we will put you on the air! Call in with your news, reports, stories and personal experiences.
Listen online at http://radioActiveradio.org
You can also tune in to 106.9FM to hear the live coverage and find out where to go!
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Free Speech with reg e gaines in Balboa Park
Michael Klam,
The Museum of the Living Artist invites writers and artists to present their visual and written/spoken work at Poetry and Art on Wednesday, May 17, 2006. The free speech quarterly event at the San Diego Art Institute will feature special guest performers reg e gaines, author, playwright and director, and San Diego’s top competition (slam) poets, including Rudy Francisco, Viet Mai, Whitney Lawrence, Brian DeBenedictus, and Sunflower Dubois.
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Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera
o.r.g.a.n.i.c.,
Organic Collective presents:
Elektra Thunderbunny
and the Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera.
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Zapatista! the Movie at Voz Alta, Wed, Apr 26 7pm
sdimc,
UPDATE: Correction on times. The Tactical Ice Cream Unit will be on hand from 7-8pm, with a presentation from 7:00-7:30. The film will start at 7:30pm.
From June 17-19th, Delegate Zero of the Zapatistas will be coming to Tijuana as part of La Otra Campana. People will converge on San Diego and Tijuana from all over the US for this historical opportuniy to meet the Zapatistas first hand and take part in La Otra Campana, a new campaign aimed at radically transforming politics through coordination of groups on the left organizing outside of electoral politics against capitalism. A member of the o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective will speak about the plans for June and what you can do to help!
FILM SCREENING, Wednesday, April 26, 2006: ZAPATISTA! is an inspiring first-hand account of a struggle that will challenge the way you think about the world. Armed with sticks and words against a 'First World' military, the Zapatistas were able to hold their ground. Ignored by a mainstream press, the Zapatistas have used poems, children's stories, videos, and the internet, to permanently transform the political imagination of a nation.
The film starts at 7:00pm at Voz Alta on 1544 Broadway, downtown San Diego. $3-$5 donation, light refreshments. Learn more at: http://www.bignoisefilms.com/zap
Also, the Tactical Ice Cream Unit will be on hand as part of the Center for Tactical Magic's West Coast tour! The Tactical Ice Cream Unit (TICU) rolls through the city in an act of intervention that replaces cold stares with frosty treats and nourishing knowledge. Combining a number of successful activist strategies (Food-Not-Bombs, Copwatch, Indymedia, infoshops, etc) into one mega-mobile, the TICU is the Voltron-like alter-ego of the cops' mobile command center. Learn more at http://www.tacticalmagic.org
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4/28 Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera
Bob,
Punk Rock Opera
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