The Other Campaign begins!
cmi-chiapas, cmi-mexico, sdimc, cml-df, panchita,

Marking the twelfth anniversary of its uprising, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) launched the next phase in its struggle Jan. 1 to a thunderously warm send-off from thousands of supporters in the overfilled Plaza de Resistencia in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.

The six-member Zapatista command, four men and two women, assumed the stage with a backdrop bearing a mural of Emiliano Zapata as a sea of black balaclavas, red bandanas, banners, Mexican citizens, internationals-in-solidarity and tourists cheered on. Banners lifted high in the air announced, “Long Live the EZLN” [read more]

The Other Campaign, the Zapatista political initiative which hopes to forge an anti-capitalist alliance of the non-electoral Left in Mexico, has officially begun. Thousands who have signed on gathered with subcomandante Marcos, now called Delegate Zero, in his first day. [español aquí]

enero zapatista // zapatista january - San Diego, CA - a month of events in solidarity with the Zapatistas and La Otra Campaña

Update: Zapatistas arrive in Palenque | Report from Andrew Kennis | Chronicle of San Cristobal assemblies

Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Video: 1 | 2

Words: Account of Jan 1st 2006 | Speech of Comandante Tacho | Speech of Comandanta Kely | Speech of Comandanta Hortensia | Junta de Buen Gobierno Camino del Futuro celebrates 12 years of the struggle of resistence

Audio: Speeches at the beginning of The Other Campaign | Delegate Zero (Sub Marcos) beginning the Other Campaign | Delegate Zero-mp3 | Delegate Zero-ogg | Tacho | Kelly | The voices on the streets of Garrucha and San Cristobal | Hortensia | David | Zebedeo | cml-free radios-the beginning of the Other Campaign in Coyoacan | Radio Insurgente | Radio Zapote | Radio Ke-Huelga

Read more: Chiapas Indymedia | Mexico Indymedia | Centro de Medios Libres D.F. | San Diego Indymedia | NarcoNews | Enlace Zapatista | Zezta Internazional | The First Plenary of the Other Campaign | Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle

Translations of EZLN communiques: 1 | 2 | 3

Radio Transmission from the beginning of the Other Campaign, from San Cristobal de las Casas:
Ke Huelga Radio - 102.9 FM desde la Cd. Monstruo
En San Cristóbal de las Casas - 107.5 FM
Internet: mp3 | mp3 | ogg
Crónica 31 de diciembre - La Garrucha | Discurso de la Junta de Buen Gobierno

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Critical Mass Radio Network - Year in Review
dj lotu5,

Tune in to the Critical Mass Radio Network, Saturday December 31st. To listen online, go to www.CriticalMassRadio.net

This month's broadcast will be a year in review, with the best in music and interviews from the Critical Mass member stations.

The schedule for this month is:

* 12-2pm - radioActive sanDiego
* 2-3pm - Michigan IMC
* 3-4pm - Portland Indymedia Radio
* 10pm-12am - Kill Radio, Los Angeles

Update:RadioActive sanDiego 2005 Year in Review on Critical Mass Radio Network - DJ Al plays clips from the past year of programming on RadioActive sanDiego including interviews with Malik Rahim on Hurricane Katrina responses, Frank Morales on FEMA, Utah Rave Bust eyewitness of police brutality, Janice Jordan on the murder of Jacob Faust by San Diego Police, Radica Radio interview with Jodie Lawson on women in prisons, al also plays what he considers the most censored news story of the year, the intelligence agents caught by Basra police dressed as Arab "insurgents", Entartete Kunst with "Class War", an Interview with the recently deceased Steve McWilliams, "Louisiana 1927" by Aaron Neville, "The Holidays are Here (and we're still at war) by Brett Dennen, and we close our show with a clip of a presentation by Ashanti Alston, the "Anarchist Panther" given at the No Borders Encuentro this summer in San Diego. Solidarity and Revolution in the New Year! 2 hours.
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Another Fatal SDPD Shooting
sd@narchist,

Police fatally shoot pedestrian on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad

CARLSBAD ---- An officer-involved fatal shooting on southbound Interstate 5 Tuesday caused major traffic delays through the evening rush hour.

For other police brutality news, tune in to www.radioActiveradio.org to hear Bad Cop, No Donut every Friday at noon!
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'Twas the Day Before Christmas
Leslie,

On Saturday, December 24, 2005 a small contingent of Save Our State used the luxury of their holiday to try to prevent day laborers in Glendale from getting work. The legend follows.

See Also: Costa Mesa's March to Justice | Ningún ser humano es ilegal
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Buy Nothing Christmas
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Introducing Buy Nothing Christmas

This Christmas we'll be swamped with offers, ads and invitations to buy more stuff. But now there's a way to say enough and join a movement dedicated to reviving the original meaning of Christmas giving.

Buy Nothing Christmas is a national initiative started by Canadian Mennonites but open to everyone with a thirst for change and a desire for action.

Buy Nothing Christmas is a stress-reliever, and more people need to hear about it. You can change your world by simply putting up one of the posters (or make your own) in your church, place of worship, home or work. Be sneaky about it if you have to. The point is to get people thinking. It's an idea whose time has come, so get out there and make a difference!

www.BuyNothingChristmas.org

Free Information Kit | Poster | See CBC news on carollers here | Alternatives | Media | More Resources
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New Documents Show FBI Spying on Domestic Activist Groups
from ACLU and Democracy NOW,

Newly released documents show counterterrorism agents at the FBI have been monitoring domestic organizations active in causes as diverse as peace, the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief. The documents came as part of a series of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. This is the third major recent revelation about domestic spying in the last few days.

Last week NBC News revealed the Pentagon has been monitoring peaceful anti-war protesters and the New York Times exposed how President Bush ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without court-approved warrants. The latest batch of files totals more than 2,300 pages and centers on references in internal files to a handful of groups including Greenpeace, Catholic Worker, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and PETA, the People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The documents indicate the FBI monitored protests organized by the groups and used confidential informants inside the organizations to gain intelligence.

One document indicates that FBI agents in Indianapolis planned to conduct surveillance as part of a "Vegan Community Project." Another document talks of the Catholic Workers' "semi-communistic ideology." A third indicates the bureau's interest in determining the location of a protest over llama fur planned by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Many of the investigative documents turned over by the bureau are heavily edited, making it difficult or impossible to determine the full context of the references and why the F.B.I. may have been discussing events like a PETA protest. - from Democracy Now

One of those documents is an agreement between the San Diego Police Department and the FBI in the creation of the San Diego branch of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Download pdf here

For More Information:
ACLU Spy Files - California | New York Police Infiltrate Protests, Videotapes Show | Pentagon Surveillance of Counter-Recruitment Protests | We Will Not Be Intimidated By Pentagon Spying
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International Human Rights Organization Opposes HR4437
AFSC,

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) vehemently opposes the anti-immigrant Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (HR 4437), which has been introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI). This bill does little to address the root causes of migration to the United States, or the underlying social and economic conditions of both legal and undocumented workers.
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We Will Not Be Intimidated By Pentagon Spying
San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice,

The Department of Defense database on domestic dissent released by NBC News shows that the DoD has engaged in widespread intelligence gathering aimed at thousands of people engaged in constitutionally protected political speech. The excerpt from the database that was made available by NBC includes one entry from San Diego: a report on a support demonstration for war resister Pablo Paredes during his Court Martial at the 32 nd Street Naval Station last May. Other entries had to do with ‘counter-recruitment’ activities and anti-war protests around the country.
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Mass protests meet WTO in Hong Kong
from www.indymedia.org,

The 6th Ministerial Conference of the WTO is taking place from December 13th through 18th in Hong Kong. Negotiations have been continuing on key controversial issues such as agriculture, services, and market access for industrial goods and natural resources. The meeting will shape the final agreement of the Doha Development Agenda, which members hope to complete next year.

What is wrong with the WTO?

Conferences, cultural events, mass mobilizations, and direct actions are being planned for the dates between December 11th and 18th. Organizations that are mobilizing to protest the WTO meeting and corporate globalization, and to present alternative proposals, include peasants and small farmers from the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Korea. Events: A new media and social transformation conference and workshop will take place in early December. Global Exchange will bring a delegation/reality tour to Hong Kong and parts of China in December.

>>> Latest news: (and more from outside and inside the WTO negotiations).

Photo:
13th: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
14th: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
15th: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
16th: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
17th: 1 | 2 | 3
Also: Photo collage | Image Pool | View Slideshow
Video: Protests on the 15th: 1 | 2 | 3 | Protesters enter conference centre [download].
Video websites: 1 | 2 | 3 | videoblog
Audio: G-20 Challenges WTO in Official Meeting | Hong Kong New Media and Social Transformation Conference | WTO and biodiversity: interview with Simone Lovera (Friends of the Earth) | Openings speech by Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO
Radio: People's Radio Hong Kong | Media Culture Action | Real World Radio | Forum de Radios | Another broadcast

Solidarity actions: Paris | Reading (Read report) | Germany (Berlin) | Portland (US) | New Delhi | Lahore, Pakistan | Online demonstration | New Zealand

From UK Indymedia newswire: Police brutality and inhumane treatment of prisoners at WTO summit in Hong Kong | NO-WTO! REPORT OF READING SOLIDARITY DEMO | Migrant Workers Strike against Poverty Wages and WTO | Inspiring photos from the WTO summit in Hong Kong | Fisherfolks Murdered By Drowning, Suspect 6th WTO | pics from the WTO Hong Kong | Insurgent Zombies Occupy Paris Supermarket in WTO Protest | NO-WTO: DEMO SAT 17TH DEC, READING | WTO Protests – You Cannot Speak If You Wear Too Little | WTO - HK05 - Images of Resistance | WTO Protests in Hong Kong - Day One report | Report on the WTO Conference Day One Protect Actions | A list of sites with news on the WTO protests. (with links) | anti wto HK site | Philipinos protest WTO | KONG YEE SAI MAU! - Protest against the WTO! | Peaceful direct action violently oppressed by HK media | Free Trade Endangers Jobs Worldwide

More articles: Lamy's "Development Package" Lies Unfurled | Its Always Christmas for the Big Service Corporations! | Asia Pacific Peasant Women Denounce the WTO | A Swimming Lesson from the Koreans | Aid for Trade : Poor Washing Abounds at the Sixth WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong

Continue Reading for more Photos and Dispatches

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Come out to these radical events this Weekend!
san diego indymedia,

Friday Night - Rock and Ska fundraisaer for delegation to Chiapas!
Saturday - 3-6pm - Posada without borders / Posada Sin Fronteras
8pm-12am - 106.9FM Benefit Party @ Sparky's
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Building Community Through Technology
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San Diego Indymedia, in our effort to create/build/sustain radical community in San Diego, is announcing two new features of our website. One is our new Radical/Progressive Guide to San Diego, a list of radical spaces and places to shop in San Diego. If you're new to San Diego, or if you've been here for a while, or if you're just looking for a place to put up some flyers for your cool new project, check it out.

Another new feature of San Diego Indymedia is our blogwire, in the right column where the newswire goes. This is still in development, so it may behave strangely, but it seems pretty ready to use. We're collecting a list of radical, progressive and generally lefty bloggers in San Diego and aggregating them onto our site. If you'd like your blog added, first see our blogwire policy and then email us.
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House Moves to Banish Undocumented Migrants and Build 700 mile border fence!
Delete The Border,

Associated Press
Democracy Now! story

The House agreed to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border to shut down "illegal immigration", but continued to wrangle over whether a guest worker program is needed.

Students Denounce Pentagon Surveillance of Counter-Recruitment Activities
from santa cruz indymedia, edited by sd indymedia,

According to a document obtained by NBC News, the Pentagon has been spying on 1,500 “suspicious incidents,” including anti-war and counter-recruitment meetings and actions throughout the nation over the past 10-month period. Democracy now reports "The list included: counter-military recruiting meetings held at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Forth, Florida. Anti-nuclear protests staged in Nebraska on the 50th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki. An anti-war protest organized by military families outside Fort Bragg in North Carolina. And a rally in San Diego to support war resister Pablo Parades." Democracy Now also interviewed a number of organizers of events which are in the database.

Despite having dealt with both undercover police and university agents involved in the acts of surveillance and repression, the news came as a little shock to many anti-war organizers, reaffirming long-held beliefs about the nature of the U.S. military. 3rd year student Jen Low from Students Against War in Santa Cruz noted the hypocrisy of the government’s messaging, reminding us that, "the notion of the Pentagon spying on peaceful protesters is a major threat to the freedoms that they claim to protect."

[ Original MSNBC story ] [ DoD Database of domestic 'threats' (.pdf) ]

Also this week, plans were announced to spend $300 million on a project to spread pro-american news stories in the foreign press, as well as pro-american movelty items such as t-shirts and bumper stickers. One of the corporations given a contract is SAIC, san diego based spy technology manufacturer.

see also: Support Pablo, Kevin, GI Resisters & END THE WAR || Wanted - information about under-cop || Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) returns to Oakland Recruiting Station || Rally, Queer Kiss-in Greet Military Recruiters at UCSC || UCSC Students Kick Military Recruiters Off Campus  

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Take action against cruel anti-immigrant bill that threatens millions: Vote may occur any day
Delete The Border,

From United Farm Workers
The U.S. House of Representatives votes this week on a Republican-backed bill that would make it a felony to be an undocumented worker and gut the due process rights of legal immigrants and U.S. citizens.
On Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005, the House Judiciary Committee passed along strict party lines the measure by Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.). This GOP-sponsored bill, H.R. 4437, would among other things make the crime of being here illegally an "aggravated felony," meaning the entire undocumented population, including 1.6 million children, would be permanently barred from the U.S.

Click here for instructions on how to contact your senator NOW.

For a broader context of this struggle in relation to the current actions in Hong Kong, see The Border Wars and the WTO in Hong Kong
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Stanley Tookie Williams, Killed by the State of California
repost from indymedia.us,

Stanley Tookie Williams III was executed early this morning by lethal injection administered by the state of California. Williams, who was weeks from his 52nd birthday, is said to have been a co-founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. In 1981, he was convicted of the 1979 murders of four people in the Los Angeles area. After 6.5 years in solitary confinement on Death Row at San Quentin, he renounced his past gang affiliation. He wrote several books and started programs to discourage youth from joining gangs. A film starring Jamie Foxx entitled "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story," was made to tell his story. Williams never admitted to having committed the murders for which he was convicted. This was one reason that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cited for denying him clemency. Supporters of Williams tried to submit issues to various legal bodies in hopes of being granted a stay of execution. If a 60-day stay had been granted, it would have given time for courts to examine the legal issues that are outstanding in the case. It would have also given California's legislative bodies a chance to vote on AB 1121, the California Moratorium on Executions Act. Read more

Coverage of People's Clemency Hearing and 12/12 Protests | More about Tookie on Indybay's Police State and California News Pages
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Emergency: DEA Raids on Thirteen Dispensaries
Americans for Safe Access (from Indybay.org),

Today, Monday December 12th, federal agents raided thirteen medical cannabis dispensaries in San Diego with the help of the local police and sheriff.

We are asking all local medical cannabis supporters to rally in opposition to these raids at noon tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13th in front of the San Diego federal building, 880 Front Street, San Diego. ASA activists are also holding an emergency meeting tonight at 9:00p.m. at Twiggs Coffee House, 4590 Park Blvd., San Diego.

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Glendale: Jornaleros Victorious!
Leslie,

Anti-racist, anti-fascist groups and individuals came together in Glendale in a mighty display of cooperation and support for day laborers and to shut down a weakened Save Our State.

Joe Turner arrested

GLENDALE, December 10, 2005--Seventy-five determined day laborers with 150 allies defended their brethren at the Glendale Temporary Skilled Worker Center this morning from a protest by Save Our State, a San Bernardino-based anti-migrant group.  SOS had called the demonstration to turn public sympathy against the workers, but only managed to bring out about twenty supporters.  SOS was overwhelmed in the sea of counterprotestors, and passing motorists along the busy San Fernando Road throughway honked their support for the jornaleros throughout the morning.

Three More Days to "Save Tookie"
indybay,

Three More Days to "Save Tookie"12/04/2005 CALIFORNIA AWAITS GOVERNOR'S DECISION ABOUT CLEMENCY On December 8th, Governor Schwarzenegger held a clemency hearing for Stanley Tookie Williams with defense lawyers, Los Angeles County prosecutors and other involved parties. Schwarzenegger has the authority to commute a death sentence to life without parole. The governor will announce his decision soon, but Williams is scheduled to be executed late Monday night. The People's Clemency Hearing for Stanley Tookie Williams took place on the steps of the State Capitol Building in Sacramento on December 8th, just before Schwarzenegger's hearing.

Snoop Dogg visited Williams at San Quentin on December 7th. Davey D's interview with Snoop from after the meeting.

There will be events in cities all over the country in the next several days. "Redemption" will be screened at the Long Haul in Berkeley on Saturday night. If clemency is not granted, there will be a vigil outside of San Quentin on Monday. If clemency has not been granted on December 12th, there will be a 4:00pm March for Tookie from the Mission Church in Santa Clara University to the Cathedral on Market Street in San Jose.

Democracy Now's Interview with Stanley Tookie Williams | Sparing the Crips Founder: The Fight to Save Stanley "Tookie" Williams, by Matt Gonzalez

Read about more events to Save Tookie on Indybay's Police & Prisons Page
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Walmart Action - San Diego and the Nation
dj squared,

Action at WalMarts all across the nation. Here is what activists can do in San Diego on December 10th. Please attend. If you won't be in San Diego, then please visit www.wakeupwalmart.com for a location near you.

Call to all Activists,
There will be a candlelight vigil for the employees and all of the people that have been affected by WalMart. Join Activists from across the nation in the vigil to bring about change to Walmart and its practices. In San Diego, there will be speakers in denouncing the business practices of one of the most evil corporations that is in existence.

Light A Candle For Change - Please Join Wake Up Wal-Mart For A Candlelight Vigil To Ask Wal-Mart to

“Change for the Better”.

December 10th is International Human Rights Day, we will have a guest speaker from the Employee rights center & support from The Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice

When: December 10th @ 6:30 pm

Where: Wal-Mart

3382 Murphy Canyon Rd

San Diego, CA. 92123

If someone from your organization can attend or for more information please call:

619-298-7772 Ext. 169

WakeUpWalMart.Com


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Muslim kids harrassed by SDPD at library
s t a r r,

The following serious incident of racist profiling and anti-Muslim sentiment was observed by Copwatchers Muhammed Abdullah and s t a r r last Wednesday night at the Malcolm X Library:

Two San Diego Police officers entered the Malcolm X Library at approx. 5 p.m. Wed. Dec. 7, 2005 and were greeted by the smiling Branch Manager (named Marc). Marc pointed upstairs and said, "it's them - the girls in the scarves." (The library was full of Somali students wearing headscarves.) The police ran upstairs and ordered three female students of Somali origin out of the library, without any explanation.
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