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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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SDIMC Cycling Film Nite/Critical Mass Ride
sdimc volunteer,
On Wednesday, May 24, The San Diego Independent Media Center will be showing two cycling films directed by legendary filmaker Ted White: “Return of the Scorcher” and “(We Aren’t Blocking Traffic) We Are Traffic!”
7:00PM Wednesday May 24, Voz Alta 1544 Broadway - one block from City College/Downtown. $3-5 donation requested
BRING YOUR BICYLES! (and a light) Critical Mass Ride Follows at ~ 8:30PM.
Check out the NEW (and seriously under construction) San Diego Critical Mass website:
 http://sandiegocriticalmass.org
To get involved in website/organizing activities, write to
 cycle@sandiegocriticalmass.org
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NSA Tracking Millions of US Phone Calls
Indybay.org, repost by sd indymedia,
 It has now been revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly collecting the phone records of tens of millions of Americans since September 11, 2001. The data has been provided by telecommunications giants AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. The NSA claims the phone record data is being used in its fight against terrorism, although the millions of ordinary Americans' whose telephone behavior is being tracked are not suspected of any crime. The goal of the secret program is reported to be the creation of a "database of every call ever made" within US borders. Read More here and on Indybay's US and Police State News Pages
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MAY 12 * DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH ATENCO *
NIKITONIPONGO,
TIJUANA: PLAZA SANTA CECILIA (zona centro)
5.30 PM
SAN DIEGO: Consulado de Mexico en San Diego
4:00pm
The Mexican State brutally represses the townspeople of San Salvador Atenco at a time when the Other Campaign realizes national and international mobilizations demanding freedom of those imprisoned, the physical presentation of those disappeared and the withdrawal of police forces from Atenco.
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El Estado Mexicano reprime brutalmente a los pobladores de San Salvador Atenco al tiempo que La Otra Campaña realiza movilzaciones nacionales e internacionales por la Libertad de los presos, la presentación de los desaparecidos y el retiro de la fuerza pública en Atenco.
More information at http://indymedia.org and http://www.vientos.info/cml, http://mexico.indymedia.org, and http://narconews.com
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Local Church to Revive Mother's Day Tradition
San Diego Foundation for Change,
First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego: Mother's Day Services to Benefit Social-Change Foundation
In the U.S., Mother's Day was originally associated with the peace movement, but it was also associated with religion, sanitation and pollution issues in Appalachia, opposition to capitalism, and a wide variety of public activism by women working to promote social and economic justice.
On Mother's Day, Sunday, May 14, 2006, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego will revive these traditions by supporting the San Diego Foundation for Change (SDFC) through "Generosity Sunday" services at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., with the offertory collections being donated to the Foundation.
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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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Protest held yesterday at Mexican Consulate
Bob,
20 adherents of la otra campaña protested yesterday at the Mexican consulate in dowtown sandiego to support vendors in Texcoco.
The protest began yesterday at 3PM with at least 20 adherents of the EZLN's la otra campaña in front of the Mexican consulate located at India St. and Cedar in downtown San Diego. The protesters arrived to show support and solidarity for a group of flower producers in the town of Atenco, who have been subjected to repeated intimidation, injury, and murder, after trying to continue operating in a marketplace that has been sold to become a Wal-Mart. The EZLN issued a red alert calling on all supporters to take action and let the Mexican government know the we support the workers. According to the san diego indymedia article, PROTEST AT THE MEXICAN CONSULATE, San Diego (see http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/115596.shtml ) "The leadership of the Atenco movement has been brutally beaten and incarcerated along with hundreds of their supporters, several have been killed."
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EZLN announces new red alert
j_law,
UPDATE: 5/5/2006 3;15PM - San Blas Leader Assassinated in Oaxaca, A Day of Protests and Roadblocks In and Around Mexico City as Townspeople Flee Police
5/4/2006 3:43PM - Join the Red Alert Virtual Sit-In against the Mexican Government all Cinco De Mayo
10:00AM - Protest today at 3PM at the Mexican Consulate in Little Italy. Called by the Colectivo Zapatista of San Diego, La Otra San Diego. 1549 India St, San Diego, 92101 - (619) 231-8414 More info about the protest here | Tune in to live radio coverage from Mexico City
  
As of the afternoon of May 3, Subcommandante Marcos of the EZLN (National Zapatista Army of Liberation) announced during a public act in Mexico City a new red alert and closure of Zapatista caracoles and suspension of activities of La Otra Campaña, which has now become a struggle to support the people of Texcoco, who for the past two days have been experiencing severe government repression.
See also: Other Campaign Suspended: Red Alert in the Zapatista Good Government Councils of Chiapas | The Other Mexico on the Verge of an Explosion from Below | Violencia en Texcoco - EZLN en Alerta Roja | Golpean a activistas en Tijuana | Free Journalists Dul Santamaria and J.Daria! | Se suspende la Otra campaña: Alerta Roja en las Juntas de Gobierno Zapatistas de Chiapas | ALERTA ROJA
Independent Media: Centro de Medios Libres | Mexico Indymedia |Chiapas Indymedia
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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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MayDay Breaking News
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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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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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House Committee Approves Bill to Create Corporate Net
lotu5, repost from infoshop and indymedia.us,
Infoshop News reports that a house committee approved a bill today which threatens to turn the internet to an even more corporate dominated space. Also, on the blogwire, jake at Lying Media Bastards points out that a new Senate bill proposes to ban mp3 streaming, effectively eliminating small web broadcasters like radioActive sanDiego.
A 2005 Supreme Court ruling opened the door for possible future discrimination of internet content by American internet service providers. Previously, ISPs could not discriminate against creating or accessing unprofitable, unpopular, or "controversial" content, but that could soon change if the principle of network neutrality on the internet isn't maintained.Right now, telecom-industry-backed legislation -- bearing the name "Communications Opportunity Promotion and Enhancement (COPE) Act" -- is making its way through Congress, having passed through one key committee leading to an expected vote in the U.S. House. If the COPE Act passes in its current form, that could mean that a website like Indymedia would have to pay dramatically increased "protection money" rates to maintain access to readers, or possibly be wiped from the internet altogether. Nevertheless, activist efforts are escalating dramatically to kill the COPE Act and preserve the open access of the internet. A wide-ranging coalition entitled SaveTheInternet has launched to spread word about the COPE Act. IMCs across America have reported about the COPE Act, and future actions are in the works. Read more:
SaveTheInternet.com | SaveAccess | Democracy Now! coverage | Stop the COPE Act | Short film about network neutrality
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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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1 de mayo en SD / May 1st in SD
reporst from email, posted by sdimc ,
MAY 1 - Rally & Evening vigil
Sponsored by the San Diego Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
ALSO: Action at border earlier in the day -
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1,187 Undocumented Workers Detained, 275 Deported
Delete The Border,
In what is being called the largest-ever raid on undocumented workers, 1,187 people were taken from their workplaces and arrested on April 20th by the Department of Homeland Security and local police. While the story is still unfolding, it appears that 275 workers have already been deported to Mexico, while the rest are being processed. The raids occurred in 26 states, including California, where workers in both Riverside and Fresno were rounded up. All the workers are said to be employed by IFCO Systems North America - an international corporation that builds wood pallets for shipping. 7 company managers are also facing immigration-related charges.
Syndicated story:
This story was originally published at Indybay
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iMigrate: May 1st 2006: General Strike | Huelga General | Boycott | Walkout | Buy Nothing | Sell Nothing
Delete The Border,
May 1st 2006: General Strike | Huelga General | Boycott | Walkout | Buy Nothing | Sell Nothing
graphic by schock at riseup d0t net
Quick on the heels of the massive March 25th mobilizations and the student walkouts during the following week, April 10th was a historic day of action for immigrant rights across the USA. Tens of thousands of people took the streets in Los Angeles [ 1 | 2 ] and in Santa Ana, while 5,000 marched in St. Louis and 10,000 raised their voices in the largest march in Fresno's history. San Diego also made history with a march of up to 100,000 people on April 9th. There were mobilizations in the Bay Area, in Tennessee, in Rochester, NY, and in DC. In Portland, up to 8,000 marched, while thousands gathered in Love Park in Philly. Allies mobilized in Pittsburgh. In Arizona, people were on the move in Flagstaff. There were major marches and actions in NYC and Boston, and Houston Indymedia provided a blow by blow of actions in Texas. In Puerto Rico, hundreds took the streets of Barrio Obrero. (These amazing stories are just a small sample of coverage of April 10th actions across the country; for more go to your local IMC.) Congress has been forced to backpeddle on brutal anti-immigrant legislation, but they are nowhere near to meeting the demands of the movement, especially amnesty for all. So the movement for immigrant justice keeps rising, with more major actions planned in the coming weeks: April 15th is a student day of action, and May 1st will be a historic day of action, with calls for a general strike, boycott, no sales or purchases, walkouts, marches, and actions in financial centers and at anti-immigrant corporations throughout the country.
A10 Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 Videos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Radio: WBAI
Background: March 25th | April 10 | US Indymedia | New American Opportunity Campaign | Immigrant Solidarity Network's No HR 4437 site | National Council of La Raza | El Tecolote | AFSC | Bay Area Immigrant RIghts Coalition | The film "A Day Without a Mexican" | San Joaquin Valley Peace and Freedom Party | La película "Un día sin mexicanos"
Upcoming Actions: April 15th | Legal info for students who walk out | May 1st: Call to Action | IWW joins call for General Strike | Chicago Immigrant Workers to march on May Day
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Border Vigilantes "Torch" Mexican Restaurant
comunicador,
Just before midnight on Monday, racist anti-Mexican vigilantes torched Mariachi's Mexican Bar and Grill at 12868 Campo Road located about 15 miles east of downtown San Diego and about 12 miles north of the US/Mexico border. The vigilantes left vile anti-Mexican graffiti painted in red on the walls. The racist profanities left on the walls are similar to those sent by e-mail to the Mexica Movement and to La Voz de Aztlan recently.
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Zapatista rally & march Chicano Park
s t a r r,
Here are some pictures of the Sat. Apr 8 2006 rally and march from Chicano Park to support our Zapatista brothers and sisters and also to join together in opposition to the racist, classist, imperialist statements coming from the Congress and U.S. Senate regarding immigration.
Over 300 people gathered in Chicano Park. After several local leaders spoke about HR 4437 and other efforts to blame immigrants for this nation's economic woes, we marched through Logan Heights. Neighbors smiled and gave us their Black Power and Brown Power signs. We chanted, "La Placa, La Migra: La Misma Porqueria!" and "Zapata Vive! La Lucha Sigue!"
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Up to 100,000 Attend Mass Immigration March
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
San Diego's largest protest since the Viet Nam war took place Sunday, April 9, when up to 100,000 people jammed the streets to denounce the anti-immigrant bill passed by the House of Representatives and demand "dignity, respect and hope" for both documented and undocumented immigrants. The march was inspiring and festive, but the rally speeches were long on emotional tales of immigrants making good in the U.S. and short on specific demands. Some immigrant-rights activists had criticized the march organizers for not specifically calling for amnesty for the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S., and had held their own action the day before.
Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Video: 1
Stories: Zenger's | An LGBT Take on Immigration | Original Announcement
Related Blogwire Posts: First Fatality of School Walk-outs | Estimated 500,000 protesters set record for largest rally in Dallas history | Huge Number of Feeder Marches Planned for April 10 Protest in NYC
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