1st report from Zapatista Rebel Territory
lotu5, for sd imc, with help from Adriana,

I arrived in San Cristobal the night of Monday the 19th, after flying in from San Diego and walked to the Junax, a hostel for people working in collectives and volunteers that houses Chiapas Indymedia. I had missed the last combi, which was at 5.

Read more >>

Spectacular Terrorism
*,

“Such a perfect democracy constructs its own inconceivable foe, terrorism. Its wish is to be judged by its enemies rather than by its results. The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive. The spectators must certainly never know everything about terrorism, but they must always know enough to convince them that, compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic” (Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle).
Read more >>

China in the 21st Century
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper,

What Natalie McKelvey saw in China speaks to a new super power emerging - one that will rival the west for economic dominance as its people struggle for freedom against an oppressive, aging political structure.
Read more >>

Troops Out Now! Build a United Front!
Workers World,

The criminal occupation/war in Iraq must be stopped. Each day it continues, more Iraqis die; more Iraqi cities and towns suffer raids, cordons, abuses and every form of brutality from the occupiers and their puppet troops.
Read more >>

Two responses to Chavez' supporters
Christian Guerrero, CRA-El Libertario,

* Interventions in a debate on Venezuela and the government of Hugo Chavez. LASolidarity mailing list
Read more >>

XVI SYWF - VI WSF: Chavez's shindig
El Libertario's editorial staff,

* From El Libertario, # 44 September-October 2005, voice of the Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas, exposing the show of international mega-ceremonies the Chavez regime uses to try and acquire revolutionary legitimacy by means of petro-dollars and verbosity.
Read more >>

British aid donated BURNED
Ryan Parry,

HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.
Read more >>

Houston resistance to ‘Minutemen’ growing
Gloria Rubac,

A new organization made up of organized labor, student groups and other progressive organizations has been formed and is actively organizing. The Immigrant Coalition Against Vigilantes and Intolerance and for Respect and Compassion (ICAVIRC) is developing teams to monitor the Minutemen at the day-labor sites and planning a community march and rally.
Read more >>

Breaking Border Paradigms
Bob Alba w/sdimc,

Calexico had many successes Saturday and early Sunday morning. According to the public and most major news sources, the human rights protestors have effectively shut down or delayed the Friends of the Border Patrol (FBP) from inaugurating their fall vigilante watch. Here are some pictures from one of the insipiring parts of the day as we broke down Border paradigms.

Morning confrontation: Account | Video | Photos | Audio

Resistance in Houston | Resistance in NY | Resistance in Tucson

Past Stories: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Read more >>

Hugo Chavez on Nightline tonight
Adriene,

President of Venezuela interviewed on US mainstream TV
Read more >>

American Suicide
Jim Mortellaro,

If Jeffery will permit ... here is my take on America the Beautiful and America the free.
Read more >>

The Big Con
Tibor S. Friedman,

Democrats Versus Republicans - The Illusion Of Democracy
Read more >>

¿Qué pasa con los hijos naturales del Rey o d
Godofredo,

Los peores enemigos de la Monarquía no somos los republicanos sino las normas arcaicas y obsoletas de esa institución
Read more >>

'Dangerous Dan'
Greg Szymanski,

Former Green Beret Comes Clean About Mafia-Like Hit On Military Officer Who Knew Too Much About Kennedy Assassination
Called 'Dangerous Dan' by his military buddies does an about face from being a Green Beret and military hitman to now fighting for Christ as a born again Christian. Once he found the Lord, the former Special Forces Lt. Col. says he no longer fears the assassins who have tried in the past to kill him for going public in a tell-all book.
Read more >>

Right to privacy? Not with the RealID Act
bruce,

What is it about Orwell's 1984 that is so appealing to some politicians (just a rhetorical question that I know the answer to)?
Read more >>

Time for Self Reflection
What Really Happened,

You are a slave.

I know that’s not what you want to hear as you hoist your New Year’s champagne, but it is the unpleasant truth that we all face going into 2004.
Read more >>

Tax Avoidance 'Keeps Developing World Poor
bruce,

Corrupt leaders, criminals and terrorists are hiding away their ill-gotten gains by piggybacking on the systems set up for tax avoidance.
Read more >>

Venezuela: El Padrino brasilero del carbón
Redacción del periódico El Libertario,

* En este artículo de Rafael Uzcátegui para El Libertario # 44, septiembre-octubre 2005, se aportan datos sobre qué significa la negociación que entrega importantes recursos carboníferos a una transnacional minera con máscara brasilera.
Read more >>

Del XVI FMJE al VI FSM: Pachangas de Chávez
Redacción del periódico El Libertario,

* Artículo de El Libertario, # 44, septiembre-octubre 2005, donde se expone el tinglado de las mega-ceremonias internacionales con las que el régimen chavista pretende adquirir legitimidad revolucionaria a punta de petrodólares y palabrería.
Read more >>

Editorial de EL LIBERTARIO, # 44, 09/10 2005
Redacción del periódico El Libertario,

* Sale a la luz la nueva edición del vocero venezolano para las ideas y la acción ácrata, que en su editorial resume las propuestas centrales que para la actual coyuntura nacional hace la Comisión de Relaciones Anarquistas, colectivo editor de esta publicación.
Read more >>

A Call For Solidarity
David Agranoff,

David mailed me this statement asking for solidarity and asked that I post it on IndyMedia. There are only a few spelling errors/typos in David's letter because he had to write this in a bit of a hurry, but I will try to make them coherent while keeping as much of David's writing in it's original form as possible. Hopefully I don't add my own typos as I type this out.

- Bob Alba
Read more >>

The 'real' story of why gasoline is near $3
bruce,

"To point to the environmental laws as the cause simply misses the fact that it was the major oil companies, not the environmental groups, that used the regulatory process to create artificial shortages and limit competition."
Read more >>

$7.74 is your share per the Walmarts
bruce,

At a press conference this afternoon, President George H. W. Bush singled out the Walton Family for their generosity to Katrina relief efforts.
Read more >>

Captalism wreaks havoc in New Orleans
Richard Mellor,

The catatstrophe in New Orleans reveals the utter bankruptcy of the capitalist sytem and the capitalist class who Marx said over 150 years ago have become "unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society"
Read more >>

Oil is the Reason for Iraq War
Jennifer Loven-Associated Press,

CORONADO, Calif. -- President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists. (yea right)
Read more >>

COUNTER ATTACK IS AVAILABLE IN THE INTERNET
Jorge Torrealba, Director General, TEIC,

TEIC'S TREATISE ON HUMAN ECONOMICS (AS OPPOSED TO CORPORATE ECONOMICS) IS YOURS UPON EMAIL REQUEST. WE REPLY WITH THE MANUSCRIPT ATTACHED. aS A NON-PROFIT, NON-REMUNERATED GLOBAL MOVEMENT OF VOLONTEER RESEARCHERS, WE VALUE FINANCIAL SUPPORT. ONCE YOU READ COUNTER ATTACK AND YOU WISH TO SEND US A DISCRETIONARY CONTRIBUTION, PLEASE DO IT THROUGH WESTERN UNION. WE APPRECIATE ALSO YOUR STRONGEST CRITICAL COMMENTS THAT WOULD APPEAR (WITH YOUR PERMISSION) IN APPENDICES IN THE PUBLISHED VERSION OF COUNTER ATTACK.
tHE REBUTTAL OF THE CORPORATE MAFIA IS WELCOME.
Read more >>

Join Us for a Movement Against All Borders
o.r.g.a.n.i.c.,

Stop the Minutemen Project in September - Actions and No Border Camp to Shut down the Minutemen, Sept 16-18th. We call on people everywhere to converge on the San Diego/Tijuana region and the Mexicali/Calexico region of the Mexico/US border in order to stop the vigilante operation being planned there by the Friends of the Border Patrol, beginning on September 16th. We also call on those who cannot travel to these areas to organize solidarity actions in their home towns rejecting the Minutemen, Borders and the racist ideologies that Borders are built on.

Read more >>

What's wrong with the ISO?
infoshop.org,

First is the selling of the newspaper. So much emphasis was placed on this activity alone that it was a requirement listed on the membership card that one signs upon joining. The ISO considered themselves the only legitimate heirs of Trotsky and Lenin, and their newspaper, Socialist Worker, the new Iskra. This was the main vehicle through which we were going to spread "socialist ideas and revolutionary consciousness." Never mind that the paper reads like a grade-school synthesis of the bourgeois press with some stock socialist phrases tacked on to the end of each paragraph.
...
While there might be an appearance of democratic debate within the group at the branch level, ultimately, everything is pretty much decided by the center in Chicago.


Read more >>

An Encuentro Against All Borders
sd indymedia,

The No Border Encuentro took place on August 27-28th at the Sherman Heights Community Center in San Diego/Aztlan. Two days of events including a maquiladora tour, a benefit concert and a day of forums, panels and encounters took place with over 100 people from San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Orange County, Eugene, Portland, Tijuana, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia participating. On the walls hung photos of recent actions to stop the Minutemen, a poster of the PGA Hallmarks, and maps of Calexico, where the No Border Camp will be in September. [Complete Summary, another account]

Radio coverage was done all weekend by Blast Furnace Radio, due to some technical difficultues at radioActive sanDiego.

Audio: Beats Against Borders with Dias Tristes, Boomerang Politick and Entartete Kunst | Encuentro Opening and Border History Panel | History of the Border Part 2 | Closing presentation by Ashanti Alston | Migration and Indigenous Nations 1 | 2

Photos: Maquiladora Tour | More | Beats Against Borders | Encuentro

This is only part of a large movement against the MinuteMen, La Migra and the Border itself. Thursday night before the conference, La Raza Rights Coalition held a community forum to present their demands around these issues to legislators. Next weekend, Sept 2-4, BorderHack 2005 will be taking place in Tijuana. Also that weekend, on the 3rd, is a forum against the Minutemen in Chula Vista.

The Encuentro was planned as a space to strategize about how to create a world without borders, how to effectively challenge racism and how to put an end to the Minuteman Project. These strategies will be put into action from September 16-18th in a series of actions and a No Border Camp in Calexico.
Read more >>

Protest Bush in San Diego
sd indymedia,

Two events are planned for Bush's visit to San Diego:

Candlelight Vigil: President Bush, Our loved ones are dying in an unjust war. WHY?
Monday Evening, August 29, 2005 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
WHERE: On Coronado Island along Ocean Blvd. Near Flora Ave and Rh Dana Place. (Directions: Take Coronado Bridge to Orange Ave. Left on Orange Ave. to Rh Dana Place. Right on Rh Dana Place - becomes Ocean Blvd.. Vigil will be on Ocean Blvd. along the beach.) No parking will be permitted along Ocean Blvd. on Monday and Tuesday. Carpool if you can and park as near the Hotel Del as you can.

Demonstration at NAS NORTH ISLAND MAIN GATE on Alameda. Main Gate on Alameda, Coronado, Tuesday, August 30, 6 a.m. Gates will open at 6:00 a.m. for the 10,000 "invited guests" and the ceremony will take place at 8:00 a.m. True to form, this will be a harbor-side event so protestors can be kept far from this location. However, the road leading to North Island in Coronado would be a good protest location. Since parking in Coronado is scarce and parking laws are enforced, the North County Coalition for Peace and Justice will be using public transportation to get there. Directions from North County are below; San Diego people should check with the bus company to figure out best route for themselves to arrive at demonstration location: NAS NORTH ISLAND MAIN GATE on Alameda.
Read more >>