SPFPA WINS PRECEDENT SETTING DECISION. SCREEN
HOMELAND SECURITY NEWS,

“We believed we were right all along. A different outcome would have had an effect on all security professionals throughout the country. We stood our ground and we won!"

Steve Maritas, Director of organizing for the country’s biggest union of security police professionals union.
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We are all Atenco -- Todos somos Atenco!
reposted from email,

July 6th, 6 p.m., at the San Ysidro Civic Center: A Forum about the history of the Zapatista struggle, the reasons to be, the Lacandon jungle declarations, the situation in Atenco and the relationship with you.
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Securitas Security Professionals Working at S
SPFPA.ORG,

Securitas tries to underhandedly have trainees vote in this election to undermine the vote in favor of them!

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L.A. Urban Garden Eviction Update
Mark,

The backbreaking work and careful cultivation over 14 years of small plots sown with food and medicinal plants was destroyed by bulldozers in hours.

Remember your pre-school days, when you would carefully pile up a stack of blocks only to have some bully come along and gleefully knock them over? Those bullies have grown up and are now the CEOs of multinational corporations and big developers like Horowitz in L.A.
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Stop Animal Killer Goldman Sachs
Sathya Spreads,

Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest investors in Tyson's, world's biggest
butcher of cows and pigs, Smithfield, most abusive and largest factory
farm for pigs, Monsanto etc.
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Down with Senate Bill 2611!
Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee,

In recent months millions of immigrants have been in the streets protesting the vicious attacks that Bush and Congress are preparing to legislate against them, while local governments also formulate attacks. Behind this...is the fact that the capitalists want immigrant labor...
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Mike Davis on Slums
queer-j brad,

On May 11 in International House's Great Hall at UCSD, urbanist, author and Professor of History at UC Irvine Mike Davis spoke to an audience of about 200 people about slums. Citing the UN-Habitat report, "The Challenge of Slums," Davis outlined the tragic facts about slums, including 1 billion current slum dwellers, an overlapping 1 billion people with no formal connection to their national or the global economy, and 2-3 billion people over the next half century most likely destined for slums. Summarizing his recent book, "Planet of Slums," Davis argued that slum expansion has reached a limit - an absence of free squatable land and the declining ability of slum dwellers to occupy survival niches has given rise to sectarian violence, child abandonment and other rational responses to desperate circumstances. He concluded with the hopeful picture of slums as incubators for burgeoning resistance movements.

Includes audio and partial transcript.
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Down with Senate Bill 2611!
Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee,

The effect of this capitalist strategy of super-exploiting immigrant workers while denying them equal rights is to drive down the wages and conditions of the entire working class. Thus, our demand must be full rights for all immigrants now! Enough of the capitalists' attempts to pit worker against worker! All for one, and one for all!
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Solidarity Statement by U.S. Prisoners
Mark,

U.S. prisoner organizations have issued a statement of solidarity with those fighting for the rights of workers in France and the U.S.

"As those struggling for freedom in the context of the anti-prison movement, we as affiliates of the Allied Resistance Network send our strongest wishes of solidarity to the re-emerging workers' and migrants' movements spreading across the globe. We fight the same fight, whether it is in the streets, our workplaces, or the prison yard.

The movements for freedom do not exist separately from each other. Here in the United States, where over 2 million of the poorest populations are locked away in cages, we know firsthand the hardships and horrors of a society based on exploitation and authoritarian power structures that give the few the control over the many.

More information:
 http://alliedresistance.org
 http://www.criticalresistance.org
 http://www.anarchistblackcross.org

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L.A. to repeat Atenco?
Mark,

Like Frank Zappa said, "It can't happen here." Or can it? Is Los Angeles about to use police to evict cooperative farmers in order to build a Wal-Mart? This farm has been struggling just to exist for a long time. The people are very apt to continue to resist eviction. Atenco is coming home.


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Protestas estremece a Puerto Rico Trabajadore
José A. Cruz,

Manifestaciones y marchas de protestas han estremecido a Puerto Rico desde el Primero de Mayo contra el cierre de agencia gubernamentales que dejaron a 95.000 desempleados.
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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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Pat Washington v. CSU petition for rehearing
Bob Alba,

Pat Washington takes case to the FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT. This is a copy of the motion for rehearing.
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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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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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NIFC Report Of NY Hunger Strike Commemoration
NIFC,

The 25th anniversary commemoration of the 1981 Irish Hungerstrike in New York
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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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ON MAY DAY-OUR FLAG IS STILL RED
MARKIN,

THIS YEAR MARKS THE 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAY DAY HAYMARKET FRAMEUPS. HONOR THE MEMORY OF AUGUST SPIES, ALBERT PARSONS, ADOLPH FISCHER, GEORGE ENGEL, LOUIS LINGG, MICHAEL SCHWAB, SAMUEL FIELDEN, OSCAR NEEBE- CLASS WAR VICTIMS OF AN EARLIER TIME. ALSO REMEMBER LUCY PARSONS WHO CARRIED ON THE STRUGGLE FOR VINDICATION AFTER HER HUSBAND’S EXECUTION. LET US REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO FREE TODAY’S CLASS WAR PRISONERS.


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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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Church Commemorates Chernobyl's 20th Anniv.
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The Peace and Democracy Action Group of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest held a program April 26 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Rochelle Becker talked about why there's no way to make nuclear power plants safe, and Angelina Galiteva, head of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), talked about the economic incentives that can help bring about the transition to renewable energy sources — as well as the so-called "portfolio" plan, a "market-based" solution being tried in the U.S. which she says will only delay the transition to renewables.
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Sindicalismo y trabajadores en Venezuela
CRA - El Libertario, Venezuela,

* Estos tres textos han sido tomados de El Libertario # 47, mayo-junio 2006, vocero bimensual de la Comisión de Relaciones Anarquistas. En ellos se pone al día y condensa una perspectiva anarquista sobre la situación del movimiento laboral en este país.

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CFA supports Pat Washington's appeal efforts
repost by Bob Alba,

Resolution in Support of Pat Washington
Adopted by the CFA Assembly April 23, 2006
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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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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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Suspendido temporalmente el juicio a Orlando
Comité de apoyo a Orlando Barrantes,

Últimas noticias del juicio político a Orlando Barrantes
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timely book: power and limits of China
Financial Sense News Hour,

a Chinese author seems to have messages on China and current global affairs.
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RSF "authentic claimants to 1916"
IRIS,

WRITING in the Sunday edition of the Derry Journal journalist and author Éamonn McCann said that in his view, as far as Republicanism was concerned, the most authentic claimants to the political legacy of the 1916 Rising were Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Republican Sinn Féin.
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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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Naked Protest--Round 2 on Sproul Plaza (UCB)
Kate StormoGipson,

Students from across the University of California will commence another NAKED PROTEST at UC Berkeley—this time in the main thoroughfare of student activity on historic Sproul Plaza—to demand that UC President Dynes endorse a policy to ensure that UC licensed apparel be produced in factories that respect workers’ rights. This event will occur in conjunction with other actions at UC Riverside as well as actions at universities across the country who are part of the Sweatfree Campus Campaign, spearheaded by the nationwide student organization United Students Against Sweatshops.
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