OAXACA CITY UNDER ATTACK FROM MEXICAN GOVERNMENT: NYC Indymedia Journalist Killed
repost from indybay.org,

Federal Police and Paramilitaries Enter Oaxaca City: NYC Indymedia Journalist Killed

Oct. 27th: A shooting occurred today in Oaxaca City, Mexico, leaving New York City Indymedia journalist Bradley Will dead after being shot in the chest. He died before reaching the hospital, according to La Jornada. A photographer from the newspaper Milenio Diario, who was at Will's side, was shot in the foot and reported injured, his status unknown.

Narco News Report on Indymedia Journalist Bradley Will

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INDYMEDIA ACTIVIST SHOT DEATH IN MEXICO.
Lostmycomrade,

Indymedia activist Will Bradley, shot death during represion in Oaxaca. Police and paramilitary continue attacks on unarmed civillians.
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Corrupt Cops(bullys) Pennsauken N.J. Police
Another Victim,

Cops in Pennsauken are bullys racial profilers
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Resisting Police Brutality in San Diego
sdimc volunteer,

In many San Diego communities, mostly communities of color, police brutality is a fact of life, much like the sun rising in the east or traffic jams on the freeways.

This brutality takes many forms, from harassment of youth, to profiling, to la migra, to the too common brutal beatings and murders, to the criminal injustice system and the inhumanity of prison. The resulting loss, sadness, fear and outrage rarely break through the protective bubble the corporate media have maintained around the "general public," who remain largely blissfully ignorant of the pervasive oppression and cruelty these communities are experiencing.

In 1996, a coalition of groups came together to declare a national day, October 22, to protest, resist and draw attention to the then (and continuing) epidemic of police violence.

In San Diego, two groups who have been working to combat state sanctioned violence, the Sagon Penn Chapter of CopWatch, and the San Diego Chapter of the Peace and Freedom Party, are organizing events for the weekend of the 22nd. On Friday, October 20, a fundraiser benefiting both groups and teach-in will be held at the Arts and Entertainment Center in North Park, featuring talks by candidate for governor Janice Jordan, candidate for the board of equalization Mary Lou Finley and member of CopWatch Ayesha Newell, as well as bands Unified Division, Dropjoy and Ya Basta! On Sunday, October 22, Sagon Penn CopWatch is planning an afternoon and evening of resistance, starting with a protest at the home of DA Bonnie Dumanis, over her continuing refusal to prosecute out of control cops, and continuing with police complaint form instruction, a screening of Urban Warrior and a performance by the Radical F'N Cheerleaders at Voz Alta.

Sagon Penn CopWatch | San Diego Peace and Freedom Party | Map to DA Bonnie Dumanis' Home
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Six Arrested after Anti-Minutemen Demo in NY
onto,

One guy was charged with "spitting"; the others were grabbed after the demo as they stood on the sidewalk. If wednesday night was a people's mini-riot at Columbia, this was a mini-police riot.

Story at  http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/76989.html
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Queer Demos Endorse No on 83, Yes on 89
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club took more progressive positions than the state Democratic Party's on two major propositions on the state ballot. The club opposed Proposition 83, the so-called "Jessica's Law" which would impose draconian new restrictions on people convicted of child sexual abuse — including forcing them to wear GPS tracking devices for the rest of their lives — and supported Proposition 89, a "clean money" proposal for publicly financed elections similar to those in effect in Maine and Arizona. The state party had supported 83 and taken no position on 89. In addition, City Attorney Mike Aguirre spoke to the club and defended his lawsuits against the city's illegal pension deals.
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Invitation to join Oaxaca encampment
jlaw,

translated from Oaxaca Indymedia

Oaxaca installs encampment for dignity and against repression

Spanish follows
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Climate/Oaxaca: Virtual Sit-In and Bike Ride
sdimc volunteer,

UPDATE From Rising Tide North America: "The exact location of the G8+5 Climate Summit in Mexico was unknown ... Early sources said Mexico City, but this proved impossible to confirm. We now know that the G8+5 climate meeting is happening in Monterrery, hundreds of miles away from the Alternative Climate Justice Dialogue and Convergence that we initiated and organized in Mexico City. We suspect that the G8+5 meeting was moved away from Mexico's capitol to avoid the sting of popular dissent, not just from us climate activists but more critically from the massive movements for democracy and justice that have convulsed Mexico in recent months and converged in Mexico City. Red Alert Virtual Strike against the G8+5 and Mexican government websites: click here"

The elite of the richest countries are reaping huge profits from dangerous climate change while placing the burden on the most economically disadvantaged, rolling the dice with our life support systems in pursuit of higher profits. The eight richest countries in the world, the G8, plus five developing countries are meeting in Mexico City this week to agree to invest trillions to prop up the fossil fuel economy and to promote carbon trading, which we already know doesn’t work and will just shift the burden further to the Global South. Local activist groups with international participation are poised to resist the G8+5 meeting.

At the same time, President of Mexico Vincente Fox is preparing to send his stormtroopers to attack the Popular Assemblies of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), who have been occupying parts of Oaxaca City for over four months to demand the ouster of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz - a corrupt frontman for corporate globalization - and the release of political prisoners.

Corporate-driven, neoliberal climate change. Corporate-driven, neoliberal suppression of resistance movements for democracy and local control. Different problem. Same enemy.

Solidarity Actions:
--Virtual Sit-In Against the Websites of the G8+5 and the Mexican Government - Tue-Wed Oct 3-4 all day (español)
--Bike Ride for Climate Justice, Meet at Balboa Park Big Fountain - Fri Oct 6 @ 7PM

Contra G8+5 | Oaxaca Facing Imminent Attack
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Oaxaca Facing Imminent Attack
via elenemigocomun.net,

UPDATES: 10-2-am, Military overflights continue and Marcos: “Oaxaca is not just an emergency. It is also an example to follow.”

Parts of Oaxaca City have been occupied for over four months, in what started as a teachers strike and blossomed into a broad movement, Popular Assemblies of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), following an attack by state forces on the teachers. APPO is demanding the removal of the corrupt and murderous PRI governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, and the release of political prisoners. Apparently to appease PRI partners and corporate masters, Vincente Fox's federal forces are preparing for an attack.

September 30, 2006 - An attack seems imminent, according to Nancy Davies reporting for Narco News:
APPEAL FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AID
The word I have now is that there are about 5,000 men wearing army uniforms who are not army, but police, culled from other states like Vercruz and Morelia, that is to say, this is a PRI operation, not the federal troops, altho I don't know how our source explains the "naval" helicopters (maybe not?). The "police" are heavily armed, and the attack is supposed to happen around 10:00 PM Oaxaca time. The attack, code name cicloncinco, was revealed by the same person who informed our friend that there would be a drive-by shooting last night, which came true.

Indymedia Oaxaca reported on miltary overflights on September 30

APPO has called for demonstrations at Mexican Consulates.

Mexican Consulate, San Diego
1549 India St., San Diego, CA 92101
Tel: (619) 231-8414 * Fax: (619) 231-4802
E-mail: info@consulmexsd.org
http://portal.sre.gob.mx/sandiego

Links: Indymedia Oaxaca | el enemigo común | Narco News | Radio APPO | Audio from Oaxaca | Photos | Timeline of Events

Prior SDIMC Reports: 7-7 8-15 8-18 8-22 8-23 8-25 9-1 9-7a 9-7b

Narco News Reports (english/español) 5-26 | 6-7 | 6-8 | 6-12 | 6-14a | 6-14b | 6-15a | 6-15b | 6-17 | 6-21a | 6-21b | 6-22 | 6-23 | 6-24 | 6-27 | 6-29 | 7-7a | 7-7b | 7-15 | 7-22 | 7-23 | 7-28 | 8-2 | 8-4 | 8-9 | 8-11 | 8-14 | 8-20 | 8-21 | 8-22 | 8-23 | 8-26 | 8-30 | 9-3 | 9-5 | 9-7a | 9-7b | 9-17 | 9-18 | 9-21 | 9-24 | 9-26 | 9-28 | 9-29 | 10-1a | 10-1b
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The American assassination of John Lennon by
Hamlet,

Bcc to Buckingham Palace.
(To Bcc or not to Bcc. That is the question...)
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Books 4 Prisoners Fundraiser Event
colectivo zapatista and groundwork books,

Books 4 Prisoners Fundraiser Event
Saturday September 30
All Day!!!

Sponsored by Colectivo Zapatista de San Diego and Groundwork Books
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If I Could Only Shoot a Millionaire!
rocky neptun,

If I could reach through time and pull you here, city of madness, where wealth is worshiped and the poor persecuted.We need to view the radical fire in those ancient, wise eyes, sup on of your courage; to confront, disobey, and overthrow the masters of wealth and power in our community.
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Black, Immigrant Rights Movements Compared
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Veteran civil rights activist and International Socialist Organization (ISO) member Joel Geier spoke to the San Diego ISO September 23 on the history of the African-American civil rights movement and the lessons it has to offer modern-day activists, particularly those working to secure legal status and decent wages for immigrant workers. Geier said that the failures of the civil rights movement — particularly their inability to improve the economic status of most African-Americans — point to the need for political clarity, organization and structure within activist movements.
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Activist Compares Civil Rights, Immigrant Rts
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Veteran civil rights activist Joel Geier spoke at the City Heights Recreation Center September 23 under the auspices of the International Socialist Organization. He gave a comparison of the civil rights movement of the 1960's with the immigrant rights movement of today, and said that both the civil rights movement's successes and failures have lessons for the activists of today. He stressed the need for political clarity within activist organizations and clear lines of leadership and structure in order to build a movement that can withstand both political setbacks and government repression.
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Resistance to Corporate Climate Change
rising tide north america, uk-imc and sdimc,

San Diego Indymedia will be sponsoring a Climate Justice/Resistance film screening and discussion in advance of the G8+5 Climate Change Talks in Mexico City: Wed Sept 27 7PM at Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway, 1 blk from City College Downtown San Diego. Details soon...

From UK Climate Camp:
The Climate Camp was about squaring up to climate criminals. Hundreds of people converged to take action on Drax - from a colourful kids demo blocking the main gates, to small teams of people locking themselves to machinery inside the fence, the intent was clear. Drax must shut now! It is time to push aside the big money makers of the world – and make space for a future where the needs of people and the planet come first.

From UK Indymedia:
Actions against Drax Power Station started early on August 31 and continued all day, with the Drax perimeter being breached several times. Up to 600 campaigners against climate change participated in the Reclaim Power mass action. Four main blocs gathered at the centre of the Climate Camp before splitting off into different groups, with some heading towards Drax across fields to avoid police road blocks.

Just after 4.30am seven activists occupied a Drax lighting tower. Later nearby roads were blocked by different affinity groups and another Drax lighting tower was also occupied with a banner reading "No Future For You". More perimeter penetrations occured as more groups arrived at the fence to be met with police in riot gear, horses and dogs.

From Rising Tide North America:
The idea battle that UK activists face is more against rampant greenwashing and the notion that green capitalism, carbon trading and other market-based carbon-offset schemes will save us. Micro-reductions are not only insignificant when you consider that the numerous feedback loops (trapped methane in the Siberian permafrost, the shrinking arctic, the Greenland ice sheet, and the amazon, to name a few) are causing climate change to occur much faster than expected; such incremental reforms are actually quite damaging, in that they reassure the public that everything is under control when we all need to be making drastic lifestyle changes.

We must make it clear that the system that created this shit is not going to fix it - the struggle for social justice, for sustainability, for equality, must necessarily be a struggle against capitalism. Those of us living in the US have more opportunities than anyone else in the world to hit the Earth-destroying machine where it's most vulnerable - from inside the brain of the monster.

UK Climate Camp | Rising Tide North America | UK IMC | Contra G8+5 Website | Climate IMC

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Bush and His Masters Trying to Co-opt 9/11 Tr
Samizdat,

Are Bush and his masters trying to co-opt the 9/11 Truth Movement? See the video clip in which Bush blurts information allegedly extracted from Khaled Sheik Mohammed.
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Mindwalk 50: Net Neutrality & Israeli Apartheid
U,

Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra and Ted Kennedy on the same page? Yeah, guess so. All in favor of maintaining Net Neutrality. David Gregory gets barked at by GWB about the Geneva Convention. Huey P. Newton reminds us the people have the power set to the theme music from Blade. Audio posted on IMC of "El Enemigo Comun" the common enemy. Burroughs fills in a little time as a "Private Asshole". We close with CBC reporting on what Israeli TV decided not to ban from the people of Israel, mixed with Israeli soldiers shooting rubber bullets at Anti-Apartheid activists in Bilin 11/8/06.

Download Audio Here

Upstart Radio

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Photos 1st night of Transfronterizo Encuentro
general giggles and pipi,

Photos from the Tijuana side of the first Cross Border / Transfronterizo Encuentro of the Other Campaign. The theme of the forum was women in resistance. Speakers were from Atenco, Tijuana, Los Angeles and Arizona. There was also a short, but powerful theater piece demonstrating the violence of the mexican government against the people of Mexico.

Announcement | San Diego Satellite Event

UPDATE - Audio from Day 2 by radioActive sanDiego + borderlands hacklab: mesa indigena | mesa autonomia | mesa de cultura | mesa de cultura y medios | mesa de derribemos las fronteras

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Counter-resolution for Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal
Hans Bennett,

Following last week's visit from Julia Wright and other French delegates in defense of Rue Mumia, Pam Africa and other supporters wrote their own Philadelphia City Council Resolution to counter the previous one condemning French support for Mumia and presented it at the Philadelphia City Council opening session on Thursday, September 14.
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Roots of Resistance Camp
repost from Project Steev/detritus on flickr/lotu5,

From Project Steev:"This past weekend I and 4 other Tucson activists drove to San Diego for the Roots of Resistance Summer Camp. The Organic Collective had organized it to get people, mostly border activists, to come and share skills and talk about plans. It was a really great time and really inspiring... I took a few photos, not only of the camp but our brief visit to the border wall on the beach - where there are gaps in the wall right now big enough that people can easily squeeze through, and do. Mexicans were casually slipping over and wandering the sand, but a border patrol truck on the hill was making sure no one went too far. We played soccer and talked with some of the Tijuanans for awhile. It was really cool. The whole weekend was just really really awesome.

From lotu5:"I spent this past weekend at the o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective's Roots of Resistance Camp, rootcamp. It was an amazing experience, with people there from Arizona, Los Angeles, Orange County and lots of new and old faces from San Diego."

event announcement

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Europe calls on China to respect human rights
AsiaNews,

urope calls on China to respect human rights and religious freedom
The European parliament adopts a report on EU-China relations that, in
addition to economic issues, slams Beijing’s human rights record and its
lack of respect for religious freedom. For the first time, lawmakers express
their support for Vatican-China dialogue. They also ask the Chinese to stop
blocking AsiaNews’s website.
AsiaNews itself has covered extensively many of the human rights issues
raised in the Belder report, issues like removing organs from executed
prisoners and the repression of Falun Gong members, from land grabs at the
expense of farmers to the virtual enslavement of migrant workers, from the
lack of worker rights to the negative consequences of the one child policy.

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CKUT: Break Down :: Off The Hour
Ytzhak,

Friday August 25th CKUT aired the first of a monthly series Break Down a show that looks at the daily lives and issues faced by radicalized youth in Montreal from NDG to Point St Charles. This show will focus on racial profiling of youth, criminalization of youth and Policing in Montreal and the daily police harassment faced by youth on the streets of Montreal.
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THE SINGULAR STORY OF THE CUBAN FIVE
sended by F Espinoza,

THE SINGULAR STORY OF THE CUBAN FIVE
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Hasan Shakur: A Maroon on Death Row
Walidah Imarisha,

"Whether they murder me or not on Friday, I'm telling you, watch what Ima do, the ancestors are gonna be proud." Hasan Shakur uttered these powerful words a few days
before he is scheduled to be executed in Texas, Thursday August 31st.

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Free Josh Wolf! Send Letters! Hold A Rally!
repost,

Another grand jury grinds on in San Francisco, with an indymedia videographer sitting in federal prison for refusing to turn his video over to the FBI! Do something today to help get Josh Wolf out of jail!

From  http://freejosh.pbwiki.com: Josh Wolf is an independent journalist and blogger. For refusing to testify and turn over unpublished material to a Federal Grand Jury investigating a July, 2005, anti-G8 demonstration Josh was held in contempt of court and jailed on August 1st. He is presently in federal prison. We, his friends and family, are maintaining this wiki to keep you up to date on Josh's case...

Quicktime movie:
 http://blip.tv/uploadedFiles/Insurgent-LatestGrandJuryUpdate686.mov

From  http://www.joshwolf.net/blog : I finally got to see Josh. He is doing well and maintaining a positive spirit, while hoping that the 9th Circuit will grant him bail. If they don’t he should have their decision on his case by September 4. He is becoming very concerned about the injustice he sees in the justice system, as many people he meets will face many long years in jail for non-violent drug offenses. He is making friends in prison and is working to find ways for people in prison to communicate more with people outside of prison.
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The Pride Beatings
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

On the surface, the reaction of the city and the police to the assaults that took place outside the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Pride Festival July 30 seem fine; mayor Jerry Sanders made appropriately supportive remarks and three suspects were in custody within days of the incident. But a closer look reveals both city officials and members of the Queer community more concerned about damage control and protecting the profits of Queer businesses and the estimated $21 million the city takes in from the Pride events than in actually protecting the lives and safety of Queers in San Diego.

Links: Bigots Bash Queers | Security Guard Attacked Aug 1 | John Robert Wear Murder | Transgender Day of Remembrance
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Government Targetting Reporters
Janet C. Phelan,

"Sneaks and peeks" becoming commonplace at reporter's home.
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Venezuela: Los cimientos de la represión
CRA - El Libertario, Venezuela,

* Este texto, escrito por la redacción del periódico El Libertario para el # 48, agosto 2006, explica con detalles y hechos porqué es una verdad a medias la afirmación del actual gobierno venezolano referida a que, a diferencia de sus épocas anteriores, hoy se ejerce sin coerción alguna en el país el derecho a manifestar publicamente en favor de las reivindicaciones colectivas.

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¡Ni un solo casco azul al Líbano!
PCInt.,

La guerra de Israel en el Líbano tiene varios aspectos. Algunos corresponden a la política de Israel con respecto a su territorio, otros a la política imperialista estadounidense en Medio Oriente de la cual Israel es su instrumento fundamental, más allá vemos la constante inestabilidad de un país como el Líbano y de una población como la palestinense, indomable frente a los diversos Estados del área en la cual sobrevive separada y prófuga, pero incapaz históricamente de emanciparse de la opresión nacional impuesta desde hace un siglo, primero por el colonialismo inglés y, luego, por el sionismo.
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+++Mexico, Oaxaca: a rebellion has started+++
E S P E R A N Z A ,

Mexico, Oaxaca. Since a few months the people stand up to fight the corrupt government of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. Since june the repression against the movement has grown. Activists were kidnapped, tortured and killed by police and paramilitary units.

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