San Diego MayDay Videos!
Spike from the SCAR Media Collective,

San Diego cops engage in racial profiling as well as harassmrnt of Indymedia videographers at Minutemen protest while Minuteman leader Jeff Schwilk takes
the opportunity to shove opposition protester.

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Film Screening - 28 Seconds: The Killing of Fouad Kaady
san diego indymedia and sagon penn copwatch,

Fouad Kaady was burned and badly injured in a car accident outside of Portland. He needed medical attention, but instead got cops, who tasered and shot him in less than 28 seconds.

28 Seconds: The Killing of Fouad Kaady
Film Screening Followed by Community Discussion -- FREE
7:00PM Saturday June 2
The Rubber Rose ( http://therubberrose.com)
3812 Ray St North Park

This is the story the corporate media didn't tell us. Portland Indymedia obtained the unreleased taped interviews of the two cops who shot Kaady. Filmmaker Cat used the tapes to reconstruct the crime.

Community Discussion will focus on police brutality in san diego and what we can do about it.

Presented by San Diego Indymedia ( http://sandiego.indymedia.org) and the Sagon Penn Chapter of CopWatch ( http://sagonpenncopwatch.org).
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What's Posada Carriles hiding?
posted by F Espinoza,

Robert Kennedy's suspicions about the involvement of gangs of Cuban and Italian origin at the service of the CIA in his brother's assassination sheds new light on the Bush family protection of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles...
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G8: Germant Govt Bans Demonstrations
Gipfelsoli Infogruppe,

All demonstrations in the vicinity of Heiligendamm have been prohibited
under a General Ban issued by the German Office for Association. The
grounds behind the fence and a 4 kilometre area around the perimetre of
the fence fall under the ban. With this ban, the protests are to be held
at a 6 kilometre distance.

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Police Brutality in Oak Park
geri,

Yesterday, May 17, 2007, at 4:00pm, at the corner of Laurel St. and Balsa, in San Diego, a community member was maced, pepper sprayed, kicked, and arrested without reason. Four officers used unnecessary force in fear of an imaginary weapon. What was the reason for the arrest and the unnecessary force?

The police said, after the community member had been placed in the back of the police vehicle, after calling the entire family out to see this incident, including a 16 year old boy and a 11 year old girl, they thought he was going to reach for a weapon in his pocket. The four officers included 3 men: J.C. Hunter, D. West, and Andrew Tafoya, and one woman officer: T. Clendenen. After the community member was already on the ground and hands in cuffs, officer J.C. Hunter continued his authoritative force by kicking his stomach and pepper spraying his eyes. All actions were unnecessary, but if the officers were in fear of an imaginary weapon, once the community member was in cuffs on the ground with three officers holding him down, what was the reason for officer J.C. Hunter kicking and pepper spraying him?

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30,000 March /Rally Renews Call for Immigrant
AJLPP-USA,

Immigrants and their advocated returned to the streets for the first time since May Day with Latino elected officials in tow, escorted by the LAPD who piggy backed for “public relations” during the march/rally to erase police brutality. More than 25,000 immigrant rights activists marched Thursday to Macarthur Park to again call for a path to citizenship for the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants. The Filipino contingent led by the Pilipino Workers Center and the AJLPP attended by scores of youth activists was very prominent in the march waving Filipino flags and charting MAKIBAKA, HUWAG MATAKOT! . Waving Mexican, Salvadorian, Honduran, Filipino and American flags and signs reading "No to Deportation," and calling for genuine legalization, about 25,000 marchers gathered about 6 p.m. for a brief rally in front of Immanuel Presbyterian Church on Wilshire Boulevard before heading to the park several blocks away.

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CA cannabis prohibition 4 CDC prison profit$$
Free ALL non-violent cannabis prisoners!!,

CDC state prison officials reap profits from the incarceration of non-violent cannabis offenders and the exploitation of rural economies..

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El terrorista de la Casa Blanca, libre...
enviado por F Espinoza,

La decisión exhibió otra vez la presión del chantaje de la derecha anticubana y terrorista de Miami, pero también los temores de la Casa Blanca a que salieran a la luz los vínculos de sucesivos gobiernos, de la CIA, y del propio clan Bush con el terrorismo de Estado planeado desde Washington, y del que Posada fue uno de los ejecutores...
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Drug Test Kit Ideal for Testing Soap but Not
Adam Eidinger,

New Video Proves NarcoPouch® 928 Tests Positive on Various Natural Soaps and Negative on “Fake” Soap Based on Detergent Formulations
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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TURN OUT FOR IMMIGRANT
AJLPP-USA,

SI SE PUEDE! ( YES, WE CAN!)

With this battle cry and despite threats from racist anti-immigrant raids, anti-immigrant innuendoes and discouragement from the bourgeois media, school clamp downs on students and visible police presence and harassments, hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their advocated marched and rallies din at least 74 cities of the United States on May Day- the International Workers Day.

More than 100,000 immigrants and advocates marched in Los Angeles in separate rallies May 1. In the morning, at least 20,000 people march from Broadway/Olympic led by the March 25 Coalition and held rally in front of the City Hall south lawn

Another 60,000 marchers led by Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahoney and the Multi ethnic immigrants workers organizing network (MIWON) from Vermont Ave and 3rd St marched and converged at Macarthur Park from Vermont and 3rd while another 10,000 marched to Macarthur Park from Washington Blvd. led by La Raze Coalition. The police attacked this group early evening.

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[btlsummary]Justice Department Tries to Restr
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Top officials at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles threatened to suspend 13 student sweatshop activists engaged in a sit-in at the office of the university president Stephen Sample.


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LA Media Attacked by Police
tochtli,

 http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/
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Protest Against Fox and Police Brutality
san diego indymedia volunteer,

On Wednesday, about 100 demonstrators rallied outside the Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego to protest a "democracy and peace" award presented to former president of Mexico Vicente Fox. The protesters marched and cycled from the Benito Juarez statue in Pantoja Park to the rally, struggling to use their sidewalks and streets against an oppressive and excessive sdpd presence.

Inside the opulent hotel, UCSD's corporate-dominated Institute of the Americas cited Fox for "strengthening the democratic institutions" of Mexico, but pretended not to notice the blood dripping from their guest's hands owing to the massacres in Atenco and Oaxaca, the stolen election of Calderón and other crimes (1, 2, 3). The Institute also failed to mention its own role, through involvement with Plan Puebla-Panama and other piracy programs of corporations, in the displacement of indigenous people from their traditional lands and the impoverishment of millions of Mexicans.

Outside, speakers at the open-mic rally recounted Fox's crimes and drew the parallel between the brutality of his regime and u.s. police brutality along the border, in Vista and in San Diego. To the delight of family members, a young child in a stroller was observed to chant, for the first time, "Oaxaca Vive!" Corporate media were out in force in search of sound bites and "controversy." Damn them.

CJ Ball, sdpd's designated captain in charge of suppressing political dissent, once again presided over the repressive efforts.

Angel Lita (updated): Nos congregamos en frente del US Grant Hotel en San Diego Ca, con la intención de mostrar nuestro repudio a este infame acto de Premiación a Vicente Fox. Galardón denominado "Presidente de la Democracia y de la Paz". Nos congregamos para hacer patente nuestro rechazo a semejante mentira, y que solo para el Instituto de las Americas; puede ser una verdad. Porque, en qué cabeza inteligente o por lo menos con un mínimo grado de honestidad, pueda siquiera imaginar que Vicente Fox es digno de recibir un premio de tal magnitud. Premio al Presidente de la Democracia y de la Paz? A que Democracia y qué Paz se refieren, a los muertos hasta ahora enterrados en la mina de Pasta de Conchos en Cohauila, y cuyos huerfanos y viudas, o madres o familiares siguen esperando todavia la justicia que con tanta behemencia Fox les prometio, y lo único que hizo fue que con mentiras y abusando del poder que representaba, hizo todo para ocultar y proteger a los verdaderos culpables; los señores del poder y del dinero. Cual democracia!? ...--Leer Mas--

Cynthia:...It made me pissed that the cops took full control of where we were going. I felt like a little girl pouting because I couldn't get anything my way when I was trying to reclaim a street. ahh... But yeah...fuck government repression. --Read More+Photos-- + --More Photos--


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Marcha 25 de Abril (updated)
vAPPOroaxaca,

No fuimos muchisimos, pero individuos y organizaciones, expresamos nuestro coraje en contra de Fox por recibir el Premio que le otorgó el Instituto de las Americas. Además nos manifestamos en contra de la violencia policiaca y dejamos claro que nuestra protesta era pacífica.
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Priceless pics of the protest on Wed. 4/25
Reclaimer,

Priceless, I say.
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Bitchin' pics from march on Wednesday 4/25
Cynthia the Reclaimer,

These pics are worth million.
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Updates from Police Brutality March 4/25
borderlands hacklab,

We'll be posting reports from the march that are called in from friends at the event.

You can call in your own reports to indymedia at

*67.619.tHreeSeVeNEiGhT.OHnInEFouRSiX

UPDATES: 6:30 - Estimates of 80 demonstrators, 12 horse cops, a dozen motorcycle cops and a dozen cops on foot at pantoja park on G & Kettner. The march is about to begin.


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Prison Resistance in Greece and Indiana
compiled from athens.indymedia.org, infoshop.org and corporate sources,

From Athens Indymedia: Prisoners at the prison of Malandrino in Fokida, mainland Greece, revolted. The spark igniting the revolt was the beating of anarchist prisoner Yiannis Dimitrakis as well as the vicious, violent response of the guards to the protests staged by his co-prisoners. Disgraceful holding conditions, lack of water, regular beatings, electronic surveillance and the extremely short times allowed at the yard comprise a grim reality for the Malandrino prisoners. The prison has seen plenty of revolts in the past...The latest information from Malandrino says that the prisoners are in full control of the prison. [Resistance quickly spread to other prisons in Greece, and solidarity actions are ongoing]--Read More--
U-P-D-A-T-E 4/30 Prison revolt ends; solidarity actions continue

From Infoshop.org and corporate sites: Inmates rioted at a prison near New Castle, Indiana on Tuesday afternoon, setting at least one fire in the prison yard and prompting the state to mobilize emergency squads. A group of prisoners brought in from Arizona were believed to have started the disturbance at about 2 p.m. at the New Castle Correctional Facility. According to prison staff contacted by cell phone, many of the Arizona inmates have been dissatisfied with circumstances there. New Castle is privately operated by the GEO Group, which also manages a federal detention facility in downtown San Diego. California has contracted with the GEO Group to imprison over 1000 inmates from its overcrowded facilities at New Castle. --Read More--


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The Virginia Tech Massacre
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

An editorial commentary on the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech University, reprinted from the May 2007 issue of Zenger's Newsmagazine.
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Carta del Preso Político/Letter from Political Prisoner: David Venegas "el Alebrije"
kalo - repost from oaxacalibre.net,

Me encuentro preso en el penal de Santa Maria Ixcotel, en mi Ciudad de Oaxaca, entre aquí por una acusación fabricada de posesión de drogas, los policías que me detuvieron me golpearon y... soy acusado, ahora, de otro proceso judicial de sedición, y otros atentados en contra de la sociedad oaxaqueña, como la quema del tribunal del estado el día 25 de noviembre, demás es decirle a este valiente y digno pueblo de Oaxaca que todas estas acusaciones son falsas...en cada rostros antiguo, en cada consigna, en cada pinta que aparece furtivamente por la noche, en cada niño, en cada manta y en cada uno de nosotros que estamos presos, hay los motivos fraternos para seguir luchando, los invito a que no abandonemos esta lucha jamás. --Leer Mas--

I’m a prisoner in the Santa Maria Ixcotel prison in my city, Oaxaca. I was brought here on trumped up charges of narcotics possession. I was beaten by the police who arrested me and ...charged with a new count of sedition and other offenses against the Oaxacan society such as burning down the state Courthouse on November 25. I don’t need to tell the courageous, dignified people of Oaxaca that all these charges are false... In each elderly face, in each chant, in each graffiti that appears in the still of the night, in each child, in each banner, and in each one of us prisoners, our brother and sisterhood motivates us to keep struggling. I urge you never to abandon this struggle. Never. --Read More--

March Against Police Brutality from Oaxaca to San Diego: Wed April 25 6PM (English/Español): March | Bike Bloc || International Day of Solidarity with David Venegas Reyes and All Political Prisoners: Fri April 27 Español | English || oaxacalibre.net || Murders by Cops in San Diego County || Police Brutality at SD Reclaim the Streets
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Philippines: Unionists confront repression
Sue Bolton ,

Organisers from the Philippines’ biggest left trade union centre, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP — Solidarity of Filipino Workers) spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Sue Bolton about the repression that they encounter from the state and their efforts to unify left-wing trade unions.


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How to heal your eyes after being sprayed
Reclaimer Cynthia,

This is from wikipedia yall and another source. This could benefit us for the next protest on the 25th. Shit could go down, so lets be prepared. Pick advice from a source that you trust. <333
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DIDM - Desiring (Incenciary Devices) Machines
dj lotu5,

Subscribe to our podcast here:

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Listen to the second episode of DIDM (Desiring Machines / Incendiary Devices)!

 http://bang.calit2.net/rasd/files/didm-2007-04-18.mp3

On this awesome episode, we talk about borderlands by gloria anzaldua with dj queen b, queer community, chicana experience, reclaim the streets with The Bee and what happened there and lots of stuff with onto the ontologist including complexity and delanda as it applies to social struggle, the NY anarchist bookfair and the panel on resistance and mexico there, baudrillard and the mirror of production, abstract hacktivism, craftivism and the city heights free skool.

music by: nicky click, macromantics, peaches, combat wombat, scream club.
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New video: CSOMilano 0.1
La Plataforma,

A group of activists from the "8 de Marzo" collective squattered the old wedding hall "Milano". One week later, and one hour before starting a neigbourhood afternoon snack organized for the neighbours and local people as a part of the "presentation working days", the police sealed the building and started a pressure campaign trying to nip the project in the bud before it could grow.
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Video and Photos from Reclaim the Streets SD!
reclaimer,

Sorry about using the corporate website for the photos. At least the video is on indymedia...
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San Diego Reclaim the Streets: Summary
partiers,

On Friday, 100-200 people came together for a 3 hour Reclaim the Streets street party, marching all over downtown San Diego with music, puppets, glitter, costumes, dancing, jumping and lots and lots of FUN. The partiers included giant bunnies, zombies and a foot-powered City Heights Free Skool bus. The dancing throng occupied downtown streets normally reserved for overconsuming tourists in the face of heavy police presence featuring two undercovers, who stood out like anarchists at a corporate board meeting. Many people joined the party off the sidewalks but others were confused, despite huge banners saying "ReclAim the Streets" and "Lets PArty!"

The night ended with the SDPD beating and arresting three nonviolent partiers, among them an independent media videographer, and pursuing and pepper-spraying the dwindling crowd. In a replay of past SDPD attempts to silence political dissent, bogus charges included felony assault for one arrestee and misdemeanors for the other two. All were released by late Sunday evening following posting of bond or bail. A protest against police brutality both north and south of the border will take place at an awards ceremony for Vicente Fox in downtown San Diego on April 25, to be held across the street from friday's police riot.

Compiled from accounts by Reclaimer, Anarchist on wheels, Anonymous, one spy in a house of love, partier, owl, fuck the sdpd, owl, joshysex, partier, a pissed off reclaimer, zombie, bjk, vAAPOroaxaca, Rocky, and Reclaim the Streets SD.

Reports: Reclaimer | Anarchist on wheels | Anonymous | Rocky | Community compilation || Photos reclaimer | reclaimer | Reclaimer || Video! reclaimer(fun) | reclaimer(drums) || Prisoner Support: Call for bail money and evidence | Bail update || SD Reclaim the Streets: Website | Announcement | J20 2005 Report || Protesting Police Brutality: 1 | 2 | 3 || Calls for Protest/RTS: 1 | 2
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1st Carnival of Liberation San Diego
Rocky Neptun,

A synopsis of events last Friday in downtown San Diego.
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March against Police Brutality - Oaxaca to SD
vAPPOr oaxaca,

The march will be starting on April 25 at 6pm at the Benito Juarez statue in Pantoja Park on G Street between Kettner Blvd and State Street:

 http://tinyurl.com/yp4et3

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox, responsible for brutal police repression in Oaxaca, Atenco and Chiapas, is coming to receive the "Award for Democracy and Peace", given by the Americas Institute, a right-wing organization located on the UC San Diego campus. On April 13, several participants in the non-violent Reclaim the Streets were victims of police brutality. In the past year at least 17 people have been murdered by police and the border patrol in SD County. We need to show them that we will NOT be intimidated by their violence! Bring your bike! La lucha sigue!
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Update on bail
reclaimer,

Update on bail, one protester is being charged with a felony and their bail is set at $35,000. That means that we need at least $3500 to even get a bend for him. At this point we have almost $1000. Or, if someone can make a $35,000 loan, we can get it back in 60 days, that's how bail works.

If you can contribute, now is the time. Please call 619-528-8060 or email sdhacklab at
lists d0t riseup
d0t net

Again, the only crime we can tell that this person may have committed was being on the receiving end of police violence.

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We need to protest against police brutality
Anonymous,

We need to plan a protest...ASAP
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