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The Zapatista Other Campaign in San Diego: Request for Financial, Technical and Media Assistance
sdimc volunteer,
The Sixth Commission of the EZLN will be visiting Tijuana as part of La Otra Campaña October 18-19 (for background and links, click here). On the 19th, a live video stream between Voz Alta in San Diego and the Sixth Commission meeting at Multikulti in Tijuana will allow those on this side of the border to participate directly in the event.
We are asking for your assistance with finances, technical matters and media coverage for this historic event.
Because of the need for high speed internet on both sides of the border, the cost for setting up streaming is expected to exceed $600. We are seeking techies to help us set up, respond quickly to problems and provide backup alternatives. We are seeking independent media volunteers to help cover the event on both sides of the border and to help participants document their stories on indymedia. San Diego Indymedia will be running an open media center at Voz Alta on the 18th-20th (times forthcoming).
Please donate today to help us get the real story out about this important historic event. We need the support of the community! Any size donation helps! To donate with a credit card, click here and hit the "Make a Donation" button. Specify that your donation is intended for the EZLN visit in the comments box. To donate by other means, come to the media center at Voz Alta.
To volunteer for technical assistance or media coverage, please write with specifics on how you would like to help to
imc-sd At lists d0t indymedia d0t org
The cross-border aspect of the meeting is being organized by Colectivo Zapatista de San Diego, borderlands hackLab, Voz Alta Project and San Diego Independent Media Center.
Live Video Streaming, Thursday October 19 1-2PM, 5-6PM NOTE CHANGED TIMES
Open Media Center, Wednesday October 18 - Friday October 20, times TBA. (We will be streaming NarcoNews audio from the meeting).
both at:
Voz Alta
1544 Broadway, one block from City College in San Diego.
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The First Cross-Border Encuentro of La Otra Campaña: Summary
queer-j brad,
The First Cross-Border Encuentro of La Otra Campaña was held in Tijuana and San Diego September 15-17.
A key component of the Zapatista Other Campaign, originating with the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, is a tour of Mexico to offer an alternative to the farce of electoral politics, by documenting the struggles of and listening to "the simple and humble people" - a national program of struggle from Below.
The EZLN Sixth Commission's tour has been suspended since the brutal attack by state and federal forces on the people of San Salvador Atenco May 3-4. Local groups working with La Otra Campaña organized the Cross-Border Encuentro as the Sixth Commission focused its attention on solidarity with the people of Atenco.
In Tijuana, 250 compañer@s heard from activist panels discussing women in resistance movements; indigenous struggles; autonomy; culture and art; culture and media; resistance against borders; and resistance against climate change and environmental destruction; as well as music, dance and theater from the struggle.
In San Diego, parallel meetings on the 15th and 17th were organized as freeflowing, participatory roundtable discussions that covered diverse topics, including women, patriarchy and machismo; personal connections with La Otra; listening as a tactic; maquiladora workers; struggles and resistance north of the border; and community building vs. armed revolution.
The Sixth Commission recently announced that it will resume its journey on October 9, following the arrival of reinforcements to work for the release of Atenco prisoners, and will travel to Tijuana for a cross-border meeting planned for October 19.
Reports: Tijuana español-1, english-1 español-2, english-2 | San Diego english
Photos: 1 2 3
Audio from Tijuana, Day 2 (español): 1 2 3 4 5 6
Announcement: español, english
Sixth Commission of the EZLN Proposed Itinerary: español, english
Background: Sixth Declaration español, english | La Otra Campaña Documents thru June | Up to Date Reports Indymedia Chiapas, EnlaceZapatista, NarcoNews | La Otra Tijuana | Colectivo Zapatista San Diego
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San Diego Side of the First Cross-Border Encuentro: Part One
queer-j brad,
As part of the First Cross-Border Encuentro of La Otra Campaña, the Colectivo Zapatista de San Diego organized a meeting on the San Diego side at Voz Alta. On Friday, Sept 15, about 20 compañer@s watched a film about the Zapatistas and La Otra, and participated in a discussion regarding Zapatismo, listening, women in revolutionary movements, organizing in San Diego and other topics. A partial transcript of the discussion follows.
"One thing I learned from the Zapatistas is that over here in the Estados Unidos we overanalyze a lot of things. If something didn't work, it's like WHY DIDNT IT WORK? ~~~ One thing we do have to learn from each other here is how to listen, how to step back and listen. ~~~ It is hard to really believe in something right now. With organizing and mobilizations, we lose momentum in a lot of things we do, and this movement seems like it continues its momentum in terms of its organizing. ~~~ We do live in a patriarchical society and world. I think it is very important for us mujeres to say ya basta, it's time to speak up and for people to listen. ~~~ Sometimes it is not so much like women's problems, but fucking machismo. And you know machismo is just like egocentrism. The taking up of space from other people and not stepping back, ever. ~~~ A lot of the time movements take into consideration women as a question or something that is secondary. In the Zapatista movement, they play a primary role. ~~~ There are a lot of people who are like "oh, the Zapatistas are coming, wow, let's go!" Yeah that's also a part of it, so we can also learn from them, but it's how can we bring it back home? ~~~ These people in business suits making all these big decisions, and those kinds of ways of thinking are in me."
"Every time through history, we analyze history, every time we change the political structure of a country, it's through revolution. ~~~ Another thing that we lack is the basic understanding of collectivity. You said the Zapatistas should take power, but when I think about the compañer@s that I have worked with all my life, seriously, I don't trust any of the organizations that I work with, even though I have given my life to them, to take power. ~~~ On this side we are inside the belly of the beast. So, what can we do here, so that we can build an anti-capitalist movement here, that can parallel and support the movement that is being created in Mexico? ~~~ I don't think that revolution should be the next step. What good is it to be killing each other. Who is going to be left for us to build our world? ~~~ You gotta have your good times, you can't fight a revolution just being bitter about things, you have to have your culture, you have to have your music, you gotta apply all of these things within your revolution, or its not worth having. If we start building community, the struggle will come within that, and we will be there together."
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San Diego Side of Cross-Border Encuentro
zapatista collective of san diego,
The Other Campaign will be holding a meeting in Tijuana Fri Sept 15 - Sun Sept 17 (more information here). A two day satellite event will create a space where people on the San Diego side can hook up to the actual encounter happening in Tijuana. Everyone interested in the Other Campaign is welcome.
Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway, one block from city college in downtown san diego
Friday, September 15, 2006, 6-9pm
Sunday September 17, 9am-1pm
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Primer Encuentro Transfronterizo de Adherentes a La Otra Campaña/First Cross-Border Encuentro of The Other Campaign
La Otra Campaña/The Other Campaign,
Las organizaciones, grupos, colectivos y personas en lo individual que a ambos lados de la frontera México-Estados Unidos forman parte de La Campaña Nacional con Otra Política por un Programa Nacional de Lucha de Izquierda y por una Nueva Constitución (La Otra Campaña), convocan a comp@s adherentes y simpatizantes a la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona, a chambeadores, jóvenes, indígenas, luchadores sociales, intelectuales, artistas, y a todas y todos aquellos que se identifiquen con las luchas desde la izquierda y desde abajo, a participar en el Primer Encuentro Transfronterizo que tendrá lugar en Tijuana, B.C. México, los días 15, 16 y 17 de septiembre de 2006.
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The organizations, groups, collectives and individuals from both sides of the US-Mexico border who are part of the National Campaign with the Other Politics for a National Program of Leftist Struggle and for a New Constitution (The Other Campaign), call to friends and adherents and sympathizers of the 6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, to workers, youth, indigenous, those in social struggle, intellectuals, artists and all those out there who identify with struggles from the left and from below to participate in the First Cross-Border Encuentro, taking place in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on the 15, 16 and 17 of September, 2006.
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UPDATE:
New locations in Tijuana:
Friday:
Sótano de Rita
Av. Revolución casi esquina con calle 4a.
Saturday-Sunday:
MULTIKULTI
Av. Constitución (paralela a la Av. Revolución) entre 6a y 7a
La Otra San Diego with Borderlands HackLab and San Diego Indymedia might be presenting an audio or video simulcast of some of the events in Tijuana. radioActive sanDiego might be broadcasting from the event. More details available soon...
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First Cross-Border Encuentro of The Other Campaign
The Other Campaign,
The organizations, groups, collectives and individuals from both sides of the US-Mexico border who are part of the National Campaign with the Other Politics for a National Program of Leftist Struggle and for a New Constitution (The Other Campaign), call to friends and adherents and sympathizers of the 6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, to workers, youth, indigenous, those in social struggle, intellectuals, artists and all those out there who identify with struggles from the left and from below to participate in the First Cross-Border Encuentro, taking place in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on the 15, 16 and 17 of September, 2006.
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"Border War" Protest Video
qjb,
Human rights activists from Border Angels, Friends of Day Laborers and other groups gathered at the AMC Mission Valley to protest the opening of the propaganda film Border War, which was produced by the extreme right wing group, Citizens United and directed by Kevin Knoblock, whose other "credits" are Celsius 41.11 and a bio of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Enrique Morones of Border Angels, who appeared in the movie, talked to the corporate media about the humanity and goodness of migrants, and the need to transcend the racist rhetoric of the right wing to find ways to ensure human rights for everyone.
Floyd Brown, the "Chair of the Board" of Citizens United, provoked a confrontation for the corporate cameras by badgering a human rights activist who was writing the message "No One is Illegal" on a sign. Floydie-boy has a long history as a racist, including producing the Willie Horton ad in 1988, widely credited with boosting Bush I into the presidency. Although he started strong and indeed produced a spectacle, he wasn't able to think beyond simple racist code words and eventually was chased from the limelight by cross-bearing humanitarians.
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Resist the G8 in Mexico Oct 3-4th!
repost from Rising Tide North America,
CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! Call for Organized Opposition to counter the G8 + 5 Climate Summit: October 3-4 in Mexico City!
¡Enfrente la G8 + 5 Cumbre del Clima! Octubre 3-4 en Ciudad de México: ¡Justicia Climatica Ya!
October 3-4, 2006, Mexico City
Oppose fraudulent G8 climate negotiations!
Stop carbon trading, stand up for climate justice!
A zero emissions world is possible! Make it real!
On Tuesday, October 3 in Mexico City, the Energy and Environment Ministers from the "Group of Eight" (G8) industrialized countries are scheduled to begin negotiating a climate change deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
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Mexican Election Deadlocked: Actual Count Wed
repost: nyc.indymedia.org, by John Tarleton ,
Both of the leading candidates in Mexico’s presidential election have claimed victory. Conservative free marketer Felipe Calderon holds a narrow one-point lead according to preliminary tallies of Sunday’s vote. The actual vote count doesn’t begin until Wednesday and could drag on for days. Supporters of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suspect he may be a victim of fraud after some exit polls showed him winning but they are taking a wait-and-see attitude until the final results are released.
From the blogwire: Greg Palast: Stealing Mexico, Bush operatives' role in Mexican Elections
Election Cliffhanger: Collins: Mexican Election in Limbo || Giordano: A Closer Look at Mexico’s Preliminary Election Results || Palast: Stealing It in Front of Your Eyes || Siegal: PAN Won Because It Got More Votes || Mailer & Pascarella: Election Day Journal || Oaxaca: The Day After the Election Election Analysis: Mexico on Edge || The Zapatistas Risk All w/Election Day Protests || Election Analysis “From Below and to the Left” || Bush Team Helps Floridize Mexican Election||Ominous Shadow of Stolen ‘88 Elections Hangs Over Mexican Presidential Vote || Mexico’s Left Turn || Baja California Sur Leaning Toward Lopez Obrador on Eve of Mexican Election || Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador || Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona Uprising in Oaxaca: Popular Government to Be Installed July 5 || A Teacher in Every Town || Oaxaca Uprising: How Far Can It Go? || Four Weeks That Shook Oaxaca || Oaxaca Teachers Repel 3,000 Police from City Center || Indymedia Roundup The Battle of Atenco: 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 For More Coverage: IMC-Chiapas || IMC-Mexico|| Radio Pacheco || Radio ke Huelga ||Narco News ||La Jornada
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Updates from Mexico, July 3rd, 1AM
deletetheborder.org,
Lunes 3, el subcomandante Marcos por la Radio
 http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/4206
Mexican Election Authorities, With No Result to Declare, Bring on a Crisis
From Atenco to Oaxaca, State Repression Is Punished Severely at the Ballot Box
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/7/3/3213/40582
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Remember the 4000+ Dead from Gatekeeper
repost from e-mail,
July 1st Vigil (III) at Border State Park 1200 noon to remember the 4000
plus that have died since operation gatekeeper began October of 1994. At the nationwide "immigration" hearings beginning in San Diego and Philadelphia on Wednesday July 5th, we are asking faith and human rights groups across the country to place 4000 crosses (or other faith/peace symbols) at each respective site the day of the hearings.
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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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May 27, 2006 Frontera Protest
Raza Rights Coalition,
12:00 Noon Protest Pedestrian Entrance into Tijuana. Protest militarization of the US-Mexico border, police and immigration officer border violence, anti-immigrant practices.
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Intl Human Rights Observers Needed in Atenco
repost,
An International comission of human rights observers is being formed by a group in Barcelona. People can volunteer to participate and groups can sign on to endorse the comission.
http://cciodh.pangea.org/
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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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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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Audio: Discussion of Human Trafficking
queer-j brad,
On March 28 at Voz Alta, SDIMC and the San Diego Chapter of the Peace and Freedom Party presented the film Darkside of Cancun, which exposes the sharp economic divide between wealthy tourists and indigenous peoples in the resort town of Cancun, Mexico, and the widespread sex tourism and trafficking in women and children in Cancun. Following the film, Manolo Guillén, Program Manager for the B-SAFFE Project on Human Trafficking at San Diego Youth and Community Services, spoke about the human trafficking in the San Diego/Tijuana region, and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, outreach coordinator for Free the Slaves and lecturer in Political Science at San Diego State University, spoke about the global context within which human trafficking takes place.
Audio 38 min. click here
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/9622.php
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San Ysidro, May Day March to Border
Mike,
Photos from May 1st protest/march at San Diego (San Ysidro) border.
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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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May Day Virtual Sit-In! NO ILLEGAL BORDERS!
EDT and borderlands Hacklab,
Join May Day Virtual Sit-In! All Day Long on May 1st.
Bodies On-line and Bodies in the Street Together.
NO ILLEGAL BORDERS! NO ILLEGAL LAWS!
CLICK HERE*CLIQUEN AQUI
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/MayDay2006/Start.html
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May Day - List of Southern California Events
Jonathan,
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!
MayDay 2006 will be a day remembered for a long, long time. Get involved and let your voice be heard! If you want to make a live report call into RadioActiveRadio.org at 619-269-4693. At the end of the day please post your photos to http://sandiego.indymedia.org. If you have a camera phone email your photos during the day to imc-sd(at)lists(dot)indymedia(dot)org
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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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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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English Coverage of La Otra Campana
lotu5,
I've seen very little english coverage of what's going on with La Otra Campana of the Zapatistas. Its hard for me to read spanish, so its been hard to follow whats going on.
Narco News has a great site with very current updates in English. Check it out here:
http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/en.html
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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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4/28 Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera
Bob,
Punk Rock Opera
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Immigration: Open Letter to LGBT Community
repost,
April 10, 2006
An Open Letter to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community:
We are a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color who work in the LGBT movement. We are writing to you in response to Jasmyne Cannick's article "Gays First, Then Illegals", which ran in The Advocate, in which she, a black lesbian, argues that she cannot support the current battle for immigrant rights because LGBT people have not yet won the right to marry. We are writing to express our profound disagreement with her, and to offer alternative LGBT perspectives to the current immigration battles happening across the country.
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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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241-Mile March for Peace to Go From Tijuana to San Francisco
indybay.org, reposted by sd imc ,
Fernando Suarez del Solar, Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia, and Aidan Delgado will lead a "coalition of the willing" on a 241-mile quest for peace. They will start in Tijuana, Mexico on March 12th, go through Marine Corps Depot Camp Pendleton to the Cesar Chavez burial site in La Paz, CA (on March 22nd), and end in the Mission district of San Francisco with a memorial ceremony and blood drive on March 26th-27th.
Organizers say, "Latinos represent nearly 15% of the US population and 11% of the US military, with many serving in combat or hazardous duty occupations. In addition, an estimated 20% of the fallen service members in the early months of the invasion were Latino. With the continued growth of the Latino population and its vital importance to the future of this country, it is time the Latino community become an active and vocal part of the 60%+ of US citizens that oppose this War. It is also time to show the Latino community that they have a voice and a right to fight for peace and stability. We make this call not only to the Latino population but to all those who agree with our message 'No more bloodshed in Iraq'."
The March will pass through cities such as San Diego, Escondido, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Rosamond, Keene (La Paz), Fresno, and San Jose. Read more, including info about the march route and initiators. The march is in need of help such as funding, volunteers, media, organizers, and donations.
More info:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/02/1803869.php
http://guerreroazteca.org/
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Fernando's March
Pablo Paredes,
On March 12th (the 76th Anniversary of Gandhi's Salt March) Fernando Suarez Del Solar will also take on the empire that has colonized his homeland and taken the life of his son in an unjust war in Iraq. Fernando, at 50 years of age will march 241 miles for peace, from Tijuana to San Francisco (some caravaning involved as there are 600miles between TJ and SF. The 15mile a day march will culminate in a memorial ceremony on the third anniversary of his son's death March 27th in San Francisco's Mission district, as well as a blood drive to be divided equally between Iraqi's and Coalition needs.
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