Sin Fronteras! Global Day of Action and Camps
Participants at Zapatista Encuentro,

This proposal we read at the Encuentro with the Zapatista Communities and the People of the World in Oventic on January 2nd 2007 in the plenary setion for the Intergalatic Encuentro as a proposal for a theme to the Intergalactic and a Global Call to Action.

In this effort we are organizing No Border Camps for 4-5 days in the fall 2007 in the border region in Calexico and Mexicali and also actions against the border between Mexico and Guatemala. We are making a international call to Tear Down the Wall! We know that this is not the first wall and will not be the last.

Esto documento fue leido en el plenaria final de El Encuentro de Pueblos Zapatistas con el PUeblos del Mundo como un propuesta para un tema en la Intergalactica y tambien como un llamada a accion global.

En este esfuerzo, estamos organizando un campamento contra las fronteras con duración de 4 a 5 dias en el otoño de 2007 en la región fronteriza en Mexicali y en Calexico y a la par organizar diferentes acciones contra la frontera entre México y Guatemala. Hacemos un llamado internacional a Derribar el Muro! Sabemos que no es el primer muro y tampoco va a ser el último.
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Encountering the Integalactic Encuentro
Adam Case,

Today marked the start of the First Intergalactic Encuentro, where activists, organizers, and people of conviction have gathered in the Zapatista community of Oventik. This meeting of the minds has been called by the Zapatistas in order to create a dialogue between the various groups struggling against Neo liberalism.
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Reports from San Diego Delegation to Oaxaca and Chiapas
Oaxaca Delegation 2006,

Activists from San Diego recently traveled to Oaxaca to deliver donations of media resources from San Diego folks and to Chiapas for the Zapatista Intergalactic Encuentro. Below is a compilation of their reports to date, which are being posted to Delete the Border.

From Luciente Zamora (dec 22): Concepcion said that she's not the same woman she was before all this happened... She wants to raise people's consciousness not just about the release of all the prisoners -- which she is fiercely fighting for -- but also to look around and see all the hunger, malnutrition, and ask why things are the way they are and do something about it. --Read More+Photos--

From donkilo (dec 24): After months of planning and a few weeks of worrying after all of the horrifying stories that we have heard by people who were in Oaxaca, the whole delegation is sitting in an internet cafe in Oaxaca, safe and sound. We are a few blocks from a federal police barricade. --Read More--

From j (dec 24): buses and trucks full of police drive through the streets. the police march through the zocalo. five indigenous women are violently harassed by these protectors of civil order. the police try to take the money the women made from their artesian work. the police grab one of the women. someone approaches this oppressive racist-classist scene, while two video cameras follow. the police walk away. an indigenous reality. --Read More--

Fom lotu5 (dec 24): The teacher introduces us to a man from the church who begins to tell us of their struggle. He says that even though the government says there have been 14 people murdered by the government, the community says there are more like 90 people murdered. --Read More--

From lotu5 (dec 27): I had read reports that the APPO decided to take down the barricades and decided to hand over radio universidad. But the personal story is very different. One of the women teachers answers me when I ask why was the cinco senores barricade taken down? She says that it was because 25 people from the barricade were taken away by the police and had their shoes taken off and were shot at point blank with rubber bullets in their feet. So parents of people in the barricades didn´t want their children to be tortured and they decided to take them down. --Read More--

From lotu5 (dec 29): we're in san cristobal now. lots of people are here from around the world to go to the zaptista encuentro. its so good to see old friends again and have a beer with them before spending a week in the jungle. --Read More--


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sandiego blogging from oaxaca and chiapas
lotu5,

This is the first of a number of blog entries I´ll be writing about my trip to Oaxaca and Chiapas, along with a group of people. You can read all of our entries here:

 http://deletetheborder.org/oaxaca-delegation-2006

and the rss feed is here:

 http://deletetheborder.org/feed/oaxaca-delegation-2006

We stayed up until 3am the night before packing, burning dvds, running errands, picking up things to bring. We got up at 6 to get across the border and take the flight from Tijuana to D.F. Got on the plane fine, got to D.F. fine. Took two different metro lines and walked many blocks to get the the CML. Everyone at the CML was very friendly and the folks from Radio Planton, who had just come up from Oaxaca, said that things were calmed down and that we should consider going... [click the title to read the rest of this entry]

j´s entry: Zocalo:  http://deletetheborder.org/node/1827

every entrance to the zocalo in oaxaca city is barricaded by the police
equipped in riot gear.
colonial walls and arches are painted in a patch work to cover all the
graffiti from the APPO occupation.
i can almost hear their words for justice echoing but it is not true all
that echos is an orchestra playing european christmas music.

thousands of pointsetias are planted in the ground for capitol comfort.
it reminds me of the blood that shed on this ground.
90 died to assure THIS `order´.
all i see are wealthy people at bourgie cafes.

buses and trucks full of police drive through the streets...

donkilo´s entry: La llegada , Our Arrival :  http://deletetheborder.org/node/1840

Pues por fin aquí estamos en Oaxaca. Después de meses de planificación y semanas de preocupación con todos los reportes que hemos escuchado, toda la delegación ya esta sentada en un internet café en la ciudad de Oaxaca, seguros y sanos. Estamos unas cuadras de una barricada de la PFP. Lo pasamos con un representante de la Seccion 22 del sindicato de maestros y no había ninguna molestia. Las huellas de las acciones de las semanas anteriores todavía existen. Hay pinta por todos lados cubriendo la grafiti de resistencia de antes. Todavía quedan algunos carteles y mensajes. Ya con el acuerdo de desmovilización con el gobierno, la gente habla abierta del APPO y de la lucha, pero esta vez con más “inteligencia”. Pero a la misma vez, nadie tiene pensado que van a reocupar al zócalo tampoco. Hace dos días hizo la gente del APPO una marcha pacifica de 10.000 personas demandando la libertad de los presos políticos que quedan encarcelados de los estados norteños de Mexico. No había ninguna confrontación con la policía...

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Revised Enero Zapatista calender
lucha,

The Enero Zapatista commitee invites you to celebrate 13 years of resistance with us at Chicano Perk! Enero Zapatista has been organized since 2005 by individuals and organizations who believe principles of unity, anti-capitalism, international struggle and solidarity as practiced by the Zapatista. We welcome you to learn more about Zapatismo as we work in a community to build a new world based on peace, respect and freedom.Attached is a full schedule of events.


We hope to see you there,


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Enero Zapatista Calender
kid on fire,

The Enero Zapatista committee invites you to join us for at Chicano Perk to celebrate 13 years of resistance. Below is a calender of the events and concerts being held in January.
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Solidaruty with Oaxaca from South Korea
repost,

Protesters staged a small rally in front of the Mexican consulate in Seoul South Korea in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca.
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¡Oaxaca Vive! Art show and benefit dinner Fri
dj lotu5,

Just a reminder that Oaxaca Vive! Art for the resistance! is happening Friday night, Dec 15th, from 7-10pm at the ASD community center in City heights at 4246 Wightman.

There will be live music performed by Angel Lita and special guests and traditional Oaxacan food served. You can still submit art to the show and silent auction to benefit the resistance in Oaxaca by emailing lotu5 at resist d0t ca.

All funds raised at this event are going directly to the people of Oaxaca.

You can get the flyer here:
 http://deletetheborder.org/node/1748

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Llamado a la movilización por Oaxaca
Cancuc,

Llamado a la movilización por Oaxaca (EZLN) y mensaje de la APPO
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Call for submissions - Oaxaca Vive!
Oaxaca Vive!,

Call for submissions for Oaxaca Vive! Art for the Resistance!

Oaxaca Vive! will be a night of art to support the resistance in Oaxaca
on December 15th. We are looking for submissions of artwork of any kind
for our silent auction. Please help us raise funds for the struggle in
Oaxaca by either making art about Oaxaca or donating some artwork that
you've already made. A number of people from San Diego are travelling to
Oaxaca in December and plan to take the funds raised directly to the
people in the struggle against Ulyses Ortiz Ruiz and for autonomy.



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Oaxaca Vive! Solidarity Benefit, Fri Dec 15th
Oaxaca Vive!,

Oaxaca Vive!
Art for the Resistance
Solidarity Benefit

Friday, December 15, 2006
7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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¡Oaxaca Vive!
Arte por la Resistencia
Evento Benéfico de Solidaridad

Viernes, el 15 de diciembre, 2006
7 p.m. a 10 p.m.

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Sub. Marcos: “Uprising or Cvivil War"
Hermann Bellinghausen ,

Mexico.

“We Are On the Eve of Either a Great Uprising or a Civil War”, Subcommandante Insurgente Marcos says. "President" Calderón Will Begin to Fall from the Day He Takes Office, warns the Speaker of the EZLN.
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Update on Virtual Blockade of MX Consulates
electronic disturbance theater and sdhacklab,

As of monday, November 6th, over 550,000 people had joined the Electronic Disturbance Theater's mirror of the virtual blockade of Mexican consulates in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca.

As of Sunday night, two of the websites for the Mexican consulates have stopped responding.
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Pics, San Diego’s Oaxaca Rights Demo, 11/5/06
Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Photos from the November 5 protest outside the Mexican consulate in San Diego in connection with a week-long vigil outside the consulate and a worldwide mobilization against the Mexican government’s attacks on workers’ and human rights in Oaxaca. Any help IMC’ers can give me on identifying the people in the photos, especially the speakers, will be greatly appreciated. Just e-mail me at the address below.
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Zapatista Corn Harvest Festival Saturday!
Schools for Chiapas,

Zapatista Harvest Festival for Peace and Justice
Saturday November 4 10am-7pm

La Milpa Organica Farm, 9988 Protea Gardens Rd. Escondido
Travel instructions: Deer Springs Road exit I-15 about 7 miles north of Escondido. Turn toward Meadows Road (east) and turn right (south) onto the frontage road. Proceed about 300 yards and then turn left onto Protea Gardens Rd. (dirt).

Join Schools for Chiapas and La Milpa Organica in a celebration of GE-free corn, local food systems, organic farming, slow foods, and indigenous cultures. The day-long harvest festival program will include a kids program, corn harvest, the slow roasting of red, white and blue corn grown from Zapatista seed, theatre, music, poetry, workshops, storytelling, indigenous artesian work and organic food.

The Zapatista Corn Harvest Festival for Peace and Justice supports the
“Mother Seeds in Resistance Project”, a multinational effort to protect the native seeds of Mayan corn in the autonomous communities of Chiapas, Mexico. This project works to stop contamination by genetically modified corn imported from the USA. All proceeds will fund testing of indigenous Chiapas corn for GMO contamination.
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Manifestantes de La Otra Campaña Usan Arte y Realidad en Apoyo al Pueblo de Oaxaca
repost from e-mail by Jorge,

A las 5:00PM de la tarde del día 1ro de noviembre, integrantes de la Otra Campaña se reunieron y montaron un evento político/cultural en la esquina de la Calle Constitución y Calle Segunda, justo en la entrada de la Plaza Santa Cecilia en el centro de Tijuana.

Los manifestantes leyeron los nombres de los asesinados en Oaxaca y de la complicidad del gobernador Ulise Ruiz. También de los presos políticos y los desaparecidos en todo el pais. "¡Libertad inmediata a todos los presos políticos y castigo a los asesinos del pueblo!" eran algunas de las demandas.
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Virtual Blockade for Oaxaca Continues
borderlands hacklab,

Another mirror of the virtual blockade of Mexican consulates is available.
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Otro espejo de la bloqueo virtual contra consulados Mexicanos es aqui.

 http://sdhacklab.org/oaxacavive/

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Update from tuesday night at the consulate
lotu5,

just got back from the campout. the police detained another protester tonight, questioned them and put him in their car, threatening to arrest him. he was later released.

attendance at the solidarit planton (campout) was good today, with oaxacan people from the Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacional. Around 7pm there were up to 50 people there.
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Solidarity Encampment Continues! Support Oaxaca! Head down to the Mexican Consulate now!
camper,

The solidarity encampment in support of the people of Oaxaca continues at the Mexican consulate on cedar and india street in little italy! Last night numerous people there and were woken up at 5am by a tv news crew interviewing them.

There has been a call put out to create a dia de los muertos altar in front of the consulate. If you can bring anything for this altar or help get it started, please head down to the consulate today!

Ongoing solidarity planton / encampment at the Mexican consulate!
Mexican Consulate
1549 India Street Little Italy

From the global indymedia site,  http://www.indymedia.org:

Several protests in memory of Brad Will and in support of the people of Oaxaca will take place in different cities all over the world in the next 72 hours. On Monday, October 30th, protests were held in at least 14 cities in the United States of America . There were 11 people arrested in New York. In europe, protests were held in London and Barcelona where protesters took control over the Mexican Consulate. There will be several events in Brazil in cities like: Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, São Paulo e Fortaleza.

More info about the encampment and photos here:
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/120087.shtml
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/120245.shtml
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/120226.shtml
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/120196.shtml

Audio here:
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/120243.shtml

A Call from the Zapatistas: Oaxaca Is Not Alone
Shut-Down of Roads, Highways and the Media on November 1; General Strike Called for
November 20
 http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2262.html

Updates here:
 http://narconews.com
 http://vientos.info/cml


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brief update from indymedia oaxaca
lotu5,

short translation from  http://mexico.indymedia.org/oaxaca

October 31st - The 28th section of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE en español) in Michoacán, México has announced a possible labor strike in that state, the Mational Coordinator of education workers announced that in the following days more than two thousand teachers in Michoacán will march to Oaxaca in support of the APPO and to the Oaxacan teachers in struggle.

Daniel Gildardo Mota Figueroa, journalist of the paper "La Opinión", was arrested by federal forces, at approximately 4am, in the area of the airport.


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Our voices: a moment at the consulate
lotu5,

We've been at the mexican consulate on and off since 6pm sunday night. Some of us slept there while others of us went home and stayed up late sending out press releases, posting on indymedia and emailing every local list we could to try to rally more people to support the people of Oaxaca at the Mexican consulate.

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Electronic Blockade of Mexican Embassies
repost by borderlands hacklabber,

Electronic Blockade of Mexican Embassy and Consulate Websites In response to a call to action to remember Brad and all the companer@s killed in the popular struggle to oust the bloody tyrant Ulises Ruiz, show solidarity with the teachers and protesters of Oaxaca, and attempt to interrupt the invasion of Oaxaca that Fox is beginning, join this electronic blockade of the websites for all of the Mexican embassies and consulates in the United States and Canada.

To join the blockade, click here:
 http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/oaxaca/Start.html

Please note that the previous mountain rebel link is broken.

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Police Surround Deseiged Mexican City [uk]
repost from guardian uk,

Police Surround Besieged Mexican City


Sunday October 29, 2006 4:31 PM

AP Photo MOEV101

By MARK STEVENSON

Associated Press Writer

OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - Federal police in riot gear and armored cars took up positions on the outskirts of this southern Mexican city on Sunday, as leftist protesters who have taken charge of the streets stood firm at their barricades of tree trunks and hijacked trucks.
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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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My Experiences Cross-Border Video Streaming With The Zapatistas
san diego indymedia volunteer,

J on cell. 1/2 hr to video streaming. J says very slowly: *T_h_e* *r_o_u_t_e_r* *w_a_s* *c_o_m_p_l_e_t_e_l_y* *d_i_s_a_s_s_e_m_b_l_e_d* *a_n_d* *t_h_e* *p_l_u_g* *w_a_s* *c_h_o_p_p_e_d* *o_f_f*. I'm like, F*CK! J says: *Q*, *i_t_'_s* *g_o_i_n_g* *t_o* *b_e* *o_k*. *T_h_e* *c_o_m_p_a_n_e_r_@_s* *h_e_r_e* *h_a_v_e* *b_e_e_n* *p_e_r_f_o_r_m_i_n_g* *m_i_r_a_c_l_e_s*. *W_e* *p_u_t* *t_h_e* *r_o_u_t_e_r* *b_a_c_k* *t_o_g_e_t_h_e_r* *a_n_d* *o_n_e* *o_f* *t_h_e* *c_o_m_p_a_n_e_r_a_s* *r_e_w_i_r_e_d* *t_h_e* *p_l_u_g*. *W_e* *a_r_e* *b_a_c_k* *o_n* *t_h_e* *i_n_t_e_r_n_e_t*. My vision is clouded with tears. I'm thinking: J is moving mountains. YES!

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Audio from La Otra Campaña Cross-Border Video Conferencing Oct 19
recorded/edited by Colectivo Zapatista de San Diego/San Diego Indymedia,

The EZLN Sixth Commission, including Subcommandte Marcos, Delegado Zero, visited Tijuana Oct 18-19 as part of La Otra Campaña. On Oct 19, video conferencing between Multikulti in Tijuana and Voz Alta in San Diego with Marcos at ~2pm and with the assembled companer@s at 5pm permitted those north of the border who couldn't travel to Tijuana to participate. Audio Duration: 39min 11sec.

For Audio, go here:
 http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/15043.php
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The Other Campaign respects no borders
repost from narconews.com,

The Other Campaign, he stressed, doesn’t recognize the wall along the international border. “The adherents here from the Other Side are not part of the Intergalactic sector (of foreigners with the Other Campaign),” he said. “They are part of the Other Campaign of Mexico.”

...judging from the energy, creativity, innovation, conscience and spirit of the Other Campaigners from the Other Side that took their place alongside all the Mexican adherent organizations and individuals on Thursday, the political horizon inside the United States has just made a paradigm shift as well. Zapatismo, as never before, has just crossed the border. The walls were powerless to stop it.
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Photos of Marcos in Tijuana: La Otra Campaña
Miguel ,

Photographs taken at MultiKulti in downtown Tijuana on October 18 and 19, 2006.
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La Otra Campaña Tijuana: Revolution on Our Doorstep
rocky neptun,

Marcos came to Tijuana, last Wednesday and Thursday, October 18th and 19th, within the shadow of our wall of shame, to bring Zapatismo to Mexico’s fourth largest city through the “La Otra Campaña” tour. A series of forums held over the last year in 31 Mexican states which says that there is a better way to do politics than stolen elections, bribed congress persons, corrupt, violent governors, and corporate thievery. Politics from the bottom up, not top down; where all the stakeholders in civil society; workers, peasants, students, women, gays, indigenous groups have the power to control the economic, social and political processes that influence their lives.

Here, amid the ruins of the former world of the Tijuana rich, young people commit themselves to authentic lives and autonomous communities free of greed. They do not fear the loss of material comforts or jail. A new culture of resistance begins to take shape as Mexico rediscovers its continuing revolution. There is, indeed, hope.

FROM SDIMC: Further stories, photos, audio and video on the EZLN's Sixth Commission visit to Tijuana are forthcoming...
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Write to SDCityBeat
Cecil Hayduke,

In this week's San Diego Citybeat newspaper, staff writer Kinsee Morlan stated "Marcos earned fame in the ’90s when he and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) started a violent civil war in Chiapas, Mexico."

I don't know about everyone else, but I think that this text deserves some correction. If you agree, go to sdcitybeat.com and educate her.
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