No Borders Camp Benefit: Wed Aug 15 7PM
In Solidarity, The No Borders Camp San Diego Organizers,

A number of community organizers and collectives from San Diego, CA are collaborating with organizations across the continent on an action camp effort to directly confront the injustices, violence and environmental degradation that the U.S./Mexico border embodies. Direct action, Independent Media broadcasting, workshops, art, music and speakers are being planned during the week of November 5-11, 2007.

The No Borders Camp will be in the Calexico/Mexicali borderland region. The Imperial/Mexicali valley is a leading producer of agricultural products for the U.S.A, houses dozens of multinational corporate Maquiladoras, has three toxic bodies of water that flow throughout the region and an Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) detention center where migrant people are held for months to years. This No Borders Camp will be directly contributing to building community and awareness around the issues facing this region. Organizers are working to incorporate and exemplify the strong connections between the struggles people face in the borderlands and the realities communities face across the continent.

Most of the media's attention on immigrant issues today is concentrated on marches and legislation. However, the history and future of violence against immigrant people from Latin America is rooted in the displacement of farmers, natural resource extraction in remote communities, unlivable wages and state sanctioned violence to push the political agendas of governmental and capitalist entities. The strategic displacement of communities, to gain access to their resources, and subsequently to their cheap labor, is the driving force behind paramilitary violence in Mexico today. In fact, the violent displacement of communities of color around our world is directly connected to the political and economic forces at play in the Calexico/Mexicali region. This is an imposition that reduces human life to a mere variable in an economic equation, and a disposable variable at that.

For these reasons we are collaborating, and reaching out to you for support. We would like to invite you to collaborate with us in our efforts to realize the No Borders Camp, and together raise funds for a Media and Convergence Center to support the communities in getting their voices heard. Come to the benefit this Wednesday and enjoy music, food, art and friends.

No Borders Camp Benefit
A Night of Radical Music to raise funds for a Media and Convergence Center Wednesday August 15 7-10PM
City Heights Free Skool 4246 Wightman

Music By: The Eclectic Bastards (Portland), Doctor Bird, Corporate World Domination, The Americans and Hot Pink Magon!!!
awesome d.i.y. crafts, zines, snacks and beverages by donation
all ages // no alcohol
$5 donation

No Borders Links: Calexico/Mexicali No Borders Camp | Ukraine No Border Camp: Call, Website | UK No Border Camp (Gatwick Airport) | No Border Network


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Stay Home Wins in Oaxaca Election, PRI Retains Power
compiled by san diego indymedia volunteer,

In Sunday elections in Oaxaca, close to 80% of the electorate elected not to vote, meaning that the candidates of PRI (the party of murderous dictator Ulises Ruiz, which has long held power) won all open offices. The overwhelming lack of participation was somewhat unexpected, given APPO's (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca) call for a punishment vote against the ruling party.

Reports:
por Centro de Medios Libres: Al menos ocho de cada diez ciudadanos oaxaqueños convocados a las urnas (2 millones 383 mil 667), despreciaron la vía electoral como el medio para “dirimir sus diferencias”. Con más del 60 por ciento de las casillas computadas, el nivel de abstencionismo ronda el 80 por ciento, superando todos los pronósticos, que señalaban que el mismo sería del 40 por ciento.--Leer Mas--

por El ChicoZapote: Ya que terminó el “ejercicio democrático” de ayer, estamos de vuelta en la normalidad autoritaria. Obviamente nunca salimos de ella, y la elección, tan costosa, fue parte de esta realidad autoritaria. Y por eso la gran mayoría de la ciudadanía, el 70%, no votó, no entró a este juego. Aunque los tachan de desobligados, de ignorantes, de antidemocráticos, la verdad es que el abstencionismo se debe al hecho que la mayoría no encuentra un lugar dentro de las instituciones políticas: la percepción de las instituciones, y de la “democracia” electoral es de profunda desconfianza, de rechazo, de asco. El acto de votar es visto como ejercicio de legitimación de un sistema deplorable, o simplemente como perdida de tiempo, que al final es lo mismo.--Leer Mas--

from South Notes: Although the preliminary results are still being tallied, it’s already apparent that the big winner in today’s legislative elections is “none of the above”. At just after midnight local time, the State Electoral Institute showed that 75% of the electorate chose not to vote today. [Note: That number may change as more ballots are tallied.] --Read More--

from Barucha Calamity Peller: Last night, while the votes were being counted that confirmed a PRI sweep of the state legistlative elections, three people were taken off the streets of the Zocalo in Oaxaca City by police at approximately 10 pm. Among them were two Catalans and one Mexican woman...[the detainees apparently have been accounted for] The elections, in which almost 80% of the Oaxacan population abstained from voting, came as a dissapointment for the APPO’s “punishment vote” campaign against the PRI.--Read More--

Background:
from Barucha Calamity Peller: Has the world forgotten about Oaxaca? Political activity, from repression to organizing, is still just as present as when the Oaxaca uprising was visible in the streets, but with the appearance of normalcy in Oaxaca City it seems that many of us have begun the process of forgetting or assuming that the Oaxaca struggle is over. --Read More--

from South Notes: Mexico’s Ejercito Revolucionario Popular (EPR) guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for the two explosive devices found in Oaxaca City yesterday. One of the devices damaged the shuttered front entrance of the Sears department store in the Plaza del Valle shopping center district, while the other (placed in a Banamex branch in a different neighborhood) did not detonate. --Read More--


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La Revolución Mexicano: ¿Tierra y Libertad?
Jorge Garcia and Jeff Graves,

Looking at the Mexican Revolution from a distance, we can see that the overt theme was set in the tone of the poor versus the rich; those who drank pulque and had a sense of community and those who sipped fine wine at the expense of the working-class, with an affinity for privileged isolationism.

Ricardo Flores Magón may have been right all along when he said that:
“The dreamer is the designer of tomorrow. The practical man, the sensible, cold head, can laugh at the dreamer; they do not know that he, the dreamer, is the true dynamic force that pushes the world forward. Suppress the dreamer, and the world will deteriorate toward barbarism. Despised, impoverished, the dreamer opens the way for his race, sowing sowing sowing the seeds which will be harvested, not by him, but by the practical men, the sensible cold heads of tomorrow, who will laugh at the sight of another dreamer seeding, seeding, seeding.”


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Encuentro Anark@galactico en Chiapas / Anark@galactic Conference in Chiapas
from newswire: Comision de San Cristobal de las Casas / Luis Tellez (tr),

CONVOCATORIA ENCUENTRO ANARK@GALACTICO / CALL TO THE ANARK@GALACTIC ENCOUNTER
DEL 15 AL 18 DE JULIO / JULY 15-18, 2007
JOVEL (San Cristóbal de las Casas), CHIAPAS

Durante el Primer Encuentro entre Pueblos Zapatistas y Pueblos del Mundo, celebrado en Oventik del 30 de diciembre de 2006 al 2 de enero de 2007 cerca de una centena de anarquistas nos reunimos para encontrar puntos en común que promuevan una relación mas estrecha y dinámica entre los colectivos y compañer@s de distintas partes del mundo. En estas reuniones decidimos formar una red global anarquista, compuesta por una lista de correos, una página web y una publicación bilingüe con el fin de apoyarnos mutuamente, compartir y aprender de nuestras experiencias.Con la esperanza que esta red pueda servir como una herramienta práctica para comunicarnos, pero sobre todo, para organizarnos buscando medios para globalizar la resistencia y combatir las miserias de los estados, del capitalismo y del patriarcado y para resistir la represión ejercida contra los movimientos sociales y específicamente contra l@s anarquistas.--Leer Mas--

During the First Encounter between the Zapatista Peoples and the Peoples of the World held in Oventik from December 30, 2006, to January 2, 2007, about a hundred anarchists met to find common ground for bringing about a closer, more dynamic relationship between collectives and comrades in different parts of the world. At our meetings we decided to form a global anarchist network consisting of a mailing list, a web page and a bilingual publication aimed at mutually supporting each other, sharing our experiences, and learning from them. The idea is for this network to serve as a practical communications tool but, above all, a way to get organized and find ways to globalize resistance and combat the atrocities committed by the states, capitalism, and the patriarchy and to resist the repression that comes down on the social movements, especially the anarchists.--Read More--

Segundo Encuentro de los Pueblos Zapatistas con Los Pueblos del Mundo | Second Encounter of Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World || Encuentro Zapatista y de Comunidades Internacionales | First Meeting of Zapatista and International Communities || San Diego Report from First Encuentro || Sin Fronteras! Global Day of Action and Camps (Proposal) || No Border Camp
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Urgent! Call of Solidarity
Kolektiv@ Todxs Somos Presxs,

Yesterday morning, July 3rd, Roberto Paredes Nieto disappeared from a camp site outside Molino de las Flores Prison set up by “Kolektiv@ Todxs Somos Presxs” for the liberation of all political prisoners from Atenco.
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Potluck for Aderentes de La SEXTA
colectivo Z,

POTLUCK FOR ADHERENTS TO LA SEXTA declaracion 11-3 SUNDAY MAY 28
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México, Otra estrategia frente a la represión
cml-df,

Este 6 de mayo del 2007, se realizó en la ciudad de México el Foro Nacional Contra La Represión, actividad enmarcada en la conmemoración a un año de las masacres contra Atenco y Texcoco, con las que repuntaría la represión contra La Otra Campaña y los movimientos sociales en México, convirtiéndose en acción cotidiana la comisión de crímenes de Lesa Humanidad. El Foro hace un llamado a formar una instancia nacional para prevenir la represión que se ha agudizado a partir de Atenco y Oaxaca.
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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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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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DIDM - Desiring (Incenciary Devices) Machines
dj lotu5,

Subscribe to our podcast here:

 http://feeds.feedburner.com/didm

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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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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Fox, you're NOT welcome! March in downtown SD
vAPPOroaxaca.,

Para todo aquel que guste colaborar en difundir y apoyar la organización de la Marcha, puede bajar el Bolante en versión rápida para imprimir y repartir. Todos a la Marcha el 25 de Abril de 2007 a las 6:00 pm en Downtown San Diego, No falten!!!
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Fox, you're NOT welcome! March in downtown SD
vAPPOr oaxaca,

Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, responsible for the massacres of indigenous people in Chiapas, for the disappearances of participants in the struggle in Oaxaca and for negligence in the case of the murdered women in Juarez and Chihuahua, is coming to San Diego on April 25th to receive the "Award for Democracy and Peace", given by the Americas Institute, a right-wing organization that is located on the UC San Diego campus.

Vicente Fox, el ex-presidente de Mexico, responsable por masacres de gente indígena en Chiapas, por las desapariciones de participantes en la lucha en Oaxaca y por la negligencia en el caso de las mujeres asesinadas en Juarez y Chihuahua, viene a San Diego el 25 de abril para recibir el "Premio de la Democracia y la Paz", dado por el Instituto de las Americas, una organización derechista que está ubicado en el campus de la Universidad de California de San Diego.
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8 de abril: Comunicado del CCRI-CG del EZLN
cml-df,

En 2001, los tres poderes del gobierno mexicano desconocieron los acuerdos de paz firmados con el EZLN en 1995, un año después del levantamiento indígena armado de 1994. Tras ello el EZLN ha iniciado nuevas e imaginativas estrategias de lucha en lo interno, en lo nacional y lo internacional. Una de esas estrategias de lucha es La Otra Campaña. Muchos críticos de La Otra Campaña, apostaban a que La Otra Campaña se desarticularía tras las elecciones de julio pasado. Ello se aunaba con la sangrienta represión instrumentada por el gobierno mexicano contra La Otra Campaña en todo México, lo que incluyó crímenes de lesa humanidad. A pesar de ello en estos días La Otra Campaña inicia una nueva etapa.
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Meeting to plan the mobilization against Fox
donkilo,

There will be a meeting this Sunday (4/8) at 4 pm in the City Heights Free Skool (4246 Wightman St, San Diego) to talk about the mobilization against the arrival to San Diego of the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, on April 25 to receive the award for the "President of Democracy and Peace".

Habrá una reunion este domingo a las 4 pm en la Escuela Libre de City Heights (4246 Wighman St., San Diego) para hablar de la mobilización contra la llegada de Fox a San Diego el 25 de abril para recibir el premio del "Presidente de la Democracia y la Paz".
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Informe Económico Presos Politicos Libertad!.
vAPPOroaxaca,

Este es el Informe Económico que se hace público, de lo que se recaudó en el evento Benefico Presos Politicos Libertad!!! vAPPOroaxaca. Estan los detalles de envio, el tipo de cambio, quien lo recibio y como fue entregado a la COFADAPPO (Comite de familiares y asesinados de los Presos Políticos de Oaxaca.
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Atenta Invitación
vAPPOroaxaca,

Estamos invitando a todos los que de alguna manera han venido siguiendo y apoyando, las actividades de nuestra Coalición vAPPOroaxaca, para que nos acompañen en la Conferencia de Prensa, para darles a Conocer el Informe Económico de la actividad del 2 de Marzo 2007.
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Locals Visit Cucapá Community
sdimc volunteer,

Since approximately 9000 years ago the Cucapá have lived in the land adjacent to the Rio Colorado, dedicated fundamentally to fishing. Eighteen years ago the Mexican federal government began passing laws that made it nearly impossible for the indigenous Cucapá to live in these lands. The rivers near the Cucapá are drying out because of the dams that have been built on the US side of the Colorado River. Therefore, the current fishing grounds have become a last resort for their survival. In addition, in these waters, fishing of any type of marine species has been prohibited. With the implementation of this decree, the life of the Cucapá has been gravely affected; putting at risk the existence of the Cucapá as indigenous people in Baja California.*

*previously posted for full press release CLICK HERE

a san diego indymedia volunteer got an opportunity to interview Fernanda Rios (collective zapatista, california coalition against poverty) and Andrea Donez (collective zapatista) who have contributed time to organize support for the Cucapá camp and who recently traveled to the Cucapá community

Q: How did you hear about the Cucapá situation?

F.R.: Sup came to the border and told us we should be supporting the indigenous communities nearby.

A.D.: After the commission visited the Cucapá, Delegate Zero said, “We have decided to send an urgent message to the Mexicans and Chicanos north of the Rio Grande to come here in order to maximize the number of people here, create a safe space, and protect the Cucapá and Kiliwa community during the fishing season.”

Cucapá Benefit Show Sat March 31 7PM A+E/North Park | Donations for Cucapá Camp - Dropoff at Chican@ Perk | Cucapá Camp Video
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Olmeca, Los Nativos, El Vuh tix available now
Colectivo Zapatista ,

Mark your calendars now and plan to attend this Benefit show for the Cucapa camp with Hip Hop Chicano artists:

Olmeca:
 http://www.myspace.com/olmeca

Los Nativos:
 http://www.losnativos.com/main.htm

El Vuh:
 http://www.elvuh.com/main.html

Tolteka:
 http://www.myspace.com/tolteka

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Donation Drop off for the Cucapa Camp
friend of the Cucapas,

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Onesimo presentation
Colectivo Zapatista ,

Mark your calendars now and plan to attend this report from the front lines of international struggle. Hear Mexican social
justice organizer Onesimo Hidalgo.
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Support the Cucapa Camp
Colectivo Zapatista ,

Since approximately 9000 years ago the Cucapá have lived in the land
adjacent to the Rio Colorado, dedicated fundamentally to fishing. Eighteen
years ago the Mexican federal government began passing laws that made it
nearly impossible for the indigenous Cucapá to live in these lands. In
effect in 1993 the zone was declared an ecological reserve, protected by
the general law of ecological equilibrium.
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Support the Cucapa Camp of the Other Campaign
repost by dj lotu5,

Local support for the Cucapá Communities

Since approximately 9000 years ago the Cucapá have lived in the land
adjacent to the Rio Colorado, dedicated fundamentally to fishing. Eighteen years ago the Mexican federal government began passing laws that made it nearly impossible for the indigenous Cucapá to live in these lands. In effect in 1993 the zone was declared an ecological reserve, protected by the general law of ecological equilibrium...

Today there are only 304 Cucapá left. They face immanent extermination
and now they rely on the support of La Otra Campaña with the purpose of
continuing the only productive activity for self sustainability.
Therefore from February 28, to May 3, 2007, in the immediate surroundings of the communities of El Mayor and El Zanjón located in the area of “la Bocana or Delta del Rio Colorado”, the adherents of La Otra Campaña will install a camp of support for the Cucapá community.
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Benefit show for the Cucapa
Colectivo Zapatisa,

Please join us at the Arts & Entertainment on May 31st Center for a Benefit show for the Cucapa Camp. ***correction--March 31st***
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The Coming of Rebbi Yeshua and Maestra Maria
Sam Libby,

The significance of the tomb archeology.
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G8 Dissent! Tour in San Diego Friday
stop the g8,