Under the slogan “the struggle of Oaxaca is the struggle of Puebla,” representatives of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) met with local activists in the capital of neighboring Puebla state Nov. 3. Leaders of the Frente Civico Poblano… Read more“Popular Assembly of the State of Puebla” proclaimed
From Reporters Without Borders, Nov. 3 via Chiapas95: While noting that two of Indymedia cameraman Brad Will’s alleged killers were arrested and taken before a judge yesterday in Oaxaca, Reporters Without Borders today condemned the shortcomings in the investigation into… Read moreOaxaca: Brad Will’s killers still at large?
Oaxaca’s beseiged Gov. Ulises Ruiz continues to resist calls for his resignation from all three of Mexico’s major political parties. He insisted Nov. 4 that the conflict in his state affects only “one avenue in one of 570 municipalities.” (La… Read moreOaxaca: Ruiz intransigent despite growing resistance
Tens of thousands of protesters from across Mexico have gathered in Oaxaca City Nov. 5 to defy federal police control of the streets in what organizers are calling a “mega-march.” Cars and buses from throughout the country arrived at Oaxaca‘s… Read moreOaxaca: “mega-march” defies federal police
Here we go again. This Nov. 1 commentary from the World Socialist Web Site (which is being echoed all over the left-wing blogosphere, e.g. on San Francisco Indymedia) relishes in the latest example of censorious behavior by Israel’s apologists, under… Read moreZionists seek to silence critics of Israel. Well, duh!
From Gush Shalom, Nov. 3: Gaza: Stop the Siege! Stop the War! A month of protest: November 4—December 2, 2006 The situation in Gaza has reached emergency levels—inadequate water, electricity, and medicine; widespread hunger, poverty, and unemployment; schools and other… Read moreInternational emergency campaign for Gaza
Here we go again. Fox News has the following to say about their upcoming “documentary,” Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, to air this weekend (strategically just before the mid-term elections, if that escaped your notice): We see in… Read moreFox News: Islamism worse than Hitler
From the Chicago Tribune, Nov. 2: Hispanic citizens sue government over raids ATLANTA — A civil rights group sued the federal government Wednesday on behalf of five Hispanic citizens who say they were detained and harassed by agents carrying out… Read moreLawsuit charges ICE racism, harassment
This is insidiously sinister—a step towards something akin to apartheid, two-tier citizenship. Not that we don’t already have that, of course, but this is close to legally acknowleding it and legitimizing it. From the New York Times Nov. 3, via… Read moreMedicaid denies infant care based on parents’ immigration status
From the BBC, Nov. 2: A new Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of Nigeria’s 70m Muslims, has been announced. Colonel Muhammadu Sada Abubakar, 53, is the younger brother of Sultan Mohammadu Maccido, who was killed in a plane crash… Read moreNigeria’s Sokoto Caliphate gets new sultan
On Oct. 30, activists in Naples rallied at the local Mexican consulate in protest of the repression in Oaxaca, where Mexican President Vicente Fox has sent in a massive force of federal police. (Chiapas IMC) But Naples itself may soon… Read moreItalian army to occupy Naples?
Zapatista Subcommander Marcos and supporters joined arms to block traffic at the Stanton-Lerdo International Bridge over the Rio Grande for an hour in protest of the repression in Oaxaca Nov. 1. More than 100 cars were halted by the blockade… Read moreZapatistas block roads in Chiapas —and on US border
