Thursday, June 15, 2006

Resistence and repression in Oaxaca, Mexico



In a massive pre-dawn raid, at 4:30 this morning some 3,500 police in Oaxaca, Mexico brutally attacked a sit-in by striking teachers of the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), killing at least 11 people.
more info here:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/es/2006/06/71509.html

background: http://www.narconews.com/Issue41/article1874.html

En español: http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-index.php?page=oaxaca

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Solidarity With Indigenous Resistance!



On may 30th, approximately 40-50 anarchists, mapuche activists and students, and zapatista solidarity activists, shut down Chilean department store Falabella in downtown Buenos Aires.

Falabella was shut down in an act of solidarity with the Mapuche political prisoners who were arrested for defending their land against the Chilean state and Capital. 11 of these prisoners face over 10 years in jail under Pinochet’s anti terrorism laws. This action was also an act of resistance against Chilean capitalism which is the driving force behind the state’s repression which continues under the “socialist” government of Michelle Bachelet.

The protesters chained themselves to the entrance and unfurled banners proclaiming their solidarity with the prisoners in Chile and those brutalized by the Mexican state in Atenco.

The protesters chanted “Contra el ALCA y Capital, Contra el estado y todo Autoridad” as well as “Donde esta, no se ve, el socialismo de Bachelet”

Falabella was blockaded for about an hour, until the demonstrators held an impromptu press conference. As the demonstration was wrapping up the police attempted to arrest one of the “leaders” (the press liason). This attempt was thwarted as the crowd surrounded the police and unarrested their comrade. The successful action finished without any arrests.

www.mapuche-nation.org
www.mapuexpress.net
http://argentina.indymedia.org/

¡juventud rebelde!

Students in Chile continue to resist the government's education plans. Monday saw a national strike which more than 1 million chileans participated in. Radical students and anarchist clashed with police in downtown Santiago again, apparently there are more than 250 arrests. More info here:http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060606035700350

Monday, June 05, 2006

¡Solidaridad con presxs en los EE. UU.!


Fin de semana de resistencia y solidaridad global por lxs anarquistas y ecologistas presxs in EE.UU. 9 al 11 de Julio 2006.


Recientemente se ha desatado una ola de represión en contra de anarquistas y activistas ecologistas a lo largo de los EE.UU. La represión que no es nada nuevo para lxs anarquistas, ha tomado magnitudes que no se habían visto desde hace muchos años, a este fenómeno, lxs activistas lo han llamado “the green scare” (la amenaza verde), una nueva táctica intimidatorio del estado.

Ahora hay más de 15 activistas y anarquistas detenidxs en el EE.UU., algunxs enfrentando sentencias de cadena perpetua, acusados de formar parte de un grupo clandestina se llama ELF (frente de liberación de la tierra).

Lxs presxs en lo EE.UU. necesitan acciones de solidaridad.
Algunas ideas de acciones en apoyo a las presxs son:

-Organiza protestas frente a las embajadas y/o consulados de los EE.UU.

-Organiza jornadas y/o foros de discusión con tu familia, amigxs, en tu centro de trabajo, en tu escuela, en tu barrio, con tu comunidad.

-Difunde ésta información con otrxs activistas y/o anarquistas.