Monday protest at Mexican Consulate, Starhawk's Sat. Report

As we are madly rushing around organizing the details of our Reclaim the
Commons mobilization, we get terrible news about our friends in Mexico. In
Cancun, we marched with students from Mexico City. Our training collective
RANT did trainings with them in Mexico City and got to know and love many of
them‹bright, dedicated, warm and exuberant and joyful young people, fired
with the ideals we share of creating a different world. On May 28, they
marched in Guadalahara against a trade summit between Latin American and
Caribbean heads of state and the European Union, demanding public
participation and democratic debate about development policies. They were
met with severe repression: tear gas and brutal beatins. One hundred were
arrested, most as they were trying to retreat to safety. The police have
refused to release the names of the arrestees, but accounts of what is
happening to them are horrifying. Forty four are still in jail, being beaten
and tortured. One young woman has been raped, another has a fractured skull
and brain swelling. Others have been tortured with electrodes to the
genitals, forced into signing false confessions. Two who have refused to
sign are reported to be covered with bruises and open wounds.

So we desperately need people to call the Mexican consulate and demand their
release. In San Francisco, the number is 415-354-1700. In Washington DC,
the number is And they desperately need money for legal defense. So,
once again, I¹m asking for your help. You can donate online at
http://www.kloakas.com/aire.

Thanks for doing this, xome of these students are my personal friends, ones
we trained, and I¹m really enraged and heartsick at what is happening to
them, Starhawk