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Special from Mexico: The Oaxaca Commune on alert Regarding self-defense, the first State Assembly of Oaxaca set out several measures, some of the most important are: "a self-defense plan which includes: an organizational structure for the neighborhoods and the functioning of the barricades (. . .) Activating three mobile brigades: to take a look at and analyze URO's provocation of reopening the schools (. . .) Setting up regional barricades in the places which would be considered strategic for a possible repression. organizing open forums f...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 4:41pm PDT
No to Angelides and Schwarzenegger! Yes to Janice Jordan! 
Angelides criticized Schwarzenegger for his praise for the racist anti-immigrant vigilantes called the “Minutemen” while in the same breath calling for a "guest worker" program that would create a new class of super-exploited worker with no political rights. Under the same type of program in the past U.S. bosses often failed to even pay Mexican workers for their hard labor. The fact that Angelides and the Democrat Party are now calling for this kind of legalization of indentured servitude pla...
Posted: Sun, Oct 8, 2006 2:44pm PDT
Let's Play Dress Up...With Arnold Schwarzenegger! 
Arnold is not only a movie star, weighlifter and governor, he's an animated action figure! Dress him up in outfits coordinated by Rove, Enron and Corporate HMOs!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 2:32pm PDT
Mexico: Reform or Revolution? In the recent meeting of state governors, where the four PRD governors, along with those of the PRI and PAN, agreed a resolution of support for Ulises Ruiz [Ortiz, the murderous governor of Oaxaca state whose resignation is a principal demand of the APPO]. Likewise, in Oaxaca, the state deputies of the PRD and the Frente Amplio Progresista promoted the call for the Secretary of the Interior to send the federal police to "restore order". The Aztec sun [the symbol of the PRD] shows itself to be...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 12:57pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/6/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 4:36pm PDT
Interview with Shannon Young in Oaxaca City (audio/mpeg 11.4MB) On October 2nd, 2006, the 38th anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre, I spoke with Shannon Young, Headlines Producer for Free Speech Radio News, who lives in Oaxaca City, Mexico. The 1968 student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City sets a creepy undertone for the military provocations currently taking place in Oaxaca City which include low-flying marine helicopters. Shannon discusses MegaMarches, the march from Oaxaca City to Mexico City and the technicalities of getting Ulises Ruiz Ortiz ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 3, 2006 1:42am PDT
Cops brutally attack Human Rights Fest in uptown Charlotte, NC 
Suddenly dozens of cops charged into the crowd, jumping on people and using tasers on some. One person was beaten by several cops....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 7:56am PDT
Long Live the Oaxaca Commune! 
It is that this heroic struggle puts on the agenda the seizure of state power, and how to completely resolve the demands of the great majority of the people. For this we must fight for the fall of URO and for the formation of a provisional government of the APPO and the other worker, peasant, and poor people's organizations of the state of Oaxaca.
(Picture: From the battles that took control of the streets in the beginnings of the Oaxaca commune.)...
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:31pm PDT
Oaxaca Facing Imminent Attack 
September 30, 2006 - Information provided below is from Nancy Davies, who is based in Oaxaca and writes frequently on the situation there for Narco News. While the threat of a mass attack has seemed to always be in the air, the situation in recent days has really escalated. Now an attack seems imminent.
APPEAL FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AID
The word I have now is that there are about 5,000 men wearing army uniforms who are not army, but police, culled from other states like Vercruz and ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:12pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/29/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 5:03pm PDT
Solidarity with WATSONVILLE!!! We in the state of Connecticut are faced with the same situation as Watsonville: federal raids and deportations of immigrant workers. Congratulations on a successful action!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 2:02pm PDT
Protect Choice! Vote NO on Prop 85! Prop 85 mandates parental notification + waiting period for minors to terminate a pregnancy. Don't be fooled; communication between parents and teens happens in a trusting relationship, and cannot be forced by law....
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 1:38pm PDT
Teachers of Oaxaca March to Mexico City 
Over 8,000 teachers left the zocalo at the heart of Oaxaca city today in a march to Mexico City to draw attention to their cause. The teachers and other community organizations have occupied the center of Oaxaca city for 122 days calling for the resignation of the governer Ulises Ruiz....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 6:10pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/22/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, China, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 4:58pm PDT
PoP dEFECT RADIO: Fem Rock Vol 1 (audio/mpeg 28.1MB) All Music from Female Dominated/ Fronted Bands from Erase Errata, Gossip, Help Me, Help Me, Be Your Own Pet, Female Chauvinist Pigs, Che Chapter 127, La Tigre
All or Nothing, Margaret Cho, Talk Engine, Arundhati Roy...
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2006 1:27pm PDT
The Ecstasy of Exile A black writer looks at the racial politics of Burning Man...
Posted: Mon, Sep 18, 2006 4:23pm PDT
For A Real Debate Between Candidates For Governor 
(Picture Janice Jordan, Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for governor, arrested at the January 20th 2005 demonstrations in downtown San Diego.)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 15, 2006 3:13pm PDT
New prison dispatch from Jeff "Free" Luers (August 28, 2006) When I started this dispatch a few days ago, my thoughts were jumbled. I'm not sure they are any clearer now. But I know what I want to try to say....
Posted: Fri, Sep 15, 2006 2:13am PDT
Raw Deal: 50 Reasons Not to Vote For Schwarzenegger For Governor 
This has got to be one of the best articles detailing the extensive reasons why we should not vote for Arnold. This was written two years ago before the recall campaign, but are still every bit as relavent today. DON'T FORGET how he tried to destroy unions in California, rob our retirement funds, steal from our schools and harrass Latinos....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:04pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/15/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 5:20pm PDT
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