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Protests over Ecuador count delay Tensions are mounting in Ecuador as the result of Sunday's presidential vote is awaited amid allegations of fraud....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:39am PDT
Mexico: Government ultimatum against striking teachers The Mexican government has threatened striking teachers in the city of Oaxaca with police and military repression this week unless they accept a negotiated agreement between the Vicente Fox government, the teachers union and the Oaxacan Peoples Popular Assembly (APPO). On October 12, striking teachers voted to reject the deal....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:36am PDT
Oaxaca Women Tap for Hope with Their Fingernails As Stalemate Continues Between Federal Government and Popular Uprising, APPO Holds a “Dialog for Peace,” PRI Supporters Burn Indigenous Radio Stations, and Soldiers Shoot a Protester Dead...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:24am PDT
Paramilitary attacks continue in Oaxaca In the past week, gunmen have killed one and wounded four protesters from the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). The recent killings heightened tensions as the conflict again enters into a critical moment with the Minister of the Interior threatening to withdraw the federal government’s settlement offer if teachers do not end their strike by Monday, October 16....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:23am PDT
MEXICO’S PRESIDENTIAL SWINDLE When balloting stopped on the evening of July 2nd at the end of Mexico’s 2006 presidential election, the eyes of the nation turned to the two main tv networks to await the result of exit polls. Most unusually, Televisa and tv Azteca both announced they would not reveal their figures. At 11pm the chairman of the Federal Electoral Institute (ife), Luis Carlos Ugalde, appeared on screens across the country to say he would be withholding the agency’s own ‘fast result’ tally. But the ife’s ‘prelim...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:23am PDT
Farmers, Ranchers, and the Zapatista Other Campaign Shut Down the Largest Salt Mine on Ear GUERRERO NEGRO, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; OCTOBER 16, 2006: On Sunday evening, as the Zapatista Other Campaign winded its way sixteen hours up Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula toward the US border, communal farmers of the Ejido Benito Juárez and the Ejido Diaz Ordaz, along that route, timed their occupation and shutdown of the largest salt mine in the world with the arrival of Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:21am PDT
Mothers of the Disappeared in Sinaloa The Other Campaign Meets with Relatives of Victims from Mexico’s “Dirty War”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:20am PDT
UN vote: US slave state Guatemala vs independent Venezuela The Bolton-bulldozered UN, with it's sell outs at the top, must be bribed, threatened and forced in whatever way possible to vote for a seat for US slave state Guatemala. For humanity, brutes like Bolton and his greedy ilk are deadlier than the pest....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 3:11am PDT
Declaracion de Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Oaxaca Declaration of Solidarity with the People of Oaxaca
Documento distribuido en el primer Foro de Solidaridad Nacional e Internacional con el Pueblo de Oaxaca, 14 de octubre, ciudad de Oaxaca, Oax. (english translation following)
This document was distributed at the first Forum on National and International Solidarity with the People of Oaxaca, October 14, in Oaxaca City....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 1:02am PDT
10/27 "From the Bottom!" - John Ross Reports Back from the Mexican Upheaval at New College John Ross delivers a report back from the social upheaval in Mexico that followed the stealing of the 2006 presidential election, and its message for frustrated U.S. voters at New College, 777 Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission district Friday evening October 27th at 7 PM....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 12:23am PDT
Berkeley: Innocent Voices - Film drama on Salvadoran civil war. Free. Room 160, Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley.
Just north of Bancroft Way, end of College Avenue.
AC Transit #7, 51 or 52L....
Event Date: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 6:21pm PDT
From the Barricades: Oaxacan Teachers Speak 38 minute interview (in Spanish) with two Oaxacan teachers recorded 10.14.06 at La Ley Barricade, which protects an occupied Radio in Oaxaca City. Posted to radio.indymedia. English language transcript below....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 6:13pm PDT
Author of "Battle of Venezuela" to speak at Free Mind Media Free Mind Media Infospace
546 Pacific Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
at corner of Slater and Pacific, one block east of Junior College...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 3:21pm PDT
Multa de 171 300 dólares a compañía porrealizar comercio con Cuba Se recrudecen las medidas del bloqueo contra Cuba....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 1:32pm PDT
Press Conference @ Salvadoran Consulate 507 Polk St San Francisco, CA (near Federal Building)...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 11:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 10:54am PDT
Ecuador set to join 'pink tide' washing across Latin America A populist banana tycoon and a left-wing ally of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez were last night heading for a run-off vote after neither won a clear victory in Ecuador's presidential poll....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 6:49am PDT
Al Rojas and Fernando Mendoza from APPO speak in Watsonville (audio/mpeg 3.1MB) On Thursday 10-12-06 Al Rojas and Fernando Mendoza from the Peoples Popular Assembly of Oaxaca spoke to a packed house at the Watsonville Brown Beret office about the situation in Oaxaca. Al introduces Fernando and speaks a little of his role as a stateside organizer. Fernando tells us the history and present situation in Oaxaca, Mexico. Unfortunately, a dead battery prevented me from capturing the very beginning of Fernando's speech but it is nothing you couldn't find on the wealth of art...
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 1:08am PDT
"a revolution with an absolute minimum of violence" 
It’s not ‘news’ – but it should be...
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 5:16pm PDT
Interview with APPO Supporter Shot Friday Night (audio/mpeg 3.4MB) Interview with Antonio Joaquín Benítez, APPO supporter, who was shot friday night at a Oaxaca City barricade. (Bilingual / mp3 file). Entrevista con Antonio Joaquín Benítez, apoyante de la APPO, quien recibío una balada en las barricadas de la Ciudad de Oaxaca en la noche viernes....
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 2:05pm PDT
Remember the Attempted Coup? Correcting the Facts on US/Venezuela Relations I was hoping to use this space to include content that will not fit in columns or op-eds that the mainstream press runs. Below is a column I wrote that ran during the past week in a number of US newspapers. It provides some background, missing from almost all press coverage, about why President Hugo Chavez might see George W. Bush as "the Devil:" namely, the Bush administration's involvement in the 2002 military coup that briefly overthrew Venezuela's democratic government, and the administra...
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 10:50am PDT
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