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Tribu to perform in benefit for Zapatista Solidarity Coalition on July 6 Don't miss this concert of Tribu, a unique group that performs indigenous music with pre-Colombian instruments, in Sacramento on July 6....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 4:22pm PDT
Indynewswire: SC Activists Gear Up for Caravan to Cuba (audio/mpeg 27.4MB) Over the weekend of June 24 and 25, about a dozen Santa Cruz activists busied themselves at the Live Oak Grange sorting medical suppilies, soaps, books, pens, and automotive parts among other items, as part of the Pastors for Peace 2006 Cuba Friend-Shipment Caravan. I spoke with a number of them as they made preparations for the trip....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 3:34pm PDT
The Race for Latin America's Security Council Seat The United States has launched a diplomatic offensive to block Venezuela's bid for a two-year rotating seat on the United Nations Security Council. The U.S. instead is lobbying heavily for Guatemala to take over the seat being vacated by Argentina....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 7:15am PDT
Santa Cruz Caravanistas On A Human Rights Mission To Cuba 
On June 24, peace and human rights activists spent their day at the Live Oak Grange preparing the Santa Cruz contingent of this years Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba. This is the 17th year our fellow community members have challenged the travel ban to Cuba as well as the inhumane embargo on Cuba by our government. Volunteers did a quality inspection of donated supplies before loading them onto the dontated Ambulance, former Police SWAT wagon, and Peace Mobile. Other people put their handpri...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 11:18pm PDT
The Uprising of Oaxaca – How Far Can it Go? Two Issues Must Now Be Resolved: Removal of Governor Ulises Ruiz and Resolution of the Teachers’ Educational Demands...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 7:54pm PDT
The Zapatistas Challenge the Sanctity of the Vote When the Zapatistas launched the Other Campaign in San Cristobal de Las Casas on January 1, 2006—exactly twelve years after they took that city by force—they made clear that the stakes would be high....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 7:53pm PDT
Mexico campaign enters final push Mexico's presidential candidates are making a final push for votes ahead of the bitterly contested 2 July election....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 7:47pm PDT
"Americans for Chavez" launched We would like to announce the launching of the "Americans for Chavez" project by Bolivarian Circle 'Chief Tierra Blanca' in Denver, Colorado and its website found online at: http://www.americans-for-chavez.com...
Posted: Sun, Jun 25, 2006 2:32pm PDT
Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos stands up for women Mexican police raped Mexican women. Subcommandante Marcos is outraged and demands justice for the raped women....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 9:56pm PDT
UN panel urges self-determination for Puerto Rico, once again UNITED NATIONS — The UN Special Committee on Decolonization reaffirmed Puerto Rico’s right to self-determination and independence last week, calling on the United States to “expedite a process that will allow” the Caribbean nation to exercise its inalienable right to choose its own destiny. The June 13 action was but the latest in a decades-long series of similar appeals....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 10:32am PDT
Bay Area Teachers Support Oaxaca Colleagues (video/quicktime 22.7MB) On Friday, June 16th, Teachers for Social Justice called a picket at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco. Thirty Bay Area teachers delivered a letter of concern which the Consulate promised to forward to the PRI governor of Oaxaca. Karen Zapata, Teachers for Social Justice; Dennis Kelly, United Educators of San Francisco; and, Ed Murray, San Francisco Community College Federation of Teachers, spoke. Four-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 9:37pm PDT
SF: El Salvador - Schafik Photographic Exhibition Piñata Art Gallery
4268 Mission St @ Silver, San Francisco
415-333-8001...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 11:43pm PDT
Support Oaxaca teachers on strike! (Videos + article) Below is some raw fottage of what's happening....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 9:53pm PDT
Send a message of friendship to Cuba Live Oak Grange
1900 17th ave. Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 9:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 1:23pm PDT
Mexico: Oaxaca Teachers Rout Cops The teachers regrouped in less than an hour. Armed with clubs and covering their faces with dampened cloths as protection against the tear gas, the teachers counterattacked with rocks and hurled tear gas grenades back at the agents....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 9:59am PDT
Venezuela: TUC delegation criticizes AFL-CIO Solidarity Center backed CTV coup plotteres 
National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear gave a debriefing to solidarity activists, on Wednesday June 14 2006 at the union's headquarters in London, of the first official TUC delegation to Venezuela. This is the full text of his speech, which was followed by a question and answer session....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 12:53pm PDT
WALL STREET JOURNAL GIVES HUGO CHAVEZ A MIXED REVIEW WALL STREET JOURNAL CONTINUES TO DISTORT THE CHAVEZ RECORD...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 6:19am PDT
In Oaxaca Mega-March, 400,000 Send A Firm No to the Repression by Governor Ortíz 
Blockades and Occupations Throughout the State; San Blas Atempa Takes Back its Autonomous City Hall...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 7:24pm PDT
Worldwide days of action for Cuban 5 The future of five political prisoners in U.S. jails known as the Cuban Five may depend on what happens during the next few months....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 10:32pm PDT
Toronto activists expose Peña Nieto’s role in the violations of human rights in Atenco Toronto, June 16^th . A group of activists denounced today Enrique Peña Nieto, governor of the state of Mexico, for having ordered a police raid on the villagers of Atenco, on May 3^rd and 4^th , resulting in the dead of two youths, the rape of 30 women, the beating of more than 200 detainees. Peña Nieto was in Toronto for the Metropolis conference of the World Association of Major Metropolises, which is made up of delegations from across the world....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 9:36pm PDT
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