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The Ballot and the Bomblet Mexico’s Ejercito Revolucionario Popular (EPR) guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for the two explosive devices found in Oaxaca City yesterday. One of the devices damaged the shuttered front entrance of the Sears department store in the Plaza del Valle shopping center district, while the other (placed in a Banamex branch in a different neighborhood) did not detonate....
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 7:03pm PDT
Oaxaca Is Not Over The New APPO, Elections, a Questionable Guerrilla Group and the Threat of Forgetfulness...
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 1:16pm PDT
Cuba 2007: Speaking with the Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC) * Interview by the Russian newspaper SITUATION from libertarian collective Autonomous Action www.avtonom.org regarding the current political picture in the island. A Spanish translation was published in El Libertario #50, Venezuela, 2007. For more info go to: www.mlc.contrapoder.org.ve -Cuban anarchist website- and www.nodo50.org/ellibertario...
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 1:03pm PDT
Manifesto of solidarity with Venezuelan anarchists and social movements * The newspaper Tierra y Libertad, mouthpiece of the Iberian Anarchist Federation, published in edition 227 of June 2007 this manifesto of the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF-IFA; www.iaf-ifa.org) in support of those who in Venezuela today confront the bureaucratic capitalist project of the Chavez government as well as their social democrat and right wing opponents....
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 1:01pm PDT
Brazil: government intervenes against workers at occupied factories Friday, August 3, 2007 :After being occupied and operated for nearly five years by workers, the Cipla-Interfibra factory complex was raided suddenly last May by Brazilian federal police, which sent some 150 armed men to take over the facilities and replace the factory leadership elected by the workers with a federal intervener....
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 11:19pm PDT
Colombian Human Rights Defender Ivan Cepeda Faces Criminal Charges for Speaking Out on Government-Para-military Ties Friday, August 3, 2007 :
One of the Colombia’s leading human rights defenders, Ivan Cepeda, has been charged with slander and libel for publicly calling for the mayor of San Onofre to resign for alleged ties to paramilitary groups. Cepeda is the director of the National Movement for Victims of State Crimes, an umbrella organization for more than 200 Colombian human right organizations. In 1996, government forces assassinated his father – Manuel Cepeda, a leading leftist Senator in Colombi...
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 7:56am PDT
Brazil snubs UK shooting report Friday, August 3, 2007 : Brasilia says it will keep insisting the guilty be held responsible for the Brazilian shooting....
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 7:33am PDT
The Media Dance and August 1st in Oaxaca A new website to bring you news from the ground in Oaxaca in English and in Spanish. Visit the www.southnotes.org to read the original article with hyperlinks...
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 2:03pm PDT
Colombian man ends protest trek Thursday, August 2, 2007 : The father of a soldier kidnapped by Colombian rebels a decade ago completes a march across the country....
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 8:56am PDT
El Salvadorians Face Terror Charges for Opposing Water Privatization Wednesday, August 1, 2007 :
A protest against water privatization in El Salvador last month resulted in 13 demonstrators charged with committing acts of terrorism. If found guilty they could face up to 60 years of prison time under laws modeled on the USA Patriot Act....
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2007 7:55am PDT
US border fences 'an eco-danger' Tuesday, July 31, 2007 : Mexico urges the US to alter plans for expanded fences along their border, saying the barriers threaten wildlife....
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2007 7:06am PDT
El Salvador: Terrorism Law Misused Against Protesters Washington, DC, July 31, 2007) – The government of El Salvador should dismiss terrorism charges brought against protesters who allegedly blocked roads and threw stones at a July 2 demonstration, Human Rights Watch said today. Blocking roads and throwing rocks may well be crimes, but they’re not acts of terrorism....
Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 4:36pm PDT
Jury finds Drummond Coal not liable in murder of Colombian unionists Tuesday, July 31, 2007 :On July 26, after less than four hours of deliberation, jurors found Alabama-based energy giant Drummond Coal not liable for the 2001 murder of three Colombian union officials by paramilitary death squads. Two of the three officials, Sintamienergetica coal miners union local president Valmore Locarno and vice president Victor Orcasita were pulled off a bus in April 2001 and murdered by right-wing paramilitary forces near the firm’s La Loma operation....
Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 4:34pm PDT
Venezuela: Interview with El Libertario * Interview with indonesian anarchist journal EMPTY HEAVEN - May 2007 (http://otonomis.org/ -- EMPTY HEAVEN collective website; http://pustaka.otonomis.org/ -- indonesian anarchist/autonomist archive). More info in english & spanish about El Libertario: www.nodo50.org/ellibertario...
Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 3:06pm PDT
Colombia admits army infiltrated Tuesday, July 31, 2007 : Colombia's armed forces have been infiltrated "at a very high level" by drug cartels and rebels, officials say....
Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 10:00am PDT
"A Voice Cries Out for Justice; May all of Humanity Hear Itself in our Cry": Elisa Morelia, Chiapas, July 21, 2007. The second Encuentro of Zapatista communities and the communities of the world continues on its course in this caracol called “The Whirlwind of our Words” in the Tzojchoj and Tojolabal ethnic region. The activities organized by Zapatista support bases, local and municipal authorities were formally inaugurated last Sunday, before more than two-thousand people, with an opening welcome from Elisa, member of the autonomous municipality Ernesto Che Guevara, Ofelia,...
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 7:45am PDT
Colombia moves to save peace deal Monday, July 30, 2007 : President tries to keep peace accord with former right-wing paramilitaries on track....
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 7:03am PDT
Mexico Begins Allowing Gay Conjugal Visits In Prisons Monday, July 30, 2007 : (Mexico City) Mexico City's prison system has begun allowing gay conjugal visits, bowing to a recommendation by the country's National Human Rights Commission, the commission has announced. Mexico City's leftist government has taken a series of controversial stands in recent months on social issues like abortion, gay marriage and prostitution, despite opposition from conservatives and religious organizations....
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 7:02am PDT
Ulises Ruiz, Plan Puebla Panamá, and the August 5 Oaxaca Elections Sunday, July 29, 2007 I met Flor on the street yesterday and the conversation went like this: Me: How’s it going? Flor: giggle giggle No pasa nada, giggle giggle. We have more customers now in the middle of the day. That’s good. And how’s it going with you? Me: giggle giggle No pasa nada. Flor: I can’t believe how many candidates there are for deputy! And they’re all liars, and all politicians are criminals! Why so many? Everyone wants to try their luck to be rich....
Posted: Sun, Jul 29, 2007 6:56pm PDT
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