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International meeting for autonomous spaces - why?
Following on from the last international squat and autonomous spaces
meeting in Dijon, France last November, comes the second meeting: this
time on the outskirts of Berlin.
We see this as a meeting not just to exchange tactics and ideas, or to
reflect on the April Action Days (and plan new ones?) but to share in our
new projects, fights and victories: to redraw the battle lines. To achieve
durable exchange and solidarity on an international level.
The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, led by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona), and Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, led by Del. Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-Guam), held a joint oversight field hearing on "Walls and Waivers: Expedited Construction of the Southern Border Wall and the Collateral Impacts on Communities and the Environment" at UT Brownsville on Monday April 28th.
Community Resposes to the Congressional Hearing
A couple of us from Houston IMC and anti-border wall activists from through out the Rio Grand Valley came to listen to the testimony, cheer for the anti-wall speakers and congress folks and jeer at the fear mongering tactics of Tancredo, Hunter and their flunkies. Of the 8 congressmen and women, 6 were against the wall and power grab by Chertoff. The location of UTB for the hearing was interesting as the wall would put parts of the campus on the south side of the wall, and try to funnel border crossers onto the campus to make their apprehension by the Border Patrol easier.
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EUROPEAN MEETING IN DEFENSE AND IN STRUGGLE WITH THE ZAPATISTAS
ATHENS, 9-10-11 MAY 2008
Companer@s,
Fourteen years after the public appearance of the Zapatista Army for
National Liberation (EZLN), fourteen years after the process of
recuperating land and territory with blood and fire in favor of the
indigenous peoples, zapatista or not, fourteen years after the Fire and
the Word, the zapatista peoples are faced with a new attack from the
Mexican state: �legal� takeovers of land, forced displacements, threats of
displacement, reactivation of paramilitary groups, attacks against the
integrity of zapatista families, damages to their possessions, political
prisoners and hostages, manufactured offences, are, amongst others, some
of the distinct facts which the zapatista peoples are faced with once
again.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.-- When Abel Sanchez went to check on his brother- in-law, he was issued a ticket for interfering with a police officer. When he left police custody, he needed to go to a hospital, according to a civil rights complaint filed in federal court Monday.
The affidavit alleges Sanchez (pictured here in the hospital before his discharge) was shoved to the ground, punched, kicked, handcuffed, and then Maced in the back of a squad car by patrol officer Dennis O'Connell, before being taken to a warehouse and cleaned up by other cops.
On March 29, 2008 Traditional O’odham leaders and International
Supporters arrived in the small village of Quitovac in the Northern Sonoran State of Mexico to honor the land, the sky, the water, and all life, and to continue organizing to stop the building of a toxic waste dump that’s planned to be placed just a few miles from one of the most sacred ceremony sites of the O’odham.
It was a beautiful spring weekend – the air smelled of earth and the fragrance of the spring growth. The surroundings told of things that will come to pass and in doing so, reinforced the urgency of stopping not only this one toxic desecration, but also of the urgency of making sure that everyone the world over realizes the importance of this period in time – this
Hello everybody! This is the 4th issue of the PGA inspired newsletter!
You can download the file for reading from here:
http://aresistance.net/data/pga4_read.pdf
and the file for printing from here:
http://aresistance.net/data/pga4_print.pdf
At the PGA-conference in Dijon a need for a non-digital communication-tool was mentioned.
There was an idea to refresh a printed newsletter. We would like to continue the project with
this call.
Our aim is to continue using this newsletter as forum of debates, different project, actions and
struggles of collectives, related to PGA. The newsletter does not speak in the name of the
(Some photos from the action can be find on the internet page: http://n17-n17.blogspot.com/ )
Reports on students and workers resistance in Slovenia
This material consists of different sections: description of the Autonomus Block (AB), call for actions, letter of support and short history of Autonomous Tribune (AT).
Short insight: formation of the autonomous block (AB) around the workers’ protests on 17.11.
Autonomous scene
It has been at least a good year since the activist “autonomous scene†in Slovenia has been united in the important struggle on the local level. Last year, it was the squatting and the formation of the temporary autonomous zone ROG (the former bicycle factory) that produced immense energy and desire for the transformation of vacant space into a lively community of different social relations. Even though later the community ROG faced many difficulties, it still remains one of the most important alternative and public spaces. One of the groups created a space and a group Social Centre ROG that works on alternative education (Nomad University: films, discussions…) and on immigrations issues (specifically connected to the Erased). Apart from these political realities, the autonomous scene in Slovenia has been in demise since the end of ANTINATO and antiwar movement in 2003/04.
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5th Peoples' Global Action Gathering in Europe – Athens 20th / 27th of August
PGA - People's Global Action - started in 1998, it has been a tool and a
diffuse structure coordinating groups and people sharing common struggles
and practices, in accordance with various anticapitalist and
anti-authoritarian principles (see the hallmarks). PGA initiated the
Intercontinental caravan in 1999, as well as international action days of
actions against the G8, the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF... In Seattle,
Genoa, Prague, and in a number of less popular events, PGA was a driving
force behind numerous actions and reflections. At the convergence of
international initiatives and local struggles, groups close to the PGA are
now looking for new drives to challenge stagnation.
from Houston Indymedia Today (4/11) at Rice University, Rice For Peace and Justice hosted a teach-in on the border wall featuring Houston Environmental Lawyer Charles Irvine and Brownsville Teacher and Activist Elizabeth Stephens.
The Teach in lasted for an hour in a full classroom for more than 50 students and faculty. Both presenters gave powerpoint presentations that exposed the environmental, cultural and economic damage a fence would cause, as well as the stealing of land from property owners and the unconstitutional process taking place, where the Department of Homeland Security is waiving more than 30 laws designed to protect the environment, wildlife and Texas history.
INTRODUCING THE SOLIDARITY WITHOUT BORDERS CAMPAIGN
Dear comrades,We are writing to introduce the Solidarity Without Borders Campaign, a coordinated, sustained, three-pronged campaign in solidarity with immigrant and indigenous struggles across North and Latin America.Anti-authoritarian groups from across the Northeast and Midwest USA have come together to form the Solidarity Without Borders Group.This working group came out of the recent Consulta of the Northeast Anarchist Network (NEAN) and Midwest Action Network (MAN). The proposal was initiated by the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement (BAAM) and NYC Local Union of the North East Federation of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC),and has been joined by anarchists from over a dozen other towns and cities.The campaign emerges in light of the escalating war on
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