From my friend and co-host, onto the ontologist and Regeneración Childcare NYC, http://www.childcarenyc.org/

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Dear friends,

As you know, I have been doing childcare with Regeneración Childcare NYC
for over a year. It has been really exciting to be a part of building an
intergenerational movement with moms, kids, providers, young people and
volunteers from all different walks of life.

Over the past year, we've helped to coordinate several gatherings of
moms and kids from around the city. One request from all the moms is
that they would love to meet parents and people from around the US that

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2007/03/125538.shtml

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freEtech is really shaping up to be awesome. I think that we might've picked too small of a venue even! ha!

Its been posted in the SD City Beat newspaper and emailed out to all Foundation 4 Change grantees. We've been getting lots of calls about it. A handful of people from hackbloc.org are coming and some MFA students from UCSD working on social software analysis are coming. Wow.

To all you radical techs out there. Lets start having these kind of open unconferences every couple of months. In europe they call them hackmeetings and they do them in big occupied social centers. If we did this with a wiki page, a space and two weeks, imagine if we took two months to plan it! Lets talk at freEtech about the next of these kinds of gatherings...

We're starting a schedule, so if you want to do a workshop or start a discussion or perform some music or show a film, go check out the schedule on the wiki and put your thing in! We also have flyers in english and espanol, so go print them out! All that stuff is here: sd hacklab wiki

If you're in san diego and want to help distribute flyers in english and spanish, please come by the City Heights Free Skool and pick them up! We have copies!

We also got an angry call from UCSD. That was funny. Good thing we decided to do it at the City Heights Free Skool, HOORAY for autonomous spaces!!!

me: hello?

caller: hi, i'm calling about freetech.

me: oh, great, how can i help you?

c: what's this for?!

me: ah, it's a free technology conference.

c: i'm calling from calit2. who are you? are with the group?!

me: i'm an mfa student, my office is on the 2nd floor.

c: you know there's a reservation process and fees...

me: yes, we reserved the two conference rooms on the second floor, but
we've decided to do it somewhere else, not at calit2.

c: oh. well. ok. bye.

me: bye.

Also, DIGG freEtech here!

So, here's Cory's (from boingboing.net) final response. No wonder we have such a problem with sexism, racism and homophobia in tech culture when the most famous people in the community are in denial that there's a problem...

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New Mexico Indymedia

[en] The Borderline Autonomy Collective (BLAC) invites those who share our vision of a world without borders to join us in Tucson this February 16-19, 2007 as we strategize to build a movement against borders and for humanity. This February encuentro is meant to advance the development of the No Border Camp being held near the Calexico/Mexicali border in the Fall of 2007, and the North American No Border Network. more

[es] El Borderline Anarchy Collective (BLAC) les invita a los que comparten nuestro visión de un mundo sin fronteras para juntarse con nosotros en Tucson este Febrero, mientras estrategizamos y avanzamos un movimiento contra las fronteras y por la humanidad. El encuentro es parte del proceso de avanzar el desarollo del Red Anti-Fronterizo de NorteAmérica y el Acampo Anti-Fronterizo que esta planeado para el Otoño del año 2007 cerca de Calexico y Mexicali. mas

Lessons for Immigration Policy

April 18– May First: Speaking tour - Immigrant Rights, featuring an Ex-Bracero from the Asamblea Nacional de Braceros and an Immigrant Worker from Mexicanos Sin Fronteras.

President Bush and many Republicans are busy promoting immigration reform measures similar to the post-World War II Bracero program, in which migrant workers were little more than indentured servants with contracts that depended on specific employers. Workers were vulnerable to extreme exploitation and were unable to negotiate the terms of their employment.

The Bracero Program is key to understanding current immigration trends from Mexico. The Bracero Program allowed Mexicans to work on three or six month contracts in the United States to cover labor shortages and increasing negotiating power on the part of the US working class caused by World War II. During the two decades of the program, Braceros created social networks that became the base for future migrant flows.

Today, migrant workers and ex-Braceros are joined in a struggle for their fundamental rights. Ex-Bracerso are demanding payment of the 10% of their salaries that was deducted as a retirement fund during their temporary labor contracts. The money “disappeared” - billions of dollars lost either to corrupt US bankers or Mexican government officials.

Simultaneously, the new generation of migrant workers, many grandchildren and great grandchildren of Braceros, is demanding comprehensive immigration reform that includes normalization of their immigration status and the right to live their life with dignity in this country.

Speakers: A representative from the Asamblea Nacional de Ex-Braceros will offer first-hand testimony on guest worker programs, and will discuss their struggle to win payment of their retirement funds.

- A migrant day laborer will discuss the problems migrant workers confront on a daily basis in the US.

- A representative of the Mexico Solidarity Network will talk about the economic and social context of migration between the US and Mexico with special focus on the effects of guest worker programs, using the Bracero Program as an example.

To organize an event in your city, contact Macrina Cardenas-Alarcon or Mario Canek at 202-758-2116.

macrina@mexicosolidarity.org
mariocanek@mexicosolidarity.org

April 18 Charlotte
April 19 Durham
April20 Chapel Hill
April 21 Richmond
April 22 Maryland
April 23 Delaware
April24 Conecticut
April 25 New York
April 26 New Jersey
April 27,28,29 DC

Mexico Solidarity Network http://www.mexicosolidarity.org

Madrid Indymedia - Cómo muchos sabrán, el pasado Septiembre más de 54 delegados de organizaciones por la defensa de los derechos de los inmigrantes nos encontramos en Rivas (Madrid) con la idea de profundizar en el conocimiento mutuo y poner en marcha formas de trabajo colectivo entre las distintas realidades que trabajamos por los derechos de los trabajadores inmigrantes en España.

Se trató de un paso verdaderamente importante que nos permitió comprobar tanto el alto nivel de afinidad como la determinación para luchar juntos contra unas políticas migratorias que condenan a los inmigrantes a una ciudadanía de segunda y a sufrir como nadie los efectos de la precariedad y el recorte de derechos.

Fruto de dicho encuentro decidimos poner en marcha una Red Estatal por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes (REDI)cuya comunicación se articula a través de una lista de correos así como redactar el Manifiesto Estatal por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes que fue respaldado por más de un centenar de organizaciones y que nos permitió acompañar las jornadas de movilización del pasado 7 de octubre con un enunciado claro y contundente de rechazo a las políticas migratorias españolas y europeas así como ir dando forma a las demandas comunes.

Dicho manifiesto (que adjuntamos)refleja de algún modo nuestra mirada crítica y de denuncia ante la situación que estamos padeciendo los inmigrantes en la Europa del Siglo XXI así como una serie de demandas con las que pretendemos agrupar a todas las organizaciones de inmigrantes (o que defiendan sus derechos)que compartan con nosotros la necesidad y el deseo de impulsar la coordinación y un ciclo de movilizaciones que funcionen como verdadero contrapoder ante los atropellos que sufre el colectivo inmigrante y la perspectiva de profundizar el giro neoconservador de las democracias europeas.

Democracy, Substance and Debate in the Bamako Appeal and the Global Justice Movements: A Reader

Compilers: Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar with Patrick Bond and Peter Waterman

Indian Institute for Critical Action : Centre in Movement (CACIM), New Delhi, India & the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society (CCS), Durban, South Africa

January 2007

Reader | Table of Content | Acknowledgements |
Contributors to the Reader | Download Full Text of the Reader.PDF

Fantastical feats of Fire, Lion Taming, Tight Rope Walking, Knife
Throwing, Burlesque, Punk Rock Opera, Theater, oh yeah and clowns too!

C.I.R.C.A. BOREDOM PATROL AND THE CIRCUS OF (IM)MIGRATION!

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Dissent G8! USA INFOTOUR Schedule at Indymedia.US

Mar 6, 8pm, San Francisco, Station 40
Mar 8, 6:30pm, Berkeley, Long Haul
Mar 9, 6:30pm, Santa Rosa, Free Mind Media
Mar 9, Fresno Cafe Fresno
Mar 10, 6-8pm, Willits, Methodist Church
Mar 12, Sacramento, CA, Sac State, Mariposa 1000 Indybay
Mar 14, Ashland, OR? (help needed)
Mar 15, Eugene, OR
Mar 16, Salem, OR? (help needed)
Mar 16, Eureka, CA, Placebo
Mar 20, Portland, OR, Reed College
Mar 21, Portland, Lewis and Clark
Mar 22, Portland, Liberty Hall
Mar 23, Portland, PSU
Mar 26, Olympia, 4-6pm, Traditions Cafe, 5th Ave. SW, 7-9pm, 610 Columbia Oly Free School
Mar 27, 7-9pm, Seattle, Left Bank Collective
Mar 29, 7:00pm Boston, Boston College
Mar 30, 6:00pm Boston, Spontaneous Celebrations
Mar 31 New Haven, CT, Clash Collective
Apr 1 Penn State, PN
Apr 2 Philadelphia, A-Space, A-space
Apr 3 Baltimore, Red Emma's
Apr 4 DC, Brian Mackenzie Infoshop
Apr 5, 8pm, NYC, Times Up! Times-Up
Apr 5 Duke, NC
Apr 6 UNC, Chapel Hill
Apr 7 Asheville, NC
Apr 8 Greensboro, NC
Apr 9 Asheville, NC
Apr 11 Atlanta, GA
Apr 13 New Orleans, LA
Apr 14 Houston, TX
Apr 15 Austin, TX

ABOUT Dissent! G8 Infotour

Once a year the leaders of the 8 richest nations meet behind closed doors in secret with no publicized agenda or published minutes, to discuss the fate of the world. They’ve been making empty promises for decades about improving the environment, poverty in Africa, and lots more, but the fact is that the G8 is not the solution to these ills, it is the problem! We are preparing in Germany for large scale protests against the G8 meeting this June 6-8, 2007, and plan to come tell you about what is going on here. We have done over 200 presentations in 25+ countries since November 2005, and are now coming to your town!

In case you haven't had a chance to check out the big number of anti-G8 web-sites we have over here in Germany (or got lost on a German language site looking around for more English), we've attached an overview below of what our normal "foreign" presentation consists of. There are also many links below.