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Censored: What the mainstream media doesn't want you to know today
Posted by Brenda Norrell - October 3, 2012 at 12:44 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Breaking News Update Oct. 4, 2012:
Actress Daryl Hannah arrested with landowner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, in tarsands pipeline protest. This is the same Keystone XL pipeline that Obama came to Oklahoma to promote. The blockade is 50 miles north of Tyler, Texas, north east of Dallas.
Censored from the Texas tarsands blockade to the Arizona and Palestine borders
Posted by Brenda Norrell - October 1, 2012 at 3:06 pmTransCanada's Keystone pipeline seizing family farms in Texas, as corporate apartheid revealed in Arizona and Palestine
Oct. 4, 2012: 5 pm: Actress Daryl Hannah arrested with landowner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, in tarsands pipeline protest. This is the same Keystone XL pipeline that Obama came to Oklahoma to promote. The blockade is 50 miles north of Tyler, Texas, north east of Dallas.
Worldwide Declaration in support of the Zapatistas
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 27, 2012 at 12:46 pmWORLDWIDE CALL TO ACTION FOR THE ZAPATISTAS OF COMANDANTE ABEL, UNIÓN HIDALGO, SAN MARCOS AVILÉS, MOISÉS GANDHI
AND FRANCISCO SÁNTIZ LÓPEZ
WORLDWIDE ECHO IN SUPPORT OF THE ZAPATISTAS
From Truth to Action, Stopping the RepressionOctober 12th until November 17th
To our sisters and brothers of Comandante Abel:
Dozens of indigenous Chiapans flee from paramilitary aggression
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 27, 2012 at 4:03 amDozens of indigenous Chiapans flee from paramilitary aggression
** The situation in La Dignidad autonomous municipality is grave: Frayba
** The firing of shots forced EZLN supporters to take refuge in other communities
Hermann Bellinghausen
Last hope for freedom for innocent prisoner of conscience, blinded by the Mexican state
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 27, 2012 at 3:55 amLetters were delivered to Mexican embassies and consulates throughout the world yesterday (24 Sept 2012) in support of an indigenous Tzotzil teacher and prisoner of conscience, Alberto Patishtán Gómez, from Chiapas, Mexico. He has now been imprisoned for twelve years for a crime it has been proven he could not have committed, but numerous appeals have been turned down or ignored, and the many national and international organisations involved in his defence believe this is their final hope for his release.
NOAM CHOMSKY STANDS WITH THE “WORLDWIDE ECH0" CAMPAIGN FOR THE ZAPATISTAS
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 27, 2012 at 3:49 amLatest news from Comandante Abel
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 21, 2012 at 2:34 pmBelow is a summary of the latest news from Comandante Abel community
It should be remembered that these types of attacks are happening, have happened before, and are likely to happen again throughout Zapatista territory.
All people of good conscience are asked not only to remain alert and aware and be ready to respond when aggressions happen, but also to be proactive and take preventive action to prevent any more such occurrences. We cannot remain silent.
Alberto Patishtán loses his sight due to neglect by the Mexican State
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 21, 2012 at 9:28 amAlberto Patishtán loses his sight due to neglect by the Mexican State
This Human Rights Centre expresses its outrage at the inadequate performance of the Mexican state in providing medical care to the political prisoner Alberto Patishtán Gomez (hereinafter Patishtán), who for several years has been reporting his poor state of health, and the lack of interest of the Mexican State in treating him, which has resulted in Patishtán gradually losing his eyesight.
US Border Patrol scheme exposed for massive complex on sovereign Tohono O'odham land
Posted by Brenda Norrell - September 18, 2012 at 2:16 amIn a secret scheme, the US Border Patrol plans to expand the militarization of Tohono O'odham land with a new massive complex
Article and photo copyright Brenda Norrell
Photo Angie Ramon at the site
where her son was run over and killed by the US Border Patrol. Mexican Special Forces Employed as Death Squads in Drug War, Email Records Released by WikiLeaks Reveal
Posted by Bill Conroy - September 17, 2012 at 9:37 pmSpecially Trained Troops Conducted “Surgical” Strikes on Narco-Trafficking Cells, Gangs and Addicts
Ciudad Juarez earned the reputation as the most dangerous city in the world as its murder rate ramped up exponentially between 2008 and 2011, with some 10,000 murders attributed to a “cartel” turf war being waged in the Mexican border community of some 1.2 million just south of El Paso, Texas.
Sylvia Marcos: letter to the Zapatista Women
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 17, 2012 at 12:42 pm“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for
San Marcos Avilés and Francisco Sántiz López”http://sanmarcosavilesen.wordpress.com/
SYLVIA MARCOS TO ZAPATISTA WOMEN:
“THE WOMEN OF MEXICO JOIN YOUR STRONG AND DETERMINED STRUGGLE”Lakotas organize to halt new Keystone tarsands route
Posted by Brenda Norrell - September 17, 2012 at 11:37 amLakotas organize teach in's to protect sacred water from Keystone and dirty tarsands oil
By Brenda Norrell
Photo Lakotas blockade tarsands trucks on Pine Ridge. Photo Carlin Red Blanket Sr.
Tohono O’odham Border Ground Zero: War against Indigenous Peoples
Posted by Brenda Norrell - September 17, 2012 at 2:08 amTohono O’odham Border Ground Zero for War against Indigenous Peoples
By Brenda Norrell
Photo On the border, Alex Soto
and Klee Benally. Photo by Brenda Norrell.Growing alarm over attacks on Zapatista communities
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 15, 2012 at 3:20 pmGrowing alarm over attacks on Zapatista communities
** International NGOs call on authorities to stop the violence
** It is a war that escalates every day, says Gustavo Esteva
By: Hermann Bellinghausen
Paramilitary Attacks against Comandante Abel Zapatista Community Continue
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 15, 2012 at 10:13 am** The situation of the support bases is grave, denounces the Junta New Seed that is going to Produce
** Children, women and elderly “have fled to the woods” for fear of the bullets; there are four disappeared
By: Hermann Bellinghausen
GUSTAVO ESTEVA SENDS LETTER SUPPORTING SAN MARCOS AVILÉS
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 13, 2012 at 1:26 pm“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for
San Marcos Avilés and Francisco Sántiz López”http://sanmarcosavilesen.wordpress.com/
“THE TIME FOR RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY”:
Letter of Solidarity with San Marcos Avilés and Francisco Sántiz López from Raul Zibechi
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 10, 2012 at 12:45 pm
“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avilés and
Francisco Sántiz López”
http://sanmarcosavilesen.wordpress.com/
Drug wars--a success story
Posted by Don Henry Ford Jr. - September 10, 2012 at 8:44 amUsually, when I see a reference to drug wars, the word failure appears in the narrative. That would imply that the idea of the war on drugs is to stop the production and useage of illegal drugs.
Not so, says this man.
excerpt:
LS: You are arguing in your book that the war on drugs is no failure at all, but a success. How do you come to that conclusion?
Federal agents and police target Native Americans in three states
Posted by Brenda Norrell - September 9, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Repression and racism leads to targeting of Native Americans and First Nations By Brenda Norrell
Photo credit S.P.I.R.I.T/Peace and Dignity Journeys 2012
Update Monday, Sept. 10, 2012
From Truth to Action, Stopping the Repression
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 9, 2012 at 2:09 am
CALL TO ACTION
“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avilés and Francisco Sántiz López”
http://sanmarcosaviles.wordpress.com/
Second Phase:
From Truth to Action, Stopping the Repression
Chiapas community threatened with attack
Posted by Jessica Davies - September 9, 2012 at 2:07 amArticle published in the UK in Peace News
Chiapas community threatened with attack
by Maria Gomez
Zapatistas call for international solidarity
White Clay: Real reporters work on Sunday
Posted by Brenda Norrell - August 29, 2012 at 11:44 pmThe coverage of the White Clay protest tells its own story about the state of the news
By Brenda Norrell
Peaks Tree Sit continues after lockdown and two arrests
Posted by Brenda Norrell - August 22, 2012 at 12:54 amUpdate Thursday: Tree sitter makes emergency descent due to lightning:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/08/peaks-tree-sitter-makes-emergency.html
Tree Sitter protecting Peaks being extracted
Posted by Brenda Norrell - August 21, 2012 at 1:18 pmUpdate Thursday: Tree sitter makes emergency descent due to lightning:
Worldwide Declaration in support of the Zapatistas
Posted by Jessica Davies - August 21, 2012 at 9:13 amWORLDWIDE ECHO FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR SAN MARCOS AVILÉS AND FRANCISCO SÁNTIZ LÓPEZ: DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF THE ZAPATISTAS IN CHIAPAS, MEXICO
From Peru: letter of solidarity from Hugo Blanco
Posted by Jessica Davies - August 21, 2012 at 8:30 am“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avilés and
Francisco Sántiz López”
http://sanmarcosavilesen.wordpress.com/
Tip of the hat to Rafael Correa
Posted by Don Henry Ford Jr. - August 16, 2012 at 12:11 pmFull disclosure: I am not a leftist. Or a rightest.
Censoring Rosalie Little Thunder
Posted by Brenda Norrell - August 10, 2012 at 10:57 amTucson schools banned books: Just what was so provocative, so dangerous, about Rethinking Columbus?
By Brenda Norrell
How to support the dignified community of San Marcos Avilés:
Posted by Jessica Davies - August 7, 2012 at 2:21 pmHOW TO SUPPORT:
What YOU can do to support the dignified community of San Marcos Avilés:
Growing terror in San Marcos Aviles: imminent displacement planned
Posted by Jessica Davies - August 7, 2012 at 1:41 pmURGENT REPORT:
August 6, 2012
Compañer@s:
Greetings to you all from Movement for Justice in El Barrio, the Other Campaign New York.
In view of the seriousness of the latest acts of hostility and aggression in the community of San Marcos Avilés, the Zapatista support bases (BAZ) have urged us to share this report with you:
