Contra G8+5 en Mexico // Against the G8+5 in Mexico

From: agarcia(at)nnirr.org [Sigue en espanol] September 11, 2006

(New York City) Migrant workers and migrant rights organizations from the United States, Asia, Africa and Europe will converge at the Ground Zero this evening and join the New York-based immigrant rights advocates to recognize the heroism of hundreds of undocumented migrant workers killed in the September 2001 terror attacks. The early evening vigil also aims to challenge repressive migration policies across the globe and call for the ‘decriminalization’ of undocumented workers who are called illegal workers in many countries.

Forum for Housing and Rideshares here!

The organizations, groups, collectives and individuals from both sides of the US-Mexico border who are part of the National Campaign with the Other Politics for a National Program of Leftist Struggle and for a New Constitution (The Other Campaign), call to friends and adherents and sympathizers of the 6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, to workers, youth, indigenous, those in social struggle, intellectuals, artists and all those out there who identify with struggles from the left and from below to participate in the First Cross-Border Encuentro, taking place in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on the 15, 16 and 17 of September, 2006.

Sweep Victims from Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Hollister According to media reports, 107 people from Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Hollister have been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in a sweep over Thursday, August 7 and Friday, August 8. Of the immigrants, mostly from Mexico, but also from El Salvador, Guatemala and India, 44 have already been deported without prior access to lawyers. The rest are currently being held in custody at an undisclosed location. Many of those arrested in "Operation Return to Sender" have lived in the United States for the majority of their lives, have homes and U.S. born children. [add more info]

Borders/Confines*, Migrations and Citizenship (1) by Sandro Mezzadra

English Translation by Maribel Casas Cortés and Sebastian Cobarrubias of the Notas Rojas collective**

Prologue

In the introduction to an exhibit titled «Border Devices», presented in Módena (Italy) during the ‘Philosophy Festival’, the organizers wrote that the proliferation of borders/confines, and their prismatic de-composition and re-composition, constitute “the other side of globalization”. They added: “the dream of a completely fluid and passable world-space is perhaps the last utopia of the 20th century. At a closer look of the territory, though, the smooth quality supposedly inherent to contemporary space seems to fail. Thus, one of the immediate results of global interconnections and movements appears to be a proliferation of borders, security systems, checkpoints, physical and virtual frontiers. This phenomenon can be observed both at the micro-level of our surroundings, and on the macro-scale of global flows. Borders are, in fact, all around us. They are both conventional and geographical, abstract and real, ordinary and controversial. An encompassing view of this combination of flows (of people, goods, ideas…) and restrictions on a given territory unfolds the complexity of both individual and collective identities that are, at the same time, constructed and diffracted by the experience of border-crossing.” (2)

Let's get ready for the Zapatista Corn Harvest Festival!
Work-Party Campout at La Milpa Organica
October 7th to 8th
Starts at 11am on Saturday and goes until the afternoon of Sunday.
Volunteers will be have beverages taken care of and be treated with farm
fresh Brick Oven Pizza for dinner and an outdoor screening of 20 y 10!
RSVP (619)528-8060

Click read more for info about the Festival!

technorati tags: zapatista, sandiego, escondido

Beirut Indymedia | compiled by Qursana!

According to the Lebanese and Israeli governments (though more applied in Lebanon), communication between Israeli and Lebanese citizens is prohibited and in some cases punished with a court-martial. For this, this is an illegal roundtable – part of it was a defying, challenging and painful conversation that did not go smooth without tears, rage, apologies, pain, guilt, affinity, discussion, smiles, and tight embraces. This conversation is not representative of the mass majority of both populations; it is rather an anarchist worm-eye view of the latest Israeli war on Lebanon. Taking part are anarchists who had direct contact with this war on both sides of the border, their meeting was facilitated by networks of global solidarity within autonomous spaces in Europe, and also through the growing global anti-capitalist anti-authoritarian movement. A movement that is witnessing crises, but also signs of life! Anarchists who took part are Eyal and anat, holding Israeli passports; and Hazem and Imad holding Lebanese passports.

No consequences!? Institutional racism and torture in Austria - A trial against four police men, who tortured a man that resisted his deportation on 7th of April 2006, has been ended without any consequences on 31st of August 2006 in Vienna. Though the Cruelty was confessed by the officers, three of them were sentencd to 8 months on probation and another officer to 6 months on probation. [No-Racism]

Vancouver, September 8 2006 - The immigrant and refugee rights group No One is Illegal Vancouver is gravely concerned at Prime Minister Stephen Harpers’s announcement to arm Canada’s border guards of the Canadian Border Services Agency over the next ten years, beginning in September 2007.

“Canadians should be extremely wary of Stephen Harper’s increasing alignment with the United States on military, security, and border issues. While Harper claims that this decision is not a political issue, the Conservatives have substantially integrated border policies with the US

No Borders demo at Harmondsworth and Colnbrook detention centres, 8 April 2006

32 Iraqi asylum seekers, who had been incarcerated in different detention centres, were deported to Arbil, northern Iraq, on 5 September, 2006, on a specially chartered flight from the RAF Brize Norton military base in Oxfordshire. There was a demonstration at the Home Office in London, called by the Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, but that did not apparently stop the process, and neither did the warnings from international organisations [1 | 2 | 3] or the legal challenges.

The first forced deportation of Iraqi Kurds from the UK took place on 19 November, 2005. 15 men were taken to an airport at night, handcuffed, beaten and forced onto a military plane headed for Arbil through Cyprus. The move then sparked a lot of anger and protest [1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5], and the deportation of Iraqis was halted for a while until resumed this month. Tens of Iraqi Kurds are believed to be interned in UK detention centres, while thousands more have been served notice that they will be 'removed' from the country [latest report].

Read: initial report | call-out for demo | names of deportees | Home Secretary resumes forced removals to Iraq | EU-coordinated deportation of Afghani refugees

Links: Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq | International Federation of Iraqi Refugees | National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns | Noborders UK communication channels

No One Is Illegal

Nottingham Refugee Campaign Group have organised a protest in solidarity with refugees on Saturday 09th September from 1pm - 2pm at St Peters Gate Nottingham. How would YOU get from here to Loughborough with no money? That is what many asylum seekers are now being forced to do!

From the 4th September, Asylum seekers who receive NO MONEY and are NOT ALLOWED TO WORK are being required to report to a new Immigration Reporting Centre in Loughborough (instead of reporting here at the central police station).

Local Protests Held to Draw Attention to Struggles in Northern CA
A March for Immigrant, Worker and Community Justice was held on "Labor Day," Monday, September 4th in San Francisco. Thousands gathered at 10am in Justin Herman Plaza and at 11:30am marched to Civic Center. The Regional Unity Coalition - a grouping of immigrant rights organizations and grassroots groups from around the Bay Area- organized the march to "stop attacks on our communities." The day of action focused on local struggles of immigrants, hotel workers, and those fighting displacement in Bay View/Hunters Point, and sent the message that:
"Immigrants, labor, and communities of color stand in solidarity against displacement, anti-labor and anti-immigration legislation and practices and the militarization of our communities." Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

From sandiego indymedia:

Recently the CIRCA boredom patrol has setup the Clown Around Compound,
come out from the underground and infiltrated the Westfield complex, dun
da DUUN!

From our compound we received a communique about a Border War, so we set out to disrupt the opening of the film "Border War"! We entered the mall and asked all around where we could find this war and do our part!

Click read more to read the rest of Operation "Where's the War?!"...

photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87338747@N00/tags/borderwar/

video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roan8Zp1cQs

High quality video here:
https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/458.shtml

technorati tags:circa, clowning, sandiego, border, borders

First Cross-Border Encuentro of The Other Campaign

The organizaions, groups, collectives and idividuals from both sides of the US-Mexico border who are part of the National Campaign with the Other Politics for a National Program of Leftist Struggle and for a New Constitution (The Other Campaign), call to friends and adherents and sympathizers of the 6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, to workers, youth, indigenous, those in social struggle, intellectuals, artists and all those out there who identify with struggles from the left and from below to participate in the First Cross-Border Encuentro, taking place in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on the 15, 16 and 17 of September, 2006...

technorati tags:zapatismo, tijuana, laotracampana

WILMINGTON, CA, 4 September 2006--Apparently without respect for unions or workers, a handful of minutemen attempted to invade and disrupt the annual Union Labor Day picnic and festival at Banning Park today. At about 12:15, about a dozen minutemen with signs managed to get about a hundred feet into the park before they were confronted by a couple of hundred union members. Coincidentally, as they approached, the SEIU speaker was talking about the "most vulnerable" workers, those who work for less than minimum wage without union protection.

Report with photos: Wilmington Says No to Minuteman Invasion by Leslie Radford

A small but intent crowd gathered yesterday at SW Salmon and Park to underline the need for serious reform of federal immigration laws. Attendees included farmworkers, union members, church-goers, socialists and anarchists.

The mobilization coincided with a national Labor Day Weekend effort to keep the pressure on lawmakers. Congress has been deliberating the question of immigration reform since the severely anti-immigrant HR 4437 passed the House in December of 2005, only to meet with unprecedented grassroots opposition. Organizers from the Portland Immigrants Rights Coalition say they are not supporting any of the current forms of the legislation because they all contain measures that would introduce severe hardship on some, if not all, immigrants.