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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.

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Start: May 24 2008 - 4:00am End: May 26 2008 - 4:00am description:

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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.

Photos and more video below

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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.

Photos and more video below

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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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Start: May 9 2008 - 12:00am End: May 11 2008 - 12:00am description:

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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.

newhavenindependent.org
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.

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newhavenindependent.org
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

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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