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we're in san cristobal now. lots of people are here from around the world to go to the zaptista encuentro. its so good to see old friends again and have a beer with them before spending a week in the jungle.

people here want to know what the situation it like in oaxaca. my best sumamry is calm but tense, police all over the city, some tourists and tons of people in hiding. i hear stories here about how people who were in oaxaca on the barricades have federal warrants out for their arrest and the police are distributing their photos. those who got out, a friend tells me, look totally different now, different hair, different clothes, anything to stay in hiding. the repression is intense. theres some talk of going back to oaxaca after the encuentro, but lots of people just cant go back because they're being searched for intensely...

I´m in an internet cafe and only have a few minutes to write this. We´re leaving oaxaca in half an hour for the intergalactic encuentro in Oventic, Chiapas. We´ve been here for a few days.

Meeting with members of the organizations here involved in the APPO has been incredibly difficult. We´ve been trying for days to meet with people from COMPA and CIPO and other people working on media projects, but so many people are in hiding and some of them cant answer their phones. The situation is still very tense. I feel lucky to be escaping the city without harm.

One teacher told us that they all used to proudly wear their APPO tshirts, but that now it is a crime and none of them can. He says that even showing their membership card for Section 22 of the teachers union anywhere will get them thrown in jail. Graffiti in support of the APPO or against ulyses is painted over, right next to other graffiti that is left alone. Still, people spray paint Fuera URO and APPO in the whit stripes of paint, showing that the campaign of repression continues and the resistance continues as well...

This is the first of a number of blog entries I´ll be writing about my trip to Oaxaca and Chiapas, along with a group of people. You can read all of our entries here:

http://deletetheborder.org/oaxaca-delegation-2006

and the rss feed is here:

http://deletetheborder.org/feed/oaxaca-delegation-2006

We stayed up until 3am the night before packing, burning dvds, running errands, picking up things to bring. We got up at 6 to get across the border and take the flight from Tijuana to D.F. Got on the plane fine, got to D.F. fine. Took two different metro lines and walked many blocks to get the the CML. Everyone at the CML was very friendly and the folks from Radio Planton, who had just come up from Oaxaca, said that things were calmed down and that we should consider going... [click the title to read the rest of this entry]

j´s entry: Zocalo

every entrance to the zocalo in oaxaca city is barricaded by the police
equipped in riot gear.
colonial walls and arches are painted in a patch work to cover all the
graffiti from the APPO occupation.
i can almost hear their words for justice echoing but it is not true all
that echos is an orchestra playing european christmas music.

thousands of pointsetias are planted in the ground for capitol comfort.
it reminds me of the blood that shed on this ground.
90 died to assure THIS `order´.
all i see are wealthy people at bourgie cafes.

buses and trucks full of police drive through the streets...

donkilo´s entry: La llegada , Our Arrival

Pues por fin aquí estamos en Oaxaca. Después de meses de planificación y semanas de preocupación con todos los reportes que hemos escuchado, toda la delegación ya esta sentada en un internet café en la ciudad de Oaxaca, seguros y sanos. Estamos unas cuadras de una barricada de la PFP. Lo pasamos con un representante de la Seccion 22 del sindicato de maestros y no había ninguna molestia. Las huellas de las acciones de las semanas anteriores todavía existen. Hay pinta por todos lados cubriendo la grafiti de resistencia de antes. Todavía quedan algunos carteles y mensajes. Ya con el acuerdo de desmovilización con el gobierno, la gente habla abierta del APPO y de la lucha, pero esta vez con más “inteligencia”. Pero a la misma vez, nadie tiene pensado que van a reocupar al zócalo tampoco. Hace dos días hizo la gente del APPO una marcha pacifica de 10.000 personas demandando la libertad de los presos políticos que quedan encarcelados de los estados norteños de Mexico. No había ninguna confrontación con la policía...

The Boredom Patrol of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army goes to a local home depot in san diego, california, where the Minutemen are trying to keep day laborers from feeding their families.

High quality download (with 2 minutes more footage!):
http://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/466.shtml

Low quality youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHL4T1WqlHw

More info at:

http://circasd.org

http://clownarmy.org

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

The Boredom Patrol of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army goes to a local home depot in san diego, california, where the Minutemen are trying to keep day laborers from feeding their families.

High quality download (with 2 minutes more footage!):
http://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/466.shtml

Low quality youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHL4T1WqlHw

More info at:

http://circasd.org

http://clownarmy.org

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

The ORGANIC Collective began discussing the idea of working on borderHack 2005 in February 2005, because it seemed like a great tactic. Immediately, we began contacting the organizers of previous borderHacks and as many people as possible who may have wanted to get involved with the organizing. At this time, we had heard nothing of any plans for a borderHack this year, and there had not been one the year before. As soon as was possible, we met with the previous organizers and asked if we could work together on a borderHack event for this year.

When we began this project, we did not know that one of the main goals of borderHack in the past was to be different from European border camps in that it is organized by those most affected by the border, not those in the so called (imperialist labelled) first world. We asked the previous organizers if borderHack could grow to include organizers on both sides of the fence and a camp on both sides of the fence, but either they did not want that kind of growth or we have not succeeded in working with them in a way that they feel makes them confortable enough to work with us.

Please click "Read more" for the rest of this letter.

http://www.fadaiat.net/

We are currently working on a solidarity action in San Diego to broadcast some of the video from Fadaiat 2005. Details coming soon...

...about the construction of new territories crossing over the Schengen borders... to think of and to take part in the conflicting intensity of the border as the place we live....

"Project´s codename is Fada'íat, which means "through spaces" in arab. The word Fada'íat is also used to mean satellite dish and space ship.
After many months of preparation hackitectura and many diverse collectives are working on the field: a very tense and militarized EU border. Our location now is a medieval castle in Tarifa, in front of a detainee migrant camp at the southeastern point of continental Europe. In a few hours we will try the wifi link to Tangiers, Morocco.

This is a repost from infoshop.org . Maybe someone wants to organize a caravan to AZ after borderHack? Even if not, we'll need to organize something like this for borderHack since the minuteMen will be here in San Diego.

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Anti-Racists needed on the Arizona border - click here for original story

As we near the end of the month of April we want to provide everyone with a quick update and let you know that people are still down here patrolling the border and your assistance as a legal observer is still very much needed.

This is a repost from infoshop.org . Maybe someone wants to organize a caravan to AZ after borderHack? Even if not, we'll need to organize something like this for borderHack since the minuteMen will be here in San Diego.
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Anti-Racists needed on the Arizona border - click here for original story
As we near the end of the month of April we want to provide everyone with a quick update and let you know that people are still down here patrolling the border and your assistance as a legal observer is still very much needed.