At long last, a video documenting the June 4th Houston Sin Fronteras Shut down of the Houston Processing Center; an immigrant detention center opened by the Corrections Corporation of America in 1983, making it the worlds oldest private prison.

The SPP, NACC and Deep Integration

By Stephen Lendman
19 July, 2007
Countercurrents.org

Besides the Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all other repressive instruments of state power and control. They target the people of three nations slowly becoming one headquartered in Washington. That's the apparent aim of those in power here wanting one continent, "indivisible" minus old-fashioned ideas like "liberty and justice for all" we used to believe in when, as kids, we recited our "Pledge of Allegiance." They now have a whole new meaning. They're just words drummed into young minds hoping they'll still believe them when they're old enough to know better.

There may be a greater scheme for the planet ahead, but this article only focuses on what we know about and how it's unfolding so far. It has a name, in fact, several, but they all aim for the same thing - one nation, indivisible, where three sovereign ones once stood, headquartered in Washington.

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What's hot and not - G8 2007 Heiligendamm

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An itinerant crafts people with a tradition dating back to the 12th century. Not only do they sport shapely, arse-hugging, double zipper cords and sexy Han Solo waistcoats, they also created the most incredible camp at Reddelich. We were all feeling the spacious showers, the capacious bar and the bodacious children's playground.

As a cultural phenomena they have gone from geek to chic in an astonishingly short space of time...

From Houston Indymedia: Immigrant rights activists have locked themselves to the entrance gates of the Houston Processing Center, an immigration detention facility in North Houston
a statement from the activists:

This week the leaders of the richest and most powerful 8 countries in the world are meeting in Germany for the Group of 8 (G8) conference. During the G8 gathering these leaders will continue to strategize and promote the economic and political policy of neoliberal "globalization". These 8 nations, which compose 65% of the global economy have pushed for an economic system which impacts the whole world, making the rich richer, and impoverishing millions.

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On this week's episode of Desiring (Incendiary Devices) Machines, I summarize the recent news about the resistance to the G8 in Germany including the recent actions in Hamburg (burning cop cars and over a thousand person black bloc! not bad for a first action...), the demonstration ban, the partial lifting of the demonstration ban and the refugee caravan to the G8...

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See also:
G8 Migration Wiki

19th of May till 4th of June: Anti-G8-Caravan from Neuburg to Rostock: "We are here because you destroy our countries"

Tourstart in Neuburg, Action-camp at Brandl-lawn: 19th-21st of May

From 19th of May up to 4th of June 2007, the Caravan for the rights of refugees
and migrants is travelling from Bavaria via Thuringen, Hessen,
Nordrhein-Westfalia, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), and Berlin towards Rostock
in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Over there, in the seaside resort Heiligendamm at
the Baltic Sea representatives of the richest and most powerful nations in the
world, the so-called G8 countries, will meet. Caravan is going to show the
connection between the destruction in countries of origin of the refugees
because of reckless exploitation and war through the politics of the G8-nations
on the one hand and on the other hand the worldwide flight and migration
movement. "We are here because you destroy our countries" is the central slogan
of Caravan. The nationwide Caravan starts the tour the 19th of May 2007 in
Neuburg/Danube.

Queers Against Borders! Queers Against the G8!

Come to germany in june or organize something in your hometown!

"We are opposed to categorisations such as men/women, black/white, poor/rich. We do not accept that membership in these groups, as well as norms of ideal bodies and heterosexuality, determine quite considerably one's status and prospects in this world..."

Read the entire statement here, print and distribute!

More at http://dissentnetwork.org