Program in Spanish – Feb 2008
Low intensity war and threats of land eviction in Chiapas. Campaign The Fire and the Word in the U.S. Evictions in the Mission District in San Francisco.
Low intensity war and threats of land eviction in Chiapas. Campaign The Fire and the Word in the U.S. Evictions in the Mission District in San Francisco.
Report on two communities affected by the Mexican government’s undeclared war against Zapatista territory, in conjunction with paramilitary forces and pro-government peasant organizations (Bolon Ajaw and 24 de Diciembre). Interview with Prof. Marlon Sherman (Ogala Lakota) from Humboldt State University, who talks about the Lakota Indian declaration of autonomy.
Lakota Indians declare autonomy; Remembering the massacre of Acteal; Commemorating women’s resistance and Comandanta Ramona; Repression and paramilitarization in Chiapas.
Gang Injunction – what it really means for poor and people of color communities; Paramilitary activities in Chiapas (update) – Opddic; Update on the housing situation in New Orleans (Katrina).
Update on the No Borders Camp; Situation in Chiapas (Opddic); Invitation to the Women’s encounter in La Garrucha; Indigenous struggle at the University of California, Berkeley; Struggle in New Orleans – Katrina victims.
Interview with Oscar from Movement for Justice in El Barrio, East Harlem, New York, and their struggle against gentrification; Interview with Sergio Beltrán in Oaxaca about the repression today (Nov 2) and the situation in that state. Commentaries on the Plan Mexico (rebaptized as the Mérida Initiative) of US economic “aid” for military buildup in Mexico (for more info, read Laura Carlsen’s article).
Report on the Continental Indigenous Encounter in Vicam, Sonora; Interview with Morning Star of the Intertribal Friendship House and indigenous movement supporter Cesar, on the protests against at UC Berkeley, which is holding 13,000 indigenous ancestor bodies at the Hearst Museum; Interview with members of CopWatch L.A., who talk about the purpose and workings of the organization.
Homage to Che Guevara; Repression and militarization in Mexico; Local struggles in the US.
Report on the community 24 de Diciembre. La Otra Misión: resistance in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Interview with Gloria Muñoz Ramírez about the government assault on her home in Mexico City and the situation in the country. Report on the zapatista community 24 de Diciembre. Paramilitary attacks against zapatistas in the municipality of Olga Isabel. Expulsion of 2 peasant communities in Montes Azules by the federal government. Repression against migrants in the US.