Relatos Zapatistas show from January, focused on mechanisms for producing communication and community in and around the prison-industrial complex. Does struggle resonate through walls? Includes special interviews regarding the Georgia prison strike and solidarity in the Bay Area, the Prison University Project at San Quentin, and gang injunctions in Fruitvale.

Full introduction available at Indybay.

Interview with a member of Redwood Curtain Copwatch who has been organizing around the 2007 police killing of Martin Cotton II. The interview tells the story of Martin’s murder in the Humboldt County Jail by Eureka Police Department (EPD) and the Sheriff. It also describes how Redwood Curtain Copwatch has kept Martin’s killing in public memory even though the Humboldt County Judicial system has yet to prosecute any Eureka officers and Humboldt County Sheriff who were involved. Martin Cotton’s 5-year old daughter and father are suing EPD and the Humboldt Country Sheriff; the trial begins on Jan 11 at the Courthouse in Oakland. Please check out Redwood Curtain Copwatch for more information.

THE POLITICS OF VICTIMHOOD: Special podcast featuring interviews with Zach Levenson, a UC Berkeley student involved in protests around police brutality and the murder of Oscar Grant, and the privatization of public education; and John Gibler, a reporter who’s extensively covered Mexican social movements and conflicts including the Zapatistas’ “Other Campaign,” the Oaxaca rebellion of 2006, and the Mexican government’s narco-wars.

Full introduction available at Indybay.

• Death threats to human rights activist Margarita Guadalupe Martínez Martinez and members and director of Frayba Human Rights Center.
• Report from the Other Europe.
• Monthly Frayba Report: paramilitarization 13 years after the Acteal massacre..

Radio news from Europe below and to the left:

• Nigerian woman attacked and deported – Bolonia Italia
• Israeli documents revealed about embargo against Gaza, Palestine
• Luxury cars in flames – Berlin, Germany
• General strike in Spain and occupation of the National Spanish Bank in Barcelona
• Repression and actions during the no borders camp – Brussels
• Chronicle of revolts for freedom of migrants at the CIE’s
• Graphic exhibit on the Oaxacan struggle in Italy
• Long summer of violence and evictions in France

Interview with Hannibal Shakur and Josh Wolf about neighborhood organizing in West Oakland. (More info here)

Relatos Zapatistas – September program (aired on Berkeley Liberation Radio) (more info here)

News updates from Chiapas and Mexico; This Month in Zapatista History; Interview with Anat Shenker-Osorio about the Documentary Presunto Culpable; Report on SB1070 Protests; Interview with George Ciccariello-Maher about the Oscar Grant Case; and the Durito Storyhour.

Interview with George Ciccariello-Maher on the Oscar Grant verdict, the nonprofit industrial complex, and the Oakland Assembly.