A compañera from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio invites to the global action for the freedom of the 5 political prisoners from San Sebastián Bachajón, which will take place from April 24 to 28.

We interview Mike Flynn  the President of the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Chapter about the recent People’s Hearing on Racial Profiling and Police Violence that happened this month on Feb 19th and 20th. Mike was one of many organizers who made this space possible. Mike speaks about the history of the organizing efforts and specifically what made this critical space possible, the structure of the people’s hearing, why such a strategy is necessary a midst a low intensity war happening in communities of color here in oakland, and the success of this specific space.

Complete Video and Audio of the People’s Hearing can be found at

www.peopleshearing.wordpress.com

Today’s show is a difficult one. This past month—actually, within the course of a single week—Zapatistas, Other Campaign adherents and sympathizers around the world lost two extraordinary compañeros. John Ross, who passed away on January 17, was an author, poet, journalist, and activist who left his home in New York in 1957, following the Beat Trail to Mexico City.  John wrote extensively about the Zapatista struggle and Mexican politics, dividing his time mostly between Mexico City and San Francisco.  John personifies the kind of physical and mental migrations we hope to make in the best of worlds in our own attempts to define and practice a solidarity that goes beyond its conventional, privileged form. It moves beyond the global as something that’s always “over there,” to a way of imagining a politics that actively resists and undoes borders, creating community and encounter in all that we do…

Full intro is available on indybay.org.

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