On this month’s show we bring you three in-depth interviews: 1) Oakland librarian “Agnes” on public libraries in a time of austerity, when 14 of 18 libraries were threatened with closure; 2) reporter and author John Gibler on his new book, To Die in Mexico, which analyzes the so-called “drug war” in Mexico; and 3) two compañerxs from UA in the Bay announce the Anarchist General Assembly that will take place on July 16, along with an update on the continuing occupation of Glen Cove. (2 hrs, mp3)

Four audio files are available here: 1) the full show; 2) interview on libraries and austerity (28 min); 3) interview with John Gibler (42 min); 4) interview on Anarchist General Assembly (14 min).

This month’s program, broadcast on June 5, tries to think through the relationship between two concepts: autonomy and austerity. Here we’ve uploaded two interviews as separate segments/files that can be easily downloaded and listened to. The first (both in Spanish and translated into English) deals with the so-called “Spanish Revolution,” the massive popular mobilizations against the electoral system that have been taking place in Spain since May. The second focuses on a series of actions organized against austerity politics and their local manifestations. The two interviews also reflect on the question of how best to articulate an anti-austerity politics that’s at the same time anti-state.

The audios are also available on the Indybay website: 15-M Español, 15-M English, and austerity.

• Vittorio lives, a message for the murder of a compañero
• Greece: Demonstration and combats for protest against the government.
• Italy: 16 March 2001 – Eight years without you, eight years with you
• Croacia: Libertarian block protests against the country’s government
• Italy: Repression against anarchist groups
• Greece: Movement “I don’t pay.” A Greek initiative to “stop paying for other people’s crisis”
• Greece: Rebel briefs
• The Arab rebelion and strategic thought. Extract from an article by Raul Zibechi
• Italy: Fascists won’t pass!
• UK: The battle Stokes Croft and the anti-anarchist attacks
• UK: Anti-anarchist attacks in London
• Hungry: Self-organized Rom face fascit groups.

II International Seminar
(Tanzania, Turkey, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Canada, USA)
12 May 2011 / CIDECI-Unitierra Chiapas

Global Crisis and “Other” Social Movements

In Memoriam:
Don Samuel Ruiz García
Felipe de J. Toussaint Loera

First Part

In Memoriam: Resemblances

Estela Barco / Jorge Santiago / Guillermo Villaseñor(Descarga aquí)  

General Introduction: Gustavo Esteva

Moderator: Oliver Fröhling (México)

Derek Shaw (Canada)(Descarga aquí)  

Sonal Mehta (India) – English(Descarga aquí)  

Sonal Mehta (India) – Translation to Spanish(Descarga aquí)  

Peter Horsley (New Zealand) – English(Descarga aquí)  

Peter Horsley (New Zealand) – Translation to Spanish(Descarga aquí)  

Alice Brooks Wilson (USA) – Spanish(Descarga aquí)  

Second Part

Moderator: Gustavo Esteva (México)

Jennifer Jones (USA) – English(Descarga aquí)  

Jennifer Jones (USA) – Translation to Spanish(Descarga aquí)  

Fatma Alloo (Tanzania) – English(Descarga aquí)  

Fatma Alloo (Tanzania) – Translation to Spanish(Descarga aquí)  

Sibel Ozbudun (Turkey) – English(Descarga aquí)  

Sibel Ozbudun (Turkey) – Translation to Spanish(Descarga aquí)  

Final words: Gustavo Esteva(Descarga aquí)   (Continuar leyendo…)

The movement of resistance to the payment of high electric power rates in Mexico, made up of community and neighborhood organizations, was born over 20 years ago. The increasing privatization of the public service by the Federal Electric Commission (CFE) in the hands of transnational companies, especially Spanish, and the continuous and arbitrary increase in rates, has led to a greater coordination of struggles on a regional and national level.

In the state of Chiapas 45% of the country’s hydroelectric energy is generated, which is exported even to Central America. The communities in resistance of Chiapas, independently from the state, have their own electric tecnicians, purchase and install transformers and light posts and send a clear message: “We will not pay for electricity until the San Andres Accords are met”, which were signed between the federal government and the EZLN in 1996, and which deal, among other things, with the control of natural resources.

THIS IS THE WAY OF THE RESISTANCE OF THOSE OF US WITH AWARENESS!
FOR MOTHER EARTH AND OUR FAMILIES WE RESIST – THIS STRUGGLE IS OURS!

On today’s show, we examine the new geography of war in the context of the “old” geography of Chiapas. We talk with a compa of ours on the ground in Chiapas, who reports on some of the most recent clashes of the low-intensity war in Mitzitón, Bachajón, and Tila. We use these events, and the bigger picture in which they take place, to help us frame the conversation about the new letter from Subcomandante Marcos: “Notes on War.”

Read the full introduction on Indybay.

Debate Resistence and Territory at Cideci/Universidad de la Tierra, Chiapas (13 Jan 2001): Reflections, images and exchange of experiences in the struggle for the defense of territory.

• Palestine: Esta S – Activist, internationalist and representative of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee for Palestine.(Descarga aquí)  
• Landless Rural Worker Movement (MST), Brazil: Lia Barbosa – Professor at Universidade Estadual do Ceará and friend of the MST.(Descarga aquí)  
• Oaxaca: Montserrat San Martín – Indigenous Organizatinons for Human Rights in Oaxaca (OIDHO), adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle.(Descarga aquí)  
• Mitzitón: Osvaldo – Member of the community in resistance of Mitzitón, adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and the Other Campaign.(Descarga aquí)  

(Continuar leyendo…)

Radio Zapatista visited the community to hear the testimonies of the inhabitants and to the caracol of La Realidad to talk to the Good Government Council. This special report explains, in the zapatistas´ own words, the threat of eviction from their lands by the peasant organization Union de Ejidos de la Selva, by the local police, and the army. It also recounts zapatista peaceful and organized resistance.