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Echoing the call of the Zapatista women to Organize in our times, our ways, in our spaces, we are calling all women who fight, who resist, who are working for a world where dignity is the norm and justice is served.

We, members of different collectives and organizations from the U.S-Mexican border and who make the seven Zapatista principles ours, too, have come together to convene and find each other in our distinctive latitudes, to listen to each other’s problems, causes, experiences in the struggle, resistance, wisdoms and pains.

The urgent need to organize comes precisely from the context in which our Zapatistas brothers and sisters are in, where they constantly suffer under the direct military brunt and divisive tactics that seem to never end government to government.
In that same context, it is no surprise the rise of persecutions, repressions, feminicides, and enforced disappearances. Not only do our sisters suffer under the paramilitaries that repress them, but also, the discrimination, exploitation, the racist and fascist attacks; which are all too familiar to those who fight on both side of the border and its wall.

For these reasons, the first binational encounter of women who fight will revolve around the following 4 themes:
A. Art
B. Body-Territory
C. Migration
D. Organizing and Resistance

We are calling all the women and girls, who are working class, office workers, students, artist, feminists, agricultural workers, indigenous, collectives and militants, to keep the light the Zapatistas gifted us burning, so that through this first binational encounter, we can continue creating networks and liaisons in our fight. We need to respond to the national emergencies–the patriarchal, necrocapitalist, and fascist system—in an effectively organized front, even more so when the Right hides behind the so-called Left.

We recognize the pluralities of bodies from within their own epistemic and territorial development and expression. Their presence is of imminent importance.

If you want to participate, either to collaborate or to share a workshop, please email us at encuentrobinacionaldemujeres@gmail.com

To multiply the light into many lights that will illuminate the darkness!
To regenerate the community and our social fabric!
To organize from the bottom-up and to the left, where our hearts lay!
Never a world without us, ever again!

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On April 26 and 27, the Encounter 25 Years of Zapatismo, Across Time & Space took place at California State University Los Angeles. The encounter brought together activists, scholars, militants, and members of organizations and collectives in the US who have been struggling for autonomy, justice and dignity in the country, many of them inspired by the Zapatista uprising. Also present were councilmembers of the Indigenous Governing Council and, via the internet, the intellectuals Raúl Zibechi and Gustavo Esteva and other Mexican activists and journalists, who analyzed the current situation experienced in that country and the organization of resistance and rebellion.

Since the Zapatista uprising on January 1, 1994, and especially after the Chican@-Zapatista Encounter in August 1997, zapatismo has inspired a large number of collectives and organizations in the US, especially of Chicanos, migrants, and people of color in general, who have adopted Zapatista forms of struggle to resist state violence, racism and repression against people of color, the prison industrial complex, gentrification and the systematic displacement of those from below, labor exploitation, deportations, raids, and much more. Thus, during these 25 years there have emerged artistic groups (see for example our documentary on the Chicano-Zapatista musical movement, Rhythms of Zapata), autonomous experiences of food sovereignty, community spaces, independent media collectives, groups of scholars proposing other epistemologies, self-defense organizations, exchanges and youth delegations to Chiapas, women’s groups, etc.

This encounter was therefore an opportunity to exchange experiences and connect struggles, while reflecting on the changes in Zapatismo in these 25 years, the civilizational crisis we face, and the situation for the peoples under the current Mexican administration.

Of fundamental importance was the participation of the councilmembers Betina Cruz Velázquez and Fortino Domínguez Rueda, of the National Indigenous Congress / Indigenous Governing Council (CNI-CIG). From his perspective as a member of the Zoque people, Fortino led us on a voyage through the history of the CNI up to the creation of the CIG and its relevance for indigenous peoples in Mexico and the world, in the context of the destruction caused by the current phase of capitalism. Betina Cruz in turn undertook a decisive and carefully documented analysis of this destruction, now led by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his so-called “fourth transformation.”

This was complemented by the analyses by Raúl Zibechi and Gustavo Esteva, who discussed the relevance of zapatismo for Latin American social movements (or societies in movement, as Zibechi proposes) and, again, the threat that the current Mexican government represents for indigenous peoples and for the construction of Zapatista autonomy. Also via the internet, from Mexico, the activists María Laura Orozco and Evangelina Ceja and the journalist Arturo de Dios analyzed the use of forced disappearance as a tool of the state, based on specific cases. And a member of the Radio Zapatista collective explained what the Zapatistas understand by the “storm” and the civilizational crisis underway.

From the standpoint of education, the influence of the Zapatista uprising on universities in the US was discussed, as well as the contributions of Zapatista education toward a decolonial and deschooling thought in that country. The topics of borders, identities, nations, and states oriented several roundtables, as well as patriarchy, feminism, and queer subversion. Former members of the now extinct organization Estación Libre shared the experience of their efforts to connect the struggles of people of color in the US and the ideas and practices of zapatismo. Food justice was present in the discussion of various autonomous experiences in food sovereignty in California, such as the South Central Farm, Zapotepec, and the Oxnard Heirloom Seed Library.

The Encounter also included a film festival, an art exhibit, a poetry recital, an evening of CompArte at the Floricanto Center, and a festive fandango at the Chicano organizational and cultural space Eastside Café.

As President Trump escalated his attacks and threats against the Central American migrant caravans making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration unveiled new sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba on Thursday. National security adviser John Bolton declared Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a “troika of tyranny” and a “triangle of terror.” We speak with world-renowned professor, linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky about U.S. foreign policy in Central America. He joins us in Tucson, Arizona, where he now teaches at the University of Arizona. Chomsky is also institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught for 50 years.

AMY GOODMAN: As President Trump escalates his attacks and threats against the Central American migrant caravans making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration unveiled new sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba Thursday. National security adviser John Bolton declared Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a “troika of tyranny” and a “triangle of terror.” Bolton was speaking in Miami, Florida.

JOHN BOLTON: We will no longer appease dictators and despots near our shores. We will not reward firing squads, torturers and murderers. We will champion the independence and liberty of our neighbors. And this president and his entire administration will stand with the freedom fighters. The troika of tyranny in this hemisphere—Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua—has finally met its match.

AMY GOODMAN: As John Bolton spoke in Miami on Thursday, Democracy Now!‘s Nermeen Shaikh and I spoke with the world-renowned professor, linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky. He joined us from Tucson, Arizona, where he now teaches at the University of Arizona. Noam Chomsky is also institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he’s taught for more than 50 years. His recent books include Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy, Who Rules the World? and Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power.
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Every November, when Thanksgiving is scheduled, I think of the People of the First Nations (so-called Native Americans), and wonder about their mixed feelings for a holiday that celebrates their enormous generosity as well as their near-total destruction.

What do they have to be thankful of?

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared the first such holiday in 1863, and American popular culture has tied it to a meal between Aboriginal people and Europeans upon their arrival on this continent.

In fact, when the Spanish reached South America, and the English reached North America, they soon embarked on dual extermination campaigns, which led to holocausts of Indian nations, both north and south.

Their arrivals spelled the doom of hundreds of millions of people, hunted, starved, diseased and enslaved.

To them, hell had a white face.

They made treaty after treaty with the Indians, but the palefaces broke every one.

For the Conquistadors, Native peoples served as enslaved workers who worked themselves to death to mine silver and gold. To the Anglos, they were superfluous – it was Indian land they hungered for – and they got it – by hook or crook.

Caught between these two great, ravenous forces, there was little they could do, but fight, but Europe flooded the Americas with immigrants, and sheer numbers told the tale of woe.

When first they arrived, European settlements were places of disease, hunger and pitiless death. First Nations folk fed them, taught them planting and healed the, with herbal treatments. The colonists repaid them with unremitting war, smallpox used as biological weapons, land theft and slaughter.

Thanksgiving may be a holiday, but it ain’t a holy day.

It should be a day to be remembered, in remembrance of the First Nations that peopled this land, for tens of thousands of years.

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El pasado 15 y 16 de noviembre se realizó la séptima conferencia binacional en temas fronterizos entre organizaciones que llevan muchos años apoyando a migrantes que llegan a Estados Unidos y colectivos estudiantiles que buscan formas de apoyar a los migrantes que se encuentran en la frontera en busca de asilo. Le agradecemos a nuestra corresponsal “la profe Dru” quien nos ayudó a realizar estas entrevistas y nos compartió algunas fotos desde ese lado de la frontera.

Sigue este link a la Ké Huelga Radio para escuchar las entrevistas de ese lado de la frontera: https://kehuelga.net/spip.php?article6029&lang=es

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Fuente: Vice

Tengo una vasta experiencia en lo desconocido: Una charla con Olmeca

Olmeca es un maestro del hip hop undeground de Los Ángeles y de la comunidad chicana. Un responsable directo de que el rap en spanglish sea una cosa. Charlamos con este chamán del siglo XXI.

Cuando conocí a Olmeca, lo primero que se me vino a la cabeza fue aquella frase de Albert Camus: “El artista debe estar siempre con aquellos que padecen la historia, no con los que la hacen”. No sé si enviar luz a los corazones de los hombres sea el deber de todo artista, pero el rapero Olmeca lo hace desde hace más de una década. Olmeca prosperó en una comunidad muy pobre, y sobrellevó la amargura de la miseria, la violencia de las pandillas, el vagar de la indigencia y el odio del racismo en EEUU.

Olmeca creció en los barrios de Los Ángeles y comenzó en una de las escenas más vibrantes en la historia del hip hop: el rap de mochila al hombro de principios de los dosmiles en Los Ángeles. Como parte del crew de underground rap Acid Reign y luego con la banda de fusión latina Slowrider, Olmeca grabó algunos discos antes de embarcarse en una carrera como solista en la que ha sido comparado con Zach de la Rocha o Talib Kweli. Olmeca también fue uno de los MCs que se daba cita en Project Blowned para medirse en uno de los circuitos de freestyle más legendarios que ha habido, junto a leyendas como Murs, Aceyalone o Abstract Rude, por lo que su reputación está blindada: Olmeca es parte de la realeza hip hop.

MC, productor de música, activista y maestro universitario, el trabajo de Olmeca ha aparecido en BBC London, Huffington Post, NPR, KEXP Seattle, La Revista URB, Democracy Now, CNN Latino, entre muchos otros y ha tenido presencia en documentales como PBS Indepenent Lens y Two Americans, una película sobre los problemas de inmigración en Arizona. También ha escrito música para programas de televisión como Sons of Anarchy, CHANCE en HULU y la nueva serie The Mayans en FX.

Aunque no es una figura tan conocida en Latinoamérica, Olmeca es un pionero de la lucha por visibilizar la identidad latina de raíces profundas y, en su papel de veterano, su ejemplo es uno de los más importantes para las nuevas generaciones de activistas en el hip hop latino. Lee esta charla con un rapero fuera de serie pero dentro de la comunidad, cuya experiencia de vida es un ejemplo para compartir con las nuevas generaciones.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal y Stephen Vittoria. Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny. Book One “Dreaming of Empire”. (Asesinato Incorporado: Imperio, Genocidio y Destino Manifiesto. Libro Primero. El Soñar del Imperio). Prison Radio: San Francisco. 2018.

Reseña: Carolina Saldaña

Mumia Abu-Jamal describe este libro como “una mordaz crítica del ‘Imperio Americano’, un diagnóstico de una corrupta patología. Su propósito es dejar las cosas en claro, educar, aclarar,  animar, y hasta entretener” a la gente, especialmente a la juventud.

El escritor, activista, y preso político cuenta que él tuvo que pensarlo cuando Stephen Vittoria le propuso colaborar como coautor del libro. El documentalista había trabajado en un filme que nunca se cuajó sobre el tema y pensaba que su investigación se podría usar y ampliar en  imprenta.

Sería un desafío compartir nuestras experiencias separados por ladrillos y acero, dice Abu-Jamal, pero al aceptar, dividieron el trabajo 50-50 y se pusieron a trabajar. Leían muchos de los mismos textos y se llamaban por teléfono o se escribían.

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