Chiapas/National/International: “Stop the War against Zapatista Communities”

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In a statement published on August 26th, more than 450 people and 140 organizations from 22 countries demanded “Stop the War against the Zapatista Communities.” This occurs after “paramilitaries from the Ocosingo Coffee Growers Regional Organization (ORCAO) looted and set fire to the facilities of the New Dawn Rainbow Trade Center, which is located in the place known as the Cuxulja Crossroads, Lucio Cabañas Autonomous Municipality, within the official municipality of Ocosingo on August 22nd”, they explained.

Explaining the context, they recalled that “on February 24th, 2020, the ORCAO, together with the ‘Chinchulines’ group (identified for years as paramilitary), and members of the MORENA party in the region, used violence against and kidnapped members of National Indigenous Congress (CNI), this in the context of the Conference in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth ‘We Are All Samir’, convened by the EZLN and the CNI.”

They denounced that the “new aggression is part of the intensification of the war of attrition in Chiapas, characterized by the increase in violence by paramilitary groups and organized crime, as the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human has duly documented”, a trend that this center has highlighted in recent weeks, mostly in the agrarian conflict between the municipalities of Aldama and Chenalho.

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Rhiannon Giddens – “Freedom Highway” (Recorded Live for World Cafe) — Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement

Freedom Highway is the second solo studio album of Folk/Americana musician and Carolina Chocolate Drops front woman Rhiannon Giddens.

It was released via Nonesuch Records on February 24, 2017.^[13] Freedom Highway was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2017 Americana Music Honors & Awards.

The title track “Freedom Highway” is a 1965 civil rights protest song written by Roebuck Staples and title track of The Staple Singers’ album of the same name.

Meidas Touch Presents …. “💥 #TrumpTerrorism ….

‘from the Highest Office’ 💥 …. “!! by — It Is What It Is

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TRUMP TERROR

Because this is the only way he can conduct a campaign after his botched errors in all he has done. He’s trying to stay out of prison, he’s a cornered, wounded animal. He resorts to the basest instincts of his lizard mind and projects them to the Kool-Aid drinkers.

Gawd help us all!!

It won’t get any better … it will get worse!

HortyRex©

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‘Stuart Christie, comrade, friend’ by Octavio Alberola

Octavio Alberola, who was in charge of Defensa Interior and was a close friend of Stuart’s has left us this farewell message to his friend.

Originally published by Rojo y Negro. Translated by Kate Sharpley Library.

Stuart Christie, comrade and friend

The news of Stuart Christie’s death arrived by phone halfway through yesterday afternoon from comrade René after he asked if I had heard the bad news and after I quizzed him brusquely: Who’s dead? I could tell from his tone of voice that it must have been somebody close who had passed away.

René’s answer stopped me in my tracks, because even though Stuart had told me a week before that the cancer had left him still hoarse and that the findings of his medical tests were none too encouraging, it never at any moment occurred to me that he would be taken so quickly. I am surrounded by several male and female comrades – more or less of my own age – who are in none too rude health and at my age (due to turn 93 shortly) the thought that one’s days are numbered is just “normal”.

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Abriendo Fronteras caravan mobilizes for the regularization of migrants

Migrant Caravan 2020

Activists of the RegularizaciónYa movement participate in the demonstration of the 2020 Abriendo Fronteras Caravan in València. Mathias Rodriguez

On its fourth day of activity, the 2020 Opening Borders Caravan has demanded the unconditional regularization of migrants living in an “unsustainable” situation, with an immigration law that obliges them to remain illegally.

“This year Caravana has not been able to travel but we are not going to silence the voice,” says Emilia Moreno de la Vieja, spokesperson for the Caravana. “We continue to denounce all the violations suffered by migrants,” he adds.

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The demonstration in Valencia began last Saturday at 7 p.m. from Avenida de los Naranjos to the promenade, with the aim of making visible that the Mediterranean is a space of no-law where institutional racism causes thousands of deaths with total impunity .

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Finding the Thread that Binds Us

Three Mutual Aid Networks in New York City

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Fundamental social change involves two intertwined processes. On the one hand, it means shutting down the mechanisms that impose disparities in power and access to resources; on the other hand, it involves creating infrastructures that distribute resources and power according to a different logic, weaving a new social fabric.

While the movement for police abolition that burst into the public consciousness a month ago in Minneapolis has set new precedents for resistance, the mutual aid networks that have expanded around the world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic point the way to a new model for social relations.

The following report profiles three groups that coordinate mutual aid efforts in New York City—Woodbine, Take Back the Bronx, and Milk Crate Gardens—exploring their motivations and aspirations as well as the resources and forms of care they circulate.

This is the first installment in a series exploring mutual aid projects across the globe.

With politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling for the people to engage in mutual aid in order to survive the COVID-19 crisis, those not previously familiar with the term might never guess it was coined by an anarchist scientist who advocated against central government.

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