Industrial Workers of the World

MEXICAN REVOLUTION CENTENNARY 1910-2010

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl...

lyrics - All along the watchtower

When Calderon shut down Luz y Fuerza, he put its infrastructure and territory under the CFE’s control. However, former Luz y Fuerza workers, who consider their sudden firing to be illegal and immoral and continue to fight for work, were outraged that the CFE was “plundering” expensive equipment from their former workplace. Workers set up protest barricades in front of their former workplaces in order to block the CFE’s trucks from hauling out more equipment.

Representatives from the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) visited the barricades, informed the workers that they were engaging in unsanctioned protest activity, and requested that the workers remove them. Workers at many barricades refused the union’s request, and the union refused to recognize and support the wildcat barricades.

Narco News: What are the encampment’s demands?

Navarrete: An end to the plundering of the [Luz y Fuerza] buildings.

Narco News: How many workers in the Lechería protest encampment are adherents to the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign?

Navarrete: Two—Sergio and Enrique. They’re both in jail.

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wildcat strike

* a strike undertaken by workers without approval from the officials of their union wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* A wildcat strike action, often referred to as a wildcat strike, is a strike action taken by workers without the authorization of their trade union officials. This is sometimes termed unofficial industrial action. Wildcat strike was the key fighting strategy of May 68. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_strike

* a labour strike that has not been authorized by the leaders of the union en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wildcat_strike

Qui Bono - Who Profits ? ...

There is evidence that the shutdown of Luz y Fuerza has facilitated the privatization of its fiber optic network. Carlos " the $35 Billion Man " Slim Helu is Mexico's telecommunications Capo.

Slim gained notoriety when he led a group of investors that included France Télécom and Southwestern Bell Corporation in buying Telmex and Telnor from the Mexican government in 1990 in a public tender during the presidency of Carlos Salinas.

Today, 90 percent of the telephone lines in Mexico are operated by Telmex.[8] The mobile company, Telcel, which Slim also controls, operates almost eighty percent of all the country's cellphones. These operations have financed Slim's expansion abroad. Over the past five years, his wireless carrier América Móvil has bought cellphone companies across Latin America, and is now the region's dominant company, with more than 100 million subscribers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim

HAITI - CULTURE/HISTORY WARS - Part 457

Planned film on Haitian Revolution "lacks white heroes" "US actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds for the movie because financiers complained there were no white heroes."Producers said 'It's a nice project, a great project... where are the white heroes?'" he told AFP during a stay in Paris this month for a seminar on film. "I couldn't get the money here, I couldn't get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. You wouldn't believe the number of producers based in Europe, and in the States, that I went to," he said. "The first question you get, is 'Is it a black film?' All of them agree, it's not going to do good in Europe, it's not going to do good in Japan." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0785063/

Read: C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, first published in 1938, was a forbidden book in Apartheid era South Africa James wrote a play about Toussaint L'Ouverture, which was staged in the West End in 1936 and starred Paul Robeson and Robert Adams. http://thelouvertureproject.org/index.php?title=Toussaint_Louverture

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VIDEOS Toussaint L'ouverture and the Haitian Revolution(1/6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIsO9jbBc0k

Carlos Santana "Toussaint L'Overture" Live in Mexico http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyvj7NCcXM