Mexico
Thanks to all those "sew radical" & crafty folks at Loophole Melbourne women protested on May Day on the Library Steps in Swanston Street about "800" + women workers murdered in Mexico/US border "maquiladora/free trade zone" factory zone Juarez Juarez Girl from Melbourne Action Against Femicide in Mexico PHOTO http://www.flickr.com/photos/33176213@N04/4570215322/ BACKGROUND Spanish language videos, audio, photographs http://www.griterio.org/category/feminicidios/
English language http://www.mujeresdejuarez.org/EUversion.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_homicides_in_Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez http://www.abc.net.au/rn/360/stories/2010/2844252.htm http://www.lavc.edu/Library/bib-women_of_c._juarez.htm |
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Mexico Solidarity Forum Presented by Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) 'A report from the Borderlands of Mexico and the US' Thursday March 4, 7PM Northcote Uniting Church 251High St. Northcote Mexico-US Border “Something to hide?” a “new Future for everyone? Award-winning radio documentary producer, LASNET co-founder, Colm McNaughton will talk and show photographs about his recent experiences in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. Colm recently returned from a four month visit to Guatemala and Mexico where, among other things he was making two radio documentaries for the 360 program which is part of Radio National ABC. drinks and finger food available Donation $5 In solidarity Building Solidarity with Latin America... Building Bridges... Organising Globally... The power of Grassroots Organisations Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) www.latinlasnet.org lasnet@latinlasnet.org Supported by Australia - Latin America Solidarity Coalition |
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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. |
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For a woman to be heard, "it requires twice the energy, twice the intensity of a man's voice," Esther Chavez said. "This is why I learned to shout for those who couldn't." - (September 26, 2003) http://aztlannet-news-blog.blogspot.com/2009/12/con-amor-esther-chavez-dies-at-76.html OBITUARIES Esther Chavez dies at 76; activist decried murders of women in Ciudad Juarez Chavez drew attention to the 1990s killings of several hundred women, which were largely ignored by Mexican authorities, and founded her region's first rape crisis center. By Tracy Wilkinson December 27, 2009 Reporting from Mexico City Esther Chavez, a vocal champion of human rights who against enormous odds drew attention to the killings and rapes of hundreds of women in the violent border city of Juarez, has died died Friday morning at her home in Ciudad Juarez, a violence-ridden city across the border from El Paso, Texas. She was 76. Chavez died early Christmas morning of cancer, her hometown newspaper El Diario reported Saturday on its website. http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=8a08d7e47979a30aec0d6ca3dc3932b2 |
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Vigil to Welcome Refugees Tampa, SIEV X ... Never again Vigil to Welcome Refugees Demand a fair deal for asylum seekers Process the asylum seekers' claims and offer them safety in Australia Monday 26 October 2009 5.30pm at Federation Square Melbourne Bring your own messages of support for the refugees, placards and banners etc. Organised by Refugee Action Collective. Supported by the Tamil Community. For information: phone Marie 0409 252673 or Sue 0413-377-978 |
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The breath of the revolution': http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/mexico-wave-of-anarchist-bombings-have.html " Covering 4,000,000,000 years of history from the primal broth that first spewed out the monster to the Aztec-Mexica oblivion through centuries of rapine and revolution all the way to the Great Swine Flu Panic of 2009, El Monstruo is a phantasmagoric re-telling of the story of Mexico City and a defense of this place with which Ross's own history has become hopelessly entwined. " El Monstruo Dread and Redemption in Mexico City John Ross, November 2009, ISBN: 1568584245 Nation Books more: http://links.org.au/node/1280 Mirrors - Stories of Almost Everyone, Eduardo Galeano, May 2009 ISBN: 1568584237 Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle Chris Hedges, July 2009, ISBN: 1568584377 |
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October 2nd, 2009
A costly U.S.-Mexico border wall, in both dollars and deaths - By Robin Emmott
Securing the United States’s border from illegal immigrants, terrorists and weapons of mass destruction “continues to be a major challenge,” says the United States Government Accountability Office in a new report. It is also proving to be expensive in both lives and money.
http://tinyurl.com/yabrnh7
COMMENT from a Wob
A costly U.S.-Mexico border wall, in both dollars and deaths
The wall is hardly worth the trouble. It is an over simplification & a racist solution for a much deeper "problem".
What, immigrants are welcome to the land of the free only if their labor is needed ? Then they cannot benefit from their labor ? Sounds like flawed logic to me.
More importantly, the U.$. & Me$ican governments need to take a closer look at the human rights of undocumented workers ("illegal aliens") no matter where they come from. Mexicans along with other People of Color, built this country then helped maintain it by enlisting to fight or working in defense plants during war time.
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Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca. Review by Hans Bennett - independent multi-media journalist whose website is www.insubordination.blogspot.com Teaching Rebellion does just that: it teaches us why the 2006 rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico was so impressive, and is something we can all learn from. Edited by Diana Denham and the CASA Collective, Teaching Rebellion provides an overview of the Oaxaca rebellion. It also gives numerous first-hand interviews from participants, including longtime organizers, teachers, students, housewives, religious leaders, union members, schoolchildren, indigenous community activists, artists and journalists. The diverse interviews allow some of those who led themselves in rebellion to also speak for themselves. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1917/1/ |
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