By John Gibler, June 7, Z Net

This past Wednesday, June 4, a military convoy of about 200 Mexican soldiers and federal and municipal police attempted to enter Zapatista villages under the pretext of searching for marijuana plants; something patently absurd in communities that have maintained a self-imposed "dry law," prohibiting all drugs and all forms of alcohol throughout Zapatista territories for nearly fifteen years.

The convoy first stopped at the entrance to the Garrucha Caracol (the regional seat of the Good Government Council, or Junta de Buen Gobierno). Four soldiers stepped out into the road, others photographed and filmed the Zapatistas from their vehicles, but the community began to draw people together, shouting at the soldiers to leave, and gathering slingshots, machetes, rocks, and sticks. The soldiers quickly got back in their vehicles and continued down the road.

The convoy joined a second convoy down the road where they all descend and set off walking to the Zapatista support community of Galaena. A police officer from Ocosingo, Feliciano Román Ruiz, guides the soldiers through the trails towards the community.

In Galaena, the men, women, and children organized to bar the soldiers' entrance to the community.

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from http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/precarious-labor-a-feminist-viewpoint/
In the Middle of the Whirlwind, an intervention in to the movement

Precarious work is a central concept in movement discussions of the capitalist reorganization of work and class relations in today’s global economy. Silvia Federici analyzes the potential and limits of this concept as an analytic and organizational tool. She claims reproductive labor is a hidden continent of work and struggle the movement must recognize in its political work, if it is to address the key questions we face in organizing for an alternative to capitalist society. How do we struggle over reproductive labor without destroying ourselves, and our communities? How do we create a self-reproducing movement? How do we overcome the sexual, racial, and generational hierarchies built upon the wage?

This lecture took place on October 28th 2006 at Bluestockings Radical Bookstore in New York City, 172 Allen Street as part of the “This is Forever: From Inquiry to Refusal Discussion Series. “

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June 4, 2008, from http://intercontinentalcry.org/victory-for-grassy-narrows-abitibibowater-retreats/

After more than a decade of direct action, the Asubpeeschoseewagong community at Grassy Narrows can finally rest easy. The industrial logging giant AbitibiBowater announced yesterday that they are retreating from the Whiskey Jack Forest, three-quarters of which is Grassy Narrows’ traditional territory.

See below for a press release by Greenpeace (Stay tuned for comments from Grassy Narrows)

A victory for community and a step forward for the logging company

Toronto, International — Greenpeace today welcomed a decision by forest-products giant AbitibiBowater to end its logging operations in the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation and support the community in its struggle for rights over its traditional lands. The move follows a near decade-long campaign by the Grassy Narrows First Nation to suspend industrial logging in the one million hectare Whiskey Jack Forest, near Kenora.

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Written by Ramor Ryan

"The Epic Struggle for Another Oaxaca Has Not Finished," says David Venegas.

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake." - Stephen Daedalus, in Ulysses, James Joyce 1922

Oaxaca City, Mexico, May 15 - Midnight in Oaxaca, and walking around the historic center, it's almost as if nothing had ever happened here. The bourgeoisie sit around under the colonial arches in the long stretch of French-style outdoor cafes lining the central plaza. Aside from being beset by a small army of ambulant trinket vendors and beggars, the well-heeled citizens sipping cappuccinos seem very at ease with the world. A few late night tourists wander about the pleasant old streets under the starry sky, and the industrious hum of the sultry cosmopolitan city invokes an eternal calm.

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ROUNDTABLE ON G8 RESISTANCE
Perspectives for the Next Phase of
Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings

Moderated by Kriss Sol (Amsterdam);
with Hanne Jobst (Germany), Sabu & Go
(Japan), Miranda (Italy), and Jaggi
Singh (Canada)

The G8 is more than a place where neoliberal
trade agreements are authored. It is also a
space where the legitimacy of global governance

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Interventions # 1

Roundtable on g8 Resistance: Perspectives for the Next Phase of Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings first appeared in Issue 6 of Upping the Anti: a Journal of Theory and Action. Click here to download the pamphlet cover and click here for the guts of the PDF File.

The G8 is more than a place where neoliberal trade agreements are authored. It is also a space where the legitimacy of global governance is reproduced. In 2005, 300,000 people took to the streets in Edinburgh to ask the G8 for a solution to poverty. By 2007, antagonism and dissent prevailed once again. We are entering a period that could mark the resurgence of positive dynamics from the earlier phase of global uprisings. But have we learned from the past? Can we build our interventions on new and more stable ground?

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Features > June 4, 2008
No Strings Attached?
How U.S. funding of the world press corps may be buying influence
By Jeremy Bigwood
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3697/no_strings_attached/

Lebanese men in Beruit watch Alhurra, a U.S.-funded Arabic-language television network. The name of the satelite channel means 'the free one' in Arabic.

Domestic propaganda campaigns like the “Pentagon Pundits” fiasco have been exposed and decried. Mainstream media outlets hired high-ranking military officers to provide “analysis” about the war in Iraq. Turns out they had ties to military contractors with a vested interest in continuing the war.

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By Judy Rebick, May 30, 2008, from Rabble

On Thursday there was a rare victory in the battle for Aboriginal rights in this country. Bob Lovelace and the KI Six were released from prison after serving three and two months respectively of six month sentences for contempt of court.

Seven brave people were willing to give up their freedom to stand up for their people and the land they feel a responsibility to protect. They stood up against a powerful industry who threatened them with massive law suits, a court which acted in the interests of that industry and a duplicitous government who pretended neutrality at the same time as actually supporting the mining companies.

Their integrity and courage is inspiring First Nations across the country to realize they can say no to development that is not in the interests of their communities or their land and helping build the broadest coalition of supporters I have seen in many years. This support influenced the Appeal Court as well.

Chris Reid, the lawyer for both Ardoch and KI, reported after the court case:

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Founded in 1970, the French Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action brings together more than 4,000 militants in France who have decided to show themselves. Everywhere and by all means. "Class struggle goes through the body."

"Having no reason for being other than desire, homosexuality is the living negation of false values, sacrosanct institutions and all roles. It is the absolute negation of the world such as it is."

"Lesbians and faggots, let's raze the walls. Let us leave the dumps and the ghettoes!"

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The Liberals are certainly no friends of poor, low-income people and
anti-poverty activists in this province. After 4 years in office, they
have kept social assistance at dangerous subpoverty levels, raising the
rates by a paltry 2 or 3% while feeding themselves a hefty 25% raise. The
Harris Tories made the first devastating cut to welfare in 1995, but the
McGuinty Liberals are to blame for failing to return this stolen 22% to
the people.

The Liberals’ recent provincial “poverty tour” is simply more of the same
- an expensive public relations exercise to cover up their continued
violent inaction. Even worse, the heavily policed, closed door
meeting/photo-op at the Evinrude Centre on May 5th was designed to shut
out the voices of people who are poor, low-income or anti-poverty
activists.

PCAP and allies showed up to expose this shameful hypocrisy. Instead of
listening to our reasonable demand to open the meeting to the public,
Liberal mouthpiece Deb Matthews and her sidekick Jeff Leal ordered the
doors locked and allowed rent-a-cops to assault at least three people.

It is unacceptable for Peterborough City Council to participate in this
Liberal charade, and their complicity in this assault on the people of
Peterborough is a serious breach of public responsibility. Mayor Ayotte’s

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