An evening of solidarity, awareness and fundraising for current Political Prisoners and protection of your Civil Liberties.

“The War on Terrorism has come home. Corporations and politicians are labeling activists "eco-terrorists" and national security threats. Think red-baiting, with a green twist”
- from Green is the new Red

THURSDAY DECEMBER 7TH, 2006 7:30 pm
at Monkey Wrench Books (110 E. North Loop)
Join us for an evening of information, PUPPETS, and skill sharing including:
* Know your Rights/ What to do when the Feds knock on your door. a workshop by Austin Peoples Legal Collective
* Puppet SHOW by Mr. Mojo's Magical Puppet Troupe
* Two short videos on Cointelpro and Rod Coronado

An evening in honor of the Movements of the past, present and the future and all who have worked to envision a beautiful, just and sustainable world to live in.

Greenscare.org || Green is the new Red || FBI Withchunt

With the storefront door opened to crisp air and curious people, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo is for now seated near friends who ask for an autograph of her 2001 book, 'Histories and Stories from Chiapas.' Turning back the cover, she points to a full-page photo of a white stelae, explaining how borders are marked the traditional way, not with walls.

“It's a symbolic border,” she smiles, showing how the marker sits upon an island in the middle of a lake. From her position not quite in the center of a gathering crowd at MonkeyWrench Books in Austin, Texas, the legendary anthropologist is glowing with words, ideas, projects, and stories. It is time, says an organizer, to get the program started.

Last Saturday, Novemember 11, more than two hundred Austinites converged on the Capitol grounds to counter the fascist hate and racism being espoused by the so-called National Socialist Movement, otherwise known as America's Nazi Party. According to Central Texas Anti-Racist Action (ARA), the neo-Nazis traveled to Austin from Minneapolis intending to protest Kinky Friedman's recently failed bid for the Texas governorship, but realized that the election had already passed and decided to protest U.S. immigration policy, and ostensibly the mere presence of non-white immigrants in this country, instead - notwithstanding the fact that white Europeans are the original immigrants who encroached upon native lands and ultimately decimated by genocide the indigenous tribes and communities that had existed here for thousands of years. The ragtag group of neo-Nazis, dressed in Nazi costumes complete with swastika-armbands and boots, shouted such imaginative slogans as, "Save our race/nation," "ARA sucks," "You are lame," and "Sieg hiel" as they performed Nazi-style salutes. Indeed, it was only their self-styled Nazism and uniformity that separated them as dedicated white supremacist fascists from some group of angry, stupid, and disgustingly racist hicks. For at least one hour the assembly of perhaps twenty-five neo-Nazis, mostly young men but including at least two women and one frail old man, stood in a group holding flags, posing for the media, yelling, and never venturing more than twenty feet close to the ring of militant counter-protesters that surrounded them.

More photos here

Genocidal militarymen are at last being arrested after decades of impunity, yet Efraín Ríos Montt — the coup-launching evangelical minister who reigned over the grisliest chapters of the genocide — remains a free man: Indigenous survivors and radical Guate youth take to the streets in response.

OVER a thousand survivors of state-led genocide flooded the streets of Guatemala City Friday, converging on the Supreme Court building and covering it with graffiti and banners, to demand the capture of ex-dictator and current political heavyweight Efraín Rios Montt upon receipt of a forthcoming arrest warrant. According to the warrant, which is expected to soon be transmitted from Spanish courts to Guatemala, Ríos Montts reign (1982-1983) constituted “69% of all executions, 41% of rapes and sexual assaults and 45% of all reported tortures” committed during the military´s so-called counterinsurgency campaign which officially concluded in 1996.

New Two austin activists are currently working as human rights accompaniers in Guatemala. Read a letter from one woman here

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) | HIJOS
Background articles from @tx indymedia Indigenous Survivors File Demand for Accusation in Genocide Case Against Ex-Dictator || Guatemalan Govt Terrorizes Indigenous Communities || Arrest orders issued to dictators and military for Guatemalan Genocide

This Saturday, November 11, the white supremacist organization National Socialist Movement (NSM) is holding a hate rally on the south steps of the state Capitol Building

Their rally was originally billed as a protest against allowing Jews like Kinky Friedman to participate in elections. However, when they later realized that their rally was scheduled 4 days after the election, they re-billed it as a rally against illegal immigration, a more timeless issue that isn’t too late to seem relevant.

Yet, there is still the question of why they chose to hold their rally on Veterans’ Day, at the Capitol, an hour after the annual Veterans’ Day activities take place their. Would it be to honor the millions of World War II vets who fought and died to rid the world of Nazism and Fascism 60 years ago? Or would it be to honor the millions of Jewish, Black, Latino, Native American and Asian American men and women who have served in the Armed Forces? Or does the NSM actually think that brown shirts, jackboots, and swastika arm bands will appeal to these people?

No, the NSM would have nothing to do with them. Their audience is a different demographic, the younger, angrier, frustrated kids; the middle age white men who feel resentful for loosing their jobs; all those who are susceptible to their stereotypes, fear mongering and scapegoating

To confront the Nazis and stand up for the liberty of migrants and all people meet at Republic Square Park (4th St. and Guadalupe) on Saturday, November 11, at 2:00pm. March to the Capitol at 2:30pm.

Sponsored by Central Texas Anti-Racist Action
centexara (at) yahoo.com

Anti-Racist Action Network | One People's Project | Antifa Network | A History of Anit-Racist Action

A mini planton or solidarity encampment has been built in front of the Mexican consulate at 800 Brazos St. in downtown Austin, TX (corner of 9th and Brazos).

On October 29th, the Mexican Army and Federal Preventive Police, in support of the repressive government of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, entered into Oaxaca City and have systematically attacked the popular resistance movement which is seeking to create a new state constitution based on popular power. To protest the presence of federal troops in Oaxaca, people in solidarity with the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in it’s Spanish initials) will be occupying the space in front of the Mexican Consulate in Austin. On Tuesday, October 31st at 4:30 pm they erected a tent and now plan to live in front of the consulate handing out information about the situation in Oaxaca until there is a peaceful resolution of the Army/Police occupation of the state.

The demands of the planton are a return to social tranquility, an end to the violence against the population and popular organizations in Oaxaca, and a clarification of the murders of over 15 people during the past 5 months of protests and strikes.

Short interview from the planton (.mp3) || Report from Democracy Now! || Photos from the ground in Oaxaca || Update The APPO Wins an Important Battle Against the PFP || After Seven Hours of Pitched Battle, the Federal Police Ran for their Lives

As the popular movement in Oaxaca continues "creating its own foundation as a people" the once entrenched Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has lashed out in a desperate,repressive violence. To quote Tomas Cruz, a native oaxaceno, "What we are seeing in Oaxaca is a breakdown of [a] political system that is completely corrupt and deliberately abuses its citizens at will, using the legitimacy of the state to impose a government that only uses power to advance a personal agenda and that of a very small political oligarchy." However, according to Juan Velásquez Cruz, a member of the APPO, "What we are constructing cannot go back, nobody can do that, not even this very repression can force it back, today the wheels of history walk at the side of the peasants and the poor workers and we will not be defeated, even if they send the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) and the military. These will confront a people that will defend itself meter by meter, block by block. I do not believe that there will be defeat. We will advance." As federal forces continue their attacks on the popular movements in Oaxaca solidarity actions continue across the globe.

Oaxaca Solidarity Demonstrations in the US on Thursday, November 2nd || Mexican PFP Assaulting University of Oaxaca, Radio APPO, Right Now || Killed for the Truth, Paid for the Lies, and Impunity for the Murderers || Civil Rights Violations Documented; Federal Police Use Cherished Zócalo for Toilet Needs

Over 70 people gathered outside of the Mexican Consulate in downtown Austin today to protest the recent killings of unarmed protesters and an Indymedia journalist in Oaxaca City. The protesters erected an altar to remember those killed by paramilitaries and police during the four month rebellion that started when governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz ordered local and state police to violently assault a planton or sit-in of striking teachers in the city center. Friends of murdered Indymedia video-journalist Brad Will spoke about their relationships with him before roughly 30 people entered the Consulate to denounce the murders and the Mexican government's tacit support for paramilitary violence in the impoverished southern Mexican state. One demonstrator handed over a detailed report including photos of Brad Will's murder at the hands of municipal police and members of the state's ruling party, the PRI.
Photos from Austin Solidarity Demo 1 | 2 | 3 | Update Solidarity encampment to be built in front of Mexican Consulate | Virtual sit-in Jam Mexican Gov't websites

Besides protesting the civilian murders by plain clothed police, the demonstration today called on President Vicente Fox to stop his support of the PRI government of Oaxaca, which includes Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, and his police death squads. After the attacks on protesters on Friday, Fox ordered 10,000 federal troops from the the Federal Preventative Police (PFP), military police, and army to "restore peace and order to Oaxaca." Instead of reining in vigilante police who have murdered unarmed protesters at will throughout Oaxaca, the PFP have attacked encamped members of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca or APPO, leaving at least three people dead, including a 15 year old boy, and 70 people arrested. For more on the PFP invasion of Oaxaca City click here. Currently, Federal Police are occupying the zocalo, or city center, after protesters relinquished the symbolic square without violence. As Fox declares this operation a success, APPO remains defiant of the State and Federal government as thousands more barricades have been erected throughout the city, and have established another planton in Santo Domingo de Guzman, a few blocks from the zocalo.

Rebellion may spread throughout Mexico as EZLN calls for road blocks and nationwide stike | Three thousand teachers from Michoacán state will go to Oaxaca to support the APPO
Video from PFP invasion 29Oct | Photos from march against repression in Oaxaca | Photos of PFP Invasion 29Oct | More photos: the Battle is not over

Solidarity Demos across the globe | New York City: 12 People Arrested at Mexican Consulate Including Indymedia Photographer Erin Siegal | Video from the NYC Demo 1 | 2 || Miami, Florida

On Saturday October 28, over 200 anti-death penalty activists gathered in Austin for the 7th annual march to stop executions.

Twenty-four of us from Houston rode on the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement bus to join the marchers in Austin. We had a really interesting mix of people on the bus: for a lot of us, it was our very first time marching against the death penalty. We also had family members of Joseph Nichols, who is currently on death row, join us. Several members of GRACE (www.gracelaw.org) came on the trip, some of whom were interns from Australia. We also had people from England and Holland, as well as members from TDPAM and others who have been involved in the struggle for awhile and continue to work against the death penalty.

After getting a late start, we actually got to Austin a little early. At 3pm, the marchers met at the governor's mansion for a rally. Afterwards, we marched down Congress Ave to City Hall. Among the protestors were organizations representing a good mix of older and younger activists. A rally at City Hall included speakers and music by Austin musicians. The speakers were mainly family members of the executed, of murder victims, and of men who sit on death row today. || Photos