[Cross-posted at PBS.org/Idealab.]
At Journalism That Matters "The New Pamphleteers," held earlier this week in Minneapolis, every session meant horizontal communication: no one on a stage, a circle of chairs...
Despite restraint on both the side of the APPO (coalition of social movements) and by the PFP (Federal Preventative Police),
the mere fact of invading the state with the goal of repressing a
popular movement made certain results inevitable. The people are
angrier than ever;...
"A new report says children arrested in Florida face a judicial system that prioritizes resolving cases quickly over fair legal representation.
The study by the by the National Juvenile..."
"High Presence of Citizens and Awareness on the Streets Give Oaxacans a Sense of Optimism
By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca
October 30, 2006
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2253.html"
"Zocalo and University Campus Under Siege
By Simon Fitzgerald
La Luchita
October 29, 2006
http://laluchita.blogspot.com/2006/10/oaxaca-burns-pfp-invasion-right-now.html"
"Final Moments Captured by the Slain Journalist’s Camera in Oaxaca
By Brad Will
Now Screening in Salón Chingón
October 29, 2006
http://salonchingon.com/cinema/brad.php?city=ny"
"Another Death in the Months Long Resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico
By Brad Will
Originally published on October 17 by the New York City Independent Media Center
October 29, 2006
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77343.shtml"
Only six short months ago, the town of Texcoco, in Mexico State, was
made infamous throughout Mexico and the world as the place where one of
the worst police massacres in recent Mexican history began. Today...
"Two thousand organizers of the Zapatista Other Campaign convened today in the Pantitlán neighborhood of Mexico City for a conference to âanalyze the national situation,â a task made still more...
"A US District judge has accepted a guilty plea from a California grocery store chain for felony charges of illegally rehiring hundreds of workers that management locked-out during a labor dispute...."
"In a move that coincides with rising property values and shirks a federal ruling that slammed Los Angeles's treatment of homeless residents, the LAPD is cracking down on the city's poorest residents."
"A pair of scientists at Tufts University have catalogued the social and economic effects of unabated global climate change.
In a study released last week by Tufts's Global Development and..."
"Last month, conservationists celebrated the restoration of federal protections to about 50 million acres of "roadless" public lands. But now, activists in Colorado are warning that an upcoming..."
"Four states authorize the use of attack dogs to intimidate resistant inmates out of prison cells, according to Human Rights Watch, though two of the states have rarely put the policy into the..."
"The Blood Flows from the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO)
By Luis Hernández Navarro
La Jornada
October 19, 2006
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2184.html"