tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41384497962532560582024-03-04T22:35:59.881-08:00The Hobo DispatchRichard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-133321780120942082017-09-21T19:32:00.003-07:002017-09-21T19:32:54.033-07:00OCTOBER 9-10 JUSTICE DAYS FOR JOSE ANTONIO--MURDERED BY A BORDER PATROL AGENT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>October Justice for José Antonio Elena
Rodriguez—Murdered by Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz Five Years Ago Oct. 10,
2012</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Oct. 9; 5-6 pm:<span>
</span>Border Patrol Victims Network Street Action in Tucson</span></b><span>—meet at corner 4<sup>th</sup> Ave and 4<sup>th</sup>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">6-9 pm—Noche Cultural organized by BPVN at La Indita
Restaurant</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> xx address starting with
presentation by Maria and Joe Garcia on the historic visit by the Zapatista
Subcomandante Marcos to Magdalena, Sonora in Oct. 2007, updates on José
Antonio’s case and other, then live music by Jamiz, Rebeca Cartes, and Ted
Warmbrand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Oct. 10—Five Year Anniversary Vigil for José Antonio
in Ambos Nogales</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4-5 pm—Vigil at corner of
Grand and Crawford, downtown Nogales, Sonora (1 block from port of entry)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">5 pm—mass at Catholic Church
in Nogales, Sonora just south of border on Obregon St</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">6 pm—procession from Catholic
Church to José Antonio’s cross</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">7 pm—Vigil at José Antonio’s
cross on Calle Internaciónal by Border Wall (about 4 blocks west along border
wall after crossing border. Folks can also participate from the U.S. side of
the wall.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>late Oct.—trial begins in Tucson for Border Patrol
agent Lonnie Swartz (see BPVN facebook page for details or call 520-400-7625)</span></b></span></div>
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-67499142754671140882017-08-27T09:19:00.000-07:002017-08-27T09:19:36.350-07:00RESISTING TRUMP IN PHOENIX; Aug. 22, 2017; POLICE REPRESSION AND SURVIVAL OF THE PEACE SUPPLIES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="color: blue;">This 3 minute video shows the crowd getting tear gassed by police and the armed groups present outside the convention center.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>On Aug. 22, 2017 Donald Trump held a "rally" inside the Phoenix Convention Center. Outside thousands of protestors peacefully conducted their action until police opened fire on them with tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets. The Hobo Dispatch was there to witness the action as shown in this short video.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Also of note were the presence of two armed militia factions, one pro-Trump and for the first time I'm aware of an anti-Trump armed group showed up. Finally the video shows Dwight Metzger of Tucson's Gloo Factory who showed up with his peace supplies, etc. booth and bravely set up at ground zero of the protest. When police began gassing the crowd Dwight and his coworkers had to flee but fortunately they were able to recover their supplies later.</b></span><br />
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-29098149590931964892016-12-09T08:07:00.002-08:002016-12-09T10:01:05.478-08:00STANDING ROCK SETS THE STAGE FOR FUTURE STRUGGLES; CHOMSKY'S WARNING ON THE NEW RISE OF NAZI STYLE FACISM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"Something must be done, and it must be done now!" </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Professor Kurt Huber, member of White Rose Resistance Group. Executed by Germany's Nazi Regime in 1943</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span">“...why
do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly
and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one
day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system
presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed
by abuse that you forget it is your right - or rather, your moral duty -
to eliminate this system?”</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">From the White Rose’s Third Leaflet</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Previous Hobo Dispatch Report on the White Rose resistance movement:</span> <a href="http://hobodispatch.blogspot.mx/2011/02/finding-treasure-in-mexicos-sierra.html">http://hobodispatch.blogspot.mx/2011/02/finding-treasure-in-mexicos-sierra.html</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The victory at Standing Rock, North Dakota over the Dakota Access Pipeline has set the stage for struggle for the future. Never have the stakes been higher--with climate change accelerating at a shocking and devastating pace and the world's great superpower, the U.S.A, poised to rape Mother Earth and push savage capitalism to new extremes. At Standing Rock Water Protectors comprised of Native Americans and supporters risked life and limb and emerged victorious. While fortunately no lives were lost serious and disabling injury did occur. Thanks to all those water protectors for your sacrifice.</b></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Over the coming months and years the Hobo Dispatch will try to cover the struggles that must be fought. Here in this text-only edition we share the words of Noam Chomsky, Harry Belafonte, and Danny Glover thanks to the wonderful coverage provided by "Democracy Now" (democracynow.org) </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"A Victory at Standing Rock, For Now</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;">" <span style="font-size: large;">By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan,</span> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dec. 8, 2016</span></span></span></b></span></h1>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Dakota Access Pipeline has been stopped, at least for now. The
Standing Rock Sioux Nation and thousands of native and non-native allies
won a remarkable and unexpected victory Sunday. Word came down that the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had denied a permit for the pipeline
owner, Energy Transfer Partners, to drill underneath the Missouri River,
and that a full environmental-impact study would be launched.
Grass-roots organizing, nonviolent direct action and leadership from
front-line indigenous people succeeded in stopping the $3.8 billion,
1,200-mile pipeline in its tracks.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As water protectors celebrated in the frozen camps, one question
loomed: What will happen when Donald Trump takes over the presidency in
six short weeks?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Finally, for the first time in history, over centuries, somebody is
listening to us,” Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault
II told us on Democracy Now! hours after hearing the news. “We’ve been
talking about this with the Corps of Engineers for almost two years now,
and we’ve been letting them know that we had problems with this
pipeline, because it not only threatens our water, it threatens our
heritage, it threatens our culture, it threatens our environment.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Bitter cold weather has descended over the region, making life in the
resistance camps even more difficult. Over the long Thanksgiving
weekend, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier and his deputies, along
with a multijurisdictional array of paramilitarized police and National
Guard, unleashed an arsenal of pepper spray, concussion grenades, tear
gas, rubber bullets and, in the freezing cold, water cannons.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">North Dakota’s outgoing Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple, along with Sheriff Kirchmeier and Energy Transfer Partners <span class="caps">CEO</span>
Kelcy Warren, shares responsibility for the unbridled police and
private-security-company violence that has rained down upon the pipeline
resisters for months. A week before the permit denial, Dalrymple
declared a state of emergency, saying, “Winter conditions have the
potential to endanger human life.” In response, the Standing Rock Sioux
tribe wrote, “The Governor of North Dakota and Sheriff of Morton County
are relative newcomers [here]. It is understandable they would be
concerned about severe winter weather.” Former Vice President Al Gore,
commenting a week later, said the use of water cannons in cold weather
was “inhumane,” and called the pipeline itself “an atrocity.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">While Dalrymple threatened to forcibly evict the thousands of
peaceful water protectors, troops of a different sort were massing to
defend them. U.S. military veterans were responding to a call from
tribal elders to come defend the camp. Veterans Stand for Standing Rock
were traveling to the camps to form a human shield around the
protectors. Over 2,000 veterans made the journey, under the leadership
of veteran Wes Clark Jr. If his name sounds familiar, it might be
because of his father, Wesley Clark Sr., the retired four-star general
who was the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of <span class="caps">NATO</span> and later ran for president.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">After the announcement denying the easement to drill under the
Missouri River, Wes Clark Jr. spoke at a ceremony at Standing Rock: “We
came. We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we
broke. ... We’ve hurt you in so many ways. And we’ve come to say that we
are sorry, we are at your service, and we beg for your forgiveness.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Standing Rock Tribal Chairman David Archambault told us, “The
pipeline is not going to move ahead. The campers that are there can now
enjoy the winter with their families at home.” Many in the camps remain
skeptical, like U.S. veteran Remy, a native of the Navajo Nation, who
has been at Standing Rock for almost six months. “Until the project has
ended, we are not planning to go anywhere," he said on Democracy Now!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Donald Trump supports the pipeline, and could very well scuttle the
Obama administration’s decision to deny the permit. According to
financial-disclosure statements, Trump has held between $500,000 and $1
million invested in the pipeline, although a Trump spokesperson claims
he has since sold his shares. Trump has nominated Oklahoma Attorney
General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Congressman Keith Ellison said the nominee “denies climate change and is
beholden to fossil-fuel companies. Scott Pruitt has pledged to roll
back environmental protections and go to bat for multibillion-dollar oil
and gas companies.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Last September, Lakota water protector Olowan Martinez locked herself
to an excavator that was being used for pipeline construction. She was
arrested and spent a week in jail. When we asked her how long she was
planning on staying at the camps. She told us, “Until we know for sure
that this black snake is dead.”</span></b><br />
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</b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Cold weather, police violence and government promises won’t deter these water protectors.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Watch Standing Rock Victory Reports on Democracy Now</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/topics/dakota_access">https://www.democracynow.org/topics/dakota_access</a> </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">NOAM CHOMSKY on Democracy Now DEC. 6, 2016: </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Trump's Victory Recalls Memories of Hitler & Fascism's Spread Across Europe</span></h1>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>And for the young people among you, a special word: You’ll be facing
problems that have never arisen in the 200,000 years of human
history—hard, demanding problems. It’s a burden that you can’t ignore.
And we’ll all—you, in particular, and all the rest of us—will have to be
in there struggling hard to save the human species from a pretty grim
fate.</b></span><br />
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</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Well, my wife and I happened to be in Europe on November 8th, that
fateful day, in fact, in Barcelona, where we watched the results come
in. Now, that had special personal resonance for me. The first article I
wrote, or at least that I can remember, was in February 1939 at the—it
was about the fall of Barcelona to Franco’s fascist forces. And the
article, which I’m sure it was not very memorable, was about the
apparently inexorable spread of fascism over Europe and maybe the whole
world. I’m old enough to have been able to listen to Hitler’s speeches,
the Nuremberg rallies, not understanding the words, but the tone and the
reaction of the crowd was enough to leave indelible memories. And
watching those results come in did arouse some pretty unpleasant
memories, along with what is happening in Europe now, which, in many
ways, is pretty frightening, as well.</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Well, the reaction to November 8th in Europe was disbelief, shock,
horror. It was captured pretty eloquently in the—on the front cover of
the major German weekly, <i>Der Spiegel</i>. It depicted a caricature
of Donald Trump presented as a meteor hurtling towards Earth, mouth
open, ready to swallow it up. And the top headline read "<i>Das Ende Der Welt!</i>"
"The End of the World." Small letters below, "as we have known it."
There might be some truth to that concern, even if not exactly in the
manner in which the artist, the authors, the others who echoed that
conception, had in mind.</b></span></blockquote>
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</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It had to do with other events that were taking place right at the
same time, November 8th, events that I think were a lot more important
than the ones that have captured the attention of the world in such an
astonishing fashion, events that were taking place in Morocco,
Marrakech, Morocco. There was a conference there of 200 countries, the
so-called <span class="caps">COP</span> 22. Their goal at this
conference was to implement the rather vague promises and commitments of
the preceding international conference on global warming, <span class="caps">COP</span>
21 in Paris in December 2015, which had in fact been left vague for
reasons not unrelated to what happened on November 8th here.</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Watch Noam Chomsky report on Democracy Now </b></span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/6/noam_chomsky_trumps_victory_recalls_memories">https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/6/noam_chomsky_trumps_victory_recalls_memories</a><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Welcome to the Fourth Reich": Legendary Actor Harry Belafonte on the Election of Donald Trump, <span style="font-size: small;">Democracy Now Dec. 6, 2016</span></span> </h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>: We turn to the legendary musician and actor Harry Belafonte, who was also speaking at <i>Democracy Now!</i>'s
20th anniversary celebration. For more than half a century, Belafonte
has been deeply involved in the fight for social justice. One of Dr.
Martin Luther King's closest confidants, he held organize the March on
Washington in 1963. Harry Belafonte spoke last night at Riverside
Church, the same location where Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King came out
against the Vietnam War a year before his death. In 1967, he spoke. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="caps">HARRY</span> <span class="caps">BELAFONTE</span>:
In a few weeks from now, if there is a platform on which I will be
privileged to stand and speak, my opening remarks will probably be
something like "Welcome to the Fourth Reich." I was talking with a
comrade recently. He was a victim of the Third Reich. He was a victim of
the great Holocaust and what happened to the Jewish people during the
reign of Hitler. And all my life I have committed myself to making sure
that here, this country, not for the want of effort, but I and so many
others would be forever committed to the idea that America will remain
an open and a free and a democratic society. With each cycle, those
thoughts become a bit dimmed. Now, I think, more than ever, we are in
need of <i>Democracy Now!</i></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I’m just at the threshold of my 90th year, and I had often—who said
that? I never thought I’d live this long, but to be able to share an
evening with Danny Glover, and certainly with Noam Chomsky, for whom I
have great affection and deep respect, that I can kind of dance out of
here feeling like, well, I did it all. But, in a way, each time it was
done, we kind of figured it was the last time we would have to do it.
During a lifetime of Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. W.E.B. Du
Bois, those who mentored me and guided me and inspired me, that I should
have lived long enough to be able to stand here and once again say
thanks to all my colleagues, to all of my comrades, to all of the people
who have sacrificed so greatly to make this nation whole—we are looking
upon a curious time. But I think it’s a time that should be used as an
opportunity to know that we have to make a much bigger difference than
we’ve made up to now. We should not let the current state of affairs
dull the fact that all that we have done was worthless. Nothing could be
further from the truth.</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Watch Belafonte on Democracy Now </b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/6/welcome_to_the_fourth_reich_legendary">https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/6/welcome_to_the_fourth_reich_legendary</a> </b></span><br />
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On Monday night, actor
and activist Danny Glover spoke at Democracy Now!’s 20th anniversary at
Riverside Church—the very same place where civil rights leader Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic speech against the Vietnam War
in 1967. As Danny Glover addressed more than 2,000 people, he called on
the crowd and the country to organize once again in the spirit of Martin
Luther King.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Actor & Activist Danny Glover: We Must Organize in the Spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. </span> <span style="font-size: small;">Democracy Now, Dec. 6, 2016</span></h1>
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<b><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</b> The actor, director, activist Danny Glover also spoke Monday night, referencing Dr. King’s address.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="caps">DANNY</span> <span class="caps">GLOVER</span>:
I would be remiss if I would stand on this stage without mentioning one
of the great moments on this stage nearly 50 years ago, when a young
minister, a liberation theologist, a—one of the most extraordinary human
beings of this century, any century, stepped here and, with all his
consciousness, with all the pain it took, denounced the war in
Vietnam—Dr. Martin Luther King, on this stage—knowing that he spoke for
his heart and his consciousness, knowing that he was doing something
that he was going to be vilified. Yet he spoke up.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>
</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>As we think about the moments ahead and the work that we have to do,
the history that we must—it’s imperative that we make, we have to think
about those moments and use all our courage, every bit of it, whether
it’s in the service of finding the truth and finding those stories,
where those who feel that they are lost within their own country here
and can only turn to the far right in everything else—so, where we have
to do and where we’re going to have to go, and not simply just preaching
to our choir, to our constituency, is farther than we’ve ever wanted to
reach and understand. We have all the technology in the world. We have
every single thing available to us. But organizing, taking ourselves
serious about that and doing the work we need to do, wherever it is, is
going to take something from our hearts. It’s going to take something
deep from our hearts.</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So, as we move forward and we realize the work we have to do, Noam
Chomsky talked about the opportunities that we have within—right here,
at this moment. We look at the demographics, talks about the ways in
which we can use what has happened as a platform to build, to create, to
imagine and continue to imagine. That’s our responsibility right now.
At 70 years old or at seven years old, at 90 years old or whatever we
are, we have to take that on. And certainly, we come armed with the
information that <i>Democracy Now!</i> has provided us through the
journey that they’ve taken us on, learning lessons, finding new ways in
which we can employ those lessons, use those lessons in our own work, in
our own moment. And we are here to celebrate, but at the same time to
move forward more fiercely, more courageously than ever before. Thank
you.</b></span></blockquote>
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-50173000244702608482016-11-26T13:05:00.000-08:002016-12-01T07:45:01.266-08:00Rancho El Peñasco in Magdalena de Kino Sonora, MX; A Great Place to Visit and Enjoy Nature. UN LUGAR MAGNIFICO PARA VISITAR Y DISFRUTAR LA NATURALEZA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>VIDEOS OF SCHOOL GROUPS VISITING Rancho Peñasco in Oct. 2016 (above) and a school group hiking (below)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="color: blue;">Videos de escuelas visitando el Rancho in Oct. 2016 (arriba) y otro grupo en 2015 (abajo)</span> </b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Animals are a big part of life on the Ranch. <span style="color: blue;">Los animales son gran parte de la vida en el rancho.</span> </b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A visit to the Peñasco museum is a must with the Sala Mestiza and Sala Indigena. <span style="color: blue;">Una visita al museo de Peñasco.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wenceslao Monroy is the director of all activities at Rancho El Peñasco. <span style="color: blue;">Wenceslao Monroy dirige todas las activadades en el Rancho Peñasco.</span> </b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">HISTORIC EVENT AT THE RANCHO EL PENASCO IN 2007. <span style="color: blue;">Un</span></span> evento historico en el rancho en 2007</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span>O’odham Host Zapatistas North American Regional Conference. <span style="color: blue;">(Los O'odham reciban a los Zapatistas en el Rancho El Peñasco)</span></b></span><br />
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Zapatistas Welcome Indigenous from Alaska, Canada, Northern Mexico
and The United States to the North American Regional Conference, Oct. 8
-- 9, 2007</h2>
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By Brenda Norrell<br /><span class="source">Special to The Narco News Bulletin</span></h3>
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August 16, 2007</div>
<b><span class="caps">MAGDALENA DE KINO</span>, Sonora, Mexico</b>
– Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas will return to the U.S and
Mexico border region to host a subsidiary conference prior to the
Intercontinental Indigenous Summit in Pueblo Yaqui, to support
Indigenous struggles for their land and liberty.<br />
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O’odham with Marcos<br />
<i>Photo D.R. 2007 Brenda Norrell</i></td></tr>
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The
Magdalena gathering in the north, Oct. 8 – 9, will be one of four
regional gatherings during the month of October, with three other
regional conferences to be held in Oaxaca, Oct. 4—5, Atlapulco, Oct. 6
–7 and Michaocan, Oct. 6 – 7, 2007. Those regional Indigenous gatherings
precede the Intercontinental Indigenous Summit in Yaqui Pueblo near
Obregon, to be held Oct. 11—14.
O’odham in Mexico Lt. Gov. Jose Garcia welcomed all to the gathering
at Rancho el Penasco, the eco-tourism site south of Magdalena, where
Marcos and the Zapatistas met with Mexico’s northern Indigenous tribes
during 2006 and 2007.<br />
“This is an opportunity for Indigenous everywhere to come together and get to know one another better,” Garcia said, after the <span class="caps">EZLN</span> made the official announcement Aug. 15. “People can come together and learn more about the Zapatistas.”<br />
Garcia said while the Zapatista struggle is well known in southern
Mexico, tribes in the northern part of Mexico still want to learn more.<br />
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O’odham elder Elena Garcia greets Marcos and Comandantes<br />
<i>Photo D.R. 2007 Brenda Norrell</i></td></tr>
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In the state of Sonora, south of the Arizona border, the Zapatistas
were greeted by O’odham in Mexico, Lt. Gov. Jose Garcia, wife Maria and
mother Elena Garcia. The delegation stayed at the ecotourism center
south of Magdalena, Rancho el Penasco, Casa de Ecoturismo, where the
Other Campaign stayed in October during the listening session with
O’odham. During their overnight stay, Zapatistas rested and enjoyed
meals of chicken mole, Sonoran tepary beans and dried beef.<br />
Marcos invited the public to the gathering at Rancho el Penasco,
Casa de Ecoturismo, 11 kilometers south of Magdalena on the highway to
Hermosillo, on Sunday, April 22, 2007, to hear the announcement about
the Intercontinental gathering to be held in the fall of 2007 in
northwestern Mexico. Magdalena is a one and one-half hour drive south of
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">El Profesor Manuel Robles Flores en el Museo Regional del Valle de Juárez que fundó hace 57 años. <span style="color: blue;">Professor Robles in the museum he founded 57 years ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Gran luchador por la justicia social, el medioambiente, maestro, amante de animales-- quien llegó al Valle de Juárez hace decadas donde transformó su comunidad de San Agustín. El Valle de Juárez que ha sufrido la pesadilla de violencia, tiene la rafaga de luz y esperanza del legado de la vida del Profesor Manuel Robles Flores. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Great fighter for social justice, the environment, teacher, animal lover--who arrived in the Juárez Valley decades ago where he transformed San Agustín. The Juarez Valley that has suffered the living nightmare of violence, has the brilliant light and hope from the legacy of the life of Professor Manuel Robles Flores. </span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>EL VIDEO ABAJO tiene fotos del evento celebrando la vida del Profesor Robles, con fotos de la lucha en contra del basurero nuclear de Sierra Blanca, TX, donde se destacó la participación del Profe Robles. <span style="color: blue;">THE VIDEO BELOW is a slideshow of photos from the event celebrating the life of Professor Robles, and includes photos from the struggle against the nuclear waste dump in Sierra Blanca, TX, Profe Robles led the opposition against the dump in Mexico.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Between Aug. 6 and 7, 2014, about 11 million
gallons of copper sulfate acid solution spilled from Cananea’s
Buenavista del Cobre mine into the Bacanuchi River, a tributary of the
Sonora River. The San Pedro River runs north from Cananea, about 25
miles from the Arizona border, while the Sonora River flows south. The
spill contaminated the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers and left more than
25,000 people in seven counties without water.</b></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mexican
officials called it their country’s worst mining spill in recent
history. And then it got worse. More than a month after the spill, heavy
rains from Hurricane Odile caused the dams to overflow and the river to
swell, soaking nearby fields with toxic water. The crops are ruined and the people don’t know if they’ll be able to grow on their land again." </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">("Livelihoods washed away by toxic spill in Sonora" by Perla Trevizo, AZ Daily Star Oct. 4, 2014)</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <a href="http://tucson.com/news/local/livelihoods-washed-away-by-toxic-spill-in-sonora/article_5b8007ef-82f1-5db1-901f-c4fba8cc1b06.html">Click here to read the full article by Perla Trevizo quoted above in the Arizona Daily Star</a> </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"Un año después, la vida en el Río Sonora no es lo que era" <span style="font-size: small;">por Perla Trevizo, del Arizona Daily Star</span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Un
año después del devastador derrame de una mina en México, Estados
Unidos enfrenta su propia tragedia por los millones de galones de aguas
residuales que desembocaron en un afluente del Río Animas en Colorado.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">El
6 de agosto de 2014, 11 millones de galones de una solución de sulfato
de cobre se derramó de un estanque de contención y contaminó los ríos
Bacanuchi y Sonora, afectando la vida de más de 22 mil sonorenses a unos
40 km de la frontera con Arizona.</span></b></span></div>
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agua contaminada generada por la mina al esparcir ácido sulfúrico sobre
pilas de mineral triturado se envió a un estanque de retención que se
rompió, dijo Ann Maest, jefe de científicos de E-Tech International, una
organización no lucrativa con base en Nuevo México que ofrece apoyo
ambiental técnico a comunidades en países poco industrializados.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Children and adults along the Rio Sonora have suffered numerous and serious health effects after the spill due to heavy metals and other toxins. Many have died. The only clinic opened in the area to attend to victims of the disaster has been closed.</span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Niños y Adultos en las comunidades del Rio Sonora han sufrido muchos efectos negativos despues del derrame toxico con metales pesados y otras sustancias tóxicas. Muchos han muerto. La unica clinica que fue instalada en la zona para atender las víctimas del desastre ha sido cerrada.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"Grupo México, owner of the owner of the Buenavista del Cobre copper mine in Cananea, is the largest mining company in Mexico and one of the
top copper producers in the world. </span>Through its subsidiaries it operates
13 mines in Mexico, Peru and the United States.</b><br />
<b>The company owns
Tucson-based Asarco LLC, which operates the Silver Bell mine near
Marana, the Mission mine near Sahuarita, the Ray mine near Kearny and a
smelter in Hayden.</b><br />
<b>Although its mines also generate zinc, gold,
silver and molybdenum, copper is king. In 2013, Grupo Mexico mines
produced almost 800,000 tons of copper and the company reported a net
profit of $1.8 billion off $9.3 billion in total sales." (AZ Daily Star, Oct. 4, 2014)</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"CANANEA, Mexico — The pipes have gone silent. Gone is the hum of water
flowing through them to the world’s second-largest copper mine, just
south of the U.S. border. Instead, in the normally empty desert here,
tents and buses line the highway. Dust and smoke from cooking fires fill
the air while hundreds of people listen to speeches and discuss the
day’s events.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>This <i>plantón</i>, or occupation, which began on March 18, has shut
down most operations at the Cananea mine, which consumes huge
quantities of water pumped from 49 wells across the desert in order to
extract copper concentrate from crushed ore.</b></span><br />
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<b>Many of the people involved in the <i>plantón</i> are <a href="http://www.banderasnews.com/0801/nr-cananeastrike.htm" target="_blank">miners who have been on strike since 2008</a>,
when they walked out because of dangerous working conditions. Two years
later, the government brought in 3,000 federal police, drove miners
from the gates and occupied the town. Since then Cananea has been
operated by contracted laborers recruited from distant parts of the
country. But the strike has continued, as miners struggle to survive in
this small mountain town where the mine is virtually the only source of
work.</b><br />
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<b>Now, for the first time in five years, the mine is again paralyzed.
This time, strikers didn’t stop its operation by themselves. Half the
people with them are farmers — residents of the Rio Sonora Valley, angry
over <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/grupo-mexico-to-set-aside-150-million-for-mine-spill-cleanup-1410468455" target="_blank">a toxic spill that upended their lives last August, causing health problems and economic devastation</a>.</b><br />
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<b>People in the towns along the river used to have little involvement
with the miners, but the spill gave them common ground. This alliance
between miners and angry farmers also includes a U.S. union, <a href="http://www.usw.org/" target="_blank">the United Steel Workers</a>.
Together they are challenging the Mexican government’s fundamental rule
for economic growth — that workers’ rights and environmental
protections must be subordinate to the needs of corporate investors."</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/15/unlikely-alliance-in-the-copper-mining-town-of-cananea-mexico.html">Click here to read the rest of David Bacon's article quoted above, "Unlikely allies: Mexican miners and farmers unite over toxic spill"</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SOLIDARITY FOREVER! One of the striking Cananea miners with a Steelworkers shirt given to him by Arizona miners. International Solidarity has been an important part of the miners' long struggle. A representative of Tucson Jobs with Justice attended the Aug. 6, 2016 anniversary in Cananea. <span style="background-color: white;">(Los Steelworkers Sindicato de AZ y Tucson Trabajos con Justicia han participado en solidaridad trans-fronteriza con las luchas en Cananea y el Rio Sonora)</span></b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">The office of National Miner's Union Local 65.</span> La oficina del sindicato de mineros sección 65.</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">left to right (izquierda a la derecha): Dr. Reina Castro, professor of marine biology at the University of Sonora <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">(profesora de biología marina en la universidad de Sonora)</span></span></span></span> ; Antonio Garcia of the United Front of the Rio Sonora <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">(Frente Unida del Rio Sonora)</span></span>, and Sergio Tolano, general secretary of local 65 of the miner's union <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">(secretario general del sindicato de mineros sección 65)</span></span> </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>AQUI HAY REPORTAJES QUE SALIERON EN MX SOBRE EL SEGUNDO ANIVERSARIO DEL DERRAME TOXICO DE CANANEA CON EXCELENTES VIDEOS! y otras noticias</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://proyectopuente.com.mx/2016/08/08/afectados-del-rio-sonora-piden-apoyo-humanitario-retirar-concesion-grupo-mexico-en-estados-unidos/">http://proyectopuente.com.mx/2016/08/08/<span style="color: blue;">afectados-del-rio-sonora-piden-apoyo-humanitario-retirar-concesion-grupo-mexico-en-estados-unidos/</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/05/03/1090403">Mueren tres trabajadores en mina de Grupo México en Sonora</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b> After the vigil a march was held through downtown Tucson and 4th Ave. bringing the chants of BLACK LIVES MATTER!</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HANDS UP! DON'T SHOOT! to the crowds partying at the bars and restaurants.</b></span></span><br />
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the news of the week was dominated by the killings of Alton Sterling,
Philando Castile, and the 5 police officers in Dallas---on July 8 Tucson
police killed a mentally ill man, 28 yr-old Abraham Smith, they said
was threatening them with a knife. After the killing his brother told
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>June 5, 2016--The walkers arrive in Tucson; temperature 110 degrees: many migrants perished in the extreme heat during the week the walk took place</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Why they do it: Over 6,000 have died attempting to cross the US/MX border. Hundreds more perish in the extreme heat and winter cold every year</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> The first group of walkers in 2004 spent the first night at a shelter for migrants in Altar, Sonora, MX. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The beginning of the Migrant Trail Walk in 2004 also coincided with the start of No More Deaths (nomoredeaths.org). Daniel Strauss, kneeling second from left, was arrested with Shanti Sellz the summer of 2005 while transporting migrants in medical distress as part of their work with No More Deaths. They were criminally prosecuted with the threat of long prison sentences but charges were eventually thrown out.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">In 2008 No More Deaths volunteer Dan Millis discovered the body of 14-year-old Josseline Hernandez, from El Salvador, who had succumbed to the cold as she traveling north to reunite with her mother already in the U.S. Tucson author Margaret Regan wrote "The Death of Josseline".</span><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Finally this excellent documentary by J.M. Aragón "Presente, Inside The Migrant Trail Walk" about the second walk in 2005.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">For more info about the Migrant Trail Walk including how to join the walk: <a href="http://azmigranttrail.com/">http://azmigranttrail.com/</a></span></b></span><br />
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-63701883275448734562016-06-11T14:45:00.000-07:002016-06-17T16:52:42.468-07:00 Atascosa Peak: Edward Abbey's old hangout and The May Day March in Tucson, AZ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><b> <span style="font-size: large;">Last family portrait taken of the entire Reyes Salazar family Christmas 2009, a few days later Josefina (in the middle) was murdered. (photo from the video linked below)</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">FIVE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH The Reyes Salazar family buried
their last three family members to die in Mexico; Siblings Magdalena
and Elías Reyes and Elías's wife Luisa Ornelas were kidnapped in the
Juárez Valley on Feb. 7, 2011 and their bodies dumped on the highway two
weeks later. For the remaining family members this was the last straw,
not only did they decide to all vacate their homes in the town of
Guadalupe but after having six relatives murdered they knew they had to
leave Mexico. The Reyes Salazar were, and still are, good friends of
mine. I got to know them well from my participation in a long struggle
to defeat a proposed nuclear waste dump on the Texas border--they helped
lead the opposition to the dump in the Juárez Valley-- This is the
second Hobo Dispatch report about them, including video footage of my first return to Guadalupe in seventeen years in Sept. 2015.</span> <br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;">Watch this 15 minute video "We Bake Bread With Our Hands; We Denounce Injustice With Our Words: The Story of the Reyes Salazar Family" and travel to Guadalupe to see what has become of their beloved hometown.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.texasobserver.org/the-deadliest-place-in-mexico/">Click here to read Melissa del Bosque's great 2012 article "The Deadliest Place in Mexico" written after she visited Guadalupe</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>And listen to Freddie Terry, the singing beekeeper from Oracle, AZ, perform his original music about Sonora to the folks at the Asilo San Antonio in Magdalena (community home for seniors and those with disabilities)</b></span><br />
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-70744253426704518192016-01-02T06:38:00.002-08:002016-01-03T08:05:17.936-08:00Doña Olga Cañez of Imuris, Sonora, MX: Medicinal Plants, Cabezas, and the Best Beans in Mexico<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Doña Olga is one of my favorite people in the whole world. I stop by her place in Imuris, Sonora every chance I get to enjoy a fabulous plate of beans and tortillas and a hot cup of coffee. She has had a great life, though hard at times, and can share about the days her family traveled around in a wagon from town to town. She was part of the pajarero culture in her youth (a mix of indigenous and gypsy traditions). She is a wealth of information on medicinal plants and other things. Here are a couple of recent videos of her so meet Doña Olga. You will even be served a plate of hot beans--ENJOY!</b></span><br />
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-4724540982443653262015-09-04T14:02:00.002-07:002015-09-04T14:06:26.274-07:00The End of Snow? The Sad Saga of Downhill Skiing on Mt. Lemmon, AZ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Scientists are saying that 2015 is on pace to become the warmest year on record, surpassing the record set in 2014. The winters in Arizona are seeing far less snow with the warmer temperatures. Mt. Lemmon is a 9,000 ft. peak north of Tucson, AZ and has a small downhill ski area. 2013-2014 was the first year in 50 years it didn't open at all due to lack of snow. 2014-15 wasn't much better, only opening for 3 days. I happened to be on the mountain during that new year's eve storm that dumped about a foot of snow on the mountain. I had gone up for winter camping and cross-country skiing. But that turned out be the first and last hurrah of the winter. And we can't end without a mention of California's record drought 5 years running with catastrophic wildfires (some presidential candidates think all CA needed to do was build more reservoirs)</b></span><br />
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-37877826613976864702015-08-12T07:23:00.000-07:002015-08-14T18:05:58.027-07:00A VISIT TO BHUTAN IN EL PASO, TX---BHUTANESE ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TX-EL PASO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-60774088837335023292015-03-16T12:32:00.001-07:002015-03-16T12:32:32.729-07:00Snapshots From Colombia; 2014 Los Recuerdos de Colombia; 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-79207384058213556882014-08-02T20:11:00.000-07:002014-08-02T20:17:00.823-07:00JUSTICE FOR SHENA AND JOSE GUTIERREZ; AUG. 5-6; TUCSON, AZ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-86564218112047162472014-05-11T11:15:00.000-07:002014-05-11T11:15:37.700-07:00TUCSON IN THE STREETS--(Part 2); Videotaping the Struggle for Bus Riders, Peace in Colombia, Day Laborers, and the Working Class on May Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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VIDEO #1--The Bus Riders Union fight against fare increases and reduced schedules---and they are winning! Fare increases have been prevented for a year. One of my favorite protests always with food served and a crowd that's definitely not the "usual suspects." Brian Flagg of Casa Maria soup kitchen, a Tucson fixture for decades, and the Catholic Worker folks have done awesome work in this campaign.</div>
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VIDEO #2-- 50 YEARS OF WAR IN COLOMBIA IS ENOUGH! The Alliance For Global Justice organized this protest in May when the Colombian Air Force and Special Forces came to train at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson.<br />
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-25748184286282923492014-02-26T12:57:00.000-08:002014-05-18T08:53:32.068-07:0060th Anniversary of the classic film "Salt of the Earth"; 20th Anniversary of the Salt of the Earth Labor College in Tucson, AZ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The drama film <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Salt of the Earth</em> (1954) is a classic movie about....the mining industry of the South West and the struggles against racism and for gender-equality connected with it. The script was written by Michael Wilson, and the film was directed by Herbert J. Biberman and produced by Paul Jarrico. All three were blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their involvement in communist politics. The female lead, Rosaura Revueltas, a Mexican actress, was deported during shooting, and some of her scenes had to be secretly filmed in Mexico.</span><br />
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<b>Salt of the Earth</b>, based on a 1951 zinc miner's strike that took place in Silver City, N.M., was made in 1953 at the height of the McCarthy era. The film was denounced as subversive and subsequently blacklisted because it was sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (which had been expelled from the CIO in 1950 for alleged Communist-dominated leadership) and was made by film-makers who figured as 'unfriendly' witnesses before the House Un-American Activities Commission. Ironically, because it also deals with the struggle of women, specifically the miners' wives, for recognition, dignity and equality, the film is a focus of renewed interest 22 years later.<br />
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[Juan] Chacon helps organise the strike which demands that Mexican-Americans be given the same safety standards that the mining company provides for Anglo workers, but at home he refuses to end discrimination and change the status quo. Miss [Rosaura] Revueltas, pregnant with her third child, is traditionally passive and at first reluctant either to take part in the strike or to assert her rights for equality at home. But she changes and when the men are forced to end their picketing by a Taft-Hartley Act injunction the women take their place in the picket line and she joins them. The women, indeed, come out looking stronger than the men, some marching with babes in their arms, resisting tear gas and making jail so unendurable for the sheriff (deliciously played by Will Geer) that they are released.<br />
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<b>Salt of the Earth</b> is also a love story about the young couple divided by conflicting attitudes, traditions and roles, but under crisis finding the common cause. It is the wife who speaks for survival. "You want to go down fighting," she tells her husband. "I don't want to go down fighting. I want to win." Michael Wilson's script is a masterful blend of passion, poignancy and restraint. The cast is comprised of five professional actors; the rest are the actual miners and their wives. All perform exceedingly well. Miss Revueltas is stunning. Her portrayal is unforgettable. The late Herbert J. Biberman directed with conviction and excellence. <b>Salt of the Earth</b>, 25 years after the ugly controversies of its birth, remains a taut and moving achievement and a milestone of American political expression.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">NEW YORK TIMES Review of "Salt of the Earth" from 1954</span></b><br />
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THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ' Salt of the Earth' Opens at the Grande -- Filming Marked by Violence</h1>
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Against the hard and gritty background of a mine workers' strike in a New Mexican town—a background bristling with resentment against the working and living conditions imposed by the operators of the mine—a rugged and starkly poignant story of a Mexican-American miner and his wife is told in "Salt of the Earth," a union-sponsored film drama, which opened last night at the Grande Theatre on East Eighty-sixth Street.<br />
It is the story of a husband's firm objection to women—and, especially, his wife—mixing in the grim affairs of the strikers, and of the strong determination of the wife to participate, along with other women, in the carrying on of the strike.<br />
This is the film that occasioned controversy and violence when it was being made near Silver City, N. M., just one year ago. The facts were then widely noted that members of the independent company making it, including the director, Herbert J. Biberman, and the producer, Paul Jarrico, had been identified before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities as past or present Communists and that the organization sponsoring the picture, the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, had been expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations for left-wing leanings.<br />
<strong>Threats of Vigilante Action</strong><br />
Rosaura Revueltas, the Mexican actress who plays one of the leading roles, was seized as an illegal alien while the production was underway, and fisticuffs and threats of vigilante action occurred in Silver City while the company was there.<br />
Recent sub rosa difficulties of the film's producers in getting a theatre in which to show it here have further evidenced the pressures against it and the obstructions placed in its way.<br />
In the light of this agitated history, it is somewhat surprising to find that "Salt of the Earth" is, in substance, simply a strong pro-labor film with a particularly sympathetic interest in the Mexican-Americans with whom it deals. True, it frankly implies that the mine operators have taken advantage of the Mexican-born or descended laborers, have forced a "speed up" in their mining techniques and given them less respectable homes than provided the so-called "Anglo" laborers. It slaps at brutal police tactics in dealing with strikers and it gets in some rough, sarcastic digs at the attitude of "the bosses" and the working of the Taft-Hartley Law.<br />
But the real dramatic crux of the picture is the stern and bitter conflict within the membership of the union. It is the issue of whether the women shall have equality of expression and of strike participation with the men. And it is along this line of contention that Michael Wilson's tautly muscled script develops considerable personal drama, raw emotion and power.<br />
<strong>Conflict of Personalities</strong><br />
For this conflict of human personalities, torn by egos and traditions, is shown in terms of sharp clashes at union meetings, melees on dusty picket lines, tussles with "scabs" and deputy sheriffs and face-to-face encouners between the husband and wife in their meager home. It is a conflict that broadly embraces the love of struggling parents for their young, the dignity of some of these poor people and their longings to see their children's lot improved.<br />
Under Mr. Biberman's direction, an unusual company made up largely of actual miners and their families, plays the drama exceedingly well. Miss Revueltas, one of the few professional players, is lean and dynamic in the key role of the wife who compels her miner husband to accept the fact of equality, and Juan Chacon, a non-professional, plays the husband forcefully. Will Geer as a shrewd, hard-bitten sheriff, Clinton Jencks as a union organizer and a youngster named Frank Talevera as the son of the principals are excellent, too.<br />
The hard-focus, realistic quality of the picture's photography and style completes its characterization as a calculated social document. It is a clearly intended special interest film.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">20 Years Of Classes Promoting Social Justice At the Salt of The Earth Labor College </span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Interview With Jon Miles, One of the Founders of the Salt of the Earth Labor College (SELC), who discusses the founding of SELC and how Felix Padilla and Arvilla Jackson, Communist Party members, decided to donate their house for the school.</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A crowd enjoys the annual screening of "Salt of the Earth" at SELC. Juan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Chacon's wife, Virginia, was honored at one of these events before she passed away. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Anita Torrez, wife of Lorenzo Torrez, leads the discussion along with Steve Valencia at SELC after the annual screening of "Salt of the Earth", Jan. 2012. Anita eloquently brings to life what it was like taking part in the struggle and making of the movie.</b></span><br />
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<b>Link To Salt of the Earth Labor College's website and schedule of classes</b><br />
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I first saw <b>Salt of the Earth</b> in 1972 at a benefit for a new women's centre on the west side of Los Angeles. Like others in the audience, I was deeply moved. <b>Salt of the Earth</b> seemed to articulate the aspirations of women of my generation. "I want to rise. And push everything up with me as I go." Here was a film that presented housework, child care, sanitation as important political issues; that used humour to deflate macho attitudes; that recognised the necessity of rejecting the "old way" but acknowledged the difficulty of creating something new; that had chosen a woman as protagonist and entrusted to her the role of narrator. Here was that rarity, a female hero who not only struggles and suffers but grows and wins. And she gains not simply in self-knowledge, not simply through wresting a piece of hard-won turf from an unchanged society; rather, her victory represents the shared triumph of the community - the specific victory of a successful strike, the less tangible victory of greater equality between Anglos and Mexican-Americans, women and men...<br />
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The outspoken feminism of <b>Salt of the Earth</b> is rare in films of any era, particularly rare in the fifties when the feminine mystique exerted so powerful a hold. Its portrayal of women's daily lives and its vision of growing power through growing sisterhood have made the film deeply welcome in the culture of the contemporary women's movement. Its story though, must be one of struggle on many fronts... The struggle of workers, of Mexican-Americans, of women for dignity and equality are the substance of <b>Salt of the Earth</b>. The film's significance today is its insistence on their relatedness, its vision of what director Herbert Biberman called "the indivisibility of equality" - and its acknowledgement of how hard it is to make that vision work...<br />
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Young audiences today, seeing <b>Salt of the Earth</b> for the first time, often express surprise that so "old" a film should portray with such passionate comprehension the sometimes conflicting claims of feminist, ethnic and class consciousness - issues still very much with us, conflicting claims still unresolved. That surprise underlines the real damage of the repressive eras of our history. For the story of <b>Salt of the Earth</b> - the strike, the film, the people - is an integral part of progressive belief and action in our politics and in our culture, a heritage that did not completely disappear in the "haunted decade" of the fifties but went, often unwillingly, underground.<br />
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- Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt, from the published screenplay of <u>Salt of the Earth</u>, New York, 1978<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Arizpe was the former home of the Opata indigenous people. Arizpe means "land of the fire ants."</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the state prison located in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora an inmate named "Elio" has painted a remarkable mural featuring five historical figures all who spent time in prison, with words of wisdom coming from their prison experience: Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, and Socrates.</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://hobodispatch.blogspot.com/2013/07/on-which-side-of-border-wall-are-people.html">Previous post about Manuel Sacuhi and others in Sonora</a></b><br />
<a href="http://hobodispatch.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-treasure-in-mexicos-sierra.html">Finding Treasure in Mexico's Sierra Madre</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>(Aconchi hot springs and Rio Sonora Valley)<br />
<a href="http://hobodispatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-grandmother-stronger-than-us-mexico.html">A Grandmother Stronger Than The U.S. Mexico Border Wall</a><br />
<a href="http://hobodispatch.blogspot.mx/2012/12/videos-juarez-and-walmart-what-do-they.html">The Struggle For La Nueva Central (Historic Restaurant)</a><br />
<a href="http://hobodispatch.blogspot.com/2011/08/after-fighting-nuclear-waste-mexican.html">After Fighting Nuclear Waste, A Mexican's Family's Fight For Survival</a><br />
<a href="http://hobodispatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/snapshots-from-mx-part-2-visit-to.html">Snapshots From Mexico--Part 2</a> Visit To A Forbidden City<br />
<a href="http://hobodispatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/snapshots-from-mexico-part-1.html">Snapshots From Mexico--Part 1</a> Drinking Songs and Bad Timing</div>
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While southern Arizona continues to be ground zero for the most extreme measures of border militarization today, it is also home to powerful nodes of civil resistance. On December 8, local residents from Arivaca and the surrounding area held their first protest at a Border Patrol checkpoint—one out of about a dozen located throughout the region. The protest focused on one of many concerns shared by all the residents: the disruption of the checkpoint to their daily lives. I documented the event in the video posted below.</div>
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On October 10, family, friends, and solidarity activists held a binational march and vigil along the border wall to <a href="http://nacla.org/blog/2013/10/16/photo-essay-one-year-anniversary-death-jos%C3%A9-antonio-elena-rodr%C3%ADguez" style="color: #da8300; font-weight: 200; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">denounce</a> the complete impunity of the Border Patrol agents who gunned down 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodriguez, a Mexican national killed as he walked down the street of his hometown Nogales, Sonora on October 10, 2012. José Antonio was the sixth Mexican citizen slain by the Border Patrol on Mexican soil since 2010.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Walmart employees and supporters protested in cities all across the country on Black Friday in opposition to Walmart’s low wages and poor treatment of workers. In some cases, protesters volunteered to engage in acts of civil disobedience and were arrested by police. Organizers expected 1,500 total protests in California, Alaska, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, Washington and Canada. In Secaucus, New Jersey, thirteen activists were arrested after sitting in the middle of the street to block traffic."</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">In 2008 a Walmart employee was killed by a consumer stampede on Black Friday, a tragic reminder of the dangers workers face even in a Walmart store. This report appeared on Democracy Now!</span></b></div>
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Richard Borenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117340066361975838noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138449796253256058.post-58609209278160197882013-10-25T20:00:00.000-07:002013-11-07T07:42:14.641-08:00 OCCUPY UNEDITED; The 4th and final installment of our series on the Occupy Movement on the second anniversary: Video and Photos from OCCUPY NEW ORLEANS, MEMPHIS, NASHVILLE, TUCSON, D.C. AND OCCUPY CONGRESS, RALEIGH, EL PASO, TAMPA, LITTLE ROCK.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>After waves of protest in other parts of the world, it all kicked off in the U.S. on Sept. 17, 2013 with Occupy Wall Street, which became ground zero for the movement. This final installment is just to present all our remaining photos and video footage of Occupy encampments and events. By pure luck was able to visit all these different encampments during a cross-country road trip in Dec. 2011 when I traveled from AZ to the east coast to visit family. At the end have included a link to what I consider to be a good reflection on Occupy which appeared in The Nation. As far as my own analysis of the Occupy movement's success or failure in what it set out to do I'll stick with a friend's quote: "If you're not sitting around on a couch, and actually out there doing something, you're OCCUPYING!"</b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Occupy Austin slept on the steps of City Hall. Occupy Raleigh set up camp in a private space downtown.</span></b></div>
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<b>An interesting camp beside the interstate with a geodesic dome, wood heat, solar panels, and meditation tent. A tornado alert took place the night I spent there and the Holiday Inn next door put everyone up for the night for free.</b><br />
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You couldn't write a more dramatic movie script: Sept. 30- Thirty young undocumented immigrants, who grew up in the U.S. but returned to Mexico, known as Dreamers, literally throwing themselves into the frying pan by crossing the border into the U.S. and right into detention to argue their right to live in the U.S. Oct. 8-Activists in Tucson, AZ surround Border Patrol and police vehicles to halt the deportation of several friends who are undocumented---they get pepper sprayed and roughed up, but they get their friends freed on bond! Oct. 11- a group of activists chain themselves to buses hauling chained immigrants to the kangaroo court known as Operation Streamline in Tucson and others lock down in front of the court---over 20 are arrested but court proceedings are cancelled for the day! The record pace of deportation in the U.S. is no longer business as usual.<br />
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We did attend this march in Nogales, Sonora, MX, and produced this video from our own footage. This is a follow-up to our Sept. 30 post and Action Alert. Please read that and take action.</div>
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The Border Patrol believe they are THE LAW ABOVE AND BELOW so living near the border subjects one to regular harassment which we just come to accept as part of life like the sun rising and setting. Like a recent family vacation where an unmarked Border Patrol vehicle followed us for a half hour before finally pulling us over. The the poorly trained agent questioned us for about 15 minutes about our citizenship, where we had been and we going, how long we had spent at the lake, if we cross the border regularly, etc. When he ran out of questions he just walked away. Border Patrol agents have trouble standing down. He never said "Go ahead, have a nice day" at the end. He had no reason to pull us over. My wife even joked she almost felt sorry for him and nearly told him he could arrest her just so he would have something to show for his efforts. </div>
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<b>Finally years ago I was privileged to take part in a wonderful movement against a nuclear dump in Sierra Blanca, TX, which was promoted by the state of Texas and then governor George W. Bush. The dump's location near the Rio Grande led to a large binational movement with thousands of Mexicans taking part. I produced this video for the 15th anniversary of the dump's defeat which occurred on Oct. 22, 1998.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;">One of the most recent atrocities committed by the Border Patrol was the shooting death of 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodriguez on Oct. 10, 2012 as he walked down the street in his hometown of Nogales, Mexico. Jose Antonio was shot at least 11 times, most in the back. As in all of these unjustified slayings by the Border Patrol (19 documented since 2010, 6 were slain in Mexico) no justice is given, no prosecutions, not even the names of guilty agents are released.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0035ff;">But people like the courageous family of José Antonio are fighting back </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">(see article link at end)<span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0035ff;"> </span></span></span></b></blockquote>
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<b>I am outraged that the U.S. Dept. of Justice has failed to investigate the wave of killings and shootings by U.S. Border Patrol Agents of Mexican and U.S. citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border. Clearly most of the shootings are unjustified actions by poorly trained agents who need to be held accountable for their actions. The recent decisions by the Justice Department not to prosecute agents in the deaths of Carlos LaMadrid (a U.S. citizen killed on the U.S. side of the border wall) and Ramses Barron (killed on the Mexico side) are reprehensible. In the case of Barron's death the Justice Department stated it can do nothing since he died in Mexico and the Justice Department lacks jurisdiction in Mexico. This sends a message that the Mexican side of the border wall is a free-fire zone for Border Patrol agents. Six Mexican citizens have already been killed this way including one man at a family picnic. Oct. 10 completes one year with no justice in the case of José Antonio Elena Rodriguez, a 16 year-old Mexican youth who died in a hail of bullets from Border Patrol agents. An eyewitness stated José Antonio was just walking down the street. Video footage from the Border Patrol has never been released. The family of José Antonio deserves justice now!</b></div>
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On Oct. 10, 2012 José Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Nogales, Sonora, MX. Six months later on April 10, 2013, a binational vigil was held in Nogales to protest the lack of justice in José Antonio's death.<br />
La versión bilingue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LEAs_EAATg</div>
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Fresh recruits were training in front of the military recruitment headquarters during the protest. Let's hope Bradley Manning's courageous actions will prevent them from being ordered to commit war crimes.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Check out this short video of the action in Tucson.</i></span><br />
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<i><b>The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday Aug. 21, 2013 after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison.</b></i><br />
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"The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war. We've been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on any traditional battlefield, and due to this fact we've had to alter our methods of combating the risks posed to us and our way of life.<br />
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I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at this time I realized in our efforts to meet this risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue human life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order to avoid any public accountability.<br />
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In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.<br />
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Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown our any logically based intentions [unclear], it is usually an American soldier that is ordered to carry out some ill-conceived mission.<br />
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Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy—the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, the Japanese-American internment camps—to name a few. I am confident that many of our actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.<br />
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As the late Howard Zinn once said, "There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."<br />
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I understand that my actions violated the law, and I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intention to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.<br />
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If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal."<br />
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Finally if you still have any doubt about whether Bradley Manning did the right thing, please spend 18 minutes to see this chilling footage from Iraq in 2007 released by WikiLeaks showing the U.S. military shooting civilians and journalists, and then opening fire on those who came to their rescue, and deciding against taking wounded children to a U.S. military hospital.<br />
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