First Iraq, Then the World!




Macaspana, Tabasco.

The billboard posted along the scrubby highway running east in sultry, southern Tabasco state displays lush jungle, a sun-dappled iguana, and a flock of dazzling macaws. "We're working for a better environment" the giant road sign radiates.

The leafy graphic contrasts starkly with the blighted scenery of this tropical state whose rivers have been contaminated, the fish envenomed, and the corn fields blasted as the acid rain drips from the polluted sky thanks to the efforts of PEMEX, the national oil monopoly and its multiple transnational sub-contractors--Tabasco holds Mexico's largest land-based petroleum deposits.

But the billboard here in Macaspana, swampy oil-rich Chontal Indian land, was not posted by the Environmental Secretariat to inspire conservationism or even by PEMEX to burnish its tarnished image. No, this pristine scene is signed off by a familiar U.S. name, in fact PEMEX's largest subcontractor: Halliburton de Mexico, the Houston-based petroleum industry titan's south-of-the-border subsidiary. Vice president Dick Cheney's old mega corps and the largest oil service provider on the planet, has been doing business in Mexico for a score of years.

The privatization of PEMEX, nationalized in 1938 after depression-era president Lazaro Cardenas expropriated Caribbean coast oil enclaves from Anglo-American owners, was right at the heart of Mexico's still-questioned July 2nd presidential election. Right-winger Felipe Calderon, a former energy secretary, is committed to selling off --or at least entering into joint agreements that would guarantee the contemporary version of the Seven Sisters a substantial quotient of Mexico's diminishing reserves (only 10 more years according to the worst case scenario.)

On the other side of the ledger, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a native of Macaspana who probably won the presidency July 2nd, advocates maintaining the state's rectorship over PEMEX which accounts for more than 40% of the Mexican government's annual budget, on the grounds that the oil wealth of the nation belongs to the Mexican people and no one else.

Knowing full well which side their bread was buttered on, transnationals like Halliburton rushed to support Felipe Calderon--as did the corporation's former CEO (1995-2000) Dick Cheney and his running mate George Bush. Both Cheney and Bush have long-standing ties to the Mexican oil industry--Bush's daddy ran Zapata Offshore, a PEMEX subcontractor back in the 1960s--his partner Jorge Diaz Serrano, a former PEMEX director, served time for an oil tanker kickback scheme. Cheney's Halliburton somehow finagled its way into lucrative service contracts for the newly opened offshore Cantarell field (said to contain upwards of 12 billion barrels) back in the 1990s.

How Halliburton got in on the ground floor smells fishy to National Autonomous University professor John Saxe-Fernandez who watches strategic resources--the Cantarell contracts were assigned while Cheney was running the show in Houston and at the same time the Texas conglomerate was busy bribing Nigerian oil officials across the Atlantic.

The truth is that the debate about privatizing PEMEX is no longer much of a debate. Petrolios Mexicanos has long since sub-contracted out virtually its entire exploration and perforation divisions to transnationals like Halliburton, Flouor-Daniels, and Bechtel, leaving PEMEX a virtual shell.

Cheney's old outfit has grabbed off the lion's share of this billion-dollar boodle. Between 2000 and 2005, Halliburton picked up 159 contracts with the PEP (Perforation and Exploration) division for a total of $2.5 billion Yanqui dollars, about a quarter of PEMEX's annual operating budget, according to Saxe-Fernandez. The contracts cover everything from slant and vertical drilling to maintenance of offshore platforms to logging out jungle for the perforation of 27 turnkey wells in Tabasco and Chiapas.

With 1250 employees and thousands of contract workers, Halliburton de Mexico has offices in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche (the fast-shrinking Cantarell operation); Reynosa Tamaulipas where Dick Cheney's boys are helping to exploit the Burgos natural gas fields; and Poza Rica Veracruz, a region in which Standard Oil's Harry Doherty and Lord Cowry (Weetman Pierson), owner of what eventually became British Petroleum, once ruled with an iron fist and where Halliburton is now combing through what is left of their old Chicontepec field.

Halliburton also maintains offices in Mexico City and Villahermosa Tabasco from which it oversees its off and onshore Caribbean domain. Mexico's Gulf coast is not Halliburton's only Caribbean operation. The KBR (Kellogg Brown Root) division of Cheney's conglom built 207 cells at Guantanamo Bay Cuba in 2002 to house "enemy combatants."

Halliburton has had a boot planted in the rebel-ridden state of Chiapas since 1997, three years after the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) rose up in rebellion and declared war on the Mexican government, when the conglom built a natural gas separation plant in the north of that southern-most state. In 2003, Halliburton won a $20 million USD contract to expand natural gas infrastructure at Reforma--Zapatista autonomous communities lie south and east of the Halliburton installations.

Both PEMEX and Cheney's associates have their eyes on Chiapas--ample reserves lie under the floor of the Lacandon jungle in areas where the Zapatistas have established their "Caracoles" or public centers, according to studies by UNAM political geographer Andres Barreda. Indeed, the first battle between the EZLN and the Mexican military took place near a capped well at Nazaret in the canyons that lead down to the jungle floor hard by where the Zapatista caracol "Road to Hope" (La Garrucha, the autonomous municipality of Francisco Gomez) now sits.

According to closely-held PEMEX numbers unearthed by Houston oil investigator George Baker, Nazaret was putting out a million cubic feet of natural gas a day when it was capped back in the early 1990s--if Halliburton had been in the picture back then it probably would have picked up the contract and Dick Cheney, an avid if erratic hunter, would have gotten a chance to exterminate many endangered Lacandon jungle species.

In a religious mood, Vice President Cheney once wondered out loud why God did not put the oil under democratic countries, and with that mission in mind has set out to democratize foreign oilagarchies. His endeavor to bring democracy to Iraq have resulted in over 650,000 Iraqi dead, civil war, devastation and destruction in every corner of the land, and the systematic sabotage of that nation's petroleum infrastructure.

Now Cheney and his Halliburton associates are "democratizing" Mexico, having aided and abetted the stealing of the July 2nd presidential election from leftist Lopez Obrador--as noted above, Felipe Calderon is commited to the privatization of PEMEX. As a member of the Council of Communication which groups together transnationals doing business in Mexico, Halliburton helped pay for a vicious TV spot campaign that featured libelous hit pieces tagging Lopez Obrador as a danger to Mexico. Because only political parties can mount such campaigns, Halliburton's participation was patently illicit according to Mexico's highest electoral tribunal, the TRIFE.

Planted outside Halliburton de Mexico's offices in a soaring skyscraper overlooking Paseo de Reforma where Lopez Obrador's people would soon be encamped last summer, 80-year old former oil worker Jacinto Guzman remembered the great strikes (his father was a striker) that had impelled Lazaro Cardenas to expropriate the Caribbean complexes where Halliburton now rules, and bemoaned the depredations of Cheney Inc and others of their ilk against what belongs to the Mexican people. But, dressed in a wrinkled suit and hardhat, the old oil worker was even more vexed about Halliburton's participation in the smear campaign to vilify Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. "The gringos think they own our elections too" he complained to a U.S. reporter.

John Ross's ZAPATISTAS! Making Another World Possible--Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006 will be published by Nation Books in October. Ross will travel the left coast this fall with the new volume and a hot-off-the-press chapbook of poetry Bomba!--all suggestions of venues will be cheerfully entertained--write johnross@igc.org


By JOHN ROSS

UCLA police go way overboard when a student fails to show his student ID in the library.

A student was shot multiple times in the library on UCLA campus on Tuesday, Nov. 14. A community service officer (library security guard) was making regular rounds at the library, randomly asking students to show their student ID in order to enforce the school's policy allowing only UCLA students in the library after 11 PM. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, for an unknown reason, did not show his student ID and was asked to leave. Several minutes later the community service officer returned with campus police. Witnesses report that Mostafa had his backpack on and was leaving when campus police approached him. One officer grabbed Mostafa's arm at which point Mostafa told the officer to let him go. Mostafa continued to tell the officers to get off of him, instead they fired their Tazers. Mostafa dropped to the floor screaming and yelled "I have a medical condition." Officers then asked him to stand up, when he didn't they shot him again with the Tazer. He and the officers made slow progress towards the building's exit, Mostafa being tazered several times along the way.

Students who asked for the officer's names and badge numbers were threatened with
tazers.






Pepe.

the Nevada town Pharump is making it illegal to fly a foreign nations flag by itself.

the town council voted 3-2 this week to require a 50 dollar fine and 30 hours of community service for anyone who displays such a national symbol by itself or above as a flag.

the officials in the town, west of las vegas, also pushed through measures to deny service to undocumented immigrants and make English the offical language.

Pepe

una razon mas para unir a nuestra gente.

los unicos imigrantes son ellos!

Missouri House panel’s Democrats refuse to sign conclusions

By TIM HOOVER

The Kansas City Star

JEFFERSON CITY | A report from a Republican-led Missouri House committee argues that illegal immigration is partly the result of abortion and a “welfare culture,” findings that Democrats called ridiculous.

The six Democrats on the House Special Committee on Immigration Reform refused to sign the panel’s final report, which was signed by the 10 Republican members. In a letter to Rep. Ed Emery, the Lamar Republican who heads the committee, the Democrats said the report included things the panel never discussed and other comments that were “inappropriate.”

One of those comments was listed in the report’s recommendations section, Democrats said.

“The lack of a traditional work ethic, combined with the effects of 30 years of abortion and expanding liberal social welfare policies have produced a shortage of workers and a lack of incentive for those who can work,” the report said. “Today’s growing affinity for government dependency has created a class of potential employees who are not eager to work.”

Other sections of the report supporting this argument said that “the entitlement and government welfare culture that has emerged over the last 50 years” had caused a shortage of workers, and “many Americans prefer a subsistence income from the public treasury rather than earning a similar or better income as a reward for hard work.”

The result is that 50 years of “counterproductive social policies” makes it hard for employers to find legal workers, concluded the report, which was completed late last month.

National immigration expert Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in New York, dismissed the connections between abortion, welfare and immigration.

She called them “silly arguments” that have been embraced only by the far-right wing.

Emery said that he had inserted the language on abortion into the report.

“It is certainly my opinion,” he said. “I don’t know that we heard committee members express that as their critical concern.”

Emery said, though, that the language on social programs reflected the majority view of the panel.

Rep. Trent Skaggs, a North Kansas City Democrat, said the sections on abortion and “liberal social welfare policies” sucked all credibility out of the report.

“It’s delusional and not really owning up to what the problems are,” Skaggs said of the report.

Rep. Ed Wildberger, a St. Joseph Democrat on the committee, agreed and called Emery’s arguments “ridiculous.”

Jacoby said a prominent cause for the rise in immigration is Americans’ rising education.

For example, half of American men dropped out of high school and pursued unskilled work in 1960; today that figure is 10 percent, she said. Unskilled jobs still must be filled; immigrants are hired for many of them.

Welfare isn’t a good explanation for immigration, she said, because the overhaul of welfare in the mid-1990s imposed limits on how long people can depend on welfare for their livelihood.

Emery’s comments in the report include a section on the history of immigration in America, immigration law and the importance of English as a national language.

“Our culture is worth protecting,” Emery wrote. “It does not treat women like Muslim nations do. It does not kill newborn daughters like Communist China. … Cultures are not equal. Ours needs to be protected from being diluted by those who disrespect our laws and come only to exploit our successes.”

Skaggs and Wildberger said the report paid virtually no attention to Democrats’ chief concern — that the first priority should be to crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

A point in the report’s executive summary of recommendations mentions “increased penalties and enforcement to stop hiring of those without lawful presence,” but there is no elaboration. Wildberger said it was difficult to get even that snippet of vague language in the report because Republicans were reluctant to penalize employers who often complained they unknowingly hired illegal immigrants.

“I did express more than once that one of my personal goals was that we not punish the innocent to get to the guilty — that we didn’t create an anti-business climate,” Emery said.

Other recommendations included making English the language of official proceedings, imposing greater restrictions on admitting illegal immigrants to public higher education institutions, restricting taxpayer-funded services for illegal immigrants, giving the Highway Patrol a role in enforcing immigration law and abolishing income taxes in favor of sales taxes.

Minutemen @ Maywood
Come Help Maywood defend its Sanctuary City Status against the Minutemen
November 11th, 2006 @ 9am
Maywood City Hall - 4319 E. Slauson Ave, Maywood CA 90270
For more info:
E-mail Sisepuedeamnistia@yahoo.com or call 626-375-2873

A bit of History:

On August 26, 2006, The Minutemen/SOS came to Maywood, just south of LA, to protest against the city's policies. This included the fact that Maywood became the first Sanctuary city in the US. Maywood also disbanded it's traffic division because the cops would set up checkpoints in order to tow away the cars of the undocumented residents. With a 90+% percentage latino population (largely immigrant) that was very organized, the Minutemen/SOS were in there for a surprise. During the morning protests, hundreds of counter protesters (up to even 1000) confronted them. This included seasoned anti-minutemen activist, community members, and Maywood organizers. Only numbering about 60, the racists were vastly outnumbered. Not only that, the community and activists were so united that they stood their ground united and peacefully in spite of countless Minutemen/SOS that tried to pass through our crowd and stood against the police trying to drive the community back. Maywood showed the strength of an organized community against racism and police oppression. It showed that much of the immigrant community is willing and motivated to confront the people who are trying to take their rights away. Finally, it showed that with a strong opposition, the Minutemen/SOS will become demoralized to the point that even in their own forums, they admited defeat in Maywood. Now, they're coming back to try to prove to themselves that they can get away with spewing their racism in immigrant communities. Thus, It's even more important now to kick them out of Maywood again, this time with more people and more support. The community in Maywood is ready for them, we need everyone else to help out. Come to Maywood November 11th! No to Racism, No to Vigilantes, No to a Border Wall, Yes to Unconditional Legalization/Amnesty!!!

From: Joaquin Cienfuegos <morph3030@...>

Subject: [lacollectivenetwork] Support Academia Semillas Del Pueblo

There are two things going on for Academia Semillas del Pueblo
1) The school is working towards the approval of the charter in the
month of december.Right now, we need thousands of people sign the pledge.
You can download it from www.dignidad.org
2) SEED is doing a campaign to have supporters send complaint letters
to the FCC.
So I am attaching two files for you. One is the pledge form we are
asking people to sign.
The other is the template of the complaint letter supporters can copy
and paste onto the FCC website. Therefore we are already providing a
letter that people will send and it gives very specific information
regarding the comments made on the radio. I have copied and pasted it below,
and I will also be sending the document to you as an attachment. It
takes about a minute, and as soon as it is submitted, then you will
receive a confirmation number. Make sure to keep that for your records and to
also send that confirmation number to support@... because we
are keeping a record of those numbers. We have a goal of 500 letters in
3 weeks. Particularly since we attended the FCC meeting, we want to
remind them and have our voices resonate loud and clear.

Please foward this email to your staff, familias, friends, list-serves,
etc.
Thanks, Mixpe Ley, SEED consultant for Academia Semillas del Pueblo
(323) 363-1339

===============================================
Stand Up Against Hate Speech Radio Targeting
Academia Semillas del Pueblo, Indigenous Peoples & Immigrant Communities

Electronic FCC COMPLAINT FORM
This information will help you fill out what is asked on the Electronic FCC
Complaint form located on the following web page: htt
svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cib/fcc475B.cfm p://

PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO WRITE DOWN YOUR COMPLAINT CONFIRMATION NUMBER AND
SEND IT TO: support@... or call (323) 860-6525

Tlazokamatli
Xie Xie
Gracias
Thank You!

SEED

apoyen companeros veran que este escuelita es verdaderamente revolucionaria!

www.seedsofstruggle.org


Pepe

Joseph Turner, a Southern California white nationalist and leader of the anti-immigrant group Save Our State, is asking San Bernardino voters to choose him to guide the education of San Bernardino children in the Board of Education race there. On October 7, this aspiring educator sent an apocalyptic, white supremacist message to his Save Our State supporters:

Our enemies are bloodied and beaten. We cannot relent. Our boot is on their throat and we must have the willingness to crush their "throat" so that we can put our enemy down for good.

The sovereignty of our nation and the future of our culture and civilization is at stake. The United States is a beacon of salvation unto the rest of the world. Our freedoms, our culture is mans salvation. If we perish, man perishes.




Like most would-be despots and cult leaders, Turner does not play well with others. His Board of Education campaign website lumps his school board "opposition," half of the current school board, into a Hall of Shame. Since the website's inception, only one "opponent" merits explanation--the rest just sit there, with Turner's smear on their pictures. His campaign hinges on attacking two school board administrators whose secretaries completed applications for their bosses' membership in professional organizations, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) and the Association for Mexican-American Educators (AMAE).

Turner's partner, Alexis Ashley, is also running for school board.

Turner's post-election plan differ from his campaign strategy, and it's not about San Bernardino. In an email circulated to his supporters on September 27, Turner promised to use a school board seat to target undocumented people through their children:

Most importantly, I can assure you that I will use my position as an elected school board member to introduce create and innovative solutions targeting our illegal alien problem. Similar to my Illegal Immigration Relief Act which is now being copied throughout the nation, you can count on me to replicate this strategic model and initiate discussions on ideas that if not pursued in our district, will be pursued in others.

In a communication to his followers, he was even clearer that continuing his national immigrant-bashing pogram is his real agenda, and a San Bernardino school board seat is merely a expedient means to that end: "I am going to use the school board as a similar vehicle to propose and initiate ideas for other districts that have the willingness to attack this problem."

Neither education or children's safety are on Turner's education agenda. Turner bluntly promised the San Bernardino County Sun that he would abolish bilingual programs, making education inaccessible for thousands of children. Then he would "aggressively target the policies that aid and abet illegal immigration." According to the Sun, "he also would pursue ways to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows illegal-immigrant children to receive free public education from kindergarten through 12th grade."

Turner has already tried to limit schoolchildren's access to emergency care, with a stunt that could have endangered his own child's safety:

One day my son brought home the emergency information card for school at the beginning of the year a couple of years back. It was urgent that we return this card ASAP.

I couldn't even read the damn thing because they wanted so much information and each line of text was followed by a Spanish translation.

I was furious. So, I fired off a hastily hand-written letter stating that if I wanted to read or speak Spanish, I would take my happy ass to Mexico and that we spoke English in this country. As I am sure you can imagine, I was pretty...er...direct.

I concluded by stating that I wasn't going to send back their emergency card until it was in English-only.

Turner's interest in education may extend beyond barring immigrants from public schools. This spring, Turner's group, Save Our State, considered protesting a charter elementary school, Académia Semillas del Pueblo, until one of their members reported that parents were guarding their children. One Save Our State member went so far as to suggest bombing the school. Turner did not moderate the discussion or publicly reprimand the would-be bomber.

Turner left San Bernardino before high school and returned in July, in time to re-introduced himself to San Bernardino by dividing the city along ethnic lines when solicited signatures to qualify his proposed Illegal Immigration Relief Act for the November ballot. Although he failed to garner enough supporters, the ordinance would have prohibited renting to or transacting business with undocumented people, it would have required all renters to register their leases with the city, and it would have declared undocumented migrants "public nuisances," subject to "abatement" by other residents.

He is endorsed by three of the city council members who voted for the ordinance, and his boss, California Assembymember Ray Haynes (R-Murrieta).

For the time being, Turner has turned his attention to the education of the children of San Bernardino. But the dangerous dreams he dreams are turning meglomaniacal, from defying the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings on education to his latest pseudo-Tanakhic epistle. He told the Ventura County Star in July, "Deep down, I feel like I've been called to greatness. If not me, who?" The answer will be up to the parents of San Bernardino.


los unicos ilegales aqui en este continente son ellos, los estados unidos
necesita dejar de decirnos pendejadas sobre terroristas, los terroristas
ya estan aqui y son gringos kkk disfrazados de patriotas,
que amenazaron con ponerle una bomba
a la escuela semillas del pueblo!

Pepe

PROTEST!!!
FOX Disinformation, Spew Commentator, Bill O’Reilly!

Where?
Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA.

When?
Thursday, September 29, 2006, 6:00 p.m.

Why?
Mr. O\'Reilly comes to Orange County\'s very own Nixon Library to hawk hi$ $uppo$ed next-be$t $eller….
CULTURE WARRIOR.

PEACE ACTIVISTS!!….WE have TWO choices:

1) Purchase a ticket for $28 to actually meet Mr.
O’Reilly in person, and he’ll throw in his fir$t-edition, hardcover book! Go to the Ea$t Room of the Nixon Library, and he’ll do us activists right by per$onally autographing our book$!

(Call 714-993-5075 to speak with the Nixon Library folk for ticket info.)

--OR--

2) Meet like-minded peace activists at the corner of Yorba Linda Blvd. and Eureka (It’s PUBLIC, not private property) at 6 p.m. with creative signs for Mr. O’Reilly and FOX UN-NEW$ to digest our messages or PEACE, TRUTH, JUSTICE. We will make excellent fodder for Mr. O’Reilly’s ‘fair and balanced’ un-new$, don’t ya think?????

Lots of free parking!

Driving Directions: The Nixon Library Website provides driving directions....

DIRECTIONS:

Richard Nixon Library
18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
Yorba Linda, CA 92886

From DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES: Go south on Interstate 5 to Highway 91. Take Highway 91 east to Highway 57. Take Highway 57 North and exit Yorba Linda Boulevard. Head east (turn right) on Yorba Linda Boulevard and proceed to the Museum at 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard.

From LAX: Take Sepulveda to 105 fwy East to 605 fwy South to 91 fwy East to 57 fwy North and exit Yorba Linda Boulevard. Head east (turn right) on Yorba Linda Boulevard and proceed to the Museum at 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard.

From SAN DIEGO: Go north on Interstate 5 to Highway 57. Take Highway 57 north and exit Yorba Linda Boulevard. Head east (turn right) on Yorba Linda Boulevard and proceed to the Museum at 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard.

From ANAHEIM: Take Katella Avenue to Highway 57. Take Highway 57 north and exit Yorba Linda Boulevard. Head east (turn right) on Yorba Linda Boulevard and proceed to the Museum at 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard.

From RIVERSIDE and SAN BERNARDINO: take Highway 91 to Imperial Highway (Highway 90). Go north on Imperial Highway and proceed to Yorba Linda Boulevard. Turn left and proceed to Museum.

WE ARE WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!!!!!!!!


http://www.nixonfoundation.org/


we must protest the racist scumbag!

History is replete with examples of religious leaders and followers advocating, supporting, and participating in blatant evil. Regardless of attempts to shift or deny blame, history clearly records the widespread crimes of Christianity. Whether we're talking about the abominations of the Inquisition, Crusades, the greed and genocide of colonizers, slavery in the Americas, or the Bush administration's recent deeds and results, Christianity has always spawned great evil. The deeds of many Muslims and the state of Israel are also prime examples.

The paradox of adherents who speak of peace and good deeds contrasted with leaders and willing cohorts knowingly using religion for evil keeps the cycle of violence spinning through time. Why does religion seem to represent good while always serving as a constant source of deception, conflict, and the chosen tool of great deceivers? The answer is simple. The combination of faith and religion is a strong delusion purposely designed to affect one's ability to reason clearly. Regardless of the current pope's duplicitous talk about reason, faith and religion are the opposite of truth, wisdom, and justice and completely incompatible with logic.

Religion, like politics and money, creates a spiritual, conceptual, and karmic endless loop. By their very nature, they always create opponents and losers which leads to a never ending cycle of losers striving to become winners again, ad infinitum. This purposeful logic trap always creates myriad sources of conflict and injustice, regardless of often-stated ideals, which are always diluted by ignorance and delusion. The only way to stop the cycle is to convert or kill off all opponents or to end the systems and concepts that drive it.

Think it through, would the Creator of all knowledge and wisdom insist that you remain ignorant by simply believing what you have been told by obviously duplicitous religious founders and leaders? Would a compassionate Creator want you to participate in a system that guarantees injustice and suffering to your fellow souls? Isn’t it far more likely that religion is a tool of greedy men seeking to profit from the ignorance of followers and the strife it constantly foments? When you mix religion with the equally destructive delusions of money and politics, injustice, chaos, and the profits they generate are guaranteed.

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this was sent by seven star hand
picture by Fisgon

Según un video de Telemundo, fecal le entregará PEMEX a Halliburton, la trasnacional de Dick Cheney que fué una de las principales beneficiadas por la guerra genocida de Irak.

AQUI ESTA EL LINK

http://www.telemundola.com/video/9804422/detail.html

Pepe

MÉXICO.

13 de septiembre del 2006.

A l@s adherentes a la
Sexta y a la Otra Campaña:
Al pueblo de México:

Compañeros y compañeras:

Durante los pasados meses de julio y agosto, la Comisión Sexta del EZLN
ha realizado una serie de contactos y consultas con divers@s
organizaciones, grupos, colectivos, familias e individuos adherentes a la Sexta
Declaración de la Selva Lacandona y a la Otra Campaña. Con lo obtenido
de esta consulta, enviamos una valoración y una propuesta a nuestr@s
compañer@s mandos indígenas del EZLN.

Recibida ya la autorización del CCRI-CG del EZLN, la Comisión Sexta
empezará a dar a conocer, en los próximos días, una serie de análisis,
consideraciones y propuestas. En varios textos, la Comisión Sexta del EZLN
hará un recuento de los antecedentes que dieron origen a la Sexta
Declaración de la Selva Lacandona, un balance de la Otra a un año de su
inicio, un análisis del fraude electoral que culminó en la imposición del
panista Felipe Calderón como presidente de México, nuestra posición
crítica frente a la movilización en contra de esa bribonería, así como una
propuesta a l@s adherentes a la Otra Campaña para las siguientes etapas
de la lucha que hemos emprendido junt@s.

Ahora les comunicamos una primera resolución tomada en base a esa
consulta y a nuestra valoración.

Primero.- Con la demanda de libertad y justicia para nuestr@s
compañer@s pres@s de Atenco, la Comisión Sexta del EZLN reforzará su presencia
solidaria en la capital del país y, simultáneamente, retomará la gira
que se había suspendido, visitando así los 11 estados del norte de la
República Mexicana a los que no hemos llegado, para escuchar a l@s compas
de esas tierras.

Segundo.- Para esto, un grupo de comandantes y comandantas del CCRI-CG
del EZLN/Comisión Sexta se trasladará a la Ciudad de México, de modo de
relevar al delegado zero para que éste pueda terminar la gira
inconclusa. Mientras el delegado zero viaja al norte del país promoviendo la
lucha por la libertad de nuestr@s compas y escuchando la palabra de la
Otra en esos lugares, l@s comandant@s permanecerán en la Ciudad de México
y alrededores, pendientes de la situación de l@s pres@s y del pueblo de
Atenco, y participando, en lo posible, en las actividades que se
realicen demandando su liberación.

Tercero.- En la gira que se reinicia, se atenderán primordialmente las
reuniones con adherentes y con pueblos indios de los estados y
regiones, aunque no se descarta la participación en actos públicos que se
acuerden entre l@s adherentes y la Comisión Sexta del EZLN. En todas partes
se difundirá la agresión a Atenco y la situación de l@s pres@s.

Cuarto.- A grandes rasgos, la gira se reiniciará el día 9 de octubre de
este año con el siguiente itinerario:

Sinaloa (Escuinapa, Mazatlán, Culiacán y Los Mochis); luego en el
trasbordador marítimo a Baja California Sur (La Paz y, tal vez, Los Cabos);
después por carretera hacia Baja California Norte (Ensenada, Tijuana,
Mexicali, reuniéndonos con La Otra en el Otro Lado y visitando en algún
punto a l@s compas del Congreso Nacional Indígena-Noroeste: los pueblos
indios Kumiai, Cucapá, Triquis y Mixtecos); de ahí a Sonora (Santa Ana,
Hermosillo, Guaymas-Empalme, Ciudad Obregón y, en el trayecto,
encontrándonos con los pueblos indios Pápagos, Seris, Mayos, Yaquis y Pimas,
también del CNI-Noroeste); después, desde Los Mochis, en ferrocarril a la
Sierra Tarahumara, en Chihuahua, para reunirnos con l@s compas
rarámuris miembros del CNI; luego seguir en ferrocarril para llegar a
Chihuahua, continuar por carretera a Ciudad Juárez y Parral; luego a la Región
Lagunera en Coahuila y Durango; después a varios puntos del estado de
Zacatecas; de ahí a San Luis Potosí, capital y altiplano; luego Monterrey
y Linares en Nuevo León; después Saltillo, Monclova y Pasta de Conchos
en Coahuila; después Matamoros, Ciudad Victoria y el sureste de
Tamaulipas; y de ahí viajar a la Huasteca Potosina para terminar ahí la gira
nacional, y retornar al Distrito Federal (tentativamente los últimos
días del mes de noviembre).

Quinto.- El itinerario se hace en base a l@s adherentes en cada estado
o región, y a las propuestas de actividades que nos habían hecho antes
de los vergonzosos hechos en San Salvador Atenco, los días 3 y 4 de
mayo de este año. Los detalles de fechas y rutas se darán a conocer en su
oportunidad, debido a que todavía estamos viendo las rutas y el estado
de las carreteras, y serán comunicados a l@s adherentes en los estados
del Norte de México y de la Otra en el Otro Lado.

Sexto.- Esta decisión del CCRI-CG del EZLN y su Comisión Sexta ya ha
sido consultada y aprobada por l@s compañer@s de la asamblea del Frente
de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra, atacados, junto a otr@s compas de la
Otra, los días 3 y 4 de mayo del 2006, por las fuerzas gubernamentales
federales y del Estado de México. L@s compañer@s de Atenco se han
mostrado de acuerdo.

Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena-Comandancia General del
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional.
Comisión Sexta del EZLN.

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.
México, 13 de Septiembre del 2006.

Raymundo Reynoso,
Translations, PUSD,
[626] 795-69-81, eXT. 230

Luego de dejar vacío el foro desde el que se transmite el programa Otro Rollo, los jóvenes continuaron su protesta frente a las instalaciones de Televisa San Angel. A Calderón le espera un periodo de frecuentes manifestaciones y protestas, pronosticaron Foto María Meléndrez Parada

Al grito de "sufragio efectivo, no imposición" y "fraude, fraude, fraude", cientos de jóvenes obligaron a la producción del programa Otro Rollo, que se transmite en vivo desde Televisa San Angel, a suspender varios minutos el programa, enviar intempestivamente a comerciales y luego trasladar su emisión a la llamada Plaza de las Estrellas, en las mismas instalaciones del consorcio televisivo.

Pocos minutos después de iniciada la transmisión, a las 21 horas, cuando el conductor Adal Ramones iniciaba su "monólogo", el grupo de manifestantes coreó "Calderón entiende, la gente no te quiere" y "Adal, tienes el valor o te vale". En un primer intento por acallar al público el conductor del programa quiso iniciar una dramatización, además de exhortar al público asistente a "respetar un programa que trabaja para divertir a millones de personas en todo el país", pero fue avasallado ante el insistente grito de "fraude, fraude, fraude", lo que motivó que la transmisión se interrumpiera con una pausa comercial que se prolongó por más de 15 minutos.

Versiones de actores e integrantes de la producción señalan que un grupo de poco más de 100 jóvenes -300 de acuerdo con los inconformes- ingresaron al foro seis, luego de formarse por varias horas y recibir un boleto de acceso, para, al iniciar la transmisión, en una acción "concertada", lanzar consignas, lo que motivó que personal de seguridad de Televisa los intentara desalojar. En un principio los manifestantes se negaron a salir del foro; sin embargo, cuando los inconformes se dieron cuenta que si dejaban el lugar el foro quedaría vacío, decidieron retirarse y dejar completamente abandonadas las sillas para el público.

Por lo anterior, la producción se vio obligada a cambiar el lugar desde donde se terminó de transmitir el programa, mientras que los jóvenes abandonaron las instalaciones de la televisora coreando la consigna "sufragio efectivo, no imposición", así como estrofas de la canción del cantautor argentino Diego Torres, "saber que se puede, querer que se pueda, quitarse los miedos, sacarlos afuera. Pintarse la cara, color esperanza, tentar el futuro con el corazón".

Poco antes de las 22 horas, los manifestantes, quienes aún permanecían frente a la sede de Televisa San Angel, en Periférico Sur, señalaron que se trató de una manifestación "pacífica y ordenada, en la que quisimos expresar nuestros rechazo al fraude electoral y como una demanda a la apertura de los medios electrónicos, quienes insisten en violentar el derecho a la información". Expresaron su rechazo y la falta de respeto al voto. "En 1988 nadie de nosotros pudo votar, ahora que lo hicimos exigimos que se respete nuestra voluntad". También advirtieron que se convertirán en una "sombra del presidente espurio", a quien señalaron que le espera un periodo de gobierno de "movilizaciones y protestas".

By Bill Ong Hing


The truth is that state and local policies that reach out to try to incorporate newcomers documented and undocumented are in the best interest of society.

Philadelphia, San Francisco, Alaska, and Vermont are among the 120-plus cities and states that have passed resolutions denouncing the Patriot Act as a threat to fundamental rights. Yet Alabama, Colorado and Los Angeles County are seeking arrangements with the Department of Homeland Security to help enforce immigration laws, a precursor of things to come if the proposed federal CLEAR Act is enacted. (The CLEAR Act would require state and local police to enforce federal, civil immigration laws. This means that local police would be charged with investigating students who have dropped from full-time to part-time status, individuals who have remained in the U.S. longer than the date on their tourist visa allows, or businesses that have hired immigrants without legal papers.) In New York City, a coalition of elected officials, labor unions and community groups are pushing a proposal to extend the right to vote in local elections to lawful resident aliens; five towns in Maryland already allow noncitizenseven the undocumentedto vote in local elections. But in California where the plot to introduce the son of Proposition 187 has been hatched, one of Arnold Schwarzennegers first acts as governor was to cancel the right of undocumented workers to drivers licenses.

The bidirectional actions of state and local entities is emblematic of the two Americas in which we live. Both begin with the understanding that America is a land of immigrants. One America has embraced the notion of welcoming newcomers from different parts of the world, although depending on the era, even this more welcoming perspective may not have been open to people from certain parts of the world or of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The other America has remained largely mired in a Eurocentric (originally western Eurocentric) vision of America that idealized the true American as white, Anglo-Saxon, English-speaking and Christian. For the most part, this America has opposed more immigration, especially from regions of the world that are not white or supportive of our brand of democracy. So even though we are a land of immigrants, we are also a land that has debated immigration policy since the revolutionary period.

Local efforts to control immigration generally are considered unconstitutional. At first, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted state laws and local ordinances that targeted immigrants of color to stand. Those laws generally were intended to make life challenging for those immigrants. For example, Californias foreign miners tax was first aimed at Latin migrants, then Asians. And Californias infamous alien land law of 1912 (mimicked by other states and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1923) targeted all Asian immigrantsespecially Japanese and Indians who had become successful farmers. In several parts of the country, Asian Americans, like blacks, were forced into segregated school systems under the countrys apartheid-like separate but equal principle (again upheld by the Supreme Court in 1927). A noteworthy exception to the Supreme Courts early deference to states rights in the immigration field was in Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), where the Court struck down San Franciscos no-wooden-laundries restrictions aimed at Chinese on an economic rights principle.

The Supreme Court had long recognized that the Constitution granted the federal Congress virtually unlimited (plenary) power over the admission and exclusion of immigrants. Eventually the Court expanded that concept by holding that Congress had preempted the field, leaving the states without authority to enact laws that smacked of regulating immigration. Thus, the Supreme Court disapproved of alien land laws and fishing license restrictions in cases brought by Japanese Americans in 1948. The Court even threw out state attempts to bar lawful resident aliens from becoming lawyers or practicing other professions that required licenses. The Court did eventually carve a big exception to this line of cases, permitting states to require citizenship for public functions occupations, such as highway patrol officers and public school teachers. In Doe v. Plyler (1982), the Supreme Court also struck down Texas early version of Proposition 187 that attempted to exclude undocumented alien children from public schools. But interestingly, the Court did not use a preemption theory to strike the law, relying instead on a common-sense, equal-protection notion that not educating children was a self-defeating, short-sighted public policy.

So how would the courts look at the recent rash of state attacks on immigrants? A state that elects to deny drivers licenses to undocumented adults or in-state tuition benefits to undocumented college students might be challenged on a Doe v. Plyler theory, but its doubtful that the current Court would agree that those actions are bad public policy. On the other hand, states that wish to extend such rights are within their rights. States can grant greater rights but not fewer rights to immigrants than the federal constitution might require. So if a state wants to grant in-state tuition benefits for undocumented students of college age or voting rights to immigrants, it could do so even though the U.S. Constitution might not require that. The constitutionality of the proposed CLEAR Act raises different questions. The courts would have to decide whether the federal government can force the state government (and its police) to enforce federal laws. The answer is not a clear yes, because a serious separation of powers question arises that could go either way.

In the end, the controversy remains over which America we wish to live in: the one that demonizes immigrants or the one that doesnt.

The truth is that state and local policies that reach out to try to incorporate newcomersdocumented and undocumentedare in the best interest of society. When it comes to the integration of immigrants and refugees, state and local governments should help lead the way. Immigration and naturalization policy is largely in the hands of the federal government. However, while federal policies determine how many immigrants and refugees enter the country, state and local governments directly face the challenges and opportunities that newcomers present. In this sense, integration policies are largely in the hands of the state governments. The states have a strong interest in promoting integration given the demographic changes that are taking place throughout the country. By investing in newcomers and encouraging them to participate in civic life, the social and human capital they represent infuses energy into all aspects of our society.

The countrys continued prosperity is dependent on the opportunities and achievements of all its residents. All of us benefit when immigrants are successful. Conversely, when immigrants are trapped in poverty and isolation, we all bear a higher burden. Our goal should be to support the ability of all residents, including immigrants, to be safe, healthy and law abiding, as well as live in affordable housing and be economically self-sufficient. Immigrants should participate in self-governance and feel they belong and are responsible to their community. The state should also try to influence federal policies to better align federal immigration practices with community goals. The reason is clear. Public policies that hinder immigrants ability to become self-reliant, responsible community members hinder the success of all Americans. State and local policies should be about reaching out to immigrants, not demonizing them, because we are all in it together.

SUCRE, Bolivia (AP) -- You have to press "Qallariy" to begin.

Pronounced "KAH-lyah-ree," the word replaces "Start" on Microsoft Windows' familiar taskbar in a new Quechua translation of the program, which gets its Bolivian debut Friday.

President Evo Morales, the South American nation's first Indian leader, has found an ally in the U.S. software giant as he promotes the native tongues of his country's indigenous majority.

Some 2.6 million Bolivians -- nearly one third of the country -- speak the Incan language, and Morales sees empowering these people as his primary mission. Among the first users of Quechua software will be Indian members of a constituent assembly meeting in this colonial city to rewrite the nation's constitution.

First launched in Peru in June and now freely available for download online, the software is a simple patch that translates the familiar Microsoft menus and commands. Microsoft Corp. teamed up with several universities in Peru's Quechua-speaking south to create the translation program, joining 47 other versions of Windows in such languages as Kazakh, Maori and Zulu.

"More than anything, I was surprised," said 21-year-old Dilma Arancibia, a Quechua speaker invited to a Thursday preview of the program. "If they hadn't done this with Quechua, and if we don't teach it to our children, the language would definitely cease to exist."

And while few of the estimated 10 million to 13 million Quechua speakers in South America have regular access to a computer, the project is paying dividends for Microsoft: The company recently won a contract from the Peruvian government for 5,000 Quechua-equipped computers.

"Technology should be available to all," Microsoft said in a statement in response to e-mailed questions about the translation. "It helps improve the lives of people."

Linguistics professors spent nearly three years reconciling 22 dialects of the language -- many without a formal written form -- to compile a vocabulary fit for Microsoft's programs.

For "file," they chose "kipu" (KEE-poo), borrowing the name of an ancient Incan practice of recording information in an intricate system of knotted strings. "Internet" became "Llika" (LEE-ka), the Quechua word for spider web.

The Quechua translation also includes many English words, as well as a few in Spanish.

The greatest challenge was likely finding a balance between the use of foreign words and the creation of new terms, said Serafin Coronel-Molina, a linguist at Princeton University and native Quechua speaker.

Borrowed words "are one way that a language evolves," he said. "But you can't just fill up a language with borrowed words, because then what have you got?"

It seems the computers are also still trying to figure out Quechua.

Sandra Picha was one of a dozen Quechua speakers invited to type out a letter to Morales at Thursday's preview. As she filled the screen with Quechua words, Microsoft's automatic spell-checker underlined every single one in red.

"It says I've written it all wrong"

CALPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) -- Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520.

Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archeological site near Mexico City show about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in ritual offerings, and were dismembered or had their bones boiled or scraped clean, experts say.

The findings support accounts of Aztecs capturing and killing a caravan of Spanish conquistadors and local men, women and children traveling with them in revenge for the murder of Cacamatzin, king of the Aztec empire's No. 2 city of Texcoco.

Experts say the discovery proves some Aztecs did resist the conquistadors led by explorer Hernan Cortes, even though history books say most welcomed the white-skinned horsemen in the belief they were returning Aztec gods.

"This is the first place that has so much evidence there was resistance to the conquest," said archeologist Enrique Martinez, director of the dig at Calpulalpan in Tlaxcala state, near Texcoco.

"It shows it wasn't all submission. There was a fight."

The caravan was apparently captured because it was made up mostly of the mulatto, mestizo, Maya Indian and Caribbean men and women given to the Spanish as carriers and cooks when they landed in Mexico in 1519, and so was moving slowly.

The prisoners were kept in cages for months while Aztec priests from what is now Mexico City selected a few each day at dawn, held them down on a sacrificial slab, cut out their hearts and offered them up to various Aztec gods.

Some may have been given hallucinogenic mushrooms or pulque -- an alcoholic milky drink made from fermented cactus juice -- to numb them to what was about to happen.

Teeth marks
"It was a continuous sacrifice over six months. While the prisoners were listening to their companions being sacrificed, the next ones were being selected," Martinez said, standing in his lab amid boxes of bones, some of young children.

"You can only imagine what it was like for the last ones, who were left six months before being chosen, their anguish."

The priests and town elders, who performed the rituals on the steps of temples cut off by a perimeter wall, sometimes ate their victims' raw and bloody hearts or cooked flesh from their arms and legs once it dropped off the boiling bones.

Knife cuts and even teeth marks on the bones show which ones had meat stripped off to be eaten, Martinez said.

Some pregnant women in the group had their unborn babies stabbed inside their bellies as part of the ritual.

In Aztec times the site was called Zultepec, a town of white-stucco temples and homes where some 5,000 people grew maize and beans and produced pulque to sell to traders.

Priests had to be brought in for the ritual killings because human sacrifices had never before taken place there, Martinez said.

On hearing of the months-long massacre, Cortes renamed the town Tecuaque -- meaning "where people were eaten" in the indigenous Nahuatl language -- and sent an army to wipe out its people.

When they heard the Spanish were coming, the Zultepec Aztecs threw their victims' possessions down wells, unwittingly preserving buttons and jewelry for the archeologists.

The team, which began work here in 1990, also found remains of domestic animals brought from Spain, like goats and pigs.

"They hid all the evidence," said Martinez. "Thanks to that act, we have been allowed to discover a chapter we were unaware of in the conquest of Mexico."

I'm sure their is much much more too uncover, cant wait when they find evidence of Aztlan here in the United states.

-JB

Latino Punk in the 1990s

For years, punk rock has been perceived as fast, in-your-face music played by weird-looking white youth. However, since the late 1970s, Chicano and Latino punks have been playing music and getting their own bands together, putting out zines, setting up benefit shows for groups in their communities, releasing records, and changing the face of punk.

The Latino punk scene grew dramatically in the early 1990s. The notorious racist attacks of that decade -- such as California Propositions 187, 209, 227, and 21 inspired the Chicano and Latino communities, including punks, to rise up to fight, by organizing and by song. These struggles helped to shape a distinct Chicano and Latino punk scene.

"The Latino punk scene in the early 1990s really exploded because all of a sudden we had a hell of a lot to sing about," Sorrondeguy says in his documentary. "What started happening politically in the United States pissed us off so much, and we were feeling so targeted and cornered as a community, that we began to write songs about it."

In the United States, bands like Los Crudos connected the institutionalized racism, such as California Governor Pete Wilson's promotion of anti-immigrant hysteria, to the more subtle racism that was occurring within the punk movement itself. On the international front, the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Mexico inspired Spanish-speaking punk bands -- both in the United States and Latin America -- to see their identity as more than just punk, but also as rooted in their language and culture.

Screaming Thoughts

Lina, a vocalist for the Los Angeles-based punk band Subsistencia, stresses the importance of the "indigenous roots" of their music and lyrics. Formed a few years ago, Subsistencia's lyrics are about what the group sees and lives every day in their communities: repression by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, gang violence, and life in the inner city.

"Why use punk rock as our medium of expression?" asks Lina. "Because through our music, we can express--we can scream--our thoughts and emotions of all the things that are happening in our communities."

For many Chicano and Latino punk bands, being up-front about their politics also differentiates them from more established Rock en español bands such as Maldita Vecindad and Mana. For Sorrondeguy, Rock en español means crass commercialism: marketing, money, and business. "Rock en español is stripped of its danger. The way I interpret it, music has an element of danger and risk-it's a way of taking some type of action. Rock en español is neutralized and safe and I'm just not attracted to that."

Many of the lyrics that Sorrondeguy wrote for Los Crudos were first sung in Spanish at shows in Pilsen, the Latino barrio in Chicago where the band lived. "For us, singing in Spanish was to really be direct with who we were talking to, and if it meant communicating with young people or people in our communities, well, what better language than the one we were all originally raised with," he says.

Besides making music, Sorrondeguy keeps himself busy by running his own record label, Lengua Armada, setting up benefit shows for traveling bands, and documenting the role of Chicanos and Latinos in punk rock through photography and video.

Do-It-Yourself

A central theme in punk -- now often called hardcore -- has been individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and a Do-It-Yourself philosophy that encourages action instead of apathy. In his insightful overview of punk rock and hardcore, The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise!, Craig O'Hara gives three possible definitions of what punk might be: "Punk is a youth trend, punk is gut rebellion and change, and punk is a formidable voice of opposition."

Although O'Hara's groundbreaking work attempts to cover the many different scenes within punk, he fails to investigate the role of Chicano, Latino, or other punks of color. In his only comment about race and punk, O'Hara comments, "As punk is now comprised of a clear majority of middle-and service-class whites instead of inner-city working-class whites or minorities, an important action has been to reject their own privileged places in society."

Furthermore, O'Hara does not question whether racism within the punk scene might have discouraged Chicano and Latino bands from getting more involved in punk. By contrast, many Latino punk bands have used their shows to critique white liberal notions of a "colorblind" punk subculture. The Los Crudos song, "That's right motherfuckers, we're that spic band," was written specifically for a person who had called the group a "spic band" at one of their shows.

Safe Spaces in the Punk Scene

Sometimes the need to discuss racism within the punk scene has made white punk rockers defensive. When punks of color demanded a room (a "safe space") to discuss racism within the scene at last year's "More Than Music Festival" in Columbus, Ohio, many white punks criticized them for "self-segregation" and accused them of undermining "unity within the scene." In response, Josh Sanchez, a participant in the people of color discussion group at the festival, told a group of people: "The safe spaces aren't there to keep you out. They're there so we punks of color can be together and learn from one another. We don't get that opportunity that often. What happens with my Mexican family is something you can't understand. Yesterday I went to the minority discussion, and for the first time ever since I've been involved in punk, I sat in a room full of people who did."

The fact that some punks at the festival found the "safe space" troubling is representative of where punk rock has been and where it must go -- even if punks of color have to force these issues into the punk/hardcore movement.

Many Chicano punks, such as Mike Amezcua of the East L.A.-based El Grito Records, have begun to address issues of race and nationality within the punk scene. They've taken the Do-It-Yourself ethic that is central to punk and hardcore and repackaged it to address their concerns. In a 7-inch record compilation that Amezcua put out as a benefit for immigrant rights groups in the Los Angeles area, Amezcua and Danny Echeveria write: "We feel immigration affects all of us in one way or another, but more directly the Latino communities that we grew up and live in. From Los Angeles to New York, Tijuana to Juarez, from the beat downs and harassing of our relatives at the borderlines, to the INS raids at our homes and workplaces. What does this have to do with you? Well, you as an individual can do a big part in this just by educating yourself and looking into the issue."

In addition to dealing with white liberal racism within the punk scene, Chicano and Latino punks must also deal with Latino communities which do not understand punk rock. To address this, Amezcua and others have staged many benefit shows in Pico Union and other Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and given money to local grassroots organizations. Amezcua stresses the need for Chicanos, Latinos, and punks in general to see punk not as "art for art's sake," but as part of a larger movement where art and culture can be at the forefront of progressive social movements.

At the premiere screening of Beyond the Screams at the famous Gilman Street Club in Berkeley, California, Sorrondeguy told the punk kids in the audience to try to find ways to do "political things that might not be narrowly perceived as punk....There are so many things that punk kids could be doing if they really want to make punk a threat again," says Sorrondeguy. "Realizing the diversity within punk can only help punk and hardcore as more than just music, but as a political movement."