On the Line
On the Line Appeal for Redress The Appeal for Redress website gives active duty, reserve, and National Guard service members a chance to tell Congress to end the military occupation of Iraq. The...
...An independent journalist and videographer, Will was a member of Indymedia, the international grassroots media movement...
...Bush Step Down More than 200 protests were held across the country on October 5. The protesters called for President Bush to leave office...
...Build Bridges, Not Walls Washington, D.C...
...Day in January...
...The teachers' union and APPO took over the downtown square of Oaxaca City and added the resignation of the governor to its list of demands...
...For more information, go to www.saltinthewound.org...
...The march kicked off the first Border Social Forum, which brought together grassroots movements from both sides to analyze the political, economic, and social impacts of the current border situation...
...In June, the governor, Ulises Ruiz, sent in troops to break the strike...
...The protest concluded the Stop the Merchants of Death Conference, organized by the War Resisters League and AlliantACTION...
...Ciudad Juarez, Mexico In mid-October, Mexican and U.S...
...The Appeal messages will be delivered to Congress on Martin Luther King Jr...
...For more information, go to www.indymedia.org...
...A coalition of students, leftists, unionists, and other activists, called the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO), sprang into action...
...Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the Santa Fe bridge, which connects El Paso and Ciudad Juarez...
...For more information, go to Appeal for Redress at www.appealforredress.org or write to P.O...
...Alliant calls itself "the nation's leading producer of conventional munitions, serving both military and commercial markets" and has provided depleted uranium to the Department of Defense...
...TheNAFTA Effect Los Angeles The artist collective THINK AGAIN and the Outpost for Contemporary Art created a public art project called the NAFTA Effect to spur on the current immigration debate...
...Days later, hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets against the military violence...
...Box 53052, Washington, D.C...
...Human rights activists demonstrated outside the White House after President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act...
...For more information, go to www.worldcantwait.net...
...20009-3052...
...In his last dispatch from Oaxaca, Will wrote about a demonstrator named Alejandro Garc?a Hern?ndez, who was killed at the barricades...
...Human Rights Now Stop the War Profiteers Edina, Minnesota On October 2, Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, police arrested seventy-eight activists who were engaged in nonviolent direct action outside the Alliant Techsystems corporate headquarters...
...For more information, go to AlliantACTION at www.circlevision.org/alliantaction.html...
...For more information, contact Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture at www.wrrcat.org...
...On October 27, paramilitaries affiliated with the local governing party shot and killed several activists, including American Brad Will...
...activists protested the construction of a wall between Mexico and the United States...
...Tensions between protesters and the government authorities grew over the ensuing months, and more than a dozen people were killed...
...For more information, contact the Border Social Forum at www.forosocialfronterizo.blogspot.com or visit www.deletetheborder.org...
...Crisis in Oaxaca In May, teachers in Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest states, went on strike to demand better wages and school improvements...
...After visiting the morgue and seeing Garc?a Hern?ndez's body, Will wrote, One more death-one more martyr in a dirty war-one more time to cry and hurt-one more time to know power and its ugly head-one more bullet cracks the night...
...On October 7, 13, and 14, THINK AGAIN projected words and images onto buildings to address its concerns about the proposed 700-mile border fence, the treatment of undocumented workers, and the criminalization of immigrants...
Vol. 70 • December 2006 • No. 12
