23 de septiembre--Día de acción

by Rockero Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM

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Se nos acerca una fecha bastante importante para la historia del radicalismo mexicano. En esta temporada siempre se conmemoran momentos históricos revolucionarios como el Grito de Dolores y el 2 de octubre. El primero se ha vuelto una fecha de borrachería y fanfarría nacionalista, mientras la segunda se conmemora solemnemente entre sectores de la izquierda.

En cambio, el 23 de octubre es una d?a no de ceremonia, sino de acción.

24 septiembre 1906 - fecha escogida para el inicio de la revolución por líderes del Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) en exilio en St. Louis, Missouri. No obstante, los comunicados del PLM son interceptados por los gobiernos de México y de los EEUU y la revolución se atasca.

24 septiembre 1907 - Ricardo Flores Magón, Librado Rivera, y Antonio Villareal salen de la cárcel de Los Ángeles, California, donde estaban encerrado por supuestamente haber "resistido arresto." En verdad, fueron detenidos por el sicario Thomas Furlong, agente de Porfirio Díaz, por sus actividades revolucionarias. Ese mismo día los vuelven a arrestar bajo cargos federales por supuestamente haber violado la Ley de Neutralidad. De nuevo, el arresto es otro caso descarado de represión política.

23 septiembre 1911 - publicación del Manifiesto del Partido Liberal Mexicano, que declara la primacía de los derechos humanos, incluso los de la mujer y respeto al pueblo indígena, y exige un final al capitalismo y autogestión en los campos y las fábricas.(http://espora.org/biblioweb/manifiesto23sep.html) 23 septiembre 1941 - primera manifestación laboral en pro de la autogestión en las industrias nacionalizadas. "Más de 200 obreros de la Cooperativa de Vestuario y Equipo (ubicada en Tacubaya y que era en realidad la fábrica estatal que elaboraba los uniformes del ejército y la policía) se habían puesto en huelga en demanda de mejores salarios y condiciones laborales. Pasaron las semanas y no se resolvían sus peticiones por lo que, el 21 de septiembre de 1941, decidieron dirigirse a la casa del presidente Ávila Camacho para solicitarle que interviniera para resolver el conflicto. La respuesta presidencial fue contundente: ordenó que la tropa abriera fuego contra quienes se habían atrevido a paralizar la confección de los uniformes verdes y azules y, más aún, a molestarlo en su domicilio en la colonia Del Valle (aún no se instalaba en Los Pinos porque estaba "modernizando" la casa). Nueve obreros murieron, entre ellos el secretario general del sindicato (que era comunista), y 20 más quedaron heridos." (http://www.lafogata.org/003latino/latino2/mex_represion.htm)

23 septiembre 1965 - asalto al cuartel del ejército porfirista del municipio de Madera, Chihuahua. El maestro Arturo Gámiz mobiliza la Unión General de Obreros y Campesinos de México para una serie de atentados contra la familia Ibarra, familia rica acusada de asesinar a dos campesinos en un conflicto sobre 18 mil hectáreas de tierra. Pablo Gómez Ramírez, médico y maestro en la primaria Flores Magón de la comunidad rural de Saucillo, Chihuahua, era otro dirigente del grupo guerrillero que atacó el cuartel.

Los sobrevivientes del atentado fallido, el "Movimiento 23 de Septiembre," continúan su lucha en la sierra entre Sonora y Chihuahua bajo el mando de Oscar González hasta 1968. (En 1966, algunos de ellos se trasladan a Guerrero para incorporarse al Partido de los Pobres con Lucio Cabañas.)

15 marzo 1973 - organización que aglutina las vanguardias político-militares restantes después de la matanza de Tlatelolco adopta el nombre "Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre." Se esfuerza por organizar la clase obrera en una liga independiente del Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM) y cuenta con "cantidades de adherentes a lo largo de la república, principalmente en áreas urbanas." En las universidades, la liga se organiza en autodefensa armada en contra de los "porros" pagados por los funcionarios del PRI.

23 septiembre 1993 - estallido de la huelga de la minera Sosa Texcoco en Ecatepec, Estado de México. Después de varios años del paro, los obreros regocijan la victoria.

¿Viven aún los rasgos de este patrimonio? ¿Exisitirá aún la memoria histórica de la comunidad luchadora, que recuerda a sus propixs héroes y conmemora las fechas de su propia gloria? ¿Resurgirá algún día el espíritu de autonomía acompañada por la voluntad de defenderla?

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2011/03/245075.php

Claremont Authorities Promote Fascism at Hate Rally

by Rockero Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 at 4:10 AM
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

CLAREMONT, California - Despite the best efforts of the City of Claremont and the Claremont Consortium of Colleges to obstruct, befuddle, and otherwise thwart a popular demonstration against fascism, the Southern California community succeeded in doing precisely that at two parallel demonstrations in response to a heavily-armed presence of a band of racist paramilitaries and their state-funded protectors.

The neo-nazi National Socialist "Movement," who have spearheaded overt manifestations of fascism and targetted immigrant and Jewish communities in Southern California's Inland Empire in the past year, held a brief demonstration of hatred at the corner of Indian Hill and Foothill in the city of Claremont, allegedly to make a statement about illegal immigration. The NSM's mouthpiece, a Riverside-dwelling boor named Jeff Hall, (the same imbecile who missed his own first rally due to car trouble) also admitted to some other motives, telling corporate media outlets that his gaggle of losers was also opposing the students of the Claremont Colleges for expressing pro-immigrant sentiment, and that they had been invited by local racists.

While Claremont is famed primarily for its private, elitist liberal arts colleges and its overprices shopping and entertainment district, it also has a dark legacy of racism and reactionary activity.

At the time of white colonization, what is now Claremont was a settlement of Yuhaviatam (Serrano) people. Like most indigenous Californians, their language is Shoshonean, part of the Uto-Aztecan family that also includes many of the indigenous languages of Mexico.

Under Spanish domination, the Yuhaviatam people were dispossesed of their lands and disenfranchised. Despite a violent uprising in 1812 carried out in coordination with the Cahuilla and Yuma peoples, in 1834 most were forced to live at the Spanish missions and were robbed of their religion.

Under the Americans, they suffered even worse fates, including the infamous 1856 massacre by American vigilantes, which lasted 32 days.

The racist Revilo P. Oliver, who attended Pomona College in the early 1900s, when on to promote racist ideologies, giving them a veneer of intellectual legitimacy. Alex Linder, another product of Pomona College, runs the white supremacist website Vanguard News Network.

In 1999, Claremont police officers Hany Hanna and Kent Jacks shot and killed Irvin Landrum, Jr, a young black man at a traffic stop. The weapon they attempted to pin on him to justify the murder was traced to a retired Ontario police chief and laborotory tests showed that it had never been fired. The pigs were subsequently awarded as "employees of the year."

During the same year, Nazi Party member Richard Bunck ran for Claremont city council and school board, while Hale McGee, who had operated a nazi bookstore, also pursued a council seat.¹

Since about 2009, Claremont has been home to the racist Minuteman outfit "We the People, California's Crusader," whose members, Robin Hvidston and Raymond Herrera, opted for a PO Box adjacent to the ultraconservative and reactionary Claremont Institute when the Minutemen began to become unmasked as violent racists in the wake of the murder of nine-year-old Brisenia Flores by Shawna Forde's band of Arizona Minutemen.

Also in 2009, the ultraconservative Mountain View Republica Club invited the racist founder of the Minuteman Project, Jim Gilchrist, to speak to their club on April 20. The club as since invited representatives of the hate group Numbers USA to speak to its membership.

Claremont is represented in Washington by the self-hating homophobe and racist Republican David Dreier, and recently sent the racist Minuteman Tim Donnelly to the state assembly as their representative. Donnelly has already introduced numerous anti-immigrant legislative assaults, that, while sure to go nowhere, are frightful by their very nature and encourage racist assaults of other types. Donnelly was recently listed among the Southern Poverty Law Center's "23 Candidates on the Radical Right".

It is easy to see, then, why the nazis see this city as a base of power.

Early efforts to organize opposition were confounded, first by city officials who refused the organizers of a peace rally a permit for Memorial Park, only to then reserve it themselves for the rally, creating much confusion in the process. However, despite ultimately allowing the demonstration to proceed, the city did not allow for amplified sound, effectively dooming the effort to send a powerful message of peace and racial harmony.

The colleges, meanwhile, were jockeying for control over the counterdemonstration, first encouraging it to take place on-campus, then, when unable to wrest control from the city, slandered student organizers with the statement:

"Several other individuals and groups, including those that are interested in inciting the crowd, typically attend these types of events. Some of these people are sympathizers or followers of the NSM, while others may not be affiliated in any way, they frequently are more interested in creating a lawless environment."

And discouraged students from attending at all, writing that "[b]ecause of the potential for violence, we encourage you to avoid the NSM rally and to, at all times, be aware of your surroundings and make safety your top priority."

Nonetheless, the efforts of the authorities did not dampen the will of upwards of 500 passionate protesters, who filled Memorial Park and participated in sign-making, Native and Christian prayer ceremonies, and heard from speakers from numerous student, community, and religious groups.

Three blocks north, approximately twenty nazis enjoyed enjoyed the protection of approximately 150-200 police officers and sheriffs from as many as five local jurisdictions. They were dressed in riot gear, carried tear gas-projectile-launching weapons, and there were reports of the "sound gun." The SWAT team was present, and a team of officers filmed and photographed counterdemonstrators from their perch atop the U.S. Bank in direction violation of the Handschu agreement.

As with most anti-nazi demonstrations, most activists saw the occasion more as an organizing opportunity than an opportunity to genuinely halt fascist activity, especially in light of the awareness that the FBI conducts surveillance at these events specifically to target antiauthoritarians and other practitioners of direct action.

Immigrant rights advocates offered that the best way to combat racism was to fight for a comprehensive immigration reform, revolutionary socialists argued for revolution against capitalism, and antiauthoritarians took the opportunity to highlight the parallels between the paramilitary neo-nazis and their state-sanctioned and taxpayer-funded protectors.

Once again, the nazis failed to articulate a cogent message, and came off as a weak bunch of ex-cons easily-identifiable by the prison-quality tattoos.

After just about an hour of their offensive "sig heiling" and hate speech, they retreated to their cars and the people again took the streets.

And once again, by displaying their repulsive countenances in public, they have provided the resistance with vital information about their identities, which will be passed to the appropriate parties to be used at a future date.

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1. Woods, Wes II and David Allen. "Neo-Nazi rally to be held in Claremont," Daily Bulletin. March 11, 2011. http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_17596439

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Prayer circle

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Prayer circle

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Prayer circle

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A nazi attempted to infiltrate the peaceful event at the park with a young child. His information will be revealed at a later date.

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Surveillance. Which ones are the fascists?

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While appearing numerous, the police greatly inflate their presence.

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Counter rally at corner

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Diverse, multigenerational multitudes stand in opposition

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Costumes

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Budget priorities. Protect nazis: Top priority. Education and programs for children, the disabled, and the elderly: First to get cut.

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WSA flyer

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WSA flyer handed out at rally