[OccupyComms] [KLF] Future International Protests

[Patrick Cuninghame]

July 1st is election day in Mexico, can any action be taken around that?
The students in some private universities especially the Iberoamericano
have been active against the far right candidate Peña Nieto, the butcher of
Atenco in 2006, who ordered the murder of two youths and the mass rape of
over 30 women by police, and against the campaign of lies and manipulation
being carried out by the two main networks Televisa and Tele Azteca in his
favour. when the students were accused by the rightist press of being PRD
(centre left party) activists 131 put out a video on You Tube showing their
student ID cards showing they were bonafide students and demonstrators. BTW
Peña Nieto was basically insulted, humiliated and expelled from one of the
main private universities on Friday 11th may, a completely new development
in mexican politics as these students are mostly middle and upper-middle if
not upper class origin. On Friday 18th May there was the March of the 132
(131 plus everyone else) to picket Televisa and TeleAzteca. On Saturday
there was a march by 100,000 plus students and everyone else united against
Peña Nieto but not necessarily in favour of any other candidate. Today,
Monday 21st May, there is a big gathering of students and youth in the
Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the centre of Mexico City, where the infamous
massacre of over 500 students and other activists took place on 2nd October
1968 just before the Olympic Games. It is being called by Lopez Obrador,
the main centre-left candidate, who says he wants to expand all education
especially higher. We shall see.
cheers,
Patrick



2012/5/21 Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com>

> FYI
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: claudia bernardi <clod.zeta at gmail.com>
> Date: 21 May 2012 16:47
> Subject: Re: [Squares] [reseau-europe] MANIFESTATION EUROPEENNE A FRANCFORT
> To: squares at lists.takethesquare.net
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like just to give more informations about the transnational
> meeting that took place on 19.05 at the University of Frankfurt before
> the demo. Activists, collectives and networks from Italy, Germany,
> Greece, Tunisia, Spain, France, Finland, Norway discussed about the
> next steps after Blockupy.
>
> We stressed the necessity of discussing more about the construction of
> political network; the issues we want to develop; the projects we can
> create together. So we need:
>
> - a transnational platform to share translated materials, texts and
> videos in different languages.
>
> - a mumble platform of connection: not a place of useless
> multiplication of groups, but an easy organization of discussion.
>
> - a meeting that should take place in the mediterranean space on
> september, hopefully Greece, but if not possible Madrid would be the
> best place.
>
> - common days of mobilization have been proposed. Spain proposed 16th
> of June during elections in Greece and 15 of October again. To launch
> a week/ month of action on October, as it has been this may, would be
> a good way to enlarge participation, share practices and connect
> struggles on different but close days on october.
>
> I think that a statement or communiqué will be shared soon,
>
> hug
>
> claudia
>
> (Esc Atelier/ Unicommon, italy)
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:05 PM, sergio bummelbaum <bummelbaum at gmx.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > one of the main organizers of the protest and actiondays is the
> > "interventionist left" (il). the il was also main organizer of the
> > blockades of the g8-summit in heiligendamm in 2007 and of the blockades
> > against the neo-nazi-marches in dresden (germany) in 2010, 2011, 2012.
> >
> > saturday morining, before the demo, there was an international meeting
> > in frankfurt with people of italy, greece, spain, tunesia, france and
> > others. the agreement was to make a physical meeting in august/
> > september in madrid or barcelona to consider how to go one with the
> > european (and beyond) perspective of the protests.
> >
> > i will write futher informations.
> >
> > here is the web-site:
> > http://www.dazwischengehen.org/
> >
> > best,
> > daniel
> >
>
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