* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario.

As this text is written, Lusbi Portillo, professor at Zulia University (in Maracaibo) and environmental activist in solidarity with the indigenous movement is in hiding to protect his life and physical integrity. During the events of October 13 in the Sierra de Perijá two yukpas were killed and five more wounded in a conflict arising from the demarcation of indigenous land. The regional police announced that an arrest warrant against the professor for “drug possession” was imminent. This is not the first time the professor is criminalized for his active solidarity with the demands of the original peoples, but because the way the events are evolving – an investigation of the events has been decreed “national security” by the authorities – he decided to take preventive measures by going into hiding.

Looking at health inequalities in Canada, and how class and nation have affected the course of the H1N1 pandemic here, and what is likely in the months to come.

* The editorial collective of El Libertario denounces the criminal attack that took place on October 13, 2009 against the Yukpa people in the Sierra of Perija in Western Venezuela, resulting in two indigenous persons dead and several wounded. The following article –about the tactic and strategy of “Revolutionary Venezuelan” Ethnocide- describes the events.

We have just published a booklet, "From Nationalism to Internationalism. "

A friend of mine brought my attention to this story a few weeks ago and since it hasn't received much media attention in Montréal so I spent some time today putting together this summary.

It's now been more than a month that the Cornwall Customs office and the Seaway International Bridge linking Cornwall with Massena, New York have been closed. Border guards left their position overnight between May 31 and June 1st, because of opposition from the Akwesasne Mohawk community (where the office is located) to see armed Canadian Customs officers on their territory.

An invitation from the Fédération des femmes du Québec, the Committee for Human Rights in Latin America  (CDHAL) and the Comité de solidarité avec les femmes de Ciudad Juarez

BARRIO TERRAZAS PERSONA NON GRATA

Friday, April 3, 2009 from 12h to 13 h

In Montréal :
Mexican Consulate in Montreal
2055, Peel, between Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke (Peel Metro).

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:: Féminicides au Mexique, par le CDHAL

* The following article was originally published on Jan. 30 2009 in El Mundo, a Caracas daily. Written by a member of the editorial collective of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario , it calls attention to what we fear is a bloody attack against these original inhabitants of the western part of the country.

17 December 2008 - Action alert by Amnesty International USA

MEXICO - Jorge Martinez Guzman, a detainee in the Pacho Viejo prison (Centro de Readaptacion Social de Pacho Viejo), Veracruz State, was tortured by a group of unidentified men during the night of 25 November.

'pain compliance' perfect description of Conservative's aboriginal policy, say community spokespeople

Québec et Canada utilisent la police anti-émeutes, le gaz lacrymogène et la force sur les familles Algonquins du Lac Barrière non violent. La soumission à la douleur: "la parfaite description de la politique des Conservateurs à l'égard des premières nations" dit le porte-parole de la communauté.

The proletariat (and the masses of the “Indian” poor), is in tow to national-reformism it is incapable of interpreting in an independent way its own class role, separated as it is from what are at present the almost non-existent communist vanguards.