September 22, 2007

Zapatista bases fear violent evacuation by police

Zapatista Bases Fear a Violent Evacuation by Members of the UES and Police

It is Being Reported that People from the Town of Nuevo Gracias a Dios are Buying High-Powered Weapons; The Town of 24 de Diciembre is Surrounded by Police and Paramilitary Apprentices

By Hermann Bellinghausen
La Jornada
September 21, 2007
by way of Narco News
Autonomous Municipality of San Pedro de Michoacán, Chiapas. September 17, 2007: If what the Union of Forest Landownders (UES, in its Spanish initials) has been saying in their coming and going from Cruz del Rosario and Nuevo Momón to the settlement of Nuevo Gracias a Dios (recently built on lands that support bases of the EZLN from the town of 24 de Diciembre recently regained) is true, this coming October 8 they will start the evacuation of the Zapatista community, with support, they say, of the sector police, who has been camping on the opposite end of the Zapatista grounds.
The Good Government Council (Junta de Buen Gobierno, JBG) of Hacia La Esperanza has documented that this group of people is “buying high powered weapons.”
http://www.narconews.com/

Mexico used rape and torture in drug war; women and children were victims:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-09-21-mexico-army_N.htm

Updated: Censorship: Only the media knows

By Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

No one knows better, or more clearly, than the U.S. media about the censorship that has taken place since the first bomb fell on Baghdad. At that moment, I happened to be driving passed the oil fields of Odessa in West Texas. I watched a flock of large buzzards, lined up in a row, each taking a singular turn to rip flesh from the carcass. Those of us who were censored and terminated in the years that followed the bombing of Iraq, were meant to be silenced about the War, torture, Rumsfeld profiteering from the sale of Tamiflu for bird flu, the role of Raytheon and all the other hidden agendas behind the profiteering. But we were never silenced.
Read more:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/censorship-only-media-knows.html

Priests face prison to expose torture -- A call to the media!

By Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

Two priests facing prison to expose torture, Fr. Louis Vitale and Fr. Steven Kelly, returned to federal court in Tucson on Friday. The U.S. is attempting to silence the priests and prevent them from exposing the role of the United States in torture, in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Hopefully, news reporters around the world will not let this happen:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/priests-face-prison-to-expose-torture.html

Attorney Peter Schey takes on Sanctuary case

Simi Valley, Calif., bills sanctuary church $39,000 for police services during protest

Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
http://www.centerforhumanrights.org/
Read Attorney Peter Schey's letter to City Mayor, Attorney and Police Chief:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/attorney-peter-schey-takes-on-sanctuary.html