AIM West Annual Conference 2014

AIM-West coast 7^th annual Conference:

Date:  November 21-22,

(on 23^rd protest Washington football mascot on site at Levy Stadium, in Santa Clara)

Time:  9 – 6 pm (daily-lunch included)

Place:  California Institute of Integral Studies

               1453 Mission St. SF CA 94103

               www.ciis.edu  (415-575-6100)

AIM-WEST Unthanksgiving Dinner “Eagle feast with the Condor”:

Date:  November 26^th

Time:  12 – 5 pm

Place:  The Bahai Faith Center

               170 Valencia Street

               San Francisco, CA (415-431-9990)

AIM-WEST “Red and Blues” Native American Day Concert!

Date:  Friday, November 28^th

Time:  4 pm – 10 pm

Place:  Arlene Francis Center for Politic, Art, and Spirit

              99  6^th St.  Santa Rosa, CA

See website for more details at www.aimwest.info 

 AIM-WEST 5^th International Film Festival:

Date:  Sunday, October 12, International Day of Resistance to Colonization (1492-2014)

Time:  10 am – 11:30 am pre-event with traditional dancers, drummers & singers

              12 noo – 9 pm film screening, see website for listing and schedule

Place:   Arlene Francis Center for Politic, Art, and Spirituality

               99  6^th St.  Santa Rosa, California (707-528-3009)

AIM West Film Festival Oct 12 2014

AIM-WEST 5^th International Film Festival:

Date:  Sunday, October 12, International Day of Resistance to Colonization (1492-2014)

Time:  10 am – 11:30 am pre-event with traditional dancers, drummers & singers

              12 noo – 9 pm film screening, see website for listing and schedule

Place:   Arlene Francis Center for Politic, Art, and Spirituality

               99  6^th St.  Santa Rosa, California (707-528-3009)

SOA Watch 'End Police Violence, Militarization at Home and Abroad

From Mexico to Ferguson:  End Police Violence & Militarization at Home and Abroad The militarized "solutions" taught at the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC) are also being applied to communities within the US. We need to end the racist system of state violence and militarization at home and abroad. They thought they would just be arrested. But something else awaited them On September 26, 43 students who were protesting discriminatory hiring practices for teachers in Mexico disappeared at the hands of the Mexican police and are feared to have been handed  over by the police to drug cartels or criminal gangs to be executed. Mass graves have been found on the outskirts of Iguala in the Mexican state of Guerrero, where the students were protesting. The bodies have yet to be identified. Six students were also murdered as the police shot at the students during the protest and then detained others, including the 43 who have been forcefully disappeared. This police massacre is just another example of murder, kidnapping, and brutality by the Mexican police and military that often go unpunished despite the fact that the collaboration between the police, drug cartels, and organized crime is well known. The US continues to fund and train the Mexican security forces at the School of the Americas and other sites under the umbrella of fighting the failed drug war, while Mexican civilians and activists continue to be killed. Click here for more information.

A quienes escuchen en este México de sangre y de dolor (Blood and Pain in Mexico)

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The Blood and Pain in Mexico
(Computer translation excerpt) Enrique Peña Nieto and those behind him operate with the old style of dictatorships and the new discourse of "democracy", that is, with the best and most perfect style of Mexican political wickedness, being made to build a country that crime is a state policy, that is where everything is available for the right price, where the cost-benefit any life is expendable. We live under a system where the political cost is outsourced, meaning that those in power use to other political figures to assume the responsibility of horror, and these in turn outsource the political cost and the legal consequences to others, until at end, when the entire political class has been achieved demarcate the slaughter, when the system is safe, "get to the end to do justice" meaning that mess just a few of the cops-assassins who shot to jail ( and that in the best case). In Ayotzinapa, as in many other parts of Mexico, the groups in power will do everything possible to be the responsibility of a few people "expendable" for the system of impunity and violence to continue their brutal way. Mexico's political system is corrupt, corruption is the political system of Mexico. Translator

A quienes escuchen en este México de sangre y de dolor.Nodo de Derechos Humanos
Les trois passants
Comisión Takachiualis de Derechos Humanos
Proyecto de Animación y Desarrollo

¿Cómo se puede empezar a escribir una carta pensando en Ayotzinapa sin formular muchas preguntas? El terror y la falta de palabras para describir el sentimiento tan profundo y terrible provocan muchas dudas, inquietudes, corajes y desgarrados pensamientos. 

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