From jjgillingham at gmail.com Tue Nov 6 07:46:13 2007 From: jjgillingham at gmail.com (jason gillingham) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:46:13 -0500 Subject: [Sethreports] yes Message-ID: <5c6232050711060746l49cc383ex320081ad32236f1b@mail.gmail.com> and could i please play on your radio show again? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From seth at resist.ca Tue Nov 6 08:06:45 2007 From: seth at resist.ca (Seth Porcello) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:06:45 -0800 Subject: [Sethreports] From the No Borders Camp: Conversations at the Wall Message-ID: <396E4865-874C-46F3-9E01-E39978111908@resist.ca> From the No Borders Camp: Conversations at the Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- To Listen or Download: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/05/18458414.php OR http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=25370 ------------------------------------------------------------------- This 4.5min report listens to voices from both sides of the border fence in Calexico California, as people meet their loved ones through the barrier that separates them. This report is part of the No Borders Camp convergence on the US Mexico Border. For more information see http://noborderscamp.org Transcript: To walk from Calexico, California to Mexicali, Mexico is only a matter of walking down a sidewalk, through some steel revolving gates, and out onto the Mexicali streets. To walk from Mexicali to Calexico however requires papers, visas, interactions with border patrol, and usually waiting in a huge line. The two cities, while divided, are economically and socially one. In any other North American city they would be considered different neighborhoods, but here, they are divided by a steel wall policed on only one side. Families and friends who have been separated by the border, often meet on both sides of the fence to talk, or squeeze money through the steel grid to relatives in Mexicali, and see what little they can of their loved ones. Standing in Calexico, I interviewed one man in Mexicali through the border fence: What I can say about this fence? This fence is a form of discrimination. It's a form of discrimination because all Americans can come to Mexico without a problem but Mexicans cannot go the United States. Every American can enter and leave through this fence, but Mexicans cannot. Why? Because they need papers. When I look at this fence, it's something that has no right to exist. Why did they put up this barrier? Is it discrimination against Mexicans, or, I don't know, something racial. I met Maria, who asked that her real name not be used, why she had come to the Calexico side of the border fence. Why? I came to see my family. Through? Through the fence, yes. They have to be on the other side of the fence, and me inside. Its a difficult situation, yes, but they have to. We have to be strong, for many things, for our families who we don't see, for the home, for many things we have to have courage. And you can't cross the border. No I can't cross the border. Is this fence just? No, it's not just, but what can we do. If it could be done I would go. No it's not just. Reporting from Calexico, Mexicali, and the imaginary space in between, this is seth porcello ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- For more no borders audio check out the no borders site: http://noborderscamp.org/en/no-borders-audio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From seth at resist.ca Tue Nov 6 16:45:55 2007 From: seth at resist.ca (Seth Porcello) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:45:55 -0800 Subject: [sethreports] From the No Borders Camp: What It Is And Where We Are Message-ID: <885D4CC7-523D-4BE2-A807-D0A87B42FB90@resist.ca> From the No Borders Camp: What It Is And Where We Are ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- To Listen or Download: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/06/18458580.php OR http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=25380 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- What it is and where we are. This 5min9sec radio doc gives a quick introduction to the ideas behind the No Borders Camp, the purpose of the No Borders Camp, and then takes a sound walk through the border at Calexico with No Borders Camp participant Mario Alejandro Cobar. The sound of a border is very often the sound of those who are divided trying to communicate; the human voices that break the silence. When I was in the Golan Heights I recorded the sounds of families who were separated by the minefield between Israel and Syria shouting through bullhorns to each other on opposite sides. They came in the mornings, when it was quietest, so that they could hear the echoes clearly as they bounced across the valley. Here in Calexico/Mexicali the sound is not the shouting heard through a bullhorn, but the private whispers of loved ones and acquaintances as they lean into to wall. But as is always the case, the sound of the border extends much farther than just the sounds heard at a barrier, or the echoes heard through a valley. The sound of a border extends through the entire geography which it marks, and the entire world which it separates. It is the sound of a border ballad as well as the border patrol, and it can be heard in the immigrant rights movement as well as the movement of migrants and farm workers through the Sonoran desert. Borders have always been places of intense movement and interaction, where cultures meet and freely appropriate. What's new about these borders, like the one in Golan and Fortress North America is that they attempt to interrupt that process. Their sounds reflect this. While it took Mario and I less than a minute to walk into Mexico, it took me almost 40mins to get back out afterwards, and that was with a US passport. For many in Mexicali, this is a daily commute - which is to say that the border system is a part and an extension of the economic system in the southwest. From migrant workers, to Maquiladora refugees, to small time entrepreneurs and smugglers buying low in Calexico and selling high in Mexicali, it is inherently a part of the neo-liberal ideology of free capital and stuck people. --------------------------------------------------------------- To hear more from the US Mexico Border, visit: http://noborderscamp.org/en/no-borders-audio --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From seth at resist.ca Sun Nov 11 23:48:17 2007 From: seth at resist.ca (Seth Porcello) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:48:17 -0800 Subject: [sethreports] From the No Borders Camp: Cross Border Kissing Booth Inspires La Migra to Violence Message-ID: <0E9F4330-B653-4235-BEE4-92295D742658@resist.ca> [ First I just want to write up some late breaking news about the No Borders Camp. Below you will also find a radio doc about the events last friday at the camp. ] Cross Border Kissing Booth Inspires La Migra to Violence The concluding action of the No Borders Camp was a rally on both sides of the border right at the Mexicali/Calexico port of entry. The rally included the installation of a cross-border kissing booth, which involved making a hole in the border fence approximately four inches in diameter. With the arrival of the Dept. of Homeland Security Border Patrol in large numbers, the peaceful demonstration was interrupted by police escalation. Border Patrol formed a line between protesters and the wall and then advanced on the crowd without warning, without a dispersal order, and seemingly without provocation. Several people were knocked down, one protester was hit repeatedly in the knee caps by several Border Patrol before being detained, and paint-ball guns loaded with pepper spray pellets were used to disperse the crowd. We have reason to believe one protester was beaten severely and detained and may or may not be receiving medical attention. Fleeing protesters were then surrounded and detained, before being allowed to disperse in fives. At least two protesters have been detained, and it is impossible at this time to confirm the exact number detained or the charges with which they are held. The No Border Camp IMC is currently in the process of releasing video of the police brutality online, which has been extensively filmed. A disturbing example is here: http://noborderscamp.org/en/border-patrol-agents-brutalize-non- violent-protestors-during-no-borders-camp-closing-ceremony Audio interviews with first hand experiences will also be posted and will be linked to here: http://noborderscamp.org/en/no-borders-media I think it is important to situate this recent violence within the larger context of border enforcement, for which the violence perpetrated to enforce the border is not exceptional but daily. For the over four hundred migrants buried in Holtville cemetery (since 1994) who died trying evade the very forces we confronted today, this violence is not exceptional but a fact of life and a fact of death. The brutal, uncoordinated, random violence you can watch on the event footage is both symptomatic and systematic. The Border Patrol is not law enforcement, and can only be understood as an occupation force whose mission is to control a contested space. Like all occupation forces, they end up trying to control the conflict they create, and displace the consequences of that control onto the population. The result is a sustained level of violence which tears apart communities, families, neighborhoods, and peoples lives. The occupation of the borderlands is a projection of state values in which peoples lives are acceptable casualties of economic objectives. The cheap exploited labor of the Mexican workers in the Maquiladoras we visited on wednesday were behind the wall we protested all week. Operation Gatekeeper began the same year NAFTA was signed. As the militarization of the border increases in man power and sophistication, so does the extent to which this racist system can jeopardize peoples lives. Our action today both confronts and exposes the violence of the border system, but so long as the holes we put in the fence today are repaired this occupation will continue to enforce a border state in which some lives are worth more than others, in which some people are given choices that others are denied, and in which justice is relativized and racialized. From the No Borders Camp: Breakfast at the Border ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Listen or Download: http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=63728 OR ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This radio doc takes you through our breakfast at the border, to conversations at the ICE detention center, highlighting peoples personal experience of each. Part of the - From the No Borders Camp - Radio Doc Series which can be found on indybay servers. For the first time on Friday both camps on both the North and South side were able to meet at the border gate directly. Unfortunately there was some "heat as we were trying to eat" resulting in an all morning stand off with the border patrol. This ended with the border patrol making some key consessions, including the removal of one of their jeeps and the removal of the riot cops who had formed a line on the Mexicali side. This was the biggest concession since the camp itself, making it possible to see our friends on the other side directly without climbing the wall, and leading to the first ever bi- national dance party to celebrate. Later that day, the No Borders Camp would visit the ICE Detention center in El Centro where men, women, and children are being detained awaiting immigration decisions. Carwil James was there to record the action. 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