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Viva Zapata -- Zapatistas in LA On April 7th, hundreds partcipated in the March for Zapata in East LA. La Opinion, the Los Angeles-based spanish language daily newspaper, filed this Report on the March. La.indymedia was experiencing some technical difficulties at the time and was unable to post a report on the event. Here, alas, are some original indymedia photos from the 7th: 1, 2, 3, 4.
On April 26, at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, there was a panel discussion on the Zapatistas featuring contributors to The Zapatista Reader, including Tom Hayden, Paco Taibo II, and Marianna Botey. The event was recorded and broadcast by RadioNation and it should be up on its website in a few days.
For a succinct review of recent events in Chiapas check out the Estacion Libre Report. And for on-going events in Chiapas go to Chiapas Indymedia.
The Comite Zapatista De Los Angeles, formed in late 2001, "takes on as its own the struggle for the same demands made by the Zapatistas around the world;" and is based right here in Southern California! Today, Saturday, May 11, in Lincoln Heights, there is a Benefit for the CZLA (the money raised goes primarily to autonomous Zapatista projects in Mexico that the CZLA supports).
An Exhibition of Questions.
With the IMC's Participation in the LACE Democracy When? show, we thought it appropriate to tip our hat to some other cultural institutions and opportunities around the town.
LACE is ending up looking like an infoshop with cultural clout. This reminded us of the Long Beach infoshop whose members and aquaintances are having so much trouble with the heat. Way accross town in Highland Park is the community center
Flor Y Canto that does the infoshop thing in a different way. Someone from the Heavenly Trip Gallery recently wrote about the Long Beach Art Scene. There is also a notable art show on "The Flag" taking place in Pasedena. Finally, we thought it important to give a notice to the great line-up at the anti-war Refuse and Resist concert at the Palace Theatre coming soon.
In addition, several other interesting opportunities have surfaced in our spheres. A-Clip, an international network that makes and screens short "urban-political" films in mainstream theaters is seeking co-colaborators. The LA based Center for the Study of Political Graphics and members of the Figueroa Cooridor Coalition are having a poster design contest for their campaign against the gentrification of the cooridor. KPFK is seeking artists, currators and web editors for their new arts projects.
Also, check out Paul Chan's brilliant essay/talk The Rewriting of the Disaster delivered at last fall's New Social Geographies and the Politics of Space Conference at Scripps College. Chan is a New York artist active in the New York Independent Media Center. In The Rewriting of the Distaster, which is subtitled "Thoughts on Independent Media, New Media, and the Work of Mourning," Chan reflects on his experiences in New York following September 11 and addresses strategies for activist-artists to make work that empowers people against the delimiting, cooptive mechanisms of the corporate/mainstream media.
And finally, in a moment of levity, here's a link to some horrible pro-republican gangsta rap someone be postin' onta da newswire.
Huge May Day March Opposes Attacks on Immigrants Ten thousand sprited protestors staged one of the largest May Day marches ever in LA. Drawn together by the ongoing attacks on immigrants that have gotten more intense since 9-11, day laborers, janitors, garment workers and other proletarians marched shoulder-to-shoulder with students, revolutionaries and immigrant and workers' rights advocates in the mainly-Latino demonstration. In addition to Mexico and Central America, there were contingents of Filipino, Korean, Chinese and Puerto Rican immigrants. A cacophony of percussion from Korean drummers, homemade noisemakers and Aztec dancers echoed down Broadway during the march to the LA Civic Center. Many marchers wore blue triangles with the names of those who have been disappeared by the government, using the events of September 11 as a pretext for racial profiling and roundups of Arabs and South Asians. Others demanded an end to immigration raids, and justice for immigrant workers.
Photos from May Day LA 2002: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Orange County May Day events were much smaller though no less exciting for this reporter. Photos from OC: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
And in an flexible interpretation of May First, Pasadena City College held its May Day events on May 2nd. Photos from PCC: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
[ Early Reportback from the Big March ]
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