Article by Heather R. Putnam; video and image by Bradley Stuart
Wednesday, November 9th was a day of action at UC Santa Cruz. Workers, graduate and undergraduate students, UCSC faculty, K-12 teachers, union members, and others gathered for a march from campus to downtown to speak out not only against budget cuts in education, but also to highlight the inseparability of the issues of educational justice and wealth disparity on our campuses, in our community, our nation, and the world.
Hundreds of people protested in Richmond on March 15th, 2008, to demand that Chevron stop stealing oil around the world while polluting our communities. The actions were in solidarity with the peoples, plants and animals of Ecuador, Nigeria, Burma, Iraq, Alberta and every other community exploited and poisoned by Chevron (Texaco, Unocal, etc!)
SlideShow of photos taken on September 1st, 2006, during Oaxaca’s 5th MegaMarcha which started in the community of San Felipe and ended at the zócalo in the center of Oaxaca City. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets and marched to demand the immediate departure of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO), liberation for political prisoners, the cancellation of 70 government arrest warrants for people involved in the leaderless Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO, by its Spanish initials) movement and the desire for popular governance.
SlideShow of photos taken in Oaxaca City during the last week of August 2006 with compiled audio from the 2006 “El Enemigo Común” tour.
For more information on resistance to neoliberalism in Oaxaca, please see the website for the film El Enemigo Común and follow the links.
On July 8, 2005, there was a West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization Against the Group of Eight (G8) held in the Mission District of San Francisco. The demonstration in SF was in solidarity with the mobilization against the G8 summit taking place in Scotland.
There were also solidarity demonstrations that took place in Kansas City and Richmond.