Border Wall Coverage and Immigration Videos

This some great border wall coverage from our faithful TV journalist,
Victor Castillo...

http://www.cristiano.net/victorhugocastillo/videos/

For the border wall, check the first two links. On down are a couple
of great investigative pieces on the internment camp in Raymondville.

Jay


Thanks to:
Jay
jay@villadelrio.com

AUSTIN: Transforming Juvenile Justice in Texas -- NOV 12

Blue Ribbon Panel Nov2007

TRANSFORMING JUVENILE JUSTICE IN TEXAS

SPEAKERS

Dr. David W. Springer

Chair, Blue Ribbon Task Force &

Associate Dean and Professor, UT-Austin School of Social Work

Dr. Juan Sánchez

El Presidente, CEO Southwest Key Program

Susana Almanza

Coordinator, Texas Coalition Advocating Justice for Juveniles (TCAJJ)

Michele Deitch

Adjunct Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs

When: Monday, November 12, 2007

Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Where: Eastwood Room

UT-Austin Campus-Texas Union Building

BLUE RIBBON TASK FORCE REPORT

For More Information

Call 472-9921

Courtesy of:
Luissana Santibanez
lsantibanez@mail.utexas.edu

ARTICLE: Removal, Round-up, and Detention of Protesters in Oaxaca

November 2, 2007 - Kolectivo Todxs Somos Presxs writes: One year from the attempt of the Federal Preventative Police (PFP) to bring down the barricades of 5 Señores and Soriana (in Oaxaca City). Today, November 2, 2007, various people congregated at the crossing of 5 Señores in order to set up altars and tapetes for the Day of the Dead, to honour our more than 23 comrades assassinated by state and federal government during the Oaxacan movement.

At 6:30 am approximately, the sand for the tapetes was being placed and part of the 5 Señores crossing was blocked. At this time, the state police was already surrounding the area with motorcycles. At approximately 7:30 am, various truckloads with state police aboard and bunker trucks full of state police arrived. All were armed and were pointing their weapons at the people that were at the crossing, they surrounded the place and started to follow whoever ran and started to detain people.

At present, we know of approximately 15 compañeras and compañeros who were detained that were transferred to installations of the Secretariat for Citizen Protection (CEPROCI) and to the Office of the State Attorney General that are located in the neighborhood colonia Experimental, on the outskirts of the city. (en español)


WE HOLD THE SECRETARY OF PUBLIC SECURITY SEGRESTES RIOS (FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE STATE COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN OAXACA) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF ALL OF OUR DETAINED COMPAÑER@S.

WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ALL OF OUR DETAINED COMPAÑER@S!
Stop the repression!
Kolectivo Todxs Somos Presxs (We are all Prisoners Collective)

For more information: http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx; www.narconews.com; http://otravancouver.resist.ca

Courtesy of: David

An open letter to the Organization of American States

Good afternoon...

For over a year many of us in the U.S. have been actively opposing the border wall. Many of us have also been extremely active in opposing the concentration camps and prison camps that exploit the immigrant...in privatized "for-profit" detention facilities. Here in Texas, two such profit prisons are targets of our constant protests. T. Don Hutto in Taylor, Texas that has hundreds of children and their mothers from dozens of different countries...which receives about $10,000 per child per day. The other is in Raymondville, TX, which is a ten tent concentration camp, that has upwards of 2000 immigrants from some 50 different lands. This facility is expanding to add 1000 more beds.

Such facilities are being built all across the country. It is the intent of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to imprison (for profit) and deport the millions of undocumented immigrants that reside in our country. The operation is called the "End Game". ( http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/endgame.pdf ).

On May 8, 2007, the UN Human Rights Commission, Special Rapporteur, Sr. Jorge Bustamante, came to Texas specifically to inspect the human rights violations against the immigrant children at the Hutto children's' prison. We collaborated with Sr. Bustamante and held a protest vigil in front of the prison camp. As you are no doubt aware, Sr. Bustamante was denied access by Secretary of DHS, Chertoff.

We would like you of the OAS to know that there is a vast network here in Texas and all across the US that are vehemently opposed to these crimes against our human family. We have attorneys, professors, journalists, business leaders, faith based organizations, human rights organizations, military and common citizens who are outraged over these atrocities.

Every day, all across the country, hundreds and sometimes thousands of immigrants are being rounded up and imprisoned like criminals...without any due process or civil liberties. The legislated goal of the ruling elite is to have a daily average of 41,000 immigrants in these for-profit prison camps. This is the darkest form of capitalism since slavery. Now, these facilities are "working" the detainees at the rate of $1 per day. These prison camps are turning into slave labor camps.

When the OAS does investigate the conditions here, we the grassroots citizens, would like to collaborate with your visits with some protests. Our network can provide you with information from all over the US that you would not other be able to gather up as a result of the prevailing secrecy. We have already done much of this info gathering and would be most eager to share the hard facts of this national and international tragedy with you. From some 30 states, we have been actively opposed to the trauma that is being conducted against innocent, desperate and helpless people.

Please help us as we try to help you...

In solidarity...

Jay

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Freedom Ambassadors
Connecting the Dots...Making a Difference
Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.
jay@villadelrio.com
(830)768-0768 (when in Del Rio)
(830734-8636 (cell-when on the road)
Please read my column: Inside the Checkpoints http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns3.asp