016 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 4 POWER IN NUMBERS The struggle over borders strikes America’s streets PAGES 9 & 10 April 10, 2006 Mission Street, San Francisco indybay.org NEWSMAGAZINE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER Table of Contents u.c. students vs. military recruiters 2 11 hunger strike against hr4437 student victory in france 3 12 thai protests kick out prime minister visual takeover: gitmo in frisco 3 13 the end of net neutrality? calculated discrimination in bayview hunters point 4 14 bioremediation in new orleans greenscare: learning from cointelpro 6 15 reflecting on the life of luis kemnitzer africa and imperial oil 8 16 arts in action reviews immigration wars 10 17 interview with jel APRIL-MAY TWOTHOUSAND SIX free PHOTO: REZ | DESIGN: TIM UC Students French Government Give Military Caves into Protesters the san francisco bay Area Independent Tectonic THE BOOT “I wAs In the soRbonne when It wAs occupied. we weRe only 70 pacIfIsts In the begInnIng. thIngs chAnged Media center is a non-commercial, demo- on Friday when 200 to 300 People enteRed bY the wIndows And joIned us. FroM then It wAs Much hardeR to cratic collective of bay area independent shift pHOTO: bRAdLeY, SC-IMc contain the AngeR: thIngs weRe totally out of contRoL In the stReets.” –Anonymous student media makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of the Recruiters driven from santa cruz campus CPE legislation include giving employ- Despite a March 24 meeting be- Students then disrupted transit ers financial incentives to hire youth and tween De Villepen and the five major systems in Rennes, Nantes, and even global indymedia network. introduCing It’s been over a year and a half since proposals for protecting free speech to tax breaks for those companies that hire trade confederations, no compromise blockaded the Gare de Lyon in Paris. tHe neW fault lines the military has been able to effectively be adopted by administrators, who still unskilled youth, but it’s still necessary to was reached. The major trade unions in France Fault Lines recruit on this UC-Santa Cruz campus, banned media from the event. fight to ensure that new legislation will Spring has sprung, and the Fault Between 1.1 million and 2.7 million gathered support for another April 4 Mission Statement as all their attempts have been met by value the young workers of France and Lines collective has emerged from its The successful protest was also sig- demonstrated across France and the gen- general strike from the European Con- mass student actions. On April 11, in not treat them as disposable, temporary fault Lines, the newsmagazine of the san winter slumber with a new look and nificant in light of the fact that Univer- eral strike crippled public transport and federation of Trade Unions. This strike spite of the pouring rain and adminis- employees as the CPE did. francisco bay Area Independent Media fresh vision. We hope that these chang- sity administrators hired, at great cost public services on March 28. According was attended by even higher numbers trative attempts to stifle students’ free center, aims to give all communities the es reflect our continued commitment to to the school, a number of police from to a poll conducted by LCI that day, 62 than the one before. speech, Students Against War (SAW) opportunity to actively participate in a col- growth as a collective and as a radical other UC campuses. These police, lo- percent of French were ‘united’, or ‘in soli- Despite the withdrawal of the CPE A victory was won by the youth, stu- A Brief Synopsis of Actions: P lective process of media production and media source. So we are going to let a cal officers, and a top local offi- dents and workers of France on April hotos: www. distribution. by operating with transpar- little more personality shine through, cial physically assaulted multiple 10 when after more than three months ency, this newsmagazine hopes to achieve students without provocation In an initial response to the CPE, because though we may be tackling of actions, demonstrations and general student union bodies called for weeks the goal of allowing the public, not corpo- and repeatedly refused to provide tough subjects, we hope our readers take strikes, President Jacques Chirac caved li of meetings and mobilization starting bco rate conglomerations, to set the agenda for away more than just the latest evidence identification when requested. in to popular demand and revoked the Students were pushed, punched, January 30. M news coverage. our mission is to train and that our current system has our world CPE, (Contrat Première Embauche, or .o By March 7, up to a million high R empower marginalized voices. this pub- headed for collapse. We aim to inspire and choked, and a student’s hand ‘first employment contract’) portion of a g/b was slammed in a door. One stu- school students, higher education stu- L lication was created to be used as a tool and incite action. Take the words writ- labor law liberalization package. og dent, acting as a legal observer, dents, and young workers were actively for radical change in our communities by ten within these pages as a starting point The CPE was an amendment to the was pushed and arrested for doc- fighting against this blatant age-based exposing the stories and raising the issues for dialogue. eighth article of the “Statute on the umenting police surveillance, but discrimination. that the media plutocracy seeks to su- We will be having release parties Equality of Opportunities,” a law pro- was released after an immediate Protests took place throughout the press. we are the people, we are the media for each new issue as an opportunity to posed by Prime Minister Dominique display of student support. The country as half of French universities and we are dissenting from the ground up. continue that dialogue. You are invited de Villepin as a response to November’s student may face charges in the remained on strike. Students in Nantes to come and meet some of our writers, riots in suburban France. The CPE future, which SAW intends to occupied the central train station. At Students BlOck railroads leading to Gare DE designers, illustrators and photogra- amendment allowed employers to con- Get INvolved vehemently resist. In the face of the Sorbonne, a riot took place as CRS lyon, one of the main stations in paris. phers. We hope that you’ll welcome the PHOTO: BOB fITCH, BOBFITCHPHOTO.COM ditionally hire 18-26 year olds on two- the IMc has an open door. You can write administrative and police repression the prevented the demonstrators from gain- opportunity to explore with us the ideas year contracts under the terms that they for fault Lines, film events and rallies, organized over 150 students to march students remained remarkably peaceful. ing access to the university buildings. darity’ with the anti-CPE movement. and stories covered inside our magazine, can be fired at any time without any no- on April 10, students voted to continue self-publish articles to the web, take pho- from the center of campus to the job as well as take a few extra issues to dis- In response to the victory, SAW tice or explanation. On March 18, unions joined dem- The next day the president of UNEF, blockading universities and ports, and tos or just help us run the office. As an fair, where they nonviolently prevented member Sam Aranke responded, “Our onstrators and 1.5 million protested to- the main student union, Bruno Julliard, in Paris students gathered to call for tribute within your community . Intended to “make hiring more flex- organization relying entirely on volunteer access to military recruiters through demonstration today is a clear example gether across France. Rioting flared once was quoted in Le Figoro as saying, “We the resignations of Chirac, de Villle- Some of our changes may seem su- sit-ins and other measures. After about ible” for businesses, it became clear that support, we encourage all forms of par- of how tangible success can be when we again at the Place de la Nation in Paris will probably continue to call for new pin, and Sarkozy. perficial at first glance – we now call an hour and a half of negotiations and France did not support this discrimina- ticipation. take strategic actions against the war at where over 700,000 people demonstrat- demonstrations, but indeed, we will also ourselves a ‘newsmagazine,’ instead of tion disguised as labor reform. For up to the minute coverage of students’ refusal to back down, military a local level. It’s not just about the ac- ed. That night, 39 year old Cyril Ferez diversify our methods of action, some- the print working group reserves the right ‘newspaper’ – but considerable thought the struggle in English, please visit recruiters left the job fair. tion today, it’s about creating sustained As Fault Lines goes to print, students was trampled by CRS riot police and left times calling for gatherings, sometimes to edit articles for length, content, and was put into all aspects of our restyling. www.libcom.org/blog, the “Unrest in The students’ first victory appeared movements that directly resist the mili- across France continue to strike. De- in a coma. Disturbances were also re- indeed calling for the blocking of air- clarity. we welcome your participation in Part of this includes a change in our France” blog. early in the day, as administrators sepa- tarization of our communities.” spite the CPE being revoked, the battle ported in Rennes, Lille, and Tours.