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Table of Contents divine strake test cancelled 2 7 fisherman: damn the dams! e.f.f. sues at&t over n.s.a. surveillance 2 8 a different disaster in new orleans yes men vs. haliburton, clowns vs. recruiters 3 9 forced relocation at black mesa border activists face 15 years in jail 3 10 the fight for the south central farm modesto uncovers dow’s dirty laundry 4 12 atenco, oaxaca, & the other campaign pg&e leaves retreats from hunters point 5 14 bolivarian barrio 23 de enero pedestrian war zone in frisco streets 6 16 ultra arts in action super section

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warehouse identical to the hundreds around it. The farmers and their supporters have been engaged in defending the land for several years now, and on Tuesday June 13th at 5 a.m. squads of police cars and helicopters descended like a plague of locusts and evicted the farm. As I write this, the crops remain inside the locked fence, and protestors have set up nearby camps to watch for the bulldozers who will destroy the food-producing crops of South Central Farm. The farm was born out of social un- rest. In the wake of the 1992 riots that swept Los Angles, the city scrapped plans for a trash incinerator in the face of community protests. Instead they turned the land, which had been obtained from private owners using powers of “eminent domain,” into community gardens in conjunction with the L.A. Food Bank. Ten years later, the entire city block had been divided into small plots that produced sustenance for the Food Bank and hundreds of families in the area. About this time, Ralph Horowitz, one PHOTO: A. SAILBOAT A. PHOTO: of the original owners, sued the city Forty-four people were arrested in the eviction of the South Central farm. Many had locked to return the land to him because the their arms through concrete barrels or went limp to resist police evacuation nonviolently. stated use of it had not been enacted. The City of L.A., having forgotten the An underground more products to the warehouses where traffic, they raise corn, squash, sugar- stench of burning police cars and no freight train rumbles be- the trucks will pick them up and spread cane and tomatoes on hundreds of small longer willing to confront the power of neath the sidewalk and them out to the country’s malls. plots. Welcome to South Central Farm, real estate developers, bowed down and eighteen-wheeler trucks In the middle of this river of profit a patch of green in a sea of asphalt and handed the land back to Horowitz for start noisily loading at that flows from the textile mills of Chi- pavement. At the moment it is fenced a song. 4 a.m. An above-the- off and chained closed. If the twin forc- na to South Central Los Angeles and As I walked around the farm in the ground train is stopped es of commerce and development have beyond, there is an island — fourteen week before the eviction I felt amazed nearby, stacked high with rail boxes their way, within the next few weeks it acres of food-growing land, planted that only eighty years had passed since from China Shipping. More trains roar will all be ripped up, torn down, and and cared for by Mexican immigrants. the city started booming in the 1920s by every couple of hours, bringing ever transformed into another massive box Under a brown sky cut by constant jet and stopped supporting such crops. It’s JUNE-JULY 2006 PHOTOS FROM LEFT: REZ, REZ, A. SAILBOAT A. REZ, REZ, LEFT: FROM PHOTOS FAULT FAULT LINES In addition to food for 350 families, the Farm produces a chance for people of all ages and cultures to work together under the hot Los Angeles sun. People wept to see both destroyed on June 13th, as cops and bulldozers crushed their gardens and their dreams. Nevertheless, many continue to sleep 10 outside the now evicted farm and elderly farmers continue to bring food support and hold daily vigils. PHOTO: REZ what the fight over the South Central Central South the over fight That’s the what poisons. against plants death, vs. Life opportunities. business as wars sees that culture death psychotic same The concrete? this all of middle the in crops giving food up tear would society of kind what about wondered by,I roll traffic L.A. night Saturday amped-up and Alameda with a radio, watching the LAPD choppers. and threatening low-altitude flyovers by loud daily the as such circumstances ful stress under friendly staying at ability amazing showed who volunteers, rity secu excellent the working by organized and shifts rallies weekend the for signs making dirt, hauling out helped and them ignore to tried I afternoon. the during lebrities of smiling ce trickle steady a meant L.A. in which blitz, licity pub a of middle the the farm were also in of love. full and tight,strong was scene The sky. 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They to farm’s perimeter the around camped en now strong, going still are porters chains.with closed Angelesis Los sup The Greater of sea the in island dant bulldozers. the of controls the at be always, as will, estate. The invisible hand of the market real commercial to turn to slated is age Angles. in decline,a society Only a cul Los like desert concrete a in especially priceless, is food grows that land way: another it put to Or exorbitantsum? an the onus be on the farmers to raise such should Why frustrated. me make but events play out in that way couldn’t help Watchingraise. organiz to trying about which set ers land, the for dollars fered andpandulce. hotchocolate of and volunteers security us to selves them introduced daughter and mother a myself,as to thought about,I Farmis As million $16 demanded Horowitz FaultLines - goes to press,to goes ver the one-fifth of its acre its of one-fifth grown—roughly is supply food U.S.’s the of one-quarter fully where earth, on soil richest the tral Valley—some of Cen California’s in developments ness Wit toxic warehouses. of cluster a as more worth was land the that so ue val assign would it, feed that devours hands the that ture ------would lose legal claim totheland.would loselegalclaim court. If he does pay, then the farmers the by determined as land the of ue” val market “fairthe and paid already he million $5.5 the between ference dif the pay to option the retain will Horowitz sale, the void to court the Even if lawyers for the Farm convince Farm. the save to means dubious yet additional, an provides 12th July on heard be will and 2003 in Farm the refused tothem. tosell he simply table,however,the on money the put Horowitz said he wanted. they When lion that owner and “developer” Ralph mil $16.35 the and awareness raise to Angeles Los in generate they age cover effectively media the and celebrities used organizers though even still work and planning new efforts. might what on refocus to failed that nizers to shift tactics, abandoning those Hannah. The eviction Darylhas forced yes,orga and action, direct violent council,legal action, fundraising, non aresenal:appeals tothe mayor and city theirsupportersweaponin every used their campesinosand eviction,the an Neus by Micaela trampled the tomatillos in the two two the in tomatillos the trampled plots. down knocked They and fences all to destruction superficial mately ulti yet dramatic causing morning, that vandals as more acted police the and thus the defense effort. Farm the both to damage reparable ir and rampant of stories circulated sources same the Afterwards, life. of munity members of com all ages and walks and farmers, occupiers, clock round-the- of cast full a to role ing “stars” who in reality played a support eviction,overemphasizedthe itto the Priormedia. independent and stream maincirculatedboththosematch by not does Farm’sfuture the of picture m R A f E H T E v A S O T Y g E T a R t S e h T DIGGING IN: The legal case filed by lawyers for lawyers by filed case legal The apart, fell Farm the buy to Plans Indeveloping a strategy to stave off vst o h Fr rvas that reveals Farm the to visit A As Fault Lines goes to print, the real ------dom. free and land of acres fourteen their for fight to continue Farm Central South of supporters and campesinos the as growing calabasas—keep the farmers. of most campaign—and The the than eviction the in ground more lost police the and Horowitz that es recogniz one defenders, the of faces cept three bored very security guards. ex properties their from benefit can one no where Farm, the inside grow also that plants medicinal with ence plantthe rest of the Farm’s circumfer to neglect.hope Theycity of decades by dug sidewalk the in holes the in tomatoes,plantrosemary, to sage and began Saturday,they Last reopens. it and the functioning of the Farm when defense the both in involvement nity commu increase to ways brainstorm bonanza.mediahoureight Now, they accomplish quickly and quietly into an forming a task that police had hoped to eviction,transthe duringplanned as went actions direct nonviolent Their fence. the through crops the water and tent, medical and kitchen vegan with complete Farm, the at presence andhopelessnesspossible.defeat of image potent most the produce to Horowitz by hired crew bulldozing a with worked they Clearly,Farm. the to entrances back and front the nects and along the paved corridor that con traffic passing to visible most corners Seeing Seeing the hands dirty and shining full-time a maintain Supporters Aqui estamos ynonosvamos! ------

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Land the of Front Defense in Peoples’ the support: in called beforeMothers’ Day, flowertheverdors from taking their seasonal post just days Preventedsell. to permission get would terfirst misleading they them believe to city hall, which denied them permits af gotiation between the flowerverdors and and 5 foreigners were deported. “disappeared,” were people 40 assaults, sexual suffered had arrested women 45 had been detained and tortured, 30 of the Personal account of Valentina alma, Chilean documentary film-maker documentary Chilean alma, Valentina of account Personal On Wednesday, May 3rd, after see after Wednesday,3rd, On May re to like would I following, the In is Valentinaname My Palma Novoa. 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Salvador San in neighboring Red Cross, and returned to its own base FPDT released the captive police to the police into full retreat. That evening the the driving in succeeded resistance the fighting, of hours After TV. Mexican on continuously looped beating this of Footage freed.” are prisoners own our and withdraw police the as soon as freed be “to FPDT, the of words the in “arrested,” themselves were and beaten A were weapon.police of a handful as than shield a as more functions appearance some the machete, which despite its fear tool, farming traditional their and tails, cock molotov rocks, sticks, with back and Javier’s execution, the crowd fought a gun!” Moments later, he was dead. words, Javier warned the crowd, “he’s got last his With ensued. roadway. 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Dick’s “A Scanner Darkly.” Homeland Insecurity on crack... like a Maybe one of the best drug (survival) video feedback loop pushing you into tales ever written, it has all the classic the dime-show panopticon. PKD ingredients, which means: be pre- Tommy Pallotta, the producer and pared for one pioneer of mammoth fu- the ground- turistic rabbit breaking ani- hole of trippy mation tech- and profound nique made parallels to famous by A the world Waking Life, you’re navi- was invited to gating right present and now. These answer ques- worlds are a psycho-socio- tions at this SF Interna- political house of mirrors tional Film Fest Kabuki that will have you staring preview. Sadly, the audienc at that grossly distorted stuck to the techie matters image at the end of the of “rotoscoping.” What ride. Nevermind the laby- will resonate further from rinths of drug-trafficked this sure-to-be cult clas- damage and the abound- sic, will be the questions ing but largely uncon- raised by the penetration firmable paranoias. It’s of the cartoon world into the external world where “I started drawing when I was a kid because I had nothing else to do then. very serious subject matter. you reside that’s on the Initial scribbles turned into passion and a tool. From a wealth of family val- Albeit, while Dick’s pulp steadfast fritz, described ues and system based ideas I also started to form strange opinions about my novel was itself a subter- here in penetrating tech- schools and surroundings as a kid too. I knew there was something wrong, fuge for deep existential nicolor and epiphanic il- I just didn’t know what, neither could I prove how and why it was wrong. and political inquiry, the lumination. Times have changed. I used to spend countless hours riding buses, tagging, question persists: what posting up in other kids books. I used to come across things that made me say While there isn’t quite does this “revolutionary” “see, that’s why the shit is the way it is” and I wouldn’t react beyond that. I’m as much in the headlines new film actually reveal a grown man now with a family with a promise to take care of them...and a currently about the drug about the American audi- deeply sincere goal to contribute to the overthrow of the United States Gov- wars as when I was on ences receiving a massive ernment. But how do I do that? I don’t. We do. And believe me the powers my PKD binge in the poppy Bush era, dose of education about police states, that be inside and outside of the US government are terrified of us because Scanner may actually have even more drug addiction, and very suspicious artists, musicians, thinkers, teachers, organizers, writers, activists, and rebels prophetic significance with respect to drug wars through the medium of Hol- are growing and we are not playin’ about our freedom. the surveillance culture of 2006, Big ol’ lywood feature toons? In other words, Brother Inc., and the Hollywood mind did The Dream Cartel just get more My name is Robert Trujillo aka “Tres”. I am an artist and my rebel crew colony. In watching this special 20 min- mindshare? is “Trust Your Struggle”, reppin the bay area and NYC. Check www.trusty- ute sneak preview at the 49th Interna- ourstruggle.com for flics from some of our most recent events. Check out “A Scanner Darkly” premiered at tional Festival, Linklater’s adaptation www.myspace.com/trustyourhustle to hear info about our mission to South Cannes in May and is set for a July 7th was a whopping reminder that PKD America to make art, allies, and another crack in the system’s wall. paz”. release

barred-up liquor stores and burnt-out projects. But tragedy is only one of many ar- ISE LYFE rows in Ise Lyfe’s quiver: He also hits Spread The Word the bull’s eye with uplifting anthems of African-American beauty, tributes to the Hard Knock Records positivity of his community’s youth, and (2006) (can I get a “HELL YEAH!”) dagger- tounged calls for rebellion. A few years Review by Byrne Washington back, Ise co-founded the P.O.W.E.R. Movement to teach social justice to “Spread the Word,” the first full al- Oakland high school kids. Hopefully, bum from East Oakland’s Ise Lyfe the opening lines of “Reasons”—one of sounds more like a autobiography, an the hardest-hitting anti-authoritarian epic poem and a greatest hits comp rap cuts since dead prez’s “Hip Hop”— rolled into one pounding package than were part of his lesson plan: a debut. It’s crazy: As I ride my bike through Oakland, listening to this 23- “Be defiant / fuck author- JUNE - JULY 2006 year-old Youth Speaks poetry slam ity / kick ass / we ain’t no veteran spit odes to dead family minority members and lost comrades We the majority / through my headphones . think globally / and I . . it feels like the depth ain’t sellin’ my soul / and color of his words they can’t afford me.” FAULT LINES brings their spirits to life as ghosts haunting 19 WWW.INDYBAY.ORG/CALENDAR CALENDAR JUNE - JULY 6/23 Trans March 7PM Festival), the National Queer Arts authors as represented and expressed feature eight diverse and electrifying musi- We are calling for this march to Festival, the Transgender March, the in the West. cal acts from Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil, demonstrate that we are a significant Dyke March and Pink Saturday are Modern Times Bookstore and the Bay Area, all coming together to and growing portion of the lgbtiq just a few of the major events that 888 Valencia St., San Francisco bring the house down while raising funds community; to increase our visibility take place in San Francisco during the for kids in Darfur, Sudan, Niger, and Kenya and presence in the tgiqlb community month of June. Through 7/14 Now-Time Venezuela, whose lives have been devastated by war and the overall community at large; Part 2: Revolutionary Television in Catia and famine. This is also a benefit for Kenya, to encourage more trans and gender- 6/28 McLibel Screening 7:30 PM The second in a year-long cycle of five Sudan, and Niger and we will donate partial variant people to come out; to build Two activists take on McDonald’s exhibitions in solidarity with revolu- proceeds to Save the Children Fund and connections among lgbtiq; to support in the longest trial in English his- tionary Venezuela, Now-Time Venezu- Oxfam. one another as a community, through tory. This documentary film tells the ela, Part 2: Revolutionary Television in $17. The Independent and Moe’s Alley all of our struggles; to speak out inside story of how a single father and Catia presents the work of the communi- 628 Divisadero (SF) & 1535 Commercial against violence, hate, transphobia, a part-time bar worker took on the ty television station Catia TVe in western Way (SC), San Francisco and Santa Cruz and the oppression of any and all of McDonald’s Corporation. This film is Caracas. Revolutionary Television in For more information contact: Sila & us under the existing social structure; not about hamburgers. It’ s about the Catia samples the work facilitated by the Jeremiah, AfroFunk, 415.771.1421 and to be fabulous and powerful in the remorseless power of multinational station and also includes two newly com- company of others who are fabulous corporations. missioned works made especially for the 7/29 Fair Trade Festival 10AM and powerful. Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street exhibition: a self-reflexive piece describing The People’s Revolutionary Organization of 3 pm - 7 pm Speakers and Performers midtown Oakland, between Telegraph CatiaTVe’s working methods, and a series Sonoma County, as part of our 30 Days Dolores Park, Dolores and 19th Street and Broadway, below Pill Hill of messages for the people of the United of Revolution campaign, is sponsoring a States from the Catia barrio. Fair Trade Festival in downtown Peta- 6/24 Dyke March 7PM - Starting from 6/29 Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: $8 for adults; free for BAM/PFA luma. We are bringing together various Dolores Park, at 18th and Dolores New Writing by Women of the Iranian members & UCB students; $5 Fair Trade groups, and other organiza- March Takes Off @ 7:00 p.m. Diaspora 7PM for UCB faculty & staff, non-UCB tions involved in the struggle against Let me Tell you Where I’ve Been is an students, senior citizens, disabled global injustice. There will be fair trade 6/24 –25 The Pride Experience! 12PM extensive collection of work by women persons, and youth (17 & under) coffee providers, fair trade crafts, as well Every year at the beginning of June, whose lives have been shaped by his- Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft as a picket line outside of both coffee 500 rainbow flags are hoisted the tory, exile, and immigration. Divided shops in the area that refuse to serve length of Market Street and San into six parts, the book’s themes of 7/27-29 The 2nd Annual AfroFunk fair trade coffee, despite public support. Francisco explodes with queerness. exile, family, resistance, love, and Festival Come and participate in a celebration of For a city known as “Gay Mecca” for gender come together in the end. They The AfroFunk Festival, which sold workers rights and economic justice! the other eleven months of the year, create a conversation about Iran, Ira- out its debut last July to wide critical Helen Putnam Plaza, in downtown June is Queer Heaven. Frameline (the nian culture, the Persian, and English acclaim, is the first and only AfroBeat Petaluma off Pet. Blvd., right next to International Gay and Lesbian Film languages and the dual identities of its Festival in the world. This year’s festival will Starbucks. [email protected]

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