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A handful of fotos from the Encuentro in Oventic focused on the public art, natural beauty, and music and dance that marked four days in the mountains. Two videos at the end show traditional songs played by Zapatista Musicos....

Photo: The Trash Orchestra "Tunes Up" Before the Last Night Parade. After months of "unplanning," the Last Night DIY Parade and Celebration took center stage on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on December 31st, 2006. After the miserable year that was 2006, the event was a delightful counterpoint -- a truly joyful, creative and inspiring expression of community and the First Amendment....

Patriots are the ones that fight in the party of Tiradentes, being the others, the followers of Joaquin Silvério dos Reis, who was a treasonous one to the "inconfidentes"*, allowing that Tiradentes was imprisoned, hanged and cut in pieces by the Portuguese....

"We want to live in a world full of play and celebration, where self expression is a matter of course. Where one does not have to ask permission of authorities to realize one's dreams of adventure and possibility." From Last Night Flyer passed out prior to the parade....

Scott Kennedy of the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz describes the rare experience of entering the Gaza Strip in November 2006 and even rarer meeting with the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, during the economic boycott of Gaza led by the United States and the military siege by Israel. Kennedy and Haniyeh on 11/18/06 at the Prime Ministers office in Gaza City, Gaza. (below)...

Kennedy describes the ways in which language masks what is actually going on in Palestine -- specifically, the devastation of the Gaza Strip as the result of a US led economic blockade and Israeli siege. Based on a visit to Gaza in November 2006....

Day two of the Encuentro between the EZLN and International Civil Society began with a workshop on the Other Education, the schools that educate children in the Autonomous zones where the Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Councils of Good Government) provide social services. The last cold morning (of 2006) saw a crowd of observers and participants packed into Oventic's classroom to hear representatives of the five caracoles (+/- districts) discuss their reasons for autonomous schools, their ...

Audio from Day 1 of the Encuentro of the Zapatista Community with the Global Community. To listen live, go to http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/ for streaming audio of the conference....

Interview by: Hilaria Cruz Translation: Joy Turlo Dionisio had gone to the demonstration in Oaxaca on the 25th of November. After the demonstration he and his friend Juan de Dios went to get something to eat, during which time confrontations started up between demonstrators and the Federal Preventive Police (PFP). Upon leaving the restaurant, they headed toward the downtown area, which had become filled with tear gas and smoke. When they saw a woman and her children overcome by tear gas, ...