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Se agrava salud de presos políticos en huelga de hambre tras 43 dias,,libertad ahora siemprefrio@chile.com 2005-06-27 2:01 AM

POR LA LIBERTAD DE PABLO VARGAS, CLAUDIO MELGAREJO, HARDY PEÑA Y FEDOR SANCHEZ A 43 DIAS DE INICIADA HUELGA DE HAMBRE... CARTA ABIERTA ESCRITA CON LA ESPERANZA DE CONSTRUIR LA LIBERTAD. Esta mañana es muy fría en Santiago, la gripe me ha tomado prisionero y no se si hacerle un comunicado o un motín. En cualquier caso tengo la sensación que esta gripe, este dolor de articulaciones, esta peste,es una buena peste. Como voy a comparar el momentáneo bienestar de un día sin gripe en la cárcel a una vida con gripe en libertad. ¡Viva la gripe, viva el smog,viva el tráfago, viva la libertad!¡Que viva la libertad en todas las esquinas! es y ha sido en el último período nuestro grito y sincopado blues de combate. Así lo hemos escrito, cantado y parafraseado en nuestras interacciones libertarias.Pero la libertad no florece con la lluvia del invierno, necesita una primavera de voluntades y cuatro estaciones de inteligencia y buenos movimientos. Oportunos, audaces.Nuestra pequeña estrategia, articular gestión y denuncia, movilización y convocatoria de solidaridades correcta pero microscópica. Somos pocos, somos frágiles, somos un grano de arena en un mar de seres ciudadanos demandantes. Atomizados por el maleficio enemigo y por nuestro propio egocentrismo; somos, ensuma, un pueblo que como otros camina y aprende, y seca más de lo necesario. Hoy tenemos una tarea urgente, tarea dramáticamente urgente y tremendamente contenedora de todo lo que alguna vez dijimos y soñamos.Hoy la libertad, la palabra, el encuentro, la posibilidad utópica de dar a cada hombre y mujer unlugar y un pedacito de felicidad en la historia,tienen ahora nombres concretos. Seis nombres, seis vidas, varios de ellos hombres que dejaron de ver el sol cuando aún no cruzaban el umbral de la adultez,piden ahora un gesto nuestro. Quisiéramos pensar que es un último gesto, el rito final antes de sentarnos a la mesa como iguales. Antes de batir nuestras diferencias y nuestros conciertos cara a cara.El lunes 16 de mayo, los cuatro condenados a cadena perpetua por ley antiterrorista, mis hermanos, han comenzado una huelga de hambre indefinida. Esta no es una decisión fácil y menos arbitraria y se explica al constatar que, a casi un año de promulgada la ley deIndulto General, su situación aún no solución definitiva.Acaso todo el mundo ha olvidado el llamado quehiciera el ejecutivo, presionado por una huelga de hambre de más de 70 días, para votar aquel proyecto así como la decisión parlamentaria de aprobarlo y elcompromiso claro y explícito del Ministro del Interioren términos de que los prisioneros que no fueran beneficiados, serían objeto de medidas alternativas.Hoy parece que nadie recuerda que hay seis hombres condenados al olvido de por vida.Nuestros compañeros continúan presos y tras 14 años decautiverio, ponen una vez más, sus vidas como testimonio e instrumento de su decisión inquebrantablede ser libres. Hardy Peña Trujillo, Claudio Melgarejo Chávez, Fedor Sánchez Piderit y Pablo Vargas López exigen que las autoridades políticas cumplan supalabra. Demandan al Ejecutivo que otorgue sumaurgencia a un Proyecto de Ley que les permita, a lomenos, obtener la libertad condicional. Igualmentehacen un llamado urgente al Senado a votarfavorablemente este proyecto; tal como lo hizo el último 07 de junio la Cámara de Diputados.Frente a esta huelga sólo nos queda hacer realidadnuestras palabras, derrumbar los muros con solidaridad activa y dar palabra y cuerpo a nuestros amigos y hermanos prisioneros. Ellos han escrito, sus amigos y familiares, en los muros de esta ciudad su historia y nosotros hemos asumido la tareade dar a su palabra y experiencia eco y presencia másallá de esos muros. Llevarlos al mundo, al futuro, a la libertad. El gobierno de la indiferencia y el poderno podrán apagar sus voces. Mañana sus rostros, sus palabras, sus gritos rebeldes y honestos, su poesía profunda y sus trazos de gesto hondo, señalarán ladignidad y la miseria humana con una indagatoria espeluznante. Como podremos entonces escapar a la memoria. Como podremos entonces decir YO no sabía.Aprendí en la prisión que no es necesario trazar un mapa o imponer una estrategia para convocar humanidad.Hoy sobre la mesa de la urgencia pido tu mano y por tu intermedio la solidaridad crítica y libre de aquellos que como tú, han debido partir para poder vivir. Solo te pido que juntos demos a mis hermanos la misma oportunidad de caminar. No se que más decir, me apena,me avergüenza un poco tener que explicar porqué nopodemos dejar entregados a su terrible suerte a estos hombres que con el sacrificio de la carne, aspiran atener lo que muchos de nosotros despreciamos cada día.Ayúdanos amigo mío, así lo hiciste conmigo, seamos máslibres en su libertad. Pedro Rosas A. Santiago de Chile 24 de junio de 2005. Reenvía este mensaje a tus contactos SI APOYAS ESTA CAUSA cukacl@yahoo.com colectivolibertadpp@chile.com (image/jpeg)

Food Not Bombs Throws 25th Anniversary Gathering in Philly homefries 2005-06-26 3:44 PM

On June 16th and 17th -- days prior to the national "Biodemocracy" convergence against biotechnology -- people from around the U.S. and elsewhere gathered in Philadelphia to strategize and reflect on a free food project called Food Not Bombs. (image/gif)

What If George Was One Of Us? AntiChimp 2005-06-25 10:02 PM
How would George Bush fare in today's public schools? (text/plain)

Youth Against Hate (ARA Network Conference) 2005! ARA Toronto 2005-06-23 8:53 PM
From August 5th – 7th, ARA Toronto will be hosting Youth Against Hate (ARA Network Conference) 2005! The conference is slated to take place in downtown Toronto, and promises to be attended by hundreds of anti-fascist / anti-racism activists from across Canada, Quebec, the First Nations, and the United States. (text/plain)

ZAPATISTAS ON RED ALERT TINKU 2005-06-22 5:32 PM
ZAPATISTAS CALLING ON ALL THEIR SUPPORT BASES TO DISCCUSS COURSE OF ACTION (text/plain + 1 comment)

President Bush and His Mission(ary) Positions AntiChimp 2005-06-22 12:27 PM
President Bush hit the airwaves on Sunday, in his weekly radio address, with some hard-hitting and startling new facts to support his invasion of Iraq. (text/plain)

Cancel Your Subscriptions mike rivero 2005-06-22 10:21 AM
WE MUST STOP FUNDING THE ENEMY AND THE ENEMY IS OUR CORPORATE MEDIA! We cannot continue to battle the beast while we finance its very existence! (text/plain)

Bush's Other War AntiChimp 2005-06-20 11:05 PM
Bush's class warfare hurts all but the super-rich. (text/plain)

The Hell of Postmodern Living, Part 1 SAA 2005-06-20 2:59 PM
Just some psychotic ramblings. (text/plain)

Violent soldier revolt continues anon 2005-06-18 10:35 PM
General, your tank is a mighty vehicle. It shatters the forest and crushes a hundred men, but it has one defect: it needs a driver. (text/plain)

Is the Right Losing Control? AntiChimp 2005-06-17 8:16 AM
From Pittsburgh Hate Radio, to Iraq, to Gitmo: signs that the Right is losing its Grip. (text/plain)

Populist #5 Franklin 2005-06-16 6:07 PM
The Subject of National Security, continued (text/html)

Gold Star and Military Families Call for Truth Regarding Downing St. Memo Messenger 2005-06-15 7:30 PM
by MFSO (No verified email address) 14 Jun 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2005 Contact: Cindy Sheehan 707-365-7750 Celeste Zappala 215-570-5484 Gold Star and Military Families Call for Truth Regarding Downing St. Minutes (memo), Members to Visit Congress (text/plain)

Downing Street Minutes Hearing on C-span Thur. Messenger 2005-06-15 6:03 PM
author: jac Thursday, June 16 Democratic Members of House Judiciary Cmte. Hearing on Downing St. Memo and Iraq War On C-SPAN3 at 2:30pm ET (text/plain)

Operation Fortress Americas - The bloody Zionist Plan for Takeover of this Hemisphere joe vialls 2005-06-15 5:19 PM
The final Zion, or Promised Land, would be determined by raw wealth and power rather than by mere religious symbolism. While intentionally leaking “false Zions” including Australia and Argentina to the media, Ben Gurion and his Zionist cohorts ultimately intended to overrun and capture the Americas The problem was that back in 1948 they had no real power, and would have been easily overwhelmed by the vast resources of the U.S. Military in particular. So conquest of the “one true Zion” was to be a long drawn-out game, with Zionists lobbies in America gradually eating away at the fabric of society. Then, when resistance in the Americas was eventually undermined to a predetermined level, it would be time to strike militarily. Believe me, that time is now very close. (text/html)

Red, White and Blue m rivero 2005-06-15 1:26 PM
Thus it is with some amazement that I watch as the very people who turned that book into a huge commercial success seem oblivious to the parallels in the so-called "War On Terror". (text/plain)

Paying the Price of Defeat AntiChimp 2005-06-15 8:34 AM
Is it time to admit that we've lost the war? (text/plain)

More Lies to Keep You Afraid AntiChimp 2005-06-11 8:19 PM
Lies, Damn Lies, & Statistics (text/html)

Israel investigates N-secrets hacking m rivero 2005-06-09 3:57 PM
Which is an open admission that multi-stage nuclear weapons are being built at Dimona. To what end? Germany foolishly gave Israel 3 Submarines capable of launching nukes onto any continent! Plus Israel has threatened European and other capitals with nuclear annihilation if it doesn't get it's way on everything. (text/html)

Stratcom: One-Stop Shopping for Bush War Plans Messenger 2005-06-09 12:47 AM
Bush is likely to get us into more wars. Since critics are now aware that we were lied to about the reasons for the war on Iraq, he will have to start the next war so quickly that no debate is possible. Stratcom makes this possible. (text/plain)

URGENT Refusenik Mehmet Tarhan - Stop mistreatment and detention Payday 2005-06-08 11:46 PM
We are urging support for Mehmet Tarhan, a conscientious objector who is a gay man, detained since 8 April in the military prison of Sivas, Turkey. We understand that he has been repeatedly and brutally attacked by other prisoners after prison staff told them that he was "a terrorist". His trial, which began on 26 May, has been postponed to 9 June. When he appeared in court on the 26th, Mr Tarhan had bruises all over his body and could not walk well. He is now on hunger strike against the abuse and against the refusal of the prison authorities to ensure his safety. (text/plain)

The Way That Life Can Suck Stacie Adams 2005-06-08 9:05 AM
More ranting and raving (text/plain)

Some four days back I found this article and I agree with it. It is the meridian truth. I Robert Fischer 2005-06-07 7:57 PM
George Double You Push (Colombian Bush with a Coca Cola) in the USSA. (since small) (text/plain)

May Day Versus Loyalty Day Mary La Rosa 2005-06-07 3:49 PM
May Day versus McCarthy era like "Loyalty Day" opened a UN Conference against Nuclear Weapons that seemed doomed by ambiguities and lack of reportage from its very start?¦ including vague US intentions towards peace contrasted by recent trends towards a nuclearised weapons program that supports pre emptive strikes. Meanwhile, Israel demanding Iran halt its nuclear weapons production is still vague about its possession of nuclear weapons and adds to its crimes against humanity in the Occupied Territories by dumping nuclear production waste on someone else's homeland (text/plain)

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What side are you on? Archie Kennedy 2005-05-27 3:26 PM
We seem to be on a precipice. Or have we already been pushed over the side. It really depends on who is in control. (text/plain)

Just Like Bush: Military Recruiters Lie About Dangers In Iraq channelcincinnati 2005-05-20 10:29 PM
Army to suspend recruiting for retraining following Target 5 investigation. This is the text of WLWT's report exactly as it appeared on the 11 p.m. newscast on May 18, 2005. (text/plain)

THE PECULIAR STATE CHUCKMAN 2005-05-19 9:23 AM
POLITICAL SMUT ON THE AIRWAVES... (text/plain)

Please ask your Uncle Sam pp Some Iraqi Kid 2005-05-18 8:24 AM
A nursery rhyme (text/plain)

Caflish & me (cog dis on the left/cog dis on the right) snowshoefilms 2005-05-15 8:33 AM
An experimental probing of cognitive dissonance around the subject of 9-11 on the "right" among those who hold George Bush (top authority/chief hypnotist)to be, on the whole, a truth teller: what really happened? have they looked at the evidence? Cable TV show sequence (38 min.) posted on filmmakers notebook, snowshoefilms.com (text/plain)

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