BLACKFIRE, Fri 8PM da Blackdoor, North Park
repost from e-mail, durango indymedia,

BLACKFIRE, with Dias Tristes

"BLACKFIRE's style comprises traditional Native American, Punk-Rock and 'Alter-Native' with strong sociopolitical messages about government oppression, relocation of indigenous people, ecocide, genocide, domestic violence and human rights."

"i think we need to recognize that all our struggles are connected, whether they be sexism, heterosexism, destruction of the earth, exploitation of indigenous people and their land to the war- invasion in Iraq, all of these things are connected. There are some roots in a belief system and the value of "success" and the value is not in life but in money. All of these corporations, free trade agreements, all of these things are fueled by globalization that is connected to the colonization of our people. It's the same thing, the same force, the same form that we've been fighting for over 500 years on this continent, and it's on a larger scale now. It's something that is connected to all these struggles that we really need to recognize and build the bridges and build the solidarity. And solidarity means action." [durango indymedia, from interview with clayton dewey]

Friday, July 7th doors open at 8pm

da Blackdoor
3925 Ohio St. North Park, SD
[off University 1 blk E of 30th]

$8 at the door
proceeds benefit local organizations fighting the minutemen and supporting migrant families currently under attack

 http://www.blackfire.net
 http://www.savethepeaks.org
 http://colorado.indymedia.org/newswire/display/7836/index.php

...also playing Saturday night at the MultiKulti in TJ...

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Al Otro Lado - Free Screening on July 26th
repost,

Al Otro Lado - Free Screening on July 26th
Border Documentary w/ Los Tigres del Norte
July 26
06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Central Library to Screen Documentary Film,
“Al Otro Lado” on July 26

SAN DIEGO – The City of San Diego Public Library and the San Diego Latino Film Festival will screen the documentary film “Al Otro Lado” on Wednesday, July 26. This screening will take place at 6:30 p.m., in the third floor auditorium of the Central Library, located at 820 E St., in downtown San Diego. This event is free and open to the public. “Al Otro Lado” was an Official Selection of the Tribeca Film Festival.
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JULY 4000/JULIO 4000
July 4000 Committee,

Join the JULY 4000 Committee
July 4th, 9am at 25th and Imperial Ave. in San Diego

for a symbolic display of 4,000 white flags, strung together down Imperial Avenue in remembrance of the casualties of “citizenship”

According to official estimates, more than 4,000 people have died crossing through the borderlands since Operation Gatekeeper began in 1994. Human rights advocates place the number at more than 10,000. Each year sets a new record for number of deaths.

History will not be kind when it judges the 4th of July 2006. Our children’s children will one day have the clarity to peel back the star-spangled veneer of patriotic allegiance, revealing the hypocrisy of “freedom and justice for all.” Exposed will be the cold and vicious crimes against humanity done in the name of flags.

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Updates from Mexico, July 3rd, 1AM
deletetheborder.org,

Lunes 3, el subcomandante Marcos por la Radio
 http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/4206

Mexican Election Authorities, With No Result to Declare, Bring on a Crisis
From Atenco to Oaxaca, State Repression Is Punished Severely at the Ballot Box
 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/7/3/3213/40582

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IMPERIAL BEACH - DISRUPT THE DEBATE
Pachuco,

Imperial Beach will be at the center of the national immigration debate Wednesday when a congressional field hearing there promises to draw protesters from both sides of the issue.
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White Nationalist/Fascism is Gendered
Anonymous,

White nationalisms have become gendered in the United States. In this short piece, I examine how collective organizing amongst White women's groups and people of color that are allied with the Minutemen are very much gendered to be constructed around mainstream American ideals that the White hetero-male prides himself on.
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The problem with "the immigration problem"
Everardo Carvajal,

Why so many different takes to "the immigration problem?" The answer lies in the oversimplification of the issue. I will not diagnose the source(s) of these over-simplistic notions, only attempt to clear up the mud.
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Interview: Enrique Morones of Border Angels
A,

Enrique discusses the upcoming vigil at the border this Friday July 1st
and his work with Border Angels to save lives.

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Remember the 4000+ Dead from Gatekeeper
repost from e-mail,

July 1st Vigil (III) at Border State Park 1200 noon to remember the 4000
plus that have died since operation gatekeeper began October of 1994. At the nationwide "immigration" hearings beginning in San Diego and Philadelphia on Wednesday July 5th, we are asking faith and human rights groups across the country to place 4000 crosses (or other faith/peace symbols) at each respective site the day of the hearings.
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Minutemen's Border Fence Vandalized
fuck you minutemen,

There are holes in a border fence put up by the Minuteman Project.
Volunteers with the border watch group built it last month near Palominas.
But someone tore it up.

The new Minuteman fence resembles the current border fence and it now has
even more similarities because parts of it are in pieces.
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June 27 - Demo Against Attacks on migrant ppl
repost from sdcpj,

Tuesday, June 27 2006
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Vons Parking Lot - 92084
South Santa Fe Ave and Escondido Ave
Vista, CA 92084


The immigrant community in Vista has been struggling against repeated racist attacks by the powerful, starting with the murder of three latino men over a five day period last summer by sheriffs, the harrassment of day laborers by racist vigilantes, the recent border patrol sweeps through neighborhoods in Vista and other parts of San Diego County, and now the imminent passage of a secret, immigrant-bashing ordinance by the Vista City Council mandating registration and visible identification of employers of day laborers.

The North County Coalition for Peace, Justice and Dignity is organizing a project to document the activities of Border Patrol Agents and racist vigilantes in their communities. Join them in resisting the ordinance against day laborers by forming a human chain from the most contentious day laborer site to City Hall:


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Immigration Sweep Brings Fear to Community
repost from AP,

Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood. The crowd of day laborers huddled in a parking lot outside McDonald's has dropped by half.

A sense of unease has spread in this community of weather-worn homes since
immigration agents began walking the streets as part of a stepped-up nationwide effort targeting an estimated 590,000 immigrant fugitives. Other illegal immigrants are being rounded up along the way.
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Immigration Song (The Streets are Whispering)
Kevin McGoldrick,

I just finished a song that I created from a sample at the San Diego immigration march in the Spring. Let me know what you think. If you are interested in other political and non-political songs in this vein please visit www.myspace.com/redseastation. If you would like to reuse this song, just let write me and let me know. Thanks and hope you enjoy.
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Big, Big ,Balls...
Basim Najjar,

Oh, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad what did u do to mankind?: the importance of music and religion?
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Support Arrested Immigrants Rights Activist!!
Support Josh,

Support and Witnesses Needed for Arrested Immigrants Rights Activist!

On June 3rd, Immigrant Rights Activists held a rally in San Ysidro, CA to protest the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and the oppressive, racist Hagel-Martinez bill. A small group of racist vigilantes from the Minutemen Project were confronted in a vocal, but very peaceful manner. During this confrontation the police assaulted and arrested Josh, a pro-immigrant rights activist, claiming that he had thrown a punch at an officer.

Josh is no longer in custody but is facing legal charges. The charge that a punch was thrown at an officer is an outright fabrication. We are calling on all who were present at the event and witnessed the arrest or any other incidents of police brutality to contact the support committee at  standuptopower@yahoo.com
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IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!!!
Celula ComunistArte-Mundial y Permanente,

TODAY MONDAY MAY 5th, 5pm
At Groundwork Bookstore, UCSD (0323 Student Center, La Jolla CA)
Jan Norden, Central Committee member of the Internationalist Group will give a presentation on the recent debate on immigrant rights.
Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants!!!
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May Day Rally, San Ysidro, VIDEO
Jonathan,

On May 1, 2006, people all over the U.S. and Mexico protested unfair immigration policy in the United States. This video is from a protest that took place in San Ysidro, California, only a few steps north of the U.S. / Mexico border. People from both sides of the border took the day off from work and school to participate in this protest and to change the world! This film was made by the San Diego Independent Media Center. Music is by the B-side Players.
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Free Josh
Free Josh!,

Este mensaje se repitira en espanol

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE outside the SD Central Jail in defense of activist arrested for protesting the Minutemen at a peaceful immigrants rights protest in San Ysidro earlier today. Video footage will be released to demonstrate his innocence at the press conference.

BACKGROUND:

As the protesters left the rally site to march to the border crossing, they confronted a small group of Minutemen supporters chanting racist slogans and separated from the marchers by a line of police. One of the protesters was pushed by the police who then arrested him. He was charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. Organizers of the protest and community members are rallying in demand of his release. He was unjustly arrested and unjustly charged and we suspect that the police used excessive force. We intent to have a defense campaign if he is charged.

TIME: 7:30PM

LOCATION: San Diego Central Jail (1173 Front Street, at the corner of C and Front.)

WHO: Members of the San Diego Si Se Puede United We Coalition
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Immigrants Rights Activist Jailed @ San Ysido
san diego si se puede,

ALL OUT IN DEFENSE OF ACTIVIST JAILED!

Rally in defense of activist arrested for protesting the Minutemen at a peaceful immigrants rights protest in San Ysidro earlier today. As the protesters left the rally site to march to the border crossing, they confronted a small group of Minutemen supporters chanting racist slogans and separated from the marchers by a line of police. One of the protesters was pushed by the police who then arrested him. He was charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. Organizers of the protest and community members are rallying in demand of his release. He was unjustly arrested and unjustly charged and we suspect that the police used excessive force. We intent to have a defense campaign if he is charged.

TIME: 6:00PM

LOCATION: San Diego Police Department (14th and Broadway downtown)
WHO: Members of the San Diego Si Se Puede United We Coalition

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VOLUNTEER AS A LEGAL OBSERVER
Guest,

VOLUNTEER AS A LEGAL OBSERVER TO PROTECT HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS
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Ugandan Émigré Speaks on Hidden Genocide
Mark Gabrish Conlan/H.E.A.L.-San Diego,

Charlie Lakony, Ugandan émigré and activist with Friends for Peace in Africa and the Campaign to End Genocide in Uganda Now (CEGUN), will speak to H.E.A.L.-San Diego [Health, Education, AIDS Liaison] on “The Hidden Genocide in Northern Uganda.” The meeting will take place on June 7, 7 p.m., at the War Memorial Building in Balboa Park, 3325 Zoo Drive, room 2, on the Park Boulevard side between Roosevelt Junior High School and the zoo parking lot. Admission is free and free parking is available.
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Hung Jury on Anti-Minutemen Protester
Mark,

“HUNG JURY” FOR ANTI-MINUTEMAN PROTESTER
May 30, 2006
From:  duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com

An Orange County jury deadlocks on three charges;
issues “not guilty” verdict for two others.
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Down with Senate Bill 2611!
Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee,

In recent months millions of immigrants have been in the streets protesting the vicious attacks that Bush and Congress are preparing to legislate against them, while local governments also formulate attacks. Behind this...is the fact that the capitalists want immigrant labor...
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W Bush Cedes Power To John Negroponte
Tony Ryals,

Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules Now, the White House's top spymaster can cite national security to exempt businesses from reporting requirements President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. Notice of the development came in a brief entry in the Federal Register, dated May 5, 2006, that was opaque to the untrained eye. - Dawn Kopecki , BusinessWeek


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BATTLE OVER IMMIGRATION
Celula ComunistArte-Mundial y Permanente,

BATTLE OVER IMMIGRATION
FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS!


M O N D A Y J U N E 5 th, 5:00pm
At Groundwork Bookstore (o323 Student Center, UCSD)

Members of the Internationalist Group (N.Y.) will be giving a presentation on the present debate over immigrant rights.


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A Long Walk Home: Moving Film on Sudan
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

"A Long Walk Home," a 42-minute documentary on Sudan produced by a team of San Diego filmmakers and directed by Tiffany Frances Huang, was shown at the Media Arts Center in San Diego May 18 and proved to be an intensely moving depiction of the plight of southern Sudanese refugees stuck in Cairo, Egypt. They flee there in hopes of getting help from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) — only to wait months or even years before the commission even opens a file on their case. The film isn't all depressing, though; it also shows the dance and theatre group some of the refugees formed to keep their spirits up and celebrate Sudanese culture. Grace Smith, a member of the filmmaking team, appeared at the showing and took questions.
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SD,Titan Corp,Mexico Coke Bust,9/11
Tony Ryals,

The DC-9 busted in Ciudad Del Carmen,Campeche, Mexico on April 11,2006 by the Mexican army is clearly connected to Republican business owners,the Titan Corp of San Diego,and penny stock fraud.It is also connected to Huffmann Aviation of Venice, Florida that played a role in 9/11. And Howard Dean used it in his 2004 presidential campaign !



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RadioActive Radio Open Mic
RadioActive San Diego,

Join us for our first ever live broadcasted OPEN MIC! Poetry, live music, food, drinks, and revolutionary home-made media making will be available for your pleasure and participation. Hope to see you there!


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Video Game Genocide
Xiuhcoatl of Aztlan Rising,

With Minutemen on the border and the President promising National Guard deployment there, the anti-Mexican sentiment and reactionary xenophobia in this country has been manifested in a video game. “Border Patrol,” which is credited to the bigoted neo-Nazi Tom Metzger, puts you in the role of a hunter/murderer who patrols the southern border with Mexico. Your objective: “Keep them out…at any cost!” “Them,” by the game's definition, are the “wetbacks” trying to cross the border from Mexico.
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May 27, 2006 Frontera Protest
Raza Rights Coalition,

12:00 Noon Protest Pedestrian Entrance into Tijuana. Protest militarization of the US-Mexico border, police and immigration officer border violence, anti-immigrant practices.
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