Irish Elections and Abstentionism for Freedom
Saer,

A Video Discussion regarding elections and abstentionism as principle for Irish Freedom activists.
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Irish Republican Information Service (no. 97)
Saer,

Included in this issue (which much more):
RSF Croke Park protest, Media blackout of RSF candidates, Former Hunger Striker condemns Provo treachery, Encouraging response on the campaign, RUC harass election workers, British and UVF met 10 days after bombs killed 33

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CHiDO Bike Collective: DIY Bike Shop Opening
CHiDO Bikes,

CHiDO Bike Collective (City Heights Derailing Oppression)

DIY Community Bike Shop. A couple of radical and dedicated women invite you to help this project off the ground!

CHiDO Bikes is a volunteer run, cooperative learning space and a do-it-yourself bike repair shop. The cooperative provides skill-shares, workshops and mechanical assistance for our bike riding community to support the accessibility of bikes for everyone and bike safety. The shop has tools and parts for repairing, maintaining and building bikes. We emphasize creating a space that supports the empowerment and self-sufficiency of women and transgender people within San Diego’s male dominated, bike culture.

First Open Meeting: Fri March 2 4-6PM 4246 Wightman

Related: Nutterbuckets
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G8 Dissent! Tour in San Diego Friday
stop the g8,

Hey everyone! Here is a reminder to get the word out for the G8 Dissent
Tour! at the Rubber Rose!

We look forward to seeing you at the Rubber Rose!

G8 DISSENT! TOUR
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD
7-10 PM
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION

@ THE RUBBER ROSE
3812 Ray st.
San Diego, CA

Come learn about QUEER, FEMINIST, BIKE, BLOCKADE, CLOWN AND ANTI-RACIST
resistance to the G8!

The G8 is the annual meeting of the leaders of the 8 richest nations in
the world. These leaders are creating policies of war, migration control
and environmental destruction all over the planet.
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Worshiping Mother Earth - Druid Group in SD
Jillbe Badb,

The mission of the Infinite Deities Proto-Grove is to invoke a web of knowledge, mythos and experience that provides a framework for reconnecting with the Earth Mother, and re-gathering her progeny through this tribal collective consecrated to responsible nature conservation and progressive cognizance within the evolving tradition of Reformed Druidism.
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Will Blackwater USA Invade Cleveland Forest?
Duncan McFetridge,

Save Our Forests and Ranchlands is challenging the plans of Blackwater USA to establish a mercenary training camp in the Cleveland National Forest. If Blackwater and county officials get their way they will put a military style training facility in the southern portion of the forest.
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Humanist Leader Speaks in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

American Humanist Association president Mel Lipman spoke in San Diego February 11 and discussed the growing threat to freedom of thought and conscience in the U.S. posed by radical Christian activists. He said the only way humanists, atheists and freethinkers can combat the threat of the radical religious Right is to come out of the closet and be open about their views, and present humanism in a positive way as the embrace of life in the here and now instead of waiting for some spiritual salvation after death.
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Queer Dems Endorse Black for Port Commission
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Breaking ranks with their usual allies in the labor and environmental movements, as well as City Councilmember Donna Frye, the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed Democrat Laurie Black for the San Diego Port Commission against Republican incumbent Steve Cushman. Cushman is asking the San Diego City Council to set aside the usual two-term limit on Port Commissioners and reappoint him, and he's assembled an unlikely coalition in support.
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THE MONSTERS ARE COMING!!!
MINI Art Collective,

Monsters Against Borders! A call to action...

THE MONSTERS ARE COMING! THE MONSTERS ARE COMING!
THEY'RE COMING TO TEAR DOWN THE BORDERS!!!

We are monsters. We are demonized. We are othered. We have genders
forced on us by others. We are alien. We are always striving to be
human, but are never good enough. We are all kinds of hybrid:
human-animal, human-machine, human-plant...

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G8 Dissent Tour! coming to San Diego
j,

Come learn about QUEER, FEMINIST, BIKE, BLOCKADE, CLOWN AND ANTI-RACIST resistance to the G8!

G8 DISSENT TOUR! FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD 7-10 PM
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION @ THE RUBBER ROSE



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welcome energy crisis
repsol mata,

15 points to break with oil addiction
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New Year Destruction at the Hill of Tara in I
turoe,

In flagrent contempt of best archaeological practice, a systematic campaign of tree felling, earth clearance and monument removal has begun at the Hill of Tara. This is before the Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract for the M3 Motorway, to run through the Tara / Skryne Valley, has even been signed. Daily protests are taking place, every 7am in the morning at the Hill of Tara car park.
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Camping 2007
Camping2007,

Are you going to summer camp this year?! There are so many fun camps to go to! You can learn about hiking, sewing, knot tying, wall climbing and anti-capitalist blockades!
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Dissent G8! USA Infotour in San Diego
repost from DeleteTheBorder.org,

@ the Rubber Rose, Friday, February 23rd, 7-9pm. Come hear organizers from Germany talk about Queer, Feminist, Bike, Blockade, Clown and Anti-Racist strategies of resistance against the G8!

We'll get you excited!
See Also: Dissent G8! USA Infotour Schedule

The G8 is an annual gathering of the leaders of the 8 richest countries in the world, who are responsibile for the world's murderous immigration policies. Resistance to the G8 this year in Germany has been planned for years, will be massive and Freedom of Movement will be a main focus of the mobilization.

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Livermore Pro-Nukers Move to Kill More in SF
Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner,

Livermore Lab has continuously contaminated the region for decades. San Francisco residents are reporting the presence of cancer causing uranium in hair samples.

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TV Commercials on Buses and Trolley?
Salty Sam,

Corporate America has gone too far. Now local San Diego governmental agencies and transportation companies have allowed for the installation of noise polluting TVs to be put on city buses and the Metro Trolley so as to drown commuters with a deluge of audio assault. Thankfully most buses have yet to be transformed. This invasive technology seems to be slowly introduced into city buses and trolley cars. Perhaps the instigators expect less resistance if this bane is slowly introduced? You may have witnessed the slow and random intrusion of TVs on some buses?

Recently an editorial in the Los Angelos Times, “Bus-see TV”, announced that Transit Television Network TNN has installed 4,700 television monitors on over 2000 buses on the last few years trying to capitalize on 18 to 34 year olds as potential disposable income market. But why should people of all ages (many riders are elderly) be subject to the smarmy, hyper-kinetic, jolt-noisome noise, and non-intellectual crap marketed to young people?

Trolley riders may be less affluent financially but they are not the fools some seem to think. The time has come to say: “Stop!!” “You forget who is the customer—who may not always be right—but who is sometimes justifiably indignant in his or her opinion—and his or her opinion does in fact matter.” --Read More--

Transit TV Marketing Website | Contact Metropolitan Transit System | Contact San Diego City Councilmembers

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Sin Fronteras! Global Day of Action and Camps
Participants at Zapatista Encuentro,

This proposal we read at the Encuentro with the Zapatista Communities and the People of the World in Oventic on January 2nd 2007 in the plenary setion for the Intergalatic Encuentro as a proposal for a theme to the Intergalactic and a Global Call to Action.

In this effort we are organizing No Border Camps for 4-5 days in the fall 2007 in the border region in Calexico and Mexicali and also actions against the border between Mexico and Guatemala. We are making a international call to Tear Down the Wall! We know that this is not the first wall and will not be the last.

Esto documento fue leido en el plenaria final de El Encuentro de Pueblos Zapatistas con el PUeblos del Mundo como un propuesta para un tema en la Intergalactica y tambien como un llamada a accion global.

En este esfuerzo, estamos organizando un campamento contra las fronteras con duración de 4 a 5 dias en el otoño de 2007 en la región fronteriza en Mexicali y en Calexico y a la par organizar diferentes acciones contra la frontera entre México y Guatemala. Hacemos un llamado internacional a Derribar el Muro! Sabemos que no es el primer muro y tampoco va a ser el último.
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ALL DIAMONDS ARE CONFLICT DIAMONDS
Janice Jordan,

Robbins Brothers advertises themselves as "World's Biggest Engagement Ring Store"; and over and over again during the 2006 holiday season, consumers had to listen to these two brothers promise the most beautiful diamond in the world to the women and reasonable prices to the men. Men wear rings too, right? Every hour on the hour I couldn't turn to a "mainstream" radio station without hearing about diamonds.

Strip mining any natural resource from any land creates an unbalance felt by plant and animal life, interferes with natural irrigation or soil settlement and exploits the worker. Most people around the world that work in or on "mining" sites are at one of the highest risk for on the job injuries, have adverse future health problems and are paid low wages (not counting forced labor).

There is no such thing as a conflict-free diamond. The purchase of what is advertised as a precious and priceless stone costs others in low-wages, dangerous working conditions, limbs and lives. The conflict between humans and the environment is as divisive as the conflict between war and peace.
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Bike Tour of Edible San Diego
san diego indymedia volunteer,

"There wasn't a lot of conversation with people in the community until we were out there, digging in the dirt, pulling up the lawn and people would come by and were like 'What are you doing?' It was this real connecting thing in the community that we are living in."

San Diego Food Not Lawns organized a Bike Tour of Edible San Diego on November 12. "The idea was to get folks out on bicycles to look at some of the school gardens and community gardens and front yard gardens that people have been putting in to get us excited about the possibilities of a greener San Diego and a San Diego where food is everywhere."

Leaving from Balboa Park, the roughly 15 mile tour visited the worm bins and gardens at Grant Elementary School in Mission Hills, Food Not Bombs serving a meal at North Park Park, gardens at Central Elementary in CIty Heights, a front-yard community garden project at the Activist San Diego House, and the Golden Hills Community Garden in Balboa Park.

San Diego Food Not Lawns is part of a recently created international movement for "using our resources, our land, our water, our energy for growing food for people instead of on lawns."

Edible San Diego Bike Tour Video: 15min/20mbytes

Links: San Diego Food Not Lawns | Cascadia Food Not Lawns | Grant Elementary | Central Elementary | Activist San Diego


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Pre-School Parents Gain Right to Know Jan.1st
California Safe Schools www.calisafe.org,

On January 1, 2007, a new state law (AB 2865, Torrico) will require private child day care facilities to comply with new pesticide use recordkeeping and notification requirements.

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Green Scare Benefit Reports
sdimc volunteer,

From Danny:
On December 7th, 2006, around 20 people showed up at Voz Alta for a fundraiser organized to raise awareness about the Green Scare, and show solidarity with those targeted by it.

Janice Jordan took the stand and recounted... all the orange groves and untouched land that was Orange County... and the [subsequent] disappearance of agriculture and open space to make way for sprawling office buildings in the name of 'progress'. Rocky Neptun mentioned the 'SHAC 7', who are all serving prison sentences for running a website bent on shutting down Huntingdon Life Sciences, a notorious animal-testing corporation. Troy Picknard, a soon-to-be lawyer, drove home the point that it is never a good idea to talk to the police or FBI. --Read More--

From Rocky:
They understand that the Green Scare is here. It is the weapon of choice by CEO’s and wealthy speculators to bring yet another generation to its knees by insuring that youthful animal rights activists and environmentalists, who commit civil disobedience for ethical or political reasons, get more time in prison than street thugs and rapists. “In defiance of the order that ushers our dying Earth to her grave, let us stand together so that the fires of our hearts may burn against this dark hour of repression,” a T-shirt proclaims as the young man talks about the need to support ecoprisoners. --Read More--

Background and Links: SDIMC Stories: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | ecoprisoners.org | SHAC7.com | greenscare.org | FBIwitchhunt.com | greenisthenewred.com
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Report on Green Scare Benefit
Danny,

On December 7th around 20 people showed up
at Voz Alta for a fundraiser organized to raise
awareness about the Green Scare, and show solidarity
with those targeted by it.

The event organizer, Danae Kelley, welcomed
everybody and explained what the Green Scare was and
why those arrested urgently need support.

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GREEN SCARE BENEFIT LUNCH!
Leonard,

A fancy four-course vegan lunch (buffet style) will be sold for sliding scale $4-10 including dessert. All donations will go to the support campaigns of green scare defendants.

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GAP Protest at Horton Plaza Dec.16 at 12:30
Geoffrey Gray,

It consists of the environemental policies GAP isviolating, as well as human rights.
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Trouble in Pelosi's privatized National Park
Naturelover,

If you want to stop needless, inappropriate luxury development in San Francisco's Presidio National Park, now's the time to send your comments, and here's where to send them.

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Winter Solstice Play
rodriguez,

Want a different holiday story? The children’s play “The Little Fir Tree” is about winter solstice, respecting the environment, and opening up our hearts. It offers children and adults a message of generosity that is not linked to consumerism. So get up, pile those kiddos and folks of all ages on bikes, the bus, or take a walk to Balboa Park, and if you have to drive car remember to pick friends and family along the way.
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The FBI, Cell Phones and You
san diego indymedia volunteer and repost from CNET,

I am not a paranoid conspiracy theorist. I do not believe the twin towers fell because Dick Cheney planted explosives in them. I do not think the Kennedys were assassinated by space aliens. But I have one request: before you read another word of this story out loud to yourself or your friends, TAKE THE F*N BATTERY OUT OF YOUR CELL PHONE!

Let me explain. We all know that the NSA is monitoring our phone conversations and reading our e-mails, without warrants or oversight or any of that messy red tape, because, any one of us, especially if we have a tendency to question the corporate security state, could at any time turn into a TERRORIST. We also know that the FBI as well as local security forces have been infiltrating groups who advocate for peace, animals and the Earth, because, well, you know. These actions combined with the recently revealed Automated Targeting System and numerous other programs have led most people to self-regulate their speech and actions, to avoid the possibility of being branded an eco-terrorist (green scare), a potential presidential assassin or an Islamic terrorist.

But to the clever geeks at the FBI, this climate of fear and paranoia simply isn't enough. And so they, in partnership with their corporate collaborators, have devised a way to listen to our conversations using cell phones. But, you say, the NSA is already doing that! No, the FBI is listening to you even when you aren't talking to someone using your cell phone. What? As revealed in a judge's ruling related to investigation of the feds' competitors, the Mafia, the FBI's eggheads have figured out how to reprogram your phone, without ever having access to it, so that they can activate the microphone and listen by calling your phone from anywhere, without you having a clue. OK, you say, I will just turn off my phone. Nope. Many models of phones (thank you Verizon!) can be turned on remotely, again, without a trace.

And so all of us who have cell phones are wired directly to the den of thieves. Even amongst trusted friends, we have to "watch what we say, watch what we do." The only ways to defeat this intrusion are to take the battery out of your cell phone, leave your phone at home, or responsibly recycle it.

Welcome to homeland insecurity. How can we help you?

Original Report from CNET

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Green Scare Benefit: Thurs Dec 7 6:00PM Voz Alta
repost,

Vegan Potluck/Film Screenings/Know Your Rights to Benefit Victims of the Green Scare
Thursday, December 7 - 6:00PM
Voz Alta 1549 Broadway 1 Block from City College
$5 with a Vegan Dish, $10 without.

Screening: The Lorax + Surplus
Speakers: On the Green Scare and Know Your Rights
Raffle: Vegan Stuff

Recent Articles, Background and Links: 1 2 3 4 5 6
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Justice cancels auction of Brazilian oil.
Pedro Silva neto,

We are paying for the liter of gasoline about 25 times what do pay our Venezuelan neighbors, while the ANP works “mysteriously” to vender billions of barrels of Brazilian oil, set free for exportation, for 0,2% of its value of market.
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Ethics Toward Animals
Animal Advocates of SDSU,

A talk by Gary Yourofsky

One person's inspirational actions have been covered by every newspaper, radio outlet, and TV station in his native Detroit, and by countless other media outlets nationwide.
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