Immigration Blues
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

This editorial, published in the May 2006 issue of Zenger's Newsmagazine, argues that immigration is not as simple a problem as either the Right or the Left makes it out to be; that the real issue is the economic and social inequity both within and between countries, and the ways the corporate ruling class exploit these inequalities; and the short-term solutions are to treat undocumented immigrants already here with respect and enforce the labor laws to protect the wages and benefits of American workers, whatever their citizenship or residency status.
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Queer Democrats Endorse Wilson/School Board
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed Jim Wilson over incumbent Katherine Nakamura for the District B seat on the San Diego Unified School District board at their regular April 27 meeting. This marked a reversal from their position four years ago, when they picked Nakamura over a Teacher's Union-backed candidate in a race in which then-Superintendent Alan Bersin's controversial education policies were the main issue. The club also maintained its acceptable ratings for three of the Democratic candidates running against Republican Congressmember Duncan Hunter — Derek Casady, Karen Otter and John Rinaldi — despite pressure from some members and the Gay & Lesbian Times newspaper to endorse Rinaldi because he's openly Gay.
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Alexander Wants Electric Cars- Hydrogen SUV's
Stewart A. Alexander,

As technologies catch up to consumer needs, and gasoline prices soar daily to record highs, Alexander says it is important that we make an intelligent transition, manufacturing electric vehicles for daily commuting and hydrogen engines to power larger vehicles such as pickup trucks and SUV’s.



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Excessive Profits Via the Bush Administratio
messenger,

Remember the Enron scandal? It seems small,
now, doesn't it? Billions being bilked from
California (and stashed in off-shore accounts)
through a bogus energy crisis that we later were
privy to emails and tapped phone
conversations of. It was so unbelievable at the
time.


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Free Speech with reg e gaines in Balboa Park
Michael Klam,

The Museum of the Living Artist invites writers and artists to present their visual and written/spoken work at Poetry and Art on Wednesday, May 17, 2006. The free speech quarterly event at the San Diego Art Institute will feature special guest performers reg e gaines, author, playwright and director, and San Diego’s top competition (slam) poets, including Rudy Francisco, Viet Mai, Whitney Lawrence, Brian DeBenedictus, and Sunflower Dubois.
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Californians Will Vote Along Gasoline Lines
Stewart A. Alexander,

When voters go to the polls to vote, during this 2006 election year, it will be on the issues and not along party lines. Stewart Alexander says, “If the voting poles were at gasoline stations, Californians would be making a complete change in leadership in Sacramento and Washington.”


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Governor Joins Struggle Against Teachers
Stewart A. Alexander,

Stewart Alexander, candidate for lieutenant governor, oppose Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s move to take control of the LAUSD and says he fully support the position of the teachers, district officials and the union on this important issue.
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RSF "authentic claimants to 1916"
IRIS,

WRITING in the Sunday edition of the Derry Journal journalist and author Éamonn McCann said that in his view, as far as Republicanism was concerned, the most authentic claimants to the political legacy of the 1916 Rising were Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Republican Sinn Féin.
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Californians Rejecting One Party System
Stewart A. Alexander,

Californians reject the one party system because the new Democratic Republican Party only represents five percent of all Americans. Today people are going to the streets and there is an awaking in America for a change in leadership.
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Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta Easter Statement
NIFC,

Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta Easter Statement 2006
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Depends What 'Is' Isn't
Clinton Fein / Annoy.com,

That not a single senator, save Senator Russ Feingold, has the moral certitude or political courage of their convictions to so much as formally reprimand him, speaks volumes about American leadership. The liars, leakers, cheats and hypocrites that reflect the media, congress, and this Administration has reached a point where nothing is meant by what is said, and no one means anything they say.

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BIG JUMPS AT GAS PUMPS
Stewart A. Alexander,

Gasoline prices and profits are soaring to all new heights throughout California and Stewart Alexander says Governor Schwarzenegger must take immediate action to save the wallets of Californians.
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Up to 100,000 Attend Mass Immigration March
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

San Diego's largest protest since the Viet Nam war took place Sunday, April 9, when up to 100,000 people jammed the streets to denounce the anti-immigrant bill passed by the House of Representatives and demand "dignity, respect and hope" for both documented and undocumented immigrants. The march was inspiring and festive, but the rally speeches were long on emotional tales of immigrants making good in the U.S. and short on specific demands. Some immigrant-rights activists had criticized the march organizers for not specifically calling for amnesty for the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S., and had held their own action the day before.

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Stories: Zenger's | An LGBT Take on Immigration | Original Announcement

Related Blogwire Posts: First Fatality of School Walk-outs | Estimated 500,000 protesters set record for largest rally in Dallas history | Huge Number of Feeder Marches Planned for April 10 Protest in NYC
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SPENDING PENSION FUNDS - BAD IDEA
Stewart A. Alexander,

State Treasurer Phil Angelides wants to spend the retirement income of working class people to repair the state’s infrastructure, however Stewart Alexander, the Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, says it’s a bad idea.
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Peace and Freedom Party Endorses Mayday Ralli
Kevin Akin,

California's Peace and Freedom Party has endorsed the immigrants rights rallies and strike planned for May 1, 2006.
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Filner Endorses Barrera
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper,

U.S. Congressman Bob Filner endorsed Democrat Richard Barrera in the race for Supervisor against Republican incumbent Ron Roberts. Filner called for an end to Republican control of the County Board of Supervisors and said Barrera had the progressive ideals needed to bring energy to a stale, old political body.
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California Gas Prices Spike Sharply
Stewart A. Alexander,

Within the past three weeks gasoline prices have risen sharply topping the $3 mark in most areas of Southern California. Californians are looking to Sacramento and Washington for relief at the pumps but state and federal leaders remain silent on gasoline price hikes.


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Son's Death in Iraq Prompts Bid for Congress
bruce,

"Mr. Berg said that he was originally approached by a representative of the state's Democratic Party to oppose Mr. Castle but that he opted to go with the Greens because "the Democrats have the money to get the message out, but they have the wrong message.""
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Queer Dems Reluctantly Endorse Susan Davis
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club on March 23 endorsed Susan Davis's re-election bid for Congress 30 to 7, despite some discontent over her refusal to co-sponsor a bill to end discrimination against Queers in the U.S. military. Davis campaign staffer Daniel Nava said she was trying to build support for repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy by meeting with military leaders in her role as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, but the statement Davis sent to the club to explain her position sounded to many club members suspiciously like the rationales used to enact the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the first place.
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Matthew Cuffe, Blair Witch Conviction Project
small WORLD Podcast,

Interview with Matthew Cuffe of the Blair Witch Conviction Project.
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Calif. - Auto Industry Partnership Proposed
Stewart A. Alexander,

The Peace and Freedom Party candidate for California lieutenant governor is proposing a 75 billion dollar plan to revive the American automobile industry and to bring good paying jobs back to California. Unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger, Phil Angelides and Steve Wesley, Alexander believes California needs a plan and a vision to build California and to help working people.
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Johnny Carson interviews Jim Garrison
reposted,

author: remembering the past

At the website of the late Col. Fletcher Prouty you can still hear echoes reverberating from Dealey Plaza, in very Lo-Fi streaming audio. Since I could not find a transcript of this famous 1967 television broadcast online to me help clarify some of the garbled details, I set out to produce one, in order to restore and preserve the fidelity of an echo.
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Alexander Wants Gasoline Price Controls
Stewart A. Alexander,

The oil industry is off to an early start to raise gasoline prices and profits. Stewart Alexander, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for lieutenant governor, says he will push for gasoline price controls in California to end gouging at the pumps.
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Disability Forum with Mayor Sanders
posted by disability activist,

It is our hope that all people connected to the disability Community will be able to attend and discuss with the Mayor the major issues that affect the lives of people with disabilities in San Diego. We hope you will bring your questions, suggestions, statements to the meeting so that the Mayor can get a fuller idea of what he should and could do to make San Diego better for people with disabiltities.
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32 US Reps Want Bush Impeachment Inquiry
reposted,

32 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
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Death Penalty Issue Still Alive
Stewart A. Alexander,

The California death penalty has a temporary moratorium resulting from medical professionals refusing to participate in the execution of Michael Morales. Now is the time to examine the failures of capital punishment and how the criminal justice system is completely out of control in California and America.
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52nd District Race
Sharon Bosley,

Whats up with the race in the 52nd Distict, against Duncan Hunter?
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Please add your signature
bruce,

if you haven't already, please sign Congressman Conyers 'citizen's petition' for "Creation of a Congressional Special Committee to Investigate Impeachable Offenses"; go here:
 http://johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC=%7B29336D51-F9AE-474D-8C08-8D69902D5149%7D

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PFP VOICE UNION CONCERNS
Stewart A. Alexander,

The Democratic leadership in Sacramento and Washington has become silent on issues in government that will protect the working class and organized labor; and now to have a voice in government, working people must look beyond the emerging one party system for political leadership.
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Queer Democrats Discuss Military Issue
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The predomninantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club rated three Democratic challengers to incumbent Congressmember Duncan Hunter — who pushed through the triple border fence and wants to extend it across the entire U.S.-Mexico border — acceptable at their February 23 meeting. They also heard presentations from Tracy Jada O'Brien on Transgender issues and Bridget Wilson of the Servicemembers' Legal Defense Network on the rights of Queers in the military. Wilson said that even those opposed to the Iraq war and U.S. imperialism in general need to get behind the civil-rights issue of the right to serve in the military, especially since for many working-class Americans today military service is virtually the only way they have to go to college and work their way up in the world.
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