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San Diego Declares Affordable Housing "Emergency"
Activists Demonstrate Aug. 6 on Hiroshima Anniversary
Statewide Green Party Candidates Visit San Diego
Is HIV REALLY the Cause of AIDS?
Defense: Why HIV Is the Cause of AIDS What's Killing PWA's - HIV or HIV Drugs? Dr. Rodney Richards/Why You Can't Trust HIV Tests Bruce Mirken Defends the Tests
Marcus Garvey was an embodiment of the African Struggle in his time, and can be seen as a forerunner of Malcolm X and Pan-Africanism
Shelter from the Storm, Medical Marijuana Group
Delete the Border! Oppose the Fence! Stop the Militarization!
Borderhack!forms part of the "Kein mensch ist illegal" (no one is illegal) chain of bordercamps, which takes place on various borders in Europe since 1998. Aug.16th, 17th and 18th Tijuana, Mx (more) Southwest Alliance to Resist Militarization fights against the border fence and militarization of the border in general.
The San Diego Committee Against Police Brutality (CAPB) condemns in the strongest possible terms the insensitive and callous statements made by Sheriff Bill Kolender and the president of the Police Officer Association Bill Farrar in the wake of the tragic death of Sagon Penn. It is unconscionable to think that a public official paid by taxpayer money would use the death of someone who represents justice for the past, present and future victims of police brutality, to launch ad hominem attacks when his family and an entire community is in mourning. The lack of respect for the loss of human life speaks to the true mindset of the police who are supposed to be protecting the very citizens they speak ill of.
Michael Ruppert Speaks in San Diego July 15
Are There Any Ethics in San Diego's Government?
S.D. Premiere of "The Other Side of AIDS" at IMC Film Night July 9
A.N.S.W.E.R. Demonstrates in San Diego, Washington D.C.
Photos of June 28 San Diego Action > Photo collage of San Diego Action
Yes, Virginia, There WERE Protests Against the Recent G8 Summit!
Suppose They Gave an Election and Nobody Voted?
Crooks, Avant, Stine Take On Radical-Right School Board
¡Somos Uno!
Media Manipulation Theme of June 11 Film Night
The San Diego IMC's next film night, Tuesday, June 11, 7 p.m., 4862 Voltaire St. in Ocean Beach, includes two films on the subject of media manipulation. "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom," from 1996, narrated by Studs Terkel, offers concrete examples of how the interests and demands of corporate media owners shape the news their papers and broadcast outlets report and includes a segment on how the corporate media echoed the government's propaganda line in the 1991 Gulf War. "Rock, Paper, Missiles," from 2001, brings the story up to date and shows how U.S. media echo the government's pro-Israel bias in their coverage of the Palestine-Israel conflict.
Action Network Hosts Contentious Meeting with Police, Activists
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In solidarity with (anti-) Border activists throughout the world activists from all over gathered at the border in Tijuana. (If you read the articles you will come to see that political expression on the issue of the border is easier in Mexico, than the US.) The articles below are full of links to other interesting sites.
Over a thousand community residents packed Plaza Hall August 6th forcing the City Council to finally acknowledge that there is an affordable housing crisis in San Diego. After a year of hard work, organizing residents and tenants by the San Diego Housing Coalition and other community groups advocates for affordable housing rejoiced that they now had their foot in door. But some activists say the Council's declaration doesn't go far enough and what San Diego REALLY needs is rent control.
The Ground Zero Players and supporters marked the 57th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with street theater and a procession down Broadway, through downtown San Diego. As the group moved slowly through downtown to the rhythm of a funereal drumbeat, the sounds of an air attack and screams signaled their "die-in" demonstrating the deaths in Hiroshima (and later in Nagasaki in the second atomic attack on August 9). Chalk silhouettes drawn around the "dead and dying" visually showed how many of the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were simply vaporized, with nothing remaining but their shadows.
Three Green Party candidates for statewide office - Peter Miguel Camejo for governor, Donna Warren for lieutenant governor and Laura Wells for controller - brought their campaigns to San Diego recently. This feature also includes an interview with Thomas Lash, anarchist and Green candidate for Congress in Huntington Beach, on how he reconciles anarchism and electoral politics. 
The corporate media routinely refer to HIV as "the virus that causes AIDS," but a small but dedicated and slowly growing group of dissenters, both scientists and lay AIDS activists, challenge that. This feature presents both critics and defenders of the HIV/viral model of AIDS. 
Sunday 18 August, 2002 come celebrate "Marcus Garvey Day" in honour of the Jamaican radical who advocated unfettered knowledge through education--at the World Beat Centre in Balboa Park. 
Check out the links below to get a sense of what was going on at San Diego's Pride March.
Michael C. Ruppert, former Los Angeles police officer, has become one of the most controversial figures in America with his strong suggestions that we have been lied to about the events of September 11, his investigations into the connections between the Bush and bin Laden families and his historical analysis of how U.S. business elites have regularly led this country into war for their own reasons. Hear him in San Diego Monday, July 15 (one night only!), 6 p.m.at the Lyceum Stage in Horton Plaza. Tickets $15 General Admission, $10 students with valid ID.
Though virtually ignored by the corporate media, the controversy over well-connected developer "Corky" McMillin's proposal for the former Naval Training Center (NTC) site clearly shows, according to activists involved in the issue, a continuing and long-entrenched pattern of institutional corruption in San Diego city government. The City Council rubber-stamped McMillin's latest requests on NTC June 25, and three days later project opponents John McNab and Cynthia Conger and long-time San Diego gadfly Mel Shapiro spoke at the San Diego Action Network. They blasted the city for their giveaways to McMillin and the refusal of the San Diego Ethics Commission to investigate possibly illegal campaign contributions from McMillin to incumbent City Councilmembers.
"The Other Side of AIDS," a new documentary by filmmaker Robin Scovill, will have its San Diego premiere Tuesday, July 9, 7 p.m. at “La Casa,” 4862 Voltaire Street in Ocean Beach. Scovill and his wife, Christine Maggiore, founder of the L.A.-based Alive and Well AIDS Alternatives organization and author of What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?, will attend the screening and lead a discussion afterwards. The evening will close with a performance by local poet Kimberly Dark. A $5 donation is suggested but no one will be turned away.
Over 100 people - an excellent turnout for a street-side rally with limited advance publicity - participated in a march and rally in downtown San Diego June 28 sponsored by the local affiliate of International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). Held in conjunction with a nationwide protest in Washington, D.C. June 29, the event was announced as a protest against the federal government's plan to increase the FBI's powers of political surveillance and create a new Department of Homeland Security. But most of the speakers actually discussed current-day political prisoners and abuses by local police in San Diego and National City.
This time it wasn't a case of the corporate media misreporting an important protest against corporate-sponsored globalization. This time the corporate media didn't bother to report it at all! Nonetheless, there were significant and well-attended actions against the recent, and highly secretive, Group of 8 summit meeting of the richest countries in the world in a Canadian ski resort accessible only by a two-lane road an hour's drive from the nearest city, Calgary. Barred from protesting any closer to the actual event, activists staged their main action in Calgary itself and solidarity protests throughout Canada.
Steven Hill, associate director and co-founder of the Center for Voting and Democracy and one of the principal activists behind the recent vote to institute Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) in San Francisco, came to San Diego to speak to a Green Party group at UCSD June 25. He outlined the failures of the American electoral system, the conservative politics it encourages and the ways the U.S. could learn from the experience of other democratic countries with reforms like IRV and proportional representation.
The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club voted to endorse Grossmont Union High School District board candidates Bob Avant and Eve Stine, running mates of Queer-friendly incumbent Ted Crooks, at their regular meeting June 27. Though the club has few members in the Grossmont area and their support might be used to Queer-bait Crooks, Avant and Stine, they took the action anyway as a response to the current board majority's support for administrators who deleted Queer information from programs encouraging students to be tolerant and accept diversity.