Teamsters Strike at Coca-Cola, Intl Day of Action against Coke
PR Newswire and FSRN c/o lotus,

Teamsters in San Diego, California, who produce and distribute Coca-Cola products for Coca-Cola Enterprises went on strike today to protest the company's demand to dramatically increase workers' health care costs."Coke's greed has put nearly 500 San Diego families in jeopardy," said Jack Cipriani, International Vice President and Director of the Teamsters Brewery & Soft Drink Workers' Conference. "It is unconscionable that Coke would turn on the very people who work so hard to make the company the number one selling soft drink brand in the United States. Paying for those health benefits would have cost CCE less than what the company earned in 17 minutes last year."

The World Social Forum declared tomorrow, the 22nd of July, as an International Day of Action against Coca Cola. Organizers are encouraging schools and organizations to stop stocking coke machines and are asking individuals to refrain from buying Coca Cola products. In the US the campaign to boycott ‘Killer Coke’ is spreading across college campuses and communities around the country. The boycott was launched last year by the Colombian food and beverage workers’ union, SINALTRAINAL, to bring attention to the murders of Coca-Cola trade unionists there that they believe were executed by company-hired death squads in a country often described as the world’s most dangerous place for labor activists.

 http://www.fsrn.org/news/20040721_news.html
 http://www.teamster.org/04news/nr_040720_1.htm
 http://www.killercoke.org/
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FILM - Unprecedented: the 2000 Election J28
jonathan,

Summertime Political films! Is it the weather or those political conventions that are making you hot? Join the San Diego Independent Media Center and the Voz Alta Project, Wednesday July 28, 7:30 pm, for an evening of political film. We will be screening Unprecedented: the 2000 Presidential Election (www.unprecedented.org). This film documents the battle for the presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. $3-5 At Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway, Downtown San Diego.
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New Coalition meets Saturday July 24
roman,

Save Section 8 Coalition meets Saturday July 24
A new coalition is forming to save section 8 and help low income families keep subsidies. The strategy of action will be discussed as the first meeting towards this goal is scheduled for Saturday at Claire de Lune.
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Beyond Protest Politics :: Saturday, 7/17
info at organiccollective dot org,

Saturday, July 17th, Beyond Protest Politics: Long term strategies for radical social change

Workshops to include:
- Community gardening round table: permaculture, organic farming, land use policy
- Building a movement for Border Justice
- Cooperative Businesses
- Beyond Voting: Strategies for Direct Democracy
...and more

Performing live: Maiz, members of the B-Side Players

@ the Che Cafe, on the UCSD campus. See  http://checafe.org/directions.html for directions.

How can we win?
How can we move away from petitioning the government for the change we want and start actually creating that change?
How can we have a movement that is 100 times larger than the one today?

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radioActive benefit - David Rovics, Prince Myshkins and George Shrub
info at radioactiveradio dot org,

Live Concert for radioActive Radio!

David Rovics
The Prince Myshkins
&
George Shrub
(the world's only singing CIA agent)

 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2004/07/104900.shtml

Wednesday, July 14th, 7pm to 10pm // @ Korova's Coffee Bar

4496 Park Blvd. // $5-7 donation.


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North County Forum's 3rd Annual Alternative Independence Day and Activists Fair in Vista
sdimc,

Activists from around the county will be meeting in Vista Monday July 5th to celebrate Independence day! The event promises to be fun and energetic with an outdoor stage featuring music and poetry, an indoor venue with speakers and political films and booths with literature, books, food, and local activist groups.

Times:
Activist Fair - 1pm to 6:30pm
Chalmers Johnson - 7pm
Where: Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1600 Buena Vista Drive, in the Shadowridge section of Vista

For complete details CLICK HERE

Donate Bone Marrow to a Soldier With Leukemia
Fernando Suarez,

Josue Molina Bonilla, USMC, 24 years old, originally from Honduras, fought in the war in Iraq. Upon his return last November he was diagnosed with leukemia. Doctors told him there is little hope for his survival without a bone marrow transplant.
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June 30th Demonstration Downtown San Diego
YROW,

We must begin to act now to end this occupation. A puppet regime has been implaced, but the troops remain in Iraq. The troops remain in many other countries terrorizing the world. Action must be taken now to end these occupations.
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Bio 2001
SDIMC,

This Wednesday SDIMC and Voz Alta are pleased to present documentarian Juan F. Pazos, who will introduce his video "Bio 2001."
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Greenpeace Continues its Resistance to Old-Growth Logging
lotus,

Umpqua National Forest, Ore - Greenpeace continued to spotlight destructive logging practices on U.S. public lands today, this time in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest, administered by the U.S. Forest Service. Four activists attached themselves to a three-ton cargo container placed in the middle of active logging operations at the site of the "Peanuts" timber sale, where felling and hauling of old-growth trees is underway by the D.R. Johnson company. Surrounded by stumps, the bright yellow container, which reads "Bush's Forest Destruction Stops Here" is the latest staging ground for Greenpeace's campaign calling for a moratorium on commercial logging of ancient forest on public lands.

For updates about today's action, see  http://weblog.greenpeace.org/stopthesales/index.html

For video from the Forest Rescue Station, see
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2004/06/104712.shtml

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Website back after connectivity problems
imc techs,

For the last six days, we've been experiencing an outage due to physical connectivity problems on the network that provides our internet connection. The problem seems to be resolved now. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience to our users.

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BioDevestation 2004 // Reclaim the Commons
lotus,

BioDev 2004: For updates from the streets, check [ Bay Area Indymedia ] or [ Enemy Combatant Radio | TUNE IN NOW!!! | call 415-864-1006 to report live on ECR ] or [ Portland IMC Web Radio | TUNE IN NOW!!!]
For in-depth coverage and analysis, check [ Biotech IMC ]
Video - Teach in day 1
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community softball game sunday june 6th 11 am
ccap,

Come join members of the community in a softball game @ 11 am Sunday june 6th, 2004 at the Golden Hills Recreation Center 2600 Golf Course Dr. San Diego, CA 92102. Donations are accepted but no one will be turned away. Money is being raised for the Oct 2nd's Operation Gatekeeper Protest.
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CENSORED: IndyMedia Event this Friday!
sdimc,

CENSORED: What the Media Isn't Telling You.
Friday, May 28, 7pm to 9pm.
Joyce Beers Community Center
FREE

San Diego IndyMedia invites you to participate in an evening of poetry and politics as we explore the voices that are excluded from corporate media. This free event is the first in the series of media activism events leading up to October's "Media EmergenC Conference."

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CCAP Targets Landlord and Wins Demands
Roman ,

The California Coalition Against Poverty targetted a landlord in the Lemon Grove area yesterday Saturday 22nd and won for two families affected by the landlord the demands for extending the unfair eviction notices.

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Bring the Troops Home! Protest 6/26
Milkitary Families Speak Out! San Diego,

Military Families, Veterans, Active-duty Military, and concerned citizens all stand up on June 26 for the prompt return of our loved ones from their over-extended stay in Iraq.

End the Occupation of Iraq and Bring Our Troops Home!
RALLY-PROTEST
Saturday, June 26th
1 pm Federal Building
Broadway and Front St.
San Diego

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Stop Israeli Offensive in Gaza
ADC c/o lotus,

UPDATE :: emergency demonstrations - Friday 5/21 and Saturday 5/22

Washington, DC, May 18 -- The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is urging its members and supporters to ask the United States government to intervene to end the assault on Rafah refugee camp and other areas in the occupied Gaza Strip by the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

According to press accounts, at least 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces this morning, including three children, among them a 13-year-old boy and his 16-year-old sister. On Friday, Israeli military bulldozers destroyed about 200 homes in Rafah, bringing the total number of Rafah homes destroyed in the past three years to 1,200.

Several groups are having an emergency meeting tonight at the IAC center to plan an emergency protest either later this week or this weekend. Stay tuned for more information.


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Feds harass SD activists again!
CFA,

UPDATE: Solidarity Action at Friday, 6:30PM, on 6th and Laurel
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/104242.shtml

This is a important call to action. If you can or will help with friday let us know.

This last Weekend in LA I helped to co-organize a conference called Liberation weekend. The message of the conference could easily be boiled down into the need for serious movement aimed at revolutionary change. I am very surprised that the very idea is so frightening to the agents of the state I have come to learn that it is. Several of the organizers and attendees have been arrested since the conference started on Saturday. Several attendees of the conference have been “tailed”.
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OTC Emergency Contraception Rejected by FDA
Kate A.,

Outrageously, after more than one million of us Marched for Women’s
Lives in Washington, DC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late
Thursday decided to reject over-the-counter status for emergency
contraception. We must now make our voices heard once again
expressing our anger that the FDA has allowed right-wing politics to
trump women’s health.
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US Torture Exposed, The People Respond
lotus,

In response to a report of prisoner torture and murder inside prisons across Iraq, which was leaked to the media recently, people are standing up across the globe to decry the US and UK's use of torture. The graphic images have been shown on media outlets across the country, but some are still claiming that they're being censored.

As the evidence of torture grows, many are calling for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation. In a senate hearing where Rumsfeld was questioned today, a group of concerned people stood up and chanted "Fire Rumsfeld" while holding a banner saying the same.

Independent contractors have been implicated in the toture as well, creating a growing discussion fo the private war going on in Iraq. A demonstration of around 100 people was held in front of one of the contractor's, Titan Corporation's, headquarters, as well as a press conference. More demonstrations are planned.

Amid all this, there is still very little discussion in the media about the fact that this type of behaviour is taught, expected, and awarded in the military; and that this kind of torture has been going on in Guantanamo Bay for years. As in Guantanamo, a recent Democracy Now show discussed how in Iraqi prisions "there was no process for determining who was innocent".

DC Indymedia | UK Indymedia | ZMag on War Crimes | Counterpunch: Abu Ghraib as My Lai?

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