Multiple Marches Converge Against War
from the South Bay,

From National City to Oceanside, from Chicano Park to Balboa Park, a diverse group of San Diegans marched through their own communities on March 19th to say, once more, no to war and no to occupation. The Resistencia Estudiantil march started at 7am at Southwestern, going through National City, Barrio Logan, Chicano Park, Sherman Heights, City College, and eventually, Balboa Park. The Code Pink March came from Oceanside, starting three days in advance and keeping it strong the whole way. At 2pm they all converged at the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice's massive Anti-War rally.

Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Audio: 1, 2

Stories: Pablo Paredes at Rally - War is good business for who? - Over 75 reports of Protest on March 19th

Other Anti-War actions in San Diego: PHHS counter-recruitment action - Sean Hannity protest - Street Art Covers San Diego - Recruitment Centers Defaced - Ground Zero Players, M19 Butoh

National and Global March 19th stories and actions:

March 19, 2005, was an International Day of Protest on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Over ten thousand people took to the streets of San Francisco. Elsewhere in California, thousands took to the streets of Los Angeles, and many people from all over the Central Valley gathered in Fresno for "the Rally in the Valley." Hundreds converged in San Diego, and in Eureka, thousands braved the rain to demand an end to the occupation of Iraq and the immediate withdrawal of US troops.

Articles, Photos, Audio and Videos from California

March 19th Action Page on Indymedia.us

There were many other protests around the US. Aside from San Francisco, the largest protests were in New York (Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Video: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ) , Chicago (Photos: 1 | 2 Video: 1 ), and Fayetteville, North Carolina (Photos: 1 | 2 ).

Thousands also took to the streets in Portland (Photos: 1 | 2 ), smaller towns in Oregon (Photos: 1 | 2 ), Las Vegas ( Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 ), Baltimore (Photos: 1) , Seattle (Photos: 1) , St. Paul ( Photos: 1 ) , Boston (Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ), Houston ( Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ), Madison (Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 Video: 1 ), towns throughout New York State (Photos: 1 Video:1 ), Nashville (Photos: 1 ), Miami ( Video: 1 ) Atlanta ( Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 Video: 1 ), Traverse City Michigan (Photos: 1 ), Pittsburgh (Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 ), Champaign Illinois ( Photos: 1 ), Cleveland ( Photos: 1 ), Arkansas (Photos: 1 ) , and Milwaukee.



Around the world, protests took place in Tokyo, Winnipeg, Istanbul, Copenhagen, London, Bombay, Lahore, Rome, Ankara, Athens, Brasilia, Dublin, Glasgow, Mexico City, Sydney, Aukland, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, Santiago, Cairo, Montevideo, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg and many other cities. Photos



Read More Anti-War Protest News On Indybay's Anti-war News
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San Diego's Quixote for Open Government
Jeeni Criscenzo,

Mayor or not, Donna Frye continues her fight for the people and their right to an open government.
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San Diego Says END THE WAR! March 19
protest,

The San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice, along with Resistencia Estudiantil, and Code Pink are holding local protests in conjunction with events around the U.S. and worldwide.

March 19, 2005 - 2:00 p.m., 6th and Laurel, Balboa Park, San Diego. Speakers, music, poetry.

All Day Radio Coverage at radioActive sanDiego. Listen here

NEXT SATURDAY - GET OUT IN THE STREETS!
THE WORLD SAYS END THE WAR!
SATURDAY, MARCH 19: GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST
ON THE TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRAQ WAR
* End the War *
* Bring the Troops Home Now *
* Rebuild Our Communities *

March 19-20 marks the two-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq. After all of the death and destruction, and with the Bush administration claiming a mandate to continue their war, there's a new urgency and a stronger determination within the global antiwar movement to bring the troops home now.

The San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice will hold a local demonstration in conjunction with events around the U.S. and world-wide. Watch for details! Come to the meetings to get involved!

See the SDCPJ website for location and directions:
http://www.sdcpj.org

Flyers available at the Church of the Brethren, 3850 Westgate Place, San Diego and more will be located at the Peace Resource Center (trailer at the church). Also, flyers are available at Mattress World, 1601 University Ave., in eastern Hillcrest or download them and print your own.

JOIN A MARCH TO THE PARK SATURDAY MARCH 19TH!

RESISTENCIA ESTUDIANTIL:
12:00 Noon: Leaving Chicano Park
1:30 PM: Leaving City College (Park Blvd.)
1:40 PM: Leaving Space Museum Fountain

CODE PINK
9:00 AM: Leaving Turquoise & Mission in Pacific Beach
12:00 Noon: Leaving Old Town Trolley Station

NORTH COUNTY COALITION FOR PEACE & JUSTICE
1:00 PM: Leaving Downtown Train Station at Broadway & Kettner
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Farmworkers Take Down Taco Bell
austin imc,

"The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farmworkers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families" (Cesar Chavez)

On March 8, after nearly four years of struggle and amidst the momentum of the 2005 Taco Bell Truth Tour, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW scored a decisive victory in their national boycott of Taco Bell. Caving under the weight of an intense grassroots campaign, the fast-food giant has agreed to work with the Florida-based farmworker organization to improve the wages and working conditions of farmworkers in the Florida tomato industry by paying a penny-per-pound surcharge demanded by the workers. The farmworkers' sub-poverty wages have been stagnant and declining in real terms since 1978.

"This is an important victory for farmworkers, one that establishes a new standard of social responsibility for the fast-food industry and makes an immediate material change in the lives of workers. This sends a clear challenge to other industry leaders," said Lucas Benitez, a member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The CIW's precedent-setting victory is also an important step forward for student/youth, global justice, and poor peoples' movements throughout the U.S. who have worked in solidarity with the farmworkers, forcing the world's largest restaurant corporation (Yum! Brands, Taco Bell's parent company) to accept responsibility for conditions in its supply chain.

As planned, farmworkers and their allies will gather in Louisville, KY on March 11th and 12th to celebrate the victory and chart the next steps in the movement to end sweatshops in the fields. The battle is won; the war continues.

Updates from 2005 Taco Bell Truth Tour
Daily Video Diaries:
East Leg: One | Two | Three | Four & Five | Six & Seven
West Leg: One | Two, Three & Four | Five
Segment on Democracy Now! | Victory News Broken to ATXers

Photos: Day - One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven
Photos from Victory Celebration

Audio: Tour Departs from Immokalee (.mp3) | West leg hits Tally (.mp3) | Cleveland IMC Radio Interview with farmworker | CIW Teach-in Cleveland, OH | Connections b/w Civil Rights and Boycott | Peace Talks | Interview with Fernando Suarez del Solar english/espanol | Press Conference Announcing End of Boycott | Victory Announcement at Our World; Our Rights conference

Stories: [Cleveland IMC] | [Tennessee IMC] | [Houston IMC] | [Tallahassee-Red Hills IMC] | [Chicago IMC] | [ATX IMC] | [Michigan IMC] | [Santa Cruz IMC]

Boycott Taco Bell song | Download film "Immokalee: From Slavery to Freedom" (.mov)

Archived articles from Democracy Now! 1 | 2
External Articles: Leading Like Jesus | Values Voters, Desperate Housewives and Sweatshop Tacos | ‘Truth Tour’ Highlights Poverty Wages | Farm Workers in America: a History of Struggle

Student/Farmworker Alliance | Coalition of Immokalee Workers | 2005 Truth Tour | US Indymedia Topic Page
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Guerilla Video Training
video activist,

March 17th, 6:30pm-8:30pm,
presented by the San Diego Independent Media Center

Screening of "Guerilla Video Primer" with discussion and tips.


at the San Diego Foundation for Change,
3758 30th Street.

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Eyes Wide Open
Mat,

I went to Grape Day Park today, Located in Escondido, California

I look out over a Sea of Shoes and Boots.
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San Diego Latino Film Festival!!
Media Arts Center - San Diego,

THE 12TH ANNUAL SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL:
DISCOVERY AND CELEBRATION: MARCH 10 – 20, 2005

San Diego, CA – The Media Arts Center San Diego is proud to announce the 2005 San Diego Latino Film Festival with more than 100 films from Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Spain and the U.S. This prestigious, and internationally recognized film festival is the longest running Latino festival in Southern California. With a projected audience of over 17,000, SDLFF is also one of the largest. Attending filmmakers and fans will see over 100 films including: Voces Inocentes (Mexico) Machuca (Chile), Puños Rosas(Mexico), and Perfecto Amor Equivocado ( Cuba). In addition, as part of SDLFF’s "Guest Director" series, acclaimed director Luis Mondoki (Voces Inocentes, Gaby: A True Story, Trapped, Angel Eyes) has curated a series of three 35mm classics that influenced his career.
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International Women's Day in San Diego, March 8th
imcista,

The International Women's Day, or International Woman's Day, is on 8 March every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. Amongst other relevant historic events, it commemorates the Triangle Factory Fire (New York, 1911), where over 140 women lost their lives.

The idea of having an international women's day was first put forward at the turn of the 20th century amid rapid world industrialization and economic expansion that led to protests over working conditions. Women from clothing and textile factories staged one such protest on March 8th, 1857 in New York City. The garment workers were protesting what they saw as very poor working conditions and low wages. The protesters were attacked and dispersed by police. These women established their first labour union in the same month two years later. More protests followed on March 8th in subsequent years, most notably in 1908 when 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. Even so, the first International Women's Day was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. In 1910 the first international women's conference was held in Copenhagen by the Socialist International and an 'International Women's Day' was established. The following year, IWD was marked by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. However, just six days later, the Triangle Factory Fire in New York City killed over 140 garment workers. A lack of safety measures was blamed for the high death toll. Furthermore, on the eve of World War I, women across Europe held peace rallies on March 8, 1913.

Demonstrations marking International Women's Day in Russia proved to be the first stage of the Russian Revolution. Following the October Revolution, the Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai persuaded Lenin to make it an official holiday, and during the Soviet period it continued to celebrate "the heroic woman worker". The day remains an official holiday in Russia, and is observed by men congratulating women (any woman) and giving them gifts. In the West, International Women's Day was commemorated during the 1910s and 1920s, but dwindled. It was revived by the rise of feminism in the 1960s. In 1975, the United Nations began sponsoring International Women's Day.
((excerpted from wikipedia))

Check out all the incredible events happening right here in San Diego:

Thursday, March 3rd - Women Who dare

Friday, March 4th - International Action Center with Gloria Verdieu

Saturday, March 5th - 'Revolutionary Women Past and Present"

Sunday, March 6th - Las Colinas action - V.A.G.I.N.A. fest!!

Tuesday, March 8th - Gracia Molina at the Centro Raza - Women PeaceMaking Program - Tune into radioActive sAn Diego today for songs, shows, and talk all about International Women's Day.

Wednesday, March 9th - Sisters 77

Saturday, March 11th - Red CalacArts Collective

Sunday, March 12th - Palestinian American Women's Association International Women's Day Banquet
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Now is the Time to Stop the Border Fence!
stop the triple fence,

Here is some of the list traffic from  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/borderfencesolution/ and other emails today. It is unfortunate that everyone is so snowed about the need for a triple fence to stop terrorists. We have to get the Senate to say no to the bill that would exempt this fence from environmental laws.

Contact the County Supervisors and contact Boxer and Feinstein!
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Support Justice for Janitors this Friday!
Center on Policy Initiatives ,

Picket & Community Action

Friday, March 4
12:00 Noon, 8680 Balboa Avenue, San Diego (Free Parking)

The workers of Professional Maintenance Systems (PMS) receive poverty wages, no health care benefits, no sick days, and no vacation days. They have been trying to unionize despite threats and intimidation by PMS.

Let's join in solidarity with the janitors in a rally for decent wages, benefits and respect.
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Call to Drummers, Musicians and Noisemakers
roman,

Follow-Up Action at Mexican Consulate for freedom

This coming WEDNESDAY, at 4 PM, at the Mexican Consul on India St, a group of Tijuana-South Bay-Downtown area activits will be gathering to protest and demonstrate disagreement with the Mexican government's attacks on Zapatista communities in Sonora. The embryonic MARCH AND RALLY PROGRESSIVE ENSEMBLE, makes a call out to drummers, performers and others to meet up there, talk and make music.

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Log Cabin Repubs Meet in Hillcrest on Monday
Queer Radical,

The Log Cabin Republicans, a Queer support group for the corporate agenda, will be holding their San Diego Chapter meeting and mixer on Monday at 7:00PM at the Abbey Cafe 127 University Ave (next to Rainbow Road) in Hillcrest, with speaker Delores Jacobs, "CEO" of the San Diego Queer Center. Real Queers will be there to greet them. Please join in the fun.

Log Cabin Republicans
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Border Fence in the News - Stop the Fence!
no borders,

This morning on NPR was I happy to hear another story about the Border Fence. The recent House passage of a bill to exempt the construction of the Border Fence from environmental laws is ridiculous and deserves national attention. Hopefully as people across the country realize the implications of putting fear above environmental preservation they will try to get this bill stopped in the Senate.

Links:

Audio from the American Friends Service Committee press conference on Border policy

Stop the Triple Fence - Photos from Border

Misguided Border Policy Continues With Triple Border Fence Local Activists Say

Local Leaders Meet to Stop the Final Three Miles of the Triple Border Fence

Help Stop the Proposed Border Fence!

Border fence could skip rules

A Fence Won't Stem the Tide of Immigration
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SOLIDARITY CONCERT: In defense of a Zapatista Village in Sonora
jessica,

TONIGHT February 26 7pm
********************************
Voz Alta 1544 Broadway San Diego

~ MEZCLAH ~
~ ACTEAL ~
~ LOS HIJOS DE LA MALINCHE ~
~ POETAS INVITADOS~

For more information:
 http://fzlnbc.org/
 http://vozalta.org
 http://fzln.org.mx/
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Beverly Harris, Black Box Voting Expose Sat/2
download via activistsandiego.org,

Beverly Harris, Executive Director of Black Box Voting, is coming to San Diego. She will speak on “Empowering America to Take Back the Vote.” Harris is the leading advocate for safe, accurate and verifiable elections in America. An investigative reporter by trade, and the author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century,. she, currently, is investigating the improprieties of the 2004 Presidential Election. She is also involved in several lawsuits against Diebold Elections Systems.

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re/de claiming the line / re/de clamando la linea
Voz Alta,

Friday, Feb 25th 2005
re/de clamando la linea/
re/de claiming the line
four part poetry series
(not your average poetry reading)
8pm ($5.00 donation)

Friday, February 25, 2005, 8:00 p.m., Adrian Arancibia, Juan Coronado. and more

Voz Alta - 1544 Broadway - East Village (northwest corner of 16th and Broadway) - Nextdoor to Landlord Jims Bar

Voz Alta will feature current and former members of the Taco Shop Poets along with emerging local poets in re/de clamando la linea/ re/de claiming the line a four part poetry series. re/de clamando la linea/ re/de claiming the line documents the experience of living on the border, re/claiming urban space and de/claiming the physical border transforming notions of identity and re-territorializing space from taco shops to the academy. Where do we locate ourselves within the discourse of globalization, new chicano identities, redevelopment and displacement of our communities? re/de clamando la linea/ re/de claiming the line attempts to answer these questions. The poets in this series have performed throughout the Southern California each with a claim to San Diego, these are stories with a history and new beginnings all calling San Diego home.

106.9FM Benefit Party!
106.9FM,

Masks and Bandanas welcome! Wear your best clandestine outfit!

$2 cover
$2 pbr

Sparkys, 1521 30th St.
Thurs, Feb 24th, 8pm-2am

radio autonomia
radio insurgente
radio anarquista

come out and support pirate radio in San Diego!!!

Support Pirate Radio Letter Campaign:
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/107148.shtml

 http://1069fm.org
 http://1069fm.blogspot.com/

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Fighting for Autonomy: Tijuana, Sonora, Buenos Aires
js,

Protest and Fundraisers
In support of Zapatista Villages in Sonora and Tijuana

In Mexico many have been the attempts to restore the belongings of land and freedom for the indigenous people. One of the accomplishments of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, was the Agrarian Reform Law, which was established in the Constitution of 1917. This law provided the right for the peasant and indigenous population to owe communal land called “ejidos” As of 1994, the government of Mexico has taken land away from the people to sell to large corporations for the construction of Maquiladoras, where cheap labor and no effective environmental laws only beneficiate the capitalist.
Many “ejidos” have chosen the route of resistance. They resist to be treated as items in a supermarket. They resist seeing their land turned into a jails of robots.

Unfortunatelly the resistance has left many people living in fear, others have been arrested, many have been threatened and abused. We have to unite our voice to theirs, our struggle to theirs because their liberation is our liberation.

PROTEST: Solidarity with Maclovio Rojas and Agiabampo, Wednesday February 23 @ 4pm, Mexican Consul San Diego 1549 India Street

FILM NIGHT: "The Take" A film by Naomi Klein about the Argentinian occupied factory movement. 7pm, Feb 23rd, Wed. Voz Alta. 1544 Broadway. Put on by San Diego Indymedia.

BENEFIT CONCERT: In defense of a Zapatista Village in Sonora, February 26 7 PM, ~Mezclah(TRIBAL-ELECTRONICA)~HOMELESS (PUNK)~DISTRESSED(PUNK), CENTRO CULTURAL Y POLITICO "COSME DAMIAN", calle Dolores No. 32-B, Fracc. Dimenstein

BENEFIT CONCERT: In defense of a Zapatista Village in Sonora, February 27 8pm, Voz Alta 1544 Broadway San Diego, ~Mezclah(TRIBAL-ELECTRONICA)~, + special guest tba

CRITICAL MASS RADIO NETWORK: All day Friday, Feb 27,  http://radioactiveradio.org will be rebroadcasting radio from New York, Philadelphia, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, which is going to be themed around "Race and Land in the Americas". More info at  http://criticalmassradio.net


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Case Study on the Impact of Immigration Law Enforcement on Border Communities
American Friends Service Committee,

San Diego Office Releases Case Study on the Impact of Immigration Law Enforcement on Border Communities

Human Rights Organization Finds Local and Federal Enforcement Measures Detrimental to Civil and Human Rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Christian Ramírez, AFSC 619/233-4114


PRESS CONFERENCE:
Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 12 PM, at the AFSC office,

3275 Market Street, San Diego, CA 92102.


San Diego, CA – The San Diego Area Office of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) will release a report titled San Diego: A Case Study on the Impact of Enforcement on Border Communities.
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Towards a Critical Analysis of Media EmergenC
sd indymedia, prometheus radio project, rAsD,

From October 6th-9th, as the National Association of Broadcasters was
holding their annual Radio Road Show in San Diego, a group of media
activists converged to try to illuminate what is wrong with the corporate
media and to strengthen independent, community autonomous media. This
convergence was called the Media emergenC, highlighting the two themes of
emergency and emergence. With 4 days of talks, film screenings, marches,
panels, forums and independent media making, the media activists, mostly
composed of members of San Diego Indymedia and radioActive sanDiego, but
including media makers from as far away as New York and Philadelphia,
tried to confront the NAB as had been done in many other cities, but also
to challenge the independent media movement and push it forward.

We've written this self-critical document in the hope of creating more
critical dialogue within the Indymedia community and the independent media
movement. It is our hope that people will read this, give us feedback and
make more documents like this critiquing their own events and actions and
circulate those for discussion as well. We hope that this can be read and
discussed at the upcoming Indyconference in Texas this month
( http://www.indyconference.org/).

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