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Jan. 10 Vigil to Prevent New INS Detentions
Event sponsors: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Muslim American Society, Muslim Coalition of San Diego, Green Party of San Diego County, American Islamic Institute, La Resistencia S.D., Inter-Faith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Democratic Socialists of America, Activist San Diego, International Action Center S.D., Raza Rights Coalition/Coalicion Pro-Derecho de la Raza, US Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee, San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice, Peace Resource Center of San Diego, Middle East Cultural and Information Center (MECIC), National Lawyers Guild S.D, Peace and Democracy Task Force, American Civil Liberties Union San Diego. Over 100 San Diegans Protest Second Round of Registrations ADC Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against U.S. Government Over “Special Registration” Form to Request Compensation If You Were Arrested or Detained
"The Trials of Henry Kissinger": A Liberal Film
Arab, Muslim Immigrants Arrested in "Special Registration" program
Article on law and 12/22 demo Interview with spokesperson Ali Golchin Article on 12/23 press conference Photo gallery of 12/22 action
San Diegans Report on Anti-Union Atrocities in Colombia
Local Anti-Police Brutality Activist Imprisoned
This is just one recent example of police terrorism in San Diego, and it presents itself as another bi-product of the so-called "war on terrorism" and the fascistic policies of the United States Government, as embodied in the US PATRIOT Act.
Winter Solstice Vigil for Peace
Photo gallery of winter solstice action
SUN 15 @ 12 noon Protest Starbucks
San Diego Free Press Is Out NOW!
North Park Parade and Peace on Earth Holiday Bazaar
Tuesday, "Biojustice 2001" Showing at IMC Film Night in OB
Peace On Earth Holiday Bazaar
Peace Concert Dec. 4th at UCSD
Tale of Eviction, Gentrification Moves Crowd at Foundation for Change Banquet
Health Summit Participants Clash over Universal Coverage
Regulate Genetic Engineering!
On September 16, 2002, UCSD administration notified the Ché Café Collective that they were allegedly "in violation of UCSD policies and Federal law by maintaining the BURN! web site and using UCSD computer network resources to provide access to a terrorist organization." Gary Ratcliff, director of the University Centers at UCSD, wrote that the Ché Café and burn.ucsd.edu were providing material support in the form of communication equipment, personnel and facilities to a Foreign Terrorist Organization by maintaining "links supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), an organization listed by the U.S. Department of State as a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)." The harassment continues, and just as soon as the Che Cafe Collective believes the administration is loosening its grip, it comes back with more unfounded accusations about violations.(read more)
Free Radio Says: "We Won't Go!" to FCC
The Free Radio San Diego (FRSD) organisation is encouraging activists who are concerned with community issues and who support Free Speech to sign a petition that will help win favour for the station from local government and the community in general. This petition is just one of the many ways that people can help support Free Speech and its medium; Free Radio!... (read more)
San Diegans Rally to Protest Continued Police Brutality
More than 500 Protest "Operation Gatekeeper" at Border October 19
Reviews of the film by: Kevin Wohlmut Kynn Bartlett Mark Gabrish Conlan << Page 5 | Page 3 >> |
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“The Trials of Henry Kissinger," playing January 10-16 at the Ken Cinema in Kensington, has radical pretensions but is ultimately a liberal, not a radical, film. Echoing British journalist Christopher Hitchens, whose magazine articles and book on Kissinger inspired the film, filmmakers Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki regard Kissinger as a uniquely terrible individual and stubbornly ignore how consistently all United States presidents and their foreign-policy advisors have pursued the same goals and frequently used the same tactics. The grimmest irony of "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," in fact, is that the kinds of policies the U.S. pursued in Kissinger’s time under the table and went to great lengths to keep secret are now being pursued openly and even proudly.
Nearly 500 San Diegans, many but not all of them of Iranian or Arab ancestry, turned out for a demonstration outside the downtown federal building Sunday, December 22 to protest the recent detention of up to 1,000 U.S. residents from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria under a so-called “special registration” program ordered by attorney general John Ashcroft. The program, which singles out “citizens or nationals” from 20 countries — all but one of which are Arab or majority Muslim — for special registration at Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) offices throughout the country, was denounced as unconstitutional and counterproductive to America’s legitimate security interests in identifying real terrorists. 
San Diego activists Scott Cossette (pictured) and Michael Wolff went to Colombia December 5-7 for a conference organized by various Colombian labor unions and progressive political organizations — and came back with a very different picture of the situation in Colombia from that provided by U.S. media. According to them, Colombia is currently run by an unholy alliance of transnational corporations, a Right-wing government and paramilitary death squads who target unionists and other progressive activists as “terrorists” and torture or kill them — and the U.S. government, under the guise of fighting the “war on drugs,” is facilitating the bloodbath through aid money from its “Plan Colombia.”
Terry Hanks, a local activist from the San Diego 
On Saturday 21 December, the 
The California Coalition for Women Prisoners organized its annual day of protest against corporate coffee madness December 15 in Hillcrest, the day Starbucks Coffee opened up its fourth cafe in the Hillcrest/Mission Hills area. Participants did a walking tour of all four Starbucks in the neighborhood to protest the use of contract prison labor and union-busting tactics that permeates the big business of big coffee. For more information please call 619.475.8227 or contact jjordan@janicejordan.org
The San Diego Free Press is out now! Pictured are volunteers Kenneth Needham, Charles Nelson and Jonathan Snapp-Cook celebrating the publication of our first issue Tuesday, December 10. Distribution volunteers are still VERY much needed; please call (619) 233-5002 to make an appointment to pick up papers at the IMC office, 740 1/2 16th Street. Copies of the Free Press are available there or at other locations where free papers are dropped.
This month's IMC film night looks at the Biojustice protests of last summer, with a video compilation by Juan Pazos. This video covers multiple aspects of the action and includes footage of other struggles in the San Diego/Tijuana area. Doors open 7:00pm.
On Saturday December 7, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 4011 Ohio Street, intersection of Lincoln and Ohio, in North Park, San Diego. Over twenty local organizations will be represented. Come support the local Peace Community.
Anti-War organizing kicks off with a concert Wednesday at noon at the Price Center Plaza at UCSD campus. An inter-campus co-ordinating meeting is planned after the concert. "We hope to accomplish in this meeting a goal of coordinating student actions against the war around the city, as well as tap into a national student movement... ."
The attendees at the San Diego Foundation for Change “Changemaker Celebration” banquet November 15 in Balboa Park gasped in shock at the revelation by Maria Aceves of the Barrio Logan-area community group D.U.R.O. (Developing Unity through Resident Organizing) that two years ago she had been thrown out of an apartment she’d occupied for 22 years — and the rent on the unit had ballooned from the $450 per month she was paying when she was evicted to $1,075 for the current tenant. But D.U.R.O. was just one of the 23 recipients of Foundation grants this year, including San Diego IMC, which were showcased at the event.
The advance notices for the town-hall meeting on health care at the San Diego County Administrative Center November 15 proclaimed that the meeting, part of a statewide series of similar events, was designed to work towards a “California Health Consensus.” The main purposes of this “consensus” were supposed to be extending health coverage to currently uninsured Californians and keeping community clinics, hospital emergency rooms and other health-care venues relied on by working-class and poor people open and adequately funded. But during the actual meeting this illusory “consensus” quickly dissolved and revealed vast differences between participants over whether all Californians should be guaranteed health coverage and whether it should come from the public or private sector.
Ronald Cole-Turner, professor of theology and ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, gave a lecture at UCSD November 14 in which he argued that the development of genetically modified human beings — “designer babies,” as the title of his talk called them — is inevitable, but its potentially evil consequences are not. To avoid them, however, we as a society will need to bring moral and spiritual values to the debate and emphasize “the desire to ‘succeed’ in kindness, goodness, generosity and all matters of the human spirit,” not just the genetic traits presumed to increase an individual’s chances of getting ahead in a cutthroat, ultra-competitive capitalist economy.
Over 50 San Diego activists, representing a wide variety of organizations and tendencies, marched against the continued abuses from San Diego-area law enforcement agencies, including beatings and shootings of unarmed people, assaults on innocent civilians and the continued refusal of San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst to prosecute ANY local law enforcement officers for killing or attacking civilians. Groups represented ranged from the Committee Against Police Brutality to the Anarchist Freethink Network, International Action Center, Raza Rights Coalition and many others. After the march a group of participants tried to enter the building to see Pfingst in his office, but police and sheriff's deputies barred their way and, when two delegates finally were admitted, Pfingst had gone home for the day.
Over 500 people turned out at Larsen Field near the Tijuana border crossing Saturday, October 19 for a rally and march to the border protesting 10 years of "Operation Gatekeeper" and the 2,200 immigrants that have died as a result of U.S. militarization of its border with Mexico. Many of the participants were high-school and college students from M.E.Ch.A. (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), which was having its convention that weekend at UC San Diego and mobilized to support the action. Other sponsors of the event included the Raza Rights Coalition, American Friends' Service Committee and San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice.
Michael Moore's new film, "Bowling for Columbine," is now playing at the Landmark Hillcrest Cinemas in San Diego. Starting with the April 1999 school shootings at Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado - a suburban town whose main employer is the Lockheed Martin missile factory - Moore explores America's ongoing fascination with guns, violence and fear. Interviews with Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, "South Park" creator Trey Parker (who grew up in Littleton and also contributed an animated sequence to the film) and others add richness to Moore?s deepest and nerviest film yet.