TV Commercials on Buses and Trolley?
Salty Sam,

Corporate America has gone too far. Now local San Diego governmental agencies and transportation companies have allowed for the installation of noise polluting TVs to be put on city buses and the Metro Trolley so as to drown commuters with a deluge of audio assault. Thankfully most buses have yet to be transformed. This invasive technology seems to be slowly introduced into city buses and trolley cars. Perhaps the instigators expect less resistance if this bane is slowly introduced? You may have witnessed the slow and random intrusion of TVs on some buses?

Recently an editorial in the Los Angelos Times, “Bus-see TV”, announced that Transit Television Network TNN has installed 4,700 television monitors on over 2000 buses on the last few years trying to capitalize on 18 to 34 year olds as potential disposable income market. But why should people of all ages (many riders are elderly) be subject to the smarmy, hyper-kinetic, jolt-noisome noise, and non-intellectual crap marketed to young people?

Trolley riders may be less affluent financially but they are not the fools some seem to think. The time has come to say: “Stop!!” “You forget who is the customer—who may not always be right—but who is sometimes justifiably indignant in his or her opinion—and his or her opinion does in fact matter.” --Read More--

Transit TV Marketing Website | Contact Metropolitan Transit System | Contact San Diego City Councilmembers

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Bare Breasts @ a Demo? / Missed Opportunity / Breasts Come to Visit
anonymous / Janice Jordan / Rachel,

From anonymous: I have a few comments to make regarding the masked female who exposed her naked breasts throughout last Thursday’s anti-war/anti-torture protest (Jan 11, 2007 @ 1st & Cedar in downtown SD). I think, I hope for the sake of the sanity of our movt, that most people who attended the protest agree that it was absolutely inappropriate for that young woman, or anyone for that matter, to behave in such an irresponsible & reckless way @ a demo. And such conduct could, if left un-checked, pose potentially serious political & legal consequences to the peace movt & its activists...

From Janice Jordan: Maybe the topless demonstrator had a reason for taking off her top; but none of the anti-war participants present at last weeks' event will know because fear kept them from approaching a naked woman. When I think about it, it is odd that activists were out in force to demonstrate against institutional murder, but couldn't find one person to ask the topless demonstrator "what is up"? And what is everyone afraid of, a half-naked body? Iraqi civilians are living through occupation, rape and annihilation! ...

From Rachel: For the movement to be sustainable, it has to allow for our indulgences in angry indignation, giddy display, nurturing through community, and art. For many of us, public demonstration is just as much about disrupting imperialism, as disrupting hierarchy, as disrupting patriarchy. How revolutionary are your boobs? I have to say, I haven't taken mine out in a while. Maybe we should...

From pipi: at a demonstration in olympia, wa last spring i joined more than 50 women in this chant as we marched to the port of olympia. and yes! i wasn't wearing a fucking shirt! everything that i am, bare breasts and all, stood in solidarity with the women in iraq who are being raped and murdered everyday in connection with the war. i was making it very clear that yes i am a woman and i want an end the damn occupation. i believe that as a woman my voice is powerful because it is a voice connected to thousands of years struggling to be heard and continuing to struggle. i will not be silenced! ...

From techno-tranny-slut: EEK! A BODY! HIDE IT!!! what a waste of everyone's time. we should be thanking the woman who was brave enough to liberate us all just a little bit for a few minutes at a protest. we're not talking about the baader-meinhof group here, which would warrant some discussion of recklessness, we're talking about titties... fuck off. next time we should have a whole nude anti=patriarchy bloc. stop trying to wage war on my body...

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Community Retakes Legacy Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
rocky neptun,

Fed up with the militarism and tinker toy image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, trounced out each year by those who would use his image for enlistment quotas or political advancement; over 200 people gathered at MLK Jr. park in Encanto January 15th to reclaim his legacy of non-violence, social and economic justice.

Speakers at the community celebration brought the voice of Dr. King back to the neighborhoods; to the needs of the disenfranchised and marginalized; the real history, the true legacy of a man who's struggle for justice grew, became more inclusive of all people who suffered.

For many, to go to the annual "official" San Diego Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade, watching young, uniformed 12 year-olds of color marching in formation, with rifles on their shoulders was offensive. Dr. King; that dream, that poetic voice, was silenced by a rifle. He refused "to study war" and opposed all military invasions; yet, in true Orwellian fashion, the government has turned his birthday into a military parade, aimed at fresh, shiny, ebony bodies in Sadr City.

As poets from the African American Artists group read their fiery lyrics, while a huge walking puppet of Dr. King strode through the crowd, mothers and fathers talked to their children, sharing their symbiotic relationship to this man of God and confrontation, peace and disobedience. He was their mentor, their brother, but above all, he was their liberator.

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GROUND ZERO PLAYERS - IMPEACH BUSH
Janice Jordan,

The Ground Zero Players of San Diego were on the move again in downtown San Diego Sunday afternoon. In response to Bush's policy address to the nation last week, Ground Zero Players in Bush masks greeted downtown traffic with pleas of "IMPEACH ME NOW"!
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Is The Official San Diego Martin Luther King Jr Parade Too Official?
Repost- San Diego Peace and Justice Coalition,

This year the Peace Resource Center and San Diego Coalition for Peace & Justice have decided to not participate in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade.

Why not? Over the years we have participated in the parade to honor MLK's values and vision and as a counter to the militarization of the local parade, which includes the FBI, Border Patrol, Homeland Security contingents as well as many JROTC units. This militarization of the parade continues and has been increasing--discussions with parade organizers have fallen on deaf ears. The parade has been increasingly marginalized in the community, first moved to Harbor Drive, then to a route around the outside of Petco Park--with fewer and fewer people attending the parade. --Read More--

Martin Luther King, Jr Day Events on Monday:
--MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY COMMUNITY RALLY+PICNIC Mon Jan 15 1-4PM, MLK JR PARK, 6401 Skyline, Sponsored by King/Chavez Coalition for Justice and Unity. Info: KingChavezunite@yahoo.com
--ALL PEOPLE'S BREAKFAST Mon Jan 15 7AM, Golden Hall, Downtown. Azi Khamisa, Tukufu Kalonji and Jason Russell. Limited ticket availability- Call 619-236-6413 for tickets or info
--WORLD BEAT CENTER MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY CELEBRATION Mon Jan 15 11AM-5PM World Beat Center, 2100 Park Blvd, Balboa Park. Reggae, R&B, Gospel

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Trafficking victims build US Embassy in Iraq?
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick,

While US troops risk their lives in the war in Iraq, some private businesses are reportedly engaged in human trafficking. Worse yet, they may be building the new US embassy in Baghdad.

Multiple sources have described the plight of workers tricked into Iraq to work on US bases. The workers, often far from their homes in Southeast Asia, find themselves held against their will through deceit, threats and violence. For years these workers have fed the hungry labor markets in the Middle East. The war on Iraq - and a subsequent jobs bonanza - has added a new country to the list.

Human rights group Free the Slaves has started a campaign called 'WarSlavery' to end taxpayer-supported trafficking in Iraq. --Read More--

Links: WarSlavery.org | Background | Free the Slaves | Human Trafficking in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region: 1 | 2

UPDATE: See also Video Message from Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
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Martial Law in Baja, Mexico!
rocky neptun,

De-facto martial law now exists in the northwest corner of Baja state. Over 3,000 troops and federal officers have moved into the region, disarming the entire 2,300 Tijuana police force. Check points on the major roads and highways are manned by armed, nervous, young men with dark skins (the poor, mostly indigenous youth, are the few who can't buy their way out of compulsory military service).

As my lover (a Mexican national) and I drive through check-points, with machine guns pointed at our heads; as we walk the city streets swarming with armed troops, stopping people at will, we are saddened for the future of this wonderful country. The brutality of militarization, unleashed against peasants in Atenco, then workers, teachers and the poor in Oaxaca, has now come north. Young soldiers from Durango can now look across the fence at young soldiers from the California national guard.

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ALL DIAMONDS ARE CONFLICT DIAMONDS
Janice Jordan,

Robbins Brothers advertises themselves as "World's Biggest Engagement Ring Store"; and over and over again during the 2006 holiday season, consumers had to listen to these two brothers promise the most beautiful diamond in the world to the women and reasonable prices to the men. Men wear rings too, right? Every hour on the hour I couldn't turn to a "mainstream" radio station without hearing about diamonds.

Strip mining any natural resource from any land creates an unbalance felt by plant and animal life, interferes with natural irrigation or soil settlement and exploits the worker. Most people around the world that work in or on "mining" sites are at one of the highest risk for on the job injuries, have adverse future health problems and are paid low wages (not counting forced labor).

There is no such thing as a conflict-free diamond. The purchase of what is advertised as a precious and priceless stone costs others in low-wages, dangerous working conditions, limbs and lives. The conflict between humans and the environment is as divisive as the conflict between war and peace.
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Philippines: Brazen Arrogance of Power
Task Force Subic Rape (TFSR),

"It's an utterly shameless act of collaboration of the Arroyo regime and the U.S. government."

This was the statement of Myrla Baldonado, spokesperson of Task Force Subic Rape (TFSR) on the stealthy transfer of custody of Daniel Smith from the Makati City Jail to the U.S. Embassy.

Smith was convicted in December of raping a Filipino woman, identified only as “Nicole” to protect her privacy, while on leave from joint war games in the northern port of Subic.

Washington demanded Smith be turned over to its embassy, citing the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) of 1998 which says that jurisdiction over any American soldier convicted of crimes while on official tour should reside with American authorities. But the Manila court which tried the case rejected that argument, stressing that rape was a "heinous" and non-bailable crime in this former American colony.
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Canine Brutality in Rosarito Beach!
rocky neptun,

Those caught are thrown into the metal cage. Healthy dogs, people's pets and puppies are tossed in with sick and dying dogs. Those who survive are driven to the dog pound, where over 80% will be strapped to electrical cords......

Incredibly, due to the secretiveness surrounding city hall and the ego of its animal control director, Raul Pena, Rosarito has refused to ok a $50,000 dog rescue program... Please contact Rosarito city officials and let them know that humanity knows no boundaries, when it comes to barbarism and cruelty against defenseless animals. Tell them you will not visit Rosarito until it creates human methods of canine control and until the city begins a free sterilization program. --Read More--

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Reports from San Diego Delegation to Oaxaca and Chiapas
Oaxaca Delegation 2006,

Activists from San Diego recently traveled to Oaxaca to deliver donations of media resources from San Diego folks and to Chiapas for the Zapatista Intergalactic Encuentro. Below is a compilation of their reports to date, which are being posted to Delete the Border.

From Luciente Zamora (dec 22): Concepcion said that she's not the same woman she was before all this happened... She wants to raise people's consciousness not just about the release of all the prisoners -- which she is fiercely fighting for -- but also to look around and see all the hunger, malnutrition, and ask why things are the way they are and do something about it. --Read More+Photos--

From donkilo (dec 24): After months of planning and a few weeks of worrying after all of the horrifying stories that we have heard by people who were in Oaxaca, the whole delegation is sitting in an internet cafe in Oaxaca, safe and sound. We are a few blocks from a federal police barricade. --Read More--

From j (dec 24): buses and trucks full of police drive through the streets. the police march through the zocalo. five indigenous women are violently harassed by these protectors of civil order. the police try to take the money the women made from their artesian work. the police grab one of the women. someone approaches this oppressive racist-classist scene, while two video cameras follow. the police walk away. an indigenous reality. --Read More--

Fom lotu5 (dec 24): The teacher introduces us to a man from the church who begins to tell us of their struggle. He says that even though the government says there have been 14 people murdered by the government, the community says there are more like 90 people murdered. --Read More--

From lotu5 (dec 27): I had read reports that the APPO decided to take down the barricades and decided to hand over radio universidad. But the personal story is very different. One of the women teachers answers me when I ask why was the cinco senores barricade taken down? She says that it was because 25 people from the barricade were taken away by the police and had their shoes taken off and were shot at point blank with rubber bullets in their feet. So parents of people in the barricades didn´t want their children to be tortured and they decided to take them down. --Read More--

From lotu5 (dec 29): we're in san cristobal now. lots of people are here from around the world to go to the zaptista encuentro. its so good to see old friends again and have a beer with them before spending a week in the jungle. --Read More--


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Bike Tour of Edible San Diego
san diego indymedia volunteer,

"There wasn't a lot of conversation with people in the community until we were out there, digging in the dirt, pulling up the lawn and people would come by and were like 'What are you doing?' It was this real connecting thing in the community that we are living in."

San Diego Food Not Lawns organized a Bike Tour of Edible San Diego on November 12. "The idea was to get folks out on bicycles to look at some of the school gardens and community gardens and front yard gardens that people have been putting in to get us excited about the possibilities of a greener San Diego and a San Diego where food is everywhere."

Leaving from Balboa Park, the roughly 15 mile tour visited the worm bins and gardens at Grant Elementary School in Mission Hills, Food Not Bombs serving a meal at North Park Park, gardens at Central Elementary in CIty Heights, a front-yard community garden project at the Activist San Diego House, and the Golden Hills Community Garden in Balboa Park.

San Diego Food Not Lawns is part of a recently created international movement for "using our resources, our land, our water, our energy for growing food for people instead of on lawns."

Edible San Diego Bike Tour Video: 15min/20mbytes

Links: San Diego Food Not Lawns | Cascadia Food Not Lawns | Grant Elementary | Central Elementary | Activist San Diego


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San Diego Con Oaxaca 22 Diciembre
compiled by san diego indymedia volunteer,

El viernes 22 de diciembre el grupo de la otra campana se reunio en el parque Chicano en solaridad con nuestros hermanos de Oaxaca.

Grandes y jóvenes hicieron presencia en ese día de solaridad. Aunque el grupo fue pequeño pero no fue pequeño su corazón, su lucha y su esperanza de un mundo mejor. Junt@s vimos que podemos cambiar el mundo que además otro mundo es posible siempre y cuando existan luchadores tenaces como nuestros compañeros. La esperanza vive en cada uno de nosotros y no esta muerta. Hoy con nuestra sola presencia dimos a conocer a los de arriba que nuestros compañeros de Oaxaca no están solos. Junto a ellos exclamamos al unísono ¡Por Oaxaca! --Leer Mas+fotos por Juan Sajche--

UPDATE 12/27: Festival Político Cultural, organizado por La Coalición vAPPOroaxaca, como una respuesta al llamado del EZLN para una jornada de movilización mundial en solidaridad con el pueblo de Oaxaca. El 22 de de Diciembre fue convocado para que todos, nos manifestaramos en contra de ese brutal estado de terror y guera que enfrentan nuestros hermanos oaxaqueños. El 22 de Diciembre vAPPOroaxaca se manifesto en Chicano Park por la tarde y en la mañana en el Consulado Mexicano. La Coalición vAPPOroaxaca, que desde Octubre de este año ha venido trabajando y haciendo actividades de solidaridad con Oaxaca. --Leer Mas+fotos por Angel Lita--

Related:
From ~Bradley- On December 22nd, hundreds of people came together in Mexico City to honor the peoples of Oaxaca, Acteal and Atenco during a global day of remembrance and solidarity. The demonstration was held at the Hemiciclo a Juárez in Mexico City's Historic Center where people spoke about Oaxaca and the demonstrations taking place around the world. --Read More via Santa Cruz Indymedia--

From Xochitl- There are still frequent patrols of municipal police, and we tensed up every time one came near. We are not sure whether we are on their lists for apprehension and deportation, or worse. We were astonished and overjoyed to be released after just 4 hours of detention, but they may want to ask us more questions now. Or they may have released us as a strategic move, to follow us detain our friends. We do know that some of the people we know and love, and who we spent time with in these last days in Oaxaca, are on those apprehension lists, so we were all always on the alert. --Read Reports via LA Indymedia--

From Sean Donahue- My friend Todd sat up late at night with one of the artists who painted the banner on the Municipal Palace. The teenager pulled out small figurines of animals, relics from the archaeological site near the center of town. "These are a gift from my grandparents," he said, "The gift my grandparents gave me is resistance." --Read More via Portland Indymedia--

From an Unnamed Wobbly- It's a constant struggle to understand how best to be in solidarity from here. On the one hand, you want to be where all the action is -- that is, the physical, dangerous, and public stuff. On the other hand, the dishes need to be washed at the CIPO collective house, and it's my day to mop the floors. Trying to be an "observer," or independent journalist, seems to be a cop-out, an easy road for the already privileged First Worlder in a conjuncture in which thousands of Oaxacans are risking much more than deportation... On the one hand, you want to play a part in history. On the other, you only sometimes understand the colonia slang, and somehow ended up with the barricade name "Nacho," when others have "La Maestra," "El Comandante," "Ursula," or "Batman." --Read More via Infoshop--

Up-to-date Oaxaca Coverage Español: Centro de Medios Libres | CMI Chiapas | CMI Oaxaca | APPO ||| English: Narco News | Indybay | NYC Indymedia | el enemigo común


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October 22 CopWatch Protest Highlights Police Abuse
san diego indymedia volunteer,

"To me, the police are gangs with guns... If they don't kill you.. they harass you in order to try to provoke you, so they will have reasons to do the things they do to you."

On October 22, the national day of protest against police brutality, the San Diego Sagon Penn Chapter of CopWatch held a demonstration outside of DA Bonnie Dumanis' home. The demonstrators left a list of three demands for immediate action on her doorstep in an eerily empty neighborhood in Rancho Bernardo.

Stemming from a long history of police abuse and murder of San Diego residents, the list of demands included:
--Independent Elected Police Review Board, unlike the current rubber stamp review board whose reports must be approved by sdpd internal affairs board.
--Community Hiring Practices, at least 50% of the officers who work in the communities must live in the communities. The sdpd has been hiring ex-military recruited from the south [presumably to keep pay low], leading to language barriers, cultural barriers and community barriers.
--No Pay for Officers Under Investigation for Shootings. That loss of life is very important, it must be taken seriously, to respect the family and the community the officer should not receive pay until the investigation is completed.

Five plain clothes detectives in large SUVs kept an eye on the protesters throughout the afternoon, and followed them until they had left the neighborhood.

In front of Dumanis' house, one of the protesters, Bessie Johnson, talked about her frustration in dealing with the cops: "We don't have a voice. If our loved ones are killed, there is nothing we can do to the police to make sure they are held accountable." Her son, Darryl Johnson, was put in an illegal "sleeper hold" by the sdpd in July, and subsequently developed difficulty breathing and died while in sdpd custody.

Later in the day, CopWatch moved to Voz Alta, where they offered assistance in filling out police complaint forms, showed a Know Your Rights video and hosted an appearance by the San Diego Radical Fucking Cheerleaders.

Video: Janice Jordan, Bessie Johnson and the Radical Fucking Cheerleaders -- 12 min/16mbytes

Related: Sagon Penn Chapter of CopWatch | Who is Sagon Penn? | October 22 San Diego Forum in 2005 - Links to Audio and Transcripts | US-Indymedia Report on October 22 Actions | October 22 Coalition
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Oaxaca Vive! Benefit at Activist San Diego House
donkilo,

On Friday, December 15, a number of community organizers from San Diego, CA, collaborated on a Oaxaca solidarity benefit event at the Activist San Diego House to directly contribute media resources to Oaxaca’s most remote indigenous farmworker communities. We raised over $1000!!! Thank you to all who attended the event and who helped with organizing. It featured:

-the showing of Granito de Arena, a documentary about the history of the democratic teachers' movement in Mexico and its connections to the current situation in Oaxaca and the struggle against neoliberalism
-live music and dancing(!) by los compas de Son Jarocho de Tijuana
-live music by Mexican folkloric musician Angel Lita
-traditional Oaxacan pozole
-silent art auction with a variety of donated art pieces by local artists
-custom made Oaxaca Vive silkscreened t-shirts

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The Coup's Bus Crashes Outside San Diego
coup fan,

After playing a show at the San Diego House of Blues the previous evening, a bus carrying the radical Oakland hip-hop band The Coup, Boston rapper Mr. Lif and DJ Big Wiz crashed in the Imperial Valley east of San Diego during the early morning hours of December 2. DJ Big Wiz, Silk-E from the Coup, Zhara working with Mr. Lif, and the bus driver all were taken to hospitals in Palm Springs to treat injuries ranging from broken ribs to a shattered kneecap. The bus, containing many of the bands' belongings, computers and instruments, burned and was a total loss. Boots Riley from The Coup is appealing for help.

From Boots Riley: I was sitting in the diner-like booth that many of these buses have in the front. I held on to the table with one hand and tried to guard my head with the other, all the while thinking that I was probably about to die. I don't remember seeing everyone flying and flipping around me as it was happening, but Carter's (the road manager) and Wiz's face were covered in blood, and everybody seemed to be laying around hurt.

The bus was on it's side, with the entrance door up. I called for people to say there names so we could get a head count of who was conscious or not. Silk E, Q (drums), Riccol (bass), and Metro (Lif's hype man) were trapped in the back lounge because the doors connecting the front and back lounges to the bunks were electrically powered and didn't move with no power on. They ended up ripping and squeezing their way out of a tiny little window and jumped down off the bus as the rest of us got out the front. If anyone had been sleeping in the bunks, they would not have been able to get out. I was the third person to jump off the front of the bus, as I hung down to make the jump shorter, I saw that the front of the bus was on fire. I yelled to everyone, saying to get off the bus immediately because the bus was on fire and it could blow up. We all did. No one was killed. The bus was totally engulfed in flames. For a while no one stopped to help, supposedly because the thought we were "illegal aliens" crossing the border. --Read More-- Donate from The Coup's Myspace Profile

Background: The Coup | Mr. Lif | DJ Big Wiz
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San Diego Solidarity with Oaxaca
san diego indymedia volunteer,

The courageous people of Oaxaca continue to resist amidst continuing occupation by federal forces, detentions, violence, terror, repression and torture. On December 10, nearly 400,000 people filled the streets in the Eighth MegaMarch to demand the release of political prisoners. Most recently, 2000 women marched through Oaxaca City and then met the buses carrying 43 released prisoners, who had been imprisoned outside of Oaxaca in Nayarit, a 24hr bus ride from their families.

On December 10, the local solidarity group VAPPOR OAXACA held a festival outside the Mexican Consulate in Little Italy that featured informational speeches and updates, political and traditional Oaxacan music, and an open mic (Photos: from r.l. rodriguez | from Miguel | from donkilo). The group will be holding another festival at Chicano Park on December 22 at 5:00PM in solidarity with the EZLN's call for a global mobilization on the 22nd.

Up-to-date Coverage Español: Centro de Medios Libres | CMI Chiapas | CMI Oaxaca | APPO ||| English: Narco News | Indybay | el enemigo común

Prior SDIMC Coverage of Oaxaca, the Solidarity Camp and VAPPOR OAXACA: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21
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Progressive San Diego Rallies for Impeachment
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Progressive San Diego and other allied organizations held an indoor rally on "Presidential Accountability" December 9 that was actually intended to mobilize support for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Speakers included former Congressional candidate Jeeni Criscenzo, Michael Kuzart of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Aïda Reyes of World Can't Wait and Gloria Daviston of San Diego Veterans for Peace. The program also heard a videotaped presentation from National Lawyers' Guild president Marjorie Cohn and focused on the war in Iraq and the Bush administration's shredding the Constitution as part of the so-called "War on Terror."

“When we impeach Bush and Cheney,” Judy Hess of Progressive Democrats of San Diego said, “Nancy Pelosi will become president of the United States.” Acknowledging that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders slated to take over Congress in January have said that impeachment is “off the table,” Hess said that the purpose of the meeting — and of similar events taking place nationwide — was to build a groundswell of popular support for impeachment that will prevent the Democrats in Congress from continuing to duck the issue.

Related: McKinney Files Articles of Impeachment | Indymedia Coverage of Impeachment Campaign | Impeachment Resource Center
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Green Scare Benefit Reports
sdimc volunteer,

From Danny:
On December 7th, 2006, around 20 people showed up at Voz Alta for a fundraiser organized to raise awareness about the Green Scare, and show solidarity with those targeted by it.

Janice Jordan took the stand and recounted... all the orange groves and untouched land that was Orange County... and the [subsequent] disappearance of agriculture and open space to make way for sprawling office buildings in the name of 'progress'. Rocky Neptun mentioned the 'SHAC 7', who are all serving prison sentences for running a website bent on shutting down Huntingdon Life Sciences, a notorious animal-testing corporation. Troy Picknard, a soon-to-be lawyer, drove home the point that it is never a good idea to talk to the police or FBI. --Read More--

From Rocky:
They understand that the Green Scare is here. It is the weapon of choice by CEO’s and wealthy speculators to bring yet another generation to its knees by insuring that youthful animal rights activists and environmentalists, who commit civil disobedience for ethical or political reasons, get more time in prison than street thugs and rapists. “In defiance of the order that ushers our dying Earth to her grave, let us stand together so that the fires of our hearts may burn against this dark hour of repression,” a T-shirt proclaims as the young man talks about the need to support ecoprisoners. --Read More--

Background and Links: SDIMC Stories: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | ecoprisoners.org | SHAC7.com | greenscare.org | FBIwitchhunt.com | greenisthenewred.com
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i have lived 33 years hating pinochet...
aymara,

he died in his home, comfortably surrounded by his family and friends... before he could be brought to trial... before the families of those affected by his cruel reign got the chance to tell their stories. he should have died alone. in a cold and neglected cell. not unlike those who perished under his direct orders.

"la esmeralda" docked in san diego - a ship used by the chilean navy to torture and kill around the time of pinochet's takeover.

i wrote on the walls of that ship notes to my mother who lost her friends, her homeland... who landed, in a cruel twist of fate, onto the very soil of the country that supported and supplied the takeover of pinochet against allende...

Torture Ship Esmeralda in San Diego

Update:Commentary by Anarcho
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