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Protest a boss who doesnt pay his workers
Imagine working in terrible conditions only to end up getting layed off with no reason or severance pay. People will meet in front of the Ramada Inn San Diego South, 91 Bonita Road, Chula Vista, CA, 91910 at noon. We will show the boss of a maquiladora that he can not practice unfair and illegal acts against workers and get away with it.
IMC Movie Nights in October
Videos from Kilometer Zero
Cryptography, Digital Rights, Anonymity - Top minds gather in San Diego
Back to the Basics is the theme for this year's Toorcon! SEPTEMBER 26-28th - Speakers are coming from far and wide to share their expertise with corporate duds and hacking studs. The previous four conferences included topics and speakers like: Cyber-terrorism, Microsoft Server Vulnerabilities, Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 magazine. This year will feature Robert X. Cringely author of Accidental Empires and the popular KPBS mini-series Triumph of the Nerds and Bruce Schneier author and cryptography expert. Several other lectures as well as hacking competitions will round out the weekend. More news coming soon - in the mean time visit the Toorcon website.
Anti-Police Brutality Activist Released From Prison
Terry Hanks is a member of the Committee Against Police Brutality (CAPB) and the San Diego Peace & Freedom Party.
Weather Underground: Interview with Sam Green, Mark Rudd
The Sam Green/Bill Siegel documentary film "The Weather Underground," playing through September 25 at the Ken Cinema in Kensington, tells the story of the infamous direct-action armed-struggle faction of the 1960's student anti-war movement whose members went underground in the 1970's and gradually resurfaced. Co-director Green and Mark Rudd, a Weather Underground veteran who now rejects all forms of political violence on tactical grounds, were interviewed by three IMC volunteers on September 19, the night their film opened locally. Audience Q & A with WU Member and Film Director
Banner reads: "Development is Destruction. Stop raping nature."
Weather Underground opens tomorrow at the Ken
The new movie "The Weather Underground" opened Friday at the Ken. Friday evening The San Diego IMC interviewed the director and an ex-member of the WUO. Showings of the film were well attended Friday night. Audience members got a chance to ask Sam Green (co-director) and Mark Rudd (ex-WUO) questions following the 7pm showing. Read the article on our interview with Sam and Mark.
Benefit Show for SDIMC and Food Not Bombs September 27, 2003
Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution
Flag-Pole Prosecution Dropped
Wrap up on WTO
Articles:1. Report from Teach-ins, 2. U.S. activists join protest in Tijuana, 3. WTO talks fail, 4. El Hurac?n llega a Tijuana (Tijuana IMC) More multi-media at Cancun IMC
Up to the minute reports from SD-TJ mobilization!
Saturday
San Diego IMC - OPEN HOUSE - 740 16th Street
Protests Against the WTO Gain Steam!
Schedule of Local Protest Events | SD-TJ Details at www.sdtjmobilization.org SDIMC Special Coverage Section | Tijuana IndyMedia | Cancun IndyMedia
Report on Deconstructing Dinner Teach-In
Industrias Fronterizas Workers Solidarity
The Far Right and Anti-Mexican Racism
Another Activist's Home Raided - Repression Continues
A Tortoise Swallows Tijuana's Secretary of Labor
Labor Day 9/1/03 12 pm Mexican Consulate Rally In Solidarity Miscellaneous Links Maquila Solidarity Network | California Coalition Against Poverty | San Diego IWW << Page 9 | Page 7 >> |
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To try to raise funds for the Independent Media Center's 
At this week's IMC meeting, we will have two videographers who have just returned from Cancun showing video clips from Cancun and speaking about their experiences. This will be our first meeting at our new location, 2552 K St. 
On 22 August 2003, San Diegan political prisoner 
Two more fires in San Diego county have been attributed to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). A banner was left at one site saying "Development is Destruction. Stop raping nature." The fires "engulfed four under-construction homes in Carmel Valley and Rancho Penesquitos early Friday morning." In addition, an anonymous caller phoned the LA Times yesterday saying that he was responsible for the SUV fires, and that Josh Connole had nothing to do with it.
San Diego Independent Media Center/Food Not Bombs Benefit show, September 27 at the Epicentre in Mira Mesa.
Letizia Argenteri, professor of history at Mesa College, spoke at Casa del Libro bookstore in Hillcrest September 10 to introduce her new biography of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), "Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution." A tailor, model, actress, photographer, Communist and active revolutionary in 1920's Mexico and 1930's Spain, Modotti knew Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and, like them, she lived on the uneasy boundary between art and activism.
City drops prosecution of attorney for possession of a flag pole at an antiwar demonstration.
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Once upon a time in a land called Seattle there was a great and terrible protest. It was a protest where tree-huggers, dockworkers, social workers, and punk rockers came together to fight for freedom from global capitalism. This was the protest that rocked the world and ushered in an era of global resistance. (
The WTO has run from the people and conducted their meetings in isolation. They have now returned to land and the people are ready to greet them with raised fists. Starting today there is a convergence in San Diego and Tijuana. We stand in solidarity with the people in Cancun. Join the Movement - Create Noise, Media, and Song - Celebrate the Globalization of the Human Spirit!- Resist the Machine!
A group of activists, mostly from Canada, organized as "Deconstructing Dinner" and staged a bike ride all the way from Canada to Cancun, Mexico to protest the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its proposed Agreement on Agriculture, which they say will speed up the current trend towards industrial farming, destruction of family farms and worldwide spread of genetically modified food. They stopped in San Diego August 30 and gave a presentation.
In open complicity with the owners of the maquiladora Industria Fronteriza, the president of Tijuana's labor board threats that the legal demand of the workers vs. the company will be nullified in three days. This is an absolute transgression of the Mexican labor laws and workers' rights. 
Sensing the impending end of their white privilege, Right-Wing ideologues have been using racist imagery created by the John Birch Society and others. Patrick J. Buchanan wrote that MECA is "a Chicano version of the white-supremacist Aryan Nation... and is unabashedly racist and anti-American"
On the morning of Thursday August 28 at 7:00AM, 6 FBI agents raided the home of Kat Douggherty. They were searching for a video tape of Rod Coronado's speech at The Center in Hillcrest. They had a warrant. See story for photos. See newswire for FRSD interview info.
On September 1st, a group of textile workers from a Tijuana maquiladora will take part in a very important hearing. That day in the offices of the Tijuana Labor Board (Junta de Conciliaci?n y Arbitraje) the Sagal-Modelvsky family, a wealthy American business family, will try to laugh in the face of Mexican labor laws by hiding behind the protection of the border - you can help stop the consummation of this injustice.