10th Annual Changemaker Celebration
Foundation 4 Change c/o lotus,

"New Voices, New Visions"

Friday November 19, 2004

Balboa Park Club Ballroom
Balboa Park, San Diego

(Park Blvd. to President's Way. Go west and park in the Pan American Plaza near the San Diego Automotive Museum.)

5:30 p.m. - Reception and Silent Auction
6:30 p.m. - Family-Style Dinner & Program
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Direct Action Training, Sat, Dec 4th
ORGANIC collective,

Direct Action Training

Saturday, December 4th
12:00pm - 3:00pm
@ Foundation 4 Change
3758 30th St. , San Diego 92104
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150 March Downtown in "Beyond Voting" Nov. 3
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

A "Beyond Voting" rally and march in San Diego November 3, part of a nationwide mobilization in 36 cities planned before the election and designed to put pressure on whoever won and stress the need for activism rather than relying on the ballot box, drew nearly 150 people for a march from the waterfront to the NBC Channel 39 headquarters at Horton Plaza. Though the mobilizers were nonpartisan the mood at the event was considerably angrier than it would have been if Bush hadn't won.
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Mother of Ciudad Juárez Victim Speaks in S.D.
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Ciudad Juárez resident Ramona Morales delivered a passionate and moving speech October 27 about the loss of her daughter in 1995, one of the first of over 380 women killed in that border city (next to El Paso) and Chihuahua state since NAFTA took effect in 1994. She was part of a series of cross-country caravans scheduled to converge on Chihuahua city for the inauguration of a new governor, who has pledged to solve the murders despite the rumored involvement of police and other authorities in the killings.
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Where's the riot?
attendee,

Where's the riot?
Friday
Noon
Sun God
Wear Black
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Dia De Los Muertos: Womens History Museum
Brujas y Bellas,

For the first time, the Voz Alta Project and the Women’s History Museum (WHM), come together in collaboration to bring you an event unlike others this season. So get your calacas in order, because San Diego is celebrating Dia De Los Muertos!
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Photos from Recent Events
onto c/o lotus,

Caravan for Ciudad Juarez - 10/27

National Day of Action Against Police Brutality - 10/22
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San Diego activists welcome Juarez Caravan
Steev Hise,

Two events today in San Diego will address the brutal and neglected murders of hundreds of women in Juarez, Mexico. An International Caravan is travelling to Juarez to demand justice, stopping in U.S. cities along the way to raise awareness.
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National Fightback Conference- Nov 13 & 14 NY
dustin langley,

After the elections--no matter who wins--there needs to be a serious discussion about how to move the struggle forward. And that is exactly what hundreds of activists will be doing in New York City over the weekend of November 13-14 at a National Fightback Conference sponsored by Workers World Party.
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Tactical Escalation
tactical,

At the RNC, I noticed two conflicting trends, one hopeful and one disturbing.

At two separate events, fire was used as a tactic at the RNC protests. In both instances, organizers claimed that the people who had set the fires were undercover police and provocateurs. There was one trend, initiated by an unknown source to escalate confrontations, there was another to decry such escalation.
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Got Rape™ ? Got War Crimes™? Got Rumsfeld™?
Migratory Bird,

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Lesbian Rights Director Kate Kendell in S.D.
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

When pioneering Lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon became the first same-sex couple legally married in San Francisco February 12, Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLP), was their ring-bearer. Kendell spoke in San Diego September 17 on the same-sex marriage issue and NCLR's other concerns.
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NCOR Call for Proposals
NCOR Collective,

This is the call for proposals for the National Conference on Organized Resistance on February 3rd through February 6th, 2005, in Washington, DC!
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Pat Washington Support Committee Meets
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The support committee for Dr. Pat Washington, former women's studies professor at SDSU who's been engaged in a three-year legal battle to get her job back, held a teach-in at Springfield College August 24. The event showed both the wide range of community support she enjoys inher struggle and the dramatic obstacles she still faces — including having to find new lawyers since her previous ones quit the case when she wouldn't agree to a settlement that would pay her money but end her chances of reinstatement.
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The Day Philosophy Dies
catB,

“Step One is to recognize that there is a problem.” When a movie star is kidnapped and put through a 12 step recovery program for addiction to Western Civilization, reality gets turned on its ear. The fugitives careen headlong through passion, betrayal, and assassinations toward an explosive event that will transform the world. Everything you know can change in an instant. Are you ready for the next step?

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SD Activist Running for Vice-President
Peace & Freedom Party Member,

Janice Jordan - a long time and respected activist in San Diego - has accepted the Peace and Freedom Party's nomination for the Vice-Presidency. Well-known political prisoner Leonard Peltier is the Party's nominee for President.
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Yoshie Furuhashi
Yoshie Furuhashi,

Barbara Ehrenreich argues that women should own up to our abortions in her New York Times column. We can begin doing so by wearing a beautiful "I Had an Abortion" T-shirt made available by Planned Parenthood -- the T-shirt denounced by anti-abortion right-wing groups. The designer of the T-shirt, Jennifer Baumgardner, is also "making a documentary called I Had an Abortion that features women who don't regret having abortions."
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"Saving Their Women" Is No Excuse
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Report from the August 2004 Zenger's Newsmagazine on Julia Clancy-Smith's talk at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church July 13, debunking the notion that imperialist interventions in the Middle East can ever be justified as advancing women's rights. Her full lecture is posted elsewhere on this site.
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Julia Clancy-Smith: "Saving Their Women" I
Julia Clancy-Smith (posted by Mark Conlan),

Complete text of Julia Clancy-Smith's lecture at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest July 13 in which she exploded the myth that imperialist interventions in Middle Eastern countries can be justified by the assertion that they protect or advance women's rights. All rights reserved; please contact the author at  juliac@email.arizona.edu for rights to reprint or otherwise disseminate.
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Bob Avakian Talk on Revolution Now Available
dromedary,

This article has some basic information about the speech and some blurbs from various people who have seen it including members of Ozomatli and Alan Minsky of LA IMC. There is also some information about how to get the video/dvd.
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2004 Grants/Foundation for Change
Charles,

Here's a table of organizations awarded grants by San Diego Foundation for Change. (Note: RRGPCL stands for "Rapid Response Grant for Peace and Civil Liberties [via the Funding Exchange.])

"The mission of the San Diego Foundation for Change is to fund and support community-led efforts which promote social equality, economic justice, and environmental sustainability."

We promote positive, permanent change in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. Our goal is to end:

* Discrimination
* Lack of opportunity
* Poverty
* Environmental degradation

We do this by empowering small, community-based organizations with funding and technical assistance."

Free Sex for US Soldiers!
Flabbergasted Human Being (ashamed American),

Women are lining up to join "Operation Take One for the Country," a group of "dedicated" women who believe that instead of having casual sex with just ordinary guys, they should "take one for the country" and give service to men in uniform.
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OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO YOUR PANTS
Erin M. Blakemore,

FDA blocks over-the-counter emergency contraception - again.
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MARCH FOR WOMENS LIVES
Danielle Siembieda,

March 25, 2004 1.15 Million People March the streets of DC for a womans right to choose.
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Abortion backers operate on illogic
Stephen Cathers,

Just remember this the next time you hear pro-abortion protesters talk about extremists against choice: They're inadvertently describing themselves.

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Was Artist Jessica Lawless Censored?
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Was Queer artist Jessica Lawless censored when her three pieces, "Blue Things I Wear" — one of which depicted a dildo — were removed from an art show at the University of San Diego last February? An on-campus forum held to discuss that highlighted not only the expected issue of artistic freedom but also the limitations on Queer activists on a Roman Catholic campus and the fear they work under than their groups can be shut down at any time by administrative fiat.
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RadioActive Benefit Show Thursday!
lotus at radioactiveradio d0t org,

Benefit Show Thursday Night @ The Flame!

The Peppermints - lots of not-niceness!
 http://home.earthlink.net/~marenthebest/
Diaspora - samba fucking drummers!
DJs from the RadioActive San Diego collective
and
The Radical Fucking Cheerleaders!

Thursday, April 8th, 8pm at the Flame in Hillcrest at 3780 Park Blvd. $3 and up donations will be happily accepted.

Come to the last week of the flame and support community radio!

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Zine Scene - SD
from the San Diego Free Press,

Here's a preview if the back cover of the up-coming issue of the San Diego Free Press.
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We Ae Resisting Conference tentative events
KAW,

The We Are Resisting Conference aims to bring together people from across the spectrum of the movement(s) against Empire and Colonialism. The WAR Conference will take place June 30-July 3 in Lawrence, KS
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¡DETENGAMOS LA 'RESOLUCIÓN BRASILEÑA'!
Libertad de Expresión,

La reunión de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas se llevará a cabo del 15 de marzo al 23 de abril en Ginebra, Suiza.
Uno de los puntos más polémicos que se someterá a debate es el de la resolución sobre la “orientación sexual” que fue aplazada en la 59va sesión. Esta resolución, presentada por Brasil, fue expuesta como una medida para no discriminar a los homosexuales. Sin embargo, los miembros de la comisión en 2003 pudieron no haber comprendido totalmente las implicaciones de esta resolución.
 http://www.stopbrazilianresolution.com/spanish.html
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