G8 Dissent! Tour in San Diego Friday
stop the g8,

Hey everyone! Here is a reminder to get the word out for the G8 Dissent
Tour! at the Rubber Rose!

We look forward to seeing you at the Rubber Rose!

G8 DISSENT! TOUR
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD
7-10 PM
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION

@ THE RUBBER ROSE
3812 Ray st.
San Diego, CA

Come learn about QUEER, FEMINIST, BIKE, BLOCKADE, CLOWN AND ANTI-RACIST
resistance to the G8!

The G8 is the annual meeting of the leaders of the 8 richest nations in
the world. These leaders are creating policies of war, migration control
and environmental destruction all over the planet.
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“Bring Their Buddies Home” Events 2/19
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Anti-war activist and former Congressional candidate Jeeni Criscenzo has called for "Bring Their Buddies Home" events all over the country on Presidents' Day, February 19. The events are silent vigils — Criscenzo calls them "works of art" — that highlight the human cost of the war by showcasing the death toll. For more information, visit her Web site at www.bringtheirbuddieshome.com
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THE MONSTERS ARE COMING!!!
MINI Art Collective,

Monsters Against Borders! A call to action...

THE MONSTERS ARE COMING! THE MONSTERS ARE COMING!
THEY'RE COMING TO TEAR DOWN THE BORDERS!!!

We are monsters. We are demonized. We are othered. We have genders
forced on us by others. We are alien. We are always striving to be
human, but are never good enough. We are all kinds of hybrid:
human-animal, human-machine, human-plant...

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G8 Dissent Tour! coming to San Diego
j,

Come learn about QUEER, FEMINIST, BIKE, BLOCKADE, CLOWN AND ANTI-RACIST resistance to the G8!

G8 DISSENT TOUR! FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD 7-10 PM
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION @ THE RUBBER ROSE



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Camping 2007
Camping2007,

Are you going to summer camp this year?! There are so many fun camps to go to! You can learn about hiking, sewing, knot tying, wall climbing and anti-capitalist blockades!
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Dissent G8! USA Infotour in San Diego
repost from DeleteTheBorder.org,

@ the Rubber Rose, Friday, February 23rd, 7-9pm. Come hear organizers from Germany talk about Queer, Feminist, Bike, Blockade, Clown and Anti-Racist strategies of resistance against the G8!

We'll get you excited!
See Also: Dissent G8! USA Infotour Schedule

The G8 is an annual gathering of the leaders of the 8 richest countries in the world, who are responsibile for the world's murderous immigration policies. Resistance to the G8 this year in Germany has been planned for years, will be massive and Freedom of Movement will be a main focus of the mobilization.

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Community Residents Say No To Prison Expansion
rocky neptun,

Several hundred activists, former inmates and San Diego neighborhood residents gave a collective, thunderous no to Governor Schwarzenegger's recent proposed prison expansion scheme. Meeting at the Malcom X Library on Jan. 21st, participants blasted the deceit around a so-called "re-entry" facility proposed for the San Diego region; while others suggested it was time to look at changing the entire California justice system.

Community activists talked about the advantages of the prison industrial complex for corporations, district attorneys and prison guards and its failures for inmates. A huge petition was unfolded, signed by over 1,000 of the 10,000 women prisoners in California, opposing the Governor's prison expansion efforts. Most of the signers were from the twin prison complexes that sits amid almond groves near Chowchilla - the largest concentration of women prisoners in the world.

Forum participants ended the gathering with suggestions for follow-up actions, including attending a March 28th demo against the Governor's call for prison construction at the state capitol, putting pressure on local legislators to oppose all prison expansion schemes, and educating the general community about the need for real prison reform built on community-based treatment and justice programs.

More info: Curb Prison Spending
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Manifestacion antifascista por el Aborto Lib
La Plataforma,

Video y musica por el Colectivo La Plataforma. Manifestacion antifascista por el Aborto Libre en Madrid.






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III Edición de la Exposición "Mujeres vistas
Ciudad de Mujeres,

III Edición de la Exposición "Mujeres vistas por mujeres: una mirada de género"
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How CNN Set Me Up in the Duke Rape Case
Gail Dines (repost from counterpunch.org),

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a couple of dozen times, and shame on me -- but also shame on what passes for journalism on television.

This truism comes to mind after my appearance on “Paula Zahn Now” on CNN this week to discuss the Duke rape case. I’m not naïve about these kinds of shows but over the past 20 years I’ve gone on a number of them to discuss my work as a sociologist on issues of racism and sexism in the media. Like many progressives, I do that with eyes wide open, knowing the limits but realizing it’s one of the few shots we have at a mass audience.

This is truly an example of how mass media construct reality. The so-called “facts” of the case have mainly been planted by the defense as a way to spin the case. The prosecution can’t reveal all their evidence by law, but we do know, as law professor Wendy Murphy has pointed out, enough evidence was presented that “police, forensic experts, prosecutors, and a grand jury comprised of citizens, all agreed that charges should be brought.”

It would seem to me that all of this undisputed information would make for a compelling CNN program. On such a show, I would be happy to share these emails calling me a bitch, whore, and cunt. That wouldn’t be a rush to judgment, but instead an acknowledgement of what women know -- any one of us could be the next victim turned celebrity whore.



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Sin Fronteras! Global Day of Action and Camps
Participants at Zapatista Encuentro,

This proposal we read at the Encuentro with the Zapatista Communities and the People of the World in Oventic on January 2nd 2007 in the plenary setion for the Intergalatic Encuentro as a proposal for a theme to the Intergalactic and a Global Call to Action.

In this effort we are organizing No Border Camps for 4-5 days in the fall 2007 in the border region in Calexico and Mexicali and also actions against the border between Mexico and Guatemala. We are making a international call to Tear Down the Wall! We know that this is not the first wall and will not be the last.

Esto documento fue leido en el plenaria final de El Encuentro de Pueblos Zapatistas con el PUeblos del Mundo como un propuesta para un tema en la Intergalactica y tambien como un llamada a accion global.

En este esfuerzo, estamos organizando un campamento contra las fronteras con duración de 4 a 5 dias en el otoño de 2007 en la región fronteriza en Mexicali y en Calexico y a la par organizar diferentes acciones contra la frontera entre México y Guatemala. Hacemos un llamado internacional a Derribar el Muro! Sabemos que no es el primer muro y tampoco va a ser el último.
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Sexual Abuse and Harassment In The Military
Dorothy Mackey,

I have two deadlines:
1st deadline: NEED AIR NATIONAL GUARD WOMEN OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND HARASSMENT:

2nd DEADLINE: ALL MILITARY SERVICES MEN AND WOMEN OF SEXUAL ABUSE, HARASSMENT -SYSTEM FAILED THEM.

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Teacher on PFP Terror in Oaxaca
interview, transcription, translation by O, J, B, R, E and K,

This is the testimony (via phone) of a teacher from an outlying village on November 21, the day after she participated in a women's march in Oaxaca City that was was attacked by Mexican Federal Preventative Police (PFP), who have been occupying Oaxaca since October 29. She talks about the attack on the march, repression of and violence against women and children, the failure of organizations such as Amnesty International to help and the importance of international solidarity. (Spanish with english translation)

"Right now in Oaxaca there is a generalized repression, but since last week, another form of repression started, one that is geared towards children and women. When we walk by the streets where the men of the PFP, with the excuse of looking for weapons, they search us. Touching all of our bodies, both men and female, and if that was not enough, they made fun... That is why the day before yesterday, the women decided to mach and protest against the violence towards our gender, and of course against their power and violence."

"The comrades of the village asked us (women) to lead the march, because they are angry at what they (PFP) are doing (to us)... Just as we were passing by the attacks started. There was an incredible amount of tear gas that did not let us breathe or see where we were headed. We had to protect the children with our bodies and hide them under our clothes trying to get them away and we would scream that there were kids and old people there. That they needed to stop the aggression, but they had it all prepared. There was no sense in running, they were attacking from all four sides. It was then that the youth from the university arrived and began taking the kids away from the area. We were able to see that some of the guys were pulled. That is why we were so anguished, and we wanted to know what had happened to our youth. And we were told that they (PFP) pulled a female too. For about two or three hours after that, they were shooting tear gas to where we were running. And well, they had us in that state of terror, and in those moments all we could do was to pull back to the church, and to ask for medical assistance."

"We also insisted that the people we had heard were present, from amnesty international; to show up and testify the state of terror and violence they have had Oaxaca in for more than 5 months now. Unfortunately, they told us they could not come, because they had a very busy agenda."

"I world like to say that it saddens me a lot to be in the streets, and to see that I am becoming part of a now normal and typical panorama, that these aggressors, these invaders are here in our streets. It is sad to see that the warm, beautiful Oaxaca filled with brave people now is invaded by these people (PFP). And I think to my self: how long will they be here; intimidating us?"

"I know that somewhere in this world there are many hearts that will hear and understand our call, and I can assure you that we feel those invisible hands, that even though we do not see, we know they are fighting for our dignity. Especially the women: don’t leave us alone. We are not afraid, we are filled with indignation, rage for what they are doing. Keep on answering our calls. I have a lot of confidence in the help of the international community, and of course of our people. We are going to accomplish it. This century will change all the things that need to change."
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WET; MOXIE’s Provocative Pirate Play
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

MOXIE Theatre's latest production, “Wet: Or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes,” a world premiere of Liz Duffy Adams’ new play, provocatively plays with the iconography of pirates to create a brilliant satirical drama on the conflicts between authority and individualism, slavery and freedom, Blacks and whites, Queers and straights. Last year MOXIE triumphed with Adams’ similarly themed “Dog Act,” and this year they've done it again.
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The Secrets of Women - Almodovar's "Volver"
E.A. Barrera,

Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" is a beautiful film which explores the secret sub-class of women in a Spanish village and their connections with death and each other.
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Okupa! Video about squats in Southern Europe
dj lotu5 and the platform,

This is an early, rough cut of this film. I'm not sure what direction I want to go with this and am looking for feedback.

Okupa investigates Deleuze's figure of the urban nomad, engaging in war with the state through the creation of smooth spaces. The video shows the activities and struggles of 4 occupied social centers or squats: Dezguace, Seco and Labo 03 all in Madrid and Casa de Iniciativas 1.5 in Málaga. The film shows the hacklabs, theater productions and workshops that are the daily activity of the social centers as well as the struggles against eviction.

The video is a rough cut, and as such has small editing glitches. Also, it is partially subtitled, but not contiguously subtited, so if you don't speak spanish and the subtitles stop, skip ahead to the next section of the film.

(can anyone help me translate this email into español?)

Watch the video here:
MP4 at video.indymedia.org
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Lillian Faderman Promotes "Gay L.A." in S.D.
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Lillian Faderman, veteran Lesbian author and activist and co-writer of the new book "Gay L.A." spoke at San Diego's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center November 8. She talked about the history of Queer Los Angeles, mentioned the many "firsts" for the Queer movement that took place in L.A. — including the first ongoing Queer activist organization, first Lesbian and Gay male publications, first community center and first church specifically designed to reach out to Queer people — about the long history of anti-Queer repression, specifically from the Los Angeles Police Department, and the difficulties Lesbians and Gay men have had in trying to work together.
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Slavoj Zizek @ UCSD Tonight, Wed, 5-8pm!!!
repost,

The UCSD Visual Arts Department presents

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

"POLITICS BETWEEN FEAR AND TERROR"

lecture
15 November 2006
5:00 - 8:00 pm
Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall
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San Diego Activist Janice Jordan Running for CA Governor
san diego indymedia volunteer,

San Diego activist Janice Jordan is running as the Peace and Freedom Candidate for governor of California with a $400 budget. Her campaign calls for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty, community policing, universal healthcare and free education, affordable housing, full equality for women, support for unions and immigrant rights.

Jordan was political prisoner Leonard Peltier's vice-presidential running mate in the 2004 election. She is active in the San Diego Sagon Penn Chapter of CopWatch, the California Coalition of Women Prisoners, and other local groups working for positive social change.

Arnold Schwartzenegger is estimated to have spent $40 million for his republican bid for governor; Phil Angelides $36 million for the democrats. Despite the 100,000 times funding advantage the corporate candidates have over Jordan, in a recent mock election amongst California students, Jordan came in third - within spitting distance of the leaders: Jordan, 15.7%; Camejo, 8.9%; Olivier, 4.8%,;Noonan, 3.5%; Angelides, 34.5%, Schwarzenegger, 32.7%.

I spoke with Jordan outside a CopWatch event on October 22, the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality. Video: 8min 33sec.

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An open letter to Christians who vote
A Christian,

Millions of American Christians have had enough of watching our faith being hijacked and warped for partisan political gain, and watching as "Christian" leaders annihilate Christ's message of love, compassion and peacemaking to replace it with a message of fear, arrogance, greed and warmongering. On November 7th, we'll reject the tactics of fear, hatred and deceit, and we'll vote Christ's values: love, compassion, gentleness, caring (including caring for gays and for women's medical privacy!), humility and peacemaking.

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Worldwide Children's Revolution to Try to Sav
The EARTH AID Environmental Campaign,

A worldwide Children's Revolution to try to save the human race from extinction caused by global warming and climate change could start in London, England, on 4 November 2006.
Plans for the March for Global Climate Justice to be led by the kids' bloc that attempted to shut down the G8 summit meeting at Gleneagles in Scotland in 2005 are being considered by environmental activists in Britain.
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Philippine Women's National Day of Prtest
Dorotea Mendoza,

US-BASED WOMEN’S GROUP GABRIELA NETWORK COMMEMORATE PHILIPPINE WOMEN’S NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST; DECLARE U.S. CULPABLE FOR EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION OF FILIPINAS
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Senator Barbara Boxer Speaks @ Claire de Lune
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer spoke at Claire de Lune coffeehouse in North Park October 18 to promote the paperback publication of her novel, "A Time to Run," but most of the questions she got were about politics and the future of the country and the Democratic party. Her response to speculations about future elections was simple: forget about anything past November 7, 2006 and make sure to register, vote and maximize the turnout of Democrats to take back the House and Senate.
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S.D. Library Shows Films by Women of Color
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The San Diego Public Library showed two fascinating films by women directors of color in October. Myléne Moreno's "Recalling Orange County" explored issues of racism, anti-bilingual and anti-immigrant sentiment in the successful 2003 campaign to recall Latino activist Nativo Lopez from the Santa Ana school board. Zeinabu irene Davis's "Mother of the River" was a half-hour historical and magical-realist meditation on slavery from the perspective of an 11-year-old slave girl and the very special woman she befriends. Both directors appeared with their films and lamented the lack of funding available for projects like these in the U.S.
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Oil Prices Surge. Bush- not my fault.
Joe Barton,

Oil Prices climb. Bush says - it is not my fault. Who believes him?

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Agent Orange is killing children
Heather Wilson,

Stop the baby killers
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San Diego Side of the First Cross-Border Encuentro: Part One
queer-j brad,

As part of the First Cross-Border Encuentro of La Otra Campaña, the Colectivo Zapatista de San Diego organized a meeting on the San Diego side at Voz Alta. On Friday, Sept 15, about 20 compañer@s watched a film about the Zapatistas and La Otra, and participated in a discussion regarding Zapatismo, listening, women in revolutionary movements, organizing in San Diego and other topics. A partial transcript of the discussion follows.

"One thing I learned from the Zapatistas is that over here in the Estados Unidos we overanalyze a lot of things. If something didn't work, it's like WHY DIDNT IT WORK? ~~~ One thing we do have to learn from each other here is how to listen, how to step back and listen. ~~~ It is hard to really believe in something right now. With organizing and mobilizations, we lose momentum in a lot of things we do, and this movement seems like it continues its momentum in terms of its organizing. ~~~ We do live in a patriarchical society and world. I think it is very important for us mujeres to say ya basta, it's time to speak up and for people to listen. ~~~ Sometimes it is not so much like women's problems, but fucking machismo. And you know machismo is just like egocentrism. The taking up of space from other people and not stepping back, ever. ~~~ A lot of the time movements take into consideration women as a question or something that is secondary. In the Zapatista movement, they play a primary role. ~~~ There are a lot of people who are like "oh, the Zapatistas are coming, wow, let's go!" Yeah that's also a part of it, so we can also learn from them, but it's how can we bring it back home? ~~~ These people in business suits making all these big decisions, and those kinds of ways of thinking are in me."

"Every time through history, we analyze history, every time we change the political structure of a country, it's through revolution. ~~~ Another thing that we lack is the basic understanding of collectivity. You said the Zapatistas should take power, but when I think about the compañer@s that I have worked with all my life, seriously, I don't trust any of the organizations that I work with, even though I have given my life to them, to take power. ~~~ On this side we are inside the belly of the beast. So, what can we do here, so that we can build an anti-capitalist movement here, that can parallel and support the movement that is being created in Mexico? ~~~ I don't think that revolution should be the next step. What good is it to be killing each other. Who is going to be left for us to build our world? ~~~ You gotta have your good times, you can't fight a revolution just being bitter about things, you have to have your culture, you have to have your music, you gotta apply all of these things within your revolution, or its not worth having. If we start building community, the struggle will come within that, and we will be there together."

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Roots of Resistance Camp
repost from Project Steev/detritus on flickr/lotu5,

From Project Steev:"This past weekend I and 4 other Tucson activists drove to San Diego for the Roots of Resistance Summer Camp. The Organic Collective had organized it to get people, mostly border activists, to come and share skills and talk about plans. It was a really great time and really inspiring... I took a few photos, not only of the camp but our brief visit to the border wall on the beach - where there are gaps in the wall right now big enough that people can easily squeeze through, and do. Mexicans were casually slipping over and wandering the sand, but a border patrol truck on the hill was making sure no one went too far. We played soccer and talked with some of the Tijuanans for awhile. It was really cool. The whole weekend was just really really awesome.

From lotu5:"I spent this past weekend at the o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective's Roots of Resistance Camp, rootcamp. It was an amazing experience, with people there from Arizona, Los Angeles, Orange County and lots of new and old faces from San Diego."

event announcement

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Alabama - Louisiana solar links
Karen Banks,

Links to groups, in ALABAMA to LOUISIANA, supporting LOCAL Renewable Energy, Honest elections, safe schools, healthy children, disease prevention, clean water, clean air, cancer prevention and LOCAL Organic Family farmers.

Please help set up and support in your LOCAL community, groups that support the above.

Thank YOU.
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un-attila bad dad-------------------------sin
sin is bad un-attila bad dad ,

sword sheild boom ba boom-----rain large tarp shape of a sheild----glass pipe siz hugeeee truck long---------hook it and i can get it to stonehenge for you i can do this----rome made attila by not doing these things------stick shift it until the war bugs--hook it up i can do this shitck shift it until the war bugs like rome--they made attila the hun by not doing these things---out flank the jews--escape plans--hook it up----------------un-attila bad dad------military ploys ancient sparta succesful birth Alexandar the great----sin is bad until--------------sid bad--boom boom booom boooom bbooooomm sheild sword--anti human wave out flanking stuff-----true prince of russia opee taylor cherenoble true prince of russia build it he will come--go for a huge floodd real slow-----build by the math very important the math water math-by the math orbit of the planit---------lack of capabiltes doinig these militarylee indangers all life on the plant-----fish in water ozone--------------spark---------------------hey sparkeeee spark spark sparkeeee spark--------------tv set----a================bad joe mama bad --get your hands off of peoples bottoms without out permission alabama fors the birds-----what we have here is a shot gun out back jack ---------------------------------
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