Free Speech with reg e gaines in Balboa Park
Michael Klam,

The Museum of the Living Artist invites writers and artists to present their visual and written/spoken work at Poetry and Art on Wednesday, May 17, 2006. The free speech quarterly event at the San Diego Art Institute will feature special guest performers reg e gaines, author, playwright and director, and San Diego’s top competition (slam) poets, including Rudy Francisco, Viet Mai, Whitney Lawrence, Brian DeBenedictus, and Sunflower Dubois.
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Zapping the Empire: The Other "United 93" Tra
joe broadhurst,

Summary: In light of the oening of the neocon propaganda psyop "United 93", here is another version you might want to listen to. (20:00)
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Zapatista! the Movie at Voz Alta, Wed, Apr 26 7pm
sdimc,

UPDATE: Correction on times. The Tactical Ice Cream Unit will be on hand from 7-8pm, with a presentation from 7:00-7:30. The film will start at 7:30pm.

From June 17-19th, Delegate Zero of the Zapatistas will be coming to Tijuana as part of La Otra Campana. People will converge on San Diego and Tijuana from all over the US for this historical opportuniy to meet the Zapatistas first hand and take part in La Otra Campana, a new campaign aimed at radically transforming politics through coordination of groups on the left organizing outside of electoral politics against capitalism. A member of the o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective will speak about the plans for June and what you can do to help!

FILM SCREENING, Wednesday, April 26, 2006: ZAPATISTA! is an inspiring first-hand account of a struggle that will challenge the way you think about the world. Armed with sticks and words against a 'First World' military, the Zapatistas were able to hold their ground. Ignored by a mainstream press, the Zapatistas have used poems, children's stories, videos, and the internet, to permanently transform the political imagination of a nation.

The film starts at 7:00pm at Voz Alta on 1544 Broadway, downtown San Diego. $3-$5 donation, light refreshments. Learn more at:  http://www.bignoisefilms.com/zap

Also, the Tactical Ice Cream Unit will be on hand as part of the Center for Tactical Magic's West Coast tour! The Tactical Ice Cream Unit (TICU) rolls through the city in an act of intervention that replaces cold stares with frosty treats and nourishing knowledge. Combining a number of successful activist strategies (Food-Not-Bombs, Copwatch, Indymedia, infoshops, etc) into one mega-mobile, the TICU is the Voltron-like alter-ego of the cops' mobile command center. Learn more at  http://www.tacticalmagic.org

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4/28 Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera
Bob,

Punk Rock Opera
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[Video-crónica] Madrid: Manifestación por la
La Plataforma,

Miles de personas en la manifestación del 22 de abril en Madrid. Video, fotos, texto y musica por el colectivo La Plataforma (2006)
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timely book: power and limits of China
Financial Sense News Hour,

a Chinese author seems to have messages on China and current global affairs.
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Macho Men and State Capitalism ...
Hanna Dahlstrom,

* Latin America is boiling with revolutionary potential these days that could redefine economics, politics and social relations. But sometimos things aren't always as they seem. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is widely seen to be at the center of Latin America's transformation by building a regional trade bloc through the creation of ALBA and Venezuela's membership in Mercosur to oppose U.S. dominance and its constant push for free trade agreements with Latin American governments.
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RSF "authentic claimants to 1916"
IRIS,

WRITING in the Sunday edition of the Derry Journal journalist and author Éamonn McCann said that in his view, as far as Republicanism was concerned, the most authentic claimants to the political legacy of the 1916 Rising were Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Republican Sinn Féin.
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Statement from the Leadership of the Republic
anon,

Statement from the Leadership of the Irish Republican Movement
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global internet government
charles webster baer ,

vote for me for president
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iMigrate: May 1st 2006: General Strike | Huelga General | Boycott | Walkout | Buy Nothing | Sell Nothing
Delete The Border,

May 1st 2006: General Strike | Huelga General | Boycott | Walkout | Buy Nothing | Sell Nothing
graphic by schock at riseup d0t net

Quick on the heels of the massive March 25th mobilizations and the student walkouts during the following week, April 10th was a historic day of action for immigrant rights across the USA. Tens of thousands of people took the streets in Los Angeles [ 1 | 2 ] and in Santa Ana, while 5,000 marched in St. Louis and 10,000 raised their voices in the largest march in Fresno's history. San Diego also made history with a march of up to 100,000 people on April 9th. There were mobilizations in the Bay Area, in Tennessee, in Rochester, NY, and in DC. In Portland, up to 8,000 marched, while thousands gathered in Love Park in Philly. Allies mobilized in Pittsburgh. In Arizona, people were on the move in Flagstaff. There were major marches and actions in NYC and Boston, and Houston Indymedia provided a blow by blow of actions in Texas. In Puerto Rico, hundreds took the streets of Barrio Obrero. (These amazing stories are just a small sample of coverage of April 10th actions across the country; for more go to your local IMC.) Congress has been forced to backpeddle on brutal anti-immigrant legislation, but they are nowhere near to meeting the demands of the movement, especially amnesty for all. So the movement for immigrant justice keeps rising, with more major actions planned in the coming weeks: April 15th is a student day of action, and May 1st will be a historic day of action, with calls for a general strike, boycott, no sales or purchases, walkouts, marches, and actions in financial centers and at anti-immigrant corporations throughout the country.

A10 Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 Videos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Radio: WBAI

Background: March 25th | April 10 | US Indymedia | New American Opportunity Campaign | Immigrant Solidarity Network's No HR 4437 site | National Council of La Raza | El Tecolote | AFSC | Bay Area Immigrant RIghts Coalition | The film "A Day Without a Mexican" | San Joaquin Valley Peace and Freedom Party | La película "Un día sin mexicanos"

Upcoming Actions: April 15th | Legal info for students who walk out | May 1st: Call to Action | IWW joins call for General Strike | Chicago Immigrant Workers to march on May Day
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50,000 March in San Diego
Nathan Gibbs,

An estimated 50,000 people marched through downtown San Diego Sunday afternoon. People came out to support a guest worker program and amnesty for illegal immigrants. From the elderly to young children, the marchers dressed in white and waved thousands of American and Mexican flags.
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basim's boom or bomb box
Basim Najjar,

just my typical rant and humor yet thoughtfull facing of the truth!
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New Grand Jury Convened in SF
indybay, reposted by sd indymedia,

SF Grand Jury Targets G8 Protest & Independent Journalist - Yet another Federal Grand Jury in San Francisco targeting local activists has been convened. This time the apparent reason for the Grand Jury is to investigate the anti-G8 solidarity protest held in the Mission District of San Francisco on July 8, 2005, during which a local police officer was injured. Charges against three people in connection with the protest are pending in San Francisco Superior Court. Independent journalist and videographer Josh Wolf, a frequent poster to Indybay, has been subpoenaed to testify and to provide any notes taken and the full and unedited videotape recorded during the demonstration. The National Lawyers Guild is representing Josh Wolf and has filed a motion to quash the subpoena on several grounds including First Amendment journalistic protections and that the FBI is on an illegal "fishing expedition" aimed at aiding the separate local investigation by San Francisco police and prosecutors. On March 30th, a press conference was held on the steps of the San Francisco Federal Building before the hearing on quashing the subpoena. A written decision on the motion will be delivered at a later date. Josh Wolf urges people "to talk to your friends and neighbors about how the grand jury system (is) a vicious unconstitutional implementation of the law that is being used for political purposes."

Press Conference Video | Report

Josh Wolf's Grand Jury Documents · FBI Witchhunt.com Info on SF G8 Grand Jury
Indybay's 2005 G8 Coverage: San Francisco 1 | 2 · US · Scotland

World Bank / IMF Protests Scenario Outline
Farragut Squares Collective,

We are not mobilizing for this year’s World Bank / IMF meetings? What?! You will not find a rally and a march from one part to another filled with speeches and empty platitudes. BUT, YOU WILL FIND LOTS OF ACTION! Don’t come to Washington, DC, April 21 – 23 if all you intend to do is march. However, if you want to take effective action, you can march and do a whole lot more!
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Right/Left Complicit in Perpetuation of War
unbridled artist network,

How? Never exposing the reigning bigoted assumptions of the privileged and resulting meta policies against we, the "stupid" masses, for one. Article quotes from Noam Chomsky and the little known Christopher Simpson, author of Science of Coercion.
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Leslie Feinberg Lecture: brief report back
concerned student,

Leslie Feinberg spoke earlier today (3/28/2006) on the SDSU campus at 2PM in Hepner Hall 221, as close to 200 students filled the seats, stairs, and floors with eager faces. Leslie talked about his experience as a lesbian / transgender / genderqueer in the struggle for gay liberation and his experience as an activist who relates to the struggles of people of color because it was the right thing to do at the time and still is. Leslie mentioned the inspiration he has received from the large turnouts in Los Angeles and other cities in opposition to the Senssenbrenner bill HR 4437. Leslie ended the speech by addressing the struggle of Pat Washington, who was fired from the Womens Studies Dept in 2002 and has is suing SDSU for discrimination. After most of the audience had gone, a couple of women from the department began their defensive attack against what they felt was Leslie's attack on them.

 http://transgenderwarrior.org
 http://patwashington.org
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114449.shtml

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Video of protest at Mexican Consulate
Bob Davis,

Protest at the Mexican Consulate in San Diego in solidarity with the Zapatistas March 20. "Let us say Already Is enough! to the constant harassment that we suffered when having to support so many police corporations that they maintain state of control, militarization, fear, anger, discrimination, impunity, great power and injustices, that affect so much to activists social, like a young and young, students, indigentes, sex traveling, working servants, salesmen, farmers, teachers etc... Digamos ¡Ya Basta! al constante hostigamiento que sufrimos al tener que soportar tantas corporaciones policiales que mantienen un estado de control, militarización, miedo, coraje, discriminación, impunidad, prepotencia e injusticias, que afectan tanto a activistas sociales, como a niños y jóvenes, estudiantes, indigentes, sexo servidoras, vendedores ambulantes, obreros, campesinos, maestros etc..."
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The Culeros Get Chased Out - La Gran Marcha
dj lotu5,

A short clip from La Gran Marcha 2006, a massive march in Los Angeles against HR4437 and for amnesty. The corproate media put the size of the march at 500,000. Univision said the march was 2 million people. The police and mayor said it was the largest protest they have ever seen. What happens when 30 riot cops try to enter into a crowd of that size?
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FILIPINOS IN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD
E. SAN JUAN, Jr.,

About ten million Filipinos are now scattered in the U.S. and around the world, chiefly as exploited migrant labor. Meanwhile, 87 million Filipinos--with the exception of a tiny privileged minority--are suffering and resisting the current repressive regime in a rapidly deteriorating neocolonized social order. The Philippines has one of the most durable and vibrant revolutionary traditions in the whole world--the first Asian people to revolt against Western (Spanish) colonialism. 4.1 million Filipinos died opposing U.S. domination in the Filipino American War at the turn of the last century. Today Filipinos are engaged in a popular democratic revolutionary process against U.S. imperialism and its local agents. Can overseas Filipinos contribute to the radical transformation of a world afflicted by the atrocities and terrors of global capitalism?
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A Rant about Race and Religion
Basim Najjar,

This is a rant about religion and race and how they impact human relations.
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photos from La Gran Marcha 2006 - 2
lotu5,

more photos...
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Drastic Change Needed To Proceed
Basim Najjar,

constant thought about all realms of american affairs.
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Editorial El Libertario, Venezuela, #46
Redacción del periódico El Libertario,

* Un nuevo número con la habitual variedad de contenidos del vocero de la Comisión de Relaciones Anarquistas – CRA, donde destacan el balance del Foro Social Alternativo y la propuesta que condensa la consigna de la portada: “Alto a la demagogia, ningún chantaje más. Recuperemos la autonomía de los movimientos sociales.”
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Virtual Sit-In in Solidarity with the Striking Students of France!
EDT and borderlands hacklab,

We invite people from all over the world who support the french students in resistance and oppose the precaritization of life [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity] to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre and borderlands Hacklab on March 16th and 17th, 2006 to engage in a virtual sit-in on french government websites to demand that all of the students be released from prison and that the 'contrat première embauche' (CPE) be revoked.

Join the action here:  http://sdhacklab.org/france_solidarity

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Call for Action Against World Bank and IMF
Farragut Squares Collective,

Come to Washington, DC April 22-23 to take direct action against the World Bank and IMF
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Venezuela 2006: Anarchism against all odds
Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas, Venezuela,

Our friends from abroad continuously ask us to explain our views about the current situation in Venezuela. This reply is based on two recent texts by the editing team of El Libertario, already published in their entirety in the internet (in Spanish), and from which we extract our main points.
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Venezuela 2006: (A) contra viento y marea
Comisión de Relaciones Anarquistas, Venezuela,

Desde el exterior, continuamente se nos pide resumir los puntos básicos de nuestro enfoque sobre la actual situación venezolana. Estimamos que ello puede hacerse en base a dos textos recientes del equipo redactor de El Libertario, documentos ya divulgados vía Internet en versión completa de los que ha sido posible entresacar nuestras propuestas esenciales.
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NOMART inaugural exhibition
NOMART,

Nomart (a student-run mobile space) Presents:
Plaza Bonita: Best if used by 3.8.06

Thursday, March 9th 2006
At Library Walk, UCSD 7pm-8pm

Friday, March 10th 2006
At the Che Café, UCSD 7pm-8pm

Nomart invites you to attend the inaugural performances of an exhibition series “Best Used By: 3.8.06.” This performance/ installation series collects viable discarded supermarket merchandize for redistribution to orally and visually interact with participants. The resurrected feast is the manifestation of Nomart’s desire to transform unnecessary waste into useable material and engage with the public.


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CLOSING HAITI'S "OPEN VEINS" - RENE PREVAL'S
Stephen Lendman,

Exposing the lies and deception in the corporate media
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