Queer Boycott of Capitalist Exploitation
kevin weaver,

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Women's History Day Event
XX,

The Red CalacArts Collective and Memorial Academy presents our 4th Annual International Women’s Day Celebration
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March is Women's History Month
Danielle LoPresti ,

On Tuesday March 23, 2004, local activist record company Say It Records and Danielle Lo Presti and The Masses, in conjunction with The LGBT Center of San Diego present "Celebrate Women's History Month!"
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Queer Demo President on Bush Marriage Amend.
interview by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Transcript of interview with Stephen Whitburn, recently elected president of the San Diego Democratic Club, on the same-sex marriage issue and President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment to ban it.
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A Transman Meets Dennis Kucinich
Bet Power,

Here is an article I wrote about what happened when I met Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Please for vote Dennis for President in the Super Tuesday primary tomorrow, 3/2!
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Marriage Equality
Charles,

Following steps toward marriage equality for Lesbians and Gays in San Francisco and Massachusetts George W. Bush announced support for a "Say No to Love" amendment to the US Constitution on Feb. 24, 2004. This is widely seen, even by supporters, as an attempt to shore up W's conservative base.

Bush's Anti-Queer Marriage Amendment
compiled by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Complete text of President George W. Bush's Feb. 24 endorsement of the proposed Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and comments on CNN from Human Rights Campaign president Cheryl Jacques, American Values president Gary Bauer, and Presidential campaign staffers Mike Donilon (for John Kerry) and David Axelrod (for John Edwards).
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Queer Marriage Townhall Meeting Mon., 2/23!
The Center San Diego,

The Center continues in active collaboration with our national, statewide, and local organizations to coordinate a strategy for moving marriage equality forward and defeating the Federal (and any proposed statewide) Marriage Amendments. Below are a list of some of the local items we are working on and volunteers are desperately needed! Please contact AJ Davis-DeFeo at 619.692.2077 Ext. 212 or  adavisdefeo@thecentersd.org if you are interested in helping with this historic movement!
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FINALLY, OUR ANSWER TO BUSH
BiSexual Polar Bear for Rights,

Gay Penguin is a homosexual penguin. He is incapable of speaking, of signing laws and bills, and perhaps even incapable of abstract thought. However, in retrospect, the past four years of American Leadership have been so poor that Gay Penguin would have easily been the best choice for America.

Gay Penguins are coming out. Just recently, two penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan have celebrated six years of monogamy, and zoo keepers have given them an egg to raise, which hatched succesfully. While Christian Fundamentalists rally around Constitutional Amendments against Gay Marriage, Gay Penguins are proving that God has no problems with Gay Marriage or Gay Adoption.

But what about Gay Penguin as a Presidential Nominee? Why would he do a better job than George W Bush? Gay Penguin could not have signed the PATRIOT ACT, could not have appointed John Ashcroft, could not have invaded a foreign nation, alienated our allies, or embarked on a dangerous and divisive cultural war.

Gay Penguin, at worst, would have kept the Government in stasis. The Kyoto Treaty would stay signed, and America would likely be participating in the International Criminal Court.

The air would be cleaner, fewer jobs would have been lost, and America would not be in the midst of a perpetual war. Osama Bin Laden would still be at large, as he is now. Saddam Hussein's threat to Americans would remain as it is now- non existant!

Imagine a world where America has been ruled by a Gay Penguin since 2000: where would you be?
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March 20th call for a Radical Queer/Pink Bloc
RESYST,

Resyst is sending this call out to all radical queers and queer sympathizers in our area to join us in Pittsburgh for regional M20 events.

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Civil Rights for Gays? - by Justin Raimondo
Justin Raimondo,

The gay movement used to claim it wanted the government to leave them alone. Now they want government to actively intervene on behalf of themselves as an oppressed minority, while calling for the expansion of state power over nearly every aspect of our lives. The government has become the gay movement's agent of liberation.

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Same Sex Marriage Or?
Lloyd Hart,

Same Sex Marriage Or?


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AIDS Truth-Teller Rasnick in S.D. 3./2/04
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

David Rasnick, Ph.D. will be speaking at H.E.A.L.-San Diego's regular meeting Tuesday, March 2, 7 p.m. in the War Memorial Building, Room #2, 3325 Zoo Drive in Balboa Park (on the Park Boulevard side between Roosevelt Junior High School and the zoo parking lot). In this Zenger's interview he addressed topics he will also discuss in his talk: why the declines in AIDS diagnoses and deaths in the U.S. in the mid-1990's cannot be attributed to the current treatments, and the truth behind the so-called “AIDS epidemic" in Africa.
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Africa Isn't Dying of AIDS
Rian Malan,

This copyrighted article, presented under the fair-use doctrine, by a respected South African journalist exposes the hysteria and mythology surrounding the allegations of an AIDS epidemic threatening to decimate the sub-Saharan African subcontinent and the dubious basis of the "HIV seroprevalence" estimates used to support these allegations.
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US-Appointed Council Abolishes Rights of Iraqi Women
MADRE, c/o Vee,

MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, opposes the imposition of Islamic law on the people of Iraq by the US-appointed Interim Governing Council (IGC). Resolution 137 could give self-appointed religious clerics the authority to inflict grave human rights violations on Iraqi women, including denial of the rights to education, employment, freedom of movement and travel, property inheritance and custody of their children. Forced early marriage, polygamy, compulsory religious dress, wife beating, female genital mutilation, execution by stoning as punishment for female adultery and public flogging of women for disobeying religious rules could all be sanctioned if the Resolution is upheld.
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Union Tribune poll on Gay Marriage Amendment
Eric Isaacson ,

You have until Sunday evening to participate in a San Diego Union-Tribune poll asking whether our Constitution should be amended to prohibit gay marriage. Call (619) 293-2506 and choose "2" to oppose the politics of bigotry and hatred.
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Jack-Off Cop Wins Round Against City
Eric Isaacson,

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled today that a San Diego police officer who was fired for selling pornographic videotapes, showing himself wearing a police uniform and masturbating, may sue the Police Department and City for basing its decision to fire him on expressive activity.
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January 2004 Issue of G-Spot Magazine
G-Spot Magazine @ Arizona State University,

G-Spot Magazine is a student-run publication sponsored by the ASU Womyn's Coalition.
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Battered Women Deportation Hrngs Tues + Wed
repost,

Please take the time to send a few emails, stick up for people who need support in their struggles. Please consider printing flyer to post in your area.
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Howard Dean wants to raise your taxes
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Self-Defense Against Riot Police?
Kirsten Anderberg, c/o lotus,

reposted from  http://www.ftaaimc.org/or/2003/12/3346.shtml

What does legal self-defense against riot police look like? Rob Thaxton, in jail in Salem, Or., 8 years, for what seems to be self-defense in Eugene Reclaim the Streets protest. 231 protesters criminally charged in Miami at FTAA protests, 0 cops charged. Prosecutors are friends with cops. Judge in Miami says witnessed 20+ felonies by police with own eyes. No 911 response while we are assaulted by riot police. Tacoma Police Chief rapes you, where do you turn? How do we protect ourselves from police?

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President Voices Support of Marriage Amendmen
NTAC Media,

President George W. Bush threw his ideological weight into the looming battle over the civil rights of gay, lesbian, intersex, and transgender Americans. The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) decries these efforts to destabilize gay and gender-variant families in the hopes of garnering reelection support through religiopolitical bigotry.
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Vote to Strengthen Marriage ! ! !
Eric Alan Isaacson,

You can vote now to strengthen the institution of marriage in a poll that the American Family Association says it will submit to Congress . . .
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Anal Sex Byproduct Named for Senator Santorum
uma om,

Lube-and-fecal matter mix takes name of anti-gay U.S. Senator.
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Bayard Rustin Documentary Shown 12/19 in S.D.
posted by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

A special screening of the film ?Brother Outsider: The Life & Times of Bayard Rustin,? will be held Friday, December 19, 7:00 pm, at Malcolm X Library, 5148 Market Street, San Diego, CA. The film showcases the work of the pioneering Black Gay activist who initiated the 1963 March on Washington, including his contoversial turn from serving prison time as an anti-war resister in World War II to supporting the imperialist U.S. war in Viet Nam.
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MA Same-Sex Marriage Decision Comments
Various (posted by Mark Gabrish Conlan),

On November 18 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a landmark ruling stating that nothing in the Massachusetts state constitution allows the state government to offer civil marriage to opposite-sex couples while denying it to same-sex couples. The court gave the Massachusetts legislature 180 days to amend the state's laws to allow Gay and Lesbian couples to marry. Opponents of the decision, including state governor Mitt Romney (a Republican and a Mormon), vowed to amend the Massachusetts constitution to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples -- but under state law they can't actually pas such an amendment until 2006.

Full text of the Massachusetts court decision

Transcript of ABC-TV Nightline program on the issue, November 18, 2003

Massachusetts Court Approves Queer Marriage
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,

Complete text of the landmark decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordering the state legislature within 180 days to revise the law to approve same-sex marriages.
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Nightline on Same-Sex Marriage, 11/18/03
Ted Koppel, Barney Frank & Kenneth Starr,

Transcript of ABC-TV "Nightline" show on the Massachusetts same-sex marriage ruling, November 18, 2003.
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Queer Demos Honor Gracia Molina de Pick
Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Though San Francisco-based legislator Carole Migden was announced as the keynote speaker for the San Diego Democratic Club's annual Freedom Banquet November 15, the emotional high point of the evening was the J. Douglas Scott Political Action Award and other tributes paid to veteran San Diego Latina activist Gracia Molina de Pick, who received commendations from Congressmember Bob Filner, former Presidential and gubernatorial aide Midge Costanza and former San Diego Democratic Party chair Maureen Steiner.
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VaginaFest 2003 - Feb. 16 in North Park
jonathan,

VaginaFest is organized by the wonderful V.A.G.I.N.A. (Vibrant Activist Grrls Invoking National Attention) and hosted by Bienstar in San Diego.
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