Action ALERT: 4PM Protest at San Diego's Cox
Sister Kitty Catalyst,

SAN DIEGO — Gay community and youth activists call for peaceful protests April 27th from 4-7PM at San Diego Cox Arena of Teenmania’s youth rally teaching anti-gay intolerance and war culture to seduce and prey upon teenagers.
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Gender Borders & National Borders
repost from deleteTheBorder ,

From chaparral/deleteTheBorder: what do I mean by gender borders? By gender borders, I refer to the line that’s drawn between female & male, woman & man. The line that causes doctors to feel an obligation to use surgery on a non-consenting intersex baby to make it conform to the sex on one side of the border or the other. The line that means you don’t put a baby boy in a pink outfit or give a young girl a beebee gun or a toy truck and such examples. But also the line that means women should be put in their place- and stay there. If she rejects her submissive role, she’s called a bitch. The line that makes it so there are certain things that if a guy does, he’s subject to be called “fag” or “pussy”...

They’re trying to build a big wall on the border, dividing native people’s lands, making it more likely people will die crossing, wasting a fucking ton of money, and profiting the private corporations who will be involved in the development of it... Corporations are involved in the detainment and transportation of undocumented immigrants; people are blaming the immigrants for lack of jobs, but ignoring the fact that corporations are bringing thousands of job out of the country to exploit cheaper labor; the minutemen are patrolling the border for the 3rd year in a row, immigrants are getting shot by the border patrol...

I’m arguing here that people who cross gender borders and people who cross national borders (specifically those who cross national borders into a first world country from a non-first world country, and more specifically crossing from mexico into the u.s.) have a common struggle...

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Patrick Henry High Promotes Discrimination
Kyle Merriweather,

Last week, in a hopeful attempt to introduce tolerance to Patrick Henry High School, I produced over 30 posters that promoted tolerance and equality for gays and lesbians. I went from class to class, asking teachers if they would be willing to put a poster in their room windows. All but three teachers accepted my request. Most teachers gave me praise for having the courage and concern to act upon the hidden issue of discrimination against homosexuality that plagues our schools. I was disheartened yesterday, to find that all of my posters were torn down by school security at the request of Patrick Henry vice-principal, Laurie Guido.

There is a critical need for the awareness of homosexual discrimination in youth. In America, approximately 7.2 million people under age 20 are lesbian or gay. 45% of gay males and 20% of lesbians encounter physical or verbal assault in high school. As a result, many teens commit suicide. In 1995, gay and lesbian teenagers accounted for 30% of all suicides among youths.

The Massachusetts Department of Education announced in 1994 that, “The average high school student in the U.S. hears anti-gay slurs 25 times per day.” If the situation is not managed, homophobic teenagers will grow to be hateful, intolerant, and uncaring adults. The hate of narrow-minded students and the desolate condition of gay and lesbian students does not end at graduation. People are affected by their high school experiences for the rest of their lives.

Update: Photos of the Posters!

Suggested Contacts:
Laurie Guido, Vice-Principal (phhs)
lguido@sandi.net
619-286-7700 ext. 2211

Pat Crowder, Principal (phhs)
pcrowder@sandi.net
619-286-7700 ext. 2208

Superintendent, San Diego Unified School District
Carl A Cohn
superintendent@sandi.net
619-725-5525

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Leather and Spirituality Program May 4
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The Abrahamic religious tradition from which Judaism, Christianity and Islam derive takes an extremely negative, hard-line attitude against sex in general and sexual pleasure in particular. Nonetheless, many people with out-of-the-ordinary sexual lifestyles also are interested in matters of spirit. Four local Leathermen will be presenting a program on Leather and spirituality Friday, May 4, 7 p.m. at the Joyce Beers Center in Hillcrest; in this interview, three of them — Officer Wes, slave jeff and Steve Sallis — talk about how they overcame their Christian upbringings and found spiritual as well as physical fulfillment in BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism) sex.
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Anti-Circumcision "Intactivists" vs. OB-GYN's
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Anti-circumcision activists, or "intactivists" as they call themselves, are organizing a vigil during the upcoming convention of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) all day May 7, 8 and 9. "Intactivist" Pat Brown is giving a presentation on the issue to H.E.A.L. [Health, Education, AIDS Liaison]-San Diego Tuesday, May 1 at the War Memorial Building, 3325 Zoo Drive in Balboa Park. According to "intactivists," routine male circumcision is just as bad as female genital mutilation; not only does it interfere with sexual pleasure but, contrary to popular belief, it not only doesn't help prevent AIDS but might actually make AIDS more likely.
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DIDM - Desiring (Incenciary Devices) Machines
dj lotu5,

Subscribe to our podcast here:

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Listen to the second episode of DIDM (Desiring Machines / Incendiary Devices)!

 http://bang.calit2.net/rasd/files/didm-2007-04-18.mp3

On this awesome episode, we talk about borderlands by gloria anzaldua with dj queen b, queer community, chicana experience, reclaim the streets with The Bee and what happened there and lots of stuff with onto the ontologist including complexity and delanda as it applies to social struggle, the NY anarchist bookfair and the panel on resistance and mexico there, baudrillard and the mirror of production, abstract hacktivism, craftivism and the city heights free skool.

music by: nicky click, macromantics, peaches, combat wombat, scream club.
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Center Hosts Transgender Empowerment Day
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center in Hillcrest hosted the fourth annual Transgender Empowerment Day April 6. The keynote speakers were female-to-male Transgender attorney Shane L. Caya from San Francisco and former San Diegan male-to-female Transgender activist Amanda Nicole Watson. Over 100 people, both Transgender people and their supporters, attended this event and watched a wide variety of people win awards for helping the Transgender community achieve social recognition and equal rights.
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UCSD Open Studios
general giggles,

The Graduate Visual Arts Department at the University of California – San Diego invites the Southern California art community to view the work of its current MFA students at Open Studios on April 6, 2-8 p.m. Political handshakes, post-human dolls, Mexican moustaches, false promises, Old-Time
radio shows, military recruitment tools, epic octopi, drone machines, fishing boats and Chris Farley are among the explorations of these graduate students.
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Love, Life, Sex Center Promotes Fulfillment
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Sexologists Nick Karras and Sayaka Adachi recently opened the Love, Life, Sex Center in Hillcrest. In this interview, they discuss the impediments that stand in the way of people having the happy, fulfilling sex lives they deserve, including anti-sex religious teachings and other sources of fear.
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Queer Democrats Endorse Universal Health Care
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club unanimously endorsed a single-payer health-care system for California at its March 22 meeting. The proposal is called "California OneCare" and is being carried in the state legislature by openly Lesbian State Senator Sheila Kuehl, who steered a similar health bill through the legislature last year. It was killed by the veto of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The club members debated how to overcome the predictable multi-million dollar campaign health insurance companies, which would be eliminated by the proposal, will fight against it and also the racist fear-mongering more moderate health plans have already evoked from Right-wing propagandists denouncing that "illegal aliens" would be covered.
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Michael Savage Attacks Murdered Transwoman
copied from Media Matters,

Savage called transgender murder victim a "psychopath" and a "freak"
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Michael Parenti Speaks on "Culture Struggle"
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

From Mark Conlan: Michael Parenti, Berkeley-based Leftist author and professor, gave several talks on a recent tour of San Diego, inclding one at the Malcolm X Library March 7 on "The Culture Struggle." Parenti analyzed the connection between culture and class in Marxist terms, saying that culture is the way an owning class trains the working class to have the values that will make working people content with their lives and disinclined to challenge the existing ownership and control of the means of production. In his speech, and his similarly titled book, he also scorned "cultural relativism" — saying the idea that people brought up in one culture can't judge those from another has been used to defend social evils like slavery and rape — and also talked about capitalism has increasingly turned culture into a commodity.

From white m@le fed up with White Males: What a surprise to see a white male criticizing the experiences of people of color, women, and queer folk. and also surprise, he's a marxist! congratulations sir, you and your irrelevant ideology are part of the same culture that aims to perpetuate the oppression of people of color, women, and queer folk. of course the experiences of black women (for example) are subordinate to your epistemological claims! because you follow a long tradition of western enlightenment thinking that has hegemonically controlled the discourses of truth for hundreds of years!...

From shine: i am a queer female, and i was not offended by parentis words at all. i don't think he was "critisizing" our experiences as you say. in fact i think they are largely right-on. though i do find a unique solidarity amongst other queers or other womyn (and could understand why blacks would find a unique solidarity with each other or diabled folks would) i ultimately think parenti is right that our focus should be on the ruling class and should be on the ways in which we are all subservients and need to take back power... the fact that marx and parenti were both white males doesn't make their words untrue...

More from white m@le fed up with White Males: ...the idea that all hierarchy can be reduced to simple class functionalism is absurd. which is essentially the problem with marxism as a whole and the focus for the majority of criticism of the ideology by people who are actually interested in eradicating hierarchy. sure, we can all fall into step behind this notion that class is the only thing that matters, but will that topple patriarchy (the mujeres libres ran into this same problem in the spanish civil war)? racism? homophobia? are we really expected to believe that these are only tools utilized by the bourgeoisie to oppress the workers and not completely enculturated patterns of behavior representing hundreds of years of life under oppressive governmental and economic systems?...

From anarchomarxist: ...The slippery slope of identity here reduces to either the individual's own oppression being different from any others' resulting in the assertion of the individual as the main agent of history (the re-assertion of liberalism) or the next step in the critique which is the deconstruction of the individual as anon [white m@le fed up with White Males] suggests. The former brings with it all the problems of liberalism from the enlightenment that Hegel, Marx and many Anarchist theorists sought to problematize, critique and move to something more liberatory (theoretically only in the case of Hegel) that would not only better explain phenomena but lead to a sustaining practice. And the later results in a never ending negation of all postulates that seek to get agency off the ground (the postmodern predicament). Anon [white m@le fed up with White Males] suggests the later is how we should view individuals but fails to acknowledge the theory and practice problems that comport to this mode of discourse...

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freEtech 2007 -- an (un)conference: march 25 san diego
dj lotu5,

freEtech 2007 -- an (un)Conference: san diego, march 25th

why freEtech 2007?
Community. Free Software. Openness. All of the values of the Free Software movement are totally violated by O’Reilly publishing’s conferences. These same values are what has made internet culture exciting and vibrant and an important social force, and they are also the words that O’Reilly uses to market its $1500 per seat ETech conference.

If you care about creating and sustaining a technological culture that is accessible to everyone, instead of being accessible to those who have $1500 to blow on a 4 day conference, then help us create freEtech, a free and open unconference in San Diego on March 25th, the day before eTech begins. There’s a reason why the list of presenters is overwhelmingly white men, we’ll talk about why...

Click Here to sign up.

Links: Borderlands HackLab | Free Software on Wikipedia
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Chris: Sex, Submission and Spirituality
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

An interview with Chris (who asked that his last name not be used), a self-proclaimed "slut bottom" who discusses his lifelong love of being anally penetrated, the difficulty he had in overcoming his own homophobia and acknowledging his sexual interest in men as well as women, and his conception of sex as psychological and even spiritual exploration.
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Ex-Minister Director at Foundation for Change
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

John Fanestil, the new executive director at the San Diego Foundation for Change, discusses (in a longer version of his interview in the March 2007 Zenger's Newsmagazine) his 15 years as a Methodist minister, his view of the struggle between progressive and Right-wing Christianity, his interest in issues concerning the border and the nuts-and-bolts of running a nonprofit foundation that funds progressive causes in a city known for its conservatism.
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Hopes Rising from Passing Ceremonies
Ernie McCray,

My intent in this piece is to encourage people to get beyond one's sexual orientation and accept who a person is and what he or she might have to offer society.
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CHiDO Bike Collective: DIY Bike Shop Opening
CHiDO Bikes,

CHiDO Bike Collective (City Heights Derailing Oppression)

DIY Community Bike Shop. A couple of radical and dedicated women invite you to help this project off the ground!

CHiDO Bikes is a volunteer run, cooperative learning space and a do-it-yourself bike repair shop. The cooperative provides skill-shares, workshops and mechanical assistance for our bike riding community to support the accessibility of bikes for everyone and bike safety. The shop has tools and parts for repairing, maintaining and building bikes. We emphasize creating a space that supports the empowerment and self-sufficiency of women and transgender people within San Diego’s male dominated, bike culture.

First Open Meeting: Fri March 2 4-6PM 4246 Wightman

Related: Nutterbuckets
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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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Worshiping Mother Earth - Druid Group in SD
Jillbe Badb,

The mission of the Infinite Deities Proto-Grove is to invoke a web of knowledge, mythos and experience that provides a framework for reconnecting with the Earth Mother, and re-gathering her progeny through this tribal collective consecrated to responsible nature conservation and progressive cognizance within the evolving tradition of Reformed Druidism.
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Video-chronicle: Demonstration against racism
La Plataforma,

500 people took part in the demonstration against racism in Alcorcon and in the whole Madrid region.
The immigrant people and the antifascist youth marched around the streets of the multicultural neighbourhood of Lavapies shouting: “native or foreigner, it is the same working class”.
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Queer Dems Endorse Black for Port Commission
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Breaking ranks with their usual allies in the labor and environmental movements, as well as City Councilmember Donna Frye, the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed Democrat Laurie Black for the San Diego Port Commission against Republican incumbent Steve Cushman. Cushman is asking the San Diego City Council to set aside the usual two-term limit on Port Commissioners and reappoint him, and he's assembled an unlikely coalition in support.
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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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Stuart Timmons Researches, Writes on “Gay LA”
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Stuart Timmons, co-author of the new book “Gay L.A.,” discusses his research, his surprise as to just how far back the history of the L.A. Queer community started, changes in the way Queer folk identified themselves and each other, how AIDS and the rise of the radical religious Right affected Queer organizing, and whether the Queer community has fulfilled the demand of pioneer activist Harry Hay (whose biography Timmons wrote) to create “an ethical homosexual culture.”
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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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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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Election 2006: Mixed Blessings
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

An analysis of the November 7 election results plus the ways in which the Democratic takeover of Congress has been reported in the corporate media since. The analysis suggests that the Democrats will have a hard time maintaining their Congressional majority if they don't take a strong stand on corruption and ethics issues; that conservative social issues in general and a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage may actually have an easier time of passing in the new Congress, since many of the recently elected Democrats assured their constituents in their campaigns that they were anti-abortion rights and anti-Gay marriage; and that the "outings" of Florida Congressmember Mark Foley and Reverend Ted Haggard towards the end of the campaign may be more complex issues than most progressives believe.
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Make Dec. 1 Rosa Parks Human Rights Day
Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee,

Make December 1 Rosa Parks Human Rights Day

Friday, Dec. 1
1:00pm - Rally/March
Dudley Square, Roxbury, MA
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