April SDIMC Events - How to Podcast TONIGHT
sdimc volunteer,

All events Wednesdays at Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway.

April 12 - How to Podcast with Shawn from Mindwalk
April 19 - HackLab - Open Hack Night
April 26 - Film Night - Invisible Ballots or Zapatista!
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The Notorious Betty Page Fun, but Flawed
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper, San Diego,

The new film "The Notorious Betty Page" is a fun, noirish flick that lacks a point of seriousness. It is about a "B" movie actress and model who became a cult heroine, but never achieved a serious career.
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Basom's Boom or Bomb Box
Basim Najjar,

how the news and comics interact as is the cas on the Bill Maher Show!
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Fountainhead: XXI Black International Cinema
Fountainhead,

Summary of a Berlin Germany founded & based film festival, presented at the St. Louis Art Museum, April 22-24, 2006!
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Open Hack Night - Wed April 19th
hacklab,

The open hack night is a space for HACKERS and ARTISTS to get together, share, teach and learn.

This month is Ladies Night at the open hack night with dj pepperbox and dj queenb of radica radio doing a audio editing skillshare and Girl Zines A-Go-Go doing a zine making skillshare.

Sponsored by The San Diego Independent Media Center, Voz Alta and the Borderlands Hacklab.
Event times: 7pm -9pm
Location: Voz Alta on 1544 Broadway, downtown San Diego (16th and Broadway).
Cost: $3-$5 donation
Light refreshments provided. Learn more about the at: www.sdhacklab.org
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Urgent Plea for Donations
san diego indymedia,

Do remember typewriter? Carbon copies? Your first mac or PC? What about AOL or Dial-up or how much you paid for these things?!?!

Today, technology is not only a heck of a lot faster but a HELL of a lot cheaper... And it is TIME for the San Diego Independent Media Center to advance. You may have noticed that the San Diego Indymedia site hasn't been very reliable lately... Currently, our primary server's 1996 processor runs at about 360 Megahertz, with a low-quality, faux Pentium 2 processor. It is crashing bi-weekly right now - and exhausting the few collective members who have the time to go and re-boot it. As you know our organization depends on the internet and our website for community participation and to carry out our mission. Without a new server - there ain't gonna be any San Diego Indy Media online.

This is where you come in - for $360, we could get a machine running at 2800 Megahertz and fly into the new millenium!!!! Please click here to donate with a credit card to help us buy a new server:

 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/static/donate.shtml

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60 people at 9/11 Discussion w/ Prof. Fetzer
John Frost,

NS 60, as SDSU students call it, was packed. No seat in the lecture room was open and all standing space was taken. This strong showing of interest suggests that San Diegans don't accept the official story of 9/11.

Professor James Fetzer discussed examined the events of 9/11, shedding light on information and analysis that has gained little or no media attention on the major news networks nor in major newspapers.

Due to lack of room, this reporter remained only a short period of time at the event. I plan to attend the event on Saturday when Activist San Diego and Progressive Democratic Alliance present Loose Change 2nd Edition.

What: Loose Change 2nd Edition Showing followed by Discussion
Where: Joyce Beers Community Center (Across from Trader Joe's in Ralph's Hillcrest Shopping Center)
When: Sat. April 8, 2006 - 7:00 pm
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short outage, back now
sd indymedia,

we had a short outage this morning, but we're back online now. we're continuing to try to make improvements to the server to increase stability.
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VIDEO> Student Walkout at Chicano Park M28
Jonathan, Lotus, Lea,

This video is from the walkouts on Tuesday, March 28, 2006. The walkouts were organized by students to protest the Anti-Immigrant Bill HR 4437. The video is 5 minutes long, in quicktime format and about 13.7 MB.

 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/04/114911.mov

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Sorry about the outage!
SDIMC volunteer,

This week the SDIMC website has been on and off. It wasn't an April fools joke. We are really sorry because this is an important week in San Diego. Our site has been down due to a combination of old hardware and bad luck. Please keep posting and reading. We'll do our best to keep things working.
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Which Conspiracy Do You Believe about 9/11
John Frost,

The media and the current administration have pushed an official conspiracy theory on the people of the United States. With corporate sponsored media in support of such a theory, the public has been bulldozed into believing that Al Qaeda was able to execute an attack on American soil like none done in the past.

Now, a group of activists, academics, common citizens, indy-media reporters, family members of those lost in 9/11, are all calling for the re-opening of the 9/11 case. Join us as we learn more about the events of 9/11 that have people shocked.

Two Events:

Professor James Fetzer
9/11 What happened and Why
Tuesday, April 4th @ 7pm
SDSU - North Education Building Room 60
5500 Campanile Dr.
Sponsored by SDSU Forum on War and Peace

Loose Change 2nd Edition (Documentary on 9/11)
Saturday, April 8th
1220 Cleveland Ave. @ Vermont St. (Across from Trader Joe's)
Come join us for the film, stay for the discussion.
Sponsored by Progressive Democrats of San Diego (www.pdsandiego.org)
& Activist San Diego (www.activistsandiego.org)
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The Afrobeat Mix
small WORLD Podcast,

small WORLD weekend Mix - The Afrobeat Edition
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"Stoned": The Death of a 1960's Rock Star
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

"Stoned," playing March 31 through April 6 at the Ken Cinema, is a powerful drama about the last days in the life of Brian Jones, founding member of the Rolling Stones rock band, who died in June 1969 one month after the other members of the band fired him. The film focuses on the unlikely friendship between the spaced-out substance-abusing Jones (Leo Gregory) and Frank Thorogood, the 40-something builder who entered his world when the Rolling Stones' management office sent him to remodel Jones's house.
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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/31 LISTEN GLOBALLY!
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
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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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Walkouts: Student Unity Meeting Friday 5PM
Bob Alba - reposting from email,

5 PM at City college Friday, March 31, 2006
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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/24 !LISTEN GLOBALLY!
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
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Family Carnival this weekend! c/o radioactive
radioActive sanDiego,

FAMILY CARNIVAL
Brought to you by
radioActive sanDiego
www.radioactiveradio.org
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Unknown White Male: Compelling Amnesia Story
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Rupert Murray's new film "Unknown White Male" traces the life of his friend Douglas Bruce in the two years from July 3, 2003 — when Bruce had a mysterious and still-unexplained total memory loss — to mid-2005, and charts the changes in Bruce's personality from a party person to a more serious, reflective, philosophical human being. If the film has a flaw it's that Murray emphasizes the positive aspects of Bruce's transformation over the traumas depicted in such fictional cinematic depictions of amnesia as "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (whose director, incidentally, is among those calling "Unknown White Male" a fake). The film is playing through March 23 at the Ken Cinema, 4061 Adams Avenue in Kensington.
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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/17 LISTEN GLOBALLY!
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
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ACTÚE - Academia de Periodismo Activista
ACTÚE,

A Academia de Periodismo Activista es un Frente de Acción integrada al Movimiento Humanista, que actúa contra la violencia, la discriminación y tiene el Ser Humano como valor céntrico.

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Kembrew McLeod, Copyright Criminals: This is
small WORLD Podcast,

Interview with Kembrew McLeod about Copyright Criminals, a documentary about the sampling culture.
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Under/NON Reportage of Extremist Attack
Jonathan Cook,

Coverage Trends
Photostory: Israeli extremists' attack on Nazareth's most famous Christian church goes virtually unreported

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OpenHack Night / Mar 15 / borderLands Hacklab
sd hacklab,

Calling all anarchist hackers, revolutionary web designers, radical media makers and artists eager to learn more about technology!

Are you a hacker that wants to put your skills to work for social justice? Are you a person who wants to learn more about computers to create positive social change? Are you someone who wants to learn to use technology, but feels like you've been excluded from the discussion?

Bring your computer, your imagination or your latest idea for a Free
Software project or a digital art project to Voz Alta for the
borderlands Hacklab and indymedia Open Hack Night! We'll be creating a
digital playground for creating the future of resistance, tearing down
the digital divide or just discussing the latest cool gadgets and having a beer next door... We will have a dj from radioActive sanDiego coming to spin some tunes, so come and hang out!

Open Hack Night: Wednesday, March 15th, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway, 15th and Broadway downtown.

 http://sdhacklab.org ||  http://radioActiveradio.org
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FBI names Austin Indymedia Terrorist
Tony Ryals,

And then a perpetrator or bunglar on the side of militaristic over reaction in the Waco tragedy has the nerve to call indymedia free speech supporters and a group 'food not bombs' that gives away vegetarian meals 'terrorists' ! ? Truly when the Bush Regime confines 'free speech' to a cage or 'corral' what more does Mr. Rasner want in his rage to gut the Constitution and the First Amendent ?

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“Don’t Come Knocking” a fun but dated study
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper,

"Don't Come Knocking" is a film which examines an issue that may be lost to most of today's movie audiences ... the American Western Hero and the Counter-Culture reaction to that heroic myth.
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The Implausibility of Peace… “Joyeux Noel”
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper,

The Acadamy Award nominated film "Joyeux Noel" is a depiction of one of the more unique and uplifting moments in the history of war. When for one Christmas Eve, combatents in World War One layed down their arms and remebered - if only briefly - how cruel, wasteful and indecent war is.
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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/10 LISTEN GLOBALLY!
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.
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Community Workshop on Digital Story Telling
SDIMC volunteerz,

50 people learned about using media technology to tell their personal and community stories. Presenters were from Third World Majority and Heads On Fire.
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Dave Slusher, Uplifter
small WORLD Podcast,

Interview with Dave Slusher about the Uplifter movement of self-reliance, creativity and interconnectivity.
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