Trump & Rosie: Stage a charity Boxing Match!
Fauxlosopher,

Las Vegas could put a betting line on who (Donald or Rosie) the public thinks would come out the victor!

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The Shortwave Report 12/22 ¡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, Cuba, China, and Russia
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Progressive San Diego Rallies for Impeachment
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Progressive San Diego and other allied organizations held an indoor rally on "Presidential Accountability" December 9 that was actually intended to mobilize support for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Speakers included former Congressional candidate Jeeni Criscenzo, Michael Kuzart of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Aïda Reyes of World Can't Wait and Gloria Daviston of San Diego Veterans for Peace. The program also heard a videotaped presentation from National Lawyers' Guild president Marjorie Cohn and focused on the war in Iraq and the Bush administration's shredding the Constitution as part of the so-called "War on Terror."

“When we impeach Bush and Cheney,” Judy Hess of Progressive Democrats of San Diego said, “Nancy Pelosi will become president of the United States.” Acknowledging that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders slated to take over Congress in January have said that impeachment is “off the table,” Hess said that the purpose of the meeting — and of similar events taking place nationwide — was to build a groundswell of popular support for impeachment that will prevent the Democrats in Congress from continuing to duck the issue.

Related: McKinney Files Articles of Impeachment | Indymedia Coverage of Impeachment Campaign | Impeachment Resource Center
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Will the Chad Castagana Case Self-Destruct?
Daithí,

…from KNX1070:

"A Woodland Hills man who allegedly sent letters containing white powder to Jon Stewart, David Letterman and incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, among others, pleaded not guilty today to charges of mailing threats."


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The Shortwave Report 12/15 ¡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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THE MAJOR NARCOTICS CONNECTION AT GOOGLE.
Paul Fairbanks,

Not really an Internet firm...
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IMC Fundraising - NAIROBI2007 Convergence
imc-africa,

his is an invitation to all who wish to participate in this Independent Media Centre, whether by fundraising or providing other support, or by joining us is in Kenya during the WSF, to send an email with your name or group's name to 'imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org'.

We are attempting to raise funds to support independent media activists who want to come to Kenya to participate in the IMC. Preference will be given to activists from Africa, but we encourage all who are interested in coming to write to the imc-africa list.
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The Cuban Five and US Terrorism
sended by F Espinoza,

Now is the time to demand the release of the Cuban Five. They were sentenced 5 years ago this month and have been imprisoned unjustly in the U.S. for 8 years for the crime of trying to defend their homeland against terrorist attacks.
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Tribute to 'Dark Alliance' and Gary Webb
Brian Covert / Independent Journalist,

A decade after the "Dark Alliance" newspaper series sent shockwaves around the world with its investigation into crack cocaine/CIA/Contra connections, a tribute is presented to "Dark Alliance" and its investigator/author, journalist Gary Webb....and to the true spirit of journalism that he represented in his time.

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Cynthia McKinney HOLDING PRESS CONFERENCE?
Nick Trupiano,

PRESS RELEASE:

PRESS CONFERENCE REVEALED: WILL CYNTHIA MCKINNEY BE TALKING ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD?

Cynthia McKinney, official Congresswoman of Georgia retires after sending an impeachment bill against President George W. Bush to the House Floor this Friday.

Subjects to be discussed are according to our sources, Election Fraud, Impeachment, Mark Foley, Jeff Fisher and word has it an expose on the Administration.

Is there something happening soon? It sure seems to be the case, follow us all through-out the week and be sure to check in for our updates!
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Iraq War Resister Kyle Snyder Speaks in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

At 19, Kyle Snyder joined the Army for the usual reasons a 19-year-old would: a $5,000 signing bonus and promises of health coverage and college aid. Four years later, he's touring the country in a bus run by the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and speaking largely to student audiences — many of them students of color — in schools heavily recruited by the military. He's also fulfilling the opportunity the military promised him and then reneged — the chance to reconstruct infrastructure for a devastated population — not in Iraq, but in New Orleans, where IVAW members have an ongoing cleanup project to rehabilitate homes flooded in Hurricane Katrina.

“There’s not a day that goes by without me thinking about the 500,000 Iraqis and 3,000 Americans who have died. I support the troops but oppose the war. I want my friends home so I don’t have to question anymore. I don’t believe in the Bush administration. One minute I’m looked at as a hero, and the next as a traitor. It’s difficult for me to understand that kind of logic.”

Iraq Veterans Against the War | San Diego Pablo Paredes Coverage: 1 2 3 4 5
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The FBI, Cell Phones and You
san diego indymedia volunteer and repost from CNET,

I am not a paranoid conspiracy theorist. I do not believe the twin towers fell because Dick Cheney planted explosives in them. I do not think the Kennedys were assassinated by space aliens. But I have one request: before you read another word of this story out loud to yourself or your friends, TAKE THE F*N BATTERY OUT OF YOUR CELL PHONE!

Let me explain. We all know that the NSA is monitoring our phone conversations and reading our e-mails, without warrants or oversight or any of that messy red tape, because, any one of us, especially if we have a tendency to question the corporate security state, could at any time turn into a TERRORIST. We also know that the FBI as well as local security forces have been infiltrating groups who advocate for peace, animals and the Earth, because, well, you know. These actions combined with the recently revealed Automated Targeting System and numerous other programs have led most people to self-regulate their speech and actions, to avoid the possibility of being branded an eco-terrorist (green scare), a potential presidential assassin or an Islamic terrorist.

But to the clever geeks at the FBI, this climate of fear and paranoia simply isn't enough. And so they, in partnership with their corporate collaborators, have devised a way to listen to our conversations using cell phones. But, you say, the NSA is already doing that! No, the FBI is listening to you even when you aren't talking to someone using your cell phone. What? As revealed in a judge's ruling related to investigation of the feds' competitors, the Mafia, the FBI's eggheads have figured out how to reprogram your phone, without ever having access to it, so that they can activate the microphone and listen by calling your phone from anywhere, without you having a clue. OK, you say, I will just turn off my phone. Nope. Many models of phones (thank you Verizon!) can be turned on remotely, again, without a trace.

And so all of us who have cell phones are wired directly to the den of thieves. Even amongst trusted friends, we have to "watch what we say, watch what we do." The only ways to defeat this intrusion are to take the battery out of your cell phone, leave your phone at home, or responsibly recycle it.

Welcome to homeland insecurity. How can we help you?

Original Report from CNET

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
The Ink and Paper Collective,

Young political activists today face a complicated political climate. Change is possible, but not easy. What lessons, both good and bad, can we learn from the social movements of the 1960s to make sure our contemporary activism does not go in vain?

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The Shortwave Report 12/8 ¡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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The Marla Ruzicka Story -- The *Real* Story
by Christian Parenti (posted by JA),

No one who was a threat -- let alone any real threat -- to the U.S. imperialist war machine would ever be gushingly and pervasively celebrated by it, the President, the Congress, imperialist politicians, and the military, no less, as well as the political establishment's corporate media. Marla Ruzicka -- even posing for pictures on top of tanks and in group hugs with gun-posing American soldiers, let alone using the war and exploiting the misery of the Iraqi people to parlay that into a hoped-for lucrative cushy position inside the Pentagon or State Department, feathering her nest and her new career with military-industrial complex money (yet still a pittance of that spent on the bombs of war) -- served as a willing PR front for that machine. Furthermore, she was willing to collect and *give* that information directly to the US *military*, providing it with, in effect, valuable intelligence on the Iraqi people (how many males and females of which ages, including possible fighting age, in each family, and what their resources and professional/community positions were, perhaps a community critic of the US war, maybe an intellectual, a journalist, a teacher, or a doctor/nurse who could patch up Iraqi wounded resistace fighters, and who in each family might have gotten shot -- perhaps a resistance member? -- by the US military) under the guise of humanitarian relief. Here is what progressive journalist Christian Parenti had to say about the darling of the U.S. imperialist military machine:
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News thats fit to print...on toilet paper
everardo carvajal,

"Hot document" from Faux News reveals savvy hyperbole-free rigorous journalism, not.
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The Shortwave Report 12/1/ ¡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, Cuba, China, and Russia.
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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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Wal-Mart Burns at the Weirdo Art Gallery
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The painting is called "Let It Be," and it shows the front of a Wal-Mart with flames billowing from the back of the building. It's just one of the many striking images created by local artist Kelly Hutchinson and on display at his Fish Out of Water Weirdo Art Gallery, 2925 Lincoln Avenue just off 30th Street in North Park. Another painting in the show features President Bush eating a cake with an American flag stuck in it, in a field of sheep (representing the people who voted for him), while working people are shoveling excrement in front of him. Though Hutchinson insists his gallery isn't meant to be political but "fun," his convictions come through in much of his work. See his pieces at the gallery's official opening, December 9 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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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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Foundation Awards Media Justice Grants
San Diego Foundation for Change,

Grants to be used in supporting local efforts to expand the Media Justice movement across the San Diego/Tijuana region
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The Shortwave Report 11/24 ¡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, Spain, and Russia.
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Presentacion de Video-Taller (Inspirado por l
mateo,

Te interesa nuevas formas de conectar los movimientos sociales globales con el trabajo que estan haciendo en tu barrio? Fijate este nuevo video sobre los piqueteros Argentinos. Esta dividido en seciones de 8 minutos para usar en talleres chispeando conversacion sobre las metas, tacticas y estrategias de tus proyectos aca. Y, es gratis.
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Release of Free Video Workshop (Inspired by A
Matt,

Interested in new ways to connect inspiring international social movements with the work going on in your community? Check out this new video featuring behind the scenes interviews and footage with Argentina's piquetero movements. The video is divided into short sections designed for use in workshops to spark conversation about the tactics, goals and strategies of your projects. And, it’s free.
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Video: Nov 21 VAPPOR OAXACA Camp Press Conference
san diego indymedia volunteer,

At a press conference on Tuesday, November 21, VAPPOR OAXACA, the group that has been maintaining the Oaxaca Solidarity Camp outside the Mexican Consulate in San Diego, announced that the Camp would move to Chican@ Perk to continue its mission of bringing attention to the repression in Oaxaca and the courageous resistance of the people.

Video: 8 min 20 sec, includes statement to press (espanol), phone call to Radio Universidad by Christy Will, Brad Will's sister (english and espanol), and dismantling of the Camp.
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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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Progressive S.D. Hosts Post-Election Forum
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Progressive San Diego hosted a forum November 18 on "Lessons Learned" from the November 7 election, featuring three defeated local candidates — Francine Busby, Richard Barrera and Lorena Gonzalez — as well as Laura Hunter of the Environmental Health Coalition, Jess Durfee of the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee and Scott Lewis of the Voice of San Diego Web site. The focus was less on the Democrats' national triumph and more on the defeats at the state and local level — particularly the 3 to 1 defeat of the clean-elections initiative, Proposition 89, statewide and the 2 to 1 passage of Proposition C, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders' bid to privatize city services.
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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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DOUBLE LIFE COP
Pierre Talley,

HERE YOU HAVE CORPORAL MICHAEL HEARNE OF THE CAMDEN,NEW JERSEY POLICE DEPARTMENT PRETENDING TO BE A STAND UP GUY BY DAY WHILE COMMITTING VARIOUS CRIMES AT NIGHT.
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The Shortwave Report 11/17 ¡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. Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.
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