Sonia Nazario Brings Enrique's Journey to Lif
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Los Angeles Times reporter Sonia Nazario spoke at the San Diego Public Library February 12 to promote her book "Enrique's Journey," about a 17-year-old Honduran boy who successfully journeyed from his native country through Mexico to reach his mother, who had left him behind on her own journey to the U.S. 12 years earlier. Sonia later duplicated Enrique's dangerous journey through Mexico by stowing away on the tops of freight trains, and her book puts a human face on the controversial issue of undocumented immigratio. At the same time, she questions the conventional wisdom on both sides of the immigration debate and says the only long-term solution is to improve the economies and job opportunities in Central American countries so their citizens won't want to immigrate.
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Video-chronicle: Demonstration supporting CSO
La Plataforma,

Last february 24th 1000 people participated in a demonstration for the defense of the CSO Eskuela Taller and the squatters and ocuppied spaces. The mobilization claimed self-organization, self-management, and autonomy as fighting weapons against institutional repression and capitalism.
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San Diego Indymedia Website Redesign Meeting Notes
san diego indymedia volunteer,

On thursday, february 15, san diego indymedia held its first open meeting to plan and work on redesigning the sdimc website using drupal. The discussions covered:

----What is Drupal?
Drupal is an open source content management system...
----Framework for how we are going to redesign the website
nonhierarchical, skill share oriented, emphasize keeping everyone involved over making it happen fast or in the optimal manner....
----What will the website look like/what do we want?
We spent a lot of time talking about what we want the front page of the website to look like, including looking at some indymedia websites that are using drupal (urbana-champaign, quebec, melbourne, columbus, tasmania, malta, belgium, climate, york). Here are some of the things that popped out of our stream of consciousness discussion (please comment below or come to a meeting!). -website too dark...
----List of initial tasks
-post notes from meeting (ok, well, ummm)...
----Meeting evaluation
Noted that it would be useful to take into account that people have different preferred modes for learning... --Read More of the Meeting Notes--

NEXT MEETING:
Thursday, March 1 8PM
The Other Side Cafe
4096 30th Street North Park

Links: San Diego Indymedia in Transition | Drupal | Drupal on wikipedia | PHP on wikipedia | mysql on wikipedia | postgresql on wikipedia
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The Shortwave Report 2/23 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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The Shortwave Report 2/16 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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San Diego Indymedia in Transition
four san diego indymedia volunteers,

Los voluntarios del Centro de Medios Independientes de San Diego están dando inicio a un proyecto de un año para remodelar el portal de Indymedia San Diego y promover nuestros vínculos con grupos activistas y comunitarios cuyas voces no se escuchan lo suficiente en la región fronteriza Tijuana-San Diego.
Volunteers with the San Diego Independent Media Center have embarked on a year long effort to revamp the SDIMC website and our relationship to activist groups and underrepresented communities in the San Diego/Tijuana border region

Tentativamente nuestras prioridades iniciales incluyen:
--La Actualización del Portal de SDIMC para darle un mejor servicio a nuestros participantes y lectores, al permitir que un mayor número de voluntarios tenga acceso a su mantenimiento técnico.
--Mejorar el Acceso al portal para quienes tienen poco o ningún acceso al Internet, generando versiones impresas y en audio, y facilitando contribuciones de audio y por escrito.
--Dirigirnos hacia un Portal Bilingüe promoviendo un gran número de contribuciones en español y dando asistencia e incentivos para que nuestros lectores y voluntarios bilingües participen haciendo traducciones.
--Establecer Mejores Enlaces con Grupos Activistas y Comunitarios para que todos los eventos significativos que ocurren en nuestra región y que afectan a nuestros lectores se anuncien y reciban cobertura y reportajes.
Our tentative initial priorities include:
--Upgrading the SDIMC Website so that it better serves our contributors and readers and so its technical maintenance is accessible to a broader range of volunteers.
--Improving Accessibility to reading and contributing to the website for those who might have episodic or no internet access, by generating print and audio versions of the website, and by facilitating audio and written submissions.
--Moving Towards a Bilingual Website by providing assistance to and incentives for our bilingual readers/volunteers to help with translations, and by encouraging a broader range of spanish language submissions.
--Establishing Better Connections with Activist and Community Groups so that all significant events in the region affecting our readers are announced/reported on.

Para que esto suceda, necesitamos que nos digas qué te parece lo más relevante y cómo ponerlo en práctica. Invitamos tus comentarios y sugerencias aquí al final de este artículo, o escribiéndonos a imc-sd ARROBA lists PUNTO indymedia PUNTO org, o con tu asistencia a los foros que tendremos durante el año.
To make this happen, we need your input on what to do and how to do it, as well as your help with carrying it out. We welcome your comments and suggestions, as comments to this article, as e-mails to us at imc-sd AT lists d0T indymedia d0T org, or as participation in media forums to be conducted later in the year.

El primer paso será re-diseñar el portal, un proceso que deseamos sea lo más accesible posible a personas con una amplia diversidad intereses y aptitudes técnicas. Te invitamos a nuestra primera reunión de planificación este jueves:
15 de febrero a las 6:30 pm en
The Other Side Café Calle 30 # 4096 en el área de North Park en San Diego
The first step will involve redesign of the SDIMC website, a process that we plan to make as open as possible to people with a broad range of interests and technical skills. Join us at the first planning meeting:
Thursday, February 15, 6:30PM
The Other Side Cafe, 4096 30th in North Park

El nuevo portal incluirá más opciones para multi-medios, un calendario integrado de eventos y anuncios, asimismo como blogs para contribuyentes frecuentes.
The new website eventually will include more multimedia options, an embedded event calendar/event announcements and blogs for all frequent contributors.

Se le invita a quienes asistirán a la reunión a repasar estos artículos previamente: / Participants are invited to check out the following articles prior to the meeting:
drupal website | drupal handbooks | drupal for indymedia: 1, 2 | algunos IMCs que usan drupal: / some IMCs using drupal: urbana-champaign, quebec, melbourne, columbus, tasmania, malta, belgium, climate, york.
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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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THE OPPORTUNITY CRISIS
Max Chamberlain,

The Opportunity Crisis - Consuming The Citizen

What is American Culture? What are its traditions and values? And what ideals still exist at its core today?


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“Bring Their Buddies Home” Events 2/19
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Anti-war activist and former Congressional candidate Jeeni Criscenzo has called for "Bring Their Buddies Home" events all over the country on Presidents' Day, February 19. The events are silent vigils — Criscenzo calls them "works of art" — that highlight the human cost of the war by showcasing the death toll. For more information, visit her Web site at www.bringtheirbuddieshome.com
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Daniel Ellsberg Speaks in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg spoke in San Diego as part of the nationwide anti-war mobilization on January 27 and pleaded with individuals in the government now who are privy to Bush's plans to escalate the war in Iraq and start a new one against Iran to release their secret information now instead of waiting until it's too late to stop these new wars. Ellsberg also said the only chance we have of stopping the war in Iraq is to build a popular groundswell for impeaching Bush and Cheney in the next two years; after the 2008 election, even if a Democrat wins, the political pressures on the new administration will more likely push it in the direction of continuing rather than ending the war.
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Shortwave Report (February 9)
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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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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List of Suspect 9/11 Videos
media critic,

Some of the best-known 9/11 "truth" videos contain some very serious flaws.
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SIGN THE PETITION NOW!
Paul King,

FILMMAKERS & AUDIENCES:
PETITION THE MPAA FOR BETTER RATINGS!

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), a trade association, defines itself "as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture industry." But its rating system for films impacts much more than the industry. MPAA ratings affect a film's distribution and thus its financial success; this, in turn, limits what kinds of movies get made and what people get to see at the local movie theater.

The rating system was designed to provide information to parents and movie-goers, but it too often results in arbitrary, inconsistent, and unreasonable decisions, which chill filmmakers' creative freedom and keep films away from audiences.
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The Shortwave Report 2/2 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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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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San Diego’s Anti-War Protest 1/27/07
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine (abstract added by sdimc volunteer),

An estimated 1500 protesters attended an anti-war demonstration at Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego on Saturday aimed at the ongoing occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration's recent announcement of a 'surge,' and expectations of an impending attack on Iran. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, spoke at the rally and then the protesters marched through the Gaslamp along the usual route.

The San Diego demonstration paralleled numerous demonstrations across the country, including a United for Peace and Justice protest in Washington, DC, which drew between tens of thousands and 500,000

Via US-IMC:
From the DC-IMC Newswire: Hundreds of Thousands Put Impeachment Back On the Table | Break Way March Rushes Capitol Building | Protestors lay siege to US Capitol, smash window at military recruiter | Radical Youth Contingent and Students for a Democratic Society March Overview | Photos: 1 | 2 | Audio

Other Reports: Boston | Los Angeles | Oklahoma: 1, 2 | Olympia, WA | Oregon City | Portland, OR | Sacramento, CA | San Francisco | Seattle | Vancouver, WA
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The Shortwave Report 1/19 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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Don McEvoy Remembers Martin Luther King
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

At the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest, Don McEvoy, a former minister and close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his reminiscences as part of a highly theatrical program including a church choir and soloist. McEvoy’s presentation sought to humanize King by mentioning his sense of humor, his status as family man (the King and McEvoy families frequently socialized together and integrated Atlanta's swimming pools on the first day they were reopened), his ability to reach out to people across not only color but class lines, and the reactions to his death.
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Iraq War Kills U.S. Democracy
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

President Bush's willful disregard of the results of the November elections, in which millions of Americans voted for Democrats for the House and Senate largely to demand an end to the war in Iraq, and his insistence on escalating it with a so-called "surge" of 20,000 additional troops, shows that, far from bringing democracy to Iraq, the war is destroying it in the U.S.
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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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La represión continúa.
vAPPOroaxaca.,

La desesperación de la gente, ante el clima de terror imperante, se percibe claramente en esta carta. La dignidad por continuar en una lucha justa, es indoblegable. La burla que pretende hacer el NOGOBERNADOR, no se consumará. En caso de que se llegara el día de que ya nadie quisiera luchar por lo que pasa en Oaxaca,-Entonces se levantaran las piedras-.
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Podchef Neal Foley, Gastrocast
small WORLD Podcast,

Gastrocast is a podcast about cooking, food, and the politics of what we eat.
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The Shortwave Report 1/12 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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Bush's Domestic Assassination Team Fingered
Tom Heneghan,

International Intelligence Expert Tom Heneghan outs the names of assassination teams and the treasonous conspiracy of FBI Directors Louis Freeh and Robert Mueller in the training of Mohamed Atta at Venice, Florida flight school.
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The Spirit of Tom Paine
Stephen Lendman,

The corrupted corporate media defiles the spirit of Tom Paine
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The Shortwave Report 1/5 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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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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The Shortwave Report 12/29 ¡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, Russia, and Cuba.
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Sexual Abuse and Harassment In The Military
Dorothy Mackey,

I have two deadlines:
1st deadline: NEED AIR NATIONAL GUARD WOMEN OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND HARASSMENT:

2nd DEADLINE: ALL MILITARY SERVICES MEN AND WOMEN OF SEXUAL ABUSE, HARASSMENT -SYSTEM FAILED THEM.

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