Post Your Stories by TELEPHONE to the San Diego Indymedia HOTLINE
two san diego indymedia volunteers,

You can now post stories to San Diego Indymedia using a telephone. This might come in handy if your access to the internet is spotty, if you are at an event and want to report the information fast or while you remember it, or if you just can't face spending more time in front of the computer.

Here's how to telepost:
1 - Call the San Diego Indymedia Hotline: *67.619.tHreeSeVeNEiGhT.OHnInEFouRSiX
2 - Your call will be answered by our dedicated Indybot - your cue to start is the word "Cool" (followed by a beep)
3 - Speak loud and clear. Give the title of your story first, then the author (feel free to make something up!), and then your story. You have a total of 2 minutes after the beep sounds before the Indybot hangs up on you.
4 - The Indybot will forward the story to a San Diego Indymedia volunteer. It should appear on the website as an audio file with a short summary within 12-24 hours (subject to the same procedures for hiding offensive material as for written posts). For stories that are candidates for features, we might include a partial or full transcript. During important events, the delay might be considerably shortened. We expect to automate many aspects of this process with our upcoming software upgrade later this year.
5 - Please contact us by leaving a message on the Hotline or at imc dAsh sd aT lists d0T indymedia d0T org if you have any questions.

San Diego Indymedia Hotline: *67.619.tHreeSeVeNEiGhT.OHnInEFouRSiX

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The Shortwave Report 4/20/07 ¡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, and Russia.
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Save Internet Radio Now!!!
long live free net radio!,

The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC has more than tripled the royalty rates for webcasters and left unchanged they will kill Internet radio. These exorbitant rates go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). Without Congressional action the majority of webcasters will go bankrupt and silent on this date. We need your help. Please take a moment to send a letter to your member of Congress to keep Net radio from being silenced.

Sign the petition NOW:
 http://capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/home/
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New video: CSOMilano 0.1
La Plataforma,

A group of activists from the "8 de Marzo" collective squattered the old wedding hall "Milano". One week later, and one hour before starting a neigbourhood afternoon snack organized for the neighbours and local people as a part of the "presentation working days", the police sealed the building and started a pressure campaign trying to nip the project in the bud before it could grow.
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Fight for Justice Campaign
posted by F Espinoza,

While in the name of the fight against terrorism, hundreds of thousands of people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and others - arbitrarily detained - are tortured in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the United States government protects the most notorious terrorist in this hemisphere...
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Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany
Fountainhead,

An international, intercultural organization based in Berlin Germany producing an annual film festival, publications, television programming & cultural events.
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The Shortwave Report 4/13/06 ¡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 Release of Terrorist Posada Carriles
posted by F Espinoza,

George W. Bush is undoubtedly the most genuine representative of a system of terror forced on the world by the technological, economic and political superiority of the most powerful country known to this planet.
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Grassroots Film Project Seeks Footage
pumpkinhead,

We are the Think Peace Documentary Project, a non-profit film project based in Vancouver, BC, Canada and we are looking for video footage.
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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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notes from new palestine:revolution overturns
Ytzhak,

what is being done is selling the masses capitalism and calling it all liberation and now revolution -- b.u.t. what it really is is using our peoples -- a few select -- from oprah to jay z and obama as a tool to colonize afrika and our minds for the masters. it works well for the bourgeois classes -- for it advances their cause, class and position and therefore them = the 10 to 1% -- for them it is a revolution -- one of privilege and capital and not of movement and the masses.
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S. Brian Willson’s Environmental Apocalypse
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

S. Brian Willson’s greatest claim to fame is having been run over by a munitions train he was trying to block at a direct-action demonstration nearly 20 years ago, and having lost his legs in the process — but that's not what he came to San Diego to talk about April 2 at the Church of the Brethren. Instead, he talked about his background as a Viet Nam veteran, his growing resistance to authority of all kinds, and his vision of a cooperative commonwealth that he says humans will HAVE to accept once global warming unleashes an environmental apocalypse that will destroy capitalism and most, if not all, of the current human population.
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The Shortwave Report 4/6 ¡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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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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About US Terrorism Against CUBA...
posted by F Espinoza,

Lecture series about US Terrorism Against CUBA and The Case of the Cuban Five...


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The Shortwave Report 3/30 ¡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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Chalmers Johnson/Imperialism vs. Democracy
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Retired UCSD professor Chalmers Johnson spoke at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest March 23 and gave an overall summary of his most recent book, "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic." Johnson argues that America's continuing status as an imperialist power and in particular its military adventurism and maintenance of a network of at least 737 military bases around the world is incompatible with any commitment to democracy. Either America will remain a republic or remain an empire; it cannot do both, Johnson says.
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The internet mass-medias in Acapulco
noticiero de acapulco,

The Acapulco government say that the internet medias are not medias
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March in New York & Los Angeles, April 7
posted by F Espinoza,

March in New York & Los Angeles, April 7

Hands off Cuba, Venezuela & Bolivia!

and in

April 1 (Sun)
Santa Ana, CA

Orange County Forum on the Cuban Five
Free the Cuban Five! Stop Attacks on Cuba!


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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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The Shortwave Report 3/23 ¡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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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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Soviet-style Psych in Works For Artist's Way?
crux hunter,

We are systematically moved to think in ways of seeing things which, if we understood, we would realize are against our own interests. Chomsky calls this "engineering of opinion". In the context of "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" now being deployed upon many many children, the term and ideology supposedly encapsulating creative "crazy-*makers*" spells Soviety-style psychiatry in the USA. That is, containment and suppression of dissent.
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The Shortwave Report 3/16 ¡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. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
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El Libertario # 49: pasión, razón, acción...
CRA - El Libertario, Venezuela,

* Está en circulación el mas reciente número de la publicación mas regular y mas ampliamente difundida del anarquismo latinoamericano actual, que tras 12 años de existencia ininterrumpida se viene erigiendo como una referencia dentro de la escena radical del continente.

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Wanna get involved in pirate radio?!
teenage mutant ninja radio,

The lovely ninjas at 106.9fm are looking for a home. We have lovely silk black ninja outfits and like to bake mutant cakes. But, we need a home to put our antenna on. IF you want to get involved in supporting pirate radio in san diego, email us at ninjaradiosd At riseup (d0t] net.

Related: 106.9FM Given Notice of $10,000 Fine | San Diego Escalates its War on Free Speech: Free Radio San Diego 96.9 Raided
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The Shortwave Report 3/9 ¡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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Irish Elections and Abstentionism for Freedom
Saer,

A Video Discussion regarding elections and abstentionism as principle for Irish Freedom activists.
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The Shortwave Report 3/2 ¡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. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
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Big Brother Is Reading Your E-Mail
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

For almost a year it's been known that, in addition to tapping billions of phone calls made in the U.S., the federal government's so-called "Terrorist Surveillance Program" has also been eavesdropping on people's e-mails. If you use AT&T as your Internet service provider, or if your e-mails ever go through AT&T's network (which is just about everybody in San Diego and southern California), the government has a copy. You shouldn't be so naive as to expect your Internet communications to be private, not when we're ruled by a government that hates the very concept of privacy as much as the Bush administration does. Instead, if you wouldn't shout it out on a street corner for everyone to hear, don't write it in an e-mail or post it on line.
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