Queer Democrats Question Need for Clean Elections Reform
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,
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The San Diego Alliance for Clean Elections gave a presentation to the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club April 25 on their proposed public-financing initiative for San Diego Mayor and City Council elections. Supporters claimed it will reduce the influence of developers, sports-team owners and other business interests on city elections. But many club members questioned the initiative. They thought it would be too easy for independent candidates to get on the ballot, deprive progressive candidates of the means to raise enough money to win elections and eliminate the role of PACs representing labor, environmentalists, feminists and Queers.
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County Registrar Sally McPherson Speaks to S.D. Demo Club
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,
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Sally McPherson, Registrar of Voters for San Diego County, spoke to the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club April 25 and explained the county will be replacing the old Votomatic punchcard system source of the infamous chads that plagued the 2000 Florida election with touchscreen computers for polling places and optically scanned ballots for absentee voters. She also confirmed that when the major-party monopoly on ballot access breaks down as it did in November 1992 when H. Ross Perot ran a strong third-party campaign for President and in 1998 and 2000 when California had its short-lived open primary system in place voter turnout goes up.
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Overthrowing Capitalist Globalization
rosa,
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How will the revolution in the U.S. help overthrow of capitalist globalization? How will the revolutionary movement in the U.S. help end the long-standing crimes of the current world order: including the domination of one nation by another, the exploitation of whole regions of the world, exploitation of natural resources, environmental rape and the robbery of unequal trade? The following excerpts from the Draft Programme of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA. The full text is posted on the Programme section of the discussion website http://2changetheworld.info
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The Jenin Massacre Gallery
Storm Bear Williams,
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We keep hearing the comforting stories on the nightly news, assuring us that no massacre occurred in Jenin. The U.N. murmurs in soft, loving tones in an effort to convince us that no massacre ever happened and it was all Palestinian propaganda. Sadly, the photos tell a different story.
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Culture of Hate- Film Screening with Director Lee Harvey.
SDIMC,
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This month we have a special second film night. Join us on May 9 to view this documentary about Racism in Lakeside and elsewhere in San Diego. What are the connections between the ruination of the environment and the ruination of people? Come and participate in this panel discussion.
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On Int'l Workers Day, AS SDSU Pledges their Support for MV Hilton Workers
Students for Economic Justice,
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AFTER HUNDREDS RALLY WITH DOLORES HUERTA, CO-FOUNDER OF THE UFW WITH CESAR CHAVEZ, SDSU STUDENT GOVERNMENT PASS A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE MISSION VALLEY HILTON BOYCOTT UNDER CURRENT PROSECUTION AND WITH SDSU AS ONE OF MISSION VALLEY HILTON'S LARGEST CLIENT, SDSU A.S. PLEDGES THEIR SUPPORT FOR MISSION VALLEY HILTON WORKERS ON INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY.
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Political Repression in Baja California
Globalifobicos,
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April 13th marks (marked) the 14th anniversary of the Maclovio Rojas community in Tijuana. This year the celebration is(was) tainted by threats of repression that affect not only the leaders of Maclovio Rojas, but also other social movements in Baja California. Several organizations are proposing the creation of a coalition against repression. The following document seeks to raise awareness about the issue and support the creation of this coalition.
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Rick Jahnkow Recalls Connie Stay Home Campaign at IMC Film Showing May 14
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,
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Veteran San Diego peace activist Rick Jahnkow participated in the Connie Stay Home campaign in 1971, an effort to poll San Diegans on whether they thought the U.S.S. Constellation should be permitted to sail to Vietnam and launch planes for bombing raids against the Vietnamese people. After over three decades of work with Project YANO (Youth and Non-Military Opportunities) and other peace groups, Jahnkow will relive the Connie Stay Home poll at the San Diego IMCs History of San Diego Activism film night Tuesday, May 14, 7 p.m. at 4862 Voltaire, Ocean Beach, along with a rare showing of a 1971 film about the campaign.
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Exoticas Steven Spangler: Help Him Save His Little Bit of Paradise
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,
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Over the past 20 years, Steven Spangler and his associates have created a little slice of botanical paradise at Exotica Rare Fruit Nursery near Vista in North County. Now their achievement is threatened by a developer who has bought half their land and plans to rip out 375 species of plants and level the ground to build a mini-storage complex. Interviewed in mid-April at Exoticas Paradise Festival, Spangler explained his vision of Exotica and the importance of winning his uphill battle to preserve it, creating similar farms worldwide and moving human existence back towards its original harmony with nature.
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MayDay
MaoTzu,
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In the absence of any evidence linking them to the bomb, the "Chicago Eight" were tried solely on the basis of their political beliefs. All eight were sentenced to death; most were eventually executed.
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Corporate America and Israeli Occupation
Sam Bahour,
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Corporate America and corporate boardrooms across the globe wield enormous political influence. It may in fact be argued that in today's material world corporate interests are the primary motivating factors for political action. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that power, for a multitude of reasons, has been unjustly mobilized to help sustain 35 years of an illegal Israeli military and economic domination of the Palestinian people.
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Rebuilding the global heroin trade
Cyberista,
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Knowing--and perhaps caring--very little about 9/11, the US Government has used the terror attacks as a pretext for regaining control of the heroin industry from the Taliban regime that nearly destroyed it long before 9/11.
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part 2 of MARIO AFRICA interview with photo-journalist Hans Bennett
Hans Bennett,
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This is the final part of a week-long photoessay series documenting the multitude of protesters gathered in Washington, DC on April 20, 2002. Part four featured the first part of Hans Bennetts interview with Mario Africa, founder of AWOL magazine. Here is the last half of the interview as well as Hans This is What a Police State Looks Like!, featuring photos from assorted demonstrations.
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Expand Critical Mass!
DeathToCars,
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We need to expand the Critical Mass Movement to include pedestrians, transit users, even skate-boarders and scooter-users!
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March/Rally for VENEZUELA in Los Angeles!
Campus Progressive,
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Support Venezuelans in the defense of their democaratically elected government and President Hugo Chavez. Let big business and the Bush Administration know that you will no longer tolerate our government's support in overthrowing democratically elected governments.
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