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Free Speech with reg e gaines in Balboa Park
Michael Klam,
The Museum of the Living Artist invites writers and artists to present their visual and written/spoken work at Poetry and Art on Wednesday, May 17, 2006. The free speech quarterly event at the San Diego Art Institute will feature special guest performers reg e gaines, author, playwright and director, and San Diego’s top competition (slam) poets, including Rudy Francisco, Viet Mai, Whitney Lawrence, Brian DeBenedictus, and Sunflower Dubois.
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Zapatista! the Movie at Voz Alta, Wed, Apr 26 7pm
sdimc,
UPDATE: Correction on times. The Tactical Ice Cream Unit will be on hand from 7-8pm, with a presentation from 7:00-7:30. The film will start at 7:30pm.
From June 17-19th, Delegate Zero of the Zapatistas will be coming to Tijuana as part of La Otra Campana. People will converge on San Diego and Tijuana from all over the US for this historical opportuniy to meet the Zapatistas first hand and take part in La Otra Campana, a new campaign aimed at radically transforming politics through coordination of groups on the left organizing outside of electoral politics against capitalism. A member of the o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective will speak about the plans for June and what you can do to help!
FILM SCREENING, Wednesday, April 26, 2006: ZAPATISTA! is an inspiring first-hand account of a struggle that will challenge the way you think about the world. Armed with sticks and words against a 'First World' military, the Zapatistas were able to hold their ground. Ignored by a mainstream press, the Zapatistas have used poems, children's stories, videos, and the internet, to permanently transform the political imagination of a nation.
The film starts at 7:00pm at Voz Alta on 1544 Broadway, downtown San Diego. $3-$5 donation, light refreshments. Learn more at:  http://www.bignoisefilms.com/zap
Also, the Tactical Ice Cream Unit will be on hand as part of the Center for Tactical Magic's West Coast tour! The Tactical Ice Cream Unit (TICU) rolls through the city in an act of intervention that replaces cold stares with frosty treats and nourishing knowledge. Combining a number of successful activist strategies (Food-Not-Bombs, Copwatch, Indymedia, infoshops, etc) into one mega-mobile, the TICU is the Voltron-like alter-ego of the cops' mobile command center. Learn more at http://www.tacticalmagic.org
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4/28 Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera
Bob,
Punk Rock Opera
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iMigrate: May 1st 2006: General Strike | Huelga General | Boycott | Walkout | Buy Nothing | Sell Nothing
Delete The Border,
May 1st 2006: General Strike | Huelga General | Boycott | Walkout | Buy Nothing | Sell Nothing
graphic by schock at riseup d0t net
Quick on the heels of the massive March 25th mobilizations and the student walkouts during the following week, April 10th was a historic day of action for immigrant rights across the USA. Tens of thousands of people took the streets in Los Angeles [ 1 | 2 ] and in Santa Ana, while 5,000 marched in St. Louis and 10,000 raised their voices in the largest march in Fresno's history. San Diego also made history with a march of up to 100,000 people on April 9th. There were mobilizations in the Bay Area, in Tennessee, in Rochester, NY, and in DC. In Portland, up to 8,000 marched, while thousands gathered in Love Park in Philly. Allies mobilized in Pittsburgh. In Arizona, people were on the move in Flagstaff. There were major marches and actions in NYC and Boston, and Houston Indymedia provided a blow by blow of actions in Texas. In Puerto Rico, hundreds took the streets of Barrio Obrero. (These amazing stories are just a small sample of coverage of April 10th actions across the country; for more go to your local IMC.) Congress has been forced to backpeddle on brutal anti-immigrant legislation, but they are nowhere near to meeting the demands of the movement, especially amnesty for all. So the movement for immigrant justice keeps rising, with more major actions planned in the coming weeks: April 15th is a student day of action, and May 1st will be a historic day of action, with calls for a general strike, boycott, no sales or purchases, walkouts, marches, and actions in financial centers and at anti-immigrant corporations throughout the country.
A10 Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 Videos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Radio: WBAI
Background: March 25th | April 10 | US Indymedia | New American Opportunity Campaign | Immigrant Solidarity Network's No HR 4437 site | National Council of La Raza | El Tecolote | AFSC | Bay Area Immigrant RIghts Coalition | The film "A Day Without a Mexican" | San Joaquin Valley Peace and Freedom Party | La película "Un día sin mexicanos"
Upcoming Actions: April 15th | Legal info for students who walk out | May 1st: Call to Action | IWW joins call for General Strike | Chicago Immigrant Workers to march on May Day
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National Conference on Academic Freedom--UCSD
Scott Boehm,
STOP THE ASSAULT ON HIGHER EDUCATION, ACADEMIC FREEDOM & FREE SPEECH!
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Student action at Patrick Henry High School
Dignidad and Junebug,
Patrick Henry High School students excersized their rights by protesting HR4437. While some students left school grounds for Chicano Park, others walked to the school's "Free-Speech zone". Once again however, rights were violated as students were held up and harassed by educators, admistrators, and police.
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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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Photos from Friday Walkouts and March 2
lotu5,
more photos, please post your own photos, stories and comments...
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Photos from Friday Walkouts and March
lotu5,
photos. please add your own photos, stories and comments!
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Reportback from Friday's Student March
lotu5,
A 6,000 strong march of mostly students culminated a week of student walkouts. The march went through barrio logan and sherman heights. Many bystanders showed support, standing on their porches or on top of buildings, waving mexican flags. Lots of people from the community joined the march as it went by.
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Schools Shut Down Today, Massive Walkouts Friday
sd indymedia,
UPDATE 12:01PM : Legal support information for students walking out. Please distribute widely!
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114765.shtml
12:16PM : For more info about Santa Cruz and the central coast walkouts see http://www.indybay.org/santacruz/
3:08PM : Arrests and police violence occurring, call the SDPD and demand an end to the violence on students from Memorial Jr. High
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114779.shtml
The SD Union Tribune is reporting today: "Oceanside middle and high schools were ordered closed for the rest of the week and other campuses around the region were bracing for a fourth day of student protests over proposed revisions to federal immigration laws.
The Oceanside district made the decision to close schools after 250 student protesters faced off with police officers in a melee Wednesday at Oceanside High. The closure will affect around 10,000 students.
Some students hurled food, milk cartons and plastic bottles at officers, prompting law enforcement to shoot pellets filled with pepper spray at the crowd's feet, police said.
Three boys threw chunks of concrete at officers and were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, Oceanside Sgt. Leonard Mata said...
About 2,000 San Diego students engaged in marches and demonstrations over proposed immigration reforms from about a dozen San Diego schools on Wednesday, an increase from around 1,200 on Tuesday, San Diego Police Assistant Chief Bill Maheu said."
Walkouts continued thursday in Arizona and Texas, with hundreds of students marching through El Paso and Tuscon and blocking traffic. Students continue to organize themselves using flyers and word of mouth as schools are restricting cell phone usage. 26 students were arrested in Houston this morning. At Lamar high school in Houston, students protested inside of school.
Few students walked out in LA today, but there are still huge walkouts planned tomorrow, including high schools and universities. There have been callls put out for massive student sit-ins on April 4th.
For more accounts of this beautiful nationwide uprising, involving around 3 million people, see also:
Immigrants rising! A chronology and account of events and people so far...
http://deletetheborder.org/node/829
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Police Brutality Against Students Walking Out
sd indymedia,
UPDATE: A "Student Unity Meeting" has been called for Friday at 5pm in front of City College:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114749.shtml
There have been numerous cases of police brutality against the students walking out. These students are acting as the conscience of a nation too scared to resist the advance of fascism, in this case embodied in racist, anti-immigrant legislation. People have a responsibility to support these students and their efforts to resist HR4437. In addition to these cases, students face the violent "lockdown" tactics from schools including refusing access to bathrooms, locking classroom doors and campus gates, endangering the students.
In Escondido, over 10 students were arrested on Monday. They were pepper sprayed and one protester was thrown to the ground and received a broken nose.
Video of police violence against students in Escondido:
http://www.10news.com/video/8301924/index.html
In Carson [near Los Angeles] students from several area schools clashed with deputies outside Carson High School, resulting in three arrests by deputies...
At some point, students began throwing water bottles, apples, oranges and other objects at deputies, prompting deputies to shoot one student with a bean bag round and fire pepper spray into the crowd, said Zymkowitz.
http://presstelegram.com/news/ci_3648570
In Watsonville, in Santa Cruz County, a number of students were hit with batons.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1811814.php
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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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Walkouts Continue to Grow Wednesday
dj lotu5,
The student walkout continue today. Reports are coming in that around 6,000 students have walked out in opposition to HR4437 and the marches are heading to Chicano Park. Volunteers are needed to help document what is going on and monitor the police, as there have been incidents of police brutality against students in Escondido already.
The walkouts are spreading all over the country, with reports from all over California, Houston, Utah, Michigan, Nevada. The LA Times reports that "officials vow crackdown". Tens of thousands of students have walked out of school in opposition to anti-immigrant legislation, the criminalization of migrant people and in support of amnesty.
This report from 10:20AM: The third day of students walk outs are going strong! Hoover High students were spotted walking through North Park toward Chicano Park again. Their numbers have doubled since yesterday.
Update 12:47PM : The SD Union Tribune is reporting that 150 students who walked out in Imperial Beach from MAr Vista high were 'arrested by police and sheriff's deputies in a community park and issued citations for daytime loitering... after the group became “more rambunctious” and began blocking streets' Many corporate media reports are downplaying the walkouts today, in an attempt to not help them grow, but reports from the street indicate that today's events are larger than yesterday's.
Update 2:35PM : One emailed report says this: "I just talked with the san diego county office of education communications officer, Jim Esterbrooks. He told me that more than 1,000 students walked out today in the city of San Diego. only 500 additional in the county and that escondido, san marcos and vista did not walk out today." Some corporate reports put today's walkout figures at 1,200. These contradict this morning's reports from the street.
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Thousands of Students Protest HR4437
aymara,
Representing schools from around the city, including: Patrick Henry, Kearny, Hoover, San Diego High, Memorial Academy, Serra High, National City and City College!
Students walked out of classes and converged in Chicano Park today to protest HR4437 - a proposal that passed the House and is now before the Senate that would make undocumented immigrants felons, would make it a crime to help undocumented immigrants in a non-emergency (such as letting undocumented students attend school!!!) and would provide incentives for local law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants as well.
While estimates ranged from 1500 to 3000 throughout the day, one thing was perfectly clear: students, whether documented or not, are pissed.
More photos of the Hoover High walkout:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114700.shtml
More photos from Chicano Park:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114719.shtml
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photos from second day of student walkouts 2
dj lotu5,
more...
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photos from second day of student walkouts
dj lotu5,
photos from the chicano park rally...
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Second Day of Student Walkouts Against HR4437
dj lotu5,
Thousands of students walked out of San Diego high schools again today, converging on Chicano Park. They walked from Hoover High, Vista, Kearny Mesa and as far as Claremont Mesa and Point Loma. Add a comment with your high school and your story!
At a massive rally at Chicano Park, the students denounced HR4437, the border, la migra and the police. Spontaneous chants of "Mexico, Mexico" and "Culeros, Culeros" broke out repeatedly. The crowd was very energetic.
Although there was tension between the police and the crowd at times, I did not see any arrests made at the Chicano Park rally.
Photos: 1 | 2
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Student Walkouts and Resistance to HR4437
lotu5 and queer-j-brad,
10:00AM, 3/28 - repost from a city college student says that she saw "all of San Diego High School", what looked like thousands of students, running from school downtown. She said that the situation was very chaotic and that there looked like a strong chance of arrests being made.
The San Diego Independent Media Center website has been experiencing
technical difficulties that we hope are resolved. Access to our websites and posting has been sporadic, but is fixed now. Thank you for your patience.
STUDENT WALKOUTS, SAN DIEGO AND NATIONWIDE:
--- DJ Pepperbox of radioActive sanDiego:
This afternoon, over a thousand students from high schools and colleges
in San Diego walked out of school in protest of The Sensenbrenner-King
bill, HR4437. The students gathered at the corner of Park blvd. and
Bst, in downtown San Diego. Students then marched to Chicano park in
mass. Students from SDSU Mecha, City College's Resistencia Estudantil,
and the ISO were also present.
http://deletetheborder.org/node/818
--- In a call placed to the LAUSD an official for the district stated
that 24,680 students walked out of classes today to protest
Anti-immigrant law H.R. 4437. The official said that students from 52
separate middle schools and high schools throughout the district
have walked out. Many students have joined a rally now taking place at
city hall and numbering in the 1000s. More walkouts are expected
tomorrow.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/151812.php
--- Hundreds of San Jose high school and middle school students walked
out of their schools and gathered in front of city hall today to
protest pending immigration reforms. And in San Francisco, more than
1,000 protesters were heading into the city's main thoroughfare, Market
Street, just before noon today.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14199154.htm
--- Hundreds of boisterous Orange County youth marched north on Harbor
Blvd. toward the Anaheim Police Department protesting the proposed
ANTI-IMMIGRATION LAW.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/151814.php
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La Gran Marcha 2006, Momentum Builds
lotu5, repost from la indymedia and others,
If you've been reading LA Indymedia or listening to KPFK, you've heard about the March for Immigrants' Rights that will be taking place tomorrow, starting on Olympic and Broadway. But if you're limited to English, you probably haven't heard the non-stop promotion by virtually every popular local and nationally-syndicated Spanish-language DJ in Los Angeles. Low-ball estimates from media insiders are that 200,000 people will turn up. March organizers are scrambling to accommodate three times that many and busloads of people from across the state, from Reno and Las Vegas, from Phoenix, from Texas, from New Mexico, from Denver, from Tennessee, and from Chicago. As I write this, high school students in East Los Angeles have walked out and reportedly are pummeling the police with fruit against proposed immigration "reform." Corporate media reports estimate the size of today's student walkouts in LA at over 3000 students. Tomorrow promises to be the biggest march in Los Angeles history.
The organizers have announced that they are expecting that as many as 500,000 people might attend the protest in L.A. Editorial From the Newswire Brown Skin / Yellow Star: Why You Must Join the March 25th Demo by Juan Santos ...
Full report: Speak Now, or Never: Stopping Sensenbrenner by Leslie Radford
Reports: Gran Marcha 2006 by Jesse Díaz | | Hunger Strike to Stop Anti-Migrant Legislation by C. Cruz | | Call for Reporters on Saturday by Anonymous | | Update on Pro Migrant Hunger Strike by cesar a. cruz | | 3/25: Los Angeles March for Immigrant Rights! by Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network | | March 25-28 Nationwide Weekend of Actions to Support Immigrant Solidarity! by Lee Siu hin - National Immigrant Solidarity Network
Chicago: Feature Story, Washington DC: Feature Story
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Dynes, UCSD & the Corporatizatin of Education
Matt Potter, reposted by sd@narchist,
In October 2003, after seven years as chancellor at UCSD, Robert Dynes became president of the University of California. To pay tribute, a self-described "old friend" rose from his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. "I have personally observed Bob's term as chancellor and seen the determined focus of his administration to uphold the integrity of this fine university," said Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
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Surviving Rwanda: Her Personal Story
Maren Dougherty,
If you missed it the first time, now's your chance! On April 5, you can catch the encore performance of "I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me By a Young Lady from Rwanda." It's a powerful and inspiring play based on the true story of a Rwandan refugee who flees to the UK. Following the play will be a short panel discussion.
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Small Step Against Racism @ UCSD, Stop Barton
concerned student,
Bryan Barton was kicked out of the Minuteman Project in Arizona April for physically restraining and detaining a migrant person and forcing them to take photos with a t-shirt saying "Bryan Barton caught an illegal alien and all I got was this T-shirt." He is currently advertising for his political campaign all over the UCSD campus. Lets put a stop to that.
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What happened at the march?
lotu5, sd indymedia volunteer,
Thank you very much for posting all of your event announcements on San Diego Indymedia. As a volunteer that spends a lot of time on this site, I want to ask people to please post a report from your event if you're going to post your event announcement here.
Indymedia is a space for people to tell their own stories and to write independent news about what is happening in our communities. While event announcements are an important part of connecting a community, knowing what is happening is equally important.
If you're going to post your event announcements here, please post a report of what happened.
See also:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114434.shtml
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France: Update
old europe rocks,
Between 247.000 and 600.000 pupils/students went on the street today protesting the new proposed law CPE. Lots of demonstrations and rally's across the country. Also there are reports about another attack on students by rightwingers (armed with helmets and sticks) and the police stood by. Anyway..the evening saw riots in paris with burned cars, torched kiosks and lots of scuffles between students and the police. Meanwhile, 212 arrests as of 7.40pm French time. 147 of them in Paris. 35 police and CRS (riot police) injured.
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Virtual Sit-In in Solidarity with the Striking Students of France!
EDT and borderlands hacklab,
We invite people from all over the world who support the french students in resistance and oppose the precaritization of life [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity] to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre and borderlands Hacklab on March 16th and 17th, 2006 to engage in a virtual sit-in on french government websites to demand that all of the students be released from prison and that the 'contrat première embauche' (CPE) be revoked.
Join the action here: http://sdhacklab.org/france_solidarity
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Riots Erupt in France and Italy
Delete The Border,
France: Student protests over 'Anglo-Saxon' job laws THOUSANDS of students marched through Paris and blockaded universities across France as their revolt against the Government over a controversial new youth employment law intensified. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has staked his reputation, and possibly his job, on a measure that aims to cut rampant youth unemployment with two-year contracts that enable employers to sidestep rigid French labour laws and fire young workers without reason. From portland Indymedia: On march the 7th, 400.000 people demonstrated against a new law concerning workers, CPE. CPE "deregulates the job market. CPE means e.g. anyone who gets a new job can be fired within 2 years - at any day, without a cause... e.g. companies will now be allowed to let young employees work all night - if they are at least 15... and so on. CPE makes workers lose many of their rights... All over France riots and Clashes with the police....some protesters heavily injured... In Toulouse protesters managed to occupy states´buildings... 300 pupils stopped a high speed train (TGV)... In Marseille 5000 pupils attacked police and police stations afters some arrests of demonstrators... schools are occupied by teachers and pupils, e.g. le college de france, or a school in Lannion and and and... in Lille states bulindings were occupied... 50 universities are on strike and/or occupied by students: 
ITALY: massive riots in Milano 
Italy, Milano. Massive riots started in the heart of the Italian financial capitol, Milano, when hundreds of antifascists attacked police because of their repressive behaviour. The police wanted to stop the antifascists from building barricades against a neofascists? march through Milano. Police lost control: Windows of Banks and Companies were broken, cars and buildings were set on fire, even a nail bomb exploded in a group of police men.... Many persons were injured, some heavily, 45 were arrested. Technorati tags: strike,antifascist, milan, italy, students, france, joblaw, riot, race, racism
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Support Pat Washington Thurs 8AM
Pat Washington Supporter,
Pat Washington Press Conference
8:00am Thursday, March 16
Court of Appeal, 750 B Street, Suite 500, San Diego
Dr. Pat Washington is an internationally known and widely acclaimed scholar, award winning professor and 3 time Teacher of the Year fired by San Diego State University (SDSU) in 2002. She filed a lawsuit in 2003, asserting that her termination was retaliation for her complaint about a racially hostile work environment. Despite an EEOC finding of 'reasonable cause' that SDSU discriminated and retaliated against Dr. Washington, SDSU was granted summary judgement in the case last year. Oral arguments in appellate court will be heard thursday at 9AM, with a second press conference to follow.
Please come support Pat Washington at 8AM Tbursday!
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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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