Demo to Save Kenneth Foster August 27
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

On Monday, August 27, at 5 p.m. on Broadway in front of Horton Plaza between Third and Fourth Streets downtown, there will be a demonstration to save Texas death-row inmate Kenneth Foster from being executed on August 30 and win him a new trial. This article details the Foster case and exposes the major miscarriages of justice that led to Foster's conviction and death sentence for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It also quotes from Foster himself and mentions his organization D.R.I.V.E. (Death Row Inter-communalist Vanguard Engagement), a group of death row prisoners campaigning both for improved conditions and for an end to capital punishment itself. For more information, please see Foster's Web site at www.freekenneth.com
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Grand Jury Resister Danae Kelley Arrested at Animal Rights Demo- $50,000 Bail!
Njeri - repost from indybay.org,

UPDATE from sdimc volunteer Wed afternoon: According to a bailiff in the sd felony arraignment court, charges were not filed against Danae and she should be released this evening. (see also this blog post on alongingforcollapsepress on myspace: click here

UPDATE from Troy Tuesday evening: Danae will be arraigned on Wednesday at 1:30pm. She will be in Judge SZUMOWSKI's courtroom, which is Dept. 12 at the downtown county courthouse. According to jail information, she is currently being charged with PC 422, which is essentially threatening to cause great bodily injury to another person. Anyone can go down to Dept. 12 and observe the arraignment, but be warned: it is likely to be a very routine, scripted process. The only reason to go would be to offer emotional support through your presence. But, know that you won't be allowed to communicate with Danae at the arraignment, and it's possible that she won't even be able to see any courtroom supporters.

from Njeri / San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia: California activist [and Grand Jury Resister] Danae Kelley was arrested after a legal demonstration in San Diego over the weekend. (13 others were detained but then released without charges just as Danae should have been.) Phone calls need to be made on her behalf. Please call [Los Colinas Detention Facility] and ask when she will be released.

Danae Kelley - Booking #7762437 - is at the Las Colinas Detention Facility-- Please call 619-258-3176 & ask when she'll be released and if she's getting vegan food. --Read More--; see also article on infoshop.org; updates at alongingforcollapsepress on myspace

SD City Beat description of arrest: click here

from fuck the green scare: you can/should also contact city council and the district attorney to speak out about her unfair arrest and inflated bail: san diego city council | San Diego District Attorney

from Janice Jordan: The people wielding the power of the justice system, law enforcement agencies and political administrations want working-class communities to live in fear. For if we live in a constant state of fear, "I can't get involved", "I can't go to jail", "I might lose my job", "It's none of my business", the disease of fear spreads and its' infectious wrath takes more and more people down with it... It is imperative that all concerned parties of free speech, civil rights, and the right to assemble unconditionally support both Rod Coronado and Danae Kelley. Just when we all think it couldn't get more reactionary-IT HAS!--Read More--

Related: Rod Coronado's Hearing/Trial | Midwest ALF/ELF Grand Jury | More info about the Minnesota Grand Jury | Eric McDavid's Trial | Solidarity for Non-Cooperation Political Prisoners | greenscare.org | ecoprisoners.org | greenisthenewred.com
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Free Skool Benefit!!
pipi,

Support the Free Skool and continue community-based learning that is free, open and non-hierarchal.

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Rocky to Run for Mayor of San Diego
Rocky Neptun,

Only participatory democracy will save this planet. Political power from the bottom-up, the inside-out, that is self-governing and makes decisions in unity with our common global needs. Face to face democracy breaks down the pyramids of power which institutionalize unfairness,inequality and privilege. That is what I propose for San Diego.

As a candidate for an office that I can't possibly win, part of a broader coalition, possibly a local justice movement, if nothing else, at least an adventure; I am free to campaign on the issues. To go beyond the media forged parameters of possibility and discussion. To change the political dialogue or, as that great Chicago organizer, Saul Alinsky, once said, "to stink up the place."

I will challenge the fundamental nature of store bought politics. Today's politicians have become squabbling creatures of self-interest. Our mayor is their poster boy. Jerry Sanders...jerry rigging city contracts and peddling influence.....JS....BS. The darling of the corporate media and wealthy developers, he has been called a "crook" by our own elected City Attorney and "silly and uniformed" in a recent City Beat editorial. Like Sanders, most local politicians lack vision and have forgotten how to imagine, prisoners of their own mendacity and greed. They pander to despair and fear, thumping the virtues of selfishness and looking out for number one, reducing collective existence to its most banal aspects.
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Local Activists Rally to Save Shuttles!
Mark Melendez,

A local journalist rallies supporters to save UCSD shuttle system and succeeds!
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Emily Hicks Veer Towards Queer Interview P2
queer-j brad,

Interview with Emily Hicks, Professor at San Diego State University on July 11, 2005 -- Veer Towards Queer / radioActive sanDiego
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Emily Hicks Veer Towards Queer Interview P1
queer-j brad,

Interview with Emily Hicks, Professor at San Diego State University on July 11, 2005 -- Veer Towards Queer / radioActive sanDiego
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San Diego Food Not Bombs This Sunday
San Diego Food Not Bombs,

Come get FREE VEGAN FOOD this Sunday!
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No Borders Camp Benefit: Wed Aug 15 7PM
In Solidarity, The No Borders Camp San Diego Organizers,

A number of community organizers and collectives from San Diego, CA are collaborating with organizations across the continent on an action camp effort to directly confront the injustices, violence and environmental degradation that the U.S./Mexico border embodies. Direct action, Independent Media broadcasting, workshops, art, music and speakers are being planned during the week of November 5-11, 2007.

The No Borders Camp will be in the Calexico/Mexicali borderland region. The Imperial/Mexicali valley is a leading producer of agricultural products for the U.S.A, houses dozens of multinational corporate Maquiladoras, has three toxic bodies of water that flow throughout the region and an Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) detention center where migrant people are held for months to years. This No Borders Camp will be directly contributing to building community and awareness around the issues facing this region. Organizers are working to incorporate and exemplify the strong connections between the struggles people face in the borderlands and the realities communities face across the continent.

Most of the media's attention on immigrant issues today is concentrated on marches and legislation. However, the history and future of violence against immigrant people from Latin America is rooted in the displacement of farmers, natural resource extraction in remote communities, unlivable wages and state sanctioned violence to push the political agendas of governmental and capitalist entities. The strategic displacement of communities, to gain access to their resources, and subsequently to their cheap labor, is the driving force behind paramilitary violence in Mexico today. In fact, the violent displacement of communities of color around our world is directly connected to the political and economic forces at play in the Calexico/Mexicali region. This is an imposition that reduces human life to a mere variable in an economic equation, and a disposable variable at that.

For these reasons we are collaborating, and reaching out to you for support. We would like to invite you to collaborate with us in our efforts to realize the No Borders Camp, and together raise funds for a Media and Convergence Center to support the communities in getting their voices heard. Come to the benefit this Wednesday and enjoy music, food, art and friends.

No Borders Camp Benefit
A Night of Radical Music to raise funds for a Media and Convergence Center Wednesday August 15 7-10PM
City Heights Free Skool 4246 Wightman

Music By: The Eclectic Bastards (Portland), Doctor Bird, Corporate World Domination, The Americans and Hot Pink Magon!!!
awesome d.i.y. crafts, zines, snacks and beverages by donation
all ages // no alcohol
$5 donation

No Borders Links: Calexico/Mexicali No Borders Camp | Ukraine No Border Camp: Call, Website | UK No Border Camp (Gatwick Airport) | No Border Network


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Groundwork Books Benefit Report
san diego indymedia volunteer,

Groundwork Books put on a lively hardcore benefit show at the Che Cafe on Wednesday, featuring locals The Americans and Cathect, and Resist the Right from Vancouver, Canada.

Groundwork is a political collective at UCSD seeking to develop the skills for a "nonhierarchical and nonauthoritarian system of social organization." They run an awesome bookstore on campus, send books to prisoners and sponsor informational programs for the community. As one of four autonomous co-ops at the heavily corporatized UCSD, Groundwork struggles for survival against university administration as well as corporate giants like amazon.

Luke from Resist the Right spoke to sdimc about the connection between music and politics; gentrification and oppression of indigenous people in advance of the rich person's party known as the 2010 olympics in Vancouver, and the effort to shut them down; and the urgency of reversing the corporate-induced ecological crisis.

from Yesi: The Show was a success, Groundwork (and everyone who organized it) did an amazing job, the bands were awesome, and the ever-so-struggling food co-op even made a little money selling vegetarian snacks! all in all, it was AWESOME! i can't wait for the next co-op event!

from jae: This was such a good show!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Resist the Right are one of the best punk bands I have seen from Canada. I can't wait for them to come back. Groundwork Books is more than a good bookstore co-op they also know how to throw a fun show. They should do more.

Videos: Groundwork | Resist the Right

Tonight was San Diego Indymedia's first attempt to provide live coverage through a mobile media unit we are developing. It didn't work, but we were able to send off, semi-live, a short clip (the first video) by tapping into a weak wifi signal at the Che Cafe. We hope to get things sorted for the No Borders Camp Benefit next week. See you there!


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PORTLAND NUCLEAR INQUEST... Formed & Function
Captain Eric H. May,

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer posts this important update announcing the formation of the Portland Nuclear Inquest.
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Groundwork Books Benefit - Live Coverage NOW
san diego indymedia volunteer,

San Diego Indymedia is out at the Groundwork Books Benefit at the Che Cafe on the UCSD Campus - Come on out - click here for more info

Here's a video from a Groundwork member explaining the collective and the purpose of the benefit - Click here

(we are experimenting with 'live' coverage)
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US Presidential Candidate: Free Ed Possible
Stewart A. Alexander,

As millions of college students begin preparing to enter college this fall, many have become accustom to increased tuitions year after year. Nationwide college tuitions are climbing and in some states the increase is 10 percent or more going into the fall semester. Stewart A. Alexander, a Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for President, says free education is possible through university level; a position the PFP, Peace and Freedom Party, has supported for 40 years.


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Radical Right Mounts Two Rival Anti-Marriage Drives
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Two rival radical-Right initiatives being proposed to ban legal recognition of same-sex marriages in California reveal a split in strategy and tactics within the anti-Queer, anti-marriage movement. The California Family Council, affiliated with Jim Dobson’s powerful Focus on the Family organization, is promoting a so-called “Protect Marriage” initiative that would simply write into the state constitution Proposition 22, passed by California voters 61 to 39 percent in 2000, which defined marriage in California exclusively as the union of one man and one woman.

Another group, called the Voters’ Right to Protect Marriage Initiative and headed by former California Assemblymember Larry Bowler, is going farther and pushing a ballot measure that would not only define marriage as one man and one woman but would also repeal California’s landmark domestic partnership legislation. Both groups are fighting for large-scale financial backing to pay signature gatherers to get their initiatives on the ballot.

The two rival initiatives are coming up in the middle of a process by which supporters of marriage equality for same-sex couples are pushing their demand in the legislature and the courts. In 2005, both houses of the California state legislature passed a marriage equality bill, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it and said in his veto message that the final determination of whether California should legally recognize same-sex marriages should be made by the courts or by voters.--Read More--

Equality California Website
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The expression of the subversive love of the
posted by F Espinoza,

Not only have you graduated as medical doctors, but also as humanists. You have learned what it means to practice international solidarity and have understood the reality of preventive and healing medicine in a socio-political context. This brings to reality the much celebrated phrase of José Martí: Homeland is Humanity.
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San Diego Dyke March/Ride and Festival
two san diego indymedia volunteers,

At noon on July 22, about 100 marchers and over 50 cyclists took to the streets in the 2007 San Diego Dyke March/Ride, traveling from Balboa Park to the Rubber Rose in North Park, the site of an afternoon Dyke Festival.

Marchers and cyclists carried signs reading Dykes, Not Bombs; Girl Kisses are Delicious; This is What A Dyke Looks Like; Pride is Sexy; Dyke Pride; Vagina, Vagina; Just Dyke It; and Free the Newark/Lesbian Seven. Chants, energized by the Radical Fucking Cheerleaders, included: We're Here, We're Queer, We're Fabulous, Don't Fuck With Us; If You're Queer and You Know It And You Really Want To Show It, Clap Your Hands; We Don't Need Your Christian Hate, Separation of Church and State; and What Do We Want? Equal Rights! When Do Want Them? Now! Cyclists provided a safe space for the marchers to take one and sometimes two lanes on the street.

Festival attendees flowed between the cool interior of the Rubber Rose; workshops; a beergarden down the street; the City Heights Free Skool Bike Kitchen Mobile Clinic; performances by locals MC Flow, Dropjoy, Lauren DeRose, Eileen Myles, Jiggle It! Bitch Burlesque and Addiquit; chillin in the shade with friends; and a giant (painted) vagina.

San Diego Dyke March/Ride & Festival Video: Part One | Part Two

San Diego Dyke March | City Heights Free Skool Bike Kitchen | The Rubber Rose

Additional Pride Coverage: Police Chief, 16-Yr.-Old at Pride Celebration | Recording of LGBT Pride "Celebration" 7/15/07

Comments on landsdowne 'stonewall award':
from techno-tranny-slut: Giving awards to the murderous, violent SDPD is just too much. I'm disgusted. Its a good thing that the radical queer movement in san diego is growing, because this is a disgusting way to honor stonewall.
from Michel: It's almost as bad as having the fuck'in police in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade every god-damn year! We do remember the history of the Stonewall Riots, right! Cops trying to make good? - Hell no! It's just like the blacks & brown fighting a white man's war! You know about the military industrial complex history, right! Or do I have to get into that too? Point being: Fuck the police! Who's streets? Our streets! You racist-sexist-antigay... You can't take my rights away!
from a queer: giving a murderous thug an award has nothing to do with stonewall and everything to do with serving the interests of the elite, who are protected by landsdowne's roving armed gangs. it was made plain last year that the apprehension of the bashers was related to protecting the bonanza that straight and queer rich people make from ordinary folks at corporate pride with their fucking overpriced events, hotel rooms, etc.

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Kehoe Addresses Queer Dems on State Budget
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

State Senator Christine Kehoe, who became San Diego County's first openly Queer elected official in 1993 and has held elective office ever since, made a surprise appearance at the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club July 26. She talked mainly about why the state doesn't have a budget yet, blaming the impasse on the California constitution's two-thirds vote requirement to pass a budget and the recalcitrance of the 15 Republicans in the State Senate, who have refused to vote for a budget unless it has majority Republican support — and are demanding sweeping cuts in social services and environmental protection as the price of their agreement on a state budget.
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Human Rights Activists Protest Police Violence in Oaxaca
san diego indymedia volunteer,

On Monday, human rights activists responded to brutality in Oaxaca against a people's celebration of Guelaguetza, a traditional festival, by educating and protesting at the Mexican Consulate in San Diego.

On July 16, state and federal forces in Oaxaca City attacked members of APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca), people participating in the popular celebration and journalists, leaving at least one dead, numerous injuries and over 60 detained or disappeared (en1, en2; es1, es2). The popular Guelaguetza was an alternative to the government-supported celebration, co-opted from the traditional holiday by commercial tourist interests.

Activists from vAPPOroaxaca and The Indigenous Binational Front (FIOB) began early in the morning by informing the folks standing in line to get into the consulate about the situation in Oaxaca and by playing videos (vid1, vid2) from the July 16 attack on a laptop. After the Consul arrived mid-morning in his fancy car and expressed his displeasure by staring and making faces at the protesters, they began chanting and loudly demanding freedom for political prisoners and the removal of the corrupt governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz.

APPO formed last summer shortly after school teachers repelled an attack by state forces on their occupation of the zócalo (central plaza) of Oaxaca City and effectively governed the city for several months until an invasion by Federal Preventative Police, prompted by the murders of Oaxaqueños Esteban Zurrita and Emilio Alonso Fabian and Indymedia journalist Brad Will by government-sponsored paramilitaries, on October 27. San Diego activists set up a camp and continuously occupied the sidewalk outside of the Mexican Consulate from October 29 to November 21, using it as a base for protests, marches and rallies in solidarity with the People of Oaxaca.

Monday Protest Video | Solidarity Camp Coverage
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MacLaren Hall Survivors Weigh In Re Future
kirsten anderberg,

We, the actual survivors of MacLaren Hall's horror *know* that the buildings and land at MacLaren Hall are haunted by brutalized children's souls, every day and night. MacLaren Hall was a battle zone for thousands of children who survived and still remember what happened there. To speak out loud of our experiences is devastating for many of us. We need a say in its future uses.
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Southeast San Diego Fighting Immigration Raids
Jordan (guest journalist of ATX IMC),

Southeast San Diego community members are organizing opposition to immigration raids, seeking a resolution supporting immigrants from City Council and policy changes from the San Diego Police Department. In a community forum held Wednesday, several panelists shared compelling testimony as to why these raids must be stopped.
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Human Rights Demo Mexican Consulate 9AM Monday
repost from e-mail,

RESPECT CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN OAXACA
Violence of the State and Federal Police Must END
DEMONSTRATION Monday July 23 9AM
Mexican Consulate
1549 India St, Little Italy

The Indigenous Binational Front (FIOB acronyms in Spanish) calls for a boycott for the for the official Guelaguetza Organized by Ulises Ruiz Ortiz government through a vigil at the Consulate of Mexico to demand the respect of human rights.

The FIOB condemns the recent use violence by the state and federal government of Mexico towards the Oaxacan Indigenous people and calls for tourists to boycott the official Guelaguetza

El Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), Pronunciamos nuestro apoyo total al Pueblo Oaxaqueño con la idea firme del BOICOT TOTAL A LA GUELAGUETZA OFICIAL a través de una vigilia frente al consulado de México ante los recientes acontecimientos en el Estado de Oaxaca,

Reprobamos los actos de violencia, abuso de autoridad y represión por parte del Gobierno Estatal y Federal y pronunciamos nuestro apoyo total al Pueblo Oaxaqueño, Manteniendo su firme apoyo: * BOICOT TOTAL A LA GUELAGUETZA OFICIAL

¡La resistencia del pueblo Oaxaqueña continua!
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No More Petitions - Just Action!
Timbre' Wolf,

But take my word for it, if you want to see a change, GIVE UP ON CONGRESS doing the right thing. As it has been said, Democrats don't want to wrench excessive, ubiquitous, executive power away from the Republicans - they simply want it for themselves in just under two years.
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Marjorie Cohn Speaks on Bush's Legal Abuses
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

National Lawyers' Guild president and Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Marjorie Cohn gave a talk to Progressive Democrats of San Diego July 19 on the long train of legal abuses and usurpations perpetrated by the Bush administration, from lying their way into Congressional and public approval for an illegal war against Iraq to torture, targeted assassinations and "extraordinary renditions" abroad, indiscriminate killings of civilians, surveillance at home and flouting the authority of Congress.
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Police Chief, 16-Yr.-Old at Pride Celebration
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

San Diego police chief William Lansdowne, who received a "Stonewall Service Award" on behalf of his department for the speed with which they apprehended the Queer-bashers at last year's Pride Festival, and 16-year-old out Lesbian Missy Luber were the highlights of the San Diego LGBT Pride "Spirit of Stonewall Ce3ebration," held July 15 at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park to kick off the San Diego Pride parade and festival July 21 and 22. The event, usually held on the eve of the parade on the festival grounds at Marston Point, was moved up five days, and its name changed from "rally" to "celebration" to soften the politics of the event.
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San Diego State Court Judge Breaks Law!!
Nathan Archer,

Update on current court status of Medical Marijuana patient, Nathan Archer: I am a qualified and verified medical marijuana patient going through a medical marijuana trial process in San Diego.

The first day we entered the court we were to decide what is admissible evidence, which format of instructions would be read to the jury and still jury selection. The judge exhibited her first willingness to break the law by supporting with the DA, Robert Bruce, requested that my doctors recommendation that I use medical cannabis would not be admissible as evidence. [ this left me absolutely defenseless, being unable to support my status as a valid medical marijuana patient.]...

Previous Coverage || Related: DEA Raids SD Medical Marijuana Dispensaries | DA Dumanis Lies About Law | The Love and Death of a San Diego Activist | Medical Cannabis Advocates Decry Increase in State's MMJ Patient Cards
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David Cole on Why We're Losing Terror War
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

David Cole, law professor at Georgetown University and attorney who's represented some of the victims of the U.S.'s judicial abuses in the so-called "war on terror" before the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke at the Lyceum Theatre in Horton Plaza June 26 in an appearance sponsored by the San Diego Public Library. Cole said that the flagrant violations of due process and human rights committed by the Bush administration have not only weakened America's standing in the world community, but there have actually been more terror incidents against Americans worldwide than there were before 9/11.
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Queer Democrats Endorse Whitburn for Council
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed its former president, Stephen Whitburn, for San Diego City Council in the 2008 election for the Third District seat now held by Toni Atkins. By endorsing Whitburn, the club defied the Queer establishment represented by the Gay & Lesbian Times newspaper, which had urged the club to delay the endorsement until after the first fundraising period at the end of July; and the paper's columnist, Nicole Murray Ramirez, who has personally endorsed Todd Gloria, aide to Congressmember Susan Davis, and has repeatedly urged that Whitburn and all other Queer candidates withdraw from the race to make Gloria the one and only choice for Queer and Queer-friendly voters.
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Teen Producers Project Honors Local Activists
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The Media Arts Center's Teen Producers' Project showed "Voices of Change," a program of four short films honoring local activists in the Latino community, at the San Diego Public Library downtown June 27. The most moving part of the evening was the appearance of Herminia Enrique, one of the activists profiled, who spoke movingly about the need to stay positive and her gratitude that young people are continuing the struggle for human dignity and equal rights.
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Blackwater Sue Families of Slain Employees
alternet,

The following article is by the lawyers representing the families of four American contractors who worked for Blackwater and were killed in Fallujah. After Blackwater refused to share information about why they were killed, the families were told they would have to sue Blackwater to find out. Now Blackwater is trying to sue them for $10 million to keep them quiet.
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RECLAIM THE BEACH!!!!!
Lady Birds,

RECLAIM THE BEACH!!!!
It's hot! And time to get wet!

Wet Hot Anarchist Summer is here to announce a day of sandy ruckus, and Radical Beach boogie. Come equipped with your water wear and pirate gear cuz we're takin back the beach! Bring snacks, water, and whatever else you need for the fun by the sea!

Yo ho ho ho the reclaim life for me!!!!!!

Join us for
Reclaim the Beach
Saturday June 30th 11AM
La Jolla Shores

from Exited Bird: WOW... 1st reclaim the streets NOW reclaim the beach. I know it's going to be a ton of fun. This time without the brutality... i hope. Just SAND AND SUN.... our only worries would be the sun burns... so bring protective sun lotion stuff. WOW... who else is super stoked about this crazy radical event? I cant wait to put on pirate gear and run around making sand castles... and playing water games...
from ecstatic bird: im so going. this is going to be alot of fun. i get really annoyed when i go to the beach and im surrounded by a bunch of beer drinking fratties and tourists. this summer, we'll have our fun! YO HO!...
from melodramatic bird: ello loves, this is super exciting... reclaim the streets was a profound moment in all our lives...and now we get to take the same idea and recreate it in different settings...i soooo happy!!! EVERYONE SHOULD COME DOWN AND FUCKING HAVE SOME RADICAL FUN!!! fucking ride your bikes...i've been inspired by this zine to create fucking amazing memories with my bike...haha. let us be empowered and once again be moved by each other to do amazing things....we are the revolution...we can create a space for our empowerment and create moments in which we once again feel free....

More Info: o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective | city heights free skool
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UCSD Students Remember George Winne, Jr.'s 1970 Self-Immolation
queer-j brad,

George Winne, Jr., who self-immolated in Revelle Plaza at UCSD May 10, 1970 in protest of the Vietnam genocide, was memorialized by UCSD undergraduate students Christin Turner and Sasanna Yee on June 7.

Winne was a former ROTC student at UCSD not associated with the widespread student protest movement at that time, and had developed an interest in Eastern philosophy. He followed americans Alice Herz, Norman Morrison (outside of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's office) and Roger Allen LaPorte (all in 1965) in employing self-immolation as a protest against the attack on Vietnam. Winne self-immolated next to a sign that read "in god's name stop the war," and was quickly tackled and put out by a safety officer or a student, but died 10 hours later after asking his mother to write a letter to Nixon telling him to end the war.

Winne's action prompted a phone call from Nixon's administration to university administrators, and his sacrifice, along with student activism, caused administrators to redesign the rapidly growing campus to discourage large gatherings of students in uncontrolled settings.

The permanent memorial to Winne -- a skeletal art piece overlayed on an arrangement of bricks (not unlike those on which he self-immolated) and a difficult to locate plaque -- sits in a secluded, wooded area well-removed from the site of the event, close to the fountain in Revelle Plaza.

As part of a Social Architectures class, Turner and Yee designed and built a temporary memorial on the fountain that projects the permanent memorial to the place where Winne self-immolated. Turner expressed the hope that "the atmosphere of UCSD back then wasn't a dead thing of the past and could possibly repeat itself."

Video || More Information || Event Announcement
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Bi Inclusion: More than Just a Letter
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The mainstream leadership of the Queer community has done a good job paying lip service to the inclusion of Bisexuual and Transgender people by adding "B" and "T" to the name of its organizations, but it's done a lousy job of actually including them. Acknowledging the lived experience of Bisexual and Transgender people will involve rethinking many of the core assumptions behind the Lesbian/Gay movement of the past 57 years, including the scientifically and experientially indefensible idea that sexual orientation is fixed at, or shortly after, birth and cannot change thereafter.
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Carlos Legazpi: Out, Bi and Proud!
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

American Institute of Bisexuality board member CARLOS LEGAZPI talks about his own life as a Bisexual, anti-Bi prejudices of Gays and Lesbians, and the legacy of the Institute’s founder, pioneering Bi activist Dr. Fritz Klein. (Sorry, boys and girls: he’s married!)
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Students Fight for Academic Freedom at UCSD
san diego indymedia volunteer,

Funeral for Academic Freedom: The Lumumba-Zapata Coalition at UCSD held a Funeral for Academic Freedom on June 7. The funeral was prompted by the UCSD adminstration's admission that the dismissal of two TAs in the Dimensions of Culture curriculum of Thurgood Marshall College stemmed from their criticism of its commitment to social justice, not for teaching performance.

The Lumumba-Zapata Coalition called on Dr. Abraham Shragge, director of the DOC program, to resign immediately "due to his recent violations of academic freedom, abuse of administrative power and absolute negligence for student voices and concerns... Dr Shragge's failure to address the recent concerns of the Lumumba-Zapata Coalition and his aggressive response to constructive critiques show a lack of commitment to the principles of community at UCSD and has served to provide for a hostile educational environment for both undergraduate and graduate students within the Dimensions of Culture program, as well as across campus."
--Read More-- | Video of the Funeral for Academic Freedom

UCSD Students Confront Vice-Chancellor: On thursday, June 12th, over 75 students met for a very quickly organized meeting to respond to UCSD's proposed change to their free speech policy. Vice-Chancellor Watson sent out an email with a proposed change to UCSD's policy on speech, literature and demonstrations, changing the policy from a one page document to a 19 page document including free speech zones, restrictions on political speech by faculty and staff and administration approval requirements for demonstrations.

The vice chancellor promised to push back the deadline to fall. Originally the proposal said it would be decided in september, not allowing for student input at all. The day after this rally the administration sent out a notice that the policy would not be changed until december and only after a "public forum" on the policy change. This policy was last modified in 1981, so it has been in place for 26 years. This was an obvious attack on free speech on campus, announced days before finals week with a deadline before class would resume for fall.--Read More--

Videos: Teach-In Part 1 | Teach-In Part 2 | Confrontation with the Chancellor
Reports: Confrontation with the Chancellor | Rule Change | Teach-In | Background | Lumumba-Zapata Coalition Demands


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