RESISTENCIA ESTUDIANTIL: March to the Park
Jonathan,

March 19, 2005

Photos - March from Southwestern College to Balboa Park, specifically City College to the Park.
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Saul Landau Shows Syria Movie in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Filmmaker Saul Landau presented his new movie, "Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place," at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church March 16. In a post-film discussion he talked about the situation in Lebanon and how it's being misrepresented by the U.S. media and about the surprising, though limited, degree of political and social openness he and his crew found in Syria. Also on the program was UCSD professor Jorge Mariscal of Project YANO, a group to make young people in high school and college aware of the information about being in the military they're not getting from recruiters.
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San Diego's Quixote for Open Government
Jeeni Criscenzo,

Mayor or not, Donna Frye continues her fight for the people and their right to an open government.
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San Diegans Celebrate S.F. Marriage Decision
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Over 40 San Diegans turned out Monday, March 14 for a rally and march to celebrate the ruling, announced earlier that day, by San Francisco superior court judge Richard Kramer that California's ban on legal recognition of same-sex marriages violates the California constitution's equal protection clause. The mood was jubilant, but speakers like San Diego Democratic Club president Stephen Whitburn warned that supporters of marriage equality need to get ready to fight a radical-Right attempt to reverse this decision through a voter initiative.
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Transcript, 3/14/05 Marriage Equality Rally
transcribed by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Transcript of the rally held by the San Diego chapter of Equality California Monday, March 14 to celebrate Judge Richard Kramer's ruling in San Francisco that the state laws restricting marriage to partners of the opposite gender are unconstitutional. After the rally about 40 people marched from Centre Street to Third along University Avenue and back. For the full text of Judge Kramer's decision see  http://www.eqca.org/atf/cf/{687DF34F-6480-4BCD-9C2B-1F33FD8E1294}/Kramer%20Decision%203-14-05.pdf
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Bev Harris Fights Election Fraud/Incompetence
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Bev Harris, principal author of "Black Box Voting" and founder of the blackboxvoting.org Web site, came to San Diego February 26 to speak at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest. Her message: the American voting system is fundamentally flawed, as much if not more from sheer incompetence as deliberate attempts to rig outcomes. She also argues that contracting with private corporations to run elections equipment, especially on proprietary computer software, is inappropriate and runs counter to the principle of transparency that should apply in elections.
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Melanie Bush Critiques White Privilege
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Brooklyn College professor and administrator Melanie Bush gave a presentation at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest February 23 to promote her book, "Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness." Her presentation, like her book, discussed the mechanics of how the ruling elites in the U.S. have created a storyline of white supremacy that keeps working-class whites from uniting with working-class people of color to challenge elite control.
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volunteered slavery 1
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Interviews with people who have voluntarily adopted a lifestyle of slavery within the context of a BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism) relationship, and an analysis and attempt to understand this phenomenon. The existence of volunteered slavery suggests that humans may have an inbred desire for dominance and submission, and calls into question whether non-hierarchical arrangments of government, economy and society are workable in the long term.
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volunteered slavery 2
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Second half of the "Volunteered Slavery" article published in Zenger's Newsmagazine, April 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Mark Gabrish Conlan for Zenger's Newsmagazine; used by permission.
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The HIV "Super-Virus" Hype
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

A critique from an AIDS dissident perspective of the recent reports of a so-called “super-strain” of HIV infecting a New York City man. The print version in the April 2005 “Zenger’s Newsmagazine” erroneously stated that the individual had contracted major opportunistic infections and had died. In fact he was diagnosed with AIDS on the basis of fatigue, sore throat, malaise and a low CD4 T-cell blood count, and at this writing is still alive. The version posted below has been corrected.
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San Diego Says END THE WAR! March 19
protest,

The San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice, along with Resistencia Estudiantil, and Code Pink are holding local protests in conjunction with events around the U.S. and worldwide.

March 19, 2005 - 2:00 p.m., 6th and Laurel, Balboa Park, San Diego. Speakers, music, poetry.

All Day Radio Coverage at radioActive sanDiego. Listen here

NEXT SATURDAY - GET OUT IN THE STREETS!
THE WORLD SAYS END THE WAR!
SATURDAY, MARCH 19: GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST
ON THE TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRAQ WAR
* End the War *
* Bring the Troops Home Now *
* Rebuild Our Communities *

March 19-20 marks the two-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq. After all of the death and destruction, and with the Bush administration claiming a mandate to continue their war, there's a new urgency and a stronger determination within the global antiwar movement to bring the troops home now.

The San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice will hold a local demonstration in conjunction with events around the U.S. and world-wide. Watch for details! Come to the meetings to get involved!

See the SDCPJ website for location and directions:
http://www.sdcpj.org

Flyers available at the Church of the Brethren, 3850 Westgate Place, San Diego and more will be located at the Peace Resource Center (trailer at the church). Also, flyers are available at Mattress World, 1601 University Ave., in eastern Hillcrest or download them and print your own.

JOIN A MARCH TO THE PARK SATURDAY MARCH 19TH!

RESISTENCIA ESTUDIANTIL:
12:00 Noon: Leaving Chicano Park
1:30 PM: Leaving City College (Park Blvd.)
1:40 PM: Leaving Space Museum Fountain

CODE PINK
9:00 AM: Leaving Turquoise & Mission in Pacific Beach
12:00 Noon: Leaving Old Town Trolley Station

NORTH COUNTY COALITION FOR PEACE & JUSTICE
1:00 PM: Leaving Downtown Train Station at Broadway & Kettner
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radioActive radio Spaghetti dinner tonight!!
radioActive sanDiego,

Spaghetti Benefit Dinner!!!

Come to The Big Kitchen, 3003 Grape Street, on Wednesday March 16th from 6 to 8 pm for yummy spaghetti, good times, and music by Contrastes!

This is a benefit for RASD so please brings some bucks to throw down. The dinner is around 12 bucks.

(the live music will be amazing)

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CODEPINK MOBILIZATION IN SAN DIEGO m17-19
CodePink,

MAJOR REGIONAL MOBILIZATION AND CODEPINK ACTION IN SAN DIEGO, CA

The World Says End the War! Bring the Troops Home Now! Rebuild our Communities!
Camp Pendleton Marine base, one of the largest bases in the country, has suffered a tragic number of causalities in the ongoing war and occupation of Iraq.
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ORGANIZING TO FILL CATHOLIC CHURCHES
FIST OF WAVE,

GIVEN ENORMOUS INVESTMENTS CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS MAYBE ITS TIME THEY USE SOME OF THIS MONEY TO FIGHT ECONOMIC PERSECUTIONS OF THE HUNGRY THE THIRSTY.ALL I NEED IS FUNDING TO GO INTO THE HOMELESS AND GET THOSE FORCE FED NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS OF CAPITALISM. ONCE THE CHURCH SEES THER IS MORE NEED THAN REPORTED IN MEDIA THEY CANT DENY.IF THEY DO WE KEEP FINDING THOSE WHO STILL CARE UNTIL THER IS NO ROOM IN CHURCH FOR THOSE WITH MONEY TO MAKE DONATIONS. WITH A FOOD SUPPLY WE BE NOT DENIED
FIST OF WAVE 619 223 0772 619 222 0772 INTERVENTION CONVENTION

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HOW MANY GOT DRUNK TONITE WHILE MANY STARVE
HUNGRY,

WHO IS GOING TO FEED THE HUNGRY AND WAKE THE VOICE THAT CRIES SILENTLY INTO AN INEBRIATED NITE . FOR MANY ITS THE ONLY WAY TO EASE THE EXCRUCIATING PAIN OF A NITE OF NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY A DEPOSIT FIRST AND LAST MONTHS RENT AND HAVE GOOD CREDIT AND A PHONE TO GET A JOB THAT PAYS ENOUGH IN THE FIRST PLACE.?
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all alone and its on
irrelevant,

cell phone abusers calling police in pill popping gas pedal getaway on poor.while local activist are still shopping .hello where is the love they are still shotgunning the peace dove. i was detained three different times all in same day due to the cowardice degenerates who reside in san diego.worse thing police come with jacked up stress from dispatch while my innocence is put in harms way by anonymous callers.thos who get thrills calling on poor are same racist empowering whats devouring.FEED HUNGRY PEOPLE ITS PART OF WHATS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE PEACE LOCALLY AND WORLDWIDE.SAN DIEGO STILL SUCKS.
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San Diego Latino Film Festival!!
Media Arts Center - San Diego,

THE 12TH ANNUAL SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL:
DISCOVERY AND CELEBRATION: MARCH 10 – 20, 2005

San Diego, CA – The Media Arts Center San Diego is proud to announce the 2005 San Diego Latino Film Festival with more than 100 films from Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Spain and the U.S. This prestigious, and internationally recognized film festival is the longest running Latino festival in Southern California. With a projected audience of over 17,000, SDLFF is also one of the largest. Attending filmmakers and fans will see over 100 films including: Voces Inocentes (Mexico) Machuca (Chile), Puños Rosas(Mexico), and Perfecto Amor Equivocado ( Cuba). In addition, as part of SDLFF’s "Guest Director" series, acclaimed director Luis Mondoki (Voces Inocentes, Gaby: A True Story, Trapped, Angel Eyes) has curated a series of three 35mm classics that influenced his career.
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Call to Drummers, Musicians and Noisemakers
roman,

Follow-Up Action at Mexican Consulate for freedom

This coming WEDNESDAY, at 4 PM, at the Mexican Consul on India St, a group of Tijuana-South Bay-Downtown area activits will be gathering to protest and demonstrate disagreement with the Mexican government's attacks on Zapatista communities in Sonora. The embryonic MARCH AND RALLY PROGRESSIVE ENSEMBLE, makes a call out to drummers, performers and others to meet up there, talk and make music.

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SOLIDARITY CONCERT: In defense of a Zapatista Village in Sonora
jessica,

TONIGHT February 26 7pm
********************************
Voz Alta 1544 Broadway San Diego

~ MEZCLAH ~
~ ACTEAL ~
~ LOS HIJOS DE LA MALINCHE ~
~ POETAS INVITADOS~

For more information:
 http://fzlnbc.org/
 http://vozalta.org
 http://fzln.org.mx/
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SAN DIEGO SUCKS
IRRELEVANT,

THE LOCAL CHEERLEADING ORGANIZERS ARE COWARDS. THEY HAVE PICTURES OF THEMSELVES BROADCAST ON IMC WHILE THEY ATTEMPT TO HUSTLE THE AFRICAN AND LATINO COMMUNITIES WITH PERCEPTIONS OF CARE.THEY HAVE YET TO INTERVENE ON LOCAL TOURIST INDUSTRY CORPORATION DEVESTATING EVERY COMMUNITY AND THOSE SAME TOURIST ENTITIES ARE PERSECUTING THE POOR THROUGHOUT.WE NEED REAL LEADERSHIP TO RISE AGAINST THE SHORTCHANGE CONSOLIDATORS EXPLOITATING AND DEVESTATING OUR COMMUNITIES.YES THERE ARE CLOSET RACIST IN THE LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMUNITY WHO WORK JUST ENOUGH TO SEE THAT THE PRESENT STATUS QUO CONTINUES.SOME OF THEM ARE WOMEN OTHERS ARE WANTIN DOCUMENTARIANS.
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re/de claiming the line / re/de clamando la linea
Voz Alta,

Friday, Feb 25th 2005
re/de clamando la linea/
re/de claiming the line
four part poetry series
(not your average poetry reading)
8pm ($5.00 donation)

Friday, February 25, 2005, 8:00 p.m., Adrian Arancibia, Juan Coronado. and more

Voz Alta - 1544 Broadway - East Village (northwest corner of 16th and Broadway) - Nextdoor to Landlord Jims Bar

Voz Alta will feature current and former members of the Taco Shop Poets along with emerging local poets in re/de clamando la linea/ re/de claiming the line a four part poetry series. re/de clamando la linea/ re/de claiming the line documents the experience of living on the border, re/claiming urban space and de/claiming the physical border transforming notions of identity and re-territorializing space from taco shops to the academy. Where do we locate ourselves within the discourse of globalization, new chicano identities, redevelopment and displacement of our communities? re/de clamando la linea/ re/de claiming the line attempts to answer these questions. The poets in this series have performed throughout the Southern California each with a claim to San Diego, these are stories with a history and new beginnings all calling San Diego home.

106.9FM Benefit Party!
106.9FM,

Masks and Bandanas welcome! Wear your best clandestine outfit!

$2 cover
$2 pbr

Sparkys, 1521 30th St.
Thurs, Feb 24th, 8pm-2am

radio autonomia
radio insurgente
radio anarquista

come out and support pirate radio in San Diego!!!

Support Pirate Radio Letter Campaign:
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/107148.shtml

 http://1069fm.org
 http://1069fm.blogspot.com/

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Towards a Critical Analysis of Media EmergenC
sd indymedia, prometheus radio project, rAsD,

From October 6th-9th, as the National Association of Broadcasters was
holding their annual Radio Road Show in San Diego, a group of media
activists converged to try to illuminate what is wrong with the corporate
media and to strengthen independent, community autonomous media. This
convergence was called the Media emergenC, highlighting the two themes of
emergency and emergence. With 4 days of talks, film screenings, marches,
panels, forums and independent media making, the media activists, mostly
composed of members of San Diego Indymedia and radioActive sanDiego, but
including media makers from as far away as New York and Philadelphia,
tried to confront the NAB as had been done in many other cities, but also
to challenge the independent media movement and push it forward.

We've written this self-critical document in the hope of creating more
critical dialogue within the Indymedia community and the independent media
movement. It is our hope that people will read this, give us feedback and
make more documents like this critiquing their own events and actions and
circulate those for discussion as well. We hope that this can be read and
discussed at the upcoming Indyconference in Texas this month
( http://www.indyconference.org/).

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Photos of Challenging White Supremacy Workshp
aymara,

Here are some photos of the Challenging White Supremacy workshop which took place on February 19th at Voz Alta. Thank you so much to everyone who came. The turnout was amazing. Lots of people of all different ages and backgrounds came out to this 6 hour workshop to work on how to challenge White Supremacy as it operates within movements for social justice.
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Challenging White Supremacy
The ORGANIC Collective,

Attached is an updated flyer...

Please RSVP by emailing info at ORGANICcollective d0t org or calling if you intend on coming to this workshop.
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Anti-Nuke Play Read at First U-U Church
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

"The Land Southward," a new play by Darcy Hogan dealing with the 1950's nuclear weapons tests in Nevada and the way the government used residents in southern Utah — downwind from the test site — as virtual guinea pigs to study the effects, was given a staged reading February 16 at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest. Following the play, author Hogan, director Esther Emery and veteran anti-nuclear activists Rochelle Becker and Shirley Vane led a panel discussion of the issues raised and the need to stop the Bush administration from reviving America's nuclear test sites and nuclear-power industry.
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s.d. aint doing enough to save the love
irrelevant,

centre city development port authority commercial airline hotels motels restraunt decimation of local food supply and coastal decimation due to chemical to hide touris drunk flushing and oil cars spread by tires meltin and dripping poisoning us locals with cancer causing while business is subsidized to do deals that steal our virginity and predatorize innocence.
CONSOLIDATION OF WEALTH IS THE PROLIFERATION OF POVERY.
ORGANIZE SAN DIEGO SUX MOTHA FUX
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Living Wage Rally at UCSD - Audio
onto,

audio and interviews from the Living Wage Rally and direct action at UCSD last tuesday
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SDPD - Art Police?
repost from City Beat,

It seems that the SDPD is continuing their harassment and intimidation of anyone engaging in political activity by leaning on local businesses. This article from SD City Beat's locals only section details the harassment of the Hot Monkey Love Cafe in response to a politically oriented flyer advertising a show there. This is what our tax money is being spent on...

The prurient interests of San Diego vice officers were piqued two weeks ago when a flyer depicting Osama bin Laden sodomizing George W. Bush began circulating around the College Area.

The flyer advertised a Feb. 4 concert at Hot Monkey Love Café featuring local band The Dissimilars with out-of-town acts The Breakdowns and The Irish Brothers. Hot Monkey owner Alma Felan was paid a jarring visit by a San Diego Police Department vice detective the night before the show.
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Autonomy from Tijuana to Buenos Aires!
sd indymedia,

San Diego Indymedia brings you two films about the practice of Autonomy, from Tijuana to Buenos Aires. The films will be shown at Voz Alta at 1544 Broadway, downtown. On Autonomy in Argentina | On a European history of Autonomy

Wed., February 16th
Cada uno su granito de arena
Maclovio Rojas Espacio Cultural y Político
The director will be on hand to speak about the film.
7pm - donation

"Cosme Damian Sastre Sanchez" Documentary screening: "Everyone one his own grain of sand" From the filmmaker Beth Bird. About the 16 year struggle of the village of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana. Residents of the village, as well as the director of the documentary, will be present for questions and commentary." (Version with subtitles) - review

Wed., February 23rd
The Take
7pm - donation

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale. With The Take, director Avi Lewis, one of Canada's most outspoken journalists, and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international bestseller No Logo, champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century

TheTake.org

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