Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta re-launches websi
NIFC,

Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta re-launches website
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Rally, Press Conference and Community Forum on Grand Juries
community member,

UPDATE - 6/24 - Grand Jury update and Action Alert!

Defend Dissent in San Diego!

Press Conference and Rally, Tuesday June 28th, 12 Noon at the Federal Building

Community Forum on Grand Juries as a tool of Repression
Monday, June 27th, 7pm, The First Church of the Bretheren
3850 Westgate Place
San Diego, CA 92105
(619) 263-9301


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FRSC: Interview with Michael Cardenas from SD
Matt and Bradley,

On June 23, Michael Cardenas spoke with Matt and Bradley live on Free Radio Santa Cruz. Michael is one of the more than 12 people in San Diego that have received grand jury subpoenas. (23:53 minutes / 10.9 MB)
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My Grand Jury Experience Today
michael cardenas,

I went in to the grany jury today. I pleaded the 5th, have been granted immunity and have to go back on the 28th.

(story updated 6/22)
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USA puts farmers and Gardeners in Prisons. Ar
Pamela Olson,

Monsanto Keeps Up Attack on Seed Saving Farmers and Gardeners, and is destroying local Family farmers.

Will the USA coporaton Monsanto take away your Job and ravish your Family?
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Defend Dissent in San Diego
djette aporetics,

UPDATE: 6/21 - Account of Grand Jury experience

Today, 6/21, 12-3pm
Federal Court House
Broadway and Front Street

Show your support for your fellow activists by coming down to the court house today. Let them know that this Mc Carthian form of intimidation will not stand!
Dissent should not be criminalized!
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San Diego Activists Subpoenaed for Grand Jury
Account by Michael Cardenas, story compiled by sdimc,

UPDATE: 6/20 - At least eight, possibly nine activists have received subpoenas at this point. In addition, the Acvitist San Diego house in City Heights was visited by 3 federal agents.

6/18 - At least 4 activists have now received subpoenas from the FBI, some being visited at work in an extra step of harassment. Those receiving the subponeas include David Agranoff, Colleen Dietzel and others. A community response will be announced soon.

The San Diego activist community has been the target of an intense campaign of harassment by federal law enforcement agencies, and that campaign went to a new level this morning. At a recent teach-in in San Francisco, a lawyer speaking about federal grand juries stated that they are often used in an attempt to "break the movement".

'This morning at 7:30AM, I was woken up by a knock on my door. The people knocking refused to identify themselves, simply saying they had "something for Michael Cardenas". When I opened my door, I found that it was two FBI agents. I wondered why I'm always at the door in my underwear when the FBI comes to my house. The agents were there to issue a subpoena to me for a federal grand jury to take place in San Diego on June 28th at 9:00AM.' - Michael Cardenas

The Grand Jury in San Diego continues the recent increase in government repression of political activity taking place all across the country, from New Jersey to San Francisco. Recently, 9 activists were subpoenaed in San Francisco. Last week an independent media activist Mark Conlan was visited and questioned by the FBI as well in connection with the La Jolla apartment complex fire set by the ELF in 2003.

In recent decades, the grand jury has been used increasingly to intimidate and harass activists who are pushing for social justice. Pressure on the animal rights, environmental justice, anti-war, and anarchist movements has been escalating. At a recent hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, John E. Lewis, Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, testified that, "Investigating and preventing animal rights extremism and eco-terrorism is one of the FBI's highest domestic terrorism priorities."

Grand Jury Teach-In Audio | San Francisco Subpoenas | Just Law Collective on Fighting Grand Juries | Last Week's FBI Visit in San Diego | Previous Home Raid | Another Raid Account on San Diego Fed Watch
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PRESS RELEASE NO. 8 (VOTING REFORM)
Hank Ramey,

This is an announcement of the new Honest Voting Act of 2005 Initiative Petition Drive in California.
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Yes, There IS Queer Sex in the Military
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Two authors on Queers in the military spoke June 12 at Obelisk Bookstore in Hillcrest. Rich Merritt, author of “Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star,” described growing up in Greeneville, South Carolina; attending Bob Jones schools until his second year in college; joining the Marines after his expulsion; doing porn videos with a San Diego company while still on active duty; leaving the service and falling into a drug habit before cleaning up, finishing law school and becoming an attorney. Alex Buchman promoted his two books, “A Night in the Barracks” and “Barracks Bad Boys,” describing real-life accounts of Gay sex involving servicemembers.
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My Visit from the FBI and ATF
Mark Gabrish Conlan,

On June 8, 2005 I was visited by agents of the FBI and ATF and questioned about the University Towne Centre fire of July 31, 2003 and the speech by animal-rights and environmental activist Rod Coronado in Hillcrest on August 1, 2003. That appearance has already led to early-morning raids on two other San Diego activists whose videotapes of the event were seized by the FBI, and Coronado's return to Southern California in May 2004 was met by even more intense repression. This time the FBI and ATF seemed interested mostly in obtaining photos of the audience at the Coronado event so they could scan them for "persons of interest" in the UTC arson investigation. (Photos below copyright © 2003 by Mark Gabrish Conlan for Zenger's Newsmagazine.)
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Saving China's Moon Bears
Andi Mowrer,

Jill Robinson, the founder of Animals Asia Foundation (www.animalsasia.org)will be speaking at the Encinitas Community Center in San Diego, from 7-8pm on Tuesday, July 12. Animals Asia operates the world's largest rescue of endangered Moon Bears from bile farms in China.
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Minutemen Show UP In Fallbrook
Froilan Mercado (MUDP Rep),

On June 4, 2005 the minutemen entered the town of Fallbrook early in the morning. There had been no prior warning to their arrival as there was in the previous demonstrations. Their objective; to stop City Bank from allowing their Mexican patrons from using Mexican ID to cash checks or open accounts. They stood on the sidewalk on Main St. next to Denny’s with racist anti-Mexican signs. There were reports that they were intimidating and harassing a disabled Mexican man who was walking down the sidewalk.
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New Years Eve, 2015 A.D. in San Diego
rocky,

Fiction? A Dream about our community's future.
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The Summer '05 Issue of the Free Press is here!
San Diego Indymedia,

It's here, the Summer 2005 issue of the Free Press! Click "Read More" below to download the pdf and see it online. Expect to see it in your favorite independent coffee shops in a few days!

One important thing to note is that this is the last issue of the Free Press. That's right, this summer we will be changing the name of the paper! Send your name ideas to sdfp at lists.mutualaid.org .

Thank you very much to all of our contributors and supporters, and we're sorry for shortening the amazing articles we had to cut down. You'll notice that the Free Press is now in English and en Español, because we are dedicated to to breaking down the borders that separate us and respecting the cultural diversity of our community.

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HR Defenders Clarify Question
Erik Olson, posted by Corrie Ort,

Yesterday's San Diego Union-Tribune included an article by Jeff McDonald regarding our sentencing. Because we have received a few inquiries regarding a portion of that article, we wanted to clarify any misunderstanding that might have been unintended or read into the article.
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Faustbook Premiere: starring Jacob Faust RIP
Jeffrey Leiser,

You are invited to the San Diego premiere screening of the feature film "Faustbook" starring Jacob Faust. Jacob Faust was wrongfully murdered by police officers here in San Diego on April 4th. He and Eric Leiser had been making this film for the past 5 years.

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Queer Democrats Endorse Frye for Mayor
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club overwhelmingly endorsed City Councilmember Donna Frye for mayor in the July 26 special election to replace Dick Murphy, whose resignation from the mayor’s office takes effect July 15. Despite concerns raised by Gay & Lesbian Times publisher Michael Portantino — who appeared at the meeting and claimed that a handful of Queer Democrats, including some club members, had held a private meeting aimed at recruiting another major Democrat to run — Frye won the votes of 54 of the 58 club members present.
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City Homeless Coordinator Speaks to Activists
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Sharon Johnson, homeless services coordinator for the city of San Diego, spoke to the activist organization Citizens in Support of Homeless People at their regular meeting May 24 and discussed a radical new program called "Housing First" — a way of dealing with chronically homeless people by giving them a living space and twice-a-week visits from case managers instead of forcing them into highly structured shelter programs that don't work for them. But other people at the meeting talked about the city's increasingly punitive anti-homeless policies, and Johnson herself admitted she's probably about to lose her job due to the city's budget crisis.
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Disabled Activists Protest Budget Cuts
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

About 100 people with disabilities and their supporters staged a protest Tuesday, May 24 downtown against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts to state services for people with disabilities. Many of the participants used wheelchairs, carried blind canes or used guide dogs. Schwarzenegger's proposals include slashing the fees Medi-Cal pays doctors for treating people with disabilities, cutting the pay of In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers who provide personal care and housework that allow people with disabilities to live at home instead of nursing homes, and denying people with disabilities the promised cost of living adjustments (COLA's) to the SSI pensions on which they live.
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Ticketing of Homeless Reflects Social Sicknes
rocky neptun,

The head honcho in San Diego's war on the homeless, Police Chief William Lansdowne, refused to aknowledge his department's human and civil rights abuses against the homeless. In an interview,he admited the police no longer respnd to actual first-hand complaints but are part of the broader, class-cleansing, gentrification movement by wealthy developers.
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The San Diego Buy Local Campaign Launch Party
The House,

The House Launches The San Diego Buy Local Campaign

SAN DIEGO- The House's San Diego Buy Local Campaign Launch will kick off with a showcase event on June 14, 2005 from 6pm - 10pm in Sorrento Valley, San Diego at Party Pal’s local venue. This exciting event will feature local artists, musicians, speakers, and businesses who are invested in their communities and are fighting to STAY LOCAL.
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Queer Community Warned about Crystal
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Psychotherapist Neva Chauppette, Psy.D., spoke to an audience of about 150 at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center Monday evening, May 23 about the dangers of methamphetamine use and its potential threat to the Queer community, Gay men in particular. Though the title of her presentation was “Methamphetamine Use: Reasons, Risks and Practical Interventions,” a good part of her talk also condemned the sexual culture of Gay men — particularly the heavy emphasis on casual sexual contacts made in bars, at circuit parties, on Gay cruises or via the Internet — and accused Gay male meth users of jeopardizing the respectability Lesbians in particular have worked to win for the Queer community.
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War Resister Delgado's San Diego Speech 5/20
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

War resister Aidan Delgado, who successfully got out of the Army as a conscientious objector but only after serving a full term of duty in Iraq, spoke in San Diego at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest May 20. He showed slides of his war experiences — including some documenting war crimes at Abu Ghraib besides the ones exposed in the mainstream media — and explained his differences with fellow resister Pablo Paredes, whom he came to San Diego to support but with whom he disagrees on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately from Iraq.
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Transcript of Anti-War Press Conf., 5/20/05
transcribed by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Before Aidan Delgado, Iraq War veteran and conscientious objector, spoke at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest May 20, he, law professor Marjorie Cohn and Fernando Suárez del Solár, who lost his son in the early days of the war, gave a press conference. Only two reporters attended. Cohn explained her case against the legality of the war and the astonishing statement the judge in Pablo Paredes' court-martial made after she testified: “I think that the government has successfully proved that any servicemember has reasonable cause to believe that the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq are illegal.” Delgado defended his refusal to join most of the peace movement's call for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
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25 Years of Food Not Bombs
Sterling,

Food Not Bombs Anniversary Weekend
May 28-29.2005

-- This month Food Not Bombs celebrates 25 years of decentralized consensus decision making, free vegetarian food for hungry people, and non-violent protest against war and "defense" spending.
Come celebrate this anniversary with Food Not Bombs at Torrey Pines State Beach, this Saturday, May 28, 2005, at 4 pm!
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no mas violencia entre los jovenes
the peaceful warrior,el guerrillero pacifico,

DEBEMOS DE CUIDAR LO QUE ESCUCHAMOS A DIARIO, NOSOTROS APRENDEMOS DE LO QUE ESCUCHAMOS,TODA LA VIOLENCIA QUE HAY ENTRE LOS JOVENES QUE VIVEN EN U.S.A. (E.U.A.)VIENE DE ALGO, ALGO QUE HASTA LOS NIñOS BUENOS EMPIEZAN A AGARRAR QUEDANDO COMO TODOS LOS DEMAS, CHOLO, VIOLENTO Y CALLEGERO.ES LA VERDAD!!! LEELO!!!!!!!!!
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Escondido Food Not Bombs And You
NC FNB,

Among other things, Escondido Food Not Bombs needs a bike trailer made for us so we can do food pick ups and transport items around Escondido on our bikes.
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Recruitment ad.
Gi Joe,

New recruitment ad for the military.
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Congress Recommends Sending Troops to Border
repost from washington post,

From the Washington Post: "The deployment of 36,000 National Guard troops or state militia on the U.S.-Mexico border would stop the illegal flow of foreigners into America, says a congressional report that credits the Minuteman Project with proving that additional manpower could "dramatically reduce if not virtually eliminate" illegal immigration."

Just what we need, more troops, this time operating within our own country. I wonder how far inland from the border these troops will operate? Who will they be attacking? Who benefits from all this? Who profits?

Call today to stop the MinnuteMen meeting in LA on Wed, May 25th:
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/109056.shtml
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Pro-Democracy, Anti-Bush Film Night Wed. May 25th 7pm Voz Alta
Circo,

SD IMC Film Night

When: Wednesday May 25th 7pm

Where: Voz Alta Gallery 1544 Broadway San Diego 92101

We are showing TWO Indymedia produced films, one made by our very own San Diego Indymedia!

Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living a film about the Reclaim the
Streets in SD on j20 After the SDCPJ rally and the Ground Zero Players Cacelorazo in downtown San Diego, hundreds of people stepped off the sidewalk at Broadway to begin the Reclaim the Streets party. San Diego Indymedia Production

Mandate? a half-hour documentary by Indymedia Video and the Glass Bead Collective, shows resistance at the January 20th inauguration of George W. Bush. The film shows the issues behind the re-election of Bush and the reaction from protestors to the most expensive inauguration in US history. NYC Indymedia Production
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