Open Letter to San Diego Police Chief
rocky neptun,

Open Letter to San Diego Police Chief William
Lansdowne.




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Angry Mothers Address CopWatch Conference
rocky neptun,

For nine days, Cherry Mason frantically looked for her daughter who was five months pregnant. Finally, she was notified her daughter had been shot and killed by a border agent who was participating illegally in a drug bust in a black neighborhood. She later discovered that her child; handcuffed, lying face down in the mud, had been shot in the back.




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It's the Values, Stupid, Says George Lakoff
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

George Lakoff, professor of cognitive linguistics at UC Berkeley and author of "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think." gave a lecture at UCSD October 17 in which he said the Right has won its current hegemony in American politics because they've had a better understanding of how Americans think. Whereas Democrats, liberals, progressives and Leftists have framed their ideas in terms of reasoned arguments, Republicans, conservatives and radical-Rightists have pitched their arguments in terms of moral values Americans hold dear. Lakoff analyzed liberals and conservatives as having different views of the family and God: conservatives see the need for a strict father imposing discipline through punishment while liberals are more likely to see father and mother as equal and both charged with nurturing their child and instilling responsibility from within instead of imposing it from without.
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Susan Skog: How to Have Peace in Our Lifetime
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

“Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” This line from an old song could easily sum up Susan Skog’s presentation to the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest October 14 and the book she was promoting in her talk, Peace in Our Lifetime. The principle behind her book and her approach to peacemaking is that we must, as Mahatma Gandhi (whose grandson Arun was one of her interviewees) said, “be the change we wish to seek in the world” — that in order to be effective peacemakers we must first work through our own anger, hatred, fear and demonization of our presumed “enemies” so we can engage them on a common human level.
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San Diego Mayoral Candidate hedges Peace
Daniel J. Smiechowski,

San Diego and our vital interests are at stake in the upcoming Mayoral Election. The political philosophy of one candidate ought to be analyzed by concerned voters.
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A Warning ?
Ben,

Where would we really find the principal danger to civil liberty in a republic? Not in the governors as governors, not in the governed as governed, but in the governed unequipped to function as governors. The chief enemies of republican freedom are mental sloth, conformity, bigotry, superstition, credulity, monopoly in the market of ideas, and utter, benighted ignorance. Footnote 1 to ADDERLEY v. FLORIDA, 385 U.S. 39 (1966), JUSTICE DOUGLAS, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN, and MR. JUSTICE FORTAS concur, dissenting.
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Community Benefits Agreement Approved
CPI,

After almost six hours of testimony, the City Council voted 5-1 in favor of the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) and the Ballpark Village Project! The CBA requires the developers of San Diego's largest ever development, to increase their commitment to affordable housing, implement a hiring process and job training programs for San Diego residents and abide by some of the highest environmental standards for residential high-rise development in the country!
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City Council Considers CBA Today! Call or GO!
repost from CPI,

/*/PLEASE NOTE: The Council may take up this issue /*/ /*/THIS
MORNING/*/ /*/rather than this afternoon. Please call for updates as the
Council meeting progresses./*/ /*/ The ACCORD Coalition will arrive at
City Hall by 10:30!/*/


*Council to Consider Ballpark Development Agreement TODAY*

*Affordable Housing Issues Dominates Debate, Fuels Controversy*


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SDSU Activists Protest Military Recruiters
Jocelyn Blake,

The Campus Anti-war Network at San Diego State protested military recruiters on October 13th and refused to back down in the face of police intimidation.

Military recruiters occupied San Diego State University for three days this week. They put on an extravagant display with hummers, war simulation games, a rock climbing wall, and even propelled off of buildings and parachuted out of aircrafts. All of this was an attempt to project an image of the military as a hub of adventure and excitement. Our protest showed up to expose the reality of life in the military: war, discrimination, sexual harassment and unfulfilled promises of opportunity. 10 activists from the Campus Anti-war Network (CAN) and the International Socialist Organization surrounded the recruiters during one of their propelling stunts and demanded that the military leave our campus.
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The Mindless American: A Tragedy In The Making
Doug Soderstrom,

As a result of nine-eleven’s jarring impact upon our nation, journalists have discovered a near paranoid rise in retaliation against individuals attempting to expose governmental malfeasance.
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David Agranoff Released
repost from SD Union Tribune,

Repost From the San Diego Union Tribune - A federal judge Wednesday morning ordered the release of an animal rights activist she had jailed after he refused to testify before a grand jury investigating a massive arson fire two years ago. David Agranoff is the second activist ordered released within a week from federal custody in San Diego. He is expected to be discharged from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego this afternoon.
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Tax panel seeks cap on break for homeowners
Christopher Swann,

The president's panel on tax reform is pushing for a cap on the mortgage interest tax deduction, long considered one of the country's untouchable tax breaks.
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Grand Jury's Hold on San Diego Activists Loosens
SDIMC volunteer,

David Agranoff Released October 12, 2005
A federal judge Wednesday morning ordered the release of an animal rights activist she had jailed after he refused to testify before a grand jury investigating a massive arson fire two years ago. David Agranoff is the second activist ordered released within a week from federal custody in San Diego. He is expected to be discharged from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego this afternoon.
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Danae Kelley Released October 6, 2005
Danae Kelley, 21, who has spent 74 days in jail since U.S. District Chief Judge Irma Gonzalez ruled she was in contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigation, was released Thursday afternoon.
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Learn More About What You Can Do:
Copwatch Conference OCTOBER 22ND 2005
Get The Details

Let Your Voice Be Heard:
SUPPORT THE GRAND JURY THREE!
OCTOBER 21ST 2005 – 4:00-5:30PM
VIGIL AT THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE
AT FRONT AND BROADWAY, DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO

Danae Kelley Released
repost from FBIWitchHunt.com,

Danae Kelley, 21, who has spent 74 days in jail since U.S. District Chief Judge Irma Gonzalez ruled she was in contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigation, was released Thursday afternoon.
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Can Donna Frye just WIN?
meadowsweet,

What's going on with our ballots in this city...?
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Semana latinoamericana del arte independiente
Fredo Iglesias,

Quienes estén de acuerdo con la convocatoria por favor firmen abajo dejando su mail y cualquier dato que consideren útil y, de ser posible, reenvíen a los interesados. Hasta encontrar un medio más idóneo para el intercambio pueden contar todos con esta página www.fotolog.net/iktomi. También pueden visitar  http://groups.google.es/group/SELAI  SELAI@googlegroups.com




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Copwatch Conference Update
Bob Alba,

The following is the lastest update for the Copwatch Conference including the protest and schedule of workshops/panels. Some items are still being worked out and may be subject to change.
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Recent News on Danae - In Jail Still.
repost,

News on house raid and court date.
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Two Years Later - No County Fire Department
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper,

Two years after a region wide fire storm that caused more than 20 deaths and destroyed millions of acres, San Diego County still does not have an organized, countywide Fire Department.
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Will President Bush Help Homeless?
Scott Sowle,

Ending homelessness was a priority of President Bush. Is the Bush administration still willing to
help?
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Support the Community Benefits Agreement
rocky neptun,

The direction of further human and community needs through development projects is at stake Oct. 18th.
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CCDC tries to stop affordable housing
repost from sd city beat,

For the past two weeks, the Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC), the agency that oversees downtown redevelopment, has expressed its utter dissatisfaction, mostly through the press, with a deal—a so-called “Community Benefits Agreement”(CBA)—struck between JMI Realty, Padres’ owner John Moores’ development outfit, and a community group known as ACCORD. The pact, which CCDC says was done behind its back, significantly altered plans for JMI’s Ballpark Village project—plans CCDC had already approved in May before ACCORD stepped in last month. The CBA, among other things, contains labor- and environment-friendly concessions as well as affordable housing.
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Norman Solomon Speaks in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Norman Solomon, columnist and head of the Institute for Public Accuracy (which attempts to get progressive voices featured in the mainstream media), spoke in San Diego September 29 at a benefit organized by Activist San Diego for the Guerrero Azteca Project of anti-war activist Fernando Suárez del Solár. Promoting and reading from his new book "War Made Easy," Solomon spoke mostly of the ease with which any determined President can build public support for a war he wants to wage, and how the corporate media help him through turning themselves into transmission belts for pro-war propaganda. The event raised $1,000 for Guerrero Azteca Project and its efforts to offer scholarships to young Latinos and other students of color to give them other ways to pay for college than by joining the military.
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"The War Within" Explores a Terrorist's Mind
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

"The War Within," a new film opening October 7 at the Landmark Cinemas in Hillcrest, is a powerful, gripping drama about a would-be terrorist planning an attack in New York after three years being imprisoned and tortured in his native Pakistan. The film maintains a delicate balance, seeking to make us understand the central character's motives without making him so sympathetic as to condone his actions. The film's effectiveness is due to the skill of its creators — director Joseph Castelo and star Ayad Akhtar, who also co-wrote the script — in maintaining that balance and creating enough other characters to dramatize the central character's "roads not taken" and leave open the hope that he'll abandon his terrorist plans.
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Activist Alert--Race for Mayor Debate & Forum
Envision San Diego,

Envision San Diego invites you to "The Race for Mayor," the city's largest debate and community forum with mayoral candidates Donna Frye and Jerry Sanders.

6-8 pm, Wednesday November 2, 2005
Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center
6845 University Avenue

SPACE IS LIMITED--PLEASE RSVP TODAY!!!

To reserve a seat please go to  http://raceformayor.kintera.org/

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Purpose of IMC.
IMC,

Lets not forget,the purpose of IMC stated below.
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FBI raids homes of SD Grand Jury Resister
Michael Schramm, Ph.D.,

30 September 2005 - 9:50AM PST

The FBI raided two homes this morning in search of computers and correspondence from Ms. Danae Kelley. Danae is currently in Federal custody in San Diego, after being found in contempt of court for refusing to co-operate with a Federal grand jury that has been convened to disrupt peaceful & legal animal rights and environmental activist groups in southern California.

Two homes were raided this morning at approximately 6:30am. Justin Hand and Danae Kelly's residence was searched for computers, and currently Justin is overseeing the raid at his home. Morgan Roberts, a friend of Danae and Justin also had his family's house raided this morning. Several computers and letters from Ms. Kelly were confiscated, using a warrant to collect information on Ms. Kelley.

It is becoming increasingly clear to me that the FBI and Federal prosecutors are only interested in harassing Ms. Kelley’s friends in an attempt to coerce her into testifying. The government has already offered her full immunity from prosecution---meaning they do not suspect her of any illegal activity.

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Corp Media Mentioned DC S24 - But There Was
D. Burbeck,

Yes, the corporate media actually mentioned the demonstration in DC which drew more than 100,000 protesters.......it's true. Their reports were generally about 15 seconds in length, and mentioned nothing about the impassioned call for impeachment by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark or any of the other speakers at the Rally.
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How STUPID are the Americans?
Maria Boremann,

How stupid are the Americans? Why are they fooled by their government's energy policy?
Many Links to renewable energy web sites.
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Tell Congress to enable community internet
Bruce,

These innovative networks are not without enemies. The giant cable and telecom companies would rather squash these local efforts than provide more Americans with affordable Internet access. Industry lobbyists have pushed through laws in 14 states that prohibit or restrict municipal broadband projects.
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