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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What does it mean to be a “boy”?
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

"Daddy" Don Cherkis and his partner, boy joe, spoke about their "Daddy/boy" relationship at the March 3 meeting of the San Diego League of Gentlemen, a Gay male Leather group. They were recently chosen as U.S. Daddy and boy at a contest in Arizona, and their talk focused on the dynamics of their partnership and the joy joe gets out of serving Don.
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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,

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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.

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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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Disability Forum with Mayor Sanders
posted by disability activist,

It is our hope that all people connected to the disability Community will be able to attend and discuss with the Mayor the major issues that affect the lives of people with disabilities in San Diego. We hope you will bring your questions, suggestions, statements to the meeting so that the Mayor can get a fuller idea of what he should and could do to make San Diego better for people with disabiltities.
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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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Family Carnival this weekend! c/o radioactive
radioActive sanDiego,

FAMILY CARNIVAL
Brought to you by
radioActive sanDiego
www.radioactiveradio.org
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Darkside of Cancun: Film on Wed 7PM
sdimc volunteer,

DARKSIDE OF CANCUN: Trafficking of Mayan Children

Wed March 22 7PM $3-$5 donation
Voz Alta on 1544 Broadway, downtown

Poor women and children are bought and sold in every country for sex, labor and marriage. In Cancun, the trafficking of Mayan girls and boys is a lucrative business for the tourism industry, where vistors from the U.S. and Europe pay for these children for sexual pleasure. Activists working against child trafficking have become a threat to local tourism. The film explores this darkside of Cancun.
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Barrera Challenges Roberts for Supervisor
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper,

Democrat Richard Barrera is running against Republican Ron Roberts in this June's election for the 4th District Supervisor's seat. Barrera is challenging Roberts due to what he sees as the Board's conservative ideology and what he calls "their lack of concern for the working and middle classes in San Diego."
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Unknown White Male: Compelling Amnesia Story
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Rupert Murray's new film "Unknown White Male" traces the life of his friend Douglas Bruce in the two years from July 3, 2003 — when Bruce had a mysterious and still-unexplained total memory loss — to mid-2005, and charts the changes in Bruce's personality from a party person to a more serious, reflective, philosophical human being. If the film has a flaw it's that Murray emphasizes the positive aspects of Bruce's transformation over the traumas depicted in such fictional cinematic depictions of amnesia as "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (whose director, incidentally, is among those calling "Unknown White Male" a fake). The film is playing through March 23 at the Ken Cinema, 4061 Adams Avenue in Kensington.
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New Vegetarian Restaurant Guide
G-Love,

There's a new vegetarian restaurant guide on the web and san diego is on it. The site provides well organized and easy to navigate content, and it also has a meetup section built in.

There will be a dinner on Saturday March 25th, 7pm at Sipz Fusion Cafe in Clairemont Mesa to celebrate the launch of the site in San Diego. Everyone is welcome to come.

Check out the website for more details



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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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Troll baiting
Herman,

Using troll baiting as a way of discrediting people you disagree with. Cheap shot!
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local screenings for: Soma anarchist therapy
Nick Cooper,

Soma is a documentary about a group therapy in Brazil which incorporates capoeira, Wilhelm Reich, and anarchism. I will be travelling between May and August around the US and Canada, screening the DVD and conducting a workshop. I am looking for help in setting up screenings nickcooper-at-indymedia.org.

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San Diego Bike Posse Rides Again! March 15th
SDBP,

SDBP rides again! Wed March 15th, 7PM!
The heart of SDBP involves having a good time while doing something different in an environment of socially aware individuals. While not inherently political, SDBP has taken some lessons from critical mass bike rides---recognizing that the way we travel influences how we think and how we interact with our environment and the people/world around us.

Meet up for a casual bike ride at the Henry's on Park Blvd at 7pm, we roll out at 7:15PM on the dot!

 http://groups.myspace.com/SanDiegoBikePosse
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NOMART inaugural exhibition
NOMART,

Nomart (a student-run mobile space) Presents:
Plaza Bonita: Best if used by 3.8.06

Thursday, March 9th 2006
At Library Walk, UCSD 7pm-8pm

Friday, March 10th 2006
At the Che Café, UCSD 7pm-8pm

Nomart invites you to attend the inaugural performances of an exhibition series “Best Used By: 3.8.06.” This performance/ installation series collects viable discarded supermarket merchandize for redistribution to orally and visually interact with participants. The resurrected feast is the manifestation of Nomart’s desire to transform unnecessary waste into useable material and engage with the public.


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Queer Democrats Discuss Military Issue
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The predomninantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club rated three Democratic challengers to incumbent Congressmember Duncan Hunter — who pushed through the triple border fence and wants to extend it across the entire U.S.-Mexico border — acceptable at their February 23 meeting. They also heard presentations from Tracy Jada O'Brien on Transgender issues and Bridget Wilson of the Servicemembers' Legal Defense Network on the rights of Queers in the military. Wilson said that even those opposed to the Iraq war and U.S. imperialism in general need to get behind the civil-rights issue of the right to serve in the military, especially since for many working-class Americans today military service is virtually the only way they have to go to college and work their way up in the world.
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Community Workshop on Digital Story Telling
SDIMC volunteerz,

50 people learned about using media technology to tell their personal and community stories. Presenters were from Third World Majority and Heads On Fire.
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“HIV/AIDS": Faith-Based Science
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Veteran alternative AIDS journalist Celia Farber recently published an article, "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science," in the March 2006 Harper's Magazine, blasting both the unscientific propaganda put out by the AIDS establishment to justify the assertion that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS and the destruction of the reputations of scientists who dare to question the orthodox view of AIDS. This article contrasts her piece to more typical articles on AIDS that reflect the mainstream view and accept it uncritically, and suggests that former President Eisenhower's warning of the dangers of a "scientific-technological elite" (from the same speech in which he used the phrase "military-industrial complex") have come true in AIDS policy.
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Free Wireless Hotspot at Voz Alta/IndyMedia/Hacklab space!
sdimc ,

San Diego IndyMedia would like to announce the newest addition to the So Cal Free Net. Voz Alta and San Diego IndyMedia will now provide a free hotspot at the intersection of 16th and Broadway in Downtown San Diego. The hotspot originates at Voz Alta on 1544 Broadway.

UPCOMING IndyMedia EVENTS at Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway:
March 8 - New Member Orientation 6:30-7:30pm
March 11 - Hacklab Meeting 1pm
March 15 - "Open Hack Night" 6:30-8:30pm
March 22 - FILM: The Dark Side of Cancun, 7pm
March 24 - San Diego IndyMedia Fundraiser, 7pm

Photos of the wireless setup:
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114085.shtml

More about So Cal Freenet:  http://socalfreenet.org
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Pat Washington, Ph.D. appeal support
posted by Pat Washington supporter,

When I filed my retaliation complaint against the Women's Studies Department at San Diego State University with the Chancellor's office, SDSU hired an attorney, Nancy Spiezny, to investigate. Spiezny is one of the "civil rights" attorneys SDSU routinely hires to conduct investigations of complaints against the university. Spiezny found evidence of many "troubling" actions against me, but ultimately concluded that "the weight of the evidence did not support my discrimination and retaliation complaint. "

When we challenged her findings, pointing out many of the flaws in her own arguments and evidence that she was taking undue license in explaining away what had happened to me, I came to understand that finding in favor of SDSU represents repeat business for Spiezny, I didn't. The EEOC later investigated and found "reasonable cause" that I had been discriminated and retaliated against and urged SDSU to take corrective action, including promotion and tenure, back-pay, benefits and tenure.

Judge Jay Bloom, who is up for reelection on June 6th, later granted SDSU a summary judgment motion, indicating that it was obvious that my WS colleagues "didn't like me" but that nothing could be done about that in a court of law.

The Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in my case on March 16th at 9am.
Pat Washington ( http://patwashington.org)
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AUDIO - Angela Davis at UCSD March 1, 2006
radioactiveradio,

Radica Radio feautures a debrief and live audio from the UCSD Angela Davis Lecture March 1st, 2006. Good stuff! Bare with some technical difficulties... =)
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