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Queer Democrats Endorse Wilson/School Board
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed Jim Wilson over incumbent Katherine Nakamura for the District B seat on the San Diego Unified School District board at their regular April 27 meeting. This marked a reversal from their position four years ago, when they picked Nakamura over a Teacher's Union-backed candidate in a race in which then-Superintendent Alan Bersin's controversial education policies were the main issue. The club also maintained its acceptable ratings for three of the Democratic candidates running against Republican Congressmember Duncan Hunter — Derek Casady, Karen Otter and John Rinaldi — despite pressure from some members and the Gay & Lesbian Times newspaper to endorse Rinaldi because he's openly Gay.
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May Day - List of Southern California Events
Jonathan,
All over the US, massive actions are being planned as part of the call for a General Strike / Walkout / Boycott // No Work, No School, Buy Nothing, Sell Nothing. Take part! Help organize your community to join the General Strike and Walkout against HR4437 and for Amnesty!
Freedom of movement!
Equal rights for all people regardless of immigration status!
An end to deportations and detention centers!
MayDay 2006 will be a day remembered for a long, long time. Get involved and let your voice be heard! If you want to make a live report call into RadioActiveRadio.org at 619-269-4693. At the end of the day please post your photos to  http://sandiego.indymedia.org. If you have a camera phone email your photos during the day to imc-sd(at)lists(dot)indymedia(dot)org
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MayDay General Strike / Walkout Action Roundup
Delete The Border,
All over the US, massive actions are being planned as part of the call for a General Strike / Walkout / Boycott // No Work, No School, Buy Nothing, Sell Nothing. Take part! Help organize your community to join the General Strike and Walkout against HR4437 and for Amnesty!
Freedom of movement!
Equal rights for all people regardless of immigration status!
An end to deportations and detention centers!
Use these posters locally:
http://deletetheborder.org/node/932
http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/41377.php
http://news.infoshop.org
http://crimethinc.com
List of Southern California Events
Local Events:
* San Diego March & Rally: Larson Park (Cesar Chavez Community Center) 455 Sycamore Road in San Ysidro at 12:00pm sponsored by March 25th Coalition against HR4437 San Diego
* International Workers Day Forum: Senior Center, 30th and Oceanview, Barrio Logan, from 6:00-8:00pm sponsored by the Raza Rights Coalition
* Rally and Candlelight Vigil: Balboa Park, corner of 6th and Laurel St. San Diego, from 5:30-7:30pm sponsored by San Diego Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
* Tijuana March & Rally: “Centro Comercial Las Brisas” in Boulevard Diaz Ordaz in Tijuana at 12:00 (the march will proceed to the American Consulate in the Colonia Hipódromo) Sponsored by la “Otra Campaña” in Tijuana
UPDATE: Before you go to the march, join the MayDay Virtual Sit-In against Lou Dobbs, SOS and Sensenbrenner!
For a longer list of events, click here and here. Infoshop.org's wiki page has a large list of local events. Check it out.
May 1st has been celebrated for more than a century as International Workers Day, commerating the struggle for the eight hour workday in the US and the state murder of anarchist labor organizers in Chicago in 1887. The militant labor movement in Chicago was largely due to the influence of radical immigrant workers from central Europe, who were the most exploited of the working class. May First is celebrated worldwide with the exception of a handfull of countries including the United States.
As millions March in the US and Mexico, there are also events planned all over Europe for EuroMayDay, more info at EuroMayDay.org.
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THREE STATES to vote on REAL impeachment bill
reposted,
author: Constitutionalist
....your own state's legislators can introduce
Impeachment Proceedings against Bush
immediately as a State Legislature Joint
Resolution, that then goes on to be a preferred
bill, meaning that it automatically takes
precedence over all other bills then in Congress!
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Free Speech with reg e gaines in Balboa Park
Michael Klam,
The Museum of the Living Artist invites writers and artists to present their visual and written/spoken work at Poetry and Art on Wednesday, May 17, 2006. The free speech quarterly event at the San Diego Art Institute will feature special guest performers reg e gaines, author, playwright and director, and San Diego’s top competition (slam) poets, including Rudy Francisco, Viet Mai, Whitney Lawrence, Brian DeBenedictus, and Sunflower Dubois.
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Saving the Last Free Anchorage
Sat Gwin,
The Port of San Diego is systematically shutting down the right to anchor our boats freely. On May 2, they will decide whether or not to shut down the last free, long-term anchorage. Anchorage 8 (A-8) is home for over a hundred people who live on their boats (primarily retired and/or disabled), who will be displaced by this closure. Help us protest!
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Invisible Children GLOBAL NIGHT COMMUTE
Mandy Oglesby,
Invisible Children, Inc. is dedicated to providing financial resources to invisible children by documenting their true, untold stories in a creative and relevant way, resulting in positive change. On April 29th in more than 130 cities across the country, thousands will participate in The Global Night Commute to put an end to child abduction, the need for night commuting, and war in northern Uganda.
For more information, please visit www.invisiblechildren.com.
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4/28 Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera
Bob,
Punk Rock Opera
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Weird booms across the US
repost from boingboing.net,
A series of strange window-rattling booms or rumbles have been heard and felt in recent months in Alabama, North Carolina, Mississippi, and, on April 4, in San Diego County. The latest disturbance was said to have set off car alarms, caused waves in a backyard pool, and shook double steel garage doors. It wasn't an earthquake. And the Federal Aviation Administration has no record of planes breaking the sound barrier at the time. Apparently, nobody seems to know what the hell caused the disturbance. From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
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San Diego Conservative Website Gives Up
M,
Pacific Beach conservatives give up on "America's hottest conservative website" due to lack of interest.
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April SDIMC Events - How to Podcast TONIGHT
sdimc volunteer,
All events Wednesdays at Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway.
April 12 - How to Podcast with Shawn from Mindwalk
April 19 - HackLab - Open Hack Night
April 26 - Film Night - Invisible Ballots or Zapatista!
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Immigration: Open Letter to LGBT Community
repost,
April 10, 2006
An Open Letter to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community:
We are a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color who work in the LGBT movement. We are writing to you in response to Jasmyne Cannick's article "Gays First, Then Illegals", which ran in The Advocate, in which she, a black lesbian, argues that she cannot support the current battle for immigrant rights because LGBT people have not yet won the right to marry. We are writing to express our profound disagreement with her, and to offer alternative LGBT perspectives to the current immigration battles happening across the country.
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50,000 March in San Diego
Nathan Gibbs,
An estimated 50,000 people marched through downtown San Diego Sunday afternoon. People came out to support a guest worker program and amnesty for illegal immigrants. From the elderly to young children, the marchers dressed in white and waved thousands of American and Mexican flags.
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Just for fun, One Giant Photo of Many Marches
Jonathan,
This is a really large photo. See if you can find yourself (or Waldo).
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People in the March
Jonathan,
Here are some photos of people at today's march. Dancers, politicians, the media, and the Statue of Liberty.
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Signs, Banners and Flags - April 9th
Jonathan,
Here is a small selection of signs, banners and flags from the march today.
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What a crowd! Photos from the March.
Jonathan,
Here are some photos of the large crowd that marched from Balboa Park through downtown and to the County Admin Building.
If you had stood in one place it would have taken 1 hour for the entire march to pass you.
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Up to 100,000 Attend Mass Immigration March
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
San Diego's largest protest since the Viet Nam war took place Sunday, April 9, when up to 100,000 people jammed the streets to denounce the anti-immigrant bill passed by the House of Representatives and demand "dignity, respect and hope" for both documented and undocumented immigrants. The march was inspiring and festive, but the rally speeches were long on emotional tales of immigrants making good in the U.S. and short on specific demands. Some immigrant-rights activists had criticized the march organizers for not specifically calling for amnesty for the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S., and had held their own action the day before.
Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Video: 1
Stories: Zenger's | An LGBT Take on Immigration | Original Announcement
Related Blogwire Posts: First Fatality of School Walk-outs | Estimated 500,000 protesters set record for largest rally in Dallas history | Huge Number of Feeder Marches Planned for April 10 Protest in NYC
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PBS Film on City Heights Neglects Oppression
rocky neptun,
The great failure of this documentary, like the
process it mirrors, is to address the age-old problem
of fairness and sharing in community development.
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Who Will Protect Us From The Protectors?
rocky neptun,
Police accountability is sadly lacking in the city of San Diego. Recently, family and friends took to the streets to ask for a full inquiry into the police shooting of Jacob Faust a little over a year ago.
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Lesbian Activist Starts Walk for Togetherness
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
Lesbian activist and mother of four Jennifer Schumaker kicked off her "Walk for Togetherness" this Saturday morning, April 8 in Balboa Park. She will do a solo 500-mile walk from San Diego to San Francisco over the next two months to start a statewide conversation for marriage equality and protection for Queer youth. The article is an interview she gave to Zenger's Newsmagazine before she started the walk, which was published as the cover story of its April issue.
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Open Hack Night - Wed April 19th
hacklab,
The open hack night is a space for HACKERS and ARTISTS to get together, share, teach and learn.
This month is Ladies Night at the open hack night with dj pepperbox and dj queenb of radica radio doing a audio editing skillshare and Girl Zines A-Go-Go doing a zine making skillshare.
Sponsored by The San Diego Independent Media Center, Voz Alta and the Borderlands Hacklab.
Event times: 7pm -9pm
Location: Voz Alta on 1544 Broadway, downtown San Diego (16th and Broadway).
Cost: $3-$5 donation
Light refreshments provided. Learn more about the at: www.sdhacklab.org
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Urgent Plea for Donations
san diego indymedia,
Do remember typewriter? Carbon copies? Your first mac or PC? What about AOL or Dial-up or how much you paid for these things?!?!
Today, technology is not only a heck of a lot faster but a HELL of a lot cheaper... And it is TIME for the San Diego Independent Media Center to advance. You may have noticed that the San Diego Indymedia site hasn't been very reliable lately... Currently, our primary server's 1996 processor runs at about 360 Megahertz, with a low-quality, faux Pentium 2 processor. It is crashing bi-weekly right now - and exhausting the few collective members who have the time to go and re-boot it. As you know our organization depends on the internet and our website for community participation and to carry out our mission. Without a new server - there ain't gonna be any San Diego Indy Media online.
This is where you come in - for $360, we could get a machine running at 2800 Megahertz and fly into the new millenium!!!! Please click here to donate with a credit card to help us buy a new server:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/static/donate.shtml
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VIDEO> Student Walkout at Chicano Park M28
Jonathan, Lotus, Lea,
This video is from the walkouts on Tuesday, March 28, 2006. The walkouts were organized by students to protest the Anti-Immigrant Bill HR 4437. The video is 5 minutes long, in quicktime format and about 13.7 MB.
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/04/114911.mov
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ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF JACOB FAUST'S DEATH
repost from CopWatch email,
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Scott Nielsen (619) 232-1933
Friends and family of Jacob Faust, fatally shot by a San Diego police officer on April 4, 2005, will commemorate the anniversary of his death with a peaceful showing of solidarity and respect to his gentle nature by gathering at the location of his death in front of the Golden West Hotel at 4:30pm on April 4th and walk to the San Diego police station at 1401 Broadway at 5:30pm.
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Faust Fest: In Memory of Jacob Faust
repost,
On April 4, 2005 san diego actor, musician and artist Jacob Faust was murdered by san diego police officer Stephen Holliday. In November, district attorney Bonnie Dumanis gave her seal of approval to the killing by ruling the shooting justified. In March, Faust's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against san diego. And for the next week, a series of events are going to be held celebrating Jake's life and to raise funds for legal fees, culminating in a march to sdpd headquarters from the site of the murder, in front of the Golden West Hotel in the gaslamp on April 4th (meet at 4:30pm, march at 5:30pm).
For more on the April 4th event:
http://www.sdimc.org/en/2006/04/114895.shtml
CLICK "READ MORE" for a List of events and FACT SHEET.
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Photos from Friday Walkouts and March 2
lotu5,
more photos, please post your own photos, stories and comments...
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Photos from Friday Walkouts and March
lotu5,
photos. please add your own photos, stories and comments!
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Queer Dems Reluctantly Endorse Susan Davis
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club on March 23 endorsed Susan Davis's re-election bid for Congress 30 to 7, despite some discontent over her refusal to co-sponsor a bill to end discrimination against Queers in the U.S. military. Davis campaign staffer Daniel Nava said she was trying to build support for repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy by meeting with military leaders in her role as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, but the statement Davis sent to the club to explain her position sounded to many club members suspiciously like the rationales used to enact the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the first place.
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"Stoned": The Death of a 1960's Rock Star
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
"Stoned," playing March 31 through April 6 at the Ken Cinema, is a powerful drama about the last days in the life of Brian Jones, founding member of the Rolling Stones rock band, who died in June 1969 one month after the other members of the band fired him. The film focuses on the unlikely friendship between the spaced-out substance-abusing Jones (Leo Gregory) and Frank Thorogood, the 40-something builder who entered his world when the Rolling Stones' management office sent him to remodel Jones's house.
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