Check out Hacklab- video
hacklab,

Hacklab is a multi-media DIY skill share that happens the third Wednesday of every month at Voz Alta (1544 Broadway). Last month we created this video together...check it out here and come to the next Hacklab June 21st, 7pm.
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Ugandan Émigré Speaks on Hidden Genocide
Mark Gabrish Conlan/H.E.A.L.-San Diego,

Charlie Lakony, Ugandan émigré and activist with Friends for Peace in Africa and the Campaign to End Genocide in Uganda Now (CEGUN), will speak to H.E.A.L.-San Diego [Health, Education, AIDS Liaison] on “The Hidden Genocide in Northern Uganda.” The meeting will take place on June 7, 7 p.m., at the War Memorial Building in Balboa Park, 3325 Zoo Drive, room 2, on the Park Boulevard side between Roosevelt Junior High School and the zoo parking lot. Admission is free and free parking is available.
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SDIMC Film Nite/Critical Mass Ride VIDEO
queer-j brad,

The San Diego Independent Media Center sponsored a Cycling Film Nite, Critical Mass Discussion and Critical Mass Ride on Wednesday, May 24. About 40 people attended the films, and about 35 went on the ride afterwards. The films, Return of the Scorcher and We are Traffic, both by filmmaker Ted White, were inspiring, if a bit long, the discussion was productive, and the ride, although it was laid back, or maybe because it was laid back, was the best I have been on. The first field test of the sdimc helmet cam gave rise to a short, crudely edited video.
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Call on CA Gov. to Investigate Chemtrails
sponsor: Eben Ray,

Calling for a State Level Investigation into the Aerial Spraying Campaign known as Chemtrails/Persistent Contrails.
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Confident U.S. generals commit war crimes
Bob Nichols,

A force multiplier is a technological method to multiply the aggressiveness and lethality of an armed force.
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Critical Mass- A Day of Celebration
Beby,

Critical Mass = Fun + Bikes + People + Streets + Honks

Critical Mass happends every last friday of the month. Bicyclists all over San Diego gather around the "Big Fountain" in Balboa Park at 7pm to ride the streets of San Diego in unity and harmony. This is a ride to show that there is a better way of transportation available to everyone; Bikes. Just like an act of activism, this ride is ment to have as much fun as you can. Critical Mass is a very fun event and I urge everyone with a bike to come and join us in this memorable experience and remember to ENJOY THE HONKS.

Critical Mass sucede cada ultimo viernes del mes. Biciclistas por todo San Diego se juntan en la Fuente mas grande de Balboa Park alas 7 de la noche para pasear por las calles de San Diego en unidad y armonia. Este paseo es para ensenar que ay alternativas de el uso de automovil. Igual que activismo, este paseo es para diversion. Envito a todos con bicicletas a venir a este evento agradable y memorable para todos.
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"May Day, I Repeat, May Day," Say Vets!
Cathy Garger,

No wonder why vets are now organizing and screaming “Mayday, Mayday!” And if you really think about it, could there possibly be any better reason to fly our American flags upside down?

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A Long Walk Home: Moving Film on Sudan
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

"A Long Walk Home," a 42-minute documentary on Sudan produced by a team of San Diego filmmakers and directed by Tiffany Frances Huang, was shown at the Media Arts Center in San Diego May 18 and proved to be an intensely moving depiction of the plight of southern Sudanese refugees stuck in Cairo, Egypt. They flee there in hopes of getting help from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) — only to wait months or even years before the commission even opens a file on their case. The film isn't all depressing, though; it also shows the dance and theatre group some of the refugees formed to keep their spirits up and celebrate Sudanese culture. Grace Smith, a member of the filmmaking team, appeared at the showing and took questions.
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"Pulp!": Pathos Behind the Camp
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The Diversionary Theatre/MOXIE Theatre co-production of "Pulp!," a Lesbian-themed musical by Chicago playwright Patricia Kane, pays homage to the cheap pulp novels about Lesbians published in the 1950's that gave many women-loving women of that era their first insights into how to live a sane and honorable Queer life. Though much of it satirizes the campy conventions of pulp fiction and film noir, Kane draws her characters with genuine emotion and complexity, creating a moving theatrical experience as well as dramatizing an important part of Lesbian history.
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Cygnet's Atwater an Acting Tour de Force
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Cygnet Theatre's production of Robert Myers' one-person play "Atwater: Fixin' to Die" offers Jeffrey Jones the opportunity for an acting tour de force as Lee Atwater, who was to the first President Bush what Karl Rove is to the second — his vicious, unprincipled hatchet man. Myers' script never quite resolves the contradiction between Atwater the unashamed race-baiter in his campaigns and Atwater the lover of African-American music and amateur blues player who recorded an album with B. B. King — but the piece does show that the seemingly anarchic, liberated energy of rock ’n’ roll could actually be quite easily harnessed to an ultra-indvidualist Right-wing political agenda.
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Support Idigenous Rights: Host a Movie Night
Rainforest Action Network,

Join activists across Canada and the United States in supporting the First Nations Community of Grassy Narrows by hosting a movie night. The film tracks the struggles and resistance movement of Grassy Narrows in their efforts to protect their land and way of life. Email  jwolke@ran.org to get more information and materials.
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GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY BENEFIT SHOW!
sdimc,

Saturday June 3rd, 8PM to Midnight at Voz Alta.

Support radioActive Radio, San Diego IndyMedia and Voz Alta!

See these bands:
Hijos de la Malinche, The Batwings, The Rabbits, and Hostil Comb-over!
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Intl Human Rights Observers Needed in Atenco
repost,

An International comission of human rights observers is being formed by a group in Barcelona. People can volunteer to participate and groups can sign on to endorse the comission.

 http://cciodh.pangea.org/


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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTIONS FOR ATENCO
erasmo,

SUMMARY FROM THE INTERGALACTIC COMMISSION OF THE EZLN OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS HELD IN SOLIDARITY WITH ATENCO
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As Bush Militarizes Border, Local Communities Say No.
Ella,

Border communities are united in their opposition to the Goode Amendment, and fear that the placement of National Guard troops on the border with Mexico will further exacerbate the state-of siege mentality that has extended over the region since militarization of the region began, in the name of immigration enforcement and the war on drugs, over a decade ago. Currently, border communities face arbitrary detentions and arrests by the Border Patrol, racial profiling is rampant in Latino neighborhoods, the presence of military vehicles and infrastructure are pervasive, and the use of deadly force by Border Patrol agents claims innocent lives each year.

See also: Bush sending thousands of National Guard troops to Mexican border | No Troops at the Border!
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Film Exposes Negroponte’s Human-Rights Abuses
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

John D. Negroponte has steadily risen through the ranks of the U.S. government, from ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980's and Mexico in the early 1990's to Bush's ambassador to the U.N. in 2001, ambassador to (and effective ruler of) Iraq in 2004 and now the head of ALL U.S. intelligence. But a Norwegian documentary, "The Ambassador," explores Negroponte's involvement in political killings and other human-rights abuses in Honduras when he was ambassador there. The film was screened May 10 at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest and Andreas Tomás Gutierrez, who defied Negroponte at his confirmation hearing for the U.N. appointment on September 13, 2001, spoke about the film and his work with Honduran human-rights activists who documented — and sometimes experienced — Negroponte's abuses.
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Genocide in Northern Uganda
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

On May 8 Activist San Diego moved its regular monthly meeting to the Alliance for African Assistance in the College area to hear Ugandan émigré Charlie Lakony of Friends for Peace in Africa and Kathy Smith of Amnesty International discuss the Ugandan government's human-rights abuses against the Acholi people in northern Uganda. Though the government blames the situation in the north on a religious-Right guerrilla movement called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Lakony and Smith argued that the government, not the LRA, is responsible for 93 percent of the over 3,000 people, many of them children, who die in northern Uganda every week. They also said Uganda has used the concentration-camp strategy to cut off northern Ugandans from their homes and land and render them vulnerable to deaths from disease and kidnapping by both LRA forces and Uganda's own army.
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SDIMC Cycling Film Nite/Critical Mass Ride
sdimc volunteer,

On Wednesday, May 24, The San Diego Independent Media Center will be showing two cycling films directed by legendary filmaker Ted White: “Return of the Scorcher” and “(We Aren’t Blocking Traffic) We Are Traffic!”

7:00PM Wednesday May 24, Voz Alta 1544 Broadway - one block from City College/Downtown. $3-5 donation requested

BRING YOUR BICYLES! (and a light) Critical Mass Ride Follows at ~ 8:30PM.

Check out the NEW (and seriously under construction) San Diego Critical Mass website:
 http://sandiegocriticalmass.org

To get involved in website/organizing activities, write to
 cycle@sandiegocriticalmass.org

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SD,Titan Corp,Skyway Communications,9/11
Tony Ryals,

The MadCowMorningNews has uncovered evidence implicating a San Diego defense contractor, The Titan Corporation, in fraud involving the shadowy St. Petersburg FL company involved in last month’s mysterious 5.5 ton cocaine seizure in Mexico.- Daniel Hopsicker

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Segunda Carta Abierta al compañero Presidente
ADELAIDA,

JUSTICIA!!
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Local Church to Revive Mother's Day Tradition
San Diego Foundation for Change,

First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego: Mother's Day Services to Benefit Social-Change Foundation

In the U.S., Mother's Day was originally associated with the peace movement, but it was also associated with religion, sanitation and pollution issues in Appalachia, opposition to capitalism, and a wide variety of public activism by women working to promote social and economic justice.

On Mother's Day, Sunday, May 14, 2006, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego will revive these traditions by supporting the San Diego Foundation for Change (SDFC) through "Generosity Sunday" services at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., with the offertory collections being donated to the Foundation.

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Over 200 Attend Anti-War Demo on Iran
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Despite only two days' notice, over 200 people attended a demonstration at the Federal Building in downtown San Diego May 6 to protest the Bush administration's plans for war against Iran. Speakers at the rally highlighted the similarities between the ways the Bush administration is pushing for an attack on Iran — including manipulating the media to create an atmosphere of fear that will lead the public to support the war — and the ways it previously pushed for the war on Iraq. There was also a lot of concern about the reports that the Bush administration plans to use so-called "tactical" nuclear weapons in any attack on Iran.
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Veteran Queer Leathermen Speak on S/M
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Veteran Leathermen Lonnie Cothron and Don Kandis spoke to the San Diego League of Gentlemen May 6 and talked about their experiences in the Leather-S/M community, including their participation in "Spanking Clubs." Cothron knew some of the pioneers in founding the modern Queer movement in L.A. and talked about the early years, and both men corrected the common misperception that S/M is exclusively about sex. Often, they said, it's simply a form of male-bonding and the emotions it raises are parental as or more often than they are romantic.
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Minutemen - Enforcers of Death on the Border
duko,

By Luciente Zamora

The U.S. government is enforcing, and trying to pass even worse laws that force immigrants even deeper into the shadows by criminalizing undocumented people and denying them basic services.

Alongside this increasing, inhumane repression, the powers-that-be are promoting an anti-immigrant, nativist, fascist movement throughout the U.S. This vigilante movement is persecuting and hunting down immigrants along the border region, and has also been organizing forces in major cities like Los Angeles and Chicago and counties throughout Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Among this fascist nativist movement, the Minutemen have emerged as a prominent vigilante group that has been gaining notoriety and legitimacy as expert guests on reactionary news channels like Fox and other mainstream media outlets like CNN.

Enrique Morones, whose group the Border Angels puts water through the desert for migrants, has been actively speaking out against the Minutemen and other vigilantes like Ranch Rescue, American Patrol, the Barnett Brothers, among others. Morones says that although the Minutemen are not an organization of thousands, as they often claim, the Minutemen and the increased militarization of the border are responsible for an increase in migrant deaths.

In a phone interview with Revolution, Morones said, “Before Operation Gatekeeper, which was implemented in 1994, there was one estimated death along the border every month. Since then, an estimated 4,000 people have died trying to cross the border.†He told Revolution that 4,000 bodies have been accounted for, but that the realistic number might be considerably higher, “possibly as much as 10,000 deaths.â€

It is difficult to measure the exact numbers because while some skeletons and scattered bones are found in the desert, many of the deceased bodies are never found.

Pat Washington v. CSU petition for rehearing
Bob Alba,

Pat Washington takes case to the FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT. This is a copy of the motion for rehearing.
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Guest worker programs DON'T WORK!
Bob,

Demand legalization, not amnesty! Human rights, not guest worker programs! Freedom of movement, not borders!

This is taken from a middle section of an article titled, "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" reposted in the Western Service Workers Association's publication California Service Worker, San Diego Edition.
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San Ysidro, May Day March to Border
Mike,

Photos from May 1st protest/march at San Diego (San Ysidro) border.
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Enrique Morones and the March for Migrants
Enrique Morones and the March for Migrants,

Throughout February Enrique Morones, founder of the Border Angels, led a nationwide trip called the "Marcha Migrante" or "March for Migrants." In a presentation on April 10 — one day after the big downtown march for immigrant rights that attracted 100,000 participants — Morones talked about how the contacts he made on the "Marcha Migrante" helped build the big nationwide immigrant-rights protests in March and April. Morones will be repeating his presentation May 12 at Chicano Perk in National City, 616 National City Blv’d., (619) 474-7375, www.chicanoperk.com, www.borderangels.com; for more information see  http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=12427
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Immigration Blues
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

This editorial, published in the May 2006 issue of Zenger's Newsmagazine, argues that immigration is not as simple a problem as either the Right or the Left makes it out to be; that the real issue is the economic and social inequity both within and between countries, and the ways the corporate ruling class exploit these inequalities; and the short-term solutions are to treat undocumented immigrants already here with respect and enforce the labor laws to protect the wages and benefits of American workers, whatever their citizenship or residency status.
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Church Commemorates Chernobyl's 20th Anniv.
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The Peace and Democracy Action Group of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest held a program April 26 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Rochelle Becker talked about why there's no way to make nuclear power plants safe, and Angelina Galiteva, head of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), talked about the economic incentives that can help bring about the transition to renewable energy sources — as well as the so-called "portfolio" plan, a "market-based" solution being tried in the U.S. which she says will only delay the transition to renewables.
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