2004 Grants/Foundation for Change
Charles,

Here's a table of organizations awarded grants by San Diego Foundation for Change. (Note: RRGPCL stands for "Rapid Response Grant for Peace and Civil Liberties [via the Funding Exchange.])

"The mission of the San Diego Foundation for Change is to fund and support community-led efforts which promote social equality, economic justice, and environmental sustainability."

We promote positive, permanent change in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. Our goal is to end:

* Discrimination
* Lack of opportunity
* Poverty
* Environmental degradation

We do this by empowering small, community-based organizations with funding and technical assistance."

community softball game sunday june 6th 11 am
ccap,

Come join members of the community in a softball game @ 11 am Sunday june 6th, 2004 at the Golden Hills Recreation Center 2600 Golf Course Dr. San Diego, CA 92102. Donations are accepted but no one will be turned away. Money is being raised for the Oct 2nd's Operation Gatekeeper Protest.
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New Fraternal Club/Lodge Being Formed
Herbert Cohen,

A New Fraternal Club/lodge is now being formed in San Diego as part of a 118 year old Fraternal Club/Lodge. New members of all ages, gender, ethnic origin or religion are welcome. We have a very important agenda to help our fellow human beings. Won't you join us?
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Free Sex for US Soldiers!
Flabbergasted Human Being (ashamed American),

Women are lining up to join "Operation Take One for the Country," a group of "dedicated" women who believe that instead of having casual sex with just ordinary guys, they should "take one for the country" and give service to men in uniform.
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San Diego IndyMedia Announcements (May 24th)
sdimc,

The SDIMC has big week coming up! We would love to have your participation at these exciting events. Friday night we are kicking-off a series of activities leading up to our "Media EmergenC" conference in October! Friday's event features poets and politics as we expose what is CENSORED from mainstream corporate media. Also in our effort to enrich San Diego's Media Culture we are teaming up with Voz Alta for the first of several film nights at their excellent space Wednesday evening and on Thursday Lotus of the SDIMC has a short film in the Brew and View Series at The Whistle Stop Pub.

We are also very happy to announce that we were awarded one of the Change Makers Grants from the San Diego Foundation for Change! Please come to one of our events this week and help us celebrate.
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Protest Against Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Over 40 people turned out Friday afternoon, May 21, for a vigil outside the Federal Building in downtown San Diego to protest Israel's ongoing campaign of genocide against the Palestinians in the occupied territories, particularly the recent murder of over 40 people and the bulldozing of hundreds of homes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Participants, many of them of Palestinian ancestry, not only called for Israel's withdrawal to pre-1967 borders but also for the controversial "right of return" of Palestinian refugees to Israel itself.
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Transcript of 5/21 Palestinian Demo
transcribed by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Transcript of interviews conducted by two IMC volunteers and a corporate media worker with participants in the May 21 downtown vigil to protest Israel's genocidal tactics against the Palestinians in general, particularly the recent killing of over 40 people and the bulldozing of hundreds of homes in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Note how much more freely the KUSI interviewer spoke once he was no longer filming.
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Photo of Striking SBC Workers
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Photo of striking SBC Communications workers taken as they were picketing SBC's North Park offices on May 21, 2004, the first day of their strike. The conflict is yet another attempt by a giant corporation to cut labor costs by slashing workers' health-care benefits.
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Bacon Exposes Neoliberalism in Mexico, Iraq
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

David Bacon, who after a 20-year career as a labor organizer for progressive unions like the United Farm Workers (UAW) and United Electrical Workers (UE) took up journalism and photography, gave a presentation at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest May 18, which focused on how what’s happening to Mexican workers (and to U.S. workers whose jobs are being moved to Mexico and often taken up by Mexican children) under NAFTA is only a part of neoliberal globalization and its plan to exploit most of the world, including Iraq, where the U.S. occupation is imposing neoliberal economics at gunpoint.
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Finders Keepers - an outreach/protest action
d.o.,

Crumple up hundreds of 9/11 "dollar bills" and casually drop them in places where mainstream Americans frequent. Your freedom is worth the investment.
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CCAP Targets Landlord and Wins Demands
Roman ,

The California Coalition Against Poverty targetted a landlord in the Lemon Grove area yesterday Saturday 22nd and won for two families affected by the landlord the demands for extending the unfair eviction notices.

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Bring the Troops Home! Protest 6/26
Milkitary Families Speak Out! San Diego,

Military Families, Veterans, Active-duty Military, and concerned citizens all stand up on June 26 for the prompt return of our loved ones from their over-extended stay in Iraq.

End the Occupation of Iraq and Bring Our Troops Home!
RALLY-PROTEST
Saturday, June 26th
1 pm Federal Building
Broadway and Front St.
San Diego

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Greg Palast's Return to San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Greg Palast spoke in San Diego at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church May 9 to promote the latest edition of his book, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." His speech was similar to the one he'd given over a year earlier at the same location but contained some new material about the origins of the U.S.-imposed economic plan for postwar Iraq and the dangers of electronic voting and computerized purges of the voter database.
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SDIMC Awarded Changemaker Grant
SDIMC / S.D. Foundation for Change,

The San Diego Independent Media Center is grateful to have been awarded a $1,500.00 grant by San Diego Foundation for Change.
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OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO YOUR PANTS
Erin M. Blakemore,

FDA blocks over-the-counter emergency contraception - again.
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MARCH FOR WOMENS LIVES
Danielle Siembieda,

March 25, 2004 1.15 Million People March the streets of DC for a womans right to choose.
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tech update, downtime, etc
sandiego indymedia,

We were down for about a day, but we're happily back now. We've had anothre hardware failure and need your donations more than ever.

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Occupied Territory: Anarchist Gathering 2004
lunAcy,

please spread the word widley...(repost please)
Fresno CA June 18-21
www.occupiedterritory.net


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US Torture Exposed, The People Respond
lotus,

In response to a report of prisoner torture and murder inside prisons across Iraq, which was leaked to the media recently, people are standing up across the globe to decry the US and UK's use of torture. The graphic images have been shown on media outlets across the country, but some are still claiming that they're being censored.

As the evidence of torture grows, many are calling for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation. In a senate hearing where Rumsfeld was questioned today, a group of concerned people stood up and chanted "Fire Rumsfeld" while holding a banner saying the same.

Independent contractors have been implicated in the toture as well, creating a growing discussion fo the private war going on in Iraq. A demonstration of around 100 people was held in front of one of the contractor's, Titan Corporation's, headquarters, as well as a press conference. More demonstrations are planned.

Amid all this, there is still very little discussion in the media about the fact that this type of behaviour is taught, expected, and awarded in the military; and that this kind of torture has been going on in Guantanamo Bay for years. As in Guantanamo, a recent Democracy Now show discussed how in Iraqi prisions "there was no process for determining who was innocent".

DC Indymedia | UK Indymedia | ZMag on War Crimes | Counterpunch: Abu Ghraib as My Lai?

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Who Will Stop CAFTA Contest
Quixote Center,

Quest for Peace of the Quixote Center will run a full-page, New York Times signature ad in opposition to CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The 44,000 dollars and 2,500 signatures it takes is being raised from engaged citizens like you, who wish to proudly and publicly say "No" to CAFTA. The state with the highest number of signers (as a percentage of the state's total population) will be specifically acknowledged in the New York Times Ad. Show the country and Mr. Bush that your state will not tolerate CAFTA! See ad text below.
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Join the Public Outcry
San Diegan,

Demonstration and Press Conference

Time: Thurs. May 6th 4 - 6 PM

Place: Titan Headquarters in La Jolla

3033 Science Park Road


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SD Leather Title Holders Show Mutual Respect
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Six current or former San Diego Leather community title holders — Graylin Thornton, sheryl lee, Bill Mitchell, Juan Zazueta and MC Adam Latham — appeared at the April 21 meeting of the San Diego League of Gentlemen (SDLOG), a predominantly Queer Leatherman group. The titleholders were a remarkably diverse group: African-American, Latino and white; Queer and straight; deaf and hearing, and showed a great deal of mutual admiration and respect.
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FRSD 96.9FM Increases Power Output
DJ SpicedHam,

The pirates have once again pumped their signal up nice and loud.
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Border Patrol on a Rampage
xicanafarian,

It seemes as though the migra is also going through budget cuts and in an attempt to "rationalize" and "justify" their budget, they have taken it upon themselves to go balls out on raids and the patrolling of brown folks. Through the grapevine, I received an email that was directly issued from the Border Patrol to the SDTC (transit system) and was circulated internally amongst the transit system employees. It reads like this...
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Hardware and Volunteers Urgently Needed
lotus,

We urgently need donations of PC and Mac hardware for San Diego Indymedia and for a new Indymedia in Guadalajara being set up to cover a mobilization there.

Recently we have had a number of hardware failures, and most of the hardware that we do have is many years old. We need computers for all the projects we're working on, Sandiego.Indymedia.Org, the Free Press, and our new video collective.

In addition, we are looking for volunteers who want to help us create independent media. We need people with all kinds of skills, tech skills, editorial skills, photo, audio, video, fundraising, you name it.

If you want to continue to see great, honest, radical coverage of social movements in San Diego, please volunteer some time to help us make that happen.

Please contact us to donate time or hardware at 619-233-5002, or by emailing us info at sdimc dot org.
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Art of Dissent, Short Films and Music May 19
Michael Klam,

Present and perform your work in the Museum of the Living Artist. Listen to sax and flute by Mister Jones, and check out the features: Glenda, The Art of Dissent, and Steven Coy, Better Non Sequitur.
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Living Wage delayed again
Charles Nelson,

Labor and religious advocates of the working poor clashed with representatives of poverty-wage employers today. However, after nearly three hours of presentations, the City Council's Rules Committee put off the Committee's vote for another two weeks.
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Anti-War event 4/19/04 SD
Calaca Press,

Calacas Contra la Guerra Poetry Reading, presented by Poject YANO and the Red CalacArts Collective on Monday, April 19, 2004 @ 7:00pm at Memorial Academy Auditorium 2850 Logan Ave., SD, CA 92113 (Barrio Logan)

Cost: $5 General and $2 students (Proceeds go to Project YANO)

Ballpark Opening Day Protested
Rocky Neptun,

Over 100 community members turned out to say, "People First!" to the crowd at the opening game. Thomas, however, couldn't make it...
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Was Artist Jessica Lawless Censored?
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Was Queer artist Jessica Lawless censored when her three pieces, "Blue Things I Wear" — one of which depicted a dildo — were removed from an art show at the University of San Diego last February? An on-campus forum held to discuss that highlighted not only the expected issue of artistic freedom but also the limitations on Queer activists on a Roman Catholic campus and the fear they work under than their groups can be shut down at any time by administrative fiat.
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