Demo to Save Kenneth Foster August 27
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

On Monday, August 27, at 5 p.m. on Broadway in front of Horton Plaza between Third and Fourth Streets downtown, there will be a demonstration to save Texas death-row inmate Kenneth Foster from being executed on August 30 and win him a new trial. This article details the Foster case and exposes the major miscarriages of justice that led to Foster's conviction and death sentence for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It also quotes from Foster himself and mentions his organization D.R.I.V.E. (Death Row Inter-communalist Vanguard Engagement), a group of death row prisoners campaigning both for improved conditions and for an end to capital punishment itself. For more information, please see Foster's Web site at www.freekenneth.com
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Censored at a large website
Mark,

The following exchange between me (MARK), a former elections official (KURT), and an advocate of hand-counted paper ballot (HCPB) elections (KATHLEEN), was deleted by the administrator of a large website.
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911-2B: American Nightmare & Neocon Fantasy
Captain Eric H. May,

Captain Eric May, the Internet intelligence writer, gives an insightful geopolitical summary, giving full consideration to the prospect of a summer World War Three. He continues his investigative work on "Noble Resolve," the nuclear exercise centered on Portland. He examines a parallel, equally perilous incident in Texas City, Texas a year an a half ago, which nearly resulted in a nuclear false flag attack.
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Staging the Portland Nuke (A Comedy of Terro
Captain Eric H. May,

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet military intelligence writer, has written his most detailed article to date on the highly suspicious Portland Nuke exercise, Noble Resolve. He names the names of the key players in the operation, and of the military and media figures who have joined the growing outcry about what may turn out to be a false flag version of the White Houses much- predicted terror nuke.
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PORTLAND NUCLEAR INQUEST... Formed & Function
Captain Eric H. May,

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer posts this important update announcing the formation of the Portland Nuclear Inquest.
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Stay Home Wins in Oaxaca Election, PRI Retains Power
compiled by san diego indymedia volunteer,

In Sunday elections in Oaxaca, close to 80% of the electorate elected not to vote, meaning that the candidates of PRI (the party of murderous dictator Ulises Ruiz, which has long held power) won all open offices. The overwhelming lack of participation was somewhat unexpected, given APPO's (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca) call for a punishment vote against the ruling party.

Reports:
por Centro de Medios Libres: Al menos ocho de cada diez ciudadanos oaxaqueños convocados a las urnas (2 millones 383 mil 667), despreciaron la vía electoral como el medio para “dirimir sus diferencias”. Con más del 60 por ciento de las casillas computadas, el nivel de abstencionismo ronda el 80 por ciento, superando todos los pronósticos, que señalaban que el mismo sería del 40 por ciento.--Leer Mas--

por El ChicoZapote: Ya que terminó el “ejercicio democrático” de ayer, estamos de vuelta en la normalidad autoritaria. Obviamente nunca salimos de ella, y la elección, tan costosa, fue parte de esta realidad autoritaria. Y por eso la gran mayoría de la ciudadanía, el 70%, no votó, no entró a este juego. Aunque los tachan de desobligados, de ignorantes, de antidemocráticos, la verdad es que el abstencionismo se debe al hecho que la mayoría no encuentra un lugar dentro de las instituciones políticas: la percepción de las instituciones, y de la “democracia” electoral es de profunda desconfianza, de rechazo, de asco. El acto de votar es visto como ejercicio de legitimación de un sistema deplorable, o simplemente como perdida de tiempo, que al final es lo mismo.--Leer Mas--

from South Notes: Although the preliminary results are still being tallied, it’s already apparent that the big winner in today’s legislative elections is “none of the above”. At just after midnight local time, the State Electoral Institute showed that 75% of the electorate chose not to vote today. [Note: That number may change as more ballots are tallied.] --Read More--

from Barucha Calamity Peller: Last night, while the votes were being counted that confirmed a PRI sweep of the state legistlative elections, three people were taken off the streets of the Zocalo in Oaxaca City by police at approximately 10 pm. Among them were two Catalans and one Mexican woman...[the detainees apparently have been accounted for] The elections, in which almost 80% of the Oaxacan population abstained from voting, came as a dissapointment for the APPO’s “punishment vote” campaign against the PRI.--Read More--

Background:
from Barucha Calamity Peller: Has the world forgotten about Oaxaca? Political activity, from repression to organizing, is still just as present as when the Oaxaca uprising was visible in the streets, but with the appearance of normalcy in Oaxaca City it seems that many of us have begun the process of forgetting or assuming that the Oaxaca struggle is over. --Read More--

from South Notes: Mexico’s Ejercito Revolucionario Popular (EPR) guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for the two explosive devices found in Oaxaca City yesterday. One of the devices damaged the shuttered front entrance of the Sears department store in the Plaza del Valle shopping center district, while the other (placed in a Banamex branch in a different neighborhood) did not detonate. --Read More--


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Radical Right Mounts Two Rival Anti-Marriage Drives
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Two rival radical-Right initiatives being proposed to ban legal recognition of same-sex marriages in California reveal a split in strategy and tactics within the anti-Queer, anti-marriage movement. The California Family Council, affiliated with Jim Dobson’s powerful Focus on the Family organization, is promoting a so-called “Protect Marriage” initiative that would simply write into the state constitution Proposition 22, passed by California voters 61 to 39 percent in 2000, which defined marriage in California exclusively as the union of one man and one woman.

Another group, called the Voters’ Right to Protect Marriage Initiative and headed by former California Assemblymember Larry Bowler, is going farther and pushing a ballot measure that would not only define marriage as one man and one woman but would also repeal California’s landmark domestic partnership legislation. Both groups are fighting for large-scale financial backing to pay signature gatherers to get their initiatives on the ballot.

The two rival initiatives are coming up in the middle of a process by which supporters of marriage equality for same-sex couples are pushing their demand in the legislature and the courts. In 2005, both houses of the California state legislature passed a marriage equality bill, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it and said in his veto message that the final determination of whether California should legally recognize same-sex marriages should be made by the courts or by voters.--Read More--

Equality California Website
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Africanist Movement establishes program for 2
Uhuru News,

The Africanist Movement, an organization based in several territories in West Africa, launches its revolutionary national democratic program that will provide solutions for the desperate problems facing African people and expose the neocolonial petty bourgeoisie contending for power through the electoral process. This general campaign is occurring during the election season in Sierra Leone, where in early August members of parliament and a new president will be elected.

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No RNC, No DNC- down with all politicians!
RNC Welcoming Committee,

A resolution of support for those organizing against the DNC,
from the Twin Cities’ RNC Welcoming Committee
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Kehoe Addresses Queer Dems on State Budget
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

State Senator Christine Kehoe, who became San Diego County's first openly Queer elected official in 1993 and has held elective office ever since, made a surprise appearance at the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club July 26. She talked mainly about why the state doesn't have a budget yet, blaming the impasse on the California constitution's two-thirds vote requirement to pass a budget and the recalcitrance of the 15 Republicans in the State Senate, who have refused to vote for a budget unless it has majority Republican support — and are demanding sweeping cuts in social services and environmental protection as the price of their agreement on a state budget.
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Henry H. Bauer: HIV Can't Be an STD
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Henry H. Bauer, retired professor of chemistry and scientific history at Virginia Tech University, has published a book, "The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory." The three-part book examines the statistical evidence and proves that, whatever the so-called "HIV test" measures, it is NOT the spread of a sexually transmitted virus. Bauer also examines the history of science and analyzes how the idea that HIV causes AIDS hardened into dogma and became part of conventional wisdom despite its scientific impossibility.
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Peter DeFazio and the Portland Nuke
Captain Eric.H. May,

Captain Eric H. May, a former Army military intelligence and public affairs officer, offers an update to his "Next 9/11, Summer 2007?" Since that publication last week, the Pacific Northwest has begun to mobilize a citizens movement against "Operation Noble Resolve," which includes a nuclear attack on Portland.
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Gloria Arroyo’s Economy: NOT WORKING
Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) ,

Today, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo will again address the Congress to give a report on the achievements of her government, and at the same time express her primary focus for the next year. As she did during her previous State of the Nation Address (SONA) speeches, she may yet again boast the economic feats of her administration, including the strengthening of the peso and the recent booming of the stock market.


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Gonzales hammered on Ashcroft hospital visit
TH,

Sparking the ire of several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claimed on Tuesday that the controversial 2004 hospital visit he made to his predecessor, John Ashcroft, dealt not with the warrantless eavesdropping that the administration has confirmed but with an entirely different program.

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Pres. Candidate Wants Iraq Vote on Ballots
Stewart A. Alexander,

Many top Congressional Democrats and Republicans are now taking the position that it will be necessary for the US to maintain a military presence in Iraq into 2009. Despite plummeting American support for the Iraq War, Congress continues to support the occupation and American imperialism. Stewart Alexander, a presidential hopeful with Peace and Freedom Party, believes it has become necessary to put the Iraq War vote in the hands of the American voters.



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Tell Your Cal Legislator to Support SB840
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The outstanding movie, Sicko, on the crisis in the US medical system, raises the issue once again this year in California, as with last year, does the state legislature have enough votes to pass SB840 for singlepayer healthcare and override Nazi Schwarzenegger's veto? It will if you tell your California assemblyperson and senator to co-sponsor SB840.
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Seeking Solace in the Farce of Christianity
Jeff Graves,

Christianity continues to be a threat to freedom and democratic ideals. Alhtough many Atheists are coming "out-of-the-closet", insofar as their unbelief, there are still a plethora of Christian-Fascists who espouse a religious world view wherein any dissenter is condemned. This short essay is a philisophical reflection on the state of the Christian religion in U.S. politics...
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Recording of LGBT Pride "Celebration" 7/15/07
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Recording of the San Diego LGBT Pride "Celebration" July 15 at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, featuring presentation of the "Stonewall Service Award" to police chief William Lansdowne (hold your noses!) as well as an inspirational speech by 16-year-old out Lesbian Missy Luber, Seth Kilbourn of the Equality California lobby on how to defeat a California anti-marriage initiative, and performances by entertainers Peech and Noah Sugarman.
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Marjorie Cohn Speaks on Bush's Legal Abuses
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

National Lawyers' Guild president and Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Marjorie Cohn gave a talk to Progressive Democrats of San Diego July 19 on the long train of legal abuses and usurpations perpetrated by the Bush administration, from lying their way into Congressional and public approval for an illegal war against Iraq to torture, targeted assassinations and "extraordinary renditions" abroad, indiscriminate killings of civilians, surveillance at home and flouting the authority of Congress.
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Black Thursday
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Two things that happened on Thursday, June 28 were so dire in their portents for America’s political future that the day may well go down in history as “Black Thursday.” First, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out two attempts to integrate public schools in Seattle and Louisville on the ground that school districts can’t make race a factor in assigning children to schools even to undo the effects of over a century of past discrimination against students of color. Then, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly killed a bad immigration “reform” bill because of organized political pressure from talk-radio hosts and other members of the rabid Right because it wasn’t punitive enough against so-called “illegal” immigrants. These events are a wake-up call to people still naïve enough to think the results of the 2006 election are the beginning of a progressive revival.
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Question:So what was this Iraq War really all
Rodney Bleckstyne,

All the 2008 Presidential candidates,exept for maybe one or two,make all their election speeches about Iraq as if this war was a bit mishandled,but overall that it was a (wave the flag!) credible,vital and legitimate expenditure of American lives and taxpayer dollars!


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Police Chief, 16-Yr.-Old at Pride Celebration
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

San Diego police chief William Lansdowne, who received a "Stonewall Service Award" on behalf of his department for the speed with which they apprehended the Queer-bashers at last year's Pride Festival, and 16-year-old out Lesbian Missy Luber were the highlights of the San Diego LGBT Pride "Spirit of Stonewall Ce3ebration," held July 15 at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park to kick off the San Diego Pride parade and festival July 21 and 22. The event, usually held on the eve of the parade on the festival grounds at Marston Point, was moved up five days, and its name changed from "rally" to "celebration" to soften the politics of the event.
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Letter to the Philippine President
Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL),

Letter to the Philippine President on widespread violations of human, democratic, workers' and trade union rights


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Letter to the Philippine President
Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL),

Letter to the Philippine President on widespread violations of human, democratic, workers' and trade union rights


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PHILIPPINES: leader killed by Maoist rebels
PDSP,

San Pablo City, A woman peace advocate and the local head of the social movement Aksyon Sambayanan (People's Action) was killed Monday night by armed men believed to be members of the Maoist New People’s Army (NPA).


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David Cole on Why We're Losing Terror War
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

David Cole, law professor at Georgetown University and attorney who's represented some of the victims of the U.S.'s judicial abuses in the so-called "war on terror" before the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke at the Lyceum Theatre in Horton Plaza June 26 in an appearance sponsored by the San Diego Public Library. Cole said that the flagrant violations of due process and human rights committed by the Bush administration have not only weakened America's standing in the world community, but there have actually been more terror incidents against Americans worldwide than there were before 9/11.
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Queer Democrats Endorse Whitburn for Council
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed its former president, Stephen Whitburn, for San Diego City Council in the 2008 election for the Third District seat now held by Toni Atkins. By endorsing Whitburn, the club defied the Queer establishment represented by the Gay & Lesbian Times newspaper, which had urged the club to delay the endorsement until after the first fundraising period at the end of July; and the paper's columnist, Nicole Murray Ramirez, who has personally endorsed Todd Gloria, aide to Congressmember Susan Davis, and has repeatedly urged that Whitburn and all other Queer candidates withdraw from the race to make Gloria the one and only choice for Queer and Queer-friendly voters.
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Teen Producers Project Honors Local Activists
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,