Emily Hicks Veer Towards Queer Interview P2
queer-j brad,

Interview with Emily Hicks, Professor at San Diego State University on July 11, 2005 -- Veer Towards Queer / radioActive sanDiego
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Emily Hicks Veer Towards Queer Interview P1
queer-j brad,

Interview with Emily Hicks, Professor at San Diego State University on July 11, 2005 -- Veer Towards Queer / radioActive sanDiego
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Voluntary family planning
Kenneth Andersson,

On February 25, 2006 world population reached 6.5 billion.

By, 2050, our human numbers are estimated to reach 9.1 billion, but they could rise as high as 12 billion people.

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San Diego Dyke March/Ride and Festival
two san diego indymedia volunteers,

At noon on July 22, about 100 marchers and over 50 cyclists took to the streets in the 2007 San Diego Dyke March/Ride, traveling from Balboa Park to the Rubber Rose in North Park, the site of an afternoon Dyke Festival.

Marchers and cyclists carried signs reading Dykes, Not Bombs; Girl Kisses are Delicious; This is What A Dyke Looks Like; Pride is Sexy; Dyke Pride; Vagina, Vagina; Just Dyke It; and Free the Newark/Lesbian Seven. Chants, energized by the Radical Fucking Cheerleaders, included: We're Here, We're Queer, We're Fabulous, Don't Fuck With Us; If You're Queer and You Know It And You Really Want To Show It, Clap Your Hands; We Don't Need Your Christian Hate, Separation of Church and State; and What Do We Want? Equal Rights! When Do Want Them? Now! Cyclists provided a safe space for the marchers to take one and sometimes two lanes on the street.

Festival attendees flowed between the cool interior of the Rubber Rose; workshops; a beergarden down the street; the City Heights Free Skool Bike Kitchen Mobile Clinic; performances by locals MC Flow, Dropjoy, Lauren DeRose, Eileen Myles, Jiggle It! Bitch Burlesque and Addiquit; chillin in the shade with friends; and a giant (painted) vagina.

San Diego Dyke March/Ride & Festival Video: Part One | Part Two

San Diego Dyke March | City Heights Free Skool Bike Kitchen | The Rubber Rose

Additional Pride Coverage: Police Chief, 16-Yr.-Old at Pride Celebration | Recording of LGBT Pride "Celebration" 7/15/07

Comments on landsdowne 'stonewall award':
from techno-tranny-slut: Giving awards to the murderous, violent SDPD is just too much. I'm disgusted. Its a good thing that the radical queer movement in san diego is growing, because this is a disgusting way to honor stonewall.
from Michel: It's almost as bad as having the fuck'in police in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade every god-damn year! We do remember the history of the Stonewall Riots, right! Cops trying to make good? - Hell no! It's just like the blacks & brown fighting a white man's war! You know about the military industrial complex history, right! Or do I have to get into that too? Point being: Fuck the police! Who's streets? Our streets! You racist-sexist-antigay... You can't take my rights away!
from a queer: giving a murderous thug an award has nothing to do with stonewall and everything to do with serving the interests of the elite, who are protected by landsdowne's roving armed gangs. it was made plain last year that the apprehension of the bashers was related to protecting the bonanza that straight and queer rich people make from ordinary folks at corporate pride with their fucking overpriced events, hotel rooms, etc.

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Femicide Conference Video
Rebeca,

Video from femicide conference held in May at Stanford University. Story coming soon!
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Gender Savagery in Guatemala
Michael Parenti and Lucia Muñoz,

On the outskirts of Guatemala City the body of an 18-year-old woman of indigenous ethnicity was recently discovered by her frantic parents who had been searching long and hard. Forensic evidence showed that she had been repeatedly raped and tortured and that her head had been severed from her body with a blunt knife while she was still alive.

This killing was more than just a passing aberration. Nightmarish crimes against women have been occurring with horrifying frequency in Guatemala. In the last seven years, over 3,200 Guatemalan women have been abducted and murdered, with many of them raped, tortured, and mutilated in the doing. The number of victims has shown a striking increase in the last few years with some six hundred murdered in 2006 alone.

Related: Guatemala Femicide: Happy Mother's Day???? | Video: Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala || More Info: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
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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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Femicides in Guatemala
.,

As femicides continue in Juarez, Iraq and elsewhere, and corporate media ignores them, further reports of the pervasive nature of atrocities against women continue to accumulate. A report on femicides in Guatemala by Parenti and Munoz:

"While these murders may seem like little more than random thrill killings to some observers, in fact they serve a function of social control much as would any form of state terrorism. The violence perpetrated against individuals creates a pervasive climate of fear and horror within the victimized families and communities, thereby discouraging social protest and popular resistance. Instead of organizing around any number of crucial politico-economic issues, many of the demoralized and traumatized families cower in stunned silence." (Parenti and Munoz)

 http://www.miamericas.info

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Urgent Action for women in Ciudad Juarez
robles,

Members of an organization set up to fight for justice for women abducted and murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, and lawyers working with them, have been threatened and harassed, apparently because of their work.
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"I wish Canada would remain Pro Choice"
Casey Y,

Vote for "I wish Canada would remain Pro Choice" on the CBC's Wish List Contest




Celebrating Canada’s 140th birthday, the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) is hosting the Great Canadian Wish list on Facebook. Unfortunately, the anti-choice conservative extremists have decided to impose their anti-choice anti gender equality agenda on the rest of Canada.


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FOR TOTAL FREEDOM // Anti-G8 News Podcast
dj lotu5,

On this week's episode of Desiring (Incendiary Devices) Machines, I summarize the recent news about the resistance to the G8 in Germany including the recent actions in Hamburg (burning cop cars and over a thousand person black bloc! not bad for a first action...), the demonstration ban, the partial lifting of the demonstration ban and the refugee caravan to the G8...

Listen here:
 http://radioactiveradio.org/node/339

Subscribe to my podcast here:
 http://feeds.feedburner.com/didm

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Jerry Falwell’s Legacy
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Jerry Falwell, who died May 15, permanently changed the face of American politics. While he didn't actually found the Moral Majority — he was merely recruited as a figurehead by secular Republican political operatives who wanted to pull the votes of evangelical Christians away from Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election — he and the movement he helped launch have made it impossible to win high elective office in the U.S. without believing in an interventionist God who takes a direct, ongoing role in human affairs. Falwell's movement also has established a relentlessly anti-women's rights, anti-Queer rights base of support for the Republican Party and been a key factor in moving the entire center of gravity in U.S. politics Rightward for the last quarter-century.
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SD Artist Cultivates Spiritual, Sexual Garden
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

San Diego artist François Michel Beausoleil is noteworthy for the rich colors and backgrounds of his paintings and their wide variety of subject matter, from poerful male nudes to peaceful contemplations of the spiritual world. A French Canadian from Montreal, Beausoleil considers himself multicultural and regards his theme as the common nature of humanity. He's currently at work on a series of paintings called "My Spiritual Garden" which he hopes to exhibit as a group; the paintings consist of various individuals posed in the Buddhist meditation pose inside the lotus flower.
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G8: Courts Grant Appeal: Star March Happening
repost from the Star March Coalition,

Star March Coalition

Press Release
May 25th 2007

*G8 2007 Protests in Germany*

*Courts Grant Appeal: Star March Can Happen*
The Star March Intends to go all the Way to the Kempinski Hotel
‘State of Emergency’ Does Not Justify a General Ban

The urgent appeal of the Star March Coalition lodged at the Schwerin
Court has been successful. The Coalition had lodged a law suit against
the general demonstration ban issued by the police department. A general
injunction over a 40 square kilometer area had been designated as a
demonstration free zone. Such an injunction would have been
unprecedented in the history of Germany.

More info here:  http://dissentnetwork.org
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G8: Germant Govt Bans Demonstrations
Gipfelsoli Infogruppe,

All demonstrations in the vicinity of Heiligendamm have been prohibited
under a General Ban issued by the German Office for Association. The
grounds behind the fence and a 4 kilometre area around the perimetre of
the fence fall under the ban. With this ban, the protests are to be held
at a 6 kilometre distance.

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UpcomingEvents at the City Heights Free Skool
City Heights Free Skool,

Calendar and updates at  http://ciyheightsfreeskool.org !

Fri, May 25th, City Heights Free Skool Benefit Party!

8pm, Benefit Dance Party Begins!
Kegs and Bands!

Music by:
Chaz
Dr. Bird from Jehova's Fitness
DJ Lotu5
DJ Selectakon 43

$5 donation or a bike part or garden tool for a donation!
Vegan Cupcakes! Prizes, drinks, art, zines!!!

4246 Wightman St, San Diego, 92105
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Overthrow the Circus! DIDM show 2
dj lotu5,

Here's the second show of Desiring (Incendiary Devices) Machines. Onto doesn't join me, but Private Pipi from the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army does and we talk about the Circus of (Im)Migration, the No Borders Camp in November, creative resistance and healing laughter.

Music by: Lady Sovereign
and music from the new Entartete Kunst album!!!

Listen here - 17MB Mp3
 http://bang.calit2.net/rasd/system/files/didm-2007-05-14.mp3

Comment here! Please!
 http://bang.calit2.net/rasd/comment/reply/50#comment-form

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 http://feeds.feedburner.com/didm

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Action ALERT: 4PM Protest at San Diego's Cox
Sister Kitty Catalyst,

SAN DIEGO — Gay community and youth activists call for peaceful protests April 27th from 4-7PM at San Diego Cox Arena of Teenmania’s youth rally teaching anti-gay intolerance and war culture to seduce and prey upon teenagers.
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Gender Borders & National Borders
repost from deleteTheBorder ,

From chaparral/deleteTheBorder: what do I mean by gender borders? By gender borders, I refer to the line that’s drawn between female & male, woman & man. The line that causes doctors to feel an obligation to use surgery on a non-consenting intersex baby to make it conform to the sex on one side of the border or the other. The line that means you don’t put a baby boy in a pink outfit or give a young girl a beebee gun or a toy truck and such examples. But also the line that means women should be put in their place- and stay there. If she rejects her submissive role, she’s called a bitch. The line that makes it so there are certain things that if a guy does, he’s subject to be called “fag” or “pussy”...

They’re trying to build a big wall on the border, dividing native people’s lands, making it more likely people will die crossing, wasting a fucking ton of money, and profiting the private corporations who will be involved in the development of it... Corporations are involved in the detainment and transportation of undocumented immigrants; people are blaming the immigrants for lack of jobs, but ignoring the fact that corporations are bringing thousands of job out of the country to exploit cheaper labor; the minutemen are patrolling the border for the 3rd year in a row, immigrants are getting shot by the border patrol...

I’m arguing here that people who cross gender borders and people who cross national borders (specifically those who cross national borders into a first world country from a non-first world country, and more specifically crossing from mexico into the u.s.) have a common struggle...

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Anti-Circumcision "Intactivists" vs. OB-GYN's
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Anti-circumcision activists, or "intactivists" as they call themselves, are organizing a vigil during the upcoming convention of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) all day May 7, 8 and 9. "Intactivist" Pat Brown is giving a presentation on the issue to H.E.A.L. [Health, Education, AIDS Liaison]-San Diego Tuesday, May 1 at the War Memorial Building, 3325 Zoo Drive in Balboa Park. According to "intactivists," routine male circumcision is just as bad as female genital mutilation; not only does it interfere with sexual pleasure but, contrary to popular belief, it not only doesn't help prevent AIDS but might actually make AIDS more likely.
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On The Edge, screning and director in SD
dj queen b,

FILM SCREENING AT DOUBLE LOCATIONS! On The Edge: The Femicides in Juarez
With guest speaker, documentary film maker Steev Hise
April 24th and 25th 2007


The Department of Women’s Studies
Tuesday April 24th, 2007
2:00pm
Storm Hall 136, San Diego State University
www.sdsu.edu
Contact Eneri Rodriguez at eneri.sdsu (At] yahoo d0t com


San Diego City College Amnesty International
Wednesday April 25th, 2007
11:15am
SAVILLE THEATER, San Diego City College
www.sdcity.edu
Contact: Rachel Brewer at rbewer at sdccd (d0t] edu

On The Edge is a documentary covering the brutal murders of hundreds of poor young women in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, murders that have been repeatedly ignored and unresolved by police and governments since 1993, despite the continued and persistent efforts of family members and activists to obtain justice for the victims.
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DIDM - Desiring (Incenciary Devices) Machines
dj lotu5,

Subscribe to our podcast here:

 http://feeds.feedburner.com/didm

Listen to the second episode of DIDM (Desiring Machines / Incendiary Devices)!

 http://bang.calit2.net/rasd/files/didm-2007-04-18.mp3

On this awesome episode, we talk about borderlands by gloria anzaldua with dj queen b, queer community, chicana experience, reclaim the streets with The Bee and what happened there and lots of stuff with onto the ontologist including complexity and delanda as it applies to social struggle, the NY anarchist bookfair and the panel on resistance and mexico there, baudrillard and the mirror of production, abstract hacktivism, craftivism and the city heights free skool.

music by: nicky click, macromantics, peaches, combat wombat, scream club.
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1st Carnival of Liberation San Diego
Rocky Neptun,

A synopsis of events last Friday in downtown San Diego.
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Center Hosts Transgender Empowerment Day
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center in Hillcrest hosted the fourth annual Transgender Empowerment Day April 6. The keynote speakers were female-to-male Transgender attorney Shane L. Caya from San Francisco and former San Diegan male-to-female Transgender activist Amanda Nicole Watson. Over 100 people, both Transgender people and their supporters, attended this event and watched a wide variety of people win awards for helping the Transgender community achieve social recognition and equal rights.
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UCSD Open Studios
general giggles,

The Graduate Visual Arts Department at the University of California – San Diego invites the Southern California art community to view the work of its current MFA students at Open Studios on April 6, 2-8 p.m. Political handshakes, post-human dolls, Mexican moustaches, false promises, Old-Time
radio shows, military recruitment tools, epic octopi, drone machines, fishing boats and Chris Farley are among the explorations of these graduate students.
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HPV Vaccine Boondoggle
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Pre-teen girls and, in some proposals, boys as well would be forced to undergo vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) under mandatory vaccine plans being debated in over 30 states. The propaganda for mandatory HPV vaccination states that the virus has been firmly established to cause cervical cancer — even though 30 percent of all women with cervical cancer don't have it and only a handful of all the women who do have the virus ever get cancer. But there's reason to believe this is a massive corporate welfare program to bail out Merck, makers of the only HPV vaccine currently approved by the FDA, from their potential multi-billion dollar losses over Vioxx.
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Love, Life, Sex Center Promotes Fulfillment
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Sexologists Nick Karras and Sayaka Adachi recently opened the Love, Life, Sex Center in Hillcrest. In this interview, they discuss the impediments that stand in the way of people having the happy, fulfilling sex lives they deserve, including anti-sex religious teachings and other sources of fear.
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Renewable Energy for home owners
Amanda Newman,