Friday, May 31, 2013

[SDCPJ] Manning Trial Solidarity Rally!~Saturday at 1PM in Hillcrest!

 
Manning Trial Solidarity Rally!

Saturday, June 1, 2013
1:00pm
6th Ave & University Ave, Hillcrest, San Diego, CA
Facebook event: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/452794821446426/declines/
For more on Pfc. Manning visit: http://www.bradleymanning.org/

The trial of the accused army whistleblower is set to begin on June 3rd. Join supporters of this young hero at a solidarity rally on Saturday June 1st and show support for a people's verdict!

Speakers:

Nemo - queer rights activist (will read from Manning's own words)

Joe Crews - LGBT member of Veterans for Peace & Editor of The Progressive Post

Pat Gracian - San Diego Coalition to Free Manning & Progressive Democrats of America

Alfie Padilla - Volunteer Coordinator with Canvass for a Cause

Lynn Gonzalez - G.I. Rights Hotline, San Diego Coalition for Peace & Justice, & San Diego BDS

Anoki Casey - San Diego Coalition to Free Manning & the International Socialist Organization

Sean Bohac - SAME Alliance & San Diego Green Party

*An Overpass Light Brigade action is also being planned for 8:00pm Saturday evening. Please contact Chris for details if you would like to volunteer (619-379-4140)*

If you would like to get involved in future local Manning support events, visit: http://www.freemanningsd.com/
or join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/212970808845541/?fref=ts
 
 

 
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

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[SDCPJ] Manning Trial Solidarity Rally!~Saturday!

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Manning Trial Solidarity Rally!

Saturday, June 1, 2013
1:00pm
6th Ave & University Ave, Hillcrest, San Diego, CA
Facebook event: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/452794821446426/declines/
For more on Pfc. Manning visit: http://www.bradleymanning.org/

The trial of the accused army whistleblower is set to begin on June 3rd. Join supporters of this young hero at a solidarity rally on Saturday June 1st and show support for a people's verdict!

Speakers:

Nemo - queer rights activist (will read from Manning's own words)

Joe Crews - LGBT member of Veterans for Peace & Editor of The Progressive Post

Pat Gracian - San Diego Coalition to Free Manning & Progressive Democrats of America

Alfie Padilla - Volunteer Coordinator with Canvass for a Cause

Lynn Gonzalez - G.I. Rights Hotline, San Diego Coalition for Peace & Justice, & San Diego BDS

Anoki Casey - San Diego Coalition to Free Manning & the International Socialist Organization

Sean Bohac - SAME Alliance & San Diego Green Party

*An Overpass Light Brigade action is also being planned for 8:00pm Saturday evening. Please contact Chris for details if you would like to volunteer (619-379-4140)*

If you would like to get involved in future local Manning support events, visit: http://www.freemanningsd.com/
or join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/212970808845541/?fref=ts



Tuesday, May 28, 2013

[SDCPJ] Breaking News: Boxer wants Justice Dept. probe on San Onofreshut

 Please thank Senator Boxer for her leadership and tenacity in our defense: http://www.boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/

Internal letter reveals Edison knew of defects at crippled reactors but misled federal regulators to get expedited license


Friends of the Earth: 'Restart is Dead'

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Barbara Boxer has released a private 2004 letter from Southern California Edison that reveals the utility knew of major problems in its radically redesigned replacement steam generators at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station that could lead to a "disastrous outcome," but the company knowingly misrepresented its failed design as a "like-for-like" replacement to sidestep a more thorough license review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 
The leaked letter confirms accusations of the nuclear watchdog group Friends of the Earth. Its release, said the group, means Edison's restart plan is dead. 

"This letter from Edison management is truly shocking," said Damon Moglen, climate and energy director for Friends of the Earth. "It shows definitively that Edison was more concerned with keeping to a construction schedule and making money than with assuring safe operation of their reactors. It raises serious questions about their honesty and about the NRC's handling of the San Onofre license. 

"The restart of San Onofre reactors is now off the table. No one can possibly argue for the further operation of these crippled reactors when such an experiment places the lives and livelihoods of millions of Southern Californians at risk."

The letter, which Boxer released to the Associated Press, was sent by Edison Vice President Dwight Nunn to his counterpart, General Manager Akira Sawa, at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which fabricated the replacement steam generators according to Edison's specifications. The letter states that serious problems with the replacement steam generators could lead to "unacceptable consequences (e.g. tube wear and eventually tube plugging). This would be a disastrous outcome for both of us ..." 

In addition, the letter reveals that Edison was fully aware that the new generators, which failed in less than two years and caused a release of radiation, was not a like-for-like replacement despite their assurances to federal and state regulators. Edison's Nunn writes: "Consequently, the design of the new steam generators is currently proceeding using the existing steam generator seismic response based on a like-for-like replacement concept (although the old and new steam generators will be similar in many respects they aren't like-for-like replacements)."

Sen. Boxer said that she believes "Edison intentionally misled the public and regulators" and is providing the correspondence to "federal and state officials, including the U.S. Department of Justice so they can determine whether Edison engaged in willful wrongdoing."

Release of the letter follows a May 13 ruling by the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in which the three-judge panel unanimously ruled that Edison's plans to restart the damaged reactors would be an "experiment" for which they had inadequate experience and which would be outside both their technical specifications and licensing requirements.

"Friends of the Earth accused them, the ASLB judged them and now Edison has confessed," said Dave Freeman, former head of the federal Tennessee Valley Authority and senior advisor to Friends of the Earth. "The San Onofre restart plan is now deader than a doornail. It's over."



[SDCPJ] CALL FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE FOR SISTER LYNNE THURS, MAY 30


 

While there is a lower class, I am in it;

while there is a criminal element, I am of it;

while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

- Eugene Debs

 

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Sign The Petition!

 

 

Please take a moment to join Pete Seeger, Desmond Tutu, Dick Gregory and thousands of others. Get ten of your friends to sign the petition for compassionate release today.

It is devastating, totally unbelievable. Is this in a democracy, the only superpower? I am sad. I will sign. Praying God's blessing on your efforts.

- Desmond Tutu

Lynne Stewart should be outa jail.

- Pete Seeger

 

Write Lynne today, and visit
lynnestewart.org

 

Lynne Stewart
53504-054 CARSWELL
FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER
P.O. BOX 27137
Fort Worth TX, 76127

 

To Donate please send your gift to:

Lynne Stewart Organization
1070 Dean St.
Brooklyn NY 11216

(for gifts that need to be tax deductible call or email
ralph.poynter@yahoo.com 917-853-9759)

 

Emergency Alert: Lynne Stewart In Grave Danger

Just last week the warden of Carswell FCI agreed to forward the compassionate release petition to the DOJ. The time to increase the heat is now.

 

   

Dear Friends and Supporters:

  

One month ago I made a request for compassionate release which was honored by the warden at Carswell Federal Medical Center.  Today the papers are still on a desk in Washington, D.C. even though the terminal cancer that I have contracted requires expeditious action.

  

  Although I requested immediate action by the  Bureau of Prisons, I find it necessary to again request immediate action from you, my  friends, comrades and supporters  to call the three numbers listed below on Thursday, May 30 and request action on my behalf. 

 

 This could result in my being able to access medical treatment at Sloan Kettering so that I can face the rest of my life with dignity surrounded by those I love and who love me. 

 

 Please do this.

 

 Yours truly

 

 Lynne Stewart  FMS CARSWELL-53504-054

& Ralph Poynter 

Lynne Stewart Defense Organization

 

Attorney General  Eric Holder -  1 202 514 2001 

 White House President Obama – 1 202 456 1414 

 B.O.P. – Director  Charles Samuels – 1 202 307 3198 ext 3

 

  

 

 

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Sign The Petition!

 

 

 

Lynne Stewart Must Be Free! Lynne Stewart and her husband Ralph Poynter.

 

 

 

Compassion demands that Lynne Stewart be released immediately from prison so she and her family can fight for her life. Lynne Stewart, is political prisoner and a renowned human rights lawyer who is currently serving a ten year sentence at FMC Carswell TX.

Please go to lynnestewart.org get active and sign the petition for compassionate release.

Lynne Stewart Defense Organization
1070 Dean St. Brooklyn NY 11216
917-853-9759, ralph.poynter@yahoo.com

 

 

Over 12,000 and counting sign the petition! Please add your voice!

 

If you have already signed the petition, please write a letter. They have the power to release Lynne now and must be encouraged to do so. Please write to:

Mr. Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director

Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First Street, NW
Washington, DC 20534

Re:  Lynne Irene Stewart, #53504-054 Compassionate Release

District Judge John G. Koelte

United States Courthouse
500 Pearl St.
New York, NY 10007-1312

Re:  Lynne Irene Stewart, #53504-054 Compassionate Release

 

Lynne Stewart Defense Organization
1070 Dean St. Brooklyn NY 11216
917-853-9759, ralph.poynter@yahoo.com


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Friday, May 24, 2013

[SDCPJ] Guantanamo, Drone Strikes and the Non-War Terror War: Obama Speaks

Guantanamo, Drone Strikes and the Non-War Terror War: Obama Speaks

By Marjorie Cohn

Truthout

May 24, 2013

As one of the 1,200-plus signatories to the full-page ad that appeared in The New York Times, calling for the closure of Guantanamo, I was disappointed in President Barack Obama's speech Thursday on counterterrorism, drones and Guantanamo.

Torture and Indefinite Detention at Guantanamo

In a carefully crafted - at times defensive, discourse, Obama said, "In some cases, I believe we compromised our basic values - by using torture to interrogate our enemies and detaining individuals in a way that ran counter to the rule of law," adding, "We unequivocally banned torture." But Obama failed to note that the United Nations Human Rights Commission determined in 2006 that the violent force-feeding of detainees at Guantanamo amounted to torture and that he has continued that policy. More than half the remaining detainees are refusing food to protest their treatment and indefinite detention, many having been held for more than a decade with no criminal charges. In only a brief, but telling, mention of his administration's violent force-feeding of hunger strikers at Guantanamo, Obama asked, "Is that who we are? Is that something that our founders foresaw? Is that the America we want to leave to our children? Our sense of justice is stronger than that."

One would hope that Obama's sense of justice would prevent him from allowing the tortuous force-feeding of people like Nabil Nadjarab, who has said, "To be force-fed is unnatural, and it feels like my body is not real. They put you on a chair - it reminds me of an execution chair. Your legs, arms and shoulders are tied with belts. If you refuse to let them put the tube in, they force your head back . . . [it is very risky] because if the tube goes in the wrong way, the liquid might get into your lungs. I know some who have developed infections in the nose. They now have to keep tubes in their noses permanently." British resident Shaker Aamer reported being subjected to sleep deprivation and being dragged around like an animal at Guantanamo. David Remes, who represents two detainees, reported "shocking" genital searches "designed to deter" detainees from meeting with their lawyers. The "new military policy," said Remes, "is to sexually abuse them in searches."

And Obama asks, "Is that who we are?"

Obama did not say he would close Guantanamo. He criticized Congress for placing restrictions on transferring detainees who have been cleared for release, although he signed the legislation Congress passed. To his credit, Obama lifted the moratorium on detainee transfers to Yemen and appointed a new senior envoy at the State Department and Department of Defense to oversee detainee transfers to third countries. But Obama did not pledge to use the waiver provision contained in Section 1028(d) of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the Secretary of Defense to authorize transfers when it is in the national security interest of the United States. Nor did he promise to stop blocking the release of detainees cleared by habeas corpus proceedings.

The Non-War Terror War

Obama explained how he plans to continue his war on terror without calling it a war on terror. He stated, "Under domestic law and international law, the United States is at war with al Qaeda, the Taliban and their associated forces."

While also saying, "Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as a boundless 'global war on terror' - but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America," Obama listed Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Mali as places the United States is involved in fighting terror. Because, he said, "we are at war with an organization that right now would kill as many Americans as they could if we did not stop them first," Obama concluded, "This is a just war - a war waged proportionally, in last resort and in self-defense."

Obama understands that not all wars are just wars. He was referring to, but misapplied, three principles of international law that govern the use of military force. Proportionality means that an attack cannot be excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage. Yet when drones are used to take out convoys, large numbers of civilians will be, and have been, killed.  Last resort means that a country may resort to war only if it has exhausted all peaceful alternatives to resolving the conflict. By assassinating rather than capturing suspected terrorists and bringing them to trial, Obama has not used military force as a last resort. And self-defense is defined by the leading Caroline Case of 1837, which said that the "necessity for self-defense must be instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation." The Obama administration has provided no evidence that the people it targeted were about to launch an imminent attack on the United States.

New Rules for Drone Strikes?

Although he defended the use of drones and targeted killing, Obama proclaimed, "America does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists - our preference is always to detain, interrogate and prosecute them." Yet, 4,700 people have been killed by drone strikes, only two percent of whom were high-level terrorist suspects. And Obama has added only one person to the detention rolls at Guantanamo since he took office. "This [Obama] government has decided that instead of detaining members of al-Qaida [at Guatanamo] they are going to kill him," according to John Bellinger, who formulated the Bush administration drone policy.

Obama referred to the killing of Osama bin Laden as exceptional because "capture, although our preference, was remote." Yet it was clear when the US soldiers arrived at bin Laden's compound that the people there were unarmed and bin Laden could have been captured. Obama admitted, "The cost to our relationship with Pakistan - and the backlash among the Pakistani public over encroachment on their territory - was so severe that we are now just beginning to rebuild this important partnership." Indeed, in light of Pakistan's considerable arsenal of nuclear weapons, Obama took a substantial risk to our national security in breaching Pakistan's sovereignty by his assassination operation.

Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, said the drone strikes in Pakistan violate international law. "As a matter of international law, the US drone campaign in Pakistan . . . is being conducted without the consent of the elected representatives of the people or the legitimate government of the state," he noted. Obama said we are "narrowly targeting our action against those who want to kill us." He did not address his administration's policy of using drone strikes to kill rescuers and attendees at funerals after the original strike killings.

The day before his speech, Obama signed a Presidential Policy Guidance, which he said, provides "clear guidelines, oversight and accountability." As Obama delivered his speech, the White House issued a Fact Sheet regarding policies and procedures for counterterrorism operations, but did not release the policy guidance itself. That Fact Sheet says, "The policy of the United States is not to use lethal force when it is feasible to capture a terrorist suspect." It provides that "lethal force will be used outside areas of active hostilities" only when certain preconditions are met. But it does not define "areas of active hostilities."

Preconditions for using lethal force include:

  1. The requirement of a "legal basis" for the use of lethal force. It does not define whether "legal basis" means complying with ratified treaties, including the UN Charter, which prohibits the use of military force except in self-defense or when approved by the Security Council.
  2. The target must pose a "continuing, imminent threat to US persons." The Fact Sheet does not define "continuing" or "imminent." The recently leaked Department of Justice White Paper says that a US citizen can be killed even when there is no "clear evidence that a specific attack on US persons and interests will take place in the immediate future." 
  3. There must be "near certainty" that the terrorist target is present. Neither the Fact Sheet nor Obama in his speech addressed whether the administration will continue "signature strikes" (known as crowd killings),  which don't target individuals but rather areas of suspicious activity.
  4. There must be "near certainty" that noncombatants will not be injured or killed. This is apparently a departure from present practice, as numerous noncombatants have been killed in US drone strikes. The Fact Sheet changes the current policy of defining noncombatants as all men of military age in a strike zone "unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."
  5. There must be an assessment that "capture is not feasible" at the time of the operation. It is unclear what feasibility means. The White Paper appears to indicate that "infeasible" means inconvenient.
  6. There must be an assessment that relevant governmental authorities in the country where the attack is contemplated cannot or will not effectively address the "threat to US persons," which is left undefined.
  7. There must be an assessment that no other reasonable alternatives exist to address the "threat to US persons," also left undefined.

Finally, the Fact Sheet would excuse these preconditions when the president takes action "in extraordinary circumstances" which are "both lawful and necessary to protect the United States or its allies." There is no definition of "extraordinary circumstances."

A few days before Obama's speech, Attorney General Eric Holder publicly acknowledged the killing of four US citizens, only one of which - Anwar Awlaki - was actually targeted, in 2011. That means 75 percent were "collateral damage," including Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman. In his speech, after affirming that a US citizen cannot be targeted and killed without due process (arrest and trial), Obama claimed that Awlaki was involved in terrorist plots in 2009 and 2010; this is long before Obama ordered that he be killed by drone strike in 2011, which would appear to violate the "imminence" requirement. Indeed, Lt. Col. Tony Schaefer, a former Army Intelligence officer, said on MSNBC that Awlaki could have been captured but the administration made a decision to kill instead of capture him.

The use of drones and targeted assassination and the continuing existence of Guantanamo engender hatred against the United States. Farea al-Muslimi, a Yemeni man who testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, spoke about how his friends and neighbors reacted to a recent drone strike in his neighborhood. "Now, however, when they think of America, they think of the fear they feel at the drones over their heads. What the violent militants had failed to achieve, one drone strike accomplished in an instant."

The Unanswered Questions

During Obama's speech, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin yelled out several questions before being escorted out of the room.

She asked the President:

* What about the indefinite detention?

* What about the 102 hunger strikers?

* What about the killing of 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki? Why was he killed?

* Can you tell the Muslim people their lives are as precious as our lives?

* Can you stop the signature strikes that are killing people on the basis of suspicious activities?

* Will you apologize to the thousands of Muslims that you have killed?

* Will you compensate the innocent family victims? That will make us safer here at home.

* Can you take the drones out of the hands of the CIA?

* You are commander-in-chief. You can close Guantanamo today! You can release those 86 prisoners [cleared for release]. It's been 11 years.

* I love my country. I love the rule of law.

* Abide by the rule of law. You're a constitutional lawyer.

Obama responded, "I'm willing to cut the young lady who interrupted me some slack because it's worth being passionate about.  . . . The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to." But he went on to say he obviously doesn't agree with much of what she said. One wonders what parts he does agree with.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/16570-guantanamo-drone-strikes-and-the-non-war-terror-war-obama-speaks

Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the editor of The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse. She is working on a book about drones and targeted killing.



Thursday, May 23, 2013

[SDCPJ] Friday May 24: UndocuQueer in San Diego

UndocuQueer in San Diego

Friday, May 24, 2013
7:00pm until 9:00pm
Centro Cultural de la Raza
2004 Park Blvd., San Diego, California 92101
Facebook Event: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/189038017913002/?fref=ts


Join the San Diego DREAM Team and Canvass for a Cause for a local discussion on UNDOCUQUEER, the real story of queer immigrants here in San Diego.

How are the stories of coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented similar? How are they different? What are factors that make it hard to organize here in San Diego, and how do we face that challenge? How does this affect families? And what would TRUE queer-inclusive immigration reform look like? Join us at El Centro Cultural de la Raza to hear some answers and continue building the movement!

WHY DO WE USE THE WORD QUEER?
Although originally used as a slur and offensive word, QUEER has since been reclaimed by the LGBTQIA community. It represents being outside of the heteronormative mindset or the gender binary. It is often seen as an umbrella term for those who do not identify as "straight" or "cisgender," including pansexual, bisexual, gender queer and other sexualities and identities.

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Únase con el San Diego DREAM Team y Canvass for a Cause para una discusión local sobre UNDOCUQUEER, la verdadera historia de los inmigrantes queer aquí en San Diego.

¿Como son las historias de saliendo del closet y de saliendo como indocumentado similar? ¿Como son las historias diferentes? ¿Cuáles son factores que hacen difícil la organizacion aquí en San Diego, y cómo nos enfrentamos a este desafío? ¿Cómo afecta a las familias? ¿Y qué sería el verdadero LGBT-incluido reforma migratoria? ¡Únase con nosotros en El Centro Cultural de la Raza para escuchar algunas respuestas y continuar construyendo el movimiento!

¿POR QUE USAMOS LA PALABRA "QUEER"?
Aunque originalmente utilizado como un insulto y una palabra ofensiva, QUEER ya que ha sido reclamado por la comunidad LGBTQIA. Representa estar fuera de la mentalidad heteronormative o el binario de género. Se ve a menudo como un término general para aquellos que no se identifican como "recta" o "cisgénero", incluyendo pansexual, bisexuales, no conformista a base de género y otras sexualidads y identidades.

****ATTENTION ARTISTS / ATENCION A LAS ARTISTAS****

We are looking to display art (5-10 pieces) the night of the event, particularly themed or inspired by queer or immigrant experiences or artists. Please contact field@canvassforacause.org if you are interested in displaying or want more details.

Queremos demostrar arte (5-10 piezas) la noche del evento, sobre todo con temas o inspirados por las experiencias o los artistas queer o inmigrantes. Por favor, póngase en contacto con field@canvassforacause.org si usted está interesado en mostrar o quiere más detalles.

SPONSORED BY / PATROCINADO POR

San Diego DREAM Team: dreamteamsd@gmail.com | sandiegodreamteam.wordpress.com 

Canvass for a Cause (CFAC): field@canvassforacause.org | canvassforacause.org

Centro Cultural de la Raza: centroculturaldelaraza.com

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

[SDCPJ] Film tonight & Tues 5/28 @ Women's Museum

Reminder! The PRC is a co-sponsor of these FREE showings!

Tonight 5/22 @ 6:30
Tues 5/28 @ 5:30
 
LOCATION: Women's Museum of California
2730 Historic Decatur Rd #103 
San Diego 92106

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Date: Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Subject: Tonight's event and the rest of May!


new logo header
Barracks 16
Our home in Barracks 16
NTC Liberty Station
 
gallery
Museum Gallery
Wednesday, May 22, 6:30
Women Occupy San Diego Movie Night
not my life
"NOT MY LIFE" View Trailer
Narrated by Glen Close, this is the first film to comprehensively depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale.

Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries,
Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited, every day, through an astonishing array of practices.

"Not My Life's message is ultimately one of hope.
Victims of slavery can be set free and go on to live extraordinary lives. T
 he choice between good and evil is, quite simply, ours.

Join us for the film, discussion and refreshments.
FREE
Sponsored by LWV-SD, AAUW-SD, OWL-SD, WEC, ASIU, AWIU, WEC, PCI, BSCC, PRCSD, and PCI.

Thursday, MAY 23 - 5:30pm
League of Women Voters - Friend & Fundraiser
Speaker: Linda Canada
Executive Director,
Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego

Our Program highlights the museum's latest exhibit, "They Did it All: Women of the Issei Generation," the story of Japanese women who emigrated to the U.S., married, started businesses, and were interned during WWII. We will honor the memory of Miss Breed, the San Diego librarian who sent books to the children who were interned, with the screening of a short video about her and by reading from the book, Letters to Miss Breed, and to introduce a woman who was interned as a child and wrote to Miss Breed.

$15 includes admission, wine, punch, fingergoods
RSVP here

WINE, CHEESE & CHOCOLATE
wine fest

PRICES GO UP JUNE 1
Buy your tickets for the 6th Annual Wine, Cheese and Chocolate Festival before we sell out!
click here

June 21, 6:30pm NTC
LIBERTY STATION
North Promenade
2730 Historic Decatur
San Diego 92106

VIEW THE WIDE VARIETY OF TASTING CHOICES
on our website

CELEBRATE THE START OF SUMMER!
Dance under the stars to the Boogie-Woogie sounds of Sue Palmer and her band.
Other events at the Museum in May

Friday. May 24 and Friday, May 31 at 7pm "EXCLUDED"

"Excluded" follows Tony and Thomas over the last sixteen years as they battle to stay together--to live legally as a couple.   They consider California home, but the U.S. won't have them.   Ripped from Tony's loving family, they are left to wander the world, waiting... Waiting for laws to change.  Waiting for civil rights to be granted to gay and lesbian Americans.  Waiting for equality.  FREE 

 

Tuesday, MAY 28 - 2pm OWL San Diego monthly meeting- always looking for new members!  Will be examining the Issei exhibit in depth with the Museum Curator. Public is welcome.

Tuesday, MAY 28 - 5:30pm Not My Life second screening sponsored by LWV-SD, AAUW-SD, OWL-SD, WEC, ASIU, AWIU, WEC, PCI, BSCC, PRCSD and PCI   Free event with refreshments

wonder women
MARK YOUR CALENDAR for our next exhibit opening June 7. Wonder Women: On Paper and Off, will examine the origins and evolution of women as "super-heroines" in our cultural as well as past and current creators in the comic genre. Just in time for ComicCon.    

 

 

About Us
We are located at 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Suite 103, Barracks 16, San Diego 92106
Part of San Diego's newest "arts and culture zone" at NTC Liberty Station.
For more info: 619 233-7963 or email at info@womensmuseumca.org
 

[SDCPJ] KNSJ FOOD & COMEDY fundraiser TONIGHT Wedns. May 22 @ 6 PM ~ Buy on line and Save!

 Palestinian BUFFET & COMEDY
KNSJ  fundraiser TONIGHT 
Wedns. May 22 @ 6 PM ~ Buy on-line now and Save!

Go to www.KNSJ.org for prepaid tickets.
Bring a friend for fun and Fun-Draising
Haritna Middle Eastern Restaurant, 7303 El Cajon Blvd. La Mesa 91942

Starting this weekend KNSJ 89.1 will be on the air with sample test programming and
pending FCC approval will be on the air permanently in the first part of June.


The Hidden Enemy

Healing

Healing
Healing

Corruption

Corruption
Corruption in the Senate

Compassion

Compassion
Compassion

Raise the Minimum Wage

Raise the Minimum Wage

Capitolism

Capitolism

Hypocrits

Hypocrits

My New Book About Sudan

Ceasar's Messiah Movie Trailer

The Dark Side of Coffee Trade

Miko Peled "The General's Son" Exposes Israeli Lies

Are these Your Heros?

Are these Your Heros?

National shame

National shame

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Stephen Fry on Catholisism

Juanita Ayson on Accupuncture

Interview with Congressman Filner

Free Trade Enslaves Us All

Blog Archive

Farouk Al Nasser

Farouk Al Nasser
Farouk Al Nasser at NCCPJ

Victor Calle

Victor Calle
At NCCP April 2008

Gore Vidal and Floyd Morrow

Gore Vidal and Floyd Morrow
April Fundraiser in San Diego

Tanja and Cindy Sheehan

Tanja and Cindy Sheehan
Fund raiser for Cindy April 2008

CITN

CITN
The Citizens' Internet Television Network

CITRad

CITRad
The Citizens' Internet Radio Network

Save America

Save America
Save America

Fighting

Fighting
Fighting

Believe

Believe
Believe

We Are All One

We Are All One
We Are All One

Secular Humanism

Secular Humanism
Secular Humanism

Change the System

Change the System
Change the System

A Lie Does Not Become the Truth

A Lie Does Not Become the Truth
A lie does not become the truth

Coexist

Coexist
Coexist

Bankers

Bankers
Bankers

Fetus Rights

Fetus Rights
Fetus Rights

The Earth Was Created

The Earth Was Created
The Earth Was Created

Lessons

Lessons
Lessons