[SDCPJ] Please take 10 seconds to change the debate

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/aug/18/poll-where-would-you-shop-if-there-grocery-strike/

 

Please click on and let the UT know you would not cross a picket line (63% say they will!) And let them know that if there is a strike you'd shop and Costco, Food for Less or Other (State Brothers, Rite-Aid, etc)

 

Please pass this on as well.

 

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Lorena Gonzalez

Secretary-Treasurer / CEO, San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO

3737 Camino del Rio S. #403

San Diego, CA 92108

 

(619) 228-8101, ex 1

 

www.UnionYes.org

 

[SDCPJ] County Redistricting: Action Alert

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Speak out for
fair redistricting of
San Diego County

Tues, Sept 6
2 pm

Please RSVP
to Trinh Le:
tle@onlineCPI.org

Tell the County Board
you want fair redistricting

Under pressure from the ACLU and community groups, the San Diego County Board is revising its proposed redistricting map to account for the voting rights of Latinos and African Americans in the First District in South County.  However, the Board is resisting other changes to its self-serving redistricting plan.

Unless we speak up, Escondido will continue to be split off from similar communities along the Hwy 78 corridor and instead remain in District 3 with more affluent communities to the south and west. One of the many negative results of this split is the fracturing of Latino voting power in North County.

In addition, the supervisors plan to move La Jolla into District 4 with Mid-City communities, and Lemon Grove and Spring Valley will be in District 2, divided from similar communities of interest.

Please email and/or send a letter to each of the Supervisors today. Ask them to:

• Unite the Hwy 78 corridor communities of Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos, and Escondido
• Unite Lemon Grove and Spring Valley with communities of similar interests in District 4.

You can start with a sentence or two from these attached sample letters: (Mid-City/District 4 Letter; North County Letter), and add your own personal knowledge of these communities. Please add your own voice to increase your impact and avoid sending duplicative letters.

Where to send letters:

District 1, Greg Cox: greg.cox@sdcounty.ca.gov
District 2, Dianne Jacob: dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov
District 3, Pam Slater-Price: pam.slater@sdcounty.ca.gov
District 4, Ron Roberts: ron-roberts@sdcounty.ca.gov
District 5, Bill Horn: bill.horn@sdcounty.ca.gov

County Administration Center
1600 Pacific Highway, Room 335
San Diego, CA 92101

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[SDCPJ] "UCSD Community Stations" opens Friday, August 19 at gallery@calit2, 5PM

PRESS RELEASE from gallery@calit2

 

KNOWLEDGE-EXCHANGE CORRIDORS:

THE UCSD COMMUNITY STATIONS INITIATIVE

By Teddy Cruz and Mike Cole

August 19-September 23, 2011

 

Summer Workshop Series

Friday September 2, 2011

Friday September 9, 2011

gallery@calit2, 9am-11am

 

The gallery@calit2 is pleased to announce "Knowledge-Exchange Corridors: The UCSD Community Stations Initiative," an exhibition and summer program by Teddy Cruz and Mike Cole. The exhibition will focus on displaying two main aspects pertaining to the UCSD Community Stations Initiative. One part of the exhibition will be a descriptive mapping of this project in order to convey to the audience the meaning of this initiative and its operative dimension in building new pedagogical interfaces between UCSD and San Diego marginal communities. This part of the exhibition will comprise wall murals and video loops, diagramming the existing main sites, actors, programs involved in this project as well as the projected new activities that it will generate in the future. A second part of the exhibition will include the production of a summer program involving youth from each of the Community-based agencies involved and UCSD, engaging in a series of dialogues and exchanges across 4 weeks of interactive programming mediated by an OptIPortable that will be deployed in the gallery and coordinated by instructors at each location.

 

"UCSD Community Stations" is a pilot community outreach initiative that will introduce a series of collaborative projects across a collective body of university leaders from campus departments and centers and a variety of social service and cultural community-based agencies located in demographically diverse neighborhoods in San Diego. Two joint ventures will frame this initiative: The Center for Community Well-being (CCW)-affiliated with the Division of Social Science and led by Mike Cole-will partner with the San Diego Workforce Partnership's South Metro Career Center, located in southeast San Diego, to focus on issues pertaining community health and service, K-12 education and job training in technology fields. The Center of Urban Ecologies (CUE)-affiliated with the Division of Arts and Humanities and led by Teddy Cruz-will partner with Casa Familiar, a social service and cultural agency located in the border neighborhood of San Ysidro, to focus on community-based arts and public culture, affordable housing and inclusive urban development. Working closely with Calit2, CCW and CUE will enable UCSD Community Stations to become corridors of knowledge-exchange that will link the specialized knowledge of the University and the ethical knowledge embedded in communities in order to produce a new form of urban pedagogy. This initiative, framed by Calit2-generated technology infrastructure, will enable San Diego communities to interact with each other while meeting their needs by leveraging a wide-array of resources at UCSD, including faculty and students.

 

Michael Cole is a Distinguished Professor of Communication, Psychology & Human Development, at University of California, San Diego and co-founder of Center for Community Well-being. Combining a background in experimental psychology and cognitive anthropology, Cole has pursued a career focused on the role of culture in human development. This work eventually led him to engage in research on the design of community-based development-enhancing environments for children from diverse cultural and social class backgrounds. The focus of his current work is the creation of University-Community Partnerships to promote community well-being.

 

Teddy Cruz is a Professor in Public Culture in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego, and co-founder of the Center for Urban Ecologies. Teddy Cruz has been recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border. After obtaining a Master in Design Studies from Harvard University, he was recipient of the first James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City Prize by the Canadian Center of Architecture and the London School of Economics. Most recently, his work represented the US in the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale and was included in the "Small Scale, Big Change" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

 

Please join us at the gallery for this unique exhibition and summer program. All gallery events are FREE and open to the public.

 

To RSVP, please contact Trish Stone, Gallery Coordinator: tstone@ucsd.edu

Media Contact: Doug Ramsey, dramsey@ucsd.edu

 

Gallery Hours

11am- 5pm, Monday-Friday

 

gallery@calit2

Atkinson Hall, First Floor

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, CA, 92093

 

http://gallery.calit2.net

 

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Trish Stone
Tour and Gallery Coordinator
Calit2, UC San Diego
Desk: 858-822-5307
Cell: 858-336-6456

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[SDCPJ] Nurses Sep 1st Day of Action--Please Join Us!!

Vista-Darrell Issa's Office-8am-9:30am

• 8am-8:20am: Freeway overpass flash mob atMar Vista off ramp of I-78 (near Issa's office)
• 8:30 am: assemble at Darryl Issa's office at 1800 Thibodo Road, Vista, CA 92081; a delegation will enter his office at 9am

 

San Diego-Soup Kitchen & Speak-out-5pm-6pm

• Where: 4265 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego, CA 92105

 

To RSVP or to ask questions, please email or call me at

tbunting@calnurses.org,  619-516-4917x3601, or contact Sara Gurling at sgurling@calnurses.org, 619-241-9475.

 

Below is our press release for our events around the country:

 

For Immediate Release                                                                                 August 23, 2011

 

 

Nurses to Converge on 60 Congressional Offices in 21 States Sept. 1 - Call for Tax on Wall Street to Heal America 

 

RNs to sponsor soup kitchens, food pantries, speak outs on the need for jobs, healthcare, education, housing - and outline the RN plan on how to pay for it

 

From Maine to California, nurses, joined by others fed up with the ongoing economic crisis, will call on Congress members in their local district offices September 1  to support a tax on Wall Street financial speculation, a revenue source fast becoming an international norm, to pay for healing the nation.

 

NNU protest on Wall Street in June

 

Events, from soup kitchens to help feed the hungry and homeless, to community speak outs to street theater are planned from major urban centers like Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Orlando, to smaller cities and towns, such as Corpus Christi, TX., Marquette, MI., Bakersfield, CA., Dayton, OH., and Worcester, MA. National Nurses United is sponsoring the actions.

 

Nurses will visit the home offices of Republicans and Democrats alike, with a common message. Everyday Americans are hurting, and they need jobs, healthcare, housing, quality education, nutrition, and a secure retirement, not more cuts, as has been the obsession of Congress.

 

See a preliminary list of actions at http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/pages/sept-1-event-list

 

The RNs will be calling on Congress members to sign a pledge to "support a Wall Street transaction tax that will raise sufficient revenue to make Wall Street pay for the devastation it has caused on Main Street." The visits follow a letter sent by certified mail to all 535 members of the House and Senate last week asking them to back the pledge and help "make the promise of the American dreamŠ a reality."

 

A tax on Wall Street trading of stocks, bonds, derivatives, currencies, credit default swaps, and futures - the very financial speculative activity linked to the 2008 financial meltdown and resultant recession - could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for the programs that .   "are desperately needed to reduce the pain and suffering felt by so many families who feel abandoned in communities across this nation," says NNU Co-President Deborah Burger, RN.

 

A new NNU video depicts the Wall Street-made debacle, http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalNursesUnited

 

NNU, the nation's largest union and professional association of nurses, has convened numerous other protests in recent months joined by labor and community activists, including in Washington DC, outside the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and in New York City, across from the Stock Exchange, to advance this campaign.

 

 "America's nurses see every day the broad declines in health and living standards that are a direct result of patients and families struggling with lack of jobs, un-payable medical bills, hunger and homelessness. We know where to find the resources to bring them hope and real solutions," said NNU Co-president Karen Higgins, RN.

 

"It's time for Wall Street financiers, who created this crisis and continue to hold so much of the nation's wealth, to start contributing to rebuild this country, and for the American people to reclaim our future," says NNU Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro.

That point was reinforced Monday by University of Massachusetts economics professor Nancy Folbre in a New York Times blog, http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/a-sales-tax-on-wall-street-transactions/, in which she wrote:

"Purchases of stocks, bonds and other financial instruments in the United States go untaxed but for a tiny fee on stock trades that helps finance the Securities and Exchange Commission. In Britain, by contrast, a 0.5 percent tax on stock transactions raises about $40 billion a year. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany recently announced plans to introduce a similar tax in the 27 nations of the European Community.

"Our current tax policies favor speculative investment in financial instruments over productive investments in human capabilities. This imbalance helps explain why nurses' unions in the United States (NNU) have been particularly outspoken advocates of a financial transactions tax. As they put it: "Heal America. Tax Wall Street."

For a list of nationwide actions, see the National Nurses United website.

Terry Bunting

Labor Representative -- California Nurses Association -- National Nurses United

ofc: 619-516-4917;  fax: 619-516-4922;  web: www.calnurses.org

 

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[SDCPJ] "TRESPASSING" and International Day against Nuclear Tests

Today, Aug 29th, is International Day against Nuclear Tests.

The Day is meant to galvanize the United Nations, Member States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, youth networks and the media to inform, educate and advocate about the necessity of banning nuclear tests as a valuable step towards achieving a safer world. ( https://www.un.org/en/events/againstnucleartestsday/ )

** In Honor of this Day and Nuclear Free Future Month **
The PRC is concluding our August film series with

TRESPASSING:
A Documentary about uranium mining, nuclear waste dumps
on Native American land, broken treaties and broken trust

by Carlos B. DeMenezes

TUESDAY, AUG 30th

6:30 pm Light refreshments
7:00 pm Movie starts, discussion after

~ FREE and Open to the Public ~

at our NEW Peace Resource Center
in the Friends Center Building
3850 Westgate Place, San Diego 92105

FREE and BRING A FRIEND!

About TRESPASSING

"Trespassing" examines the struggle of Native Americans and other ethnic groups as they confront the effects of the United States' policy and the nuclear industry. From broken treaties to the desecration of sacred lands, traditional ways of life, cultural diversity and civil rights collide with National Security, special interests and Federal mandates.

http://www.trespassingdocumentary.com/

[SDCPJ] Harvest of Loneliness screens on PBS stations around the country this fall

This labor day season, many PBS stations are screening a documentary that sheds light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of "guest workers" in American agriculture. "Harvest of Loneliness" has received positive reviews at film festivals and screenings worldwide, earning the Cinelatino Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival in 2010 and the Best Educational Film Award at the Amsterdam Film Festival in 2011.  Produced by Gilbert Gonzalez, Professor Emeritus of Chicana/o Studies at UC Irvine, and co-directed by Vivian Price, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Labor Studies at CSU Dominguez Hills, Harvest of Loneliness examines what was known as the Bracero Program-a system put in place from 1942 to 1964 to undermine union organizing by recruiting Mexican farm laborers for temporary work in the United States. The film presents extraordinary archival footage and features family members and surviving braceros who typically went north expecting not just good wages but also humane treatment and working conditions-expectations that were rarely met.   http://harvestofloneliness.com

The film is showing in many PBS stations around the country in September and October. Check your local listings, but here are the ones we've heard about so far.

KLCS Los Angeles, September 25, 10pm
KQED San Francisco, Sat, Sep 3, 2011 -- 5:00pm
        Wed, Sep 21, 2011 -- 9:00am
        Wed, Sep 21, 2011 -- 12:00pm
http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=20201
KRCB Sonoma, County, September 13, 9pm
Arizona Public Television, ASU Tucson,
KAET, Eight, Phoenix
 WSIU-HD (8.1) in Carbondale, IL and WUSI-HD (16.1) in Olney, IL Wed, Sept 21, 2011, at 11pm.
WVPT Harrisburg, VA
WXEL West Palm Beach, FLA
WXXI Rochester, NY,
Louisiana Public Television
Nebraska ETV  9AM on October 5th on our ETV World channel MPTV Milwaukee, Sept. 18 11:00pm AOL TV Johnson City, TN KOCE  on  Sunday Sept 28th at 5PM  and digital channel Tues 20th at 1 and 5 pm.
KCTS 9 401 Mercer Street  Seattle, WA 98109  The dates I have right now are Thursday, 10/6, at 10:00 p.m. and Sunday, 10/9, at 2:00 a.m.

KPBS 619-594-8155  KPBS in San Diego will broadcast this program on 9/5 at 10 PM
WHUT-HD  Sat, 09/24/2011           22:00:00   and     Sun, 09/25/2011          02:00:00
WTVS Detroit  9/4      Sunday    3pm to 4pm                  HARVEST OF LONELINESS
KSPS-TV Spokane, Washington on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time.
KCET in Los Angeles on Thursday, September 15, 2011, starting at about 9:35 p.m.


       
Vivian Price
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies/PACE; Coordinator, Labor Studies
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Small College 130
1000 E Victoria St.
Carson, CA  90747

my office 310-243-3583   PACE office 310-243-3640
vprice@csudh.edu
Labor Studies page http://dhlaborstudies.org

IDS page http://cah.csudh.edu/ids/
My webpage http://www.hardhatvideo.com
office fax 310-516-3339
Tradeswomen Archives  http://www.tradeswomenarchives.com
New film on the Bracero Program http://www.harvestofloneliness.com
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[SDCPJ] Artists Launch Offensive Against San Diego

SAN DIEGO --- Ahead of the upcoming Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair

<http://www.artsandiego-fair.com/> (September 1--4), the Periscope Project <http://www.theperiscopeproject.org/home.html>, a collective of artists, architects and urban planners, are taking to the streets of San Diego with a project that confronts the city's military complex, conservative politics and its reputation as a non-cultural hot spot.

<http://cdn.hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/drone-post-2-from-periscope-facebook.jpg>

Tag from the appropriated logistical Predator Drone shipping container (image via Periscope's Facebook Page)

The project in question, dubbed /Drone Ready-Made: Fine Military Detritus/, revolves around an authentic logistical container used to transport the infamous Predator Drones <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/rick-perry-drones-border-security_n_928194.html> currently deployed by the United States in military operations around the world.

The impetus for the project is homegrown. The Drones, whose deployment in unmanned air strikes and reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq as well as on the US/Mexico border has shot up under Obama, are developed by General Atomics in San Diego County. Their facilities in Poway are in the district of outspoken Republican congressman Darrell Issa, whose highly questionable practices have been the subject of recent <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/us/politics/15issa.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp> scrutiny <http://www.truth-out.org/goldman-sachs-vp-changed-his-name-now-advances-goldman-lobbying-interests-top-staffer-darrell-issa/1> by the /New York Times/, Truth-Out.org and others.

MORE:
http://hyperallergic.com/33444/artists-launch-offensive-against-san-diego/

SAN DIEGO - Ahead of the upcoming Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair (September 1-4), the Periscope Project, a collective of artists, architects and urban planners, are taking to the streets of San Diego with a project that confronts the city's military complex, conservative politics and its reputation as a non-cultural hot spot.

Tag from the appropriated logistical Predator Drone shipping container (image via Periscope's Facebook Page)

The project in question, dubbed Drone Ready-Made: Fine Military Detritus, revolves around an authentic logistical container used to transport the infamous Predator Drones currently deployed by the United States in military operations around the world.

The impetus for the project is homegrown. The Drones, whose deployment in unmanned air strikes and reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq as well as on the US/Mexico border has shot up under Obama, are developed by General Atomics in San Diego County. Their facilities in Poway are in the district of outspoken Republican congressman Darrell Issa, whose highly questionable practices have been the subject of recent scrutiny by the New York Times, Truth-Out.org and others.

MORE:
http://hyperallergic.com/33444/artists-launch-offensive-against-san-diego/

[SDCPJ] Special SDCPJ working session, Aug. 29 - 7 PM

All,

 

The planning group for peace/antiwar actions on Sept. 11 and Oct. 15 will meet at the Church of the Brethren, the new Peace Center, to finalize plans for our Sept. 11 action, and flesh out plans for an Oct. 15 antiwar/systemic change action.  Unless you are attending the Activist San Diego community radio workshop also that evening (see below), come to finalize plans to make the necessary statement for PEACE and to help CHANGE OUR COMMUNITY:  Church of the Brethren Peace Center, 3850 Westgate Place, San Diego 92105.  Josh Funn will facilitate this Monday's working session. 

 

*******************

 

Monday August 29, 6-8 pm 

Free Workshop, at Media Arts,
2921 El Cajon Blvd

Join your local community radio activists! FREE WORKSHOP!

[SDCPJ] Mon. Aug 29, 6-8PM ~ Join your local community radio activists! FREE WORKSHOP!

 Building  Community Radio  Workshop

 

Monday August 29, 6-8 pm 

Free Workshop, at Media Arts,
2921 El Cajon Blvd

Join your local community radio activists! FREE WORKSHOP!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who wants to dig into community radio in San Diego? I DO!!   How can you get involved in community radio in San Diego, right now?!   Whether you have audio, outreach, networking, research or other skills to bring to the group, come and be a part of this growing movement with more and more local opportunities every day. www.PrometheusRadio.org

ACTIVIST SAN DIEGO is building a full-power FM radio station and is looking for content partners providing local music and news.  Are you ready to put your audio and tech skills to use for the creative commons?  Music, public affairs and news, locally-produced will be a large part of the programming.  Next year non-profits may apply for low-power FM. It's time to network for social justice RSVP or just turn up! 619-528-8383   kelly.asd.radio@gmail.com    

Presented by:   MEDIA ARTS Center, Activist San Diego  and Prometheus Radio Project 

ALSO:  Thurs, Sept. 22nd  Build a new FM Community Radio  7 – 9 pm
Activist Center, 4246 Wightman St. San Diego, CA 92101-  Come around Back!
Every 3rd Thursday of the month! Meeting of the San Diego Community Radio Project. Join us! Open Meeting, all are welcome! Come find out more on how to Build the SD Community Radio Station.   For info:  www.ActivistSanDiego.org   619-528-8383        kelly.asd.radio@gmail.com    

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[SDCPJ] Save the Date: Annual Peace on Earth Holiday Bazaar in San Diego 12/10/11

Mark your calendars NOW! . . .

 

The Annual Peace on Earth

Holiday Bazaar

Sat., December 10, 2011

10 Am - 2 PM

 

This year at a new, larger location:

The Mid-City Gym

43rd and Landis St., San Diego

 

The site is in an active community area, a block from the popular City Heights Farmers' Market. There will be more space for organizations to offer information and sell alternative holiday gift items!

 

Table reservations will be accepted after October 1. Participating vendors must be not-for-profit community organizations working for a peaceful, just and environmentally healthy world. For more information, contact Peace Resource Center, info@prcsd.org, or Project YANO, projyano@aol.com. Also, a special web site for the event will be up and running soon at www.peacebazaar.net.

[SDCPJ] San Diego's Economic Summit on Saturday Needs You

Fellow progressive San Diegan: Please attend this Economic Summit on Saturday. Sponsored by the San Diego Labor Council and a whole range of community organizations, it promises to be one of the landmark events in politics this year in this town. Below is the flier; register early if you can. frank gormlie, On Saturday, August 27th, the Coalition for a Better San Diego is holding an Economic Summit at Horace Mann Middle School from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The goal of this summit is to bring together a wide array of people from labor and the community to share their ideas about what would make San Diego a better place.  The themes of this gathering are jobs, prosperity, quality of life, equality, and fairness.  Issues set to be discussed will range from job creation, education, and public services to housing, racial equality, and fair taxation—just to name a few.

[SDCPJ] Movie about Depleted Uranium on You Tube

The Peace Resource Center showed the movie "Poison Dust" at the Friend's Center Tuesday evening as part of Nuclear Free Month. This movie is about the use of depleted Uranium (DU) by our military.  For those of you who could not attend, the movie is available to watch on YouTube at this link:  http://youtu.be/Cr5rnlsCFUk

The movie is powerful and informational, but is also disturbing. Please get the word out to people you know about the dangers of using bullets and bombs made with DU to both our military personnel and to the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.

Bob Davis

Peace Resource Center

[SDCPJ] A time for solidarity - economic summit Aug 27 AND rally for the jobless on Labor Day

Please forward widely -

Fellow citizen:

Please join your fellow San Diegans in these times of solidarity:

(click on the headlines for the articles)

Community and Labor Economic Summit to be Held in San Diego - Aug. 27th

Where Do We Go From Here, San Diego?

Rally for the Jobless on Labor Day

[SDCPJ] A time for solidarity - economic summit Aug 27 AND rally for the jobless on Labor Day

Please forward widely -

Fellow citizen:

Please join your fellow San Diegans in these times of solidarity:

(click on the headlines for the articles)

Community and Labor Economic Summit to be Held in San Diego - Aug. 27th

Where Do We Go From Here, San Diego?

Rally for the Jobless on Labor Day

[SDCPJ] Solidarity in San Diego - a rare thing: Econ Summit and Rally for Jobless

Fellow citizen: Please join your fellow San Diegans in these times of solidarity: (click on the headlines for the articles) Community and Labor Economic Summit to be Held in San Diego – Aug. 27th Where Do We Go From Here, San Diego? Rally for the Jobless on Labor Day Rally for the Jobless on Labor Day (It's near the trolley and plus the trolley has cheap rates for the holiday - 2 for 1.)

[SDCPJ] Mon. Aug. 29, 6-8 pm -- Building Community Radio Workshop

 Building  Community Radio  Workshop

 

Monday August 29, 6-8 pm 

Free Workshop, at Media Arts,
2921 El Cajon Blvd

Join your local community radio activists! FREE WORKSHOP!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who wants to dig into community radio in San Diego? I DO!!   How can you get involved in community radio in San Diego, right now?!   Whether you have audio, outreach, networking, research or other skills to bring to the group, come and be a part of this growing movement with more and more local opportunities every day. www.PrometheusRadio.org

ACTIVIST SAN DIEGO is building a full-power FM radio station and is looking for content partners providing local music and news.  Are you ready to put your audio and tech skills to use for the creative commons?  Music, public affairs and news, locally-produced will be a large part of the programming.  Next year non-profits may apply for low-power FM. It's time to network for social justice RSVP or just turn up! 619-528-8383   kelly.asd.radio@gmail.com    

Presented by:   MEDIA ARTS Center, Activist San Diego, World Beat Center  and Prometheus Radio Project

[SDCPJ] Tomorrow! Tues Aug 23: Free film at the PRC

August Film Series for Nuclear Free Future Month

The Peace Resource Center is opening it's doors at the Friends Center and hosting a month long commemoration of Japan's nuclear experiences (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima) with a focus on remembering the past while educating about nuclear issues that persist and need to change.  Each Tuesday in August, we will feature a different film on nuclear issues.

~ Tuesday, Aug 23rd ~ 

FREE Special Screening of: Poison DUst

   6:30 pm Light refreshments
   7:00 pm Movie starts, discussion after
   Bring a friend!

~ About POISON DUST ~

A NEW LOOK AT U.S. RADIOACTIVE WEAPONS During the current Iraq War the U.S. use of radioactive DU weapons increased from 375 tons used in 1991 to 2200 tons. Geiger counter readings at sites in downtown Baghdad record radiation levels 1,000 and 2,000 times higher than background radiation. The Pentagon has bombed, occupied, tortured and contaminated Iraq. Millions of Iraqis are affected. Over one million U.S. soldiers have rotated into Iraq. Today, half of the 697,000 U.S. Gulf War troops from the 1991 war have reported serious medical problems and a significant increase in birth defects among their newborn children.

The effects on the Iraqi population are far greater. Many other countries and U.S. communities near DU weapons plants, testing facilities, bases and arsenals have also been exposed to this radioactive material which has a half-life of 4.4 billions years

Stay tuned for details about the next film!
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[SDCPJ] SD Coalitioin for Peace & Justice - Agenda, Mon. 8/22, 7 PM

Hi all, below/attached is the agenda for the Monday, Aug. 22, 7 PM San Diego Coalition for Peace & Justice meeting at the Church of the Brethren.  NOTE that we will continue planning for both the Sept. 11, and Oct. 15 San Diego actions!  COME PARTICIPATE, have your voice heard and insure successful events!  Also attached are notices on other items including the Sept. 1 action in San Diego being organized by our area nurses, to promote taxing wall street transactions to pay for human needs. 

 

Craig

858-354-1785

 

SAN DIEGO COALITION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

                             3850 Westgate Place, San Diego, CA 92105

                             Monday, August 22, 2011 – 7:00 PM

Agenda

 

Tonight's Facilitator: TBD

Welcome, Introductions

Note taker for this evening's meeting will be ________________

 

Next regular SDCPJ meeting: Monday, September 12 (to be confirmed). 

Facilitator_____________

 

 

Accept Minutes from July 25 meeting (see below)

New Business/Report Backs/Updates/Discussion Items

-- NOTE: In lieu of updates, the entire meeting will be devoted to planning for Sept. 11 observation and Oct. 15 action

 

Upcoming Actions/Events

--  PLANNING FOR SEPT. 11 OBSERVATION

--  PLANNING FOR OCTOBER 15 SAN DIEGO ACTION

 

Break Outs (as needed) 

 

Announcements

 

***NOTE:  Information about events listed here can be found on SDCPJ's website www.sdcpj.org  or at www.prcsd.org/webcalendar or at www.ActivistSanDiego.org

[SDCPJ] Verizon Hires Blackwater as secuirty to break striking workers

Verizon Corporation hires Blackwater (Xe) as security to break striking workers

It has been confirmed that Blackwater, the private for profit mercenary-corporation that killed 17 civilians in Nisour Square in Baghdad in 2007, is being contracted by Verizon for security purposes (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/17/1008089/-Meet-Verizons-Newest-Security-Force:-Blackwater).
At this moment, CWA Local 1104, the union that represents some of the striking workers, was not able to say how many security contractors have been hired or where they will be working but they did confirm the company has been hired by the behemoth corporation.

Rest of story:
http://dailycensored.com/2011/08/18/verizon-corporation-hires-blackwater-xe-as-security-to-break-striking-workers/

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[SDCPJ] UFCW LOCAL 135 NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE

Hi fellow Brothers and Sisters,

 

Thanks again for your commitment to adopting a store in your neighborhood.  Lately our President Mickey Kaparian as well as the other SoCal UFCW  Presidents have been continuing to meet with Albertson's, Ralphs, and Vons to negotiate a contract and avoid a strike.  Unfortunately, so far it's looking more like a strike than a contractŠ  This coming Friday our members will be voting to potentially authorize a strike.

 

To stay informed about events please like our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Support-the-Union-Grocery-Workers-in-So-Cal/126942454021360 , as well as mobile updates with negotiations.  Just text ufcw135 to the number 37398.

 

Once the vote is final I will update you on any relevant information.

 

Thank you,

Maribel De La Torre

<mdelatorre@ufcw135.com>

 

Organizing Department

2001 Camino Del Rio South

San Diego, CA. 92108

(619) 298-7772 ext. 133

mdelatorre@ufcw135.com

 

 

 

 

 

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[SDCPJ] Verizon Strike Solidarity Picket - Saturday at noon

Verizon Strike Solidarity Picket

Saturday August 20th, from noon to 2PM

at the Verizon Wireless store in Mission Valley

980 Camino de la Reina, San Diego, CA 92108

Join the ISO in showing support for the 45,000 striking Verizon workers! This Saturday, August 20th at noon, stand in solidarity with our striking brothers and sisters while condemning Verizon's corporate greed and tax avoidance.

The Verizon strike enters its second week today, with 45,000 employees protesting the company's demand for more than $1 billion in cutbacks to health care, retirement and other benefits. But the company's aggressive efforts to win concessions come at a time when it is pulling in BILLIONS in profits. Not only did Verizon make more than $20 billion in profit in the last four years – all while paying NO corporate income tax – it used loopholes in the tax code to get a billon dollar refund check from the IRS. Verizon made $12 billion in profits last year alone. They paid zero in taxes, but they did manage to spend $34 million on lobbying.

Spread the word! Bring your friends and family! Stand up to the war on workers!

Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=241769449196500

[SDCPJ] PLEASE FORWARD ~ ACTIVIST UPDATE - Aug. 15th - Debt Panel, 19th - Zeitgeist Fundraiser, 29th - Radio Summer

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ACTIVIST UPDATE - Aug. 15th - Debt Panel,  Aug. 19th - Zeitgeist Fundraiser,  Aug. 29th - Radio Summer

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Welcome to the weekly ASD newsletter for August 15, 2011 #581 Monday, August 15, 2011 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Joyce Beers Community Center 4065 Vermont St., San Diego, CA 92103 Come early, limited seating Activist San Diego presents If you think the "Debt Deal" stinks, wait until you find out how they pulled off this heist, with the full complicity of the media! This month, ASD brings together a panel of experts, including Congressman Bob Filner, Lorena Gonzalez of the Labor Council, Floyd Morrow, Dr. Jeoff Gordon and Corinne Wilson of CPI, to analyze and deconstruct how an artificial 'crises' was created, just as outlined in Naomi Klein's book " Shock Doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism". Learn about the real issues and challenges we face beyond the sound-byte rhetoric in the corporate broadcast media. We will explore the economic, political, and media realities we face and what we can do, going forward, to immunize ourselves against such artificial 'crises' that are so obviously designed to manipulate our society for the benefit of the very few. more…   MARK YOUR CALENDAR for these additional ASD events! Monday, August 15th Activist San Diego Monthly General Meeting 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Joyce Beers Community Center, 4065 Vermont St. San Diego, CA 92103 If you think the Debt Deal stinks, wait until you find out how they pulled off this heist, with the full complicity of the media! more… Thursday, August 18th Build the San Diego Community Radio Project 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Activist Center, 4246 Wightman St. San Diego, CA 92101 Every 3rd Thursday of the month! Meeting of the Activist San Diego Community Radio Project. Join us! Open Meeting, all are welcome! Come find out more... Build the San Diego Community Radio Project. 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For more information, or to RSVP to the Summit, contact the San Diego Labor Council at 619-228-8101 or abettersandiego@unionyes.org Monday, August 29th It's RADIO SUMMER! 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Media Arts Center, 2921 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA 92103 Who wants to dig into community radio in San Diego? I DO!! How can you get involved in community radio in San Diego, right now?! Whether you have audio, outreach, networking, research or other skills to bring to the group, come and be a part of this growing movement with more and more local opportunities every day.Activist San Diego will host a workshop at Media Arts, 2921 El Cajon Blvd, on Monday, August 29th, 7-9pm. We're inviting our allies from Open Media City Heights, the World Beat Center, and New Media Rights.... all spurred by Prometheus Radio Project's "Radio Summer" call to action! more… Saturdayday, September 4th A Talk & Book Signing with S. Brian Willson 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Joyce Beers Community Center, 4065 Vermont Street, San Diego, CA 92103 THE UNIMAGINABLE JOURNEY of an American Peacemaker Activist San Diego & Veterans for Peace present A Talk & Book Signing with S. Brian Willson Doors open at 5:30. Brian Wilson will be available to autograph books prior to and following the program. Copies of Blood on the Tracks will be available for $20 at this event. more…   By becoming a dues paying member of Activist San Diego, you are a part of an organization that has been working for social justice and progressive causes since 1999. It’s an exciting time to be a part of our group of highly motivated activists as we take networking to a whole new level via our new radio station. Help us bring the progressive voice to San Diego via FM radio and new media. Click to sign up Activist San Diego relies on individual contributions in order to survive and thrive as an organization. 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As if this weren't uplifting enough news for the progressive, radical left in San Diego, according to Prometheus Radio Project (a non-profit assisting start-up radio stations), an application window for up to four NCE Low Power FM licenses may be open for non-profits as early as next summer! Prometheus is calling on radio activists to organize. Let's not be on the late-train, the time to get together is now. Application process...radio station... why would folks get together? ! Content cooperation--ASD's radio project is non-commercial, and, are you ready for an entirely different paradigm: permission-based, royalty-free, copyleft, creative commons content.   Come to Media Arts August 29th, “a digital gym” where they “hang out, make media, and learn new things.” You will hear about outreach through music and culture with Makeda Dread of the World Beat Center; Art Neill of New Media Rights will reveal the wonders of the exploding popularity of the creative commons and this opportunity in history to be a part of it; Brian Myers will talk about Open Media City Heights, a neighborhood-based web streaming radio station; and don't forget the fire and brimstone we expect to hear from Ian at the Prometheus Radio Project on the inherently amazing essence of terrestrial radio.   Come, be inspired, make connections, organize for your own Low Power FM radio dream application team, be a part of ASD's radio in development, and network for the content sharing that will make us all stronger! Hope to see you there!! Kelly Barnes Radio General Manager, ASD Activist San Diego has many volunteer and internship opportunities. Take a look at the committee descriptions below and send an email to info@ActivistSanDiego.org to get started today. Radio Committee Be a part of Activist San Diego's exciting efforts to bring a public radio station to San Diego! The Radio Project Committee meets every 3rd Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at 4246 Wightman St. San Diego, CA 92105. All interested are welcome. Contact Kelly for more information at Programs Activist San Diego promotes and facilitates the development of an active, inter-related, progressive community in San Diego. Help us plan our monthly general meeting and monthly films Communications We're responsible for the web site and newsletter. If you know something about the web, graphic design, or social media, we want you! Integrity?: "There can be no doubt about our commitment to ethics and integrity." --Rubert Murdoch this week to News Corp. investors   Movie Night at the Peace Resource Center 4246 Wightman St. | San Diego, CA 92105-2618 US