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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Fw: Getting hitched in East County: Our weddings special section
[SDCPJ] Fw: [AL-AWDA-San-Diego] Emergency Demonstration
We are calling for a complete lifting of the Gaza Siege and upon the Obama administration to join the world body in condemning Israel's deadly attack in international waters on a convoy of unarmed international peace activists bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. At least 19 of the activists were killed and over 60 were wounded by the attacking Zionist force. It is imperative that the three-year-old siege on Gaza be lifted immediately, and that all the activists are released as soon as possible.
Please do your best to attend and help us by forwarding this announcement to your families & friends.
Amani Barakat
National Coordinating Committee Representative
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
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[SDCPJ] San Diego Community Radio Project; ORGANIZING MEETING of the ,Thurs. July 15th, 2010 at 7 –9 PM:
San Diego Community Radio Project
Thurs. July 15th, 2010 at 7 –9 PM:
Activist Center – 4246 Wightman St. -SD 92105.
Activist San Diego is thrilled to announce our organization is in the final stages of being awarded 2 construction permits by the FCC for 2 new "full power" FR radio stations in San Diego county.
>From here on out on the 3rd Thursday of the month we will convene the radio committee meetings.
July Agenda:
Bi-monthly Prometheus Project will help us and others to 'GET ON the AIR' during phone conference workshops.
We will have a short report back on what was learned..
Update on progress since the initial meetings...
Breakouts for sub-committees:
1. Outreach - Administration Team (What progress with the Mexican FCC app? Develop a master list of potential partners for the radio project and develop a plan to reach and visit many groups with a presentation.)
2. Internet-Tech Team (Get a website and streaming audio in 4-5 month. Start looking for ways to put up digital content to give supporters and donors a better idea of what our radio will sound like.)
3. Fund raising Team (First promotional materials, Develop a fundraising plan and outline the 1st steps to implement now.)
for information: Call Martin 618-871-9354, Martin@ActivistSanDiego.org
[SDCPJ] Del Mar: Cruel As Ever /Protest August 28!
From the San Diego Animal Defense Team sdanimaldefenseteam.blogspot.com For the first time in the history of the Del Mar horse races, four members of the San Diego Animal Defense Team successfully infiltrated Opening Day AKA Hat Day on July 21, wearing large hats protesting the cruelty of horse racing. The team officially entered the Opening Day hat contest, sponsored by track officials and billed as "The One and Only Truly Fabulous Hats Contest." They then joined the Parade of Hats, potentially exposing thousands of horse race fans to creative visuals of the cruel reality of racing. Each hat was individually crafted. One featured "My Pretty (Dead) Pony." Another boldly stated "Racing Kills." The third was topped with three dead horses and a tombstone engraved with "Del Mar 2009 -- 13 horses dead / 2010 -- ???" The fourth hat featured a prominent banner: "Remembering the valiant horses who gave their lives for 'sport,' " trimmed with ghost horses with targets on them. The Animal Defense Team has scheduled its annual protest outside of the track entrance. PLEASE JOIN US! EVERONE IS WELCOME AND NEEDED! Bring signs, water and your compassion for the victims of an industry based on greed, drugging, deception and death. This is the third annual ADT protest at the Del Mar Races. WHEN Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:30 AM - 1 PM This is the $1 Million Pacific Classic Day, the biggest purse of the season. Post time is at 1 PM WHERE The intersection of Jimmy Durante Blvd. and Via de la Valle, under the Del Mar marquee at the corner. WHY The losers of Del Mar's richest "betting" day will far outweigh the winners and death is imminent. Seven out of ten horses are slaughtered in the U.S., not because they are in pain, suffering or living with a terminal illness -- they are slaughtered because their owners don't want them anymore. For the thoroughbred, the risk of death is greater if they are injured or they finish last where the turf meets the surf in Del Mar. If your favorite horse doesn't make a good showing in the race, chances are the next stop is the slaughterhouse. Information: keafs2@yahoo.com and the Racehorse Memorial Wall scrollsequus.blogspot.com The San Diego Animal Defense Team denounces all forms of "animal entertainment" for human pleasure. Whips, beatings, starvation and isolation are all a part of "training" an animal for human command and control. There is nothing exciting about suffering and pain. Please do not support animal entertainment of any kind, beginning with horse racing. |
Zeitgeist Movement Radio Address - June 30th '10
| These are very good and worth listening to. Walter Main site/Press Interviews/Mortgage Financing Community Involvement Streaming Internet Television --- On Tue, 6/29/10, noreply@thezeitgeistmovement.com <noreply@thezeitgeistmovement.com> wrote:
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| ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Walter, This is a message from the California Center for Sustainable Energy, I am writing to inform you of our Sustainable Energy Week 2010. It would be highly appreciated if this message could be passed to your members. Thank you for your time. Sustainable Energy Week 2010 is a series of activities for everyone from families and children to engineers and policy makers highlighting the many benefits homeowners and businesses can enjoy when they take a whole-building, performance approach to their energy future – energy use reduction, cost savings and a cleaner environment. Family Energy Day and Street Smart San Diego are Sunday, Sept. 12; Clean Energy Commercial Tours are Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 14 & 15; and the Clean Energy Conference is Thursday, Sept. 16. For details, locations and registration go to www.sustainableenergyweek.org or call 858-244-1177.Save $15 on Clean Energy Conference registration by choosing "referred by Cindy Zulick" on the registration page. Register here!http://energycenter.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=314&utm_source=signature-staff&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=csi
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
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Monday, July 19, 2010
[SDCPJ] Upcoming networking luncheon on 7/21/10
[SDCPJ] Another World is Possible
Another U.S. is Necessary,"
A Collective Discussion and Reportback on the
US Social Forum by San Diegan participants
Monday, July 19th, 7:00pm
Joyce Beers Community Center
1220 Cleveland Ave., Hillcrest
In June, nearly 30,000 activists gathered in Detroit to take an important step forward in building a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, and internationalist movement to confront the devastating economic and ecological crises. Uniting under the banner "Another World is Possible; Another U.S. is Necessary," the Social Forum created a space for organizers to learn
from each other's experiences and struggles, share analysis of the problems
affecting different communities, build relationships, and align with international
organizers to forge global resistance.
Join us for a report back and collective discussion with San Diego activists who attended, including members of Activist San Diego, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Environmental Health Coalition, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Ant Hill Collective.
For More Information: info@ActivistSanDiego.org // 619-871-9354 // www.ActivistSanDiego.org
Thursday, July 15, 2010
[SDCPJ] March with Amnesty International at Pride Parade!
Calling All Local Activists!!!
Amnesty International Hillcrest Chapter needs Volunteers to march in the San Diego Pride Parade this year!!!!
The annual San Diego LGBT Pride Parade is the 5th largest in the United States attracting 150,000 cheering spectators and significant media participation.
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010
Parade Starts: 11:00 am
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Lynn
San Diego Military Counseling Project
www.sdmcp.org
Monday, July 12, 2010
[SDCPJ] Updated and new online resources for counter-recruitment/demilitarization work
• The documents archive is reorganized (now includes more school district policies, fact sheets and other helpful items.)
• Registered users can now directly upload documents (fliers, brochures, links, etc.) for the archive.
• Registered users can submit activity reports that will be publicly available and searchable.
• The organization database is now easier to search (current number of groups listed = 143).
• As always, users can add organizations to the national list of groups that are doing counter-recruitment/truth-in-recruitment work.
• The alternative careers lists for all states and several U.S. territories have been updated.
• A parallel site in Spanish is being built.
• An automatically updated news feed has been added for recruiting-related articles (courtesy of counter-recruitment.blogspot.com)
Saturday, July 10, 2010
[SDCPJ] Talking Points - Parcel Tax - 7/13 Hearing at the School Board Meeting
[SDCPJ] Fw: Losing in Afghanistan
From: "Marjorie Cohn" <marjorielegal@gmail.com>
To: "Marjorie Cohn" <marjorielegal@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 5:19 PM
Subject: Losing in Afghanistan
Dear friends,
Please click on the Huffington Post link to ensure this article gets
maximum exposure.
Thanks,
Marjorie
Losing in Afghanistan
By Marjorie Cohn
Huffington Post
July 6, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marjorie-cohn/losing-in-afghanistan_b_637140.html
Last week, the House of Representatives voted 215-210 for $33 billion
to fund Barack Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan. But there was
considerable opposition to giving the President a blank check. One
hundred sixty-two House members supported an amendment that would have
tied the funding to a withdrawal timetable. One hundred members voted
for another amendment that would have rejected the $33 billion for the
30,000 new troops already on their way to Afghanistan; that amendment
would have required that the money be spent to redeploy our troops out
of Afghanistan. Democrats voting for the second amendment included
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and nine Republicans. Both amendments
failed to pass.
The new appropriation is in addition to the $130 billion Congress has
already approved for Iraq and Afghanistan this year. And the 2010
Pentagon budget is $693 billion, more than all other discretionary
spending programs combined.
Our economic crisis is directly tied to the cost of the war. We are in
desperate need of money for education and health care. The $1 million
per year it costs to maintain a single soldier in Afghanistan could
pay for 20 green jobs.
Not only is the war bankrupting us, it has come at a tragic cost in
lives. June was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In
addition to the 1,149 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan, untold
numbers of Afghan civilians have died from the war - untold because
the Defense Department refuses to maintain statistics of anyone except
U.S. personnel. After all, Donald Rumsfeld quipped in 2005, "death has
a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
There are other "depressing" aspects of this war as well. As Gen.
Stanley McChrystal reported just days before he got the axe, there is
a "resilient and growing insurgency" with high levels of violence and
corruption within the Karzai government. McChrystal's remarks were
considered "off message" by the White House, which was also irked by
the general's criticisms of Obama officials in a Rolling Stone
article. McChrystal believes that you can't kill your way out of
Afghanistan. "The Russians killed 1 million Afghans and that didn't
work."
He and his successor, Gen. David Petraeus, likely disagree on the need
to prevent civilian casualties (known as "Civ Cas"). McChrystal
instituted some of the most stringent rules of engagement the U.S.
military has had in a war zone: "Patrol only in areas that you are
reasonably certain that you will not have to defend yourselves with
lethal force." Commanders cannot fire on buildings or other places if
they have reason to believe civilians might be present unless their
own forces are in imminent danger of being overrun. And they must end
engagements and withdraw rather than risk harming noncombatants.
McChrystal knows that for every innocent person you kill, you create
new enemies; he calls it "insurgent math." According to the Los
Angeles Times, McChrystal "was credited with bringing about a
substantial drop in the proportion of civilian casualties suffered at
the hands of NATO's International Security Assistance Force and its
Afghan allies."
While testifying in Congress before he was confirmed to take
McChrystal's place, Petraeus told senators that some U.S. soldiers had
complained about the former's rules of engagement aimed at preventing
civilian casualties.
According to the Rolling Stone article, Obama capitulated to
McChrystal's insistence that more troops were needed in Afghanistan.
In his December 1 speech at West Point, the article says, "the
president laid out all the reasons why fighting the war in Afghanistan
is a bad idea: It's expensive; we're in an economic crisis; a
decade-long commitment would sap American power; Al Qaeda has shifted
its base of operations to Pakistan. Then," the article continued,
"without ever using the words 'victory' or 'win,' Obama announced that
he would send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, almost as
many as McChrystal had requested."
Both Obama and Petraeus no longer speak of "victory" over the Taliban;
they both hold open the possibility of settlement with the Taliban.
Indeed, Maj. Gen. Bill Mayville, chief of operations for McChrystal,
told Rolling Stone, "It's not going to look like a win, smell like a
win or taste like a win."
The majority of Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan. Fareed
Zakaria had some harsh words for the war on his CNN show, saying that
"the whole enterprise in Afghanistan feels disproportionate, a very
expensive solution to what is turning out to be a small but real
problem." Noting that CIA director Leon Panetta admitted that the
number of Al Qaeda left in Afghanistan may be 50 to 100, Zakaria
asked, "why are we fighting a major war" there? "Last month alone
there were more than 100 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan," he said.
"That's more than one allied death for each living Al Qaeda member in
the country in just one month." Citing estimates that the war will
cost more than $100 billion in 2010 alone, Zakaria observed, "That's a
billion dollars for every member of Al Qaeda thought to be living in
Afghanistan in one year." He queried, "Why are we investing so much
time, energy, and effort when Al Qaeda is so weak?" And Zakaria
responded to the argument that we should continue fighting the Taliban
because they are allied with Al Qaeda by saying, "this would be like
fighting Italy in World War II after Hitler's regime had collapsed and
Berlin was in flames just because Italy had been allied with Germany."
There is also division in the Republican ranks over the war.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele made some gutsy
comments about the war in Afghanistan, saying it is not winnable and
calling it a "war of Obama's choosing." (Even though George W. Bush
first invaded Afghanistan, Obama made the escalation of U.S.
involvement a centerpiece of his campaign.) Steele said that if Obama
is "such a student of history, has he not understood that, you know,
that's the one thing you don't do, is engage in a land war in
Afghanistan? Everyone who has tried, over 1,000 years of history, has
failed." Interestingly, Republicans Lindsey Graham and John McCain
slammed Steele and jumped to Obama's defense. Rep. Ron Paul, however,
agreed with Steele, saying, "Michael Steele has it right, and
Republicans should stick by him."
Obama will likely persist with his failed war. He appears to be
stumbling along the same path that Lyndon Johnson followed. Johnson
lost his vision for a "Great Society" when he became convinced that
his legacy depended on winning the Vietnam War. It appears that Obama
has similarly lost his way.
Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, is
immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild and deputy
secretary general of the International Association of Democratic
Lawyers. She is co-author (with Kathleen Gilberd) of Rules of
Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent. See
www.marjoriecohn.com.
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
[SDCPJ] Donate to the Ricardo Dominguez/b.a.n.g. lab Legal Support Fund
Dear Communities of Support,
The "investigations" by University of California San Diego/University of
California of Office of the President of professor Ricardo Dominguez and
Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g lab's performances and projects
continues. The cost of legal support is growing and we would appreciate
your economic support.
To donate to our legal action fund please click here:
http://banglabinexile.pbworks.com/Donate-to-the-Ricardo-Dominguez-Legal-Support-Fund
Thanks to all the communities who have already supported the legal support
fund in spirit and funds.
To learn more about the "investigations" and support for Professor Ricardo
Dominguez and Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g lab click here read
and watch these news reports about the "investigations":
Digital Zapatismo and the Threatened Persecution of Prof. Ricardo
Dominguez (UCSD)
by John Armenta:
http://thevirtualcampfire.org/garibaldi/2010/05/ricardo-dominguez
UC San Diego professor who studies disobedience gains followers - and
investigators By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/07/local/la-me-ucsd-professor-20100507-53
Ucsd Hacktivism "Affective - Not Effective!" - Fox News Video:
http://bang.calit2.net/2010/05/ucsd-hacktivism-fox-news-eeek/
Letters of support:
Open letter from the Visual Arts Department (UCSD)
http://bang.calit2.net/2010/05/letter-of-support-visual-arts-department-ucsd/
Open letter from the UCSD Faculty Coalition:
http://bang.calit2.net/2010/04/ucsd-faculty-coalition-letter-to-svc-drake/
Letter Of Support Started At Duke University:
http://bang.calit2.net/2010/04/letter-of-support-started-at-duke-university/
Many other letters of support can be found at:
http://bang.calit2.net
Petition:
Stop the De-tenuring of Ricardo Dominguez
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-de-tenuring-of-ricardo-dominguez
Thank you so very much for your continued support.
Abrazos,
Ricardo Dominguez, Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g lab
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Ricardo Dominguez
Associate Professor
Hellman Fellow
"Another University is Possible"
Visual Arts Department, UCSD
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
Principal Investigator, CALIT2
http://calit2.net
Co-Chair gallery@calit2
http://gallery.calit2.net
CRCA Researcher
http://crca.ucsd.edu/
Ethnic Studies Affiliate
http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Affiliate
http://cilas.ucsd.edu
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics,
Board Member
http://hemi.nyu.edu
University of California, San Diego,
9500 Gilman Drive Drive,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0436
Phone: (619) 322-7571
e-mail: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Project sites:
site: http://bang.calit2.net
site: http://gallery.calit2.net
site: http://pitmm.net
blog:http://post.thing.net/blog/rdom
site: http://www.thing.net/~rdom
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
[SDCPJ] Thurs, July 1, 6 - 9:30 pm ; People not Corporations; THE UNDERMINING OF DEMOCRACY
Earth is for People not Corporations
Networking and Tabling from 6-7pm
Steven Freeman, Keynote Speaker
University of Pennsylvania and Founder of The Election Integrity Forum
'ELECTION FRAUD: THE UNDERMINING OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- WHAT TO DO"
Sponsored or Endorsed by
- Peace & Democracy
- Action Group
- Activist San Diego
- Common Cause (SD)
- First Unitarian Universalist Church
- P. A. C. E
- Psephos
- Sustainable Democracy Group
- The United Nations Association
- San Diego Coalition
- for Peace and Justice
- Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
- "Illegal Wars and Corporate War Profiteers"
- Simon Mayeski, CA Common Cause
- "Citizens United Supreme Court Decision: What Next and What Now?"
- Mera Szendro Bok, Communications Strategist for New Media Rights
- "New Media and Media Reform: How to Engage in A Way That Makes An Impact"
- Pedro Rios, American Friends Service Committee
- "How Corporations Have Helped To Create Our Immigration Problem"
- Ken Sobel, General Counsel, Southern California Sustainability Alliance
- "The Corporate Campaign Against The AB 32 Climate Change Legislation"
- Annie Lorrie Anderson-Lazo, People United for Social Justice
- "Current Organizing and Legislative Efforts to Close Major Corporate Loopholes"
The Trailer for The Film "SAVE KLSD" Will Be Shown
EVENT LOCATION:
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Meeting House
4190 Front Street, Hillcrest
Across from the UCSD Hospital
Call John Falchi at 619-222-6036 for more info
$10 Donation Requested .
-- Martin Eder 619-871-9354 = Cell 619-226-1116 = Home office
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