[SDCPJ] PLEASE FORWARD ~ ACTIVIST UPDATE - Aug. 15th - Debt Panel, 19th - Zeitgeist Fundraiser, 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. Saturday, August 27th Economic Summit for a Better San Diego 9:00 am – 2:00 pm Horace Mann Middle School, 4345 54th St., San Diego, CA 92115 Join the region's leading community organizations (including Activist San Diego) for a day-long discussion on the economic issues that affect the lives of all San Diegans. The Labor Council began reaching out to community groups several months ago and together they have hammered out a list of issues, a schedule and framework for the summit. Focusing on jobs, quality of life, prosperity, equality and fairness, the coalition wants to change the narrative in San Diego, getting away from the right-wing dominance of discussion of issues in the media, moving away from, for example, a monopolization of the pension issue to more everyday issues like ‘where are the jobs?’ and other quality of life concerns. 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. Our website, email newsletter, social justice events, and cultural events are all supported by generosity from activists like you. Without you, we can't continue to benefit the San Diego community. Whether you can donate $12, $48, or $200, you are an essential part of allowing the San Diego social justice movement to continue, THANK YOU! Click to donate. Tuesday, August 16th Movie Night at the Peace Resource Center 6:30 pm light refreshments - 7:00 pm Movie starts Peace Resource Center, 3850 Westgate Place, San Diego, CA 92105 We are a group of approximately 3 to 8, "Encinitas Enough!". We regularly demonstrate with signs at the above location and time. We have extra signs, or bring your own, and are open to all like-minded progressives to join us any or every Saturday to help our rally grow! We advocate for Pro-Progressive Current Issues, i. e. National Public Health Insurance, Free Palestine, Anti-War, Anti-Invasions, Anti-U. S. Torture, Prosecute Bush Administration Personnel, Keep religion out of government & public schools, No on Prop. 8, etc. more... Thursday, August 18th Phone Bank for Solidarity Demonstration Equality 9 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Canvass for a Cause: 3705 10th Ave #3, San Diego, CA Phone Banking to draw folks to the EQ9 Solidarity Demonstration. Please bring your cell phones and join us in phone banking volunteers and activists to confirm attendance at the August 19th Solidarity Demonstration for the Equality 9! more… Friday, August 19th Zeitgeist Movement - Spaghetti Fundraiser 6:00 pm– 9:00 pm Activist Center, 4246 Wightman St, San Diego, CA 92105 The Zeitgeist Movement San Diego Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser Meet Activist San Diego and tell them about Zeitgeist Movement. $10-Donation suggested. All proceeds will be used to help Zeitgeist Group pay annual group membership fee to join Activist San Diego Questions: mike@sdsustainablefuture.com, (619)573-9560. Iinvite your friends. more... EXIT IN - Celebrate 5 Years with a Very Special Dance Experience 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Friday and Saturday The Wagner Theater at UCSD TranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project celebrates it's 5-year anniversary this month with Exit In - a performance series and fundraising event at UCSD's Wagner Theatre. Exit In is a dance experience that embraces the journey of self-discovery. Come be a part of this amazing performance and support an essential resource based in the City Heights community for struggling youth. more… Solidarity Demonstration Equality 9 8:30 am - 9:30 am San Diego Courthouse Please join us at the San Diego Courthouse @ The EQ9 were arrested and charged with two misdemeanors exactly 1 year prior and will be in court at 9am this day. This is the anniversary of the day the stay on prop 8 was to be lifted. The Equality 9 engaged in a peaceful sit-in when the County Clerk would not issue Marriage Licenses to two same-sex couples that day, as they were willing to do for any opposite-sex couple that stepped into the office. The 9 were arrested by dozens of Sheriff’s Deputies in full riot gear and military-style formation. They were shackled and marched out to buses, then were brought to jail where they were processed and spent several hours. more… Saturday, August 20th Binational Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Friendship Park 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Border Fields State Park/Friendship Park Celebrate international friendship with the Friends of Friendship Park. 10 a.m. hike to the park; 12 p.m. anniversary celebration with music and more; 2 p.m. symbolic watering of Friendship Garden. more… Midnight Madness 12:00 am – 3:00 am 1600 Pacific Highway San Diego CA 92101 Get your bike, your funky pajamas, your headlights, and let’s ride! Please join us for this fun night of costumes, prizes and a nighttime ride around the San Diego Bay. Go to Bettersignup.com to pre-register. Cost is $32 for adults and $15 for children under 12, fees will rise to $37 for night-of-event registration. So register now! Proceeds benefit our youth education and outreach programs. Questions? Please email Tiffany Olson at tolson@sandiegohostels.org or call 619-338-9981. Registration opens at 8pm. Ride begins at Midnight. Hosted by: Hostelling International USA, San Diego Council. more… Sunday, August 21st Weekly Progressive Rally & Demonstration 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PCH 101 & Encinitas Blvd. Intersection; SW Corner PCH 101 & Encinitas Blvd. Intersection; SW Corner We are a group of approximately 3 to 8, "Encinitas Enough!". We regularly demonstrate with signs at the above location and time. We have extra signs, or bring your own, and are open to all like-minded progressives to join us any or every Saturday to help our rally grow! We advocate for Pro-Progressive Current Issues, i. e. National Public Health Insurance, Free Palestine, Anti-War, Anti-Invasions, Anti-U. S. Torture, Prosecute Bush Administration Personnel, Keep religion out of government & public schools, No on Prop. 8, etc. more… See the Activist San Diego website for future events and details.         Up next!   Join Us!   Support ASD   Calendar This Week   Op Ed   Plug in to ASD   Quote of Note By now you know Activist San Diego holds a non-commercial educational (NCE) FCC radio license, with a footprint in rural East County. The license is actually a construction permit that allows ASD to build a radio tower, and we are very busy activists, kicking original radio content, technical capacity and fundraising into high gear. 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

[SDCPJ] Verizon Strikers Turn Away Customers & Chase Scabs

Verizon Strike Turns Away Customers and Chases Scabs

By Mischa Gaus
Labor Notes
August 11, 2011

http://labornotes.org/2011/08/verizon-pickets-turn-away-customers-and-chase-scabs

Union picketers are turning away customers at
Verizon's wireless stores in the Northeast,
though injunctions could threaten that tactic.
Photo: Massachusetts Jobs with Justice. Make
sure to check out Verizon striker Pam Galpern
on "Democracy Now!" http://tinyurl.com/3rtpum5

Verizon's strike in the Northeast is into Day Five, and
big picket lines are turning away customers at
Verizon's wireless stores.

Injunctions could threaten one of the union's most
effective tactics, mass picketing at stores. But
another-mobile picketing-is causing havoc for the
company. Techs are chasing scab managers through the
field, making them cross their very own personal picket
line at the bottom of a pole or while they try to work
in a manhole.

The strike covers 45,000 members of the Communications
Workers and Electrical Workers (IBEW) from
Massachusetts to Virginia. Verizon wants to eliminate
pensions, as well as limit raises and force big health
care costs onto current workers and retirees. The
concessions would take $1 billion from workers, at a
company which made almost $20 billion during the last
four years.

"Everybody's very motivated," said Barbara Smith, a
member of CWA Local 1109 in Brooklyn. When her local
pickets wireless stores, "pedestrians stop and thank us
because they understand that this fight is about more
than Verizon."

Operating Engineers, crane operators, and other
construction and building-service workers in New York,
New Jersey, and Massachusetts are refusing to cross
picket lines. Teamsters at UPS have refused to deliver
to Verizon offices, denying the company wireless and
fiber-optic equipment. Even some non-union workers are
refusing to cross. Dozens of unions, from nurses to
janitors to teachers, have bolstered picket lines in
support.

Busy UPS drivers are double-parking their trucks next
to the vans operated by scabs and managers, boosting
efforts by CWA and IBEW members to delay and deny
scabs' access to the work.

Bob Master, CWA District 1's legislative and political
director, said cars driven by scabs have struck
picketers, at least 20 so far, sending at least two to
the hospital.

Injunctions

Verizon has secured several injunctions. In
Pennsylvania the injunction limits the number of
picketers at a location to six, and mandates they stay
15 feet from scabs. The Delaware complaint alleged that
members shut off power to Verizon facilities and glued
shut locks on trucks and garage fences.

In Philadelphia, management hadn't moved trucks off the
property ahead of the strike and tight, packed picket
lines prevented them from going anywhere.

"We had them pretty much shut down for three days,"
said Justin Harrison, a unit secretary in statewide CWA
Local 13000. Mobile picketers are chasing trucks around
town now that they're out of the yard.

The company was in court Wednesday in New York seeking
similar limitations on picketers' activity. CWA
attorney Gay Semel said that to win an injunction the
company needs to claim that police can't protect
Verizon scabs and property, and that the company
produced 20 instances of alleged violence.

An injunction delivered to strikers Thursday limited
the number of picketers, from six to 50, based on the
size of the location. Mobile picketers in New York are
limited to six, and while in traffic they must follow
45 feet behind the scab van, Semel said. While courts
are no friend of the worker, Semel added, she called
these injunctions among the least restrictive she's
seen.

Wireless stores are unaffected, although Verizon is
returning to court today to secure additional
injunctions against those pickets.

CWA is targeting heavily trafficked New York City
wireless stores and big, noisy lines are turning back
customers. The pickets are orderly, and feel somewhat
cramped, because watchful police keep picketers
circulating inside metal pens.

Management is desperate to limit disruption at these
wireless locations, especially ahead of September's
expected rollout of the next iPhone. The hot-selling
gadget will be available at (mostly unionized) AT&T
retail stores as well-and Verizon picketers would be
more than happy to let customers know the closest
location to patronize.

In New York City, Mayor Bloomberg's administration has
dispatched police to follow Verizon vehicles around, a
taxpayer-provided security blanket for a company that
paid no federal taxes in 2009-10 (and actually claimed
a $1.3 billion refund).

Moving the Work

Reacting to the Northeast telecom unions' long history
of militant strikes and inside campaigns, Verizon has
tried to limit their power over the years by
aggressively contracting out work and moving it around
the country and overseas. Eddie Blackburn, a service
rep who handles fiber-optic products in Providence,
Rhode Island, has seen his union, IBEW Local 2323, cut
in half in his 11 years at the company.

Most media accounts relegate the unions to history's
dustbin, because they have not yet been able to
organize most of the burgeoning wireless business. They
ignore the merciless campaigns waged by Verizon,
Sprint, T-Mobile, and others to keep unions out.

But Blackburn says the huge spurt in wireless has a
positive side in the strike. Even with a shrunken
union, the rapid-mobilization capabilities of text
messaging and Twitter feeds delivered to smartphones
are enabling members to zero in on scabs' locations and
drive them nuts.

When a member discovered a downed line Tuesday, members
converged to picket it. They kept residents from being
hurt, Blackburn said, and waited for scabs to appear.
(Utility workers also won't cross their lines.) But
when a call came of a scab van 15 minutes away, they
dispatched another five picketers to surround it
immediately.

"They weren't prepared for how flexible and fluid our
mobilizing can be," he said. "It gets in their head.
They're not as effective."

Plus, he said, members are flocking to the activity,
which he admits is "sort of fun." Videos have surfaced
"highlighting the hack, garbage work management is
doing," Blackburn said.

But the other side is carrying cameras, too, and giant
anti-union megaphones like Fox News are only too happy
to paint the strikers as out-of-control vigilantes.
Reports of vandalism and a striker "endangering" his
child have been amplified.

"You could be Mother Teresa on the picket line, and
they'd still find a way to go after you," Blackburn
said.

More importantly, he said, the mobile picketing gives
members something effective to do, rather than
picketing office locations where managers do inside
work and there's little opportunity to take action.

Meanwhile, the union dispatched its negotiators back to
the table Wednesday. Verizon removed its proposal that
attached wage increases to management-determined
productivity measures, but union officials say the
company is still dithering in negotiations.

"The only serious thing here is the traffic I'm stuck
in," said CWA Local 1400 President Don Trementozzi, on
his way back to Rye, New York, for another bargaining
session.

The unions are planning a vigil at Verizon chairman
Ivan Seidenberg's house in the pricey Hudson river
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[SDCPJ] Fw: Soup Kitchen In City Heights!! Nurses To Feed Victims of Wall Street

On Sept. 1, nurses from the San Diego region will hold an event from 5-6 PM, demonstrating the need to transfer wealth to those in need.  See the attached .pdf flyer!  This is at 4265 Fairmount Ave, just south of El Cajon Blvd.  This is our cause, too; let's show up and support this effort!  The theme: "Heal America - Tax Wall Street!"

 

Craig

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From: charlene anderson <nonniboo@hotmail.com>
To: bananashke@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Fri, August 12, 2011 10:17:28 AM
Subject: FW: Soup Kitchen In City Heights!! Nurses To Feed Victims of Wall Street

Hi Craig, 

     This is my personal email, you can use either one. Here's the pdf for the soup kitchen with the nurses.  If you know anyone that would like to participate, by all means, send them my way by phone or by email.

Thanks! Charlene

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From: sgurling@calnurses.org
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:47:19 -0700
Subject: Soup Kitchen In City Heights!! Nurses To Feed Victims of Wall Street

Please Review Attached Flyer

 

 

 

Sara Gurling

Labor Representative

 

California Nurses Association/

National Nurses United

3160 Camino Del Rio South., Suite 305

San Diego, CA 92108

Tel: 619-516-4917 ext. 3604

Fax: 619-516-4922

Web: www.nationalnursesunited.org

 

 

 

Support Single-Payer Universal Healthcare http://www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org

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[SDCPJ] Activist Meeting: Monday, August 15th, from 7-9 PM; DEBTS, LIES & THUGS: How the Shock Doctrine was used to screw the American People.

Monday, August 15th, from 7-9 PM

Panel of experts, including

• Congressman Bob Filner,
• Lorena Gonzalez of the SD Labor Council,
• Floyd Morrow - former SD City Council member, Activist San Diego Sect/Treasurer
  
•  Dr. Jeoff Gordon 
• Corinne Wilson of CPI, to analyze and deconstruct how an artificial 'crises' was created,
  

                                                                            just as outlined in Naomi Klein's book " Shock Doctrine:

Activist San Diego Monthly General Meeting:
DEBTS, LIES & THUGS:
How the Shock Doctrine was used to suck the last drop of blood from the American People.
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!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".

Join us Monday, August 15th, from 7-9 PM
Joyce Beers Community Center
4065 Vermont Street, 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! 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.

We will explore the economic, political, and media realities we face and educate ourselves about what we can do, going forward, to immunize ourselves against such artificial 'crises' that are so obviously designed to manipulate our society for political gain.

Email Address: 

info@activistsandiego.org

Phone Number: 

         619-528-8383     

--  Martin Eder 619-871-9354 = Cell 619-226-1116 = Home office

[SDCPJ] Movie night at the Peace Resource Center, Tuesday, August 16th

	Tuesday, August 16th Movie Night at the Peace Resource Center August is Nuclear Free Future Month.  For this, 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.   ~ Tuesday, Aug 16th ~  A  FREE Special Screening of "THE FORGOTTEN BOMB."  This feature-length documentary is both powerful and informational. When the Cold War ended, worry about nuclear weapons also receded. But has the nuclear threat really receded as well? If the U.S. and Russia are no longer in an arms race, why are there nuclear weapons in both countries that are still on high alert? Filmmaker Bud Ryan sets out to discover what possible explanations there could be as to why the posture of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) still exists, and how the nuclear powers might free the world from this threat once and for all.  The Forgotten Bomb examines what The Bomb means to us all, and why we need to think about it again, now, even though the Cold War is long over www.forgottenbomb.com    6:30 pm Light refreshments    7:00 pm Movie starts    Bring a friend! 3850 Westgate Place San Diego, CA 92105 We will have additional movie nights throughout August covering other nuclear issues, such as depleted uranium.  Stay tuned for more details! www.prcsd.org

[SDCPJ] Agent Orange compensation: "postcard to Congress" campaign

Yesterday I sent out an article by Marjorie Cohn about the this being the 50th anniversary of the start of the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam and legislation introduced by Rep. Bob Filner to support victims of Agent Orange.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/10

You can support that legislation by going to the website of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign and signing onto their postcard campaign to legislators. Please go to
http://www.vn-agentorange.org/ and click on "sign the postcard to Congress"

Thank you,.
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[SDCPJ] 50th Anniversary use of Agent Orange in Vietnam; Time to compensate victims

Compensate Victims of U.S. Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
by Marjorie Cohn August 10,2011

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the chemical warfare program in Vietnam without sufficient remedial action by the U.S. government. One of the most shameful legacies of the Vietnam War, Agent Orange continues to poison Vietnam and the people exposed to the chemicals, as well as their offspring.

H.R. 2634, the Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act of 2011 [ http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-2634], which California Congressman Bob Filner just introduced in the House, would provide crucial assistance for social and health services to Vietnamese, Vietnamese-American, and U.S. victims of Agent Orange.

Read entire article at:
http://www.marjoriecohn.com/2011/08/compensate-victims-of-us-chemical.html
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[SDCPJ] End Deportations!

Since the beginning of President Obama's administration more than 1 million immigrants have been deported. I signed a petition today to asking President Obama to end Secure Communities (S-Comm). S-Comm is a highly criticized federal program that is deporting immigrants who have done nothing wrong, encouraging racial profiling, and devastating communities around the country.

Please sign this petition! Thank you!

http://act.presente.org/cms/thanks/s-comm
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[SDCPJ] August 10 actions for jobs at Congressional offices in San Diego County

San Diego activist: Please join us on Wed, August 10th at our Congressional reps' offices. See below for details and to register. (click on headline below for link to article) MoveOn keeps the pressure on for jobs on local Congressional representatives – August 10th rallies planned. MoveOn - American Dream Movement is sponsoring rallies and event at all the Congressional offices.  Please join us at one of the rallies on Wed, Aug 10th. Events in your area: click on an event name to sign up Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011, 12:00 PM Jobs Not Cuts - Duncan Hunter's Office, El Cajon, CA 1870 Cordell Ct El Cajon, CA 92020 Directions: Take Cuyamaca St. - one block N. of the intersection of Bradley and Cuyamaca, turn west on Gillespie Way. Go up the hill to Cordell. The Congressman's office is at the top of the driveway at 1870 Cordell Ct. Hosted by Mary Karyl Sweeney, Frank Gormlie Description Let's Rebuild the American Dream! Bring your energy and ideas about how to create jobs to this important event. What do you think we can and should do to create jobs in East County, the San Diego region and across our great country? Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011, 4:00 PM Jobs Not Cuts - Susan Davis' Office 2700 Adams Avenue San Diego, CA 92116 Directions: Susan Davis' office is on Adams Avenue, between Texas Street and 30th Street. Hosted by Frank Gormlie Description Calling all citizens who are tired of seeing cuts and no jobs. Please join us at Congresswoman Susan Davis' office to press for jobs not cuts. It's time we stand up to the very rich and large corporations, take our country back from them, re-establish our democracy - all the while demanding jobs for our country, and not more cut-backs to the safety net. This is in the 53rd Congressional District. Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011, 12:00 PM Sick of the super-wealthy and corporations not paying their fair share? - Representive Brian Bilbray Office 380 Stevens Avenue Solana Beach, CA 92075 Hosted by Joanna Welch Lasken, Joan Stroh Description We're facing a massive jobs crisis in our country, and the folks in Washington, D.C. aren't listening. On Wednesday, August 10, we're taking our fight to the streets with a national day of action. Americans in every corner of the country will gather at congressional offices to ask our elected officials: Where are the Jobs? We'll call for an immediate solution to the jobs crisis in our country and let Congress know that we're ready to work. We'll also tell Congress that we've found the money—and we're sick of the super-wealthy and corporations not paying their fair share. Frank Gormlie, Council Coordinator (I apologize if you received more than one of these emails.)

Re: [SDCPJ] [prcsd] Chalmers Johnson on Dismantling the Empire and how to do it

An interview that Mark Schulze videotaped for Japan TV about Chalmers Johnson:
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Subject: [prcsd] Chalmers Johnson on Dismantling the Empire and how to do it

1. Chalmers Johnson died on November 20, 2010; this August 6th would have been his 80th birthday. Many of us have read his books and listened to him at programs and teach-ins organized by the anti-war/peace community. TomDispatch.com has re-issued the piece below written in 2009. It is as relevant today as we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as it was when written:

"Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire
And Ten Steps to Take to Do So "
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175427/best_of_tomdispatch%3A_chalmers_johnson%2C_dismantling_the_empire/#more

2. People may wish to know that a bench has been dedicated in Johnson's memory at the San Elijo Lagoon. Learn more about it in an article written by his wife, Sheila Johnson:

"San Elijo Lagoon and Us"
http://jpri.org/about/chalmersjohnson.html#Bench

3. Sheila Johnson has also written a summary of their life together and a summary of Johnson's work at:

"The Blowback World of Chalmers Johnson
Remembering the Man and His Work"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175377/

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[SDCPJ] Chalmers Johnson on Dismantling the Empire and how to do it

1. Chalmers Johnson died on November 20, 2010; this August 6th would have been his 80th birthday. Many of us have read his books and listened to him at programs and teach-ins organized by the anti-war/peace community. TomDispatch.com has re-issued the piece below written in 2009. It is as relevant today as we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as it was when written:

"Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire
And Ten Steps to Take to Do So "
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175427/best_of_tomdispatch%3A_chalmers_johnson%2C_dismantling_the_empire/#more

2. People may wish to know that a bench has been dedicated in Johnson's memory at the San Elijo Lagoon. Learn more about it in an article written by his wife, Sheila Johnson:

"San Elijo Lagoon and Us"
http://jpri.org/about/chalmersjohnson.html#Bench

3. Sheila Johnson has also written a summary of their life together and a summary of Johnson's work at:

"The Blowback World of Chalmers Johnson
Remembering the Man and His Work"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175377/

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[SDCPJ] MON 8/8 ~ Planning Meeting for 9-11 Anniversary

TONIGHT!!

We will be planning a gathering to solemnly mark the day and to learn the lessons resulting from 10 years of war... 9-11-11 is the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, 2001.

We are calling on all members of the Peace and Justice Community to reassemble to make a profound statement to the San Diego citizenry. If your group wants to endorse the event, please come tonight and/or return the form to Martin@ActivistSanDiego.org

Monday, 8/08/11, at 7:00 p.m.
at 3850 Westgate Place, San Diego, CA 92105. 

On the 10th anniversary of September 11th, 2001

A call for the community of conscience to reflect on the meaning of 9/11

 

We call for all Peace and Justice Community to reassemble to make a profound statement to the San Diego citizenry.

 

On September 12th, 2001 hundreds of us gathered at the bequest of  Activist San Diego and the Peace Resource Center to develop our collective response to the tragedy of  911 in New York City.  Hundreds of us gathered at the Church of the Brethren representing about 100 organizations.  Together we formed the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice - and we have met ever since.  We were united in the desire to prevent a new tragedy from  occurring, to prevent one blood-bath from following another.  Revenge?..."Not in our name" we begged. We were united in wanting to guard against racist and bigoted responses against Middle Eastern residents.  We held candlelight vigils, teach-ins, rallies and 10,000 marched for peace along with tens of millions of others around the world.

On September 11th, 2011 we are calling on 100 organizations and  hundreds more

of us to gather to solemnly mark the day and to learn the lessons resulting from 10 years of war.

If you came out to a rally for peace and justice in the last 10 years, we want you to pay tribute on September 11th, 2011.  We believe this is one day the media will not ignore us! TV, radio and the print media will take stock of what the wars, the occupations and the worsening economic crisis of a war economy have done to us -- everything we predicted would occur, if the Bush administration tried to solve a political problem with "smart bombs" and crude politics.

 

 

Plan Peace with us -- Monday, Aug 8th at 7pm -

at Church of the Brethren

                                                         3850 Westgate Place, San Diego, CA 92105

On August 8th, 2011 we call on all peace-loving organizations to send representatives.  Individuals are also welcome.  Together we will decide how to craft a very powerful, and visually provocative event to reach the hearts and minds of other San Diegans.  With the leadership and participation of the

San Diego Veterans for Peace we are sure to have a potent impact. 

Please spread the word and be sure not to miss this special meeting!

 

 

Yes, we will join the call and participate for Peace on September 11th, 2011

 

1. Name: PEACE RESOURCE CENTER  Email: prcsandiego@igc.org  619-263-9301
   

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comment: ____9/11 is a wonderful opportunity to take our "peace Economy" message to the public

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[SDCPJ] Join us at Congressional offices for Jobs Not Cuts - Wed., Aug 10th

MoveOn - American Dream Movement is sponsoring rallies and event at all the Congressional offices.  Please join us at one of the rallies on Wed, Aug 10th. Events in your area: click on an event name to sign up Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011, 12:00 PM Jobs Not Cuts - Duncan Hunter's Office, El Cajon, CA 1870 Cordell Ct El Cajon, CA 92020 Directions: Take Cuyamaca St. - one block N. of the intersection of Bradley and Cuyamaca, turn west on Gillespie Way. Go up the hill to Cordell. The Congressman's office is at the top of the driveway at 1870 Cordell Ct. Hosted by Mary Karyl Sweeney, Frank Gormlie Description Let's Rebuild the American Dream! Bring your energy and ideas about how to create jobs to this important event. What do you think we can and should do to create jobs in East County, the San Diego region and across our great country? Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011, 4:00 PM Jobs Not Cuts - Susan Davis' Office 2700 Adams Avenue San Diego, CA 92116 Directions: Susan Davis' office is on Adams Avenue, between Texas Street and 30th Street. Hosted by Frank Gormlie Description Calling all citizens who are tired of seeing cuts and no jobs. Please join us at Congresswoman Susan Davis' office to press for jobs not cuts. It's time we stand up to the very rich and large corporations, take our country back from them, re-establish our democracy - all the while demanding jobs for our country, and not more cut-backs to the safety net. This is in the 53rd Congressional District. Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011, 12:00 PM Sick of the super-wealthy and corporations not paying their fair share? - Representive Brian Bilbray Office 380 Stevens Avenue Solana Beach, CA 92075 Hosted by Joanna Welch Lasken, Joan Stroh Description We're facing a massive jobs crisis in our country, and the folks in Washington, D.C. aren't listening. On Wednesday, August 10, we're taking our fight to the streets with a national day of action. Americans in every corner of the country will gather at congressional offices to ask our elected officials: Where are the Jobs? We'll call for an immediate solution to the jobs crisis in our country and let Congress know that we're ready to work. We'll also tell Congress that we've found the money—and we're sick of the super-wealthy and corporations not paying their fair share. Frank Gormlie, Council Coordinator

[SDCPJ] S. Brian Willson with his book "Blood on the Tracks" Journey of an American Peacemaker ; Sunday, Sept. 4th

THE UNIMAGINABLE JOURNEY

of an American Peacemaker

Activist San Diego

&

Veterans for Peace

present

A Talk & Book Signing with

S. Brian Willson

Sunday, September 4th
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Joyce Beers Community Center

4065 Vermont Street, San Diego, CA 92103

Special introduction by

Frank Dorrel

 

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.

 

For more information: www.activistsandiego.org

[SDCPJ] Craft Against Corporate Welfare - Labor Beat on bliptv

Craft Against Corporate Welfare

Watch it on bliptv:
http://blip.tv/labor-beat/craft_corpwelf2-5446066

For the June 14, 2011 march to protest a big meeting of corporate executives at Chicago's Hyatt Regency Hotel, a group of banner makers created Craft Against Corporate Welfare. As part of the general Stand Up! Chicago mobilization, this merry band of students, teachers and activists put together an impressive selection of giant puppets, signs, and huge banners to be used in the protest. We visit with them as they discuss their mission, spray paint and staple gun over three days, and pull off some impressive deployments during the scheduled event. More info: craft@standupchicago.org.  Length - 19:23

Craft Against Corporate Welfare activists prepare the visuals
Photos: ©2011 Labor Beat

Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info: mail@laborbeat.org, www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit Google Video, YouTube, or blip.tv and search "Labor Beat".

Labor Beat has regular cable slots in Chicago, Evanston, Rockford, Urbana, IL; St. Louis, MO; Princeton, NJ; and Rochester, NY. For more detailed information, send us a request at mail@laborbeat.org

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Craft Against Corporate Welfare

Watch it on bliptv:

http://blip.tv/labor-beat/craft_corpwelf2-5446066

For the June 14, 2011 march to protest a big meeting of corporate executives at Chicago's Hyatt Regency Hotel, a group of banner makers created Craft Against Corporate Welfare. As part of the general Stand Up! Chicago mobilization, this merry band of students, teachers and activists put together an impressive selection of giant puppets, signs, and huge banners to be used in the protest. We visit with them as they discuss their mission, spray paint and staple gun over three days, and pull off some impressive deployments during the scheduled event. More info: craft@standupchicago.org.  Length - 19:23

Craft Against Corporate Welfare activists prepare the visuals

Photos: ©2011 Labor Beat

Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info: mail@laborbeat.org, www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit Google Video, YouTube, or blip.tv and search "Labor Beat".

Labor Beat has regular cable slots in Chicago, Evanston, Rockford, Urbana, IL; St. Louis, MO; Princeton, NJ; and Rochester, NY. For more detailed information, send us a request at mail@laborbeat.org

Learn More About Labor Beat:

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[SDCPJ] Community Labor Coalition Economic Summit in San Diego Aug 27th

Community and Labor Economic Summit to be Held in San Diego – Aug. 27th  (Click on headline) by Frank Gormlie on August 6, 2011 ·  Focusing on jobs, quality of life, prosperity, equality and fairness, the San Diego Community-Labor Coalition wants to change the narrative in San Diego, getting away from the right-wing dominance of discussion of issues in the media, moving away from, for example, a monopolization of the pension issue to more everyday issues like 'where are the jobs?' and other quality of life concerns. And now the combined coalition plans to hold an economic summit in San Diego later this month. Entitled "A Better San Diego", the coalition will sponsor a day long conference at a local middle school on August 27th at Horace Mann Middle School. (Click on above headline for the rest of the article.)

[SDCPJ] some thoughts for Hiroshima/Nagasaki Days and Nuclear Free Future Month

1.Why Anti-Nuclear Belongs in All of Our Movements
Betsy Hartman
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org

Labor rights, reproductive rights, climate justice, nuclear weapons, peace- Betsey Hartmann makes a strong case for how they are all interconnected in the issue of nuclear power. Everyone's future depends on our moving away from nuclear power and weapons production and use. This is the time to put aside partisanship and work towards a truly sustainable energy policy. Read rest of article:
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org

2.NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE MONTH
TIME TO PHASE OUT NUCLEAR POWER AND START NEGOTIATIONS
ON A TREATY TO BAN THE BOMB
Action Call from UFPJ Nuclear Free Future Working Committee

August 6th and 9th 2011 will mark the 66th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the wake of the catastrophic events in Fukishima, with over 200,000 people evacuated from their homes and radioactive toxins circling the globe, poisoning our water, soil and air and contaminating the global food supply; with brave workers risking their lives to stop the ongoing devastation at the six nuclear reactors overcome by the chaos of cataclysmic earthquakes and a colossal tsunami, let us use these August days of remembrance to continue our work in this third year of United for Peace and Justice's Nuclear Free Future Month. Read rest of Call to Action:
http://www.nuclearfreefuture.org/
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[SDCPJ] Nuclear Free Future Month ~ Today, Aug 6th, Hiroshima

August is Nuclear Free Future Month.

For this, the Peace Resource Center of San Diego is 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. 

~ Sat, Aug 6th ~
For this day, the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, we open the new PRC space from 2-7 pm with a memorial exhibit and invite the public to visit, view, ask questions, read books, listen, remember, and reach for peace.

While you are on campus, the Brethren are also hosting a Neighborhood block party, which you are also welcome to join. There will be fun, food, and friends! Let the kids play games, run through the sprinklers, enjoy summer. Bring a picnic potluck dish if you are able.

~ Tues, Aug 9th ~
For the anniversary of Nagasaki, we are starting our film series with a FREE Special Screening of "Atomic Mom." This feature-length documentary is not otherwise available to the public! Come see this powerful film about two women, both mothers, who have very different experiences of the atom bomb. http://atomicmom.org
   6:30 pm Light refreshments
   7:00 pm Movie starts
   Bring a friend!

We will have additional movie nights throughout August covering other nuclear issues, such as depleted uranium.

Stay tuned for more details! www.prcsd.org

Citizens of the Explorartory Committee Reject the Development of Super Committee as Unconstitutional

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8/5/2011

Contact:
Walter Davis
Exploratory Committee

Phone: 760-917-1251 email: wdavis@walterdavisenterprises.com

CITIZENS OF THE EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE REJECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPER COMMITTEE AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
San Marcos, CA - 5 August 2011
The newly developed Exploratory Committee, a non-partisan national citizens group, denounces the recent formulation of a Super Committee as unconstitutional. Earlier this week congress and the President signed into law a budget plan that assigned a Super Committee and gave it rights to automatically cut defense spending, Medicare and other programs. The powers granted to this Super Committee reflect a delegation of authority in direct violation to the Constitution.

The president, for example, checks the power of Congress with his power to veto, or reject, laws passed by Congress. In turn, Congress checks the president's power with the power to override a presidential veto by a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The judiciary, which refers to the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, checks the power of both Congress and the president with the power to review government action to make sure it does not violate the Constitution.

The development of the Super Committee circumvents this process giving a committee power to take actions without the oversights and safeguards guaranteed by the Constitution.

The Super Committee is not included in the charge “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof” which grants powers to the branches of government.

Members of the Senate and members of the House have the opportunity under the Constitution to debate items that are sent to them and to modify items that are sent to them. “To force them to vote just yes or no with no debate, not to follow the rules of the House, which permits amendments, not to follow the rules of the Senate, which permits a filibuster, is such a substantial removal of the authority the Constitution gave them that this legislation is treading in waters that might not be constitutional” states Shirley Moore, founder of the Exploratory Committee.

There is an assault on the American family. The Exploratory Committee seeks to raise public awareness and develop a unified voice demanding change in our national institutions.
“The war on the American family by corporations, discriminatory laws and policies that perpetuate staggering poverty cannot continue” states Walter Davis a TV Producer and columnist. “We are calling for the American people to march on Washington in protest of the continued support of the wealthy/lobbyists, violations of the constitution, aggressive attacks on the American family, the poor, the weak and under represented. We are not going to allow business as usual and we are going to hold our government accountable for its responsibility to protect American citizens from enemies foreign, AND DOMESTIC. This now includes the powers of the corporatetocracy who seek to undermine the Constitution, human rights, social justice and the right for American citizens to pursue happiness and security” Davis states strongly.
The Exploratory Committee is open to the public. Presentations will televised on streaming Internet Television and Internet Radio.
For more information:
"Exploratory Committee of the People" email: exploratorycp@gmail.com
"Exploratory Committee of the People" Links:
Blogspot: http://exploratorycommitteeforthepeople.blogspot.com/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/exploratorycp
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/exploratorycp
Ongoing "Exploratory Committee of the People" Membership Drive Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139015926178260
"Exploratory Committee of the People" LIKE page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Exploratory-Committee-2012-Election/221705734531037

Walter Davis
760-917-1251 sdcommunitycoalition@gmail.com
197 Woodland Parkway
San Marcos, CA 92069
Organizer, The San Diego County Community Coalition http://www.meetup.com/sdcommunitycoalition
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Walter Davis, Executive Producer, Progress in San Diego Television Show, National Communications Director Exploratory Committee

Donna Dymally, President Exploratory Committee

Dr. Shirley Moore, National Chair Exploratory Committee

[SDCPJ] The Debate on US Debt Ceiling Limit and US Subsidies to Israeli Colonies

Sharing my latest article on the above subject, please read and hare!

http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/08/the-debate-on-us-debt-ceiling-limit-and-us-subsidies-to-israeli-colonies/

... raising US debt ceiling, allowing the US government to borrow money to pay for its obligations has been a standard procedure. In fact, since 1917 when the statuary limit was passed by US Congress, the US government raised the debt limit 78 times, 49 of which were under Republican administrations and 29 under a Democratic presidents... the US debt ceiling was raised, routinely, more by Republican than Democratic presidents. In fact, under the latest Republican president, Bush, federal spending rose from $1.9 trillion a year to $3.2 trillion. While under current Democratic president, federal spending went from $3.2 trillion to $3.8 trillion.

... The US can contribute to peace in the Middle East and save more than $50 billion in ten years if it cuts its superfluous aid granted to the non taxpaying state of Israel. US tax payers are certainly more deserving of the money than the subsidized illegal Israeli colonies over Palestinian land

You can access my articles at: http://jamalkanj.com/My-Latest-Spiel-%28website-Articles%29.php

Thanks

Jamal