Sunday, August 17, 2014

[SDCPJ] Coming to San Diego: End the Israeli Occupation Conference - Register Now!

13th National Organizers' Conference

This year's conference, The Mainstreaming of BDS & Continuing Struggle for Palestinian Rights, will celebrate the increasing success of BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns; deal with challenges to Palestine activism; and reflect on the need to connect struggles for freedom, justice, and equality.

This is an opportunity for US Campaign member groups, supporters, and Palestinian rights activists to network and strategize around efforts to end all U.S. support for Israeli occupation and apartheid.

The conference will be taking place at the Town and Country Convention Center (500 Hotel Circle North 92108) and begin at 6:30pm PDT on Friday, September 19 and end around 1:30pm PDT on Sunday, September 21.

Check out our draft program and register here!

Confirmed speakers include Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine, Marjorie Cohn, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, Robin D. G. Kelley, US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel Advisory Board, and more.

As the United Nations observes the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we hope you will join us to strengthen our work for Palestinian rights.

Registration is at a sliding scale of $50-$200 and includes entrance to all conference events, breakfast and lunch Saturday, and breakfast Sunday. There is also the option of registering just for Saturday. Registration rates will increase after August 26.

For more information go to the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation site:

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/section.php?id=477

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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

[SDCPJ] Sign Up for Labor Studies Courses at City College!

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Dear ICWJ Friends,

As an ICWJ Board member and the coordinator of the Labor Studies Program at City College, I'm thrilled to announce that there are still openings in our Labor Studies courses for this fall semester. Please find below the detailed information and a link to the flyer for the spring Labor Studies classes at City College. This is a great opportunity for our Labor and Community folks to hone their labor and organizing skills and/or to be introduced to what we do in Labor. Classes start on August 18th, but folks can enroll during the first two weeks of the semester. Jim Miller from the American Federation of Teachers 1931 will teach American Labor Movements on Tuesday evenings and Rafal Dobrowolski from the San Diego Education Association will be teaching Labor Law on Thursday evenings.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Best,

Dr. Kelly Mayhew
ICWJ Board Member
Professor of English
Labor Studies Program Coordinator
AFT 1931 Vice President
San Diego City College
kellysm99@earthlink.net
(619) 388-3136

Check out the Labor Studies Program at City College this Fall!
CLICK HERE FOR FLYER!

Labor Studies 100: American Labor Movements

Tuesday evenings 6:55-10:00 in AH 421 (CRN 00222)

Instructor: Jim Miller

AFT 1931 Political Action/Community Outreach VP

Want to find out about the history of the U.S. Labor Movement? From the Revolutionary War and the Sit-Down Strikes to the Civil Rights Movement and the United Farm Workers to the presentŠLearn About the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend!

Labor Studies 102: Labor Law

Thursday evenings 6:55-10:00 in AH 419 (CRN 87783)

Instructor: Rafal Dobrowolski

SDEA

Interested in the laws that govern the workplace? This course is a practical study of labor law and is designed for labor studies majors, union members, interns, and all members of the community interested in workers' rights on the job.

Fall classes begin August 18 2014. To register, go to: http://studentweb.sdccd.edu/ or call (619) 388-3400.

Contact: Kelly Mayhew, Labor Studies Coordinator, at kellysm99@earthlink.net for more information

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Monday, August 11, 2014

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[SDCPJ] This Wednesday: Coastal Commission - No Fracking Rally

From: "SanDiego350.org" <volunteer@sandiego350.org>
Date: August 11, 2014 1:20:17 PM PDT
Subject: This Wednesday: Coastal Commission - Fracking demo!

Join us for important fracking events in San Diego!

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Dear Peg,

The Coastal Commission will be holding its next regular weeklong meeting in San Diego. Although there are now no oil and gas relevant actions on the agenda, we want to continue to let them know that we demand that offshore fracking be halted.

The rally will take place outside on the sidewalk in front of the Catamaran Resort. We will stand with signs and have hazmat suits, snorkels and masks for folks to wear. If you have a wetsuit and longboard you are encouraged to bring those as well with signs "Surfers Against Fracking".

Parking is difficult in this area. We plan on convening on the sidewalk out front of the resort around 8:30 am so those arriving for the conference see our "displays" - however, the actual rally itself will be from 10 to 11 am. Please give yourself lots of time to find parking if needed. Carpooling is always encouraged. Please plan to arrive by 9:30 at the latest.

Please RSVP to this event.
When: August 13, 2014 from 8:30 am until 11:00 am
Where: Outside the Catamaran Resort, 3999 Mission Blvd in San Diego
MORE INFO

Best regards,
Peg Mitchell
SanDiego350 Public Policy Member

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Please consider making a donation to SanDiego350.

Please visit our website & check us out on facebook, twitter, & google+ to stay in touch! Email us to find a carpool to an event, or with any questions. See you soon!

SanDiego350.org

San Diego County
San Diego, CA

[SDCPJ] Food 4 Less Rally 8/12

Good evening all

As you may know, our brothers and sisters at UFCW 135 are in a labor dispute with Food 4 Less and have been picketing and asking customers to boycott their stores. Many thanks to those of you who have already gone out and joined the picket lines over the past week!

Below is a message from one of our sisters at UFCW about a rally on Tuesday 8/12 outside one of the Food 4 Less stores. We ask everyone who is able to attend and stand in solidarity with UFCW and the Food 4 Less workers. See the message below for more detail.

Greetings Sisters and Brothers,

We are in a labor dispute against Food 4 Less and have been picketing outside their stores asking customers to boycott until we reach a fair contract. Community activists from Southeast San Diego will be holding a rally in support of our hard working Food 4 Less members and I'm hoping you will be able to join them in support. The rally is scheduled this upcoming Tuesday August 12th 11 am at the Food 4 Less in Market Creek Plaza (312 N Euclid Ave San Diego, CA 92114). We hope that you can join passionate community members and support our hard working members who don't deserve to earn less.

Solidarity Forever
Sandy Naranjo

Best,
Cassie Purdy

Executive Assistant | Affiliate Coordinator

<cpurdy@unionyes.org>

Saturday, August 9, 2014

[SDCPJ] PLEASE FORWARD AND POST: Activist Speak Out for GAZA! Learn about BDS! Mon. 7 pm Aug.18th Presentations and discussion.

Activist San Diego's General Meeting

Joyce Beer Community Center Hillcrest

- 1090 Vermont, one block north of Univ. Av, across from Trader Joe’s

Speak Out for GAZA!
Mon. 7 pm Aug.18th

Join us to hear presentations from well-informed

activists

Join the discussion.

Organize for Israel Boycott, Divestment,

Sanctions

Join us to speak out for GAZA! Activist San Diego (ASD) will host Palestinian, Jewish and BDS Activists so that we can engage for change. Israel is dependent on the US for its economic growth, military hardware, and Billions in military aid. Americans have more power than any others on the planet to change the balance of forces and end the occupation, Gaza blockade and bombardments. Come participate!

Call ahead to speak or if you need direction to the event on Aug.18th: info@ActivistSanDiego.org For info - 619-283-1100

*ALSO: KNSJ 89.1 FM Radio meeting on 1st & 3rd Thursday - see KNSJ.org. Join us, get involved. Become an ASD member for just a $2 per mo. donation - support ASD mission to become and information, communications and mobilizing hub for San Diego and border region.

info@ActivistSanDiego.org For info - 619-283-1100

Sign-up for ASD’s Weekly e-newsletter at www.ActivistSanDiego.org

Friday, August 8, 2014

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Thursday, August 7, 2014

[SDCPJ] UC-AFT letter of support for Che Cafe at UCSD

This letter is from Bob Samuels, President of the University
Council/AFT, AFL-CIO, in support of the Che Café at UCSD.

UC/AFT Local 2034 and many faculty members have also sent letters and
signed petitions.

Fred
Professor Emeritus
Treasurer Local 2034
Labor Council Delegate

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

[SDCPJ] Fwd: HIROSHIMA DAY: A year for change

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A Year for Change

By Akira Kawasaki, International Steering Group member of ICAN and Executive Committee member of Tokyo-based NGO Peace Boat.

6 August 2014 marks the 69th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon over Japan. Today, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will hold ceremonies commemorating those hundreds of thousands who perished in the two detonations in 1945, and the countless more whose lives would forever be affected.

But in these past decades, can we say that we have truly learned from the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Is our recognition of the suffering inflicted upon those cities matched with the concrete action to ensure that it can never be repeated?

While the numbers of nuclear weapons are down significantly from the days of the Cold War – when it seemed as though another Hiroshima or Nagasaki could be imminent – we are far from having secured our future against another such unspeakable human tragedy. According to the most recent estimates by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, there are currently over 16,000 nuclear weapons in the possession of nine states across the world. Each one of these missiles represents a potential catastrophe that, if detonated over a city, would likely exceed even the horrific death and injury tolls of the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And while this number represents a modest decrease from 2013, all of the nuclear weapons possessors are investing billions into modernisation programmes intended to update and expand their strike capabilities.

What is needed is a new perspective and a new strategy. And that is precisely what is currently taking place with the new focus by governments, international organisations and civil society on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons – represented by the two conferences held on the subject in Norway and Mexico, and statements at the United Nations General Assembly and the meetings of state parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Austria will now carry the torch for the next step – the third conference on the humanitarian consequences on 8-9 December 2014. This reframing and refocusing on the inherent nature of nuclear weapons and is something that seems to have been forgotten over the past decades. But it is this focus that is the only appropriate way of discussing the most horrible weapon ever invented – one whose legacy we know all too well and one that must never be used again.

We are approaching 70 years since the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is a sad inevitability that as time passes, those who can and have spoken most poignantly on the terror of nuclear weapons, the Hibakusha, who experienced the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima first-hand, will gradually fall silent. They have longed for a world without nuclear weapons and many have dedicated their lives to try to make sure that no one in the world would have to experience the suffering that they have. Their strong voices have managed to convince the government of Japan, whose reliance on the United States' so-called "nuclear umbrella" had initially made it reluctant to embrace the humanitarian initiative, to eventually come on board and support it, and to decide to participate at the upcoming conference in Austria.

While the only true measure of preserving future generations and finally doing right by the Hibakusha will be when the last nuclear weapon is dismantled, a treaty banning nuclear weapons would be a strong statement of rejection and stigmatisation – a message by states that these weapons have no place in our world. The chair of the most recent conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, Deputy Foreign Minister Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo of Mexico, elucidated this vision in his summary of the conference, calling for a new legal instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons and setting the 70^th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks as the appropriate milestone to achieve this goal.

A treaty banning nuclear weapons is not just a symbol. History shows us that legal prohibitions usually precede elimination. This has been the case for the other weapons of mass destruction – chemical and biological weapons – as well as other weapons whose effects were considered too unjust to ever be used in any context, such as landmines and cluster munitions.

And real action, more than words and tributes, is the best way of honouring the victims and those who have suffered and continue to suffer the legacy of nuclear weapons.

In the words of one of the Hibakusha, Setsuko Thurlow, who has dedicated her life to telling her story and those of her friends and family who did not survive:

"Although we hibakusha have spent our life energy to warn people about the hell that is nuclear war, in nearly 70 years there has been little progress in the field of nuclear disarmament. We therefore urgently need a new path, one that recognizes the utterly unacceptable humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons — weapons we have a moral obligation to prohibit. It is our hope that this new movement to ban nuclear weapons will finally lead us to a nuclear weapon free world.

The time has come for non-nuclear weapons states and civil society to initiate a nuclear weapons ban for the sake of humanity.

You and I, together, we can. We must."

>From today to next August 6, let us make this year the one that is remembered for the unequivocal rejection of nuclear weapons. Let us call on our governments to support negotiations to ban nuclear weapons.

This article originally appeared on Pressenza

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Geneva 1211

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