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Resistance to fake marine 'protection' builds from Diego Garcia to Baja California
"The Cucapa are doing the same thing they have been doing for 9,000 years," said Subcomandante Marcos. "The Cucapa and other Indian people called for this camp in defense of nature so they can fish without detentions or being put in jail."
Subcomandante Marcos and Aura Bogado at an Otra Campana meeting in October 2006. On the following day, the Cucapa Tribe and Zapatistas jointly announced plans to set up a Zapatista Peace Camp in the Colorado River Delta to protest an unjust "marine prote...
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 3:18pm PST
San Diego Union Troublemakers Go to School
The all-day Troublemakers School, under the banner “putting the movement back in the labor movement,” was a beginning for San Diego; now, let’s all roll up our sleeves and get out and cause some real trouble about low wages and high prices in the corporate state....
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 1:30pm PST
Jesus, George Washington and San Diego's Medicine Struggle
It is indeed ironic that Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego’s District Attorney and a member of the Log Cabin Republican Club, in her vicious pursuit of medical marijuana users, is at odds with Abraham Lincoln who refused to approve a proposed prohibition on cannabis use. Every American president until the 1930’s used medical marijuana and according to Morey Amsterdam and Eddie Gordon, close friends of John F. Kennedy, who used cannabis for his back pain, he was going to legalize it during his second ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 5:58pm PST
Students to Rally with Yes We Cannabis Fire Truck to Sound Alarm For Prop 19
Students Across California Mobilize to Control Marijuana Like Alcohol...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 6:22am PDT
Special 4:20 Cafe on La Onda Bajita: Vote Yes on Prop 19! (audio/mpeg 9.8MB)
During a special edition of La Onda Bajita on KPFA, the radio crew and Omar Figueroa, a constitutional & criminal defense lawyer based in Sebastopol, CA, discuss why you should vote yes on proposition 19....
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 1:41pm PDT
Marijuana Initiative Could Generate $1.4 Billion
Proposition 19, the initiative on the November 2 ballot to decriminalize possession of marijuana in California, could bring $1.4 billion or more annually to California's parched coffers — but in advocating for the measure as part of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (L.E.A.P.), Zenger's Newsmagazine associate editor Leo E. Laurence has found some politicians and law enforcement personnel eagerly embracing the idea, while others figuratively and sometimes literally run away from any hint of ...
Posted: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 7:09pm PDT
CEQA Process Begins for Proposed South Coast Marine Protected Areas
There are currently five MPA proposals under consideration for the South Coast Study Region, which extends from Point Conception to the California border with Mexico....
Posted: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 3:08pm PDT
Cutting Corners in Ocean Protection
There's the legal way to ensure transparency and then there is the made up, fake way, with lots of meetings, lots of talk, but little hearing and little caring. This is called “eventology,” where the value of participation is scored by the number of meetings and the number of people speaking....
Posted: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 8:27am PDT
Conflicts of Interest/Corruption in the MLPA Initiative
Many do not feel that the head of the Western States Petroleum Association is there out of her voluntary concern for the ocean. She has been lobbying for more drilling off the coast, even after the recent Gulf Oil Disaster. She is there to look out for oil interests, in both the placement of no-fishing MPA’s, and making sure MPA’s do not interfere with oil and energy related operations - now or in the future....
Posted: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 3:11pm PDT
Sexual Offense in California
Yet, somehow the attitude for some citizens thus goes, after more legislation has been proposed, and in process of being enacted (Assembly Bill 1844 Chelsea’s Law), in California following the recent rape and killings by one John Gardener, a sexual offender released from prison and not very closely and competently monitored by the system, is that everyone, that is everyone thought to be a “good” citizen of the state of California, ought be able to live in a Utopian world in which “no one” fee...
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2010 2:58pm PDT
Call to Action from the San Diego Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant
ON THE DAY THAT VERDICT is announced , regardless of the outcome, we will fiercely & peacefully mobilize:
@12pm at the San Diego Central Courthouse on 220 W. Broadway (between Union & Front) in Downtown at 12noon
&
@ 6:00pm at the ARMORY Hip Hop Shop downtown: F st. & 8th avenue for a candle light vigil & community speak out (with cultural program!) to demand justice for Oscar Grant and others who have suffered at the hands of state terror....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2010 1:06pm PDT
Governor Candidate Ask: Is Wall Street in the California Governor’s Race?
Two California governor candidates, Republican Candidate Steve Poizner and PFP Candidate Stewart Alexander are sharing the concerns of millions of Californians; how deep was Meg Whitman’s involvement during the period when she serve on the board of Goldman Sachs. Stewart Alexander says “California is in a deep financial crisis and Californians need to know how much did Goldman Sachs contributed to the state’s financial crisis and what part did Meg Whitman play.”...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 7:33am PDT
Social struggle in Chile: The Chicago Conspiracy film tour comes to California
After years in the making and months on the road, Subversive Action Films is finally bringing their new documentary to California. From April 29th to March 10th, the collective will be debuting The Chicago Conspiracy in cities around the state....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 6:19pm PDT
The Neoliberal Restructuring of California State Government
state budget cuts, the imposition of fee increases at post-K-12 educational institutions and the prospect of the passage of a water bond in November 2010 foreshadow the successful imposition of the neoliberal model on California...
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 5:49pm PST
Southern California: First Cop on Trial for Murder in the History of the State Is Headed Your Way
In the words of the late great Harvey Milk*, I'm here to recruit you. The trial of Johannes Mehserle is about to head your way and the time is now for Southern California social justice and media activists to start getting ready....
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 12:03pm PST
Conservative Newspaper Backs Marine Life Protection Act
San Diego Union-Tribune Endorses MLPA Compromise...
Posted: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 1:18pm PST
A Three Day Student, Worker and Faculty Solidarity Strike Starting on 11/18
Plans are being made for a three day student, worker and faculty strike at all UCs in California...
Posted: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 2:55pm PST
Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble - Yoshi's Oakland You Tube Video
Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble - Aug. 25, Yoshi's Oakland You Tube Video - The video of Milo's Moment is now available for those of you interested in seeing part of the live performance by Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble at Yoshi's on August 25, 2009. Check it out!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 2, 2009 4:53am PDT
UC Proposes Patient and Student Services Cuts across the State; AFSCME Fights Back!!!
Today around noon over 150 workers, students, religious leaders and community members rallied outside the UCSD Hillcrest Medical Center in protest of the patient services cuts and student services cuts that UC executives are proposing. AFSCME Local 3299 had a statewide day of action on the first day of the UC Regents meeting to show the immense disgust with the continuous irresponsibility to the public demonstrated by the 9.3% increase in student fees last year and the repeated cuts to essent...
Posted: Tue, Jul 14, 2009 7:10pm PDT
Assemblymember Marty Block Defends Prop. 8 Stance to Queer Democrats
Assemblymember Marty Block appeared before the San Diego Democratic Club March 26 to explain why he voted against a legislative resolution instructing the California Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8, the initiative passed by voters last November to restrict marriage in California to opposite-sex couples. Block said that, as a former judge, he didn't think it was appropriate for the legislature to tell a court what to do about a pending case, whether it's the Right telling judges to u...
Posted: Fri, Mar 27, 2009 7:17pm PDT