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Queer Democrats Split on 79th District Assembly Race  - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineThe predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club revealed itself dramatically split in the Democratic primary race for the 79th Assembly District. City Council president Ben Hueso is running a classic “insider” campaign, relying on major endorsements and fundraising clout. His principal challenger, Sweetwater Union High School District board member Pearl Quiñones, is seeking the office in a progressive grass-roots campaign in the tradition of Assemblymember Lori Saldaña (who endorses h... Posted: Wed Feb 3, 2010 11:25AM
Fernando Lopez: Marriage Equality Activist Looks to the Future  - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineSan Diego marriage equality activist Fernando Lopez discusses his own relationship history, his involvement with Marriage Equality USA, the heartbreak of the Proposition 8 defeat and his own critique of the No on 8 strategy, the current Perry v. Schwarzenegger case and his outlook for the future of same-sex marriage in the U.S. A longer version of the interview published in the February-March 2010 issue of Zenger's Newsmagazine. Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:13AM
Imperial County Tries to Intervene Against Marriage Equality  - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineThe Board of Supervisors of Imperial County voted 3-2 last December to intervene in the federal court case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which defines marriage in California as between one man and one woman. According to marriage equality activist Fernando Lopez, Jr., the board's attempt to intervene in support of Prop. 8 — which the court neither accepted nor denied before the case began — was significant because, by involving a government body in the case on the si... Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:59PM
Frances Moore Lappé, Matthew Fox Speak in San Diego  - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineFrances Moore Lappé and Matthew Fox, two powerful long-time activists who started in the 1970’s and both live in Oakland, came to San Diego to address the opening session of the Justice for Women and Children conference January 18 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego. Lappé wrote the book “Diet for a Small Planet” and founded Food First to work on projects helping people in Third World countries to feed themselves in ways that respected their environment and heritage of bi... Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:49PM 
The Shortwave Report 01/22/10 Listen Globally! - by Dan RobertsA weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia. Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:34PM
When the Mountains Tremble Friday night at Groundwork Books - by groundworkFriday night at 6 will be a screening of the documentary When the Mountains Tremble. Shot during the Guatemalan war against its native peoples.
Groundwork Books, UCSD Campus, La Jolla, CA
(Off Gilman Dr. at Eucalyptus Grove Ln.) Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:17PM 
Food not Bombs benefit with live music, food and a film  - by Free SkoolCity Heights Free Skool
4246 Wightman Street, SD
corner of Wightman and Van Dyke Event Date:Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:00PM Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:44PM
The Cultural War Continues in San Diego - by Rocky NeptunBonnie Dumanis; Republican Party ideologue, personal tyrant, part crook has stepped in where a fearful City Council has failed to act....Political and economic tyranny, even the manipulation of truth itself, has become commonplace, with little dissent. Thus, District Attorney Dumanis can go before the press and not only spoon feed local journalists a fraudulent legal basis for her harassment and downright lies about her victims’ personal affairs but is never challenged by the media – even... Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:40PM
Hip Hop against the 2010 Olympics!  - by MongoWorkshops on Beatboxing, warrior yoga, and 2010 Olympic Resistance. LIVE PERFORMANCES BY Testament, Illogik, The Outspoken Wordsmiths, Nikki and the Mongoloid ft. DJ ADMNT. 5pm to 10ish. Event Date:Thu Jan 7, 2010 5:00PM Posted: Mon Jan 4, 2010 10:15AM
Dump the Health Insurance Bill - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineWith the death of the “public option,” the Medicare buy-in and everything else in the proposed health insurance “reform” bill that might actually serve the public good, the bill is now nothing more than a giant, $1 trillion-plus corporate welfare program for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Its meager promises of reform in the way the health insurance industry does business — no total caps on coverage or exclusion of “pre-existing conditions” — are likely to... Posted: Fri Jan 1, 2010 4:45PM
Sherry Wolf: Lesbian Socialist Activist Speaks in San Diego  - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineLesbian socialist Sherry Wolf came to San Diego December 3 to promote her new book, “Sexuality and Socialism.” Wolf offered a provocative critique of much of the Queer community’s orthodoxy, most notably the Queer mainstream’s embrace of the notion that people’s sexual orientation is inbred and genetically determined. She also mused on how and why the Queer movement morphed from a liberation struggle demanding sexual freedom to an elaborate commercial mechanism to promote Queer-owne... Posted: Fri Jan 1, 2010 4:36PM
Foundation for Change Focuses Grants on Immigration, Border Issues  - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineThe San Diego Foundation for Change held its holiday party December 20 and introduced a number of grant recipients as well as an overall theme to their activities this year. They’re focusing on issues relating to immigration and/or the border, doing outreach to immigrants on human rights, health care, personal autonomy (especially for women) and sexual health. They're also working on media outreach projects to improve local coverage of immigrants and teach the immigrants themselves that the... Posted: Fri Jan 1, 2010 4:23PM
Michelle Jackson: Sign-Language Interpreter, First Female San Diego Leatherboys President  - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineMichelle Jackson knew she was going to be interested in languages from the age of five,when her father took her across the border from San Diego to Tijuana and she heard Spanish for the first time. In college she studied American Sign Language (ASL) and ultimately made her living as an interpreter for the deaf community. It was a job she took to interpret at a San Diego Leatherfest that led her to the Leather/kink/BDSM community — and she's become an energetic activist in it, serving as Ms.... Posted: Fri Jan 1, 2010 4:13PM
Walter G. Meyer: Queer Youth Novel “Rounding Third” Is About More than Baseball  - by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's NewsmagazineQueer author Walter G.Meyer has written a remarkable first novel, “Rounding Third.” At base it's a story of two middle American Gay teens who meet each other on the high-school baseball team in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. But it’s also an intensely moving, often heart-rending tale of the terror under which Queer youth still grow up as well as the often surprising sources of support they find as they struggle with their identities. And, lest readers think this is a problem that we’ve ... Posted: Fri Jan 1, 2010 3:41PM
Renters Union Calls for Tent City in San Diego  - by Rocky Neptun"I see these guys shuffling along in these prisons of poverty where their manhood, their independence, their very identity is stripped away by the desperation of accepting charity....stop criminalizing poverty and create a legal place of refuse for every homeless person....How can we call the homeless our sisters and brothers if we treat them like stray dogs or abandoned cats, forcing them into human kennels, stripping them of their dignity, telling them they are unworthy of a place of their ... Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:32PM
Renters Union Calls for Tent City in San Diego  - by Rocky Neptun"I see these guys shuffling along in these prisons of poverty where their manhood, their independence, their very identity is stripped away by the desperation of accepting charity....stop criminalizing poverty and create a legal place of refuse for every homeless person....How can we call the homeless our sisters and brothers if we treat them like stray dogs or abandoned cats, forcing them into human kennels, stripping them of their dignity, telling them they are unworthy of a place of their ... Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:08PM
Caltrans To Move Migrant Camps For Hwy Project - by repostSeveral northern San Diego County migrant camps will be removed next month because of a Highway 76 widening project, Caltrans said. Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:57PM
Nathan Archer walks away from court..again - by Nathan ArcherI am not a drug offender or Narcotics offender. I have no drug related History. I am allowed by San Diego Court to be able to continue with medical marijuana but must register as a narcotics offender. Which I am not!!! Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:54AM 
Nathan Archer Goes to Court again.  - by Nathan ArcherMy journey to San Diego and the threat facing me when I arrive. Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:10PM
[madhack] vídeo : charla y montaje de la antena guifi.net en el Patio Maravillas - by centro de mediasDurante el hackmeeting 2009 en Madrid (España) se dió una charla sobre guifi.net, la alternativa a depender d las multinacionales de la telecomunicación en nuestra comunicación en red (tipo internet) Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:41AM |