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Bilingual Volunteers Needed at Qualcomm to Protect Immigrant Rights
Bilingual Volunteers Needed at Qualcomm... to Protect Immigrant Rights, ensure immigrants access services and translate!
Bilingual volunteers are needed to inform immigrant evacuees of their rights and aid them accessing emergency relief services.
The purpose of this effort is to ensure the immigrant community of San Diego are able to safely access social services without fear.
Please sign up for a four hour shift (at least 3 volunteers per shift). Spanish, Vietnamese Tagalog, Vietna...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 4:12pm PDT
Performance Excerpts from Sister Spit: The Next Generation at The Rubber Rose
Sister Spit: The Next Generation, a radical dyke/womyn artist touring group, performed with special guest Eileen Myles at The Rubber Rose on October 18. Performance Excerpts Video: 11 min, 49 sec; 44 mb....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 4:06pm PDT
Inhumane Treatment of Evacuees by San Diego City Officials
This is an email that I received today from the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium. It goes in to great detail about how the City of San Diego has been treating evacuees at Qualcomm Stadium.
BORDER PATROL PRESENCE AT QUALCOMM:
City officials in charge of the evacuation site at Qualcomm invited a Border Patrol information unit to drive in a van and set up a tent next to FEMA and Red Cross inside the stadium. Although the unit is present to provide map information for burn areas, the p...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 3:59pm PDT
immigrants neglected and abused during San Diego wildfires
It is important that people know that the government’s response to this has not been as benevolent as the news media has made it out to be. For immigrant families, this is in no way an ‘anti-Katrina.’ Immigrants in San Diego county are being neglected by emergency evacuators, put in danger by their employers, treated rudely by authorities and volunteers, refused aid at evacuation sites, and racially profiled by police and deported by the Border Patrol....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 2:46pm PDT
Seeing through the Smoke: The San Diego Fires
Mike Davis speaks on how the right is celebrating the tragedy as a triumph of Republican values....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:20am PDT
Seeing through the Smoke: The San Diego Fires
City Heights Recreation Center
4380 Landis St.
(2 blocks south of University Ave. and Fairmount Ave.)...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:18am PDT
Feature: Camp, Rally and March Opposing Blackwater West
Blackwater, a mercenary corporation with close ties to the Bush administration, is attempting to build a training facility in Potrero in rural San Diego County. On the weekend of October 6-7, local residents joined San Diego activists for a camp-out, march and rally in opposition.
From San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice: The power of people working together to stop one of the world's largest and best financed mercenary training operations made for an exciting and significant event! ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 5:39am PDT
Forgotten Fire Victims Need Help!
Relief efforts continue for farm workers, day laborers, service employees, and impoverished families directly impacted by the San Diego County firestorm. Supplies, cash, and volunteers still greatly needed!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 9:29pm PDT
California fire evacuees disgusted by braggarts
YUMA, Ariz. -- San Diego residents fleeing the fires are disgusted with the television coverage of the fires, especially with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's constant bragging and exploiting the tragedies for political gain....
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 4:54pm PDT
Southern California is Not New Orleans
It is impossible not to notice the difference between the federal government and Bush administrations response to the Southern California wildfires and their response to Katrina. They would have us believe that the explanation is simple; they have learned from their mistakes. But we know better don't we?...
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 9:42am PDT
The California wildfires and the American social crisis
Thursday, October 25, 2007 :Once again, the world watches as a natural disaster in the United States threatens to become a social catastrophe. Once again, a million Americans are forced from their homes by a long-forecast calamity, with little planning or preparation by the local, state and federal governments. Once again, tens of thousands of refugees seek shelter at a football stadium in a major American city—this time, San Diego....
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 7:43am PDT
Feature: Border Patrol Demands Documents, Takes Family Members into Custody at Qualcomm
In the midst of a massive wildfire-induced crisis displacing perhaps 20% of san diego county's residents, i.c.e. officers were observed asking for papers and separating families at the qualcomm stadium evacuation center earlier today. Border patrol officers were also present at qualcomm yesterday....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:09pm PDT
1,000,000 flee homes in California due to wildfires; over 500,000 ordered to evacuate
"If it's this big and blowing with as much wind as it's got, it'll go all the way to the ocean before it stops ... We can save some stuff but we can't stop it," said captain of the San Diego fire department, Kirk Humphries....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 3:25pm PDT
Malibu fires show class divide as rich evacuees get massages, yoga (audio/mpeg 3.1MB)
Audio: 3 min 23 seconds. The treatment of fire evacuees from places like Malibu, CA stands in sharp contrast to what happened after Katrina!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 2:46pm PDT
Displaced Farmworker Aid
Dear Farmworker CARE Coalition and Allies;
The National Latino Research Center is collecting items for Evacuees and Displaced Farmworker and immigrant families in the Pala/Pauma Valley, Rice Canyon, Rincon and Fallbrook communities. As members and allies of the Farmworker CARE Coalition we ask that you join our efforts to ensure that nobody impacted by this disaster falls through rescue relief safety nets. We plan on immediately coordinating collection of clothes, food, and bedding for af...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 2:24pm PDT
Bike Kitchen No Borders Camp Benefit
4246 Wightman
One block south of University Avenue on the corner of Van Dyke and WIghtman in City Heights...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 2:18pm PDT
We as Fallbrook residents evacuated
We as Fallbrook residents evacuated since early Monday and have been staying in Perris.
Although
Fallbrook is still under mandatory evacuation, we were able to sneak
back into Fallbrook yesterday to see what the situation was for
ourselves since the media has given very little information that would
help us as evacuees understand what was going on. It seems that the
fire has been hitting hardest on the eastern side of Fallbrook and still has a ways
to go before entering into town.
...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 11:34am PDT
No Borders Camp / Campamento Contra Las Fronteras Nov. 5th–11th, 2007 (video/mp4 49.9MB)
The No Borders Camp is happening on the US/Mexico border in 12 days. Here's a promo video....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 11:01am PDT
La Patrulla Fronteriza acosa mexicanos en Fallbrook, California,
(english below)
Hemos sido testigos de la presencia de la Border Patrol en Fallbrook
durante una visita breve que hicimos hoy hace un rato. Testificamos que
entraron en vecindarios mexicanos y creemos que no hay razon alguna para que
la Border Patrol esté presente en estos tiempos de crisis. Su presencia de
hecho intimida a la gente que pueda estar en necesidad urgente para buscar
ayuda. (Pueden ver un breve clip si oprimen donde dice: "here", mas abajo)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 10:01am PDT
Fuego en San Diego: Muy Poca Información en Español
Originally From New America Media
La peor oleada de incendios en la historia del Condado de San Diego ha dejado un saldo de 250 mil personas evacuadas, 195 mil viviendas desalojadas y 100 mil acres consumidos por las llamas. “Y esto va a empeorar”, dijo el Sheriff Bill Kolender....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:49am PDT