Nam-style resistance to 4 more years of war? Ask Chris Daly?

SF, Dec. 5: Progressive Unitarian-Universalists warmly greet SF Supervisor Chris Daly at their Sunday morning Forum. Daly arrives late because of baby troubles, speaks briefly about cuts in city services, takes questions.
Answering anti-war U-U's, he suggests more resistance to Iraq occupation; growing like the 1960s/70s movement against the Vietnam War. SF voters have already passed a resolution against the war;so now Daly's urging other cities to do likewise.

One questioner suggests a second resolution, symbolically declaring SF to be a haven for deserters from the U.S. military.
(In reality, of course, U.S. deserters should seek
political asylum in Canada, or in Scandinavian countries.)

As a near-homeless Tenderloin queer radical, I've voted for Daly every time I had the chance. So I'm entitled, IMQO, to ask him the rude question which genteel folks avoid:
"When are you gonna learn how to relate -- physically -- to people who are short, weak, frail or crippled?"
His reply seems to satisfy most of the U-U's.


What about Daly's future?
In my queer opinion, he may seek and win one more term
as Supe from District 6. Then, if all goes well, he might want a seat in the California state legislature.
Will this impatient young man respectfully wait his turn, until an older progressive (Leno? Migden?) gets termed out?
Or will he prematurely try to shove an incumbent Dem aside
(as Gonzalez shoved Ammiano)?
[ My unsolicited advice to Daly: If circumstances force a
time-out from public office, please earn a law degree during the interval. ]

For freedom until death,
Tortuga Bi :LIBERTY
San Franhattan
Sunday, 5 December 2004
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PS: Here are details on selected
U-U events,
and more, in your
FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR
( compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
plus info from HolyTitClamps, SFBG, et alii ):
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For more "queer things to do"
in the San Franhattan Gay Area,
please visit Larrybob at HTC:

[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]
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Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.

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DECEMBER 2004:
Universal Human Rights Month.
"AIDS-Advent season".




CALIFORNIA: 6 December, Monday, daytime:
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and Assemblyman Mark Leno will re-introduce the
"Marriage License Non-Discrimination Act", granting same-sex couples access to civil marriage.
[ If this bill becomes law, you can expect bigots to put the marriage issue on the California state ballot. ]
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*CAL-SF: Dec. 6, Monday night:
"WORKING IT and Playing Games I:
an Introduction to Proactive Flirting":
taught by LaSara W. FireFox and Traci Burleigh
at GV Valencia Street store, SF.
For classes at Good Vibrations shops
(2 in SF, one in Berko), please visit:

[ http://www.goodvibes.com ]
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CAL, northern: Berkeley: Monday 6 Dec,
7 pm: The Last Word Poetry Series. .....
First Monday of each month.
Open reading from 7-7:30, with features following.
Hosted by Tim Donnelly, Randy Fingland & Dale Jensen.
Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berekeley.

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CAL-SF: Dec. 6: BDSM discussion
for WOMEN only: please see
http://www.sfCitadel.org
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CAL-SF: Tuesday 7 Dec: 7pm:
town hall meeting on "The Thin Blue Line:
successes in California, in the face of national challenges";
at the SF queer LGBT Center,
1800 Market near Octavia.
Sponsored by Equality California
and the Center.
[ http://www.sfCenter.org ]

[Comment by TBL: Strangely, Democrats have willingly adopted blue as their political and cultural color.
Probably TV networks originally chose blue for Democrats in order to avoid calling them "red" or "pink",
hence socialistic; and red for Republicans in order to avoid painting them as "blue-nosed prudes", or as cops.
("Thin Blue Line" formerly referred to a police force.)
So TV gave each party the opposite of its historic color.

This fits with the leftist view that the two biggest parties are like two professional athletic teams
which compete on the playing field, yet both are owned by the same giant corporation.
You can bet on one or both, but "the house always wins".]

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*CAL-SF: Dec. 7, Tuesday night: $15 per person:
"Ask the Sexologist" Q&A session
at GV Valencia Street store, SF.
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For more info on THIS presentation, please visit

[ http://www.relationshipExpert.net ]
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For MORE classes at Good Vibrations shops
(2 in SF, one in Berko), please visit:

[ http://www.goodvibes.com ]
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CAL-SF: Tuesday 7 Dec,
7:30 sign up, start at 8 pm:
"House of Love" open mic, hosted by Blue Buddha.
First Tuesday of each month. Are you looking for someplace to do your thang? Do you have need to be a bit of an exhibitionist? Well then you've come to the right place. "House of Love" is looking for you. We're the friendliest and most perverted open mic in town. If you have a song, an angry story, a dance or some fecal art to share,
then we're your ticket to freedom, baby. Join our unconventional family of freaks and pervs and show us your stuff 'cause we will show you ours- and for free!! Each performer gets 3 songs or about 15 minutes......
. http://www.brainwash.com/calendar.html
Brainwash is located @ 1122 Folsom St. (between 7th & 8th /SOMA) (415) 861-FOOD

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CAL-SF: Benefit for Peruvian kids:
Wednesday, Dec. 8, New College of California holds a fundraiser for Asociacion de Padres y Amigos de Ninos Discapacitados [APAND], a school for handicapped children in Peru.
Proceeds from the 21-and-over event – which includes food, drinks, art, and live entertainment – go toward construction of a new school building for APAND.
8 p.m.,
StudioZ.tv,
314 11th St., S.F.
$5-$15 sliding scale.
(415) 252-7666
http://www.studioz.tv
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**CAL-SF: 9 Dec., Thursday: 7pm:
class at The Citadel !
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Thursday, December 9

100 Ways to Play: a Katalog of Kink
by Angela and Iain
7:30pm until 10:30pm (or so)

Doors at 7:00pm
At a good party, youll see dozens of different techniques in action. Which ones are easier? What are they called?
How do you learn them? Which players are safe and competent, versus merely boisterous?

We cover all the techniques youre likely to see in a dungeon or be asked to try. For each we include what it looks like,
what it feels like for the top and bottom, what its really about, safety, equipment, difficulty, and how to learn it.

Coverage includes techniques in ten groups: Bondage, Dominance/submission, Electrical, Fetish, Impact, Medical, Psychological, Role-play, Sensation, and Sex play. Because of limited time, we cannot fully teach every technique, but this program prepares you to select and attend the Janus Survey Series classes and Sampler Night, as well as specialized classes in the individual techniques that interest you.

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WORLD: 10 Dec. (?): Human Rights Day.
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CAL-SF: 10-11 Dec., Friday-Saturday:
In the Castro district, a jazz quartet will perform
at Noe & Market streets, in front of Cafe Flore.
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CAL-SF: Friday 10 Dec,
signup at 7:30, reading at 8 pm:
Queer Open Mic at the Center's Three Dollar Bill Cafe.
2nd and 4th Fridays (except in December [skip 4th Fri.]).
Host Cindy M. Emch with featured reader Michelle Tea.
Adding to the mixing pot of spoken word in the city is a new open mic night at the SF LGBT Community Center. Pro grrrl, pro boi, and completely genderqueer in scope....[....] a space for spoken word, poetry and performance: feminist, multi cultural, multi gendered, completely inclusive and dynamic.
$1-5 donations benefit Femina Potens
( http://www.feminapotens.com )
and The Center
( http://www.sfcenter.org ) in an effort to encourage more queer radical art in our community.
No one turned away for lack of funds.....
Three Dollar Bill Cafe 1800 Market @ Octavia
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CAL-SF, 11 Dec., Saturday night, 8pm to 2am:

Monthly All Male Dungeon Party
at the SF Citadel.
All men are welcomed.
For details, please visit:
http://www.sfCitadel.org
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CAL- SF: 12 December, Sunday morning, circa 0945:
Sunday Forum at U-U Church, on
SF hotel workers struggling for health benefits.
Free.
[ http://www.uuSF.org ]

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CAL- SF: 12 December, Sunday, 2pm to 4:30pm:

international POETS FOR PEACE --
Pireeni Sundaralingam
and poets representing Iran, Canada, Native America, Russia, Middle East, etc. --
perform at SF Main Library, downtown, Larkin at Grove,
in the Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room.
FREE.
All welcome.
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***CAL-SF: 12 December, Sunday afternoon:
SM Community Exchange
("the Bizarre Fleamarket")
2pm to 5pm
942 Mission Street (between 5th and 6th Streets)
admission $5 per person.
For info, please see
[http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]
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CAL-SF: Dec. 13, Monday night sex-ed class: please see
[ http://www.goodvibes.com ]
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CAL-SF: Dec 13, Dominance/submission discussion group.
For info, please see
[http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]
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CAL-SF: .... thru Dec. 16, weekdays:
"Ritual Arts of HAITI":
vodou exhibit at SF State University.
Free.

http://www.SFSUstudentcenter.com/artgallery

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OREGON, circa mid-December:
State supreme court considers whether same-sex couples deserve
spousal rights, perhaps in Vermont-style civil unions.
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CAL-SF: 16 December, Thursday, evening:
ACTUP New York: oral history project:
6pm at SF main Library (near Civic Center BART/Muni satation).
Free.

http://www.SFPL.org

[Note: This presentation is about NEW YORK ActUp --
not the San Francisco denialists. ]
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*CAL-SF: 17 Dec., Friday:
SF Citadel Open Play Party.
For info, please see
[http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]
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CAL-SF: 18 Dec., Saturday:
SF Citadel HOLIDAY Play Party.
For info, please see
[http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]

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CAL- SF: 19 December, Sunday morning, circa 0945:
Sunday Forum at U-U Church, on
"spirituality, politics, and The Media...".
Free.
[ http://www.uuSF.org ]
[ NO MORE Forums until 9 January 2005. ]
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CAL-SF:
....... thru December 20:
free classes for elders (55+), on
WORLD AFFAIRS.
Monday mornings, 10am.
For details, please see:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1705140.php

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CALIFORNIA: circa 22 Dec., Wednesday, daytime:
Hearing on constitutionality of California discriminating against
same-sex couples, by denying them the right to marry;
in SF Superior Court,
before Judge Richard Kramer.

For details, please see:

[ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/27/BAGCF9GT3T1.DTL ]


Will there be a sidewalk vigil?
See SF's marriage website:

http://www.MarriageEqualityCA.org/

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CAL-SF: 24 December, Friday night, 10pm:
U-U candle-light communion service
in their chapel.
[ http://www.uuSF.org ]
All welcome.

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WORLD: ancient Roman Empire:
circa 25 December:
Legendary birthday of Mithra, a sun god popular in the Roman Legion;
whose birthday was co-opted, along with SUN-day worship (get it?),
by Christian Roman emperors, in hopes that Mithraites would tolerate
Christianity becoming the official government religion.

[According to astronomers and historians, Jesus was born months earlier in the year;
and several years earlier than the so-called " Anno Domini One ". ]

[ Before being Romanized and Mithra-ized, the Christians had worshipped on the Biblical Sabbath
(which starts at sundown on Friday and ends at sundown on Saturday). ]

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CAL-SF: 26 December, Sunday morning, 11AM:
U-U sermon on KWANZAA.
[ http://www.uuSF.org ]
All welcome.

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**Cal-SF: Dec. 31, Friday night, 8pm to 2am:
Leather New Year's Eve:
For info, please see
[http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]

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WORLD: Dec. 31: New Year's Eve,
on which we may temporarily ignore
the patriarchy, for a few care-free hours?

[ Dec. 25 and 31 are both approximations of the December Solstice.
In the Northern Hemisphere, this solstice reassured pre-literate humans
that the apparently "dying" sun would revive once more.
If the sun ever fails to revive, they reasoned, then the gods have decided to end the world.

Today, humans make small artificial suns (H-bombs) which can terminate the human species,
leaving our planet suitable for cockroaches.
If we do this ourselves, don't blame the G-d(s).... ]

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