M5 nude outdoor event in Castro, etc

FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events + news-links
compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
with help from HolyTitClamps.com, SFBG.com, 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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For news of EduKink leather/BDSM classes,
please consider joining

[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edukink ]
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Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.
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MARCH 2005:
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Second anniversary of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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SF: Thursday March 3, afternoon:
4 pm: Why leave the planning for the future of the Castro to the businesspeople?
Public meeting about a Business Improvement District (just like in Union Square) in the Castro.
501 Castro St.
(meeting room in Bank of America)

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SF: 3 March, Thursday evening:
Assess S.F.'s cable needs
Thursday, March 3, come to a community-needs assessment meeting organized by the San Francisco Department of Telecommunications and Information Services to discuss renewal of the city's cable contract with Comcast. This is the only chance in the next 40 years for residents to weigh in on the negotiations and ask for more resources to be devoted to public access stations and educational facilities. 6 p.m.
Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology, Ste. 230, 2415 Third St., S.F.
(415) 701-8228
htp://http://www.baycat.org
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SF: 3 March, Thursday evening:
Discuss dog playgrounds
Thursday, March 3, meet with representatives of the Recreation and Park Department to discuss a proposal to designate areas next to ballparks as permanent dogs' play areas. Hear a presentation by department staff and offer input, which will be later presented to the Dog Advisory Committee.
6:30 p.m., Golden Gate Park, County Fair Building Gallery, Ninth Ave. and Lincoln, S.F.
(415) 831-2700
http://www.parks.sfgov.org
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Thursdays, 7:45 pm: Out in the Bay: New LGBT radio show with Eric Jansen, David Latulippe, and Susanna J. Hines. The show lasts 15 minutes and is between AIDS Update and the national gay radio program This Way Out.
KALW, 91.7 FM
http://www.kalw.org
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Friday 7 pm: Want to hear some Queer voices on the air? Listen to KPFA radio's show Full Circle this Friday nite from 7-8pm and hear a story about Racism in the Castro, Queers and gentrification in Oakland and a story about the life of a Queer Immigrant youth. That is 94.1 FM, the progressive listener sponsored station. And let us know what you think.
http://www.kpfa.org
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**Dandelion Dancetheater
Fri/4-Sat/5, ODC Theater
"WHEN ERIC KUPERS and Kimiko Guthrie, right out of UC Santa Cruz, started collaborating in 1991, they were a couple. They're uncoupled now, but their artistic relationship continues in Dandelion Dancetheater. It's one in which their works intersect but also shoot off in completely different directions. Guthrie has refined her approach to dissecting how the commonplace shapes perceptions of ourselves and others: when two people do identical moves, what does that tell us about them? How much can we read in a single gesture, for example,
a handshake? Kupers, for his part, has gone out into left field by examining identity through that most vulnerable aspect of our selves, the nude body:
The Undressed Project digs into fundamental questions about how our physical selves relate to the rest of us.
Dandelion's spring season is delivered in two parts. The evening starts at 7 p.m. with a double bill of world premieres. Guthrie's You is a sextet that looks at the connection between the memory and the reality of a relationship. Kupers's Octagon, a collaboration with musician Patrick Cress and painter Nancy Ostrovsky, balances between improvisation and composition in looking at obsession. For Coital Canvas II, which starts at 9:30 p.m., ODC Theater becomes a nightclub in which the Kupers-Cress-Ostrovsky trio meet for an extended jam session, which the audience is invited to join." [-- SFBG]
7 and 9:30 p.m., 3153 17th St., S.F.
$17-$20 for both shows
(415) 863-9834

http://www.odctheater.org

http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/art_c_stage_dandelion.html

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***CAL-SF: 5 March, Saturday afternoon
nude outdoor performance in Castro district
(near Castro Muni station, Castro & Market):


"Sat. Mar. 5 - Nude Street Performances
as Raelians Celebrate the first FEMININITY DAY.

We invite women and men everywhere to come and join us in this ... celebration [....]
to ensure that love, peace and Femininity will one day rule this planet.

In San Francisco, the performance will take place at 1pm on March 5th in the gay community of Castro and Market St., one of the few places in the USA where nudity is no longer considered to be an offensive sight."
[ http://www.rael.org/english/index.html ]
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FREE

wightcurtin [at] hotmail.com
650-355-5305
http://www.rael.org
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http://www.sowoman.org
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[ Note by SUN:
WITHOUT endorsing the Raelian religion, we will attend as spectators.
We MIGHT go nude, if this seems appropriate, maybe not.
At least one early posting about this event gives the location as Castro & Tenth, which is clearly impossible. When advised of this misprint, "wightcurtin" corrected it. ]
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***CAL-SF: Saturday, March 5
The Queer Playground
hosted by Arielle
8pm - 1am
[ $20 per person ]
The SF Citadel and Host Arielle present an evening full of friendly, kinky, queer fun and hot energy.
Come join us March 5, from 8pm-1am for the SF Citadel's Queer Playground,
a queer energy play party for those of us in the leather community of any gender or sexuality
who identify as queer, lesbian, gay, fag, dyke, genderqueer, genderfucker, genderbender, trans,
MTF, FTM,
bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, questioning, intersexed, trysexual ;)

We will have service submissives serving the guests and house slaves....
There will be bootblacking, and a wrestling area ....
Femina Potens will be there raising some money with a spanking booth.

Volunteer work shifts available for entry
(service submissives, house slaves, DM's, setup, cleanup, door shifts)
House slaves require an interview for pre-approval. Service submissives require a brief training,
and preferably experience or desire for service submission.

To volunteer, send email to Arielle at
MusicGeekChic [at] speakeasy.net

Please RSVP for this event; by email to:
MusicGeekChic [at] speakeasy.net


For Citadel street address,
and possible last-minute changes,
please see:
[ http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]

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SF: Saturday March 5,
7 pm: Center for Sex & Culture Fundraiser:
KINK INK:
this fabulous feast of filth and fanciful fun will include a silent auction of donated adult comic art;
the "Cartoon Concert" by Mark Bode, who is a well-known comix artist who does sexual themes with characters who come to life. A dj playing funk and soul. Wine and cheese and stuff.
And sexy entertainment including a tasty sampling from
Diamond Daggers Queer Girl Revue.
[ http://www.diamonddaggers.com ]
CSC, 398 - 11th [near Harrison], 3rd Floor, SF.

http://www.centerforsexandculture.com
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MARCH 6, Sunday: SF: first birthday of
SaveFreedom yahoogroup,
started during SF's Winter of Love:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaveFreedom/

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CAL, northern:
circa Tuesday, 8 March:
special election for Sacramento seat in U.S. House of Representatives.
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WASHINGTON state, circa 8 March:
State supreme court
considers whether state can deny marriage rights of same-sex couples.

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*8 March, SF, Tuesday afternoon:
Int'l Women's Day march
Tuesday, March 8, gather at San Francisco City Hall
and march to the "Hall of Justice" (850 Bryant St.)
to rally against the criminalization of poverty,
in observance of International Women's Day,
which is honored by 60 countries.
Meet 3 p.m., march 4 p.m.,
from San Francisco City Hall, S.F.
(415) 626-4114

http://www.globalwomenstrike.net
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SUING RUMSFELD FOR TORTURE

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-030105torture_lat,0,902970.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY students:
students start their own thinktank--
the Roosevelt Institution:


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/27/BAG6PBD0I031.DTL


http://www.rooseveltinstitution. org

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