sep22 Q-mic, LoveFest, perv-lit; protecting journalists; Violet Blue; etc.

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In SF, at LoveFest (9/23) and Folsom (9/24), please demonstrate for PEACE,
by painting or marking peace symbols on your skin.
...
In California, please register as a Permanent Absentee Voter.
Max your power, minimize hassles.
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FREEDOMSEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events, etc., mostly in the San Franhattan Bare Area,
compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
often taken from sfqueer.com, ebar.com, sfbaytimes.com,
SFGate.com, ADLbooks.com, redvicmoviehouse.com, et alii ;
mainly for nakist, queer, and/or bohemian communities, et alii, especially at

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

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

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

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

http://www.indybay.org/lgbtqi/
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For many more "queer things to do", anytime,
please visit Larry-bob:
http://www.sfqueer.com/

One might also find events at:
http://www.ebar.com/arts/arts.php?sec=outabout
http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/news/events.htm
http://www.craigslist.org/eve/
http://www.bettyslist.com/
...
http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/events/
http://sfgate.com/eguide/search/books/
http://sfgate.com/eguide/gay/
http://www.sfgate.com/listings/search.php?events

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Is some worthy event NOT listed in the Freedomseekers' Calendar?
You can ADD it, as a comment.
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If URL fails, please google event, venue, performer(s), date, phone number.....
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REPOST freely.
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"Spanktacular" events
(according to Jim Provenzano at B.A.R.),
22 Sept. 2006 onward:

http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/staf.php?sec=outabout&article=87

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SF, Friday Sept 22,
signup at 7:30, reading at 8 pm:
Queer Open Mic
at the queer Center's Three Dollar Bill Cafe.
Hosted by: Cindy Emch and Sherilyn Connelly.
Proceeds go to performers and Bitch Magazine.
All ages, $1-$5. No one turned away for lack of funds.
LGBT Center, 1800 Market at Octavia
http://www.threedollarbill.com/
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SF, Sept. 23: TRAINING on Saturday the 23rd,
for nonviolent disobedience action on Monday.
For details, please see Monday, Sept. 25.

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23-24 Sept. 2006:
In SF, at LoveFest(9/23) and Folsom (9/24), please demonstrate for peace.
Please paint or mark peace symbols on your skin. And please dare 2 bare (if you're over 18).
...
At LoveFest and at Folsom,
nude-for-peace political demonstrators
may be displaying peace signs, and/or an Earth flag,
and passing out leaflets which say (in part):
" OUR BODIES SPEAK FOR US: Beyond mere words, our nakist bodies signify our ideals of human liberation. They represent the genome of the human species, surprisingly similar on every continent.
Our semantic nakity conveys messages of hope, and of danger. Our bodies speak for our souls.
Our anti-costume calls for freedom now. Our public nakity, open to sun and fog and wind, calls for understanding that our Mother Earth is mortal, and that we must come swiftly to her rescue.... "
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SF, 23 Sept, Saturday, daytime:
LoveFest
( formerly "Love Parade SF" )

on the day just before Folsom.

Parade along Market Street,
festival in Civic Center.

Please donate $5,
if you can,
when you enter the Civic Center area.

[ SUN says: "Festival in Civic Center was clothing-optional in 2005;
so SUN hopes for the best in 2006." ]
...
[ TBL couldn't find any useful info, on Sept. 15, at official website:

http://www.sfLoveFest.org

http://www2.sflovefest.org/

Instead of providing info,
the website invites you to subscribe to an email list.....]
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** 23 Sept, Saturday night:

Long-awaited return of
PERVERTS PUT OUT!
This legendary spoken-word smut salon is back,
just in time
for the Folsom Street Fair.

Join us for a rowdy, raunchy night of readings from
Simon Sheppard,
Carol Queen,
Kirk Read,
Charlie Anders,
Greta Christina,
horehound stillpoint,
and Lori Selke.

Perverts Put Out! features the cutting edge of sex
writing in all its forms. Memoir, fiction, poetry,
and anything else our authors' kinky little minds can come up with.
Explicit or not, PPO is always hot and challenging.

Saturday, September 23,
7:30 pm

at CounterPULSE!,
1310 Mission St., SF

$5 - $15 sliding scale,
to benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
No-one turned away for lack of funds.

[ Question by SUN:
In past years, PPO was clothing-optional.
What's the policy in 2006? ]

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24 Sept, Sunday, daytime:
Folsom Street Fair:
huge event for leatherfolk and allies.
Please donate $5 when you enter the fair area.
In past years, this event has been
clothing-optional.
......

http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/

http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/fair-info.php

...
For maps, please see:

http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/fair-map.php

http://maps.google.com/?hl=en&q=dore+and+folsom+st,+san+francisco&output=html




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23 - 24 September weekend: SF:
AUTUMN MOON Festival,
11am - 6pm
http://www.sfgate.com/listings/event.php?events,e33711
 on Grant Avenue
between California St. and Pacific Ave, in Chinatown

http://www.moonfestival.org
--
Multicultural entertainment, lion and dragon dances, etc
....
[...] For two days, the streets of Chinatown are shut off to vehicular traffic, transforming the stretch into a colorful cultural village, full of performers, food, crafts and art all in honor of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang O.
A 1,000-year-old Chinese tradition, the festival -- commemorating the 15th day of the eighth moon, when the moon is the brightest -- brings together martial arts and lion dancers, Chinese music, magic shows, street performers more. [...]
-- K. Reardanz, SF Gate
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SF, 25 Sept. Monday afternoon:
NON-VIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
against war and militarism:
following the examples of Thoreau, Gandhi, King, and many others:

4pm to 6pm at
Stonestown Ocean Recruiting Station,
561 Buckingham Way, SF 94132
[near 19th Avenue, Stonestown shopping center, and SF State University;
take M streetcar to Stonestown; allow at least 15 minutes to find the
military recruiting station. Buckingham runs around the north, west, and south sides
of the shopping center. In case of trouble, retreat into SFSU campus. ]
..
[ Those who plan to be arrested should ALREADY have taken
Non-Violence Training,
on Sept. 23, Saturday, 1-5pm, at the Unitarian-Universalist center, 1187 Franklin
[near Geary + Van Ness], SF.
Can you remain calm when men hit you, call you names, etc.? Training helps.
For info, please email
sSchwartz [at] AFSC.org ]

Other protesters are also needed,
to witness these arrests;
to stand in solidarity.
.....

Please bring digital cameras,
and please post photos soonest to

http://www.indybay.org/

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If you CANNOT remain quiet and polite,
even when provoked by fascists or others,
then please skip this Sept. 25 pacifist demo.
You can be as noisy and hostile as you please on Oct. 5, at WorldCantWait.org demos.
There are many paths toward the top of the mountain. ]
..
Background info:

http://www.afsc.org

http://www.declarationofpeace.org


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..... continuing thru 28 Sept.
SF, queer exhibit at
SF Mail Library, downtown, daily:
Life and Times of H.L. Perry:
http://www.sfgate.com/listings/event.php?events,e228676
Free.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4400
(Civic Center/Hayes Valley areas)
Display documents one of The City's unsung gay heroes.
Along with creating the Ducal Court and being the first grand duchess of San Francisco, Perry was actively involved with the first two Gay Freedom Day Parades,
Metropolitan Community Church, SIR Center [Society for Individual Rights], etc.
.........

art by MITCHO
@ Magnet
continuing thru 29 September.
Recent watercolors by local art icon Mitcho:
"These are autobiographical works dealing my personal
journey as a queer man,
an environmentalist, and a survivor of rape.
I have been through some dark and terifying terrain.
But much of it is quite beautiful as well....."
Magnet, 4122 -- 18th St. in the Castro.

http://www.sfmagnet.org

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WHITE SHARK:
during September,
watch new White Shark on webcam:

http://www.MontereyBayAquarium.org

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San Mateo county:
30 Sept -- Oct. 1,
Sat-Sun:

http://www.bayareapaddlefest.com

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1st Annual Good Vibrations
Amateur Erotic Film Competition:
Have you ever wanted to be in sexy cinema, or to produce it?
Have you ever wanted to see your work on the big screen? Well, here's your chance!
Make a short film (10 minutes max)
with a sexual or erotic theme,
fill out our entry forms and releases, and send it on in!
Prizes will be awarded!
Premiere screening will be at CASTRO THEATRE in SF.
Plus East Bay showing at Parkway Speakeasy Theater, Oakland.

Deadline to submit your film is:
30 September 2006,
by 7pm Pacific Time.

No purchase necessary, and NO entry fee!
For more information, forms and releases, and details,
please visit (soonest!):

http://www.goodvibes.com/Content--Amateur-Film-Festival--id-1874.html
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SF, continuing thru Sept. 30 :
APAture
@ Kearny Street Workshop
Multidisciplinary arts festival,
presenting work of over 100 emerging
Asian Pacific American artists,
living and/or working in the San Francisco Bay Area......

The festival continues through Sept. 30 with a comics and zine expo
and a closing party featuring Asian Crisis.
Various prices and times.
Most events $10-$20 sliding scale.
415- 864-8855.

http://www.kearnystreet.org

http://www.manja.org

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In SEPTEMBER, please netsurf to

http://www.bayareapaddlefest.com
http://www.hairrison.org
http://www.powertothepeaceful.org
http://www.bayareanaturists.org
http://www.sfLoveFest.org
http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/

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....

+ NEWS and views:

.......

U.S. Senators propose
federal law to protect reporters:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/21/MNGPDL9LS91.DTL

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VIOLET BLUE
becomes "sex columnist" for sfGate and SF Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/violetblue/

.......

How can corporations exploit LESBIANS for profit?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/07/BAG7FL0HUI1.DTL

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The Chavez book club, and more:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/09/22/DDASMUSSENBR.DTL


[ Question by TBL:
When Chavez spoke to the U.N., was he sober? ]

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New generation gap in ye olde Haight-Ashbury district of SF --
NIMBYs versus "street kids":

"Whose Haight?"

Please see: SF Weekly, 20 - 26 September 2006.
http://www.sfweekly.com

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Chávez Calls Bush ‘the Devil’ in UN Speech

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/21/18312940.php

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Can some humans live past 125?
( and if they can, SHOULD they ??? ):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/18/LIVEFOREVER.TMP

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CONDOMS for federal prisoners?:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/17/BAG1RL7B9D1.DTL

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BREED-WARS:

U.S. right-wingers out-breeding tolerant liberals:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/17/18312140.php

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ARSENIC BULLETS
( anti-marriage amendments to state constitutions )
help Republican Party --
but only while supply lasts ....

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/17/18312173.php

.......

Medical cannabis helps treatment of HEPATITIS :

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_4328915

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ELDERS needn't be frail:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/10/MNGRIL07L01.DTL

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Gay KIWI fights for rights of sex workers:

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1125

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TEE CORINNE:

http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=5456

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SF county Domestic Partner registry
welcomes ALL genders:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/26/18300991.php

.......

Texas:

the PUBLIC GENITALS Project:

http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/pgp/

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RISE ABOVE: The Tribe 8 Documentary :

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/12/DDGBKJSQ2U1.DTL&type=gaylesbian

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Film explains INDIA's NUDE YOGIS:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/02/DDGJUG0QSG1.DTL&type=movies

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NUDES in the news:

http://www.bayareanaturists.org/news

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