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Danish Cartoons: Free Speech or Hate Speech ? “I don’t know of anything more important than freedom of expression,” said former Supreme Court Justice Peter Cory commenting on the Court’s decision to uphold Jim Keegstra’s conviction for willfully promoting hatred in 1991.
The offensive Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have now ignited global interest in the subject. To date four Canadian media outlets have entered the fray.
Despite death and destruction, some free speech advocates have characterized this as a defining battle....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:03pm PST
Fight Back Theater The Fight Back Theater is auditioning actors and actreses, recruiting performance support and financial support for a performance of "Can't Stop the Clock."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 3:34pm PST
3/10-12: "RAW" ... a celebration of International Women's Day RAW will challenge and inspire you to discover your authentic self as
powerful female performers and artists peel back the layers of their
identities....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 3:33pm PST
How not to translate situationist texts You'd think the translator of a text that shows that people can't understand texts that have passages left out of them would NOT leave any passages out of his/her translation. But Ken Knabb may not be as good a translator as we'd like to think, because he failed to translate a full third of the situationists' crucial essay "How not to understand situationist books"!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 4:35pm PST
His Baloney Has A First Name...it's "Bizarro" Animal welfare advocate/ famous cartoonist takes his show on the road...
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 1:21pm PST
DASW picket signs needed for Exhibit 
Original DASW anti-war picket signs needed for activist graphics exhibit of works by Jason Justice in SF....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 3:07pm PST
EL ENEMIGO COMUN at special GDI showing (2/16) 
El Enemigo Común (the Common Enemy): Austin Indymedia's New Documentary on Capitalism, Empire and Oaxacan Campesinos...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 8:23am PST
Notes from New Palestine: Beefin’ the blues only (a prayer for chris buck) (audio/mpeg 5.8MB) i just wanted to transform my madness like jaxson did and make tracks like mott the hoople in “Honaloochie Boogie”, compose writs with pacific frontal system, jump in on a chorus with sonic youth or flex a rhyme with patti smith -- maybe be lucky and find a girl like exene. B.u.t. in this country of catagories --being black and proud and liking music loud -- due to the “intergrate or isolate” policy -- I was made invisible and a bit ridiculous for not finding a label to die in. In punk/hardco...
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 4:33pm PST
BENEFIT FOR ARRESTEE ZACHARY JENSON at the Long Haul Infoshop this FRIDAYYYYYYYYY!!! ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 5:15pm PST
BILL MAHER “RULES” Review of Bill Maher's show in San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 1:43pm PST
Good Catholics Use Condoms press release 
On St. Valentine’s Day, Condoms4Life Says a Culture of Life Means Caring for One Another...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 11:02am PST
"I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own February is African-American History Month. To honor it, we bring you a conversation with the renowned author, poet and activist Alice Walker. She is perhaps best known for her book "The Color Purple" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, becoming the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. The novel was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature length film and has been recently made into a Broadway musical. Alice Walker's latest novel is "Now is the...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:47am PST
IS INDIA THE NEW CREATIVE HOTSPOT? 
Eco-Space interview with Yahel Chirinian in Goa by Noor Cipriani for Nova...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 4:11pm PST
Tuesday Night: Aya de Leon's Love Fest 2006 -- at La Pena (Berkeley) 
Buy tickets now! Save $$ & guarantee your seat!
La Pena will add a 10pm show if the first show sells out this week....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 10:41pm PST
In Falun Gong Flap, San Francisco Plays Safe With China A city with a strong human rights tradition struggles to keep its edge as the sentimental favorite for Chinese investors. Eugenia Chien is a writer and editor for New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 8:04pm PST
Question 9-11 - A Call to Activism 
The Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance will be holding a Benefit at the Grand Lake Theater on February 23. This should be an inspiring evening with powerful new documentaries, tools for budding activists, and stories from people whose lives were touched and transformed by 9-11 and have devoted themselves to challenging the official story, bringing the truth to light, and abolishing terrorism and war....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:54am PST
AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH YAHEL CHIRINIAN 
Fashion Gurus names her "the most creative woman in design" and one trendsetter journalist ranks her as "the only female designer that can virtually guarantee originality and vision to a project "....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 6:32pm PST
Tom Ammiano and Marga Gomez perform at QComedy Tom Ammiano and Marga Gomez are the featured performer at this installment of SF's twice-monthly queer comedy showcase....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 10:53am PST
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