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UFCW Local 135 Union Stores Not Facing a Strike
Facing a strike at the three largest grocery chains in southern California — Ralph's, Albertson's and Vons — the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 135 prepared this list of stores in San Diego County which they represent and which will NOT be involved in the likely upcoming strike. Since at this time they have not posted this list on their own Web site, www.ufcw135.org, Mark Gabrish Conlan and Zenger's Newsmagazine are making it available as a public service. Please help support...
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 3:15pm PDT
Yet Another Gay/Queer “History” Book Perpetuates Old Myths
Yet another so-called “Gay history” book, Michael Bronski’s “A Queer History of the United States,” recycles the tired New York-centric myth that the Queer Liberation movement sprung full-blown from the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City. Leo E. Laurence, who was present at the REAL creation of Queer liberation in San Francisco in March 1969, three months BEFORE Stonewall, comments on Bronski’s book and offers Lambda Literary Award finalist Gale Whittington’s “Beyond Normal” as an accurate ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 12:08pm PDT
Gil Scott-Heron In San Diego
Remembering Gil Scott-Heron performing in San Diego in the 1980s, and the times he lived in....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 9:37pm PDT
Bin Laden: Justice or Revenge?
The recent killing of Osama bin Laden by a U.S. Navy SEAL team spells an end to a remarkably successful terror operation that, by mounting one effective attack on September 11, 2001, ratcheted up the level of terror and fear in the U.S.; provided public support for a long-standing radical-Right agenda to effectively eliminate the due-process rights of the U.S. Constitution and put Americans under continuous surveillance; gave the Bush administration the pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq ...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2011 8:50pm PDT
Court sides with cops in warrantless search
Court sides with cops in warrantless search...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2011 2:46pm PDT
RFA Calls for a National Boycott of Safeway Supermarket Chain
"It's not just about fishing, but many human activities have been banned under the MLPA Initiative in California, like kayaking, sailing and other non-fishing activities," Martin said. "As fishermen we're angry about being labeled the problem when big corporations like Safeway and Hewlett-Packard refuse to join us in calling for less water diversions to agribusiness and less heavy metals from the semiconductor industry in San Francisco Bay," Martin added, calling recreational fishermen "the o...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2011 8:04pm PDT
Republicans Win Without a Shutdown
The battle over the federal budget is over — for now — and the Republicans have won. Again. Ever since Ronald Reagan won the presidential election of 1980, the Republicans’ ideological war on non-rich Americans has been in full swing, and has scored triumph over triumph despite occasional setbacks. Both major political parties are now committed to cutting the deficit on the backs of low-income, sick and disabled people while handing out tax breaks to the rich — even though cutting government ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2011 7:47pm PDT
DHS Scanners To Secretly Search Your Body, Vehicle and Home—X-ray Deaths Next?
Citizens driving or walking to work, that must pass DHS X-ray scanners on buildings and utility poles, could be exposed to radiation several times a day....
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2011 9:44pm PDT
Public Workers’ Struggle Is Our Struggle
Though it ended in a setback when the Republican majority in the Wisconsin state legislature used legally dubious tactics to ram the bill through anyway, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s plan to strip his state’s public workers of the right to form unions and bargain collectively has engendered nationwide resistance from America’s increasingly embattled working class. Tens of thousands of people from Wisconsin and elsewhere flooded Madison, the state capital, and occupied the capitol buildin...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 1:28pm PDT
Jihmye Collins (6/17/39-3/15/11)
In memory of a San Diego Activist...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 8:55pm PDT
States of Disunion
The following is an editorial written for the March 2011 issue of Zenger’s Newsmagazine before the uproar in Wisconsin over the bill introduced by that state’s governor, Scott Walker, which would essentially destroy public-sector unionism in that state and therefore likely be the final nail in the coffin of America’s labor movement as a whole. People — not just union workers directly affected by the proposal but others as well — have turned out in the streets and blockaded the state capitol, ...
Posted: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 5:31pm PST
First Time Ever - Police Acknowledge "Gang" Stalking on TV
After decades of official silence, a police officer has finally gone public acknowledging that "gang" (better called "organized") stalking is a real crime...
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 5:29pm PST
Housing market worse than Depression
Housing market worse than Depression...
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 12:54am PST
27 Arrests at Protest of Billionaire Koch Brothers Secret Meeting
RANCHO MIRAGE, CA -- Hoy, mas de dos miles de personas de todo los Estados Unidos de Norte America – y residentes de San Diego, Los Angeles y Orange Conty - vinieron al Rancho Las Palmas Resort en Rancho Mirage, CA, para llamar atención a una reunión secreta de planeación estratégica del extremo-derecho, llamado por los hermanos billonarios David y Charles Koch (pronunciado “Coke” en inglés)....
Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 7:05pm PST
A Meanness in This World
The January 8 shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and murder of federal judge John Roll and five other people in Tucson, Arizona has been blamed on a lone nut, and both wings of the corporate media — center-Right and far-Right — have fallen over each other to absolve the ultra-Rightists of talk radio, Fox News and the Tea Party of blame for the alleged shooter’s actions. Nonsense. Not only did Sarah Palin’s Web page specifically “target” Congressmember Giffords for defeat last April...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 7:33pm PST
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual teens singled out for punishment
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) adolescents are about 40 percent more likely than other teens to receive punishment at the hands of school authorities, police and the courts, according to research published in the January, 2011 issue of Pediatrics and released online December 6, 2010 at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/papbyrecent.dtl....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 6:03pm PST
Caught in the Crossfire
An article by Tom Boswell about the Tonono O'odham of Arizona and Border Issues...
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 7:39am PST
Bread, Circuses and The Welfare King: Alexander Spanos
Yet, in our society, where single-mothers, without work or funds, are harangued and fingerprinted and treated like criminals for asking for a helping hand, the Chargers' bought shrills would have us spend $800 million on an oversized playpen for aging adolescents who just can’t seem to get it up for cable television or internet broadcasts of this tedious brawling, called football....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 12:28pm PST