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Suggesting that Councilman DeMaio and his policies are “simply, Sarah Palin in drag,” Neptun, said in a statement released Monday morning at their El Cajon Blvd. meeting hall, “he others, particularly in the Tea Party, would destroy community government, sell the public commons to the highest bidder and return us to the old days of low-wages and poverty.”...

Over 100 San Diego supporters of marriage equality took to the streets in Hillcrest Saturday, December 4 as part of a statewide mobilization, "Unite to Make It Right," two days before the scheduled Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing on the legal challenge to Proposition 8, which banned legal recognition of same-sex marriage in California. The event consisted of two rallies and a march in between, and speakers called for more militant activism and more aggressive challenges aimed at Presid...

We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent and ongoing provocations being made by the US and the South Korean puppet government against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea....

.......“only a humanity that is conscious of its present and future responsibilities and states with the political will to carry out their role, can change the course of history and restore equilibrium in nature and life as a whole.”...

Though guest of honor Ted Burke, one of 11 Midwest peace and social justice activists recently detained and harassed by the FBI, wasn't able to make Activist San Diego's November 15 meeting on law enforcement and political activism, the discussion was still compelling. Local attorneys and activists Kate Yavenditti, Frank Gormlie and Alex Landon reviewed the history of anti-Left and anti-progressive repression in San Diego and discussed what rights you have when you're stopped by law enforceme...

As a boy, openly Gay Fort Worth City Councilmember Joel Burns was bullied by schoolmates and driven to thoughts of suicide. One of his friends, a boy from Oklahoma, actually did kill himself. As an elected official, Burns spoke October 12 in the Fort Worth City Council chambers and talked about his past in a speech that was heard 'round the world through YouTube and the power of the Internet. On November 13 Burns came to San Diego as the keynote speaker for the 35th Annual Freedom Awards of t...

Chicana Perk (Latté Mi Corazón), a family-owned cafe in Sherman Heights that has been an important meeting place for community organizers and activists for many years, is being forced to close by the City of San Diego. The city is clearing a path for a gentrified, wealthy, residential and corporate business district running from downtown through Sherman Heights, Golden Hill, North Park and Hillcrest, a district in which family businesses have no place. The owners have pledged to find anoth...

As federal troops intensify their attacks on migrant families, including the largest Gestapo type raid on a workplace in San Diego County history with over 50 armed agents participating October 14th, community groups, church organizations and individuals are organizing a bloc of citizens of conscience who are calling for an end to “state sanctioned terrorism.”...

Openly Gay County Supervisor candidate Stephen Whitburn made an impassioned plea for help in the last five days before the election at the October 28 meeting of the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club, of which he used to be president. Whitburn talked about the barrage of nasty hit-mail pieces Republican campaign groups are sending out against him at the last minute but also said that's an indication that they don't have a grass-roots campaign. Whitburn is seeking to become the firs...

meeting in the north park/normal heights area, email imc-sd@lists.indymedia.org for directions...