Event Reminders:  Earth Day at Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside
Sunday, 04/25/2010
This is the largest North County Earth Day celebration. The San Luis Rey Mission will include their annual plant sale, a wide variety of booths, garden workshops, great food and entertainment. Progressive Post’s Tom Lehrer Movie Night!
Saturday, 05/01/2010
Please join us for a night of humor, song, video and live performances in the Progressive Post Theater in Vista as we re-start our monthly Progressive Post Movie Night! Marriage Equality Forum: Our next strategy
Saturday, 05/15/2010
The voter initiative to repeal Prop 8 failed to qualify for the ballot, but the gay community plans its next strategy. A well-planned forum on gay MARRIAGE EQUALITY will be conducted May 15th at the Chalice UU Church in Escondido 7:00PM-9:00PM. Efforts continue to restore marriage equality in California. Sponsored by No. County LGBT. Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast, San Diego
Friday, 05/21/2010
The LGBT community will celebrate Harvey Milk Day the day before with the Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast on Friday, May 21. Lt. Dan Choi will be the featured speaker. [May 22 is Harvey Milk Day in California.] Carlsbad Music Festival
Friday, 04/23/2010
Mark your calendars! The Carlsbad Music Festival will take place on September 24 - 26, 2010. Information regarding artist line-up, times and ticket prices will be forthcoming. Stay tuned!
CNLM Hike of Carlsbad Oaks North
Saturday, 04/24/2010
Center for Natural Lands Mgmt Hike of Carlsbad Oaks North. Join CNLM for a rare guided hike with the Preserve Manager Patrick McConnell to enjoy the coast live oak forest, riparian woodland, freshwater marsh, scrub oak woodland, chaparral, coastal sage scrub and some rare plants. 8th Annual Creek to Bay Cleanup!
Saturday, 04/24/2010
Calling all San Diegans! I Love A Clean San Diego's Creek to Bay Cleanup! Sign up today! 40th Chicano Park Day Celebration
Saturday, 04/24/2010
40th Chicano Park Day Celebration in historic Chicano Park, located in the Barrio Logan community, south of downtown San Diego. This family event is free and open to the public. The New Threat of Nuclear Power
Saturday, 04/24/2010
The Green Party invites you to a special free forum. We discuss the threats, the corporate giveaways and financial realities, as well as real solutions to climate change. Vegetarian Day @ Your Library
Saturday, 04/24/2010
The Lemon Grove Library will be hosting our annual: “Vegetarian Day @ Your Library”. Last year Activist San Diego had over 1000 attendees and by far our largest event thus far. Donations and Presenters Wanted! Midge Costanza: A Tribute
Saturday, 04/24/2010
A memorial service for Midge Costanza has been scheduled at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 24, 2010 at the Town & Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N., in the Mission Valley area of San Diego. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the Midge Costanza Institute for the Study of Politics and Public Policy at San Diego State University. By Chris Nava, Vice President for Political Action.
The Fourth Annual Sleepless in San Diego
Saturday, 04/24/2010
Spend the night under the stars to raise awareness about homelessness in our community. San Diego is home to approximately 10,000 homeless men, women, and children. Puppy Mill Protest
Sunday, 04/25/2010
Join The San Diego Animal Defense Team for a Puppy Mill Protest at the Carlsbad Plaza Camino Real Shopping Center (Westfield Mall). This is the location of California Pets, a well known puppy mill pet store. Bring signs! Mission Federal ArtWalk
Sunday, 04/25/2010
Known as the largest fine art festival in southern California, Mission Federal ArtWalk features more than 300 artists from all over the United States, as well as Mexico, who display their original art for exhibit and sale. Carlsbad USD School Board Meeting
Wednesday, 04/28/2010
This regular meeting of the CSUD School Board will include two special presentations Preserve Calavera supported that will enhance the new high school at Cannon and College. Wildlife biologists with Dudek will report the results of their study of the wildlife movement corridor around the new high school. Rep. Susan Davis talks on Healthcare to LGBT SD
Friday, 04/30/2010
Susan Davis Talks on Healthcare at the Quarterly LGBT Community Coalition Breakfast. The Border Voices 17th Annual Poetry Fair
Saturday, 05/01/2010
The Border Voices 17th Annual Poetry Fair
Saturday, May 1st, SDSU's new Alumni Center (PPGAC Alumni Center)
May 1st Rally in SD for International Workers Day
Saturday, 05/01/2010
May 1 is the traditional day of celebration and rallies for workers rights across the nation. This May Day international workers will turn out in mass in San Diego to show support for the immigrant community that is being terrorized by ICE raids and blamed for economic problems of this country. Chicano Park, San Diego, at noon. May Day Dance - LGBT in Oceanside
Saturday, 05/01/2010
May 1st - Dance 4 Equality 2 - Come join us for anotherDance 4 Equalityon SATURDAY, May 1st from 5:30-9pm at the Oceanside Community Rooms. 330 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA. DJ Rob will be rockin' the evening again. Tickets will be only $2. If your organization is interested in a vendor table, they are only $10, but there is a limit of 20 tables. Amnesty International at Carlsbad Street Faire
Sunday, 05/02/2010
Come visit the Amnesty International booth at the Carlsbad Village Street Faire. Festival Cinco de Mayo Extravaganza
Sunday, 05/02/2010
Festival Cinco de Mayo & Quinceañera Extravaganza! Celebrate the biggest fiesta of the year! Admission is free. NC Film Club Series Offers "Transamerica"
Sunday, 05/02/2010
North County film Club is promoting a series of 10 independent, limited release and foreign films at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Market 13 $7 each. Each showing begins at 4pm. A Journey for Peace from San Diego to Gaza
Thursday, 05/06/2010
Matters of Controversy Presents: INNOCENTS ABROAD: A Journey for Peace from San Diego to Gaza. Come and listen to the incredible story of three San Diego residents who journeyed to Palestine with a peace convoy to give the people of Gaza ambulances, trucks and vans filled with medical aid and humanitarian supplies. Donation requested.
Striving to Reclaim Public Education
Saturday, 05/15/2010
4th Annual Conference: Striving For True Praxis to Reclaim Public Education. The Association of Raza Educators (A. R. E.) will hold its annual conference. Over 500 educators, students, and community members are expected to attend. Forum on Drones/UAV's: Made and Killing Locally
Tuesday, 05/18/2010
Forum on Drones/UAV's: Made Locally, Killing Locally. Speakers include Marjorie Cohn, National Lawyers Guild; Jim Haber, Nevada Desert Experience; Code Pink and more. Mission Federal ArtWalk
Saturday, 04/24/2010
Known as the largest fine art festival in southern California, Mission Federal ArtWalk features more than 300 artists from all over the United States, as well as Mexico, who display their original art for exhibit and sale. This 'N ThatIn every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
- James AgeeTradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.
- Jaroslav Pelikan If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace."
- Senator Spark Matsunaga It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
- Publius Syrus By logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live.
- John Butler Yeats If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
- Henry Miller Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Edison Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
- John Maynard Keynes Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.
- Gerard Vanderhaar Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
- George Bernard Shaw I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.
- Sam Keen Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.
- Cesar Chavez If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy Dust turned to hope.
- Elie Weisel For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
- Pythagoras I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
- St. John of the Cross The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.
- King Hassan II of Morocco (1929-1999) The two kinds of people who exist in this world [at any one time] are the decent and the indecent. Color, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Kindness, decency and behavior are what matters most. Our collective challenge, it seems, is to create a city and community where decent people of all races, ethnicities and religions can look into the faces of other decent people and see only one thing -- God's image smiling back.
- Rabbi Micah Greenstein A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.
- Etty Hillesum (concentration camp victim) |
Articles & News: EMBLEM: "It's time to rethink the cost of wars"
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The National Priorities Project estimates that it cost the U.S. taxpayers $1.05 trillion to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through the end of Fiscal Year 2010. In March, the Obama administration appeared again on Capitol Hill to ask for another $33 billion to support the "surge" in Afghanistan. Tracy Emblem candidate for US Congress (50th District) says it is time to STOP. Infant TEA party vulnerable to corporate control
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Ardent TEA Party supporters see themselves as a grassroots rebellion that is going to change the way government is run, but are they naive and being controlled by corporations, just like government is now? If the TEA Party votes out incumbents, will not the corporations just buy themselves new politicians? By Shamus Cooke Boycott Valero Gas!
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Valero Energy — a Texas-based oil company — has already spent half a million dollars to fund a deceptive initiative that would destroy AB 32, California's landmark clean energy and air pollution law. Paid signature gatherers are already working the streets! Let's hit them where it hurts-in the pocket book-the only place they understand, and boycott Valero and all their affiliated gas stations!
By Credo Action and Courage Campaign. Report from the CA Dem Convention 2010 (Part 1)
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Find out what's going on in California's Democratic party in this report from a delegate and publisher of The Progressive Post Report from the CA Dem Convention 2010 (Part 2)
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Part 2 of the report Obama's only chance for liberal SCOTUS judge?
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"The U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, generally considered to be one of the Court's more liberal members, is retiring, allowing President Barack Obama to appoint a successor. It's time for Obama to take a stand and stop bending over backwards to every Republican demand. He governs like he's working with a Republican Congress, when in fact the Democratic Party controls 59 percent of the seats in both houses and stop letting the Republican minority push him around. We may not get another chance to put a strong liberal on the Supreme Court. That's why Obama must seize this chance now." By Harry Nelson Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
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CHOMSKY: "I'm just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler's speeches on the radio," he said, "and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds of fascism gathering" here at home. "The level of anger and fear is like nothing I can compare in my lifetime," he said. A letter to Valero’s CEO
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I emailed the following letter through Credo Action to Mr. Klesse, CEO of Valero, to pledge my undying support of a boycott of his stations in response to his company's half a million dollar campaign to gut AB 32, the strictest anti-pollution and greenhouse reduction legislation in the world, before it even takes effect. Enjoy this editorial romp through Big Oil's skeleton-filled closet.
Religious freedom clashes with non-discrimination
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A case is now before the Supreme Court will test whether religious student religious clubs have the right to exclude non-believers. The case, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, has the potential to resolve a long-standing conflict between two of the most cherished American traditions: equality and nondiscrimination on one hand and the free exercise of religion on the other. Sonoma violates gay visitation and property rights
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Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health. Yet the hospital and county authorities violated their documents, denied hospital visitation rights and confiscated their property upon Harold's death. without authority, without determining the value of Clay and Harold's possessions accumulated over the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Lawsuit filed. Volcano's last eruption lasted more than a year
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The previous eruption in, 1821, of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, whose ash cloud has shut down airspace over Britain, lasted for more than a year, according to an expert. In 1783 the Laki volcano sent a huge toxic cloud of sulphur across Western Europe, killing an estimated 23,000 Britons. London TELEGRAPH
You paid more in taxes last year than EXXON-Mobile
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"That's probably because they spent a lot more money lobbying Congress than you did. In fact, last year, they spent over $27 million in lobbying so they could take home a bigger chunk of the $284 billion they made." (By Move-On.org) 1st choice for Supreme Court: Diane Wood
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Supreme choice for the Supreme Court: Diane Wood - by Glenn Greenwald. Wood is such a superior alternative. The University of Chicago Law Review article she wrote in early 2003, entitled "The Rule of Law in Times of Stress". This courageous analysis was designed to warn the nation about the profound threats posed to the rule of law and the Constitution by excesses in the War on Terrorism, but also more broadly to set forth her general view of the proper role of the Supreme Court when rights are being assaulted and individuals from marginalized groups are being mistreated. By itself, this article says more than I ever could about why she is really the ideal replacement for Justice Stevens. DICK EIDEN: His Passion for Poetry
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Dick Eiden, founder of the North County Forum, also founded Sunset Poets nine years ago. So what keeps Vista's Dick Eiden at the helm of Sunset Poets after more than eight years? This is a great feature article by Jim Trageser, run in the North County Times.
Richard Dawkins Wants the Pope Arrested
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RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain "for crimes against humanity". Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: "This is a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence." Is Meg Whitman a Tax Dodger?
Meg Whitman has not released her tax returns and it looks like she stashes a great deal of money off-shore. Should our next governor be somebody who doesn't pay her fair share of taxes? Marcy Winograd VS Jane Harmon
Learn more about the race to replace blue dog Jane Harmon Dave Jones for CA Insurance Commissioner 2010
Learn more about the candidate for Insurance Commissioner, Dave Jones. Tom Lehrer - So Long Mom
This is the song that some of the boys sang as they marched bravely off to World War III Goldman Sachs sacks America
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Paul Krugman: "...the S.E.C. is charging that Goldman created and marketed securities that were deliberately designed to fail, so that an important client could make money off that failure. That’s what I would call looting." Wall St. makes bid to buy all 41 GOP senators
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"Goldman stands accused of creating and marketing an investment tied to subprime mortgages without disclosing that the underlying securities had been selected by a billionaire investor, John Paulson, who was betting on their failure. ... Sen. McConnell [R-MO]-- who has been promoting his party to Wall Street political donors as the banks' last line of defense -- issued a letter signed by all 41 Republican senators in opposition to the financial reform bill." By Katrina vanden Heuvel Is Goldman Sachs' Goose Cooked?
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave… The bottom line is that the SEC is sending a message to the financial community that business as usual will not be tolerated going forward." The crooked Goldman scheme is quit simple .... and simply criminal. Goldman Sachs set to pay £3.5bn in bonuses
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GOLDMAN SACHS, the world’s biggest investment bank that is now assailed by accusations of fraud, is poised to reignite controversy over bankers’ bonuses by paying its staff more than £3.5 [$5.3 B] billion for just three months’ work. Ark. progressive may knock out Blue Dog Senator
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HUGE NEWS from Arkansas: A progressive Democrat, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, looks likely now to defeat Blue Dog Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln. Stacy Taylor's thoughts on Steve Poizner's TV Ad
"Hell, I thought the 12% unemployment rate, the collapse of Wall Street and it’s trillion dollar bail-out, the demise of the auto industry, an endless war in the Middle East, and a 30% nose dive in the real estate market were the factors that took Cali to the brink of economic meltdown, when all along it was the illegal immigrant, California’s perpetual political bogey man. Shit fire! Of late, I thought the little brown-skinned bastards were guilty of nothing more than shattering the early morning silence with their damnable leaf-blowers and driving their un-waxed and un-sightly Plymouth Neon’s through out toney suburbs, but once again I am forced to confront the reality that the the hermanos are the source of all that is calamitous and evil in our society." (From www.StacyTaylor.com) Juan del Rio: A courageous man of the People
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Juan del Rio is running for County Supervisor. Is he a man of character, a man of the People? Will he stand up for us against men Bill Horn, Ron Roberts and their corporate machines? Here is a spontaneous story of his courage, as related by his wife, Jeannie Criscenzo del Rio, during an incident during a Easter outing. Colin Farrell Bashes Gay-Bashing
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We often think of Colin Farrell as an outspoken playboy, but now he's getting serious and speaking out against homophobia. The Golden Globe winner is taking the stand largely on behalf of his older brother, Eamon, who is gay. Last week, Colin spoke at an event for BeLonG To, an Irish LGBT organization aimed at teens, about some of his sibling's struggles. How far does the right to HATE extend?
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Defending the freedom to hate: Supreme Court to take up anti-gay-protest case. You will be furious when you finish this column. Fair warning. ~ From the Seattle Times Digital copiers retain copies on their hard drives
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(CBS)Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive - like the one on your personal computer - storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine. If you're in the identity theft business it seems this would be a pot of gold. "The type of information we see on these machines with the social security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms," John Juntunen said, "that information would be very valuable." From CBS Reports List of Democratic events in San Diego County
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This is a list of Democratic and progressive events in San Diego County:
CLICK HERE George Carlin - We Like War
George Carlin's "We Like War" standup routine. If not THE, certainly one of the best comedians ever. RIP George 1937-2008 Why Are Corporate Groups Funding the Tea Party?
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"Rank and file Tea Partiers are, politically speaking, lost at sea in the dead of night, looking for the light of common principles. What the Tea Party will become is presently unknown; but those with an agenda [corporations] will do their best to steer lost boats at sea in their direction, with potentially dangerous consequences." By Shamus Cooke |
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