Event Reminders:  Olga Diaz and documentary to be featured in Vista
Saturday, 05/22/2010
The documentary 9500 Liberty will be shown at Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Vista, with Escondido City Councilwoman Olga Diaz, who will speak, on Saturday, May 22. Save The Whales (Again) Rally!
Sunday, 05/23/2010
SAVE THE WHALES AGAIN RALLY! Say No to Commercial Whaling!
Come join us and 18 California Counties to sign a petition asking President Obama to keep his promise to oppose commercial whaling and support the continuation of the international moratorium on whaling. Bring the kids and be part of the history of saving the whales. Massive turnout will show them how much we love our grays! Come and bring your friends to Save the Whales (Again) Day at 11:00 AM on Sunday-meet at Spanish Landing Park in San Diego. Progressive Post Movie Night!
Saturday, 06/05/2010
Please join us for a special movie night as we present the heartwarming movie Under The Same Moon in the Progressive Post Theater in Vista as we continue our monthly Progressive Post Movie Night! ELECTION: SD Democratic Party Voter Guide
Tuesday, 06/08/2010
The following list is the San Diego Democratic Party's only official recommendations; please refer to it when you mark your ballot. Includes federal, state and local offices, plus ballot initiatives. Election, Tues. June 8 Non-violence training for: DIE-IN in San Diego
Tuesday, 05/18/2010
In preparation for a street demonstration and DIE-IN, intense training in Non-Violence will be conducted at the Church of the Brethern. Speakers include Marjorie Cohn, Code Pink, and a coalition of others. A street demonstration and DIE-IN will be staged in San Diego on the next day, Wed. May 19 at the headquarters of General Atomics, manufacturers of the Predator & Reaper Drones, responsible for the deaths of so many innocent children and civilians in Afghanistan. Street Demonstration, DIE-IN in San Diego
Wednesday, 05/19/2010
A street demonstration and DIE-IN
will be staged in San Diego on Wed. May 19 at the headquarters of General Atomics, manufacturers of the Predator & Reaper Drones, responsible for the deaths of so many innocent children and civilians in Afghanistan. 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.] Vista Farmers Market Registration Drive
Saturday, 05/22/2010
May 22, Vista Farmers Market Registration Drive.
Buena Vista Creek Valley Restoration Work Session
Saturday, 05/22/2010
This is our regular monthly work session to support our 1.8 acre restoration site. This month's weeding, mulching and watering will help give our baby plants a good start and give a boost to the ones that have been in the ground for awhile. Jess Durfee speaker at DEMCO, May 22
Saturday, 05/22/2010
Jess Durfee, the San Diego County Democratic chair, will be speaker. Under his top-notch stewardship, the San Diego Democratic Party has finally come into its own with a professional executive.
A Remarkable Success Story with Maurice Martin
Friday, 06/11/2010
Matters of Controversy: A Remarkable Success Story with special guest Maurice Martin. What happens to our troops when they transition from warrior to working class citizen? Army Veteran and Community Activist Maurice Martin is currently living in a homeless shelter. He continues to fight the demons of PTSD that followed him home and, as often happens, waited 18 years to erupt and turn his life upside down. Donation requested.
RITZ at the San Diego Zoo
Wednesday, 06/16/2010
The Zoo’s 2010 upscale black-tie event is themed "A Night In Paradise". Proceeds will benefit the San Diego Zoo’s tropical conservation programs in Hawaii and the Caribbean. NC Film Club Series Offers The Lookout
Sunday, 06/20/2010
North County film Club is promoting a series of 10 independent, limited release and foreign films at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Market 13 for a season pass price of $40 (popcorn included), five films for $25 (no popcorn), or individual films for (tentatively) $7 each (no popcorn). Each showing begins at 4pm. NC Film Club Series Offers Transsiberian
Sunday, 06/06/2010
North County film Club is promoting a series of 10 independent, limited release and foreign films at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Market 13 for a season pass price of $40 (popcorn included), five films for $25 (no popcorn), or individual films for (tentatively) $7 each (no popcorn). Each showing begins at 4pm. This 'N ThatIf 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 MatsunagaWhen we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS!
- Mahatma Gandhi No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
- Dorothy Day We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
- Albert Camus 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 We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
- Dorothy Day Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash, your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.
- William Faulkner Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.
- G.K. Chesterton It is only by feeling your love that the poor will forgive you for the gifts of bread.
- St. Vincent de Paul To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If we don't stop the bomb who will take care of the flowers?
- Neil J. Seattle, Age 9 The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
- Isaiah 11:6 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau With each dawn, fill us with your love that we may sing and rejoice all our days. Give us joy to balance our affliction, for the times when we know misfortune.
- Psalm 90:14-17 We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
- Albert Einstein Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mahatma Gandhi Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
- H.L. Mencken And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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Articles & News: Christian Right Targets San Diego Judges
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KPBS: "America's culture wars over gay marriage and abortion rights are playing out in San Diego County's judicial elections. A conservative movement has sprung up on the internet. It endorses a slate of candidates who are challenging four incumbent San Diego judges in the June primary." Howard Dean to Obama: Keep your promise on DADT
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Howard Dean sending petition to President Obama, reminding him he promised in January to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". DEAN: "One of our nation's most precious and fundamental values is the guarantee of equal rights for every American. Gay and lesbian Americans have demonstrated their courage and given their lives in service to our country since our nation's military was founded. Now it's time to allow them to say who they are." SIGN the PETITION: New target of rights erosions: U.S. citizens
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"A primary reason Bush and Cheney succeeded in their radical erosion of core liberties is because they focused their assault on non-citizens with foreign-sounding names, casting the appearance that none of what they were doing would ever affect the average American... The most recent liberty-abridging, Terrorism-justified controversies have focused on diluting the legal rights of American citizens". By Glenn Greenwald VISTA: Teachers compelled to cancel art event
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Teacher overload: "Teachers at Rancho Buena Vista High School have canceled a popular art event this year, in part to protest proposed district-wide budget cuts. The school's four visual arts teachers sent a letter to students and parents Tuesday, letting them know they weren't going to put on the annual ArtSplash chalk festival this year." North County Times We endorse the following San Diego Judges:
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A concentrated effort in San Diego has been launched by fundamentalists to take over the judiciary by running hand picked judges in the June 8 election. They are running a grassroots campaign in the evangelical churches to try and take over the local judiciary with 4 candidates who are committed to their political positions. The Republican Party is supporting their effort to elect judges based on religious ideology. The Progressive Post endorses these 5 highly qualified incumbents: LATE BREAKING NEWS !!
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Stories and news that came in after our deadline: TRACY EMBLEM: Prop 16 is bad for Californians
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"California allows cities and counties to purchase electricity or develop it locally through an energy provider of their choice. Currently 68 percent of California’s electricity is generated by investor-owned utilities. Proposition 16, on the June 8 primary ballot, would alter local government’s ability to develop electricity service and is bad for California’s residents and businesses."By Tracy Emblem, Democratic candidate for US Congress, 50th. Holder Backs a Miranda Limit for Terror Suspects
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The Obama administration said Sunday it would seek a law allowing investigators to interrogate terrorism suspects without informing them of their rights... Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Congress had no authority to "chip away"at the Miranda ruling because it was based in the Constitution. He predicted that any effort to carve a broader exception would be vigorously contested. Wall Street finally running scared of the people
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"The tide has dramatically turned in favor of financial reform. As the Dodd bill has worked its way through the Senate, many Republicans joined Democrats to approve strengthening amendments that were politically unthinkable just a few weeks ago. Several more will be considered this week, prior to final passage... But for the first time since the meltdown began, drastic reform has serious momentum. And Republicans are usefully on the defensive, embarrassed to vote with Wall Street." By Robert Kuttner 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 San Francisco boycotts Arizona over racist law
San Francisco puts Arizona on notice: racism will not be supported with dollars from San Francisco! Ingles by Roy Zimmerman
American values on migrant workers Baseball players strike at Arizona immigrant law
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Arizona Racism: Major League Baseball players, nearly 30% of whom are Latino, are calling for repeal of the Arizona racist law.
Players are demanding that the 2011 All-Star Game be moved from Phoenix, AZ unless the law is repealed—and we've got to get their backs. MLB Commissioner Bud Selig has the final decision on whether to move the All-Star Game, but he isn't likely to listen to the players unless he hears from fans too. Support the baseball players by signing this MoveOn.org petition. How bad could the BP ERUPTION get?
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"How much oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico? No one knows for sure, but the answer is likely far, far worse than what BP has admitted. One outside calculation estimates that the Gulf has already experienced the equivalent of six Exxon Valdez spills. And without an accurate number, there's increasing fear that the response may fail." From MOTHER JONES WW III has been tragic failure: War on Drugs
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The Associated Press has just dropped a bombshell on America's longest running war and the headline says it all: "The US Drug War has Met None of its Goals". The extensive piece reviews the last 40 years, starting with President Nixon's official launch of the War on Drugs all the way to President Obama's annual strategy released this week. From HUFF POST
Arizona: Enforcing "white chauvanistic culture"
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"Arizona's passing of that mean-spirited immigration law wasn't about high-minded principle or the need to maintain public order. Apparently, it was all about putting Latinos in their place." By Eugene Robinson, NEW YORK TIMES Boycott Valero and Arco Gas!
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In light of the terrible oil spill which is currently causing an unprecedented environmental disaster off the coast of New Orleans, it is more important than ever that we take action by reducing gas consumption through carpooling and taking public transportation. Also please begin boycotting Arco, (BP, the oil spill response-or lack thereof-screw-ups deluxe, owns them), continue avoiding Valero Energy, write Congress and President Obama repeatedly and encourage them to stop future offshore oil drilling! Let's hit them all where it hurts-in the pocket book-the only place they understand!-Nina Hall, Environmental Editor.
George Rekers Is Completely Heterosexual
George Rekers, founder of the Family Research Council, and ultra right-wing anti-gay organization, was caught with a rent-a-boy in Europe. Roy Zimmerman points out in his sardonic way that Mr. Rekers is just one in a long line of self loathing gay men who are prominent in anti-gay hate groups. Help toss out Jane Harmon!
Jane Harmon called herself "The best Republican in the Democratic Party". Please send some money to Marcy Winograd and help her get elected June 8th May 23: Save the Whales Again
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On May 23, from San Diego to Eureka, Californians will gather to
send a message to the Obama administration: Do not consent to allow the legalization of commercial whaling and lifting of the global moratorium that has been in place at the International Whaling Commission since 1986. The Sierra Club is sponsoring a demonstration in Morro Bay. Story courtesy of the Santa Lucian.
Inside a Bad Deal
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A committee of the IWC issued a draft package of proposals titled “Consensus Decision to Improve the Conservation of Whales”. The proposal will be discussed at the IWC annual meeting, in Agadir, Morocco, June 21-25, 2010.
If adopted, it would result in lifting the moratorium on commercial whaling for a period of ten years and legitimize the commercial whaling activities of Japan, Norway, and Iceland – currently undertaken under formal objections to IWC regulations (Norway and Iceland) or as special permit “research” (Japan). The European Commission would be unable to require the termination of Iceland’s whaling program as a condition of its pending application for entry into the EU. Story courtesy of the Santa Lucian.
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