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Event Reminders: LIMBAUGH alert : Women to picket Carlsbad ToyotaSaturday, 03/24/2012 Carlsbad, CA - On Saturday, March 24th, Toyota Carlsbad will be picketed by people who are outraged that the Car Country Carlsbad dealership continues TO be a local sponsor of Rush Limbaugh's radio show on KOGO-AM 600. - To date, 140 sponsors of Rush Limbaugh's radio show have pulled advertising in response to the firestorm of protest Rush inspired by his three-day rant against law school student Sandra Fluke and women who use birth control - calling these women "sluts" and "prostitutes." Obama, the negotiatorGOP's Unplanned ParenthoodUnions & the Middle ClassObama plays poker with GOP Evelyn World Water Day Festival at Agua Hedionda Lagoon List of Democratic events in San Diego County To read the best progressive newsletter west of the Mississippi, click on Jellison's EZINE here Speaker: 'Endless War and Economic crisis' Special event at the Buena Vista Nature Center Mt Calavera native plant hike with James Dillane This 'N ThatSensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.- Pope John Paul II Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion. The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. Fear less, hope more, Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self. Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war. The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked [on the Jericho Road] was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' A great many people think they are thinking when they are just rearranging their prejudices. If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us….. "Namaste." If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. 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. The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. War would end if the dead could return. When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence? | Articles & News: My Lai: U.S. Soldiers Massacred 500 Vietnamese Article Historical reminder - New York Times "On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, United States troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley Jr. carried out a massacre of about 500 unarmed men, women and children in the village of My Lai." There was a great American Hero who surfaced on that day who is honored today by the San Diego Veterans for Peace - Read article. Pro-Choice 'Doonesbury' too much for newspapers Fukushima Remembrance At San Onofre
Fast flying camera machine sprints around the Fukushima Remembrance rally on March 11 near the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Great gathering of 300 activists from throughout Southern California to launch the serious effort to shut down San Onofre, a disaster waiting to happen in our back yard. 1 min, 43 sec Why Bilinguals Are Smarter Idaho Senate passes pregnancy ultrasound bill Justice Dept. Blocks Texas Photo ID Voting Law View censored Doonesbury abortion comics
The North County Times refused to print the series of abortion comic strips last week, joining a number of papers nationwide which censored the deeply controversial messages. Creator Gary Trudeau exposed the cruel truth of the new Texas trans-vaginal ultrasound law as humiliating and demeaning of women. 'Something horrible, horrible happened to him.' Santorum rant: Obama is a 'SNOB!'
Lately, there's been a seismic shift in what passes for common sense in American conservative political thought. Rick Santorum received a bachelor's degree, Juris Doctorate and MBA, but recently called President Barack Obama a "snob" for wanting every young American to have an opportunity to pursue college education. Prophetic words from Chalmers Johnson
San Diego's own sage, author, scholar and prophet,Chalmers Johnson, gave his take on the Military-Industrial Complex, American defense spending and the coming downfall of the Empire years before it happened. Johnson is the author of "Blowback" and "The Sorrows of Empire". Late-breaking news: This just in ...
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Occupy Vista Wants US Out of Afghanistan
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Army intel analyst Bradley Manning faces decades in prison for allegedly leaking this video of a U.S. helicopter attack killing 11 civilians and wounding two children in Baghdad, Iraq. The Army covered up the evidence and declared the war crime "justified". Now they say that exposing the massacre is criminal.
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The naked face of a police state in America
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Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis - In this video, now gone viral nationwide, a group of college students are huddled on the ground in a defensive position at UC Davis on November 18. UC police Lt. John Pike, then casually douses them with a chemical agent. Bystanders who were simply watching what was going on are also exposed. - If the police had legal grounds to make arrests, it seems apparent from the video that little or no force was necessary to achieve that goal. The students are obviously not a threat to the officers. It appears that the heavily armored riot police could have simply grabbed them and put them in flexi-cuffs had they chosen to do so. That means that this entire assault appears to be a perfect example of excessive force.
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Ted Olson Interview With Fox News Chris Wallace
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Wallace, insinuating that Gay Marriage is judicial activism, asks where is it in the Constitution that permits gay mariage. "Where is the right to interracial marriage in the Constitution" asked Ted Olsen of Wallace. Brilliant arguments by Olson. When Wallace insists the voters have the right to outlaw gay marriage, Olson asks if it would be constitutional for the voters to force blacks to drink at separate water fountains.
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