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Signs of the Times: The San Diego 2018 Women’s March in Photos

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Year two of Women’s Marches in San Diego and North County were bigger and more organized. This year’s theme in San Diego and nationwide was Hear Our Vote, calling attention to the 2018 midterm elections. 

The unspoken theme was intersectionality. After a year of bizarre, mean-spirited, ignorant, sexist, and racist rhetoric nobody needed to be told: Trump and his band of pirates are coming after everybody and everything we hold dear in the name of greed.

While the mood of the crowd at the rally was upbeat and friendly there was no denying the underlying seriousness of the march. 

The skies were blustery, and it sprinkled a few times. The speakers part of the program ran close to schedule, security looked confident, and there were no disruptions that I saw along the two-mile march route.   [Read more…]

Don’t Let Your Activism Stop After the Women’s March Progressive Activist Calendar – January 19-29, 2018

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Now that we’ve reached the one year mark in the Trump administration, there are many successes to look back on. It should also be clear this process of protest and activism is a marathon, not a sprint. Ain’t no superhero gonna fix this mess.

We can all look to the victory of those participating in the weekly protests outside Rep. Darrell Issa’s office for inspiration. They resisted. They persisted. And the richest man in Congress decided he could take it no more.

There are more than a dozen contingents participating in the San Diego and North County Women’s Marches; people whose common activism leads them to want to show their solidarity with his and other events.   [Read more…]

Friday Motivation: See You at the Women’s March San Diego / Women’s March North County

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Just The Facts:
Women’s March San Diego | Hear Our Vote 2018
Saturday, January 20, 10am – County Administration Building – 1600 Pacific Highway

Women’s March North County San Diego 2018
Saturday, January 20, 10am – Palomar College – 1140 West Mission Road (San Marcos)   [Read more…]

Thursday Motivation for Saturday’s Women’s March: Unfinished Business of the Equal Rights Amendment

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There will be a ‘motivation’ each day this week leading up to the Women March on January 20. Please help build support for the day by sharing these posts on your social media feeds. Today’s post includes some organizational details about the women who are organizing these marches, both locally and nationally.

The sections labeled “Good News, Somebody to March With, and Why We March” change daily.   [Read more…]

A Powerful Economic Justice Movement Is Brewing, Even in This Dark Time

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An American Democracy Movement is fighting brutal capitalism and the culture of blame.

By Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen / AlterNet

In this tumultuous world, one thing seems certain: today’s dire threats to our democracy did not arise out of nowhere. Every culture thrives, or not, on whether its core narrative—the causation story we tell ourselves—enhances mutual gain or spurs division. And, the narrative driving today’s unfolding catastrophe feeds the latter.

It begins with a deep distrust of human nature.

Way back in 1651, philosopher Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan summed up our nature with the Latin proverb Homohominilupus, “Man is a wolf to his fellow man.” From this thought tradition, now reinforced through much of media and advertising, we absorb the notion that humans are essentially selfish, competitive, and materialistic. Yet, with this dim view of our nature, how can we possibly make society work? The dominant narrative has the answer: Just put self-interest to work.   [Read more…]

Is Congress Hurtling Toward Shutdown on Friday? | Video Worth Watching

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MTP Daily’s Chuck Todd interviews Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md) on the prospects of a government shutdown this Friday.   [Read more…]

Wednesday Motivation for Saturday’s Women’s March: An Injury to One Is an Injury to All

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There will be a ‘motivation’ each day this week leading up to the Women March on January 20. Please help build support for the day by sharing these posts on your social media feeds. Today’s post features Las Tres Hermanas, who have stood up against sexual harassment and gender discrimination against one of the most powerful persons in labor. Two lawsuits have been settled. Another continues. These women fought back because an injury to one is an injury to all!

The sections labeled “Good News, Somebody to March With, and Why We March” will change daily. Email us if you have information to be shared as the week goes on: contact@sandiegofreepress.org.   [Read more…]

Tuesday Motivation for Saturday’s Women’s March: Rally Lineup Includes Speakers, Music

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There will be a ‘motivation’ each day this week leading up to the Women March on January 20. Please help build support for the day by sharing these posts on your social media feeds. Today we’re featuring the exciting lineup of speakers appearing on January 20th.

The sections labeled “Good News, Somebody to March With, and Why We March” will change daily. Email us if you have information to be shared as the week goes on: contact@sandiegofreepress.org.
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El Cajon Marks MLK Weekend by Busting People for Feeding Homeless Humans

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Nine people were busted at Wells Park in the city of El Cajon on Sunday for distributing food to homeless people. Those handing out food were arrested, given a misdemeanor citation with a date to appear in court and released. Nobody went to jail.

Activists calling themselves Break the Ban began Sunday food distribution after the City Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance in October prohibiting the distribution of food on any city-owned property.

Homeless advocates have called the law a punitive attempt at dehumanizing and criminalizing people in unfortunate circumstances, largely the result of every increasing economic inequality.   [Read more…]

Monday Motivation for Saturday’s Women’s March: One Step at a Time for a Better World

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There will be a ‘motivation’ each day this week leading up to the Women’s March on January 20. Please help build support for the day by sharing these posts on your social media feeds.

The sections labeled “Good News, Somebody to March With, and Why We March” will change daily. Email us if you have information to be shared as the week goes on: contact@sandiegofreepress.org.

Come inside for the basic facts…   [Read more…]

Surviving 2017 Looking Like a Palm Tree Bent Over By the Wind

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I am so glad to say “Good riddance” to 2017 because it was a bit unearthly to me.

I mean, on top of being barraged by all the abject buffoonery in D.C. that was unleashed by that fool who occupies the presidency, I had to go around most of the year looking like a palm tree bent over by the wind.

All due to some life-threatening vicious form of bacteria that found its way into my body and started whacking away like a field hand taking a machete to the stems of sugarcane, devastating my belly and tightening and weakening my muscles, making an absolute wreck of my lifelong bad back. It made standing and walking upright kind of an aerobic exercise that took all my might.

And let me tell you, trying to struggle to get your health back in a world that’s out of whack isn’t easy by any means.   [Read more…]

Thirty-Eight Minutes and the Time Machine | Video Worth Watching

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Thoughts on Nuclear Annihilation

It is confounding that the words “ballistic missile threat inbound” and “Hawaii” would appear in the same sentence. If it feels as if something has gone terribly wrong that we awaken or go to bed in a state of existential terror as Trump plays who’s got the biggest baddest button with North Korea’s Kim Jung Un, it’s because something is terribly wrong.

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