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During the Zapatista's (EZLN) Festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, participants staged a two hour march from La Universidad de la Tierra to the zocalo of San Cristobal. The march was in solidarity with Oaxacans who were arrested and jailed while participating in a Palestine solidarity action and also in solidarity with the Palestinian people who are currently under siege by the Israeli army. The pictures are of grafitti and stencils left on the walls of government buildings and stages at the conclusion of the march.

On January 1, 200 community members met at the big fountain in Balboa Park in San Diego for a demonstration and candle light vigil in support of Palestinians in Gaza under attack by Israel. Video: 7 min 52 sec. 33 mb.

LABOR FOR PALESTINE: STOP ISRAEL'S MASSACRE IN GAZA AND END THE SIEGE NOW!

This is my first set of photos from the Festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia, which took place in Mexico City over the last four days and is now moving to the Zapatista caracol in Oventik, Chiapas, Mexico.

Read Between the Lines

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 : In Monday's edition of the San Diego Business Journal, reporter Connie Lewis revealed that the ongoing boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt by gay activists and labor groups has cost the hotel $2.4 million in canceled meetings and conventions.

The Green Party of California says it is "cautiously optimistic" about Air Resources Board smog plan, but warns ARB could backslide, killing thousands in state. Here is the Green Party's news release:

A recent study of childhood leukemia death rates found that they are higher than the national average in counties adjoining nuclear power plant sites. The highest rates were in counties around the San Onofre nuclear power station in Southern California.

"We knew keeping the windows in the warehouse was a bargaining chip."

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The economy elected Barack Obama President, and it will make or break his administration. Right now it seems likely to break it, as Obama's announced appointees to staff his government come almost exclusively from the moderate administration of Bill Clinton, thereby assuring the ruling class that "change you can believe in" means "change the rich and powerful won't have to worry about." Without a mass Left movement on the order of the socialists and communists who in the 1930's pushed Franklin Roosevelt to the Left, Obama's Presidency is likely to be yet another suck-up to corporate America and its anti-labor, anti-environment, anti-worker "free trade" agenda.

San Diego hosted its seventh Transgender Day of Remembrance November 20. The event, begun in San Francisco in 1998, honors the people murdered throughout the year because of their actual or perceived Transgender status. A wide range of Queer community activists participated in the march and program. (Program duration: 27 min.)

The resistance movement to Proposition 8 is bringing forward a new generation of Queer community leaders who are rejecting the "safe" strategies of their elders and the namby-pamby losing campaign against it. Young activists are organizing demonstrations on the Internet and giving speeches that remind author Leo Laurence - who founded the first Gay-liberation group in San Francisco in January 1969, five months before Stonewall - of the radical Queers of the late 1960's and early 1970's.

The new book "Boy Crazy" by Philadelphia-based Gay therapist Michael Shelton asks why it's so hard for Gay men in coupled relationships to stay sexually exclusive. Shelton examines the "men are from Mars" theory as it applies to Gay men, the extent to which males in general are "hard-wired" for sexual diversity, the easy availability of alternative sex partners and the perils of "open relationships."

OUST GMA, YOU'RE OUSTED! YOU'RE BUSTED! US puppet Gloria Arroyo just ran scared as she always does, this time to the APEC meeting in Lima, Peru. This while hundreds of activist from the ALLIANCE for a JUST and LASTING PEACE in the PHILIPPINES (AJLPP), ANSWER-LA and GABNET/LA and their allies turned out in full force Friday, November 21, 2008, 6 PM, with a picket and a rally in front of the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, 6101 West Century Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045, to protest her supposed reception for the community in the US. dsc_0197.jpg, image/jpeg, 3008x2000

Former UCSD professor Lew Perry spoke to the Humanist Fellowship of San Diego November 16 on the conflicts between religion, science and democracy. He said that conflicts are inevitable because when religion makes statements about the physical world -- like the Bible's claim that the earth is fixed in space -- scientists can and must challenge the religious understanding of physical reality.

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Rally Agaist Hate! Doug Manchester is one of the leading funders ($125,000) of Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative that discriminates against LGBT couples. While Hyatt may officially disavow Manchester's contributions to Proposition 8 as a personal choice, the fact remains that their multi-million dollar LGBT marketing efforts must be seen as little more than sheer hypocrisy when the revenue this marketing attracts is then funneled into efforts that bite the hand which feeds them. In such a situation, we always have the ability to choose not to feed them any longer. RALLY @ MANCHESTER HYATT NOVEMBER 22TH -5:00 P.M. 1 Market Place, San Diego, CA 92101