May 2008

Mother’s Day and “Herstory”

May 10, 2008 by Patty Jones

Mother’s Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their sons. Here is the original Mother’s Day Proclamation made by Julia Ward Howe in 1870, followed by info on two peace events on Mother’s Day and a bit of “herstory.” Arise, […]

Solution to the Gas Crisis: Nationalize American Oil Companies

May 9, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

EXXON just made record profits in the first quarter 2008 – $11 Billion, meanwhile we’re laying off teachers and can’t get the pot holes filled SAN DIEGO — I keep wondering how much Americans are willing to pay for gas. At the “cheap” ARCO here in Ocean Beach, it’s $3.83 a gallon for the cheapest […]

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Vermont Peace Activists Occupy General Dynamics Weapons Plant

May 9, 2008 by Staff

Activists on May Day locked themselves together in the firm’s lobby to protest the company’s war profiteering. By Benjamin Dangl / AlterNet / May 5, 2008. On May 1st, International Workers’ Day, ten peace activists in Burlington, Vermont entered General Dynamics and locked themselves together in the main lobby of the building in protest against […]

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The loathsome smearing of Israel’s critics

May 9, 2008 by Staff

by Johann Hari / The Independent / May 8, 2008 In the US and Britain, there is a campaign to smear anybody who tries to describe the plight of the Palestinian people. It is an attempt to intimidate and silence – and to a large degree, it works. There is nobody these self-appointed spokesmen for […]

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Reflections on May Day in Olympia, Washington

May 9, 2008 by Staff

by Peter Bohmer / May 3, 2008 The planning for the Olympia May Day and the resulting rally and march were a very worthwhile effort to connect the anti-war movement and GI resistance to the immigrant rights struggle within the context of the celebration of May Day–International Worker’s day. I am very appreciative and supportive […]

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Soldiers Say Porn Ban May Hurt Morale

May 9, 2008 by Staff

by Seth Robson / Stars and Stripes / May 05, 2008 GRAFENWOHR, Germany — Legislation that would restrict the sale of certain men’s magazines on U.S. military bases around the world would be bad for morale, according to soldiers at Grafenwöhr.U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., has introduced legislation that would close a loophole in the […]

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Marjorie Cohn’s Testimony on Torture Before the House Judiciary Committee

May 7, 2008 by Staff

From the Department of Justice to Guantánamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, San Diego’s own Marjorie Cohn testified before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC. Ms. Cohn is not only a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, but also the president of the […]

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No on 98, Yes on 99 Rally In San Francisco

May 7, 2008 by Michael Steinberg

Opponents of Proposition 98 rallied at Civic Center Park in San Francisco today to urge people to vote against the measure, which would outlaw rent control and other tenant protections statewide. Today is the first day voters can cast their ballots in the June 3 state election. San Francisco, May 7-On the first day voters […]

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Students and Parents Protest San Diego State Drug Bust With Mock Graduation Ceremony

May 7, 2008 by Staff

Groups Call for Life Saving Good Samaritan Policy SAN DIEGO, CA; SDSU students and a group of concerned parents will hold a mock graduation ceremony with 77 “missing” students today in protest of Tuesday’s announcement of a massive drug sting orchestrated by the DEA with the help of SDSU officials. Officials have described the five-month […]

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Four of us were arrested in Kent, Ohio on Sunday May 4, 2008

May 6, 2008 by Staff

By Yvette Coil I tried to think of a way to open this letter without sounding as if we invented the wheel on “how to get arrested protesting.” So please don’t think that’s what I’m writing about. It has taken me a long while to type this out, as my right arm, my writing hand, […]

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May 4th Kent State commemoration ends with arrests – Antiwar protesters refuse to leave Kent bridge

May 6, 2008 by Staff

by Matt Fredmonsky and Dave O’Brien / May 5, 2008 / Record-Courier staff writers An anti-war march and protest in downtown Kent following Sunday’s commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University resulted in four arrests. Four protesters who sat down in the middle of Kent’s West Main […]

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Message to Americans From Monty Python Comedian John Cleese

May 6, 2008 by Staff

Due to Poor Presidential Candidates, Britain to Revoke Our Independence and Insist On Proper English Spellings & Pronunciations To the citizens of the United States of America: In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the […]

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Caravan to Rally Against Education Budget Cuts

May 5, 2008 by Patty Jones

The Association of Raza Educators along with other teacher organizations have planned a state-wide Caravan to rally against the Education Budget Cuts. The Caravan will begin in San Diego with a press conference at 3:30 on Thursday May 8th at Chicano Park. They will be joining other educators from Los Angeles who will be holding […]

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The Last War and the Next One

May 5, 2008 by Staff

Descending into Madness in Iraq — and Beyond By Tom Engelhardt The last war won’t end, but in the Pentagon they’re already arguing about the next one. Let’s start with that “last war” and see if we can get things straight. Just over five years ago, American troops entered Baghdad in battle mode, felling the […]

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LAPD Finds itself not guilty in 320 out of 320 racial profiling complaints

May 5, 2008 by Staff

May 4th, 2008 Los Angeles Police Department officials announced Tuesday [4/29/08] that they investigated more than 300 complaints of racial profiling against officers last year and found that none had merit – a conclusion that left members of the department’s oversight commission incredulous. It is at least the sixth consecutive year that all allegations of […]

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Bush Admits He Approved Torture

May 3, 2008 by Staff

In ABC-TV interview, Bush acknowledged approving “enhanced interrogation” and waterboarding of detainees by Helen Thomas /’ May 2, 2008, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer The American people have heard President Bush and his spokespeople say many times that the U.S. government does not engage in torture. Whether Bush was believed or not is another story – especially […]

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DEMOCRACY NOW Interview with Jack Heyman, ILWU Officer & Antiwar Activist

May 2, 2008 by Staff

Guest:Jack Heyman, Officer of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to turn very quickly now to the protests that took place here on Thursday to mark May Day. There were-in the largest labor strike since the invasion of Iraq, ports along the West Coast, all twenty-nine of them, were shut down […]

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No Peace, No Work: ILWU Shuts Down West Coast Ports on May Day

May 2, 2008 by Michael Steinberg

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. May 1- Inside the headquarters of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 at 400 North Point Street, near Fisherman’s Wharf, the old labor saw, “An Injury To One Is An Injury To All,” is prominently displayed. The ILWU brought that motto to life this May Day by shutting down 29 ports […]

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Left Unity for A Left-Center Candidate

May 2, 2008 by Staff

By Keith Joseph / Rutgers SDS Member I know Jeremiah Wright… Well, I never met him, but I know his ideas, he is a part of the American political left. Nothing he said outraged me, or even upset me. I agreed with a lot of it, and disagreed with some of it. If we were […]

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New feature on OB Rag – now you can check out the 20 most popular posts

May 2, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

OB Rag has added a new feature to our navigation pages – “Top Posts” – so now you can see what our 20 most popular articles or posts have been since we added it on April 8th. Just hit the “Top Posts” button.

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March 2008 Antiwar Arrests Reached 399

May 2, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

Okay, we were wrong, We had reported that there had been 365 arrests during the antiwar “march madness”. We have just received word via a Z Magazine post, “The March of the Dead,” [go here for that article] from a May 1 post that indeed 66 protesters were arrested in Washington, DC on March 19th […]

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Filner Calls for City Investigation of Blackwater Contract

May 2, 2008 by Staff

Congressman Bob Filner on May 1 called on San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders to investigate the permit that Blackwater received as a “vocational trade school.” Filner also asked for Mayor Sanders’ support in preventing Blackwater’s presence in San Diego . Attached is a copy of the letter, which was also sent to all eight San […]

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San Diego & National City Docks Quiet As Local Port Workers Join Antiwar Protest

May 1, 2008 by Staff

By Ronald W. Powell / UNION-TRIBUNE / May 1, 2008 Port workers at cargo terminals in San Diego and National City joined their counterparts at other West Coast port facilities in a May Day work stoppage to protest the Iraq War. The 40 scheduled for the 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. shift today did not […]

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Mainstream Media Pick-Up Story of May Day Antiwar Dock Strike

May 1, 2008 by Staff

REUTERS: “… no activity … up and down the West Coast” By Jill Serjeant and Bernard Woodall / 2:55PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Ports along the U.S. West Coast, including the country’s busiest port complex in Los Angeles, shut down on Thursday as some 10,000 dock workers went on a one-day strike to protest the […]

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Immigrants’ Rights Rallies Across California Today – May Day

May 1, 2008 by Staff

Organizers in cities and towns around the U.S. are hoping to bring back the historical significance of May 1st in international labor and workers’ struggles, and to reignite the labor movement by integrating recent undocumented workers’ struggle for amnesty. Marches, rallies, and other gatherings on that date will focus on issues such as federal agencies […]

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Truckers To Strike In NYC On May Day and Rally Off New Jersey Turnpike In Mass Action Against Fuel Prices

May 1, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

We have received a report – not verified – that truckers in New Jersey are taking a mass action in New York City with a rally off the New Jersey Turnpike. Rising fuel and energy costs are threatening the ability of port truckers to earn a decent living and support their families as well as […]

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West Coast Ports Shut Down

May 1, 2008 by Staff

The 8-to-5 action affects 29 facilities from Seattle to San Diego. By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer / 10:01 AM PDT, May 1, 2008 Thousands of dockworkers at all 29 West Coast ports, including Los Angeles and Long Beach, took the day off work today in what their union called a protest of […]

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Tom Hayden Replies: The Left Has Not Lost Its Nerve

May 1, 2008 by Staff

Editor’s note: recently we reposted Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges’ essay that leftists such as Tom Hayden had lost their nerve. Hayden replies. by Tom Hayden John MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s, should know better than to claim that some like myself have spent our lives wanting to be “players” in the Democratic Party instead of […]

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Today Is 5th Anniversary of “Mission Accomplished” When Bush Appeared on a Carrier Deck With San Diego In the Background

May 1, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

SAN DIEGO, CA. Remember when? It was five years ago today, when President Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, floating right off San Diego’s coast, and had his infamous “Mission Accomplished” moment. President Bush, dressed in a flight suit, had landed on the deck of the carrier and declared an end […]

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Mainstream Media Refuse to Pursue Pentagon Propaganda Scandal

May 1, 2008 by Staff

by Arianna Huffington The last ten days have been among the most shameful in the history of American journalism. On April 20th, the New York Times published its expose of the Bush administration’s use of Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched “military analysts” to appear on TV to help sell the invasion of Iraq, and then put […]

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kh April 18, 2024 at 11:40 pm on 2 New Projects Proposed for West Point Loma Boulevard in Ocean BeachWe should not be incentivizing any home ownership beyond your primary residence. It just increases the barrier for those who can’t afford 1 home.
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At the Edge of D7 April 18, 2024 at 4:16 pm on Proposed 20 Units on Point Loma Ave Will Only Have 3 ‘Affordable’, Only 9 Parking SpacesI did need that spelled out for me, kh, thank you. That makes sense to me now. Single individuals, as in 1 person, with no...
kh April 18, 2024 at 4:10 pm on Proposed 20 Units on Point Loma Ave Will Only Have 3 ‘Affordable’, Only 9 Parking SpacesI thought it was 40% of base density. It would be interesting to see how the affordable density bonus would apply to this project vs...
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