Resister Sisters of OB at the Crystal Pier
The Resister Sisters of Ocean Beach were out in Pacific Beach on Saturday, October 6 just in time for
Month: October 2018
We Need to Talk About Masculinity
By Jill Richardson / OtherWords
When we discuss sexual assault, we often talk about women. What should women do to stay safe?
When I was in school, girls were even trained in women’s self-defense. I don’t know what the boys did during those time periods. Study hall?
Ask any woman what she does to prevent sexual assault and she’ll have an answer. She uses the buddy system when walking at night, or she carries pepper spray, or she doesn’t leave her drink unattended when she’s out, and so on.
Marshall Tuck: The Republicans’ Trojan Horse
By Jim Miller
In last week’s column, I wrote that “the future of public education and the heart and soul of progressive California” were at stake in the Superintendent of Public Instruction race. What makes this race so important is that it represents an attempt by moneyed interests and forces on the right to play in Democratic politics through the use of stealth and dishonesty. Indeed, if you like the way the Lincoln Club intervenes in and tries to upset the Democratic apple cart in races here in San Diego, you’ll love how the right is trying to game California’s Democratic voters in this contest.
It’s so bad, that the state party came out with this extraordinary assertion last May leading up to the primary in response to Tuck’s refusal to disavow his Republican allies:
Two Point Loma Buildings Receive ‘Onions’ in Annual Orchids and Onions Competition
Two buildings in Point Loma each received an “Onion” in the annual San Diego County’s Orchids and Onions competition.
According to Phillip Molnar of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Point Loma’s famed brand new Fire Station #22 at 1055 Catalina Ave. received an Onion award, as did the Waterpoint Point Loma project at 2820 Carleton Street.
The winners and losers were announced Thursday night at the U.S. Grant Hotel. Only 4 projects received an Onion for bad design but 16 were awarded Orchids for great architecture. Begun by San Diego’s American Institute of Architects 42 years ago to make the city a better place to live,
Call for Volunteers for the Ocean Beach ‘CiclOBias’ on Sunday, Oct.21
On Sunday, October 21, residents, families and visitors of Ocean Beach will cruise the village’s streets without cars at CiclOBias.
For one day only, the San Diego Bike Coalition is bringing its open streets celebration to OB, allowing community members to explore the neighborhood by bike, foot, scooter, skateboard – anything outside of a car. It’s hoped even locals will get to rediscover Village of Ocean Beach.
And now, CiclOBias is needing volunteers to help out during the event. They need volunteers to:
- help work the table with the bike coalition,
- watch for traffic,
- guide participants on the route —
- even ride!
Here are some details:
OBceans – Prepare to Mobilize to Save Long Branch Torrey Pine at City Forestry Council – Wed., Oct.10
UPDATE: The Torrey Pine is NOT on the October agenda!
Three circles of Ocean Beach activists are asking OBceans to be prepared to mobilize to save the Long Branch Avenue Torrey Pine at the upcoming city Urban Forestry Advisory Council meeting, to be held on Wednesday, October 10 downtown.
People are expecting the tree to be on the agenda – and in all likelihood it will be – but it has yet to be absolutely confirmed.
The OB Green Center, Friends of Peninsula Trees and the OB Rag have agreed to work together
October Calendar from the Ocean Beach Green Center
From our friends at the OB Green Center (slightly edited for clarification):
October Events at the Ocean Beach Green Center
Ocean Beach Green Center, 4843 B Voltaire Street, Ocean Beach 92107 oceanbeachgreencenter@gmail.com 619.225.1083
Great News! The Ocean Beach Green Center is proud to announce that we have been nominated for an OB award from the Ocean Beach Town Council! We also have been the recipient of two grants from them to support our film nights. The Ocean Beach Town Council has been working for 50 years expressing the will and representing the welfare of the OB community. Check out their website at http://www.obtowncouncil.org
October 25th Thursday 7:00 p. m. Presentation on the history of 29 years of activism & the Ocean Beach Green Center (known as The Green Store for the first 24 years) The Green Store opened on Earth Day 1989!
Update on Jim Bell
Immigrant Children Carted Off in Dead of Night to Trump’s Texas Tent Camp
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams
With detention facilities overflowing due to President Donald Trump’s monstrous immigration policies—which have sent the number of children detained by the U.S. government soaring to a record 12,800—the Trump administration is reportedly carrying out dead-of-night “mass transfers” of children from foster homes and shelters to a crowded Texas tent camp, where they have no schooling and limited access to legal services.
According to the New York Times, more than 1,600 “migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in South Texas.”
Kavanaugh Confirmation Likely as White House’s Whitewash FBI Report Gives Cover to Swing Republican Senators
News reports from this morning indicate that Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation is now very likely because the whitewashed FBI report is giving cover to swing Republican Senators. This despite the failure of FBI investigators to interview neither Christine Blasey Ford nor Kavanaugh and nor at least 40 other witnesses who could give corroboration to Ford’s sexual assault allegations.
The newly-released 46 page FBI report is being called “incomplete” by Democrats and the White House is being blamed for restricting the scope and breadth of investigators. Reportedly, 10 people were contacted and only 9 interviewed by agents. That’s 9 people in the 5 day period (less than 2 a day – wow!). Also, the third woman to come forward, Julie Swetnick, was not contacted by the FBI. Also the second accuser Debra Ramirez gave agents a list of 20 people who come corroborate her accusations against Kavanaugh.
When I Think of the Wall
When I think of the wall
I see in my mind,
first of all,
people on my side of the wall,
people who,
when all is thought through,
appraising all of humanity,
live relatively comfortably,
in possession of all kinds of
certificates and degrees
from preschool
to PhDs,
Proponents of Famosa Canyon Open Space Go Pro!
The San Diego Housing Commission better watch out! The opponents to their plans for 78 units at Famosa Canyon in Point Loma have gone pro – by which we mean the group Save Famosa Canyon has a very professional looking video and website. The video is very compelling – it starts out with overhead video shots of developments in Point Loma and ends with shots of kids and young adults biking or strolling on the trails in the open space – with soft music playing in the background.
The group claims it has collected a 1,000 signatures on its petition opposing the housing as well. We filed a short report about their signature gathering over the weekend. Here is how they describe themselves on their website:
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