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By Kit-Bacon Gressit / Excuse Me, I’m Writing / September 19, 2011
I vaguely recall the first time someone asked me what it means to be a feminist. I was still a kid, freshly baptized in the blaze of radical feminism.
Or so it seemed, as our consciousness-raising group met in Anita’s living room. She was into her middle years, a professional woman returned to college, and the group was a school project.
By Jason Everitt / Two Cathedrals / September 16, 2011
On Wednesday, the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council called on KUSI to acknowledge their broadcast of the station-sponsored special report, “Pension Reform: The Fight to Get it on the Ballot,” as a campaign contribution. The Labor Council’s claim is based on the fact that the “special report” was explicitly produced for the purpose of advocating for qualification of a ballot measure. For anyone who watched the hour and a half long CPR commercial (and I did), it would be impossible to draw any other conclusion
Canceling the contract does not mean grocery workers will walk out in 72 hours, but it removes the final barrier to a strike. After the contract is no longer in effect, a strike can be called at any time.
Frustrated at supermarket corporation stonewalling, workers take next step towards strike
As contract negotiations stall, grocery workers issued a 72-hour notice canceling the grocery contract extension and paving the way for a strike.
By Center On Policy Initiatives / Sept 14, 2011 A committee of the San Diego City Council on Wednesday, Sept…
By Billie Jo Jannen / East County Magazine / Sept 12, 2011
A resolution introduced by District 40 State Senator Juan Vargas (D-San Diego) and passed in both houses Friday [Sept. 9th] seeks to put the brakes on a high voltage trans-border power line slated to bring electricity in from the proposed 1250 MW La Rumorosa wind turbine project near Jacumba.
SAN DIEGO – The “Just Say No, San Diego” campaign has obtained documents from the Carl DeMaio for Mayor 2012 campaign illustrating the city councilman inappropriately stole voter identification information from a ballot measure petition, a violation of California campaign laws.
By Mike Davis / TomDispatch.com / September 13, 2011
1. Twin Towers
Two years from now the staffs of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker will move into the most haunted building in the world. There, the elite of American celebrity photographers, gossip columnists, and magazine journalists may meet some macabre new muses, aloft in the upper stories of 1 World Trade Center where 658 doomed employees were sitting at their desks at 8:46 AM, September 11, 2001.
Editor: This is the personal and harrowing account of the woman who was among three passengers forcefully removed from Flight 623 that originated in San Diego on September 11th. It is a wake-up call to anyone who hasn’t been introduced to the Patriot Act. This is America of today.
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Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful Tuesday morning 10 years ago.
But then armed officers stormed my plane, threw me in handcuffs and locked me up.
By Explorer Parent
The OB Rag had it right when publishing the article on September 1st, “Is former principal of Point Loma charter school being hounded by U-T Watchdog?” Indeed, Jill Green was being targeted by the Union Tribune Watchdog with erroneous and misleading information.
As the nation continued to struggle to escape the effects of the recession, the poverty rate spiked to 15.1 percent in 2010, the highest level since 1993, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
About 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty last year, marking an increase of 2.6 million over 2009 and the fourth consecutive annual increase in the poverty rate.
The total number of people living in poverty — defined in 2010 as at or below an income of $22,314 for a family of four — is now at the highest level in the 52 years the statistic has been collected.
By Xu Urubu
The Sixth Jazz88 Ocean Beach Music and Art Festival was celebrated Saturday, September 10th. Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach was transformed for one day into the Big Easy’s Bourbon Street with an array of Jazz, Afro-Cuban, Blues, Gospel, and Western Swing performers.
According to an unofficial estimate, there were over 30,000 music lovers jammed at multiple venues, with nine stages, listening to 23 bands with over 80 performers. There was also an art row on the 4900 block of Newport that featured 34 fine visual artists. There were two-dozen food tents provided by Ocean Beach restaurants, ….
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt / Excuse Me, I’m Writing / September 11, 2011
As I sat in a college classroom Thursday afternoon, the power went out and we swiftly determined we were in the throes of a regional electrical power failure. My first thought was to check for students in the elevators. My second thought was of the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks and the possibility that the blackout was somehow related.
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