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On Tuesday, June 7th, there was a big win for community gardening in San Diego. The San Diego City Council voted unanimously to allow community gardens by right in commercial and residential zones, without costly and complicated permits, and they would be allowed everywhere outside most coastal areas. Individual garden water meters, locks and fencing will no longer be required.
By David Langston
Note: There will be a Town Hall Meeting on this issue on Thursday, June 9 at 6pm at Memorial Prep School at 2850 Logan in San Diego. The forum will highlight the impact of the foreclosure crisis, connect families in danger of losing their homes with resources, and discuss solutions to hold bad actors accountable.
The big banks shattered our economy and left workers and our communities to clean up the pieces. We’ve lost 8 million jobs, our retirement savings vanished, entire neighborhoods sit abandoned by foreclosure, and cities and states are facing an ever widening budget crisis.
Editor: This short history of Mexico was written for gringos because gringos are not taught anything about the real history of our close neighbor to the south in our classrooms. And this account stops at the Revoluccion.
Most North Americans don’t know too much of the history of our southern neighbor, even though our nation has been deeply involved in its internal affairs. This involvement over the last 150 years has led to the domination of Mexico’s economy by North American capitalists. To understand this relationship, and to understand why undocumented workers migrate north, we must trace Mexico’s history …
Editor: Here are several reports from local San Diego media on this issue.
Grocery Workers Get Support From Other Union Members
Union leaders say the Vons, Ralph’s and Albertson’s stores are trying to gut the worker’s health care plans, shifting up to 80 percent of the cost to the workers. The grocery chains say they’re are making a fair offer that gives workers access to excellent coverage. The AFL CIO Labor Council’s 190,000 members pledged to honor a possible strike.
By Monty Kroopkin / June 7, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011,the San Diego County Board of Supervisors was issued a warning. 700 County union members and their supporters rallied and picketed at the County Admin Building.
Many of the picket signs read: “More work, for less pay? No way!” and “Cut the Fat at the Top.” They marched around the County Center on Pacific Highway . They chanted. They ….
There is a movement storming the country, and the world, whose purpose is to end placing the blame of rape on the victim. This includes dispelling the myth that the way someone acts or dresses determines the likelihood that they will be raped, or that they somehow deserve what they get.
It was ignited in January by a comment made by Toronto policeman Constable Michael Sanguinetti while addressing students and staff at Osgoode Hall Law School, when he recommended that women not dress like “sluts” in order to avoid sexual assault.
Mayor vows not to veto compromise budget as Council finds $9 million
By Craig Gustafson / SignOnSanDiego / June 6, 2011
The deep cuts once proposed for San Diego parks and libraries won’t happen and the ongoing “brownouts” of city fire engines will stop July 1 — six months ahead of schedule — under a budget approved Monday by the City Council.
In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, author Jonathan Franzen bemoans the pervasive tendency of more and more of us to get lost on Facebook or to drift away on a video game or some other enticing gadget. We are, he argues, substituting “liking” for love, screen surfing for life:
Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly, and makes us feel all powerful, and doesn’t throw terrible scenes when it’s replaced by an even sexier object and is consigned to a drawer.
by Lucas O’Connor / Two Cathedrals/ June 3, 2011
Rapid transit received an angry NIMBY attack today over at the Reader, essentially complaining that transit is tied to density and that adding infrastructure actually takes space. It’s a lamentably familiar complaint that for things to change, things must actually change, and obscures the actual issues being faced as San Diego tries to improve transit, connect neighborhoods, and reclaim the budget from life-support.
By Christopher Cadelago / SignOnSanDiego / June 3, 2011 – last update at 8:23 pm
The judge who sparked national interest in a debate that pits ecological protection against patriotic festivities temporarily suspended her ruling Friday that requires Fourth of July fireworks in La Jolla and other citywide events to undergo environmental review.
I am so excited to learn that our fair city, albeit our “drunken city”, has been certified as “tsunami prepared.” I knew those signs going up on Newport Avenue meant something. I just wasn’t sure what it meant.
Editor: Here are a series of reports by the Center on Policy Initiatives – a labor-and-progressive-aligned think tank here in San Diego – about our San Diego County government, its employees, its revenues and services.
County Employees: Overworked and Undermined
County employees report chaotic system fails low-income residents
San Diego County Revenues and Reserves
While trailing in services, San Diego County amassed $2.2 billion in reserves
County Fiscal Policies Squeeze San Diego’s Core Public Services
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