OB Rag

Like much of San Diego’s media, we joined the “Tsunami watch” down at the shore of Ocean Beach this morning. The horrible tragedy in Japan had generated enough energy under the Pacific Ocean that it was supposed to travel to the West Coast moving at the rate of 500 miles an hour, and hit San Diego’s coast around 8:40 a.m.

On March 28th, the San Diego city council will be voting on an ordinance that, if passed as written, will close down every medical cannabis facility in the city and would make it virtually impossible for them to reopen. In response, the San Diego chapter of Americans for Safe Access partnered with Canvass for a Cause to launch the “Stop the Ban” campaign in order to educate the public about the ordinance and to mobilize grassroots opposition.

Here is our open thread for today on what’s happening in Madison, Wisconsin. 9:05 a.m. PST – Last night WI…

This is a shout out to Ragsters Ernie and Judi, and my library loving pal Sandy, and that bright constellation of caring, tough, committed, brilliant teachers who have shaped the human being I am today. Respect!

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On April 15th there will be a “National Day of Silence” during which hundreds of thousands of students nationwide will…

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* NEW UPDATE: Special Meeting on Proposed Medical Marijuana Ordinance – March 16th
*Arrest of Second Suspect in OB Business Window Vandalism Imminent
*OB Planning Board Election – March 15th
*OB Rag Letter-Writing Campaign Over Lack of U-T Coverage of Large San Diego Labor Rally Gets “Apology”
*U-T Cartoonist Snags OB in Weekly Caption Contest
*OB Historical Society’s Annual Wisteria Tea Party – March 19th
*Ex-Robb Field City Worker Accused of Stealing From City
*END THE WARS! Rally – March 19th
*40th Anniversary of the Collier Park Riot Coming Up

In that town called San Diego when the workers try to talk, The cops will smash them with a sap…

For the Builders, the Planters, and the Refusers, on the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day

On this, the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, I want to take a minute to honor grassroots women’s activists across the planet – women, like those working tirelessly in Haiti, who have inspired their communities, united their communities, and led their communities, holding them together and pushing them forward.

Recently I sat and wrote and chatted with some of the coolest people alive. No jive. Most of them happen…

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt / Excuse Me, I’m Writing “They gotta learn some phone manners,” he said, angrily scrawling the address…

Serra Mesa, San Diego: To kill the Beast or not, was the question. Has it grown into an enormous creature…

I pause with a picture to just look at my face, the wrinkles, the gray in my beard, the few…