Breaking News

After a long struggle, San Diego Indymedia is back on the web and coming at you with ~monthly media-themed events (our next event is Friday, January 29). In a media environment dominated by corporate, commercial, anti-community monsters like f***book and utube, we are working on figuring out what our role should be and hope to post some thoughts on that in the coming months. The web site appears stable for now, but there might be a few hiccups in the coming weeks. Thank you for your patience.

This is a grassroots community blog. You can contribute (no account needed!) by posting WRITINGS, PHOTOS, AUDIO, VIDEOS and EVENTS. Click Publish to the Newswire or Add an Event. To contribute on an existing post, click Add a Comment at the bottom of the post.

Events/Newswire Posts can be edited only by collective members. To make a change in your post, please post the corrected version and e-mail the URLs for the old/new posts to sdindymedia aT riseup D0t net If your post was classified as spam (sorry about that!) please e-mail us the title of the post and we will reclassify it asap.

Highlighted Content

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.

Kanahus Manuel discusses the case of Chickasaw Political Prisoner Orlando Watley.

Donate to the Anti-Fascists Who Shut Down the KKK in Anaheim on Saturday - Click Here!

Latest Story

San Diego Independent Media Center Hosts Film and Discussion on Diné Relocation at Big Mountain
sdindymedia volunteers | 03/09/16 02:55pm

“From Big Mountain to Palestine, relocation is genocide!” sings Klee Benally, Diné activist, filmmaker and former member of the indigenous punk band Blackfire, in his song 'An Act of Liberation.'

Benally refers to two of numerous politically and economically motivated displacements of people in recent memory. For one, the Nabka, 700,000 Palestinians were forced to leave their villages in 1948 to make way for the creation of the state of Israel.

The other was the topic of a screening and discussion of the 1985 documentary film Broken Rainbow, hosted by the San Diego Independent Media Center at the Metate Infoshop on January 29, as part of Enero Zapatista. The film details the historical context, events leading up to, and human and environmental impact of the forced relocation of 14,000 Diné people from the Black Mesa area, beginning in 1974, to permit expansion of the operations of Peabody Coal. --Read More--

Event Announcement

Features

We urge immediate protection for Gustavo Castro, injured during the assassination of Berta Cáceres
sdindymedia volunteer | 03/03/16 11:52pm

Early this morning, March 3, 2016, armed individuals forcibly entered and assassinated Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, founder of COPINH, in her home in La Esperanza, department of Intibucá in southwestern Honduras.

Our friend and colleague Gustavo Castro Soto was injured during the attack. Gustavo is Mexican and a member of the organization Otros Mundos Chiapas/Friends of the Earth-Mexico, the Mexican Network of Mining-Affected Peoples and the Mesoamerican Movement against the Extractive Mining Model (M4). Gustavo survived the attack and has become a key actor in the investigation into the murder of our friend Berta.

In the context of the terrible assassination of the much loved Berta Cáceres, we call on the government of Honduras to pay immediate attention, to intervene, and to follow up on this devastating moment for the Honduran people. We also call for all legal and political measures possible to guarantee the immediate protection of our friend and colleague Gustavo Castro so that, once he has given his testimony to the Honduran state, he can safely return to Mexico. --Read More (english)-- | --Read More (español)--

Sign the Petition (english) || Sign the Petition (español) || Interviews with Berta Cáceres || Interview with Gustavo Castro
Crashing the Party Author Speaks at Groundwork Books About Dissident Legal Strategies
san diego indymedia volunteer | 02/28/16 07:24pm

PM Press author and legal/media activist Kris Hermes spoke at Groundwork Books Friday evening about the ways that activists can use the legal system to push back against state repression. Drawing on his experience organizing with ACT UP and against the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Kris described collective strategies that dissidents planning an action or caught up in the legal system could implement to avoid or reduce charges, including jail solidarity such as withholding identity, clogging up the court system by demanding a jury trial and refusing to plead out, and developing a coordinated media strategy that paints a sympathetic picture of activists and their cause for the general public. --Read More--

Event Announcement
The Freedom Struggle for Indigenous Political Prisoner Orlando Watley
sd indymedia volunteers | 12/22/15 04:59pm

Orlando Watley, a Chickasaw Native from Corcoran, California, is a political prisoner with a life sentence at Calipatria State Prison in the Imperial Valley. He was charged and acquitted for one crime, a double armed robbery and double attempted murder, and then Riverside County tried to pin another crime on him, a triple homicide, because they were trying to clear unsolved cases by targeting Native Youth and People of Color. Despite being 100% innocent, Orlando was convicted based on falsified testimony and DNA evidence, and has been in prison for twenty-two years for crimes he didn't commit.

On November 11, 2015 in Los Angeles, San Diego Independent Media Center interviewed Kanahus Manuel from the Orlando Watley Innocence Project, which is working to reverse Orlando's conviction and secure his release. Kanahus, a Secwepemc womyn warrior based in so-called British Colombia, described Orlando's case, Orlando's life as an Indigenous political prisoner, Orlando's reunion with his Mother after eighteen years, the connection of Orlando's situation to colonial repression of Native peoples on stolen lands, and the ongoing struggle for justice and freedom for Orlando Watley.

Summary Interview of Kanahus Manuel (Video: 16 minutes) || Full Interview (Video: 32 minutes) || Selected Quotes from the Interview (with Photos) || Article: Secwepemc Activist Fights for the Freedom of Chickasaw Political Prisoner Orlando Watley

For more information, go to
http://orlandowatleyinnocence.com
To contact the Orlando Watley Innocence Project, write to: orlandowatleyinnocenceproject At gmail.com
Donate via paypal to
orlandowatleyinnocenceproject At gmail.com
Presentacion del Libro: El Pensamiento Critico Frente a la Hidra Capitalista
anonymous | 12/11/15 11:32am

El sábado 24 de octubre, en Tijuana, B.C., a las 17:00 horas, en el Campus Etzétera, con la asistencia de poco mas de 60 personas, Presentan el libro El Pensamiento Critico Frente a la Hidra Capitalista: María de los Ángeles Eraña Lagos, Sergio Rodríguez Lascano, Carmen Valdez Pérez, adherente a la Sexta y Miriam García Aguirre, maestra de la Ibero, perteneciente al grupo Dialogantes y simpatizante de La Sexta. El libro nos invita a aprender a ver, a leer, a tocar, a sentir. Aprender a observar el momento, aprender a observar el cambio. --Leer más--

Video: Parte Uno | Parte Dos | Parte Tres | Parte Quatro | Parte Cinco || El Evento in San Diego || Las Partes del Libro en Español más Traducciones Inglés
Hip Hop Graffiti Video
anonymous | 11/22/15 06:18pm

The purpose of this political graffiti video is to challenge Hip Hop graffiti writerz to move away from the egotistical and tag bang mentality to a more community based, revolutionary way of life. Those of us that study our surroundings and keep our eyes and ears to the streets know the Graffiti element can and should be used to educate, share and spread knowledge amongst those that refuse to be in their skkkools and kkkolleges. Also, this video is to inspire conscious people to take action and hit the streets, share and spread your knowledge too. --Read More (with Video*)--

Prior Coverage: Graffiti Against the System || Political Graffiti in San Diego || Starbux Targeted for Graffiti || Recruitment Centers Defaced || The Co-Optation of Hip Hop: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

*Video must download completely before playing

More Features

Local and Mexico City Activists Discuss New Book from the Zapatistas
sdindymedia | 11/17/15 03:03pm

On October 23, 2015, at the Centro Cultural de la Raza, four presenters, three local and one from Mexico City, talked about the new book from the Zapatistas: Critical Thought Versus the Capitalist Hydra. The four talked about capitalism, how it functions and works and how being rebellious and resistant to capitalism can be a way to destroy it. If you were unable to attend this event, take a look and listen to their critical thought versus the capitalist hydra. The audio is in spanish.

Video: Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four || Event Announcement || Parts of the Book in Spanish plus English Translations
Walk for the Ancestors Gathering at San Luis Rey Mission
sdindymedia | 11/04/15 01:11pm

The Walk for the Ancestors came to our region on November 3 with a gathering at the San Luis Rey mission in present-day Oceanside hosted by Mel Vernon of the Luiseño community (the Ataaxam People). The Walk for the Ancestors is a pilgrimage to the twenty-one California missions to bring attention to their central role in genocide of California Indigenous peoples and to oppose the canonization of the mission founder, Junipero Serra.

The gathering began with a circle in front of the mission in which stories from the past were shared (which I missed because of rain-induced traffic), continued with an indoor drum circle when the rain intensified, and concluded with a dinner and further stories at the adjacent San Luis Rey Bakery and Restaurant. --Read More--

The Walk for the Ancestors will conclude with a closing gathering at Mission San Diego at 400pm on Saturday, November 7, 10818 San Diego Mission Rd, San Diego, CA 92108 (near the intersection of I-8 and I-15 in Mission Valley)

Walk for the Ancestors Report on San Luis Rey Gathering || Walk for the Ancestors Web Site || Event Announcement
Computers for Tijuana's Etzétera
sdindymedia | 10/25/15 03:45pm

San Diego Independent Media Center (SDIMC) facilitated getting Tijuana’s Etzétera, formerly known as Casa de Cultura Obrera, 4 Mac G5’s, 4 monitors, and 4 keyboards. Etzétera is a space for organizing against capitalism and fighting for worker rights, among other liberation work.

Etzétera is nestled in fraccionamiento Sonora, just several blocks from the busy 5 y 10. We met with one of Etzétera’s members who accepted the computers that will be used for organizing against capitalism and defending workers predominately in the maquiladora sector, among other uses. Etzétera’s space consists of a kitchen, used to sell food, event room for film screening, workshops, and events, and a smaller room that acts as an office and workshop space too. The outside has recently been adorned with Zapatista rebellious art. And there is a small garden at the side of the house where nopales and plants grow. --Read More (with fotos)--

Etzétera's Web Page (warning: f***book)
Rise Up for Palestine
anonymous | 10/22/15 08:31pm

We, the Palestinian Youth Movement-USA chapter (PYM), call on all Palestinian youth and our allies to defend our homeland and support the steadfastness of our brothers and sisters in Palestine. Friday, October 23, 2015 at 3:00 pm in front of the Federal building in Downtown San Diego. (880 Front St San Diego, CA 92101)

The Zionist bombardment on Al-Aqsa mosque, mass youth arrests, continuous displacement, home demolitions, and vigilante settler violence has taken the lives of more than 35 Palestinians in the last two weeks and left over 2000 injured. In response to the immense surge of Zionist aggression in Palestine, we in the Palestinian Diaspora must recognize that our peoples resistance is a mandatory element of maintaining survival, bonds to land, to society and to surviving in the face of an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing. But they cannot do it alone.

Flags, posters, and noise are encouraged. --Read More--

Friday, October 23, 3PM @ Federal Building, Downtown San Diego, 880 Front St

Event Announcement
Indigenous Resistance Day
anonymous | 10/19/15 12:04am

Monday October 12 marked a day of reflection and questioning, even though some have already made up their minds on the issue of the "discovery of America," it ​​has not yet been given the deserved analysis and discussion. For over 10 years the dance group Mexica Chicahuac Ollin Tijuana - Force and Movement of Tijuana, celebrated this day of resistance of native nations of this continent with a demonstration of dance and word, to further raise public awareness in the city. Dancing in front of the monument to the young grandfather Cuauhtemoc, in Tijuana Zona Rio, the smoke of incense filled the gazebo and drums were heard loud and vibrant. Our culture is not dead - it is still beating. Read More (with photos)

Feature Archive