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Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:20 AM PDT
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams
Today we mark the low point of the breast cancer industrial complex's already sketchy Pinktober - the month wherein insatiable capitalism touts spending money on all things pink "for the cure" - with National No Bra Day, the semi-pornographic, useless, entirely counter-intuitive "holiday" that calls for women to let their (blessedly healthy) breasts flow free in the name of ill women who are "scarred, radiated, burned, nauseated, and fighting for their lives." No Bra Day, notes one observer, is "the latest way to do nothing about breast cancer." [Read more...]
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Posted: 16 Oct 2015 10:51 AM PDT
By Doug Porter Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference yesterday, rolling out details of a proposed ballot initiative aimed at reducing gun violence in California. The setting for the announcement was San Francisco’s 101 California St. office building, site of a 1993 mass shooting. The measure, co-authored by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, includes provisions of bills that have stalled at the state Capitol or were vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown in recent years. Owners would be required to dispose of weapons with high capacity magazines grandfathered in after the 1999 ban. Ammunition sellers would be licensed and required to do point-of-sale background checks on every purchase of ammunition. A process would be established to seize guns from people prohibited from owning them because of their criminal records and federal authorities would be automatically notified of each addition to the state’s databased on prohibited firearms owners. Needless to say, gun groups are locking and loading. [Read more...]
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Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:52 AM PDT
By Barbara Zaragoza/ SouthBayCompass The Times of San Diego reported that former Arkansas governor and Presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, visited Border Field State Park on Saturday, October 10th. Standing alongside former congressman, Duncan Lee Hunter, Huckabee talked about illegal border crossers, saying: “They’re not coming to make beds and pick tomatoes. They’re coming to sell drugs. They’re coming to commit crime and to bring the mayhem that they have in their hearts upon the American people.” Huckabee didn’t cite his sources. The statement was interesting because more than 68% of the 1.6 million people living in Tijuana legally cross the border at least once a year (sometimes once a week); they have in their hearts a desire — to shop. They spend at least $6 billion a year, or more than $1 of every $8 in retail sales in San Diego. (Check page 7 of the linked report.) That means legal, peaceful Tijuanese put a heck of a lot of sales tax dollars into our economy each year. [Read more...]
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Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:52 AM PDT
Turista Libre tour of Tijuana Photo Festival captures border town’s moment of change
By George Howell What better way to get to a photography festival than to sit in an old school bus with the artist-organizers and a handful of curious Americans, listening to booming dance music while the eastern hinterlands of Tijuana whiz past your window? On Saturday, October 3 rd, I hopped on board the bus tour co-sponsored by Turista Libre, the Tijuana-based tour operator, and the coordinating team of the modest, but highly ambitious First International Festival of Photography Tijuana (FiFT). As artist Rebecca Goldschmidt told me, “We don’t just want to take people to the sites where the festival events are taking place. We want a dialogue.” [Read more...]
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Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:23 AM PDT
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes Skimming glassy waves Beaded strands of water fly From crests, closing lips The nosediving sun ascends Into heaven once again [Read more...]
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Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:20 AM PDT
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams Today we mark the low point of the breast cancer industrial complex's already sketchy Pinktober - the month wherein insatiable capitalism touts spending money on all things pink "for the cure" - with National No Bra Day, the semi-pornographic, useless, entirely counter-intuitive "holiday" that calls for women to let their (blessedly healthy) breasts flow free in the name of ill women who are "scarred, radiated, burned, nauseated, and fighting for their lives." No Bra Day, notes one observer, is "the latest way to do nothing about breast cancer." [Read more...]
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