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Fiesta De Los Penasquitos - Rancho Penasquitos Street Fair Sunday May 4, 2008, 11am - 5pm; Black Mountain Road between Twin Trails Drive & Carmel Mountain Road: The BLACK MOUNTAIN DEMOCRATIC CLUB will have a booth at this event to register voters and get people active in their democracy. Volunteers are needed to help set up and staff the booth. Please contact Virgil Harris
858-271-1386 or virgeandmarie@aol.com.
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Chalk the Walk - Mira Mesa Art Festival Saturday, May 10, 2008, 9am to 4pm, Mira Mesa Recreation Center: Chalk the Walk - Mira Mesa Art Festival is a project of the Mira Mesa Women's Club to raise funds for the Mira Mesa schools' visual arts programs by involving the whole Mira Mesa Community in a sidewalk chalk art festival. The setting is an informal and entertaining art festival as artists of all ages and skills will create works of art by drawing with pastels directly on the sidewalk.
The BLACK MOUNTAIN DEMOCRATIC CLUB will have a booth at this event to register voters and get people active in their democracy. Volunteers are needed to help set up and staff the booth.
Please contact Jerry Ollinger 858-689-9185 or JerryOllinger@hotmail.com |
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| Mira Mesa Street Fair Saturday, September 29, 2007: The Black Mountain Democratic Club is participating again in the Mira Mesa Street Fair on September 29. This is a great time to meet your neighbors in a festive environment and introduce them to the club. Volunteers are needed to staff the booth. Please contact Virgil Harris, the Black Mountain Democratic Club chair of this event, at virgeandmarie@aol.com. |
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MoveOn protest/Vigil, Tuesday, Aug. 28 @ 6:30pm: This one should not be missed, especially since it's being organized by Lara Asato, a member of our club, who lives in Mira Mesa, and is right in the middle of our geographic area! Come out and protest the state of the nation, giving some backbone to our Representatives in Congress. We learned yesterday that the White House and pro-war donors have put together a massive $15 MILLION media fund to keep the war going! We can't match that, but we have to let our representatives and fellow citizens know that we OPPOSE keeping this senseless war going without any end in sight.Close to home, stay as long or short as you want... What more could you ask?!? There will be some signs and flags, but bring what you have.
Where: In front of Mimi's Cafe, corner of Mira Mesa Blvd. & Westview Parkway. This is the intersection near the Edwards Theater. (very busy!)
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The Save KLSD Rally Monday, Aug. 27th: This morning a Save KLSD rally was held at the station organized by several groups including Progressive Democrats of America (San Diego division) to protest the possible conversion of Progressive Talk Radio over to all Sports Talk radio. Hundreds of people turned out, and parking was very difficult to find ~ that was a good sign because so many KLSD listeners took time from their day to participate.
City Attorney Mike Aguirre and Bree Walker (formerly from Channel 10 News here in the city) came to talk during the Stacy Taylor show which was being broadcast from 8AM to 9AM in the parking lot. Both Mike and Bree spoke to the fact that Clear Channel is headquartered in San Antonio. Mike Aguirre was the first to speak and he rallied the crowd when he said it was time that San Diego made decisions about San Diego and that we are tired of having Texans make our decisions for us. Stacy introduced Bree next and mentioned that she recently purchased Camp Casey from Cindy Sheehan. Bree was very forceful in her comments about why she thought KLSD was being singled out for closure, how our being a major military town may also be a factor as more and more servicemen are speaking out against the war, and she spoke of her decision to sell her corporate stock holdings to purchase Camp Casey which will be a lasting monument to the anti-war movement. She told us that the CEO of Clear Channel has barbecues with President Bush in Crawford just down the road from her property. She also mentioned that we still know how to take to the streets and be heard. The crowd cheered.
Station Manager Cliff Albert came down to speak as well, citing that financial considerations (only!) were at the root of KLSD's problems. The crowd didn't buy that! He said nothing political is motivating this, and that everyone should support the station's sponsors and help to get new ones. Many people felt that second suggestion was out of line since that's the job of the station's sales and marketing staff. Mr Albert remarked that he was impressed (or perhaps he said 'surprised') by the size of the crowd.
I was able to have a few moments at the microphone and reminded Mr Albert that had this not been a Monday morning and people had to go to work, the crowd would have been ten times larger...and that the City of San Diego has more Progressives and Democrats than any other group and we intend to be heard.
Agnes Pennington and Mike Neff from our Club were also there. If there were other Club members I didn't see them, but the turnout was impressive, and we can only hope we had some effect on the outcome. Don't forget to sign those online petitions and listen as much as you can to KLSD. Support their sponsors, too! -Diane Ohanian
Photo 1 (Mike Neff & Agnes Pennington)
Photo 2 (Crowd at Clear Channel)
Photo 3 (Forboding Institution)
Photo 4 (Sky of Hope) |
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