I don't usually bypass the voting structure, but I think this situation calls for it.

 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oxnard14feb14,0,7204301.story

Please take a moment to read the article. This is why homophobia needs to end - why we can't just be silent as it's encouraged or tolerated by those in power. It's not an abstract issue about marriage or civil unions, it's not even about equality or human rights. It's about the all too concrete fact that too many people have died. Too many fucking children have died. And it has to end.

Hey everyone,

Shortly after the end of February the London Indymedia (http://freedom.2y.net/wiki/London_Indymedia)
organizers will be assembling a March gender & sexuality issue of our monthly print zine. 
We’re looking for submissions that take a progressive stance (of some sort) on these issues.

You can contact us at londonontario . indymedia at gmail . com

We’re always looking for submissions and other contributions -- and submissions about gender & sexuality issues would be more than welcome. 
There haven't been enough web site posts and other contributions that address gender & sexuality issues! 

Toban
on behalf of the other Indymedia organizers

by Andy Singer

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Andy doesn't exaggerate much there, does he? 

I think he pretty much captures what some areas of sprawl are like.

Toban
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/)

The GRIP, a bi-annual 'zine published by members of UWOPIRG (Public Interest Research Group), is now accepting material for its spring edition.  Submissions can include stories, essays, art, poetry, etc. and can be sent to gripzine@gmail.com by March 4th, 2008.  We look forward to viewing your submissions!!

**Regretfully, all submissions cannot be printed.  Material for publication is chosen at the discretion of the GRIP committee, which employs a method of consensus-based decision-making. 

Sunday's aren't what they used to be. Still, for most of us, it's the least hectic day of the week. And sometimes it gets downright boring. Especially during the afternoon. And more especially during these winter months. So, for those of you out there who are desperate for something to do, here's a small contribution. A list of web sites that may occupy you for a while and perhaps provide a bit of amusement as well: click HERE .

Hi everyone,

There now is a London area web calendar for progressive events at the new London Indymedia web site -
http://londonontario.indymedia.org

You can get to the listings for the current month through links off of the main page of the Indymedia web site,
or by going here: http://londonontario.indymedia.org/?q=event

Anyone can add event listings to the calendar -- with or without an account on the site.  Anyone also can post without entering a name, let alone a real one.
To add an event listing click "Post to the site" (near the top left) and then click "Event".

(That process is almost identical to posting events at the London Commons.  The setup of the two sites should be even more in synch in the near future; on the Indymedia site we'll probably be changing the way you enter the "Body" text.)

Any event postings that are ...
pro- environmentalism  and/or  pro- peace  and/or  pro- social justice  and/or  pro- genuine democracy
... should be appropriate,
though we may not accept event postings with strong ties to political parties.  The calendar also likely will be very local.

I mention what the editors will and won't "accept" because additions to the calendar will be reviewed by us after they're posted (though anyone on the site can view them in the meantime; they're not kept in a queue).  We may remove postings.  If anything is removed from the calendar it will be moved to the "Hidden posts" section, which you can get to through a link near the top left.  (Advertising spam is an exception -- we usually just delete that.)  Ideally we wouldn't hide any posts, but there is a broadly progressive mandate behind the web site that we work to uphold.

So, the clock is ticking. How far from Recession is the US economy. Well in this article from CBC.ca the question is put to bankers and citizens alike:

"We sure are not far from it and it will feel like a recession," said Cooper, chief economist at BMO, calling the decline in the U.S. housing market "without precedent." 

  Yet,

"The recent data suggest that the U.S. economy is falling into recession," Goldman Sachs economists said in a research note Wednesday. But they say the recession will be "relatively mild by historical standards" and should last two or three quarters.