for the Performing Arts
p r e s e n t s
TheBSShow
starring comedians
Betsy Salkind & Bridget Schwartz
not just stand-up, but stand-up and beyond
These two cult favorites bring
their comedy genius to a venue that
allows them to go beyond their
stand-up. Neither Betsy, Bridget
nor their guests are standard
stand-up comics, and will be doing
something different for this special
show - bringing theatrical
emphasis to this comedy performance.
with special guests
Nick Leonard ( July 30)
Aundre the Wonder Woman ( July 29, 30)
&
Brent Weinbach ( July 29)
Friday & Saturday, July 29 & 30
All Shows at 8:30 pm.
$10 - $15 Sliding Scale
no one turned away for lack of funds
Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
1519 Mission Street
(btw. 11th & South Van Ness)
www.jonsimsctr.org
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*ANNOUNCEMENT*
Volunteer during performance nights and get in free.
Volunteers also needed for:
Web-Site Maintenance
Re-Painting of the Studios
Office Work
we also offer work-exchange & Project 20
Thank you so much for your time!
Marta Tejeda
Operations Manager/Technical Director
Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
1519 Mission Street
(btw. 11th & South Van Ness)
www.jonsimsctr.org
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1) Pastors for Peace Friendshipment
Caravan to Cuba being held up at
US-Mexico Border!
EMERGENCY NETWORKS AND PRESS CONTACTS:
2) Order your advance tickets to
Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho
Send check for $10.00 for each advance ticket to:
Bay Area United Against War
P.O. Box 318021
San Francisco, CA 94131-8021
Please indicate which show:
Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
and South Van Ness, S.F.
(No one turned away for lack of funds.)
3) Picket the Board of Education this evening,
July 26, 6:30 p.m., 555 Franklin St. near McAllister
Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month.
Next picket line: Tuesday, July 26, 6:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
(The July Board of Ed. meetings have been cancelled. But we
will still hold a picket July 26 at 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
in front of the Board of Education building.)
The next picket line after July 26 is August 23, 6:30 P.M.
-7:30 P.M. (just before school starts back.)
August 23, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 P.M.
555 Franklin St., S.F,
To get on the speakers list call:
415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
(For more info call: 415-824-8730)
4) All Quiet on the Home Front,
and Some Soldiers Are Asking Why
By THOM SHANKER
July 24, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/politics/24troops.html?
5) Poll: Americans Say World War III Likely
By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jul 24, 5:14 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Americans are far more likely than the
Japanese to expect another world war in their lifetime,
according to AP-Kyodo polling 60 years after World War II
ended. Most people in both countries believe the first
use of a nuclear weapon is never justified.
Those findings come six decades after the United States
dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. The war claimed about 400,000 U.S. troops
around the world, more than three times that many Japanese
troops and at least 300,000 Japanese civilians.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050724/ap_on_re_us/
world_war_ii_poll
6) Man Killed in Subway Not Linked to Blasts
By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jul 24, 7:02 AM ET
Police identified the man who was chased down in a subway
and shot to death by plainclothes officers as a Brazilian
and said Saturday they no longer believed he was tied to
the recent terror bombings.
Friday's shooting before horrified commuters prompted
criticism of police for overreacting and expressions of
fear that Asians and Muslims would be targeted by a
"trigger-happy culture" after two well-coordinated
attacks in two weeks.
Police expressed regret for the death of the man at
the Stockwell subway station, identified Saturday as
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27. Witnesses said he was
wearing a heavy, padded coat when plainclothes police
chased him into a subway car, pinned him to the ground
and shot him about five times in the head and torso.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050724/ap_on_re_eu/
britain_underground
7) Hallliburton Wins New $4.9Billion Iraq Contract
by David Phinney
July 6th, 2005
With little fanfare and no public announcement, the
U.S. Army quietly awarded billions of dollars in new
work to Halliburtonís subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and
Root (KBR) on May 1 to support the United States
military occupation of Iraq.
http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id
8) Treaty gives CIA powers over Irish citizens
By Dan Buckley
US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents, will be allowed
interrogate
Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy, under
an agreement signed between
Ireland and the US last week.
21/07/05
http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-
sg46g7Ks0cvBEsg7OWirIStPSk.asp
9) Seeds of Change: NO NUKES! NO WARS!"
Rally and March to the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab
Saturday August 6th
Rally 5pm
March 7pm
On the 60th anniversary of the U.S.
atomic bombings of the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
join us to plant "Seeds of Change"
by calling for an end to nuclear
weapons. Rally speakers and music
include Utah Phillips and Dave
Lippman. The rally includes a
potluck picnic dinner, children's
activities, and a candlelight
march to the gates of the Lab.
The rally will be at 5 PM on
Saturday, August 6 at William Payne
Park. The march to the gates of the
Livermore nuclear weapons lab
will begin at 7 PM.
A shuttle from the Dublin/Pleasanton
BART Station will be provided!
For more information contact Tara at
(925) 443-7148 or check us out
on the web: www.trivalleycares.org
10) U.S. Officials Retool Slogan
for Terror War
By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER
Published: July 26, 2005
Mr. Rumsfeld spoke in the new terms on Friday when he
addressed an audience in Annapolis, Md., for the
retirement ceremony of Adm. Vern Clark as chief of
naval operations. Mr. Rumsfeld described America's
efforts as it "wages the global struggle against
the enemies of freedom, the enemies of civilization."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/politics/
26strategy.html?hp&ex=1122436800&en=84d917f2326e4105&ei=5094&partner=h
omepage
11) As Recruiting Suffers, Military
Reins In Abuses at Boot Camp
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: July 26, 2005
Pentagon leaders reject the notion that training is
aided by humiliation and hazing. And now, as the
military struggles during wartime to fill its ranks,
commanders appear to be more sensitive than ever to
accusations of abuse.
Their rapid, public response in the Fort Knox cases
reflect a concerted effort to demonstrate, to the
public and to the trainers, that such behavior will
not be tolerated.
"We will hunt down and prosecute those who mistreat
recruits," said Col. Kevin Shwedo, chief of operations
for the Army's recruitment and training command.
"If we don't do that, we won't get the support of
the mothers and fathers," Colonel Shwedo said in
a telephone interview from Fort Monroe, Va. "We won't
attract the right kind of people into the military."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/national/26training.html?
12) Intimate song number II
By Celia Hart Santamaria
A CubaNews translation by Ana Portela
Edited by Walter Lippmann
http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs229.html
13) EMERGENCY ACTION:
Support US Army Sergeant Kevin Benderman
On the Day of His Court Martial for Refusing to Fight in Iraq
Please circulate this call to action (and poetry) widely:
*Resisting Illegal War and Occupation is Not a Crime!
*Respect Conscientious Objection!
please join us at
Words Against War;
An Open Mike Spoken Word-Poetry Read Out
Supporting Military Resistance--Against War and Occupation
THURSDAY JULY 28, 5pm- 8pm
Armed Forces Recruiting Center
2116 Broadway, btwn. 21st and 22nd
Downtown Oakland
(1 block N. of 19th St. BART Station˜exit 20th St)
For more info e-mail: courage@riseup.net
14) NEWS AND ALERTS
Join your Bernal neighbors and allies at the Pubic
Hearing on Home Depot Thursday, July 28 at 6 P.M.*
City Hall, Room 400
15) ANSWER ANTI-WAR TEACH-IN:
The U.S. War Drive & the Anti-War Movement
Saturday, July 30, 2-5pm
San Francisco Women's Building
3543 18th St. (btwn Valencia & Guerrero, near 16th St. BART)
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1) Pastors for Peace Friendshipment
Caravan to Cuba being held up at
US-Mexico Border!
EMERGENCY NETWORKS AND PRESS CONTACTS:
SPREAD THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!
http://www.commerce.gov
202-482-2000
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez
cgutierrez@doc.gov
As of 1:30 pm EDT, The Pastors for Peace
Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba is
being held up at the US-Mexico border
by US Commerce Department officials.
They are threatening to search every
vehicle and every item of humanitarian
aid. They are telling us that "only
licensable goods will be allowed to
cross into Mexico."
Pastors for Peace does not accept
or apply for a license to deliver
humanitarian aid to Cuba.
There are 130 US citizens
traveling with the caravan. They and the
humanitarian aid are traveling
in eight busses, a box truck and two small
cars. It will take days to inspect
the 140 tons of aid. We are prepared to
do whatever we need to do to
deliver our humanitarian aid to Cuba. Stay
posted...
Marxism mailing list
Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism
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2) In honor of Karl Marx, the BBC Radio 4's "In Our Time
Greatest Philosopher Vote" winner, Bay Area United Against
War is presenting a Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
one man play, MARX IN SOHO
Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
and South Van Ness*
Advance tickets: $10
Door: $20.00
For advance tickets: Send a check to:
Bay Area United Against War
P.O. Box 318021
San Francisco, CA 94131-8021
Please indicate which performance.
Call: 415-824-8730
The premise of the play is that after Marx dies in 1883, he
is able to see what's happening on earth for next 100 years
and comes back to talk about it. Imagine all Karl Marx would
have to say after one hundred years of just being able to watch...
The single actor in this one-man play is Jerry Levy,
who has been teaching sociology at Marlboro College
and been acting with the Actors' Theater of Brattleboro
since he moved there from Chicago in 1975. Originally
directed by Michael Fox Kennedy of the Actors' Theater,
Levy has been on the road with Zinn's version of Karl
Marx for a year, performing at benefits, colleges, small
theaters and other venues around the state. At Middle
Earth he was sponsored by the Bradford-based Coos Peace
and Justice Alliance and performed free of charge but
charged with mighty talent and a bottomless love of the play.
www.bauaw.org
Contact person: Bonnie Weinstein 415-824-8730-office/home
415-990-4237-cell
*The Jon Sims Center is located at 1519 Mission Street
(between 11th Street and South Van Ness), South of Market,
San Francisco, CA 94103
BY CAR:
From the East Bay: Take 80 North then 101 North to the
Mission Street exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit.
Turn right off the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon
Sims Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.
From the South Bay: Take 101 North to the Mission Street
Exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit. Turn right off
the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon Sims Center
is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.
From the North Bay: Take 101 South to Lombard, make
a right on Van Ness and then a left onto Mission. Jon Sims
Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.
Parking: Daytime parking is very difficult. We encourage
day users to take public transportation. In the evening,
street parking along Mission Street, Minna Street and
11th Street is not horrible (in San Francisco terms) after
6:00 PM, but the closer you are to 6:00 PM, the better
your chances of finding parking. There is no parking
along Mission between 4-6 PM, and you will be
promptly towed.
VIA BART/MUNI/SAMTRANS:
Go to http://www.transitinfo.org for more information
about Bay Area public transportation.
BART: Take BART to the Civic Center station, then transfer
to the outbound Muni J,K,L,M or N train. Exit at the next
stop (Van Ness Station). Walk 1 block south, cross Mission,
and the Jon Sims Center is next to Firestone.
MUNI: The Jon Sims Center is 1 block south of the Van
Ness Muni underground station, accessible from any Muni
streetcar. Additionally, the 14 Mission, 42 Loop 49 and
47 Van Ness bus stop at Mission and 11th Street, only
1/2 block from the Jon Sims Center. Current Muni fare is $1.25.
SamTrans: The SamTrans DX, KX, MX, NX, PX, RX and
TX buses stops at Mission and 9th Streets. Walk three
blocks west (towards Sutro tower) to reach the Jon Sims
Center. Current SamTrans fare is $1.10. Please note that
SamTrans buses to the City only run during rush hours.
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3) Picket the Board of Education this evening,
July 26, 6:30 p.m., 555 Franklin St. near McAllister
Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month.
Next picket line: Tuesday, July 27, 6:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
(The July Board of Ed. meetings have been cancelled. But we
will still hold a picket July 27 at 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
in front of the Board of Education building.)
The next picket line after July 27 is August 23, 6:30 P.M.
-7:30 P.M. (just before school starts back.)
August 23, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 P.M.
555 Franklin St., S.F,
To get on the speakers list call:
415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
(For more info call: 415-824-8730)
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4) All Quiet on the Home Front,
and Some Soldiers Are Asking Why
By THOM SHANKER
July 24, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/politics/24troops.html?
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5) Poll: Americans Say World War III Likely
By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jul 24, 5:14 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Americans are far more likely than the
Japanese to expect another world war in their lifetime,
according to AP-Kyodo polling 60 years after World War II
ended. Most people in both countries believe the first
use of a nuclear weapon is never justified.
Those findings come six decades after the United States
dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. The war claimed about 400,000 U.S. troops
around the world, more than three times that many Japanese
troops and at least 300,000 Japanese civilians.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050724/ap_on_re_us/
world_war_ii_poll
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6) Man Killed in Subway Not Linked to Blasts
By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jul 24, 7:02 AM ET
Police identified the man who was chased down in a subway
and shot to death by plainclothes officers as a Brazilian
and said Saturday they no longer believed he was tied to
the recent terror bombings.
Friday's shooting before horrified commuters prompted
criticism of police for overreacting and expressions of
fear that Asians and Muslims would be targeted by a
"trigger-happy culture" after two well-coordinated
attacks in two weeks.
Police expressed regret for the death of the man at
the Stockwell subway station, identified Saturday as
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27. Witnesses said he was
wearing a heavy, padded coat when plainclothes police
chased him into a subway car, pinned him to the ground
and shot him about five times in the head and torso.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050724/ap_on_re_eu/
britain_underground
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7) Hallliburton Wins New $4.9Billion Iraq Contract
by David Phinney
July 6th, 2005
With little fanfare and no public announcement, the U.S.
Army quietly awarded billions of dollars in new work to
Halliburtonís subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)
on May 1 to support the United States military
occupation of Iraq.
http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id= 487
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8) Treaty gives CIA powers over Irish citizens
By Dan Buckley
US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents,
will be allowed interrogate
Irish citizens on Irish soil in total
secrecy, under an agreement signed between
Ireland and the US last week.
21/07/05
http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-
sg46g7Ks0cvBEsg7OWirIStPSk.asp
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9) Seeds of Change: NO NUKES! NO WARS!"
Rally and March to the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab
Saturday August 6th
Rally 5pm
March 7pm
On the 60th anniversary of the U.S.
atomic bombings of the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
join us to plant "Seeds of Change"
by calling for an end to nuclear
weapons. Rally speakers and music
include Utah Phillips and Dave Lippman.
The rally includes a
potluck picnic dinner, children's
activities, and a candlelight
march to the gates of the Lab.
The rally will be at 5 PM on
Saturday, August 6 at William Payne
Park. The march to the gates of
the Livermore nuclear weapons lab
will begin at 7 PM.
A shuttle from the Dublin/Pleasanton
BART Station will be provided!
For more information contact Tara at
(925) 443-7148 or check us out
on the web: www.trivalleycares.org.
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10) U.S. Officials Retool Slogan
for Terror War
By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER
Published: July 26, 2005
Mr. Rumsfeld spoke in the new terms on Friday when he
addressed an audience in Annapolis, Md., for the retirement
ceremony of Adm. Vern Clark as chief of naval operations.
Mr. Rumsfeld described America's efforts as it "wages the
global struggle against the enemies of freedom, the enemies
of civilization."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/politics/
26strategy.html?hp&ex=1122436800&en=84d917f2326e4105&ei=5094&partner=h
omepage
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11) As Recruiting Suffers, Military
Reins In Abuses at Boot Camp
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: July 26, 2005
Pentagon leaders reject the notion that training is aided
by humiliation and hazing. And now, as the military struggles
during wartime to fill its ranks, commanders appear
to be more sensitive than ever to accusations of abuse.
Their rapid, public response in the Fort Knox cases
reflect a concerted effort to demonstrate, to the
public and to the trainers, that such behavior will
not be tolerated.
"We will hunt down and prosecute those who mistreat
recruits," said Col. Kevin Shwedo, chief of operations
for the Army's recruitment and training command.
"If we don't do that, we won't get the support of the
mothers and fathers," Colonel Shwedo said in a telephone
interview from Fort Monroe, Va. "We won't attract the
right kind of people into the military."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/national/26training.html?
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12) Intimate song number II
By Celia Hart Santamaria
A CubaNews translation by Ana Portela
Edited by Walter Lippmann
http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs229.html
Spanish-speakers will be able to watch or listen
to the speech today at 6 PM Cuban time on the net
using Cubavision International or Radio Rebelde.
From: Celia Hart Santamaria [mailto:chart@cubarte.cult.cu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:18 PM
To: Walter Lippmann
Subject: 26 de Julio
Intimate song number II
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
We are on the eve of July 26. In Cuba we call it the Day
of National Rebellion but I think that it is a day that
belongs to all the revolutionaries of the world, not just
the Cubans. At the same time and with the same passion as
October 17 is not only of the Russians; the 26th of July
belongs to the Revolution and never to only one country.
Being Cuban simply means the chance of having been born in
this radiant island. To be revolutionary means, however,
being an accomplice in the future of this beautiful
humanity.
The revolution is a broad homeland without frontiers that
is, undoubtedly, today's host of the marvelous 52nd
anniversary of another attack on the Winter Palace.
Overthrowing the Batista tyranny was merely a detail of the
impulse of those young people to take the Heavens by
Assault.
I have proof. And I won't go to the inspiring voice of
Fidel who, in the midst of an orgy of blood, defended the
social rights of the Cuban people, in his self-defense.
It was my mother, Haydée Santamaría, who spoke of it in a
letter she wrote my grandmother from the women's prison in
Guanajay. "You are going to live, more than ever, for him
(Abel Santamaría, her brother assassinated in Moncada); you
are going to love what he loved so much; you can dedicate
yourself to defend what was his reason to live: the workers
of Constancia, not the Luzárragas (large landowners of the
region).
So you can see, a simple country girl with sixth grade,
fought so hard to free Cuba from tyranny ∑ she didn't know,
she had not read Karl Marx, but I have the great pleasure
of knowing today that she fought for the only system that
frees men. Can you see? The heart has its own literature
and its own reasons.
That is why, on a day such as this, young people raised
themselves against capitalism and, still today, the
worthwhile survivors continue to fight against it because
the Moncada garrison was only a continuation of the
struggle of the best Bolsheviks, of the best people of the
commune. And the only applause those young revolutionaries
deserve is the sound of bullets in our jungles, the well
organized strikes, the war cries against the only oppressor
who changes face every year.
Yesterday fascism and bloody tyrannies, later corrupt and
servile democracies, imperialism is, also, the cloak of the
same assassin ∑ now they want to sell us the cynical tunic
of anti-terrorism. They are the ones!
Capital continues to be the only enemy of work and,
therefore, of all humanity. Beware of those disguises! Let
us guard the revolutions and conquer others. Bureaucracy is
the most servile ally of capitalism and works in silence,
trying to devour the revolutions from inside. Let us take
care of the veteran Cuban revolution from those and other
dangers! Lets push the young Bolivarian revolution forward
and help it fall into the arms of socialism! Let's beat the
drums of world revolution!
This then is your 26th of July also, the days that mark the
example that revolutions are never national dates.
All you who fight for the same thing. We are fighting for
the workers of Constancia, 1953, and against the new kinds
of Luzárragas, this time in the whole world.
That is why this day is here, very close to me. And today
Cuba is only the base of that rebellion from where we rise
together to conquer the stars.
Yours always∑ Celia
Canto íntimo... número II
Hermanos míos:
Estamos ya en vísperas del 26 de julio. En Cuba decimos que
es el día de la Rebeldía Nacional, mas yo creo que es un
día que nos pertenece a todos los revolucionarios del mundo
y no sólo a los cubanos. De igual manera y con el mismo
ardor que el Octubre del 17 no es propiedad de los rusos;
el 26 de Julio pertenece a la Revolución y nunca a un país.
Ser cubano significa tan sólo haber nacido casualmente
sobre esta ligera isla, ser revolucionario significa, sin
embargo ser cómplice del porvenir de esta hermosa
humanidad.
La revolución es una patria amplia y sin fronteras que es
sin dudas la anfitriona última de este maravilloso 52
aniversario de la toma de otro Palacio de Invierno.
Derrocar a la tiranía de Batista era apenas un detalle
frente al impulso de aquellos jóvenes por tomar el Cielo
por Asalto. Tengo pruebas: Y no recurriré a la inspirada
voz de Fidel, que en medio de una orgía de sangre defendió
los derechos sociales del pueblo de Cuba en su autodefensa.
Fue mi madre, Haydée Santamaría, la que confesara en una
carta que le escribiera a mi abuela desde el reclusorio de
mujeres de Guanajay: „Vas a vivir más que nunca para él
(Abel Santamaría, su hermano asesinado en el Moncada) vas a
amar lo que tanto amó; puedes dedicarte a defender lo que
fue la razón de su vida: los trabajadores de Constancia, no
los Luzárragas‰ (terratenientes de la zona).
Ya ven, ni siquiera una pueblerina de sexto grado luchó tan
sólo por liberar a Cuba de la tiranía...no lo sabía, no
había leído a Carlos Marx, pero tengo el gran gusto de
saber hoy que ella lucho por el único sistema que hace
libre a los hombres ¿Ven? El corazón tiene su propia
literatura y sus propias razones.
Es por eso que un día como hoy se alzaron unos jóvenes
contra el capitalismo, y todavía hoy los sobrevivientes que
valen, siguen luchando contra él; pues el cuartel Moncada
fue tan sólo la continuación de la lucha de los mejores
bolcheviques, de los mejores comuneros. Y el único aplauso
que merecen aquellos revolucionarios es el sonido de las
balas en nuestras selvas, son los piquetes bien
organizados, son los gritos de guerra contra el único
opresor que se disfraza año por año con diferentes
máscaras. Ayer fascismo y tiranías sangrientas, después
corruptas y serviles democracias, el Imperialismo es
también un disfraz del mismo asesino...ya por último nos
quieren vender la túnica cínica del antiterrorismo ¡Son los
mismos! Sigue siendo el capital el único enemigo del
trabajo y por tanto de la humanidad ¡Cuidémonos de esos
disfraces!, cuidemos juntos las revoluciones que tenemos en
pie y conquistemos otras. La burocracia es la más servil
aliada del capitalismo y trabaja en silencio, tratando de
devorar a las revoluciones desde sus huesos ¡Cuidemos todos
a la ya veterana revolución cubana de esos y otros
peligros! ¡Empujemos a la adolescente revolución
bolivariana para que caiga de bruces en el socialismo!,
hagamos repicar después los tambores de la revolución
mundial.
Este es entonces vuestro 26 de Julio también, los días que
marcan pauta en las revoluciones no son jamás fechas
nacionales.
Todos ustedes luchan por lo mismo. Todos estamos luchando
por aquellos trabajadores de Constancia de 1953 y en contra
de los Luzárragas de nuevo tipo, esta vez en el mundo
entero
Por eso están este día, acá muy cerca de mí. Y hoy Cuba es
tan sólo la sede de la rebeldía, desde donde nos
proyectaremos todos juntos a conquistar las estrellas
Vuestra siempre... Celia
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13) EMERGENCY ACTION:
Support US Army Sergeant Kevin Benderman
On the Day of His Court Martial for Refusing to Fight in Iraq
Please circulate this call to action (and poetry) widely:
*Resisting Illegal War and Occupation is Not a Crime!
*Respect Conscientious Objection!
please join us at
Words Against War;
An Open Mike Spoken Word-Poetry Read Out
Supporting Military Resistance--Against War and Occupation
THURSDAY JULY 28, 5pm- 8pm
Armed Forces Recruiting Center
2116 Broadway, btwn. 21st and 22nd
Downtown Oakland
(1 block N. of 19th St. BART Station˜exit 20th St)
For more info e-mail: courage@riseup.net
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14) NEWS AND ALERTS
Join your Bernal neighbors and allies at the Pubic Hearing
on Home Depot Thursday, July 28 at 6 P.M.* City Hall, Room 400
Come show your support (you don't have to speak) *Hearing
time is approximate. The Home Depot EIR is on the published
agenda at 6 P.M. For more information: Bernal Heights
Neighborhood Center, 415-206-2140, X155 or email: apicou@bhnc.org
Click here
Click here for archived Articles on the No Depot Campaign
from the New Bernal Journal! Click here
a Table of Contents Updated: July 25, 2005
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Home Depot:
Bigger than Colma, More Cars than Colma, and Another Home
Depot in the Works in Westlake Village, Daly City
Too big, too much traffic, and local businesses and
working families will lose out.
Home Depot's proposed 220,000 sq. ft. development at
the corner of Bayshore Blvd. and Cortland Ave. will
produce enormous impacts on the environment, the economy,
and on the neighboring community.
* Home Depot's projected traffic will inundate our
residential streets and pump unacceptable pollutants
into the air we breathe.
* Home Depot's predatory retail practices kill locally
owned businesses:
* Home Depot's growing installation and contracting
business will compete head to head with locally owned
contractors.
* Home Depot's low pay for comparable work will drive
down wages and benefits for working families throughout
San Francisco.
* Home Depot's anti-labor slant caused it to back away
from millions of dollars of government civilian and
military contracts because it didn't want to submit
to federal anti-discrimination regulations regarding
gender and race.
Is this the kind of neighbor YOU want?
Join Us in Saying No Depot in San Francisco!
ABOUT US
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15) ANSWER ANTI-WAR TEACH-IN:
The U.S. War Drive & the Anti-War Movement
Saturday, July 30, 2-5pm
San Francisco Women's Building
3543 18th St. (btwn Valencia & Guerrero, near 16th St. BART)
A discussion on the war and how we can continue to build
a powerful anti-war movement here.
Join us for a unique discussion assessing the state of the
U.S. war, including the crisis in the Middle East, the
expansion to other parts of the globe, and the turning
tide of U.S. public opinion against the war.
We will discuss: what are the points of unity and controversy
within the anti-war movement? What are the implications
of different political tactics and demands?
Find out more about the next major national anti-war
mobilization on September 24 and what you can do to get
involved.
Panelists will include:
Elias Rashmawi - National Council of Arab Americans and
Free Palestine Alliance
Pierre Labossiere - Haiti Action Committee
Gloria La Riva - National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
Lara Kiswani - Free Palestine Alliance
Richard Becker - ANSWER Coalition
$3-10 donation (no one turned away for lack of funds).
Wheelchair accessible. Refreshments provided.
For more info or to reserve free childcare, call 415-821-6545.
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