Bill Maher Interviews Michael Moore

Dr. Gupta Admits he lied about Michael Moore

Michael Moore Sicko

Federal Reserve

John Perkins: Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Naomi Wolf: The End of America

Naomi Wolf's The End Of America Film

This film is interesting.   Walter   http://www.snagfilms.com/films/watch/the_end_of_america/

Alyce Smith Cooper's Community Issues: A Tapestry of Concerns - African Story Telling Webcast Video

Alyce Smith Cooper tells African stories during her Public Access Television show Community Issues: A Tapestry of Concerns, 5 September 2008. Co-Produced by Walter Davis and Directed by Larry Bird, this show was recorded by everyday citizens and members of the San Diego County Community Coalition - The Citizens' Internet TV Network. - SDCommunityCoalition@gmail.com Sent to you by SDCommunityCoalition@gmail.com using Google's sharing button AfricanStoryTellingHighQuality.wmv Nov 26, 2008 Here's what you can do next: View everything SDCommunityCoalition@gmail.com has shared publicly View everything shared by people you know Learn more about Google's sharing button

La VOZ Birthday Issue

Help Me Celebrate My Birthday!  For the last couple of years I have gathered with friends to celebrate my birthday, each year topping the previous year. So after much thought and many suggestions as what to do today to celebrate I have decided that I much rather give a gift than receive a gift! By that I mean I would rather save the money we would have spent on drinks, food, and cover and instead make a donation to one of my favorite local organizations.   Please join me in supporting the work of the Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE) by making a gift in any amount today. I am not kidding any amount.... $1, $5, $10, $20 or more! This is tax deductible donation that will support the groundbreaking work that the Parent Institute is doing. You can make a donation by clicking on the link below. For tracking purposes please place my initials, "PCA" on the second Billing Address Line.   Nothing would make me happier on my birthday to know that we positively affected the lives of hundreds of families. If you like to join me in making a secure online gift to the Parent Institute for Quality Education please click the following link:  CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO PIQE!   For more information on the Parent Institute please visit their website at www.piqe.org Gracias,   Pedro Anaya Jr, La VOZ Founder & Editor p.s. For those wondering wy "Stitch" he is my alter ego that comes out every November 26!  Community Events Newsletter November 26, 2008  If you are receiving this e-mail as  a  forward and would like to subscribe directly CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE  In This Issue Help Me Celebrate My Birthday!... UCSD Black Staff Association Host Holiday Event FREE Kidney Early Evaluation Program WCA Winter Gala Friends of Scott Pajama Drive Angel Team Photocharity Fundraiser Volunteer at Obama's Inauguration World Aids Day - FREE Rapid HIV Antibody Testing MANA Holiday Reception Partners & Sponsors   BECOME A PARTNER   BECOME A SPONSOR    HOW TO POST ON LA VOZ Our Favorite Links   Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE)      Downtown Kiwanis   San Diego Association of Fundrasing Proffesionals (AFP)   Mexicayotl Indo Cultural Center   Cesar E. Chavez Foundation   United Farm Workers   USD Masters in Nonprofit Leadership & Management    FIND CHEAP GAS IN SAN DIEGO   Goodguide.com Pedro Anaya Jr. La Voz Editor & Founder panayajr@cox.net     Pedro's Linked In   Pedro's My Space Profile   Pedro's Blog  RECENTLY UPDATED!     _____________________ Are you looking to take your  e-mail marketing to the next level.  We can help! Contact us today at panayajr@cox.net    :: E-MAIL ARCHIVE   UCSD Black Staff Association Host Holiday Event Fun Filled Evening of Dancing, Entertainment and Fellowship San Diego, November 14, 2008:  UCSD Black Staff Association scheduled to host an elegant Holiday Evening of Networking and a Membership drive at The Loft located in the newly added East expansion of the Price Center on Friday, December 12, 2008 from 6pm to midnight. The UC San Diego Campus and the San Diego community are invited to dance to the sounds of DJ24K and laugh with comedienne Shawn Pelofsky. Throughout the evening, there will be opportunities to win door prizes with the first drawing at 6:30pm so arrive early. The cost for tickets is $15 per person or $25 per couple.  Tickets for the event are available at the UCSD Box office located in the Plaza Level of the Price Center at UCSD. Tickets may be reserved by phone at 858-534-TIXS (8437) or email to BoxOffice@ucsd.edu to be received by mail or picked at the UCSD Box Office or Will Call at the door on the night of the event but a convenience fee will apply. The proceeds from this event will benefit the UCSD's Black Staff Association, which supports the professional and personal development of its members and contributes to the enrichment of diversity at UCSD through outreach services and programs. For more information, contact one of the following members of the planning committee: Felicia Sumler @ 858 534-1309, Millicent Daniels @ 858 822-2976, Kim Coleman @ 858 534-0916, La Shon Smith @ 858 822-1528, or Taneshia Higgins @ 858 534-0145     FREE Kidney Early Evaluation Program   When: Saturday, December 6th, 2008 Where: Jackie Robinson Family YMCA 151 YMCA Way San Diego, CA 92102 Call today to make your FREE appointment! 800-747-5527 or 818-783-8153 Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP),  is a free, targeted, community screening for individuals at high risk for developing kidney disease. Those at "high risk" include individuals who have diabetes, high blood pressure, or have a first degree relative with diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney disease.  The screening takes about one hour for the participant to complete. The tests conducted include blood pressure, physical measurements, and blood and urine tests. Blood pressure results, the blood glucose and the urine tests are received by the participant on the day of the screening.  The remaining test results are sent to the participants in 3-4 weeks in a comprehensive, easy to read report.   Am I even at risk? Since August of 2000, 30% of those screened by the KEEP found that they had some stage of CKD yet only 2% were aware of it before the screening. California contains a significant percentage of those populations at greatest risk for kidney disease: Hispanics/Latinos, African Americans and Pacific Islanders.  Other populations at high risk are Native Americans and the elderly. It is the goal of the National Kidney Foundation of Southern California to target individuals in these high risk groups who process a risk factor for CKD, identify those who have CKD, then provide education and referral in hopes that their kidney disease can be can be slowed or stopped.    But isn't the screening expensive? No, it is completely free! WCA Winter Gala   December 13, 2008 12:00 PM Winter Gala, Noon to 2 PM This event will be a potluck gathering for WCA members and their guests. Bring a dish to share, network with other artists and their friends in the community. Immediately following the potluck gathering there will be Fashion and Art Auction, from 3-6 PM This event will include an auction of artworks of members and the one-of-a-kind fashion designs created by WCA members at the Fashion Design Workshop (December 7, 2008). The proceeds from the sale of items at auction will be distributed as follows: artworks: 50% to the artist, 20% to venue and 30% to the "Let's all go to the 2009 National Conference Scholarship Fund"fashion designs: 30% to the designer, 20% to venue and 50% to the "Let's all go to the 2009 National Conference Scholarship Fund" Come celebrate with us and help send an artist to the National Conference and WCA Life Achievement Awards Dinner and Presentation. www.sdwca.org     Become a Friend of Scott and so many more this holiday season by donating: Toys, A warm pair of pajamas, A gift card to Target or Best Buy, Or by, Adopting a Family For more information please contact the Friends of Scott Foundation.: Carmen Delgadillo: 619-223-7128 or carmen@friendsofscott.org Dreams * Hope * Inspiration We Are Friends to Children with Cancer Angel Team Photocharity Fundraiser   When: December 6, 2008 6:00 PM Angel Team Photography present the work of Jeffrey Sitcov, Thomas DeSoto, Michael Seewald, & Friends, Award winning Artists 18% of proceeds will help Save Homeless Youth by supporting Photocharity, founded by Jeffrey Sitcov. For more information go to www.Photocharity.org This non-profit 501(c)3 has raised over 1.5 million dollars to Save Homeless Youth in the past 7 years. 18% of all net proceeds sold goes to Photocharity to fund the first House of Hope for Homeless 18-24 year olds. Thank you for your help in spreading the word to those in need and those who can help!   Volunteer at Obama's Inauguration   Volunteer at Barack Obama's Inauguration on January 20th, 2009. Visit the following link for more information http://www.pic2009.org/volunteer   World Aids Day - FREE Rapid HIV Antibody Testing WHAT: An eight-person team from UC San Diego's Antiviral Research Center will provide free and confidential rapid HIV testing from its new mobile van between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. WHEN: World AIDS Day, Monday, December 1 WHERE: City College, 1313 Park Blvd San Diego, California 92101 on the quad (grassy area at center of campus, across from the cafeteria) UCSD Antiviral Research Center personnel will be providing free, rapid HIV antibody testing PLUS the Early Test at City College on World AIDS Day. The Early Test is a specialized HIV test that tests directly for the virus, not just the antibody, and detects the virus as early as one week after exposure. (The standard HIV antibody test requires that an individual wait several weeks to months after a potential exposure.) The Early Test is free, confidential, and is offered as part of a UC San Diego School of Medicine research study. The testing process takes approximately 40 minutes and also detects Hepatitis C infection. The Early Test Program is a collaboration between the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency and the UCSD Antiviral Research Center. For additional information on where residents can get this test for free, go to: https://theearlytest.ucsd.edu.     MANA Holiday Reception   You're invited to our holiday reception and mentor/member appreciation event on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 6:00pm. Please join us for an evening of celebration and to meet those members running for the 2009-2010 Board of Directors. Enjoy appetizers, cocktails and door prizes at The Pearl Hotel, 1410 Rosecrans Street, San Diego, 92106. (619) 226-6100.There's no cost for members and their guests -- appetizers will be hosted, no-host bar. Please RSVP to sdmana@sdmana.org by Friday, December 5.  WHAT IS LA VOZ? La Voz is a personal e-mail list that over the last 12 years has worked towards keeping the San Diego non-profit, Latino, and community at large connected . It consists of e-mail contacts that include students, educators, elected officials and their representatives, media, organizers and activist, clergy, non-profit executive directors, and business leaders. La Voz consists of three weekly e-mails consisting of community events, grant and funding opportunities, and job opportunities. Additionally La Voz reserves the right to send out ocassional e-mails on behalf of its community partners and sponors. The majority of the e-mails are San Diego based but are increasingly becoming more diverse in geographic origin and relevance.The e-mails sent out are done as a free service and are not connected to any particular organization. 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Move ON

Fired up and Ready to Go! http://www.moveon.org/ Thank you for your participation in the MoveOn campaign to find "The Change We Need" Good to meet all of you, informative and inspirational. Please make sure you sign up for a Barack Obama "Change is Coming" house Party: http://my.barackobama.com/changeiscoming (I've structured this email so that you can copy and paste the links at the bottom and pass them on to your network of friends, family, and associates.) Here are the pictures we produced and sent to MoveOn. http://www.moveon.org/voicesforchange And A few more I took Friday Night: Here is a list of the important things we want the new President, his Administration, the new Congress, and Senate to act upon in the coming years. First, RESTORE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION in the first 100 DAYs. http://www.CCRjustice.org/ http://ccrjustice.org/100days Use this link to download the overview brochure, or click on the issue areas below to learn more. End Torture, Rendition and Illegal Detention Abolish Preventive Detention Protect Dissent Restore War Powers Act Limit State Secrets Privilege Stop Warrantless Wiretapping Roll Back Executive Power Related to that: Call on Congress to revoke the Patriot Acts and Revoke the 2007 Defense Authorization Act where it overrides Posse Comitatus and the Insurrection Act. Election Reform - our most vital duty is controlled by unaccountable, untraceable black-box voting machines made by FOR-PROFIT Corporations. Standardize OPEN-SOURCE fully transparent voting solutions, that have both a printed receipt for the voter, and a digital image of every paper ballot immediately uploaded to a public website so that any voter can check that their individual ballot was counted correctly.  Reverse all the Last Minute Pardons and Commutations.  Don't allow the outgoing President to Preemptively Pardon those within his Administration. Make public and transparent all acts of the former Administration to avoid accountability for their actions. Bush's Incompetent Political Appointees have now been set up in permanent career employees in the upper levels of the federal government. We ask that these be reversed, and if possible stopped before they are complete by injunction.  Restore the Ethics Committees in Congress and the Senate, and hold all accountable. Health Care: make sure all children in the USA have same quality healthcare insurance as our members of congress. All Military Veterans, too. Green Sustainable Energy: Start the Sustainable Energy Revolution, by calling on all Americans to sacrifice by cutting their power use by 50% over the next four years. Ask for a Carbon Fuels tax of 50% that will be directed to pay any person who produces sustainable green energy.  Carbon Credits:  Free Trade: make it FAIR TRADE Restore the FOIA Office of the Ombudsman and make all Federal Government Agencies Completely Transparent  http://www.coxwashington.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/secrecy/entries/2008/02/04/bush_eliminates_foia_ombudsman.html Stop Privatizing the vital government services.  BlackWater, 'nuff said. Blackwater Busted? FCC - Restore Media Plurality : stop the auctioning of public airwaves and call for the opening of new rules about public access so that local populations can control their airwaves. Expand public access TV on cable to equal a percentage of total income. TAX for profit stations to supply resources for local non-comercial public access RADIO and TV.  Network Neutrality - Make sure all internet providers serve all sites equally, without slowing down alternative voices, or discriminating against the poor and minority groups that can not afford to pay for privileged access to information.    Here are links to some of the important things we talked about: The $2-Trillion in EMERGENCY LOANS  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aatlky_cH.tY&refer=worldwide http://idusmartiae.blogspot.com/2008/11/does-anyone-know-how-to-naked-short-us.html#links The San Diego Count Community Coalition Meetup. http://progressiveconcerns.meetup.com/5/ Watch Zeitgeist Addendum (free online) http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ Another Free Documentary (available thru Blockbuster.com http://www.TheCorporation.com Links to things you should know about: http://www.charlierose.com/view/clip/9648 http://www.thejlfoundation.org/contact.htm http://www.poclad.org http://www.parecon.org http://www.DavidKorten.org http://www.aurora.ca http://www.hare.org http://www.business-humanrights.org http://www.publiccitizen.org http://www.schoolcommercialism.org http://www.maketradefair.com http://www.corporatewatch.org http://www.indymedia.org http://www.uberculture.org http://www.adbusters.org http://www.rtmark.com http://www.libertas.name http://www.315pm.org "At the beginning, I worried for my family, but they are prepared to face any circumstance. I am also prepared for it. I lost my fear like the people did. I'm not afraid of dying, but I'd like to live a bit longer so I can keep on fighting."  - Oscar Olivera, Bolivian Activist, Coalition in Defense of Water and Life.  Just as blind faith is arrogant and irrational, and the unexamined life is not worth living, so "Rational Self Interest" without ENLIGHTENMENT* is nothing but blind selfishness, essentially amoral and self destructive. Therefore our goal should be lead by example down the path to Enlightened Rational Self Interest. (*i.e. a full, broad spectrum, "big-picture" understanding that one's identity is intimately intertwined with all life) - MER Michael E. Russell (619) 206-4361 http://www.michaelrussell.name

[SDCPJ] ANNUAL PEACE ON EARTH HOLIDAY BAZAAR, SAT., DECEMBER 13, 10 A.M. TO 2 P.M.

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*ANNUAL PEACE ON EARTH HOLIDAY BAZAAR!*   CLICK HERE FOR A FLIER ABOUT THE EVENT!

Support local peace, social justice and environmental organizations and avoid the commercialization of the holidays by purchasing alternative gifts at the Annual Peace on Earth Holiday Bazaar, Saturday, December 13, 2008, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Location: Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 4011 Ohio Street (corner of  Ohio and Lincoln in North Park).

Gift items will include t-shirts, holiday cards, calendars, buttons, peace jewelry, books, imported goods,  free trade coffee and tea, ornaments, soap products, lotions and more! 

Come hungry! Come thirsty!  Middle Eastern food, ice cream and other goodies including baked goods, coffee, cold sodas and hot spiced cider will be available for purchase. 

For more information, please contact the Peace Resource Center of San Diego, 619-263-9301 or e-mail info@prcsd.org or Project YANO, 760-634-3604.

Participating Organizations:

Peace Resource Center of San Diego
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO)
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft
Activist San Diego
Jubilee Economic Ministries
Friends of LAFTI Foundation
San Diego Veterans for Peace
Mariposa Ice Cream
Nonviolent Peace Force
San Diego Coalition for Peace & Justice
San Diego Puppet Insurgency
San Diego Food Not Lawns
Quaker Bolivia Link
Shelter From the Storm
The Green Store
Peace and Freedom Party
Ferdinand's Familia
MECIC (Middle East Cultural & Information Center)
San Diego Peace Corp Association

KKK

If you want to see something scary take a look at www.kkk.com and follow the link to the main KKK page.  I could only take it for 5 minutes before I had to leave the site.  Yes we have much to be thankful for, but we also have a long way to go.  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.   Peace and Joy Always, Tom Theisen 760-944-9410

White extremists lash out over election of first Black President

Subject: White extremists lash out over election of first black president     -------------------- White extremists lash out over election of first black president --------------------   The Ku Klux Klan is emerging from decades of disorganization and obscurity, and the turnaround is acutely evident -- more than 200 hate-related incidents have been reported since the Nov. 4 election.   By Howard Witt   November 23 2008   White extremists lash out over election of first black president The Ku Klux Klan is emerging from decades of disorganization and obscurity, and the turnaround is acutely evident -- more than 200 hate-related incidents have been reported since the Nov. 4 election. By Howard Witt November 23, 2008 Reporting from Bogalusa , La. — Barely three weeks since America elected its first black president, noose hangings, racist graffiti and death threats have struck dozens of towns across the country. More than 200 such incidents -- including cross burnings, assassination betting pools and effigies of President-elect Barack Obama -- have been reported, according to law enforcement authorities and the Southern Poverty Law Center , which monitors hate groups. Racist websites have been boasting that their servers have been crashing because of an exponential increase in traffic. And America 's most potent symbol of racial hatred, the Ku Klux Klan, is reasserting itself in a spate of recent violence, after decades of disorganization and obscurity. Nearly two weeks ago, the leader of a cell based in Bogalusa , La. -- a backwoods town once known as the Klan capital -- was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of a woman who allegedly sought to become a member but then changed her mind. Late last month, two men with ties to a notoriously violent Klan chapter in Kentucky were charged in a bizarre plot to kill 88 black students and then decapitate an additional 14 students -- and then assassinate Obama by shooting him from a speeding car while wearing white tuxedos and top hats. "We've seen everything from cross burnings on lawns of interracial couples to effigies of Obama hanging from nooses to unpleasant exchanges in schoolyards," said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Ala. "I think we're in a worrying situation right now, a perfect storm of conditions coming together that could easily favor the continued growth of these groups." Experts attribute the racist activity to factors including the rapidly worsening economic crisis; trends indicating that within a generation whites will not comprise a U.S. majority; and the impending arrival of a black family in the White House. The FBI is investigating whether the recent Klan-related incidents involve conspiracies. And the Secret Service is monitoring the racist activity "to try to stay ahead of any emerging threats," according to spokesman Darrin Blackford. One white supremacist leader, describing himself as moderate, professes alarm. "There is a tremendous backlash" to Obama's election, said Richard Barrett, the leader of the Nationalist Movement in Learned, Miss. "My focus is to try to keep it peaceful. But many people look at the flag of the Republic of New Africa that will be hoisted over the White House as an act of war." The FBI has no hate-crime statistics yet for 2008. But based on local media reports, some experts are calling the rise in hate incidents surprising and unprecedented. "The rhetoric right now is just about out of control," said Brian Levin, director of Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino . "When you get this depth of hatred, it usually is the smoke before the fire." In the small Louisiana town of Angie , 58-year-old Judy Robinson put an Obama sign outside her home a few weeks before the Nov. 4 presidential election. The morning after Halloween, she awoke to find the words "KKK" and "white power" spray-painted around her yard. "I thought all that KKK stuff was in the past," said Robinson, who is black. "But now I look at people and think, 'Could he be Klan?' Suddenly I'm feeling like my town is hostile territory." Experts say modern Klan chapters remain isolated and small, with perhaps 6,000 members nationwide -- a shadow of the group's membership of 4 million in the early 1900s. Bogalusa , a lumber and paper mill town of about 13,000, is just down the road from Angie. In the 1960s, historians say, the Ku Klux Klan so dominated Bogalusa 's commerce, politics and law enforcement that the group once held a public meeting to debate which black church to burn down next. Several Bogalusa Klan members were long suspected of shooting two black sheriff's deputies in a 1965 ambush, killing one. No one was ever brought to trial. "To this day, most white people in Bogalusa know who the killers were, and they were never brought to justice," said Lance Hill, a Tulane University law professor and Klan expert. That past now seems less distant. On Nov. 10, local law enforcement authorities arrested Raymond "Chuck" Foster, 44, the leader of a Bogalusa Klan chapter called the Sons of Dixie, and seven other Klan members in connection with the shooting death of a Tulsa , Okla. , woman who went to the group's remote campsite in St. Tammany Parish for an initiation ceremony. Authorities say Foster shot the woman when she tried to change her mind about joining the group. He has been charged with second-degree murder; the other Klan members, including Foster's 20-year-old son, have been charged with obstruction of justice. City officials say they had no idea that Bogalusa has Klan cells. "I've been here 13 years, and this was a complete surprise to me that there was Klan here," said Police Chief Jerry Agnew. Yet members of the town's black community say they have been reporting Klan sightings to the police for more than a year. About 40% of residents are black. In October 2007, residents of one black neighborhood reported white-hooded Klan members riding horses through the streets. And in March, Klan members openly handed out fliers advertising the second annual Sons of Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Craw Fish Boil -- held at the house on Louisiana Avenue that Foster was renting from a Bogalusa deputy sheriff. "The city leaders want to make it look like this is just some small fringe group," said former City Councilman Marvin Austin, 61, who once belonged to the Deacons for Defense, a black group that formed in the 1960s to defend black residents from the Klan. "But the Klan still has a lot of sympathizers here." Witt writes for the Chicago Tribune. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-klan23-2008nov23,0,7570102.story     Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com       Eddie Meyer Field Representative Assemblymember Lori Saldaña 76th Assembly District Edward.meyer@asm.ca.gov   1557 Columbia Street San Diego, CA 92101 Ph: (619) 645-3090 Fax: (619) 645-3094   http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a76/     No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1805 - Release Date: 11/22/2008 10:34 AM Main site/Press Interviews/Mortgage Financing http://www.walterdavisenterprises.com http://www.agentonwheels.com Community Involvement http://progressiveconcerns.meetup.com/5/ Streaming Internet Television www.vmdirect.com/videoconsultant

SDVAN December 2008 Monthly Message

This is a great group. Walter --- On Mon, 11/24/08, San Diego Visual Arts Network <info@sdvisualarts.net> wrote: From: San Diego Visual Arts Network <info@sdvisualarts.net> Subject: SDVAN December 2008 Monthly Message To: wdavis@walterdavisenterprises.com Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 11:07 PM SDVAN December Message 2008 Dear SDVAN Visitors, Art Resources and Artists HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS Our great THANKS to all who have responded to DONATE FIVE AND HELP US THRIVE Pleae take a look at the updated page.If you have not sent in a donation yet, please consider doing so before the end of the year so we can add you and a link of your choice to this page which will be online until November of 2009. All donations are tax deductible and our project remains a 100% volunteer effort. We now have over 1300 resources listed on the site, 3-4000 unique visitors a month and over one million hits a year on www.SDVAN.net This is your SDVAN Annual Holiday Potluck Lunch Reminder. Join us in our once a year THANKS Feast: Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 11 am to 3 pm. Back by popular demand: Costume Jewelry Exchange (men's and women's repurposed). New this year: Art Card Sales Opportunity (no commission just bring your cards to sell or exchange). Please bring a dish or drink of your choice serving approx. 8 people. Our thanks to Judith D'Agostino for the use of her image above. As always the party is held at 2487 Montgomery Avenue, Cardiff by the Sea, Ca 92007. RSVP, please, so we have an idea of numbers. patricia@SDVisualArts.net 760.943.0148. NEW Banner: features the projects of 2008. Enormous THANKS goes to the volunteers that have made these programs possible. THANKS for our past banner to Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Mireille des Rosiers, Raul Guerrero, Gerrit Greve, Alida Cervantes, Dan Camp, Pamela Jaeger, Raymond Ellstad, Patricia Bean, andJeff Yeomans. These artists have work in the Who do You Love? - Movers & Shakers: Who's Who in the San Diego Visual Arts World at the L-Street Fine Art Gallery at the Omni Hotel, 628 L Street, SD, 92101, Show continues to Wed, Feb 4, 2009. NEW Art Resources Focus and NEW SD ART PRIZE 2009 Established Artists Kim MacConnel and Richard Allen Morris were announced as recipients at the opening of Who Do You Love? - Movers & Shakers: Who's Who in the San Diego Visual Arts World. They will each choose an emerging artist to mentor for the exhibitions held at the L-Street Gallery in 2009. The emerging artists nominated will be featured at an exhibition in the New Contemporaries II at the Noel-Baza Fine Art Gallery in February as well as Spotlight exhibitions during the year. NEW! A+ Art Blog - Big turkey dinner coming up? There is always room for Hungry for Chinese Art, a look at the new Saatchi Gallery in London plus a slightly closer but still eastward look at the Palm Springs Museum of Art by Patricia Frischer, the coordinator of SDVAN. NEW October RAW Gossip Column report by Alexandra Rosa shows just how active the art scene is right now. We may be affected by the recession but artists continue to astonish us with their productivity. THANKS to all the venues which support them and THANKS to Ally for getting us informed. NEW PICKED RAW PEELED Monthly writing about the Picked RAW events peeled to show their inner goodies. Our THANKS to Georgia Hoopes, Katherine Sweetman(who writes from Tijuana with a translation by Felipe Zúñiga), Louisa Garcia (Winner Vision to Page Art Writing Competition) and Amy Preci who report on the PICKED RAW events this month. Remember submit your December events for PICKED RAW before the end of November. Branching Out in our Picked RAW section will feature new resources just listed for the first time on SDVAN. Both are edited by Georgia Hoopes. Please consider becoming more involved with SDVAN by giving of your time and expertise, Please feel free to contact us with suggestions or questions. We are now looking for volunteers for the second phase of our Movers and Shakers project. Please note that everyone is invited to attend our committee meetings. Mark your calendar on Sunday, February 8 from to 4 pm to 6 pm when we will experiment with our first weekend gathering. We hope this will allow many of you who work during the day to become more involved with SDVAN. Our February meeting is traditionally a brainstorming meeting for projects for the new year. Patricia Frischer coordinator, SDVAN 760.943.0148 On a personal note:A seminar on affordable work/live space for artists will be held on Wed, Dec 10, from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. at Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2125 Park Blvd. SD 9210 in Balboa Park. This public meeting facilitated by ArtSpace is funded by Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This will be a time to voice your opinions and provide feedback on the unique needs of PERMANENT work/live spaces for artists in San Diego. More info: Synergy Arts Foundation If for some reason you cannot read it or if the links are not live for you, please see the message online at http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/message.php. Remember you can also see what is happening in the Visual Arts on any given day by clicking on the calendar on our home and events pages. PS: If you no longer wish to receive our emails then you can remove yourself by clicking the SafeUnsubscribe link below. 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