Seen in Hillcrest (photo: Mike Tidmus)
This is the 26th weekly installment of Out & About San Diego. We’ve got lots to do in the coming weeks, including preserving our native plants, planning for the future of Hillcrest and continuing the ongoing fight for LGBT equality.
Here’s what’s coming up:
Tuesday, 10 November:
Hillcrest Town Council Meeting
Join us for the monthly meeting of the Hillcrest Town Council. The HTC exists to provide a voice & enhance the quality of life for Hillcrest renters and homeowners while supporting actions that benefit our neighborhood. Neighborhood residents are encouraged to attend monthly meetings of the Hillcrest Town Council which feature political leaders, candidate forums and committee updates on area crime, litter, graffiti and development.
Councilmember Todd Gloria will share the latest from city hall and then will seek your ideas on what’s best for our city. Meet Todd in person and share your thoughts, questions and concerns.
Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Joyce Beers Community Center
Street: 3900 Vermont Street (across from Trader Joe’s)
City: San Diego
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San Diego Alliance for Marriage meeting
The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (SAME) is a grass roots, democratically-run organization committed to fighting for LGBT rights including marriage equality. SAME meetings are open to the public. For more information please visit the SAME website.
As the movement continues we encourage everyone with an idea, a hope, a voice, to join us in this struggle. in numbers there is strength, in unity there is hope, and together we WILL realize our goal: equality.
We want to invite LGBTQIQAA activists to become NEW members and NEW organizations to join us in coalition at this SAME membership meeting. Please join our membership meetings the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the Month. SAME meetings are open to the public. For more info visit SAME online.
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: At a Residential Building on the SE Corner of 4th & Walnut (street parking after 6pm is FREE.) Signs at the gate will guide you to the meeting space which is UPSTAIRS on the 2nd floor. If you need directions contact Cecile: 858 335 6615.
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Meet & Greet of 51%-A Woman’s Place Is In Politics
Between Women and Politicians Who CareSan Diego, CA – The latest event of the newly formed group, “51% – A Woman’s Place is in Politics,” invites women of all walks of life to meet and interact with key political leaders who care about women’s livelihood. This Meet & Greet takes place at Universal Hillcrest in San Diego, Tuesday, November 10 from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Our guest is newly appointed Sheriff of San Diego County, Bill Gore. Bringing 40 years experience in law enforcement, Sheriff Gore now oversees 4,000 employees while managing the department’s annual budget of about $600 million. Participants will learn how the County addresses the needs of local women, why the job of Sheriff is an elected position and how to work with officials to ensure women are protected from crime.
51% was co-founded in Spring 2009 by Lisa N. Sanders, daughter of Mayor Jerry Sanders and Tryce Czyczynska, writer and host of Coffee & Conversation With Cool Women. Females comprise 51% of the global population and as such, deserve a prominent voice in politics and policies affecting women, men and youth. As co-founder Sanders explains, “Growing up with law enforcement in my family, I learned the importance of being involved. As a woman safety is especially important. That is why I am excited to have Sheriff Bill Gore as our next guest. Our members will be able to ask important questions of our Sheriff involving women’s safety and more.”
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Universal Hillcrest
Street: 1202 University Ave
City: San Diego, CA
Wednesday, 11 November
Hillcrest Neighborhood Tour
Hillcrest 2.0 is hosting a neighborhood tour as part of the City’s Plan Update Process. The folks at the City have suggested that neighborhood folks tour Uptown. We’ll be taking pictures of things we like and things we don’t. We’ll forward the information on to the City and also talk about it at the first Hillcrest business forum on November 18th. The Hillcrest 2.0 tour will be held on November 11 at 10am. Let’s meet in the Heart of Hillcrest at 6th and University. Join us for coffee doughnuts and we’ll tour the neighborhood. Bring your walking shoes, cameras and notepads.
Email us if you have questions or ideas for the tour at benjamin [at sign] hillcrestbia [dot] org.
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am
Location: Sixth and University
Saturday, 14 November
San Diego Equality Awards
San Diego — Equality California (EQCA) will honor Attorney General Jerry Brown, Stuart Milk, and Diane Schroer at the 2009 Equality Awards ceremony in San Diego.
Attorney General Jerry Brown will receive the Equality Leadership Award for demonstrating a strong commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights issues (LGBT). As Governor in the 1970s and early 80s, Brown actively opposed the Briggs Initiative, which sought to ban gay and lesbian teachers from public schools and helped get President Carter to publicly oppose it as well. He also appointed the first openly gay judge to the bench in California. Last year, after Proposition 8 passed, he took the unprecedented step of refusing to defend a voter-approved initiative in court and urged the California Supreme Court to overturn the marriage ban. In addition, he has asked the federal courts to overturn Prop. 8 in the case filed by Ted Olson and David Boies now pending in Federal District Court.
EQCA will also honor Diane Schroer, a transgender rights advocate and highly-decorated Army veteran who will receive the Equality Advocate Award. Schroer filed and won a gender discrimination lawsuit against the Library of Congress, setting a ground-breaking precedent for transgender individuals’ employment rights.
Stuart Milk, nephew of civil rights leader Harvey Milk, will receive the Equality Champion Award for carrying on the legacy of Harvey Milk through his community advocacy, particularly for LGBT youth.
The evening’s festivities include a reception and a silent auction. Event proceeds go to EQCA, the state’s advocacy organization for the LGBT community. For tickets, tables or sponsorship information, please contact Kaitlin Karkos, or visit us online at: www.eqca.org/sandiegoWhat: San Diego Equality Awards, including a silent auction and reception.
When: Saturday, November 14th at 6 p.m.
Where: San Diego Museum of Man
Address: 1350 El Prado, San Diego
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Patriot’s Pride March (Oceanside)
From 12pm to 2pm, In San Diego the location is 1300 N. Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA 92054. It is where we had the Seaman August Provost Vigil.
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Friends of Normal Heights Canyons Native Plant Restoration Day
Join The Friends of Normal Heights Canyons and Councilmember Todd Gloria for Native Plant Restoration Day at the end of Eugene Place in Normal Heights.
Grab one of our shovels and potted native plants and dig in!
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Location: The end of Eugene Place in Normal Heights
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MEUSA-SD Canvass OUT-Reach for Equality!
Project OUT-Reach – is a campaign by Marriage Equality USA -San Diego where we are going into neighborhoods around San Diego County talking to voters, asking them how they feel about marriage equality, educating the community about what’s happening around the issue, and getting them involved in the next steps towards equality. Even by starting right now we still need to open 300,000 Californian hearts and minds by using earned media, demonstrations, public outreach and education.
To be successful we cannot just organize in areas that are supportive. We must also reach out to communities that have not traditionally been our allies in this fight to bridge the gap in understanding. We will have conversations with people, both at their doors and in busy public spaces to raise consciousness about the issue as well as funds for the cause. We will keep our community energized and engaged as activists, fighting to win back our fundamental right to marry.
Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm
Location: Lips Restaurant
Street: 3036 El Cajon Blvd
City: San Diego, CA
Email: volunteer [at sign] marriageequalitysd [dot] org
Wednesday, 18 November:
Hillcrest 2.0: Hillcrest’s Economic Revitalization
What will Hillcrest look like in ten years? Twenty years? Thirty Years? The Hillcrest Business Association is organizing a series of workshops to figure that out and wants the public to get involved. The first of these forums will be held on November 18th from 5pm to 7pm at Bomaby Restaurant on Fifth Ave. in Hillcrest.
What: The First Hillcrest Business Forum will be a discussion concerning the economic revitalization of San Diego’s premiere urban neighborhood; Hillcrest.
Where: Bombay Restaurant at 3960 5th Ave. San Diego, CA 92103.
Who: The Hillcrest Business Association presents UCSD Professor of Urban Studies Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell as keynote speaker and invites the businesses of Hillcrest to discuss the future of Hillcrest’s business district.
When: November 18th. 2009, 5pm – 7pm.
Why: The City of San Diego’s pending Neighborhood Plan Update process for Uptown will develop a plan for the next twenty to thirty years for the future of San Diego’s Uptown. As part of this process, the Hillcrest Business Association is organizing a series of workshops to develop the future of one of San Diego’s most beloved neighborhoods.Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Bombay Restaurant
Street: 3960 Fifth Ave.
City: San Diego, CA
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