San Diego News

April 4 - Thursday -  3-6 pm

San Diego Veterans for Peace demonstration at General Atomics Predator drones production site. Assemble at General Atomics Way and Kirkham Way, Poway. More info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 760.207.9139

Parking: There is no parking on any side streets in the vicinity of this demonstration. Parking at local businesses is without permission and you do so at your own risk. There is posted parking at scattered businesses North of Scripps Poway Parkway, from Stowe to General Atomics Way. One half mile West of the bannering point is Costco and Home Depot. This point is 1.5 miles from the demo start point, however we will have limited shuttle service from the Costco, Home Depot area to the start point until 3PM. This service will be slow and limited, so allow plenty of time to catch a ride. On the day of the demo. call 760.207.9139 for information on how to catch a ride. We recommend that the participants carpool and drop off the passengers at the demo. start point leaving ample time for the driver to find parking and secure a ride back.

7-8 pm

Overpass Light Brigade
Clairemont Drive bridge over the I-5. Volunteers are needed to hold letters. More info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or OLB Facebook event

Parking: Mission Bay Visitors Center, west of Clairemont Drive overpass.

April 5 - Friday

8 am - Protest at home of Neal Blue, General Atomics CEO, 9756 La Jolla Farms Road, La Jolla, CA. Coordinated by CodePink. More info: email Nancy or phone 415-235-6517

10 am - Rally at General Atomics Headquarters 3500 General Atomics Court (off John Jay Hopkins Drive), La Jolla 92121. Coordinated by CodePink. More info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

4-6 pm - Demonstration and bannering at Northrup Grumman, 9326 Spectrum Center Blvd. and Ruffin Road, San Diego 92123. Please wear black! coordinated by CodePink More info: email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

6:30-9:30 pm - Assembly with dinner, socializing, and more. Location TBA. more info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

7-8 pm - Overpass Light Brigade, Location TBA. Volunteers are needed to hold letters. More info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or OLB Facebook event

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April 6 - Saturday

1-3 pm - Join us at the Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum (Harbor Drive south of Broadway, downtown San Diego) for a demonstration. Please wear black. Coordinated by Women Occupy; More info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 858-945-6273.

6 pm; 7-9 pm dinner - Forum with Medea Benjamin (CodePink), Pedro Rios (AFSC San Diego), and others. Church of the Brethren, 3850 Westgate Pl., San Diego 92105. More info: email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   

7-8 pm - Overpass Light Brigade at Forum site. More info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or OLB Facebook event

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April 7 - Sunday (ending by 3 p.m.)

10 am - 3 pm - General Assembly and Workshops, Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2004 Park Blvd., San Diego 92101. More info: email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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National Call

The Drone Diego Coordinating Committee invites organizations and individuals to come to San Diego on April 4-7, as we protest and bring attention to the dangers drones present to the people of the world. Join us for nonviolent actions, workshops, street theater and more, or organize your own activities.

Our opposition to drone warfare is based on our stand for peace and justice. We believe that:

• Armed drones are weapons of terror. They kill combatants and civilians, children and adults, men and women, alike. Their presence overhead terrorizes entire communities.
• Extrajudicial assassinations by killer drones violate U. S. and international law.
• Surveillance drones threaten our liberties, spying on communities and borders, invading our personal privacy.
• Drones make our families less secure by making it easier for military and paramilitary agencies (like the CIA) to continue endless war without limits in either space or time.

Why come to San Diego? San Diego is the drone production capital of the world. San Diego is home to General Atomics, builders of the killer Predator and Reaper drones (which may be armed with Hellfire missiles), and Northrup Grumman, maker of the Global Hawk surveillance drone. Surveillance drones also regularly fly along the border between San Diego and Mexico.

A strong presence in San Diego will draw attention locally and nationally to the hazards posed by these robotic killers and spy craft. We hope that this will be the first of many actions in San Diego

Of course not everyone has the resources to come to San Diego. We encourage those who cannot come to make April 4-7 days of action against drones in their own communities.

Kickoff day is Thursday, April 4, with a demonstration at the General Atomics drone production facility in Poway, just north of San Diego. The San Diego chapter of Veterans for Peace is holding a weekly vigil there and we will join them.

We invite other organizations to develop workshops, forums and actions during the four days of action. If you or your organization would like to plan an event, please contact our host committee so we can provide information about locations, venues, and schedule coordination. We also welcome sponsoring organizations (which provide financial or organizational resources) and endorsing organizations (which express their public agreement with our goals) to contact the host committee.

Our host committee will work to provide housing in San Diego for activists who need it. We are also working to establish an encampment, with more details to follow.

For more info about the National Days Against Drones Actions in San Diego, or if your organization would like to become a sponsor or endorser, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We can also be found on the web here and on Facebook

by Jill Harper

It is always with an open mind when we at Indian Voices venture out on assignment with the intention of bringing back something useful for our loyal readers. More often than not, we find that in doing so, we bring back something for ourselves as well.

Today’s assignment is much like the others; illustrious leader comes out from behind the monolith, delivers the day’s marching orders using as few words as possible, and lacking any detail whatsoever. “Harper, North Park, good will.” I feel my tongue cluck instinctively. Good will? Editor speak for “damage control”. This is something Editors do to reporters to help us develop “journalistic integrity”. The reporting staff is of the opinion they do it because they can. I already know that today I will not be loitering for hours at my favorite Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, sipping the same large iced coffee, stealing napkins and getting free wifi.

As it would happen, the assignment takes place at the law offices of Attorney Daniel E. Marshall, located in North Park. I am greeted by the subject himself. In a blue button down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, he looks ready to get down to the business of an interview while I am paralyzed with fear that perhaps this is my defense attorney, and “Her Illustrious Highness of Hidden Mercy” has found out about “that thing” that happened in 2004 and that I subsequently lied about in the application process, (which, cross my heart, I will NEVER do again).

But I digress. Thankfully, I am caught off guard by the outstretched hand of an old soul and energetic freedom fighter. We take each other in, and I feign knowledge of this man and his law firm and ask my first question, “What’s your zodiac sign?” He laughs and suddenly now feel as if we are in best-friends-forever- land.

As we talk, I discover this Daniel E. Marshall person was certainly no stranger to over-achievement. While attending law school, he was running his own successful landscaping business. During and after law school he worked with a federal judge and later worked in civil rights for the City of San Diego. He reported directly to some former chief judge named Schwartz. Judge Schwartz was so cool they named the federal court in San Diego after him!!

After receiving his law degree, Daniel started his own law firm, Marshall Law, which focused in employment and disabilities discrimination.

His years spent as a Federal and State Civil Litigator resulted in 21 years of experience, expertise and knowledge in Civil Litigation . His firm Marshall Law, currently specializes in Landlord/Tenant disputes, but get this – his firm represents both plaintiffs AND tenants! As if that wasn’t enough, he is the go-to guy in Post Foreclosure Evictions and Business Formation. I feel a nap coming on just thinking about busy he is!

For the better part of an hour, we traded lawyer jokes, talked about tenant rights and the laws that protect those rights, how long the eviction process takes and the steps to take should you find yourself on the tenant side of a dispute and even whether or not the Padres would win the world series in 2013. (Okay, we didn’t discuss baseball that day, but Daniel is such an interesting and interested person, had time permitted, I’d like to think we would have.)

As my “Day with Daniel” (as I call it) came to a close, I reflected on the meeting and what I would be bringing back to share with the loyal Indian Voices readers when I felt a voice faintly whisper in my good ear:

“You measure a man’s greatness by the power of his convictions”. As an attorney for the people, Daniel E. Marshall is the embodiment of those words.

May we all subscribe to the belief that our own greatness is be measured in the power of our collective convictions.

Good will, indeed!

Marshall Law is located in the North
Park at 3180 University Avenue, Ste.
250, San Diego, CA 92104

Mr. Marshall can be reached by calling
619-993-5778.

Visit the Marshall Law website at
www.sandiegoevictionattorneys.com and learn everything you need to know about the eviction process, as well as information on tenant rights and real estate law.

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