SAN DIEGO -- On the Monday before Thanksgiving, multi-faith leaders from San Diego County will hold a short service of peace, nonviolence, gratitude, thanks and sharing as part of the Occupy San Diego movement.

The event, dubbed "Occu-pie San Diego-Everyone deserves a fair share of the pie," will be from 5:30 to 7 pm Monday, Nov. 21, at Civic Center Plaza downtown.

SAN DIEGO -- Occupy San Diego and its allies, including MoveOn, will join today's national day of action by "occupying" Clairemont Drive temporarily to tell Congressman Brian Bilbray to "fix this bridge."

The Occupy supporters will meet at 4 pm today at 2688 E. Mission Bay Drive in Mission Bay Park in San Diego and march to the bridge crossing over Interstate 5 at Clairemont Drive and Morena Boulevard.

Up Front

We’ve all heard them. Many of us have been called them.

They are the labels we cling to and use to mark important moments in life; such as, my marching band nerd years from about 2000 to 2008. There are labels that bring us closer together, like best friend, girlfriend, wife. Since this is written mainly for the lesbian community, I will stick with a lesbian identifier that divides our community quite a bit: D-y-k-e, or, the "d-word."