[LAAMN] Margolis: Some truth about Iraq and Afghanistan, Good man: Who’s Paying for the Conventions?
From: Sid Shniad http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2008/06/at_last_some_tr.php June 23, 2008 At last, some truth about Iraq and Afghanistan Paris - After a sea of lies and a tsunami of propaganda, the ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally emerged into full view this week. Four major western oil companies, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP and Total, are about to sign US-brokered no-bid contracts with the US-installed Baghdad regime to begin exploiting Iraq’s oil fields. Saddam Hussein had kicked these firms out three decades ago when he nationalized Iraq’s foreign-owned oil industry for the benefit of Iraq’s national development. The Baghdad regime is turning back the clock. This agreement comes as talks are continuing between the Washington and its Baghdad client regime over future US basing rights in Iraq. After some face-saving Iraqi objections, it is expected that Baghdad will sign a compact with Washington giving US forces control of Iraq and its air space in a manner very similar to Great Britain’s colonial arrangement with Iraq. Interestingly, the same oil companies that used to exploit Iraq when it was a British colony are now returning. As former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently admitted, the Iraq war was all about oil. VP Dick Cheney stated in 2003 that the invasion of Iraq was about oil, and for the sake of Israel. Meanwhile, according to Pakistani and Indian sources, Afghanistan just signed a major deal to launch a long-planned, 1680 km long pipeline project expected to cost $ 8 billion. If completed, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline (TAPI) will export gas and, later, oil from the Caspian Basin to Pakistan’s coast where tankers will transport it to the west. The Caspian Basin located under the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakkstan, holds an estimated 300 trillion cubic feet of gas and 100-200 billion barrels of oil. Securing the world’s last remaining known energy Eldorado is strategic priority for the western powers. China can only look on with envy. But there are only two practical ways to get gas and oil out of land-locked Central Asia to the sea: through Iran, or through Afghanistan to Pakistan. For Washington, Iran is tabu. That leaves Pakistan, but to get there, the planned pipeline must cross western Afghanistan, including the cities of Herat and Kandahar. In 1998, the Afghan anti-Communist movement Taliban and a western oil consortium led by the US firm Unocal signed a major pipeline deal. Unocal lavished money and attention on Taliban, flew a senior delegation to Texas, and also hired an minor Afghan official, one Hamid Karzai. Enter Osama bin Laden. He advised the unworldly Taliban leaders to reject the US deal and got them to accept a better offer from an Argentine consortium, Bridas. Washington was furious and, according to some accounts, threatened Taliban with war. In early 2001, six or seven months before 9/11, Washington made the decision to invade Afghanistan, overthrow Taliban, and install a client regime that would build the energy pipelines. But Washington still kept up sending money to Taliban until four months before 9/11 in an effort to keep it ‘on side’ for possible use in a war or strikes against Iran. The 9/11 attacks, about which Taliban knew nothing, supplied the pretext to invade Afghanistan. The initial US operation had the legitimate objective of wiping out Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida. But after its 300 members fled to Pakistan, the US stayed on, built bases – which just happened to be adjacent to the planned pipeline route – and installed former Unocal ‘consultant’ Hamid Karzai as leader. Washington disguised its energy geopolitics by claiming the Afghan occupation was to fight ‘Islamic terrorism,’ liberate women, build schools, and promote democracy. Ironically, the Soviets made exactly the same claims when they occupied Afghanistan from 1979-1989. The cover story for Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, Saddam’s supposed links to 9/11, and promoting democracy. Work will begin on the TAPI once Taliban forces are cleared from the pipeline route by US, Canadian and NATO forces. As American analyst Kevin Phillips writes, the US military and its allies have become an ‘energy protection force.’ From Washington’s viewpoint, the TAPI deal has the added benefit of scuttling another proposed pipeline project that would have delivered Iranian gas and oil to Pakistan and India. India’s energy needs are expected to triple over the next decade to 8 billion barrels of oil and 80 million cubic meters of gas daily. Delhi, which has its own designs on Afghanistan and has been stirring the pot there, is cock-a-hoop over the new pipeline plan. Russia, by contrast, is grumpy, having hoped to monopolize Central Asian energy exports. Energy is more important than blood in our modern world. The US is a great power with massive energy needs. Domination of oil is a pillar of America’s world
[LAAMN] THE NEED TO KNOW ~ A Play by April Fitzsimmons at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City - Saturday, August 2nd, 8:00 PM - Tickets Are Only $5 - Call: 310-880-0911
We will be there to see April Fitzsimmons at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City. What a Deal at $5 a Ticket! Frank, Jane Emily Dorrel ~ THE NEED TO KNOW A Play by April Fitzsimmons Saturday, August 2nd at 8:00 PM Kirk Douglas Theatre 9820 Washington Blvd, Culver City 90232 Tickets are $5 (cash only please) Veterans are Free Reservations (310) 880-0911 Please join me for a cast party and private reception in the lobby following the performance. Thank you for your generous support and encouragement regarding The Need to Know. I could never have done it without you and I never imagined six years ago, when I wrote a little show in my attempt to understand 9/11, my experience as a Veteran and my connection to it all, that it would end up at this groovy space with such groovy people. I am deeply grateful to you all and look forward to sharing this night with you. With love and peace April April Fitzsimmons (310) 880-0911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aprilfitzsimmons.com http://links.pictures.aol.com/pic?id=8f80jKU2UeFXP-fx9OQ4oyhg-*1xkVfLMS gqv4xQp5Fd3Ig=size=m *This performance in association with the Los Angeles Area Veterans Artists Alliance (www.laavaa.org) was made possible in part by a grant from the City of Culver City Art in Public Places Fund with support from the Sony Pictures Entertainment Platinum Sponsorship. Kirk Douglas Theatre 9820 Washington Blvd @ Duquesne Culver City, CA 90232 The Need to Know is an award-winning solo show, written and performed by former Air Force Intelligence Analyst, April Fitzsimmons and Directed by Steven Anderson. The Need to Know - Saturday - August 2, 2008 at 8pm Run Time is 90 minutes (no intermission) Kirk Douglas Theatre in Downtown Culver City 9820 Washington Blvd @ Duquesne, Culver City, CA 90232 Tickets are $5 (cash or check please) All Veterans are Free Reservations - (310) 880-0911 More show info here: www.aprilfitzsimmons.com Kirk Douglas Theatre info here: www.centertheatregroup.org/theatres/douglas/index.aspx Places to Park: Parking at the Kirk Douglas Theatre Generous street parking is available on Washington, Culver and Venice Blvds. Covered parking structures available at Culver City Hall (FREE after 6pm). Enter on Duquesne Ave. Places to Eat: http://www.centertheatregroup.org/visit/hotelsdining.aspx#cc_rest Questions - Contact April at (310) 880-0911 April Fitzsimmons (310) 880-0911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aprilfitzsimmons.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] MUST READ: NINE REASONS TO INVESTIGATE WAR CRIMES NOW
NINE REASONS TO INVESTIGATE WAR CRIMES NOW By Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith, The Nation. http://www.alternet.org/authors/4368/ Posted July 19, 2008. Why we can't let the Bush Administration get away with its crimes: Retired General Antonio Taguba, the officer who led the Army's investigation into Abu Ghraib, recently wrote in the preface to the new report, Broken laws, Broken Lives: There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account. Should those who ordered war crimes be held to account? With the conclusion of the Bush regime approaching, many people are dubious, even those horrified by Administration actions. They fear a long, divisive ordeal that could tear the country apart. They note that such division could make it far harder for the country to address the many other crises it is facing. They see the upcoming elections as a better way to set the country on a new path. Many Democrats in particular are proposing to let bygones be bygones and move on to confront the problems of the future, rather than dwelling on the past. The Democratic leadership sees rising gas prices, foreclosures, and health care costs, as well as widespread dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, as playing in their favor. Why risk it all by playing the war crimes blame game? Perhaps some Democratic leaders are also concerned that their own role in enabling or even encouraging war crimes might be exposed. Meanwhile, the evidence confirming not only a deliberate policy of torture, but of conspiring in an illegal war of aggression and conducting a criminal occupation, continues to pile ever higher. Bush's own press secretary Scott McClellan has revealed in his book, What Happened, how deliberately the public was misled to foment the attack on Iraq. Philippe Sands' new book, Torture Team, has shown how the top legal and political leadership fought for a policy of torture -- circumventing and misleading top military officials to do so. Jane Mayer's The Dark Side, reveals that a secret report by the Red Cross -- given to the CIA and shared with President Bush and Condoleezza Rice -- found that U.S. interrogation methods are categorically torture and that the abuse constituted war crimes, placing the highest officials in the U.S. government in jeopardy of being prosecuted. Despite the reluctance to open what many see as a can of worms, there are fresh moves on many fronts to hold top U.S. officials accountable for war crimes. Courts: U.S. courts have issued a barrage of decisions against the Administration's claim that they can do anything and still be within the law. The Supreme Court ruled June 12 that the Administration cannot deny habeas corpus rights to Guantánamo detainees. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on June 30 overturned the Pentagon's enemy combatant designation of a Chinese Muslim held in Guantánamo for the last six years. A Maine jury in April acquitted the Bangor Six of criminal trespass charges stemming from protesters' claim that the Constitution was being violated by the Bush Administration's involvement in Iraq. Congressional investigation: Rep. John Conyers has recently brought top policy-makers, including former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff David Addington, and this week former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith and former Attorney General John Ashcroft before a House Judiciary subcommittee and grilled them on their role crafting the Administration's torture policy. Senate hearings in June revealed that treatment of Guantánamo captives was modeled on techniques allegedly used by Communist China to force false confessions from U.S. soldiers. Impeachment: Despite Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi's instruction to keep impeachment off the table, Rep. Dennis Kucinich for the first time brought an impeachment resolution to the House floor that incorporated a devastating, thirty-five article indictment spelling out Bush Administration war crimes and crimes against the Constitution. Now Rep. Conyers has announced that the Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the charges July 25. Even after the Bush Administration leaves office, the judges it appointed who appear complicit in war crimes -- notably torture policy architect Judge Jay S. Bybee -- could still be impeached. Truth commission: In response to General Taguba's accusations, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has just called for the establishment of a truth commission -- like that of post-Apartheid South Africa -- with subpoena power to investigate the abuses in the aftermath of 9/11 and lead a process of soul searching and national cleansing. International: In May, Vanity Fair magazine published an article by British human rights attorney Philippe Sands,
[LAAMN] The Abu Ghraib Prison: A Gift of the Sons of the Devil (Pakistan Daily) CAUTION: graphic
The Abu Ghraib Prison A Gift From the Sons of The Devil and Raping Iraqi's
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 00:00 www.daily.pk
As a former Special Operations commander from the sixties and having been
substantially involved with the training of US Army combat troops during the
Vietnam and Berlin Crisis era I have a good feel for the nature of the
American serviceman, - or at least I THOUGHT that I did. Apparently there has
been a substantial change in the moral complexion of young men in this once
great country.
There is now a disease a malady so pervasively evil among our youth, that
it can only be described as demonic. This shameful phenomenon did NOT happen
over night but was the result of decades of moral rot in our schools homes and
everyday lives. I was once proud to be called an American and would have laid
down my life to preserve those freedoms and ideals which were the wellspring of
American tradition in the very best spirit of the memories of our Founding
Fathers and their Christian based foundations for this brave new world in which
I was raised.
All that has changed and we are now nothing more than a zoo of wild soulless
mindless compassionless materialistic ignorant animals. We have evolved into a
race of sadistic monsters capable of any crime and any horror in our new
improved world of Zionist incited relative morality Godless to THE EXTREME!
I remember the occurrence of mindless brutality in Mei Lai Vietnam and how
America recoiled in horror at the savagery unleashed by Lt. Calley against
helpless civilians. Even though we were in a war situation with a REAL ENEMY
as ANY COMMUNIST ANYWHERE is we as American people still had the humanity and
wisdom to separate deceptive political lexicon such as casualties of war and
collateral damage from genuine war crimes. Collateral damage was the
favorite mantra of the Zionist high priestess of sadism and disgusting little
dwarf troll Madeline Albright, as she, in typical cruel Zionist fashion -
trivialized the murder of countless innocent gentile children as meaningless.
We did the right thing and I was proud that we did NOT hide behind that sick
demented my country right or wrong mentality.
NONE of the Arab world have ever been our enemies UNTIL Zionists created
enemies out of them by supporting WAR against ALL ARAB PEOPLE murdering their
families and children and destroying their homes and dreams. THAT is why you
see no demonstration nor hear no dissident voice from ANY high profile Zionist
against the horrible war crimes we are committing DAILY ALL FOR THE ZIONIST!
OF COURSE THEY NOW HATE US. We join the ZionistS in killing their sons and
daughters. If I were an Arab father and watched MY beloved children ripped
apart by US weapons and US soldiers 24-7 for more years that the ENTIRE SECOND
WORLD WAR I would do everything in my power to avenge my family. And unless
the man reading this blog is a spineless worm you would feel the same way!
We are WRONG! WE have done MONSTROUS EVIL to innocent people and one way or
another WE WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR WHAT WE HAVE DONE.
Any goodness that we had has been lost to the shrill madness that has
exemplified the endless war crimes committed AND UNHEEDED by our now criminal
government. What follows is but the tip of the iceberg of demonic madness in a
military with a criminal mentality as evil as any in history. Read and learn
then to see how low we have sunk as a nation of rapists killers and sadistic
criminals! Some four decades ago - over a hundred innocent civilians were
murdered at Mei Lai and yet it troubled the collective conscience of an
entire nation. As of July 2008 our young killers have MURDERED over ONE
MILLION innocent helpless unarmed civilians MOSTLY CHILDREN and it is
discussed NOWHERE TODAY! Our EVIL AXIS of the US BRITIAN and ISRAHELL have
created Over FIVE MILLION refugees. What happens when those whove grown up on
Hollywood grown up on Hollywood?
War movies and graphic video games are sent to the frontline?
Its the ultimate rush youre going into the fight with a good song
playing in the background, states one soldier. This is a war fought by the
first playstation generation. As Rolling Stones journalist Evan Wright explains:
One thing about them is they kill {CORRECTION PLEASE: MURDER!} very well in
Iraq.
The Zionization/destruction of the American conscience has now been complete!
The Godless ruling elite in IsraHELL have finally achieved the total moral
destruction of the American people through the destruction of our TRUE
Christian heritage. NOW look at the TRUE FACE of what the American people
have become with a little help from the Zionist parasites that occupy America
today.
Remember these horrors happen EVRY DAY in Iraq and Palestine. The only real
difference in the crimes is that in Iraq we commit war crimes for the Zionist
against his enemies and in
[LAAMN] 2008-09-06: Communitas Awards
[via http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2008/07/july-8-2008-through-may-2009-key-events.html:] [...] Sat, Sep 6: 6 pm 10th Annual COMMUNITAS AWARDS dinner program; honorees include folksinger-songwriter / songfighter ROSS ALTMAN, plus Bruria and David Finkel, and Herley Jim Bowling, at the Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St, in the Ocean Park district of Santa Monica. To receive an invitation, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communitas recognizes community building by activists from the Los Angeles area. ROSS ALTMAN has performed live on radio's Tied to the Tracks. In the best tradition of folk music activism, he comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable, whether singing at schools, union halls, folk festivals, libraries, senior homes, or folk societies, Ross brings his courage, intellect and warmth to every event. He has been the church's folksinger since he was first asked to lead a Labor Day Sunday filled with labor movement songs. This annual event has continued for nearly 30 years and is a highlight for the church and neighborhood. The evening begins with a buffet dinner at 6 pm, followed by the program at 7:30 pm. Program includes commendations to the honorees and musical pieces chosen especially for them, along with a silent auction and raffle (raffle tix $5 ea). Ads available in event program from Dona Dirlam, event co-chair, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 310-392-4773. Dinner/program tix $60 per person, $25 low income. [...] [additional via USPS mailing:] Church in Ocean Park's 10th Annual Communitas Awards You are invited to join us this night in affirmation of the power of community ti stand against injustice and bring peace to the world through daily actions. We honor these outstanding individuals who embody and elevate the spirit of community: Ross Altman, Herly Jim Bowling, Bruria Jim Finkel. Casual dress, sociable buffet dinner, relaxed entertainment. Saturday, September 6th, 2008. Buffet 6p, awards 730p. Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St., Santa Monica, CA 90405. Tickets: $60 per person/ $25 low-income. RSVP info: 310/399-1631, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.churchop.org. Wheelchair accessible; please let us know in advance if you would like to pre-arrange an access plan. Limited parking in the Church lot; free parking on 4th St. and to east; metered parking in lots 1/4 block west of Main St. from $0.75/hr. to 10 hours. Event committee: Dona Dirlam, Amy Davis, Francisco Gonzalez, Anne Hawthorne, Beth Leder-Pack, Elizabeth Keller, Francine Lyness, Ben Swets, Linda Turner, Fred Whitlock, Jamie Lazow. We would like to thank the many volunteers who make our event possible. Proceeds to benefit the Church in Ocean Park's Capital Program Funds. ### --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Wounded Warriors, Empty Promises, Health Care for All,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/opinion/25fri1.html?themc=th Wounded Warriors, Empty Promises NY Times Editorial: July 25, 2008 The bad news about the Army's treatment of wounded soldiers keeps coming. The generals keep apologizing and insisting that things are getting better, but they are not. The latest low moment for Army brass came on Tuesday in Washington, where a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing to examine the sorry state of the Army Medical Action Plan. That's the plan to prevent the kind of systematic neglect and mistreatment exposed by The Washington Post last year at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. After a flurry of apologies, firings, investigations and reports, the Army resolved to streamline and improve case management for wounded soldiers. Under the plan, warrior transition units would swiftly deliver excellent care to troops so they could return to duty or be discharged into the veterans' medical system. Each soldier would be assigned a team to look over his or her care: a physician, a nurse and a squad leader. It all sounded sensible and comprehensive. It has not worked out so well. Staff members of the House subcommittee who visited numerous warrior transition units June 2007 to February found a significant gap between the Army leadership's optimistic promises and reality. Among other things, the Army failed to anticipate a flood of wounded soldiers. Some transition units have been overwhelmed and are thus severely understaffed. At Fort Hood, Tex., last month, staff members found 1,362 patients in a unit authorized for 649 - and more than 350 on a waiting list. Of the total, 311 were identified as being at high risk of drug overdose, suicide or other dangerous behavior. There were 38 nurse case managers when there should have been 74. Some soldiers have had to languish two months to a year before the Army decided what to do with them, far longer than the goal the Army set last year. Under skeptical questioning during a hearing in February, Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, the Army surgeon general, told the subcommittee that for all intents and purposes, we are entirely staffed at the point we need to be staffed. He also said: The Army's unwavering commitment and a key element of our warrior ethos is that we never leave a soldier behind on the battlefield - or lost in a bureaucracy. That was thousands of wounded, neglected soldiers ago. There are now about 12,500 soldiers assigned to the warrior transition units - more than twice as many as a year ago. The number is expected to reach 20,000 by this time next year. The nation's responsibility to care for the wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan will extend for decades. After Tuesday's hearing, we are left pondering the simple questions asked at the outset by Representative Susan Davis, the California Democrat who is chairwoman of the military personnel subcommittee: Why did the Army fail to adequately staff its warrior transition units? Why did it fail to predict the surge in demand? And why did it take visits from a Congressional subcommittee to prod the Army into recognizing and promising - yet again - to fix the problem? *** - Original Message - From: Tim Carpenter for PDA Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:12 PM Subject: Lou Dobbs Attacks PDA Help Us Stand Up to Media Demagoguery. Health Cae for All Dear Friend, On CNN last night, Lou Dobbs was in the anti-immigrant zone. Nothing new about that--except this time he went after PDA. Tonight, he intoned, a political action committee called Progressive Democrats of America, PDA, is pushing a major new plank for the Democratic Party. PDA wants what it calls health care for all, including illegal aliens. One leading member of Congress has already signed on. A report from a CNN correspondent was briefly matter-of-fact: Progressive Democrats of America wants to end the Iraq war and plow the war funding into setting up a system of universal health care. And I got a few seconds on camera, explaining: We believe in health care for all Our goal fundamentally is to make sure that all of us have health care, all of us within the U.S. borders have health care. That concept made host Lou Dobbs nearly apoplectic, as he soon let viewers know. I mean this is utterly and completely outrageous, he said. The idea that illegal aliens should have health care as a human right made Dobbs go ballistic. I'll just speak for myself, he said, I mean, it is unbelievable that any elected representative of the people would provide that level of benefit to citizens--to people who are not even citizens of this country. What set off Dobbs' eruption? Apparently it was his correspondent reporting that PDA is urging the Democratic Party to adopt a plank at the party's convention in Denver, guaranteeing accessible health care for all. You can help us push back against Dobbs and other media demagogues. Within a day, you'll be receiving a follow-up email from Norman
[LAAMN] Black August 2008 (another CORRECTION)
I've added the number for the Oakland trip (via the event's info person): 310-925-4305. I've also reformatted the release just a bit. To: laamn@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: thandisizwe chimurenga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:14:47 -0700 Subject: [LAAMN] CORRECTION: Re: Black August 2008 CORRECTED COPY ... AUGUST 17TH @ 12 NOON INADVERTENTLY LEFT OUT ... *Black August ***Los Angeles*** *Black August 2008 Calendar of Events* *Aug 1st, **Sunrise**:* Opening Ceremony Dockweiler Beach, Playa Del Rey *Aug 1st, 7p:* Opening Program, So Calif Library 6120 S. Vermont near Gage *Every Saturday in August, 7p:* Resistance Films at the AFIBA Center 213-321-0575 *Aug 2nd, 2p:* Free The San Francisco 8, Committee to Defend Human Rights (CDHR) at the AFIBA Center 5730 S. Crenshaw Blvd. *Aug 7th, 7p:* Elder Freeman of the Black Panther Party speaks on Jonathan Jackson, Black Guerrilla, AFIBA Center *Aug 9th, 2p:* Pan Afrikan Women's Day, 50 Years Later: What Role of the African Woman?! African Women's Group, at KRST Unity Center, 7825 S. Western 562-595-1192 *Aug 10th, **Noon**:* Capoeira: Art of Resistance Capoeira Angola Center of Los Angeles, in Leimert Park, Crenshaw and Vernon, 310-989-1269 *Aug 14th, 6:30p:* Panel on Black Political Prisoners KRST Unity Center 714-612-0366 *Aug 16th, 10a:* Marcus Garvey Parade Festival Crenshaw Adams to Leimert Park, festival begins at noon in Leimert Park, sponsor: UNIA, 323-735-9642 *August 17th, **Sunrise**:* Marcus Garvey Birthday Celebration in Leimert Park, UNIA 323-735-9642 *August 17th, Noon: *Community Forum: Criminalization of Afrikan Youth, at the AFIBA Center *August 21st, 7p:* Human Rights Advocacy, Discussion on George Jackson, at the AFIBA Center, 310-989-1269 *August 23rd: **Oakland**, **CA* Travel to the Bay Area is encouraged to attend the Black August Celebration with the Original Black August Organizing Committee [info: 310-925-4305] *Every Saturday in August, 7p:* Resistance Films at the AFIBA Center 213-321-0575 *August 31st, Closing Program:* Location To Be Determined 213-321-0575 *Black August Los Angeles* *| myspace.com/lablackaugust [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * *213 321 - 0575* [*** Note: At the time of this posting, the graphic calendar at the myspace site was for the 2007 events. I've spoken to a person at the info number (213-321-0575) to confirm that the info in this email is correct for the 2008 events.] ### --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] EMERGENCY DEMO to support Puerto Rican grand jury resisters Mon July 28 at 1 PM
The Puerto Rican Alliance has called an emergency demonstration at the Rpybal federal building, 255 E Temple (the fed court and jail behind the downtown fed bldg) for Monday July 28 at 1 PM to support the resistance to a new set of subpoenas issued in New York to Puerto Ricans by a grand jury investigating the independence movement. (PS don't forget that morning people are urged to come to court to support the Black Riders 3 at 9 AM in LA Crim Courts, 210 W temple at 9 AM, Div 131 on the 15th floor.) --Michael --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
