[LAAMN] If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front http://www.laemmle.com/viewmovie.php?mid=7825 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Fw: [JVP-Chgo-Appeals] Petition: Support Dr. Terri Ginsberg's academic freedom case!
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel www.usacbi.org + usacbi@usacbi .org + Facebook + Twitter @us acbi Sign Petition: Support Dr. Terri Ginsberg's academic freedom case! The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is a co-sponsor of the following important petition in support of Terri Ginsberg, a professor involved in in important battle for academic freedom, challenging North Carolina State University. Click here to sign the petition. (http://www. gopetition.com/petitions/open- letter-to-nc-supreme-court- ginsberg-vs-ncsu.html) The following Open Letterwill be sent with signatures to the Supreme Court of North Carolina and to North Carolina State University (NCSU) Chancellor Randy Woodson. Sponsored by: British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) Center for Constitutional Rights Jewish Voice for Peace-Westchester WESPAC Foundation Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism (CODZ) Petition (http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/open-letter-to-nc-supreme-court-ginsberg-vs-ncsu.html) Summary At North Carolina State University, shortly after Dr. Terri Ginsberg made supportive political comments at a screening of a Palestinian film in 2007, she went from being the favored candidate for a tenure-track position to being denied even an interview. Her efforts at redress were summarily rejected by NCSU and two courts.A jury should be permitted to decide whether NCSU's real reason for firing Dr. Ginsberg was its hostility to her political views, but this legal right has been denied. We urge the Supreme Court of North Carolina to review Dr. Ginsberg's case and to reverse the lower courts' decisions to dismiss it. On this basis, the Court would help set a precedent upon which contingent faculty at NCSU and elsewhere may exercise their right to academic free speech on the topic of Palestine/Israel. Grievance Petition rejected In March 2008, Dr. Terri Ginsberg filed a Grievance Petition with the NCSU Faculty Senate for violations of First Amendment rights and other rights guaranteed under the University Code that were perpetrated by senior, administrative colleagues during her employment there as a one-year, non-tenure-track Assistant Professor with possibility of renewal. These violations constituted concerted attacks on Dr. Ginsberg's academic speech supporting Palestinian rights and legitimacy and criticizing U.S. and Israeli policy in the Middle East, and they culminated in her non-reappointment to her position at NSCU. Despite strong, legally grounded recommendations on the part of James Martin, NCSU Faculty Chair, that Dr. Ginsberg's case should have been given a fair hearing on campus, NCSU Chancellor James L. Oblinger chose in June 2008 to dismiss her Grievance upon the basis of an Appeal he was sent by the Grievance Petition's named respondents which argued, erroneously, that the Petition was filed too late, and that, moreover, as contingent faculty, Dr. Ginsberg had no right to grieve under the University Code. Subsequently both the University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Trustees and, later, a local North Carolina circuit court upheld Oblinger's decision. North Carolina Superior Court: dismissal of case In October of 2009, Dr. Ginsberg filed a lawsuit in the North Carolina Superior Court against the UNC Board of Governors alleging First Amendment speech and right to conscience violations. A week of depositions followed, during which NCSU admitted that it suppressed her speech critical of Zionism and supportive of the Palestine liberation struggle while she was under its employ as a visiting professor, and that it chose not to interview or hire her for a tenure-track position because of her scholarship focusing on Palestine/Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish. For example, NCSU’s witnesses, including Marsha Orgeron, the director of the Film Studies Program and chair of the Film Studies faculty search committee, and Akram Khater, the director of the Middle East Studies Program, admitted to having reacted negatively to Dr. Ginsberg's supportive statements at a screening of a Palestinian film, Ticket to Jerusalem (dir. Rashid Masharawi), during which she thanked the audience for attending and thereby supporting the airing of Palestinian liberation perspectives such as the views displayed in the film. Orgeron and Khater stated that Dr. Ginsberg's comments caused them to worry that members of the audience would perceive the Film Studies and Middle East Studies programs as biased. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Ginsberg was forced to resign from the Middle East screening series that she had helped curate; she also went from being the favored candidate for a tenure-track position to being denied so much as an interview. Palestinian films were not purchased for her Spring 2008 course on Israeli–Palestinian conflict cinema,
[LAAMN] FW: Paul Krugman: Romney Isn't Concerned, Robert Scheer: The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It
_ From: Ed Pearl [mailto:epear...@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 1:29 AM To: Ed Pearl Subject: Paul Krugman: Romney Isn't Concerned, Robert Scheer: The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It Here's a double whammy from two of the best analysts and writers on the economy, predators and liars. Unfortunately, neither has been asked to serve, even advise in government, precisely because of their moral characters, skills, whom and what they judge. Alas. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/opinion/krugman-romney-isnt-concerned.html ?nl=todaysheadlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/opinion/krugman-romney-isnt-concerned.htm l?nl=todaysheadlinesemc=tha212 emc=tha212 Romney Isn't Concerned By Paul Krugman NY Times: February 3, 2012 If you're an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for you: He doesn't feel your pain. Earlier this week, Mr. Romney told a startled CNN interviewer, I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. Faced with criticism, the candidate has claimed that he didn't mean what he seemed to mean, and that his words were taken out of context. But he quite clearly did mean what he said. And the more context you give to his statement, the worse it gets. First of all, just a few days ago, Mr. Romney was denying that the very programs he now says take care of the poor actually provide any significant help. On Jan. 22, he asserted that safety-net programs - yes, he specifically used that term - have massive overhead, and that because of the cost of a huge bureaucracy very little of the money that's actually needed by those that really need help, those that can't care for themselves, actually reaches them. This claim, like much of what Mr. Romney says, was completely false: U.S. poverty programs have nothing like as much bureaucracy and overhead as, say, private health insurance companies. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has documented, between 90 percent and 99 percent of the dollars allocated to safety-net programs do, in fact, reach the beneficiaries. But the dishonesty of his initial claim aside, how could a candidate declare that safety-net programs do no good and declare only 10 days later that those programs take such good care of the poor that he feels no concern for their welfare? Also, given this whopper about how safety-net programs actually work, how credible was Mr. Romney's assertion, after expressing his lack of concern about the poor, that if the safety net needs a repair, I'll fix it? Now, the truth is that the safety net does need repair. It provides a lot of help to the poor, but not enough. Medicaid, for example, provides essential health care to millions of unlucky citizens, children especially, but many people still fall through the cracks: among Americans with annual incomes under $25,000, more than a quarter - 28.7 percent - don't have any kind of health insurance. And, no, they can't make up for that lack of coverage by going to emergency rooms. Similarly, food aid programs help a lot, but one in six Americans living below the poverty line suffers from low food security. This is officially defined as involving situations in which food intake was reduced at times during the year because [households] had insufficient money or other resources for food - in other words, hunger. So we do need to strengthen our safety net. Mr. Romney, however, wants to make the safety net weaker instead. Specifically, the candidate has endorsed Representative Paul Ryan's plan for drastic cuts in federal spending - with almost two-thirds of the proposed spending cuts coming at the expense of low-income Americans. To the extent that Mr. Romney has differentiated his position from the Ryan plan, it is in the direction of even harsher cuts for the poor; his Medicaid proposal appears to involve a 40 percent reduction in financing compared with current law. So Mr. Romney's position seems to be that we need not worry about the poor thanks to programs that he insists, falsely, don't actually help the needy, and which he intends, in any case, to destroy. Still, I believe Mr. Romney when he says he isn't concerned about the poor. What I don't believe is his assertion that he's equally unconcerned about the rich, who are doing fine. After all, if that's what he really feels, why does he propose showering them with money? And we're talking about a lot of money. According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Mr. Romney's tax plan would actually raise taxes on many lower-income Americans, while sharply cutting taxes at the top end. More than 80 percent of the tax cuts would go to people making more than $200,000 a year, almost half to those making more than $1 million a year, with the average member of the million-plus club getting a $145,000 tax break. And these big tax breaks would create a big budget hole, increasing the deficit by $180 billion a year - and making those
[LAAMN] NO WAR AGAINST IRAN! ~ Two Protests Happening This Saturday, February 4th ~ 12:00 Noon at Wilshire Western Metro Stop ~ And 2:00 PM at Westwood Federal Building ~ Who Is the Real Threat to P
NO WAR AGAINST IRAN! NO SANCTIONS - NO ASSASSINATIONS - NO INTERVENTION Two Protests Happening This Saturday, February 4th First Protest: 12:00 Noon at Wilshire Western Metro Stop in Los Angeles For Information Contact ANSWER Coalition: 213-251-1025 or: mailto:answe...@answerla.org answe...@answerla.org Second Protest: 2:00 PM at Westwood Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd. (Corner of Wilshire Veteran) For Information Contact IAC: 323-306-6240 or: iacente...@peoplesmail.net LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! NO WAR ON IRAN! Who Is the Real Threat to Peace? Fact: Iran does not possess a nuclear weapon. Fact: Iran has the right, according to international law, to develop nuclear energy for civilian use. Fact: Irans nuclear energy program is regularly monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Fact: Iran has never started a war. Fact: The United States possesses 10,600 nuclear warheads in its stockpile, 7,982 of which are deployed and 2,700 of which are in a contingency stockpile. The total number of nuclear warheads that have been built from 1951 to present is 67,500. Fact: The United States is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons. It did so when it incinerated hundreds of thousands of Japanese people living in the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Neither city had any military significance. Fact: The United States has spent $7 trillion on nuclear weapons. The U.S. military budget for 2012 alone is about equal to Irans entire Gross National Product. Fact: Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid (about $3 billion in 2011), unlike Iran, possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons. Fact: Israel, unlike Iran, refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into Israel to monitor its nuclear program. Fact: There is active discussion in the Israeli media about whether Israel will carry out military strikes against Irans nuclear energy facilities. Israel bombed similar nuclear civilian energy facilities in Iraq in 1981 (Operation Babylon) and in Syria in 2007 (Operation Orchard). Fact: The United States and Britain used severe economic sanctions and CIA covert operatives to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran led by Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. The Iranian government under Mosaddegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), which became known as British Petroleum (BP), in a campaign to use oil profits to eradicate widespread poverty within Iran. The successful CIA and British Intelligence coup détat put the Shah of Iran (King) back in power. The Shahs dictatorship denationalized Iranian oil and returned it to the ownership of British and U.S. oil companies. The Shah executed and tortured thousands during his 26-year bloody reign, which ended in the 1979 revolution that created the Islamic Republic of Iran. Fact: The United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran and has pursued a policy of economic sanctions against the country since the overthrow of the U.S.-backed Shah (King). Fact: Irans oil reserves are the fourth largest in the worldit has 12.7 percent of the worlds known oil reserves. That makes Irans oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, greater than those of Iraq. Fact: The new economic sanctions against Iran include a ban on the import, sale and trade of Iranian oil, which constitutes half of Irans Gross National Product. It forbids any company in the world that does any business with Iran or its Central Bank from having any trade or economic transaction with a U.S. bank or corporation. Fact: The economic sanctions are an effort to create economic suffering in Iran and to deprive the country of the goods and services to sustain life. According to international law, these economic sanctions constitute a blockade or an act of war against Iran even though Iran poses no threat to the people of the United States or Europe. WESTWOOD ACTION ENDORSED/INITIATED BY: * UNION OF PROGRESSIVE IRANIANS * INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER * CISPES * LATINO CAUCUS OF SEIU 721 * BAYAN-USA * ALBA U.S.A * FSLN (SANDINISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) * SOLIDARITY WITH IRAN (SI) * PUERTO RICAN ALLIANCE * BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE MOVEMENT * SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION COALITION * REVEREND DR. LEWIS E LOGAN II * OCCUPY4JOBS * WORKERS WORLD PARTY · The ANSWER Coalition is calling on everyone to join a demonstration or to organize one on the National Day of Action on Saturday, Feb. 4, to demand: No War on Iran, No Sanctions, No Intervention, No Assassinations. In Los Angeles, there will be a protest on Saturday, Feb. 4, 12 noon at the corner of Wilshire Western, near the Metro Stop (3790 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90010). · The U.S.-led campaign to bring about regime change is escalating. Just today, the European Union announced a complete
[LAAMN] Fwd: Protest: ELA Police Checkpoint Friday, Feb. 3: 7:00 pm Stop Car Impounds in ELA; Whittier and Hoefner Ave.
We invite you to join us this Friday night in ELA to protest the car confiscations that take place at these police checkpoints. They target unlicensed drivers which is our gente, Mexican/Chicano, Centro Americano and immigrants! City of Commerce, LA County and Official Police Garages make millions by taking our cars, lets day NO! Yes, lets do the ELA one, its in a major shopping district area with major car and pedestrian traffic. With lot of light and shops, restaurants etc, very high visibility for us on corners etc. can NLG send a rep? We have successfully pressured the LAPD to change their procedure in the City of LA, now lets do it in ELA with the CHP and the Sheriffs! Meet at 7 pm at the corners of Whittier Blvd. and Hoefner Avenue, 6 blocks East of Atlantic and Whittier Blvd. one of old cruising areas!. Look for us with the signs that will say cuidado reten police check point! Legalizacion Para Todos, Ahora Ya!Bring your signs and bull horns. Carlos Montes cell: 213-712-0370 www.stopfbila.net www.immigrationcoalition.org www.csosite.org www.fightbacknews.org Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right. Henry Ford. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/02/police-to-heighten-dui-patrols-during-superbowl-weekend/ On Friday at 7:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers will begin a six-hour sobriety/driver’s license checkpoint at Whittier Boulevard near Hoefner Avenue in East Los Angeles.– Meet at 7 pm at the corners of Whittier Blvd. and Hoefner Avenue, 6 blocks East of Atlantic and Whittier Blvd. one of old cruising areas!. Look for us with the signs that will say cuidado reten police check point! Legalizacion Para Todos, Ahora Ya!Bring your signs and bull horns. Carlos Montes cell: 213-712-0370 www.stopfbila.net www.immigrationcoalition.org www.csosite.org www.fightbacknews.org Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right. Henry Ford. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/02/police-to-heighten-dui-patrols-during-superbowl-weekend/ On Friday at 7:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers will begin a six-hour sobriety/driver’s license checkpoint at Whittier Boulevard near Hoefner Avenue in East Los Angeles.– [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Susan G. Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Decision
Well, lookie here. The middle class has just learned something from the Tea Party and Occupied; Public Pressure can work. Halleluaih. Please support Readers Supported News. They're in their own very necessary fund drive and have provided much materials for my pass-ons. I'm a staff of one and don't need or ask for anything. They're a real, very small outfit with a big job, very well done. Ed From: ReaderSupportedNews [mailto:re...@inbound.readersupportednews.org] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 12:46 PM To: epear...@earthlink.net Subject: BREAKING: Susan G. Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Decision RSN Godot Logo http://readersupportednews.org/em/rsn.godot.logo.200px.gif Reader Supported News | 03 February 12 It's Live on the HomePage Now: http://lists.readersupportednews.org/ss/link.php?M=49985N=2158C=3bac3d605 3ff2785137f023054505d7bL=2 Reader Supported News *OK Guys This Is the Point Where We Pay the Bills: It's not magic and it's not voodoo, it's funding. Simple concept. If you are not an active donor jump in here. Let's keep RSN doing what RSN does. Nuff said. Thank you! -- ma/RSN* http://lists.readersupportednews.org/ss/link.php?M=49985N=2158C=3bac3d605 3ff2785137f023054505d7bL=11 Okay, I'll make a donation. _ - Susan G. Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Decision By Associated Press 03 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-S.jpg usan G. Komen for the Cure reversed its decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood. In a statement on the foundation's website, the breast cancer charity apologized for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not. In ending funding to Planned Parenthood, Komen incurred heated criticism from some members of Congress, numerous liberal advocacy groups and some newspaper editorial writers. But it was applauded by many conservative religious and anti-abortion groups that abhor Planned Parenthood for its role as the leading U.S. abortion provider. Planned Parenthood said the funding cutoff was a result of Komen succumbing to pressure from anti-abortion activists. Komen, in a statement issued Wednesday evening, denied that politics played a role and reiterated that its decision was based on newly adopted criteria for issuing grants. The criteria - now being amended - barred grants to any organization that's under local, state or federal investigation. Planned Parenthood is being investigated for alleged financial improprieties by a Republican congressman acting with the encouragement of anti-abortion groups. In its statement Friday, the foundation said it was not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation and will now amend that criteria so that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] New York Times Special: Outcry Grows Fiercer After Funding Cut by Cancer Group
This is in response to the mealey-mouthed, slanted article in this morning's LATEXTRA .What's not mentioned below is the the prosecutor for the Republican congressional 'investigation' is a notorious attack dog chosen as was Roy Cohn in McCarthy days. Clearly, Komen was provided an excuse to escape some heat, while advancing the agenda of destroying Planned Parenthood. -ed . http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/us/komen-foundation-urged-to-restore-plann ed-parenthood-funds.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/us/komen-foundation-urged-to-restore-plan ned-parenthood-funds.html?_r=1nl=todaysheadlinesemc=tha2 nl=todaysheadlinesemc=tha2 Outcry Grows Fiercer After Funding Cut by Cancer Group By http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/jennifer_prest on/index.html?inline=nyt-per Jennifer Preston and http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/gardiner_harri s/index.html?inline=nyt-per Gardner Harris NY Times: February 3, 2012 The nation's leading breast http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/breast-cancer/overview.html ?inline=nyt-classifier cancer advocacy organization confronted the growing furor Thursday over its decision to largely end its decades-long partnership with Planned http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/planned _parenthood_federation_of_america/index.html?inline=nyt-org Parenthood, with rising dissension in its own ranks and a roiling anger on the Internet showing the power of social media to harness protest. All seven California affiliates of the organization, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, released http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/seven-california-komen- affiliates-oppose-defunding-planned-parenthood/2012/02/02/gIQAncMJlQ_blog.ht ml a statement saying they opposed its decision. Twenty-six senators urged the foundation to reconsider its decision. And a http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/bloomberg-to-give-25-to-pl anned-parenthood/ pledge of $250,000 from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York helped Planned Parenthood, which provides family planning and abortion http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/surgery/abortion/overview.html?inli ne=nyt-classifier services in hundreds of clinics across the country, to more than make up the money it lost. Politics have no place in health care, Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement, an echo of the complaints voiced by many women elsewhere. Breast http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/breast-cancer/overview.html ?inline=nyt-classifier cancer screening saves lives, and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. The deluge of criticism Komen faced on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23komen , Facebook https://www.facebook.com/susangkomenforthecure and Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/susan+g+komen came two weeks after online protests led Congress to suspend an effort to pass anti-piracy legislation that some in the Internet community saw as a threat to online freedoms. It demonstrated again how social media can change the national conversation with head-snapping speed. The furious debate is also a sign of the intense polarization of the nation's politics in a campaign season during which Planned Parenthood, led by Cecile Richards, has become a lightning rod for attacks from Republican presidential candidates. Komen's founder and chief executive, Nancy G. Brinker, held a news conference Thursday and insisted that the organization's decision had nothing to do with abortion or politics. Rather, she said, it resulted from improved grant-making procedures and was not intended to make a target of Planned Parenthood. We think this is the right thing to do from a stewardships standpoint, Ms. Brinker said. Her comments directly contradicted those of John D. Raffaelli, a Komen board member and Washington lobbyist, who told The New York Times on Wednesday that Komen made the changes to its grant-making process specifically to end its relationship with Planned Parenthood. Mr. Raffaelli said that Komen had become increasingly worried that an investigation of Planned Parenthood by Representative Cliff Stearns, Republican of Florida, would damage Komen's credibility with donors. Komen gave Planned Parenthood $700,000 last year - a tiny portion of its $93 million in grants - to finance 19 separate programs. A growing number of religious organizations had become concerned that donations to Komen would benefit Planned Parenthood and had advised members not to give to Komen. Rather than risk offending some donors with a relatively small portfolio of grants, Komen decided to largely cut off Planned Parenthood, Mr. Raffaelli said. To Planned Parenthood, that decision amounted to a betrayal of the organizations' shared goal of saving lives through breast screening programs. Ms. Richards, Planned Parenthood's president, said her organization was gratified by the support the
[LAAMN] Fw: Sign the Don’t Bomb Iran Petition Today
Please join me in signing this petition to our government officials. If the link below doesn't work, you can sign the petition by going to http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-bomb-iran Hajja Romi/Blue P.S. And please forward it to everyone you know. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Action Alert 1902 18th St NW • Washington, DC 20009 | (800) 368-5788 • Fax: (202) 265-4574 ACTION ALERT February 3, 2012 Contact: news_edi...@wrmea.com Sign the Don't Bomb Iran Petition Today! Starting February 4, Americans are holding mass actions to stop an attack on Iran. Visit http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-bomb-iran to sign our petition (text below). Tell lawmakers you don’t want either Israel or the United States to bomb Iran. Pass the petition along to your friends and associates. Dear Congressional and Presidential Candidates, including President Barack Obama: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes that Israel will strike Iran this spring—before Iran even begins building a nuclear bomb. Both he and President Barack Obama are said to have warned the Israelis that the United States opposes an attack, which would derail the international economic sanctions program and other non-military efforts to stop Iran from building the bomb. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak guesses if Tehran retaliates, Israel would suffer fewer than 500 civilian fatalities. He does not even consider the thousands of Iranian civilians who could be killed or wounded by Israeli preemptive airstrikes. Iranian leaders have consistently said their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. An unprovoked Israeli air strike—illegal under international law—would strengthen Iran’s leaders, promote domestic solidarity and gain sympathy and support from Iran’s neighbors. Iran could retaliate by targeting American ships and troops in the region and closing the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices would soar, devastating the fragile global economy. The White House hasn’t yet decided how the United States would respond if the Israelis attack. If Israel acts on its own, the United States should cut $3 billion in military aid it gives to Israel each year. We cannot afford a new war in this volatile region. I will not give my vote in November to anyone who supports bombing Iran. ### The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, PO Box 53062, Washington DC 20009. Phone: (202) 939-6050, Fax: (202) 265-4574, Toll Free: (800) 368-5788, www.wrmea.com Published by the American Educational Trust, a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, DC to provide the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states. Material from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs may be printed with out charge with attribution to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Marcy Winograd is Now a Member of the California Green Party ! Read Her Excellent Post Below.
Formerly with Progressive Democrats of America, Marcy Winograd joined the California Green Party to work on implementing progressive policies in the cities. She serves on the board of the Ocean Park Association, a neighborhood council in Santa Monica, and is active on the Human Rights Committee of United Teachers of Los Angeles. A high school English teacher, Marcy helped organize Occupy LAUSD to protest education budget cuts. In 2010, Marcy mobilized 41% of the Democratic Party primary vote in her peace challenge to incumbent Blue Dog Congresswoman Jane Harman. Advocating a Blue-Green coalition to elect Greens for every non-partisan office, Marcy serves on the California Green Party's media committee and often guest-hosts for Lila Garrett on radio station KPFK's (90.7 FM/LA) Connect the Dots. Building a Blue-Green Coalition in California Posted January 30th, 2012 By Marcy Winograd - winogradte...@gmail.com Former Democratic Candidate for Congress After the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, with its codification of imprisonment without charge or trial, I could no longer register voters for the Democratic Party even with the hope of involving new registrants in the California Democratic Party’s popular Progressive Caucus. If I could not ask someone to join the Democratic Party, I could not in good conscience stay in the party, even as an insurgent writing resolutions and platform planks to end our wars for oil. Unfortunately, too many corporate Democrats, beholden to big-money donors or to a jobs sector dependent on militarism, vote for perpetual war and the surveillance state, replete with secret wiretaps, black hole prisons, and targeted assassinations. Far too many who are fearful or bought by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee vote for legislation that relegates Palestinians to second-class citizenship and threatens to take our country to the brink of an unthinkable war on Iran. President Obama, despite his eloquence and initial popularity, has continued, and in some cases, expanded Republican Party policies under George Bush by escalating drone attacks on Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia; hiring deregulators from predatory banks to craft economic policy; repeatedly putting Social Security cuts on the table; lifting a 20-year moratorium on new nuclear power plants; signing NDAA legislation that eviscerates due process; increasing U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) raids and arrests of undocumented workers. As the US empire crashes on the shores of rapacious greed, as power shifts from the federal to the local level, the Green Party can play a crucial role in creating and promoting local economies, worker or consumer-owned cooperatives, model municipal policy and participatory democracy. The time is ripe for municipal federalism with its emphasis on cities sharing expertise, policies, and strategies for community building in a sustainable world. I want to be part of that movement to create a post-empire future that rejects perpetual war, addictive consumerism and vulture capitalism to embrace a life-affirming vision of sustainability with measurable goals for energy, water and food independence.As more people struggle financially and the cost of energy and optional travel increases, Americans will stay closer to home to invest and recreate more intensely in their communities and neighborhoods. Our challenge in the age of withering empire is to set a new economic course that helps us invest our resources in ourselves, rather than multinational companies that extract our wealth and labor for the 1%. While running Greens for federal office may help to register new Greens, to attract young people to the Party, the Greens’ resources economic and grassroots are best used at the local level where the Party has experienced the most success in the United States. In 2011, 8 out of 12 California Green Party members running for local office got elected. In Richmond, California, the working class city’s Green Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, representing more than 100,000 residents, took on Chevron, resulting in a 115-million dollar pollution settlement, enacted a waiver on residential solar power fee installation; and spearheaded one of the nation’s toughest anti-foreclosure ordinances that exacts a $1,000 a day fine on banks who fail to maintain foreclosed property. McLaughlin was one of several Green Mayors to publicly oppose the dirty tar sands project, signing on to a letter to President Obama urging him to reject, as he recently announced, the XL pipeline that would carry the dirtiest crude from Canada across the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. In the city of Fairfax in Marin County, Green Mayor Pam Hartwell-Herrero and a majority Green city council has banned intrusive Smart Meters, and authored successful ballot initiatives to ban plastic bags and the cultivation of genetically modified organisms. Fairfax
[LAAMN] Fw: Will You March Against Nuclear Madness?
Share Join List Videos Twitter Website Donate THE BEYOND NUCLEAR BULLETIN Will you March Against Nuclear Madness? People all around the country – and the world – are organizing events throughout March (and in February and April, too) to commemorate the deadly Fukushima Daiichi multiple reactor disaster in Japan. Please join an event near you or create your own and post it to our March Against Nuclear Madness Facebook page. See our current calendar of events. March Against Nuclear Madness is part of Beyond Nuclear’s nationwide Freeze our Fukushimas campaign to close down the country’s dangerous GE Mark I Boiling Water Reactors and phase out of nuclear power. Native American lands again targeted for radioactive waste dumps The final report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future advocates for revival of a Nuclear Waste Negotiator, an infamous program which Native American environmental justice champions such as Grace Thorpe, pictured) abolished 20 years ago in their successful resistance against scores of high-level radioactive waste parking lot dumps targeted at indigenous communities. More. Why Thorium is not the Answer Do you hear from (desperate) nuclear power proponents that now thorium is the magic answer? Read our new fact sheet about the Myths of Thorium, with grateful thanks to IEER/PSR and Dr. Gordon Edwards. More. Celebrate 25 years of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) invites you to join our annual DC Days advocacy event March 18th-21st. This year's theme is Nuclear BudgetAccountability Now! Disarmament and environmental activists from across the country will deliver our message to Congress and the Obama Administration - will you be among them? Thanks for taking action. And please also consider making a donationto Beyond Nucleartoday. Your support will help us build a grassroots movement to close dangerous nuclear plants and create a safe energy future for ourchildren. Thank you for working with us for a nuclear-free world. The Beyond Nuclear Team www.beyondnuclear.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
