[LAAMN] [change-links] You are invited to a Party for Change-Links, our Progressive Community Calendar ~ Sunday February 20th, 6:00 -10:30 PM at Venice United Methodist Church
Please join us for a fantastic evening supporting Change-Links Our Progressive Community Calendar John Johnson, Editor Party, Celebration Fundraiser Dinner - Drinks - Music - Dancing - Children Welcome! 6:00~10:30 PM Sunday February 20th Venice United Methodist Church 1020 Victoria Avenue (near Lincoln Venice) Entertainment by: Ross Altman ~ Sara Messenger Andy Manoff ~ Peter Dudar The Superbroke Brass Tin Strings Electric Marching Band Ensemble Endorsed by Blase Theresa Bonpane of the OOA, Don White of CISPES, Jim Lafferty of the Lawyers Guild, Veterans For Peace, Ed Asner, Mimi Kennedy, Casey Kasem, Frank Dorrel of Addicted To War, Peter Dudar Sally Marr, Code Pink, Coalition For World Peace, Action-LA, International Action Center, Films For Peace, Topanga Peace Alliance, No More Victims, Peace Freedom Party of Orange County, Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools, LA Sound Posse, Not In Our Name, Palisadians For Peace, San Gabriel Valley Neighbors for Peace Justice, Ralph Cole of Justice Vision, Women in Black, Americans for Democratic Action, Jerry Rubin, Peace Guides, Independent Media Center, Anti-Racist Action, Sunset Hall, Free Will Productions, Radical Women, ANSWER, Alliance For Democracy, LA Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba, Coalition of Peace Vigils, Freedom Socialist Party, Committee of Correspondence for Democracy Socialism, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Green Party, Global Women's Strike, Witness For Peace SW, Global Voices for Justice, SOL Foundation, and KPFK Programmers; Sonali Kolhatkar, Don Bustany, Fidel Rodriguez, Margaret Prescod, Michael Benner, Eisha Mason Michael Slate $15 Suggested Donation at the Door For more information or to RSVP call Frank Dorrel at: 310-838-8131 If you can't attend this party but would like to support Change-Links please send a check to: Change-Links P.O. Box 9682 North Hollywood, CA 91609-1682 www.change-links.org ~ 818-982-1412 Change Links Progressive Newspaper. Act. Act in Love and Spirit. -- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: * http://groups.yahoo.com/group/change-links/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/change-links/ * * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/Yahoo! Terms of Service. John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 982-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. === [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/O.5XsA/8WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- 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/ * 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] Research Interns Needed for Documentary
This political documentary, focusing on the growing gap between the rich and the poor in America, including the slow destruction of many social programs gained during the 20th Century, is now in pre-production and needs research interns to work collaboratively in preparation for production. This includes researching printed and web-based material on this subject, archival footage, still photos, etc. This is a non-profit project based in Los Angeles. There is no pay at this stage but there will be funding in the future. If interested, please contact filmmaker Joan Sekler 310 458-6566 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5F6XtA/.WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- 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/ * 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] Alternet article on Oil and Elections in Iraq
Of Oil And Elections By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. Posted January 27, 2005. If all goes according to the Bush plan, American investors and companies will soon begin to own chunks of Iraq's national oil company. Remember when we used to talk about how the war in Iraq was about oil? Remember the banners that read No blood for oil? Oil has fallen out of the discussion lately, but it's time to bring it back in light of the Iraqi elections scheduled for this Sunday. To refresh our collective memory, President Bush himself declared just before the invasion of Iraq that, Our jobs, our way of life, our own freedom and the freedom of friendly countries around the world would all suffer if control of the world's great oil reserves fell into the hands of Saddam Hussein. This was Bush Sr., speaking in August 1990, on the eve of the first Persian Gulf War. More precise are the words of Chevron CEO Kenneth T. Derr speaking in San Francisco in 1988: Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas - reserves I'd love Chevron to have access to. After two wars and one occupation, Derr may finally get his wish. On Dec. 22, 2004, Iraqi Finance Minister Abdel Mahdi told a handful of reporters and industry insiders at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that Iraq wants to issue a new oil law that would open Iraq's national oil company to private foreign investment. As Mahdi explained: So I think this is very promising to the American investors and to American enterprise, certainly to oil companies. In other words, Mahdi is proposing to privatize Iraq's oil and put it into American corporate hands. According to the finance minister, foreigners would gain access both to downstream and maybe even upstream oil investment. This means foreigners can sell Iraqi oil and own it under the ground - the very thing for which many argue the U.S. went to war in the first place. As Vice President Dick Cheney's Defense Policy Guidance report explained back in 1992, Our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the [Middle East] region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil. While few in the American media other than Emad Mckay of Inter Press Service reported on - or even attended - Mahdi's press conference, the announcement was made with U.S. Undersecretary of State Alan Larson at Mahdi's side. It was intended to send a message - but to whom? It turns out that Abdel Mahdi is running in the Jan. 30 elections on the ticket of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIR), the leading Shiite political party. While announcing the selling-off of the resource which provides 95 percent of all Iraqi revenue may not garner Mahdi many Iraqi votes, but it will unquestionably win him tremendous support from the U.S. government and U.S. corporations. Mahdi's SCIR is far and away the front-runner in the upcoming elections, particularly as it becomes increasingly less possible for Sunnis to vote because the regions where they live are spiraling into deadly chaos. If Bush were to suggest to Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi that elections should be called off, Mahdi and the SCIR's ultimate chances of victory will likely decline. Thus, one might argue that the Bush administration has made a deal with the SCIR: Iraq's oil for guaranteed political power. The Americans are able to put forward such a bargain because Bush still holds the strings in Iraq. Regardless of what happens in the elections, for at least the next year during which the newly elected National Assembly writes a constitution and Iraqis vote for a new government, the Bush administration is going to control the largest pot of money available in Iraq (the $24 billion in U.S. taxpayer money allocated for the reconstruction), the largest military and the rules governing Iraq's economy. Both the money and the rules will, in turn, be overseen by U.S.-appointed auditors and inspector generals who sit in every Iraqi ministry with five-year terms and sweeping authority over contracts and regulations. However, the one thing which the administration has not been unable to confer upon itself is guaranteed access to Iraqi oil - that is, until now. Based on all reports from both U.S. military and Iraqi officials, the elections this Sunday could be a blood bath for Iraqis and American troops alike. They are also certain to be far from representative. Democratic elections simply cannot be held under these conditions, nor conditions in which the U.S. government and its corporations exercise such dominant economic and political control. The Bush administration cannot be permitted to declare a war for Iraqi freedom and respond with an economic invasion that turns Iraq into a U.S. corporate grab bag. No blood for oil rings as true today as it did 15 years ago. Antonia Juhasz is a Foreign Policy In Focus scholar based in San Francisco and working on a book about
[LAAMN] NAOMI KLEIN IN LA ON FEBRUARY 21 - JOIN US!
Please join Robert Greenwald, Lisa Smithline Alliance for Democracy · Alternet.org · American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) California for Democracy · Coalition for World Peace (CFWP) · Code Pink · Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) · Democracy for America LA (DFA-LA) · Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) · KPFK Pacifica Radio · Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) · Nation Magazine Office of the Americas (OOA) · South Asian Network · Topanga Peace Alliance on Monday February 21, 2005 NAOMI KLEIN Author of No Logo, co-director of The Take with Avi Lewis speaking on: FREE IRAQ! From Killer Liberators and the Corporations They Serve Venice United Methodist Church 1020 Victoria Ave. (at Lincoln) Venice, California 6:00 pm - Reception/Fundraiser (Donation $100) Fund the Global Appeal to End the War in Iraq - with Naomi Klein and Tom Hayden 7:30 pm - Naomi Klein speaks (Donation $5 - nobody turned away) RSVP - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (please specify whether you will attend reception and/or program - leave name, number of guests contact information) we purposely overbook so we won't have empty seats Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/mGEjbB/5WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- 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/ * 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] AP wire report on counter-inaugurals in Europe
» Wednesday, 26 January 2005 AP Reports on Counter-Inaugurals The Associated Press reported last week on the slew of counter-inaugurals across Europe: VIENNA, Austria (AP) - In Geneva, they'll read patriotic poetry. In Vienna, they'll drown their sorrows and plot their revenge. In London, they'll stage a candlelight protest outside the U.S. Embassy. Across Europe, a land none too friendly to George W. Bush, locals and American expatriates united in their opposition to the U.S. president were marking his inauguration Thursday with some unabashed Bush-bashing. Austria chapter of Democrats Abroad, which scrapped plans for a black-tie un-augural ball because of the tsunami in southern Asia, said its members instead would gather at a traditional Vienna wine bar to scheme, plot and plan the retaking of our country. In Britain, anti-Bush demonstrators planned a candlelight protest outside the American embassy in central London, staged by the Stop the War Coalition, which organized mass rallies opposing the Iraq conflict in 2003. Rather than watch the Washington inauguration on television, the U.K. contingent of Democrats Abroad organized a talk by liberal author Ron Suskind, whose book The Price of Loyalty - an insider account of Paul O'Neill's time as U.S. treasury secretary - paints an unflattering portrait of Bush. Bush's re-election was widely seen as negative for global peace and security in 16 of 21 countries polled in a BBC World Service survey released on the eve of the inauguration. On average across all the countries, 58 per cent called his re-election a negative development; only 26 per cent described it as positive. Protesters in Germany got an early start with a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate, where they held a dozen American flags upside down to symbolize an S.O.S distress call. We're Americans who vote, and who have a voice in U.S. policy, said Elsa Rassbach of American Voices Abroad, which organized the event in the country that had overwhelmingly backed Democrat John Kerry for president. I think there's alarm here, so I think many Germans would be happy that many U.S. citizens don't agree with Bush, she said. Another group, Vote 44, which formed in Europe to promote a 44th president to replace Bush, planned a protest rally at the Brandenburg Gate for Thursday under the slogan: You've Got a Voice. We call on all people worldwide who are against the policies of the Bush government to take part in the demonstration or organize one in their own cities, the organization said in a statement. In southwestern France, Democrats Abroad screened a film called Bush's Brain and called on its supporters in Paris to dress in Kerry blue and gather at a trendy bar for a dialogue of truth about the Bush agenda and its global effect on all of us. About 200 anti-Bush activists planned to watch the inauguration on TV while hearing from Ukrainian youths who worked to elect opposition reformist Viktor Yushchenko as president. Overall, though, the emphasis was on celebrating being Democrats, not 'we hate Bush,' said Sheila Sarem of Young Democrats Abroad France. Kerry supporters in Prague planned what they dubbed the What Might Have Been Inaugural Party, and in Geneva, they were holding a Counter-Inaugural Dinner to be kicked off with a reading of the Langston Hughes poem Let America Be America Again. Instead of a prayer breakfast, we are having a poetry dinner, organizer Caitlin Buchman said. January 26, 2005 in NEWS | Permalink [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Give the gift of life to a sick child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/lGEjbB/6WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- 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] ---
[LAAMN] Great Events!!
Hello there! Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to The Mint gig last week. It was a great show. I hope you can make it to the next one too! You can check out a brief interview and a glimpse of the show if you click this link: http://www.hollywoodpreviewsinc.com/glasbandlive.html Thanks and Have a great day!!! alan Be the change you would like to see in the world... - Gandhi www.glassband.com www.csun.edu/~csunupj - Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5F6XtA/.WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- 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/ * 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] Fw: looking for women's support
Hi, Does anybody have any information about resources for community support groups or shelters for pregnant and abused women? I have a friend who is looking for some help for a young woman who desperately needs support and a place to go. She is Spanish speaking and alone in Los Angeles, Thanks, Peace, Anna Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/4F6XtA/_WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- 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/ * 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/
