Re: [LAAMN] Re: [actionla] Who Would Jesus Bomb?
michael! well said! -emma Michael Novick wrote: At 09:45 AM 3/20/2005 -0800, Frank wrote: Chatting with Jesus Minister: Jesus, what do you think of the recent presidential election? Jesus: In the United States? Minister: Yes. Jesus: I don't do politics. Minister: But the President is a Christian. He has dedicated his life to serving you. Jesus: He has dedicated his life to serving himself. That is the opposite of what I teach. Minister: But he's a Christian. Jesus: He is an Old Testament Christian. The ancient Hebrew scriptures say that God is an angry God, a vengeful God, a jealous God. But he is not. Nor is he petty, nor vindictive, nor narrow minded, nor self-righteous. God was not made in our image. He is not insecure or emotionally immature. God is not like us, but in our better moments we can be like him. Frank, I appreciate the effort to challenge Bush on his Christianity and his devoutness. But I do want to take exception to a few things here (apart from the references to God as he and him, since even for believers in a god, god's masculinity should be avoided). There is no such thing as an Old Testament Christian. Christians are people who believe that Jesus brought a new gospel that superceded the Old Testament. People who believe exclusively in the Christian-denominated Old Testament do not call it that, and do not call themselves Christians. They call it the Torah, and are Jews. The ancient Hebrew scriptures sometimes refer to god as jealous and stern, and sometimes as the all-merciful, sometimes as the source of all righteousness (which is much different from 'self-righteousness'). Trying to identify anger, vengefulness, jealousy, pettiness, vindictiveness, and self-righteousness with the Old Testament god is a very wrong foot to start out on, to try to redeem Christianity from the crimes of its advocates and practitioners. The history of Christianity is replete with Christian warriors, crusades and holy wars, with emperors claiming divine right and religious and temporal authorities who practiced forced conversions and the execution of heretics and non-believers. Trying to make these crimes some kind of hangover or holdover from Judaism is shabby and irresponsible. Judaism has plenty to answer for on its own without having to be held responsible for the crimes carried out in the name of Christianity. --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 Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT click here http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=1299s7021/M=298184.6191685.7192823.3001176/D=groups/S=1705060411:HM/EXP=447665/A=2593423/R=0/SIG=11el9gslf/*http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=60190075 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] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/. [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] ---
[LAAMN] Re: [actionla] critique of 3/19
Was I supposed to be happy about that situation? At the very least, the organizers showed insensitivity. Cursing and all, that was how people felt at the time. (Not just me!) Many of them would probably not bother to submit a critique, but would simply decide not to attend any more protests. Be grateful for honesty wherever you find it. 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] --- 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] ON 03/22 IMPORTANT CAIIV MARCH 31 MOBILIZATION PLANNING MEETING
It is extremely important and necessary that all progressive and friends of Venezuela come to the next planning meeting of the COALITION AGAINST INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA (CAIIV) to help organizing a good turnout mobilization on March 31, 2005, at the Down Town Federal Building to protest the US intervention in Venezuela and to avoid at all cost situation getting worse against the well being of the Venezuelan democratic institutions including its president. CAIIV March 31 Mobilization Planning Meeting at the Echo Park United Methodist Church located at 1226 North Alvarado, 1/2 block north of Sunset Blvd. WHEN: Tuuesday, March 22, 2005 TIME: 7:00PM [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] Book Signing/Lecture on Rabble-Rouser Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair scholar and author Lauren Coodley will discuss her new book: The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California at a book signing/lecture on Saturday, March 26, 2 p.m. at Southern California Library, located at 6120 S. Vermont Avenue in L.A. Lauren Coodley, a professor of history at Napa Valley College who has spent a decade studying Upton Sinclairs life and writings, will discuss Sinclairs legacy and sign her new book, Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclairs California on Saturday, March 26, 2 p.m. at the Southern California Library. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. Admission to the event is free, but reservations are recommended. To RSVP and for more information, call 323-692-3435. Also check the web at www.socallib.org. The Library is located at 6120 S. Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles (between Slauson and Gage). Coodleys appearance at the Library is one of three stops on a brief tour of Southern California. She will also lecture and sign her book on Thursday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. at the Pasadena Museum of History (470 W. Walnut St., Pasadena, 626-577-1660, ext. 10, or at www.pasadenahistory.org) and on Friday, March 25, 7 p.m. at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro (Berth 84, foot of 6th St., 310-548-7618, www.lamaritimemuseum.org). Novelist and Muckraker Novelist and muckraker Upton Sinclair, famed for his expose of Chicagos meatpacking industry, also wrote a series of entertaining critiques of Southern Californias oil industry, movie studios, and urban sprawlmost of which still apply today. The Land of Orange Groves and Jails (published in December 2004) spans 50 years of Sinclairs funny and fiery writings. Taken together, these plays, novels, articles, and pamphlets show how Sinclairs personal life inspired his political activism. When neighbors in Long Beach struck oil, he wrote about the oil industry. His fathers addiction inspired an analysis of alcohol distributors. In 1934, he responded to the Depression by running for governor under the EPIC slogan, End poverty in California. The hard-fought campaign that followed has parallels to our current political world of vicious attack ads and allegations of voter fraud. He also was a political figure who understood popular culture better than any of his contemporaries, using movies and the power of Hollywood to give voice to his ideas. This quintessential rabble-rouser has found an advocate in Prof. Lauren Coodley. Beginning with her dissertation, Coodley has spent nearly 10 years studying Sinclairs life and writings. She organized a panel of national Sinclair scholars at UCLA and wrote the script for a film biography. More importantly, she has rethought how we view Upton Sinclair, both as a Californian and as a writer who turned his own life experiences into political pop culture. DETAILS: Saturday, March 26, 2 p.m. at the Southern California Library, 6120 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 90044 Lecture and Book Signing: Prof. Lauren Coodley discusses the life and legacy of Upton Sinclair and signs her book, Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclairs California. Admission: Free Reservations: Please call 323-692-3435 Information: www.socallib.org [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] Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank
The World Bank along with its partner in crime, the IMF are already notorious for their extortion of nations around to the world into accepting U.S. style free market policies through draconian structural adjustment and privatization policies imposed in exchange for accepting economic aid from these international loan sharks! How bad is it going to get now that known war criminal Paul Wolfowitz has been appointed to lead it? The world must respond now to pull the plug on this global loan shark! Organize your community, university, labor union to divest from World Bank bonds-the sales of which are used for this type of international extortion! See accompanying link to find out more: http://www.worldbankboycott.org/ -- ___ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Check out our value-added Premium features, such as a 1 GB mailbox for just US$9.95 per year! Powered by Outblaze 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] Black media being swallowed up by corporate conglomerates
Where's Africana? The End of Black Online Independence http://www.blackstate.com/blacksites.html Africana.com the online news and educational website aimed at people of color recently merged and was subsequently subsumed by AOL Time Warner becoming a part of AOL's Black Voices channel. Earlier this year the premiere African American magazine for black women Essence was bought out by Time Warner. These examples of two well known black publications being bought by white owned corporate conglomerates present a problem for the independence of black media. These along with the selling of BET to Viacom a few years back leaves very few places where we can control our image in the media dominated by negative images of black people. The Internet as a media should be a place where black people can control the news, the image and the perception but that is compromised when the ownership of the content changes. How radical can these publications be? Can they speak to corporate abuse and mistreatment of minorities? Can they criticize hiring patterns and speak out against employment discrimination? Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise, said that before selling to Time Warner, the owners of Essence magazine should have allowed Blacks companies to make an offer to purchase the company. Black owned corporations like Radio One could have been a great partner in the growth of Essence. But this mindset is the reason why we as a group do not succeed. We do not look to each other for growth and opportunity as other ethnic groups have in the past and present. Robert Johnson sells BET to media giant Viacom but not a possible consortium of African American business and media giants like Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, Russell Simmons and Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs. Websites that are not white owned and or owned and controlled by the giant corporate media allows alternative views to what is commonly fed and repetitively forced or brainwashed into the American psyche by other news-entertainment companies such as Viacom (CBS, MTV et al.) Disney (ABC, ESPN, et al.) AOL Time Warner (CNN et al.) GE (NBC), News Corporation (FOX, DirectTV). Thus the issue over white ownership of African American content is not a difficult one, it is about who controls the perception, who controls what African Americans look like, what type of content is fed akin to information control. Being free online is about allowing the free flow of thought unfiltered by an overseer. Africana.com was co-founded in January 1999 by Harvard University educators Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, along with Harry M. Lasker III, to enhance educational and economic opportunities for blacks in America and around the world. However now instead of exploring black academia, black thought and culture what we have now is the black version on US Weekly or Entertainment Tonight, discussions about spring wardrobe and celebrity gossip not exactly the mission of Africana. But rest assured web audience you still have a place for independent black political thought. And I don't think as Dave Chappelle says, they are going to come take me away anytime soon. 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] CORRECTION: Peace Guides is having two separate meetings this Spring - Thursday March 31 at 7 PM and Sunday April 17th at 5 PM - both at Culver-Palms Methodist Church in Culver City
Correction to last email: The first meeting is on Thursday, March 31st at 7:00 PM ~ (not on Wednesday) Peace Guides is having two separate meetings this Spring, to inform YOU about the problems that the military causes, in its efforts to increase its fighting power worldwide. Both meetings will be held at the: Culver-Palms Methodist Church - 4464 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City _ Thursday, March 31 at 7:00 PM Speakers at first meeting will be: Rick Jahnkow of YANO: Youth Non-military Opportunities COMD: Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft Blase Bonpane of the Office of the Americas Joe Maizlish of the War Resisters League Arlene Inouye Andy Griggs of CAMS: Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools Jeanny Saavedra: Student at Culver High School Sunday April 17th at 5:00 PM Main guest speaker at second meeting will be Congresswoman Diane Watson Find out what YOU can do to save lives everywhere. Topics of both meetings will highlight the DRAFT, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND, and RECRUITMENT For more information call Adele Siegel - 310/838-8513 - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Dawn Burns - 310-4391712 - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/
