[LAAMN] FWD: Stonehenge2006 The Summer Solstice Celebration
FWD: Stonehenge2006 The Summer Solstice Celebration Please repost to your contacts The odyssey continues - a unique collaborative effort between the community and English heritage brings us another precious opportunity tocelebrate together during the summer solstice at Stonehenge as somany of our ancestors have for many thousands of years. The car park opens Tuesday evening 2oth June at 8pm. The stones will open at 10pm until 9am (no entry after 6am). The car park closes at 1pm. Sunrise will occur at 04.58 on Wed 21st June 2006 There will be a special bus service from Salisbury railway station for around £7 round trip. Buses are every half hour from 20:30pm until 01:15am to Stonehenge and return every twenty minutes or sooner from 05:15am until 06:15am, then every half hour until 09:45am - Transport from the car park will be provided for disabled visitors. WARM CLOTHING and rain wear is essential, blankets are allowed in but NOT quilts and sleeping bags. No Naked flames or glass bottles are allowed inside the stones however incense sticks and small cone incense are ok Must Read information with active links, about public transport, local accommodation, campsites, conditions of entry etc can be found at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/summersolsticewww.english- heritage.org.uk/summersolstice Information Hotline on 0870 333 1186. Acoustic music is encouraged, amplified music is not allowed, so bring your drums, bells, whistles and guitars etc. There will be Recycling points and we will be given a clear rubbish bag. The contents of these clear bags will then be sorted so that as much of the rubbish can be recycled as possible, you are invited to participate in making this initiative a success Wholesome vegetarian food will be available from approved food stands. This celebration is a product of all of us, the synergy, the magic that we create when each one of us is everything that we can be. We are encouraged to use the areas around the outside of the stones for workshops, talks, chanting, games, music, theatre dance etc, Bring what you would like to see There will be The Sacred Soapbox - a spoken word area where YOU can have your say, share your poetry and songs. Also two braziers where impromptu events can take place Be colourful, dress up bring banners always be mindful of health and safety realities any questions in this area should be addressed with english heritage in advance. By embracing the optimum possibility for this Stonehenge event, we will increase the likelihood of it being successful, adding one more grain of sand to the scales that hold the balance for our global future - Remember at a critical point, one grain of sand can tip the scales one way or the other- your input right now may be that grain of sand. For more background info, history and links for The Stonehenge Solstice Celebration. Goto: http://www.infinitepossibility.org/stonehenge11 http://stonehenge.mercurymoon.co.uk/ For info about the UK summer festival season check out: http://festivaleye.com/ Your involvement in The Stonehenge Peace Process is invited contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details And join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stonehengepeace You can see the BBC documentary Stonehenge Round Table The final episode of the BAFTA award winning 2004 BBC National Trust series, a revealing glimpse behind the scenes on the relationships that plan and execute the Summer Solstice gathering @ Stonehenge (32,000 that year). @See http://www.infinitepossibility.org/stonehenge11/roundtable.html 1 hour 20 mins - its a great movie :) -- see me on sky TV The secret lives of the suburbs http://www.infinitepossibility.org/movies/skyTV_secret.wmv 10 mins my website: http://www.infinitepossibility.org There is nothing wrong with our world, we are just having a weird conversation. Reclaim the conversation Our New World Order IS Love Dedicated to the child inside each one of us, All the children and All the children to come http://www.myspace.com/viziondanz Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/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:
[LAAMN] Memorial Day Weekend at Arlington West in Santa Monica - 3 Days of Commemoration - Saturday, May 27 - Sunday, May 28 - Monday, May 29 - Hosted by Veterans For Peace
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: Tonia Young - Arlington West Press Coordinator 310-455-2688 or 310-703-3964 - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ed Ellis - Veteran for Peace - Co-director, Arlington West 818-312-2617 or 818-887-2593 Three Days of Commemoration at Arlington West: Iraq Afghanistan War Memorial Santa Monica Beach by the Pier WHAT: A Commemoration Honoring the Troops Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Memorial Day Weekend, organized by the Veterans for Peace, Los Angeles Chapter. WHEN: Memorial Day Weekend--Three Days of Commemoration--May 27-29th. Memorial will be set up at sunrise on Saturday, May 27th and remain on display until Monday evening, May 29th. WHERE: Santa Monica Beach next to the pier. WHO: Gold Star Families, who have lost loved ones in Iraq, Jane Bright and Berto Figeroa will be present along with Iraq veterans and veterans from many past U.S. wars (Gore VidalWWII Veteran, Ron KovicVietnam War Vet and Jeff KeyIraq War Vet are all invited). Local public officials, congressional representatives (Rep Maxine Waters Santa Monica City Council Member Kevin McKeown are firming up their schedules), the interfaith community (Rev Janet McKeithen) and folk singers (Dennis Davis and Michelle Shocked) are also invited to speak and/or perform informally through out the weekend. **More notables to be announced** MEMORIAL PROGRAM EVENTS: Name Readings at the top of each hour In commemoration of the fallen, names of the troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq will be read at the top of each hour, continuing throughout the three days of the memorial. Veterans, military families and the general public are invited to join in reading the names at the top of each hour. Candle light vigils Saturday Sunday night Two evenings of candle light vigils will be displayed starting at sundown on Sat, May 27th and Sun, May 28th. A tea-light candle for every 2,500 crosses will remain lit through out most of the night. The public is invited to help light the memorial candles an hour before sundown. Flag Draped Coffin Procession A flag draped coffin procession will proceed from the Santa Monica Pier at 1:00 PM on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29th. Coffin carriers will proceed north along the Ocean Ave sidewalk to Wilshire Blvd. and turn south through the Santa Monica Promenade to Broadway and return to the memorial by about 3:00 PM. The number of coffins to be carried will be determined by the total fatalities of the previous week. Santa Monica City Council member Kevin McKeown will preside over the procession. (WWII veteran Gore Vidal, Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, and Iraq veterans Jeff Key along members of the interfaith community are invited to join the commemoration--stay tuned for more details.) Commemoration at Santa Monica Veterans' Monument During the coffin procession on May 29th, the procession will pause at the Veteran's memorial on Ocean Park (at Arizona Ave.) at approx. 1:45 PM. Wreaths and photos will be placed in commemoration for all the branches the U.S. military service. Commemoration speeches will be observed. (Standby for an update on who will be speaking at the Veterans' Monument.) FREE Solar Baked Snacks Solar baked cookies and muffins will be provided FREE to the public through out the weekend (sunshine permitting) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/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] Women and Children in Iraq
Commentaries are sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org Today's commentary: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-05/24rebick.cfm == ZNet Commentary Women in Iraq May 24, 2006 By Judy Rebick Last time we were here, we were worried about the terrorists killing people, Ayas J. Majyd, General Secretary of the General Union of Students in Iraq said, explaining what life is like in Baghdad. Now it is just people killing people. He was speaking to a gathering of leaders of Iraqi social movements held every two months in Amman, Jordan. I was invited there in mid-April, at their request, to do training on what they call gender and what I call feminism. It is a mixed group of student, worker, women's and ethnic organizations that are trying against unimaginable odds to build a civil society in Iraq. In this group there are three generations, 13 women and seven men. The gathering is organized by Alternatives. Before I went, I started to feel that I was giving new meaning to the cliché fools rush in where angels fear to tread. After all, what do I know about organizing in a war zone where there is almost total lawlessness and where, as one woman said, Every day we leave our house, we don't know if we will get back home. But using the tools of feminist organizing and popular education, I figured I could share some tools and strategies and maybe be of some assistance. It seemed to me that a lot of the feminism brought to the Middle East by Western feminists through NGOs and the United Nations is about increasing women's participation in society through appointing and electing more women into public institutions. While important, this does little to immediately improve the lives of ordinary women. As we began our discussion, 27-year-old Wafaa Mohamad of the group Iraqi Rising Women, (who had just survived an attack by a taxi driver who robbed her and was certainly intending to assault her until she jumped from his slow-moving car) said, How can we talk about gender equality, when we have to rely on men to protect us. So one of the strategic questions of the day was, How can we organize without giving men all the power? But in the discussion on what the major barriers are to women's activism, the answer that came through loud and clear was tradition, by which they meant patriarchal tradition that wants to keep women in the home. As one young woman said, I feel the courage to do my work because it is so important; in my own organization I can stand up for myself but how do I stand up in my family without being a bad girl? While we are all aware of the chaos in Baghdad, we hear very little about what is happening to women there. Women in Iraq probably had more access to education and work under what they call the X regime or Saddam Hussein's regime than anywhere in the Middle East. Half of all university students were women. Three of the 13 women in the room were professional engineers. Now they are facing a terrible backslide from that equality. In the new Iraqi constitution, it is illegal to pass any law that contradicts the Koran, which is interpreted to mean that men beating the women in their families are legally protected. Moreover, because of the danger in daily life in Baghdad, fathers, husbands and brothers wanting to protect their female relatives want them to stay home. Patriarchy can be both protective and abusive but in both cases it limits the opportunities for women. Two of the older women there, Fatima Jassim and Shameran Adesho, are well known feminist leaders who appear regularly in the media speaking about women's rights. Survivors of the X regime, Fatima wears a chador to cover the acid burns on her head from the torture she suffered. Every time we speak, says Shameran, there are death threats. Between the violence mostly coming from the supporters of the Saddam regime and the Islamists (fundamentalist Muslims), organizing women seems like an almost impossible task. Iraqi Rising Women has developed house-to-house organizing as a technique so we talk about consciousness-raising groups and developing political strategy based on women's lives and the barriers they face. These women had read a lot about feminism. They knew about all the issues like day care, equal pay and so on but this was the first time they had heard about such ideas as the personal is political, or consciousness-raising groups. It is also the first time they have heard about Wen Do or women's self defense. You mean the men could be afraid of us? asks Faten Abed, of the Engineers Gathering to Support Reconstruction, with delight. Over two days we developed a series of strategies based on mobilizing to stop the violence against women in the streets and in the families. The first step is to do a public campaign to train women in Baghdad in Wen Do, women's self-defense. Deb Parent who has been doing Wen Do training in Canada for decades has
[LAAMN] Red Alert! The Farm is Locking Down
The farm is locking down this afternoon and are asking anyone who can to get there ASAP! Remember that being part of a lock-down means that you are committing to be arrested ...so be prepared. Everyone else can support from behind the fence. Everyone is needed in any capacity and to whatever degree you can lend your support. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/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] roll call for Palestinian Anti-terrorism Act
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 181 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined) H R 4681 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 23-May-2006 11:57 AM QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended BILL TITLE: Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act Yeas http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll181.xml#YNays http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll181.xml#N PRES http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll181.xml#P NV http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll181.xml#NV Republican 210 6 14 Democratic 150 31 9 11 Independent 1 TOTALS 361 37 9 25 YEAS361 --- Ackerman Aderholt Akin Alexander Allen Andrews Baca Bachus Baird Baker Baldwin Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Bass Bean Beauprez Berkley Berman Berry Biggert Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehlert Boehner Bonilla Bonner Bono Boozman Boren Boswell Boucher Boustany Boyd Bradley (NH) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (OH) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burton (IN) Butterfield Buyer Calvert Campbell (CA) Cannon Cantor Capito Cardin Cardoza Carnahan Carter Case Castle Chabot Chandler Chocola Cleaver Clyburn Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Cooper Costa Costello Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Cubin Cuellar Culberson Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) Davis, Jo Ann Davis, Tom Deal (GA) DeGette Delahunt DeLauro DeLay Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Doyle Drake Dreier Duncan Edwards Ehlers Emanuel Emerson Engel English (PA) Etheridge Everett Fattah Feeney Ferguson Filner Fitzpatrick (PA) Flake Foley Forbes Fortenberry Fossella Foxx Frank (MA) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gillmor Gingrey Gohmert Gonzalez Goode Goodlatte Gordon Granger Graves Green (WI) Green, Al Green, Gene Gutknecht Hall Harman Harris Hart Hastings (FL) Hastings (WA) Hayes Hayworth Hefley Hensarling Herger Herseth Hinojosa Hobson Hoekstra Holden Holt Honda Hooley Hostettler Hoyer Hulshof Hyde Inglis (SC) Inslee Israel Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Jindal Johnson (CT) Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones (OH) Kanjorski Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) Kildee Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline Knollenberg Kuhl (NY) Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Latham LaTourette Leach Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder Lipinski LoBiondo Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Lynch Mack Maloney Manzullo Marchant Markey Matheson Matsui McCarthy McCaul (TX) McCotter McHenry McHugh McIntyre McKeon McMorris McNulty Meehan Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Mica Michaud Millender-McDonald Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller (NC) Miller, Gary Mollohan Moore (KS) Moran (KS) Murphy Murtha Musgrave Myrick Nadler Neal (MA) Neugebauer Ney Northup Norwood Nunes Nussle Oberstar Olver Ortiz Osborne Otter Owens Oxley Pallone Pascrell Pastor Pearce Pelosi Pence Peterson (MN) Petri Pitts Platts Pomeroy Porter Price (GA) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Ramstad Rangel Regula Reichert Renzi Reyes Reynolds Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Royce Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Sabo Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanders Saxton Schakowsky Schiff Schmidt Schwartz (PA) Schwarz (MI) Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Sessions Shadegg Shaw Shays Sherman Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simmons Simpson Skelton Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Sodrel Solis Souder Spratt Stearns Strickland Stupak Sullivan Sweeney Tancredo Tanner Tauscher Taylor (MS) Taylor (NC) Terry Thomas Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tiahrt Tiberi Tierney Towns Turner Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Upton Van Hollen Visclosky Walden (OR) Walsh Wamp Wasserman Schultz Waters Waxman Weiner Weldon (FL) Weldon (PA) Weller Westmoreland Wexler Whitfield Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wolf Woolsey Wu Wynn Young (AK) Young (FL) NAYS37 --- Abercrombie Becerra Blumenauer Capps Capuano Conyers DeFazio Dingell Doggett Eshoo Farr Gilchrest Grijalva Hinchey Jones (NC) Kaptur Kilpatrick (MI) Kolbe Kucinich LaHood Lee Marshall McCollum (MN) McDermott McGovern McKinney Miller, George Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Obey Paul Price (NC) Rahall Stark Thornberry Velázquez Watt ANSWERED PRESENT9 --- Carson Clay Davis (IL) Gutierrez Jackson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Payne Rush Watson NOT VOTING25 --- Brown, Corrine Camp (MI) Davis (FL) Doolittle Evans Ford Gibbons Higgins Hunter Issa Istook Jenkins Kennedy (RI) Larson (CT) Lewis (GA) McCrery Napolitano Peterson (PA) Pickering Poe Pombo Rehberg Ruppersberger Snyder Wicker -- I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living. -Frida Kahlo emma rosenthal is a disabled artist,
[LAAMN] ALERTA ROJA/RED ALERT: Sherriff's OFFICE has OK to Evict South Central Farmers ACT NOW
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Subject: ZAPA-CALIFA: ALERTA ROJA/RED ALERT: Sherriff's OFFICE has OK to Evict South Central Farmers ACT NOW ALERTA ROJA/RED ALERT ALERTA ROJA/RED ALERT Greetings Everyone, THE LOS ANGELES SHERRIFFS OFFICE HAVE GOTTEN THE OK TO COME AND EVICT THE FARMERS This is Eviction day for the South Central Farm. They need as much physical support as possible. The eviction could begin as early as NOW. Please do your part in not allowing this to happen. The Farmers have asked that: To All environmental conscious person, Today starting at 11:00am and all the way until the evening, but more importantly, at 6:00pm we invite you to participate with us to keep our farm. If you Can come to the Farm, 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles off the 10, Please if only for a couple of hours. That would be great. There is a need for a presence between 6 pm -12 am We will have danza and a fandango from 8pm-12 am. They also need around the clock help. We need as many people in and around the farm, just in case the police try to mass evict the farmers. AQUI ESTAMOS, Y NO NOS VAMOS! Thank you for caring, South Central Farm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/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/
