[LAAMN] HS Says McVeigh not a Terrorist, but Peace Activists Are (InfoWars)
Homeland Security Says Timothy McVeigh Isnt a Terrorist, But Peace Activists Are Will Potter GreenIsTheNewRed October 14, 2008 This is what fighting terrorism in this country has become. Timothy McVeigh is responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing, the deadliest act of terrorism in this country prior to 9/11, killing 168 people, but a Homeland Security official says hes not a terrorist. Neither is Eric Rudolph, who killed two people and injured hundreds others in a bombing campaign against abortion and a homosexual agenda. Pennsylvanias Homeland Security Director James Powers said: Tim McVey [sic] is not a terrorist, just very angry with the U.S. government, Powers said. Whether a person is a terrorist or a criminal is irrelevant to me. You know whom he and the state police do consider terrorists? The Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, even though actions by those groups have been relatively minor, by their admission. Those groups have never injured anyone, let alone killed hundreds, but the Pennsylvania state police is offering free, yes free, risk and vulnerability assessments for corporations to help protect their profits from pesky activists. [Sounds kind of like that leaked State Department presentation, doesn't it?] show_banners(); Unfortunately, this is not an isolated, news of the weird kind of incident. Its systemic. The Maryland State Police have admitted classifying 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists, including opponents of the war and the death penalty, and tracking them in state and federal terrorism databases. Cops infiltrated organizing meetings and rallies, and spied on political email lists, similar to the government infiltration of the RNC. The groups targeted, including the Maryland Campaign to End the Death Penalty and the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, arent suspected of harming anyone, arent suspected of bombing anyone, arent even suspected of vandalizing property. Their crime? Theyre fringe people, says Thomas E. Hutchins, the former state police superintendent who authorized the operation. I dont believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wish to disrupt the government, he said. Get this, one activist was described in police databases as having a primary crime of terrorism-anti-government and a secondary crime of terrorism-anti-war protesters. This wasnt an isolated abuse of power, this is a coordinated campaign of harassment and intimidation. The gloves are really starting to come off, folks. Years ago, government officials were using these same tactics, but under the pretext of going after illegal, underground groups like the Earth Liberation Front. Now, they are openly, brazenly, harassing and infiltrating nonviolent activist groups with no connectionnot even an ideological connectionto saboteurs. Why? This War on Terrorism, above all else, is an ideological war. In some ways, though, I think folks should take some pride in that. Considering what is mainstream government policy now, Id much rather be in the camp of fringe people. As Billy Bragg said, If youve got a blacklist, I want to be on it. http://www.infowars.com/?p=5297 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] OCC Hosts Congressional Debate Tuesday, Oct. 21st
**From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences ORANGE COAST COLLEGE 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa, CA 92628- (714.432-5796) Cordially invites you to a Great Debate Between Tom Lash, Green Party Debbie Cook, Democratic Party Dana Rohrabacher, Republican Party Ernst Gasteiger, Libertarian Party Candidates for the 46th Congressional District On Tuesday, October 21, 2008 from 11:15 A.M. to 1:15 P.M in Robert B. Moore Theatre Debate Moderator: Robert Dees, President, Orange Coast College Organizer/Facilitator: Dr. Richard Lara [EMAIL PROTECTED] 714-369-5647 Assistant Facilitator: Dr. Vesna Marcina Panelists asking questions: Professor Ann Williams, OCC Fernando Vazquez, Coast Report, OCC Christina Scarborough, Student Leader, OCC Jeffrey Chang, Student Leader, OCC Nathan Wensko, Student Leader, OCC Alan Blank, Journalist, Los Angeles Times Steven Greenhunt, Journalist, Orange County Register You all are invited Click to become a master chef, own a restaurant and make millions. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3m4pC12UlRHsr8aSdmYPBUXvhfL8TThhuFcNTyW606Uzz5uN/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Miko Peled: Pardon me but..., So. Calif. Library Election Film series
From: Sid Shniad http://mikopeled.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/pardon-me-but-im-jewish/ Pardon me, but I’m Jewish By Miko Peled 14 October 2008 The racist discourse in America is alarming and often people don’t even notice when it takes place. When the lady at the town hall meeting asked John McCain if Barak Obama was an Arab he replied: “No, no he is a decent family man.” Where is the contradiction here? Does Arab mean he is not a decent family man? Well, pardon me but I am Jewish and I am over sensitive and easily offended by these things. To the claim that Obama is an Arab, the appropriate response is: “So what.” To the question is Barak Obama a Moslem the reply ought to be: “I don’t know but who cares.” Contrary to what many people say, the holocaust was not the worst thing that happened to Jewish people, and it is not the recurrence of the holocaust that we need to fear the most. The holocaust was the inevitable outcome of centuries of European Christian indoctrination that Jewish people are less than human. What took place in the holocaust was the natural outcome of centuries where Christians taught hate. It is the recurrence of that trend we need to prevent so that another holocaust will never take place. America is poised for a tremendous opportunity this November. It is far greater than landing a man on the moon, or building this or that space gadget or discovering this or that microbe. It is to show America that to be American you don’t have to be called Jim or George or Bob; that you don’t have to look like those white old guys who have their portraits all over the place. No, you can be an African, or an Arab or an Asian and still be an American because the truth is that it has been this way for more than two centuries. But this is a formidable task. Making the next eight years the best in America’s history will require strength and courage that are yet to be asked of Americans on Election Day. On Election Day most of us like to go stick to our old comforts and loyalties, to find the person who looks and speaks like us or in a way that makes us feel comfortable. We want “our guy” or the guy from “our team” to win. We are all human and that is how humans act. This is ok under normal circumstances. But this year the opportunity is so great that we must look beyond our usual loyalties and comforts. This year we need to look at what America can really be like in eight years and that is a hard thing to do. We are drawn into despair by news of an economic crisis, by fears of impending attacks by terrorists and by the possibility that our earth is on the brink of a major natural disaster. It is only natural then, that we all cling to what we know to be true that we cling to what we believe to be right and that we cover our eyes and our ears to anything that might rattle our comfort. America has done things that no other country has done, and this includes acts of magnanimity as well as acts of great stupidity and cruelty. This is the nature of great nations - that they have the capacity to do great things and they have the power to make colossal mistakes. This election year presents this nation with an opportunity to show its greatness, to show its magnanimity and to show its true strength. No one needs proof of America’s military or economic might. Just take one look at the talented men and women who make up the armed services. People who like me live in Coronado see these men and women daily. I have the privilege of working with many families who have loved ones in the navy: The are the best and the brightest and they are the most dedicated people and parents one can hope to meet. We also know that America has brilliant minds in the fields of economy and science and quite possibly every other field known to man. Every powerful nation has good leaders and bad leaders. Every powerful nation in the history of the world has shown greatness and has stooped down to pettiness; every powerful nation has had its time of glory and its times of shame. The last eight years have brought this country to an unprecedented low. It is up to us this year to determine what the next eight years be like for America. No one knows how long it will take to build the destruction that America caused to Iraq, or how long it would take for the Iraqis to forgive America for its intervention. From my knowledge of the people of the Middle East I would venture to say that for the most part they are magnanimous and forgiving. Iraqis will undoubtedly rebuild their country, but the sooner America leaves the better things will be for Iraq and for the Middle East as a whole. The questions that Americans need to ask is how do we make sure we are not drugged and mislead into another war as we with Iraq. If the surge did or did not work is immaterial because there would have not been a need for a surge had America not destroyed the order that was there to begin with. And the issue is not what the generals recommend that the
[LAAMN] Re: ACORN Responds to McCain's Smears
Dear Ed, McCain, of course, is just desperate, and so will seize upon anything. Of greater concern is the fact that the corporate media has been repeating the spurious charges that ACORN is involved in voter registration fraud. Lou Dobbs in particular has been talking this up. My suspicion is that they are trying to drive a wedge between Obama and progressive community organizations. Obama's election is basically a fait accompli, so now the focus has probably moved to controlling his politics. Obama's voter registration drive is one of the most progressive aspects of his otherwise mainstream (i.e., corporate) campaign. Carl To: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:45:31 -0700 Subject:[LAAMN] ACORN Responds to McCain's Smears Send reply to: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] From: John Johnson Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:17 AM ACORN Response to Senator McCain's Smear Ad ACORN President Maude Hurd released the following statement today in response to the McCain campaign's new ad claiming that, among other things, ACORN is responsible for the mortgage crisis: For almost a decade, ACORN, a community organization of 400,000 families in neighborhoods across the country, has been fighting against the predatory lending practices that have robbed our members of their homes, destabilized neighborhoods, and roiled the global economy. In his newest ad, John McCain's campaign bizarrely claims, ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we're in today. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, ACORN has worked successfully to help working class families get good home loans on fair terms from legitimate banks and has fought vigorously against predatory lenders who have ripped off families in our communities. These predatory loans caused the crisis. For more than a decade, ACORN members have held protests, released reports, and advocated for regulations to protect homeowners from predatory lenders. ACORN organizers and volunteers have been working day and night to help victims of the GOP economic meltdown to save their homes from foreclosure. In fact, ACORN has brought class action lawsuits against several predatory lenders, and has lobbied the Federal Reserve and Congress in support of regulations against predatory lending. ACORN has even been successful in convincing many lenders to treat homeowners more fairly and help families be able to make their mortgage payments and save their homes. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans like John McCain have blocked the sensible regulations that ACORN and others proposed that would have averted the mortgage meltdown. If John McCain thinks that community organizers caused the foreclosure crisis, he knows even less about the economy than previously thought. John McCain and the Republicans are desperately trying to shift the blame for the economic crisis they caused with a philosophy of deregulation and indifference to homeowners. All the grainy footage and creepy music in the world can't cancel out some simple, basic facts, and the facts about the economy are not on John McCain's side. ### Bogus Voter Fraud Charges Aim to Camouflage Voter Suppression ACORN has just completed the largest, most successful nonpartisan voter registration drive in US history. We helped 1.3 million low-income, minority and young voters across the country register to vote. Unfortunately, just as in 2006, that success in bringing people into the democratic process, have been greeted with unfounded accusations to disparage our work and help maintain the status quo of an unbalanced electorate. After a similar spate of charges against ACORN in 2006, we learned that then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had fired Republican US Attorneys because they refused to prosecute ACORN and other voter assistance groups on trumped up fraud charges. This was the heart of the US Attorney-gate scandal that led Karl Rove, Gonzales and other top Department of Justice officials to resign. Because the press didn't catch on until long after the election, it was part of a successful strategy to create an unfounded specter of voter fraud and to suppress voting. Key Facts: 1. In order to help 1.3 million people register to vote, we hired more than 13,000 registration assistance workers r. As with any business or agency that operates at this scale, there are always some people who want to get paid without really doing the job, or who aim to defraud their employer. Any large department store will have some workers who shoplift. 2. Any large voter registration operation will have a small percentage of workers who turn in bogus registration forms, Their goal clearly is not to cast a fraudulent vote. It is
[LAAMN] STOP the ICE Raids! Meeting in LA! Wed Oct 15th 6:00PM
The MIGRA (ICE) is incrementing their Raids in our communities!!! We have to build up the resistance so that we can eventually kick them out of our streets! The countries economy is supposedly going down the tubes but they seem to have plenty of $$$ for more ICE Raids!!! If you are SERIOUS about organizing against the Migra (ICE), join the Frente Contra las Redadas! We are currently organizing another Community Forum to invite lawyers to come out and educate our community about their rights! Come help out!! We are ALL busy people...enough with our excuses! Let's get to work!? We have to organize in our communities!? Meetings are open to everyone! See you at the meeting! What:??? General Meeting: Frente Contra las Redadas- South Central When:?? Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 6:00PM Where:? Santee Education Complex (1921 Maple Ave. LA, CA 90011) Washington/Maple in the Library Who: Everyone who wants to organize against the Migra Raids is welcomed Why: Because the ICE/Migra continues to terrorize our communities and we need to be organized to be able to defend our communities from deportations/ family separations. Ron Gochez Social Justice Educator/Community Organizer Frente Contra las Redadas- South Central Union Del Barrio- Los Angeles [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Re: Contact the fast for solidarity
On 10/14/08, Rosalio Munoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Encampment at La Placita Olvera The encampment for the Fast will be located at the public area of La Placita Olvera. The encampment will include tents, a stage, work areas, and a rest area for fasters and supporters. For the duration of the Fast, we will have calendar of events that include a benefit concert, an interfaith religious service, Día de Los Muertos celebration, Know Your Rights training and a mock raid simulation, a march to the downtown detention center, student teach-ins, and many more. *If you would like to coordinate an action or event regionally or nationally with the Fast For Our Future campaign, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Olvera Street is an historic monument and plaza known as the birthplace of the City of Los Angeles and is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Park. Many Spanish-speakers refer to Olvera Street as La Placita Olvera. *Encampment Address:* 845 N. Alameda Street Los Angeles, CA 90012http://maps.google.com/maps?q=845+N.+Alameda+Street+los+angeles,+caie=UTF-8oe=utf-8rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-aum=1sa=Xoi=geocode_resultresnum=1ct=title%22Google%20Map%20link%22 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] MUST READ: War Hero or War Criminal? (CounterPunch)
McCain and Rolling Thunder War Hero or War Criminal? By ROBERT RICHTER As character assassination attacks on Sen. Barack Obama have now taken over Sen. John McCain's campaign, and because McCain cites his military experience as of prime importance, now is the time to focus closer attention on a facet of the Arizona Senator's own character. This is related to his 23 combat missions for Operation Rolling Thunder - the Pentagon's name for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. I will never forget how stunned I was when Gen. Telford Taylor, a chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after World War Two, told me that he strongly supported the idea of trying the U.S. pilots captured in North Vietnam as war criminals - and that he would be proud to lead in their prosecution. An ardent opponent of the Vietnam conflict, Taylor spoke with me in the fall of 1966 when I was looking into producing a documentary on this controversy for CBS News, where I was their National Political Editor. While he did not mention any pilot's name, then U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain who was captured a year later, would have been among the group Taylor wanted to prosecute. Why would anyone have wanted to prosecute McCain and the other captured pilots? Taylor's argument was that their actions were in violation of the Geneva conventions that specifically forbid indiscriminate bombing that could cause incidental loss of civilian life or damage to civilian objects. Adding to the Geneva code, he noted, was the decision at the Nuremberg trials after World War Two: military personnel cannot defend themselves against such a charge with a claim that they were simply following orders. There were questions raised about whether the Geneva conventions applied to the pilots, since there had been no formal declaration of war by the U.S. against the Hanoi regime - and the Geneva rules presumably are only in force in a declared war. Anti-war critics at the time claimed that despite the Pentagon's assertion that only military targets were bombed, U.S. pilots also had bombed hospitals and other civilian targets, a charge that turned out to be correct and was confirmed by the New York Times' chief foreign correspondent, Harrison Salisbury. In late 1966 Salisbury described the widespread devastation of civilian neighborhoods around Hanoi by American bombs: Bomb damage...extends over an area of probably a mile or so on both sides of the highway...small villages and hamlets along the route [were] almost obliterated. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara conceded some years later that more than a million deaths and injuries occurred in northern Vietnam each year from 1965 to 1968, as a result of the 800 tons of bombs a day dropped by our pilots. In one of his autobiographies McCain wrote that he was going to bomb a power station in a heavily populated part of Hanoi when he was shot down. If Gen. Taylor tried McCain, would he have defended himself as just following orders despite the Geneva conventions barring that kind of bombing and the Nuremberg principles negating just following orders? The targets McCain and his fellow pilots actually bombed in Vietnam and his justification then or now for the actions that led to his capture, are no longer simply old news. They are part of what must be taken into account today, as voters weigh support for him or Obama to be the next President of the United States. This is not about the hugely unpopular war in Vietnam. It is about the character of a man who seeks to be U.S. President, who perhaps was not simply a brave warrior, but a warrior who by his own admission, bombed and was ready to bomb targets in violation of the Geneva conventions and Nuremberg principles. _ When I passed along Gen. Taylor's comments to my network superiors the program was scrapped: too hot to handle. Instead Air War Over the North was telecast, about precision bombing North Vietnam military targets by U.S. pilots. A few years after that broadcast, a Pentagon public information executive gleefully told Roger Mudd in The Selling of the Pentagon that he, the Pentagon official, not only had persuaded CBS to produce Air War Over the North, he even chose those to be interviewed and coached them about what they should say. This unethical collaboration and intercession by the Pentagon in the news media is sadly all too familiar a tactic repeated in the Bush-Cheney years. Robert Richter was political director for CBS News from 1965 to 1968. http://www.counterpunch.org/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[LAAMN] Thurs. Oct 16 Fri Oct 17-Hit the Streets for Peace and Eonomic Justice
Only 5 more days to register voters For the Presidential election, Ever wished you could get out the message about reducing the military budget to fund human needs, ending corporate domination, and instituting single-payer healthcare? You can. Join the Peace and Freedom Party and Nader/Gonzalez and campaign for voter registration and outreach and education. We will meet at the L.A. Peace and Freedom Party office at 3:30am for a brief orientation, then go out in groups to nearby neighborhoods to discuss the issues, find supporters and register voters SUNDAY OCT. 12, 11 A.M. 2617 S. HAUSER BLVD. (between LaBrea Fairfax, ½ block South of Adams Blvd) 310-367-9648 Lets give voters and potential voters a chance to hear about real alternatives to corporate politics. Nearly half of all eligible voters in Los Angeles are NOT registered. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] 10/16/7PM/Step up to the Plate: Ending the Food Crisis
Step up to the Plate: Ending the Food Crisis As U.S. food pantries face long lines and empty shelves while food protests rock the globe, it is clear that we are in the midst of a food crisis at home and abroad. The crisis is long in the making, yet even as it hits both headlines and wallets, it has been largely ignored by the current administration and the presidential candidates. In response, food, farm, labor, and justice organizations from across the US are joining together to call on our leaders to address the roots of the problem. Join WHY and our partners at the historic Great Hall of Cooper Union for the national launch of an urgent Call to Action to end the food crisis. Learn about the real causes and solutions to the crisis from special guests: Alice Waters of Chez Panisse and founder of Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley , CA Frances Moore Lappé, best-selling author of Diet for a Small Planet Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Ben Burkett, president of t the he National Family Farm Coalition LaDonna Redmond, president of the Institute for Community Resource Development Pat Purcell of the United Food and Commercial Workers union Leader of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Musical guest Toby Lightman Be part of the solution! Join us in sending a strong message to the presidential candidates and our current political leaders that they need to step up to the plate to end the food crisis. FREE EVENT! When: World Food Day, Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 7 PM Where: Great Hall of Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th Street (at 3rd Ave. ), New York City RSVP (encouraged): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seating is first come, first served. Sponsored by: WHY (World Hunger Year), in partnership with Food First, National Family Farm Coalition, Grassroots International, Agricultural Missions, Pesticide Action Network of North America, Small Planet Institute, Food and Water Watch, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, Rainforest Action Network and others. Supporters: Food Systems Network NYC, Just Food, New York Citizens Trade Coalition, World Neighbors, Global Policy Forum, Community Food Security Coalition, Take a Bite out of Climate Change, Anna Lappé , Edible Manhattan, Hunger Action Network of NY State, Sustainable Table, New York City Nutrition Education Network, Sustainable Connections, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY, The FGE Food Nutrition Team, Cornell Global Labor Institute, Mazon, Council on the Environment NYC/Greenmarket, New York City Coalition Against Hunger, GreenThumb, East New York Farms!, Added Value, and others. If your organization would like to support this event, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Rich: The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html?themc=th The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama Doing nothing is not an option. By FRANK RICH NY Times Op-Ed: October 11, 2008 IF you think way back to the start of this marathon campaign, back when it seemed preposterous that any black man could be a serious presidential contender, then you remember the biggest fear about Barack Obama: a crazy person might take a shot at him. Some voters told reporters that they didn't want Obama to run, let alone win, should his very presence unleash the demons who have stalked America from Lincoln to King. After consultation with Congress, Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, gave Obama a Secret Service detail earlier than any presidential candidate in our history - in May 2007, some eight months before the first Democratic primaries. I've got the best protection in the world, so stop worrying, Obama reassured his supporters. Eventually the country got conditioned to his appearing in large arenas without incident (though I confess that the first loud burst of fireworks at the end of his convention stadium speech gave me a start). In America, nothing does succeed like success. The fear receded. Until now. At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of Treason! and Terrorist! and Kill him! and Off with his head! as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets, are actually something new in a campaign that has seen almost every conceivable twist. They are alarms. Doing nothing is not an option. All's fair in politics. John McCain and Sarah Palin have every right to bring up William Ayers, even if his connection to Obama is minor, even if Ayers's Weather Underground history dates back to Obama's childhood, even if establishment Republicans and Democrats alike have collaborated with the present-day Ayers in educational reform. But it's not just the old Joe McCarthyesque guilt-by-association game, however spurious, that's going on here. Don't for an instant believe the many mindlessly even-handed journalists who keep saying that the McCain campaign's use of Ayers is the moral or political equivalent of the Obama campaign's hammering on Charles Keating. What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist. He is palling around with terrorists (note the plural noun). Obama is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America. Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops. By the time McCain asks the crowd Who is the real Barack Obama? it's no surprise that someone cries out Terrorist! The rhetorical conflation of Obama with terrorism is complete. It is stoked further by the repeated invocation of Obama's middle name by surrogates introducing McCain and Palin at these rallies. This sleight of hand at once synchronizes with the poisonous Obama-is-a-Muslim e-mail blasts and shifts the brand of terrorism from Ayers's Vietnam-era variety to the radical Islamic threats of today. That's a far cry from simply accusing Obama of being a guilty-by-association radical leftist. Obama is being branded as a potential killer and an accessory to past attempts at murder. Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family was how a McCain press release last week packaged the remembrance of a Weather Underground incident from 1970 - when Obama was 8. We all know what punishment fits the crime of murder, or even potential murder, if the security of post-9/11 America is at stake. We all know how self-appointed patriotic martyrs always justify taking the law into their own hands. Obama can hardly be held accountable for Ayers's behavior 40 years ago, but at least McCain and Palin can try to take some responsibility for the behavior of their own supporters in 2008. What's troubling here is not only the candidates' loose inflammatory talk but also their refusal to step in promptly and strongly when someone responds to it with bloodthirsty threats in a crowded arena. Joe Biden had it exactly right when he expressed concern last week that a leading American politician who might be vice president of the United States would not just stop midsentence and turn and condemn that. To stay silent is to pour gas on the fires. It wasn't always thus with McCain. In February he loudly disassociated himself from a speaker who brayed Barack Hussein Obama when introducing him at a rally in Ohio. Now McCain either backpedals with tardy, pro forma expressions of respect for his opponent or lets second-tier campaign underlings release boilerplate disavowals after ugly incidents like the chilling Jim Crow-era flashback last week when a Florida sheriff ranted about Barack Hussein Obama at a Palin rally while in full uniform. From the start, there have always been two
[LAAMN] An Evening with Academy Award Winners Barbara Trent David Kasper - Saturday, October 18th, 7:00 PM - At the Dorrel's - See Clips from Their New Film SEIZING POWER PANAMA To IRAQ
An Evening with Academy Award Winners Barbara Trent David Kasper of The Empowerment Project http://www.empowermentproject.org/ www.empowermentproject.org Saturday, October 18th, 7:00 PM Frank Jane Dorrel's 3967 Shedd Terrace, Culver City 90232 See Clips from Their New Film in Progress SEIZING POWER PANAMA To IRAQ: The Trajectory of US Militarism (15-min. extra from the re-release of The Panama Deception) $10 at the Door Desserts and Drinks Will Be Served - RSVP: 310-838-8131 - Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] SEIZING POWER Seizing Power, a work in progress, reveals how the United States is being transformed into an authoritarian system of government that views the rights of the individual as dispensable in favor of the security and power of the state. It shows how the civil rights of citizens are being systematically dismantled, as repressive measures are put into place to control dissidents and institute a system of autocratic executive control that contemptuously disregards the Constitution. It investigates illegal detention, torture and domestic surveillance committed and authorized by government officials, and explores the likelihood of war crimes prosecutions. Seizing Power is a clear warning of what lies ahead if the United States continues on the course its government is taking. Barbara Trent David Kasper have made two of the very best documentaries I have ever seen. They are The Panama Deception and Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair. You will be able to buy copies of these films at this event. You can read about them below. THE http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/panama.html PANAMA DECEPTION - Watch the http://www.empowermentproject.org/trailer-panama.html trailer A riveting Academy Award winning documentary, this special extended version is made all the more timely by recent U.S. invasions and the current war on terror. THE PANAMA DECEPTION documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, the events which led to it, the excessive force used, the enormity of the death and destruction and the devastating aftermath. http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/panama.html http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/panama.html http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/panama.html http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/panama.html http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/panama.html Acclaimed filmmakers Barbara Trent and David Kasper uncover the real reasons for this internationally condemned attack, and reveal General Manuel Noriega's longstanding relationship with the C.I.A., the D.E.A, and George Bush, Sr. Utilizing devastating footage, expert commentary and eyewitness testimony, the film shines a spotlight on this pivotal moment in U.S. history. Network news clips and media critics contribute to a staggering analysis of media control and self-censorship used to deceive the American public--a film hauntingly relevant today. The Panama Deception was re-released early this year and new DVD Features include : Follow-up Interviews with filmmakers Barbara Trent and David Kasper. The Politics of Demonization and Fear; The Future of Panama and Latin America ; Panama to Iraq; The Trajectory of U.S. Militarism; Panama after the Invasion, with former Panamanian Diplomat Humberto Brown, Phyllis Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies), and former CIA analyst David MacMichael; Trailers from GoodFilms.org; A Resource Guide with live web links; Filmmakers Biographies. http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/panama.html Read more, Watch the http://www.empowermentproject.org/trailer-panama.html trailer ~ Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair Is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration's plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events. Coverup exposes several of the most disturbing chapters in the history of U.S. covert foreign policy. It presents a tale of politics, drugs, hostages, weapons, assassinations, covert operations and the ultimate plan to suspend the U.S.Constitution. Coverup was the first film to reveal the 'October Surprise' hostage deal (the Reagan/Bush campaigndeal with Iran to delay the release of the 52 American hostages until after the 1980 election), and is the only film which presents a comprehensive overview of the most important stories suppressed during the Iran Contra hearings. It is the only film that puts the entire Iran Contra affair into a meaningful political and historical context. The 1988 film is updated with information from recent court
[LAAMN] Thurs. Oct 16 Fri Oct 17-Hit the Streets for Peace and Economic Justice
Only 5 more days to register voters For the Presidential election, Ever wished you could get out the message about reducing the military budget to fund human needs, ending corporate domination, and instituting single-payer healthcare? You can. Join the Peace and Freedom Party and Nader/Gonzalez and campaign for voter registration and outreach and education. We will meet at the L.A. Peace and Freedom Party office at 3:30am for a brief orientation, then go out in groups to nearby neighborhoods to discuss the issues, find supporters and register voters SUNDAY OCT. 12, 11 A.M. 2617 S. HAUSER BLVD. (between LaBrea Fairfax, ½ block South of Adams Blvd) 310-367-9648 Lets give voters and potential voters a chance to hear about real alternatives to corporate politics. Nearly half of all eligible voters in Los Angeles are NOT registered. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
