[LAAMN] 2 articles Israel linked and IRAN CONTRA AT 25: REAGAN AND BUSH 'CRIMINAL LIABILITY' EVALUATIONS
President Reagan motioning to Ed Meese at the White House Press Briefing announcing the Iran-Contra connection. 11/25/86. Source credit: Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library Israel linked article after Iran Contra at 25 article- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB365/index.htm IRAN CONTRA AT 25: REAGAN AND BUSH 'CRIMINAL LIABILITY' EVALUATIONS Presidential 'Exposure' and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor Reports Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to Iran Bush Chaired Secret Committee that Recommended Mining Harbors of Nicaragua National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 365 Posted - November 25, 2011 For more information contact: Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 Malcolm Byrne - 202/994-7043 nsarc...@gwu.edu http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/icread/icread.html *The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History* by Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne (New York: The New Press, 314 pp.) *Order from Amazon.com*http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/156584047X/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1/104-8585526-1139137 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446349011/qid=1076951567/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-5322084-3547221?v=glances=books *The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras* by Scott Armstrong, Malcolm Byrne, Tom Blanton, and the National Security Archive (New York: Warner Books, 678 pp.) *Order from Amazon.com*http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446349011/qid=1076951567/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-5322084-3547221?v=glances=books http://hermes.circ.gwu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nsarchiveA=1 [image: Bookmark and Share]http://addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250pub=xa-4ad78c6d2cd96a91 *Previous Iran Contra Briefing Books* *The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On*http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm Documents Spotlight Role of Reagan, Top Aides *The Robert Gates File*http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB208/index.htm The Iran-Contra Scandal, 1991 Confirmation Hearings, and Excerpts from new book *Safe for Democracy* *The Oliver North File: His Diaries, E-Mail, and Memos on the Kerry Report, Contras and Drugs* http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htm *Washington D.C., November 25, 2011 –* President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983, according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of criminal liability on the part of the two former leaders posted today by the National Security Archive. Twenty-Five years after the advent of the Iran-Contra affair, the two comprehensive Memoranda on Criminal Liability of Former President Reagan and of President Bush provide a roadmap of historical, though not legal, culpability of the nation's two top elected officials during the scandal from the perspective of a senior attorney in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. The documents were obtained pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the National Security Archive for the files compiled during Walsh's six-year investigation from 1987-1993. The posting comes on the anniversary of the November 25, 1986, press conference during which Ronald Reagan and his attorney general, Edwin Meese, informed the American public that they had discovered a diversion of funds from the sale of arms to Iran to fund the contra war, thus tying together the two strands of the scandal which until that point had been separate in the public eye. The focus on the diversion, as Oliver North, the NSC staffer who supervised the two operations wrote in his memoirs, was itself a diversion. This particular detail was so dramatic, so sexy, that it might actually-well *divert* public attention from other, even more important aspects of the story, North wrote, such as what the President and his top advisors had known about and approved. Ronald Reagan with Caspar Weinberger, George Shultz, Ed Meese, and Don Regan discussing the President's remarks on the Iran-Contra affair, Oval Office. 11/25/86. Source credit: Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library The criminal liability studies were drafted in March 1991 by a lawyer on Walsh's staff, Christian J. Mixter (now a partner in the Washington law firm of Morgan Lewis), and represented preliminary conclusions on whether to prosecute both Reagan and Bush for various crimes ranging from conspiracy to perjury. On Reagan, Mixter reported that the President was briefed in advance on each of the illicit sales of missiles to Iran. The criminality of the arms sales to Iran involves a number of close legal calls, Mixter wrote. He found that it would be difficult to prosecute Reagan for violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) which mandates advising Congress about arms transfers through a third country-the U.S. missiles were transferred to
[LAAMN] Debt of American Poor should Be Forgiven
Debt of American Poor Should be Forgiven http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/19/david_graeber_the_debt_of_the [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Re: Urgent Call To Save the Occupation: Stay Up All Night
At 4:30 p.m., Captain Rodriguez of Union Station announced there will be no raid before dawn. He didn't answer further questions, including whether the raid would be delayed beyond that. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18793517 Leslie Radford On Sunday, November 27, 2011 9:40:46 AM, Leslie Radford wrote: LOS ANGELES, 27 Nov 2011--The Occupiers at City Hall are asking all Angelenos to come to City Hall starting at 10:30 p.m. tonight and secure the space from a scheduled police raid until the Occupation can obtain a temporary restraining order when the courts open in the morning. To cede City Hall to the Mayor is to allow government, yet again, to control public spaces and public voices. It is to allow, yet again, the wealthy and powerful to frame the discussion, to shut down the face of the movement. For 58 days, Occupiers by the hundreds and sometimes thousands have taken up residence on the lawn as proxies for the swelling dissatisfaction of nearly all Angelenos with social and economic inequality. At this juncture, the Occupiers are calling on all Angelenos to stand with them to protect the Occupation. The current Occupiers are inviting Angelenos to round-the-clock block party with marches around City Hall, bands, and vigils until the space is secured again for the people. The people of Los Angeles are invited to come to City Hall to celebrate and claim their space and keep the police at bay all night and into tomorrow, until the court can intercede. Seventy-two hours ago, notices were tacked up around City Hall lawn. Mayor Villaraigosa and police Chief Beck sent out the ultimatum to all of Los Angeles in a holiday weekend press conference timed to reach you on the local evening news: your Occupation of City Hall would officially end tonight. The Occupiers have responded that the City has no right to proscribe the people's right under the First Amendment to peaceably assemble and petition for a redress of grievances. Since the encampment arose on October 2, hundreds and sometimes thousands of Los Angeles residents have walked through, picnicked, and camped on the lawn of City Hall daily in a visible demonstration of dissatisfaction with the social and economic status quo. Angelenos by the thousands have joined the groundswell of Occupations across the country and the world, reclaiming spaces and visibility in what had been a monologue about the “needs” of the wealthiest and most influential at the expense of the remaining 99%. With unemployment, foreclosures, and personal debt skyrocketing, as small businesses vanish overnight and homelessness swells, as entire at-risk communities fall into the economic abyss, the people of the United States and worldwide are rising up against financial bailouts doled out to the wealthiest 1%, tax preferences for multinational corporations, corporate take-over of the government, and preferential treatment for those who need it least. Today, all Angelenos are needed to give up a night's sleep for just and fair treatment in government, for safety and security for our children, our friends, our neighbors, for right to a better future that's not gobbled up by the mechanisms of the wealthy. And tomorrow, workplaces all over the City will be a little less productive, and the social balance will have swung a bit more toward justice. In the words of Jessica and Alex, Occupiers: *Emergency Communique Establishing our Right to Occupy* We recognize, and urge city officials to recognize, the entrenched interests pressuring for the evacuation of Solidarity Park on behalf of “local” but most certainly multinational corporations, just as they have collectively lobbied as the Central City Association, pushing for an anti-encampment ordinance. We assert, in light of our action on Nov. 17th in which a private citizen on behalf of BofA placed 46 protesters under private persons arrest with the help of hundreds of the LAPD as well as a militarized 4-block radius, that the city is not being transparent in their reasoning for eviction and is in fact moving at the behest of the 1%. OLA rejects municipal health, safety or aesthetic concerns as invalid reasoning to displace our encampment, a political space for unhindered peaceful assembly and the expression of free speech. We remind you that as taxpayers, for decades we have paid into paving these streets and funding the operations of governmental buildings without asking for anything other than representation of our interests. This social contract has been broken, and rather than wait for utter economic collapse, the people have taken encampment upon themselves as a tool of sustaining and amplifying free speech. Our presence as OccupyLA, in its current form, actively asserts our right to free assembly through the chosen method of occupation. We occupy as a presence and force of vigilance under a political process that leaves no room for the organic and
[LAAMN] Fwd: We are not leaving!
Original Message Subject:We are not leaving! Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:14:24 -0800 From: Bilal Ali mafundi...@gmail.com To: Jamaal As-Salaam jamaa...@yahoo.com, john a johnaim...@earthlink.net, allegra padilla allegra_padi...@hotmail.com, Michael Novick antiracistaction...@yahoo.com, Astrid Campos acam...@communitychange.org, Horacio Arroyo harr...@chirla.org, James M. Simmons Atty jmsa...@yahoo.com I did not join the occupation movement to be told by the mayor/pigs when and how to exercise my so-called 1st amendment rights. I joined because i am committed to abolishing a parasitic, decadent, archaic social order. This order still exist...so i will continue to occupy because we won't de-occupy...we multiply! Mayor villian-raigosa says the west steps of city hall will remain a free area to protest...i will test his words by re-locating my tent on the west steps at 12.01 am as an expression of protesting our forced removal by the city. I will refuse to leave the steps if ordered to do so...i am willing to go to jail against any assault or attack on my 1st amendment rights. Long Live Occupy The Hood!! -- JAI RAC-LA https://lists.riseup.net/www/admin/newplanet-newlives http://revolutionaryautonomouscommunities.blogspot.com/ http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php?story=JohnAImani [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Egypt's Polls to Kick Off Amid Unrest and Division
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3291/egypts-polls-to-kick-off-amid-unrest-and-division Egypt's Polls to Kick Off Amid Unrest and Divisionhttp://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3291/egypts-polls-to-kick-off-amid-unrest-and-division 0http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3291/egypts-polls-to-kick-off-amid-unrest-and-division#comments Nov 27 2011 by Gamal Essam El-Dinhttp://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/contributors/44145 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker]http://app.readspeaker.com/cgi-bin/rsent?customerid=5919lang=en_usreadid=rscontenturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jadaliyya.com%2Fpages%2Findex%2F3291%2Fegypts-polls-to-kick-off-amid-unrest-and-division [image: [Campaign banners and signs for Egypt's first elections after 25 January 2011.]] [Campaign banners and signs for Egypt's first elections after 25 January 2011.] Egypts first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls open Monday amid severe political divisions and street protests against the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) and its embattled government. The first stage of elections, which will last until 5 December, includes nine governorates: Cairo, Alexandria, Fayyum, Assiut, Luxor, the Red Sea, Port Said, Damietta and Kafr El-Sheikh. Of the 168 seats up for grabs in the first round, 56 will go to independents and 112 to candidates running on party lists. *Click here to learn more about the election rules and dates.http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3192/the-concise-idiots-guide-to-the-egyptian-elections * Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) Chairman Abdel-Moez Ibrahim announced on 26 November that the opening round would be supervised by more than 4,500 judges mandated with overseeing polling stations countrywide. The SEC is opposed to any kind of international monitoring of the Egyptian elections, clarified Ibrahim. We informed the SCAF that this was against Egypts national sovereignty and could never be accepted, but if foreign monitors and media want to participate in supervising the voting process, let them do so without any constraints. For his part, SCAF head Field-Marshal Hussein Tantawi stressed that security and army forces have devised a plan for safeguarding polling stations against any violent act. He went on to predict that that ordinary Egyptians would play the greatest role in protecting polling stations and turning out in big numbers, because this is the only path to democratization and civilian rule. According to Ibrahim, more than 100,000 Egyptian expatriates living abroad had cast ballots in recent days, out of a total of 350,000 who had registered to vote at Egyptian embassies and consulates worldwide. Although the SEC has not provided figures for the total number of candidates contesting the first round, unofficial estimates suggest that 2,362 independents and 193 party-based candidates would be fighting it out for the 168 seats. Eligible voters in the first round account for some 35 per cent of the total number of Egypts registered voters, estimated at 50 million. Cairo and Alexandria are expected to see the most fiercely contested electoral showdowns. Cairo is due to elect 54 MPs 18 independents and 36 party-based out of an estimated total of 1,539 candidates. Alexandria, meanwhile, long viewed as an Islamist stronghold, will elect 24 MPs eight independents and 16 party-based. In Egypts second city, 418 independents and 33 party-list candidates will compete for seats in the assembly. Polls will also be hotly contested in the governorate of Port Said, where 103 independents and 13 party-list candidates of almost all political stripes will compete for available seats. The Muslim Brotherhoods Freedom and Justice Party (FJP)http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3154/freedom-and-justice-party, along with Salafist parties and the older secular parties, all hope to secure seats in Cairo and Alexandria. *Click here for more background on participating parties and coalitions.http://egypt.jadaliyya.com/ * Electoral campaigning by Islamist forces, however, has been negatively affected by the recent flurry of protests against military rule in Cairos Tahrir Square. The Islamists decision not to take part in the protests has reportedly cost them some credibility among certain segments of the voting public. That leaders of Islamist and Salafist parties have issued fatwas instructing Muslims not to vote for liberal candidates who they have denounced as unbelievers has also reportedly adversely affected their electoral prospects. There were numerous press reports that Islamist candidates had violated the law against using religious electoral slogans, but we never received any official complaint on this issue, said the SECs Ibrahim. He added that the current Tahrir Square protests had led Islamist forces, led by the Brotherhoods FJP, to exert pressure on the SCAF to hold elections which they are widely expected to sweep on schedule and without delay. Cairos various electoral
[LAAMN] Angry churches pull money from big banks
excerpt I'm involved because I think it is one of the great moral issues of our generation, about how we build our communities, Latz said. As a religious leader, as a person who studies texts, I understand that our first commitment must always be to the most vulnerable among us. ** Angry churches pull money from big banks By Josef Kuhn, Religion News Service The Washington Post Published: November 22, 2011 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/angry-churches-pull-money-from-big-banks/2011/11/22/gIQARUaVlN_story.html A small but growing number of religious communities across the country are removing their money from Wall Street banks to protest what they see as unfair mortgage foreclosures and unwillingness to lend to small businesses. The New Bottom Line (NBL) coalition of congregations, community organizations, labor unions and individuals is promoting a Move Our Money campaign with the goal of shifting $1 billion from big banks to community banks and credit unions. In a way, the banks have divested from our communities, especially communities of color, said the Rev. Ryan Bell, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Los Angeles. So we're basically telling Bank of America that we want them to invest in our communities, and until they do that we're not going to give our money to them. Bell's church was one of six Los Angeles Christian congregations that announced they would divest a collective $2 million from Bank of America and Wells Fargo as part of the Move Our Money campaign. The campaign has been slow to get off the ground; but after a recent national convocation of clergy in New Orleans, about 100 more leaders from a broad cross section of Christian, Jewish and Muslim congregations pledged to move an additional $100 million. The New Orleans gathering was sponsored by PICO National Network, a coalition of more than 1,000 faith-based social justice groups. The Move Our Money website reports that $55 million had been moved as part of the campaign as of Monday (Nov. 21), but that figure pales in comparison to the big banks' trillions in total assets. The campaign singles out Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase for not doing enough to provide home loan modifications to help guard against foreclosure; cramping down on small business lending; and escaping federal taxes by parking assets overseas, even after each bank received billions of taxpayer dollars in federal bailouts. According to Move Our Money organizers, by the end of 2009 Wells Fargo modified loans for only 22 percent of those eligible for modifications under a federal program, and has not changed its foreclosure procedure despite many confirmed reports of 'robo-signing' and other illegal practices. Richele Messick, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo, countered that the bank has participated in more than 600 home preservation workshops and provided more than 700,000 mortgage modifications since 2009, as well as giving more than $219 million to 19,000 nonprofits last year. It's definitely our priority to keep people in their homes and to avoid foreclosure. We're also actively lending to small businesses, Messick said. Bank of America could not be reached for comment. A spokesman for JPMorgan Chase declined to comment, but pointed to the bank's third-quarter earnings report for 2011, which shows that it had increased lending to small businesses by 71 percent from the previous year and had offered 1.2 million trial modifications to home loans since the beginning of 2009. The Move Our Money campaign is separate from the Move Your Money project started two years ago by Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington and economist Rob Johnson. It is also separate from a recent Facebook group that called for a national Bank Transfer Day on Nov. 5 to move funds from for-profit banks to credit unions. The Credit Union National Association reported that 700,000 people joined credit unions nationwide in the month before Bank Transfer Day - more than the 600,000 who joined in all of 2010. The Bank Transfer Day movement claims credit for this uptick. In addition to encouraging private divestments through the Move Our Money campaign, NBL plans to introduce legislation in 50 or more cities around the country that would move taxpayer money out of big banks. One NBL partner group was already successful in San Jose, Calif., which enacted a social responsibility policy a year ago that diverted $1 billion from Bank of America. The policy was the first of its kind in the nation, and similar moves are under discussion in Seattle and Portland, Ore. Rabbi Michael Latz, head of a Reform Jewish congregation in Minneapolis, has participated in meetings with Jewish activist groups and county commissioners discussing a responsible banking policy. I'm involved because I think it is one of the great moral issues of our generation, about how we build our communities, Latz said. As a religious leader, as a person
[LAAMN] [change-links] [occupyla] Ustream
new link http://www.ustream.tv/channel/owslosangeles http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupylacivicengagement I'm about to start ustreaming soon. Please share this link. I'll only have a couple of hours of battery Sent from my iPhone John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper change-li...@change-links.org http://change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email change-links-subscr...@yahoogroups.com (818) 782-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. === http://change-links.org/animated%20palestine%20flag1.gif John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper change-li...@change-links.org http://change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email change-links-subscr...@yahoogroups.com (818) 782-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. === http://change-links.org/animated%20palestine%20flag1.gif [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] [change-links] [occupyla] Latest word
Occupiers have almost encircle City Hall with a human chain The LAPD said they won't make arrest tonight if everyone stays off the street But will make arrest in the next few days, at the will I guess. John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper change-li...@change-links.org http://change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email change-links-subscr...@yahoogroups.com (818) 782-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. === http://change-links.org/animated%20palestine%20flag1.gif [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] occupy san francisco march for immigrant rights
Occupy San Francisco March for Immigrant Rights Photos by David Bacon SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 26NOVEMBER11 - Participants in Occupy San Francisco live in tents in an encampment in Justin Herman Plaza. The camp protests the exploitation of 99% of the population by the wealthiest 1%, as well as police repression and removal of occupy encampments around the country, including the original New York City demonstration, Occupy Wall Street. Camp residents, together with supporters in immigrant rights organizations and unions, marched up Market Street. Marchers carried signs and banners declaring that immigrants are part of the 99%. Prior to the march, they hold a General Assembly to discuss possible actions if the city moves to evict the encampment from Justin Herman Plaza. During the meeting, people wave their fingers in the air to express agreement with the speaker. Other camp residents look through the books in the Occupy Library, or sit reading by their tents. For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org See also Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008) Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008 http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002 See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006) http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575 See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004) http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html -- __ David Bacon, Photographs and Stories http://dbacon.igc.org __ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Egypt: SCAF-organised elections will not satisfy aspirations of the masses
http://www.marxist.com/egypt-elections-will-not-satisfy-aspirations-of-the-masses.htm Egypt: SCAF-organised elections will not satisfy aspirations of the masseshttp://www.marxist.com/egypt-elections-will-not-satisfy-aspirations-of-the-masses.htm Written by Hamid Alizadeh Monday, 28 November 2011 [image: Print]http://www.marxist.com/egypt-elections-will-not-satisfy-aspirations-of-the-masses/print.htm# *On Friday more than a million Egyptian youth, workers and poor yet again assembled in Tahrir Square. The masses have once again risen in an attempt to remove the remnants of the Mubarak regime, which are still in power. Not far from Tahrir, in Abbassiya Square, not more than a couple of thousand people gathered in a pathetic demonstration in support of the SCAF. To the sceptics who did not believe in the revolution, this should be a clear demonstration of the real balance of forces. But at the same time the revolution clearly faces obstacles, not from external forces, but in its own internal contradictions.* Differentiation within the movement [image: The Million Man March held last Tuesday at Tahrir square in Cairo]http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/egypt/22-11-2011_Tahrir_square-million_man_march.jpgThe Million Man March held last Tuesday at Tahrir square in CairoThe past ten days we have witnessed the most intense struggles between the masses and the remnants of the old ruling cliques the SCAF and the Central Security Forces. Day after day hundreds of thousands have gathered in Tahrir Square and fought with the police and the army. More than 40 protestors have been killed and more than 4000 injured. *At the same time the Muslim Brotherhood has come out fully in opposition to the revolution. Not only did it come out against the demonstration on Friday, but in a move aimed at dividing the movement, it called for a separate demonstration against Jerusalems Judaisation.* All the forces that once appeared as a united bloc are increasingly separating out into two distinct camps, between the exploiters and the exploited. On the one side there are the men of business, i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist Salafists, the Liberals and the Army High command. On the other side you find the youth, the workers and the poor, i.e. the working masses who made the revolution, but who do not see any significant change. Massive demonstration [image: Egyptian-protest-friday-of-last-chance]http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/egypt/Egyptian-protest-friday-of-last-chance.JPGFriday of Last ChanceDespite all attempts to undermine it, every hour tens of thousands of protesters streamed into Tahrir Square early Friday morning. The Friday of Last Chance, as the organisers had dubbed the protest, far exceeded the size of the million man march held last Tuesday. Chants of The people are a red line, Down with military rule and Tantawi has gone crazy and now wants to be president could be heard all over the square. Besides Cairo, tens of thousands gathered in other cities across Egypt. I came here on Saturday to join my brothers, protest and fight those brutal officers, said Gamal Ali, a 24-year-old university graduate who sold gas masks on the square, to The Guardian, I don't have money; I decided to sell masks during the day and protest at night. The military is killing us because we are protesting that we don't have jobs. I studied business and now I am a street vendor barely making a living, he said summing up the essence of the situation. All layers of the masses joined in. A number of high school students, organised a march from Giza towards the square to express their solidarity. Also students from the American University in Cairo, who were on strike and had occupied their campus, marched to the rally. A strike was also called by several union bodies. But due to the fact that no national coordinating body or even significant regional bodies exist, such a call did not materialise. Despite this, several factories and workers formations marched to the square. These are very important steps as the working class as was shown in February played the decisive role in bringing down the regime. In the end the future development of the movement is dependent on the involvement of the working class, but it is still early days for a class that has not had experience in organising on a big scale for more than six decades. In spite of all this, working class organisation is crystallizing under the hammer blows of events. What is clear is that workers, at least on an individual basis, had a big presence at the rally. Although all platforms had been removed and all political slogans banned, the spirit in the rally was one of optimism and confidence. The militant protestors agreed on three basic demands: the immediate transfer of power to a civilian body; immediate trials for officers responsible for the killing of protestors since January 25; and the dismantling of the Central Security Forces. The
[LAAMN] Lila Garrett and John Johnson with Occupier updates, Emergency Communique Establishing our Right to Occupy
Hi. At the writing, the OLA encampment is still intact, but likely with a short life. Consider this 'color' for ensuing events, but also pay attention to the proposed Communique.as coming from at least some of the occupiers and expressing many of the thoughts I've heard at my several visits there. Stay tuned. Ed From: John Johnson Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:12 AM To: change-li...@yahoogroups.com Cc: actio...@lists.riseup.net Subject: [LAAMN] [change-links] [occupyla] Latest word Occupiers have almost encircle City Hall with a human chain The LAPD said they won't make arrest tonight if everyone stays off the street But will make arrest in the next few days, at the will I guess. John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper mailto:change-links%40change-links.org change-li...@change-links.org http://change-links.org/ http://change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email mailto:change-links-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com change-links-subscr...@yahoogroups.com (818) 782-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. * * * Lila's show is on, this morning, at 7. I'm pretty sure she'll have phone reports from Occupy LA. unless eviction is going on. I was down there earlier and KPFK was broadcasting non-stop, as of 2 am. Ed Sent: Sun, November 27, 2011 4:30:28 PM Subject: Occupier update Sunday, November 27th, 2011 Friends: In response to your many Emails and calls, City Councilman Bill Rosendahl went down to City Hall and spoke to the Occupiers this morning at 11 o'clock. He and the new President of the City Council, Herb Wesson have pledged to form a City Council Committee specifically to address the goals of the Occupy movement. When those goals are not within the City's province, Rosendahl pledged to take them further.to the State and the Federal Government with the intention of following through. He reaffirmed his support of the movement and his determination to help fulfill its agenda. Specific items mentioned were: getting corporate money out of elections, ending the wars (that one got the greatest applause), developing affordable housing, fixing the infrastructure, and JOBS. (I was there without a laptop or notebook unfortunately so I'm working from memory here.) There were other items. .all good. But he didn't cover everything and it behooves all of us to add our list to his. In the letter Marcy Winograd and I send to Rosendahl and Garcetti we emphasized the following: Freezing foreclosures in Los Angeles. Divesting from toxic banks and instead investing in a city-run credit union. Suing the banks that illegally foreclosed on people's homes. I discussed the foreclosure freeze with him later, reminding him of the Springfield Massachusetts ordinance passed in Sept which does put in place the mechanics for freezing foreclosures, so the model is there. He was very receptive. We, and hopefully all of you, will not drop the subject. The Occupiers, whose intelligence, courtesy and strength brought tears to my eyes, expressed the hope that as many people as possible join them tonight at Kid Park (which is right there on the lawn of City Hall) at about 10:30 when their resistance to being moved out will begin. High profile people are particularly helpful in a situation like this, but numbers matter. I hesitate to ask you to do this since I won't be there myself, but frankly, my knees took as much as they could this morning.and now I'm busy icing them. Also there is no guarantee that there won't be some arrests, so be realistic when you consider this request. We thank Councilman Bill Rosendahl for continuing to be a person of principle and we thank the Occupiers for standing up for the rest of us. You are the true champions of our democracy. Lila Garrett (Host of CONNECT THE DOTS) KPFK 90.7 FM in LA; 98.7 Santa Barbara Airs Mondays from 7AM to 8AM. To pod cast or download the broadcast just use this link: http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=ctd Each show is on line for three months. * * * From: Jan Goodman [mailto:janjer...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 1:33 PM This is an excellent statement. Keep your ears open -- maybe tuned to KPFK 90.7 fm to hear what is going on w Occupy LA consider going down there tonight /or tomorrow to protest the dismantling of OLA. Jan Goodman On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 6:25 AM, dorothyr...@pdsmm.org wrote: I am not sure if this as adopted officially but I think it is a good statement. I will be down at OLA at 11AM. I hope to see many of you there. Today is a stunningly gorgeous day up here on Saddle Peak but I will not be here. I will be at City Hall. Dorothy Reik PDSMM tel:310-291-1300 310-291-1300 Subject: Re: [occupyla] Emergency Communique Establishing our Right to Occupy, Proposal This is stunning, guys. With your permission, I'd like to send it out as an unofficial statement along with a call I'm blasting tonight to get people down here tomorrow. If that's OK, let me
[LAAMN] IRONIC TIMES - 11/28/11
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[LAAMN] Transnational Movement “Encachimbados” Brings Occupy Protests to El Salvador
http://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/transnational-movement-encachimbados-brings-occupy-protests-to-el-salvador/ ** New post on *Voices from El Salvador* http://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/author/voicesfromelsalvador/ Transnational Movement Encachimbados Brings Occupy Protests to El Salvadorhttp://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/transnational-movement-encachimbados-brings-occupy-protests-to-el-salvador/by voicesfromelsalvadorhttp://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/author/voicesfromelsalvador/ by Danielle Mackey San Salvador http://voiceselsalvador.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/telesur.jpg photo credit: Rachel Heidendry The world-wide Occupy Movement arrived to El Salvador on Thanksgiving Day, as a transnational protest in front of the United States Embassy. The movement has designated itself Los Encachimbados, which is a colloquial Salvadoran word meaning indignant. About 70 people gathered, roughly half Salvadoran and half U.S. citizens. The group distributed a press releasehttp://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3324-thanksgiving-rally-of-the-99-encachimbado-and-indignado-in-el-sadelineating the local context of damage that they believe to be caused by the current international economic system. They call the attention of both the U.S. and Salvadoran governments to the free trade model, regional militarization strategies, and environmental destruction and climate changeall policies that the Encachimbados see as designed by a transnational elite, and which result in a low quality of life for the majority of the population of the Americas. People all over the world are tired of these economic and political policies that benefit onl y 1% of our world. Were here in front of the U.S. Embassy because no world-wide change can be generated if the U.S. doesnt change, too, explains Alfredo Carias, a Salvadoran Encachimbados spokesperson. The free trade model between Central America and its northern neighbor is pushing Central American producers out of the market, now that local companies are having to compete directly against U.S. firms without protections, and it has also caused decreased environmental and labor regulations, says Daniel Burridge, an Encachimbados spokesperson, U.S. citizen and resident of El Salvador. In the end, the poor and the environment are the ones footing the bill. The privileges granted to foreign companies through the active free trade agreement that bonds El Salvador and the United States, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA,) has recently yielded a torrid legal battle. The Salvadoran government faces two lawsuitshttp://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/thinking-twice-about-a-gold-rish-pacific-rim-v-el-salvador/for a total of almost $200 million for refusing to grant permissions for the companies to carry out open-pit metallic mining in several regions throughout the country. (One of the two cases is still in arbitrationhttp://www.minec.gob.sv/index.php?option=com_phocadownloadview=categoryid=26:otros-documentosItemid=63; the other is in appealhttp://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/11/commerce-group-lawsuit-update.html .) Surrounding the legal battle is a series of assassinationshttp://upsidedownworld.org/main/el-salvador-archives-74/3117-body-of-young-anti-mining-activist-exhumed-from-common-graveof four environmental activists, all part of the anti-mining movement. Despite the violence, activists maintain pressure on the Salvadoran government to pass a law banning metallic mineral mininghttp://esnomineria.blogspot.com/2010/07/cuatro-razones-para-aprobar-una-ley-que.html. I live in a country subject to free trade agreements where mining companies can arrive, rob the few resources that we have, and leave our land contaminated and suffering. Im here today because I dream of real social change for my country, explains nineteen year-old Salvadoran citizen and Encachimbados participant, Lorena. The militarization strategies embraced by the U.S. and Salvadoran governments, according to the Encachimbados press release, criminalize social protest, subject national security systems to intervention and supervision by the U.S. government and facilitate violent repression of activities that jeopardize the interests of global capital. Two days prior to the Encachimbados protest, in a move that many qualify as a militaristic violation of the Salvadoran Peace Accords, President Mauricio Funes swore in a new Minister of Security and Justic ehttp://upsidedownworld.org/main/el-salvador-archives-74/3325-ex-general-replaces-leftist-leader-in-el-salvadors-security-cabinet-as-washington-reasserts-influence-in-central-america, the retired army general David Munguía Payés. Evidencehttp://www.elfaro.net/es/20/noticias/6544/published by the El Faro newspaper reveals that the firing of the previous minister and the selection of a retired army general to replace him was a decision made under pressure from
[LAAMN] The Venezuelan Bourgeoisie is an Unburied Corpse
[image: Logo Venezuela Analysis] The Venezuelan Bourgeoisie is an Unburied Corpse Nov 28th 2011, by Modesto Emilio Guerrero, Roland Denis Roland Denis, graduate in Philosophy from the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas, former Vice-minister of Planning and Development under Hugo Chávez, public figure in the 13th of April movement and Our America, has become one of the most derisive figures for the revolution throughout these past 12 years of Chavismo. Originally from a bourgeois family, he broke with his class during his adolescence in order to dedicate himself to revolutionary militancy. Author of The Makers of the Rebellion (2001) and another book which he presented this week in Buenos Aires: The Three Republics Portrait of a Transition Towards Another Kind of Politics. The bitterness that he usually causes within the Chavista bureaucracy is inversely proportional to the irreducible image of the rebel within the Bolivarian revolution, who presents a different type of theoretical politics and debate to that of the existing regime. Fortunately he is not alone, although he is the most well known. His role in Venezuela evokes a controversial character described by Thomas Jefferson, who coined the phrase the terrible child (Lenfant terrible) in 1971. *Venezuela is currently entering the most dangerous electoral test for Chavismo so far. The president will be elected in October (of next year), governors in December and then a couple of months later, mayors and the city council. What could happen? * RD. Well, I think that everything is going to revolve around the figure of Chavez, and that he is doubtlessly going to win, all indicators point towards that outcome. He currently has 58% support in the opinion polls. But the situation is not easy for Chavismo, there is too much malaise. *Do you still think he will win, why?* RD. Whats happening is that the figure of Chavez is undefeatable in terms of what we are talking about, in leadership, in the current context of the country. The Venezuelan rightwing helps because it is very decadent, linked to extremely dark circles. The Venezuelan bourgeoisie has been sterilised politically speaking, its been left with no historical breath or a project for the country. It is an unburied corpse that we need to bury. *The cancer that President Chavez is suffering from, could it function as an electoral or political determinant?* RD. Look, yes it is a key factor when Roger Noriega is wandering round announcing his (Chavezs) death within a few months. That is what they want, and their interests to implant the beginnings of a destabilisation project. In reality, its very difficult to know, nobody knows the exact level of danger. He says that they cured him and I believe him when he says it, we have seen him being active. Everything depends on the type of cancer he has and which organ the cancer is in. Until the government clarifies all this, we cant be certain of anything. *What has happened to the millions of frozen Chavista votes since the end of 2007?* *RD. They continue to be disillusioned; their disillusion has perhaps even grown. A good part of Chavezs foreign policy is alienating them, the type of relationship that he has with Santos, the legitimisation of the Lobos government in Honduras and the OAS, the handing over or capturing of the Colombian guerrillas and those of ETA in Venezuela; the criminalisation of labour and social protests, the gross administrative inefficiency of the government, the risky concessions being made to multinationals, the collapse of the project to implement a non-capitalist economy. Did you know that the private economic sphere has grown more than that of the state and workers controlled economy combined? This disappointment could be even greater if they dared to apply the Law of Transition, that would allow a pact between the government and the bourgeoisie. In terms of Chavez not being in power, millions of Chavistas would reject it. Foreign policy is currently beginning to converge with national policy.* *You are referring to the change of direction at the heart of the Venezuelan government in terms of continental geopolitics?* RD. Exactly! *Could the scenario where Chavez wins, but Chavismo loses its majority in the governorships and mayoralties be a possibility? Producing a situation similar to that of Allende (Chilean president elected in 1970), a president who has no territorial power?* RD. That is what is going to happen, its highly probable. This year, a slogan appeared within the popular movement, Long live Chavez, down with the government. The rejection of state functionaries, of inefficiency, corruption, lies and dual conduct, as well as the riding roughshod over social activists, is enormous. Government functionaries maintain an ultra-leftist discourse whilst maintaining right-wing practices. *Will the Great Patriotic Pole counteract this malaise? * It is a definite fact that the Great
[LAAMN] Julian Assange: Internet Has Become 'Surveillance Machine', Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking at 'Unprecedented' Levels
Today marks exactly one year since Wikileaks began massive releasing of data, for which he has just been honored by the Australian equivelant of the Pulitzer Prize (per DN, this morning). It also marks the end game of the Arctic Sea. _Ed The Internet itself had become 'the most significant surveillance machine that we have ever seen,' Assange said in reference to the amount of information people give about themselves online. (photo: Andrew Winning/Reuters) http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/article_imgs5k/5090-julian-as sange-112811.jpg The Internet itself had become 'the most significant surveillance machine that we have ever seen,' Assange said in reference to the amount of information people give about themselves online. (photo: Andrew Winning/Reuters) Internet Has Become 'Surveillance Machine' Julian Assange Agence France-Presse: 28 November 11 http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-W.jpg ikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the mainstream media, Washington, banks and the Internet itself as he addressed journalists in Hong Kong on Monday via videolink from house arrest in England. Fresh from accepting a top award for journalism from the prestigious Walkley Foundation in his native Australia on Sunday, Assange spoke to the News World Summit in Hong Kong before keeping a regular appointment with the police. He defended his right to call himself a journalist and said WikiLeaks' next battle would be to ensure that the Internet does not turn into a vast surveillance tool for governments and corporations. Of course I'm a goddamn journalist, he responded with affected frustration when a moderator of the conference asked if he was a member of the profession. He said his written record spoke for itself and argued that the only reason people kept asking him if he was a journalist was because the United States' government wanted to silence him. The United States government does not want legal protection for us, he said, referring to a US Justice Department investigation into his whistle-blower website for releasing secret diplomatic and military documents. The former hacker criticised journalists and the mainstream media for becoming too cosy with the powerful and secretive organisations they were supposed to be holding to account. In a 40-minute address, he also accused credit card companies such as Visa and Mastercard of illegally cutting WikiLeaks off from funding under a secret deal with the White House. Issues that should be decided in open court are being decided in back rooms in Washington, he said. The Internet itself had become the most significant surveillance machine that we have ever seen, Assange said in reference to the amount of information people give about themselves online. It's not an age of transparency at all ... the amount of secret information is more than ever before, he said, adding that information flows in but is not flowing out of governments and other powerful organisations. I see that really is our big battle. The technology gives and the technology takes away, he added. The anti-secrecy activist then help up a handwritten sign from an aide telling him to stop talking or he would be late for a mandatory appointment with police. Assange, 40, is under house arrest in England pending the outcome of a Swedish extradition request over claims of rape and sexual assault made by two women. He says he is the victim of a smear campaign. * * * Published on Thursday, November 24, 2011 by http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/11/22/science-arctic-sea-ice-l oss.html CBC News Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking at 'Unprecedented' Levels by Emily Chung The recent loss of sea ice in the Arctic is greater than any natural variation in the past 1½ millennia, a Canadian study shows. http://www.commondreams.org/sites/commondreams.org/files/imagecache/headlin e_image/article_images/arcticseaiceloss_unprecedented.jpg According to the leading science journal Nature, Arctic sea ice is disappearing on a pace and magnitude unlike anything the Earth has experienced in the past 1,450 years. (Photograph by: HO, Reuters) The recent sea ice decline appears to be unprecedented, said Christian Zdanowicz, a glaciologist at Natural Resources Canada, who co-led the study and is a co-author of the paper published Wednesday online in Nature. We kind of have to conclude that there's a strong chance that there's a human influence embedded in that signal. In September, Germany's University of Bremen reported that sea ice had hit a record low, based on data from a Japanese sensor on NASA's Aqua satellite. The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, using a different satellite data set, reported that the sea ice coverage in 2011 was the second-lowest on record, after the record set in 2007. What makes recent sea ice declines unique is that they have been driven by multiple factors that never all coincided in historical periods of major sea ice loss, said
