[LAAMN] Afghan Human Rights Activist Malalai Joya Speaking Tour ~ Saturday, October 19th, 1:30 PM at Harvey Mudd College ~ Saturday, Oct. 19th, 7:00 PM at All Saints Church in Pasadena ~ Monday, Oct.
United National Antiwar Coalition Afghan Women's Mission Present MALALAI JOYA National Speaking Tour www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malalai_Joya - www.afghanwomensmission.org Acclaimed Afghan Human Rights Activist Author, Malalai Joya, Returns to the US this Fall, For a National Tour Coinciding with the 12th Anniversary of the Start of the US War in Afghanistan. Malalai Joya is the Author of: A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice www.amazon.com/Woman-Among-Warlords-Extraordinary-Afghan/dp/1439109478 ~~~ Saturday, October 19th, 1:30 PM Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd, Claremont 91711 ~~~ Saturday, October 19th, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM All Saints Church 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena 91101 Emcee Sonali Kolhatkar Host of KPFK's Uprising Co-Director of Afghan Women's Mission Book Signing to Follow Talk will Include Copy of Joya's Book A Woman Among Warlords Entrance Is Free - Suggested $10 Donation Media Sponsor is KPFK 90.7 FM www.kpfk.org Monday, October 21st, 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon Cal State Fullerton Langsdorf Hall (LH) Room 318, Cal State Fullerton (LH is along Nutwood Ave) Campus Map: www.fullerton.edu/campusmap Media Sponsor KPFK 90.7 FM [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] Progressive Democrats of America Invites You to a Special Evening with John Nichols Robert McChesney ~ Sunday, October 20th, 4:00 to 6:00 PM at the Home of Nina Marc Mersen in Sherman Oaks
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1987/images/Banner%20Templates/CA.png Progressive Democrats of America Cordially Invites You to Join Us for a Special Evening http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1987/images/Nichols-McChesney-600x215.jpg Join Authors John Nichols Robert McChesney For an Intimate Book Signing Conversation about Their Book Dollarocracy: How the Money Media Election Complex Is Destroying America Sunday, October 20th, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM At the Home of Nina Marc Mersen in Sherman Oaks Address Provided Upon Registration Join our HOST COMMITTEE - $100.00 Or Be a SPONSOR - $75.00 Or Be a SUPPORTER - $50.00 Or Attend as an ACTIVIST - $35.00 More info. / RSVP Click Here http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=5fmqEwlTV13TrsdDjY03IbcIEC194fxf or Contact: fi...@pdamerica.org mailto:fi...@pdamerica.org?subject=Info%20%2F%20RSVP%20Dollarocracy%20Event John Nichols is one of The Nation's most prominent political commentators, and Robert McChesney is a preeminent scholar of media issues, show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics. In Dollarocracy, they explain how American democracy is declining as the range of debate is increasingly controlled by big-money campaign contributions, wall-to-wall lobbying, and media more inclined to repeat spin than to dig for the truth. We look forward to seeing you there! For Democracy Not Dollarocracy Tim Carpenter Conor Boylan Representing The PDA National Team Host Committee (in Formation): Aris Anagnos, Cary Brown, Christina Coolidge, Nick Donovan, Mary Fenstermacher, Lila Garrett, Wendy Gladwin, Mike Goldman, Russell Greene, Leah Herzberg, Bill Hess, Karen Hinks, Mimi Kennedy, Nina Merson, Shirley Monson, Sarah Nichols, Dr. Sota Omoigui, Ilene Proctor, Dorothy Reik, Mervis Reissig, Lance Simmens, David Schneiderman, David Sonneborn, Dr. Omoigui Sota, and Liz Warren http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1987/images/PDAFooter7.png
[LAAMN] Progressive Democrats of America Invites You to a Special Evening with John Nichols Robert McChesney ~ Sunday, October 20th, 4:00 to 6:00 PM at the Home of Nina Marc Mersen in Sherman Oaks
Progressive Democrats of America Cordially Invites You to Join Us for a Special Evening Join Authors John Nichols Robert McChesney For an Intimate Book Signing Conversation about Their Book Dollarocracy: How the Money Media Election Complex Is Destroying America Sunday, October 20th, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM At the Home of Nina Marc Mersen in Sherman Oaks Address Provided Upon Registration Join our HOST COMMITTEE - $100.00 Or Be a SPONSOR - $75.00 Or Be a SUPPORTER - $50.00 Or Attend as an ACTIVIST - $35.00 More info. / RSVP Click Here http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=5fmqEwlTV13TrsdDjY03IbcIEC1 94fxf or Contact: fi...@pdamerica.org mailto:fi...@pdamerica.org?subject=Info%20%2F%20RSVP%20Dollarocracy%20Event John Nichols is one of The Nation's most prominent political commentators, and Robert McChesney is a preeminent scholar of media issues, show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics. In Dollarocracy, they explain how American democracy is declining as the range of debate is increasingly controlled by big-money campaign contributions, wall-to-wall lobbying, and media more inclined to repeat spin than to dig for the truth. We look forward to seeing you there! For Democracy Not Dollarocracy Tim Carpenter Conor Boylan Representing The PDA National Team Host Committee (in Formation): Aris Anagnos, Cary Brown, Christina Coolidge, Nick Donovan, Mary Fenstermacher, Lila Garrett, Wendy Gladwin, Mike Goldman, Russell Greene, Leah Herzberg, Bill Hess, Karen Hinks, Mimi Kennedy, Nina Merson, Shirley Monson, Sarah Nichols, Dr. Sota Omoigui, Ilene Proctor, Dorothy Reik, Mervis Reissig, Lance Simmens, David Schneiderman, David Sonneborn, Dr. Omoigui Sota, and Liz Warren [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] Eyewitness Syria Forum ~ Saturday October 19th, 7:00 PM at The Glendale Public Library ~ With Ramsey Clark, Cynthia McKinney, Sara Flounders, John Parker, Dedon Kamathi Johnny Achi
Arab Americans For Syria Invite You To An Eyewitness Syria Forum Saturday October 19th - 7:00 PM at The Glendale Public Library 222 E. Harvard Street, Glendale 91205 A Discussion about the Recent Developments in Syria and the Recent US Peace Delegation Visit to Syria. Guest Speakers Include: Ramsey Clark: Former US Attorney General Human Rights Lawyer Cynthia McKinney: 6-Term Former US Congresswoman Green Party’s Candidate for President in 2008 Sara Flounders: International Action Center Co-Coordinator John Parker: International Action Center West Coast Coordinator Dedon Kamathi: The All African People's Revolutionary Party KPFK Radio Pacifica Host Johnny Achi: Arab Americans for Syria Coordinator Suggested $10 Donation at the Door. No One Turned Away. Please Tell All Your Friends and Bring As Many People As You Can. Thank You for Your Support for Syria. Questions Contact John Parker: 323-899-2003 or: johnthompsonpar...@gmail.com The Delegation was Organized by Arab Americans for Syria The International Action Center www.facebook.com/AA4Syria - www.iacenter.org
[LAAMN] SHUT DOWN The School of the Americas Vigil ~ Converge on Fort Benning, Georgia! ~ November 22-24, 2013
SHUT DOWN The School of the Americas Vigil Converge on Fort Benning! - November 22-24, 2013 www.soaw.org - Phone: 202-234-3440 - Email: i...@soaw.org Mark Your Calendars! Tell Your Friends! We're heading to Fort Benning, Georgia, from November 22-24 http://www.soaw.org/november to keep up the pressure to close the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC). We carry with us the https://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/t/10656/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=777t= store_item_KEY=3430 strength of social movements in Latin America who are turning their back on the SOA. We won't stop! Will You Join Us? Read about why we mobilize. http://www.soaw.org/november/schedule/why-we-mobilize Thousands will gather at the gates, with speakers, music, street theater, workshops and networking with people from across the Americas. We come together at the gates of Fort Benning - where the killers are trained - to demand an end to US militarization and to impunity. The Vigil weekend is your opportunity to connect your communities with those across the hemisphere who are resisting Empire. In addition to the main funeral procession on Sunday, November 24, we will again have rallies, concerts, workshops http://www.soaw.org/november/conference/register-your-workshop , caucuses and street theater on Friday and Saturday. And this year, on Friday, November 22, we will once again kick off the weekend joining our sisters and brothers to demand the closure of private detention prisons, like the Stewart Detention Center, and to highlight the connection between militarization and forced migration. Come early! Check our our NEW Vigil website and STAY connected! http://www.soaw.org/november Activate Your Community! Getting ready for the Vigil is easier than you think. Each of us can be an organizer when we talk to our family and friends about US militarization. It all starts with you! Here are four things you can do right now: Tell your friends about the Vigil! http://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/p/salsa/web/tellafriend/public/?tell_a_frien d_KEY=11912 Order a set of 100 bilingual Vigil palmcards at 100 for $6 https://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/t/10656/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=777t= store_item_KEY=3430 which are a great way to get people talking. Invite a Speaker! SOA Watch Activante in Honduras Brigitte Gynther and Latin American Liaison Lisa Sullivan will be hot on the speakers trail and are looking to come to your community! Contact Dominique at: domini...@soaw.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you can host a speaker. Plan your trip to Columbus http://www.soaw.org/november/info/how-to-get-to-columbus and find places to stay http://www.soaw.org/november/info/staying-in-columbus . Please Help Fund the School of the Americas Watch Vigil at Fort Benning. Make check or money order out to SOA Watch. And send to: SOA Watch 5525 Illinois Avenue NW Washington, DC 20011 If sending a check, please indicate that you would like your donation to go toward the November Vigil. If you'd like to make a tax-deductible donation, please write a check to SOA Watch Educational Fund and mail it to the above address or: click here to make a tax-deductible donation online https://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page _KEY=8057 . Why We Mobilize We will converge, many thousands strong, at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia in November because justice will not be delivered unto us. We will come to demand it. We mobilize because standing still is not an option... Remaining silent during slavery was to take the side of the slave owner, remaining silent now is to take the side of those who are committing genocide against the earth and the people... Because memory is not static. History is not a museum. Our narrative is too great for history books, our legacy larger than any casket or mass grave. Because reckless heaps of Earth in clandestine burials cannot silence the ghosts of our ancestors. No-these memories live on. Truth cannot be obscured by courts which pretend to dispense justice (paraphrase: Arundhati Roy). Truth is the glowing ember of justice. Let us feed the fire. Let us breathe life into the flame until it rises, white hot, to the heavens and banishes the dark from the night. We will converge, many thousands strong, at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia in November because justice will not be delivered unto us. We will come to demand it. To strip Empire of its mask of benevolence. We must mobilize to attack the icon-the gun, the prison, the border-and dismantle its foundations. Peace activists, indigenous peoples, student movements, prison abolitionists, activists for immigrant rights, fearless undocumented youth demanding liberation, and more will come to share their perspectives and strategy. Those who fight with their voice, the drum, the ballot, the paintbrush will come to show us their vision of another world. We will mobilize at the gates
[LAAMN] A Talk by Chris Hedges ~ Sunday, October 13th, 11:00 AM ~ At Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club ~ The Myth of Human Progress the Collapse of Complex Societies ~ Discussion Led Afterwards by Rob
A Truthdig Talk by Chris Hedges The Myth of Human Progress the Collapse of Complex Societies Discussion Led Afterwards by Truthdig's Robert Scheer Sunday, October 13th - 11:00 AM At Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club 1210 Fourth Street, Santa Monica 90401 The myth of human progress, the unexamined belief in the ability of our industrial and technological society to save us from collapse, is a form of magical thinking. These forces, in fact, will ensure that the descent will be swifter and more brutal. Chris Hedges will examine this myth and others that have left us collectively self-deluded. He will look at effective forms of resistance and rebellion in an age of totalitarian capitalism and at ways to keep our lives whole and sane as we begin to face the great unraveling. Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges ' talk will be followed by a conversation with Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer http://www.truthdig.com/robert_scheer and a Q A with the audience. Tickets: $100: Limited Gold Circle (Premier Seating Plus Admission to Reception) $60: Silver Circle (Preferred Seating Plus Admission to Reception) $25: General Admission $15: Veterans Students (with ID) To Purchase Tickets Visit: www.truthdig.com/hedgesinperson By Purchasing a Ticket You Help Support Truthdig and Independent Journalism. Questions Contact Janet Buehl 310-876-2344 - jbu...@truthdig.com This Truthdig Event is Co-Sponsored by KPFK 90.7 FM Radio - CODEPINK ADDICTED To WAR Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. The Los Angeles Press Club honored Hedges' original columns in Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year in 2009 and again in 2011. The LAPC also granted him the Best Online Column award in 2010 for his Truthdig essay One Day We'll All Be Terrorists http://www.truthdig.com/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truthdig.com%2Freport%2Fitem% 2Fone_day_well_all_be_terrorists_20091228%2F . Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. He currently teaches inmates at a correctional facility in New Jersey. Hedges began his career reporting the war in El Salvador. Following six years in Latin America, he took time off to study Arabic and then went to Jerusalem and later Cairo. He spent seven years in the Middle East, most of them as the bureau chief there for The New York Times. He left the Middle East in 1995 for Sarajevo to cover the war in Bosnia and later reported the war in Kosovo. Afterward, he joined the Times' investigative team and was based in Paris to cover al-Qaida. He left the Times after being issued a formal reprimand for denouncing the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. He has written twelve books, including Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008) and the best-selling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2008). His book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In 2011, Nation Books published a collection of Hedges' Truthdig columns called The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress. Hedges holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif. Hedges speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and knows ancient Greek and Latin. In addition to writing a weekly original column for Truthdig, he has written for Harper's Magazine, The New Statesman, The New York Review of Books, Adbusters, Granta, Foreign Affairs and other publications. www.truthdig.com [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 ---
[LAAMN] Daniel Pearl World Music Days ~ Thursday, October 10th, 7:00 to 10:00 PM ~ At Santa Monica Synagogue - Harmony For Humanity Concert ~ Hosted by Ross Altman
Sent from Ross Altman: greygoosemu...@aol.com Harmony For Humanity Concert It's Time To Start Singing Again Thursday October 10th - 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM At The Santa Monica Synagogue 1448 18th Street, Santa Monica 90404 (310) 453-4276 Hosted by Ross Altman FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Program: Rabbi Jeff Marx Welcoming Remarks Poem by Judea Pearl--read by Ross Altman It's Time to Start Singing Again: A Folk Music Concert Featuring Guest Artists: Mika'ele McClellan Carol McArthur Paul Zollo Martha Stevens--Storyteller Neil Harburg April Halprin Wayland Bob McAllen Jill Fenimore Alex Alejandro Soschin Tom Graham At Home In the World by Daniel Pearl--Read by Ross Altman CONCERT DEDICATION On what would have been Daniel Pearl's 50th birthday (October 10, 1963) we celebrate Harmony for Humanity, an evening of music from many walks of life and national origins, from America to Egypt. In keeping with the mandate of Daniel Pearl World Music Days we feature an evening of music that highlights efforts to build bridges across divisions of misunderstanding, to create links on the chain of our common humanity, and to forge a peaceful world. The tragedy of Daniel Pearl's murder in Pakistan on February 1, 2002 carries that challenge into the 21st Century and makes even more vivid the human spirit that must prevail if we are to avoid the ultimate catastrophe of obliterating what Pearl eloquently described as My Favorite Planet, an album adapted from his stories for the Wall Street Journal that carried him into the heart of darkness. As a light bringer he remains a steadfast symbol of hope and courage in the face of evil. Daniel Pearl was a musician as well as a journalist and his violin--like his pen--will be remembered as mightier than the sword, for they have outlasted his shortened life. Join us for an evening of music, poetry and storytelling that welcomes a diverse audience of artists, veteran peace activists and organizers for social change to come together for an evening devoted to the ideal for which Daniel Pearl gave his life--Harmony for Humanity. (c) 2013 Grey Goose Music ### ### ### ### ### ### Happy Birthday, John Lennon [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] Support Our Friend Kwazi Nkrumah, Who Has Been Falsely Accused of Organizing a Riot ~ Come Support Kwazi this Wednesday, October 9th, 9:30 AM at the LA City Attorney's Office - 312 South Hill
Support Our Friend Kwazi Nkrumah, Who Has Been Falsely Accused of Organizing a Riot Kwazi Nkrumah: Co-Chair, Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater Los Angeles: FOR JOBS, JUSTICE AND PEACE - NOT WAR, POVERTY AND PRISONS www.mlkcoalitionforjobsjusticeandpeace.org Dear Friends, I have known Kwazi for over 12 years now. He is a great activist and a wonderful person. I have the highest respect for him. I am not sure what date this happened. I know it was very recently. Come to show support your for Kwazi this Wednesday, October 9th, 9:30 AM at the LA City Attorney's Office - 312 South Hill Street, Los Angeles - 2nd Floor. In Peace, Frank Dorrel Message from Kwazi Nkrumah: kwazinkru...@aol.com Victory in Long Beach Superior Court Yesterday: The main charges against me from the Occupy the Ports action in December of 2011, plus a totally false failure to appear charge which was added later, were dropped by the Long Beach Prosecutor's office yesterday. In exchange for 8 hours of community service, the 2 minor misdemeanor charges remaining will be dismissed. Thanks to all my friends from Occupy and the community who supported me! Now, on to the organizing a riot charges in L.A. I invite all supporters who can to come down to the LA City Attorney's Office, Wednesday, October 9th, 9:30 AM. The address is 312 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, 2nd floor - to protest the attempt to classify non-violent protests as riot-making, as well as the recent decision of City Attorney Mike Feuer (a so-called liberal) to impose a gang injunction on Echo Park against the will of the Neighborhood Council and the majority of residents living there. Please join us if you can! -- Kwazi Nkrumah, Co-Chair, Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater Los Angeles. ~~~ Sent from Dorothy Reik: dorothyr...@pdsmm.org Unbelievably our friend Kwazi Nkrumah, has been accused of starting a riot when he participated in a peaceful demonstration in Los Angeles. I hope you will join me in writing a letter to Mike Feuer expressing your objections! Last night at our Gasland showing we discussed the part of the film dealing with Psyops and John Cromshaw asked if I had experienced it - I said yes - Occupy was destroyed by psyops - convincing the public that Occupy participants were criminals - separating the middle class supporters from the others by portraying them as criminals and treating them so harshly that middle class participants were frightened away. Now they are calling peaceful protests riots. A message from Kwazi is below. Please copy him on any messages to Feuer. You can e-mail me your letters and I will print and fax them. I will send a letter from PDSMM if no one objects. If you can go to Feuer's office to support Kwazi please go. ~~ Activist Kwazi Nkrumah Arrested at Long Beach Port By http://www.laprogressive.com/author/sharon-kyle/ Sharon Kyle of LA Progressive www.laprogressive.com/kwazi-nkrumah-arrested Occupy Activist Arrested This morning, one of our readers contacted the LA Progressive to report that long-time activist, Kwazi Nkrumah, had been arrested in Long Beach where the Occupy Movement was gathering as part of “Occupy the Ports”, a coordinated West Coast port shutdown. I met Kwazi several years ago in law school and have grown to respect and admire him for his unyielding commitment to public interest causes. Kwazi Nkrumah is nationally respected as a community organizer and labor activist. Long before there was an Occupy movement, Kwazi was leading campaigns against mortgage foreclosures in Maryland and California and fought on many fronts in the labor movement. Recently, Kwazi and his partner, Sabina Virgo, have been leading an effort in Los Angeles to support families who are losing their homes. I contacted Sabina this afternoon and learned that the Long Beach police arrested Kwazi at approximately 8 a.m. this morning – a full hour before the police issued an order to disperse to the crowd that was assembling at the port. When I spoke with Sabina at approximately 3 p.m. today, she told me she had had two telephone conversations with Kwazi since his arrest. She said he is being held in Long Beach on $10,000 bail. I asked about the conditions at the jail. Sabina said that Kwazi told her that he was warm and dry — on this rare cold, rainy day in Southern California. Unfortunately, although bail has been set, Sabina learned that Kwazi cannot be released until the Long Beach Police Department completes its procedural requirements, which include contacting other law enforcement agencies and getting some form of clearance from them
[LAAMN] Free Screening of: The Last Stand: The Struggle for Ballona Wetlands ~ Saturday, October 5th, Noon at G2 Gallery Green Earth Film Festival in Venice ~ Screening of: Heroes at Ballona Wetlan
SCREENING #1 THE FEATURE! The Last Stand: The Struggle for Ballona Wetlands - (2000) (60 Minutes) Award Winning Film Hosted by Ed Asner with Joni Mitchell Music - Followed by QA with Filmmaker Sheila Laffey Saturday, October 5th at 12:00 Noon At G2 Gallery Green Earth Film Festival 1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice 90291 Limited free parking in alley behind gallery, to the south before Venice Blvd. www.calendar.theg2gallery.com/g2-gallery-film-festival-2 JOIN THIS EVENT ON FACEBOOK - www.facebook.com/events/150576175151939 www.imdb.com/title/tt0192233 - SCREENING #2: THE SHORT! The Last Stand: Heroes at Ballona Wetlands - (2004) (24 Minutes) Award Winning Short with Filmmaker Sheila Laffey Sunday, October 6th at 12:00 Noon At G2 Gallery Green Earth Film Festival 1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice 90291 www.calendar.theg2gallery.com/g2-gallery-film-festival JOIN THIS EVENT ON FACEBOOK- www.facebook.com/events/404752026319548 Film Trailer: www.naturalheroes.org/videos/the-last-stand-heros-at-the-ballona-wetlands Location Photos: www.envirofilms.com/photosvideos/the-last-stand-gallery Thank You! Sheila Laffey - Producer/Director sheilalaf...@icloud.com - 310-453-4272
[LAAMN] Special Staged Reading of: THE LAST DANCE ~ Featuring Ed Asner ~ Sunday, October 6th, 8:00 PM at The Road On Magnolia in North Hollywood ~ Talk-Back with Artists Reception with Live Jazz P
Special Staged Reading of THE LAST DANCE Featuring Ed Asner Sunday, October 6th at 8:00 PM At The Road On Magnolia 10747 Magnolia Blvd, North Hollywood 91601 http://www.roadtheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/Dance15-copy.jpg Dance15 copy The Last Dance By Jack Neworth and Cary Shulman Directed by Jack Bannon Talk-Back with Artists Reception with Live Jazz Performed by the Theo Stevens Trio Suggested Donation of $20 to Benefit The Road Theatre Company https://roadtheatre.secure.force.com/ticket/#details_a0OG009sGPAMA2 RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW FOR THE LAST DANCE ! One of the many rewards of being an actor is to be involved with groundbreaking work like the part of Jake in The Last Dance. It gives me the chance to celebrate the Road Theatre's artistic voice, whose mission for 23 seasons has been hosting and showcasing new talent. -Ed Asner The Last Dance Jake's a 77-year-old ex-Marine Medal of Honor recipient. In a remote Mexican fishing village, he lives with Gloria, a renowned artist, in a volatile relationship troubled by Jake's mysterious past. Gloria's convinced his delusional behavior is from pain medications. Or is it guilt from his involvement fifty years ago in the most notorious event of the 20th century? Cast Jake-Ed Asner Gloria-Julie Sanford Javier-David Michie Ryan-Tom Musgrave Harper-Danielle Stephens EDWARD ASNER Versatile, committed, eloquent and talented are all adjectives that describe actor/activist 7-Time Emmy Award, Edward Asner who starred as Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's 2009 box-office-hit UP!, which won Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score -Motion Picture, at the 67th Annual Golden GlobeR Awards as well as receiving The Outstanding Animated Film Award at the 82nd Oscars. Asner just finished a limited run on Broadway in the comedy drama Grace opposite Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon and Kate Arrington which was written by Craig Wright and directed by Dexter Bullard. Asner has also been touring the country as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the critically acclaimed one man show FDR which he has been doing for over three years. Asner most recently completed multiple guest star appearances on the CBS primetime series Hawaii Five-O starring Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan where he reprised his role from 25 years ago; and also guest spot on TV Land's Hot In Cleveland with Betty White and completed a guest starring role on the ABC series The Middle starring Patricia Heaton and went on to guest star as Henry Winkler's father on USA Network's Royal Pains. Asner also stars opposite Carol Kane in the upcoming indie feature film Should've Been Romeo a slice of life drama also starring Paul Ben Victor and just premiered at The Newport Film Festival and is touring the festivals across the country. Asner also stars in the short film Good Men opposite Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) directed by Brian Connors and is touring festivals across the country. Asner also portrayed Warren Buffet in the critically acclaimed HBO telefilm drama Too Big To Fail starring William Hurt, Paul Giamatti, James Woods, Topher Grace and Tony Shalhoub and directed by Curtis Hanson. Asner also starred in the CMT primetime sitcom series Working Classas Hank Krasny, the local butcher also starring Melissa Peterman and Patrick Fabian. Asner also stars in the upcoming indie feature Let Go, a comedy drama in which he portrays an ex-con on parole opposite David Denman, Jack Carter, Garrett Morris directed by Brian Jet who wrote the film and Elephant Sighs directed by Ed Simpson. He also was featured in the comedy Not Another B Movie directed by John Wesley Norton. Asner is best known for his comedic and dramatic crossover as the gruff but soft-hearted journalist Lou Grant, the role he originated on the landmark TV news room comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show and continued in the newspaper-set drama Lou Grant, which earned him five Emmys and three Golden Globe Awards. Asner received two more Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots. His prolific and much honored acting career demonstrates a consummate ability to transcend the line between comedy and drama. One of the most honored actors in the history of television; Edward Asner has been the recipient of seven Emmy Awards and 16 nominations, as well as five Golden Globe Awards and served as National President of the Screen Actors Guild for two terms. He was inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 1996. Asner received the Ralph Morgan Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2000, presented periodically for distinguished service to the Guild's Hollywood membership. In March 2002, he was again honored by The Guild as the 38th recipient of the prestigious Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment, presented annually to an actor who fosters the highest ideals of the profession. In 2012, Asner was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from The
[LAAMN] A Talk by Chris Hedges ~ Sunday, October 13th, 11:00 AM ~ At Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club ~ The Myth of Human Progress the Collapse of Complex Societies ~ Discussion Led Afterwards by Rob
The Myth of Human Progress the Collapse of Complex Societies A Truthdig Talk by Chris Hedges Discussion Led Afterwards by Truthdig's Robert Scheer Sunday, October 13th - 11:00 AM At Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club 1210 Fourth Street, Santa Monica 90401 The myth of human progress, the unexamined belief in the ability of our industrial and technological society to save us from collapse, is a form of magical thinking. These forces, in fact, will ensure that the descent will be swifter and more brutal. Chris Hedges will examine this myth and others that have left us collectively self-deluded. He will look at effective forms of resistance and rebellion in an age of totalitarian capitalism and at ways to keep our lives whole and sane as we begin to face the great unraveling. Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges ' talk will be followed by a conversation with Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer http://www.truthdig.com/robert_scheer and a Q A with the audience. Tickets: $100: Limited Gold Circle (Premier Seating Plus Admission to Reception) $60: Silver Circle (Preferred Seating Plus Admission to Reception) $25: General Admission $15: Veterans Students (with ID) To Purchase Tickets Visit: www.truthdig.com/hedgesinperson By Purchasing a Ticket You Help Support Truthdig and Independent Journalism. Questions Contact Janet Buehl 310-876-2344 - jbu...@truthdig.com This Truthdig Event is Co-Sponsored with KPFK 90.7 FM Radio ADDICTED To WAR Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. The Los Angeles Press Club honored Hedges' original columns in Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year in 2009 and again in 2011. The LAPC also granted him the Best Online Column award in 2010 for his Truthdig essay One Day We'll All Be Terrorists http://www.truthdig.com/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truthdig.com%2Freport%2Fitem% 2Fone_day_well_all_be_terrorists_20091228%2F . Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. He currently teaches inmates at a correctional facility in New Jersey. Hedges began his career reporting the war in El Salvador. Following six years in Latin America, he took time off to study Arabic and then went to Jerusalem and later Cairo. He spent seven years in the Middle East, most of them as the bureau chief there for The New York Times. He left the Middle East in 1995 for Sarajevo to cover the war in Bosnia and later reported the war in Kosovo. Afterward, he joined the Times' investigative team and was based in Paris to cover al-Qaida. He left the Times after being issued a formal reprimand for denouncing the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. He has written twelve books, including Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008) and the best-selling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2008). His book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In 2011, Nation Books published a collection of Hedges' Truthdig columns called The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress. Hedges holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif. Hedges speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and knows ancient Greek and Latin. In addition to writing a weekly original column for Truthdig, he has written for Harper's Magazine, The New Statesman, The New York Review of Books, Adbusters, Granta, Foreign Affairs and other publications. www.truthdig.com [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:
[LAAMN] Fukushima Is a Global Disaster Requiring a Global Response. Sign Letter to President Obama U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Sent from RootsAction!
Fukushima Is a Global Disaster Requiring a Global Response. Sign Letter to President Obama U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Sent from RootsAction! Here is the message to send to them: At Fukushima Unit 4, the impending removal of hugely radioactive spent fuel rods from a pool 100 feet in the air presents unparalleled scientific and engineering challenges. With the potential for 15,000 times more fallout than was released at Hiroshima, we ask the world community, through the United Nations, to take control of this uniquely perilous task. We ask the United States to redirect the $8.3 billion loan planned for new nuclear power construction into the global effort to protect us all from Fukushima. GRAPHIC: Roots Action logo header https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/RA_Header.jpg http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=79wDgWNsYDqmWD9LWLlZghB%2FtnhXjxki http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=jCgDC8LJQ9h4XGRpGs2s5xB%2FtnhXjxki GRAPHIC: Sign here button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=4y6iYasnWhizo3iz61fSuhB%2FtnhXjxki Share this action on Facebook http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=GuKUAJEGpZhC7MsHzatgZRB%2FtnhXjxki Share this action on Twitter http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=m4DqET3hwrO3h0Ihzq6CTxB%2FtnhXjxki UPDATE: Over the weekend, more than 27,000 people responded to this RootsAction message by sending emails to President Obama and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=%2BN3EL81VEcZFmS4GbrtwghB%2FtnhXjxki Please join in this urgent effort now. And to heighten our impact, share with your friends. _ We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis. —Harvey Wasserman, author and activist http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=qJD4qePehFXciU7fLmOcSBB%2FtnhXjxki Email the U.N. Secretary General and the U.S. President now! Fukushima’s owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), does not have the resources to handle 1,300 spent fuel rods now sitting in a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air, with the potential to spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=S4j7HE291Oc33m16T9MsfbLiaoTArFTK The situation demands a coordinated worldwide effort of the best scientists and engineers our species can muster. Chernobyl’s first 1986 fallout reached California within ten days. Fukushima's in 2011 arrived in less than a week. A new fuel fire at Unit 4 would pour out a continuous stream of lethal radioactive poisons for centuries. Former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata says of full-scale releases from Fukushima, This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival. This crisis comes just as the Obama Administration is trying to provide a $8.3 billion loan to build the first new nuclear plants in the U.S. in almost 30 years. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=H%2BK9Vs%2FfodCGZwZ8r6PA6RB%2FtnhXjxki Tell President Obama to loan that $8.3 billion to a Fukushima emergency clean-up instead. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=sP%2BvP6tujRCsmstQrRJMFhB%2FtnhXjxki Tell the United Nations to lead that effort immediately. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=3Nf5OGIRXotuGnDUsx1ivhB%2FtnhXjxki Click to Email President Obama and Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Please forward this email to everyone! -- The RootsAction.org team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, and many others. P.P.S. This work is only possible with your financial support. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Hyp%2F8%2FtoUHMkuAWjzdiFbxB%2FtnhXjxki Please donate. Background: http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=YVLdkzhITegYcnbfoXugShB%2FtnhXjxki Harvey Wasserman: Crisis at Fukushima 4 Demands a Global Take-Over http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Ww%2FCxG8DjaEPNf5hKcSViRB%2FtnhXjxki AFP: Fukushima Dumps 1,000 Tons of Polluted Water into Sea http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=c9mWg9p6tpaoPA9MSDbqGnhCALG6fCdD www.RootsAction.org http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=xMv9Hp0g4%2B3iAyAomOWfhRB%2FtnhXjxki Donate button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=d2%2FzPMMxUD0QDy6qJS%2F%2BWhB%2FtnhXjxki Facebook button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=k9WgvlrTO8XIeuKlfuZvDBB%2FtnhXjxki Twitter button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1605420415
[LAAMN] Free Screening of: GASLAND PART II ~ Saturday, October 5th, 7:00 PM at Topanga Community House ~ Discussion/ Trans Pacific Partnership Fracking in California Elsewhere with Lance Simmens
Free Screening of: GASLAND PART II www.gaslandthemovie.com Saturday, October 5th, 7:00 PM At Topanga Community House 1440 Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Topanga Discussion/ Trans Pacific Partnership Fracking in California Elsewhere! Special Guests: Lance Simmens of: www.publiccitizen.org RL Miller, Chair, CDP Environmental Caucus, Environmental Blogger In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide). GASLAND PART II, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most important environmental issues facing our nation today. The film argues that the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth's climate with the potent greenhouse gas, methane. In addition the film looks at how the powerful oil and gas industries are in Fox's words contaminating our democracy. Sent from Dorothy Reik: dorothyr...@pdsmm.org - 310-291-1300 www.truth-out.org/news/item/18973-eco-investigators-say-fracking-air-polluti on-is-poisoning-families-in-texas www.truth-out.org/news/item/19021-protesters-take-over-us-trade-rep-building -expose-secret-negotiations [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] Screening of: The Last Stand: The Struggle for Ballona Wetlands ~ Saturday, October 5th, Noon at G2 Gallery Green Earth Film Festival in Venice ~ Screening of: Heroes at Ballona Wetlands ~
SCREENING #1 THE FEATURE! The Last Stand: The Struggle for Ballona Wetlands - (2000) (60 Minutes) Award Winning Film Hosted by Ed Asner with Joni Mitchell Music - Followed by QA with Filmmaker Sheila Laffey Saturday, October 5th at 12:00 Noon At G2 Gallery Green Earth Film Festival 1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice 90291 Limited free parking in alley behind gallery, to the south before Venice Blvd. www.calendar.theg2gallery.com/g2-gallery-film-festival-2 JOIN THIS EVENT ON FACEBOOK - www.facebook.com/events/150576175151939 www.imdb.com/title/tt0192233 - SCREENING #2: THE SHORT! The Last Stand: Heroes at Ballona Wetlands - (2004) (24 Minutes) Award Winning Short with Filmmaker Sheila Laffey Sunday, October 6th at 12:00 Noon At G2 Gallery Green Earth Film Festival 1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice 90291 www.calendar.theg2gallery.com/g2-gallery-film-festival JOIN THIS EVENT ON FACEBOOK- www.facebook.com/events/404752026319548 Film Trailer: www.naturalheroes.org/videos/the-last-stand-heros-at-the-ballona-wetlands Location Photos: www.envirofilms.com/photosvideos/the-last-stand-gallery Thank You! Sheila Laffey - Producer/Director sheilalaf...@icloud.com - 310-453-4272
[LAAMN] Trials of Muhammad Ali ~ Opens Tonight - Friday, September 27th at Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills ~ Also Screens Saturday, September 28th Sunday 29th at Laemmle's Playhouse 7 in Pas
http://www.google.com/url?sa=trct=jq=esrc=ssource=webcd=1ved=0CCwQFjA Aurl=http%3A%2F%2Fkartemquin.com%2Ffilms%2Fthe-trials-of-muhammad-aliei=j3 9FUuWfCqSniQLiiICIBQusg=AFQjCNHlV9bxdKnRVlKXWKHG0EpIn5S54gsig2=YrptkF1CUDf 4nbQ8Cn5F9gbvm=bv.53217764,d.cGE The Trials of Muhammad Ali Opens Tonight - Friday, September 27th At Laemmle's Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills 2:30 7:20 10:00 PM http://www.google.com/movies?hl=ennear=Los+Angeles,+CAsort=1tid=fa1f9760 32372368ei=bHxFUsqOGqnBiwK8vYCgDgdate=3 Laemmle's Music Hall 3 - Friday, Sept 27th - Thursday, Oct. 3rd Also Screens Saturday, September 28th Sunday, September 29th At Laemmle's Playhouse 7 in Pasadena 673 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena 11:10 AM (Saturday Sunday only) Laemmle's Playhouse 7 - Saturday Sept 28th and Sunday Sept 29th http://www.google.com/movies?near=pasadenahl=ensort=1ei=bHxFUsqOGqnBiwK8 vYCgDgdate=2tid=b2f734f3a509ab9b 'The Trials of Muhammad Ali is not a conventional sports documentary. Befitting its extraordinary and complex subject, the film examines Ali's life outside the ring, beginning with the announcement of his deeply held and controversial Islamic religious beliefs, and the decision to change his white man's name of Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali. The film explores his refusal to serve in the Vietnam war, even after his status as a conscientious objector was denied, on the grounds of protesting racial injustice at home, while capturing his passion and anger in interviews and television appearances culled from a rich variety of rare archival sources.' Inline image 1 http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/26/the_trials_of_muhammad_ali_boxing The Trials of Muhammad Ali: Boxing Champ's Refusal to Serve in Vietnam Was the Fight of His Life - Democracy Now! - Muhammad Ali was at the crosshairs of the black freedom struggle the anti-Vietnam War resistance while he was finding himself. And so, to me, it's a journey film that I hope says as much about us as it does about him. -Director, Bill Siegel, http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/movies/trials-of-muhammad-ali-traces-a lis-battle-over-vietnam.html?_r=0 'Trials of Muhammad Ali' Traces Ali's Battle Over Vietnam - NY Times 'Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, was not the only American to refuse to serve during the Vietnam War, but he was, by some measures, the most famous, the loudest and the baddest'- NY Times http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/12/newly-released-footage-on-the-trials-of-mu hammad-ali/ Rare and Riveting Footage from The Trials of Muhammad Ali - Bill Moyers You have these two titanic social movements in the 1960s, the struggle against the war in Vietnam the African-American freedom struggle. And here you have the most famous athlete on earth with one foot in both. - Dave Zirin https://www.facebook.com/events/198298467016659/ The Trials of Muhammad Ali at Laemmle Music Hall 3 (September 27th https://www.facebook.com/events/198298467016659/ - October 3rd//Los Angeles, CA) - Facebook RSVP www.thetrialsofali.com [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] Southern California ACLU to Honor Daniel Ellsberg, Robert Greenwald Dr. Karyl Ketchum ~ Sunday, September 29th, 1:00 to 4:00 PM ~ At The Home of Stanley Betty Sheinbaum ~ Emcee Paul Pounds
http://www.aclusocal.org/ ACLU of Southern California's 50th Annual Garden Party Sunday, September 29th - 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM At The Home of Stanley Betty Sheinbaum 345 N. Rockingham, Los Angeles 90049 Join Us, As We Pay Tribute to These Civil Liberties Champions: Daniel Ellsberg - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Robert Greenwald - Brave New Films Founder Producer Dr. Karyl Ketchum - Professor/Advocate Emcee: Paul Poundstone Live Silent Auction - Musical Entertainment - Complimentary Wine Tasting - Food Drinks Available Regular Admissions is $50. Student Tickets $25 - ACLU Membership $25 All Tickets Will Be Held at the Door. Purchase Tickets by Going to: www.aclu.org/secure/socal-50th-garden-party The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone. Continue to the ACLU of Southern California homepage http://www.aclusocal.org/ American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California 1313 West Eighth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 www.aclusocal.org - (213) 977-9500 [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] Robert Reich's INEQUALITY FOR ALL - Opening Today - Friday, September 27th at The Landmark Theatre in West LA ~ Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich In Person Tonight After the 7:20 PM
Robert Reich's INEQUALITY FOR ALL www.inequalityforall.com Opening Today - Friday, September 27th At The Landmark Theatre in West LA 10850 West Pico at Westwood Blvd, West Los Angeles (10:20) 12:35 2:50 5:05 7:20 9:55 (310) 470-0492 Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich In Person Tonight After the 7:20 PM Screening Also Playing at The Hollywood Arclight Theatre 6360 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 1:50 PM https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ticketing/purchase-options/?lid=1001bid=23 1212 - 2:55 PM https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ticketing/purchase-options/?lid=1001bid=23 1223 - 3:55 PM https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ticketing/purchase-options/?lid=1001bid=23 1211 - 5:55 PM https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ticketing/purchase-options/?lid=1001bid=23 1210 - 7:55 PM https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ticketing/purchase-options/?lid=1001bid=23 1209 - 10:00 PM https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ticketing/purchase-options/?lid=1001bid=23 1214 (323) 464-1478 www.arclightcinemas.com/movie/inequality-for-all In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted economic policy expert Robert Reich takes on the enormous question of what has been happening to our economy. In the wake of the financial crisis and the recent rise of the Occupy movement, the issue of income inequality has gained unprecedented public awareness. Over the last thirty years, the U.S. economy itself doubled. But these gains went to a very few: the top 1% of earners now take in more than 20% of all income- three times what they did in 1970. While this level of inequality poses a serious risk to all Americans, regardless of income level, much of the rhetoric on this subject has been fueled by anger and resentment from a frustrated middle class who feel their birthright-the American Dream-has been taken away from them. Enter our narrator and guide, Robert Reich-best-selling author, professor at Harvard and Berkeley, official in three administrations, including Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. His voice serves as the narrative thread of the film, providing a step-by-step explanation of where we are now, how we got here and where we are headed if we don't act soon. www.inequalityforall.com [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] KPFK Presents a Screening of Jean-Philippe Tremblay's: SHADOWS OF LIBERTY ~ Saturday, September 28th, 4:30 PM ~ At The Downtown Independent Theater ~ Hosted by Brad Friedman ~ QA with Jean-
KPFK Presents a Documentary Film Screening of Jean-Philippe Tremblay's:
SHADOWS OF LIBERTY
Featuring Amy Goodman, Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, Danny Glover, Chris
Hedges, Norman Solomon, Dan Rather, Jeff Cohen, James Bamford,
Sibel Edmonds, Pratap Chatterjee, Brad Friedman, Dick Gregory, Peter
Kornbluh, Robert McChesney, John Nichols, Robert Parry Others!
Saturday, September 28th - 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
At The
DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT THEATER
251 S. Main Street, Los Angeles 90012
Shadows Of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media:
censorship, cover-ups and corporate control.Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay
takes a journey through the darker corridors of the US media, where global
conglomerates call the shots. For decades, their overwhelming influence has
distorted news journalism and compromised its values. In highly revealing
stories, renowned journalists, activists and academics give insider accounts
of a broken media system. Controversial news reports are suppressed, people
are censored for speaking out, and lives are shattered as the arena for
public expression is turned into a private profit zone. Tracing the story of
media manipulation through the years, Shadows of Liberty poses a crucial
question: why have we let a handful of powerful corporations write the news?
We're left in no doubt - media reform is urgent and freedom of the press is
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QA with KPFK Guest Panelists to Follow Screening, Featuring...
Jean-Phillipe Tremblay - Director of Shadows of Liberty
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Jason Leopold - Formerly of TruthOut http://Truthout.org , Now of Al
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BradCast
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[LAAMN] Films4Change Presents: THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE ~ Saturday, September 28th, 7:00 PM ~ At The Home of Rachel Jay in Santa Monica ~ Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland ~ $5 Donation Goes to Change-Lin
Films4Change Presents THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE Narrated by KIEFER SUTHERLAND Saturday, September 28th - 7:00 PM Doors Open at 6:30 At The Home of Rachel Jay 601- 9th Street, Santa Monica One Block East of Lincoln, One Block North of Montana Southeast Corner, Easy Parking RSVP to: rachel...@earthlink.net or Call: 310-780-7363 (First 20) BEFORE FILM: Meet at Izzy's Deli, 15th @ Wilshire @ 5:00 PM for Dinner. FREE PARKING: At Izzy's Deli: Rear lot on 15th or Computer Store lot on 15th. AFTER FILM: End the Embargo to CUBA COFFEE, Gourmet Cookies. THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE - 65 Minutes - http://www.healthcaremovie.net www.healthcaremovie.net This documentary provides the real story of how the health care systems in Canada and the United States evolved to be so completely different, when at one point they were essentially the same. Most people under the age of 50, in both countries, are not aware of the intensity of the political struggle that led to the universal medical care system in Canada. Nor are they aware of the public relations campaigns, still active today, that have been prevalent in the United States since the early 1900's to dissuade the public from supporting national health care. Produced by Canadian/American couple Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg, The Healthcare Movie reveals the personal and emotional impact on Canadians who now have access to universal health care because of the heroism of people who took a stand nearly 50 years ago. It also reveals the continuing struggle in the United States between the fear of government intervention and the right to quality health care for all people. Every day people are dying or going bankrupt due to the ills of the United States system. Who are we in the face of this human tragedy? If you agree that people are more important than profits, then you must watch this film. Discussion after the Film and Refreshments. Followed by an Addendum entitled The Second Stage of Medicare: 10 minutes $5 Donation Goes to: Change-Links Progressive Newspaper/Calendar www.change-links.org
[LAAMN] Screening of: THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE ~ Sunday, September 29th, Noon to 1:30 PM at THE CHURCH IN OCEAN PARK ~ Talk by Dr. Paul Song at 10:15 AM Interfaith Service ~ Discussion Follows Film with
Sent by Maureen Cruise: mcrui...@aol.com You Are Invited to a Special Screening of THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE - Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland - http://www.healthcaremovie.net www.healthcaremovie.net Sunday, September 29th - Noon to 1:30 PM At THE CHURCH IN OCEAN PARK - A Diverse Interfaith Community Dedicated to Social Justice 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica 90405 - (310) 399-1631 - www.churchop.org Interfaith Service Sunday, September 29th 9:05 AM - Singing Group 10:15 AM - Interfaith Service with Guest Speaker Paul Song MD Noon-1:30 PM - Movie Screening Panel Discussion Church in Ocean Park With Special Guest Speaker Dr. Paul Song, Discussing Healthcare: Paul Song, MD, is a board-certified radiation oncologist and a board member of Physicians for a National Health Program California (PNHP). He is on the faculty at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Song was recently named the first visiting fellow in the Office of the Insurance Commissioner in the California Department of Insurance working on health policy. Service will be followed by a potluck lunch, and a screening of The Healthcare Movie, a look at the Canadian Struggle for universal healthcare and the parallels with the American Health Care System. Guest Panel of Speakers to Follow the Movie: http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs122/1102742453210/img/328.jpg Dr. Bill Honigman, is a full-time practicing ER doc from Orange County, CA for over 30 years, husband and father of two grown sons. Twice elected President of the South Orange County Democratic Club, has been a long-standing elected and re-elected member and former officer of the Orange County Democratic Central Committee, a former elected delegate and appointed Rules Committee member of the Democratic National Convention, and now the Orange County Chapter Leader and a California State Coordinator of the national grassroots organization Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), and is currently serving as PDA's Healthcare for All Issue Organizing Team (IOT) Co-coordinator. Anita Anderson, is a Canadian now living in America, a patient advocate and a recent emergency room trauma technician, a surgical consultant, a back office nurse who specialized in oncology, cardiology and reconstructive surgery. Now, a member of IATSE local 767, Anita is currently working as a set medic (first aid for the television and film industry). Anita has been a witness to hundreds if not thousands of victims of the private health care industry. Maureen Cruise RN, is a former clinic nurse with the LA County Dept. Health Services and is the new director of Healthcare for All- Los Angeles Chapter. Her other healthcare involvements include the All Care Alliance, , Physicians for a National Health Program, National Nurses United. Maureen volunteered with Common Ground Clinic for Hurricane Katrina Relief, visited Venezuelan Healthcare Missions with the Global Exchange delegation to the 2006 World Social Forum. She is a past member of the state strategy healthcare team for the progressive caucus and was the Progressive Democrats of LA Healthcare Liaison participating in community forums, cable TV, radio and workshops to educate people about single payer universal healthcare. Coordinated by Michelle Heally, MD Physicians for a National Health Program -Los Angeles www.pnhp.org www.pnhpcalifornia.org http://img.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/SpacerImage.gif
[LAAMN] Southern California ACLU to Honor Daniel Ellsberg, Robert Greenwald Dr. Karyl Ketchum ~ Sunday, September 29th, 1:00 to 4:00 PM ~ At The Home of Stanley Betty Sheinbaum ~ Emcee Paul Pounds
http://www.aclusocal.org/ ACLU of Southern California's 50th Annual Garden Party Sunday, September 29th - 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM At The Home of Stanley Betty Sheinbaum 345 N. Rockingham, Los Angeles 90049 Join Us, As We Pay Tribute to These Civil Liberties Champions: Daniel Ellsberg - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Robert Greenwald - Brave New Films Founder Producer Dr. Karyl Ketchum - Professor/Advocate Emcee: Paul Poundstone Live Silent Auction - Musical Entertainment - Complimentary Wine Tasting - Food Drinks Available Regular Admissions is $50. Student Tickets $25 - ACLU Membership $25 All Tickets Will Be Held at the Door. Purchase Tickets by Going to: www.aclu.org/secure/socal-50th-garden-party The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone. Continue to the ACLU of Southern California homepage http://www.aclusocal.org/ American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California 1313 West Eighth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 www.aclusocal.org - (213) 977-9500 [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] ECOSOCIALISM CONFERENCE ~ SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE ~ Saturday, September 21st, 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM ~At The Mayme Clayton Library Museum in Culver City ~ $15 Early Registration ~ $20
Ecosocialist Conference 2013 - Los Angeles SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE! Saturday, September 21st - 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Registration/Refreshments - 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM At The Mayme Clayton Library Museum 4130 Overland Avenue, Culver City 90230 $15 Early Registration: www.escla2013.brown http://www.escla2013.brownpapertickets.com/ papertickets.com - $20 at Door. $5 Students/Unemployed/Retired. No one turned away for lack of funds. ___ ECOSOCIALIST CONFERENCE 2013 - LOS ANGELES 9:00 AM Registration/Refreshments 10:00 AM Opening Plenary: Capitalism is Killing the Planet - David Klein, Lisa Lubow 11:00 AM Session 1 Workshops: - Food Justice, Local and Global - Luis Rivas, Miguel Diaz, Cheri Rae - Environmental Racism Indigenous Resistance - Kimberly King, Ragina Johnson, Lydia Ponce - Fracking, KeystoneXL, Tar Sands - Lauren Steiner, Jack Eliot, TBA 1:00 PM Large Marge Lunch 1:50 PM Session 2 Workshops: - Art, Consciousness, and Protest - Carol Wells, Nadia Conenrs - Both Red Green: A History of the Green Left - Scott Tucker, Mike Powelson - Sustainability and Technology - Eric Rehder, Gene Warren 4:00 PMSession 3 Workshops: - A Debate on Electoral Politics - Mike Feinstein, Kwazi Nkrumah, Craig Toennies - Natural Allies: Labor and Climate Justice - Andrea Nicholls, TBA - Effects of Capitalism: Alienation Liberation - Ben Manski, Mark Lipman, Alan Peck 6:00 PM Dinner Break 6:45 PM Coordinating Committee Penultimate Theatre 7:00 PM Closing Plenary: What is Ecosocialism and How Might We Get There Jill Stein, Richard Larios, Chris Williams SOME OF THE ENDORSERS/ PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: Socialist Party USA, Socialist Party USA-Los Angeles Local, International Socialist Organization-Los Angeles Branch, Democratic Socialists of America-Los Angeles Chapter, Valley College Socialists, Occupy Los Angeles Freedom School, News and Letters-Los Angeles Branch, News and Letters-San Francisco Branch, Cal State Northridge Greens, San Fernando Valley Greens, Solidarity-Los Angeles Branch, Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States, Large Marge Sustainables. * To Endorse Contact: ecosocialis...@gmail.com ** More Information: www.escla2013.wordpress.com ORIGINAL UNIFYING STATEMENT System Change, Not Climate Change! Statement from the Ecosocialist Contingent for the Forward on Climate February 17, 2013 www.systemchangenotclimatechange.org/events/about Tens of thousands of activists, including students, indigenous leaders, religious groups, and community organizations will assemble in DC on February 17 for one of the largest climate and environmental justice demonstrations ever. The climate extremes of 2012 have shifted public opinion in favor of change, despite Obama’s electoral silence. The rise of Idle No More has further energized the movement and internationalized perspectives. February 17th should mark the beginning of a more united, grassroots climate movement with no illusions in the free market or the Democratic Party. We ecosocialists are honored to stand with so many and say no to the Keystone XL! No to extreme energy! Ecosocialists believe capitalism is killing the planet. The drive to increase profits assumes endless growth on a finite planet. Capitalism depends on cheap oil and gas, and shuns energy conservation and a swift switch to renewables as unprofitable. The US war machine has devastated the Middle East in the service of ExxonMobil. Fossil Fuel corporations continue to scour the planet for ever-more oil, gas, coal and profit. This must change. We must bring human society back into balance with nature. Politicians such as President Obama are beholden to corporate interests and refuse to do what’s necessary to avert ecological catastrophe. Only the self-organization of the 99% can turn society around. Mobilizations like those of the First Nations people, farmers, and towns who are blocking pipeline construction through their lands offer a way out of the crisis. Progressives, radicals, the labor movement, and First Nations must unite. We demand President Obama reject the Keystone XL permit. We demand a massive public works campaign, green jobs and cuts to defense spending. We support broad action campaigns for free and publicly-owned mass transit, public ownership of renewable energy, as well as an end to racism, sexism, homophobia, and oppression. The capitalist system is in fundamental conflict with the climate system. Capitalist exploitation of
[LAAMN] EMERGENCY USA ~ Under One Blue Sky ~ Saturday, September 21st, Noon to 4:00 PM at Crescent Bay Park in Santa Monica ~ Please Donate to the Critical Work of EMERGENCY: Life Support For Civilian
Emergency USA logo Under One Blue Sky Taking Back The Skies For Peace - Healing the Wounds of War! Saturday, September 21st - 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM At Crescent Bay Park in Santa Monica 2000 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica 90405 Parking Hint: Easy Entrance, Ample Parking ($8 fee) via Bicknell Avenue Bring Your Favorite Kite* *Or borrow one: we'll have extras and there will be a delightful opportunity for all who attend to make their own kite. Event guests will enjoy a beach reception, seating at tables with umbrellas, and delicious Afghan picnic lunch. Live acoustic music, kite-making, photo-portraits, face-painting for kids, and beautiful hand-made kites from Afghanistan featured in a silent auction. Proceeds are dedicated to http://www.emergencyusa.org/ EMERGENCY USA, an organization supporting the http://www.emergencyusa.org/En/002/Programs.html excellent medical programs of EMERGENCY worldwide. *Register as one of our kite team members or donate to the team here: www.firstgiving.com/team/237531 To enter the event as an honored guest, fee for admission waived! Some Recent Articles about EMERGENCY: www.emergencyusa.org/En/004/035/In+the+News.html Dear Friends, After hearing Dr. Gino Strada speak about his work with EMERGENCY, the extraordinary organization he co-founded, we signed up to be part of a local group in L.A. about to be formed. With the devastation and suffering caused by U.S. led wars we were desperate to act in some way to address the suffering of the victims. We were grateful to find an organization that was taking direct action to help heal the wounds of war for the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and other war torn countries. That was 9 years ago. Emergency's work continues... treating a person every 2 minutes for the past 19 years. On International Peace Day next Saturday, September 21st, EMERGENCY USA has organized the second annual nationwide event: Under One Blue Sky. We are writing to ask you to donate to the critical work of EMERGENCY by going to our firstgiving page and if possible, to join us for a beautiful afternoon event in Santa Monica. Please visit Sandra and Ulis' page: www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/sandrasunshinewilliams/one-blue-sky-2013 Any amount is greatly appreciated! Sandra and Ulis Williams sandrasdelmu...@gmail.com Ticket Information Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity RSVP: Free! Kite Team or Sponsor! Welcome honored guests! Donors who have sponsored a kite team member Kite team/event volunteers RSVP here! Questions? email: l...@emergencyusa.org or Call 888-501-3872 Sep 22, 2013 $0.00 $0.00 RSVP: $15 for Event Guests Welcome event attendees! If you are not registered on a kite-team and have not sponsored a kite-team member, your $15 donation is appreciated! Picnic food, live music, flight of kites, and support of a magnificent cause included! Sep 21, 2013 $15.00 $1.82 General Donations Welcome! In case you would like to make a donation to this great cause, your support of EMERGENCY USA is appreciated tremendously. Questions? Email: l...@emergencyusa.org or Call: 888-501-EUSA Sep 21, 2013 Enter amount ($) javascript:%20freeCheckout(); Register [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:
[LAAMN] International Day of Peace Event Honoring Ron Kovic ~Saturday, September 21st, 7:30 to 9:30 PM ~ At The Herb Alpert Educational Village in Santa Monica ~ Veterans Peace Activists Can Get Fre
You Are Invited To An International Day of Peace Event Honoring Ron Kovic This is a Fundraiser For THE MY HERO PROJECT Saturday, September 21st, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM at The Capshaw-Spielberg Center for Arts Educational Justice Herb Alpert Educational Village 3131 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica 90404 Tickets Are $100 Veterans Peace Activists Can Get Free Tickets! But You Need To Register On-Line by Friday Morning Before Noon. Please Scroll Down Check the Box - Veterans/Peace Activists - for Complimentary Seating at: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=r99vvofaboeidk =a07e7oy8kqx04732257 or: http://myhero.com/Sept21_Register VIP Celebrity Reception at 6:30 PM Join Us for an Evening of Live Music, Art, Short Films Celebrating Ron Kovic and other Peacemakers! Every year, The MY HERO Project provides millions of students from all over the world the digital tools to tell stories that promote peace and tolerance. Your support for this event helps us to continue this award-winning educational media program. Limited seating available, please click the link below to reserve your seat at this special celebration and support our not-for-profit project. Register Now! Register Now! http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=r99vvofaboeidk =a07e7oy8kqx04732257 https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=r99vvofaboeidk =a07e7oy8kqx04732257 Questions Contact Rose Kleinow The MY HERO Project 949-376-5964 - rklei...@myheroproject.org We appreciate and welcome your support for The MY HERO Project. Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower youth by using digital story telling tools to publish media that celebrates the best of humanity. Last year, over 12 million visitors from 194 countries visited our award-winning web site. The MY HERO Project provides teachers students around the world a safe, online venue to share and discover essays, art, music films that honor those working for positive change. Together we are building an ever-growing digital archive of stories of hope and inspiration that empower youth to understand their own ability to make a difference in the world. To learn more about MY HERO, watch the 2013 Promo: www.myhero.com/Promo2013 On September 21, 2013, The International Day of Peace, we are hosting a fundraiser honoring Ron Kovic to support our global learning programs at The Herb Alpert Educational Village in Santa Monica. Ron has been a great supporter of The MY HERO Project and annually gives a PEACE Award at our International Film Festival held at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Ron's heroic journey from serving as a U.S. Marine to becoming a dedicated peace activist is shared in his autobiography, Born on the Fourth July. The book became an academy award-winning feature film directed by Oliver Stone starring Tom Cruise. They, along with others, will be celebrating Ron Kovic at this special multi-media fundraising celebration. Please join us on September 21, 2013 and invite your friends, families and business associates. Your donations will continue the work of thousands of educators worldwide that mentor millions of students around the globe to use media and technology to celebrate the best of humanity. We Appreciate Your Support. Sincerely, Jeanne Meyers Co-Founder Director MY HERO Project www.myhero.com [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 *
[LAAMN] ECOSOCIALISM CONFERENCE ~ SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE ~ Saturday, September 21st, 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM ~At The Mayme Clayton Library Museum in Culver City ~ $15 Early Registration ~ $20
SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE! __ Ecosocialist Conference 2013 - Los Angeles Saturday, September 21st - 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Registration/Refreshments - 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM At The Mayme Clayton Library Museum 4130 Overland Avenue, Culver City 90230 $15 Early Registration: www.escla2013.brown http://www.escla2013.brownpapertickets.com/ papertickets.com - $20 at Door. $5 Students/Unemployed/Retired. No one turned away for lack of funds. ___ ECOSOCIALIST CONFERENCE 2013 - LOS ANGELES 9:00 AM Registration/Refreshments 10:00 AM Opening Plenary: Capitalism is Killing the Planet - David Klein, Lisa Lubow 11:00 AM Session 1 Workshops: - Food Justice, Local and Global - Luis Rivas, Miguel Diaz, Cheri Rae - Environmental Racism Indigenous Resistance - Kimberly King, Ragina Johnson, Lydia Ponce - Fracking, KeystoneXL, Tar Sands - Lauren Steiner, Jack Eliot, TBA 1:00 PM Large Marge Lunch 1:50 PM Session 2 Workshops: - Art, Consciousness, and Protest - Carol Wells, Nadia Conenrs - Both Red Green: A History of the Green Left - Scott Tucker, Mike Powelson - Sustainability and Technology - Eric Rehder, Gene Warren 4:00 PMSession 3 Workshops: - A Debate on Electoral Politics - Mike Feinstein, Kwazi Nkrumah, Craig Toennies - Natural Allies: Labor and Climate Justice - Andrea Nicholls, TBA - Effects of Capitalism: Alienation Liberation - Ben Manski, Mark Lipman, Alan Peck 6:00 PM Dinner Break 6:45 PM Coordinating Committee Penultimate Theatre 7:00 PM Closing Plenary: What is Ecosocialism and How Might We Get There Jill Stein, Richard Larios, Chris Williams SOME OF THE ENDORSERS/ PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: Socialist Party USA, Socialist Party USA-Los Angeles Local, International Socialist Organization-Los Angeles Branch, Democratic Socialists of America-Los Angeles Chapter, Valley College Socialists, Occupy Los Angeles Freedom School, News and Letters-Los Angeles Branch, News and Letters-San Francisco Branch, Cal State Northridge Greens, San Fernando Valley Greens, Solidarity-Los Angeles Branch, Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States, Large Marge Sustainables. * To Endorse Contact: ecosocialis...@gmail.com ** More Information: www.escla2013.wordpress.com ORIGINAL UNIFYING STATEMENT System Change, Not Climate Change! Statement from the Ecosocialist Contingent for the Forward on Climate February 17, 2013 www.systemchangenotclimatechange.org/events/about Tens of thousands of activists, including students, indigenous leaders, religious groups, and community organizations will assemble in DC on February 17 for one of the largest climate and environmental justice demonstrations ever. The climate extremes of 2012 have shifted public opinion in favor of change, despite Obama’s electoral silence. The rise of Idle No More has further energized the movement and internationalized perspectives. February 17th should mark the beginning of a more united, grassroots climate movement with no illusions in the free market or the Democratic Party. We ecosocialists are honored to stand with so many and say no to the Keystone XL! No to extreme energy! Ecosocialists believe capitalism is killing the planet. The drive to increase profits assumes endless growth on a finite planet. Capitalism depends on cheap oil and gas, and shuns energy conservation and a swift switch to renewables as unprofitable. The US war machine has devastated the Middle East in the service of ExxonMobil. Fossil Fuel corporations continue to scour the planet for ever-more oil, gas, coal and profit. This must change. We must bring human society back into balance with nature. Politicians such as President Obama are beholden to corporate interests and refuse to do what’s necessary to avert ecological catastrophe. Only the self-organization of the 99% can turn society around. Mobilizations like those of the First Nations people, farmers, and towns who are blocking pipeline construction through their lands offer a way out of the crisis. Progressives, radicals, the labor movement, and First Nations must unite. We demand President Obama reject the Keystone XL permit. We demand a massive public works campaign, green jobs and cuts to defense spending. We support broad action campaigns for free and publicly-owned mass transit, public ownership of renewable energy, as well as an end to racism, sexism, homophobia, and oppression. The capitalist system is in
[LAAMN] Screening of: THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE ~ Sunday, September 29th, Noon to 1:30 PM at THE CHURCH IN OCEAN PARK ~ Talk by Dr. Paul Song at 10:15 AM Interfaith Service ~ Discussion Follows Film with
Sent by Maureen Cruise: mcrui...@aol.com You Are Invited to a Special Screening of THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE - Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland - http://www.healthcaremovie.net www.healthcaremovie.net Sunday, September 29th - Noon to 1:30 PM At THE CHURCH IN OCEAN PARK - A Diverse Interfaith Community Dedicated to Social Justice 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica 90405 - (310) 399-1631 - www.churchop.org Interfaith Service Sunday, September 29th 9:05 AM - Singing Group 10:15 AM - Interfaith Service with Guest Speaker Paul Song MD Noon-1:30 PM - Movie Screening Panel Discussion Church in Ocean Park: Sanctuary With Special Guest Speaker Dr. Paul Song, Discussing Healthcare: Paul Song, MD, is a board-certified radiation oncologist and a board member of Physicians for a National Health Program California (PNHP). He is on the faculty at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Song was recently named the first visiting fellow in the Office of the Insurance Commissioner in the California Department of Insurance working on health policy. Service will be followed by a potluck lunch, and a screening of The Healthcare Movie, a look at the Canadian Struggle for universal healthcare and the parallels with the American Health Care System. Guest Panel of Speakers to Follow the Movie: http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs122/1102742453210/img/328.jpg Dr. Bill Honigman, is a full-time practicing ER doc from Orange County, CA for over 30 years, husband and father of two grown sons. Twice elected President of the South Orange County Democratic Club, has been a long-standing elected and re-elected member and former officer of the Orange County Democratic Central Committee, a former elected delegate and appointed Rules Committee member of the Democratic National Convention, and now the Orange County Chapter Leader and a California State Coordinator of the national grassroots organization Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), and is currently serving as PDA's Healthcare for All Issue Organizing Team (IOT) Co-coordinator. Anita Anderson, is a Canadian now living in America, a patient advocate and a recent emergency room trauma technician, a surgical consultant, a back office nurse who specialized in oncology, cardiology and reconstructive surgery. Now, a member of IATSE local 767, Anita is currently working as a set medic (first aid for the television and film industry). Anita has been a witness to hundreds if not thousands of victims of the private health care industry. Maureen Cruise RN, is a former clinic nurse with the LA County Dept. Health Services and is the new director of Healthcare for All- Los Angeles Chapter. Her other healthcare involvements include the All Care Alliance, , Physicians for a National Health Program, National Nurses United. Maureen volunteered with Common Ground Clinic for Hurricane Katrina Relief, visited Venezuelan Healthcare Missions with the Global Exchange delegation to the 2006 World Social Forum. She is a past member of the state strategy healthcare team for the progressive caucus and was the Progressive Democrats of LA Healthcare Liaison participating in community forums, cable TV, radio and workshops to educate people about single payer universal healthcare. Coordinated by Michelle Heally, MD Physicians for a National Health Program -Los Angeles www.pnhp.org www.pnhpcalifornia.org http://img.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/SpacerImage.gif
[LAAMN] Film Festival Screening of: Women At War: Forgotten Veterans of Desert Storm ~ Saturday, September 21st, 10:00 AM at Big Bear Lake International Film Festival ~ QA with Filmmakers Christie
Film Festival Screening Women At War: Forgotten Veterans of Desert Storm A Documentary Film by Christie Dennis Davis Saturday, September 21st - 10:00 AM At Big Bear Lake International Film Festival Northwoods Resort Conference Center 40650 Village Drive, Big Bear Lake 922315 QA with Filmmakers Christie Davis and Dennis Davis TICKETS: $5.00: www.bigbearlakefilmfestival.com/festival/tickets-events/ WATCH THE TRAILER: www.womenatwarmovie.com CONTACT: womenat...@earthlink.net ABOUT THE FILM: The 76 minute feature documentary Women At War: Forgotten Veterans of Desert Storm takes an intimate look at women soldiers' wartime experiences on the toxic battlefields of 1991's Operation Desert Storm and their heartbreaking battles with Gulf War illnesses since they've returned home. Carol Williams and three other female veterans fight the Veterans Administration for proper treatment and benefits in their search for answers to their mysterious Gulf War illnesses. Experiences of homelessness, suicidal despair and loss of their female reproductive functions due to the war haunt them. These women experience the outrage of betrayal when they discover the VA isn't there for female Gulf War veterans when they come home. Over twenty years later, their war isn't over. www.womenatwarmovie.com [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] International Day of Peace Event Honoring Ron Kovic ~ Saturday, September 21st, 7:30 to 9:30 PM ~ At The Capshaw-Spielberg Center for Arts Educational Justice - Herb Alpert Educational Villa
You Are Invited To An International Day of Peace Event Honoring Ron Kovic For THE MY HERO PROJECT Saturday, September 21st, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM at The Capshaw-Spielberg Center for Arts Educational Justice Herb Alpert Educational Village 3131 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica 90404 VIP Celebrity Reception at 6:30 PM Join Us for an Evening of Live Music, Art, Short Films Celebrating Ron Kovic and other Peacemakers! Every year, The MY HERO Project provides millions of students from all over the world the digital tools to tell stories that promote peace and tolerance. Your support for this event helps us to continue this award-winning educational media program. Limited seating available, please click the link below to reserve your seat at this special celebration and support our not-for-profit project. Register Now! Register Now! http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=r99vvofaboeidk =a07e7oy8kqx04732257 www.events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=r99vvofaboeidk=a07 e7oy8kqx04732257 Questions Contact Wendy Milette The MY HERO Project 949-376-5964 - myh...@myheroproject.org We appreciate and welcome your support for The MY HERO Project. Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower youth by using digital story telling tools to publish media that celebrates the best of humanity. Last year, over 12 million visitors from 194 countries visited our award-winning web site. The MY HERO Project provides teachers students around the world a safe, online venue to share and discover essays, art, music films that honor those working for positive change. Together we are building an ever-growing digital archive of stories of hope and inspiration that empower youth to understand their own ability to make a difference in the world. To learn more about MY HERO, watch the 2013 Promo: www.myhero.com/Promo2013 On September 21, 2013, The International Day of Peace, we are hosting a fundraiser honoring Ron Kovic to support our global learning programs at The Herb Alpert Educational Village in Santa Monica. Ron has been a great supporter of The MY HERO Project and annually gives a PEACE Award at our International Film Festival held at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Ron's heroic journey from serving as a U.S. Marine to becoming a dedicated peace activist is shared in his autobiography, Born on the Fourth July. The book became an academy award-winning feature film directed by Oliver Stone starring Tom Cruise. They, along with others, will be celebrating Ron Kovic at this special multi-media fundraising celebration. Please join us on September 21, 2013 and invite your friends, families and business associates. Your donations will continue the work of thousands of educators worldwide that mentor millions of students around the globe to use media and technology to celebrate the best of humanity. We Appreciate Your Support. Sincerely, Jeanne Meyers Co-Founder Director MY HERO Project www.myhero.com [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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] Giant Sidewalk Sale ~ Saturday, September 14th, 9:00 AM ~ At Solidarity Hall - 2122 W. Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles ~ Proceeds to Benefit The Freedom Socialist Party Radical Women
Giant Sidewalk Sale Saturday, September 14th, 9:00 AM At Solidarity Hall 2122 W. Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles 90018 Proceeds to Benefit The Freedom Socialist Party Radical Women Questions Phone: 323-732-6416 or Email: radicalwome...@earthlink.net http://gallery.mailchimp.com/2917cfc9b3941a9932e363014/images/image_1354734 3742961354734340.jpg Saturday, September 14th, 9:00 AM Giant Sidewalk Sale At Solidarity Hall, 2122 W. Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles Here are three ways you can lend a hand to support feisty feminist causes: . Stop 'n shop at the sidewalk sale . Take home quality power tools and attachments, books, clothes for all ages and genders, kitchen gadgets, furniture and more-all at workingclass prices. . Volunteer: sort and price, and help staff the sale The sale takes place at Solidarity Hall, 2122 W. Jefferson Blvd., Los Angeles CA. (off the 10 Freeway at Arlington, on bus lines #38, 209). To volunteer call: 323-732-6416. Proceeds to benefit the Freedom Socialist Party, Radical Women and the 2013 Freedom Socialist Newspaper $100,000 Fund Drive. _ Volunteers and donations are needed and appreciated. http://radicalwomen.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2917cfc9b3941a9932e36 3014id=bb9bd6e25de=f7c86824d6 Or mail a check, payable to Radical Women to 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98118. Contact Radical Women at 206-722-6057 or rwseat...@mindspring.com _ Los Angeles Radical Women 2122 W. Jefferson Bl, Los Angeles 90018 Phone: 323-732-6416 Fax: 323-732-6410 radicalwome...@earthlink.net www.RadicalWomen.org http://RadicalWomen.us6.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=2917cfc9b3941a9932 e363014id=0d470b4a64e=f7c86824d6
[LAAMN] Screening of: BENEATH THE BLINDFOLD ~ Friday, September 13th, 7:00 PM at The Harriet Tubman Center For Social Justice ~ A Powerful Documentary About Torture ~ Featuring Hector Aristizabal ~
From Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice: socialjusticecente...@gmail.com You Are Invited To a Special Screening of: BENEATH THE BLINDFOLD A Powerful Documentary About Torture Featuring Hector Aristizabal www.beneaththeblindfold.com Friday, September 13th, 7:00 PM At The Harriet Tubman Center For Social Justice 5278 Pico Blvd, Los Angeles Screening Followed by a Discussion with Filmmakers Kathy Berger Ines Sommer! Torture Survivor Maria Guardado Will Also Be There! Donations Accepted at the Door! For More Information Call: 323-306-6240 or Email: socialjusticecente...@gmail.com Film Showing Friday http://www.organizerweb.org/lists/uploadimages/image/film%20flyer.jpg Accessible to All http://www.organizerweb.org/lists/uploadimages/image/wheelchair.jpg Accessible to All Refreshments -- Stay updated on all the events at the Harriet Tubman Social Justice Center on Twitter @HTSocial Justice
[LAAMN] Protest Vigils To Oppose US Military Intervention In Syria ~ Monday, September 9th ~ 7PM in Culver City ~ 5:30 PM in Westwood ~ 6PM in Silverlake ~ 7PM in Glendale ~ 7PM in Van Nuys ~ 7PM in P
www.civic.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=326 http://www.civic.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=326id=search_distance=30search_zip=90232submit=Search id=search_distance=30search_zip=90232submit=Search Many Protest Vigils To Oppose US Military Intervention In Syria! All of These Protests Are on Monday, September 9th, 2013 No Military Action in Syria! http://www.civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139603id= Monday, September 9th, 7:00 PM Culver-Palms United Methodist Church 4464 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City 90230 Directions: Culver-Palms UMC is a couple of DOORS south of Braddock Drive on the east side of Sepulveda. Braddock is four BLOCKS south of Culver Blvd. The church has a big sign out near the sidewalk, and we are next door to the YMCA - we share a parking lot with them. Join us in Culver City for a vigil to oppose any US military intervention in Syria! Monday, Sept 9th, at 7:00 pm. We will meet in front of Culver-Palms United Methodist Church can line up along one or both sides of Sepulveda Blvd, which should be packed with rush hour traffic! We will have signs and you can bring signs also - but ONLY about this single issue please! So our message is clear to all those driving by. This event has just one purpose one message. Hope you can come! Hundreds of people lined up for blocks on Sepulveda will be pretty hard to ignore! Vigil to Oppose Strikes in Syria http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139803id= Monday, September 9th, 5:30 PM Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd, West Los Angeles 90024 Join other protestors in a candlelight vigil to protest possible US military action in Syria. Bring candles, signs, flashlights. The US public has a great chance to influence the vote of Congress on this issue. Silverlake Vigil http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139814id= Monday, September 9th, 6:00 PM Intersection of Glendale Silverlake Blvds, Los Angeles 90039 Gather in front of Bank of America, 2420 Glendale Blvd. in Silverlake NO to a US strike on Syria! Syrians and everyone need LESS warfare and violence, not MORE! If you agree, join your neighbors invite your friends to this friendly act of participatory democracy. Regardless of what happens next, you will know that you were not silent. Vigil Against US Military Intervention http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139817id= Monday, September 9th, 7:00 PM Glendale Youth Center Outdoor Assembly Area 211 W. Chestnut Street, Glendale 91204 The Glendale Youth Center is located on Chestnut Street. Three blocks south of Colorado Street between Brand Blvd. Central Ave. Next to St. Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church. The Armenian National Committee of America - Glendale Chapter will host a vigil to help residents from Glendale, Burbank, Crescenta Valley Hollywood join their voices to the tens of thousands of Americans opposed to US Military Intervention in Syria Democracy Van Nuys http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139620id= Monday, September 9th, 7:00 PM 14490 Burbank Blvd, Van Nuys 91411 A candle light, phone light vigil with lots of signs. Hell No! Diplomacy First - No War in Syria http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139617id= Monday, September 9th, 7:00 PM East Steps of Pasadena City Hall 132 North Euclid Avenue, Pasadena 91101 For parking we recommend either at the Paseo Mall that is immediately south on Euclid on Colorado Blvd. or north of our event on E. Corson St. (which parallels the 210 freeway). We will gather on the east steps of Pasadena City Hall (across from All Saints Church) and march down to the Paseo Mall with our signs. We are making a statement that military intervention in Syria by the United States is not supported by the community of Pasadena and its surrounding cities in the San Gabriel Valley. Our voices matter and our elected representatives (Schiff or Chu) need to understand that we are against any military strikes on Syria. Vigil For Peace http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139642id= in Long Beach Monday, September 9th, 7:00 PM 4th and Temple 2820 E. 4th Street, Long Beach 90814 Vigil for peace and rally for an alternative to violence to address the crisis in Syria. Launch Peace, not Missiles http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139618id= Monday, September 9th, 7:00 PM Kersting Court Sierra Madre 91024 Directions: Kersting Court is on the North-West corner of Sierra Madre Blvd and Baldwin Avenue. A public outreach that questions the decision to attack Syria as the only response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Just Say No http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139830id= Monday, September 9th, 5:00 PM Kanan Road Thousand Oaks Blvd, Agoura Hills 91301 Directions: 101 Freeway exit N. on Kanan.
[LAAMN] NO WAR ON SYRIA ~ BIG RALLY MARCH ~ Saturday, September 7th, 3:00 PM ~ At Westwood Federal Building ~ The Protest on Monday, September 9th Has Been Cancelled as Obama is Not Coming to Los An
NO WAR ON SYRIA RALLY MARCH Saturday, September 7th - 3:00 PM At Westwood Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Westwood - Corner of Wilshire Veteran No WAR! http://www.organizerweb.org/lists/uploadimages/image/syria%20protest%20los% 20angeles.jpg UNITE FIGHT AGAINST U.S. WAR IN SYRIA Join Nationally Coordinated Actions Saturday, September 7th to tell Congress: NO NEW WAR! HANDS OFF SYRIA! Let's make our voices heard BEFORE the U.S. Congressional war vote. In Los Angeles Social Justice Organizations Representing: Antiwar, Immigrant Rights, Human Rights, Women's Rights, Religious, Socialist, Anarchist, National Liberation Struggles UNITE TO RESIST THE WAR AGAINST SYRIA! Organizers of Arab Americans for Syria, BAYAN-USA, Global Women's Strike, International League for Peoples' Struggle, Martin Luther King Coalition, ANSWER-LA, United National Antiwar Coalition-LA, SOA Watch-LA, Antiracist Action, International Action Center, Workers World Party, Unión del Barrio, Union of Progressive Iranians, Puerto Rican Alliance, Los Angeles Peace Council, Southern California Immigration Coalition, Los Angeles Chapter of National Lawyers Guild, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition, KmB Pro-People Youth, Veterans For Peace, Association of Filipinas, Feminists Fighting Imperialism, Re-feudalization, and Marginalization (AF3IRM), March Forward! veterans, Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, Frente Unido de los Pueblos Americanos (FUPA), Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD), Asociacion Simon Bolivar de Los Angeles, Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc, Minjok.com are joining the national call for 'Hands Off Syria Protests' on Saturday, September 7th. We Must Stop Them From Yet Another Murderous Military Attack Justified By Lies! HANDS OFF SYRIA!
[LAAMN] Sign a Petition from Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, Which Opposes the United States Intervening in the Syrian Civil War!
Tell Congress: Don't Attack Syria Alan Grayson: A Congressman With Guts Sign a Petition from Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, Which Opposes the United States Intervening in the Syrian Civil War! www.dontattacksyria.com We have already delayed an attack on Syria and forced the President to ask Congress for authorization. The next step in preventing war is to get Congress to deny permission for war. Add your name to this petition and I will deliver it to your Member of Congress. Your voice matters. - Alan Grayson Petition: The Administration is considering intervening in the Syrian civil war. We oppose this. There's no vital national security involved. We are not the world’s policeman, nor its judge and jury. Our own needs in America are great, and they come first. The death of civilians is always regrettable, and civil war is regrettable, but no Americans have been attacked, and no American allies have been attacked. The British Parliament understandably has voted not to join in any attack. Notably, defense contractor Raytheon's stock is up 20% in the last 60 days. It seems that nobody wants US intervention in Syria except the military-industrial complex. I oppose US military intervention in Syria. Join me. www.dontattacksyria.com www.congressmanwithguts.com www.grayson.house.gov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Grayson
[LAAMN] 3RD ANNUAL GEORGE REGAS COURAGEOUS PEACEMAKER AWARDS ~ Honoring: Rabbi Leonard Beerman, Maher Hathout Eisha Mason ~ Sunday, September 8th, 7:00 PM at Agape International Spiritual Center in
THREE JOURNEYS TOWARDS PEACE: THIRD ANNUAL GEORGE REGAS COURAGEOUS PEACEMAKER AWARDS Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace http://www.eventbrite.com/org/4485227343?s=16544765 : www.icujp.org Honoring Rabbi Leonard Beerman, Maher Hathout Eisha Mason Sunday, September 8th Free Program Starts at 7:00 PM At Agape International Spiritual Center 5700 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City 90230 REGISTER HERE FOR THE 7 PM FREE PROGRAM http://www.regasaward2013.eventbrite.com Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace is thrilled to be honoring these three Courageous Peacemakers at a program that promises to be an historic sharing and discussion about their journeys, moderated by ICUJP founder, Rev. George Regas. Leonard Beerman was the founding rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles has been a long-time international activist on the issues of peace social justice. Maher M. Hathout is the senior advisor of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and is a leading spokesperson for the American Muslim community. Eisha Mason is the Associate Regional Director of the West Region of the American Friends Service Committee. She has been a courageous spokesperson for justice and peace, an author and teacher of nonviolence. The free program begins at 7:00 PM at the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City (for this evening portion of the program, complimentary parking and shuttle service will be provided from 200 Corporate Pointe on Buckingham, south of Slauson). CLICK FOR DIRECTIONS TO AGAPE INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL CENTER http://www.agapelive.com/index.php?page=5 At a time when the US is at the brink of war again, as it was 12 years ago when ICUJP was formed, this is an opportunity to hear about these important Journeys Towards Peace, and to join in the continuing Journey! REGISTER HERE FOR THE 7 PM FREE PROGRAM http://www.regasaward2013.eventbrite.com For More Information and to Purchase Tickets Please Contact: 213-748-1643 or Visit: www.icujp.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://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[LAAMN] Sign the ReThink911 Petition Today! Make the Official Video Go Viral ~ I Just Signed! ~ Also: Watch the Film: “9/11 Truth - Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
Sign the ReThink911 Petition Today! ~ I Just Signed! Frank Dorrel Watch: “9/11 Truth - Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MoXwQl0mns www.ae911truth.org Visit ReThink911.org http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=AaG6Ov1aohYi5xdMzBY%2FbPmyUCrIQDDI | Trouble viewing - View online http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=C5Ns6k9%2BE9a2HrVCS93ha%2FmyUCrIQDDI http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=lwDVclocWfdzkbHqmPZKN%2FmyUCrIQDDI Rethink911 on Facebook http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=jmrcMkk5D2I9X4H1vhGDvvmyUCrIQDDI Rethink911 on Twitter Rethink911.org logo http://rethink911.org/alerts/2013/06/24/img/rethink-logo-blue.png SEPTEMBER 2nd, 2013 ReThink911 is Officially Airborne Forward the Video – Sign the Petition http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=DXHMB9D%2FPltuA%2FvBWJWJQ%2FmyUCrIQDDI Watch The Video Here: http://ReThink911.org http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=aVkCPCy%2FQhINyXYQAgK1mPmyUCrIQDDI Dear ReThink911 Supporters, The day we’ve all been waiting for has arrived. Today the ReThink911 campaign officially launches. Over the next month, tens of millions of people in 12 cities around the world will see the ads that thousands of you made possible with your hard work and generous donations. But this campaign is way more than just these ads. It’s the educational materials we distribute, and it’s the tens of thousands of people—and one day millions of people—who raise their voices in support of a new investigation into the events of 9/11. We kick off our people-powered educational campaign by asking you to take two vitally important actions: 1) Watch the newly released official ReThink911 video http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=XcsqM5mG7M%2BUd9VqhYhp4%2FmyUCrIQDDI narrated by Daniel Sunjata—then forward it to all of your friends and family and everyone else on your contact list, and share it on Facebook and Twitter using the buttons below the video player http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=FnFGJjmJkX7E1lnb94Z7C%2FmyUCrIQDDI . Let’s make this video go viral! 2) Sign the newly unveiled ReThink911 International Petition http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=tsgphmK8srgForWDWMEbAvmyUCrIQDDI . When this petition reaches one million signers, it will be delivered to the Head of State of every nation that had citizens who died in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Are you wondering when your city’s ads will be up? Here you go! San Francisco – Bay Area Rapid Transit posters: already in circulation Washington D.C. – Taxi tops: already in circulation Boston – Taxi tops: already in circulation Chicago – Taxi tops: already in circulation Dallas – Stemmons Freeway billboard near Feizy Center: September 2 installation Toronto – Dundas Square billboard: September 2 installation London – Downtown billboard and street boards: September 2 installation Sydney – Downtown street posters: September 2 installation New York – Times Square billboard (47th St. 7th Ave.): September 3 installation Vancouver – Downtown transit shelters: September 4 installation San Diego – Mobile billboard: September 5 to September 11 Ottawa – Bus posters: September 9 installation Stay tuned in the coming days for photos and videos. Thank you for making this historic campaign a reality! Support this campaign with a donation http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Pl8yxmPdqmvPWyQiRbblE%2FmyUCrIQDDI Donate About ReThink911 ReThink911 is sponsored by Architects Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and Remember Building 7, a campaign by 9/11 family members to raise awareness of Building 7. All donations are 100% tax-deductible. http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=2112362602 [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
[LAAMN] Today, September 1st, 2013, is the 26th Anniversary of when S. Brian Willson was run over by a Naval Train at Concord Weapons Naval Station in Northern California. Read what Brian has to say a
can so smoothly lead to one adhering to diabolical behavior equivalent or exceeding the behavior we once renounced with vigor. And, isn't it interesting that both our Secretary of State (a Delta Swift Boat cmdr) and Secretary of War (a Sgt in 9th Infantry Division, also in the Delta), are Viet Nam veterans who have said at various times that the US needs to learn from our mistakes in Viet Nam. The diabolical pattern continues, and in some ways we are all complicit unless and until we collectively amass in the streets making governing business as usual impossible, or in the alternative, totally withdraw our support by transitioning to local self reliant communities possessing some autonomy, or some combination of each. Our country is unreformable and irredeemable, founded on the forceful dispossession of hundreds of Indigenous nations of real human beings to steal land killing millions with total impunity; forceful kidnapping of hundreds of tribes of Africans comprised of real human beings to steal labor killing millions with total impunity; forceful theft of raw materials and resources from around the world killing and impoverishing millions with total impunity. Three holocausts enabling us to believe we are an exceptional society. We are like spoiled adolescents who have never been held to account for our systematic criminality. The wool has not been pulled over our eyes. The wool IS our eyes. The pattern of US history built on massive exploitation outsourcing the consequent pain and suffering out of our feeling field, out of our view, still remains unspeakable. Yet it is cracking, as the Occupy Movement represented, and the repressive crackdown of that movement revealed how terrified the system is of people power emerging outside the claustrophobic box. The revelations forcing dreaded transparency by acts such as those of Bradley (Chelsea) Manning and Edward Snowden show how really unbearable is truth to the system since it has always operated on the lie, on pretend. Pretty incredible. I celebrate 26 years of surviving a murder attempt that has left me walking upright on two prostheses, a plate in my skull protecting my damaged frontal lobe, with the grand opportunity of now having arm-powered myself more than 65,000 miles on handcycle. Today, Becky and I cycled to the rally against bombing Syria where we were inspired as we met many Syrians and other young people who totally get the lie. Yahoo! Find your tracks, define your train, find others, and make your stand. Dignity trumps longevity. Brian, Walking and hand cycling in my 73rd year. Hard to believe. Message from Frank Dorrel: Dear Friends, If you would like to say hello to Brian, his email is: b...@brianwillson.com Here is the 9-Minute Trailer for: PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE: The Story of S. Brian Willson The Peace Movement - Directed by Bo Boudart - Associate Producer Frank Dorrel www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKIjfUAnPvYfeature=player_embedded# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKIjfUAnPvYfeature=player_embedded If you feel inspired to help get this important film finished, please send a donation to: Beau Monde Image Foundation PO Box 7395, Menlo Park, CA 94026 (This is a 501 C-3 organization. So it is Tax Deductable) Bo has already interviewed Daniel Ellsberg, Father Roy Bourgeois, Medea Benjamin, Col. Ann Wright, Martin Sheen, Alice Walker, Phil Donahue, Blase Bonpane, Ron Kovic, Ray McGovern, Kathy Kelly, Charlie Clements, Camila Mejia (Iraq War Vet), Bruce Gagnon, Charlie Liteky, Duncan Murphy, Leah Bolger (past president of Veterans For Peace), Elliot Adams (past president of VFP), David Swanson, Mike Prysner (Iraq War Vet), Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist) others. He still plans to interview Amy Goodman, Kris Kristofferson, Ed Asner, Cindy Sheehan. Bo Boudart is a producer of wildlife, ecology, cultural, human rights, cultural, educational and science programs. He has initiated productions in Asia, Indonesia and Philippine Island Archipelagos, South America, Africa, Australia, the Arctic, the Caribbean, and throughout the United States. Boudart has produced documentaries, animations, educational, marketing and informational programs for distribution in all formats. Many of his programs have aired on the Discovery Channel, Public Television, Canadian Broadcasting, NHK Japan, French TV, and the Middle East. Bo Boudart Director of: Paying The Price For Peace 650-644-7228 bboud...@gmail.com www.boboudartproductions.org Other Important Links for S. Brian Willson Here is Brian's interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman on October 28th, 2011: www.democracynow.org/2011/10/28/blood_on_the_tracks_brian_willsons You can watch Brian's 8-minute segment from my film: What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rkvl9XHCYUfeature=related All of Brian's essays on his website are well worth reading
[LAAMN] Excellent 3-Hour Interview with Amy Goodman on CSPAN2 Book TV on April 7th, 2013 with Host Peter Slen ~ Also One-Hour QA with Medea Benjamin on C-SPAN TV on March 5th, 2013 with Host Brian La
CSPAN2 Book TV - In Depth with Amy Goodman - April 7th, 2013 – Host Peter http://www.c-spanvideo.org/peterslen Slen www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311382-1 “Democracy Now!” Host and Executive Producer Amy Goodman responded to viewers' calls, Facebook comments, emails and tweets on topics such as war, politics and grass-roots activism, among others. Ms. Goodman has authored or co-authored five non-fiction books, including The Exception to the Rulers, Standing Up to the Madness and The Silenced Majority. 2 Hours: 59 Minutes http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311382-1 About Democracy Now! - www.democracynow.org Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Free Speech TV ch. 348 and Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the most popular on the web. Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, Democracy Now! hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other. New stations are adding Democracy Now! to their programming schedules all the time, and there are several movements going on around the country right now to bring Democracy Now! to new communities. To find out more about these efforts, and how to get involved, click here. http://www.democracynow.org/get_involved WHY INDEPENDENT MEDIA? For true democracy to work, people need easy access to independent, diverse sources of news and information. But the last two decades have seen unprecedented corporate media consolidation. The U.S. media was already fairly homogeneous in the early 1980s: some fifty media conglomerates dominated all media outlets, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, music, publishing and film. In the year 2000, just six corporations dominated the U.S. media. In addition, corporate media outlets in the U.S. are legally responsible to their shareholders to maximize profits. Democracy Now! is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations. We do not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting, or government funding. This allows us to maintain our independence. ~~ C-SPAN TV - March 5th, 2013 QA with Medea Benjamin www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311309-1 This is an Excellent Interview on C-SPAN TV with Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of CODEPINK: www.codepink.org . Medea is Interviewed by Brian Lamb on March 5th, 2013. This week on Q A, our guest is author and co-founder of CODEPINK, Medea Benjamin. She discusses her new book: “Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control” and explains why she believes the use of military drones should be stopped. She talks about what motivated her in her early years to become an activist for peace, and provides insight into CODEPINK s origins and motivations. She discusses many of her disruptions of congressional hearings and public appearances, and talks about the experience of spending time in a jail cell overnight. She reflects on her early days of activism and recalls how the Vietnam War inspired her first protest. She shares stories from her visits to pre-war Iraq, including an encounter with a border guard in Iraq who was studying Hebrew. She responds to accusations by critics that she is anti-American by saying she would describe herself as a passionate American. She reveals many of the tactics her group employs in organizing demonstrations, and talks about the varied receptions her outbreaks receive from committee chairmen. Medea Benjamin got a B.S. in political science in 1973 from Tufts University. She earned her M.A. in public health from Columbia University in 1975 and an M.A. in economics in 1977 from the New School in New York. She co-founded Global Exchange in 1988 and in 2000 ran as the Green Party Candidate for the U.S. Senate in California. In 2002, she co-founded Code Pink: Women for Peace. She is the author and editor of several books. Her first book Bridging the Global Gap: A Handbook to Linking Citizens of the First and Third Worlds, was published in 1989. 59 minutes http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311309-1 Views Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global
[LAAMN] The SUMMER OF SOLIDARITY TOUR ~ Labor Day Workshop ~ Sunday, September 1st, 12:30 PM at The ONION - Unitarian Universalist Society - 9550 Haskell Avenue, North Hills
The SUMMER OF SOLIDARITY TOUR Labor Day Workshop Sunday, September 1st - 12:30 PM At The ONION - Unitarian Universalist Society 9550 Haskell Avenue, North Hills 91344 Questions Contact Alan Taylor at: 818-360 1167 or: 818 624 1157 - allanperltay...@aol.com The SUMMER OF SOLIDARITY TOUR will visit the Onion Sunday. The President of USW Local 3657 in Pittsburgh, PA, Patrick Young, will speak at the 10:30 AM Service followed by refreshments. The 12:30 PM Workshop, addressing the need for Solidarity with the Labor Movement, the Occupy Movement, the Anti-War/Peace Movement, Car Wash Workers, Sweatshops, and will cover innovative organizing strategies and tactics of the Progressive Community united in the struggle against Economic Austerity and the corporate domination of our society. Their Report from the Road, with slides of what they have been doing since the SUMMER OF SOLIDARITY tour started on August 16th will be shown. www.SummerofSolidarity.org At The Onion, Unitarian Universalist Society, 9550 Haskell Ave. North Hills, CA. From the 405 Freeway, take Nordhoff Westbound two blocks and turn right on Haskell for two blocks. It's just past Plummer on the right side. Phone (818) 894 9251 or (818) 360 1167. www.sepulvedauu.org Allan Taylor Social Justice Committee Unitarian Universalist Society 9550 Haskell Ave. North Hills, CA 91344 Home: 818 360 1167 Cell: 818 624 1157 Office: 818 894 9251 www.sepulvedauu.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] How To Stop A War On Syria ~ Excellent Article by David Swanson - Author of War Is A Crime ~ Listen to David Swanson Marjorie Cohn on KPFK with Michael Slate this Morning, Friday, August 3
David Swanson was on KPFK this morning (Friday, August 30th) with Michael Slate: What an excellent interview it was. Same goes for Marjorie Cohn, who was also on with Michael: http://www.marjoriecohn.com www.marjoriecohn.com . They talked about the current situation with the United States threatening to bomb Syria. You can listen to that program at: http://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_130830_15bts_michael.MP3 http://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_130830_15bts_michael.MP3 - Frank Dorrel How To Stop A War On Syria Opposition to Iraq War May Save Syria http://warisacrime.org/content/opposition-iraq-war-may-save-syria By David Swanson: Author of: War Is A Crime - www.warisacrime.org www.warisacrime.org/content/opposition-iraq-war-may-save-syria Evidence of weapons of mass destruction is no slam dunk, U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet. Opposition to a U.S.-led attack on Syria is growing rapidly in Europe and the United States, drawing its strength from public awareness that the case made for attacking Iraq had holes in it. A majority in the United States, still very much aware of Iraq war deceptions, opposes arming the rebel force in Syria, so heavily dominated by foreign fighters and al Qaeda. And a majority opposes U.S. military action in Syria. But that public opinion is only just beginning to get expressed as activism. With Republicans more willing to actively oppose a war this time, and some section of Democrats still opposed, there's actually potential to build a larger antiwar movement than that of 2003-2006. Thus far, however, what's discouraging an attack on Syria is the public uproar that was created back then over the disastrous attack on Iraq. The nation of Iraq was destroyed. Millions of refugees still can't safely return. As with every other humanitarian war thus far, humanity suffered, and the suffering will last for ages. While the damage done to the United States itself doesn't compare with the damage done to Iraq, it has been severe en ough to make many a near-sighted potential war supporter cautious. The problem with attacking Iraq was not that the vast stockpiles of weapons were fictional. Had every claim been true, the war would have remained illegal, immoral, and catastrophic. Were it true that the Syrian government really chose the moment of the U.N. inspectors' arrival to use chemical weapons, launching a U.S. war on Syria would still hurt the people of Syria -- who are overwhelmingly opposed to it, regardless of their level of support for their government. A regional or even global war could result. The U.S. military is planning for such scenarios, as if preparing for the apocalypse while igniting it makes the action less insane. A war of supposed humanitarian philanthropy should consider the value to humanity of the rule of law. Launching a war in violation of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the United Nations Charter, and the U.S. Constitution hurts the rule of law. A war of beneficial generosity should consider other possible medicines that lack the deadly side-effects of war. For example, the United States could easily stop supporting and arming abusive dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Yemen, and Egypt, not to mention the horrors inflicted on Palestine by Israel. A so-called good and noble war against the evil of chemical weapons should probably be launched by a nation that doesn't itself use chemical weapons. Yet, the United States used white phosphorous and napalm as weapons in Iraq, not to mention such internationally sanctioned weapons as depleted uranium and cluster bombs -- weapons the United States also sells to other governments regardless of their human rights records (including a big shipment of cluster bombs now headed to Saudi Arabia). A humanitarian and just war should perhaps show equal concern for those humans killed with any kind of weapon. Bombing Syria would inevitably kill significant numbers of people. Isn't that a problem even if they're killed with the right kind of weapons? Both sides in the war in Syria have killed large numbers of people. We have heard as many serious accounts of the rebels using chemical weapons as the government. Should indisputable facts establish that both sides have used those forbidden weapons, surely the proper response will not be to bomb both sides. By joining in this war, on the side of an armed opposition dominated by people with no concern for democracy or human rights, the United States will make itself more hated in the region than its previous military actions already have. While this war has nothing to do with defending the United States, it will in fact endanger it. Here's what should be done instead: Pressure Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and Turkey to stop arming one side, while pressuring Russia and Iran to stop arming the other. Insist on a cease-fire. Support U.N. inspections
[LAAMN] Demonstration in Solidarity with Prison Hunger Strikers ~ Friday, August 30th, 4:00 PM at CDCR-Parole Offices - 2444 S. Alameda, Los Angeles ~ Initiated by the Black Riders Liberation Party
Sent from Michael Novick: antiracistaction...@yahoo.com Demonstration In Solidarity with Prison Hunger Strikers Friday, August 30th, 4:00 PM at CDCR-Parole Offices 2444 S. Alameda, Los Angeles 90058 In solidarity with the prisoner hunger strikers in CA and elsewhere, there will be a demonstration and a separate civil disobedience action by people prepared to risk arrest, because of the urgent need for action to get Gov. Brown and the state of CA to meet the hunger strikers' 5 core demands before the strikers suffer permanent damage or worse from their on-going strike. The protest will denounce the threatened forced-feeding as torture. It will take place at the CDCR-Parole offices on 24th St. and South Alameda just south of downtown Los Angeles, 2444 S. Alameda, L.A. 90058, on Friday, August 30th (a near culmination of Black August) at 4:00 PM. The action was initiated by the Black Riders Liberation Party, (BRLP), some of whose prison chapter members are involved in the strike, and by the Inter-communal Solidarity Committee. Co-sponsors and endorsers are welcome to join in or to take similar action at other CDCR-Parole offices around southern CA and the state of California, in order to magnify the impact. For More Information Contact the Black Riders at: 323-289-4457 or: blackriders1...@gmail.com or the Inter-communal Solidarity Committee at: 323-636-7388, especially if you are interested in participating in the planned civil disobedience, which will require separate training and planning. [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] No U.S. Military Intervention in Syria! ~ Veterans For Peace Strongly Opposes U.S. Military Intervention, Whether Direct or Indirect, in the War that is Currently Raging in Syria ~ 11 Reasons
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[LAAMN] Prevent an Attack on Syria Now ~ Sign Petition from RootsAction
GRAPHIC: Roots Action logo header https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/RA_Header.jpg http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=lhEfkYj2ABd9XSEe%2BL6p%2FlcsOCxKipvU http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=GEnK0yt5p1x1hF094pf7fFcsOCxKipvU GRAPHIC: Sign here button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=e3KPRbQCdbt9QYT2BqVKJVcsOCxKipvU Share this action on Facebook http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=wEfjSwgc%2BcjbaxSB8T3z%2F1csOCxKipvU Share this action on Twitter http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=ZNTSqu%2FxmxHT7MqjC8NePlcsOCxKipvU The terrible and widespread killing in Syria will become even more terrible and more widespread if the U.S. military (or a coalition of allies) launches an attack.[1] Under the Constitution, Congress is responsible for declaring war -- yet routinely it leaves the decision to the President. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=4IpZAmAu5ceT9ibwDXYod1csOCxKipvU In less than a minute, you can send an urgent email to your senators and representative (with a cc to President Obama) urging them to oppose a U.S. military attack on Syria. Click here. The choice is not between doing nothing and bombing the Syrian people. Bob Dreyfuss, contributing editor at The Nation, urges an all-out effort to achieve a ceasefire in the Syrian civil war. It's late in the game but it can be done. The first step would be for Washington to put intense pressure on Saudi Arabia, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, and Turkey, to halt the flow of weapons to the Syrian rebels, while simultaneously getting Russia and Iran to do the same. A concerted, worldwide diplomatic effort along those lines could work, but there's zero evidence that President Obama has even thought of that.[2] http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=0H7RREI9gQ8CDP7JG876LFcsOCxKipvU Click here to give the idea to the President and to Congress. Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire said this week: Contrary to some foreign governments’ current policies of arming the rebels and pushing for military intervention, the people of Syria are calling out for peace and reconciliation and a political solution to the crisis, which continues to be inflamed by outside forces with thousands of foreign fighters funded and supported by outside countries for their own political ends.[3] Click here to tell those who would bomb people in our names that we strongly oppose such actions. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=DjQKFENIqudAqCeAR4Fmn1csOCxKipvU Very important: To help amplify voices for peace at this crucial time, please forward this message to like-minded friends. -- The RootsAction.org team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, and many others. P.P.S. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=hl1s4mjDd0G4ztmD5bjrWVcsOCxKipvU This work is only possible with your financial support. Please donate. Footnotes: 1. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=ZwpK%2FK21PlF7XmqWGgtnK1csOCxKipvU Institute for Public Accuracy: An Illegal War Forced on Syria That Benefits Al-Qaeda? 2. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=ICiiAKVQyLBJmicC4qUfpFcsOCxKipvU Bob Dreyfuss, The Nation: No War With Syria 3. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=eBpTVlWa3qMKIO9f3gRBeVcsOCxKipvU Mairead Maguire: Syria: No Armaments to Rebels http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=md4e7VrqoIVZGMHIfUAY%2FVcsOCxKipvU www.RootsAction.org http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=roeFbcMQPolmYktpnriNNlcsOCxKipvU Donate button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=PXkNyfxoNv%2BvzKgdul9HJlcsOCxKipvU Facebook button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=ZsTw76XrukFBSLoGOK8sSNMHZ3i%2BzaLh Twitter button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=GyQ23FjWYFUMdZovck4pJlcsOCxKipvU Click here to unsubscribe and stop ALL email from RootsAction. http://www.salsalabs.com/?email empowered by Salsa http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1568079049 [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
[LAAMN] The Musical Legacy of The Great March in 1963 ~ Featuring Ross Altman ~ Saturday, August 31st, 2:00 PM at The Allendale Branch Library in Pasadena ~ Program to Feature Music of Bob Dylan, Joan
From Ross Altman: greygoosemu...@aol.com The Musical Legacy of The Great March Featuring Ross Altman Saturday, August 31st - 2:00 PM Presented by The Allendale Branch Library 1130 South Marengo Avenue, Pasadena 91106 (626) 744-7260 Folk singer Ross Altman will present a program of folk music originally performed at the August 28th, 1963 March on Washington by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Len Chandler, Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. The performance will also include a few songs that became prominent in the months leading up to the March from the 1963 Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger and the Mississippi Freedom Singers and in the aftermath (such as Richard Farina’s “Birmingham Sunday”) and will conclude with a 50th anniversary remembrance of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963. All Ages Welcome. Free and Open to the Public. Light Refreshments Will Be Served. Len Chandler and I will be interviewed on KCRW's Which Way LA (89.9 FM) hosted by Warren Olney Wednesday evening at 7:00 PM on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. We will be on the show to discuss the themes of my upcoming program The Musical Legacy of The Great March this Saturday August 31 at 2:00 PM at the Allendale Branch of the Pasadena Public Library. It is free and open to the public. I hope you can make it to the performance and are able to tune in Wednesday evening. Thank you! Ross Altman greygoosemu...@aol.com MarchonWashingtonButton A Production of Grey Goose Music All Rights Reserved [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] EMERGENCY NO WAR AGAINST SYRIA PROTEST ~ Thursday, August 29th, 6:00 PM at Westwood Federal Building ~ Not Another U.S. War ~ Stop the Bombing Before it Starts! ~ Join Syrian American Forum, A
From Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice: socialjusticecente...@gmail.com EMERGENCY NO WAR AGAINST SYRIA PROTEST DEMANDING: Not Another U.S. War - Stop the Bombing Before it Starts! Thursday August 29th - 6:00 PM at Westwood Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd, West Los Angeles Corner of Wilshire Veteran JOIN THE SYRIAN AMERICAN FORUM THE ARAB AMERICANS FOR SYRIA Along with SOA Watch-LA, BAYAN-USA, International Action Center, Martin Luther King Coalition, Antiracist Action, Union of Progressive Iranians, Puerto Rican Alliance: In major cities around the country people will be protesting war efforts now in progress by the U.S. based on lies to justify imperialist aims of conquest and profit, causing nothing but misery and death for their latest target nation while at the same time further impoverishing working and poor people and the social structures that provide basic human needs here. Tell the Obama Administration: Just Say No To Another U.S./NATO/ISRAELI War Contact: Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice (323) 306-6240 - socialjusticecente...@gmail.com NO U.S. WAR http://www.organizerweb.org/lists/uploadimages/image/syria%20banner.jpg Say NO to Another U.S. War BEFORE the Bombs Fall. NATIONAL PROTESTS Thursday . August 29th . 6:00 PM Dear Friends, Yesterday we sent email alerts urging activists to begin mobilizing for what has long been known as 'Day After' protests against a US military strike. But it is important that across the country everyone opposed to still another US war find ways to raise their opposition now, BEFORE another criminal US war is unleashed with cruise missiles and a barrage of war propaganda and cynical lies of 'humanitarian concern'. In NYC, Chicago, Dearborn MI, Los Angeles, Washington DC and several other cities, there are plans for immediate protests this Wed and Thurs. Not Another War! Secretary of State John Kerry's ominous announcement that the U.S. intends to take action against the Syria, and that Syria will be held accountable is all but an announcement of an eminent attack. The U.S. is blaming the Assad government for a chemical weapons attack and openly talking of direct military intervention. We, as the Antiwar movement, have a duty to denounce any military action against Syria by the United States. Please join a protest on: Thursday, August 29th at 6:00 PM - SPREAD THE WORD! Many groups and activists are also beginning to mobilize emergency protests at Federal Buildings, the offices of military contractors, and other symbols of U.S. militarism within 24 hours of the launch of a criminal new U.S. war. Send us word of your local action: http://www.iacenter.org iacenter.org or send to http://www.UNACpeace.org UNACpeace.org We must make clear now that we will not be tricked into another war, designed to make profits for the Wall Street military contractors and oil profiteers. Such a war will take thousands of innocent lives. There is no justification for such a criminal act. The billions of dollars that such a war would cost should be spent on education, schools, healthcare, and other basic societal needs. The fact that another foreign war is being considered, at a time that food stamps are being cut, record numbers of homes are being foreclosed, and schools are being shut down and privatized in the name of a budget crisis is outrageous. Austerity is continuing in the U.S., and public sector workers are being eliminated. Basic infrastructure within the U.S. is crumbling. Bridges are insecure. Water is not being properly purified. A new war will be disastrous for people of the Middle East, the U.S., and the entire world. According to a Reuters poll, 89% of the population is opposed to U.S. support for Syrian opposition. FACTS on Syria: * There is absolutely no evidence or confirmation that the Assad government carried out the alleged chemical attack. * United Nations weapons inspectors are in Syria at the direct REQUEST of the Syrian government, to prove that they have not used chemical weapons. The attack took place a mere ten miles away from the inspection team, on the very day they arrived. * Carla Del Ponte, a United Nations Human Rights Investigator, has stated that the Syrian government has not used chemical weapons, but the rebels have.In May, 12 members of the Syrian rebel forces were arrested in Turkey. The rebels possessed 4.5 pounds of Sarin, the neuro-toxin gas alleged to have been used in the recent attack. * In May, 12 members of the Syrian rebel forces were arrested in Turkey. The rebels possessed 4.5 pounds of Sarin, the neuro-toxin gas alleged to have been used in the recent attack. * In January, the Daily Mail, a prominent British newspaper, reported that the Syrian rebels were planning a chemical attack which they would blame on the Syrian government in order to justify U.S. intervention. The report was based on leaked e-mails from
[LAAMN] Trayvon Martin National Day of Action ~ Meet Tomorrow: Wednesday, August 28th, 10:00 AM at U.S. Court House - 312 Spring Street, Downtown Los Angeles ~ Justice For Trayvon Martin!
Trayvon Martin National Day of Action Meet Tomorrow: Wednesday, August 28th at 10:00 AM At U.S. Court House - 312 Spring Street, Downtown Los Angeles Justice For Trayvon Martin! Call to Participate in Organized Civil Disobedience and/or to Volunteer: 213-250-3986 or 323-306-6240 Inline image 1 On the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March for Jobs Education, Act Now for Human Rights! Justice for Trayvon Martin! Time for Bold Action! We must do more than march rally: Wednesday, August 28th - 10:00 AM US Court House 312 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles Call to participate in organized civil disobedience and/or to volunteer: 213-250-3986 or 323-306-6240 We Demand and Stand For: - Federal Civil Rights charges against Zimmerman - Stop the war on youth of color - Money for social needs - not war - Solidarity with prison hunger strikers from Guantanamo to CA - Immigrant rights now - STOP deportations Endorsers: - Martin Luther King Coalition - Southern CA Immigration Coalition - National Hood Alliance - BAYAN USA - LA Puerto Rican Alliance - Labor / Community Strategy Center - LA Resist - Interfaith Communities United for Justice Peace - Palisadians for Peace - United National Antiwar Coalition - People's Power Assemblies-LA [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] Interview with Bradley Manning's Attorney, David Coombs ~ He Wanted To Help America ~ First Extended Interview After 35-Year Sentence ~ Democracy Now: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
www.democracynow.org/2013/8/22/he_wanted_to_help_america_manning Democracy Now - Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 Interview with Bradley Manning's Attorney, David Coombs He Wanted To Help America: First Extended Interview After 35-Year Sentence Just after Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday - and before Manning's announcement of a gender transition earlier today - independent journalist Alexa O'Brien sat down with Manning's attorney, David Coombs, for his first interview about the case. O'Brien was one of only a handful of journalists to cover the entire Manning trial and was the first to make transcripts of the proceedings publicly available. We air the interview in a Democracy Now! exclusive. Coombs talks about the government's use of classified evidence, Manning's reaction to the sentence and how much of the court record was hidden from the public. I can't believe that was actually the sentence he received, Coombs tells O'Brien. Anyone who sat through the hearing and heard all the evidence, even in the closed sessions, there is not evidence there where you would think 35 years would be the appropriate sentence. I wonder now if there had actually been damaged or if he had really intended to harm the United States or wanted to obtain personal gain from selling classified information, just what the sentence would have been. Because this was a person who had true intentions. He wanted to help America. He wanted to get people to think about what was going on in Iraq. He didn't have an evil motive in what he did. Transcript AMY GOODMAN: Now, today, in breaking news, Manning released another statement to the public announcing plans to live as a woman under the name Chelsea Manning. Just after the sentencing on Wednesday, before this latest announcement, independent journalist Alexa O'Brien sat down with Manning's attorney, David Coombs, for Coombs' first interview about the case. Alexa O'Brien was one of only a handful of journalists to cover the entire Manning trial, there every single day. She was the first to make transcripts of the proceedings publicly available. We'll spend the rest of the hour airing this exclusive interview. ALEXA O'BRIEN: Mr. Coombs, Bradley Manning was convicted of 20 offenses and just sentenced to 35 years. What is your reaction? DAVID COOMBS: Well, I look at the sentence, and I can't believe that that was actually the sentence he received. Anyone who sat through the hearing, heard all the evidence, even in the closed sessions, there is not evidence there where you would think 35 years would be the appropriate sentence. I wonder now, if there had actually been damage, or if he had really intended to harm the United States, or if he wanted to obtain personal gain from selling classified information, just what the sentence would have been, because this was a person who had true intentions. He wanted to help America. He wanted to get people to think about what was going on in Iraq. And he didn't have an evil motive in what he did. You heard from the sentencing his background, his story. And yet, that was the sentence he received. ALEXA O'BRIEN: And how is Bradley Manning? DAVID COOMBS: Interestingly, he was the person who had probably the most cheerful mood afterwards. There were a lot of people who were very upset. He said, Hey, it's OK. It's all right. I know you did everything you could for me. Don't cry. Be happy. It's fine. This is just a stage of my life. I'm moving forward. I will recover from this. So it was odd that I wasn't the person who was trying to comfort him. It was just-just the opposite. ALEXA O'BRIEN: My sense-I don't know Bradley Manning, but my sense is that he has grown up through his court-martial process. He is actually quite a strong character in the courtroom. And he is-and I've described him as being incredibly earnest. I really think, you know, it's the best way I can describe the sort of sense of sincerity that I get from hearing him testify. What's your sense of Bradley Manning? How have you seen him grow through this process? Or- DAVID COOMBS: Oh, he definitely has matured. When I first met him three years ago, it was a young man who-still very idealistic, but, you know, when he had to explain certain things of what his thought process was, he had sometimes trouble articulating how he was feeling. It was clear he had these feelings, and it was clear he was sincere, but he couldn't really talk about it. He also wasn't a person who really knew how to connect with others, because he was so used to being judged. So, even though very caring, he would have difficulty whenever you got onto a personal level with them. I think over the years, the three years that I represented him, I've seen all those barriers break down. He is not just a client, he is a friend. And to see him mature over the last three years gives me great hope for him in the future. And that's really why I believed an appropriate sentence would have been one that
[LAAMN] Bradley Manning Outrageously Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison ~ Pardon Bradley Campaign Begins ~ Lawler David Coombs Reads Powerful Letter by Bradley Manning!
Coombs, Bradley, Amnesty Appeal for Presidential Pardon www.bradleymanning.org Is this email not displaying correctly? http://ymlp216.net/zY6UyU View it in your browser. http://BradleyManning.org Bradley Manning Support Network Outrageously Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison: Campaign for Presidential Pardon Begins http://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/brad2-300x201.jpg The White House petition to pardon Bradley Manning requires 100k signatures in the next 30 days! Please sign and share! http://whitehouse.gov/lgG58 Outrageously, Bradley Manning was sentenced today to 35 years in prison - a sentence meant to carry a chilling message to anyone considering future exposures of government illegalities. Bradley’s lawyer David Coombs held a press conference immediately following the announcement where he shared a profound letter written by Bradley Manning which will be delivered to the White House asking for a presidential pardon. He also recounted that when faced with the sentence, Bradley Manning spoke with integrity and composure: “I’m going to get through this” he said. In response to this travesty of justice, Amnesty International and the Bradley Manning Support Network launched a White House petition today calling for Bradley Manning’s sentence to be commuted to time served. We must accumulate 100,000 signatures in the next month. Please share this petition widely! Sign the petition. http://whitehouse.gov/lgG58 Coinciding with the campaign to pardon Bradley Manning, a new website has been launched inviting people to show their support by submitting a photo holding a “Pardon Bradley Manning” sign, along with a personal message. View photos and submit your own here. http://pardon.bradleymanning.org/ _ Lawyer David Coombs Reads Powerful Letter by Bradley Manning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm3g7EjlQCo View the press conference on YouTube This Profound Statement by Bradley Manning was Read by David Coombs at the Press Conference: http://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/whitehouse-225x300.jpg Supporters holding emergency rally at the White House after the sentence was announced. Pardon Bradley Manning! http://pardon.bradleymanning.org/ The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of the concern for my country and the world that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war. We have been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on a traditional battlefield. Due to this fact, we’ve had to alter our methods of combatting the risk posed to us and our way of life. I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend our country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at this time that I realized that our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the enemy, we had forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order to avoid any public accountability. In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror. http://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/photo-300x225.jpg http://pardon.bradleymanning.org/ President Obama: Pardon Bradley Manning! Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown any logically based dissension, it is usually an American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission. Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy—the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism and the Japanese-American internment camps—to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light. As the late Howard Zinn once said, there is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. I understand that my actions violated the law. I regret that my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and my sense of duty to others. If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my request knowing that some time you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free
[LAAMN] Global March Against Chemtrails Geoengineering ~ Sunday, August 25th, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at The Santa Monica Pier ~ Sent by Los Angeles SkyWatch
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[LAAMN] Pardon Bradley Manning - He is Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison, While War Criminals Go Free. Contact the White House at: 202-456-1414 and Demand that President Obama Pardon Manning.
Pardon Bradley Manning! He is Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison, While War Criminals Go Free. This man is not a spy. He is not a criminal. He is a brave whistleblower who has exposed war crimes, government misdeeds, and corruption. He embarrassed the government, but his disclosures did not cause a single documented death. He released the following documents to WikiLeaks, now faces years in prison, and must be pardoned by President Obama. . The Collateral Murder Video, which showed U.S. troops firing and killing unarmed civilians, including a Reuters photographer and firing on children in a van. www.collateralmurder.com . U.S. attempts to block investigations into CIA rendition of prisoners: http://is.gd/poVGfc . U.S. ignoring torture of Iraqi prisoners: http://is.gd/2ftWlt . Documentation of many more civilian deaths than had been reported previously. . Documents exposing the corruption of the Tunisian government, which led to rebellion in Tunisia, and the Arab Spring: http://is.gd/YBlxpS . A cable that proved that U.S. troops executed at least 10 civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5 month old baby, in Ishaqi in 2006, and then called in an air strike to cover it up. Soldiers involved did not serve a day in jail! This led to the Iraqi government refusing to allow U.S. troops to remain after 2011. http://is.gd/cmzrtc . Many more war crimes and revelations, including spying on diplomats at the U.N. Contact the White House at: 202-456-1414 and demand that President Obama pardon Manning. Or go to: www.whitehouse.gov and leave your comments. Here is what the ACLU said: When a soldier who shared information with the press public is punished far more harshly than others who tortured prisoners and killed civilians, something is seriously wrong with our justice system. A legal system that doesn't distinguish between leaks to the press in the public interest and treason against the nation will not only produce unjust results, but will deprive the public of critical information that is necessary for democratic accountability. This is a sad day for Bradley Manning, but it's also a sad day for all Americans who depend on brave whistleblowers a free press for a fully informed public debate. www.bradleymanning.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] Three Presentations with Guatemalan Human Rights Defender Marylena Bustamante Ortiz ~ August 22nd, 23rd, 24th ~ She Will Give An Eye Witness Account of the Historic Guatemalan Genocide Trial o
Don't Miss the Opportunity to Hear Guatemalan Human Rights Defender, Psychologist MARYLENA BUSTAMANTE ORTIZ Give an Eye Witness Account of the Historic Guatemalan Genocide Trial of Ex-Dictator General Efrain Rios Montt, where for the First Time a Former Head of State was Tried Found Guilty of Genocide Crimes vs. Humanity in a Domestic Court. Three Los Angles Presentations: Thursday, August 22nd - 7:00 PM International Institute of Los Angeles 435 S. Boyle Avenue, Los Angeles 90033 Friday, August 23rd - 7:00 PM Bresee Foundation 184 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004 Saturday, August 24th - 7:00 PM Central American Cultural Center 318 S. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles 90057 All Events Are Bilingual Co- Sponsored by: Amnesty International - Asociacion COMUNICARTE -Centro Cultural Centroamericano Colectivo Guatemalteco -Community Education for Social Action (CESA) - El Rescate Enfoque Latino KPFK SOA Watch LA - TASSC Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition Coverage on Democracy Now! www.democracynow.org/2013/5/13/ros_montt_guilty_of_genocide_are www.democracynow.org/2013/5/23/ros_montt_genocide_verdict_annulled_but For More Information in English: tel:%28310%29%20345-4883 310-345-4883 Español: tel:%28562%29328-6243 562-328-6243 tel:%28626%29274-4476 626-274-4476 Inline image 1 [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] America's Upside-Down Morality: Bradley Manning Apologizes for Doing the Right Thing ~ By Robert Parry
Americas Upside-Down Morality: Bradley Manning Apologizes for Doing the Right Thing By Robert Parry http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/robert-parry Global Research, August 15, 2013 Consortiumnews http://consortiumnews.com/ private manning http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/private-manning-400 x346.jpg Pvt. Bradley Manning has prostrated himself before his court-martial judge, apologizing for leaking documents on U.S. government wrongdoing and referencing his psychological problems as reasons for mercy. The sad spectacle underscores how upside-down American morality now is. Having covered the U.S. government for nearly 36 years, I am not so naïve as to expect perfection or even anything close. But there are times when the immoral dimensions of Official Washington stand out in the starkest shades, not in variations of gray but in black and white. Such was the gut-wrenching moment on Wednesday when Pvt. Bradley Manning, who exposed U.S. government war crimes and other wrongdoing, made a groveling apology for doing the right thing when there has been next to no accountability for the officials and their media collaborators who did innumerable wrong things. http://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/collateralmurder.jpg Photo: A scene from the Collateral Murder video in which an Iraqi man stops his van to aid those wounded in a lethal U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad on July 12, 2007, only to be killed by the American gunners. While no one in power seems to expect even an apology from let alone punishment of former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their subordinates who facilitated acts of torture and who deceived the American people into an unprovoked invasion of Iraq, 25-year-old Bradley Manning finds himself having to beg for mercy to avoid what could be a 90-year prison sentence. At his court-martial sentencing hearing, Mannings attorneys presented the brave whistleblower as a psychologically confused young man who mistakenly thought he was doing something good when he was really doing something bad. They even released a photo of him dressed as a woman, setting the stage for Mannings apology. Im sorry that my actions hurt people, Manning told the court martial judge. Im sorry that they hurt the United States. At the time of my decision, as you know, I was dealing with a lot of issues, issues that are ongoing and continue to affect me. But there has been no serious evidence that Mannings disclosure of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government records hurt people and they only hurt the United States in the sense that many of Official Washingtons misdeeds and manipulations were exposed for the world to see. Some of Mannings critics say U.S. diplomats now wont be so forthcoming in describing these realities out of fear that some future Manning might do more leaking, but theres no evidence of that either. In contrast to the lack of evidence regarding harm, there were undeniable benefits to democracy and human rights from what Manning did reveal. Mannings documents provided the detailed ground truth that has enabled Americans to better understand what their government did in Iraq and Afghanistan and how grotesque many of those crimes were. For instance, because Manning disclosed a classified videotape, we know that the much-heralded successful surge in Iraq in 2007 included the slaughter of innocent Iraqis walking down the streets of Baghdad as well as the slaying of a Good Samaritan who stopped his van, carrying his own children, in a vain attempt to help the wounded. The trigger-happy helicopter gunners killed the man and wounded his kids, too. Mannings leaks also revealed the U.S. governments awareness of gross corruption in allied countries, such as Tunisia where the revelations helped spark an uprising that drove out a longtime dictator and gave Tunisians a chance at democracy. Irans Nuclear Program Another important Manning disclosure, which may have deterred another catastrophic war in the Middle East, was how the U.S. government had manipulated the election of the new director general to the International Atomic Energy Agency. U.S. Embassy cables, exposed by Manning, showed that Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano had been installed in 2009 as something of a U.S.-Israeli puppet. The significance of this information was that, without it, Amanos IAEA could have advanced the goal of Israeli leaders and U.S. neoconservatives for war with Iran over its nuclear program by exaggerating the danger. That propaganda strategy was undercut by Mannings revelation that Amano was not only installed by the U.S. government but was meeting secretly with Israeli officials, ironically with Amano raising no complaints about Israels own rogue nuclear arsenal. When the cables about Amano came out a year after his appointment, Amanos IAEA was busy feeding the hysteria over Irans nuclear program
[LAAMN] Update from Oslo: Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize ~ RootsAction’s Norman Solomon Just Delivered Petition with Over 100,000 Signers to the Nobel Committee in Oslo
GRAPHIC: Roots Action logo header https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/RA_Header.jpg Get Bradley Manning covered right by your local media. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/oslo200.jpg You helped tell the world that Bradley Manning deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. RootsAction’s Norman Solomon just delivered our petition with over 100,000 signers to the Nobel Committee in Oslo -- and major news coverage went around the world. This week, thousands of newspapers published stories about our petition from http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=JEp53%2Faa%2FiQYC4DQs58e2jj4oobsTT%2Bc Reuters, http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=%2BBT1W6iker6H98BthULExzj4oobsTT%2Bc AFP, and the http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=qPAIvGb5uJVLKtl7D6ZNTjj4oobsTT%2Bc Associated Press. TV and radio coverage also reached many millions of people across the globe. Bradley Manning has been convicted for bravely exposing serious crimes by the U.S. government. With sentencing imminent, this would be a very good time to inform people in your community about why you signed our historic petition. Please contact your local media outlets to urge them to get the story right while reporting on a “local angle” including your own involvement in the http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=XGtxWbIIhcQdd5U0y8lmzzj4oobsTT%2Bc ManningNobel.org petition. Also, please share those wire service stories on social media and urge people to add their names to our ongoing petition at ManningNobel.org. Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends. -- The RootsAction.org team RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Norman Solomon, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven many others. This work is only possible with your financial support. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=vrKo5RC%2Bp%2F%2Bqgw2S2fS6TDj4oobsTT%2Bc Please donate. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=AMtSbwEr6bAjXz%2B%2FF5RNqzj4oobsTT%2Bc www.RootsAction.org http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=i%2BZ5G45UjX%2B3t9CzDkHfhzj4oobsTT%2Bc Donate button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=B2GQ67i5evj8SemSJ7WS8Dj4oobsTT%2Bc Facebook button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=ZE5VZPmOLMOsnUHBbxDOFjj4oobsTT%2Bc Twitter button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1558654602 [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] Progressive Democrats of Santa Monica Mountains to Honor Medea Benjamin, Tighe Barry, Bill Rosendahl Zev Yaroslavsky ~ Saturday, August 17th at PDSMM Birthday Party at Dorothy Reik's Home in
PDSMM Birthday Party Progressive Democrats of Santa Monica Mountains to Honor Medea Benjamin, Tighe Barry, Bill Rosendahl Zev Yaroslavsky Saturday, August 17th – Doors Open at 3:30 PM Emcee ~ KPFK’s Alan Minsky With Special Guests Lila Garrett, Mimi Kennedy, Jodie Evans, Torie Osborn, Susie Shannon, Mary Beth Fielder Russell Greene at Dorothy Reik's Home 21801 Saddle Peak Road, Topanga 90290 To RSVP Call: 310-455-4050 or Email: dorothyr...@pdsmm.org Requested Donation: $35 Inline image 1 It's almost here and it's been called the best progressive party of the year! Meet the activists who WILL make a difference! See below for additional special guests. Clean air, green grass, shady lawn, food and drink, and hopefully great views of the city, the mountains and Santa Monica bay. Follow these directions - DO NOT USE GOOGLE or MAPQUEST - THERE ARE TWO SADDLEPEAKS! PCH or 101 to Topanga Canyon Blvd (from 101 take Topanga SOUTH exit.) Turn at the fire station, Fernwood Pacific Drive. Name changes to Tuna Canyon Road half way up. At stop sign at the top bear right and go another mile up. Look for the peace man statue. From north take Ventura Blvd/Topanga exit from 101. FROM FURTHER WEST - Malibu Canyon/Las Virgenes to Mulholland Drive. Turn on Stunt Road, then left at the top - two miles and you are at my house. – Dorothy Reik: dorothyr...@pdsmm.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] 3 Events with Marylena Bustamante Ortiz: Guatemalan Psychologist Human Rights Defender ~ Thursday, August 22nd, 7:00 PM at International Institute of LA ~ Friday 23rd, 7:00 PM at Bresee Foun
3 Events with Marylena Bustamante Ortiz: Guatemalan Psychologist Human Rights Defender Thursday, August 22nd, 7:00 PM International Institute of Los Angeles - 435 S. Boyle Avenue, LA 90033 Friday, August 23rd, 7:00 PM Bresee Foundation - 184 Bimini Place, LA 90004 Saturday 24th, 7:00 PM Central American Cultural Center - 318 S. Alvarado Street, LA 90057 Oral Testimony Photographs of the Historic Trial in which Former Dictator of Guatemala, General Efrain Rios Montt, Was Declared Guilty of Genocide Crimes Against Humanity! For More Information Call: 310-345-4883 Inline image 1 [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] You're Invited to a BAN FRACKING RALLY in CALABASAS on Monday, August 12th at 12:30 PM
From Lauren Steiner: laurensteine...@gmail.com CALL TO ACTION - STOP FRACKING CALIFORNIA Petition Delivery/Rally Monday, August 12th - 12:30 PM 5016 N. Parkway Calabasas, Suite 222, Calabasas 91302 RSVP: http://on.fb.me/19OCP2n We Need Your Help! More Signatures Needed by August 11th - http://bit.ly/15huBIm WHY WE MUST ACT: The oil industry has discovered 15.4 billion barrels of oil under the Monterey Shale, a rock formation stretching from south of San Francisco to Los Angeles. This is the largest oil play in the nation, holding 2/3rds of the US reserves. If we don't stop Big Oil, they will frack up California with a vengeance. Activists organized to get two strong moratorium bills in the legislature this year and they were gutted and killed by the Democratic leadership. The only bill that survives is a weak regulatory bill, SB 4. As Lauren Steiner, one of the Forward on Climate Rally organizers, wrote in http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/07 her article in Common Dreams published yesterday, no bill is better than a weak bill. Weak regulations do not protect us from the harms of fracking. They just provide political cover to legislators who otherwise could be pressured to vote for a moratorium on the practice. Had 18 Democrats voted yes for the moratorium bill earlier this year, it would have passed. When asked why they didn't, they said they were planning to vote for SB 4 instead. Regulations cannot make fracking safe. Even if they could, the practice still uses too much water in a drought prone state and causes earthquakes in an earthquake prone state. It causes the industrialization of bucolic landscapes and noise and light pollution. Hundreds of daily diesel truck trips destroy roads and cause asthma and other respiratory diseases. Plus, burning all that oil will http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/18/1187913/-California-s-Fracked-Up-O il-Nearly-As-Bad-As-Keystone-XL release almost the same amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as the Keystone XL Pipeline. [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] Singer Roy Zimmerman's LA Tour ~ Friday, Aug. 9th, 7:30 PM in Claremont ~ Saturday, Aug. 10th, 8:00 PM in Studio City ~ Sunday, Aug. 11th, 8:00 PM at McCabe’s ~ Tuesday, Aug 13th, 7:00 PM in L
Singer Roy Zimmerman's Los Angeles “Wake Up Call” Tour www.royzimmerman.com/bio.html - www.royzimmerman.com/schedule.html I'll be bringing my funny songs about Peace and Justice to a bevy of Southern California shows this week. The details are below. In the meantime, here's The Faucet's On Fire! one of my recent YouTube offerings - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFD72ECm_CM Roy Zimmerman - www.royzimmerman.com Friday, August 9th - 7:30 PM Roy Zimmerman: Wake Up Call Folk Music Center Museum 220 Yale Avenue, Claremont $12 Saturday, August 10th – 8:00 PM Roy Zimmerman: Wake Up Call UU Church of Studio City 12355 Moorpark Street, Studio City $18 or Pay What You Can Sunday, August 11th – 8:00 PM Roy Zimmerman: Funny Songs Bad Advice McCabe’s Guitar Shop 3101 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica Info - 310-828-4497 $15 Tuesday, August 13th – 7:00 PM Roy Zimmerman: Wake Up Call UU Church of Verdugo Hills 4451 Dunsmore Avenue, La Crescenta $18 or Pay What You Can Saturday, August 17th – 8:00 PM Roy Zimmerman: Wake Up Call UU Church of Conejo Valley 3327 Old Conejo Road, Newbury Park For Info Email: fo...@cvuuf.org $18 ROY ZIMMERMAN: WAKE UP CALL Roy Zimmerman writes hilarious, rhyme-intensive original songs that are also incisive calls to action, smart, savvy and undeniable. “He simultaneously inspires me and makes me laugh my ass off,” says comedian/author Paul Krassner. Zimmerman’s “Wake Up Call” is ninety minutes of these songs - funny songs like “Abstain With Me” and “I Want a Marriage Like They Had In the Bible,” heartfelt songs like “Hope, Struggle and Change” and “I Approve This Message,” and impassioned comic commentary. In thirteen albums over twenty years, Roy has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for Peace and Social Justice. His songs have been heard on HBO and Showtime. He has recorded for Warner/Reprise Records, and he’s been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” His YouTube videos have amassed over seven million views, and he’s a featured blogger for the Huffington Post. In 2012, Roy and his wife and co-writer Melanie Harby traveled 47,000 miles to complete a 50-state tour of all 49 states. (Hawaii was “Omission Accomplished,” he says.) “Wake Up Call” is a funny, tuneful and unabashedly Progressive look at what they saw and heard across America in the Obama Era. “Zimmerman is a guy on the left skewering folks on the right with rapier-sharp lyrics ... underneath the caustic satire is a man who is surprisingly optimistic.” - Sing Out! Magazine “Zimmerman lifted the evening... squawking and clucking his scorn with a contagious irreverence.” - Stephen Holden, New York Times “Zimmerman has a rare gift for songwriting.” - San Francisco Chronicle YouTube Links: “Creation Science 101” - www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwiPsgRrOs “I’m In” - www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCA6nqC7B20 “To Be a Liberal” - www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qgiNPVpSM Summer of Loving - www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQWrasoNS24 “Hope, Struggle and Change” - www.youtube.com/watch?v=je6y2kFoPs8 [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] Book Signing Launch Party with Linda Marsa ~ Author of: FEVERED ~ New Book About Global Warming, Climate Change Disease ~ Saturday, August 10th, 2:00 PM at Barnes Noble in The Santa Mo
From Joan Sekler: joan.sek...@gmail.com Book Signing Launch Party with Linda Marsa Author of: FEVERED New Book About Global Warming, Climate Change Disease Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health www.amazon.com/Fevered-Hotter-Planet-Health-ourselves/dp/160529201X Saturday, August 10th, 2:00 PM At Barnes Noble in The Santa Monica Promenade 1201 3rd Street, Santa Monica www.lindamarsa.com Inline image 1 [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] Norman Solomon will take Bradley Manning Petition with 100,000 Signers to Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo this Coming Monday, August 12th, 2013
Sent from Jeff Cohen: jef...@hvc.rr.com Petition with 100,000 Signers Urging Nobel Peace Prize for Bradley Manning Scheduled for Presentation to Nobel Committee Office in Oslo on Monday, August 12th, 2013 A petition with 100,000 signers urging a Nobel Peace Prize for whistleblower Bradley Manning will be presented to the Norwegian Nobel Committee office in Oslo on August 12th, a U.S.-based activist group announced. Norman Solomon, co-founder of http://rootsaction.org/ RootsAction.org, will bring the petition to the office of the Nobel Committee, where a representative of the committee is scheduled to receive it. Solomon wrote the article Manning Deserves Nobel Peace Prize, which http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/30/bradley-manning-institute- for-public-accuracy-editorials-debates/2601569/ appeared in USA Today last week. A former winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, has formally nominated Manning for the honor, saying I can think of no one more deserving. She http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/30/bradley-manning-nobel- peace-prize-candidate wrote last month that disclosures from Manning helped end the Iraq War, and may have helped prevent further conflicts elsewhere. The http://manningnobel.org/ petition -- urging the Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to Manning -- has been signed by Americans in every state. While the vast majority of signers are U.S. citizens, the petition has also been signed by people in scores of other countries. It includes tens of thousands of individual comments from signers, all of which will be presented to the Nobel Committee as part of the petition. We'll be asking the Nobel Committee to read those comments because they embody cogent and heartfelt support for Bradley Manning from all over the world, Solomon said. The comments are online as part of the petition at: http://manningnobel.org/ ManningNobel.org . En route to Oslo with the petition, Solomon is scheduled to speak at a http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/9-august-public-meeting-london-war-and-whis tleblowers-why-bradley-manning-should-be-free-speakers-incl-tariq-ali-peter- tatchell public meeting in London the evening of August 9th. Other speakers include Tariq Ali and Peter Tatchell. Consent of the governed is meaningful only to the extent that it is informed consent, Solomon wrote in USA Today. Bradley Manning let Americans, and many others around the world, know what their governments were really doing. The disclosures caused problems for leaders in many nations who much preferred to operate behind an opaque curtain. . Only a knowledgeable citizenry can come to grips with actual policies that perpetuate war when shielded from public scrutiny. Solomon added: It's easy to insist that Bradley Manning must face the consequences of his actions. But we badly need whistleblowers like Manning because U.S. government leaders do not face the consequences of their actions, including perpetual warfare abroad and assaults on civil liberties at home. No government should have the power to keep waging war while using secrecy to cloak policies that cannot stand the light of day. Solomon will be in London on August 9 and 10, and in Oslo on August 11 and 12. For Further Information or to Arrange an Interview Contact: * Sam Husseini: mailto:202-421-6858 202-421-6858 - samhusse...@gmail.com * Norman Solomon: mailto:415-488-3606 415-488-3606 - Voice Mail Text - solomonprogress...@gmail.com www.bradleymanning.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
[LAAMN] US Peace Memorial Foundation Honors Bradley Manning with 2013 Peace Prize
US Peace Memorial Foundation Honors Bradley Manning with 2013 Peace Prize www.bradleymanning.org/featured/us-peace-memorial-foundation-honors-bradley- manning-with-2013-peace-prize US Peace Memorial Foundation. August 5th, 2013 The Board of Directors of the US Peace Memorial Foundation http://www.uspeacememorial.org/index.htm voted unanimously to award its 2013 Peace Prize to Bradley Manning for conspicuous bravery, at the risk of his own freedom, above and beyond the call of duty. Michael Knox, Chair of the Foundation, presented the award on July 26 at a rally at Ft. McNair, Washington, DC. The reading of the inscription was met with great applause. In his remarks, Knox thanked Manning for his courage and for all that he has sacrificed for this country and the world. The plaque was accepted by Emma Cape, Bradley Manning Support Network http://www.bradleymanning.org Campaign Organizer. * Additional photos from the rally at Ft. McNair http://www.flickr.com/photos/savebradley/sets/72157634805904673/ Many of Bradley Manning's contributions are documented in the US Peace Registry http://www.uspeacememorial.org/Registry.htm (scroll down to his name). In addition to receiving the 2013 Peace Prize, the US Peace Memorial Foundation's highest honor, Bradley Manning has also been designated as a Founding Member http://www.uspeacememorial.org/Donors.htm . He joins previous outstanding Peace Prize recipients Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Kucinich, and Cindy Sheehan. www.bradleymanning.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] TONIGHT ~ HIROSHIMA CANDLELIGHT REMEMBRANCE PEACE VIGIL ~ TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th, 6:00 to 8:00 PM ~ At 'CHAIN REACTION' PEACE SCULPTURE in SANTA MONICA ~ With Ron Kovic, Harvey Wasserman, Dave
TONIGHT HIROSHIMA CANDLELIGHT REMEMBRANCE PEACE VIGIL TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM AT THE 'CHAIN REACTION' MONUMENTAL PEACE SCULPTURE IN SANTA MONICA CIVIC CENTER The Sculpture is Located on the 1800 Block of Main Street just North of Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica HIROSHIMA ETERNAL PEACE FLAME TO BE PRESENTED AT PUBLIC PEACE REMEMBRANCE Speakers Will Include: Dr. William E. Perkins, Pediatrician who served as a PSR-LA Board Member for over 25 years, Denise Duffield, PSR-LA Associate Director, Ron Kovic, Paraplegic Vietnam War Veteran, Peace Activist Author of 'Born On The Fourth of July', Harvey Wasserman, Leading Strategist Organizer in the Anti-Nuclear Movement, Dave Conrad, Leader of Save Chain Reaction Son of 'Chain Reaction' Sculptor Paul Conrad, Jerry Rubin, Santa Monica Peace Activist Save Chain Reaction Member. Santa Monica, CA- A public 'Hiroshima Candlelight Remembrance and Peace Vigil' will take place on Tuesday, August 6 from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the 26-foot tall 'Chain Reaction' nuclear mushroom cloud peace sculpture and warning monument in the Santa Monica Civic Center. The event will be held to remember the victims of the August 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, and to support efforts leading to a nuclear weapons-free world. The sculpture is located on the 1800 block of Main Street just north of Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica. The vigil will include speakers from Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and other peace group activists who are concerned that there is still a worldwide danger that exists from nuclear weapons. Also speaking will be community activists with Save Chain Reaction, who are working to save and restore the threatened sculpture that was designed, created and gifted to Santa Monica by the late 3-time Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Paul Conrad. The sculpture has been standing in the Civic Center since 1991, and last year was designated as a Santa Monica landmark by the Santa Monica Landmarks Commission. The Vigil will open with the Presentation of the Hiroshima Eternal Peace Flame, which will be brought to the event by Regina Sakurai and Michiyo Masubuchi of the Koyassan Temple in Los Angeles. The Vigil will conclude with a 'Candlelight Circle of Peace' surrounding the iconic 'Chain Reaction' warning monument. The Event is being Sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and Save Chain Reaction. For Further Information Visit: www.ConradProjects.com and www.psr-la.org Or Call 310-399-1000 - Or Email: jerrypeaceactivistru...@earthlink.net [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] Palestinian Embroidery Show Sale ~ This Saturday, August 3rd, 3:00 to 9:00 PM at the Home of Ranwa Haddad in Rancho Palos Verdes ~ Drinks Snacks Served ~ Embroideries from Palestinian Camp
Palestinian Embroidery Show Sale Saturday, August 3rd - 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM At The Home of Ranwa Haddad 30939 Rue Valois, Rancho Palos Verdes 90275 Drinks Snacks Served Street Parking Available The Palestinian Embroidery Show Sale will be at our house this Saturday, August 3rd from 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Feel free to come for as long as you like and bring friends with you. We will have embroideries from Palestinian camps in Lebanon, from Gaza and from the West Bank. Other beautiful embroideries and lace will be on display as well including Belgian lace. Hope to See You, Ranwa Questions Contact Ranwa at: 310-377-2293 [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] KPFK-LSB Outreach Committee Invites You To a Family Picnic ~ Saturday, August 3rd, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM ~ At Point Fermin Park in San Pedro ~ Solidarity With Political Prisoners: Mumia Abu Jama
KPFK-LSB OUTREACH COMMITTEE Invites You To A FAMILY PICNIC Saturday, August 3rd - 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM At Point Fermin Park http://www.sanpedro.com/sp_point/ptfmpk.htm 807 Paseo del Mar, San Pedro 90731 Access via Gaffey Street - Paseo del Mar does not go through In Solidarity With All Political Prisoners Including: MUMIA ABU JAMAL, BRADLEY MANNING, LYNNE STEWART, LEONARD PELTIER, CUBAN FIVE Guest Speakers Kimberly King, Michael Novick, John Parker Chuck Anderson Poets/Spoken Word Artists Matt Sedillo Mark Lipman Singer-Songwriters Annie Moscow Dennis Davis, Latin Folk Musician Alexandro Campos The Kletzafarians Great Food Friendship! Bring Food or Drink to Share! Bring Family Friends! For More Information: Call: 323-679-5023 or Email: antiracistaction...@yahoo.com [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] Screening of: THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE ~ Thursday, August 1st, 7:30 PM at The Aero Theater in Santa Monica ~ Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland ~ People Are More Important Than Profits ~ An Expert Pa
From Maureen Cruise mcrui...@aol.com You Are Invited To A Special Screening of: THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland Thursday, August 1st, 7:30 PM At The Aero Theater 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica An Expert Panel Will Host a Discussion After the Movie People Are More Important Than Profits TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR OR FROM http://healthcareforall.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0119d8aa348f2fd82 a65b8269id=d4199bcf5be=cd3d35651a FANDANGO: $11 General Admission, $9 Seniors/Students (SENIOR STUDENT PRICE AT DOOR ONLY!) http://healthcareforall.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0119d8aa348f2fd82 a65b8269id=06cb637c06e=cd3d35651a RSVP ON FACEBOOK Join us in Santa Monica this Thursday for this amazing opportunity to get insight into our current healthcare system and get some answers from a panel of healthcare and health reform experts: http://healthcareforall.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=0119d8aa348f2fd8 2a65b8269id=6be02f06f5e=cd3d35651a http://healthcareforall.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=0119d8aa348f2fd82 a65b8269id=6be02f06f5e=cd3d35651a Event Details This fascinating documentary, narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, tells the real story of how the healthcare system in Canada turned out so different from that in the United States. Cutting through the fear-mongering campaign financed by US health industry big business, The Healthcare Movie shines a truthful light on the sustainable system that successfully supports the health, dignity and financial security of all Canadians. The screening will be followed by a discussion of California's potential to build on the Affordable Care Act and lead the nation to truly sustainable and fair healthcare reform. Moderated by Nancy Niparko, MD, Pediatric Neurologist and member of PNHP, the expert panelists include: * Paul Song, MD, Radiation Oncologist, Board Member PNHP and The Courage Campaign; * Anita Anderson, Patient Advocate, Set Medic/IATSE, Canadian living in the US; * Chris Brown, MD and MPH, Internal Medicine Resident, Delegate: Committee of Interns Residents In celebration of Medicare's 48th Birthday and Healthcare is a Human Right week, this event is sponsored by The AllCare Alliance and its partners, Physicians for a National Health Program-CA, Calif Health Professional Student Alliance, Health Care for All-CA and California OneCare. TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR OR FROM http://healthcareforall.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0119d8aa348f2fd82 a65b8269id=d4199bcf5be=cd3d35651a FANDANGO: $11 General Admission, $9 Seniors/Students (SENIOR STUDENT PRICE AT DOOR ONLY!) http://healthcareforall.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0119d8aa348f2fd82 a65b8269id=06cb637c06e=cd3d35651a RSVP ON FACEBOOK [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] Ross Altman's Concert For Bangladesh ~ Thursday, August 1st, 7:00 to 10:00 PM ~ At The Talking Stick Cafe in Venice ~ Guest Artists Include Eric Charles, Dennis Davis, Jeff Gold, Andy Manoff,
Ross Altman's Concert For Bangladesh Thursday, August 1st - 7:00 to 10:00 PM At The Talking Stick Café http://www.thetalkingstick.net/ 1411 Lincoln Blvd, Venice 90291 http://maps.google.com/?q=%3Cspan%3E%3C%2Fspan%3ETalking+Stick+Caf% C3%A9,%3Cspan%3E%3C%2Fspan%3E1411+Lincoln+Blvd.%2C+Venice%2C+CA+9029 1 310-450-6052 Guest Artists Include Eric Charles, Dennis Davis, Jeff Gold, Andy Manoff Carol McArthur, Smokey Miles Michael Simmons Will Include Highlights from the Original Concert. Suggested Donation is $10 Plus One Drink or Food Item to Support the Venue. Questions Email Ross Altman at: greygoosemu...@aol.com The Story Behind The Concert For Bangladesh August 1, 1971, George Harrison brought together an all-star cast at New York City's largest venue, Madison Square Garden, for two shows that raised a quarter of a million dollars for the impoverished people of Bangladesh. It was the first major rock benefit concert and paved the way for Live Aid, Farm Aid, Hands Across America, Rock the Vote and a host of others. Harrison tried to reassemble the recently divorced Beatles for the show, but could only get Ringo Starr. John Lennon begged off because he was living in the Virgin Islands at the time and did not want to commute; also he wasn't pleased that Harrison did not invite Yoko to participate-only John. Paul McCartney begged off because he was still bitter about the feuding that led to the split and did not want to leave London. George Harrison also tried to get Mick Jagger, but he begged off because he and the Stones were ensconced in Ireland to dodge Great Britain's tax obligations and were afraid that if they stepped foot in England on their way to the States they would be arrested; so much for noblesse oblige and rock's royalty's willingness to help the least fortunate among us. Then George Harrison had an inspiration: he invited Bob Dylan, who had not performed in public since his motorcycle accident the same year the Beatles broke up-1966, to join the show. Amazingly, Dylan said yes and the show was made. Harrison insisted that Dylan sing Blowing In The Wind, which he had not performed in public since 1963, and for Harrison, Dylan agreed. The show (and Harrison's subsequent song Bangla Desh) was born out of a request for help by his friend Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. Shankar was moved to reach out by the intractable poverty of his neighbors. He knew that to make a benefit on a scale that would really make a difference he needed a former Beatle to organize it. The effort started in earnest in April, while they were all working on other projects, which eventually coalesced around this larger purpose. It was originally to have taken place on two subsequent nights, but scheduling conflicts intervened and they could only secure the venue for one day-so August 1 became the haloed choice for a venture that would change the history of rock. Hosting the concert with an élan all his own, George Harrison began by introducing his Indian friend and telling the audience that he knew they were looking forward to hearing the pantheon of modern rock poets but it was important to listen to the music of the country for whom this concert was created. Ravi Shankar was brilliant at communicating his humor and humanity to the eager audience-when he and his accompanist on Sarod Ali Akbar Khan warmed up by fine-tuning their instruments and the audience gave them a huge response of applause he responded by letting them know that if they liked to hear them tuning this much, just wait-their performance was even better. And it was-a half-hour of sublime musical exploration that lifted them into a sphere of eastern harmony that proved the material impoverishment of his homeland underlay its spiritual riches. Then Harrison entered as the torchbearer of a new idea-that music had a responsibility to the world beyond entertainment, beyond even the creation of beautiful sounds. It had to give something back to those who were at the bottom of the social scale-not just the cheap seats which Lennon had immortalized with an offhand comment, but those who were epitomized by the hollow-eyed child with an empty food bowl that became the sole image on the three-volume orange record album of the concert. Call it the fusion of music and social responsibility; it accomplished something monumental even Woodstock had ignored-it put the greatest music of the modern era in service to humanity by highlighting its greatest need-hunger. The problem itself seemed so vast that solving it would be unimaginable. The Quiet Beatle raised his voice in the wilderness, and let those who had no voice be heard-and more important-seen for the first time. The Rolling Stones just rolled out of Los Angeles with four shows that had ticket prices up to $600 each-putting their retirement plans into the upper reaches of the stratosphere. The Concert for Bangladesh-the proceeds for which were all donated to direct relief to the
[LAAMN] KPFK-LSB Outreach Committee Invites You To a Family Picnic ~ Saturday, August 3rd, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM ~ At Point Fermin Park in San Pedro ~ Solidarity With Political Prisoners: Mumia Abu Jama
KPFK-LSB OUTREACH COMMITTEE Invites You To A FAMILY PICNIC Saturday, August 3rd 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM At Point Fermin Park http://www.sanpedro.com/sp_point/ptfmpk.htm 807 Paseo del Mar, San Pedro 90731 Access via Gaffey Street - Paseo del Mar does not go through In Solidarity With All Political Prisoners Including: MUMIA ABU JAMAL, BRADLEY MANNING, LYNNE STEWART, LEONARD PELTIER, CUBAN FIVE Guest Speakers Kimberly King, Michael Novick, John Parker, Chuck Anderson Poets/Spoken Word Artists Matt Sedillo Mark Lipman Singer-Songwriters Annie Moscow Dennis Davis Latin Folk Musician Alexandro Campos the Kletzafarians Great Food Friendship! Bring Food or Drink to Share! Bring family friends! For More Information: Call: 323-679-5023 or Email: antiracistaction...@yahoo.com [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] The 3rd Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival ~ Sunday, August 4th, 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM ~ At The Avalon in Hollywood ~ Changing The World Through Socially Conscious Art ~ With Lili Hadyn, Christin
The 3rd Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival Changing The World Through Socially Conscious Art Sunday, August 4th - 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM At The Avalon - 1735 Vine Street, Hollywood Doors Open at 2:00 PM $30.00 Per Ticket - www.zeitgeistmediafestival.org Featuring Live Music - Speakers - Comedy - Short Films - Performance Art - Art Gallery The event will feature Christina Tobin of Free Equal, Violin Virtuoso Lili Hadyn, RT's Abby Martin of 'Breaking the Set', 'Zeitgeist' Filmmaker and recent Black Sabbath Video Director Peter Joseph; Emmy-Award Winning Comedian Rick Overton, Savvy Spoken Word/Comedian IN Q, Famed Muralist Mear One, Dazzling Performance Painter Norton Wisdom, World-Renowned Opera Singer Civil Rights Leader KB Solomon, 'Epic-Step' DJ Phenom The Siren, Best-Selling Author of The Game Contributor at Rolling Stone, New York Times Neil Strauss, Counter-Culture Bands Hierosonic, (i am) isis, and Lillians Rose many more! The 3rd Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival runs from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm and is an all ages event. In addition to $30.00 per ticket, attendees are encouraged to contribute a small canned/sealed food donation to support the poverty stricken in Los Angeles in association with the LA Food Bank. Tickets are very limited to this intimate event however this will be supplemented by a Live, Global Webcast, which will be posted on the global website: www.zeitgeistmediafestival.org Mission Statement: The Mission of The Zeitgeist Media Festival is to unify the world through annual awareness events that bridge the difference between all nations, races, classes, genders and creeds; to understand we all share the same basic needs; to understand we are truly One Family sharing One Habitat and that our world views and hence societal approaches should reflect this foundational Global Perspective. Recognizing the power of art and media to help change the world, the annual Zeitgeist Media Festival (ZMF) bridges the artistic activist communities in the hope to inspire change. It recognizes that needed changes in the structural/economic workings of society can only manifest in tandem with a personal/social transformation of values in each of us. While intellectual knowledge serves its role of showing the path, many in the world follow their feelings and comforts - not new knowledge. Art is considered the most powerful tool we have to bridge these levels of awareness and inspire action for change. Keeping the gesture of the long history of influential artistic creators whose vision have changed our world for the better, The ZMF works to unify the world through this expression with the basic ethos that we are one species sharing one planet and it is time the world learns to work together for the betterment of all before it is too late. While started by the non-profit, social sustainability activist organization The Zeitgeist Movement http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/ , the ZMF is open to any socially conscious group which wishes to express change and a better, peaceful world through the power of art. Founded and curated by Peter Joseph http://peterjoseph.info/ and a small team, the Main Event each year takes place in Hollywood California. In 2011 it occurred at the Music Box, while in 2012 it found a new home at the historic Avalon, where it will re-occur in 2013 Contact: mediafesti...@thezeitgeistmovement.com [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
[LAAMN] Bradley Manning Court Martial Verdict Los Angeles Solidarity Rally ~ Tuesday, July 30th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ~ At The Westwood Federal Building ~ Join with CODEPINK, Out Against War, LA LGBT Gr
Bradley Manning Court Martial Verdict Los Angeles Solidarity Rally Tuesday, July 30th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM At The Westwood Federal Building Located at the Corner of Wilshire Veteran www.bradleymanning.org http://www.codepinkalert.org/img/original/C_07_E_head2.jpg http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=du17EjL%2BkxqQWySIrUrR3g8 n8Qxv0c8S PM http://codepinkalert.org/img/original/arrow_22.gif Today, Tuesday, July 30th at 10:00 AM military Judge Col. Denise Lind will announce the verdict of the Bradley Manning court martial at Fort Meade. Join CODEPINK, Out Against War, LA LGBT Greens Veterans for Peace in showing your support for this heroic whistleblower at a Solidarity Rally - Today, Tuesday July 30th, from 6:00 PM to 800 PM in front of the http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=VbCVz0d3uCZqnlj2/AyByg8n8 Qxv0c8S Westwood Federal Building. Bring your friends, noisemakers, signs, banners and literature! RSVP to Amanda mailto:amanda.codep...@gmail.com?subject=RSVP%20Bradley%20Manning%20Verdict %20Solidarity%20Rally%2C%20July%2030%20 . http://i39.tinypic.com/eai2rl.png http://codepinkalert.org/img/original/arrow_22.gif Also on Wednesday, July 31, Jodie Evans reports back from our peace delegation to Yemen along with Attorney Steven Rohde speaking on Drones Abroad Spying at Home: What's Happening to Our Democracy?The discussion will be held at the Levantine Cultural Center http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Ct895jy5kSz1XrxRAt44Zwxsy kU3heme 6:30 - 8pm. Email Amanda mailto:amanda.codep...@gmail.com?subject=RSVP%20Yemen%20Report%20Back%20at% 20the%20Levantine%20Cultural%20Center%2C%20July%2031 to RSVP. Onward to Peace! Amanda, Emerson, Holly, Jodie, Patricia Susan http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=lMBHlpttEy9HAv%2BMzFeizgx sykU3heme http://i39.tinypic.com/v74aia.jpg Join our Arms are for Hugging Flash Mob Saturday August 3, 12 -2PM at the Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=19JNmuFH9GcxvgnLIp2Thgxsy kU3heme ! http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=n/w5TpyKFC6eqWAtQeslXw8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=uxyJdhzHZz6lKnSs0KTs9w8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=nM6%2BZq1Ksp2qJS3COjAtxQ8 n8Qxv0c8S Join us on Facebook! http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=dCha8UUsqrD1HUu6qyI5XA8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1854893651 [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] Citizen Diplomacy: A Forum On Yemen, Guantánamo, Drones Spying ~ With Guest Speakers Jodie Evans Steve Rohde ~ Wednesday, July 31st, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM ~ At The Levantine Cultural Center -
Citizen Diplomacy: A Forum On Yemen, Guantánamo, Drones Spying With Guest Speakers Jodie Evans Steve Rohde Wednesday, July 31st - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM At The Levantine Cultural Center 5998 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles 90035 Between La Cienega Blvd Fairfax Ave. Ample Street Parking Free to The Public. Donations Gratefully Accepted. Questions or to RSVP: Contact Amanda at: amanda.codep...@gmail.com Jodie Evans reports back from a peace mission to Yemen, along with attorney Steve Rohde speaking on Drones Abroad Spying at Home: What's Happening to Our Democracy? Evans traveled to Yemen in June on a peace mission with CODEPINK http://codepinkalert.org/ : Women for Peace, with Medea Benjamin (author most recently of Drone Warfare, Killing By Remote Control), Ann Wright and others. These American activists went to discover Yemen for themselves; they wanted to meet the families of Yemeni detainees at Guantánamo, many of whom have already been cleared for release after more than 10 years under lock-down. They went to meet as well the families of drone victims. Jodie Evans will share eyewitness accounts and personal stories. Jodie Evans is co-founder and co-director of CODEPINK and has been a peace, environmental, women's rights and social justice activist for forty years. She has traveled extensively to war zones promoting and learning about peaceful resolution to conflict. She served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown and ran his presidential campaign. She has published two books, Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire, and has produced several documentary films, including the Oscar-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America and Howard Zinn's The People Speak. Jodie is the board chair of Women's Media Center and sits on many other boards, including Rainforest Action Network, Drug Policy Alliance, Institute of Policy Studies, Women Moving Millions and Sisterhood is Global Institute. She is the mother of three. Steve Rohde will speak on Drones Abroad and Spying at Home: What's Happening to Our Democracy? With the stunning revelations in recent weeks of widespread NSA spying on Americans, Steve Rohde, a constitutional lawyer and the current head of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, will elaborate further on the use of drones and will take audience questions on what's happening to our democracy at a time when we are learning that every major phone carrier has evidently complied with government orders to turn over logs of all phone calls made to, from, and within the country over the past seven years, and that vast, comprehensive troves of information about internet activity have also been monitored by the government. Stephen Rohde is a constitutional lawyer, lecturer, writer and political activist. He is the Chair the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, a founder and current Vice-Chair of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, Vice Chair of Bend the Arc, a Jewish Partnership for Justice and a Vice President of Death Penalty Focus. Mr. Rohde is the author of American Words of Freedom, which explores the origins, history and meaning of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. His most recent book is Freedom of Assembly, which is part of the American Rights Series. He is also co-author of Foundations of Freedom published by the Constitutional Rights Foundation and has written numerous articles and book reviews on civil liberties and constitutional history. www.levantinecenter.org/arts/cultures/central-asia/afghan/citizen-diplomacy- forum-yemen-guant%C3%A1namo-drones-spying [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:
[LAAMN] Bradley Manning Not Guilty of Aiding The Enemy ~ But Guilty of Most Other Charges
The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us - July 30th, 2013 - www.bradleymanning.org Bradley Manning Cleared of Aiding The Enemy - But Guilty of Most Other Charges • Manning Convicted of Multiple Espionage Act Violations • Acquitted of Most Serious 'Aiding The Enemy' Charge • Army Private Faces Maximum Jail Sentence of 130 Years Bradley Manning at Fort Meade Bradley Manning has already spent 1,157 days in detention since his arrest in May 2010. Bradley Manning http://www.theguardian.com/world/bradley-manning , the source of the massive WikiLeaks http://www.theguardian.com/media/wikileaks trove of secret disclosures, faces a possible maximum sentence of more than 130 years in military jail after he was convicted of most charges on which he stood trial. Colonel Denise Lind, the military judge presiding over the court martial of the US soldier, delivered her verdict in curt and pointed language. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, she repeated over and over, as the reality of a prolonged prison sentence for Manning – on top of the three years he has already spent in detention – dawned. The one ray of light in an otherwise bleak outcome for Manning was that he was found not guilty of the single most serious charge against him – that he knowingly aided the enemy, in practice al-Qaida, by disclosing information to the WikiLeaks website that in turn made it accessible to all users including enemy groups. Lind's decision to avoid setting a precedent by applying the swingeing aiding the enemy charge to an official leaker will invoke a sigh of relief from news organisations and civil liberties groups who had feared a guilty verdict would send a chill across public interest journalism. The judge also found Manning not guilty of having leaked an encrypted copy of a video of a US air strike in the Farah province of Aghanistan in which many civilians died. Manning's defence team had argued vociferously that he was not the source of this video, though the soldier did admit to later disclosure of an unencrypted version of the video and related documents. Lind also accepted Manning's version of several of the key dates in the WikiLeaks disclosures, and took some of the edge from other less serious charges. But the overriding toughness of the verdict remains: the soldier was found guilty in their entirety of 17 out of the 22 counts against him, and of an amended version of four others. Manning was also found guilty of wrongfully and wantonly causing to be published on the internet intelligence belonging to the US, having knowledge that intelligence published on the internet is accesible to the enemy. That guilty ruling could still have widest ramifications for news organisations working on investigations relating to US national security. The verdict was condemned by human rights campaigners. Amnesty International's senior director of international law and policy, Widney Brown, said: The government's priorities are upside down. The US government has refused to investigate credible allegations of torture and other crimes under international law despite overwhelming evidence. Yet they decided to prosecute Manning who it seems was trying to do the right thing – reveal credible evidence of unlawful behaviour by the government. You investigate and prosecute those who destroy the credibility of the government by engaging in acts such as torture which are prohibited under the US Constitution and in international law. Ben Wizner, of the American Civil LIberties Union, said: While we're relieved that Mr Manning was acquitted of the most dangerous charge, the ACLU has long held the view that leaks to the press in the public interest should not be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. Since he already pleaded guilty to charges of leaking information – which carry significant punishment – it seems clear that the government was seeking to intimidate anyone who might consider revealing valuable information in the future. In a statement to the Guardian, Manning's family expressed deep thanks to his civilian lawyer, David Coombs, who has worked on the case for three years. They added: While we are obviously disappointed in today's verdicts, we are happy that Judge Lind agreed with us that Brad never intended to help America's enemies in any way. Brad loves his country and was proud to wear its uniform. Once the counts are added up, the prospects for the Manning are bleak. Barring reduction of sentence for mitigation, which becomes the subject of another mini-trial dedicated to sentencing that starts tomorrow, Manning will face a substantial chunk of his adult life in military custody. He has already spent 1,157 days in detention since his arrest in May 2010 – most recently in Fort Leavenworth in Kansas – which will be deducted from his eventual sentence. A further 112 days will be taken off the sentence
[LAAMN] Bradley Manning Solidarity Rally Today ~ Tuesday, July 30th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ~ At The Westwood Federal Building ~ Bradley Manning Cleared of Aiding The Enemy - But Guilty of Most Other Char
Bradley Manning Solidarity Rally Today Tuesday, July 30th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM At The Westwood Federal Building Located at the Corner of Wilshire Veteran Bradley Manning Cleared of Aiding The Enemy - But Guilty of Most Other Charges The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us - July 30th, 2013 - www.bradleymanning.org http://www.codepinkalert.org/img/original/C_07_E_head2.jpg http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=du17EjL%2BkxqQWySIrUrR3g8 n8Qxv0c8S PM http://codepinkalert.org/img/original/arrow_22.gif Today, Tuesday, July 30th at 10:00 AM military Judge Col. Denise Lind will announce the verdict of the Bradley Manning court martial at Fort Meade. Join CODEPINK, Out Against War, LA LGBT Greens Veterans for Peace in showing your support for this heroic whistleblower at a Solidarity Rally - Today, Tuesday July 30th, from 6:00 PM to 800 PM in front of the http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=VbCVz0d3uCZqnlj2/AyByg8n8 Qxv0c8S Westwood Federal Building. Bring your friends, noisemakers, signs, banners and literature! RSVP to Amanda mailto:amanda.codep...@gmail.com?subject=RSVP%20Bradley%20Manning%20Verdict %20Solidarity%20Rally%2C%20July%2030%20 . http://i39.tinypic.com/eai2rl.png http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=lMBHlpttEy9HAv%2BMzFeizgx sykU3heme http://i39.tinypic.com/v74aia.jpg Join our Arms are for Hugging Flash Mob Saturday August 3, 12 -2PM at the Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=19JNmuFH9GcxvgnLIp2Thgxsy kU3heme ! http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=n/w5TpyKFC6eqWAtQeslXw8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=uxyJdhzHZz6lKnSs0KTs9w8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=nM6%2BZq1Ksp2qJS3COjAtxQ8 n8Qxv0c8S Join us on Facebook! http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=dCha8UUsqrD1HUu6qyI5XA8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1854893651 [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] Support Prison Hunger Strikers ~ Rally at Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building ~ Wednesday, July 31st, Noon to 2:00 PM ~ Demand An End to U.S. Torture from Guantanamo to California ~ HUNGER F
From Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice: socialjusticecente...@gmail.com Please Join The International Action Center in Supporting this Important Action Demand An End to U.S. Torture from Guantanamo to California HUNGER FOR JUSTICE! Join Family Members, Danny Glover, Mike Farrell Religious Leaders at a Rally Press Conference Wednesday, July 31st Noon to 2:00 PM Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles 90012 On Wednesday July 31st, people around the world will fast and take other peaceful non-violent action in solidarity with the California Prisoner Hunger Strikers. Those who are supporting this effort include: James Cromwell, Angela Davis, Mike Farrell, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Chris Hedges, Alice Walker, and Cornel West. We fast knowing that the criminalization that killed Trayvon Martin and the criminalization that justifies the torture of prisoners in solitary confinement are one and the same. We fast in solidarity with the demands of the hunger strikers. And we fast to get justice for Trayvon and for people of every gender, race and religion who have been killed by state and vigilante violence. Support efforts everywhere for Justice for Trayvon Martin. We have taken up this hunger strike and work stoppage... not only to improve our own conditions but also an act of solidarity with all prisoners and oppressed people around the world. Hunger Strikers in the Short Corridor Collective at Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Actions so far in: England, Germany, the US (Jackson MI, Los Angeles, Oakland CA, Philadelphia PA, Santa Cruz CA). For More Information Contact: 323 646 1269 - 424 744 1156 - socialjusticecente...@gmail.com rally at federal building http://www.organizerweb.org/lists/uploadimages/image/prison%20hunger%20stri ke%20action.jpg WE ARE ALL PRISONERS OF INJUSTICE! Hunger For Justice convened by members of: Alexandria House; Alliance for Global Justice; Anti-Racist Action-LA; American Muslims for Palestine; Anti-Racist Action-LA; Arab Resource Organizing Center; Black Organizing Project Brandywine Peace Community; California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement; California Coalition for Women Prisoners; California Justice for Youth Network California Prisoner Solidarity Coalition; Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB); Critical Resistance; DCFS/DHS-Give Us Back Our Children; Ecosocialist Horizons; Every Mother is a Working Mother Network; FACTS Education Fund; Fair Chance Project; Flying Over Walls; Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement/ Nat'l; Freedom Archives; Friends of Deir Ibzi'a; Global Women's Strike; Haiti Action Committee; Hank Jones - San Francisco 8; Homies Unidos; Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; Justice NOW!; LA Laborfest; LACAN; Lives Worth Saving Gang Intervention; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater LA; Mass Incarceration; National Hood Alliance; Ordinary People's Society/ Alabama; Palestinian Youth Movement; Payday men's network; Peter Laarman/Progressive Christians Uniting and Justice not Jails; POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE; Prodigal Child Project, Alabama; Project South; Queer Strike; Rev. Louis Logan; Ruckus Society, Scientific Soul Sessions; Sin Barras; Theresa Shoatz - Maroon Philly Committee; Transgender, Gender-Variant, Intersex Justice; US PROStitutes Collective; White Noise Collective; Women of Color/Global Women's Strike; Youth Justice Coalition. Endorsers to date: Asian Prisoner Support Committee; Imam Hatem Bazian; Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizations; Rabbi Leonard Beerman; Causa Justa - Just Cause; Mike Davis; Erotic Service Providers Union; F*WORD of RCNB; Stuart Hanlon-partner Hanlon Reif; International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; the MOVE organization; Peacehome Campaigns; Philadelphia Innocence Project; Pier 5 Law offices; Rev. Edward Dorothy Pinkney; Rev. Kelvin Sauls; Southern California Library; UPWARD (Uniting Peace With Actions Respect and Dignity) Stay updated on all the events at the Harriet Tubman Social Justice Center on Twitter @HTSocial Justice [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
[LAAMN] New Song From Wil b Titled: TURN UP ~ About Trayvon Martin ~ HipHopUnited
From Wil Bannister: hiphopuni...@gmail.com New Song From Wil b Titled: TURN UP About Trayvon Martin hiphopuni...@gmail.com http://soundcloud.com/wil_b/turn-up My goal is not money nor fame with this record...I recorded Turn Up!!! to inspire and encourage young people to STAND UP for whatever causes they believe in. Trayvon Martin's unfortunate murder is an example of just how broken our system remains and it's time for the FUTURE, our young people, to take action for change. This is their song...Please share with all the young people in your life. Much Love and Respect, Wil b http://soundcloud.com/wil_b/turn-up Turn Up.jpg Wil Signature Contact us: 323-354-7663 www.Facebook.com/Wilb3 -- William Bannister Executive Director of The Political Power of Hiphop Email: hiphopuni...@gmail.com www.myspace.com/wilbandthepoliticalpowerofhiphop www.youtube.com/PittsburghWil What if You and I were down for You and I? [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] PEACE IN KOREA CANDLELIGHT VIGIL ~ Friday, July 26th, 7:30 PM ~ Meet at The Corner of Wilshire Western in Koreatown ~ Commemorating 60th Anniversary of Signing of Armistice ~ Vigil to Demand
Sent from The Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice: socialjusticecente...@gmail.com PEACE IN KOREA CANDLELIGHT VIGIL Commemorating 60th Anniversary of Signing of Armistice - Vigil to Demand Peace Treaty in the Korean Peninsula Friday, July 26th - 7:30 PM Meet at The Corner of Wilshire Western in Koreatown Please join various Korean social justice organizations and those in solidarity with the demand for peace on the peninsula who will be holding a candlelight vigil on the corners of Wilshire and Western in Koreatown at 7:30 pm Friday July 26th Have your organization listed: In addition, to help get the message out and build this movement demanding peace, a full-page ad will be going into one of the major local newspapers serving Koreatown. Please donate towards this effort. Any donations of $10 or more will get your organization or name included in the ad. Donate for the Koreatown Ad Here! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclickhosted_button_id=XPDSKV K4P32PU Please list your organization or name for any donations of $10 or more. Initiating organizations of this action include: Bud of Jinbo, Action for One Korea, Naeyusa, LA Sasase and the International Action Center Following will be printed in the ad: Stop the 60 Year Old War! Peace Treaty Now! July 27th of this year marks the 60 th anniversary of the signing of the armistice treaty that stopped the Korean War. However, the war has not ended. A cease-fire agreement has only stopped the war temporarily and the Korean peninsula has been in the state of war for the last 60 years. The Korean peninsula is tangled in the interest of major global powers and has become one of the highest militarized areas and now faces imminent danger of war . If a new war is triggered in the Korean peninsula, it will unavoidably become a nuclear war,eradicating all people in Korea. The world will face a disaster. Without signing a peace treaty to end the war once and for all, military confrontation and threat of war will only continue. In Section 60 of the originally-signed armistice treaty, it states that the parties will meet within 3 months to work out the terms and conditions of the peace treaty. However, no meeting to discuss the peace treaty has ever been held in the last 60 years and the military tension has continued to escalate till today. As peace loving citizens of the United States, we appeal to the parties of the peace agreement on this 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice. There is no reason to not sign a peace treaty. Only a peace treaty between the United States and North Korea can ensure peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the world. We urge the United States to immediately open a door of dialogue for a peace treaty which can bring complete peace to the Korean peninsula. The very first step to restore trust between North Korea, South Korea and the United States is a peace agreement. 60 years of fear from war is more than enough. Stop the War! Peace Treaty Now! Name and Organizations. Questions Contact Maggie at: socialjusticecente...@gmail.com www.facebook.com/pages/Harriet-Tubman-Center-for-Social-Justice-LA/101095323 418935 [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] Rally In Solidarity with BRADLEY MANNING ~ Saturday, July 27th, Noon to 3:00 PM ~ At Westwood Federal Building ~ Join Solidarity Rallies Around The World ~ MacBride Peace Prize Awarded to Brad
Rally In Solidarity With BRADLEY MANNING INCARCERATED OVER 1000 DAYS WITHOUT TRIAL. GAY WHISTLEBLOWER HERO PATRIOT. JOIN SOLIDARITY RALLIES AROUND THE WORLD! www.bradleymanning.org SATURDAY, JULY 27th, NOON to 3:00 PM At WESTWOOD FEDERAL BUILDING Located at Wilshire Veteran BRING YOUR FRIENDS, NOISEMAKERS, SIGNS, BANNERS, AND LITERATURE SHOW BRADLEY AND THE WORLD THE SUPPORT HE DESERVES Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/129816117215937 SPONSORED/ENDORSED BY: OUT AGAINST WAR: oa...@hotmail.com - (818) 953-5096, LA LGBT GREENS: lgbtgre...@hotmail.com - (310) 208-1624 CODEPINK: WOMEN FOR PEACE: amanda.codep...@gmail.com (805) 509-0572 Sean MacBride Peace Prize Awarded to Bradley Manning The International Peace Bureau is delighted to announce that this year's Sean MacBride Peace Prize is to be awarded to Bradley Manning, the US whistleblower whose case has attracted worldwide attention, for his courageous actions in revealing information about US war crimes. His trial is likely to be concluded in the coming days. Manning was arrested in May 2010 after allegedly leaking more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, 400,000 U.S. Army reports about Iraq and another 90,000 about Afghanistan, as well as the material used in the Collateral Murder video produced by WikiLeaks: videos of the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike and the 2009 Garani airstrike in Afghanistan. At the time, it constituted the largest set of restricted documents ever leaked to the public. Much of it was published by WikiLeaks or its media partners between April and November 2010. Manning has so far been detained for three years - first in Kuwait, then in solitary confinement at the Marine Corps Brig in Quantico, Va., and finally at a medium-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. -before being charged with 22 offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy. He pleaded guilty in February 2013 to 10 of the 22 charges, which could carry a sentence of up to 20 years. A full life sentence is now also possible. IPB's Co-President Tomas Magnusson comments: IPB believes that among the very highest moral duties of a citizen is to make known war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is within the broad meaning of the Nuremberg Principles enunciated at the end of the Second World War. When Manning revealed to the world the crimes being committed by the US military he did so as an act of obedience to this high moral duty. It is for this reason too that Manning has also been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In more general terms it is well known that war operations, and especially illegal ones, are frequently conducted under the cover of secrecy. To penetrate this wall of secrecy by revealing information that should be accessible to all is an important contribution to the struggle against war, and acts as a challenge to the military system which dominates both the economy and society in today's world. IPB believes that whistleblowers are vital in upholding democracies - especially in the area of defense and security. A heavy sentence for Manning would not only be unjust but would also have very negative effects on the right to freedom of expression which the US claims to uphold. [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] Tonight ~ Justice For Trayvon Martin ~ A Public Forum on The Zimmerman Trial ~ The People Say Guilty ~ Friday, July 19th, 7:30 to 9:30 PM ~ At PSL Office - 135 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles
Tonight: Justice For Trayvon Martin A Public Forum On The Zimmerman Trial The People Say Guilty Speakers, Discussion Plans For Action Friday, July 19th, 7:30 to 9:30 PM at Party For Socialism Liberation Office 135 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles Between Main St. Los Angeles St. Join the Party for Socialism Liberation for a public forum to discuss the trial of George Zimmerman for the racist murder of Trayvon Martin. Millions of people poured into the streets after the murder of Trayvon demanding justice were able to ensure that Zimmerman faced charges. Now, with an almost all white jury, an openly racist defense team, and media vilification of witnesses who testified against Zimmerman--the tensions between the people and the system are at high point. We will have a detailed socialist analysis of the racist justice system a discussion of what the next steps must be in the fight for justice for Trayvon all victims of the racist system. Contact: 323-810-3380 or: l...@pslweb.org www.pslweb.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] WE ARE BRADLEY MANNING ~ Help to Pay for a Full Page Ad in The New York Times ~ Make a Donation Add Your Name Alongside Alice Walker, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Graham Nash, Russell Br
From Jeff Paterson: j...@jeffpaterson.net Hi folks, please help share this campaign with your friends, neighbors, and fellow church goers! - Jeff Paterson of Courage To Resist WE ARE BRADLEY MANNING The Full Page Ad in The New York Times Add your Name alongside Alice Walker, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Graham Nash, Russell Brand, Joan Baez Tom Morello in our full page ad in The New York Times! The Bradley Manning Support Network will publish a full-page ad in the nation's newspaper of record featuring a bold WE ARE BRADLEY MANNING with a field of names in the background-hopefully, yours included. The deadline for adding your name is Tuesday, July 23rd, 3:00 PM EST. The ad will run as soon as Thursday, July 25th. By making a tax-deductible donation of $100 or more today, you will ensure that your name is included. Smaller donations are very much appreciated, but donor names may or may not appear in the ad. Any person may donate and remain anonymous as well. Add Your Name and Make a Tax-Deductible Contribution to This Ad: https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=69452 For More Information: www.bradleymanning.org/featured/nyt-ad $39,545 of $52,000 Raised - 5 Days To Go Updated July 18, 12:05am EST / Deadline July 23, 3pm EST If you have any problems donating online, please contact us at: 510-488-3559. This ad effort was deemed to be a high priority by http://www.bradleymanning.org/featured/priorities a recent survey of nearly 1,000 backers of the Bradley Manning Support Network. _ Text of the full page ad to appear in The New York Times WE ARE BRADLEY MANNING We stand with WikiLeaks whistle-blower US Army PFC Bradley Manning We are American military veterans, artists, journalists, educators, homemakers, lawyers, and citizens. We live in red states and in blue states, in communities urban and rural. We ask you to consider the facts, and join us in declaring: Enough is enough. Free Bradley Manning now. In a time of endless war and economic distress, a cloud of government secrecy has eclipsed our republic. We are told that these secrets are necessary, that they save American lives, and we are told the growing National Security state is beyond question. More secrecy does not make us secure when it allows leaders and politicians to avoid accountability. We've learned these secrets also conceal crimes: torture, illegal surveillance, and corruption-all committed in our name. In a time when we needed the truth, a young U.S. Army private became our champion for openness and responsibility. An Intelligence Analyst, Bradley Manning had access to some of America's dirtiest secrets, such as U.S. support for Iraqi torture, and a video exposing American troops shooting children, civilians, and journalists from an Apache helicopter over Baghdad. Bradley Manning acted on his conscience, with selfless courage and conviction, and gave these secrets to us, the American public. I believed that if the general public. had access to the information contained within the [Iraq and Afghan War Logs] this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as well as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan, explained PFC Bradley Manning prior to his May 2010 arrest in Iraq. I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare, PFC Manning added. Journalists used these documents to uncover many startling truths. We learned. . how Donald Rumsfeld and General Petraeus built their careers by supporting torture in Iraq. . how deliberate civilian killings by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan went unpunished, and that thousands of civilian casualties were never acknowledged. . most Guantanamo detainees were innocent. For his service on behalf of an informed democracy, Bradley Manning faces life in prison. Prosecutors accuse him of Aiding the Enemy for providing WikiLeaks with this information, but acknowledged that they would have done the same if he had given the documents to The New York Times. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three years in a row, Bradley Manning is a whistle-blower in every sense of the term. He exposed secret crimes and malfeasance for the public good, and took nothing in return. Bradley Manning has accepted responsibility for releasing these documents and mishandling classified information. Alone, these charges could send him to prison for 20 years. Yet the Government argues for life in prison, declaring that he sought to indirectly aid our enemies with a new open-source espionage. No proof that any lives were endangered, or that any person was even harmed, was presented by the prosecution. A new whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, has stepped forward since Bradley Manning's trial began last month. He revealed that a vast, unwarranted, and
[LAAMN] Opening Tonight ~ FRUITVALE STATION ~ Oscar Grant's Last Day ~ QA after Friday's 8:35 PM Show with Director Ryan Coogler at The Hollywood Arclight ~ QA after Saturday's 7:40 PM Show with S
Opening Tonight - Friday, July 12th At The Hollywood Arclight The Landmark Theatre in West LA FRUITVALE STATION www.fruitvalefilm.com The True Story of Oscar Grant, a 22-Year-Old Bay Area Resident, Who Crosses Paths with Friends, Enemies, Family Strangers on the Last Day of 2008. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer Melonie Diaz Directed by Ryan Coogler - Produced by Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker Top Prize Winner at Sundance Film Festival 2013! http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/470453/Cycling-with-Moliere-Movie-/overview FRUITVALE STATION is Ryan Coogler's powerful sensitive debut feature, which imaginatively reconstructs the last 24 or so hours of Oscar Grant's life. - NY Times http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/470453/Cycling-with-Moliere-Movie-/overview FRUITVALE STATION is more than a remarkable directing debut for 26-year-old Ryan Coogler. It's an outstanding film by any standard. - LA Times Inline image 2 ADVANCE TICKETS RECOMMENDED: FRIDAY, July 12th - Arclight Hollywood https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ticketing/purchase-options/?lid=1001bid=22 2753 - QA after 8:35 PM Show with Director Ryan Coogler. (FEW SEATS LEFT) SATURDAY, July 13th - The Landmark https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/%28S%28h2wj2nfeshlynozcmdb1tszp%29%29/ Ticketing.aspx?TheatreID=267MovieID=14780ShowDate=7/13/2013ScheduleID=162 597 West LA - QA after 7:40 PM Show with Star Michael B. Jordan SYNOPSIS: Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, director Ryan Coogler's FRUITVALE STATION follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being better son to his mother (Octavia Spencer), whose birthday falls on New Year's Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend Sophina (Melonie Diaz), who he hasn't been completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to Tatiana (Ariana Neal), their beautiful four year-old daughter. Crossing paths with friends, family and strangers, Oscar starts out well, as the day goes on, he realizes that changes are not going to come easily. His resolve takes a tragic turn, however, when BART officers shoot him in cold blood at the Fruitvale subway stop on New Year's Day. Oscar's life and tragic death would shake the Bay Area - and the entire nation - to its very core. Review: 'Fruitvale Station' an incendiary portrait of a life cut short - LA Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-fruitvale-st ation-20130712,0,1861339.story A New Year, and a Last Day Alive: http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/movies/fruitvale-station-is-based-on-t he-story-of-oscar-grant-iii.html?_r=0 'Fruitvale Station' Is Based on the Story of Oscar Grant III - NY Times Oscar Grant shooting death: Film delivers a vital message- LA Times http://www.latimes.com/la-et-mn-fruitvale-oakland-20130628-dto,0,1447569.ht mlstory Fruitvale, Depiction of Oscar Grant http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/28/fruitvale_depiction_of_oscar_grants_l ast 's Last Day of Life, Takes Top Prizes at Sundance Film Festival- Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/28/fruitvale_depiction_of_oscar_grants_l ast [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
[LAAMN] MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary ~ Now Available on DVD + New Bonus Short Film: Manufacturing Guilt ~ Film Features Cornel West, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ramse
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary - Written, Directed Edited by Stephen Vittoria - www.mumia-themovie.com Has just been released on DVD and includes an explosive bonus feature, a brand new short film called: Manufacturing Guilt. It's a 25-minute film based on the actual record of investigations and court filings made between 1995 and 2003, that focuses explicitly on Mumia's case and in particular the clear evidence of a frame-up by the Philadelphia PD and DA's office. It's a powerful addition to the feature film and has been enthusiastically received by Mumia's family press alike. As you know: Long Distance Revolutionary tells Mumia's life story and focuses on humanizing a man who for many has been completely politicized. Manufacturing Guilt is the natural follow up to LDR and cuts through a lot of what is confusing about his case as well as dispelling the myths that persist to this day. The feature the short film together are a truly inspirational tool in the ongoing mobilization of support around Mumia Abu-Jamal's emancipation. Links below will take you new promos for the DVD release and Manufacturing Guilt, as well as links to all three outlets currently selling the film. I hope you'll share this info with your contacts and express to them how the efforts to free Mumia Abu-Jamal continue unabated. We hope that this fiercely independent documentary along with this new short film will continue to play a major role in mobilizing the demand for Mumia's freedom. Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary - Is an inspiring portrait of a man whom many consider America's most famous political prisoner - a man whose existence tests our beliefs about freedom of expression. Through prison interviews, archival footage, and dramatic readings, and aided by a potent chorus of voices including Cornel West, Alice Walker, Angela Davis and others, this riveting film explores Mumia's life before, during and after Death Row - revealing, in the words of Angela Davis, the most eloquent and most powerful opponent of the death penalty in the world...the 21st Century Frederick Douglass. Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and brilliant writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison, Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, provoke and inspire. The film features the song Society sung by Eddie Vedder. MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary - Features interviews with Cornel West, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ramsey Clark, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Coyote, Dick Gregory, Amy Goodman, Tariq Ali, M-1 aka Mutulu Olugbala, Aya De Leon, Michael Parenti, Ramona Africa, Juan Gonzalez, Dave Zirin, Johanna Fernandez, Michelle Alexander, Jerry Quickley, Emory Douglas and many others. Please Share the Love. DVD Promo: www.ow.ly/mQnwf Manufacturing Guilt Promo: www.ow.ly/mQnpG You Can Purchase This Important Film at: AMAZON: www.amzn.to/11AfYz1 FIRST RUN FEATURES: www.bit.ly/1af0CqK PRISON RADIO: www.bit.ly/14CL25F Kind Regards Justin Justin Lebanowski Producer Deepimage / Street Legal Cinema 8265 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90046 323-654-9483 (office) jus...@deepimage.info [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:
[LAAMN] Protest For Immediate Release of Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart ~ Tonight at 5:00 PM - Tuesday, July 9th ~ At The Westwood Federal Building ~ This Action is Part of Ongoing National Demonstr
From International Action Center-LA: iacente...@peoplesmail.net * Protest for Immediate Release of Lynne Stewart - Tonight - Tuesday, July 9th, 5:00 PM at The Westwood Federal Building Demand Compassionate Release for Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart NOW! This Action is Part of Ongoing National Demonstrations CONTACT: (323) 306-6240 or: iacente...@peoplesmail.net Please join progressive organizations and activists demanding that the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder release people's lawyer, Lynne Stewart, who was jailed on phony charges by a vindictive judge. Seventy-three year old people's attorney Lynne Stewart is suffering with 4th stage breast cancer and fighting for her life in prison. Thousands of signers have petitioned for her release so that she can receive proper medical attention and be with her loved ones. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has rejected her release. From Lynne: Disappointed but Not Devastated http://lynnestewart.org/2013/06/26/from-lynne-disappointed-but-not-devastat ed/ http://lynnestewart.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Lynne-Stewart-June-2013- 090.jpg http://lynnestewart.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Lynne-Stewart-June-2013-0 90-300x208.jpg 6/25/13 Disappointed But Not Devastated My Dear Friends, Supporters, Comrades: I know we are all disappointed to the marrow of our bones and the depths of our hearts by the news that the Bureaucrats, Kafka like, have turned down my request for compassionate release. Let me say, that we are planning ahead. The letter from the BOP (soon to be posted on the website) is flawed, to put it mildly. Both factually and medically it has major problems. We intend to go to court and raise these in front of my sentencing Judge Koeltl. At the first sentencing he responded to a query by one of the lawyers that he didn't want me to die in prison - we'll see if he can now live up to that. He is of course the same Judge who increased my sentence to 10 years - but this IS very different and we can only hope that we can prevail. Stay tuned for what we need from you. We will never give up. In the meantime, once again, I grieve for my children and grandchildren who love me so much and had such great expectations of enjoying life together again in our beloved NYC and not just trying to, in the prison visiting room. My Ralph, too, whose dedication and love are only exceeded by the work he does on my behalf - but he is a born fighter and although he hurts, it all comes more naturally to him. But for everyone else, I hope that your affront at this crass bureaucratic denial of the request which you by your signatures and letters and phone calls demanded - How far can we let this go? when a 73-year old woman who IS dying of cancer (maybe not on their timetable,) her life of good works ignored, be shunted aside . she does not present circumstances considered extraordinary and compelling . at this time. We must show them that I cannot be ignored, that YOU cannot be ignored. Fight On. All of Us or None of Us. An affront to one is an affront to all. Love Struggle, Lynne Stewart www.lynnestewart.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] NO WAR On SYRIA PROTEST ~ Wednesday, July 10th, 5:00 PM at Wilshire Western (Metro Station Corner) ~ No More Wars - U.S. Out of The Middle East!
From International Action Center - LA: iacente...@peoplesmail.net No War On Syria Protest Wednesday, July 10th, 5:00 PM at Wilshire Western (Metro Station Corner) United Statement Call for Action to Oppose U.S./NATO Israeli War on Syria No More Wars - U.S. Out of The Middle East! CONTACT: (323) 306-6240 or: iacente...@peoplesmail.net Join Arab Americans For Syria, ANSWER-LA, International Action Center; United National Antiwar Coalition-LA; LA Peace Council, SOA-Watch-LA, BAYAN-SOCAL, Union of Progressive Iranians more. The White House's June 13th announcement that it would begin directly supplying arms to the opposition in Syria is a dramatic escalation of the U.S./NATO war against that country. Thousands of U.S. troops and intelligence personnel are training opposition forces and coordinating operations in Turkey and Jordan. Israel, the recipient of more than $3 billion annually in U.S. military aid has carried out heavy bombing raids against Syria. The Pentagon has developed plans for a no-fly zone over Syria, threatening a new U.S. air war. The pretext for this escalation is the assertion, presented without any actual evidence, that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in the conflict that has been raging for more than two years. Like their predecessors, President Obama and other top U.S. officials pretend to be concerned about democracy and human rights in Syria, but their closest allies in the campaign against Syria are police-state, absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Once again the so-called 'Responsibility to protect', R2P, is used as a pretext for NATO to dominate this region. Just as the false claim of weapons of mass destruction was used as justification for the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the allegations that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian military is meant to mask the real motives of Washington and its allies. Their aim is to carry out regime change, as part of the drive to create a new Middle East. The invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya, the now-escalating war in Syria and the growing threats against Iran are part of a coordinated regional effort by the United States, Britain and France to dominate this oil-rich and strategic region. The U.S. government cuts basic services and has eliminated hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs in the last three years i n the name of a discredited austerity which has destroyed the economy, but has unlimited billions available for wars of aggression and NSA surveillance of almost every American. We join together to call for National Days of Action, June 28- July 17, 2013, to demand: * Stop the U.S./NATO/Israeli war and all forms of intervention against Syria! * Self-determination free from outside intervention for the Syrian people! * Fund people's needs, not the military! * U.S.A Out of the Middle East! Organizations in Los Angeles signing this statement are: (In alphabetical order) ANAKBAYAN Los Angeles and San Diego; ANSWER-LA; Arab Americans for Syria; BAYAN-SOCAL; Habi Arts; International Action Center; Los Angeles Peace Council; Puerto Rican Alliance-LA; School of the Americas Watch - LA (SOA Watch-LA); SiGAw-GABRIELA USA; Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC); Union of Progressive Iranians; United National Antiwar Coalition-LA Complete List of National and Local Signers: * United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) * ADDICTED To WAR * ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War End Racism) * United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) * International Action Center * Veterans For Peace * World Can't Wait * U.S. Peace Council * Progressive Democrats of America * Green Party of the United States * Voices for Creative Nonviolence * Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general * Kathy Kelly * Cynthia McKinney * David Swanson, RootsAction * Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report (organization for identification purpose only) * Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild * Jill Stein * Cheri Honkala * Margaret Flowers * Kevin Zeese, * AFI3RM * All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC) * Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines * Arab Americans for Peace * Arab Americans for Syria - AA4S * BAYAN USA * CRI-Panafricain * Freedom Road Socialist Organization * Global Network Against Nuclear Power in Space * Honduras Resistencia USA * International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 * Iran Working Group VFP * KmB Pro-People Youth * March Forward! * May 1 Workers and Immigrant Rights Coalition * Pakistan USA Freedom Forum * Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) * Revival of Panafricanism Forum * SI Solidarity with
[LAAMN] Protest Vigil Tonight Against Prison Torture ~ Monday, July 8th, 8:00 PM at Norwalk City Hall ~ Corner of Imperial Norwalk Blvd ~ Organized by The National Religious Campaign Against Torture
Protest Vigil Tonight Against Prison Torture Monday, July 8th - 8:00 PM At Norwalk City Hall 12700 Norwalk Blvd, Norwalk Corner of Imperial Norwalk Blvd Organized by The National Religious Campaign Against Torture California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement Light a Candle to Dispel the Darkness of Solitary Confinement http://nrcat.nonprofitsoapbox.com/storage/nrcat/images/nrcat_logo.jpg TORTURE IS A MORAL ISSUE Dear Friend, The National Religious Campaign Against Torture joins with the California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement (CFASC) to invite you to attend an important upcoming event on Monday, July 8th. Light a Candle to Dispel the Darkness of Solitary Confinement When: Monday, July 8th at 8:00 PM Where: Norwalk City Hall, 12700 Norwalk Blvd, Norwalk, Corner of Imperial and Norwalk Blvd Why: In July 2011 security housing unit (SHU) prisoners from Pelican Bay went on a peaceful hunger strike asking the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to support an end of torture and meet their five core demands. Although they were joined by up to 12,000 prisoners in the state, their demands have still not been met. As a result, next Monday July 8, prisoners confined to solitary confinement from around California are beginning their third peaceful hunger strike. Prisoners in the Pelican Bay, Corcoran, and Tehachapi security housing units — and no doubt other prisons — will once again begin a hunger strike. Please join in solidarity with their call for an end to torture. For more information about the five core demands http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=vAiJDkbLYetxZ0k7Nr4FYoC03nOKcLYe go here or please call the CFASC at: 714-290-9077 or: 310-677-7445. Please spread the word about this important event! To advertise in your community or congregation, http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=6Dke2vbykztDt%2BHNCOB%2FfpUWUbR4efTD download this poster, share http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=kZ6Vz5v7q8H7UFse7NEki4C03nOKcLYe this Facebook post and http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=HpvLCCokrxA%2BGfxX%2FjN9AYC03nOKcLYe Tweet the event. Onward, Laura Markle Downton - Director of U.S. Prisons Policy Program You have received this message because you signed a statement or participated in an activity of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. Questions? Please email campa...@nrcat.org National Religious Campaign Against Torture: www.tortureisamoralissue.org Connect with us: http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=pPfFOoOdSwwWb0okFIVMHoC03nOKcLYe Connect with us on Facebook http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=wQXEUhstRT%2FUdis17%2B4z3oC03nOKcLYe Connect with us on Twitter http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=2599292655 [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] Protest For Immediate Release of Lynne Stewart ~ Tuesday, July 9th, 5:00 PM at The Westwood Federal Building ~ Also: No War On Syria Protest ~ Wednesday, July 10th, 5:00 PM at Wilshire Weste
From International Action Center - LA: iacente...@peoplesmail.net * Protest for Immediate Release of Lynne Stewart Tuesday, July 9th, 5:00 PM at The Westwood Federal Building * * No War On Syria Protest Wednesday, July 10th, 5:00 PM at Wilshire Western (Metro Station Corner) Demand Compassionate Release for Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart NOW! This Action is Part of Ongoing National Demonstrations Please join progressive organizations and activists demanding that the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder release people's lawyer, Lynne Stewart, who was jailed on phony charges by a vindictive judge. Seventy-three year old people's attorney Lynne Stewart is suffering with 4th stage breast cancer and fighting for her life in prison. Thousands of signers have petitioned for her release so that she can receive proper medical attention and be with her loved ones. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has rejected her release. Westwood Federal Building (at Wilshire Veteran) Tuesday, July 9 at 5 PM CONTACT: (323) 306-6240 United Statement Call for Action to Oppose U.S./NATO and Israeli War on Syria No More Wars - U.S. Out of the Middle East! Los Angeles Action: Wednesday July 10 at 5:00 PM Wilshire Western (Metro Station Corner) (Join Arab Americans for Syria; ANSWER-LA; International Action Center; United National Antiwar Coalition - LA; LA Peace Council; SOA-Watch -LA; BAYAN-SOCAL; Union of Progressive Iranians and more) The White House's June 13th announcement that it would begin directly supplying arms to the opposition in Syria is a dramatic escalation of the U.S./NATO war against that country. Thousands of U.S. troops and intelligence personnel are training opposition forces and coordinating operations in Turkey and Jordan. Israel, the recipient of more than $3 billion annually in U.S. military aid has carried out heavy bombing raids against Syria. The Pentagon has developed plans for a no-fly zone over Syria, threatening a new U.S. air war. The pretext for this escalation is the assertion, presented without any actual evidence, that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in the conflict that has been raging for more than two years. Like their predecessors, President Obama and other top U.S. officials pretend to be concerned about democracy and human rights in Syria, but their closest allies in the campaign against Syria are police-state, absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Once again the so-called 'Responsibility to protect', R2P, is used as a pretext for NATO to dominate this region. Just as the false claim of weapons of mass destruction was used as justification for the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the allegations that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian military is meant to mask the real motives of Washington and its allies. Their aim is to carry out regime change, as part of the drive to create a new Middle East. The invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya, the now-escalating war in Syria and the growing threats against Iran are part of a coordinated regional effort by the United States, Britain and France to dominate this oil-rich and strategic region. The U.S. government cuts basic services and has eliminated hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs in the last three years i n the name of a discredited austerity which has destroyed the economy, but has unlimited billions available for wars of aggression and NSA surveillance of almost every American. We join together to call for National Days of Action, June 28- July 17, 2013, to demand: * Stop the U.S./NATO/Israeli war and all forms of intervention against Syria! * Self-determination free from outside intervention for the Syrian people! * Fund people's needs, not the military! * U.S.A Out of the Middle East! Organizations in Los Angeles signing this statement are: (In alphabetical order) ANAKBAYAN Los Angeles and San Diego; ANSWER-LA; Arab Americans for Syria; BAYAN-SOCAL; Habi Arts; International Action Center; Los Angeles Peace Council; Puerto Rican Alliance-LA; School of the Americas Watch - LA (SOA Watch-LA); SiGAw-GABRIELA USA; Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC); Union of Progressive Iranians; United National Antiwar Coalition-LA Complete List of National and Local Signers: * United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) * ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War End Racism) * United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) * International Action Center * Veterans For Peace * World Can't Wait * U.S. Peace Council * Progressive Democrats of America * Green Party of the United States * Voices for Creative Nonviolence * Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general * Kathy Kelly *
[LAAMN] Happy Birthday Today to Ron Kovic ~ Vietnam Veteran ~ Anti-War Activist ~ Author of Born On The 4th Of July ~ A Hero to All of Us in the Anti-War/Peace Movement!
of a Los Angeles facility for homeless and disabled veterans. Kovic continues to fight for improvements in the way veterans are treated when they return home from battle. Because Kovic found the experience of making the film Born on the Fourth of July cathartic and healing, he established a peace prize in his name, and on a yearly basis, has been awarding a prize to the filmmaker who best addresses the issues of peace in a short film. Happy Birthday Ron A Hero to All of Us in the Anti-War/Peace Movement! Peace Love, Frank Dorrel [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] Happy Birthday Today to S. Brian Willson ~ Vietnam Veteran ~ Anti-War/Peace Activist ~ Help Support a New Movie Being Made About Brian titled: PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE: The Story of S. Bria
Happy Birthday Today to S. Brian Willson Vietnam Veteran ~ Anti-War/Peace Activist ~ Born on the 4th of July, 1941 Author of: BLOOD ON THE TRACKS: The Life Times of S. Brian Willson www.brianwillson.com Send a Birthday Message to Brian at: b...@brianwillson.com Help Support a New Movie Being Made About Brian titled: PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE: The Story of S. Brian Willson The Peace Movement Directed by Bo Boudart - Associate Producer Frank Dorrel Watch a 9-Minute Trailer at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKIjfUAnPvYfeature=player_embedded# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKIjfUAnPvYfeature=player_embedded If you feel inspired to help get this important film finished, please send a donation to: Beau Monde Image Foundation PO Box 7395, Menlo Park, CA 94026 This is a 501 C-3 organization. So it is Tax Deductable Bo has already interviewed Daniel Ellsberg, Father Roy Bourgeois, Medea Benjamin, Col. Ann Wright, Martin Sheen, Alice Walker, Phil Donahue, Blase Bonpane, Ron Kovic, Ray McGovern, Charlie Clements, Camila Mejia (Iraq War Vet), Bruce Gagnon, Charlie Liteky, Duncan Murphy, Leah Bolger (past president of Veterans For Peace), Elliot Adams (past president of VFP), David Swanson, Mike Prysner (Iraq War Vet), Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist) others. He still plans to interview Amy Goodman, Kris Kristofferson, Ed Asner, Kathy Kelly Cindy Sheehan. Bo Boudart is a producer of wildlife, ecology, cultural, human rights, cultural, educational and science programs. He has initiated productions in Asia, Indonesia and Philippine Island Archipelagos, South America, Africa, Australia, the Arctic, the Caribbean, and throughout the United States. Boudart has produced documentaries, animations, educational, marketing and informational programs for distribution in all formats. Many of his programs have aired on the Discovery Channel, Public Television, Canadian Broadcasting, NHK Japan, French TV, and the Middle East. Bo Boudart Director of: Paying The Price For Peace 650-644-7228 bboud...@gmail.com www.boboudartproductions.org Other Important Links for S. Brian Willson Here is Brian's interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman on October 28th, 2011: www.democracynow.org/2011/10/28/blood_on_the_tracks_brian_willsons You can watch Brian's 8-minute segment from my film: What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rkvl9XHCYUfeature=related All of Brian's essays on his website are well worth reading at: www.brianwillson.com Short Autobiography of S. Brian Willson: www.brianwillson.com/autobiography BLOOD ON THE TRACKS: The Life Times of S. Brian Willson: www.addictedtowar.com/SBWillson.html http://www.brianwillson.com/ In Peace, Frank Dorrel Associate Producer of: Paying The Price For Peace Publisher of: ADDICTED To WAR 310-838-8131 fdor...@addictedtowar.com fdor...@sbcglobal.net www.addictedtowar.com [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] Justice for Bradley Manning: Call the New Convening Authority at: 202-685-2900 Demand Justice Due Process for Bradley Manning ~ The Prosecution Has Rested Its Case. The Defense Will Begin
On Behalf Of Gerry Condon: projectsafeha...@hotmail.com The prosecution has rested its case. The defense will begin next Monday, July 8th. Join us for this historic occasion, if you can. We will begin with a 7:00 AM vigil at the front gate of Fort Meade. Then at 9:30 AM, we will fill the courtroom (and the overflow trailer) to demonstrate our support for Bradley and his outstanding defense team. In the meantime, YOU can weigh in to General Buchanan, the new Convening Authority in charge of Bradley's court martial. See below. Call: 202-685-2900 and Demand Justice and Due Process for Bradley Manning. http://BradleyManning.org Bradley Manning Support Network Remind General Buchanan that Bradley Manning's Rights Have Been Trampled - Enough is Enough! Call the New General's Public Affairs Office at: 202-685-2900 http://www.bradleymanning.org/featured/call-the-new-generals-public-affairs -office-at-202-685-2900 Dear Friend, Last week Major General Jeffery S. Buchanan succeeded Major General Linnington as the new Convening Authority in Bradley Manning's trial. In the military court martial system the Convening Authority has absolute power to reduce any sentence or ruling against a service member. Let's remind General Buchanan that this system should be about justice and due process, and that these things have been absent from US v. Manning so far. Bradley has been imprisoned for over three years now. If the military requires punishment for an act of civil disobedience, they already got that. Given that Bradley spent nearly a year in solitary confinement that the UN described as cruel, inhuman and degrading, it is reasonable for General Buchanan to join us in declaring enough is enough! It's time to free Bradley Manning. The convening authority can reduce the sentence after the Judge makes her ruling. Let's Remind Maj. General Buchanan: * That President Obama has unlawfully influenced the trial with his declaration of Bradley Manning's guilt. * That the media has been continually blocked from transcripts and documents related to the trial and that it has only been through the efforts of Bradley Manning's supporters that any transcripts exist. * That under the UCMJ a soldier has the right to a speedy trial and that it was unconsciable to wait 3 years before starting the court martial. * That absolutely no one was harmed by the release of documents that exposed war crimes, unnecessary secrecy and disturbing foreign policy. * That Bradley Manning is a hero who did the right thing when he revealed truth about wars that had been based on lies. Remind General Buchanan that Bradley Manning's rights have been trampled - Enough is enough! Call the new general's Public Affairs Office at 202-685-2900 If that number stops answering, try calling Col. Michelle Martin-Hing, Public Affairs Officer: (202) 685-4899. And try emailing Maj. Gen. Buchanan at: jeffrey.s.bucha...@us.army.mil _ Help Us Continue to Cover 100% of Bradley's Legal Fees! Donate today. http://www.bradleymanning.org/donate Here's the Video titled COLLATERAL MURDER - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 - that Bradley Manning discovered sent to Wikileaks. Wikileaks decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh and six others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. They do not have any weapons. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths occurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on: www.collateralmurder.com Listening to what the soldiers in the helicopter are saying to each other is absolutely sickening as they think it's funny killing these eight innocent Iraqi people who are simply walking on the ground in their own country. Bradley Manning is a hero for releasing this video that shows the murder of these 8 people. This is what the United States did in Iraq and it's what the United States has done in Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Afghanistan and many other countries over the years. Bradley Manning should be free. The soldiers who shot killed these innocent Iraqi people should be put on trial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 www.bradleymanning.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network
[LAAMN] BIG NEWS! ~ RESTORE THE 4TH is an OFFICIAL Participant in the Santa Monica 4th of July Parade! ~ If You Want to Be in the Parade, Show Up at 8:00 AM at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium ~ Them
BIG NEWS! RESTORE THE 4TH Is Now An OFFICIAL Participant in The Santa Monica 4th of July Parade! Our Theme Is: Dissent Is Patriotic: Whistleblowers Are Heroes! SIGN UP NOW! We Need Dedicated People to Show Up at 8:00 AM Sharp On Thursday, July 4th at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium In Costume: RED, WHITE and BLUE Bring Whistles Be Ready To Use Them. For all those wishing to be in the parade, first PLEASE confirm your participation so we know to be looking for you. It will be very important to be on time, as each parade participant will need to register on-site with parade officials. Email Mark Lipman at: escalatepe...@yahoo.com or: edi...@vagabondbooks.net www.facebook.com/RestoreTheFourthVenice ALSO: The Support Rally is Still Happening at 9:00 AM at Main Rose in Venice - for those who can't march in the parade. Hey All, Please excuse the recent burst of conflicting information - with the evolving situation of being officially included in the Santa Monica 4th of July Parade, we have had to adjust our planning. The meet up location will now be at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, at 8AM. Our group will gather at the Chain Reaction statue between Santa Monica City Hall and the Civic Auditorium. For all those wishing to be in the parade, first PLEASE confirm your participation so we know to be looking for you. It will be very important to be on time, as each parade participant will need to register on-site with parade officials. Dress will be creative design ... in red, white and blue. Our main theme is Whistleblowers are Heroes - which we got approved through the parade officials - is central to our public outreach for this issue. We will have some signs, etc ... if you wish to bring your own, please remember we will need to get it by the censors. If you arrive after registration, or prefer to be part of our solidarity team, we will need volunteers to be handing out flyers, whistles and showing support from the sidewalks - so even if you are running late PLEASE show up - as there will be much to do and your support is very much a part of the success for this action. Thank you, everyone for being a part of this - it is going to be an incredible day of fun and activism. Look forward to seeing you all there. Mark Lipman escalatepe...@yahoo.com edi...@vagabondbooks.net www.facebook.com/RestoreTheFourthVenice [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] Vietnam Veteran Diane Wilson Goes Over White House Fence Is Arrested at Guantanamo Protest ~ Other Members of Veterans For Peace CODEPINK Are Also Arrested ~ Wilson is in Day 57 of Her Wat
Vietnam Veteran Diane Wilson Goes Over White House Fence Is Arrested at Guantanamo Protest Other Members of Veterans For Peace CODEPINK Are Also Arrested Full Story in Photos at: https://picasaweb.google.com/ellen.rachel.davidson/GuanatanamoProtestAtTheWh iteHouse62613 - Pictures Taken by VFP Member Ellen Davidson A dynamic protest outside the While House against the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba came to a climax Wednesday when Vietnam veteran Diane Wilson climbed over the White House fence. Suddenly, there she was standing on the White House lawn like an apparition in her orange prison jumpsuit. Wilson was quickly surrounded by heavily armed Secret Service agents and a menacing police dog. She was arrested, charged with unlawful entry and turned over to police in Washington, DC, where she was being held in jail as of Wednesday night. Diane Wilson, a former Army medic member of Veterans For Peace, is on Day 57 of a water-only fast in solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners at Guantanamo. Shortly before going over the White House fence, Wilson explained I decided to take drastic action because in this situation time is of the essence. If President Obama doesn't hear our message and act soon, the blood of the men on hunger strike in Guantanamo will be on his hands. Over twenty other protesters, including two members of Veterans For Peace Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK were subsequently arrested when they refused to leave the sidewalk in front of the White House, where they were reading the names of 86 prisoners who have been cleared for release yet remain imprisoned at Guantanamo. Col. Ann Wright was also there. Elliott Adams, a former president of Veterans For Peace, was arrested as he attempted to chain himself to the White House fence. Surprisingly, he was released without charge, perhaps after the police learned he was on Day 41 of an open-ended hunger strike. I just can't sit and enjoy my life when my country is doing such terrible things to these people, said Adams. Veterans For Peace member Helen Jaccard was also arrested and carted off to jail by the Park Police, along with nearly 20 other protesters, including several women from Code Pink. They were released after several hours, charged with disobeying a lawful order, and given a court date of Tuesday, July 16. I had never been arrested before, said Jaccard, but if you really care about justice, there comes a time when you have to be willing to cross that line. Today was that time for me. ACTION PHOTOS HERE, care of VFP member Ellen Davidson The US is holding 168 prisoners at Guantanamo, over 100 of whom have been carrying on a long term hunger strike to protest indefinite detention and inhuman conditions. The US Army is force-feeding over 40 prisoners with painfully invasive metal-tipped tubes forced through their nose and into their stomachs, a procedure that is widely considered to be torture. Several prisoners are in the hospital in critical condition. Tarak Kauff, who serves on the Board of Directors of Veterans For Peace, has fasted for 19 days. The conditions at Guantanamo continue to be horrifying and barbaric, said Kauff. President Obama, who once said 'under my administration the United States does not torture,' could stop this with one phone call - immediately. Instead, the President, the U.S. military establishment, and Congress display more inhumanity, more cruelty and indifference to human suffering with each passing day. Contact VFP Hunger Striker Elliott Adams at: 518-441-2697 or by Email at: elliottad...@juno.com To Interview the Veterans For Peace Hunger Strikers, Contact Gerry Condon at: 206-499-1220 For More Information Go To: www.CloseGitmo.net - www.witnesstorture.org or: www.veteransforpeace.org www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2013/06/27/veterans-arrested-white-h ouse-guantanamo-protest [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
[LAAMN] Jeremy Scahill's DIRTY WARS Closes in LA Thursday, June 27 ~ Don't Miss This Extraordinary Film! ~ If you haven't seen it, go! If you have seen it take a friend who hasn't ~ A Secret Army. A
From Karen Pomer: krpo...@gmail.com DIRTY WARS CLOSING in LA AREA THURSDAY, JUNE 27th Don't Miss This Extraordinary Film! If you haven't seen it, go! If you have seen it take a friend who hasn't go again! Sundance Film Festival 2013 Award Winner DIRTY WARS Featuring Jeremy Scahill - Directed by Richard Rowley A Secret Army. A War Without End. A Journalist Determined To Uncover The Truth! Opened Friday, June 7th in Los Angeles to Sold Out Crowds www.dirtywars.org http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dirtywars.orgh=BAQGC-zf2; s=1 Follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond. Part political thriller and part detective story. Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. LAST TWO DAYS - WEDNESDAY THURSDAY June 26-27 - Santa Monica - Laemmle Monica 4 www.laemmle.com/theaters/3 June 26-27 - Beverly Hills - Laemmle's Music Hall www.laemmle.com/theaters/4/2013-06-21#get-tickets June 26-27 - Pasadena - Laemmle Playhouse 7 www.laemmle.com/theaters/6 June 26-27 - Costa Mesa/Santa Ana Regency Theatres South Coast Village www.regencymovies.com/main.php?theaterId=17 June 26-27 - San Diego - Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas www.landmarktheatres.com/market/sandiego/hillcrestcinemas.htm July 6 - Claremont -Laemmle's Claremont 5 www.laemmle.com/films/36947 http://dirtywars.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1e5b585a6e9452c9b12d458 fid=d290d71248e=30878e2ac5 http://gallery.mailchimp.com/a1e5b585a6e9452c9b12d458f/images/DIRTYWARS_FACE BOOK_03.jpg Review by Rob Nelson Filed from the frontlines of the war on terror, documentarian Richard Rowley's astonishingly hard-hitting Dirty Wars renders the investigative work of journalist Jeremy Scahill in the form of a '70s-style conspiracy thriller. A reporter for the Nation, Scahill follows a blood-strewn trail from a remote corner of Afghanistan, where covert night raids have claimed the lives of innocents, to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), a shadowy outfit empowered by the current White House to assassinate those on an ever-expanding 'kill list,' including at least one American. This jaw-dropping, persuasively researched picture has the power to pry open government lockboxes. This film blew me away from the first shot. It is one of the most stunning looking documentaries I've ever seen. So, for elevating the art of observational cinema through sophisticated lensing and an electric color palette, the http://www.sundance.org/festival/stories/award-winners/ Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary goes to Dirty Wars - http://www.sundance.org/video/sff13-2013-sundance-film-festival-awards-cere mony/ Sundance Juror Brett Morgen http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/dirty-wars-sundance-review-413968 Dirty Wars: Sundance Review by John DeFore: Bottom line: A strong filmmaking voice turns already disturbing material into a hot doc.The film's narrative drive offers a compelling package for viewers numbed by one news report after another about civilian deaths and secret hit lists. It's tough investigative tone and surprisingly stylish photography enhance cinematic appeal for a doc that merits theatrical exposure. http://www.wwd.com/eye/people/dirty-wars-documentary-wins-praise-at-sundanc e-debut-6688669 'Dirty Wars' Documentary Wins Praise at Sundance Debut by Marcy Medina: Journalists are trained to keep themselves out of the story, but some can't help become a part of it. In one of the most well-received documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival, Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill is both narrator and subject of one of the most incendiary stories in recent history. Directed, shot and edited by fellow war journalist and filmmaker Richard Rowley, Dirty Wars follows Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation, as he reports on the U.S.' covert war on terror, which according to the film has seen thousands added to the U.S. military's 'kill list,' and elite forces that operate in the shadows. http://www.slashfilm.com/dirty-wars-review-and-the-government-thought-tortu re-in-zero-dark-thirty-made-them-look-bad-sundance-2013/ Dirty Wars Review By Germain Lussier: Dirty Wars is a focused, fascinating and frightening look at war in the 21st century. A film you're sure not to forget. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-abeel/a-true-life-thriller_b_2935188.ht ml A True-Life Crime Thriller About America's Covert Wars By Erica Abeel, The Huffington Post: Dirty Wars is a game-changing, mind-blowing film. Dirty Wars assumes the tantalizing shape of a mystery thriller as compelling as any feature film. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-dirty-wars-m ovie-obama-20130602,0,6721159.story DIRTY WARS Filmmakers Go Behind Obama's Counterterrorism Nonfiction Film: Reporter-Narrator
[LAAMN] Activist Support Circle Guest Speaker Andy Lipkis of TreePeople ~ Tomorrow Night, Wednesday, June 26th, 7:00 PM ~ At Friends Meeting Hall - 1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica ~ Refreshments at
Activist Support Circle Meeting Guest Speaker Andy Lipkis Founder President of TreePeople Wednesday, June 26th, 7:00 PM Refreshments at 6:30 PM At Friends Meeting Hall 1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica 90404 Andy Lipkis is a practical visionary who has dedicated his life to healing the environment while improving the lives of individuals communities. At the age of 15, Andy took up the challenge to save the forests, even though he was just a teenager. That summer of 1970, the year of the first Earth Day, he organized fellow campers to plant a grove of smog-tolerant seedlings in what had been a dirt lot. Along the way, they planted the seeds of an organization that grew into TreePeople. He founded TreePeople in 1973 and continues to serve as its President. The Event is Free to the Public There is Free On-Site Parking. The Activist Support Circle is an ongoing open support group for progressive activists that started in February, 2005 to help guard against activist burnout. For Further Event Information Call: 310-399-1000. Or Email: activistsupportcir...@earthlink.net The Website is: www.ActivistSupportCircle.org To get more information about TreePeople call: 818-753-4600 or Email: i...@treepeople.org - The Website is: www.treepeople.org . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=1100933/grpspId=1705063985/msgId =113467/stime=1372179755 [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] UN International Day In Support of Victims of Torture ~ 2 Protest Vigils on Wednesday, June 26th ~ 10:00 AM to Noon at West LA Federal Building ~ 2nd Vigil: 4:30 to 6:30 PM at McClure Tunnel P
Torture Is Torture From Pelican Bay To Guantanamo Bay UN International Day In Support of Victims of Torture www.closegitmo.net Two Protest Vigils Wednesday, June 26th - 10:00 AM to Noon Meet at The West Los Angeles Federal Building Corner of Wilshire Federal Also on Wednesday, June 26th There Will Be Another Vigil from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM at Pacific Palisades Park / Pacific Coast HWY and McClure Tunnel Pedestrian Overpass SANTA MONICA WEST LA VIGILS MARK INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF TORTURE Questions Contact Kathleen Hernandez of Veterans for Peace: 310-339-1770 or Email: hernandezkathl...@hotmail.com A New Video with Elliott Adams on Day 33 of His Hunger Strike www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwOzYxK0a8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwOzYxK0a8list=UUdEQL723X3zdcvucRl6B list=UUdEQL723X3zdcvucRl6B - (2 Minutes) In recent years the United States has become notorious for torturing prisoners, both overseas and in the U.S. This practice violates the Eighth Amendment, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention Against Torture. To protest US government torture, a coalition of progressive groups will stage vigils in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica on Wednesday, June 26, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. - June is also Torture Awareness Month. In the morning, a vigil will be held at the Federal Building at Wilshire Federal in West Los Angeles from 10:00 AM to 12 Noon. In the afternoon, a 2nd vigil will be held on the McClure Tunnel Pedestrian Overpass at Palisades Park Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica from 4:30 to 6:30 PM Participants at the vigils will express their solidarity with hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay protesting their prolonged, arbitrary and tortuous imprisonment. They will also express solidarity with hunger strikers in the SHU (Special Housing Unit) of California's notorious Pelican Bay Prison, where prisoners are held in solitary confinement for years and sometimes decades. Prolonged solitary confinement has been found by the United Nations to constitute torture. Torture is torture, no matter where it is, whether it's at Pelican Bay in California or Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, says Kathleen Hernandez of Veterans for Peace. It's un-American and immoral. Three members of Veterans for Peace, Elliott Adams, Diane Wilson and Tarak Kauf, are currently engaged in hunger strikes in sympathy with the Guantanamo and Pelican Bay hunger strikers and are available to be interviewed. The vigils are organized by Veterans for Peace, Code Pink Interfaith Communities United For Justice Peace. Endorsers include March Forward, Progress Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, Topanga Peace Alliance and MLK Coaltition for Jobs, Justice and Peace SOA Watch-LA. [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] S. Brian Willson will be Interviewed on KPFK's Connect The Dots ~ Tomorrow Morning (Monday) from 7:00 to 8:00 AM by Dorothy Reik, Who will be Guest Hosting for Lila Garrett ~ Her Other Guests
Dorothy Reik will be Guest Hosting for Lila Garrett On KPFK's Connect The Dots – 90.7 FM Radio Tomorrow Morning (Monday) from 7:00 to 8:00 AM Her Guests Will Be: S. Brian Willson: Talking about The Hunger Strike by Prisoners at Guantanamo the Fast in Solidarity with Them S. Brian Willson Temporarily Suspends Hunger Strike On May 12th, 2013, S. Brian Willson began an open ended hunger strike on only 300 cal per day. This was in solidarity with the prisoners’ hunger strike in Guantánamo demanding closure of the barbaric torture facility. On Monday, June 3rd, while he was hand-cycling to the “Close Guantánamo” daily vigil in Portland, Oregon, he suffered a serious accident. Brian was hit by an SUV vehicle while stopped at a traffic light. He ended up severely bruised, lying on the road, with his severely damaged cycle on top of him. Fortunately, Brian’s partner Becky showed up soon, and he was taken home. On June 9th, Brian spent three hours at a hospital emergency room to get urgent blood tests. They showed that he has not recovered from serious, recent health issues which have now complicated his ability to heal from the recent accident. Given his medical situation, on June 10th Brian temporarily suspended his hunger strike after 28 days and after a loss of 24 pounds. He will continue to support the campaign to close Guantánamo and will consider rejoining the fast when he fully recovers. We send our gratitude and support to him. If you would like to send Brian a message of support, his email is: b...@brianwillson.com His website is: www.brianwillson.com Close Guantanamo Website is: www.closeguantanamo.net ~~ Lori Wallach: Discussing the Trans Pacific Partnership Lori Wallach is Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division. A Harvard-trained lawyer, Wallach has promoted the public interest regarding globalization and international commercial agreements in every forum: Congress and foreign parliaments, the courts, government agencies, and the media - www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=2561 Congressman Henry Waxman 33rd Congressional District of California www.waxman.house.gov Podcast will be available at: www.kpfk.org by 11:00 AM. Dorothy Reik: dorothyr...@pdsmm.org PDSMM [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] UN International Day In Support of Victims of Torture ~ 2 Protest Vigils on Wednesday, June 26th ~ 10:00 AM to Noon at West LA Federal Building ~ 2nd Vigil: 4:30 to 6:30 PM at McClure Tunnel P
Torture Is Torture From Pelican Bay To Guantanamo Bay UN International Day In Support of Victims of Torture www.closegitmo.net Two Protest Vigils Wednesday, June 26th - 10:00 AM to Noon Meet at The West Los Angeles Federal Building Corner of Wilshire Federal Also on Wednesday, June 26th Another Vigil from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM at Pacific Palisades Park / Pacific Coast HWY and McClure Tunnel Pedestrian Overpass SANTA MONICA WEST LA VIGILS MARK INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF TORTURE Questions Contact Kathleen Hernandez of Veterans for Peace: 310-339-1770 or Email: hernandezkathl...@hotmail.com A New Video with Elliott Adams on Day 33 of His Hunger Strike www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwOzYxK0a8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwOzYxK0a8list=UUdEQL723X3zdcvucRl6B list=UUdEQL723X3zdcvucRl6B - (2 Minutes) In recent years the United States has become notorious for torturing prisoners, both overseas and in the U.S. This practice violates the Eighth Amendment, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention Against Torture. To protest US government torture, a coalition of progressive groups will stage vigils in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica on Wednesday, June 26, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. - June is also Torture Awareness Month. In the morning, a vigil will be held at the Federal Building at Wilshire Federal in West Los Angeles from 10:00 AM to 12 Noon. In the afternoon, a 2nd vigil will be held on the McClure Tunnel Pedestrian Overpass at Palisades Park Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica from 4:30 to 6:30 PM Participants at the vigils will express their solidarity with hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay protesting their prolonged, arbitrary and tortuous imprisonment. They will also express solidarity with hunger strikers in the SHU (Special Housing Unit) of California's notorious Pelican Bay Prison, where prisoners are held in solitary confinement for years and sometimes decades. Prolonged solitary confinement has been found by the United Nations to constitute torture. Torture is torture, no matter where it is, whether it's at Pelican Bay in California or Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, says Kathleen Hernandez of Veterans for Peace. It's un-American and immoral. Three members of Veterans for Peace, Elliott Adams, Diane Wilson and Tarak Kauf, are currently engaged in hunger strikes in sympathy with the Guantanamo and Pelican Bay hunger strikers and are available to be interviewed. The vigils are organized by Veterans for Peace, Code Pink Interfaith Communities United For Justice Peace. Endorsers include March Forward, Progress Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, Topanga Peace Alliance and MLK Coaltition for Jobs, Justice and Peace SOA Watch-LA. [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] CAFÉ INQUIRY Presents a Free Screening of: INSIDE JOB ~ Wednesday, June 26th, 7:30 PM at The Steve Allen Theater, Located at The Center For Inquiry-LA in Hollywood ~ Directed by Charles Ferg
CAFÉ INQUIRY Presents A Free Screening of: INSIDE JOB Directed by Charles Ferguson - Narrated by Matt Damon www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob Wednesday, June 26th at 7:30 PM Doors Open at 7:00 PM At The Steve Allen Theater At The Center For Inquiry-Los Angeles 4773 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 90027 2 Blocks West of Vermont at Berendo * map http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qhl=enq=4773+Hollywood+Blvd,+Hollywood,+CA+ 90027ll=34.102601,-118.294301spn=0.015813,0.043259 (323) 666-9797 Film Critic/Historian Ed Rampell will Introduce the Movie Lead a Post-Screening Discussion! Free Admission * Plenty of Parking * Bookstore Open Donations to Help Keep this Program Running are Much Appreciated Questions Email Ed Rampell at: eramp...@gmail.com INSIDE JOB as Part of Cafe Inquiry's Skeptic SINema Series Join us for popcorn a FREE MOVIE in the Steve Allen Theater! For the next several months, Cafe Inquiry will be your host for major motion pictures with a secular, skeptical, or topical bent, followed by discussion. You'll be entertained challenged--and maybe you'll learn a little something about film history, too! Ed Rampell, film critic/historian author of: Progressive Hollywood: A People's Film History of the United States - will introduce the films lead discussion afterward. This Month's Film: Inside Job According to its creator, Charles H. Ferguson, Inside Job (2010) tells the story of the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption -- the financial crisis of the late-2000s. The film tracks the deregulation of the American financial industry, the housing boom, the crisis, and its aftermath with the scourging moral force of a pulpit-shaking sermon. Ferguson delivers it with rigor, restraint good humor makes his case all the more devastating. - A.O. Scott, New York Times. Manohla Dargis called the film A complex story told exceedingly well and with a great deal of unalloyed anger. Film critic/historian Ed Rampell will introduce the movie and lead a post-screening discussion. Running Time: 120 Minutes. Rated PG-13 Intro, Film Screening: 7:30 - 9:45 PM Discussion: 9:45 - 10:30 PM *** Cafe Inquiry is our monthly casual get-together where you can have a coffee chat with other people on various topics of science religion. A guest speaker opens the discussion with a brief intro to the subject then the floor is open in the theater lobby. On film nights, the theater will be used. All are welcome! www.cfiwest.org/calendar/CafeInquiry.htm [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] RECKONING WITH TORTURE ~ Memos Testimonies from The War On Terror ~ Tuesday, June 25th, 7:30 PM at Unity University Church in LA ~ Directed by Melvin Ishmael Johnson ~ Readings by David Cl
RECKONING WITH TORTURE Memos Testimonies From The War On Terror Tuesday, June 25th, 7:30 PM At Unity University Church 817 West 34th Street, Los Angeles 90089 Directed by Melvin Ishmael Johnson Readings by David Clennon, Lee Boek, Earlean Anthony, Lee Shaw, Andrea Ross, Adrian Zeigler Others ~ Free Admission! Questions Email Lee Boek at: leeb...@publicworksimprov.com http://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?t=1113917104454.0.1102238942861.160ts=S0922r=3; o=http://ui.constantcontact.com/images/p1x1.gif Reckoning with torture http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs121/1102238942861/img/101.jpg Lee Boek Public Works Improvisational Theatre http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001P_hIAfy105ho9ZebhXCpG5XacySYBaXmsZ9KwJAxsW62 gZRr9y_Z3xZ63qMN4sWWB8iSOqAB-3RrwZ4170Ks11EYYP7GjhzLkP8IFkBnT1OPntRNbbljWyDK CQuxPEJY [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] An Evening With Singer Stephen Longfellow Fiske ~ Sunday, June 23rd, 6:30 to 8:30 PM ~ At Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Marina del Rey ~
An Evening of Songs, Stories Poems with Stephen Longfellow Fiske Sunday, June 23rd, 6:30 to 8:30 PM At Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center 13325 Beach Avenue, Marina Del Rey 90292 Donations Welcome Vegetarian Soup Refreshments Will Be Served Afterwards Dear Friends, I hope this start of summer finds you doing well in all your endeavors. I don't often give full concerts in the L.A. area, mostly just add songs to existing programs. But this Sunday I will be performing and reading poetry at the Sivananda Yoga Center, Beach is a little street parallel to and one block south of Washington, between Redwood and Glencoe. I hope you will be able to make it. Looking forward to seeing you there. Peace, Stephen Longfellow Fiske step...@fiskemusic.com (310) 822-9642 www.sivananda.org/la http://stephenfiskemusic.com/images/fiske_bio_page.jpg STEPHEN LONGFELLOW FISKE Is a multitalented individual whose dedication to peace, humanitarian, environmental and spiritual concerns has always found expression through his artistic pursuits. Since his first album release, Seeds of Peace, in 1980, through his current tenth CD, Basketball Scene, Stephen has established himself as an inspired performer and veteran poet/spokesman of the times. An award-winning singer/songwriter, Stephen has also authored the poetic philosophical handbook, The Art of Peace, A Personal Manual on Peacemaking and Creativity (New Paradigm Books), now in its second printing. The Art of Peace also features 40 of Stephen's drawings. A long time student of peace and advocate of non-violence, Stephen was formerly the director of The Institute For Peace Studies and the coordinator of the Peacemakers Camps/Retreats of the l980's. Currently, Stephen is the producer of the annual Peace Sunday/Peace Fest event in Los Angeles and a coordinator of the Culture of Peace monthly educational series sponsored by the Unity-and Diversity World Council. A relative of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Stephen is a poet in his own right, giving expression and insights through his music, writings and presence wherever he goes. Stephen grew up in New York City. His mother was an opera singer and voice and piano teacher, and his father was a writer/editor. Stephen flourished in the arts and at the High School of Music and Art became a self taught guitarist composing his own original songs. An outstanding athlete, he attended NYU on a basketball scholarship and majored in art. But music became his main calling, and in 1968 he came to San Francisco and formed an acid-rock band The Bycycle. After two turbulent years in the rock scene, he embarked upon his solo career and became a traveling troubadour-minstrel man. Since then he has performed widely, entertaining and uplifting audiences with his insightful, poetic and often humorous songs and stories. His music has been featured in various films and videos, and he has written for, sung and done voice-overs on TV and radio commercials. In addition to producing his own music, Stephen has produced music for other artists and projects, and has produced events and videos. Most recently, with videographer Robert Corsini, he co-produced the documentary, A Clear Mission, which won the best short documentary award at the Interfaith Harmony Film Festival in Los Angeles. He has raised a family of three children with his wife Nikki, and has also been a yoga teacher, a basketball coach, an avid backpacker/mountaineer, and a lecturer and workshop leader. Stephen has written, produced and performed his one man musical theater piece, Minstrel Man at the Electric Lodge Theater in Venice, California to enthusiastic audiences. He has won numerous awards including The International Peace Music Award in 1994, and has had his songs recorded by Luther Van Dross and Jose Feliciano, among others. www.stephenfiskemusic.com [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:
[LAAMN] Lynne Stewart In Grave Danger ~ Please Support Her ~ Pete Seeger, Desmond Tutu, Dick Gregory Thousands of Others Have Signed the Petition For Her Compassionate Release Today ~ Lynne is Suffe
PLEASE SUPPORT LYNNE STEWART http://t.ymlp262.net/hsapaywuyaxahjalauehb/click.php http://t.ymlp262.net/huaraywuyakahjagauehb/click.php http://t.ymlp262.net/huaraywuyakahjagauehb/click.php TAKE ACTION NOW! http://t.ymlp262.net/huaraywuyakahjagauehb/click.php Sign The Petition! Please take a moment to join Pete Seeger, Desmond Tutu, Dick Gregory thousands of others. Get ten of your friends to sign the petition for compassionate release today. It is devastating, totally unbelievable. Is this in a democracy, the only superpower? I am sad. I will sign. Praying God’s blessing on your efforts. - Desmond Tutu Lynne Stewart should be outa jail. - Pete Seeger Write Lynne today, and visit lynnestewart.org http://t.ymlp262.net/heavaywuyaxahjatauehb/click.php Lynne Stewart 53504-054 CARSWELL FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER P.O. BOX 27137 Fort Worth TX, 76127 http://img2.ymlp262.net/vag0_donate.gif To Donate please send your gift to: Lynne Stewart Organization 1070 Dean St. Brooklyn NY 11216 (for gifts that need to be tax deductible call or email ralph.poyn...@yahoo.com 917-853-9759 Emergency Alert: Lynne Stewart In Grave Danger The warden of Carswell FCI agreed to forward the compassionate release petition to the DOJ. The time to increase the heat is now. White House vigil for Lynne Stewart’s compassionate release started on Monday, June 17th and is GROWING. KEEP THE PRESSURE ON. Media Contact: Ralph Poynter 917-853-9759 - ralph.poyn...@yahoo.com www.LynneStewart.org The continuing campaign to gain Compassionate Release for Lynne Stewart -- the grievously ill, imprisoned human rights attorney -- is headed to Washington, D.C. Despite being by approved for compassionate release, Stewart continues to be held in Carswell Federal Prison in seriously deteriorating health. Lynne Stewart’s spouse, the 79-year-old social justice activist Ralph Poynter, will lead a continuing vigil in front of the White House starting on Monday, June 17. Poynter urges all those concerned with justice, compassion and basic human rights to join him whether they are available for an hour, for the day, or for the duration. He will be at the White House and making visits to the Federal Bureau of Prisons several blocks away, at 320 First St. NW, Washington D.C., 20534. Lynne Stewart, age 73, is suffering from stage 4 cancer in her lungs. The cancer has metastasized rapidly to her lymph nodes and shoulder. She has lost 60 pounds and her condition is deteriorating rapidly. Stewart’s condition is well-known and medically documented. As Poynter explains: “Lynne has passed all of the legalities of compassionate release and qualifies for release as the bill was written. The prison warden at Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, has signed for her release, and so has the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Charles R. Samuels. Probation officers charged with inspecting Lynne’s future residence approved her housing. All that is required by the statute of compassionate release has been done. Yet Lynne is still in jail! Every day that her release is postponed makes treatment of her cancer more difficult.” The national campaign for Stewart’s Compassionate Release started more than three months ago, in early March. Thousands of petitions were sent and thousands of phone calls made urging her release. The warden at Carswell Federal Prison recommended her immediate compassionate release six weeks ago. As the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee has explained, Stewart is not guilty of any crimes. In representing a prisoner charged with terrorism, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Stewart was unjustly convicted of delivering a simple press release for her client. All those who are concerned with Lynne’s health and unable to get to Washington, D.C., are urged to continue calling the White House, Attorney General and Federal Bureau of Prisons and sending petitions. CALL: White House President Barack Obama: 202-456-1414 Attorney General Eric Holder: 202-514-2001 Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels: 202-307-3250 Sign petition at: www.IACenter.org/LynneStewart or at www.LynneStewart.org http://t.ymlp262.net/huaraywuyakahjagauehb/click.php TAKE ACTION NOW! http://t.ymlp262.net/huaraywuyakahjagauehb/click.php Sign The Petition! http://img2.ymlp262.net/vag0_lynnestewart02145addbb4ec6.jpg Lynne Stewart Must Be Free! Lynne Stewart and her husband Ralph Poynter. Compassion demands that Lynne Stewart be released immediately from prison so she and her family can fight for her life. Lynne Stewart, is political prisoner and a renowned human rights lawyer who is currently serving a ten year sentence at FMC Carswell TX. Please go to: www.lynnestewart.org get active and sign the petition for
[LAAMN] 30 Hours Left to Help Fund Important New Film In Progress Titled: SEIZING POWER ~ Directed by David Kasper, who along with Barbara Trent, Produced Directed both: The Panama Deception
Help Fund An Important New Film In Progress Titled: SEIZING POWER Directed by David Kasper, who along with Barbara Trent, Produced Directed Two of the Best Anti-War Documentaries Ever Made: The Panama Deception - Which Won The Academy Award in 1992: www.empowermentproject.org/films.html Cover-Up: Behind The Iran-Contra Affair: www.empowermentproject.org/pages/coverup.html Seizing Power Trailer www.indiegogo.com/projects/seizing-power/x/2339795 Seizing Power Launches Crowdfunding Campaign Sent from David Kasper: me...@empowermentproject.org I want to let you know about an important documentary film now in process from the Empowerment Project, called http://seizingpower.com/ Seizing Power, and ask for your help to get the word out and help raise funds for its completion. Seizing Power shows how perpetual warfare is destroying American democracy and individual rights, and what you can do about it. Since 9/11, we've been following closely the dramatic changes in how our government operates. We're alarmed at the blatant disregard for constitutional rights, and the rampant growth in militarism and expansion of state power. We need to bring this to public attention and find ways to counter it. This film will raise public awareness, and help grow a mass movement to to reverse what is fast becoming an authoritarian and anti-democratic state. Take a look at our crowdfunding campaign on http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/seizing-power/x/2339795 Indiegogo, and watch the trailer. If you think this project is important, help us promote it by sharing the following link with your contacts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media sites: www.indiegogo.com/projects/seizing-power/x/2339795 Consider making a http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/seizing-power/x/2339795 contribution yourself of $10 or more and we will send you one of our Take Back Your Power bumper stickers. See the http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/seizing-power/x/2339795 Indiegogo site for other rewards. To receive our updates and important news on Facebook, indicate that you Like the Seizing Power https://www.facebook.com/pages/Seizing-Power/176654989148870?ref=hl Facebook page. We can't do this without you. Funding for independent filmmaking is becoming increasingly difficult to secure from traditional sources. We are counting on the success of this crowdfunding effort to get the film completed and successfully distributed. If you are concerned about where our country is heading and want to do something about it, please do what you can and help spread the word. You can also send a check to: Empowerment Project 8218 Farrington Mill Road Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Thanks so much, Dave Kasper Director, Seizing Power me...@empowermentproject.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] See Ian Ruskin Starring in: Harry Bridges: From Wharf Rats To Lords Of The Docks To Begin The World Over Again: The Life Of Thomas Paine ~ At The Electric Lodge in Venice ~ Harry Bridges Ope
Go See Ian Ruskin Starring In Harry Bridges: From Wharf Rats To Lords Of The Docks To Begin The World Over Again: The Life Of Thomas Paine At The Electric Lodge in Venice - June 20th - 30th With Ian Ruskin as Harry Bridges Thomas Paine Harry pic http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/4/1/6/4164670349/ae25f8f163/Harry% 20pic.jpg?__nocache__=1 ian2 http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/4/1/6/4164670349/ae25f8f163/ian2.j pg?__nocache__=1 AtDesk 3 http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/4/1/6/4164670349/ae25f8f163/AtDesk %203.jpg?__nocache__=1 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/63869 www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/63869 * 1-800-838-3006 * www.Plays411.com http://cts.vresp.com/c/?TheHarryBridgesProje/b012edc894/TEST/c4711a68ca June at The Electric Lodge - 1416 Electric Avenue, Venice Thursday 20 Friday 21 Saturday 22 Sunday 23 8:00 PM OPENING NIGHT HARRY BRIDGES 8:00 PM OPENING NIGHT THOMAS PAINE 8:00 PM THOMAS PAINE 7:00 PM THOMAS PAINE Pay What You Can Thursday 27 Friday 28 Saturday 29 Sunday 30 8:00 PM HARRY BRIDGES 8:00 PM THOMAS PAINE 8:00 PM THOMAS PAINE 3:00 PM THOMAS PAINE To Begin The World Over Again: The Life Of Thomas Paine Spectacular! - Harvard Law School Writer-performer Ian Ruskin's solo shows.[are] undeniably apropos for the corporatist-beleaguered present.Ruskin moves around the bare-bones setting with loping ease.[his] versatility, innate affability and easy delivery lands directly between middle-period Geoffrey Rush and the late Roger Livesey.holding focus.maintaining - David C. Nichols, LA Times Ruskin's Paine provides more than a mere history lesson; it's a sort of performance art. Not only do we learn of a largely untold slice of American history, we also get to see an actor in top form. So nuanced and layered is Ruskin's performance, and so enlightening is his script, it's as if Paine has been brought back to life just to speak to us. - Ben Miles Showmag.com http://showmag.com/ The bioplay, expertly acted by Ruskin, as July 4th approaches The Life of Thomas Paine is the perfect play to see. It reminds us that revolution is as American as apple pie. - Ed Rampell LA Progressive Ruskin brings the British-born Paine alive, faults and all, making him a fascinating character, one we should know all the more by reading his oeuvre. With some humor and intriguing personal history, we get to meet the man himself... - Dale Reynolds, Stage Happenings * Audience Response - www.goldstar.com/events/70004/reviews From Wharf Rats To Lords Of The Docks Ian Ruskin captures Harry Bridges brilliantly. - Howard Zinn, Historian Social Activist Ruskin's script is wonderfully didactic and his presence is compelling. Not only do we see this master stage craftsman in a sterling performance, we also are informed of an important and rarely broached part of America's sordid labor history..From Wharf Rats to Lord of the Docks is a must-see show. - Ben Miles Showmag.com http://showmag.com/ A gentle reminder of who this man was and how valuable he was to the global growth of protections for longshoremen, warehousemen and merchant-marine sailors..illuminating people who helped build a strong middle-class in America. - Dale Reynolds, Stage Happenings * Audience Response - www.goldstar.com/events/70024/reviews BIO: Ian Ruskin trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He has performed From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks about Harry Bridges over 200 times. The film version directed by Haskell Wexler, has aired on PBS for the past 4 years. Ian wrote To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine with a COLA Fellowship and has performed it for the past 2 years nationwide, then after this run on to London to perform July 5th for the RADA Summer Festival! Dear Friends, If you saw the plays at the Lillian, thank you! And please pass this email on to the world. If you have tickets for the Electric Lodge, thank you! And please pass this email on to the world. And if not, BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! Plus, we have two new discount codes on BrownPaperTickets - tell your friends - Friend will give half price tickets for the Opening Nights ($25 instead of $50 and you get a reception following the play) union gives a $5 discount to any $20 ticket. Let's fill the theatre! And FYI here are two links to my recent KPFK interview (I follow John Nichols at about 33:30) and my Huffington Post blog. Best Ian Ruskin: ianrus...@theharrybridgesproject.org www.archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_130603_070004ctd.MP3 www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-ruskin/the-common-sense-entitlem_b_3273757.html www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/63869 The Harry Bridges Project http://theharrybridgesproject.org/index.html Facebook http://www.facebook.com/theharrybridgesproject | LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/ianruskin | YouTube http://www.youtube.com/harrybridgesproject The Life
[LAAMN] THE OTHER SON ~ Screening: Saturday, June 22nd, 7:00 PM ~ At The Home of Rachel Jay in Santa Monica ~ Doors Open at 6:30 PM ~ $5 Donation for Change-Links Progressive Newspaper/Calendar
THE OTHER SON L'autre Fils Screening SATURDAY,JUNE 22nd - 7:00 PM DOORS OPEN at 6:30 PM At The Home of Rachel Jay 601- 9th Street, Santa Monica One block east of Lincoln, One block north of Montana Southeast Corner - Easy Parking RSVP a Must : rachel...@earthlink.net or Call: 310-780-7363 - (First 20) BEFORE FILM: Meet @ Izzy's Deli, 15th @ Wilshire @ 5:00 PM for dinner. FREE PARKING: @ Izzy's Deli: Rear lot on 15th or Computer store lot on 15th. AFTER FILM: End the embargo to CUBA COFFEE, gourmet cookies. THE OTHER SON - 105 Minutes - 2012 While preparing to enter the Israeli military for his compulsory service, young Joseph Silberg learns he was accidentally switched at birth with the son of an Arab couple from the West Bank -- a shocking revelation that sends both families reeling. As he prepares to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents' biological son, but that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yassin, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. This revelation turns the lives of these two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, their values and their beliefs. Arabic, Hebrew, French with ENGLISH subtitles. $5 Donation Change-Links Progressive Newspaper/Calendar www.change-links.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] REMEMBERING The ROSENBERGS: 60th Anniversary Commemoration ~ Wednesday, June 19th, 7:00 PM at The Los Angeles Workers' Center ~ Co-Hosted by Ed Asner Mike Farrell ~ Julius Ethel Rosenberg
Remembering The Rosenbergs 60th Anniversary Commemoration Julius Ethel Rosenberg Were Electrocuted on June 19th, 1953 - The Only U.S. Civilians Executed During The Cold War Wednesday, June 19th - 7:00 PM At The Los Angeles Workers' Center 1251 South Saint Andrews Place, Los Angeles 90019 323-239-6335 - i...@losangelesworkers.org $10 Suggested Donation - Nobody Will Be Turned Away Due to Lack of Funds. Co-Hosted by Ed Asner Mike Farrell Ross Altman will Sing a Special Song he wrote called: Ethel Julius: A Love Story To commemorate this 60th anniversary Ed Asner will co-present the 1983 fiction film Daniel on the precise anniversary of the Rosenbergs' executions. Directed by Sidney Lumet and based on E.L. Doctorow's novel The Book of Daniel the movie Daniel is a fictionalization of the Rosenbergs' story co-starring Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Timothy Hutton and Ellen Barkin. Co-Sponsors Ed Asner, who portrays the attorney called Jacob Ascher in Daniel, is a co-sponsor of the commemoration and will co-introduce the film and participate in a QA after the screening with actor Mike Farrell, who played Captain B.J. Hunnicutt in the M*A*S*H TV Series and is the President of Death Penalty Focus, anti-capital punishment organization. The Event Will Focus On: 1) Remember the Rosenbergs 2) Oppose the Death Penalty 3) Free All Political Prisoners Free Bradley Manning ~ Hands Off Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald Edward Snowden Julius Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple that was arrested, charged with and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. The sentence for the crime was death. The couple was executed on June 19, 1953 in Sing Sing Prison in New York. Their charges were related to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. The Rosenberg's had two minor children at the time of their execution, http://www.laprogressive.com/ethel-julius-rosenbergs-son-rober/ Michael and Robert. After the Rosenberg's were executed, the children were adopted took on the last name of their adoptive parents, Meeropol. The LA Progressive carried a story on Robert Meeropol which can be found http://www.laprogressive.com/ethel-julius-rosenbergs-son-rober/ here. After graduating from college, Michael and Robert sued the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI FBI and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA CIA under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), winning the release of 300,000 previously secret documents pertaining to their parents' case. Believing the documents proved their parents' innocence, the Meeropol brothers co-wrote a book about their childhood, We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (1975). From 1974 to 1978, he worked actively with the National Committee to reopen the Rosenberg Case and the Fund for Open Information and Accountability. Robert Meeropol founded The Rosenberg Fund for Children which provides for its beneficiaries' educational and emotional needs. He felt that the help he and his brother received after their parents were executed should be available to other children whose parents are taken away from them by the criminal justice system. The Fund makes grants to institutions and professionals who nurture these youngsters and cultivate progressive values. For the first time, many of these children have been able to learn and flourish in a supportive community of sympathetic peers and adults. Attending a school or a summer camp that celebrates struggles for economic and social justice has a powerfully positive impact on a child whose parents have been attacked for participating in such struggles. Said Meeropol, My experience has taught me what is needed to ease the pain of these children. I never would have survived to build my life and create the Rosenberg Fund for Children were it not for the help I received from a supportive community made up of so many socially aware individuals and institutions. I started the Fund to enable today's members of this community to rally around the children of this era's targeted activists. Presented by Ed Asner, Mike Farrell, LAProgressive.com, HollywoodProgressive.com The Communist Party USA [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
