[LAAMN] Video - Jimmy Kimmel Live/Calle 13 takes aim at Fortuño and HidroAysen

2011-05-13 Thread Cort Greene
* http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2011/05/calle-13-takes-aim-at-fortuno-and.html * *Video: * *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heICyrBOZ9Afeature=player_embedded*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heICyrBOZ9Afeature=player_embedded Thursday, May 12, 2011 Calle 13 takes aim at Fortuño and

[LAAMN] Rally to Save Public Education ~ Friday, May 13th at Pershing Square ~ Join Congressional Candidate Public School Teacher Marcy Winograd ~ Rally Speakers at 5:00 PM ~ Music Entertainment

2011-05-13 Thread Frank Dorrel
Rally to Save Public Education Join Congressional Candidate Public School Teacher Marcy Winograd Teachers From All Over the Southland Friday, May 13th Music Entertainment - 4:00 PM Rally Speakers - 5:00 PM At Pershing Square 5th Olive in Downtown Los Angeles We Challenge Sacramento

[LAAMN] Sri Lanka: Threats, Harassments and Restrictions on Former Detainees and Their Families in Vanni

2011-05-13 Thread Cort Greene
*Threats, Harassments and Restrictions on Former Detainees and Their Families in Vanni* *11th May 2011* *1. Introduction* This note is based on conversations with 15 former detainees (7 women between 21 and 35 years and 8 men between 21 and 41 years) from villages in the Vanni region (areas

[LAAMN] Breaking the Gaza Embargo and Israeli Piracy, Michael Moore, Ken Burns to be on Keith Olberman's new show

2011-05-13 Thread Ed Pearl
From The RAIN Newsletter (11-5-11) http://rain.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c08f97b142bb05db019d489bid =4f9b2e22a8e=b0842707b4 http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=46074 Breaking the Gaza Embargo and Israeli Piracy Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine is known

[LAAMN] The Black President and the Brown Vote

2011-05-13 Thread Ed Pearl
From a.belt...@ymail.com The Black President and the Brown Vote by Bruce A. Dixon, BAR managing editor Black Agenda Report: May 11, 2011 Can Barack Obama be re-elected without the overwhelming majorities he received in Latino communities across the country? The short

[LAAMN] Fwd: Press Advisory - May 12 Southern California Immigration Coalition

2011-05-13 Thread Carlos Montes
Southern California Immigration Coalition MEDIA ADVISORY: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHAT: The Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC), its ally members of various LA neighborhood councils, and representatives of the National Lawyers Guild will report on the outcome of a meeting

[LAAMN] Radioactive Chicken Heads Open for Re-Animator-The Musical 5/13

2011-05-13 Thread ccb
The Radioactive Chicken Heads return to the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood this Friday, the 13th of May to open for the hit stage show, Re-Animator the Musical, Stuart Gordon's musical adaptation of his own 1985 horror cult classic film, H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator. Don't chicken out on this

[LAAMN] Law Against Racial Discrimination Approved

2011-05-13 Thread Williams Camacaro
Law Against Racial Discrimination Approved   During a first round of discussion on May 10, the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved the Organic Law Against Racial Discrimination. The draft law was passed during a session that was attended by the Network of

[LAAMN] Democrats are mean (LOL)

2011-05-13 Thread Scott Peden
The remarks below show comment #26 by Marie Burns of Ft. Myers, Florida which gave me a laugh and I thought I would share it. It was in response to the Krugman blogpost Whiners I think this comment is at the top of page 2 of the comments. The blogpost after Whiners includes a link to the Ryan

[LAAMN] Five socialist parties unite to impact Egypt

2011-05-13 Thread Romi Elnagar
Five socialist parties unite to impact Egyptian politics In a bid to gain political ground, five of Egypt’s socialist movements unite under the new Coalition of Socialist

[LAAMN] FARC links to GW Bush campaign? Hmmm

2011-05-13 Thread Cort Greene
http://settysoutham.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/farc-links-to-gw-bush-campaign-hmmm/ ← Argentina oil find mostly hype for now (Updated)http://settysoutham.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/argentina-oil-find-mostly-hype-for-now/ May 12, 2011 · 1:33 pm ↓ Jump to

[LAAMN] Caracas-based Radio del Sur Suffers Shake Up, Workers Defend Fired President

2011-05-13 Thread Cort Greene
*Another wrong decision by a member within a corrupt bureaucracy doing all they can to hold back the revolution.* ** *Cort * [image: Logo Venezuela Analysis] Caracas-based Radio del Sur Suffers Shake Up, Workers Defend Fired President May 12th 2011, by Juan Reardon – Venezuelanalysis.com [image:

[LAAMN] House Passes Anti-Woman Bill, From The Nation

2011-05-13 Thread Ed Pearl
Hi. Here's an unusual emailing from me, with this appeal, coupled with a menu of interesting subjects, from the Nation magazine. ALSO, likely stupidly, I signed on to a new security system offer, incessantly promoted by my new Dell computer. One effect is to block attachments. I figured

[LAAMN] YouTube - Immigrants For Sale

2011-05-13 Thread Scott Peden
This is the same prison system that is against the legalization and taxation of Marijuana, as that alone could lessen their profits by 30% or more. Or if you read it as I do, reduce the tax burden by 30% to house in prisons those who have minor offenses, increase the tax base for education

[LAAMN] Immigrants for $ale

2011-05-13 Thread Cort Greene
*http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/* ** *Immigrants for sale * * * ** *Video: * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGE1VxVsYofeature=player_embedded by digby I didn't know about the prison industry sponsoring these anti-immigrant laws, but it is really shocking. And sick: NPR did an expose about

[LAAMN] California officials announce closure of 70 state parks

2011-05-13 Thread bigraccoon
5/13/11 California officials announce closure of 70 state parks http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/05/california-officials-70-state-parks.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[LAAMN] claim victory: Palestinian community leader Hatem Abudayyeh and supporters,

2011-05-13 Thread Carlos Montes
Palestinian community leader Hatem Abudayyeh and supporters claim victory Bank returns money, government involvement alleged By Committee to Stop FBI Repression and Coalition to Protect People’s Rights On Friday, May 6th, the bank accounts of Hatem and Naima Abudayyeh of Chicago were

[LAAMN] Fw: SUPPORT CORPORATE SPONSORED RADIO KPFK, LOS ANGELES.

2011-05-13 Thread jdemaegt
Since Pacifica is, in reality, accepting significant donations from corporations (Goldman Sachs Gives for one) then how can it truthfully state as it says below (in a plea for donations from Listener-Sponsors): KPFK is a listener sponsored radio and takes no money from corporate

[LAAMN] The Age of Predators: Where Is your Democracy?

2011-05-13 Thread Romi Elnagar
The killing of innocent civilians in faroff places may not be noticed by Americans.  Drone attacks and the dozens of people killed in them are ignored on the American MSM, but that doesn't mean they aren't occurring.  The war on the Middle East is lucrative for defense contractors, but

[LAAMN] Fw: Key Patriot Act vote tomorrow

2011-05-13 Thread Romi Elnagar
--- On Wed, 5/11/11, David Segal, DemandProgress.org i...@demandprogress.org wrote: From: David Segal, DemandProgress.org i...@demandprogress.org Subject: Key Patriot Act vote tomorrow To: Romi Elnagar bluesapphir...@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 3:21 PM #yiv1760537473 ,

[LAAMN] Selective Vigilantism: The West and Libya

2011-05-13 Thread Romi Elnagar
The West and Libya Selective Vigilantism By TARIQ ALI The US-Nato intervention in Libya, with United Nations security council cover, is part of an orchestrated response to show support for the movement against one dictator in particular and by so doing to bring the Arab rebellions to an end