[LAAMN] Fwd: [Fast4Freedom] Tune in...to the Pelican Bay SHU hunger strike on KPFK Sat 7-2 at 1:00 PM

2011-07-01 Thread Michael Novick
From: JazzyMoe Ahmed jazzmoe2...@yahoo.com Are you tuned into the SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison? Do you ever imagine yourself living the same day, day after day, in a dark cage, alone, hurt inside, lonely with NO view to the outside, without ample, even digestible food? And do you imagine

[LAAMN] Fwd: [Fast4Freedom] Press Conference Friday -- Pelican Bay State Prison Hunger Strike

2011-07-01 Thread Michael Novick
From: Keith James keithjame...@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Fast4Freedom] Press Conference Friday -- Pelican Bay State Prison Hunger Strike Reply-To: fast4free...@yahoogroups.com Emergency Press Conference: Support for Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay Prison

[LAAMN] Drowning Fish?

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Peden
**Drowning Fish?** /by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011/ // July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the

[LAAMN] Justice as important as the money in Cobell case

2011-07-01 Thread Romi Elnagar
Justice as important as the money in Cobell case By WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer Published: 6/20/2011  2:29 AM Last Modified: 6/20/2011  4:54 AM A proposed $3.4 billion settlement of a 1996 class-action lawsuit would mean paydays - in some cases, huge ones - for half a million American

[LAAMN] UK Strikes

2011-07-01 Thread Ed Pearl
This actually happened, yesterday. Here’s the who and why of it, as the NY and LA Times today were inadequate, at best. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/30 UK Strikes: 750,000 Set to Down Tools in Biggest Day of Industrial Action Since the 1980s by Mark Ellis Mirror/UK

[LAAMN] Elouise Cobel statement at fairness hearing for settlement

2011-07-01 Thread Romi Elnagar
Elouise Cobel statement at fairness hearing for settlement Tuesday, June 21, 2011 The following is the statement made by Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the Indian trust fund lawsuit, at the fairness hearing for the $3.4 billion settlement. June 20, 2011. Your Honor, my name is

[LAAMN] 7/1: Russia Confronts France Smuggle Weapons to Libyan Rebels

2011-07-01 Thread SIUHIN
Moscow, Paris argue on arms deliveries to Libya _English.news.cn_ (http://english.news.cn/)2011-07-01 21:46:59 (mailto:engl...@xinhuanet.com) (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-07/01/c_13961382.htm#)

[LAAMN] Stephen Zunes: Washington Okays Attack on Unarmed U.S. Ship

2011-07-01 Thread Ed Pearl
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/30-5 Washington Okays Attack on Unarmed U.S. Ship by Stephen Zunes http://www.commondreams.org/stephen-zunes Foreign http://www.fpif.org/articles/washington_okays_attack_on_unarmed_us_ship Policy in Focus: June 30, 2011 The Obama administration

[LAAMN] Lal Khan/Palestine: The simmering revolt

2011-07-01 Thread Cort Greene
http://www.marxist.com/palestine-the-simmering-revolt.htm Palestine: The simmering revolthttp://www.marxist.com/palestine-the-simmering-revolt.htm Written by Lal Khan Friday, 01 July 2011 [image: Print]http://www.marxist.com/palestine-the-simmering-revolt/print.htm# *The scathing remarks of

[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 1 July, 2011

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Peden
*OBAMA'S WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS * ** *President Obama has gone after more whistleblowers than any previous president. This is chilling to anyone who cares about government corruption, now rampant. Linda Greene has a piece going inside it http://www.counterpunch.org/greene06302011.html this

[LAAMN] Fwd: Investigative Journalism professor banished by Dean after his students uncovered 13 wrongful death penalty convictions

2011-07-01 Thread Michael Novick
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2011/06/246592.php Wrongfully Banishing Professor David Protess by Stephen Lendman Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2011 at 12:55 AM lendmanstep...@sbcglobal.net persecution Wrongfully Banishing Professor David Protess - by Stephen Lendman On March 18, Chicago Tribune

[LAAMN] Activist Convicted of Resisting Arrest Without Violence

2011-07-01 Thread Romi Elnagar
Activist Convicted of Resisting Arrest Without Violence Flickr/ photographer padawan *(xava du) Activist Post Orlando Cop Watch activist, John Kurtz, has been ordered jailed for 30 days with 1 year probation for resisting arrest without violence. Kurtz's case came to public attention in January

[LAAMN] With the illness of President Chavez, the working class and the revolutionary people must take charge of the revolution

2011-07-01 Thread Cort Greene
*Please excuse this poor google translation, for the orginal Spanish go to the url below.* ** *From the Venezuelan section of the International Marxist Tendency:* ** http://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/venezuela-leftmenu-161/7035-enfermedad-chavez ** ** With the illness of President Chavez, the

[LAAMN] CORRECTION: Urgent! LAPD Checkpoint TOMORROW NIGHT! PROTEST!

2011-07-01 Thread Ron
THIS ACTION WILL BE TOMORROW, SATURDAY NIGHT. I apologize. Got some bad info! Ron Gochez Social Justice Educator/Community Organizer PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR CONTACTS!! WHAT: LAPD Sobriety CHECKPOINT WHEN: SATURDAY!!. July 2nd! 8pm-2am! WHERE: South Central LA! S. Figueroa St and W 40th

[LAAMN] Letters to Congress RE: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla

2011-07-01 Thread Romi Elnagar
Dear All, As always, you are free to borrow from this letter for your own messages to your congresspeople.  As you may intuit from this letter, our congressional district lies in the Bible belt and is written with that in mind.   However you choose to word your message, though, I hope you

[LAAMN] Fwd: Please Support Anti-War and Chicano Activist Carlos Montes!

2011-07-01 Thread Carlos Montes
Hi, please support me and the 23 other activist in this fight, my court date is July 6. Carlos Montes Support Carlos Montes' legal defense. Thousands are needed to keep Carlos out of prison. Also don't forget the call-in Day July 6! Is this email not displaying correctly? View

[LAAMN] Fw: Last update for July 1st

2011-07-01 Thread Romi Elnagar
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, U.S. BOAT TO GAZA ustog...@gmail.com wrote: