[LAAMN] : Register today for "Media for the 99%" on March 3 in LA!

Register today for The 5th Annual LA Media Reform Summit will be held on March 3, 2012 at Occidental College. http://lamediareform.wordpress.com/mediasummit2012/ - Hold news outlets accountable to the public interest. - Encourage community members to create their own media. - Be a critical consum

[LAAMN] The US and the Syrian Uprising

[image: Al Akhbar English] Published on *Al Akhbar English* (http://english.al-akhbar.com) Home > Blogs> Asad AbuKhalil's blog > The US and the Syrian Uprising -

[LAAMN] JINSA: Strengthening Israel by promoting Syrian 'Chalabi'

JINSA: Strengthening Israel by promoting Syrian ‘Chalabi’ By Maidhc Ó Cathail The Passionate Attachment February 20, 2012 http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/jinsa-strengthening-israel-by-promoting-syrian-chalabi/#comment-1090 On February 17, subscribers to the mailing list of the

[LAAMN] Fw: Tell Secy Chu: No Taxpayer Loans for Georgia Reactors!

6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912; 301-270-6477; nirs...@nirs.org; www.nirs.org TELL SECRETARY CHU: STOP DOE LOANS FOR NEW GEORGIA REACTORS! February 23, 2011 Dear Friends, Two years ago, President Obama personally announced approval of a conditional taxpayer loan for new nuc

[LAAMN] Fw: Demand justice for Bradley Manning: arraignment today

We really need to stand with this brave young man.  He didn't "aid the enemy," he aided US, the free people of the world, against the cowardly, war-mongering Regime in Washington.     Hajja Romi Firedoglake.com Dear Romi, 2012 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Pfc. Bradley Manning will be arraigned on a

[LAAMN] Press Release From VETERANS FOR PEACE ~ DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST BRADLEY MANNING!

Press Release from Veterans For Peace www.veteransforpeace.org Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leah Bolger 541-207-7761 DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST BRADLEY MANNING! Veterans For Peace Tells US Army: Stop Prosecution of GI Whistleblower

[LAAMN] Dispatches from Cairo: Blood, Money and Revolution

Dispatches from Cairo:  Blood, Money and Revolution http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/dispatches_from_cairo_blood_money_and_revolution_20120223/ Posted on Feb 23, 2012 AP / Nariman El-Mofty Egyptian women walk past graffiti depicting a military tank on a wall under a bridge in Cairo. By L

[LAAMN] Indefinite Detention, Spy Drones, and More

Indefinite Detention, Spy Drones, and More School of the Americas Tactics Come Home by Nicole Troxell / February 22nd, 2012 http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/02/indefinite-detention-spy-drones-and-more/ The military strategies of the School of the Americas, used for decades to support dictators an

[LAAMN] Fw: Alison Weir speaks March 3: AIPAC: What it is, who its allies are, why it’s dangerous and how to stop it

PLEASE FORWARD TO ANYONE YOU KNOW IN THE BAY AREA WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS.     Romi Trouble viewing this email? Read it online Dear Friends, Our Executive Director, Alison Weir, will be part of a panel presentation on AIPAC on Saturday, March 3 in Washington, DC. This will be a din

[LAAMN] New room for Ilan Pappe on Friday the 24th--Rolfe Hall Room 1200

Confirmed: Ilan Pappe is speaking at UCLA at 3 pm on Friday, February 24 in Rolfe Hall Room 1200. http://www.ucla.edu/map/ucla-campus-map.pdf Rolfe Hall is directly behind Royce Hall. http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9187 [Non-text portions of this message h

[LAAMN] Real Cowards Go to Tehran

Real Cowards Go to Tehran by Pepe Escobar / February 22nd, 2012 http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/02/real-cowards-go-to-tehran/#more-42376 Imagine the classic United States neo-conservative wet dream; staring at Iran on a map and salivating about the crossroads between Europe and Asia, between the

[LAAMN] ALBA Expands its Allies in the Caribbean (Part 2 of 2)

ALBA Expands its Allies in the Caribbean (Part 2 of 2)February 23, 2012Teaser (Summary): Two years after Haiti's devastating earthquake, the failed reconstruction has shown that a great deal of the international community’s optimism, which emerged after the earthquake, was simply talk. Outside o

[LAAMN] ACLU Forum: Community Planning For Released Prison Inmates -- March 13, Pasadena

ACLU Forum: Community Planning For Released Prison InmatesHow Will Local Communities Cope with the Sudden Influx of Newly Released Prisoners?Last May, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the State of California to release 46,000 inmates — more than one-fourth of the state's prison population — over the

[LAAMN] What's in Pepper Spray?

What's In Pepper Spray? http://www.laweekly.com/2012-02-23/news/pepper-spray-toxin-tce/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Medi

[LAAMN] What War on Religion? | Mother Jones

What War on Religion?|Mother Jones http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/what-war-religion-obama-catholic-charities [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -

[LAAMN] Paul Krugman: Moochers Against Welfare, Robert Wright: AIPAC and the Push Toward War

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/krugman-moochers-against-welfare.h tml?nl=todaysheadlines &emc=tha212 Moochers Against Welfare Paul Krugman NY Times Op-Ed: February 17, 2

[LAAMN] 10 Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran]

TruthTheory.comTruth Theory.orgDocumentaries- Politics — 22 February 2012 By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the websites DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. by David Swanson 1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that's

[LAAMN] Pappe UCLA Event Moved to Rolfe Hall Room 1200. 3 Candidates with Spine

From: Los Angeles Chapter [mailto:losange...@jewishvoiceforpeace.org] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 5:59 AM UCLA moved Pappe event to a larger hall, Rolfe Hall Room 1200 (Rolfe is directly behind Royce Hall). 3 pm Friday, Feb. 24. The False Paradigm of Parity and Partition: Revisiting

[LAAMN] Iran and the threat of war: What should our attitude be?

http://www.marxist.com/iran-and-the-threat-of-war-what-should-our-attitude-be.htm Iran and the threat of war: What should our attitude be? Written by Alan Woods and Hamid Alizadeh Wednesday, 22 February 2012 [image

[LAAMN] Iran:Solidarity and Its Discontents

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/683/solidarity-and-its-discontents Solidarity and Its Discontents 10 Feb 19 2011 by Raha Iranian Feminist

[LAAMN] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to have more surgery

>From Cuba Inside Out. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that a new tumor had been detected in the same area where one was removed last year, and that he will have to have surgery again. Noticias 24 Chávez anuncia que le han detectado un tumor “en el mismo sitio y hay que operarme de

[LAAMN] Cooperative Success Confounds Liberals, Analysts Alike

From: Portside Moderator [mailto:modera...@portside.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:43 PM http://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_cea97626-7952-521c-a743-6d79819 1d245.html Cooperative Success Confounds Liberals, Analysts Alike By Matthew Martin Staff Reporter The Exponent (Purdue

[LAAMN] Review of "Retirement Heist -- How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers" By Ellen E. Schultz [1 Attachment]]

-- This decline, starts with Government loosening the rules for Corporate Greed, to access money you and I were forced to take out of our Pay Checks. Those in Government that did this, are the congress, the Senate, and the P

[LAAMN] LA Progressive’s 10 Most Read Articles

LA Progressive's 10 Most Read Articles February 11 – 18, 2012 1. The Real Culprits in America's Decline Are Shifting Responsibility to Schools and Teachers , Mark Naison: Are 28 percent of the homes in the United States under water because

[LAAMN] Cynthia McKinney to Be Given Peace & Justice Award by PDSMM ~ Friday, March 16th, 7:15 PM at Topanga Community House ~ Lila Garrett will Moderate. Frank Dorrel to Introduce Cynthia!

Cynthia McKinney To Be Given Peace & Justice Award from PDSMM: Progressive Democrats of Santa Monica Mountains Friday, March 16th - 7:15 PM Doors Open at 6:30 PM at Topanga Community House 1440 Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Topanga 90290 The Award will be Presented by Frank Dorrel.

[LAAMN] immigrant steel workers march against unjust firings

IMMIGRANT STEEL WORKERS MARCH AGAINST UNJUST FIRINGS By David Bacon Truthout http://www.truthout.org/immigrant-steel-workers-march-against-unjust-firings/1329922142 BERKELEY, CA (2/18/12) -- Two hundred immigrant workers, their wives, husbands, children, and hundreds of supporters march