[LAAMN] Primary Voting-Machine Troubles Raise Concerns for General Election

2006-03-31 Thread Michael Novick
Primary Voting-Machine Troubles Raise Concerns for General Election USA Today (03/28/06) P. 1A; Drinkard, Jim Voting-machine difficulties in Texas and Illinois have revived concerns that this year's election will be fraught with glitches. Since the Help America Vote Act required states to

Re: [actionla] Re: [LAAMN] Is Crash is a white-supremacist movie? Uh, no.

2006-03-31 Thread Michael Novick
Jensen and Wosnitzer are interesting as far as they go. I appreciate Ed for forwarding their critique in the first place, and find Blase Bonpane's dismissive comments unworthy of someone who proclaims a moral dimension to politics (as opposed to tailoring politics to what is palatable or

[LAAMN] Re: Is Crash is a white-supremacist movie?

2006-03-31 Thread Carl Gunther
Below is a recent letter to L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez (who wrote about Crash in mid-March) expressing my own opinion regarding the movie. There is a striking level of agreement between the major points of the ZNet article and those of my own letter. One thing that did not occur to me,

[LAAMN] Crash

2006-03-31 Thread John Johnson
There has recently been much discussion about the movie Crash on these list serves. Since I help moderate some of these list, I usually do not want a lot of discussion type posts, since these list are mainly for announcements and breaking news stories. A lot of people do not want a lot of

[LAAMN] 2006-04-01: SC Farmers march

2006-03-31 Thread Uncle Don B Fanning
2006-04-01: SC Farmers march Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:37:09 -0800 (PST) To: SCF Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SCFs] Show your solidarity with the South Central Farmers and Cesar Chavez This Saturday April 1st, we are inviting and asking all supporters of the South

[LAAMN] 2006-04-09: SC Farmers conference

2006-03-31 Thread Uncle Don B Fanning
2006-04-09: SC Farmers conference To: southcentralfarmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:56:09 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SCFs] Panel Discussion on The South Central Farm and Land Use Policies PRESS RELEASE DATE: March 29, 2006 CONTACTS: Fernando Flores (909) 605-3136

[LAAMN] Support a Peace Candidate **Join Winograd for Congress**

2006-03-31 Thread Mona LaVine
Out of Iraq Now! Support a Peace Candidate **Join Winograd for Congress** (winogrdforcongress.com) For A Fundraiser in Venice $50 per person donation at the door Music by the Venice-Grown Karmina Girls Band Great Music People Politics Sunday, April 2, 4-6 PM This event is being held at

[LAAMN] Is Crash a white-supremacist movie? Uh, no - Uh, yes.

2006-03-31 Thread Ed Pearl
Hi. I now see why Oprah is so popular. People, when asked about visceral issues will express opinions that reflect many others, even vast undercurrents within societies. Such has been the case with the immigration issue being discussed in my afternoon mailings, now with the critical review I

Re: [actionla] Re: [LAAMN] Is Crash is a white-supremacist movie? OK, you have some good points.

2006-03-31 Thread activism
You're right, the scene with the racist cop saving the woman was a little hard to take. The more people talk about this movie, the better I remember it. Not to mention how the cop's partner is miraculously put into a position to save the life of the woman's husband, and miraculously manages to

[LAAMN] Friday Saturday demos Costa Mesa

2006-03-31 Thread gdjohnson2
Two protests against immigrant-bashing in Costa Mesa tonight and tomorrow. See below. Visit http://www.ocorganizer.com to stay abreast of these issues. (We've also been warned of a possible Mexican flag-burning by the Minutemen in Laguna Beach, scheduled to conflict with the immigrant rights

[LAAMN] Crash

2006-03-31 Thread John Johnson
There has recently been much discussion about the movie Crash on these list serves. Since I help moderate some of these list, I usually do not want a lot of discussion type posts, since these list are mainly for announcements and breaking news stories. A lot of people do not want a lot of

[LAAMN] New voters being rejected, Many didn't provide the identification that's now required

2006-03-31 Thread gdjohnson2
Something to remember when registering voters. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/31/MNGC1I1ARQ1.D TL snip More than 25 percent of the new registration forms sent to the state since Jan. 1 have been returned to the counties, most because they lack the driver's license,

[LAAMN] Immigration Hotline #3

2006-03-31 Thread Ed Pearl
- Original Message - From: Lauren J Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:39 PM Subject: Re: Krugman and the Church: Questions and Support of Immigration Hi, Ed, With all the words that are published on this issue, none of them go

Re: [actionla] Re: [LAAMN] Is Crash a white-supremacist movie? Is it even a believable movie?

2006-03-31 Thread activism
Yes, Michael, it is me -- sorry for being a disappointment to you. You are of course right, the tag line Uh, no was overly dismissive and snotty, as was the last paragraph of my post, which was dismissive of the Left. But, as you yourself said, Jensen et al's analysis is flawed and incomplete.

[LAAMN] Esther Kaplan reading signing With God on Their Side - Sunday, April 9th - 2:00pm at Libros Revolucion in Los Angeles

2006-03-31 Thread Frank
Original Message- From: Jamie Lee: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Libros Revolucion is proud to presents Esther Kaplan reading signing from the new paperback edition of With God on Their Side: How the Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Police and Democracy in