[LAAMN] 3/2 Alert!US warships enter Suez Canal, US/UK/French covert forces land in Libya
Alert! US warships enter Suez Canal, US UK, French covert forces land in Libya! Ready to Invade Libya! **Why we're never learn the past bloody lessons from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Vietnam...? From: Citizens for Legitimate Government 02 Mar 2011 _http://www.legitgov.org_ (http://www.legitgov.org/) _US warships enter Egypt's Suez Canal_ (http://www.presstv.ir/detail/167786.html) 02 Mar 2011 The USS Kearsarge and the Ponce, two US amphibious assault ships, have entered the Suez Canal on their way to Libya, a canal official says. The two US warships with hundreds of Marines on board headed towards Libya on Tuesday and entered Egypt's Suez Canal on Wednesday, Reuters reported. The ships were at the southern mouth of the canal, the official said, adding that they were expected to pass through by 3:30 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. local time. _2 US ships move closer to Libya, enter Suez Canal_ (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/02/2-ships-closer-libya-enter-suez-canal/) 02 Mar 2011 Egyptian officials say two U.S. warships have entered the Suez Canal on their way to the Mediterranean, moving closer to the Libyan coast after orders from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The officials say amphibious assault ships USS Kearsarge and USS Ponce, entered the canal on Wednesday morning from the Red Sea. They say USS Kearsarge is carrying some 42 helicopters on board. _US UK, French forces land in Libya_ (http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=78009) 01 Mar 2011 The United States, Britain and France have sent several hundred defence advisors to train and support the anti-Gadhafi forces in oil-rich Eastern Libya where rebels armed groups have apparently taken over. According to an exclusive report confirmed by a Libyan diplomat in the region “the three Western states have landed their special forces troops in Cyrinacia and are now setting up their bases and training centres to reinforce the rebel forces who are resisting pro-Qaddafi forces in several adjoining areas. A Libyan official who requested not to be identified said that the U.S. and British military gurus were sent on February 23 and 24 night through American and French warships and small naval boats off Libyan ports of Benghazi and Tobruk. _US Senate calls for no-fly zone on Libya_ (http://www.presstv.ir/detail/167797.html) 02 Mar 2011 The US Senate has unanimously passed a resolution calling for a no-fly zone over Libya as Washington is preparing the ground for military intervention in the oil-rich country. The symbolic resolution, passed on Tuesday, “urges the United Nations Security Council to take such further action as may be necessary to protect civilians in Libya from attack, including the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over Libyan territory.” The US Senate Armed Services Committee has announced that all options, including the military option, should be on the table. _Gadhafi forces seize back rebel-held eastern town_ (http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/gadhafi-forces-seize-back-rebel-held-eastern-town-1.3466 66) --Rebels report that there was an aerial bombardment of Brega by Gadhafi's forces, who managed to take back the city after losing it in violent clashes with the rebels. 02 Mar 2011 Forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi have recaptured a town in Libya's mostly rebel-held east, rebel military officers said on Wednesday, in an attempt to break the momentum of a popular rebellion against his 41-year-old rule. Forces sent by the Libyan leader had seized back Marsa El Brega after violent clashes with rebels who had controlled the town 800 km east of the capital Tripoli, the rebel officers told Reuters. _Gaddafi loyalists advance to east_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12618367) 02 Mar 2011 Forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are moving into rebel territory in the east, capturing an oil installation in the town of Brega. The BBC's John Simpson in the nearby city of Ajdabiya says the 100-vehicle convoy is expected to head towards it, and an arms dump there has been bombed. The city's defenders are in a high state of excitement and expecting an attack, our correspondent says. _UK, Germany fly secret missions into Libya_ (http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/UK-Germany-fly-secret-missions-into-Libya-20110228) --Secret military missions signal readiness of Western nations to disregard Libya's territorial integrity 28 Feb 2011 British and German military planes swooped into Libya's desert, rescuing hundreds of oil workers and civilians stranded at remote sites, as thousands of other foreigners are still stuck in Tripoli by bad weather and red tape. Three British Royal Air Force planes plucked 150 stranded civilians from multiple locations in the eastern Libyan desert before flying them to Malta on Sunday, the British Defence Ministry said in a statement. _USS Enterprise on its
[LAAMN] FWD: Venezuela rejects foreign intervention in Libya
People who believe in the non intervention of other countries' affairs should like Venezuela stand with the people of Libya and at the same time reject all kind of interventions including from the UNO. There should be an urgent international massive call by the anti-war movement to support the proposal made by Venezuela before the UNO such as the creation of a Goodwill International Commission for Peace through the immediate promotion of dialog between Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi's government and the opposition sectors. Here in Los Angeles the antiwar movement is in silence and away from assuming a dignified revolutionary stance to the dangerous moment Libya is facing in getting wrapped into another bellicose war scenario with the consent or amen of the world who has been bombarded with so many lies about the people's revolt in Libya. Like Sadam Husseing, Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi is getting portrayed like a crazy person and demonized in so many ways that even in the lef, many believe and repeat the same what the corporate media is vociferating. Bolivarian Circle of Los Angeles Ezequiel Zamora. Venezuelan Ambassador to the UNO Jorge Valero Venezuela rejects foreign intervention in Libya The South American country ratifies its opposition to any kind of military intervention and proposes talks as a solution for the conflict The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has once again made a call for understanding in order to achieve peace in Libya. In the General Assembly of the UNO, Venezuela also ratified its firm rejection to any kind of military intervention in this country located in northern Africa. Venezuelan Ambassador to the UNO Jorge Valero criticizes that those seeking for the use of military force in Libya are not trying to defend human rights, but to establish a protectorate to seize one of the most important oil and energy sources in the Middle East. During his participation in the debate of the General Assembly on Resolution A/65/L.60, Ambassador Valero stated that any resolution of the UNO should be aimed at promoting peace and understanding, and not to favor war. The objective of a resolution is to preserve sovereign unity and territorial integrity of the Libyan State. In this Regard, Valero proposed the UNO the creation of a Goodwill International Commission for Peace through the immediate promotion of dialog between Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi's government and the opposition sectors. This will allow to reach understanding and reconciliation of the Libyan people. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made this proposal on Monday night when referring to the situation in this African country. According to Ambassador Valero, the proposal made by Venezuela suggests that the commission could have representatives of the African Union (AU), the League of Arab States, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR - Spanish acronym) and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA - Spanish acronym), among other international organizations. We reiterate our condemnation of violence, imperialism and interventionism. Stated Valero. He deplores the double standard used by imperialist countries regarding human rights and referred to the death of thousands of people as a result of the military invasions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. The Libyan people, as the only protagonist of its history, is the only one entitled to choose its own destiny without foreign interference. Valero advised that any decision made on the events taking place in Libya must be based on an objective and credible inquiry, which confirms the veracity of the facts since any country can be condemned a priori. Venezuelan Embassy to the US / Edited and translated by MinCI / March 1, 2011 [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] FW: Social Security Closed for Business
From: janjer...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:07:49 -0800 Subject: Social Security Closed for Business I am forwarding this to you so that you can call your/our senators to try to stop this carnage.Jan Goodman (310) 458-7213 or (310) 729-2394 -- Forwarded message -- From: word smith stewar...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:01 PM Subject: Fw: Social Security Closed for Business To: stewar...@yahoo.com I am sending this plea out to more than 50 of my friends because I believe you will agree we have to do something to stop the plunder of Social Security. Please consider responding to this urgent request to stop the Senate from cutting funds from Social Security that would lead to the layoff of the people who process our social security checks each month. If these employees lose their jobs, recipients of social security will experience delays in receipt of their payments and others applying for social security will suffer longer delays in getting approved. Thank you - Forwarded Message From: Melissa Byrne mby...@socialsecurity-works.org To: stewar...@yahoo.com Sent: Tue, March 1, 2011 12:30:29 PM Subject: Social Security Closed for Business Take Action Dear Sharon, Republicans have found an easier way to cut Social Securityjust cut funding for the Social Security Administration (SSA). In the wee hours of the morning on February 19, all but three House Republicans voted to cut $1.7 billion from the SSA. The proposed cuts are so severe that the SSA could have to furlough thousands of workers for 1 month out of the 7 months remaining this budget year. The impact of these cuts for retirees, disabled workers and families will be devastating. Please attend a noon rally on March 2nd to support restoring funding to the Social Security Administration. Click here to see if there is a rally near you. If you cant attend a rally, please call your Senators. Heres what these cuts will do: Up to 400,000 people will have their applications for retirement, survivors and Medicare benefits significantly delayed. Up to 290,000 people will have their applications for disability benefits significantly delayed. Unbelievably, it already takes nearly 500 days on average to have a disability claim resolved. Whats worse is that these cuts are nothing but cutting for cuttings sake. ;When we say Social Security doesnt add a penny to the deficit that goes for the costs the Social Security Administration incurs making sure that workers get the benefits they earned. The money you contribute to Social Security every day you work pays not only for your benefits, but for the Social Security Administrations work keeping track of your earnings, so that you get the benefits you earned. Please attend a noon rally on March 2nd to support restoring funding to the Social Security Administration. Click here to see if there is a rally near you. If you cant attend a rally, please call your Senators. The Republican agenda is clear. The party wants to cut, privatize, and otherwise harm Social Security. This month they are trying to defund the SSA. In April and May they will try to cut Social Security benefits outright. Its up to the U.S. Senate to keep the doors to the SSA open for business. This could be decided over the next two weeks. We need you to call your Senators today. Thanks for fighting to strengthen Social Security, Melissa Byrne Online Campaigns Coordinator, Strengthen Social Security Homepage You have received this email through your subscription to this campaign's email list. If you did not subscribe, or would no longer like to receive email updates unsubscribe here. Paid for and Authorized by Social Security Works [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] A Moment of National Insanity, Marcy Winograd, sane teacher, RUNS
From: Portside Moderator modera...@portside.org Corporate 'Education Reform': A Moment of National Insanity By Diane Ravitch Education Week March 1, 2011 http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/ I'm beginning to think we are living in a moment of national insanity. On the one hand, we hear pious exhortations about education reform, endlessly uttered by our leaders in high political office, corporate suites, foundations, and the media. President Obama says we have to out-educate the rest of the world to win the future. Yet the reality on the ground suggests that the corporate reform movement-embraced by so many of those same leaders, including the president-will set American education back, by how many years or decades is anyone's guess. Sometimes I think we are hurtling back a century or more, to the age of the Robber Barons and the great corporate trusts. Consider a few events of the past week: To read more, go to: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/ Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. Submit via email: ports...@portside.org Sub/Unsub: http://portside.org/subscribe-and-unsubscribe Search Portside archives: http://portside.org/archive Contribute to Portside: https://portside.org/donate *** From: Marcy Winograd Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:53 AM Subject: [PDLA] Winograd Campaign Kick-Off Speech in Old Town Torrance Friends, it was a beautiful day, not a hint of rain, bright sunshine for the Winograd for Congress campaign kick-off in Old Town Torrance yesterday. From there we drove to the labor rally downtown, where I spoke in solidarity with public workers under assault everywhere, called for prosecutions on Wall Street (Not one banker has gone to jail!), and talked of the importance of providing real opportunities for our youth facing an economic draft. For those of you who were unable to attend the kick-off, I have included my campaign speech below. Peace, Marcy (to sign up, visit www.winogradforcongress.com) Thank you for joining me at Fox Drug in Torrance, where our friend the Egyptian pharmacist Ahmed Atallah graciously invited us to kick off our campaign for Congress in the 36th District. Like the Egyptians clamoring for democracy, we stand here to make our voices heard in the halls of power. With the Open Primary just three months away, put on your running shoes because this is a sprint to June. Many of you participated in my last campaign, in which we mobilized 41% of the vote. Our platform was clear – to transition from a war economy to a Green economy, where no one is held hostage to bomb-building because opportunities abound in aerospace and engineering to build mass transit, solar cities, new schools and health clinics. Though our last race was not long ago, only last June – those who would seek to privatize and loot America have gained unfortunate traction in the interim. Multiple wars are tearing America apart. First, the war on public sector employees, as we see in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey and other states where public sector workers are threatened with the loss of bargaining rights in order to undermine the power of unions to protect our social contract. By the same token, we witness the war on the middle class, where homeowners lose their homes to foreclosure; credit-hungry small businesses close up shop, and nervous software engineers in the South Bay are told to train their replacements in India. As a teacher, I note the war on our youth, the young men and women in my classroom who, when asked about their future plans, tell me, “I want to join the military, so I’ll have a job. What am I going to do with my life? The military is my best option.” And let us not forget the war on our veterans who come home in wheelchairs, without arms and limbs, haunted by nightmares of combat, unable to collect on the benefits promised. Finally, we hear the barrage of attacks on seniors who desperately need their Social Security checks and Medicare coverage to make it through the day. The continual assault on these safety nets spawns untold lies and fear-mongering about deficits that will cripple our country. We know the truth – the only thing standing in the way of government for the common good and no government at all is the call to deregulate and decimate – all in the name of fiscal responsibility, under the umbrella of inevitable budget cuts in a shock-doctrine approach that capitalizes on the sub-prime melt down by using the budget crisis to do what the right-wing in America has been trying to do ever since the New Deal; Gut our social programs. We will not sit still for this any longer; we will demand that our leaders protect and even enhance the hard-won rights we have fought for, and our mothers and fathers fought, starved, and died for. I am running for Congress, again, because now is the time for bold leadership, for someone to stand
[LAAMN] Is Algeria Qadaffi's Ace in the Hole?: Who Else is Helping the Libyan Leader?
Who Else is Helping the Libyan Leader? Is Algeria Qadaffi's Ace in the Hole? By ROB PRINCE At this moment when it appears that Muammar Qadaffi’s days in power are numbered, the Libyan leader has made it clear repeatedly that he will stay and fight. So far he has. His domestic support is evaporating around him, leaders of the country’s 140 tribes siding with the rebels, military units siding with the rebellion in larger and larger numbers, air force pilots and naval vessels defecting to Malta. Much of his government, other than his sons, has abandoned him as well. What is left? Those heavily armed private militias controlled by his sons? The army of mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa? Some Mirage jet fighter planes with, until now, pilots less than willing to bomb rebel strongholds? All that is true. Yet while the U.S. and Europe work to isolate Qadaffi, he is not completely alone and without allies. Given his ever shrinking domestic base, one has to wonder how it is that Qadaffi can appear so defiant? It might come from the fact that he is not entirely isolated and alone. Indeed, the support that Qadaffi is garnering has stiffened the colonel’s backbone. Qadaffi has the support of at least one important regional ally, the Algerian government, which has both militarily and diplomatically thrown its full (and substantial) weight behind his effort to retain power. In so doing, it would appear that Algeria, which has long cooperated with the US and NATO on its North and Sub-Saharan Africa anti-terrorism policies, is breaking ranks to protect its regime’s very survival. Since its independence, Algeria has been controlled by its military which lives high off the country’s oil profits at the expense of its own people. Algeria’s leaders fear that if Qadaffi falls, their hold on power will be that much more fragile. Their support of Qadaffi is very much designed to save their own skins. If Mubarak saw the writing on the wall as Ben Ali’s little castle in Tunisia crumbled, so the Algerian military leadership understands that if Qadaffi falls, it very likely is next in line, or if not, not very far down the list. Desperate to cling to power, the Algerian government is – while offering a few political and economic concessions – essentially reorganizing the state’s substantial repressive apparatus to weather the protest storm. But in addition, it is pulling out all stops to support Qadaffi’s increasingly feeble hold on power. Maybe it is the support of its North African oil producing ally Algeria, that has given Qadaffi that confident appearance that he can indeed – with a little help from his friends – hold out longer. An alliance of two of Africa’s most important oil producing countries is nothing to sneeze at, and could have all kinds of consequences. Should the alliance between the two tighten, and they engage in a common front oil embargo, which some news outlets speculate could happen, oil prices could jump to as high as $220 a barrel. Less than a week ago, an Algerian human rights group based in Germany, Algeria Watch,published a statement alleging that the Algerian government is providing material aid – in the form of armed military units – to Muammar Qadaffi to help prop up his shrinking (and sinking) regime. The statement opens thus: “It is with both sadness and anger that we have learned that the Algerian government has sent armed detachments to Libya to commit crimes against our Libyan brothers and sisters who have risen up against the bloody and corrupt regime of Muammar Kadhafi. These armed detachments were first identified in western Libya in the city of Zaouia where some among them have been arrested. This has been reported in the media and confirmed by eye witnesses.” Zaouia is the site of fierce fire fights between the residents of Zaouia, now a zone liberated from Tripoli’s control and under the authority of rebel forces on the one hand, and the military elements still faithful to Qadaffi on the others. There were recent reports of a 6-8 hour battle in which Qadaffi’s forces, led by one of his sons tried to recapture the city but were repulsed by the city’s defenders and pushed back after fierce fighting. Algeria Watch goes on to accuse the Algerian government of having provided the air transport planes that have carried sub-Saharan African mercenaries from Niger, Chad and the Dafur province of Sudan to Libya to strengthen Qadaffi’s position militarily. It goes on to add that Algeria had played a similar role in transporting troops to Somalia to support the U.S. directed government military offensive against rebellious Somali tribes. The statement goes on to allege that on the diplomatic front the Algerian government has been lobbying different European powers (which are presumably France, Italy, German, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain) pressing them to continue to support Qadaffi. These
[LAAMN] Recap of Opposition Protests in Iran on March 1st
Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i37YRF4RmvEfeature=player_embedded Video Gallery of March 1st Protests in Iran http://persian2english.com/?p=20336 Persian2English http://persian2english.com/ Breaking the Language Barrier on Human Rights Recap of Opposition Protests in Iran on March 1stMarch 01, 2011 News Topics http://persian2english.com/?category_name=uncategorized | Videos http://persian2english.com/?category_name=videos http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/anti-riot2.jpg Tehran was filled with anti-riot police forces today On March 1st, brave and persistent Iranian civilians once again protested in the main cities of the country. Gatherings and clashes were reported in Shiraz, Isfahan, Mashhad, Tehran, and Rasht. Persian2English has recapped the events that unfolded in Iran today. The support received from people outside the country is also highlighted. Today’s civilian protests in Iran were organized by supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the two head figures of the reformist opposition movement in Iran. The most recent news from opposition websites indicates that the two men have been captured by the Islamic Republic of Iran officials and are held in Tehran’s Heshmatiyeh prisonhttp://persian2english.com/?p=20255. Their families have not been able to contact them for the past two weeks and no other sources have information on Mousavi’s and Karroubi’s conditions. Also, no officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have confirmed the news of the arrests. Last night, Mohammad Marandi, the unofficial propaganda mouthpiece for the Islamic Republic of Iran told CNN,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coz4XBvXbbY“Mr. Mousavi and Mr. Karroubi are seen by the vast majority of people to have, gone way too far, caused riots, [and] effectively accepted the backing of the United States, terrorist organizations like the Mujahedin Khalgh, Monrachists. And this is something in Iran that is just unacceptable.” *Date: *June 2009 *Description:* Mousavi in a televised 2009 presidential election debate (FA) http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/banner.jpg Tehran, March 1, 2011: on the Niyayesh highway, a poster with the picture of Khamenei hangs on the cement walls. The text reads: Dictator, say hello to the end. *PROTESTS IN TEHRAN* Based on the videos that surfaced from Iranhttp://persian2english.com/?p=20336, the main chants in Tehran were, “Death to the dictator”, “Allah o Akbar”, and “Ya Hossein Mir Hossein”. Civilians also chanted a couple slogans that called on the army to join the people. Many cars honked their horns in support of the people braving to protest while walking in the streets. Numerous news sites reported on protests outside the University of Tehran and on Enghelab Square. The amount of anti-riot police forces out on the streets was unprecedented and, according to eyewitnesseshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw1vnXpmqls, many people were forced to show their protest by honking the car horn. Deutsche Welle http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6455126,00.htmlpublished an eyewitness account of a large crowd gathered in Tehran, despite the use of tear gas on protesters. Unconfirmed reports indicated that the crowd that has gathered at Enghelab Square was larger than the one for the February 14th protests. Kaleme http://www.kaleme.com/1389/12/10/klm-49976/ reported that anti-riot and plainclothes forces attackedhttps://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150150144196071id=1409869442protesters on some streets in the central part of Tehran, mainy around Enghelab Square. The regime forces used batons, tasers and tear gas to attack protesters. There are also reports of gun fire around Enghelab Square. It is not confirmed whether the bullets used were real or plastic. The gatherings grew larger as night time approached. Protesters who tried to enter Enghelab Square through side streets were dispersed by regime agents. Around 6:30pm, anti-riot and plainclothes forces prevented people from entering Valiasr Square and ENghelab Square. All entrances to these two squares were blocked. According to BBC Persianhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2011/02/110214_live_iran_25bahman.shtml, eyewitnesses report the arrest of at least 50 people in Enghelab Square. * PROTESTS IN MASHHAD* Based on the videos that surfaced from Iranhttp://persian2english.com/?p=20336, there were anti-regime protests in Mashhad by civilians. There were also night chants of “Allah o Akbar”. According to Kaleme http://www.kaleme.com/1389/12/10/klm-49970/, ten people were arrested on Ahmad Abad Street. * PROTESTS IN SHIRAZ* Based on the videos that surfaced from Iranhttp://persian2english.com/?p=20336, civilians in Shiraz held protests chanting, “Mubarak, Ben Ali, now it’s time for Seyed Ali”, “Marg bar dictator” and “Don’t be afraid, we’re united”, and “Marg bar Khamenei”. Cars passing by also honked their cars in support. *PROTESTS IN ISFAHAN* Based on
[LAAMN] Fw: GP ADVISORY GreenStream Wednesday, March 2: Green Party online show with guests Cynthia McKinney, Jared Ball
--- On Tue, 3/1/11, Scott McLarty scottmcla...@yahoo.com wrote: GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, cell 202-904-7614, mcla...@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starl...@gp.org 'GreenStream Wednesday', March 2: Green Party livestream show to feature Cynthia McKinney, Jared Ball • Green Party Livestream Channel: http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party's online livestream show 'GreenStream Wednesday' will feature Cynthia McKinney, the party's 2008 presidential nominee, and journalist Jared Ball on Wednesday evening, March 1, 10:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm PT. Along with discussion between the two guests, the one-hour show will present Green news, interviews, video clips, and viewer participation. Viewers can tune in at http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus or go to http://www.livestream.com and enter the channel name: greenpartyus. The channel is also accessible at the Green Party's video page (http://www.gp.org/video/index.php). The first show, which aired on February 23, featured interviews with Wisconsin Green Party leaders on the protests in their state against Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan that would cut benefits and abolish collective bargaining. The guests were Tony Palmeri, elected Green member of the Oshkosh City Council; Amy Mondloch, Executive Director of the Grassroots Leadership College in Madison (http://www.grassrootsleadershipcollege.org) and a long-time Green Party activist; and AJ Segneri, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party (http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org). They were interviewed by Starlene Rankin and Craig Seeman of the Green Party's Media Committee. The show, with video clips of the Wisconsin protests, continued for a half hour beyond its scheduled one-hour time. To participate in the ongoing discussion in the chat window during the show, viewers can log in to Livestream or can join the chat as a nonmember guest. Viewers can register for a free Livestream account by clicking on 'Sign Up' at the top of the page, but membership is not necessary to watch the broadcast. The shows are repeated in rotation after the initial broadcast and are archived on the Green Party Livestream Channel web site. Guest bios for March 2: • Cynthia McKinney served six terms in the US House of Representatives as a Democrat before joining the Green Party in 2007 and becoming the Green Party's 2008 candidate for President. Since 2008, Ms. McKinney has been a champion of Palestinian Rights and a supporter of the Free Gaza movement. In 2009, she was one of 21 activists on a Free Gaza relief ship that was rammed and taken captive by the Israeli Navy. She was held by the Israeli’s for 5 days. In 2010, Ms. McKinney participated in portions of the Bike4Peace event from San Francisco to Washington, DC. • Jared Ball is assistant professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, where his research interests include the interaction between colonialism, mass media theory and history, and the development of alternative/underground journalism and cultural expression as mechanisms of social movements and political organization. He is founder and producer of 'FreeMix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show' and former editor for the first academic journal dedicated to hip-hop, 'The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture'. He briefly sought the Green Party nomination for President in 2008 before pulling out and endorsing Cynthia McKinney. Mr. Ball is host of 'Midday Jazz: Jazz Justice' on WPFW (89.3 FM) every Monday, 1 to 3 pm ET. MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN • Green candidate database and campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml • News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml • Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers • Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus • Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus • Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php 'GreenStream Wednesday' debuts Feb. 23: Green Party online show will feature Green news, interviews, videos, and viewer participation every Wednesday Green Party advisory, February 22, 2011 http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=395 Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the United States (Fall 2010 issue now online) http://gp.org/greenpages-blog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com ---
[LAAMN] Libya: Dreams of Western Intervention
Libya: Dreams of Western Intervention by Susil Gupta, February 26, 2011 The crisis in Libya is quickly becoming an international embarrassment. Not, this time, because of Gadhafi’s clowinsh antics, but because it provides a spectacular opportunity for the world to see just how much Western power has declined during the last decade. Despite being the most powerful nation on earth, and having a military apparatus on a scale greater than the sum of every other country, the US has patently failed to impose its solutions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Far from America being able to force the Ayatollahs into submission, Iran gains strategic ground every day. The financial crisis has paralyzed the power of Western finance. Western central bankers have had to go begging to China and the oil rich countries for loans. The Arab revolt of 2011 has now destroyed the exclusive grip Anglo-American rule once had in the region. And now Libya promises to make explicit the powerlessness of the West. As Laurence Pope, ex-political advisor to the US Central Command and ex-ambassador to Tripoli told Le Monde in a sobering assessment, Washington finds itself in a situation where there are only bad options and others that are worse. What has been the response in Europe? The European Left and the liberal bourgeoisie remain very interventionist and are firm believers in humanitarian bombing. They are clamoring for a muscular Nato intervention along Balkan lines. An editorial in Left-leaning Guardian supports the call by liberal Lord Owen that military preparations should be made and the necessary diplomatic approaches, above all to the Russians and the Chinese, set in train to secure UN authority for such action. Should the crisis continue, the Guardian argues, intervention on the ground would have to be considered. The Egyptian army has the means, other Arab countries could contribute, and western forces could help. Yes, and it would all be over by Christmas. It is obvious that these war enthusiasts have not thought this through – but then they would not be doing any of the fighting. The plain fact is that there are no feasible military interventions even if the major powers could agree on an intervention plan, which is very far from being the case. Consider the options. Imposing a no fly zone. This would require extensive air patrols by foreign air forces. They would have little effect since air power is not key to Gadhafi’s strategy. It would, however, create an atmosphere of major war and give Gadhafi a propaganda boost. Creating a military barrier or cordon sanitaire around eastern Libya to protect rebel positions. Likewise this would crystallize the situation into a two-sided war, which could only play into Gadhafi’s hands. It is to the advantage of those that want to topple Gadhafi to avoid a war of entrenchment or fixed positions, preventing them from permeating every level of society and undermine further his crumbing power base. In any case such Western intervention would be impossible to implement. No Western commander is going to deploy troops at short notice into a theater unknown to his troops but well-known to an enemy who, in any case, cannot be easily distinguished from friendly forces. It is a recipe for disaster. Sending in a peace keeping African Union force to separate the parties. One way to unite every Libyan behind Gadhafi, given the reputation of such forces in the past. Sending in a peace keeping force made up of troops from Arab countries as The Guardian recommends. One way to unite every Libyan behind Gadhafi and infect and inflame the whole of the Middle East with the vicissitudes of a Libyan civil war. Bomb. But where? Tripoli? Gadhafi’s hideout? In addition to the lack of any meaningful target, Western bombing might give others the idea of bombing targets that are indeed of great strategic value: oil wells and pipe lines. Sanctions. Libya’s massively long borders are totally porous and populated by peoples and countries keen to do business and who don’t give a damn about UN Security Council resolutions. On the contrary, given the strategic importance of Libyan oil and gas to several European nations, Libya is the only country in a position to apply effective sanctions against anyone else. The price of oil has already shot up to $110. Watch how the Italians start
[LAAMN] 2011-03-31: Call for a Nationwide General Strike
2011-03-31/9a-9p: Call for a Nationwide General Strike http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147739558619715 A call for a Nationwide General Strike!! TimeThursday, March 31 · 9:00am - 9:00pm LocationFrom sea to shining sea... Created By Mike Benedict, Yuri Hall Keegstra [Page: Call for a Nationwide General Strike http://www.facebook.com/pages/Call-for-a-Nationwide-General-Strike/150601308334693?sk=wall] More Info We all know the time has come! If not now, when? March 31,(César Chávez's birthday) will be a national day of marches, rallies, non-violent demonstrations, protests and I'll bet a lot of people call in sick that day. This is a true grassroots movement and will depend on local organizing. The hard working men and women of this country are being attacked by corporate sponsored Republicans and must stand united. History is repeating itself. The idea of trickle down economics was tried back in the 1890's under the name horse and sparrow theory. It worked great for the Rockefeller's, Carnegie's and robber barons (the top 2%) What happened? In 1892 there was a steel workers strike in Homestead PA that started a string of nationwide protests. These ACTS OF SOLIDARITY created the modern working middle class. Today the fight is the same and MADISON IS THE NEW HOMESTEAD. It is up to us to fight for the middle class of tomorrow! SOLIDARITY FOREVER! ### --- 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] divide and deport
Divide and Deport: On Immigration, Thom Hartmann and Lou Dobbs Have Much in Common By David Bacon Working In these Times, Feb 28, 2011 http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7007/divide_and_deport_on_immigrants_thom_hartmann_and_lou_dobbs_have_much_/ Radio host and author Thom Hartmann has a new book, Rebooting the American Dream. Hartmann has a progressive reputation, and his book supports unions, calls for eliminating tax cuts for the rich and advocates other sensible ideas. But like many liberals, when it comes to immigration his tune changes. In one chapter, Hartmann says he wants to Put Lou Dobbs Out to Pasture. But Hartmann, like Dobbs, criticizes corporate power and then turns his fire on workers and immigrants. Instead of taking Lou Dobbs on, Hartmann repeats many of the stereotypes and falsehoods that gave Dobbs a reputation as one of the most anti-immigrant commentators in U.S. media. Hartmann, like Dobbs, claims to speak for the interests of working people. And his ideas do reflect the thinking of a certain section of the U.S. working class. That makes it important to understand the impact of his recommendations. There has always been a conflict in U.S. labor about immigration. Conservatives historically sought to restrict unions and jobs to the native born, to whites and to men, and saw immigrants as job competitors-the enemy. This was part of an overall perspective that saw unions as businesses or insurance programs, in which workers paid dues and got benefits in return. Labor's radicals, however, from the IWW through the CIO to those in many unions today, see the labor movement as inclusive, with a responsibility to organize all workers, immigrant and native-born alike. They see unions as part of a broader movement for social change in general. In 1986, the AFL-CIO supported the Immigration Reform and Control Act, because it contained employer sanctions. This provision said employers could only hire people with legal immigration status. In effect, the law made it a federal crime for an undocumented person to hold a job. Since passage of the law, immigration raids have led to firings and deportations of thousands of people in workplaces across the country. In many cases employers have used the law as a way to intimidate immigrant workers, and rid themselves of those trying to organize unions and protest bad wages and conditions. Transnational corporations invest in developing countries like Mexico, moving production to wherever wages are lowest. Treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement promote low wages, privatization, the dumping of agricultural products, and other conditions that increase corporate profits. But those measures also impoverish and displace people, forcing them to migrate to survive. When those displaced people arrive in the United States, corporate employers use their hunger and vulnerability to enforce a system of low wages and fear. In this system, corporations are aided by U.S. immigration laws. While they're always presented in the media as a means of controlling borders, and keeping people from crossing them, for the last hundred years they've been the means of regulating the supply, and consequently the price, of immigrant labor. When the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 criminalized work for undocumented immigrants, it was a subsidy or gift to employers. When working becomes illegal, it's much harder for workers to organize unions, go on strike, and fight for better conditions. Immigration agents now check documents workers must fill out to get a job, and require employers to fire those whose documents are in question. In Washington state, they did this in the middle of a union drive among apple workers, and fired 700 people. That organizing effort was broken. Smithfield Foods cooperated in raids and firings at its huge Tarheel, North Carolina meatpacking plant. Workers only overcame the terror they caused when citizens and immigrants, African Americans and Mexicans, agreed to defend the jobs of all workers, and the right of everyone to join the union. When they won their union drive as a result in 2007, it was the largest private-sector union victory in years. Immigrants are fighters. In 1992 the drywallers stopped construction for a year from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. They've gone on strike at factories, office buildings, laundries, hotels and fields. Some unions today are growing, and they're mostly the ones that know immigrant workers will fight to make things better. The battles fought by immigrants over the last twenty years changed the politics of cities like Los Angeles, and are helping to make unions strong today. Because of experiences like these, in 1999 the previous AFL-CIO support for employer sanctions was overturned by grassroots immigrant rights coalitions and labor councils around the country.
[LAAMN] Israel Philharmonic protest / photos
Walt Disney Concert Hall / Los Angeles / March 1st 2011 Photos: http://gallery.me.com/capochic#103848 thirsting_header_web2 JOIN THE BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISRAEL The Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement to challenge Israeli apartheid is gaining momentum throughout the world. BDS is a non-violent form of resistance, which played an instrumental role against South African apartheid in the 1980’s. It’s simple: as long as Israel continues to violate human rights, no city, state, country, or company should invest in or support it. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's (IPO) is coming to Los Angeles as part of its annual US tour to create goodwill for Israel and divert the public’s attention from its oppression of the Palestinians. The Orchestra actively participates in whitewashing Israel's apartheid policies by serving as cultural ambassadors for Israel, and supporting the Israeli government's “Brand Israel” public relation initiative. The orchestra refrains from criticism of Israel's policies, and is described by theAmerican Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra http://www.afipo.org/ipo as Israel’s finest cultural emissary,” which “travels throughout the world…The goodwill created by these tours...is of enormous value to the State of Israel. As a result, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra maintains its position at the forefront of cultural diplomacy and the international music scene. Groups across the country will protest the Orchestra as it stops in Fort Lauderdale, New York City, Seattle and San Francisco before arriving at Los Angeles. One corporate sponsor http://www.afipo.org/support/donor-recognition of the IPO's US tour is Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, who hosted a gala fundraiser http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/diamonds-and-champagne-marvin last November for the IPO tour at his New York jewelry store. The IPO thus partners with Leviev's companies though they have been shunned http://adalahny.org/press-releases-land-developer-bds-leviev/in-major-boycott-movement-success-africa-israel-says-no-plans-to-build-more-settlements by UNICEF, CARE, Oxfam, the British and Norwegian governments, Hollywood stars and international investment firms due to Leviev’s construction of Israeli settlements and involvement in human rights abuses in the diamond industry in Southern Africa. Across the Middle East, from Egypt to Bahrain, Tunisia to Yemen, from Syria to Iran t Libya citizens are mobilizing to challenge their repressive governments. Join us in the street to support Palestinians right to be free from Israeli repression, occupation and apartheid! *Tell the Israeli Orchestra, Apartheid is Out of Tune!* [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] US Veto of Israeli Settlement Resolution Defies the Rise of Popular Democracy in Mid-East
From: Maggie Phair -- Forwarded message -- From: kwazinkru...@aol.com Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:58 PM To: mlk_coalit...@yahoogroups.com Veto of Israeli Settlement Resolution Puts U.S. on Wrong Side of History By Josh Ruebner, AlterNet February 24, 2011 When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice thrust a solitary American arm into the air last Friday to cast the Obama Administration¹s first-ever Security Council veto in defense of Israel¹s illegal settlements, the United States regrettably placed itself squarely on the wrong side of history as movements for freedom and democracy revolutionize the Middle East. This veto -- the fortieth cast by the United States since 1967 in defense of Israel¹s illegal military occupation of Arab lands and the illegal policies it pursues to maintain it -- represents much more than the United States yet again acting to shield Israel from accountability for its blatant violations of international law. The 14-1 veto of the mildly-worded draft resolution reaffirming that Israel¹s settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal and constitute a major obstacle to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace laid bare the contradictions in the Obama Administration¹s approach to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. It revealed the growing isolation and irrelevancy of the United States in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of international law. The vote also demonstrated the failure of U.S. diplomacy to adapt to a new Middle East in which grassroots movements increasingly demand that governments are held accountable to human rights standards. The U.S. veto exposed an Obama Administration deeply confused about how to pursue Israeli-Palestinian peace. Having spent its first two years in office decrying Israeli settlement activity -- President Obama stated in his June 2009 address to the Muslim world in Cairo that The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements -- and pushing for its cessation to set the right tone for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the United States found itself hard-pressed to explain its veto. Paradoxically, Rice reserved the Obama Administration¹s harshest condemnation of Israeli settlements to explain the U.S. veto, affirming that we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, which she termed folly. If Israeli settlements are folly and the Obama Administration continues to accept the validity of a 1978 State Department legal memorandum concluding that Israeli settlements are inconsistent with international law, then the only rational explanation for deploying the U.S. veto is to attempt to keep Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking under the sole purview of the United States. While the patron is allowed to criticize its client, like an over-indulgent parent brooding over its spoiled child, it will countenance no outside criticism. In all likelihood, Palestinians pushed ahead with the draft Security Council resolution -- despite last-minute bargaining efforts by the United States for a compromise Security Council presidential statement and reported U.S. threats to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority -- to test its new-found hypothesis that a U.S.-led ³peace process² cannot succeed due to the inherent biases of U.S. policy. The Palestine Papers -- 1,600 documents, maps, and minutes from Israeli-Palestinian negotiations leaked to Al Jazeera from within the Palestinian negotiating team -- demonstrate conclusively that regardless of the occupant in the White House, the United States is far from being the ³honest broker² it claims to be. The papers reveal the United States bending over backwards to understand and accommodate Israeli considerations and limitations, while dismissing Palestinian concerns and twisting their arms to accept Israel¹s demands. The embarrassment caused by the Palestine Papers resulted in the resignation of long-time lead Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. But the fallout is such that reportedly no Palestinian can now be found to accept the position of negotiator as supplicant. Furthermore, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has disbanded the Negotiations Support Unit, which provided research and position papers to the Palestinian negotiating team. The Palestinian decision to dismantle its negotiating infrastructure and to take its case directly to the international community is the logical outcome of its frustration with two decades of a U.S.-sponsored ³peace process² that yielded neither an end to Israel¹s colonization of Palestinian land nor the attainment of Palestinian rights. Amid the ferment of freedom and democracy movements sweeping the Middle East from Morocco to Bahrain, the United States finds itself a spectator -- unwilling to take sides between protesters and governments -- to the teetering and downfall of U.S.-backed
[LAAMN] Nstional Drug Policy Reform Conference in L.A. in November
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gabriel Sayegh mailto:gsay...@drugpolicy.orggsay...@drugpolicy.org Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:31 AM Subject: Conference in November To learn more about the drug policy conference in Los Angeles in November, visit http://www.reformconference.org/www.reformconference.org. --- 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] Fwd: Tell KRLA: Take Glenn Beck off the air
From: Elijah Zarlin, CREDO Action a...@credoaction.com Subject: Tell Los Angeles' KRLA: Take Glenn Beck off the air CREDO Action | more than a network. a movement. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7092id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=1Beck is off the air in New York and Philadelphia. How about LA? http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7092id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=2Tell KRLA: Stop broadcasting Beck's dangerous rhetoric. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7092id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=3 Take action! Clicking here will add your name to this petition to KRLA AM 870: http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7093id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=4Glenn Beck's rhetoric has sparked violent threats and assassination attempts. By airing it, you risk promoting another violent tragedy in America, and Los Angeles. Please, do the responsible thing, and remove Glenn Beck's dangerous show from your radio lineup. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7093id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=7 Take action now! Dear Michael, Glenn Beck's radio show has been dropped from stations in New York, Philadelphia and just last week, Madison, WI. But if you want to hear his violent, paranoid rants, tune in every weekday from 6 am to 9 am on Los Angeles' KRLA AM 870 or the 25 other radio stations in California that broadcast Beck. You, and whoever else is listening, will be treated to the type of rhetoric that, just in the last year, led Gregory Giusti to threaten to firebomb Nancy Pelosi's house,1 drove Charlie Wilson to make repeated death threats to Senator Patty Murray,2 and inspired Byron Williams to attempt to assassinate officials at the Tides Foundation and ACLU. Williams himself says of Beck it was the things he exposed that blew my mind.3 Beck's radio show is dangerous, inflammatory, irresponsible. And it doesn't belong on LA's airwaves. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7093id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=9Tell KRLA AM 870: Stop broadcasting Glenn Beck's dangerous rhetoric. Click here to automatically sign the petition. Beck's television ratings have plummeted in the last year,4 a promising sign that more and more people are realizing that Beck's reckless hate, misinformation, and division don't belong on our airwaves. Beck even called his own show a recipe for disaster in a stunning moment of clarity last week, while issuing a rare apology for his comparison of Reform Judaism to radicalized Islam. ...here's the thing. I'm on the air for four hours, every single day. Four hours every day, live, without a script. That is a recipe for disaster. Glenn Beck, 2/24/115 Given his proclivity for incendiary statements, we couldn't agree more. Already this year, Beck has repeatedly equated Nazi tactics with progressive tactics,6 spouted deranged theories about how the uprising in Egypt, and the protests in Wisconsin, are evidence of the coming new world order of progressives,7 and ramped up his lies and rhetoric about Frances Fox Piven, the 78-year-old Professor and civil rights activist that Beck has falsely accused of advocating violence. Even after numerous death threats to Piven were posted on Beck's website, he refused to back off.8 While Beck certainly has a right to have a show, KRLA doesn't have to broadcast it. In choosing to do so, they are choosing to amplify Beck's violent message and the risks that come with it. The larger the audience of people who can be exposed to his violent, paranoid, anti-semitic, hate-mongering, the more dangerous it is. KRLA should do the responsible thing and stop promoting Beck's rhetoric in Los Angeles. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7093id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=10Tell KRLA: Take Beck's dangerous rhetoric off LA's airwaves. Click here to automatically sign the petition. Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=11id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=11CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7094id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=12Following Fox's violent rhetoric, mother blames network for son's alleged Pelosi threats, Media Matters, April 7th, 2010 2. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7034id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=13Relative: Man convicted of threatening Sen. Murray was inspired by Beck, Media Matters, October 28th, 2010 3. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7095id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=14Jailhouse Confession: How the right-wing media and Glenn Beck's chalkboard drove Byron Williams to plot assassination, Media Matters, October 11, 2010 4. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7036id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=15Glenn Beck Limps Into 2011 With Falling Ratings, Media Matters, January 27th, 2011 5. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7211id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=16Glenn Beck Apologizes For Slandering Reform Jews, Media Matters, February 24th, 2011 6. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7096id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=17Beck: 'Nazi Tactics Are Progressive Tactics', Media Matters, January 20th, 2011 7. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7215id=17362-72596-TCLLeUxt=18Beck's
[LAAMN] CIA And Media Ventriloquism, The War Party's Atrocity Porn
Arabian Sights Never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.: Joseph Goebbels : Nazi chief of propaganda http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4433.htm The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media --former CIA Director William Colby (died suddenly after freak canoe accident) Bernstein's 1977 Oct. Rolling stone article. just because millions of people suffer from the same delusions does not mean that they are right.--Eric Frumm People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.-- James Baldwin Biography - Fiction Writer, Essayist, Social Critic, 1924-1987 CIA And Media Ventriloquism, The War Party's Atrocity Porn This is a massacre, the frantic Libyan woman, speaking by telephone while cowering in her apartment in Tripoli, told CNN's Anderson Cooper. I hope you know that people around the world are watching and praying and wanting to do something, Anderson told her, as if he were a stage prompter hinting at a performer's next line. Whether or not she had been given a copy of the script, the caller performed as expected: [T]he first step [is to] make Libya a no-fly zone. If you make Libya a no-fly zone, no more mercenaries can come in There needs to be action. How much more waiting, how much more watching, how much more people dying?... It's...possible that her call for international action to impose a no-fly zone was a desperate plea from a victim, rather than an act of media ventriloquism in which an anonymous figure endorsed the first plank of a military campaign proposed by the same neo-conservative kriegsbund that manipulated us into Iraq. Surely it was a [no] coincidence that the Cry in the Night from Libya was echoed on the same network a few nights later by Iraq war architect, former World Bank president, and accused war criminal Paul Wolfowitz, who several days prior to Cooper's dramatic broadcast called for a NATO-enforced no fly zone over Libya. In fact, the day following that interview, an ad hoc group calling itself the Foreign Policy Initiative, which coalesced from the remnants of the Project for a New American Century, published an open letter to Mr. Obama demanding military intervention beginning with a no-fly zone in Libya. The neo-con framework for managing the Libyan crisis would create a regional protectorate administered by NATO on behalf of the international community. This would nullify any effort on the part of Libyans, Egyptians, Tunisians, and others to achieve true independence. On previous experience with media campaigns on behalf of humanitarian conquest, my incurable cynicism leads me to hear in Cooper's Cry in the Night a faint but unmistakable echo of the tearful, palpably earnest testimony of Nayirah the wide-eyed Kuwaiti girl who, using an assumed name to protect her family, described what had befallen her country in the wake of the Iraqi invasion. Bravely composing herself as she recounted horrors no human eyes should behold, the precociously self-possessed 15-year-old volunteer nurse related to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus how Iraqi soldiers stormed into the al-Addan Hospital, tore newborn infants from incubators, and hurled them to the floor. A short time later this testimony was confirmed by others who offered similarly anguished testimony before the UN Security Council. During the three-month build-up to the January 1991 attack on Baghdad, the image of Kuwaiti incubator babies was endlessly recycled as a talking point in media interviews, presidential speeches, and debates in Congress and the UN. A post-war opinion survey found that the story of the incubator babies was the single most potent weapon deployed by the Bush administration in its campaign to build public support for the attack on Iraq. This atrocity account was particularly effective in overcoming the skepticism of people espousing a progressive point of view... The trick is to leave the target audience at once shivering in horror at a spectacle of sub-human depravity, panting with a visceral desire for vengeance, and rapturously self-righteous about the purity of its humane motives. People who succumb to it are easily subsumed into a hive mind of officially sanctioned hatred, and prepared to perpetrate crimes even more hideous than those that they believe typify the enemy... William Norman Grigg CIA And Media Ventriloquism - The War Party's Atrocity Porn
[LAAMN] March 8 call-in day against FBI/grand jury repression
Committee to Stop FBI Repression NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY to Fitzpatrick, Holder and Obama Tuesday, March 8, 2011 The Grand Jury is still on its witch-hunt and the FBI is still harassing activists. This must stop. Please make these calls: 1. Call U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald at 312-353-5300. Then dial 0 (zero) for operator and ask to leave a message with the Duty Clerk. 2. Call U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder 202-353-1555 3. Call President Obama at 202-456- Suggested text: My name is __, I am from ___(city), in __(state). I am calling _ to demand he call off the Grand Jury and stop FBI repression against the anti-war and Palestine solidarity movements. I oppose U.S. government political repression and support the right to free speech and the right to assembly of the 23 activists subpoenaed. We will not be criminalized. Tell him to stop this McCarthy-type witch hunt against international solidarity activists! If your call doesnt go through, try again later. Update: 800 anti-war and international solidarity activists participated in four regional conferences, in Chicago, IL; Oakland, CA; Chapel Hill, NC and New York City to stop U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgeralds Grand Jury repression. Still, in the last few weeks, the FBI has continued to call and harass anti-war organizers, repressing free speech and the right to organize. However, all of their intimidation tactics are bringing a movement closer together to stop war and demand peace. We demand: -- Call Off the Grand Jury Witch-hunt Against International Solidarity Activists! -- Support Free Speech! -- Support the Right to Organize! -- Stop FBI Repression! -- International Solidarity Is Not a Crime! -- Stop the Criminalization of Arab and Muslim Communities! Background: Fitzgerald ordered FBI raids on anti-war and solidarity activists' homes and subpoenaed fourteen activists in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Michigan on September 24, 2010. All 14 refused to speak before the Grand Jury in October. Then, 9 more Palestine solidarity activists, most Arab-Americans, were subpoenaed to appear at the Grand Jury on January 25, 2011, launching renewed protests. There are now 23 who assert their right to not participate in Fitzgeralds witch-hunt. The Grand Jury is a secret and closed inquisition, with no judge, and no press. The U.S. Attorney controls the entire proceedings and hand picks the jurors, and the solidarity activists are not allowed a lawyer. Even the date when the Grand Jury ends is a secret. So please make these calls to those in charge of the repression aimed against anti-war leaders and the growing Palestine solidarity movement. Email us to let us know your results. Send to i...@stopfbi.net **Please sign and circulate our 2011 petition at http://www.stopfbi.net/petition In Struggle, Tom Burke, for the Committee to Stop FBI Repression FFI: Visit www.StopFBI.net or email i...@stopfbi.net or call 612-379-3585. Copyright © 2011 Committee to Stop FBI Repression, All rights reserved. Thanks for your ongoing interest in the fight against FBI repression. As you can see, we have moved to a new format for our Listserve Our mailing address is: Committee to Stop FBI Repression PO Box 14183 Minneapolis, MN 55415 --- 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] March 5 Call-in for Cuban 5
To friends from all over the world who believe in justice, This Saturday March 5th, LETS CALL, OR SEND FAXES, OR SEND E-MAILS, OR TELEGRAMS to the WHITE HOUSE to demand President Obama free the 5 Cuban Patriots imprisoned in the United States for defending their homeland. Lets demand President Obama to make use of the rights conferred upon him by the US Constitution, as a lawyer, as a father, as a son, as a husband, and as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to END THIS COLOSSAL INJUSTICE AND TO FREE THE 5 NOW!!! DIFFERENT WAYS TO REACH THE WHITE HOUSE By phone: 202-456- Note: Do to the fact that March 5th is Saturday leave a message on the answering machine. If calling from outside the United States, dial first the International Area Code + 1 (US country code) followed by 202-456- By Fax: 202-456-2461 If fax is sent from outside the United States, dial first the International Area Code + 1 (US country code) followed by 202-456-2461 To send an electronic message write to: http://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV/CONTACTHTTP://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV/CONTACT To send a telegram President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20500 EE.UU. Besides making phone calls, sending faxes, telegrams or e-mails to the White House, we would like to propose to make the fifth of each month a day of collective actions to demand Obama immediately free our 5 brothers. Lets organize rallies, demonstrations, vigils, public events, marches, etc in front of US embassies of each country. SEND MESSAGES ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY! This month on March 8, coinciding with International Women's Day, we join the actions called by committees and friends from all over the world in sending messages to First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanding that the US government immediately grant visas to Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva to visit their husbands and to issue multiple visas to all family members on a regular basis To send an e-mail to Michelle Obama go to: http://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV/CONTACTHTTP://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV/CONTACT To contact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by phone call: 202-647-4000 To send a letter to Hillary Clinton write to: US State Department of State Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 2201 C Street NW Washington DC, 20520 THIS COLLECTIVE ACTION WILL ONLY BE EFFECTIVE IF PEOPLE FROM THE US, AND ALL OVER THE WORLD, CALL, OR SEND FAX, E-MAILS OR TELEGRAMS, ON THE 5TH OF EACH MONTH. IF YOU CAN NOT REACH ANYBODY BY PHONE, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE. TOGETHER WE CAN DO IT!!! International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 http://www.thecuban5.org/wordpress/index.php Freedom Archives 522 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415 863-9977 www.Freedomarchives.org --- 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/
