From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  2 12:51:37 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:51:37 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] Fwd: L.A. Eco-Village events (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:05:05 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
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Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Fwd: L.A. Eco-Village events


> From: "Institute for Urban Ecovillages -  Los Angeles" <crsp at igc.org>
> Date: December 31, 2006 5:11:17 PM PST
> Subject: Permaculture Design Course at L.A. Eco-Village (last
> call), Little House on a Small Planet, other events
>
> FOR DETAILS ON THESE EVENTS, GO TO WWW.LAECOVILLAGE.ORG
> ------------------------------------------
> STARTS SAT. JAN 13, 2007:  a few spaces still left:
> PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE with Scott Horton and others.
> 6 weekends in Jan, Feb. Mar 2007:
> Jan 13/14 & 27/28, Feb 3/4 & 24/25, Mar 10/11 & 24/25
> Fee:  $800
> Details at:  http://www.laecovillage.org/ScottHortonPermac07.html
> or contact 213/738-1254 or crsp at igc.org
> For a Printable color flyer, go to
> http://www.radicalchangela.org/events.html
> -------------------------------------------
> SUNDAY JAN 21 AT 8 PM
> "LITTLE HOUSE ON A SMALL PLANET  Talk and Slide Show with
> author Shay Salomon & Photographer Nigel Valdez
> at L.A. Eco-Village  $10 (sliding scale okay)
> Reservations:   213/738-1254 or crsp at igc.org
> Details at:     http://www.laecovillage.org/UseUpcoming%20events.html
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Friday, February 16, 2007 at 7:30 pm
> RON MILAM GIVES A SLIDE SHOW & TALK ON HIS
> Pacific Coast Sustainability Bike Tour
> Reservations:   213/738-1254 or crsp at igc.org
> $10 (sliding scale okay)
> --------------------------------------------
> SATURDAY NIGHT POTLUCK---& MOVIES THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
> Watch for details on these events:
>
> Sat Jan 13 Global Gardener - Video on Permaculture with Bill Mollison
>
> Sat. Jan 27 Messages from Water - Masaru Emoto's compelling research
>
> Sat. Feb 3 An Inconvenient Truth - Yes, see it one more time or for
> the
> first if you haven't already
>
> Sat Feb 25 The Power of Community - The story of Cuba's
> transformation to
> near independence of oil
> ---------------------------------------------
> For tour schedule of L.A. Eco-Village, go to
> http://www.laecovillage.org/Toursoflaev.html
> ---------------------------------------------
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From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  2 23:42:02 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 02:42:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] FW: [cfwp-core] invitation to Sat 2 pm
	meeting (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:07:56 -0800
From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
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Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] FW: [cfwp-core] invitation to Sat 2 pm meeting


>
>
>>From: Scott Ratigan <sratigan at igc.org>
>>Reply-To: cfwp-core at lists.riseup.net,Scott Ratigan <sratigan at igc.org>
>>To: cfwp-core at lists.riseup.net
>>Subject: [cfwp-core] invitation to Sat 2 pm meeting
>>Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:13:53 -0800
>>
>>***Please post widely***
>>
>>Come participate in an initial Planning Meeting to organize an
>>anti-war action on Saturday, Jan. 27th in the L.A. area, to send a
>>message to Congress: Bring the Troops Home Now!
>>
>>WHO: Any and all individuals and organizations that want the U.S to
>>Get Out Now!
>>
>>WHAT: An initial Planning Meeting to organize an anti-war action on
>>Saturday, Jan. 27th in Los Angeles (one suggestion, for instance, is to hold
>>that action at a Democratic Party office).
>>
>>WHEN: Saturday, January 6th, 2 - 5 pm
>>
>>WHERE: United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) Building (tentatively Room 814
>>-- look for signs), 3303 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles (Corner of Berendo and
>>Wilshire -- 2 blocks West of Vermont). Free parking is available in
>>structure behind UTLA Building on Berendo (tell them you are going to UTLA).
>>
>>WHY: Throughout Los Angeles, growing numbers of activists have been
>>expressing a desire to join their voices to those planning to protest the
>>war on January 27th in Washington DC and San Francisco. The November
>>elections in the United States sent a clear message that voters reject the
>>Iraq war. And opinion polls show that 71% of Americans want to end the war,
>>and seven in 10 Iraqis want the U.S. to leave sooner rather than later. Yet
>>NONE of the various plans for Iraq now being discussed in Washington --
>>including those proposed by House and Senate Democrats -- even consider
>>withdrawing the U.S. military from Iraq. So, we want to send a resounding
>>message to Congress that the people of Southern California want an immediate
>>and total withdrawal of the United States from Iraq NOW!
>>
>>The best meeting possible would be one in which the broadest representation
>>of groups, communities, and individuals supporting Southern California's
>>anti-war movement join together to discuss and plan a possible action for
>>January 27th. So won't you come, and tell everyone else to come as well?
>>Please share this announcement with anyone interested, forward it to your
>>mailing lists, and post it in your websites.
>>
>>For more info contact <mailto:jan27action at yahoo.com>jan27action at yahoo.com

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From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan  3 21:29:09 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:29:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] LA LGBT GREENS NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2007
	(fwd)
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:29:11 -0800
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Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] LA LGBT GREENS NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2007


>LOS ANGELES LGBT GREENS, 923 Levering Avenue
>Unit 102, Los Angeles CA 90024.  Phone:
>(310)208-1624;  E Mail: lgbtgreens at hotmail.com;
>Other: cal.greens.org/lacounty; www.gp.org;
>www.greens.org; www.losangelesgreens.org;
>www.lavendergreens.us; WestsideGreens at yahoogroups.com;
>lavender at cagreens.org; lavender-caucus at green.gpus.org
>??????????????????????????????????? .........
>                       LA  LGBT  GREENS  NEWSLETTER
>                     JANUARY  2007  Volume 7  Number 1: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
>???????????????????.........................................................................
>Same Sex Marriages/Domestic Partners/Civil Unions:
>International. The international situation for
>same-sex marriages was summarized in LAT Dec 4
>A21, particularly the contrast between U.S.
>state denials and the progress in non-U.S.
>countries. Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium,
>Canada, Spain, and South Africa now allow
>same-sex marriage.  Most of Europe recognize
>some aspect of same-sex relationships.  Uraguay
>may become the 1st S American country to join
>the fold.  Benefits for same sex couples are
>recognized in the armed forces of Britain,
>Australia and Israel but not of the
>U.S.   Mexico City was the 1st government entity
>to recognize same sex civil unions in
>Mexico.  Problems still abound in predominantly
>religious Roman Catholic Christian, Islamic, and
>Hindu countries and the old Soviet Union countries and China.
>     The Canadian parliament voted 175-123 not
> to reopen the decision on same sex marriage on
> Dec 7 (LA Weekly Dec 15-21 p151; IN Dec 25 p19;
> Lesbian News Dec p12; GLT Dec 14 p32).
>
>National.     Mary Cheney, 37, is pregnant, it
>was announced on Dec 5 (Time Dec 18 p123 ;LAT
>Dec 6 A16; Dec 7 A15; Daily Bruin Dec 7 p2; IN
>Dec 25 p16; GLT Dec 14 p28).  Pres Bush still
>considers heterosexual families ideal but
>considers that pregnant Mary Cheney will be ?a
>loving soul to her child? (LAT Dec 16 A20).
>     Same sex divorce is a new legal topic (LAT
> Dec 7 A22; GLT Dec 14 p28).  The Rhode Island
> Family Court did not rule on the issue on Dec 6
> and referred to the Rhode Island Supreme Court
> the case involving 2 women who married in
> Massachusetts in May 2004 before that state?s
> restriction to state residents only came into
> force. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
> ruled on Dec 27 that it could not force the
> Massachusetts legislature to address a bid to
> repeal its same sex marriage law (LAT Nov 28 A20).
>     New Jersey on Dec 14 became the 3rd state
> along with Vermont and Connecticut to allow
> same sex civil unions with all the state rights
> of heterosexual marriage (LAT Dec 15 A21; GLT
> Dec 14 p30).  The Assembly vote was 59-19 and
> the Senate vote was 23-12. Gov Corzine said he
> would sign the law. Corzine did sign on Dec 25 (LAT Dec 26 A14).
>     Alaska Gov Sarah Palin will abide by an
> Alaska Supreme Court order to provide benefits
> to same sex state employees from Jan 1 2007 (LAT Dec 21 A21).
>     The gay wedding industry is booming because
> of outlandish spending by the participants (LAT
> Dec 26 C4).  Up to $1 billion/year is being
> spent on the pomp and circumstance. Some 8,764
> same-sex marriages have occurred in MA.
>
>California. Mark Leno reintroduced the Religious
>Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act  AB 43
>sponsored by Equality California on Dec 4 in the
>California Assembly (IN Dec 25 p24; GLT Dec 7
>p20).  It will be considered by the Judiciary Committee in March 2007.
>      The California Supreme Court announced on
> Dec 20 that it would consider the
> constitutionality of the state?s ban on same
> sex marriage with a judgment probably by the end of 2007 (LAT Dec 21 A1).
>Same Sex Marriage Other Articles/Cartoons:
>Advocate Dec 19 p14,20; Jan 16 p20,22,25; Genre
>Dec p53; Opus, LAT Dec 10 H5 (same sex marriage
>as a responsibility); Out Jan p76; IN Dec 25
>p16,17,19; Frontiers Dec 19 p36,40; dot Dec
>p14-17,47,48; Blade Dec p38,51,52; Lesbian News
>Dec p11,12; GLT Dec 7 p28,31, 34; Dec 14 p28,30,32,36;
>
>LGBT NEWS:
>International:  Religion and sexual orientation
>continued their uneasy association (Time Dec 18
>p24; LAT Dec 3 B5; Genre Dec p88; IN Dec 25
>p14;Frontiers Dec 19 p39; GLT Dec 7 p26,39; Dec
>14 p12,14,).  Conservative Movement Jews voted
>on Dec 6 to allow its seminaries to enroll open
>homosexuals and let its rabbis perform blessings
>for same-sex couples but did not approve
>same-sex sexual behavior (LAT Dec 7 A22; IN Dec
>25 p17).  Four ultraconservative rabbis resigned from Committees in protest.
>     Circumcision is associated with lower HIV
> infection risk (60%) in Kenya and Uganda (LAT
> Dec 14 A4).  AIDS is still growing in Africa
> (Frontiers Dec 19 p40).  AIDS is still a big
> problem in U.S. minority communities (Blade Dec
> p14-22;Lesbian News Dec p11; GLT Dec 7 p30
> ).  AIDSD in India where the highest number of
> HIV infected people now reside was the subject
> of a photoessay in LAT Dec 21 A14.
>     A Libyan court on Dec 19 ordered death for
> one Palestinian doctor and 5 Bulgarian nurses
> for deliberately infecting 400 children with
> HIV even though it was demonstrated that the
> children were infected before arrival of the
> medical workers in March 1998 (LAT Dec 20
> A12).  The defendants were sentenced to death
> in May 2004 but in 2005 the Libyan Supreme
> Court ordered a retrial after an outcry.  The
> Supreme Court will hear an appeal.
>     Gay Indian prince Manvendra Singh Gohil,
> 41, disowned only son of the Maharaja of
> Rajpipla in Gujarat, had sex with a servant boy
> when 14, was forced to marry when 25, suffered
> a nervous breakdown when 36 forcing his coming
> out to his parents, and now distributes condoms
> and AIDS education (LAT Jan 2 A1).
>
>National:   The LGBT media are all warm and
>fuzzy about Nancy Pelosi and the Dems (Advocate
>Dec 19 p5,26,30,64; Frontiers Dec 19 p27;
>Adelante Dec p12,31).  We?ll see.  Gay activists
>(Matt Foreman of NGTLF; Joe Solmonese of Human
>Rights Campaign; Barney Frank (D-Mass); and
>Tammy Baldwin (D-Wes) are optimistic that the
>hate crime bill will pass for Bush?s probable veto (LAT Dec 3 A21).
>    The Advocate Jan 16 p32 had an article about
> Gay and Green that had no mention of the Green
> Party but mentioned Greenpeace and Al
> Gore.  Outing was discussed in Advocate Jan 16
> p42.  The review of 2006 in Advocate Jan 16 p13
> concentrated on entertainment, gay marriage, preacher scandals, and the Dems.
>    The Ryan White AIDS support bill was
> reauthorized on Dec 5 (LAT Dec 6 A27;IN Dec 25
> p27; dot Dec p8; GLT Dec 7 p26, Dec 14 p26 ).
>    Ted Haggard?s fall continued to agitate
> evangelicals (Time Dec 25 p97; LAT Dec 8 A21;
> Advocate Jan 16 p72; Lesbian News Dec p40; GLT
> Dec 7 p39). Mark Foley?s fall also drew comment
> (Time Dec 25 p97; LAT Dec 9 A1; Genre Dec
> p52,53; IN Dec 25 p16; Lesbian News Dec p40;
> GLT Dec 7 p39, Dec 14 p31).  A 2nd Colorado
> priest, Paul Barnes, founder of Grace Chapel in
> Englewood Colorado, after confessing on Dec 10
> that he had had sex with men (GLT Dec 14 p26).
>    Time Dec 25 p32 mentioned Jim McGreevey?s
> appearance on Oprah to promote his book on his
> gay trysts while he was Governor of New Jersey.
> Time Dec25 p 33 defined Brokeback marriage as a
> union between a gay man and a straight women
> and having an affair with a gay man married to
> a woman. Time Dec 25 p44 mentioned
> whistle-blogger Lane Hudson,29, as one of the
> persons of the year for the opening up of the
> Mark Foley scandal. He lost his job at the
> Human Rights Campaign because he used the
> latter?s resources to make the outing.  The
> effect of Andy Warhol on U.S. culture was discussed in Time Dec 25 p200.
>    The Rosie O?Donnell-Donald Trump catfight
> over morality in the Miss USA Contest that
> started with O?Donnell?s comments on The View
> on Dec 20 provided fodder for many late night
> comedians (LAT Dec 22 E36; Dec 23 E2).
> O?Donnell became host on Sep 5 (LAT Dec 29 E44).
>     An African American male rapist of young
> male adolescents has been linked to 5 attacks in Texas (LAT Dec 24 A20).
>     Pres Gerald Ford?s tributes after his death
> at age 93 on Dec 26 in LAT Dec 27 A1, Dec 28
> A1,A28,A30,A34, A35,A37,A38,D1; Dec 29 A20,
> A23, did not mention at first that he was saved
> from Sara Jane Moore?s assassination attempt in
> San Francisco on Sep 22 1975 by a disabled gay
> vet Oliver ?Bill? Sipple, but was mentioned in
> LAT Dec 29 A1.  Sipple later unsuccessfully
> sued the San Francisco Chronicle for invasion
> of privacy for revealing he was gay.  Other
> coverage: Dec 30 A1,A22; Dec 31 A20,A21,M3; Jan
> 1 A10; Jan 2 A9.  The role of Ford?s Dec 1 1975
> Supreme Court appointee John Paul Stevens in
> the fight for LGBT civil rights was mentioned
> (LAT Dec 28 A38), as well as his later moderate
> views on LGBT civil rights.  He and his wife
> walked in the first Desert AIDS Walk in Palm
> Springs of 1987, and allowed his name to be
> used in promotions for the Walk. He termed the
> Iraq War ?a big mistake? in an July 2004
> interview embargoed until he died (LAT Dec 28
> A29).  He criticized the weapons of mass
> destruction and the spreading democracy rationales too.
>    Actor Gael Garcia Bernal, 28, likes being
> ?not close-minded? and supports LGBT rights and
> AIDS education (LAT Dec 31 E1).  A new
> biography of choreographer and dancer Jerome
> Robbins (ne Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz,
> 1918-1998) ?Somewhere: The Life of Jerome
> Robbins? by Amanda Vail discusses his bisexuality (LAT Dec 31 F4).
>    AIDS drug development was discussed in terms
> of 2 San Francisco patients (LAT Jan 2 B1).
>
>California:  James Vaughan is the new director
>of Log Cabin California (IN Dec 25 p15).
>    John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) introduced the
> Civil Rights Act of 2007, AB 14, into the
> California Assembly Dec 4 to expand
> nondiscrimination-protections for all
> Californians including LGBTs. (GLT Dec 14 p20).  Hearings start Feb.
>
>Los Angeles: The LAT Dec 3 S superficial special
>supplement on Culture over 125 years of LA?s
>existence contained few LGBT names, artist David Hockney  (S16) being one.
>    Sen Obama defended non-abstinence methods of
> defense against AIDS on Dec 1 at an LA
> evangelical church (LAT Dec 2 B1; GLT Dec 7
> p26).  Obama was also tested publically (again) by the oral test for HIV.
>    The Nat Institutes of Health did not fund
> the grant supporting AIDS/HIV services for the
> uninsured and largely minority patients at the
> Rand Schrader clinic of County USC Hospital
> (LAT Dec 6 B3; IN Dec 25 p27).  LA County
> supervisors unanimously backed emergency
> efforts to save the 20-yr NIH-funded program on
> Dec 5. The NIH refunded the program on Dec 18
> after Sen. Barbara Boxer and others criticized
> NIH for the decision (LAT Dec 19 B4).
>    A gay UCLA student attempted to pull down an
> anti-gay sign of an itinerant evangelical
> Christian preacher in Bruin Plaza, and started
> to push the preacher before being restrained by
> other students on Dec 4 (Daily Bruin Dec 7
> p1).  Another student was arrested in a
> confrontation with preachers on Dec 5 when he
> took his pants off, and punched one of the preachers.
>    Condom art featuring 14 dresses was on
> display at UCLA?s Fowler Museum from Dec 1 (LAT Dec 7 E14).
>    A decision from the U.S. District Court on
> whether 2 same-sex high school students, one of
> them being Charlene Nguon (now a college
> student), can kiss is in the offing (LAT Dec 13
> B3).  The incident occurred in Orange County?s
> Garden Grove High School in Dec 2004.
>    Hate crimes based on sexual orientation
> decreased 27% in 2005 relative to 2004 but
> racial hate crimes increased 46% as did
> religion hate crimes by 25% (LAT Dec 15 B3).
>    The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has asked the
> maker of Viagra to halt its ad campaign because
> it might aid in HIV transmission and synergize
> with crystal meth, the taking of which is an
> epidemic within the LGBT community (LAT Dec 14 B11).
>      Checking for STDs commercially on
> self-submitted samples rather than at County
> Health Departments or a physician?s office is
> becoming more popular (LA CityBeat Dec 14-20 p10).
>    Being Alive (formed in 1986 to get
> treatments to HIV/AIDS patients) closed its
> Silverlake office in Dec after being open since
> Sep 2005 (Frontiers Dec 19 p36).  It has taken over the Shanti clientele.
>    Equal Writes, the LGBT bookstore in Long
> Beach since 2004, is closing its doors leaving
> West Hollywood?s A Different Light as the only
> specialist LGBT bookstore in the Los Angeles area (Blade Dec p44).
>    Fredericks of Hollywood Lingerie Museum
> (founded in 1987) and its Celebrity Lingerie
> Hall of Fame (Milton Berle et al)were
> discontinued when it moved 3 blocks west in 2005 (LAT Dec 19 B2).
>LGBTs  in Comics/Cartoons: Walker and
>Prescott.com in Entertainment Today Dec 7-13 p22
>(Outing Clay Aiken); La Cucaracha in LAT Dec 11
>E12 (Mark Foley); Punchlines in Time Dec 18 p26
>(Mary Cheney pregnancy compared with the
>immaculate conception);Bliss, LAT Dec 28 H1
>(appearances and being gay); 9 Chickwood Lane,
>LAT Dec 28 H2 (straight fantasies in gay men);
>
>
>LGBTIQ Passings:
>Broadway publicist Robert Fennell, 48, died of
>liver cancer in Yonkers, NY on Nov 12.  He
>publicized over 100 stage productions including
>Angels in America, and led his own firm The
>Publicity Office that was started in 1996.  John
>Kelso, 43, Denver businessman was shot to death
>in his bathtub on Nov 13 by Gay-for-pay ex-porn
>star Timothy Boham (Marcus Allen), 25, in
>Denver.  Boham was charged on Nov 17. Two
>transvestites were shot dead outside a bar in
>Guatemala City on Nov 22, making them the10th &
>11th transvestites to be killed in Guatemala in
>2006.  Hairdresser Ron Niemann, 48, died on Nov
>23 leaving his partner, Robert Reyes.    Don
>Snell, 57, actor, entrepeneur, writer and
>singer, died in Los Angeles on Dec 2 after a
>long illness, leaving his partner Andrew
>Campbell.  Accountant philanthropist Frank
>Sherwood, 93, died on Dec 3 leaving his
>long-time partner, Elbert Burnette.  He donated
>more than $7 million to the LA Music Center, and
>donated towards Walt Disney Hall, the Ahmanson
>Theatre, Shakepeare Festival/Los Angeles, and
>American Theatre Organ Society.  He served in
>the army in World War II and was awarded a
>Bronze Star.  GeorgetownU  grad Fred Forbing,
>89, died on Dec 5 leaving his companion, Wayne
>Cliffe.  John Waters collaborator and costume
>designer and makeup artist Van Smith, 61, died
>on Dec 5 in Marianna Fla from a heart attack. He
>designed Divine?s famous dress and makeup in
>Pink Flamingos of 1972. He was also a New York
>fashion illustrator, a Baltimore antique store
>owner, and a Florida animal rescue
>volunteer.  Robert Rubio, 47, executive
>assistant at Paramount Studios, died in Los
>Angeles on Dec 9.  Audio book narrator Anna
>Fields, Kate Fleming, 41, drowned in her Seattle
>studio home basement on Dec 14 leaving her
>partner of 9 years, Charlene Strong.  She was
>also a stage actress.  Bisexual photographer of
>still lifes and female nudes and photography
>teacher Ruth Barnard, 101, died on Dec 18 in San
>Francisco where she lived since 1953.  She was
>mentored by Edward Weston in Los Angeles in the
>1930s, and moved back to New York in
>1939,  before settling in San Francisco.  She
>was a feminist, and loved men and women.  Her
>earliest photo-graphic work was Lifesavers in
>1930, and her earliest female nude was Embryo in
>1934 in the catalog Machine Art.  Composer,
>conductor, music teacher Daniel Pinkham, 83,
>died of leukemia on Dec 18 in Natick MA leaving
>his longtime partner Andrew Paul Holman.  He
>operated at the New England Conservatory from
>1958 and at King?s Chapel since 1959 (retired in
>June 2000).  He performed on organ and
>harpsicord.  Radical Faerie Peter Kesselman
>(Buckwheat) of the Wolf Creek Sanctuary died on
>Dec 21 of liver cancer. Swiss-born monochrome
>artist Rudolf deCrignis, 58, died on Dec 23 in
>New York of a brain tumor leaving his partner,
>Michael Paoletta.  He was also a visual and
>performance artist before his 1st art show in 1980.
>
>
>Green Snippets:
>International: Felipe Calderon, 44, became
>President of Mexico on Dec 1 with a parallel
>dissident leftist cabinet headed by former
>Mexico City mayor and presidential election
>opponent, Luis Obrador (LAT Dec 2 A1).
>    Hugo Chavez was declared reelected as
> President of Venezuela on Dec 3 (LAT Dec 4 A1)
>    Former Chile dictator Augusto Pinochet, 91,
> who staged a U.S.-supported coup to depose
> Marxist Pres. Allende in 1973 and who retired
> in 1990 but tortured some 27,000 and killed
> thousands (at least 3,197 Allende
> supporters)  in that interval of power, died on
> Dec 10 leaving some celebrating and some
> mourning (LAT Dec 11 A1,A21; Dec 12 A5,A29;Dec
> 13 A8; Dec 14 A11; Dec 18 A21; Dec 25A5; Daily
> Bruin Dec 11 p4; Time Dec 25 p35 ).
>
>National: Dem Dennis Kucinich announced on Dec
>11 that he will run again for President because
>the Dems were not pushing hard enough on the
>Iraq War (LAT Dec 12 A25; Dec 13 A21).  Dems are
>all starry-eyed about Sen Barack Obama for Pres
>over Hilary Clinton (LAT Dec 15A43;LA CityBeat
>Dec 14-20 p9; IN Dec 25 p13).  The neocons are
>trying to reframe their message (LA CityBeat Dec 14-20 p26).
>     High expectations for the Dems are being
> bruited (LA CityBeat Dec 14-20 p9;Time Dec 25 p92;
>     Ralph Nader and NBA Commission David Stern
> clashed over whether the new basketball should
> be retained?it was announced on Dec 15 that the
> old ball would be used again from Jan 1 (LAT Dec 16 D1).
>    Universal health care for the U.S. was advanced again (LAT Dec 26 A35).
>    Bush received unusual criticism in the comic
> strip section of LAT Dec 31M1 and in an LAT Dec 31 M5 editorial.
>
>California: The Sacramento Superior Court ?s
>blocking of the California Fair Political
>Practices Commission rule to cap donation size
>to an officeholder?s fund was upheld on Dec 8 (LAT Dec 9 B6).
>    California prisons continued to attract
> discussion (LAT Dec 10 M4,B1; Dec 11 B1,B3.B7;
> Dec 20 B3; Dec 21 B1; Dec 22 A1,A38; Dec 23 A1;
> Dec 31 B1; Jan 1 B1; Jan 2 B4).  Gay prison
> rape was included (Frontiers Dec 19 p36).
>   The Dems via 2 proposals in the state Senate
> (Don Perata on Dec 12) and Assembly (Fabian
> Nunez on Dec 21) offer a variant of the Kuehl
> Universal Health Care Plan to cover uninsured
> workers (LAT Dec 13 B1; Dec 22
> B5).  Schwarzenegger may support universal
> healthcare (LAT Dec 21B3; Dec 22 B5), but was
> praised in LAT Dec 31 M5. Jan 2 A14.
>    A federal judge ruled on Dec 16 that the
> state cannot use lethal injection for
> executions with the current technique (LAT Dec 16 A1l Dec 19 B1; Dec 20 A30).
>    Instant runoff voting in Oakland, San
> Francisco, and UC Davis was reviewed in LAT Dec
> 25 B1.  Minneapolis and Pierce County in
> Washington will also use the voting
> method.  Cambridge MA also uses the
> system.  The Dems called the system
> antidemocratic. Proportional representation was
> used in over 24 U.S. cities in the early 1900s
> including Cincinnati until 1957 after a racist
> fear campaign and New York City until the early
> 1950s after a communist was elected to the City
> Council.  The sole reference to the Green Party
> who has emphasized its use was to Ralph Nader?s
> ?spoiling? of the 2000 election.
>    The Jan 1 2007 increase of the California
> minimum wage to $7.50, the 1st since the 50
> cent increase of 2002, has not caused any
> corporate complaints despite angst before the raise (LAT Jan 1 C1).
>    The current disparity in Federal and State
> law on medical marijuana was discussed in LAT Jan 1 B1.
>
>Los Angeles: LA?s skid row continued to attract
>articles (LAT Dec 2 A1; Dec 12 B8; Dec 13 B1;
>Dec 15 A1;Dec 22 B6; Dec 23 B3; Dec 31 M3).
>   Embattled LA fire chief William Bamattre on
> Dec 1 said he would resign on Jan 1 ending 11
> years at the helm and then retire in March
> after 31 years of service, the fallout from the
> 2004 dogfood in food prank and resulting hoo-ha
> about the $2.7 recommended settlement that
> provoked a mayoral veto and continuing charges
> about racism (LAT  Dec 2 B1; Dec 3 B1,B3; Dec
> 19 B1). African American Douglas Barry was
> named interim chief on Dec 3 (LAT Dec 4 B1; Dec
> 5 A1,B1; Dec 7A31).  The new chief promised
> inclusiveness in hiring and employment (IN Dec 25 p23).
>     A developer has brought legal suit against
> the LA City requirement that 15% of the units
> in downtown development apartments must be for
> low-income people (LAT Dec 6 B1). There was a
> protest rally against the developer at LA City hall on Dec 6.
>     The LA Sheriff?s Department has been
> criticized for delaying investigations into
> over 300 deaths in LA jails in the period
> 1997-2005 (LAT Dec 7 B1; Dec 8 A42; Dec 30
> B1).  There is poor healthcare in LA jails (LAT
> Dec 24 A1). The reasons for the revolving door
> in LA jails were focused upon in LAT Dec 26 A1, Dec 30 B1.
>     Light rail continued to be prominent in the
> news as well as more left turn signals (LAT Dec 8 B3).
>     Latinos not choosing the White or Black
> positions was discussed in LAT Dec 10 M4.
>     Hotels in the Century Blvd corridor have
> been urged not to fight the living wage and
> they were accused of deception in their
> petition wording (LAT Dec 13 B4; Dec 15 B4; Dec
> 16 B3; Dec 29 B5;  LA CityBeat Dec 14-20 p15;
> Dec 21-27 p8 ). The ?living wage? foes
> submitted 100,000 signatures on Dec 29 (LAT Dec
> 29 B5). The earliest election ballot date is May 2007.
>     The fight between LAUSD and mayor Antonio
> Villaraigosa escalated with formal submission
> on Dec 15 of a lawsuit contesting the
> constitutionality of the California legislation
> enabling mayoral oversight on Jan 1 (LAT Dec 15
> A43; Dec 16 B1; LA CityBeat Dec 21-27 p12;LA
> Weekly Dec 22-28 p27;). A Superior court judge
> on Dec 21 tossed out the mayor?s takeover, and
> an appeal was launched on Dec 22 (LAT Dec 22
> A1,A38; Dec 23 A33,B1; LA Weekly Dec 29-Jan 4
> p31; LA CityBeat Dec 28-Jan 3, p6).
>     LAT Dec 18 B1 contained an article about
> Mayor Villaraigosa?s pragmatic policies to
> balance liberalism with pro-business stances.
> Villaraigosa was feted in an LAT Dec 31 M5 editorial.
>     Farmers of the ruined South Central Farm
> opened their new Community Center at the corner
> of 41st/Long Beach Avenue filled with produce
> from their 14 acres of leased land in the
> Central Valley (LA City Beat Dec 28-Jan 3
> p8).  A smaller Stanford/Avalon site in Watts
> was inaugurated on Nov 19, but many farmers
> rejected it because it sits directly below
> power lines.  Some 60 farmers currently farm
> that land.  Some still want to fight for the old farm.
>
>Out Against War: LGBT & Friends Coalition for Peace & Justice:
>Friday vigils continued throughout December at
>San Vicente/Santa Monica Blvds at 7 p in West
>Hollywood highlighted by Warren Caton?s velcro
>banners.  Shane Que Hee was interviewed on TV at
>the 100-strong Waxman action on Dec 20 that
>demanded he not support the continued funding of
>the Iraq War.  Green Party candidate at the Nov
>7 election, Peter Thottam, gave an impassioned speech.
>     On Nov 14, the San Francisco Board of
> Education decided 4-2 to phase out the junior
> ROTC from schools over the next 2 years,
> because of the don?t ask don?t tell policy of
> the military (Frontiers Dec 19 p36).
>
>General Antiwar:   The Dec 6 Iraq Study Group
>recommendations for the U.S. military to
>extricate itself from  Iraq (no open-ended
>commitment of U.S. troops; U.S. troops should
>predominantly train and support the Iraq army;
>the U.S. should talk to everyone interested in
>the conflict including insurgent leaders; the
>U.S. should launch a diplomatic offensive;
>Israel should return the Golan Heights; and Iraq
>International Support Group should be organized
>immediately that includes Iran and Syria) were
>discussed by Time Dec 11 p50,52;Dec 18
>p40,42,46; Dec 25 p90,108; LAT Dec 7
>A1,A10,A11,A13,A30, A31; Dec 8 A1,
>A8,A12,A42,A43; Dec 9 A24,E1; Dec 10 A9,A10; Dec
>11A6,A21; Dec 12 A12,A16,A17,A31; Dec 14
>A11;    ; Daily Bruin Dec 7 p6; LA CityBeat Dec
>7-13 p6).   Bush on Dec 7 rejected talking to
>Iran and Syria, and wanted the troops to stay
>until ?victory?.   The U.S. Senate on Dec 6
>confirmed Robert Gates as the new Secretary of
>Defense to replace Donald Rumsfeld to take
>office on Dec 18 (LAT Dec 7 A15; LA Weekly Dec
>15-21 p28).  Gates visited Iraq Dec 21/22 and
>the military wanted more troops (LAT Dec 23
>A1).  Saddam Hussein?s trial continued with more
>revelations about massacres of the Kurds in the
>1980s (LAT Dec 8 A15; Dec 19 A4; Dec 20 A7; Dec
>21 A7).  His last appeal of the Nov 5 conviction
>for killing 148 Shiites after an attempted
>assassination was rejected on Dec 26 (LAT Dec 27
>A1, Dec 28 A36, Dec 29 A4).  Hussein on Dec 27
>asked Iraqis to reject hatred for the invaders
>of Iraq (LAT Dec 28 A4).  He was hung on Dec 30
>and buried in Al Auja his home town near Tikrit
>(LAT Dec 30 A1,A7,A12,A30,A31;Dec 31
>A1,A7,A8,A9,A10,M3; Jan 1 A1,A4,A5,).  Hussein
>was put into power in 1979 by the CIA, was
>encouraged by the CIA to go to war with Iran in
>1980, and received weapons of mass destruction
>from the U.S. during that war until 1988.  The
>fall of the Soviet Union & his increasing
>uncontrollable independence made him superfluous
>to U.S. requirements. The 1st Iraq War in Kuwait
>1990-1991, Hussein?s threat to assassinate Daddy
>Bush, and his shift to the euro in 2000, were
>the straws that broke the camel?s back when
>Dubya came to power. Hussein was born in
>1937.  Over 3,000 U.S. military are now dead (LAT Jan 1 A1).
>     Four marines were charged on Dec 22 with
> Iraqi civilian slayings (LAT Dec 22 A1,A13).
>    The possibility of civil war in Lebanon was
> discussed in Time Dec 11 p58, especially after
> the Hezbollah rally of 800,000 in Beirut on Dec
> 1 and the assassination of Industry Minister
> Pierre Gemayel.on  Nov 21.  Gen Michel Aoun,
> returned from his 15-yr exile in 2005, now
> supports Hezbollah (LAT Dec 20 A4). The
> publication of Jimmy Carter?s pro-Palestinian
> book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid garnered
> protests and cheers (LAT Dec 12 B1).
>    Hamas and Fatah still clashed in the
> Palestinian Authority (LAT Dec 19 A3) but
> called a truce on Dec 19 (LAT Dec 20 A3).
> Israel?s Olmert and Palestinian President Abbas
> engaged in negotiations on Dec 23 (LAT Dec 24 A1).
>    The United Nations sanctioned Iran on Dec 20
> over its refusal to talk about its nuclear
> programs and to halt its uranium program (LAT Dec 24 A1; Dec 30 A31).
>    On Dec 11, Cindy Sheehan was convicted of
> trespassing at the U.N. in March but acquitted
> along with 3 others of disorderly conduct (LAT
> Dec 12 A25). She was arrested along with 4
> others on Dec 28 for blocking a road near Pres
> Bush?s ranch (LAT Dec 29 A26). Some 80 of
> Grandmothers Against the War vigiled on Jan 1
> at Rockefeller Center as part of 200 nationwide
> such events called by Quakers (LAT Jan 2 A8).
>    Rep. Cynthia McKinney in her last act in
> Congress introduced a motion to impeach Bush on
> the basis of not defending the Constitution and
> the nation?s laws as well as a ?stolen? 2000 election (LAT Dec 9 A24).
>    The Pentagon continues to be criticized for
> lax oversight of its contractors (LAT Dec 20 A8).
>    The militarist and LAPD connection was evident in LAT Dec 31 B1.
>    The continuing racial sectarian strife
> between Latinos and Blacks continued in LA (LAT Dec 31 B3).
>
>LAVENDER GREENS MISSION STATEMENT(June 24 2003):
>The National Lavender Green Caucus (NLGC) is the
>Green Party's advocacy group on gay, lesbian,
>bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer
>(GLBTIQ) issues. NLGC works for the elimination
>of heterosexism and all its manifestations such
>as homophobia, violence, prejudice and injustice
>against GLBTIQ communities. NLGC also works for
>the elimination of racism and sexism and all
>their manifestations in GLBTIQ communities and
>in society as a whole, and our work is centered
>in ten key values and four pillars of the Green
>Party of the United States. The caucus
>recognizes that freedom and social justice for
>GLBTIQ individuals will only come with the
>liberation of all people, and we actively view
>ourselves as a part of a broader movement for social justice.
>
>EVENTS:
>FRIDAY LGBT Antiwar Vigil:  San Vicente Blvd/
>Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood, 7.00-8.30p.
>Out Against War:LGBT & Friends Coalition for
>Peace and Justice,.  Bring signs, friends.
>FRIDAY ANTIWAR VIGILS: 5-7p at Vista Theater at
>Sunset Bl./Hollywood Bl./Hillhurst Av./Virgil
>Av. junction; Echo Park, intersection of
>Glendale and Alvarado, S of the entrance to the
>#2 freeway; Pico/La Cienega junction.
>6.30-7.30p, Mar Vista Park at Palms/McLaughlin.
>ARLINGTON WEST MEMORIAL AT SANTA MONICA BEACH:
>Every Sun until Troops Come Home, 7:30-9:30 a or
>6:00-7:00 p at Santa Monica Pier (North Side)
>Sat, Jan 6, 2007, 11 a.m.,Coalition For World
>Peace  Meeting/Potluck: Korean Resource Center,
>900 S. Crenshaw Blvd, on the corner of
>9th/Crenshaw, one block north of Olympic.
>Sat, Jan 6, 2 p.m., Organize for a LA Event for
>Jan 27?No Funding For War!: United Teachers of
>Los Angeles, Room 814, 3303 Wilshire Blvd
>(Wilshire/Berendo) -- 2 blocks West of Vermont).
>Free parking is available in structure behind
>UTLA Building on Berendo (tell them you are going to UTLA).
>OUT AGAINST WAR: LGBT & FRIENDS COALITION FOR
>PEACE & JUSTICE Meeting, Sun, Feb 11, 1-3 p.m.: Place TBA.
>Mar 17-19 2007  Iraq War 4th Anniversary
>Activism: UFPJ call. LA ANSWER has a rally
>scheduled for March 17 in Los Angeles.
>Date for Next Green Plenary, April 28,29/May
>5,6, 2007: Tentative, place TBA (probably Bay Area).
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From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan  3 21:36:05 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:36:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] amazing mainstream attack on Bush**MUST SEE THIS
	MUST MUST
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701040035200.26151@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:41:15 -0800
From: Allen Rubinstein <bj632 at lafn.org>

PLAY THIS

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/02/olbermann-special-comment-on-sacrifice/




From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan  3 21:59:42 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:59:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Sheehan,
	war protesters interrupt Dem press conference (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701040059400.5539@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:58:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Sheehan, war protesters interrupt Dem press conference

Denise,
Please forward. Thanks.
Linda


Sheehan, war-protesters interrupt Dem press conference
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- While discussing the Democratic
ethics legislation, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Democratic
Caucus chairman, was interrupted by anti-war
protestors lead by Cindy Sheehan, a well-known
activist whose son was killed in Iraq.

After the protestors' shouts drowned out Emmanuel's
several attempts to quiet the crowd and resume
speaking, he and other Democratic leaders cut off the
press conference.

Sheehan said that she was joined by 70 protestors to
hold the Democrats accountable, saying they are
pressing incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the new
Democratic leadership to stop authorizing additional
funds for the Iraq war.

"We want accountability," she said. "We just buried a
president who did not hold another president
accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in
Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these
messes are the ones who need to be held accountable."

Sheehan said any additional authorizations would make
the Democrats "co-conspirators" with the Republicans.

"There is already enough money in their killing budget
to bring the troops home," Sheehan said.
-- CNN's Scott Anderson and Deirdre Walsh


From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan  4 10:18:28 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:18:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Officer Elections for LA Greens, @ Jan. 17 mtg,
	Peace Center (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701041318260.24334@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:21:33 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>
Subject: Officer Elections for LA Greens, @ Jan. 17 mtg, Peace Center

Save the Date for the LA Greens January 17 meeting.

We elect some of our officers in Jan. and some in July.
In January, these positions are up for election:

2 Co-facilitators (they put together the agenda and run our meetings)
1 Treasurer
1 Secretary

The Green Party strives for gender balance in our internal leadership
positions and actively encourages more women to run for office at all
levels.

Meetings the third Wednesday of every month, 7pm, at the Peace
Center, 8124 W. Third Street, Los Angeles. We are all volunteers and
promote community activism to build a greener Los Angeles.

http://losangelesgreens.org/

See you at the meeting,

Lisa Taylor
LA Greens Volunteer Coordinator







From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan  4 10:51:47 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:51:47 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] From Sergio --> Fwd: Your radio help needed today
 (Thurs.) at 1pmPST! (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:42:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Sergio Monteiro <monteiroserge at yahoo.com>
To: Denise Robb <denise at panix.com>
Subject: From Sergio  -->  Fwd: Your radio help needed today (Thurs.) at 1pmPST!

Important -->  For today Thursday at 1 p.m.
Local station (LA) is KRLA at 870 AM

You can help the women's cause from your desk at 1 p.m., and it will be needed.  Go fo it!

Sergio

MomsRising <momsrising at mail.democracyinaction.org> wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 02:58:41 -0500 (EST)
From: MomsRising <momsrising at mail.democracyinaction.org>
To: monteiroserge at yahoo.com
Subject: Your radio help needed today (Thurs.) at 1pmPST!


  Dear MomsRising member -
  I'm going to be on the hot seat today (this Thursday afternoon) on a nationally broadcast radio talk show that thrives on verbal combat--and I need your help. Yikes! The Michael Medved radio show has me scheduled for today, Thursday, at 1pmPST on 770-KTTH, a radio station with the slogan, "Your Home for Conservative Talk." While the show is taped in Seattle, it actually plays in over 200 cities across the nation.
It's a call-in show--which may be my saving grace. Please call-in during the show today to 1-800-955-1776! Let's make the show real, tell them real stories from real people, and not let them use tired old stereotypes that have little to do with the modern realities of motherhood and family issues.  To hear the show live online at 1pmPST, go to http://www.krla870.com; and to find a station playing the show in your area go to http://www.michaelmedved.com/stationfinder.

*Please call-in today, Thursday, January 4th, 2007, at 1pmPST/3pmCST/4pmEST to 1-800-955-1776

I'm bringing chocolate with me to share in hopes of keeping the wolves at bay, but need your help! This is going to take more than chocolate!!! Please call-in during the show to point out that motherhood and family issues are truly important.

Thanks! - Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner  p.s. If you do have time to call-in, then here are some factual talking points we've found really get people's attention. Sharing your personal stories that connect to any of these talking points would be really helpful, and it would also be an opening to talk about these jaw dropping statistics.


  -DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MOTHERS/MATERNAL PROFILING FACTS:
1. Mothers earn less: Non-mothers earn 90 cents to a man's dollar; mothers earn 73 cents; and single mothers earn about 60 cents to a man's dollar.   This explains why so many women and children in the U.S. live in poverty, and why there are so few women in leadership.
  2. Discrimination against hiring mothers is rampant. Recent Cornell University research by Dr. Shelley Correll confirmed what many American women learn when they look for work: Mothers are 44 percent less likely to be hired than non-mothers who have the same r?sum?, experience, and qualifications; and mothers are offered significantly lower starting pay (study participants offered non-mothers an average of $11,000 more than mothers) for the same job as equally qualified non-mothers.
  3. Ann Crittenden writes, "....a college-educated woman with one child can easily pay a 'Mommy tax' (lost lifetime earnings) of $1 million."  This explains why so many more elderly women than men live in poverty.
  Supporting facts:
- 82 percent of all American women become mothers by the time they are forty-four years old.
- Among all of the moms in America, almost three-quarters have jobs outside of their homes.  American women now make up 46 percent of the entire paid labor force.  - Statistics from 2001 reveal that in the United States of America--land of opportunity--a full one-quarter of families with children under age six earned less than $25,000 that year. An income level that is so low most families of four would qualify for food stamps.
  KEY MESSAGE: National policies and programs with proven success in other countries--like paid family leave, flexible work options, subsidized childcare and preschool, as well as healthcare coverage for all kids--are largely lacking in America. These programs support parents, in particular primary caregivers, hence there is substantially less bias against mothers in countries with good support for families.
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M = MATERNITY/PATERNITY (PAID FAMILY LEAVE) FACTS:
1. The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't have some form of paid leave for new moms.  And of 168 countries studied world-wide, the U.S. is one of only 4 that doesn't have some form of paid family leave for new moms. That puts the US--one of the wealthiest nations on the planet--in the company of Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and Swaziland.  Too many mothers in the U.S. must choose between caring for their new infants and working to feed their families.  2. A weighty consequence emerges from this lack of family support. Research reveals that a full 25 percent of "poverty spells," or times when a family's income slips below what is needed for basic living expenses, begin with the birth of a baby.
  3. There is a strong correlation between paid parental leave and thriving children--one study found that a year of job-protected paid leave is tied to 25 percent fewer post-neonatal deaths and those benefits continued forward in the child's life.  Our lack of paid leave shows in our infant mortality rates.  In terms of infant mortality rates, the U.S. tied for thirty-eighth in the world with Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, and the United Arab Emirates in 2003.
  Supporting fact:
- 61 percent of American families with children have both parents in the labor force.
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  O = OPEN, FLEXIBLE WORK FACTS:
1. Workplace flex-time policies will go a long way towards helping women maintain viable careers and remain economically stable while having families. Businesses also benefit with higher employee retention, higher employee productivity, lower training and recruiting costs, and better employee performance.
  2.  Low wage workers are the least likely to have work flexibility; and most are, as Joan Williams reports, "One sick child away from being fired."
  Supporting facts:
- A survey of working women reported in the Harvard Business Review found the majority of women surveyed (64 percent) reported flexible work arrangements as "either extremely or very important to them." The survey also found that, "by a considerable margin, highly qualified women find flexibility more important than compensation..."
  - Highly qualified and generally fairly well paid women are the most likely to find or demand flexible schedules.
  - Almost three-fourths of working adults state they don't control their work schedules. In fact, the top reason noted by highly educated and trained women for leaving the "fast track" is the lack of family time. The lack of flexible work options often leads women to quit needed jobs.
  - When women take time out of the workforce they face huge wage hits, or pay cuts, when they later return (as 74 percent do within two years). These wage hits take a life-long toll: On average, women take an 18 percent cut in their pay, a significant wage hit, for an average of 2.2 years out of the labor force--with women in business sectors taking an increased hit of 28 percent. For those women who stay out of the labor force for three or more years, the news is even bleaker: A 37 percent loss of earning power.
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  T = TV & OTHER AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS FACTS:
1. More than 40,000 kindergarteners are home alone after school, with a total of more than 14,000,000 kindergarteners through twelfth grade kids on their own after school without supervision.
  2. By the time the average child gets to elementary school they will have viewed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.
  3. The peak time for juvenile crime is right after school gets out, which makes a compelling case for after-school programs.
  Supporting facts:
- Providing after school care to at-risk youth not only benefits kids, but also the community coffers. A study of the effects of the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002 found that every dollar spent on an at-risk youth in an after school program brings a return of $8.92 to $12.90, mainly due to the amount saved by channeling the at-risk youth away from a life of crime (remember the juvenile crime rate is highest in the hours after school). Providing after school programs to non-risk youth also brings a return (between $2.99 and $4.05 for every dollar spent) due to, in part, improved school performance and graduation rates.
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  H = HEALTHCARE  FOR ALL KIDS FACTS:
1.  The truth is that according to the World Health Organization, the United States spends more on healthcare per person than any other nation in the world, yet still was only tied for the twenty-eighth highest life expectancy, and ranked in at a low thirty-seventh for our mortality rate of children under five years old.  We aren't getting much for the money we spend.
  2. Medical issues are a leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. In fact, half of all bankruptcy filings in 2001 were related to medical issues. There's been a twenty-threefold (2,300 percent) increase in medical related bankruptcy filings between 1981, when only 8 percent of bankruptcies were medical related, and 2001.
  3. Most of those who went bankrupt had health insurance (a full 76 percent had insurance when their illness started), and those filing for bankruptcy are "predominantly in the middle or working classes."   In fact, working families make up 81 percent of uninsured people.
  Supporting facts:
- There were nine million uninsured children and forty-six million uninsured Americans in 2004.
  - "The United States remains the only Western nation without universal health insurance coverage," writes Rick Mayes in his book, Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance. Two-thirds of the 191 countries tracked by the World Health Organization pay a higher percentage of their citizen's total healthcare costs than the U.S. does.
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  E = EXCELLENT CHILDCARE FACTS:
1. A Children's Defense Fund study found child care in the United States costs between $4,000 and $10,000 a year for each child, with the costs rising for babies and younger children, special-needs kids, and kids living in parts of the country where the cost of living is higher.
  2. The Children's Defense Fund reports that a study (Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers) examining childcare in four states found, "child care at most centers in the United States is poor to mediocre," with 12 percent of centers providing less than minimal quality care-?defined as care that could harm "children's health, safety, and development." As for the centers that rated well for good quality care, those comprised only 14 percent.
  3. The average childcare provider earns a salary of just $18,060 a year, and many don't have healthcare coverage.
  Supporting facts:
- To put the cost of childcare in perspective, consider that a full one-quarter of families with children under age six earned less than $25,000 in 2001.
  - Quality childcare saves money: One study (Significant Benefits by Lawrence Schweinhart and others) that researched the long-term impacts of good quality childcare for low-income children came to a similar conclusion, the Children's Defense Fund reports.  That study found, "After 27 years, each $1 invested saved over $7 by increasing the likelihood that children would be literate, employed, and enrolled in postsecondary education, and making them less likely to be school dropouts, dependent on welfare, or arrested for criminal activity or delinquency."
  - A Wisconsin study that looked at the impacts of extending their Kindergarten through twelfth grade education system to include free preschool for four year olds found that such programs save money in the long run. The study found early education reduces later crime rates and welfare needs, while increasing the total educational cost-benefit by 68 percent?partly through lowering the need for special education (saving $42 million) and students needing to repeat grades less often.
  - The military has a good model and the Department of Defense has over 200,000 children in their care.  The military prioritizes excellent child care, not just with their policies, but with funding: For example, in 2004 the Department of Defense budgeted $379 million to support serving over 200,000 children, not including additional supplemental funds.   Consider that in the Army a family that makes below $28,000 annually pays no more than $43 per week for child care, or around $2,000 annually.  And then compare that to the national average cost of childcare, which can rise to $10,000 per year or more.  Moreover, military childcare workers are paid a living wage or better.  Childcare subsidies make a real difference, particularly as the number of children and families who live in poverty grows. According to the U.S. Census, 35.9 million Americans lived in poverty in 2003, up from 31.6 million just three years before.
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  R= REALISTIC LIVING WAGE & EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK FACTS:
1. The minimum wage must be raised: By working a 52-week full-time job without unpaid breaks, the federal minimum wage comes to $10,712 per year.
  2. Amy Caiazza, from The Institute for Women's Policy Research, notes, "We did a study that found if there wasn't a wage gap, the poverty rates for single moms would be cut in half, and the poverty rates for dual earner families would be cut by about 25 percent."
  3. A close look at the numbers shows that the reason the wage gap is so large for all women is that the vast majority of women become mothers (82 percent).   This majority of American women?mothers?are actually making less than the current average reported by the U.S. Census of 76 cents to a man's dollar,  since the wages of non-mothers bring up the overall average.
  Supporting facts:
-Countries with family-friendly policies in programs in place don't have as large of wage hits as we do.
  - Men don't take wage hits after having children, women do.








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From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan  4 16:06:19 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:06:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] FW: [Ufeta] meat and the planet (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701041906180.17249@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:36:15 -0800
From: Tera Little <teralittle at worldnet.att.net>
To: 'Ryan Flegal' <ryan at propertymix.com>, Suzanne Audia <poemsnpigs at yahoo.com>,
     denise at panix.com, 'Edmond Mandin' <Undumonde at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: FW: [Ufeta] meat and the planet

A little editorial about meat. -t-

-----Original Message-----
From: ufeta-bounces+teralittle=att.net at lists.uua.org
[mailto:ufeta-bounces+teralittle=att.net at lists.uua.org] On Behalf Of Gary
Kowalski
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:12 AM
To: UFETA at lists.uua.org
Subject: [Ufeta] meat and the planet

Editorial from the New York Times


Meat and the Planet


Published: December 27, 2006

When you think about the growth of human population over the last century or
so, it is all too easy to imagine it merely as an increase in the number of
humans. But as we multiply, so do all the things associated with us,
including our livestock. At present, there are about 1.5 billion cattle and
domestic buffalo and about 1.7 billion sheep and goats. With pigs and
poultry, they form a critical part of our enormous biological footprint upon
this planet.

Just how enormous was not really apparent until the publication of a new
report, called "Livestock's Long Shadow," by the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations.

Consider these numbers. Global livestock grazing and feed production use "30
percent of the land surface of the planet." Livestock - which consume more
food than they yield - also compete directly with humans for water. And the
drive to expand grazing land destroys more biologically sensitive terrain,
rain forests especially, than anything else.

But what is even more striking, and alarming, is that livestock are
responsible for about 18 percent of the global warming effect, more than
transportation's contribution. The culprits are methane - the natural result
of bovine digestion - and the nitrogen emitted by manure. Deforestation of
grazing land adds to the effect.

There are no easy trade-offs when it comes to global warming - such as
cutting back on cattle to make room for cars. The human passion for meat is
certainly not about to end anytime soon. As "Livestock's Long Shadow" makes
clear, our health and the health of the planet depend on pushing livestock
production in more sustainable directions.





Reverend Gary Kowalski is the author of bestselling books that explore
spirit and nature, including "The Souls of Animals" (Stillpoint 1999),
"Goodbye Friend: Healing Wisdom For Anyone Who Has Ever Lost A Pet"
(Stillpoint 1997), "The Bible According To Noah: Theology As If Animals
Mattered" (Lantern 2001), and "Science & the Search for God" (Lantern 2003).
His next volume, titled "Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of
America's Founding Fathers" will be published by BlueBridge in 2007.



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From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan  4 16:33:01 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:33:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] Critical Mass is tomorrow,
 under a full moon!   Ballona Wetlands route?  Join us... (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701041933000.17249@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:59:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Zack Beatty <zackbeatty at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Green Party of Los Angeles County Discussion Forum
     <gplac-forum at cagreens.org>
To: gplac-forum at cagreens.org, growsmartsm at yahoogroups.com,
     bikepaths at yahoogroups.com, la-critical-mass at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Critical Mass is tomorrow,
     under a full moon!   Ballona Wetlands route?  Join us...

>> Critical Mass: Ride daily, celebrate monthly! <<

Santa Monica Critical Mass
Friday, January 5th, 2007
6:30pm
Santa Monica Pier (Ocean Ave @ Colorado Ave.)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ocean+and+Colorado,+Santa+Monica,+CA

-----------------------------------------------------
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
-----------------------------------------------------

LATECOMERS
If you think you might miss the start, give one of these cell phone #s a call, to find the ride:
(323) 620-8985
(310) 591-9299
(310) 848-0730


ROUTE
Many of us have been talking about a ride around the Ballona Wetlands, for a few months.    The
moon will still be full tomorrow, so it might be nice to ride along the water, down through the
Marina.     Brian (one the dudes with a sound trailer) might be scouting a potential route
tonight, for everyone to vote on.   If you have another route idea, bring a map, and we'll
consider that one to.   Remember, you decide where the ride goes, and where it ends.    Without
any set plans, we can always just wing it!


POST-RIDE SOCIAL
There's no house party planned for after the ride.     If we end up down in Playa del Rey, there's
always "The Shack" for food and drink!
http://www.google.com/maps?q=185+Culver+Blvd,+Playa+Del+Rey,+CA+(The+Shack)

Any other ideas?     Bring 'em.


SATELLITE MEETING POINTS
Are you coming from points inland?   Instead of riding alone to Santa Monica, join up at one of
our two early meeting points, in Westwood or Culver City!

      5:30pm, UCLA (Westwood Blvd. & Le Conte)
      http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Westwood+and+Le+Conte,Los+Angeles+CA

      5:30pm, Culver City Town Plaza (Culver Blvd. & Washington Blvd.)
      http://www.google.com/maps?q=Culver+Blvd+%26+Washington+Blvd,+Culver+City,+CA


Don't forget your bike lights!

See you in the streets,

Zack

-----------------------------------------------------
Critical Mass is a vision of a joyful, bike-friendly
world replacing our polluted, congested roads.  We are
a demonstration against car culture. We are a
reclamation of our public space. We are a merry ride
through neighborhoods of Santa Monica, Venice, and
Marina del Rey with friends. Critical Mass is all this
and more, rolled into one convenient monthly ride
right after work.  Ride with us!

http://www.SantaMonicaCriticalMass.org
-----------------------------------------------------

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From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan  4 18:15:45 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:15:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] California Clean Money Meeting (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701042115440.29296@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:03:04 -0800 (PST)
From: jim bean <jrbean420 at sbcglobal.net>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>
Subject: California Clean Money Meeting

Hi D,

Could you forward this to the list?

Clean Money Grassroots Summit.

The California Clean Money Campaign would like to
invite you all to attend an upcoming Clean Money
Grassroots Summit on January 7th.

Please join California Clean Money Campaign Executive
Director Susan Lerner, California Clean Money Action
Fund President Trent Lange, and CCMC board members and
working group coordinators and activists as we discuss
the direction of the Clean Money movement in
California.

We will be reviewing the Clean Money events of the
very busy previous year, discussing options for going
forward, and seeking feedback on the best paths to
take in the next year.

Southern California Grassroots Summit
Sunday, January 7th from 1:30-3:30pm
Los Angeles Central Library
630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071

http://www.caclean.org/events/20070106_GrassrootsSummits.php

Since they don't specify which meeting room, the
Library personnel will probably know at the info desk.


From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan  5 09:22:34 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:22:34 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Top LA Indymedia stories of 2006  (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701051222320.11680@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:25:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Top LA Indymedia stories of 2006

Denise,
Please forward.

Of the top ten stories of 2006 on LA Indymedia, the
story about the South Central Farm is #1!

http://www.la.indymedia.org

Linda

From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan  5 14:58:06 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:58:06 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] South Central Farm Tianguis and Remembering Ramona
 Event - Sunday, January 7 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701051758050.7036@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:29:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: South Central Farm Tianguis and Remembering Ramona Event -  Sunday,
     January 7

Denise,
Please forward.
Thanks.
Linda

_____________________________________________

Tianguis (11 a.m. -4 p.m.)
Fresh fruits and veggies, hot food, Community Health
Workshops and much more...

Remembering Ramona Event (5:00 p.m.)
Presentations, Art, Spoken Word, and much more...

Come Join Us!

Jan 7, 2007 - Remembering Ramona / Report back from
Chiapas
1702 E. 41st, Los Angeles, CA 90058 (corner of 41st
and Long Beach)
5pm / $5 Donation (no one will be turned away for lack
of funds )

We commemorate a year since the passing of Comandanta
Ramona with art, teatro, poetry along with multimedia
presentations and a report back from all who went to
Chiapas for the "Encounter of the Zapatistas with the
Peoples of the World" on Dec 30 - Jan 2.

We'll also be presenting a report back from the
situation in the Cucapah community just south of
Mexicali and how that effects us here in LA.

Video / Arte / Poesia / Photos / y mas


From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan  6 11:10:31 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:10:31 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] FW: BREAKING- Bowen to review ALL E-Voting Machines;
 RivCo's Stone asks Secy of S (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701061410300.20349@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:47:51 +0000
From: Chuck Reutter <greenchuckr at hotmail.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:  ;
Subject: FW: BREAKING- Bowen to review ALL E-Voting Machines;RivCo's Stone asks
     Secy of S

For your perusal.

Chuck Reutter



Subject: BREAKING- Bowen to review ALL E-Voting Machines;RivCo's Stone asks 
Secy of State OK to do test hack; Ciber Testing Labs Busted
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 22:56:35 -0800

In a recent blog (not the BradBlog), someone stated that he chose not to see Al 
Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" because it was filled with lies.  Now since he had 
not seen it, he likely heard from his friends, who heard from "news" 
commentators and talk show hosts, that it was lies and should be avoided.

Thus, it is human nature for some to avoid looking at information that could 
influence them to even consider a different point of view or that might be 
embarrassing if it were true.  The four links below paint a disturbing picture 
of the electronic voting machine industry and an encouraging picture of what 
the new Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, intends to do about that disturbing 
picture.  The first link deals with the specific situation in RivCo, and more 
specifically with the public security test of the voting system proposed by 
Supervisor Jeff Stone.

The BradBlog has been especially thorough in covering the e-voting and election 
integrity issues in Riverside County for at least the last 8 months.  The links 
below represent in-depth and well researched and documented information about 
the issues, the experts, and the players.  It can serve as a virtual compendium 
of information related to the issue of Supervisor Jeff Stone's challenge to 
election integrity advocates to bring in someone to test the security of the 
Sequoia Edge II voting machines in front of the public and the media.  It also 
states what Congress is now doing in regard to questionable elections in 
Florida and elsewhere, as opposed to what they didn't do in the Busby/Bilbrae 
congressional race.

SAVE R VOTE stands ready to meet and confer with Supervisor Stone to discuss 
realistic conditions related to the voting system security testing process. We 
believe that is the critical next step to enable a meaningful effort that 
demonstrates to voters that either adequate security measures are currently in 
place, or they are not.  Our calls to the Supervisor's office over the last 
four weeks have not been returned, but we have a commitment of a return call on 
January 8th, the day before the next Board of Supervisors' meeting.

All four of the BradBlog links below are of significance to Riverside County, 
but especially the first and the third one on a more immediate basis.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3988  - Secretary of State asked to review proposal 
to publicly test security of Riverside voting system

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3990  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3990  New Secretary 
of State to review all e-voting systems from "top to bottom" throughout CA - 
article considered BOLD for mainstream media (MSM)

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3992#more-3992 
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3992#more-3992  Ciber testing labs decertified by 
Feds last summer - just now revealed after primary & general elections in many 
states; links to 5 CA articles (3 about Riverside County)

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3991 Congress puts Florida on notice regarding Touch 
screen source code in contested election

NOTE TO READER:  Brad Friedman has been pushing for election integrity for a 
significant period of time and he is passionate in his efforts.  He 
triple-checks his sources before publishing the facts and thus can be 
considered a reliable source of information, and one that provides links to the 
reader to verify on their own.  HOWEVER, in his passion, he sometimes uses 
inflammatory statements of opinion that will be offensive to a certain segment 
of the readership.  And since it is a blog, comments that follow his news 
articles can sometimes be inflammatory as well.  It is suggested that
the reader dig past the inflammatory statements and look to the "meat of the 
matter".  Ignoring this massive grass-roots election integrity movement that is 
sweeping the nation is done so at the election officials' and Board members 
peril.  Knowledge is power.  Learn what is being said, consider it, and then 
decide.

Tom Courbat

SAVE R VOTE

Riverside County, CA

951-677-6451

951-536-6091 (cell)



From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan  6 17:10:00 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:10:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] California Clean Money Meeting Update (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701062009590.20797@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 12:51:20 -0800 (PST)
From: jim bean <jrbean420 at sbcglobal.net>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>
Subject: California Clean Money Meeting Update

Hi Denise,

I just got an update from California Clean Money about
the meeting this Sunday. For anyone planning on
attending, it will be held in Conference Room A at the
Central Library.

So here's that information again;

Southern California Grassroots Summit
Sunday, January 7th from 1:30-3:30pm
Los Angeles Central Library, Conference Rm A
630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071

From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan  6 17:14:57 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:14:57 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] LAEco-Village Events: Debut video on Coastal Issues;
 last call for Permaculture Course sign-up, Sat. night potlucks &
 Videos (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701062014560.20797@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:09:36 -0800
From: Institute for Urban Ecovillages -  Los Angeles <crsp at igc.org>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: LAEco-Village Events: Debut video on Coastal Issues; last call for
     Permaculture Course sign-up, Sat. night potlucks & Videos

Upcoming Events.  See www.laecovillage.org for details
or call 213/738-1254 or email crsp at igc.org

------------------------
NEWLY ADDED:
Thursday, Jan 11 at 7:30 pm at LA Eco-Village
a special video debut & discussion of "Sand, Sun, Oil & Gas" by Janet
Bridgers (no charge)
------------------------
STARTS SAT. JAN 13 (Pre-registration required)
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE with Scott Horton and others.
6 weekends in Jan, Feb. Mar 2007:
Jan 13/14 & 27/28, Feb 3/4 & 24/25, Mar 10/11 & 24/25
$800
Plus Sat night potlucks and videos (see topics below)
------------------------
SUNDAY JAN 21 AT 8 PM
"LITTLE HOUSE ON A SMALL PLANET  Talk and Slide Show with
author Shay Salomon & Photographer Nigel Valdez
at L.A. Eco-Village  $10 (sliding scale okay)
Reservations 213/738-1254 or crsp at igc.org
------------------------
Friday, February 16, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Ron Milam gives a slide show & talk on his
Pacific Coast Sustainability Bike Tour
------------------------
SATURDAY NIGHT POTLUCK---& MOVIES THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
POTLUCK AT 6:30 PM      VIDEOS AT 7 PM
$5 TO $10 (self selected sliding scale)
Reservations:  213/738-1254 or crsp at igc.org

Sat Jan 13 Global Gardener - Video on Permaculture with Bill Mollison

Sat. Jan 27 Messages from Water - Masaru Emoto's compelling research

NEWLY ADDED:
Sat. Feb 3 Kat Steele presents the Global Climate Project (this one's a
       live presentation).

Sat Feb 25 The Power of Community - The story of Cuba's transformation
       to near independence from oil





From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan  6 23:38:07 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:38:07 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Please share this: Albertano 15-Point Plan to
 Restore Democracy in America (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701070238050.3501@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:30:02 +0000
From: Dana Snow <supersnow at hotmail.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:  ;
Subject: Please share this: Albertano 15-Point Plan to Restore Democracy in
     America

On New Years Eve, December 31st at The Church in Ocean Park in Santa Monica, 
award-winning
performance poet Linda J. Albertano unveiled her 15-Point Plan for the 
Re-establishment of Democracy in America. In this time of hope, this message 
might be worth distributing to as many people as you can.

"A 15-Point Plan for the Re-establishment of Democracy in America" by Linda J. 
Albertano

     Left, right, left, right, one!

1.	Stop the war!  Get the bulls out  of the china shop.  And hide the 
crockery here in the US as

well.  Those neo-cons are relentlessly destructive.

Left, right, left, right, two!

2.	But support the troops!  HOW?  By giving them body armor and padded 
helmets when they?re in the line of fire. By bringing them home, for the love 
of God!  By raising their health benefits when they get home. And by giving 
them a place to live. No more homeless vets!  It?s creepy for the richest 
country in the world to house its veterans in trees and in cardboard boxes. 
And, oh yeah, waving your little bitty flag in the comfort of your 
neighborhood?  That doesn?t really count as support.  Left, right, left, right 
three!

3.	 And while we?re at it, take the profit out of War Profiteer!  Disband 
Halliburton, Bechtel and Carlyle Corporation.  Make the Bushes and the Bakers 
and the Neo-Condoleeza- takers redistribute their ill-gotten gains.  Because 
they stuck their straws into the public coffers and sucked out all the money we 
were saving for a rainy day.  A big rainy day. Like Katrina.  Left, right, 
left,, right, four!

4.	Restore Habeas Corpus!  If it was good enough for the likes of King 
John when he signed the Magna Carta in 1215 AD, it?s good enough for us.  Left, 
right, left, right, five!

5.	Eliminate torture from the list of  US Interrogation Techniques!  And 
those methods the administration insists are NOT torture?  Let Bush, Cheney and 
Attorney-General Gonzales take a 4-week break from brush-clearing to personally 
test stress positions, water-boarding, and electrical shocks to unmentionable 
body parts.  Maybe the Senate should be subject to a test of the interrogation 
system, too.  Why not?  Left, right, left, right, six!

6.	Speaking of the Senate?Let?s peg the minimum wage to their own wage 
hikes.  We don?t get a pay raise, they don?t get a pay raise.  We don?t get 
health care, they don?t get health care.  In fact, why shouldn?t they have the 
exact same health-care program that we have?  It might make them a little more 
sympathetic to the idea of a Universal Single Payer.  Hmmmm???  Left, right, 
left, right, seven!

7.	Impeach Bush-Cheney!  Investigate and impeach.  Incoming Democrats are 
replacing the day-and-a-half Congressional workweek with the tried-and-true 
5-day Congressional workweek.  Under those circumstances, I?m sure they?ll have 
time to impeach, pass legislation, and chew gum simultaneously.  Left, right, 
left, right, eight!

8.	Alternative fuel!  The time has come to use wind, water, solar, 
vegetable oil and any other simple and local solution we can lay our mitts on. 
We?re just 5% of the world?s population, and we?re using 25% of  it?s 
resources?  And creating 30l% of it?s pollution??  Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. 
Left, right,left, right, nine!

9.	Let?s just democratize corporations.  Period!  I?m sick of their greasy 
smiles.  Their

secrecy.  Their privileges of personhood with none of the responsibilities. 
I?d like to see more of them behind bars.  Or swinging from the highest 
yardarm.  Now they?re bigger than most countries, and they ought to be 
promoting better lives, liberties and authentic pursuits of happiness instead 
of laying waste to the planet?s resources.  Aaah, giant corporations.  They?re 
Control Monsters.  They?re aggravating.  Their profits are obscene.  Let?s 
boycott someone.  Like Exxon-Mobil.   Yes!
Snatch our world, our lives, back from them.  And while we?re at it, get rid 
of?  Left, right, left, right, ten!

10.	 Big media!  Did you say ?big media??  We don?t need no steenking 
mainstream media!  Bring  back the Sherman antitrust laws.  Let?s make the news 
safe to consume again.  Left, right, left, right, eleven!

11.	 Voting!  Make it easier to come by, and treat every single ballot as 
though it actually counted! And not on some lying, thieving, cussing, no-good 
cattle rustling, electronically manipulated, secretive, proprietary 
cheating-machine, either. Which leads us to?  Left, right, left, right, twelve!

12.	 Voter-owned elections.  Public financing of elections will have a 
massively positive effect on our so-called ?represent-ative government.?  What 
if politicians owed favors and their very livelihoods to ?We, the People? 
instead of their corporate handlers?  What if they stopped stealing their 
paychecks and spent time working for us instead of sticking out the begging 
bowl to fund their next elections?  What if ordinary folk with average incomes 
and a taste for justice and equality could run for office and win?  Wouldn?t 
that be cool?  Wow!  Wotta concept!  Left, right, left, right, thirteen!

13.	 Genuine debates!  In which the entire spectrum of political parties 
are encouraged to show up and speak.  In place of the privatized, candy-assed, 
photo-ops the Republicrat Duopoly pretends is the ?lively exchange of ideas in 
the marketplace.?  Poor John Stuart Mills.  He?s rotating at the speed of light 
in his horrified grave!  Left, right, left, right, fourteen!

14.	 Support third parties!  It?s my third party, and I?ll vote if I want 
to.   Most controversial.  But where else do the good ideas and all the best 
reforms come from?  Anyone who?s afraid that a strong third party is gonna 
spoil something should push to have Ranked Voting or Instant Runoff Voting 
included in the platforms of the invertebrate, money-grubbing parties they 
adore.  That way, you can ?Let them eat cake!?  And have it, too.   Left, 
right, left, right, fifteen!

15.	 Oversight! We?ll continue to choose our own favorite democratic 
principles and make them work!  Because we?re the adults here.  The government 
is our responsibility, and if we don?t make it
sit in the naughty chair when it misbehaves, it?ll grow up to harm small 
animals.  And even smaller countries.  We?ve got to open up a jar of 
Super-Nanny on our government?s hiney so it can learn to
play nicely in the world.  Otherwise, that stench of burnt toast stinging our 
nostrils?   It?s us!!!
And remember? to Boycott!  Use alternative energy!  Hang Exxon-Mobil from the 
highest yardarm.  Make giant corporations play nicely in the world!  Jerk the 
money-rug out from under Rupert Murdoch and his yellow-journalistic pals. 
Debate, dissent, and bring back the troops!  Make love, not war!  Yes!  Make 
love, not war, my friends.

c.2006  Linda J. Albertano

For further info, contact:
Linda J. Albertano
PO Box 1257
Venice, CA 90294
Phone:  310-392-1679
albertano at ca.rr.com

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From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan  6 23:47:43 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:47:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Medea Benjamin mentioned in CNN article about Cindy
	Sheehan (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701070247410.3501@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:14:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Medea Benjamin mentioned in CNN article about Cindy Sheehan

Denise,
Please forward.
Linda


'Peace mom' turns attention to Guantanamo
POSTED: 10:53 p.m. EST, January 6, 2007

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- American "peace mom" Cindy
Sheehan called for the closure of the U.S. military
prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as she and other
activists arrived in Cuba on Saturday to draw
attention to the nearly 400 terror suspects held at
the remote site.

Sheehan is among 12 human rights and anti-war
activists who will travel across this Caribbean island
next week, arriving at the main gate of the Guantanamo
base in eastern Cuba on Thursday -- five years after
the first prisoners were flown in.

"Anyone who knows me knows that I am not afraid of
anything," Sheehan said when asked about the
possibility of U.S. sanctions for traveling to
communist-run Cuba, which remains under an American
trade embargo.

"What is more important is the inhumanity that my
government is perpetrating at Guantanamo," she told
reporters.

Sheehan, 49, of Vacaville, California, became an
anti-war activist known as the "peace mom" after
losing her 24-year-old son, Casey, in Iraq in April
2004.

She drew international attention after camping outside
President Bush's Texas ranch to protest the war in
Iraq, and has been arrested numerous times for
trespassing.

Sheehan arrived in Havana early Saturday evening with
trip organizer Medea Benjamin of the California
nonprofit groups Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women
for Peace.

Benjamin said group members believed they were exempt
from U.S. travel restrictions on Cuba because they
were traveling as professional human rights activists
who will attend a daylong international conference in
the Cuban city of Guantanamo on Wednesday, the eve of
their protest.

The U.S. military still holds about 395 men on
suspicion of links to al Qaeda or the Taliban,
including about 85 who have been cleared to be
released or transferred to other countries.


From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan  7 10:18:42 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:18:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Have you seen this image/  Go, letter H! (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701071318400.24479@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 04:15:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Elizabeth Ferrari <sfexpat2000 at yahoo.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Have you seen this image/  Go, letter H!

http://beachimpeach.org/realimpeach.jpg

lol


"You've got a smile so bright, you know you could've been a candle."  Andy Stephenson 1963 - 2005

From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan  7 10:20:38 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:20:38 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Code Pink vigil against torture - Thursday, Jan. 11,
 4-6pm, Westwood (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701071320360.24479@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 07:05:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Code Pink vigil against torture - Thursday, Jan. 11, 4-6pm, Westwood

Denise,
Please forward this from Mona La Vine. Thanks.
Linda



THURSDAY- JAN 11. 4-6PM

Code Pink is planning a vigil on the 11th as part of
Amnesty International's No Torture activities.
The vigil will be from 4 - 6 across from the Federal
building, on the NW corner of Wilshire and Veteran.

For more information go to
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/truemajority/event/distributedEventSearch.jsp?distributed_event_KEY=242&zip=90404&miles=30

---------------------
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is circulating a
petition on the minimum wage. To sign on, go to
http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/petition/wage

------------------------
Santa Monica Bay Keepers has a series of workshops
with one coming up on the 17th on water reclamation.
For a complete list of workshop dates, topics &
locations, call Kathleen Jacecko at 310-822-4522 or
visit www.smbaykeeper.org/ep/ep_home.html.

From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan  7 10:21:01 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:21:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] grants available (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701071321000.24479@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 07:19:10 -0800
From: Peter Dudar & Sally Marr <mail at arlingtonwestfilm.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: grants available

>
> ?
> DHS ANNOUNCES $1.7 BILLION AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL HOMELAND SECURITY
> PROGRAMS
>
> From: DHS Press Office DHSPressOffice at HQ.DHS.GOV
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:53 AM
>
> Press Office
> U.S. Department of Homeland Security
>
> Press Release?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> January 5, 2007
>
> Contact:? DHS Press Office, (202) 282-8010
>
> Download the document:
> http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/Overview-
> FY07HomelandSecurityGrantProgram.pdf
>
>
> DHS ANNOUNCES $1.7 BILLION AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL homeland security
> programs
>
> WASHINGTON ?The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released today
> fiscal year 2007 grant guidance and application kits for five grant
> programs that will total roughly $1.7 billion in funding for state and
> local counterterrorism efforts.? With the fiscal year 2007 funding,
> the department will have invested nearly $20 billion in local
> planning, organization, equipment, training, and exercises.
>
> ?This year?s grant process will be more user-friendly.? There will be
> increased interaction with all applicants before we award the grants
> to ensure effective investment.? said Homeland Security Secretary
> Michael Chertoff.? ?The funds will be distributed to reduce risk
> across the United States, not just in a handful of places. But, let me
> be clear that the communities facing the highest risk will receive the
> majority of the funds.??
>
> The five programs that comprise the Homeland Security Grant Program
> (HSGP) encourage a regional approach to strengthening homeland
> security.? Grant funding priorities include reducing risks of
> improvised explosive devices and radiological, chemical and biological
> weapons.? They emphasize interoperable communications, information
> sharing and citizen preparedness.? HSGP fiscal year 2007 funding
> totals are:
>
> - State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)- $509.3 million
> - Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program (LETPP)- $363.8 million
> - Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI)- $746.9 million
> - Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS)- $32.0 million
> - Citizen Corps Program (CCP)- $14.6 million
> ?
> The department has refined its grants programs over the past year to
> increase transparency, provide a more streamlined and interactive
> application process, and tier certain core programs according to
> risk.? In addition, the six highest risk UASI cities will be permitted
> for the first time to apply up to 25 percent of their award toward
> current state and local personnel dedicated exclusively to
> counterterrorism field operations.
>
> HSGP risk-methodology considers a variety of factors, including
> intelligence assessments, population size and density, economic
> impacts, and proximity to nationally critical infrastructure such as
> international borders.? More than 100 law enforcement, emergency
> management and homeland security experts from federal, state and urban
> areas will form peer review panels to assess this year?s grant
> applications.? Upon completion of the review process, DHS expects to
> announce grant allocations by summer 2007.

From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan  7 19:41:56 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:41:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] Neighborhood Council Review Commission
	Hearings (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701072241550.25379@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:24:33 -0800
From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
Reply-To: Green Party of Los Angeles County Discussion Forum
     <gplac-forum at cagreens.org>
To: gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Neighborhood Council Review Commission Hearings


>From: "Jason Lyon" <jason at jasonlyon.com>
>Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:05:53 -0000
>Subject: Neighborhood Council Review Commission Hearings
>
>In 1999, Los Angeles voters passed a sweeping reform of the City
>Charter that included ? for the first time in city history ? a system
>of neighborhood councils. Now Neighborhood Council Review Commission
>is seeking public input as it evaluates that system. All city
>residents and stakeholders are welcome to participate at any of the
>hearings.
>
>There are three regional hearings in January:
>? Harbor Area Public Hearing
>o January 9th from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
>o Narbonne High School Auditorium
>o 24300 Western Avenue, Harbor City 90710
>
>? West L.A. Area Public Hearing
>o January 11th from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
>o Mark Twain Middle School Auditorium
>o 2224 Walgrove Avenue, L.A. 90066
>
>? East Area Public Hearing
>o January 25th from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
>o Puente Learning Center
>o 501 S. Boyle Avenue, L.A. 90033
>
>The 29-member volunteer commission, appointed by the Mayor and the
>City Council, hopes to hear a range of views ? including those of
>people who participate in neighborhood councils as well as those who
>don't. In order to allow for as many voices as possible, speakers are
>asked to keep their remarks under three minutes.
>
>Written comments may be submitted at the meeting or via the NCRC's
>website, www.ncrcLA.org. A full calendar of other commission meetings
>is also available at the commission's website.
>
>For each of the three upcoming hearings, free parking is available;
>Spanish translation will be provided. For questions about these
>events, members of the public may contact Patrice Lattimore in the
>City Clerk's office at 213.978.1074.

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From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan  7 19:44:35 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:44:35 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Celebrate the life of Lee Peters (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701072244330.25379@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 19:42:39 -0800
From: Lee Peters <leepeters at mail2Hollywood.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Celebrate the life of Lee Peters


Casey and Marilyn Peters solemnly announce the passing of Lee Peters. We
extend an invitation to gather in her home to celebrate an extraordinary
life.

Many who loved her will remember the life of Lee Peters this Saturday,
January 13 from 1 p.m. through the afternoon and into the evening.

We will share memories, laughter and a few tears, in a loving atmosphere
at 446 South Van Ness Avenue, two blocks north of Wilshire Boulevard and
one block west of Wilton Place.

Everyone who wishes will be asked to speak about Lee, and the
proceedings will be videotaped for posterity and those unable to attend.
Refreshments will be served, and pot luck contributions are welcome.
No reservations are necessary.

If you cannot join us, please send notes to leepeters at mail2hollywood.com

You may leave telephone messages and inquiries at (213) 385-2786.






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From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan  8 11:50:22 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:50:22 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] greens march in MLK
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701081450120.13825@panix2.panix.com>





---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:27:10 -0800
From: Peter Dudar & Sally Marr <mail at arlingtonwestfilm.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: what do you think?

what do you think about the greens marching with answer in the mlk
parade?

Begin forwarded message:

>
>  * Organize Anti-War Participation in MLK Day Parade: Jan. 15 is
> Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Carrying on Dr. King's legacy of fighting
> against racism and for civil rights is a top priority for the anti-war
> and social justice movement. ANSWER will participate in the Jan. 15
> parade in LA. Help organize our presence in the parade and discuss
> King's legacy.

From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan  8 15:24:19 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:24:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Arnold calls for univ. health care;
 Venezuela to nationalize key industries (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701081824160.20340@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:13:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Rex Frankel <rexfrankel at yahoo.com>
To: ballona.free.press at juno.com
Subject: Arnold calls for univ. health care; Venezuela to nationalize key
     industries

Yayyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070108/ap_on_re_us/california_health_care

Calif. gov calls for universal coverage By LAURA
KURTZMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 24 minutes ago

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov.        Arnold Schwarzenegger
on Monday proposed to extend health coverage to nearly
all of California's 6.5 million uninsured people,
promising to spread the cost among businesses,
individuals, hospitals, doctors, insurers and
government.

The plan contains elements that are likely to provoke
opposition from a wide range of powerful interests,
including doctors, hospitals and insurers, as well as
employers and unions. But it also contains incentives
for each of them.

All children, regardless of their immigration status,
would be covered through an expansion of the state and
federal Healthy Families program.

"I don't think it is a question or a debate if they
ought to be covered. ... The federal courts have made
that decision ? that no one can be turned away,"
Schwarzenegger said. "The question really isn't to
treat them or not to treat them. The question really
is how can you treat them in the most cost-effective
way."

Under Schwarzenegger's plan, all Californians would be
required to have insurance, although the poorest would
be subsidized. Businesses with 10 or more employees
would have to offer insurance to their workers or pay
4 percent of their payroll into a state fund. Smaller
businesses would be exempt.

Also, insurers would no longer be allowed to deny
coverage to people because of their medical problems.

Business groups and Republican legislators are likely
to object to the extra costs imposed on businesses.

The state would subsidize the estimated 1.2 million
poor people who do not currently qualify for state
health coverage. They would be able to buy insurance
through a state-run pool and would have to make a
small contribution toward their premiums.

Schwarzenegger is betting that his plan will save $10
billion a year by cutting health care costs. He says
the savings would offset the new fees he is asking
doctors and hospitals to pay ? 4 percent of revenue
for hospitals and 2 percent for doctors.

The state also would increase what it pays doctors and
hospitals through Medi-Cal, the state insurance plan
for the poor.

The governor was supposed to give his address in
person to a panel of health care officials. Instead,
he spoke via video link since he is still recuperating
from broken leg suffered in a skiing accident.

---------------------------------------

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070108/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_chavez

Chavez: Will nationalize telecoms, power
By IAN JAMES, Associated Press Writer 30 minutes ago
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
announced plans Monday to nationalize the country's
electrical and telecommunications companies, his
boldest move yet to transform Venezuela into a
socialist state.
"All of those sectors that in an area so important and
strategic for all of us as is electricity ? all of
that which was privatized, let it be nationalized,"
Chavez said in a televised speech after swearing in a
new Cabinet.
"C.A. Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV), let it
be nationalized," Chavez said. "The nation should
recover its property of strategic sectors."
When Chavez was re-elected by a wide margin last
month, he promised to take a more radical turn toward
socialism. Monday's announcement appeared likely to
affect Electricidad de Caracas, owned by AES Corp.,
and CANTV, which is the country's largest publicly
traded company.
CANTV's American Depositary Receipts plunged 14.2
percent to $16.84 (12.95 euros) before the

New York Stock Exchange halted trading. The ADRs had
been moderately higher before the announcement.
An NYSE spokesman said it was unknown when trading in
the ADRs might resume and that CANTV is the only
Venezuelan company listed on the stock exchange.
Chavez also said he would soon ask the National
Assembly, which is solidly controlled by his allies,
to approve a special law giving him powers to approve
such changes by decree and without further approval.
Chavez also said that lucrative oil projects in the
Orinoco River basin involving foreign oil companies
should be under national ownership, though he did not
spell out if that meant a complete nationalization, or
under what terms for companies that have been viewed
as investing partners by his government.
He said a period known as the "oil opening" that
preceded his government should be reversed. "I'm
referring to how international companies have control
and power over all those processes of improving the
heavy crudes of the Orinoco belt ? no ? that should
become the property of the nation," Chavez said.
Since last year, Chavez's government has been in talks
with foreign companies involved in four heavy crude
upgrading projects in the Orinoco on the formation of
so-called "mixed companies" in which the state holds a
majority stake.
Chavez threatened last August to nationalize CANTV, a
Caracas-based former state firm that was privatized in
1991, unless it adjusted its pension payments to
current minimum-wage levels, which have been
repeatedly increased by his government.
Chavez's nationalization annoucement came in his first
speech of the year, a fiery address in which he also
called Organization of American States
Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza an "idiot" and
urged him to resign.
Chavez lashed out at Insulza for questioning his
government's decision not to renew the license of an
opposition-aligned TV station.
"Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot," Chavez
said in a speech after swearing in new Cabinet
members. He used a vulgar Spanish term that translates
roughly as idiot. "The insipid Dr. Insulza should
resign from the secretariat of the Organization of
American States for daring to play that role."


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From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan  8 16:10:32 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:10:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] News Advisory: Former Green Party gubernatorial
 candidate diagnosed with cancer (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701081910310.26745@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:59:32 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>, gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Subject: News Advisory: Former Green Party gubernatorial candidate diagnosed
     with cancer

[GPCA-MediaComm] NEWS ADVISORY: Former Green Party gubernatorial
candidate diagnosed with cancer

PLEASE FORWARD


PRESS RELEASE FROM CAMEJO GROUP

January 8, 2007


Peter Miguel Camejo, who was the Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate in
2002, 2003 and 2006 and was the Vice Presidential Candidate with Ralph
Nader in 2004, has been diagnosed with cancer.

The cancer was caught at an early stage and is considered treatable.

Mr. Camejo currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of
Progressive Asset Management Inc. He has been recently elected to
serve on
the Board of Directors of Earth Share the Federation of more than 400
environmental organizations, where he is working on a special program to
promote solar energy.

For any further information, please contact Cathy Cartier Office
Manager of
the Camejo Group (510-587-0800).

-end-

From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  9 11:20:03 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:20:03 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] "Inconvenient Truth" - Sun., Jan. 14, 1:30pm,
	Burbank - FREE (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701091420020.18066@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:18:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: "Inconvenient Truth" - Sun., Jan. 14, 1:30pm, Burbank - FREE

Denise, Please forward.
Thanks. Linda

Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:21:08 -0800
-----Original Message-----From: Anna May Nelson:
burbankpeace at sbcglobal.net

  Free Screening of "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH"

SUNDAY, January 14th,  beginning @ 1:30 PM

MCCAMBRIDGE PARK, Rec. Center Room #4
1515 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, 91504

The screening will be followed by a community
discussion

THIS IMPORTTANT FILM IS A MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE.
REGARDLESS OF
  YOUR POLITICAL PREFERENCE . THIS IS YOUR  WORLD AND
YOUR FUTURE

  Sponsored by

Burbank Neighbors for Peace & Justice

For Info. call (818) 842-5055 or email:
burbankpeace at sbcglobal.net


Friends,

A new year, new films, SAME PROBLEMS!   While the war
looms large on the minds of all Americans, this month
we're focusing on another issue which the Pentagon has
called the biggest threat to our national security -
global warming.  Many people have seen Al Gore's now
legendary film, "An Inconvenient Truth."  However, it
seems more still have YET to see it.  This month we're
providing a free opportunity to see this
groundbreaking and pivotal moment in history.  An
Inconvenient Truth has been described as the "Tipping
Point" for America's awareness and motivation towards
environmental action.  If you haven't seen the film,
come join us.  If you've seen the film, come and bring
a friend!  As usual, we'll have a post-film discussion
with attendees.  (January 14th, 1:30pm, Address and
info below)

One of our members, Greg Simay, also happens to be
with Burbank Water and Power and will be speaking to
let Burbank's residents know what steps the city has
already taken towards reducing our environmental
impact and what steps can still be pursued.

Today marks the beginning, hopefully, of a new
Congress and certainly a new leadership that we hope
will be receptive to the will of the people as it was
made clear last November.  This country wants a change
of course, particularly in Iraq and sending more
troops isn't what they had in mind.  In fact, only 38%
of soldiers in Iraq think there should be more troops
and Generals on the ground have specifically requested
the opposite.

A new democratic congress faces a tough position.  As
Rep. Barney Frank stated last night on the national
news, funding for the military budget is already
complete and George Bush makes the sole call on
deploying more troops with those funds.  However,
congress can still act to cut off further funding and
even pass legislation revoking the authorization of
force.  In short, where there's a will there's a way -
but it's up to us to contact them and apply the
necessary pressure to act.  To find the contact
information for your Representative, simply go to
www.house.gov and enter your zip code to see phone and
email information.

Again, we hope to see you and your friends at our
screening on the 14th.  Details of the film and the
event are below.  Thanks!

-Burbank Neighbors for Peace and Justice

You Are Cordially Invited To A FREE Documentary
Screening

"AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH"

Former Vice President Al Gore presents  an eye-opening
and compelling view of the future of our planet and of
our civilization in this MUST SEE documentary.  "An
Inconvenient Truth" is a wake-up call that cuts
through the myths and misconceptions to deliver the
message that global warming is a very real and present
danger and that we must act now to save the earth.

"In 39 years, I have never written these words in a
movie review, but here they are. You owe it to
yourself to see this film" Roger Ebert, Chicago
Sun-Times


Join us, (whenever you can for as little or as long as
you can)  Fri. 5:30-7:00 p.m.  corner of Palm & San
Fernando Road, and/or Sat. 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the
Burbank Farmers Market to work towards bringing our
troops home.





From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  9 11:27:14 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:27:14 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Fwd: AJ teaching at new culinary school (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701091427120.18066@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:47:29 -0500
From: ryan at propertymix.com
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Fwd: AJ teaching at new culinary school

Denise,
Three great vegan cooking classes in West L.A. including a class entirely on 
DESSERTS! Will you please forward this email to your list?
Thanks


If you or anyone you know are interested in healthy  hands on cooking classes
at Chefs. Inc. on Pico, here are the links to my  classes.  Hope to see you
there!

Love, Chef AJ


(http://chefsinc.net/classes/012207.html)


(http://chefsinc.net/classes/020507.html)


(http://chefsinc.net/classes/030807.html)



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From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  9 15:31:12 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:31:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Help the Homeless - Jan. 13th/Jan. 23-25 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701091831100.4605@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:48:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Susie Shannon <susie at panix.com>
To: Susie Shannon <susieanneshannon at yahoo.com>
Subject: Help the Homeless - Jan. 13th/Jan. 23-25

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please let me know if you are available this month to help reach out to our 
ever growing homeless population.


Homeless Outreach - Saturday January 13th

On the evening of January 13th, Poverty Matters volunteers will provide
blankets, clothing, and other needed items to the homeless.  To volunteer, 
please e-mail us at povertymatters at yahoo.com. This is a very rewarding 
experience and provides a wonderful opportunity to give directly to those in 
need.

We will meet at 5:00 pm in Los Angeles and outreach to the skid row area. 
Please send us an e-mail at povertymatters at yahoo.com for more information.

---------------------------------

Help Count the Homeless -January 23rd, 24th and 25th

Poverty Matters is teaming up with the Los Angeles Homeless Services
Authority to Count the Homeless in Los Angeles County.

1500 volunteers are needed to participate in the largest homeless census count 
in the United States.

To be part of this important project, please go to www.lahsa.org  and click on 
the "Sign up Now" button.

Please e-mail us at povertymatters at yahoo.com after you sign up for the Count 
the Homeless project to receive a special recognition from our organization.

-----------------------------------

Or get involved in one of our many other community programs to help empower 
underprivileged communities.

At Poverty Matters we can get you connected to an enriching experience in the 
community that can be life changing.

And, if you can't give of your time, please consider supporting the programs at 
Poverty Matters by making a tax-deductible donation.  Go to
www.povertymatters.org for more information on making a contribution.

Warm Regards,

Susie Shannon


From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  9 16:32:52 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:32:52 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Gov's health plan good step,
 but universal coverage doomed, say Greens (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:21:36 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>, gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Subject: Gov's health plan good step, but universal coverage doomed, say Greens

News Advisory

             THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA       www.cagreens.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Contact: Susan King, spokesperson, 415.823-5524 funking at
mindspring.com
 	    Sara Amir, spokesperson, 310.270-7106 saraamir at earthlink.net
 	    Cres Vellucci, press secretary, 916.996-9170 civillib at cwnet.com


Governor's health plan step in right direction,
but universal coverage doomed because politicos
too ?in debt' to powerful special interests, say Greens

SACRAMENTO (January 9, 2007) ? The governor's just released health
plan is
a step in the right direction toward covering all Californians ? but any
true universal health care plan is doomed because Democratic and
Republican
lawmakers are too in debt to the insurance industry, said a spokesperson
for the Green Party of California Monday.

"The quality of health care should not depend on how wealthy someone
is or
is not. The plan announced by the governor has promise because it
addresses
? although not adequately ? the big profits by insurance companies,"
said
Larry Cafiero, the Green Party Insurance Commissioner candidate in
November.

While the governor said 85 percent of insurance premiums must go to the
patient's care, true universal healthcare could do much, much better.
Canada's successful health care program spends only three cents of a
dollar, or 3 percent, for administrative costs.

"Because of big money politics, we are all hurt. Insurance companies
will
call in every favor from everyone they've given campaign money to in the
last election to ensure they get their profit ? at the expense of
Californians' health," said Cafiero.

"Forcing everyone to buy medical insurance doesn't address the root
problem: our system of private medical insurance.  Americans, including
Californians, pay 50 percent more per capita than any other country
in the
world, yet ours is the only industrialized country that doesn't cover
all
its citizens," added Dr. Bob Vizzard, a medical doctor and former GPCA
state senate candidate from Auburn.

And, according to Wes Rolley, Environmental Coordinator of the GPCA
Green
Issues Working Group: "Maybe more important that trying to find a way to
pay health care costs is looking for a way to eliminate the need for
some
health care costs itself. That means addressing problems that arise from
air pollution, childhood obesity and ongoing pollution of our water and
agricultural lands. We need solutions that evolve from understanding how
all parts of the system feed one another: medical, environmental,
educational and economic. We can no longer address any of these in
isolation."
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From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  9 22:34:12 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:34:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] Camejo's response to state of state
 archived--KPFK evening news (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:55:48 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
Reply-To: Green Party of Los Angeles County Discussion Forum
     <gplac-forum at cagreens.org>
To: gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Camejo's response to state of state archived--KPFK
     evening news

Camejo's response is in the first 15 minutes of tonight's KPFK
evening news:
http://64.27.15.184/parchive/

cheers,
Lisa
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From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  9 23:23:25 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:23:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Thurs., Jan. 18,
 7:30pm, Long Beach - FREE! (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:19:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Thurs., Jan. 18, 7:30pm,
     Long Beach - FREE!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: hollie <ecchmai at yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2007 2:35 PM
Subject: Free documentary film screening
To: ecchmai at yahoo.com

...remember when all the Electric Vehicle Charging
Stations started popping up everywhere?  It was in
1996 when these cars started appearing on streets of
California and then suddenly in 2006 they were taken
off the market and destroyed....find out more about
this and who's involved...

Please come to the FREE Screening of the documentary
film "Who Killed the Electric Car?".  Showing Thursday
January 18th at 7:30pm at Zephyr vegetarian cafe
(serves raw and vegan dishes too) located at 340 East
4th Street in Downtown Long Beach.
Contact (562)435-7113 or (562)335-9728.



From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan  9 23:32:50 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:32:50 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural needs immediate support!
	(fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:27:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural needs immediate support!


 	Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural
  	January 09, 2007


Tia Chucha's must move--but our Spirit, Creativity,
and Unity are intact
Just after the holidays, Tia Chucha's Cafe & Cultural
Center was served with a notice forcing us to move. We
have to leave by February 28, 2007. A powerfully
energized and thriving bookstore/cafe/performance
space/cultural center is to be replaced by high-tech
laundry machines. The laundry company is apparently
investing $8 million in the strip mall, something we
can't compete with.
Maintain a vibrant community space? Of course not!
Instead, make way for another laundry outlet! That's
capitalism. Money follows money, not needs, not
literacy, not community, or cultural expression. In
the world we've inherited, most creativity and
expression has to make big money, or it's out.

We created a space that requires a lot of personal and
community investment. The community came to embrace
Tia Chucha's and make this space its own. We plan to
take the spirit, creativity, and unity we helped
nurture to a temporary site as we plan and prepare to
obtain a larger permanent site in the Northeast San
Fernando Valley .
This is a time to come together, strategize, and work
to keep Tia Chucha's viable as a cultural center while
we explore our options. We will not give up. We will
find a temporary space; we will also curtail our
retail operations while we concentrate on our
programming, events, outreach, fundraising, and
growth.

We ask that you strengthen our efforts and sign this
petition in support of Tia Chucha's coming back
stronger, bigger, and better endowed than ever. We
need this written support to show the various
developers; city, county, and state agencies; and
foundations that this community will fight for the
arts, music, dance, theater, writing, film,
publishing, and a vital gathering place where we can
share ideas, history, politics, economics, and our
indigenous traditions and thinking.
Our strategy this year includes implementing a
fundraising plan with a 5th Anniversary event at Tia
Chucha's on February 17 . We will also have another
"Celebrating Words: Written, Performed & Sung"
festival at Sylmar Park on May 19 . And we have been
approved to do a benefit event for Tia Chucha's at the
Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood on July 29. Sign up for
our e-mail newsletter here on our website up at the
top, or call 818-362-7060 for more information.

--Luis J. Rodriguez Co-founder and Creative Director,
Tia Chucha's Cafe & Centro Cultural
How You Can Help!!! *Come into the cafe and sign the
petition!!! *Attend a community meeting held at
Pacoima Beautiful located at 11243 Glenoaks Blvd.,
Suite 1 Pacoima, CA 91331 on Wednesday, January 17@ 12
noon. Voice your opinion and let the city of Pacoima
know that you support Tia Chucha's and request that
they consider us as a prospective bussiness for the
new shopping center being built on Paxton St. on the
old Price Pfister Factory site. *Volunteer!!! We will
need assistance at our Anniversary Celebration and
with the transition to our new temporary space.
Interested volunteers can email Tia Chucha's at
chuchamail at aol.com or call (818)362-7060 and ask how
you can help!!! *Donate and re-invest in your
community!!! Donations like yours will assist Tia
Chucha's in it's struggle and continued survival!!!


Silverio Pelayo
Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural
email: info at tiachucha.com
phone: (818)362-7060
web: http://www.tiachucha.com



From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 10 07:16:00 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:16:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Latino Green may run again for Oxnard City Council
	seat (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701101015590.14322@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:43:27 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>
Subject: Latino Green may run again for Oxnard City Council seat

http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/ox/article/
0,1375,VCS_238_5218540,00.html

and
http://www.vcreporter.com/article.php?id=3946&IssueNum=96

When Francisco Romero entered Oxnard's City Council election this fall,
he was best known for his impassioned but tempered opposition to the
city's anti-gang injunctions.

But during campaign forums, the ponytailed Latino activist called for
improved street maintenance, more transparency in government, a greater
voice at City Hall for common folk and better job opportunities for
Oxnard young people.

Romero did not win a spot in the November race for two seats. He
finished third behind incumbents Dean Maulhardt and Andres Herrera. But
supporters and even some opponents believe the 31-year-old middle-school
teacher made a lasting impression.

"I don't think this is the last we're going to see of him," said Denis
O'Leary, district director of the League of United Latin American
Citizens.

Romero represents a new generation of Latino leaders in a movement where
few appeared ready to replace the old guard, O'Leary said
<snip>

read full article here:
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/ox/article/
0,1375,VCS_238_5218540,00.html




From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 10 07:17:36 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:17:36 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Greens to governor: You will fail because you won't
 take big money out of politics (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:11:06 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>, gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Subject: Greens to governor: You will fail because you won't take big money out
     of politics

[GPCA-MediaComm] Final/Sending: Greens to governor: You will fail
because you won't take big money out of politics

civillib at cwnet.com civillib at cwnet.com
News Advisory
             THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA       www.cagreens.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Contact: Susan King, spokesperson, 415.823-5524 funking at
mindspring.com
 	    Sara Amir, spokesperson, 310.270-7106 saraamir at earthlink.net
 	    Cres Vellucci, press secretary, 916.996-9170 civillib at cwnet.com


Greens state-of-state reaction:
Schwarzenegger plan can't succeed without taking
big money out of state politics, Greens contend

SACRAMENTO (January 9, 2007, 6:01 p.m.) ? Gov. Schwarzenegger's state of
state message delivered late today gave priority to schools, the
environment, prisons, political reform and healthcare ? but his plan
has no
real chance of succeeding because the governor refuses to address the
seedy
influence of big corporate money in politics, responded the Green
Party of
California.

"The governor wants a redistricting plan, but the real problem ? at the
heart of voter discontent ? is that powerful special interests simply
buy
the legislation they want through obscene campaign contributions to both
Democrats and Republicans. Big money needs to be taken out of
politics. The
governor did not mention it because he knows it fuels his party, and the
Democratic Party," said Erika McDonald, San Francisco Green Party
spokesperson.

Greens also said Schwarzenegger had it wrong when he called for more
money
for more prisons rather than take a hard look at mandated sentencing
guidelines.

"But before we talk about spending more taxpayer money on incarceration
instead of education, let's talk about reforming "3-strikes" law, so
that
the prisons are not full of thousands of people serving life sentences,
many who have committed crimes no more serious than stealing a
lawnmower or
cheating on a DMV test," said Michael Feinstein, former mayor of Santa
Monica and co-chair of the GPCA Coordinating Committee.

And, although he made it to sound very theatrical, the governor's
promise
to sign an executive order mandating a reduction the carbon content in
fuels by 10 percent rang hollow because the order wouldn't go into
effect
until at least 2020.

"Again, the governor make it sound good and look good, but he misses the
mark in solutions ? in large part because big political money
spenders are
pulling his strings," added McDonald.

The Greens already criticized Arnold's health plan because it gives too
much to powerful insurance interests, yet mandates health insurance
purchases by the working poor and strapped middle class.
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From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 10 16:52:33 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:52:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Senator Kuehl's First Essay 2007 - Healthcare (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:39:35 -0800
From: "Kuehl, Sheila" <Sheila.Kuehl at SEN.CA.GOV>
To: "Kuehl, Sheila" <Sheila.Kuehl at SEN.CA.GOV>
Subject: Senator Kuehl's First Essay 2007 - Healthcare

This is my first essay for 2007.  It addresses the topic that seems to
be on everyone's minds, lips and agenda this year: healthcare.

These essays are my presentation of facts not generally reported or
summarized by the press. Visit my website at www.sen.ca.gov/kuehl
<http://165.107.32.93:7010/www.sen.ca.gov/kuehl>  to read my previous
essays.  For those of you who received this essay by forwarding, it is
written by California State Senator Sheila Kuehl.

This is my first essay for 2007.  It addresses the topic that seems to
be on everyone's minds, lips and agenda this year: healthcare.

These essays are my presentation of facts not generally reported or
summarized by the press. Visit my website at www.sen.ca.gov/kuehl to
read my previous essays.  For those of you who received this essay by
forwarding, it is written by California State Senator Sheila Kuehl.  If
you wish to subscribe to receive these essays on a continuing basis, (no
charge), please send an e-mail to Sheila.Kuehl at sen.ca.gov, titled
"subscribe".  If you receive it directly and wish you didn't.....send an
e-mail to the same address, but title it "unsubscribe".

First, A Few Factoids about California and Healthcare

One in five Californians has no health insurance at all and most of
these people are average working people.  Usually, their employer is one
of the many who does not provide healthcare coverage and they don't make
enough to pay for an individual policy for them and their family.

Of those Californians who do have insurance, many are underinsured and
are very surprised to discover that their insurance doesn't cover a
large chunk of their costs if they get sick or injured.  In fact half of
all the personal bankruptcies in America are caused by medical costs and
three-quarters of those bankrupted had insurance at the time they became
ill or injured.

People are also very worried about losing the insurance they might get
at work because employers are, more and more, cutting back on health
insurance and other benefits and, of course, losing or changing your job
means losing your insurance.

Plenty of money is being spent on healthcare-one out of every six
dollars spent in America, it's just not spent to cover everyone.  And,
while spending generally has risen by 7.5%, insurance premiums have gone
up by double-digits every year for the last five.  Wages have increased
only 1.7%.  Costs are getting shifted to patients and physicians are not
getting reimbursed for their work.

In order to save money, insurance companies deny claims and treatments,
narrow provider networks, exclude more and more people for "pre-existing
conditions" or because they take certain kinds of prescription drugs
(most of the most popular ones) or work in a particular field.

A Field Poll commissioned by the California Wellness Foundation revealed
that 80% of Californians want the government to guarantee access to
affordable healthcare coverage.  When asked why healthcare costs are
increasing, the majority pointed to excessive insurance company profits,
followed by waste, fraud and inefficiency.

Four Healthcare Plans In Legislature

Finally, this year, healthcare is getting a lot of attention in
Sacramento. As Chair of the Senate Health Committee, I am committed to
working with all stakeholders: the Governor, the Legislature, medical
professionals, labor, business and consumers--to work out whatever
incremental reform measures can be developed for this session, at the
same time as the Legislature and I continue to work on the universal
healthcare bill I have authored for the past four years.

In February, I will reintroduce the most comprehensive solution to the
current health care crisis, Senate Bill 840.  SB 840 is the only
proposal that establishes universal, affordable, comprehensive health
insurance for all Californians and that guarantees the right of each
patient to choose his or her own doctor.  SB 840 replaces insurance
companies with a state-wide trust fund that collects premiums paid by
employers and individuals, sharing the responsibility for funding.  This
reduces the administrative portion of California's healthcare costs from
nearly 30% to under 10%.  With everyone in one risk pool, no one is
denied coverage for a so-called pre-existing condition. Consumers are
free to change jobs; start a business; go to school or start a family
without losing the doctors they trust.  The Governor says currently that
he will not sign a universal insurance bill.  Nevertheless, the
Legislature will continue to develop the plan as the only long-term,
universal solution to the health crisis that is going to quickly outgrow
any short term incremental reform.

There are three other developing short term plans to be considered this
session.  Each has its virtues and a number of problems.  The
outstanding questions that must be resolved by any meaningful short term
reform proposal are: will middle-class consumers who cannot now afford
health insurance or qualify for Medi-Cal get the quality coverage they
need; and will hospitals and doctors see any relief from the burdens
that are putting so many of them out of business?

Proposal by President of the Senate

State Senate President pro tem Don Perata's Senate Bill 48 would cover
Californians who are employed, as well as their dependants.  Employers
could either spend a percentage of their payroll toward employee health
insurance or pay an equivalent amount into a health care trust fund.
The fund would then buy a few insurance plans from private insurance
companies, and uninsured employees would be required to pick one.
Insurance companies wanting to offer coverage through the fund would be
required to restrain administrative expenses and provide a basic level
of benefits.  Working individuals would be required to purchase coverage
for themselves and their dependants.  The plan also expands children's
eligibility for existing public programs.  The bill does not indicate if
all employees must be covered when employers provide the insurance, nor
what basic coverage is required, which could leave many workers without
coverage and mandated to buy it themselves.  The bill is still sketchy
and will be worked on throughout the year, along with the two set out
below.

Proposal by the Speaker of the Assembly

Assembly Bill 13, by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, covers employees and
their dependents through a purchasing pool of fees paid by employers
that have two or more employees and do not offer health care coverage.
This pool buys healthcare coverage from private insurance companies.
Workers offered coverage from their employers would be required to
accept coverage for themselves and their dependants unless premiums and
out-of-pocket costs exceed a certain level of income, in which case they
can buy their insurance from the pool.  The money paid for premiums
would be pre-tax dollars.  Individuals and the self-employed could buy
in to the pool, which would offer a choice among several plans, each of
which must provide at least a minimum set of benefits.  Lately, there
has been a proliferation of so-called "basic" plans, so minimal they are
really a sham, requiring huge deductibles; offering no pregnancy
coverage, and offering very low hospital reimbursement rates.  Both
legislative proposals would try to set a floor for benefits from
employers and from the pool.  Again, affordability, funding and coverage
issues remain to be worked out.

Proposal by the Governor

The foundation of the Governor's plan is a mandate requiring every
Californian to have health insurance.  The proposal would allow, and
even encourage, the proliferation of bare-bones plans with deductibles
as high as $5,000 as well as requiring patients to spend an additional
$7500 for procedures refused by their insurance company.  This very
troubling proposal does not at all address how plans will be affordable
or adequate for Californians who are mandated to buy them, nor who will
pay for uncovered procedures above the $12,500 ceiling.  In addition,
every employer is required to spend 4 % of payroll to buy insurance,
either from insurance companies directly or through a state fund.  This
percentage of payroll is not actually sufficient to purchase insurance
for the working uninsured and there is no limit to what employees would
pay, no cost control and therefore, no premium control.

The Governor, like Sen. Perata and Speaker Nunez, would use public
monies to cover all children living in families earning less than 300%
of the Federal Poverty Guidelines (about $39,000 for a single parent
with one child or $60,000 for a family of four) by buying insurance,
again from private companies.  No plan details exactly how the rest of
California's uninsured children would be covered.  He also calls for
significantly increasing reimbursements paid to providers under public
programs by billions of dollars.

Under the Governor's proposal, a portion of the funding for all of this
would come from a tax on providers such as doctors and hospitals, as
well as hoped for increases in federal monies.  Additionally, the
Governor would take money now paid to hospitals to treat indigent people
and redirect it to private insurers to buy insurance for the poor.  This
creates an immediate problem for hospitals which are already closing at
alarming rates due to inadequate reimbursements from private insurance
companies along with the cost of caring for the uninsured.

Finally, the Governor would adopt President Bush's plan for individual
"Health Savings Accounts" by requiring employers to "allow" employees to
put away money, pre-tax, to pay for unreimbursed medical expenses.
Health Savings Accounts effectively enable insurance companies to shift
the costs and liability of healthcare away from them and on to
consumers.  Such a plan will not benefit people who are already too
strapped to meet current expenses and it does nothing to expand coverage
or affordability.

Actions in 2007

This year, and perhaps the next, the Legislature will work out some
compromise measures as between Sen. Perata's plan, the Speaker's plan
and the Governor's plan.  At the same time, we will continue to work on
the long-term solution which must be universal, affordable,
comprehensive in its coverage and protect choice of providers and
quality.  So far, that's only SB 840.  Any incremental legislation must
surely move us in that direction and, at the very least, Do No Harm.


From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan 11 20:19:23 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:19:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Hamlet - Bush's 20,000 men (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:24:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Thottam <peterthottam at yahoo.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Cc: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>,
     Byron De Lear <info at delearforcongress.org>,
     Rebecca Tobias <rebeccatobias at gmail.com>, Philip Koebel <pkoebel at gmail.com>
Subject: Hamlet - Bush's 20,000 men

This is excellent and echoes my encounter w/ Special Forces in Ethiopia.  Denise, can you distribute to this to the frequent list-serve?

Thanks.

Peter Thottam
www.peterthottam.com/2004old


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THE ROVING EYE
Surging toward the holy oil grail
By Pepe Escobar

"I see the imminent death of 20,000 men,
That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
Go to their graves like beds ...
O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth."
Hamlet, Act IV; according to White House spin part of reading-adverse President George W Bush's book list during the summer of 2006.

And so, after a tsunami surge of spin, US President George W



Bush is heading toward escalation, summoning his 21,500 men, supported by barely 11% of Americans. Escalation in Iraq is the name of the president's game, and that also applies to Somalia - the new Afghanistan.

In far from accidental timing, the good old "war on terror" is back from the grave (nobody really related to the "long war" newspeak). After all, the galleries had to be reminded that there's a Pentagon-concocted "arc of instability" running from the Horn of Africa to the Middle East and then to the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Himalayas. The "war on terror" has expanded to the business of killing Africans, now afforded membership of the ever-expanding "axis of evil".

Bush, in front of a stack of books he never reads, blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni Arab resistance and "Shi'ites supported by Iran" for his failures; committed five more brigades to Baghdad and 4,000 extra troops to guerrilla and al-Qaeda-controlled al-Anbar province. As if these shock troops will be enough to pursue the "fight against terror". Bush's plan ultimately breaks down to a slightly bulkier US militia in Iraq capable of killing more Arabs.

Taking the bull by the Horn
With some aplomb, the White House/Pentagon axis has managed to turn Somalia into the new Afghanistan, in more ways than one and just in time for Bush's announcement of his escalation-tainted "new way forward". The Pentagon maintained it had "credible" intelligence before it decided to strike alleged al-Qaeda-infested villages in southern Somalia. This is highly suspect.

The intelligence was provided by unsavory, corrupt Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi - who came up with the clever plot of concocting a fictitious jihad conducted by "neo-Taliban" in Somalia and selling it handsomely to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Pentagon. He's now posing as a prime US ally in the "war on terror", just as Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov did in the autumn of 2001.

Zenawi's US-trained Ethiopian troops, the ones who invaded Somalia, are infested with CIA operatives and Special Forces - all of them flown in from the strategic US-controlled (since September 11, 2003) Camp Le Monier in Djibouti.

Arab media are having a field day reporting that Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, a reconverted warlord "elected" by fellow warlords (all armed by the US) and then legitimized by the United Nations, told African journalists in Mogadishu that the US had the right to bomb "anywhere in the world". According to the Kenyan newspaper The Daily Nation, this new US campaign of targeted assassinations has in fact killed scores of civilians.

But with the help of Ethiopia's dictatorship - whose soldiers it trained - Washington is being rewarded with one more client regime, and a crucial foothold in the Horn of Africa, right on the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, very close to the Red Sea and literally next door to Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Or is it that simple? Somalia, 75% pastoral with six major clans and hundreds of sub-clans, is now in civil-war mode. Millions of Somalis live in neighboring Kenya, and support the deposed, moderate Islamic Union Courts. Kenya will be convulsed. Blowback will be inevitable - and bloody. "Long war" marketers and profiteers could not but rejoice.

The bull in the carpet shop
As the Somali Osama bin Laden slouches toward Kenya to be born, there is only one new Saddam Hussein strong enough to "save" the US in Iraq. His name is Abu Deraa. But there is a slight problem: he is a Shi'ite warlord, and head of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army.

The Iraqi media have been wildly speculating that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki could be the victim of a US-engineered white coup, the likely replacement candidates being two certified Washington puppets, current Vice President Adil Abdul Mahdi from the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), an enthusiast of a proposed new Iraqi oil law, and former interim prime minister, former Ba'athist and "butcher of Fallujah", Iyad Allawi.

But just when Washington and the Green Zone in Baghdad were abuzz with talk of regime change, Bush told Republican senators this week that his escalation and "new way forward" policies were basically designed by none other than Maliki, widely condemned for his support of Shi'ite death squads. It is astonishing that Maliki might actually have managed to convince Bush that he will frontally take on the militias of his ally Muqtada.

High on the White House wishful-thinking list is that Muqtada be isolated in the Iraqi Parliament as the US-trained Iraqi army, on Maliki's orders and helped by the Pentagon, crushes the Mehdi Army. Shi'ites killing Shi'ites? Now that's an extremely tall order. Yet this would lead, runs the scenario, to the mollifying of the 
Sunni Arab resistance. Sunnis would increase their voice in the government - supposing they were convinced there would be no more militia-conducted ethnic cleansing. The scenario completely "forgets" the SCIRI's Badr Organization, whose militias, much more organized and well trained than the Mehdi Army, are operating right from inside the Interior Ministry.

Nothing of the White House's laundry list, of course, is going to



happen. What could happen, though, is indiscriminate US-conducted civilian killings, thus generating another martyr, Muqtada, even more powerful for legions of Shi'ites than Saddam has become for Sunni Ba'athists.

The basic fact remains that Bush's escalation is designed to smash Muqtada's Mehdi Army. That can only mean, in practice, a mini-genocide of vast masses of unruly, extremely dispossessed Shi'ites: the coming battle of Sadr City, which the Pentagon has been itching to launch since the spring of 2004. The Pentagon is actually declaring war on no fewer than 2.2 million (poor) people. A sinister symmetry still applies: the Pentagon will attack dispossessed Shi'ite masses - just as the Israeli Defense Forces attacked dispossessed Shi'ite masses in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

There's more. Bush's escalation, according to his own speech, will ensure there will actually be two major battles on two different fronts: the battle of Sadr City, against Shi'ites, and the Great Battle of Baghdad, as the Sunni Arab muqawama (resistance) has been dubbing it. A tangential taste of this second front was provided this week by the day-long fight in Haifa Street between coalition and Iraqi forces against militants.

Muhammad al-Askari, the military adviser to Maliki, justified the bombing of Haifa Street as crucial to the killing of "50 terrorists". Anyone familiar with the Sunni Arab resistance knows they would never be dumb enough to concentrate 50 top fighters in a single Baghdad street in full view of US firepower. The battle of Haifa Street actually fits into Maliki's preferred developing pattern: systematic ethnic cleansing of Sunni areas by the heavily militia-infiltrated, and US-trained, Iraqi army.

Bush's escalation is also certain to incinerate the stars of counterinsurgency ace Lieutenant-General David Petraeus, currently spun as the new military messiah who will "save" Iraq for the US. After all, he is the co-author of the new US Army counterinsurgency field manual. But according to Petraeus' own doctrine, the Pentagon would need at least 120,000 combat troops to have a shot at winning the counterinsurgency game in Baghdad. The US currently has no more than 70,000 combat troops in the whole of Iraq. It controls not even a hectare of al-Anbar province - which is practically on the way to becoming an Islamic emirate. The US controls the Green Zone - and that's it. So in essence Bush's 21,500 extra men are doomed to total irrelevance - not to mention raising their odds of returning home in a body bag, courtesy of the upcoming resistance surge.

Grabbing those oil fields by the horn
Washington's successive divide-and-rule tactics - facilitating a possible genocide of Sunnis, contemplating a mass slaughter of Shi'ites, betting on a regional Sunni/Shi'ite war - never for a second lose sight of the riches of Iraqi. For Big Business, an Iraq eaten alive by Balkanization is the ideal environment for the triumph of Anglo-American petrocracy.

A new Iraqi oil law will most likely be voted on in Parliament in the next few weeks, before the arrival of Bush's 21,500 men, and it should be in effect in March. The law is Anglo-American Big Oil's holy grail: the draft has been carefully scrutinized by Washington, Big Oil and the International Monetary Fund, but not by Iraqi politicians. The profit-sharing agreements enshrined by the law are immensely profitable for Big Oil. And crucially, the law prevents any Iraqi government from nationalizing the oil industry - as the majority of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member states did. In essence, it's a game of "if you nationalize, we invade you - again". So the law fulfills the early-2003 neo-con boast of "we are the new OPEC".

Iraq's petrodollars will turn to mush - or rather, as with Saudi Arabia, be recycled back to US banks. Security company Blackwater will make a killing "protecting" Iraqi pipelines. Bechtel and Halliburton will get myriad fat contracts to rebuild everything the US has bombarded since 1991.

But what's the use of an oil law in a 100-cadavers-a-day hellhole? Enter the escalation as a way of providing "stability". Whichever way the coming surge goes - ethnic cleansing of Sunnis, the battle of Sadr City - what matters is not the piling up of Arab Muslim (or American) bodies, but how much less cumbersome is the path toward the holy oil grail. Big Business will make a deal with anyone that facilitates the passing of the oil law, be it Maliki's Da'wa Party, the SCIRI, or - in a wildest-dream version - the Sadrists or al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The overwhelming majority of Iraqis, Sunni and Shi'ite, want the US out, and as soon as possible. A rape of Iraq's oil wealth enshrined by a Parliament-approved oil law would certainly lead to national unrest. For the moment it's fair to assume the US is taking no chances in its backroom deals, as the SCIRI's support for the new law, via Vice President Adil Abdul Mahdi, is practically assured. Da'wa must be in the process of being bribed to death.

But Muqtada is another story. He is close to some Sunni factions. They are getting closer. And crucially, they agree on being Iraqi nationalists who want the Americans out. There's a very strong possibility of the Sadrists joining the muqawama in the event the oil law is approved. Thus the preemptive, two-pronged Bush escalation on the war front - against both Muqtada and nationalist Sunnis.

The ever-expanding killing fields
Stenographers of the "clash of civilizations" may rejoice. But what really matters is what 1.5 billion people of the Muslim ummah are seeing. They see, on a given day, apart from made-in-USA bombs over Palestine, the US bombarding Arab Muslims in Iraq, Central Asian Muslims in Afghanistan, black Muslims in Somalia. Soon, perhaps, Persian Muslims will be included. Blowback is assured.

Referring to the hearings on Capitol Hill last month on the Lancet study compiling 655,000 civilian deaths provoked by the war on Iraq, University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole wrote in his blog that the US government "has committed cliocide" - after the Greek muse Clio, who watched over the course of human history. Cliocide will of course continue.

In Iraq, there are only two stark, inevitable options for the White House: cliocide, as in mass slaughter (of Sunnis and Shi'ites alike); or defeat (which is all but assured). Bush has chosen the first option. The upcoming battle of Sadr City will signal the descent of Iraq into absolute, abysmal, irreversible chaos. Bush, in imperial-Rome mode, can then call the desolation victory, and retire. Provided, of course, the oil law is in the bag.

(Copyright 2007 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact us about sales, syndication and republishing.)
Click here: Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - Surging toward the holy oil grail


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IA12Ak06.html


Peter L. Thottam, Esq. (JD MBA)
Los Angeles, CA  90048
Mobile: (310) 497-7255; 
Email: peterthottam at yahoo.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: Byron De Lear <info at delearforcongress.org>; Rebecca Tobias <rebeccatobias at gmail.com>; Peter Thottam <peterthottam at yahoo.com>; Philip Koebel <pkoebel at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:41:32 AM
Subject: please jump in: GP Candidate Development/Recruitment


>
> Please jump in on this blog--we are having a good discussion about 
> how to recruit and develop GP candidates and need your input!!
> http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2007/01/election-2008.html
>
> cheers,
> Lisa

From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan 11 20:25:30 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:25:30 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Empowerment Congress - Sat., Jan. 20,
 8:30am to 2:00pm, West L.A. College - FREE! (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701112325280.21560@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:02:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Empowerment Congress - Sat., Jan. 20, 8:30am to 2:00pm,
     West L.A. College - FREE!

Please forward this invitation to your community
members, especially youth and young adult community
members!

EMPOWERMENT CONGRESS EVENT - THE POWER OF PEOPLE!

Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas (16th Senate District)
invites you to the 15th
Anniversary of the Empowerment Congress for "The Power
of People: Engage,
Educate, Empower Intergenerational Teach-In" event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Keynote Speakers will include: Dr. Cornel West,
Author, Professor, Philosopher;
Jose "Pepe" Aguilar, UCLA Graduate Student; Admirial
David Brewer, L AUSD
Superintendent; Ely Flores, Public Allies Alumnus & LA
CAUSA YouthBuild;
Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Executive Director -
Community Coalition; Eunsook Lee,
Executive Director - National Korean American Service
& Education Consortium;
Dr. Raphael Sonenshein, Political Science Professor -
CSU Fullerton; and Anthony
Thigpen, President - Strategic Concepts in Organizing.


Performers include Skim and DJ Soulspeak.

EVENT LOGISTICS:
Date: Saturday, January 20, 2007
Time: 8:30 am to 2:00 p.m.
Location: West Los Angeles College, Fine Arts Theatre,
9000 Overland Avenue,
Culver City, 90230
Workshops Include: Government advocacy, coalition
building, grassroots
organizing, youth activist movements, youth dialogue,
and empowerment through
art.

Cost: The event and lunch are free.  Please call (213)
745-6656 to RSVP and
reserve lunch by Wednesday, January 17, 2007.  You can
also email your RSVP to
empowerment.congress at gmail.com.  For more information
visit the website at
http://wwwempowermentcongress.org/.

Best,

Ernesto Salda??a
Site Director - Public Allies Los Angeles
Community Development Technologies Center




From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 12 12:38:55 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:38:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Sanchez becomes first Green President of the San
 Francisco Board of Education (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701121538530.3768@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:41:41 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>
Subject: Sanchez becomes first Green President of the San Francisco Board of
     Education


http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1470

From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 12 12:45:10 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:45:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] FW: eco home (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:05:26 -0800
From: dennis piano <dennispiano at hotmail.com>
To: dennispiano at hotmail.com, denise at panix.com
Subject: FW: eco home

hi denise -

don't know if this interests you,
but i thought i would pass it on.

there is a totally eco friendly home
on russell av. that does tours every
other sunday at 2pm.

i'll b there this sunday. usually it's $10,
but if u r with a member. it's $5.

i will b a member this sunday.

if u want to pass this along to your e friends,
that is ok with me.

blessings,
dennis
-----------------
Eco-Home? Network
4344 Russell Avenue, LA, CA 90027
Phone: 323-662-5207 ? Fax: 323-662-4744
ecohome at pacbell.net
julia russell


From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 12 12:52:36 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:52:36 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Tell the FCC: Stop Big Media (fwd)
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To: bluskysolar at yahoo.com, sandyworks22 at hvc.rr.com, cvanston at tfi.com,
     denise at panix.com, DPower410 at aol.com, Isaac at LiebermanSolutions.com,
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Subject: Tell the FCC: Stop Big Media

Hey,

I thought you might be interested in the campaign to stop further media concentration into the hands of a few corporations at www.stopbigmedia.com.

The FCC is pushing through a ruling that would permit large conglomerates, like News Corp, Viacom and General Electric, to control more local television, radio and newspapers.

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From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 12 14:58:16 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:58:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] LA GREENS MEET WED. AT ACAPULCO RESTAURANT
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701121756070.29368@panix1.panix.com>


Hi all.  The Peace Center (where we usually meet the third wed. of 
each month) was flooded - so we have to move our meeting.  We will be 
meeting at the Acapulco Restaurant (just a few minutes away from the 
peace center)   385 N.  La Cienega Blvd. LA CA  90048  310-659-6831. 
We have a room in the back reserved, tell them you are with the LA 
Greens.  There is parking beneath the restaurant.  It's on La Cienega 
between Beverly and Santa Monica Blvd.

We have a lot of exciting things to talk about - and we will also be 
electing officers.  We encourage you all to run.  See you there at 7pm 
on Wed. Jan. 17!

peace,

-denise


From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan 14 13:21:52 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:21:52 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] From EarthLink Entertainment News (fwd)
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:23:21 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
From: Steve Gilbort <stevescorp at earthlink.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: From EarthLink Entertainment News

Moyers to Return to PBS With Weekly Show

January 13, 2007 10:58 PM EST

PASADENA, Calif. - Bill Moyers is returning to PBS in April with a weekly public affairs series, "Bill Moyers Journal," that resurrects the name of his first public television series for a new century.

Moyers, 72, did two specials for PBS last year, and both the work and response "whetted my appetite for more."

"People keep writing or stopping me on the street to suggest stories that are not being reported and voices that are not being heard," said the former press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson. "A lot of Americans long for more than conventional wisdom, celebrity pundits, predictable opinions and safe analysis of the obvious."

The first episode on April 25 discusses the role of the press before the invasion of Iraq.

Moyers left his previous weekly series, "Now with Bill Moyers," in 2004. It became a center of controversy when it was revealed that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was monitoring the show for the political leanings of its guests.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting directs federal dollars to the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and hundreds of public radio and television stations.

From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan 14 16:47:58 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:47:58 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] "What Al Gore Hasn't Told You About Global Warming"
	(fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701141947500.19859@panix1.panix.com>



Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:03:43 -0800
From: Tera Little <teralittle at worldnet.att.net>

Hi all - I thought you might be interested in reading this book review (the
link is at the end of the email below). The book looks at global warming and
discusses some of the hard sacrifices we, in the global North, will need to
make in order to stop more devastation. The author does give some time to
airplane travel (probably my biggest sin). I didn't see in the review that
he talks about food choices, but perhaps that is in the book - I'm going to
look for a copy in the bookstore and see. In peace, Tera



Dear Fellow UUs:



Is changing light bulbs to CFLs, driving a real hybrid car like a

Prius, turning the thermostat down a few degrees, plus adding some

insulation to your home, going to be enough to mitigate our global

warming problems??  Absolutely NO!



Most think that what we all need to do to slow down global

warming/climate change is adequately covered in and at the end of Al

Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" (and in most other articles).  I

have thought much about how our lifestyles will need to change and

will be forced to change in what should be the near future.  For me I

continue to realize more and more how significant this all is and I

have difficulty in getting this across to most other persons.  They

nod and say they understand, but their remarks clearly indicate to me

they do not understand.  I think this goes for most.



Perhaps the book mentioned below will get the point across.  This book

review in itself may assist.  I quote in part this book review which I

just read:



George Monbiot's new book "Heat: How to stop the planet from burning"

(Doubleday, 2006) picks up where Al Gore left off on global warming,

offering real solutions without sugar-coating the large personal

sacrifices they will require by us all. - "Heat" is a remarkable book.

  For it is not written to convince the unconvinced global warming, but

to educate the already-persuaded, those who exited the theater after

watching "An Inconvenient Truth" with fire in their bellies, ready to

fight the incoming menace about what must be done, and ready to face

the significant sacrifices that will have to be made along the way." -

  "Heat" is reviewed by David Norris, in "What Al Gore Hasn't Told You

About Global Warming", January 9, 2007.







I suggest one read the full review at:







Article hyperlink:  http://www.alternet
<http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46318/> .org/envirohealth/46318/



Article hyperlink through TruthOut:

http://www.truthout <http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010907EB.shtml>
.org/issues_06/010907EB.shtml







Bruce Langmuir



First Parish of Sudbury UU





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From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan 14 23:26:42 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:26:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] "Combatants for Peace" - Wed., Jan. 31, 8 pm,
 Skirball Cultural Center, L.A. - Free, but RSVP's required (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701150226400.7520@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:15:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: "Combatants for Peace" - Wed., Jan. 31, 8 pm, Skirball Cultural Center,
     L.A. - Free, but RSVP's required


Jan. 31 (Wed), 8 pm?Combatants for Peace Elik Elhanan
and Sulaiman Al Hamri with Ammy Wilentz, Skirball
Cultural Center, LA.

Combatants For Peace is a group of Israelis and
Palestinians (currently numbering 150) who previously
were engaged in the cycle of violence between the two
peoples. The Israelis are comprised exclusively of
combat soldiers?including pilots, tank commanders,
annd members of elite commando units. The Palestinians
have each participated in violent activities against
Israeli targets, and have nearly all served time in
Israeli prisons. After brandishing weapons for many
years, these former combatants have realized the
futility of the violence they have perpetrated on each
other. In a unified voice, they have renounced
violence and are calling for a peaceful resolution to
the seemingly intractable conflict between their
peoples. They hope to serve as an inspiration and
example to those who continue to engage in violence,
and they ultimately intend to influence their
political leaders to meaningfully pursue peace.

Elik Elhanan is the Israeli coordinator of Combatants
For Peace. From 1995 to 1998 he served as a soldier in
an Israeli combat unit. In 1997 his 14 year-old sister
was killed by a Palestinian suicide bombing in
Jerusalem. "I have seen the damage the violence can
cause," he says, "and I decided not to take part in
that cycle anymore."

Sulaiman Al Hamri is the Palestinian coordinator of
Combatants For Peace. He served four-and-a-half years
in Israeli prisons for his involvement in violent
anti-occupation protests and demonstrations, before
coming to the conclusion that the spilling of more
blood, whether Palestinian or Israeli, must stop.
"It's a paradox," he says. "You hear a man talking
about how he shot and killed your brother's son or
destroyed your neighbor's house, but you feel empathy
for him. You realize that we are no different from
each other. The soldier wanted to protect his people,
and we wanted to protect ours. But we've all
discovered we were wrong in how we were doing it."

Amy Wilentz, the former New Yorker correspondent in
Jerusalem and author of the acclaimed novel Martyrs'
Crossing, will moderate a Q & A following a short film
screening and presentation by Elhanan and Al Hamri.

Visit the Combatants for Peace web site to view videos
and testimony.

Magnin Auditorium at Skirball Cultural Center, 2701
North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, 90049. This event
is open to the public ? free of charge. Space limited,
RSVPs are required: 310.621.6654 or email your
first/last name and phone number to register.

The national tour for Combatants for Peace is
coordinated and sponsored by Brit Tzedek V'Shalom, the
Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace. It is
cosponsored in Los Angeles by Americans for Peace Now
? B???nai Horin-Children of Freedom ? Rabbi Haim
Beliak???s JewsOnFirst.org ? Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels
of Beth Shir Sholom [for i.d. purposes only] ?
CODEPINK: Women for Peace ? Dr. Jordan Farkas
Fooundation ? Islamic Center of Southern California ?
Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs??? Progressive Faith Foundation
? Levantine Culttural Center ? Muslim Public Affairs
Council

From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan 15 16:30:23 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:30:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Meet Ralph Nader at Screening of His Film: And Don't
 Forget Wed. Night LA Greens meet at Acapulco
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701151928590.19897@panix2.panix.com>


Ralph Nader is coming to town for the opening of the amazing 
documentary (yes, many of us saw it!) about him "An Unreasonable Man" 
- he'll be here Feb. 9.  Also, don't forget, our meeting on Wed. at 
7pm is at the Acapulco Restaurant (because the Peace Center was 
flooded).  We're having elections for a new steering committee, 
speakers and much more.  It's on La Cienega between Beverly and Santa 
Monica.  See you there!  Info about Nader is below!  peace,  denise


Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:39:08 -0500
From: Vicky Wight <vwight at rainbow-media.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: An Unreasonable Man in Los Angeles

Hi Denise,

I just want to check back in to see if you wouldn't mind letting
everyone of your Green Party colleagues (and everyone else you know!!)
know about the film opening in Los Angeles at the NuArt. It opens on
Feb. 9th and Ralph Nader will be there for Q&A following the evening the
film opens. Tickets are currently on sale for those shows.

I remember that you can't send attachments to your list via email so the
best way to send everyone info on the opening date in LA would be for
them to visit the main website (see address below). Thanks for any and
all support!!

Best, Vicky
IFC Films
www.ifcfilms.com

www.anunreasonableman.com

From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan 16 13:41:10 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:41:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] kcet and arlington west (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701161641080.7557@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:24:13 -0800
From: Peter Dudar & Sally Marr <mail at arlingtonwestfilm.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: kcet and arlington west

tonite at 6:30 pm on kcet
MFSO and ARLINGTON WEST!
mfso families are interviewed
during the "surge speech".
and photos of arlington west
will be shown during the show!
please watch! it is national!

From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 17 09:03:56 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:03:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] reminder: meeting tonight at restaurant*also
 comedy*also do you live in valley?
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701171200220.14517@panix2.panix.com>


Hi all.  Just a reminder - tonight's LA Greens' meeting tonight is at 
7pm at Acapulco Restaurant (due to flooding at the Peace Center) 
here's the info:

385 N La Cienega Blvd
West Hollywood, CA
(310) 659-6831

We have elections, and guest speakers.  Does anyone live in the 
valley?  If so, can you give our speaker Greg a ride?  If you can 
here's his info:  Greg    greg at newciv.org  /  818-784-0325

Lastly, if you missed my comedy show New Year's Eve, I have a 3 min. 
bit on a sort of Daily Show type internet program called The Ointment
go to www.theointment.com    it's playing all day today and then it 
will be archived on the site.  I had some Green Party jokes which 
should still be on there...I haven't been able to view it yet.

peace,

-denise munro robb


From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 17 15:54:55 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:54:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] LA Greens agenda-DIFFERENT
	location-Tonight (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701171854530.27174@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:42:21 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
Reply-To: Green Party of Los Angeles County Discussion Forum
     <gplac-forum at cagreens.org>
To: gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] LA Greens agenda-DIFFERENT location-Tonight

LA Greens Mtg--DIFFERENT LOCATION--ACAPULCO RESTURANT
   Wednesday, January 17,  7pm

We will be meeting at the Acapulco Restaurant (just a few minutes
away from the peace  center, which has water damage) 385 N. La
Cienega Blvd. LA CA 90048 (see map) 310-659-6831. We have a room in
the back reserved, tell them you are with the LA Greens. There is
parking beneath the restaurant. It's on La Cienega between Beverly
and Santa Monica Blvd.

????  Introductions (5 mins)
????  'Eco-Driving' Messages on California's Roadway CMSs?  (10 mins)
Greg Wright
????  Marx Guitterez (LAANE) on the Living Wage Referendum (10 mins)
????  Jose Aguilar (of the Sierra Club Central Group) on the
privatization of public inner city parks and what the LA Greens can
do to help stop it (10 mins)
????  Candance Bartel on Solar Panels for Hot Water Heating (5 mins)
????  CSUN Supershow (5 mins)
????  Louis Pugliese- SF Valley School Board Candidate (5 mins)
????  Margaret of SOA Watch South LA Chapter (5 mins)
????  Steering Committee Elections --2 Facilitators, Treasurer and
Secretary (15 mins)
????  Tabling Report (5 mins)
????  Treasurer's Report (5 mins)
????  Speakout (10 mins)
????  Announcements (5 mins)
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
GPLAC-Forum mailing list
GPLAC-Forum at cagreens.org
http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gplac-forum

From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan 18 09:34:19 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:34:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Hon. Jose Huizar Press Conference on Governor's
 Budget Cuts to Poverty - Fri. 4 pm (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701181234180.7931@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:08:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Susie Shannon <susie at panix.com>
To: Susie Shannon <susieanneshannon at yahoo.com>
Cc: susie at panix.com
Subject: Hon. Jose Huizar Press Conference on Governor's Budget Cuts to Poverty
     - Fri. 4 pm

Dear Group,

This friday  Jan. 19th, City Councilmember Jose Huizar,
along with state and local elected officials,
parents and community groups, will hold a press conference to voice opposition 
to the Governor.s proposed cuts to welfare benefits.

Please come out and support Council Member Huizar for taking a
courageous stand against the Governor.

---------------------------------------------------
JOS HUIZAR
COUNCILMEMBER OF THE FOURTEENTH DISTRICT

January 19, 2007

PRESS ADVISORY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: ANGELICA URQUIJO
(626) 340-1804

COUNCILMEMBER JOSE HUIZAR, STATE AND LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS,
AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OPPOSE CUTS TO CHIDLREN.S AID

LOS ANGELES.

City Councilmember Jos Huizar, along with state and local elected officials, 
parents and community groups, will hold
a press conference to voice opposition to the Governor's
proposed cuts to welfare benefits.

The cuts would eliminate a critical safety net for tens
of thousands of children whose parents are immigrants
or do not meet federal work requirements.

WHO:
Councilmember Jos Huizar, District 14
State and Local Elected Officials TBD
Boyle Heights Learning Collaborative
East LA Community Corporation
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
Proyecto Pastoral
Plaza Community Center
Poverty Matters
Union de Vecinos
Parents, students and community members

WHAT:
Councilmember Huizar leads community opposition to proposed cuts targeting 
vulnerable children

WHEN:
Friday, January 19, 2007

TIME:
4:00PM

WHERE:
Breed Street Elementary School Playground
2226 East Third St. Los Angeles, CA 90033


Warm Regards,

Susie Shannon
Poverty Matters
povertymatters at yahoo.com
(323) 939-5475


From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 19 12:59:56 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:59:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] New Green Focus newspaper available on LA Greens
	website (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701191559520.6999@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:54:54 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: gplac-forum at cagreens.org, Denise <denise at panix.com>
Subject: New Green Focus newspaper available on LA Greens website

Thanks to Don Boring for all his work on Green Focus, the newspaper of the 
Green Party of California, and our LA Greens webguy, Michael Rochmes, for 
putting the Jan. 2007 issue up here:

http://losangelesgreens.org/

Cheers,
Lisa

From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 19 13:00:30 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:00:30 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] urgent*tomorrow*Help! Need YOUR help packing our
 office at Peace Center, Sat. Jan 20 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701191600250.6999@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:21:18 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
To: Denise <denise at panix.com>
Subject: Help! Need YOUR help packing our office at Peace Center, Sat. Jan 20

Unfortunately, the place where LA Greens has donated office space,
the Peace Center, had major water damage over the holidays and floor
must be replaced.
All of our stuff must be packed in boxes and marked LA Greens, ASAP,
and they will be transported to storage during the floor replacement.

WE NEED YOU TO HELP PACK!!

Linda Piera-Avila will be at Peace Center from 10am-Noon this
Saturday, Jan. 20 and she has a key to the building.
Please come and help her PACK. Don't let her be lonely!

Christine Pinto and Lisa Taylor will be there from 1pm-4pm for
afternoon packing.
Please join them as well!

We will have supplies, but please bring any extra boxes and packing
tape that you have on hand.

The more the merrier--bring people, PLEASE!

Let Lisa Taylor know when you will be helping, email her at
lisa at losangelesgreens.org

The Peace Center,
8124 West Third Street  (just west of Fairfax at Crescent Heights)
Los Angeles
Park behind building
(see a map)

From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 19 23:59:51 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:59:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [LaGreensExcom] "Vibes Watch", in full vibe... (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701200259470.17063@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:38:14 -0800
From: Patrick Meighan <patsweetpat at verizon.net>
Reply-To: LaGreensExcom at yahoogroups.com
To: LaGreensExcom at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LaGreensExcom] "Vibes Watch", in full vibe...

Hey all,

Michael Rochmes has graciously tossed me a rope ladder and allowed me
to climb aboard his excellent blog, Vibes Watch ("A blog by a Green
in Los Angeles about the Green Party and Green Politics").  Hope you
come check us out.

We'll be updating the thing 5 times a week, so be sure to make it
part of your daily blogsurf, and tell all your friends, too!

Here's the link:

http://greeninlosangeles.blogspot.com/

Peace,

Patrick Meighan


From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan 20 10:45:29 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:45:29 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [LaGreensExcom] "Vibes Watch",
	in full vibe... (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701201344510.29771@panix1.panix.com>



For those of you interested in a green party blog - this one is from 
our former secretary and our current webmaster...see info below


--- Patrick Meighan <patsweetpat at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Michael Rochmes has graciously tossed me a rope
> ladder and allowed me
> to climb aboard his excellent blog, Vibes Watch ("A
> blog by a Green
> in Los Angeles about the Green Party and Green
> Politics").  Hope you
> come check us out.
>
> We'll be updating the thing 5 times a week, so be
> sure to make it
> part of your daily blogsurf, and tell all your
> friends, too!
>
> Here's the link:
>
> http://greeninlosangeles.blogspot.com/
>
> Peace,
>
> Patrick Meighan
>
>


From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan 21 13:25:26 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:25:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] this man spoke at our meeting last wed.
 Sustainability Education (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701211625190.9391@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:04:08 -0800
From: Samuel Kiwasz <samuel at sacredfriends.org>
To: samuel at sacredfriends.com
Subject: Sustainability Education

Dear SacredFriends,

         This candidate, Louis Pugliese, for the 3rd district position on the L.A. Unified School Board,  has a platform that reads like a breath of fresh air.  He has done his homework and has a plan for potentially rescuing our school children from outdated/outmoded sub-standard education.   If you care about the education of our youth, then please read what he has to say; it's inspiring...Samuel


Hello,

Enclosed please find information in regards to Louis Pugliese. Louis is running for LAUSD's District 3 office which represents most of the San Fernando Valley. We believe that you will find that his positions and his background make him more than qualified to be the next board member for the San Fernando Valley.

We are asking that you please review the information enclosed in this e-mail and if you agree with what you have read, please give him your endorsement as a sign of your approval.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact the office at 818-505-8165.

Thank you for your consideration.

Nicole Gaffney
"Pugliese for School Board" Committee.




  Louis Pugliese, MA, Ed.
www.SmartenUpLA.com



Schools Kids Like/New Curriculum
Sustainability Education and Sustainable Schools
Strong Voice for Parents, Teachers and Students
No More "Dropouts"

"SMARTEN UP!"T
The Education Platform of Louis Pugliese
Candidate for LAUSD Board of Education
       Schools Kids Like/New Curriculum
       "America's high schools are obsolete" -Bill Gates
       In these days of accountability, standards, and focus on closing the achievement gap, everyone agrees that high expectations and equal access to rigorous coursework and study are instrumental in improving our schools.
       While it is true that expectation of success both on the part of teachers and students is critical in motivation, a larger piece of the formula is often overlooked -that is the value of the outcome. Just telling students that "this is important" will no longer bear much weight in a modern world full of television, computers, ipods and war. The most common reason students report for "dropping out" is boredom, yet we still deliver a curriculum that is essentially the same as it was 75 years ago- before television or computers.
       I advocate:
         a.. An expanded range of courses in all schools for students to choose from-including media studies, contemporary history and issues, and independent, rigorous study of self-chosen topics and projects.
         b.. Ensuring that science, social studies, physical education and the arts are included in all schools' daily programs- and not ignored because they are "not on the test."
         c.. Encouragement and professional training for teachers and schools to best identify individual students' interests and talents to facilitate higher standards and rigorous learning.
         d.. A longer window of learning and opportunity when necessary, particularly in mathematics, so when students attend college, take more advanced coursework, or enter the job market, they are ready, interested and motivated- not bored.
         e.. Teaching and learning that focuses on skills for 21st century life and work;
           - knowing more about the contemporary world
           - creative and collaborative problem solving
           - information and technological literacy
           - skills for lifelong learning
       Sustainability Education and Sustainable Schools
       In 2001, LAUSD adopted a resolution to incorporate sustainable school design into their plan for new schools. The plan, following the guidelines set by the Collaborative for High Performance Schools, recognized: "student achievement is greater and attendance higher when the learning environment is naturally lit, comfortable and well maintained, (and)... schools should employ design and construction strategies that minimize operating costs, including energy and water efficiency..."
       Though this looks promising and innovative on the surface, merely installing skylights and low-flush toilets is not enough. The LAUSD policy simply fails to address the fact that responsibility for sustainability and environmental stewardship must necessarily be linked to the students and community.
       In contrast to this top-down, contract-driven building policy, I advocate the following as a way to provide both effective, sustainable schools and meaningful, relevant learning and student participation;
         a.. Integrate student participation in the management of school resources and grounds (energy, recycling, water, biodiversity, landscape design, etc.) into existing curriculum and daily running of the school.
         b.. Ensure that students have an understanding of, and concern for, stewardship of the natural environment, and the knowledge and skills to contribute to ecologically sustainable development.
         c.. Development of all schools as models for sustainability within the local community, with innovative design, alternative energy systems, expanded green areas, playgrounds, and community food gardens.

       No More "Dropouts"
       With the dropout rate from LAUSD's schools higher than 30% by most estimates, it is time for a radical departure from policy that merely does more of the same, more intensely. The number one reason students report for leaving school is boredom, which is a logical result of unending confusion. The Los Angeles Times reports that some students fail classes over and over, until they finally become what has been termed "push-outs"- too old and too unmotivated to continue their studies.
       While LAUSD's goal of preparing all students with a college-prep curriculum is meant to keep standards high for all learners regardless of socio-economic status or race, it also serves to push out students who are either unprepared for, or not interested in attending four-year universities. Though the district claims to have some sort of career/technical education component for alternative studies, it is minimal at best, and only available as an addition to their required curriculum. Beyond that, a convoluted hodge-podge of adult learning centers, continuation schools and career centers tries to pick up the slack.
       In fact, the district acts as if the community college system, once a part of LAUSD, doesn't exist, even though most State University graduates start there. Consider this discouraging quote from LAUSD's "Graduation Requirements" web page;

       "...it is possible for you to meet all the requirements for
       graduation and still not be eligible for college admission."

       I propose the following:
         a.. Offering a wide "menu" of choices, with multiple paths and requirements to graduation.
         b.. Expand career and technical education programs and choices.
         c.. Establishment of "Graduation Centers" for older students to return and continue their education, through workplace partnerships, distance learning and independent study.
         d.. Promote Community College study as a bridge to a four-year degree.
         e.. Allow exit as early as 10th Grade for students who are prepared and ready for college, reducing class size and costs.
         f.. Establish a division of Extended Learning to administer all non-traditional programs.
       ? 2006 Louis Pugliese



Nicole Gaffney
"Pugliese for School Board"

Website: Smartenupla.com
Email: Smartenupla at yahoo.com
Phone 818 505 8165
Fax 310 496 1405


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know.

From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan 21 22:59:49 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:59:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Iraq War to Cost $1.2 Trillion (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701220159480.486@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:09:21 -0600 (CST)
From: retired58 at verizon.net
To: Undisclosed recipients:  ;
Subject: Iraq War to Cost $1.2 Trillion

Iraq War to Cost $1.2 Trillion

Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq five years ago, the Pentagon
estimated the war would cost about $50 billion. New estimates place
the figure at a mind-boggling $1.2 trillion.

The war operation itself ? the equipment, fuel, combat pay for
soldiers, salaries of reservists and contractors and reconstruction
expenses ? costs more than $300 million a day, with an eventual total
of $700 billion over the course of the war, according to an estimate
by economist Scott Wallsten reported by The New York Times.

Add to that the cost of replacing hardware used in Iraq, some $100
billion. Then there's the $250 billion cost of providing disability
payments and medical care for veterans.

Other economists also include a "gas tax" imposed on American
families ? the increase in the price of fuel resulting from the
conflict ? which they estimate at $150 billion.

To put the $1.2 trillion total in perspective, the Times notes that
implementing all of the 9/11 Commission recommendations would cost
less than $50 billion, providing universal preschool would cost $35
billion, and the National Cancer Institute's annual budget is about
$6 billion.

When the Pentagon originally estimated the cost of the war at $50
billion, White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey predicted it
would in fact cost as much as $200 billion. According to the
Times, "President Bush fired him in part for saying so."




From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan 22 15:45:04 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:45:04 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [atw-news] Local Gangs of Los Angeles - Tuesday
 Night Forum at the Onion, January 23rd,
 7:30 PM - 9550 Haskell Ave. North Hills (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701221845020.26658@panix1.panix.com>




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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:21:01 -0800
From: Frank <fdorrel at sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: fdorrel at addictedtowar.com
To: atw-news at addictedtowar.org
Subject: [atw-news] Local Gangs of Los Angeles - Tuesday Night Forum at the
     Onion, January 23rd, 7:30 PM - 9550 Haskell Ave. North Hills

Tuesday Night Forum at th

e Onion

9550 Haskell Ave. North Hills
Phone 818 894 9251

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 7:30 PM

LOCAL GANGS OF LOS ANGELES

Community activist and number one Los Angeles downtown Gadfly Leonard
Shapiro has been writing a newspaper column for the Toluca Times and
the Watts Times since 1980. He will present a program about local gangs
of the city.  Please call 818 762 9032 to confirm the speaker.
The program about the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena that had
been scheduled for January 23rd has been postponed to March 27th.


Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 7:30 PM

"Chicano Studies 101"

Join Valley Green Party member, Eugene Hernandez, of the Board of
Directors of the Sylmar Neighborhood Council (SNC) and Luis J.
Rodriguez, Co-founder and Creative Director of Tia Chucha's Cafe &
Centro Cultural HYPERLINK
"http://www.tiachucha.com/"http://www.tiachucha.com/ for an Open Mike
Discussion on Chicana & Chicano History and related current issues.


Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 7:30

Through the Roof: A Natural History


A staged-reading of a new play about "Natural Disaster" by Cal State
Northridge professor Rick Mitchell. The play is about two people who
meet on a rooftop in New Orleans while escaping rising floodwaters from
Hurricane Katrina. They inadvertently travel back in history, to New
Orleans and California, and discover that race, gender, and natural
catastrophe are never far removed. The play is based, in part, on recent
interviews with Katrina survivors. Produced by Cal State Northridge as
part of a grant from the California Council for the Humanities HYPERLINK
"http://www.calhum.org/"http://www.calhum.org/


Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 7:30 PM

Freedom of speech and freedom of religion

Keith Holeman, Communications Administrator of the All Saints Episcopal
Church in Pasadena, will talk about the threatened IRS investigation of
the church and the issue of legal tax status compliance for 501(c)(3)
non profit organizations. HYPERLINK
"http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/3167"http://www.ombwatch.or
g/article/articleview/3167


________________________________________________________

About the Tuesday Night Forum

The Tuesday Night Forum, sponsored by the Social Concerns Committee of
the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society meets on the second and
fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 PM. Our guest speakers discuss
current social justice issues from a progressive point of view usually
not covered by the corporate media.

The Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society, also known as "The Onion,"
is located at 9550 Haskell Ave. in North Hills. From Los Angeles take
the 405 freeway north, exit left (westbound) on Nordhoff, go two blocks
and turn right on Haskell. It's on the right side just north of Plummer.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.valleyonion.org/php/feature/concerns/tuesdayforum.php"http:/
/www.valleyonion.org/php/feature/concerns/tuesdayforum.php

For further information and to confirm speakers please call Ida Hurt at
818 772 1555.






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From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan 22 20:05:35 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:05:35 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Stand Up for the Native Americans (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701222305330.11912@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:08:04 -0800
From: Kathy Knight <kathy.knight at verizon.net>
To: 'Kathy Knight' <kathy.knight at verizon.net>, Judith Davies <jdavies66 at aol.com>
Subject: Stand Up for the Native Americans

Dear Ballona Supporter:

We are asking for your support to stand up for the original inhabitants of
Los Angeles, who have been living here for 10,000 years.   We need to help
them end an ongoing human rights violations of destroying their ancestors
and their burial sites.

PROBLEM:  Last Tuesday, January 17th, the Los Angeles City Council did NOT
stand up for the Gabrielino Tongva Indians and voted unanimously to approve
an Amendment to the Mello Roos bonds to allow Playa Vista developers Morgan
Stanley and Goldman Sachs to use $11.4 million in Mello Roos bonds to
reimburse them  for their "cost over-run" from digging up a very large
Tongva burial site at Sa'aangna, (the Ballona wetlands area.)   They did
this despite the request of Native Americans at the hearing to not
participate in the "ongoing genocide" of their people.   (for more
information see the press release below).  The original  expense for Playa
Vista was approximately $2 million. Despite the objections of Native
Americans and other public objections, Playa Vista chose to continue the
removal of the burial site instead of moving the Riparian Corridor runnoff
ditch 200 feet north.  However, the burial site was so extensive (over 400
bodies) that their cost was closer to $13 million.   The burial site was one
of the largest ever found in California.     The amendment allowed Playa
VIsta to use Mello Roos bonds that are normally for infrastructure,  to
instead be used for the destruction of a burial site.  Mello Roos bonds are
to be used for such projects as street improvements, lighting, firestations,
schools; projects that have direct public benefits.  The bond money is
issued by the City as municipal bonds, and the investors who buy the bonds
pay no taxes on their income from the bonds.  Therefore, the bonds are a
public subsidy; with the intention to provide improved services and
facilities for the public.  To use the public bond money for the destruction
of a Native American cemetery is a human rights violation and misuse of
these monies and is not in accordance with the intention of the law.

At the hearing, Anthony Morales, Tribal Chairman and Chief of the
Gabrielino/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians, asked the City
Council to stop endorsing these atrocities.   He stated "this request from
the developer for payment is a shame and an ongoing attack on our culture!
Instead of asking for compensation, they should be talking to us about a
reburial.  Our ancestors have been out of the ground for several years and
in storage.   This action is an injustice and genocidal.  To pay for this
atrocity would be a misuse of bond monies.  The City did nothing when one of
our last remaining intact cemeteries was destroyed and 411 of our ancestors
were desecrated which is a hate crime."

Linda Gonzales (Gabrielino-Tongva/Yaqui) also asked the City Council to deny
the use of Mello Roos bonds.  She stated the developers of Playa Vista knew
there was a burial site, and they chose to go ahead.  In fact, Howard Hughes
had uncovered bodies when he put his landing strip in.   The public should
not have to reimburse Playa Vista developers for the destruction of the
cemetery.  She stated Mello Roos bonds are for community improvements such
as street lights, not for being reimbursed for grave digging, and that this
would be a bad precedent.


WHAT YOU CAN DO:   Fax a letter, call or email Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
and ask him to veto the use of Mello Roos bonds to pay for digging up a
Native American burial site at Playa Vista.   Tell him the City of Los
Angeles should have no part in using tax-payer subsidized funds issued by
the City in destroying the burials of our original inhabitants.   It is a
human rights issue.    Native Americans are the only group in our society
that cannot protect the burials of their beloved ancestors.  Their
burials/cemeteries are treated as "science" and dug up under the cover of
archaeology.    This must stop!

Please call or write the Mayor right away.   He will be making his decide
soon.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
200 No. Spring St., Room 303, Los Angeles, CA 90012
phone 213-978-0600, fax 213-978--0500
  <mailto:mayor at lacity.org> mayor at lacity.org,



Thank you for your help, Kathy Knight and Judith Davies

MORE INFORMATION:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 16, 2007

Contacts:  Kathy Knight, Board Member, Ballona Ecosystem Education Project,
(310) 737-1111
Judith Davies (310) 399-4992

Today, the Los Angeles City Council approved the use of $11.4 million of
Mello Roos Bonds to be used to reimburse Playa Capital for destroying the
largest Native American burial site in California.   Playa Capital's owners,
wall street corporations Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, had asked for the
funds because they originally had allocated $1.9 million for excavating the
site, but because of its significance and size (411 bodies exhumed), they
asked for another $11.4 million in publicly subsidized Mello Roos Bond funds
to cover their cost-overrun.

Gabrielino Tongva Native Americans spoke at the Council hearing.   Anthony
Morales, Tribal Chairman and Chief of the Gabrielino/Tongva San Gabriel Band
of Mission Indians, asked the City Council to stop endorsing these
atrocities.   He stated "this request from the developer for payment is a
shame and an ongoing attack on our culture!  Instead of asking for
compensation, they should be talking to us about a reburial.  Our ancestors
have been out of the ground for several years and in storage.   This action
is an injustice and genocidal.  To pay for this atrocity would be a misuse
of bond monies.  The City did nothing when one of our last remaining intact
cemeteries was destroyed and 411 of our ancestors were desecrated which is a
hate crime."

   Linda Gonzales (Gabrielino-Tongva/Yaqui) also asked the City Council to
deny the use of Mello Roos bonds.  She stated the developers of Playa Vista
knew there was a burial site, and they chose to go ahead.  In fact, Howard
Hughes had uncovered bodies when he put his landing strip in.   The public
should not have to reimburse Playa Vista developers for the destruction of
the cemetery.  She stated Mello Roos bonds are for community improvements
such as street lights, not for being reimbursed for grave digging.

       Other speakers pointed out that the new "riparian corridor," which
includes a ditch for street runoff, could have been left in its original
place, thereby avoiding the burial site.  It was moved to give Playa Vista
developers more land to build on.

      Other points raised included Grassroots Coalition statement that there
is no approved EIR for the development, since the Appellate Court overturned
its approval in relation to the gas mitigation system.   Also that the bonds
were not to be used for gas mitigation systems.   Kathy Knight, Board Member
of the Ballona Ecosystem Education Project, stated that the
Gabrielino-Tongva, have been living in the Los Angeles area for 10,000 years
and took good care of the land, leaving a "paradise" for the rest of us to
inherit.  She objected to "thanking" them by publicly subsidizing the
destruction of their burial sites.

      Judith Davies said "This is a human rights issue."  She pointed out
that Tongva Leader Anthony Morales, working closely with other Native
American representatives, succeeded in recent months to have the California
State Senate pass a new law which would strengthen protections  for Native
American burials in California.  This misuse of Mello-Roos Bond monies, 11.4
million dollars, would set a very bad precedent and work to undermine such
protections, giving developers monies that were designated for public
projects such as lighting, street improvements, fire stations, and schools.

      Council Member Bill Rosendahl, whose district includes Playa Vista,
asked Mr. Morales to work with  Playa Vista lobbyist George Mihlsten to
rebury the bodies at Playa Vista.   However, Mr. Morales stated that that
provision was already something that Playa Capital was required to do, and
that they should talk to Robert Dorame, the designated Most Likely
Descendant.

From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan 23 10:15:33 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:15:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Fwd: please pass along (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701231315320.28153@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:31:27 -0800
From: Peter Dudar & Sally Marr <mail at arlingtonwestfilm.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Fwd: please pass along



>
> ?Join Cindy Sheehan
> ?
> Next Friday, January 26th at?7:00 PM
> ?
> for a Special Screening of
> ?
> "The Road To Guantanamo"?.
> ?
> Venice United Methodist Church
> 1020 Victoria Avenue, Venice
> ?
> $10 Suggested Donation
> ?
> After the screening stay to hear Cindy speak about her recent
> trip to Cuba to protest the prison at Guantanamo.
> ?
> The Road To Guantanamo?
>
> www.roadtoguantanamomovie.com
> ?
> Directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross.
> Nominated for a Independent Spirit Award, The Road To Guantanamo is
> the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were
> held for two years without charges in the American military prison
> at??Guantanamo Bay., Cuba. Known as the "Tipton Three" in reference to
> their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to
> Britain and released, still having no formal charges ever made against
> them at anytime during their ordeal.
> ?
> Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence
> of events that led from the trio setting out from Tipton in the
> British Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, to their crossing the
> Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began their invasion, to  their
> eventual capture by the Northern Alliance and their imprisonment in
> Camp X-Ray and later Camp Delta in Guantanamo
> ?
> Sponsored by the Camp Casey Peace Institute
> For more info contact Tiffany at: campcaseymom at yahoo.com or call
> 562-912-5859
>
>
> ?
>
>
>
> Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was killed in
> Bush's war of terror on 04/04/04.
> She is the co-founder and president of Gold Star Families for
> Peace?and the Camp Casey Peace Institute.
> She is the author of three books, the most recent is: Peace Mom: A
> Mother's Journey Through Heartache
> to Activism.
> ?
> ?

From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan 23 10:18:26 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:18:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Blanket Drive for the Homeless (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701231318240.28153@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:04:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Susie Shannon <susie at panix.com>
To: Susie Shannon <susieanneshannon at yahoo.com>, susie at panix.com
Subject: Blanket Drive for the Homeless

Blanket Drive for the Homeless

Temperatures at night have dipped below freezing on several occasions
these passed two weeks in Los Angeles.  For the homeless on the street,
this temperature drop can be devastating.

Poverty Matters is in the process of collecting
blankets for the homeless.  We deliver them
directly to those living on the streets in the Skid
Row area of Los Angeles.

We have two locations with donation bins
at which you can drop off blankets:

Westside Jewish Center
5870 W. Olympic Blvd.  (Between Fairfax and LaBrea)
Los Angeles
(Please ring the bell for entrance to the lobby area)
Open weekdays 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Remax Real Estate Offices
12532 Ventura Blvd. (Near Whitsett)
Studio City (Donation bin is in the lobby)
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
7 days a week

Homeless Outreach - Saturday January 27th

On the evening of Saturday, January 27th,
Poverty Matters volunteers will provide
blankets, clothing, and other goods
to the homeless.  To volunteer,
please e-mail us at povertymatters at yahoo.com.

This is a very rewarding experience and provides
a wonderful opportunity to give directly to the homeless.

Or get involved in one of our many other community
programs to help empower underprivileged communities.
At Poverty Matters we can get you connected to
an enriching experience in the community that can be life
changing.

And if you can't give of your time, please consider
supporting the programs at Poverty Matters by
making a tax-deductible donation. Go to
www.povertymatters.org for more information
on making a contribution.

Warm Regards,

Susie Shannon
Executive Director,
Poverty Matters
povertymatters at yahoo.com

From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan 23 23:26:26 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:26:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MARY FRAMPTON (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701240226240.24044@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:15:06 -0800
From: Jeanette Vosburg <jeanette at saveballona.org>
To: Jeanette Vosburg <jeanette at saveballona.org>
Subject: MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MARY FRAMPTON

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MARY FRAMPTON
Times photographer, environmental educator and activist -

President of SAVE OUR COAST and, for my part, dear friend and staunch ally.

Saturday, January 27, 2007
4:30 pm
Malibu, Bluff Park (west side of Pacific Coast Highway, across from
Pepperdine University)

Grassroots Coalition President, Patricia McPherson sends this open
invitation to all of us that have been lucky enough to know and work
alongside Mary in our efforts to create a kinder, gentler, safer world.


Please join us as we share in connecting the dots of history and
relationships that bound us together with Mary. Since many of us who knew
and worked with Mary have never met, this will be a chance to look back upon
Mary's indelible spirit and to connect and forge new relationships for the
future work that will continue.  Mary's gentle yet formidable presence
continues in our hearts while our shared goals will also continue through
the work of SAVE OUR COAST.

Mary's home will continue to be the hub for SAVE OUR COAST.  I'm going to be
learning about how all of this will take place just as you will be.  Some of
Mary's key scientific sources will be here to meet.   Dr. J. Grimes will be
speaking, he is also a board member of Mary's non-profit.


As Mary would say, "Wouldn't this be nice?" That's is what Mary is
about...keeping it alive.


I hope to see you there,


Patricia McPherson, President - Grassroots Coalition, Environmentalism
Through Inspiration and Non-Violent Action (ETINA), board member.




From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 24 07:09:18 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:09:18 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] C.O. applicant incarcerated in German
 military prison needs funds for legal defense (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701241009160.11898@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:18:43 -0800
From: Mike Feinstein <mfeinstein at feinstein.org>
To: gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] C.O. applicant incarcerated in German military prison
     needs funds for legal defense

A request to us from San Francisco Green Lucy Colvin


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	FW: C.O. applicant incarcerated in military prison in germany
needs funds for legal defense
Date: 	Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:12:16 -0800
From: 	Lucy Colvin <lucycolvin at juno.com>

   I am forwarding you this message to see if there is anyway it can be a
part of the news or action items that is put out by  LA greens. Our
friend, Meredith, a US citizen who lives in France, is spending a lot of
time on this case helping to raise money and other kinds of support for
Agustin Aguayo, a CO applicant who is going to be court martialed very
soon for deserting after a long unbearable process of trying to become a
CO. Agustin?s wife Helga,  is available to  speak  help fundraise for
his legal dense fund. Also, if you know any contacts that may be
interested in helping please pass this on.


Thanks a lot

Lucy



Subject: Helga Aguayo's Update letter



Dear friends far & wide,



Below is a letter from Helga, the wife of Conscientious Objector Agustin
Aguayo, with an update on his situation (edited by me for clarity & length).



There is an urgent need to raise money for Agustin's legal defense fund.
His court martial is coming up in about a month. He is currently
incarcerated in a military prison in Germany. For those new to this
case, a reminder that he already served one YEAR in Iraq as an Army
medic while

the military considered his application for a C.O. discharge (which they
ultimately denied).



Most of us oppose the war in Iraq. We haven't had to go to jail for our
convictions. He has--after a year of active service, although he never

carried a loaded weapon and his role was to SAVE lives, not take them.



Please consider making a donation--or even ANOTHER donation.... (Details
how are below--or visit: <www.aguayodefense.org
<http://www.aguayodefense.org>>).



Helga's letter follows.



If you know other organizations or friends who might be interested in
this case, please pass along this email.



Many thanks,



Meredith



St. Martin de Dauzats

81440 Lautrec, France

Tel: (33) (0)5 63 59 11 32



meredith.wheeler at free.fr <mailto:meredith.wheeler at free.fr>



Non-cooperation with evil is as much a responsibility as co-operation
with good.



--------------------------------------

HELGA's Letter:



Dear Friends,



Some important dates for us:



January 13th, 2007 was Augie?s, original ETS (end term of service)
date.  But instead he was stop-lossed ( "STOP LOSS" means preventing a
soldier leaving the military, even though the required term of service
is completed).



December 17th was Augie's 35th birthday, spent of course in military
prison.   THANK YOU to everyone who sent him a card.





On December 12th, Augie had his Article 32 hearing  (a formal military
hearing that determines if there is enough evidence to conduct a court
martial, similar to a grand jury investigation).

His arraignment is currently scheduled for January 22nd;  according to
Dave Court, our new lawyer in Germany, this is "merely to establish
dates for trial, motions, exchange of witness lists, etc."  Nothing
substantive will occur. Augie will be formally charged with desertion
and missing movement in a General Court Martial set to occur in late
February or March. A General Court-Martial is the most serious criminal
proceeding that can be brought against a member of the military.  A
conviction by this Court is considered a federal felony and creates a
criminal record for life.   FOR WHAT?! Not wanting to kill, not wanting
to contribute to the missions that kill, for being against war! I
feel SO SAD!



Meanwhile our case in civilian court is still pending. On November 21st,
2006 the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard Augie?s petition.  The
ruling can take between 6 weeks to 6 months.  There is still hope that
he might get exonerated! Please keep Augie in your prayers.



Should the court martial go ahead,  I wish to testify.  I want the court
to realize that  his family mourns Augie's absence every second of every
day.  I hope the courtroom will be filled with supporters so the  Army
will know the world is watching.  For those of you based in Europe,
please consider attending if you can!  Whatever happens, I will carry
your strength, support, and solidarity with me in my heart.  Our voices
will unite. WE WILL BE HEARD!



Here in L.A., our twin daughters, Raquel and Rebecca have seen better
days.  They are struggling in school and may not pass 6th grade.  Last
year at the U.S. base school in Germany, the girls were on the honor
role!   The turmoil has been hard on them.  I tell them every day, ?this
will pass?.



Money issues -- I just sent  our German-based lawyer, David Court, the
next installment  on his fees: 1000 ?.  I had to borrow some of it. The
next installment of 2000? is due two weeks before the court-martial.



Tax deductible donations to the Legal Defense Fund can be made via
<www.couragetoresist.org <http://www.couragetoresist.org>>. More direct
donations (without a tax

deduction) can be made via <www.aguayodefense.org
<http://www.aguayodefense.org>>. I need funds to travel to Germany for
the court martial too.



Right now I am fund-raising with Courage to Resist and Iraq Veteran's
Against the War.  I hope to see results soon.  I continue to do
interviews with various news organizations, including one today for
National Public Radio.  I think it went well.



Next week I start speaking at California high schools about the OTHER
SIDE of enlisting in the military.  It's called "counter-recruitment".
As far as I understand, California is the only state that MANDATES high
school seniors hear both sides of military recruitment.  This is a
project that is dear to my heart!  Los Angeles is the Number ONE
recruitment city of high school seniors.  I want to work to change that.



Meanwhile I attend rallies to publicize Augie's situation.  Many of
Augie's family members take part.  Below are a few pictures:

Augie's Parents, sister, our duaghters, Raquel, Rebecca & Me







Military Families Speak Out













Rebecca & Augie's mother, Susana, at

Arlington West -- Moment of Silence







Raquel, Helga & Rebecca



Augie's sister, mother, Raquel, Helga & Rebecca







Some good news:  I have struggled to keep up
the website: <www.aguayodefense.org <http://www.aguayodefense.org>>.
Now a PROFESSIONAL web designer has volunteered to take over. Hurrah!
Improvements should be visible soon.



I THANK YOU all for working so hard and diligently to support Augie and
the family!



With all my love,


Helga P. Aguayo





36838 57th Street East

Palmdale, CA 93552

USA



To write to Agustin:



SPC Agust?n Aguayo

Unit 29723

Box LL

APO, AE 09028-3810

USA



(this is military post system--from the States mail will go to Germany)













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From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 24 07:20:14 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:20:14 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Nader in your area (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701241020120.11898@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:52:54 -0500
From: clint coppernoll <herbman33 at hotmail.com>
To: darfern at excite.com, silverlake at directvinternet.com, GR8TACTIC at AOL.COM
Cc: Solana at 2003.law.ucla.edu, eric at publicrealty.com, gail144 at netzero.net
Subject: Nader in your area


My fellow activists and supporters of Ralph Nader and his message.

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Ralph Nader will be visiting many of your areas in the coming months. He
will be doing book signing?s through out the country.  Ralph Nader speaks
about his newest book "Seventeen Traditions" and current events, at the
following dates and locations listed below. If you have a locations you
would like to be considered for a signing, contact us
clint at icactivistnetwork.net we will try to work with the publisher on
them. It is important to try to match dates with the established areas of
the tour.



Coming to a screen near you soon (with a little help from our friends)
the Movie about Ralph Nader An Unreasonable Man. This movie got some
great reviews at the Sundance Film Festival please click on and read the
following review: 
http://www.moviecitynews.com/festivals/sundance_2006/dp_060127.html

It is on the short list for this years Oscars. Look at the list of movie
theaters below the list of book signings. If not in your area then why
not try and get your local theater to run it?

Contact us if you think you have a venue.



Contact us to get leaflets to post in your area for a great turnout for
Ralph.



clint at icactivistnetwork.net

or call 541-308-3386

Repost this Email to your lists



                                  Book Signings



Tuesday, January 30, 2007
07:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
10th Fl 122 Fifth Ave New York, NY 10011
212-633-4067



Thursday, February 01, 2007
07:00 PM
BORDERS/Reading / Q&A / Signing
1001 Baltimore Pike Springfield, PA 19064
610-543-8588



Friday, February 02, 2007
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
BOOKENDS
232 E. Ridgewood AVE Ridgewood, NJ 07450



Tuesday, February 06, 2007
07:30 PM
Olsson's Lansburgh
418 7th St. NW Washington, DC 20004
(202) 638-7610



Thursday, February 08, 2007
07:00 PM
DUTTON'S
11975 San Vincente Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-476-6263



Monday, February 12, 2007
07:00 PM
THIRD PLACE BOOKS/Reading/Signing
17171 Bothell Way N.E. Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
206-366-3316



Thursday, February 15, 2007
07:00 PM
BOOK PASSAGE
BOOK PASSAGE 51 Tamal Vista BLVD Corte Madera, CA 94925
415-927-0960 x 238



Friday, February 16, 2007
07:00 PM
BOOKS INC
Books Inc 1501 Vermont St San Francisco, CA 94107
415 643-3400 ext 11



Monday, February 19, 2007
07:30 PM
TATTERED COVER BOOKSTORE/Lodo Store
1628 16th St. Denver, CO 80202
303-322-1965 X-1843



Wednesday, February 21, 2007
07:00 PM
BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC
830 N. Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60611
312.573.1219



MOVIE LOCATIONS

New York
Opening January 31
**Q&A with Ralph Nader on select dates**
IFC Center
323 6th Avenue
New York, NY
(212) 924-7771
www.ifccenter.com

Boston
February 9
Coolidge Corner
290 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA
617 734 2500
www.coolidge.org

Los Angeles
February 9
Landmark Nu Art,
11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, just west of the 405 Freeway
West Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 281-8223
www.landmarktheatres.com

Philadelphia
February 9
Bala Theatre
Clearview Cinema
157 Bala Ave.
Philadelphia, PA
www.clearviewcinemas.com

Honolulu
February 22
Doris Duke Theatre
Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 South Beretania Street
(808) 532-8768
www.honoluluacademy.org

Dallas
Februrary 23
Landmark Inwood
5458 West Lovers Lane at Inwood
Dallas, TX 75209
(214) 764-9106
www.landmarktheatres.com

Washington, D.C.
February 23
E Street Theater
555 11th Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
(entrance on E Street between 10th and 11th Street)
(202) 452-7672
www.landmarktheatres.com

Wilmington
February 24
Theater N @ Demours
11th & Tatnall Streets
Wilmington, DE
(302) 571-4699
www.emergingpictures.com

Buffalo
February 28
Market Arcade Film & Arts
639 Main Street
Buffalo, NY
(716) 855-3022
www.emergingpictures.com

Ft. Lauderdale
February 28
Cinema Paradiso
503 SE 6 Street
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
954-525-3456
www.emergingpictures.com

Lake Worth
February 28
Stage West @ The Duncan
709 Lake Avenue
Lake Worth, Florida
561-296-9382
www.emergingpictures.com

Atlanta
March 2
Plaza Theater
1049 Ponce De Leon Ave NE
Atlanta, GA
www.plazatheatre.com

Chicago
March 2
Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, IL
www.musicboxtheatre.com

Houston
March 2
Landmark Greenway
5 Greenway Plaza
Houston, TX 77046
(713) 866-8881
www.landmarktheatres.com

Portland
March 2
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209
503-223-4515
www.cinema21.com

Santa Cruz
March 2
Nickelodeon Theatre
210 Lincoln St.
Santa Cruz, CA
831.426.7500
www.thenick.com

Scranton
March 2
Endless Mountain Theatre
933 Scranton-Carbondale Highway
Scranton, PA 18505
570-343-3305
www.emergingpictures.com

Austin
March 9
Landmark Dobie
2025 Guadalupe Street in the Dobie Mall
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 472-FILM
www.landmarktheatres.com

Berkeley
March 9
Landmark Shattuck
2230 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 464-5980
www.landmarktheatres.com

San Francisco
March 9
Lumiere Theater
1572 California Street at Polk
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 267-4893
www.landmarktheatres.com

Denver
March 16
Starz Theatre
900 Auraria Pkwy
Denver, CO 80204
(303) 893-3456
www.denverfilm.org

Detroit
April 19
The Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan
(313) 833-3237
www.dia.org

For a trailer and more information on the movie

anunreasonableman.com


From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 24 14:38:11 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:38:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [atw-news] Rally & March Against the War - Saturday,
 January 27th at Noon - in Downtown Los Angeles - Meet in front of
 the Democratic Party office at 9th & Figueroa. March to Federal Building.
 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701241738080.6958@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:00:21 -0800
From: Frank <fdorrel at sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: fdorrel at addictedtowar.com
To: atw-news at addictedtowar.org
Subject: [atw-news] Rally & March Against the War - Saturday,
     January 27th at Noon - in Downtown Los Angeles - Meet in front of the
     Democratic Party office at 9th & Figueroa. March to Federal Building.

Rally & March Against the War!

Saturday, January 27th

Meet at Noon at 9th & Figueroa in Downtown Los Angeles

Bring The Troops Home Now!  ~  Stop Funding The War!


We will Rally in front of Democratic Party office at 9th & Figueroa
and March past City Hall to the Federal Building - 300 N Los Angeles
Street


January 27 Action Coalition
Make Your Voice Heard...

For more info email: HYPERLINK
"mailto:jan27action at yahoo.com"jan27action at yahoo.com - Phone: (323)
691-5238
Web Site:  HYPERLINK
"http://linuxbeach.net/jan27action/"http://linuxbeach.net/jan27action/

Endorsers:  ADDICTED To WAR,  Alliance for Democracy - San Fernando
Valley ? American Friends Service Committee ? ANSWER-LA ? Burbank
Neighbors for Peace and Justice ? CISPES ? Coalition Against Militarism
in the Schools ? Coalition for World Peace ? CODEPINK, L.A. ? Committee
of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism ? Freedom Socialist Party ?
Glendale Education/Social Justice Advocates ? Glendale Peace Vigil ?
Green Party of Orange County ? Green Party of Riverside County ? Healing
Bear Medical Service ? International Action Center ? International
Socialist Organization ? LA County Green Party ? LA Cuba Solidarity
Coalition ? Los Angeles Greens ? LA LGBT Greens ? LA-US Labor Against
the War ? Montrose Peace Vigil ? Office Of the Americas ? Out Against
War: LGBT & Friends Coalition for Peace & Justice ? Palisadians for
Peace ? Political Poster Collective ? Progressive Democrats of Los
Angeles ? Riverside Area Peace and Justice Action (RAPJA) ? San Fernando
Valley Greens ? San Gabriel Valley Progressives ? San Gabriel Valley
Neighbors for Peace & Justice ? Solidarity ? Southern California
Chapters of Military Families Speak Out ? United Teachers Los Angeles ?
U.S. Citizens For A Safer Foreign Policy ? Veterans for Peace-LA ? West
LA Democratic Club ? Whittier Area Peace and Justice Coalition ? Women
in Black - LA ? World Can't Wait  and many others.







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From denise at panix.com  Thu Jan 25 15:52:45 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:52:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] "Still Present Pasts" Exhibit on Korean War and
 Korean Americans - Opens 2/11, L.A. (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701251852430.27570@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:42:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: "Still Present Pasts" Exhibit on Korean War and Korean Americans -
     Opens 2/11, L.A.

Denise,
Please forward.
Thanks.
Linda

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jamie Kim <eeesoo at yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2007 12:27 PM
Subject: Still Present Pasts Exhibit (on Korean War &
Korean Americans) Opens 2/11
To: PT-FTA SolLACom3 <eeesoo at yahoo.com>

STI LL PRESENT PA STS



An exhibit on Korean Americans and the forgotten war



FEBRUARY 11 - MARCH 25



LA ARTCORE/ Union Center for the Arts



120 Judge John Aiso Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012






www.stillpresentpasts.org
<http://www.stillpresentpasts.org/>




Please join us for the exhibit and events:



+ Sunday 2/11/07, 3-5pm: Opening Reception, featuring
Artists Q&A, Comments from Oral History Subjects,
Korean Drumming & Gosa (Opening Ceremony to bring
peace & safety), at LA Artcore (address above)



+ Sunday 2/25/07, 7pm: "6.25: history beneath the
skin" Performance of spoken word, video, audio, and
movement, at East West Players Theater (same address
as above)



+ Friday 3/9/07, 7pm:  "Project Future: A night of hip
hop featuring SKIM & other artists."   Location TBA.



+ Saturday 3/10/07, 7pm:  "Forgotten History:  Korean
adoptees reflect on our histories from the Korean War
to present."   Location TBA.



(All events are free; donations gladly accepted)



***




STILL PRESENT PASTS is an unprecedented, multimedia
examination of the Korean War from the perspective of
Korean Americans.



As the United States struggles with war and occupation
in Iraq, an in-depth examination of the human cost of
war is sorely needed.  In STILL PRESENT PASTS, long
unspoken memories and lessons of the Korean conflict
are brought to light building a bridge towards
reconciliation and a lasting peace on the divided
Korean peninsula, and elsewhere in the world today.



Inspired by Korean American life stories of struggle,
survival and compassion, three visual artists, three
performance artists, a documentary filmmaker, a
psychologist, and a historian came together to create
a common vision for STILL PRESENT PASTS.   As the oral
histories are retold via text, audio, and video
recordings, visitors experience the projected images
of soldiers from all sides, cross a twelve-foot bridge
of division and reconciliation, and are asked to help
piece together gaps in family history via an
interactive puzzle.  All this and more intermingle
with installation art, photographs, historical texts
and first-person recollections to create a strong
visual and deeply evocative experience.



STILL PRESENT PASTS draws on the arts to create a
unique and important audience encounter with the past
and present. In doing so it demonstrates the power of
art to convey and stimulate deeply personal but also
collectively shared experience across gender,
ethnicity, class, and national boundaries.



The exhibit also features the program: "6.25: history
beneath the skin", by Hyun Lee, Grace M. Cho & Hosu
Kim.  A collage of audio recording, body movement,
installation and slide & video projection, each woman
breaks the silence of her own Korean War legacy.



Other events include "Project Future: A night of hip
hop featuring SKIM & other artists," and "Forgotten
History:  Korean adoptees reflect on our histories
from the Korean War to present," to address the ways
in which war and occupation have lasting effects on
our lives and communities.





From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 26 08:46:05 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:46:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Saturday,
 We Stop The War - Then Help Cynthia McKinney Stop Election Fraud in
 March! (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701261146030.51@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:43:20 -0800
From: Tracy Larkins <lark2 at mindspring.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:  ;
Subject: Saturday,
     We Stop The War - Then Help Cynthia McKinney Stop Election Fraud in March!

   Rally and March
to End the War Now!

Saturday, January 27th - 12 Noon
Downtown Los Angeles

Rally in front of Democratic Party office at 9th & Figueroa
March past City Hall to the Federal Building - 300 N Los Angeles Street

Bring The Troops Home Now!
Stop Funding The War!

January 27 Action Coalition
For more info email: jan27action at yahoo.com, Phone: (323) 691-5238,
http://linuxbeach.net/jan27action
Endorsers: Alliance for Democracy - San Fernando Valley ?? American
Friends Service Committee ?? ANSWER-LA ?? Burbank Neighbors for Peace
and Justice ?? CISPES ?? Coalition Against Militarism in the Schools
?? Coalition for World Peace ?? CODEPINK, L.A. ?? Committee of
Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism ?? Freedom Socialist Party ??
Glendale Education/Social Justice Advocates ?? Glendale Peace Vigil ??
Global Women???s Strike/LA ?? Green Party of Orange County ?? Green
Party of Riverside County ?? Healing Bear Medical Service ??
International Action Center ?? International Socialist Organization ??
LA County Green Party ?? LA Cuba Solidarity Coalition ?? Los Angeles
Greens ?? LA LGBT Greens ?? LA-US Labor Against the War ?? Montrose
Peace Vigil ?? Office Of the Americas ?? Out Against War: LGBT &
Friends Coalition for Peace & Justice ?? Palisadians for Peace ??
Political Poster Collective ?? Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles ??
Riverside Area Peace and Justice Action (RAPJA) ?? San Fernando Valley
Greens ?? San Gabriel Valley Progressives ?? San Gabriel Valley
Neighbors for Peace & Justice ?? Solidarity ?? Southern California
Chapters of Military Families Speak Out ?? United Teachers Los
Angeles ?? U.S. Citizens For A Safer Foreign Policy ?? Veterans for
Peace-LA ?? West LA  Democratic Club ?? Whittier Area Peace and
Justice Coalition ?? Women in Black - LA ?? World Can't Wait and more


**********************

CYNTHIA McKINNEY - MARCH 2nd @ 7PM - Immanuel Presbyterian Church,
3300 Wilshire, LA:

The honorable Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is coming back to
do a fundraiser for KPFK Friday evening, 3/2/07 - mark your
calendars!  Please reply by Friday 7PM if your organization would
like to endorse and have your name on the flyer - a $25 donation is
requested.  Attached is a preliminary draft.  Final stacks of hard
copies will be made available to all responders who want to help
outreach and sign up for events to leaflet in February.  Please help
our KPFK fundraising and outreach efforts while further popularizing
the former Congresswoman's unifying, galvanizing, very brave voice.

Look for the handsome Billionaires for Bush on Saturday at 9th &
Figueroa, noon.  They'll be the ones strolling to the Federal
Building, waving hard copies of the flyer, trying to sabotage our
event, telling people not to go near that Congresswoman who called
for impeachment, was against the war, like a Black Cindy Sheehan or
something, who had the GALL to actually expect from the Capitol Hill
police treatment equal to that afforded all of their wealthy, white,
male Congressional colleagues...  Ima Warmonger is our agent, who has
infiltrated these Billionaires, posing as one.  Look for her, and
she'll slip you the flyers...but don't blow her cover with them ;-)

Let's impeach Bush and return the United Corporations of America to
its people, so we can share back with the world what we've stolen.

???

From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 26 12:46:31 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:46:31 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Peacemaking in a World of Violence - Sat., Jauary 27,
 2007, 8:30 - 4:30, Los Angeles (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701261546280.5974@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:40:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Peacemaking in a World of Violence - Sat., Jauary 27, 2007,
     8:30 - 4:30, Los Angeles

Denise,
Please send out one more time today. Thanks.
Linda
_____________________________________

Symposium 2007
Peacemaking in a World of Violence: Doing My Part

January 27, 2007
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Mount St. Mary?s College
Doheny Campus
10 Chester Place
Los Angeles, CA 90007-2598


Keynote Address
Rev. George F. Regas is the
Rector Emeritus of All Saints
Church in Pasadena. As Rector,
he was responsible  for a variety
of ministries.  While forging a strong community of
faith from a diverse population, the focus of Dr.
Regas? 28 years at All Saints was peace and justice.
He now serves as the Executive Director of The Regas
Institute, established in 1998, and dedicated to the
study and examination of Progressive Religion that
seeks to counter the dominance of the Religious Right.
In 2000, through The Regas Institute, he formed a
national interfaith group. The Progressive Religious
Partnership was organized to focus on Interfaith
Collaboration in Peacemaking.

In October of 2004 Dr. Regas preached a sermon at All
Saints Church titled: ?If Jesus Debated Senator Kerry
and President Bush.?  Although he did not intend to
tell the congregation how to vote in the Presidential
election the IRS is investigating All Saints Church
for a possible violation of the tax exempt law for
churches. This IRS case continues and All Saints
stands by its position that religious institutions
must be free to speak in prophetic judgment against
war and injustice.

?I?ve spent 50 years of priesthood trying to face the
truth about this world of brutality, fear, suspicion
and the need for security with all of its complexity;
and yet not lose hope, not give up the dream of that
world where Nation will not lift up sword against
Nation nor learn war anymore.  It has been a search
for what is real, authentic and in tune with the
spirit of God, an attempt to explode the myths,
illusions, and lies that have taken us to the rim of
disaster and the horrors of war.
It is in this dangerous world, with people fearful in
ways I?ve seldom experienced, that I will speak about
peacemaking and the call made to each one of us.?
Rev. George F. Regas

Speakers:

Violence and Women
Imelda Buncab
Human trafficking is inherently violent. Many who are
victimized by this crime are women. This short
presentation will talk about human trafficking as a
violation of fundamental human rights and how we can
move towards a consciously peaceful movement in ending
such an egregious crime against humanity.

Violence and U.S. Policies
Simone Campbell, SSS
In the midst of partisan politics in Washington DC,
federal policies are often crafted in a way that does
violence to those who live at the economic margins of
our society or to our earth itself. At this time of
transition in Congress, the presentation will speak to
the need to be prepared to create policies that are
truly for the common good.

Violence in our Homes and Neighborhoods
Joey Ray
With an increase of violence among families and youth,
this presentation will address what prevention and
intervention can do to change lives and communities;
what organizations can do to bring peace to our
neighborhoods.

Peacekeeping/Conflict Management I & II
Ron Claassen
Peacemaking starts by not responding in kind.  Some of
the reasons we don?t respond to conflicts and
violations in constructive and cooperative ways are:
lack of skills and strategies; no-one invites,
encourages, or helps; organizational structures don?t
include cooperative options; and the common view that
violations must be punished.  This workshop will
introduce some practical skills, models, and
strategies to address these barriers.

Imelda Buncab is the Outreach & Training Director for
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking in Los
Angeles. CAST is an NGO human rights organization
exclusively dedicated to serving survivors of
trafficking. She has conducted trainings and
presentations locally, nationally and internationally.
  Ms. Buncab has extensive experience in providing
victim services to sexual assault, domestic violence
and trafficking survivors as well as working in
collaborative settings. Ms. Buncab holds a Bachelor of
Arts in Sociology with an emphasis in ethnicity,
inequality, and gender from the University of
California Santa Barbara.

Simone Campbell, SSS, an attorney and Sister of Social
Service, is the Executive Director of NETWORK, a
Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and
peace that educates, organizes and lobbies for
economic and social transformation. She formerly
served as Executive Director of JERICHO, an interfaith
public policy and advocacy organization in California.
As an attorney, she represented low-income people for
18 years in California, where she founded a
community-based law center. She also led her
international community of women religious for five
years.  She is fluent in Spanish and is an
accomplished poet.

Having grown up in a gang, Joey Ray has seen the
importance of tackling the problem of violence first
hand. Through the work of Homeboy Industries he has
been able to leave gang life behind and has new hope
for a better future. Joey is an office supervisor at
?Jobs For A Future, Homeboy Industries.? He oversees
the free tattoo removal services for gang members
which is a help as some tattoos inhibit their safety
or their ability to secure employment. Joey is a much
sought after speaker in the area of gang violence.

Ron Claassen is the Director of the Center for
Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno Pacific
University.  He teaches Advanced Mediation,
Restorative Justice and provides training,
consultation, and intervention services in the
community.  Ron is the founder and former director of
the Fresno County Victim Offender Reconciliation
Program, the first VORP in California. He has
extensive experience in civil and criminal mediation
and has trained thousands in restorative justice,
conflict resolution and mediation. He is the author of
numerous articles and training manuals including
?Making Things Right,? a curriculum for Schools
co-authored with his wife, Roxanne.

~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~
Directions to the Doheny Campus:

From the 110 Freeway - Exit at Adams, go west for ?
mile, right on St. James Place, and right on St. James
Park. The campus entrance is straight ahead.
From the 10 Freeway - Exit at Hoover, go south for ?
mile, turn left on Adams, then left on St. James Place
and right on St. James Park. The campus entrance is
straight ahead.

Please check Los Angeles Transit System for the
nearest Bus/Metro stops

SCHEDULE

   8:30 a.m.	Registration
   9:00		Opening
   9:20		Keynote Address ?
   Rev. George F. Regas
10:10		Interaction with Speaker
10:30		Break
10:50		Panel of Speakers/Interaction:
 	      	Violence and Women:
  		   Imelda Buncab
         	Violence and U.S. Policies:
    Simone Campbell, SSS
 	        	Violence in our Homes and
 		   Neighborhoods:
     Joey Ray
12:30 p.m.	**Lunch**
1:30	Peacekeeping/Conflict Management I
   Ron Claassen
   3:00		Break
   3:20	Peacekeeping/Conflict Management II
  Ron Claassen
   4:20		Closing Remarks
   4:30		End of Program

**Bring bag lunch. Drinks will be provided. Campus
Cafeteria will be open.


Name tags/schedule and information for the day will be
available for pick up at the registration desk
beginning at 8:30 a.m.


If you have any questions or need financial
assistance, please call Sr. Mary or Zonia at
323-887-8821.


Symposium 2007 Registration Form
Peacemaking in a World of Violence:
Doing My Part
January 27, 2007

Walk-ins: $15.00
Walk-ins will be welcome provided there is space.


SPONSORED BY:
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking
Daughters of Mary and Joseph
Dominican Sisters of San Jose
Office of Justice and Peace, Archdiocese of Los
Angeles
Pax Christi, Southern California
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Sisters of Notre Dame
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange
Sisters of St. Louis
Sisters of Social Service

From denise at panix.com  Fri Jan 26 19:12:15 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:12:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] a cleaner future (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701262212130.9048@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:05:20 -0800
From: Martin Schlageter <martin at coalitionforcleanair.org>
To: airmartin at sbcglobal.net
Subject: a cleaner future

Friends,



I tend not to bother you all with my appeals for action and money and
the like, which is otherwise my job and daily mission. Today, however, I
make an exception, because I want to share good news.



I am proud to report that yesterday my organization won a victory that
will save lives and take toxics out of our air. You may have seen it in
the paper or heard it on NPR: The state of California banned a toxic
chemical used in most dry cleaners. My organization, the Coalition for
Clean Air, played a leadership role in this.



Because the Coalition for Clean Air has been fighting to clean up dry
cleaning since before 2002, many of you have heard me talk about it
before. Dry cleaning is anything but clean. Most use a very toxic,
cancer-causing chemical, known as "perc." It comes home with you in your
clothes, has created countless Superfund sites, has contaminated 1 in 10
public drinking wells in California, and does great harm to the people
who work in it every day.



Now there will be a growing number of safer options out there when you
need to use a cleaner. Some are better than others. From the link at our
website, you may find a greener cleaner near you:
http://www.coalitionforcleanair.org/



There's more information about this issue at the website, too. And I'm
happy to answer questions from any of you, of course.



Yesterday, a number of former dry cleaners testified at a hearing of the
Air Resources Board, explaining why they switched to nontoxic and
non-polluting options like "wet cleaning." Their testimony was very
powerful and emotional and affirms for me why I do what I do.

One cleaner, Peter Jung, of Plaza Cleaners in Thousand Oaks, said he had
to switch to wet cleaning because his landlord wouldn't rent to a
cleaner using perc. After using wet cleaning for nearly a year, Jung
said he is saving 50% on electricity and 30% on gas bills. I couldn't
have put his testimony better myself: "I am just one cleaner," Jung
said, "But think of the thousands of dry cleaners in the state of
California and how much impact we all make. We all have the
responsibility to do something.  Our generation will survive with this
pollution, but what about our children and our grandchildren?"

There are nearly 5,000 cleaners in California. In the coming years they
will clean clothes without dirtying the environment. And their workers,
families, neighbors and customers will be safer.



I encourage you to continue to support the work I do:



Sign up for email news and alerts-a simple way to stay in tune with what
I am doing and to take action to clean up the air. Email me if you
aren't already signed up but want to be, and I'll take care of it.



Contribute money if you can.
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=5347



Thanks. Have a great weekend.



Martin





Martin Schlageter

Coalition for Clean Air

213-630-1192 x 102



www.coalitionforcleanair.org




From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan 27 01:09:19 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:09:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [LaGreensExcom] fwd: Women's Day Event - Possible
	Sponsorship (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701270409170.27873@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:08:21 -0000
From: twirltay <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
Reply-To: LaGreensExcom at yahoogroups.com
To: LaGreensExcom at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LaGreensExcom] fwd: Women's Day Event - Possible Sponsorship

Date: January 25, 2007 5:36:08 PM PST
From:   heatherschreck at yahoo.com
Subject: Women's Day Event - Possible Sponsorship
To:   rawasupporterssouthcal at hotmail.com

Hello Everyone,

Afghan Women's Mission is celebrating Women's Day by screening the film "View from a
Grain of Sand" from filmmaker Meena Nanji followed by a Q&A with Meena and we wanted
to see if Amnesty would be interested in sponsoring the screening.  All proceeds will be
donated to RAWA's vital social programs.

Here is the synopsis of the film:
Combining v?rit? footage, interviews and archival material, Los Angeles based film maker,
Meena Nanji has fashioned a harrowing, thought-provoking, yet intimate portrait of the
plight of Afghan women in the last 30 years from the rule of King Mohammed Zahir Shah
to the current Hamid Karzai government to the activist work of RAWA, the Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Over a period of five years, she
spent months in a refugee camp in Pakistan, where she documented the efforts
of three women to rebuild their lives and help others in the process:
Shapire, a teacher; Roeena, a physician; and Wajeeha, a social activist.

We will be holding the screening at the Laemmle One Pasadena theater on March 10th @
11am.

Please let me know if you would be interested in being a sponsor for this event.  As a
sponsor you will be listed on our email blasts and all promotion materials as well as a
complimentary ticket to the screening.  All we ask of you is to help us promote the
screening through email blasts and possible listing on your individual websites.
Unfortnatly due to the screening being held at the theater we cannot have tables for our
sponsors that we would usually and proudly have.  But we invite each of you if you would
like to donate literature on your organizations that we will put together for our guests.

If you have any questions, please let me know.  Thanks so much and have a great day!

Heather Schreck
Community Relations Manager
Afghan Women's Mission


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From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan 27 17:00:16 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:00:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] a cleaner future (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701272000140.6729@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:41:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Rasmussen <luutersfriend at yahoo.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Re: a cleaner future (fwd)

please do,

   take care,

   Dave

denise at panix.com wrote:
   i'll forward your email if you don't mind! yes it's GREAT NEWS


On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Dave Rasmussen wrote:

> Hi Denise, I worked for 11 years for the State of California, Regional Water Quality Control Board overseeing the assessment and cleanup of PCE contaminated sites. PCE is carcinogenic and has contaminated the groundwater underlying much of the Los Angeles and surrounding water basins. During World War II there were records showing that train car loads of PCE and other chlorinated solvents came into the LA area and no records of it ever leaving. I am glad to see that PCE has been banned but it should have been done years ago.
>
>
> Keep up the good work,
>
> Dave Rasmussen
>
> denise at panix.com wrote:
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:05:20 -0800
> From: Martin Schlageter
> To: airmartin at sbcglobal.net
> Subject: a cleaner future
>
> Friends,
>
>
>
> I tend not to bother you all with my appeals for action and money and
> the like, which is otherwise my job and daily mission. Today, however, I
> make an exception, because I want to share good news.
>
>
>
> I am proud to report that yesterday my organization won a victory that
> will save lives and take toxics out of our air. You may have seen it in
> the paper or heard it on NPR: The state of California banned a toxic
> chemical used in most dry cleaners. My organization, the Coalition for
> Clean Air, played a leadership role in this.
>
>
>
> Because the Coalition for Clean Air has been fighting to clean up dry
> cleaning since before 2002, many of you have heard me talk about it
> before. Dry cleaning is anything but clean. Most use a very toxic,
> cancer-causing chemical, known as "perc." It comes home with you in your
> clothes, has created countless Superfund sites, has contaminated 1 in 10
> public drinking wells in California, and does great harm to the people
> who work in it every day.
>
>
>
> Now there will be a growing number of safer options out there when you
> need to use a cleaner. Some are better than others. From the link at our
> website, you may find a greener cleaner near you:
> http://www.coalitionforcleanair.org/
>
>
>
> There's more information about this issue at the website, too. And I'm
> happy to answer questions from any of you, of course.
>
>
>
> Yesterday, a number of former dry cleaners testified at a hearing of the
> Air Resources Board, explaining why they switched to nontoxic and
> non-polluting options like "wet cleaning." Their testimony was very
> powerful and emotional and affirms for me why I do what I do.
>
> One cleaner, Peter Jung, of Plaza Cleaners in Thousand Oaks, said he had
> to switch to wet cleaning because his landlord wouldn't rent to a
> cleaner using perc. After using wet cleaning for nearly a year, Jung
> said he is saving 50% on electricity and 30% on gas bills. I couldn't
> have put his testimony better myself: "I am just one cleaner," Jung
> said, "But think of the thousands of dry cleaners in the state of
> California and how much impact we all make. We all have the
> responsibility to do something. Our generation will survive with this
> pollution, but what about our children and our grandchildren?"
>
> There are nearly 5,000 cleaners in California. In the coming years they
> will clean clothes without dirtying the environment. And their workers,
> families, neighbors and customers will be safer.
>
>
>
> I encourage you to continue to support the work I do:
>
>
>
> Sign up for email news and alerts-a simple way to stay in tune with what
> I am doing and to take action to clean up the air. Email me if you
> aren't already signed up but want to be, and I'll take care of it.
>
>
>
> Contribute money if you can.
> https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=5347
>
>
>
> Thanks. Have a great weekend.
>
>
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>
>
> Martin Schlageter
>
> Coalition for Clean Air
>
> 213-630-1192 x 102
>
>
>
> www.coalitionforcleanair.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan 27 19:58:59 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:58:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] correction re unreasonable man**
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701272257330.27821@panix1.panix.com>


Hi there.  I sent out an invite for an unreasonable man with Ralph 
nader introducing.  The message about "comps" was a mistake - but the 
show is on and we urge you to buy tickets!  peace,  denise

From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan 27 20:01:43 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:01:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] BUY TICKETS NOW!! THIS IS CORRECTED ONE**
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701272300570.27821@panix1.panix.com>


this is the correct one - please ignore the one that offers comps. 
that was private...peace,  denise

To: denise at panix.com Subject: BUY TICKETS NOW!!


http://movies.aol.com/theater/landmark-nuart-theatre/4/showtimes?date=20070209


From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan 27 20:43:25 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:43:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] more info. on nader show
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701272341440.27142@panix1.panix.com>


re: "An Unreasonable Man" Feb. 9 at the Nuart...
it's a wonderful film.  I saw it a few months ago.  I know you'll love 
it.

More details:  Ralph Nader will be speaking at 715pm show...he'll also 
be at 4pm show and is introducing 9:00 show.

Also, if you buy 25 or more tix you get them for $7 each.  Let me know 
if you're interested in that!

peace,

denise

From denise at panix.com  Sat Jan 27 22:01:05 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:01:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] more info on terrific nader documentary
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701280058580.29222@panix2.panix.com>



The link I sent was for the Ralph Nader film "An Unreasonable Man" - 
Feb. 9   (Ralph will be at 430 and 715pm show and introducing the 
955pm show) at the Nuart in West LA.  I can get you $7 tix if you have 
a group of 25 (or if 25 of you email me).  Sorry for any confusion - 
please ignore the other movies on that link.  Thanks to Joseph for 
letting me know.
the link:
http://movies.aol.com/theater/landmark-nuart-theatre/4/showtimes?date=20070209
peace,

denise

From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan 28 01:38:17 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:38:17 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Latino Philanthropic Leaders to Tour South L.A.
 Neighborhoods and Discuss Black-Latino Realtions with Community Leaders
 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701280438150.23412@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:40:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Latino Philanthropic Leaders to Tour South L.A. Neighborhoods and
     Discuss Black-Latino Realtions with Community Leaders

Denise,
Please forward. Thanks.
Linda

Latino Philanthropic Leaders to Tour South Los Angeles
Neighborhoods and Discuss Black-Latino Relations With
Community Leaders

Sunday, February 4, 2007


LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Escalating
violence between African Americans and Latinos in
South Los Angeles-now predominantly Latino-fueled a
nearly 25-percent increase in gang-related crime last
year, including the killing of 14-year-old Cheryl
Green after a confrontation between Latino gang
members and a black man.

In response, leaders of Latino philanthropies and
nonprofit organizations will tour the embattled
neighborhood on Sunday, February 4, from 2:30 to 5
p.m. A town hall-style dialogue about black-brown
community-building will follow, with representatives
of local nonprofit organizations, major grant-making
organizations and local residents. Tour leaders Manuel
Pastor, director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance,
and Community at UC Santa Cruz, and Stewart Kwoh,
executive director, Asian Pacific Legal Center, are
co-authors of Finding the Uncommon Common Ground: New
Dimensions on Race in America.

This event is part of the three-day leadership
conference, February 3-5, at the Wilshire Grand Hotel
in downtown Los Angeles, organized by Hispanics In
Philanthropy (HIP).

"We want a candid dialogue that will lead to better
understanding of root causes and potential solutions,"
says Diana Campoamor, HIP president. "We believe that
funders and community-based non-profits can play a
vital role in providing positive choices for our
youth. Working together with community leaders and the
families living in these neighborhoods, we can find
the common ground to turn things around."

The tour leaves from the Wilshire Grand Hotel, 930
Wilshire Blvd. Sites will include:

   -- South Central Farm, community garden from which
the farmers were evicted in 2006
   -- Dunbar Hotel, built in 1928 by John Somerville,
an African-American; site of the first NAACP national
convention in the western United States
   -- Fremont High School
   -- A New Way of Life Foundation, a sober-living home
for women on parole
   -- Ted Watkins Memorial Park
   -- Watts Labor Community Action Committee, founded
in 1965 by Ted Watkins
   -- Watts Towers, built by Simon Rodia
   -- San Miguel Church Hall
   -- Watts Century Latino Organization, founded in
1989 by Arthur Ybarra,
      vice president of the Watts Economic Development
Advisory Council
   -- Jordan Downs Public Housing Development (home of
the Grape St. Watts, a Crips gang)
   -- Community Coalition for Substance Abuse
Prevention and Treatment

Panelists for the town hall meeting, at the Community
Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and
Treatment, include: Arturo Ybarra, executive director,
Watts Century Latino Organization; Marqueece
Harris-Dawson, executive director of the Community
Coalition; Alicia Dixon, senior program officer of The
California Endowment; and Virginia Victorin, senior
vice president, Washington Mutual.

The HIP Leadership Conference

The conference is designed to call attention to the
gap between traditional philanthropy and the needs of
the growing Latino population of the United States,
who disproportionately face poverty, poor health,
limited educational opportunities and illiteracy.
Although Latinos constitute more than 15 percent of
the U.S. population, it is estimated that less than 2
percent of all foundation dollars are directed to
Latino groups and causes.

Conference events also include a roundtable on
Collaborating for Stronger Communities, hosted by
Manuel Pastor; creation of a mural envisioning black-
Latino relations in 2025, a performance of Mariachi
Much Ado About Nothing, by the East Los Angeles
Classic Theatre; workshops for nonprofit
organizations; and a gala awards dinner.

Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP)

Founded in 1983, HIP now has a membership network that
extends across the Americas-more than 500 grantmakers
committed to creating vibrant, healthy Latino
communities by investing in Latino leaders and by
increasing resources for the Latino population.

HIP members share a passion for diversity, a
commitment to social and economic justice, and an
understanding that progress requires partnership. HIP
sponsors regional, national and international
conferences and briefings, research and publications,
and professional development programs, as well as
providing referrals for foundations seeking Latino
staff and trustees.

For more information, visit http://www.hiponline.org/.
Media contact: Oralia Michel, OMMPR: 626-568-0902,
ext. 10; Mobile: 626-705-1942

Website: http://www.hiponline.org/


From denise at panix.com  Sun Jan 28 22:42:08 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:42:08 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] Nader on KPFK (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701290142050.10274@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:44:58 -0800
From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
Reply-To: Green Party of Los Angeles County Discussion Forum
     <gplac-forum at cagreens.org>
To: gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Nader on KPFK


>>
>> At 02:05 PM 1/28/07, you wrote:
>>
>    I just heard Lila Garrett say that she was having Mr. Nader on her show
>>> tomorrow (Monday) morning at 7:00 on KPFK.  Thought you'd like to know.
>>>
>>> Dorothy
>>

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From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan 29 09:48:17 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:48:17 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Activist actress Michelle Phillips to be guest
 speaker at Activist Support Circle - Wed., Jan. 31, 7PM, Santa Monica (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701291248130.1668@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:41:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Activist actress Michelle Phillips to be guest speaker at Activist
     Support Circle - Wed., Jan. 31, 7PM, Santa Monica

ACTIVIST ACTRESS MICHELLE PHILLIPS TO BE

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER AT JANUARY 31

ACTIVIST SUPPORT CIRCLE PUBLIC GATHERING

              Santa Monica, CA ?  Michelle
Phillips, the popular film and TV actress and
founding member of The Mamas and the Papas, as
well as an outspoken anti-war activist, will be
the special guest speaker at the Wednesday,
January 31, 2007 public gathering of the Activist
Support Circle.  The gathering will take place at
the Friends Meeting Hall, located at 1440 Harvard
Street in Santa Monica and will begin at 7:00 PM.

              The Activist Support Circle is an
emotional support group for progressive activists.

              The purpose of the monthly gatherings are
to:

?      Guard against activist-related burnout.

?      Share activist-related frustrations and
fears, as well as hopes and aspirations, in a
supportive, safe
environment.

?      Turn feelings of despair into feelings of
empowerment.
?      Learn helpful coping skills and ideas from
other like-minded supportive activists.

              The gatherings are free and there is free
parking on-site.

              The website is:
www.activistsupportcircle.org.

              For further information call the
Activist Support Circle: Jerry Rubin  at (310)
399-1000.



From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan 29 10:05:16 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:05:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Reminder: TOMORROW @2 pm -Important Condo/Demo
	Hearing (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701291305150.13407@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:16:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Larry Gross <la_ces at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: contactces at earthlink.net
To: Larry Gross <contactces at earthlink.net>
Subject: Reminder: TOMORROW @2 pm -Important Condo/Demo Hearing

Attend & Testify at the City Council

Joint Housing, Community Economic Development
& Planning Land Use Management Committees Hearing

  TOMORROW!!!
Tuesday, January 30
   2:00 p.m.
  LA City Hall ? Room 350
Board of Public Works Hearing Room
   200 N. Spring Street- Downtown LA

Let the City Council Know That Anything Less Than Enacting a Provision to Restrict Condo Conversions and Demolitions is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!


  The hearing will focus on a partial list of recommendations approved by the Planning Commission to address condo conversions and demolitions.

The proposals being discussed are totally inadequate. While we support the relocation proposals, the Rental Housing Production Fee of $1,492 is a joke! Every city in the state that has such a fee, has it at a level that far exceeds the proposed amount. To think that $1,492 in anyway offsets the loss of a rent controlled unit is an insult.  The fee should be based on the amount of replacing the unit being lost.

More importantly, not one of these proposals addresses the real need, restricting condominium conversions and demolitions.

The staff recommendations are as follows:

-- Increase Tenant  Relocation Assistance to $9,040 and $17,080 to seniors, disabled and tenants with dependent children.

-- Increase fees to provide tenants a Relocation Assistance Service Provider to assist in finding tenants facing eviction alternative housing.

--  Require landlords to provide relocation assistance payments to tenants who voluntarily move out of a unit proposed for condo conversion.

-- Increase the Rental Housing Production Fee a condo converter is required to pay from $500 to $1,492.

-- Establish a  monitoring program to ensure compliance with tenant relocation assistance requirements when buildings are demolished.


YOUR ACTION NEEDED NOW!!!


  Attend and Testfy at tomorrow's hearing.

If you can't make it, immediately Call, Write and Email members of the City Council Housing and Community Development and Planning Land Use Management Committees listed below and urge that he/she support:

1) Strengthening the Provision to Deny Conversions & Demolitions if  the Vacancy Rate is Below 5%
2) The Proposed Incresed Relocations Assistance  Proposals.
3) A Cap or Moratorium on Condo Conversions and Demolitions
4) Increasing the Rental Production Housing Fee  significantly above the proposed amount.

  Write & Mail to:             LA City Councilmember __________________
                                      LA City Hall ? Room ____________
                                        200 N. Spring Street , Los Angeles, CA 90012

  Email & Call:

  HERB J. WESSON.      213-473-7010       room 430/   councilmember.wesson at lacity.org



  ED P. REYES        213- 485-3451   room 410/ councilmember.reyes at lacity.org



ERIC GARCETTI  213-473-7013  room 470/ councilmember.garcetti at lacity.org



  TONY CARDENAS    213-473-7006 room 455/ councilman.cardenas at lacity.org



  JAN PERRY    213-473-7009     room 420/  councilmember.perry at lacity.org

  JACK WEISS       213-473-7005    room 420/  councilmember.weiss at lacity.org

  JOSE HUIZAR   213-473-7014   room 420/  councilmember.huizar at lacity.org


SAVE Affordable Housing
STOP
Condo Conversions & Rental Housing Demolitions




   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  LARRY GROSS
Executive Director
COALITION for ECONOMIC SURVIVAL  (CES)
514 Shatto Place, Suite 270  Los Angeles, CA 90020
Tel: 213-252-4411 * Fax: 213-252-4422
Email: contactces at earthlink.net
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From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan 29 10:16:02 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:16:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] DN!: Anti-War Rally in Washington - With Maxine
 Waters, John Conyers, Lynn Woolsey, Sean Penn, Jane Fonda,
 Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701291316010.13407@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:13:12 -0800
From: sasha karlik <sasha at greens.org>
To: Denise Robb <denise at greens.org>
Subject: DN!: Anti-War Rally in Washington - With Maxine Waters, John Conyers,
     Lynn Woolsey, Sean Penn, Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins

-------- Original Message --------

Subject: 	DN!: Anti-War Rally in Washington
Date: 	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:52:32 -0500
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January 29, 2007

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* Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Navy Seaman
Jonathan Hutto, Bob Watada & Others Call for End to Iraq War at Anti-War
Rally in Washington *

Anti-war protesters filled the streets of Washington on Saturday in one of
the largest protests since the invasion of Iraq. Veterans and military
families joined lawmakers, peace groups and celebrities to urge Congress and
President Bush to bring the troops home now. Protest organizers United For
Peace and Justice estimated 500,000 took part in the demonstration. In
California, smaller rallies were held in San Francisco, Los Angeles and
Sacramento. In Washington, marchers converged on the National Mall for a
two-hour rally. The crowd included people who came on 300 buses from 40
states.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1453230


* "Silence Is No Longer An Option": Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon
and Tim Robbins Speak Out *

On Saturday Jane Fonda took part in her first anti-war protest since the
Vietnam War. "I haven't spoken at an anti-war rally for 34 years," Fonda
said. "But silence is no longer an option." Meanwhile actor Tim Robbins
called for the impeachment of President Bush.


Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1453235


* Headlines for January 29, 2007 *

- Antiwar Groups Rally in Washington
- U.S. and Iraqi Forces Kill 300 Gunmen in Najaf
- Gates: Resolution Opposing War Escalation "Emboldens the Enemy"
- Senate Unanimously OKs Petraeus to Head Iraq Forces
- Bush Defends Policy to Kill Iranians in Iraq
- Report: Turkey Considers Invading Northern Iraq
- Canada Pays Maher Arar $9M Settlement
- Suicide Bombing Kills Three in Israel
- Israel Faces Possible Sanctions Over Cluster Bombs
- New Orleans Officials Threaten Tenant Attorney
- Molly Ivins Hospitalized


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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1453224

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007:

* Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill
to Kennedy to George W. Bush

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King's Message: Stop the war, Help the Poor
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/300307_amy19.html

Global Warring, Global Warming, Global Warning
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/299166_amy11.html


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From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan 29 12:55:55 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:55:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Fwd: Help Journalist Protest Army Subpoena (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701291555530.9914@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:40:44 -0800
From: Peter Dudar & Sally Marr <mail at arlingtonwestfilm.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Fwd: Help Journalist Protest Army Subpoena

please send out to support journalists and freedom of speech.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Sarah Olson <solson75 at yahoo.com>
> Date: January 29, 2007 12:25:47 PM PST
> To: solson75 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Help Journalist Protest Army Subpoena
>
> Hi all:
> As you may know, I've been subpoenaed by the Army to
> testify about an interview I did with 1st Lt. Ehren
> Watada, the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy
> to Iraq.
>
> I have taken the position that it's not a journalist's
> job to participate in the government prosecution of
> personal, political speech, and that the subpoenas
> erode the barrier between press and government, chill
> speech, stifle debate and subvert the notion of a
> press free of government meddling.
>
> I've gotten really amazing and diverse support: from
> the National Press Club issuing a release last week
> denouncing the subpoenas, to antiflag posting a
> message on their blog doing the same! I'm asking that
> you all do two things, if you are willing to spend a
> few quick minutes lending a hand.
>
> First, go to the web site
> http://www.defendthepress.org to send a letter to the
> Army and the Pentagon asking that they drop the
> subpoenas of journalists in the Lt. Watada
> court-martial. Also, you can sign onto the journalist
> open letter calling on the Army to "back off." :)
>
> Second, please send an announcement/alert to your own
> friends, colleagues, lists and networks. I would love
> to be be able to deliver thousands of emails and
> letters to the Army by the end of the week, and I
> really need help getting that accomplished! A sample
> alert is included below. Feel free to edit at will and
> send out to whomever you'd like.
>
> Also, free free to call or email if you have any
> thoughts or questions.
> Thanks so much for your help with this!
> Sarah Olson
> 415 298 5573
> http://www.freepresswg.org
> http://www.defendthepress.org
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In May of 2006 journalist Sarah Olson did an exclusive
> interview with U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ehren
> Watada, just before he became the highest-ranking
> member of the military to publicly refuse to deploy to
> Iraq. Now, Olson has been subpoenaed to testify as
> an Army witness in the Lieutenant?s February 5th
> court-martial.
>
> Lieutenant Watada is facing 5 charges: one for not
> going to Iraq, and four charges of ?conduct unbecoming
> an officer and a gentleman.? Each of the latter four
> charges are based on statements he made regarding his
> reasons for refusing to deploy to Iraq. To make these
> speech related charges stick, the Army formally served
> Olson and another journalist with subpoenaes, and
> several other reporters have been placed on the
> witness list.
>
> Olson believes that journalists should not be asked to
> participate in the government prosecution of personal,
> political speech. Doing so erodes the barriers between
> press and government, subverts the notion of a free
> press, chills speech, stifles debate, and scares
> journalists away from covering controversial topics.
> And she?s not alone. Women In Media & News, The
> Society of Professional Journalists, PEN American
> Center, the National Press Club and the editorial
> board of the Los Angeles Times have joined her in
> protest. Scores of prominent journalists and authors ?
> from Howard Zinn to Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich
> to Sydney Schanberg -- have decried the government?s
> attempt to control the gather and distribution of
> news.
>
> We are asking that you join the growing ranks of
> people protesting the Army?s attempts to use
> journalists to silence the personal political speech
> of dissenting members of the military. Go to
> http://www.defendthepress.org today and send letters
> to the Army and the Pentegon, asking  that they drop
> the subpoenas of journalists in the Lt. Watada
> court-martial. Tell members of Congress that all media
> workers must be free to report the news, and that
> people must be able to speak with journalists without
> fear of retribution or censure.
>
> To read more about Sarah Olson's principled stand
> against government censorship of personal, political
> speech, see:
> http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?
> vnu_content_id=1003526248
>
> Sarah Olson discussing her case on Democracy Now!:
> http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/02/1527206
>
> Defend The Press:
> http://www.freepresswg.org
>
>
>
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From denise at panix.com  Mon Jan 29 20:37:56 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:37:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Living Wage Update from LAANE organizer Marx
	Gutierrez (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701292337540.11795@panix3.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:36:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Living Wage Update from LAANE organizer Marx Gutierrez

Denise,
Please do forward this to your lists.
Thanks.
Linda


Dear Friends:

     Thanks to those of you who came to the community
briefing on Thursday.  With your help we have a chance
to win a living wage for Hotel workers on Century.  As
you may know the referendum will go to city council.
At our recent briefing on Los Angeles' new Living Wage
law Council President Eric Garcetti announced that the
Chamber of Commerce and the Hotel Association were
looking to negotiate a deal to avoid an election.

On Wednesday, January 31st, the Los Angeles City
Council must vote to place the Living Wage Referendum
on the May 15th ballot. If a deal is reached, the
Council must repeal the new law altogether and then
immediately vote to pass a new Living Wage ordinance
accompanied by face-saving incentives for the hotels.

The only option for hotel workers and councilmembers
is to cut a deal that preserves Living Wages for
workers and may provide some type of face saving
development incentives for the hotels.

While this may seem confusing, it may give the
community and workers what it wants without
compromising what we have worked for or what others
will likely work for in the future.

The city council is under pressure to rescind the new
Living Wage Law, the community must be there to show
support for the Living Wage.  We're asking for your
attendance and participation at the council meeting
this Wednesday, January 31 at 10am.

Please let me know if you are available to attend and
testify before the council. Call me at (323) 459-8669
or email mgutierrez at lanne.org

Thanks

Marx Gutierrez


From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan 30 08:34:39 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:34:39 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [LaGreensExcom] PBS Public Campaign Financing Video
	(fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701301133530.11302@panix1.panix.com>

Subject: [LaGreensExcom] PBS Public Campaign Financing Video

I had a conversation with Lisa T. not too long ago in which we were
wondering what the political environment was like in Arizona and other
states that promoted passage of Clean Elections laws while the CA
initiative was so resoundingly killed.

This is a link to a great one-hour PBS special that addresses this and
other questions.  Highly recommended!


Click "video" link, right-screen

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/242/index.html


From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan 30 10:09:21 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:09:21 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [Fwd: Texas Observer starts investigative journalism
 fund honoring Molly Ivins] (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701301309190.2753@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:52:04 -0600 (CST)
From: retired58 at verizon.net
To: Undisclosed recipients:  ;
Subject: [Fwd: Texas Observer starts investigative journalism fund honoring
     Molly Ivins]

We love you, Molly Ivins

by Harvey Wasserman | Jan 30 2007 - 9:49am |  permalink
article tools: email | print | read more Harvey Wasserman
Our beloved sister Molly Ivins is fighting for her life against cancer, and all we can do is try to send her even a fraction of the brillliance, joy and love she has given us for so many incomparable years. This genius daughter of Texas turmoil has stood alone for so long as a voice of clarity, wit, common sense and plain-spoken conscience that it?s hard to know even where to start.

Perhaps most important to remember is that she has not been just a writer. From her modest but gracious home in the heart of Austin, she has done anything but sit back and snipe with that unique penetrating wit of hers. She could have done it. She could have just gone to that keyboard every day, blown them all away, and built her national reputation from the sheer genius of an insulated ivory tower.

But Molly has always been a firm believer in hands-on non-violent combat, which in hands like hers is the ultimate weapon. She puts her heart and soul where her convictions are. She?s fought tooth and nail for The Texas Observer and whatever other worthwhile publications there are that can muster an audience in the Lone Star State. She?s worked with the great Jim Hightower in his climb to elected office. She supports candidates. She goes out of her way. She works hard. She makes her presence felt wherever she thinks it?ll do some good, no matter what the personal cost.

All the while being our very premier writer/humorist. If Mark Twain has a female counterpart on today?s political and journalistic scene, it is Molly Ivins. She has that miraculous ability to slice and dice an entire raft of political horse-dung with a single simple sentence, laced with wry, seeded with sweetness, and so often utterly cleansing and clarifying.

We can all be thankful that our lucky stars have placed her?where else but?in Austin. Throughout the entire horrific nightmare of George W. Bush, whom she has somehow known personally for decades, it has been Molly and only Molly who?s been on the spot to say exactly what needs to be said in exactly the right Texas tone with precisely the right down home balance of horror, outrage and utterly human wit. Nobody else could be doing it as she does, from the inside out, from the high ground lifting up the low. Could we ever INVENT anyone better suited, with a sharper wit and better sense of the jugular? Except with Molly, it?s the spiritual center that?s the bullseye. With that wry, beautiful smile of hers and that insanely musical Texas twang, she never fails to aim for higher ground. When her eyes roll at the latest unbelievable insanity from this ghastly crew, she still manages to twinkle with that huge, heavenly light that?s only Molly?s.

In her personal life Molly has always been every bit as gracious as you can tell she is from her writing. Last time she carted me around Austin, it was in her obligatory pickup. The thing seemed a bit naked without a gun rack. But Molly behind the wheel was armed aplenty, always willing to drive the few extra blocks, even if you are willing to walk. Her southern grace just won?t think of it, no matter how many better things she has to do. And we know there are plenty.

To hear her speak is to be dazzled by the music of a true national treasure. To see her heart is to be warmed by a truly magnificent woman who embodies all this country can and should be. That she has been on the job for so long, with such persistence and valor, is something for which we can all be joyously thankful.

Molly, we are with you, and we need you, and we love you, as we have needed you and loved you now for so many years now. Get well soon!

In Molly?s honor, some of us are sending contributions to the Molly Ivins Fund for Investigative Reporting at the Texas Observer; 307 West Seventh Street; Austin, TX 78701; This was first posted at the Texas Observer web site, http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=62
_______



About author Harvey Wasserman is co-author, with Bob Fitrakis and Steve Rosenfeld, of WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO?, just published by the New Press. He is author of SOLARTOPIA! and HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE U.S., available at www.harveywasserman.com.



From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan 30 10:15:10 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:15:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [GPLAC-Forum] LA Green on homeless, city issues (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701301314500.16794@panix1.panix.com>



Longtime Los Angeles Green activist Patrick Meighan has his picture
in the Santa Monica Lookout counting the homeless
and he has been blogging on various L.A. city issues.

http://greeninlosangeles.blogspot.com/

http://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2007/
January-2007/01_29_07_Putting_a_Number_on_the_Homeless_Problem.htm
_______________________________________________

From denise at panix.com  Tue Jan 30 10:37:33 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:37:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Fw: EVP - Experience what it is like to be without a
 place live (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701301337320.28244@panix1.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:17:29 -0800
From: Laura Padovan <lpadovan at verizon.net>
To: Samuel Kiwasz <samuel at sacredfriends.org>, Denise Robb <denise at panix.com>,
     Ed Pearl <EPearl at sbcglobal.net>, Frank Dorrell <fdorrel at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Fw: EVP - Experience what it is like to be without a place live


----- Original Message -----
From: Mona LaVine
To: EVP:
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:21 PM
Subject: EVP - Experience what it is like to be without a place live




Change of Heart Weekend

The Weekend will change our hearts and minds alike.
We will spend the entire weekend in a cardboard tent city
to better understand what it is like to be without a home,
without family to turn to, and without the comforts of our
daily lives. Throughout the weekend, invited guests will
conduct activities on various social causes. We will learn
about the world, about ourselves, and about how we can
make a difference. Participants can choose to stay one
or both nights OR participants can attend the sessions
of their choice. (click on schedule for more info) This
  event is geared toward young people, but will be fun
and meaningful for people of all ages. Students can earn
service hours by participating.

Registration fee is $20 [All proceeds are distributed to
support relief efforts] but no one will be turned away
for lack of money. Participants will also have the
opportunity to make direct donations to our
  beneficiaries:  Howick Hospice (South Africa)
and Stand up for Kids Long Beach).

We are also accepting non-parishable food items
and toiletries for Long Beach Homeless Services

The event begins at 5pm Friday, Feb 16th and ends at
5pm Sunday, Feb 18th, 2007. (The following Monday is a holiday)

ll meals are provided. If you are not able to participate,
but would like to make a donation, checks can be made
out Be the Cause and mailed to:
11912 Gary Street, Garden Grove, CA 92840



Fri Feb 16 - Sun Feb 18
Location: Campfire USA Campground
Address: 7070 E. Carson St. Long Beach, CA 90808 ( MAP)
Cost: $20.00
Ann Nguyen   <nguyennt at juno.com>
714-638-5569





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From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 31 08:57:13 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:57:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] [atw-news] March in Support of Lt. Ehren Watada -
 Saturday, February 3rd,
 4:00 PM in Little Tokyo - Presentation at 5:30 at Higashi Auditorium (behind
 the corner of 2nd & San Pedro) (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701311157110.9482@panix2.panix.com>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:36:31 -0800
From: Frank <fdorrel at sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: fdorrel at addictedtowar.com
To: atw-news at addictedtowar.org
Subject: [atw-news] March in Support of Lt. Ehren Watada - Saturday,
     February 3rd,
     4:00 PM in Little Tokyo - Presentation at 5:30 at Higashi Auditorium (behind
      the corner of 2nd & San Pedro)

-----Original Message-----From: HYPERLINK
"mailto:Winogradcoach at aol.com"Winogradcoach at aol.com

Show Your Support for Lt. Ehren Watada

Save the Date: February 3rd, 4:00 PM
Meet at corner of San Pedro and Second streets in Little Tokyo
@ the Friendship Knot sculpture.
March through Little Tokyo in Los Angeles
(details below)

This is our chance to show support for Lt. Watada, the first U.S.
military officer to refuse
  to serve  in Iraq as a conscientious objector. The government will try
him February  5th.

Please join NCRR (Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress) in their support of
First Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to refuse
deployment to Iraq, now facing six years in prison and Augustin Aquayo,
also facing court-marshall and seven years in prison.

February 3rd (only two days before Ehren's court marshall)
4:00  PM
Meeting at the corner of San Pedro and Second streets in Little Tokyo @
the Friendship Knot sculpture.
March through Little Tokyo.
Presentation at 5:30 at Higashi Auditorium (behind the corner of 2nd &
San Pedro)
Coffee, tea and Udon to be served.

Guest Speakers:
      Carolyn Ho, mother of Ehren Watada
      Helga Aguayo, wife of Augustin Aguayo
      Jabbar Magrudder, Iraqi vet
      Reverand Paul Nagano

Music and entertainment by:
      Nobuko
      Olmeca

For more information call: 213-680-3484

HYPERLINK "http://www.thankyoult.org/" \nwww.thankyoult.org

SUPPORT FOR EHREN WATADA GROWS AS

COURT-MARTIAL HEARING APPROACHES

Feb. 3 March and Program in Little Tokyo to Oppose the Iraq War

and Support Military Resisters



             The community as a whole is invited to come out on Feb. 3 at
4:00 p.m. to 2nd & San Pedro Streets to voice their opposition to the
war in Iraq and to march in support of military resisters.  Sponsored by
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) and Asian American Vietnam
Veterans Organization (AAVVO) the march and program will call for an end
to the Iraq War, oppose President Bush?s call for 21,500 additional
troops and urge support for 1st Lt. Ehren Watada and other military
resisters, such as Army Spc. Agustin Aguayo, both of whom face
court-martial hearings in the coming weeks.  The march will wind its way
through Little Tokyo, ending at Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple*, 505
East Third Street, for a program.



Feb. 5 Court-Martial Trial Begins



As the Feb. 5 court-martial trial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada approaches,
anti-war activists and supporters across the country are stepping up
their activity aimed at getting the military to drop its charges against
Watada.  Watada faces charges of (1) missing a troop movement for
failing to deploy to Iraq with his Stryker Brigade last June and (2)
conduct unbecoming an officer, for statements criticizing the Iraq War
and President Bush.  He faces up to 6 years in prison.



In January pre-trial hearings at Fort Lewis, Washington, presiding
military judge Lt. Col. John Head ruled against Watada, stating that the
legality of the war (Watada believes the Iraq war is illegal) is
irrelevant to the charges at hand.  Head also refused to recognize
Watada?s First Amendment right to speak out against the war.



Support for Watada has continued to grow despite these legal setbacks.
Members from Iraq Veterans Against the War have set up ?Camp Resistance?
across the road from Fort Lewis, planning to stay there until the end of
the court-martial trial.  In New York, San Francisco, the Bay Area,
Chicago and other parts of the country organizers are calling for more
vigils, rallies and programs in support of Watada and all military
resisters and against the war.



Lt.Watada?s father Bob, his wife Rosa and Ehren?s mother Carolyn Ho,
have toured the country and continue to speak on behalf of their son,
appealing for support.



Feb. 3 March and Program in Little Tokyo Features Watada?s mother
Carolyn Ho and well-known performers Quetzal and Nobuko Miyamoto



Featured at the program on Feb. 3 will be Carolyn Ho, who will fly in
that day from speaking engagements in the mid-West.  Ms. Ho will give an
update about her son?s court-martial trial before heading for Olympia,
Washington for the first day of his trial.








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From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 31 15:02:31 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:02:31 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Sad news from Austin - Molly Ivins (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701311802290.7826@panix3.panix.com>




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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:59:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Elizabeth Ferrari <elizabeth.ferrari at yahoo.com>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Sad news from Austin - Molly Ivins

fwd from an activist list I read:

I'm sorry the news I bring is so dire, but many are
wondering: Molly Ivins is indeed losing her fight with
cancer. She's out of the hospital and back at home, on
life support with organ failure. She is lucid some of
the time, and spending her last hours with close
friends and relatives.

She asks that no more flowers or cards be sent as she
is overwhelmed, and certainly visitors are a burden at
this point (she knows you are with her in spirit).
Please send prayers, love, good wishes (I'm attempting
to get and send to her a copy of video of Sat.'s rally
where 1500 of us collectively sent it in a giant
yell!) and if you want to honor her, instead of gifts,
she asks that you give to the ACLU or the Texas
Observer/Texas Democracy Foundation in her name. I
would imagine a 3rd alternative is giving to a cancer
org. of your choice.

Giving to Observer: https://www. texasobserver.
org/donate. php
Giving to ACLU: https://secure. groundspring.
org/dn/index. php?aid=13993

"You've got a smile so bright, you know you could've been a candle."  Andy Stephenson 1963 - 2005

From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 31 15:06:40 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:06:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Condo/Demolition Hearing Report & Update (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701311806310.7826@panix3.panix.com>




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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:05:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Larry Gross <la_ces at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: contactces at earthlink.net
To: Larry Gross <contactces at earthlink.net>
Subject: Condo/Demolition Hearing Report & Update

It was a jammed packed hearing room for  the joint hearing of the City Council Housing and Community Development and Planning Land Use Management Committees to discuss numerous proposals to address the condo conversion and rental housing demolition crisis sweeping LA (SEE DAILY NEWS ARTICLE AT END OF THIS REPORT).

Joining CES tenants leaders were representatives from the following organizations: Legal Aid Foundation, Western Center on Law and Poverty, Neighborhood Legal Services, Livable Places, Public Counsel, LA Voice, Service Employees Int'l Union Local 660, Southern Calif Assoc of Nonprofit Housing, Coalition LA, Inquilinos Unidos, Venice Community Housing Corp, Lincoln Pl Tenants Assoc, Valley Village Residents Assoc, ACORN, Koreatown Tenants United, LA Housing Law Project, LA Community Action Network, Palisades Bowl Mobilehome Residents Assoc. and Eviction Defense Network.

After over 3 hours of public testimony and debate with the joint committee dealt with the proposals before them as follows:


-- Increase Tenant  Relocation Assistance to $9,040 and $17,080 to seniors, disabled and tenants with dependent children.

They ended up voting for the City Attorney to draft the ordinance to increase the relocation amounts by at the last moment, on a proposal by Herb Wesson, they decided to leave the amounts blank. PRO: It's apparent there will be some increase. CON: Leaving the amounts blank means we'll have a fight to hold off attempts  to lower the amounts.

Additionally, Jose Huizar kept pushing for information on how to establish a means test for the higher amounts based on income and Jack Weiss raised a means test based on length of tenancy. CON: This would be a disaster that would lead to tenants not receiving the amounts they are eligible for and increased landlord harassment to get long-term tenants out. Plus it would provide an administrative nightmare on trying to document tenants eligibility. Additionally, once you establish means testing, landlord will have a stronger position to push means testing for all rent control protections. This MUST be defeated.

-- Increase fees to provide tenants a Relocation Assistance Service Provider to assist in finding tenants facing eviction alternative housing.

Passed without change PRO: Can't hurt. CON: Their have been constitent problems with existing Relocation Service Provided.

--  Require landlords to provide relocation assistance payments to tenants who voluntarily move out of a unit proposed for condo conversion.

Passed over heavy opposition from landlords. PRO: This is an extremely needed proposal we fully support.

-- Increase the Rental Housing Production Fee a condo converter is required to pay from $500 to $1,492 per unit lost.

Passed with instruction to down a nexus study to determine a more realistic fee closer to the real cost of replacing a lost unit. PRO: Based on the nexus study providing a much higher fee. CON: At this amount the fee is a joke and not worth it.

-- Establish a monitoring program to ensure compliance with tenant relocation assistance requirements when buildings are demolished.

Passed. PRO: Maybe will be able to receive more accurate data. CON: Could be used as a substitute for real protections and restriction on demolitions.

*** -- Implementation of  LA Municipal Code ?12.95.2 which currently permits the denial of a conversion when the vacancy rate is less than 5% in a city Planning Area and the cumulative effect on the rental market is significant and the extending this provision to demolitions.

This is the most crucial issue. It appears the Planning Dept has been ignoring Council's directive to implement the provision, continuing to approve conversions by using only one factor (that adequate tenant protections have been provided, meaning relocation assistance), instead of all factor to establish cumulative impact on the rent market. Eric Garcetti introduced a motion, which was excepted, to establish new criteria to establish cumulative impact. It states that a conversion could be denied if the vacancy rate is below 5% unless project has at least 30% of the units restricted as affordable to tenants earning less than 80% of the median income or at least 51% of the existing tenants are willing and able to purchase units. PRO: This proposal was provided by Housing Advocates and would provide the needed protections.

Herb Wesson was extremely annoyed at the Planning Dept for not presenting a proposal to extend this to demolition. Staff was instructed to provide this information at the next hearing. PRO: This is want we want.

  -- Establish a panel of experts to address creating an annual cap on conversions and demolitions.

Passed. PRO: A cap, if the number is low enough, is a good tool to restrict conversion and demolitions. CON: Don't need an expert panel. Plus, who knows who these so-called experts will be.

The City Attorney was instructed to draft ordinances on these issues and all of this will be brought back to another joint committee hearing in 3 weeks for final committee approval before being sent to the full City Council. Thus, we need another turn-out to ensure passage of our issues.


Attend & Testify at the City Council

Joint Housing, Community Economic Development
& Planning Land Use Management Committees Hearing


Tuesday, February 20
   2:00 p.m.
  LA City Hall ? Room 350
Board of Public Works Hearing Room
   200 N. Spring Street- Downtown LA

Let the City Council Know That Anything Less Than Enacting a Provision to Restrict Condo Conversions and Demolitions and passing the full relocations amounts of $17,000 and $9,000 is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!

YOUR ACTION NEEDED NOW!!!


  Attend and Testify at February 20th hearing.

Immediately Call, Write and Email members of the City Council Housing and Community Development and Planning Land Use Management Committees listed below and urge that he/she support:

1) Strengthening the Provision to Deny Conversions & Extending it to Demolitions if  the Vacancy Rate is Below 5% by supporting the proposal introduced by Eric Garcetti addressing cumulative effect on the rental market.

2) The Proposed Increased Relocations Assistance Amounts of $9,040 and $17,080 to seniors, disabled and tenants with dependent children. Fight against all attempts to lower the amounts or establish a means test.


  Write & Mail to:             LA City Councilmember __________________
                                      LA City Hall ? Room ____________
                                        200 N. Spring Street , Los Angeles, CA 90012

  Email & Call:

  HERB J. WESSON.      213-473-7010       room 430/   councilmember.wesson at lacity.org



  ED P. REYES        213- 485-3451   room 410/ councilmember.reyes at lacity.org



ERIC GARCETTI  213-473-7013  room 470/ councilmember.garcetti at lacity.org



  TONY CARDENAS    213-473-7006 room 455/ councilman.cardenas at lacity.org



  JAN PERRY    213-473-7009     room 420/  councilmember.perry at lacity.org

  JACK WEISS       213-473-7005    room 420/  councilmember.weiss at lacity.org

  JOSE HUIZAR   213-473-7014   room 420/  councilmember.huizar at lacity.org




LA Daily News
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

L.A. condo rules closer to approvalStill unclear is the issue of relocation payments
BY KERRY CAVANAUGH, Staff Writer

Two Los Angeles City Council committees moved one step closer Tuesday to finalizing strict new rules governing evictions and condominium conversions, but it remains unclear how much property owners would pay relocating tenants.


The elderly, disabled and parents with children could receive $17,000 under a relocation mandate ordered by the Planning Commission. Landlords now pay $8,000 for special-needs tenants.


Other renters would receive $9,000 in relocation funds. They now get $3,200.


But landlords and developers said the proposed relocation fees are too high, don't take into account tenants' incomes or length of residency and could be levied even if a planned condo conversion never goes through.


Kate Bartolo with development company The Kor Group said the money should be targeted to residents who have the greatest need.


"It is completely unclear who would benefit and when they would benefit," Bartolo said.


But low-income housing advocates pushed the council to adopt the new relocation funds and said they were  concerned that the fees could be reduced in last-minute negotiations.


"Even this money will do nothing to guarantee new and decent housing (tenants) can afford," said Larry Gross with the Coalition for Economic Survival.


Roughly a year after activists first raised concerns about mass evictions for condo conversions, City Council members said they're close to completing rules that will probably discourage some property owners from pursuing condo conversions by making the process more expensive.


Since 2001, tenants from some 12,000 rent-controlled units have been evicted to make way for condo conversions and demolitions to build new ones.


In addition to the tenant-relocation fees, the proposed rules would levy a per-unit fee - $671 for special-needs tenants and $431 for other tenants - to a relocation firm to help tenants find new apartments.


The  city is also appointing a panel of experts to consider whether to cap the number of condo conversions allowed.


  kerry.cavanaugh at dailynews.com
(213) 978-0390





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  LARRY GROSS
Executive Director
COALITION for ECONOMIC SURVIVAL  (CES)
514 Shatto Place, Suite 270
  Los Angeles, CA 90020
Tel: 213-252-4411 ext. 201 * Fax: 213-252-4422
Email: contactces at earthlink.net
Web site: www.CESinAction.org





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From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 31 23:57:44 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 02:57:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] South Central Farm Tianguis -  Sunday, Feb. 4, 10-5,
 Forging Black-Brown Unity (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:49:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: South Central Farm Tianguis -  Sunday,  Feb. 4, 10-5,
     Forging Black-Brown Unity

South Central Farmers Health and Education
1702 E. 41st St. Los Angeles , CA 90058
southcentralfarmers at hotmail.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:           Tezozomoc
January 28, 2007

888-SCFARM-1


Photos and interviews available upon request

THE SOUTH CENTRAL FARMERS ARE BRINGING FOOD TO THE
?HOOD
AND FORGING BLACK-BROWN UNITY IN THE PROCESS

Almost nine months after the South Central Farmers
were forcibly removed from fourteen acres of urban
farmland that they painstakingly rehabilitated from an
informal dumping ground and drug haven transforming it
into a thriving Farm, the Farmers have given birth to
a new labor of love, their Bringing Food to the ?Hood
campaign.


The Farmers? Bringing Food to the ?Hood campaign is
the brainchild of their newly restructured and
reenergized organization, the South Central Farmers
Health and Education Fund (SCFHEF), a 501c.3
charitable non-profit group.  The Campaign fatefully
and very intentionally emerged from the dark and
desolate remains of the Farm, mimicking the emergence
of the famous lotus blossoms that once a year burst
forth from the muck and muddy waters of Echo Park Lake
near downtown Los Angeles .


The intentional part of the Farmers? fate is their
bold and resolute proclamation that ?you can kill the
farmers? farm, but you can?t kill the farmers? power
to keep Bringing Food to the ?Hood.  The Campaign is
part of a larger plan to address community food
security issues through comprehensive and
multi-faceted efforts that engage multiple
stakeholders and constituencies in planning for and
implementing viable food systems that feed hungry
families in underserved urban neighborhoods of Los
Angeles.

As part of their ambitious campaign to keep Bringing
Food to the ?Hood, the SCFHEF hosts a monthly Tianguis
marketplace in collaboration with various
community-based organizations, artisans, and local
merchants.  Every first Sunday of the month, the
Tianguis transforms public space surrounding the
original 14-acre farm into a site for healthy eating,
healthy economics, and healthy relationships.  The
Tianguis capitalizes on local cultural and social
assets in an effort to rebuild community out of the
void left behind when developer Horrowitz bulldozed
and razed the farm on June 13, 2006.


At the February 4 Tianguis, the SCFHEF will roll out
The BIG Fruit Tree Giveaway in collaboration with Tree
People. One hundred fruit trees will be distributed to
neighborhood families.  The Farmers want every tree
that was bulldozed, killed, or forcibly removed from
the South Central Farm to be lovingly replaced by a
new sapling of potential and hope in South Central Los
Angeles.  Tree types will include passion fruit,
apples, apricots, nectarines, loquats, peaches,
cherimoya, plums, and guavas

WHAT:           1) SCFHEF Tianguis?A Celebration of
Black-Brown Unity
2) The Big Fruit Tree Giveaway
3) Music and entertainment

WHEN:           Sunday, February 4, 2007 10:00 am ?
5:00 pm

WHERE:        On 41st Street , between Long Beach and
Alameda
The SCFHEF Community Center & Gallery
1702 E. 41st Street Los Angeles , CA 90058

WHY:              The SCFHEF will commemorate African
American History Month by highlighting noteworthy
examples of Black-Brown Unity in Los Angeles .  The
South Central Farmers recognize and honor the
contribution of numerous African American brothers and
sisters to the struggle to save the farm.  These acts
of solidarity exemplify the kind of unity needed in
communities of color to radically transform their
collective experience and shared spaces.

WHO:             The eclectic line-up of artists,
speakers, and performers will feature:
?         Statement from Congresswoman Maxine Waters
?         Opening Danza Group led by Refujio Cevallos
?         Children?s Workshops and Stories
?         TEZOZOMOC (Spoken Word)
?         Cooking Demo SCF
?         Reggae Rock (encampment Carlos? band)
?         Comparza de Chinelos Nueva Generacion, Danza
tradicional del Estado de Morelos , Mexico
?         FICA-Los Angeles (Fuandacao International de
Capoeira Angloa) and CAC-Los Angeles  (Capoeira Angola
Center) will be collaborating  (Alma & Xavier)
Note: This group will be practicing continuously from
1:30 till 3:30
?         Xochisoneros (Fandango Style)? Performance &
Presentation of how Son Jarocho has ties in ?Black &
Brown? communities and the African & Indigenous
influence in Veracruz
?         MIXCOACALLI Aztec Drumming Group
?         Farmlife (Hip- Hop Rap)
?         Duro Son (Rhumba/Son Puertoriquie?o/Salsa)
?         Closing Danza Group led by Refugio Cevallos
?         Possibility of West African Drum and Dance
ensemble

SCFHEF Mission Statement

The purpose of this Corporation shall be to preserve,
maintain, acquire, and cultivate farm land in urban
areas for the purpose of improving the health and
welfare of individuals, families and communities. The
services, activities and support provided by the
Corporation will include, but not be limited to,
educational programs and activities related to urban
farming techniques and strategies, healthy living and
nutrition programs, services and activities to raise
public awareness of the health and environmental
benefits to local communities resulting from urban
farming, the agricultural cultivation of urban farm
land, the acquisition of property for the creation of
urban farms, and other charitable activities
associated with these goals.

From denise at panix.com  Wed Jan 31 23:57:54 2007
From: denise at panix.com (denise at panix.com)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 02:57:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LA-annc-freq] Living Wage Ordinance Update from LAANE organizer
 Marx Gutierrez (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:51:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Piera-Avila <lindap_a at verizon.net>
To: denise at panix.com
Subject: Living Wage Ordinance Update from LAANE organizer Marx Gutierrez


Friends,

     As some of you already have heard.  There will be
no Living Wage ordinance on the ballot this May.
There will be a few minor changes to the original
ordinance, but in general the workers will receive
living wages over the course of this year.  I will
send more as I am informed of it.  Thanks for your
support and we will be in touch.

Marx

From: Danny Feingold
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:58 PM
To: LAANE
Subject: Businesses Drop Effort to Overturn LAX Living
Wage Law


Coalition for a New Century
www.newcenturycoalition.org

For Immediate Release

                                           Contact:
Danny Feingold
January 31, 2007


213-977-9400 ext. 109


Businesses Drop Referendum Effort to
  Overturn LAX Hotel Living Wage Law

Decision Comes After Poll Shows Overwhelming
Public Support for Wage Legislation

Council Will Enact New Ordinance to Address
Business Concerns and Revitalize Century Corridor


Los Angeles?Business leaders have dropped an effort to
use a ballot referendum to overturn a landmark law
that extends the city?s living wage ordinance to
thousands of workers at hotels near Los Angeles
International Airport.

The decision comes after the release of a poll earlier
this week showing overwhelming public support for the
Century Boulevard living wage law.

As part of an agreement reached between the Chamber of
Commerce, the Los Angeles Hotel Association and
supporters of the living wage, Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa and members of the City Council agreed to
rescind the original ordinance and enact a new law
that will raise wages for Century Boulevard hotel
workers while providing certain assurances to business
leaders.

The new law will apply the city?s existing living wage
rate of $10.64 an hour ($9.39 for those with
employer-provided health benefits) to 3,500 hotel
workers in 13 hotels along Century Boulevard. The wage
standard will be phased in with three steps. The new
law also creates an enhancement zone that will pave
the way for revitalization of the Century Corridor,
establishes procedural guidelines for future Council
consideration of living wage legislation and mandates
studies on how the living wage law affects business
and workers.

?This new law will help lift thousands of hotel
workers out of poverty while also addressing the
concerns of business leaders,? said Vivian Rothstein,
Deputy Director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New
Economy, which helped lead the effort to pass extend
the living wage law to LAX hotel workers. ?From the
beginning of this campaign we have been seeking a
comprehensive solution to the problems of poverty and
disinvestment that have plagued this part of Los
Angeles. We are pleased that business leaders have now
joined with us to transform the gateway to Los Angeles
into a gateway to prosperity.?

Living wage supporters emphasized that the campaign to
improve conditions for LAX hotel workers was far from
over, noting that even with a wage increase many
workers cannot afford health insurance and still face
difficult working conditions.

?This is only the first step in helping lift thousands
of hard-working men and women into the middle class,?
said Tom Johnstone, Assistant Superintendent of the
Lennox School District, one of hundreds of community
leaders across the city who have joined in the
campaign to raise standards for LAX hotel workers. ?We
will continue to support these workers in their effort
to provide a better life to their children and achieve
the American dream.?

Hotel workers on Century Boulevard work full time, yet
many of them still live in poverty. Hotel workers in
the LAX/PCH submarket earn 20% less than their
counterparts in downtown L.A. Average annual earnings
for LAX/PCH workers is $20,328 ? barely above the
federal $20,000 federal poverty threshold for a family
of four. Some workers qualify for multiple government
assistance programs.

The nearby communities of Lennox, Inglewood and
Hawthorne, where a large number of these workers live,
suffer high rates of poverty, crime and overcrowding.
One in four residents in these communities lives below
the federal poverty line, a measure of extreme
poverty, while more than 40% of children come from
poor households. Median household income is 25% lower
than in L.A. County as a whole.

?It is my dream to give my children a better life,?
said Maria Luisa Avalos, a housekeeper at the Hilton
LAX. ?This is what every mother hopes for, and a
living wage will help me fulfill this dream. But our
struggle to achieve our dreams is not over.?

For the past year, a coalition of community, civic and
faith leaders has engaged in an effort to address
conditions for LAX hotel workers and nearby
communities. In February the coalition presented
thousands of signatures to City Council asking for a
comprehensive plan for the area. In April, a blue
ribbon commission headed by former Councilmember Ruth
Galanter released a report calling for a major effort
by city, industry and community leaders to address
conditions for workers, communities and the hotel
industry near LAX.

On September 28, thousands of people marched and
hundreds were arrested in the largest nonviolent civil
disobedience ever held in L.A. And in December,
community leaders from across the city supported hotel
workers during a seven-day fast, joining them for
daily actions on Century Boulevard.

The City Council passed the original living wage law
for Century hotel workers in November 2006. In
December, hotels and other businesses spent nearly $1
million to collect enough signatures to qualify a
ballot referendum on the ordinance.

Business groups had reportedly planned to spend
several million dollars to convince voters to repeal
the living wage law. But a poll released on Monday
showed that 74% of voters supported the law.

?It is clear that the public cares deeply about
working poverty and believes that city leaders have a
responsibility to ensure that people who work hard can
support themselves and their families in dignity,?
said Rothstein. ?The Mayor and City Council have shown
tremendous leadership on this issue, and residents of
Los Angeles will continue to support them in finding
solutions that help create better jobs and rebuild our
middle class.?