SUNDAY. JULY 3, 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM Earthworks Farm Project - ORGANIC farming ( you can help)
EarthWorks Enterprises is a job training and leadership development program for youth who are employed to grow and sell organic produce. We are preparing our 4 acre site for cover crop planting. Connie Yost, founder of Earthworks, has planted the seeds for a production farm for at risk youth on four acres of Whittier Narrows. Please contact Connie for more information and to verify schedule before attending and to find out what to bring. Come when you can, for as long as you can. Bring hat, gloves, water, lunch, mosquito repellent (not necessary for most people--we don`t have a lot of bugs). Our farm is located in South El Monte in the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, just north of the 60 freeway at Santa Anita exit, behind the Ramada Inn. Park in the Narrows parking lot, not at the Ramada. Connie Yost <http://truthla.net/email.php?event=2997>[email] Executive Director 562-696-6271 <http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,207%257E12026%257E2883178,00.html>Click here for more information <http://truthla.net/email_signup.php?event=2997>Click here to signup for email notification on this event =========================== SUNDAY JULY 3 - MONDAY JULY 4 12pm-4am Serafemme: A music festival for women of color Out and About presents 1st annual Serafemme Block Party: A music festival for women of Color Out & About events for women invites you to Serafemme Live performances +Dejay +Arts+ Crafts & Food Vendors 12p-6pm outside @ The National One Gay & Lesbian Archives 909 W. Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles www.beoutandabout.com for more info email [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 323-656-8895 Community support by: Tongues Magazine, Trust Life Releases and the June L Mazer Lesbian Archives Cost: $35 323-656-8895 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] =========================== SUNDAY , JULY 3 2PM FOOD NOT BOMBS 210 N. Rampart Blvd, (between Beverly and Temple in Echo Park). <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact for more info: Luz. 323-758-4329 DESCRIPTION: We serve meals to homeless downtown at Pershing Square (5th/Hill), 6pm Sundays only, Skid Row at 7pm. start cooking at 2pm at the "Ahouse" at listed location above. ============================= MONDAY, JULY 4, 1:45 to 3:45 The NPJ in San Pedro is holding a special event on the Fourth of July. (Note the musical act in the program.) The speakers and general theme of the event is excellent. If you would like to car pool, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the San Pedro NPJ: ³The 4th of July is More than Just Fireworks and Picnics It is also a time to remember the democratic principles our country is founded on. Music by Playing in Traffic www.playingintraffic.net Liberty Hill Plaza 5th and Harbor Blvd., San Pedro www.spneighbors.org 310 316 1567 Directions: To get to Liberty Hill take the Harbor Freeway, the 110, south until it dead ends at Gaffey Street in San Pedro. Turn left on Gaffey and go to 5th Street, turn left and travel down 5th Street until it dead ends at Harbor Blvd. Liberty Hill is on the left 100 yards before Harbor Blvd. ----------------------------- MONDAY JULY 4TH, (see times below) Join fellow Democrats in the Santa Clarita July 4th Parade Democrats in Santa Clarita need your help! The Democratic Alliance for Action will have a contingent in the annual Santa Clarita 4th of July Parade and it's important that ALL DEMOCRATS show their support, no matter where they live! Please RSVP with Regina Colombo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or 661-263-8299 Parade Details: MONDAY, JULY 4TH REGISTRATION: Opens at 7 a.m. at the Veterans Historical Plaza (The Walnut-Market-Newhall Ave. "Triangle") Arrive before 8:30am, registration closes promptly at 9:30 a.m. PARADE START TIME: 9:45 a.m. at 5th Street & San Fernando Road Parade runs north along San Fernando Road from 5th Street to Lyons Avenue, turns west on Lyons and north onto Orchard Village Road, ending at 16th Street. Post parade DAA booth: 11:30 a.m. Newhall Park. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Contact Joyce Evans: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 661-254-4220 ====================== TUESDAY, JULY 5, 9PM - 11PM Fabulous, uplifting program on PBS (KCET) THE NEW HEROES is a four-hour series, hosted by Robert Redford, which tells the dramatic stories of social entrepreneurs around the world who bring innovative, empowering solutions to the most intractable social problems around the world. Each story in this unique series illustrates the amazing changes that are possible when an innovative idea is coupled with optimism, a strategy for action, and a passionate belief in human potential Sample episodes: Fabio Rosa of Brazil is using technology and new approaches to bring electricity to remote regions of Brazil. ------------------ Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy and American, David Green, use what Green terms "compassionate capitalism" to give sight and hearing back to millions of people who would otherwise be blind and deaf. Green was inspired by Dr. V.'s belief that humans were put on Earth not get to rich, but to serve. He noticed that the number of surgeries Dr. V. could perform was limited by the high cost of replacement lenses $150.00 a pair. When Green discovered that the actual cost of making the lenses could, with a creative approach, be reduced to just $10.00 a pair, he convinced Dr. V. to open a lens factory. Now 100,000 poor people a year regain their eyesight free of charge ! Mark your calendar - Don't miss this program! Meet the New Heros http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/ =================== WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 6:10AM Please join Palisadians for Peace and other volunteers as we pass out counter- recruitment literature to students at an L.A. high school with a large JROTC program and frequent visits by recruiters . Carpools leave from Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica at 6:10 AM (school arrival before 7:00 AM) We will be passing out Opt Out forms for the Pentagons database compiled by a private co. (see LA times, June 23) in addition to the regular Opt Out forms for the high school. Help Protect Students from Military Recruiters!! For school location or more info, please contact Sandra, (310) 573-1901 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================== THURSDAY, JULY 7 - 4:00 PM TO SUNDAY JULY 10 Animal Rights 2005 Conference! The program will begin on Thursday, July 7, at 4pm with the Welcome Reception, followed by the Opening Plenary at 7:30pm. It will close on Sunday, July 10, with the Awards Banquet and Closing Reception ending at 10pm. The Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel 5400 West Century Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90045 Phone (310) 216-5858 Fax (310) 417-4545 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 1-888-FARM-USA Visit the website at: http://arconference.org/ Animal Rights 2005 is the animal rights movement's annual national conference. It is a forum for sharing knowledge, discussing strategies and tactics, networking, and "recharging our batteries." Animal Rights 2005 brings our movement together under the banner of animal liberation from all forms of human oppression. All viewpoints & factions that support this goal are welcome. The daily schedule will commence on Friday at 9am with Newcomer Orientation (for folks attending their first conference), as well as Workshops, Rap Sessions, Exhibits, and Videos. Please see the program schedule here: http://www.arconference.org/schedulespeakers5.html =================== FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2005. 8:00PM The Hollywood-Echo Park Free Pacifica Neighborhood Network presents "Aerosol Crimes" (aka Chem trails) A documentary film by Clifford E. Carnicom The Echo Park Film Center 1200 N. Alvarado Echo Park 213-484-4486 $5 donation for the Film Center =================== >FRIDAY, JULY 8, 8:00PM > >FILM: "System Failure: Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the CYA - California Youth Authority" (2004, 50 minutes) with special guest from "Books not Bars" Juvenile justice in California is a national embarrassment, a statewide disaster and a source of rich profit for a small number of entrenched interests. At the center of this issue is the California Youth Authority (CYA), the formal prison system for youths in California. Presently, the CYA is composed of eight institutions housing more than 4,000 youth. Stories have been emerging for decades of rampant human rights violations of youths imprisoned in the CYAviolations that include sexual abuse, beatings, forced medication and systemic medical and educational neglect. This film exposes the failures of the CYA through the stories of the children and families caught in the machinery of California`s juvenile prisons. Flor y Canto Community Space & Bookstore, 3706 N. Figueroa, Highland Park between Marmion Way and Ave. 37, 3 blocks from Gold Line Heritage Square Station Northeast Neighbors for Peace and Justice Video/ Potluck gather about 8:00, movie starts about 8:30, bring food or drink to share if you can. URL: http://www.florycanto.org Contact: Jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================================== FRIDAY. JULY 8,, 8:30 PM ESTHERLEON presents "VOICES OF HOPE: Children and Grandmothers Unite to End Poverty by 2015" John Anson Ford Amphitheatre 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, CA 90068 Tickets: Available at the ...more ============================== FRIDAY JULY 8 , 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM SANTA MONICA PEACE DEMONSTRATION Santa Monica Promenade - Santa Monica Blvd. and the 3rd St Promenade in Santa Monica Coalition for World Peace. 323) 281-7322. Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: <http://www.CoalitionForWorldPeace.org>http://www.CoalitionForWorldPeace.org <http://truthla.net/email_signup.php?event=1349>Click here to signup for email notification on this event ======================== ARTICLE: Microcredit and microfinance have changed the lives of people and revitalized communities in the world's poorest and also the richest countries. We have seen the enormous power that access to even modest financial services can bring people. With access to a range of financial tools, families can invest according to their own priorities school fees, health care, business, nutrition or housing: BOLIVIA: Microcredit loan clients doubled their income in two years, according to the Global Development Research Center. Clients were also more likely to access health care for themselves and their families, and more likely to send their children to school. BANGLADESH: 48 per cent of the poorest households with access to microcredit loans rose above the poverty line. BRAZIL: An estimated 15.7 million people in Brazil work in the informal economy as micro-entrepreneurs outnumbering formal sector entrepreneurs by more than three to one, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Of these informal micro-entrepreneurs, 93 per cent run profitable businesses. INDONESIA: Borrowers of microcredit at Bank Rakyat in Indonesia increased their incomes by 12.9 per cent compared to increases of 3 per cent in the control group. Another study on Bank Rakyat borrowers on the island of Lombok in Indonesia reports that the average incomes of clients had increased by 112 per cent and that 90 per cent of households had moved out of poverty. INDIA: Three-fourths of clients who participated in the programmes of SHARE in India for over an extended period of time saw significant improvements in their economic well-being and half of the clients graduated out of poverty. There was also a marked shift in employment patterns of clients from irregular, low-paid daily labour to diversified sources of earnings, increased employment of family members, and a strong reliance on small business. CLIP Would you like to help? www.yearofmicrocredit.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================== **SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS**: CAFTA VOTE LIKELY IN JULY CISPES Action Alert: Final DR-CAFTA Legislation Sent to Congress! July Vote Likely - Take Action During the July 4 Recess to Pressure Senators and Representatives On June 23, President Bush delivered final implementing legislation to the House and Senate. The Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee will hold their mark-ups before the July 4 recess, making the July 5-10 recess period the key moment to take action to ensure that CAFTA is rejected. Call your Senators Today! Capitol switchboard # is (202) 224-3121. The United Steelworkers have provided a toll-free number for general use to call Congress about CAFTA. It is 866-340-9281. It will connect you to the Capitol Switchboard, and at that point you simply ask the operator to be connected to the Congressional office of your choice. When phone calls and meetings aren't enough, staging a direct action is a powerful tool. For ideas on local actions and assistance in organizing in your community please visit the Stop-CAFTA website at www.stopcafta.org. ==================== ARTICLE THE CAMPAIGN TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY Please sign a letter to President Bush: Dear President Bush, Because: ONE billion people around the world live on less than ONE dollar a day; The US government spends less than ONE percent on overcoming global AIDS and poverty; Citizens are uniting as ONE across political and religious divides to support action to overcome the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. CLIP FIND OUT MORE: http://www.one.org/ ==================================== >ARTICLE: >Curry Spice May Fight Alzheimer's Disease > >Early Studies Show Curry Reduces >Plaque Buildup in Brain Linked to Disease > >By ><http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99//content/Biography/8/102333.htm>Kelli >Miller >Web MD Medical News Reviewed By > ><http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99//content/Biography/8/102316.htm>Brunilda > >Nazario, MD > >Brain plaque, sticky clumps of beta-amyloid protein, >are believed to play a key role in the development of >Alzheimer's dementia. >Researchers at UCLA have shown that the curry >pigment curcumin slows the formation of, and even >destroys, accumulated plaque deposits in mouse >brains. > >Curry is a dietary staple in India, a country where the >rate of Alzheimer's disease is among the world's lowest. >For centuries, doctors practicing traditional Indian medicine >have safely prescribed curcumin in extract form for a variety > of illnesses and ailments. > >CLIP > >http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105083.htm >` ======================== GOOD WEBSITES: Alternative news http://www.alternet.org/ Americablog http://americablog.blogspot.com/ Antiwar.org http://www.antiwar.com/ Atrios/Eschaton Blog http://atrios.blogspot.com/ Black Box Voting http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ Coalition For World Peace http://www.coalitionforworldpeace.org/ Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org Cursor http://www.cursor.org Daily Kos Blog http://mediamatters.org/ Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org Drummond Watch http://www.drummondwatch.org I Want Change http:www.iwantchange.org KPFK Radio http://www.kpfk.org/ Los Angeles Independent Media Center http://la.indymedia.org/ Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/ Mothers Against the Draft http://www.mothersagainstthedraft.org/ NoMoreVictims http://www.nomorevictims.org Operation Truth http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm School of the Americas Watch http://www.soaw.org/new/ The Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence http://www.nonviolenceworks.com The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk TruthOut http://www.truthout.org United for Peace and Justice http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ Znet http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm _________________________________________________________________ > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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