MARCY WINOGRAD FOR CONGRESS RALLY featuring GORE VIDAL - A rare public appearance in Venice and
MARCY WINOGRAD - A Real Democrat for the People Also appearing: TOM HAYDEN - "The single greatest figure of the 1960s student movement" - New York Times STEVEN HILL - Author of "10 Steps to Repair American Democracy" Musical performances by THE BACKBONERS & LEON RUBENHOLD Plus other special guests When: Monday, June 5th - from 6:00 -10:00 PM Where: epOxybOx 602 Venice Blvd. (at SE corner of Abbot Kinney) Venice, CA 90291 $10 (All proceeds benefit Winograd for Congress) A book sale and signing with Gore Vidal and Steven Hill will immediately follow the event. Peace candidate MARCY WINOGRAD (www.winogradforcongress.com) is running to unseat pro-war Democrat Jane Harman in the 36th Congressional District primary on June 6. President of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles and cofounder of the California Election Protection Network, Winograd is a teacher and grassroots activist who will vote to cut funding for the war in Iraq and bring the troops home, restore civil liberties denied under the Patriot Act, and redirect the war-billions into quality education and universal affordable single-payer health care. Her candidacy is endorsed by Jim Hightower, Daniel Ellsberg, Ron Kovic, Gore Vidal, Ed Asner, Cindy Sheehan, Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, Robert Greenwald, Dolores Huerta, Ed Begley, Jr., Mike Farrell, Howard Zinn, Helen Caldicott, and many others. GORE VIDAL (www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html), widely recognized as America's greatest living writer, is a novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, political analyst, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades. He has written 22 novels, hundreds of essays, and films including "Ben-Hur" and "Suddenly, Last Summer. " His most recent book is "Imperial America" published by Nation Books. TOM HAYDEN (www.tomhayden.com), after forty years of activism, politics and writing, is still a leading voice for ending the war in Iraq, erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and reforming politics through greater citizen participation. According to Nicholas Lemann of The Atlantic, "Tom Hayden changed America." Currently he is advocating for US Congressional hearings on exiting Iraq. STEVEN HILL (www.10steps.net) is the director of the Political Reform Program of the New America Foundation and cofounder of Fair Vote/Center for Voting and Democracy. He was campaign manager of San Francisco's initiative that passed instant runoff voting for local offices, and he was one of the organizers of the successful effort to enact public financing of campaigns for local elections in San Francisco. His most recent book is "10 Steps to Repair American Democracy" published by PoliPointPress. THE BACKBONERS ( www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=3216&IssueNum=12) play the music of and originals inspired by the Mamas and Papas. LEON RUBENHOLD (www.leonrubenhold.com) is a singer-songwriter-guitarist who has backed many rock and R&B legends including Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack, and David Ruffin. Leon wrote the lyrics to the Winograd campaign song, "Beat Jane," which he will perform at the June 5 rally. For more information call 310.305.1953 or visit: <http://www.winogradforcongress.com> www.winogradforcongress.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
