[LAAMN] 2005-09-30 Minuteman anniversary

[Uncle Don B Fanning]

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From: "Leslie Radford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:26:03 -
Subject: [latierraesdetodos] Minuteman's First Annual Get Together

I realize we probably don't have time to mobilize with only one meeting, 
but I thought we all would want to know about this.

. . . 3000 my *ss.

***

First Minuteman Anniversary Sept 30, 2005 at the Irvine Regional Park , 
Southern California .2 - 7 PM Jamboree exit off the 5 freeway 
and   Right North East  5  miles to the park. James Gilchrist says he 
expects 3000 to be there. All Minutemen present and original and all 
supporters are welcome.

Chris Simcox, Jim Gilchrist, and myself will be there with rings on our 
fingers and bells on our toes.

James Chase - Spokesman
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www.CaliforniaMinutemen.com


PS  Also go to my website www.CaliforniaMinutemen.com and sign up for
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[LAAMN] Jos. Stiglitz, Jesse Jackson on Disaster Capitalism

[Ed Pearl]

Hi.  Details of several California marches are at the bottom.
Ed

Markets, Climate And Katrina

By Joseph Stiglitz

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050919/markets_climate_and_katrina.php

TomPaine.com September 19, 2005

Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is
professor of economics at Columbia University and was
chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to
President Clinton and chief economist and senior
vice-president at the World Bank. His most recent book
is The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's
Most Prosperous Decade.

The world has been horrified at America's response to
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans.
Four years after the terrorist attacks of September
2001, and with billions of dollars allegedly spent on
'preparedness' for another emergency, America has shown
the world that it was not prepared-even for an event
that came with ample warning.

The difference between the tsunami in Asia last
December and what is coming to be called the black
tsunami in America-because it brought so much
devastation to the poor, mostly black, people of
Louisiana-is striking. The Asian disaster showed the
ability of those affected to overcome long-standing
rifts, as Aceh rebels put down their arms in common
cause with the rest of Indonesia. By contrast, the
disaster in New Orleans-and elsewhere along America's
Gulf Coast-exposed and aggravated such rifts.

The Bush administration's response to the hurricane
confirmed the suspicion among blacks that, while they
might send their boys to fight America's wars, they had
not only been left behind in America's prosperity, but
that there was neither understanding nor concern when
they needed it most. An evacuation was ordered, but no
means to do so were provided for the poor. When help
came, it was, as one New York Times columnist noted,
like the Titanic: The rich and powerful got out first.

I was in Thailand right after the tsunami, and I saw
that country's impressive response. The Thais flew
consular and embassy officials to the affected areas,
aware of the sense of helplessness among those stranded
far from home. America kept foreign officials from
coming to the aid of their nationals in New
Orleans-embarrassed, perhaps, at what they would see.

Even the richest country in the world has limited
resources. If it gives tax cuts to the rich, it will
have less to spend on repairing levees; if it deploys
the National Guard and reserves to fight a hopeless war
in Iraq, there will be fewer resources at home to cope
with a domestic crisis.

Choices must be made, and choices matter. Shortsighted
politicians like Bush often skimp on long-term
investments in favor of short-term advantage. He
recently signed a lavish infrastructure bill that
included, among other payoffs to political supporters,
an infamous bridge to nowhere in Alaska. Money that
could have been used to save thousands of lives was
spent to win votes.

Seldom do the 'chickens come home to roost' as quickly
as they have in recent years-an ill-conceived war,
attempted on the cheap, has not brought peace to the
Middle East. Now America has had to pay the price for
ignoring loud warnings about the weakened levees of New
Orleans. Clearly, nothing could have spared New Orleans
completely from Katrina's impact, but the devastation
could certainly have been lessened.

Markets, for all their virtues, often do not work well
in a crisis. Indeed, the market mechanism is often
revolting to behold in emergencies. The market did not
respond to the need for evacuation by sending in huge
convoys of buses to get people out; in some places, it
did respond by tripling hotel prices in neighboring
areas, which, while reflecting the marked change in
supply and demand, is reviled as price gouging. Such
behavior is so odious because it brings little
allocative benefit-no significant increase in supply in
the short run-and carries a huge distributive cost, as
those with resources take advantage of those without.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has
emphasized that most famines are associated not with a
shortage of food, but the failure to get food to the
people who need it, largely because they lack
purchasing power. America, the richest country in the
world, clearly had the resources to evacuate New
Orleans. Bush simply forgot the poor-the tens, perhaps
hundreds of thousands, who simply did not have the
resources to pay for their own evacuation.

When you're poor, you don't have a credit card, and
most of the stranded were especially strapped for funds
because it was the end of the month. But even if they
had had the money, it is not obvious that markets would
have responded quickly enough to provide the needed
supply; in times of crisis, they often simply don't.
That's one of the reasons why the military does not use
a price system to allocate resources.

Last January, after the tsunami, in response to
widespread calls for an early warning system, I
observed that the world ha

[LAAMN] Tonight - George Galloway to speak in Los Angeles - Thursday, September 22nd at 7:00pm at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church - also speaking are Sonali Kolhatkar & Michel Shehadeh

[Frank]

Stand Up and Be Counted: No to War and Occupation

The George Galloway US Tour


http://www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com
  

 
Tonight ~Thursday, September 22nd at 7:00pm
Immanuel Presbyterian Church 
3300 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles (2 blocks west of Vermont)
 
Also appearing:  
 
 
Sonali Kolhatkar, Host of Uprising - KPFK 90.7 FM Radio, Monday thru
Friday 8 to 9 AM
& 
Michel Shehadeh, LA 8, Palestinian rights activists framed by the
government.
 
Tickets available at: www.ticketweb.com
  or at 1-866-468-3399. 
$12 tickets sold at the door (first come, first serve)
Contact:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Media Sponsor:  KPFK 90.7
 
Galloway's new book is Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington (The New Press)
and will be published and timed for national release in bookstores in
conjunction with the tour.  Mr. Galloway will be available to sign books
after the event.
 
George Galloway is Respect party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in East
London.  He recently electrified the United States with his appearance
at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on May 17,
when he turned the proceedings into a condemnation of the war in Iraq.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer described Galloway's speech in the Senate as "a
blistering attack on US senators rarely heard" in Washington.
 
Anti-war activists and members of the Arab community will join British
MP George Galloway at Immanuel Presbyterian Church at 7pm on Thursday,
September 22 to demand money and resources for hurricane relief, not
war.  This event will accept donations to be sent to New Orleans with a
delegation from the Campus Anti-War Network. 
 
Galloway blasted President Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina, saying:
The scenes from the stricken city almost defy belief. Many, many
thousands of people left to die in what is the richest, most powerful
country on earth.  
 
In the most terrible way imaginable they show to the whole world that it
is not only the lives of people in Baghdad, Fallujah and Palestine that
Bush holds cheap. It is also his own citizen's the black and poor people
left behind with no food, water or shelter. This is not simply
manslaughter through incompetence, though the White House's incompetence
abounds. It is murder for Bush was warned four years ago of the threat
to New Orleans, as surely as he was warned of the disaster that would
come of his war on Iraq.
 

***
National Tour sponsored by: The New Press, International Socialist
Review, Center for Economic Research and Social Change, the National
Council of Arab Americans
 
Los Angeles Local Co-sponsors/Endorsers: US Labor Against War (USLAW),
Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA), Coalition Against
Militarism in Our Schools (CAMS), Frank Dorrel, Publisher of Addicted to
War, ANSWER LA, Committee for Justice, Interfaith Communities United for
Justice and Peace (ICUJP), Topanga Peace Alliance, Peace and Freedom
Party, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, Fellowship
of Reconciliation
 
To arrange interviews with Mr. Galloway, contact Ina Howard at The New
Press, 212-564-4406 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
For a full list of cities and local sponsors, please see the website:
http://www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com
 
 
 
 


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[LAAMN] 2005-09-23 Riverside Peace Rally

[Uncle Don B Fanning]

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:33 -0700
Subject: [RAPJA News] Massive Rally in Riverside, September 23, 6-8 p.m, 
Carpooling to L.A., Sep 24

Stop the War in Iraq!

End Occupation

from Iraq
to Palestine
to Haiti!

Friday, Sep. 23
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

University @ Iowa in Riverside.
Organized by RAPJA
Endorsed by Answer LA
UCR Resistance

On Saturday September 24, RAPJA will carpool from University and Iowa, 
behind Starbucks, at 9:30 a.m. to participate in the National Protest in LA 
organized by Answer.






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[LAAMN] Anti-Fascism Day in LB and LA

[Leslie Radford]

***Stand Up for Migrants, Stand Against Fascism***
this Saturday, September 24, 8:00 a.m.-noon
1765 Laguna Canyon Rd.
Laguna Beach

Saturday morning, get up early and drive out to Laguna Beach to face down
Save Our State, the militant anti-migrant group trying again to shut down
the LB Day Labor Center.

Activists in San Diego have stopped the California Minutemen in Campo and
Friends of the Border Patrol in Calexico, but Save Our State persists in
opposing employment for people who want to work and survive.  In July, when
they last attacked the Day Labor Center, they appeared with neo-Nazi groups
waving flags with swastikas among an array of U.S. flags. 
(http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/133898_comment.php#133900)

This will all be over by noon, when SOS has announced it's leaving.  At
that time, you will be teleported directly to the ANSWER march.

No Nazis in our backyard, no Nazis our government, no Nazis in the world!

-- 
Leslie 







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[LAAMN] Katrina and War, Cindy Sheehan and Rosa Parks

[Ed Pearl]

Thanks to Karen Pomer for the top article

"Public approval of Bush's handling of Iraq tumbled eight points in just the
last week, to 32 per cent."

http://www3.cjad.com/content/cp_article.asp?id=/global_feeds/CanadianPress/WorldNews/w092173A.htm

The Canadian Press, 2005

Public pressure mounts for Bush to curtail Iraq war after Katrina disaster

Updated at 18:30 on September 21, 2005, EST.


WASHINGTON (CP) - President George W. Bush says he can wage
war in Iraq and still pay most of the huge bill for rebuilding the
hurricane-lashed Gulf Coast. Most Americans don't agree with him. And
for the first time, Bush is facing a serious revolt in his own party over
how to pay for hurricane relief.

Republicans already edgy about the estimated $200-billion US price tag to
clean up after Katrina were bracing for more damage by week's end as
hurricane Rita hurtled toward Texas and the battered Louisiana coast.

For now, they're split on whether to cut domestic programs or add billions
more to the whopping $333-billion U.S. deficit, options that Americans
clearly aren't favouring in opinion polls.

And with congressional elections looming next year, analysts say
legislators are increasingly feeling the heat from voters who tell
pollsters the Iraq war was a mistake and Bush is spending too much there.

If the tide of public opinion doesn't budge, Bush may not be able to
withstand an abrupt change in priorities, said Charles Cushman, a politics
professor at George Washington University.

"His supporters in Congress could abandon him if he's not going to be
able to help them get re-elected," he said.

"There will be tremendous pressure to declare victory no matter what's
going on in Iraq and go home."

A new Gallup survey Wednesday reported a record high in the percentage
of Americans favouring a reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq, with 63 per cent
saying some or all of them should come home.

The opinion shift on troop withdrawal was similar among Republicans,
Democrats and independents.

And 54 per cent of Americans chose less spending on Iraq over other
means of paying for Katrina, including increasing the deficit, cutting
domestic programs or raising taxes, an option Bush has ruled out.

Public approval of Bush's handling of Iraq tumbled eight points in just the
last week, to 32 per cent.

An Iraq backlash from Katrina was evident in other recent polls, including
an Associated Press-Ipsos survey this week in which two-thirds said
Bush was spending too much on the war.

As well, a recent New York Times survey suggested more than eight in 10
Americans are concerned about the $5 billion US spent each month in Iraq,
with support for the war falling to an all-time low.

Still, only 26 per cent said they expected U.S. troops to be withdrawn
within two years.

"Technically, it is possible for the administration to continue to wage war
in Iraq and launch huge domestic efforts," said Will Dobson, managing
editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

"The question is whether either can be done to the expectations of the
public," he said. "And now Bush is in complete damage control mode."

The president's record low approval ratings after the bungled response to
Katrina didn't improve following a nationally televised speech last week
where he promised to fund one of the world's largest reconstruction efforts.

In a recent editorial, Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign
Relations, said the aftermath of Katrina will "inevitably" increase
 pressure on Bush to reduce his involvement in Iraq and spend more
to rebuild or improve the country's capacity to deal with future disasters.

Even before Katrina stuck, there were increasing concerns about the
effectiveness of the Iraq effort, which has gobbled nearly $200 billion US
and claimed the lives of nearly 2,000 U.S. soldiers.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's vigil last month near Bush's Texas ranch
also renewed national focus on the war and its toll on the 140,000 soldiers
there.

But analysts say it was clearly Katrina that sparked an abrupt spike in
discontent, against the backdrop last week of the deadliest day in
Baghdad since the March 2003 invasion, when more than 150 people were
killed in suicide bombings.

And the hurricane catastrophe has supplied renewed energy for anti-war
groups planning massive rallies in the U.S. capital this weekend.

Some groups are now specifically targeting individual U.S. legislators on
the issue of whether they're soft on national security.

"The terrible tragedy of Katrina brought a silver lining and that's more
scrutiny of Bush's foreign and domestic policy," said Bill Dobbs, media
co-ordinator for United for Peace and Justice.

"We've got to put Congress on the hot seat. Congress gave George Bush
the authority and money to wage this war. Now they have to hold him
accountable."

And that's exactly the president's weak spot, said Cushman, who notes that
much of the war costs have been borrowed and China holds a lot of the U.S.
debt.

"Even