[LAAMN] Frank Wilkinson passes

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Novick 
Frank Wilkinson, Presente!
Frank Wilkinson, civil liberties activist, died 2
January 2006, peacefully, and surrounded by family.
Wilkinson was Executive Director Emeritus of the
National Committee Against Repressive Legislation and
Executive Director of the First Amendment Foundation. A
lifelong progressive political activist, Wilikinson was
caught up in the McCarthy Era. Because of his
resistance to political repression, Wilkinson received
the Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty; and the American
Civil Liberties Union Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate
Award, the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award, and the
1997 National Lawyers' Guild Legal Worker of the Year.
Author: REVISITING THE "MCCARTHY ERA": LOOKING AT
WILKINSON V. UNITED STATES IN LIGHT OF WILKINSON V.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. Loyola Law School, Los
Angeles, Law Review, v. 32, n.2
[http://llr.lls.edu/volumes/v33-issue2/wilkinson.pdf]




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[LAAMN] Fw: ALL OUT! Shut Down the Minuteklan National Day of Action

2006-01-04 Thread Leslie Radford 

***distribute and post widely***

STAND UP FOR DAY LABORERS, STOP THE MINUTEMEN
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, AT 7:30 A.M.

In a massive response to racist persecution of migrants, racial profiling
and worker oppression, counterprotestors will be rallying to oppose
Minutemen protests at four Southern California day labor locations
California on Saturday morning, January 7 at 7:30 a.m.

Minutemen groups and their supporters in Southern California will be
protesting at day labor centers on that day as part of their nationwide
protest to "stop the invasion."  They have notified the media of their
plans.

All good people who support the right of workers to work and who oppose
targeting people based on their ethnicity are asked to join one of the
counter protests below.  Get there early, and brings signs, noisemakers,
and an attitude for justice!


Location: RANCHO CUCAMONGA ARROW AND GROVE MARKET
8118 Arrow Route.  I-10 to Vineyard N, left on
Vineyard (1.7 mi.), left on Arrow Rte. (0.5 mi.) Time:
7:30- 9:30 a.m.


Location: LAGUNA BEACH DAY LABOR CENTER
1765 Laguna Canyon Rd.  I-5 to Ca 133S (9 mi., becomes
Laguna Canyon Rd.)  Time:  8:00-11:00 a.m.


Location: LAKE FOREST GANAHL LUMBER
El Toro and Jeronimo Roads.  I-5 to El Toro Rd., left
on El Toro to Jeronimo (1.4 mi).  Time: 8:00-11:00
a.m.


Location: GLENDALE HOME DEPOT
5040 San Fernando Rd.  I-5 to Colorado East, turn
right on San
Fernando Rd.  (0.5 mi) Time: 8:00-11:00 a.m.

Remember that jaywalking, littering, and bullhorns can get you busted,
depending on locale--and that Minutemen sometimes claim to carry tasers and
pepper spray.








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[LAAMN] Jack Abramoff's "Cesspool of Corruption", Frank Wilkinson R.I.P.

2006-01-04 Thread Ed Pearl 

Welcome to the new year and a contrast in lives, values and value.
I met Frank in 1975 when he joined the New American Movement,
a non-sectarian, socialist organization coming out of some of the
best of the 1960s.  Initially concerned about the trio of Ben Dobbs,
Dorothy Healy and Frank Wilkinson - experienced, indeed famous
organizers who just quit the Communist Party - I maintained the
jaundiced eye but found myself admiring, working comfortably
with and genuinely liking all of them.  Ben died years ago and
Dorothy moved to Washington DC, but Frank remained here and
continued his important work, as described in the fine NY Times
obit, attached.  I ran into his wife, Donna, a couple of weeks ago,
learned that Frank, literally a lion of a man, had been ill.  I hope
you click on the picture of Frank, taken two years ago.  It displays
his character and offers a palliative to the putrid subject below.
Incredibly, today's now-idiot, denuded LA Times carried no obit.

Ed


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/010406_abramoff_file/
Jack Abramoff's "Cesspool of Corruption"

By Robert Scheer

Top Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is set to sing, and his long list of
former buddies in Congress and the Bush Administration are quaking in
anticipation of possible indictments stemming from the consummate Beltway
hustler's crass reign as the king of K Street.

"Casino Jack," a former head of the College Republicans and a
 "Pioneer"-grade fundraiser for the Bush 2000 campaign, pleaded guilty to
three felony counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion in D.C.
yesterday and is set to appear in Florida today to plead guilty to fraud and
conspiracy on separate charges. Abramoff and other defendants also must
repay over $25 million to defrauded clients and $1.7 million to the IRS.

But most important for the nation is that Abramoff is now detailing the
massive web of corruption he spun inside the Beltway which has already
snared a top Bush official, procurement chief David H. Safavian, on charges
of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation, and reportedly threatens
dozens of other D.C. players.

"When this is all over, this will be bigger than any [government scandal] in
the last 50 years, both in the amount of people involved and the breadth to
it," Stan Brand, a former U.S. House counsel who specializes in representing
public officials accused of wrongdoing, told Bloomberg News. "It will
include high-ranking members of Congress and executive branch officials."

Some of the Wild West feel of this Beltway corruption was captured in
Saturday's Washington Post expose, "The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail." It
documents in chilling detail how, among other scams, Abramoff funneled a
portion of the millions he had been skimming from Indian casino operators
with a cool million from two Russian energy moguls through a shell
organization called the U.S. Family Network-and from there into the coffers
of politicians in a position to help his clients.

Ironically touting its commitment to "moral fitness" for the nation, the
front group with the multi-million dollar budget had a single staff member
housed in the backroom of a capital townhouse it owned and rented out to
other organizations linked to Abramoff and Tom DeLay--the latter's staffers
called it, ominously, DeLay's "safe house." This is apparently why DeLay
felt the need to tout the U.S. Family Network in a 1999 fundraising letter
as "a powerful nationwide organization dedicated to restoring our government
to citizen control."

It was run by Edwin A. Buckham, DeLay's former chief of staff, whose
lobbying firm, the Alexander Strategy Group, carried Delay's wife Christine
on its payroll. But the moral "fitness" of such cronyism pales in comparison
to the scandal of how Abramoff drummed up support for his varied clients
under the cover of conservative morality.

For example, in order to block the ambitions of a rival tribe to the Choctaw
Indians who had paid Abramoff millions, the U.S. Family Network sent a
mailing to Alabama residents warning shrilly that, "The American family is
under attack from all sides: crime, drugs, pornography, and one of the least
talked about but equally as destructive - gambling. We need your help today
to prevent the Poarch Creek Indians from building casinos in Alabama." The
letter conveniently failed to mention, however, that the U.S. Family Network
had received at least $250,000 from the gambling proceeds of the Choctaws.

In another scam detailed in the Post story (which could be quickly optioned
by Hollywood for a thriller), players in the mafia-dominated Russian energy
industry slid a cool $1 million payment through a now-defunct London law
firm into the U.S. Family Network's account - which was, de facto, a slush
fund for the Abramoff-DeLay network.

Citing the Rev. Christopher Geeslin, who served as a titular leader of the
U.S. Family Network, the Post reported that Buckham told the reverend the
payment was intended to secure Delay's suppo

[LAAMN] 1/7 Southern CA: Shut Down Minuteklan National Day of Action Against Immigrants

2006-01-04 Thread SIUHIN 
 
 
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STAND UP FOR DAY LABORERS,  STOP THE MINUTEMEN! 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, AT 7:30  A.M.

In a massive response to racist persecution  of
migrants, racial profiling and worker oppression,
counter protestors  will be rallying to oppose Minutemen
protests at four Southern California day  labor
locations California on Saturday morning, January 7 at
7:30  a.m.

Minutemen groups and their supporters in Southern
California will  be protesting at day labor centers on
that day as part of their nationwide  protest to "stop
the invasion."  They have notified the media of  their
plans.

All good people who support the right of workers  to
work and who oppose targeting people based on their
ethnicity are asked  to join one of the counter
protests below.  Get there early, and brings  signs, 
noisemakers, and an attitude for  justice!


Location: RANCHO  CUCAMONGA ARROW AND GROVE MARKET
8118 Arrow Route.  I-10 to Vineyard N,  left on
Vineyard (1.7 mi.), left on Arrow Rte. (0.5 mi.) Time:
7:30- 9:30  a.m.


Location: LAGUNA BEACH DAY LABOR CENTER
1765 Laguna Canyon  Rd.  I-5 to Ca 133S (9 mi., becomes
Laguna Canyon Rd.)  Time:   8:00-11:00 a.m.


Location: LAKE FOREST GANAHL LUMBER
El Toro and  Jeronimo Roads.  I-5 to El Toro Rd., left
on El Toro to Jeronimo (1.4  mi).  Time: 8:00-11:00
a.m.


Location: GLENDALE HOME  DEPOT
5040 San Fernando Rd.  I-5 to Colorado East, turn
right on San  Fernando Rd.  (0.5 mi) Time: 8:00-11:00 a.m.

Remember that  jaywalking, littering, and bullhorns can
get you busted, depending on  locale--and that Minutemen
sometimes claim to carry tasers and pepper  spray.
 
 
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