[LAAMN] Weekend Calendar
beyond baroque 681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 310.822.3006 www.beyondbaroque.org 8 December, Friday - 7:30 PM 2006 BEYOND BAROQUE Mag: TRUTH Etc. In a time of government by lies, can poets, writers, and artists reconnect us to truth? TRUTH Etc is a selection of essays, poems, artworks, and stories from local, national, and international writers and artists, edited with an essay by FRED DEWEY . From So-Cal: MAJID NAFICY, WANDA COLEMAN, LINDA ALBERTANO, MARGIE WALLER, ERIC PRIESTLEY, PAUL SAWYER (reading DANIEL BERRIGAN), PHILOMENE LONG ( reading JOHN THOMAS), DAVID LLOYD, SAMI CHETRIT, SIMONE FORTI, JEANNETTE CLOUGH, JUDITH TAYLOR, SESSHU FOSTER, CHARLENE GEISLER, AMELIE FRANK, WILL ALEXANDER, visual artists ANNETTE SUGDEN, LUCAS REINER, GENEVIEVE YUE , and more. Come to the event and GET FREE HOLIDAY COPIES FOR YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS . *** The Center for the Study of Political Graphics houses over 50,000 political posters, a unique visual history of struggles for peace and justice throughout the world. It began 18 years ago, inspired by Murals and posters in Nicaragua, Chile and Cuba, the fount from which Latin American poster art sprang. Enjoy. -Ed The Center for the Study of Political Graphics OPEN HOUSE HOLIDAY SALE Saturday, December 9, 2006 11am - 2pm Peace Center 8124 West Third Street Los Angeles, CA 90048 323 653-4662 a.. 20% off on sales posters b.. Chance to bid on unsold auction items c.. Tour CSPG's archives d.. Demonstration of Poster Database e.. Refreshments *** I just read Jimmy Carter's article in the LA Times outlining his history, motives and positions on Palestine and Israel. The point about people in the U.S. being kept ignorant about Palestinian life and society relates to this rare opportunity to learn something. I heard Mohammed Omer this morning on Sonali Kolhatkar's show. He was iinformative, measured and calm' someone one can learn from. Take advantage of this, his final appearance in the area. -Ed Gaza on the Ground: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs presents. WHAT: Award-winning Palestinian Journalist Mohammed Omer on His First US 15-City Speaking Tour Words and Pictures from Occupied Palestine WHO: Mohammed Omer will discuss recent events in Gaza from the perspective of an award-winning Palestinian journalist, and the youngest member of the Gazan press corps, complete with photos and videos. WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 9th @ 4pm WHERE: Glendale Library 222 E. Harvard St. Glendale, CA 91205 Sponsored by: Women in Black-Los Angeles, Palestine Aid Society and American Friends Service Committee For more info about the 12/9 event e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MORE ABOUT: Mohammed Omer Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer will be embarking on his first U.S. speaking tour on Nov. 26. In the 15-city tour, sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Omer will provide eyewitness accounts of the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip to the magazine's readers and the general public. As a photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP), writer (for the Vermont Guardian, ArtVoice Weekly, Swedish dailies Dagen Nyheter and Aftonbladet, Norwegian dailies Dagbladet and Morgenbladet, the German daily junge Welt, the Basque daily Berria, and the Swedish magazine Arbetaren), radio/television correspondent (Free Speech Radio News, BBC and BBC Scotland radio, BBC News 24 TV, Norwegian national NRK TV), and widely read blogger (RafahToday.org ), Omer will use his many talents to describe life as a Palestinian journalist under occupation. The youngest member of the Gazan press corps, Omer was recently named winner of the New America Media's Best Youth Voice Award. He has experienced more pain, death, fear, destruction, hatred and despair in his 22 years than most people will experience in a lifetime. Words are my weapon against injustice, hate, starvation and oppression, he explains. With his bulletproof vest and Cannon D20 in hand, Mohammed is on the front lines. For more info about the entire speaking tour e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### IMPEACHMENT? WHY NOT. PDA-SFV Presents a Public Town Hall on Impeachment With: Assemblyman PAUL KORETZ; DAVID SWANSON, co-founder Afterdowningstreet.org; ELIZABETH de la VEGA, former prosecutor and author of U.S. vs. George W. Bush et al.; Political Science Professor DR. DENNIS LOO, author of The Impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Sunday, December 10, 2006 From: 06:00 PM until 08:00 PM Where: Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Recreation Center Auditorium 5040 Van Nuys Blvd. Van Nuys, CA This event will feature a lively discussion between the audience and a panel of distinguished speakers. The goal is to provide pro-impeachment individuals with the talking points necessary to counter those who disagree with impeachment. Directions 101 Freeway
[LAAMN] Baker Group Calls for Oil Privatization, Bush Backs Away
Read the first article carefully. It is the virus in the computer, the poison pill, the Trojan horse, and the primacy of the bottom line. Bush's response, in article two, was predictable and offers good news and bad. It pitches powerful forces against him, but will either allow or seduce many others to accept these two deadly failures as the only options, most, likely to support Baker/Hamilton. Reality in Iraq will trash both programs, but the carnage continues even while both inperialist views are laid bare, but remain dominant in all branches of our government. Ed Democracy Now Thursday, December 7th, 2006 Oil for Sale: Why the Iraq Study Group is Calling for the Privatization of Iraq's Oil Industry Among its recommendations, the Iraq Study Group advised that Iraq privatize its oil industry and to open it up to international companies. Author and activist Antonia Juhasz writes Put simply, the oil companies are trying to get what they were denied before the war or at anytime in modern Iraqi history: access to Iraq's oil under the ground. [includes rush transcript] a.. Antonia Juhasz, author and activist. Her latest book is The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time, RUSH TRANSCRIPT This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution. Donate - $25, $50, $100, more... AMY GOODMAN: The Iraq Study Group also recommended for Iraq to privatize its oil industry and to open it up to international companies. The author and activist, Antonia Juhasz, has been closely watching this aspect of the Iraq reconstruction process. She's author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. Antonia Juhasz, thanks for joining us in studio in San Francisco. Your response to the report, not talked about almost at all, the issue of privatization? ANTONIA JUHASZ: Yeah, absolutely. And good morning, Amy. It's a completely radical proposal made straightforward in the Iraq Study Group report that the Iraqi national oil industry should be reorganized as a commercial enterprise. The proposal also says that, as you say, Iraq's oil should be opened up to private foreign energy and companies. Also, another radical proposal: that all of Iraq's oil revenues should be centralized in the central government. And the report calls for a US advisor to ensure that a new national oil law is passed in Iraq to make all of this possible and that the constitution of Iraq is amended to ensure that the central government gains control of Iraq's oil revenues. All told, the report calls for privatization of Iraq's oil, turning it over to private foreign corporate hands, putting all of the oil in the hands of the central government, and essentially, I would argue, extending the war in Iraq to ensure that US oil companies get what the Bush administration went in there for: control and greater access to Iraq's oil. AMY GOODMAN: Antonia Juhasz, let's talk about the members of this Iraq Study Group. That might explain what their approach has been, particularly James Baker, the former Secretary of State, and also Lawrence Eagleburger. Talk about the two of them. ANTONIA JUHASZ: Both Baker and Eagleburger have spent their careers doing one of two things: working for the federal government or working in private enterprise taking advantage of the work that they did for the federal government. So, in particular, in this case, both Baker and Eagleburger were key participants throughout the '80s and early 1990s of radically expanding US economic engagement with Saddam Hussein, with a very clear objective of gaining greater access for US corporations, particularly oil corporations, to Iraq's oil, and doing everything that they could to expand that access. Baker has his own private interest. His family is heavily invested in the oil industry, and also Baker Botts, his law firm, is one of the key law firms representing oil companies across the United States and their activities in the Middle East. And Lawrence Eagleburger was president of Kissinger Associates, which was one of the leading multinational advising firms for advising US companies who were trying to get contracts with Saddam Hussein and get work in Iraq. Now, these two members of the Iraq Study Group are joined by two additional members who are representatives of the Heritage Foundation, and the Heritage Foundation is one of the few US organizations that point-blank called for full privatization of Iraq's oil sector prior to the invasion of Iraq, as a stated goal of the invasion. And to call point-blank for full privatization, as I said, is truly radical. It's actually a shift for the Bush administration, which has for the past about two years been working on a
[LAAMN] Lila Garrett interviews Tom Hayden (filling in for Maria Armoudian on KPFK)
Dear Lila, In spite of my criticism of you, I've always believed you mean well and are doing the best you can from your perspective. But, I was very disappointed to hear your handling of Tom Hayden today filling in for Maria Armoudian on KPFK at 4 pm. I sincerely I hope that you will take the time to listen to that segment again, carefully, so that you can finally comprehend exactly what Tom Hayden is doing and why. I gathered from your response to him that you were quite surprised to hear him take such a weak position against the Baker/Hamilton report. I can assure you I wasn't. Obvious to everyone except Hayden, the Iraq report is exactly what Bush needed while comfortably 'protesting' at no risk. Needless to say, Bush and Cheney will be very happy toasting each other during their Christmas dinner in the bunker, while the Democrats (and Hayden) kiss Hamilton's dirty ass just like they did during Iran Contra. Need I say hello Robert Gates? You may not have attended, but at the event Hayden spoke at Emannuel Presbyterian in LA with Madea Benjamin and Ray McGovern at the beginning of the year (or last year about this time - can't remember now), Hayden was praising Cindy Sheehan for revitalizing the movement but not taking her lead in calling for immediate withdrawl. Instead he was attempting in his usual self proscribed shuttle diplomat mode to 'cut a deal' with the unhappy Congressional Repubs and Dems (such as Conyers, etc.) to submit a plan for US military withdrawl by Xmas of 2006. What a political crock that was then, and it is also a crock now, with the absolutely fraudulent Baker/Hamilton report recommending no withdrawl until a little bit in 2008. At the church event I confronted Hayden with about 20 people around me, accusing him of disregarding the very reason Sheehan IS taken seriously, while he praised her revitalization of the movement. That being, Cindy at least speaks the truth and will not compromise. Willingness to compromise is the least of Hayden's flaws althoug he is very good at it. He has a 'hidden' agenda yet for some reason, it appears, you're still not cognizant of what that is, or are you? Do I really have to spell it out? I suggest instead that you listen carefully to what Tom said on your own show. I seriously hope you edit out the Hayden segment for Monday's program and instead interview Sheehan by phone long distance from where ever it is Hayden's political bedfellows have tucked her away. Hayden has shown his true colors on your program. For that, it was completely worthwhile. Jonathan Markowitz KPFK Listener-Sponsor --- 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/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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/
