[LAAMN] May Day Footage from MacArthur Park

[Anna Kunkin]

 Check out this powerful footage. 

Vea este poderoso video de lo que ocurrió contra el pueblo el primero de mayo 
en Los Angeles. 
   http://www.veoh.com/videos/v509590MPgQB4RS?confirmed=1

If the link doesn't work cut and past the title, The Road to MacArthur Park: 
May Day 2007, into the search bar. 
 
Love,
 
anna


 

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[LAAMN] FACTS Petition Against Prison Expansion

[John A Imani]

"FACTS" stands for "Families To Amend California's Three Strikes Law"

To: Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez

We, the undersigned, are outraged that the Governor and legislative leaders, 
behind closed doors, committed us, the taxpayers to over $7 billion - $15 
Billion including debt service - to expand California's out-of-control prison 
system. Both houses of the Legislature "suspended the Constitution" to vote on 
AB 900 with no advanced notice, no public hearings, or even any actual language 
in print prior to the vote. We are appalled that this failed system will now be 
expanded by 53,000 more beds, (40,000 in state prisons and 13,000 in county 
jails). We question whether representative government exists in California at 
all.

Initiated By:Families to Amend California's Three Strikes, FACTS


Sign on to Petition at http://facts1.live.radicaldesigns.org/petition.php?pid=1

Mission Statement

Mission Statement

  Our major purpose is to amend the 3-Strikes law in California so it is 
only applicable to violent felonies. Nearly 75% of 2nd and 50% of 3rd strikes 
within California are for non-violent offenses.  



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[LAAMN] Palestinian Cultural Night - Fifth Annual International Al-Awda Convention

[Zahi Damuni]

AL-AWDA 
Palestinian Cultural Night

Dinner + Keynote Speakers Dr. Jarnal Zahalka- new leader of Balad (to discuss 
persecution of Dr. Azmi Bishara) and Dr. Naseer Aruri - former member of The 
Palestine National Council + Music including World-Renowned Maestro Dr. Nabil 
Azzam + Poetry & More!




come join us at the

Embassy Suites Hotel- Anaheim South
11767 Harbor Boulevard
Garden Grove, CA 92840
Saturday May 26, 2007
begins at 7 pm in the Landmark Ballroom

adults $45, students $35, youth $20 (all prices include dinner)
*if reserving online at www.al-awda.org choose the "BLACK PACKAGE"





This event is part of the Fifth Annual Al-Awda Convention hosted by a broad 
range of community and student organizations in Southern California- uniting 
for the return of all Palestinian refugees to a free Palestine.

In addition to Al-Awda San Diego, Al-Awda Riverside, and Al-Awda Los Angeles 
the convention's host committee includes the following organizations: 
Palestinian American Women's Association, Free Palestine Alliance, National 
Council of Arab Americans, Middle East Cultural and Information Center, 
Students for Justice in Palestine at UCR, Muslim Students Association at 
Palomar College, Muslim Students Association at UCSD, Students for Justice in 
Palestine at UCLA, Muslim Students Union at UCR, the Arab Community Center of 
the Inland Empire, Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid - Southern California, 
Students for International Knowledge at CSUSB, Muslim Students Association at 
CSUSB



FOR RESERVATIONS or INFORMATION:
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[LAAMN] Long Beach Gay Pride Festival

[bigraccoon]

Long Beach prepares for Gay Pride festival

The 24th annual Long Beach Pride Celebration
is coming to town this weekend, bringing with it
celebrities such as Oscar winner Jennifer
Hudson and the Indigo Girls and a variety of
vendors peddling everything from kitchen sinks
to cars. The 2007 Long Beach Pride theme,
"Harmony in Colors," comes from the aim of
unification for the culturally diverse city of
Long Beach. 

http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5914569




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[LAAMN] U.S. Imperial Ambitions Thwart Iraqis' Peace Plans

[Ed Pearl]

Dear Reader:  There is a real Iraqi peace plan on the table.  It
includes "provisions for disbanding militias, protecting Iraq's unity,
managing Iraq's natural resources, building relationships with other
countries based on mutual interest and the principle of non-intervention
in domestic issues, and healing the wounds of more than 30 years of
dictatorship, war, sanctions, and foreign occupation."  Have you
heard about it?  Probably not.  Here's some of the most valuable and
newest information on the subject I've sent you.  And pass it on. The
mass media hasn't and won't, until it's savaged.  At the bottom is the
first of many actions I'll get about the ever-weakening Democrats in
congress.  It's the least we should do, as a start.
Ed

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/52135/?page=1

U.S. Imperial Ambitions Thwart Iraqis' Peace Plans
By Joshua Holland and Raed Jarrar . Posted May 21, 2007.

Iraq's resistance groups have offered a series of peace plans that might put
an end to the country's sectarian violence, but they've been ignored by the
U.S.-led coalition because they're opposed to foreign occupation and
privatization of oil.

Last week, a majority of Iraqi lawmakers demanded a timetable for U.S. and
other foreign troops to leave their country. The very next day, the Al
Fadhila party, a Shi'ite party considered moderate by the (often arbitrary)
standards of the commercial media, held a press conference, in which they
offered a 23-point plan for stabilizing Iraq.

The plan addressed not only the current situation in Iraq -- acknowledging
the legitimacy of Iraqi resistance, setting a timetable for a complete
withdrawal of occupation troops and rebuilding the Iraqi government and
security forces in a non-sectarian fashion -- but also the challenging
mission of post-occupation peace-building and national reconciliation. It
included provisions for disbanding militias, protecting Iraq's unity,
managing Iraq's natural resources, building relationships with other
countries based on mutual interest and the principle of non-intervention in
domestic issues, and healing the wounds of more than 30 years of
dictatorship, war, sanctions, and foreign occupation.

An online search shows that the peace plan was largely ignored by the
Western commercial media.

That's par for the course. While every nuance of every spending bill that
passes the U.S. Congress is analyzed in minute detail, the Iraqis --
remember them? -- have proposed a series of comprehensive peace deals that
might unite the country's ethnic and sectarian groups and result in an
outcome American officials of all stripes say they want to achieve: a
stable, self-governing Iraq that is strong enough to keep groups like al
Qaeda from establishing training camps and other infrastructure within its
borders.

Al Fadhila's peace plan was not the first one offered by Iraqi actors, nor
the first to be ignored by the Anglo-American Coalition. More significant
even than proposals made by Iraqi political parties are those put forth by
the country's armed resistance groups --- the very groups that have the
ability to bring a halt to the cycle of violence. Comprehensive plans have
been offered by the Baath party that ruled Iraq for three generations, The
Islamic Army in Iraq and other major armed resistance groups and coalitions.
The plans vary on a number of points, but all of them shared a few items in
common: the occupation forces must recognize them as legitimate resistance
groups and negotiate with them, and the U.S. must agree to set a timetable
for a complete withdrawal from Iraq. That's the key issue, but Iraq's
nationalists see it only as the first step in the long path to achieving
national reconstruction and reconciliation.

But these plans are unacceptable to the Coalition because they A) affirm the
legitimacy of Iraq's armed resistance groups and acknowledge that the
U.S.-led coalition is, in fact, an occupying army, and B) return Iraq to the
Iraqis, which means no permanent bases, no oil law that gives foreign firms
super-sweet deals and no radical restructuring of the Iraqi economy. U.S.
lawmakers have been and continue to be faced with a choice between Iraqi
stability and American Empire, and continue to choose the latter, even as
the results of those choices are splashed in bloody Technicolor across our
TV screens every evening.

Last year, a comprehensive, 28-point proposal for stabilizing Iraq was
offered by the nascent Iraqi government itself after long meetings with
different Iraqi groups. According to local polls and political leaders, most
Iraqis believed it was the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel -- the
plan was attractive to the vast majority of the public, even those Iraqis
affiliated with violent resistance groups. But the plan wasn't acceptable to
Washington, and was watered down so as to be unrecognizable under U.S.
pressure.

Many Americans -- quite understandably -- believe that only wild-eyed,
RPG-toting crazies who, in the word

[LAAMN] Fisk: A Bloody Day in Tripoli, Impeachment Momentum

[Ed Pearl]

The Independent - May 21, 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2565126.ece

Scores dead as Lebanese army battles Islamists 
in bloodiest day since civil war 

by Robert Fisk

Butchery was the word that came to mind. Twenty-three Lebanese soldiers
and police, 17 Sunni Muslim gunmen. How long can Lebanon endure this?
Just before he died, one of the armed men - Palestinians? Lebanese? -
we still don't know - shot a soldier right beside me. He fell down on
his back, crying with pain, and I thought he had slipped on the road
until I saw the blood pumping out of his leg and the Red Cross team
dragging him desperately out of the line of fire. Not since the war -
yes, the Lebanese civil war that we are all still trying to forget -
have I heard this many bullets cracking across the streets of a
Lebanese city.

And the dead. Five of the 17 gunmen were killed after paramilitary
police stormed an apartment block in 200 Street in the centre of
Tripoli. One lay on his back like a child, water from a broken hydrant
streaming over his corpse. Another lay crumpled in a doorway amid glass
and the Kalashnikov rifle he was still firing when he died. "How young
they all were," a woman remarked with a kind of weariness, and I
noticed the dead were also bearded, the little stubble beards
al-Qaida's men like to wear.

The bloody events in Lebanon yesterday passed so swiftly - and so
dangerously for those of us on the streets - that I am still unsure
what happened. Clearly, an al-Qaida-type group tried to ambush the
Lebanese army - and succeeded all too appallingly; 23 dead soldiers and
police is a fearful figure for a tiny country such as Lebanon. But was
it really a Syrian plot, as Fouad Siniora's government suggested? Was
this the long hand of Syria stretching out once more across Lebanon's
green and pleasant land?

So here are a few facts. A group of armed men tried to rob a Tripoli
bank on Saturday and got cornered in an apartment block. Others holed
up in the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp north of the city.
When I arrived yesterday, army tank fire was bursting in the camp and
black-hooded policemen were preparing to storm, Iraqi-style, into the
city-centre building. But the robbers were said to have stolen only
$1,500. Was that worth this massacre? And is "Fatah al-Islaam" - which
has existed in the shadows of the camp for months - really a 300-strong
armed group?

Certainly the dead gunmen were real. I found two more heaped together
in Tripoli, covered in spent ammunition clips, the apartment building
on fire - so hot I could not get up the stairs - but families still
struggling down. One woman carried a baby. "Only four days old, he is
only four," she wailed at me. One family I found huddling in their
bathroom, 12 terrified Lebanese who had spent 24 hours in this tiny
room as bullets swept the walls of their home. So what in God's name
happened in Lebanon yesterday?

Well, Mr Siniora claimed it was an attempt to destabilise Lebanon - a
good guess, to put it mildly - and Saad Hariri, son of the former prime
minister murdered here more than two years ago, called the armed men
"evil-doers who had hijacked Islam". This is the same Saad Hariri whom
at least one American reporter - I refer to Seymour Hersh - suggested
was indirectly helping to funnel Saudi money to these same gunmen in a
recent article in The New Yorker. The Shia Muslim Hizbollah are
supposed to be the bad guys in this scenario, not a Sunni group.

But Tripoli is the most powerful Sunni city in Lebanon - so powerful
that not a drop of alcohol wets its restaurant tables - and the men and
women running in terror across Tripoli's streets yesterday were also
Sunnis. So are the Syrians really concocting an "al-Qaida" in Lebanon?
And who are its enemies? The Nato army of the UN force in southern
Lebanon, perhaps? But surely not the Lebanese army, the very same army
which bravely prevented civil war last January? Yet in 2000, an
al-Qaida-type group also ambushed the Lebanese army in northern
Lebanon. Was this, too, supposed to be a Syrian invention?

Showers of bullets were still tracing their way over Tripoli last night
and the army was said to be preparing to move into the camps. Fatah,
Yasser Arafat's clapped-out organisation, announced it was on the side
of the army, a wise decision after yesterday's bloodbath. "A dangerous
attempt to undermine Lebanon's security," was the response of a
government whose Shia cabinet ministers abandoned it last year in the
hope of bringing the whole Siniora administration down. But where do we
go from here?

And who were the dead men I saw yesterday, perforated by bullets,
partly torn open by grenades? Silent testimony is all we receive from
the dead. One of them had big eyes above his fluffy beard, eyes which
stared at us and at the police who jeered at his corpse. I wonder if
they will not come to haunt us soon. And if we will discover what lies
behind this terrible day in Lebanon.

***

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[LAAMN] 2007-05-30: Future of Politics

[Uncle Don B Fanning]

From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 13:37:59 -0700
Subject: [SMDC] SM Democrats Meeting: Political Computer Consultants

05/22/2007 1:26:46 PM
PRESS RELEASE
CONTACT: Julie Lopez Dad 310-266-7315

Santa Monica Democratic Club to hear Dave Dayen and a panel of 
experts present "Net Roots/Grassroots--the future of political organizing".

Wednesday May 30, 2007
7:00 PM
St. Annes Community Room, 20th  Colorado, Santa Monica

The computer is a daily experience in many lives. Listen to an expert 
discuss the future of political organizing, and of politics in 
general at the next meeting of the Santa Monica Democratic Club. Dave 
Dayen is a writer and television editor who blogs on state and 
national politics at davedayen.com.

public invited, free parking, no charge, refreshments
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The opinions expressed on this listgroup represent those of the 
authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Santa 
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[LAAMN] Just 3 days until the Al-Awda Convention! May 25-27, Garden Grove

[Zahi Damuni]

From: "Alia Hasan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:09 PM
Subject: [Al-Awda-Los-Angeles] Just 3 days until the Al-Awda Convention! May 
25-27, Garden Grove

Just 3 days until the Al-Awda Convention!
May 25-27, Garden Grove

In Just 3 days the Al-Awda Fifth Annual International Convention will
take place at the Embassy Suites in Garden Grove. Please join us for
an amazing weekend of keynote addresses, workshops, film screenings,
cultural events, and more!

Convention highlights include:
*a Keynote address by new Balad Leader (from Palestine) Dr. Jamal
Zahalka - "The Case of Azmi Bishara"
*a session on how we can support the Palestinian refugees
*an address by Leila Al-Arian, daughter of Sami Al-Arian
*an exhibition of Naji al-Ali's work (including the Handala character)
in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Naji al-Ali's
assassination
*Film Screenings including "US vs. Al-Arian", "Nowhere to Flee", and
"Occupation 101" with the directors.
*Cultural performances and 3-course dinner at the Palestinian Cultural
Night, Saturday May 26th

Tickets may be purchased in advance and at the door for the entire
convention which runs from the evening of Friday May 25 through Sunday
May 27 (memorial day weekend) OR just for the Cultural Night/Dinner
which takes place Saturday May 26.

Uniting for the Return - Fifth Annual Al-Awda Convention
Embassy Suites Hotel
Anaheim South
11767 Harbor Boulevard
Garden Grove, CA 92840
May 25 -27, 2007

FOR RESERVATIONS or INFORMATION:
http://WWW-AL-AWDA.ORG - Tel: 760-685-3243 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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