[LAAMN] two important Black August events at So Cal Library, 8-12, 8-21
Thursday night, August 12, the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant presents unity and struggle, opposing police abuse and supporting migrant rights, co-sponsored by the Grassroots KPFK campaign, featuring speakers from the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant, the Southern California Immigration Coalition, Aryana Gladney of the Black Riders Liberation Party (one of the Grassroots KPFK candidates for local station board at 90.7 FM listener sponsored Pacifica) and others. The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research is located at 6120 S. Vermont between Slauson and Gage. Saturday afternoon and evening (3:30-9:00 PM), Oregon Jericho, ARA-LA, LA-ABCF and the Black Riders present a George Jackson Day event featuring Jeff Luers, a former eco political prisoner from Oregon, Paulette D'Auteil formerly with New York Jericho, now in New Mexico, presentations by the Black Riders, spoken word performances. Dinner will be available. Donations are requested at both events to support the political activity of the sponsoring groups. --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/la...@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Chavez Rejects Obama's Ambassador-Designate To Venezuela
Chavez Rejects Obama's Ambassador-Designate To Venezuela http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/wsj/http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100808-702875.html?mod=wsj_share_ybuzz By Dan MolinskiOf DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CARACAS (Dow Jones)--President Hugo Chavez on Sunday rejected the U.S. ambassador-designate to Venezuela after nominee Larry Palmer suggested from Washington that morale is low among Venezuelan soldiers. He can't come here, he has disqualified himself by breaking all the rules of diplomacy, Chavez said on television. The best the U.S. can do is look for another candidate. Palmer, who has served as an ambassador to Honduras, was nominated by President Barack Obama in June. He has not yet been confirmed by the Senate to replace the current ambassador, Patrick Duddy. Ahead of the possible Senate confirmation vote, some U.S. senators sent Palmer questions aimed at gauging how he may handle the tense relations between the U.S. and Chavez, a firebrand socialist and frequent critic of U.S. policies. It was the responses to a series of questions from U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (R., Ind.), the ranking Republican on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, that got Palmer into hot water with the Chavez government. Regarding Venezuela's military, Palmer said morale is reported to be considerably low, particularly due to politically oriented appointments. He also wrote about alleged links between the Chavez government and Marxist Colombian guerrillas, accusations that Chavez steadfastly denies. Palmer said: I am keenly aware of the clear ties between members of the Venezuelan government and Colombian guerillas. A U.S. State Department official last week said Palmer got it right in terms of the opinions he expressed about relations between the U.S. and Venezuela. Several attempts in recent days to reach Palmer were unsuccessful. U.S. Embassy officials in Caracas weren't immediately available to comment Sunday. -By Dan Molinski, Dow Jones Newswires; 58-414-120-5738; dan.molin...@dowjones.com Chavez bars nominated U.S. envoy to Venezuela ** - Politics ยป https://mail.google.com/news/politics CARACAS | Sun Aug 8, 2010 4:49pm EDT CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez said he would not allow the newly nominated U.S. ambassador, Larry Palmer, to take up his post in Caracas after what he said were viewed as offensive comments about Venezuela. How do you think, Obama, that I am going to accept that gentleman as ambassador? Chavez said in a TV program, referring to President Barack Obama's new envoy. It's impossible. (Reporting by Andrew Cawthornehttp://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=usn=andrew.cawthorne;, Editing by Sandra Maler) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/la...@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Help the Gulf People
PLEASE FORWARD TO ANYONE WHO CAN Help the Gulf People Connecting people who want to leave the Gulf with people who can help http://helpthegulf.lefora.com/forum/category/helpthegulf-forum-topics/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/la...@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Could this really happen? ( Social Security), On those spectacular photographs
I got several emails saying their list-server didn't pass on attachments, in this case, the spectacular PHOTOS of pre-war Hitler's Germany. If that's you and you want to get them, email me and I'll provide. The comments below are from Peter Feldmann, a long-time friend, a great musician (especially mandolin) and country musc promoter (especially bluegrass) -Ed. On 8/4/2010 12:49 PM, Ed Pearl wrote: Hi. This powerful display will be a revelation to some, reminder to others. The photo's often fill the screen, but don't be concerned about not being able to exit. The final panel says 'click on to exit.' Many thanks to David McReynolds for passing it on. -Ed - Original Message - From: Peter Feldmann pe...@bluegrasswest.com Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:35 PM Subject: Re: Fw: History Thanks for this. New photos of that epoch are always fascinating to me. I was born in Zurich in early '41, and so landed right in the thick of things. My father piloted a Messerschmidt, and I vaguely remember blackout curtains and growing potatoes in our front yard The photos are obviously not taken with a Rolliflex (where the format was square rather than rectangular). The are definitely 35mm slides and the obvious culprit would be a Leica, a favorite of many Life photographers and made in Germany. People other than Hitler who figure prominently in the photos include Heinrich Himmler (usually in his black SS uniform, including one with a helmet) and Herman Goering, who can be seen in several, holding his field marshal's baton. Balder Von Shirach, head of the Hitler Youth, can be seen in at least one slide, as well as three prototypes of the early Volkswagen! The rally photos are from the mid-30s, before Hitler launched his war against Poland in '39. There seem to be some photos of a parade commemorating the Munich Putsch of '23 - big haps for the old Nazis. -Peter -- Peter Feldmann BlueGrass West PO Box 614 Los Olivos, CA 93441 USA +1 805 688 9894 // 805 350 3918 (cell) www.BlueGrassWest.com Hi Ed, You are welcome to pass it on - thanks for asking. My father was in the Swiss army air corps, a pilot - lieutenant. Switzerland was the only European country who managed to successfully protect their neutrality by making it too costly for the Germans to invade. We were an armed camp, with every tunnel, bridge, railway and road entrance mined - ready to be exploded within 10 minutes' notice of invasion. Hitler planned it on at least two occasions, but changed his mind at the last minute. The Swiss managed to purchase several dozen Messerschmitts just before the war began, and used them to protect their neutrality. Essentially, this meant refusing the use of Swiss airspace to anyone who attempted to cross it. The Swiss pilots engaged anyone: Germans, Italians, British, French, or American planes, driving them back, shooting them down, or forcing them to land. Several times, bombers dropped their bombs on Swiss territory, either by accident or because they needed to gain altitude to fly across the alps. My father had many stories re. this little-known aspect of the war: only a handful of pilots from his squadron survived. While there were a few pro-Nazi Swiss, most of us despised and ridiculed them. Our German language newspapers were highly-prized and smuggled into Germany, where they became rare glimpses of truthful reporting from the uncensored world outside. It was a terrible time, of course. For several years, we were completely surrounded by the Nazis, and no one knew what the eventual outcome would be. Allen Dulles, later head of the CIA, set up shop in Bern, operating a spy ring for the USA. One item re. Swiss mentality: In 1989, my father was invited back to Switzerland for a ceremony commemorating the actions of the Swiss army on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the war. There, parked on a strip of astroturf, was a Messerschmitt fighter plane. As he approached, he realized that it was *his* plane! I asked him, Well , did you climb up to see if you could still fit inside?. Oh No, he responded, There was a sign there saying, DO NOT TOUCH!. -Peter *** From: MoveOn.org Political Action Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 11:35 AM Subject: Could this really happen? Dear Ed, You can't make this stuff up. The economy is in shambles, unemployment is at record levels and home foreclosures are soaring. Congress can't get it together to act on these issues. But there's growing momentum in Washington to-wait for it-slash on Social Security. Believe it. Republicans are campaigning on benefit cuts. Conservative Democrats like Steny Hoyer are echoing their talking points.1 Everyone's counting on the Deficit Commission to do the dirty work. The commission is stacked with conservatives who've embraced cutting Social Security, and both houses of congress promised to fast-track a vote on its recommendations.2 3 That means that even though no jobs bill can pass congress
[LAAMN] OP-ED BY BY SHEILA KUEHL IN TODAY'S L.A. TIMES= ...AND SEE YOU AT OUR PICNIC THIS SUNDAY!
ACTIVIST SUPPORT CIRCLE NOTICE- Please read former State Senator Sheila Kuehl's excellent OP-ED piece An Amateur Governor and the Mess He's Made in today's L.A. Times. AND See you at our annual potluck picnic (with Sheila) at 1:00 PM on Sunday in Santa Monica Clover Park located at 2600 Ocean Park Blvd. Free on-site parking at 27th Street park parking lot. Please bring a vegetarian potluck dish (and your positive activist energy) to share. Visit- www.ActivistSupportCircle.org E-Mail- activistsupportcir...@earthlink.net OR- jerrypeaceactivistru...@earthlink.net Call- 310-399-1000 --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/la...@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today
On August 6th I sent you a powerful piece by John Pilger. As today commemorates the bombing of Nagasaki, I send you a different article with a very different focus by Pilger. I could find nothing more pressing or comparable. -Ed http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20444.htm The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today By John Pilger 06/08/08 **ICH* http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/* -- - On the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened attack on Iran.* When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then walked down to the river and met a man called Yukio, whose chest was still etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped. He and his family still lived in a shack thrown up in the dust of an atomic desert. He described a huge flash over the city, a bluish light, something like an electrical short, after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell. I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no skin or hair. I was certain I was dead. Nine years later, when I returned to look for him, he was dead from leukaemia. In the immediate aftermath of the bomb, the allied occupation authorities banned all mention of radiation poisoning and insisted that people had been killed or injured only by the bomb's blast. It was the first big lie. No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin said the front page of the New York Times, a classic of disinformation and journalistic abdication, which the Australian reporter Wilfred Burchett put right with his scoop of the century. I write this as a warning to the world, reported Burchett in the Daily Express, having reached Hiroshima after a perilous journey, the first correspondent to dare. He described hospital wards filled with people with no visible injuries but who were dying from what he called an atomic plague. For telling this truth, his press accreditation was withdrawn, he was pilloried and smeared - and vindicated. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a criminal act on an epic scale. It was premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality. For this reason its apologists have sought refuge in the mythology of the ultimate good war, whose ethical bath, as Richard Drayton called it, has allowed the west not only to expiate its bloody imperial past but to promote 60 years of rapacious war, always beneath the shadow of The Bomb. The most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and save lives. Even without the atomic bombing attacks, concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that ... Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated. The National Archives in Washington contain US government documents that chart Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943. None was pursued. A cable sent on May 5, 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the US dispels any doubt that the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace, including capitulation even if the terms were hard. Instead, the US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was fearful that the US air force would have Japan so bombed out that the new weapon would not be able to show its strength. He later admitted that no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the bomb. His foreign policy colleagues were eager to browbeat the Russians with the bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the bomb, testified: There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis. The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Truman voiced his satisfaction with the overwhelming success of the experiment. Since 1945, the United States is believed to have been on the brink of using nuclear weapons at least three times.
[LAAMN] Fw: Economist: Mexico's indigenous conflicts
- Original Message - From: John A Imani To: r...@lists.riseup.net ; rac-la_support...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 10:21 AM Subject: Economist: Mexico's indigenous conflicts Mexico's indigenous conflicts Murder in the backwoods http://www.economist.com/node/16748952?story_id=16748952fsrc=rss Attempts to repress peasant uprisings have backfired Aug 5th 2010 | oaxaca A Triqui situation GUNFIRE rings out almost every day around the village of San Juan Copala, as marksmen in the woods take potshots into the town. Eight residents are recovering from injuries, including an eight-year-old girl who was hit twice as she tried to leave the village. The gunmen have cut electricity and blocked access roads, allowing only a single party of women out once a week on an eight-hour hike to fetch food. The siege is entering its ninth month. The tiny hamlet of some 400 Triqui Indians lies in the north-west of the state of Oaxaca. The shooters are thought to belong to the Union for the Social Wellbeing of the Triqui Region (UBISORT)-a deceptively beneficent-sounding group set up by the ruling party in 1994 to enforce its authority in the remote mountain area. In 2007 San Juan Copala and various nearby villages declared themselves an autonomous municipality. Since then the violence has worsened: over 100 people are thought to have been killed since the beginning of 2008. The terrorisation of the village, probably orchestrated in part by UBISORT paramilitaries, is punishment for this rebelliousness, says Marcos Albino, a Triqui spokesman. The message to other indigenous towns is clear, he says: You take the risks and you pay the price. The state's backing of local strongmen has only made the region harder to govern. UBISORT is at war with the Movement for Triqui Unification and Struggle (MULT), a resistance group wooed by the government in the 1990s. It now receives over 17m pesos ($1.35m) of public money a year, supposedly for social projects. Fighting between these rivals has made entering the area dangerous. On June 8th a caravan carrying doctors and federal deputies was turned back by gunmen. That followed an attack on human-rights activists and journalists on April 27th, which killed a local campaigner and a Finnish observer. Prosecutors have not inspected the crime scene because of worries about their own safety. Two developments may force progress. First, on July 4th Oaxacan voters booted out the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRI still acknowledges its links with UBISORT, although it says it opposes the group's violent activities. In contrast, the new lot, an alliance of the PRI's main rivals, will probably be less accommodating. Heriberto Pazos, the leader of MULT's political wing, says he is willing to negotiate with the municipality's leaders and ultimately with UBISORT. Second, the murder of the Finnish observer has attracted outside attention. Juanita Cruz, a congresswoman, says her fellow lawmakers have become far more interested in the case since April. The often lethargic federal prosecutor's office took it up within three days. The case is being handled in Mexico City, free from pressure and intimidation. The families' lawyer says he expects arrests soon-of funders and weapons-suppliers, as well as shooters. That would be a start. Brokering peace with Oaxaca's indigenous groups may take longer. The Americas [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/la...@egroups.com --- 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: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To
