[LAAMN] CWLA Presents: Mano Vuelta Film Screening and Presentation by Simon Sedillo

[Joaquin Cienfuegos]

  

 
Cop Watch Los Angeles Presents:

Wednesday, November 16 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm

at the Southern California Library: the People's Library 


6120 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90044


+ Mano Vuelta Film Screening

“Contra el Silencio”
(26 Minutes) 2011 Playa Vicente, Veracruz, Mexico

The 10 year old son of community organizers and musicians in Playa 
Vicente, Veracruz, Elias Barradas , walks us through the 8th annual 
“Festival del Tesechoacan” as the fictional character “Sub – Lieutenant 
Coco”. While Barradas remains in character as Sub-Lieutenant Coco 
throughout the film, he takes us through different spaces and activities
 for organizing this tremendous traditional music festival. Elias 
reminds us in the film that culture, music, and media in the hands of 
communities are important elements of the resistance against the loss of
 identity and community roots.

"Oaxaca en Resistencia"

(30 minutes) 2011 Los Angeles Pueblo Nuevo, Oaxaca, Mexico
Since the 2006 Oaxacan Peoples’ Popular Assembly (APPO) uprising, the 
face and body of Oaxaca’s popular social movement has changed into many 
different projects, collectives, community organizations, strategies and
 struggles. Manovuelta’s films look at the movement from a different 
perspective and have been instrumental in identifying different 
personalities within the social movement who do not necessarily fit into
 the boxes assigned by foreign activists, journalists, academics, and 
intellectuals; from an entire family who participated as musicians at 
the barricades in the film “La Familia Raíces”, to a hip hop heroine and
 several young men who gain life-changing political formation defending 
their city in “Xip Xop Oaxaca”, and to the different projects from the 
traditional Son Jarocho music movement in Veracruz, Mexico. “Oaxaca en 
Resistencia” brings several Oaxacan and Veracruzan artists together with
 Xip Xop artists, barricaders from the neighborhood the film is set in, 
and chicanos and chicanas from all over the US to take one more 
collective look at the face of Oaxaca’s resistance.

with: Simon Sedillo

Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker. 
He has spent the last 8 years documenting, producing and teaching 
community based video documentation in Mexico and the US. Through 
lectures, workshops, and short films, Sedillo breaks down the effects of
 neoliberalism, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and militarism 
on indigenous communities, immigrant communities, and communities of 
color in the US and Mexico. Veracruz, Mexico

The 10 year old son of community organizers and musicians in Playa 
Vicente, Veracruz, Elias Barradas , walks us through the 8th annual 
“Festival del Tesechoacan” as the fictional character “Sub – Lieutenant 
Coco”. While Barradas remains in character as Sub-Lieutenant Coco 
throughout the film, he takes us through different spaces and activities
 for organizing this tremendous traditional music festival. Elias 
reminds us in the film that culture, music, and media in the hands of 
communities are important elements of the resistance against the loss of
 identity and community roots.

"Oaxaca en Resistencia"

(30 minutes) 2011 Los Angeles Pueblo Nuevo, Oaxaca, Mexico
Since the 2006 Oaxacan Peoples’ Popular Assembly (APPO) uprising, the 
face and body of Oaxaca’s popular social movement has changed into many 
different projects, collectives, community organizations, strategies and
 struggles. Manovuelta’s films look at the movement from a different 
perspective and have been instrumental in identifying different 
personalities within the social movement who do not necessarily fit into
 the boxes assigned by foreign activists, journalists, academics, and 
intellectuals; from an entire family who participated as musicians at 
the barricades in the film “La Familia Raíces”, to a hip hop heroine and
 several young men who gain life-changing political formation defending 
their city in “Xip Xop Oaxaca”, and to the different projects from the 
traditional Son Jarocho music movement in Veracruz, Mexico. “Oaxaca en 
Resistencia” brings several Oaxacan and Veracruzan artists together with
 Xip Xop artists, barricaders from the neighborhood the film is set in, 
and chicanos and chicanas from all over the US to take one more 
collective look at the face of Oaxaca’s resistance.

with: Simon Sedillo

Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker. 
He has spent the last 8 years documenting, producing and teaching 
community based video documentation in Mexico and the US. Through 
lectures, workshops, and short films, Sedillo breaks down the effects of
 neoliberalism, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and militarism 
on indigenous communities, immigrant communities, and communities of 
color in the US and Mexico. 
Pueblo Nuevo, Oaxaca, Mexico
Since the 2006 Oaxacan Peoples’ Popular Assembly (APPO) uprising, the 
face and body of Oaxaca’s popular social moveme

[LAAMN] Rich Trumka: Tarps and Tents Don't Make a Movement, Eric Margolis: Iran, Here We Go Again

[Ed Pearl]

 

  _  

From: Richard L. Trumka, AFL-CIO [mailto:peoplepo...@aflcio.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:25 AM
To: epear...@earthlink.net
Subject: Tarps and Tents Don't Make a Movement



 
 


Dear ,

They can take away the tarps and the tents. But they can’t slow down the
Occupy Wall Street movement. 

There have been police raids on Occupy Wall Street in Oakland, Calif.;
Portland, Ore.; Denver; Albany, N.Y.; Burlington, Vt.; and Chapel Hill,
N.C.—and now, last night in New York’s Zuccotti Park—orchestrated by
politicians acting on behalf of the 1%. 

But the 99% is undaunted. Occupy Wall Street’s message already has created a
new day. This movement has created a seismic shift in our national
debate—from austerity and cuts to jobs, inequality and our broken economic
system. 

Show your solidarity by attending a Nov. 17 bridge
 action near you. 

And send a message of solidarity to the Occupy Wall
 Street protesters—which will be delivered by Working America this
week.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been committed to peaceful, nonviolent
action from its inception. And it will keep spreading no matter what elected
officials tell police to do. But that doesn’t mean these raids are
acceptable. In fact, they are inexcusable.

As former Secretary of State Colin Powell put it, these protests are “as
American as apple pie.” Americans must be allowed to speak out against
pervasive inequality, even if the truth discomfits the 1%. 

The AFL-CIO will do everything in our power to make sure the free speech
rights of these peaceful protesters are protected.

Click here to find a Nov. 17 bridge action near
 you.

And click here to send a message of solidarity
 directly to the Occupy Wall Street protesters—Working America will
deliver it this week.

We are the 99%.

In Solidarity,

Richard L. Trumka
President, AFL-CIO

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-margolis/iran-nuclear-weapons_b_1093176.h
tml
 
November 15, 2011 

  world


Here We Go Again With Nuclear Hysteria

By Eric Margolis

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency's(IAEA) long awaited, much
ballyhooed report
  on Iran's nuclear activities has
been thunderously greeted in North America as conclusive evidence that Iran
is working on nuclear weapons. 

Tehran has long denied such claims. So, more tellingly, did a 2007 US
combined intelligence assessment that rudely pulled out the rug from under
the feet of the neocons who were trying to engineer war with Iran. 

There's little new in this report, and a lot of déjà vu. We read the old
story floating around since 2002 about a mysterious laptop stolen from Iran
and passed to US intelligence. It allegedly contains scientific material
about explosive compression methods to trigger a nuclear explosion, and
designs to shrink nuclear warheads to fit in missile nosecones.

The UN and western powers say this stolen computer's contents conclusively
proves Iran has violated the UN's non-proliferation treaty, to which Tehran
is a signatory. Israel and its American partisans are raising a hue and cry
about an impending nuclear attack on the Jewish state by Iran's "crazy"
leaders. 

Speaking of crazy, as we saw during last week's debates, Republicans are
baying for war against Iran, seemingly heedless of the political, financial
or economic risks involved. Israel, they chorus, is in mortal danger.

They don't explain why Iran would risk nuclear evaporation from Israel's
mighty air, land and sea-based nuclear forces to launch a few nuclear
weapons (which they may not even have, and which may or may not work) at
Israel. Suicide is not high on Iran's priority list. 

A new element in the UN is the claim that a Russian scientist who supposedly
worked on Iranian nuclear weapons expl

[LAAMN] National Call-In Week for Bradley Manning ~ November 15th-18th

[Frank Dorrel]

http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/national-call-in-for-bradley

 


National Call-in Week for Bradley Manning! - November 15th-18th


Occupy Military Phone Lines! Let The UN Meet With Bradley!


Please join us, and our partners, on this important action every day this
week. We'll update this page Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday with contact
info for more people we need to influence. 

On October 18 2011, UN chief investigator on torture issues, Juan Mendez,
confirmed that the Department of Defense has blocked his requests for an
unmonitored meeting with PFC Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks
whistle-blower. Mendez requested the meetings so that he could investigate
what occurred during the 10 months that Bradley Manning was kept isolated in
the military brig at Quantico, VA, under conditions condemned as illegal by
300 top U.S. legal scholars
 .

The White House has so far refused to respond to our requests for
explanation as to why Mendez is not being allowed to complete an
investigation. Our petition
  on the
White House website, http://www.wh.gov/40y, calls for the Administration to
stop blocking Mendez's attempts to conduct an official visit as required by
his office. The petition achieved the number of signatures necessary for a
response on October 13th, yet still has not been addressed.

We want to put pressure on the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff
to comply with the United Nations' demand. Juan Mendez has requested
unmonitored meetings with Bradley so as to insure that international
protocol for prisoner treatment and justice are followed. (The UN's original
statement on this issue is here
 .)

Please Make Two Phone Calls for Bradley:

*   Call Secretary of the Army Public Affairs Officer Lt. Anne Edgecomb:
703-697-3491
*   Call Army Chief of Staff Public Affairs Officer Lt. Col Alayne
Conway: 703-693-4961

When you call, please urge Secretary of the Army John McHugh and Chief of
Staff Raymond T. Odierno to respect the UN Convention Against Torture and to
allow UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez to conduct an official
visit with Bradley Manning.

After Calling, You Can Also E-mail Them:

*   E-mail Lt. Edgecomb at:  
anne.edgec...@us.army.mil 
*   E-mail Lt. Col Conway at:  
alayne.con...@us.army.mil 

*   If you live outside of the United States, you can call the US
embassy or consulate in your country and ask them to note your request. You
can find US embassies here
 .

Then please spread the word! Ask your friends and family to call as well by
sharing this action on Facebook and Twitter and by emailing them the link to
this page.

Thank you for supporting Bradley. Check this page Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday for additional numbers and e-mails of people we need to reach in our
defense of Bradley's rights.

 


Background information:


Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old US Army intelligence analyst
 , is
accused of sharing a video of the killing of unarmed civilians-including two
Reuters journalists-by a US helicopter in Baghdad.  He is also charged with
blowing the whistle on the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and
embarrassing US diplomatic cables (including the Guantanamo Files). The
video and documents have illuminated details of civilian casualties in Iraq
and Afghanistan, human rights abuses and atrocities, and the role that
spying and bribes play in international diplomacy.

Prior to his transfer to Fort Leavenworth, PFC Manning had been held in
solitary confinement in the military brig of Quantico, VA for ten months.
While in prison in Quantico, Manning was not allowed to exercise, with the
exception of being allowed to walk shackled for one hour each day.  He was
denied exposure to sunlight. He was not allowed to sleep between 5am and
8pm, and he had to respond verbally to guards every five minutes.  Although
the Quantico officials said these rules were necessary because of a
"Prevention of Injury" order, the brig's own psychiatrists
  confirmed
that Bradley was not suicidal.  In March of 2011, Quantico officials began
forcing Bradley to strip naked each night before bed, and to sleep in a
"suicide smock."

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, opened an investigation
into PFC Manning's treatment conditions. Unfortunately, he was denied the
ability to make an official visit to investigate the situation. Although PFC
Manning has been transferred to a new prison, Mendez is still requesting to

[LAAMN] Fw: USGP-INT Freedom Rider Update

[Romi Elnagar]

Dear All,

Yesterday I didn't send out a message about the Freedom Rider bus to 
Jerusalem, which is just as well because this morning I heard that 
prominent Connecticut Green MAZIN QUMSIYEH is on the bus. 

His twitter description is attached below, and an article from the 
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT about the bus follows. He is one of six 
Freedom Riders.  As of now, IOF has arrested Mazin from Beit Sahour and a young 
pharmacist Basil Al-Araj from Al-Walaja.

May God protect him and his fellow Freedom Riders!

Hajja Romi/Blue



P.S.  I have to say that I expect we will not hear anything about this in the 
American press, any more than any of the other nonviolent protests in the West 
Bank and Gaza.  Mazin's website BTW is at http://qumsiyeh.org/




-- Forwarded message --
From: Mazin Qumsiyeh 
Date: Tue, 
Nov 15, 2011 at 5:52 PM



On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Mazin Qumsiyeh  wrote:

the bus is still at the Hizmeh checkpoint.  all 6 riders and  soldiers are 
still on the bus.  they have not been taken to any police  station at this 
time. 
>
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Mazin Qumsiyeh  wrote:
>
>the occupation forces tried to forcibly remove  freedomriders but was not able 
>to. IOF are on the bus, they closed the bus  door and taking the bus with only 
>the freedomriders and soldiers on board  toa location nearby the checkpoint 
>>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Mazin Qumsiyeh  wrote:
>>
>>all 6 riders's id have been taken but are still  on the bus.  but the bus is 
>>turn off and the bus driver has left the  bus 
>>>the border police forces are staging around the bus and  prepare to arrest 
>>>riders
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Mazin Qumsiyeh  wrote:
>>>
>>>there are 6 riders including mazin (he is probably the  oldest on the bus) 



On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Olivia Zémor  
wrote:

yes I am watching on the live video  we have published 
: http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article5882&var_mode=calcul 
>How many buses and how many young Palestinians are involved ?
>
>Le 15 nov. 2011 à 14:31, Mazin Qumsiyeh a écrit :
>
>
>soldiers are coming up on the bus, probably will remove the  riders off 
>the bus, check their id
>>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Mazin  Qumsiyeh  
>>wrote:
>>
>>freedom riders are waving Palestinian  flag from inside the settler bus 
>>>they arrived at Hizmeh
>>>the bus has been stopped at Hizmeh checkpoiont
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Mazin  Qumsiyeh  
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>freedom riders are making history now  by boarding segregated settler 
>>>bus toward jerusalem.   Huwaida Araf said "this is the kind of pressure 
>>>need to  force Israel to back down from Israel's apartheid  policies" 



On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mazin  Qumsiyeh  
wrote:

settlers tried to grab a  Palestinian flag that the riders are carrying 
but did not  succeed 
>
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Mazin  Qumsiyeh  
>wrote:
>
>the soldiers are everywhere and  they told the bus not to move,
>>Mazin  was heard saying we want to go to jerusalem.  police  stopped 
>>the bus and won't let the bus to proceed.  
>>
>>
>>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Olivia Zémor 
>> wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>>What does it mean ? have some 
  freedom riders succedded in going to Al  [Jerusalem]?
>>>Best,
>>>Olivia
>>>
>>>Le 15 nov. 2011 à 13:43, Mazin 
  Qumsiyeh a écrit :
>>>
>>>
 Message from Jessie:

 Four 
  settler buses passed by and did not stop when they saw 
the 
  freedom riders.  Now the army jeeps have 
  arrived.
>>>
>>>
>>
>

>>>
>>
>

>>>
>>
>

Palestinian Freedom Riders to ride settler buses to Jerusalem
Posted on: November 13, 2011 |    
13 November 2011 | Freedom Riders
Inspired by the Freedom Rides of the US Civil Rights Movement Palestinian 
activists will attempt to board segregated Israeli settler 
buses to occupied East Jerusalem
Groups of Palestinian Freedom Riders will attempt to board segregated settler 
buses heading to Jerusalem through the occupied West Bank this Tuesday 
November 15, in an act of civil disobedience that takes its inspiration 
from the US Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders aim to challenge 
Israel’s apartheid policies, the ban on Palestinians’ access to 
Jerusalem, and the overall segregated reality created by a military and 
settler occupation that is the cornerstone of Israel’s colonial regime. 
While parallels exist bet

[LAAMN] FW: BREAKING: This Morning in New York City...

[Cindy Henderson]

 



Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:58:40 -0500
From: messen...@truthout.org
To: coz42...@hotmail.com
Subject: BREAKING: This Morning in New York City...











Last night, I watched lower Manhattan turn into a militarized lockdown. The 
park known as Liberty Square was apparently cleared by force, though I arrived 
20 minutes after the police barricades encircled a two-block radius, kicked out 
all media and prevented all foot traffic on public sidewalks surrounding the 
park.
This was expected. The emergency text message went out at 1:00 AM and read, 
"URGENT: Hundreds of police mobilizing around Zuccotti. Eviction in progress!" 
prompting a mass mobilization of people like me, part-time protesters who 
signed up to converge on the park for the looming police raid on the physical 
heart of the Occupy movement.
The police were prepared for this flood of bodies. Many subway stops were shut 
down, as was the Brooklyn Bridge. My go bag had been packed for weeks, waiting 
for just this moment. I laced up my boots, and spent an agonizing 20 minutes on 
the subway from Brooklyn.
Upon arrival in lower Manhattan, I struggled for about two hours to get to a 
position where I could see into the park, to no avail. From a block away, I saw 
massive piles of what used to be supplies dumped into waiting trucks. People's 
major concerns were two-fold: first, the health and safety of the occupiers 
locked in the camp; and second, the 5,000 books of the Occupy Wall Street 
library. What a picture it would be (maybe it exists) of police in riot gear 
gathering boxes of donated books and loading them into garbage trucks. A 
perfect metaphor for what appears to be the intention of last night's raid: 
destroying the body of knowledge that had been collected by a movement just two 
months old, which was built by collective effort, literally from the ground up.
After four hours of wandering in groups and alone on the dark, empty streets of 
lower Manhattan, Foley Square, a park rich with the history of labor struggles 
in New York City, became the rallying point. After a short discussion with the 
handful of police on hand, Foley Square was determined to be a safe zone - for 
the time being.
Here I sit, watching the pulse of the Occupy Wall Street movement strengthen. 
Stories of arrests are being exchanged over a breakfast of apples and muffins. 
A sleepless crowd is beginning to be reinforced by New Yorkers from around the 
city as the morning news streams images of a camp turned back into a barren, 
soulless corporate park known as Zuccotti. But the drums are back. The spirit 
and the idea of the Occupy movement has only been strengthened. Today is the 
end of the beginning, and what has been built cannot be disbanded. Now, we 
stand at the beginning of the next phase, looking into the eyes of the people 
who created a new consciousness and a new politics.
Today is November 15, 2011, a beautiful day tainted only by the physical harm 
of those who left their blood and sweat on the cement of Liberty Park.
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[LAAMN] Frances Fox Piven: The War Against the Poor and Occupy Wall Street

[Ed Pearl]

This morning, a New York judge issued an order stopping evictions from
Liberty Park, where the OWS had been evicted throughout the night.  Hundreds
have now gathered, with the labor unions preparing to join them in retaking
the park.  For ongoing information, check the Democracy Now website:
http://www.democracynow.org/
Ed
 
 
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/07
 
Published on Monday, November 7, 2011 by
 TomDispatch.com 

The War Against the Poor and Occupy Wall Street


The Politics of Financial Morality 

by   Frances Fox Piven


We've been at war for decades now -- not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but
right here at home.  Domestically, it's been a war against the poor, but if
you hadn't noticed, that's not surprising. You wouldn't often have found the
casualty figures from this particular conflict in your local newspaper or on
the nightly TV news.  Devastating as it's been, the war against the poor has
gone largely unnoticed -- until now.

until now.
 "By making Wall Street its symbolic target,
and branding itself as a movement of the 99%, OWS has redirected public
attention to the issue of extreme inequality, which it has recast as,
essentially, a moral problem." (Creative Commons | Wikimedia | Brian Sims)

The Occupy Wall Street movement has already made the concentration of wealth
at the top of this society a central issue in American politics.  Now, it
promises to do something similar when it comes to the realities of poverty
in this country.

By making Wall Street its symbolic target, and branding itself as a movement
of the 99%, OWS has redirected public attention to the issue of extreme
inequality, which it has recast as, essentially, a moral problem.  Only a
short time ago, the "morals" issue in politics meant the propriety of sexual
preferences, reproductive behavior, or the personal behavior of presidents.
Economic policy, including tax cuts for the rich, subsidies and government
protection for insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and financial
deregulation, was shrouded in clouds of propaganda or simply considered too
complex for ordinary Americans to grasp.

Now, in what seems like no time at all, the fog has lifted and the topic on
the table everywhere seems to be the morality of contemporary financial
capitalism.  The protestors have accomplished this mainly through the
symbolic power of their actions: by naming Wall Street, the heartland of
financial capitalism, as the enemy, and by
 welcoming the homeless and the down-and-out to their
occupation sites.  And of course, the slogan "We are the 99%" reiterated the
message that almost all of us are suffering from the reckless profiteering
of a tiny handful.  (In fact, they aren't far off:
 the increase in income of the top 1% over the past three decades about
equals the losses of the bottom 80%.)

The movement's moral call is reminiscent of earlier historical moments when
popular uprisings invoked ideas of a "moral economy" to justify demands for
bread or grain or wages -- for, that is, a measure of economic justice.
Historians usually attribute popular ideas of a moral economy to custom and
tradition, as when the British historian E.P. Thompson traced the idea of a
"just price" for basic foodstuffs invoked by eighteenth century English food
rioters to then already centuries-old Elizabethan statutes.  But the
rebellious poor have never simply been traditionalists.  In the face of
violations of what they considered to be their customary rights, they did
not wait for the magistrates to act, but often took it upon themselves to
enforce what they considered to be the foundation of a just moral economy.

Being Poor By the Numbers

A moral economy for our own time would certainly take on the unbridled
accumulation of wealth at the expense of the majority (and
 the planet).  It would also single out for special condemnation the
creation of an ever-larger stratum of people we call "the poor" who struggle
to survive in the shadow of the overconsumption and waste of that top 1%.

Some facts: early in 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau

reported that 14.3% of the population, or 47 million people -- one in six
Americans -- were living below the official poverty threshold, currently set
at $22,400 annually for a family of four. Some 19 million people are living
in what is called extreme poverty, which means that their hou

[LAAMN] Fwd: Carlos Montes Court Appearance: Activists say “Drop the Charges!”

[Carlos Montes]

Thanks to all who came out, got their organizations to pass resolutions of 
support or sent messages of support!


Carlos Montes 






Carlos Montes Court Appearance: Activists say “Drop the Charges!”

By Charla Schlueter

 
Los Angeles, CA – Activists gathered outside the Los Angeles courthouse Monday 
morning, chanting “FBI don’t scare me, we’ve got solidarity,” as they rallied 
in support of veteran Chicano activist Carlos Montes. Over 40 supporters packed 
the courtroom as Montes’ case began the ‘discovery’ phase. “We are demanding 
the communications, documents, and information that shows the collaboration of 
the FBI and LA County Sheriffs,” said Montes outside the hearing.
 
During this phase of the legal proceedings Jorge Gonzalez, Montes’ attorney, is 
working to establish that the FBI was behind every step of the attack on Montes.
 
The LA Sheriff’s department has confirmed that the May 17 raid on Montes’ home 
was initiated by the FBI. After Montes was arrested, he was questioned by 
plainclothes FBI agents – not about prior arrests or gun purchases (the stated 
pretext for the raid), but about his political activism and his relationship 
with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Montes maintains that he was 
targeted for his opposition to U.S. military aggression and his activism in 
solidarity with the people of Colombia and Palestine.
 
“I just can’t believe that the FBI think they can get away with crap like 
this,” said Joshua Taylor, a participant in Occupy LA. “These charges are 
clearly bogus, they’re an attack on the movement as a whole.” Taylor has been 
at Occupy LA for 22 days now, and says he came out to support Montes because 
“it could be any of us, we have to stand together.”
 
The discovery phase of Montes’ case will continue on December 14, at the Los 
Angeles Superior Court on Temple Street, Department 123 on the 13th floor.
 
Speaking in front of the courthouse, Mick Kelly, of the Committee to Stop FBI 
Repression, stated, “What is happening inside this courthouse is wrong. The 
U.S. government wants to put Carlos Montes  in jail for his anti-war and 
international solidarity activism. We cannot allow this to happen.”
 
Montes is part of a larger group of 24 activists around the country who have 
been hit by FBI repression and a federal grand jury investigation looking into 
“material support for terrorism.” Many of those activists, including Montes, 
were involved in organizing the massive protests at the 2008 Republican 
National Convention.
 


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[LAAMN] The Bonus Army

[scotpeden]

 Subject: The Bonus Army: How A Protest Led To The GI Bill : NPR

 Our history is not all "American and Apple Pie"!  But we did learn
 from this event.  Let's hope some big changes can be made in today's
 political culture.  H...

 
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/11/142224795/the-bonus-army-how-a-protest-led-to-the-gi-bill?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-2012




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[LAAMN] Fw: Obama,Cameron and Sarkozy Committed war crimes in Libya

[Romi Elnagar]

Dear all,


This story of atrocities by NATO troops in Libya is so horrible that I didn't 
believe it when I read it.  It was only after googling "Susan Lindauer," who is 
cited as the source, and reading her other expose's that I felt I could send 
this forward.  Please be warned that it is incredibly graphic and disturbing.

The article by Susan Lindauer which elaborates on this is at 
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/23/18682737.php n


Subject: Fw: Obama,Cameron and Sarkozy Committed war crimes in Libya











 
Obama,Cameron and Sarkozy 
Committed war crimes in Libya 
 
By Latheef  Farook  
 
So, finally the American, British and French crusaders, controlled by the 
international Jewry, have slaughtered Libya’s oppressive dictator Muammar 
Gaddafi, massacred innocent  people, raped and killed women and girls, 
destroyed the modern infrastructure   and pushed this most prosperous Muslim 
country in Africa into Stone Age.
 
These war crimes were committed not by Taliban or Al Qaeda but by American 
President Barack Obama, British Prime Munister David Cameron and French 
President Nicolai Sarkozy team with the active collaboration of Israel. Of 
course the Jewish controlled Western media won’t speak about these war crimes.
 
American led NATO AWACS spy plane spotted Gaddafi’s convoy. French Predator 
drones fired Hellfire missiles at the convoy killing at least 50 people among 
Qaddafi’s entourage .The British SAS thugs helped their mercenaries, Libyan 
revolutionaries, to capture, thrash and lynch Gaddafi before he was shot and 
killed.
According to reports Gaddafi   was seen walking after being dragged from a 
vehicle as heavily armed men repeatedly beat him.Gaddafi was dragged through 
the streets and paraded on a car through Misrata.Then he was pulled to the 
ground, dragged and shot in the head. Footage showed fighters rolling Gaddafi's 
lifeless body over on the pavement, stripped to the waist and a pool of blood 
under his head.  Later Gaddafi’s   dead body was displayed in a meat store 
freezer for more than four days before burying him in an unknown place.
If the American, Britain, France and of course Israeli war mongers wanted they 
could have   killed Gaddafi months before. However they delayed because they 
needed time to destroy the entire country.
 
In the process Obama, Cameroon and Sarkozi   mercilessly bombed and destroyed 
Libya and committed massacres while sadist NATO troops raped innocent Libyan 
women. 
 
Writing about the NATO troops gang raping of   Libyan Muslim women and girls 
Susan Lindauer, former US Asset covering Libya at the United Nations , had 
stated that” It's a story CNN won't report. Late at night there's a pounding on 
the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds 
at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush 
the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels—or else rape them in front of 
their husbands or fathers. When NATO rebels finish their rape sport, the 
soldiers cut the women's throats.
 
Susan Lindauer, herself a blue eyed Christian from the West added that “Rape 
parties" are the most graphic examples of NATO's loss of moral control. One 
weeping father told the fact-finding delegation how NATO rebels targeted seven 
separate households, kidnapping a virgin daughter from each pro-Gaddafi family. 
The rebels were paid for each kidnapped girl, just as they are paid for each 
Libyan soldier they kill— like mercenary soldiers. They hustled the girls into 
trucks, and took them to a building where the girls were locked in separate 
rooms. 
 
 
   
 Mother and daughter raped and murdered by NATO ‘rebels’ in Misurata
 
NATO soldiers proceeded to drink alcohol, until they got very drunk. Then the 
leader told them to rape the virgin daughters in gang bang style. When they'd 
finished raping the girls, the NATO leader told them to cut the breasts off the 
living girls and bring the breasts to him. They did this while the girls were 
alive and screaming. All the girls died hideous deaths. Then their severed 
breasts were taken to a local square and arranged to spell the word "whore." 
 
The grieving father spoke to a convention of workers, attended by the global 
fact-finding delegation. He was openly weeping, as all of us should. NATO's 
offenses in Libya are as terrible and unforgivable as Syria's castration and 
mutilation of the 13 year old boy that shocked the world. Yet so long as NATO's 
the guilty party, the western media has looked the other way in distaste.  
 
So much for the Obama-Cameron, Sarkozy barbarity to plunder Libyan wealth to 
please   oil companies, weapons industries, banking and finance sectors and all 
other corporate conglomerates.   
 
The US-Europe  committed this  heinous war crimes under  the pretext of  
Humanitarian Intervention to  protect  civilians  with the blessings of  Unit