[LAAMN] Venezuelan Government Commits to Resolving Indigenous Yukpa
[image: Sabino Romero, Yukpa chief murdered by hired killers Zulia Venezuela 2013] --- Venezuelan Government Commits to Resolving Indigenous Yukpa Land Issue Mar 26th 2013, by Tamara Pearson [image: Sabino Romero (archive)] Sabino Romero (archive) Merida, March 26th 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) Following the murder of indigenous Yukpa leader Sabino Romero three weeks ago, a committee of 17 Yukpa met yesterday with the minister for foreign affairs, Elias Jaua, who promised to make payments so their lands could be inhabited by them. The payments are to compensate land and building renovations made by cattle ranchers who are occupying 25 large land holdings that the Yukpa have legal collective titles to. On 12 October 2009 the government handed over collective property titles to Yukpa communities, and on 11 October 2011, then President Hugo Chavez publically announced the government would nationalise the 25 ranches, with a total area of 15,810 hectares. Then on 6 May last year Chavez announced the assignation of Bs 259 million to make those nationalisation payments. Jaua, representing the government, has promised the payments will be made within sixty days. Romero was murdered on 3 March and until now, no arrests have been made. Two local police have been detained for investigations, then released due to lack of evidence linking them with the crime. Last year seven Yukpa were also murdered by cattle ranchers or killers hired by them, and many more have been injured. Cattle ranchers have refused to hand over the land to the rightful owners, claiming they havent received payments for the land. In response, Yukpa people have occupied some of the large farms, and have been violently removed. So far, the murderers of the Yukpa remain unpunished. Romeros son, who shares the same name, told press after the meeting with Jaua that the Yukpa had demanded the government investigate the crime. Days after the murder however, the government said it had sent an investigation team to the region, including members of the national intelligence service SEBIN, and the criminal investigation body CICPC. Homo et Natura reported that the Yukpa are demanding a holistic investigation which includes the other seven Yukpa murdered. They also demanded that Captain Lopez and other soldiers be detained and judged, for allegedly allowing the two hired killers to flee on their motorbike after killing Sabino. Further, they requested that two other individuals be detained for allegedly beating Sabino and his family and making death threats. The Yukpa met with Zulia governor Francisco Arias last week, who then arranged the meeting with Jaua in Caracas. Jaua, previously vice-president of Venezuela, has also been minister for agriculture, and the director of the land institute, Inti. The Yukpa live in the Perija region of Zulia state. The region is one of Venezuelas key producers of milk and beef, and there are also certain mining interests there. -- *Source URL (retrieved on 27/03/2013 - 5:57am):* http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/8384 [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/laamn@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] Nicolás Maduro on the legacy of Comandante Chávez
http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/nicolas-maduro-on-the-legacy-of-comandante-chavez.html Nicolás Maduro on the legacy of Comandante Chávezhttp://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/nicolas-maduro-on-the-legacy-of-comandante-chavez.htmlMarch 26, 2013 Sabina Becker [image: maduro-panorama] The current (and sure to be future) president of Venezuela recently gave an interview http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n225643.html to the Venezuelan newspaper, Panorama, and shared some remarkable insights into Chavecitos illness, his last days, and the extensive preparations that lay behind it all: *When Nicolás Maduro talks about President Chávez his face changes, his eyes too, he swallows hard at times, like a son when talking about a father who is no longer there.* * Arent there risks of fractures within the PSUV to guarantee this triumph you speak of? We are in the best moment for motivation, commitment to the ideas of President Chávez, unity amongst ourselves on the politico-military team directing the revolution, among the most distinguished and recognized sectors of the revolution, we have a brotherly relationship. The blow of losing President Chávez has been terrible, tragic. I, personally, when I wake up in the mornings, I look at the ceiling and think of him, because every morning I got up with the days agenda and that was to call him. Its incredible because hes not there anymore physically, but that has motivated us a lot in taking on our responsibilities. Its not easy, because in effect Chávez is a giant and we are ordinary, common, run-of-the-mill people. The only thing that can fill the giant space of Chávez is the people, the other giant. There are those two giants and us, the articulators of the process which is complex but which will work out well. What our people did 200 years ago is hard to find in the universal history of humanity. President Chávez reawakened it. I remember once, in Lisbon, Portugal, when we were talking about this subject, because we were travelling a lengthy road and he said to me: Nicolás, what happened is that our people have always had in their genes the glory of the liberators. No one could take it from them, and that glory was only waiting for someone to press a button. Its like pressing a button for the genes to activate once more. He pressed the button of the liberatory genes of the Venezuelan people and that button made it possible to build all the consciousness on which this revolutionary process rests. There are radicalisms on both sides, especially in Chavismo now. There is so much emotion. Its a moment that demands responsibility from political actors. What will be your quota of responsibility? Everything, and weve already demonstrated it. Remember, since the day the president was operated, on December 11, we started. Review all the videos. Between Ernesto [Villegas] and myself, who were the official spokespeople, we started by sending a message of peace. We knew it was in the hearts of the people and we knew that the irresponsibility of the opposition, of some of its spokespeople, joking about the presidents illness, prognosticating and making fun of the possible death of the president, could have provoked in Venezuela a Bogotazo, a Gaitanazo. We faced that possibility every day, and we came out to tell the people and the Bolivarian National armed forces: peace, peace, peace. That day, March 5, we held a meeting because the doctors had told us that his symptoms were grave. That had already happened in December and January as well, and the Comandante had always overcome those symptoms but this time the doctors told us: Its a special situation now. We ourselves had always believed and prayed to God that he would recover again, because weeks before we had seen him in good spirits. We took precautions, we met with the Military High Command, the entire political-military directorate of the revolution met and we said: All right, we have to prepare. If it happened, we would have to deploy all the Armed Forces, all the directors of the revolution in all the states of Venezuela, to talk to the people and make sure that they, in their grief, would not fall into frustration and a desire for revenge. We were very close to that happening. On March 5, at 5:15 in the afternoon, I gave the news, that sad and painful news. I almost lost my voice, and when I was done telling the first part, I heard a cry, a scream, and I was afraid. I thought: The violence is exploding, the peoples anger. Fortunately, it was only a cry of grief. For that reason, when that gentleman candidate of the opposition, whom Ive called the Pharisee of the hour, the Pontius Pilate of the hour, started to mess with the President, we were in full mourning, holding a wake over the body of the Comandante, Hugo Chávez, and he started talking insanities about the day of the Comandantes death, meddling with his family, with the honor of our Comandante, with the moral purity of Hugo
[LAAMN] PHOTOS: Palestinian Christians protest Israeli permit regime during Palm Sunday procession
Activestills http://972mag.com/author/activestills/PHOTOS: Israeli forces demolish Palestinian camp built to protest Obama visithttp://972mag.com/photos-israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-camp-built-to-protest-obama-visit/68150/ http://972mag.com/photos-israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-camp-built-to-protest-obama-visit/68150/Published March 24, 2013 | 8 Comments http://972mag.com/photos-israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-camp-built-to-protest-obama-visit/68150/ The lie of 'state lands': Whitewashing the confiscation of Palestinian land http://972mag.com/the-lie-of-state-lands-whitewashing-the-confiscation-of-palestinian-land/68213/ --- http://972mag.com/photos-palestinian-christians-protest-permit-regime-during-palm-sunday-procession/68188/ By Activestills http://972mag.com/author/activestills/ |Published March 25, 2013PHOTOS: Palestinian Christians protest Israeli permit regime during Palm Sunday procession *During the annual Palm Sunday procession, Palestinian Christians protest permits delayed and denied during the Easter season.* Photos by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org http://972mag.com/photos-palestinian-christians-protest-permit-regime-during-palm-sunday-procession/68188/006-5/ In the annual Palm Sunday procession, Palestinian Christians carry signs naming their West Bank communities, all of which are cut off from Jerusalem by the Israeli separation barrier, requiring their residents to obtain special permits to enter, March 24, 2013. Such restrictions have dramatically reduced the number of Palestinians able to participate in religious traditions of any faith in Jerusalem. Whether during Ramadan or Easter, every year, Palestinians with West Bank IDs face challenges entering Jerusalem for religious worship. Despite claims by Israeli authorities of granting more permits and relaxing restrictions, each year thousands of worshipers are denied entry. This Easter season, early reports indicate that Palestinian Christian communities from the northern West Bank had to cancel their Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem due to a lack of permits. Parishes from the Bethlehem and Ramallah areas received between 30% and 40% of the permits they requested. One individual from the Bethlehem area lamented that while he was granted entry, the rest of his family was turned away at the checkpoint. Such arbitrary policies are typical with Israels permitting system, which rarely provides a coherent rationale for who is granted and who is denied, other the than the catch-all excuse of security reasons. PLO official Hanan Ashrawi was quoted as sayinghttp://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=578229 : There should not even be a question of needing permits to visit ones own city . East Jerusalem is the occupied capital of the Palestinian people and freedom of worship is a basic human right for all of our Christian and Muslim citizens; a right which is being systematically and increasingly denied by a foreign occupying force. The fact that so many Palestinian Christian communities are denied their simple human right to worship freely in their own capital city is unacceptable. Palestinian Christians and Muslims rightly ask why if they are granted special permission to visit Jerusalem for religious holiday seasonsand are at that time not considered a security threatwhy they are not allowed to freely visit throughout the year. The heavy Israeli military presence along the procession route contrasts with the original meaning of the holiday. Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem, marking the beginning of the Christian Holy Week. According to the Christian scriptures, Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, and the celebrating people there lay down their cloaks in front of him and waved palm branches as a symbol of victory. Additional symbolismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday included his choice to ride on a donkey, perhaps referring to Eastern traditions that it is an animal of peace, versus the horse, which is the animal of war. A king came riding upon a horse when he was bent on war and rode upon a donkey when he wanted to point out he was coming in peace. Jesus entry to Jerusalem would thus symbolize his entry as the Prince of Peace, not as a war-waging king. The Gospel of Lukehttp://www.biblestudytools.com/nrs/luke/passage.aspx?q=luke+19:41-42 also contains this prescient passage of Jesus entry into Jerusalem: As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. http://972mag.com/photos-palestinian-christians-protest-permit-regime-during-palm-sunday-procession/68188/001-6/ The procession begins at the Church of Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, also known as the Palm Sunday Church, which is located directly next to a Palestinian home that was demolished by Israeli authorities several
[LAAMN] Music and The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 9
https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=HOVcampaign Hands Off Venezuelahttps://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=HOVcampaign @HOVcampaign @*rebeldiaz* https://twitter.com/rebeldiaz rap from El Bronx, NYC, for Bolivarian Venezuelayoutube.com/watch?v=rKkveM http://t.co/sZP3TynKvk (via @*davidsegarra* https://twitter.com/davidsegarra ) * CAMPESINOS RAP y otro muscic * * * * http://www.iaem.gob.ve/index.php?option=com_musicview=albumalbum_id=9Itemid=206 * * * * * http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/the-ironies-of-the-venezuelan-opposition-part-9.html The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 9March 27, 2013 Sabina Becker [image: censorship-worst-thing] Good morning! And welcome to the latest edition of VenOpIronía, in which we find out that the Venezuelan opposition is now so Bolivarian, so very Chavista, that it is now doing exactly what it always (falsely) accused the Bolivarian, Chavista government of doing. Guess what that is http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n225736.html *Not asking questions of the right-wing candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski, is apparently the principal requisite which the media who wish to cover him must fulfill during press conferences given by the presidential aspirant in various parts of the country.* * So says the newspaper, Diario El Tiempo de Trujillo, which was allowed at a press conference on Tuesday on the condition that they not ask questions of the candidate. With a communiqué signed by the president of the papers editorial staff, José Luis Mazzari Velasco, and published on a full page of the paper, they announced their decision ot to cover the activity, owing to the fact that they invited us to a press conference where we were not allowed to ask questions. For the paper, the right-wing candidates activities inhibit freedom of expression. On March 13, the minister for Communication and Information, Ernesto Villegas, denounced the censorship of Capriles Radonski and his campaign command of the journalists and press crews of the Bolivarian System of Communication and Information (SIBCI), who were impeded from covering the event. It bears remembering that this was not only a veto, but an aggression as well. Last May, the VTV correspondent in the state of Guárico, Giovannina Guillén, was assaulted by Capriless bodyguards while covering his campaign in that state. That same month, the VTV correspondent for Barinas, Janeth Suárez, and her camera crew were also assaulted by Capriless men on a campaign stop in that state. * *In January of this year, journalist Pedro Carvajalino denounced an assault upon himself, again by Capriless bodyguards and by those of Metropolitan Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, before the Supreme Court (TSJ).* Translation mine. Yes, thats right, kiddies theyre censoring the news now.http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/the-ironies-of-the-venezuelan-opposition-part-8.html *Cero Chavismo en pantalla*, as they used to say during the coup of 02. No Chavismo on TV, or in the papers, or anywhere. Only in this case, the Chavismo is Majunchismo. And the censorship is the equivalent of an own goal in soccer. Boy, at this rate, theyll have that dead guy and his bus driver beat in no time! [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/laamn@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] Sign Petition Nominating Bradley Manning for The Nobel Peace Prize!
GRAPHIC: Roots Action logo header https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/RA_Header.jpg http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Rkn81T92cZUlfWatHmp6%2B3%2FxtJ2IWr1t http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=mc7RsYpH39ayiphhl1nZn3%2FxtJ2IWr1t This time, honor someone who's earned it! http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=6zpU8%2FzkuKAYeQe025LvCn%2FxtJ2IWr1t GRAPHIC: Sign here button http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=DQhya%2F9V4t5%2FQVBqB40P23%2FxtJ2IWr1t Share this action on Facebook http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=KCDeX1oCMssPyjvyYr134H%2FxtJ2IWr1t Share this action on Twitter http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=DGWS5BQRMjji7ODKikUQYn%2FxtJ2IWr1t Earlier this week, RootsAction sent out the email below, to announce a new petition urging a Nobel Peace Prize for Bradley Manning. The response was overwhelming. More than 15,000 people signed the petition in the first day, and the number keeps rising. Now, we're taking an unusual step, sending you this special email to ask: Please forward this email to people you know and lists you're on, perhaps with a cover note explaining why you think a Nobel Peace Prize for Bradley Manning is such an important idea. A lot more signers will be essential to create the kind of grassroots pressure we need. That's where you come in. We hope you'll forward this letter now. _ Whistleblower Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and he should receive it. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=3rEfFfhnAkXP2RXNlMY7TH%2FxtJ2IWr1t Let's help make that happen. No individual has done more to push back against what Martin Luther King Jr. called the madness of militarism than Bradley Manning. And right now, remaining in prison and facing relentless prosecution by the U.S. government, no one is more in need of the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel's will left funding for a prize to be awarded to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. The intent of the prize was to fund this work. As a result of enormous legal expenses, Bradley Manning is in need of that funding. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=3ybwZ5iWVsc6TrQOCbC0BX%2FxtJ2IWr1t Click here to help him get it. The people of the United States and the rest of the world have learned more about the intentions of the U.S. government from Bradley Manning than from anyone else. Thanks to Manning's alleged disclosures, we have a sense of what transpired in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have an image of how Washington operates in the world, author Chase Madar wrote in his book about Manning's whistleblowing. Just a few of the results: Thanks to those revelations we now know just how our government leaned on the Vatican to quell opposition to the Iraq War. We now know how Washington pressured the German government to block the prosecution of CIA agents who kidnapped an innocent man, Khaled El-Masri, while he was on vacation. We know how our State Department lobbied hard to prevent a minimum wage increase in Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest nation. Manning revealed a secret U.S. war in Yemen, U.S. records of massive civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, video of a U.S. helicopter attack on civilians and their rescuers in Baghdad, and facts about the corruption of numerous governments including those of the United States, Tunisia, and Egypt. In those last two nations Manning's revelations contributed to nonviolent pro-democracy movements. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=hb4RnKzOLp6uOyfD%2B3XtE3%2FxtJ2IWr1t While Manning sits in prison under dire conditions, we can let the Nobel committee know that we support his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Among the revelations made by Manning through WikiLeaks is the extent of time and energy the U.S. State Department puts into marketing U.S. weapons to the world's governments. We all have a better understanding of the work that is needed for peace as a result of this exposure of diplomacy as consisting so greatly of weapons selling. The Guardian newspaper and BBC Arabic detailed last week how the United States armed and trained Iraqi police commando units that ran torture centers and death squads. Maggie O'Kane, executive producer of the documentary, said: I hope this film will be a legacy that actually says, 'If you want to go to war, this is what war means. It means 14-year-old boys being hung up and tortured. It means men being turned on spits. And that's called counter-insurgency.' This would not be coming to light if it hadn't been for Bradley Manning. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=rIH7hm81if97Yegq7TQ9OH%2FxtJ2IWr1t Let's help someone who's earned it to
[LAAMN] Fwd: food justice news march 27
-- Forwarded message -- From: Frank Tamborello fr...@hungeractionla.org Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:59 PM Subject: food justice news march 27 To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com *To All Those Interested in Food and Justice... * * * A (usually) weekly update on food issues, promoting access to sufficient, affordable, healthy food ---with a focus on campaigns you can become active in! *Follow us *on Twitter @HungerActionLA . Welcome to all the new people on the list: please respond to fr...@hungeractionla.org if you wish to use a different e mail or be removed Like our new Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunger-Action-Los-Angeles/133467296826961 , replacing the old, rickety page that gave people access to my private account! ** ** ** ** *March 27, 2013: * * * ***1. Hunger Action LA Training April 26: Lets End the Criminalization of Poverty * ***2. Cornerstone Theater Presents Lunch Lady Courage March 28-April 13 * ***3. How WIC (Temporarily At Least) Beat The Sequester * ***4. The Monsanto Protection Act : US Congress Caves In To GE Food Pushers* ***5. Homeless Vet Ticketed Over A Donut In The Trash* ***6. Advocates Call for Restoration of CalWORKs* ***7. Minnesota Launches Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program* ***8. Healthy Food Just Aint Our Thing * ***9. Support Sick Days for Workers 10. **Fighting for Living Wage in DC*** ** ** ** * * *1. Hunger Action LA Training April 26: Lets End the Criminalization of Poverty* ** ** The next HALA Monthly Meeting, Friday April 26 at LAANE , 464 S Lucas, from 10 am to 12 noon will be a training on the current California proposals aimed at ending the criminalization of poverty, including but not limited to AB 5 (the Homeless Bill of Rights) and SB 283 (the Successful Re-Entry and Access to Jobs bill). The training will not just cover bill information, but how to successfully communicate with your public officials, the media, and your friends and neighbors about important issues such as these. SB 283 has a Facebook page you should check out: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Successful-Re-entry-SB-283/227210493968835 ** ** ** ** *** ** ** *2. Cornerstone Theater Presents Lunch Lady Courage March 28-April 13* * * From our colleague Elizabeth Medrano of the Healthy School Food Coalition: I would like to invite, to encourage you, to go see Lunch Lady Courage, a play by Cornerstone Theater Company. ** ** In the fall of 2012 I met Peter Howard from Cornerstone and shared about the work we do on school food policy in LAUSD. He came with me to schools to meet parents. Then he followed me, notebook and pen in hand to meetings with teachers and Cafeteria visits. The idea was to have a deeper understanding about school food, to talk about it and to share it with others through theater. It is such an honor and delight to see school food and cafeterias as a central focus of this play, the third in The Hunger Cycle Plays by Cornerstone. ** ** This play not only elevates the conversation about school food, but it educates the audience and brings about the varied complex perspectives school folk, and others, have about food, nutrition and health. In addition, this play has the direct participation of students as most of the cast are LA High School for the Arts (LAHSA) students! What a great and appealing combo school food, youth and art! What a taste! ** ** TELL EVERYONE you know and COME OUT together to the Cocoanut Grove Theater at the Robert F. Kennedy Campus. ** ** THE PLAY: When Ana, aka Lunch Lady Courage, arrives at an urban campus with her food cart of healthy Grab n Go meals, she doesnt expect to find a shadow economy. Donuts and candy sales raise funds for student clubs, an enterprising student peddles homemade tortas from his backpack, and a teacher sells Hot Cheetos to pay for classroom necessities.Inspired by Bertolt Brechts Mother Courage and her Children and the people working and learning in Los Angeles schools, Lunch Lady Courage explores what happens when one cafeteria worker battles for the future and health of her own children, and the hundreds she serves every day. ** ** *Performances:* March 28, 2013 April 13, 2013 Thursdays Saturdays @ 7:30 PM Student Performances: Wednesdays April 3 April 10 @ 4:30 p.m. *Location:* Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools Cocoanut Grove Theatre*** * 701 S. Catalina St. Los Angeles, CA 90005 Tickets and More Details about Parking, etc: http://cornerstonetheater.org/lunchladycourage/
[LAAMN] ACTIVIST SUPPORT CIRCLE PUBLIC FORUM TONIGHT~ Wednesday, March 27th, 7:00 PM ~ At Friends Meeting Hall in Santa Monica ~ FROM THREE MILE ISLAND TO SAN ONOFRE: REIGNITING A NO-NUKES CONSCIOUSN
NEXT ACTIVIST SUPPORT CIRCLE PUBLIC FORUM TONIGHT FROM THREE MILE ISLAND TO SAN ONOFRE: REIGNITING A NO-NUKES CONSCIOUSNESS ON EVE OF THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR TRAGEDY Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 Program at 7:00 PM - Refreshments at 6:30 PM At Friends Meeting Hall 1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica 90404 At the forum, anti- nuclear activist leaders will lead a broad and very personal discussion touching on Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Diablo Canyon and current efforts to shut San Onofre. This Free Forum will take place the eve before the anniversary of the March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island near meltdown. The Activist Support Circle is an ongoing open support group for progressive activists that started in February, 2005 to help guard against activist burnout, and to provide an opportunity for activists to share their activist related fears and frustrations, as well as their hopes and aspirations in a safe and supportive environment. For Further Information Contact Jerry Rubin: 310-399-1000 or: activistsupportcir...@earthlink.net [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/laamn@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] Peasant Reserve Zones in Colombia: Between Magical Realism and Revolutionary Praxis
[image: PM Press]https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detailp=511 [image: NACLA Store Advertisement] https://nacla.org/store Home https://nacla.org/ » Blogs https://nacla.org/blog » nazih.richani's blog https://nacla.org/blogs/nazihrichani » Peasant Reserve Zones in Colombia: Between Magical Realism and Revolutionary Praxis Peasant Reserve Zones in Colombia: Between Magical Realism and Revolutionary Praxis Nazih Richani https://nacla.org/nacla-bloggers#Nazih Cuadernos Colombianos https://nacla.org/node/7328 March 27, 2013 [image: Printer-friendly version] https://nacla.org/print/8928[image: Send by email] https://nacla.org/printmail/8928 The three thousand peasants that participated in the third encounter of the National Association of Peasant Reserve Zones, which took place in San Vicente del Caguán in the department of Caquetá last Friday, were an important impetus to the FARCs proposal of expanding these reserved zones from 830,000 hectares to 9.5 millions hectares. FARCs proposal and this meeting demonstrate the dialectics between the negotiation in Havana and the popular mobilizationa rare phenomena in a peace negotiation processes. Such an example must be seen within the context of involving a wider cross-section of intellectuals, experts, and organizations into the talks. The National University and UNDP has achieved this by collecting proposal and inquiries about the agrarian question. The same format will be followed before commencing negotiation for the second item on the agenda in early April: Political Participationhttp://anncol.eu/index.php/colombia/insurgencia/farc-ep/comunicados-de-las-farc-ep/2086-marzo-22-gobierno-y-las-farc-ya-estan-preparando-el-2o-punto-de-la-agenda-de-paz-en-la-habana-e-invitan-al-pueblo-de-participar-en-un-nuevo-foro-en-bogota. During the previous peace negotiations that took place in 1998-2002, the FARC also called for participation but without a clear agenda like the one that was defined this time around by the warring parties. Now, the creation of Peasant Reserve Zones would mean expanding the areas of agricultural production to an area that is less than 4 million hectares, including permanent crops. [image: 1629] Photo Credit: Transnational Institute If the expansion of reserved zones with legal, cultural, environmental, and economic protection against big capital ever becomes a reality, it will chart a new path of development based on the peasant small economy where by Magical Realism and revolutionary praxis create a new reality setting a global example for development. The challenges, however, are enormous. Alonso Lozano, a participant in the mentioned encounter and peasant leader of the Patriotic Marchhttp://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/hasan-dodwell/patriotic-march-and-struggle-for-peace-in-colombiathat took place in 2012 to bring attention to social and agrarian issues, was kidnapped and his whereabouts are unknown as of this writing. Another peasant leader, Gustavo Adolfo Pizo García, was killedhttp://www.elespectador.com/noticias/judicial/articulo-412640-un-lider-campesino-fue-asesinado-y-otro-desaparecidoon March 25. As president of the Association of Peasant Workers of Totoró (Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Totoró) Pizo García was active in the creation and expansion of the Peasant Reserved Zones in the department of Cauca. Disappearing and killing peasant leaders have been standard operating procedure of state agents and their allies (paramilitaries and large landowners) since the early 1920s. Between January and September 2012, 37 human rights activists, most of whom were peasant leaders according to United Nation Human Right Commissioner Office, were killed. On an even more troubling note, between 2006 and 2011, 71 peasant leaders were killed as well. The expansion, or not, of the Peasant Reserved zones will be determined by the violent dialectic between Magic Realism and revolutionary praxis. -- *Nazih Richani is the Director of Latin American studies at Kean University. He blogs at nacla.org/blog/cuadernos-colombianoshttp://nacla.org/blog/cuadernos-colombianos. .* [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
[LAAMN] Fw: South Dakota tribes file lawsuit over removal of Native American children from homes
AP: South Dakota tribes file lawsuit over removal of Native American children from homes South Dakota routinely violates the federal law governing foster care and adoptions for American Indian children by holding improper hearings after children are removed from homes, two tribes allege in a lawsuit filed Thursday. The Oglala Sioux and Rosebud Sioux Tribes, along with three Native American parents, filed the lawsuit in federal court in Rapid City, alleging the state is violating the Indian Child Welfare Act. The lawsuit is part of an ongoing dispute about Native American children in foster care in South Dakota. MPR: Native American artists take back the headdress When Dyani White Hawk Polk asked a group of artists for work for her exhibition Make it Pop, she was looking for contemporary pieces responding to issues of the day. We've had somber exhibits, politically driven, fine art, says White Hawk Polk, sitting at her desk in All My Relations Gallery. I wanted this to feel more playful and cutting edge, something that really speaks to our youth and people interested in pop culture as well as fine art lovers. AP: Tribe: Nevada coal plant falsified pollution data Representatives of an Indian tribe fighting to force the closure of a coal-fired power plant outside Las Vegas said Wednesday they uncovered evidence that from 2006 to 2011, the state's dominant electric utility submitted phony reports to the state about pollution levels near the plant, and avoided any penalty when the problem was discovered. Moapa Band of Paiute Indians President William Anderson accused NV Energy of deceiving the state and the tribe's approximately 320 members by submitting false reports to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection about airborne pollution levels near the Reid Gardner Generating Station. NSF: Native Americans Trained to Address Environmental Problems on Their Lands Native Americans are disproportionately vulnerable to the varied impacts of climate change on natural resources. Why? Because the livelihoods and cultures of Native Americans are, in many ways, inextricably linked to their natural resources. American Indian Model Schools charter revoked in Oakland Supporters of the American Indian Model Schools hold signs before the start of a Oakland Unified School District special meeting to pull the charter of the American Indian Model Schools in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. [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/laamn@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] Marxists and Morality
http://www.marxist.com/marxists-and-morality.htm Marxists and Morality http://www.marxist.com/marxists-and-morality.htm Written by Marie FrederiksenWednesday, 27 March 2013 [image: Print] http://www.marxist.com/marxists-and-morality/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,fa02942ffc151b1716f3c6f905c0d1807197e0cb/tmpl,component/ http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/art/delacroix_liberty.jpgWhat is moral and what is amoral in the struggle for the transformation of society? 75 years ago Leon Trotsky wrote his masterpiece *Their Morals and Ourshttp://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm *, in which he explained that morality is one of the key ideological components in the class struggle. [image: delacroix liberty]http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/art/delacroix_liberty.jpg *Liberty Leading the People* a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the otherThe ruling class forces its ends upon society and habituates it into considering all those means which contradict its ends as immoral. That is the chief function of official morality. It pursues the idea of the greatest possible happiness not for the majority but for a small and ever diminishing minority. Such a regime could not have endured for even a week through force alone. It needs the cement of morality. (Leon Trotsky, *Their Morals and Ourshttp://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm **, *1938) The class struggle cannot be reduced to a question of mere economics and that is why Marxism deals with all spheres of life. Capitalism today finds itself in an organic crisis. It is an economic crisis based on the fact that capitalism as a system cannot take production forward. We have millions who are unemployed while factories and machines are standing still. And this is happening not because we do not need what could be produced, but because the capitalists cannot sell everything that the system has the capacity to produce and therefore cannot create enough profit for the capitalist class. This crisis in the economy leads to a general crisis in society and a crisis in the regimes that govern society state corruption, political scandals, sex scandals in the church and the illegal intrusion by the media into peoples private lives. In short, the crisis in the economy is also expressed as a crisis of morality. Hypocrisy Open the papers any day in any western country and you will find someone moaning about the lack of morality in society. In Denmark the government is planning to cut student grants and to prepare the ground for this attack the students are portrayed as being greedy and selfish. There is also a constant campaign about social fraud aimed at stigmatising all those who are on the dole. And when young peoples anger and frustration come to the surface and leads to street protests, there is a hue and cry about the end of morality, as was the case during the riots in Britain in the summer of 2011. Look at all the cars burned and shops plundered! they cry. As Marxists we do not believe that looting and burning cars is the way to solve the problems of the youth. It does not change anything quite the opposite. However, we do not add our voices to those who simply complain about the unruly youth. Our task is neither to weep nor laugh, but to understand. We first ask the question: what lies behind these outbursts of anger and violence? Beneath the surface we see the building up of an enormous frustration with a society that discriminates between the haves and have-nots, a society that offers no future for a whole generation. And secondly we have to ask: who are these moral hypocrites who moan about the lack of morality? The top layers of this society are rotten to the core. Every day in the same papers you see one scandal after another involving the Establishment. In 2009 we had the scandal of British MPs who had claimed large amounts of public money as expenses to refurbish luxury flats, pay for non-existent premises and even repair moats around castles! In Spain, the ruling party PP is now involved in a corruption scandal. Not to speak of the Spanish royal family. While massive attacks were being carried out on the Spanish working class, King Juan Carlos was on a £20,000safari in Africa hunting elephants (a protected species). In Britain the media itself has also been exposed as being completely rotten. They hacked the mobile phone of a murdered teenage girl, bribed police officers, and suborned and blackmailed the holders of the Highest Office in the Land. And then we have the bankers and finance speculators who literally make money by cheating people. In the light of all this, it is easy to see that those who cry out about the amorality of a
[LAAMN] . A visualization of all documented drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004
Out of Sight, Out of Mind. A visualization of all documented drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. http://fb.me/2DCFE0A9A http://t.co/Gse2t1jKT0 click on url: http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/ [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/laamn@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] Fw: Fwd: Memphis will host its KKK rally on March 30!!
- Forwarded Message - From: V Alba panama.a...@gmail.com (NOEL - THATNational Emergency Center for Police Brutality and Racist Attacks that I spoke about in 2009 might be acted upon now) fyi From Mary Neal and FB friends The NAACP and Sons of Confederate Veterans shook hands and agreed to ignore the Klan rally in Memphis on March 30. Brother Lorenzo and others disagree. The Memphis Black Autonomy Federation and Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutalitydecided to hold an an anti-rally. A fugitive warrant was issued for Bro. Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervinfrom a past protest (12 years ago in Nashville), which seems to be a ploy to get him out of the way and behind bars while the Klan holds its rally. A difficult situation. HISTORY: A brief biography for Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, former Black Panther Party member and internationally known freedom fighter, is available in BuggStories blog at the link below. The article gives information on the criminal charges lodged 12 years ago that gave rise to the fugitive warrant that may be used to punish Ervin for organizing people against police violence in Memphis and for planning the anti-Klan rally for March 30. This harassment is coming now in order to disrupt the Anti-Klan Protest on March 30 that the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation initiated, with the creation of the Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality.The mayor and the police think that if they arrest Lorenzo, that will stop the protest. It will not. Here 's what you can do to help. Complain to the police and the mayor about our harassment: 1. Call Memphis Police Department Director Toney Armstrong at (901)636-3700. 2, Email your complaint to the police at m...@memphispolice.org. 3. Call Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, (901)636-6000. 4. Email your complaint to Wharton at ma...@memphistn.gov. Love and struggle, JoNina and Lorenzo Ervin Acting Chair and Acting Vice Chair (respectively) Memphis Black Autonomy Federation ** One can tweet the Memphis Police Department at @mpdMemphis. They have not tweeted since 2009, but the Twitter account is open at https://twitter.com/mpdMemphis . Additional articles in the Memphis Klan rally series include: 1. Memphis Hosts KKK Rally March 30 http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/memphis-hosts-kkk-rally-march-2013.html 2. Memphis Anti-Klan Protest March 30 http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2013/02/memphis-anti-klan-protest-march-30-2013.html -- Vicente Panama' Alba panama.a...@gmail.com Tel # 917 626 5847 Lets Be Realistic Lets Do The Impossible Ernesto Che Guevara [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/laamn@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] Which anti Citizen Legislation does your Phone habits support?
I got my CREDO mobile phone bill today, and in it was the accounting for the yearly donations they made, using money we gave them for our phone service. Last year it was $2,841,754, towards causes or organizations, we the customers told them we wanted the donations to go to. Since I left ATT over them using money I gave them for service, to get legislation approved to spy on me, and then sell my information to not only other corporations, but to the government, I took a hard look at, did I need their service at all? A cell phone is not essential for me, but it did increase my ability to make money. Last year ATT Political influence spending was down to about 23.5 million from about 26 Million. They are the 10th largest Investor in donations to influence legislation, AND EVERY PENNY COMES FORM THOSE US US THAT GIVE IT TO THEM FOR OTHER SERVICES. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D00076 Here are the politicians that DIRECTLY BENEFIT form approving favorable legislation for ATT, as they are Share Holders. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D00076#invested Verizon on the other hand, only ranks #14 in those who use Tax Deductible Donations as a way to influence legislation, and of course they get that money from their customers too. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?cycle=2012id=D00079 Since they were backing the same spying on Americans that ATT was, I surely wasn't just going to go with the lesser of the evils, as a few of us are aware, the lesser of evils, IS ALSO EVIL. I wasn't interesting in forwarding the agenda of EVIL agasint my own best interests. Even more Federal Politicians own shares of Verizon and profit from everything Verizon profits from, in legislation approved by the shareholders, er I mean the Federal Politicains. Of our 300 or so Federal Politicians, 85 of them profit directly by favorable legislation for these 2 companies. None of that profits us on the other hand, we are the ones that supply the money for their profits, whether we want to or not. CREDO/Working Assets on the other hand, ranks 262 of 20,968 political contributors, and even then... those donations were from Working Assets employees, not the company themselves. 0 Politicians own shares of Credo. So if they aren't funding the DNC or the RNC who are they funding? http://www.credomobile.com/Mission/nonprofit-donations-current.aspx And how do they decide who to fund? They ask their members what percentage of the donations they want to go to the areas WE recommended. http://www.credomobile.com/Mission/Progressive-Social-Change.aspx OK, so the Credo 2.8 million dollars isn't much agasint the combined 40 million a year from Verizon and ATT. But I helped to defund ATT by leaving them, and I enabled Credo to use much of that amount in a manner I am happier with, not 100% but it's not 100% angry as I am with ATT and Verizon, that's for sure! I feel better, not having to look at spying legislation agasint you and I, and knowing, I'm helping to fund that. Your choice. A disclaimer. Credo uses Sprint, and Verizon as a roll over. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D00179 Nope,. it's not perfect, but it is a vast improvement over what my money financed 1.5 years ago when I was still with ATT. If you've got other ideas how to use our consumer dollars to defund those who invest the profits from us, agasint our own best interests, or invest them in those that do represent what we want, please share them. Scott --- 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/laamn@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
[LAAMN] Commemorating Palestinian Land Day in Los Angeles ~ Demonstration Outside the Israeli Consulate ~ Friday, March 29th, 3:00 to 7:00 PM ~ 11766 Wilshire Blvd, West LA ~ Sponsored by: Al-Awda Los
Commemorating Palestinian Land Day in Los Angeles Please join Al-Awda Los Angeles/Orange County/Riverside and San Diego chapters in commemorating DAY of the LAND. It is our duty to continue the struggle until all Palestinians get their complete, unequivocal, and indisputable rights. We will have a demonstration in front of the Israeli Consulate. Join Us Commemorating Palestinian DAY of the LAND! WHEN: This Friday March 29th - 3:00 to 7:00 PM WHERE: Outside Israeli Consulate - 11766 Wilshire Blvd, West Los Angeles 90025 - (West of Barrington Ave. and East of Bundy Dr.) SPONSORED BY: Al-Awda Los Angeles/Orange County/Riverside and San Diego Chapters FACEBOOK EVENT RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/269308646535702 https://www.facebook.com/events/269308646535702/?ref=22 [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/laamn@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/
