Re: [LAAMN] Media gets targeted by Obama, discovers no one cares except the media

[scotpeden]

Actually it is the medias, as well as holly-woods job, to distract and
entertain the general public.

The most successful predecessor of this was Rome's Coliseum, bundled with
the Big Business of the day controlling all the town criers.

All successful Fascist/Imperalist operating countries know the public must
be distracted, information must actually be disinformation, they lie even
when the truth would work best, and the public who then get a headache
must be entertained so they stay the hell out of what the government is
doing for those they actually represent IN ACTION, or the people would
revolt and drag their non representatives butts into the street, for some
one on one communications, even though all those who ensured we got
terrible representatives, would never ever come to light and be able to go
off and start this successful ruse all over again, usually starting with
the 'news' that only they or one of their factions can save us, form the
results of their last actions, though your not allowed to know your
revolting against them.

There are several really good example in history of this happening, as
when the mega business persons of Greece could no longer get the Greeks to
in-debt themselves to these men, they went and invested in Rome, who came
and enslaved the Greeks.

Each and ever bit of Main Stream Media that you get, that gets to you
emotionally, whether with disgust or entertainment value, is designed to
keep you off track of who is really doing what.

The so called Free Press, is NOT A FREE PRESS, it is not funded or
answerable to you and I, it is a CORPORATE PRESS, and CORPORATIONS are the
ones that MAKE THEIR PAYROLL. Those Corporations answer to a very few
number of men, most whose names never ever get into the press. Those who
are the figure heads, are as expendable to them should the general
population revolt, as your probably already aware of, how expendable you
are to them.

Most of us would never believe that till it slams us in the face, as after
all, we've all shared equally in the indoctrination of Free Press, and a
Nationalist attitude of a God Fearing, Just Nation of Laws... which
operates any way except that, note that the elite don't get fines or jail
time like you and I would. Take bankers and Wall street and mortgage
brokers at national level for a small instance.

Every word we utter that supports the notion we've got a free press as the
CORPORATE Press, is more willful self imprisonment. The Corporate Press
tells us the same things that those who control those in major office,
will tell us. We've got a small number of multi national mega corporations
run by probably less then 20 men, who are all vying for world control via
military supremacy and economic control.

Seriously, you don't need to aid them by thinking their press, is
responsible to you, and calling it a free press unless you feel self
imprisonment is what free people should do.

Scott

> Welcome to the Freakshow
> Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media
> by BETHANIA PALMA MARKUS
> I was watching the local network news one recent evening because
> apparently I like to torture myself. And what were they reporting on?
> Michael Jackson. My hometown paper, the Los Angeles Times, also ran a
> story that day, May 22, 2013, about Michael Jackson.
> Don’t get me wrong. Jackson is and deserves to be a cultural icon.
> That’s fine. But he died four years ago, so why is it still in the news?
> Can anyone explain to me why mainstream American news outlets are still
> “breaking” news with obsessive zeal
> about a 4-year-old story that has no bearing on anyone’s life?
> Maybe it’s journalistic laziness or whoring to the public’s base
> desire for sensationalism and depraved celebrity gossip. But the news
> media has a role to play and it’s not entertainment.
> This leads me to more salient matters. While my local press corps was
> babbling about some ancient history-Michael Jackson-related minutia
> bullshit, another media storm was brewing. Apparently the Associated
> Press and Fox News recently found themselves on the business end of the
> Obama Administration’s hostility toward journalists. The AP learned the
> Justice Department searched troves of their phone records. Meantime, Fox
> News’ James Rosen had his personal email account scoured by the DOJ and
> he’s being called an “aider and abettor” and “co-conspirator” in
> a
> criminal case regarding classified document leaks.
> So now, all of a magical sudden, the news media in this country seem
> to be waking up. After years of either promoting or ignoring George W.
> Bush’s, then Obama’s constant infringements on the civil liberties of
> average Americans, the media suddenly think it’s a scandal now that
> they’re the butt of it. But while the AP and Fox News aren’t the
> first,
> they’ve never caused a stir about the U.S. government’s abuse of
> journalists until it hit them in the face.
> 

[LAAMN] Media gets targeted by Obama, discovers no one cares except the media

[Romi Elnagar]

Welcome to the Freakshow
Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media
by BETHANIA PALMA MARKUS
I was watching the local network news one recent evening because 
apparently I like to torture myself. And what were they reporting on? 
Michael Jackson. My hometown paper, the Los Angeles Times, also ran a 
story that day, May 22, 2013, about Michael Jackson.
Don’t get me wrong. Jackson is and deserves to be a cultural icon. That’s fine. 
But he died four years ago, so why is it still in the news? Can anyone explain 
to me why mainstream American news outlets are still “breaking” news with 
obsessive zeal 
about a 4-year-old story that has no bearing on anyone’s life?
Maybe it’s journalistic laziness or whoring to the public’s base 
desire for sensationalism and depraved celebrity gossip. But the news 
media has a role to play and it’s not entertainment.
This leads me to more salient matters. While my local press corps was babbling 
about some ancient history-Michael Jackson-related minutia 
bullshit, another media storm was brewing. Apparently the Associated 
Press and Fox News recently found themselves on the business end of the 
Obama Administration’s hostility toward journalists. The AP learned the 
Justice Department searched troves of their phone records. Meantime, Fox News’ 
James Rosen had his personal email account scoured by the DOJ and he’s being 
called an “aider and abettor” and “co-conspirator” in a 
criminal case regarding classified document leaks.
So now, all of a magical sudden, the news media in this country seem 
to be waking up. After years of either promoting or ignoring George W. 
Bush’s, then Obama’s constant infringements on the civil liberties of 
average Americans, the media suddenly think it’s a scandal now that 
they’re the butt of it. But while the AP and Fox News aren’t the first, 
they’ve never caused a stir about the U.S. government’s abuse of 
journalists until it hit them in the face.
Yemeni investigative reporter Abdulelah Haider Shaye, who exposed a 
deadly U.S. bombing that killed dozens of women and children in the 
village of Majala, is sitting in prison after being convicted for 
terror-related charges in sham proceedings condemned by human rights 
groups worldwide. Thanks to public pressure, Shaye was about to be 
pardoned in 2011.
But in February that year, Obama personally called Yemen’s president 
and “expressed concern” over Shaye’s pending release, according to a 
White House summary of the phone call. As a result, Shaye continues to 
sit in prisons for doing his job as a reporter. He isn’t the only one. 
Under Bush, Al Jazeera journalist and cameraman Sami Al Hajj spent seven years 
in Gitmo. Pulitzer Prize winner Bilal Hussein was detained for 
two years by the U.S. military for doing his job – with cheerleading by 
the same right-wing blogosphere now howling over the attack on Fox’s 
Rosen.
I don’t recall any major news outlets reporting these cases despite 
the fact they’re obviously outrageous. In fact the first I heard of 
Hussein and Al-Hajj was in reading this eye-opening run-down in 
Salon.com by Glenn Greenwald. 
(http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/obamas_personal_role_in_a_journalists_imprisonment/)
I can personally recall recent instances where my local media corps 
sold out the public and kowtowed to authorities in direct opposition to 
their duties, causing members of the public to pay a painful price. When Occupy 
L.A. was raided at City Hall in November 2011, the Los Angeles 
Police Department told the media that they couldn’t cover it unless they were 
hand-selected by the LAPD. No one, not even the big dog in the 
room, the LA Times, took them to task on this, even though it was 
obviously unconstitutional.
Meantime the TV stations shut off their aerial camera feeds upon 
order by the LAPD. The result of this was, people were beaten and abused while 
in custody. Protesters had bones broken. But none of this made it into public 
view. Instead, reporters swarmed the next-day presser, 
eager to pepper the powerful with pandering, meaningless questions and 
hear the police chief and mayor crow about how smoothly things went. I 
guess it was smooth if you didn’t have your arm fractured by a bean bag 
gun, your ribs broken by a baton, or forced to piss on yourself while in 
custody. 
(http://egpnews.com/2011/12/reports-of-police-abuse-emerge-after-occupy-la-eviction/)
A similar thing happened during the Chris Dorner saga this February. 
At the culmination of their pursuit, with former LAPD officer Dorner 
pinned down in a Big Bear cabin, police told news outlets with aerial 
feeds to stop filming, so they did. We all know what happened next, 
because people listening to scanners had the presence of mind to record. The 
cops commenced with an apparently pre-planned “burn.” They fired 
incendiary devices into the cabin and Dorner burned inside. Would they 
have given that order if the news choppers were still filming overhead? 
Probab

[LAAMN] Fw: USGP-INT Obama rebrands Bush-Cheney plan for perpetual war (Glen Ford; Glenn Greenwald)

[Romi Elnagar]

Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game


President Obama’s perpetual scam machine is in high gear – which signals 
another expansion of war and war-powers accumulation. The president played the 
reluctant warrior who doesn’t really want the limitless powers he has arrogated 
to himself. But, what he’s seeking is formal authorization to escalate the U.S. 
offensive against world order and civil liberties.

BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Agenda Report
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/perpetual-war-%E2%80%93-and-obama%E2%80%99s-perpetual-con-game


Barack Obama is a master trickster, a shape-shifter, and a methodical liar. The 
man who has arrogated to himself the right to kill at will, anywhere on the 
globe, accountable only to himself, based on secret information and classified 
legal rationales, now says he is determined that Washington’s “perpetual war” 
must one day end – sometime in the misty future after he is long gone from 
office. He informed his global audience of potential victims that he had signed 
a secret agreement (with himself?) that would limit drone strikes to targets 
that pose “a continuing, imminent threat to Americans” and cannot be captured – 
a policy that his White House has always claimed (falsely) to be operative. He 
promises to be more merciful than before, “haunted” as he is by all the 
nameless deaths, although he admits to having done no wrong.

He is a man of boundless introspection, inviting us to ride with him on his 
wildly spinning moral compass. But, most of all, he is not George Bush – of 
that we can be certain, if only because he is younger and oratorically gifted 
and Black. “Beyond Afghanistan,” he said, “we must define our effort not as a 
boundless ‘global war on terror,’ but rather as a series of persistent, 
targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that 
threaten America.” Thus, magically, he redefined the U.S. war on terror out of 
existence (in perpetuity) by breaking the conflict down to its daily, 
constituent parts, while simultaneously affirming that America will soon travel 
“beyond Afghanistan” despite the fact that many thousands of Special Operations 
troops will continue their round the clock raids in the countryside while 
drones rain death from the skies for the foreseeable future.

Such conflicts, we must understand, are necessitated by the “imminence” of 
threats posed to U.S. security, as weighed and measured by secret means. His 
Eminence is the sole judge of imminence. He is also the arbiter of who is to be 
detained in perpetuity, without trial or (public) charge, for “association” 
with “terrorists” as defined by himself. He has no apologies for that.

America must turn the page on the previous era, because “the threat has shifted 
and evolved from the one that came to our shores on 9/11.” A reevaluation is in 
order, since “we have to recognize that the scale of this threat closely 
resembles the types of attacks we faced before 9/11.” In that case, why not 
call for repeal of the layers of war on terror legislation that have 
accumulated over the last 12 years, including Obama's own NDAA preventive 
detention bill? Or, he could simply renounce these measures and refuse to 
employ them as a matter of policy. Instead, the president defended his own 
maximalist interpretation of the law, and claimed that the legal basis for his 
kill-at-will authority is firmly rooted in the Congress’s 2001 Authorization of 
Military Force (AMUF). Although he made vague reference to changes that 
Congress might make in the AMUF, there was no substantive indication that he 
sought to impose restrictions on his own or any
other president's authority to wage war precisely as he has for the last four 
years.

Obama’s blanket interpretation of AMUF – the legal logic - had previously been 
considered a state secret. It was news to much of the U.S. Senate, too, until 
assistant secretary of defense Michael Sheehan, in charge of special operations 
(death squads) at the Pentagon, told lawmakers earlier this month that the AMUF 
allows Obama to put “boots on the ground” anywhere he chooses, including “Yemen 
or the Congo,” if his classified logic compelled him to do so.

The senators were stunned – although it is no secret that Obama has already put 
U.S. Special Forces boots on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 
Uganda, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan, and has sent a combat 
brigade on permanent posting on the continent. Central Africa is one part of 
the world in which al Qaida has found little traction. The purported “bad guy” 
hiding in the bush, Joseph Kony, is the Christian leader of the remnants of the 
Lord’s Resistance Army. Obama authorized the deployment under the doctrine of 
Humanitarian Military Intervention, or Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a 
war-making notion that is, at best, ill-defined under international law and 
non-existent in U.S. statutes. However, if Obama i

[LAAMN] ANDY LIPKIS, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF TREEPEOPLE, TO BE FEATURED GUEST SPEAKER AT JUNE 26 ACTIVIST SUPPORT CIRCLE IN SANTA MONICA

[Jerry Rubin]

> 
> Dear Friends, Tree Lovers & Fellow Environmental Activists:  Hope you can 
> attend on June 26 and can share this event information with others.  Thank 
> you!
> 
> ACTIVIST & MEDIA ADVISORY
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> Contact: Jerry Rubin   310-399-1000
> jerrypeaceactivistru...@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> TreePeople Founder Andy Lipkis to be Featured Speaker at June 26 Activist 
> Support Circle 
> 
> Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013
> Time: 7:00PM Program ; 6:30PM Refreshments
> Location: Santa Monica Friends Meeting Hall   1440 Harvard Street, Santa 
> Monica 90404  
> 
> Featured Guest Speaker: Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople
> 
> Andy Lipkis is a practical visionary who has dedicated his life to healing 
> the environment while improving the lives of individuals and communities. At 
> the age of 15, Andy took up the challenge to save the forests, even though he 
> was "just" a teenager. That summer of 1970, the year of the first Earth Day, 
> he organized fellow campers to plant a grove of smog-tolerant seedlings in 
> what had been a dirt lot. Along the way, they planted the seeds of an 
> organization that grew into TreePeople. He founded TreePeople in 1973 and 
> continues to serve as its President.
> 
> The event is free to the public and there is free on-site parking.
> 
> The Activist Support Circle is an ongoing open support group for progressive 
> activists that started in February, 2005 to help guard against activist 
> burnout.
> 
> For further event information call 310-399-1000 or email 
> activistsupportcir...@earthlink.net. The website is:  
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[LAAMN] Fw: Good films and bad!

[Romi Elnagar]

 
May 30, 2013
Nuclear calamity in Tennessee
A new documentary feature film, Acceptable Limits, now in production, tells 
about the devastating health and environmental effects that a dilapidated, 
54-year old nuclear fuel processing plant has had on a small Appalachian 
community in Erwin, TN. You can help get this important film completed and 
shown. More
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Yellow "Oscar" for Indian film at Uranium Film Festival
A documentary about the people displaced by India's first nuclear power plant 
at Tarapur won the Yellow Oscar at the recent Uranium Film Festival in Brazil. 
The film was made by Pradeep Indulkar, an anti-nuclear activist from Ratnagiri. 
In accepting the award, Indulkar dedicated it "to all those farmers and 
fishermen who lost their land, home and livelihood for the nuclear power 
plant." More
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US must act to prevent radioactive waste fire at Fukushima
Japanese diplomat, Akio Matsumura, has again urged the UN to ask for 
international support to empty the Fukushima Daiichi 4 high-level radioactive 
waste pool as another major eathquake could lead to the loss of its vital 
cooling water. Please support Sen. Wyden's earlier call for the US to send 
resources to this effort by calling the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources 
Committee  today. More actions here.
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Hand out fliers at Pandora's (false)Promise 
The pro-nuclear propaganda film, Pandora's Promise, is opening in cities across 
the country next month. Please consider attending and handing out our one-page 
flier that debunks many of the myths and omissions in this documentary. Follow 
this link for a calendar of screenings. And download our handout here.
Sign the petition to stop Japanese nuclear sale to India
Please sign the international petition to oppose the export of nuclear 
technology from Japan to India. India, a largely rural country, needs locally, 
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[LAAMN] Call Today (Thursday, May 30) to Ask for Compassionate Release for Imprisoned Activist Lynne Stewart, Who Has Terminal Cancer ~ Call US Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels ~ US Attorney

[Frank Dorrel]

Call Today - Thursday, May 30th  

To Ask for Compassionate Release for Imprisoned Activist Lynne Stewart, 

Who Has Terminal Cancer 

Please Call:

US Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels: 202-307-3198-Ext. 3

US Attorney General Eric Holder: 202-514-2001 

President Obama: 202-456-

Sample Text Below:




Reminder: Please make 3 calls for compassionate release for imprisoned
activist
 Lynne Stewart today.

Also, read below for the CSFR statement on the repression of the Associated
Press

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 View it in your browser. 

 



 
 Committee to Stop FBI Repression (stopfbi.net)




*   1. National Call-in Day for Lynne Stewart - TODAY
*   2. CSFR statement on Associated Press

 

  _  


1. National Call-in Day for Lynne Stewart - TODAY


The Committee to Stop FBI Repression calls for the Compassionate Release of
Lynne Stewart Now!


National Call-in Day to Obama, Holder and Samuels
Thursday, May 30
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Eastern)

Three Calls for Compassion for Lynn Stewart


-- US Bureau of Prisons Director
   Charles E. Samuels: 202-307-3198-ext. 3
-- US Attorney General Eric Holder: 202-514-2001
-- President Obama: 202-456-
 
Sample Text
"Dear Director Samuels, 
My name is ___and I am calling from [city and state], to ask
you to approve the immediate compassionate release of Attorney Lynne
Stewart. Ms. Stewart has dedicated her life to the peace and justice
movements in our county. Lynne Stewart is beloved by people and leaders from
coast to coast. Lynne Stewart deserves to live her final days at home
surrounded by friends and family who love her. Please grant this act of
kindness and give this freedom fighter the dignity and respect she deserves.
The wars must stop and the political repression must end."
 
  


Background information:


Emergency Alert: Lynne Stewart In Grave Danger
Just last week the warden of Carswell FCI agreed to forward the
compassionate release petition to the DOJ. The time to increase the heat is
now. Lynne cannot wait any longer! 

Stewart Writes:  
Dear Friends and Supporters:
 One month ago I made a request for compassionate release, which was
honored by the warden at Carswell Federal Medical Center.  Today the papers
are still on a desk in Washington, D.C. even though the terminal cancer that
I have contracted requires expeditious action.
 Although I requested immediate action by the Bureau of Prisons, I find
it necessary to again request immediate action from you, my friends,
comrades, and supporters to call the three numbers listed above on Thursday,
May 30 and request action on my behalf.
 This could result in my being able to access medical treatment at Sloan
Kettering so that I can face the rest of my life with dignity surrounded by
those I love and who love me.
 
Please do this.
Yours truly,
Lynne Stewart FMS CARSWELL-53504-054

  _  


2. CSFR statement on Associated Press


Justice Department Tramples on First Amendment Rights of Associated Press
and Anti-war Activists


On Monday, May 13th, the Associated Press (AP) announced that the US Justice
Department secretly obtained two months worth of reporters' and editors'
phone records. The AP says its privacy was violated in an effort by the US
government to investigate an exclusive AP report on May 7, 2012. The AP
reported that the CIA stopped a plot by an Al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen. 

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (
 stopfbi.net) demands an end to the Justice
Department overreach and fishing expeditions that violate First Amendment
freedoms. We have personal experience with this type of privacy and First
Amendment violations. 

AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt protested the extensive privacy intrusion
into the AP in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, May 13,
2013:

"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of
the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters.
These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources
across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a
two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and
disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the
government has no conceivable right to know.  We regard this action by the
Department of Justice as a serious interference with AP's constitutional
rights to gather and report the news."

Anti-war activists are also outraged. This attack on the media is one more
way the government tries to stifle protests against US 

[LAAMN] Walmart Protest Movement Grows As Workers Strike Again

[bigraccoon]

Walmart Protest Movement Grows As Workers Strike Again

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/walmart-protest-movement_n_3354735.html




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[LAAMN] Re: Adult Education Struggle in Oakland

[John A Imani]

Comrade(s),

Congrats on these efforts.

Think that reclaiming the commons
(esp as regards education (the
elementary school occupied in Oakland, in LA
the Youth Justice Coalitions (brief) occupation of a closed library) is
among the most important actions we can take.  This, an example of
reclaiming the financial commons.

JAI
RAC-LA


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Alexander Mejia wrote:

> Hi colleagues, comrades, family and friends.
>
> I wanted to forward you the email below, despite its missing pictures,
> that elaborates on the recent development in the struggle to defend and
> rebuild adult education in the Oakland Unified School District.  The fact
> that the parents got organized with their teachers and other members of the
> education community is something that has not been done recently in
> Oakland, so it's an exciting development.
>
> Very interested to hear your thoughts.  Please send them my way and let's
> discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by the reflections below.
>
> Best,
> Alex
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: classroomstruggle 
> Date: Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:12 PM
> Subject: Update and Next Steps from May 22nd Board Meeting and Adult
> Education Struggle
> To:
>
>
>
>
> Dear supporters of Classroom Struggle and Public Education in Oakland,
>
> We won $1 million dollars for Adult Ed!  This is definitely a partial
> victory, and we should celebrate this, since it was direct action and
> leadership on the part of parents and teachers which won it.  But we also
> need to be clear about the limitations of every victory.
>
> Thank you all for coming out on Wednesday, 5/22.  We have included a
> detailed overview of what happened on at the school board meeting, what our
> victories have been, the limitations of the vote taken on Wednesday, as
> well as some directions for next steps.
>
> A few key points:
>
>-
>
>At the May 22nd board meeting parents, teachers and students were
>united in fighting for a fair contract and against cuts (mainly to adult
>ed).
>-
>
>The board voted to maintain current funding for adult ed (due in large
>part to mobilizations by adult ed students and teachers as well as the
>outcome of the May Revise).
>-
>
>The vote guarantees 1 million in funding of adult education but does
>not guarantee how that funding will be spent.
>-
>
>It is still possible that cuts may happen because of “restructuring”
>by administrators or because school site budgets may not be able to pay the
>contribution that is currently required of them.
>-
>
>Going forward, adult ed students and teachers are continuing to fight
>to make sure the program continues as it is and expands to restore the 90%
>of this program that was cut 3 years ago. There is still work to be done
>THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
>
>
> We want to learn from and build out of the May 22nd board meeting so
> please take the time to read the rest of this email to understand the
> details of this struggle and contact us with any
> thoughts/suggestions/questions.
>
> What Happened?
>
> The meeting started with a picket line and rally of hundreds of parents,
> teachers and students chanting “Save Adult Ed,” “Fair Contract Now” and
> “Not One Cut!”  After 15 minutes of picketing outside, the contingent
> marched inside and held a spirited general assembly with speeches from
> parents, Adult Ed students, and teachers. Oakland’s educational community
> was out in strong force and electrifying what is otherwise an incredibly
> dull “business meeting” (to use School Board Member Jumoke Hodge’s own
> words.)
>
> After 30 minutes of public comment (only 30 people were allowed to speak
> for 1 minute each), the last speaker was a CCPA adult education student who
> asked that all of the adult ed students and teachers stand. These people
> stood up and began to lead the room in chants. Over a hundred people stood
> up, many different immigrant communities were present as well as a diverse
> group of GED students in their caps and gowns. This image captures the
> complexity of the adult education program and the campaign that was waged
> to save the bits that are left of it and that will hopefully continue in
> order to rebuild adult education to what it once was.
>
> After this striking moment the board went forward with it’s
> business-as-usual proceedings.  The dullness and lack of democratic
> participation involved in this process led the vast majority of the adult
> ed students, as well as many of our allies and comrades to leave before the
> Adult Education agenda item was even brought up.
>
> We self-critique here for not having put forward a clearer tactical plan -
> we might have, for instance, chosen to “Mic Check” the crowd at the end of
> public comment and demanded that the Adult Education item, one of the most
> important items of the evening, be moved to the front of the agenda 

[LAAMN] El Salvador:Constitutional Court Says Beatriz Cannot Terminate Her Pregnancy

[Cort Greene]

Las Leyes deben responder a Las necesidades de nuestra
clase
Autor:
 Verónica Zavaleta

La sección OBRERA, esta vez alza su voz por la vida de una joven madre de
22 años, Beatriz, de una zona rural de la Bahía de Jiquilisco, Usulután.



http://www.bloquepopularjuvenil.org/node/703



http://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/constitutional-court-says-beatriz-cannot-terminate-her-pregnancy/

Constitutional Court Says Beatriz Cannot Terminate Her
Pregnancy
by 
voicesfromelsalvador

The Salvadoran Supreme Court handed down a 4 to 1 decision denying Beatriz’
request to terminate her 26-week fetus, which doctors say has a fatal
anomaly and will not survive childbirth.

Over the past couple months, Beatriz has gained international attention
because she has lupus, an autoimmune disease that has damaged her kidneys
and resulted in other health problems. If forced to carry her pregnancy to
term she faces any number of life-threatening complications including
kidney failure or preeclampsia - pregnancy related hypertension.

El Salvador has an absolute ban on abortion that does not allow exceptions
for the health of the mother or for rape or incest. In April Beatriz’s
doctors and attorney appealed to the Salvadoran Constitutional Court,
asking that her medical team be allowed to terminate her pregnancy without
fear of prosecution and prison.

After weeks of contemplation, four of the Court’s five magistrates
determined that if Beatriz and her doctors terminated the pregnancy they
could be prosecuted under the abortion ban.

According to the BBC,
Rodolfo Gonzalez, one of the four Magistrates who voted against allowing
the termination, said he had not been convinced that Beatriz was at risk of
dying if the pregnancy was allowed to continue. He also said that they
could not turn the Constitutional Court into a “tribunal to allow the
interruption of pregnancies.”

The Magistrates also said the rights of the mother cannot supersede those
of the unborn child, and vice versa, that the rights of the fetus cannot
supersede those of the mother. That logic, however, doesn’t seem to work in
this case. Either way the court decided they would put the rights of the
mother or the fetus over the rights of the other, and they decided that the
fetus’ rights trump, even though it has no chance of survival.

The Court could have taken the opportunity to decide that El Salvador’s
abortion ban is too extreme and that women should not have to carry
pregnancies that are jeopardizing their health. In their appeal to the
Constitutional Court Beatriz’s attorney was challenging the ban and asking
for a broader decision that at least allowed for an exception when the
mother's life is at risk. A broader decision would have addressed
Magistrate Gonzalez’s fear that the Court would turn into a tribunal for
women seeking to terminate their pregnancies. But the Constitutional Court,
which has showed some independence in recent years, does not appear ready
to start protecting the rights of Salvadoran women.

Florentin Melendez, who was the only Magistrate to vote to allow Beatriz
access to an abortion, said the court should have ruled in her favor to
“guarantee that the medical personnel would not omit [any treatments] and
would act diligently at all times, without having to recur to legal
authorization to protect the life of the mother and the human being she is
carrying in her womb.”

But this is already a serious problem in El Salvador. As reported by the New
York Times Magazine in
2006,
the
absolute ban on abortion prevents doctors from, among other things,
treating women with ectopic pregnancies – a condition in which the
fertilized egg is implanted in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus –
without risking imprisonment. That’s right… Salvadoran doctors cannot treat
ectopic pregnancies, which have zero chance of survival and can be fatal
for the woman, without being prosecuted for violating El Salvador’s
abortion ban.

A Salvadoran women’s rights organization that has taken on Beatriz’s case
indicated they are trying to help Beatriz travel to another country where
she can safely and legally terminate her pregnancy.

But Beatriz’s case is not unique and that is not an answer for the
thousands of other women in El Salvador that are or will be in her
position. Women with ectopic pregnancies, preeclampsia, lupus or other
illnesses regularly die alone at home or in an over-crowded maternity ward
where they are being denied life-saving treatments because doctors fear
prosecution.

And every year 13, 14, and 15 year old girls are raped by a family members
or local boys and have to d

[LAAMN] Capitalist China tells its ally N.Korea to behave or daddy spank!

[Cort Greene]

*Capitalist China tells its ally to behave or daddy spank! Venezuela should
learn from this also, as of most of Africa and South America.*
*
*
*Funny we never hear from those supporters of the Stalinist  North Korea
about working conditions in those Chinese, South Korean owned factories in
the North nor the country's own.*
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*Cort*
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http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=93784*
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A Cuban in Peking looks at China/North Korea RelationsMay 30, 2013 | | [image:
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*Tired of North Korea’s vehement provocations, China gives its
long-standing ally a “slap on the hand.”*

*By Isidro Estrada*
[image: Korean snacks.] 

Korean snacks.

HAVANA TIMES — Those who had asked themselves how long the proverbial
patience of the Chinese would last with respect to North Korea have been
given an answer.

Peking is no longer mincing its words to address its vehement neighbor,
which has had no other option than to deploy a soft-spoken envoy to the
Chinese capital, tasked with acquiescing to the “suggestion” his hosts
awaited him with.

The message, in simple words, was this: either you sit down at the
negotiations table and openly resume talks, putting aside all boastful
poses, or China’s gloves are off, big time.

Everything seems to indicate that Kim Jong Un and his retinue of generals
have finally gotten the message, for they haven’t wasted a second to offer
their apologies to the Chinese government -symbolically, but sincerely
nonetheless – for the dangers they have exposed the Korean peninsula to in
recent months, a climate of insecurity which has had negative repercussions
for China’s strategic plans in the region.
[image: Police Office at
Koreatown.]

Police Office at Koreatown.

What, in other circumstances, would have been a mere formality, that is, a
run-of-the-mill meeting between government representatives, took on the
significance of an admission of guilt on behalf of the North Korean
leadership with Vice-Marshal Choe Rypong-Hae’s visit to China this week.

This fact becomes particularly evident if we recall that the Vice-Marshal’s
visit to Peking follows China’s refusal to send a representative to North
Korea, to attend a meeting that country’s leadership requested in April.

This move clearly showed North Korea the extent to which its chief – or, in
fact, only – ally in the world resented its behavior. And this was not to
be taken lightly: on turning down this invitation, Peking was refusing to
participate in the habitual exchange of government representatives that the
two nations had held every two years since they established diplomatic
relations in 1949.
[image: Wangjing Koreatown]

Wangjing Koreatown

Suffice it to recall that these exchanges had been interrupted only once
before, in 1992, when China established official links with South Korea and
the North expressed its anger over this by temporarily suspending the
sending of envoys and refusing to receive those of the neighboring nation.

This week, seeing that the Chinese government had set its foot down, the
North Korean leadership saw itself pinned against the corner. What neither
the Pentagon, South Korea nor the UN Security Council have yet been able to
achieve, Peking has secured with a mild but decisive slap on the hands of
North Korea, a gesture which included the suspension of financial
transactions between the Bank of China and North Korea’s International
Trade Bank in early May.

With such a rough preamble, Marshall Choe arrived in Peking ready to hear
and abide by the instructions his hosts had in store for him.
[image: Korean restaurant.]

Korean restaurant.

In response to the sermon, he underscored how crucial China’s continued
economic support is for North Korea. Without the steady supply of fuel,
cereals and other food products – which represent nearly 70 % of the
country’s foreign trade – North Korea would become even more deeply mired
in its current economic stagnation.

China knows this and faces something of a dilemma. If it maintains a
permissive attitude towards Kim and his gang, the latter may continue
stepping up their string of provocations and prompt the United States to
fill the seas hugging southern China’s coasts with war ships and aircraft
carriers, among other possible reactions.

And that’s exactly what Peking fears right now, when it is trying to
negotiate, under conditions of relative equality, the much-proclaimed
“return of the United States” to Asia and the Pacific, to say nothing of
its apprehensions regarding a potential, all-out armed conflict, which
would spread across the entire Asian region.
[image: Korean Mobizone.] 

Korean Mobizone.

On the other hand, if Ch

[LAAMN] Monsanto and bees

[scotpeden]

Monsanto and Bayer Crop science is something different. Here's a scary
article.

http://foodfreedomgroup.com/2012/05/22/illinois-illegally-seizes-bees-resistant-to-roundup-kills-remaining-queens/










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[LAAMN] Alice Walker signed the statement in solidarity with the Syrian struggle for freedom and dignity

[Cort Greene]

Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Campaign-of-Solidarity-with-the-Syrian-Revolution/147353662105485

Sign here:

https://www.change.org/petitions/solidarity-with-the-syrian-struggle-for-dignity-and-freedom

Alice Walker, supporting the Palestinian rights, signed the statement in
solidarity with the Syrian struggle for freedom and dignity
الأديبة الأميركية أليس ووكر، الداعمة لحقوق الفلسطينيين، وقعت بيان دعم نضال
السوريين من أجل الحرية والكرامة

[Alice Walker to Alicia Keys: Boycott, because Palestinian conditions are
worse than they were in US South]
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/05/because-palestinian-conditions.html



  Solidarity With the Syrian Struggle for Dignity and Freedom

   1.
  1.
  2.

  Petition by

  Campaign of Global Solidarity with the Syrian
Revolution

   2.



We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with the millions of Syrians who
have been struggling for dignity and freedom since March 2011. We call on
people of the world to pressure the Syrian regime to end its oppression of
and war on the Syrian people. We demand that Bashar al-Asad leave
immediately without excuses so that Syria can begin a speedy recovery
towards a democratic future.

Since March 2011, Asad’s regime has steadily escalated its violence against
the Syrian people, launching Scud missiles, using weapons banned by the
Geneva Convention such as cluster bombs and incendiary munitions, and using
aerial bombardment. The regime has detained and tortured tens of thousands
of people and committed untold massacres. It has refused political
settlements that do not include Asad in power, and it has polarized the
society through strategic acts of violence and by sowing seeds of division.
The regime has also, since the early days of the uprising, sought to
internationalize the crisis in order to place it within geopolitical
battles that would only strengthen the regime. Staying true to the logics
of an authoritarian regime, Asad could never accept the legitimate demands
of the Syrian people for freedom and dignity. Thus, there is no hope for a
free, unified, and independent Syria so long as his regime remains in power.

This is a revolt that was sparked by the children of Deraa and the sit-ins
and demonstrations of the youth in the cities, the peasants of the rural
areas, and the dispossessed and marginalized of Syria. It is they who
rallied non-violently through protests and songs and chants, before the
regime’s brutal crackdown. Since then, the regime has pushed for the
militarization of the Syrian nonviolent movement. As a result, young men
took up arms, first out of self-defense. Lately, this has resulted in
attempts by some groups fighting the regime to force a climate of
polarization, and negation of the Other politically, socially and
culturally. These acts that are in themselves against the revolution for
freedom and dignity.

Yet, the revolution for freedom and dignity remains steadfast. It is for
this reason that we, the undersigned, appeal to those of you in the global
civil society, not to ineffective and manipulative governments, to defend
the gains of the Syrian revolutionaries, and to spread our vision: freedom
from authoritarianism and support of Syrians’ revolution as an integral
part of the struggles for freedom and dignity in the region and around the
world.

The fight in Syria is an extension of the fight for freedom regionally and
worldwide. It cannot be divorced from the struggles of the Bahrainis,
Egyptians, Tunisians, Libyans, Yemenis, and other peoples who have revolted
against oppression and authoritarianism as well as against those seeking to
usurp or destroy the uprisings and divert them for their own agendas. It is
connected to the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom, dignity and equality.
The revolution in Syria is a fundamental part of the North African
revolutions, yet, it is also an extension of the Zapatista revolt in
Mexico, the landless movement in Brazil, the European and North American
revolts against neoliberal exploitation, and an echo of Iranian, Russian,
and Chinese movements for freedom.

The Syrian revolution has confronted a world upside down, one where states
that were allegedly friends of the Arabs such as Russia, China, and Iran
have stood in support of the slaughter of people, while states that never
supported democracy or independence, especially the US and their Gulf
allies, have intervened in support of the revolutionaries. They have done
so with clear cynical self interest. In fact, their intervention tried to
crush and subvert the uprising, whil

[LAAMN] Spain: Repudiate the debt, share the work and nationalize the Banks under workers' control

[Cort Greene]

http://www.marxist.com/ldc-10-editorian.htm

Spain: Repudiate the debt, share the work and nationalize the Banks under
workers' control 
Written by Lucha de Clases (Spain)Wednesday, 29 May 2013
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Spanish capitalism is caught in a deep crisis. The bosses want the workers
and the youth to pay. The only solution is to arm the masses with a
revolutionary programme. *This is the Editorial article of issue 10 of the
Spanish Marxist publication "Lucha de Clases" (Class Struggle)*

[image: 15O 
spain]According
to the Labour Force Survey, 3,581 jobs were destroyed every day during the
first quarter of 2013. Each day  over 3,000 families are pushed into the
nightmare of unemployment, poverty and a bleak future. Half of the 6.2
million unemployed have no income and tens of thousands are forced to
emigrate or are evicted from their homes. Workers and pensioners are losing
purchasing power every year.

Official forecasts point to a worsening of the situation. GDP will fall by
1.5% and unemployment will reach 6.5 million in 2013.
A failed system

The social catastrophe caused by the capitalist economic crisis shows that
this system, organized to enrich a handful of big businessmen and bankers,
can exist only by spreading misery and physical and moral degradation among
the workers and our families.

It is wrong to say that people are passive in this situation. There are
constantly demonstrations in sectors such as health care, education and the
anti-evictions campaign. This years May Day demonstrations were the largest
in recent years. These are symptoms which show the instinctive desire to
fight back against the enemy and not to give in, despite the unwillingness
of the union leadership to organize and mobilize the workers. In fact, the
significant rise of United Left (IU) in the polls - now as large as the
Socialist Party (PSOE) in places such as Madrid and Galicia - indicates
that growing sections of the working class and the youth are looking for a
radical political alternative to their problems.
A "National Pact"?

The postponement of the public deficit reduction target of 3% of GDP until
2016 will not ease the austerity cuts. It will not restore the already cut,
social spending and will not bring back jobs that have already been
destroyed. To reduce the deficit from the current 7% of GDP level will
involve further cuts worth 40 billion euro, 7 billion of which will have to
be cut this year. Rajoy has already announced cuts of 3 billion without
specifying which areas will be affected. They want to freeze pensions,
increase the retirement age to 67 years and force the youth into 400-500
euro per month contracts.

The Spanish government and the bourgeoisie are in a state of anxiety. They
fear, above all, the social indignation that spreads like roaring lava. For
this reason they are trying to involve PSOE and trade union leaders in
implementing their policy. To make matters even worse the leaders of the
PSOE, the UGT and CCOO, are all calling for a "National Pact". But we saw
the same "State Pacts" in Greece and Italy, maintaining and deepening the
austerity policies!
Who tightens its belt?

Nothing is more false than the idea that we "all" make sacrifices. The vice
President of Santander Bank, guilty of fraud but then pardoned by the
Zapatero (PSOE) government, retired a few weeks ago with a pay off of 88
million euros, equivalent to the annual pension of 7,521  pensioners who
receive an average pension (975 euros per month).

According to a report by CCOO, the average salary of the executives of the
35 largest companies (Ibex 35) is 83.6 times the average wage of an
employee, and 70.6% of the profits of these companies go to pay dividends
and are not reinvested.

Large companies pay 10% of their profits in tax, when legally corporate tax
is 30%. This is because they benefit from countless tax exemption schemes
and deductions. Thus, the State loses 90 billion euros per year in tax
revenue. Then they turn around and tell us that the annual expenditure on
pensions (100 billion euro) is unsustainable!

These are the parasites that deny us a job so we can live in dignified
conditions with education, decent healthcare, a roof over our heads, and a
reasonable retirement pay - all of which are concessions that we have won
after years of hard work!

Given the complete inability of the bourgeoisie to continue to rule the
destiny of society is more important than ever that the working class puts
itself at the head of it.

Salvation and the future of the working class and our families - the
largest section of society, and that which is most productive and creative
- requires a radical transformation of society and an u

[LAAMN] Venezuela threatens to withdraw support for Colombia peace talks

[Cort Greene]

Diosdado Cabello "Colombian Govt siding with those responsible for death of
11 people on April 14-15" https://twitter.com/dcabellor/stat
us/339901206711373824 … 

Hands Off Venezuela @HOVcampaign 

Diosdado Cabello: "I am convinced that receiving Capriles is 1st step of
Santos govt offensive against Venezuela" https://twitter.com/dcabellor/stat
us/339902971045367808 … 

Hands Off Venezuela
@HOVcampaign

VIDEO Protests in Bogotá against Capriles visit http://
aporrea.org/internacionales/n229838.html …  via @
aporrea  and
@teleSURtv

Venezuela threatens to withdraw support for Colombia peace talksposted
by Adriaan
Alsema 

Venezuela to evaluate its participation in the Colombian peace process

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g7_vBj4hOaw


Venezuela on Wednesday threatened to withdraw its support for peace talks
between the Colombian government and rebel group FARC in a furious response
to a visit by Venezuela’s opposition leader to Colombian president Juan
Manuel Santos .

Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who is challenging the results of
presidential elections he lost to President Nicolas Maduro last month, met
with Santos at the presidential palace in
Bogota
for
an hour on Wednesday before meeting with top lawmakers.

*MORE:* Santos and Capriles talk tensions in Venezuela ‘and Colombia peace
talks’

The visit is part of a tour through Latin America Capriles began to seek
support for his call to recount April’s election results the opposition is
claiming was won by Maduro through electoral fraud. According to Capriles,
his government is “illegitimate.”

While the visit to Santos was low profile — the Colombian president
released no statement on the content of the meeting, the Venezuelan
government reacted furiously.

“President Santos has taken a step … that will lead to the derailing of the
good relationship we had,” said Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on
state television.

Jaua threatened to withdraw as mediator in peace talks between the
Colombian government and the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC.

“Without a doubt today’s situation obliges us to study Venezuela’s
participation as a facilitator in the peace accord,” Jaua said.

On his Twitter account, the top official additionally linked to an article
on a pro-government website in which an “expert” said the meeting was part
of a U.S. conspiracy to undermine the leftist Venezuelan government.
Elias Jaua PSUV @EliasJauaPSUV 

“Reunión entre Santos y Capriles, parte del plan de EE.UU. para derrocar a
Maduro” http://dlvr.it/3RdSvs  


1:30 AM - 30 May
2013Diosdado
Cabello, the speaker of Venezuela’s National Assembly and a close ally of
Maduro, went as far as saying that Santos had “planted a bomb” under the
neighbors’ relationship.

Colombia’s foreign minister refused to extensively respond to the
Venezuelan allegations, telling press her government will contact that of
Venezuela directly “and without microphones.”

“In order to stay away from the microphone diplomacy that is so harmful, we
will discuss this issue directly with the Venezuelan government,” Minister
Maria Angela Holguin was quoted as saying by Colombian press.

Capriles said not to care about “what this illegitimate government says”
and compared the criticism of his meeting with President Santos to
“mosquito bites.”

Venezuela has not spoken this harshly about its neighbor since Santos took
office in August 2010 and made the improvement of the relationship between
the two countries a top priority. Before Santos assumed power, Venezuela
had frozen relations over accusations by Colombia’s former President Alvaro
Uribe, who accused the government of late President Hugo Chavez of aiding
the FARC.

http://colombiareports.com/relationship-with-colombia-might-derail-over-opposition-visit-venezuela/


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[LAAMN] Californians Against Fracking Rally ~ Today at Noon at The Governor's Office in Downtown Los Angeles ~ Thursday, May 30th, Noon at Governor Jerry Brown's Office - 300 S. Spring Street, LA ~ Gu

[Frank Dorrel]

 
 Californians Against Fracking
Rally 

Today - Thursday, May 30th, 12:00 Noon 

at 

Governor Jerry Brown's Office  

300 S. Spring Street, LA  90013

Guest Speaker Josh Fox  

Citizens Coalition For A Safe Community

 




 Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community
 




 

 Frac330  

 


 

Rally tomorrow at the Governors Office

 

Join Us & Josh Fox as We Launch 

Californians Against Fracking

 

In Los Angeles Tomorrow:

Thursday, May 30th at 12:00 Noon

300 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles 90013 

 

Together we will make history when we launch: 

Californians Against Fracking

 

 A Statewide Coalition to Ban Fracking in California.

 

Fracking poses a direct and immediate threat to the drinking water, air,
food, health, wildlife, climate and economy of California. While our state
prides itself on being a leader in the fight against climate change, oil
companies are gearing up to frack the estimated 15 billion barrels of oil in
the Monterey Shale. This area is home to some of the state's most productive
farmland, critical water sources, important wildlife habitat and communities
from the Salinas Valley to the Los Angeles Basin.

 

What:  Press Conference and Rally 

 

To launch Californians Against Fracking, 

Academy Award-nominated film maker Josh Fox will join labor groups, farmers,
public health professionals, environmental and environmental justice
organizations, and local residents who have come together to call for a ban
in California on this dirty and danger

ous practice.

 

We will take our message directly to Governor Jerry Brown as we deliver tens
of thousands of signatures on petitions to ban fracking at a rally in front
of the governor's office in Los Angeles.

 

When:  

Noon on Thursday, May 30, 2013

  

Where: Governor Jerry Brown's Office

300 S. Spring Street

Los Angeles, CA 90013

 

Who: 

Over 50 organizations participating in the coalition include:  350.org,
California Nurses Association, Center for Biological Diversity, Center on
Race, Poverty and the Environment, Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community,
CREDO, Democracy for America, Environment California, Family Farm Defenders,
Food and Water Watch, Organic Consumers Association, Progressive Democrats
of America and many others across the state.


 Guest Speaker:

Josh Fox, writer and director of Gasland, nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Documentary in 2011, and the just released Gasland 2, landmark films
that helped expose this dirty and dangerous oil and natural gas extraction
technique.




Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community
4209 Jackson Avenue
Culver City, California 90232
310-558-1970
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