[LAAMN] RAC-LA 5 Years, 7 Months Organizing in MacArthur Park

[John A Imani]

Comrades,

The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles--formed in the wake of
the Police Riot in MacArthur Park on May Day 2007--was initiated as a
response to demonstrate that it is the right of human laborers to go where
ever it is that we might find work w/o regard to man-made inventions such
as borders.  To do so we initiated our self-help and mutual aid food
program, La Prohrama Comida.

On May Day 2007 the LAPD took a position that should one demonstrate for
the right to seek work wherever (and other) human rights then that one (and
all who do so) will be attacked by the armed power of the state.  The
radicals who formed RAC-LA, in opposition to this, did so with the express
intention of organizing not only paper-less migrants but the lowest
economic rung of the working class, the homeless, the hungry, the
work-less, the lowest paid members of our class so as to:

1.) provide mutual aid with and to each other through RAC's 'Programa
Comida', our 'Food Program' which weekly provides fresh vegetables and
fruits free of charge to now over 200 of those in need; and,

2.) lay the plans and develop a model of revolutionary resistance that
ought serve as an example of new ways of thinking, new methods of work.

You can join the efforts towards achieving these goals

Every Sunday 12-5PM

SE corner of Wilshire and Parkview

MacArthur Park 90057

JAI
RAC-LA



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JAI
RAC-LA


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[LAAMN] Legalized Tyranny

[scotpeden]

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.  - Martin
Luther King, Jr.

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the
shield of the law and in the name of justice." - Montesquieu, The Spirit
of the Laws

"Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For
the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God." - 
J.C. Marino, Dante's Journey

"Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law;
and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against
the equity, is the most insupportable" -  L Estrange








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[LAAMN] Police Find Automatic Weapons, Grenades, Tank At Dead Survivalist's Home

[bigraccoon]

Police Find Automatic Weapons, Grenades, Tank At Dead Survivalist's Home

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/28/police-find-automatic-weapons-grenades-tank-at-dead-survivalists-home/




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[LAAMN] 6/27: House Passes 2014 NDAA; NSA Surveillance Will Lead to Indefinite Detention

[SIUHIN]

 
 
6/27: House Passes 2014 NDAA; NSA  Surveillance Will Lead to Indefinite 
Detention 
 
By: Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The New  American
 
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/15829-house-passes-14-nda
a-nsa-surveillance-will-lead-to-indefinite-detention
 
 
 
The annual renewal of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is  
underway on Capitol Hill. 
_On June  14, by a vote of 315-108_ 
(http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll244.xml) , the House of Representatives 
passed the _Fiscal Year 2014 version 
of the NDAA_ 
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c113:2:./temp/~c113QP5I3R::)  (HR 1960). 
Several  amendments to the defense spending legislation were 
proposed, many of which were  approved either by voice vote or en bloc. The 
first method of voting requires no  report on how individual members voted, 
while the second method aggregates  amendments, allowing them to be voted 
on in groups. 
A few of the amendments represent significant improvements to the NDAA of  
2012 and 2013. The acts passed for those years infamously permitted the  
president to deploy U.S. military troops to apprehend and indefinitely detain  
any American he alone believed to be aiding enemies of the state. 
While the 2014 iteration doesn’t go far enough in pushing the federal beast 
 back inside its constitutional cage, there are at least a few congressmen  
willing to try to crack the whip and restore constitutional separation of 
powers  and shore up a few of the fundamental liberties suspended by the NDAA 
of the  past two years. 
First, there is the_  amendment offered by Representative Trey Radel_ 
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:hz151:)  (R-Fla.). Radel’s 
amendment  requires the Department of Defense to submit to the Congress a 
report 
every year  containing: (1) the names of any U.S. citizens subject to military 
detention,  (2) the legal justification for their continued detention, and 
(3) the steps the  Executive Branch is taking to either provide them some 
judicial process, or  release them. Requires that an unclassified version of 
the report be made  available, and in addition, that the report must be made 
available to all  members of Congress. 
Radel’s amendment was passed by voice vote. 
Next,_ an amendment offered by Representative Bob Goodlatte _ 
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:hz150:) (R-Va.)  would require 
the federal 
government, in habeas proceedings for U.S. citizens  apprehended in the 
United States pursuant to the Authorization for the Use of  Military Force 
(AUMF), to prove by “clear and convincing evidence” that the  citizen is an 
unprivileged enemy combatant and there is not presumption that the  
government's 
evidence is accurate and authentic. 
The House approved the Goodlatte amendment by a vote of 214-211. 
Finally, _an amendment by Representative Paul Broun _ 
(http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/BROUN_042611130948174817.pdf) 
(R-Ga.) forbids the  
Department of Defense from killing a citizen of the United States by a  
drone attack unless that person is actively engaged in combat against the  
United States. 
This trio of amendments represents a laudable attempt to restrain the power 
 of the executive. As constitutionalists and civil libertarians are aware, 
recent  occupants of the Oval Office have usurped sweeping unconstitutional 
powers,  including the authority to target Americans for indefinite 
detention, to  withhold from them rights that have been recognized as 
unalienable 
since before  the Magna Carta, and to kill American citizens who have been 
charged with no  crime and been given no opportunity to defend themselves from 
the accusations  that qualified them for summary assassination. 
Despite these small victories in the battle to restore constitutionally  
protected liberty, the debate on the 2014 NDAA provided several examples of  
Congress violating their oaths of office by shrinking the scope of basic 
rights  and expanding the power of the president to act as de facto (and now, 
de 
jure)  judge, jury, and executioner. 
For example, two amendments offered by Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.)  
were rejected by his colleagues, to their dishonor. 
Smith’s_ first proposed amendment_ 
(http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/SMITWA_005_xml61013180326326.pdf) 
 would have prohibited indefinite  
military detention of any person detained under AUMF authority in the United  
States, territories, or possessions by providing immediate transfer to 
trial and  proceedings by a court established under Article III of the 
Constitution or by  an appropriate state court. 
Not surprisingly, Smith’s amendment failed to garner approval, being voted  
down by a vote of 200-226 (213 Republicans voted against Smith’s 
amendment). 
This was not the first time the “conservatives” in Congress rejected a  
proposal by Representative Smith that would have protected due process and  
disgorged the president of powers to which h

[LAAMN] NSA, CIA, 14% Domestic Phone Content Collection under the Illegal Wiretap Program and more

[Cort Greene]

http://cryptome.org/


*2013-0710.pdf 
 CIA Secrets: Ethics of Concealment/RevelationJune 29, 2013*
(1.3MB)*2013-0709.pdf
 CIA
Congressional Oversight of SpyingJune 29, 2013*
(10.7MB)*2013-0708.pdf
 CIA
Supreme Court on Spy Source Secrecy  June 29, 2013*
(7.4MB)*2013-0707.pdf
 CIA
Where Secrecy Is Essential   June 29, 2013*
(7.7MB)*2013-0706.zip
 Bradley
Manning: Army Releases 15 Trial Docs June 28, 2013* (5.8MB)
*2013-0705.htm 
 Two NSA IG Reports ST-09-0002 Reports Differ June 28,
2013**2013-0704.pdf 
Edward Snowden Ecuador Safepass Update   June 28,
2013**2013-0703.pdf 
NSA Stellar Wind Email Internet Data Collection  June 28,
2013* (8.4MB)*2013-0702.pdf
 DoJ Memo on NSA
Data Collection on Americans June 28, 2013* (1.4MB)*2013-0701.pdf
 Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev Indictment June 27, 2013* (2.2MB)
*2013-0700.zip 
  Bradley Manning: State Cables Download Forensic  June 27, 2013*
(1.1MB)*2013-0699.pdf
 119
Google Search Warrants with Kid Porn Sample  June 27, 2013*
(2.7MB)*2013-0698.htm 
Vulnerabilities of Telecomm System-2001 Repost   June 27,
2013**2013-0697.pdf 
  Manning: CIA WIRe Program Contractor Testimony   June 26,
2013**2013-0696.zip 
   Bradley Manning: Army Releases 13 Trial Docs June 26, 2013*
(2.9MB)



http://www.emptywheel.net/


The 14% Domestic Phone Content Collection under the Illegal Wiretap
Program
By: emptywheel  Saturday June
29, 2013 7:08 am

[image: Screen shot 2013-06-29 at 7.04.51
AM]There’s
something funny about the claims the NSC Draft IG
Report
 makes.

On page 8, the report notes:

 Domestic Collection. The wording of the first authorization could have
been interpreted to allow domestic content collection where both
communicants were located in the U.S. or were U.S. persons. General Hayden
recalled that when the Counsel to the Vice President pointed this out,
General Hayden told him that NSA would not collect domestic communications
because 1) NSA was a foreign intelligence agency, 2) NSA infrastructure did
not support domestic collection, and 3) his personal standard was so high
that there would be no problem getting a FISC order for the domestic
collection.

Starting in February 21, 2006, DOJ pushed to get a FISC order for PSP
collection, in spite of NSA’s numerous reservations. As an interim
solution, they changed the definition of “facility” from that of a specific
number of email address “to encompass the gateway or cable head that
foreign targets use for communications. Minimization and probable cause
standards would then be applied.” After months of trying to finesse this,
FISC signed two orders to accomplish this:

The Foreign Content Order

The Domestic Content Order

Remember, domestic content, to the NSA, is content in which both
participants are in the US (though at this point NSA may have been
distinguishing between citizens and non-citizens). And when they moved to a
FISC order, they had a specific order for domestic content. And, as the
chart on page 16 shows, 14% of the telephony content was domestic (it was
only 2% for Internet, though its number for that collection, 19,000, sure
looks awfully round).

Now, apparently, by 2007 when they went to a FISC order, there wasn’t that
much domestic collection left.

 The Domestic Content Order did not create a similar loss in collection [as
the 73% loss on the Foreign Content side] because so few numbers were
tasked at that time. It did, however, slow operations because of the
documentation required, and it took considerably longer to task under the
order than under the PSP. Over time, the scope of the Domestic Content
Order gradually decreased to a single selector tasked for collection in
January 2009. In January 2009, at NSA’s request, assumed responsibility for
the Domestic Content Order and became

[LAAMN] Broadcasting live today! Alan Woods on the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky

[Cort Greene]

*Broadcasting live today! (17:15 BST): Alan Woods on the ideas of Lenin and
Trotsky. https://bambuser.com/node/3786820   *
*
*
Alan Woods speaking on the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky at the Marxist Summer
School in UCL.*
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*https://bambuser.com/node/3786820* 
*
*
*Time in London*
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*http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=136
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*That would be broadcast at*
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*2;15 ON East Coast of US*
*1;15 Central*
*12:15 Mountain*
*11:15 West Coast*


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[LAAMN] Fwd: Hands off Deborah Burton

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:53 PM
Subject: Hands off Deborah Burton
To: John A Imani , kwazinkrumah 


As residents of Los Angeles, human rights organizers and organizations, we
demand:

1. That all charges against Deborah be immediately dropped.
2. A thorough investigation and the rescinding of the faulty evidence
presented by Lt. Paulson which eventually led to the charges filed against
Deborah Burton, and
3. An end to the aggressive prosecution of human rights defenders.

Organizations across Los Angeles have come together to defend and promote
interconnected human rights in our communities. Human rights violations
occur on a daily basis. Protest has been at the core of all struggles for
justice. Yet, the assault on political dissent and protest remains an
ongoing tactic of the powerful. The City of Los Angeles has a long history
of heavy-handedness and violence against people organizing for basic human
rights.

Lame-duck City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's malicious prosecution of Deborah
Burton--a downtown resident --is part of an ongoing campaign to squash
protest and political dissent in Los Angeles.

Deborah's Case:

Deborah, a longtime Los Angeles Communtiy Action Network (LACAN) member and
organizer, has been unjustly charged with three counts of assault for
alleged actions during a peaceful protest in April 2011. She was not
charged until August 2012, 14 months later, and public records show that in
the interim months LAPD and the Central City East Association (CCEA)
actively lobbied the City Attorney to criminally charge LA CAN members
involved in a monthly demonstration of the CCEA’s “Skid Row Walk.”

In one email in April 2011, CCEA associate-- Estela Lopez-- assures her
colleagues that the City Attorney informed her that “they would explore all
legal options to protect us and allow us to conduct our walk without
interference from LA CAN.” In another email sent on June 1, 2011 — the
evening of the purported assault — Ms. Lopez confirms they were able to
complete their walk “as planned” and never mentions being assaulted or
injured by Debora or anyone else from LA CAN. In a July 2011 email from
LAPD’s Lieutenant Paulson, Ms. Lopez tells the City Attorney that she needs
information about the filing and documentation of cases related to the
public safety walk because “This is going to be an ongoing problem until it
gets too costly for them (LA CAN).”

The case against Deborah Burton is nothing more than a conspiracy, abuse of
power, waste of precious resources and the continued targeting of human
rights organizers.

Free Deborah Burton and All Political Prisoners!

Los Angeles Human Rights Collective:

Youth Justice Coalition- http://www.youth4justice.org/
Immigrant Youth Coalition- http://theiyc.org/
Dream Team LA-http://dreamteamla.org/
Union de Vecinos- http://www.uniondevecinos.net/
Los Angeles Community Action Network-
http://cangress.org/
Los Angeles Anti Eviction Campaign- https://www.facebook.com/laantieviction
IDEPSCA- http://idepsca.org/daylabor
Stop LAPD Spying- http://stoplapdspying.org/
Los Angeles Human Right to Housing Collective-http://
lahumanrighttohousing.blogspot.com/
Labor/Community Strategy Center-http://www.thestrategycenter.org/
POWER-



-- 
JAI
RAC-LA


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[LAAMN] Russia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba to Discuss Snowden Asylum in Moscow

[Cort Greene]

Is the NSA hacking/intercepting the Ecuadorean government in response to #
Snowden  asylum claim?
http://archive.is/otENh  


   1.

   #Manning  trial: Judge
   rules WikiLeaks tweets relevant to ‘aiding the enemy’ charges http://
   on.rt.com/dcfbzv  
   *
   *
   2. [image: Glenn Greenwald]*Glenn Greenwald*
@ggreenwald

   NYT op-ed by 2 law professors on what they call "The Criminal NSA" -
   please read: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opi
   nion/the-criminal-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 … 
   *
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   3.
  1. [image: WikiLeaks]*WikiLeaks*
@wikileaks

  Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Tom Hayden Urge President Correa to Grant
  Snowden Asylum http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1421



  “@ggreenwald : Here's the speech I
  gave tonight at Socialism Conference w/ intro by
@jeremyscahill&
  @SherryTalksBack  http://www.
  youtube.com/watch?v=Uulv4ve6RJ8&feature=youtu.be …
  ”


Russia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba to Discuss Snowden Asylum in Moscow

Jun 28th 2013, by Ewan Robertson
[image: Edward Snowden (EFE)]

Edward Snowden (EFE)

Mérida, 28th June 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Diplomats from Russia,
Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba will meet in Moscow on Monday to discuss the
situation of U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

The ex-NSA contractor has requested asylum in Ecuador to avoid what he
fears would result in judicial persecution if he is extradited to the
United States.

Snowden released information to the Washington Post and UK Guardian from 6
June revealing the existence of a U.S. government intelligence program
Prism,
which uses data from internet companies to collect information on people’s
communication across the globe.

He is now wanted by U.S. federal prosecutors on three charges related to
espionage: theft of government property, unauthorised communication of
national defence information, and willful communication of classified
intelligence to an unauthorised person.

Today Snowden spends his fifth day in Moscow, presumably in Shemeretievo
airport, where he fled from Hong Kong in order to escape an extradition
request.

On Monday diplomats from Russia and the three leftist Latin American
countries will meet with human rights activists in the Russian Public
Chambers, a consultative body linked to the Kremlin, ”to give a social
evaluation of the situation,” a Public Chambers spokesperson said.

Observers consider the possibility of Ecuador offering Snowden asylum to
have increased after the Ecuadorian government renounced trade preferences
with the U.S. as a sign that it “doesn’t accept pressure or threats from
anyone”.

Last night Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro also appeared to further
open the door to Snowden, stating that if an asylum request was made,
Venezuela would be willing to offer the whistleblower protection.

“No one has requested us asylum for him [Snowden], but if he wants,
Venezuela is willing to protect this brave young man in a humanitarian way,
so that humanity knows the truth,” Maduro said at an event in the
presidential palace.

The Venezuelan president will also be in Moscow next Monday to attend a
meeting of the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries.

*U.S. pursues normalisation of Venezuela relations*

Meanwhile, the United States has reported it has a “strong interest” in
normalising relations with Venezuela, making the exchange of ambassadors
for the first time since 2010 a priority.

According to a State Department spokesperson, a meeting was held between
State Department secretary for Latin America, Roberta Jacoson, and the
diplomat charged with Venezuelan affairs in Washington, Calixto Ortega, on
Tuesday.

The spokesperson said that the meeting was held “to continue our high level
dialogue with the aim of exploring options of how to improve ties between
the U.S. and Venezuela”.

“We have a strong interest in continuing to work together on affairs of
mutual interest, to protect and secure our national interest,” the
spokesperson added.

The move comes after Venezuelan foreign minister Elias Jaua and U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry met at the side on an OAS summit earlier this
month, where they agreed to finds ways to build “a more constructive and
positive relationship”.

Jacobson and Ortega also agreed to meet “regularly” to continue dialogue
between the two governments.
--
*Source URL (retrieved on 28/06/2013 - 11:17pm):*
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/9774
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