[LAAMN] Vo Ngyen Giap, Presente

[John A Imani]

Comrades,

In the 50's, 60s and 70s, Vo Ngyuen Giap was a hero to those of the Left
opposed to imperialism and great power chauvinism, i.e. capitalism in its
most blatant aggressive form.

Along w Ho Chi Mihn, Giap led a struggle against first French colonialism,
beat them, and when the US invaded the Viet Cong eventually turned People's
Liberation Armed Forces kicked their ass too.

Of course, the truly sad thing is some 50,000 almost 100% working class
youths came home to the United States in boxes after being drafted to fight
in a war that should not have occurred in the first place.  It is the
truth:  America only turns tail when she is given a bloody nose.

Along with 100,000s of Vietnamese death it was a tragedy.

And yet, to those of us engaged in an uprising against the state, it was an
inspiration happening before our eyes.  It must be remembered that in the
decade before the American intervention and invasion that all across the
3rd world indigenous those in leadership positions were the face of the
rank and file warriors who were throwing off the yoke of colonialism:  Mao
in China, Nkrumah in Ghana, Sekou Toure in Guinea, Sukarno in Indonesia,
Ben Bella in Algeria, Nassser in Egypt, Castro in Cuba.

Paralleling all of this was, of course, the great struggle for Civil Rights
which eventually bore fruit with the rise of the Black Power movements.

The fact that these heroic struggles against colonization all ended with
native bourgeoisies merely replacing the white skin of the oppressor with
oppressors of their own color--of course with the "hiddden hairy hand of
the white man" operating like the Wizard of Oz behind closed curtains
pulling on their marionettes' strings--all of this is notwithstanding as
when the great spirit of mankind at that time in many places at many times
rose up against those masters and declared ourselves "FREE"!!!I

t was a wonderful time to be alive.

A time when people believed in things.  When we believed that things
*will*get better...And when we fought for them.

Comrade Giap, again, was an inspiration.  Perhaps the last of those freedom
fighters save Castro and Nelson Mandela.  And, in spite of the failures of
the struggles identified with these lasting relics and the ones before
them, their names as synonymous with the struggles they figure-headed is
assured.

The last of the great men.  The next wave of struggles will be led by,
with, and for great peoples.

-- 
JAI
RAC-LA



-- 
JAI
RAC-LA

[LAAMN] Re: Homeless Bill of Rights-RAC-LA Endorsement

[John A Imani]

*Comrades of LA-CAN, HALA, WRAP and all other endorsing comradely
organizations*,

The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles, RAC-LA,  lends its
endorsement of and pledge of support for your "Homeless Bill of Rights"
campaign and of and for your countless brave and heroic efforts on the part
of the most vulnerable portions of our class: those without homes, those
without papers and therefore civil rights, those without employment and
those employed at minimum and near-minimum wages.

RAC-LA will be represented at your launch of the Homeless Bill of Rights on:

*Oct 5th
*
*10-12 PM
*
*820  S Burlington
*
*The Young Burlington Apartments*
(A residential apartment bldg for formerly homeless youths)

-- 
JAI
RAC-LA


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[LAAMN] Fwd: Kwazi Nkrumah and others up on charges

[John A Imani]

 DEMO:  City Attorney's office
312 South Hill St., 2nd Floor, L.A. 90013
Wednesday, October 9th
9:30 a.m.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:31 PM
Subject: Fwd: Kwazi Nkrumah and others up on charges
To: John A Imani johnaima...@gmail.com

-- Forwarded message --
From: 
Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:00 AM
Subject: Kwazi Nkrumah and others up on charges

Comrades,

 This is nothing but, as said in the below, an attempt to "intimidate those
who speak out".

Kwazi Nkrumah is a tireless advocate for and participant in the struggle
for our rights as human beings.  And he has made of himself an example in
his coalition-building skills and in fostering inter-organizational
cooperation.

He deserves all of our support.

JAI
RAC-LA



Dear Friends and Neighbors:

After many delays, I am being put on trial in Long Beach today on several
false charges brought against me by the Long Beach police stemming from my
participation in a protest at the Port of Long Beach nearly 2 years ago, in
connection with my work with the Occupy Movement.

On Monday of this week I also received a summons to appear at the L.A. City
Attorney's offices next Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. to face additional false
charges of supposedly organizing a "riot" downtown on August 28th. This
supposed "riot" was actually a peaceful, non-violent protest organized by
the Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater Los Angeles during the 50th
Anniversary Commemorations of the 1963 March on Washington demanding
justice for Trayvon Martin and other victims of racial profiling and
protesting state budget cuts of essential services to our communities.

BOTH OF THESE CASES ARE SIMPLY PART OF A GENERAL ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE
THOSE WHO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE CORRUPT AND OPPRESSIVE CONDITIONS OF OUR
TIMES. THOSE OF US WHO ARE COMMITTED TO CHALLENGING THESE CONDITIONS MUST
NEVER ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE INTIMIDATED.

UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION EVERY CITIZEN HAS THE
RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST POLICIES AND PRACTICES
THAT WE DISAGREE WITH. EVEN IF WE DID NOT HAVE SUCH PROTECTION UNDER THE
LAW, IT WOULD STILL BE OUR MORAL AND POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO!

If you are concerned with the protection of our first amendment rights, and
especially if you or your organization participated in or supported the MLK
Coalition's march and rally downtown on August 28th, I would like to
encourage you to join myself, Carolfrances Likins, Joyce Brody and Bilal
Ali at our hearing at the City Attorney's office on Wednesday, October 9th
at 9:30 a.m. (312 South Hill St., 2nd Floor, L.A. 90013) Let the city
attorney's office know that you will not tolerate any attempts to equate
non-violent protests with organizing a riot. (Please contact me to let me
know of you are interested in attending.)

I will post additional information on both cases as I can.

--- Kwazi Nkrumah, Co-Chair, Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater Los
Angeles
(213) 400-9155


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[LAAMN] LA Times: Pasadena reducing police role on campuses

[John A Imani]

Pasadena leads the way in reducing police role on campuses Pasadena school
officials have agreed to handle most student offenses with campus-based
discipline rather than citations or arrests.

  By Teresa Watanabe

September 21, 2013, 6:11 p.m.

A new agreement to limit the role of Pasadena police on school campuses
marks a California milestone in the national movement to minimize student
encounters with the criminal justice system, advocates say.

As school districts in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and elsewhere
grapple with rising concerns about police actions on campuses, Pasadena
officials have agreed to handle all but the most serious offenses with
school-based disciplinary actions rather than citations and arrests. Police
officers will intervene only in cases involving assault, weapons, narcotics
sales and other major offenses that state law requires them to handle.

David Sapp, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties
Unionof
Southern California, said the pact was "unlike anything we've seen"
statewide.

"No other school district has attempted, in such a clear and defined
manner, to identify the exact circumstances when police may engage," Sapp
said. "There was a shared understanding that minor things shouldn't lead to
police citations and arrests."

The agreement, unanimously approved last week* *by the Pasadena City
Council following passage by the city school board in July, runs counter to
the "zero tolerance" policies that took hold after the 1999 school massacre
in Littleton, Colo. The mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn., last year
amplified calls to expand campus police, whose numbers grew nationally by
40% between 1997 and 2007, according to federal data.

But civil rights and community groups have pushed to reduce police
involvement in schools and treat student misbehavior with strategies shown
to be more effective, such as incentives and conflict mediation.

They cite numerous studies showing that having* more police on campus has
led to more arrests of students*, often for minor offenses such as
disorderly conduct and fights. *Research has also shown that arrests and
other contact with the criminal justice system is linked to higher dropout
rates.*

The Los Angeles Unified School District's campus police force, the largest
in the nation, had been criticized for years for issuing thousands of
citations annually to students as young as 7 for such offenses as truancy,
disturbing the peace and tobacco possession.

But efforts by community activists helped result in new policies by L.A.
Unified school police last year to end citations for truancy. Instead, the
district's students are sent to city youth centers for educational
counseling and other services to help them with their academic struggles.

The district is currently crafting new guidelines to limit the role of
police on campus, as directed in a "school climate bill of rights" passed
by the board of education in May and supported by the school police union.

District officials are working with community groups on a possible pilot
program to replace citations and arrests for battery and disturbing the
peace with community-based alternatives.

But whether a new district policy will go far enough in circumscribing
police — and whether community members will have a chance to help shape it
— remains to be seen, said Zoe Rawson of the Community Rights Campaign, a
Los Angeles organizing effort to minimize police actions on campus. She
said she was "encouraged" by district data showing that citations on
campuses declined last year over the previous year but remained concerned
about the disproportionate impact on African American and Latino youth.

Public Counsel, a Los Angeles pro bono law firm, is also working with the
San Francisco and Oakland school districts to forge new campus policing
practices, while similar efforts are underway nationally.

Last year, the law firm and L.A. Delinquency Court Judge Donna Groman
sponsored a visit to Los Angeles by a Georgia chief juvenile court judge
who has launched a nationally recognized program to minimize police arrests
in favor of alternatives. The program led to a deep decline in weapons and
fights on campus and a 20% increase in high school graduation rates there,
Judge Steve Teske said in his L.A. appearance.

In Pasadena, the new agreement directs police to focus on building ties
with students, resolving conflicts and creating a safe environment.

It was not prompted by lawsuits or widespread complaints but by an
opportunity to improve an existing agreement up for renewal for the city to
provide police services to the district, said Eric Sahakian, a district
director of child welfare, attendance and safety.

Sahakian said police make about five arrests a month in the district of
17,700 students in 26 schools.

Gary Moody, president of the
NAACP

[LAAMN] Fwd: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] Fwd: Solidarity picket for Mex. teachers Friday

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: k f 
Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:47 PM
Subject: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] Fwd: Solidarity picket for Mex. teachers
Friday
To: K Flores 


**


FRIDAY DEMO @ MEXICAN CONSULATE 4P + 6TH & PARKVIEW

This is a call-out for teacher solidarity with the Mexican teachers
protests nation-wide including a two-day strike happening tomorrow and
Friday to denounce unjust laws being passed to deny teacher's rights and
further privatize education in Mexico!

Please pass this along to others and come out and support if you can!

Que vivan los maestr@s luchando!!

~k

-- Forwarded message --
From: Rosemary Lee 


Hi all,


Please join the Trinational Coalition to Defend Public Education in a
picket of the Mexican Consulate,
to protest the repression of the Mexican teachers and attempts to privatize
public education in Mexico.
*Where*: The Consulate is at 2401 W 6th St., at the NW corner of McArthur
Park.
There is a Metro stop at Westlake/MacArthur Park Station on both the Red
and Purple lines.
*When*: Friday (9/20) -- 3:30-5:30 pm
** **
Please put the word out to all appropriate lists and activists, and tell
your colleagues!
 (See some suggested slogans at end of this letter)

Just as the government here has been pushing for a so-called reform of
public education, which will
ultimately allow corporations to turn education into a business, the
Mexican teachers and students
face the same attack only much more extreme.  The Mexican government has
actually CHANGED
THE CONSTITUTION to:
* use standardized tests to determine if teachers can be hired or maintain
their
   jobs
* cut federal funding of the schools so that local schools and communities
have to find their own
   sources of money- opening the schools up to private entities
*use standardized test to  evaluate all students, which will have the most
negative impact on the poorest
  states which also have the largest number of indigenous students who
often do not even speak Spanish.

The teachers of CNTE (the democratic alternative to SNTE, the corrupt
national teachers union,  are on strike
in Oaxaca, Guerrero and Michoacan and have been marching and protesting in
25 of Mexico's 31 states and in Mexico City.
CNTE members in the multi-state occupation of the Zocalo were violently
removed by federal police on Sept. 14th and have been
attacked in other states.  CNTE members have regrouped in the capital and
have been joined by students from UNAM
and  other universities who voted for a 2-day boycott of their classes.
 Other citizens have joined with them as well, especially
in the face of the governments plan to open up Pemex, Mexico's national
oil company to privatization.
Protests are occurring at Mexican consulates and  embassies in a number of
countries and here in New York City.
Letters of solidarity can be sent to:

Coalición Trinacional en Defensa de la Educación Publica- Mexico
seccionmexicana.co...@gmail.com.  The Mexican section do the Trinational
will translate
them if necessary & circulate them in Mexico.

Letters of protest can be sent to:
MTRO. ENRIQUE PEÑA NIETO
Presidente Constitucional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
enrique.penani...@presidencia.gob.mx

LIC. OSORIO CHONG MIGUEL ANGEL
Secretario de Estado
secreta...@segob.mx

LIC. CHUAYFFET CHEMOR EMILIO
Secretaria de Educación Pública
emilio.chuayf...@sep.gob.mx

SLOGANS:
*STOP GOVERNMENT ATTACKS AGAINST TEACHERS AND EDUCATION
*STOP THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE TEACHERS' STRUGGLE TO DEFEND EDUCATION
*END THE REPRESSION OF TEACHERS
*AN IMMEDIATE SOLUTION THROUGH AN HONEST DIALOGUE WITH CNTE
*NO PRIVATIZATION OF EDUCATION IN MEXICO
*PROTECT THE LABOR & HUMAN RIGHTS OF EDUCATION WORKERS, STUDENTS AND PARENTS
*STOP CUTS TO EDUCATION FUNDING IN MEXICO
*WE SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO TO DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION REFORM BY AND FOR THE
PEOPLE
*STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF EDUCATION IN MEXICO AND THE USA
 *THEIR STRUGGLE IS OUR STRUGGLE
   MEXICO -  USA

*  MEXICAN TEACHERS
  YOUR STRUGGLE IS OUR STRUGGLE

*EDUCATION IS NOT A CLASS PRIVILEGE
 IT'S A HUMAN RIGHT

*PUBLIC EDUCATION IS NOT FOR SALE
   YOUR STRUGGLE IS OUR STRUGGLE

In solidarity,
Rosemary Lee * Marc Rich
for Trinational Coalition to Defend Public Education-USA











 



-- 
JAI
RAC-LA

[LAAMN] Fwd: House Bill Would Cut 3.8 Million People From Food Stamp Rolls

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: nwaakwukwo 
Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:13 PM
Subject: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] House Bill Would Cut 3.8 Million People
>From Food Stamp Rolls
To: "laborcl...@yahoogroups.com" , "
dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com" 


 House Bill Would Cut 3.8 Million People From Food
   Stamp Rolls

Snippets:

"The welfare reform bill said that able-bodied adults without dependents
could only get three months of food aid in a three-year period, unless they
had a job or were in a state job-training program. Since the recession,
states have been given waivers so that unemployed adults can keep getting
food stamps. The House bill would cut back on those waivers. The
Congressional Budget Office estimates that 1.7 million people would lose
SNAP benefits as a result."

"For advocates like Brett Kincaid, the outreach director at Arkansas
Advocates for Children and Families , the cuts
proposed by the House bill just don't make sense. Kincaid says unemployment
remains high, and when jobs are hard to come by, SNAP is even more
important."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/18/223627228/house-bill-would-cut-40-billion-from-food-stamp-program


-- 
JAI
RAC-LA

[LAAMN] HALA-Tomorrow: Call Congress to Stop SNAP/Food Stamp Cuts

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM
Subject: Tomorrow: Call Congress to Stop SNAP/Food Stamp Cuts
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


>From Coalition on Human Needs

** **

*Your help is needed:  Stop the House bill to deny SNAP/Food Stamps to 4-6
million people. *

*Call your Rep, toll-free:  866-456-8824* TOMORROW, Tuesday, September 17.**
***

The U.S. House is expected to take up a bill this week that would cut SNAP
by $40 billion over ten years.  Every Member of Congress needs to hear that
such an extreme proposal is simply beyond the pale.  Food stamps have had
bipartisan support for decades.  (See *Stop Playing Politics with
Hunger*by
former Senators Bob Dole and Tom Daschle in the
* Los Angeles Times *as an expression of that bipartisan support.)  But now
extremist members want to slash SNAP and hurt millions of children and
their families, seniors, and poor adults without children.

**Tomorrow: Call 866-456-8824*, listen to the recorded message and enter
your zip code.  You'll be connected right to your Representative's office.
Let them know you're a constituent; tell them your name and the town you
are calling from.  Tell them:

*As your constituent, I urge you to vote against the extreme nutrition-only
farm bill which would cut $40 billion from SNAP and deny assistance to 4-6
million poor people.  This bill would be devastating to struggling
Americans; by making more people hungry, it goes against many years of
bipartisan support.*

*What's bad about this bill? * A  few points:  the bill would deny SNAP to
millions of poor, jobless adults without children whose income averages
only about one-fifth of the poverty line - about $2,500 a year.  It would
also end benefits for a whole family if a parent is not working at least 20
hours per week, even if her/his child is only one year old, and even if
unemployment remains high. And the bill gives states a REWARD for cutting
off families - the state gets 50 percent of the reduced costs. Hundreds of
thousands of children will lose free school meals. For decades, there has
been bipartisan support for making sure that poor people can get the modest
but vital SNAP benefits.  You can help preserve a bipartisan majority that
says that making millions hungrier is just too extreme.  And let House
leaders know that they can't be so reckless with people's lives just to
satisfy their most extreme members. Check out this op-ed from Ruth
Marcusin
*The Washington Post *for more information.

Click here for talking points on the how proposals in the nutrition-only
bill would impact SNAP
participants.


*And...**join the Twitter effort to share why you’re #madashell about SNAP
cuts. *Click here to learn why
the
Food Research and Action Center is “mad as hell” and join them on Twitter
by using the hashtag #madashell. *Click here for sample tweets.
*


** Thanks to Feeding America for the use of their toll-free line for the
call-in day.*



-- 
JAI
RAC-LA

Re: [LAAMN] 40 years since the murder of President Salvador Allende

[John A Imani]

Comrades,

I was released from the LA County jail on 9-11-1973.  I had done 30 days
fort my arrest at UCLA in May of
1972.
My first daughter had her first birthday on Sept 7th while I was
incarcerated.

I came out and saw the LA Times article on Allende
and
the bottom dropped out of my stomach.  His was a Marxism relatively free
from the purported vanguardism, would-be hegemonic Stalinism that dominated
the world-wide communist movement at that time from Cuba through Europe,
even in some African countries, and, sad to say, Mao's China and Kim Il
Sung's N Korea.

The first and last thing that hit me about the coup and his murder was
Marx' admonition that revolutionaries (paraphrase) cannot lay hold of the
existing state machinery and wield it for our own use:

,
1871, where this point is further developed.)>>
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/preface.htm

That lesson was learned again in Egypt with the sycophantic adoration of
the Army while the leading (and perhaps the most important) question of the
role of women in Islamic countries left off the table.

We must *dissolve*, abolish, do away with not only the existing
national-based standing army but also the local and national policing
forces.  The cops are not there to "protect and serve" the people.  Neither
is the US Navy "A Global Force for
Good"as
it advertises itself.  Both and all such agencies must be disarmed and
disbanded and replaced by the armed people.

Some examples:

Community Police in Guerrero,
Mexico

Tupamaros in 
Venezuala-The
group has refused to renounce use of arms to protect communities considered
too dangerous even for police officers. In one such example in the
high-crime 23 de
Eneroneighborhood
in western Caracas, thieves, muggers or drug dealers who
operate in the area run the risk of being executed by Tupamaros patrolling.

JAI
RAC-LA
-- Forwarded message --
From: Cort Greene 
Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Subject: [LAAMN] 40 years since the real Sept.11th-President Salvador
Allende: The Last Speech
To: Venezuela_Today , csny <
cubasolidarit...@yahoogroups.com>


**


President Salvador Allende: The Last Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUx5Zp0Z9A

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido - Chile 11. september 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-rnnitNBc

 



-- 
JAI
RAC-LA

[LAAMN] Support RAC-LA-Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike-Sunday, September 8th

[John A Imani]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 9:23 AM, John A Imani  wrote:

> (JAI:  Comrades, come out and support the work that RAC-LA has been doing
> amongst the undocumented, low income, jobless and homeless of the MacArthur
> Park area for almost 6 years; and assist the comradely actions and
> activities of the ABCF (Los Angeles) and their continuing efforts to
> provide aid to the all-to-many all-too-forgotten freedom fighters still
> incarcerated under inhumane conditions.)
>
> *LA-ABCF’s Annual *
>
> *Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike*
>
> *www.abcf.net/la*
>
> On *Sunday, September 8th, 2013 at 10 a.m*., the Los Angeles Anarchist
> Black Cross will host a 5K Run/Walk/Bike around MacArthur Park. This Run is
> designed to raise much-needed funds for the Anarchist Black Cross
> Federation's Warchest program and for Revolutionary Autonomous Communities,
> Los Angeles (RAC-LA).
>
> We are attempting to reach the goal of $3,000 with the run. Funds will be
> divided between the two programs:
>
> *ABCF Warchest: *
>
> The ABCF Warchest program was created in November of 1994. Its purpose is
> to send monthly financial support to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of
> War (PP/POWs). The Warchest funds are divided and distributed through
> monthly stipends to political prisoners who receive little or no financial
> aid. Prisoners use this money to cover the basic necessities of everyday
> living. These funds have been used by prisoners to pay for stamps, shoes,
> clothes, as well as assisting their families with what little they can.
>
> *Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles (RAC-LA):*
>
> In the aftermath of the May Day 2007 police riot targeting migrant workers
> who dared stand up for our human rights, members of the MacArthur Park area
> and others joined together to support those with no papers and those with
> no means. RAC-LA came forward to aid the community in self-organizing such
> that with the help of each other we might make an inhuman way of living a
> bit more bearable while at same time acquiring the means to one day
> transform this system into an image of our own humanity.
>
> *Solidarity Runs:*
>
> Every year, prisoners and supporters of political prisoners organize
> solidarity runs with Running Down the Walls. In Sync with each other, we
> will collectively pound the pavement with our feet and bike tires as we
> exhibit our strength and stamina as examples of our tireless effort to free
> our imprisoned comrades. In past years we had runs in: Albuquerque (NM),
> Arcata (CA), Ashland, (OR), Bellefonte (PA), Boston (MA), Connecticut
> River, Dannemora (NY), Denver, (CO), Detroit (MI), Elmore (AL), Guelph
> (CAN), Inez (KY), Los Angeles (CA), Marion (IL), Mexico City (MEX), New
> York City (NY), USP. Navosta (TX), Pelican Bay (CA), Phoenix (AZ), Sandstone
> (MN), Tucson (AZ), USP Tucson (AZ), and Toronto (CAN).
>
> *-This year’s Running Down the Walls solidarity runs will be held on the
> Sunday, September 1st, 2013, with the exception of Los Angeles and Vermont,
> these events are scheduled for Sunday, September 8**th*
>
> *Support the Struggle:*
>
> We must remember that many of those arrested in the past or present are
> not far from us. Many of them were and are community and labor activists,
> queer, and environmental activists; people who decided to speak out against
> various forms of oppression and paid the price of their freedom for their
> actions. We must remember that anyone of these people could have at one
> time stood beside us in a demonstration, at a speak-out, or even at an
> organizing meeting. At any given moment it could be us who finds ourselves
> in this situation, so it is imperative that we ensure that a strong enough
> community of support exists for these people as well as ourselves. The
> strength of our movement is determined by how much we support our fallen
> comrades. As Anarchist and former POW Ojore Lutalo says, "Any Movement that
> does not support its political internees, is a sham movement." So please
> help us, help them! Help us help you!
>
> *We encourage people to participate in helping us raise funds for the
> Warchest, which can be done in the following ways:*
>
> *Be a runner:*
>
> We are asking people or groups who are running to collect as many sponsor
> for the run as possible. Remember the money received is going to help
> imprisoned comrades who need your help. The person who collects the most
> amount of funds will be given a prize for their involvement and dedication
> to helping our fallen comrades.
>
> *Sponsor a runner:*
>
> This can be done through a flat donation to the runner of your choice,
> each flyer is a sponsor sheet. We ask from those who wish not t

[LAAMN] Support RAC-LA-Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike-Sunday, September 8th

[John A Imani]

n hopes of collecting as much for
> our comrades as possible.
>
> *Sponsor Running Down the Walls: *
>
> Any amount helps. Contact the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross if you
> wish to simply donate money to the cause.
>
> *Donate to:*
>
> *-The Warchest:*
>
> Send funds directly to the Los Angeles ABCF (PO Box 11223, Whittier, CA
> 90603) or to the Philadelphia ABCF (PO Box 42129, Philadelphia, PA 19101)
> make checks or money orders out only to Tim Fasnacht.
>
> *-Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, Los Angeles (RAC-LA): **
> http://revolutionaryautonomouscommunities.blogspot.com/*
>
> *https://www.facebook.com/raclosangeles*
>
> Contact:  John A Imani johnaima...@gmail.com*
> *
>
> *Get involved in the planning of Running Down the Walls: *
>
> We always need help with organizing the event and we encourage people to
> contact us if they would like to get involved. You can do this by
> contacting the LA Anarchist Black Cross, *www.abcf.net/la*, *l...@abcf.net*
>
>
>  -Jaan Laaman, UFF Political Prisoner Statement of Solidarity
>
> October 19th 2002 My Brothers,
>
> "Thank you for running at this special event that means so much to many of
> us all over the world, both free and imprisoned. In a relative way, we are
> all political prisoners because it is the politics of this system of things
> that is exploiting, crushing, imprisoning, and destroying the masses all
> over the world and the earth itself. Then there are those who know this and
> take actions against those who seek to deny us our rightful place on earth
> as common human brethren. Those are the ones we run for and seek to help...
> whom sacrificed their family, freedom and lives, so that our lives may be
> better! The fact that you ran with us is a sign that when the red-hour
> comes, you will not be caught asleep. You are conscious and you too are
> willing to represent. The potential in you is great. Thank you for running
> for the cause!"
>
> "As we ran we were thinking and talking about all the runners in Los
> Angeles and how we'd love to be out there running with them. We also spoke
> about the other political prisoners who were running with us in at least
> some other prisons."
>
> *Running Down the Walls 2013*
>
> When: Sunday, September 8th, 2013, 10 am - 2 pm
>
> Where: MacArthur Park, (West corner), 2230 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA
> 90057
>
> Registration fees:$15, preregistration $12 (Make checks out to Tim
> Fasnacht)
>
> Or for paypal:
>
> *Log in to your PayPal account <http://www.paypal.com/>* and send your
> donation online to the email address "tima...@aol.com" (Tim Fasnacht).
> Make sure to add in the notes section that your donation is for RDTW 2013.
> If you'd prefer to stay anonymous or are donating in the name of an
> organization, let us know.
>
> For more information contact the Los Angeles Branch Group of the Anarchist
> Black Cross Federation
>
> PO BOX 11223
>
> Whitier, Ca 90603
>
> http://www.abcf.net/la/laabcf.asp?page=la/rdtw
>
> www.abcf.net/la
>
> l...@abcf.net
>
>
> --
> JAI
> RAC-LA
>
>
>
> --
> JAI
> RAC-LA
>



-- 
JAI
RAC-LA

[LAAMN] Fwd: Hunger Action LA newsletter

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:04 PM
Subject: a real newsletter
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! 

** **

Keep your eyes open for a separate alert about Hunger Action LA’s 2013
Awards and Dinner---Honoring Champions Against Hunger and Poverty—and your
chance to nominate a Champion for this year---somebody doing this work who
hasn’t been getting recognition! See www.hungeractionla.org/dinnerandawards


** **

** **

*September 5, 2013:*

* *

***1. Greater West Hollywood Food Line Needs
Support!
   *

***2.  LA Food Policy Council “Healthy Food, Healthy Businesses”
This Saturday Sept. 7

***

***3. State Legislative
Update
** *

***4. New  Pasadena Co Op Needs Your Help!*
   **

***5. Editorial: The Anti Hunger Industrial Complex *

** **

**

***1. Greater West Hollywood Food Line Needs Support!*

* *

“Pop-up” restaurants and food trucks are trendy….but how about an older
tradition, food lines for homeless people? They are under attack, an easy
target for neighbors—even when they’re located in an industrial zone, as
the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition is, which has been serving up to
250 people a night for 13 years, every night of the week and holidays.

Recently local TV reported on the issue we described last Friday

** **

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Free-Services-Attract-Too-Large-of-a-Crowd-for-Residents-and-Businesses-in-Hollywood/222448221


** **

*Act now:  Please e mail the following LA City Councilmembers and tell them
to allow the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition to continue its program
at its current location until they find a new location*

* *

SAMPLE SUPPORT LETTER FOR GREATER WEST HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION

Councilmember Tom LaBonge   tom.labo...@lacity.org
213 485-3337

Councilmember Paul Koretz
paul.kor...@lacity.org
213 473-7005

Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell
councilmember.ofarr...@lacity.org   213 473 7013

** **

“I am writing to communicate my support for the Greater West Hollywood Food
Coalition (GWHFC).

1. Please rescind the order from the Bureau of Street Services that the
Coalition (and UCLA) not have tables or chairs set out , and change it so
that the GWHFC (and UCLA)  be allowed to continue with their regular set up
until they find a new location.

2. Please use your time and resources to help the Greater West Hollywood
Food Coalition find a new site to provide service daily, which they have
been providing at no taxpayer expense.

3. Please gather real data regarding any negative claims that have recently
been attributed to the people served by the organization.  

Your support will greatly affect the lives of those community members who
otherwise cannot advocate for themselves, will reduce the need for food
solicitation and make for a more productive community.

** **

Thank you for your support,”

** **



*Join us in support:* Contact fr...@hungeractionla.org if you wish to
become more involved in this issue

** **

*Volunteer at GWHFC:*  From The Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition : “We
are  looking for new volunteers who are willing to commit to giving a
minimum of 3 hours a month to help prepare the nightly meal we serve to the
needy and hungry in our community. If you find you love what we do, join us
weekly or every other week and become a kitchen supervisor in charge of
preparing the meal! 

We are able to serve a very high quality meal every night thanks to the
caterers, restaurants, grocery stores, and bakeries who donate excess food
from their establishments to our organization.  We use this donated food to
prepare a nightly meal consisting of casseroles, soup, salad, bread,
sandwiches, fruit, dessert and beverage for between 100 and 200 people.

We call our nightly meal preparation “creative cooking”.  We see what has
been donated that day and from these ingredients we create our meal—no
recipes included.  Join us!  We need you.  Please contact Sebastian at
slem...@ucla.edu “

** **

*

***2. LA Food Policy Council “Healthy Food, Healthy Businesses”
This Saturday Sept. 7*

* *

Presented by the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, "Healthy Foods, Healthy
Businesses" is a business and leadership training geared to local grocery
store owners, corner store owners, restaurants and all aspiring food
entrepreneurs to share resources and training, both in general business

[LAAMN] Fwd: Getting involved with the IWW in LA - volunteers needed

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ali Rahnoma 
Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Subject: [rac-lasupporters] Getting involved with the IWW in LA -
volunteers needed
To: "rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net" 


Dear supporters, fellow workers, and RAC family!

The IWW is looking for volunteers to help this Saturday. The Southern
California IWW branches are taking on a longer term project and could
always use an extra hand with engaging workers in various industries about
their work conditions!

If you've always wanted to get involved with supporting job actions,
building solidarity unionism, and eventual worker controlled industries
then look no further! Wobblies are here!

If you're free this Saturday (09/07/13) from 2:00pm-6:pm in Los Angeles or
Orange County and would like to volunteer, please reply! I can give you
more details for anyone that is interested! Thank you!

"We walk slowly because we are going far" *-* Zapatistas

In solidarity,
Fellow worker Ali
Ricardo Flores Magon LA IWW branch



-- 
JAI
RAC-LA

[LAAMN] Support RAC-LA-Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike-Sunday, September 8th

[John A Imani]

to Tim Fasnacht.

*-Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, Los Angeles (RAC-LA): **
http://revolutionaryautonomouscommunities.blogspot.com/*

*https://www.facebook.com/raclosangeles*

Contact:  John A Imani johnaima...@gmail.com*
*

*Get involved in the planning of Running Down the Walls: *

We always need help with organizing the event and we encourage people to
contact us if they would like to get involved. You can do this by
contacting the LA Anarchist Black Cross, *www.abcf.net/la*, *l...@abcf.net*


 -Jaan Laaman, UFF Political Prisoner Statement of Solidarity

October 19th 2002 My Brothers,

"Thank you for running at this special event that means so much to many of
us all over the world, both free and imprisoned. In a relative way, we are
all political prisoners because it is the politics of this system of things
that is exploiting, crushing, imprisoning, and destroying the masses all
over the world and the earth itself. Then there are those who know this and
take actions against those who seek to deny us our rightful place on earth
as common human brethren. Those are the ones we run for and seek to help...
whom sacrificed their family, freedom and lives, so that our lives may be
better! The fact that you ran with us is a sign that when the red-hour
comes, you will not be caught asleep. You are conscious and you too are
willing to represent. The potential in you is great. Thank you for running
for the cause!"

"As we ran we were thinking and talking about all the runners in Los
Angeles and how we'd love to be out there running with them. We also spoke
about the other political prisoners who were running with us in at least
some other prisons."

*Running Down the Walls 2013*

When: Sunday, September 8th, 2013, 10 am - 2 pm

Where: MacArthur Park, (West corner), 2230 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057

Registration fees:$15, preregistration $12 (Make checks out to Tim Fasnacht)

Or for paypal:

*Log in to your PayPal account <http://www.paypal.com/>* and send your
donation online to the email address "tima...@aol.com" (Tim Fasnacht). Make
sure to add in the notes section that your donation is for RDTW 2013. If
you'd prefer to stay anonymous or are donating in the name of an
organization, let us know.

For more information contact the Los Angeles Branch Group of the Anarchist
Black Cross Federation

PO BOX 11223

Whitier, Ca 90603

http://www.abcf.net/la/laabcf.asp?page=la/rdtw

www.abcf.net/la

l...@abcf.net


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RAC-LA



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[LAAMN] Fwd: This Friday August 30 Hunger Action la Meeting

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:11 PM
Subject: this friday august 30 hala meeting jam packed agenda
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


*Hunger Action Los Angeles*

*MONTHLY MEETING*

* *

*(“It’s the Friday before Labor Day”, you say? Lame excuse! Come to the mtg
anyway)*

** **

[image: 1-IMG_2604.JPG]  

* *

*Friday August 30 2013*

*10 am to 12 Noon*

*Location: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy ---*

**Look for signs at building for room location ***

*464 S. Lucas St.  LA CA 90017*

*(Just west of downtown, on Lucas btw. 6th and 3rd st.: Free parking! )***

* *

*Agenda*

* *

**· ***State Legislative Update : This Day (Aug 30) Hearing Date
for AB 191 and SB 283---what can we do to help them pass and get ready for
floor votes as soon as day after Labor Day*

**· ***Preparing for next year’s Homeless Bill of Rights campaign*

**· ***City Legislation on : Edible Parkways (Planting Food in
Vacant Space) and City resolution to ask federal govt to oppose cuts to
Senior Meal programs*

**· ***Protecting Our Food Programs Locally: Hollywood*

**· ***Preparing for Hunger Action Day L.A. 2013*

* *

* ***

* *

* *

*Please RSVP: **fr...@hungeractionla.org* * or (213)
388 8228*

*SPONSORED BY HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES***

** **

** **

Frank Tamborello

Hunger Action Los Angeles

961 S. Mariposa #205

Los Angeles CA 90006

213-388-8228

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[LAAMN] Economist-CA Prisons and SHU (Solitary) Confinement

[John A Imani]

*Jam-packed or alone* Overcrowding and solitary confinement, in California
and beyond Aug 17th 2013 | LOS ANGELES |From the print
edition

   It’s cramped in here

JEFFREY BEARD, California’s prisons chief, boasts that the number of
inmates in the state’s prisons has fallen by 43,000 since 2006. But unlike
other states that have seen big drops, California’s hand was forced: in
2009 federal judges were so concerned by overcrowding that they ordered the
state to cut prison occupancy to 137.5% of design capacity (at one point it
exceeded 200%). The ruling has been upheld over the laments of officials,
most recently by the Supreme Court on August 2nd. An appeal is pending.

California has not reduced numbers simply by setting people free. Rather,
it has sent lots of non-serious offenders to county jails instead of state
prisons (a policy called “realignment”). To meet the court-decreed target
by the end of the year, the state must find another 7,000 or so prisoners
to offload, says Mr Beard. His department hopes to do this mainly
through *“capacity
options”, such as dispatching prisoners to costly private lock-ups in other
states.*

Officials worry that further releases may “cut into muscle rather than
fat”, says Joan Petersilia of Stanford Law School. Crime has crept up in
parts of California since realignment began in 2011 (although the causal
link isn’t clear). Still, Ms Petersilia thinks the state could release some
elderly and frail inmates.

Mr Beard is also contending with a month-long hunger strike by 300-odd
prisoners opposing conditions in Security Housing Units (SHUs), often (and
incorrectly, say officials) described as solitary confinement. *SHUs were
created in the 1980s to isolate gang members; some of the 3,500 prisoners
they house have been there for over two decades.*

Last year the state’s department of corrections softened policy on the use
of SHUs after two earlier hunger strikes; gang members must no longer turn
informant to be released, for example. Mr Beard says today’s strike is
orchestrated by gang leaders.

Solitary confinement is a touchy topic nationwide. How many Americans are
subjected to it is hard to say. As of 2005 roughly* 25,000 were held in
“supermax” prisons, in which the most dangerous prisoners are locked in a
single cell for up to 23 hours a day. When they are let out to exercise,
they do so alone, watched over by guards in riot gear*. Meals come through
slots in a door. Some cells have no windows. T*ens of thousands of inmates
in normal prisons are also sent to solitary, usually for breaking rules.
Some stay there indefinitely.*

In 2011 Juan Mendez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, called for an
end to solitary confinement of periods longer than 15 days. Terry Kupers, a
psychiatrist, says roughly half of all prison suicides occur among the
small fraction of prisoners kept in isolation. Some prisoners need to be
kept apart from other inmates for their own safety. Brian Nelson, who spent
23 years in solitary and says he remains scarred, acknowledges that “when
someone becomes [uncontrollably] psychotic or homicidal you need to put
them in there for cooling off.” But that should not take decades.

*Correction:* California's SHUs hold 3,500 prisoners, not 4,500 as we
originally stated. This was corrected on August 16th 2013

>From the print edition: United
States

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[LAAMN] Fwd: food justice news august 21

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:22 AM
Subject: food justice news august 21
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! 

Welcome to all the new people on the list. If you wish to respond, or use a
different e mail, or be removed from the list,  please respond to
fr...@hungeractionla.org .  DO NOT reply to THIS email: it won’t go
anywhere. Use fr...@hungeractionla.org 

** **

*Follow us *on Twitter @HungerActionLA .

Like our  Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunger-Action-Los-Angeles/133467296826961

*2013-2014 Peoples Guide is here!* Place your order at
ord...@hungeractionla.org . This 72-pg booklet covers rights,
responsibilities, who qualifies, and how to access financial assistance,
free and low cost food, health care, housing, and other services in Los
Angeles County. Spanish version also available beginning Sept. 1. $1.25 per
copy: inquire about discounts for orders over 10. See last year’s version
for a samplewww.hungeractionla.org/peoplesguide   

** **

*August 21, 2013:*

***1.Community Legislative Briefing Friday August 23 *

***2.City Council Considers Resolution Opposing Cuts to Senior Meal
Funding, Friday Aug. 23**  *

***3.California Struggles with CalFresh Enrollment*

***4.Next Hunger Action LA Meeting Friday August 30*

* *

*  *

** **

**

***1.   Community Legislative Briefing Friday August 23*

* *

California Partnership is presenting a Community Legislative Briefing:
Developing Champions to Restore the Golden State!

*Day/Time:*   Friday, August 23,
2013  10:00 am – 12
noon
*Location:* ACLU-SC 1313 W 8th St Los Angeles,
CA 90017

Community members will share their stories and advocates will speak about
programs and policies that impact the lives of the most vulnerable in
California. We’ve invited all Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside and San
Bernardino legislators to attend and hear our concerns. *For the hunger
community in particular this will be a chance to turn out in force to make
a final push for a couple of bills that have just been put in the
“suspense” file and need to be passed out by the end of August.* Segments
will focus on health, human services, criminal justice, hunger, and
homelessness. 

*Community members, advocates, and policy-makers are all invited. *For more
information and to RSVP contact: Astrid Campos at
acam...@communitychange.org or 714-396-8242.

** **

** **

*

*2. City Council Considers Resolution Opposing Cuts to Senior Meal Funding,
Friday Aug. 23*

* *

The sequester resulting from the hyper-political struggles over the federal
budget is going to result in cuts to programs funded by the Older Americans
Act---meaning, the home delivered meals served to seniors and the meals
served at senior centers to low income seniors. Often these meals are the
only food seniors get in a day, and the only chance for companionship and
escape from constant isolation for many. 

Cuts to these programs could result in the loss of 111,000 meals delivered
to homes and 89,000 meals at senior centers. Thousands could be left on the
waiting lists for home delivered meals, and thousands more turned away at
centers for the group meals.

** **

Councilmember Paul Koretz has introduced a resolution for the City to go on
record opposing these cuts, either supporting or sponsoring any legislative
or administrative action that would overturn them. It will be heard in
council this Friday (unfortunately at the same time as the legislative
briefing listed above) but please turn out if you can, especially if you
are a senior who benefits from the meals, or you know someone who does and
can help them get to City Hall. If you are a senior who uses home delivered
or meals at senior centers, or works with this program, contact us
fr...@hungeractionla.org 213 388 8228. We are collecting testimony for this
Friday and for future hearings on the issue.

* *

***

*3. California Struggles with CalFresh Enrollment*

** **

Sunday LA Times article points out “California discourages needy from
signing up for food stamps

The state's participation rate is the lowest in the U.S. — only about half
of those qualified get the aid — making it the envy of more-conservative
states.” 

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-california-food-stamps-20130818,0,3317166.story


An editorial appeared soon afterward supporting expanding access, pointing
out the new rules for youth trans

[LAAMN] Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike-Sunday, September 8th

[John A Imani]

*LA-ABCF’s Annual *

*Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike*

*www.abcf.net/la*


 On Sunday, September 8th, 2013 at 10 a.m., the Los Angeles Anarchist Black
Cross will host a 5K Run/Walk/Bike around MacArthur Park. This Run is
designed to raise much-needed funds for the Anarchist Black Cross
Federation's Warchest program and for Revolutionary Autonomous Communities,
Los Angeles (RAC-LA).

We are attempting to reach the goal of $3,000 with the run. Funds will be
divided between the two programs:

*ABCF Warchest: *

The ABCF Warchest program was created in November of 1994. Its purpose is
to send monthly financial support to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of
War (PP/POWs). The Warchest funds are divided and distributed through
monthly stipends to political prisoners who receive little or no financial
aid. Prisoners use this money to cover the basic necessities of everyday
living. These funds have been used by prisoners to pay for stamps, shoes,
clothes, as well as assisting their families with what little they can.

*Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles (RAC-LA):*

In the aftermath of the May Day 2007 police riot targeting migrant workers
who dared stand up for our human rights, members of the MacArthur Park area
and others joined together to support those with no papers and those with
no means. RAC-LA came forward to aid the community in self-organizing such
that with the help of each other we might make an inhuman way of living a
bit more bearable while at same time acquiring the means to one day
transform this system into an image of our own humanity.

*Solidarity Runs:*

Every year, prisoners and supporters of political prisoners organize
solidarity runs with Running Down the Walls. In Sync with each other, we
will collectively pound the pavement with our feet and bike tires as we
exhibit our strength and stamina as examples of our tireless effort to free
our imprisoned comrades. In past years we had runs in: Albuquerque (NM),
Arcata (CA), Ashland, (OR), Bellefonte (PA), Boston (MA), Connecticut
River, Dannemora (NY), Denver, (CO), Detroit (MI), Elmore (AL), Guelph
(CAN), Inez (KY), Los Angeles (CA), Marion (IL), Mexico City (MEX), New
York City (NY), USP. Navosta (TX), Pelican Bay (CA), Phoenix (AZ), Sandstone
(MN), Tucson (AZ), USP Tucson (AZ), and Toronto (CAN).

*-This year’s Running Down the Walls solidarity runs will be held on the
Sunday, September 1st, 2013, with the exception of Los Angeles and Vermont,
these events are scheduled for Sunday, September 8**th*

*Support the Struggle:*

We must remember that many of those arrested in the past or present are not
far from us. Many of them were and are community and labor activists,
queer, and environmental activists; people who decided to speak out against
various forms of oppression and paid the price of their freedom for their
actions. We must remember that anyone of these people could have at one
time stood beside us in a demonstration, at a speak-out, or even at an
organizing meeting. At any given moment it could be us who finds ourselves
in this situation, so it is imperative that we ensure that a strong enough
community of support exists for these people as well as ourselves. The
strength of our movement is determined by how much we support our fallen
comrades. As Anarchist and former POW Ojore Lutalo says, "Any Movement that
does not support its political internees, is a sham movement." So please
help us, help them! Help us help you!

*We encourage people to participate in helping us raise funds for the
Warchest, which can be done in the following ways:*

*Be a runner:*

We are asking people or groups who are running to collect as many sponsor
for the run as possible. Remember the money received is going to help
imprisoned comrades who need your help. The person who collects the most
amount of funds will be given a prize for their involvement and dedication
to helping our fallen comrades.

*Sponsor a runner:*

This can be done through a flat donation to the runner of your choice, each
flyer is a sponsor sheet. We ask from those who wish not to run to actively
support those who are running in hopes of collecting as much for our
comrades as possible.

*Sponsor Running Down the Walls: *

Any amount helps. Contact the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross if you wish
to simply donate money to the cause.

*Donate to:*

*-The Warchest:*

Send funds directly to the Los Angeles ABCF (PO Box 11223, Whittier, CA
90603) or to the Philadelphia ABCF (PO Box 42129, Philadelphia, PA 19101)
make checks or money orders out only to Tim Fasnacht.

*-Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, Los Angeles (RAC-LA): **
http://revolutionaryautonomouscommunities.blogspot.com/*

*https://www.facebook.com/raclosangeles*

*Get involved in the planning of Running Down the Walls: *

We always need help with organizing the event and we encourage people to
contact us if they would like to get involved. You can do this by
contacting the LA Anarchist Black Cross, *ww

[LAAMN] Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike Sept 8th MacArthur Park

[John A Imani]

*LA-ABCF’s Annual *

*Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike*

*www.abcf.net/la*

On Sunday, September 8th, 2013 at 10 a.m., the Los Angeles Anarchist Black
Cross will host a 5K Run/Walk/Bike around MacArthur Park. This Run is
designed to raise much-needed funds for the Anarchist Black Cross
Federation's Warchest program and for Revolutionary Autonomous Communities
(RAC).

We are attempting to reach the goal of $3,000 with the run. Funds will be
divided between the two programs:

*ABCF Warchest: *

The ABCF Warchest program was created in November of 1994. Its purpose is
to send monthly financial support to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of
War (PP/POWs). The Warchest funds are divided and distributed through
monthly stipends to political prisoners who receive little or no financial
aid. Prisoners use this money to cover the basic necessities of everyday
living. These funds have been used by prisoners to pay for stamps, shoes,
clothes, as well as assisting their families with what little they can.

*Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC):*

In the aftermath of the May Day 2007 police riot targeting migrant workers
who dared stand up for our human rights, members of the MacArthur Park area
and others joined together to support those with no papers and those with
no means. RAC-LA came forward to aid the community in self-organizing such
that with the help of each other we might make an inhuman way of living a
bit more bearable while at same time acquiring the means to one day
transform this system into an image of our own humanity.

*Solidarity Runs:*

Every year, prisoners and supporters of political prisoners organize
solidarity runs with Running Down the Walls. In Sync with each other, we
will collectively pound the pavement with our feet and bike tires as we
exhibit our strength and stamina as examples of our tireless effort to free
our imprisoned comrades. In past years we had runs in: Albuquerque (NM),
Arcata (CA), Ashland, (OR), Bellefonte (PA), Boston (MA), Connecticut
River, Dannemora (NY), Denver, (CO), Detroit (MI), Elmore (AL), Guelph
(CAN), Inez (KY), Los Angeles (CA), Marion (IL), Mexico City (MEX), New
York City (NY), USP. Navosta (TX), Pelican Bay (CA), Phoenix (AZ), Sandstone
(MN), Tucson (AZ), USP Tucson (AZ), and Toronto (CAN).

*-This year’s Running Down the Walls solidarity runs will be held on the
Sunday, September 1st, 2013, with the exception of Los Angeles and Vermont,
these events are scheduled for Sunday, September 8**th*

*Support the Struggle:*

We must remember that many of those arrested in the past or present are not
far from us. Many of them were and are community and labor activists,
queer, and environmental activists; people who decided to speak out against
various forms of oppression and paid the price of their freedom for their
actions. We must remember that anyone of these people could have at one
time stood beside us in a demonstration, at a speak-out, or even at an
organizing meeting. At any given moment it could be us who finds ourselves
in this situation, so it is imperative that we ensure that a strong enough
community of support exists for these people as well as ourselves. The
strength of our movement is determined by how much we support our fallen
comrades. As Anarchist and former POW Ojore Lutalo says, "Any Movement that
does not support its political internees, is a sham movement." So please
help us, help them! Help us help you!

*We encourage people to participate in helping us raise funds for the
Warchest, which can be done in the following ways:*

*Be a runner:*

We are asking people or groups who are running to collect as many sponsor
for the run as possible. Remember the money received is going to help
imprisoned comrades who need your help. The person who collects the most
amount of funds will be given a prize for their involvement and dedication
to helping our fallen comrades.

*Sponsor a runner:*

This can be done through a flat donation to the runner of your choice, each
flyer is a sponsor sheet. We ask from those who wish not to run to actively
support those who are running in hopes of collecting as much for our
comrades as possible.

*Sponsor Running Down the Walls: *

Any amount helps. Contact the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross if you wish
to simply donate money to the cause.

*Donate to:*

*-The Warchest:*

Send funds directly to the Los Angeles ABCF (PO Box 11223, Whittier, CA
90603) or to the Philadelphia ABCF (PO Box 42129, Philadelphia, PA 19101)
make checks or money orders out only to Tim Fasnacht.


 *-Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC): **
http://revolutionaryautonomouscommunities.blogspot.com/*

*https://www.facebook.com/raclosangeles*

*Get involved in the planning of Running Down the Walls: *

We always need help with organizing the event and we encourage people to
contact us if they would like to get involved. You can do this by
contacting the LA Anarchist Black Cross, *www.abcf.net/la*, *l...@abcf.net*


 -Jaan Laaman

[LAAMN] Fwd: Fw: Apply Today!! Free Community Organizing Academy at LATTC!!

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: John Jackson 
Date: Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Subject: Fw: Apply Today!! Free Community Organizing Academy at LATTC!!
To: "maurice_mo_cr...@yahoo.com" 



  - Forwarded Message -
 *From:* Kim Renee 
*To:* "jj023...@yahoo.com" ; "bigmike4...@aol.com" <
bigmike4...@aol.com>
*Cc:* Cheryl Branch 
*Sent:* Friday, August 16, 2013 1:44 PM
*Subject:* Apply Today!! Free Community Organizing Academy at LATTC!!

Hello John and Mike!

Cheryl asked me to connect with you in regards to your interest in
connecting folks to CDTech opportunities. We are currently accepting
applications for the Los Angeles Community Organizing Academy; a FREE
semester-long education and training program that is hosted at Los Angeles
Trade Tech College (LATTC) which is geared towards anyone interested in
learning about or entering the community organizing field. Students take
several courses throughout the semester (classes meet twice a week, Tues
and Thurs from 6pm-9pm) to earn FREE college credit and have the
opportunity to do a paid internship.

The deadline for the program is fast approaching so please forward this to
anyone you think would be a good choice for this program!!

To apply, please fill out the attached application and include a resume and
up to 3 recommendations. Please either email these documents back to me or
simply drop it off at the CD Tech office located at 520 W. 23rd St, Los
Angeles, 90007.

Thank you and please let me know if you have any questions!

Kim Williams
Outreach and Recruitment
Community Development Technologies Center
520 W 23rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
213.763.2520 x246



*LACOA FAQ:*

*What is the overall time commitment for the program?*
The Los Angeles Community Organizing Academy (LACOA) is a semester long
commitment.  Semesters are 16 weeks long. Classes occur twice a week for 3
hours a night.

*When and where are classes held?*
Classes will be held on LA Trade Tech Campus and possibly in community
spaces off campus.

*What are the classes/subject matter taught? (Class Schedule)*
Fall Semester Topics Include:
· Contemporary Issues in Organizing
· History of Community Development in L.A.
· History of Social Justice Movement Theory, Ideology & Practice in
America

*Is there an age limit?*
The minimum age limit is 17 year old or 11th graders with concurrent
enrollment.  There is no maximum age limit.

*Can HS Students apply? *
Yes, High School students are welcome to apply with concurrent enrollment
permission from their high schools.  An additional form must be completed
in addition to the LATTC enrollment.

*Is this a paid opportunity?*
The Organizers Academy is a free training program.  There is an opportunity
for a paid internship at the end of the training program for successful
participants.

*What can I do with the credits earned through the program?*
LACOA graduates receive a certificate of completion which helps an
passionate social justice driven people to prepare for job opportunities,
certifies skills for the field of community organizing, and establishes a
pipeline to community college opportunities.

*What are the benefits of the LACOA Network?*
The LACOA Network is rich with future opportunities and training for the
next generation of civic change leaders.

· The students of the program get to build relationships with each
other as future colleagues in the field.
· The program advisory committee also consists of organizations
that lead the industry of community organizing and move a broader citywide
agenda of equity.
· LACOA instructors are well-respected professionals in social
justice who can provide guidance, mentorship to future organizers.
· LACOA members join a rich network of over 500 CDTech participants
who span a wide range of community workers that are doing exciting work in
the field.
· LACOA is part of a national network of community college
partnerships that are generating a pipeline of organizers


*What are the other benefits of being a part of the program?*
LACOA participants will
· Learn how to analyze community issues
· Be exposed to Los Angeles social justice history
· Develop skill sets that will one be successful in a lot of
different social justice work
· Gain exposure to a lot of different concepts in community
organizing
· Gain familiarity with the nonprofit sector
· Become more prepared to be an agent of civic change in their
neighborhood






-- 
JAI
RAC-LA


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[LAAMN] Hunger Action LA's food justice news

[John A Imani]

ac
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Frank Tamborello
wrote:

> *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! 
>
> Welcome to all the new people on the list. If you wish to respond, or use
> a different e mail, or be removed from the list,  please respond to
> fr...@hungeractionla.org .  DO NOT reply to THIS email: it won’t go
> anywhere. Use fr...@hungeractionla.org 
>
> *Follow us *on Twitter @HungerActionLA .
>
> Like our  Facebook page
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunger-Action-Los-Angeles/133467296826961**
> **
>
> ** **
>
> *2013-2014 Peoples Guide is here!* Place your order at
> ord...@hungeractionla.org . This 72-pg booklet covers rights,
> responsibilities, who qualifies, and how to access financial assistance,
> free and low cost food, health care, housing, and other services in Los
> Angeles County. Spanish version also available beginning Sept. 1. $1.25 per
> copy: inquire about discounts for orders over 10. See last year’s version
> for a samplewww.hungeractionla.org/peoplesguide   
>
> ** **
>
> *August 15, 2013:*
>
> * *
>
> *Next HALA Meeting August 30:* Next Hunger Action LA meeting is Friday
> August 30, at LAANE, 464 S. Lucas Ave, LA 90017. This is a week later than
> usual, but we are encouraging people to attend the Community Legislative
> Briefing-Developing Champions to Restore the Golden State being held on
> August 23 (see below in the news)
>
> ** **
>
> ***1.Community Legislative Briefing Friday August
> 23 *
>
> ***2.Two Major Anti Hunger Bills Placed in Suspense File: Need to
> Get Them Out Before September**
> *
>
> ***3.Victory for Sidewalk Gardens!**
>  *
>
> ***4.Washington DC Holds One Key To Ending Hunger or Creating
> More Misery**
>  *
>
> ***5.Obesity, Poverty, Food Prices, And Business Models***
>
> ** **
>
> **
> *1. Community Legislative Briefing Friday August 23*
>
> * *
>
> California Partnership is presenting a Community Legislative Briefing:
> Developing Champions to Restore the Golden State!
>
> *Day/Time:*   Friday, August 23,
> 2013  10:00 am – 12
> noon
> *Location:* ACLU-SC 1313 W 8th St Los
> Angeles, CA 90017
>
> ** **
>
> Community members will share their stories and advocates will speak about
> programs and policies that impact the lives of the most vulnerable in
> California. We’ve invited all Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside and San
> Bernardino legislators to attend and hear our concerns. *For the hunger
> community in particular this will be a chance to turn out in force to make
> a final push for a couple of bills that have just been put in the
> “suspense” file and need to be passed out by the end of August.* Segments
> will focus on health, human services, criminal justice, hunger, and
> homelessness. 
>
> ** **
>
> *Community members, advocates, and policy-makers are all invited. *For
> more information and to RSVP contact: Astrid Campos at
> acam...@communitychange.org or 714-396-8242.
>
> ** **
>
> *
>
> *2. Two Major Anti Hunger Bills Placed in Suspense File: Need to Get Them
> Out Before September*
>
> ** **
>
> *SB 283, Successful Re-Entry and Access to Jobs*: This bill removes the
> ban on ever receiving CalFresh benefits for persons with certain drug
> felonies. It is now in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where it was
> placed in the “suspense” file. That means we have two weeks to convince
> them to take it out of the “suspense” file.
>
> ** **
>
> For the next two weeks – we need to generate calls, emails, mail & social
> media to the members of the Assembly Appropriations Committee and their
> staff.  You can find the list of members here:
> http://apro.assembly.ca.gov/membersstaff . 
>
> ** **
>
> If you live in the district, consider setting up a visit too. LA-area
> members of the committee include chair Mike Gatto, Ian Calderon, Raul
> Bocanegra,  Isadore Hall, Steven Bradford, Chris Holden, and Jimmy Gomez.*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> Remember to remind them that the bill has over 140 organizations in
> support (thanks to you all), including the CA Probation & Parole Officers
> Association.  Also, don’t forget to remind them that we have editorials
> endorsing the removal of the lifetime ban on food stamps from the LA 
> Timesand
>  the NY
> Times.
>  
>
> *Look for an email ann

[LAAMN] Fwd: Running Down The Walls 2013

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Lane Farnham 
Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:03 PM
Subject: Running Down The Walls 2013
To:


 *LA-ABCF’s Annual *

*Running Down The Walls 5K Run/Walk/Bike*

*www.abcf.net/la*



On Sunday, September 8th, 2013 at 10 a.m., the Los Angeles Anarchist Black
Cross and RAC-LA will host a 5K Run/Walk/Bike around MacArthur Park. This
Run is designed to raise much-needed funds for the Anarchist Black Cross
Federation's Warchest program and for Revolutionary Autonomous Communities
(RAC).

* *

We are attempting to reach the goal of $3,000 with the run. Funds will be
divided between the two programs:



*ABCF Warchest: *

The ABCF Warchest program was created in November of 1994. Its purpose is
to send monthly financial support to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of
War (PP/POWs).  The Warchest funds are divided and distributed through
monthly stipends to political prisoners who receive little or no financial
aid. Prisoners use this money to cover the basic necessities of everyday
living. These funds have been used by prisoners to pay for stamps, shoes,
clothes, as well as assisting their families with what little they can.



*Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC):*

In the aftermath of the May Day 2007 police riot targeting migrant workers
who dared stand up for our human rights, members of the MacArthur Park area
and others joined together to support those with no papers and those with
no means. RAC-LA came forward to aid the community in self-organizing such
that with the help of each other we might make an inhuman way of living a
bit more bearable while at same time acquiring the means to one day
transform this system into an image of our own humanity.



*Solidarity Runs:*

Every year, prisoners and supporters of political prisoners organize
solidarity runs with Running Down the Walls. In Sync with each other, we
will collectively pound the pavement with our feet and bike tires as we
exhibit our strength and stamina as examples of our tireless effort to free
our imprisoned comrades.  In past years we had runs in: Albuquerque (NM),
Arcata (CA), Ashland, (OR), Bellefonte (PA), Boston (MA), Connecticut
River, Dannemora (NY), Denver, (CO), Detroit (MI), Elmore (AL), Guelph
(CAN), Inez (KY), Los Angeles (CA), Marion (IL), Mexico City (MEX), New
York City (NY),  USP. Navosta (TX), Pelican Bay (CA), Phoenix (AZ), Sandstone
(MN), Tucson (AZ), USP Tucson (AZ), and Toronto (CAN).

*-This year’s Running Down the Walls solidarity runs will be held on the
Sunday, September 1st, 2013, with the exception of Los Angeles and Vermont,
these events are scheduled for Sunday, September 8th***



*Support the Struggle:*

We must remember that many of those arrested in the past or present are not
far from us. Many of them were and are community and labor activists,
queer, and environmental activists; people who decided to speak out against
various forms of oppression and paid the price of their freedom for their
actions. We must remember that anyone of these people could have at one
time stood beside us in a demonstration, at a speak-out, or even at an
organizing meeting. At any given moment it could be us who finds ourselves
in this situation, so it is imperative that we ensure that a strong enough
community of support exists for these people as well as ourselves. The
strength of our movement is determined by how much we support our fallen
comrades. As Anarchist and former POW Ojore Lutalo says, "Any Movement that
does not support its political internees, is a sham movement." So please
help us, help them! Help us help you!



*We encourage people to participate in helping us raise funds for the
Warchest, which can be done in the following ways:*



*Be a runner:*

We are asking people or groups who are running to collect as many sponsor
for the run as possible. Remember the money received is going to help
imprisoned comrades who need your help. The person who collects the most
amount of funds will be given a prize for their involvement and dedication
to helping our fallen comrades.



*Sponsor a runner:*

This can be done through a flat donation to the runner of your choice, each
flyer is a sponsor sheet. We ask from those who wish not to run to actively
support those who are running in hopes of collecting as much for our
comrades as possible.



*Sponsor Running Down the Walls: *

Any amount helps. Contact the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross if you wish
to simply donate money to the cause.



*Donate to:*

*-The Warchest:*

Send funds directly to the Los Angeles ABCF (PO Box 11223, Whittier, CA
90603) or to the Philadelphia ABCF (PO Box 42129, Philadelphia, PA 19101)
make checks or money orders out only to Tim Fasnacht.



*-Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC): *
http://revolutionaryautonomouscommunities.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/raclosangeles



*Get involved in the planning of Running Down the Walls: *

We always need help with organizing the event and we e

[LAAMN] Fwd: New Yorker-Voting rights and the Southern way of life (1950s and '60s)

[John A Imani]

(JAI:  Simply an outstanding if totally depressing history of the fight for
the right to vote, the fight against fear and the right to be a human
being, passed onto me by my comrade, Marc.  Graphically depicts the
violence inflicted upon the brave who fought for such things against such
odds.)

A Critic at Large The Color of Law Voting rights and the Southern way of
life.  by Louis
Menand
July 8, 2013

  [image: King and other civil-rights leaders enter Montgomery, on a 1965
march inspired by James Bevel (left, in skullcap). Photograph by Matt
Herron.]

King and other civil-rights leaders enter Montgomery, on a 1965 march
inspired by James Bevel (left, in skullcap). Photograph by Matt Herron.


  On February 18, 1965, a civil-rights worker named James Orange was
arrested in Marion, Alabama, on charges of disorderly conduct and
contributing to the delinquency of minors, and was thrown into the local
jail. Orange had organized a march by young people (“minors”) in support of
a voter-registration drive being run by several groups, including the one
he worked for, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, whose
president was Martin Luther King, Jr.

That night, four hundred people gathered in Zion’s Chapel Methodist Church,
in Marion, and prepared to walk to the jail, about a block away, and sing
freedom songs. They left the church at nine-thirty and ran into a police
blockade. Ordered to disperse, they were attacked by fifty or more state
troopers and other law-enforcement officials wielding clubs. Street lights
had been turned off or shot out; white vigilantes were on the scene;
reporters were attacked and cameras were smashed. No photographic record of
the night survives.

As Gary May tells the story, in “Bending Toward Justice” (Basic), people
still in the church, hearing the screams outside, ran out the back, chased
by the troopers. One of those who fled, Cager Lee, was struck on the head,
fell to the ground, and was kicked. Lee was eighty-two; he was five feet
tall and weighed a hundred and twenty pounds. But he escaped, and ran into
a café, where he saw his daughter Viola and two grandchildren, Emma Jean
and Jimmie Lee Jackson. When troopers stormed the café and began beating
people, Jackson tried to protect his mother. He was shoved up against a
cigarette machine and shot twice in the stomach by a trooper named James
Fowler. Jackson managed to get out of the café but was beaten over the head
until he collapsed on the street. He lay there, bleeding, for thirty
minutes. Eventually, after a nearby hospital was unable to treat him, he
was driven by a black undertaker, in a hearse, to a hospital in Selma,
thirty miles away.

Jackson was twenty-six years old, and an Army veteran. He had tried five
times to register to vote, without success. While he was in the hospital,
Colonel Al Lingo, the director of public safety for the state of Alabama,
placed him under arrest for assault and battery with intent to murder a
peace officer. But on February 26th, eight days after the shooting, Jackson
died. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, generally regarded as the greatest
legislative achievement of the so-called “classical phase” of the
civil-rights movement—the phase that began in 1954 with the Supreme Court
decision in Brown v. Board of Education—had three martyrs. Jimmie Lee
Jackson was the first.

This is the act a key provision of which was struck down last week by the
Supreme Court, in the case of Shelby v. Holder. (Other important provisions
remain in effect.) The act is celebrated because it was enormously
effective in giving African-Americans the vote—far more effective than
Brown was in integrating schools—and because it gave African-Americans
something desegregation alone could not give them: political power. After
Shelby, Congress can rewrite the law, but a Congress that cannot pass a
farm bill is unlikely to craft new legislation protecting minority voting
rights. The moral and political will that characterized the era for which
the act has stood as a prime symbol may have run its course.

At the time of Brown, securing the right of African-Americans to register
to vote looked to be the most attainable goal in the campaign to overthrow
Jim Crow. Both the Eisenhower and the Kennedy Administrations, wary of
intervention in what they preferred to characterize as a local matter,
believed that voting fell within the purview of the federal government. The
Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, is explicit: “The right of citizens
of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.” Even the relatively toothless Civil Rights Act of 1957, the
first civil-rights legislation to make it through Congress since
Reconstruction, gave the Justice Department authority to pursue litigation
against local registrars who discrimin

[LAAMN] Report: Bilal Ali Arrested Again

[John A Imani]

Comrades,

Seems like the same old shit.  Dude downtown has a peeve against Bilal
(and, by extension:  LA--CAN , the homeless and the
(mainly) migrant sweat shop minimum wage-workers serving the more and more
(backed by their own civilian wanna-be cops and  the real ones, the LAPD)
aggressively yuppie yuppies and with them, their capitalist bosses

Gentrification it seems makes strange (but not to themselves)I mean
really strange, bedfellows.

Dude went to cops and reported that he was threatened.

Bilal in LA-CAN office all day.

In Florida they shoot us and police won't file a complaint (at least
initially as in the Zimmerman case) until we put pressure (*which is the
only thing they understand*).

In LA Bilal didn't have to shoot anybody, didn't have to maim any body.
Didn't have to do shit.  All he had to do was be himself, breathe, and have
somebody say he did shit.

You know, there's that old old adage by Anatole France:  "The law in its
majestic equality..." 

There has never been a clearer presentation of the class relationships
implicit in the very existence of political laws.

Arrests downtown, made daily, in the main, so closely parallel France's
parable that it is as uncanny as much as it is inhumane.

We must defeat their laws.

We must discuss and define our own.

Now!  More than ever:  It is (transitional and transitioning):

   'Socialism or Barbarism!"

-- 
JAI
RAC-LA


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[LAAMN] Fwd: Hunger Action LA's Food News Bulletin

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:38 PM
Subject: urban ag alert and other news
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!




Welcome to all the new people on the list. If you wish to respond, or use a
different e mail, or be removed from the list,  please respond to
fr...@hungeractionla.org .  DO NOT reply to THIS email: it won’t go
anywhere. Use fr...@hungeractionla.org




 

*Follow us *on Twitter @HungerActionLA .




Like our new Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunger-Action-Los-Angeles/133467296826961


**
**

*2013-2014 Peoples Guide is here!* Place your order at
ord...@hungeractionla.org . This 72-pg booklet covers rights,
responsibilities, who qualifies, and how to access financial assistance,
free and low cost food, health care, housing, and other services in Los
Angeles County. Spanish version also available beginning Sept. 1. $1.25 per
copy: inquire about discounts for orders over 10. See last year’s version
for a samplewww.hungeractionla.org/peoplesguide




*August 2, 2013:*

***1. Urban Ag Issues Rising in Los Angeles*

***2. Farmers Market Week August 4-August 10*

***3. Latest on Farm Bill: House Wants to Cut $40 Billion from SNAP*

***4. Teen Setting Example for Food Rescue*

**

*1.Urban Ag Issues Rising in Los Angeles*

* *

>From urban ag advocate Dan Allen of Farmscape:

** **

Dear Urban Ag Advocates:

As you know, we have been working for two years to expand the list of
edible plants allowed in resident parkways.  Recently, two more residents
were cited by the City and Steve Lopez has highlighted the issue in a
recent  LA Times article:  

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0731-lopez-gardencops-20130731,0,5680891.column


** **

Momentum is continuing to build but we NEED YOUR HELP!

The "Edible Parkways" motion (#13-0478) introduced by Council President
Wesson asks staff at the Bureau of Public Works to report on ways to
include more edible plants on the city's "standards" list. Anything that is
"standard" can be planted without a permit. 

Public Works staff has said they are almost finished with their report and
recommendations. Next, staff will report to the Commissioners of the Board
of Public Works BEFORE it goes back to City Council. The Mayor JUST
appointed all new Commissioners, who were sworn in yesterday. 

** **

In addition to City Council members, we urge you to reach out to the
Commissioners at the Board of Public Works.   Because the Commissioners are
new, they will be facing a ton of issues as they get started. This needs to
be elevated to a top priority for them. This won’t happen unless they hear
from all of us who care about this issue. 

** **

Their contact information is available here:
http://bpw.lacity.org/Secretariat/SecretariatContacts.html 

The main asks are:

1) Schedule review of staff recommendations on this motion at the Board of
Public Works and City Council immediately!

2) Include as many edible plants as possible on the City's landscaping
standards list. All recommendations should honor the purpose of the motion
in the first place: to encourage and promote food growing in the city! 

3) If there are edible plants that can't be "standard" due to liability
concerns (height, obstruction, excessive water use, pests, etc.) then there
needs to be a way to waive the permit fee (currently $400) or provide a
much more affordable option.

If you have any questions, please contact Francesca at
fdelar...@worksusa.org  

** **

*

* *

*2. Farmers Market Week August 4-August 10*

* *

National Farmers Market Week begins this Sunday, August 4 and runs through
Saturday, August 10. It’s a time to celebrate markets as venues for seeing
our friends, buying good food, trying out new vegetables, buying brown eggs
twice as big as store bought eggs,  getting to meet the people who grow our
food, and enjoying the relaxed atmosphere of an open-air market. And this
being the food justice update, time to share some resources on the farmers
markets:

** **

**· **The Ecology Center in collaboration with LA County’s
Department of Public Social Services has an excellent map where you can
locate all the markets that accept CalFresh benefits. An 800 number with
the same information is being included in a mailing to all CalFresh
participants in LA County

www.ecologycenter.org/fmfinder, 800-962-8217

** **

**· **And of course Hunger Action LA is sponsoring the Market Match
program at 12 markets in LA County (Adam

[LAAMN] Re: LAPD Pigs Threatening LA-CAN Office- Cancel assistance call

[John A Imani]

Bilal reports that (at least for the moment) the pigs have gone.

Cancel assistance call


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:10 PM, John A Imani  wrote:

> Anyone who can get downtown to support, PLEASE DO:
>
> Los Angeles Community Action Network
> 530 S. Main Street
> Los Angeles, CA 90013
> (213) 228-0024
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Bilal Ali 
> Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:43 PM
> Subject: Re:
> To: Margaret Prescod , John A Imani <
> johnaima...@gmail.com>, kwazinkrumah 
>
>
> so now the police are banging on the door again!
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Bilal Ali  wrote:
>
>> So the Main Street Zimmerman (Michael Rizzo) had me restrained with a
>> restraining order today. This is the guy who told me that all Trayvon
>> Martins shall die and threw coffee into my face and hit me in the jaw.
>> While preparing a response he calls the cops on me and tries to have me
>> arrested for supposedly violating a stay order until there is a hearing on
>> the matter. The cops came and left...bec...ause i'm not violating the
>> order because I haven't been within 30 feet of this fool. He than again has
>> called the cops and attempted to have me arrested with some sort forge
>> document. I'm in the LACAN office refusing to go to the cops. They
>> mistakenly thought Pete White was me and ordered him to turn around to be
>> cuffed. He refused and talked to them and told them he wasn't letting them
>> in the office without a warrant. So I'm holed in the LACAN office with 5-6
>> police vehicles outside. Stay tuned.
>>
>
>
>
>
> --
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> RAC-LA
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[LAAMN] LAPD Pigs Threatening LA-CAN Office-Right Now

[John A Imani]

Anyone who can get downtown to support, PLEASE DO:

Los Angeles Community Action Network
530 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 228-0024

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:43 PM
Subject: Re:
To: Margaret Prescod , John A Imani ,
kwazinkrumah 


so now the police are banging on the door again!


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Bilal Ali  wrote:

> So the Main Street Zimmerman (Michael Rizzo) had me restrained with a
> restraining order today. This is the guy who told me that all Trayvon
> Martins shall die and threw coffee into my face and hit me in the jaw.
> While preparing a response he calls the cops on me and tries to have me
> arrested for supposedly violating a stay order until there is a hearing on
> the matter. The cops came and left...bec...ause i'm not violating the
> order because I haven't been within 30 feet of this fool. He than again has
> called the cops and attempted to have me arrested with some sort forge
> document. I'm in the LACAN office refusing to go to the cops. They
> mistakenly thought Pete White was me and ordered him to turn around to be
> cuffed. He refused and talked to them and told them he wasn't letting them
> in the office without a warrant. So I'm holed in the LACAN office with 5-6
> police vehicles outside. Stay tuned.
>




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[LAAMN] Fwd: Economist-Poverty has moved to the suburbs

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: John A Imani 
Date: Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:54 AM
Subject: Economist-Poverty has moved to the suburbs
To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" 


Broke in the ’burbs Poverty has moved to the suburbs Jul 20th 2013 | MARIETTA,
GEORGIA

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21582019-poverty-has-moved-suburbs-broke-burbs

  When the bank runs out of patience

KIM, who is 35 years old and has two children, left high school to look
after her mother, a cocaine addict. When Kim’s marriage began to fail and
her husband fell ill, she developed addictions of her own—to alcohol and
pills, from which she has been free for eight months. She now works at a
fast-food restaurant, making, she guesses, around $14,000 a year.

Melissa once had an event-planning company. She says it was doing well, but
“when the economy went down it took my company with it.” She is now
jobless. She and her 16-month-old son live in an apartment provided by the
Centre for Family Resources (CFR), a charity.

Kim and Melissa live in Cobb County, north-west of Atlanta. It ranks fifth
out of Georgia’s 159 counties in income per head, at $33,514—well above the
American median of $27,915 and nearly three times the poverty level of
$11,484 for a single person. It is home to a big convention centre and some
smart malls and hotels. But it is also home to many who are hard-up. In
2000 6.5% of the people in Cobb County were poor; in 2011, 12.6% were. CFR
saw requests for help with the rent rise from 207 in January 2010 to 577 in
January this year. The number of people who came in asking for assistance
of some kind rose from 754 in January 2009 to 1,326 in January 2013.

Americans tend to think of poverty as urban or rural—housing estates or
shacks in the woods. And it is true that poverty rates tend to be higher in
cities and the countryside. But the suburbs are where you will find
America’s biggest and fastest-growing poor population, as Elizabeth
Kneebone and Alan Berube of the Brookings Institution explain in their book
“Confronting Suburban Poverty in America”. Between 2000 and 2010 the number
of people living below the federal poverty line ($22,314 for a family of
four in 2010) in the suburbs grew by 53%, compared with just 23% in cities.
In 2010 roughly 15.3m poor people lived in the suburbs, compared with 12.8m
in cities (see chart).

*Suburban poverty began to rise before the recession.* As American cities
have grown safer and richer, homes there have become less affordable.
During the subprime bubble, many people with bad credit scores got
mortgages and moved to the suburbs. A shift towards housing vouchers and
away from massive urban projects encouraged people in subsidised housing to
make the same move. Immigrants, too, chased the American dream of neat
lawns and picket fences. Now 51% of immigrants (who are more likely than
the native-born to be poor) live in suburbs, compared with just 33% in
cities.

When the bubble burst, the suburbs suffered. Construction and
manufacturing, two of the most suburban industries, lost more jobs between
2007 and 2010 than any other sector.

Nowhere is it easy to be poor, but the suburbs present particular
difficulties. Consider Cobb County, where Kim and Melissa live. Atlanta’s
commuter-rail system, MARTA, does not run to Cobb. That leaves the carless,
such as Kim, or those who have a car but worry about the cost of petrol,
like Melissa, dependent on the bus. But Cobb’s bus network bypasses much of
the county and does not run on Sundays. During non-rush hours, service is
spotty; during rush hours, the traffic is awful. So relying on buses can
easily add two or three hours to an eight-hour day. Rents have been rising,
says Kate Tettamant, a CFR case manager; some of her clients spend half
their income on rent. Flexible child care—essential if you are working odd
hours—is also hard to find.

One might wonder why the suburban poor do not simply pack up and move back
to the cities. Many remain in the suburbs for the same reasons others do:
safety, better schools and cheaper homes. And increasingly, suburbia is
where the jobs are: between 2000 and 2010 the number of jobs within three
miles of central business districts in America’s 100 biggest cities fell by
10.4%, while the number of jobs 10-35 miles away rose by 1.2%.

But while suburban jobs and suburban poverty are both growing, America’s
anti-poverty infrastructure lags. Suburban safety nets can be thin and
patchy; grant-making organisations are often used to focusing on urban
rather than suburban poverty. Just as many of the suburban poor have never
experienced poverty before, so many of the organisations that help the poor
have been overwhelmed by the rapid rise in numbers, says Lesley Grady, a
vice-president of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, a charity.

Unlike cities, too, suburbs are not politically cohesive entities: they
shift, expand and cut across boundaries. Metropolitan Atlanta, fo

[LAAMN] Fwd: Prisoner Hunger Strike Strategic Planning Meeting Proposal.

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:02 PM
Subject: Prisoner Hunger Strike Strategic Planning Meeting Proposal.



The Community Coalition for Self-Defense Proposal:

The current resistance being waged in California prisons against the
inhumane conditions in the torture chambers known as the SHU by the
prisoners is nothing less than a courageous and heroic struggle. The
prisoners are expressing self-determination as to how they see themselves
preserving their inherent dignity as human beings. The call by the prisoners
for a third hunger strike can be seen as an” inside” strategy utilized by
the prisoners themselves

What is also needed is a robust and protracted “outside” strategy led by
the relatives of these brave souls and other outside supporters. Although
the prisoners are receiving support from legal and advocacy groups, this
support doesn't in and of itself build the necessary power and leadership
needed to abolish the torture chambers. The victims of California’s torture
chambers are not just those housed in the SHU. Their families are also
harmed and impacted by this experience.

Any outside strategy must be developed by those directly impacted and they
must take a leadership role in the outcome in any campaign to abolish these
torture chambers. We are proposing that all those directly involved,
participate in a strategic planning retreat that will inform our work and
that will build the necessary organized power needed to win the change we
desire.

note: CCSD is an initiative of the National Hood Alliance.



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[LAAMN] Fwd: Day 17: 30,000 CALLS FOR 30,000 HUNGER STRIKERS

[John A Imani]

Comrades,

Have no idea who CURB is and the forwarding of this message ought not be
considered an endorsement of CURB.  But *whoever* is supporting the
prisoners is alright with me

JAI
RAC-LA

-- Forwarded message --
From: Annie Banks, Californians United for a Responsible Budget <
an...@curbprisonspending.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Subject: Day 17: 30,000 CALLS FOR 30,000 HUNGER STRIKERS
To: johnaima...@gmail.com








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 Dear John A,

  On July 8, 2013 Prisoners at Pelican Bay and other prisons resumed their
hunger strike and began work stoppages. They are committed to continuing
the strike until California Governor Jerry Brown and the California
Department of Corrections take decisive action to meet their demands.

Today is Day 17 of the hunger strike, and CDCR continues to
retaliateagainst
prisoners participating in this peaceful protest whilerefusing to
negotiate.
It is important that we continue to show our support & keep the pressure on
Gov. Brown and the CDCR!

We have over 5,000 people that have signed the petition to Governor Brown.
Now we need 30,000 CALLS for 30,000 Hunger Strikers!

*JOIN US and USE YOUR POLITICAL POWER! *

*1) DAY **17**: Call Governor Jerry Brown*
Phone: (916) 
445-2841
(510) 
289-0336
(510) 
628-0202
Fax: (916) 
558-3160

Suggested script: I’m calling in support of the prisoners on hunger strike.
The governor has the power to stop the torture of solitary confinement. I
urge the governor to compel the CDCR to enter into negotiations to end the
strike. RIGHT NOW is their chance to enter into clear, honest negotiations
with the strikers to end the torture.

*2) Make sure you send this email to your friends, families, and networks.
Ask them to stand in solidarity with us - **sign the petition
today*
* and help us reach 30,000 calls*

*3) We encourage you to plan a gathering in your neighborhood to make calls
and organize other solidarity actions. **You can also come support actions
this week
*

- Sunday, July 28 at 10am (Norwalk City Hall, 12700 Norwalk Blvd. Norwalk,
CA 90650)

- Tuesday, July 30th at 10am (State Capitol, 1315 10th St  Sacramento, CA
95814)

Thank you for your commitment. Ya Basta!


 El 08 de julio 2013 presos en Pelican Bay y otras prisiones
reanudaron su huelga
de hambre y comenzaron paros. Se han comprometido a continuar la huelga
hasta que el gobernador de California Jerry Brown y el Departamento de
Correcciones de California toman medidas decisivas para satisfacer sus
demandas.

Hoy es el día 17 de la huelga de hambre, y el CDCR sigue tomando
represalias
contra
los presos que participaron en esta protesta pacífica mientras niegan a

negociar
. Es importante que sigamos para mostrar nuestro apoyo y mantener la
presión sobre el gobernador Brown y el CDCR!

Tenemos más de 5,000 personas que han firmado la petición al gobernador
Brown. Ahora necesitamos 30,000 llamadas para los 30,000 huelguistas!

*¡únase con nosotrxs y usen su poder político!*

*1) Día 17: Llamen al gobernador jerry brown*
teléfono: (916)
445-2841
(510) 
289-0336
(510) 
628-0202
FAX: (916) 
558-3160

[LAAMN] Fwd: Petition-End the abuse of solitary confinement

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Friends Committee on Legislation of California 
Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Subject: End the abuse of solitary confinement: tell Gov. Brown today
To: John A Imani 


 News From Sacramento
*Tell Jerry Brown to end the abuse of solitary confinement*

Take Action!
<http://capwiz.com/fclca/utr/1/GROUTFURBK/LSFTTFURUL/9756063186>

On July 8, 2013, prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican
Bay State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the conditions under
which they are being held. According to the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), 30,000 prisoners throughout the
system refused meals on the third day of the strike.

The Friends Committee on Legislation of California maintains that long-term
isolation as practiced in California prisons violates basic human rights
and amounts to torture.  Prisoners are confined to small cells for 22 ½
hours per day and are released from cells for only for exercise in a small
enclosed yard.  Most prisoners are placed in solitary confinement
indefinitely for non-behavior based violations, usually for gang
affiliation, and without adequate due process.  Many will languish there
for years or even decades. Join us in calling on Governor Jerry Brown to
end these egregious abuses.

TAKE ACTION.<http://capwiz.com/fclca/utr/1/GROUTFURBK/LJQVTFURUM/9756063186>
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[LAAMN] Video-CBS: U.S. military prepares for potential chemical weapons in Syria

[John A Imani]

Dangerous.  4000 paratroopers take a practice drop in preparation for
invasion of Syria.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57594460/u.s-military-prepares-for-potential-chemical-weapons-in-syria/

These people ain't learned nothing from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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[LAAMN] Bilal Ali Arrested After Being Assaulted

[John A Imani]

Just in and had a call from Jail.  It appears that Bilal has been arrested.

Here is Booking info.

Any support you can offer is probably best directed to LA-CAN
cangress.orgat 213-228-0007


Booking No.: * 3627180 *   Last Name: * HENDERSON *   First
Name: *WAYNE
*   Middle Name: * CHESTER *

Sex: *M*   Race: *B*   Date Of Birth: *04/21/1952*   Age:
*61*  Hair:
*BLK*   Eyes: *BRO*   Height: *510*   Weight: *170*

  Charge Level: *M   (Misdemeanor)*
ARRESTArrest Date: *07/17/2013*   Arrest Time: *1015*
Arrest Agency: *4201*   Agency Description: *LAPD-CENTRAL DIVISION*

Date Booked: *07/17/2013*   Time Booked: *1122*   Booking Location:
*4273*   Location Description: *LAPD - JAIL DIVISION*
BAILTotal Bail Amount: * 20,000.00*   Total Hold Bail Amount: *
0.00*   Grand Total: *20,000.00*
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[LAAMN] Fwd: Bilal attacked by Main Street Zimmerman " All Trayvon Martin's should be killed"

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: Bilal attacked by Main Street Zimmerman " All Trayvon Martin's
should be killed"
To: John A Imani 


They are going to arrest me.


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:52 AM, John A Imani  wrote:

> Sue that m'f'er.  Any witnesses to unprovoked attack?
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Bilal Ali  wrote:
>
>> This morning as I was entering the LACAN office I was assaulted by
>> Michael Rizzo, skid row Main Street Zimmmeram...he state to me that all
>> Trayvon Martins should be killed and then threw his coffee in my face and
>> hit me in the jaw
>>
>
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[LAAMN] Re: On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity

[John A Imani]

I think a most important point is the diff between Joe's corner market and
Ralph's and consciousness of that difference.

In '65 this lesson was kinda spontaneously developed as demonstrated by the
slogan "Soul Brother Owned".  A sign saying that placed in a shop's window
meant a decent chance of not being sacked.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-04/news/mn-951_1_watts-rebellion
Course this was 'spontaneously' learned during the transition period from
the civil rights struggle in the South to black militancy across the US and
therefore there was an ethos afoot. A revolutionary culture was in the acts
of forming. A culture that valued something even as it slashed right out
against almost everything about this system.  Today, nothing like that
exists save in infancy and only here and there.  And the greatest lesson of
the '50's and '60's (and, indeed, any revolutionary period) is how quickly
people can change.

Sure there are some small business people who treat the community dirty.
And "F'ck Them" too. A true story about '92 happened on Van Ness between
Slauson and 54th St. On the SE corner of Slauson was a liquor store owned
by Koreans. http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/01/local/me-patt1  I was
in a habit then of buying a pack of cigarettes and a can or two of brew.
Anyway I stopped smoking cause my youngest was getting nosebleeds. I
stopped, she stopped. So I go to the store and put the beer on the counter
and the guy behind it--as was the matter of course--put a pack of Barclay's
down. I said “No, no, no. I stopped smoking.” He said “You stopped?” I
nodded. He said “Here, I'll give them to you free.” I left the beer on the
corner and never went back in there. His store was burnt. I could hear the
booze bottles bursting with heated pressure and enjoyed the song. At
54thand Van Ness there was (and is) a market then owned by a Korean
lady.
Though later, I am given to understand, killed in a robbery, she was a
person of grace who treated customer's right, gave credit and, I
understand, gave assistance when needed. That store was left alone with
neighbors helping to guard it. It suffered no damage at all.

In the main the neighborhood cleaners, corner markets, etc are not our
enemy and *should not be attacked.* Such are the livelihoods of independent
workers (those who own their tools of making a living but do not employ
wage-labor) and the petty petit-bourgeois (those who employ only a very few
wage-workers and who must work right alongside of them). These are not
Capitalists (with a large C) , i.e. those preventing us from working
because their profit made on our labor is not sufficient for them to employ
us. That and those are the enemy. That is a class lesson that the Left need
propagate among the people.


-- Forwarded message --
From: John A Imani 
Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity

Cops don't show up when silly m'f'ers beating up somebody at Arco station
of Slauson and Crenshaw.  Cops show up (in force) when the crowd bullrushes
WalMart.  Tells ya what cops are for.

And I ain't got no problem w bullrushing WalMart.  But I do w stupid shit.
And with attacking small businesses (who are not our enemy.  Wal Mart,
however, is).

But all this, again, is on the Left.  Go to "Bastards of the
Party"<http://dotsub.com/view/c81a88ea-7136-429b-9339-c6eadf9dec9a>to
see a version of this theory in its awful practice:

   "...the decimation of the Panthers led directly to a recrudescence of
gangs in the early 1970s."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastards_of_the_Party



 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:12 PM, John A Imani 
wrote:

On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity

 If the Left is looking for someone to blame for the degeneration of the
righteous protest of the Zimmerman verdict into the crass opportunism of
the mob then look no farther than itself. Ourself.

 It is our failure to connect with the masses, to articulate a vision that
is both sensible and apprehensible.

 As long as we don't do that, the righteous indignation with the
inhumanities that this system not only perpetuates but feeds off of will
continue to degenerate into crass opportunism replete with violence.

 We must find a way to speak to, work with and inspire our class.  W/o that
we lose.




 Sure there are some small business people who treat the community dirty.
And "F'ck Them" too.  I have a true strory about '92 that shows what
happened around Van Ness between Slauson and 54th St.  But in the main the
neighborhood cleaners, corner markets, etc are not our enemy and *should
not be attacked.*





On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:00 PM, John A Imani wrote:

> And even more than that, as regarding the police:
>
> If anything is to be learned in terms o

[LAAMN] Re: On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity

[John A Imani]

And even more than that, as regarding the police:

If anything is to be learned in terms of comparisons between 1992 and
today, it is this: as long as we doing stupid shit like beating up Reginald
Denny en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny or trashing small
stores they ain't gonna come.  They want us to look stupid on TV and we
oblige them.

But when we get to f'king with the money (WalMart) then yon they come.

But FTP, the point is:  the mass of (wo)men are tired of living lives of
'quiet desperation' and given opportunity will strike out.  We need to
learn with our comrades such that all of us will strike *for*.  And that
takes work.

We must engage with the community


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:48 PM, John A Imani  wrote:

>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: John A Imani 
> Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into
> Inanity
> To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" , "
> rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net" , "
> copwatc...@lists.riseup.net" 
>
>
> Cops don't show up when silly m'f'ers beating up somebody at Arco station
> of Slauson and Crenshaw.  Cops show up (in force) when the crowd bullrushes
> WalMart.  Tells ya what cops are for.
>
> And I ain't got no problem w bullrushing WalMart.  But I do w stupid
> shit.  And with attacking small businesses (who are not our enemy.  Wal
> Mart, however, is).
>
> But all this, again, is on the Left.  Go to "Bastards of the 
> Party"<http://dotsub.com/view/c81a88ea-7136-429b-9339-c6eadf9dec9a>to see a 
> version of this theory in its awful practice:
>
>"...the decimation of the Panthers led directly to a recrudescence of
> gangs in the early 1970s."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastards_of_the_Party
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:12 PM, John A Imani wrote:
>
>> On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity
>>
>> If the Left is looking for someone to blame for the degeneration of the
>> righteous protest of the Zimmerman verdict into the crass opportunism of
>> the mob then look no farther than itself. Ourself.
>>
>> It is our failure to connect with the masses, to articulate a vision that
>> is both sensible and *apprehensible.*
>>
>> As long as we don't do that, the righteous indignation with the
>> inhumanities that this system not only perpetuates but feeds off of will
>> continue to degenerate into crass opportunism replete with violence.
>>
>> We must find a way to speak to, work with and inspire our class.  W/o
>> that we lose.
>>
>> --
>> JAI
>> RAC-LA
>>
>
>
>
> --
> JAI
> RAC-LA
>
>
>
> --
> JAI
> RAC-LA
>



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[LAAMN] Fwd: On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: John A Imani 
Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity
To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" , "
rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net" , "
copwatc...@lists.riseup.net" 


Cops don't show up when silly m'f'ers beating up somebody at Arco station
of Slauson and Crenshaw.  Cops show up (in force) when the crowd bullrushes
WalMart.  Tells ya what cops are for.

And I ain't got no problem w bullrushing WalMart.  But I do w stupid shit.
And with attacking small businesses (who are not our enemy.  Wal Mart,
however, is).

But all this, again, is on the Left.  Go to "Bastards of the
Party"<http://dotsub.com/view/c81a88ea-7136-429b-9339-c6eadf9dec9a>to
see a version of this theory in its awful practice:

   "...the decimation of the Panthers led directly to a recrudescence of
gangs in the early 1970s."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastards_of_the_Party


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:12 PM, John A Imani  wrote:

> On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity
>
> If the Left is looking for someone to blame for the degeneration of the
> righteous protest of the Zimmerman verdict into the crass opportunism of
> the mob then look no farther than itself. Ourself.
>
> It is our failure to connect with the masses, to articulate a vision that
> is both sensible and *apprehensible.*
>
> As long as we don't do that, the righteous indignation with the
> inhumanities that this system not only perpetuates but feeds off of will
> continue to degenerate into crass opportunism replete with violence.
>
> We must find a way to speak to, work with and inspire our class.  W/o that
> we lose.
>
> --
> JAI
> RAC-LA
>



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[LAAMN] Fwd: Zimmerman Case

[John A Imani]

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Date: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:00 AM
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To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" , "
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The George Zimmerman case and the potentially inflammatory effects of a
“Not Guilty” verdict has often been analogized to the incidents preceding
and leading to the civil disobediences in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1992.
These latter two, however, were triggered by popular perception of the
conflicts between the stated mission of the police department, i.e. “To
Protect and Serve”, and its behaviors in its actual conduct in carrying out
of it's charge. In both years, long-running periods of arbitrary and
authoritarian administering of ad hoc non-judicial punishments,
colloquially, beatings, etc, welled itself up into mass revolt against the
continuance of such tactics on the part of purported public service
employees. In a word, it was the character of society's policing power that
was being challenge.

With the Zimmerman case, it is not the policing power of society and its
conduct that is being called into question. It is that society itself. That
society with all of its suppositions, superstitions and stereotypes it has
established and engendered throughout the course of its existence. And to
choose but one aspect of that society, in this incident the relative import
of the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and to stand one's ground while
doing so versus the human right to buy a pack of Skittles. And not be
bothered because of those suppositions, superstitions and stereotypes. And
not be stalked, followed, confronted and killed.

Will there be violence? Maybe this time, maybe not this time. But there
will be the potential violence so long as man-made rights conflict with
man's human rights. There is a reason for the famed Anatole France quote: “*The
law, in its majestic equality*, *forbids* the rich as well as the poor to
sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread “


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[LAAMN] Fwd:Film: The Origins of RAC-LA-The Police Riot in MacArthur Park May Day 2007

[John A Imani]

The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles (RAC-LA) has since Nov
of 2007 provided through its food *program, La Programa Comida, *the
nutrition of donated fruits and vegetables to the homeless, poor and
minimum-waged workers of the MacArthur Park community. The park was the
scene of a violent assault upon human rights by the LAPD on May Day of that
year. RAC-LA, itself, was formed and *La Programa Comida* was launched in
response to that incursion by the occupying force that is the police
department.

Since that time RAC-LA has passed out some 45,000 baskets.

Every Sunday 12 - 5PM SE--Corner of Wilshire and Parkview--MacArthur Park
90057

[image: Inline image 1]

The Police Riot and the Origins of RAC-LA in the film, "We're Still Here,
We Never left"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDH3si3b-Ks


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[LAAMN] Fwd: California prison officials say 30,000 inmates refuse meals

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 California prison officials say 30,000 inmates refuse meals

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 By Paige St. John

July 8, 2013, 5:35 p.m.

California officials Monday said 30,000 inmates refused meals at the start
of what could be the largest prison protest in state history.

Inmates in two-thirds of the state's 33 prisons, and at all four
out-of-state private prisons, refused both breakfast and lunch on Monday,
said corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton. In addition, 2,300 prisoners
failed to go to work or attend their prison classes, either refusing or in
some cases saying they were sick.

The corrections department will not acknowledge a hunger strike until
inmates have missed nine consecutive meals. Even so, Thornton said,
Monday's numbers are far larger than those California saw two years earlier
during a series of hunger strikes that drew international attention.

Despite the widespread work stoppages and meal refusals, Thornton said
state prisons operated as usual through the day. "Everything has been
running smoothly," she said. "It was normal. There were no incidents."

The protest, announced for months, is organized by a small group of inmates
held in segregation at Pelican Bay State Prison near the Oregon border.
Their list of demands, reiterated Monday, center on state policies that
allow inmates to be held in isolation indefinitely, in some cases for
decades, for ties to prison gangs.

Though prison officials contend those gang ties are validated, the state
last year began releasing inmates from segregation who had no evidence of
gang-related behavior. Nearly half of those reviewed have been returned to
the general population.

The protest involves the same issues and many of the same inmates who led a
series of protests in California prisons two years ago. At the height of
those 2011 hunger strikes, more than 11,600 inmates at one point refused
meals. The correction department's official tally, which counts only those
inmates on any given day who have skipped nine consecutive meals, never
rose above 6,600.

*ALSO:*

Prison protests begin with list of
demands<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/political/la-me-pc-ff-mass-prison-protests-begin-in-california-20130708,0,7517489.story>

Prison hunger strikes begin at High
Desert<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/political/la-me-pc-ff-prison-hunger-strikes-begin-at-high-desert-20130705,0,4176085.story>

Federal judges refuse to delay prison release
order<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/political/la-me-pc-ff-federal-judges-deny-stay-20130703,0,6815609.story>


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Hi,



I thought you'd like this:
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California prison officials say 30,000 inmates refuse meals
California officials Monday said 30,000 inmates refused meals at the start
of what could be the largest prison protest in state history.



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[LAAMN] Fwd: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] Fwd: A prisoner's story: Black Panther in solitary confinement for 40 years, July 8 on PBS

[John A Imani]

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Date: Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Subject: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] Fwd: A prisoner's story: Black Panther in
solitary confinement for 40 years, July 8 on PBS
To: Hunger Strike Support , Occupy 4 Prisoners <
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Good context for orienting folks to the reasons for the hunger and work
strike -- and right on time.

Mary Ratcliff
SF Bay View(415) 671-0789www.sfbayview.com



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‘Herman’s House’ Is a Moving Story of Resilience in Prison and the
Transformative Power of Art, Monday, July 8, 2013 on PBS
Man in Solitary Confinement for More Than 40 Years Builds a Life-changing
Relationship With a New York Artist

*A Co-presentation With the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).*

[image: hermans_house_low_res]
Photo by Storyline Entertainment

 “A portrait of an invisible man. . . . equal parts social protest,
conceptual cinema and criminal-justice critique.”—John Anderson, *Variety*

Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement
in the United States—he’s spent more than 40 years in a 6-by-9-foot cell in
Louisiana. Imprisoned in 1967 for a robbery he admits, he was subsequently
sentenced to life for a killing he vehemently denies. *Herman’s
House*is
a moving account of the expression his struggle found in an unusual
project proposed by artist Jackie Sumell. Imagining Wallace’s “dream home”
began as a game and became an interrogation of justice and punishment in
America. The film takes us inside the duo’s unlikely 12-year friendship,
revealing the transformative power of art.

Angad Singh Bhalla’s *Herman’s
House*has
its national broadcast premiere on
* Monday, July 8, 2013* at 10 p.m. (check local
listings),
as part of the 26th season of the award-winning PBS series *POV* (*Point of
View*).
The film will stream on POV’s website,
www.pbs.org/pov/hermanshouse,
from July 9 – Aug. 6. Visit the website to embed a trailer and download
art, press releases, a discussion guide and lesson plan. American
television’s longest-running independent documentary series, POV was
honored with a 2013 MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective
Institutions.

Wallace, a former Black Panther, was accused in 1972 of the murder of
prison guard Brent Miller, as was Albert Woodfox; both were placed in
solitary and subsequently convicted. They and Black Panther Robert King
(also placed in solitary and convicted of a different murder) were
imprisoned in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola) and became
famous as the “Angola 3.” King was freed in 2001, and in February 2013 a
judge ordered the release of Woodfox.

Except for a brief period, Wallace has remained in solitary confinement 23
hours a day and has continued to appeal his murder conviction. In 2002, he
received a letter that asked an extraordinary question. Jackie Sumell, a
young New York artist, wrote, “What kind of house does a man who has lived
in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?”

Sumell’s initial query led to hundreds of letters and phone calls between
her and Wallace. The first result was the art installation “The House That
Herman Built,” which made its debut in Germany in 2006. It featured a
full-scale wooden model of Wallace’s cell, in which gallery attendees were
encouraged to spend time, and detailed plans for Wallace’s dream home. That
was just the first step in an unpredictable, life-changing 12-year journey.
*Herman’s House* features audio of the phone calls between Wallace and
Sumell, a riveting record of a prisoner’s resilience after decades of
solitude and of a young artist’s determination to tell his story.

Things take a dra

[LAAMN] Fwd: Bring The Noise! Rally to support California Prisoners Hunger Strike Set for July 8th

[John A Imani]

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From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:23 AM
Subject: Bring The Noise! Rally to support California Prisoners Hunger
Strike Set for July 8th


The California Prisoner's Hunger Strike is set to resume on July 8, 2013
Join the Community Coalition for Self-Defense and the statewide Prisoner
Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition and other supporters, Monday, July 8th
in solidarity with the California Prisoner Hunger Strikers. We will deliver
the five core demands of the Hunger Strikers to Governor Jerry Brown, State
Attorney General Kamala Harris and State Assembly Speaker John Perez. The
rally will begin at 12pm -2:00 PM at the Reagan State Building 3rd & Spring
Sts. Downtown L.A. Bring your drums, whistles, horns etc we want to make
the Prisoners Hunger Strikers LOUD AND CLEAR...BRING THE NOISE!



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[LAAMN] Fwd: Bring The Noise! Rally to support California Prisoners Hunger Strike Set for July th

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:23 AM
Subject: Bring The Noise! Rally to support California Prisoners Hunger
Strike Set for July 8th


The California Prisoner's Hunger Strike is set to resume on July 8, 2013
Join the Community Coalition for Self-Defense and the statewide Prisoner
Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition and other supporters, Monday, July 8th
in solidarity with the California Prisoner Hunger Strikers. We will deliver
the five core demands of the Hunger Strikers to Governor Jerry Brown, State
Attorney General Kamala Harris and State Assembly Speaker John Perez. The
rally will begin at 12pm -2:00 PM at the Reagan State Building 3rd & Spring
Sts. Downtown L.A. Bring your drums, whistles, horns etc we want to make
the Prisoners Hunger Strikers LOUD AND CLEAR...BRING THE NOISE!



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[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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[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/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcangress.org%2F&h=EAQEeGxlP&s=1>
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-



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[LAAMN] LA Times-Africa and Biofuels

[John A Imani]

In the Manifesto Marx said that   the bourgeoisie "creates a world after
its own 
image".
It appears then that part and parcel of the industrialization of Africa--in
addition to existing mineral extraction industries (mainly foreign owned
and managed) and the (esp textile) manufacturing explosion on its way
(ditto) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa)--is
planned to be an industrial revolution that will arrive with a
reorganization of agriculture as huge factories exclusively devoted to the
mass-manufacture of a single item without regard for the natural economy
nor for those living there and only benefiting the national elites.

Walter Rodney wrote of how Europe underdeveloped Africa.  (See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa
Now we see how undeveloped this 'development' will be.

>From the article at
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/22/world/la-fg-kenya-biofuel-20130622:

-more than 193,000 square miles had been planted with biofuel plants
globally, much of it in Africa.

Bedford Biofuels leased more than 600 square miles of land that was
supposed to be held in trust for the community, but is actually controlled
by a few powerful people...The company agreed to pay the equivalent of
about $1.25 per acre per year.

-A 2011 
reportby
the International Monetary Fund and United Nations agencies, including
the Food and Agriculture Organization, linked sharp rises in food prices in
poor countries to the demand for land to plant biofuel crops.

-biofuel crop projects have been attacked by environmental and humanitarian
activists as doing more harm than good, often replacing food crops that are
badly needed in poor countries or destroying natural habitat like forests.

-Converting this bush area into a monoculture would destroy biodiversity."

- an Italian company that planned to develop 193 square miles of jatropha,
displacing about 20,000 people...
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[LAAMN] Video on CBS-Study: 30-somethings worse off than their parents' generation

[John A Imani]

 (JAI-Just saw this.  Says people are worse off than they were 30 years
ago.  Why?  Capitalism.  But they don't say that.  See (Video) .
http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-18563_162-57590632.html )

June 23, 2013 7:34 PM


 Study: 30-somethings worse off than their parents' generation
By Terrell 
Brown

(CBS News) WELLFLEET, Mass. - Americans in their 30s are the only age group
in this country worse off than their counterparts three decades ago.

A recent study  by the Urban
Institute shows the net worth of today's 30-somethings -- adjusted for
inflation -- is down 21 percent from what 30-somethings enjoyed in 1983.
 [image: Myya Beck, 33, has her own business and a baby on the way, but
debt and bills are making it difficult for her to live a comfortable life.]

Myya Beck, 33, has her own business and a baby on the way, but debt and
bills are making it difficult for her to live a comfortable life.
/ CBS News

At 33, Myya Beck is doing what she loves: Running her own fitness studio in
Wellfleet, Mass. She works morning and night, six to seven days a week, and
still struggles just to get by.

Ask her if she has any savings, and she laughs. "Forty dollars," she said.
Much of the money she earns is go to bills, college loans, a car payment
and rent for her house.

Beck's entire generation is facing this struggle, and economists believe
part of the reason is because the traditional means of building wealth are
disappearing.

Buying a home has been a historic source of wealth, but since 1990, there's
been a significant drop in home ownership for people under age 39,
according to the U.S. Census.

U.S. regains wealth from recession, but not
equally
Lawmakers try to save student loan
deal
Is now the time to buy a
home?

And then there's college debt, which, according the Federal Reserve of New
York, has more than tripled in just the last 10 years.

Beck still owes over $15,000 for her college education.
  CBS

"It's stressful, very stressful," she said. "It weighs on me as a person
that I'm not doing something right, that I'm not doing enough."

She's also just learned some really big news.

"Now we also have a baby on the way," she said. "I mean, this is everything
that I've ever wanted. I've always wanted to own my own business. I've
wanted to be a mom and have a family most importantly, of my own, so I've
gotten those things, but financially how do I do it?"

She said the uncertainty "scares the living dickens out of me."

"My glass is always half full. I'm still day by day trying to something
more. What else is there?" she said.

Beck is just one of a generation that if things don't change, will be
poorer than their parents. It's the first time that's happened in America
since the Great Depression.

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[LAAMN] Fwd: SPLC's Intelligence Report available online

[John A Imani]

Comrades,

The SPLC http://www.splcenter.org/ has for over 40 years been at the
forefront in fighting against racialism.

I urge all to support their work.

JAI
RAC-LA

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To: "Mr. S. John J. Daniels and John A. Imani" 

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[LAAMN] From Hunger Action, LA-: Cuts to Food Stamps Defeated

[John A Imani]

HALA,

Congrats on these efforts.

JAI

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:41 AM
Subject: farm bill defeated!
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


*The House just voted on the Farm Bill, with the $20 billion proposed cuts
in SNAP. It was defeated 195-234. 172 Dems voted against the bill, with
SNAP cuts being a major factor for many of them. *

*Thanks to all of you who made calls, went on visits or rallies to stand up
for hungry Americans.*

* *

* *

*Farm bill fails in the House*

By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News

The House failed to pass a major farm bill on Thursday after most Democrats
joined with a handful of conservatives to scuttle the nearly $1 trillion
legislation. 

The House voted 195-234 to defeat the bill, which had been expected to
pass. The Senate has already passed its own farm legislation.

Democrats, who were angry about the legislation’s cuts to food stamp
programs, largely opposed the measure. Conservative groups like the Club
for Growth and the Koch Brothers-linked Americans for Prosperity had
meanwhile ratcheted up pressure on Republican lawmakers to oppose the
legislation.

The failed vote is somewhat of an embarrassment for House Speaker John
Boehner, R-Ohio, and the rest of the GOP leadership. This is just the
latest example of their inability to get Republican legislation over the
finish line due to conservatives’ defections on the final vote.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/20/19060053-farm-bill-fails-in-the-house?lite


** **
House farm bill vote breakdown: GOP: 171 yeas, 62 nays; DEMS: 24 yeas, 172
nays; total: 195-234

** **

** **

Frank Tamborello

Hunger Action Los Angeles

961 S. Mariposa #205

Los Angeles CA 90006

213-388-8228

fr...@hungeractionla.org



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[LAAMN] Fwd: Fiday meeting-Major Cuts Threatened to SNAP Program

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Subject: friday meeting agenda
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


 

*Hunger Action Los Angeles*

*MONTHLY MEETING***

** **

[image: 1-IMG_2604.JPG]  

* *

*Agenda*

* *

*Part One: UPDATES AND ACTION ON 2013 ANTI HUNGER AGENDA*

**· ***Farm Bill: Major Cuts Threatened to SNAP Program (May
already have happened by Friday)—Report Back from This Week’s Actions on
SNAP*

**· ***State Legislative Update : Follow up from Hunger Action Day*

**· ***City Legislation on : Edible Parkways (Planting Food in
Vacant Space)*

* *

*Part Two:**  **CITY OF LA GENERAL PLAN: HEALTH AND
WELLNESS CHAPTER *

*The City of LA General Plan is revised for the first time in 20 years. A
Health and Wellness chapter is being added---an opportunity for us to
include food justice issues. Outreach workers will be on hand to collect
our input for suggestions to improve access in LA to grow, purchase and
share healthy food*

* *

*Friday June 21 2013*

*10 am to 12 Noon*

*Location: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy ---*

**Look for signs at building for room location ***

*464 S. Lucas St.  LA CA 90017*

*(Just west of downtown, on Lucas btw. 6th and 3rd st.: Free parking! )*

* *

*ALL ARE INVITED---FREE*

* *

* *

* *

*Please RSVP: **fr...@hungeractionla.org* * or (213)
388 8228*

*SPONSORED
BY HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES***

** **

** **

Frank Tamborello

Hunger Action Los Angeles

961 S. Mariposa #205

Los Angeles CA 90006

213-388-8228

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[LAAMN] Fwd: Federal Farm Bill Cuts to SNAP (FoodStamps) - Please Take Action

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM
Subject: Federal Farm Bill Cuts to SNAP (FoodStamps) - Please Take Action
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


Hi all---I’m forwarding this information from Western Center on Law and
Poverty about the Farm Bill, including other information from the Food
Research and Action Center.

** **

*SENATE CUTS FOOD STAMPS*

Basically, the Senate has already passed its version of the Farm Bill
cutting $4 billion over 10 years from food stamps, which will hurt
California (and everyone else.) It also includes harmful language, known as
the Vitter 
amendment,
which would create a life-time bar on SNAP for certain individuals
convicted of crimes and who have served their time.  

** **

*HOUSE WILL VOTE NEXT WEEK ON FARM BILL*

The House will be voting on its version, which is even worse and cuts $20
billion from SNAP over the next 10 years.

They will be voting next week.

23 Members of the California Congressional Delegation have signed on to
Congressman Jim McGovern's House Resolution 90.  This resolution expresses
the Sense of the House that the Committee on Agriculture – and the House of
Representatives – should oppose cuts SNAP. We encourage Members of Congress
to cosponsor this resolution by contacting Keith Stern in Rep. McGovern’s
office, 202-225-6101 or keith.st...@mail.house.gov. 

See:   House Resolution 90 Against SNAP
Cuts


** **

** **

*Please thank them for their past support, and confirm they will oppose the
SNAP cuts in the House Ag Bill.  Ask them to speak against it on the House
floor. *

** **

*Immediate action step:  Please call your House Member of Congress and
confirm that he or she will VOTE AGAINST the House Farm Bill.  Find your
Representative at : *www.house.gov **

** **

*Urge your House Member to join Jim McGovern in the SNAP Challenge*

To demonstrate the need to protect SNAP from devastating cuts, Congressman
Jim McGovern and other anti-hunger champions are hosting a SNAP Challenge
from June 13 to 19, 2013.


*1) Urge your Members of CA Delegation to Join CA Congresswomen Barbara Lee
& Dorris Matsui * to support the SNAP Challenge. 

** **

There are many ways House Members can participate in the SNAP Challenge: 1)
live on a SNAP budget, even if it's just for a day, 2) participate in the
shopping trip on June 12th, 3) speak out on the House floor about the
importance of SNAP through one-minutes or special orders, and 4) host a
screening of the documentary 'A Place at the
Table'.
Follow this link to the Dear Colleague
letter
(pdf)
for more details about how to participate.

*2) Send out a press release* to applaud your House Member and other
leaders for taking the SNAP Challenge. FRAC has provided a model
release
for
your member of Congress (MS Word document).  You can modify this to send a
thank you to Members who have signed H.R. 90.  They are:

Karen Bass (D-CA),

Ami Bera (D-CA),

Julia Brownley (D-CA),

Lois Capps (D-CA), 

Tony Cardenas (D-CA), 

Judy Chu (D-CA), 

Susan Davis (D-CA),

Anna Eshoo (D-CA),

Sam Farr (D-CA), 

John Garamendi (D-CA),

Janice Hahn (D-CA),

Jared Huffman (D-CA),

Barbara Lee (D-CA),

Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), 

Alan Lowenthal (D-CA),

Doris Matsui (D-CA), 

Grace Napolitano (D-CA),

Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA),

Linda Sanchez (D-CA), 

Adam Schiff (D-CA),

Jackie Speier (D-CA), 

Maxine Waters (D-CA), 

Henry Waxman (D-CA)

*3) Participate in the conversation* by either taking the SNAP Challenge
yourself or by using social media to talk about what the proposed SNAP cuts
would mean for low-income Americans. You can: 

**·  **Blog or share your experiences, even from a previous challenge you
took.

** **

**·  **Participate virtually in the kick-off shopping trip, which will be
held on June 12.

** **

**·  **Follow @fractweets to join us at all of the events. Use
#SNAPchallenge, #SNAPworks, and #endhungernow in your tweets to be included
in the ongoing conversation. We will have use this SNAP Challenge page on
Storify
to
capture all of the efforts around the country. Contact Betsy Edwards,
bedwa...@frac.org, to make sure we integrate your work into this page.

** **



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[LAAMN] Fwd: [May 19th Movement] Rally at Corcoran State Prison on July 13th!

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Subject: [May 19th Movement] Rally at Corcoran State Prison on July 13th!
To: May 19th Movement 


In 2011, over 12,000 prisoners and their family and community members
participated in statewide hunger strikes protesting the inhumane conditions
in California's Security Housing Units (SHU or solitary confinement).
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation promised meaningful
reform as a result of those protests, but nothing meaningful has reached
the people living in these cages. Prisoners have announced another hunger
strike will begin July 8th because of CDCR's failure to fulfill that
promise.

On July 8, prisoners living in the SHUs at Pelican Bay and other prisons
will resume their hunger strike and work stoppages if decisive action is
not taken by the State before then.

On July 13, we will mobilize from around California to Corcoran State
Prison—which isolates over 1,600 people in solitary confinement—to stand in
solidarity with striking prisoners across the state. We must take this
movement to the prison gates and show the Governor and the Department of
Corrections that we support the prisoners and demand that the Governor meet
with prisoner representatives immediately to negotiate their demands!

California currently holds nearly 12,000 people in extreme isolation. The
state spends over $60 million per year on maintaining prisoners in
isolation.

Demand the State of California stop the torture!

Show your support for the hunger strikers!

Organize to help win their demands!

Rally at Corcoran State Prison on July 13th!

The Community Coalition for Self-Defense is organizing a contingent from
L.A.



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[LAAMN] Fwd: June 21Hunger Action Los Angeles MONTHLY MEETING

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:40 PM
Subject: june 21 hala mtg
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


** **

** **

 

*Hunger Action Los Angeles*

*MONTHLY MEETING***

** **

[image: 1-IMG_2604.JPG]  

* *

*Friday June 21 2013*

*10 am to 12 Noon*

*Location: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy ---*

**Look for signs at building for room location ***

*464 S. Lucas St.  LA CA 90017*

*(Just west of downtown, on Lucas btw. 6th and 3rd st.: Free parking! )***

* *

*Agenda*

* *

*UPDATES AND ACTION ON 2013 ANTI HUNGER AGENDA*

**· ***Homeless Bill of Rights Next Steps*

**· ***Successful Re-Entry and Access to Jobs Acts*

**· ***Restoration of Dental Care for Seniors *

**· ***Farm Bill*

* *

*Join LA’s emerging grassroots anti hunger community. Let’s work together
to make this a city where no one has to worry about getting fresh,
nutritious affordable food. *

* *

* *

*Please RSVP: **fr...@hungeractionla.org* * or (213)
388 8228*

*SPONSORED BY HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES***

* *

* *

* *

** **

** **

Frank Tamborello

Hunger Action Los Angeles

961 S. Mariposa #205

Los Angeles CA 90006

213-388-8228

fr...@hungeractionla.org



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[LAAMN] Democracy Now: Radical Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

[John A Imani]

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/6/civil_rights_veteran_chokwe_lumumba_elected

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[LAAMN] Fwd: [rac-la] Fwd: South Central Farmers In Fight to Stop Industrialization of the Farmland

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Tierra Y Libertad 
Date: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [rac-la] Fwd: South Central Farmers In Fight to Stop
Industrialization of the Farmland
To: John A Imani 


fwd

IMPORTANT!!! - For those unable to attend tomorrows hearing, PLEASE OFFER A
PHONE CALL OR EMAIL TO PUSH FOR A "NO" TO TH DECLARATION OF NEGATIVE
MITIGATION on Case No. AA-2012-919-PMLA

"The South Central Farm in Los Angeles is again under attack by developers
again who want 1/2 million square feet of buildings and 406 parking spaces
on land surrounded by trains on 2 sides and a metal recycling plant and a
welding plant on the other.

Please contact the City of LA Planning Commission and say "No" to a
Declaration of Negative Mitigation on Case No. AA-2012-919-PMLA by calling
Christina Toy Lee at 213.473.9723 or emailing christina.toy-...@lacity.org.
Thanks."

  ------
 *From:* John A Imani 
*To:* "rac...@lists.riseup.net" ;
rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net
*Cc:* "dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com" <
dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com>; LAAMN ; "
actio...@lists.riseup.net" 
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 4, 2013 3:04 PM
*Subject:* [rac-la] Fwd: South Central Farmers In Fight to Stop
Industrialization of the Farmland



-- Forwarded message --
From: *Frank Tamborello* 
Date: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Subject: South Central Farmers In Fight to Stop Industrializiation of the
Farmland
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


Save the Farm!  The South Central Farmers call on all Farm supporters, new
and old, to stop the industrialization of the South Central Farm.
 
Join the legendary South Central Farmers on Wednesday, June 5, at 9:00 on
the east steps of Los Angeles City Hall to face off against the Los Angeles
Planning Commission.  The Planning Commission will be considering a
proposal to cover 11 acres of the 13-acre farmland with industrial
buildings, and put 400 parking spaces on the remaining land.
 
If you arrive after 9:30, go directly to Room 1020.  City Hall is located
at 200 N. Spring Street, LA, 90012.
 
The Farmers are organizing to stop the plans to cover the empty lots that
buttress the low-income Central Alameda neighborhood from the Alameda
Corridor industrial and transportation zone with four massive industrial
buildings.  With their call to Save the Farm, the Farmers and their
supporters will demand environmental justice for area residents, who have
fought off everything from putting an incinerator to a sweatshop on the
site over two decades.  An industrial manufacturing site on the land
threatens the working class neighborhood with hundreds of truck trips and
commuters daily.  Most of the jobs will be transferred from existing
manufacturing facilities, and will be low-skilled and low-wage.
 
The story of the South Central Farm has entered the annals of Angelenos'
battle for green space, alongside the Cornfields, Chavez Ravine, Taylor
Yard, and the Ballona Wetlands, except that the Farmers have halted
development on the land for seven years. Mayor Tom Bradley gave the land to
the community in 1993, in the wake of the Los Angeles Uprising.  But five
years later, the City was in negotiations with developer Ralph Horowitz to
industrialize this largest parcel of undeveloped land in Los Angeles.  
 
In 2006, the 350 families who comprised the South Central Farmers became an
international symbol of the struggle between the people's right to raise
and distribute healthy food for their families and neighbors, and the
profits of developers in the over-industrialized food desert of South Los
Angeles.  Thousands of Farm supporters from across the country joined
celebrities like Julia Butterfly Hill, John Quigley, Daryl Hannah, Joan
Baez, Willie Nelson, Ralph Nader, and Danny Glover to protest the City's
sale of the Farm for development.  Letters of support poured in from as far
away as Oaxaca and South Africa.  
 
But in the early morning of June 13, 2006, after a 3-month encampment on
the Farm, the sheriff's deputies in SWAT gear and bulldozers arrived and
razed two generations of work to reclaim and farm the land.  Thousands of
people poured into the low-income neighborhood and clutched the chain link
fence around the Farm or wept from across the street.  They witnessed the
sheriff’s storm across the carefully crafted rows of herbs, cactus, and
vegetables.  The City forcibly removed protestors who had camped on the
land and clung to platforms in tree branches in defiance of an eviction
order.  Forty-four were arrested.  Television cameras from around the
country recorded the destruction of nearly twenty years of family farming,
and on the noonday news, millions watched as fire trucks uprooting trees
and rolled across plots cultivated by parents and their children.
 
Since that tragic morning when the nation&

[LAAMN] Fwd: South Central Farmers In Fight to Stop Industrialization of the Farmland

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Subject: South Central Farmers In Fight to Stop Industrializiation of the
Farmland
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


Save the Farm!  The South Central Farmers call on all Farm supporters, new
and old, to stop the industrialization of the South Central Farm.

 

Join the legendary South Central Farmers on Wednesday, June 5, at 9:00 on
the east steps of Los Angeles City Hall to face off against the Los Angeles
Planning Commission.  The Planning Commission will be considering a
proposal to cover 11 acres of the 13-acre farmland with industrial
buildings, and put 400 parking spaces on the remaining land.

 

If you arrive after 9:30, go directly to Room 1020.  City Hall is located
at 200 N. Spring Street, LA, 90012.

 

The Farmers are organizing to stop the plans to cover the empty lots that
buttress the low-income Central Alameda neighborhood from the Alameda
Corridor industrial and transportation zone with four massive industrial
buildings.  With their call to Save the Farm, the Farmers and their
supporters will demand environmental justice for area residents, who have
fought off everything from putting an incinerator to a sweatshop on the
site over two decades.  An industrial manufacturing site on the land
threatens the working class neighborhood with hundreds of truck trips and
commuters daily.  Most of the jobs will be transferred from existing
manufacturing facilities, and will be low-skilled and low-wage.

 

The story of the South Central Farm has entered the annals of Angelenos'
battle for green space, alongside the Cornfields, Chavez Ravine, Taylor
Yard, and the Ballona Wetlands, except that the Farmers have halted
development on the land for seven years. Mayor Tom Bradley gave the land to
the community in 1993, in the wake of the Los Angeles Uprising.  But five
years later, the City was in negotiations with developer Ralph Horowitz to
industrialize this largest parcel of undeveloped land in Los Angeles.  

 

In 2006, the 350 families who comprised the South Central Farmers became an
international symbol of the struggle between the people's right to raise
and distribute healthy food for their families and neighbors, and the
profits of developers in the over-industrialized food desert of South Los
Angeles.  Thousands of Farm supporters from across the country joined
celebrities like Julia Butterfly Hill, John Quigley, Daryl Hannah, Joan
Baez, Willie Nelson, Ralph Nader, and Danny Glover to protest the City's
sale of the Farm for development.  Letters of support poured in from as far
away as Oaxaca and South Africa.  

 

But in the early morning of June 13, 2006, after a 3-month encampment on
the Farm, the sheriff's deputies in SWAT gear and bulldozers arrived and
razed two generations of work to reclaim and farm the land.  Thousands of
people poured into the low-income neighborhood and clutched the chain link
fence around the Farm or wept from across the street.  They witnessed the
sheriff’s storm across the carefully crafted rows of herbs, cactus, and
vegetables.  The City forcibly removed protestors who had camped on the
land and clung to platforms in tree branches in defiance of an eviction
order.  Forty-four were arrested.  Television cameras from around the
country recorded the destruction of nearly twenty years of family farming,
and on the noonday news, millions watched as fire trucks uprooting trees
and rolled across plots cultivated by parents and their children.

 

Since that tragic morning when the nation's largest urban farm was
uprooted, the Farmers have halted development on the farmland, turning back
plans to sell the land to clothing giant Forever 21 for a manufacturing
sweatshop with the threat of a national boycott.  Alarmed residents and the
South Central Farmers Support Committee collected thousands of signatures,
packed a Planning Department meeting to overflowing, and testified for
hours in opposition to the proposed development.  The Planning Commission
reluctantly reversed itself, requiring an Environmental Impact Report
before construction for the shipping center could begin.  That project was
shelved.  The Farmers returned in 2011 to protest the City's plan to sell
off a 2.7-acre parcel that had been promised as a park for area children to
a conglomerate of small clothing manufacturers.  The Farm remains an
international icon of low-income residents creating their own environmental
justice.

 

SOUTH CENTRAL FARMERS
Contact: Tezozomoc 818 527-6384

** **

** **

Frank Tamborello

Hunger Action Los Angeles

961 S. Mariposa #205

Los Angeles CA 90006

213-388-8228

fr...@hungeractionla.org



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RAC-LA


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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] Fwd: [May 19th Movement] Corcoran Moblization Prison Hunger Strike July 8, 2013

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:11 PM
Subject: [May 19th Movement] Corcoran Moblization Prison Hunger Strike July
8, 2013
To: May 19th Movement 


Join the Community Coalition for Self-Defense as we mobilize to stand with
our families, love ones, friends and supporters. We will stand with those
who are willing to sacrifice to bring exposure to these torturous
conditions called the SHU.

Peaceful Protest to Resume July 8th 2013, If Demands Are Not Met
Posted on February 14, 2013 by prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity
ATTENTION: Governor Jerry Brown; CDCR Secretary Jeffrey Beard; and all
other parties of interest.

In response to CDCR’s failure to meet our 2011 Five (5) Core Demands, the
PBSP-SHU Short Corridor Representatives respectfully present this notice
of, and basis for, our indi- vidualized, collectively agreed upon, decision
to resume our nonviolent peaceful protest action on July 08, 2013.

The upcoming peaceful protest will be a combined Hunger Strike [HS] – Work
Stoppage [WS] action. Once initiated, this protest will continue
indefinitely—until all Five (5) Core Demands are fully met. Here’s why.

1. The Basis for Our Decision to Resume Our Peaceful Protest

The basis for our decision to resume our nonviolent peaceful protest has
been made individually, while presented collectively, on behalf of
ourselves, and all similarly situated prisoners, as well as non-prisoners,
who are adversely affected by the inhumane policies/ practices at issue.

Governor Brown’s, and CDCR Secretary Cate’s, failure to make the changes
agreed upon during the July/October 2011 negotiation process, has forced us
to resume our nonviolent hunger strike/work stoppage protest.

During these negotiations, CDCR’s Undersecretary Kernan, et al,
acknowledged the rea- sonableness of our Five (5) Core Demands and asked us
to suspend our hunger strike in order to give the CDCR time to implement
timely and meaningful changes of real sub- stance, in response to our
demands. We agreed—while CDCR has failed to do their part.

Before we began our July 01, 2011 peaceful efforts to bring about the long
overdue re- forms to the CDCR system, we presented Governor Brown, CDCR
Secretary Cate, and many others, with our “Formal Complaint” spelling out
the reasons why we are willing to put our lives on the line in order to
bring about the necessary changes. Along with our “Five (5) Core Demands,”
wherein we made it clear that we can no longer, complacently, accept the
policies and practices that have subjected us, as well as thousands of
other pris- oners, and loved ones outside these prison walls, to decades of
torture within these solitary confinement SHU/Ad-Seg Units, based on
innocent associations and unsubstantiated alle- gations of involvement in
illegal activities.

The undisputable fact is that many of us have been held in solitary
confinement for the past 10 to 40 years, based on fabricated information
provided by prisoners who have been tor- tured to the point where they
provide false information to IGI, in order to get out of the SHU/Ad-Seg.
Few of us, if any, have ever been formally charged with, or found guilty of
a single illegal, gang-related act. (To review our Formal Complaint, go to:
prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/formal-complaint. For the 5
Core Demands, see: http://www.prisons.org/documents/
FinalNoticewith5CoreDemands.doc
).

We have demonstrated our commitment to our cause through our hunger strike
actions – from July 01 to July 20, and from Sept. 26 to Oct. 13, 2011. We
remain 100% collectively committed today!

We have kept our word, while patiently waiting for the CDCR to keep theirs.
However, at this point, it is clear to us that the CDCR has no intention of
implementing the substantive policy changes that were agreed to fifteen or
sixteen months ago – based on their highly touted “Security Threat Group”
proposals [March and June 2012], and the much hyped “STG Pilot Program”
[October 11, 2012], the CDCR has clearly demonstrated their bad faith;
because their alleged changes to the policies/practices at issue are a sham.

In reality, the proposed changes will greatly expand upon the number of
prisoners who will be subjected to long-term isolation in torture cells;
all the above is detailed in our written Rejection/Oppositions to the March
and June proposals. As well as the October 11, 2012 Pilot Program. (See
them at: 
http://www.prisonart.org/images/!Newsletter/Rock2_1
and
at:http://www.prisonart.org/images/!Newsletter/Rock1_2

[LAAMN] Fwd: An Economic Description of the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles Food Program, La Programa Comida

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: John A Imani 
Date: Mon, May 27, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Subject: An Economic Description of the Revolutionary Autonomous
Communities-Los Angeles Food Program, La Programa Comida
To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" ,
rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net, "copwatc...@lists.riseup.net" <
copwatc...@lists.riseup.net>, newplanet-newli...@lists.riseup.net


Comrades,

The RAC-LA's "Programa Comida" includes symbiotically elements of
anarchism, socialism and communism.

It is thus a potential model of organization and self-organization that in
its work both uncovers contradictions --in that RAC-LA is composed of
comrades who (as all of us) carry within ourselves besmirchments from
living under capitalism--and provides a means of working out solutions to
these same problems--in that it is a non-hierarchical body dedicated to
solving these contradictions upon the basis of "What is right" and not "Who
is right".

The questions posed in this article are those that any society must make:
what is to be produced, how is it that production to be organized  and how
are the products of said production to be distributed.  RAC-LA's solutions
within the framework of our "Programa Comida" are posited.

-- 
JAI
RAC-LA


 The Circuits of
Production.pdf<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_f6beL8OoGpX0VYVldDakhFVWs/edit?usp=drive_web>

*
*
*RAC-LA’s Participation in The Circuits of Production *
*
*

The circuits of capitalist production, indeed those of any and all modes of
production (e.g. slavery, feudalism, socialism, communism, even
hunter-gathering) consist of 1.) Planning; 2.) Production; 3.) Allocation
and Distribution; and, 4.) Consumption. In Planning, decisions are made as
to what things are to be produced and therefore what factors of production
(materials, tools and labor), necessary to produce them, have to be
allocated (in capitalism this means purchased) and arrayed before
production can begin. In the circuit of Production, these factors are
combined so as to fabricate or grow or mine, etc. the desired objects. In
distribution, the items are apportioned to their end-users (in capitalism
this means sold to the end-users). And, in consumption the end-users make
use of them either for direct consumption as consumers or indirect
consumption, that is productive consumption, by making these goods
available as factors for the allocation decisions made in circuit 1 as
means of production.

Though RAC-LA hardly represents the might, mass and complexity of the
coming socialist commonwealth, it does have, albeit in microcosm, similar
economic problems in each of its circuits that it too must solve.

 *The First Circulation Circuit-The Factors Market*

In order to understand RAC-LA’s participation in its own Circuit 1, the
planning of production, it is necessary to understand the product that is
being produced. That product is not this or that fruit nor these or those
vegetables, rather it is the bundles of food themselves which are composed
of the fruits and vegetables. Up until this time, as we have now acquired a
small garden space, RAC-LA has not itself manufactured nor farmed any item
save T-shirts. Instead, what is planned and what is done is the assembling
of the packages that for 4 ½ years we have distributed to an average of
more than 175 people every Sunday in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Items
that, while still healthy and nutritious, might bear some blemish that make
them un-saleable but not un-consumable. These items form the raw material
for RAC-LA workers’ production, in our Circuit 2, of bundles that contain
items that we have salvaged from being tossed. The first phase of RAC-LA’s
planning therefore consists therefore of allocation of its labor-powers to
make the pick-ups. Now, as there are no waged-workers who might do this,
nor are there bosses who might have ordered these last to do so, this is
and has been accomplished by the free and voluntary acceptance of these
tasks by comrades who take upon themselves particular assignments. Should,
for any reason, the comrade who is scheduled for a pick-up is unable to
perform, her place is immediately taken by another comrade. This voluntary
association will implicitly color much of what follows below.

The second phase of RAC-LA’s planning comes with the preparations for the
assembly of the parcels. An assessment is made of 1.) the number of people
who will desire the parcels; and, 2.) the number of items of each kind that
we can allocate to each basket. The first is obtained by passing out
numbers *(“boletas”)* that, in addition, provides the sequence for an
orderly distribution, as those who have received their numbered tickets
earliest will also receive their parcels earlier. The second judgment comes
about as the result of consultation amongst the workers and a “best guess”
assessment of how many of x vegetable or y fruit to place in each b

[LAAMN] Far Right on the Move in Europe

[John A Imani]

(JAI:  This type of vigilantism will soon be here (Arizona, especially) as
the right wing succeeds in propagandizing and motivating people while we on
the Left are organizing what?

We in LA have too have experienced the challenge of a far right group (in
this case"The Minutemen") being bold enough to come into our territory.  We
chased them out *even though they had a permit and they had probably 20 -
25 cops who were there to enforce their right to so-called free (in this
case, *hate) speech.  Read about this victory at

http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2007w26/msg00046.html  )

France 
Protest in Paris Against France’s Gay Marriage Law


Read more:
http://world.time.com/2013/05/26/protest-in-paris-against-frances-gay-marriage-law/



 U.K. party preaching immigration reform says Britain ‘gutless’ in face of
Muslim radicals

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/uk-party-preaching-immigration-reform-says-britain-gutless-in-face-of-muslim-radicals/article12125280/


 Also


 Far-right clash with police near scene of killing


Read more:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/farright-clash-with-police-near-scene-of-killing-20130523-2k21z.html#ixzz2USWfzmke




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JAI
RAC-LA


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[LAAMN] Bloomberg-Spain States plan to seize foreclosed homes to house the needy

[John A Imani]

Spain Home Expropriation Plans Seen Violating EU Bailout
 By Sharon Smyth - May 13, 2013 7:52 AM PT

  Angel Navarrete/Bloomberg
 A pedestrian pushes a baby buggy past new residential apartment blocks
with shuttered windows on a deserted street in Sesena, near Madrid, Spain.

Spanish politicians trying to cushion the blows of austerity plan to seize
foreclosed homes to house the needy, discouraging foreign investment and
threatening to violate terms of the European bailout of the country’s
banks.
   Enlarge image [image: Spain Foreclosure Seizure for Needy Seen Violating
EU]


A general view of houses at the town of Los Abrigos in Tenerife, the
biggest of the Canary Islands in Spain. Avoiding foreclosures is a top
priority, transcending all other considerations, said Martin Marrero,
spokesman for the regional government of the Canary Islands. Source:
EyesWideOpen/Getty Images

The regional governments of Andalusia, with the most vacant properties in
the country, and the tourist destination of the Canary
Islands,
are planning to expropriate foreclosed properties for as long as three
years to house displaced families. The European Commission has asked Prime
Minister Mariano Rajoy ’s
government for details on the regions’ actions, to ensure they don’t clash
with the country’s commitments.

“It’s third world, populist and akin to policies more commonly seen in
Bolivia  and North
Korea,”
said Mikel Echavarren, chief executive officer of Irea, a Madrid-based
restructuring firm that has advised on 22 billion euros ($28.6 billion) of
refinancing. “Investors fear it will set a precedent and other regions will
follow suit, making Spanish real estate investment an extremely high-risk
activity.”

Rajoy’s People Party has pushed ahead with the harshest austerity measures
in the country’s democratic history to tame surging borrowing costs that
last year pushed Spain  to the verge of
a bailout. While seizing homes may soften the impact, it threatens to
complicate the government’s task of meeting the terms of a 41 billion euro
rescue package for the banking sector, including selling 50.8 billion euros
of soured property assets transferred to the nation’s bad bank with a
return for its investors.
‘Key Element’

“We are talking about a key element, a very important element which
concerns the financial assistance that banks have been given by the
European Union,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said on
Friday at a press conference in Madrid .
That agreement “obliges us to fulfill certain obligations, pacts and
memorandums. We all have to work together on the issue of foreclosures to
adopt balanced decisions.”

Simon O’Connor, spokesman for European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs
Commissioner Olli Rehn , said today
in Brussels that the commission is well aware of the “severe social
consequences of the crisis in Spain” and is in contact with the Spanish
authorities to request additional information about policies adopted at the
regional level.

Property investment in Spain already is a risky proposition after a
decade-long property bubble burst in 2008, tipping the nation into
recession and pushing
unemploymentto a record
27 percent. Around 400,000 foreclosures have been ordered in
Spain since the start of the crisis, sparking a wave of demonstrations that
have seen protesters picket politicians’ homes to shame them over
evictions.
‘Terrible Idea’

Spain’s Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said the regions’ actions will
choke off mortgage lending and the chairman of Spain’s largest bank
described it as a “terrible” idea.

Andalusia, the most populous of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions, passed the
decree last month, allowing it to seize residences that have been
foreclosed on by banks and developers to house families who’ve lost their
homes and meet certain low-income requirements. In exchange, lenders will
receive 2 percent of the properties’ value per year in compensation and can
recover legal possession after three years, according to the April 9
decree.

The government also can impose fines of as much as 9,000 euros on dwellings
that have been unoccupied for six months in an attempt to force them to be
made available for rent. Andalusia has 637,221 empty units, according to
the National Statistics Institute.
‘Blindness, Desperation’

Given the state of Andalusia’s economy -- joblessness among under
25-year-olds stands at 66 percent -- it’s not surprising the measures were
introduced, said Carles Vergara, a Barcelona-based professor of Financial
Management at the IESE Business School.

“T

[LAAMN] Fwd: Senate Farm Bill Banning Anyone with Violent Felony From Getting (food stamp

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:47 PM
Subject: very bad amendment proposed in Senate Farm Bill
To: Frank Tamborello , food-advoca...@aumlist.com


*Senate Farm Bill Now Includes Provision Banning Anyone with Violent Felony
>From Ever Getting SNAP (food stamp) Assistance.*

** **

So now that we’ve made progress on removing the drug felon ban on SNAP
benefits in California (the bill to end that ban passed the appropriations
committee), guess what’s happening on the* federal* level?

** **

Senator David Vitter of Louisiana added an amendment to the Senate’s Farm
Bill, that would ban anyone who ever committed a violent felony from
receiving SNAP (food stamps). And the Senate Democrats accepted it
unanimously.

** **

The political angle is to make anyone voting against it look like they’re
supporting taxpayer money for violent felons….(which we do anyway through
the thousands of dollars spent per year on each prisoner, far more than
what they would get in SNAP benefits. )

** **

Food benefits are for anyone who needs them. Everyone deserves to eat. No
one deserves to get a life sentence that extends beyond prison walls. These
are the individuals least likely to get jobs upon leaving prison and now
they will be focrd into further desperation. The only real hope of getting
rid of this amendment is for no Farm Bill to pass this year.

** **

Outrageous.

** **

** **

See below for story from Crooks and Liars

** **

** **

"Vitter Proposes Amendment That Would Bar Violent Criminals From SNAP"
http://feedly.com/k/133L7ww 

** **

** **

Pardon my French (and the really bad pun), but what a nasty, vindictive
piece of shit David "Huggies" Vitter is. Imagine the mind of the person who
came up with this punitive way to punish poor people for their past sins,
and to further marginalize and isolate them. (I guess he wants to be
remembered for something even more memorably egregious than
this.)
I feel my blood pressure rising as I write this. Via
Colorlines:


Yesterday, Sen. Vitter of Louisiana offered up an amendment to permanently
drop anyone ever convicted of a violent crime from the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

According to Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, Democrats in the Senate obliged him. The amendment is
for a farm bill, which is currently being debated in the Senate.Says
Greenstein
:

The amendment *would bar from SNAP (food stamps), for life, anyone who was
ever convicted of one of a specified list of violent crimes at any time —
even if they committed the crime decades ago in their youth and have served
their sentence, paid their debt to society, and been a good citizen ever
since.* In addition, the amendment would mean lower SNAP benefits for their
children and other family members.

So, a young man who was convicted of a single crime at age 19 who then
reforms and is now elderly, poor, and raising grandchildren would be thrown
off SNAP, and his grandchildren’s benefits would be cut.

[…] Democrats accepted it *without trying to modify it to address its most
ill-considered aspects.*

* *

*Part Two:*

** **

Frank here again….so after calling (Senator Debbie) Stabenow’s district
office (in Michigan: the person I spoke to wasn’t even aware of this
amendment) I spoke to a contact in New Orleans. He said this amendment
caught them by surprise too: That the only way to stop it now is either:

** **

--another Senator proposes and amendment to undo this one (not likely since
they voted unanimously)

--or it gets stricken out in Conference Committee if House and Senate pass
farm bills and meet to reconcile

** **

** **

He also said that it “only” applies to “rapists murderers and pedophiles”
(Not agreeing with that, it’s just fyi)

** **

It is retroactive (imagine the administrative nightmare, not to mention the
injustice)

** **

Our best hope is for Farm Bill to fail in the House.

** **

They are meeting with their other Louisiana national senator, Mary
Landrieu, next week, and ask her what were people thinking when they did
this.

** **

It also hurts families in another way: the income of the ineligible person
WILL be counted (unlike the usual procedure) although of course the person
is ineligible. So their children will get less food stamps if they live in
the same household with one of the ineligible felons.

** **

** **

Frank Tamborello

Hunger Action Los Angeles

961 S. Mariposa #205

Los Angeles CA 90006

213-388-8228

f

[LAAMN] Fwd: LACAN under siege

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:11 PM
Subject: [May 19th Movement]
To: May 19th Movement 


LACAN under siege after a rousing protest at the City Attorney's office.
Our members were distributing seedlings from our community garden when lapd
officers threaten to take some members to jail if they didn't desist from
giving away theseedlings...one of our sister comrades was arrested for
blocking the sidewalk...others were given tickets for blocking the side
walk. While this was going on the fire Marshall try to bully his way into
our office saying he was there to inspect our office. Coincidence? We don't
think so. Were these incidents a retaliation from the city attorney's
office for our spirited protest today in which we called him out for
arresting downtown skid row organizers in the past, especially sister
Debbie Burton, a sixty year old grandmother and LACAN organizerr who is
going to trial for protesting the CCEA last year?



-- 
JAI
RAC-LA


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Re: [copwatchla] Fwd: [LAAMN] Car Wash fundraiser for family of David Martinez, murdered by LAPD

[John A Imani]

Thanx, General Dogon.

I'ma try and find out where to send it.


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Steve Richardson wrote:

>  Good idea, I got ten too
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* copwatchla-requ...@lists.riseup.net [mailto:
> copwatchla-requ...@lists.riseup.net] *On Behalf Of *John A Imani
> *Sent:* Friday, May 17, 2013 7:48 PM
> *To:* muffy sunde; rac...@lists.riseup.net;
> rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net; copwatc...@lists.riseup.net
> *Cc:* dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com; LAAMN;
> actio...@lists.riseup.net; mlk_coalit...@yahoogroups.com; May 19th
> Movement
> *Subject:* [copwatchla] Fwd: [LAAMN] Car Wash fundraiser for family of
> David Martinez, murdered by LAPD
>
> ** **
>
> Comrade,
>
>
> I can't go but I got $10 on it.
>
> Tell me to who and to where and to how to send it.
>
> Might be a good idea to set up a permanent donation vehicle that can be
> used to raise contributions for families and individuals like these to
> assist in such sad emergencies.
>
> ** **
>
> JAI
>
> RAC-LA
>
> ** **
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: *muffy sunde* 
> Date: Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:08 PM
> Subject: [LAAMN] Car Wash fundraiser for family of David Martinez,
> murdered by LAPD
> To: "change-li...@yahoogroups.com" 
>
> 
>
>   
>
> Car Wash Fundraiser in support of David Martinez's Family
> SATURDAY, MAY 18TH 9AM- 3PM
> El Centro Del Pueblo, 1157 Lemoyne Street
>
> Please come to support the family of David "Dizzy" Martinez as they hold a
> car wash fundraiser. Martinez died in the morning on Wednesday, May 15th
> after suffering from a seizure related to his gunshot wounds. Show
> solidarity with Martinez's family and condemn this extreme abuse of power
> by the LAPD and the long history of racist police violence in Los Angeles.
> The proceeds will be used to cover funeral expenses
>
> At around 12:20am on Tuesday, March 19th, police shot Martinezin the head
> while he was standing at the corner while his wife and his sister were
> ordering tacos from the taco truck at Logan Street near Sunset Boulevard.
> LAPD claims Martinez was armed but could not recover a weapon from the
> scene. He had been released from the hospital about three weeks ago after
> being treated for his injuries. His heart stopped during a medical
> appointment on Wednesday morning.
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> 
>
>
>
>
> --
> JAI
> RAC-LA 
>



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RAC-LA


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Fwd: [LAAMN] Car Wash fundraiser for family of David Martinez, murdered by LAPD

[John A Imani]

Comrade,

I can't go but I got $10 on it.

Tell me to who and to where and to how to send it.

Might be a good idea to set up a permanent donation vehicle that can be
used to raise contributions for families and individuals like these to
assist in such sad emergencies.

JAI
RAC-LA

-- Forwarded message --
From: muffy sunde 
Date: Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:08 PM
Subject: [LAAMN] Car Wash fundraiser for family of David Martinez, murdered
by LAPD
To: "change-li...@yahoogroups.com" 


**


Car Wash Fundraiser in support of David Martinez's Family
SATURDAY, MAY 18TH 9AM- 3PM
El Centro Del Pueblo, 1157 Lemoyne Street

Please come to support the family of David "Dizzy" Martinez as they hold a
car wash fundraiser. Martinez died in the morning on Wednesday, May 15th
after suffering from a seizure related to his gunshot wounds. Show
solidarity with Martinez's family and condemn this extreme abuse of power
by the LAPD and the long history of racist police violence in Los Angeles.
The proceeds will be used to cover funeral expenses

At around 12:20am on Tuesday, March 19th, police shot Martinezin the head
while he was standing at the corner while his wife and his sister were
ordering tacos from the taco truck at Logan Street near Sunset Boulevard.
LAPD claims Martinez was armed but could not recover a weapon from the
scene. He had been released from the hospital about three weeks ago after
being treated for his injuries. His heart stopped during a medical
appointment on Wednesday morning.

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JAI
RAC-LA


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[LAAMN] Fwd: NY Times: How Austerity Kills

[John A Imani]

(JAI: Apologize for double posting but had forwarded posting w/o 'Subject'
description..)

-- Forwarded message ------
From: John A Imani 
Date: Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:08 AM
Subject: [rac-la]
To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" ,
rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net, "copwatc...@lists.riseup.net" <
copwatc...@lists.riseup.net>
Cc: "dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com" <
dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com>, LAAMN , "
actio...@lists.riseup.net" 


(JAI: This was recommended by a comrade,
S.Artesian<http://thewolfatthedoor.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-minimal-program.html>who
wrote:

"I don't think I can summarize the evidence, the findings or conclusions in
the article.   That would be like summarizing the findings of an
investigation into conditions at Auschwitz..."
-- 
JAI
RAC-LA)
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 [image: The New York Times] <http://www.nytimes.com/>

--
May 12, 2013
How Austerity Kills By DAVID STUCKLER and SANJAY BASU

EARLY last month, a triple
suicide<http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/world/europe/italy-triple-suicide>was
reported in the seaside town of Civitanova Marche, Italy. A married
couple, Anna Maria Sopranzi, 68, and Romeo Dionisi, 62, had been struggling
to live on her monthly pension of around 500 euros (about $650), and had
fallen behind on rent.

Because the Italian government’s austerity budget had raised the retirement
age, Mr. Dionisi, a former construction worker, became one of Italy’s
esodati (exiled ones) — older workers plunged into poverty without a safety
net. On April 5, he and his wife left a note on a neighbor’s car asking for
forgiveness, then hanged themselves in a storage closet at home. When Ms.
Sopranzi’s brother, Giuseppe Sopranzi, 73, heard the news, he drowned
himself in the Adriatic.

The correlation between unemployment and suicide has been observed since
the 19th century. People looking for work are about twice as likely to end
their lives as those who have jobs.

In the United States, the suicide rate, which had slowly risen since 2000,
jumped during and after the 2007-9 recession. In a new book, we estimate
that 4,750 “excess” suicides — that is, deaths above what pre-existing
trends would predict — occurred from 2007 to 2010. Rates of such suicides
were significantly greater in the states that experienced the greatest job
losses. Deaths from suicide overtook deaths from car crashes in 2009.

If suicides were an unavoidable consequence of economic downturns, this
would just be another story about the human toll of the Great Recession.
But it isn’t so. Countries that slashed health and social protection
budgets, like Greece, Italy and Spain, have seen starkly worse health
outcomes than nations like Germany, Iceland and Sweden, which maintained
their social safety nets and opted for stimulus over austerity. (Germany
preaches the virtues of austerity — for others.)

As scholars of public health and political economy, we have watched aghast
as politicians endlessly debate debts and deficits with little regard for
the human costs of their decisions. Over the past decade, we mined huge
data sets from across the globe to understand how economic shocks — from
the Great Depression to the end of the Soviet Union to the Asian financial
crisis to the Great Recession — affect our health. What we’ve found is that
people do not inevitably get sick or die because the economy has faltered.
Fiscal policy, it turns out, can be a matter of life or death.

At one extreme is Greece, which is in the middle of a public health
disaster. The national health budget has been cut by 40 percent since 2008,
partly to meet deficit-reduction targets set by the so-called troika —  the
International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European
Central Bank — as part of a 2010 austerity package. Some 35,000 doctors,
nurses and other health workers have lost their jobs. Hospital admissions
have soared after Greeks avoided getting routine and preventive treatment
because of long wait times and rising drug costs. Infant mortality rose by
40 percent. New H.I.V. infections more than doubled, a result of rising
intravenous drug use — as the budget for needle-exchange programs was cut.
After mosquito-spraying programs were slashed in southern Greece, malaria
cases were reported in significant numbers for the first time since the
early 1970s.

In contrast, Iceland avoided a public health disaster even though it
experienced, in 2008, the largest banking crisis in history, relative to
the size of its economy. After three main commercial banks failed, total
debt soared, unemployment increased ninefold, and the value of its
currency, the krona, collapsed. Iceland became the first European country
to seek an I.M.F. bailout since 1976. But instead of bailing out the banks
and slashing budgets, as the I.M.F. demanded, Iceland’s poli

[LAAMN]

[John A Imani]

(JAI: This was recommended by a comrade,
S.Artesianwho
wrote:

"I don't think I can summarize the evidence, the findings or conclusions in
the article.   That would be like summarizing the findings of an
investigation into conditions at Auschwitz..."
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RAC-LA)
___



 [image: The New York Times] 

--
May 12, 2013
How Austerity Kills By DAVID STUCKLER and SANJAY BASU

EARLY last month, a triple
suicidewas
reported in the seaside town of Civitanova Marche, Italy. A married
couple, Anna Maria Sopranzi, 68, and Romeo Dionisi, 62, had been struggling
to live on her monthly pension of around 500 euros (about $650), and had
fallen behind on rent.

Because the Italian government’s austerity budget had raised the retirement
age, Mr. Dionisi, a former construction worker, became one of Italy’s
esodati (exiled ones) — older workers plunged into poverty without a safety
net. On April 5, he and his wife left a note on a neighbor’s car asking for
forgiveness, then hanged themselves in a storage closet at home. When Ms.
Sopranzi’s brother, Giuseppe Sopranzi, 73, heard the news, he drowned
himself in the Adriatic.

The correlation between unemployment and suicide has been observed since
the 19th century. People looking for work are about twice as likely to end
their lives as those who have jobs.

In the United States, the suicide rate, which had slowly risen since 2000,
jumped during and after the 2007-9 recession. In a new book, we estimate
that 4,750 “excess” suicides — that is, deaths above what pre-existing
trends would predict — occurred from 2007 to 2010. Rates of such suicides
were significantly greater in the states that experienced the greatest job
losses. Deaths from suicide overtook deaths from car crashes in 2009.

If suicides were an unavoidable consequence of economic downturns, this
would just be another story about the human toll of the Great Recession.
But it isn’t so. Countries that slashed health and social protection
budgets, like Greece, Italy and Spain, have seen starkly worse health
outcomes than nations like Germany, Iceland and Sweden, which maintained
their social safety nets and opted for stimulus over austerity. (Germany
preaches the virtues of austerity — for others.)

As scholars of public health and political economy, we have watched aghast
as politicians endlessly debate debts and deficits with little regard for
the human costs of their decisions. Over the past decade, we mined huge
data sets from across the globe to understand how economic shocks — from
the Great Depression to the end of the Soviet Union to the Asian financial
crisis to the Great Recession — affect our health. What we’ve found is that
people do not inevitably get sick or die because the economy has faltered.
Fiscal policy, it turns out, can be a matter of life or death.

At one extreme is Greece, which is in the middle of a public health
disaster. The national health budget has been cut by 40 percent since 2008,
partly to meet deficit-reduction targets set by the so-called troika —  the
International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European
Central Bank — as part of a 2010 austerity package. Some 35,000 doctors,
nurses and other health workers have lost their jobs. Hospital admissions
have soared after Greeks avoided getting routine and preventive treatment
because of long wait times and rising drug costs. Infant mortality rose by
40 percent. New H.I.V. infections more than doubled, a result of rising
intravenous drug use — as the budget for needle-exchange programs was cut.
After mosquito-spraying programs were slashed in southern Greece, malaria
cases were reported in significant numbers for the first time since the
early 1970s.

In contrast, Iceland avoided a public health disaster even though it
experienced, in 2008, the largest banking crisis in history, relative to
the size of its economy. After three main commercial banks failed, total
debt soared, unemployment increased ninefold, and the value of its
currency, the krona, collapsed. Iceland became the first European country
to seek an I.M.F. bailout since 1976. But instead of bailing out the banks
and slashing budgets, as the I.M.F. demanded, Iceland’s politicians took a
radical step: they put austerity to a vote. In two referendums, in 2010 and
2011, Icelanders voted overwhelmingly to pay off foreign creditors
gradually, rather than all at once through austerity. Iceland’s economy has
largely recovered, while Greece’s teeters on collapse. No one lost health
care coverage or access to medication, even as the price of imported drugs
rose. There was no significant increase in suicide. Last year, the first
U.N. World Happiness
Reportrank

[LAAMN] Fwd: hunger action day 2013 sacramento

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:03 AM
Subject: hunger action day 2013 sacramento
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


**
**

*May 22, 2013*

in Sacramento, California 
** **

*www.hungeraction.net*
** **

*More information coming soon!*

*Questions? Contact:*

Frank Tamborello (Southern California)

213.388.8228 or fr...@hungeractionla.org

 
** **

*Each May hundreds of anti-hunger advocates from across the state meet in
Sacramento to educate their legislators about hunger and encourage their
support for anti-hunger legislation. This year advocates from your
community will be at the capitol on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. With more than
3.8 million California adults struggling with food insecurity it’s
important we speak out*

*critical that these issues are addressed in 2013. *
** **

*LOS ANGELES HUNGER ACTION DAY INFORMATION: *

· *Space is limited so reserve now  213 388 8228 or fr...@hungeractionla.org
*

· *Leaving on bus 9 am from LA on Tuesday May 21 (RSVP first)*

· *Departing from St Mary’s Church 961 S Normandie Ave 90006 (you can park
there)*

· *Staying overnight in Sacramento : main events are on Wed May 22. It will
be hot and windy*

· *Leaving Sacramento 2:30 pm Wednesday May 22  after Hunger Action Day *

· *Arrive back in LA approx 9 pm Wed May 22*

· *$35 donation requested, no one turned away *

· *Groups welcome from community organizations in LA, East LA, South LA,
Valley, Westside, Pasadena/Glendale, San Gabriel Valley, Long Beach,
Antelope Valley, and anywhere else!*

· *You can also make your own travel arrangements & meet us in Sacramento:
still RSVP please*

· *If you live in LA (City), election day is also Tues May 21. Vote
absentee ballot before then!*

 
** **Let us know soon if you’d like to participate!

** **

*Hunger Action Day 2013*

[image: HAD 2011 Logo]**[image: CHAClogo]**



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[LAAMN] BBC Documentary on Marikanam Massacre and the Corruption in the ANC

[John A Imani]

(JAI:  Is this what we fought for?)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22217676


Marikana mine massacre casts long shadow

**

Peter Hain visits the Eastern Cape
 Continue reading the main
story
I 
 South Africa changed irrevocably when apartheid was abolished and the
African National Congress came to power. But in an emotional return to the
country of his youth, the British MP and former government minister Peter
Hain came face to face with the bitter legacy of last year's shootings at
the Marika
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[LAAMN] Fwd: CALL TO ACTION!!!

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:24 PM
Subject: CALL TO ACTION!!!
To: May 19th Movement , Michael Novick <
antiracistaction...@yahoo.com>, Ariana Alcaraz ,
John A Imani , Jubilee Shine <
jubileesh...@hotmail.com>, Mary Sutton , David
Dang , Fe Evaone , Francesca de
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meetgarde...@yahoo.com>, cindy henderson , Julia
Wallace , kellyflor del , Lindsey
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di...@curbprisonspending.org>, zcardenas , OtterOne <
otter...@sbcglobal.net>, xochitl estrada , Thandisizwe
Chimurenga , Carina C ,
Vanessa Carlisle , Clarissa Woo <
c...@aclu-sc.org>, "Charles Porter (E-mail)" ,
Charlotte Tonnies , Kruti Parekh <
kruti...@yahoo.com>


Join homeless individuals, organizers, and advocates on Tuesday, May 7, in
the City Council to demand the the City Council support "The Homeless Bill
of Rights and Fairness Act" (AB5). The City Council will be voting on the
Bill. Several Council members have already voiced their opposition to AB5.
Your testimony and support is greatly needed. On April 23, the Homeless
Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (also known as Assembly Bill 5, or AB 5)
passed out of the Judiciary Committee of the California State Assembly with
at 7-2 vote.

WHAT IS THE HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS?
• California law protects its residents from discrimination based on sex,
race, religion and sexual orientation.
• Now a state lawmaker is pushing to add another category to the list:
homelessness.
• New legislation titled the "Homeless Bill of Rights" by Democratic
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco is meant to keep communities from
rousting people who have nowhere to turn.
• A Bill of rights is a list of the most important Rights of the citizens
of a country.
• This Bill would give legal protection to people engaging in
life-sustaining activities on public property.
PURPOSE OF BILL OF RIGHTS?
• Is to protect those rights against infringement by law enforcement. In
other words this Bill is meant to keep communities from rousting people who
have nowhere to turn.
• Among other activities, it specifically mentions sleeping, congregating,
panhandling, urinating and "collecting and possessing goods for recyling,
even if those goods contain alcoholic residue."
SPECIFICS OF THE HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS:
• The bill states that homeless Californians have the right to safe,
affordable housing and 24-hour access to clean water and safe restrooms.
• The measure "would require local governments to leave people in peace who
are not committing crimes.
CURRENT STATUS OF THE HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS:
• Dozens of homeless individuals, organizers, and advocates such as LACAN
have worked to get the Homeless Bill of Rights passed and on April 23, the
Homeless Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (also known as Assembly Bill 5, or
AB 5) passed out of the Judiciary Committee of the California State
Assembly. Yet, this is just the first hurdle…there is still more work to be
done.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP GET THE HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS (AB5)
• Next week the Los Angeles City Council will voting to pass resolution to
support or oppose AB 5.
• It is imperative that we fill City hall and give testimony as to why the
City council should support this important legislation.

This Bill Would:

Protect homeless people's right to use public spaces and engage in
life-sustaining activities such as sleeping and resting.

Create Hygiene Centers to provide a sanitary and healthy alternative for
people who don't have access to bathrooms or basic hygiene needs.

Prevent homeless people from being unfairly targeted by police and private
security just for appearing homeless.

Protect homeless people's right to personal property and belongings.

Prevent discrimination against homeless youth, children and students.

Prevent landlords from discriminating against someone based solely on their
homeless status.

Require local government to report on enforcement of laws that are often
labeled "Quality of Life" Laws.

We will be meeting at the LACAN office at 9:00am to prep. Or folks can meet
us at Los Angeles City Hall, Council Chambers.




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[LAAMN] Food Justice News from Hunger Action LA

[John A Imani]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Frank Tamborello
wrote:

> *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**
> **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *May 2, 2013: *
>
> ***1. Hunger Action Day May 21-22*
>
> ***2.   LA City Council To Hear Testimony on Homeless Bill of
> Rights Tuesday May 7 , 10 AM*
>
> ***3. Update on State Hunger Policy Issues*
>
> ***4. Fix The Sequester---Not Just Airport
> Delays
> *
>
> ***5. Make Your Voice Heard on Farm Bill
>  *
>
> ***6. What’s the Controversy with Breakfast in the
> Classroom? *
>
> ***7. Free Summer Meals Available to Children in Low-Income
> Communities**   *
>
> ***8. Your Turkey Has SuperBacteria: What to Do?*
>
> ** **
>
> **
>
> ***1. Hunger Action Day May 21-22, Sacramento: You’re Invited!*
>
> ** **
>
> The 16th (or possibly 17th)  annual Hunger Action Day in Sacramento is
> May 22 at the state capitol. Everyone concerned about ending hunger is
> encouraged to participate: low income residents, nonprofit agency staff,
> clergy of all faiths, doctors, butchers, bakers ,candlestick makers. (Even
> pro basketball players from teams already eliminated from the playoffs are
> welcome). Busses leave L.A. the morning of Tuesday May 21 if you like the
> full experience: or, you can meet us up at the Capitol having gotten around
> the airport delays thanks to Congress looking out for their priorities (see
> item 4). To rsvp and find out more contact fr...@hungeractionla.org . On
> Hunger Action Day about 400 people from all over the state will converge on
> the Capitol to educate our lawmakers about how they can de-criminalize
> poverty, especially through state bills that support successful recovery
> after prison and that spare the homeless from being arrested or cited for
> resting or eating in public (see following items.) See
> www.hungeractionla.org for the full flyer and list of details.
>
> ** **
>
> **
>
> *2. LA City Council To Hear Testimony on Homeless Bill of Rights Tuesday
> May 7 , 10 AM*
>
> ** **
>
> State bills often get supported or opposed by other entities such as
> cities and counties, who weigh in with their point of view on the bill. LA
> City Council is holding a hearing to determine their support or opposition
> to Homeless Bill of Rights on Tuesday May 7, at City Hall. People are
> encouraged to go and speak out in support of the bill at that time. Already
> 200 cities have opposed it, but they are not up to date on the current
> version of the bill in its more focused form, and are re-acting to earlier
> misconceptions about it. 
>
> Please call LA CAN 213 228-0024 for more information.
>
> ** **
>
> *When: 10:00 am Tuesday May 7*
>
> *Where: LA City Hall, 200 S Main St *
>
> *Look for: Folks in orange shirts*
>
> * *
>
> This bill passed the state’s Judiciary Committee, with several changes
> from the original version. In fact right now it primarily protects a
> person’s right to rest in a public place without being harassed, cited or
> arrested by law enforcement, as well as the right to share and eat food in
> public. These are fundamental rights for a group of people who have no
> choice but to rest, eat and keep their belongings in public. The bill does
> not endorse or make legal obstructing traffic or pedestrians, harassing
> people, or defecating all over the place, as some of its detractors have
> claimed. 
>
> ** **
>
>
> **
> 
>
> *3. Update on State Hunger Policy Issues*
>
> * *
>
> There are a few updates on bills we will be fighting for in Sacramento:***
> *
>
> ** **
>
> *SB 283—Successful Re-Entry and Access to Jobs.* This is the bill that
> restores CalFresh and CalWORKs eligibility to people re-entering after
> certain drug felonies, who are in compliance with parole andprobation
> requirements. The bill was put in the suspense file by the Appropriations
> Committee. That makes May a crucial month for the committee to hear from us
> that this is a bill we support. You can see a sample support letter 
> here.
> 
>
> *AB 191*---This bill aligns Me

[LAAMN] Fwd: [RAC-LA_supporters] May Day w RAC-LA

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: fightbackla 
Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:54 PM
Subject: [RAC-LA_supporters] May Day w RAC-LA
To: rac-la_support...@yahoogroups.com


**


Comrades,

The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles invites all comrades

to the site of our Food Program from 5 - 8PM on May 1st.

RAC-LA began its Food Program--now passing out 200 baskets of fresh

vegetables every Sunday--in Nov 2007 following long discussions between

comrades as to how to respond to the Police Riot in MacArthur Park.

Since that time RAC-LA has been at the forefront in organizing ourselves,

as members of the working class, in our own interests and in constructing a

non-hierarchical anti-capitalist model of a revolutionary organization.

Join us and other organizations that we have invited at the place where our

Food Program is conducted:

SE corner of Wilshire and Parkview, MacArthur Park (West siide), LA 90057.

JAI

RAC-LA

 



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[LAAMN] Fwd: [May 19th Movement] The Community Coalition for Self-Defense is Occupying the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners "Community' meeting.

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:04 AM
Subject: [May 19th Movement] The Community Coalition for Self-Defense is
Occupying the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners "Community' meeting.
To: May 19th Movement 


The Community Coalition is occupying the Los Angeles Board of Police
Commissioners "community"meeting. We will not be terrorized by the LAPD &
Chief Charlie Beck.

The LAPD is a notoriously racist institution. The Rampart Division scandal
of the late 1990's is one recent reminder of how racist and corrupt the
institution is, Racism is endemic to all law enforcement agencies in the
United States, and is part and parcel of the foundations of the United
States government, its historic mission, and its systemic functioning. What
Chris Dorner's manifesto calls into question is the degree to which racism
is blatantly ignored, reasoned away, and legitimized in this society in
general and in law enforcement in particular Christopher .
Doner’smanifesto mirrors thedeadly impact of racism and national
oppression of people of color.

For as long as we can remember, poor people especially in Black and Brown
communities have been the victims of abusive and criminal acts committed by
racist LAPD officers. The history of the LAPD has clearly shown that the
LAPD, has been consistently unwilling to impose serious punishment for
racist and terrorist conduct either through internal mechanisms, or by
referral for prosecution.  The LAPD refuses to track problem officers or
implement any structural change proposed to ameliorate the problem. This
malfeasance of the public trust by the LAPD, sends a clear message to
officers who serve out “street justice”, they will be protected even
awarded for their conduct and culture of racism, sexism and violence.

*Independent Investigation: *

Our research and investigations into the success and failures of so-called
police review boards, our findings informs  us that (1) Los Angeles Board
of Police Commissioners is an utter failure and creates an atmosphere of
mis-trust on the part of the people (2) Our findings also informs us that
this board as currently composed is not a solution to our problems with the
police( 3) The Board of Police Commissioners acts merely as a Rubber-Stamp
for internal police investigation and cover-up (4) The board as currently
composed lacks real power and failure to confront lapd on controversial
polices.

This isn’t about Christopher Dorner, its about a long time racist, brutal
and oppressive institution known as the LAPD.  What Christopher Dorner has
done is shine a spot light on the lapd, this not a first because
organizations fighting police abuse have done this time and time again.
The difference this time is that is has captured the imagination of the
whole country in general. This racist, brutal and oppressive institution
known by the community as the lapd and its long held customs, its
proclivity for violence are what produced Chris Dorner.  It’s the chickens
coming home to rest…its no fun when the rabbit got the gun.

*We are Calling for and demanding:*

1. We call for and demand the LAPD express the same zeal and
determination it did hunting down Christopher Doner and applying it to who
continued  to officers who murder, beat, harass and profile our youth.



2. We call for an independent investigation into the numerous
allegations made by Christopher Dorner against specific named individuals,
as well as his general allegations of police conduct, racism and the
charges of nepotism that he contends surrounded his firing.



3.  An independent investigator



4. An independent prosecutor



5. Community control of the police.



6. An independent elected civilian police accountability board.



7. A full investigation and accountability of officers in involved in
shootings of the two Asian women and the white guy, who supposedly were
mis-taken as a 6’ 4 baldheaded Black man.



8. We specifically Call for and Demand, the an end to law enforcement
policies that promote, enforce and protects racist and reckless actions by
police officers when they violate people's Civil and human rights.



When the  law doesn't protect and serve all, we the people have the right
and duty to change law!





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Re: [LAAMN] Fwd: May Day w RAC-LA

[John A Imani]

Have no idea who this guy is.  Nor do I care.  Nor do I neither know nor
care how it is that he takes it upon himself to decide what the "best" way
it is to celebrate both May Day and to remember The Police Riot in
MacArthur Park (no quotes) as that is exactly what it was.

JAI
RAC-LA


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Freedom Socialist Party LA <
fs...@earthlink.net> wrote:

>  Barry,
>
>
>
> Please stop with the lectures.  RAC has been feeding the hungry for 6
> years, and they have been doing it in McArthur Park, despite disruptions
> from cops, select Occupy LA folks, and general apathy from others.  Why not
> ask a few folks to show up THERE with immigrant rights signs and flyers and
> offer them a ride to the rally if they can get loose for awhile.  This
> would, maybe, build some kind of bond that would do us all some good in the
> future.
>
>
>
> In Struggle,
>
>
>
> Muffy
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Barry Schier **
> Sent: Apr 29, 2013 1:41 PM
> To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" **, rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net, "
> copwatc...@lists.riseup.net" **, newplanet-newli...@lists.riseup.net,
> John A Imani **
> Cc: "dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com" **, LAAMN **, "
> actio...@lists.riseup.net" **, "mlk_coalit...@yahoogroups.com" **, May
> 19th Movement **
> Subject: Re: [LAAMN] Fwd: May Day w RAC-LA
>
>   **
> **
>
> The "best" way to respond to the "Police Riot in MacArthur Park"
> attempting to break up that May 1 Immigrants Rights rally is to re-double
> efforts at building this year's mainly working class May 1 Immigrants
> Rights rally/s (which are in / near downtown Los Angeles, i.e., 1 to 2
> miles east and northeast of MacArthur Park).  Hopefully, it is the your
> intention to come to (and build) the march-rally-march (beginning at 4 p.m.
> going "up" Broadway from Olympic Blvd.) initiated by Southern California
> Immigration Coalition rather than having event event with a time / focus
> conflict with the immigrants rights event/s.  (There is also another
> rally-march-rally with same starting place and almost same route starting
> at noon whose participants, especially working people, have had and will
> have a far different perspective than those who initiated and/or will be
> speaking at the event, i.e., immigration "reform" advocates.)
> - Barry
>
> --- On Mon, 4/29/13, John A Imani  wrote:
>
> From: John A Imani 
> Subject: [LAAMN] Fwd: May Day w RAC-LA
> To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" ,
> rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net, "copwatc...@lists.riseup.net" <
> copwatc...@lists.riseup.net>, newplanet-newli...@lists.riseup.net
> Cc: "dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com" <
> dope_x_resistanc...@yahoogroups.com>, "LAAMN" , "
> actio...@lists.riseup.net" , "
> mlk_coalit...@yahoogroups.com" , "May 19th
> Movement" 
> Date: Monday, April 29, 2013, 12:29 PM
>
>
>
> Comrades,
>
> The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles invites all comrades
>
> to the site of our Food Program from 5 - 8PM on May 1st.
>
> RAC-LA began its Food Program--now passing out 200 baskets of fresh
>
> vegetables every Sunday--in Nov 2007 following long discussions between
>
> comrades as to how to respond to the Police Riot in MacArthur Park.
>
> Since that time RAC-LA has been at the forefront in organizing ourselves,
>
> as members of the working class, in our own interests and in constructing a
>
> non-hierarchical anti-capitalist model of a revolutionary organization.
>
> Join us and other organizations that we have invited at the place where our
>
> Food Program is conducted:
>
> SE corner of Wilshire and Parkview, MacArthur Park (West siide), LA 90057.
>
> JAI
>
> RAC-LA
>
> --
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> **
> 
>  
>
>


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[LAAMN] Fwd: May Day w RAC-LA

[John A Imani]

Comrades,

The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles invites all comrades
to the site of our Food Program from 5 - 8PM on May 1st.

RAC-LA began its Food Program--now passing out 200 baskets of fresh
vegetables every Sunday--in Nov 2007 following long discussions between
comrades as to how to respond to the Police Riot in MacArthur Park.

Since that time RAC-LA has been at the forefront in organizing ourselves,
as members of the working class, in our own interests and in constructing a
non-hierarchical anti-capitalist model of a revolutionary organization.

Join us and other organizations that we have invited at the place where our
Food Program is conducted:

SE corner of Wilshire and Parkview, MacArthur Park (West siide), LA 90057.

JAI
RAC-LA


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[LAAMN] RAC-LA Celebration of May Day 2013

[John A Imani]

Comrades,

The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles invites all comrades
to the site of our Food Program from 5 - 8PM on May 1st.

RAC-LA began its Food Program--now passing out 200 baskets of fresh
vegetables every Sunday--in Nov 2007 following long discussions between
comrades as to how to respond to the Police Riot in MacArthur Park.

Since that time RAC-LA has been at the forefront in organizing ourselves,
as members of the working class, in our own interests and in constructing a
non-hierarchical anti-capitalist model of a revolutionary organization.

Join us and other organizations that we have invited at the place where our
Food Program is conducted:

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[LAAMN] Fwd: [May 19th Movement] Fwd: Bilal Ali has forwarded a page to you from Black Agenda Report

[John A Imani]

Thanx for this.  Forwarding on.


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Bilal Ali  wrote:

>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Bilal Ali 
> Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:24 PM
> Subject: Bilal Ali has forwarded a page to you from Black Agenda Report
> To: mafundi...@gmail.com
>
>
>Black Agenda 
> Report
>
> Bilal Ali  thought you would like to see this page
> from the Black Agenda Report web site.
> The Obama Legacy, Pt 1 of Many: Top Ten Things Black America Will Have To
> Show For 8 Years of President 
> Obama
>
> *by Bruce A. Dixon*
>
> *by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon*
>
> When Barack Obama leaves the White House in January 2017, what will black
> America, his earliest and most consistent supporters, have to show for
> making his political career possible. We'll have the T-shirts and buttons
> and posters, the souvenirs. That will be the good news. The bad news is
> what else we'll have and not.
>
> Click here to read more on our 
> site
>
>


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[LAAMN] Fwd: [rac-lasupporters] Fwd: The Communist Manifesto - WW Classes Resume this Friday!

[John A Imani]

Comrade,

I'm sorry I don't know.

You will have to direct the question to the IAC (which I have cc:ed and
hopefully they will get back to you.)

I congratulated them on this effort as in these times the outlining and
popularizing of Marxian economics (beginning w the Manifesto as there is no
better introduction to such thinking) is sorely sorely needed.

Best,


JAI
RAC-LA


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Michelle Henrickson <
michelle.henrick...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this a weekly gathering?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:35 PM, John A Imani wrote:
>
>> Congrats on this effort.
>>
>> JAI
>> RAC-LA
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: International Action Center - LA 
>> Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:45 PM
>> Subject: The Communist Manifesto - WW Classes Resume this Friday!
>> To: johnaima...@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> *Workers World Marxism Classes Resume
>>
>> Pizza Night with Karl
>>
>> *
>>
>> *When:* Friday April 26th at 7PM
>>
>> *Where:* 5278 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles (7 blocks west of La Brea)
>>
>> *Contact:* (323) 306-6240
>>
>> This Week: The Communist Manifesto
>>
>> We're told we can't change the system. We're told instead that we
>> must continue to give up vital and necessary social services and jobs
>> to keep Capitalism and the banks afloat. But to many, using our tax
>> dollars to subsidize bank profits while they continue to foreclose
>> homes and refuse to invest in jobs and peoples needs; spending
>> trillions on wars and drones against other workers to enrich the rich
>> and military industrial complex; funding more for police brutality and
>> less on what's necessary to make our neighborhoods and schools
>> healthy, makes no sense.
>>
>> If you're trying to make the world a better place for humanity, it
>> doesn't make sense, however, Marx and Lenin were among those who
>> exposed the fact that it actually does make sense to the workings of a
>> capitalist system, its ruling class and their puppet law makers.
>>
>> The science of Marx and Lenin is part of the cumulative knowledge of
>> societies all over the world. They built upon that knowledge to
>> advocate for a scientific approach toward society and economics called
>> Socialism, which allows us to go beyond the confines of Capitalism for
>> a more humane, truly democratic and intelligent system that provides
>> for all in society.
>>
>> In the Communist Manifesto Marx breaks down society into its
>> fundamental parts, showing the forces within society that determine
>> its shape, level of exploitation and ideas. It exposes the fact that
>> there is a class struggle going on today and teaches us not only about
>> the need for revolution, but how our class can win basic necessities
>> to survive along the way towards that revolution.
>>
>> Before we can change society, we have to know what it really looks
>> like and the forces that really make it run. The Communist Manifesto
>> is a means to that ends.
>>
>> Please join us and together let's work on applying our knowledge to
>> today's struggles. Hope to see you there!
>>
>>
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[LAAMN] Fwd: The Communist Manifesto - WW Classes Resume this Friday!

[John A Imani]

Congrats on this effort.

JAI
RAC-LA

-- Forwarded message --
From: International Action Center - LA 
Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:45 PM
Subject: The Communist Manifesto - WW Classes Resume this Friday!
To: johnaima...@gmail.com


*Workers World Marxism Classes Resume

Pizza Night with Karl

*

*When:* Friday April 26th at 7PM

*Where:* 5278 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles (7 blocks west of La Brea)

*Contact:* (323) 306-6240

This Week: The Communist Manifesto

We're told we can't change the system. We're told instead that we
must continue to give up vital and necessary social services and jobs
to keep Capitalism and the banks afloat. But to many, using our tax
dollars to subsidize bank profits while they continue to foreclose
homes and refuse to invest in jobs and peoples needs; spending
trillions on wars and drones against other workers to enrich the rich
and military industrial complex; funding more for police brutality and
less on what's necessary to make our neighborhoods and schools
healthy, makes no sense.

If you're trying to make the world a better place for humanity, it
doesn't make sense, however, Marx and Lenin were among those who
exposed the fact that it actually does make sense to the workings of a
capitalist system, its ruling class and their puppet law makers.

The science of Marx and Lenin is part of the cumulative knowledge of
societies all over the world. They built upon that knowledge to
advocate for a scientific approach toward society and economics called
Socialism, which allows us to go beyond the confines of Capitalism for
a more humane, truly democratic and intelligent system that provides
for all in society.

In the Communist Manifesto Marx breaks down society into its
fundamental parts, showing the forces within society that determine
its shape, level of exploitation and ideas. It exposes the fact that
there is a class struggle going on today and teaches us not only about
the need for revolution, but how our class can win basic necessities
to survive along the way towards that revolution.

Before we can change society, we have to know what it really looks
like and the forces that really make it run. The Communist Manifesto
is a means to that ends.

Please join us and together let's work on applying our knowledge to
today's struggles. Hope to see you there!




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[LAAMN] Fwd: update: press conference homeless bill of rights tomorrow

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Subject: update: press conference homeless bill of rights tomorrow
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

** **

*April 22, 2013: *

Thanks to colleagues LA Community Action Network, Andy Fisher, John Farion,
and Jessica Bartholow for referring some of the items below. 

* *

***1. Hunger Action LA Training April 26: Let’s End the
Criminalization of Poverty *

***2. Press Conference AB 5 “Homeless Bill of Rights”, Tuesday
April 23*

***3. “Follow that Chef” Cooking Challenge: Eating Healthy on a
SNAP Budget, Saturday April 27 at Santa Monica Farmers Market***

***4. Tragic Human Cost  of Sequestration***

***5. Up to 50% of Food Harvested In The World is Wasted***

***6. Ontario Food Bank Volunteers Form A Union to Make Demands on
the Province***

***7. Freedom of Choice in the Grocery Store?***

** **

**

*1.  Hunger Action LA Training April 26: Let’s 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.

Free and open to the public! RSVP to fr...@hungeractionla.org 

SB 283 has a Facebook page you should check out:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Successful-Re-entry-SB-283/227210493968835 **
**

** **

*Hunger Action Day approacheth: *The annual pilgrimage to Sacramento to
speak about hunger in our communities takes place on Wednesday May 22
(Tuesday May 21 if you join us on the bus: otherwise meet us at the capitol
on Wednesday May 22.) About 400 people are anticipated from all over
California (Bay Area, Northern Cal, Central Valley, Central Coast, LA
County, San Diego). See www.hungeractionla.org for full details. RSVP
fr...@hungeractionla.org if you can participate, whether you go with us by
bus or meet us up in Sacramento. 

* *

**


*2. Press Conference AB 5 Homeless Bill of Rights, Tuesday April 23 11 am*

* *

>From our colleagues at LA CAN:
“Tomorrow AB 5, the Homeless Bill of Rights,  will be facing its first
challenges in Sacramento. The bill is going to be heard in front of the
Judiciary Committee and this would be the first step the bill must take in
order to become law. We know that everyone cannot afford to fly or drive to
Sacramento in these harsh economic times.  LA CAN will like to invite you
to show your support at the local level by attending a press conference
which is occurring at the same time of the state hearing. “

Tomorrow’s press conference will be:

Where:  820 S. Burlington Los Angeles, CA. 90057

Time: 11:00 a.m. please arrived 10 to 15 min before. 

For any additional questions, please call me at (213) 713-7113

** **

** **

The Homeless Bill of Rights will give equal rights (not special rights) to
those living on the street. For some more details on the bill see:

Committee for the California Homeless Bill of Rights
http://cchbr.weebly.com/homeless-bill.html 

Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TheHomelessBillofRights 

Op Ed by bill author Asm. Tom Ammiano
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-ammiano/lets-pass-ab5_b_2535701.html 

Learn more at the Hunger Action LA Training, Friday April 26 10 am at 464 S
Lucas Ave: see first item on this newsletter

* *

*

*3.  “Follow that Chef” Cooking Challenge: Eating Healthy on a SNAP Budget,
Saturday at Santa Monica Farmers Market, 2nd & Arizona*

* *

The Santa Monica Farmers Market and the Gourmandise School of Sweets and
Savories are pleased to present a special Challenge Edition of their
"Follow That Chef" cooking classes.

On Saturday April 27th  join acclaimed chefs Nyesha Arrington  from
Wilshire Restaurant and Stefano de Lorenzo from the Michelin-starred
restaurant La Botte in a SNAP Challenge: Cooking from the Farmers Market on
a SNAP (Food St

[LAAMN] CBS: 3rd World Surrogate Mothers

[John A Imani]

April 10, 2013 7:21 PM
Baby boom: Indian women giving birth to U.S. babies By Holly
Williams

(CBS News) ANAND, India -- A lot of businesses go to India for inexpensive
labor and it turns out American couples are doing the same. One village has
become a center for cut-rate surrogacy, offering young women who will be
carrying babies to term.

Dana and Sumanth Chandra with baby Ethan.
/ CBS News

For some couples surrogacy is their only chance to create a child. Each
year hundreds of Americans go to India for the service.

Dana and Sumanth Chandra have been trying to have a baby ever since they
married 14 years ago in Chicago.

They believe their newborn son Ethan is a miracle -- because doctors in the
United States told Dana she'd never have a child.

 "I could just spend my entire life just standing right here," she says
while looking at her baby son.

An Indian surrogate at a clinic in Anand, India.
/ CBS News

 The couple finally realized their dream of starting a family by traveling
8000 miles to India -- the country where Sumanth grew up.

 Ethan was born to a surrogate mother at a clinic in the dusty town of
Anand -- a hub in India's multimillion dollar surrogacy industry.

 An embryo created from the Chandra's own sperm and egg was implanted in an
Indian woman -- who was paid to carry their child.

Their doctor -- Nayana Patel -- has helped more than 200 American couples
have a baby.

"When you see a childless couple you understand how desperate, how
frustrated they are. I mean, they are not living a life -- they are just
like vegetables," said Dr. Patel.

 India's booming surrogacy business is unregulated. A mistake in another
clinic left one couple with a baby that wasn't theirs.

 But surrogacy in India is cheap. At around $25,000 it is less than a
quarter of what parents would pay in the U.S. The surrogates themselves
earn just $8000.

Dr. Nayana Patel, Anand, India.
/ CBS News

 At Dr. Patel's clinic it's compulsory for them to live in a hostel -- so
that their pregnancies can be monitored. It's overcrowded -- and they're
cut off from their families.

 One surrogate mother, Meena Parmar, used to work as a housemaid making $30
a month. She's pregnant with a baby for an American couple and said the
money she earns will pay for her own son's education.

 The desperation of many poor surrogate mothers makes them vulnerable.

Surrogate Meena Parmar is pregnant with a baby for an American couple.
/ CBS News

 But are the surrogates protected legally? What are their rights?

 "I would say that they have the right to terminate the pregnancy at any
stage of pregnancy if they are not comfortable but in that case they'll
have to pay the couple whatever money they have spent so far," said Dr
Patel.

 Dana and Sumanth Chandra worried about the unequal relationship with their
surrogate.

"My biggest concern was I didn't want to take advantage of a woman who was
desperately in need of money, physically not capable of doing this," said
Dana.

"We kind of struggle with a lot of these kind of issues ourselves, kind of
thinking are we taking advantage? Because obviously, we did it here because
of financial reasons."

 Those doubts haven't stopped hundreds of couples coming to India for
affordable surrogacy. Dr. Patel is so busy she's now building a new private
hospital.
Outsourced: "Wombs-For-Rent" in
Indiahttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/31/health/main3658750.shtml/>
Surrogacy scandal raises regulation
questions
Surrogates: Redefining
motherhood

 But in a country of dire poverty, some worry that India's surrogate
mothers are ripe for exploitation.

 The doctors CBS News spoke to all said this is a win-win arrangement: The
couple gets a baby, the surrogate mother gets a life-changing amount of
money. And often it does seem to work out just like that.

 But the problem is that many of the surrogate mothers are desperately
poor. Some of them are even illiterate. They've had no education and so
there's a risk that some clinics could abuse that in this very lucrative
industry.

© 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57578967/baby-boom-indian-women-giving-birth-to-u.s-babies/
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[LAAMN] Fwd: food justice news march 27

[John A Imani]

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* *

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: Let’s 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 Ain’t Our
Thing
*

***9. Support Sick Days for
Workers

 10.
**Fighting for Living Wage in DC***

** **

**

* *

*1. Hunger Action LA Training April 26: Let’s 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 doesn’t 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 Brecht’s 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/

https://cornerstone.secure.force.com/tick

[LAAMN] Fwd: Left Unified in Serbia ...

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: John A Imani 
Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:09 PM
Subject: Fwd:Left Unified in Serbia ...
To: rac...@lists.riseup.net, rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net,
copwatc...@lists.riseup.net, newplanet-newli...@lists.riseup.net
Cc: int...@kps.rs


(JAI:  Comrades make a move towards unifying the Left in response to
growing pressure on the wages and living conditions of the working class.

Don't know the individual parties involved and their histories but what
appears to be a principled unification (see platform below) as this we can
only dream of in the US, as what passes for the Left is almost hopelessly
divided and, at the same time, pitifully ineffective.)

-- Forwarded message --
From: Serbian Communist Movement 
Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:49 PM
Subject: [May 19th Movement] Left joined in Serbia ...
To: May 19th Movement 


 *Press Release Secretariat of the Serbian Communist Movement*



*Left joined in Serbia ...*



[image: zastava copy]Yesterday, 24 March, was  signed an agreement on
cooperation and unity of action between 6 left political organizations to
become an integral part of the Communist Movement in Serbia. The agreement
was signed at the premises of the KPS in Belgrade. This important
historical event was created as a result of increasing pressure on workers
reactionary forces of Serbia, due to the policy of the state leadership
which inexorably, for 23 years, leads the country in total misery and
despair, the shameful and treacherous foreign policy by the state
administration as well as the strong tendency of the left to oppose such a
rampage by the local oligarchy. The savage dismemberment of a sovereign
Yugoslavia, and later some former republics, led the central Balkan region
into a state of total anarchy and pillage, created the ground for all kinds
of criminal activities and places where people who are honest and working
for themselves can find only pain and suffering. Left, progressive forces
of Serbia, triggered the creation of a strong block of the left, with the
aim to establish a political equilibrium in this unipolar system and later
the establishment of a just and humane socialist state. The agreement is
based on the following platforms:



1. Serbian Communist Movement includes all political groups, movements,
associations and political parties, which agree and accept this common
platform.

2. Serbian communist movement is in the broader sense committed to changing
structure of capitalist into a socialist. Actually it calls for:



a) the abolition of private ownership of the means of production,

b) return and establishment of worker self-management,

c) the system of planned economy

d) free education and free health care,

e) Work as a right and not a privilege,

f) guarantees the right to a pension after 60 years,

g) a socially just and responsible state,

h) a strong military and organized TO (the civil defense),

j) active international coexistence, proletarian internationalism and return
to the Non-Aligned Movement.



3. Serbian Communist Movement will lead a permanent and uncompromising
fight against crime, corruption, social injustice and all which is
detriment for workers, peasants, students and youth.

4. Serbian Communist Movement is clearly against relations or entering of
Serbia into any capitalist organization like the IMF, World Bank, NATO or
the EU.

5. Serbian Communist Movement will be coordinated and continuously work on
the creation and dissemination of class consciousness among the citizens of
Serbia, through its media or media that support this movement.

6. Serbian Communist Movement will keep and preserve historical tradition
of anti-fascist struggle and NOB.

7. Members of the Serbian Communist Movement  are independent in their
work, except when it comes to the decision of the coordinating body on
joint action, actions, or any other aspect of working together.

8. All the members of this movement have a responsibility to adhere to
decisions of the coordinating body.

9. All organizations, movements or political parties which in their
internal programs contain provisions contrary to the common platform of the
movement, can not under be part of this movement.



Serbian communist movement was founded 09 September 2012, and registered
24.01.2013. under number BU 10380/2012. The composition of the movement,
with the agreement entered by the following organizations, is: the *Communist
Party of Serbia (KPS), New Communist Party of Serbia (NKPS), Yugoslavia
Tito Centre (JCT), the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Serbia, the
student movement - Red October, Revolutionary Youth Front (ORF), Communists
of Kraljevo* and a couple of local left organizations. In future Movement
expect  to strengthen its membership  and other organizations that belong
to the left, and whose programs are not inconsistent with the basic
software platform movement.

Leadership of the movement strongly expressed oppos

[LAAMN] Commentary on Two Articles in The Economist on Asset Bubbles Blown by The Federal Reserve

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: John A Imani 
Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Subject: Commentary on Two Articles in The Economist on Asset Bubbles Blown
by The Federal Reserve
To: rac...@lists.riseup.net, rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net,
copwatc...@lists.riseup.net


(JAI:  “...the history of the past 30 years has been marked by a series of
asset-price bubbles, often fueled by cheap money.”  With this startling
admission, in the article just below, The Economist seemingly accepts the
“asset-price bubbles”—fueled by central banks (esp the Federal Reserve)—as
a 'given' and from thence goes on to explain the falling cost of capital as
reflected in corporate bond yields, i.e. the interest rate they promise. In
a second article also below, the same magazine operating with the same
given assumption of the existence of these asset-price bubbles—this time in
equities, i.e. corporate share prices—and concludes: “It is tempting to
attribute the strength of the Dow to optimism about the American economy.
Tempting, but wrong. Studies have shown almost no correlation between GDP
growth and equity returns...this *rally * *in the Dow has been accompanied
by the weakest GDP growth of all the bull markets since the second * *world
war*.”

There is an old adage: “When stocks go up, bonds go
down.”<http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080123064331AALopBG>That
is, when the risks which are taken with an investment in company
ownership are rewarded with a rising share price, more conservative
investments in the forms of corporate or Treasury bonds find the
market-price of the bonds fall. I say “more conservative” as in the event
of bankruptcy, bond-holders are paid off before equity-owners of shares.

Part of this seems to be a 'herd instinct' endemic in capitalism as
investors pile in after the 'good thing' raising the prices of, in this
case, equities; and, in order to do so, some of these investors must
divulge themselves of their holdings in bonds so as to 'chase the rainbow'.
And to sell their holdings in bonds they must lower their asking price
below the existing market-price as an increase in supply (in this case the
supply of corporates being proffered in the bond market)—almost 'as a
rule'—results in a lowering of market-price.

Thus stocks going up and bonds doing the same is somewhat of an anomaly.
And one explanation, for at least a part of it, is the intervention by the
Federal Reserve. What is unusual about the situation now is that both
equities (as reflected in the prices of stock market shares) and corporate
bonds (as reflected in the lowering of the interest rate they pay) are both
rising. Something is afoot here and that something is, of course, a Federal
Reserve charged by law and tradition with a 'dual
mandate'<http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/publications/speeches/our_dual_mandate.cfm>to
maintain both full employment and price stability but seemingly unable
to accomplish either.

'Quantitative easing' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing> is
what they call it, this intervention by the Fed into the corporate bond
markets. Injection into the economy of newly created money is what it is.
Akin to the electric shock given by physicians to restart a heart that has
ceased to beat, or similar to 'jump-starting' a car with a dead battery,
the introduction of this 'artificial purchasing power' into the stocks and
bonds markets is powering their simultaneous rise. The hope (of the Fed) is
that the rising prices of these assets will trigger what is called the 'wealth
effect' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_effect> causing the owners of
these financial instruments to be more apt to both invest in business
opportunities as well as be more profligate in their personal consumption
expenditures. All of this to be caused by a bubble, in such assets, blown
by the Federal Reserve which before had blown the housing
bubble<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble#Background>
—which burst in 2007—in response to the devastating explosion of the internet
bubble<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble#Background>
—which crashed in 2000.

This is a prescription for an ailing capitalist economy in which production
and, therefore, employment is less than it could be given the amount of
potential productive capacity and the size (and skills) of the potential
workforce existing. This is all but a riff on a prescription straight out
of 
Keynes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Theory_of_Employment,_Interest_and_Money#Summary>
:

“When involuntary unemployment exists...“wasteful” loan expenditure
may...enrich the community on balance. Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even
wars may serve to increase wealth...If the Treasury were to fill old
bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal

[LAAMN] Fwd: SAVE THE DATE: COMMUNITY CONTROL OF THE POLICE MEETING

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:08 AM
Subject: SAVE THE DATE: COMMUNITY CONTROL OF THE POLICE MEETING
To: othla-core-organi...@googlegroups.com, May 19th Movement <
may19thmovem...@lists.riseup.net>, John A Imani ,
Michael Novick , Mary Sutton <
masutt...@earthlink.net>, Aim Santa Barbara , tiah star
, "James M. Simmons Atty" , general
dogun , kellyflor del ,
"dedon.kamathi" , Kim McGill ,
Gardenia Rivera , Hamid Khan ,
cindy henderson , javier rodriguez <
bajolamiradejav...@yahoo.com>, Kruti Parekh , Pete
White , Black Riders ,
Thandisizwe Chimurenga , Los Angeles Critical
Resistance , Diana Zuniga ,
Bilal Ali , "B. Kwaku" , Mo
Nishida , Margaret Prescod 


The Sisyphus Syndrome: ( In Greek mythology Sisyphus  was a king
punished for chronic deceitfulness by being compelled to roll an
immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to
repeat this action forever), whenever there is a atrocity committed by
the pigs the response has been righteous indignation by the people,
there are demonstrations, protest, press conferences, so-called chosen
leaders are trotted out for the purpose of chilling out the people’s
anger, promises of an investigations, and blood money is paid out to
relatives of the victims of pig terror and murder.  After all the
attention to the latest in pig terror everything returns to normal
until the next pig murder or atrocity is committed again at the hands
of the pigs.  This scenario is played out time and time again.  This
Sisyphus Syndrome has mostly been about a reactionary approach…we need
a more pro-active approach that builds people power…the necessary
power to change the genocidal practices of law enforcement in a racist
and capitalist social order. Because of this Sisyphus syndrome the
LAPD continues to be a notoriously racist institution.  The Rampart
Division scandal of the late 1990's is one recent reminder of how
racist and corrupt the institution is and continues to be. What Chris
Dorner's manifesto calls into question is the degree to which racism
is blatantly ignored, reasoned away, and legitimized in this society
in general and in law enforcement in particular. The Dorner manifesto
mirrors the deadly impact of racism and national oppression of people
of color.
The history of the LAPD has clearly shown that the LAPD has been
consistently unwilling to impose serious punishment for racist and
terrorist acts committed by LAPD officers either through internal
mechanisms, or by referral for prosecution.  Again it has been made
evident that the LAPD lacks in its effort to track problem officers or
implement any structural change proposed to ameliorate the problem.
This malfeasance of the public trust by the LAPD sends a clear message
to their officers who serve out “street justice”, that they will be
protected even awarded for their conduct and culture of racism, sexism
and violence.
Our research and investigations of the Board of Police Commissioners
informs us that (1) Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners is an
utter failure and creates an atmosphere of mis-trust on the part of
the people (2) Our findings also informs us that this board as
currently composed is not a solution to our problems with the police(
3) The Board of Police Commissioners acts merely as a Rubber-Stamp for
internal police investigation and cover-up (4) The board as currently
composed lacks real power and failure to confront lapd on
controversial polices..

Who Are the Police?
The state is the mechanism which guarantees the supremacy of the
ruling class. (Cutting off the arm cripples the ruling class). The
capitalists (or bourgeoisie) control science, education, culture and
all the levers of social power. This allows them to run things for
their own benefit and appropriate the lion’s share of social wealth.
To maintain their rule the bourgeoisie requires a monopoly of armed
power with which it can exert violence against those who might resist.
The police are the institution charged with the day-to-day exercise of
that power to coerce and suppress other classes when the preferred
means of persuasion do not work.
The police are not part of the working class, and their "unions" are
not part of the workers movement. They should be thrown out of all
trade union federations and other working class organizations. The
police serve as the first line of defense of capitalist property and
safeguard the dictatorship of the capitalist class over society. As an
arm of the state, the police are not neutral in any dispute between
the powerless and the powerful, workers and bosses, tenants and
landlords or oppressed and oppressor. Cops enforce a capitalist law
and order which places the interests of property, wealth and social
privilege above all else.

Occupy The Hood LA Action Assembly believes that the reign of terror
by the LAPD and by sheriff’s departments across the

[LAAMN] Fwd: [MLK_Coalition] Think you know all about wealth inequality? - LA Biz Observed

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Kathleen Hernandez 
Date: Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:26 AM
Subject: [MLK_Coalition] Think you know all about wealth inequality? - LA
Biz Observed
To: "mlk_coalit...@yahoogroups.com" , VFP
Los Angeles , "t...@lists.riseup.net" <
t...@lists.riseup.net>, laeducators 


**


 These are 6+ minutes worth watching and forwarding. I wonder where most of
our democratically elected politicians fall in this spectrum?

http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2013/03/tired_of_hearing_abo.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LAObserved+%28LA+Observed%29

paz

Kathleen Hernandez

Our federal budget is a moral document, and thus reflects the values and
priorities of our society;

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “A nation that continues year after year
to spend more money on military defense

 than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”


-- 
JAI
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[LAAMN] Fwd: food justice news

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Subject: food justice news
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

** **

*March 5, 2013:  Sequestration Frustration Blues:*

* *

A Center for American Progress infographic shows the incredible comparison
of the number of people losing meals, rental assistance, child care and
other necessities compared to the tax break for yacht owners (which remains
intact):

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/budget/news/2013/03/01/55201/infographic-social-programs-cut-by-the-sequester/


** **

** **

***1. Hunger Action Meeting Friday March 22*

***2. International Women’s Day Saturday March 9: *

***3. Fair Minimum Wage Act Introduced March 3*

***4. “No Hunger for Heroes Act” Introduced to Help Military
Families*

***5. Is America Eating Healthier In Spite of High Food Prices?*

***6. European Investors Shamed By Oxfam Report on Food Speculation*

***7. A Place at the Table: Film on Hunger Available Online and on
ITunes*

***8. Forbes Magazine: Five Food Websites You Can’t Live Without*

** **

**

** **

***1. Hunger Action Meeting Friday March 22*

* *

The next HALA meeting is *Friday March 22 at LAANE, 464 S Lucas Ave, LA CA
90017.* All are invited. *10 am to 12 noon*. Bring your ideas for vibrant
campaigns to fight for food justice in LA! We’ll be following up on last
meetings with results of activity on the Homeless Bill of Rights: SB 283 to
recognize the right of people leaving prison to eat: and restoration of
dental care to seniors getting Medi-Cal. These are the three issues the
group decided to focus on in the February meeting.

*Hunger Action Day:* HALA is also gearing up along with numerous colleague
organizations around the state for Hunger Action Day, which will be
Wednesday May 22 in Sacramento at the state capitol. If you’re interested
let us know and we can save you a spot on the bus for the adventurous ride
up the day before (Tuesday May 21) from an as-yet-unknown central
location.  Contact fr...@hungeractionla.org 

** **

**


*2. International Women’s Day Saturday March 9: *

* *

Inequal treatment of women is one of the major causes of hunger, not just
in the “Third World” where women are deprived of education and business
opportunities but in the US, where women are still paid less than men for
the same work, and where welfare programs benefitting primarily very poor
women, have been gutted in favor of tax breaks for wealthy corporations
(Facebook made $1 billion profit but will be getting a $429  million tax
refund instead of paying any taxes )

http://gawker.com/5984831/facebook-will-pay-no-taxes-get-huge-refund-instead)


This Saturday’s 14th International Women’s Day Action will take place in
Downtown LA. 

Gather at 10:30am near the family visiting lines outside the Downtown
Jail 441 Bauchet St, LA 90012

March for Survival from the jail to The Last Bookstore

Teach-In starting 1:30 at The Last Bookstore 453 S. Spring Street,
corner 5th St

Protesting the criminalization of survival, expansion of the prison
industry, removal of children from their moms due to poverty (instead of
assisting those moms)

http://globalwomenstrike.net/content/9-march-2013-iwd-event-surviving-globally-surviving-southern-california


** **

**

*3. Fair Minimum Wage Act Introduced March 3*

* *

>From Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC): 

“Today, ROC applauded Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Rep. George Miller
(D-CA-11) for introducing the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, new
legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 and require
that the tipped minimum wage be set at 70% of the regular minimum wage, a
move that will help lift many restaurant workers out of poverty.”

“We applaud Sen. Harkin and Rep. Miller for introducing a new minimum wage
bill that is inclusive of all workers in the United States, including those
who work for tips,” said Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of ROC
United.  “For decades, the minimum wage for tipped workers has been stuck
at just $2.13 per hour.  For too many restaurant workers that means that
after long, sometimes back-breaking shifts feeding others, they can’t put
food on their own tables.  “

** **

**

[LAAMN] Fwd: Join the People's Campaign - Ron Gochez for City Council!

[John A Imani]

(JAI:  Ron Gochez is running on a platform that says, in part, that if
elected he would only accept a working person's salary (in this case, the
same as his salary as a teacher.  I plan to be there on Sat )


-- Forwarded message --
From: International Action Center - LA 
Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Subject: Join the People's Campaign - Ron Gochez for City Council!
To: johnaima...@gmail.com


Support the People's Campaign

Help Build the Movement!

ALSO!!

Community March this Saturday at 10 AM

Question - Do you want to support the building of a united movement
against racism, economic injustice, LAPD terror against Black and
Brown communities - a movement that is helping to expose local and
state corruption that benefits the rich over working and poor people.

Ron Gochez is representing a People's Campaign that is using the
electoral arena to expose the system, provide concrete solutions to
the city's problems and reinforcing the idea that a strong and united
movement of working and poor people must grow in order to successfully
combat the powers that be.

But, unlike the other politicians who's campaigns run on the money
from corporations like Walmart and the banks, Ron's campaign runs on
volunteers dedicated to fighting for justice, like you.

That's why the International Action Center is again urging everyone
to come out during this last week of the campaign to volunteer at
their campaign office located at ...

 4419 1/2 Avalon Blvd.

You can volunteer between the hours of 3:30 PM - 8 PM till Friday and
10 AM to 8 PM on Saturday and Sunday.

Community March this Saturday at 10AM! We will walk precincts and do
phone banking for the rest of the day until 8PM.

Historic Endorsement for Historic Campaign!

John Carlos (1968 Olympic Champion) Endorses Gochez




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[LAAMN] Fwd: Allegra has posted a new update-Re: A Community Helps Allegra Beat Cancer

[John A Imani]

(JAI:  Many thanks to all the comrades who have given of their love to and
demonstrated their appreciation for all of the work, dedication and
participation in the class struggle for human rights that this comrade has
exhibited.)

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Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:06 AM
Subject: Allegra has posted a new update...
To: johnaima...@gmail.com

Updated posted by Allegra Padilla 23 mins ago

UPDATE: I can't thank you enough...

UPDATE: I can't thank you enough for making this such a rapid success, the
goal was surpassed in less than 30 hours. It says a lot about the love we
all have for Allegra. She is going home today. Please check in with her via
text or myself about visiting. We don't want to overload her with visits.
Thank you for your generous support and if you know people that still want
to help, they can still do so. There are no limits to the donations.

Much love,
Güido (on behalf of Allegra's care team)

- See more at:

http://www.gofundme.com/25nb84?utm_campaign=Emails&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email#description

Updated posted by Allegra Padilla 23 mins ago

UPDATE: I can't thank you enough...

UPDATE: I can't thank you enough for making this such a rapid success, the
goal was surpassed in less than 30 hours. It says a lot about the love we
all have for Allegra. She is going home today. Please check in with her via
text or myself about visiting. We don't want to overload her with visits.
Thank you for your generous support and if you know people that still want
to help, they can still do so. There are no limits to the donations.

Much love,
Güido (on behalf of Allegra's care team)

- See more at:
http://www.gofundme.com/25nb84?utm_campaign=Emails&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email#description

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[LAAMN] Re: A Community Helps Allegra Beat Cancer-Message from Allegra

[John A Imani]

Updated posted by Allegra Padilla 3 mins ago at
<http://www.gofundme.com/25nb84>

http://www.gofundme.com/25nb84


I am filled with so much gratitude because of all of your generosity, love
and support. I appreciate each and every one of you for taking the time to
help me out in the various ways you have done so. I know that there are a
lot of you that are not in the capacity to give financially, please know
that having your moral support is just as valuable. I will touch base with
each of you individually in the near future please understand I need to use
my energy right now to heal from my most recent procedure. I am looking
forward to seeing your beautiful smiles in the near future. Thanks from the
bottom of my heart. La lucha sigue!

Muchas gracias, paz y amor!
Allegra

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:49 PM, John A Imani  wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Tierra Y Libertad 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>  A Community Helps Allegra Beat Cancer
>>
>>
>> "As some of you may know my beautiful friend, Allegra Padilla is
>> currently in recovery from her second surgery. I along with her input have
>> set up a page for those who have showed interest in helping out in whatever
>> capacity you can. She is a warrior in her path to healing and we as
>> community are here to help her in this fight. Much love! "
>>
>
> Send Allegra a greeting at:
>
>>
>> http://www.gofundme.com/25nb84
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> JAI
> RAC-LA




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[LAAMN] Fwd: A Community Helps Allegra Beat Cancer

[John A Imani]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Tierra Y Libertad wrote:

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>  A Community Helps Allegra Beat Cancer
>
>
> "As some of you may know my beautiful friend, Allegra Padilla is currently
> in recovery from her second surgery. I along with her input have set up a
> page for those who have showed interest in helping out in whatever capacity
> you can. She is a warrior in her path to healing and we as community are
> here to help her in this fight. Much love! "
>

Send Allegra a greeting at:

>
> http://www.gofundme.com/25nb84
>
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[LAAMN] To All Those Interested in Food and Justice...from Hunger Action LA

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:47 PM
Subject: this is the real newsletter
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

** **

*Feb 25, 2013:  *

* *

The sequestration looms---$850 billion of cuts that were devised as a
motivational tool to get Congress to agree on something better will go into
effect March 1. Generally speaking half of these cuts are from defense and
half from social programs. This sequestration was designed as the fallback
plan if Congress couldn’t agree on cuts, dating back to 2011 when the
Republicans refused to raise the country’s debt ceiling if the Democrats
didn’t agree to severe cuts in social programs, including Social Security,
Medicare, SNAP (CalFresh here), WIC and many others. 

** **

The media is portraying this as a “both sides are being stubborn” kind of
problem, but the bald plain fact is that what was proposed by the
Republicans has always been an unacceptably high level of spending slashing
that will impact the poorest  Americans---especially women and kids, in
fact almost exclusively women and kids as far as food programs go. The WIC
program is possibly heading for huge cuts that may cause the elimination of
kids over 4 from the program.  WIC has had many Republican supporters over
the years, and it would be a shame to see them put a stubborn partisan
stance, designed to score a political victory over the president,  over
what they’ve attested to as their own values

** **

** **

>From Western Center on Law and Poverty: “Without action from Congress this
week, sequester cuts will begin on March 1st.  Please see these resources
to understand what the impact of sequester will be on California. “

White House CA Factsheet:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/sequester-factsheets/California.pdf


Coalition on Human Needs CA Factsheet:
http://www.chn.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CA_sheet.pdf 

** **

*1. Hunger Action Meeting Friday March 22*

*2. WIC Under Threat: Contact your member of Congress today! *

*3. Hospital Breastfeeding Promotion Bill Introduced*

*4.Support Homeless Bill of Rights*

*5. SB 283: Successful Re-Entry and Access to Jobs Bill Introduced*

*6. Food Forward Recovers Thousands of Pounds of Food in Santa Monica:*

*7. WalMart Pressing Charges Against Worker for Stealing
Oreos
   **8. “Are
Junk Food Makers Worse than Tobacco Industry Giants? How Fritos, Coke and
Lunchables Vie for Addicts”***

*9. Fast Food Makes Up 11% of Calories In U.S. Diet*

** **

**

*1. Hunger Action Meeting Friday March 29*

The next HALA meeting is *Friday March 22 at LAANE, 464 S Lucas Ave, LA CA
90017.* All are invited. *10 am to 12 noon*. Bring your ideas for vibrant
campaigns to fight for food justice in LA! The last meeting this past
Friday produced over 50 commitments to action, already underway in South
LA, Long Beach, the Valley, East LA, Downtown, and other areas. HALA
members are collecting stories for testimony in support of the *Homeless
Bill of Rights* and *Successful Re-Entry* bills, and gearing up to support
restoration of cuts to *dental services for seniors in Medi-Cal. *Come join
the fun!

*Hunger Action Day:* HALA is also preparing along with numerous colleague
organizations around the state for Hunger Action Day, which will be
Wednesday May 22 in Sacramento at the state capitol. If you’re interested
let us know and we can save you a spot on the bus for the adventurous ride
up the day before (Tuesday May 21) from an as-yet-unknown central
location.  

** **

**


*2. WIC Under Threat: Contact your member of Congress today! *

* *

>From California WIC Association: “Congress plans to cut WIC Program funding
by 5.1% in March as a result of sequestration. WIC clinics across the
country will have to cut 600,000 mothers and young children from the
program and make dramatic changes to service delivery, impacting program
effectiveness and undermining improved health outcomes. In California,
100,300 people will lose WIC services that are vital to a healthy start in
a child's life, and many WIC staff will lose their jobs.

TAKE ACTION:

• Go to the National WIC Association website to learn the
details about proposed cuts. Tell your member of Congress to protect the
WIC Program from these proposed cuts, using the NWA's email form.

http://capwiz.com/national-wic-association/issues/aler

[LAAMN] Barter on Rise in Spain

[John A Imani]

(JAI:  As dying senile capitalism spits more and more workers out so do we
continue to try and find ways to continue our existence until the coming
socialist revolution that will provide living wage jobs for all who want
work and humane sustenance for those unable to.)

The pain in Spain brings barter gains

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
 Unemployed trade their way through recession

“It is possible to live without a job, and that doesn’t mean living without
working.” Banker Julio Gisbert, author of the book and blog Living Without
a Job

BARCELONA With two small children and no income for the past two years,
Antonio Delgado, 44, says things were so bad he had considered taking his
life.
*PHOTOS BY XAVIER SUL *Books, toys, movies and video games are for sale at
a bartering market in Barcelona. Many Spaniards are turning to trading
goods and services so they can put food on the table.

Then a few months ago, Delgado found out about a group that rents small
parcels of farmland cheap near his town of La Rinconada in southern Spain.
Now he’s bringing home boxes of tomatoes, onions, peppers, lettuce,
zucchinis and pumpkins. But he is not selling them.

Delgado and others are bartering, or trading, their way through a recession
that has lasted years and left more than a quarter of the workforce
unemployed. Tens of thousands of households have no wage earners, but they
have skills and time on their hands to do work that can be traded for
things they need but have no money to buy.

“I had no clue about agriculture,” Delgado said. “But this has changed my
life.”

Banker Julio Gisbert, author of the book and blog Living Without a Job,
says Spaniards are doing what makes sense in these tough times.

“It is possible to live without a job, and that doesn’t mean living without
working,” Gisbert says.

Trading produce for other services and merchandise is one of the many
unconventional ways the Spanish are making ends meet in what has been
described as the new “sharing economy” that has developed here since the
economic crisis hit more than four years ago.

According to the Spanish government, more than half a million families have
no income. The unemployment rate has climbed to 26%, but among young
workers it is as astonishing 55%.

The deepest economic crisis in Spain’s modern history is rooted in a
housing boom financed by cheap loans to builders and home buyers who went
bust. Homes were not worth what was borrowed to buy or build them.

Spain borrowed to lend the banks money to survive, but that put the
national government in a budget deficit. Regional governments that spent
budget surpluses in boom years were forced to end public spending and cut
benefits and jobs, hobbling economic growth. The economy, which grew 3.7% a
year on average from 1999 to 2007, has since contracted at an annual rate
of 1% since.

With few jobs and no disposable income, bartering and other ways of
exchanging goods and services are increasingly seen as good alternatives.

Some Spaniards are using socalled time banks to “deposit” time, knowledge
and skills and trade them for things they need. All services have the same
value, whether it is one hour of teaching a foreign language or one hour of
cleaning house.

‘PEOPLE HELPING EACH OTHER’

Teresa Sanchez, 55, is part of the Time Bank in Valladolid in western
Spain. She has deposited offers of Japanese language classes, massage and
company for the elderly. In return, she has received English lessons,
appliance repairs and haircuts for her son.

“I first joined because I like the idea of people helping each other as it
used to be long ago, but it is true that it is nice economic help,” said
Sanchez. “The world would work better without money.”

The number of time banks in Spain has doubled to 318 in the past three
years, according to the Association of Time Banks. SocialCar.com allows
people to rent their private cars to other individuals while JoinUp Taxi
makes it easy for people to share taxis to the same destination.
Nolotiro.org (”I Won’t Throw It Out”) allows people to give away things
they don’t need anymore, such as clothing or tools.

Mi Huerto Compartido (My Shared Garden) allows land owners to “lend” ground
in exchange for part of the harvest. And Truequebook.es users barter school
books and other goods for children.

Delgado got his plot of farmland from My Harvest Ecological Gardens, which
rents 540-square-foot parcels of land for $40 a month. He works the land 20
hours a week and exchanges produce with other small farmers so he can get
the wide variety of food his family needs.

Besides the cybermarket places, nearly 100 bartering markets have appeared
in Catalonia alone, according to Intercanvis.net, a site that tracks the
bartering economy in this northeastern region of Spain.

“The main reason why people start using these sites is economic, whether it
is to save money, make money or get goods or services without money,” said
Albert Canigueral, editor of Co

[LAAMN] Fwd: SB 283 (Hancock): Removing Barriers to Successful Re-Entry of Those Convicted of Drug Felonies

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: John Jackson 
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:16 PM
Subject: Please Help Spread the Word - SB 283 (Hancock): Removing Barriers
to Successful Re-Entry
To: Amy Schur 



 *Please Help Spread the Word - SB 283 (Hancock): Removing Barriers to
Successful Re-Entry*

  Greetings.  Attached is the factsheet and sample support letter for SB
283 (Hancock).  Please get these materials out start sending in your
letters of support as soon as possible.

SB 
283(
Hancock ) would allow individuals, previously
convicted of a drug felony, who meet all other eligibility rules, to
receive basic needs services, employment training and work supports through
the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) and
CalFresh programs, provided that they are complying with the conditions of
probation or parole, or have successfully completed their probation or
parole. This bill is co-sponsored by Western Center, the County Welfare
Directors Association of California and Drug Policy Alliance.

Thanks!

 -John Jackson




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Re: [LAAMN] The Justice in Christopher Dorner's Rebellion

[John A Imani]

This is completely on point.  In the first paragraph you might have added
the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950's.

Well thought out and well argued, comrade.

A needed analysis of a complex situation.

JAI
RAC-LA

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Joaquin Cienfuegos wrote:

> **
>
>
> The Justice in Christopher Dorner's Rebellion
>
> -Joaquin Cienfuegos
>
> Rebellions aren't pretty, clean, or politically correct.  Rebellion is
> like an uncontrollable fire, catching anyone in the slave master's
> house, or anyone in a occupying army uniform.  When Nat Turner led slave
> rebellions they did not make distinctions between the white person who
> had the whip, the plantation owner, or their wives and children.  When
> Natives led offensives against white settlers they did not make
> distinctions, just like the settlers, slave owners and white people in
> general didn't show any mercy to THEM in the first place. This is the
> nature of a rebellion.
>
> People rebel when they are beat down to a point when they can't take it
> anymore and oppressed systematically, erupting in a struggle, many times
> violent against those people who subjugate them. Some call this "false
> consciousness," but I see it as more than that, the spontaneity and
> righteousness in the people fighting back is caused by the fundamental
> contradictions of this society.  The people will always fight back once
> they are brought to the point that their means of survival are dependent
> in this fight, this is human nature.
>
> We are seeing a lot more people starting to wake up to the fact that
> there is no future for us under this system, especially if you're a
> person of color, a woman, poor or any other oppressed person.
> Christopher Dorner, is a recent example of this person who saw no hope
> and justice in the system, who exhausted all channels, and resorted to
> his military training to take justice in his own hands.  This is
> something that was admirable for many oppressed people, and many of us
> cheered that aspect of this individual, and hoped he would evade
> capture.
>
> Dorner wrote a Manifesto, clearly stating his targets, and that he was
> openly declaring war on the police.  He even engaged with cops out on
> patrol, and people focus on the fact that in his pursuit of justice, a
> cop's family member and her fiance were killed by him, Michelle Quan.
> One has to understand that, looking at rebellions like that of Nat
> Turner, when the slave master's house burnt down, it included "innocent"
> women and children, when Natives attacked settlers, they did to them
> what was done to their families.  The media of course mourned for the
> white cops that were killed, but what about the innocent people that
> were shot and killed by the police while they were shook and on alert,
> looking for Dorner.  Innocent women, children, and people, were shot by
> the police, just like they have done in the past in Los Angeles, and
> Southern California, without remorse.  This is something Dorner hoped to
> expose and wanted to bring to light.  Dorner is a clear example that if
> you are an individual who hopes to join the police department to help
> your community, you will soon find out that the role of the police is
> not to protect and serve, and the institution in it of itself is racist
> and white-supremacist.
>
> Writing this piece is not to put him up on a pedestal or worship him as a
> hero, but point out the fact that here is an individual, who took
> action, and look at the success he had, whether he hoped to live or not,
> that is another topic.  He even waged psychological warfare against law
> enforcement, and it worked, they were afraid.  It showed that the
> police do not have the type of training to take on, just one person who
> is determined, and who is skilled. Imagine if they were facing an entire
> movement.  I think that if Christopher Dorner was prepared to take the
> fight to the next level, he would have many ready to join up with him.
> He could have easily taken the police into the Big Bear Mountains as
> well and put them at a tactical disadvantage, because they do not have
> that training.  Unfortunately he was snitched on and gunned and burnt to
> death in a cabin.
>
> For many oppressed people, he could have been an example, but we can't
> rely on one person to save us.  We have to take destiny into our own
> hands and be our own liberators.  We have to begin taking the fight to
> them, and if really want to see an end to police terrorism, state
> violence, and the system overall, we have to take what we do serious.
> I'll leave it at that.  Christopher Dorner called out names of cops who
> are known brutal pigs, and who get promotions for being that.  We can
> always start with them, and continue to build this movement for autonomy
> and self-defense of communities, and continue to decolonize the land.
>
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>
>  
>



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[LAAMN] Mardi Gras Indians

[John A Imani]

(JAI:  Just back from Mardi Gras and thought that this accounting of an
early example of Black/Red unity might shed a different kind of light on
early cooperation between the races.)

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Mardi Gras Indians Home-grown and spirit-raised An exuberant New Orleans
ritual commemorates the friendship of escaped slaves and Native
AmericansDec 22nd 2012 | NEW
ORLEANS |From the print
edition

  THE beadwork on Donald Harrison’s final Mardi Gras suit depicts a naked
Native American woman, her body dark red, holding a baby in each hand. He
wore the suit to perform at Jazz Fest, an annual music festival in New
Orleans, in 1998; he died six months later. One of the woman’s hands
reaches upwards, the other hangs down. Behind her is a stylised pastoral
landscape: sky, mountains, prairie and a river. Above her looms a snarling
white face in three-quarter view, with red eyes, yellow bared teeth,
pointed ears and a villainous moustache. Glittering stones representing
tears fall down the woman’s body: she must choose which of her babies to
save.

Harrison called it his “Trail of Tears” suit, referring to the forced
removal of tens of thousands of Native Americans from the south-eastern
United States after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Other Mardi Gras
Indians pride themselves merely on being “pretty”—on having the most
attractive, striking, eye-catching suit on Mardi Gras and St Joseph’s
days—and that was important to Harrison too; he always looked correct when
he “masked”. But he prized social commentary as well. He was a voracious
reader, a passionate arguer, a labour leader among his fellow waiters, and
he put himself into all his suits. As his daughter, Cherice
Harrison-Nelson, says, “Suits tell stories.”
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They also represent countless hours of painstaking labour. Making one, from
conception to execution, can take a family a year. That time is spent
hunched over sewing tables, fingers pricked and calloused from stitching
hundreds, even thousands of beads, some only a few millimetres in diameter,
to form a richly detailed portrait. A suit can weigh 100lb (45kg) or more,
but it must be supple enough to let the wearer parade in it for hours on
end. Even when the time comes to don the costume, says Ms Harrison-Nelson,
“You never really finish a suit…you just put on what you got and go.”
“The network of navigable bayous and cypress swamps veining the area just
outside New Orleans was hospitable territory for escaped slaves”

Her father’s last suit hangs, along with several others, in the wardrobe of
the Upper Ninth Ward house that Harrison and his wife Herreast shared from
1965 until his death. On the adjacent plot sit a boxy little building and a
stage, open to the street at the front. On a mid-September morning the
building seemed to capture and hold the New Orleans heat and humidity, but
eventually, says Mrs Harrison, it will be climate-controlled: the better to
preserve the family’s suits, and the similar garments she hopes to gather
from around New Orleans.

Ultimately the collection and the stage are to form the core of a museum
dedicated to Mardi Gras Indian culture—a culture that has sustained
thousands of working-class black men and women in New Orleans for more than
a century. It revolves around parades, traditionally on Mardi Gras (in
February or March) and on the Sunday closest to St Joseph’s day (in March),
in which black New Orleanians don elaborate suits of feathers, beads,
sequins and costume jewels to sing, dance and chant. It is an intoxicating,
beautiful spectacle: an intricate New Orleans art form.

But the culture goes beyond public performance. Its roots reach back to
Africa and pre-European America. It commemorates the aid given by one
oppressed minority to another. At the same time it celebrates the defiance
and self-determination of generations of black New Orleanians, excluded by
segregation from the Mardi Gras celebrations of their white neighbours, who
put on their outfits and marched despite the contempt of white New Orleans
and the threat of jail and violence.

*The Wild Man and the Chief*

  Unlike conventional Mardi Gras parades, which process through the centre
of the city and are officially sanctioned, Mardi Gras Indian parades still
tend to take place in predominantly black neighbourhoods. The marchers have
long resisted efforts to have their routes sanctioned. Lolis Eric Elie, an
expert on the culture of New Orleans, says that even as Mardi Gras Indians
have grown more accepted by mainstream culture, “black people are the
owners, practitioners and judges” of the spectacle. By and large, Mr Elie
says, the spectators remain the “type of people who have been there fo

[LAAMN] Fwd: [copwatchla] Film Screening "Guarda Bosques/Forrest Keepers" and Fundraiser for Cheran Feb. 23rd

[John A Imani]

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
  Film Screening "Guarda Bosques/Forrest Keepers" and Fundraiser For Cheran
   https://www.facebook.com/events/638405596185495/






   We'll be Screening a new film by Simon Sedillo Guarda Bosques/Forrest
Keepers and Fundraiser for the Autonomous Commune of Cheran in Michoacan,
Mexico.

In Los Angeles on February 23rd.

Event is will be held at the

Maravilla Handball Court 501 Mednik Ave Los Angeles, CA 90022


**There will also be a photo exhibit from the Purepecha Struggle for
Autonomy and Self-Defense of their territories through out the region of
Michoacan by Purepecha photographer Juan Jose Estrada Serafin.**

7pm

“Weapons Drugs and Slavery: Crime and Corruption in the US Political
Economy”

“Weapons Drugs and Slavery: Crime and Corruption in the US Political
Economy” is a new investigation into the US political economy, corporate
globalization, illegal banking practices, and US militarism. Sedillo’s
presentation will facilitate a participatory discussion about crime and
corruption in the US political economy and the effects of this on poor
people everywhere. This presentation will identify the way in which several
institutions and industries perpetrate society’s worst crimes while
systematically oppressing and criminalizing communities of color,
indigenous communities, and poor people in general. The presentation will
also discuss indigenous strategies for community liberation and will
propose a three point plan for “Hood Liberation”.

This presentation will be followed by a screening of the film:

“Guarda Bosques” (Forest Keepers) 45 min.

On April 15th 2011, when organized crime thugs teamed up with the logging
industry and different government agencies to pillage precious and sacred
forests at gun-point, the indigenous Purepecha community of Cheran,
Michoacan, Mexico rose up with sticks, rocks, and bottle rockets against
what can only be described as their local narco-government. Since then,
they have taken the authorities offices, weapons, and pick-up trucks,
ousted all political parties and all local and state police, and have
re-established a traditional form of self-governance that includes its own
council of elders, a community “police”, known as a “ronda”, and its own
forest defense team, or forest keepers, known as the “Guarda Bosques.”

Info on Simon Sedillo
http://elenemigocomun.net/banda/simon/
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From: Joaquin Cienfuegos 
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:31 PM
Subject: [copwatchla] Film Screening "Guarda Bosques/Forrest Keepers" and
Fundraiser for Cheran Feb. 23rd
To: copwatchla-announceme...@lists.riseup.net


Film Screening "Guarda Bosques/Forrest Keepers" and Fundraiser For Cheran
http://joaquincienfuegos.blogspot.com/2013/02/film-screening-guarda-bosquesforrest.html



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[LAAMN] Fwd: LAAEC Battle Report Weeks 2-3 (confidential, for distribution attached)

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Adam Rice 
Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:34 PM
Subject: LAAEC Battle Report Weeks 2-3 (confidential, for distribution
attached)
To: Becky Dennison , Bilal Ali ,
Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign , Dedon Kamati <
ksc...@earthlink.net>, Hamid Khan , John A Imani <
johnaima...@gmail.com>, Kwazi Nkrumah , Michael
Novick , Pete White ,
Thandi Chimurenga 



[image: Inline image 1]

*LOS ANGELES ANTI-EVICTION CAMPAIGN*

facebook.com/laantieviction
laantievict...@gmail.com
424-653-4032


*This week, this report to the LAAEC advisors is CONFIDENTIAL because of
pending legal matters. Following is an edited version that we hope you will
distribute publicly.*


*Battle Report from the L.A. Anti-Eviction Campaign***

*Weeks 2-3*



*Current Action: Cathelene Hughes*

Mrs. Hughes was deemed ineligible for participation in the class action
suit against Bank of America because they had sold her property prior to
the holidays.


*Eviction Day, Wednesday, January 23, 2013*

A neighbor we had worked with contacted LAAEC that the sheriffs had arrived
to evict Mrs. Hughes. LAAEC members contacted Mrs. Hughes' son and were on
site before she was able to return from errands she was running. Although
we did not stop the eviction, we did stall and videotape the sheriffs
deputies until her return, and she was able to retrieve her dog and some
personal items from the house. Four sheriffs in two cars were initially at
the scene; after we arrived, they were joined by two more, one a
lieutenant. The notice for retrieving her property appeared under the
signature of a new player in Mrs. Hughes' story, Signature Real Estate. We
again reached out to County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas's office, who
finally put a social worker in touch with Mrs. Hughes. The Department of
Adult Services referred her to the women's shelter on Skid Row, but at the
urging of LAAEC, she found temporary accommodations with her aunt rather
than take a temporary bed for $200/month.


In the days following, LAAEC intervened with Supervisor Ridley-Thomas's
office, and Mrs. Hughes was offered more appropriate and permanent housing.
We sent out a press release detailing her plight and posted it on Op-Ed
News, Reader Supported News, and Los Angeles Indymedia, and we arranged an
interview for her with Biographic Voices on AdrenatlineRadio.com. We asked
several lawyers to assist Mrs. Hughes on a pro bono or contingency basis.
We eventually talked with an attorney who is preparing an Unlawful Detainer
action against Signature and Colfin that may put Mrs. Hughes back in her
home. We discovered that her case file in the Unlawful Detainer records
office has apparently been rewritten with her correct address, and the
references to the 115 E. Wall St. address, the adjacent rental property,
have been removed from the file.

*
*
*Next Action*

While we were canvassing, we identified an apartment complex on 97th St.
and San Pedro that was recently purchased by Elias Realty, which has
distributed an English-only leaflet to these predominantly Spanish-speaking
tenants demanding that the renters leave with a month's notice. We are
meeting with the residents and gathering information to file a complaint
with the Housing Department to get them proper notice and compensation
under Los Angeles's Rent Stabilization Ordinance with the advice and
assistance of LA CAN.



*Outreach*

LAAEC members canvassed Mrs. Hughes' neighborhood on Saturday, January 19.
So far, 23 people have agreed to aid in Mrs. Hughes's fight.


LAAEC signed up for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service on January
21, which brought us a new volunteer, Rachel Owens, who joined our
canvassing. We gave LAAEC T-shirts to the canvassers who participated in
the Day of Service. We included in the canvassing Spanish and English
flyers announcing a family party on the 9800 Wall St. block on February 9.


*Funding*

We met with a local promoter and began planning a concert to kickoff our
fundraising efforts.


*Research*

LAAEC volunteers began investigating the real estate companies—Colony,
Colfin, Signature, Elias Realty, and Ben Soifer—that purchased the
apartment complex, and the Hernandez and Hughes homes.

*
*

*Infrastructure*

An LAAEC volunteer translated our introductory flyer into Spanish.


The transfer of the website to the domain name
laantievictioncampaign.orgis in progress.


We prepared and cleaned up mailing lists for media and newsletter. We have
lined up two bloggers to write for the website.


Since our last report, 30+ more people have “liked” our Facebook
page<http://www.facebook.com/laantieviction> (and
if you haven't, please do), which we linked to our Twitter
account<https://twitter.com/laantieviction> so
that Facebook posts are automatically tweeted. We solicited three people
with significant Twitter followings to retweet LAAEC.



--The Los Angeles Anti-Eviction team


*The Mis

[LAAMN] Fwd: [May 19th Movement] Demonstrators demand justice for unarmed man slain by deputies

[John A Imani]

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From: jubilee shine 
Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: [May 19th Movement] Demonstrators demand justice for unarmed
man slain by deputies
To: Adrian Rodriguez , "alianz...@hotmail.com" <
alianz...@hotmail.com>, "aliciaalvarez...@gmail.com" <
aliciaalvarez...@gmail.com>, "al...@theory.org" , "
andrew_altamir...@yahoo.com" , "
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arturovl...@gmail.com" , "aperez552...@yahoo.com" <
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dan.blue...@laactivist.com>, "danielmont...@gmail.com" <
danielmont...@gmail.com>, "dedon.kama...@gmail.com" ,
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dominiquedipr...@sbcglobal.net>, "eduardo_carr...@yahoo.com" <
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hollydal...@hotmail.com" , "hunterkc...@yahoo.com"
, "idep...@idepsca.org" , "
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jl...@utla.net>, joe smith , "
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maiko...@hotmail.com" , "marsan2...@sbcglobal.net" <
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, "sc...@peoplesmail.net" , "
sque...@ucla.edu" , "sylviah...@gmail.com" <
sylviah...@gmail.com>


 THE LINK SHOWS THE L.A. CORONERS REPORT THAT JOSE WAS SHOT 7 TIMES IN THE
BACK.

http://documents.latimes.com/jose-de-la-trinidad-autopsy-report/


Document Sources: Los Angeles County Coroner
Jose de la Trinidad autopsy report

Related items

   - Story: Man killed in shooting by deputies was shot in the back, report
   says
   


Jose de la Trin­id­ad, a 36-year-old fath­er of two, was shot Nov. 10 by
depu­ties who be­lieved he was reach­ing for a weapon fol­low­ing a po­lice
pur­suit. But fam­ily mem­bers and a wit­ness to the shoot­ing said that De
la Trin­id­ad, who was un­armed, was com­ply­ing with depu­ties and had his
hands above his head when he was shot. His autopsy re­port, ob­tained by
The Times, found he was struck by bul­lets five times in the back and twice
more in the right hip and right fore­arm, also from be­hind.


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[LAAMN] Fwd: food justice news jan 25

[John A Imani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello 
Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:51 PM
Subject: food justice news jan 25
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

** **

*Jan 25, 2013:***

***1.Hunger Action LA News*

***2.Overview of Anti-Hunger Issues for 2013*

***3.Homeless Bill of Rights Proposed*

***4.Actions Against Genetically Modified
Food  *

***5.Food Workers Shouldn’t Go Hungry: Ask Congress To Raise the
Minimum Wage*

**

***1.Hunger Action LA News*

* *

The next HALA meeting is Friday February 22 at LAANE, 464 S Lucas Ave, LA
CA 90017. All are invited. 10 am to 12 noon. We’ll have updates that day
from smaller groups working on issues discussed in the anti-hunger
legislative update below and on other campaigns taking place around the
city. 

** **

Hunger Action LA is continuing two of its major projects in 2013, and
hopefully expanding them. One is the Market Match program, providing bonus
coupons to low income consumers at 13 farmers markets in LA County. To find
out more and see a list of the markets go to
www.hungeractionla.org/marketmatch 

** **

*The Peoples Guide:* The second is the Peoples Guide to Welfare Health and
Other Services, the 68 page newsprint booklet summarizing many key programs
including job training, CalWORKs, CalFresh, MediCal, other low cost health
insurance, housing rights, and more. We plan on having an updated version
out by June. There are still some 2012 edition copies left: for more
information go to www.hungeractionla.org/peoplesguide 

** **

*Hunger Action Day:* HALA is also gearing up along with numerous colleague
organizations around the state for Hunger Action Day, which will be
Wednesday May 22 in Sacramento at the state capitol. If you’re interested
let us know and we can save you a spot on the bus for the adventurous ride
up the day before (Tuesday May 21) from an as-yet-unknown central
location.  

** **

**


** **

*2. Overview of Anti-Hunger Issues for 2013*

* *

Federal Level: The most important anti-hunger issues are actually income
support issues---Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (“Medi-Cal” here in
California.) While not concerned directly with food, these programs provide
income, or provide money-saving health care, allowing people to put more in
their food budget. If you haven’t been living in a cave far from the reach
of electronic media (lucky you), then you are aware that much hype is being
generated about these programs “going broke” and vast cuts being necessary
to “protect” them.

** **

Directly on the food front, the nation’s largest anti hunger program is
SNAP, now serving about 46 million Americans. California ranks last in
enrolling potentially eligible participants. Pressure is on Congress to
make budget cuts, and SNAP is now an $80 billion program. At various points
throughout the year cuts to this vital program may be proposed as part of
the general federal budget or part of the Farm Bill (which as its name
implies also funds subsidy programs to agriculture.)

** **

On the state level, the largest issue again is the budget and its income
support and health related programs. Thanks to Proposition 30 enough new
revenue is predicted to actually give California a surplus for the first
time in recent memory. Advocates are hoping to restore funding that’s been
lost from nearly annual cuts to CalWORKs (cash aid to families with
children), In Home Supportive Services, and dental care for seniors getting
Medi-Cal. The governor so far has insisted that although there won’t be any
cuts, there won’t be any restorations either. (if you heard his “State of
the State” speech on Thursday, you know he intends to toe a tight line on
the budget.)

** **

Two state legislative proposals related to CalFresh (California’s SNAP
program) that did not succeed last year, will be back in probably slightly
altered form. Both proposals would expand the number of people receiving
CalFresh benefits and thereby bring more federal dollars into California’s
ailing economy, while helping some of the 4 million estimated people not
getting enough to eat in our state.

** **

One is a revival of a bill to remove the lifetime ban on people with
certain drug felonies from getting the benefits.  The other bill will align
CalFresh with MediCal, allowing low income people who get health insurance
to also 

[LAAMN] Cops Shoot Man at Store

[John A Imani]

Half a block from my pad.  Photo of pig stu they set up is attached. Scene
of shooting was Advance Food Market corner of Ridgely and Adams (between La
Brea and Fairfax).

Initially neighbors told me someone had been stabbed.  Then word was a man
with a knife (and a small boy 5-6) was struggling with a cop and another
pig fired.  Then it is said that the cop who was fighting w the man pulled
his gun and shot him two more times.  On tv word is that the man is in
critical condition and the boy is in the hands of the cops.

JAI RAC-LA

Also confrontation w cops audio as they tried to prevent me from getting
home after my morning walk.  Dude was about to put his hands on me.


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