[LAAMN] Juliano Mer-Khamis' film Arna's Children screening at UCLA Wed. May 11, 2011 at 7:00 pm ASI Humanities Building

2011-04-29 Thread Karin Pally
Juliano Mer-Khamis' film Arna's Children screening at UCLA Wed. May 11 at 7:00 pm in ASI Humanities Building In Memoriam: Juliano Mer-Khamis (1958-2011). A film screening of the documentary Arna's Children followed by a discussion with Mac Lojowsky who volunteered with the freedom theater and

[LAAMN] DN Turns to Libya, interviewing Leila Fadel, in Benghazi,

2011-04-29 Thread Ed Pearl
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/27/inside_war_torn_libya_as_nato Inside War-Torn Libya: As NATO Intensifies Air Strikes, Rebels Struggle to Break Gaddafi's Control of Libya Anti-Gaddafi rebel fighters in Libya have called on NATO to offer them more assistance to try to end the

[LAAMN] Fw: RAC-LA May Day 2011-Calling All RAC-LA Supporters

2011-04-29 Thread John A Imani
Comrades, May Day 2011 will mark the 4th anniversary of the Police Riot in MacArthur park wherein the LAPD assaulted our people petitioning for our human rights. RAC-LA was formed as a continuing response to this and all brutality directed against the migrants, the poor, the jobless, the

[LAAMN] BREAKING NEWS: 'Egypt to permanently open Rafah border crossing'

2011-04-29 Thread Romi Elnagar
'Egypt to permanently open Rafah border crossing' By JPOST.COM STAFF  04/28/2011 22:53 Egyptian FM Elaraby tells Al-Jazeera that Gaza crossing could be

[LAAMN] Chiefs of representatives of 61 tribes call for an end to Gaddafi’s rule

2011-04-29 Thread Cort Greene
http://www.libyafeb17.com/ ← Video: Misrata update April 26thhttp://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/04/video-misrata-update-april-26th/ Audio: Nafusa mountains coordinate aid →http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/04/audio-nafusa-mountains-coordinate-aid/ Chiefs of representatives of 61 tribes call for an

[LAAMN] No Justice, No Peace: Canadian Mining in Ecuador and Impunity

2011-04-29 Thread Romi Elnagar
No Justice, No Peace: Canadian Mining in Ecuador and Impunity

[LAAMN] Of Tea and Snow Leopards: Baltistan, Post-Mortenson

2011-04-29 Thread Romi Elnagar
Baltistan, Post-Mortenson Of Tea and Snow Leopards By SHAFQAT HUSSAIN OK, maybe just one cup of tea and not three, and just three schools not eleven. Whatever the truth about numbers, Greg Mortenson did a commendable job of building some schools in the peaceful and never-Talibanised Baltistan,

[LAAMN] Costs of arming Israel can no longer be ignored

2011-04-29 Thread Romi Elnagar
Costs of arming Israel can no longer be ignored Josh RuebnerThe Electronic Intifada25 April 2011 US weaponry was used in the flattening of Gaza during the three weeks of attacks in winter 2008-09. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) Israel may be

[LAAMN] Stripmining American Jobs: Is This Patriotic?

2011-04-29 Thread Romi Elnagar
Is This Patriotic? Stripmining American Jobs By RALPH NADER It is time to apply the standard of patriotism to the U.S. multinational corporations and demand that they pledge allegiance to the United States and the Republic for which is stands…. with liberty and justice for all. This July 4,

[LAAMN] Youth Justice Coalition calls for resentencing of youths facing life without parole

2011-04-29 Thread Michael Novick
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GIVE YOUTH SENTENCED TO DIE IN PRISON AN OPPORTUNITY FOR RE-SENTENCING. Make 9 calls today - it will only take about 20 minutes - and push the California Senate Appropriations Committee to pass Senate Bill 9 to give people sentenced to Juvenile Life Without the Possibility

[LAAMN] May 13 Day of Emergency for Education rally in Pershing Square -- school's out!

2011-04-29 Thread Michael Novick
Print flyer at: http://www.utla.net/system/files/may13shortday.pdf Friday the 13th is now a State of Emergency shortened day! In response to UTLA's planned one-hour protest on May 13, LAUSD has agreed to declare May 13 a shortened day. UTLA members will be allowed to leave campus when the

[LAAMN] The NLRB Shows Its Fangs

2011-04-29 Thread Romi Elnagar
The NLRB Shows Its Fangs by David Macaray / April 29th, 2011 With all the bad news organized labor has received recently—and there’s been plenty of it, from

[LAAMN] Tunisian troops clash with Gaddafi forces

2011-04-29 Thread Cort Greene
War, Heraclitus tell us, makes some men gods and others slaves. ** *Click on the url to view video report below:* http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/201142815329302425.html Tunisian troops clash with Gaddafi forces Libyan leader's forces clash with rebels and Tunisian troops as

[LAAMN] Wikileaks: Five illustrative cases of prisoners at Guantánamo (+ Video)

2011-04-29 Thread Cort Greene
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/wikileaks-five-illustrative-cases-of-prisoners-at-guantanamo-video/ Wikileaks: Five illustrative cases of prisoners at Guantánamo (+ Video)http://machetera.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/wikileaks-five-illustrative-cases-of-prisoners-at-guantanamo-video/ Posted

[LAAMN] Cairo students demonstrate against Israel

2011-04-29 Thread Romi Elnagar
Cairo students demonstrate against Israel Students march from Cairo University to the Israeli embassy, demanding an end to normalisation with Israel Salma Shukrallah , Wednesday 27 Apr 2011

[LAAMN] GOOD READ: The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System

2011-04-29 Thread Romi Elnagar
The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System by Prof. Peter Dale Scott Global Research, April 29, 2011 The Asia-Pacific Journal The present NATO campaign against Gaddafi in Libya has given rise to great confusion, both among those

[LAAMN] Orlando Bosch, history’s first passenger plane bomber, dead in Miami

2011-04-29 Thread Cort Greene
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/orlando-bosch-historys-first-passenger-plane-bomber-dead-in-miami/ *carriles*, mohamed sadiq http://en.wordpress.com/tag/mohamed-sadiq/, naqb ullah http://en.wordpress.com/tag/naqb-ullah/, omar khadrhttp://en.wordpress.com/tag/omar-khadr/ Orlando Bosch,

[LAAMN] Lal Khan-May Day and proletarian internationalism

2011-04-29 Thread Cort Greene
May Day 2011 http://www.marxist.com/may-day-2011.htm Written by In Defence of Marxism Friday, 29 April 2011 [image: Print] http://www.marxist.com/may-day-2011/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,f4f2bfc7d26ee44c211db4e6678541910dbf59ba/tmpl,component/

[LAAMN] Sister Citizen: For Birthers, Obama's Not Black Enough

2011-04-29 Thread Ed Pearl
PS (Pre-Script): And it never stops. Donald Trump has now launched a demand that Obama produce his school records. It is both hilarious, coming from idiots about a near genius, (Dr. Einstein, when did you learn to speak? Ans.: 4 yrs. old, actually!-EP), which Stephen Colbert brilliantly