[LAAMN] Take the Pledge of Resistance to War on Iran

2012-03-22 Thread michael napp
http://warisacrime.org/ image http://warisacrime.org http://warisacrime.org WarIsACrime.org Take the Pledge of Resistance to War on Iran On the anniversary of Shock and Awe in Iraq, it's time to stop the next war now: Take the Iran Pledge of Resistance The

[LAAMN] ALBA Leaders Divided on Attendance at Summit of the Americas

2012-03-22 Thread Cort Greene
if anyone thinks the US/OAS talking club ( Summit of the Americas) will ever let the now composed Cuban government of joining it, all one has to do is look at the most recent Left Foum at Pace University where Cuban officals were invited to give talks but denied by US State Department's to travel

[LAAMN] Ron Paul: Secret Service Protection Is a Form of Welfare

2012-03-22 Thread bigraccoon
Ron Paul: Secret Service Protection Is a Form of Welfare http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/21/ron-paul-secret-service-protection-is-a-form-of-welfare/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Updateutm_campaign=ced407f50d-3_21_123_21_2012utm_medium=email [Non-text portions of this message have been

[LAAMN] Take the Iran Pledge of Resistance! ~ On the Anniversary of Shock Awe in Iraq, It's Time to Stop the Next War Now! ~ I Signed this Morning!

2012-03-22 Thread Frank Dorrel
Take The Iran Pledge of Resistance! http://www.iranpledge.org/pledge/ Take the Pledge I Signed this Morning! On the Anniversary of Shock Awe in Iraq, It's Time to Stop the Next War Now! Take the Iran Pledge of Resistance: http://www.iranpledge.org/pledge/ Take the Pledge The

[LAAMN] Rbt. Weissman: The Summers of Our Discontent, Bread and Roses The Singing Strike Centennial Celebration

2012-03-22 Thread Ed Pearl
From: corp-focus-ad...@lists.essential.org [mailto:corp-focus-ad...@lists.essential.org] On Behalf Of Robert Weissman Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:03 PM http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2012/000345.html The Summers of Our Discontent By Robert Weissman March 20, 2012 Just

[LAAMN] SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO ALLOW COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING EFFORTS TO SAVE AND RESTORE PAUL CONRAD'S CHAIN REACTION' PUBLIC ART SCULPTURE

2012-03-22 Thread Jerry Rubin
Saving Restoring Paul Conrad Chain Reaction' Sculpture UPDATE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa Monica, CA- The Santa Monica City Council, at their March 20 public meeting, voted unanimously to allow community fundraising efforts to begin to save, restore and strengthen the late 3-time

[LAAMN] Mark Morford: Calling all kinkster hippie sluts

2012-03-22 Thread scotpeden
If you are sniped from articleNimble minded, fluxive in spirit, refusing to be duped by the narrow and rigid, the bishop or the radio blowhard or the sweater-vested idiot. You think for yourself, act for others, love without regard for church or country or sad conformist dogma. then this is an

[LAAMN] Honduras: When Engagement Becomes Complicity

2012-03-22 Thread Cort Greene
Sadly the US State Department negotiated agreement, endorsed by the OAS and some ALBA countries (one particular country's foreign ministry, who has made many foreign policy plunders) which has left them just as complicit and has left Honduras and its people and movements in shambles. Cort

[LAAMN] Mucic video, Deals, Syria’s Activists (I): Rethinking Revolution AND MUCH MORE

2012-03-22 Thread Cort Greene
Syria Music Video: #SYRIA (Offendum)http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2012/3/21/syria-music-video-syria-offendum.html *The artist Omar Offendum offers a tribute to and hope for the Syrian protests --- lyrics, **taken from his blog*http://offendum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/syria.html *, and by

[LAAMN] 20 Things You Need to Know About the Tragic Killing of Trayvon Martin

2012-03-22 Thread michael napp
AlterNet 20 Things You Need to Know About the Tragic Killing of Trayvon Martin By Brad Johnson, The Progress Report Posted on March 20, 2012, Printed on March 21, 2012 http://www.alternet.org/story/154624/20_things_you_need_to_know_about_the_tr agic_killing_of_trayvon_martin On

[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 21 March, 2012

2012-03-22 Thread scotpeden
*LIES STILL BEING PUSHED FOR WAR WITH IRAN * ** *Yesterday, on the Persian new year, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that if the USA or Israel should attack Iran, they can expect a counterattack http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/20-3. * *Last month, US mass media

[LAAMN] Some other views - Summit of the Americas in Cartagena

2012-03-22 Thread Cort Greene
Social movements from the entire region will be gathering at a People’sSummit in Cartagena, from April 12-14, “to debate and build, with our sisters and brothers in the Americas, a joint position on the hemispheric relations and the role of US policy, submit our requests to our governments, demand

[LAAMN] Quotes from ICH

2012-03-22 Thread scotpeden
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. - Albert Camus Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead. - Butler Shaffer

[LAAMN] Fwd: SANTA MONICA AIRPORT: STRIKE ONE, STRIKE TWO, STRIKE THREE... YOU'RE OUT!

2012-03-22 Thread Jerry Rubin
Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution Martin Rubin: Director P.O. Box 643033 Los Angeles, California 90064 E-mail: jetairpollut...@earthlink.net Website: www.jetairpollution.com Phone:   (310) 479-2529  (If you wish to be removed from our CRAAP Contact List, please reply with

[LAAMN] End of Growth?

2012-03-22 Thread scotpeden
*The Paradox of Leisure* In large part, the history of technology is the history of labor-saving devices. A diesel backhoe can do the work of five hundred men with shovels. A bulldozer can do the work of five hundred lumberjacks with axes. A computer can do the work of five hundred old-time

[LAAMN] Obama continues to show his real stripes......................

2012-03-22 Thread scotpeden
Martial Law by Executive Order : 03/21/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/martial-law-under-another_b_1370819.html?view=printcomm_ref=false President Obama's National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order of March 16 does to the country as a whole what the 2012 National

[LAAMN] A Personal Thank You from Dennis Kucinich (Please Forward)

2012-03-22 Thread scotpeden
Dear Friend, Thank you. Thank you for support throughout the primary election and the redistricting period which preceded it. Thanks to each and every one of you for your assistance in the campaign, your contributions, your endorsements, your volunteer work, your sacrifices, your

[LAAMN] Thoughts To Ponder

2012-03-22 Thread scotpeden
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. - Richard Maybury When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. - St. Augustine War has

[LAAMN] [Venezuela_Today] Some other views - Summit of the Americas in Cartagena

2012-03-22 Thread Cort Greene
*Fred Fuentes* ** *The OAS, the Summit of the Americas and like the UN is a tool of US imperialism, for such an expert you sure don't know anything and the aims of US imperialism remain the same, the domination of the continent as a source of raw materials, a market for its products and an area of

[LAAMN] Glenn Greenwald: Atrocities in Afghanistan - A Bigger Picture, Part 3: The Banned Doonesbury Abortion Cartoon:

2012-03-22 Thread Ed Pearl
http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/317-65/10569-the-banned-doo nesbury-abortion-cartoon-part-3 The Banned Doonesbury Abortion Cartoon: Part 3 By Gary Trudeau, Reader Supported News 21 March 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/images/stories/rsn_editorcomment_01.jpg As we

[LAAMN] TODAYS REFLECTION /WAR

2012-03-22 Thread scotpeden
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. Issac Asimov Famous War Quotes If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War When the tyrant has disposed of foreign

[LAAMN] Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to Speak in Los Angeles on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran the Middle East ~ Saturday, March 24th, 4:00 PM ~ At FACLA - 1740 W. Temple Street, LA ~ With Mik

2012-03-22 Thread Frank Dorrel
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to Speak on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran the Middle East 9 Years After the U.S. Invasion: The Struggle for Liberation vs. The U.S. Empire Saturday, March 24th - 4:00 PM FACLA - Filipino American Community of Los

[LAAMN] Big Government Isn't the Problem, Big Money IS

2012-03-22 Thread bigraccoon
Big Government Isn't the Problem, Big Money IS http://www.thenation.com/article/166969/big-government-isnt-problem-big-money?rel=emailNation [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[LAAMN] Don't Miss CSPG's Upcoming Events!, Maureen Dowd: Heart of Darkness

2012-03-22 Thread Ed Pearl
What's importand about this piece is that Dowd is at the social center of DC society and politics, and most often goes after individuals and much smaller targets. This is different; talking about a serious shift in mood of the political establishment. And they all read her column. The