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The Los Angeles Independent Media Center will hold a fundraiser and film screening on Friday, March 24th at 7pm. The event is hosted at Sabor Y Cultura Café at 5625 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood
L.A. Indymedia will be screening: WMD The film, Weapons of Mass Deception, How the Corporate Media lies to us and manipulated us into the war in Iraq.
Screening will be followed by a discussion. More
Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist gets furious when anyone suggests that his group is racist or linked with racist groups. But former Gilchrist staff member Cliff May claims that Gilchrist was aware that Neo-Nazis were working for his recent failed campaign to represent the 48th Congressional District. May says that his complaints were were ignored at first, but that after his persistence led to the Neo-Nazis’ dismissal, he was also fired. May was interviewed by John Earl of www.ocorganizer.com last February.
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Minuteman Jim Gilchrist Used Nazi Staff During Campaign, Says Former Employee by John Earl
March 18th, 2006 we call on all those who oppose war, capitalism and the state to join us in a revolutionary anarchist contingent. We will march arm-in-arm and in solidarity with the Youth Justice Coalition (YJC), an organization made up of young people directly affected by California’s prison industrial complex. The California Youth Authority and the greater Prison Industrial Complex are just constant reminders of the war on the poor that the state wages on us each and every day, and we believe it is crucial to march with the YJC and their families who are some of the first casualties of this war on the poor. We welcome all families, students, and workers as well as all those interested in learning more about anarchism to march with us. Look for the red and black flags, and join us!
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March 18, Call for an Anarchist Contingent in Hollywood by a
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WHAT IS ANARCHISM?
LOS ANGELES - March 14, 2006 - Marcy Winograd, longtime Democratic Party activist, announced today she will challenge incumbent Jane Harman for the 36th Congressional district seat in California’s June 6 primary.
“My campaign is building on a groundswell of dissatisfaction with the Iraq war and the Bush administration’s policies, which continue to remove the civil liberties of American citizens,” Winograd said. “In just the few weeks since I decided to run, I’ve received an outpouring of public support and political endorsements.”
From the Newswire: Peace Activist, Marcy Winograd, to Run for Congress
Before Hurricane Katrina, Gloria Brown and Queenie lived in New Orleans. Now six months after the flood of toxic water that drove them from their home, they live in San Francisco but are still unable to find affordable permanent housing. On Saturday, March 11, Gloria, a Black elder who is a member of the Hurricane Evacuees Council/Bay Area, told her story to a multiracial, mainly Black and Brown, multigenerational crowd of about 150- 200 people, including a Bishop of the Episcopal Church, who had gathered in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, to mark International Women’s Week and the 7th Global Women’s Strike. She was one of the evacuees from New Orleans living in both Northern and Southern California who spoke.
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Global Women's Strike/LA Action Highlights Katrina & Other Global Warming Survivors
by Susan Andres
Dr. Miguel Tinker Salas, Pamona College Professor of Latin American Studies was visited by LA County Sheriffs and the FBI Joint Task Force on Terrorism.
“I write to inform you that yesterday [March 7, 2006] during my office hours (Tuesday 2:30-4:30) I was visited by two agents of the LA County Sheriffs/FBI Joint Task Force on Terrorism (JTFT). They arrived at about 2:40-2:45 pm, sat outside my office while I attended to students, and then asked to see me. They had with them a copy of my profile from the [college] Web page, and other materials I could not see.
Full Story: Joint Terrorism Task Force Questions Professor
by Pachuco
Reeling from pointed public comments and revealing testimony from police Chief John Hensley, Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor tried but failed to silence fellow City Council member Katrina Foley as she attacked his proposal to use police as immigration law enforcers under the auspices of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau of the U.S. Department of Justice.
... The night’s fracas, one of an ongoing series to occur in the Costa Mesa City Council chambers since the January 3rd melee, occurred over Foley and Dixon’s inability to find evidence supporting the Mayor’s claim that having police enforce immigration law will make the city safer for its residents.
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Minuteman Mayor's ICE Cracks In Costa Mesa Immigration War
by John Earl
LOS ANGELES, March 12, 2006--Thursday, the South Central Farmers got word: the City of Los Angeles would hold off enforcing an eviction of the Farm as long as developer Ralph Horowitz kept negotiating with the Farmers, in talks mediated by the Trust for Public Land. The eviction was anticipated for March 13 after a court hearing. The Farmers held a small celebration and emailed supporters to call off a planned drum circle scheduled for that night at Mayor Villaraigosa's home.
Earlier in the week, Horowitz had filed a suit against the Farmers for nearly $730K, citing in part his fear that the Farmers might exercise their right to use civil disobedience in protest against the eviction. One Farm protest organizer remarked that Horowitz was particularly stung by the week's protests at his home.
The announcement came in an email form the Mayor's office at 5:30 p.m. In a conversation an hour and a half earlier, a staffer in the Mayor's office confirmed that the Mayor had made no progress with his effort to negotiate an option to buy with the developer. She also reported that the office had been deluged with phone calls since the Farmers asked their supporters to call--over two thousand in the intervening week.
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Farmers Fight To Win
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Zack's statement to the Farmers
by Zack de la Rocha (posted by Leslie)
A written agreement for a hold on evictions is said to have been signed between the city and the developer. Although this is cause for hope the farmers still remain on alert. Police helicopters have been seen hovering over the farm and dropping ropes, in what is believed to be tests for police to repel down into the farm and remove people by force. It is activity like this that keeps the farmers and their supporters skeptical of promises from City Hall.
There is still a chance that forced evictions could occur on Monday or Tuesday. And until there is an official announcement that the sheriffs have been ordered to stand down the farmers will stay on guard 24 hours a day. A court will hear appeals next week challenging the evictions, but a court decision is not expected until next Friday at the earliest.
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REPORT BACK FROM THE FARM by A
This weekend the LA Times issued a deadly editorial attack on the South Central Farm, justifying the destruction of the land and the community, overtly using the theme of "property rights" to do so. Such assessments cannot be allowed to hold sway. Too much is at stake, for all of us.
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A Magic So Strong: The South Central Farm Must Live
by Juan Xavier Santos
In its Saturday editorial, the Los Angeles Times reduced virtually all the civic concerns of the historically neglected South Central to “niceties” and condemned a swath of the district to being a “concrete-and-asphalt” wasteland,“ "a seemingly endless sweep” of “industrial warehouses, packing plants, and junkyards.” It proclaimed that developer Ralph Horowitz must triumph, and the South Central Farm must be razed. The Times was wrong.
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Why the Farmers Must Win
by Leslie Radford
LOS ANGELES, March 12, 2006 – The hard-scape of South Central got a little softer Sunday as CommonVision instructed children of the south central farmers in the art of planting tree. Trees were planted in the West African tradition of drumming and dancing while planting. Each tree received blessings and prayers for a long life in their new home on Long Beach Blvd at the entrance to the South Central Farm.
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CommonVision Plants Fruit Trees at South Central Farm | |
VIDEO: Planting Fruit Trees with CommonVision
all by A
This quest for peace, in homage to Mahatma Gandhi's historic 1930 Salt March, will start in Tijuana, Mexico on March 12, go through the Marine Corps Depot at Camp Pendleton and the Cesar Chavez burial site in La Paz, CA (near Tehachapi), and end in The Mission district of San Francisco with a memorial ceremony and blood drive on March 27.
Several events are planned as the Peregrinación comes through the Los Angeles area from March 16 to 20.
The March will arrive in all the following cities Tijuana, San Diego, Escondido, Camp Pendleton, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, San Fernando, Palmdale, Rosamond, Keene (La Paz), Fresno, San Jose, and San Francisco.
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MARCH FOR PEACE | |
241 mile MARCH for PEACE: Latino Voice of Opposition to the War
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3/15 Los Angeles Peace Event to End the War on Iraq with Fernando Suarez by Lee Siu Hin - ActionLA Coalition
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