Venice local, Mike Hall, was murdered June 25, 2021 (tags)
A houseless man was murdered on Venice Beach. There needs to be truth about what’s happening there.
Activists Opposing White Supremacy Rally Despite Cancellation (tags)
Saturday, September 9, 2017
UPLAND - As many as a hundred people joined today's "United4Love2" rally against white supremacy and more broadly, the Trump administration's policies. The diverse crowd heard speeches, poems, and musical performances for several hours in Memorial Park.
Councilmember Bonin Calls People of Venice Outraged by Police Murder “Outside Agitators" (tags)
During a Venice Town Hall meeting, Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin explained to 35-year Venice Beach resident David Busch that he is willing to talk to unhoused persons individually, but Mr. Bonin refuses to meet with “activists—outside agitators.” Mr. Busch has been requesting a meeting “organized by homeless people themselves” regarding public toilets, parking, camping, and other services. He asked, “Don’t you think after 2 years in office it is time you meet with us, rather than you just sending more police to this community?”
Please Print Up and Pass Out This Flyer in Los Angeles, Thank You! (tags)
Please, I need volunteers to print this flyer and pass it out at Venice Beach, I need you to help me ask Leonardo DiCaprio to save the Environment of the little State of Vermont.
Venice Beach: Over 500 students and local community leaders march against violence (tags)
Students and local nonprofits marched the streets of Venice Beach to rally against violence and war. The march marks the anniversary of the first International Peace Youth Walk which took place in South Korea.
Google Venice, CA Offices Vandalized (tags)
"She's got the world locked inside a plastic box." -Jim Morrison
What’s Up With the Beach Curfew? (tags)
Recent rumblings about the illegal Venice Beach and Ocean Front Walk closure.
OJOS Eyewear: New Company Launches, Changing the World in Their Sights (tags)
No sacrifices to eyewear quality or style while they maintain being eco-stewards & global givers. Creating & inspiring change through their “Go, Be, Do” mantra. Go explore the globe, Be the change you want to see in this world, Do something extraordinary. Proceeds go towards creating a better world by combatting poverty, deforestation, & pollution. OJOS Eyewear’s launch campaign now live via www.indiegogo.com. Join the movement & share the news. Together we can change the world & inspire others. (Video is 98 seconds)
Emergency Services: Enabling Life for Homeless People (tags)
All this talk from politicians (and the non-profit shills that rely on city funding) about how we are enabling people to remain homeless - should be shut down. It is enabling people to stay alive!
A Venice Rawesome Story (tags)
Venice Beach’s Lost Organic Food Club: forgotten and Ignored by some of the so-called progressive left.
Venice Boardwalk Bathrooms yuk !! (tags)
Boardwalk Bathrooms -a shame for any city called Venice Having gone to Boardwalk this weekend, we were confronted with just how disgusting the bathrooms and their lack of availability actually is and has been for a while. It's Very UNSANITARY !
Open Letter to Venice LAPD re commercialized clean up NEEDED still continued... (tags)
The new ordinances that prohibit the previously allowed commercial resale [flea market stuff mainly] on Venice's Ocean Front Walk were being enforced by LAPD. Apparently some slide down and out has occured turning the OFW back into what it was before the City Ordinance was legally passed. Open letter letter here was written by [more than one] citizen who also work diligently to help Clean UP [and not tear down ] Our Venice Neighborhood
Venice Boardwalk has cleaned out commercial vendors ! (tags)
Take a walk down the Venice Boardwalk and be surprised ! the re-sale cheap commercial merchandise is not long proliferating and crowding the area with hawkers and flea-market-junk being the main things there. Now all sorts of art and artists are the west-sidewalk displays. What a change !
Venice Boardwalk new ordinances NEED your feedback too ! (tags)
LA City Parks Dept had a meeting to draft or discuss a new ordinance about changing the crass commercial junk being sold on Venice Beach. But who could find out where or when the meeting was held ? Could it be intentional that the outreach was limited or non existent even to those who WANTED to attend, to comment, to question their tax-paid decision-makers?
Venice Boardwalk ordinance draft looks like it's going to fail it's duties (tags)
Venice Boardwalk has been a big loss to the City- how it is seen by Los Angeles' tourist crowds, and to LA's own image as an artistic or art-supportive environment. Commercial vending of cheap re-sale-mdse. bought at any local wholesaler while using City sidewalk free spaces ruins any art scene. City Council doing a draft that looks bad so far.
Police choose new targets (tags)
Bill Rosendahl has brought a special squad of 21 LAPD officers into Venice, CA . Now that most of the Homeless Living in their cars and moterhomes have lost their vehicles... They now are forced to sleep on the sidewalk (not illegal) Having neutralized their targets, they are now targeting other groups of people to harass by intimidation and by impounding vehicles, Family Pets, or giving unwarranted parking tickets. I suspect these include Farmers, Raw foodists, Artists, Musicians, or any alternative or creative types.
Venice Locals Sought For Vehicle Dweller Documentary (tags)
People living in vehicles, or have an extreme opinion about this subject are encouraged to share their views equally with Jeff Girard who is documenting the issue for a documentary. Please contact by Wednesday 11th May 2011 ie. asap!
VENICE BOARDWALK OCEAN FRONT WALK Task Force Meeting 10/6/10 (tags)
this 1x/month meeting facilitated by LA City Council is a place for sharing information...or contentious arguments..
iEat - Live Food Program List Santa Monica/Venice Beach (tags)
LIVE iFood Calendar for the Westside Los Angeles, Community Events Calendar with RSS Feed
The Hemperor Jack Herer Dies At 70 (tags)
RIP Jack.
Cops forcing religion on homeless folks in Venice Beach (tags)
Looks like the cops want to force religion on people in Los Angeles - Just what part of the First Amendment don't these police thugs understand?
Free Speech is a Right - Not a Lottery Prize! (tags)
FREE SPEECH IS A RIGHT NOT A LOTTERY PRIZE! Venice Beach Boardwalk Coalition (VBBC) challenges City of Los Angeles Permit/Lottery on Venice Boardwalk
A thanks day in Venice, a happy story (tags)
Did you miss the” Feed the Venice Beach” on Thanksgiving day? The "home-lesser" and all who walk the boardwalk ate ravenously and venice residents gave generously. A happy newly-formed-families story.
BBC( World Have Your Say) World Service at the Skirball this Wednesday at 8 AM (3 PM GMT) (tags)
BBC( World Have Your Say) World Service at the Skirball this Wednesday at 8 AM (3 PM GMT) and then will be with their bus in Venice Beach: http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/you-shall-go-to-the-skirball/ It was just announced via the audio link at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice that the BBC World Service (World Have Your Say broadcast) is doing a bus tour across the USA (from Los Angeles to New York) taking opinions/perspectives from Americans along the way as we should try to be there to put forth an anti-war message! '60 Minutes' Cut Ahmadinejad's Israel/Palestine statement Report: '60 Minutes' Cut Ahmadinejad's Statement, 'Solution Is Democracy' in Israel/Palestine
HOLY MOSES, BATMAN, THERE GOES THE AMERICAN PIE! (tags)
Yesterday, April 9, 2008, thirteen (13) City Council members voted to amend LAMC 42.15 that regulates Venice Boardwalk. Noticeably missing from the text of the new ordinance were the words "FREE SPEECH ZONE". What does that mean to US?
OPEN LETTER TO VENICE FREE-SPACE VENDOR REGULATORS: Venice Beach lottery creates Police Man's escalation of authoritarian attitude. But does Councilman Rosendahl care ?
Venice Gentrification H-Bomb --To Poor, Rainbows, Travelers and the Arts (tags)
L.A. City's Newest Plan Will Kick Everybody Living in Vehicles Out of Venice Beach
Open Letter to Mayor Villaraigosa (tags)
We, the undersigned, demand the immediate resignation of Mark Brown from the office of the City Attorney. Mark Brown (Bar # 60683), during the course of the last three years, has taken a central role in writing ordinances that unfairly oppress and harass hardworking people of the city of Los Angeles.
Noe v. City of Los Angeles: A Victory for Venice Homeless (tags)
Class Action Lawsuit settlement helps Venice homeless.
Federal Lawsuit Filed for Venice Free Speech Zone - Again - City Must Study Contitution (tags)
Federal Lawsuit Filed October 16, 2006 by president of National Lawyer's Guild of Los Angeles.
Confessions of a Conspiracy Theorist: 9/11 Revisited (tags)
The mantra Osama was the one has become a dogma and his phantom-like band al Qaida has become the synonym for evil. Welcome to the Middle Ages of the 21st century! An international investigations would dissolve the official legend.
HS Students bike from Savannah to LA today (tags)
About two dozen High School students arrive today at Venice Beach. They bicycled 42 days from Savannah, GA- about 3,000 miles.
LA City Council flushs First Amendment down the toilet (tags)
Ratcheting up restraints on public comment, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved new rules of ''decorum'' designed to squelch offensive and disruptive behavior at council meetings, ranging from foul language and racial slurs to singing, whistling, foot-stamping and other boisterous conduct.
SAVE THE FREE SPEECH BEACH (tags)
FREE SPEECH ON VENICE BEACH CONTINUES UNDER ATTACK BY LAPD ~ WE NEED TO COLLECT 10,000 SIGNATURES BY THE END OF 2006 TO GIVE TO COUNCILMAN ROSENDAHL ~ PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION
SCF Farmers Market and Music Extravaganza Sunday (tags)
Julia Butterfly Hill Returns As Farmers and Supporters Maintain Vision For Saving The Farm
Friends of the Farm Parade in Venice (tags)
VENICE BEACH, Saturday 24, 2006 - Farmers and their friends paraded down the Venice Beach Boardwalk today to let people know that despite their eviction last week from their farm they are not giving up the fight to save the farm and return to their farm.
TAKE BACK THE FARM Actions for this weekend June 23-25 (tags)
TAKE BACK THE FARM Actions for this weekend June 23-25
South Central Farm Crisis in Los Angeles (tags)
Willie Nelson, Darryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Joan Baez, Julia Butterfly-Hill support farmers in the struggle to save the nation's largest urban farm. Darryl Hannah appears on Larry King Live with Willie Nelson to show footage of eviction. Danny Glover calls eviction a Day of Mourning, a Day of Shame
June 11, 2006 - Food Not Bombs Activist Arrested in Venice, CA (tags)
Venice/Santa Monica Food Not Bombs member arrested on Venice Beach Boardwalk following a series of on-going harassments, tickets, and police threats to arrest volunteers.
CALLING ALL POLITICAL AND FREE SPEECH ACTIVISTS
THE SUMMER OF FREE SPEECH ON VENICE BEACH IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!
SUMMER OF FREE SPEECH ON VENICE BEACH (tags)
Rumor has it that this summer has officially been declared the "SUMMER OF FREE SPEECH" on Venice Beach. Why? Perhaps because the L.A. City Council's new LAMC 42.15 ordinance pushes the envelope on 1st Amendment vile-ations perpetrated by themselves with the help of the City Attorney's office.
Santa Monica Critical Mass bike ride & 1st Anniversary party (tags)
Critical Mass is a vision of a joyful, bike-friendly world replacing our polluted, congested roads. We are a protest for better cycling facilities and against car culture. We are a reclamation of our public space. We are a just merry ride through neighborhoods of Santa Monica and Venice with friends. Critical Mass is all this and more, rolled into one convenient monthly ride right after work.
Santa Monica Critical Mass This Friday (tags)
Santa Monica Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road.
Comment Regarding Venice Food Not Bombs (tags)
Comment received regarding a post by Barbara Peck.
FEDERAL LAWSUIT FILED FOR VENICE FREE SPEECH ZONE (tags)
“Press Conference, Venice Beach-Style, on July 8 to Announce Federal Lawsuit Filed for Venice Free Speech Zone”
Santa Monica Critical Mass (tags)
The Santa Monica Critical Mass ride takes place on the 1st Friday of every month. There are three meeting points. Bicycle riders meet in Westwood and Venice Beach at 6 PM then those two groups ride to the main meeting point in Santa Monica, next to the pier, where they merge with others bicycle riders to form one group. On Friday, May 6th, 47 riders got together to ride the streets of Santa Monica and Venice.
POLICE HARASS PROTESTERS ON VENICE BOARDWALK (tags)
Two Venice Beach activists ticketed by LAPD for being in 'designated area' in Free Speech Zone on Venice Boardwalk Sunday, March 13, 2005. The 'designated area' is part of L.A. City's attempt to regulate the Free Speech Zone by use of a lottery system that is being boycotted by a group of artist-activists in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
SOME THOUGHTS IN MEMORY OF GARY WEBB (tags)
Gary Webb; reporter who broke the CIA-CRACK COCAINE connection story was found dead of an apparant suicide
Breaking: Code Pink Founder Protests in front of Bush, RNC? (tags)
Venice Beach Code Pink co-founder reported by NYC Indy Media newsire to be one of protesters removed from the floor of the RNC during Bush's speech tonite. Bewlow is NYCIMC text:
CARNEVALE! Venice Beach 2004 - The colorful costumed festival at the beach, inspired by the famed Italian Carnevale, returns bigger and better this year. May 15, 2004 ~ Noon 'til 10:00 p.m.
More women accuse Governor Groper of sexual battery (tags)
Meanwhile, a new accusation surfaced from Escobar, a 41-year-old Los Angeles wife and mother and a waitress at a restaurant in the Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica. In an interview with The Times, she said Schwarzenegger had threatened to assault her when she was a teenager in the late 1970s.
Feast for the senses at Boricua Films' Urban Graffiti 4 Live Slam Festival - Sat. 10-11-03 (tags)
Independent artists and cultures unite -uncensored expression, poetry, artwork, photography acting & music packed in a 12 hour one-day event. It's Urban Graffiti 4!
Oprah and Maria and Arnold: A Softball Disgrace (tags)
We wanted Oprah to ask Arnold Schwarzenegger the tough questions. She didn't.
Carnevale Venice Beach this Saturday! (tags)
The Costumed Celebration by the Sea Returns!
Californians for Peace in Arizona (tags)
In opposition to perpetual war, declared and undeclared, Californians joined Arizonans today, rallying in Phoenix. An eyewitness account to the mass of approximately 2,000 people, opposing war in America's most conservative major city, follows.
Basking in the Orange Glow (tags)
Too bad they don't sell common sense at the Army-Navy Surplus Store
pbnberkeley news notice - 12/29/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR ON IRAQ!
pbnberkeley news donation request - 12/20/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR!
Antiwar Protest against Iraq in Glassell Park (tags)
When we protest: Every Saturday, from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where we protest: In Glassell Park, at Eagle Rock Blvd. and El Paso Ave. (near Albertson's supermarket)
Listing of local Peace Vigils (tags)
A short listing of weekly peace vigils in the L.A. area. Bring signs and banners!
Venice Peace March Turns One Year Old (tags)
“I’m an American. I have a job. I pay taxes. I vote. And I don’t want to be dropping bombs on Baghdad and killing people. It’s wrong.” --Venice resident Peggy Lee Kennedy
Gina Record interview- one person's ideas (tags)
Gina Record participates in the Venice Peace March. Another IMC member suggested this interview.