Archive for June 11th, 2005


Upcoming L.A. events

Sunday June 12, 9 am
LGBT Pride Parade
Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood

March for Equality 36 years after the Stonewall Rebellion!


The parade, with floats and decorated trucks, starts at noon. ANSWER LA will be there at 9 am with a flatbed truck which we will decorate there. If you want to help, meet at the Corner of Crescent Heights and Fountain at 9 am.



We’ll decorate a 16 foot flatbed truck with colorful, progressive banners and signs against war and for LGBT equality. We’ll play music and have militant, political chants throughout the parade. Show solidarity with the LGBT community this Sunday.


 


Monday, June 13, 11 am
Downtown Federal building (Los Angeles and Temple)
No Asylum for Luis Posada Carriles
Press Conference and Rally

National Day of Action
Extradite him to Venezuela for Trial


This is part of dozens of events happening on Monday demanding this terrorist be extradited to Venezuela to stand trial for murder.



Tues, June 14, 5 pm

Protest Gov. Schwarzenegger in Santa Monica!
Santa Monica College
(corner of Pico & 17th St), Santa Monica



Schwarzenegger is coming to Santa Monica College to speak to graduating students. Meanwhile, he wants to cut education funding, teacher’s wages, pensions and jobs across California. Join us at SMC to protest Schwarzenegger and his racist, sexist, anti-people policies.


The buzz on this Schwarzenegger demo is huge. ANSWER LA has gotten hundreds of endorsers for this. It could be quite sizable. Be there.


Full details on all events at ANSWER LA. The Posada actions and the Schwarzenegger demo were initiated by the ANSWER Coalition.

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Citibank pays 2 billion in fines

Citigroup, accused of defrauding investors by disguising loans to the fallen energy trader, agrees to pay $2 billion. It denies any illegality.


What a corrupt system. Massive fraud, no one goes to prison, and they get to say here’s the 2 billion but we did nothing wrong. And then analysts, instead of advising that clients run from this moral cripple of a company, applaud saying this will certainly help boost that all-important stock price. In much of corporate America, there’s not even the pretense of caring about ethics anymore.

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Northern Ireland violence isn’t just the IRA

Loyalists beat woman with bats…


Incidents like this never seem to get reported in the States. Only when the IRA is responsible does it become “news.”

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Found: Europe’s oldest civilisation

Archaeologists have discovered Europe’s oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.


More than 150 gigantic monuments have been located beneath the fields and cities of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia. They were built 7,000 years ago.

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