A powerful video to a powerful antiwar song.

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Reports say suspicion is falling upon the separatist Tamil Tigers (who are considered among the best trained and most ruthless insurgency anywhere), however a friend who knows the politics and lived there for two years says it could have been anyone.

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The amount of media attention on Cindy Sheehan is amazing, and heartening. Six months ago a mom camped outside Bush’s home protesting the war would have been quickly removed, probably arrested, and it would have been ignored by the national media.

Not any more. She’s front page across the country. Bush’s spokespeople said she’d be arrested, but they’ve backed down. The public is now, more and more every day, vocally opposing this insane war.

Here in L.A., we in the ANSWER Coalition have gotten huge numbers of endorsements for the upcoming Sept. 24 nationwide antiwar march and rally, way more than we generally get, and Sept. 24 is still six weeks off. There are multiple regional organizing centers building for Sept 24 in L.A.; chartered buses are coming from Phoenix, Santa Barbara, and other cities; there’s a peace train coming Long Beach; and dozens of other groups are organizing and getting the word out too. We haven’t seen this kind of response since the huge antiwar protests right before the war started.

I’m the webmaster of the ANSWER LA website, and post new stuff every day, often multiple times a day, thus I can see first-hand and real-time how fast interest in Sept. 24 is building. “Something’s happening here”, let’s continue to build for Sept. 24. There will also be mass actions in S.F., Chicago, Seattle, and the big one, in D.C. at the White House.

Putting on a big demo like this takes literally hundreds of thousands of flyers and posters, thousands of phone calls, stage and  sound rentals, permits, etc. ANSWER LA is the middle of a fund drive, whatever you can give via PayPal, from $1 up, will go directly to fund Sept. 24.

The neocons are nervous. Public opinion has shifted drastically on the war. Bush’s poll numbers are way down. The Vietnam War ended when enough people got in the streets and said ‘bring the troops home now.’ Let’s do the same on Sept. 24.

PS Tonight, 7:30 at ANSWER LA, “Iraq and the antiwar movement”, featuring Richard Becker, West Coast Director of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. Don’t miss it.

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From Steve Lopez in the L.A. Times

My colleagues Peter Nicholas and Carla Hall report that while Schwarzenegger was running for governor and negotiating a multimillion-dollar contract to shill for muscle magazines owned by the company that publishes the National Enquirer, the same outfit was paying Arnold’s alleged former “masseuse” $20,000 not to go running her mouth.

Here’s the story he refers to.

Tabloid’s deal with woman shielded Schwarzenegger

Days after Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the race for governor and girded for questions about his past, a tabloid publisher wooing him for a business deal promised to pay a woman $20,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement about an alleged affair with the candidate.

On Aug. 14, 2003, as candidate Schwarzenegger was negotiating a consulting deal with American Media, the company signed its contract with Mora, who said she received $1,000 cash in return. Goyette declined to say whether she received the $20,000 promised in her contract.

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Student said he forgot pipe bomb was in bag

A University of Oklahoma student told federal investigators he forgot a pipe bomb he built for fun was in his luggage when tried to board an airplane, court documents show.

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That’s the current high in the Los Angeles area, with the low being $2.53.

Should I be worried about someone trying to jack my Prius?

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