Upcoming L.A. events

Sunday June 12, 9 amLGBT Pride ParadeSanta Monica Blvd., West HollywoodMarch 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…

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…

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…

The Democrats should applaud Dean, not attack him.

When Howard Dean was chosen to head their party, Democrats looked forward to the benefits of his bristling energy and zest for political combat. But at a private meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill, a number of worried Senate Democrats warned…

Journey for Justice, let the time fit the crime

FACTS, Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes, is a group engaged in reforming the grotesque three strikes law, a law under which people are doing life for non-violent sometimes minor crimes. They are helping to build for a major rally…

Blog from Bolivia

Last night Bolivia dodged a bullet but it came no closer whatsoever to addressing the fundamental issues that brought thousands into the streets and shut down the country – the call for re-nationalizing gas and oil; convening a constituent assembly…