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BCA E-Alert April 2007 Hello! It's time for another installment of Breast Cancer Action's monthly e-alert--
a collection of news, notices, and action alerts for people concerned about the
breast cancer epidemic. Welcome to any new e-alert members!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:18pm PDT
JFAV Bataan Day Commemoration, April 9, 2007 in Los Angeles Remember Bataan!” This was the battle cry of American soldiers during the Second World War. The battle cry was a call to avenge the American defeat and the Death March that the Japanese Imperial Army perpetrated against American and Filipino Forces that surrendered in Bataan on April 9, 1942. Today, after 65 years, the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV), the regional alliance in the West Coast of Filipino veterans, student, youth and community advocates announced that they will com...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 12:26pm PDT
Free Market "Champions" Oppose Single-Payer Health Plan State Senator Sheila Kuehl, who represents Santa Monica, has authored one of the four prominent health care plans that challenge Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal. Kuehl’s plan—known as SB 840—is the only plan that offers comprehensive, single-payer health coverage to everyone in California. SB 840 calls for replacing the private health insurance companies with a statewide trust fund responsible for funding the program....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:41am PDT
National Support Needed: Anti-racist Group Calls for Phone Jam Against Neo-nazi Conference On April 6th, 2007 Stone Kingdom Ministries, a "Christian Identity" ministry based in Asheville, NC is coming to the Philadelphia area to hold a "Spring Bible Conference." In reality, this so-called ministry is coming to our area to preach hatred and: Christian Identity adherents believe that white people are God's chosen people, while all non-whites are "mud people." Those who practice this "religion" are virulently racist and anti-Semitic....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 8:59pm PDT
Public Hearing: Blackwater Training Facility in San Diego? Blackwater, a multi-million dollar mercenary company owned exclusively by a right-wing Christian billionaire, is trying to develop an 824-acre military training facility in the rural community of Potrero in southeast San Diego. All of the land is either within the Cleveland National Forest or an Agricultural Preserve....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 6:31am PDT
The Subprime Tsunami Awards A tsunami has swept the land of sub-prime mortgages: most of which lies in the southern reaches of California, home of New Century Financial Corp, where the executives are cut from the same cloth that made Enron infamous. Soon the dry-cleaning will begin, and Robert K Cole, one of the founders of New Century Financial, is among the first ......
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 3:25pm PDT
AJLPP HAILS PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISION FOR THE PROVISIONAL RELEASE OF SATUR OCAMPO The Alliance for A Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) shared the progressive Filipino democratic movement joy and relief over the Supreme Court decision for the detained BAYAN MUNA Congress person Satur Ocampo. It proved US President and jurist John Quincy Adams statement; “ The independence of the court safeguards the independence of the nation.” While we savor the tactical victory we are not completely happy. Congressperson Ka Bel ( Crispin Beltran) is still languishing in ja...
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 12:32pm PDT
Take Action to Protect Orange County Patients! Dear medical marijuana supporter-
The Orange County Board of Supervisors will soon be making an
important decision affecting local medical marijuana patients and
caregivers. During their April 17 meeting, the board will be
discussing the implementation of California's medical marijuana ID
card program in the County of Orange....
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 9:33am PDT
Who Takes Care of the Houseworkers? elentless in her pursuit of tracking down nannies and houseworkers and giving them a place to come together, Juana Nicolas, herself a former nanny and houseworker, is now head of the Household Workers Project in Los Angeles. Ryan Furtado is a photographer at New America Media. Daffodil Altan is an editor and writer for New America Media. The original print story appeared in Mother Jones March/April 2007 issue....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 7:53pm PDT
California Hemp Bill Passes Public Safety Committee The California Industrial Hemp Farming Act
passed out of the California
State Assembly Committee on Public
Safety...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 10:14pm PDT
Progressive FilAm Organizations in Los Angeles Snubbed the March 26 PNP-AFP “Pulong Bayan sa Konsulado” on Human Rights More than 20 Filipino American journalists attended the Philippine Consulate General’s “Pulong Bayan sa Konsulado” on Human Rights in the Philippines with deputy director General of the PNP, General Avelino Razon last Monday, March 26 at 3600 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles. But prominently absent were representatives from different Southern California Filipino American progressive organizations like the Alliance Philippines (AJLPP), Gabriela and other organizations who were also invited but who b...
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 6:15pm PDT
The Rhetoric Remains the Same: Vietnam and Iraq The new national pastime of comparing the Iraq war today with America's Vietnam disaster a generation ago continues. Secrecy, half-truths and outright lies were the guiding principles followed by two presidential administrations during the Vietnam War and, of course, appear to be the hallmarks of President George Bush's administration. A closer look at the parallels is interesting to the point of being frightening....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 6:42am PDT
ASA California Weekly Alert *Weekly Roundup*
*ASA Chapter & Affiliate Meetings*
*City & County Hearings*
*Special Events...
Posted: Sat, Mar 24, 2007 12:17pm PDT
Iraqi Refugees Voluntary agencies, such as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), are providing outreach services to Iraqi nationals who wish to apply for family or friends (who are refugees now in Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Egypt) to enter the US Refugee Program....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 11:13am PDT
LA's Vicious War on the Homeless: Crackdown on Skid Row On the morning of February 8, a white hospital van stopped a few feet from a curb in Los Angeles' skid row area. According to witnesses, a man wearing a soiled hospital gown fell through the doors, and the van, later connected with Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, drove away....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:40am PDT
LA Moratorium Moves Ahead This afternoon, the Los Angeles Planning Commission approved an Interim
Control Ordinance on medical cannabis dispensing collectives in Los
Angeles, making a positive step towards the long awaited regulatory
process in Los Angeles....
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 6:14pm PDT
Occupation Project Meets Heavy Congressional Resistance 
Representatives welcome occupying a foreign country with open arms but welcome those who wish to occupy their offices with locked doors....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 2:31pm PDT
Santa Barbara Critical Mass Against War 
Huge bike ride against the war on M17.......
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 3:40pm PDT
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