LA LGBT GREENS/OUT AGAINST WAR NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2014
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LA LGBT GREENS/OUT AGAINST WAR NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2014 Volume 14 #11
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SAME SEX MARRIAGE:
Jitters on how the Supreme Court will rule on its same-sex marriage cases were evident but it came as a surprise that it refused to rule on the appeals of 11 states on Oct 6 thus allowing the original decision to stand (Time Oct 20 p7,14; LAT Oct 5 A22;Oct 6 A6;Oct 7 A1,A12;Oct 8 A5,A6,A15; FILA Oct 16 p14). The decision meant that same sex marriage was legal immediately in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wisconsin, and later in North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado, Kansas, West Virginia, and Wyoming. This brought the number of states allowing same-sex marriage to 30 along with the District of Columbia.
On Oct 7 the 9th Circuit Court also rejected same sex marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada but applies also to all Western U.S. states and therefore ends bans in Alaska, Arizona, and Montana.
This brings the number of states allowing same-sex marriage to 35 along with the District of Columbia. The states have 30 days to appeal the decision. Same sex marriage was on hold in Idaho after its appeal but the hold was lifted on Oct 10; Nevada will not appeal and marriages began there on Oct 10 (LAT Oct 9 A12;Oct 10 A19 (cartoon);Oct 11 A1,A13,A15; FILA Oct 16 p14). On Oct 12 the ban on same sex marriage in Alaska was also struck down formally on state appeal (LAT Oct 13 A5) and occurred in Idaho on Oct 15 (LAT Oct 16 A8). Sam sex marriages started in Arizona on Oct 17 (LAT Oct 18 A12), Wyoming on Oct 21 (LAT Oct 22 A15)
The federal government will recognize same sex marriage benefits in 7 more states- Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin (LAT Oct 18 A12). This brought the number of states having federally recognized same sex benefits to 26 plus the District of Columbia. The number was extended again to 32 on Oct 26 when same sex couples in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming were added (LAT Oct 26 A21).
The dilemma of the Republican Party over same sex marriage was discussed in LAT Oct 8 A6.
Efforts in Mississippi to overturn its ban on same-sex marriage were described (FILA Oct 30 p11).
A Federal judge upheld the ban on same-sex marriage in Puerto Rico but most observers felt the decision would be eventually reversed (FILA Oct 30 p12).
An Egyptian court sentenced 8 men to 3 years in prison and 3 years probation for “inciting debauchery” for being at an alleged same-sex party on a boat on the Nile (LAT Nov 2 A3). Some others have been sent to prison or have been tortured for related “crimes” such as indecency, immorality, or offense to Islam.
Other: FILA Oct 16 p12;Oct 30 p11
LGBT NEWS
INTERNATIONAL
The hunt for a HIV vaccine to prevent AIDS continued (LAT Oct 9 A11).
To the ire of its conservatives, the Vatican issued a welcome to homosexuals into the Roman Catholic Church and thought that heterosexual civil unions had some positive aspects, views that had to backtracked on (Time Oct 27 p10; LAT Oct 14 A3;Oct 15 A3;Oct 19 A3; FILA Oct 16, p11;Oct 30 p12).
Current Pope Francis accompanied by ex-Pope Benedict XV1 on Oct 19 beatified Pope Paul VI (1963-78) who was rumored to be Gay (LAT Oct 20 A3).
Right-wing preacher Pat Robertson warned that towels in Kenya could transmit AIDS on his show The 700 Club (LAT Oct 25 A4; FILA Oct 30 p11).
Tennis star Serena Williams complained when Russian Tennis Federation head Shamil Tarpischev regerred to her and her sister Venus as the ‘Williams brothers” (Time Nov 3 p5).
Mick Fleetwood’s affair with Stevie Nicks of his Fleetwood Mac band was mentioned in his interview in Time Nov 3 p64.
Out (Nov) interviewed out Icelandic celebrities: musician and singer Jonsi (p50);chef Victor Orn (p54); Handball player Daniel Orn (p57); artist and singer Pall Gudmundsson (p59); fashion designer Gudmundur Jorundsson (p60); performance-artist Kitty Von-Sometime (p61);author Jonina Leosdottir (p64); graphic designers Hilda Siguroardottir and Olof Garoarsdottir(p64), author Sjon (p65); and environmentalist Sugursteinn Masson (p66).
Russian anti-LGBT actions continued (FILA Oct 30 p13).
NATIONAL
Out Gay Republican David Catania is running for Mayor of Washington DC in the Nov 4 election (LAT Nov 2 A10).
Elton John’s concert at Staples Center was a sellout on Oct 5 (LAT Oct 6 D1). It was announced on Oct 25 that he will extend his run in Las Vegas for 3 years, covering some of the dates that Celine Dion could not do (LAT Oct 26 L3).
Actor Jeffrey Tambor’s role in Transparent, a TV series from Amazon created by Jill Solloway that features a transsexual parent, was discussed in an interview with the actor (LAT Oct 5 D3).
Executive Director Chad Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign finally published his coming out letter that he never previously sent to his Dad (he had come out to his mother when he was 27) (LAT Oct 10 A19).
Actress Raven–Symone of Cosby Show and That’s So Raven is dating a woman but does not want to be labeled as Lesbian (Time Oct 20 p69; FILA Oct 16 p11).
Actor Neil Patrick Harris was named host of the 2015 Oscars (Time Nov 3 p60; LAT Oct 16 D1). He is also to host a variety show for NBC based on the British hit Saturday Night Takeaway (LAT Oct 28 D2)
David Hockney’s new art form of Photoshop art on his iPhone that dated from 1989 was mentioned in LA Weekly Oct 17 p35. Hockney, 77, wondered why “technicalities are less openly discussed”.
Some 88 victims who were molested from 1992 to 2002 by a Roman Catholic friar who committed suicide in 2013 obtained a $8 million settlement (LAT Oct 22 A15).
Houston’s Lesbian mayor Annise Parker, 57, (married in California to Kathy Hubbard) complained about the treatment meted out to her daughter on her driving test because of documentation “irregularities” (LAT Oct 26 A10).
Pee Wee’s Playhouse will be in repeats again starring Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens), 62 (LAT Oct 26 S1).
Rev Frank Schaefer of the University Church, Isla Vista Santa Barbara was undefrocked on Oct 27 by his Methodist Church (LAT Oct 28 AA4). He presided over his son’s same sex wedding in 2007, and was defrocked for that on Dec 2013.
The openly Gay son of John Ritter, Tyler Ritter, is playing an openly Gay character in The McCarthys on CBS (LAT Oct 30 D7; FILA Oct 16 p40). The show was created by openly Gay Brian Gallivan of Happy Endings.
Apple CEO Tim Cook proclaimed that he was “proud to be Gay” (LAT Oct 31 B1).
Star Christopher Meloni of the new film of out Gay director Gregg Araki was interviewed about his role in that film in Campus Circle Oct 23 p13.
The Imitation Games, a film directed by Morten Tyldum on a budget of $15 million and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is based on the life and mathematical prowess of then closeted British biomath Alan Turing and the biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges (LAT Nov 2 D14). Turing later committed suicide after he helped break the German code during World War II. It won the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award. It opens in theaters on Nov 28.
British actor Ian McKellan stars again as Gandalf in the 3rd Hobbit movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, directed by Peter Jackson, os coming to theaters on Dec 17 (LAT Nov 2 D10).
LGBT celebrities were associated with big gala dinners: designer Tom Ford being the honoree at the amfAR dinner of Oct 29 that raked in $4 million for AIDS Research (LAT Nov 2 P6), and Sean Hayes being the emcee of LA’S Big Brothers Big Sisters on Oct 24 that raised $500,000 (LAT Nov 2 P6).
CALIFORNIA
Gay Republican Carl DeMaio, 40, is in a battle for San Diego’s 52nd Congressional District against Dem incumbent Scott Peters, 56, an environmental lawyer (LAT Oct 19 AA1,Oct 21 AA4; FILA Oct 16 p12;Oct 30 p53). A former male campaign worker, 28, accused DeMaio of sexual misconduct by touching him improperly and masturbating in front of him, charges that were dismissed on Oct 20.
LOS ANGELES
Out LGBTs are running for election on Nov 4: Scott Houston for West Basin Municipal Water District 4; James Williamson for Palm Springs School Board; Joe Shaw, Huntington Beach City Council; Jeff Prang for County Assessor (.LAT Nov 1 AA6). Not to mention Sheila Kuehl…see just below.
Bobby Shriver has taken in more money for his Supervisor campaign for District 3 than Sheila Kuehl has on hers, but she was endorsed by the LA Times on Oct 9 as another debate occurred on Oct 10 (LAT Oct 7 AA3;Oct 10 A18;Oct 11 AA1;Oct 17 AA1;Oct 24 AA5;Oct 25 AA1;Oct 27 AA3;Oct 31 A1; LA Weekly Oct 24 p10;Oct 31 p8; FILA Oct 16 p16;Oct 30 p51).
The alternative night scene in Los Angeles was covered (LA Weekly Oct 10 p62;Oct 17 p68;Oct 24 p62;Oct 31 p58).
The saga of artist, cult figure, leftie, actress, poet, writer, and modern-before-her-time Margorie Elizabeth Parsons Kimmel who died at the age of 73 in 1995 is covered in the 2011 biography Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Margorie Cameron and LA Weekly Oct 10 p62. Her works are currently undergoing a revival of interest (MOCA exhibition). Her life contained many contacts with such LGBT figures as Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Anger. Her 1st husband (in 1946) in an open marriage, the handsome Marvel “John” Whiteside Parsons, was a rocket scientist and chemist who cofounded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He was also Crowley’s designated successor to his Ordo Templi Orientis society, a Masonic type organization whose major Thelema subcult motto was “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.” The latter became manifested as “free love” well before 60s. He was killed in an explosion in 1952 at age 37 that Cameron (who 1st met Parsons when she was 24 and a flaming redhead) thought was deliberate because of Parson’s leftist beliefs. Cameron also conversed with actor Dennis Hopper, actor Dean Stockwell, actor/dancer Russ Tamblyn, and actress Patricia Quinn; hobnobbed with L Ron Hubbard of Church of Scientology and science fiction fame; and associated with Wallace Berman, who helped later create the SoCal chapter of the Beat movement.
Dustin Lance Black was paid $26,000 not to sue Pasadena City College after it 1st invited alumnus Black as its commencement speaker, then rescinded the invitation when a sex video starring Black surfaced, and finally reinvited him for the May 9 event (plus $3,000 honorarium) after the alternate was disinvited after a scandal about his right-wing views (LAT Oct 15 AA3).
The LA County hate crime incidence in 2013 is the lowest in 24 years, with 95 complaints for LGBT hate crimes relative to 131 in 2012 with Black-based hate crimes still dominant (140) (LAT Oct 16 AA3; FILA Oct 30 p14). Such crimes increased for Lesbians and transgenders however.
The Feb 10 murder of Gay former Hollywood High teacher (for 28 years) Harry Major, 82, was discussed and also the lives of the victim and the Gay principal suspect former murderer (he killed before when he was 19), Scott Kratlian, then 45 (LA Weekly Oct 17 p15;Oct 24 p6). Since Major had for decades been inviting ex-cons to stay in his home with sex as the price of staying, the article was constructed as a “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword” scenario.
Production of porn films has been halted for more than the 3 days called for when an out of state performer was detected as HIV positive (LAT Oct 18 AA3).
Presidents Behaving Badly at the Hammer museum on Oct 23 outlined how Presidents Ronald Reagan, the 2 Bushes, and Clinton reacted to the pr4essure of AIDS Activists (LAT Oct 17 p37).
A Lesbian short story romance was explored in LAT Oct 18 E12.
LA Galaxy soccer player and newly converted defender Robbie Rogers was profiled in LAT Oct 19 C2. He has his own clothing line, is associated with a TV project Men In Shorts, and is publishing his autobiography Coming Out To Play in Nov.
San Bernadino inmates in a lawsuit alleged homophobia by jail deputies (LAT Oct 23 AA4).
Some rare Andy Warhol films were shown as part of Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films on Oct 24 in UCLA’s Royce Hall on Oct 24 (Daily Bruin Oct 24 p5).
Luis Alfaro’s new play Painting in Red , “a play about passion in the midst of ennui” with some Gay characters, had its world debut at Playwrights’ Arena at 544 N Fairfax, directed by Jon Rivera (LA Weekly Oct 31 p35).
Go Go Boy Interrupted is a webcast series at GoGoBoyInterruped.com by Groundlings Sunday Company member Jimmie Fowlie and directed by Jordan Black about a Gay go-go dancer fired after reaching the big 3-0 (LA Weekly Oct 31 p46).
Sex and Chaos is a display melding hardcore punk and sexual fetish Oct 31 (opening party) through Nov 8 at The Stockroom, 28091/2 Sunset Blvd, assembled by Tequila Mockingbird (LA Weekly Oct 31 p58).
WeHo celebrated Halloween on Oct 31 in its inimitable style with half a million people choking Santa Monica Blvd just before much-needed rain came (LAT Nov 1 AA3).
LGBT PASSINGS
Lee Bastian, 81, passed on Aug 27 in North Hills leaving his partner of 52 years, John Bleasdale of Los Angeles. He attended Northern Illinois University 1951-2, served in the US army 1953-55, and after that settled in Los Angeles where he graduated from Pasadena Playhouse in 1960, and worked in the Facilities Management Office at University of Southern California until his retirement in 1992. Thereafter he was a chauffeur around Hollywood. He was a pianist and tenor
Irving Feinarman, 93, died on Oct 5 predeceased by his lover of 68 years, Bill Efros, who died on Jan 19 2014.. He was part of the Normandy campaign of World War II, and was awarded a Bronze Star. After the War, he became an artist and painted many canvases.
Filipina transgender Jennifer Laude, 26, was killed on Oct 11 in Olongapo, The Philippines, allegedly by a US marine, currently in custody in Manilla.
Emma Hayashida, 51, died of Lesomycosarcoma on Oct 21 in Los Angeles leaving her spouse, Katherine Lar. She was an illustrator/graphic design artist and painter. She attended USC and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, graduating from the latter with a Fine Arts degree. She was co-owner of Dzn Duo.
John Roger (aka Roger Delano Hinkins), 80, a Mormon coal miner’s son, died in Santa Monica on Oct 22 of pneumonia. He founded the Movement of Inner Spiritual Awareness in
1971 that had thousands of followers, millions in assets, celebrity backing, and hosted celebrities like Desmond Tutu, Jonas Salk, Ralph Nader, Mother Theresa, and Stevie Wonder. Some of its devotees included Ariana Huffington, Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, and actress Sally Kirkland. He stepped down as “Mystical Traveler” in 1988, after financial irregularities were alleged and some male devotees charged they had been “spiritually seduced” to have sex with him. The Church weathered those storms and still survives. He was a teacher at Rosemead High in the 60s after graduating with a degree in Psychology from the University of Utah in 1958 before founding the Church.
Bernard Mayes, 85, died on Oct 23 of Parkinson’s Disease in San Francisco. He established the 1st Gay Suicide Hot Line in the US (1962), was the 1st Board Chairman of National Public Radio, the 1st General Manager of San Francisco radio station KQED (1969), a journalist, a University Dean (University of Virginia), a classics scholar (University of Virginia 1984-1999), an Anglican Priest (1958-1984), an Agnostic (2010+ with the publication in 2010 of his manifesto on soupism- belief in a timeless endless universe in which everything interacts and is interdependent), the voice of Gandalf in the 1st US adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, and a writer (Escaping God’s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest of 2001).
GREEN PARTY NEWS
INTERNATIONAL
The Ebola epidemic continued to raise alarm as CDC changed its personal protective equipment guideline to no exposure of bare skin and as 5,000 have been recorded to have died worldwide and 10,000 cases (Time Oct 20 p30;Oct 27 pp 20-23;Nov 3 pp22-29,61;Nov 10 p9,10, 32-37; LAT Oct 5 A1,A11(2),A12;Oct 6 A7,A11 (cartoon);Oct 7 A1,A10;Oct 8 A3,A13,AA1; Oct 9 A1,A3,A12, A14;Oct 10 A3(2), A14;Oct 13 A1,A13(cartoon),AA1,AA2;Oct 14 A1,A13 (plus cartoon);Oct 15 A1;Oct 16 A1(2), A16;Oct 17 A1,A4,A6,A8,A15 (also cartoon),AA2,B1; Oct 18 A1,A6,A9, A10;Oct 19 A1,A8,A10,A28;Oct 20 A1,A6(2),A7,A12, AA3;Oct 21 A1, A7(2),A10, A16,AA1;Oct 22 A1;Oct 23 A1;Oct 24 A7(2);Oct 25 A1,A4(2),A7,AA4;Oct 26 A5,A10,A25, A26,A30;Oct 27 A1,A7;Oct 28 A1,A8;Oct 29 A1,A2,A4,A10,A14,A15;Oct 30 A8,AA1;Oct 31 A9,AA1;Nov 1 A8,A14,B2;Nov 2 A7(2); Daily Bruin Oct 27 p3;Oct 30 p1; FILA Oct 16 p13).
Pres Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico promised to investigate the incident where 43 university students “disappeared” (LAT Oct 7 A3;Oct 8 A3;Oct 10 A1;Oct 23 A4;Oct 25 A3;Oct 29 A4;Oct 30 A17).
Venezuela has been ordered to pay Exxon Mobil $1.6 billion after it seized Exxon’s assets from 2005 onwards under now deceased Pres Hugo Chavez (LAT Oct 10 B2).
Climate change still had doubters (Time Oct 20,Business 6;Nov 3 p9; LAT Oct 11 A9;Oct 13 A3;Oct 16 A8;Oct 26 A27;Oct 28 A4;Nov 2 A4).
President Joko Widodo of Indonesia was interviewed in Time Oct 27 pp34-37 as he ascended to office (LAT Oct 21 A3).
A WHO panel ranked 142 countries for how close women had the same status as men (Time Nov 10 p12). The results were somewhat predictable with Asian, African, and Islamic countries lying in the bottom half and Western Countries in the top. Some rankings: Iceland, 1; Nicaragua, 6; U.S., 20; Brazil, 71; Yemen, 142
The European Community still had stress-out banks (Time Nov 10 p13).
NATIONAL
Green Party of the United States affiliated candidates are provided at: http://gp.org/2014-green-party-candidates. Some candidate races to watch include: Howie Hawkins, challenging Gov Cuomo in NY for governor; Gayle McLaughlin, former Mayor running for City Council of Richmond, Calif, against the might of Chevron’s funds. Election night results on Nov 4 will be livestreamed at http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus.
Unemployment in September was 5.9% (LAT Oct 10 B2).
ObamaCare continued to be discussed (LAT Oct 5 B3;Oct 7 A1;Oct 15 B2;Oct 26 A23;Oct 27 A13(cartoon); LA Weekly Oct 31 p17).
The fallout from Ferguson death of Michael Brown continued as another white policeman killed another 18 yr old Black man in St Louis on Oct 9 (LAT Oct 7 A6;Oct 10 AA1;Oct 13 A5;Oct 14 A7;Oct 15 A7;Oct 19 A10;Oct 22 A15;Ocdt 23 A19;Oct 30 A15).
Immigration reform remained stalled until after the Nov elections (LAT Oct 8 AA1;Oct 10 A19; 16 A7;Oct 17 A14;Oct 19 A1,A27;Oct 21 A17 (2);Oct 26 A23;Oct 29 A14;Oct 30 A17).
The differences between federal and state law on marijuana continued to be illustrated (Time Nov 10 p9; LAT Oct 17 AA3;Oct 21 A15;Oct 22 AA1;Oct 30 A1).
The GMO battle has shifted to Oregon and Colorado (LAT Oct 26 A11).
CALIFORNIA
GPCA has endorsed Props 45 and 47 but opposes the rest of the Propositions. See reasoning at http://www.cagreens.org/elections/propositions.
There are 37 GPCA affiliated candidates in the Nov 2014 elections, mostly for local government, non-partisan races. See who they are at http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2014-fall.
GPCA also made grants <$600 to specific candidates. These were: Larry Bragman, Marin County Water Board; Chrystal Coleman, Vista City Council; Michael Feinstein, Santa Monica City Council; John Keener, Pacifica City Council; Gayle McLaughlin, Richmond City Council; Amy Martenson, Napa Valley College Trustee; Eric Petersen, Salinas City Council; John Selawsky, Berkeley Rent Board; Jan Shriner, Salinas Water District; Jesse Townley, Berkeley Rent Board.
Corporate money has flowed in against Prop 45, and it is expected that Prop 47(penal reform) may have a better chance of passing (LAT Nov 1 A1;Nov 2 A1,A18). With Gov Jerry Brown shilling for Props 1 and 2, they more than likely will pass because of their pro-corporate bent.
Local Initiatives in the Nov 4 election were discussed in LAT Nov 2 AA4 including anti- fracking measures in Santa Barbara (Measure P), San Benito(Measure J), and Mendochino ( Measure S) counties, an anti-GMO attempt (Measure P) in Humboldt County, and duelling marijuana measures (Measures P and O) in Lake County. Other marijuana positive initiatives appear on the ballots in Siskiyou County and the cities of Encinitas, Napa, and SbERNARD Mates, anta Ana.
Sep unemployment in California was 7.3% compared with 7.4% in August (LAT Oct 18 B1).
The machinations of Chevron in Richmond in Northern California to buy the Nov 4 election results received sharp criticism in LAT Oct 15 B1. Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, a GPCA member, is termed out and Chevron desperately wants to block her election as a councilmember.
Election ballots were sent out beginning Oct 6 with Oct 28 the last date to request a mail ballot with over 50% of voters opting to vote by mail (LAT Oct 6 AA1).
The drought continued to cause water problems (LAT Oct 5 A25;Oct 6 A1;Oct 8 A1;Oct 9 A15 (cartoon);Oct 15 A1;Oct 16 A16;Oct 21 AA1;Oct 23 AA2;Oct 24 A1,AA2;Oct 25 AA2;Oct 29 AA1;Oct 30 AA1; Daily Bruin Oct 15 p2;Oct 21 p4).
The San Onofre deal was revised to propose that ratepayers get a bigger share of future legal and insurance payouts to be voted upon on Nov 20 (LAT Oct 10 AA4).
The start of work on the bullet train is nearer (LAT Oct 16 AA1;Oct 28 AA1).
Touch screen voting machines are in the news again (LAT Oct 22 AA1;Oct 24 A14).
Panhandlers in Santa Barbara were profiled in LAT Oct 29 AA1.
Death with Dignity on California was supported in a LAT Oct 31 A16 editorial.
The future of plastic bags in California was discussed for groceries (LAT Nov 1 A1).
LOS ANGELES
Luis Rodriguez, Green Party candidate for Governor in 2012, also a writer (Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.; It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing (2011) ) and poet, (some collections: My Nature Is Hunger, The Concrete River, Trochemoche, and Poems Across the Pavement) was named Los Angeles Poet Laureate on Oct 9 by Mayor Garcetti for a 2-year term to succeed Eloise Klein Healy. He is also the founder and editor of the Tia Chucha Press, which has a bookstore and cultural center in Sylmar. Congratulations Luis!! http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-new-los-angeles-poet-laureate-luis-rodriguez-20141009-story.html
The deficit for the City of Los Angeles could be $215 million in 2015 according to a report in LAT Oct 29 AA3.
Mayor Garcetti is getting some cautious praise for the way he has handled the city’s finances and other issues but criticized for his trips and support of graduated increases in minimum wage (Time Oct 27 p7; LAT Oct 6 A11;Oct 7 A1;Oct15 A1;Oct 16 A16,A17(cartoon);Oct 25 AA1,B1).
Vice President Biden visited Los Angeles on Oct 6 (LAT Oct 7 AA3 (photo); ) as did Pres Obama on Oct 9 (LAT Oct 10 AA1;Oct 11 AA1).
The drive to have a $15.25 minimum wage received support when 6 council members pushed for it being pressured to do so by a grass-roots drive of unions and nonprofits (LAT Oct 8 AA1; Oct 24 A14;Oct 27 AA2).
The homeless again attracted attention (LAT Oct 9 AA1).
Some LAPD officers have falsified their work records and have been accused of racial profiling as well as unwarranted beatings (LAT Oct 11 A1;Oct 15 AA1;Oct 21 AA1Oct 22 AA2;Oct 23 AA3;Oct 25 AA1; Daily Bruin Oct 23 p1,4).
The files associated with the fatal Pasadena police shooting of an unarmed 19 yr-old Black teenager in 2012 will be made public with the 2 officer’s names redacted (LAT Oct 17 AA3).
The death of a 36 yr old tasered by San Bernadino Sheriff’s deputies ON Aug 12 in Victorville during a suspected break-in was ruled “accidental”( LAT Oct 23 AA2).
Exide’s trucks contaminated roads with acid and lead laced toxins in 2013, a problem 1st reported in 1990 (LAT Oct 16 AA1).
Limiting development in Malibu has brought out the A-listers like producer-director Rob Reiner, director Stephen Spielberg, Actor Dick Van Dyke, actress Victoria Principal, actor Tom Hanks,director James Cameron, singer Barbra Streisand, Doors drummer John Densmore, and mogul David Geffen (LAT Oct 19 A2;Oct 28 AA5).
Transit issues continued (LAT Oct 21 AA2;Oct 23 A20;Oct 28 AA2;Oct 29 AA2).
Banning GMOs in Los Angeles is before the City Council again (LAT Oct 22 A18,AA3).
Gangs were still a concern (LAT Oct 24 AA1;Oct 28 AA2).
Corruption continued to surface (LAT Oct 24 AA6;Oct 28 AA4).
There was unrest at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles (LAT Oct 25 AA1).
The election for Sheriff continued to be quiet (LAT Oct 27 AA1).
LA County Supervisors were accused of breaking the law with secret meetings (LAT Nov 1 AA3).
OUT AGAINST WAR
Out Against War’s Bill Kaiser, John O’Brien and Shane Que Hee participated in the early morning picket on Sat Oct 18 to prevent a Zim Shipping Company ship that carried goods from Israel to dock in Long Beach/Los Angeles should it be diverted from Oakland where another picket also occurred. Some 50 people participated. The ship went elsewhere.
A Lesbian Navy veteran, Madelynn Lee Taylor, 74, won the right to inter her wife, Jean Mixner, at an Idaho cemetery that will hold both their ashes, this being possible after the same sex marriage ban was finally lifted in Idaho (LAT Oct 23 A8).
WAR NEWS
INTERNATIONAL
Al Qaeda continued to attract done and direct attacks in Yemen, Somalia, Bahrain, Mali, and Canada (Time Nov 3 p9; LAT Oct 5 A4;Oct 10 A3;Oct 13 AA2;Oct 15 AA2;Oct 19 A7;Oct 23 A1;Oct 24 A1;Oct 25 A4;Oct 29 A4;Oct 30 A4).
Fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria (“Operation Inherent Resolve”!) continued as Kurds were supported (Time Oct 20 p8,10,12;Nov 3 pp30-33; LAT Oct 5 A6,A23(2);Oct 7 A13;Oct 9 A1,A4,A6;Oct 10 A7;Oct 11 A4;Oct 13 A1,A3(2), A11 (cartoon);Oct 14 A3;Oct 15 A3,A4;Oct 16 A3;Oct 17 A3; Oct 18 A3;Oct 19 A1,A3;Oct 20 A4,AA2;Oct 21 A1,A4;Oct 22 A1,A19;Oct 23 A1,A3;Oct 24 A1,Oct 25 A4;Oct 26 A2;Oct 28 A5;Oct 29 A1,A3(2);Oct 30 A3,A4;Oct 31 A1,A3;Nov 1 A3;Nov 2 A4; Campus Circle Oct 23 p5).
Atrocities continued in Afghanistan post-election controversy under Pres Ghani (Time Nov 3 p9;Nov 10 p13; LAT Oct 8 A3;Oct 14 A5;Oct 17 A3;Oct 21 A4;Oct 23 A3).
Violence continued in Pakistan (LAT Oct 24 A5).
The war in Syria became more complex with Turkey entering the fray (Time Oct 20 p8; LAT Oct 7 A4;Oct 8 A4;Oct 17 A15;Oct 20 AA2;Oct 22 A2;Oct 24 A5(2);Oct 26 A1,A2,A5;Oct 28 A2,A5;Oct 31 A3).
Egypt feels threatened by events in the Sinai and is building a buffer zone (LAT Oct 26 A3;Oct 30 A4).
Libya appeared to be “mostly” under the army control of Gen Khalifa Haftar except parts of Benghazi (LAT Oct 30 A7).
Police and “militants” clashed in Tunisia (Time Nov 3 p9; LAT Oct 24 A5;Nov 28 A3;Nov 1 A6)
Iran continued to feel pressure about its nuclear program (LAT Oct 7 A4;Oct 8 AA2;Oct 11 A3;Oct 14 A5;Oct 16 AA2;Oct 17 A4;Oct 19 A3;Oct 21 A3;Oct 26 A3,A7;Oct 28 A3;Oct 30 A3;Nov 1 A7).
A unity cabinet convened in Gaza under prime minister Rami Hamdallah facilitated by 24-hr passes from Israel before pledges of $2.7 billion were obtained from pledgers in a conference in Cairo, Egypt on Oct 12 as US –Israel relations deteriorated and as tensions between Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem heightened (Time Oct 20 p7;Oct 27 p7; LAT Oct 10 A7;Oct 13 AA2; Oct 23 A4;Oct 25 A2,A7;Oct 26 A3;Oct 27 A3;Oct 31 A3(2);Nov 1 A4).
Discontent continued in Ukraine as Russian Pres Putin accused the US of fomenting world conflict (Time Oct 20 p11;Nov 3 p6;Nov 10 p12; LAT Oct 10 A1;Oct 13 AA2;Oct 14 A5(2);Oct 17 A3;Oct 18 A1,A4;Oct 22 A3;Oct 25 A3;Oct 26 A3;Oct 27 A3;Oct 28 A1,A3).
NATIONAL/STATE/LOCAL
Punishment of ISIS sympathizers in the U.S. continued (LAT Oct 7 AA2;Oct 22 A15(2);Oct 23 A14;Oct 25 A11).
Kill The Messenger, a film directed by Michael Cuesta, is based on how reporters who write the truth (here Gary Webb) have been systematically destroyed by the system (LA Weekly Oct 10 p43).
Pressure on journalists including Glenn Greenwald who helped Edward Snowden leak his story is building (LAT Oct 13 D1). Edward Snowden was the focus of a documentary along with Glenn Greenwald in CitizenFour, directed by Laura Poitras, a film that relates how Snowden broke the news in Hong Kong about the spying of the National Security Agency on US citizens (LAT Oct 24 D1; LA Weekly Oct 24 p38). The film has been nominated in the International Documentary Awards on Dec 5 (LAT Oct 30 D3).
The suspect in the 2012 Benghazi attack on the US consulate was indicted in a civil court on 18 counts (LAT Oct 15 A8;Oct 21 A15;).
Obama‘s policies have been classified as good for domestic ones but poor for foreign policies (Time Oct 27 p18; LAT Oct 15 A13;Oct 23 A21;Nov 2 A23).
Nuclear weapons have increased in the US in spite of Obama’s protestations to reduce nuclear arms (LAT Oct 22 A19).
The performance of The Death of Klinghoffer, an opera by John Adams, script by Peter Sellers , and choreography by Mark Morris at the Met in New York, was greeted by hundreds of demonstrators in wheelchairs and hecklers inside the hall in its opening performance of Oct 20 (LAT Oct 22 D1). Pro Jewish and anti Jewish demonstrators were present.
Four Blackwater guards were found guilty of killings of civilian Iraqis in 2007 (LAT Oct 23 A1;Oct 24 A3).
Camp X-Ray is a film about the suspected terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay (LAT Oct 24 D5).
Action continued around the Boston Marathon bombing incident of April 2013 (LAT Oct 29 A9).
OCCUPY
A LA Times editorial recommended that corporations should be allowed to fail rather than being rescued by the Government in response to the AIG lawsuit that it should been one of the favored corporations classified as “too big to fail” (LAT Oct 10 A18).
Two major advocacy groups (the California Reinvestment Coalition and Greenlining Institute) called on the federal government to stop the merger of CIT group and Pasadena’s One West Bank deeming it “the last thing that California needs is a too-big-to-fail bank for the 1%” (LAT Oct 14 B1).
English artist Banksy and his Occupy satiric art were discussed in LA Weekly Oct 17 p36 in connection with how his Haight Street Rat graffiti drawing got to be exhibited in the US Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles (until Nov 28). Most of his San Francisco graffiti art had been defaced or whitewashed after the Occupy movement died away. He decried the herd mentality of the Occupy movement.
Columnist Michael Hiltzik in LAT Oct 29 B1 wrote that “wealth inequality demands reversal”. He quoted Thomas Pikety and two economists, UC Berkeley’s Emmanuel Sanz and London School of Economic’s Gabriel Zucman. They described the process of greater economic equality from the 1930a with the N ew Deal to the late 1970s. In 1979, the top 0.1% owned 7% of US household wealth. By 2012, it was 22%. The next 0.9% share of the wealth barely grew however, while the upper 10% excluding the top 1% actually shrank as did the wealth of the middle class. (36% in 1979 relative to 23% in 2012, about the same level as in 1940). Today the top 1% save about 35% of their income, but the bottom 90% save almost zero. The economists’ solution? Progressive income and estate taxation. The New Deal remedy of a income cap after which 100% was returned to the federal government was not of course mentioned.
Columnist Michael Hiltzik in LAT Nov 2 B1 warned voters about the risks from Big Money, especially in Props 45 (Kaiser, Blue Shield,Wellpoint/Anthem about $57 million) and 46 ($60 million mostly from large corporations).
LAVENDER GREENS MISSION STATEMENT(June 24 2003):
The National Lavender Green Caucus (NLGC) is the Green Party's advocacy group on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (GLBTIQ) issues. NLGC works for the elimination of heterosexism and all its manifestations such as homophobia, violence, prejudice, and injustice against GLBTIQ communities. NLGC also works for the elimination of racism and sexism and all their manifestations in GLBTIQ communities and in society as a whole, and our work is centered in ten key values and four pillars of the Green Party of the United States. The caucus recognizes that freedom and social justice for GLBTIQ individuals will only come with the liberation of all people, and we actively view ourselves as a part of a broader movement for social justice.
EVENTS:
ANTIWAR VIGILS: Fridays 5-7p at Vista Theater at Sunset Blvd./Hollywood Bl./Hillhurst Av./Virgil Av. junction; Echo Park, intersection of Glendale/Alvarado, S of the #2 freeway entrance; 5-6p at Pico/La Cienega; 6.30-7.30p at Mar Vista Park at Palms/McLaughlin.
ARLINGTON WEST MEMORIAL AT SANTA MONICA PIER BEACH: Sundays until Troops Come Home, 7:30-9:30a to 6:00-7:00 p at Santa Monica Pier (North Side)
OCCUPY LOS ANGELES GENERAL ASSEMBLIES, Mon, Wed, Fri 7:30-10:30p; Sat 4p-7p, Pershing Square. www.occupylosangeles.org
OCCUPY VENICE GENERAL ASSEMBLIES, https://www.facebook.com/OccupyVeniceCA
HELP CHELSEA MANNING: Sign the Chelsea Manning Presidential pardon at http://pardon.privatemanning.org
Write a letter for clemency for Chelsea Manning. Directions and information are at http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/write-a-letter-supporting-pvt-mannings-request-for-clemency . The letters must be printed, signed, then scanned (so that they have the signature) in pdf format, and e mailed to nat...@privatemanning.org .
We also recommend general support of Trayvon Martin and anti-Syria and -Iraq War related actions.
Jan 24-25, GPCA General Assembly, Monterey. http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2015-01/
William Kaiser
Nov 2, 2014, 6:47:53 PM11/2/14
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Thanks shane
Are they really still having occupy general assemblies four times a week
Wonder how many people go
Peace
Bill
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