Activism in Los Angeles for February 2011

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Often times, events are created last-minute as news breaks throughout the world. This posting will be updated throughout the month, so keep checking back.  Links to updates will be posted via this blog's companion Twitter and/or Facebook, so be sure to follow.  If you have an event you would like considered for this post, email me at los.angeles@live.com.
–RJN

Last updated Wed 16 Feb

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Saturday 5 February 2011

Solidarity Action — Demonstration in solidarity with the people of Egypt.

Westwood Federal Building

11000 Wilshire Blvd, LA 90024 (Wilshire/Veteran)

11:30 AM.

Public Forum — What's Next for Israel / Palestine - War, Peace or Continued Occupation?

Iman Cultural Center

3376 Motor Avenue, LA 90034

3-6 PM, $10 donation suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.

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Friday 11 February 2011

Public Forum — Join the Party for Socialism and Liberation every Friday night for a forum on current political events.  This Friday: PSL Forum on "The Egyptian Revolution & U.S. Imperialism."  Plus: End Police Violence, Justice for Douglas Zerby

We’ll have political discussion, video footage, snacks, drinks and interactive presentations. Learn about the ongoing peoples’ struggle in Egypt and the rest of the Middle East.

The Egyptian revolution has reached a decisive stage as the people of Egypt fight off government-backed goons and the police, demanding the ouster of U.S.-backed dictator, Hosni Mubarak. This rebellion is a heroic response to U.S. imperialism that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East to rise up. Join us for a discussion on:


    * The historical context of the Egyptian people's uprising
    * How the struggle in Egypt impacts the rest of the Arab world
    * Where is the struggle at now and where is it headed?
    * The role of the U.S.-funded Israeli state in the region
    * What we can do to help defeat U.S. imperialism from inside the “belly of the beast”

PLUS, get involved with the people's struggle right here:
    * Discuss the case of Douglas Zerby, killed by Long Beach cops, how to get involved in the struggle for justice
    * Update on March 19 anti-war protest in Los Angeles and how you can join the movement


For more info call 323-810-3380 or email la@pslweb.org.

PSL LA

137 N. Virgil Ave # 203, LA 90004

7:30 PM, Free.

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Saturday 12 February 2011

Douglas Zerby

Protest — Protest to End Police Violence, Demand Justice for Douglas Zerby!  March from Bixby Park to LBPD headquarters.  Douglas Zerby, unarmed, was murdered by LBPD as he sat on a porch waiting for a friend.  

Bixby Park

130 Cherry Ave, Long Beach 90802 (Cherry/Broadway) 

1 PM.

Public Forum — Media Salon. Join Marcy Winograd and Jerry Fialka for a discussion on Egypt, community organizing and the power of social media.
Unurban
3301 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica 90404
3 PM

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Monday 14 February 2011


Call to Action — Deliver Letter Urging Prosecution of Bush 6.  Join other activists nation-wide who are delivering letters (and flowers) to the Consulates General and the Ambassador of Spain in supporting and encouraging Spanish courts in prosecuting the "Bush 6."  The Bush 6 is a group of Bush-era government lawyers, including former White House Counsel and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, for violating international law by creating a "legal" justification for torture.  To deliver your letter/flowers, cal the Consulate General of Spain in Los Angeles at (323) 938-1058 to make an appointment.  Code Pink encourages you to go anyway if you are refused an appointment.
Consulate General of Spain
5055 Wilshire Blvd, LA 90036
11 AM.

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Tuesday 15 February 2011


Call to Action — Stolen Beauty Online Party.  Join activists in an online campaign to spread the word about how Israeli company, Ahava, exploits Palestinian land and people in the making of their beauty products.  Part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
RSVP at codepinkla@gmail.com for location
Los Angeles 90291
4 - 6 PM.

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Thursday 17 February 2011

Jay Bybee

Protest — Protest War Criminal and US Judge Jay Bybee.  Judge Jay Bybee, now on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, was the author of the notorious torture memos while serving as Assistant Attorney General under George W. Bush.  The memos lead to the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. 
US Court of Appeals, Pasadena
125 S Grand Avenue, Pasadena 91105
9 AM - 12 Noon

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Friday 18 February 2011

Protest — Protest War Criminal and US Judge Jay Bybee.  Judge Jay Bybee, now on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, was the author of the notorious torture memos while serving as Assistant Attorney General under George W. Bush.  The memos lead to the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. 

US Court of Appeals, Pasadena

125 S Grand Avenue, Pasadena 91105

9 AM - 12 Noon

Public Forum — Social Security vs The Deficit.  Robert Scheer (Editor-in-Chief of TruthDig.com) speaks on the financial crisis in the US. 
Topanga Community Center
1440 N Topanga Boulevard, Topanga 90290
 7 PM

Public Forum — Join the Party for Socialism and Liberation every Friday night for a forum on current political events.  This Friday: PSL Forum on "The Capitalist Budget: War, Unemployment & Cutbacks."  They’ll have political discussion, snacks, drinks, and interactive presentations. 

Both the Republican and Democratic parties are pro-imperialist, pro-war parties. Nothing makes this clearer than the Obama administration’s 2012 budget unveiled this week. At a time when working class and poor people are losing their jobs, homes, health care, and education--the U.S. government is spending $700 million each day to bomb workers abroad and proposing the deepest cuts to social services in years.  

Join us for a discussion on:

• Why over half the federal budget goes toward wars and military spending
• How we can build a sustained movement against austerity measures
• What is the alternative to a war economy?

Plus educational talks on:

• Stop the attacks on women’s reproductive rights
• The Spanish-American War and the birth of U.S. imperialism

For more info call 323-810-3380 or email la@pslweb.org.

PSL LA

137 N. Virgil Ave # 203, LA 90004

7:30 PM, Free.

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Saturday 26 February 2011


Public Forum — Cine Clandestino Presenta: Chávez, Venezuela y la Nueva Latinoamérica.  Film screening and discussion at ANSWER headquarters. Come and commemorate the event that started the Venezuelan process for social change–the Bolivian Revolution led by Hugo Chavez.  Also learn of opportunities to participate in the 19 Mar 2011 protest against war and struggle for revolutionary change.  Refreshments provided.  

PSL LA

137 N. Virgil Ave # 203, LA 90004

4 - 7 PM, Free.

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Other events

Cultural Event — I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid To Tell You, 
a
 critically‐acclaimed
 raw
 look
 at
 life 
as
 a
 30‐something
 Palestinian‐American
 woman,
 will

make 
its 
Los
 Angeles
 premiere 
on
 February
 11th, 
2011.
  Presented
 by
 Theatre
 Asylum,
 writer
 and
 star
 Jennifer
 Jajeh
 will
 bring
 her
 personal
 story
 to 
a
 Los
 Angeles
 audience for
 a 
4‐week 
run.

Jennifer Jajeh


With
 the
 current
 on going
 conflicts
 in 
the 
Middle
 East,
 the
 threat
 of
 global
 terrorism and 
the

never‐ending 
negotiations
 and 
hostilities 
between
 Israelis
 and
 Palestinians,
 it’s
 hard
 not
 to
 feel

overwhelmed
 by
 all
 of 
the
 bad 
international
 news.

  That’s
 exactly
 how
 Jennifer
 Jajeh 
feels.
  And

to 
make
 matters
 worse,
 Jennifer 
is 
Palestinian.
   Well,
 Palestinian-
American.
  Or
 more 
precisely:
 a
 single,
 Catholic, 
first
 generation,
 Palestinian-American
 woman
 who
 chooses
 to
 return
 to
 her
 parents’
 hometown 
of 
Ramallah 
at 
the
 start
 of
 the 
Second
 Intifada.
 
In
 her 
tragicomic
 solo
 theatre
s how,
 I
 Heart
 Hamas:
 And 
Other
 Things
 I’m 
Afraid
 to
 Tell
 You,

Jennifer
 tries 
to
 figure
 it
 out
 for
 herself.

  Join
 her
 on
 American
 and
 Palestinian soil
 on
 auditions,
bad
 dates, 
and
 across 
military 
check points 
as 
she
 navigates 
the
 thorny
 terrain
 around
 Palestinian
 identity.  
Weaving 
together
 humor,
 pop
  culture
references
 and
 live 
theatre,
 Jajeh

explores 
how 
she 
becomes
 Palestinian‐ized,
 then
 politicized
 and
 eventually 
radicalized
 in 
a

fresh,
 often
 funny,
 searingly 
honest 
way.
Theatre Asylum
6320 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles 90038
Fri 11 Feb - Sat 5 Mar

Cultural Event — Afghan Civilian Memorial Mural Exhibit  A provocative art exhibit on the human cost of war, "Windows and Mirrors" is a traveling exhibit that provides an opportunity to see depictions of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of artists and children.

The Social and Public Art Resource Center

685 Venice Blvd, Venice 90291

Sat 19 Feb - Sun 13 Mar

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Links

ANSWER Coalition Los Angeles
CAIR Los Angeles 
Code Pink Los Angeles
l.a. activist
Levantine Cultural Center
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Topanga Peace Alliance

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Peace and Justice Actions in Los Angeles in January

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Close Guantanamo with Justice Now! Join CODEPINK LA for a lunchtime vigil and reading of the names of victims.  Tuesday, January 11, 2011, noon – 1:00 pm Westwood Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles 90024 Go Metro: Lines 20, 720, 761; RED LINE or PURPLE LINE: Pershing Square Station or 7th Street Metro Station; BLUE LINE: 7th Street Metro Station Culver City Bus: Line 6 Big Blue Bus (Santa Monica): Lines 1, 2, 3, 8, 11, 12, Super 12 View Larger Map Want to get at the Billionaire architects of the Tea Party, the Koch Brothers, who are planning a coup against democracy? Join the team atcodepinkLA@gmail.com. Gaza Dr. I. Abuelaish Speaks at LA Central Library Wednesday, January 12th 2011  7:00 pm Los Angeles, CA Gaza resident pens 'I Shall Not Hate' after Israeli attack He lost 3 daughters to Israel's "Cast Lead" and has written a book, "I Shall Not Hate." At 7 PM, free, in the Aloud series, at 630 W. 5th St. in dntn L.A., but reservations advised, at 213/228-7025 or www.aloud.org. The book should be available for purchase & signing. Parking lots are to west and south of the library - no validation on Wed. Entrance at Mark Taper Auditorium on 5th St. From Publishers Weekly: Born in a refugee camp in 1955, Palestinian physician Abuelaish suffers a catastrophic loss when three of his daughters are killed in their home by Israeli fire in 2009. An Israeli television journalist's live broadcast of his call for help captures Israeli public and world press attention. "Most of the world has heard of the Gaza Strip," as Abuelaish says, "but few know what it's like to live here, blockaded, impoverished, year after year, decade after decade." Abuelaish portrays everyday life in Gaza and tells the remarkable story of how he came to be "the first Palestinian doctor to be on staff at an Israeli hospital." The "tortured politics of Palestine, Israel, and the Middle East" are rendered graphic by his personal accounts of "the humiliation, the fear, the physical difficulty" of border checkpoints and bulldozed homes. Abuelaish tells of the "satisfying, even wonderful" moments, "the good chapter of a bad story," as well; an infertility specialist, he is as "thoroughly smitten" with his research as he is appalled that "Gaza hospitals are rundown and can't be repaired because of an embargo is preposterous." Abuelaish knows anger, but in this impassioned, committed attempt to show the reader life on the sliver of land that is Gaza, he demonstrates that "anger is not the same as hate." By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, “I Shall Not Hate” is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians" (New York Times), Abuelaish has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life - as a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line, as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East. And, most recently, as the father whose daughters were killed by Israeli soldiers on January 16, 2009, during Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip. His response to this tragedy made news and won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be "the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis." Video Interview with Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish – (27 Minutes) http://vimeo.com/10268085 Contact: CODEPINK LA codepinkla@gmail.com  Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 7:00 pm Los Angeles Central Library, 630 W. 5th Street, Downtown LA Book will be available for purchase and signing, Reservations at 213-228-7025 Go Metro: Lines 16, 18, 37, 53, 55, 60, 62, 71, 76, 78, 79, 96, 316, 355, 378, 720, 770 RED LINE, PURPLE LINE or BLUE LINE: 7th Street Metro Station View Larger Map See you out there!! Jodie, Kristen, Dede, Sharon, Susan and Patricia [of CODE PINK]

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