Category Archives: Human Rights/Constitution
Plantations of Prisons – California’s Biggest Crop
By Mary Getlein Jason stood before us, a 30-year-old Latino man. He was here to tell his story of growing up in East L.A. and how he met Javier Stauring, who changed his life. Javier supervises the Catholic detention ministry … Continue reading
Filed under Crime/Police, Human Rights/Constitution, Mary Getlein, Youth
Celebrate the Coming of the Marker
A permanent monument commemorating the incarceration of a thousand local Japanese-Americans during World War II will not be istalled on the 70th anniversary, April 25, despite high hopes of many Venetians. Instead an open-air event will take place beginning at … Continue reading
Filed under Civil Rights, Human Rights/Constitution
The Meeting to Close the Boardwalk
By Mary Getlien I arrived early to the VNC Meeting. The room was filling up with well-dressed people. Marc Saltzberg told everyone the Police would be there soon and they were going to explain the new curfew for the Venice … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights/Constitution, Mary Getlein, Ocean Front Walk
Martin Luther King, Jr. – The Unknown Anti-War Activist
On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke from the pulpit of the Riverside Church in New York City and called for an end to the Vietnam War. Exactly one year later, King was assassinated in Memphis. King’s speech … Continue reading
Filed under Civil Rights, Human Rights/Constitution, Politics
Where’s the Movement? – Two Views on the Occupy Movement
By Bill Mitchell I see no real anti-war movement in the US. Only more wars of aggression, now invading with intent to occupy all of Africa in the name on human rights protection. President Barack Obama has been getting away … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights/Constitution, Occupy, Politics
WikiLeaks and Local Leaks
By Jim Smith Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~Aldous Huxley Silly Hillary. Did she really think the internet was a safe place for her deepest, darkest secrets? She’s not alone. The geniuses of … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights/Constitution, International, Jim Smith
Lawsuit filed to protect civil rights of RV Residents
By Peggy Lee Kennedy A civil rights lawsuit has been filed in federal court on November 23 against the City of Los Angeles for violation of the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Americans With Disabilities Act. The plaintiffs … Continue reading
Filed under Civil Rights, Crime/Police, Human Rights/Constitution
