Calvinist Style

A friend forwarded this to me.

On the Whosoever.org website, Thomas Woodrooffe describes Mother Teresa's actions in Calcutta in 1993. She tended intimately to the sick and dying without asking them their religious beliefs or judging them for any behavior that might have played a part in their illness. In contrast, fundamentalist missionaries were roaming Calcutta's streets at the same time, handing out religious propaganda to the diseased and destitute, warning them they'd face eternal damnation if they'd didn't convert to the One True Way. Keep that difference in mind during the coming weeks, Scorpio. You're in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have tremendous power to heal people, fix misaligned energy, and provide the kind of moral leadership that raises everyone's integrity levels. Be like Mother Teresa, not the fundamentalist missionaries.

Calvinist Style

Are words dangerous?

Are words dangerous?

Live Tapioca Equinox Acoustic Show

Friday, September 7, 2007 at 9:00PM

Tapioca Equinox at Tangier
2138 Hillhurst Ave., Los Feliz, CA 90027
Acoustic Room—21 and Over, $10 Opens the Door

Check out some Tapioca Equinox songs on the myspace!

Live Tapioca Equinox Acoustic Show

Health Care Rally

Health Care Rally

Make it legal for my Daddy to come back

Young Kayla wasted no time when offered markers and a poster board after informing her we were fresh out of signs. The placard she crafted for the march was more poignant and far more profound than any of ours. It read: "Make it legal for my Daddy to come back with his family please."

Kayla, like some 1,500 other marchers endured 90 degree heat to march on Saturday August 18th. Participants walked along Broadway Street to Los Angeles City Hall in an immigration rights event called by the March 25th Coalition. The event's demands included stop the raids and amnesty now. Many groups participated, including Emergency Response Network members who carried a blue banner inscribed "Alto A Las Redadas" (Stop The Raids). Lively chants accompanied marchers along their route, and speakers addressed the crowd at the end point rally.

Socialist Worker had an opportunity to interview Kayla's mother, Linda, regarding the story behind her daughter's placard.

"My husband was deported five months ago. He lived here for 36 years, he went to school here. We've been married 28 years, and have six children and seven grandchildren. Now that he is gone we are struggling. I just had my phone cut off. I can't pay my bills and one of my daughters is expecting."

Linda's story, like so many others, exposes how current immigration policy and I.C.E. raids break up families. We need to continue protesting and building organizations like the Emergency Response Network to prevent families from being separated.

Make it legal for my Daddy to come back

Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts

Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts

The Mercenary Revolution

The Mercenary Revolution

NSAT&T

NSAT&T

The Great LA Healthcare Rally 2007/08/11@1PM

Saturday, August 11, 2007 @ 1:00PM
First and Spring Streets (L.A. City Hall South)

Demand real universal care for all! Stop insurance profits forever! Held by Labor Task Force for Universal Healthcare, endorsed by the L.A. County Federation of Labor.

The Great LA Healthcare Rally 2007/08/11@1PM

Defend Leimert Park from the MinuteKLAN 2007/08/11@11AM

Saturday, August 11, 2007 @ 11:00AM
Martin Luther King Blvd. and Crenshaw Blvd.

Take a stand against racist and anti-immigrant groups trying to sow the seeds of division. Leimert Park residents have a long history of black/brown unity, and refuse to allow the KKK, MMP, SOS, or any other white supremacist ideologies in their neighborhood. We kept Ted Hayes and his gang out of the Park last month, time to do so again!

Defend Leimert Park from the MinuteKLAN 2007/08/11@11AM

Even in Minnesota: When Domes Attack

Even in Minnesota: When Domes Attack

Awesome Labor Victory Readings!

If you haven't read Shaun's UPS article, please do now: When Big Brown was shut down. Afterwards, check out this inspirational piece on the YouTube America's Victory: The 1997 UPS Strike

More importantly, Todd covers a contemporary example of how our most powerful weapon--the strike--remains the most important component in working class struggle.

1. Locked out by the “Wal-Mart of garbage


2. Solidarity defeats the garbage bosses

Awesome Labor Victory Readings!

The 'Choose Black America' Anti-Immigration Ploy: Is Ted Hayes the New Ward Connerly?

The 'Choose Black America' Anti-Immigration Ploy: Is Ted Hayes the New Ward Connerly?

Welcome Home Augustin Aguayo July 27 2007

Welcome Home Augustin Aguayo July 27 2007

MS-DOS paternity suit settled

One more lie in the predatory monopolist's revisionist history unveiled.

MS-DOS paternity suit settled

Did Tim Donaghy and crew fixed game 3 of Suns-Spurs?

For those of us that found the Phoenix-San Antonio series highly suspect, a preponderance of evidence confirming those suspicions evolves.

Did Tim Donaghy and crew fixed game 3 of Suns-Spurs?

Funding the war in order to end the war?

Funding the war in order to end the war?

Study shows racial disparities in prison

Study shows racial disparities in prison

USS Florikan (ASR 9)

I served the empire when I was a very young man. The bulk of that military service was on the USS Florikan (ASR 9). The above linked site has some good photos, allows registration of when you were aboard, and to see others serving that same period. I recognized two names and left a message for one. The Florikan was a submarine rescue ship, but its primary functions were diving and salvage. Despite Navy divers being the best in the world, I was witness to a fatality, and two divers suffering the 'bends'—one of those cases debilitating. The diver killed in a dive accident had a son just a few years younger than my closest friends and I. His father would bring him aboard when he had weekend duty, and we would hang out with him since our age gap was neglible. Those heady days of being out to sea, the anecdotes, and everything else deserves eventual commitment to prose.

I also have some amazing photographs of the USS Florikan anchored just off Catalina Island. We would then serve as an offshore mooring for subs (they don't have the best anchoring abilities) and then everyone would use our boats for Avalon shore leave. The photographs feature the last commissioned diesel electric submarine lashed to one side and a brand new Los Angeles class nuclear attack boat along our other. I don't remember the names of the subs (it's been decades). I do remember it was poignant for the 'bubble-heads' (submariners), seeing that juxtaposition of old and new. I also have a photo of a good friend named Fernando Alfonso and my self with Diamond Head behind us as we sailed to our new home port in Pearl Harbor from our previous one of San Diego (alternatively 32nd Street and Point Loma). That photo was right after I got my shiny Surface Warfare pin (ESWS). I need to scan those photos, and place them online.

2007-07-24: More Florikan information: USS Florikan (ASR 9) some early history (looks like this link is gone now).

2010-04-12 I finally did get around to scanning and posting photos. Was also happy to see former shipmates making comments here as well.

2011-01-06 Please read the comments to learn about the USS Florikan's current status.

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USS Florikan (ASR 9)

"Red Hill" Echo Park Film Screening

Echo Park Film Center's Spring 2006 youth documentary project centers on the "Red Hill" era, a time during the 1930s, '40s and '50s when Echo Park was a center of leftist political activity. Learn about your neighborhood's radical past and how this history has continued to affect and influence community activism in the years since! Numerous veteran activists are profiled in this documentary.

Friday July 20 - 6:30 pm
Edendale Library
2011 Sunset Blvd. 90026
Enter parking lot on Alvarado, north of Sunset

"Red Hill" Echo Park Film Screening