Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Japan scraps 50% Nuclear Goals; Germany to shut down nuclear plants, Juliano Mer Khamis' Arna's Children Tonight!

From: Karin Pally [kpally@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:07 PM
To: lucydertawitian@yahoo.com; wib-la@yahoogroups.com; laamn@yahoogroups.com; nakba-60@lists.riseup.net; al-awda-news@yahoogroups.com; bds-la@googlegroups.com
Subject: Screening of Arna's Children in honor of Juliano Mer Khamis

Dear Friends,

We will be honoring the life and legacy of actor and activist Juliano

Mer Khamis at UCLA this Wednesday evening. The flyer is attached.
Professor Gabi Piterberg will hold a brief discussion on cultural
resistance followed by a screening of Juliano's award winning
documentary "Arna's Children."

It would be great if you can join us and learn more about the Freedom
Theater in the refugee camp of Jenin. Juliano's work is quite
inspirational, to learn more please follow this youtube
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSvnkRFRic&NR=1
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSvnkRFRic&NR=1>

I look forward to seeing all of you there. If by chance you live in the
OC, we will have a screening at UCI shortly, please contact me for
further information.

In solidarity,
Lucy DerTavitian
Radio Intifada
KPFK 90.7 FM
Pacifica Radio

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From: Peter Thottam
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:28 AM
To: WLADC Club; pdla@yahoogroups.com; progressive; madashellnetwork@googlegroups.com; PeteThottam@googlegroups.com
Subject: BREAKING: (1) Japan will scrap its 50% Nuclear Goals in favor of Renewable Energy; (2) Germany to shut down last nuclear plants

May 11, 2011 (Two month anniversary of the Fukushima I and II nuclear accidents on March 11, 2011)

I'm sure many of you have noticed and (hopefully) reflected on how scant and minimal the current mainstream media coverage is of Japan and the aftermath of its nuclear crisis. This is extraordinary since it is now two months after the most catastrophic nuclear accident since Cherynobl. Over 20,000 Japanese died due to the tsunami & related nuclear accidents; another 500,000 + were rendered homeless. The receding of coverage speaks directly to the power of corporate/Wall Street advertising dollars in shaping modern U.S. news and mass entertainment cycles.

Below is a quick summary of two major developments that -- not surprisingly -- isn't getting much coverage in a corporate subservient U.S. press.

Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/10/japan-nuclear-renewables

JAPAN: Quoted re Prime Minister Naoto Kan (from the above Guardian news article) :

"...Japan will scrap a plan to obtain half of its electricity from nuclear powerand will instead promote renewable energy as a result of its nuclear crisis, the prime minister said Tuesday.

Naoto Kan said Japan needs to "start from scratch" on its long-termenergy policy after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was heavily damaged by a 11 March earthquake and tsunami and began leaking radiation.

Japan's nuclear plants supplied about 30% of the country's electricity, and the government had planned to raise that to 50%.

Kan told a news conference that nuclear and fossil fuel used to be the pillars of Japanese energy policy but now it will add two more – renewable energy such as solar, wind and biomass, and an increased focus on conservation.

"We will thoroughly ensure safety for nuclear power generation and make efforts to further promote renewable energy," an area where Japan has lagged behind Europe and the US, he said.

On Monday a landmark report by the UN's climate science body, the IPCC, said that renewable energy could account for 80% of the world's energy supply by 2050 – but only if governments pursue the right policies....."

GERMANY: Also, earlier this week, the German Government's Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, indicated it would take steps towards closing the last of 17 nuclear plants in Germany. Their projected timeline -- in keeping with a coalition pact reached about a decade ago-- would shift those nuclear plants to replacement wind farms, natural gas plants and solar facilities by 2020.

- Pete

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In a Benefit Concert for FolkWorks

July 17th at 2 PM

at the

Tropico de Nopal Gallery, in Los Angeles,
1665 Beverly Boulevard, East of Alvarado.

Swing Riots is an LA Jazz Gypsy Balkan Klezmer Folk ensemble with six versatile fully digitized members who recreate the brilliant music of two-finger Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt— quite a feat, in that it takes them only sixty fingers to accomplish what Django did with two. Perhaps that’s why the word genius is so often found within two syllables of Reinhardt’s legendary name.

But if you close your eyes, it hardly matters; you can drift back in time to the sweltering erotic nights of Paris’s Left Bank in the 1930s, when Reinhardt was remaking the landscape of modern Jazz, and having to relearn the guitar after suffering major burns in a 1928 fire that changed his life and modern music forever. Without the use of the third and fourth fingers on his left hand he played everything with just the two he had—and that proved to be enough.

The Swing Riots perform an irreverent gumbo of Gypsy & Creole Jazz, Klezmer & Romanian Horas, Parisian Musette & the occasional wild card thrown in for good measure. The SwingRiots are comprised of 6 core members who have played for decades in everything from Balkan dance bands to traditionalSwing groups including: Bill Marks: Guitar & Voice; Pat Mac Swyney: Mando-Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Cornet, Ney, Harmonica & Voice; Linda Kodaira: Violin; Nick Casillas: Clarinet & Soprano Sax;Ben Getting: Upright Bass.

Ed Pearl has done a bit of his own reshaping of the musical landscape of Los Angeles, as the creator of the legendary folk music club The Ash Grove in 1958, and had Django Reinhardt not passed away in 1953, he would surely have graced the Ash Grove stage as well, along with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, the New Lost City Ramblers, The Greenbriar Boys, Phil Ochs, Mance Libscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Flatt and Scruggs, Mississippi John Hurt, Jackie DeShannon and Ry Cooder.

Now Ed has embarked on a new venture, catching up with lost time as it were, and will present Swing Riots in his new summer concert series sponsored by Ash Grove Music (www.ashgrovemusic.com).

It will be a doubly special event, since it is a benefit concert for FolkWorks, LA’s free and only folk music magazine, now in its tenth year of continuous publication, covering the waterfront of LA’s sometimes bewildering variety of folk related solo performers, dance and instrumental groups and festivals, as well as national touring artists that come through town.

FolkWorks (www.folkworks.org) was just honored this past May with the Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest Music Legend Award for 2011, and needs the influx of funds from this extraordinary concert to keep the presses rolling, as it tries valiantly to beat the odds that have made magazine publishing a quixotic and oft-times heroic endeavor.

So support the Ash Grove, support FolkWorks, and enjoy an unparalleled afternoon of world music from the Lost Generation that these wonderful Los Angeles musicians have rediscovered, mastered and made their own. For this musical experience of a lifetime Swing Riots will be joined by vocal duet Jess Basta & Christine Tavares, formerly of VOCO in a variety of Yiddish and early jazz standards. Don’t you dare miss it!
--Ross Altman

Ed Pearl

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Japan scraps 50% Nuclear Goals; Germany to shut down nuclear plants, Juliano Mer Khamis' Arna's Children Tonight!

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