Tuesday, March 6, 2012

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: Join Congresswoman Maxine Waters at WILPF Luncheon, Women OccupyLA, Mar 10th

Hi. Here are two, great, local events on Saturday's commemoration. WILPF is the longest running women's peace organization in US history, and the Occupy Movement, the newest. Both are deserving,wonderful commemenorations. Support, and enjoy, please.

From: Grace Aaron [mailto:graceaaron@ca.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 11:49 AM
To: Ed Pearl
Subject: Congresswoman Maxine Waters to speak at WILPF Luncheon, Mar 10th

Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
International Women’s Day Luncheon

with keynote speaker

Maxine Waters
Congresswoman - 35th District

Saturday - March 10, 2012 - 11:30 am
TAIX French Restaurant

Congresswoman Maxine Waters is a courageous, outspoken, tenacious and effective advocate for peace, justice, and human rights.

She has represented the 35th District of California for over 20 years.

She was the founding member and Chair of the "Out of Iraq" Congressional Caucus.

She was a leader in the movement to end Apartheid.

She opposed the 2004 Haitian coup.

She leads Congressional efforts to cancel the debts of poor countries as well as efforts to mitigate foreclosures.

We are honored to welcome one of our greatest friends in Congress.

Saturday - March 10th, 2012
at 11:30 am

Taix Restaurant
1011 Sunset Blvd. (near Alvarado St.)
Los Angeles, CA   90026

For more information or help with transportation:
        call:    213 891 4517
      email: wilpfLA@gmail.com

Luncheon:	$33 paid in advance
	$38 paid at the door
Limited seating - Please reserve by March 3rd

Make checks payable to: WILPF
specify choice: Chicken / Fish / Vegetarian
and mail to
Grace Aaron
1459 Rexford Drive #2
Los Angeles, CA. 90035

Click here to order on-line now.

Or go to http://www.SocialUplift.org

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From: Marian Gordon [mailto:ccdsmargordon@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:16 AM

International Women’s Day

Women OccupyLA

For the Caring of People & The Planet

End Poverty, War, Separation of Families.

Welfare is our Right.
A Living Wage for All Our Work Everywhere.

Saturday, March 10^th

Gather at 11:00 AM at West Steps of Los Angeles City Hall

Speakout & Rally at 1:00 PM

To mark International Women’s Day
The 99% Will Circle City Hall

Followed by Speakout and Rally on the
West Steps of City Hall/Solidarity Park

We refuse to be exploited in any way by the 1% and their thieving friends!
Every grievance against this system deserves a collective response!

Called by: DCFS-Give Us Back Our Children; Global Women’s Strike (GWS); KidVillage@OccupyLA; Women’s Circle@OccupyLA; Women of Color@GWS.
Planning group: Alexandria House; Every Mother is a Working Mother Network; CHIRLA-Household Workers Committee; No2housingcrime.org; Military Families Speak Out; OccupytheHood LA; Veterans For Peace Chpts 110 & 067. Co-sponsors thus far: California Partnership; CALIF (Communities Actively Living Independent & Free); International Action Center; Long Beach Area Peace Network; 9to5 Los Angeles, Addicted To War; National Association of Working Women; Orange County Peace Coalition; Veterans For Peace-LA. Endorsed by the General Assembly of OccupyLA.

KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7FM is the Media Sponsor

For Info and to Help Plan, Contact: 323-276-9833 - la@allwomencount.net

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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

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: Join Congresswoman Maxine Waters at WILPF Luncheon, Women OccupyLA, Mar 10th

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