Tuesday, April 24, 2012

CES News: Rent Only Online Victory, Court Victories, Walmart Protest

From: Larry Gross, Coalition for Economic Survival [mailto:larry@cesinaction.ccsend.com] On Behalf Of Larry Gross, Coalition for Economic Survival
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Subject: CES News: Rent Only Online Victory, Court Victories, Walmart Protest

Coalition for Economic Survival

CES ORGANIZING TIMES ONLINE

April/May, 2012

An occasional email newsletter reporting on the

activities of the Coalition for Economic Survival (CES)

CES Stories Included Here:

* LA City Council Committee Votes to Prohibit Landlord Rent Online Only Policy

* CES on the Radio Regarding Rent Online Only Policy

* Big Day for Tenants in U.S. Supreme Court & California Court of Appeals
* Section 8 Tenants & Rent Control Win Major Court Case
* CES Supports Rally Demanding Justice for Walmart Workers
* CES Participates in Labor, Social & Environmental Justice Fair

Woodlake Manor Apartment Tenants Assoc. testify at L.A. City Council hearing in their ongoing battle to outlaw their landlord's rent online only policy

L.A. City Council Housing Committee Unanimously Votes for Motion to Prohibit Rent Only Online Demands by Landlords

The L.A. City Council's Housing, Community Economic and Development (HCED) Committee unanimously voted on April 16, 2012 in support of

a motion by Councilmember Paul Krekorian and seconded by Council Member Dennis Zine to prohibit landlords from demanding that their tenants pay their rent only online.

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Free Speech Radio News Reports on CES' Battle Against Landlord's Rent Only Online Policy

Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) reports on CES' campaign to oppose a landlord's attempt to forces their tenants to pay their rent only online. FSRN is an independently produced half hour daily national and international radio news program focusing on peace and social justice issues in the US and around the world..

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A Spectacular Day for Tenants, Rent Control & Eviction Protections in the Courts of Law

On the same day that U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal that would have challenged New York City's rent stabilization laws, and possible threaten rent control laws nationwide, the California Court of Appeals made a significant ruling in regards to providing tenants eviction protections on a case in which CES was an Amicus.

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Court Provides Huge Victory for
Low Income Section 8 Tenants Facing Eviction

On April 12, 2012, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County ruled that Section 8 renters in the City of Los Angeles are protected by just cause eviction protections when landlords attempt to terminate their Section 8 voucher program (Housing Choice Voucher Program) contract.

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CES Joins Walmart Workers & Supporters at Rally Demanding Justice at South L.A. Walmart

Various labor unions and community groups, including CES, demonstrated outside a Walmart store at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South Los Angeles to demand higher wages, guaranteed health insurance and Walmart's promise that it will invest profits in communities. The rally, sponsored by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and Warehouse Workers United took place on Thursday, April 19. 2012.

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CES Participates in Labor, Social and Environmental Justice Fair at Cal State Dominguez Hill

CES tenant leaders Faviola Ruiz & Saul Ruiz staff a table with information on CES' healthy homes, childhood lead poisoning prevention and tenants' rights work at Cal State University Dominguez Hills 4th Annual Labor, Social and Environment Justice Fair held on April 19, 2012. Over 50 community and labor group participated in the event whose theme was "Together We Are Unstoppable...Another World is Possible."

Find Out Your About Your Renters' Rights

CES' Tenants' Rights Clinic

Tenants are welcome to come to CES' Tenants' Rights Clinic held every Wednesday evening at 7 pm and Saturday morning at 10 am in the Senior Center located in the Community Building in Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Bl, West Hollywood (just west of La Brea, between Vista St. and Fuller St. at Martel Ave. ).

Tenants are assisted on a one-to-one basis by one of our experienced and knowledgeable volunteer attorneys and counselors. No appointment needed. First come, first serve.

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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, April 24, 2012

CES News: Rent Only Online Victory, Court Victories, Walmart Protest

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