Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Big Saturday Events: 2-4 PM Help save reproductive freedom, 6-7:30 Robert Scheer & Medea Banjamin: Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control

They’re trying to take away our reproductive freedom.

WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?!

Find out Saturday June 16th

The Assault On Women’s Reproductive Rights

& How to Fight Back:

An Afternoon with Nancy Cohen, author of Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America

& Serena Josel, Director of Political Affairs at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles,

moderated by award-winning journalist Anthea Raymond

Saturday, June 16th, 2012, 2 pm to 4 pm

at the home of

Jan Goodman & Jerry Manpearl, in Santa Monica;

address given with RSVP to league@lwvsantamonica.org

Refreshments and empowerment will be served.

$10 suggested donation;

free for students (pass the word!)

Recent weeks and months have brought a wave of attacks on established reproductive rights. As the presidential campaign season moves into high gear, these attacks can be expected to escalate, and the rhetoric to grow even more heated. The League of Women Voters of Santa Monica presents an afternoon of provocative discussion with author Nancy L. Cohen, author of Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America, in conversation with Serena Josel of Planned Parenthood–Los Angeles, on this war on women’s established rights and how we can fight back, on Saturday June 16th, 2 to 4 pm, at the Goodman Manpearl home in Santa Monica. (Address given with RSVP.)

Nancy Cohen has written a stunning account of the decades-long sexual counterrevolution–a fevered backlash against the sixties' expansion of personal freedom.

Reproductive freedom has become a battleground, and the stakes are no less than the overall political direction of the United States. Serena Josel works on the front lines as the director of political affairs of the Los Angeles chapter of Planned Parenthood, a lightning rod for these attacks because of its steadfast commitment to protecting reproductive choice and providing reproductive health services.

Anthea Raymond, an accomplished print and broadcast journalist–former president of the Los Angeles Press Club and current editor of the Echo Park Patch–will guide a lively and informative exploration of the present crisis for reproductive rights and will moderate a segment with questions from the audience.

For more info or to RSVP go to http://ow.ly/blMYi FACEBOOK & TWEET THIS!

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Please join CODEPINK and friends for a conversation with

Bob Scheer and Medea Benjamin

about her new book:

Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control

Learn about the travesty of drones and how you can get involved to make a difference. Please invite your community to get involved.

This is a Community Gathering and Conversation about Drones

June 16th 6:00-7:30 pm

@The Church in Ocean Park

235 Hill Street, Santa Monica CA 90405

The requested donation is $10, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds

Co-hosts include:

TruthDig, Iraq Veterans Against the War,

Veterans for Peace, PDSMM, The Levantine Center, Topanga Peace Alliance, Addicted to War, American Friends Service Committee , Occupy Venice, School of the Americas Watch, World Can’t Wait, Palisadians for Peace, United for Peace & Justice, Interfaith Communities United for Justice & Peace,

Office of the Americas,Lauren Steiner, Dorothy Reik,

& others…

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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, June 13, 2012

Big Saturday Events: 2-4 PM Help save reproductive freedom, 6-7:30 Robert Scheer & Medea Banjamin: Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control

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