Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Move to Amend Los Angeles : Action Alert for Today at City Hall

Hi. I've been remiss in not posting earlier messages about such a critical, popular movement; but here's a good beginning.

The National Campaign to End Corporate Personhood and Demand Democracy!

Greetings and Happy New Year Move to Amend Los Angeles Supporters!

Hope you enjoyed your Holiday Season. Councilman Alarcon who responded to your impassioned pleas to stregnthen the Anti-Corporate Personhood resolution in late 2011 has gone one step further and has proposed a motion to put the issue on the ballot for this May's Los Angeles mayoral election. There will be a hearing this Wednesday morning and we need as many of you as possible to fill the chambers so that this issue is put before the millions of Los Angeles area voters this May. Details are below.

WHAT: Hearing at City Hall to put Corporate Personhood on the Los Angeles City Ballot

WHERE: Los Angeles City Hall - 200 North Spring Street Room 340 Los Angeles, California

WHEN: THIS WEDNESDAY! January 16th at 10:00 am

We had an incredile 2012 and we're looking forward to a productice 2013. If you missed last week's webinar you can watch it and get the lowdown on the plans for 2013 here: https://movetoamend.org/toolkit/get-involved-move-amend-2013-jan-2013

In December I had the chance to once again head to Washington, DC for an event at Media Matters where the heads of many other groups working on the issue (People for the American Way, Demos, Public Citizen and Common Cause among many others) of corporate personhood. We can't legally speak about the subject matter of the meeting but we expect a lot of major partners to join our fight in the not so distant future.

Later in December I was in Tampa, Florida for our Move to Amend Executive Retreat and much of what we spoke about and agendized as priorities in 2012 was covered in last week's webinar. So please take a look when you can. Our next Move to Amend Los Angeles will be in February but I hope to see you all this Wednesday morning at City Hall.

Daniel Lee

Move to Amend Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES MOVE TO AMEND
www.MoveToAmend.org/CA-los-angeles
Los Angeles Move to Amend is a local affiliate of the Move to Amend Coalition

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

National Headquarters: PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | www.MoveToAmend.org

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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, January 15, 2013

Move to Amend Los Angeles : Action Alert for Today at City Hall

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