Thursday, April 26, 2012

CODE PINK: Strike against business as usual!, TRAYVON MARTIN RALLY TODAY - Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Magic Johnson, Stevie Wonder, more

Here's the continuing update of the events around May Day and the Occupy Movement.

Code Pink outlines several LA May Day events. Again, I'll repost other activities of the

area, as I get them, including the just received rally around Travon Martin. Our Spring. .

From: CODEPINK LA [mailto:info@codepink.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:01 AM
To: epearlag@earthlink.net
Subject: Strike against business as usual!

April 25, 2012

Friend,

Today our CODEPINK sisters in the bay area were vibrantly present at the the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. It started with Janine’s SHAME bat signal on the headquarters last night, today Janet filled the air with bubbles from her bubble machine explaining the only good bubbles are soap bubbles while the rest of the team delivered our Bust up the Banks message.

In a few weeks many of our east coast CODEPINKers will join hundreds of other activists to deliver the Bust B of A message at their shareholder meeting in South Carolina.

Here in LA we want to have a vibrant pink presence as we join OccupyLA and the Global call to STRIKE on May 1. Join us with our May pole at any point in the day!

Let us know when and where you can join us at codepinkla@gmail.com and we will send contact info and coordinates.

10:00 am we gather at Ocean/Wilshire – proceed down Wilshire to MacArthur Park
11:30 Join & collect Veterans/UCLA
12:00 Join & collect Rodeo at OLA "Let Them Eat Cupcakes" action
12:30 Join & collect La Brea
1:30 Arrive at MacArthur Park – Park Vehicles – Parking Garage near MacArthur park is available but closes at 11pm, $6
2:00-2:30 March down Wilshire to Main/ 6th st
2:30 Convergence at Main/6th for several direct actions
4:00 Join Immigrants Rights March 5:00 Move to Pershing Sq. (6th & Olive) Rally
7:00 Pershing Square OLA General Assembly

This is a Global Day of action and your participation is so important -- we must all Strike against business as usual. A general strike is a way to build and demonstrate the power of the people. It’s a way to show this is a system that only exists because we allow it to. If we can withdraw from the system for one day we can use that day to build community and mutual aid. We can find inspiration and faith--not in any leaders or bosses but in each other and in ourselves. Let all those you work with know why you are striking, that you are standing with the workers of the world, with the 99% to say no to the greed and corruption of the systems we are living inside.

Join us in the streets!

Onward to justice and peace,

Jodie, Kristen, Laurie, Magda and Patricia

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From: kwazinkrumah@aol.com [mailto:kwazinkrumah@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:44 PM
To: occupyla@lists.riseup.net; occupylageneralstrike@lists.riseup.net; occupylaproutreach@lists.riseup.net; occupyshadowmediala@gmail.com; occupythehoodlosangeles@groups.facebook.com; occupytheroseparade@gmail.com

Join Rev. Al Sharpton, Mary Mary. Rev. Jesse Jackson, Stevie Wonder and others in supporting the

Trayvon Martin Foundation, Thursday, April 26, 5:30PM, at West Angeles Church (North Campus)

TRAYVON MARTIN RALLY

AND

SHOW OF SUPPORT!

A call for Justice, Planning and Expression –

Come and Join:

Ø Rev. Al Sharpton,

Ø Rev. Jesse Jackson

Ø Rev. Jamaal Bryant

Ø Magic Johnson,

Ø Ben Jealous

Ø Stevie Wonder

Ø Tom Joyner

Ø Along with many more celebrities

Ø Los Angeles Community Organizations

Ø Trayvon Martin Family,

Ø Families of Oscar Grant, Kendre McDade, Anthony Dunn,

and many others unjustly killed at the hands of others,

who have not been prosecuted or brought to justice.

WHERE: West Angeles COGIC North Campus, 3045 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 90016

WHEN: Thursday, April 26, 2012

TIME: 5:30P.M. – 8:30P.M. *Doors open at 4:30p.m.

SPONSORED BY: The Trayvon Martin Family, NAACP. National Action Network, Rainbow PUSH, SCLC of Southern California, I Choose Life Health & Wellness, Concord Community Baptist Church, Baptist Ministers Conference of Los Angeles & Southern California, Project Cry No More, SO CA Cease Fire Committee, African American Cultural Center, Christ Liberation Ministries, NAACP Pasadena and Concerned Citizens.

Broadcast live by CNN, MSNBC and Fox News!

SUPPORT THE CALL FOR JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rev. Eric P. Lee

President/CEO

SCLC of Southern California

P.O. Box 43595

Los Angeles, CA 90043

323-389-5130

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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

Thursday, April 26, 2012

CODE PINK: Strike against business as usual!, TRAYVON MARTIN RALLY TODAY - Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Magic Johnson, Stevie Wonder, more

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