If you are near Pico/Union head out to the streets! About 500 people are out at MacArthur Park and the police are out there heavy! If you go, BRING A CAMERA!! If you go, park near Alvarado! Please be careful! Update just given by folks who are there RIGHT NOW! * Jorge Preciado Villarreal: Hope everyone is safe!...porque los pigs..les vale madre :/ Emma Rosenthal: lots of helicopters in the sky over the rampart! very intense! From Facebook posts

John Pedro Morales: about 100 protesters (and dozens more onlookers) back in Westlake-MacArthur Park. Remember '07! I just cruised by with my son, but I was impressed by the entire area being engaged by it. I'd say people (more than usual) came out just to be in the atmosphere, including drivers (like me) to honk and put a fist up ;-). I grew up right in... this area, and I can almost picture the word spreading like wild-fire in the hallways, liquor/bargain/99c stores and laundromats etc.

People were throwing eggs and other objects at them. They were in riot gear with orders to clear out the street so they kept going block after block on 6th. There helicopters constantly circling and undercover cops all over the place. I understand from my friend who shot the footage last night on police violence that people have been protesting since at least since midnight of last night. He has got more footage of police aggression tonight. I understand people are gathering tomorrow at 6.00 p.m. Hey I got to give it up for the Guatemala community they showed me something it was really good that after 8.00 p.m. blacks showed their solidarity; especially one black makes who had been beaten by the police. Interesting 24 hour protest mirrors what took place in Pasadena last year when a blood gang member was shot. Thanks for the post earlier today that played a big role in me going there. i never thought I would be there until 11.00 p.m. Hopefully they keep it up on Tuesday evening."

There will be a Rally on Tuesday 3pm @ LAPD Headquarters At 1st & main Town Hall Meeting has been called for: Date: Sept. 8, 2010 Time: 6:30 Location: John H. Liechty Middle School 650 S. Union Ave., L.A, 90017 213-989-1200

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Announcing the LIVE iFood Calendar for Santa Monica and Venice Beach California called - iEat http://www.hopemakingchange.org/HOPEMCS/iEat/iEat.html Feel free to email us if you have an event or food program to add to this list, especially if you have a one-time or specialized holiday food distribution. Our events calendar has an RSS Feed to stay current with local community events as they are announced.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 “DIVEST FROM ISRAEL” CALIFORNIA BALLOT INITIATIVE LAUNCHES STATEWIDE ON WEDNESDAY WITH A SIGNING CEREMONY IN FRONT OF ISRAELI CONSULATE IN LA First Ballot Measure in Nation Aimed at Changing Israeli Policies Through Divestment by State Agencies California Israel Divestment Campaign www.israeldivestmentcampaign.org VISUALS: Giant petition to be signed by speakers. LOS ANGELES, CA (Sept.7) --Californians committed to peace and justice for Palestine-Israel will launch the statewide campaign of California ballot Initiative 10-0020 with a signing ceremony in front of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 8, 2010. Although California has adopted policies requiring divestment from Sudan, Iran and other nations, this is the first ballot measure in the nation aimed at changing Israeli policies through divestment by State agencies. It directs California’s large public employee and teacher pension funds to be consistent with their responsible investing policies and to divest from companies that violate the human rights of Palestinians. The description provided by the office of the Attorney General when it approved the measure for circulation last week says that the initiative “prohibits state retirement funds from investing in companies engaged in certain business activities in Israel.” WHEN: NOON, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 WHERE: In front of the Israeli Consulate, 6380 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 WHY: Launch Ballot Initiative Drive to Require Public Employee Systems to Divest from Certain Business Activities in Israel WHO: Shakeel Syed, Executive Director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California; Rev. Dr. DarELL T. Weist retired, Senior Minister United Methodist Church of Los Angeles; Yael Korin, Israeli-American researcher; Mahmood Ibrahim, Palestinian-American Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University Pomona; Rosie Martinez, labor activist, Latino Caucus, SEIU 721; and Andy Griggs, retired teacher LAUSD, STRS members, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) activist. “Our government has done nothing to end Israel’s brutal occupation and violation of internationally recognized human rights,” said Sacramento resident Chris Yatooma, the founder of Israel Divestiture Forum and the official proponent of the initiative, “including UN Resolutions and the Geneva Conventions." “Our tax dollars now help fund these violations of human rights to the tune of more than $3 billion a year in grants, adding up to a staggering $106 billion over the past five decades.” said Israeli-born campaign organizer Yael Korin. “California retirement funds have their own disturbing record,” said local campaign organizer Sherna Gluck, a member of the Public Employee Retirement System (PERS). “Our public retirement systems have more than $1.5 billion invested in at least eight companies that provide war materials and services used in violation of internationally recognized human rights, including support for the illegal Israeli settlements and the "Separation Wall.” Public pension funds in Norway and Sweden have already divested from one of the companies identified by the initiative organizers. Organized by a diverse group of Californians, the initiative has been endorsed by two Nobel Peace Laureates: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the principal leaders of South Africa’s successful struggle to end Apartheid and Mairead Maguire, renowned Belfast peacemaker. Leading local endorsers include Marcy Winograd, former California congressional candidate; Stanley Sheinbaum, well-known peace advocate and organizer of the historic meeting in which the PLO expressed its willingness to abandon armed struggle and recognize Israel; and Executive Director Hussam Ayloush of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA). Local clergy, labor activists and members of PERS and the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) have also endorsed the initiative. Several key endorsers will be present on Wednesday to become the first signers of the ballot initiative. For a complete list of the current endorsers, see: www.israeldivestmentcampaign.org/endorsements.htm. “Because I am a teacher" said Marcy Winograd, former congressional candidate and a STRS participant, "I am particularly concerned that my retirement funds might be used to further colonize Palestinian land or to erase the beautiful olive groves planted by the indigenous residents of the West Bank.” Californians who do not want their state retirement funds to contribute to the violation of human rights are mobilizing a statewide campaign mirroring the worldwide anti-Apartheid movement that toppled White rule in South Africa. Their work draws moral support from Archbishop Tutu’s August 22nd endorsement message to Californians: “We defeated Apartheid nonviolently because the international community agreed to support the disinvestment in Apartheid campaign. A similar campaign can help to bring peace in the Middle East and do so nonviolently."

Reports of people starting trash fire in the street and rolling dumpsters at the advancing police line. Small groups of 20 to 30 playing cat and mouse game with police. Numerous police riot squads in the area. Arrests reported, exact number unclear at time. Sixth Street closed to traffic. Crowd on Union Drive throwing objects at police. Small fires still burning at some intersections in the area.

Transcript of segments of the video that I will provide to the attorneys upon request. Aug 26, 2010, between 9pm and 9:30pm. Video recorded by Lisa Green, phone witnessed by Peggylee Kennedy, and others witnessed in person can substantiate if deemed appropriate. Officers announced on loud speaker: Get your shopping carts, your milk crates, and your things. You must leave. You are in violation of LAMC 41.18. Go to a park, go to the beach, go the Santa Monica Pier. Get up. You must leave. [repeated again with a different wording, that I have also recorded of myself after the incident for the record which can be provided upon request]. Excerpts of Actual transcript of my recording following: [Lisa Green] I, do, I have one [meaning a recorder]. [Male sitting on sidewalk next to exit of Public Storage driveway about 50ft from corner of Rose Avenue on 3rd Street, referred to as Male_1 going forward] Man, we got permission? [Male Officer (Id on file)] Sorry? [Male1] Are we allowed to stay here from 9 at night to 6 in the morning? [Lady Officer (Id on file)] No [Male Officer] No, sir. [Lady Officer] We got this call from our Captian. We don't usually come down here (meaning 3rd Street with lights on door open after announcing on speaker that people must leave the sidewalks of 3rd Street) [Lady Officer] I know you do not have any place to go. [Male1] Yeah, we don't. [Lisa Green] Can I ask which Captain? [Male Officer] Captain Crump [Lisa Green] We know Captain Peters, we're not under the impression that... [Male Officer] Do you have her phone number? His phone number? [Lady Officer] We have a new Captain. [Lisa Green, Male1] They said {meaning Capt Peters, other Officers, attorneys} that we [ homeless] have the right to stay our here between 9pm as long as we're not blocking.. [Male Officer] Do you have he/her phone number? [Lisa Green] Do I have Peters phone number with me at the moment? No. [Male Officer] Okay, when you get a chance why don't you give him a call. You said you know him, right? [Lady Officer] We wouldn't come down here but.. Add'l excerpt transcribed by Lisa Green from Video [Lisa Green] Is it possible to get your instructions, your card Officers? [Male Officer] Yes (gets on phone). [Male Officer] (Speaking to someone on phone) We're going to walk up and down the sidewalk to see if I find anything. [Male Officer] Do you have any warrants? (ask man sitting on sidewalk who's having seizures from having lights flashed in his eyes, his service dog by his side, he manages to mutter, no) [Male Officer] (Speaking to someone on phone) We're going to do a foot beet for a half an hour, yeah. [Lisa Green] I repeat what Officer just stated to the person I have on the phone as backup and support. [Male Officer] (Speaking to someone on phone)Okay. Okay. Uh, can you have the video team bring a video camera to this location just for cya purposes. I have people here video taping in protest of this..... [Male Officer] (Speaking to someone on phone) Okay. Okay. Okay. Another male approaches, identified as Male2. [Male2] Can I ask you a question? (addresses Male Officer) [Male Officer] Yeah. [Male2] Why is this going on? [Male Officer] We got a call that people were sleeping on the sidewalks. [Male2] Why is this going on? Cops have never told us that before? [Male and Lady Officer] We're sorry. [Male2] It's just, I've been here awhile. [Male Officer] How long have you been here? [Male2] uh, a year. It's just, no Officer has said that before. Every copy knows we can sleep outside from 9pm to 6am. Then they say after 6am we have to leave. [Male Officer] We have our Supervisor coming out here. he'll explaing it to you. In the meantime we're going to enforce it until he gets here. [Lisa Green] Is it possible to get your card? [Lady Officer] We're getting it. [Lisa Green] Thank you Officer. (I tell person on the phone the officer are about to give me their card so I'll have to juggle camera and phone). Officers are speaking to each other for a moment before approaching me with the information. [Male Officer] Here you go (to me, Lisa Green). Give them call. Here's our business card. Our employee numbers. Give the station a call, talk to our Watch Commander. (then officers return toward LAPD vehicle, get in and drive down the street, pausing to speak to someone else). end of segment.

"This weekend" / "Este fin de semana" (impreciso)

BIG ISLAND (HI) - "officers will conduct DUI checkpoints throughout the island over the holiday weekend." (http://www.hawaii247.com/2010/09/02/police-stepping-up-dui-checkpoints-for-labor-day-weekend/)

CALISTOGA (CA) - "drunken driving check point in Calistoga over the Labor Day holiday weekend." (http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/article_b2363bc8-b707-11df-a4ba-001cc4c03286.html)

MADISON COUNTY (TN) - "The Jackson Police Department will be working in tandem with the Madison County Sheriff's Department over the Labor Day weekend with random checkpoints throughout the city and county." (http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20100903/NEWS01/9030314/1002/Police++Drunk+drivers+beware)

MONTGOMERY COUNTY (TX) - "Authorities in Montgomery County say they will be using sobriety checkpoints to catch those over the legal limit." (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7647761)

PENNSYLVANIA - "The DUI checkpoints will happen throughout Adams, Dauphin, Cumberland and York counties." (http://www.whptv.com/mostpopular/story/DUI-checkpoints-planned-for-holiday-weekend/KTaj4H1OX0KCJxJs-ysedg.cspx)



Friday / Viernes (3/sep)

ANAHEIM (CA) - "Other scheduled checkpoints are taking place in Anaheim on Friday and La Habra on Saturday." (http://www.ocregister.com/news/checkpoint-265028-police-dui.html)

BAKER COUNTY (FL) - "sobriety checkpoint will take place on Friday, September 3, 2010, starting at 9:00 p.m. and concluding on Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. The checkpoint will be held on US 90, West of CR-231 in Baker County." (http://www.lakecityjournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=74&ArticleID=6509)

BECKLEY (WV) - "The checkpoint will be held on Fayette Street from 8 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday." (http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=85547)

BREA (CA) - "Brea Police is holding a DUI and driver's license checkpoint on Friday from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Imperial Highway east of Valley View in Yorba Linda." (http://www.ocregister.com/news/checkpoint-265028-police-dui.html)

CAMARILLO (CA) - "sobriety checkpoint in Camarillo from 7 p.m. to midnight Friday" (http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/sep/01/dui-crackdown-planned-over-holiday-weekend/)

CARSON (CA) - "7 tonight to 3 a.m. Saturday at an undisclosed location." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)

CHINO (CA) - "sobriety and driver's license checkpoint from 9 p.m. Sept. 3 to 4 a.m. Sept. 4" (http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_15900099)

CHINO HILLS (CA) - "DUI /driver's license checkpoint from 6 p.m Friday to 2 a.m. Sunday in Chino Hills." (http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_15963590)

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP – "A drunk driving checkpoint will take place Friday night near Northgate Mall in the 3500 block of Springdale Road...from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m" (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100903/NEWS01/309030011/DUI-checkpoint-location)

ECHO PARK (CA) - "8 tonight to 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Sunset Boulevard and Sutherland Avenue." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)

EL SEGUNDO (CA) - "7 tonight to 3 a.m. Saturday at an undisclosed location in the city." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)

FONTANA (CA) - "DUI /driver's license checkpoint from 6 p.m. Friday to 1:30 a.m. Saturday." (http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_15974031)

GREENFIELD (CA) - "sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint Friday night." (http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100902/NEWS09/100902016/1002/NEWS01/South+Monterey+County+city+to+conduct+DUI+checkpoint+)

HAMILTON COUNTY (OH) - "A drunk driving checkpoint will take place in Hamilton County on Friday night" (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100901/NEWS01/309010011/DUI-checkpoint-Friday)

HIGHLAND (CA) - "The checkpoint will be from 6 p.m. until 2 a.m. at the corner of Base Line Road and Central Avenue." (http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_15968720)

LA QUINTA (CA) - "Police in Palm Springs and La Quinta plan to check drivers’ sobriety and licenses at checkpoints tonight" (http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100903/NEWS0801/100903006/Palm+Springs++La+Quinta+plan+DUI+checkpoints+tonight)

LA VERNE (CA) - "drivers license and driving under the influence checkpoint from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. Saturday" (http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_15973992)

LEE COUNTY (FL) - "A DUI sobriety checkpoint is scheduled for this weekend, beginning today." (http://www.news-press.com/article/20100903/NEWS01/100903003/1075/DUI-checkpoint-planned-in-Lee-County-this-weekend)

LIVE OAK (FL) - "Comprehensive Roadside Sobriety Checkpoint (CRSC) within the Lake City District, on Friday, September 3, starting at 10 p.m...on US Highway 129, north of the city of Live Oak in Suwannee County." (http://www.lakecityjournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=74&ArticleID=6509)

LOS ANGELES (CA) - "6 tonight to 1 a.m. Saturday at Manchester Avenue and Hoover Street." "7 tonight to 12:30 a.m. Saturday at Slauson Avenue and Olive Street." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)

MARTINEZ (CA) - "Planned for the 3700 block of Alhambra, roughly between Hagin’s Automotive and the Walgreen’s, the checkpoint is scheduled to last from 7 p.m. to midnight." (http://www.martinezgazette.com/news/story/i1336/2010/09/02/dui-checkpoint)

MENIFEE (CA) - "DUI/Driver’s License checkpoint September 3, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 2:00 AM in the City of Menifee." (http://www.riversidesheriff.org/press/per10-0903.asp)

NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) - "sobriety checkpoint on Friday, September 3, 2010, in the warehouse district. The check point will begin at approximately 9:00 P.M. and will conclude at about 5:00 A.M." (http://www.neworleans.com/news/local-news/466594.html)

OBETZ (OH) - "The DUI Task Force will operate a checkpoint tonight on Alum Creek Drive south of Williams Road in Obetz." (http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/09/03/dui-crackdown-set-forholidayweekend.html?sid=101)

PALM SPRINGS (CA) - "Police in Palm Springs and La Quinta plan to check drivers’ sobriety and licenses at checkpoints tonight" (http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100903/NEWS0801/100903006/Palm+Springs++La+Quinta+plan+DUI+checkpoints+tonight)

PLACENTIA (CA) - "The Placentia Police Department is conducting its checkpoint on Friday from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m." (http://www.ocregister.com/news/checkpoint-265028-police-dui.html)

PLEASANTON (CA) - "sobriety and driver's license checkpoint Friday night at an undisclosed location in town...from 7 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m." (http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_15977131)

SAN MARCOS (CA) - "On Friday, September 3rd, 2010, from 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m., deputies from the San Marcos Sheriff’s Station will deploy additional resources in the form of a DUI and Driver License Checkpoint and roving saturation patrols in the city of San Marcos." (http://apps.sdsheriff.net/press/Default.aspx?FileLink=e7abbf99-c4d2-4dd4-8a09-b9ed65d7d53e)

SAN RAFAEL (CA) - "The checkpoint will begin at 6 p.m. at Francisco Boulevard East near Shoreline Parkway and may later move to Irwin Street and Fifth Avenue." (http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_15969703)

SONOMA COUNTY (CA) - "Checkpoints are planned for Friday and Saturday night" (http://www.petaluma360.com/article/20100903/COMMUNITY/100909815?Title=DUI-checkpoints-planned-this-weekend)

STOCKTON - "The checkpoint will start at 6 p.m. and end at 2 a.m. Saturday. It will be in the area of West Lane north of March Lane." (http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100903/A_NEWS02/9030308)

TENNESSEE - "For West Tennessee, the highway patrol will be staging checkpoints this evening on U.S. 70 in Madison County; U.S. 45 East in Gibson County and Weakley County; Tenn. 364 in Carroll County; Tenn. 22 in Henry County; and Tenn. 203 and U.S. 57 in Hardin County." (http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20100903/NEWS01/9030314/1002/Police++Drunk+drivers+beware)

TRACY (CA) - "The checkpoint is scheduled to run from 6 p.m. Friday evening to 2 a.m. Saturday morning at an undisclosed area in town." (http://www.tracypress.com/view/full_story/9351953/article-CHP-out-to-catch-drunken-drivers?instance=home_news_bullets)

YORBA LINDA (CA) - "DUI/Driver's License checkpoint on Friday 9/3 from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Imperial Highway east of Valley View." (http://laist.com/2010/09/01/oc_cops_to_run_long_weekend_dui_cra.php)

YUCCA VALLEY (CA) - "sobriety and driver's license checkpoint on September 3, 2010, from 6:00p.m. - 02:00a.m, in the area of Twentynine Palms Highway and Trojan Lane" (http://www.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/public/pressreleases/PRDetail.asp?vwSelect_StationsPage=2&PRID=3260)



Saturday / Sábado (4/sep)

APPLE VALLEY (CA) - "DUI/Drivers License checkpoint on Saturday September 4, 2010 from 6pm to 2am, in the Town of Apple Valley" (http://www.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/public/pressreleases/PRDetail.asp?PRID=3270)

ENCINO (CA) - "Reseda Boulevard and Ventura Boulevard from 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m." (http://laist.com/2010/09/02/at_least_8_dui_checkpoints_this_hol.php)

HAWTHORNE (CA) - "8 p.m. Saturday to 4 a.m. Sunday in the 12700 block of Hawthorne Boulevard." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)

LA HABRA (CA) - "Other scheduled checkpoints are taking place in Anaheim on Friday and La Habra on Saturday." (http://www.ocregister.com/news/checkpoint-265028-police-dui.html)

LICKING COUNTY (OH) - "OVI checkpoint will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday night on state Route 13 in Licking County, south of Cristland Hill Road." (http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2010/sep/03/3/ovi-checkpoint-licking-county-ar-220523/)

LOS ANGELES (CA) - "6 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday at Jefferson Boulevard and Western Avenue." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)

MARINA DEL REY (CA) - "6 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday at Washington Boulevard and Stanford Avenue." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)

MOORPARK (CA) - "DUI checkpoint Saturday in part of the county’s unincorporated area" (http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/sep/01/dui-crackdown-planned-over-holiday-weekend/)

RESEDA (CA) - "Sherman Way and Amigo Avenue from 8:00 p.m. - 2 a.m." (http://laist.com/2010/09/02/at_least_8_dui_checkpoints_this_hol.php)

SANTA BARBARA (CA) - "sobriety/driver license checkpoint on Saturday, September 4, 2010, in the Santa Barbara City limits...from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. The CHP will generate an e-mail and/or fax notification detailing the location of the checkpoint approximately two hours prior to the opening." (http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=38394)

SONOMA COUNTY (CA) - "Checkpoints are planned for Friday and Saturday night" (http://www.petaluma360.com/article/20100903/COMMUNITY/100909815?Title=DUI-checkpoints-planned-this-weekend)

TARZANA (CA) - "8 p.m. Saturday to 1:30 a.m. Sunday at Reseda and Ventura boulevards." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)

VENICE (CA) - "Washington Boulevard and Stanford Avenue from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m." (http://laist.com/2010/09/02/at_least_8_dui_checkpoints_this_hol.php)



Sunday / Domingo (5/sep/2010)

SAN PEDRO (CA) - "3 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Harbor Boulevard and First Street." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)



Monday / Lunes (6/sep)

TENNESSEE - "On Monday evening, checkpoints will be staged on Tenn. 54 in Weakley County; U.S. 79 in Carroll County; Tenn. 119 in Henry County; and Tenn. 22A and US 412 in Henderson County." (http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20100903/NEWS01/9030314/1002/Police++Drunk+drivers+beware)

TWENTYNINE PALMS (CA) - "DUI/Drivers License checkpoint on September 6, 2010, from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., in the area of Twentynine Palms Highway and Larrea Avenue." (http://www.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/public/pressreleases/PRDetail.asp?PRID=3265)

VENICE (CA) - "3 to 9 p.m. Monday at Venice and Abbot Kinney boulevards." (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15976386)



Friday / Viernes (10/sep)

LINCOLN (NE) - "And somewhere in northwest Lincoln on Sept. 10, officers will stop cars at a sobriety checkpoint." (http://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_788d35d2-b79a-11df-b097-001cc4c03286.html)

PASCO COUNTY (FL) - "A DUI checkpoint is in the works for Sept. 10 as well." (http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2010/sep/02/ha-pasco-deputies-to-step-up-dui-patrols-during-ho/)

Recently right-wing radio, along with some mainstream media; have been having a field day (or field days) regarding alleged RV dumping of black water in Venice. Out of all the propaganda surrounding this, I cannot understand how over 100 gallons of sewage could come out of a holding tank that most likely has somewhere between a 25 and 40 gallon capacity. And the Venice Neighborhood Watch character (seen here in a video http://blip.tv/file/1812907 ), whose credibility has been questioned by community members, was the person who fingered the alleged dumper. Still, Councilman Bill Rosendahl is calling for an agency “working group” in order to better respond to public health hazards. Here are some of our most critical public health hazards they will not focus on: 1. The dumping of carbon pollution from petroleum and coal used for energy and transportation – our carbon footprint is something we should all be trying to reduce, but one of the main culprits is our US Military. In 2006 the Department of Defense was the largest consumer of energy in the world – using 1 quadrillion BTU. A standard military M-1 Abrams tank will only go 20 miles on 100 gallons of fuel. Lets not forget the hazardous public health effects of depleted uranium or all the extremely nasty chemicals, like perchlorate, used for explosives. (The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism - By Barry Sanders & Published by AK Press) 2. The dumping of livestock excrement into our waterways by factory farms, often unregulated, pollutes and kills life by spreading the chemicals injected into the animals along with the insecticides used on livestock feed into lakes, streams, rivers that flows into our oceans, and seeps into the ground water, 3. The dumping of methane gas into our atmosphere by these livestock factory farms, which is a significant greenhouse gas linked to global warming. If you purchase and consume factory farmed animal products, you are contributing to these public health hazards – not to mention creating a health hazard for you and your family. In fact, these few examples of dumping I have named (and there are more) are well documented public health hazards that many scientists believe will end life as we know it on planet earth, especially if they aren’t reduced or controlled dramatically. Not the people who live in RVs in Venice. So a little perspective is in order here – along with trying to focus on positive solutions. The city and the county could provide some free vouchers for RV dumping at Dockweiler State Beach. They could also open the existing public restrooms at nighttime. Along with a few well maintained port-a-potties – we could solve much of the issues related to the normal human function of peeing and pooing. Considering the millions of people who visit Venice, generating millions of dollars of tourist revenue, it is simply silly that our city councilman has not done at least these few things prior to calling for a highfaluting working group. Councilman Rosendahl could also do the humane thing and make sure people living in vehicles had some safe local public parking lots to go to at night before calling for the homeless haters to fill out bogus petitions in order to justify putting in his newly amended oversized vehicle ordinance in Venice. We absolutely need to consider taking emergency measures pertaining to our homeless population, like providing safe public parking lots, because many people living in vehicles are disabled and we are in the middle of an economic crisis that does not appear to being resolved any time soon. Lets not forget that we have the largest Free Clinic in Southern California in Venice. No one in our council office or the city seems to care much about how using law enforcement to harass or remove homeless people from Venice will kill someone who is very sick. Unfortunately, our city has mainly chosen law enforcement, incarceration, and the court system as the non-solution-based answer to homelessness. It costs much more to criminalize homeless people than to house them and our local tax dollars are supporting these heavy expenditures. We tax payers are helping to perpetuate a big festering budget boil that has no cure. It would save money and be much more helpful to those in need if people could get united behind solutions, like building more low income housing or assisted living, rather than hate and fear mongering. And as for that right-wing radio, I think if you listen to those stations too much your IQ will be decreased – if not eliminated completely.

up to 3,000 people marched in the 40th anniversary CHICANO MORATORIUM march in east L.A. on Aug 28 2010. the marchers had as main demands… Stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan! Money for jobs and not for war!

Viernes / Friday (27/ago)

ASBURY PARK (NJ) - "From 11 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday, police will pull over motorists traveling southbound on Route 71 into the municipal parking lot to determine drivers' sobriety" (http://www.app.com/article/20100826/NEWS/100826043/DWI-checkpoint-to-be-held-in-Asbury-Park-this-weekend)

ATASCADERO (CA) - "Atascadero Police Department will conduct a DUI/drivers license checkpoint today from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m." (http://www.atascaderonews.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=3063&page=72)

BERKELEY (CA) - "The checkpoint will be at Adeline Street between Harmon and Fairview streets from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m." (http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_15904882)

COACHELLA (CA) - "police plan to stop vehicles at an undisclosed location in the city and check drivers’ sobriety as well as their licenses from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m." (http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100825/NEWS0801/100825018/Coachella+police+plan+two+weekend+DUI+checkpoints)

FLORIDA - "The checkpoint will be conducted on US 319 north of State Road 267." (http://www.wakulla.com/Wakulla_News/Local_News/Florida_Highway_Patrol_to_Conduct_Roadside_Sobriety_Checkpoint_on_August_27_2010082710584/)

GOLETA (CA) - "DUI / Drivers License Checkpoint on August 27, 2010 and on August 28, 2010 at unannounced locations within the city limits." (http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=37977)

KING CITY (CA) - "a sobriety checkpoint today on Jolon Road. The DUI and driver’s license checkpoint will be held from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m., the CHP said." (http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100827/NEWS01/100827014)

LAGUNA NIGUEL (CA) - "From 7 tonight to 3 a.m. Saturday, a DUI/DL checkpoint will be up somewhere in Laguna Niguel." (http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/crime-sex-1/cypress-dui-checkpoint-drivers/)

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP (OH) - "sobriety checkpoint at state Route 21 at Marshallville Road in Lawrence Township today" (http://www.cantonrep.com/stark/x1395628931/Sobriety-checkpoint-to-target-Lawrence-Township)

ONTARIO (CA) - "Retén en Mission entre Mountain y San Antonio" (información de la red de mensajes de texto)

OVERLAND PARK (MO) - "The Kansas City Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on this weekend at a location in Kansas City that is known for occurrence of DUI related crashes or DUI arrests." (http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2010/08/dui-checkpoints-this-weekend.html)

RANCHO CUCAMONGA (CA) - "checkpoint will be held on Friday from 6PM to 2AM." (http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_15900097)

SANTA BARBARA (CA) - "Friday August 27th 7 pm to 3 am" (http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=37977)

SANTA CLARITA VALLEY (CA) - "On Friday, August 27, the California Highway Patrol Newhall Area Office will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint in the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County. The checkpoint will begin at approximately 8:30 P.M. and conclude at approximately 2:30 A.M." (http://hometownstation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21530:chp-dui-checkpoint-clarita-2010-08-25-15-20-&catid=26:local-news&Itemid=97)

SANTA ROSA (CA) - "The checkpoint will run from 7 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday" (http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100827/NEWS/100829560?Title=DUI-license-checkpoint-tonight-in-Santa-Rosa-)

WILTON (CT) - "DUI checkpoint starting on Friday evening and extending into Saturday morning on Danbury Road." (http://wilton.patch.com/articles/dui-checkpoint-friday-night)



Saturday / Sábado (28/ago)

BERWICK (ME) — Police will be conducting an operating-under-the-influence checkpoint in the downtown area on Saturday, Aug. 28. (http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100827/GJNEWS_01/708279909&template=SouthernMaineRegion)

COACHELLA (CA) - "police plan to stop vehicles at an undisclosed location in the city and check drivers’ sobriety as well as their licenses from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m." (http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100825/NEWS0801/100825018/Coachella+police+plan+two+weekend+DUI+checkpoints)

CYPRESS (CA) - "Cypress Police Department conducts a DUI and driver's license checkpoint from 8 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday." (http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/crime-sex-1/cypress-dui-checkpoint-drivers/)

GOLETA (CA) - "DUI / Drivers License Checkpoint on August 27, 2010 and on August 28, 2010 at unannounced locations within the city limits." (http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=37977)

KNOXVILLE (TN) "The checkpoint will be 1 a.m.-2 a.m. at Cherokee Trail and Cherokee Bluff" (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/aug/26/082610webcheckpoint/)

LA HABRA (CA) - "La Habra holds a DUI/DL Checkpoint from 7 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday." (http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/crime-sex-1/cypress-dui-checkpoint-drivers/)

LONG BEACH (CA) - "checkpoint, which will run from 6 p.m. Saturday through 2 a.m. Sunday." (http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15904821)

NAPA VALLEY (CA) - "driving under the influence and driver's license checkpoint Saturday between 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. in an undisclosed location." (http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/article_3a6d03ac-b0d5-11df-a5b3-001cc4c002e0.html)

PERRIS (CA) - "DUI/driver's license checkpoint from 6 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday" (http://www.pe.com/localnews/perris/stories/PE_News_Local_D_sb27_dui.2951528.html)

REDLANDS (CA) - "Friday, Aug 27, DUI/CDL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

RIALTO (CA) - "Friday, Aug 27, DUI/CDL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

SILVER SPRINGS (NV) - "One checkpoint is scheduled for Saturday in Silver Springs near the entrance to Lake Lahontan State Park and the other is planned in Washoe County." (http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20100827/NEWS/100829678/1001&parentprofile=1)

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP (OH) - "an OVI checkpoint on U.S. 40, just east of U.S. 68 in Springfield Township. It starts at 8 p.m. Friday night and runs through 2 a.m. Saturday morning." (http://www.whiotv.com/news/24782845/detail.html)

TUCSON (AZ) - "the Tucson Police Department said it set up a sobriety checkpoint on Saturday night" (http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_5228f5fa-9fc0-501a-9c87-c098a6ec3dd2.html)

UTAH COUNTY (UT) - "The checkpoints will be set up at State Road 114 at mile post 4, between Provo and Orem on Geneva Road. The checkpoint will begin at 9 p.m. Saturday and end at 3 a.m. Sunday." (http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50159728-76/checkpoint-county-office-sheriff.html.csp)

YUCAIPA (CA) - "Friday, Aug 27, DUI/CDL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)



Sunday / Domingo (29/aug)

CLAREMONT (CA) - "sobriety checkpoint at an undisclosed location within the City. The checkpoint will start at 6:00 p.m. and conclude at 2:00 a.m." (http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/download.cfm?ID=27088)



Next weekend / El finde entrante

APPLE VALLEY (CA) - "Saturday, Sept. 4, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

CHINO (CA) - "sobriety and driver's license checkpoint from 9 p.m. Sept. 3 to 4 a.m. Sept. 4" (http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_15900099)

EL CERRITO (CA) - "sobriety and driver's license checkpoint between 8:30 p.m. and 3 a.m. Sept. 3 on northbound San Pablo Avenue between Hill Street and Cutting Boulevard." (http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_15890756?nclick_check=1)

FONTANA (CA) - "A DUI/driver’s license checkpoint will be held in Fontana on Monday, Aug. 30 and on Friday, Sept. 3" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

GRAND TERRACE (CA) - "Saturday, Sept. 4, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

HESPERIA (CA) - "Saturday, Sept. 4, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

HIGHLAND (CA) - "Friday, Sept. 3, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

LOMA LINDA (CA) - "Sunday, Sept. 5, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

ONTARIO (CA) - "Friday, Sept. 3, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

REDLANDS (CA) - "Saturday, Sept. 4, DUI/DL checkpoint" "Sunday, Sept. 5, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

RIALTO (CA) - "Friday, Sept. 3, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

UPLAND (CA) - "Thursday, Sept. 2, DUI/DL checkpoint, Upland" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

VICTORVILLE (CA) - "Friday, Sept. 3, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

YUCAIPA (CA) - "Friday, Sept. 3, DUI/DL checkpoint" (http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/doc4c7694a6e8a41124050155.txt)

Federal prosecutors have used top leaders of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), known as the most violent gang in the US and Central America, as secret informants over a decade of murders, drug-trafficking and car-jackings across a dozen US states and several Central American countries. During that time period, prosecutors obtained more than 21 wiretap approvals, plus extensions, to investigate MS-13, failing to tell judges that the gang leaders were already in custody as informants—a possible violation of federal law. The details are revealed in court documents filed by the defense in the ongoing murder conspiracy trial of Alex Sanchez [1] and 23 alleged MS-13 members in Los Angeles. Sanchez, who was released on bail [2] after an outpouring of community appeals and a review by an appeals court, is well-known as the former gang member who founded Homies Unidos [3], a gang intervention group attempting to quell gang violence in the US and Central America. The revelations threaten to undermine the state’s case—and could even lead parts to be thrown out—while raising serious questions about the legality of the US government’s global war on gangs, which, like the larger war on terror, uses undercover police units, informants, secret databases, and surveillance without clear legal authority. The informants are identified as Nelson Comandari, described by law enforcement as "the CEO of Mara Salvatrucha," and his self described “right hand man,” Jorge Pineda, nicknamed "Dopey" because of his drug-dealing background. Both are Salvadorans in their 30s, being held in law enforcement custody at undisclosed locations. Los Angeles authorities hold Comandari responsible for six to ten murders—killings he either committed or ordered—according to crime reporter Tom Diaz in his 2009 book No Boundaries, about transnational gangs. Comandari's grandfather was Col. Agustin Martinez Varela, a powerful right-wing Salvadoran who served as an interior minister during El Salvador’s civil wars. Comandari's uncle, Franklin Varela, was a central informant in the Reagan administration’s scandalous investigation into the activist Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador [CISPES]. There is more that may come to light. "Public information about Nelson Comandari's criminal case is in lockdown," Diaz wrote last year, "and I was subtly warned more than once about writing about it." Mention of Comandari’s name, Diaz added, "causes senior FBI and Justice Department officials in Washington to blanch." Comandari and Pineda/Dopey have been in government custody since 2006 and 2000 respectively, where their phone calls have been recorded and their personal contacts monitored. In Pineda/Dopey's case, according to court documents, "at the time it applied for the initial wiretap order at the end of November 2000, the government had already had access to Dopey for nearly three months." As for Comandari, he was providing recorded evidence for authorities "just weeks before the government applied for its first wiretap of 2006." The failure by the FBI and prosecutors to disclose their relationships with Comandari and Pineda/Dopey while seeking wiretap authorizations potentially violated federal law requiring officials to show that a wiretap is a "necessity" in the absence of any other intelligence-gathering techniques. "Inaccuracies or significant omissions" in wiretap applications are prohibited. Pineda/Dopey, by his own account, taped as many as 600 phone calls "from all over the world" with the FBI listening, holding discussions of ongoing MS-13 criminal activity beginning in 2001. The information he obtained was so valuable to authorities that the FBI described it as "gold dust." With the FBI’s encouragement, Pineda/Dopey cultivated the trust of Comandari, eventually becoming the middleman other gang leaders had to call in order to communicate with him. In exchange, Pineda/Dopey received nearly $130,000 in payments from the government between 2000 and 2004, and remained on the state payroll until 2006. He was protected from deportation, as were his relatives, and he obtained favorable treatment for his wife in a criminal case. After investing so much in his "right-hand man," it must have been thrilling for the prosecution when the captive Comandari started spilling his guts to an FBI-led team in January 2006. Three days of questioning yielded 26 single-spaced pages of notes. Another series of interrogations, in May of that year, produced 44 single-spaced pages. Interrogations in September turned out a 61-page summary. Present during several interrogation sessions were Frank Flores, the lead LAPD officer on the current case, and Elizabeth Carpenter, the lead prosecutor. It’s not clear how many other interrogations took place, and the notes remain sealed. But it is clear that the prosecution kept their extensive questioning of "the CEO" of MS-13 a secret from the wiretap judges. Federal Judge Manuel Real will rule on the wiretaps’ admissibility before the trial opens next February. If he sides with the prosecution and there is a conviction, the wiretap ruling will be appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, for all the evidence of official misconduct, nothing has turned up in the "gold dust" tapes to fortify the prosecution’s case against Alex Sanchez. Of some 20,000 taped phone calls recorded by authorities, the prosecution has produced only four in which Sanchez participated, and Sanchez says his former comrades asked that he participate in those calls because of an old gang dispute in which he and others were being threatened by name. The transcripts of these calls back him up, with a key MS-13 leader repeatedly demanding to know why Sanchez was on the calls when he was no longer an active member of the gang. The fact that the state concealed its ties to top MS-13 leaders could lead parts of its conspiracy case to be thrown out—and the hidden side of its war on gangs to be exposed. If hiding the use of top gang leaders as informants while seeking broad wiretap powers is not “a significant omission,” the government is betting that the rule of law can be overlooked in waging its overzealous war on gangs.

BANTAY PILIPINAS PROJECT LOS ANGELES (BPPLA) August 23, 2010 BANTAY PILIPINAS FORMED IN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles- The Manila based BANTAY PILIPINAS, a cybernet group that advocated for free, clean and honest elections in the Philippines last May 10 presidential elections - formed the Steering Committee of its LA project last August 15, 2010. In a collective decision to continue the tasks of BANTAY PILIPINAS not only as an election watch dog but also as the premier advocate of good governance and anti graft and corruption campaign in the Philippines - individuals and groups banded together and formed a steering committee in Los Angeles. The composition of BPP-LA Steering Committee a self selecting body was chosen by the BANTAY activists themselves. The initial members are Austin Baul Jr., FACLA Executive Director; Paul Julian, FACLA Ist Vice President; Jerry Esguerra, Bantay Pilipinas USA convenor; Arturo P. Garcia; Oliver Sulit; Clarita Julian; Rita Dinsay; Cela Esguerra; Linda Nery; Aurora and Armando Torreda. BUILDING ON ITS SUCCESS Prior to the elections in May, Los Angeles witnessed the first ever political related debate featuring represenatives of leading presidential candidates in the Philippines. Pegged as "Debate sa PTown", hosted by Bantay and held at the Historic Filipinotown, it was well attended and received extensive press coverage. A similar event was also held in San Diego California. On October 16, 2010 - Bantay will. again venture into another ground breaking event - a multi media celebration of the heroism and artistry of the Philippine national hero Dr. Jose Rizal. This will be held at the East West Players in the heart of Los Angeles' Little Tokyo - "Isang Gabi ni Rizal" will feature a full reception replete with chamber music, wine table, verses from Rizal's work, exhibition of paintings by U.S. based Filipino artists, books and Rizal inspired publications and a sumptuous Filipino style light buffet. The highlight of the evening will be the screening and review of Marilou Abaya's 1998 film "Jose Rizal". At the steering committee meeting on August 19 Bantay geared for the planned inaugural ball early next year and the Bantay Pilipinas International Conference in Manila next summer. Exploratory organizing committees are also forming in San Francisco, San Diego, New York-New Jersey area and Chicago. Bantay Pilipinas is surely moving forward! *****

Stewart Alexander 2012 http://socialistparty-usa.org/ http://www.gp.org/index.php The Freedom Socialist Party dismissed President Obama’s jobless recovery in 2009; the Socialist Party has dismissed any signs of an economic recovery; now, Stewart Alexander, a 2012 U.S. presidential hopeful says, “A majority of Americans no longer believe Barack Obama has a plan to revive the U.S. economy or to create jobs.” At the beginning of 2010, an article appeared in the Freedom Socialist, “The myth of the jobless recovery.” The article revealed that the jobless recovery was based on increased profits for corporate America; the article also noted “Many workers are experiencing not a recession but a full scale depression.” Stewart Alexander says, “Since President Obama took office in 2009, the U.S. economy has gone from bad to worse; unemployment numbers have remained high, and as many as 22 million Americans are out of work. Last week, U.S. jobless claims rose to the highest levels in nine months. According to the Associated Press, “Employers appear to be laying off workers again as the economic recovery weakens. The number of people applying for unemployment benefits reached the half-million mark last week for the first time since November.” Alexander has estimated that as many as 40 percent of black workers are unemployed or underemployed; and as many as 35 percent of all minorities, to include females are unemployed or underemployed. Alexander says as many as 30 percent of teens remain unemployed. Steve Hoffman, with the Washington Federation of State Employees Local 304 and contributing writer for the Freedom Socialist, noted in his article (The myth of the jobless recovery), “No amount of chronic social misery impress government bureaucrats and media spin doctors.” The say “Sure, maybe it’s a jobless recovery. But profits are up! Can’t we celebrate?” Alexander says financing the war and the U.S. occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan is costing U.S. jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars that could be used to rebuild and repair our nation’s infrastructure; “The war and occupation is taking the U.S. economy into a full scale depression.” Last week on Fox Business News with Neil Cavuto, Stewart Alexander noted that President Obama has failed on his election promise to end the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan; subsequently, financing the war has resulted in an increasing loss of U.S. jobs. Shortly after announcing he would run for president in 2012, Alexander introduced a national economic recovery program; he refers to the program as “A Better Deal.” Stewart Alexander is calling for unconventional measures to revive the U.S. economy and to create jobs; he is calling for all banks, financial and insurance institutions to be socially owned and operated by a democratically-controlled national banking authority which should include credit unions, mutual insurance cooperatives, and corporate state banks. While running as the Socialist Party’s 2008 nominee for Vice President, Alexander proposed a plan that would include other North American countries to form a North American Banking Authority. Alexander says “The struggles for working people are global; we need global solutions. In the 21st Century, it has become necessary to reorganize the entire world banking system.” To meet the growing needs of working people, Alexander is proposing the creation of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to help eliminate poverty and to meet the basic needs of working people and the long term needs for seniors. Alexander says President Obama is lacking a vision which is necessary to bring about a national economic recovery. “President Obama is only a functionary for the capitalists ruling elite and is enforcing U.S. imperialism at the expense of working class people.” For more information search the Web for: Stewart A. Alexander U.S. Socialist Stewart Alexander Will Run for President in 2012 http://www.banderasnews.com/1007/nw-stewartalexander16.htm US Election 2012: Stewart Alexander Will Seek Green Party Presidential Nomination http://www.banderasnews.com/1008/nw-stewartalexander18.htm SPUSA 2008 Presidential Candidate Questionnaire- Stewart A. Alexander http://vote-socialist.org/p08/questionnaires/alexander.html Article by Stewart Alexander http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/myarticles/Stewart-A--Alexander/3439 Washington and Capitalism is in Shambles http://www.socialistwebzine.org/2009/05/washington-and-capitalism-in-shambles.html Election 2012: Stewart Alexander Proposing ‘A Better Deal’ for Economic Recovery http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Election-2012--Stewart-Alexander-Proposing-a--Better-Deal--for-Economic-Recovery/211555 Socialist Party of California Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Murrieta-CA/Socialist-Party-of-California/123576857687203 Stewart Alexander 4Prez http://www.u4prez.com/Blogs/imagine89/For-President-in-2012.html Dan La Botz for U.S. Senate Socialist Party of Ohio http://danlabotz.com/ Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org/index.php Mohammad Arif Stewart Alexander 2012 National Campaign Manager Socialist Party of California 40485 Murrieta Hot Springs Road, #149 Murrieta, CA 92563

The following emails, which appeared on the New Pacifica Yahoo group, says much about their author, KPFK listener candidate Christopher Bayard Condon. They're posted here in the interest of informing and educating the electorate.  Condon is responding to a blog by Doug Henwood, host of “Behind the News” at KPFA in Berkeley. He is not running with a slate, but as of this writing, he remains a committee member of one of them, the Committee To Save KPFK. We've highlighted those ideas that we find troubling, but we ask that you judge for yourself. Photo by NoHoDamon.

Subject: [Fwd: Doug Henwood: the state of WBAI]
Posted by: "bayardcondon" lacitizensgrandjury@earthlink.net bayardcondon
Date: Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:49 am ((PDT))

Gentle Pacificans,

There are two types of people in the world; those who take responsibility and those who blame others. Now I have been a fan of Doug Henwood's since I lived in NYC and listened to the then much better WBAI, so this is not a personal attack although I can predict that he will take it as such and respond with a personal attack. He knows a great deal about the economy and wall street, pre-911, but he knows nothing about the 911 attack, planning, execution, and cover-up; and knows even less about natural medicine.

Part of the reason he knows nothing about these things is that he, and for that matter the entire left gatekeeper leadership, Jews and Gentiles alike, have swallowed from the beginning the pre-scripted propaganda fabrication of the fictitious al-quaida and Osama bin forgotten conspiracy theory - advanced by the most powerful propaganda apparatus in world history. Not only that, but he cannot even see this apparatus and grip on the intellectual jugular of the left for having become part of it, any more than fish can see the water they swim in.

Now they can't, aren't big enough, to acknowlege being wrong from the beginning, played a role themselves in advancing the propaganda fabrication, and failed to educate themselves in the now conclusive body of evidence that points to, well, other parties as the perps of the 911 attack summed up in the assertion that "911 was an inside job."

Flowing from this intellectual collapse is a failure to understand all its consequences; the purpose and meaning of Guantanamo, the preplanned attack on Afganistan, the pre-scripted Patriot Act, the plan for permanent occupation and control of central Asia, the control of the global drug trade, and, dear Doug Henwood, the control of the global financial system. In short, a failure to understand anything else and a retreat into the comfort of the collective delusional hallucination into which our media has invited us to live, permanently, for the rest of our lives. No thank you.

All this, and much more, was the objective of coup d'etat which we suffered on September 11, 2001. We, and our stepinfetchit President, are now governed by those who planned, executed, and covered-up the greatest crime in American History. Henwood, most of the so called Pacifica public affairs programmers, most specifically including Amy Goodman, cannot, will not, wrap their tender little brains around the magnitude of their intellectual failure. Nor do they have the capacity to look directly into the heart of darkness, describe what they see, and give challenge to absolute evil.

Thats why we can't attract and keep listeners, because we are politically, intellectually, and morally irrelevant.

Whilst I agree that the Kevin Trudeau premium is not very Pacifica (havn't heard it, don't intend to) its just flailing about trying new things. Didn't work. WBAI and KPFK both have had failed fund drives, 55% fulfullment here in LA I hear.

Gary Null, on the other hand, has always been a fountain of valuable information and products which have made enormous contribution to Pacifica finances and our understanding of natural medicine over the decades. Those who attacked him and drove him from Pacifica have a lot to answer for. And they parade their ignorance like it some species of Boy Scout merit badge. "I don't know about it, therefore it must be false," is not a credible argument.

Yeah, we'd do just as good with Ginsu knives, and a most excellent knife sharpener I know about, slap a Pacifica decal on them and we're in business. In the alternative, we should return to tried and proven premiums, 911 material, which for years provided one third or more of our network's income, filling the gap created by Amy Goodman, Doug Henwood, and the rest.

Finally, WBAI, KPFK, and Pacifica had better learn to live on lots less money - and fast. Between our insane and very expensive governance structure, giving Amy Goodman $700,000 per year, and giving key 911 perpetrator, our landlord, Larry Silverstein, some obscene amount every month, we have not a prayer. Now that we are governed by a geriatric feminist, chosen by one vote thanks to STV voting, over a very qualified white man (an apparent disqualification) we have squandered our last chance at getting our collective act together.

Good luck to you all, you'll need it.

Bayard Condon

Subject: Re: [Fwd: Doug Henwood: the state of WBAI]
Posted by: "bayardcondon" lacitizensgrandjury@earthlink.net bayardcondon
Date: Thu Aug 12, 2010 7:58 am ((PDT))

Yes, Matt, that is correct. Most, but not all, smart people who have studied and analyzed the evidence see no other alternative but to conclude that the Mossad played a key sub-contractor role is several key areas of the 911 attack, including the planning, execution and cover up. Most Jews cannot accept this, or are silent about it. ...

Subject: Re: [Fwd: Doug Henwood: the state of WBAI]
Posted by: "bayardcondon" lacitizensgrandjury@earthlink.net bayardcondon
Date: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:42 pm ((PDT))

Chris,

You are absolutely correct, I have never in my life encountered so much racism as I have since I got involved in Pacifica. It is thinking at the lowest possible level of consciousness, and it is really starting to piss me off. As I do not do PC thinking or speaking, and prefer the vocabulary of a drunken sailor to Pacifia-speak, be forewarned.

Here we see it most visibly in the hiring process where every decision, and nearly every person making them, is motivated by race and gender issues. Oh, we fired a black man at WBAI, so we have to make his replacement black. Oh, says KPFK delegate to the PNB Ricco Ross, (sorry Ricco) we have three ED finalists and they are all white men, that won't do. So they brought back someone who had been dropped as unqualified in an earlier round, the previously referred to geriatric feminist, and thanks to STV voting is now our ED. Her first executive act was to completely stuff up the LSB elections at all stations by selecting a NES whose qualifications, well, mirrored her own. Thanks loads, Ricco. Next, she will select the GMs of most of our stations with the same standards of judgement and intellectual rigor.

So whadda we got. Governance and Management where nobody is qualified for anything. Seriously, through my eyes, there is nobody competent here at all. I actually considered applying for ED, as I know what must be done and how to do it, but did not because I would not subject myself to a process where my race and gender (not to mention politics) were marks against me, proof being what we have just seen.

Now why did it take a carload of crackers from our Texas station to come to NYC to paint and clean the carpets. Something that our previous management could not do, they did not even notice the filth that had accumulated around them so degraded was their personal consciousness. I was told about the carpet cleaning, still containing the dust from the exploded World Trade Towers, and upon cleaning gallon after gallon of blackness was removed leaving cleanliness, again, next to godliness. Or, a clean slate to muck up again.

I think the antithesis of Lew Hill's dream is for his network to have become part of the apparatus of state propaganda advancing every day in one way or another (I don't beleive in conspiracy theories, I hear from somebody every day on air at KPFK), a subtle form of mind control designed just for us on the left. We're so special.

That's what I am doing here is calling this out, shining the light on it so it can be seen. For those with eyes.

Matt thinks that's anti-semetic, Chris thinks its racist. Can it really be? Two - two - two mints in one?

Bayard Condon

Subject: Re: Fw: the state of WBAI
Posted by: "bayardcondon" lacitizensgrandjury@earthlink.net bayardcondon
Date: Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:45 am ((PDT))

Gentle Pacificans,

I would like to withdraw my earlier comments about there being nobody competent in governance or management, it was exaggeration to make a point and not literally accurate.

Joe Wanzala is one such competent individual, LaVerne Williams is another, Summer Reece is another, Grace Aaron is another, and Tony Bates is working real hard at it, mistakes and all, and there are others as I come to reflect on it. Not only have they demonstrated competence over an extended period of time, but a high degree of personal integrity which amplifies the former.

But they are all swimming upstream against a current of buffoons, poseurs, poppinjays, place holders, and mountebanks put in place by our vaunted democracy.

If only we had the good sense to recruit our top management from inside, from those who have demonstrated a track record of intellegence and performance, like we did for one year with Grace Aaron (as much as I disagree with her politics). Our hiring policies insist on outside recruitment, then deny our own board the ability to choose the candidate. STV voting was never intended for the micro level of a board; and our use of this for elections merely permits the process to be to be corruted by an organized minority (read JUC and allies) and permits the selection of a candidate not supported by the majority, as just happened by one vote. Oh, this is secret exec session stuff, too bad.

In every instance I know of, the hiring process imposed by our bylaws has produced the most unsuitable candidate imaginable, after taking one year or more to do so. Show me an exception. Since the recent refusal by the KPFA LSB, and our new glorious leader of an ED, to follow the bylaws on the recall election, firing the recall elections supervisor Sanchez (another competent individual); and the WPFW LSB refusal to acknowlege the PNB as a governing body, has demonstrated that the bylaws are merely voluntary, or for "other people," we need to stop being governed by them, period. Our PNB should have the ability to decide on a candidate they agree on, probably a PNB member, offer them the job and get on with it. In one meeting.

So we need to find a way to draft Joe Wanzala as Executive Director, quickly, and reverse the irresponsible and reckless selection of an ED whose only qualifications, it appears, was to host a third rate feminist radio program on some fouth rate local station in Florida; a program whose primary claim to fame was that she never had a man on as a guest. And, she's seventy or eighty years old at least, apparently nobody knows, without any leadership qualities at all. At least Grace Aaron wore her white hair proudly.

Let Joe Wanzala not be tarnished by my sarcastic wit, he has no knowlege of this message and we have not talked in some time; but he has demonstrated the judgement, character and leadership qualities that we need to have here right now.

And, judging from his ebony complexion, he ain't no white cracker either, a plus around here. But, I have been told in confidence, he is the wrong kind of black person. Oh... Being Irish, and only recently white, how could I ever understand this.

Will we do this? Of course not, the bylaws won't allow it. Can we amend the bylaws, of course not, the bylaws won't allow it. Can we save this network from collapse, probably not, the bylaws won't allow it.

Recall the ED, draft Joe Wanzala.

Or die, along with the rest of the progressive left, and the Republic for which it stands, a death of a thousand cuts.

Bayard Condon

A Letter to My Friends in Wilderness As my life comes to a close, I feel compelled to express my gratitude to those of you who have journeyed together with me in wilderness and contributed to my understanding of wilderness and subsequently of myself. I hope you will indulge me a few moments as I try to share with you what I have learned on our journey together. The Wilderness Act of 1964 marked a turning point in America's attitude toward wild places. It was an acknowledgment that wild places were not only coming under the plow and the paving machines, but that their loss by such means was accelerating and would soon lead to a society impoverished by the loss of the fundamental relationship between humans and the lands which defined them. The language of the Act is like few other laws we have enacted. It reads more like poetry than law and evokes an emotional response which invites introspection and envisioning of a future expressive of our concern for restraint and accommodation of other life forms. This, in contrast to a precise formulaic law was the genius of the Act's principle author, Howard Zahnizer. He fixed the concept of wilderness in our minds rather than just in law or on a piece of real estate - and compelled us to look for and understand the characteristics of wilderness in our lives as well as in our landscapes. The Wilderness Act will challenge and enrich scholars, legal experts, wilderness managers and wilderness advocates for as long as there is wilderness. We can only hope that the spirit which created this awareness of our place in the natural order prevails in our thinking, for, as Joseph Wood Krutch said, "Wilderness is the permanent home of the human spirit." Upon passage of the Wilderness Act, the Forest Service developed management policy and direction to administer this new National Wilderness Preservation System, Forest Service Manual Section 2320. It consisted of 34 pages. Today it is 55 pages and in the process of being revised in the WO. When you hold that Forest Service Manual Section 2320 in your hands, you hold a precious symbol of the Forest Service's commitment to America's wilderness, one which is being challenged by all manner of argument. Within the agency, there are those who are impatient with the idea of the minimum tool and craft arguments to justify the use of chain saws, trail machines, jackhammers, helicopters, and other expedients for the sake of convenience or economy. There are those who are wedded to the idea of mitigating the challenges of wilderness by constructing improvements, identifying and removing hazards, writing detailed guidebooks and publishing detailed maps. There are those who feel that the existing definition of wilderness may be inappropriate to an evolving social conscience rooted in technology, urbanization and speed, and that management must be modified to reflect those changing social values. There are those who feel that human intervention in natural processes within wilderness is necessary when those processes don't fit their perceptions of what is natural. There are those who hold an anthropocentric rather than bio-centric view of wilderness and accordingly suggest that accommodation for human use, rather than preserving an untrammeled wilderness resource, be the paramount consideration when shaping wilderness policy. Outside the agencies, there are those who, in their eagerness to see more public lands gain the protection of wilderness, have agreed to legislative provisions which compromise the wilderness quality of the very lands they wish to preserve as wilderness. There are those who think of wilderness as beautiful landscapes or wildlife sanctuaries or recreation areas rather than as places which integrate the enduring physical, biological and spiritual dynamics of an untrammeled part of the earth. The authors of the Wilderness Act held no such views. They were keenly aware that there were but few remnants of the landscapes which had shaped the American character and they wanted to ensure that these were preserved in the condition of wildness which confronted and influenced our early pioneers. They knew that wilderness had to remain a point of reference in both our natural and cultural histories, an enduring benchmark for our journey through time and space, unchanged by human intervention and subject only to natural forces. They knew that wilderness was an indispensable part of our humanness and was critical to our understanding our place in the universe. Today, the American public can be grateful that you have been vigilant and stood shoulder to shoulder with the dedicated group of wilderness advocates both within and outside the public land management agencies to assure that these challenges to wilderness are being resolved in favor of the philosophy so well articulated in the Wilderness Act. You are the stewards of America's wilderness and I want to speak to you of stewardship. Webster's Dictionary defines a steward as "One called to exercise responsible care over the possessions entrusted to him(her) ; One who manages another's property." I am extremely grateful to you for having chosen to be stewards of these lands. You have assumed a sacred trust, to be executed with reverence, humility, and a profound sense of responsibility. You are not engaged in a business or delivering a product or providing a service or producing a commodity. You are engaged in no less than preserving the nation's precious remaining repositories of wildness and guarding the permanent home of our human spirit. Over the years, I have watched as the growth and complexity of the National Wilderness Preservation System have presented you with new stewardship challenges. You have met those challenges with care and deliberation and resolved them with uncanny respect for the language and intent of the Wilderness Act. Today, you can be proud that since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964, which designated 9 million acres of Forest Service land as wilderness, the people of the United States have respected your stewardship and repeatedly petitioned the Congress to entrust to you the care of more wilderness areas. Their efforts have placed more than 109 million acres in your care. You can be proud that the federal land management agencies have created the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center to provide training in wilderness philosophy and wilderness stewardship for federal employees. You can be proud that the federal land management agencies have created the Aldo Leopold National Wilderness Research Center to conduct social and biological research to support and improve wilderness stewardship. And you can be proud of your role in preserving that "enduring resource of wilderness" envisioned by the authors of the Wilderness Act. As you enter another year of wilderness stewardship, please be as caring of yourselves as you are for wilderness. Take the time to open yourselves fully to the dynamics of wild landscapes and their affects on your mind, body and spirit. Share your passions with your colleagues and the earth. Become fully alive. These days you share with the wildness are gifts you will treasure forever. My fondest memories are of those times when nature's influences were most keenly felt: Being picked up by a gusty ridge top wind and pitched through the air like a rag doll. Huddled on the lee of a rocky summit during a storm and feeling hypothermia trying to rob me of my abilities. Being carried along in the tumbling whiteness of an avalanche. Walking out of the snow and ice of high mountains and again smelling the green of the earth. Lying in a sunny meadow and sensing that all the spirits there were filling my being with strengths unknown and unknowable. Sensing the unseen presence of the others in the landscape. Feeling a timeless wisdom trying to order my thoughts to wholeness. For most of us our connection with wilderness is commonly understood to be primarily rooted in the cultural and aesthetic responses which evolved from the experiences of early explorers and settlers on the new landscapes of America. We have recently discovered, however, that the underlying basis for our responses to wilderness goes deeper, much deeper: Going to the wilderness is going home. Anthropologists and others have been suggesting for a long time that we are still the wild creatures we were in the Pleistocene. We haven’t changed. Only our circumstances have changed. Paul Shepard, perhaps the most insightful scholar of the history and evolution of human ecology has written: "The discovery of the DNA by Watson and Crick was hailed for its implications for human health and well being. Soon it is expected we will be able to create the perfect banana or the perfect cow and clone it forever. We may soon be able to change the order of genes in our chromosomes to make us taller, thinner, stronger. Maybe even less maladapted to our current circumstances." But more importantly, the mapping of the human genome confirmed that, genetically, we are still wild, Pleistocene creatures. Finally, an answer as to why we feel so at home in wilderness. Shepard declared that “The home of our wildness is both etymologically and biologically wilderness. Although we may define ourselves in terms of culture and language and so on, it is evident that the context of our being now, as in the past, is wilderness, an environment lacking domestic plants and animals entirely, and to which, one might say, our genes look expectantly for those circumstances which are their optimal ambiance”. “The time is coming “ he said “to understand the wilderness in its significance, not as adjunct to the affluent traveler, to an educated, esthetic, appreciative class, or to thinking of nature as a Noah’s ark in all of its forms, but as the social and ecological mold of humanity itself, which is fundamental to our species”. To understand the significance of wilderness, we must take the time to separate culture from biology, learning from instinct, - and to search deep within for those ancient gifts which truly inform our humanness. I have but one request of you. Go -- Find yourself in the wilderness. Be at home. Let your genes once again find expression in the world that defined them. Rejoice in your humanness. You are a genetic library of gifts informed by centuries of life in wilderness. Gifts from the experiences of antecedent creatures - ichthyian, reptilian and mammalian which lie still in your brain stem. Gifts from the struggles of the naked ape with neither fang nor claw who was able, not only to survive, but to adapt and flourish -- simply and elegantly -- in wild landscapes. When we first walk into wilderness, we feel like alien creatures, intruding into the unknown but if we stay a while, usually about a week, and pay attention to ourselves, those gifts become apparent. We become aware that our eyes see better. We can pick things out in the landscape more keenly; we can measure distance more accurately; and shape, color and contrast are vividly apparent. Our noses discriminate and identify the odors on the wind, the smell of a bighorn is a lot different than that of a bear, there is a marsh upwind. The sounds we heard on our first day came from a general direction but now our bi-aural senses are so keen we can almost pinpoint the source and distance of a sound and identify it. The awkwardness we first felt when moving over broken ground has been replaced by a fluid economical rhythm of movement that seems almost effortless. Our spine flexes, gathering and releasing energy; our pelvis tilts, our center of gravity is keenly felt and we are again those confident primal animals on the landscape. We sense our relationships with the other creatures with whom we share these landscapes, relationships which reaffirm our humble role as members of the vast community of life. These are not new skills learned, they are ancient abilities recalled, pulled from the shelves of that genetic library deep within our being. As we peer into campfire flames, the comfort of thousands of fires, in thousands of caves, over thousands of years, warm us from the inside as well from the outside. The diminuendo of the Canyon wren and the raucous scolding of the Stellar’s jay invite our hearts to sing. The warmth of the sun and the snap of the cold affirm that we are alive and vulnerable. The mountains, the deserts, the storms and the rivers challenge our cunning and demand our respect. The vastness of the landscape humbles and fixes us in scale. As we lie on the earth in the evening, the march of Orion across the heavens fixes us in time. We are still those Pleistocene creatures -- at home and full of the wonder of being. This is the wildness in our genes, found manifest in a simple, bipedal hominid, surrounded by a peace that transcends time and in a place we shall always need: wilderness. Thank you George Duffy, Wilderness Ranger (Retired), Mountaineer, New Mexico

At 7 p.m. Saturday, August 21, a free will donation benefit show in which 100% of the donations will go to The Harmony Project will take place at Oneonta Church in South Pasadena. The Harmony Project offers free music instruction to at-risk children in Los Angeles to nurture purpose and develop these children as musical ambassadors of peace, hope and understanding amongst people of diverse cultures, backgrounds and beliefs. Drop out rates are greater than 50% for the demographic that makes up The Harmony Project’s enrollment, yet 100% of Harmony Project students remain enrolled in school. The Harmony Project teaches kids to read music, think strategically, cooperate with others, manage their time, and provides them with a brighter future. This program has been selected by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in both 2008 and 2009 as one of the best arts-based non-profits in the nation. Kids from The Harmony Project have played at the Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel. The Harmony Proect originally started out in 2001 with 36 students and now has over 700 students with 300 students on the waiting list. Performers from Miss Saigon, RENT, a soloist featured at Walt Disney Concert Hall, inspirational singer/song writers, a violinist, improvisers from Monkey Butler's Main Stage, and a representative from The Harmony Project have united to raise money and send additional students to The Harmony Project. Benefit Concert for The Harmony Project at Oneonta Congregational Church, 1515 Garfield Ave., South Pasadena. 7p.m. Saturday, August 21. Free Will Donation.

"This weekend" / "Este fin de semana"

PORTSMOUTH (NH) - "A sobriety checkpoint will be conducted by city police at an undisclosed time this week." (http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100819-NEWS-8190419)

WAKEFIELD (NH) - "Wakefield Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint in the Wakefield area sometime this weekend." (http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100820/GJNEWS_01/708209899)



"Statewide crackdowns until Labor Day" / "Mano dura hasta el Día de Trabajo"

Wisconsin, Delaware, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey



Friday / Viernes (20/aug)

CHINO HILLS (CA) - "DUI /driver's license checkpoint from 6 p.m Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday." (http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_15816488)

COACHELLA (CA) - "The checkpoint in Coachella is expected to be held from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m." (http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100820/NEWS0801/100820015/Three+cities+plan+DUI+checkpoints+this+weekend)

DEFIANCE COUNTY (OH) - "OVI checkpoints scheduled for Friday night. The exact locations will be announced Friday morning" (http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/oxford-news/alcohol-checkpoints-slated-throughout-state-869549.html)

HENRY COUNTY (IN) - "Indiana State Police troopers from the Connersville District will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Friday at an undisclosed location in Henry County." (http://www.pal-item.com/article/20100817/UPDATES/100817016/State+police+will+operate+a+checkpoint+Friday+in+Henry+County)

IMPERIAL BEACH (CA) _ "between 7:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. The check point will be conducted at 9th Street and Palm Avenue." (http://apps.sdsheriff.net/press/Default.aspx?FileLink=813950cd-3004-417f-9dd9-ce052c9d9523)

LOGAN COUNTY (OH) - "OVI checkpoints scheduled for Friday night. The exact locations will be announced Friday morning" (http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/oxford-news/alcohol-checkpoints-slated-throughout-state-869549.html)

LORAIN COUNTY (OH) - "One of the checkpoints will be in Lorain County, on Lorain Road, west of Lear Nagle Road." (http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/traffic/locations-announced-for-statewide-ovi-checkpoints)

MAHONING COUNTY (OH) - "OVI checkpoints scheduled for Friday night. The exact locations will be announced Friday morning" (http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/oxford-news/alcohol-checkpoints-slated-throughout-state-869549.html)

NOVATO (CA) - "sobriety and drivers license checkpoint on Friday at an unspecified site in Novato." (http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_15835165?nclick_check=1)

PALM DESERT (CA) - "Palm Desert’s checkpoint is set to run from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m." (http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100820/NEWS0801/100820015/Three+cities+plan+DUI+checkpoints+this+weekend)

PLACENTIA (CA) – "A driving under the influence and driver's license checkpoint has been scheduled by the Placentia Police Department for 6 p.m. Friday until 12:30 a.m. Saturday in the western portion of Placentia." (http://www.ocregister.com/news/checkpoint-262442-placentia-driver.html)

RANCHO CUCAMONGA (CA) - "The checkpoint will be at an undisclosed location from 6 p.m. tonight to 2 a.m. Saturday." (http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_15833670)

REDLANDS (CA) - "sobriety and driver's license checkpoint from 10 p.m. Friday until 3 a.m. Saturday in the southbound lane of Cajon Street, south of Cypress Avenue." (http://www.pe.com/localnews/sbcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_D_nb19_dui.1ef527a.html)

SALINAS (CA) - "A sobriety checkpoint will be set up from 6 to 11 p.m. today." (http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100820/NEWS01/100820004)

SAN BERNARDINO (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday" (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

SANTA CLARITA VALLEY (CA) - "sobriety checkpoint in the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County. The checkpoint will begin at 8:30 P.M. and end at 2:30 A.M." (http://hometownstation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21442:chp-dui-checkpoint-clarita-2010-08-18-14-57&catid=26:local-news&Itemid=97)

SANTA MARIA (CA) - "sobriety checkpoint in Santa Maria." (http://www.santamariatimes.com/news/local/article_21bb828c-aa29-11df-9ce7-001cc4c03286.html)

SCIOTO COUNTY (OH) - "OVI checkpoints scheduled for Friday night. The exact locations will be announced Friday morning" (http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/oxford-news/alcohol-checkpoints-slated-throughout-state-869549.html)

SONOMA COUNTY (CA) - "two DUI checkpoints will be held tonight" (http://roadwarrior.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/10744/18-day-dui-crackdown-starts-today-in-sonoma-county/)

TRUCKEE (CA) - "The checkpoint will be somewhere in Truckee, from 7 p.m. until midnight." (http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20100817/NEWS/100819899/1066&ParentProfile=1051)

TWENTYNINE PALMS (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday" (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND - "sobriety checkpoint on Route 1 Aug. 20...Starting in the late evening, officers will stop every northbound driver at Rossborough Drive" (http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/police-return-to-route-1-checkpoint-1.1536424)

VISTA (CA) - "DUI/Drivers License checkpoint on Friday evening, August 20, 2010, at an undisclosed location in the City of Vista." (http://apps.sdsheriff.net/press/Default.aspx?FileLink=98cd29dd-a954-42b4-be7f-3a887cbde68c)



Saturday / Sábado (21/ago)

ANAHEIM (CA) - "DUI/CDL Checkpoint, 1900-0100" (http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Sheriff-Coroner/Docs/Press%20Releases/2010-08-18_DUI_Schedule.pdf)

LOMA LINDA (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday" (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

LOMPOC (CA) - "Tomorrow, there are checkpoints scheduled for Highway 154 and in Lompoc" (http://www.santamariatimes.com/news/local/article_21bb828c-aa29-11df-9ce7-001cc4c03286.html)

MARION (OH) - "driving under the influence checkpoint in the city limits Saturday from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Sunday. (http://www.marionstar.com/article/20100820/NEWS01/8200307/-1/newsfront2)

NEPTUNE CITY (NJ) — "officers will pull cars over from 11 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday on Route 35 North." (http://www.app.com/article/20100820/NEWS/100820045/Neptune-City-police-conducting-DWI-checkpoint)

RANCHO MIRAGE (CA) - "police in Rancho Mirage plan to follow suit with a checkpoint to be held from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m." (http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100820/NEWS0801/100820015/Three+cities+plan+DUI+checkpoints+this+weekend)

RAPIDES PARISH (Louisiana) - "sobriety checkpoint from approximately 8 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday in Rapides Parish." (http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20100820/NEWS01/8200306)

RIALTO (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday" (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

ROSEVILLE (CA) - "Roseville police will target drunk drivers Saturday night with a sobriety checkpoint set up some place within city" (Modesto Bee)

SONOMA COUNTY (CA) - "two DUI checkpoints will be held tonight and two on Saturday night." (http://roadwarrior.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/10744/18-day-dui-crackdown-starts-today-in-sonoma-county/)

UKIAH (CA) - "the checkpoint will be operated from 7 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday in the "unincorporated area of Ukiah," and that "all vehicles will be checked."" (http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_15831439)

VICTORVILLE (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday" (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

WASCO (CA) - "The check point will be at an undisclosed location within the city limits of Wasco. The check point will begin at 1800 hours (6pm) and will continue to 2400 hours (12am)." (http://www.kernsheriff.com/misc/News/Pages/default.aspx)



Sunday / Domingo (22/ago)

CHINO (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

REDLANDS (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 8 p.m. to 3 a.m." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)



Next week / La semana entrante

ANAHEIM (CA) - "Friday, Sep 3rd, DUI/DL Checkpoint 1900-0100" (http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Sheriff-Coroner/Docs/Press%20Releases/2010-08-18_DUI_Schedule.pdf)

APPLE VALLEY (CA) - "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., on Sept. 4." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

CHINO (CA) - "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sept. 3." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

FONTANA (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoint, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., Fontana, Aug. 30." "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sept. 3."(http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

GRAND TERRACE (CA) - "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., on Sept. 4." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

HESPERIA (CA) - "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., on Sept. 4." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

HIGHLAND (CA) - "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sept. 3." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

LA HABRA (CA) - "Fri, Aug 27th, Sat, Sep 4th, DUI/DL Checkpoint 1900-0300" (http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Sheriff-Coroner/Docs/Press%20Releases/2010-08-18_DUI_Schedule.pdf)

LAGUNA NIGUEL - "Fri, Aug 27th, DUI/CDL Checkpoint 1900-0300," (http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Sheriff-Coroner/Docs/Press%20Releases/2010-08-18_DUI_Schedule.pdf)

LAS CRUCES (NM) - "At least one sobriety checkpoint will be conducted somewhere within city limits next weekend, Aug. 26-29" (http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_15836107)

LOMA LINDA (CA) - "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., on Sept. 5." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

LOMPOC (CA) - "another checkpoint in Lompoc will be held Wednesday." (http://www.santamariatimes.com/news/local/article_21bb828c-aa29-11df-9ce7-001cc4c03286.html)

NORCO (CA) - "The Norco Office of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department will conduct a DUI / Driver’s License Safety checkpoint in Norco on August 28, 2010, from 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m." (http://www.riversidesheriff.org/press/jvs10-0828.asp)

ONTARIO (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Aug. 27" "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sept. 3." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

RANCHO CUCAMONGA (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Aug. 27" (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

REDLANDS (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Aug. 27" "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., on Sept. 4." "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., on Sept. 5." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

RIALTO (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Aug. 27" "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sept. 3." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

SANTA MARIA (CA) - "DUI checkpoints are slated for tonight and Saturday, Aug. 28, in Santa Maria." (http://www.santamariatimes.com/news/local/article_21bb828c-aa29-11df-9ce7-001cc4c03286.html)

TEMECULA (CA) - "On Friday, August 27, 2010, from 8:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M., officers from the Temecula Police Department will be conducting a Driving While Under the Influence/Traffic Safety Checkpoint at an undisclosed location within the City of Temecula." (http://www.riversidesheriff.org/press/sws10-0827.asp)

UPLAND (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoint, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., Upland, Sept. 2" (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

VICTORVILLE (CA) - "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sept. 3." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

YUCAIPA (CA) - "Sobriety and driver's license checkpoints, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Aug. 27" (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)

YUCCA VALLEY (CA) - "Checkpoints, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sept. 3." (http://www.sbsun.com/breakingnews/ci_15829277)