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When: 2/10/12 Time: 7:30 PM Where: Leo S. Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA Who: Open to the Public (get tickets) Just Announced: Conversation with Billie Dee Williams and Suzanne de Passe Here’s a blurb about the screening from Filmindependent: For February, the hundredth year celebration of Paramount Pictures continues with two films featuring Richard [...]...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - 7:00 p.m. - 6 clicks 
California precinct index offers detailed political information. by Brian Leubitz Geeks around California rejoice! David Latterman, who know works at USF's McCarthy Center has been known around San Francisco for his progressive precinct index. well, today he released his 2011 version of the California version. As you can see from the image to the right, much of the data is as you would ex...
Calitics - 3:20 p.m. - 8 clicks
Join us at the Sat. Feb. 4 - Occupy San Diego County Summit Workshops at Centro Cultural de la Raza, Park Blvd, Balboa Park Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 - (10:30a- 7:00 pm) Occupy SD County SUMMIT at Centro Cultural de la Raza. Teach-ins, Work-Shops ...
OB Rag - 12:21 p.m. - 12 clicks
By Emilie Astolat Talking about sex isn't as easy as it seems, even in a laid-back town like San Diego. I mean, I'm a grown, almost-married woman who engages in the act quite frequently, and yet I still feel awkward as I sit in front of this computer screen typing, despite the cloak of anonymity.That says something about the American culture, doesn't it? It's no secret that people have sex. Rig...
OB Rag - 12:21 p.m. - 7 clicks
I somehow don't think Trump's on-again, off-again endorsement of Mitt Romney will make any difference to anyone (especially not in light of today's spectacular jobs growth numbers , a success for Obama in the face of relentless and vicious Republican obstructionism from teh first day of hs term)-- although there was a recent Pew survey showing that an endorsement from the clownish Donald wo...
Down With Tyranny - 11:28 a.m. - 35 clicks
By Zaineb Mohammed New America Media Women are recovering from the recession at a slower rate than men according to a new report by the California Budget Project (CBP) published in partnership with the Women’s Foundation of California. The report, titled, “ Falling Behind: The Impact of the Great Recession and the Budget Crisis on California’s Women and Their Families , " was rel...
California Progress Report - 10:09 a.m. - 7 clicks
Young woman flanked by 2 wealthy Republicans with political ambitions In 2006 Blue America was supporting school teacher and Florida union and Democratic activist Dave Lutrin in the 16th CD against Republican incumbent Mark Foley. The district takes in St Lucie, Palm Beach, Martin, Charlotte, Highlands and some smaller counties. When Lutrin started running, no one thought he had a chance to...
Down With Tyranny - 6:20 a.m. - 47 clicks
Is there a government regulation that prevents a congressman from paying for his wife's plastic surgery out of his campaign funds? Patricia McKeon, a 70 year old strict Mormon grandma and wife of House Armed Services Committee chairman, Buck McKeon, is running for the California Assembly because, she told a local newspaper , the "government was too intrusive in people’s lives." That's a ve...
Down With Tyranny - Thu 10:20 p.m. - 53 clicks
February 2, 2012, Los Angeles — “We are disappointed in the 9th Circuit’s decision to not release the videotapes from the historic Prop 8 hearing. In our minds, it never made sense that transcripts from the hearing could be easily accessed by anyone but not the videotapes. That just proves that our cowardly opponents knew they did a poor job defending their bigotry and homophobia in ...
The Courage Campaign - Thu 5:47 p.m. - 10 clicks
January 25, 2012, Los Angeles — “California Attorney General Kamala Harris is courage. Even in the face of President Obama’s speech last night that made it sound as if the banks would pay for their wrong doing, AG Harris once again stood up to the most powerful interests in the world — Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPM organ Chase — and said no. Until the banks and...
The Courage Campaign - Thu 5:47 p.m. - 10 clicks
Unusual wear has been found on hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water at Southern California‘s San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant, in more than 800, the thinning was at least 10 percent. According to company officials, the new steam generators were manufactured by Japan-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The company did not respond to an email sent Wednesday. A spokesman for Edison, the...
DailyKos (California) - Thu 5:08 p.m. - 10 clicks
Come and experience some of San Diego's history: The Lemon Grove Inciden t - San Diego's own desegregation case from 1930. Filmmaker Paul Espinosa's award-winning film about the historical case, one of the earliest school desegregation experiences in U.S. history.The film will be shown on Feb. 3rd, at the Centro Cultural De La Raza, at 2125 Park Blvd in Balboa Park - at 7pm. There will be a di...
OB Rag - Thu 2:07 p.m. - 12 clicks
How the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation put their corporation-friendly image before women’s actual health concerns. By Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet / Feb. 1, 2012 It’s probably the fastest-spreading story in Internet history about the relationship between two non-profits. Late Tuesday afternoon, Planned Parenthood and Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure announced that Komen would be withd...
OB Rag - Thu 12:47 p.m. - 10 clicks
The Daily Transcipt is reporting that a 4-unit apartment on Del Monte Avenue in south Ocean Beach has sold for $857,500 - cash.The apartment complex located at 5010-5014 Del Monte Ave is actually a group of smaller cottages - most joined together, one block from Sunset Cliffs and the ocean. They consist of a two-bedroom, one-bath unit, and three one-bedroom units. It is a one-story, three buil...
OB Rag - Thu 11:49 a.m. - 13 clicks
By Lisa Schiff California voters will have the opportunity and responsibility this November to take some of the state’s financial matters into their own hands. The Republican no-tax-do-or-die-pledge strangle-hold over the state legislature that makes it literally impossible to raise revenues is being sidestepped by a handful of tax measures presented to the public on the ballot. If ever ther...
California Progress Report - Thu 10:09 a.m. - 11 clicks
It's redistricting season at every level of government. To conform to the legal principle of "one person, one vote," all legislative districts have to be rebalanced so that changes in population density since the last census are taken into account. On the one hand, it's only elementary fairness that all of us should elect representatives who are responsible to roughly the same number of constituen...
Happening-Here - Thu 6:49 a.m. - 11 clicks
By Pat Person California Pharmacists Association It is both ironic and tragic that while every politician, from president to city council, is focused on job creation and our economy, the state and federal governments have made a joint decision that will cost California jobs right now, when we can least afford to lose them. Because of the decision made by the governor and the state Legislat...
California Progress Report - Thu 2:04 a.m. - 13 clicks
In the world of state budget writing, the past is often prologue. And that's why news of a tech company's dazzling initial public offering is nothing new in Sacramento, and why there's both hope... and caution. And the bottom line: … Continue reading » ...
Capital Notes - Thu 1:44 a.m. - 12 clicks
After a full day of avoiding the "L word," authorities have confirmed that, yes, a leak of radiation...a "tiny" leak...occurred at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The plant, located on the California coast north of San Diego, has been taken offline as a "precaution." Reportedly, the emergency involves damage to " many " generator steam tubes at the plant's Unit 3, a pressuri...
DailyKos (California) - Wed 10:27 p.m. - 13 clicks
It has been almost three months since my car accident and I am still recovering. Today I had my first mammogram ever (right of passage) to find the lump in my right breast is due to the tremendous amount of trauma caused by the seatbelt that left some angry bruising on my breast. The large hematomas are easy to feel and scared the you-know-what out of me. So Kaiser ordered a di...
DailyKos (California) - Wed 9:28 p.m. - 13 clicks
The mission of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure took an unexpected twist with the hiring of an anti-choice zealot as its policy VP. Now, in furtherance of that demented creature's agenda, the foundation has gone into the business of spreading breast cancer. “Susan Komen would not give in to bullies or to fear. Too bad the foundation bearing her name did.” -- a tweet by author Judy Blume...
Down With Tyranny - Wed 6:43 p.m. - 67 clicks
I hope you're following the Buck McKeon saga. The ending will be explosive. Monday's episode will catch you up and put what we're going to look at today in perspective. So what does ole Buck fear? His life is one big tangle of fears, but today he has three big ones, two from federal prosecutors and one from voters in CA-25 (Simi Valley, Santa Clarita, Antelope Valley). He's scared witless t...
Down With Tyranny - Wed 2:26 p.m. - 59 clicks
Republicans once again nearly broke by Brian Leubitz With the news that Republican registration is falling again , perhaps it is of very little surprise that they also have very little money, especially when compared to the Democrats. But, that is the case. One of the standouts in terms of limited dollars: the California Republican Party. The state GOP bet big on getting the referendu...
Calitics - Wed 11:44 a.m. - 10 clicks
Even amid the granite canyons of San Francisco's financial district, alongside the pseudo-Doric capitals, there it is ... an almost wistful claim that here, too, are the 99 percent. ...
Happening-Here - Wed 7:41 a.m. - 14 clicks
By Donald Cohen Cry Wolf Project Sometimes a simple statement can provide a window onto a worldview; in this case, the arrogance of privilege. The City of El Segundo, home to a huge Chevron refinery, is considering raising the oil giant’s taxes to help meet the demands of a growing town. Refineries around the state pay far higher taxes to their local governments than Chevron does. The pro...
California Progress Report - Wed 1:50 a.m. - 10 clicks
For much of its early history California had been regarded as solidly Republican state. This two part diary will look at how California slowly transformed from Republican bastion that brought us Nixon and Reagan to the Democratic stronghold we know it today. This diary will start at the New Deal Era to age of Reagan in the governorship Republicans held the governorship for nearly a 40 year sp...
DailyKos (California) - Wed 12:01 a.m. - 10 clicks
Here is the breakdown of the City Council 2012 races, which reported by 9:44 pm on Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012: District 1 Ray Ellis Total Contributions Received: $151,105.00 Total Expenditures Made: $47,948.59 Burn Rate 31.73% NOTES: This is without any loans by a perso...
San Diego Politico - Tue 11:06 p.m. - 14 clicks
Before the final votes were counted tonight, Santorum was already running (at least online) a new ad for Nevada (above). Yep, here we go again. You know, I ran across this cool interactive-ish graphic and I couldn't resist running it instead of a full-blown post on the Florida election returns. I hope no one minds. I do want to sum that Florida thing up with something that came out in one of ...
Down With Tyranny - Tue 9:05 p.m. - 66 clicks
Controller John Chiang sounds the alarm bells by Brian Leubitz While tax season is gearing up, the state government is now running low on cash reserves. Controller John Chiang announced today that without payment delays and other tactics, the state will run out of cash in March: California will run out of cash by early March if the state does not take swift action to find $3.3 billion throu...
Calitics - Tue 3:29 p.m. - 14 clicks
by Jennifer Epps In Canada, the only way to see a doctor is to call one up and make an appointment. Or walk in to their office. In Britain, the only way you'll get surgery is if you actually need it. And yet State Senator Mark Leno and 44 co-sponsors want to bring this kind of healthcare system to everyone in California! Imagine. In fact, the California legislature twice approved such a system...
Calitics - Tue 2:40 p.m. - 13 clicks
By Joan Lichterman UPTE-CWA 9119 UC attorneys and spinmeisters are working overtime to defend the regents, UCLA, and a UCLA chemistry professor in Superior Court against felony charges for willfully violating workplace health and safety standards resulting in the death of a 23-year-old lab assistant. The arraignment is scheduled for Thursday, February 2, and safety advocates fear that a ple...
California Progress Report - Tue 11:22 a.m. - 14 clicks
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach & Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman When Roland first fell off the turnip truck that brought him from Maine to Los Angeles, we used to argue a lot about "illegal" immigrants. He had never been exposed to reality, and his view, like so many Americans', was that the Democrats want illegal immigrants while the Republicans want to protect America from t...
Down With Tyranny - Tue 11:22 a.m. - 67 clicks
If the drama of the first two years of the Obama presidency is any indication, it's obvious that single-payer healthcare won't be coming at a national level any time soon. Fortunately, however, individual states can carry the torch where the national system is too corrupt to do so. While single-payer has passed in Vermont , the real reforms will come when big states with negotiating leverage en...
DailyKos (California) - Tue 8:05 a.m. - 16 clicks
The City of Los Angeles and its Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, have been leading the national push for Project Labor Agreements (PLA’s) to help create jobs for local workers. This trend continued last Thursday as the City and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that PLAs have been entered into to ensure that 40% of the work hours performed on most MTA proje...
DailyKos (California) - Tue 6:22 a.m. - 7 clicks
By Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC), PICO California Last week, Attorney General Kamala Harris once again refused to accept the terms of a $25 billion multistate settlement with the nation’s largest banks over their foreclosure practices. As a diverse coalition of community and faith-based groups, unions, students and progre...
California Progress Report - Tue 1:07 a.m. - 13 clicks
Tomorrow is it. That's the deadline for the California State Senate to vote on SB 810, Single Payer health care for California. They have nineteen votes; they need two more. They took a vote a week ago and four Democratic State Senators abstained. (See Shockwave's diary from this weekend for more explanation and a very amusing phone call from Jasmin). Here is the contact information those fo...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 10:29 a.m. - 11 clicks
By Jose Luis Sierra & Zaineb Mohammed New America Media Last week, at a press briefing co-hosted by New America Media (NAM) and Common Cause, civil rights lawyers and advocates representing California’s largest ethnic communities spoke of the need to work together to ensure that 2012 elections are open and accessible, in light of a rash of state laws that they say are being deliberately...
California Progress Report - Mon 10:09 a.m. - 16 clicks
Boehner consorting with the McKeon criminals Even a casual reader of DWT is aware that California Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R) has been writing himself a record of corruption noteworthy even by Inside the Beltway standards. A Mormon, McKeon doesn't drink alcohol or even coffee... he takes bribes. "Oh but everyone in Washington takes bribes," you might say, shrugging it off. And you'd b...
Down With Tyranny - Mon 10:09 a.m. - 62 clicks
When I was at my parents’ house in northern California over Christmastime, I was up early enough one morning to see a good-sized coyote trot by the window, just ten yards from the house. After checking to see that our elderly, deaf, and more-than-a-little shaky dog was snoozing inside, we watched its progress through the trees in silence until something caught its attention and it bounded aw...
California Mwananchi - Mon 2:49 a.m. - 12 clicks
Am I the only one freaked out by this? a Last night on Real Time , Bill Maher and the panel (Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Kennedy and Martin Bashir) were talking about the Obama/Jan Brewer dustup, and the broader topic of illegal immigration. After predictably defending Brewer's behavior, Rohrabacher claimed that "the position of the Democratic party and the president is very clear on illega...
DailyKos (California) - Sun 4:49 p.m. - 10 clicks
While the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision unleashed unlimited, billionaire-funded SuperPACs nationwide, in California they've been around since 2002, growing by leaps and bounds every election year. We can't outspend them, but we CAN expose who REALLY pays for political ads, right in the ads themselves, with the CA DISCLOSE Act, AB 1148, which comes to a vote in the CA Assemb...
DailyKos (California) - Sun 12:21 p.m. - 8 clicks
My Saturday has generally gone well, and I got to see some beautiful sights (as will you below the orange filigree), but there were also a couple of moments of frustration and/or obnoxiousness that have spurred some political reflections. ...
DailyKos (California) - Sat 9:25 p.m. - 13 clicks
The fact that my partner is from California means that under normal circumstances, I get to visit that lovely state at least once a year, usually at a time when winter in the east is at its worst. A few days before New Year's Day this winter, my partner, his mother and I took a trip to San Juan Capistrano. There we had an unexpected encounter with, well, I suppose you might call ...
DailyKos (California) - Sat 7:04 p.m. - 11 clicks
I did any analysis of the jungle primary before, now I'm analyzing the general election and some of the previous history of the seat. Adding a link to the map http://www.mpimaps.com/... Ventura County was long a reliable strong hold for Republicans, giving double digit majorities to Reagan and Bush I. A mix of farming territory and suburban communities, those factors were once enough to ke...
DailyKos (California) - Sat 12:07 p.m. - 14 clicks
Associate Editor Pia Lopez of the Sacramento BEE wrote an interesting essay, “Can we find common ground on schools?” on the ideas of Diane Ravitch in the Bee this morning- except for one paragraph where Lopez is substantially wrong. She says, “ In the 1980’s she (Ravitch) helped write a history curriculum framework for California that still today is considered among the ...
DailyKos (California) - Sat 9:06 a.m. - 14 clicks
I'm off to Los Angeles today for my work, organizing to put an initiative to end death sentences in California on the November 2012 ballot. These pictures show some of the people I have the privilege to work with. Many are from the Dr. Martin Luther King day holiday when volunteers attended over 30 events statewide and collected thousands of signatures to qualify our measure. Califo...
Happening-Here - Sat 6:09 a.m. - 13 clicks
California is on the verge of making history. On Tuesday 12/31 California Sate Bill 810 - the California Universal Healthcare Act will come up for reconsideration. The first time up for a vote it received 19 yeas and 15 nays with 6 state Senators not voting. It needs 21 votes to pass and be sent to Governor Brown. Four of those senators are Democrats. You can help impact that process by cont...
DailyKos (California) - Fri 11:01 p.m. - 11 clicks
In California, redistricting is done by an independent commission. Republican activists, who were not happy with the maps drawn for the state Senate, circulated a referendum petition to force a vote on the maps; that vote would happen in November, 2012. It is not clear if the referendum will qualify; the number of signatures is close enough to the required number that random sampling won't deter...
DailyKos (California) - Jan 27 - 11 clicks
As I mentioned earlier, the Supreme Court decided a few things on redistricting today. Obviously this is a major blow to the Republicans. Let the whining commence: Republican State Sen. Mimi Walters of Laguna Niguel, a leader of the referendum drive, blasted the ruling as "shortsighted and disrespectful" of California voters who signed petitions and are awaiting the opportunity to vote on the co...
Calitics - Jan 27 - 11 clicks
If the state Senate districts drawn by California's new citizens redistricting panel are going to be erased and redrawn this decade, it will only happen if a referendum qualifies for the November ballot and voters agree. That's because the final … Continue reading » ...
Capital Notes - Jan 27 - 12 clicks
By a narrow margin, the voters of California elected Kamala Harris to be their Attorney General in 2010. Yesterday, she demonstrated that she has earned those votes . A proposed $25 billion settlement with America's five largest mortgage servicers over the banks' fradulent foreclosure practices is still not good enough , a spokesman for California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Wednesda...
DailyKos (California) - Jan 27 - 14 clicks
This month we had a dual celebration. The first celebration was that this was the One Year Anniversary of Eating Liberally Pasadena . We have really enjoyed our first year of Eating Liberally Pasadena and we look forward to many more years of dining and discussing politics with everyone who wants to join us. The second celebration was that Derek and Kimberley were married on January 15, 2...
DailyKos (California) - Jan 27 - 10 clicks
Maybe all those years spent on the rough seas of California politics help explain why, so far, Governor Jerry Brown has charted a pretty successful course for his November tax initiative. But there's a lot more sailing to be done … Continue reading » ...
Capital Notes - Jan 27 - 9 clicks
There is something we all can do to fight Citizens United . Earlier this month, the City Councils of Los Angeles , NYC , Oakland , and Portland all passed resolutions opposing the SCOTUS decision that gave the free speech rights guaranteed by the US Constitution to corporations. Each of us has a county and/or municipal government (well, unfortunately excepting parts of Michigan ) with...
DailyKos (California) - Jan 26 - 11 clicks
Advocates for major government reform have long lamented that if only they could find the financial backing for a political campaign, the voters would ratify changes to help end California's dysfunction. Now, it looks as though the white knight has … Continue reading » ...
Capital Notes - Jan 26 - 11 clicks
