Doors open at 6. Town Hall Meeting starts at 7 pm.
Where: Camarillo City Hall
601 Carmen Dr., Camarillo
Topics: Veterans Affairs and Military Issues
*This is a non-partisan event and is for educational purposes.
Questions: 26.district.veterans.townhall@gmail.com
It’s not just hardware, but high-level coordination with federal agencies and a dangerous mindset that sees citizens as enemies.
http://prn.fm/alternative-visions-militarization-police-071914/
Who knows what’s available now, but here are some of the toys they had in the locker as of five years ago:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Robocops-Come-to-Pittsburg-by-mike-ferner-090928-713.html
More recent reports from the aclu:
http://www.aclu.org/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-policing
October 4 is also a Global Action Day Against the Use of Drones for Surveillance & Killing and is being sponsored by a host of groups around the world.
See more at http://globaldayofaction.nationbuilder.com/
As global citizens who believe in justice and the rule of law, we oppose weaponized and surveillance drones because their deployment:
“Los Angeles County is the homeless veterans’ capital of the USA. Ironically, it’s also the place where veterans are land owners denied the right to use their property. For years now, VA and local elite members have been juggling the keys to the padlocked estate which by the way, was deeded to disabled and homeless heroes back in 1888.” — FROM Before It’s News
Read Full Article http://beforeitsnews.com/military/2014/08/varistocrats-love-our-veterans-or-leave-va-now-2464944.html
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Letter from Veterans Affairs, County of Los Angeles to Supervisor Don Knabe (3/2014)
From City News Desk (8/2014)
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The Board of Supervisors voted today to show their support for a federal court ruling that the Department of Veterans Affairs cannot use land deeded to it for purposes other than veterans.
United States District Court Judgement
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the following agreements entered into by the Department of Veterans Affairs (“DVA”) concerning parcels of land and facilities located on the DVA’s West Los Angeles Campus are unauthorized by law and therefore void . . .
Read Judgement
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Here’s a pro-Veteran and insightful article that further exposes the most corrupt government operative in the world — the Los Angeles VA — orchestrated under the dictatorship of Donna Beiter and Ralph Tillman — they must be fired.
The album is about his time served in the Marine Corps. He is raising money to fund the making of a new Album. All sales of this CD/Album will go to the Veterans for Peace.
IndieGoGo Campaign goes till August 19, 2014. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/megaciph-civil-i-am-best-rap-album-2015-grammy
On July 30th, one of the world’s most important human rights organizations, Amnesty International condemned the US government’s blatant over-prosecution and hypocrisy in its handling of Chelsea Manning’s case:
“The US government must grant Chelsea Manning clemency, order her immediate release, and implement a thorough and impartial investigation into the crimes she uncovered.
After being convicted of 20 separate charges Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, much longer than other members of the military convicted of charges such as murder, rape and war crimes.
Before her conviction, Chelsea Manning had already been held for three years in pre-trial detention, including 11 months in conditions which the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture described as cruel and inhumane…”
Read Amnesty International’s complete statement!
A new actually honest AO study just released that the Congressman and Congress ought to take a real good look at. Then ask how it is VA is denying all these impacts as presumptive STILL!
See this link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24906069
From Father Roy Bourgeois
This year, as we prepare to gather for the 25th Vigil to Close the School of the Americas, he is trying to stop us from speaking truth to power at the main gates of Fort Benning as we have done since the first anniversary of the brutal massacre at the University of Central America in 1989.
In the protest permit “approval” he sent me, he’s denied our right to set up a stage and speakers so the messages from survivors of ongoing SOA-graduate violence in Colombia and Honduras can share with us their stories. And he’s said we cannot be in the street, and no more than 200 protesters at a time can be on the sidewalks of Fort Benning Road.
This political attack on our First Amendment rights cannot stand. I give you my word, we will fight this, and ensure a safe and legal space for all who wish to attend this year’s 25th anniversary Vigil (November 21-23). SOA Watch organizers and attorneys from the SOA Watch Legal Collective are working on the case, and we know that justice is on our side.
Will you stand with me, and sign this petition to Police Chief Boren urging him to reconsider his unjust denial of our right to peaceably assemble at the main gates of Fort Benning?
By standing together, our power cannot be denied, and we will raise our voices in solidarity with those struggling on the ground in Latin America against the violence and oppression wreaked by this infamous institute and corrupt US foreign policies. The vigil weekend will also include a march to the nearby Stewart Detention Center, a privately-run, for-profit immigrant prison, where thousands of our brothers are being held simply for seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Many of those who are incarcerated there had to escape the devastating consequences of past and present U.S. foreign policy in the region.
Thank you for your courage and solidarity, and keep an eye out for further updates as we prepare for what will be a Vigil to remember. Make your travel plans!
SIGN THE PETITION: http://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16129
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.
The Veterans Park Conservancy Deception
“Homeless Veterans sleep outside the Los Angeles National Veterans Park, in front of the fence that the VPC and the Veterans Administration spent $1 million to build. The gate is always padlocked, center, to keep Veterans out of the park. Frequent $1,000 per plate fundraisers are held at the park within site of the homeless veterans.
The “Veteran’s Park Conservancy” (VPC), which is an outgrowth of the Brentwood Homeowners Association, boasting some of the wealthiest and politically active people in the state, banked $1,135,000 from 2002 to 2013, all while homeless Veterans sleep in front and are forbidden to
enter the very property the VPC is “restoring for Veterans.” — ” Read More
Corruption and Cronyism Surround the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs http://www.loscerritosnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/June-13-2014-Cerritos-News1.pdf
Emergency Homeless Veteran Humanitarian Relief Project http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/images/medialibrary/56076860FD7D95FF945A7D5CEC18C4F6.pdf
Sunday Review
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html
Opinion -New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday/chelsea-manning-the-us-militarys-c
ampaign-against-media-freedom.html?_r=1
The Fog Machine of War
Chelsea Manning on the U.S. Military & Media Freedom
By CHELSEA MANNING – June 14th, 2014 –
http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/ny-times-publishes-chelsea-mannings-op-ed
Mike Prysner just sent out this CBS piece from today at our Los Angeles press conference. Both Pat and Mike are featured several times. CBS 9 and ABC 7 also broadcast us.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/06/19/anti-war-protestors-gather-outside-downtown-la-veterans-hospital/
