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CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

Open Letter to the Community - Deborah LaShever

Future of Venice Skills Center at Stake - Charles Thomas

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Thanks for your generous donations

Letters:

• Ocean Charter School - Terance Pearce
• Venice History Banned from the Boardwalk - Jeffrey Stanton

Google says "No comment" to 5,000 Venice Employees - Greta Cobar

Metro Bus #733 Adds Stop at Abbot Kinney and Venice Blvds. - Roger Linnett

Ad: David L Moring - Attorney

Ad: Christoph Marquardsen, Contractor - Carpenter

PAGE THREE

Post Office Sale Terms Omit Historical Protection; Rally Scheduled for Tax Day, April 17 - Greta Cobar

Venice Homeless People File Claim Against L.A. City

Chain Envelops Indepent Newspaper

Where's the Transparency? - L.A. Confidential - Jim Smith

Ad: Occupy the Venice Post Office - April 17

Ad: Nutritional Warehouse

PAGE FOUR

Plantations of Prisons - California's Biggest Crop - Mary Getlein

Open Letter - continued from page 1

Ad: Salt of the Earth available on Special Edition DVD

PAGE FIVE

The War Against Women - Jack Neworth

Wombs: Property of the State? - Carol Fondiller

• Photo of Carol Fondiller by Jim Smith
• Doonsbury on abortion

PAGE SIX

Who Bombed Judi Bari? - Interview with Darryl Cherney by Margot Pepper

• Photos of Judi Bari

PAGE SEVEN

Venice Observes 70th Anniversary of Horrific Incarceration of Venice Japanese-Americans With Memorial Event and Hama Suchi Fundraiser

• Photo of Esther Chain and Kinya Aota

Celebrate the Coming of the Marker

Ad: Hama Suchi Fundraiser

Ad: 70th Anniversary Commemoration, April 25

PAGE EIGHT

Big Wheel Keeps on Rollin’ – Over Venice Residents - Greta Cobar

Ad: Abbot's Habit

Ad: Occupy the Venice Post Office - April 17

PAGE NINE

Armed Guards at Whole Foods - M.A. von Pfeiffer

• Photo: Lincoln/Rose - Photo by Julian Gray

Photo: Touch of Venice - Jim Smith

PAGE TEN

The Coverup continues: Book Review: Watergate - A Novel - Reviewed by Jim Smith

Swami X Speaks

• Photo by Jim Smith

Ad: May 1st General Strike

PAGE ELEVEN

Poetry

• Venice - 1963 - KL Bratton
• Ode to Tom Waits - L.E. Mintz
• Untitled - Roger Houston
• Belly-Up - Vanessa L., Lexi, Eric and Frankie
• That Woman - Joanna Silva
• Pink Cloud Poem - Philomene Long
• The Freaks of Venice - Jeremy Roberts

Ad: electric lodge

Ad: Marla's Cafe

PAGE TWELVE

L.A. Confidential - continued from page 3

Future of Venice Skills Center at Stake - continued from page 1

Ad: Great Western Steak and Hoagie

PAGE THIRTEEN

Zev Comes to Venice - Anne Alvarez

Post Office Sale Terms Omit Historical Protection; Rally Scheduled for Tax Day, April 17 - continued from page 3

Ad: Occupy the Venice Post Office - April 17

PAGE FOURTEEN

Venice in the 1970s - Sam Schatz

The K Chronicles - Keith Knight

Wombs: Property of the State? - continued from page 5

PAGE FIFTEEN

Calendar

Ad: Globe Dry Cleaners

PAGE SIXTEEN

Silicon Beach Town Hall - April 12

Ad: Surf & Skate Fest - April 21

Back by Popular Demand - Auburn-Haired Beauty Parade Poster

Ad: Larry Hankin Live at The Talking Stick - April 22