October 2011 Beachhead


	^October 2011 ^#360

	October Beachhead - pdf file Read text files from this and back issues CONTENTS PAGE ONE Dancing in the Streets Photo: The Samba School at the Abbot Kinney Festival - Jim Smith Post Office to Venice: "No Hearing" - Greta Cobar and Jim Smith The Wars: • 7,800 Bombing Victims in Libya;  • 1,754 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan - 74 this month;  • 4,474 U.S. Casualties in Iraq - 0 this month;  • 33,139 U.S. Wounded - 34 this month;  • Up to 1.4 million Iraqi Dead;  • Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: $1.24+ trillion PAGE TWO Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates Letters: Park Plan Perils People's Picnics - David Busch Big Wheel Confirmation - Max Carlish Protests Spirit of Venice Awards - Lisa Green Corrections PAGE THREE IN BRIEF: Update on OFW Ordinance - Greta Cobar Breast Cancer Event on Abbot Kinney Blvd., Oct. 7 - Janet Gervers No Need to Search for Google, They're Next Door - Greta Cobar Scott Wannberg Memorial - Mary Getlein In Memory of Jane Elliot - Diane Butler Survey asks Venetians: How do you feel, What do you think? PAGE FOUR Hangin' with the Homeless on a Sunday Afternoon - Stewart Lopez Backs Against The Ocean, Homeless People Persevere on OFW - Greta Cobar Photo: Night Riders - Pegarty Long Ad: Hoagie's Ad: Dale Newman Design Ad: Good with Wood Contracting PAGE FIVE City May Be Growing Tired of Neighborhood Council Experiment Photos: Jim Smith Ad: electric lodge has classes for children and adults PAGE SIX Post Office - continued from page 1 • Photo: Jim Smith Ad: Nutritional Warehouse Ad: Marla's Cafe Ad: Douglas Eisenstark - Acupuncture and Herbs PAGE SEVEN Are we doomed to have a second-rate bicycle network? - Jim Smith Bioweapons are US - Janet C. Phelan PAGE EIGHT William Attaway, Featured Artist - CJ Gronner Photos: CJ Gronner Ad: Abbot's Habit PAGE NINE The 27th Annual Abbot Kinney Festival - CJ Gronner Photos: Pegarty Long, CJ Gronner, Jim Smith Ad: Cairo Cowboy PAGE TEN Swami X in the 1970s - Mark Hawes Hip Replacement - Tim Weil 9/11 Remembered at Talking Stick - Mary Getlein Photo: World Trade Center aftermath - Jim Smith PAGE ELEVEN Poetry: Discovering the Presence of Beauty – John Macker IOU, All - –Tina Catalina Corcoran Things I Wished I Had Said At The Talking Stick – Mary Getlein making love - –Harry E. Northup Spirit of Venice - Jim Smith The Fall of Troy ( for Troy Davis) - Mark Lipman PAGE TWELVE Vera Davis Center Offers Services, Needs Help - Greta Cobar Photo: Occupy Wall Street - Mat McDermott Photo: Occupy L.A. - Marcus Ad: Best Value Evaluations, 1313 OFW Ad: Beachhead Needs Sustainers PAGE THIRTEEN Art: Abolish the Death Penalty - Jeff Hirsch Attaway - continued from page 8 Attaway - continued from page 9 Ad: Wills, Trusts, Estates - Edgar Saenz PAGE FOURTEEN Defend Venice In the Slammer - Ron Guenther (from Sept. 1977 Beachhead) Ad: Defend Venice T-Shirts PAGE FIFTEEN Calendar - Compiled by Karl Abrams Other Venice Film Festival, Oct. 13-16 PAGE SIXTEEN Ad: Community Meeting and Update on our Historic Post Office, Oct. 9, plus Film: Brish with Life, The Art of Being Edward Biberman. Ad: Three Short Films on the Japanese American Internment during World War II and Sushi & Sake Fundraiser, Oct. 29.