December
2005

#291

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37th Anniversary Issue

CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

Tenants Fight Back Against Eviction Threat at Lincoln Place - C.V. Beck

Lincoln Place Photos - Aiken Weiss and Jim Smith

More Evictions Planned at Venice and Lincoln Blvds.

Happy Holidays from the Beachhead Collective

Casualties in Iraq

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters

  • Venice Arts Council - Emily Winters
  • On the Front Lines in New Orleans - Peggy Lee Kennedy
  • Save Tookie Williams - Bruce S. Gordon
  • Illegal Evictions at Lincoln Place - Rose Mary Murphy

Graphic: Capital Punishment - Dead Wrong - Stop the Execution of Stan Tookie Williams

Ad: Dead Betty Dyes, 62 Windward Ave.

PAGE THREE

Cell Tower planned next to mark Twain School - Paul Hargrave

The Case for Eminent Domain at Lincoln Place - Jim Smith

In Brief...

  • MTA/RAD Project Hearing is Dec. 8
  • LAX Expansion Plan is Grounded
  • Venice Progressives endorse moratorium
  • 'Circle the Wagons' is new Iraq policy

RAD Development Consultant Bill Christopher

Graphic: Houses confront bulldozer - CPF

Ad: South Beach Cafe

PAGE FOUR

Sunset of another perfect day in Venice - Photo by Jim Smith

The Off Their Jingle Bell Rockers

Lincoln Place tenants take to the streets - Photos by Jim Smith

Ad: Support Lincoln Place Tenants Association

Ad: Nutritional Warehouse

Ad: Beachsites.Com

PAGE FIVE

What's Happening

Who Reads the Beachhead? Folk Singer Utah Phillips, that's who! - Photo by Jim Smith

Ad: Petition for a Moratorium on Development

PAGE SIX

Poetry

  • Kenpo Man - Sean F. Lynch
  • Stray Cat on Speedball Alley - Joy Bashew
  • Thugs - Paul Hershfield
  • Beachhead Archives, Dec. 1987: Little Chapel of the Speedway - M.W. Lindenmeyer

Ad: Anaswara Yoga

Ad: Fidelity Educational Press

PAGE SEVEN

Media Matters - Jim Smith

World Aids Day: How Many Millions More Will Die? - Haider Rizvi

Ad: Venice Arts Council Presents: A Public Art & Culture Workshop

PAGE EIGHT

Poster: Psychopath of the Year - Jeffrey Hirsch

The Curse of the Working Class?

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