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A Venice Woman copes with raising a child, living in an RV, and the dreaded “sweeps” - Rune Girshfeld

• Photo: krista schwimmer

Holiday Venice tenants ask Obama administration to help them buy the apartment buildings - Lydia Poncé

• Photos: Jim Smith

1,007 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan - 31 this month
4,380 U.S. Casualties in Iraq - 5 this month; 1,366,350 Iraqi Dead;
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: $966+ billion

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Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters

• Is anyone out there? - Mary Getelin
• Oakwood Park - Laddie Williams
• Police Sweep on the Beach - Mark Lipman

Correction: Rex Butters was the author of 7 Dudley in last month's poetry section.

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IN BRIEF:

• Environmentalists versus Playa Vista - Jim Smith
• Vera Davis Center in Danger of Closing? - Lydia Poncé

Plastic Bags, Plastic Oceans, Plastic People - Jim Smith

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From the Beachhead Archives Nov. 1977
Remembering Bingo: “Daughter-of-Darkness, Sister of Light” - Carol Fondiller

• Photo: B. Feldthouse

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Profile: Venice Singer Simone White - Erica Snowlake

• Photo: Erica Snowlake

Profile: Venice Activist Ivonne Guzman - krista schwimmer

• Photo: Jim Smith

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The Life of Euni Kang - Chris Chanaud

Photo Collage: Chris Chanaud

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Andrew Koenig, My Venice Neighbor and Friend - krista schwimmer

• Photo: krista schwimmer

Venice Community Celebrates the Life of Carol Fondiller Berman
- Karl Abrams

• Group photo: Lance Diskan

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Praising Howard Zinn:
A People's History of the United States, and The People Speak  - Erica Snowlake

 Women Speak Out! From Howard Zinn’s
“Voices of A People’s History of the United States” - Erica Snowlake

Carol at Diva Performance - Photo by Mary Ann Cherry

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Poetry:

• Tumbling – Karl Abrams
• dedicated to the memory of Milton and Bunny Bratton – Kitty Bratton

• Photo: Milton Bratton

• Praise for a lost Woman - hillary kaye
• Life’s Work – Vecelina Minkovski
• for Carol Fondiller – R.F. Wagner, Jr.
• During the campaign – Edward Ferrer
• Changeling – Jim Smith
• Prayer – krista schwimmer

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Beachhead Fund Drive tops 100 Sustainers!

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continuations of articles

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Calendar

Political cartoon by Khalil Bendib

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International Women's Day, March 8

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