May
2006

#296

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This Issue is dedicated to John Haag, 1930 - 2006
Thanks to Arnold Springer and the Venice Archives
at Cal State, Long Beach for photos and documents in this issue.

CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

John Haag - By Carol Fondiller

Photo: Living in two worlds - Jim Smith

May Day, as it should be - Jim Smith

Casualties in Iraq

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters

  • Hearing on Affordable Housing - Bill Rosendahl
  • Grateful former Hippie - Jesse Glazer
  • Ocean Front Walk Ordinance - Annette Robinson
  • Rebuttal - Sergio Trevino
  • Fooled by April Fools

Ad: Doug Eisenstark Acupuncture and herbs

PAGE THREE

In Brief:

  • GRVNC is no more as new bylaws get the nod from stakeholders
  • Stop the Freeway!
  • Trees get planted

Lincoln Place Tent City Update

Cartoon: Pigs and Chickens - Doug Eisenstark

Ad: Hous Rental Wanted

Ad: Market Gourmet

PAGE FOUR

Photo: John Haag and presidential candidate, Dr. Benjamin Spock

The Bishop - Chuck Bloomquist

Sorry to hear about John - – Mary Morgan, Dr. Spock's widow

John Haag by Carol Fondiller - continued from page one

PAGE FIVE

John Haag, The Quiet Revolutionary - Lance Diskan

If not for John... - Arnold Springer

Classsical Jazz for John - Bill Fleeman

Photo: John Haag and Anna Ricci get married, April 6, 1959

Photo: John Haag and his father at John's Harvard graduation

1968: John Haag Says - Peace & Freedom publication

PAGE SIX

The Torture Memo - Judith Martin Straw

Oak Rally Against Threats Brings Out Media, Rosendahl with photos by Jim Smith

Petition Against Condos on Palms Blvd. with photo

Ad: The Tree House

Ad: Marina Caregivers

Ad: Nutritional Warehouse

PAGE SEVEN

The World Oil Crisis and Mass Transportation - John Bachar

Art: Out-of-gas by Wayne Kilgore

Ad: Mink at the Mint

Ad: Universal Art Gallery

PAGE EIGHT

John Haag and the Peace and Freedom Party - Casey Peters

Freedom's Warrior - the life of John Haag, Venetian - Jim Smith

Photo: John Haag confronts cop - Bill Daley

Photo: The "Drum Circle" in 1960

PAGE NINE

Poetry

  • Centurion's Complaint - John Haag
  • Mission to the East - John Haag
  • Eyes of Power - John Davis
  • Three Haiku - Hal Bogotch
  • Picking Our Bones Before We Are Dead - C.V. Beck
  • They surround me - Carol Fondiller
  • humanity - hillary kaye

Freedom's Warrior - continued from page 8

time to fight the good fight!!! - Aron Pieman Kay

Ad: Café Buna

Ad: Dead Betty Dyes

PAGE TEN

John Haag, that elegant iconoclast - Jhos Singer

    1969 Interview with John Haag - Jim Smith

    Free Venice! - John Haag (reprinted from Beachhead #1, 1968)

    Photo: Young John

    PAGE ELEVEN

    Calendar

    In Loving memory of Cecil Royce McGee

    Ad: Anaswara

    Ad: Circle of Peace - Fridays at 5pm

    Ad: Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council

    Ad: Conversational Spanish

    Ad: Lincoln Graphics & Stationers

    PAGE TWELVE

    Art: We Are America - Samburine

    Nobel Women's Initiative - Building Peace - Suzanne Thompson

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