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We Are Venice... Who Are You? - Ian Dean

• Photo: Venice Sunset - Jim Smith

This is Festival Month in Venice

First Friday, For Who? - CJ Gronner

• Photo: Food Trucks at The Brig - CJ Gronner

1,269 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan - 54 this month
4,417 U.S. Casualties in Iraq - 4 this month;
1.4 million Iraqi Dead;
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: $1.2+ trillion

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Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

• View from the Venice Boardwalk - Venice Beach Boardwalk Coalition
• Ocean Front Walk Lottery - Shirley Jackson
• Major Hoax: Don't Get Fooled Again - Cindy Sheehan
• Electric Trolley - Robin Doyno

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The Real Stink About Dumping - Peggy Lee Kennedy

• US Military Dumping of Carbon
• United Nations Declares Sanitation A Basic Human Right

Art: Helping Hands - Janice Yudell

If you have to stack 'em, you've got too many cars - Jim Smith

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Putting Labor Back in Labor Day - Roger Linnett

Why We Got The Day Off - Roger Linnett

Labor Solidarity March - Sept. 6

John Betz Does Not Like The Beachhead - Jim Smith

Bill Rosendahl

Lisa Green

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New Healthcare Law Provisions Take Effect - Roger Linnett

New Book by Venice's Poet Laureate - Review: The Collective Poems of Philomene Long - Jim Smith

• Photo by Pegarty Long

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Miss Jessica and the Sugar Shack Attack -Suzy Williams

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Ibrahim and Diane - Greta Cobar

Photo by Greta Cobar

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PAGE EIGHT

Swami X Speaks

Poetry:

• keepin' the BEAT - Shanna Baldwin Moore

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Poetry:

• Love - Mary Getlein
• Starbucks - Chance Foreman
• Panties in the Trash - Joy Buckley
• Pigeon Tower - Majid Naficy
• Prison Bunk - Hal Bogotch
• On First Looking Into The Collected Poems of Philomene Long - Jim Smith
• Venice People - Cosmo

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First Friday –continued from page 1

New Healthcare Law Provisions Take Effect –continued from page 5

Political Cartoon: Ground Zero - Khalil Bendib

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Calendar

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Who's the Boob? - CJ Gronner

• Photos by Pegarty Long

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