Wed - June 1, 2005

Venice Artist at Center of anti-immigrant storm


It took “Save Our State” (SOS) 12 years to discover a monument to California’s diverse heritage created by Venice Artist, Judy Baca.

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Venice Skills Center Restores Summer School


By Marjorie Hinds

Skills centers are the only remaining vestige of what was once a comprehensive, affordable, post-secondary education system in California.

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Bill has Balls


By John Davis

In the movie The Caine Mutiny, actor Fred MacMurray spoke of intestinal fortitude. GUTS! That is what I think our new Councilperson for CD 11 has. Bill scarred me at first at a 2004 Halloween party sponsored by conservation organizations banding together to save the Ballona Bluffs.

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How Venice Voted: Hahn creamed in Venice; Rosendahl doubles Krisiloff


By Jim Smith

(based on final results)
In the end, it wasn't even close. Citywide, Villaraigosa and Rosendahl won by landslides in the May 17 runoff election. In Venice, it was a massacre worthy of a Roger Corman horror movie.

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State of the Effort at Lincoln Place


By Sheila Bernard

Tenants at Lincoln Place are rebuffing efforts by owner AIMCO (Apartment Investment Management Co.) to displace them and demolish the historic complex. Aimco is misreading the law and misinforming tenants about their rights. The current issue is a little-known and to-our-knowledge-never-litigated part of the Ellis Act concerning who is disabled.

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Documentary Film on Lincoln Place


By Ingrid Mueller
This second documentary about Lincoln Place Apartments tenants' struggle to save their homes has been in progress since February - and help is needed!

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Special Interests Call for Special Elections


By Theresa Hulme

On May 25 in Pershing Square, an organized protest attracted thousands of public employees who spoke out against broken promises to schools and open attacks on the working classes of California.

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Save Our Art
Save Our Art


By Judy Baca

An “anti-illegal immigrant” group, Save Our State, of Ventura County, emboldened by their recent victory at the removal of a billboard referring to “Los Angeles, Mexico” is now demanding the removal of the wording on a twelve-year old monument in Baldwin Park, California, entitled Danzas Indigenas. I was commissioned to produce this work in 1993 by MTA and the City of Baldwin Park in collaboration with the Kate Diamond Architectural Group.

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Poetry


• Los Angeles - Brittany Oates
• The Process - Joanna Silva
• Venice Beach - Gerard Kuc
• Know ye not that ye are gods - Swami X

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Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?


By Lisa Ezell

On April 16 in a Los Angeles Times article, a reporter related the following story:

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Book Report: Ghost Town written by Pat Hartman


By Jaime Forjador

Teacher told us kids that we each had to read a book about Venice and write a two-page report about it to be read aloud in class!

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