Chalking & the Disruption of Business as Usual in DTLA: (tags)
Chalking & the Disruption of Business as Usual in DTLA: It has never been about the sidewalk chalk on the sidewalks, that's a simplified interpretation of a more sinister picture.
CALIFORNIA WIDE WALK OUT, THOUSANDS JOINED PROTESTS AGAINST CUT BACKS/ HIGHER TUITION FEES (tags)
housands of youths, students, workers and academic personnel joined the California wide UC protests against state budget cuts, education cuts, new tuition fees in ten UC campus all over California, Thursday, September 24. More than 5,000 joined the protest in the biggest rally in years in UC Berkeley in San Francisco, California up north. The protestors marched down the streets, disrupted traffic and boycott their classes. In Los Angeles, UCLA, CSULB, CSULA and Los Angeles Community College became the center of protests. Thousands of professors and lectures together with workers and students joined hand and rallied in front of the Bruin Plaza in UCLA and at the Free Speech Zone at LACC in Vermont Ave.
Free Speech is a Right - Not a Lottery Prize! (tags)
FREE SPEECH IS A RIGHT NOT A LOTTERY PRIZE! Venice Beach Boardwalk Coalition (VBBC) challenges City of Los Angeles Permit/Lottery on Venice Boardwalk
WANNA SUE CITY HALL FOR BREACH OF OATH OF OFFICE? (tags)
Excuse me, but is this REALLY "free speech"?
INDYMEDIA is censoring political speech or 'other' non-hateful opinions...what are rules ? (tags)
Indymedia staff has made "hidden" 3 comments that questions the value or depiction of some pix of Gaza travellers pretending to be heroes. What are the censorship rules here ? Who decides what is hidden and what is varied and diverse and even divergent speech? When the free censor each other, no one remains standing or breathing any free air. Check it out.
Report and photos from DNC in Denver (tags)
Photos and report on the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 23, 2008.
HOLY MOSES, BATMAN, THERE GOES THE AMERICAN PIE! (tags)
Yesterday, April 9, 2008, thirteen (13) City Council members voted to amend LAMC 42.15 that regulates Venice Boardwalk. Noticeably missing from the text of the new ordinance were the words "FREE SPEECH ZONE". What does that mean to US?
Federal Lawsuit Filed for Venice Free Speech Zone - Again - City Must Study Contitution (tags)
Federal Lawsuit Filed October 16, 2006 by president of National Lawyer's Guild of Los Angeles.
June 11, 2006 - Food Not Bombs Activist Arrested in Venice, CA (tags)
Venice/Santa Monica Food Not Bombs member arrested on Venice Beach Boardwalk following a series of on-going harassments, tickets, and police threats to arrest volunteers.
"Slightly beneath Saturn's ring plane" (tags)
Sorry LA IMC: goofed up at the controls: http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/152889.php "Slightly beneath Saturn's ring plane"
CALLING ALL POLITICAL AND FREE SPEECH ACTIVISTS
THE SUMMER OF FREE SPEECH ON VENICE BEACH IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!
SUMMER OF FREE SPEECH ON VENICE BEACH (tags)
Rumor has it that this summer has officially been declared the "SUMMER OF FREE SPEECH" on Venice Beach. Why? Perhaps because the L.A. City Council's new LAMC 42.15 ordinance pushes the envelope on 1st Amendment vile-ations perpetrated by themselves with the help of the City Attorney's office.
1ST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS ON VENICE BOARDWALK (final updated & corrected version) (tags)
Complaints Filed with L. A. City Ethics Commission Venice activists Re: City Council's Free Speech Violations on Venice Boardwalk.
FEDERAL LAWSUIT FILED FOR VENICE FREE SPEECH ZONE (tags)
“Press Conference, Venice Beach-Style, on July 8 to Announce Federal Lawsuit Filed for Venice Free Speech Zone”
Baldwin Park 2, the Rematch! (tags)
A more detailed look at the anti-hate rally in Baldwin Park, Claiofrnia, on June 25'th.
1st Amendemtn Violations on Venice Boardwalk (tags)
A Complaint Filed with the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission on Wednsday, June 15, 2005 re: Cindy Miscikowski's Breaches
CONTROVERSIAL VENICE BEACH “FREE EXPRESSION” LOTTERY REVIEW - On Wednesday, June 15 L.A. City Recreation & Parks Commissioners will get a chance to look back (in anger?) at the past 90 days of botched management by Cindy Miscikowski's office, Venice Recreation & Parks, the City Attorney's Office, and LAPD beach patrol
POLICE HARASS PROTESTERS ON VENICE BOARDWALK (tags)
Two Venice Beach activists ticketed by LAPD for being in 'designated area' in Free Speech Zone on Venice Boardwalk Sunday, March 13, 2005. The 'designated area' is part of L.A. City's attempt to regulate the Free Speech Zone by use of a lottery system that is being boycotted by a group of artist-activists in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
Video of John Kerry's Democratic National Convention (tags)
I "lost" 4 hours of footage...
PROTEST AGAINST DNC RAZOR WIRE PEN (tags)
Welcome to Camp Gitmo Free Speech Zone!
G8 2004 Savannah/ Activists pressure pays off (tags)
Political thaw in Savannah: Officials get behind planned G8 Summit Actions
As Bush spreads lies throughout the land, dissenters are corralled into “Free Speech Zones” –- is this America?