****December Activist Public Access TV Training and Recording***Please View and Forward Widely

Please view our shows, come out and volunteer to be on our TV crews and forward this email to all of your constituents, family and friends!

If you plan to volunteer as a crew member, request you RSVP as soon as possible.

Walter Davis
760-917-1251
Even if you are on the right track, you will be run over if you just stand there.

Community Coalition Activists Public Access TV Training and Recording for December 2009 6:30 PM @ Cox Public Access TV Studio Truth to Power Wednesday 9 December 2009 Community Artist Connection Thursday 10 December 2009 Progress in San Diego Friday 11 December 2009 Community Issues: A Tapestry of Concerns Friday 18 December 2009 Join our all volunteer crews! Develop your own cable TV show! Learn Valuable skills in our Citizens Internet TV Network! We are citizen activists taking control of our own Media! RSVP and get directions to the studio at 760-917-1251 Watch webcasts of our programs at http://www.helloworld.com/videoconsultant - click on the LIVE Icon- Shows start at 8 and 9 PM on the Internet Join the Community Coalition http://www.meetup.com/sdcommunitycoalition

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Mickey Avalon | CIRCUS | NYE at Hard Rock

   

 

 

  Merry XXX-Mas Party feat. MICKEY AVALON

 

 

4th & B - 245 B Street


  Saturday - 12.05.09  

 

 

For DISCOUNTED GUEST LIST... sign up here:

http://www.clublistnow.com/event.php?event=2597

 


   

 

 
Skinnie Magazine, along w/ Aaron Chaney Presents & AfterDarc.net presents

the MERRY XXX-MAS PARTY feat. Mickey Avalon LIVE!!
... along w/ the Union Sound.

Hosted by James "Jamie" Lovett from VH-1's Celebrity Sex Rehab w/ Dr. Drew.

Mashup DJ set by DJ Seize

Come dressed in your best X-Mas PIMP & HO costumes.

$500 goes to the best outfit of the night.

Raffle drawing for a $5000 boob job.

$5 u-call it's & $3 drafts until 10pm. After hours until 4am w/ 2 rooms of music.

Tickets available at Ticketmaster
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0A004370A2741EF9?artistid=1074098&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1
or the 4th & B box office.


VIP BOOTH PACKAGES:

* VIP booth for 4 - $250
includes 1 bottle of 3 Olives Vodka w/ 4 VIP wristbands

for VIP bar area & NO WAIT IN LINE door access.

* VIP booth for 8 - $400
includes 2 bottle of 3 Olives Vodka w/ 8 VIP wristbands for

VIP bar area & NO WAIT IN LINE door access.

Call 4th & B at 619.231.4343 to book your table NOW!!


This is an event you will NOT want to miss!!

 
_____________________________________________________________ 

 

 

 

CIRCUS "the Nightmare Before Christmas"

 

 

Voyeur - 755 5th Avenue


  Tuesday - 12.22.09  

 

 

For FREE GUEST LIST before 10:30pm... sign up here:

http://www.clublistnow.com/event.php?event=2679

 


   

 

 
From the creators of SKIN... Ladies and Gentlemen...

Welcome to CIRCUS

The Nightmare Before Christmas


Starring HoopCharmer and her Sexy Cirque, with Ringmaster Jeremy Harris
Hi-Energy Sounds Provided by Fresh One and Sleeping Giant

 

VIP bottle service specials, contact Nick Mascetta at 619-559-5694


T'was the nightmare before Christmas and all through Voyeur,
Not a creature was peaceful, not even one girl.
The stockings and Santa hats, hung all over with care,
When the doors opened that evening, it caused quite a scare!
The party people after the club, all of them said,
would have relapses of cool dancers and glass skeleton heads.
Unaware that San Diego was in panic and fear,
Everyone that night merrily spread their own cheer!


Come see some of the hottest performers from LA and San Diego!

 

 

We are also looking for promoters for this event.

If you are interested in promoting for this event, contact

PJ at 619-203-9344 or reply back to this email. 

 
_____________________________________________________________     
 
 

 

NEW YEARS EVE 2010

 

 

Hard Rock Hotel - 207 5th Avenue


  Thursday - 12.31.09

 

 

ONLY 100 $55 TICKETS LEFT | Order your $55 tickets here:

 

http://www.wantickets.com/Events/82167/NEW-YEARS-EVE-AT-HARD-ROCK-HOTEL-SAN-DIEGO.aspx 

 

DISCOUNT PROMO CODE: NYEDARC

 

 

 

 

EVENT DETAILS:

 

  Often imitated, but never duplicated, this year’s NYE will be one to remember.

With world renowned DJ talent, local favorites, 5 arena's of music,

red carpet entrance's, athletes, and celebrities, all put together by some of the

industry’s best event producers and local weekend warriors.

Join us at the Hard Rock Hotel, a staple in San Diego Nightlife located in the heart of

the Gaslamp. Watch this internationally recognized hotel get flipped upside down into the

ultimate NYE experience. From the point of entry, to the following day's

hangover cures, no detail will be spared.

If you missed the SOLD OUT Halloween party at the Hard Rock hotel, then you

surely heard about it. Over 80 VIP tables sold, hotel rooms sold out 6 weeks prior &

the event completely sold out 2 weeks in advance...


ENTERTAINMENT:

Experience sounds by World Renowned DJ DAVE DRESDEN (Formerly of Gabriel & Dresden)

Dave Dresden is the co founder of the influential dance music acts Gabriel & Dresden

and Motorcycle, remixer for acts like "Jewel" and "The Killers", and the co-author

of the dance floor hits “As The Rush Comes”, and “Tracking Treasure Down.”

NEW ADDITION - We have ADDED Aubrey O'Day as a LIVE performance in 207 .


SPECIAL HOTEL NEW YEARS EVE ADDITIONS:

Club Rubber Ballroom | Intervention Rooftop Set Up | Beautiful Hotel Rooms |

3 Full Stages | Plenty of Room to Chill | Elevated VIP Sections |

Concert Flown Sound System | State-of-the-Art Lighting | LIVE Visuals |

Video & Camera Team | Easy to Access Bars | 5 Huge Dance Floors | Multiple Areas of Lounging


THE ULTIMATE COUNTDOWN - BALLOON & CONFETTI DROP:

Count down your new years under the sky, listening to your favorite DJs,

while experiencing mind blowing visuals and lasers shows. This will be a count down to remember!


FLOAT & WOODSTOCK (INTERVENTION AREA - House Music):
Jack LaFleur | Paulie P | Till


LEGENDS BALLROOM (Club Rubber - House Music):
Dave Dresden | Danny Love | Dadon


THE EDGE BALLROOM (Hip-Hop):
Cheapshot | Skam Artist | Scheony


207 NIGHTCLUB (Hip-Hop):
Sid Vicious | Kurch | Card 1


NEXT DAY POOL PARTY:
Float will be set up for the masses with bloody mary bars, cool cocktails,

spa treatments, and plenty of lounge furniture & tables to relax at.


TICKETS & TICKETING INFORMATION:

This event WILL sell out | pre-sale tickets ONLY | ONE ticket ALL access

NYE VIP ROOM PACKAGE (2 Person Package) - $399.00 + hotel tax
• Includes 2 tickets
• 2 VIP Hotel wristbands
• VIP Hotel wristband bearers will be able to remain in the Hard Rock Hotel after 2AM
• VIP Access to the following day Hangover Cure at the Pool with DJs Dadon & Kurch
• Complimentary CDs from resident DJs
• In and Out privileges to the event all DAY & NIGHT. Stroll around downtown.

Come and go as you please
• Complimentary champagne & glasses in your room
• Plus tons of NYE gifts, hats, horns & other cool party favors in your room

NYE VIP ROOM PACKAGE (4 Person Package) - $499.00 + hotel tax
• Includes 4 Tickets
• 4 VIP Hotel Wristbands
• VIP Hotel Wristband bearers will be able to remain in the Hard Rock Hotel after 2AM
• VIP Access to the following day Hangover Cure at the Pool with DJs Dadon & Kurch
• Complimentary CDs from resident DJs
• In and Out privileges to the event all DAY & NIGHT. Stroll around downtown.

Come and go as you please
• Complimentary Champagne & glasses in your room
• Plus tons of NYE gifts, hats, horns & other cool party favors in your room

CONTACT ME ASAP TO BOOK YOUR ROOM!

Hotel rooms for Halloween sold out over 6 weeks before the event,

don't wait as we have already sold 10% of our available rooms.


VIP TABLES & BOTTLE SERVICE INFO:

VIP tables are NOW available on all three floors in all 5 Area's.
207 | FLOAT | EDGE | LEGENDS | WOODSTOCK
VIP tables can be customized to fit the size of your party &

accommodate the music and setting you desire!!

To inquire about our VIP bottle service packages, please contact

ANDY FARNSWORTH (619.277.7721) andyf@hrbmanagement.com


207 Sixth Ave | San Diego CA, 92101 | Hard Rock Hotel | www.hardrockhotelsd.com

 

 

 

 

 

Mickey Avalon at 4th & B + $50 NYE tickets

   

 

 

  Merry XXX-Mas Party feat. MICKEY AVALON

 

 

4th & B - 345 B Street


  Saturday - 12.05.09  
 


   

 

 
Skinnie Magazine, along w/ Aaron Chaney Presents & AfterDarc.net presents

the MERRY XXX-MAS PARTY feat. Mickey Avalon LIVE!!
... along w/ the Union Sound.

Hosted by James "Jamie" Lovett from VH-1's Celebrity Sex Rehab w/ Dr. Drew.

Mashup DJ set by DJ Seize

Come dressed in your best X-Mas PIMP & HO costumes.

$500 goes to the best outfit of the night.

Raffle drawing for a $5000 boob job.

$5 u-call it's & $3 drafts until 10pm. After hours until 4am w/ 2 rooms of music.

Tickets available at Ticketmaster
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0A004370A2741EF9?artistid=1074098&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1
or the 4th & B box office.

For DISCOUNTED GUEST LIST... sign up here:
http://www.clublistnow.com/event.php?event=2597


VIP BOOTH PACKAGES:

* VIP booth for 4 - $250
includes 1 bottle of 3 Olives Vodka w/ 4 VIP wristbands

for VIP bar area & NO WAIT IN LINE door access.

* VIP booth for 8 - $400
includes 2 bottle of 3 Olives Vodka w/ 8 VIP wristbands for

VIP bar area & NO WAIT IN LINE door access.

Call 4th & B at 619.231.4343 to book your table NOW!!


This is an event you will NOT want to miss!!

 
_____________________________________________________________ 
   
 
 

NEW YEARS EVE 2010

 

 

Hard Rock - 207 5th Avenue


  Thursday - 12.31.09

 

 

 

EVENT DETAILS:

 

  Often imitated, but never duplicated, this year’s NYE will be one to remember.

With world renowned DJ talent, local favorites, 5 arena's of music,

red carpet entrance's, athletes, and celebrities, all put together by some of the

industry’s best event producers and local weekend warriors.

Join us at the Hard Rock Hotel, a staple in San Diego Nightlife located in the heart of

the Gaslamp. Watch this internationally recognized hotel get flipped upside down into the

ultimate NYE experience. From the point of entry, to the following day's

hangover cures, no detail will be spared.

If you missed the SOLD OUT Halloween party at the Hard Rock hotel, then you

surely heard about it. Over 80 VIP tables sold, hotel rooms sold out 6 weeks prior &

the event completely sold out 2 weeks in advance...


ENTERTAINMENT:

Experience sounds by World Renowned DJ DAVE DRESDEN (Formerly of Gabriel & Dresden)

Dave Dresden is the co founder of the influential dance music acts Gabriel & Dresden

and Motorcycle, remixer for acts like "Jewel" and "The Killers", and the co-author

of the dance floor hits “As The Rush Comes”, and “Tracking Treasure Down.”

NEW ADDITION - We have ADDED Aubrey O'Day as a LIVE performance in 207 .


SPECIAL HOTEL NEW YEARS EVE ADDITIONS:

Club Rubber Ballroom | Intervention Rooftop Set Up | Beautiful Hotel Rooms |

3 Full Stages | Plenty of Room to Chill | Elevated VIP Sections |

Concert Flown Sound System | State-of-the-Art Lighting | LIVE Visuals |

Video & Camera Team | Easy to Access Bars | 5 Huge Dance Floors | Multiple Areas of Lounging


THE ULTIMATE COUNTDOWN - BALLOON & CONFETTI DROP:

Count down your new years under the sky, listening to your favorite DJs,

while experiencing mind blowing visuals and lasers shows. This will be a count down to remember!


FLOAT & WOODSTOCK (INTERVENTION AREA - House Music):
Jack LaFleur | Paulie P | Till


LEGENDS BALLROOM (Club Rubber - House Music):
Dave Dresden | Danny Love | Dadon


THE EDGE BALLROOM (Hip-Hop):
Cheapshot | Skam Artist | Scheony


207 NIGHTCLUB (Hip-Hop):
Sid Vicious | Kurch | Card 1


NEXT DAY POOL PARTY:
Float will be set up for the masses with bloody mary bars, cool cocktails,

spa treatments, and plenty of lounge furniture & tables to relax at.


TICKETS & TICKETING INFORMATION:

This event WILL sell out | pre-sale tickets ONLY | ONE ticket ALL access

NYE VIP ROOM PACKAGE (2 Person Package) - $399.00 + hotel tax
• Includes 2 tickets
• 2 VIP Hotel wristbands
• VIP Hotel wristband bearers will be able to remain in the Hard Rock Hotel after 2AM
• VIP Access to the following day Hangover Cure at the Pool with DJs Dadon & Kurch
• Complimentary CDs from resident DJs
• In and Out privileges to the event all DAY & NIGHT. Stroll around downtown.

Come and go as you please
• Complimentary champagne & glasses in your room
• Plus tons of NYE gifts, hats, horns & other cool party favors in your room

NYE VIP ROOM PACKAGE (4 Person Package) - $499.00 + hotel tax
• Includes 4 Tickets
• 4 VIP Hotel Wristbands
• VIP Hotel Wristband bearers will be able to remain in the Hard Rock Hotel after 2AM
• VIP Access to the following day Hangover Cure at the Pool with DJs Dadon & Kurch
• Complimentary CDs from resident DJs
• In and Out privileges to the event all DAY & NIGHT. Stroll around downtown.

Come and go as you please
• Complimentary Champagne & glasses in your room
• Plus tons of NYE gifts, hats, horns & other cool party favors in your room

CONTACT ME ASAP TO BOOK YOUR ROOM!

Hotel rooms for Halloween sold out over 6 weeks before the event,

don't wait as we have already sold 10% of our available rooms.


VIP TABLES & BOTTLE SERVICE INFO:

VIP tables are NOW available on all three floors in all 5 Area's.
207 | FLOAT | EDGE | LEGENDS | WOODSTOCK
VIP tables can be customized to fit the size of your party &

accommodate the music and setting you desire!!

To inquire about our VIP bottle service packages, please contact

ANDY FARNSWORTH (619.277.7721) andyf@hrbmanagement.com


207 Sixth Ave | San Diego CA, 92101 | Hard Rock Hotel | www.hardrockhotelsd.com


Click the link below to purchase your $55 tickets!

https://www.wantickets.com/ssl/order/order_confirmation.asp?id=&uid=0&sid=104719841

 

   

... or if you prefer to buy a hard ticket. Contact me at 619.203.9344. I have a few $50 tickets left.

 

 

 

_____________________________________________________________  

 

 

 

More Events and Info Coming Soon

 

Friday, Dec 4th - Giant Fridays feat. Eddie Halliwell at Spin
Saturday, Dec 12th - SKIN at On Broadway

Friday, Dec 14th - Giant Fridays feat. Alex Kenji at Spin
Saturday, Dec 19th - Residence at Bondi
Wednesday, Dec 23rd - CIRCUS "Nightmare Before Christmas" at Voyeur

Thursday, Jan 14th - Miss Envy Nightlife Pageant at Ivy 

 

 

 

A Future Doctor Discusses Health Care Finance Reform

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Brandon discusses health care finance reform.

What do you know of prison life?

What do you know of prison life?

One of every 102 Californians is living in a jail or prison according to the Pew Center on the States.

So we ask: What is life like for those nearly 300,000 in-custody people and for the guards, cooks and medical staff assigned to care for them?

For years, California government has fought the courts over how to resolve overcrowding and medical shortcomings in the state prison system. Many county jails are overcrowded. Federal immigration detention centers have been the subject of civil rights complaints.

Help KPCC tell the story of local, state and federal lockups here in Southern California. Tell us your true stories of what goes right and wrong.

Fill out the form below to share your experiences with KPCC. We read every comment and a reporter may follow up with a call for more information or an interview.
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********Important-Coalition Meeting Agenda for 20 September 2009 @2PM @Nature's Express - Location Change******

Even if you are on the right track, you will be run over if you just stand there.

MEETING AGENDA We have a new location Bring at least one person with you! Monthly Community Coalition Meeting 20 September 2009 @2PM Your support is needed and requested @ Nature's Express 2949 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92103 Scheduled Time Activities Note 2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. Introductions Each group will get an opportunity to introduce themselves, state their mission and make important announcements. Bring membership forms and distribute your schedules. Activist San Diego Veterans for Peace A New PATH Drug Policy Alliance All of US or None Center for Policy Initiatives Women's Caucus for Art San Diego San Diegans for 911 Truth We have a new location for our monthly meetings. Movie Night and our Technology Training will also be in new locations to be announced. We will be soliciting input for grants and for stakeholders in the grant process. Minimum contribution $150 per share. Only 9 shares are available. 2:30 P.M. - 2:45 P.M. The Coalition Summary of accomplishments, mission of the coalition and discussion of future objectives. The Environment Human Rights Peace 911 Investigations Poverty Unity Citizen Empowerment Prison and Drug Policy Veterans Gender Neutrality Blackwater Political Corruption Health Care Announcement of the VENUS CENTER 1. Environmental Training 2. Job Training in Solar. Wind and Geothermal Power. 3. Job training for previously convicted people. 4. Coalition complex for meetings, training and speaking engagements. Office space. 5. Videography Program. 6. Art program. 7. Joint activism task force. 8. Media program. 9. Peace Program. 10. Drug Policy Reform/Harm Reduction Program 11. Anti-Poverty Campaign 12. Public Information Campaign 2:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. Television Shows Why each organizations needs their own show on Public Access and how they can do it. Community Issues Progress in San Diego Community Artist Connection Truth to Power Citizens' Internet TV Network Producer Training 2-3 October Reservations must be made on 22 September 2009 by calling 619-596-3292 Training, support and upcoming schedule will be discussed. We will discuss interviews to be scheduled. 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. Review of last meeting and Discussion on Effective Actions Boycott procedures Who should be targeted for boycotts How do we select targets Information sources - www.OpenSecrets.org www.OpenCongress.org Common adversaries and how we can coordinate 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Final Thoughts Summary of meeting and important points. Final inputs. Development of next immediate actions. Conclusion of meeting. 197 Woodland Parkway Ste. 104-115 San Marcos, CA 92069 Phone: 760-917-1251 Fax:

video: "How To Brainwash A Nation"

Check this out. Use your own judgment. Walter help center | e-mail options | report spam SDCommunityCoalition has shared a video with you on YouTube: Check this out. How To Brainwash A Nation This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps. Please join the campaign to end this insanity at The Kick Them All Out Project http://www.KickThemAllOut.com © 2009 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066

ATTENTION ATTENTION Dr. Phil wants to tape Fathers on Tuesday...

FYI… thanks Ben for the lead…   Harry California Men's Centers National Coalition For Men     Dr. Phil is doing a show on Fathers going through nasty Family Court battles.   They want to tape you in Los Angeles on this coming Tuesday.   They also want the other side to be there as well, so if you can get your Ex there too that would be amazing.   They want to expose issues.   This is huge!   Contact Paramount Studios at: 323-956-5000 and ask for the Dr. Phil show, they will transfer call, then leave a message for Desma Simon, she is the contact. You can also email Desma at... desma.simon@cbsparamount.com   Do it now!

***********Join Us for Beyond Treason at Movie Night***********

Join the San Diego County Community Coalition at Movie Night for the feature film Beyond Treason .........................what our government is doing to our troops......... is treason. Queen Bee Cultural Center 3925 Ohio Street San Diego 7PM Tuesday 25 August 2009 help center | e-mail options | report spam SDCommunityCoalition has shared a video with you on YouTube: MovieNightLarge © 2009 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066

Tom Ridge Pressured to Raise Terrorist Level By Bush Administration Before Election

Tom Ridge admits in his new book how he was pressured to raise the terrorist level just before 2004 election to scare Americans. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/08/20/2041283.aspx

Blackwater used by CIA for Assassination

Blackwater used to assassinate by CIA http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/20/reports_private_military_firm_blackwater_was [Message sent by sdcommunitycoalition@gmail.com via AddThis.com.]

*******THIS IS WALTER WITH A VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT OUR MEETING THIS SUNDAY******

Even if you are on the right track, you will be run over if you just stand there.

MEETING AGENDA Monthly Community Coalition Meeting 16 August 2009 Your support is needed and requested @the Cultural Center 3925 Ohio Street San Diego, CA 92104 Scheduled Time Activities Note 2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. Introductions Each group will get an opportunity to introduce themselves, state their mission and make important announcements. Bring membership forms and distribute your schedules. Activist San Diego Veterans for Peace A New PATH Drug Policy Alliance All of US or None Center for Policy Initiatives Women's Caucus for Art San Diego San Diegans for 911 Truth 2:30 P.M. - 2:45 P.M. The Coalition Summary of accomplishments, mission of the coalition and discussion of future objectives. The Environment Human Rights Peace 911 Investigations Poverty Unity Citizen Empowerment Prison and Drug Policy Veterans Gender Neutrality Blackwater Political Corruption Health Care 2:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. Television Shows Why each organizations needs their own show on Public Access and how they can do it. Community Issues Progress in San Diego Community Artist Connection Truth to Power Citizens' Internet TV Network Producer Training 2-3 October Reservations must be made on 22 September 2009 by calling 619-596-3292 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. Discussion on Effective Actions How do you send public service announcements Boycott procedures Who should be targeted for boycotts How do we select targets Information sources Common adversaries and how we can coordinate 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Final Thoughts Summary of meeting and important points. Final inputs. Development of next immediate actions. Conclusion of meeting. 197 Woodland Parkway Ste. 104-115 San Marcos, CA 92069 Phone: 760-917-1251 Fax:

Link to Chuck Ambers Interview on Progress In San Diego TV Show This One Works!

From: Walter Davis <progressinsandiegotv@gmail.com> Subject: Link to Chuck Ambers Interview on Progress In San Diego TV Show To: wdavis@walterdavisenterprises.com Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 2:10 PM Here is a link to Chuck Ambers' interview about the African Museum on Progress In San Diego TV Show. Walter Davis http://sdmegacoalition.blogspot.com/2009/08/progress-in-san-diego-tv-show-chuck.html

Chuck Ambers Interview on Progress In San Diego

See Interview with Chuck Ambers of the African Museum on Progress In San Diego TV Show Here http://video.google.com/a/walterdavisenterprises.com/EmbedGadget?contentId=4824cb88e620bb87&width=480&height=387

Crib In A Cell

See the New York Times article about family detention centers. It was the picture of the crib in a cell that got to me. Walter http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/politics/06detain.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all

Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?

Anita is Right...... This is what I have been saying since moveon came out for public option: if you start with your compromise position and not your full ask, you end up with nothing and that's whre we are. When Dr. Dean was here in July I asked him why they did that and his answer was: "that was Obama's mistake and there's no going back."  Bulls**t      I don't get it, but Jeff Cohen is so right that it's sickening. not sure what the answer is except that at least in CA we will begin work on SB810 this fall, otherwise, don't know what else we can do when all the so-called "liberal" groups opted to begin with the public option...who's brilliant idea was that?  what i've been doing when asked to send a letter on line supporting public option, i change the words to single payer.  any other suggestions?   anita On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Tanja <twinter@san.rr.com> wrote: Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?  By Jeff Cohen, Journalist and Media Critic; Founder, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, July 30, 2009          I've started deleting them as spam.     I'm not talking about the enlarge-your-penis emails or "You've Won the Lottery" notices.     I'm talking about the increasingly-urgent emails coming for weeks from liberal Netroots groups calling for a "public option" for health care -- a government insurance plan citizens could choose to pay for instead of private insurance.        Never has so much passion been so misdirected. If what these liberal groups ultimately wanted out of President Obama and corporate-funded Democrats in Congress was a topnotch public plan to compete with the first-rate private plans, the wrong way to get it was to make that the demand.     Especially of a president whose instinct is toward conciliation and splitting the difference with big business and the right wing.        Sure, Obama was a community organizer once. That was decades ago when Russia was still our mortal enemy, Nelson Mandela was still an official State Department terrorist threat and the White House was still funding Islamist fanatics in Afghanistan.     For the last dozen years Obama has been a politician -- and a consummate compromiser at that. Have we failed to notice?        Activists must recognize the surest way to get a strong public option that could compete with the Cadillac of health plans. We needed to mobilize millions of Netroots people, almost every union and 150 members of Congress to endorse a maximum demand: National health insurance . . . enhanced Medicare for All. In other words, a cost-effective single-payer system of publicly-financed, privately-delivered healthcare that ends private health insurance (and its waste, bureaucracy, ads, sales commissions, lavish executive salaries, profiteering).        Had liberal groups sent out millions of emails building a movement that posed an existential threat to the health insurance industry, Sen. Baucus and Blue Dog Democrats and their corporate healthcare patrons might well be on their knees begging for a comprehensive public option -- to avert the threat of full-blown Medicare for All.        As things stand now, as writers like Bob Kuttner and Norman Solomon have warned, a weak public option would institutionalize a two-tiered system with healthier, wealthier citizens getting the best (private) plans, and sicker, harder-to-treat people getting an inferior (public) plan. Newt Gingrich couldn't dream up a better scenario to discredit an enhanced government role in health care.        To win serous reforms, we need activist leaders who are tough-minded progressives making maximum demands for reforms that truly address our nation's problems. Leave the inside-the-Beltway deal-making to the politicians, properly frightened and moved by the roar of mass movements.        We need activist leaders who have a clearer idea of who Obama is. He's not one of us. He's one of them -- a politician bent on placating corporate interests. We knew all we needed to know about his current worldview from all the corporatists he put in top jobs.        And from the fact that he felt the need -- six weeks into his administration, after the middle-class bailed out Wall Street -- to call up the New York Times and assure the world that his policies were not socialist but were "entirely consistent with free market principles." At a time the corporate greedsters and free-market ideologues had been exposed as having threatened the economic well-being of the world, they weren't the ones on the defensive. They weren't doing the apologizing. Obama was on the defensive; he was apologizing to them!        When Democratic leaders start borrowing right wing rhetoric, we know our activism has not been strong or progressive enough. At the AARP townhall Tuesday, Obama described a public option as "controversial, I understand people are worried about that." He went on to assure his audience that "nobody is talking about . . . government-run health care" or "a Canadian-style plan." At one point, he further assured seniors that no "bureaucratic law in Washington" would interfere in their healthcare decisions -- seeming to adopt the faux-populism of anti-government rightists. Yet he seems incapable of anti-corporate populism, even with despised industries like Wall Street and health insurance.        I have huge respect for the smart young activists who built up the Netroots, unleashing all sorts of progressive possibilities for our country. But I'm bothered by their often ineffectual, Beltway-originated, halfway demands.     I became active during the Vietnam War. We might still have troops in Vietnam if - instead of militantly demanding "All Troops Home Now" -- we'd organized behind polite Beltway initiatives like: "Let's begin negotiations" or "Let's set a timeline for phased withdrawal."        I fear that Netroots leaders are doing the same dance with Obama today that they did with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in 2007-08. Instead of demanding that Democrats in Congress bring our troops home from Iraq by using the power of the purse to defund the war, Netroots leaders rallied behind weak, non-binding timelines and other halfway measures cooked up with Congressional leaders.        Without a loud, clear demand for "troops home" from the large online antiwar forces, Democratic leaders started retreating and succumbing to Republican rhetoric. Reid proclaimed: "We will never abandon our troops in a time of war." Pelosi declared: "We will have legislation to fund the troops!"     And the corpses kept piling up.        Great social reforms have occurred in our country not when social movements took their lead from what the White House deemed possible, but when the White House was pushed by powerful movements demanding reforms bolder than what the president was comfortable with. Leading abolitionists pushed Lincoln toward ending slavery by demanding immediate abolition. Socialist and workers movements in the '30s sufficiently scared elites so that FDR could pass New Deal reforms far short of socialism. Martin Luther King and civil rights activists continuously pushed and prodded JFK and later LBJ.        And these movements didn't have the Internet.     In 1993, a National Health Insurance bill gained 100 co-sponsors in the Democrat-led House, plus endorsements from many unions, even Consumers Union. There was unfortunately no Internet then when the Clinton White House undermined this growing movement by pushing an incredibly complex plan that left big insurers dominating the system. Clinton's plan inspired few and confused many. After it went down in flames, talk radio host Jim Hightower asked President Clinton why he didn't back an easily-explained Medicare for All approach that had so much support in Congress. Clinton said he'd thought it was politically too difficult but now wondered about that judgment.        Here we are 16 years later. Neglected by Netroots groups, John Conyers today has 85 House co-sponsors for HR 676, the Expanded Medicare for All Act, as well as the endorsement of many unions and Obama's longtime personal physician. If all those emails I've received lately had been about building the HR 676 movement and a public system instead of a "public option," the bill would have many more co-sponsors and could be pressuring Democrats to stand tough today.        For Obama to feel secure about reform and standing up to the right, he needs to feel that he's in the center pushed by noisy forces to his left. He's admitted as much. The way to help him succeed is to mobilize seriously to his left.     The way to help Obama fail is for Netroots and liberal groups to collapse toward him from the get-go.     And if Obama does fail, we can quit laughing at a Republican Party in disarray due to Bush, religious extremism, hypocrisy and anti-intellectualism.        Because in this period of crisis and fear, unless a progressively-prodded White House delivers reforms that actually improve lives soon, right wing reaction could rebound more dangerous than ever in 2010 and/or 2012.     * *     Jeff Cohen is an associate professor of journalism at Ithaca College, founder of the media watch group FAIR, and former board member of Progressive Democrats of America .  -- anita simons "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."……Martin Luther King, Jr. Get Involved for Single Payer Health Care: www.medicareforall.org http://focusonchange.ning.com Single Payer Now www.singlepayernow.net National Nurses Organizing Committee www.calnurses.org/nnoc Healthcare-NOW! www.healthcare-now.org Physicians for a National Health Program www.pnhp.org CA Nurses Association www.guaranteedhealthcare.org Progressive Democrats of America www.pdamerica.org

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Brasscheck TV: The Obama Deception

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DPA Release: Prop 36 Treatment Decimated, Called "End of an Era"

Friends – What a sad day for treatment instead of incarceration in California . Although we are hopeful that federal stimulus money will help supplement Prop. 36 treatment (as well as other diversion systems including PC 1000), the treatment system has nonetheless been devastatingly crippled today. Many of you work within Prop. 36, so you know this better than I do. I believe that a new era has begun, but it's one in which DPA will continue to fight for policies and systems to protect people struggling with drug addiction. Please don't hesitate to contact me (or DPA's legal team) if you are concerned that a Prop. 36 participant is being denied participation in the program or threatened with incarceration due to lack of treatment access. Below is the press release DPA just sent to media in California . Drug Policy Alliance www.drugpolicy.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                  Contact: Tommy McDonald (510) 229 5215 July 24, 2009                                                            or Margaret Dooley-Sammuli (213) 291 4190   Prop 36 Treatment Decimated, Called "End of an Era"   Drug Defendants Avoid Prison, But Denied Treatment   Sacramento – The new state budget deals a devastating blow to drug treatment in California . Treatment advocates warn that counties will not be able to provide treatment to all who are eligible under Proposition 36, a voter-approved measure that diverts low-level, nonviolent drug possession offenders to treatment. Though treatment is decimated, the sentencing law remains in effect and eligible defendants cannot be incarcerated.   "This is truly the end of an era," said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, deputy state director for the Drug Policy Alliance in Southern California . "For nearly a decade, California has led the nation's most succes sf ul experiment with treatment instead of incarceration. Now we're entering a new phase, where Prop. 36, fortunately, continues to protect low-level, nonviolent drug offenders from incarceration but where, sadly, there is little access to drug treatment. This is not what the voters intended, nor does it make fiscal sense."   With guaranteed annual funding of $120 million in 2001-05, Prop. 36 cut state costs by $2.50-4 for every $1 spent and diverted 36,000 people to treatment each year (UCLA). In 2006, the Legislature responded to the program's proven track record by boosting funding to $145 million. Since its inception, Prop. 36 has provided treatment to over 250,000 people and saved a net $2 billion. Nonetheless, the new budget could see Prop. 36 funding plummet to $18 million – just 8% of the $230 million-per-year level UCLA research found to be "adequate". Even if a hoped-for tran sf er of federal dollars is secured, total treatment funding would not exceed $63 million (27% of "adequate").   Given this reality, advocates on Thursday urged county and local governments to use limited local resources more innovatively by reducing the number of people entering the criminal justice system for low-level, nonviolent drug possession and by conserving those resources instead for local prevention and treatment systems. As one example of this approach, supporters pointed to San Diego's Serial Inebriate Program (SIP), in which the county and city governments, law enforcement agencies and health systems collaborate to provide treatment to chronically homeless alcoholic individuals who would otherwise continue to soak up vast emergency room and criminal justice resources.   "Local law enforcement can be an important doorway into the public health system," Dooley-Sammuli added. "Let's face it. There's no more room in court or jail. County and local governments can help reduce the burden by working with law enforcement and health systems to develop alternatives – by directing those who need it to county prevention and treatment services and by not prosecuting nonviolent, low-level drug possession in the first place."   ###   No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.31/2264 - Release Date: 07/26/09 11:07:00

LiveF5 Broadcast Invitation To Clean Slate Event

Attorneys are advising previously convicted people on how to clean up their records. Please join broadcast. Walter You have been invited to join a live broadcast. Title: Instant Broadcast Start Time: 7/25/09 10:30AM Broadcast URL: http://apps.attainresponse.com/MediaF5/liveChannel.htm?presenterId=videoconsultant@helloworld-com From the Presenter: Check out this broadcast.