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Events

HSI Protect the Seals Campaign

Humane Society International

No Child Left Behind: A Dialogue

WMGP Supports these Powerful Movements!

Teaching For Change
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.

Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International believes that learning about human rights is the first step toward respecting, promoting and defending those rights.

Applied Research Center
A public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change. ARC projects include ERASE, a multifaceted initiative to expose, document and challenge racism in public education. ARC also publishes Colorlines, a cutting edge magazine on race and culture.

Center for Community Change
The CCC Education Team supports grassroots organizing for public school reform by supporting education organizing campaigns; fostering networking among community organizations; investigating state and federal policy developments, and sharing campaign stories through Education Organizing.

AIDS Project Los Angeles
AIDS Project Los Angeles is dedicated to: improving the lives of people affected by HIV disease; reducing the incidence of HIV infection; and advocating for fair and effective HIV-related public policy.
 

WELCOME TO THE WORLD'S MOST GORGEOUS PEOPLE MOVEMENT

Gorgeousness is being at peace with oneself and the importance of self love. It is about feeling empowered and being aware of our surroundings. It is an understanding that one person's voice can change the world. And lastly, it is simply about feeling and looking hot. Because frankly changing the world is a tough and messy job. We must look our finest. This is a place where we can start spreading these positive energies to the universe and collectively move mountains. Welcome to the Gorgeous Movement!

Democracy Now! Daily News Headlines

John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama's Wars and Resisting the American Empire

Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama's wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pilger has has written close to a dozen books and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and against Western military and economic intervention. [Includes rush transcript]

Honduran Coup Regime Blocks Ousted President Zelaya's Return; Troops Open Fire on Supporters at Airport Killing Two

One week after a military coup in Honduras, soldiers and riot police blocked the airport runway Sunday evening preventing ousted President Manuel Zelaya from returning to the country. Heavily armed Honduran soldiers also used tear gas and machine guns to disperse an unarmed crowd of tens of thousands of people who had come from all over the country, despite military blockades, to wait at the airport and welcome back their ousted President. At least two people were reportedly killed and more wounded. We go to Tegucigalpa to speak with Andres Conteris, who was at the scene. [includes rush transcript]

Headlines for July 6, 2009

Coup Regime Blocks Zelaya Return, Shoots Protesters, Obama in Russia for Nuke Talks, At Least 140 Killed in China Clashes, Report: Health Industry Employing Hundreds of Ex-Gov. Officials, Judge OKs GM Bankruptcy Sale, U.S. Lost 467,000 Jobs in June, Washington Post Cancels Sponsored Events With Journalists, Lobbyists, Lawmakers, Palin to Resign Later This Month, Biden Suggests U.S. Won't Stop Israeli Attack on Iran, U.S. Peace Activists Head to Gaza as Boat Delegation Deported, 10 Killed in U.S. Drone Attack in Pakistan, Pakistani Attorney Files Legal Challenge to Drone Bombings, Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Seeks Preservation of Abuse Photo, 2 U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan

Noam Chomsky on “Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours”

Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor, author and dissident intellectual, just turned eighty years old this past December. He has written over 100 books, but despite being called "the most important intellectual alive" by the New York Times, he is rarely heard in the corporate media. We spend the hour with Noam Chomsky. He spoke recently here in New York at an event sponsored by the Brecht Forum. More than 2,000 people packed into Riverside Church in Harlem to hear his address, titled “Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours.” In his talk, Chomsky discussed the global economic crisis, the environment, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire and much more. [includes rush transcript]

John Pilger Calls UK National Health Service a Treasure, Blasts US Lawmakers for Being "in Bed with Powerful Interests" and Neglecting "Their Own People's Basic Human Rights"

We play an excerpt of an extended interview with Australian investigative journalist, John Pilger. Speaking about the US healthcare system, Pilger says, "What is it about US legislators that they appear to be so in bed with such powerful interests, such as the insurance companies, that they can't represent their own people's needs, their own people's basic human rights." [includes rush transcript]

Blog Posts

Matthew Kennedy

Angelenic downtown LA

Posted by Matthew Kennedy on July 13, 2008 at 10:30pm

Arvin

Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear

Posted by Arvin on June 15, 2008 at 9:49pm

Arvin

Codex Alimentarius

Posted by Arvin on June 10, 2008 at 5:50pm

Matthew Kennedy

Impeach bush cards

Posted by Matthew Kennedy on June 4, 2008 at 8:49pm

Arvin

"With Great Power," From This American Life

Posted by Arvin on May 19, 2008 at 8:58pm

Our World And What You Can Do!

The following sections below are news from different sources, blogs, articles about social justice and the environment. If you have any particular sites you would like to see on the main page, particularly social movements (not just globally but community based actions) and the environment, please let me know so the information can be shared to members.

Take Action!

China Earthquake Aid
Aftershocks continue to shake Sichuan Province — including a 6.0 magnitude earthquake early Sunday morning, the latest in a series of more than 4,400 tremors in less than a week — causing landslides, disrupting telecommunications and blocking roads in already-devastated areas. Fears of flash floods and weakened dams are also hampering already-difficult relief operations.

Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis Children in Crisis Fund
Save the Children is responding to the needs of hundreds of thousands of children and families affected by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. Their immediate needs are for food and nonfood items, including clean water and shelter.

Endorse the "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq" This occupation will never end unless we change the conversation and change Washington (check out this YouTube with Cokie Roberts and Katrina vanden Heuvel to see what we mean).

Global Warming. Global Action. Global Future @ 350.org

What we need most right now are your actions that take the number 350 and drive it home: in art, in music, in political demonstrations, in any other way you can imagine.

WORKING FOR GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER EQUAL RIGHTS


In November 2001, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration announced that it planned to try foreign terrorism suspects by special military commissions.
 
 

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Entertainment!

WMGP member Michael Taylor Gray is a talented actor. I know. I've seen Michael perform. He has done stints on television: "My Name Is Earl", "Without A Trace (CBS)" and "Will & Grace (NBC)" to the L.A. stage in "Southern Baptist Sissies" & "Pageant" to a string of cabaret performances at The Gardenia, The Zephyr, The Ten20 and more, Michael Taylor Gray can be seen and heard all over Los Angeles.

He most recently starred as the Leader of the Greek Chorus in a world premiere adaptation of THE BACCHAE at the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood, which played to sell-out houses and rave reviews!
And now he can be seen on the internet-based sitcom series, Cast This!, a comedy about the ins and outs of the casting business. Julia Johnston has been a casting director in Hollywood for years, most of the time casting “B” movies and straight-to-DVD films. She and her assistant, Michael (Michael Taylor Gray), try to maintain calm in an office that seems to thrive on chaos.

Watch full webisodes at castthis.net

Music!

Dobet Gnahore

For her sophomore album, Na Afriki (To Africa), Dobet offers a personal vision of Africa today. Performed in a number of different African languages, the songs address social and political issues: the struggles of women in African society, the exploitation of children, the impact of greed and violence on the family. Dobet calls upon Africa to seek solutions from within and draw upon its own vast resources to create a better future. She sings of love and loss, as well as joy and celebration, using a wide variety of rhythms and styles that reflects her unique pan-African approach. Listen to Mousso Tilou.mp3. Purchase at amazon.com or at the itunes store

Les Nubians New Music Video "Solide" From the Album Echos, Chapter One - Les Nubians

SummerLove 2008 is almost ready. Listen to one of the tracks from the compilation. It's called "Nomakanjani" from the late and greatest Brenda Fassie. Listen to Nomakanjani.m4a

Watch the accompanying video for "Nomakanjani"
 

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