I’m getting an award from the #NLG!!! Come out if you’re in #SoCal for a good time. #fb #li

Posted by ken on January 27, 2012
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HERE’S YOUR INVITATION TO THE LA/NLG’S “2012 WINTER AWARDS PARTY”

Honoring Lawyers Guild Attorneys who Defended Occupy LA!

 

Saturday, February 25th, from 7:00-120:00 p.m.

Great food & Drinks!

Dance to the Music of the Popular, “Los Jornaleros Del Norte!”

All for the Low Price of $50.00 person, $25.00 for students!

 

Location: SEIU Service Workers West, 828 W. Washington Blvd., L.A., CA 90015

 

HONORING: LA/National Lawyers Guild Attorneys ERIN DARLING, JOHN MICHAEL LEE,KEN MONTENEGRO, SRI PANCHALAM, CAROLYN PARK, MATTHEW STRUGAR & MIKE TORCIVIA, for their outstanding work on behalf of defending Occupy LA!

 

Use the Form Below to Reserve Your tickets Now!

 

Name:_____________________________________________Phone#__________________

 

E-Mail Address:_________________________________________

 

Number of Tickets: ____________________Send Check, Payable to “NLG” to, National Lawyers Guild, 8124 W. Third St., Ste. 101,

LA, CA 90048; or e-mail ticket order to: jlafferty@nlg-la.org; or phone in order to: 323/653-4510 (Tickets held at door.)

 

And please consider buying an extra ticket or two for low-income guests!

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You’ve just been ousted as the mayor of Escandalo Cantina!

Posted by ken on January 24, 2012
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Sorry for the bad news, but Juan has just ousted you as mayor of Escandalo Cantina!
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Don't take it too hard – a few more check-ins and you could be back on top…

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SR Fest Follow-up…hello @dennisjromero

Posted by ken on January 16, 2012
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After learning that the LA Weekly had used their “journalistic” skills to report on the Skid Row festival….

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SR Fest Follow-up…hello @dennisjromero

After learning that the LA Weekly had used their "journalistic" skills to report on the Skid Row festival….

  1. KPCC got off on the right foot: it was a music festival and not a concert as asserted by this ass-hat work of journalism by the LA Weekly:
  2. I guess the journalistic standard at the Weekly has degraded to making a small set of phone calls and using someone else’s tweets as a source for a story.  I hadn’t even noticed until @AvalonSensei brought it to my attention.
  3. It appears at LA Weekly right hand and left hands don’t communicate too well because the person who said Public Enemy’s publicity folks were spitting “bullshit” didn’t know that the weekly had a writer on-site at the festival.  Much less a photographer who was there for a significant amount of time.
  4. I think the worst part of the whole LA weekly piece is that it really misses the message of the show and @MrChuckD’s commitment to it.  They don’t get into the politics of skid row, provide a context, or do anything that journalists are expected to do. Rather, it seems the Weekly expected the piece to write itself like so much of the fluff that distinguishes the Weekly as of late.
    Once upon a time, in my youth of the late 90′s, the LA Weekly used to distinguish itself as a place where pieces too bold for the LA Times to run would be run.  Folks like Harold Meyerson and Marc Cooper would appear alongside Mike Davis.  Now, it seems the best legs at a nightclub are what counts as content.  It also seems that not getting an immediate response from PE makes their communication “bullshit” but vague answers from the police are not treated as derisively as they should be.
    I get it, it’s a tough time to be a journalist….but tough times are a poor pretext for doing a shitty job.
    PS: When you’re using somebody else’s content, it’s always nice to let the person whose content you’re using know you’re using it.

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Skid Row Music Fest

Posted by ken on January 15, 2012
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I figured I’d assemble my account of what happened at the Skid Row music fest where @MrChuckD and the PE crew supported the important work of LA-CAN (http://www.cangress.org_

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Skid Row Music Fest

I figured I’d assemble my account of what happened at the Skid Row music fest where @MrChuckD and the PE crew supported the important work of LA-CAN (http://www.cangress.org_

  1. I figured and hoped that the music fest would be a good place to attempt to live stream while legal observing.  To me, it’s important to use whatever skills, training or ability I have to advance the important work of folks like LA-CAN
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    hotspot charged…tablet charging. i might just livestream part of #srfest today!

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 15:48:12

  3. When my son and I arrived, there were a number of brown hipsters rolling in. Hipsters who insist they aren’t hipsters and who, while gentrifying, insist they are “community”. Regardless, there was exceptional energy in the air. For that, I blame Pete White who was an amazing MC and Chuck D.
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    Bown hipsters rolling in….to hear chuck d give la-can a super dope shout-out! What are u doing to support la-can? #srfest #fb

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 17:19:14

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    While flavor flav is on stage, the #lapd is kicking it near the undefined display! #srfest http://yfrog.com/nv7ojndj

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 17:34:37

  6. The festival set was perfect…Chuck D and Flavor Flav let the residents of skid row that they matter. It was lovely to hear and feel the humanity and solidarity flowing from the stage.
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    911 is joke! #srfest http://yfrog.com/hsp6nmjlj

    ken montenegro
    Sun, Jan 15 2012 17:43:59

  8. 911 is a joke hit the spot in particular because skid row has been treated as a human dumping ground where 911 truly is a joke…because when the hospital wants to dump you, they do it on skid row.
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    Yeah people, fight the power is really more than a song… #srfest #dtla

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 17:57:58

  10. It was awesome to see folks getting down to such a simple and essential jam…at the same time, I felt a bit of remorse that for many of the folks saying fight the power is the closest they will get to resisting the institutions that aim to alienate us from the struggles of others.
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    Occupy Skid Row 011512

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    Sat, Jan 14 2012 19:00:00

  12. The crowd was diverse and full of good people. In the shot above, talented KPFK reporter Ernesto Arce gives side-eye…but probably with cause.
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    @flavorflav thanks for the set and the love for the people of skid row. #srfest #dtla

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 18:00:04

  14. For someone who is generally skeptical and sometimes cynical, Flavor Flavs words and his clear sympathy and solidarity with the people of skid row made me feel very optimistic…but then….
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    And just like that, the brown hipsters start to leave…at least the white hipsters aren’t rushing out yet. #srfest #dtla

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 18:02:29

  16. …the PE set ended and the brown hipsters started to leave in droves. Fortunately, there were lots of other people so the crowd only thinned out a little bit.
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    http://twitvid.com/UFZ4B – The #lapd at #srfest #dtla

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 18:02:57

  18. The LAPD was an ever present force but I’m glad they weren’t in their robocop gear.  In skid row, the police have a history of harassing homeless folks to no end.  My fear was that the festival, which some construed to be a concert, would provide an opportunity for the police to harass folks.
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    View from #srfest yfrog.us/1f2phz

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 18:56:47

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    #srfest at the doorstep of the wonderful catholic worker space. (@ Los Angeles Catholic Worker Hospitality Kitchen) 4sq.com/xqNb9A

    ken montenegro
    Sun, Jan 15 2012 19:12:14

  21. Having the festival near the “Hippie Kitchen” was special to me: it’s one of the few spaces where homeless folks are treated as people not as “encounters”, “clients”, or the other pronouns of service delivery. It’s also a place where I volunteered once for a needle exchange.
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    Wow, really old skool, egyptian lover is on stage at #srfest! Solid!

    ken montenegro
    Sun, Jan 15 2012 19:24:17

  23. I wish I had caught Yo Yo but I was eyeing the interactions the cops were having with a festival attendee….but Egyptian Lover was great. All that was missing was a bouncing Monte Carlo or Regal!
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    http://twitvid.com/SCIDB – The roots band playing at #srfest #dtla

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    Sun, Jan 15 2012 19:38:15

  25. Before the roots band, my friend Hamid talked about the project I’m proud to be a part of, http://www.stoplapdspying.org –.  Many folks weren’t listening but I”m glad that some folks were and that hopefully they’ll ally themselves with what is right: working together to fix what’s wrong without the police undermining or surveilling that important work.

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Daily Digest for September 19th

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Shared The perils of partisan punditry in the Obama age.
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Shared US-Trained Assassin Teams Now Deployed in Mexican Drug War.
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Shared Those responsible for the genocide and dirty war vie for the guatemalan elections.

Daily Digest for September 17th

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Daily Digest for September 16th

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Shared My Life on Video.
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