From LA Laborfest and United Steel Workers 675: Support the Carwasheros benefit event.
What: ALL YOU JIM CROW FASCISTS!-Woody Guthrie's Freedom Songs
When:
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 6:30 p.m. dinner / 7:30 p.m. performance
Where: SEIU USWW Hall, 828 W. Washington Blvd., LA 90015
Suggested Donation: $10 (no one turned away for lack of funds); Dinner $10
Featured performer is Will Kaufman, singer, guitarist and Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire.
This event is wheelchair accessible and disability affirmative. For more info,
laborfest@gmail.com.
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SOCIAL ACTION from the Alliance for Retired Americans (We are an affiliate member):
Call your Senators RIGHT NOW at
1-866-251-4044. Simply follow the prompts to connect to them. It only takes a minute.
Tell the person in the Senate office who answers the phone: I am a voter/constituent living in [your city and state]. I am calling to tell the Senator:
- NO CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY!
- NO CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY'S COLA!
- NO SOCIAL SECURITY PAYROLL TAX HOLIDAY!
Three new Social Security fact sheets explaining what's at stake are available on the Alliance web site at
http://www.retiredamericans.org/issues/social-security. Those three concern the proposed Balanced Budget Amendment, the Chained CPI formula for cutting Social Security, and the Payroll Tax Holiday. On July 12, the Alliance joined 27 other senior organizations in signing on to a letter to Members of Congress detailing how proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and traditional pensions would harm the retirement security of millions of retirees:
http://bit.ly/ogBiOA.
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California Legislative Select Committee on Homelessness hearings (subject to change): These meetings are open to the public.
Wednesday,
July 20, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in San Diego, San Diego Housing Commission Board Room: Homelessness Among Veterans and People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness
Wednesday,
July 27, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan Building: Homelessness Among Transition-Aged Youth, Families, LGBT Populations
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Committee to Celebrate Modern Soviet Yiddish Literature presents "Pioneers in Yiddish Modernity: Writers in the USSR"
When: Sunday, Aug. 14, 3 p.m.
Where: Arbeter Ring
Featuring: The first L.A. appearance of Yiddish scholar Prof. Rob Adler Peckerar, the new Executive Director of Yiddishkayt; songs set to Soviet Yiddish poems sung by the
Voices of Conscience chorus, led by Ruth Judkowitz; and a rarely-seen news reel announcing the WWII Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (Sergei Eisenstein, Shloyme Mikhoyls, and Perets Markish).
Admission is free.
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Shabes by the Book, our book discussion group, is on summer hiatus. If you have a Jewish-themed ("Jewish-themed" is a very broad category) book that you'd like to propose to the group for inclusion in next season's pot luck dinner & discussion series, please email the office.
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