August
2009

#334

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CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

Artists Protest Commercial Vending on Ocean Front Walk - Barbara Ransom

  • Photos by Pegarty Long

Live Free Or Drive! - Jennifer Smith and Jim Smith

  • Photo by Krista Schwimmer

766 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan - 40 this month
4,330 U.S. Casualties in Iraq - 7 this month; 1,339.771 Iraqi Dead;
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: $892 billion

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

  • What a life indeed - Tim Dybrig
  • Camping Area Needed for RVs - Michael Millman

The Actually Existing Health Care System - Carl Ginsburg

PAGE THREE

As the Crow Caws - Lily Crow

White Man's Last Stand - Political Cartoon by Khalil Bendib

PAGE FOUR

Vollleyball Without A Net - Amy V. Dewhurst

    Artists Protest Commercial Vending on Ocean Front Walk - continued from page 1

    • Ocean Front Walk Admission cartoon by Mark Goldman

    PAGE FIVE

    Rotary Club Returns to Venice - Don Culton

    Swami X Speaks

      Ad: Movie Night

      Ad: Rob Macon for KPFK Board

      PAGE SIX

      Car Show Stops Traf&Mac222;c on Rose Avenue - Greta Cobar

      • Photos by Krista Schwimmer

      Ad: Khalil Bendib's Mission Accomplished

      Ad: Mystic Journey Bookstore

      Ad: The Tree House

      PAGE SEVEN

      I Became a Communist in Venice - Mark Lipman

      • Photo by Mark Lipman

      Ad: Eko Zone

      PAGES EIGHT AND NINE

      Poetry:

      • All That's Left - Jack Hirschman
      • Untitled - Roger Houston
      • City of Dreams - Hillary Kaye
      • Every Poem I Write - Philomene Long
      • Charlie Wolf, Musicological Boy Wonder - Hal Bogotch
      • Cold Ellison VI - Philomene Long
      • The Ghosts of Venice West - Philomene Long
      • To Philomene - Krista Schwimmer
      • Philomene recites a poem - Jim Smith

      Ad: The 2nd Annual Philomenian

      Iraq - Iran

      PAGE TEN

      Live Free Or Drive! - continued from page 1

      PAGE ELEVEN

      Artists Protest Commercial Vending on Ocean Front Walk – continued from page 4

      The Actually Existing Health Care System - continued from page 2

      Live Free Or Drive! - continued from page 10

      PAGE TWELVE

      Calendar - Lydia Poncé

      Beachhead Capitalism - Posters and T-shirts for sale

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