Fri - June 1, 2007

The Military and the Environment: The Biggest Polluter in the World!


By Karl Abrams

Surprisingly few people are aware of the fact that the US military is, by far, the largest environmental polluter in the world, generating one-third of all yearly US toxic waste. This is about one ton per minute of waste chemicals, all of which are poisonous in small quantities to all living things, especially fetuses.

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News from the Front: Venice Girds for the Summer onslaught


By Della Franco

What is the news? That is the question on every one’s mind. But no one really knows for sure. There are so many unanswered questions, so many conflicting versions.

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Corporate Geniuses Discover There Is Life on Planet Venice


By Jim Smith

Even after the evictions and the illegal bulldozing, corporate landlord AIMCO still hasn’t gotten its way with redeveloping Lincoln Place apartments. Like fleas on an elephant, Venetians - including evicted tenants - have countered AIMCO’s long-held desire to destroy nearly 700 affordable garden apartments and replace them with high-cost condominiums.

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In Brief


• Is There A Shuttle in Our Future?

• 5 Rose Apartments Sold

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Midterm Report Cards for Bill and Antonio


It’s Midterm Report Card Time
for Councilmember Bill Rosendahl
and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

Beachhead Readers Respond (partial list):

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Lincoln Place: TENT CITY REPORT


By C.V. Beck

Tent City is once a week, on Saturdays, from 10 am to 5 pm, California and Frederick Streets, southwest corner. We are located behind the Ross/Ralphs parking lot in what we call the free speech area, or Squirrel Square.

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New Super-dense Element Announced: BUSHCRONIUM--SYMBOL IS “W.”


Discovery of the densest element yet known to science was announced today by the Lawrence Livermore Labs. The new element has been named “Bushcronium.” Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311. These particles are held together by dark forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

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Diary of the March of the Mothers


By Jeanmarie Simpson

Washington - Week of Mother’s Day:

Day 1

Our plane arrives in a hot, muggy DC evening. The airport shuttle takes us to the house where feminist luminaries smile, nod, offer cool hands and sandwich trays. Strategies, laptops, cell phones, backpacks, vases filled with pink carnations churn post-feminist-activist butter.

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Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan Opts Out


An Open Letter to the Democratic Congress

Why I Am Leaving
the Democratic Party

By Cindy Sheehan

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Beachhead Guide to Venice Medical Marijuana Dispensaries


Dispense Ye of Foolishness To Seek the WiseDome Within

By Erica Snowlake

As a followup to last moon’s interview with Dr. Allan Frankel whereby the author described receiving her magickal-entrance-beyond-many-doors-highly-sought-after State of California legally sanctioned MEDICAL MARIJUANA RECOMMENDATION, I’ve since undertaken a diligent quest to sample the goods proffered by Venice’s own wholistic dispensaries.

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Got the Munchies? It’s Time for La Fiesta!


Beachhead Restaurant Review:

By Rex Butters

Someday, someone will write the Official Guide to the Ultimate SoCal Beach Town Small Indie Eateries, and when the research team hits Venice I predict they will highlight La Fiesta.

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20 Years Ago in the Free Venice Beachhead (June 1987)


Right to the Throat

Venice resident, Ruth Galanter, was brutally attacked and stabbed in the neck by an intruder in her home shortly before the City Council election, which she went on to win. –FVBH

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Happy Birthday Carol Fondiller


June 22 is Carol Fondiller’s birthday. Not only was she crowned the “Queen of Venice” last year by Bill Rosendahl, she is also known as the Dean (or Deaness) of Venice journalism.

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ADA Compliance – or Not?


By C.V. Beck

I have been investigating compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 for WCIL (Westside Center for Independent Living) as a consumer. So far, the results have been more dismal than I had anticipated.

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Poetry


• Neon - Hillary Kaye
• Jill and the Beanstalk - Hal Bogotch
• partake - shanna
• Trees of the Urban Forest - C.V. Beck
• he's coming for our children - Rex Butters
• Them Ol' Summer Solstice Blues - Vaughn Marlowe
• Another Way to Protest - Milton Takei
• Rainbow monsters - Elise, age 4
• INCarceration, Inc. - Theresa Hulme
• The meaning of Life - Kurt Vonnegut

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