A Protest against War in Syria has been set for this Sunday, September 1, 2013, at 11 am, at Pearson Park, in Anaheim.
THE PLAN: We will meet up at 11am at Pearson Park, by the gazebo on the Harbor/Sycamore side. Make signs.
Then we will march to Lincoln and Harbor. Continue reading
He served 15 months in Iraq, where he was blown up 4 times by IEDs (improvised explosive device). And he also painted a mural in what used to be Saddam Hussein’s bunker. So what is Jouvon Michael Kingsby up to now?
According to a fantastic new article in Santanero, Kingsby has set up shop over at the Spurgeon Building, in the Santa Ana Artists Village. He’s a part of the art collective ‘X is the Weapon’ as well as showing many of his pieces in local galleries and shows. Additionally, Kingsby is designing the cover for KRS-ONE and Maylay Sage’s upcoming collaboration.
Peace activists will be providing information to students the military won’t provide – How to get out if you join, stats on jobs, giving up your rights, and more, at Santa Ana High School on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 6:30 am, according to a Facebook event page.
The event organizers are asking their followers to “be polite and don’t walk on school property, and please don’t block sidewalks.” And apparently they will have fliers in Spanish for parents, too. Continue reading
Code Pink is going to be protesting Condoleeza Rice’s appearance in Anaheim on Monday, June 6. Here is what they posted on Facebook:
Please join us for a peaceful protest of Condoleeza Rice, who is at the Anaheim Convention Center speaking at the International Dairy Deli Bakery Seminar & Expo.
Meet at Hotel Way and Convention Way at 8:30. We’ll walk to the Convention Center entrance near the Hilton Hotel located 777 Convention Way, Anaheim, CA.
We will have banners and signs. Wear Pink! Paid parking available in structure /free parking in some nearby residential areas. Bring your cameras!
For more information, call 949-257-8501, or email Sharon Tipton on FB.
We are obligated by conscience to do what our Justice Department won’t – call to account (former) officials to account for war crimes. Only when the Bush Administration’s war crimes are held to light will the current administration think twice about continuing illegal invasions and allowing torture. Please stand with us as we chant and sing songs. Coffee afterward!
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As National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice was one of the five administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq. She pushed the Bush administration’s false claims that Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq possessed nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and had connections
to al-Qaeda and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Condoleezza Rice was a principal participant in this campaign of disinformation. A congressional report in March 2004 found that of all the top Bush administration officials, Rice made the highest number of categorically false statements between September 2002 and September 2003.
She is also a prima facie war criminal for her approval of torture. ABC news reported in April 2008, the committee authorized water-boarding of three people in U.S. custody, According to ABC, the role of Condoleezzza Rice “was decisive.” Amidst concerns that the program was harming US image abroad, Rice reportedly told the CIA, “This is your baby. Go do it.”
Natalie Fousekis, associate director of the Center for Oral and Public History, smiles as students record the remembrances of Lt. Col. William Kogerman. During the 1960s, the decorated combat pilot was based at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, which is being transformed into the Orange County Great Park. With funding from the Great Park Corp., CSUF students are compiling oral histories of veterans who served at the base.
2010 El Toro Homecoming Will Welcome Veterans Back to the Base
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:NOVEMBER 4, 2010
CONTACT: JENN STARNES, 949-724-6574
WHAT: The Orange County Great Park will celebrate Veterans Day a few days early with the annual El Toro Homecoming event. The event pays tribute to those who have shared their memories of life at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro through the Great Park Oral History Project.
The Great Park Oral History Project is a collaboration between the Orange County Great Park Corporation and the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University, Fullerton. Beginning with the earliest residents of the Base, the project records interviews with Marines, their families, and those who worked at El Toro.
WHO:
Pre-event interviews available by request with:
• Captain Dick Ferree was stationed at MCAS El Toro from 1959-61 after joining the Marines during his junior year of college, and spent the majority of his time at El Toro. Following his time in the Marine Corps he spent nine years in Chicago until his business moved him to Fullerton, California, where he lived for twenty-five years. He currently resides in Newport Beach.
• Born in 1935, Samuel Romero, Marine sergeant and community activist, has spent his entire life in Santa Ana’s Logan Barrio. He served in the Marine Corps from 1956-62, when he was able to work at the base while living at home. Described as the conscience of Santa Ana, Romero has spent the last twenty-five years standing up for equality for all people.
• Captain Clarence Nelson joined the United States Marine Corps immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was stationed at El Toro in 1945 when he first met Technical Sergeant Vera Gilpin. Clarence and Vera served in Air Base Group-2 and also did a stint in special services where he sang and she played the accordion at local bond rallies. Clarence was already married, and Vera became engaged soon after the war ended. They met again in 1997 after the death of both their spouses. Clarence and Vera found love a second time and married shortly thereafter. The two Marines currently live in Oceanside, California.
WHEN: Saturday, November 6, 2010
11:00 a.m. to Noon – Interview opportunities
WHERE: Orange County Great Park
Hangar 244
Off 5 Freeway and Sand Canyon
(949) 724-6574
WHY: To preserve Orange County’s rich military heritage through an Oral History Project that explores the role of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in the transformation of Orange County in the years after World War II.
Now in its third year, the Oral History Project has conducted 300 interviews from 1942, when the U.S. military broke ground on the former Irvine Ranch lima bean field, and Orange County’s population was less than 150,000, to 1964. The project will ultimately include interviews up to the base closure in 1999, when the county housed more than 2.9 million residents and had undergone a sweeping transformation, to the present transition from a Marine Corps Station to the Orange County Great Park.
AMERICAN GI FORUM OF THE UNITED STATES, RUDY ESCALANTE CHAPTER; VETERANS FIRST OC OC; AND THE UNITED MEXICAN-AMERICAN VETERANS ASSOCIATION
Cordially Invite You to Attend a Presentation
Men and Women of Honor “Welcome Home OEF (Afghanistan)/OIF (Iraq) Soldiers”
A program to improve the ability of War Veterans to develop and maintain healthy and fulfilling partner and family relationships.
For Veterans and their families
Presented by: Jerry Tello, M.A.
A four hour presentation on issues and resources related to:
1) Skills to assist in healing war related and other trauma
2) Developing and maintaining healthy and fulfilling partner and family relationships.
3) Preventing family violence
Saturday, October 23, 2010, from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM
1540 E. Edinger Ave. #A, Santa Ana, CA 92705
Lunch will be served
Registration: http://menandwomenofhonor.eventbrite.com
Pre-registration strongly suggested.
To register by E-mail, send your name, the names of additional persons attending and your contact phone number to our email at recagif@yahoo.com. To register by Phone, please leave a voice mail message with your name and, names of additional persons attending and your contact number at (657)201-7535.
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Alfonso Alvarez, Ed.D.
Commander, Rudy Escalante Chapter
American GI Forum of the United States
5051 E. Orangethorpe Ave. #E209, Anaheim, CA 92807
www.agifrudyescalante.com
(714) 309-4072
Francisco J. Barragan CPA, CIA
Commander, UMAVA
United Mexican-American Veterans Association
http://umava.org/
(714) 605-2544 cell