Joseph Turner, a Southern California white nationalist and leader of the anti-immigrant group Save Our State, is asking San Bernardino voters to choose him to guide the education of San Bernardino children in the Board of Education race there. On October 7, this aspiring educator sent an apocalyptic, white supremacist message to his Save Our State supporters:

Our enemies are bloodied and beaten. We cannot relent. Our boot is on their throat and we must have the willingness to crush their "throat" so that we can put our enemy down for good.

The sovereignty of our nation and the future of our culture and civilization is at stake. The United States is a beacon of salvation unto the rest of the world. Our freedoms, our culture is mans salvation. If we perish, man perishes.

Read the story:Joe Turner: School board candidate or demagogue? by Leslie Radford

Susan Forrest, a member of the AIDS social services community, writes about a new social marketing campaign that may fail to reach at-risk communities:
There is a LOT of hand-wringing in L.A. HIV circles about men who have sex with men who don’t identify as gay - and how to get them HIV tested and how to target prevention to them. [Many of those men are purported to be men who are not white.] This campaign will not speak to them...

It is generally acknowledged that those guys do not identify as "gay" and are not seen as members of 'The Gay Community' (of course, there are many communities in LA, but 'The Gay Community' in LA – the West Hollywood, entrenched crowd who self-identify as 'The Gay Community' generally are white.) So if these posters are going up in West Hollywood or in areas where people who identify as part of the gay community are, they will miss the very population they are saying they want to reach.

From the newswire: HIV is a Gay Disease (!?!) by Susan Forrest.

LOS ANGELES, October 5, 2006 - Downtown Los Angeles saw a full day of demonstrations and marches this Thursday, beginning at Noon in Pershing Square and going on into the evening. Protesters marched for various reasons but all were united in their call for an end to the Bush regime. Other issues included the US war on the people of the Middle East, Bush’s policy of domestic spying and the torture of suspects in custody. Also in the march was a 911 Truth Movement contingent and a bike block by Bikes Not Bombs.
From the Newswire: USA, ANTI-BUSH/WAR RALLY by Stephen Sakulsky
Drive Out the Bush Regime by Leslie Radford

LOS ANGELES, October 2, 2006 – With less than a day's notice, anti-war, and anti-bush regime activists are scrambling to organize some kind of protest against the widely unpopular president. The president will be in town for only four hours from 4pm to 8pm to attend a republican party fundraiser at the Holmby Hills home of Elliott Broidy. The visit comes coincidentally in the same week as the Drive out the Bush Regime day of protests on Thursday planed by the World Can’t Wait organization Bush visits to Los Angeles have become increasing secretive. It is thought that he can no longer appear in public places without causing large protests. Last year Bush was able to seek in out of town without any protests. From the Newswire: Protest Bush in Holmby Hills this Tuesday 4pm - 8pm

LOS ANGELES, September 29, 2006 - After refusing to return to Iraq for a second time, Army Specialist Agustin Aguayo turned himself in on Tuesday September 26, 2006 at the Fort Irwin Army Base near Barstow, California. Aquayo had filed for conscientious objector status before being deployed to Iraq in 2004. His petition was wrongfully denied by the military and he was forced to flee from a back bedroom window of his home in Germany rather than return for a second time. Full Story: AWOL SOLDIER TURNS HIMSELF IN by Anna Kunkin

Los Angeles, September 28, 2006 -- Report from the scene at La Cienega and Century Blvd. LAPD has five buses waiting for protesters to be taken away. Three of the buses are full and 35 people remain lying in the street, another protest is happening just west of this location. So far the protest has been extremely civil -- the protestors are cooperating with the police, getting up and walking to the buses when told. Among those arrested are Assemblyman Paul Kortez (D-West Hollywood), and State Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles). Two people have been cited with Disorderly Conduct. In addition to those being arrested in Civil Disobedience actions, about 400 supporters are chanting from the sidewalks. From the Newswire: PHOTOS: Hotel workers CD action | | VIDEO: Hotel Workers Protest | | Hotel Workers Arrestees Information

LOS ANGELES, September 25, 2006 – A coalition of faith based groups succeeded in closing the army recruitment center in Hollywood today. Early Monday morning a group of about 50 marched down Hollywood Blvd. to the recruitment center and proceeded to block the entrance. They were prepared to risk arrest but it did not come to that. Police monitored the group but did not interfere. It is believed that the center knew in advance of the action and closed because of the demonstration.

About 25 people set up an all day vigil at the front doors to make sure the recruitment center did not try to reopen. One of the people who took part, Ann Bishop, said of the action “We may have saved a few lives. Somebody didn’t sign up, and maybe having a day to think it over they won’t sign up, and they won’t go some where and be killed or kill any body”. From the Newswire Peace Group Shuts down Army Recruitment Center in Hollywood | | MP3 Audio: Declaration of Peace

LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2006 – A demonstration for International Day of Peace and to express solidarity with the Korean farmers of Pyeongtaek was held today. Demonstrators performed a mile long procession of Sam-bo-il-bae (a Buddhist prayer tradition) from the Korean Consulate down Wilshire Blvd. The Korean farmers are currently resisting removal from their land by force and the demolition of their homes for the construction of a US army base. From the Newswire: PHOTOS: Pyeongtaek Solidarity Action | | VIDEO: Pyeongtaek Solidarity Protest

RACISTAS NO SON BIENVENIDOS! EL PROYECTO DE LOS MINUTEMEN, INC: ENEMIGOS DE LAS MASSAS. La libreria Borders 125 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd. Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, Septiembre 25, 2006, 6:00 PM JIM GILCHRIST ESTARA EN LA LIBRERIA BORDERS PARA PROMOVER Y FIRMAR SU NUEVO LIBRO: HAY QUE DEJARLE SABER QUE EL CONDADO DE VENTURA ES UNA COMUNIDAD MULTI-ETNICA SIN TOLERANCIA POR SU MENSAJE RACISTA. Mas.

The organizations, groups, collectives and individuals from both sides of the US-Mexico border who are part of the National Campaign with the Other Politics for a National Program of Leftist Struggle and for a New Constitution (The Other Campaign), call to friends and adherents and sympathizers of the 6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, to laborers, youth, indigenous people, those in social struggle, intellectuals, artists and all those out there who identify with struggles from the left and from below to participate in the First Across-Borders Encounter, taking place in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on the 15, 16 and 17 of September, 2006. From the Newswire: First Across-Borders Encounter-The Other Campaign by Zezta LA

LOS ANGELES, September 11, 2006 – In a recent poll by MSNBC 59% of Americans stated that they did not believe the official government story of the events of September 11, 2001. The grassroots organization, 911truth.org held a day of nationwide demonstrations on the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001. Here in Los Angeles a group of people walked the streets of Westwood Village to get their message out about the unanswered questions that cause many to ask, “What really happened” From the Newswire: 911 Truth Movement Demo in Westwood | | Interview with 911-truth activist on the fifth anniversary of 911

CULVER CITY, September 10, 2006 – An Anti-Moslem demonstration took place today in front of a Mosque in Culver City. The anti-Moslems numbered about 75 and were countered by an equal number of counter demonstrators who came out in solidarity with Moslems and to defend the mosque. Although outnumber at first those countering the anti-Moslems arrived early and were able hold their ground in front of the mosque. They were unable to stop the hanging of a Moslem effigy across the street however. Inter-faith activists from ICUJP.org also established a second line at the doors to the mosque and were able to prevent the anti-Moslems from disrupting afternoon payers inside the mosque. There were some heated exchanges between the two groups but no instances of violence or arrest have been reported. Culver City Police watched from a far and did not come between the two groups or attempt to separate them. From the Newswire: Anti-Moslems Countered in Culver City by A | | Racists Hang Effigy of Bin Laden Near Mosque by Marcus
Full report with photos: "Lynch Mob" Attacks Mosque by Leslie Radford | | VIDEO: Protest at Culver City Mosque