Week of Thursday, February 17, 2005

The East End Report is now at
www.eastendrep.blogspot.com

Also see www.spv.active.ws
the Suffolk Progressive Vision Web Site
for news from the Suffolk Peace Network,
Counter Military Recruiting Committee
and much more.

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The East End Report is heard on
Bill McNulty's"Lunch on Thursday" 12N, Thursday
WUSB Stony Brook 90.1 FM and WUSB.org
( Bill's guests this week
have a Report Back from the
World Social Forum in Brazil)
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East End Report excerpts on
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Thursday 6:45am on 'Wake Up Call'
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Sunday 3 PM


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Attention Cable TV Viewers:


Show for the Workers
with Brian O'Haire

"Military Myths"
James Massey

Thursday February 17 from 5-6 PM

also

Suffolk Progressive Vision on TV

"Afghan Massacre-Convoy of Death"

Sunday 4 am


Brookhaven / Hauppage
Public Access TV Channel 20


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"The Childrenof Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing"

A Palestinian children's dance troupe
from the West Bank
tells the story of their people’s struggle


Every Monday at 10:30 PM
Every Wednesday at 12:30 am


Riverhead /Southampton /
Southold / Shelter Island

Public Access TV Channel 20

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In this week's report:

Report Back from Southampton Village Board: Detective Lamison Promoted

Campaign for "Democracy Now" on WLIW Channel 21

Action Alert: Save Social Security

Suffolk Peace Vigils

Peace and Justice Calendar:


* February 17 (Thursday): East End Study Circles Kickoff Meeting in East Hampton at 6:30 pm

* February 20 (Sunday): Peace Vigil/Car Caravan Starting at Sag Harbor Wharf at 3pm

* February 20 (Sunday): Cafe/Open House at Lutheran Church Water Mill

* February 21 through 25 (Monday-Friday): Winter Break Acting Mini-Camp in Bridgehampton

* February 22(Tuesday): Counter-Military Recruiting Meeting in Bayshore at 7:15pm

* February 23( Wednesday): Solar Seminar at SUNY Farmingdale at 7pm

* February 26(Saturday): Film and Viet Nam Vets' Discussion on Iraq War in Bridgehampton at 7 pm

* March 1 (Tuesday): Screening of "Farmingville" with Bilingual Discussion at Lutheran Church in Bridgehampton at 7:00 pm

* March 5 (Saturday): Interfaith Discussion Continues in East Hampton 2:30 to 4:30 pm

* March 5 and 6 (Saturday and Sunday): OLA Presents the Hispanic/Latino Film Festival at Southampton College 4:30 and 6:30 pm

* March 19 (Saturday): Suffolk ACLU Honors Local Freedom Fighters at Stony Brook 12 Noon

* Repeating Events: "Herstory" Writing Workshops in Spanish: Thursdays in East Hampton, Fridays in Riverhead


See Calendar below for details
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The East End Report is compiled by Tony Ernst.

Send items for next week's Calendar by Wednesday at 12Noon

Comments and corrections are welcome at eastendreport@optonline.net

Report Back from Southampton Village Board Meeting: Lamison is Appointed to Det. Sergeant

On Friday Feb 11 the Southampton Village Board met with an agenda which included the situation concerning Detective Herman Lamison's appointment to Detective Sergeant. Despite a recommendation by the Village Police Chief the appointment has been held up for some time.

As the Board met last Friday it again seemed that they were not going to appoint Detective Herman Lamison to Detective Sergeant and there was an attempt to promote him to Sergeant.

The meeting, which started at 6pm and lasted until after midnight, was attended by over 200 people who were in support of Det. Lamison and included citizens from the Southampton Town Anti-Bias Task Force, OLA (the Latin American Organization of Eastern LI), the NAACP, Suffolk Minorities Involved in Law Enforcement (SMILE) and East End clergy including Rev. Dozier.

After speeches by Eastern Long Island NAACP President Lucius Ware, veteran civil rights activist and ABTF member Bob Zellner and several others, the Village Board voted 5-0 to appoint Mr. Lamison to Detective Sergeant effective February 18.

Reported by Andre Collins

Campaign for "Democracy Now" on WLIW Channel 21

A message from Pat Goldsmith at LI Media Watch:

We are starting a campaign to bring award-winning journalist Amy Goodman’s DemocracyNOW! news program to WLIW Channel 21.

According to the Washington Post, “DemocracyNOW! retains a jagged and intriguing edge.”
DN! uses no embedded journalists and has no corporate sponsors. Goodman’s one journalistic ethic? Never trade independence for access. When the mainstream media got it wrong in the run-up to the war on Iraq, Amy Goodman got it right.

But aside from Goodman’s undoubted merits as a journalist, we need to push Public Television to report the whole truth as the radical right wing pushes harder and
harder to control content and even censor PBS programming.

Let’s take back our public TV!

Please go to: http://www.wliw.org/feedback/

Fill out the from and insert your comments on programming.

Suggested comment:

I think Amy Goodman's hour-long news program DemocracyNOW! would be a wonderful addition to the Channel 21 lineup. I want my DemocracyNOW!

For more info on LI Media Watch .. email: plgoldsmith@optonline.net

Action Alert: Save Social Security

A message from Citizen Action of NY (CANY)

CANY supports Campaign to preserve Social Security

Last year we mobilized hundreds of thousands of voters around the country. This year we need to mobilize hundreds of thousands of voters in New York, not to go to the ballot box but to raise their voices and tell Congress "hands off Social Security".

We are organizing grassroots campaigns in all nine New York Republican Congressional districts. And even if you don't live in these districts, you can help by calling voters, knocking on doors and identifying your friends and family who live in these swing areas.

Go to www.citizenactionny.org/social_security/index.html

* Sign up for the campaign.

* Send letter by FAX to your member of Congress.

Even if you're represented by a Democrat in Congress, you need to urge them to fight to stop the Bush plan to privatize Social Security.

Click here to send a free fax to your Representative urging him or her to vote NO on these unnecessary and harmful exemptions before it's too late!

* Consider contributing to CANY's Campaign to preserve Social Security at www.citizenactionny

Making Amends

An acquaintance of mine, a person of comfortable means who owns a beautiful house, mentioned at a party to me how she wishes the men who congregate in front of the 7-Eleven would be not allowed to do so, because they are an eyesore in town. I told her I agreed they should not have to stand out there in the terrible cold and left it at that. I didn’t pursue it as normally I would, because at the time it seemed inappropriate to the conviviality of the gathering. So I will try to make amends here.

How astonishing that such openly, unabashed greed and selfishness can now be thought to be socially acceptable. I wish I had said that I am certain those men themselves would also like not to stand there in the terrible cold, because it is cruel and inhumane. A rich community like ours could easily afford to build a workplace where these men, who so immeasurably contribute to building and maintaining our beautiful town, could come out of the cold and have facilities we would wish for ourselves, for our children or for our parents.

A simple bench to sit on out of the elements, a place with a bathroom and water, a place where they would feel they were not on display. A place out of the pitiless glare of people who disdain, condemn and even mock them for not having decent shelter; out of the humiliating gaze of comfortable people hopping out of expensive vehicles, who despise their being down and out and their need to work. A place where people knew their names and would love to see the precious photos of their loved ones, for whom they work so honestly and so hard to be able to put food on their table, and to see that their kids could go to school and have a chance for what they perhaps didn’t have.

Hundreds of communities across the country provide such sheltered workplaces for day laborers; there are four communities on Long Island that do so, communities with far less resources than ours. It is a shame that the most heartless feel the need to shout the loudest their hauteur, their scorn and their snobbishness at people with so much less than what we have and take for granted.

MICHAEL O’NEILL

Sag Harbor

Southampton Press 02/17/04
Copyright, The Southampton Press