Week of Thursday, February 17, 2005

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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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( Bill's guests this week
have a Report Back from the
World Social Forum in Brazil)

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Thursday 6:45am on 'Wake Up Call'
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V I G I L / CAR CARAVAN


for P E A C E !

Sunday 3 PM


Starting from Sag Harbor Wharf



Sponsored by


East End Women in Black


631-831-4966

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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


Send a Message

For the past several weeks, readers of the Southampton Press have had the benefit of the reporting of a member of the military stationed in Baghdad, Iraq. The following letter appeared in this week's Press:

Despite the rave review of the Iraq elections by your embedded military reporter [“Iraqi Elections Made History,” Letter From Iraq, February 10], the voters gave the majority in the new parliament to those who pledged to write off Iraq’s debts, cancel reparations and use the oil wealth for economic development projects. The party of U.S.-installed Ayad Alawi received the least votes, about 14 percent.

But George Bush says the United States will stay. And the Iraqi finance minister, Adel Abd al-Mahdi, plans to privatize Iraq’s state-owned enterprises and wants a new oil law “very promising to the American investors,” according to Naomi Klein, writing in The Guardian on February 12.

Meanwhile, the violence in Iraq continues. The price for control of Iraq is being paid for by our troops, hospitalized vets and those who rely on housing subsidies and other services being cut from the federal budget. The president will shortly ask Congress for another $80 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to the $420 billion defense budget.

Where is our congressman, Tim Bishop, on Iraq? Will he vote again to fund the oil-igarchy’s wars?

Where are we on Iraq? We can send a message to Washington this coming weekend. At 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 20, a “Car Caravan for Peace” will leave the wharf in Sag Harbor and tour the area. This event is sponsored by East End Women in Black. More information is available at 831-4966.

Anthony Ernst

Southampton

Issue Date: Southampton Press 02/17/04
Copyright, The Southampton Press

Peace and Justice Calendar - Revised Feb 16

* 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

Details follow:


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


The kickoff for the third round of East End Study Circles will be held on Thursday, February 17th, 6:30 PM at the East Hampton Day Care Center at 3 Gingerbread Lane Extension. Food and entertainment will be provided.

Study Circles meetings will be held for six consecutive weeks beginning the week of February 28th and will end with an action forum in April. Meeting participants will seek common ground in dealing with demographic changes in East End communities.

Contact StudyCircle@optonline.net or call (631) 324-2152 to leave a message.

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La apertura de las reuniones del Circulo de Estudios en el Fin del Este será el día Jueves 17 de Febrero a las 6:30 PM en el East Hampton Day Care Center en la 3 Gingerbread Lane. Las reuniones serán por 6 semanas consecutivas terminando con un plan de acción en Abril.

El objetivo conocer, estudiar, enfrentar los cambios demográficos ocurridos en los ultimos tiempos en las diferentes comunidades del Fin del Este y entre todos buscar un camino en vias a traer beneficios a nuestra comunidad.

Contáctenos StudyCircle@optonline.net o llame (631) 324-2152 deje su mensaje.


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

Please join East End Women in Black at 3pm on Sunday, February 20th at the Sag Harbor Wharf to protest the continuing war and occupations of Iraq and Palestine.

For the first time our vigil will be a "Car Caravan" through the streets of Sag Harbor, starting at the Wharf. Join Us!

East End Women in Black vigils are now twice a month -

on the first Sunday of each month at 3 p.m. at the Monument in Bridgehampton (next March 6)

and

the third Sunday of each month in Sag Harbor at the wharf at 3 p.m. (February 20)

East End Women in Black began its vigil in Sag Harbor at the wharf in August 2002 to stand against violence in the Middle East and against the invasion of Iraq. It is the longest standing regularly held protest on the East End.

We say to the world and to our neighbors that George Bush and the US administration doesn't represent us. We support our troops best when we work to bring them home.

Info at 631-831-4966
email: eewib@optonline.net or sigridbythesea2@aol.com


February 20 (Sunday): Cafe/Open House at Lutheran Church Water Mill 6pm

Starting Feb 20th the Lutheran Church of Water Mill /Bridgehampton is planning a monthly open house and cafe' on the third Sunday of the month from 6 to 8 pm.

These social gatherings of fun, friends, and food will include opportunities for open mike, poetry readings, art exhibits, book discussions, music, food, etc.

For those interested in participating, contact Pastor Rose Ann Vita at ravita@fnol.net or 631-537-1187


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


Do you have an aspiring actor/actress at home? Now’s your chance to get them out of the house and onto the stage. During the winter break, Monday, February 21 through Friday, February 25 from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. at the Bridgehampton Community House, your child will have the opportunity to discover the world of theatre.

Spend the week exploring your creative side through exciting theatre games, improvisations, and imaginative play, culminating in a theatrical performance piece for parents and friends to see.

Alison Aird who will conduct the classes, is a teaching artist with many years experience in the UK and on the East End.

More Information at the CMEE web-site www.cmee.org or email info@cmee.org


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

The next meeting for counter recruiting efforts on Long Island will be on Tuesday, February 22nd at 7:15 pm at the Bayshore Library, One South Country Road, Brightwaters.

Please spread the word, and invite anyone who is interested.

Information for next year's school calendars and handbooks are being put together, so it is important we get in contact with as many schools as possible in the next month.

Contact Karen - rksrc@optonline.net or call 875-8647.


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


Learn how you can generate your own electricity at a FREE solar seminar sponsored by Reneweable Energy Long Island (RELI)

The seminar will be held on Wednesday February 23 at 7:00pm at SUNY Farmingdale.
The location is at 2350 Broadhollow Road in Farmingdale, Roosevelt Hall, Room 111

For directions: www.farmingdale.edu/ifs_prospective_students.html and
Campus map: http://www.farmingdale.edu/contact_us/campus_map.html

Details about future seminars will be posted at www.RenewableEnergyLongIsland.org


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

East End Veterans will sponsor a screening of the film "Hearts & Minds" followed by a discussion by Viet Nam combat vets on parallels and differences between the Viet Nam and Iraq wars, government policies and Pentagon strategies. The program wil be at the Bridgehampton
National Bank Community Room at 7pm.

(This program had been scheduled for January 22 the night of the blizzard.)

Contact: Michael O'Neill at leoneill@optonline.net



March 1 (Tuesday): Film Screening - "Farmingville" with Bilingual Discussion at Incarnation Lutheran Church Bridgehampton at 7:00 pm

This screening and panel discussion will be in English and Spanish. Panelists will be: Most Reverend Emil Wcela, Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre and Mr. Dennis Suskind, Town Council Member of Southampton Town. The discussion will be moderated by the Rev. Marvin Dozier of Southampton Youth Association and translation will be
done by Mr. James Claffey of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.


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

A follow-up to the interfaith discussion held last month in East Hampton's St. Lukes Church will be held Saturday afternoon March 5 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm. Clergy from several faiths will speak and a discussion will be held. People of all faiths and spiritual paths are welcome.

The gathering has been planned to provide a meeting place for those on the East End who seek an open and inclusive direction in public policy. Reverend Best of Montauk will facilitate the discussion to be held at the parish house of Saint Luke's Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

For further information contact Maryann Calendrille at 725-4926 or Dan Steiger at 831-4966


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

OLA of Eastern Long Island will present the first Hispanic/Latino Film Festival at Avram Hall on the Southampton College Campus. Films will be shown at 4:30 and 6:30 on March 5 and 6.

Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 4:30pm:

"Taxi Para Tres" (A Cab for Three) A 90 minute film from Chile, released in 2001 and directed by Orlando Lubbert.

Ulises’ beat-up taxi breaks down in a slum district of Santiago de Chile and is commandeered by two bandits who force him to drive them around and become an accomplice in their crimes.

"Taxi para Tres" is a sharp, black comedy that explores the margins of contemporary Chilean society. It was a winner of the top prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 6:30 pm:

"Y Tu Mama Tambien" - A film from Mexico released in 2002 and directed by Alfonso Cuadron.

Julio and Tenoch are two teens ruled by raging hormones and a mission to consume exotic
substances. But one summer, the boys learn more about life than they bargain for when they set off a wild cross-country trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa.

Nominated for a Golden Globe, this sizzling box-office sensation is not only "raucously funny" but also "one of the most compellingly sexy movies ever made".

Sunday March 6th, 2005 at 4:30 pm:

"The Revolution Will Not be Televised - Venezuela" A film made in 2003 by Kim Bartley & Donnacha O’Brian of Ireland.

It is a documentary of the failed 2002 coup to oust Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. It won Best Documentary at the 2003 Seattle Int'l Film Festival.

The film will be followed by Q&A session.

Sunday March 6th, 2005 at 6:30 p.m.

"Farmingville" the film made by local directors Catherine Tambini and Carlos Sandoval in 2003.
The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small
Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new front line in the border wars:
suburbia. The film captures first-hand the stories of residents, day laborers and activists on all sides of the debate.

Farmingvile was the winner of the Sundance special jury prize and Winner of the Best documentary at the San Diego Latino Film Festival among other awards.

The film will be followed by Q&A session.


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

Saturday, March 19th, marks the two-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. It is always essential during times such as these that we protect the freedoms that can (and often are) lost.

For that reason, on March 19th, the two-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, the Suffolk NYCLU will be commemorating the contribution to freedom made by members of our community.

The honorees are Catherine Tambini - the Director of "Farmingville", Vic and Charlotte - Founders and Directors of the Cinema Arts Centre and David Kilmnick - the Founder and Director of Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth.

Our honorees have all made a major difference in the rights that underlies individuality, expression, openness, association, speech and protest.

Info: Liz Folz at mollydog4@aol.com

Repeating Event:

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

East Hampton:

Every Thursday women come together to share their writing with one another and receive feedback on how to structure and shape their life writing. Workshop facilitator Sandra Dunn, who is of Spanish descent, is also helping to launch the Riverhead workshop, along with María Jiménez, who is Mexican and leads a workshop in Farmingville. The diversity of Herstory groups is even more pronounced in the workshops for Latinas, since the local population is comprised of people from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. The East Hampton workshop is open to East Hampton Town residents.

It meets every Thursday, 7-9 p.m., at the Senior Citizens Center, 128 Springs-Fireplace Road.

Riverhead:

The Riverhead Free Library has opened its newly formed Friday evening workshop to women residing in any town.

Next workshop date February 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the library, located at 330 Court Street. Call 631-727-3228 to register, or register at the workshop.

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For more information for either location call: 631-723-0150.