This Week: Geraldine Ferraro, Horton Hears A Who! and Iraq Veterans Against the War
Tues | Mar 11 A few days ago, Long Beach’s defacto local paper, the South Bay Daily Breeze, printed a little story in anticipation of an appearance by 1984 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro in Torrance. The story was noteworthy if [...]

Members of the three veterans groups who were told they couldn’t march in last year’s 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade because they didn’t “fit the spirit of the parade”–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–now … fit the spirit of the parade.
Weird, huh? Actually, it’s pretty good [...]

Local soldiers share their Iraq experiences at Winter Soldier Project Fundraiser
The Winter Soldier Project Fundraiser, hosted Sunday by First Congregational Church of Long Beach, was surprisingly well-attended considering that the somber event took place right smack in the middle of an absolutely beautiful Spring day, approximately 10 hours after many of us forgot to move our clocks [...]

First Congregational Church of Long Beach will play host Sunday to Iraq veterans eager to talk about the war they saw; a war rife with death, anger, courage and lies. In anticipation of that event—a fundraiser to send the same vets to speak in Washington D.C.—we asked several of them to tell us their stories. [...]

Excluded veterans will walk in Martin Luther King Jr. event, possibly Veterans Day Parade

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
An adviser to Lt. Gov. John Garamendi—a veteran whose grandfather was a Superior Court judge in Long Beach—says that pacifist veterans groups excluded from last November’s Long Beach Veterans Day Parade in North Long Beach will likely be [...]

Lieutenant governor’s office weighs in on 2007 Veterans parade controversy

Remember the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade? So do a lot of people, especially members of the three veterans groups–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–who were told they couldn’t march in the Nov. 10 parade. Organizers said [...]

The Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins reports today on the testimony members of three veterans groups gave Tuesday night to the council, after the veterans groups–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–were denied the right to march in last Saturday’s 11th Annual Veterans Parade.And LBPost.com chimes in, with a cheery parade [...]

At the first Long Beach City Council meeting since Saturday’s 11th Annual Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade, the council got an earful from members of three veterans groups which were denied the right to march in the parade.

If you missed any portion of the recent struggle between organizers of the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade and members of the three veterans groups they excluded from Saturday’s parade–Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and Iraq Veterans Against the War–tonight’s Long Beach City Council meeting is your chance to catch up.
Members [...]

Anatomy of a conservative attack dog
In any other circumstance, police harassment of an American gun owner and war vet would become a conservative fable, burnished into a action-packed tale of liberal bureaucrats feasting on the body of a true hero, evidence of American weakness and the triumph of feminism. But Adam Kokesh, a gun owner [...]