Posts Tagged ‘Veterans Day’

ON THE MARCH

January 9, 2008

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 [...]

VECTOR CONTROL

November 14, 2007

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
Tues | Nov 6 So, it is agreed: the guy from Interpol sounds like what would happen if Ian Curtis of Joy Division and Fred from the B-52’s had a baby.
Wed | Nov 7 Resolved: The guy from The National sounds like what would happen if the guy from Interpol and [...]

VETERAN’S DAY PARADE SPEAKS OUT

November 10, 2007

The decision by organizers of the Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade to exclude veterans groups that oppose the war in Iraq has been in heavy news rotation the past couple of days. We’ve run nearly 10 stories about the affair and its been the Press-Telegram’s lead story the past two days.
So, it was a bit [...]

NOVEMBER 10, 2007

November 10, 2007

Heavy Metal Vomit Party: A multimedia kind of night framed by Skullphone, Shepard Fairey, the folks at Hooray for Humans and too many more to list here. Also music dredged out by Ghostship, I.E. and Laco$te. 7pm. $5.
KOO’S 530 E Broadway, Long Beach 90802. 562.491.7584; koos.org.
Veteran’s Day Parade: Your chance to find out what all [...]

DTV: MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT, SPEAK UP

November 9, 2007

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VETERANS DAY: HOW PRIVATE IS A PARADE?

November 8, 2007

The Supreme Court sided with “private” parade organizers in 1995 decision

Anti-war groups seeking to participate in Saturday’s Veterans Day Parade in Long Beach will have to contend with a 1995 Supreme Court decision that found private organizers of a St. Patrick’s Day parade in that city could not be compelled to allow gay-rights activists to [...]

DTV: VETS DAY DIS

November 8, 2007

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