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Solidarity Vigil for Gaza in Anaheim Tomorrow!

As international activists go on hunger strike outside the Egyptian border, a vigil in solidarity with their efforts and with the people of Gaza will take place in Anaheim tomorrow. In conjunction with the Gaza Freedom March still hoping to take place in the Palestinian territory on New Year’s Eve, local activists from around Southern [...]

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Tiger Woods Learning Center: Today’s Lesson

{Crouching Tiger, Hidden Mistress!} Amidst Scandal What Lessons Are We Missing from Tiger Woods’ Learning Center? Prior to the opening of the ‘Tiger Woods Learning Center’ in Anaheim, Dad Miller’s Golf Course was pretty non-eventful. My uncle, an avid golfer, would tee off there when visiting us from El Paso and regarded it as a ‘piece of [...]

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Anaheim’s My Machete Stays Sharp!

Anaheim’s My Machete have been making strikingly moody, nuanced indie rock for the better part of the past decade. Chemical bursts of energy propel the band’s repertoire, but they are also capable of slowing things down—“Endo Zendo Nintendo” slithers along a catchy riff reminiscent of Quinto Sol’s “Mi Vida Loca.” Though the quartet— Jessica Escobedo [...]

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ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer in Anaheim!

Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union will be speaking tomorrow afternoon at the Islamic Institute of Orange County. The free event will focus on “confronting U.S. sponsored torture.” The Bush Administration may be gone from office and a few of the regime’s “war on terror” policies have been reversed by President Obama, but [...]

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Loretta Sanchez Condemned Goldstone Report

On Tuesday, members of Congress voted on a house resolution to condemn the United Nations’ Goldstone Report. Orange County’s very own Loretta Sanchez was predictably among the 179 Democratic lawmakers who cast their lot against the nearly six-hundred page examination of war crimes committed late last December into early January in Gaza. The fact finding [...]

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