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Commentary: Considerations for the IR Horse
- Mar 11, 2012
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Eleanor Kellon, VMD, staff veterinary specialist for Uckele Health & Nutrition, shares her thoughts on the state of insulin resistance in horses. (Editor's Note: If you believe your horse is IR, work with your veterinarian to develop a management plan designed to best treat each specific animal.)
Equine insulin resistance (IR) has been so well publicized everyone has heard of it. However, few really understand what it is, what causes it, and what to do about it.
Parallels have been drawn between equine insulin resistance/metabolic syndrome and human type 2 diabetes. While some of them are indeed valid, others are not and this complicates efforts to treat the horses correctly.
There is nothing new about IR. What's new is that we recognize it for what it is. The stereotype of an overweight pony as high risk for pasture laminitis is timeless. The existence of laminitis prone lines in horse breeds, such as Arabians and Morgans, has been more of a secret. Some lesser known breeds, like Peruvian Pasos, are highly prone to IR but their breeders and aficianados are very aware of their propensity.
Between 1975 and 2002, when Philip Johnson (BVSc (Hons), MS, Dipl. ACVIM, Dipl. ECEIM, MRCVS) published his first paper using the term equine metabolic syndrome, there were three papers published linking IR and laminitis. These did not make mainstream veterinary medicine, let alone veterinary school curricula. In 1999, I did a field trial of magnesium supplementation for cresty laminitic horses/ponies based on a "folk remedy" in the U.K. Surprisingly, it actually helped. A literature search revealed a strong link between magnesium deficiency and IR in humans and ultimately those early equine studies.
Dr. Johnson's 2002 paper brought equine IR to the forefront, but there was considerable resistance to the idea that insulin resistance not related to Cushing's disease (high cortisol in Cushing's disease causes IR) even existed. One of the most vocal early critics was David Kronfeld (PhD, DSc, MVSc, MRCVS, Dipl. ACVN, Dipl. ACVIM) from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, but a 2006 study by his group resulted in a complete reversal of his opinion, as it described IR and equine metabolic syndrome as the link to laminitis in a large pony herd maintained on pasture. Review of pedigrees also strongly pointed to a genetic component, which is compatible with the observation that IR tends to affect some breeds and not others. From that point forward 5 years ago, recognition of the significance of IRF among practicing veterinarians and in veterinary schools has sky rocketed.
Today, IR is the disease du jour. As is often the case with high profile disorders, it is now being overdiagnosed without proper testing. Obesity, a host of hoof ailments/abnormalities, even thrush, is being blamed on IRF. As a result, many horses are being placed on very restrictive diets that should not be, and the real cause of their problems is not being addressed.
One outgrowth of the rush to blame IR for everything is that every overweight horse is being labeled as insulin resistant. However, a large field study done by the Maryland Virginia Regional College of Veterinary Medicine found that only 35% of even very obese horses are actually insulin resistant. The prevalence of IR across all weights and breeds is about 10 to 15%. With an estimated equine population in this country of about 10 million horses, this is still a very considerable number.
Diagnosis by symptoms is simply not reliable. Fortunately, blood work usually clearly differentiates between normal and insulin resistant horses. You need a serum insulin and glucose taken after 12+ hours of nothing to eat except hay or pasture. No fasting. Hay or pasture available all the time. This protocol comes from the Virginia Polytechnic pony field study. Results can then be uploaded to the IR calculator for interpretation.
The most recently available test is one that detects serum leptin and is available from Cornell University's diagnostic laboratory. Leptin is a hormone released by fat cells which in normal horses turns off appetite. However, IR horses are leptin resistant and have elevated levels of this hormone.
Insulin's job is to trigger the uptake of glucose from the blood into tissues that are dependent on insulin for this function, including fat, skeletal muscle, and liver. With IR, the insulin sensitive tissues do not respond to normal levels of the hormone. As a result, the pancreas increases output of insulin in an attempt to normalize blood sugar.
Experiments using infusions of either insulin or glucose in normal horses and ponies have established that the laminitis associated with IR is caused by high insulin, not high glucose. Horses with IR rarely are actually diabetic. Diabetes mellitus by definition is elevated blood sugar.
In humans, insulin resistance in the liver results in high blood glucose. The liver can produce glucose when blood glucose drops (e.g. overnight or between meals), and shuts off this production as insulin rises in response to the glucose. With IR in the liver, the insulin signal is not read correctly and glucose production continues.
This is why, even with fasting, a human with IR/type II diabetes will have elevated blood glucose (and insulin). On the other hand, fasting a horse with IR can lead to a false negative test, with insulin and glucose appearing normal.
Because of liver insulin resistance in people, the focus of therapy, whether pharmaceutical or alternative/herbal, is primarily on lowering blood glucose, often by agents that increase the production of insulin. There are also agents like chromium or cinnamon that mimic the action of insulin. Agents that cause higher insulin may actually increase laminitis risk, while those that work like insulin and lower glucose lead to drops in glucose but no change in insulin level.
The most successful therapy for IR in both humans and horses is exercise and diet control. Exercise primes the muscle to take up glucose by pathways that are independent of insulin, resulting in less work for insulin to do and improved IR. The effect lasts for about 24 hours.
On the diet front, avoiding blood sugar spikes avoids insulin spikes. What constitutes a "low" carbohydrate diet is very different for humans versus horses. A horse eating nothing but pasture will likely never encounter a combined simple sugar and starch level over 15%. Couple this with moving an average of 20 miles per day and the feral horse does not have a problem.
However very few domesticated horses cover 20 miles per day. Without the protective exercise, susceptible horses are primed to develop problems with IR if their diet is not carefully restricted. Most IR horses need a hay based diet with combined simple sugars (ethanol-soluble carbohydrates, or ESC, on hay analysis) and starch of 10% or lower.
Feeding fat does not cause an insulin spike. Normal horses fed diets with concentrates high in fat and fiber versus grains will be more insulin sensitive. The natural diet, grass, contains 4 to 6% fat. Omega-3 fatty acids comprise 50% of the fat in grass and are the most fragile, rapidly lost with curing. Since many IR horses are on hay with no pasture access, it is important to replace the lost essential fatty acids.
Flax seed is an excellent source of omega-3, as it has an omega-3:omega-6 ratio that mimics fresh grass. Small amounts of oil (up to 1 oz/500 pounds body weight) can also be used, to enhance vitamin E absorption and prevent dust from added supplements. A particularly good source of oil is unrefined, so contains natural vitamin E and tocotrienols, is lower in omega-6 and highly palatable.
So what does work for insulin resistant horses?
- Diet of hay or hay and beet pulp, with ESC (i.e., simple sugars) plus starch content no higher than 10%;
- Added flax seed to supply essential fatty acids in a ratio that approximates the naturally found level in grasses;
- Balanced minerals, preferably based on a hay analysis, with generous magnesium (calcium:magnesium ratio no higher than 2:1) and careful balancing of trace minerals, with supplemental salt and vitamin E; and
- When possible, exercise, exercise, exercise!
On the drug front, there are multiple options for people but the only one that actually improves insulin sensitivity is metformin. Metformin has also been studied in horses and while results are somewhat contradictory is does appear to be a good choice for getting rapid control of IR, at least for a few weeks, while other measures can be put into place.
Most herbals used for human type II diabetes are not appropriate for horses because they raise insulin without really addressing IR. One exception is North American Ginseng, Panax quinquefolius, which can actually increase insulin sensitivity in other species. Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Jiaogulan) also has insulin sensitizing effects in studies from multiple species and is helpful in supporting circulation in laminitic horses.
Acetyl-L-carnitine is a naturally occuring metabolite that influences a "master switch" enzyme in the cells causing increased glucose utilization and improved glycogen levels. Glycogen is a storage form of glucose that is typically low in insulin resistance. This metabolite is also helpful for neurogenic pain (which results from alterations in nerves in situations of chronic pain). It has been very helpful for some horses with chronic laminitis pain. As a side bonus, abnormal fatty deposits typical of IR, like fatty neck crests, improve slowly with acetyl-L-carnitine supplementation.
Insulin resistance in horses is not so much a "disease" as it is a metabolic type that requires a specific management and diet. Insulin resistance allows horses to gain weight easily and hold their weight better under conditions of sparse food supply. Its roots are almost certainly genetic. However, what worked for ancestors struggling to find food does not work under domestication.
There are no magic bullets and no short cuts with IR. Exercise is often the missing element with domestic horses and matching the ancestral exercise level is difficult if not impossible for most people. This necessitates tighter control of sugar and starch in the diet of horses prone to IR. While this may seem like more trouble on the surface, it's really not and the IR prone horse is much less expensive to keep on the bottom line.
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A band of accordions will parade up South Beach on Saturday, May 18, ending in a free concert.
The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with pre-parade refreshment at the The Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Drive. The parade will begin at 7 p.m. as the accordion band proceeds to Art Center/South Florida on Lincoln Road, where the squeezebox ensemble will present a musical program at 8 p.m. at the Art Center's Project 924.
Featured accordionists will include local Klezmer favorite Shlomo Geva and "Latin Diva of the Accordion," Maricarmen Vazquez.
The Accordion Invasion is presented by Next @19th, which seeks to "engage South Florida's diverse community in dynamic culture, experience and discourse through a Jewish lens."

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Occasionally on our blog we will share some of our long history. After 164 years there are many stories and highlights; we promise to keep it short and fun.
It only seems appropriate to start 164 years ago, when Hammacher Schlemmer sold tools and hardware and was regarded nationwide for its quality. "If you can't find it, try Hammacher Schlemmer" was coined in these years, most likely in reference to our 1100 page fully bound hard cover catalog.
Although our initial focus may have been tools and hardware our reputation for selling innovative and unique products was established. In the years that followed Hammacher's reputation only grew and during World War I and II we even supplied the United States military with tools. In 1918 Hammacher Schlemmer received a Commendation for War Service from the United State War Department recognizing the "…distinguished service, loyalty, energy and efficiency."


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A demonstration this evening on the courthouse square is part of a larger day of action called Days of Remembrance, a nationwide effort to bring attention to united states drone use; The Monroe County Commission accepted a $120,000 state grant May 2nd to help build a pedestrian trail just west of Bloomington; In the latest report in a series of Non Profit examinations authored by Indiana University professor in the school of public and environmental affairs Kirsten Grønbjerg, findings show that membership-based non profits are especially hard hit by economic recessions; The Ellettsville Plan Commission discussed ideas for expanding the Town during a meeting May 1st.
WFHB News Staff Alycin Bektesh and Joe Crawford were on hand throughout the primary elections held in Indiana yesterday, and brought regular interviews and updated results as the ballots were counted. The results of all the contested primary races here – in today's wfhb feature report.
People in the service, and their families, and their friends — and now, a lot of ordinary civillians as well — are at serious risk from nasty, savvy, and highly targeted scams. If you're military, beware — and whether you are or not, help spread the word.
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BRATTLEBORO -- The first Brattleboro Film Festival launch was a real success. About 1,000 people turned out for 12 films and various special events from Nov. 2-4 and 8, at the Latchis Theater. Plans for an expanded festival to begin Friday, Nov. 1, are already under way.
Some shows sold out, including the repeat showing of Best in Fest winner "Chasing Ice," which, along with another BFF selection "Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry," was on the short list for Academy Award nominations for best documentary.
"The positive response to this initial festival is testimony to the hunger for more cutting-edge films in our region," said Merry Elder, president of BFF, who worked for 21 years on film selection for Brattleboro's Women's Film Festival. Elder said BFF's 150 percent profit means "We have the seed money to secure commitments for the 2013 festival and the ability to start fulfilling BFF's mission to share profits with others doing important work in the community."
BFF announced it will donate $100 each to the following organizations in 2012, a modest but meaningful commitment that will grow along with the festival in the years to come:
* Latchis Arts -- to help the historic Latchis Theatre get new seats and fulfill its role as a cornerstone cultural treasure of a vital, creative town;
* Youth Services -- to help the community's young people in need as part of our commitment to making great films and educational events available to area youth who need it most;
* "Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie" Project -- to underscore BFF's commitment to supporting local filmmakers.
BFF incorporated in November 2012 and is applying for non-profit status as an arts organization with a social-good and educational bent. The Arts Council of Windham County will act as BFF's fiscal sponsor to allow it to raise tax-deductible funds while it awaits its own non-profit designation. BFF is volunteer-run and plans to expand practical internship experiences and its volunteer base in the years to come.
Tax deductible donations for corporate sponsorship or individual support for the 2013 festival can be earmarked to BFF, made out to Windham Arts Council and mailed to Merry Elder, 294 South Main St., Brattleboro, VT 05301. Giving through the BFF website will be available soon.
The BFF steering committee is led by Merry Elder, Lissa Weinmann, Jaki Reis, Kevin Burke, Gail Haines and Diane LaVerdi. BFF Advisory Council members are listed on its website, along with volunteer and internship opportunities as well as other useful information: www.brattleborofilmfestival.org. BFF's Facebook page is: www.facebook.com/pages/Brattleboro-Film-Festival/316184271801160.
Feedback is welcome for planning a full 2013 roster of films and events that speak to the unique spirit and character of Brattleboro.
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Facebook Says 'Paper' Users Are Heavy Readers
Facebook says that users of its mobile newsreader app "Paper" are using it a lot. How many users there are remains a mystery.
The social network on Friday said the average person who uses the app, which launched in January as the first product developed by its Creative Labs team, looks at a whopping 80 stories a day. But Facebook has given no indication of how many people have downloaded the app.


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US Initial Jobless Claims Signal a Struggling Labor Market
Initial Jobless Claims measures the number of individuals filing for jobless benefits for the first time during the past week. A lower-than-expected reading is essentially better for the US job market, as more people remain in the workforce.
Theoretically, less people applying for initial unemployment benefits, the better it is for the US economy. When emerging unemployment is low and less than expected, it indicates a relatively healthy economy, or in this case, a recovering economy.
In its weekly report, the U.S. Department of Labor said in the week ending April 7, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 380,000 worse than the estimate of 355,000, which was an increase of 13,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 367,000. The 4-week moving average was 368,500, an increase of 4,250 from the previous week's revised average of 364,250.
The previous week's figure was revised up to 367,000 from 357,000.
Continuing Jobless Claims measures the number of unemployed individuals who continue to be eligible for unemployment benefits.
In its weekly report, the U.S. Department of Labor said advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending March 31 was 3,251,000 better than the estimate of 3,335,000, which was a decrease of 98,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 3,349,000. The 4-week moving average was 3,334,250, a decrease of 35,750 from the preceding week's revised average of 3,370,000.
The previous week's figure was revised up to 3,349,000 from 3,338,000.
US equity futures saw an initial move lower after the 8:30 a.m. ET release. Currently, Dow Jones Industrial Index Futures are trading about 120 points higher in pre-market trading.
Traders who believe that jobless claims is a leading indicator for the US economy, you might want to consider the following trades:
- Long general retail companies like JC Pennny (NYSE: JCP) because as more people remain in the workforce, the more likely people will spend their residual income, as they continue to have a job.
- Also, long Consumer Discretionary companies like Target (NYSE: TGT) or the Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSE: XLY)
Traders who do not believe that the weekly jobless data is a leading indicator for the general US economy, you may consider alternative positions:
- Long Consumer Staple companies like Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Colgate (NYSE: CL) because even if less people remain in the workforce, they still need to buy staple products like shampoo and toothpaste.
- Also, short big-ticket appliance makers like Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR) if the claims trend is worse-than-expected.
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University of Pittsburgh researchers
have developed a new method for regrowing blood vessels with growth factor,
which could be used to treat heart disease.
Yadong Wang, study leader and University of
Pittsburgh professor, along with co-authors Johnny Huard, Hunghao Chu and
Chien-Wen Chen, have found a minimally invasive technique for transferring
growth factor into mice via injection, which stimulates the growth of new blood
The human body has growth factors that control
activities like cell proliferation, differentiation and migration. These potent
molecules can even cause cell suicide and promote
cell growth. The problem is that the body strictly controls growth factor,
and the body will destroy "free-floating" growth factor.
But now, Wang and his team have created a method
that overcame this problem. Despite the half-life for most growth factor
(injected under the skin) being a half hour or less, researchers decided to
inject the growth factor under the skin of mice directly onto a molecule called
heparin, which bonds growth factor to its receptor on the cell's surface. As
the receptor and the growth factor bind to heparin, the activity of growth
factor is increased and stabilized.
This may have solved the problem associated with
growth factor duration, but it also caused another road block: bonding heparin
to growth factor results in a water-soluble substance, which is a problem
because a majority of the human body is made up of water.
But this issue didn't stop the University of
Pittsburgh team for long. They found a positively charged molecule, called polycation,
which possesses many positive charges to counter heparin's many negative
charges. This neutralized the heparin and brought it out of solution into a
coacervate, which is an aggregate of small oil droplets.
The team was able to successfully deliver
fibroblast growth factor-2 as a result of the conversion of heparin/growth
factor complexes into coacervates. Using only one growth factor, the
researchers injected
the compound under the skin of mice, which caused new blood vessels to
grow. In addition, the blood vessels were still in place over a month later.
"We had structures that resembled arterioles
-- small arteries that lead to a network of capillaries," said Wang.
The procedure is minimally invasive because the
coacervate is not very viscous, meaning that you can use a thin needle to
inject the growth factor through tissue and the damage created in small. It
could also be used through a catheter, meaning that the chest wouldn't need to
be opened up for open-heart
The idea behind this discovery is to use growth
factor to help
the heart heal itself after a heart attack without negative results, like
dilating ventricles until they become too large. The growth factor would be
injected right after the heart attack to help the heart repair itself.
"Our hope would be to reduce scarring, keep
as much of the muscle alive as possible, and induce quick blood vessel
formation to bring as many nutrients as possible in order to reestablish an
environment for muscle growth," said Wang.
The team will use a disease model next to test
this method before moving on to human clinical trials. If all goes well, the
final step will be to commercialize the treatment.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The first thing Florida coach Will Muschamp showed his players this week was a list of mistakes.
He put all the errors from Saturday's 14-6 win over LSU on an overhead projector and went over them one by one.
His message was loud and clear: There would be no more celebrating around the football facility, which was a raucous scene last Saturday. Long gone was all the screaming, shouting and dancing. Even Muschamp's stage dive in the middle of the locker room was a distant memory now.
It was back to business for the fourth-ranked Gators (5-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference).
Muschamp wanted his team to realize the importance of handling success. After all, it's been nearly three years since Florida has been so highly ranked or won five consecutive games. How will the Gators respond?
"We'll see Saturday night," Muschamp said.
Florida goes on the road to Vanderbilt on Saturday, trying to avoid a letdown after the most significant win in Muschamp's two seasons in Gainesville.
"It's a new week. We've gotta forget about last week," linebacker Jon Bostic said. "There were still a lot of areas that we could improve on, so this week we're focusing on that."
The Gators have few players remaining from those Tim Tebow-led teams that won 22 consecutive games, including the 2008 national championship. Instead, the roster is filled with guys who experienced nearly as many losses (11) as wins (15) over the last two seasons — Urban Meyer's final season and Muschamp's first.
All those setbacks seemingly brought this team together, especially during offseason workouts.
"Family was the motto, just grinding for each other," sixth-year senior guard James Wilson said. "I just think we're all pretty focused on one goal. It's to get to Atlanta first. ... Just got to keep it going. Nothing's done yet."
Even though the Gators are trying to stay focused on the Commodores (2-3, 1-2), they are well aware that next week's game against No. 3 South Carolina likely will determine whether they reach the SEC title game.
And that's challenge: forget the past, don't think about the future and focus on the task at hand.
"We set expectations and we talk about how to handle them, what are standards are," offensive coordinator Brent Pease said. "It shouldn't change. We go back out and start over just like it's a new week. It doesn't matter who we're playing. Cover up the scoreboard, put new-colored jerseys on and you go get ready for the next game.
"It's how you handle success: You start all over. Preparation is key to any game because we can go out and get beat as easily if we don't prepare properly."
And that's why Muschamp focused on the miscues early in the week, pointing out the three sacks, the two turnovers, the six penalties, the missed tackles, the blown assignments and several missed opportunities.
Although the Gators rank third in the league in rushing offense and third in scoring defense, their passing game ranks last and their grind-it-out, close-to-the-vest style seemingly makes them vulnerable to mistakes and prone to an upset.
"We're still hungry," cornerback Jaylen Watkins said. "It's easy for us to come off that game and be still pumped about it and talking about it, but nobody talked about the game. That was the weekend and now we're focusing on Vanderbilt. ... We can't change what we do preparation-wise to keep the thing going."


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FIS Buys Mobile Specialist mFoundry
mFoundry, the mobile banking app specialist founded in 2004 that grew as rapidly as its space, has been sold to FIS.
The Jacksonville, Fla.-based banking and payments giant said Thursday it has agreed to buy the remaining 78% of the Larkspur, Calif.-based mFoundry for about $120 million, adding that to the 22% stake it already had.
The purchase was the second major takeover announced among major credit union technology providers Thursday, joining ACI Worldwide's acquisition of Online Resources Corp., and the third this month, following Fiserv Inc.'s purchase of Open Solutions Inc.
"Consumers have adopted the mobile channel faster than any other delivery channel in existence, and delivering industry-best mobile solutions is a vital focus area for FIS," said Gary Norcross, FIS president and chief operating officer.
"Our goal is to provide the solutions that underpin an organization's ability to best reach and serve its customers, and the addition of mFoundry plays a key role in that strategy," Norcross said in a statement.
After cutting its teeth with credit unions, mFoundry took off as a provider of mobile banking and retail technology for large banks, payments processors and retailers, and now has more than 850 clients, including such big names as Starbucks.
Drew Sievers, mFoundry co-founder and CEO, said, "FIS has been a great investment partner for the last several years, and the timing was right for us to combine forces to create the unparalleled industry leader in mobile delivery. This transaction enables us to capitalize on new market opportunities and bring top-tier mobile capabilities to our combined client bases."
FIS said the transaction is expected to close by the end of the first quarter, pending regulatory approvals and contractual closing conditions., subject to customary regulatory approvals and contractual closing conditions, is expected to close by the end of the first quarter.
FIS said it now has more than 14,000 banking technology and payment processing client institutions in more than 100 countries and employs more than 32,000 people.


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Abbie Hoffman and Friends Defense Committee, 1976, n.d.
Action Co-ordinating Council for Comprehensive Child Care, 1971-1973
Ad Hoc Coalition on the Political Crises, 1981
Ad Hoc Committee to Support the Coal Miners' Strike, 1978Notes of Walter Lippmann
The Africa Fund, 1975-1978
Agent Orange Victims International, 1980
Alabama Christian Union for Human Rights, 1959
Alexander Defense Committee, 1966-1967
All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, 1972, 1984, n.d.
Alliance for Displaced Homemakers, 1975
Alliance for Survival, 1970s-1980s
Alliance for the Liberation of Mental Patients, 1981
America First Committee, [1941?]
American Association to Combat Facism, Racism, and Anti-Semitism, 1970
American Atheists, 1975, 1978
American Citizens in Action, 1958
American Committee for Solidarity with the Vietnamese People, 1969
American Committee for Yugoslav Relief, 1945
American Committee on Africa, 1962-1976
American Committee to Aid Soviet Russia, 1942, 1944
American Council on Race Relations, 1945
American Council on Race Relations, 1946-1949
American Council on Soviet Relations, 1940s-1950s
American Emigrants' League, 1963
American Federation of Teachers, 1967-1968
American Federation of World Citizens, 1962
American Friends Service Committee, 1940, 1950-1954
American Friends Service Committee, 1960-1969
American Friends Service Committee, 1970-1979
American Friends Service Committee, 1980-1998
American Friends Service Committee, n.d.
American Humanist Association, Southern California Chapter, 1960s-1970s
American Indian Development Association, 1979-1980
American Institute for Marxist Studies, 1964-1978
American Jewish Congress-Publications, 1947-1948
American Jewish Congress, 1944-1948
American Jewish Congress, 1967-1968
American Jewish Congress, n.d.
American Jewish Congress of Southern California, 1947-1948, n.d.
American Jewish Labor Council, 1947-1948, 1966
American Joint Committee for the Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, 1965
American Labor Party, 1956, n.d.
American League Against War and Fascism, 1937
American Legion, 1946, 1961, n.d.
American Negro Labor Congress, 1925
American Peace Crusade, 1950-1955
American Peace Crusade, 1950-1955
American Peace Mobilization, n.d.
American Russian Institute, 1945-1981
American Servicemen's Union, n.d.
American Student Union, [1938?]
American Veterans Committee, 1945-1946
American Youth Congress, 1930s, 1965
American Youth for Democracy, 1940s
Americans Concerned About Corporate Power, 1980
Americans for Common Sense, 1981
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 1960-1966
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 1967
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 1968-1970s, 1981,1993
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), n.d.
Americans for Progressive Israel, 1960-1980sHashoomer Hatzae
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 1970s
Amnesty International/USA, 1970s
Angry Arts, n.d.
Another Mother for Peace, 1960s-1970s
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1940s-1970s
Assembly of the World Peace Council, 1970s
Association of Arab-American University Graduates, 1973
Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc., 1940s-1970s
Avila, 1968-1969
Barrio Defense Committee, 1970-1971
Bay Area Vietnam Day Committee, 1965
Berkeley Defense Committee, 1960s
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1967, n.d.
Billy Dean Smith Defense Committee, 1971-1972
Black American Political Associations of California, 1979
Black Political Liberation Organization, 1969
Black Silent Majority Committee, 1980
Black Youth Conference, n.d.
Bread for the World, n.d.
Breira - A Project of Concern in Diaspora-Israel Relations, 1970s
British-Soviet Friendship Society, 1950s
Brotherhood Crusade, 1976
Burbank Committee of Justice for China, 1948
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace, 1967, 1970-1971
California Agrarian Action Project, 1977-1978
California Black Leadership Conference, 1960s-1970s
California Citizen Action Group, 1976
California Civil League Committee, 1934
California Coastal Alliance, 1971
California Committee for Fair Practices, 1960s
California Conference on Handicapped Individuals, 1976
California Conference on Immigration and Public Policy, 1977
California Emergency Defense Committee, 1952-1953
California Farmer-Labor-Consumer Committee to Combat Inflation, 1939-1947
California Federation of Young Democrats, 1967-1968
California Labor School, 1948-1957
California Law Center, 1973
California League of Women Voters, 1940s-1970s
California Legislative Conference, 1952-1954
California Minorities Caucus, 1962
California Project, 1981
California Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc., 1975
California Rural Legal Assistance, 1971, 1994-1995, n.d.
Californians Against Rightist Reaction, 1966
Californians Against State Executions, 1963-1967
Californians for a Full Cost of Living, 1981
Californians for an Alternative in November, 1968
Californians for Liberal Representation, 1946-56, n.d.
Californians for Liberal Representation, 1967-1968
Californians for Liberal Representation, 1969-1970
Californians for Liberal Representation, 1971-1977, 1979, 1988
Californians' Committee to Combat Communism, n.d.
The Camp Pendleton 14 Defense Committee, n.d.
Campaign Against Utility Service Exploitation (CAUSE), 1975-1979
Campaign for a Citizens' Police Review Board, 1980
Campaign for a Democratic Foreign Policy, 1976
A Campaign for Democratic Freedoms Conference, 1975
Campaign for Economic Democracy, 1977-1981
Campaign for Human Development, 1976
Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians, 1967-1974
The Case for Abolishing the ROTC, 1967, n.d.
Center for American Research and Education, 1960s
Center for Autonomous Social Action, 1973-1975
Centers for Change, n.d.
Center for Constitutional Rights, 1970-1981
Center for Cuban Studies, 1979-1981
Center for Defense Information, 1980
Center for Law in the Public Interest, 1978-1980
Center for Marxist Research, 1977
Center for New Corporate Priorities, 1973
Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence, UCLA, 1973
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1966
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1960s-1970s
Center for Veterans' Rights, 1980s, n.d.
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, 1961, 1965-1967, n.d.
Centro de la Raza, 1975, Annual Report of the East Los Angeles Neighborhood Center
Chicago Workers School, n.d.
Christmas Buying Boycott for Peace, 1969, n.d.
Citizen Soldier, 1973, 1981
Citizens' Commission on Police Repression, 1970s , n.d.
Citizens Committee Against Military Electronics, 1981
Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties, 1961
Citizens Committee of the Whole, 1933
Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park, 1974-1981, n.d.
Citizens for Participation in Political Action, 1973
Citizens for Peace, 1973
Citizens for Responsible Government, 1977
Citizens for the Republic, 1978
Citizens Independent Party, 1963-1966
The Citizen's Intelligence Digest, 1963
Citizens Party, 1981
City-Wide Tenants Council, New York, 1938
Clergy and Laity Concerned, 1971-1979
Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam, 1968-1971
Coalition Against Registration and the Draft, 1979-1980s
Coalition for a New Foreign Policy, 1980
Coalition for Economic Survival (C.E.S.), 1975-1977, n.d.
Coalition for Economic Survival (C.E.S.), 1978-1981
Coalition for Excellent Schools Through Integration, n.d.
Coalition for Fair Reapportionment, 1971Chicano Community
Coalition to Build the January 22nd Rally for Reproductive Freedom, 1972
Coalition to Combat Racism and Anti-Semitism, 1973, 1977, n.d.
Coalition to Defeat AB-2131, [1980s?]
Columbia Strike Committee, n.d.
Commission on Civil Rights, 1957-1960
Committee Against Anti-Semitism and Re-Nazification of West Germany, 1950-1951, 1960
Committee Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq, 1980
Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, 1945-1950
Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East, n.d.
Committee for Cooperation with the New South, [1948?]
Committee for Defense of Human Rights, 1973
Committee for Democratic Election Laws, 1974
The Committee for Democratic Rights in the USA, 1964
Committee for Expansion of Socialist Thought in America, n.d.
Committee for Latin American Solidarity, n.d.
Committee for New Political Initiatives, 1977
Committee for Non-Violent Action, 1965, 1967
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, 1974-1976, 1978
Committee for Peaceful Unification of Korea, [1954?]
Committee for Prisoner Humanity and Justice, 1974
Committee for Public Justice, 1970s-1980s
Committee for the Rights of the Disabled, Inc., 1968-1974
Committee for the Rights of the Imprisoned, 1968
Committee for Traditional Indian Land and Life, [1972?]
Committee for World Development and World Disarmament, 1963
The Committee for World Disarmament and Economic Development, 1956
Committee of Responsibility, Inc., 1967, n.d.
Committee of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialists and Henchmen's Persecution of Intellectuals in South Vietnam, 1964
Committee on Latin American Solidarity, 1969
Committee to Aid the Monroe Defendants, 1964
Committee to Bridge the Gap, 1979
Committee to Combat Racism and Anti-Semitic Acts, 1975-1978
Committee to Defend and Support Johnny Coward and Bartee Haile, 1971
Committee to Defend Union Rights, 1958
The Committee to End Sedition Laws, 1956
Committee to Free Martin Sostre, n.d.
Committee to Free the NASSCO 3, 1981
Committee to Free the Trenton Six, n.d.
Committee to Prevent Police Brutality, 1973, n.d.
Committee to Save Mario Munoz, n.d.
Common Cause, 1970-1982
Common Cause, n.d.
Common Sense, 1967
Commonwealth College, 1933-1934
Communist Labor Party, n.d.
Community Council for Greater East Los Angeles, 1960-1962
Community News, 1978
Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, 1970s
Community Relations Conference of Southern California, 1965-1981
Community Unity, 1982, n.d.
Conference on Economic Rights for Negro Women, 1952
Conference on World Hunger and Refugees, 1980
Congress of American Women, 1946-1948
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), including Los Angeles Chapter, 1959-1964
Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna, 1952
Congressional Black Caucus, 1978-1979
The Connecticut Peace Council, 1950s
Constellation Vote, San Diego, n.d.
Constitutional Liberties Information Center, 1962-1966, n.d.
Constitutional Rights Foundation, 1971, n.d.
Consumer Federation of California, Los Angeles & Orange County Chapters, 1970-1980
Consumers' Shield, Inc., 1970s
Council for a Livable World, 1960-1980
Council for Christian Social Action, 1967
Council of Black Administrators, 1968-1969
Council of Churches in Southern California, 1964, 1968
Council on African Affairs, Inc., 1940s-1950s
D.C. Nine Defense Committee, 1969-1970
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), 1970s-1980s
Discussion Unlimited, Inc., n.d.
Dominguez Defense Committee, n.d.
Dow Action Committee, 1968-1969
East Los Angeles Peace Committee, 1966-1967
Echo Park-Silverlake Neighbors for Peace, 1968, n.d.
Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1950s-1960s
Emergency Conference Committee, n.d.
Emergency Nationwide Moratorium, May 4, 1972
Environmental Action Foundation, 1975-1978
Environmental Defense Fund, 1970s
Episcopal Draft Counseling Center, n.d.
Equal Rights Council, n.d.
The Ethel Shapiro-Bertolini Legal Defense Committee, 1981
Ethical Cultural Society of Los Angeles, 1970s
Eugene V. Debs Foundation, 1960s-1970s, n.d.
Everybody's Committee to Outlaw War, 1954-1955
Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC), 1960s-1970s
Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 1960s
Far-Eastern Student Emergency Fund, 1938
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1924, n.d.
Federal Women's Program, 1977
Federation for Progress, 1982
Federation of American Scientists, Los Angeles Chapter, 1960-1981
Fellowship of Reconciliation, New York and Los Angeles, 1930s, 1950s-1970s, n.d.
Fight Inflation Together, 1970s
First International Conference for the Full Rights of Undocumented Workers, n.d.
Florence Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1952
Frank Shuford Defense Committee, 1970s
Free Speech Movement, 1964-1965
Freedom Draft Movement, 1968
Freedom from Fear Committee, 1948
Freethinkers of Southern California, 1959, 1973
The French Communist Party, 1940s, 1960s
Friends of Poor People's Campaign, 1970s
Friends of the River, n.d.
Friends of the Soviet Union (F.S.U.), 1930s
Friends of the Sunflower County Improvement Association, 1968
Fund for Open Information and Accountability, Inc., 1981-1984
Garfield High School Strike Committee, 1968
Gay Fellowship, 1971
Gay Liberation, 1970-1971
Gay Religious Liberals Conference Committee, 1970
General Hershey-Bar and General Waste-More-Land, 1967-1970
G.I. and Vets March for Peace, n.d.
G.I. and Vietnam Vets Against the War, n.d.
G.I. Civil Liberties Defense Committee, 1969-1970
Good Morning Teaspoon, 1968
Gray Panthers, 1970s
Greater Los Angeles Labor-Community Coalition, 1981
The Greek and Armenian Action Committee Against Turkish Oppression, n.d.
Green Power, 1969
Gus Polites Defense Committee, 1950s
Haymarket, 1969-1970
Hazel Anna Wolf Defense Committee, 1960s
Health for Victory Club, 1943
Health Systems Agency, 1977
Hector Marroquin Defense Committee, 1978-1979
Heritage Foundation, 1974
Holdridge Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences, 1956-1975
Human Service Coalition, 1981
Humane Civil Association, 1981
Humanist Association of Los Angeles, 1962, 1971-1986
Humanist Council of Southern California, 1964, n.d.
Humanist Organizations, 1930s-1940s
Humanist Society of Friends, 1940s
Humanity Guild, n.d.
Independent Action Association of Compton, 1967-1968
Independent Progressive Party, 1948-1954
Independent Progressive Party, 1948-1954
Independent Socialist Club, 1964
Individuals Against the Crime of Silence, n.d.
Indochina Peace Campaign, 1970s
Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT), 1980
Institute for American Democracy, Inc., 1960s-1970s
Institute for Democratic Socialism, 1980-1981
The Institute of the Black World, 1970s
Institute del Pueblo, 1970s
Inter-Arts Alliance, 1975-1976
Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race, 1980-1981
International Association of Democratic Lawyers, 1950s
International Days of Protest, n.d.
International Institute for Peace, 1959, 1976
International Labour Organisation, 1968-1969
The International League for the Rights of Man, 1958
International Meeting of Scientists on Disarmament, 1971
International Police Organization (INTERPOL), 1975
International Rescue Committee, Inc., 1980s
The International War Crimes Tribunal, 1967
Inter-Project Council, 1940s
The Inter-University Committee to Stop Funding War and Militarism, 1970s
Interracial Council for Business Opportunity, 1965-1968
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, 1970, 1973
Iranian Students Association in Southern California, 1970s
Irish Prisoners Aid Committee, 1973, 1981
The Jacobo Rodriguez Defense Committee, n.d.
Jeannette Rankin Brigade, 1967-1968
Jefferson School of Social Sciences, 1946, 1953-1954
Jewish Community Centers, n.d.
Jewish Currents, 1970s-1980s
Jewish Defense League (J.D.L.), 1970s-1980s
The Jewish Young Fraternalists of the J.P.F.O., 1949
Job Corps, 1968, n.d.
Joseph "Mongo" Smith Defense Committee, 1973
July 4th Coalition, 1981
June 23rd Demonstration and Movement, Action Council, 1967-1970
June 28th Abortion Rights Coalition, 1980
Justice for All, 1970
La Raza Legal Defense Committee, 1970
La Raza Unida, 1967, 1970, n.d.
Labor Committee for Safe Energy and Full Employment, 1981-1982
Labor Environmental Alliance, 1975
Labor for Peace, 1972
Labor Youth League, [1950s?]
La Raza, 1969-1978, "The Politics of Cultural Nationalism." El Partido de La Raza Unida in Southern California (Dissertation by Richard Santillan)
Law Students Civil Rights Research Council, 1970s
League of Women Shoppers, 1930s
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles, 1940s, 1970s
League of Women Voters of the United States, 1956, 1978
Legal Defense Committee for Justice, 1975
Lenten Passover Fast Action Project, 1970
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, 1970s
Liberation Union, 1970-1971
Liberation University, 1968-1969
Long Beach Citizens for Peace, 1968-1969
The Long March, 1970s
The Long March, 1971-1975
Los Angeles Area Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy, 1979, n.d.
Los Angeles Berrigan Committee, 1971
Los Angeles Chapter of Hadassah, 1950s-1960s
Los Angeles Coalition for Youth and Justice, 1975
Los Angeles Committee for Defense of the Bill of Rights, 1960s
Los Angeles Committee for Defense of the Bill of Rights, 1970s
Los Angeles Committees of Correspondence, 1945
Los Angeles Conference Against Cutbacks and Government Repression, 1982
Los Angeles Congress of Racial Equality, 1960s
Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, 1960s-1970s
The Los Angeles Free Clinic, n.d.
Los Angeles Friends of Indo-China, 1975
Los Angeles Institute of Marxist Studies, 1970s
Los Angeles Labor Peace Committee, n.d.
Los Angeles Organizing Committee Hemispheres Conference to End the Vietnam War, 1968
Los Angeles Out Now Coalition, n.d.
Los Angeles Physicians for Social Responsibility, 1960s
Los Angeles School of Marxist Studies, 1978
Los Angeles Socialist Party, 1967
Los Angeles Women's Abortion Action Committee, n.d.
Los Angeles Women's Union, 1973
The Los Angeles Workers Center, 1980
Los Angeles Workers Educational Society, 1980
Los Angeles Workers School, 1940s
Los Angeles Youth Council, 1945-1949, n.d.
The Manzanar Committee, 1977
The Marxist Institute of Northern California, 1949, Reading Materials
Marxist-Leninist Organization of Britain, 1972
Marxist-Leninist Party, 1980
Maryland Veterans for Peace in Vietnam, 1968
McSurley Freedom Committee, 1971
Medical Aid for Vietnam, 1960s-1970s
Medical Aid for Vietnam, 1970s
Medical Committee for Human Rights, including Los Angeles Chapter, 1960s-1970s
The Melish Case Defense Committee, 1949
The Methodist Church, 1950s-1960s
Methodist Federation for Social Action, 1950s-1960s
Metropolitan Fair Housing Center, 1968
Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), 1970s
Mexican-American Study Project, UCLA Graduate School of Business Administration, 1967, 1969
Michael Hannon Defense and Support Fund, 1965
The Militant, 1967-1968
Militant Labor Forum, 1960s
Military Electronics Expo, 1978-1979
Milwaukee Fourteen Defense Committee, 1969-1970
Minute Men for the Constitution, Inc., 1957
Mississippi Summer Program, 1964
Mobilization Committee, n.d.
Monitors Training School, 1968
Montana Minute Men, 1951
Montreal Council to Aid War Resisters, 1969-1970
Moral Majority, 1981
Moral Re-Armament, n.d.
Movement for a Democratic Military, 1969
Movement for a Democratic Society, [1968?]
National Abortion Rights Action League, 1980s
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 1970s, 1980s, 1996
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Los Angeles Branch, 1970s, 1980s
National Anti-Klan Network, 1982
National Anti-Racist Organizing Committee, 1979, n.d.
National Assembly for Democratic Rights, n.d.
National Association of Arab-Americans, 1972, 1980s
The National Black Independent Political Party, n.d.
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, 1969
National Chicano Moratorium Committee, 1981
National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, 1950s, Working Guides
National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, 1950s, Working Guides
National Civil Liberties Clearing House, 1964
National Citizens Political Action Committee, Southern California Chapter, 1945-1946, n.d.
National Coalition to Fight Inflation and Unemployment, 1975
National Committee for a Political Settlement in Vietnam, n.d.
National Committee for an Effective Congress, 1960s-1980s
National Committee for Rural Schools, Inc., 1951
National Committee to Abolish Jim Crow, 1952
National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1958-1971
National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities, 1960s-1970s, Brochures
National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, [1940s]
National Committee to Combat Nazism, 1963-1966
National Committee to Combat Nazism, 1967-1969, n.d.
National Committee to Free Los Tres, 1970s
National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act, 1962-1964
National Committee to Win Amnesty for the Smith Act Victims/Prisoners, 1950s
National Committee to Win the Peace, 1940s
National Conference for New Politics, 1967-1968
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1966
National Council Against Conscription, 1950s-1960s
National Council for Prevention of War, 1920s
National Council for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty, 1970s
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1940s-1970s
National Council of Jewish Women, 1960s-1970s
National Council of Negro Women, Inc., 1960s-1970s
National Council of the National Front, 1966
National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1970s-1980s
National Farmers Organization, 1960s
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, 1940s
National Indian Youth Council, 1970s-1980s
National Jewish Organizing Project, n.d.
National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, 1969, 1981
National Land for the People, 1970s
National League of Women Voters, 1970-1979
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1967-1969
National Negro Labor Council, 1950s
National Negro Labor Council, includes Los Angeles material, 1950s
National Organization for Non-Parents, 1970s
National Organization for Women (NOW), 1960s-1970s
National Peace Action Coalition, 1970s
National Peace Conversion Campaign, 1974
National Republican Congressional Committee, 1968
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., 1970s
National Senior Citizen Law Center, [1973?]
National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc., 1960s
National Socialist White People's Party, 1973
National Student Peace Union, 1966
National Urban League, Inc., 1970s
National Woman's Party, 1970s
National Women's Conference, 1977
National Women's Political Caucus, Southern California Section, 1970s
National Women's Trade Union League of America, 1917
Native American Rights Fund, [1970s-1980s?]
Natural Resources Defense Council, 1970s-1980s
Negotiation Now!, 1967-1968
Neighborhood Adult Participation Project, n.d.
Neighbors Unlimited, 1964-1969
Neighbors Unlimited, 1970, n.d.
New Alliance for Gay Equality, 1978
New American Movement, n.d., Fliers
New American Movement, 1971-1984, Fliers
New American Movement, 1979, Health Issues
New American Movement, 1976-1981, Labor and Employment
New American Movement, 1976-1981, Various Local Chapters
New American Movement, 1975-1981, Miscellaneous - letters
New American Movement, 1976-1982, n.d., Pamphlets/Publications
New American Movement, 1972-1981, National Interim Committee and Minute Reports
New American Movement, 1979-1980, Political Committee Notes
New American Movement, 1972, Political Perspective
New American Movement, 1977-1981, Racism
New American Movement, 1971-1981, Socialist Community School
New American Movement, 1972-1981, Socialist Feminism Reports
New American Movement, 1973-1980, Strategies and Resolutions
New Democratic Coalition, 1970s-1980s
New Directions, 1979, n.d.
New England Committee for Non-Violent Action, 1969-1970
New Frontier Democrats, 1973
New Left School, 1968, n.d.
New Mexico Civil Liberties Union, 1974
New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1969-1970
New Party, 1971, 1990, 1994
New Strategies for Peace Conference, Los Angeles, 1980
The Newton and Cleaver Defense Committees, 1968
New University Conference, 1969
New World Society, 1979-1981
New World University, 1960
New York Coalition to Fight Inflation and Unemployment, 1976-1977
Nine for Peace, n.d.
No Tax for War Committee, n.d.
No War Toys, Inc., n.d.
Non-Violence Ambassadors, 1950s
Northeast Peace Committee, n.d.
Northern Book House, n.d.
Northern California Peace Council, 1954
Northern New Mexico Support Committee, Inc., n.d.
Oakland Direct Action Committee, n.d.
Older Women's League, 1981
Olga Talamante Defense Committee, 1970s
Operation Abolition, 1960, a film about HUAC
Operation Bootstrap, 1967-1968, 1973
Operation Breadbasket, n.d.
Operation Freedom, n.d.
Orange County Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1967, n.d.
Ormsby Village for Youth, 1952, 1954
The Organizing of Chinese Americans, 1967-1968
Pacifica Foundation (KPFK), 1963, n.d.
Pan Pacific Park Campaign, 1975
Para-Military Organizations in California, 1965, 1981
Parents For!, 1970s
Parent-Teacher-Student Alliance Against Racism, Non-Education and Mis-Education in the Schools, 1970
Paris World Assembly for the Peace and Independence of the Indo-Chinese People, 1972
Partners in Housing, 1972, 1973
Peace Concern, 1960s
Peace Council of the German Democratic Republic, 1970s
Peace Exchange - Los Angeles Peace Action Council, 1960s
Peace Freedom and Jobs, 1964
Peace Happenings, 1968-1969
Peace House, New York, 1940
Peace House, Pasadena, CA, 1968-1969
Peace March MacArthur Park, 1972
Peace Operations Center, 1971-1972
Peace Race, 1962
Pen & Hammer Club, 1930s
Pendleton Legal Defense, 1977, n.d.
Pentagon Papers Peace Project, 1970s
People United to Save Our Community, n.d.
Peoples' Action Union for Peace & Justice, 1971-1975
People's Bicentennial Commission, 1976
People's Center, n.d.
Peoples Coalition for Peace & Justice, including Peace Action Council, L.A., 1970s
Peoples College of Law, 1970s
Peoples College of Law, 1980-1981
Peoples' Congress of Applied Religion, 1945
The People's Defense Committee, 1952, n.d.
Peoples Educational Center, 1940s
People's Front Struggling for Peace, 1971
People's Legislative Coalition, 1973
People's Lobby, 1975, n.d.
People's Lobby, Inc., 1968-1969, 1976, n.d.
The People's Party, 1972-1975
People's Power Project, n.d.
People's Progressive Party, 1980-1981
Peoples' Translation Service, 1971, 1973-1975
People's Tribunal Committee, 1970
People's World, 1938-1959
People's World, 1960-1969
People's World, 1970-1981
People's World, n.d.
People's World, n.d., Fliers
Plainfield Joint Defense Committee, n.d.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, n.d.
Plaza de la Raza, 1970s, 1980s
Political Rights Defense Fund, 1980, n.d.
Pontiac Brothers Justice Committee, 1970s
Poor People's Campaign, 1968
Port Chicago Peace Vigil, 1968
The Powell Fund, n.d.
Prensa Libre, 1960
Presidio Committee for the 27, 1969
Prisoners Relief Committee, 1950s
Profit for Peace, 1969
Progressive Bookshop, 1970s
Progressive Citizens of America, 1940s-1950s
Progressive Labor Party, 1969, n.d.
Progressive Party, 1948-1950s
Progressive Party, 1948, speeches by Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor
Project Prayer, n.d.
Proletarian Party, 1954-1955
Promoting Enduring Peace, 1960s-1970s
Provisional Theatre, 1970
Public Workers Fight Back Conference, 1978
Push for Excellence, 1975, n.d.
Quaker Action Group, 1971, Cuebra Action
Radical Education Project, 1967
Ralph Nader Public Citizen, n.d.
Religious Freedom Committee, n.d.
Religious Society of Friends, 1957
Republican Party, 1960s
Resist, 1960s, 1981, n.d.
The Resistance, 1967, 1968, n.d.
Retirement Life Payments Association, 1939
Revolutionary Communist Party, 1980s, n.d.
Revolutionary Socialist League, 1970s
Revolutionary Socialist League, 1970s-1980s, Publications
Revolutionary Student Brigade, 1974
Revolutionary Union, 1972, 1975, n.d.
Revolutionary Worker's Front, 1980
Revolutionary Youth Movement, [1969?]
Richard Santillan Support Committee, 1979
Riverside Political Prisoners Defense, n.d.
Ron Ridenour Defense Committee, 1972-1973
Rotary International, 1927-1931
Round Robin Cooperative League, Inc., 1935
Rural Advancement Fund of the National Sharecroppers Fund, 1971, n.d.
Russian War Relief, Inc., 1943-1945, n.d.
Ruth M. Goerling Defense Fund, 1973
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1926-1928
Sacramento Mobilization for Jobs, Pensions, Relief, 1950
Sacramento Peace Center, 1972
Safe Return Amnesty Committee, 1970s
San Francisco Women for Peace, 1970s-1980s
San Gabriel Valley Emergency Council, 1967, n.d.
San Jose Peace Center, 1969, n.d.
San Quentin Six Legal Defense Fund, 1973, n.d.
SANE (National), 1960s-1990s
Sanity Now!, 1960s-1970s
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc., 1968, 1973
School of Living, n.d.
Seattle Conspiracy Defense Fund, 1970
Second Annual Conference on the State of the Race, 1978
Selective Service Law Panel of Los Angeles, 1981
Self-Determination Committee, Inc., 1966
Selma Inter-Religious Project, 1968
Servicemen's Defense Committee, 1950s
Set The Date, 1972
Shibley Defense Committee, 1950s
Silver Lake Echo Park Food Conspiracy, n.d.
Silver Lake People's Play Group, 1973
Singletarian Club of the First Unitarian Church, 1968
Skyhorse/Mohawk Offense/Defense Committee, 1977
SLATE, 1963, Election Platform
Social and Public Arts Resource Center (SPARC), 1978, n.d.
Social Democrats, USA, n.d.
Socialist Community School, 1970s
Socialist Labor Party, 1921, 1935
Socialist Labor Party, National Executive Committee, 1953, 1954, 1957
Socialist Labor Party, National Executive Committee, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1966
Socialist Labor Party, 1936, 1940, National Conventions
Socialist Labor Party, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1960, National Conventions
Socialist Party, 1912, 1933, 1960s-1970s, includes Los Angeles Chapter
Socialist Party, 1913, 1916-1917, 1920, 1932, 1945, n.d., Pamphlets
Socialist Workers Party, 1938
Socialist Workers Party (includes Los Angeles material), 1950s-1980s
Society for Cultural Relations U.S.A-U.S.S.R., including Associaton for Friendship and Cultural Relations, USA-USSR, 1940s-1960s
Society for Cultural Relations U.S.A-U.S.S.R., including Associaton for Friendship and Cultural Relations, USA-USSR, 1970s
Society for Cultural Relations U.S.A-U.S.S.R., including Associaton for Friendship and Cultural Relations, USA-USSR, 1980s
Society for Libertarian Life, 1970s-1980s
Society of Separationists, 1960s-1970s
Solar Lobby, 1970s
Soledad Brothers Defense Committee, 1970s
Solidarity Day, 19 September 1981, Washington, D.C.
Southeast Interracial Council, 1953-1954
Southern California Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 1974-1976, n.d.
Southern California Coalition for a National Health Service, 1979-1980, n.d.
Southern California Committee Against Nazism, 1969, n.d.
Southern California Committee Against Renazification of Germany, n.d.
Southern California Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East, 1974, n.d.
Southern California Committee to Win the Peace, 1930s-1940s
Southern California Congress of the Arts, 1975
Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, n.d.
Southern California Council for Sane Nuclear Policy, 1960s-1980s
Southern California Council for Sane Nuclear Policy, 1962-1964, "Uncommon Sense" (KPFK Broadcast)
Southern California Council of Churches, n.d.
Southern California Educational Fund, 1967-1973
Southern California Interfaith Hunger Coalition, 1978, n.d.
Southern California Labor History Society, 1977, n.d.
Southern California Labor School, 1950, n.d.
Southern California Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam, 1967, 1968, n.d.
Southern California Network Against Government Spying, n.d.
Southern California Peace Crusade, 1950s
Southern California Socialist Feminist Network, 1979-1980, n.d.
Southern California Taxpayers Against War, n.d.
Southern California Trade Unionists for Peace, 1968
Southern California War Tax Resistance, 1980s, n.d.
Southern Californians for New Politics, n.d.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1960s-1980s
Southern Christian Leadership Council, Los Angeles, including Martin Luther King Legal Association, 1960s-1980s
Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons, Inc., 1970s
Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1960s
Southern Institute for Propaganda and Organization, 1974
Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice, 1970s-1980s
Southern Poverty Law Center, 1970s-1980s
Southern Regional Council, Inc., 1950s-1970s
Southern Student Organizing Committee, n.d.
Southland Jewish Organization, 1940s-1950s
Southwest Economy and Society, 1970s
Southwest Labor Studies Conference, 1976-1978, 1980-1982
Soviet Peace Committee, n.d.
Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc., 1940s, 1960s-1970s
Spartacus League/Spartacus Youth League, 1970s-1980s
Spring Mobilization Committee, 1967
Stamp Out Smog, 1970s
Statewide Conference on Power and Politics, 1966
Statewide Peace Electoral Action Campaign, 1981
Stockholm Conference on Vietnam, 1968-1970
Strategy for Peace - Conference on America's Role in Southeast Asia, 1967
Student Coalition Against Racism, n.d.
Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Los Angeles, 1960s
Student Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam, New York, 1967-1970
Student Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam, Washington D.C., 1969-1970
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.), including Los Angeles, 1960s-1970s
Student Union for Peace & Justice, 1972, n.d.
Student Zionist Organization, 1966
Students Assembly March on Washington, 1970s
Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.), n.d.
Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.), including Los Angeles material, n.d.
Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.), including Los Angeles material, 1961-1969
Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.), RYM II vs. Weatherman, 1969
Summer Liberation School, n.d.
Summer Milk Fund Conference, Chicago, 1936
Support Our Soldiers, 1970s, includes issues of SOS News - undated/not numbered
Survival Sunday, 1978, 1979
Sweets Mill, 1970s
Synanon, 1960s-1970s
Synergy: A Working Conference on Transitions and Social Change, Stanford, CA, 1973
Taxation with Representation Fund, 1981, n.d.
Teachers Defense Committee, 1950s
Teachers for Peace, 1960s
Technocracy, 1933-1976
The Temporary Alliance of Local Organizations, 1966
Temporary Organizing Committee for a New Marxist-Leninist Youth Organization, 1969
Temporary Workers Organizing Committee, n.d.
Texas State University Five Defense Fund, n.d.
Third World Liberation Front, 1969
Tom Mooney Labor School, 1940s
Tri-Continental Student Committee, 1968
Turn Toward Peace, n.d.
Ukrainian Youth Conference, n.d.
Uncommon Lawyers Workshop, 1976
Union of Concerned Scientists, 1970s-1980s
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, n.d.
Unitarian Church, includes Los Angeles material, 1950s-1980s
United Auto-Workers Women's Department, 1967-1971
United Civil Rights Committee/United Civil Rights Council, 1960s
United Committee Against the War, n.d.
United Community Churches of America, Inc., including Los Angeles material, 1960s
United Cooperative Industries, 1965-1969
United Defense Against Repression - Southern California, 1970s
United Front Against Fascism, 1969
United May Day Committee, 1973
United Mexican-American Students, [1960s?]
United People, Saakatoon, Canada, 1952
United States SERVAS Committee, Inc., 1981
United World Federalists, Inc., including Southern California material, 1950s-1960s
Universal Party - Annual Convention, 1966
U.S. Committee for a Democratic Spain, includes Los Angeles material, 1960s-1970s
U.S. Committee for Friendship with the German Democratic Republic, includes Los Angeles material, 1960s
U.S.A. Today, n.d.
U.S. Labor Party, 1970s
U.S. Nguyen Van Troi Hospital Committee, n.d.
U.S. Peace Council, 1979
U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association, 1970s
U.S. Vietnam Friendship Association of Southern California, 1970s
Valley Peace Center, 1968, n.d.
Venceremos Brigade, 1970s
Venceremos Prison Committee, 1973
A Venice Community Conference Against Racism, 1980
Venice Organizing Project, 1969
Venice Peoples Rainbow Pages, 1974
Venice Survival Committee, n.d.
Veterans for Peace in Vietnam, 1968, n.d.
Vietnam British Committee, 1965
Vietnam Day Committee Teach-In, UCLA, Nov. 12, 1965, 1965-1966
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1970s
Vietnam Veterans Grassroots Symposium, 1981
VISTO, 1968, n.d.
Vocations for Social Change, n.d.
Voice of the New World Order, 1968
Voice of Women, U.S.A. and Canada, 1960, 1971
Voz Del Pueblo, 1970s
W.E.B. Dubois Clubs of America, including Los Angeles material, 1965-1968, n.d.
WAFA-Palestine News Agency, 1976
Wages for Housework, 1975, n.d.
Walk for Disarmament Committee, July 9, 1960
Walt Whitman School, 1921-1922, n.d.
War Resisters' League, including Los Angeles material, 1960s-1970s
War Resisters' League, including Los Angeles material, 1960s-1970s
Washington Afro-American, 1973
Weather - Yippie, n.d.
Western Socialist Social Science Conference, May 1981
Westside Committee of Concern on Vietnam, 1960s-1970s
The Westside Women's Clinic, n.d.
Win the Peace Committee, 1946
Women and the War, n.d.
Women For, 1970s, 2001
Women for Racial and Economic Equality, 1970s-1980s
Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, 1973
Women Strike for Peace, n.d.
Womenpower for Peace, 1967
The Women's Congress, 1980
Women's Equity Action League, 1981
Women's International Democratic Federation, 1950s-1980s
Women's Labor History Film Project, n.d.
Women's Liberation Labor Committee, n.d.
Women's Supreme Council B'Nai Brith, 1943
Workers Action Movement, n.d.
Workers Defense League, 1950s
Workers School-New York City, 1940s
Workers World Party, 1980s
Works Projects Administration (WPA), 1930s, 1964
World Assembly for Peace, 1969
World Citizen, 1977
World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention, 1966-1967
World Conference for Peace (8th) Against A & H Bombs, 1962
World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace, Moscow, 1962
World Congress for Peace, National Independence, and General Disarmament, 1965
World Congress of Peace Forces, 1970s
World Congress of Women, 1963
World Council of Peace, 1960s-1970s
World Events Committee, 1950s
World Federation of Democratic Youth, 1949, 1962, 1969, 1978
World Festival of Youth and Students, 1949, 1978
World News Service, 1946-1947
World Parliament of Peoples for Peace, 1980
World Peace Congress (2nd, Warsaw), 1950
World Peace Council, including Southern Califorinia material, 1969, 1970s, 1981
World Population Emergency Campaign, 1960
World Religionists Assembly for Peace and Justice in Indo-China (Tokyo), 1972
World Socialist Party of the United States, n.d.
World Society for Preservation of People, Inc., 1979
Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee, 1970s
Yanks Are Not Coming Committee, 1940s
Young Americans for Freedom, including Southern California material, 1960s, 1980s
Young Americans for Progressive Israel, n.d.
Young Communist League, 1930s, n.d.
Young People of Watts, n.d.
Young Socialist Alliance, 1967-1968, n.d.
Young Women's Christian Associations, n.d.
Youth Action Union of Southern California, 1963
Youth Committee for Peace & Democracy in the Middle East, 1973
Youth Council of the National Coalition for Economic Justice, n.d.
Youth International Party, 1968
Youth Rights Bicentennial Festival, 1976
YOZMA, 1974-1975, n.d.
Zero Population Growth, n.d.


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Bush Desperate
To Legislate Mengele Style Torture
The Bush administration's desperation to legitimize and legislate torture in the face of revolt from Congress, the Senate and even Colin Powell, is an attempt to rescue the need to have a constant supply of phony intelligence obtained from torture to justify the war on terror - while the real horror of how the administration advocates sexually mutilating children under the same legal definition remains hidden from the U.S. public.
A large portion of Americans still support the use of 'rendition' and 'pressure' because they are told that the information obtained from such methods protects them from terrorists. Not only is that information crude, unreliable and often misleading - but the suffering inflicted on the victims is a horror show in comparison to the milquetoast edited version presented via the media.
The philosophy of the Bush administration's approach to torture is encapsulated by John "torture" Yoo, professor of law at Berkeley, co-author of the PATRIOT Act, author of torture memos and White House advisor.
During a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel, John Yoo gave the green light for the scope of torture to legally include sexual torture of infants.
Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo…
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.
Click here for the audio.
By the very framework that has been established within this context, Bush's Rose Garden speech this past Friday was a tacit attempt to sell the justification of crushing a child's genitals in the name of the war on terror. No you haven't entered the twilight zone, you are witnessing the absolute sacking and moral decay of everything that used to be America.
They are actually arguing for the legalization of sadistic, serial killer style torture and sexual molestation of children - the same administration that labels its critics "fascists" is pursuing a doctrine that makes Dr. Josef Mengele look like Ronald McDonald in comparison.
The official US Army report listed all the abuses committed at the Abu Ghraib prison. These methods are standard use in the 'Copper Green' worldwide torture program.
a. (U) Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees;
b. (U) Threatening detainees with a charged 9mm pistol;
c. (U) Pouring cold water on naked detainees;
d. (U) Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair;
e. (U) Threatening male detainees with rape;
f. (U) Allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell;
g. (U) Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.
h. (U) Using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet;
b. (S) Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;
c. (S) Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;
d. (S) Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;
e. (S) Forcing naked male detainees to wear women's underwear;
f. (S) Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;
g. (S) Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;
h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;
i. (S) Writing "I am a Rapest" (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;
j. (S) Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee's neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;
k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee; [Rape]
l. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;
m. (S) Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees (after detainees were beaten to death).
Spun as the actions of "a few bad apples," the Abu Ghraib torture program was sanctioned from the very top.
Janis Karpinski was scapegoated as being party to the torture when she was in reality trying to put a stop to it. Since the Abu Ghraib scandal she has been blowing the whistle on who directed the torture program and how it continues to this day. During an interview on the Alex Jones Show, Karpinski stated,
"There is overwhelming proof that torture is going on, that it has been directed and is likely continuing, even to this day. I don't want to believe it is but the statements from the people just returning from the theater give every indication that in fact it is, they still don't know where to draw the line." The General said.
Karpinski identified the masterminds of the torture policy as occupying the highest rungs of the Bush administration.
"The orders came right from the top, filtered down from the secretary of defense, with the endorsement of the President, the Vice President, whatever advisors are surrounding them, filtered down through the Commanders in the field, these practices were not only endorsed, but were in use at Guantanamo bay and in locations in Afghanistan. And when General Miller visited Iraq he brought those techniques with him. And then he sent contract interrogators who had 'performed well' at Guantanamo Bay to Iraq as well."
Why is the Bush administration so feverish to gut the Geneva conventions and legislate torture?
It is common knowledge that evidence obtained from torture is completely unreliable and if anything only muddies the waters of intelligence. The Neo-Con architects of the war on terror could not care less whether the information obtained from torture is accurate or not, the agenda is to artificially manufacture the myth that there are numerous Al-Qaeda cells dotted around the world wanting to attack America.
This process is clearly evident in Uzbekistan, where racist dictator Islam Karimov, the man who enjoys boiling people alive, plays ball in helping Bush and Blair maintain the Al-Qaeda myth by providing a steady supply of tortured Muslims who would admit to being Osama Bin Laden's rent boy just to have the cattle prod removed.
Karimov, Bush and Blair have set-up a nice little back scratching society and it works like this - Karimov has his brownshirts snatch innocent Muslims off the streets, tortures them until they "confess" to being Al-Qaeda members, and then in return for financial kickbacks, hands the phony confessions to the CIA and British intelligence, who use them as propaganda to argue the threat of the Al-Qaeda menace. In addition, the manufacturing of an artificial 'Al-Qaeda threat' enables Karimov to propagandize his own population into supporting his savagery through fear.
The fact that the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray told the Blair government directly that false confessions were being obtained through violent torture, didn't concern MI6 or the CIA, who ordered the program to continue.
The hallmark of the worldwide detainee and torture camps is defined by repeated examples whereby proven top Al-Qaeda members are protected or released while completely innocent individuals are imprisoned for no reason and tortured.
The Washington Post reported,
For more than a decade, Osama bin Laden had few soldiers more devoted than Abdallah Tabarak. A former Moroccan transit worker, Tabarak served as a bodyguard for the al Qaeda leader, worked on his farm in Sudan and helped run a gemstone smuggling racket in Afghanistan, court records here show.
During the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, when al Qaeda leaders were pinned down by U.S. forces, Tabarak sacrificed himself to engineer their escape. He headed toward the Pakistani border while making calls on Osama bin Laden's satellite phone as bin Laden and the others fled in the other direction.
Tabarak was captured and taken to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he was classified as such a high-value prisoner that the Pentagon repeatedly denied requests by the International Committee of the Red Cross to see him. Then, after spending almost three years at the base, he was suddenly released.
The article describes how Tabarak was a proven loyal and unceasing Al-Qaeda member with an unparalleled affinity for Osama bin Laden.
Compare this to the 70-90% of Iraqis who are arrested, hooded, and thrown into prison camps for the crime of not showing their papers at checkpoints.
This website has repeatedly highlighted examples of where known terrorists, even in some cases individuals who were in the throes of carrying out terrorist attacks, are ordered to be released by the US government.
And yet Pakistani gangsters admitted to rounding up innocent people in street sweeps and selling them to the US government as terrorists for anything up to $25,000. These people are now at Guantanamo Bay.
Khaled Masri was abducted off the streets of Germany by the CIA for being a suspected terrorist, the case against him later collapsed and the U.S. government graciously apologized for ruining his life.
In a similar recent case, Ottawa software engineer Maher Arar, who holds Canadian and Syrian nationality, was arrested for terrorist ties and deported to Syria, where he was tortured. An official inquiry concluded that Arar was completely innocent.
Only nine alleged terrorists have been brought to trial by the US government and none have been convicted, save the mental retard Zacarias Moussaoui who was tortured into whistling whatever tune his handlers demanded.
In many cases, alleged terrorists like Iyman Faris, the so-called Brooklyn Bridge bomber, turn out to be confidants of the US government. Faris was an FBI informant.
The so-called mastermind of the 7/7 London bombing, Haroon Rashid Aswat, was an MI6 informant whom British intelligence had repeatedly protected in the years before the attack in the face of attempts by intelligence agencies of other nations to arrest him.
The policy of the highest echelons of the American and British establishment is to torture the innocent and release the guilty.
The elite needs to maintain the facade that terrorist cells are everywhere and that only their smothering 'protection' will keep us safe. And yet time and time again the real terrorists are protected and given safe passage by the military-industrial complex handlers.
Though the torture program is being sold to the American people as a necessity in the "war of civilizations," it is in actual fact a trial balloon for the incarceration of political dissidents during a time of manufactured national emergency such as a biological terror attack or race riots.
It was announced earlier this year that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency.
The language of the preamble to the agreement veils the program with talk of temporary migrant holding centers, but it is made clear that the camps will also be used "as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency."
Discussions of federal concentration camps is no longer the rhetoric of paranoid Internet conspiracy theorists, it is mainstream news.
Under the enemy combatant designation anyone at the behest of the US government, even if they are a US citizen, can be kidnapped and placed in an internment facility forever without trial. Jose Padilla, an American citizen, spent over three years in a Navy brig before he was afforded any kind of hearing. The evidence against him was proven to be non-existent and he was transferred to a civilian jail.
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Win 7 64 bit
Drive C: (NTFS) is an SSD
ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version: 12.0.104.000
Vsmon version: 12.0.104.000
Driver version: 12.0.102.000
Antivirus engine version: 22.214.171.124
Antivirus signature DAT file version: 1134506336
I have read the #2 sticky thread three times and I don't understand what the solution is.
I have the exact same problem described. The scan hangs on a .lnk file in the desktop. (Either public desktop or user desktop) It will hang on many different .lnk files depending on which ones I have deleted. At one point, it hung on C:\Windows\system32\osk.exe as described in the 'solved' thread.
Moving all the .lnk files into a folder on my desktop and the scans run fine. I can use the shortcuts with this setup but it defeats the purpose of a shortcut. They are all now longcuts.
After about 30 re-boots, I was unable to determine a pattern of which file it hangs on. It seems to depend on total size of shortcuts in each desktop folder (Public and User).
I don't have a bunch of defective .lnk files.
I don't have a defective osk.exe file.
I have done a clean install of ZoneAlarm and the problem remains.
These files are small so I have a hunch it depends on where they are in relation to a block boundry. Deleting them and putting them back will move them on the disk (SSD).
And the suggestion of a windows clean install is unthinkable. I will live without shortcuts before I do that.


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Homemade Pop-Tarts Recipe | Video
Brighten Breakfast With Homemade Pop-Tarts
It's time to bust out jars of your favorite jams, jellies, and preserves — even Nutella — as we're making homemade Pop-Tarts, and the flavor possibilities are practically limitless. Watch the video to learn the simple technique, then get baking, decorating (extra points for rainbow sprinkles!), and admiring your handiwork. This is one must-make breakfast bite.


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Hey everyone! Just wanted to say hello. I use to be on this site all the time about 5 years under the name of something like "ALC" (i dont remember my name or password!) Anyway.... Ill be resurrecting my business over the next few months. I miss it sooo much! Im a retail manager atm for a supermarket and just cant take it anymore! I gave up almost 100 accounts + $1000's in equipment! Its a long story that maybe ill fill you in because im sure you all are saying im crazy right about now! I know that im going to start off small like a newbie but at least I know how to get accounts quickly and what NOT to do the first time! Looking forward to chatting with you all! -ME
No announcement yet.
After 5 Years IM BACK!
new posts
After 5 Years IM BACK!Tags: None
I've missed you!
Wait. I don't even know you.
Welcome again anyway!
Funny how so many that leave this occupation end up coming back to it. It's like riding a bike, you never forget. :-)
Here's to resurrecting the past, Cheers!Don't Keep Replacing Lawn Sprinkler Heads
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Welcome Back ! Ya Id Be Bitter
Welcome back!
How are you going about getting accounts quick? Equipment?08 F250 Ext Cab/04 Chevy 3500
05 F350/04 F350 Diesel/12 Ram 4500 Dump
4 -60 Toro Zmaster/Lesco 48
3 -8'2" Boss V-Plows
1- Hiniker 9'6" V-Plow
20' Enclosed trailer
18' Skid & 16' Open Trailer
2012 - S185 Bobcat
Welcome back!
Why did you get out of the business in the first place?
Its a long story that maybe ill fill you in because im sure you all are saying im crazy right about now!- Subscribe to my Lawn Care Marketing Blog Feed and get daily tips sent to you. Free!
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sounds like somebody was hitting the ole pipe.. 100 accts to zero?
Ahhh.... Funny how you would think I would be "Hitting the 'ole Pipe" !! LOL Not so.... I stopped mowing so I could take a Manager position with CVS. Good Pay and Whole Health insurance for my Family. When I quit mowing I had 98 Yearly accounts in which about 30 decided to go a different way and the other 60+ I handed off to my Father in Law to take over. I then Sold off all my equipment (which was stupid)!!! I averaged about $78/acct for Mow n Go service. This was 5 years ago actually this DECEMBER! I had a helper 2-3 days a week and did the rest either by myself or my wife would come along and ride the mower. She was a pro riding my Great Dane and also My Yard Shark.
I have since quit CVS and now work as an Asst. Manager at a High end Grocery store. Every day I go to work all I think is getting back out there and enjoying the weather and servicing my customers. I dont plan on financing anything so It will be about 2 months before Im all set with my equipment. My goal is this time next year to have about 30 to 50 residential accounts. (no low balling either)
Well there is my short story....
Its really no big secret honestly.... There are lots of media out there to use to advertise that I will use and there are certain ones I WONT use.. such as PHONE BOOK and throwing crap in peoples yards!! I'm pretty web savvy so building a very presentable website with high end search engine results will be my #1 resource. Its cheap, easy and super effective. A+ customer service and being prompt in replying to calls and showing up to bids is probably the most important. I found out that just showing up and letting people know that they can trust you will take care of their property will 9x outa 10 get you the account even if you are a bit higher in price. (they probably are looking for a new lawn company because they realized that saving $10-$20 a month did them no good!)
I have a day job but I will be nothing but honest with them that I have a job and full intentions of building a reputable business again. I might not be able to get to their house that minute but If im on my way home I will keep a LOGO'd polo in my car, throw that on and stop by on my way home.
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New Marlin Reyes embraces Miami approach
Shortstop says he felt wanted from start of free-agent period
By Joe Frisaro / MLB.com
Literally at the start of the free-agent signing period -- 12:01 a.m. ET on Nov. 3 -- Marlins officials met with Reyes and his agent, Peter Greenberg, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City.
Expressing how strongly they wanted the four-time All-Star shortstop, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria displayed to Reyes the new Miami uniform, complete with the No. 7 and "Reyes" on back. On Wednesday, Reyes once again was in a Miami uniform, this time as the latest member of a transforming Marlins franchise.
"They showed that they really want me," Reyes said while donning his white jersey and black cap during a news conference at the Hilton Anatole, site of the Winter Meetings. "[This is] a good opportunity to win, and I like to win. I don't like to lose."
Hot Stove news, analysis
Signing Reyes to a six-year, $106 million contract, with an option for a seventh season, is another display of Loria's commitment to build a championship-caliber team in Miami.
"They met with me at 12:01, and they showed me their plan that they have," Reyes said. "It showed me they wanted to win, and I want to win, too. That's why I made the decision to play in Miami."
The addition of Reyes means Hanley Ramirez will slide over to third base.
"Hanley is a key to our team," Marlins president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest said. "He has been. He is a unique talent, and we recognize that. We recognize his ability. We recognize his achievement already in a very young career."
Signing Reyes also comes two days after All-Star closer Heath Bell was introduced on a three-year, $27 million deal, with an option for 2015.
Reyes, 28, is the reigning National League batting champion, coming off a season in which he hit a career-best .337 for the New York Mets and was named to his fourth NL All-Star team. The switch-hitter also set career bests for on-base percentage (.384) and slugging percentage (.493), while compiling 101 runs scored, 31 doubles, 16 triples and 39 stolen bases.
"We now have at the top of our lineup a four-time All-Star, a batting champion and one of the fastest men in the game," Beinfest said.
Since his first full season in the Majors in 2005, Reyes leads all players in triples (93) and is second in stolen bases (338). He won the NL Silver Slugger Award in 2006, when he registered a career-high 19 home runs and 81 RBIs with a .300 average. He also earned the NL Player of the Month Award for April 2007. Reyes was named to the NL All-Star team in 2006, '07, '10 and '11, being voted as the NL starter at shortstop in '07.
The hard sell by the Marlins, led by Loria calling the shots, convinced Reyes to relocate from New York to South Beach.
Loria made his fortune as an art dealer, and he takes pride in creatively building projects. He is making an all-out push to make the Marlins a playoff team in 2012.
Under Loria's direction in 2003, the Marlins won the World Series, the second in club history. And in '12, Loria's biggest baseball project -- the team's state-of-the-art 37,000-seat, retractable-roof ballpark -- will open.
As the Marlins' new leadoff hitter, Reyes projects to be the first Miami player to step up to the plate on April 4 in the season opener against the Cardinals.
"In my other world, it's about putting things together and making things work," Loria said, referring to his art business. "[Reyes] is a great athlete, a great player, an energizer."
Loria targeted Reyes as the first of many high-profile free agents the team coveted.
"We had planned to go after a number of people," Loria said. "But the first one was easy because we were in New York already. And Jose was going to be in New York. He lives in Long Island and he was coming back to New York."
At the Carlyle Hotel, Reyes was impressed with the Marlins' persistence at 12:01 a.m.
"The owner had [a jersey]," Reyes said. "He had it under his coat. When he took his coat off, he had my No. 7 jersey. I said, 'It's going to be interesting.' Now, I'm wearing the jersey, it's going to be good."
Reyes passed his physical on Tuesday and he made the rounds in Dallas on Wednesday, conducting interviews with a number of news outlets. In moving on from New York, Reyes thanked the Mets for giving him his first big league opportunity.
"This is a business," Reyes said. "I really appreciate that they gave me the opportunity to play professional baseball. It's something I'm never going to forget. They were the first team I played for in the big leagues, but it's time for me to move on. I'm part of a new family now."
Reyes is an immensely popular player. That was evident on Wednesday as he passed through the lobby of the Hilton to attend his news conference. Along the way, a man yelled, "Jose, I am a Mets fan, and I still love you."
Turning with a smile, Reyes said, "Thanks, man."
Signing Reyes sparked an immediate spike in Marlins merchandise in South Florida stores.
"The stocked Reyes' merchandise has sold out," Marlins president David Samson said. "It's being restocked. It was available today, gone today and back tonight. Hopefully, we got it back."
Marlins merchandise is available on marlins.com.
After years of being a face of the Mets, Reyes now is ready to adapt to his lifestyle changes in Miami. He has agreed to groom his hair to conform with team policy. While he sported dreadlocks on Wednesday, he has no problem cutting them at the time Spring Training begins.
"No problem at all," the shortstop said. "It doesn't affect me and the way I play the game. If I've got to cut it off, no problem."
Reyes immediately becomes one of the faces of the Miami franchise. The Marlins have a new look, new name and new revenue streams created by their new ballpark.
Reyes saw the team's vision when he visited the new ballpark and ate lunch at Joe's Stone Crab on South Beach a few weeks ago. Reyes' visit to South Florida left a strong impression.
"They gave us the whole tour," Greenberg said. "The dugout, the field. They showed him his locker. He had to pick out his locker."
"You saw the plan that they had for the future," Reyes said. "New stadium in Miami. They showed me they want to win -- this year. You can see what they've been able to do. They brought in Heath Bell, and they bring in me. That showed me a lot."
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter @JoeFrisaro. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Hands-On Robotic Surgery Promo Connects with Shoppers
This is an excerpt of article that was originally published in Healthcare Marketing Advisor.
By 1 p.m. on December 15 and 16, 2012, the 6,100 spaces in the parking lot at The Mall at Short Hills in Short Hills, N.J., were filled to capacity. Approximately 1.3 million people visit the mall monthly, coming from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania to shop for tax-free apparel 23 miles from Manhattan. Thousands of shoppers paused their holiday shopping for an exhibit just outside Macy's, and it wasn't for pictures with Santa.
Men, women, and children—ranging from as young as 4 years old to folks in their 80s and 90s—lined up to operate two da Vinci robots, put on display for the second consecutive year through a collaboration among Intuitive Surgical, which designs and builds the da Vinci robot surgical systems, the mall administration, and the nearby 597-bed Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
Physician-based community presentations and "Ask the Doctor" booths, which Saint Barnabas has offered in the past at the mall, provided a more personal connection with potential patients, but by letting patients interact with the robots and the surgeons, the hospital hoped to demystify a technology most patients don't ever see and in turn show them what is possible at Saint Barnabas.
By building an exhibit space at The Mall at Short Hills, Saint Barnabas created a setting for those connections at one of the largest malls in the country during the peak of the holiday shopping season.
One of the oldest nonprofit hospitals in New Jersey, Saint Barnabas is also the flagship hospital of Barnabas Health, one of the largest integrated health systems in the state. Its campus, which admits 33,114 patients annually, is located five miles from the mall.


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Children & Youth: Building tomorrow today
As young people mature, the decisions they make have an enormous impact on their families, their communities and our world. But growing up surrounded by poverty, war or in the aftermath of disaster increases their risks and limits their choices.
That's why giving children and youth the right support at this most critical time is essential to building tomorrow's strong, productive communities.
When disaster strikes, young children are especially vulnerable to developing emotional and social problems that can jeopardize their futures. Mercy Corps worked with experts to design our signature Comfort for Kids program that helps children process their trauma and recover through play, sports and art activities. See our expert's recommendations for how parents and caregivers can help children through times of crisis ▸
For adolescents faced with violence, early marriage and interruptions to schooling, we provide opportunities for community involvement, vocational training and life skills development. Our goal is to empower youth in the toughest places to make smart life choices and invest their energy in developing solutions to their countries' biggest challenges.
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United States: Reclaiming the U.S. Gulf Coast
Sudan: Class is in Session
El Shebab Camp, Darfur, Sudan — Nasir Adam Yago likes studying English almost as much as he likes playing soccer - and he's had a chance to do much more of both since Mercy Corps established a school here in August.
Pakistan: Supplying Reopened Schools in Pakistan
United States: A New School Year, a 'New Normal'
Slidell, Louisiana - The only thing Tish Casey tried to retrieve from her ruined pre-K classroom was a rocking chair. It was her grandmother's rocking chair, and Casey, 54, had wanted to give the chair to her own grandchild, expected in April.
Sudan: Safety Nets, Soccer-Style
Hassa Hissa Camp, Darfur — Most of the kids on the dusty playground here have had their young lives completely disrupted over the last two years.
United States: A Welcome Back to School
Classes began in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana this week, but teachers who returned to work there weren't comparing notes on their summer vacations.
Indonesia: Hope for Weki and His Peers
One sunny morning inside of an elementary school classroom in West Sumatra's Pariaman district, a few dozen eager-looking students accepted bright yellow cartons handed out to them by their teachers.
Comforting Kids Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
United States: Helping Children Heal
Indonesia: A Love Affair with Soccer
Soccer is big in Indonesia.