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Entries from November 2005

WalMart - The Movie

November 30th, 2005 · No Comments

We saw the movie “WalMart”, and we highly recommend that you see it if you can! The information that the movie provided was very eye-opening.
After learning about:
- all the lawsuits that are filed against WalMart
- all the crimes, murders, rapes and robberies in their parking lot
- the subsidies that they are getting from our […]

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Tags: Movies

Homelessness In Our Cities

November 21st, 2005 · No Comments

A dear friend of mine passed away on October 10th at 3 a.m. in the morning. She dedicated the past 15-20 years of her life to feeding the homeless in Downtown L.A. She fed them with her own money, and with the donations and volunteerwork from her actor friends from all over town. She is […]

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Tags: City Hall · Civil Right · Homelessness

“Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price”

November 9th, 2005 · No Comments

The controversial new film “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” from director and
producer Robert Greenwald will debut at:
Hollywood Adventist Church
1711 N Van Ness Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90028
as part of Wal-Mart Premiere Week, an unprecedented grassroots effort that will see
over 3,000 screenings across the nation from November 13-19, 2005.
“WalMart The Movie” (2005)
November 13th, 7 p.m. - […]

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Tags: Education · Movies

CERT, CORBA, Aeolian Ride and more

November 8th, 2005 · No Comments

First of all we finished CERT training level 2, League of American Bicyclists Road Ed I training, and also the CORBA mountain biking skills class where we learned to ride down stairs :-))).  It was scarry.
We did the Aeolian Ride, helped in the renovation of a mural in Hollywood, volunteered at the Red Cross and […]

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Tags: Bikes · Cycling