Celebrate #NationalLemonJuiceDay #A29

Wednesday, August 29th is National Lemon Juice Day!

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE

Breaking Bad star, RJ Mitte & his kid sister, Lacianne Carriere, make Lemon Juice 4 Justice!

WHO: Celebrity activists of all ages join forces to celebrate National Lemon Juice Day on August 29, 2012!  Celebrities and activists already participating in the campaign include world renowned artist, Shepard Fairey, actor RJ Mitte, filmmakers Melinda Esquibel and Melissa Balin, musicians Fresh Juice Party, and celebrity activist Q’orianka Kilcher.

WHAT: 8 year old Lacianne Carriaere hosts a Lemon-Aid Stand with her celebrity brother, RJ Mitte (star of hit show Breaking Bad and Executive Producer of the documentary, VANISHED: The Tara Calico Story) and celebrity friends;  to benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand and raise awareness for the #Justice4TaraCalico social media campaign.  People from all around the world will be able to participate in this global Call To Action for Social Justice, by visiting the virtual lemon-aid stand through TenBux.com or TaraCalico.com or AlexsLemonade.Org to make a donation in the name of #Justice4TaraCalico.

WHEN:  Wednesday, August 29, 2012 (#A29) is National Lemon Juice Day.  Celebrate from wherever you are by visiting http://www.TaraCalico.com and making a donation.  If you are in or around the Los Angeles area, you can visit the Justice4Tara Lemon-Aid Stand outside of the historic Los Angeles City Hall building in the park known as Solidarity Park, from Noon until 2:00 pm Pacific Standard Time or follow along via Live Stream at http://www.ustream.tv/user/StayOccupied where every donation will be given a social media “Shout-Out” to be shared by the internet community across all available social media platforms.

WHERE:  Los Angeles Solidarity Park Outside the historic LA City Hall and virtually at http://www.TaraCalico.com and http://www.ustream.tv/user/StayOccupied. 

WHY:  For every ten dollar donation, RJ Mitte and celebrity friends will tweet and share a “shout-out” via various social media platforms, associating supporters and/or their brand with the righteous quest for Social Justice and Truth.  Generations young and old will have an opportunity to express themselves, freely air their grievances for a good cause, and help to raise a global awareness to the constant pursuit of Justice For All.

How To Send #LemonInstagrams2Congress

CelebrityActivist Q'orianka Kilcher wants you to Tweet Congress with a #LemonInstagram2Congress for #Energy

 Here's How Easy It is to Participate:

1) Here is our album on Pinterest so you can download your favorite grievance pics: http://pinterest.com/stayoccupied/lemoninstagrams2congress/

or

1a)  You can also download the LemonInstagram pics from our Facebook Album HERE:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.333077196724554.85590.277726428926298&type=3

2) Find your Congressional Representatives through http://www.TweetCongress.org

OR EVEN EASIER:

JUST RETWEET ONE OF OUR INSTANT #LEMONINSTAGRAMS2CONGRESS via @stayoccupied at http://www.twitter.com/stayoccupied

& The Facebook Event Page so you can participate from wherever you are:
http://www.facebook.com/events/170894329712528/ 

Of course, some of you, are brimming with unprecedented creativity, in which case, we look forward to seeing the amazing ORIGINAL LemonInstagrams, video responses, tweets, pins, and tumbles from our favorite celebrity activist friends, all in the name of exercising our Constitutional right to air our grievances, in good, clean, Fun!  

Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It: Get Creative With Lemons...

The theme: #WhenLifeGivesYouLemons... #MakeFreshJuice

#A29 #NationalLemonJuiceDay

Send #LemonInstagrams2Congress on what YOU think is a LEMON requiring effective CHANGE.

Stay Occupied By Any Creative, Non-Violent Means Necessary

Oh, and here's the previous blog that Explains:
Just What IS a #LemonInstagram2Congress?!

#WhenLifeGivesYouLemons... Send Them To Congress!

Activist groups Stay Occupied and The Fresh Juice Party have teamed up to create a safe way for the American People to air their grievances without getting arrested, or sprayed with rubber bullets!  From August 20th, National Lemonade Day, until August 29th, National Lemon Juice Day, Americans are encouraged to use various social media platforms to Tweet #LemonInstagrams2Congress

What's a #LemonInstagram2Congress?

Lemon laws are American state laws that provide a remedy for purchasers of cars in order to compensate for cars that repeatedly fail to meet standards of quality and performance. These vehicles are called lemons. The federal lemon law (the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act) protects citizens of all states.  There is currently no such thing for governmental bodies and programs that fail to meet standards of quality and performance... hmmm...

The community social media art project #LemonInstagrams2Congress first launched In Solidarity with the Occupy May 1st General Strike (#M1GS), as a creative non-violent means of enabling the American People to air their grievances, as protected by The First Amendment of the Constitution.  Generations young and old are using social media applications such as Instagram and Pinterest to upload pictures of lemons inscribed with grievances; and sharing platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and TweetCongress.Org, to send the images to members of Congress and share globally in order to engage in meaningful dialogue designed to create effective change.  Celebrities and activists already involved in this project dedicated to making civic engagement fun and accessible, include: Activist Band, The Fresh Juice Party, Actress Q'orianka Kilcher, Musician PonyBoy of Los Marijuanos, Internet Radio Personality Steve Gelder, Filmmaker Melissa Balin, members of Los Angeles Community Action Network and members of Occupy LA.

Between August 20th (#A20) and August 29th (#A29) people can participate by uploading their pics or e-mailing them directly to StayOccupied@gmail.com

"Participation Sans Intimidation." Filmmaker, Melissa Balin, explains, "The current political climate has instilled fear in the People to express themselves out in the streets.  We hope that this will be a fun, safe way for the next generation to learn about the concept of transparent participatory democracy, which is one of the Principles of Solidarity of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.  We have chosen #A20 - #A29 in celebration of California's effective lemon law and in the hopes of raising further awareness to other important issues like organic farm-to-table practices, encouraging small business entrepreneurship, and protection against politically motivated selective enforcement, such as protecting small children from receiving fines or citations for their neighborhood lemonade stands- in a creative and non-threatening way to those city officials whom we have seen exhibit a propensity to handcuff in other public forums."

The project will become a traveling exhibit planned to arrive in Washington D.C. in time to help Congress celebrate National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week January 17-23, 2013.  

To find out more about The #LemonInstagrams2Congress Project, please visit http://StayOccupied.blogspot.com

August 15 is National Lemon Meringue Pie Day. Really!

Did you know that August 15th is National Lemon Meringue Pie Day?  Spread the word! 

RT: #WhenLifeGivesYouLemons... #CelebrateAllThingsLemonMeringue on #A15!

This is a fun and delicious way to raise awareness to important issues like Organic Practices from Farm-To-Table, small business entrepreneurship, job creation, and of course, our right to air our grievances.  Share your fun & interesting ways to #Share #NationalLemonMeringuePieDay on our
Stay Occupied Pinterest Board for #A15:

Stay Occupied Pinterest Board for National Lemon Meringue Pie Day

Power To The Peaceful!  Remember, The Medium IS The Message.  So, Stay Occupied by any creative, non-violent, means necessary!

Last night I dreamt a dingo ate the police officer who killed my baby

Chalk = Free Speech.

It's a recurring dream... one where the only Justice available to the victims of police brutality is a random act of violence committed by nature... 

PTSD from Police Brutality and its collateral damage is a drag... 
but turning your Pain into Art- that is transformative and righteous.

Chalk Is Art.  
#ArtIsNotACrime 
Chalk = Free Speech.
Free Speech Is Not A Crime... but the LAPD thinks it is an arrestable offense.  City Attorneys around the country know that Chalk on public property it is not a prosecutable offense.
Someone should remind the LAPD that the exercising of a constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime and of the ACLU civil suit recently filed against the NYPD for unlawful arrests... 

Expect Us To Express Us.

RT: #OccupyChalkupyEverywhere #A9 #InSolidarity #OLA292 #ChalkWalk #OWS #GlobalChalk #WeArePeaceful

#Miscarriage Of Justice

Balin still peaceful after 3 unconstitutional arrests.

 

     Melissa Balin is a filmmaker and activism media producer.  Former producer for Police Officer of the Year Award Show for Court TV, and board member of the Angela Shelton Foundation to empower the survivors of sexual abuse, as well as the Foundation for Orphaned, Abandoned, Disabled, African Children; Balin had never been arrested prior to her known association with the Occupy LA movement and has since been unconstitutionally arrested three times over a thirty day period during the 2011 holiday season.  Balin was taken into the emergency room for treatment of the use of force by sheriffs and/or police while in custody for two of the three arrests, resulting in a miscarriage.  While the City has yet to even begin an investigation into the allegations of police misconduct almost six months ago being the cause of death to the unborn fetus; the City Attorney's office is zealously prosecuting Balin for Misdemeanor charges of Contempt of Court during her first arrest on November 14, 2011, where she was unconstitutionally held in LA County Jail without cause and without even a phone call to notify family or legal counsel for more than 53 hours.

     According to Masinter 355 So.2d 1288, the power to jail for contempt is given "on the assumption that it will be judiciously and sparingly employed".      

     Professionals in the mental health field believe that Balin's healing from the trauma of her miscarriage will continue to be inhibited by the stress and emotional duress of the trial and could cause Balin worsened Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other long-term debilitating mental illness.  May 29th will mark the SIXTH month where the prosecution refuses to bring in the video evidence held by the LA Sheriff’s Department and subpoenaed by the defense in discovery.

     Whether it is your taxpayer dollars being wasted or not, if you are a voting constituent, or prefer to remain Anonymous; please sign this Change.org online petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/miscarriage-of-justice and call, fax, tweet, and/or write, to elected City Attorney, Carmen Trutanich's office, asking him not to pursue this "Miscarriage of Justice" any further.  While Balin's conduct in the courtroom as an identified member of the media may have been improper or unwise, it was not contemptuous or criminal, and the record does not support a finding that she intended to obstruct the proceedings.  Based on lack of sufficient evidence, and in the interest of Justice, ask the City Attorney to please drop all charges against filmmaker Melissa Balin in Case #1CA16847-02.

MAIL:                                        The Office of the City Attorney

 800 City Hall East

 200 N. Main Street

 Los Angeles, CA 90012

TELEPHONE:  213.978.8100       FAX:  213.978.8312

TWITTER:  @TRU09                     e-mail: trutanich4da@gmail.com

    

We Thank You for your time and attention to this matter of great importance to Justice For All.

ANONYMOUS In Solidarity.

#Lemon Instagrams 2 Congress

Check out the first photo album of #Lemon Instagrams 2 Congress - taken LIVE From #M1GS!!!

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.333077196724554.85590.277726428926298&type=1

LIVE From #M1GS!  @StayOccupied.