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Westwood - Westside Democratic Club P.O. Box 641544 Los Angeles CA 90064-6544 (323) 299-3244 E-mail: Use Contact Us Tab ONCE Next Meeting: July 16, 2009 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES with three speakers from the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center Free and open to the public. Community Room A of the Westside Pavilion, third floor, 10800 W. Pico Blvd. (at Overland Avenue), Los Angeles 90064 WWDC usually meets on the third Thursday of the month. Some of us meet for dinner and conversation at the inside (West) end of the Food Court (away from the children and food stores) from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Join us!
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July 16 General Meeting: Current Mental Health Issues
DATE AND TIME: Thursday, July 16 - 7 - 9 PM PLACE: Westside Pavilion (Community Room A, third floor, off the corridor behind the food court), 10800 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90064. TOPICS: CURRENT MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES: Two staff members and a patient at Didi Hirsch Community Health Center will discuss (1) the stigma of mental illness, including the client's experiences and (2) Schizophrenia, mental health, treatment and Didi Hirsch's services in general. Didi Hirsch has been serving this community for decades. With more than 60 years of experience, Didi Hirsch provides mental health and substance abuse services in Los Angeles County, regardless of ability to pay. Its nine sites serve more than 44,000 clients a year, from Pacoima to Venice to South Los Angeles to the Downtown area, and many points in between. It offers a wide range of services through five divisions — Emergency Services, Adult Services, Family Services, Substance Abuse Services and Service Enhancement. Mental health affects all of us. Many of the homeless are mentally ill. Public and private funding for mental health care has long been insufficient to meet the need. This program will emphasize the civil side of mental health, but many criminals and ex-cons have inadequately treated mental health problems. For more information on Didi Hirsch, go to its website at www.didihirsch.org.  
Opinion: Penny-wise and Pound-Foolish: Failing to Fully Fund Family Planning (Contraceptives for the Poor) in All States
Update: While the increase in family planning money was not included in H.R. 1, the stimulus bill, it is included in the pending appropriations bill for this fiscal year that has passed the House and is pending in the Senate. For more info on many pro-Choice legislative and other efforts, go to http://www.naralprochoiceamerica.org/. I sent versions of the following e-mailed letter to the President, my Senators, my member of Congress (Diane E. Watson) and others in late January 2009 - SN: The President’s concession to House Republicans of removing support for family planning programs for the poor is penny-wise and pound-foolish. If continued, it will put an additional burden on state governments and cost taxpayers far more than it will save. How? 1. One use of a condom can save the medical expense and suffering of a lifetime of AIDS. 2. The ready availability of contraceptives to all, regardless of income or state or locality, REDUCES the number of abortions; makes consensual sex more available and thereby REDUCES the incidence of sexual assaults and rape; reduces the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including the viruses that cause cervical cancer; reduces violence within families caused by financial or sexual distress; and helps to ensure that only wanted children are born. 3. Unplanned pregnancies that produce unwanted children wreak havoc on a poor family’s budget; wreak havoc on a student’s plans for further education; lead to neglected and abused children, who often fail in school and commit crimes as juveniles and as adults; and increase the number of people on welfare programs, both now and later. Read the rest ...
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No More Plastic Bags
Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute. According to the EPA, over 380 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps are consumed in the U.S. each year. Californians throw away 294,000,000 pounds of plastic bags every year, or 147,000 tons - enough waste to circle the planet over 250 times. In the State of California, 600 plastic bags are thrown away every second. If Californians cut their plastic bag waste in half, it would save over two thousand barrels of oil a day (over 800,000 barrels a year) and keep 73,000 tons of rubbish out of our landfills. Feral plastic bags are the leading cause of mosquito hatching. It only takes a very little water to hatch a mosquito egg and plastic bags create little ponds when they blow into shrubs, bushes, empty lots, etc. Reprinted with permission from Toyon, March - April 2008, a newsletter published by the Los Angeles - Santa Monica Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. (www.lasmmcnps.org)
Environmental Defense Statistics on Global Warming
From an E-mail from the Environmental Defense Fund's Environmental Defense Action Network, January 19, 2007: Our list of global warming facts underscores the need for immediate and effective global warming action. But, we need your help.Sign our global warming petition today to keep the pressure on our political leaders.GLOBAL WARMING BY THE NUMBERS
Sources: The U.S. National Climatic Data Center, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Environmental Protection Agency, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, Science, U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement.
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