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The San Fernando Valley Patriots, an affiliate of the national Tea Party Patriots, counters the "Occupy Wall Street" sit-ins with a non-partisan "stand-up" north of Los Angeles for free-market principles and cuts in Big Government to promote jobs.

"Tea Party" Patriots will hold a sidewalk rally in Woodland Hills, CA to stand with talkradio host Glenn Beck's "Restoring Courage" event in Israel on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 to honor the bonds of freedom between the United States and Israel.

A small band of conservative journalists in Los Angeles launch a family magazine that blends 18th-century American history with 21st-century perspective. No donkeys or elephants or party politics. Just patriots, then and now.

The San Fernando Valley Patriots hosts a Tax Day Tea Party Rally in support of bigger budget cuts to halt runaway spending and protest anemic budget cuts.

The West Coast Premiere of the documentary film, "The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks," serves up a first: Two controversial authors on the same stage in California to debate Islam, the First Amendment and Sharia Law.

A local Kiwanis Club joins with the "Tea Party" to serve Halloween treats early at its Annual Pancake Breakfast at the Elks Lodge in Canoga Park, CA. Event boasts costume contests, 50/50 raffles and family games.

The NorCal Tea Party Patriots launches its statewide "Constitutional" Tour of the Golden State with a small band of Tea Party Patriots and Constitutional scholars on a grassroots whistle-stop trip to get out the vote from Chico to San Diego.

The 9-11 Memorial Fountain in front of Fire Station 88 in Sherman Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, is a standing tribute to two sites where Americans died in 2001. A 9-11 event at the fountain honors the bond two coasts shared that day.

A 9-11 candlelight vigil at Fire Station No. 88 in the San Fernando Valley just north of Los Angeles underscores the 750-pound bond of steel that Los Angeles firefighters share with those who perished at the World Trade Centers and at the Pentagon.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passes a resolution at its annual convention in Kansas City asking the Tea Party to "expel racists from the ranks." One Los Angeles-area Tea Party leader has a Reverian reply.