<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Measure S says: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; ">(a) It shall be unlawful for any government, corporation or natural person to engage in the unconventional extraction of hydrocarbons within Mendocino County."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">and under definitions: "</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; ">(e) “Hydrocarbons” shall mean any of numerous organic compounds, including but not limited to methane, benzene, propane, petroleum and oil."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; ">We could be more inclusive in our letters, but it's the measure itself which will become law.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; ">K</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font><div><div>On Aug 20, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Peggy Backup wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Both the press release and the argument for measure S mention fracking for natural gas but not oil. If it's not too late it's important to mention both. This is a common misunderstanding many people make because Gasland emphasizes gas. If it's too late to change these, let's include both in future. <br>I like the rest of these docs. <br>Peggy<br><br>Sent from my iPhone<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:32 PM, <a href="mailto:crn-request@lists.mcn.org">crn-request@lists.mcn.org</a> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Send crn mailing list submissions to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:crn@lists.mcn.org">crn@lists.mcn.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/crn">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/crn</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:crn-request@lists.mcn.org">crn-request@lists.mcn.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You can reach the person managing the list at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:crn-owner@lists.mcn.org">crn-owner@lists.mcn.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">than "Re: Contents of crn digest..."<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Today's Topics:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 1. Ed's draft press release #2 (edward Oberweiser)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 2. Argument For Measure S (karinajoy)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Message: 1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:22:31 -0700<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: edward Oberweiser <<a href="mailto:edoberweiser@gmail.com">edoberweiser@gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: [CRNMC] Ed's draft press release #2<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: Community Rights Network <<a href="mailto:crn@lists.mcn.org">crn@lists.mcn.org</a>>, "CRNMC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> media/communications" <<a href="mailto:crnmc-media@crnmc.org">crnmc-media@crnmc.org</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Message-ID:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <<a href="mailto:CAFBwOQTSm0Qv+TssgPPw-KhgRwEcaKF2GURVnoV51TisYDQmmA@mail.gmail.com">CAFBwOQTSm0Qv+TssgPPw-KhgRwEcaKF2GURVnoV51TisYDQmmA@mail.gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi folks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Here is my second draft of our Measure S press release. I believe I got all<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">your suggestions.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for your help with this!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ed<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2014<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CONTACT:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CRNMC Media Team<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:crnmc-media@crnmc.org">crnmc-media@crnmc.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Shannon Biggs, Global Exchange<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">415.575.5540 <a href="mailto:Shannon@globalexchange.org">Shannon@globalexchange.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mendocino County Verifies Signatures<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ordinance seeks to reassert our inalienable rights to protect water<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with a Fracking Ban on November Ballot<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The Community Rights Network of Mendocino County has placed an ordinance on<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the November ballot that asserts Mendocino County has the right to protect<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">its water from fracking.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The Community Rights Network gathered almost double the signatures needed<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to qualify for the ballot in just 35 days so voters can make the final<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">decision in November. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the measure<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for the ballot.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">.Measure S will establish a Community Bill of Rights for the people and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">natural environment of Mendocino County new civil, political, and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">environmental rights. All built on the right of local, community<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">self-government These include the right to live in a healthy and safe<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ecosystem and the right to protect local water from danger. In order to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">uphold and protect those rights, the initiative bans all fracking related<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">activities within the County including the transportation of fracking<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">fluids, and the use of local water for fracking.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Measure S states that Mendocino County citizens have the right to safeguard<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the county's water both on and beneath the Earth's surface by banning<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">fracking in Mendocino County. It says that Mendocino County citizens have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the duty to insure that local water is safeguard by decisions made by local<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">people.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Measure S elevates the rights of the people of Mendocino back where they<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">belong, above the claimed "rights" of corporations and state agencies<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that enable fracking corporations to profit from the destruction of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">local ecosystems and to harm residents and communities<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">California and Mendocino County are both in emergency drought status and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Measure S will protect our water from being used and polluted by the highly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">controversial natural gas extraction process known as fracking.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Fracking places a toxic mix of largely unknown chemicals into the earth<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that has leaked into the water supply of many communities's on the East<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Coast, Colorado and Texas.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If Measure S passes, Mendocino County will join 170 other communities in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the U.S. that have passed community rights ordinances against corporate<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">harm to their ecosystems.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">contacts:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-------------- next part --------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">URL: <a href="http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/crn/attachments/20140820/2af1d3b1/attachment-0001.html">http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/crn/attachments/20140820/2af1d3b1/attachment-0001.html</a> <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Message: 2<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:30:00 -0700<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: karinajoy <<a href="mailto:karinacotler@gmail.com">karinacotler@gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: [CRNMC] Argument For Measure S<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: Community Rights Network <<a href="mailto:crn@lists.mcn.org">crn@lists.mcn.org</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:E862A987-EDC4-484E-99C7-E10F5325332A@gmail.com">E862A987-EDC4-484E-99C7-E10F5325332A@gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We submitted this Argument For Measure S today, which will be published in the voter pamphlet sent to all registered voters. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'd like to thank those who helped me work on this. I appreciate the help and the suggested wording and ideas from Ben Price, Shannon, Tim Rice, Kelly, as well as the feedback from the proponents.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">No one submitted an Argument Against the measure, so we won't need to write a rebuttal. We're done with this part!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Attached below is a CELDF newsletter sent to me by Ben Price. It explains so much about the Community Rights Movement - it's purpose and strategies. It excited and motivated me once again and will answer many of the questions you may have or will be asked. Please read it. Great Q&A.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Onward with the campaign!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In service,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Karina<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Argument For Measure S<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Measure S establishes a Community Bill of Rights for the people of Mendocino County, built on the right to local community self governance, in order to exercise and secure our unalienable right to protect our health, safety and well being. These rights include the right to live in a healthy and safe ecosystem and the right to protect local water from harm caused by unconventional gas extraction. In order to uphold and protect those rights, this initiative bans all fracking related activities within the County, including the transportation of fracking fluids, and the use of local water for fracking. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Our nation was founded on the concept that government is instituted to secure our unalienable rights and derives it?s just powers from the consent of the governed. Activities such as fracking affect our health and safety, our quality of life, the health of our natural environment as well as our property values and must be decided by the Citizens who live here and who will be directly affected, or there is no ?consent of the governed.?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yet States routinely issue permits to chartered corporations that make it ?legal? for them to violate the rights of the people and refuse to recognize our right to say ?no!? to harmful activities.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Measure S challenges those illegitimate laws which violate our fundamental rights. 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