<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good additional points. I think our job will be to make all of this readable<div>and understandable to the regular "Joe and Jane" Citizen reading the paper.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd also like point out that we are a grass roots non affiliated helping organization standing up<div> to address issues that benefit our community. This would be good to include with development</div><div>of a headquarters, maybe... "The 99% Learning & Justice House" <br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:agnes@mcn.org">agnes@mcn.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">March 21, 2013 6:00:55 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Richard Karch" <<a href="mailto:rkarch@mcn.org">rkarch@mcn.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: RK's letter ideas for the newspaper</b><br></span></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite">Might find a few ideas for our letter here... rk<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What is happening This Year 2013 with Occupy Mendocino?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It has been an active year and a half. These are some of our activities.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">We have continued efforts of confronting major issues<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that affect our community. Foreclosures and the lack of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">response from the banking industry have had us continuing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a presence and rallying on Main Street every Friday.We sent out 154<br></blockquote>letters warning homeowners targeted for foreclosure with 5 solutions to<br>delay the foreclosure date. Only two homeowners responded. It was too<br>late for 31 home owners whose letters were returned.<br><br>Four Occupy Mendocino attended a meeting with the office of the District<br>Attorney and Jed Davis, a farmer fighting foreclosure in support of his<br>well documented fraud documents.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Last year we spoke before the Fort Bragg City Council about Public<br></blockquote>Banking. In January 2013 we presented the Mendocino County Supervisors<br>recommendations for a County Public Bank and eminent domain to alert<br>them of<br><blockquote type="cite">the need to help the extremely unfair conditions for people<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">who are foreclosed upon and the possible solution to the poor economic<br></blockquote>situation in the county.<br><br> Recently we have drafted petitions to be sent<br><blockquote type="cite">to the Mendocino County Assessor to encourage her to act on<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">fraudulent foreclosure documents that are coming into her office with<br></blockquote>robosigned/fraudulent signatures, found to be prevalent all over the<br>country. Over half of foreclosures over the U.S. are listed with MERS,<br>depriving our County of income. The Mortgage Electronic Registration<br>System is a private data base set up by big banks to avoid paying<br>transfer fees to the counties.<br>A second petition asks the Board of Supervisors to fund an Audit of<br>foreclosures similar to San Francisco County Assessor Phil Ting's action<br>which made him popularly elected to the CA Assembly.<br><br>Four of us attended with 6 Occupy Ukiah activists at the County<br>Treasurer's Annual Report on the investments of County Funds.A report to<br>the public will be forthcoming.<br><br>Three of us are joined with Transition Towns meeting on keeping<br>investments local. Others energies are working with the Ocean Coalition on<br>fracking.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Some of our future goals are to start an office with a number of civic<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">organizations, to share energy and provide better access to our<br></blockquote>activities to the public .<br>We meet the first and third Saturdays at the F.B. Library from 2-4 p.m.,<br>to discuss issues of concern, and support efforts to take an active part<br>in the democratic process of our wider community.We can also be seen on<br>Fridays with signs protesting bank fraud and calling for a break=up of the<br>big banks---B.of A, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Ally<br>Bank.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">We are an issue driven organization, not a political organization<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Our credo is : OCCUPY MENDOCINO and the global<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Occupy Movement want government by the people, and for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the people,not of the corporations by the lobbyists, and for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> the richest 1%.WE stand with those who have lost their homes, jobs,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">savings retirements, pensions, and health insurance.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">WE stand with those who struggle to put food on the table<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and who now work MORE for MUCH LESS. We stand with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the elderly,vulnerable and the needy everywhere.<br></blockquote><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>