From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov  1 11:43:22 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:43:22 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Liberty to Lie
Message-ID: <981B252E-B9C4-4116-BF31-BB0475DEF12F@att.net>

A significant number of voters who admit that they don't trust Mitt Romney say that they're going to vote for him anyway. What gives?



CAMPAIGN STOPS November 1, 2012, 12:25 AM362 Comments
Liberty to Lie
By CHARLES M. BLOW
This election may go down in history as the moment when truth and lies lost their honor and stigma, respectively.

Mitt Romney has demonstrated an uncanny, unflinching willingness to say anything and everything to win this election. And that person, the unprincipled prince of untruths, is running roughly even with or slightly ahead of the president in the national polls.

What does this say about our country? What does it say about the value of virtue?

The list of Romney?s out-and-out lies (and yes, there is no other more polite word for them) is too long to recount here. So let?s just take one of the most recent ones: the utterly false claim that General Motors and Chrysler shipped, or planned to ship, American auto jobs to China.

First, let?s take on the Chrysler claim.

On Saturday, The Des Moines Register endorsed Mitt Romney because it thought that he would be ?the stronger candidate? to forge ?compromises in Congress.? On Tuesday, the news side of that same publication fact-checked Romney?s Chrysler-China claim and found that it was a lie.

According to the Register:

Mitt Romney first told a crowd in Ohio on Thursday that Chrysler was shifting the production of Jeeps to China. Then he aired an ad claiming that President Obama ?sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China.? (The clear impression in the ad is that American jobs will be lost.) Neither is true.
The paper continued:

Jeep sales have nearly tripled since 2009, according to Chrysler, and the company has added 4,600 jobs to its Jeep plants since then. Another 1,100 jobs will be added at an Ohio plant next year. Sales of Jeep in China have grown in recent years and Chrysler plans to resume vehicle production there, but not at the expense of American jobs.

Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
GM?s facility in north Texas is undergoing an expansion project that is expected to create over a thousand new jobs by the end of November.
Now on to GM. The Romney ad claims that ?under President Obama, GM cut 15,000 American jobs, but they are planning to double the number of cars built in China, which means 15,000 more jobs for China.?

This drew a sharp rebuke from GM:

We?ve clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days. No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.
Factcheck.org went into more detail to disprove Romney?s claim:

The Romney radio ad also claims ? correctly ? that GM has cut 15,000 U.S. jobs under Obama. It?s true that 13,000 U.S. hourly employees and 5,000 salaried workers accepted a buyout offer in 2009 to either retire early or voluntarily leave the company, according to GM?s 2009 annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Web site continued:

But those numbers don?t tell the whole story. GM eliminated old brands and shuttered dealerships when it went through bankruptcy in 2009 ? resulting in fewer jobs. The alternative was to go out of business entirely.
And made one further point:

The radio ad goes on to falsely claim that the reduction in GM?s U.S. payroll ?means 15,000 more jobs for China.? That?s not true. As we wrote once before, GM is expanding operations in China to meet increased demand there for its vehicles. The increase in its China operations is unrelated to its U.S. operations.
Romney wouldn?t acknowledge the truth if it kissed him on the cheek. In fact, Romney seems to have decided that the only things standing between him and the White House are stubborn facts. He continues to roll right over them.

The question is: will this scurrilous tactic have negative consequences?

Unfortunately, there is some evidence that facts and the people who check them don?t carry the same weight that they once did.

First, the right?s disinformation machine is, explicitly and implicitly, making the argument that facts (science, math, evidence) are fungible and have been co-opted by liberal eggheads.  They have declared war on facts in response to what they claim is a liberal war on faith.

This is an utterly false and ridiculous argument, but it works on some people.

According to a Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News Swing State poll released Wednesday, President Obama has a 9 percentage point lead over Romney in Ohio among likely voters on the question of who is honest and trustworthy (most people thought that the president was honest while most would not say the same about Romney). But that same poll found that the president only had a 5-point lead in the horse race numbers in Ohio.

The president had a similarly large lead on the honesty question in Florida in Virginia, but in those states the poll found the race to be virtually tied ? the president had a small lead that was within the margin of error.

How is it that so many people are willing to support a man who they don?t believe is honest or trustworthy?

The poll also found that most voters didn?t believe that Romney cared about their problems. On the other hand, at least 60 percent of voters in each state said that they believed that the president cared about their problems.

Who votes for a man who doesn?t care about you over a man who does?

I recognize that Obama hatred is a real thing, but disliking the president so much that you would do harm to yourself by voting for someone who you admit you don?t trust seems to be taking things to extremes.

All the voters who are aware of Romney?s fact-mangling but vote for him anyway must ask themselves this question: are they granting him the liberty to lie?

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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Thu Nov  1 15:43:30 2012
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 15:43:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Street Fair II
Message-ID: <1351809810.46280.YahooMailNeo@web112310.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Hi all , 

??? Just got word from Elizabeth at MCTV that the new Street fair video will air? this Sunday at 7P.M. and again on Wednes. at 10 A.M.? For those without TV access, it will be available through mendocoasttv.org under video on demand option within a few days. Check the local newspapers for verification of the times as I am going on memory which so far has served me well.
?? There are photographs from the various Friday street demos in this one .
??? I hope to have on Saturday's GA agenda, a discussion about how to link the MCTV video to our website for greater accessibility.

?? By the way, the big Occupy Rally sign had been missing because I was distracted by someone who talked to me for a half hour about problems in Oakland with the elderly and poor populations being foreclosed on through liens for some questionable code violations. I forgot to get the sign back to safe keeping but learned today that it was picked up that evening by a supporter.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Onward & Upward,?
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Sheila Dawn
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov  1 16:01:51 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:01:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Sandy Forces Climate Change on US Election
Message-ID: <CADF1937-1F72-4843-8A5A-42836663ADDE@att.net>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/31/sandy-climate-change-us-election
Sandy Forces Climate Change on US Election

By Bill McKibben, Guardian UK


Wednesday 31 October 2012 09.47 EDT

 
Such is Big Energy's hold on DC, neither Obama nor Romney talk about climate change. But Americans are joining the dots

Here's a sentence I wish I hadn't written - it rolled out of my Macbook in May, part of an article for Rolling Stone that quickly went viral:

"Say something so big finally happens (a giant hurricane swamps Manhattan, a megadrought wipes out Midwest agriculture) that even the political power of the industry is inadequate to restrain legislators, who manage to regulate carbon."
I wish I hadn't written it because the first half gives me entirely undeserved credit for prescience: I had no idea both would, in fact, happen in the next six months. And I wish I hadn't written it because now that my bluff's been called, I'm doubting that even Sandy, the largest storm ever, will be enough to make our political class serious about climate change.

Maybe I'm wrong, though. Maybe - just maybe - the arrival of a giant wall of water in the exact middle of the financial and media capital of our home planet will be enough to get this conversation unstuck. Maybe that obscene slick of ocean spreading unnaturally into the tubes and tunnels of the greatest city on earth will shock enough people to change the debate. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, at a press conference Tuesday afternoon, allowed as how:

"There has been a series of extreme weather incidents. That is not a political statement, that is a factual statement ... Anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns, I think, is denying reality."
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg added:

"What is clear is that the storms we've experienced in the last year or so around this country and around the world are much more severe than before."
Truthfully, I think I'd just as soon see statements like that as carefully thought-out endorsements of climate science. It's experience that changes people: the summer's drought left more than half of American counties as federal disaster areas, and meteorologist Jeff Masters estimates Sandy hit 100 million Americans with "extreme weather". Add in the largest forest fires in Colorado and New Mexico, the hottest month in US history, and the completely absurd summer-in-March heatwave that kicked off our year of living sweatily, and you can begin to understand why the percentage of Americans worrying about global warming has spiked sharply this year. Spiked high enough that even a few politicians are willing to speak out.

Not many. The presidential candidates avoided the topic at all their big public forums - except for Romney's Republican national convention joke about how silly it was to try and slow the rise of the oceans (which probably didn't win him many votes on the Jersey Shore this week). Obama did talk climate with MTV last week, but that venue almost defines the issue's fringe status; his other real discussion of it was with Rolling Stone - global warming is, apparently, only for people with earbuds.

They barnstormed through the hottest summer on record, and they didn't seem to notice. One appreciates cool in a president, but there's a limit.

If Sandy, however, begins to give a little opening for discussion, we're unfortunately at the point where we have to force the discussion. After 20 years of inaction, we're so far behind the curve that we've got to raise the bar higher than mere acknowledgement that we've got a problem. We've got to get some action from these guys.

And that, I think, requires a truly crucial set of changes. We need to neutralize the force that's kept them quiet. It's not that our politicians didn't know about climate change: I've watched, for two decades, as the world's best scientists make the annual trek to Capitol Hill to lay out the latest data. It's that, as scary as those charts and graphs were, the fossil fuel industry was scarier still.

As the richest industry on earth, and the biggest political player, the boys from coal and oil and gas have bought one party and terrified the other. Last week - in the very final days of the US election - Chevron smacked down the single largest corporate donation in the Citizens United era, $2.5m to a GOP Super Pac. There's not a congressman who didn't notice, and who didn't think: what if they came after me with ten days to go?

If we're going to change the political equation, we're going to do it by going after the fossil fuel industry. They deserve it. As that Rolling Stone article of mine laid out, they're planning to burn literally five times more carbon than the most conservative government on earth thinks is safe. They've turned into a rogue force.

Which is why 350.org sent out an email blast today, raising money for the Red Cross and raising signatures for a petition to oil execs asking that they stop their campaign donations and spend the money repairing New York instead. And it's why we launch a road show next week. We'll go to 20 cities in 20 nights, trying to spark a movement for divestment from fossil fuel stocks, and a new willingness to stand up to the industry. It starts next Wednesday in Seattle, and we'll do it no matter who wins the White House next Tuesday night.

Because as important as elections are, they're not the biggest battle.


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From jupiter at mcn.org  Thu Nov  1 16:39:48 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:39:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Street Fair II
In-Reply-To: <1351809810.46280.YahooMailNeo@web112310.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
References: <1351809810.46280.YahooMailNeo@web112310.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <A8680FE9-831B-43C7-9123-05B8ECF58978@mcn.org>

Great work, Sheila, thank you.
Linda



On Nov 1, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Sheila Dawn wrote:

> Hi all ,
>     Just got word from Elizabeth at MCTV that the new Street fair  
> video will air  this Sunday at 7P.M. and again on Wednes. at 10  
> A.M.  For those without TV access, it will be available through  
> mendocoasttv.org under video on demand option within a few days.  
> Check the local newspapers for verification of the times as I am  
> going on memory which so far has served me well.
>    There are photographs from the various Friday street demos in  
> this one .
>     I hope to have on Saturday's GA agenda, a discussion about how  
> to link the MCTV video to our website for greater accessibility.
>    By the way, the big Occupy Rally sign had been missing because I  
> was distracted by someone who talked to me for a half hour about  
> problems in Oakland with the elderly and poor populations being  
> foreclosed on through liens for some questionable code violations. I  
> forgot to get the sign back to safe keeping but learned today that  
> it was picked up that evening by a supporter.
>                                                               Onward  
> & Upward,
>                                                                      
> Sheila Dawn
>

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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Thu Nov  1 17:49:49 2012
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 17:49:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Time of video on CTV
Message-ID: <1351817389.71592.YahooMailNeo@web112308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Hi,? 

?? I checked the info at MCTV & Wednes" show is at 7 P.M. also, not at 10 A.M. as I previously stated.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Peace, 

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Sheila Dawn
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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Nov  1 18:00:02 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:00:02 -0500
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fwd: Register gets standing in PA MERS
	lawsuit
In-Reply-To: <8090BE25-EBE1-4D2C-BE46-614C184002C6@gmail.com>
References: <8090BE25-EBE1-4D2C-BE46-614C184002C6@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <50931B12.1070707@mcn.org>

For a better understanding of the MERS fraud read this.
Agnes


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Fwd: Register gets standing in PA MERS lawsuit
Date: 	Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:55:24 -0700
From: 	Susan Harman <susanharman1 at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	california-occupy-homes at googlegroups.com, 
foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com





Begin forwarded message:

> Montco recorder of deeds can pursue litigation
>
> The federal court has upheld the Montgomery County Recorder of Deeds? 
> right to sue an electronic mortgage registry company and banks doing 
> business with that company for $15.7 million that she claims is owed 
> to the county in recording fees.
>
> The court Friday issued a 36-page memorandum and order denying a 
> motion by MERS, also known as Mortgage Electronic Registry System, and 
> its participating banks to dismiss the lawsuit filed last year by 
> Recorder of Deeds Nancy J. Becker.
>
> The court?s ruling, while not discussing the merits of the case, 
> essentially states that Pennsylvania does have a law requiring that 
> mortgage assignments be recorded with the recorder of deeds office and 
> that the recorder of deeds has the right to bring legal action when he 
> or she does not believe an entity is complying with the law.
>
> ?This is one major hurdle that we have now leaped,? Becker said 
> Monday. ?Now, we can move forward on the issues.?
>
> MERS is a for-profit company that has set up a centralized database 
> system of more than 60 million mortgage loans and 3,000-plus lending 
> institution members across the country.
>
> Created by the real estate finance industry in 1995, the company 
> eliminates the need to prepare and record assignments when trading 
> residential and commercial mortgage loans, according to the company?s 
> website.
>
> Prior to the creation of MERS, a lending bank would file an 
> ?assignment? with the county land records office when it sold that 
> mortgage loan to another lending institution. Now, when MERS? members 
> file a mortgage with a county land recording office, it lists MERS as 
> its nominee. When the loan is transferred or sold to another MERS 
> member, it is done electronically through MERS and no additional 
> paperwork or fees are required.
>
> Becker has said that, when these mortgage loans are transferred 
> electronically, sometimes multiple times, through MERS and not filed 
> in the county recorder of deeds office, ?it makes it difficult, almost 
> impossible sometimes? for property owners to determine what 
> institutions are holding their mortgages.
>
> Becker also has estimated that Montgomery County alone has lost about 
> $15.7 million in assignment fees because of the MERS assignments.
>
> Some 146,715 MERS mortgages have been recorded in her office from 
> April 2004 through September 2011, according to Becker.
>
> MERS? representatives repeatedly have denied Becker?s claims that its 
> system undermines accurate land recording while also costing the 
> county millions in assignment fees.
>
> The company said MERS is in compliance with the purpose and intent of 
> state recording laws.
>
>




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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov  2 14:33:58 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:33:58 -0500
Subject: [Occupymendocino] about MA Recorder of deeds and his de facto
	moratorium on Foreclosures.
In-Reply-To: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D05EB3C9DB4@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
References: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D05EB3C9DB4@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
Message-ID: <50943C46.3000703@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: Digest for foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com - 1 
Message in 1 Topic
Date: 	Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:15:33 -0500
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>



Forged docs:  I've been casual in my efforts, just printing various docs 
that I've ordered for owners over the past few months that are obviously 
forged.  No real plan to collect thousands.  And not sure we need to.  I 
am trying very hard to use others' work already done to effect the 
political solutions without a lot of our extra labor if possible. 
O'Brien already has his picture of 38,000 forged documents. Do we really 
need more??  What I've already gotten I've been able to use to show 
forgery and the entities that did it. only if there's a compelling 
reason should we use more of our limited resources to duplicate 
O'Brien's efforts.  at least that's my thought for now.  cj

*From:*foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
[mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of 
*marina read
*Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:21 AM
*To:* foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: Digest for foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com - 
1 Message in 1 Topic

Hi CJ, Marina here in Santa Barbara.....

RE: forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
As I reviewed China's notorary seal. it "expires in 8 years"...I thought 
notary commissions were 4 years! A quick call to North Carolina's SOS 
will clarify this.

2) You say you are compiling forged docs. Is this by area? County?, 
State? ...to whom are these going to be presented of are you just 
initiating a data base? ...if so how will these be catagorized?
Just thinking it through before you end up with a cumbersome monster

Marina Read (805) 698-1498

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:27 PM, 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>> wrote:

*Today's Topic Summary*

Group: http://groups.google.com/group/foreclosurepreventionzones/topics

?Free Conference Call: DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM 
<#13aaa217a17be2ba_group_thread_0> [1 Update]

Free Conference Call: DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM 
<http://groups.google.com/group/foreclosurepreventionzones/t/4a9c3a8366f6b488>

CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com <mailto:cjholmes at cjholmes.com>> Oct 28 
01:24PM -0500

Two things:

1. This email has the http links in case you couldn't get the links to 
work in the last email.

2. Becker's lawsuit is now a Business Week link instead of the nazi 
website link. I apologize for that. That link was sent to me and I was 
so focused on the article I just didn't take any notice of the website. 
It is interesting to note that even that website is concerned about 
stopping foreclosures. This is a national and universal concern that 
involves all of the people and all of us must do everything possible to 
stop this crisis.

Please register to at least listen in to the call. O'Brien and his 
people will present for approx 25 minutes, then open up for questions. 
Thanks, cj


Monday, 10/29: 10a-11a Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/QLP95RSKNQ2EDWSP

Meet a Recorder that has instituted a DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM for 
his county. Click link to register. Everyone is invited. Please forward 
and invite everyone to join the call.

All information and registration is available on the HOFJ Conference 
Call webpage: http://hofj.org/default.asp.pg-ConferenceCalls

John O'Brien and his key associate Kevin Harvey are on a mission to stop 
the recording of forged documents. They will present how they have 
enacted a "DE FACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM" by refusing to accept and 
record documents which raise doubt as to their authenticity and the 
lawful process of foreclosure. Every property owner in the country needs 
this protection.

RECORDERS FIGHTING FORGED DOCUMENTS
O'Brien on forged documents [3m video]: 
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458
"These banks acted as a criminal enterprise. They crossed state lines, 
they recorded fraudulent documents, they committed forgery, and they 
committed mail fraud. They used the Unites States Postal Service to mail 
these documents to registries of deeds." John O'Brien

O'Brien letter and affidavit rejecting the recording of forged 
documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/obrien%20letter%20and%20affidavit.pdf

Becker, PA Registrar's Quiet Title Action against MERS: 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/county-recorders-vs-the-mers-machine-11032011.html

Thigpen, NC Registrar's Lawsuit against robosigned docs: 
http://4closurefraud.org/2012/10/15/jeff-thigpen-guilford-county-lawsuit-against-lender-processing-services-lps-on-robosigning-goes-to-nc-business-court-tomorrow/

Next Call is scheduled for 11/15/12, from 10a-11a, Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/9OI4J9O9A4HGMOAN
Please register anytime. We hope to have Becker, Thigpen, and O'Brien 
join us for updates and expanded support.

In addition, we are compiling forged documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20loryn%20stone%20sig.pdf
and forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
to present to our DAs, Judges, Supervisors and City Council officials. 
The key issue surrounding these forgeries is that the "ownership of the 
notes/loans" is completely suspect. That's the point of quiet title 
action, and a key point in the eminent domain of the notes.

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Thank you for supporting the cause. cj

CJ Holmes, Founder
Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197

www.HOFJ.org <http://www.HOFJ.org>
(707) 578-5727 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5727>
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov  2 15:47:00 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 15:47:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why not just buy the whole state?
Message-ID: <391DD687-E839-4333-85AA-56BD0B6B5121@att.net>

Subject: Voting machines tied to the Romneys could decide the election in Ohio

Dear Friend,

If this year's presidential election comes down to the electoral votes in Ohio, the deciding votes could be cast on electronic voting machines manufactured by a company - Hart Intercivic - with deep financial ties to the Romney family.

Hart Intercivic is majority owned by H.I.G. Capital which controls two of the five seats on the Hart Intercivic board. An investment fund with deep ties to the Romney family and the Mitt Romney for president campaign, H.I.G. Capital was founded by Tony Tamer, a major bundler for the Romney campaign, and it is one of the largest partners of Solamere Capital, an investment fund founded by Tagg Romney and Spencer Zwick, Mitt Romney's chief fundraiser from the 2008 presidential campaign. This makes the Romney family part owner of the voting machine company, through it's interest in H.I.G. Capital.

A 2007 study conducted by Ohio's Secretary of State showed that Hart Intercivic's touch screen voting machines could be easily corrupted.

I just signed a petition telling the Department of Justice to not let Republicans steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting machines. Click on the link below to find out more and sign the petition.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/hart_romney/?r_by=-1955770-5kiXowx&rc=paste1 
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From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:55:16 -0500
Subject: [Occupymendocino] (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <509457EC.4070806@mcn.org>
References: <509457EC.4070806@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <50945D64.5090205@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Fwd: Fwd: Fw: Petition to Eric Holder
Date: 	Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:31:56 -0500
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	Steve Scalmanini <sscalmanini at yahoo.com>, "threelite at aol.com" 
<threelite at aol.com>, ukiahnow at gmail.com, James Stoepler 
<jamesstoepler at yahoo.com>, roberts808 at gmail.com, "Jed Davis"@gmail.com





go to www.act.credoaction.com/campaign/romney hart/?r

Subject: Voting machines tied to the Romneys could decide the election 
in Ohio

Dear Friend,

If this year's presidential election comes down to the electoral votes 
in Ohio, the deciding votes could be cast on electronic voting machines 
manufactured by a company - Hart Intercivic - with deep financial ties 
to the Romney family.

Hart Intercivic is majority owned by H.I.G. Capital which controls two 
of the five seats on the Hart Intercivic board. An investment fund with 
deep ties to the Romney family and the Mitt Romney for president 
campaign, H.I.G. Capital was founded by Tony Tamer, a major bundler for 
the Romney campaign, and it is one of the largest partners of Solamere 
Capital, an investment fund founded by Tagg Romney and Spencer Zwick, 
Mitt Romney's chief fundraiser from the 2008 presidential campaign. This 
makes the Romney family part owner of the voting machine company, 
through it's interest in H.I.G. Capital.

A 2007 study conducted by Ohio's Secretary of State showed that Hart 
Intercivic's touch screen voting machines could be easily corrupted.

I just signed a petition telling the Department of Justice to not let 
Republicans steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting 
machines. Click on the link below (or copy and paste the URL) to find 
out more and sign the petition.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/romney_hart/?r_by=-1675387-x4B8Vtx&rc=confemail

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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov  2 21:56:51 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:56:51 -0500
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agenda item : setting time, date ,place for FTH
Message-ID: <5094A413.3080107@mcn.org>

Claire, please print this email for me and bring it Saturday..  I have 
no printer yet.
Agnes

Foreclosure Committee Report: Sheila, Mark,  and Agnes
              who are the Core group of committed attendees to be 
notified of
                the Fort Bragg Town Hall____a         date requested
              possible venue to accomodate a large audience
              Maestro Conference- how it works.
Publicity Report
               Tommy's Ukiah report
             contact Mike Sakowicz,KZYX
              UDJ article seen by CJH
              other articles in AVA


From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov  2 22:18:13 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:18:13 -0500
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: about MA Recorder of deeds and his de facto
	moratorium on Foreclosures.
In-Reply-To: <50943C46.3000703@mcn.org>
References: <50943C46.3000703@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <5094A915.7040107@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	about MA Recorder of deeds and his de facto moratorium on 
Foreclosures.
Date: 	Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:33:58 -0500
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>






-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: Digest for foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com - 1 
Message in 1 Topic
Date: 	Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:15:33 -0500
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>



Forged docs:  I've been casual in my efforts, just printing various docs 
that I've ordered for owners over the past few months that are obviously 
forged.  No real plan to collect thousands.  And not sure we need to.  I 
am trying very hard to use others' work already done to effect the 
political solutions without a lot of our extra labor if possible.  
O'Brien already has his picture of 38,000 forged documents.  Do we 
really need more??  What I've already gotten I've been able to use to 
show forgery and the entities that did it.  only if there's a compelling 
reason should we use more of our limited resources to duplicate 
O'Brien's efforts.  at least that's my thought for now.  cj

*From:*foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
[mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of 
*marina read
*Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:21 AM
*To:* foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: Digest for foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com - 
1 Message in 1 Topic

Hi CJ, Marina here in Santa Barbara.....

RE: forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
As I reviewed China's notorary seal. it "expires in 8 years"...I thought 
notary commissions were 4 years! A quick call to North Carolina's SOS 
will clarify this.

2) You say you are compiling forged docs. Is this by area? County?, 
State? ...to whom are these going to be presented of are you just 
initiating a data base? ...if so how will these be catagorized?
Just thinking it through before you end up with a cumbersome monster

Marina Read (805) 698-1498

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:27 PM, 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>> wrote:

*Today's Topic Summary*

Group: http://groups.google.com/group/foreclosurepreventionzones/topics

?Free Conference Call: DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM 
<#13aaa217a17be2ba_group_thread_0> [1 Update]

Free Conference Call: DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM 
<http://groups.google.com/group/foreclosurepreventionzones/t/4a9c3a8366f6b488>

CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com <mailto:cjholmes at cjholmes.com>> Oct 28 
01:24PM -0500

Two things:

1. This email has the http links in case you couldn't get the links to 
work in the last email.

2. Becker's lawsuit is now a Business Week link instead of the nazi 
website link. I apologize for that. That link was sent to me and I was 
so focused on the article I just didn't take any notice of the website. 
It is interesting to note that even that website is concerned about 
stopping foreclosures. This is a national and universal concern that 
involves all of the people and all of us must do everything possible to 
stop this crisis.

Please register to at least listen in to the call. O'Brien and his 
people will present for approx 25 minutes, then open up for questions. 
Thanks, cj


Monday, 10/29: 10a-11a Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/QLP95RSKNQ2EDWSP

Meet a Recorder that has instituted a DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM for 
his county. Click link to register. Everyone is invited. Please forward 
and invite everyone to join the call.

All information and registration is available on the HOFJ Conference 
Call webpage: http://hofj.org/default.asp.pg-ConferenceCalls

John O'Brien and his key associate Kevin Harvey are on a mission to stop 
the recording of forged documents. They will present how they have 
enacted a "DE FACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM" by refusing to accept and 
record documents which raise doubt as to their authenticity and the 
lawful process of foreclosure. Every property owner in the country needs 
this protection.

RECORDERS FIGHTING FORGED DOCUMENTS
O'Brien on forged documents [3m video]: 
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458
"These banks acted as a criminal enterprise. They crossed state lines, 
they recorded fraudulent documents, they committed forgery, and they 
committed mail fraud. They used the Unites States Postal Service to mail 
these documents to registries of deeds." John O'Brien

O'Brien letter and affidavit rejecting the recording of forged 
documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/obrien%20letter%20and%20affidavit.pdf

Becker, PA Registrar's Quiet Title Action against MERS: 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/county-recorders-vs-the-mers-machine-11032011.html

Thigpen, NC Registrar's Lawsuit against robosigned docs: 
http://4closurefraud.org/2012/10/15/jeff-thigpen-guilford-county-lawsuit-against-lender-processing-services-lps-on-robosigning-goes-to-nc-business-court-tomorrow/

Next Call is scheduled for 11/15/12, from 10a-11a, Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/9OI4J9O9A4HGMOAN
Please register anytime. We hope to have Becker, Thigpen, and O'Brien 
join us for updates and expanded support.

In addition, we are compiling forged documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20loryn%20stone%20sig.pdf
and forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
to present to our DAs, Judges, Supervisors and City Council officials. 
The key issue surrounding these forgeries is that the "ownership of the 
notes/loans" is completely suspect. That's the point of quiet title 
action, and a key point in the eminent domain of the notes.

[cid:image002.jpg at 01CDB414.92202C20]

Thank you for supporting the cause. cj

CJ Holmes, Founder
Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197

www.HOFJ.org <http://www.HOFJ.org>
(707) 578-5727 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5727>
(707) 578-5873 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5873> f
818 Mendocino Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov  2 22:18:42 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:18:42 -0500
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: about MA Recorder of deeds and his de facto
	moratorium on Foreclosures.
In-Reply-To: <50943C46.3000703@mcn.org>
References: <50943C46.3000703@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <5094A932.50105@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	about MA Recorder of deeds and his de facto moratorium on 
Foreclosures.
Date: 	Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:33:58 -0500
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>






-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: Digest for foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com - 1 
Message in 1 Topic
Date: 	Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:15:33 -0500
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>



Forged docs:  I've been casual in my efforts, just printing various docs 
that I've ordered for owners over the past few months that are obviously 
forged.  No real plan to collect thousands.  And not sure we need to.  I 
am trying very hard to use others' work already done to effect the 
political solutions without a lot of our extra labor if possible.  
O'Brien already has his picture of 38,000 forged documents.  Do we 
really need more??  What I've already gotten I've been able to use to 
show forgery and the entities that did it.  only if there's a compelling 
reason should we use more of our limited resources to duplicate 
O'Brien's efforts.  at least that's my thought for now.  cj

*From:*foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
[mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of 
*marina read
*Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:21 AM
*To:* foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: Digest for foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com - 
1 Message in 1 Topic

Hi CJ, Marina here in Santa Barbara.....

RE: forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
As I reviewed China's notorary seal. it "expires in 8 years"...I thought 
notary commissions were 4 years! A quick call to North Carolina's SOS 
will clarify this.

2) You say you are compiling forged docs. Is this by area? County?, 
State? ...to whom are these going to be presented of are you just 
initiating a data base? ...if so how will these be catagorized?
Just thinking it through before you end up with a cumbersome monster

Marina Read (805) 698-1498

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:27 PM, 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>> wrote:

*Today's Topic Summary*

Group: http://groups.google.com/group/foreclosurepreventionzones/topics

?Free Conference Call: DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM 
<#13aaa217a17be2ba_group_thread_0> [1 Update]

Free Conference Call: DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM 
<http://groups.google.com/group/foreclosurepreventionzones/t/4a9c3a8366f6b488>

CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com <mailto:cjholmes at cjholmes.com>> Oct 28 
01:24PM -0500

Two things:

1. This email has the http links in case you couldn't get the links to 
work in the last email.

2. Becker's lawsuit is now a Business Week link instead of the nazi 
website link. I apologize for that. That link was sent to me and I was 
so focused on the article I just didn't take any notice of the website. 
It is interesting to note that even that website is concerned about 
stopping foreclosures. This is a national and universal concern that 
involves all of the people and all of us must do everything possible to 
stop this crisis.

Please register to at least listen in to the call. O'Brien and his 
people will present for approx 25 minutes, then open up for questions. 
Thanks, cj


Monday, 10/29: 10a-11a Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/QLP95RSKNQ2EDWSP

Meet a Recorder that has instituted a DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM for 
his county. Click link to register. Everyone is invited. Please forward 
and invite everyone to join the call.

All information and registration is available on the HOFJ Conference 
Call webpage: http://hofj.org/default.asp.pg-ConferenceCalls

John O'Brien and his key associate Kevin Harvey are on a mission to stop 
the recording of forged documents. They will present how they have 
enacted a "DE FACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM" by refusing to accept and 
record documents which raise doubt as to their authenticity and the 
lawful process of foreclosure. Every property owner in the country needs 
this protection.

RECORDERS FIGHTING FORGED DOCUMENTS
O'Brien on forged documents [3m video]: 
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458
"These banks acted as a criminal enterprise. They crossed state lines, 
they recorded fraudulent documents, they committed forgery, and they 
committed mail fraud. They used the Unites States Postal Service to mail 
these documents to registries of deeds." John O'Brien

O'Brien letter and affidavit rejecting the recording of forged 
documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/obrien%20letter%20and%20affidavit.pdf

Becker, PA Registrar's Quiet Title Action against MERS: 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/county-recorders-vs-the-mers-machine-11032011.html

Thigpen, NC Registrar's Lawsuit against robosigned docs: 
http://4closurefraud.org/2012/10/15/jeff-thigpen-guilford-county-lawsuit-against-lender-processing-services-lps-on-robosigning-goes-to-nc-business-court-tomorrow/

Next Call is scheduled for 11/15/12, from 10a-11a, Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/9OI4J9O9A4HGMOAN
Please register anytime. We hope to have Becker, Thigpen, and O'Brien 
join us for updates and expanded support.

In addition, we are compiling forged documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20loryn%20stone%20sig.pdf
and forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
to present to our DAs, Judges, Supervisors and City Council officials. 
The key issue surrounding these forgeries is that the "ownership of the 
notes/loans" is completely suspect. That's the point of quiet title 
action, and a key point in the eminent domain of the notes.

[cid:image002.jpg at 01CDB414.92202C20]

Thank you for supporting the cause. cj

CJ Holmes, Founder
Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197

www.HOFJ.org <http://www.HOFJ.org>
(707) 578-5727 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5727>
(707) 578-5873 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5873> f
818 Mendocino Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

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From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:50:39 -0500
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: FOCUS: Greg Palast | UAW Files Charges
 Against Romney for Auto Bail-Out Profiteering
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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov  2 23:21:25 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 01:21:25 -0500
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Registration confirmation for COUNTY
 RECORDERS' CASE AGAINST DOCUMENT FRAUD
In-Reply-To: <20121102211025.F1B1417D800C@app01.sac.maestroconference.com>
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Please consider joining the Maestro telephone conference: Good challenge 
to grey matter if you are home

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Subject: 	Registration confirmation for COUNTY RECORDERS' CASE AGAINST 
DOCUMENT FRAUD
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Nov  3 00:26:28 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 00:26:28 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Andy Borowitz: The winner of the 2012 election.
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/11/andy-borowitz-calls-the-winner-of-the-2012-election.html?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(43)

From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov  3 08:07:42 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 08:07:42 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Russ at rally
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From adross at mcn.org  Sat Nov  3 19:47:02 2012
From: adross at mcn.org (Ad Ross)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 19:47:02 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] (no subject)
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DAN ELLSBERG on the 2012 Presidential Elections

?t is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration  
under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013.
The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose  
values are generally in line with mine -- progressives, especially  
activists -- to make this goal one of your priorities during this  
period.

An activist colleague recently said to me: "I hear you're supporting  
Obama."

I was startled, and took offense. "Supporting Obama? Me?!"

"I lose no opportunity publicly," I told him angrily, to identify  
Obama as a tool of Wall Street, a man who's decriminalized torture  
and is still complicit in it, a drone assassin, someone who's  
launched an unconstitutional war, supports kidnapping and indefinite  
detention without trial, and has prosecuted more whistleblowers like  
myself than all previous presidents put together. "Would you call  
that support?"

My friend said, "But on Democracy Now you urged people in swing  
states to vote for him! How could you say that? I don't live in a  
swing state, but I will not and could not vote for Obama under any  
circumstances."

My answer was: a Romney/Ryan administration would be no better -- no  
different -- on any of the serious offenses I just mentioned or  
anything else, and it would be much worse, even catastrophically  
worse, on a number of other important issues: attacking Iran, Supreme  
Court appointments, the economy, women's reproductive rights, health  
coverage, safety net, climate change, green energy, the environment.

I told him: "I don't 'support Obama.' I oppose the current Republican  
Party. This is not a contest between Barack Obama and a progressive  
candidate. The voters in a handful or a dozen close-fought swing  
states are going to determine whether Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are  
going to wield great political power for four, maybe eight years, or  
not."

As Noam Chomsky said recently, "The Republican organization today is  
extremely dangerous, not just to this country, but to the world. It's  
worth expending some effort to prevent their rise to power, without  
sowing illusions about the Democratic alternatives."

Following that logic, he's said to an interviewer what my friend  
heard me say to Amy Goodman: "If I were a person in a swing state,  
I'd vote against Romney/Ryan, which means voting for Obama because  
there is no other choice."

The election is at this moment a toss-up. That means this is one of  
the uncommon occasions when we progressives -- a small minority of  
the electorate -- could actually have a significant influence on the  
outcome of a national election, swinging it one way or the other.

The only way for progressives and Democrats to block Romney from  
office, at this date, is to persuade enough people in swing states to  
vote for Obama: not stay home, or vote for someone else. And that has  
to include, in those states, progressives and disillusioned liberals  
who are at this moment inclined not to vote at all or to vote for a  
third-party candidate (because like me they've been not just  
disappointed but disgusted and enraged by much of what Obama has done  
in the last four years and will probably keep doing).

They have to be persuaded to vote, and to vote in a battleground  
state for Obama not anyone else, despite the terrible flaws of the  
less-bad candidate, the incumbent. That's not easy. As I see it,  
that's precisely the "effort" Noam is referring to as worth expending  
right now to prevent the Republicans' rise to power. And it will take  
progressives -- some of you reading this, I hope -- to make that  
effort of persuasion effectively.

It will take someone these disheartened progressives and liberals  
will listen to. Someone manifestly without illusions about the  
Democrats, someone who sees what they see when they look at the  
president these days: but who can also see through candidates Romney  
or Ryan on the split-screen, and keep their real, disastrous policies  
in focus.

It's true that the differences between the major parties are not  
nearly as large as they and their candidates claim, let alone what we  
would want. It's even fair to use Gore Vidal's metaphor that they  
form two wings ("two right wings," as some have put it) of a single  
party, the Property or Plutocracy Party, or as Justin Raimondo says,  
the War Party.

Still, the political reality is that there are two distinguishable  
wings, and one is reliably even worse than the other, currently much  
worse overall. To be in denial or to act in neglect of that reality  
serves only the possibly imminent, yet presently avoidable, victory  
of the worse.

The traditional third-party mantra, "There's no significant  
difference between the major parties" amounts to saying: "The  
Republicans are no worse, overall." And that's absurd. It constitutes  
shameless apologetics for the Republicans, however unintended. It's  
crazily divorced from present reality.

And it's not at all harmless to be propagating that absurd falsehood.  
It has the effect of encouraging progressives even in battleground  
states to refrain from voting or to vote in a close election for  
someone other than Obama, and more importantly, to influence others  
to act likewise.That's an effect that serves no one but the  
Republicans, and ultimately the 1 percent.

It's not merely understandable, it's entirely appropriate to be  
enraged at Barack Obama. As I am. He has often acted outrageously,  
not merely timidly or "disappointingly." If impeachment were  
politically imaginable on constitutional grounds, he's earned it  
(like George W. Bush, and many of his predecessors!) It is entirely  
human to want to punish him, not to "reward" him with another term or  
a vote that might be taken to express trust, hope or approval.

But rage is not generally conducive to clear thinking. And it often  
gets worked out against innocent victims, as would be the case here  
domestically, if refusals to vote for him resulted in Romney's taking  
key battleground states that decide the outcome of this election.

To punish Obama in this particular way, on Election Day -- by  
depriving him of votes in swing states and hence of office in favor  
of Romney and Ryan -- would punish most of all the poor and marginal  
in society, and workers and middle class as well: not only in the  
U.S. but worldwide in terms of the economy (I believe the Republicans  
could still convert this recession to a Great Depression), the  
environment and climate change. It could well lead to war with Iran  
(which Obama has been creditably resisting, against pressure from  
within his own party). And it would spell, via Supreme Court  
appointments, the end of Roe v. Wade and of the occasional five to  
four decisions in favor of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The reelection of Barack Obama, in itself, is not going to bring  
serious progressive change, end militarism and empire, or restore the  
Constitution and the rule of law. That's for us and the rest of the  
people to bring about after this election and in the rest of our  
lives -- through organizing, building movements and agitating.

In the eight to twelve close-fought states -- especially Florida,  
Ohio, and Virginia, but also Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New  
Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin --  
for any progressive to encourage fellow progressives and others in  
those states to vote for a third-party candidate is, I would say, to  
be complicit in facilitating the election of Romney and Ryan, with  
all its consequences.

To think of that as urging people in swing states to "vote their  
conscience" is, I believe, dangerously misleading advice. I would say  
to a progressive that if your conscience tells you on Election Day to  
vote for someone other than Obama in a battleground state, you need a  
second opinion. Your conscience is giving you bad counsel.

I often quote a line by Thoreau that had great impact for me: "Cast  
your whole vote: not a strip of paper merely, but your whole  
influence." He was referring, in that essay, to civil disobedience,  
or as he titled it himself, "Resistance to Civil Authority."

It still means that to me. But this is a year when for people who  
think like me -- and who, unlike me, live in battleground states --  
casting a strip of paper is also important. Using your whole  
influence this month to get others to do that, to best effect, is  
even more important.

That means for progressives in the next couple of weeks -- in  
addition to the rallies, demonstrations, petitions, lobbying (largely  
against policies or prospective policies of President Obama,  
including austerity budgeting next month), movement-building and  
civil disobedience that are needed all year round and every year --  
using one's voice and one's e-mails and op-eds and social media to  
encourage citizens in swing states to vote against a Romney victory  
by voting for the only real alternative, Barack Obama.

Daniel Ellsberg is a former State and Defense Department official who  
has been arrested for acts of non-violent civil disobedience over  
eighty times, initially for copying and releasing the top secret  
Pentagon Papers, for which he faced 115 years in prison. Living in a  
non-swing state, he does not intend to vote for President Obama.




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov  3 22:32:03 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (rkarch at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 05:32:03 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] rkarch@mcn.org has shared: Red State Blue State
Message-ID: <130c9e96e09e017e6b6bcde6f55e612d@xpertmailer.com>

rkarch at mcn.org wanted to share this with you:

This American Life
"Red versus Blue" 


Red State Blue State
http://tal.fm/478
Nov 2, 2012 Everyone knows that politics is now so divided in our country that not only do the two sides disagree on the solutions to the country's problems, they don't even agree on what the real problems are. It's two different realities, two versions of the world in collision. This week we hear from people who've seen this infect their personal lives. They've lost friends. They've become estranged from family members. Our political civil war and its personal consequences: a special pre-electi...
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov  3 23:08:09 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 23:08:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Recent bank rally picture
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On Facebook at   https://www.facebook.com/occupymendocino?ref=ts&fref=ts



From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov  4 00:21:24 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 00:21:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Red vs Blue
Message-ID: <7C335E78-6F83-4D97-A102-B9E518046620@mcn.org>

This was an insightful 'This American Life' program that aired today.

It is interesting because I have a brother who is a R man. R for Romney, Ryan and Red,  We recently had an email political fight. I 
love my brother and am dumfounded to see how uninformed he is about things.   This program brings up the fact that he also is dumfounded with my
stands and who I vote for. 
This program explores how people from different sides act regarding politics and gives ideas about how hard it is to reach compromise. 

Richard  

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

From elained at mcn.org  Fri Nov  2 07:38:03 2012
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:38:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How The Big Banks Helped Cause Hurricane Sandy
Message-ID: <DA0DA4D4-EEE7-4BE6-B5A0-811D4A13D5EA@mcn.org>

According to a new report by Rainforest Action Network the banking sector is a major source of climate disruption, perpetuating the reliance on dirty energy sources and enabling polluters. The report states that despite the fact that the insurance industry has identified climate change as a significant risk of loss, banks like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase continue to invest in polluting energy industries like coal at the expense of renewables like wind and solar.

?Banks will need to shift financing from fossil fuel-based power sources to low-carbon energy infrastructure for our communities and the climate,? said Ben Collins, Research and Policy Campaigner for RAN in a statement. ?One way of doing that is by measuring the climate impact of investments and committing to reduction targets for financed emissions, now.?

The report also points to the fact that despite the ?reputational and financial risks [associated with financing dirty energy], the world?s largest banks have yet to measure the greenhouse gas emissions induced by their investing and financing relationships.?

Wall Street is hardly alone in its dangerous enabling of climate change and climate change denialism. The media has been all to willing to grant equal time to climate change denialists in the name of ?fairness? and without holding those ?skeptics? to any level of rigor in fact-checking. Let?s be frank, even having one of these climate truther theories pass the ?smell test? would be an improvement in the overall reporting by the mainstream media on the issue of climate change.

The big banks will do whatever the big banks need to do to turn a profit. And that usually comes at the greatest cost to middle class lives and livelihoods. In that respect Hurricane Sandy is a little like the foreclosure crisis: both were created by Wall Street and in both Wall Street has somehow managed to escape accountability.


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From adross at mcn.org  Sat Nov  3 19:48:45 2012
From: adross at mcn.org (Ad Ross)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 19:48:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Storm tips
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> From: Howard Ennes <nsdusoir at mcn.org>
> Date: November 3, 2012 3:57:57 PM MST
> To: Howard Ennes <nsdusoir at mcn.org>
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From tammysue_123 at att.net  Sun Nov  4 01:21:36 2012
From: tammysue_123 at att.net (Tammy Davis)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 01:21:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Wells Fargo Dumps Private Prison Stock | National
	Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
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Great News!!!
  Wells Fargo Dumps Private Prison Stock
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Nov  4 10:31:30 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 10:31:30 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Leads Relief Efforts In Powerless Red Hook
Message-ID: <01C179AF-902B-4D03-AD5D-397852CD72DC@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/440-occupy/14344-occupy-leads-relief-efforts-in-powerless-red-hook

Occupy Leads Relief Efforts In Powerless Red Hook



By Jessica Lustig, New York Magazine

04 November 12

 

s the lights come back on in lower Manhattan, the power imbalance in parts of the city worst hit by Sandy is more literal than ever. Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods like Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens were able to celebrate Halloween as usual, but just blocks away, many residents of the Red Hook Houses, the city's second-largest housing project, are without electricity, heat, or running water, and growing increasingly desperate. Red Hook, like other areas with overheard power lines, could wait another ten days or longer for juice, according to Con Edison. So far, Red Hook has received little help from the city or FEMA, and a team of Occupy protestors have been heading relief efforts.

"I can't take this no more," said Alisa Pizarro on Friday, wiping tears from her eyes. The lead community organizer at Red Hook Initiative Center on Hicks Street, which has become a hub for relief efforts, she is also a resident. "It's too much. We have no light. We have no water. We have nothing. I've been washing with a little bottle of water. You hear stories about people looting other people's apartments. I have pepper spray in one hand and a flashlight in the other. I don't want to go through another night."

In an outcropping of 30 buildings, some of them high-rises of 14 stories, the Red Hook Houses hold some 6,000 tenants, and about half the buildings remain without power. Red Hook Initiative, which usually offers services like tutoring and college counseling, has been joined by about 15 people from the Occupy movement who have set up infrastructure and logistics for running hot-meal operations serving 500 to 1,000 people every day, bringing in medics, gathering information about people who are elderly or disabled and can't leave their apartments or get down stairs, and broadcasting calls for volunteers and supplies from flashlights to ice for storing insulin.

Two more volunteers from Trinity Grace Church in Park Slope, who have been working with the Occupy team, convinced the Housing Authority to open the Miccio Community Center this weekend as a larger base for the donations that are pouring in, and PS 27 opened as an overflow space for donations. More hubs opened on Van Brunt Street for volunteer clean-up crews (also mustered by the Occupy-ers) to help small businesses, and at Visitation Church for more donations, but the Occupy team was still running much of the nerve center at RHI - or trying to. "Today has been hell," said Zolt?n Gl?ck, an Occupy-er and CUNY student organizer. "We've had hundreds of people filling out forms. We're trying to build a database, and it flopped. It's not like, Oh, we screwed up. It's like, Oh, I guess people aren't being fed or getting their meds."

"It's very third-world," said Laura Papadimitropoulos, a pediatric emergency-medicine physician working as a volunteer medic. "I worked in a clinic in Honduras, and it was exactly like this." She was sending Rick Malo, an emergency nurse from Bethlehem, PA, who volunteered in New Orleans after Katrina, as a medical runner to about 100 homebound people. "This is an already needy area," he said, "that is now higher-need."

"It's crazy," says Rasheed Johnson, who works at RHI as a youth ambassador. "My building is pitch black. No one wants to leave their house. When I go to the store for my mother, I have to knock in code or jingle my keys three times when I come back so she knows it's me. I know people that have got stabbed and robbed for a flashlight. The police are around the area until it gets dark, and then they're nowhere to be found."

The Red Cross made an appearance on Friday to deliver MRE's - freeze-dried meals-ready-to-eat - and left. The National Guard did the same in Coffey Park, and left behind a pallet of water that RHI volunteers then retrieved to distribute. FEMA delivered some informational flyers. The Housing Authority put up posters telling tenants where to pay their rent. The mayor hasn't visited. "I don't know who else to ask for help," said Kirby Desmarais, one of the Occupy organizers. Private companies were starting to step in - Warby Parker, the eyeglass company, was coordinating a shipment of solar-powered bulbs from Colorado that could arrive by next Tuesday to light project halls and stairways. But the reality remained grim. "Rats and raccoons are taking to the hallways at night," Desmarais said. "The basements are flooded, so they don't have anywhere else to go." And if the power stays off another week? "I'm terrified," she said flatly.

"I'm tired," said Deanna Cherry, a social worker on staff at RHI and a resident in the Red Hook Houses. "I turned the faucet this morning. Nothing. Tears just came down my face. My son said, ?Mommy, I can't take it any more.' But we have nowhere to go." She shook her head. "I'm used to helping other people, and now I need help."

For more info on helping Red Hook, see https://redhook.recovers.organd http://www.rhicenter.org.


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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Nov  4 17:31:18 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 17:31:18 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN
Message-ID: <A5D80573-ED50-41D8-B2DF-C95BF33F1AF9@att.net>

                           A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN 

  
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.  A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

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1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters,  and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise.'  Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.  (look up 'vocabulary').

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2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.  The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of  '-ize.'

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3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

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4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists.  The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent.  Guns should only be used for shooting grouse.  If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse.

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5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler.  Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

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6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect.  At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.  Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

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7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon.  Get used to it.

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8. You will learn to make real chips.  Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps.  Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

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9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all.  Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of  known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager.  South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer.  They are also part of the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.  American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

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10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys.  Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters.  Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed  with a cheese grater.

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11. You will cease playing American football.  There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer.  Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). 

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12. Further, you will stop playing baseball.  It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America.  Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.  You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.

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13.. You must tell us who killed JFK.  It's been driving us mad.

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14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

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15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream)  when in season.

God Save the Queen!



PS:  Only share this with friends who have a good sense of humour (NOT humor)!
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Nov  4 22:25:04 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:25:04 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] BREAKING: Mitt Romney Charged With Violating
	Federal Ethics Law!
Message-ID: <0A785D96-A445-4DE2-B53A-D6F966CA4F04@att.net>

http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/1818?ls=LNvI_ABRKmk

As of November 1, Mitt Romney is one of the first presidential candidates ever to be charged with violating federal ethics law.

United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have just charged Romney with hiding between 15.3 to 111.5 million dollars from the auto industry bailout in his wife Anne?s ?blind? trust to conceal the gain and reduce taxes on it.

"The American people have a right to know about Gov. Romney?s potential conflicts of interest, such as the profits his family made from the auto rescue,? the groups said in a statement. ?It?s time for Gov. Romney to disclose or divest.?

It?s time to expose just how unscrupulous Romney is about making his fortune off the misfortunes of others.Please, support UAW and CREW by calling on Romney to reveal exactly how much he made and continues to make off the auto bailout!

PETITION TO MITT ROMNEY: It?s time to come clean. We demand to know how much money you hid in your wife?s supposed blind trust, and how much you continue to make thanks to the gutting of the auto industry. 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Nov  5 05:26:14 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:26:14 -0600
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: about MA Recorder of deeds and his de facto
	moratorium on Foreclosures.
In-Reply-To: <50943C46.3000703@mcn.org>
References: <50943C46.3000703@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <5097BE76.70609@mcn.org>




---Please read this and look at the video of John O'Brian showing proof 
of fraud in documents from banks.
Agnes


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: Digest for foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com - 1 
Message in 1 Topic
Date: 	Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:15:33 -0500
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>



Forged docs:  I've been casual in my efforts, just printing various docs 
that I've ordered for owners over the past few months that are obviously 
forged.  No real plan to collect thousands.  And not sure we need to.  I 
am trying very hard to use others' work already done to effect the 
political solutions without a lot of our extra labor if possible.  
O'Brien already has his picture of 38,000 forged documents.  Do we 
really need more??  What I've already gotten I've been able to use to 
show forgery and the entities that did it.  only if there's a compelling 
reason should we use more of our limited resources to duplicate 
O'Brien's efforts.  at least that's my thought for now.  cj

*From:*foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
[mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of 
*marina read
*Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:21 AM
*To:* foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: Digest for foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com - 
1 Message in 1 Topic

Hi CJ, Marina here in Santa Barbara.....

RE: forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
As I reviewed China's notorary seal. it "expires in 8 years"...I thought 
notary commissions were 4 years! A quick call to North Carolina's SOS 
will clarify this.

2) You say you are compiling forged docs. Is this by area? County?, 
State? ...to whom are these going to be presented of are you just 
initiating a data base? ...if so how will these be catagorized?
Just thinking it through before you end up with a cumbersome monster

Marina Read (805) 698-1498

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:27 PM, 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>> wrote:

*Today's Topic Summary*

Group: http://groups.google.com/group/foreclosurepreventionzones/topics

?Free Conference Call: DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM 
<#13aaa217a17be2ba_group_thread_0> [1 Update]

Free Conference Call: DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM 
<http://groups.google.com/group/foreclosurepreventionzones/t/4a9c3a8366f6b488>

CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com <mailto:cjholmes at cjholmes.com>> Oct 28 
01:24PM -0500

Two things:

1. This email has the http links in case you couldn't get the links to 
work in the last email.

2. Becker's lawsuit is now a Business Week link instead of the nazi 
website link. I apologize for that. That link was sent to me and I was 
so focused on the article I just didn't take any notice of the website. 
It is interesting to note that even that website is concerned about 
stopping foreclosures. This is a national and universal concern that 
involves all of the people and all of us must do everything possible to 
stop this crisis.

Please register to at least listen in to the call. O'Brien and his 
people will present for approx 25 minutes, then open up for questions. 
Thanks, cj


Monday, 10/29: 10a-11a Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/QLP95RSKNQ2EDWSP

Meet a Recorder that has instituted a DEFACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM for 
his county. Click link to register. Everyone is invited. Please forward 
and invite everyone to join the call.

All information and registration is available on the HOFJ Conference 
Call webpage: http://hofj.org/default.asp.pg-ConferenceCalls

John O'Brien and his key associate Kevin Harvey are on a mission to stop 
the recording of forged documents. They will present how they have 
enacted a "DE FACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM" by refusing to accept and 
record documents which raise doubt as to their authenticity and the 
lawful process of foreclosure. Every property owner in the country needs 
this protection.

RECORDERS FIGHTING FORGED DOCUMENTS
O'Brien on forged documents [3m video]: 
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458
"These banks acted as a criminal enterprise. They crossed state lines, 
they recorded fraudulent documents, they committed forgery, and they 
committed mail fraud. They used the Unites States Postal Service to mail 
these documents to registries of deeds." John O'Brien

O'Brien letter and affidavit rejecting the recording of forged 
documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/obrien%20letter%20and%20affidavit.pdf

Becker, PA Registrar's Quiet Title Action against MERS: 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/county-recorders-vs-the-mers-machine-11032011.html

Thigpen, NC Registrar's Lawsuit against robosigned docs: 
http://4closurefraud.org/2012/10/15/jeff-thigpen-guilford-county-lawsuit-against-lender-processing-services-lps-on-robosigning-goes-to-nc-business-court-tomorrow/

Next Call is scheduled for 11/15/12, from 10a-11a, Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/9OI4J9O9A4HGMOAN
Please register anytime. We hope to have Becker, Thigpen, and O'Brien 
join us for updates and expanded support.

In addition, we are compiling forged documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20loryn%20stone%20sig.pdf
and forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
to present to our DAs, Judges, Supervisors and City Council officials. 
The key issue surrounding these forgeries is that the "ownership of the 
notes/loans" is completely suspect. That's the point of quiet title 
action, and a key point in the eminent domain of the notes.

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Thank you for supporting the cause. cj

CJ Holmes, Founder
Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197

www.HOFJ.org <http://www.HOFJ.org>
(707) 578-5727 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5727>
(707) 578-5873 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5873> f
818 Mendocino Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Nov  5 05:37:56 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:37:56 -0600
Subject: [Occupymendocino] my apologies
Message-ID: <5097C134.6060105@mcn.org>

Occupiers, I had to report that i was not able to send invitations to 
the 20 to 40 interested people because my new computer -a Dell with MS 8 
program was not sending mail from Outlook Express-my former route. As a 
consequence this set back the progress toward setting a date for the 
Foreclosure Town Hall meeting with C.J.Holmes.
Thanks to the tech help from Dell I am able to set up new mail groups 
and send messages.

My apologies for delaying the mail to others- about 20 more and Occupy 
members- regarding a new date for FTH meeting.
Sorry Sheila for badmouthing you after the committee meeting on 11/3/12 
in the email letter .

Agnes
.


From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov  5 11:23:27 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:23:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Left/right charted
Message-ID: <50E674DF-FBB8-4D6C-B92B-E1FF7E25650B@att.net>

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/blog-html/leftvright_world.html


From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Nov  5 10:00:02 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:00:02 -0600
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Conferenc Call: DeFacto Foreclosure
	Moratorium
In-Reply-To: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D06D06E44CA@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
References: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D06D06E44CA@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
Message-ID: <5097FEA2.9060500@mcn.org>

This will be a very important call, So click on the Maestro Conference 
ca  I sent all-for this Thursday at 10:00 am
Love,
Agnes

------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Conferenc Call: DeFacto Foreclosure Moratorium
Date: 	Mon, 5 Nov 2012 03:48:33 -0600
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>



HOFJ web page with all links and info including call registration: 
http://hofj.org/default.asp.pg-1-STOPForeclosures

*Nov 8, 10a PST*:  Please join us and John O'Brien, Registrar of Deeds, 
in Salem, Massachusetts, to hear about his Defacto Foreclosure 
Moratorium by refusing to record forged documents sent by the banks. 
  Approx 40m presentation, followed by Q&A time.

Call registration, sponsored by Berkeley homeowner: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/9OI4J9O9A4HGMOAN

"DE FACTO" FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM

/If the banks cannot record their forged documents on our homes, they 
cannot foreclose. We must stop the recordings. /

Each county recorder can and must establish a "de facto foreclosure 
moratorium" by following /all /our laws and refuse to record suspect 
documents without an Affidavit of Authenticity signed under penalty of 
perjury and felony, and prison time in some states.

Recording suspect documents could subject a Recorder to civil and/or 
criminal liability, and directly violates the Recorder's Oath of Office 
to uphold the constitution of the State and the United States.  [oath of 
office <http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/oaths%20of%20office.pdf>]

1. Legal foundation to refuse to record suspect documents 
<http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/recorder%20legal%20foundation.pdf>  
[MA law]
   [help us get legal citations for each state]
2.  Knowingly recording suspect documents could subject a Recorder to
      civil and/or criminal liability
3. Recording Rejection Letter & Affidavit of Authenticity 
<http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/obrien%20letter%20and%20affidavit.pdf> 
[example]
Individual State Penal Codes for Letter 
<http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/STATE%20PENAL%20CODES.pdf>

Foreclosure Audits
May 2011: Essex County Audit <http://www.salemdeeds.com/pdf/Audit.pdf>, 
Massachusetts
Feb 2012: San Francisco County Audit 
<http://www.salemdeeds.com/pdf/Audit.pdf>, California
Forged Docs: Forged NOD VP Sig 
<http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20asst%20vp%20sig%20-%20loryn%20stone.pdf> 
Forged Notary Sig 
<http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20sig.pdf>

How to get this 'de facto foreclosure moratorium' enacted in your county:

1. Connect with HOFJ County Directors 
<http://hofj.org/default.asp.pg-CACountyCaptains>  [email CJ 
<mailto:cjholmes at cjholmes.com>]
2.  Email this page link to your County Recorder.
3.  Print and present this material to your Recorder
4.  Print and present this material to each County Supervisor.
5.  Present and present this material to local newspapers and radio 
stations.
6.  Register for Conference Call below.

*Conference Call for County Recorders, Elected Officials, Interested 
Parties*
How Recorders Can Get a Defacto Foreclosure Moratorium
Register for Call:  11/8 10am-11am, Pacific Time 
<http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/9OI4J9O9A4HGMOAN> 
[click link to sign up]
sponsored by Berkeley homeowner

     Meet with John O'Brien, MA Registrar, & Kevin Harvey, Key Aide
John Requires "Affidavit of Authenticity" for Robosigned Documents 
<http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/obrien%20letter%20and%20affidavit.pdf>

John's 3 minutes on Fraud 
<http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458>[video - must see]
     CBS Atlanta Foreclosure Fraud in Georgia, O'Brien Interview

Nancy Becker, PA Registrar, Quiet Title Against MERS 
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/county-recorders-vs-the-mers-machine-11032011.html> 
Lawsuit 
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/110841476/PA-MontgomeryCo-ROD-v-MERS-Memorandum-Order-1-10-19-2012>

Jeff Thigpen, NC Registrar, Lawsuit Against Robosigned Docs 
<http://4closurefraud.org/2012/10/15/jeff-thigpen-guilford-county-lawsuit-against-lender-processing-services-lps-on-robosigning-goes-to-nc-business-court-tomorrow/>
Jeff Thigpen Fraud and Foreclosure 
<http://www.ncunitedpower.org/issue-campaigns/get-informed/foreclosure-crisis/> 
[video]

http://hofj.org/website/agent_pictures/5741/obrienpic.JPG
Thanks for your support,  cj

CJ_Web

CJ Holmes, Founder

Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197


www.HOFJ.org

/(707) 578-5727/

/(707) 578-5873 f/

818 Mendocino Ave

Santa Rosa, CA  95401

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov  5 13:38:10 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:38:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] No more STOLEN ELECTIONS! Call free now.
Message-ID: <3F4492BE-A874-4152-A946-2081ECF6ED76@att.net>

       (After you dial the # press option 2. M.S.) 

Share This: 


 
Just minutes ago, Ohio voting rights advocate Bob Fitrakis filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding the removal of secret software recently installed on all ES&S, Inc. voting machines in at least 25 Ohio counties. 

This proprietary software allows vote tabulation numbers to be wirelessly sent to the Ohio Secretary of State's office. Four million Ohio voters - that is 80% - depend on these machines to accurately report their vote. Now, those votes will be initially reported via an easily intercepted wireless transmission.
 
Together with Free Press and other key advocates, we released the news about the lawsuit at a press conference just now at the National Press Club in D.C.. Fitrakis Skyped-in to the press conference and gave us the latest. He called on everyone, "concerned about our democracy to call the Ohio Secretary of State's office and demand the removal of this suspicious software."

Please do it right now. Call the Ohio Secretary of State's office at 1-877-767-6446
 
With the clock ticking, every hour brings new reports of serious voting rights violations. We can't wait. We need your financial support and personal pledge so that we are ready to respond.
 
Remember:
Sign the  Pledge of Action and forward it to everyone you know.
Donate to our Rapid Response Fund.
Organize a  Voter Assembly in your community for Nov 7th, the day after the election.
Report election irregularities and voter suppression.
You can read some of the early coverage of the lawsuit by clicking here.
 
Yours for Democracy,
 
   ~ Sarah Manski
	

Call the Ohio Secretary of State:
1-877-767-6446
Tell them to stop electronic tampering with this election!


Please donate to our Rapid Response Fund.


Like us on Facebook.


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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov  5 14:51:29 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:51:29 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Great quote
Message-ID: <23F0010C-39C7-49F6-B30E-D1F6ADDDFCA4@att.net>

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov  5 15:03:30 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 15:03:30 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Ohio Secretary of State Husted: Stop your
	last-minute attempt to disenfranchise voters
Message-ID: <DFC63FBD-C3D1-4EB4-9508-57E8403BD445@att.net>

Subject: Ohio Secretary of State Husted: Stop your last-minute attempt to disenfranchise voters

Hey folks, this just in.

In a last-minute directive issued Friday night that could disenfranchise thousands of Ohioans and tip the outcome of the election, Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted changed requirements for submitting provisional ballots on Election Day. 

The directive requires voters, not election officials, to fill out a confusing form listing the type of ID they provided to vote. This new directive is a clear violation of Ohio law and puts even more votes at risk of not being counted.

Secretary Husted has also instructed election officials to not count ballots where that part of the form has not been correctly filled out by the voter.

That's why I signed a petition to Jon Husted, Secretary of State and Governor John Kasich.

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/ohio-secretary-of-state?source=s.em.cp&r_by=1738757

Thanks! Mark 

From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov  5 16:30:31 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:30:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Sandy Efforts Highlight Need for
	Solidarity, Not Charity
Message-ID: <AAF70E88-C875-4274-B53B-74233EE25474@mcn.org>

http://www.thenation.com/blog/171020/occupy-sandy-efforts-highlight-need-solidarity-not-charity
Occupy Sandy Efforts Highlight Need for Solidarity, Not Charity

Allison Kilkenny on November 5, 2012 - 9:30 AM ET
Hurricane Sandy, the unprecedented superstorm that ravaged the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States, left large swaths of New York City destroyed and ultimately killed 109 people in the US alone. In addition to experiencing trauma and shock, many resident now express frustration with lagging federal aid and assistance from other aid agencies like the Red Cross.

Vincent Ignizio, a New York City Councilman representing Staten Island?s 51st District, blames the gas shortage for hurting the recovery effort. Five-hour-long waits for gas have resulted in citizens? being highly frugal with their commutes, and may be hindering aid, according to Ignizio.

?People who want to volunteer?are stymied from doing so,? he said.

And while the Defense Department recently dispatched 24 million gallons of fuel to the region, many citizens haven?t seen the military, or the Red Cross, since the storm hit. While FEMA workers were spotted recently in Staten Island, other citizens have received help from an entirely separate source: Occupy Wall Street.

Though numerous obituaries have been written about Occupy, the movement experienced a spike in activity in Sandy?s wake. Occupy Sandy, as the effort has been branded, arose quickly in the aftermath of the storm, setting up local community hubs to dispense water, food and aid, and form groups to help communities pump water from their houses and clean up the vast quantities of rubble left in Sandy?s wake. Distribution centers and volunteer hubs are now located in Sunset Park, Astoria, Brighton Beach, DUMBO, East Village, Lower East Side, Jersey City, Red Hook, Rockaway, and Staten Island. (photo of volunteer hub by Sarah Jaffe)
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov  5 16:38:43 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:38:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Zuccotti Park Eviction: Police Arrest 200 Occupy
	Wall Street Protesters
Message-ID: <CA780724-9EDA-4A70-9853-C6B907DB1635@mcn.org>

(full story here)           http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/zuccotti-park-eviction-po_n_1094306.html  
By Colleen Long and Verena Dobnik - Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) ? Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City in the pre-dawn darkness Tuesday, evicted hundreds of demonstrators and demolished the tent city that was the epicenter of a movement protesting what participants call corporate greed and economic inequality. (Photos below).

The police action began around 1 a.m. and lasted several hours as officers with plastic shields and batons pushed the protesters from their base at Zuccotti Park. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said  around 200 people were arrested, including dozens who tried to resist the eviction by linking arms in a tight circle at the center of the park. A member of the City Council was among those arrested during the sweep.

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Tents, sleeping bags and equipment were carted away, and by 4:30 a.m., the park was empty. It wasn't clear what would happen next to the demonstration, though the new enforcement of rules banning tents, sleeping bags or tarps would effectively end an encampment that started in mid-September.

"At the end of the day, if this movement is only tied to Liberty Plaza, we are going to lose. We're going to lose," said Sandra Nurse, one of the organizers, referring to the park by the nickname the demonstrators have given it. "Right now the most important thing is coming together as a body and just reaffirm why we're here in the first place."

Hundreds of protesters marched through lower Manhattan as the workday began, chanting and looking for a new space to gather. A state court judge called an 11:30 a.m. hearing on the legality of the eviction, following an emergency appeal by the National Lawyers Guild, and issued a temporary restraining order barring the city from preventing protesters from re-entering the park.

As of midmorning, though, the park remained surrounded by police barricades and officers keeping everyone out. A few dozen demonstrators sat on the sidewalk just outside the police line, waiting. In the meantime, workers used power washers to blast the plaza clean.
The surprise action came two days short of the two-month anniversary of the encampment. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he ordered the sweep because health and safety conditions and become "intolerable" in the crowded plaza.

"From the beginning, I have said that the city has two principal goals: guaranteeing public health and safety, and guaranteeing the protesters' First Amendment rights," he said. "But when those two goals clash, the health and safety of the public and our first responders must be the priority."

He said that people would be allowed to return as soon as this morning, but that the city would begin enforcing the rules set up by the park's private owners banning camping equipment.

That left demonstrators wondering what to do next. There was talk among some Tuesday of trying to occupy another park or plaza, but there are no immediate plans to do so, Nurse said.

The eviction began in the dead of night, as police officers arrived by the hundreds and set up powerful klieg lights to illuminate the block.

Officers handed out notices from Brookfield Office Properties, the park's owner, and the city saying that the plaza had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous. A commander announced over a bullhorn that everyone had to leave. Many did, carrying their belongings with them. Others tried to make a stand, even chaining themselves together with bicycle locks.

In contrast to the scene weeks ago in Oakland, where a similar eviction turned chaotic and violent, the police action was comparatively orderly. But it wasn't entirely bloodless.

"The cops hit my legs with a baton," said demonstrator Max Luisdaniel Santos, 31, an unemployed construction worker, pulling up his pants to show some swollen scars on his calf. "Then they shoved my face into the ground."

He pulled open his cheek to show where his teeth had cut into the flesh as he hit the stone paving.

"I was bleeding profusely. They shoved a lot of people's faces into the ground," Santos said as he stood near the park Tuesday morning, looking shaken. He said he lost his shoes in the scuffle, but wasn't arrested.

One person was taken to a hospital for evaluation because of breathing problems.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who has been supportive of the Occupy movement, was among those arrested outside of the park. Kelly, the police commissioner, said he was trying to get through police lines to reach the protesters.

Protesters were able to grab about $2,500 in cash that was at the plaza before police kicked them out, said Pete Dutro, who is in charge of the New York City movement's finances.

"We got all the dough," Dutro said. "It's on my person."

Bloomberg said the evacuation was conducted in the middle of the night "to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park, and to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood."

"The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day," Bloomberg said. "Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with, as the park has been taken over by protesters, making it unavailable to anyone else."

He said the city would contest the motion filed by the National Lawyers Guild, a civil rights organization that has been representing arrested protesters.

Concerns about health and safety issues at Occupy Wall Street camps around the country have intensified, and protesters in several cities have been ordered to take down their shelters, adhere to curfews and relocate so that parks can be cleaned.

The surprise ouster at Zuccotti Park came as the movement was at its most vulnerable. A rift had been growing in recent weeks between the park's full-time residents and the movement's power players, most of whom no longer lived in the park.

The protesters who actually made things happen ? the ones who planned marches and rallies and set plans into motion ? held meetings in donated office space high above the park, in skyscrapers just like the ones housing the bankers they were protesting.

Some residents of Zuccotti Park have been grumbling about the recent formation of a "spokescouncil," an upper echelon of organizers who held meetings at a high school near police headquarters. Some protesters felt that the selection of any leaders whatsoever wasn't true to Occupy Wall Street's original anti-government spirit: That no single person is more important or more powerful than another person.

But other protesters felt that Occupy Wall Street needed to be bigger than Zuccotti Park ? that they had, in a sense, outgrown it.
Occupy encampments have come under fire around the country and even overseas as local officials and residents have complained about possible health hazards and ongoing inhabitation of parks and other public spaces.

Anti-Wall Street activists intend to converge at the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday for a day of protests and another attempt to set up an Occupy Cal camp, less than a week after police arrested dozens of protesters who tried to pitch tents on campus.

The Berkeley protesters will be joined by Occupy Oakland activists who said they would march to the UC campus in the afternoon. Police cleared the tent city in front of Oakland City Hall before dawn Monday and arrested more than 50 people amid complaints about safety, sanitation and drug use.

In London, authorities said they were resuming legal action to evict a protest camp outside St. Paul's Cathedral after talks with the demonstrators stalled.

                                                        

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3:12 PM ? 03/20/2012
Trouble At Occupied Apartment Building Splits Occupy Miami
Via HuffPost Miami:

When an Occupy Miami member offered evicted protestors vacant apartments in a building he owns in Downtown Miami's Overtown neighborhood, it seemed like the perfect solution: the 'Peace City' space would provide headquarters for the movement and shelter a small faction of the group's most vulnerable members. But it hasn't gone well. Other tenants say the building has become a cesspool of drug use and violence while non-resident Occupy Miami members are trying to distance themselves from the 'radicals' -- all while the two factions are wrestling for control over Occupy Miami's social media sites and future plans.

From the Miami New Times:


The feud between the Overtown occupiers and more mainstream members has only gotten worse. The two factions are now battling for control of Occupy Miami's social media sites. The movement's main Twitter account recently announced it had been "hijacked by a small, non-consensus group of radical members." The Occupy Miami Facebook page was also temporarily hacked by someone inside Peace City. Meanwhile, the Overtown occupation is slowly driving away more moderate members.

"This is a black eye on the Occupy movement," says Shannon Reaze, an Overtown community organizer and Occupy Miami supporter who is now helping tenants move out of Paz's building. "The violence and drugs going on here are way outside of what I thought Occupy stood for. This place is destabilized."

...The supposedly hard-core activists here spend their days drinking and getting high. And as Peace City devolves into lawlessness, the most committed occupiers are leaving. Local landowners and politicians want the place shut down, while cops are suspicious. Yet as long as Paz wants the protesters around, nothing short of a demolition order can keep them out.


3:32 PM ? 03/19/2012
Occupy DC Protesters Sue MPD
Via HuffPost DC:


WASHINGTON -- Occupy DC has a new lawsuit involving tents on its hands. But it doesn't involve temporary structures in McPherson Square.

Two protesters arrested during a February action outside Merrill Lynch's offices on 15th Street NW near McPherson Square have filed suit against the Metropolitan Police Department, Legal Times reports. (Read the complaint here.)

The plaintiffs, Samuel Dukore and Kelly Canavan, were part of a "targeted occupation" of Merrill Lynch on Feb. 13 where protesters were raising awareness about Merrill Lynch's reportedly close ties with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). Issa, for his part, claims that the reports of these close ties are "wildly inaccurate."


Full story here.

9:20 AM ? 03/19/2012
Occupy Wall Street Attempts To Occupy Union Square
OWS reports via its website:


After the brutal attack on the attempted re-occupation of Liberty Square by NYPD on the 6-month anniversary of #OWS, a number of Occupiers have relocated their base of occupation to Union Square in midtown Manhattan, a point of convergence for several #OWS protests over the past 6 months.

According to reports on the ground, several dozen people slept in the park after the illegal and violent raid on Liberty Square. Over 70 people remain, now on Day 3. Although tents and tables are still banned, Occupiers have brought blankets and sleeping gear. Many are calling it ?the new Occupation.? In addition to holding General Assemblies, Union Square Occupiers are providing vital jail support for those arrested on #M17 as they are released from NYPD custody. So far, the NYPD has made no attempt to remove Occupiers or prevent them from sleeping in the park.


9:18 AM ? 03/19/2012
Watch: Occupy Our Homes Fights For California Mother


Occupy Long Beach is defending the mother's home. For more information, click here.

7:35 AM ? 03/18/2012
Watch: Another Video Documenting Woman's Arrest


7:34 AM ? 03/18/2012
NY Observer ID's Victim
The woman had the apparent seizure has been identified by the New York Observer as Cecily McMillan:


Cecily McMillan, an Occupy Wall Street activist once profiled in Rolling Stone, suffered a seizure Saturday night during protest action near Zuccotti Park. Many on-scene reported Ms. McMillan had trouble breathing after she was tackled and handcuffed by law enforcement.

A video uploaded to Youtube late Saturday night purports to show the attack. Two women can be heard commenting, ?There?s Cecily,? then there is confusion as the police clearly perform a violent take-down on someone in the crowd.

According to Jeff Sharlet?s November, 2011 article about the Occupy Movement, this may be Ms. McMillan?s second violent encounter with police.



To read the full story, go here.

7:33 AM ? 03/18/2012
Watch: Woman Who Had Apparent Seizure Brutalized By Police
Cops caught on video about 10 seconds in taking down the woman who had the apparent seizure:



7:32 AM ? 03/18/2012
'Stop Pushing Us!'
Watch video from inside Zuccotti Park as police moved in late last night:


- Show quoted text -

7:31 AM ? 03/18/2012
New York Times Reports Alleged Police Abuse
The paper reports from last night's chaos at Zuccotti Park:



At one point, a woman who appeared to be suffering from seizures flopped on the ground in handcuffs as bystanders shouted for the police to remove the cuffs and provide medical attention. For several minutes the woman lay on the ground as onlookers made increasingly agonized demands until an ambulance arrived and the woman was placed inside.
By 12:20 a.m., a line of officers pushed against some of the remaining protesters, forcing them south on Broadway, at times swinging batons and shoving people to the ground.

Kobi Skolnick, 30, said that officers pushed him in several directions and that as he tried to walk away, he was struck from behind in the neck. ?One of the police ran and hit me with a baton,? he said.



To read the full story, go here.

7:30 AM ? 03/18/2012
Watch: Woman Goes Into Seizure In Police Custody


9:50 PM ? 03/17/2012
Report: Photographer Beaten By Police
 	@ Greg_Palast : Our photographer ZD Roberts beaten @OWS Zucotti Park by cops. Thrown to ground, hair grabbd, hit with clubs while yelling, I'M PRESS PRESS! 


9:25 PM ? 03/17/2012
Marchers Make It To City Hall
 	@ macfathom : Doubling east on Barclay, and now the ragged front of the march is at City Hall. #OWS 


9:05 PM ? 03/17/2012
Report: Woman Has Seizure In Police Custody
 	@ LuddoftheFuture : girl in the street having a seizure and the cops have her in handcuffs. can this get any worse (live at http://t.co/4pLyy3gP)


Activists cry out for paramedics. The woman is limp on the ground. "Come on you violent bastards where's the paramedics?"

9:04 PM ? 03/17/2012
Activists Start Marching On Broadway
 	@ jeffrae : March is heading north up broadway #ows #occupywallstreet 


9:03 PM ? 03/17/2012
Report: Large Numbers Of Arrests At Zuccotti Park
 	@ macfathom : Dozens of arrests, many cuffed and sitting on broadway waiting for their ride to jail. #OWS 


8:48 PM ? 03/17/2012
Police Clear Zuccotti Park
 	@ RDevro : Police are barricading the park. It's cleared. I witnessed countless violent arrests. No way to estimate numbers. 


8:44 PM ? 03/17/2012
Report: Police Using Force
 	@ troutish : Protesters being dragged out by the head at #OWS #Zucotti Park http://t.co/qomhKkrA


8:43 PM ? 03/17/2012
Police Yelling Park Is Closed
Cops pulling apart human chains. There are shouts for mic checks. Now, chants start forming. "The NYPD are sweeping through," says Tim on the live stream.

8:42 PM ? 03/17/2012
NYPD Moves In
 	@ ANIMALNewYork : Police are moving in. It's chaos. 


8:34 PM ? 03/17/2012
Police Order Park Closed
 	@ ANIMALNewYork : NYPD just made an announcement that Brookfield has to "clean the park" and Liberty Plaza is officially "closed." 


8:11 PM ? 03/17/2012
Report: Police Arrest Bagpiper
 	@ OccupyWallStNYC : Bagpipers just started marching into the park bringing the party mood with them, NYPD arrested one of them, and things got real heated. #OWS 


8:10 PM ? 03/17/2012
NYPD Takes Down Tent
 	@ JackieHRye : NYPD just "destroyed" the tent in Zuccotti Park, Occupiers call for its re-building. Marching band also going through the park. #OWS 


8:09 PM ? 03/17/2012
Activists Planning Overnight Stay At Zuccotti Park
 	@ RDevro : The tent in the middle of the park continues to fill with people planning to stay the night. Lots of energy here. 


8:09 PM ? 03/17/2012
The Tent Is Growing
Activists ask for more room as the tent is growing, expanding.

"It looks like a floating tent." -- as Tim on his live stream.

8:08 PM ? 03/17/2012
Photo: The Tent In Zuccotti Park


7:51 PM ? 03/17/2012
There's Singing At Zuccotti
 	@ OccupyWallStNYC : . at justawall is leading us in a song! "Hit the road, banks! And don't ya come back no more no more no more no more!" #OWS 


7:50 PM ? 03/17/2012
Photo: Activists At Zuccotti Park


7:49 PM ? 03/17/2012
Photo: Underneath The Tarp
 	@ RDevro : Moved in. #m17 http://t.co/Qc4NTmgb


7:49 PM ? 03/17/2012
Underneath The Tarp: Cardboard
Activists have assembled make-shift, cardboard sleeping areas inside Zuccotti Park. The cardboard is joined by a large green tarp.

7:32 PM ? 03/17/2012
A Tarp Goes Up At Zuccotti Park
 	@ RDevro : A tarp is going up in Zuccotti as protesters march around the park chant-dancing. #m17 http://t.co/rJfP3GF9


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov  5 23:03:26 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 23:03:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Letter to a Non-Voter
Message-ID: <8D07B265-C759-4FC5-817D-B88D855DEF4A@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14377-letter-to-a-non-voter


Letter to a Non-Voter

By Michael Moore, Open Mike Blog

05 November 12

  
 get it - and I don't blame you. You're fed up and you could care less whether Tweedledee or Tweedledumber wins on Tuesday - because on Wednesday, your life will be the same, unchanged, regardless who is president. Your mortgage will still be underwater. You will still owe $50,000 on your student loan. Your son will still be in Afghanistan. Your daughter will still be working two jobs to make ends meet. And gas will still be at $4.

Four years ago you gave in and voted - and you voted for Obama. You wanted to believe he would go after the Wall Street crooks who crashed the economy - but instead the banks that were "too big to fail" four years ago are now even bigger and more dangerous. You thought there'd be universal health care - but the new law only went so far (with most of it not taking effect until 2014). You were tired of war and homeland security measures that violated our civil liberties - but we're still in Afghanistan, we're sending in drones to Pakistan and basic constitutional rights to privacy and fair trial have been ignored. And you thought you'd have a middle-class, good-paying job like your dad had - but you didn't know that Goldman Sachs was Obama's #1 private campaign donor in 2008, and well, he was beholden to corporate America in more ways we cared to think about.

So, I get it why you've had it with all these politicians and elections. In the end, it doesn't really seem to be our country any more. It's run by those who can buy the most politicians to do their bidding. Our schools are made a low priority and women are still having to fight for just the basic human rights we thought they already had.

So, it's hard for me to ask you for this very personal favor. It's ok if you say "no," but I'm hoping you don't.

I cannot believe it is possible that, after a group of rich plutocrats wrecked the economy, threw people out of work and stole our future, we may actually hand the keys to our country over to...a rich Republican plutocrat who made millions by throwing people out of work! This is insane, and despite all the legitimate criticisms of Obama, he is nothing like the tsunami of hate and corporate thievery that will take place if Mitt Romney is president. As bad as it feels now, it will only get worse. I need your help to stop this.

I can't promise you that your life will get better, easier under Barack Obama. I do think he cares and I know for sure that if the other guy is sitting in the Oval Office, I can guarantee you that not only will your life not get better, it will get much, much worse. Don't take my word for it. Just ask your parents what life was like before a 30-year pillage by the Republicans of the middle class. Your parents bought a house and eventually owned it outright. They weren't in debt. College was free. They bought a new car every 3 or 4 years. They took vacations and were home for dinner by 5 or 6 PM. They had a savings account in the bank. They didn't live in fear of not knowing if they'd even have a job next year.

That's all gone. I don't know if we can get it back, but I do know that Mr. Romney would love the chance to complete the final elimination of the middle class and the American Dream.

He must be stopped. Take 20 minutes on Tuesday and go vote. If you don't want to do it for your country, then do it for me! It's the only favor I'll ever ask of you.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I know that you care, and care deeply, about your future and your kids' future. You have every right to be cynical about all this. And you hold the power to stop the bastards who plan on squeezing every last dime out of you that they can. Take a stand. And make a statement to those who are hoping against hope that you'll stay home on Tuesday. Your presence at the polls is what they fear most.

Go scare the s**t out of them! For me.
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From nsdusoir at mcn.org  Mon Nov  5 23:14:59 2012
From: nsdusoir at mcn.org (Howard Ennes)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 23:14:59 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy community service
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For OCCUPYMendocino FRIENDS ??

	A report from the Northeast SANDY scene:

	 http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/11/how-occupy-wall-street-turned-disaster-relief-group/58702/ 

	Here's an illuminating aspect of this accounting: 

	 ". . . one contingent that has been making itself known throughout the many poor neighborhoods affected by the storm: Occupy Wall Street. Volunteers organized by the movement under the moniker Occupy Sandy arrived on bicycles, asking if they could set up a kitchen on R.H.I.'s premises.	They threw it together and started putting up hot meals right away . . . As Chloe Cockburn, a civil rights lawyer with ties to Occupy, put it: 'What we build last fall in Zuccotti Park has been put to use and come alive here.' "

	Thanks to Lisa Colvin for spotting this report.

												  
	





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From jupiter at mcn.org  Tue Nov  6 07:57:42 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:57:42 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy community service
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Lovely!
Linda




On Nov 5, 2012, at 11:14 PM, Howard Ennes wrote:

> For OCCUPYMendocino FRIENDS ??
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> 	A report from the Northeast SANDY scene:
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> 	 http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/11/how-occupy-wall-street-turned-disaster-relief-group/58702/
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> 	Here's an illuminating aspect of this accounting:
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> 	 ". . . one contingent that has been making itself known throughout  
> the many poor neighborhoods affected by the storm: Occupy Wall  
> Street. Volunteers organized by the movement under the moniker  
> Occupy Sandy arrived on bicycles, asking if they could set up a  
> kitchen on R.H.I.'s premises.	They threw it together and started  
> putting up hot meals right away . . . As Chloe Cockburn, a civil  
> rights lawyer with ties to Occupy, put it: 'What we build last fall  
> in Zuccotti Park has been put to use and come alive here.' "
>
> 	Thanks to Lisa Colvin for spotting this report.
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Nov  6 10:18:56 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:18:56 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It's started
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2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes
http://www.youtube.com/user/centralpavote?feature=watch
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From n31andp19 at comcast.net  Tue Nov  6 15:17:24 2012
From: n31andp19 at comcast.net (NANCY ROCA)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 15:17:24 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupymendocino Digest, Vol 130, Issue 3
In-Reply-To: <mailman.816.1352079085.2041.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
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FABULOUS ( 2 U letters)!
On Nov 4, 2012, at 5:31 PM, occupymendocino-request at lists.mcn.org wrote:

> Send Occupymendocino mailing list submissions to
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> Today's Topics:
> 
>   1. A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN (Mark Safron)
> 
> From: Mark Safron <marksafron at att.net>
> Date: November 4, 2012 5:31:18 PM PST
> To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
> Subject: [Occupymendocino] A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN
> Reply-To: rkarch at mcn.org
> 
> 
>                            A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN 
> 
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> To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
> 
> In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
> 
> Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).
> 
> Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.
> 
> Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.  A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
> 
> To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> 1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters,  and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise.'  Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.  (look up 'vocabulary').
> 
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> 
> 2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.  The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of  '-ize.'
> 
> -------------------
> 
> 3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
> 
> -----------------
> 
> 4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists.  The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent.  Guns should only be used for shooting grouse.  If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse.
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> 5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler.  Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
> 
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> 
> 6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect.  At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.  Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
> 
> --------------------
> 
> 7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon.  Get used to it.
> 
> -------------------
> 
> 8. You will learn to make real chips.  Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps.  Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
> 
> -------------------
> 
> 9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all.  Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of  known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager.  South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer.  They are also part of the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.  American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
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> 
> 10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys.  Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters.  Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed  with a cheese grater.
> 
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> 
> 11. You will cease playing American football.  There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer.  Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). 
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> 
> 12. Further, you will stop playing baseball.  It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America.  Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.  You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
> 
> --------------------
> 
> 13.. You must tell us who killed JFK.  It's been driving us mad.
> 
> -----------------
> 
> 14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
> 
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> 
> 15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream)  when in season.
> 
> God Save the Queen!
> 
> 
> 
> PS:  Only share this with friends who have a good sense of humour (NOT humor)!
> 
> 
> Make sure to check out our websites at 
> www.occupymendocino.net  and 
> www.facebook.com/occupymendocino
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov  6 16:03:36 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:03:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Street Fair Videos 1 & 2
Message-ID: <D00AB776-59A2-4B78-8BA1-0CE3671460CB@mcn.org>

May 12, 2012 OM Street Fair Videos  1 & 2
directed by Sheila Tracy	


Occupy Mendocino Street Fair #1          http://archive.org/details/7239-OccupyMendocino-StreetFair           Many featured  speakers and music.

Occupy Mendocino Street Fair # 2        http://archive.org/details/7239-OccupyMendocino-StreetFair_2       Featuring non-profit group and music.

From cdurkee at mcn.org  Tue Nov  6 17:38:15 2012
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 17:38:15 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Street Fair Videos 1 & 2
In-Reply-To: <D00AB776-59A2-4B78-8BA1-0CE3671460CB@mcn.org>
References: <D00AB776-59A2-4B78-8BA1-0CE3671460CB@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <05D9ABEE-37F9-4B1E-9BF2-2980B033BCF3@mcn.org>

Local voices making sense. It is an opportunity for growth to be part of this community. My appreciation for all that has come before. May we learn through our community efforts and experiences.
muchas gracias
Carrie
On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Richard Karch wrote:

> May 12, 2012 OM Street Fair Videos  1 & 2
> directed by Sheila Tracy	
> 
> 
> Occupy Mendocino Street Fair #1          http://archive.org/details/7239-OccupyMendocino-StreetFair           Many featured  speakers and music.
> 
> Occupy Mendocino Street Fair # 2        http://archive.org/details/7239-OccupyMendocino-StreetFair_2       Featuring non-profit group and music.
> 
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> 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov  6 22:12:33 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:12:33 -0600
Subject: [Occupymendocino] report from an Occupy's public expression at the
 Board of Supervisors Nov.6/12
Message-ID: <5099FBD1.5000709@mcn.org>

Report to Occupy on the public expression referring to 2 items on the 
BOS's Agenda. Nov. 6, 2012.
  Jessie and Sheila were unable to make it. Ann Renneker spoke to the 
item "Update on North Coast Marine Protected Area"

Ann Renneker and I drove to Ukiah to the Board of Supervisors with the 
intention to speak at the public expression time. Due to some 
miscommunication between Sheila and I, she was not with us as 
planned,regretfully.
  I spoke to the agenda item" Federal Budget Sequestation Sources" 
meaning cutbacks in social programs. this is the content of my viewpoint.

               Good Morning Members of the Board of Supervisors, My name 
is Agnes Woolsey. Thankyou for this opportunity to speak to you 
regarding the Federal Finds Sequestation Program. ie. Federal Cuts to  
social programs, some of which bring federal funds, like cuts to 
medicare, Head Start and Medical. This means that billions of dollars 
would be cut-
Cuts impacting the state will also impact the county-as you well know. 
Occupy is concerned about people displaced by foreclosures. This puts a 
burden on County Social Services. Occupy has solutions to foreclosures 
which cause loss of county taxes on foreclosed property which lie vacant 
and turn to blight effecting real estate values and lowers tax rates in 
the neighborhood. For example a house on Palette Drive near mine has 
been vacant for 2 years or more. Property values go down in the 
neighborhood and so do the property taxes .

Occupy offers solutions which could increase the revenue stream flowing 
to the county with the use of eminent domain by the county, establishing 
a public bank and requiring the Recorder to send Affidavits of 
Truthfulness to the foreclosing entity. For details see the websites 
listed on the back of this sheet.

We invite you to come to Fort Bragg to a Foreclosure Town Hall meeting, 
November 16th at 6:00 pm at the Methodist Church, 360 N. Corry Street. 
C.J. Holmes, moderator has several important solutions that are being 
practiced in other states.

Thank-you for your attention.




From jupiter at mcn.org  Wed Nov  7 07:25:39 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:25:39 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] report from an Occupy's public expression at
	the Board of Supervisors Nov.6/12
In-Reply-To: <5099FBD1.5000709@mcn.org>
References: <5099FBD1.5000709@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <92C157FF-7200-4017-913D-969C60FF467E@mcn.org>

Great work, Agnes,
Thank you.
Linda


On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:

> Report to Occupy on the public expression referring to 2 items on the
> BOS's Agenda. Nov. 6, 2012.
>  Jessie and Sheila were unable to make it. Ann Renneker spoke to the
> item "Update on North Coast Marine Protected Area"
>
> Ann Renneker and I drove to Ukiah to the Board of Supervisors with the
> intention to speak at the public expression time. Due to some
> miscommunication between Sheila and I, she was not with us as
> planned,regretfully.
>  I spoke to the agenda item" Federal Budget Sequestation Sources"
> meaning cutbacks in social programs. this is the content of my  
> viewpoint.
>
>               Good Morning Members of the Board of Supervisors, My  
> name
> is Agnes Woolsey. Thankyou for this opportunity to speak to you
> regarding the Federal Finds Sequestation Program. ie. Federal Cuts to
> social programs, some of which bring federal funds, like cuts to
> medicare, Head Start and Medical. This means that billions of dollars
> would be cut-
> Cuts impacting the state will also impact the county-as you well know.
> Occupy is concerned about people displaced by foreclosures. This  
> puts a
> burden on County Social Services. Occupy has solutions to foreclosures
> which cause loss of county taxes on foreclosed property which lie  
> vacant
> and turn to blight effecting real estate values and lowers tax rates  
> in
> the neighborhood. For example a house on Palette Drive near mine has
> been vacant for 2 years or more. Property values go down in the
> neighborhood and so do the property taxes .
>
> Occupy offers solutions which could increase the revenue stream  
> flowing
> to the county with the use of eminent domain by the county,  
> establishing
> a public bank and requiring the Recorder to send Affidavits of
> Truthfulness to the foreclosing entity. For details see the websites
> listed on the back of this sheet.
>
> We invite you to come to Fort Bragg to a Foreclosure Town Hall  
> meeting,
> November 16th at 6:00 pm at the Methodist Church, 360 N. Corry Street.
> C.J. Holmes, moderator has several important solutions that are being
> practiced in other states.
>
> Thank-you for your attention.
>
>
>
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
>  put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
>
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Nov  7 07:29:18 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:29:18 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] report from an Occupy's public expression at
	the Board of Supervisors Nov.6/12
In-Reply-To: <5099FBD1.5000709@mcn.org>
References: <5099FBD1.5000709@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <F6303FAC-33ED-474D-ACDB-BD7EC4F3A0A4@mcn.org>

Great work Agnes and Ann!  

On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:

> Report to Occupy on the public expression referring to 2 items on the 
> BOS's Agenda. Nov. 6, 2012.
>  Jessie and Sheila were unable to make it. Ann Renneker spoke to the 
> item "Update on North Coast Marine Protected Area"
> 
> Ann Renneker and I drove to Ukiah to the Board of Supervisors with the 
> intention to speak at the public expression time. Due to some 
> miscommunication between Sheila and I, she was not with us as 
> planned,regretfully.
>  I spoke to the agenda item" Federal Budget Sequestation Sources" 
> meaning cutbacks in social programs. this is the content of my viewpoint.
> 
>               Good Morning Members of the Board of Supervisors, My name 
> is Agnes Woolsey. Thankyou for this opportunity to speak to you 
> regarding the Federal Finds Sequestation Program. ie. Federal Cuts to  
> social programs, some of which bring federal funds, like cuts to 
> medicare, Head Start and Medical. This means that billions of dollars 
> would be cut-
> Cuts impacting the state will also impact the county-as you well know. 
> Occupy is concerned about people displaced by foreclosures. This puts a 
> burden on County Social Services. Occupy has solutions to foreclosures 
> which cause loss of county taxes on foreclosed property which lie vacant 
> and turn to blight effecting real estate values and lowers tax rates in 
> the neighborhood. For example a house on Palette Drive near mine has 
> been vacant for 2 years or more. Property values go down in the 
> neighborhood and so do the property taxes .
> 
> Occupy offers solutions which could increase the revenue stream flowing 
> to the county with the use of eminent domain by the county, establishing 
> a public bank and requiring the Recorder to send Affidavits of 
> Truthfulness to the foreclosing entity. For details see the websites 
> listed on the back of this sheet.
> 
> We invite you to come to Fort Bragg to a Foreclosure Town Hall meeting, 
> November 16th at 6:00 pm at the Methodist Church, 360 N. Corry Street. 
> C.J. Holmes, moderator has several important solutions that are being 
> practiced in other states.
> 
> Thank-you for your attention.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
> 
> For listserv technical problems please contact: listmanager at mcn.org



From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov  7 07:56:25 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:56:25 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] report from an Occupy's public expression at
	the Board of Supervisors Nov.6/12
In-Reply-To: <5099FBD1.5000709@mcn.org>
References: <5099FBD1.5000709@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <E1EE3872-5C99-45D3-A26A-9656409B35E5@att.net>

Thanks for going Agnes & Ann.
On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:

Report to Occupy on the public expression referring to 2 items on the 
BOS's Agenda. Nov. 6, 2012.


From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Nov  7 12:36:57 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 12:36:57 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Top Ten List for President Obama
Message-ID: <69D7C176-10CF-4CB6-A977-61B851500D4B@mcn.org>

http://rsnorg.org/opinion2/277-75/14409-top-ten-wish-list-for-president-obama


Top Ten Wish List For President Obama

Juan Cole, Informed Comment

07 November 12

 
resident Obama's reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has to be more than relief, while playing Russian Roulette, that this time we got the empty chamber. Progressives are a significant wing of the Democratic Party, and if we continue to be ignored, the party will ultimately falter.

Clearly, Obama does not have progressive instincts, and prefers to rule from the center. This impulse is wrong-headed, since the center didn't man his campaign offices or make phone calls for him. Ruling from the center means taking his base for granted while reaching out to relatively conservative constituencies. This tactic is why we don't have a single-payer health insurance plan. It is why Wall Street reform has consisted of half-measures. It is why we are imposing a financial blockade on Iran that could easily spiral into a war. When it comes to the arch-conservatives, for the most part, Obama has never learned to just say 'no.'

It does not help that Obama will face virtually the same, obstructionist Tea Party House of Representatives that stymied him for the past two years. Instead of going to them and asking how he could make them happy, he has to threaten to make an all-out push to turn them out of office in 2014 if they continue to say 'no' to everything.

Progressives will have to push Obama to the left if we are to get what we want. This situation is nothing new? FDR's New Deal would not have amounted to much if workers hadn't engaged in widespread wildcat strikes and if people had not resorted to civil disobedience.

As for positive accomplishments, here are a few we should pressure him and Congress on:

We need the tax break for wind energy to be continued. Uncertainty here is deadly to the industry. And it is facing competition from cheap fracked natural gas (which is itself an environmental disaster every which way from Sunday). Wind energy could easily provide a quarter of all the electricity the US produces annually, and it is a way of slowing the rapidly rising average temperature of earth's surface. Obama should deploy Republicans from high-wind states such as Iowa and Colorado to help make his case. It is to Obama's credit that green energy doubled in the US from 3% to 6% during his first term. But 6% is almost nothing, with Portugal, Germany, Scotland and others being far more ambitious. Scotland wants to be 100% green by 2020. Obama should emulate John F. Kennedy, Jr., and give a major address committing the the nation to try to go green in 8 years, just as Kennedy pledged to put us on the moon.

The Citizens United and other such rulings of the Supreme Court that allow dark money to dominate our elections needs to be undone by legislation. Corporations are not people, and Superpacs shouldn't be buying our elections. Obama should start the work on a constitutional amendment that would permit actual campaign finance reform so that our elections look more like those of Western Europe and less like those of Pakistan.

Banking regulation still needs to be strengthened. There is nothing really in place that would prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown. Moreover, relief for homeowners under threat of losing their mortgages unfairly or arbitrarily needs to be pushed for again.

Obama needs to show leadership in pushing back against Koch Brother attempts to destroy public sector unions. Moreover, he needs to create a legal framework for the protection of the right to unionize in the private sector, a right that has been gutted by corporations such as Walmart. It was the unions that gave Mr. Obama Ohio, and if they are undermined during the next four years, they won't be there to deliver the state again.

He needs to have the Department of Justice look into the Koch Brother-backed legislation in two dozen states restricting the franchise by requiring a paid-for state i.d., which is a kind of poll tax. In many states, this legislation violates the 1965 Voting Rights act. We can't let a couple of sour billionaires undo the achievements of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., achievements for which he gave his life.

That use of the Department of Justice would perhaps make its workers and its head, Eric Holder, too busy to go around kicking down the doors of medical marijuana clinics and confiscating their computers, records and cash, in states where the state has legalized marijuana. Obama was elected the first time by the youth, and had promised to cease Federal harassment of pot clinics, but reneged and proved much worse than Bush on this issue. Holder should stop denying the clear medical uses and benefits of pot. In Colorado and Washington states, the same people who voted for him have legalized recreational marijuana. Moreover, the RAND Corp. concludes that legalization would defund the Mexican cartels. If the the Democratic Party continues on this Draconian path, it should not be surprised when it begins losing elections because a substantial younger constituency deserts it for the Green Party.

Obama put off further consideration of the PATRIOT Act until 2014. Several of its remaining provisions have been tagged by Senators Wyden and Udall as unconstitutional and pernicious because of the way law enforcement is interpreting them "secretly." These unconstitutional provisions must be repealed altogether. Moreover, Obama needs to come clean about the extent of Federal violations of fourth amendment rights, warrantless surveillance of citizens, and the data mining of our emails and possibly their storage by the National Security Agency. As a victim of illegal White House/ CIA surveillance myself, I am furious that Obama has continued Bush-era abuses, and moreover that the Democratic Party has not so much as bothered to launch an investigation of my case.

The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy have to be allowed to lapse.

Obama must give up the fiction that a Department of Justice review of assassination targets is the same thing as a court trial that ends in an execution. The separation of powers is there in the constitution because King George III used to use the executive to declare people "outlaws" and have them killed on a whim, too. Maybe Obama and the national security state think they have invented something new. They haven't. Targeted assassination by executive fiat has been around for a long time, and the Founding Fathers wanted it prohibited.

Obamacare has to be tweaked in the direction of a single payer system.

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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Wed Nov  7 16:34:47 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:34:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: A Hindu and a Buddhist elected to Congress
In-Reply-To: <CAEuS=2H8CE4_FJLX8wNCLa7yVa-vGUaK1WPn=F931qzDs0memg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEuS=2H8CE4_FJLX8wNCLa7yVa-vGUaK1WPn=F931qzDs0memg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1352334887.23713.YahooMailNeo@web161202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>





And they're both women!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/buddhist-hindu-congress-mazie-hirono-tulsi-gabbard_n_2088939.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

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Margaret
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Wed Nov  7 16:35:43 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:35:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Shame on these election officials!
In-Reply-To: <CAEuS=2G1p=99w_9XJJnCkxiQWPPT-qWyHboPe_nX9mrY3jM8dQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEuS=2G1p=99w_9XJJnCkxiQWPPT-qWyHboPe_nX9mrY3jM8dQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1352334943.52238.YahooMailNeo@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>





And hurrah for these every-day heroes.? Let's make this video go viral and publish the shameful actions of Prince William County voting overseers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfd5CcgzBdo

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Liz
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov  7 22:44:58 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 22:44:58 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Hurricane Sandy: Beware of America's Disaster
	Capitalists
Message-ID: <FFBBF1A6-07BD-4726-A956-144559201FAF@att.net>

(If you're a corporation; there's big money to be made from Hurricane Sandy and the others to follow. M.S.) 

Hurricane Sandy: Beware of America's Disaster Capitalists

By Naomi Klein, Guardian UK

07 November 12

 

The aftermath of the storm offers a chance to rebuild a fairer society. How can we seize it?

ess than three days after Sandy made landfall on the east coast of the United States, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blamed New Yorkers' resistance to Big Box stores for the misery they were about to endure. Writing on Forbes.com, he explained that the city's refusal to embrace Walmart will likely make the recovery much harder: "Mom-and-pop stores simply can't do what big stores can in these circumstances," he wrote. He also warned that if the pace of reconstruction turned out to be sluggish (as it so often is) then "pro-union rules such as the Davis-Bacon Act" would be to blame, a reference to the statute that requires workers on public works projects to be paid not the minimum wage, but the prevailing wage in the region.

The same day, Frank Rapoport, a lawyer representing several billion-dollar construction and real estate contractors, jumped in to suggest that many of those public works projects shouldn't be public at all. Instead, cash-strapped governments should turn to public private partnerships, known as "P3s" in the US. That means roads, bridges and tunnels being rebuilt by private companies, which, for instance, could install tolls and keep the profits. These deals aren't legal in New York or New Jersey, but Rapoport believes that can change. "There were some bridges that were washed out in New Jersey that need structural replacement, and it's going to be very expensive," he told the Nation. "And so the government may well not have the money to build it the right way. And that's when you turn to a P3."

The prize for shameless disaster capitalism, however, surely goes to rightwing economist Russell S Sobel, writing in a New York Times online forum. Sobel suggested that, in hard-hit areas, Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) should create "free-trade zones ? in which all normal regulations, licensing and taxes [are] suspended". This corporate free-for-all would, apparently, "better provide the goods and services victims need".

Yes, that's right: this catastrophe, very likely created by climate change ? a crisis born of the colossal regulatory failure to prevent corporations from treating the atmosphere as their open sewer ? is just one more opportunity for further deregulation. And the fact that this storm has demonstrated that poor and working-class people are far more vulnerable to the climate crisis shows that this is clearly the right moment to strip those people of what few labour protections they have left, as well as to privatise the meagre public services available to them. Most of all, when faced with an extraordinarily costly crisis born of corporate greed, hand out tax holidays to corporations.

The flurry of attempts to use Sandy's destructive power as a cash grab is just the latest chapter in the very long story I have called the The Shock Doctrine. And it is but the tiniest glimpse into the ways large corporations are seeking to reap enormous profits from climate chaos.

One example: between 2008 and 2010, at least 261 patents were filed or issued relating to "climate-ready" crops ? seeds supposedly able to withstand extreme conditions such as droughts and floods; of these patents close to 80% were controlled by just six agribusiness giants, including Monsanto and Syngenta. With history as our teacher, we know that small farmers will go into debt trying to buy these new miracle seeds, and that many will lose their land.

In November 2010, the Economist ran a climate change cover story that provides a useful (if harrowing) blueprint for how climate change could serve as the pretext for the last great land grab, a final colonial clearing of the forests, farms and coastlines by a handful of multinationals. The editors explain that droughts and heat stress are such a threat to farmers that only big players can survive the turmoil, and that "abandoning the farm may be the way many farmers choose to adapt". They had the same message for fisherfolk occupying valuable ocean-front lands: wouldn't it be so much safer, given rising seas and all, if they joined their fellow farmers in the urban slums? "Protecting a single port city from floods is easier than protecting a similar population spread out along a coastline of fishing villages."

But, you might wonder, isn't there a joblessness problem in most of these cities? Nothing a little "reform of labour markets" and free trade can't fix. Besides, cities, they explain, have "social strategies, formal or informal". I'm pretty sure that means people whose "social strategies" used to involve growing and catching their own food can now cling to life by selling broken pens at intersections, or perhaps by dealing drugs. What the informal social strategy should be when superstorm winds howl through those precarious slums remains unspoken.

For a long time, climate change was treated by environmentalists as a great equaliser, the one issue that affected everyone, rich or poor. They failed to account for the myriad ways by which the super rich would protect themselves from the less savory effects of the economic model that made them so wealthy. In the past six years, we have seen in the US the emergence of private fire fighters, hired by insurance companies to offer a "concierge" service to their wealthier clients, as well as the short-lived "HelpJet" ? a charter airline in Florida that offered five-star evacuation services from hurricane zones. Now, post-Sandy, upmarket real estate agents are predicting that back-up power generators will be the new status symbol with the penthouse and mansion set.

For some, it seems, climate change is imagined less as a clear and present danger than as a kind of spa vacation; nothing that the right combination of bespoke services and well-curated accessories can't overcome. That, at least, was the impression left by the Barneys New York's pre-Sandy sale ? which offered deals on sencha green tea, backgammon sets and $500 throw blankets so its high-end customers could "settle in with style".

So we know how the shock doctors are readying to exploit the climate crisis, and we know from the past how that story ends. But here is the real question: could this crisis present a different kind of opportunity, one that disperses power into the hands of the many rather than consolidating it the hands of the few; one that radically expands the commons, rather than auctions it off in pieces? In short, could Sandy be the beginning of A People's Shock?

I think it can. As I outlined last year, there are changes we can make that actually have a chance of getting our emissions down to the level science demands. These include re-localising our economies (so we are going to need those farmers where they are); vastly expanding and reimagining the public sphere to not just hold back the next storm but to prevent even worse disruptions in the future; regulating the hell out of corporations and reducing their poisonous political power; and reinventing economics so it no longer defines success as the endless expansion of consumption.

Just as the Great Depression and the second world war launched movements that claimed as their proud legacies social safety nets across the industrialised world, so climate change can be a historic occasion to usher in the next great wave of progressive change. Moreover, none of the anti-democratic trickery I described in The Shock Doctrine is necessary to advance this agenda. Far from seizing on the climate crisis to push through unpopular policies, our task is to seize upon it to demand a truly populist agenda.

The reconstruction from Sandy is a great place to start road testing these ideas. Unlike the disaster capitalists who use crisis to end-run democracy, a People's Recovery (as many from the Occupy movement are already demanding) would call for new democratic processes, including neighbourhood assemblies, to decide how hard-hit communities should be rebuilt. The overriding principle must be addressing the twin crises of inequality and climate change at the same time. For starters, that means reconstruction that doesn't just create jobs but jobs that pay a living wage. It means not just more public transit, but energy-efficient, affordable housing along those transit lines. It also means not just more renewable power, but democratic community control over those projects.

But at the same time as we ramp up alternatives, we need to step up the fight against the forces actively making the climate crisis worse. That means standing firm against the continued expansion of the fossil fuel sector into new and high-risk territories, whether through tar sands, fracking, coal exports to China or Arctic drilling. It also means recognising the limits of political pressure and going after the fossil fuel companies directly, as we are doing at 350.org with our "Do The Math" tour. These companies have shown that they are willing to burn five times as much carbon as the most conservative estimates say is compatible with a liveable planet. We've done the maths, and we simply can't let them.

Either this crisis will become an opportunity for an evolutionary leap, a holistic readjustment of our relationship with the natural world. Or it will become an opportunity for the biggest disaster capitalism free-for-all in human history, leaving the world even more brutally cleaved between winners and losers.

When I wrote The Shock Doctrine, I was documenting crimes of the past. The good news is that this is a crime in progress; it is still within our power to stop it. Let's make sure that, this time, the good guys win.


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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov  7 22:59:14 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 22:59:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Romney's REAL concession speech.
Message-ID: <3EB568B8-27B0-44F5-BC56-7160DD32A1F1@att.net>

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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov  8 08:33:48 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 08:33:48 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Test Your Post-Election I.Q.
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/11/test-your-post-election-iq.html?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(48)

TEST YOUR POST-ELECTION I.Q.!



? How many unqualified voters were estimated by the chief of police of Phoenix, Arizona, to have forged ballots using invisible ink, wrapped them around rocks, and flung them through polling-station windows while illegal-alien poll-watchers stood idly by, munching nachos and swigging Coronas?

? Immediately after the 2012 Presidential election, the electoral college announced that it is merging with a) the Federal Bureau of Threads and Screws, b) Phoenix University, c) the Broadway musical ?Rebecca.?

? Every election-watcher knows that 2012 Presidential election absentee ballots were counted at absentee polling stations by absentee voting-precinct officials?but did these ballots count if they went to an absentee candidate? Answer: Delayed, still waiting for absent absentee-voting expert.

? New York tycoon Donald Trump failed to cast his Presidential vote because a) his ballot got tangled up in his hair and could not be dislodged before the polls closed; b) the Board of Elections refused to allow him to cast his own exclusive personal gold ballot featuring his photo portrait; c) he demanded to vote ten times to reflect his stature.

? True or False? Former Democratic V.P. candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman watched the returns by shuttling between two different TVs, one tuned to Fox and the other to PBS.

? Political analyst/gadfly/operative James Carville?s explanation of the election outcome was comprehended by: a) one Louisianan, b) two Louisianans, c) three people, counting his wife, Mary Matalin.

? True or False? Midwestern political activist Joe the Plumber demanded a recount of his vote.

? Lie or Otherwise? According to the citizen-action group O.B.A.M.A. (Obama Believes America Means Atheism), strong-arm thugs prevented God and Jesus from voting.

? Immediately following the closing of the polls, Michiganders For An Even More Broke Michigan claimed that the government?s failed auto-bailout scheme deprived how many registered voters of their chance to cast their ballots because they had no cars to drive themselves to the polls in? Best guess_____ Second-best guess_____ Wild guess_____.

? False or True? Immediately after the polls closed, the Rick Perry Foundation think tank filed for bankruptcy due to lack of thoughts.

? Which Western-state gubernatorial candidate lost because of his open support for same-sex sports?


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov  8 09:45:14 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:45:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Move to Amend Election Report
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https://movetoamend.org/election-results-move-amend-initiative-resolutions-win-big

Election Results: Move to Amend Initiative Resolutions Win Big

November 7, 2012
From Massachusetts to Oregon, Colorado to Illinois and Wisconsin, and Ohio to California, citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly yesterday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court?s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling and declare that only human beings ? not corporations ? are entitled to constitutional rights and that money is not speech and campaign spending can be regulated.

Residents in over 100 cities had the opportunity to vote on measures calling for an end to the doctrines of corporate constitutional rights and money as free speech, and in every single town the vote was supportive. Often by an overwhelming margin.

In Eau Claire, WI the vote was 71% in favor of a measure stating, "Should the US Constitution be amended to establish that regulating political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting freedom of speech, by stating that only human beings, not corporations, unions, or PACs, are entitled to constitutional rights?"

In largely conservative Pueblo, Colorado, where the city newspaper came out against the measure, residents still voted 65% in favor of Move to Amend's resolution, placed on the ballot by County Commissioners. Move to Amend volunteers in Massachusetts collected signatures to place the constitutional amendment question before one third of the population of their state. The "MA Democracy Amendment Question" passed by 79%.

Voters in Mendocino County, CA where volunteers collected signatures to become the first California county to place a Move to Amend citizen's initiative on the ballot, explicitly voted to "stand with the Move to Amend campaign" by a 73% margin. Move to Amend resolutions also passed in several towns in Illinois and Ohio and Oregon, all by similar landslide margins.

Montana voters approved a state-wide resolution by 75%.	

Another organization -- Common Cause -- put forward several measures calling for simply overturning Citizens United and granting Congress authority to regulate campaign spending. These measures also passed by a wide margin. In the state of Colorado, the Common Cause measure passed by 64% and in San Francisco approval was 80% and 72% in Richmond, CA. The group's measure in Chicago passed by 74%. Common Cause was also an active member of the MA Democracy Amendment Coalition.
Move to Amend's position is that the Constitutional amendment must go beyond simply overturning Citizens United, "There is no reason for us to shy away from a true and lasting  solution, rather than just band-aids," stated Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, a member of the Move to Amend National Leadership Team. "In every single community where Americans have had the opportunity to call for a Constitutional amendment to outlaw corporate personhood, they have seized it and voted yes overwhelmingly. Tuesday's results show that the Movement to Amend has nearly universal approval. Americans are fed up with large corporations wielding undue influence over our elections and our legal system. Citizens United is not the cause, it is a symptom and Americans want to see that case overturned not by simply going back to the politics of 2009 before the case, but rather by removing big money and special interests from the process entirely."

Move to Amend is a national coalition of hundreds of organizations and nearly 250,000 people. The organization also boasts over 150 local affiliates across the country. The Resolve to Amend Campaign goal was to have 50 cities vote on the group's resolution.

Groups: 

CA - Eureka
CA - Fort Bragg
CA - San Francisco
CA - Ukiah
CO - Pueblo
California
Colorado
IL - Chicago
IL - Elgin
IL - Wheaton
Illinois
MA - Boston
MA - Cape Cod
MA - Fitchburg
MA - Northampton
MA - Salem
MT - Missoula
Massachusetts
Montana
OR - Ashland
OR - Corvallis
OR - Eugene
Ohio
Oregon
U.S. - National
Wisconsin
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov  8 15:07:50 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:07:50 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Amy Goodman:Now the Work of Movements Begins
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Now the Work of Movements Begins

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By Amy Goodman

The election is over, and President Barack Obama will continue as the 44th president of the United States. There will be much attention paid by the pundit class to the mechanics of the campaigns, to the techniques of microtargeting potential voters, the effectiveness of get-out-the-vote efforts. The media analysts will fill the hours on the cable news networks, proffering post-election chestnuts about the accuracy of polls, or about either candidate?s success with one demographic or another. Missed by the mainstream media, but churning at the heart of our democracy, are social movements, movements without which President Obama would not have been re-elected.

President Obama is a former community organizer himself. What happens when the community organizer in chief becomes the commander in chief? Who does the community organizing then? Interestingly, he offered a suggestion when speaking at a small New Jersey campaign event when he was first running for president. Someone  asked him what he would do about the Middle East. He answered with a story about the legendary 20th-century organizer A. Philip Randolph meeting with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Randolph described to FDR the condition of black people in America, 

More at:   http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/54-54/14431-focus-now-the-work-of-movements-begins
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov  9 07:58:04 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:58:04 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Tea Party Is Dead. Long Live the Tea Party.
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The Tea Party Is Dead. Long Live the Tea Party.
By Kevin Drum
Gage Skidmore/Flickr
Its birth certificate says that the tea party was born one month after Barack Obama's inauguration, on the day that CNBC's Rick Santelli delivered a blistering on-air tirade against Obama's mortgage bailout plan. But that's only the official story. In reality, we've seen the tea party before. When FDR was president, it was called the American Liberty League. When JFK was president, it was the John Birch Society. When Bill Clinton was president, it was the Vince Foster conspiracy theorists. America's far right fluoresces like this whenever a Democrat is in the White House, and Obama's first term was no exception.

But the tea party burned bright and fell fast. Sure, it galvanized opposition to Obama in a media-friendly kind of way, and helped power the Republican Party to a big majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms. But given the state of the economy this was a victory they probably would have won anyway. And on the other side of the Capitol building, the tea party was almost certainly responsible for the loss of three winnable Senate seats that year. By 2012, after tea party forces nominated several more "wackadoodles" (in Republican strategist Steve Schmidt's phrasing) and helped the GOP lose two more winnable Senate seats, its name was officially mud.

But none of that matters. The tea party has done its job, and for all practical purposes its hard-nosed, no-compromise ideology now controls the Republican Party in a way that neither the Birchers nor the Clinton conspiracy theorists ever did. It's no longer a wing of the Republican Party, it is the Republican Party.

So what's next? Having now lost two presidential elections in a row, conventional wisdom says Republicans have two choices. The first is to admit that tea partyism has failed. 2012 was its best chance for victory, and evolving demographics will only make hardcore conservatism less and less popular. As South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has put it, "We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term." So the party will need to moderate or die.

The second option is to double down. Party activists will tell themselves that Mitt Romney was never a true conservative, and that's what voters sensed. But Republicans can win again in 2016 if they stay true to their principles, moving farther right and amping up the obstruction of all things Obama even more. In Congress, Paul Ryan will be their pied piper and Eric Cantor will be their enforcer.

To most liberals, it seems obvious that if the GOP's leaders are smart, they'll choose the first option. But the truth is that this isn't as obvious as we'd like to believe. After all, moving to the right has worked out pretty well for the party. In 1980, the Reagan revolution gave them control of the Senate for the first time in decades. In 1994, the Gingrich revolution gave them control of the House. In 1998 they impeached Bill Clinton, and two years later won the presidency. In 2009 the tea party took over, and in 2010 they won a landslide midterm victory. The truth is that an ever more radicalized GOP seems to have done at least as well as a more normal GOP probably would have done. Maybe better.

So for now, at least, it seems probable that we're stuck with Option 2. Republican Party elders will probably try to be a little more careful about vetting candidates for political Tourette syndrome (no more "legitimate rape," please), but otherwise the tea party strain will remain ascendant even if the name itself is relegated to the ash heap of history. Republicans will continue to deny climate change, continue to insist that tax cuts pay for themselves, and continue to believe that Barack Obama is a socialist revolutionary. They will once again hold America's economy hostage over the debt ceiling and tax cuts for the rich, and they will continue to filibuster every single bill that Democrats introduce in the Senate.

That much is, frankly, so predictable as to be uninteresting. What is interesting is this: Why doesn't the American electorate punish this behavior? After all, polls don't suggest that the public has moved much to the right over the past few decades, and yet it continues to give an ever more right-wing Republican Party about 50 percent of the vote. What's going on?

At this point we enter the realm of guesswork. One guess is that the public treats unhinged behavior from Republicans these days as merely a kind of brand marker, not something to be taken seriously. Based on past experience, they figure that once Republicans are actually in office they'll talk crazy but mostly act like a fairly normal conservative party.

For liberals, a more unnerving guess is that we simply haven't made ourselves into a consistently appealing alternative for persuadable centrists. We're too eager to raise taxes. We display too much public contempt for things like religion and gun ownership. We don't offer the middle class enough in the way of concrete benefits, and when we do (as with Obamacare) we sell it so poorly that people barely even realize what they're getting.

If either?or both?of these things are true, it's easy to see why Republican extremism hasn't hurt them very much. The next few years, however, could finally be different. If Republicans hold the American economy hostage over the debt ceiling again, their crazy talk might start to sound a little more worrisome. If voters start taking climate change more seriously in the wake of Sandy, concerned independents might abandon a denialist GOP. If the growth of the black and Hispanic electorate causes Republicans to double down on efforts to suppress the nonwhite vote, they could provoke a serious backlash. And if Obamacare gets implemented competently and Democrats make serious progress on reining in the deficit, centrists might not have much reason left to vote against them.

In any case, there's a simple message here for lefties: Don't worry so much about Republicans. Worry about getting the public on our side. If we do that, the GOP will either back away from crazytown or else it will die a natural death. To borrow James Carville's famous epigram, It's Public Opinion, Stupid.


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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov  9 08:11:08 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:11:08 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] My man Alan Grayson: "Courage"
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We'll Have Alan Grayson to Kick Around Again
Alan Grayson/Facebook
Alan Grayson, the bomb-throwing Florida Democratic congressman who was tossed out in the tea party wave of 2010, is going back to Washington. After moving to the newly drawn, deep-blue 9th congressional district after redistricting, Grayson is easily topping his Republican challenger, lawyer and perennial candidate Todd Long, by double digits.

Grayson, who served just one term in Congress before losing to GOP Rep. Dan Webster, carved out a reputation in Washington as a progressive capable of exploding at any moment on nearly any issue. Among other things, Grayson said that former Vice President Dick Cheney has blood "dripping from his teeth," called a female lobbyist a "K-Street whore," said Rush Limbaugh was "more lucid when he was a drug addict," and warned "Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick."

But if you expected Grayson to tone down his act during his two years in the wilderness, you obviously don't know anything about Alan Grayson. On Sunday, he wrote on his Facebook page that, "Sometime between now and Tuesday, they'll say that an Obama victory means the Mayan Apocalypse, 45 days later, and only Mitt Romney/Todd Long/whoever can save us from that. They just keep pushing that big, red PANIC button, over and over and over again."

Grayson's bombast could be exhausting at times, but as my colleague Andy Kroll noted in 2010, he was also a voice for issues even Democrats tended to ignore:

In the recent foreclosure debacle, which introduced regular Americans to "robo signers" and "foreclosure mills," Grayson was a leading voice demanding investigations and highlighting the most glaring problems with the foreclosure pipeline. His pressure, combined with dozens of other members of Congress, helped to spur a nationwide probe involving by all 50 state attorneys to scrutinize into banks' alleged wrongdoing in the foreclosure process.

If GOP Rep. Allen West holds on to win, Florida can probably lay claim to the two members of Congress most hated by the other side.(!)


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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov  9 10:49:27 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 10:49:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Who's there?
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov  9 11:48:33 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 11:48:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] I agree. Hold their feet to the fire.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/opinion/krugman-lets-not-make-a-deal.html?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20121109&_r=0

Let?s Not Make a Deal  

Paul Krugman

To say the obvious: Democrats won an amazing victory. Not only did they hold the White House despite a still-troubled economy, in a year when their Senate majority was supposed to be doomed, they actually added seats.

Nor was that all: They scored major gains in the states. Most notably, California ? long a poster child for the political dysfunction that comes when nothing can get done without a legislative supermajority ? not only voted for much-needed tax increases, but elected, you guessed it, a Democratic supermajority.

But one goal eluded the victors. Even though preliminary estimates suggest that Democrats received somewhat more votes than Republicans in Congressional elections, the G.O.P. retains solid control of the House thanks to extreme gerrymandering by courts and Republican-controlled state governments. And Representative John Boehner, the speaker of the House, wasted no time in declaring that his party remains as intransigent as ever, utterly opposed to any rise in tax rates even as it whines about the size of the deficit.

So President Obama has to make a decision, almost immediately, about how to deal with continuing Republican obstruction. How far should he go in accommodating the G.O.P.?s demands?

My answer is, not far at all. Mr. Obama should hang tough, declaring himself willing, if necessary, to hold his ground even at the cost of letting his opponents inflict damage on a still-shaky economy. And this is definitely no time to negotiate a ?grand bargain? on the budget that snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

In saying this, I don?t mean to minimize the very real economic dangers posed by the so-called fiscal cliff that is looming at the end of this year if the two parties can?t reach a deal. Both the Bush-era tax cuts and the Obama administration?s payroll tax cut are set to expire, even as automatic spending cuts in defense and elsewhere kick in thanks to the deal struck after the 2011 confrontation over the debt ceiling. And the looming combination of tax increases and spending cuts looks easily large enough to push America back into recession.

Nobody wants to see that happen. Yet it may happen all the same, and Mr. Obama has to be willing to let it happen if necessary.

Why? Because Republicans are trying, for the third time since he took office, to use economic blackmail to achieve a goal they lack the votes to achieve through the normal legislative process. In particular, they want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, even though the nation can?t afford to make those tax cuts permanent and the public believes that taxes on the rich should go up ? and they?re threatening to block any deal on anything else unless they get their way. So they are, in effect, threatening to tank the economy unless their demands are met.

Mr. Obama essentially surrendered in the face of similar tactics at the end of 2010, extending low taxes on the rich for two more years. He made significant concessions again in 2011, when Republicans threatened to create financial chaos by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. And the current potential crisis is the legacy of those past concessions.

Well, this has to stop ? unless we want hostage-taking, the threat of making the nation ungovernable, to become a standard part of our political process.

So what should he do? Just say no, and go over the cliff if necessary.

It?s worth pointing out that the fiscal cliff isn?t really a cliff. It?s not like the debt-ceiling confrontation, where terrible things might well have happened right away if the deadline had been missed. This time, nothing very bad will happen to the economy if agreement isn?t reached until a few weeks or even a few months into 2013. So there?s time to bargain.

More important, however, is the point that a stalemate would hurt Republican backers, corporate donors in particular, every bit as much as it hurt the rest of the country. As the risk of severe economic damage grew, Republicans would face intense pressure to cut a deal after all.

Meanwhile, the president is in a far stronger position than in previous confrontations. I don?t place much stock in talk of ?mandates,? but Mr. Obama did win re-election with a populist campaign, so he can plausibly claim that Republicans are defying the will of the American people. And he just won his big election and is, therefore, far better placed than before to weather any political blowback from economic troubles ? especially when it would be so obvious that these troubles were being deliberately inflicted by the G.O.P. in a last-ditch attempt to defend the privileges of the 1 percent.

Most of all, standing up to hostage-taking is the right thing to do for the health of America?s political system.

So stand your ground, Mr. President, and don?t give in to threats. No deal is better than a bad deal.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov  9 13:23:35 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:23:35 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Mendocino is sponsoring a Foreclosure Town
	Hall Meeting, This Fri. Nov. 16, 6 pm
Message-ID: <1CD3ADD3-0ED5-486F-9D23-DB4B03E065EC@mcn.org>

              Occupy Mendocino is sponsoring a Foreclosure Town Hall Meeting with moderator C.J. Holmes. She will be speaking about ways to stop foreclosures in Mendocino County with information about successful techniques that have been initiated in other parts of the country. The Registrar of Deeds will be present and other elected officials as well as the public. Please visit C.J.s website at www.hofj.org for more information or call 937-2377. The event will be held at the Methodist Church in Fort Bragg, on Nov. 16, beginning at 6 PM.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov 10 08:33:27 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:33:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Petition to sign
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PUT CITIZENS UNITED IN THE DUMPSTER OF BAD IDEAS
http://www.alfranken.com/index.php/splas...
Al Franken is right: Citizens United belongs in the Dumpster of Bad Ideas. And I'm helping him put it there by fighting for a constitutional amendment to overturn it. You can join us here. 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov 10 11:01:26 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:01:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Put Citizens United in the Dumpster of Bad Ideas
References: <93D455BF-3426-4E39-903A-ACCC97863A3F@mcn.org>
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Exact link to petition Put Citizens United in the Dumpster of Bad Ideas.
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> http://www.alfranken.com/index.php/splash/w1210cu/f/CKFCUNADSMO1



From marksafron at att.net  Sat Nov 10 12:19:01 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:19:01 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Will Obama Fulfill His 2007 Promise to Label GMOs?
Message-ID: <0D6CDD45-D898-4244-9D8B-448AB9065880@att.net>


Will Obama Fulfill His 2007 Promise to Label GMOs?

By Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society

10 November 12

 
ith the passing of election day 2012, massive awareness was spread throughout the country thanks to the California GMO labeling bill known as Proposition 37. While the bill did not pass through California legislation due to the many dirty tactics employed by the 'No on 37' campaign such as falsely using FDA backing and even sending out fake voting flyers, it has truly invigorated the discussion on proper GMO labeling. Labeling that was promised back in 2007 by the newly re-elected Barack Obama.

Back in 2007 during his campaign tour, Obama addressed the serious issue of GMOs with a promise that he would immediately 'let folks know' whether or not they are consuming GMOs through proper labeling. You can hear the statement yourself in the video below:

 

 
Now more than 5 years later, Obama has not addressed the issue of GMO labeling - at least not in the way you might think. Instead, Obama appointed the former Vice President of Monsanto Michael Taylor as a senior adviser to the FDA back in 2009. Taylor is currently a Deputy Commissioner for Foods for the FDA. These are the facts, and this is not a partisan issue. I am not a republican, nor am I a democrat. I am, however, against Monsanto and tumor-linked genetically modified organisms. I am also for the direct labeling of genetically modified foods, an initiative that was promised 5 years ago by Obama before he took office for the first time.

Meanwhile, concerned citizens around the country has been demanding GMO labeling through numerous outlets. Polls indicate that anywhere from 93-95% of United States citizens are in favor of labeling GMOs. After all, if the general public actually knew that most of what they are consuming contains GMOs they simply would no longer eat them. Ultimately, corporations using GMOs would go bankrupt if they did not phase them out. This is exactly what corporations do not want, which is why they have contributed over $50 million in fighting Prop 37's GMO labeling initiative.

It is essential that we continue to bring the issue of GMO labeling to the forefront of the political spectrum and demand that legislators honor the fundamental right to know what you are putting into your body. It is also essential that we highlight the promises made by Obama and others to initiate GMO labeling. This is not a partisan issue - it is a human one.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov 10 17:52:00 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:52:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: MTV Videos of May 12 Street Fair
References: <0F3BF051-7127-4707-B31A-B273350601E4@mcn.org>
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> 
> This company does not seem to advertise their work, but I feel does a 
> very good reporting  job.   'Occupy Wall Street' is full of great interviews by many of us.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Occupy Laurel Street
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>> 
>> and an older one protesting in front of the B of A.  	
>> Occupy Wall Street in Fort Bragg
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> 
> 	Home page address that has other local videos and  pictures of Liz Irwin on it.
> 
> mendocinotv.com/ 
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From elained at mcn.org  Wed Nov  7 14:53:43 2012
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 14:53:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Top Ten List for President Obama
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I agree with most of this but not with #2. That has to come from citizen initiatives around the country. We here in Mendocino County are the first county in California to pass a citizens initiative calling for an amendment to remove corporate and to overturn citizens united. We cannot wait around for gutless Obama to begin working on a constitutional amendment. He'll write a weak one which probably won't remove corporate personhood.

Obama is obviously an immoral man. He's just not quite as immoral and anti woman as Romney. We need to demand funded elections and real debates which include all candidates. 

Ed Oberweiser

On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Richard Karch wrote:

> http://rsnorg.org/opinion2/277-75/14409-top-ten-wish-list-for-president-obama
> 
> 
> Top Ten Wish List For President Obama
> 
> Juan Cole, Informed Comment
> 
> 07 November 12
> 
>  
> resident Obama's reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has to be more than relief, while playing Russian Roulette, that this time we got the empty chamber. Progressives are a significant wing of the Democratic Party, and if we continue to be ignored, the party will ultimately falter.
> 
> Clearly, Obama does not have progressive instincts, and prefers to rule from the center. This impulse is wrong-headed, since the center didn't man his campaign offices or make phone calls for him. Ruling from the center means taking his base for granted while reaching out to relatively conservative constituencies. This tactic is why we don't have a single-payer health insurance plan. It is why Wall Street reform has consisted of half-measures. It is why we are imposing a financial blockade on Iran that could easily spiral into a war. When it comes to the arch-conservatives, for the most part, Obama has never learned to just say 'no.'
> 
> It does not help that Obama will face virtually the same, obstructionist Tea Party House of Representatives that stymied him for the past two years. Instead of going to them and asking how he could make them happy, he has to threaten to make an all-out push to turn them out of office in 2014 if they continue to say 'no' to everything.
> 
> Progressives will have to push Obama to the left if we are to get what we want. This situation is nothing new? FDR's New Deal would not have amounted to much if workers hadn't engaged in widespread wildcat strikes and if people had not resorted to civil disobedience.
> 
> As for positive accomplishments, here are a few we should pressure him and Congress on:
> 
> We need the tax break for wind energy to be continued. Uncertainty here is deadly to the industry. And it is facing competition from cheap fracked natural gas (which is itself an environmental disaster every which way from Sunday). Wind energy could easily provide a quarter of all the electricity the US produces annually, and it is a way of slowing the rapidly rising average temperature of earth's surface. Obama should deploy Republicans from high-wind states such as Iowa and Colorado to help make his case. It is to Obama's credit that green energy doubled in the US from 3% to 6% during his first term. But 6% is almost nothing, with Portugal, Germany, Scotland and others being far more ambitious. Scotland wants to be 100% green by 2020. Obama should emulate John F. Kennedy, Jr., and give a major address committing the the nation to try to go green in 8 years, just as Kennedy pledged to put us on the moon.
> 
> The Citizens United and other such rulings of the Supreme Court that allow dark money to dominate our elections needs to be undone by legislation. Corporations are not people, and Superpacs shouldn't be buying our elections. Obama should start the work on a constitutional amendment that would permit actual campaign finance reform so that our elections look more like those of Western Europe and less like those of Pakistan.
> 
> Banking regulation still needs to be strengthened. There is nothing really in place that would prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown. Moreover, relief for homeowners under threat of losing their mortgages unfairly or arbitrarily needs to be pushed for again.
> 
> Obama needs to show leadership in pushing back against Koch Brother attempts to destroy public sector unions. Moreover, he needs to create a legal framework for the protection of the right to unionize in the private sector, a right that has been gutted by corporations such as Walmart. It was the unions that gave Mr. Obama Ohio, and if they are undermined during the next four years, they won't be there to deliver the state again.
> 
> He needs to have the Department of Justice look into the Koch Brother-backed legislation in two dozen states restricting the franchise by requiring a paid-for state i.d., which is a kind of poll tax. In many states, this legislation violates the 1965 Voting Rights act. We can't let a couple of sour billionaires undo the achievements of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., achievements for which he gave his life.
> 
> That use of the Department of Justice would perhaps make its workers and its head, Eric Holder, too busy to go around kicking down the doors of medical marijuana clinics and confiscating their computers, records  and cash, in states where the state has legalized marijuana. Obama was elected the first time by the youth, and had promised to cease Federal harassment of pot clinics, but reneged and proved much worse than Bush on this issue. Holder should stop denying the clear medical uses and benefits of pot. In Colorado and Washington states, the same people who voted for him have legalized recreational marijuana. Moreover, the RAND Corp. concludes that legalization would defund the Mexican cartels. If the the Democratic Party continues on this Draconian path, it should not be surprised when it begins losing elections because a substantial younger constituency deserts it for the Green Party.
> 
> Obama put off further consideration of the PATRIOT Act until 2014. Several of its remaining provisions have been tagged by Senators Wyden and Udall as unconstitutional and pernicious because of the way law enforcement is interpreting them "secretly." These unconstitutional provisions must be repealed altogether.  Moreover, Obama needs to come clean about the extent of Federal violations of fourth amendment rights, warrantless surveillance of citizens, and the data mining of our emails and possibly their storage by the National Security Agency. As a victim of illegal White House/ CIA surveillance myself, I am furious that Obama has continued Bush-era abuses, and moreover that the Democratic Party has not so much as bothered to launch an investigation of my case.
> 
> The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy have to be allowed to lapse.
> 
> Obama must give up the fiction that a Department of Justice review of assassination targets is the same thing as a court trial that ends in an execution. The separation of powers is there in the constitution because King George III used to use the executive to declare people "outlaws" and have them killed on a whim, too. Maybe Obama and the national security state think they have invented something new. They haven't. Targeted assassination by executive fiat has been around for a long time, and the Founding Fathers wanted it prohibited.
> 
> Obamacare has to be tweaked in the direction of a single payer system.
> 
> 
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
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From elained at mcn.org  Wed Nov  7 15:04:02 2012
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:04:02 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Top Ten List for President Obama
In-Reply-To: <69D7C176-10CF-4CB6-A977-61B851500D4B@mcn.org>
References: <69D7C176-10CF-4CB6-A977-61B851500D4B@mcn.org>
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One glaring ommission from this piece is any mention of the most important thing of all - the environment. There are no jobs, unions, healthcare or any other items on your wish list on a DEAD PLANET. There are too many people on the planet overrunning the planet's carrying capacity. Women in most places don't have the rights over their own bodies. Until that happens, the human race is going to go over the cliff of extinction like lemmings.

I haven't even mentioned yet the fact that the world's oceans are turning acidic and global warming. The socalled political progressives had better get on this issue before it's too late.

Ed Oberweiser


On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Richard Karch wrote:

> http://rsnorg.org/opinion2/277-75/14409-top-ten-wish-list-for-president-obama
> 
> 
> Top Ten Wish List For President Obama
> 
> Juan Cole, Informed Comment
> 
> 07 November 12
> 
>  
> resident Obama's reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has to be more than relief, while playing Russian Roulette, that this time we got the empty chamber. Progressives are a significant wing of the Democratic Party, and if we continue to be ignored, the party will ultimately falter.
> 
> Clearly, Obama does not have progressive instincts, and prefers to rule from the center. This impulse is wrong-headed, since the center didn't man his campaign offices or make phone calls for him. Ruling from the center means taking his base for granted while reaching out to relatively conservative constituencies. This tactic is why we don't have a single-payer health insurance plan. It is why Wall Street reform has consisted of half-measures. It is why we are imposing a financial blockade on Iran that could easily spiral into a war. When it comes to the arch-conservatives, for the most part, Obama has never learned to just say 'no.'
> 
> It does not help that Obama will face virtually the same, obstructionist Tea Party House of Representatives that stymied him for the past two years. Instead of going to them and asking how he could make them happy, he has to threaten to make an all-out push to turn them out of office in 2014 if they continue to say 'no' to everything.
> 
> Progressives will have to push Obama to the left if we are to get what we want. This situation is nothing new? FDR's New Deal would not have amounted to much if workers hadn't engaged in widespread wildcat strikes and if people had not resorted to civil disobedience.
> 
> As for positive accomplishments, here are a few we should pressure him and Congress on:
> 
> We need the tax break for wind energy to be continued. Uncertainty here is deadly to the industry. And it is facing competition from cheap fracked natural gas (which is itself an environmental disaster every which way from Sunday). Wind energy could easily provide a quarter of all the electricity the US produces annually, and it is a way of slowing the rapidly rising average temperature of earth's surface. Obama should deploy Republicans from high-wind states such as Iowa and Colorado to help make his case. It is to Obama's credit that green energy doubled in the US from 3% to 6% during his first term. But 6% is almost nothing, with Portugal, Germany, Scotland and others being far more ambitious. Scotland wants to be 100% green by 2020. Obama should emulate John F. Kennedy, Jr., and give a major address committing the the nation to try to go green in 8 years, just as Kennedy pledged to put us on the moon.
> 
> The Citizens United and other such rulings of the Supreme Court that allow dark money to dominate our elections needs to be undone by legislation. Corporations are not people, and Superpacs shouldn't be buying our elections. Obama should start the work on a constitutional amendment that would permit actual campaign finance reform so that our elections look more like those of Western Europe and less like those of Pakistan.
> 
> Banking regulation still needs to be strengthened. There is nothing really in place that would prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown. Moreover, relief for homeowners under threat of losing their mortgages unfairly or arbitrarily needs to be pushed for again.
> 
> Obama needs to show leadership in pushing back against Koch Brother attempts to destroy public sector unions. Moreover, he needs to create a legal framework for the protection of the right to unionize in the private sector, a right that has been gutted by corporations such as Walmart. It was the unions that gave Mr. Obama Ohio, and if they are undermined during the next four years, they won't be there to deliver the state again.
> 
> He needs to have the Department of Justice look into the Koch Brother-backed legislation in two dozen states restricting the franchise by requiring a paid-for state i.d., which is a kind of poll tax. In many states, this legislation violates the 1965 Voting Rights act. We can't let a couple of sour billionaires undo the achievements of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., achievements for which he gave his life.
> 
> That use of the Department of Justice would perhaps make its workers and its head, Eric Holder, too busy to go around kicking down the doors of medical marijuana clinics and confiscating their computers, records  and cash, in states where the state has legalized marijuana. Obama was elected the first time by the youth, and had promised to cease Federal harassment of pot clinics, but reneged and proved much worse than Bush on this issue. Holder should stop denying the clear medical uses and benefits of pot. In Colorado and Washington states, the same people who voted for him have legalized recreational marijuana. Moreover, the RAND Corp. concludes that legalization would defund the Mexican cartels. If the the Democratic Party continues on this Draconian path, it should not be surprised when it begins losing elections because a substantial younger constituency deserts it for the Green Party.
> 
> Obama put off further consideration of the PATRIOT Act until 2014. Several of its remaining provisions have been tagged by Senators Wyden and Udall as unconstitutional and pernicious because of the way law enforcement is interpreting them "secretly." These unconstitutional provisions must be repealed altogether.  Moreover, Obama needs to come clean about the extent of Federal violations of fourth amendment rights, warrantless surveillance of citizens, and the data mining of our emails and possibly their storage by the National Security Agency. As a victim of illegal White House/ CIA surveillance myself, I am furious that Obama has continued Bush-era abuses, and moreover that the Democratic Party has not so much as bothered to launch an investigation of my case.
> 
> The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy have to be allowed to lapse.
> 
> Obama must give up the fiction that a Department of Justice review of assassination targets is the same thing as a court trial that ends in an execution. The separation of powers is there in the constitution because King George III used to use the executive to declare people "outlaws" and have them killed on a whim, too. Maybe Obama and the national security state think they have invented something new. They haven't. Targeted assassination by executive fiat has been around for a long time, and the Founding Fathers wanted it prohibited.
> 
> Obamacare has to be tweaked in the direction of a single payer system.
> 
> 
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
> 
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From elained at mcn.org  Sat Nov 10 12:43:27 2012
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:43:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Put Citizens United in the Dumpster of Bad
	Ideas
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There is also the https://movetoamend.org/ site. Move to Amend is a national movement to to overturn Citizens United and very importantly, remove corporate personhood. Our Measure F which passed with 73% of the vote in Mendocino County, was modeled after the MoveToAmend one. We are the MoveToAmend coalition of Mendocino County.

Ed Oberweiser


On Nov 10, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Richard Karch wrote:

> 
> Exact link to petition Put Citizens United in the Dumpster of Bad Ideas.
>> 
>> http://www.alfranken.com/index.php/splash/w1210cu/f/CKFCUNADSMO1
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov  8 10:21:51 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:21:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Consciousness appears to be rising in some states.
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From nsdusoir at mcn.org  Sun Nov 11 20:58:07 2012
From: nsdusoir at mcn.org (Howard Ennes)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:58:07 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Foreclosure alert, Friday, Nov. 16, 6 p.m.
Message-ID: <276B8966-D1EB-420C-94F1-842CB5C8C4AD@mcn.org>

                                                     


> 		Many of our friends and neighbors here on the coast are facing the ugly reality of their homes being foreclosed, often because of technicalities not of their doing.   To see what can be done  about this, Occupy Mendocino is sponsoring a Town Hall meeting on Friday, Nov. 16, to bring all of us up to date about the local home foreclosure situation.  
> 
> 		Moderator of the meeting will be C.J. Holmes, experienced realtor well-informed about the local and national situation.   She will report about ways to stop foreclosures in Mendocino County and will share up-to-the moment information about successful techniques that have been initiated in other parts of the country. 
> 
> 		The Mendocino Registrar of Deeds will be present as well as other elected officials.   Concerned citizens are urged to attend and participate in the discussion.
> 
> 		For more information please visit C.J.Holmes' website (Home Owners For Justice)  www.hofj.org ??  or call 937-2377. 
> 
> 		This Occupy event will be held at the Methodist Church in Fort Bragg, 360 North Corry Street,  Friday, Nov. 16, beginning at 6 PM.
> 
> 		We urge you and your friends to participate.

														
												
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 12 00:19:00 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:19:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Defeated Right-Wing Media Wage War On Voters
Message-ID: <D1A4D40D-5A25-416E-B249-05EE6FD86D48@att.net>

(Will Rogers said, "We've got the best government money can buy." For once, praise be, he was wrong. However, because the conservatives spent all that money on the elections they now feel they have the right to insult us for voting "incorrectly." Things are sliding downhill on, as Jon Stewart calls it, "Bullshit Mountain."  M.S.)  

Defeated Right-Wing Media Wage War On Voters


By Eric Boehler, Media Matters

11 November 12



aise your hand if you thought conservatives would respond to President Obama's convincing re-election victory by lashing out at voters and the country as a whole, denouncing the presidential pick as the act of a greedy, lazy nation.

Well, that was part of Sean Hannity's media message yesterday, as the Obama basher tried to make sense of the president's surprisingly easy victory on Tuesday. Having spent the last four years smearing and denouncing the president with every passing breath on the radio and on Fox News, Hannity was faced with the humiliating reality that most voters paid him no mind.

"Americans, you get the government you deserve," the talker told listeners yesterday, his words dripping with contempt.  "And it pains me to say this, but America now deserves Barack Obama."

Hannity wasn't alone in lashing out at voters. The disdain has been completely unvarnished. Perhaps it flows from the fact so many people dismissed the far-right warnings about Obama.

And that's the box the GOP Noise Machine built for itself: During Obama's entire first term they depicted him as a business-hating, class warfare socialist who despises the American way of life.

But if that's true, why did Obama just score his second electoral landslide in four years?

Either 60 million voters just rejected the Noise Machine's endless, and often hysterical, claims about Obama, or all of those voters are part of the socialist problem in our "maker vs. taker" society. Faced with that choice, and refusing to admit their messaging futility, the right-wing media have opted for the latter: Americans are the real problem!

Tens of millions of them.

Never hesitating to question whether they were the ones out of step with the mainstream, and if their Doomsday warnings about the center-left president were too extreme to be taken seriously by most voters, far-right talkers and writers set their sights on the populace and berated the nation for picking the wrong candidate, and for being selfish, thoughtless people on the prowl Tuesday for "free stuff" from their "Santa Claus" government, as Rush Limbaugh put it.

"People feel that they are entitled to things," Bill O'Reilly lamented on Election Day, as he launched a pre-emptive attack on voters. Led by Hispanics, blacks and women, O'Reilly claimed there's a whole country filled with moochers who vote Democratic.

"Put bluntly, the takers outnumber the makers," blogged John Hinderaker.

Have we ever heard such a contemptuous, post-election attack on American democracy?

Voters weren't simply misguided in choosing Obama and the Democratic agenda, we're told they revealed themselves as deeply flawed people. And it wasn't just politicians, partisans or minorities (the usual far-right targets) who were the focus of the wrath. It was tens of millions of Americans, half the voting public for this election, who have been denounced. They are the ones who allegedly fell for Obama's "fruitful political strategy" of "offering" voters a "check" in exchange for their support.

Yes,  conservatives blamed the media for Mitt Romney's loss. After the votes were tallied they called for impeachment and revolution, while continuing to spew insults at Obama. (National Review Online: "A political narcissistic sociopath"; "a skillful demagogue.") They also blamed the weather and a popular Republican governor, denouncing Chris Christie as "gelatinous clown."

But probably the most startling response was the decision to blame Americans. To blame democratic participants for endorsing Obama's alleged brand of give-away socialism. (i.e Auto bailouts, health insurance, unemployment, etc.)

The lashing out didn't come as a complete surprise given the awkward reckoning that awaited the right-wing media on Election Day: How were they going to explain Obama's re-election if they'd spent the previous four years portraying him a un-American? Why would Obama be able to capture virtually every swing state if, as Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have claimed, the president hates America?

The gulf between the right-wing portrayal of Obama and how he's seen by most Americans has always been enormous. Election Day simply quantified that disconnect and forced his most partisan critics to venture outside their echo chamber and to choose whether they had been wrong about Obama, or if the voters had been.

Verdict: The voters had been wrong. So wrong, in fact, that they'd instantly turned America into "the shallowest country in the history of man."

Limbaugh substitute Mark Steyn complained this week on Fox & Friends that "there's nothing compassionate or humanitarian about saying, as they do in Greece, I got mine and I don't care if it bankrupts the state." He claimed that's what American voters did on Tuesday.

And Fox News' Eric Bolling bemoaned America's choice: "I have to sit back and go, Americans -- 50 percent of people who voted, voted for more of that?" Shorter Fox News: What is wrong with these people?

On and on the whining has gone, as conservatives turned their anger on everyday voters and citizens, mocking them as lazy hangers-on.

Writing at Vanity Fair, James Wolcott noted the GOP's jarring about-face:

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
The Average American turns out to be a dumb patsy fattened up for the slaughter by too much government cheese and other freebies.
Obama's victory represents a clear rebuttal of the conservative media. Outlets could have marked the occasion with some actual introspection. Instead, its leaders embraced two hallmarks of the movement: personal attacks and a refusal to take responsibility for their actions.


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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 12 09:40:20 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:40:20 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Off topic but a good read if you meet a sweater
	vest candidate.
Message-ID: <1DC061B8-DE70-4BAC-A2C0-B91A02CC50DA@att.net>


On her radio show, Dr. Laura said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open letter to Dr. Schlesinger, written by a US man, and posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as quite informative:

Dear Dr. Laura:

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.

1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?

6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination, Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?

7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?

9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I'm confident you can help.

Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.

Your adoring fan,

James M. Kauffman,

Ed.D. Professor Emeritus,

Dept. Of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education University of Virginia

P.S. (It would be a damn shame if we couldn't own a Canadian.)

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 12 09:57:13 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:57:13 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Where did the debt come from?
Message-ID: <162ACA2A-44C9-4460-B5D7-734C28BA4258@att.net>

Is it Obama's fault? You be the judge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LcvLHHMC4iI


From jupiter at mcn.org  Mon Nov 12 10:17:10 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:17:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Grieving and Hope After
References: <D8F5755C-BAEA-45D8-81EC-1AF4BC83DA65@pridesports.net>
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An interesting and hopeful blog.
Linda

>
> Grieving and Hope After the Election
> By JenTheVideoGirl
> Many many people are grieving for our country today. My Facebook  
> feed, made up mostly of conservative Christians, is like the day  
> after a bomb dropped. Early polls showed 80% of evangelicals voted  
> for Governor Romney, and many are shocked and grieved by the outcome  
> of the election.
>
> I am grieving for the church.
>
> Many people are posting on Facebook that this win signals people  
> want handouts and don?t want to work, signals the death of our  
> country?s ideals and an electorate who doesn?t care enough to be  
> informed, and is a national endorsement of abortion, gay marriage,  
> and weed. Most of these posts that I saw came from people who are  
> Christians, and to those posts I have to give the following response:
>
> I humbly and sadly disagree. I think this split is about the church.  
> I think it is about the marginalized (the people the church should  
> love and support). The Democrats made a compelling case that they  
> cared about those people. We in the church have not made that same  
> compelling argument. Even on election day, in some of our responses,  
> we demonstrated a lack of care for people and a lack of faith in  
> God?s sovereignty and a lack of obedience to His commands to not  
> fear. I am going to get into the issues and hopefully present a  
> thoughtful view of these things so that we can understand the ?other  
> side? a bit better ? but first of all let me say this ? Jesus gives  
> hope to each of these issues. We have hope in Christ.
>
> The Handouts: On election day, thousands of people tweeted jokes  
> like ?Don?t worry if Dems are leading, Republicans will vote once  
> they get off work.? I also saw comments about the over-half of our  
> country that voted for the Democrats that go something like this ?  
> ?they want something for nothing so they?ll take our country down in  
> debt.? And it breaks my heart. The rhetoric simply isn?t true, and  
> this attitude is what is alienating us from not only the voting  
> world but from the lost world. Our country has one of the highest  
> levels of childhood poverty of any industrialized nation. Over 18%  
> of our children don?t get enough to eat. And the assumption and the  
> rhetoric states that is the lazy parent?s fault. But the facts,  
> according to the Institute of Child Development, are that 75% of  
> poor children have at least one parent who works. The remaining 25%?  
> Mostly single women who cannot afford quality childcare to be able  
> to work. And some call them welfare queens. But guess what, 1 out of  
> 4 of those women don?t qualify for any federal assistance  
> whatsoever. And the ones who do face restrictions to protect them  
> from living off ?government cheese.? There are some lazy Americans,  
> yes, but for the most part, the working poor are just that, working  
> poor, and not lazy Americans. These are desperate hurting Americans  
> trying to make a living wage and failing. For example, over 50% of  
> Walmart employees don?t make enough to live and because of this,  
> qualify for food stamps. But they are working. Not full-time,  
> because Walmart fights to keep employees at 39 hours per week. But  
> hard. They aren?t looking for a handout. They are trying. And we as  
> the church have bought into the rhetoric and ignored the reality.  
> Church, we have to quit buying into this political ?us vs. them?  
> rhetoric of the working versus the lazy and instead buy into  
> church?s command to love the least of these. Because our command to  
> love is absolute, even when people take advantage of the system and  
> are lazy. We in the church certainly do help the poor ? but in the  
> last 20 years we have helped the poor quietly and shouted the  
> rhetoric loudly. Let?s stop the rhetoric and instead let our quiet  
> consistent support of the poor define us.
>
> The Gays: What if, in the early days of AIDS in the 1980s, the  
> church had embraced homosexuals as they struggled in terror to  
> understand this new disease that was wiping them out? What if we had  
> been the ones known for our care for them? What if instead of  
> fighting them on every right and constantly reminding them of their  
> ?terrible sin,? we remembered how Jesus treated the tax collectors  
> and sinners and how he got to know them and ate with them, and they  
> followed him because they loved him and knew he loved them? Dr.  
> Stanton Jones, provost at Wheaton College, said at Dallas  
> Theological Seminary that the church has failed in the treatment of  
> homosexuals by treating ?them? as our enemy in the culture war, and  
> considering ?their? sin as irredeemable while failing to consider  
> our own sin and brokenness. A study by the Barna Group showed that  
> when asked, 91% of non-Christians defined Christianity as anti- 
> homosexual (in fact, this was the first word they used to describe  
> the Christian faith). We have failed. We have defined the grace,  
> love, and death of Jesus Christ to a lost world as ?anti- 
> homosexual.? Father, forgive us. Do you think they would still seek  
> protection in a political party if we had been their ally instead of  
> declaring ?war? on them? I think that is what this election was  
> about for them. They were aligning themselves with the party who  
> demonstrated care for them.
>
> The Illegals: The Hispanic vote overwhelming went Democratic,  
> despite their dominate Catholic pro-life worldview (much more  
> conservatively pro life than even most evangelicals). Why? I think  
> it was more ?us versus them? rhetoric. What if we were the ones  
> fighting for immigrant children, brought here because children have  
> nothing to eat in the place where they live, instead of the ones  
> calling them ?illegals? and demanding their deportation, many of  
> them to a place where they don?t know the language and have never  
> lived? What if we not only supported but demanded programs like the  
> Dream Act? And I know there is a legal path to immigration, but I  
> also know it is broken and takes sometimes decades and that path is  
> terribly narrow and needs to be fixed. My friends in ministries like  
> International Friends and refugee ministries, you are doing great  
> work ? and we need to partner with you more in that.
>
> The Stoners: What if, instead of seeing the weed legislation  
> movements as ?slacker stoners? wanting to toke in public, we  
> recognized the reality that our ?war on drugs? has not raised the  
> price of drugs or limited access, but instead only succeeded in  
> imprisoning more Americans than any other country in the world? We  
> have a broken legal system that criminalizes the social and medical  
> problem of addiction. In 2010, 1.64 million people were arrested for  
> drug violations, 80% of those were for possession. A friend?s son  
> took his life before a mandatory minimum sentence would send him  
> away to prison after a repeat possession charge. Over 2.3 million  
> people in the United States are imprisoned, over half of those for  
> non-violent drug offenses. This is devastating the African American  
> community (which plays into both the poverty and abortion problems  
> in that community). I?m not saying legalization is the answer ? in  
> fact I think it isn?t, but maybe if we looked at the problem with  
> sympathetic hearts and a willingness to work together toward  
> solutions instead of cynical political goggles, we would join  
> together to find a better solution. Big Brothers and Sisters does  
> great work on the mentoring front, which helps prevent this problem,  
> and Prison Fellowship does an excellent job once people are in  
> prison, but there is room for us to minister alongside these groups  
> to help this marginalized group.
>
> The Babies: I?ve addressed this many times before (here,here and  
> here), and my views on abortion are clear. Abortion is terrible and  
> we are all paying a terrible price for it. But even if reversing Roe  
> was a possibility, which I truly am not sure it will ever be in our  
> country again, at least until there is a major worldview change,  
> abortions didn?t start with Roe. My family was affected by abortion  
> long before Roe v Wade. Abortions are a consequence of spiritual,  
> family, and economic factors. When marriages are strengthened and  
> divorce rates go down, the number of abortions go down. When women  
> escape poverty, abortion rates go down. When the healthcare and  
> childcare options for women improve, the number of abortions go  
> down. When women are in community with people who care and feel  
> supported and encouraged, abortion rates go down. Legislation is not  
> the best answer to the abortion crisis. Jesus and the church is. Our  
> crisis pregnancy centers have done more for life than any legal  
> battle we have ever fought. Well done friends who are part of those  
> powerful ministries. The church is starting to get this right ? and  
> we need to continue on that path.
>
> There is a sense that America rejected God in the voting booth  
> yesterday. But I think there is an argument that we as the Church  
> rejected these groups first, either directly or through the party we  
> have closely aligned ourselves to. Church we are not the Republican  
> party. And by the way, we aren?t the Democratic party either. In  
> fact, the parties may be hurting us not only in mindset but also in  
> reputation. I think we need to remember that both political parties,  
> and partisan media sources, have not only financial interest but  
> ultimately derive power from us suspecting each other, fearing each  
> other, and not compromising with each other. And that is the exact  
> opposite of what our faith is about. We cannot let the ?us versus  
> them? mindset of the political landscape hijack our message of love  
> for all people and grace by faith in Christ alone.
>
> We also have to be careful not to let extreme personalities like  
> Trump with his ?I?m a real Christian? and his honorary doctorate  
> from Liberty, alongside his twitter rants and conspiracy theories  
> about long forms and secret Muslim allegiances, define us. And why  
> do so many I know believe him, but we have a president who has  
> claimed and proclaimed faith in Christ, but people discount that? We  
> should be praying that the Holy Spirit would convict and lead him,  
> not accusing him of secret Muslim religious allegiance. The king?s  
> heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord, he turns it  
> wherever he will. Prov 21:1. The President?s heart is in the hand of  
> God ? so when we pray, we can affect where it turns. That is power  
> we have in Christ! We should be encouraged by it.
>
> It feels like we have forgotten that Jesus is our hope. Jesus alone.
>
> My former pastor, Brandon Thomas, tweeted today ?Bringing people to  
> Jesus will build our great nation to its best days, no doubt! Life  
> in Christ = love God, love others.? I say Amen. Max Lucado tweeted  
> ?Lord, please: Unite us. Strengthen us. Appoint and annoint our  
> president.? I say Amen. I am not saying compromise on any of these  
> things ? nor are these pastors. I am saying let?s assume a position  
> of humility in dealing with these really difficult issues. I?m  
> saying when we are kind, we lead people to Jesus, and we make our  
> country stronger. I?m visual ? so I keep thinking of nuns (habits  
> and all). Everyone knows what they believe. But how do you see them  
> portrayed, even in liberal Hollywood? Positively. Why? Because they  
> are known for helping people ? for humbly working toward the good of  
> the people around them. So they are beloved. We could learn from  
> their example. We need better PR and we need a return to our true  
> hope.
>
> America is not the hope of the world. Neither is a political party.  
> Jesus is. Church, let?s return to him and follow His lead in loving  
> the hurting.
>
> The Backup:
>
> Dr. Russell Moore on a Christian response to the election: http://www.russellmoore.com/2012/11/07/christians-lets-honor-the-president/
>
> Abortion statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_07.pdf
>
> Prison Statistics: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/20/americas-invisible-incarcerated-millions
>
> Drug War Statistics: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/business/in-rethinking-the-war-on-drugs-start-with-the-numbers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
>
> Childhood Poverty Statistics: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
>
> Dallas Theological Seminary Article on Homosexuality: http://www.dts.edu/read/5-failures-on-churchs-treatment-sexuality-5-ways-forward-jones-stanton/
>
> Non-Christian Perceptions of Christianity: unchristian by Kinnamon  
> and Lyons
>
> Ed Stetzer is also calling the church to rise above the rhetoric in  
> this blog post series: both this post and the one from the day  
> before are very very good for those of us who struggle to see what  
> the problem is.
>
> Rich Stearns, CEO of WorldVision, author of the Hole in Our Gospel,  
> and one of my personal heroes, wrote this response to the election: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-stearns/goodbye-christian-america-hello-true-christianity_b_2082649.html
>
> This post has been shared far beyond anything I ever thought  
> possible. Thank you for sharing. I want to clarify a few things.  
> First of all ? pretty much everyone I know, love, and respect is a  
> conservative. In my world ? that?s the majority. I am not saying  
> that every conservative feels this way or has responded this way  
> since the election. Many millions have not. This post was not  
> intended to isolate or attack anyone. I also did not write this to  
> address voting preference ? I don?t want to change your voting or  
> party preference. I?m not advocating a left or right position. That  
> is not my job or my passion. This post was intended as an  
> encouragement for us, in the church, to open our eyes to each other  
> and shut off the rhetoric ? to see that the things that unite us (a  
> love for country, a love for people, and a desire to achieve the  
> best for our family and people we love) are far greater than the  
> things that divide us (our differing ideas for how we achieve change  
> in our country). I am a Christian, so I believe in Christ we have  
> hope and in Christ we are brothers and sisters and that disunity,  
> even because of partisanship, is a tactic of our enemy. Thank you  
> again for reading.
>
>
>

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 12 11:06:03 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:06:03 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Wall Street Is Buying And Paying The
	99%'s Debt
In-Reply-To: <20121112180849.7B4BA4E842D@blade04-01.care2.com>
References: <20121112180849.7B4BA4E842D@blade04-01.care2.com>
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Thanks Ann,  I posted it on our Facebook page too. Sounds like a hot idea that can give Occupy
some much needed positive attention. 

Richard
On Nov 12, 2012, at 10:08 AM, annxpress at live.com wrote:

> Occupy Wall Street Is Buying And Paying The 99%'s Debt
> 
> Hello, I saw this on Care2 and thought you'd like it as well. Care2 is the largest and most trusted information and action site for people who care to make a difference in their lives and the world.
> 
> Care2.com
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 12 12:15:47 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:15:47 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Petitions Work.
Message-ID: <C997F2F7-07B5-4B61-8799-67247941D364@mcn.org>

We talked about petitions and  petitions sites at a recent GA meeting. They are free and produce results. An example is the one below where 1.5 mil people signed a petition that asked to have a shooter brought to justice. Love to have people post petition ideas. Could be local issues too. rk

Change Agent
By Bobby Ghosh and Elizabeth Dias Thursday, Mar. 29, 2012

Gabriela Hasbun for TIME
Turned around. Rattray was headed for Wall Street until and epiphany led him to start Change.org

Follow @TIME
Exactly a month after Trayvon Martin's death, 3,000 people in Sanford, Fla., marched on the town's civic center and demanded justice for the slain teenager ? and punishment for the man who shot him. At the end of the hour-long march, Martin's parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin spoke of their grief for their son and their anger that George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer who had shot him, was still a free man. The hall filled with loud shouts and amens and fierce cries for justice that drowned out even the family's and lawyers' speeches.

The march was the climax of a weeklong campaign to bring attention to Martin's death, with a measure of its impact contained in 10 cardboard boxes that the marchers took to the Sanford city council. The boxes contained the names of 1.5 million people who had signed a petition at the website


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2110460,00.html#ixzz2C2ZKONDk	
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 12 12:45:05 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:45:05 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The most awesome Senate committee assignment ever
References: <49883462.1575957803@kos.kosDB.mail.salsalabs.com>
Message-ID: <20428822-2E98-4029-BD91-5463C1756B7E@att.net>


First, close your eyes and imagine Elizabeth Warren facing down banksters, with subpoena power.

Then, click here to sign our petition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asking him to put Elizabeth Warren on the Senate Banking Committee.

Keep fighting,
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From listserv at mcn.org  Mon Nov 12 13:49:25 2012
From: listserv at mcn.org (Listservs Account)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:49:25 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Digests coming once a day from MCN
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Several members have contacted me about receiving too many Digests a day.

The settings have been changed, so you should now only get one Digest a 
day, probably at noon, maybe at 6PM.

I've subscribed myself as a Digest member and will keep an eye on the 
situation.

Lynne
MCN List Manager
listmanager at mcn.org
Mendocino Community Network




From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 12 11:27:45 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:27:45 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Charts: Ladyparts Strike Back
Message-ID: <C930764C-BD88-4C83-99A1-7A1DEC6C3E30@att.net>

Charts: Ladyparts Strike Back
Check out all the record-breaking wins by the women of our next Congress.
?By Jaeah Lee, Maya Dusenbery, and Hannah Levintova| Fri Nov. 9, 2012 3:03 AM PST











Note: Two undecided House races in Arizona could send two more women to Congress. In addition, three women currently serve as non-voting delegates in the House.
Clarification: The original version of this article stated that Tammy Baldwin is the first openly gay woman elected to Congress. While this remains true, Baldwin was elected to Congress in 1999; her victory on Tuesday means she will be the first openly gay person of either gender in the Senate.
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 12 23:13:03 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:13:03 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] We Just Had a Class War
Message-ID: <87F7ECAC-0E2F-4DE0-A399-A065DA498969@att.net>

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We Just Had a Class War
And one side won.

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By Jonathan Chait Published Nov 11, 2012 ShareThis

When President Obama took the stage at McCormick Place in Chicago well after midnight, we were all too wiped out with joy or depression or Nate Silver auto-refresh fatigue to pay careful attention to the speech the newly reelected president delivered. The phrase that lingered in most of our sleepy ears was the reprise of his career-launching invocation of the United States as being more than red and blue states. So soaring, so unifying. But those words were merely the trappings of magnanimity draped over an argument that was, at its core, harsher than the one he had regularly delivered during the campaign.



The telling phrase came when Obama turned away from the thank-yous and patriotic hymnals into the guts of his remarks. ?Despite all our differences,? he transitioned, ?most of us share certain hopes for America?s future.? The key term here is ?most,? as opposed to ?all???most? meaning less than 100 percent and possibly as little as 51 percent. He attributed to most Americans a desire for great schools, a desire to limit debt and inequality: ?a generous America, a compassionate America.?



Obama then proceeded to define the American idea in a way that excludes the makers-versus-takers conception of individual responsibility propounded by Paul Ryan and the tea party. Since Obama took office, angry men in Colonial garb or on Fox News have harped on ?American exceptionalism,? which boils our national virtue down to the freedom from having to subsidize some other sap?s health insurance. Obama turned this on its head. ?What makes America exceptional,? he announced, ?are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on Earth. The belief that our destiny is shared; that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.? Obama invoked average Americans living out this ethos of mutual responsibility (such as a ?family business whose owners would rather cut their own pay than lay off their neighbors,? the example of which stands at odds with the corporate ethos of a certain ?Boston-based private-equity executive). And even the line about red states and blue states began with the following statement: ?We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions.?


Presumably more was at work here than mere uplift. The president was establishing the meaning of his victory. Even in the days leading up to Tuesday, clouds of dismissal had already begun to hover overhead. The election was ?small,? in the words of one story in the conventional-wisdom-generating machine Politico, and ?too narrow and too rooted in the Democratic base to grant him anything close to a mandate,? in the words of another. ?I don?t think the Obama victory is a policy victory,? sniffed Romney adviser Kevin Hassett. ?In the end what mattered was that it was about Bain and frightening people that Romney is an evil capitalist.?



Like every president, Obama won for myriad reasons, important and petty. But his reelection was hardly small and hardly devoid of ideas. Indeed, it was entirely about a single idea. The campaign, from beginning to end, was an extended argument about economic class.



It began last December, when Obama delivered a trademark Big Speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, where Teddy Roose?velt once spoke, on government?s place in mitigating income inequality. It was, in a sense, an extension of his failed budget negotiations with House Republicans. Obama had decided that his reelection effort would be an attempt to go over Speaker of the House John Boehner?s head and bring to the voters the proposition he couldn?t get the opposing party to accept: that both moral decency and plausible budgeting required an end to George W. Bush?s tax cuts for the rich.



Though liberals may have found Obama?s second presidential campaign less joyful than his first, it?s worth noting that it was thematically sharper and more progressive. Even the ads attacking Mitt Romney?s history at Bain Capital, which could charitably be described as one-?sided, supported the general theme. Republicans had deified the rich?they were ?job creators? whose interests were wholly synonymous with those of the rest of us. The testimonials of the victims of Bain Capital certainly were a personal attack on Romney, but to view them as just a personal attack is to miss the blunt symbolic overtones.



Conservatives, of course, were dying to join the great debate over class?dying to listen to their standard-bearer assail Obama as a redistributionist and lay out a ringing defense of economic freedom. Romney constructed much of his summer campaign around Obama?s wrenched-out-of-context line ?You didn?t build that,? conveying the party?s belief in the centrality of business owners, a notion for which Romney himself served as the main avatar. And when he selected Paul Ryan, the chief party ideologist, as his running mate, it seemed as though the battle of ideas was about to be joined in full.

But Ryan?s role on the ticket turned out to be an early indicator of which party had the upper hand. The great debate over entitlements and the role of the state turned out to consist, at least from the Republican end, of swaggering declarations that they wanted to have a debate. (Ryan: ?We want this debate. We need this debate. We will win this debate.?) Ryan did launch an assault against Obama?from the left, lambasting him for having cut Medicare. After an initial star turn, the campaign whisked Ryan from the spotlight. Ladies and gentlemen, Paul Ryan! Catch him again when he returns in 2016!



Another clue came the night of Romney?s greatest triumph: the first debate, in Denver. Romney trounced Obama precisely because he refused to take up the ideological fight. Rather than argue for the freedom-restoring, incentive-jolting power of tax cuts, as he had before, Romney insisted he would not cut taxes for the rich at all and might even increase them. He presented his opposition to Obama?care not as a crusade against socialism but as a tweak, promising to provide insurance for people with preexisting conditions and reminding the audience of Romneycare, once his secret shame. The next night, in an interview on Fox News, he fully renounced his secretly recorded sneering at the 47 percent?the campaign?s most vivid expression of the ?makers-versus-takers philosophy?after having previously defended it as merely an inelegant expression.



It was a shrewd, necessary concession but one that demonstrated just how unwinnable Romney?s campaign grasped the larger argument to be. Romney pulled close to Obama in the polls precisely because he dulled the philosophical distinction, reducing the points of difference between him and the president to managerial competence and a superior knack for bipartisan negotiation. A wave of endorsements for Romney?by the Des Moines Register, David Brooks, Ross Douthat?explicitly hinged their support on the expectation that Romney would not carry out the program to which he had pledged himself. This was the furthest possible thing from winning a battle of ideas.



If there is a single plank in the Democratic platform on which Obama can claim to have won, it is taxing the rich. Obama ignored vast swaths of his agenda, barely mentioning climate change or education reform, but by God did he hammer home the fact that his winning would bring higher taxes on the rich. He raised it so relentlessly that at times it seemed out of proportion even to me, and I wrote a book on the topic. But polls consistently showed the public was on his side.



Obama?s goal was to prove to the GOP that their rigid defense of the richest one percent was political poison and to force them to bend. For now, at least, their same monomaniacal refusal to increase any taxes on the rich is leading Republicans to deny any connection between the tax issue and Obama?s victory. Numerous Republicans pointed last week to the party?s restrictionist immigration agenda as the source of its dismal performance with the growing (and increasingly Democratic) Latino bloc. But the party?s Latino problem does not rest with immigration law. Polls show that Hispanics are just plain liberal on the main role-of-?government questions dividing the parties. More than three fifths want to leave Obamacare in place rather than repeal it; a mere 12 percent agree with the Republican position of closing the deficit entirely through spending cuts. The harsh truth that fend-for-yourself economic libertarianism is a worldview mainly confined to the shrinking, aging white electorate is a reality Republicans prefer not to acknowledge.



Republicans in Congress have been similarly intransigent. Americans ?reelected our majority in the House,? Boehner asserted last week, and thus they ?made clear that there is no mandate for raising tax rates.? Never mind that voters clearly indicated the opposite when asked directly by pollsters, or that the GOP?s continued House majority reflects its advantage in drawing up districts comfortably gerrymandered to its benefit.



Of course, what the people want is all fairly beside the point now. What matters in Washington is power and leverage?two things that accrued dramatically in Obama?s favor last week. But it?s not irrelevant that American voters had a chance to lay down their marker on the major social divide of our time: whether government can mitigate the skyrocketing inequality generated by the marketplace. For so many years, conservatives have endeavored to fend off such a debate by screaming ?class war? at the faintest wisp of populist rhetoric. Somehow the endless repetition of the scare line inured us to the real thing. Here it was, right before our eyes: a class war, or the closest thing one might find to one in modern American history, as a presidential election. The outcome was plain. The 47 percent turned out to be the 51 percent.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 13 09:34:12 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:34:12 -0600
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Spire Law Group: Legal Action to Stop
	Foreclosures
In-Reply-To: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D06D086F13A@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
References: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D06D086F13A@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
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Please circulate this widely. To Occupy Ukiah members.  We hope to see 
some of you Friday, 11/16 at the F.B. Methodist Church, 360 N. Corry 
St., 6:00pm, Foreclosure Town Hall with C.J. Holmes, elected officials 
and the public invited.

Agnes


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Subject: 	Spire Law Group: Legal Action to Stop Foreclosures
Date: 	Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:12:06 -0600
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
To: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>



This summarizes the lawsuits ofSpire Law Group against the banksters and 
corrupt officials, and their lawsuits against Michael J. Stein and his 
Firm to quash these efforts.

Please review and join the fight for right by spreading the news.  The 
more people that know the truth and the more truth the people know, the 
better offand saferthe people will be.

Considering the level of corruption in the banking system documented by 
the Senate Subcommittee on Homeland Security in July 2012 [below], 
foreclosures should be immediately stopped. Period.

The truth is, the banks could never have recorded millions of forged 
documents to illegally foreclose without government officials conspiring 
to protect them.  We are now in a period of corrupt lawlessness, with 
patriots taking a stand at the risk of their lives: 
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/10/who-killed-lucia-and-leo-krim/]. cj

*BATTLE HISTORY LEADING TO 2012 SPIRE LAWSUITS*

*Aug 8, 2011*: Open Letter from Michael J. Stein on the battle against 
corruption:http://www.dobielaw.org/Open-Letter.html

*Aug 17, 2011*: CA AG "raided" Stein's Firm based on false affidavit of 
AG investigator Layton, confirmed false by Layton himself in federal 
district court in 2012. This is the basis of the Aug 3, 2012 update 
[below] of the $1B lawsuit Stein currently has against CA and the AG

*Dec 18, 2011*: Stein's arrest by US DOJ for 
fraud:http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-crm-1681.html

*2012 SPIRE LAWSUITS:*  to *'protect the public at all costs from 
corruption.'* www.spire-law.com <http://www.spire-law.com>
Spire intro letter to inquiries: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/Spire%20Intro%20Letter%20Final%28ths%29.pdf

*
SUMMARY OF SPIRE LAW GROUP LAWSUITS* [links to articles and lawsuits 
furtherbelow]

*April*: /money laundering and larceny/ -- if you paid a national bank 
servicer between 2003-2009 you may have a right to bring this lawsuit

*July*: /terrorists have infiltrated the US banking system nationwide/ 
and worldwide completely corrupting it with Administration approval

*August*: /$1B lawsuit against CA and AG Harris/ for litigation file 
theft, corruption, and collusion with Obama to steal $3T from taxpayers

*October*: /$43T racketeering scheme lawsuit demands a national 
foreclosure moratorium/ [this is amended April lawsuit] and names 
names:  Holder, Harris, West, Corzine, Geithner, Jarrett, Rubin, Pandet, 
Dunn, Bauer, Banksters, affiliates, conduits.

*April 23, 2012*:/Money Laundering, Larceny/ 
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/-1647025.htm

Homeowners across the Nation Sue all Bank Servicers and their Offshore 
Havens, proving conspiracy and collusion by government officials and 
agencies, and suing for conversion, larceny, fraud, including the fact 
that the Administration spends far more money stopping bank 
investigations, than investigating them.

Commenting further on the case, Mr. Wittenberg stated: "As if it is not 
bad enough that banks collect money and do not credit it to homeowners' 
accounts, and as if it is not bad enough that those banks then foreclose 
when they know they do not have a legally enforceable interest in the 
realty, we now learn that they have been operating under unbridled free 
reign given by the Administration and some states' Attorneys General in 
formulating this international money laundering network. Now that the 
light of day has been shined on it, I believe we can all rest assured 
that the beginning of the end of the bank crisis has arrived."

/All United States home owners may have the right to bring a lawsuit of 
this kind if they paid money to a national bank servicer during the 
years 2003 through 2009./

*July 31, 2012*:/Terrorists infiltrated Banking System/ 
http://transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=1118730
/US Senate report on Money Laundering, Drugs, and Terrorist 
Financing/:http://www.scribd.com/doc/103543276/United-States-Senate-report-on-U-S-Vulnerabilities-to-Money-Laundering-Drugs-and-Terrorist-Financing-HSBC

The Senate Subcommittee on Homeland Security -- on July 17, 2012 -- 
issued this Report spanning more than 100-pages and chronicling that 
drug cartels, terrorists and other unsavory foreign "un-sourced" 
monetary organizations have infiltrated the United States banking system 
nationwide and worldwide in connection with the April, 2012 
Spire-revealed money laundering network.

According to the Senate Subcommittee on Homeland Security, the global 
risk has increased and has infested the banking system in terms of 
"anti-money laundering and terrorist financing vulnerabilities when a 
global bank uses its U.S. affiliate to provide U.S. dollars, U.S. dollar 
services and access to the U.S. Financial system to high risk 
affiliates, high risk correspondent banks and high risk clients."... 
including Iran...

/For example, the very bearer share corporate accounts and commercial 
paper used to foreclose out so many homeowners are artifices to defraud 
as found by Congress and Spire Law Group. It is for this reason alone 
that many if not all standard American mortgages over the past decade 
are unenforceable./

*August 3, 2012*: /$1B against Harris and CA/ 
http://transworldnews.com/1124807/c0/homeowners-1-billion-lawsuit-against-california-and-its-attorney-general-kamala-harris-allowed-to-standlawsuit 
CV 12-00987 CRB

AG Harris allegedly, at BofA's request, stole homeowners attorney client 
privileged files and destroyed them in the middle of Spire Law Group and 
clients' litigation against Bank of America.  Allegedly Harris acted 
with Obama Administration approval (Harris' brother-in-law, Tony West, 
is in Obama's DOJ).  Additional acts will be exposed how Obama and 
friendly AGs like Harris stole another $3T from taxpayers to protect 
American corporations.

*October 25, 2012*:/$43T racketeering scheme 
lawsuit/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/major-banks-governmental-officials-and-their-comrade-capitalists-targets-of-spire-law-group-llps-racketeering-and-money-laundering-lawsuit-seeking-return-of-43-trillion-to-the-united-states-treasury-175828861.htmlCV-04269-JBW-RML:http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/43T 
lawsuit 800pgs.pdf 
<http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/43T%20lawsuit%20800pgs.pdf>  [p20 
preliminary statement of case then list of plaintiffs, p141 begins list 
of defendants, p320 begins Facts]

This national home owners' lawsuit, identifies $43 trillion of laundered 
money, pinpoints the key racketeering partners of the Banksters, and 
requests the District Court and Federal Court to enjoin [stop] all 
mortgage foreclosures by the Banksters nationwide, unless and until the 
entire $43T is repaid to a court-appointed receiver.   It seeks an audit 
of the Fed, audits of all the "bailout programs", and has expanded the 
lawsuit to include racketeering, money laundering charges and 
intentional violations of the Iranian Nations Sanctions and Embargo Act 
by the national banks.

*LawsuitDefendants*: Eric Holder (US AG), Toney West (Harris' 
brother-in-law in USDOJ), Kamala Harris (CA AG), Jon Corzine (former NJ 
governor), Robert Rubin (former Treasury Sec), Timothy Geithner 
(Treasury Sec), Vikram Pandit (recent COB of Citigroup), Valerie Jarrett 
(Senior White House Advisor), Anita Dunn (former communications director 
for Obama), Robert Bauer (husband of Anita Dunn and chief legal counsel 
for the Obama re-election campaign), the Banksters themselves, their 
affiliates and conduits.

Help us change the game in favor of home owners over the banksters and 
terrorists.  cj

CJ_Web

CJ Holmes, Founder

Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197


www.HOFJ.org

/(707) 578-5727/

/(707) 578-5873 f/

818 Mendocino Ave

Santa Rosa, CA  95401

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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 13 10:24:05 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:24:05 -0600
Subject: [Occupymendocino] lawsuit to stop foreclosures and return 4
 Trillion dollars to the US Treasury
Message-ID: <50A29045.8090809@mcn.org>

*To all,I can't do an attachment, sorry. go to C.J.s website.www.hofj.com
    Agnes
*

*
October 25, 2012*:/$43T racketeering scheme lawsuit/

This national home owners' lawsuit, identifies $43 trillion of laundered 
money, pinpoints the key racketeering partners of the Banksters, and 
requests the District Court and Federal Court to enjoin [stop] all 
mortgage foreclosures by the Banksters nationwide, unless and until the 
entire $43T is repaid to a court-appointed receiver.  It seeks an audit 
of the Fed, audits of all the "bailout programs", and has expanded the 
lawsuit to include racketeering, money laundering charges and 
intentional violations of the Iranian Nations Sanctions and Embargo Act 
by the national banks.

*LawsuitDefendants*: Eric Holder (US AG), Toney West (Harris' 
brother-in-law in USDOJ), Kamala Harris (CA AG), Jon Corzine (former NJ 
governor), Robert Rubin (former Treasury Sec), Timothy Geithner 
(Treasury Sec), Vikram Pandit (recent COB of Citigroup), Valerie Jarrett 
(Senior White House Advisor), Anita Dunn (former communications director 
for Obama), Robert Bauer (husband of Anita Dunn and chief legal counsel 
for the Obama re-election campaign), the Banksters themselves, their 
affiliates and conduits.

Help us change the game in favor of home owners over the banksters and 
terrorists. cj

CJ_Web

CJ Holmes, Founder

Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197


www.HOFJ.org

/(707) 578-5727/

/(707) 578-5873 f/

818 Mendocino Ave

Santa Rosa, CA  95401

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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Nov 13 16:14:58 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:14:58 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Curious video
Message-ID: <0ED785AE-16A4-473F-A540-079CBD1E8D78@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oSQJ2ULuhb8


From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov 14 08:01:40 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:01:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Grand Bargain Is a Grand Lie
Message-ID: <59624D01-C026-483F-8C49-C25BA2F2442E@att.net>

The Grand Bargain Is a Grand Lie


By Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks

13 November 12

 
Why the scheme being negotiated in Washington is one-sided and totally unfair

irst of all, let's establish that no one in Washington actually cares about balancing the budget. If they did, they would love this so-called Fiscal Cliff. It raises taxes and cuts spending, so it would massively reduce the deficit. Isn't that what all of Washington has been pretending to care about all of this time?

Second, understand that this so-called compromise they are talking about in order to avoid this supposed calamity is a trick. In fact, it'll be the greatest robbery in American history. Think about it - they say they are worried about all those tax increases and spending cuts. But that's not true. The Grand Bargain would dramatically increase spending cuts, not alleviate them. So, in fact, the only thing they care about is paying less taxes, as always.

Right now, according to the sequester $1.2 trillion in spending cuts are set to take place if nothing happens. Half of that would come from defense. Of course, this is the real problem because there's no way the defense contractors are going to allow that. Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.

President Obama has proposed that the Grand Bargain include $4 trillion in savings. He has said over and over again that the ratio would be $3 in spending cuts to $1 in tax increases. This is before his legendarily disastrous negotiating begins. So, let's do some quick math. According to the president's own plan that would be $3 trillion in spending cuts, which is significantly higher than the current plan of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts.

Let me add one other fact, if all you do is let the Bush tax cuts expire for people making over $250,000, you would already have $1 trillion in tax increases. And we were told because of this election that was already non-negotiable. That's what we fought to make sure would happen and the president has guaranteed it. So, what exactly do progressives gain out of this Grand Bargain?

The reality is that this is cost shifting. They are going to move the spending cuts away from defense and on to the middle class and poor by hacking away at Medicare and Medicaid. This is defined as courageous in Washington. What a load of crap. What would be courageous is taking on the rich and the powerful and the large political donors, which is the exact opposite of what's going to happen.

President Obama has already promised corporate tax cuts (from 35 percent to 28 percent). Think about that. Why are we doing tax cuts if we are trying to reduce the deficit? The administration tells us not to worry because they will close some loopholes and make it revenue neutral. But wait a minute, I thought the whole point was not to make it revenue neutral. I thought we were trying to raise revenue.

There's a good chance they'll pull this same kind of crap on income taxes, after all, if they wanted to raise a trillion in revenue all they would have to do is do nothing. Once the Bush tax cuts expire, you re-instate the middle class tax cuts and voila, you're done. That way, you don't have to give up anything in return!

Yet, the White House is planning to give up at least $3 trillion in spending cuts anyway. If you were progressive, if you cared about the middle class, if you were honest, why in the world would you do that? The reality is that this robbery is indefensible and my math here is irrefutable, that's why they will do this deal as quickly as possible. The more people think about it, the more they have a chance to get enraged. The Democrats and Republicans have to agree to this deal in the lame duck session before the public realizes their pocket has been picked.

They're going to raise the Medicare eligibility age even though Medicare costs less than private insurance to the country overall. That's not going to save us any money; it's going to cost us money. But it will shift money from the middle class who would get the benefits of those years of Medicare to private insurance companies and to the rich in the form of extra tax cuts they finance in the federal budget.

If you think these politicians have your best interest in mind, then you're living in an alternate reality. And are you telling me that no one else in the media did the simplest math in the world on this? They also don't want you to know (they don't want to know themselves, that's why they avoid thinking about the obvious problems in this charade), because they're also rich and powerful. The money gets shifted to them. So, why would they want to tell you about how you are about to get robbed?

The Grand Bargain is a Grand Lie. Anyone who argues for it is either a fool or a charlatan. If President Obama was anything but the establishment hack that he is, he would never consider it. There is nothing wrong with compromise, but this isn't compromise. This is a robbery.


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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov 14 10:05:23 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:05:23 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] As you might think,
	the "Blue" states subsidize the "Red" ones...
Message-ID: <5EDD6542-DF38-45DB-B660-4BA52F4A8F12@att.net>

?as some have suggested, let them succeed.

The people that, "Did it on their own," didn't. 
It turns out that, "We, the people," built that.

http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2010/02/17/federal-taxes-paidreceived-for-each-state

From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov 14 10:42:24 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:42:24 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] This Would Be Why The U.S. Isn't Really
	Considered A 'Grown-Up' Country
Message-ID: <210206BD-7FCE-4109-A2EC-B8FFE82E443C@att.net>

This is map of the countries that provide universal health care coverage for their citizens. You'll note a certain freedom-loving superpower isn't one of them. Said freedom-loving superpower also spends significantly more on health care than nearly every other country in the developed world. Gee, I wonder if there's some kind of correlation there? 


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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov 14 16:03:51 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:03:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Go Ahead and Secede, Texas. I Dare You.
Message-ID: <2A657ECB-8716-4943-AD03-15A97CC48605@att.net>


Go Ahead and Secede, Texas. I Dare You.
Chuck Thompson
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In the wake of news that more than 80,000 people have signed an online White House petitionasking permission for Texas to leave the Union, a single grave concern has united the minds of Americans of all political colors: If the state secedes, where are we going to get our NFL-caliber wide receivers?

As a recent student not just of secession, but the traditionally Southern mindset that drives it in this country (similar petitions for Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina have all topped 20,000 signatures), let me be the first to say to the aggrieved liberal community: relax. No one is talking about building a Berlin Wall around the upside-down pistol grip part of Texas.

Texans may be stubborn, but they ain?t stupid. In the event of secession, mutually beneficial treaties would be drawn up between the United States and newly formed Texas Republic, ensuring both sides get what they need. 

The U.S.A. would be guaranteed access to Texas?s critical military bases, and to necessities such as refined oil, natural gas, cattle, cotton and cheerleaders. (By the way, anytime someone mentions jazz as America?s singular gift to world culture, I hasten to remind them of the cheerleader outfit.) In return, Texas would receive from the rest of the nation such life-sustaining provisions as ?

Come to think of it, what does Texas actually need from the rest of us?

It?s not just that the state leads the nation in production of most of those aforementioned resources. With a rock-solid infrastructure (Texas is the only state in the continental U.S. with its own independent power grid) and stable political tradition, it?s also a self-sustaining player in agriculture, aeronautics, computers, energy, high-tech research and manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation and just about any other economic category to which you care to attach a dollar value. It?s home to six of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies, including ExxonMobil, ConocoPhilips and AT&T, not to mention Southwest Airlines, American Airlines and Dr Pepper. According to a 2011 Economist ranking, Texas?s $1.224 trillion GDP makes it the economic equivalent of Russia?and the fourteenth-largest economy in the world, second among U.S. states only to California.

Even during the recent economic downturn, commerce in Texas has remained robust. Employment is growing at 3.1 percent annually; its manufacturing and export figures are trending up; its unemployment rate currently stands at 6.8 percent, a full point below the national average; and housing starts are up 17.2 percent over the past year.

Texan Bob Smiley, author of the witty Texas secession novel Don?t Mess With Travis (Travis being the surname of a fictional Texas governor who calls for secession), is even more emphatic on the point. ?In the last decade of the Great Recession, Texas has expanded by more than one million jobs, more than all other states combined,? Smiley told me in an email. ?And fully 95 percent of the country receives its oil and gas courtesy of pipelines that originate within Texas. That is what one might call leverage.?

Texas isn?t entirely without need?consider the recent drought there, and accompanying federal aid?but then again, no major player in the global economy is entirely self-sufficient. Point being, instead of freaking out about angry Texans and other Southerners wanting to control their own destiny, we'd do better to consider their position and complaints, and ask ourselves: Shouldn?t shared values, cultural norms and manageable geography?not the chance tentacles of history and insatiable federal bureaucracy?ultimately be the things that unite a given population?

For two years, I traveled throughout Texas and the South researching these very questions for a book. I concluded that while on its surface secession is an admittedly absurd proposition, there?s a certain logic, even a sense of humanity, in its essence. Sure, splitting the country apart feels unnatural?a crime against manifest destiny, at the very least. Americans have become so accustomed to their hard divisions?conservative-liberal, black-white, Roe-Wade, red-blue, Tea Party-sane?that the chasm separating us feels almost ordained, an organic and even integral part of the national tradition. But just because spiritual, political, racial and commercial divides have always been with us doesn?t mean they must continue to define us.

So let?s back away from the secession ledge for a moment, see if we can?t find a compromise. Maybe the solution for dissatisfied Texans and other wannabe secessionist states that can?t tolerate the oppressive yoke of the federal government is to grant them some measure of quasi-autonomy. There?s plenty of international precedent. Maybe deal with Texas the way that the Philippines deals with its restive state in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, or the way China manages economically independent Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region, even issuing its citizens their own passports. Hell, Scotland already has a semiautonomous parliament and in 2014 it?s going to vote on an independence referendum that could abolish its 300-year tie to the UK. Turn Texas into Puerto Rico or Guam; give them some form of political and social expression in exchange for diminished power in federal government.

Or maybe the solution is simply to give Texas and other secessionist-conservatives what they really want: free passage to the land of all their conservative fantasies. Send them all off with gratis one-way tickets (I?m happy to earmark some of my socialist tax dollars for the effort) to a country with: a small federal government with limited power and meager influence over the private lives of its citizens; extremely weak trade unions routinely sabotaged by the federal government (i.e., a ?pro-business environment?); negligible income tax; few immigrants, legal or otherwise; a dominant Christian population, accounting for some 70 percent of the people; no mandatory health insurance or concept of universal health care; a strong social taboo surrounding homosexuality and a constitution that already states, ?All individuals have the right to marry a person of their choice of the opposite sex?; and a gun culture so ubiquitous that you can find automatic weaponry displayed openly on the streets of its capital city and in many households.

Sound like a Texan secessionist?s dream? Well, it?s no dream. This country already exists. It?s called the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Don?t mess with us, Texas. You just might get what you want.

Chuck Thompson is the author of Better Off Without ?Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession (Simon & Schuster).


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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Wed Nov 14 19:15:05 2012
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:15:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Minutes of Nov 2 mtg.
Message-ID: <1352949305.38876.YahooMailNeo@web112301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>



? ? The following notes were recorded at the mtg. by Daniel? &
transcribed by Sheila Dawn.
Facilitator: Claire
??? Agnes gave a report on her success in
moving forward with plans for a ForeclosureTown Hall. (FTH) They
included contact with Hospitality House, Safe Passages,Alliance
for Democracy and the SeniorCenter. Options for
location included the Evergreen Methodist Church? (360 N. Corry) or St
Michael's Episcopal Church.--The former, Evergreen Methodist, was later chosen
as the best site. Agnes suggested? donating 1/2 of the proceeds from
donations to go to C.J. Holmes expenses.? She spoke about getting informed
on nationwide strategies regarding foreclosures through teleconferencing with
Maestro Conference? and said the link was posted on the OM
list serve.
??? Publicity:Agnes put a letter about FTH in
two local papers. A third paper published her letter the following week due to
computer complications. She also contacted John Sackowizc of KZYX notifying him
that C.J. Holmes would be available for an interview when she came to town for
the FTH meeting.
?
C.J. put an article in the paper (Press Democrat?) about the Santa Rosa FTH.
??
Sheila contacted by Email the City Council & the Bd. of Supervisors asking
them to express an interest in attending a Ft. Bragg FTH.? She also spoke
to Charles Wood of Transition Towns who committed to attend and put the notice
of a future mtg. on the TT Email.
???
Mark said he had not been able to contact D. Gjerde by phone as of the mtg. date.?
??? ?A new person--Peter White, a real estate agent
currently dealing with foreclosure--responded to our flyers and came to the
meeting to lend support for the FTH. A long discussion about setting a date for
the FTH ensued. Some felt we needed more response of interest from the Bd. of
Supervisors, the City Council Members and the general public to proceed.
???? Amanda & Agnes felt that people couldn't
commit without a firm date to plan around. It was agreed that a commitment from
one official from the BOS & the City Council would be sufficient.
????
??? Howard suggested that
Agnes write a concise set of points to educate the group on the sequence of how
the County could take over the foreclosure process from the banks so that OM
could be better at enlisting the interest of others.
? ?Another discussion took place about the best
date regarding the upcoming holiday season.
???? A motion was made by Amanda to set the
date for Dec 1st. The motion filed in a 4-4 vote. Another motion was made by
Richard to set up a committee to set the final date. That motion passed
unanimously. Committee members: Agnes, Tommy, Richard & Sheila.
??? Agnes expressed interest in keeping up the
pressure on the BOS by attending their next mtg. and advocating the FTH during
Public Comment time.
???? Technical :
??? Sheila reported that the
second video of the Street Fair had been completed and was being shown the
Sunday before the election and the Wednes. after. It will be shown on MCTV(Channel
3) at unscheduled times?also at mendocoasttv.org under video on demand.
???? Richard noted he had
put a link to the videos on Facebook. He also put some video footage from MTV(
located in the old Daly building).
???? As no one volunteered
to be facilitator for the next meeting, we will decide that person on Nov 17th,
the next meeting?Sat. 2 to4 P.M. Please bring topics to add to the agenda.
?? A report on the FTH will
be made at that time.
? The group held hands and
observed a moment of silence in meditation of the passing of Miles Everett who
encouraged the group to affiliate with MCTV to promote our activities to a
wider audience. Thank You, Miles.
???????????????????????????????????? ??????????????Respectfully,
??????????????????????????????????????????????????? Sheila Dawn?????????? 
Addendum:
? It was decided by a
majority of the FTH committee to hold the ForeclosureTown Hall
on Friday, Nov. 16th at the EvergreenMethodistChurch.(
Location above) Sheila had received an Email from Kendall Smith that she would
attend once the date was set. Time: 6 P.M.

? Sheila contacted Elizabeth at MCTV to get
the event filmed. Since the City Council has a conflict that evening, having
access to the content of the meeting was felt to be essential. Agnes agreed to front
the fee of $150. if needed. A vote would be taken at the next mtg. to reimburse
her from funds collected through our Thanksgiving donation drive.She will be present at that meeting as her previous commitment has
changed. 
??????????????????????????? S.D.T.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Nov 14 19:29:47 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:29:47 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Roll back the New Deal? No way.
In-Reply-To: <1273998528.-2075879038@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com>
References: <1273998528.-2075879038@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com>
Message-ID: <50A461AB.9050801@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Roll back the New Deal? No way.
Date: 	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:36:55 -0500 (EST)
From: 	The Other 98% Team <info at other98.com>
Reply-To: 	info at other98.com
To: 	agnes at mcn.org



<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HyXEl3kkyacpA6ybecrjs0OzoA%2FK9S6T>

*Worked then. Works now.*

Dear Agnes,

*Right now, CEOs and politicians are dreaming up ways to cut Social 
Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They want to roll back the New Deal.*

But we won't let them. *That's why we're teaming up with Social Security 
Works and Senator Bernie Sanders to ask you to call Congress today and 
Thursday, and send a simple message: Don't. Mess. With. The. New. Deal. 
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7z8sLbjhO0nL9HCOSaK8zEOzoA%2FK9S6T>*

*This is just the first step - but it's an important one. It's also an 
easy step to take: you can use this link to figure out how and when to 
call Congress, step-by-step, and report back. 
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If we speak loudly and often enough - to the point where it disrupts 
business as usual - then they can't ignore us if they want to proceed. 
Let's make some noise.

Sincerely,

The Other 98% Team: Andy, John, Josh, Nicole, Samantha

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From jupiter at mcn.org  Thu Nov 15 08:07:51 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:07:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Patterns
References: <22EDE652-4865-41F4-A413-4C22F6D1054D@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <53441522-181A-417B-94B6-20174FF157B1@mcn.org>

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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov 15 08:18:26 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:18:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Headline of the day.
Message-ID: <D8BC7D1A-DEB8-4C9F-AEDB-9CF6FE8B31F3@att.net>

Remember that great shot of a Tea Party demonstrator holding a sign that said, "GET A BRAIN MORANS?" Well, guess what --

http://www.rollcall.com/news/some_fear_moran_lacks_qualifications_to_lead_nrsc-219133-1.html

From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov 15 07:58:14 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:58:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Ten Mile Court Closure in Fort Bragg
Message-ID: <4F90DFB2-B54A-4548-BF0B-032334281673@att.net>

Please forward this to your local email contacts.  We cannot lose our local court.


As you know several citizens have been working around the clock to try and convince the Judges in Ukiah that a closure to our local court would not only affect my department, but this entire community.  After speaking to our DA David Eyster he suggested that as many community members as possible need to call Judge Henderson?s Administration office and tell them how we disapprove of their decision.   The phone number is 964-4664?..Please if you agree with me rally the troops and have as many community members as possible call??...
 
Thanks for your support,
 
Scott
 
Scott J. Mayberry
Chief of Police
Fort Bragg Police Department
250 East Cypress Street
Fort Bragg, California 95437
707-961-2800


 

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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Nov 14 15:33:44 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:33:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fwd: Fw: Political cartoons
In-Reply-To: <66b0e.2927a8a8.3dd54a27@aol.com>
References: <66b0e.2927a8a8.3dd54a27@aol.com>
Message-ID: <50A42A58.1010400@mcn.org>





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        Dear friends:  a final (?) set of election funnies.  Sorry, I
        can't stop....










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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 15 08:54:19 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:54:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ROLLING JUBILEE KICKS OFF TODAY
Message-ID: <7E289B6D-5341-411B-A494-AB933AE66EE9@mcn.org>

Rolling Jubilee starts it Strike Debt project today,Nov 15.  For details go to:      http://rollingjubilee.org

Rolling Jubilee: Buying Up Distressed Debt, Occupy Offshoot Bails Out the People, Not the Banks

		From Democracy Now:  
An offshoot of Occupy Wall Street has launched a new movement called "Rolling Jubilee" to buy distressed debt from financial firms, often for pennies on the dollar, and then canceling it so that borrowers do not have to repay. The people who incurred the debt in the first place then get a certified letter informing them they are off the hook. Typically, financial institutions sell debt for pennies on the dollar to third parties who either try to collect on it or bundle it up for resale. However, the Rolling Jubilee activists say they are buying up the debt in order to "liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal." Tonight, Rolling Jubilee is holding a sold-out benefit concert in New York City to continue its anti-debt fundraising. The group says it has already raised $129,000 through online donations, which is enough to buy approximately $2.5 million worth of defaulted loans, due to their steep markdowns. We?re joined by Pamela Brown, a Ph.D. student in sociology at the New School and one of the organizers of the Rolling Jubilee. She also is participating in the Occupy Sandy efforts to organize local relief efforts to people hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]



A bailout of the people by the people

Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal. Debt resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits.

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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Thu Nov 15 14:21:00 2012
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:21:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Correction of  City of Ft Bragg meeting
Message-ID: <1353018060.3336.YahooMailNeo@web112315.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

To OM members,
?? I checked on the information in Howard's Email and found out that the City meeting is scheduled from 8A.M.to 10A.M. on the day of the 16th, so there is no conflict with our Foreclosure Town Hall meeting at Evergreen Methodist Church at 6P.M. There is also no other event scheduled for the Town Hall on Main St. for the evening so there should be a minimum of confusion.
? Also, I forgot to note in the minutes that Irene mentioned the meeting at the Ten Mile courthouse on Nov. 29th at 5:30 P.M. The flyer at the court house says the purpose of the meeting is to explain the need for the cutback in the clerk's window hours which will soon change to 1P.M. It is still important to call the Ukiah courthouse about plans,(according to the DA & the FT Bragg Police Chief, Mayberry) to eliminate the court altogether. 964-4664
???????????????????????????????????????????? Sheila Dawn
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov 15 17:46:52 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:46:52 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Correction on Ten Mile Justice Ct. Phone #
Message-ID: <97218390-8F0F-46E8-B6B0-A55C8930D248@att.net>

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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Thu Nov 15 18:43:54 2012
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:43:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] City meeting Friday (tomorrow) 8 to 10 A.M. Town
	Hall Fort Bragg
Message-ID: <CA+MaVrC=O0+U5Ppg1H0BMxa_EMAA=n_hp4p98e1t-s1AG-D21w@mail.gmail.com>

Agnes Woolsey today discovered a posted announcement of a (probably Fort
Bragg City hosted) early 8 am to 10 am Friday 16 Nov. morning meeting at
TOWN HALL in Fort Bragg to discuss what can be done about the local Fort
Bragg economy.
Concerned citizens and local business owners/people are the targeted
audience but it could certainly concern OCCUPY Mendocino and those of us
who have strong feelings about what happens in local economy of Fort Bragg.

Late notice is unfortunate but here it is...

Tomorrow morning - 8 a.m. Town Hall - Fort Bragg re: local economy


-- 
OCCUPY MENDOCINO (the Mendocino Coast) and the Global OCCUPY Movement want
government of the *people*, by the *people*, and for the *people* - *not** *of
the *corporations*, by the *lobbyists*, and for the *richest 1%*.
We *stand* with those who have lost their homes, their jobs, their savings,
retirements, pensions, and health insurance.
We *stand* with those who struggle to put food on the table and who now
work MORE for MUCH LESS.
We *stand* with the elderly, vulnerable, veterans, laborers, working
people, students, teachers, unions, children and our planet.
                            *PLEASE JOIN US*
www.OccupyMendocino.net
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Thu Nov 15 19:34:32 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:34:32 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] City meeting Friday (tomorrow) 8 to 10 A.M.
	Town Hall Fort Bragg
In-Reply-To: <CA+MaVrC=O0+U5Ppg1H0BMxa_EMAA=n_hp4p98e1t-s1AG-D21w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+MaVrC=O0+U5Ppg1H0BMxa_EMAA=n_hp4p98e1t-s1AG-D21w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <EB49C699-2CC7-4F1A-942D-3E4D9A7099B3@mcn.org>

The paper lists this meeting as Thursday, Nov. 15. I wonder which one  
is correct?
Cheers,
Linda




On Nov 15, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:

> Agnes Woolsey today discovered a posted announcement of a (probably  
> Fort Bragg City hosted) early 8 am to 10 am Friday 16 Nov. morning  
> meeting at TOWN HALL in Fort Bragg to discuss what can be done about  
> the local Fort Bragg economy.
> Concerned citizens and local business owners/people are the targeted  
> audience but it could certainly concern OCCUPY Mendocino and those  
> of us who have strong feelings about what happens in local economy  
> of Fort Bragg.
>
> Late notice is unfortunate but here it is...
>
> Tomorrow morning - 8 a.m. Town Hall - Fort Bragg re: local economy
>
>
> -- 
> OCCUPY MENDOCINO (the Mendocino Coast) and the Global OCCUPY  
> Movement want government of the people, by the people, and for the  
> people - not of the corporations, by the lobbyists, and for the  
> richest 1%.
> We stand with those who have lost their homes, their jobs, their  
> savings, retirements, pensions, and health insurance.
> We stand with those who struggle to put food on the table and who  
> now work MORE for MUCH LESS.
> We stand with the elderly, vulnerable, veterans, laborers, working  
> people, students, teachers, unions, children and our planet.
>                             PLEASE JOIN US
> www.OccupyMendocino.net
>
>
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov 15 20:17:47 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:17:47 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fiscal Cliff Democrats - How the Democrats Can
	Make the Republicans Pay
Message-ID: <BCA3FAC3-620F-41CF-8F56-26F52EAA1F6B@att.net>


http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/fiscal-cliff-democrats-14616946

How the Democrats Can Make the Republicans Pay   By Charles P. Pierce



Photo Illustration by DonkeyHotey via Flickr/Special to The Politics Blog

Besides associating myself with this morning's remarks from Professor Krugman, I'd also like to say that behaving as though you are operating out of a panic ginned-up by financiers, pundits, and people who still want your head on a stick is no way to celebrate stomping a mudhole in Willard Romney's privileged ass. The president on Friday afternoon shouldn't just give a "statement about the action we need to take to keep our economy growing and reduce our deficit." The president should call a press conference and calmly explain that giant winged lizards from hell will not rise from fissures in the earth if we hold the matter of the Gentle Fiscal Incline over until after the holidays and that, in the meantime, if the best the Republican "leadership" can do is what it's doing ? to denigrate the beating they took (Mitch McConnell) or suggest that, now that Willard Romney's has had a mudhole stomped in his ass, the best way forward is for both parties to join hands and agree to implement the basics of Willard Romney's economic plan (John Boehner) ? then it's probably best if we wait until cooler heads have had a couple of egg nogs and we all come back and develop a consensus that one side, you know, actually lost on Tuesday. Any questions?

It long has been my opinion that, sooner or later, it is the responsibility of the Democratic party to the future of the republic and the political commonwealth to beat the Republicans so badly in so many areas that the Republicans are faced with a choice of either historical irrelevance, or wringing the craziness out of their party by enforcing a set of party orthodoxies that does not include creationism, gay-bashing, anti-science lunacy, and the crackpot economic theory that has infected the party ever since Arthur Laffer found that cocktail napkin in the airport bar. Until that glorious day when we have proportional voting, viable third parties, and sparkling white unicorn ponies, like it or not, the Democratic party is the only political institution capable of doing that job. That it largely has shirked that job ever since the first time somebody yelled "peacenik!" at it in the late autumn of 1972 does not make the job less real, or the urgency of doing it less immediate.

Because the Republican economic vision for the country lost as decisively on Tuesday as Todd Akin did, and for the same reason. The economic principles of Paul Ryan are no less nutty than Akin's views on the magical contraceptive powers of the potions within the ladyparts. They are a recipe for oligarchy for the few and dystopia for the many. And, in case anybody missed it, the zombie-eyed granny-starving "budget" geek's home state went for the president in a very big way, and he only won re-election to his House seat by 11 points, the lowest margin of victory he's ever had.

The project should begin with the economy, because the choice of historical irrelevance or wringing out the crazy on other issues is going to take care of itself. Demographics are going to force the choice on the Republicans as far as immigration goes, and also on issues relating to the reproductive freedom of women. The country as a whole has shown that it's going to force the choice on them as regards gay rights. The ocean is going to make the choice for them on climate change. It is the economic issues, then, on which that choice will have to be forced on them by the Democrats directly, and within the framework of political negotiation.

In short, and on the pure politics of it, there's really nothing to negotiate. The public wants a more progressive tax code with fewer loopholes for the wealthy. (The carried-interest loophole is a disgrace to an evolved democracy.) The public wants programs like Social Security and Medicare strengthened, but not by "reforming" the guaranteed-benefit part of them out of the equation. The public wants more regulation on Wall Street than even Dodd-Frank has given us. The public has tumbled to the fact that the rising-tide-lifts-all-boats, trickle-down palaver has been a scam all along. You know what happens with a rising tide if you don't have a boat? You drown.

But, thanks to our old friend Mr. Madison, budget bills have to originate in the House, which means we have to involve the Speaker, which means we have to take into account the fact that he presides over a hatchful of boobies. We take that into account. One, two, three. Okay, we done? It is then explained to Mr. Boehner that the Romney economic plan is not going to be the rock on which we build the church. It is then explained to Mr. Boehner that, henceforward, there will be more punishment for obstructionism than there will be a reward for it. The Bush tax cuts for people making over $250,000 are as dead as Richard Mourdock's political career. The payroll tax cut goes on. How he explains it to the people in the House is his own business, and he can take as much time as he wants to do it, but there will be no hostage-taking this time around. What was done to Willard Romney can be done to John Boehner. He can be loyal to his caucus, and the clamorous hallelujah chorus of wingnuts urging them on from the cheap seats, or he can be loyal to the people of his home state, which did, after all, clinch the election for the president.

I will stipulate, under severe coercion, that the president has an obligation to govern the country with Republicans, even the toweringly awful Republicans who hold a majority in the House. But he is under absolutely no obligation to make John Boehner's life easier politically, nor is he under any obligation to soften the hard choices that the Republicans have backed themselves into after three decades of encouraging the crazy in all aspects of our public life. Here is Exhibit A. Choose, Mr. Speaker. Those people, or a part in actually helping to govern the country. There's no third alternative. Not any more.

(Has Mr. Needham there ever been in an actual war? Of course, not. If he had, he might've learned that, when you lose as badly as his side lost on Tuesday, you sue for terms or you get overrun.) 

One of the real problems in this country has been that the Republicans have taken extreme positions and paid no lasting political price for them. They've lost election, certainly, but elections are not the only place where a political price must be paid. It must also be paid within the everyday negotiations within which the government functions. It is time to make John Boehner choose between being a responsible constitutional officer, or being the creature of all the bats and flying things that have so damaged the country, and that have so scoured the soul of his party. That's his problem. The president should give him until after the first of the year to think about it.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 15 21:15:57 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:15:57 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ROLLING JUBILEE STRIKE DEBT TELETHON TONIGHT
	livestreamed at RollingJubilee.org.
Message-ID: <9EAE0B8E-A858-4C5E-A9BB-EEA4DF294B66@mcn.org>

http://techpresident.com/news/23150/rolling-jubilee-occupys-latest-web-enabled-institutional-hack

Pat wonders if it is legal...  Others wonder too.  Let's hope it works. .

Tonight, Strike Debt will officially launch the Rolling Jubilee with the People?s Bailout Variety Show And Telethon from Le Poison Rouge in New York City.

The event is a new take on the classic telethon, intended to raise money for the Rolling Jubilee. This project is designed to relieve the 99% of unnecessary and oppressive debt by fund raising to purchase debt around the country and abolishing it. The event features Janeane Garafalo, Lizz Winstead, Hari Kondabolu, David Rees, John Cameron Mitchell, Jeff Mangum, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Kool AD and Dapwell of Das Racist and many more. So far the Rolling Jubilee has raised $198,428 and counting which will abolish $3,973,386 of debt. This evening hopes to push that number even higher. The sold out event begins at 8pm tonight and will be livestreamed at RollingJubilee.org.



The project is a product of Strike Debt and came out of a series of assemblies in New York this year geared toward addressing the issue.  Already, the work of this offshoot of Occupy Walls Street is simply amazing. The Debt Resistors Operations Manual (.pdf link) was released just ahead of the September 17th Anniversary and has people all over the country getting educated to defend themselves against a culture of debt-based oppression. Strike Debt has followed up with this direct and effective action:  in liberating ?debtors? and engaging people in collective resistance.

Debt has become a commodity that can be purchased for pennies on the dollar after it has been charged-off by the original creditor. In most  cases, tax write offs have mitigated the loss for the company. This highlights the absurdity of collecting money from people that has already been paid for the benefit of the few. Strike Debt intends to spark a movement of collective noncooperation and resistance by showing people debt?s true form. To get involved, go to RollingJubilee.org and enjoy the show tonite.

You can read the Debt Resistors Operations Manual (.pdf link) at StrikeDebt.org.

Check out our #OccupySupply Skill Share: Occupy 2.0 Strike Debt  with Astra Taylor, Thomas Gokey and Melissa Fleschman
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 15 21:56:31 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:56:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Natural and Organic Brands that Helped Kill Prop
	37
Message-ID: <60A4B512-7C01-4D45-AF72-030D6F7419E5@mcn.org>

I just wrote to out almond milk supplier, Silk. on their Facebook page. 
This gives a wide audience and gets their attention quickly.

Richard 

 
Payback Time: Boycott the Organic and 'Natural' Traitor Brands that Helped Kill Prop 37
They stomped on our right to know. Now it's time to get even.

Prop 37, the California Right to Know GMO labeling initiative, was narrowly defeated last week thanks to a relentless, deceitful $46-million advertising blitz. Among the largest bankrollers of the NO on 37 campaign were huge multinational food and beverage companies whose subsidiaries make billions selling some of your favorite organic and "natural" brands.

Brands like Kashi. Honest Tea. Naked Juice. Muir Glen, Horizon, Silk, and Morningstar Farms.

It's time to boycott the companies and brands whose dirty money confused and scared millions of California voters into voting No on Prop 37. It's time to plaster their facebook pages with this message: We won't support you until you support us. It's time to call their consumer hotlines, complain to the store managers where you buy your organic and natural products. It's time to tarnish their holy organic and natural images, to expose their hypocrisy and greed.

It's time to raise a little hell. If we raise enough hell, maybe their parent companies will come to their senses and stop carrying the water for Monsanto and the biotech industry. Maybe they'll stay neutral in the upcoming labeling battles in Washington state and Vermont.

The OCA is calling on consumers to boycott these organic and "natural" traitor brands:

PepsiCo (Donated $2.5M): Naked Juice, Tostito?s Organic, Tropicana Organic
Kraft (Donated $2M): Boca Burgers and Back to Nature
Safeway (Member of Grocery Manufacturers Association, which donated $2M):?O? Organics
Coca-Cola (Donated $1.7M): Honest Tea, Odwalla
General Mills (Donated $1.2M):  Muir Glen, Cascadian Farm, Larabar
Con-Agra (Donated $1.2M): Orville Redenbacher?s Organic, Hunt?s Organic, Lightlife, Alexia
Kellogg?s (Donated $791k): Kashi, Bear Naked, Morningstar Farms, Gardenburger
Smucker?s (Donated $555k ): R.W. Knudsen, Santa Cruz Organic
Unilever (Donated $467k): Ben & Jerry?s
Dean Foods (Donated $254k): Horizon, Silk, White Wave
Tell these companies that if they want your loyalty - and your grocery dollars - they must do two things:

1. Speak out publicly in favor of the pending GMO Labeling Ballot Initiative (I-522) in Washington State in 2013, as well as the pending GMO labeling bills coming up in Vermont and other states.

2. Contribute as much or more money to the Yes on I-522 Campaign in Washington than their parent corporations spent to defeat Prop 37 in California.

Prop 37 was narrowly defeated, by dirty money and dirty tricks. But it spawned a huge, national consumer movement that is fired up and more determined than ever to fight this battle until we win the right to know if our food has been genetically modified. We're already collecting signatures in Washington State, talking to legislators in Vermont and Connecticut. A 30-state coalition is formulating a plan to collaborate on GMO-labeling laws and initiatives.

You are a part of this movement, and today we're calling on you, on the millions of consumers who were outraged by the NO on 37's dirty campaign, to send a clear message to the traitor brands who helped kill Prop 37, in the only language they understand: lost profits and lower sales.

Join the boycott

Read the press release

See which brands helped defeat Prop 37
 

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From jupiter at mcn.org  Fri Nov 16 07:42:19 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:42:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ROLLING JUBILEE STRIKE DEBT TELETHON TONIGHT
	livestreamed at RollingJubilee.org.
In-Reply-To: <9EAE0B8E-A858-4C5E-A9BB-EEA4DF294B66@mcn.org>
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It's legal enough for me!
Linda

On Nov 15, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Richard Karch wrote:

> http://techpresident.com/news/23150/rolling-jubilee-occupys-latest-web-enabled-institutional-hack
>
> Pat wonders if it is legal...  Others wonder too.  Let's hope it  
> works. .
>
> Tonight, Strike Debt will officially launch the Rolling Jubilee with  
> the People?s Bailout Variety Show And Telethon from Le Poison Rouge  
> in New York City.
>
> The event is a new take on the classic telethon, intended to raise  
> money for the Rolling Jubilee. This project is designed to relieve  
> the 99% of unnecessary and oppressive debt by fund raising to  
> purchase debt around the country and abolishing it. The event  
> features Janeane Garafalo, Lizz Winstead, Hari Kondabolu, David  
> Rees, John Cameron Mitchell, Jeff Mangum, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic  
> Youth, Kool AD and Dapwell of Das Racist and many more. So far the  
> Rolling Jubilee has raised $198,428 and counting which will abolish  
> $3,973,386 of debt. This evening hopes to push that number even  
> higher. The sold out event begins at 8pm tonight and will be  
> livestreamed at RollingJubilee.org.
>
>
>
> The project is a product of Strike Debt and came out of a series of  
> assemblies in New York this year geared toward addressing the issue.  
> Already, the work of this offshoot of Occupy Walls Street is simply  
> amazing. The Debt Resistors Operations Manual (.pdf link) was  
> released just ahead of the September 17th Anniversary and has people  
> all over the country getting educated to defend themselves against a  
> culture of debt-based oppression. Strike Debt has followed up with  
> this direct and effective action:  in liberating ?debtors? and  
> engaging people in collective resistance.
>
> Debt has become a commodity that can be purchased for pennies on the  
> dollar after it has been charged-off by the original creditor. In  
> most cases, tax write offs have mitigated the loss for the company.  
> This highlights the absurdity of collecting money from people that  
> has already been paid for the benefit of the few. Strike Debt  
> intends to spark a movement of collective noncooperation and  
> resistance by showing people debt?s true form. To get involved, go  
> to RollingJubilee.org and enjoy the show tonite.
>
> You can read the Debt Resistors Operations Manual (.pdf link) at  
> StrikeDebt.org.
>
> Check out our #OccupySupply Skill Share: Occupy 2.0 Strike Debt   
> with Astra Taylor, Thomas Gokey and Melissa Fleschman
>
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
>  put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
>
> For listserv technical problems please contact: listmanager at mcn.org

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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov 16 08:41:55 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:41:55 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: AUDIT WALL STREET
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	AUDIT WALL STREET
Date: 	Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:35:18 -0800
From: 	tpc at mcn.org
To: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>



AUDIT WALL STREET

By Fr. Tom Cahill

If either the Democrats or Republicans really-really wanted to seriously
challenge the other, they would call for an audit of the entire national
debt to figure out exactly who owed what and to whom.  Imagine the
possibilities!

This is exactly what the Greek resistance movement is calling for from
their own government, claiming among other things, the debt is being
grossly inflated by lenders,  according to the documentary ?DebtOcracy.?
This film was produced last year (2011) in Greece with English subtitles
and recommended to me by Birgitta Jonsdottir, a progressive member of
Parliament in Iceland who has been a major supporter of politico/economic
transparency for all countries as well as Nobel Prizes for Bradley Manning
and Julian Assange.

?DebtOcracy? exposes not only the role of Wall Street but other countries
in the rip-off of Greece?s economy.  Germany and France, for instance,
have been trying to foist off the sale of big ticket arms such as
airplanes and tanks on the already devastated Greeks in exchange for help
with more fucking loans, making the country even deeper in debt.  My
Goddess, what chutzpah!   This has got to be the most stinking of ?odeous
debt.?

In the one hour fourteen minute film, ?odious debt? is described as having
three conditions;  (1)  the government of a country receives a loan from
another country without the knowledge and approval of the majority of
citizens, (2)  the loan is spent on programs or activities NOT beneficial
to the majority of the people and (3)  the leaders of BOTH countries
clearly understand this situation and  obfuscate or just play dumb.

Capitalism is government-sanctioned theft.  And you can quote  this
ecosocialist.

?It?s immoral to pay an immoral debt.  It?s social genocide,? states a
commentator in the film.

And a sign in a demonstration in Athens translated into English was ?Poor
people, don?t eat each other.  Eat the Rich, they?re plumper.?





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From ananda at mcn.org  Fri Nov 16 09:27:33 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:27:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] city hearings truly 8am to 10, today
Message-ID: <2BE0C91F-050E-42F5-9E51-BC5B5D5E53B9@mcn.org>

Sorry guys, about sending out wrong info.  I just checked the notice.
 I will write to Linda Ruffing about my personal suggestions for the city.

Cecile


From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov 16 09:28:00 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:28:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Re: Rolling Jubilee
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Rolling Jubilee
Date: 	Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:13:22 -0800
From: 	Richard <richard at mtranslation.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>



I can help raise money for this.

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 14, 2012, at 8:51 PM, Susan Harman <susanharman1 at gmail.com 
<mailto:susanharman1 at gmail.com>> wrote:

>> ****For every one dollar we raise in this fundraiser drive we can 
>> abolish 20 dollars of distressed debt for American families. 
>> <http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Kcx9qiw%2BzQ5u%2BU9ZzI1fEi7u%2F%2BjJfVVl>****
>> ******
>
>> ****Help us join with Project Strike Debt 
>> <http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ueV65oyohy%2F2bzZpsX9pdC7u%2F%2BjJfVVl>and 
>> The Rolling Jubilee 
>> <http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=In7a3alKuf4Oh9Es12D2ZC7u%2F%2BjJfVVl>Fund 
>> to do our part to buy and abolish the debt of struggling Americans.****
>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/nyregion/occupy-offshoot-aims-to-erase-peoples-debts.html
>
>> ****This serves ONLY families facing foreclosures and bankruptcies.****
>> ****
>> ****
>> ****The fund is totally transparent and information is online,****
>> ****nothing like the banking industry it undermines and occupies.****
>> ****
>> ****
>



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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Fri Nov 16 09:33:53 2012
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:33:53 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] City meeting Friday (tomorrow) 8 to 10 A.M.
	Town Hall Fort Bragg
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Well....  I hope I did not give out incorrect info.....

Jessie Lee

On Thursday, November 15, 2012, Linda Jupiter wrote:

> The paper lists this meeting as Thursday, Nov. 15. I wonder which one is
> correct?
> Cheers,
> Linda
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
>
> Agnes Woolsey today discovered a posted announcement of a (probably Fort
> Bragg City hosted) early 8 am to 10 am Friday 16 Nov. morning meeting at
> TOWN HALL in Fort Bragg to discuss what can be done about the local Fort
> Bragg economy.
> Concerned citizens and local business owners/people are the targeted
> audience but it could certainly concern OCCUPY Mendocino and those of us
> who have strong feelings about what happens in local economy of Fort Bragg.
>
> Late notice is unfortunate but here it is...
>
> Tomorrow morning - 8 a.m. Town Hall - Fort Bragg re: local economy
>
>
> --
> OCCUPY MENDOCINO (the Mendocino Coast) and the Global OCCUPY Movement want
> government of the *people*, by the *people*, and for the *people* - *not**
>  *of the *corporations*, by the *lobbyists*, and for the *richest 1%*.
> We *stand* with those who have lost their homes, their jobs, their
> savings, retirements, pensions, and health insurance.
> We *stand* with those who struggle to put food on the table and who now
> work MORE for MUCH LESS.
> We *stand* with the elderly, vulnerable, veterans, laborers, working
> people, students, teachers, unions, children and our planet.
>                             *PLEASE JOIN US*
> www.OccupyMendocino.net
>
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to
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-- 
OCCUPY MENDOCINO (the Mendocino Coast) and the Global OCCUPY Movement want
government of the *people*, by the *people*, and for the *people* - *not** *of
the *corporations*, by the *lobbyists*, and for the *richest 1%*.
We *stand* with those who have lost their homes, their jobs, their savings,
retirements, pensions, and health insurance.
We *stand* with those who struggle to put food on the table and who now
work MORE for MUCH LESS.
We *stand* with the elderly, vulnerable, veterans, laborers, working
people, students, teachers, unions, children and our planet.
                            *PLEASE JOIN US*
www.OccupyMendocino.net
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Fri Nov 16 09:49:23 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:49:23 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jon Stewart at his best, as always
References: <5741AAAFCAD64AE5A08BE01A2C74CB2D@carla>
Message-ID: <35A4EB0E-F608-40AD-A9D2-C4313C52D9B2@mcn.org>

This is for those of you with high-speed Internet.
It's always a pleasure watching Jon do his thing.
Linda


>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/jon-stewart-slams-bill-oreilly-traditional-america_n_2143614.html
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Fri Nov 16 10:09:06 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:09:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Fwd: Court Closure in Fort Bragg
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>Please forward this to your local email contacts. ?We cannot lose our local court.
> 
>
>
>
>
>As you know several citizens have been working around the clock to try and convince the Judges in Ukiah that a closure to our local court would not only affect my department, but this entire community.? After speaking to our DA David Eyster he suggested that as many community members as possible need to call Judge Henderson?s Administration office and tell them how we disapprove of their decision. ??The phone number is 964-4664?..Please if you agree with me rally the troops and have as many community members as possible call??...
>
>?
>Thanks for your support,
>?
>Scott 
>?
>Scott J. Mayberry
>Chief of Police
>Fort Bragg Police Department
>250 East Cypress Street
>Fort Bragg, California 95437
>707-961-2800
>
>
>Mary Cesario Weaver
>Realtor?
>Big River Realty
>357-2846
>?
>
>
>
>



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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Fri Nov 16 10:27:48 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:27:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Fight for the Future: Twitter Bomb Alert!
In-Reply-To: <71.C8.06600.66C75A05@outbound.moveon.org>
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Robert Applebaum <noreply at list.signon.org>
To: deejayliz at yahoo.com 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:11 PM
Subject: Fight for the Future: Twitter Bomb Alert!
 

Hi Liz,
The recession has had a devastating impact on everybody, perhaps none moreso than the millenial generation.? Between unemployment and student debt, our younger friends have had a long road to climb to adulthood. Now, Congress threatens to set them back once again.

Unless our leaders act in a responsible way in dealing with taxes and spending, automatic cuts would gut critical investments in education and jobs for young people.

We can?t let this happen. 

Join our friends at Young Invincibles to ?Fight for the Future? through Twitter! 
What: Twitter Bomb
When:Friday, November 16th at 2pm ET 
?
**You can copy and paste these tweets below.**
??????? Is The U.S Budget Failing our Generation? The numbers don?t lie. #GenY #Budget4theFuture: bit.ly/SOVEpJcc: @suzykhimm
??????? Is The U.S Budget Failing our Generation? The numbers don?t lie. #GenY #Budget4theFuture: bit.ly/SOVEpJcc: @wonkwire
??????? $1 billion in funding for youth job training has been cut over the last decade #Budget4theFuture: bit.ly/SOVEpJcc: @mattyglesias 
?
What?s the big deal?
	* ?If we don?t act now, automatic budget cuts, will cost thousands of jobs for young adults in 2013. 
o?? These cuts could pull nearly $40 million dollars from AmeriCorps alone in 2013
	* The federal government cut $1 billion from job training for low-income young adults over the past decade.
o?? Currently, underfunded training programs reach fewer than 5 percent of the 6.7 million who aren?t in school and can?t find a job.
o?? Simply eliminating tax cuts for the top 1% would save $81 billion per year.
We need your voice to make sure the next generation isn?t forgotten.? Visit www.younginvincibles to learn more about the fiscal showdown, for real-time updates, follow them on Twitterand Facebook.

Sincerely,
Robert Applebaum
Co-Founder & Executive Director
StudentDebtCrisis.org

?
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From sharondoubiago at yahoo.com  Fri Nov 16 11:51:11 2012
From: sharondoubiago at yahoo.com (Sharon Doubiago)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:51:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] (no subject)
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check this out http://careers.nbcnews-4.com/jobs/
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Fri Nov 16 13:56:27 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:56:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Fwd: Court Closure in Fort Bragg
In-Reply-To: <CAEuS=2FKR7SVJaNWvx6bZEYxtRUaUo3aM4OKWi4cNcoMrjF_2A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1352978568.86858.YahooMailNeo@web124503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
	<881816044.159245.1353003403997.JavaMail.root@sz0002a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>
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Message-ID: <1353102987.84867.YahooMailNeo@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Contact # (964-4664) below for Judge Henderson is not correct. 

Mayberry's office gives it as463-4664. I called, but could not penetrate their menu. Any success, anybody?
Liz


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Margaret Roberts <roberts808 at gmail.com>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:24 PM
Subject: Fwd: Court Closure in Fort Bragg
 






________________________________





>Please forward this to your local email contacts. ?We cannot lose our local court.
> 
>
>
>
>
>As you know several citizens have been working around the clock to try and convince the Judges in Ukiah that a closure to our local court would not only affect my department, but this entire community.? After speaking to our DA David Eyster he suggested that as many community members as possible need to call Judge Henderson?s Administration office and tell them how we disapprove of their decision. ??The phone number is 964-4664?..Please if you agree with me rally the troops and have as many community members as possible call??...
>
>?
>Thanks for your support,
>?
>Scott 
>?
>Scott J. Mayberry
>Chief of Police
>Fort Bragg Police Department
>250 East Cypress Street
>Fort Bragg, California 95437
>707-961-2800
>
>
>Mary Cesario Weaver
>Realtor?
>Big River Realty
>357-2846
>?
>
>
>
>



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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Nov 17 08:18:06 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:18:06 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy works after Sandy,
	some say better than the Red Cross
Message-ID: <8B11FF91-5C51-4C3D-95A3-ADF45EAEF5AF@att.net>

DAILY INTEL HOME
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Will Bourne Named Editor of theVillage Voice
11/15/12 at 2:01 PM 14Comments
Big Problems, Little Solutions: For the New Occupy, Size Is Everything
By Paul Ford
   

This is the idea of Rolling Jubilee: Raise funds online; buy up consumer debt for pennies on the dollar; cancel it; set those in bondage free. So far the Occupy Wall Street offshoot has raised $200,000 to forgive $4 million. Strangers giving money to strangers to help other strangers: an inversion of the financial order, a genuine kindness, a great prank, and not incidentally a way to highlight how simultaneously abstracted and connected the world has become.
I know a guy named Dan Phiffer, who is helping the Rolling Jubilee people with their web server. When we talked Monday night, he was worried that as the news got out, the site would crash. He and I ran down the technologies in use. There were weaknesses and vulnerabilities, precarious linkages to outside services. If a throng arrived, RollingJubilee.org might get swamped under the load. Then money couldn't come in (bad) and the message wouldn't go out (worse). 
 
Scaling is everything. A site that works perfectly for a hundred people fails catastrophically with a hundred thousand. If you expect traffic you can?t just hope for the best. There are dials to turn, files to configure, variables to tweak. For big companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google, a huge portion of their annual effort is in scaling?ferreting out weak links and choke points and replacing them with finely tuned code on finely tuned hardware. Scaling matters in other realms too. The Obama campaign?s engineers built a get out the vote apparatus that got smarter as it consumed ever more data; Romney?s project ORCA suffered an epic system failure at the worst possible moment, and its candidate went down with it. 

After talking to Dan, I took a Q train from Union Square and, by the time it reached the Manhattan Bridge, he emailed to say he had shored up RollingJubilee.org. The easiest solution was to use Amazon's S3 service, a giant cloud drive that can send the same file over the wires a zillion times without melting. Now, he thought, the site was ready for the masses.

When I got home there were dozens of boxes of food in the hallway. After the storm, Occupy Sandy came, unexpectedly, to the forefront of relief efforts, tweeting furiously, moving food and doctors around as fast as it could. Desperate needs were compiled as gift registries on Amazon?the company no longer just an Internet retailer but a provider of infrastructure for all manner of everyday activities and mid-sized apocalypses. 

As the scope of the Sandy damage became clear, many of the young mothers in my building, including my wife, started cooking and running hot meals down to the Rockaways. Somehow our apartment became an Occupy substation, with random people dropping off bags of rice or large cardboard boxes filled with pie donated by the Colbert Report. We put the pie on the balcony, to keep it cool, until somebody came to take it away. Mothers, man. Moms on missions. They started using a walkie-talkie app on their phones to exchange quick voice messages. Voices of moms were coming out of nowhere, babies chattering in the background. They were planning tomorrow, making lists, who will cook, who will buy meat, who will drive.
On weekends the streets of Red Hook have been jammed with New Yorkers desperate to help, but there are not always enough tasks to go around?the challenges of scaling reasserting themselves again. The makeshift food and clothing distribution centers at churches and community centers are thronged with so many volunteers that the network seizes up. If Rolling Jubilee catches on it may also find an upper limit to the help it can provide. Increased demand could drive up the price of distressed debt from pennies on the dollar to nickels and dimes and quarters. The IRS may change its position and come calling.
 
There is this sudden understanding that there will be more storms. There is the awareness that for those hurt most by the financial crisis, relief may never come. These are the new tools of response: apartments stacked with rice bags, a Kickstarter for debt-retirement, a self-organizing civic immune system. Occupy, which didn?t seem to reach critical mass as a protest movement, is becoming a welfare provider. It seems so simple: Make meals for hungry people. Donate money to get people out of debt. The network is coming together, access points and nodes and hubs and the lines of communication between them. The big question remains: Will it scale?
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Nov 17 09:16:00 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:16:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Robert Reich: Raising Taxes on the Rich
Message-ID: <26A4EE4D-5B10-4FCD-87E3-DF215E0A628F@att.net>

Raising Taxes on the Rich

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

16 November 12

 
The President's Opening Bid on the Grand Bargain (III): The Difference Between "Broadening the Tax Base" and Raising Taxes on the Rich

he President says he wants $1.6 trillion in tax hikes. Republicans say they won't raise tax rates but might be willing to close some loopholes and limit some deductions and tax credits. Is compromise in the air?

Not a chance. True enough, such "base broadening," as Republicans like to call it, could conceivably generate $1.6 trillion in additional tax revenues over the next decade.

But, wait. Didn't the President just win a second term? The major issue decided in last week's election was that the rich should pay more. So, presumably, that $1.6 trillion should come out of the pockets of the wealthiest Americans.

"Broadening the base" has nothing whatever to do with the rich paying more. That's because a lot of tax credits and deductions help the middle class and the poor.

If we end the Earned Income Tax Credit, for example, some of the poorest Americans will end up sacrificing. That tab was $63 billion last year.

Or if the "loophole" is tax-free employee health care, or the home mortgage tax deduction, or tax-deferred 401K accounts, most of the added tax revenues will come out of the pockets of the middle class.

So when Republicans talk about "broadening the base," watch your wallets. Now that the President has set his goal on $1.6 trillion in additional taxes, the question is whether the rich are going to cough up $1.6 trillion more.

There's no way that $1.6 trillion can come out of the pockets of the wealthy merely by capping the deductions the wealthy take advantage of.

If Republicans won't budge on raising tax rates but insist on broadening the base, Democrats should take aim at the biggest tax loophole of all for America's wealthy: the preference for capital gains.

Capital gains are now taxed at only 15 percent (the major reason Mitt Romney pays a rate of under 14 percent on over $20 million of annual income). Capital gains should be taxed the same as ordinary income. That way, under a progressive tax system, the wealthy would pay far more - on the way to $1.6 trillion.


Robert B. Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written thirteen books, including the best sellers "Aftershock" and "The Work of Nations." His latest is an e-book, "Beyond Outrage." He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause.


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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Sat Nov 17 09:36:49 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:36:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] comment on Court Closure in Fort Bragg
In-Reply-To: <1353102987.84867.YahooMailNeo@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
References: <1352978568.86858.YahooMailNeo@web124503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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KMUD news 11/16 & 17 gives this e-dress for comment:

tenmilereduction at mendocino.courts.ca.gov

Or snailmail comments to Courthouse in Ukiah.



Contact # (964-4664) below for Judge Henderson is not correct. 

Mayberry's office gives it as463-4664. I called, but could not penetrate their menu. Any success, anybody?



________________________________





>Please forward this to your local email contacts. ?We cannot lose our local court.
> 
>
>
>
>
>As you know several citizens have been working around the clock to try and convince the Judges in Ukiah that a closure to our local court would not only affect my department, but this entire community.? After speaking to our DA David Eyster he suggested that as many community members as possible need to call Judge Henderson?s Administration office and tell them how we disapprove of their decision. ??The phone number is 964-4664?..Please if you agree with me rally the troops and have as many community members as possible call??...
>
>?
>Thanks for your support,
>?
>Scott 
>?
>Scott J. Mayberry
>Chief of Police
>Fort Bragg Police Department
>250 East Cypress Street
>Fort Bragg, California 95437
>707-961-2800
>
>
>Mary Cesario Weaver
>Realtor?
>Big River Realty
>357-2846
>?
>
>
>
>



-- 
Margaret





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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Nov 17 11:35:21 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:35:21 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] What is Robosigning in the MA Recorder's office.
Message-ID: <50A7E6F9.8060200@mcn.org>

from Agnes to refresh your memory.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Sat Nov 17 11:49:34 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] correct e-dress!
References: <xM9kfmQOi000008c0@exchange3.mendocino.courts.ca.gov> 
Message-ID: <1353181774.17315.YahooMailNeo@web161206.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

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Sorry! My message bounced. Don't skip the "s"! Try tenmilereductions at mendocino.courts.ca.gov?


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From: "postmaster at mendocino.courts.ca.gov" <postmaster at mendocino.courts.ca.gov>
To: deejayliz at yahoo.com 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 11:31 AM
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
 
----- Forwarded Message -----

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

? ? ? tenmilereduction at mendocino.courts.ca.gov




Dear Judge Henderson, et al,
As a 40 year resident of the Mendocino Coast, I feel truly threatened by the proposal to close or greatly reduce the activities of our local court.
Justice cannot be served where local public transportation does not meet court hours.Where the poor, the elderly, & other non-drivers cannot conveniently (or at all) access the courts. I myself would be hard put to do jury duty. I fear the massive inconvenience of travel logistics will create chaos, & prevent the full complement of people involved in proceedings to participate. The long travel times added to court time (predictably slower due to higher volume of cases inland) will remove already over-tasked local law enforcement from the field.

Please consider the more-than-proportional tax contributions flowing from the coast to inland, and continue to fund full services of Ten Mile Justice Court.
Sincerely,
Liz Helenchild??? 

Box 1276
Mendocino CA 95460
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Nov 18 09:23:03 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:23:03 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] After GMO Labeling Shot Down,
	Citizens Start Labeling Themselves
Message-ID: <1B6434F0-6F0E-4FE0-AB21-A18721310173@att.net>

After GMO Labeling Shot Down, Citizens Start Labeling Themselves


By Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society

17 November 12

 
ctivists and concerned citizens around the world have had enough with corrupt corporations censoring their right to know what's in their food, and frankly they're beyond upset. And if the government will not side with the 90 plus percentage of consumers who are in favor of GMO labeling, then they are going to do it themselves.

As it turns out, many are doing just that through the 'DIY' GMO labeling campaign known as 'The Label It Yourself Campaign'. Sporting a skull with cornstalks for crossbones, the DIY labels inform customers as to whether or not a product 'may' include GMO ingredients or most certainly does.

Below is one label taken from the campaign website that activists are now placing on products found in grocery stores, homes of friends and family (to incite discussion), and just about everywhere else:


People Will Not Stand for Corporate Food Lies Any Longer

With 80% or more of many staple crops like corn and soybeans already genetically modified, there is a large chance that most products containing these ingredients (or deriviatives) does indeed contain GMOs. Even more so for highly processed high-fructose corn syrup and other harmful ingredients which are arguably modified 100% of the time. You can print out the labels from the campaign website and stick them on products for yourself.

With a lack of real GMO labeling thanks to dirty tricks by pro-GMO groups like No on 37, grassroots initiatives are the only methods of alerting the public to what they are putting into their mouths. Pro-GMO campaigns have impersonated and illegally used the FDA seal, posed as phony cop and democrat groups, and poured more than $45 million into keeping consumers into the dark.

Now, citizens are fighting back through peaceful grassroots initiatives. As a picture from one Treehugger blog shows, consumers are honestly labeling processed foods across the shelves of international grocers.

As for the legal aspect? The Label It Yourself Campaign states:

"At the moment, the law protects misinformation and private property above truth-telling, and public well-being?"
Meanwhile, corporations like Monsanto continue to pump out GMOs that have been time and time again linked to disease, environmental disaster, and even the center of 'slave labor' issues. When government legislation is shot down through corruption, it becomes a grassroots responsibility to take action and make a real change.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Nov 18 09:23:20 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:23:20 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Act now to end nuclear tax credit/support
	wind power
In-Reply-To: <1283733044.1767849640@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org>
References: <1283733044.1767849640@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org>
Message-ID: <50A91988.3080603@mcn.org>

scroll down.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Act now to end nuclear tax credit/support wind power
Date: 	Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:48:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Nuclear Information and Resource Service <nirsnet at nirs.org>
Reply-To: 	nirsnet at nirs.org
To: 	agnes at mcn.org



web banner
6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912; 301-270-6477; 
nirsnet at nirs.org <mailto:nirsnet at nirs.org>; www.nirs.org 
<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2RTAQf2dAWy7DJJ8GtX8C2rgcxipkCzz>

*ACT NOW AND TELL CONGRESS:

DURING LAME DUCK SESSION, REDUCE DEFICIT AND CREATE JOBS

SUPPORT WIND POWER AND END THE NUCLEAR POWER TAX CREDIT!*


November 2, 2012

Dear Friends,

Regardless of what happens in next week?s election, afterwards the 
current Congress is going to meet in a lame duck session and try to 
grapple with major federal tax, budget, jobs, and deficit issues. And 
they?re going to be looking for savings?both real and imagined?wherever 
they possibly can.

We?ve got an easy way for Congress to support tens of thousands of 
American jobs, and to reduce future budget deficits by billions of 
dollars. And our plan will also help prevent radioactive poisoning of 
our nation while building a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future.

*Tell Congress now: End the nuclear power tax credit, renew the wind tax 
credit!* 
<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hRPrqKitEpDOGyCmzbTYFGrgcxipkCzz>

While wind power itself dates back centuries ago, the era of modern 
industrial-scale wind power is only a couple of decades old, and owes 
its incredible surge in use (wind is the fastest-growing energy source 
in the U.S.) in part to a tax credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour for 
new wind generators.

But that tax credit has always had to be renewed nearly every year, thus 
being held hostage by a sometimes hostile Congress, making private 
investment in wind uncertain, and actually has held back the level of 
wind power we could have. And right now, the wind tax credit is 
scheduled to expire at the end of this year. It needs to be renewed, and 
for a lot more than one year, to support the burgeoning wind industry 
and the tens of thousands of jobs it generates.

Meanwhile, almost no one (outside of the utilities that intend to use 
it) realizes that nuclear power has a similar tax credit available for 
new nuclear reactors. Except that their tax credit, established by 
President Bush?s 2005 energy bill, doesn?t expire every couple of 
years?it covers new reactors brought on line by 2021. The credit covers 
the first eight years of generation by the first 6,000 megawatts of new 
nuclear power (or about six new reactors). But the language is ambiguous 
and can be read to allow the same credit for 6,000 MW at a time, meaning 
that many more reactors could receive its benefits (and could mean that 
the credit itself could actually last until 2029!).

The nuclear tax credit is capped at $125 million per year per reactor 
(given reactors? much greater size than wind turbines, a much larger 
amount than any wind farm could get). Thus, for six reactors, this tax 
credit would deprive the federal treasury of $750 million per 
year?billions over its lifetime, and the credit could even get extended.

Why should nuclear power?s tax credit last more than a decade, when wind 
power?s tax credit must be renewed every year or so? That makes no 
sense. Why should dangerous, dirty and expensive nuclear power receive 
that kind of support from taxpayers at all? It shouldn?t.

*Tell your Congressmembers now: end the nuclear power tax credit, extend 
the wind power tax credit.* 
<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rqX5FQ2dJnVIKUPr%2BAi1d2rgcxipkCzz>

If we?re going to create a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future, we 
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power tax credit is in danger of not being extended, while the nuclear 
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Congressmembers and their challengers during the final days of this 
election campaign! We?re willing to bet 90%+ of them don?t even know 
about it! Help educate them now.

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For a variety of reasons, ranging from Superstorm Sandy to installation 
of our new server, we?ve been disrupted a lot during October. And our 
shrinking bank account is desperately in need of replenishment. 
*Seriously.* *Right now, we need your support--our bills are mounting. 
*Thus, we are extending our Thanks and Treat month offer for one more 
week from today: if you give NIRS $25 or more by November 9 online (or a 
check postmarked by Nov 9), we will thank you by giving you a treat of 
CDs by two of our favorite friends: Bonnie Raitt and Ani DiFranco. You 
can donate online here or after you send your letters to Congress. 
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*Finally, some very good news. *Yesterday, November 1, 2012, an NRC 
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board issued a formal order ending the 
licensing proceeding for the Calvert Cliffs-3 nuclear reactor?in NIRS? 
favor. With denial of the license. This is the first time that has ever 
happened. And we did it ourselves, pro se, without a lawyer because we 
couldn?t afford one. Just imagine what we could do if we had adequate 
resources! We?re now waiting for a final Commissioners? decision on 
review of the case; we expect to win there too. We'll let you know when 
we do.

Thanks for all you do,

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov 18 09:30:23 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:30:23 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd:  After GMO Labeling Shot Down,
	Citizens Start Labeling Themselves
References: <1B6434F0-6F0E-4FE0-AB21-A18721310173@att.net>
Message-ID: <4A596675-0072-418B-8F8F-698B6151CDD8@mcn.org>

> I like the idea labeling but wonder if the skull is overkill.  Some, including my brother, think GMO's are great science and will help world hunger.  I would rather just stick something on that alerts people to the fact but doesn't get them so mad they rip off all the labels.   Richard
> 



> After GMO Labeling Shot Down, Citizens Start Labeling Themselves
> 
> 
> By Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society
> 
> 17 November 12
> 
>  
> ctivists and concerned citizens around the world have had enough with corrupt corporations censoring their right to know what's in their food, and frankly they're beyond upset. And if the government will not side with the 90 plus percentage of consumers who are in favor of GMO labeling, then they are going to do it themselves.
> 
> As it turns out, many are doing just that through the 'DIY' GMO labeling campaign known as 'The Label It Yourself Campaign'. Sporting a skull with cornstalks for crossbones, the DIY labels inform customers as to whether or not a product 'may' include GMO ingredients or most certainly does.
> 
> Below is one label taken from the campaign website that activists are now placing on products found in grocery stores, homes of friends and family (to incite discussion), and just about everywhere else:
> 
> 
> People Will Not Stand for Corporate Food Lies Any Longer
> 
> With 80% or more of many staple crops like corn and soybeans already genetically modified, there is a large chance that most products containing these ingredients (or deriviatives) does indeed contain GMOs. Even more so for highly processed high-fructose corn syrup and other harmful ingredients which are arguably modified 100% of the time. You can print out the labels from the campaign website and stick them on products for yourself.
> 
> With a lack of real GMO labeling thanks to dirty tricks by pro-GMO groups like No on 37, grassroots initiatives are the only methods of alerting the public to what they are putting into their mouths. Pro-GMO campaigns have impersonated and illegally used the FDA seal, posed as phony cop and democrat groups, and poured more than $45 million into keeping consumers into the dark.
> 
> Now, citizens are fighting back through peaceful grassroots initiatives. As a picture from one Treehugger blog shows, consumers are honestly labeling processed foods across the shelves of international grocers.
> 
> As for the legal aspect? The Label It Yourself Campaign states:
> 
> "At the moment, the law protects misinformation and private property above truth-telling, and public well-being?"
> Meanwhile, corporations like Monsanto continue to pump out GMOs that have been time and time again linked to disease, environmental disaster, and even the center of 'slave labor' issues. When government legislation is shot down through corruption, it becomes a grassroots responsibility to take action and make a real change.
> 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Nov 18 19:07:45 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:07:45 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [VFP-116] Legislation to Phase Out Private
	Military Contractors
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Please click on red website and sign the petition. I am an Associate 
Member of Veterans for Peace and get these emails. High cost of these 
wars are due to military contractors such as  Black Water which is not 
accountable to the Congress.That's where billions if not trillions of 
our tax dollars are unaccounted for.
Agnes


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Subject: 	[VFP-116] Legislation to Phase Out Private Military Contractors
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*Legislation to Phase Out Private Military Contractors is Filed in 
Senate and House
*Read the Article at BuzzFlash 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Nov 18 20:39:09 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:39:09 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: time change for Calendar
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	time change for Calendar
Date: 	Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:38:25 -0800
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	Editor Connie Korbel <advocatenews at mcn.org>



Dear Editor;
please post in the Calendar page of the Beacon and the F.B. Advocate News:
           Starting on Black Friday Occupy Mendocino  will be present
with signs from 2:00 to 4:00PM at the corner of Main and Alder Streets.

Thank you,
Agnes Woolsey
P.O. Box 163, Mendocino,CA 95460 tel. 937-2377




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 19 06:41:17 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:41:17 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] IS THE GOP PUNISHING WOMEN FOR THE ELECTION?
Message-ID: <241B9DDC-A817-4C4F-87AD-4B97BE166082@mcn.org>

http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html

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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.



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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.



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November 18, 2012
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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.



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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.



Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU
by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


127
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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.



Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU
by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


127
38
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66
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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.



Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU
by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


127
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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.



Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU
by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.



Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU
Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?

by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.

 


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz
Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?

by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.

 


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz
Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?

by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


127
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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.

 


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz
Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?

by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


127
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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.

 


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz
Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?

by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


127
38
0
0
66
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House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.

 


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz
Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?

by Jessica Pieklo
November 18, 2012
3:00 pm


127
38
0
0
66
get causes updates


House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.

 


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz
House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.

Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.

 


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAbFnB9House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by refusing to compromise with a bipartisan coalition of Senators to extend the Violence Against Women Act.
Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn?t be further apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims, House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The House Republicans? version also makes it more difficult to report abuse and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales back protections altogether.

Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics aside and do the right thing.  ?Saving the lives of victims of domestic violence should be above politics.  Yet politics seem to have gotten in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,? Leahy and Murkowski wrote to Boehner. ?We cannot afford to let another day go by.  We urge you to swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate?s bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.?

Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.
Because the two sides can?t come to a compromise the future of the extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way. Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that?s exactly the point.

As Robin Marty points out, conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass more abortion restrictions. States like Texas have decided to forgo healthcare reform altogether for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our history.

When Mitt Romney blames his loss on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters ?gifts? like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the ?urban vote,? it is going to take a lot more than a Bobby Jindal scolding to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.

 


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAbFnB9
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 19 06:55:02 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:55:02 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] People's Reserve Credit Union
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http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/12/occupy_sf_peoples_reserve_credit_union.php

THIS IS AN OLD ARTICLE!
Occupy SF Protesters to Open People's Reserve Credit Union

By Erin Sherbert Fri., Dec. 2 2011 at 1:10 PM


Occupy is doing something besides squatting
?A few weeks ago, we got a real kick out of the fact that Occupy Oakland deposited a $20,000 donation it received into Wells Fargo -- one of the many big banks the movement has been actively protesting since September. Say what you want about Occupy  SF camp (it's dirty and filled with homeless people) -- at least protesters there are practicing what thE Members of Occupy SF announced their ambitious plans to turn protesters into bankers by creating the People's Reserve Credit Union. According to Occupy SF's Facebook page:

The goal of this project is to encourage San Francisco residents, businesses, as well as nonprofit and city agencies to keep their money out of the big banks and to redistribute that money locally. Initial services will include micro-loans for the working poor and homeless, and subsidized student loans at low interest rates.

The credit union is being created with the help of Supervisors John Avalos and Eric Mar. The group filed its paperwork and has already crafted a thoughtful mission statement: The credit union will serve as a replicable model for other financial institutions to reinvest wealth in their local communities. They will support microenterprise, provide educational loans, and foster community improvement projects. 

Jason Macarthur, a protester with Occupy SF, listed the goals that the organization plans to achieve within the first year. That includes starting with 500 members with plans to grow to 2,000 members before the end of next year.
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 19 10:04:24 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:04:24 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] I don't know how many of you are on MM's list.
	Here's his latest.
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An Open Letter to President Obama ?from Michael Moore

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Dear President Obama:

Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations on decisively winning your second term as our president! The first time you won four years ago, most of us couldn't contain our joy and found ourselves literally in tears over your victory.

This time, it was more like breathing a huge sigh of relief. But, like the smooth guy you are, you scored the highest percentage of the vote of any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson, and you racked up the most votes for a Democratic president in the history of the United States (the only one to receive more votes than you was ... you, in '08!). You are the first Democrat to get more than 50% of the vote twice in a row since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

This was truly another historic election and I would like to take a few minutes of your time to respectfully ask that your second term not resemble your first term.

It's not that you didn't get anything done. You got A LOT done. But there are some very huge issues that have been left unresolved and, dammit, we need you to get some fight in you. Wall Street and the uber-rich have been conducting a bloody class war for over 30 years and it's about time they were stopped.

I know it is not in your nature to be aggressive or confrontational. But, please, Barack ? DO NOT listen to the pundits who are telling you to make the "grand compromise" or move to the "center" (FYI ? you're already there). Your fellow citizens have spoken and we have rejected the crazed ideology of this Republican Party and we insist that you forcefully proceed in bringing about profound change that will improve the lives of the 99%. We're done hoping. We want real change. And, if we can't get it in the second term of a great and good man like you, then really ? what's the use? Why are we even bothering? Yes, we're that discouraged and disenchanted.

At your first post-election press conference last Wednesday you were on fire. The way you went all "Taxi Driver" on McCain and company ("You talkin' to me?") was so brilliant and breathtaking I had to play it back a dozen times just to maintain the contact high. Jesus, that look ? for a second I thought laser beams would be shooting out of your eyes! MORE OF THAT!! PLEASE!!

In the weeks after your first election you celebrated by hiring the Goldman Sachs boys and Wall Street darlings to run our economy. Talk about a buzzkill that I never fully recovered from. Please ? not this time. This time take a stand for all the rest of us ? and if you do, tens of millions of us will not only have your back, we will swoop down on Congress in a force so large they won't know what hit them (that's right, McConnell ? you're on the retirement list we've put together for 2014).

BUT ? first you have to do the job we elected you to do. You have to take your massive 126-electoral vote margin and just go for it.

Here are my suggestions:

1. DRIVE THE RICH RIGHT OFF THEIR FISCAL CLIFF. The "fiscal cliff" is a ruse, an invention by the Right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. On December 31, let ALL the tax cuts expire. Then, on January 1, put forth a bill that restores the tax cuts for 98% of the public. I dare the Republicans to vote against that! They can't and they won't. As for the spending cuts, the 2011 agreement states that, for every domestic program dollar the Republicans want to cut, a Pentagon dollar must also be cut. See, you are a genius! No way will the Right vote against the masters of war. And if by some chance they do, you can immediately put forth legislation to restore all the programs we, the majority, approve of. And for God's sake, man ? declare Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid untouchable. They're not bankrupt or anywhere near it. If the rich paid the same percentage of Social Security tax on their entire income ? the same exact rate everyone elsepays ? then there will suddenly be enough money in Social Security to last til at least the year 2080!

2. END ALL THE WARS NOW. Do not continue the war in Afghanistan (a thoroughly losing proposition if ever there was one) for two full more years! Why should one single more person have to die FOR NO REASON? Stop it. You know it's wrong. Bin Laden's dead, al Qaeda is decimated and the Afghans have to work out their own problems. Also, end the drone strikes and other covert military activities you are conducting in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Colombia and God knows where else. You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords. They'll say that in the 21st century America was so in need of oil that we'd kill anyone to get it. You know that's where this is going. This has to stop. Now.

3. END THE DRUG WAR. It is not only an abysmal failure, it has returned us to the days of slavery. We have locked up millions of African-Americans and Latinos and now fund a private prison-industrial complex that makes billions for a few lucky rich people. There are other ways to deal with the drugs that do cause harm ? ways built around a sense of decency and compassion. We look like a bunch of sadistic racists. Stop it.

4. DECLARE A MORATORIUM ON HOME FORECLOSURES AND EVICTIONS. Millions of people are facing homelessness because of a crooked system enacted by the major banks and Wall Street firms. Put a pause on this and take 12 months to work out a different way (like, restructuring families' mortgages to reflect the true worth of their homes).

5. GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS. You already know this one. The public is sick of it. Now's the time to act.

6. EXPAND OBAMACARE. Your health care law doesn't cover everyone. It is a cash cow for the insurance industry. Push for a single-payer system ? Medicare for All ? and include dentistry and mental health. This is the single biggest thing you could do to reduce the country's deficit.

7. RESTORE GLASS-STEAGALL. You must put back all the rigid controls on Wall Street that Reagan, Clinton and the Bushes removed ? or else we face the possibility of another, much worse, crash. If they break the law, prosecute them the way you currently go after whistleblowers and medical marijuana dispensaries.

8. REDUCE STUDENT LOAN DEBT. No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. This is cruel and no other democracy does this like we do. You were right to eliminate the banks as the profit-gouging lenders, but now you have to bring us back to the days when you and I were of college age and a good education cost us little or next to nothing. A few less wars would go a long to way to being able to afford this.

9. FREE BRADLEY MANNING. End the persecution and prosecution of an American hero. Bush and Cheney lied to a nation to convince us to go to war. Manning allegedly hacked the war criminals' files and then shared them with the American public (and the world) so that we could learn the truth about Iraq and Afghanistan. Our history is full of such people who "break the law" for the greater good of humanity. Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

10. ASK US TO DO SOMETHING. One thing is clear: none of the above is going to happen if you don't immediately mobilize the 63,500,000 who voted for you (and the other 40 million who arefor you but didn't vote). You can't go this alone. You need an army of everyday Americans who will fight alongside you to make this a more just and peaceful nation. In your 2008 campaign, you were a pioneer in using social media to win the election. Over 15 million of us gave you our cell numbers or email addresses so you could send us texts and emails telling us what needed to be done to win the election. Then, as soon as you won, it was as if you hit the delete button. We never heard from you again. (Until this past year when you kept texting us to send you $25. Inspiring.) Whoever your internet and social media people were should have been given their own office in the West Wing ? and we should have heard from you. Constantly. Need a bill passed? Text us and we will mobilize! The Republicans are filibustering? We can stop them! They won't approve your choice for Secretary of State? We'll see about that! You say you were a community organizer. Please ? start acting like one.

The next four years can be one of those presidential terms that changed the course of America. I'm sure you will want to be judged on how you stood up for us, restored the middle class, ended the s***ting on the poor and made us a friend to the rest of the world instead of a threat. You can do this. We can do it with you. All that stands in the way is your understandable desire to sing "Kumbaya" with the Republicans. Don't waste your breath. Their professed love of America is negated by their profound hatred of you. Don't waste a minute on them. Fix the sad mess we're in. Go back and read this month's election results. We're with you.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint at MichaelMoore.com
@MMFlint
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. President Obama ? my cell number to text me at is 810-522-8398 and my email isMMFlint at MichaelMoore.com. I await my first assignment! 


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 19 10:38:43 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:38:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nov 23, 'Black Friday',
	Occupy Mendocino will be present with signs 2:00 to 4:00PM in front
	of Bank of America
Message-ID: <A2F5DF27-C5EE-4EE3-A0DD-B24A8AC0C975@mcn.org>

Join  zome zombic fun and make a point!
From  Pro Makeup artist Robert,
For this coming Friday when people all over this country are 
walking around in malls like Zombies, wear black and be made
a Zombie for a day. Yadda  Yadda Yadda  
Be there this Friday, 1 PM in front of the Banks of America 
 for an early start of FACEPAINTING BY ROBERT 

                                                                                                                     
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 19 11:02:30 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:02:30 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: People's Reserve Credit Union
References: <87617BB6-F2D5-472C-8A19-E0EB81340F4F@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <187DC4D5-24DB-42C4-B9F0-79E18DB9A7C2@mcn.org>


> 
> http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/12/occupy_sf_peoples_reserve_credit_union.php
> 
> THIS IS AN OLD ARTICLE!
> Occupy SF Protesters to Open People's Reserve Credit Union
> 
> By Erin Sherbert Fri., Dec. 2 2011 at 1:10 PM
> 
> 
> Occupy is doing something besides squatting
> ?A few weeks ago, we got a real kick out of the fact that Occupy Oakland deposited a $20,000 donation it received into Wells Fargo -- one of the many big banks the movement has been actively protesting since September. Say what you want about Occupy  SF camp (it's dirty and filled with homeless people) -- at least protesters there are practicing what thE Members of Occupy SF announced their ambitious plans to turn protesters into bankers by creating the People's Reserve Credit Union. According to Occupy SF's Facebook page:
> 
> The goal of this project is to encourage San Francisco residents, businesses, as well as nonprofit and city agencies to keep their money out of the big banks and to redistribute that money locally. Initial services will include micro-loans for the working poor and homeless, and subsidized student loans at low interest rates.
> 
> The credit union is being created with the help of Supervisors John Avalos and Eric Mar. The group filed its paperwork and has already crafted a thoughtful mission statement: The credit union will serve as a replicable model for other financial institutions to reinvest wealth in their local communities. They will support microenterprise, provide educational loans, and foster community improvement projects. 
> 
> Jason Macarthur, a protester with Occupy SF, listed the goals that the organization plans to achieve within the first year. That includes starting with 500 members with plans to grow to 2,000 members before the end of next year.

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From adross at mcn.org  Mon Nov 19 11:51:33 2012
From: adross at mcn.org (Ad Ross)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:51:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] people's credit union
Message-ID: <206733B0-4C58-4895-B394-D0D7504B829E@mcn.org>


FABULOUS IDEA.  Could we do something like that here in FB?


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 19 17:26:30 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:26:30 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Join zome zombic fun on Friday
Message-ID: <77AB181C-BC10-4795-B81F-8C65402FDF0A@mcn.org>

(Graphics didn't work last time!)
Join Occupy Mendocino on Nov 23, for a 'Black Friday' rally, 
Makeup artist ROBERT will start at 1 PM  and the rally, with signs, 
will be from 2:00 to 4:00PM in front of the Bank of America, 
on the corner of: MAIN & ALDER Street  in FORT BRAGG. 
Black might be a good color to wear!

                                                                                                   
From  Pro Makeup artist Robert:
For this coming Friday when people all over this country are 
walking around in malls like Zombies, wear black and be made
a Zombie for a day. Yadda  Yadda Yadda  
Be there this Friday, 1 PM in front of the Bank of America 
 for an early start of FACEPAINTING BY ROBERT 




                                                                                                         
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 19 21:18:16 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:18:16 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Public Banking Institute Site.
Message-ID: <2F5106A3-119A-4155-A095-684FEACE62A8@mcn.org>

http://publicbankinginstitute.org/

Public Banking -- it already works in the United States and is catching on! 20 States are considering some form of state banking legislation.


What's Happening in your State?

Find out by clicking on the map or here. Are you interested in starting a county-owned bank? Visit our new county bank webpage here.

Public Banks are ...

? Viable solutions to the present economic crises in US states.
? Counter-cyclical, meaning they are capable of reducing the negative impact of recessions, because they can make money available for local governments and businesses precisely when private banks decrease lending. 
? Potentially available to any-sized government or community 
able to meet the requirements for setting up a bank.
? Owned by the people of a state or community.
? Economically sustainable, because they operate transparently according to applicable banking regulations
? Able to offset pressures for tax increases with returned credit income to the community.
? Ready sources of affordable credit for local governments, eliminating the need for large ?rainy day? funds. 
? Required to promote the public interest, as defined in their 
charters.
? Constitutional, as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court
... and are not

? Operated by politicians; rather, they are run by professional 
bankers.
? Boondoggles for bank executives; rather, their employees are
salaried public servants (paid by the state, with a transparent pay structure) who would likely
 not earn bonuses, commissions or fees for generating loans.... continues>>>>> http://publicbankinginstitute.org/

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 19 22:10:10 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:10:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Remember Rob Harlan?
Message-ID: <9F187687-0985-478D-876D-D061F93BEB7E@att.net>

Rob lives in Canada now.

Hi Mark,
In case you are interested in the efffect of the tar sands on the creatures that surround it, this is good Albertan-made movie.  I have purchased it. The Access Code expires on December 15.  Feel free to pass this on.
Go to: http://www.whitewaterblackgold.com/watch    
Use the code:
> Email: mendosol at mcn.org
> Access Code: fsx3g4
Click on Video Menu (on the right) and then click on the 2nd offering (88 minutes) on the playlist.  The first offering is just a trailer.
Enjoy,
Rob
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 05:01:48 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:01:48 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Girl explains Public Banks
Message-ID: <4DA32E7E-1CF8-4139-A01E-FDE332CD3B38@mcn.org>

More research needed on Public/Community Banks!  I wonder if there are any in California? rk

Video:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5Sc3vWefE	

Published on May 8, 2012

12-year old Victoria Grant explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in debt. April 27, 2012 at the Public Banking in America Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Support a public bank for YOUR state. Donate and make it happen!
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From elained at mcn.org  Mon Nov 19 11:05:33 2012
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:05:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nov 23, 'Black Friday',
	Occupy Mendocino will be present with signs 2:00 to 4:00PM in front
	of Bank of America
In-Reply-To: <A2F5DF27-C5EE-4EE3-A0DD-B24A8AC0C975@mcn.org>
References: <A2F5DF27-C5EE-4EE3-A0DD-B24A8AC0C975@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <6745F68B-B055-475C-B16E-F12D57D62A73@mcn.org>

hahahahahaha! Zombie holiday mantra:

Put a dead bird in your oven.
Put a dead tree in your living room.
Worship a dead guy on the cross.

On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Richard Karch wrote:

> Join  zome zombic fun and make a point!
> <Screen shot 2012-11-19 at 10.18.47 AM.png>From  Pro Makeup artist Robert,
> For this coming Friday when people all over this country are 
> walking around in malls like Zombies, wear black and be made
> a Zombie for a day. Yadda  Yadda Yadda  
> Be there this Friday, 1 PM in front of the Banks of America 
>  for an early start of FACEPAINTING BY ROBERT 
> 
>                                                                                                                      <Screen shot 2012-11-19 at 10.17.02 AM.png>
> 
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
> 
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Nov 20 10:04:09 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:04:09 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How Big Banks are Gaming the Foreclosure Fraud
	Settlement
Message-ID: <CF260908-7DC5-40DA-AB73-54FEAB2F923D@att.net>

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11/19/1215071/big-banks-gaming-settlement/?mobile=nc

How Big Banks are Gaming the Foreclosure Fraud Settlement

By Travis Waldron, Think Progress

20 November 12

 
s part of their foreclosure fraud settlement with the federal government and state attorneys general, five of Wall Street?s biggest banks were required to provide billions of dollars in relief to homeowners. After months of lagging, the banks have finally started: according to a report from the settlement watchdog, the banks have provided $26 billion in relief, including $6.3 billion in mortgage writedowns that directly reduce the amount borrowers owe on their loans.

But much of the money devoted toward relief thus far has not been put toward writedowns. Instead, it has been used to finance short sales that likely would have occurred even without the settlement, because such sales are more beneficial to banks than writedowns and less expensive than foreclosures, as the Wall Street Journal reports:

So far, short sales account for the vast majority of relief tabbed under the settlement, with banks forgiving around $13.1 billion on more than 113,000 properties. Many of those short sales might have happened without the settlement because banks generally lose less money on those than they do on foreclosures.
Counting short sales as relief isn?t prohibited, since under the settlement banks are required to spend $10 billion on principal reduction and $10 billion on other forms of relief. That they are counting short sales they likely would have conducted anyway instead of direct relief efforts, though, is yet another troubling sign for the mortgage settlement, which was hamstrung early by state governments that used mortgage relief funds to close gaping budget holes instead of to help distressed homeowners. As of October, less than half of the funds sent to states had been spent on relief.

Further, short sales, while less expensive for the banks, aren?t the best way to provide relief. According to recent studies, principal reduction, which provides direct relief to homeowners who are underwater thanks to plunging prices from the housing crisis, is the most effective means of preventing future foreclosures.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 10:14:31 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:14:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Make Amending the Constitution a Top Priority
Message-ID: <0E605D75-21D4-42EA-907E-962371048DFD@mcn.org>

https://movetoamend.org/

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7003/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12170&Email=rkarch at mcn.org&First_Name=Richard&Last_Name=Karch&Phone=&Street=your%20street&City=your%20city&State=CA&Zip=95460

President Obama, make amending
the Constitution a top priority

      
 


 President Obama has criticized the Citizens United decision and said a constitutional amendment to overrule it may be necessary. 

But will he fight for it?  The answer may be up to us.

In his victory speech, President Obama said to Americans that the election...
 
"doesn?t
 mean your work is done. The role of citizens in our democracy does not 
end with your vote. America?s never been about what can be done for us. 
It?s about what can be done by us together through the hard and 
frustrating, but necessary work of self-government."

Now,
 while the memory of $6 billion spent on the election -- and of the 
ugly, divisive ads that money bought -- is still fresh, is the moment 
for us to urge President Obama to lead on this issue.

Imagine how much better that money could have been spent.  And imagine how much stronger America would be.  











Message to President Obama (sign on below.)

Subject:  
Your Letter:  

President Barack Obama

Phone:(202) 456-1111
Fax:(202) 456-2461
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Nov 20 12:41:42 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:41:42 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Damn right,
	George Bush should face criminal proceedings for waterboarding |
	Katherine Gallagher
Message-ID: <D22AF551-F6E6-4C81-82FF-1E780D46965F@att.net>


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/17/george-bush-criminal-proceedings-waterboarding

Damn right, George Bush should face criminal proceedings for waterboarding


A protest calling for the arrest of George Bush as he visited British Columbia, Canada in 2011 on a speaking engagement at an economic forum. Photograph: via Andy Worthington
One thing brings together these four men ? Hassan bin Attash, Sami el-Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz: they are all survivors of the systematic torture program the Bush administration authorized and carried out in locations including Afghanistan, Iraq, Guant?namo, and numerous prisons and CIA "black sites" around the world. Between them, they have been beaten, hung from walls or ceilings, deprived of sleep, food and water, and subjected to freezing temperatures and other forms of torture and abuse while held in US custody.

None was charged with a crime. Two were detained while still minors. And one of them remains at Guant?namo.

This week, in a complaint filed with the United Nations committee against torture, they are asking one question: how can the man responsible for ordering these heinous crimes, openly enter a country that has pledged to prosecute all torturers regardless of their position and not face legal action?

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) filed the complaint on the men's behalf. The country in question is Canada, visited last year by former US President George W Bush during a paid speaking engagement in Surrey, British Columbia.

Bush's visit drew hundreds in protest, calling for his arrest, and it also provided bin Attash, el-Hajj, Tumani and Kurnaz the opportunity to call on the Canadian government to uphold its legal obligation under the UN convention against torture, and conduct a criminal investigation against Bush while he was on Canadian soil.

To this end, the four men, submitted a 69-page draft indictment (pdf) that CCR and CCIJ had presented to Canada's attorney general ahead of Bush's arrival in support of their private prosecution. The submission included thousands of pages of evidence against Bush, consisting of extensive reports and investigations conducted by multiple US agencies and the UN. The evidence is overwhelming ? not to mention the fact that Bush has admitted, even, boasted of his crimes, saying "damn right" when asked if it was permissible to waterboard a detainee, a recognized act of torture.

Canada should have investigated these crimes. The responsibility to do so is embedded in its domestic criminal code that explicitly authorizes the government to prosecute torture occurring outside Canadian borders. There is no reason it cannot apply to former heads of state, and indeed, the convention has been found to apply to such figures including Hiss?ne Habr? and Augusto Pinochet. A criminal investigation into the allegations was the lawful thing to do. It was also what Canada had agreed to do when it pledged its support to end impunity for torture by ratifying the convention.

But Canada looked the other way. Not only did federal Attorney General Robert Nicholson refuse to investigate Bush, but the attorney general of British Columbia swiftly intervened to shut down a private criminal prosecution (pdf) submitted to a provincial court in his jurisdiction the morning of Bush's visit.

Thanks to the Obama administration's call to look only "forward" ? even in the face of torture that demands a proper reckoning ? and a court system in the US that has readily closed its doors to torture survivors, the crimes of the Bush era are effectively beyond the reach of justice in the US. But the immunity ? the impunity ? granted to these criminals here should not follow them into other countries, particularly those that are signatories to international laws and treaties against torture.

If the UN convention against torture is to have any hope of fulfilling its mission of preventing torture, the committee must send countries like Canada a clear message: it is their legal obligation to ensure there is no safe haven for torturers; and any action to the contrary makes these states effectively complicit in furthering impunity for some of the worst crimes of the past decade.

These four survivors are asking the UN to enforce its own convention, nothing more and nothing less. They call upon the UN, unlike Canada, to unequivocally reject a worldview in which the powerful are exempt from rules, treaties and prohibitions against senseless acts of barbarity. Will the UN now hear their call?


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From elained at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 15:02:27 2012
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:02:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The original Black Friday
Message-ID: <05EB18ED-1BC1-4A61-84C8-FB6024367442@mcn.org>

http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/75-our-history/7697-the-suffragettes-black-friday-and-the-two-types-of-window-smashing
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 15:13:11 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:13:11 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: RE: Fort Bragg town hall
In-Reply-To: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D080608A270@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
References: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D080608A270@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
Message-ID: <50AC0E87.2010607@mcn.org>

What is the next step forward? Let's have some ideas from the Gen Ass. 
Sat. 11/17 and others. One idea was to contact the County Recorders 
across the country via email. Who wants to take that on or start local?
Happy Thanksgiving,All,
Agnes


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: Fort Bragg town hall
Date: 	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:50:44 -0600
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
To: 	Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
CC: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>



This is fabulous feedback.  Thanks for much for all your work -- both of 
you.  I'd love to meet with anyone/everyone that is willing to take the 
next step forward.  Please keep me in the loop.

Thanks, cj

CJ_Web

CJ Holmes, Founder

Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197


www.HOFJ.org

/(707) 578-5727/

/(707) 578-5873 f/

818 Mendocino Ave

Santa Rosa, CA  95401

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*From:*Linda Jupiter [mailto:jupiter at mcn.org]
*Sent:* Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:37 AM
*To:* CJ Holmes
*Cc:* Agnes Woolsey
*Subject:* Fort Bragg town hall

That was a wonderful presentaton you gave last night, CJ.

Agnes you did a sterling job getting three city council members, 
including our mayor, and one outgoing BOS member and one incoming BOS 
member!

Also, I saw some new faces in the crowd as well.

Great work, you, two.

In talking to Kendall after the meeting (she's our outgoing BOS member), 
she'll be talking to our County Recorder and is interested in the 
eminent domain focus. She'd be great taking that on as she has no plans 
for work after January. It may be a fit.

Love,

Linda

-----------

*Linda Jupiter Productions*

P.O. Box 2822

139-1/2 Jupiter Lane

Fort Bragg, CA 95437

phone 707-964-8985

www.lindajupiter.com <http://www.lindajupiter.com>




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 17:10:37 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:10:37 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: RE: Fort Bragg town hall
In-Reply-To: <50AC0E87.2010607@mcn.org>
References: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D080608A270@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
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Message-ID: <886812C6-1753-4386-BEC1-06CC1D810A0E@mcn.org>

On Nov 20, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:

> What is the next step forward? Let's have some ideas from the Gen Ass. Sat. 11/17 and others. One idea was to contact the County Recorders across the country via email. Who wants to take that on or start local?
> Happy Thanksgiving,All,
> Agnes

I'm researching public/community  banks.  This seems like  good thing to work on because OM people seem excited by the idea. rk

Community bank

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to:	 navigation, search
A community bank is a depository institution that is typically locally owned and operated. Community banks tend to focus on the needs of the businesses and families where the bank holds branches and offices. Lending decisions are made by people who understand the local needs of families, businesses and farmers. Employees often reside within the communities they serve.

In the United States, community banks are defined as independent banks and savings institutions holding companies with aggregate assets less than $1 billion.[1] From 1985 to 2004 they comprised 94% of all banks in the United States, but the proportion of expanding total national deposits that the Community Banks held declined from about 25.89% of all U.S. deposits in 1985 to 13.55% of the U.S. deposits in 2003.[1][2][3]

Contents

1 List of community banks
2 See also
3 References



On Nov 20, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:

> What is the next step forward? Let's have some ideas from the Gen Ass. Sat. 11/17 and others. One idea was to contact the County Recorders across the country via email. Who wants to take that on or start local?
> Happy Thanksgiving,All,
> Agnes
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:	RE: Fort Bragg town hall
> Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:50:44 -0600
> From:	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
> To:	Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
> CC:	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
> 
> This is fabulous feedback.  Thanks for much for all your work ? both of you.  I?d love to meet with anyone/everyone that is willing to take the next step forward.  Please keep me in the loop. 
>  
> Thanks,  cj
>  
> <Mail Attachment.png>
> CJ Holmes, Founder
> Home Owners For Justice
> 
> Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197
> 
> www.HOFJ.org
> (707) 578-5727
> (707) 578-5873 f
> 818 Mendocino Ave
> Santa Rosa, CA  95401
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> From: Linda Jupiter [mailto:jupiter at mcn.org] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:37 AM
> To: CJ Holmes
> Cc: Agnes Woolsey
> Subject: Fort Bragg town hall
>  
> That was a wonderful presentaton you gave last night, CJ.
> Agnes you did a sterling job getting three city council members, including our mayor, and one outgoing BOS member and one incoming BOS member!
> Also, I saw some new faces in the crowd as well.
> Great work, you, two.
> In talking to Kendall after the meeting (she's our outgoing BOS member), she'll be talking to our County Recorder and is interested in the eminent domain focus. She'd be great taking that on as she has no plans for work after January. It may be a fit.
> Love,
> Linda
>  
> -----------
> Linda Jupiter Productions
> P.O. Box 2822 
> 139-1/2 Jupiter Lane
> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
> phone 707-964-8985
> www.lindajupiter.com
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 19:24:08 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:24:08 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fwd: Act now to end nuclear tax
 credit/support wind power
In-Reply-To: <50A91988.3080603@mcn.org>
References: <50A91988.3080603@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <50AC4958.9010003@mcn.org>

Dear Linda, et al,
Scroll down to bottom, type in your area code and your Congresspeople 
and the letter will appear.
Persevere,Y"All.
Agnes


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[Occupymendocino] Fwd: Act now to end nuclear tax 
credit/support wind power
Date: 	Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:23:20 -0800
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
Reply-To: 	rkarch at mcn.org
To: 	occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>



scroll down.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Act now to end nuclear tax credit/support wind power
Date: 	Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:48:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Nuclear Information and Resource Service <nirsnet at nirs.org>
Reply-To: 	nirsnet at nirs.org
To: 	agnes at mcn.org



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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 19:29:15 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:29:15 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fwd: RE: Fort Bragg town hall/meets 2nd and
	4th Mon.
In-Reply-To: <50AC0E82.3010407@mcn.org>
References: <50AC0E82.3010407@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <50AC4A8B.9020708@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Fwd: RE: Fort Bragg town hall
Date: 	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:13:06 -0800
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>



What is the next step forward? Let's have some ideas from the Gen Ass. 
Sat. 11/17 and others. One idea was to contact the County Recorders 
across the country via email. Who wants to take that on or start local?
Happy Thanksgiving,All,
Agnes


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: Fort Bragg town hall
Date: 	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:50:44 -0600
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
To: 	Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
CC: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>



This is fabulous feedback.  Thanks for much for all your work -- both of 
you.  I'd love to meet with anyone/everyone that is willing to take the 
next step forward.  Please keep me in the loop.

Thanks, cj

CJ_Web

CJ Holmes, Founder

Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197


www.HOFJ.org

/(707) 578-5727/

/(707) 578-5873 f/

818 Mendocino Ave

Santa Rosa, CA  95401

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*From:*Linda Jupiter [mailto:jupiter at mcn.org]
*Sent:* Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:37 AM
*To:* CJ Holmes
*Cc:* Agnes Woolsey
*Subject:* Fort Bragg town hall

That was a wonderful presentaton you gave last night, CJ.

Agnes you did a sterling job getting three city council members, 
including our mayor, and one outgoing BOS member and one incoming BOS 
member!

Also, I saw some new faces in the crowd as well.

Great work, you, two.

In talking to Kendall after the meeting (she's our outgoing BOS member), 
she'll be talking to our County Recorder and is interested in the 
eminent domain focus. She'd be great taking that on as she has no plans 
for work after January. It may be a fit.

Love,

Linda

-----------

*Linda Jupiter Productions*

P.O. Box 2822

139-1/2 Jupiter Lane

Fort Bragg, CA 95437

phone 707-964-8985

www.lindajupiter.com <http://www.lindajupiter.com>







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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 19:32:12 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:32:12 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [VFP-116] Legislation to Phase Out
	Private Military Contractors
In-Reply-To: <50A9A25F.9030505@mcn.org>
References: <7A96DA75490B4A3B840B67AD334D2DEB@omnio1yiei2jxc>
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Message-ID: <50AC4B3C.6080403@mcn.org>

Bernie,
Where is the petition for this good idea?
Agnes
On 11/18/2012 7:07 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:
> Please click on red website and sign the petition. I am an Associate 
> Member of Veterans for Peace and get these emails. High cost of these 
> wars are due to military contractors such as  Black Water which is not 
> accountable to the Congress. Billions if not trillions of dollars are 
> unaccounted for.
> Agnes
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[VFP-116] Legislation to Phase Out Private Military Contractors
> Date: 	Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:03:56 -0700
> From: 	BC Macdonald <omni at mcn.org>
> Reply-To: 	VFP-116 at yahoogroups.com
> To: 	Veterans for Peace <VFP-116 at yahoogroups.com>
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>
>
> *Legislation to Phase Out Private Military Contractors is Filed in 
> Senate and House
> *Read the Article at BuzzFlash 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 19:33:19 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:33:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fwd: Robo Signing Video
In-Reply-To: <50A7E5C5.8010307@mcn.org>
References: <50A7E5C5.8010307@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <50AC4B7F.3020303@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Fwd: Robo Signing Video
Date: 	Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:30:13 -0800
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	rannochas at co.mendocino.ca.us






-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Robo Signing Video
Date: 	Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:44:59 -0800
From: 	Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org>
To: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
CC: 	best at mcn.org, Tommy Barron <tommyhotx at gmail.com>, SHEILA DAWN 
<sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com>, Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>, Richard Karch 
<rkarch at mcn.org>



County recorder in Massachusetts talking about robo signing.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458





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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 20 19:42:51 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:42:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: about MA Recorder of deeds and his
 de facto moratorium on Foreclosures.
In-Reply-To: <50A91429.10209@mcn.org>
References: <50A91429.10209@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <50AC4DBB.9090909@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Fwd: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: about MA Recorder of deeds and his 
de facto moratorium on Foreclosures.
Date: 	Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:00:25 -0800
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	hamburgd at co.mendocino.ca.us, "SmithK at co.mendocino.ca.us" 
<SmithK at co.mendocino.ca.us>, browncj at co.mendocino.ca.us, 
<mccowen at co.mendocino.ca.us>, pinchesj at co.mendocino.ca.us, 
<dangjerde at netscape.net>,



Please go to



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	about MA Recorder of deeds and his de facto moratorium on 
Foreclosures.
Date: 	Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:33:58 -0500
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>





John O'Brien and his key associate Kevin Harvey are on a mission to stop 
the recording of forged documents. They will present how they have 
enacted a "DE FACTO FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM" by refusing to accept and 
record documents which raise doubt as to their authenticity and the 
lawful process of foreclosure. Every property owner in the country needs 
this protection.

RECORDERS FIGHTING FORGED DOCUMENTS
O'Brien on forged documents [3m video]: 
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458
"These banks acted as a criminal enterprise. They crossed state lines, 
they recorded fraudulent documents, they committed forgery, and they 
committed mail fraud. They used the Unites States Postal Service to mail 
these documents to registries of deeds." John O'Brien

O'Brien letter and affidavit rejecting the recording of forged 
documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/obrien%20letter%20and%20affidavit.pdf

Becker, PA Registrar's Quiet Title Action against MERS: 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/county-recorders-vs-the-mers-machine-11032011.html

Thigpen, NC Registrar's Lawsuit against robosigned docs: 
http://4closurefraud.org/2012/10/15/jeff-thigpen-guilford-county-lawsuit-against-lender-processing-services-lps-on-robosigning-goes-to-nc-business-court-tomorrow/

Next Call is scheduled for 11/15/12, from 10a-11a, Pacific Time: 
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/9OI4J9O9A4HGMOAN
Please register anytime. We hope to have Becker, Thigpen, and O'Brien 
join us for updates and expanded support.

In addition, we are compiling forged documents: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20loryn%20stone%20sig.pdf
and forged notary signatures: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/forged%20notary%20signature.pdf
to present to our DAs, Judges, Supervisors and City Council officials. 
The key issue surrounding these forgeries is that the "ownership of the 
notes/loans" is completely suspect. That's the point of quiet title 
action, and a key point in the eminent domain of the notes.

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Thank you for supporting the cause. cj

CJ Holmes, Founder
Home Owners For Justice

Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197

www.HOFJ.org <http://www.HOFJ.org>
(707) 578-5727 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5727>
(707) 578-5873 <tel:%28707%29%20578-5873> f
818 Mendocino Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Nov 21 09:07:51 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:07:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: www.saveourcoastcourt.org
In-Reply-To: <AE439EF6046F46EA846E780EE62F6240@steven>
References: <AE439EF6046F46EA846E780EE62F6240@steven>
Message-ID: <50AD0A67.6050104@mcn.org>




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	www.saveourcoastcourt.org
Date: 	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:26:40 -0800
From: 	Steven Antler <santler at mcn.org>
Reply-To: 	Steven Antler <santler at mcn.org>
To: 	steve antler <santler at mcn.org>



Dear coast dweller,
     One of our most important and necessary coast institutions--our 
Fort Bragg court--is being threatened by short-sighted budget action by 
the judges in Ukiah. A lot of information PLUS an easy way to make your 
comments known to the judges is on the website www.saveourcoastcourt.org
     There is also a public meeting scheduled with the judges on 
Thursday, November 29th at 5:30 at the Fort Bragg courthouse.
     Our whole community will suffer if the proposed cuts are 
implemented. Please take action to stop them.
     Best, Steve Antler 937-5925



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Nov 21 12:01:44 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:01:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Near Hysteria on the Right
Message-ID: <357E9543-6FE2-4308-B7BC-2019979C8A34@mcn.org>

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12844-the-obama-victory-and-the-american-far-right
            The Obama Victory and the Near Hysteria of the American Far-Right

Wednesday, 21 November 2012 00:00	 By Matthew Feldman and Leonard Weinberg, Truthout | Op-Ed

President Barack Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, November 14. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times)
The contrast between the FBI's hate crime data and the near hysterical reaction by some on the further reaches of the far-right to President Obama's re-election have some scratching their heads.

To the surprise of many, US President Barack Obama was elected to a second term of office. For example: the wealthy and flamboyant developer Donald Trump called for a march on Washington and mentioned the possibility of revolution as a means of overturning the result. The treasurer of the Republican Party Peter Morrison, in Hardin County, Tex., called for secession following the Obama victory. Morrison wrote in his Newsletter, "We must contest every single inch of ground and delay every baby-murdering, tax raising socialists (sic) at every opportunity. But in due time, the maggots will have eaten every morsel of flesh off of the rotten corpse of the Republic, and therein lies our opportunity." Some on the far right were farsighted. Before the balloting, a county judge in Lubbock Tex., Hon. Thomas Head, reported fearing a popular insurrection in the aftermath of an Obama victory...
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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Nov 21 14:02:03 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:02:03 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] People's Reserve Credit Union
In-Reply-To: <87617BB6-F2D5-472C-8A19-E0EB81340F4F@mcn.org>
References: <87617BB6-F2D5-472C-8A19-E0EB81340F4F@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <50AD4F5B.8010301@mcn.org>

Richard, et al,
What do  you say about going to the next B.O.S. meeting to urge them to 
set up a public bank and to use Eminent Domain to take titles to 
securitized mortgages and foreclosed homes? Is there anyone who knows a 
person being notified of default on their loan?  That person should come 
to the Ukiah Assessor's office and demand to see the note( proof of who  
the mortgage holder is) that will be the beginning of a Moratorium on 
Foreclosure. Then the Recorder Susan Ranochak can send an Affidavit of 
Authority demanding a signature of the banker or robo signer as 
condition of filing the foreclosure document in her registry.
          There are two or three B.O.S.meetings in Dec. the 11th , the 
17th and 18th. Who is up for a trip to Ukiah B.O.S. meeting?
RSVP to Agnes at mcn.org

On 11/19/2012 6:55 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
> http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/12/occupy_sf_peoples_reserve_credit_union.php 
>
>
> THIS IS AN OLD ARTICLE!
>
>
>   Occupy SF Protesters to Open People's Reserve Credit Union
>
> By Erin Sherbert <http://blogs.sfweekly.com/author.php?author_id=1679> 
> Fri., Dec. 2 2011 at 1:10 PM
>
> 99percent.jpg <http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/99percent.jpg>
> Occupy is doing something besides squatting
>
> A few weeks ago, we got a real kick out of the fact that Occupy 
> Oakland deposited a $20,000 donation it received into Wells Fargo 
> <http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/11/occupy_oakland_wells_fargo.php>-- 
> one of the many big banks the movement has been actively protesting 
> since September. Say what you want about Occupy  SF camp (it's dirty 
> and filled with homeless people) -- at least protesters there are 
> practicing what thE Members of Occupy SF announced their ambitious 
> plans to turn protesters into bankers by creating the People's Reserve 
> Credit Union. According to Occupy SF's Facebook page 
> <http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150393701330817.352124.171020735816&type=3>:
>
>     The goal of this project is to encourage San Francisco residents,
>     businesses, as well as nonprofit and city agencies to keep their
>     money out of the big banks and to redistribute that money locally.
>     Initial services will include micro-loans for the working poor and
>     homeless, and subsidized student loans at low interest rates.
>
>
> The credit union is being created with the help of Supervisors John 
> Avalos and Eric Mar. The group filed its paperwork and has already 
> crafted a thoughtful mission statement: The credit union will serve as 
> a replicable model for other financial institutions to reinvest wealth 
> in their local communities. They will support microenterprise, provide 
> educational loans, and foster community improvement projects.
>
> Jason Macarthur, a protester with Occupy SF, listed the goals that the 
> organization plans to achieve within the first year. That includes 
> starting with 500 members with plans to grow to 2,000 members before 
> the end of next year.
>
>
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From adross at mcn.org  Wed Nov 21 17:49:38 2012
From: adross at mcn.org (Ad Ross)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:49:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Ten Mile Justice Court
References: <5BBBE8EC-A025-41A4-AEBF-02436EAEFCA4@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <E2842056-1179-4DFA-A37D-6CA8C9B471CF@mcn.org>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ad Ross <adross at mcn.org>
> Date: November 17, 2012 4:03:15 PM MST
> To: tenmilereductions at mendocino.courts.ca.gov
> Subject: Ten Mile Justice Court
>
>
>
> Dear folks at Mendocino Courts:
>
> I'm appalled to learned that our local court, the Ten Mile Justice  
> Court, is due to be closed or greatly reduced.  This is a great  
> burden and disservice to residents of our coastal communities.
>
> There is no timely public transport from the coast inland, as you  
> surely know, and even if there were, the difficulties of travelling  
> over the hill for older people, and those who are disabled or poor,  
> are massive.  I myself am 79 years old, and most of those who I  
> consider friends and neighbors are elders.  It's a struggle some  
> days even to drive into town, or from Fort Bragg to Mendocino.   
> Please consider all Coastal residents, even those who are not  
> young, affluent, or energetic.
>
> I beg you to continue full service of Ten Mile Justice Court.
>
> Thank you for your attention,
> Adrienne Ross
> 30470 Pudding Creek Road
> Fort Bragg, CA 9543d7
>


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 22 08:33:44 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:33:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Ten Mile Justice Court-CAN OCCUPY
	MENDOCINO HELP?
In-Reply-To: <E2842056-1179-4DFA-A37D-6CA8C9B471CF@mcn.org>
References: <5BBBE8EC-A025-41A4-AEBF-02436EAEFCA4@mcn.org>
	<E2842056-1179-4DFA-A37D-6CA8C9B471CF@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <C65EC04E-BCF0-45CB-AA42-060B3D49DD38@mcn.org>

 I wonder if this would be an issue for Occupy Mendocino to help on? Protest on the 29th?
rk
On Nov 21, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Ad Ross wrote:

> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Ad Ross <adross at mcn.org>
>> Date: November 17, 2012 4:03:15 PM MST
>> To: tenmilereductions at mendocino.courts.ca.gov
>> Subject: Ten Mile Justice Court
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dear folks at Mendocino Courts:
>> 
>> I'm appalled to learned that our local court, the Ten Mile Justice Court, is due to be closed or greatly reduced.  This is a great burden and disservice to residents of our coastal communities.
>> 
>> There is no timely public transport from the coast inland, as you surely know, and even if there were, the difficulties of travelling over the hill for older people, and those who are disabled or poor, are massive.  I myself am 79 years old, and most of those who I consider friends and neighbors are elders.  It's a struggle some days even to drive into town, or from Fort Bragg to Mendocino.  Please consider all Coastal residents, even those who are not young, affluent, or energetic. 
>> 
>> I beg you to continue full service of Ten Mile Justice Court.
>> 
>> Thank you for your attention,
>> Adrienne Ross
>> 30470 Pudding Creek Road
>> Fort Bragg, CA 9543d7
>> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 
> Sent from my obsolete desktop.
> 
> 
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Thu Nov 22 09:05:12 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:05:12 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Ten Mile Justice Court-CAN OCCUPY
	MENDOCINO HELP?
In-Reply-To: <C65EC04E-BCF0-45CB-AA42-060B3D49DD38@mcn.org>
References: <5BBBE8EC-A025-41A4-AEBF-02436EAEFCA4@mcn.org>
	<E2842056-1179-4DFA-A37D-6CA8C9B471CF@mcn.org>
	<C65EC04E-BCF0-45CB-AA42-060B3D49DD38@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <E927CE23-B776-4B4C-BCEA-8BEF7D58F61A@mcn.org>

With all the other issues on the table right now, I suggest we hold  
off until we see what happens after the meeting. There's such an  
outcry against this that the decision  might very well be rescinded  
very soon, I hope. The best thing we can do is to attend the meeting  
and make our feelings known.
Linda

-----------
Linda Jupiter Productions
P.O. Box 2822
139-1/2 Jupiter Lane
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
phone 707-964-8985
www.lindajupiter.com




















On Nov 22, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Richard Karch wrote:

>  I wonder if this would be an issue for Occupy Mendocino to help on?  
> Protest on the 29th?
> rk
> On Nov 21, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Ad Ross wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Ad Ross <adross at mcn.org>
>>> Date: November 17, 2012 4:03:15 PM MST
>>> To: tenmilereductions at mendocino.courts.ca.gov
>>> Subject: Ten Mile Justice Court
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear folks at Mendocino Courts:
>>>
>>> I'm appalled to learned that our local court, the Ten Mile Justice  
>>> Court, is due to be closed or greatly reduced.  This is a great  
>>> burden and disservice to residents of our coastal communities.
>>>
>>> There is no timely public transport from the coast inland, as you  
>>> surely know, and even if there were, the difficulties of  
>>> travelling over the hill for older people, and those who are  
>>> disabled or poor, are massive.  I myself am 79 years old, and most  
>>> of those who I consider friends and neighbors are elders.  It's a  
>>> struggle some days even to drive into town, or from Fort Bragg to  
>>> Mendocino.  Please consider all Coastal residents, even those who  
>>> are not young, affluent, or energetic.
>>>
>>> I beg you to continue full service of Ten Mile Justice Court.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your attention,
>>> Adrienne Ross
>>> 30470 Pudding Creek Road
>>> Fort Bragg, CA 9543d7
>>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Sent from my obsolete desktop.
>>
>>
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>>
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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Nov 21 14:17:59 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:17:59 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] people's credit union
In-Reply-To: <206733B0-4C58-4895-B394-D0D7504B829E@mcn.org>
References: <206733B0-4C58-4895-B394-D0D7504B829E@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <50AD5317.8040003@mcn.org>

Be prepared to come to the Nov. 26th City Council meeting to press City 
Council to create a City Public Bank  in which to record property titles 
taken by Eminent Domain which the city can do. If you were at the 
Foreclosure Town Hall and heard C.J. lay out the three great strategies, 
you will be a Believer. Remember the three avenues of fighting 
foreclosures--Eminent Domain, de Facto Moratorium  and Public Bank. It's 
called taking control of our local economy.
Come to the next City Council meeting 11/26 and speak out/support your 
local economy.
Love,
Agnes
On 11/19/2012 11:51 AM, Ad Ross wrote:
>
> FABULOUS IDEA.  Could we do something like that here in FB?
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Sent from my obsolete desktop.
>
>
>
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov 22 09:43:33 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:43:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Ten Mile Justice Court-CAN OCCUPY
	MENDOCINO HELP?
In-Reply-To: <E927CE23-B776-4B4C-BCEA-8BEF7D58F61A@mcn.org>
References: <5BBBE8EC-A025-41A4-AEBF-02436EAEFCA4@mcn.org>
	<E2842056-1179-4DFA-A37D-6CA8C9B471CF@mcn.org>
	<C65EC04E-BCF0-45CB-AA42-060B3D49DD38@mcn.org>
	<E927CE23-B776-4B4C-BCEA-8BEF7D58F61A@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <C125FBAF-40BA-4762-BBAF-03B5E5A6FE4F@att.net>

I agree, Linda


On Nov 22, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:

With all the other issues on the table right now, I suggest we hold off until we see what happens after the meeting. There's such an outcry against this that the decision  might very well be rescinded very soon, I hope. The best thing we can do is to attend the meeting and make our feelings known.
Linda

-----------
Linda Jupiter Productions
P.O. Box 2822 
139-1/2 Jupiter Lane
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
phone 707-964-8985
www.lindajupiter.com




















On Nov 22, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Richard Karch wrote:

>  I wonder if this would be an issue for Occupy Mendocino to help on? Protest on the 29th?
> rk
> On Nov 21, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Ad Ross wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: Ad Ross <adross at mcn.org>
>>> Date: November 17, 2012 4:03:15 PM MST
>>> To: tenmilereductions at mendocino.courts.ca.gov
>>> Subject: Ten Mile Justice Court
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear folks at Mendocino Courts:
>>> 
>>> I'm appalled to learned that our local court, the Ten Mile Justice Court, is due to be closed or greatly reduced.  This is a great burden and disservice to residents of our coastal communities.
>>> 
>>> There is no timely public transport from the coast inland, as you surely know, and even if there were, the difficulties of travelling over the hill for older people, and those who are disabled or poor, are massive.  I myself am 79 years old, and most of those who I consider friends and neighbors are elders.  It's a struggle some days even to drive into town, or from Fort Bragg to Mendocino.  Please consider all Coastal residents, even those who are not young, affluent, or energetic. 
>>> 
>>> I beg you to continue full service of Ten Mile Justice Court.
>>> 
>>> Thank you for your attention,
>>> Adrienne Ross
>>> 30470 Pudding Creek Road
>>> Fort Bragg, CA 9543d7
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------- 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my obsolete desktop.
>> 
>> 
>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
>> 
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> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 22 10:53:19 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:53:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] people's credit union
In-Reply-To: <50AD5317.8040003@mcn.org>
References: <206733B0-4C58-4895-B394-D0D7504B829E@mcn.org>
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WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW TO 'BE PREPARED'?  I hate not having a succinct message to convey.  Could we have some examples of presentation ideas?
What would we actually say to the council?  Examples please.  rk


On Nov 21, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:

> Be prepared to come to the Nov. 26th City Council meeting to press City Council to create a City Public Bank  in which to record property titles taken by Eminent Domain which the city can do. If you were at the Foreclosure Town Hall and heard C.J. lay out the three great strategies, you will be a Believer. Remember the three avenues of fighting foreclosures--Eminent Domain, de Facto Moratorium  and Public Bank. It's called taking control of our local economy.
> Come to the next City Council meeting 11/26 and speak out/support your local economy.
> Love,
> Agnes
> On 11/19/2012 11:51 AM, Ad Ross wrote:
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>> FABULOUS IDEA.  Could we do something like that here in FB?
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov 22 11:53:22 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:53:22 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A different name but it sounds just like Bain.
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(THE REAL REASON FOR THE HOSTESS MELTDOWN -- IN CASE YOU CARE.  M.S.) 
TUESDAY, NOV 20, 2012 04:45 AM PST
Vulture capitalism ? not unions ? killed Twinkies
Hedge funds took profits and piled on millions in debt at Hostess. They created this bankruptcy, not unions
BY JAKE BLUMGART
(Credit: AP/Paul Sakuma)
As the final Twinkies, Sno-Balls and those glowing orange cupcakes were stuffed with cream and wrapped in cellophane on Friday, the business world and much of the news media knew who was to blame for this dying American icon. It was the unions.

The Wall Street Journal described the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union as ?The union that brought the 85-year-old baker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread to its knees.? Over at RedState, a headline tried to mix anti-union sentiment with conservative humor: ?The Demise of Twinkies? Yes, It?s True. Parasitic Unions Kill Their Hosts (or, in this case, Hostess).?

But the story is far more complicated than that ? and in some ways, the exact opposite of the tale pushed by those on the right. It?s the story of two bankruptcies, hundreds of millions of givebacks from Hostess unions and hundreds of millions of debt piled onto the company by venture capitalists. It?s a story of management that boosted its own salaries, while failing to make agreed payments into workers? pension funds. And it?s a story of changing tastes and diets.

To begin with, when was the last time you ate a Twinkie or chose spongy Wonder Bread over an artisanal or organic load? The company simply hasn?t been able to adequately compete due to a stodgy, moribund management that did not act to diversify a product base that hasn?t changed with the times (unless you count 100-calorie Twinkies packs). As the New York Times reported way back on Sept. 23, 2004, ?People are still eating Hostess Twinkies and Wonder Bread, but the problem for Interstate Bakeries is that they are eating less of them.?

For all these reasons, Hostess (then known as Interstate) initially entered bankruptcy in 2004, with uncomfortably close to half a billion dollars in debt. Sixty percent of the debt was owned by hedge funds Silver Point Capital and Monarch Alternative Capital, the rest by an assortment of other lenders. No one who was paying attention to the company?s fortunes was surprised by the move. During the nearly five years of its initial bankruptcy, the companyaccrued even more debt.

As these conditions lingered the workforce agreed to massive pay and benefit cuts in an attempt to keep the company afloat. One 14-year veteran of the company describes the $150 million annual givebacks the union agreed to: ?In 2005, before concessions I made $48,000, last year I made $34,000.? Pensions and healthcare were cut as well, with labor?s total loss equaling $110 million annually.

Following these massive givebacks, a private equity company called Ripplewood Holdings brought the company out of bankruptcy in 2009 for $130 million and rechristened it Hostess Brands. The hedge funds and other lenders forgave some old debt and extended some new debt. Ripplewood convinced the other stakeholders that it could turn the company around and, apparently, convinced them so completely that only Hostess Management and Ripplewood had seats on the board. Neither the unions nor the hedge funds acquired voting seats as part of the deals struck to keep the company afloat. They just trusted Ripplewood to turn things around, implement new technologies, introduce new products, and rebuild aging infrastructure.

That?s not how things worked out.

?Ripplewood just failed miserably on implementation,? says Eileen Appelbaum, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. ?It?s been a disaster. Ripplewood did not know what it was doing. They did not introduce any successful new products. Sure, they had high sales revenue but it had been declining since 2004.?

As a result of management that still hadn?t really attempted to adapt itself to new market realities, the company earned profits in 2011 of $2.5 billion: That?s 11 percent less than in 2008, before Ripplewood took over. But thanks to debt approaching $1 billion, Hostess ended 2011 with a loss of $341 million. The CEO who led the company back into bankruptcy? He got a pay raise ? while Hostess pushed a 30 percent salary and benefit cut onto its employees. (A previous failed chief executive, Brian J. Driscoll, was pushed out, but only after the board tripled his pay package to $2.55 million.)

That leaves the unions in one corner and the hedge funds and Hostess management in the other. Management ordered the company to stop contributing to the union pension funds, ignoring their obligations under collective bargaining agreements. They have demanded a new round of concessions, which would have doubled insurance premiums, negated all pension obligations, andslashed pay by 27 to 32 percent. Again, the 14-year Hostess bakery veteran: ?Remember how I said I made $48,000 in 2005 and $34,000 last year? I would make $25,000 in five years if I took their offer. It will be hard to replace the job I had, but it will be easy to replace the job they were trying to give me.?

Hostess CEO Greg Rayburn attempted to blame the company?s collapse on its workers and, in a move that seems calculated to add insult to injury, today asked a bankruptcy judge permission to pay executives $1.75 million in bonuses to oversee the dissolution of the company (and 18,000-plus union jobs). And that?s after a round of executive pay raises earlier this year.

The union, meanwhile, faced an increasingly untenable position. Pick your poison: another round of humiliating concessions resulting in poverty wages and almost no benefits, or go down swinging? The latter may not seem sensible to those judging from 30,000 feet, but clearly the bakery workers were sick and tired of giving in ? 92 percent of them voted against accepting the cuts.

?This is the Twinkie cliff that the company drove over: They had fairly extensive (cuts) for a protracted period of time and a failure to adapt to the market,? says Harley Shaiken, labor professor at the University of California, Berkeley. ?I think why the bakery union refused these steep concessions is because they didn?t see a credible plan to get the company out of this. They just saw that they were being asked to bear the brunt of the managerial mistakes. There were no good options, just disastrous and catastrophic options.?

Criticism of the Hostess workers seems to be manifested by a more subtle form of union bashing. It?s not that unions are greedy, it?s that they are outmoded, and the Hostess crisis is emblematic of organized labor?s precipitous decline. They are dying because workers don?t like them anymore (so this argument goes), precisely because of situations akin to what is unfolding at Hostess. As Diana Reese noted in the Washington Post, quoting the writer Donna Trussell, ?Unions clung to an organizational model more suited to a 19th-century economy than the one we have now. That?s why they?ve lost so many members. When unions protect only their own, and leave over 90 percent of the workforce twisting in the wind, they will inspire more envy than support. Adapt or die.?

The labor economist for the Heritage Foundation makes a similar argument at the National Review: ?A unionized firm takes longer to respond to changing market conditions ? Over time they wither away. This is why union membership hit a record low in 2012.?

But as we?ve seen, it wasn?t the unions who were inflexible or unwilling to make sacrifices for the good of the company. ?In effect, the union, should they give more concessions, is becoming a major investor without representation,? says Shaiken. ?Unless they get seats on the board or some other form of input.? (The most recent deal included a minority stake in the company; it remains to be seen if the company is willing to offer greater control to the workers in exchange for more givebacks.)

Pegging a horrendously managed company?s fate to labor?s larger troubles provides an exceedingly limited understanding of the wider context. The Hostess debacle is only half the story of labor?s decline: Manufacturing companies that are still organized from the glory days of the mid-20th century are seen as representative of the union movement because current American labor law makes it almost impossible to organize workers in, say, the growing service sector. Unionization rates are falling because unorganized companies can bring disproportionate, and often illegal, force to bear with few repercussions.

In a healthier and more just labor system, the Hostess crisis would be seen as the decline of a moribund and dreadfully mismanaged company, not a symptom of organized labor?s malaise.
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Thu Nov 22 12:01:43 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:01:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: The Turkey Chronicles
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?If you are a Democratic older white married male, you can be thankful that your young, gay, female and minority friends like you so much that they are not holding your demography against you.?


<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/opinion/collins-the-turkey-chronicles.html?hp>


November 21, 2012
The Turkey Chronicles

By?GAIL COLLINS

Thanksgiving used to be the signal for the start of holiday shopping, but that was long ago and, of course, now the signal is Arbor Day. But Thanksgiving still retains an important role as the real end to the election season. This is it. No more talking about what happened in Ohio. Time to move forward. And, as a public service, I am willing to take questions.
What about the fiscal cliff? How can anybody be happy when we?re falling off the fiscal cliff? We?re all going to die!!!!
Just stop that. Do you know where the members of Congress are now? Home having dinner with their families. Do you think they?re refusing to eat anything because they?re worried about the Bush tax cuts? No. Do you think they?re sitting in the basement muttering about sequestration? No. Get with the program. No talking about the fiscal cliff during Thanksgiving.
Did President Obama pardon the turkey?
Yes, he did. It was named Cobbler. The previous Obama pardon winners were Courage, Apple and Liberty. Personally, I find it creepy to name a large, silly-looking bird after a cherished national virtue, or one of Gwyneth Paltrow?s children.
Is it true that PETA is opposed to turkey pardoning?
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says the pardon ?makes light of the mass slaughter of some 46 million gentle, intelligent birds.? Which certainly does take some of the fun out of it. You have to admit. Cobbler didn?t do anything to actuallywin?a reprieve, except have a Facebook bio that alleged he was a fan of Carly Simon. Maybe we should see the whole ceremony as a commentary on the cruel randomness of fate.
Whoa! O.K. Never mind about the turkeys. What about the country? We just spent the last couple weeks listening to people like Bill O?Reilly say ?it?s not a traditional America anymore.? Is Thanksgiving an endangered tradition?
Are you kidding? Thanksgiving is our best holiday. Everybody likes it, and, except for eating, it has no rules. You never hear talking heads complain about the commercialization of Thanksgiving.
I?m not sure I want to quit talking about the election. I really liked watching the Republicans denouncing Mitt Romney, and going?hehehe?under my breath.
Time to let go. If you are a Republican, be thankful it?s the end. If you were rooting for President Obama, give thanks that your particular demographic group was responsible for his win. We have excellent statistical evidence that it was Hispanics who made all the difference. And also blacks, gays, young people, unmarried people and women. If any of you had bolted, next year Mitt Romney would be pardoning the turkey.
If you are a Democratic older white married male, you can be thankful that your young, gay, female and minority friends like you so much that they are not holding your demography against you.
Is there anything about the election that?s still unresolved?
Well, we never did find out who Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia voted for. ?The election is behind us, and we need to put politics behind us, too,? the nation?s most prominent undecided voter said in a statement as Congress left town. For Thanksgiving.
Is it too soon to start talking about 2016?
Not if you have no life whatsoever.
I have a lot of Republican relatives coming for Thanksgiving, and I think it would make them feel better.
Every Republican you ever heard of is thinking about a run in 2016.?Rick Perry?is thinking about it. If it weren?t for his having died 82 years ago, William Howard Taft would be thinking about it.
The busiest bee seems to be Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. He just went to Iowa. And there?s an interview in GQ in which he discusses leadership, says that Eminem is a better rapper than Pitbull, and that the question of whether the earth was created in seven days is ?one of the great mysteries.? He also produced the first memorable quote of the 2016 campaign season. (?I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow.?)
But then later he clarified his remarks.
I would be happy to give thanks if he explained that he does believe in evolution.
You know that I?m going to tell you the clarification was that he really likes Pitbull?s music.
By the way, what ever happened to Mitt Romney?
He has been sighted going to the gym, going to Disneyland and emerging from a screening of the latest ?Twilight? movie, in which the heroine becomes a vampire and lives happily ever after. I can?t tell you what that means, but he?s probably not feeling all that thankful.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov 23 09:47:54 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:47:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Sandy Serves 10,000 Thanksgiving Meals
Message-ID: <333E3EAD-7DA6-400B-8400-E29D5AFCE12E@mcn.org>

The FB Presbyterian Church served 500 or so meals yesterday.  We were there helping.  Delicious and uplifting time for all.  rk

Occupy Sandy Serves 10,000 Thanksgiving Meals

By Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times

22 November 12

 
Shelters are bustling with volunteers serving holiday dinners as the arduous recovery continues. 'It's starting to take a toll on people,' says one worker. This year, Aiman Youssef is thankful to be alive.


http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/440-occupy/14680-occupy-sandy-serves-10000-thanksgiving-meals


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov 23 12:53:49 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:53:49 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Waste Not: The Ugly Truth About Food Waste in
	America
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A great listen.  Learn about expiration dates and what to do about leftovers. rk

http://sciencefriday.com/segment/11/23/2012/waste-not-the-ugly-truth-about-food-waste-in-america.html

NPR  Audio podcast.
Waste Not: The Ugly Truth About Food Waste in America

Waste Not: The Ugly Truth About Food Waste in America


Image courtesy Shutterstock, food waste
		 								 								


Each year, Americans waste 33 million tons of food. Dana Gunders, a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and author Jonathan Bloom discuss the economic and environmental impacts of food waste, and what can be done to fight the growing problem.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov 23 20:24:06 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:24:06 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: RE: MA fraud law
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Please read and be prepared to come to the City Council meeting at 6:00 
pm Mon. Nov. 26th to hear, support or give your urging regarding the 
city to set up a public bank, serve Affidavits of Authority 
(Truthfulness) to foreclosing bank,. Does anyone want to research how a 
city Public Bank may be established?


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Subject: 	RE: MA fraud law
Date: 	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:25:30 -0600
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>, 
california-occupy-homes at googlegroups.com 
<california-occupy-homes at googlegroups.com>
CC: 	RENEE YAMAGISHI <neighborhoods.vs.foreclosure at gmail.com>



the highlighted text in MA law is their penal code which O'Brien uses in 
his letter of rejection.  CA is Penal Code Section 115.

our SB900 does NOT quote the penal code.  But we already have the penal 
code = so why isn't it being used?  This is the heart of O'Brien's 
rejection letter to the banksters.  and it's FELONY time for these crimes:

(a)/Every Person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged 
instrument /to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office 
within this state, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed, 
registered, or recorded under any law of this state or of the United 
States, is /guilty of a felony/.

(b)Each instrument which is procured or offered to be filed, registered, 
or recorded in violation of subdivision (a) shall constitute a separate 
violation of this section.

(c)...

(d)For purposes of prosecution under this section, each act of 
procurement or of offering a false or forged instrument to be filed, 
registered, or recorded shall be considered a /separately punishable 
offense/.

we must insist our laws be followed - better yet - snag these loans with 
eminent domain and stop playing the game their way on the turf they 
obviously own.  Set up our own game - keep our homes and our loans.  
forget them.  after we're secure, we can go after them with our 
pitchforks.  cj

*From:*foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
[mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of 
*Susan Harman
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:11 PM
*To:* california-occupy-homes at googlegroups.com; 
foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
*Cc:* RENEE YAMAGISHI; CJ Holmes
*Subject:* MA fraud law

Kevin Harvey just sent me the law they're using in MA to prevent 
foreclosures:


Does anyone know HOBOR well enough to know if we've got anything comparable?
He also told me Coakley (MA AG) is filing indictments!
Susan




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From elained at mcn.org  Sat Nov 24 13:24:14 2012
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:24:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.Com
24 November 12

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and "least transparent" trade negotiations in history.

uckily for the populations and societies that will be affected by the agreement, there are public research organizations and alternative media outlets campaigning against it - and they've even released several leaks of draft agreement chapters. From these leaks, which are not covered by mainstream corporate-controlled news outlets, we are able to get a better understanding of what the Trans-Pacific Partnership actually encompasses.

For example, public interest groups have been warning that the TPP could result in millions of lost jobs. As a letter from Congress to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk stated, the TPP "will create binding policies on future Congresses in numerous areas," including "those related to labor, patent and copyright, land use, food, agriculture and product standards, natural resources, the environment, professional licensing, state-owned enterprises and government procurement policies, as well as financial, healthcare, energy, telecommunications and other service sector regulations."

In other words, as promised, the TPP goes far beyond "trade."

Dubbed by many as "NAFTA on steroids" and a "corporate coup," only two of the TPP's 26 chapters actually have anything to do with trade. Most of it grants far-reaching new rights and privileges to corporations, specifically related to intellectual property rights (copyright and patent laws), as well as constraints on government regulations.

The leaked documents revealed that the Obama administration "intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations," as Obama and Kirk have emerged as strong advocates "for policies that environmental activists, financial reform advocates and labor unions have long rejected for eroding key protections currently in domestic laws."

In other words, the already ineffective and mostly toothless environmental, financial, and labor regulations that exist are unacceptable to the Obama administration and the 600 corporations aligned with the TPP who are giving him his orders.

The agreement stipulates that foreign corporations operating in the United States would no longer be subject to domestic U.S. laws regarding protections for the environment, finance or labor rights, and could appeal to an "international tribunal" which would be given the power to overrule American law and impose sanctions on the U.S. for violating the new "rights" of corporations.

The "international tribunal" that would dictate the laws of the countries would be staffed by corporate lawyers acting as "judges," thus ensuring that cases taken before them have a "fair and balanced" hearing - fairly balanced in favor of corporate rights above anything else.

A public interest coalition known as Citizens Trade Campaign published a draft of the TPP chapter on "investment" revealing information about the "international tribunal" which would allow corporations to directly sue governments that have barriers to "potential profits."

Arthur Stamoulis, the executive director of Citizens Trade Campaign, explained that the draft texts "clearly contain proposals designed to give transnational corporations special rights that go far beyond those possessed by domestic businesses and American citizens... A proposal that could have such broad effects on environmental, consumer safety and other public interest regulations deserves public scrutiny and debate. It shouldn't be crafted behind closed doors."

Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a public interest organization, undertook an analysis of the leaked document on investment and explained that the international corporate tribunal would allow corporations to overturn national laws and regulations or demand enormous sums in compensation, with the tribunal "empowered to order payment of unlimited government Treasury funds to foreign investors over TPP claims."

Even under NAFTA, over $350 million has been paid by NAFTA-aligned governments to corporations for "barriers" to investment "rights," including toxic waste dumps, logging rules, as well as bans on various toxic chemicals.

Because let's be clear: for corporations, such regulations and concerns over health, safety and environmental issues are perceived solely as "barriers" to investment and profit. Thus their "government" would sue the foreign government on behalf of the corporation, on the premise that such regulations led to potential lost profits, for which the corporation should be compensated.

The TPP allows the corporations to directly sue the government in question. All of the TPP member countries, except for Australia, have agreed to adhere to the jurisdiction of this international tribunal, an unelected, anti-democratic and corporate-staffed kangaroo-court with legal authority over at least ten nations and their populations.

Further, TPP countries have not agreed on a set of obligations for corporations to meet in relation to health, labor or environmental standards, and thus a door is opened for corporations to obtain even more rights and privileges to plunder and exploit. Where corporate rights are extended, human and democratic rights are dismantled.

One of the most important areas in which the TPP has a profound effect is in relation to intellectual property rights, or copyright and patent laws. Corporations have been strong advocates of expanding intellectual property rights, namely, their intellectual property rights.

Pharmaceutical corporations are major proponents of these rights and are likely to be among the major beneficiaries of the intellectual property chapter of the TPP. The pharmaceutical industry ensured that strong patent rules were included in the 1995 World Trade Organization agreement, but ultimately felt that those rules did not go far enough.

Dean Baker, writing in the Guardian, explained that stronger patent rules establish "a government-granted monopoly, often as long as 14 years, that prohibits generic competitors from entering a market based on another company's test results that show a drug to be safe and effective." Baker noted that such laws are actually "the opposite of free trade" since they "involve increased government intervention in the market" and "restrict competition and lead to higher prices for consumers."

Essentially, what this means is that in poor countries where more people need access to life-saving drugs, and at cheaper cost, it would be impossible for companies or governments to manufacture and sell cheaper generic brands of successful drugs held by multinational corporate patents. Such an agreement would hand over a monopoly of price-controls to these corporations, allowing them to set the prices as they deem fit, thus making the drugs incredibly expensive and often inaccessible to the people who need them most.

As U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman correctly noted, "In many parts of the world, access to generic drugs means the difference between life and death."

The TPP is expected to increase such corporate patent rights more than any other agreement in history. Generic drug manufacturers in countries like Vietnam and Malaysia would suffer. So would sales of larger generics manufacturers in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, which supply low-cost drugs to much of the world.

While the United States has given up the right to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical corporations (hence the exorbitant price for drugs purchased in the U.S.), countries like New Zealand and even Canada to a lesser extent negotiate drug prices in order to keep the costs down for consumers. The TPP will grant new negotiating privileges to corporations, allowing them to appeal decisions by governments to challenge the high cost of drugs or to go with cheap alternatives. Referring to these changes, the U.S. manager of Doctors Without Borders' Access to Medicines Campaign stated, "Bush was better than Obama on this."

But that's not all the TPP threatens: Internet freedom is also a major target.

The Council of Canadians and OpenMedia, major campaigners for Internet freedom, have warned that the TPP would "criminalize some everyday uses of the Internet," including music downloads as well as the combining of different media works. OpenMedia warned that the TPP would "force service providers to collect and hand over your private data without privacy safeguards, and give media conglomerates more power to send you fines in the mail, remove online content - including entire websites - and even terminate your access to the Internet."

Also advanced under the TPP chapter on intellectual property rights, new laws would have to be put in place by governments to regulate Internet usage. OpenMedia further warned that, from the leaked documents on intellectual property rights, "there can be heavy fines for average citizens online," adding: "you could be fined for clicking on a link, people could be knocked off the Internet and web sites could be locked off."

The TPP, warned OpenMedia founder Steve Anderson, "will limit innovation and free expression." Under the TPP, there is no distinction between commercial and non-commercial copyright infringement. Thus, users who download music for personal use would face the same penalties as those who sell pirated music for profit.

Information that is created or shared on social networking sites could have Internet users fined, have their computers seized, their Internet usage terminated, or even get them a jail sentence. The TPP imposes a "three strikes" system for copyright infringement, where three violations would result in the termination of a household's Internet access.

So, why all the secrecy? Corporate and political decision-makers study public opinion very closely; they know how to manipulate the public based upon what the majority think and believe. When it comes to "free trade" agreements, public opinion has forced negotiators into the darkness of back-room deals and unaccountable secrecy precisely because populations are so overwhelmingly against such agreements.

An opinion poll from 2011 revealed that the American public has - just over the previous few years - moved from "broad opposition" to "overwhelming opposition" toward NAFTA-style trade deals.

A major NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll from September of 2010 revealed that "the impact of trade and outsourcing is one of the only issues on which Americans of different classes, occupations and political persuasions agree," with 86% saying that outsourcing jobs by U.S. companies to poor countries was "a top cause of our economic woes," with 69% thinking that "free trade agreements between the United States and other countries cost the U.S. jobs." Only 17% of Americans in 2010 felt that "free trade agreements" benefit the U.S., compared to 28% in 2007.

Because public opinion is strongly - and increasingly - against "free trade agreements," secrecy is required in order to prevent the public from even knowing about, let alone actively opposing, agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And this, as U.S. Trade Representative Kirk explained, is a very "practical" reason for all the secrecy.
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Nov 24 13:35:50 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:35:50 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Lives, and Changes Lives
Message-ID: <CE596E50-AFFE-4B49-AF2D-89EA904E21BA@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/14701-focus-occupy-lives-and-changes-lives

Occupy Lives, and Changes Lives


Snow falls outside an Occupy Sandy outreach center, lighted inside only by the aid of a generator in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York. (photo: AP)
By Carl Gibson | Reader Supported News

24 November 12


Reader Suppored News | Perspective
 
 know what it's like to be hounded by bill collectors. And regardless of how I feel about the Tea Party's politics, if they spearheaded an initiative to abolish the $6,000 in medical debt I had racked up in Houston, Texas, after breaking my elbow with no health insurance, and if they did the same with thousands of others' debt out of sheer desire to do good, I would feel radically different about the Tea Party. And if they led a disaster recovery effort that was on the ground in affected communities long before governments and well-funded relief organizations were able to provide help, I might even think about joining them. Occupy Wall Street, the populist economic justice movement the corporate-owned media and corporate-owned political class has been declaring as "dead" for months now, has been doing all of the above.

When the camps were evicted, the media breathlessly reported about the official death of the movement and blamed nonviolent protesters for the city governments squandering millions of tax dollars on constant and overwhelming police presence and re-seeding grass in parks (that somehow costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to do). And after more than 30,000 marched through New York City on May Day, the media gleefully announced the death of Occupy Wall Street, since the ragtag populist movement didn't succeed in getting 100% of Americans to take off work to participate in the general strike. By the time #S17 came around, the weekend of Occupy Wall Street's 1-year anniversary, there were tens of thousands of people in the streets of New York, and the NYPD arrested hundreds of nonviolent protesters (including me), yet the media coverage was scant and inconsequential, and garnered just a passing glance.

Yet despite the Occupy funeral dirge that's been played in dozens of headlines, the movement has flourished in its post-encampment phase. Occupy Sandy has become a full-scale military-style operation that has developed a highly-efficient means of training and deploying volunteers, storing and transporting goods, feeding the hungry and putting clothes on those who have none. Police who were arresting protesters on #S17 weekend are now handing bags of clothes down assembly lines, side by side with those same protesters. (see video)

Occupy's solidarity through charity has affected people beyond New York as well, as the Strike Debt Rolling Jubilee has raised almost half a million dollars in small donations to erase $8.4 million (and counting) of distressed medical, student loan, and mortgage debt less than a week after launching. While speculators trade the debt of poor, sick, and injured people on the market like a commodity, purchase it for pennies on the dollar from the banks, and move to collect the full amount for profit, Occupy Wall Street's Strike Debt project (born on #S17) decided to do the same thing, except upon purchasing the debt, they would abolish it. While I didn't donate to any political campaign all year, I gladly gave $100 of money I can't really afford to give to Strike Debt, and slept like a baby that night knowing that my contribution erased $2,000 of someone's debt.

All through the election, we watched as each major candidate raised and spent over $1 billion on their campaigns. SuperPACs funded by billionaires like the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, and Karl Rove's funders collectively raised and spent an additional $4 billion. Pro wrestling magnate Linda McMahon has spent approximately $100 million on not one, but two losing US Senate campaigns. Imagine if right-wing billionaires used just 10% of the money they spent on a mostly losing effort, on erasing ordinary folks' distressed debt alongside Occupy Wall Street.

While police in Spain are taking to the streets by the thousands to protest government austerity and bank bailouts, and the world's largest retailer faced over 1,000 protests nationwide and employee strikes in 100 cities on their busiest day, I'd say the only movement that's dying is capitalism. The grip of the banks and corporations on our society and our government is growing weaker by the minute, and the Occupy movement is only growing stronger.

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From jupiter at mcn.org  Sun Nov 25 14:52:35 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:52:35 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Corporations vs. Democracy study group
	forming in Fort Bragg
References: <7C0C413D-663B-4F91-816F-494E6A073FFF@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <7221BA2E-E6FA-4083-98BF-DCB2D67A7788@mcn.org>

> Greetings, all,
If we're interested in the right of eminent domain, this might be a  
wonderful seminar for us all to take. I'm signing up.
Peace,
Linda


> Begin forwarded message from Carrie Durkee <cdurkee at mcn.org>
>
> 	I am planning a 10-session seminar starting January 8th, Tuesday.  
> It will be at 6:30 at the FB library. We would meet every other week  
> and follow the materials created by Women's International League for  
> Peace and Freedom, which can be downloaded for free from:  http://wilpf.org/CPOWER_10sessions
> 	We will be studying the history of the corporations' rise to  
> power-- How did we get here and what is the best way to end  
> corporate rule and create a real democracy.
> 	Please let me know if you are interested in attending.
> 		Carrie
>
>
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 26 13:02:51 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:02:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy - Warren E. Buffett
Message-ID: <B8C0ECCE-DCFF-46EF-8D5E-BE686CF533E5@att.net>


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/opinion/buffett-a-minimum-tax-for-the-wealthy.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121126

A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy

SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. ?This is a good one,? he says enthusiastically. ?I?m in it, and I think you should be, too.?

Would your reply possibly be this? ?Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you?re saying we?re going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent.? Only in Grover Norquist?s imagination does such a response exist.

Between 1951 and 1954, when the capital gains rate was 25 percent and marginal rates on dividends reached 91 percent in extreme cases, I sold securities and did pretty well. In the years from 1956 to 1969, the top marginal rate fell modestly, but was still a lofty 70 percent ? and the tax rate on capital gains inched up to 27.5 percent. I was managing funds for investors then. Never did anyone mention taxes as a reason to forgo an investment opportunity that I offered.

Under those burdensome rates, moreover, both employment and the gross domestic product (a measure of the nation?s economic output) increased at a rapid clip. The middle class and the rich alike gained ground.

So let?s forget about the rich and ultrarich going on strike and stuffing their ample funds under their mattresses if ? gasp ? capital gains rates and ordinary income rates are increased. The ultrarich, including me, will forever pursue investment opportunities.

And, wow, do we have plenty to invest. The Forbes 400, the wealthiest individuals in America, hit a new group record for wealth this year: $1.7 trillion. That?s more than five times the $300 billion total in 1992. In recent years, my gang has been leaving the middle class in the dust.

A huge tail wind from tax cuts has pushed us along. In 1992, the tax paid by the 400 highest incomes in the United States (a different universe from the Forbes list) averaged 26.4 percent of adjusted gross income. In 2009, the most recent year reported, the rate was 19.9 percent. It?s nice to have friends in high places.

The group?s average income in 2009 was $202 million ? which works out to a ?wage? of $97,000 per hour, based on a 40-hour workweek. (I?m assuming they?re paid during lunch hours.) Yet more than a quarter of these ultrawealthy paid less than 15 percent of their take in combined federal income and payroll taxes. Half of this crew paid less than 20 percent. And ? brace yourself ? a few actually paid nothing.

This outrage points to the necessity for more than a simple revision in upper-end tax rates, though that?s the place to start. I support President Obama?s proposal to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for high-income taxpayers. However, I prefer a cutoff point somewhat above $250,000 ? maybe $500,000 or so.

Additionally, we need Congress, right now, to enact a minimum tax on high incomes. I would suggest 30 percent of taxable income between $1 million and $10 million, and 35 percent on amounts above that. A plain and simple rule like that will block the efforts of lobbyists, lawyers and contribution-hungry legislators to keep the ultrarich paying rates well below those incurred by people with income just a tiny fraction of ours. Only a minimum tax on very high incomes will prevent the stated tax rate from being eviscerated by these warriors for the wealthy.

Above all, we should not postpone these changes in the name of ?reforming? the tax code. True, changes are badly needed. We need to get rid of arrangements like ?carried interest? that enable income from labor to be magically converted into capital gains. And it?s sickening that a Cayman Islands mail drop can be central to tax maneuvering by wealthy individuals and corporations.

But the reform of such complexities should not promote delay in our correcting simple and expensive inequities. We can?t let those who want to protect the privileged get away with insisting that we do nothing until we can do everything.

Our government?s goal should be to bring in revenues of 18.5 percent of G.D.P. and spend about 21 percent of G.D.P. ? levels that have been attained over extended periods in the past and can clearly be reached again. As the math makes clear, this won?t stem our budget deficits; in fact, it will continue them. But assuming even conservative projections about inflation and economic growth, this ratio of revenue to spending will keep America?s debt stable in relation to the country?s economic output.

In the last fiscal year, we were far away from this fiscal balance ? bringing in 15.5 percent of G.D.P. in revenue and spending 22.4 percent. Correcting our course will require major concessions by both Republicans and Democrats.

All of America is waiting for Congress to offer a realistic and concrete plan for getting back to this fiscally sound path. Nothing less is acceptable.

In the meantime, maybe you?ll run into someone with a terrific investment idea, who won?t go forward with it because of the tax he would owe when it succeeds. Send him my way. Let me unburden him.

Warren E. Buffett is the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Nov 26 15:43:34 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:43:34 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Car and beg off City Council meeting tonight.
Message-ID: <50B3FEA6.20509@mcn.org>

Sorry, All,
  but I have  to cancel my appearance at the F.B. City Council Meeting 
11/26 due to illness and car in the shop. Maybe next Monday after the 
1st Saturday meeting of OM. Please put the item on the agenda-Public 
Banking and Fort Bragg C.C. meeting.
Agnes


From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 27 10:09:07 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:09:07 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Cute, if it wasn't true.
Message-ID: <50B501C3.3070101@mcn.org>


, Agnes Woolsey wrote:
> This 20  minute video is about the workings of the Federal Reserve , a 
> private bank, how they got the power to get the mint to print money 
> for them to loan to other banks and the government, charging interest 
> which has to be  paid by our income taxes. This is well worth watching.
> Regards,
> Agnes
> *To:* Agnes Woolsey <mailto:agnes at mcn.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:34 PM
> *Subject:* Cute, if it wasn't true.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII9NZ8MMVM&feature=related
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 27 11:00:55 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:00:55 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fwd: RE: MA fraud law
In-Reply-To: <50B04A22.50905@mcn.org>
References: <50B04A22.50905@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <50B50DE7.5040606@mcn.org>

Here's a law that the Recorder of Deeds could enforce when a bank's 
foreclosure documents appear to have the name of a known robosigner.  
The recorder could then send an Affidavit of Authority (truthfulness)
to the bank  requiring a signature as a condition to adding the document 
to the deed. The penalties for fraud are attached. If no Affidavit is 
returned the Recorder does not have to record the foreclosure, in effect 
this is a de facto moratorium on the foreclosure. This is a CA law.
             Each Occupier could send a similar question to the Board of 
Supervisors-addresses attached. They have oversight over the Recorder 
and could call her to task. Please use your power to pressure the B.O.S. 
to do their job.Enforce the law, CA Penal Code 115.
Respectfully,
Agnes
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Fwd: RE: MA fraud law
Date: 	Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:16:34 -0800
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
To: 	ranochas at co.mendocino.ca.us, hamburgd at co.mendocino.ca.us, 
"SmithK at co.mendocino.ca.us" <SmithK at co.mendocino.ca.us>, 
browncj at co.mendocino.ca.us, pinchesj at co.mendocino.ca.us



Dear Board of Supervisors and Recorder, Please see the, Section 115 of 
the  CA Penal Code. Why is it not being enforced?


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: MA fraud law
Date: 	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:25:30 -0600
From: 	CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Reply-To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
To: 	foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
<foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com>, 
california-occupy-homes at googlegroups.com 
<california-occupy-homes at googlegroups.com>

	



the highlighted text in MA law is their penal code which O'Brien uses in 
his letter of rejection.  CA is Penal Code Section 115.

our SB900 does NOT quote the penal code.  But we already have the penal 
code = so why isn't it being used?  This is the heart of O'Brien's 
rejection letter to the banksters.  and it's FELONY time for these crimes:

(a)/Every Person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged 
instrument /to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office 
within this state, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed, 
registered, or recorded under any law of this state or of the United 
States, is /guilty of a felony/.

(b)Each instrument which is procured or offered to be filed, registered, 
or recorded in violation of subdivision (a) shall constitute a separate 
violation of this section.

(c)...

(d)For purposes of prosecution under this section, each act of 
procurement or of offering a false or forged instrument to be filed, 
registered, or recorded shall be considered a /separately punishable 
offense/.

we must insist our laws be followed - better yet - snag these loans with 
eminent domain and stop playing the game their way on the turf they 
obviously own.  Set up our own game - keep our homes and our loans.  
forget them.  after we're secure, we can go after them with our 
pitchforks.  cj

*From:*foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com 
[mailto:foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of 
*Susan Harman
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:11 PM
*To:* california-occupy-homes at googlegroups.com; 
foreclosurepreventionzones at googlegroups.com
*Cc:* RENEE YAMAGISHI; CJ Holmes
*Subject:* MA fraud law

Kevin Harvey just sent me the law they're using in MA to prevent 
foreclosures:


Does anyone know HOBOR well enough to know if we've got anything comparable?
He also told me Coakley (MA AG) is filing indictments!
Susan







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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 27 22:15:19 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:15:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agenda items for next GA meeting?
Message-ID: <ABBD41C8-6350-4676-8E37-3DE510E1917E@mcn.org>

Hi OM,
 I will be the facillitator at the next meeting and would welcome any potential
topics, committee or otherwise that people would like to report on.

Thanks, Richard

From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Nov 28 10:10:19 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:10:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] News for City Council
Message-ID: <50B6538B.2050201@mcn.org>

Dear Occupy,
            I found a wonderful article on C.J.s website called Ending 
Foreclosures with Local Solutions by Michael Sauvante of the 
Commonwealth Group that I will use to speak to the F.B. City Council, 
noting what San Bernadino City Council did.

  They passed a resolution authorizing their staff to create a request 
for proposal, a formal mechanism  to address the glut of underwater 
borrowers by purchasing for considering  plans to address the glut of 
underwater borrowers.
You can read it yourself, an enlightening 8 pages.
Of course i will use only 3 minutes worth of it.
Agnes


From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Nov 28 10:17:54 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:17:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] meeting suggestion for Sat GA
Message-ID: <7546FFE6-9D77-4F23-8425-E78198A73340@mcn.org>

Hi OM,
If you plan to bring up a topic, please streamline your presentation by working out details before.
K.I.S.S.= Keep It Short & Sweet.  (Kisses for all!)

See you there, Richard the Facilitator ( for this meeting)

From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Nov 28 14:45:40 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:45:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Kaiser Speaks Out Against GMO's
Message-ID: <746C93CA-DAD2-4456-9337-812B9F771CBF@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/14767-focus-top-us-healthcare-giant-gmos-are-devastating-healthhttp://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/14767-focus-top-us-healthcare-giant-gmos-are-devastating-health

Top US Healthcare Giant: GMOs Are Devastating Health

By Anthony Gucciardi, NaturalSociety

28 November 12

  
ust days after a leading genetically modified organism (GMO) researcher spoke out against GMOs and how many pro-GMO 'scientists' are in bed with Monsanto or carry their own GMO patents, the largest managed healthcare provider in the United States is now publicly speaking out against GMOs. In a recent newsletter, the Kaiser Permanente company discussed the numerous dangers of GMOs in a recent newsletter and how to avoid them.

Explaining how GM ingredients have been linked to tumors and organ damage in rats in the only lifelong rat study available, the newsletter highlighted how the only real long- term research indicates that GMOs are a serious health danger. The newsletter, which you can view here, states:

"Despite what the biotech industry might say, there is little research on the long-term effects of GMOs on human health. Independent research has found several varieties of GMO corn caused organ damage in rats. Other studies have found that GMOs may lead to an inability in animals to reproduce."
Top Health Giant Says Buy Organic for Proper Health\
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov 28 15:57:18 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:57:18 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Top US Healthcare Giant: GMOs Are Devastating
	Health
Message-ID: <413EFCED-D1E4-4E62-B292-83BC3B0205E8@att.net>


Top US Healthcare Giant: GMOs Are Devastating Health


By Anthony Gucciardi, NaturalSociety

28 November 12

 
ust days after a leading genetically modified organism (GMO) researcher spoke out against GMOs and how many pro-GMO 'scientists' are in bed with Monsanto or carry their own GMO patents, the largest managed healthcare provider in the United States is now publicly speaking out against GMOs. In a recent newsletter, the Kaiser Permanente company discussed the numerous dangers of GMOs in a recent newsletter and how to avoid them.

Explaining how GM ingredients have been linked to tumors and organ damage in rats in the only lifelong rat study available, the newsletter highlighted how the only real long- term research indicates that GMOs are a serious health danger. The newsletter, which you can view here, states:

"Despite what the biotech industry might say, there is little research on the long-term effects of GMOs on human health. Independent research has found several varieties of GMO corn caused organ damage in rats. Other studies have found that GMOs may lead to an inability in animals to reproduce."
Top Health Giant Says Buy Organic for Proper Health

The newsletter then goes on to tell readers how they can avoid GMOs in their food through buying high quality organic and looking for other non-GMO indicators. It is important to remember the organic labeling meanings when shopping organic, however, which this newsletter unfortunately does not address. Make sure you know which 'level' of organic you are consuming:

Products labeled '100% organic' - These items are made with 100% organic ingredients and are the highest quality organic products you can purchase. No GMOs are allowed.
Labeled 'organic' - These products are to contain at least 95% organic ingredients overall. Still no GMOs are allowed.
'Made with 'organic ingredients' - This is the lowest form of organic content. This label is only required to contain 70% organic ingredients, meaning that the remaining 30% can be conventional. The conventional items, however, are not allowed to contain GMOs. These products don't qualify for the USDA seal, whereas the previous two do.
You can also look for the 'Non-GMO Verified' logo on food items to be sure that they are GMO free.

But why does a major corporation care that you are eating GMOs? Well the fact of the matter is that the research (and common sense - eating pesticide factories mixed with the DNA of viruses isn't going to end well) indicates GMOs are causing problematic health conditions across the board. Of course the issue lies in the fact that GMOs are not immediately considered as a cause and actually influence disease through a series of complications that are not easy to trace. But as the only lifelong study has showed us, 50% of male and 70% of female rats died prematurely when consuming GMOs.

And the bottom line is that this is costing Kaiser Permanente. If members of the healthcare juggernaut were to switch to high quality organic foods free of GMOs, pesticides, mercury-containing high-fructose corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners, then Kaiser would be dishing out millions upon millions less for healthcare costs.

More and more organizations and individuals alike are speaking out against GMOs and the effects of GMO consumption as the evidence becomes more and more clear on a daily basis. Perhaps next time Monsanto tries to push a new outlandish creation into the food supply they will be met with crushing opposition thanks to a global increase in awareness.


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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Nov 28 18:47:43 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:47:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?Struggles=2C_new_and_old=2C_em?=
 =?windows-1252?q?erge_in_Sandy=92s_wake?=
Message-ID: <57780B3E-07E1-4C3F-A4E8-0D980384F2AA@att.net>

HTTP://WAGINGNONVIOLENCE.ORG/2012/11/STRUGGLES-NEW-AND-OLD-EMERGE-IN-SANDYS-WAKE/
OCCUPY YEAR II
Struggles, new and old, emerge in Sandy?s wake
by Peter Rugh | November 26, 2012


The Occupy Sandy Relief NYC distribution hub at Jacobi Church in Brooklyn. (batmanwi.com/Jenna Pope)
A month after Frankenstorm Sandy struck, battle lines are beginning to be drawn in the wreckage along New York City?s shores. The brewing struggles are taking shape amidst the popular relief effort that sprung up immediately after the storm, pitting organizers and thousands of newly-radicalized activists against the effects of ongoing crises in health care, housing and the environment. Alongside relief are the seeds of rebellion.

Veterans of the Occupy movement, calling themselves Occupy Sandy Relief, have been coordinating the delivery of basic necessities to those in need, filling a void where establishment first-responders ? from city agencies to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Red Cross ? have fallen short. Michael Premo, who began organizing with Occupy Sandy since the day of the storm, attributes the campaign?s ability to spread far and wide across the city to activists? commitment to developing relationships with organizations already embedded in neighborhoods where they operate.

?The focus from jump,? Premo said, ?has been how to identify local leadership in collaboration community structures like churches in order to build power citywide. Our lateral organizing structure has allowed us to be nimble in a really dynamic way, to spread out across the city and connect people.? By rapidly turning new volunteers into volunteer organizers, they?ve been able to grow quickly and inexpensively. But there are some things that the Occupiers simply aren?t equipped to provide.

Just a few blocks from where President Obama?s helicopter touched down in Staten Island last Thursday, an overturned hot dog truck lay on its side at Robert Raimondi?s front door, resting in sand from the beach that used to be three hundred yards away. ?Nobody?s touching anything,? said Raimondi, ?Insurance only covers foundation. They tell you to go to FEMA. FEMA tells you to fill out a small business loan. So you get nothing. You get no help other than volunteers.?

On November 16, at a press conference on the steps of City Hall organized by Healthcare for the 99% and other groups, medical professionals called for city, state and federal authorities to step up relief efforts, rather than continuing to outsource it to the improvised efforts of the Occupy movement. Psychiatrist Sandra Turner with the group Physicians for a National Health Program said, ?Occupy Sandy has been out there from the very beginning giving help. They?ve sent people out doing canvassing and trying to see what the needs are of the people.? But, she made clear, this is no substitute for devoting the public resources necessary for meeting affected people?s needs.

The speak-out on the steps of City Hall represents one of several pressure campaigns that have begun sprouting up alongside relief efforts.

The debate in the Occupy movement around ?demands,? once so heated at the fall 2011 encampment in Zuccotti Park, has faded amidst so many immediate and concrete demands that Occupy Sandy now confronts daily on the front lines of the relief effort. The Occupy organizers in orange fluorescent vests rushing around the relief hub in a church at 520 Clinton Ave. in Brooklyn, or shoveling out sand from basements in the Rockaways, or going door-to-door and delivering food to elderly residents on the upper floors of the city?s public housing complexes, are part of a maturing resistance movement that is growing deep roots in communities across the city. In some cases, they are even working closely with some of the same people who conducted raids on Occupy?s encampment in the Financial District a year ago.

Occupy activist Yoni Miller described a recent meeting he attended in which a representative of Mayor Michael Bloomberg?s office and the New York Police Department were present, along with National Guardsmen and an aide to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. ?It was really weird,? said Miller. ?They were succumbing to meeting with Occupiers, this group they despise so much.?

In the low-lying Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, Occupy Sandy helped reestablish the Adobo Family Health Center, providing generators and medical equipment to the only clinic in the area. Occupiers then had to seek the city?s help to keep this medical lifeline going. City officials, Miller recalled, ?were harping on the different efforts that they were doing in the Rockaways, medical-wise. But when we had very basic requests, like to have one person to supervise 30 bed-bound patients, none of these power players were able to meet that need.?

A lack of basic health care for New York City residents existed before the storm, and it is not the only crisis that Sandy has exacerbated. On November 4, Mayor Bloomberg told reporters that 40,000 people have been left without shelter, nearly doubling the city?s previous homeless population and compounding an existing housing shortage. ?We don?t have a lot of empty housing in this city,? he said, ?so it?s really a problem to find housing when we need it.?

Kendall Jackman, an organizer with Picture the Homeless, wasn?t convinced. ?We know there?s vacant housing in the city, because here it is,? Jackman said, as she stood in front of a row of city-owned properties on 129th St. in Harlem. Jackman pointed to the boarded-up doors with her cane. ?They have all these buildings that people could be living in,? she said, ?but instead they?re selling them to folks who are creating housing that we can?t live in.?

A study recently conducted by Picture the Homeless and Hunter College revealed that there are enough vacant properties in the five boroughs of New York City to house 71,707 people. What?s more, the study only covers one third of the city; 39 districts remain to be surveyed. If vacant lots were to be factored into the data, that would add potential housing for 199,981 more people. Picture the Homeless is calling for the city to use the current crisis as an opportunity to address the lack of basic housing that existed before the storm.

So far, according to Narlena Lunnon, the Bloomberg administration has been putting ?a band-aid on a band-aid.? With three grandchildren at her side, Lunnon, a resident of the city-owned development Red Hook Houses, addressed those who were crowded into a classroom at Public School 27 in Red Hook on November 14 ? a meeting facilitated by Occupy activists. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) had been largely absent throughout the ordeal, but recently representatives of the agency started to appear in the neighborhood, posting rent slips to people?s doors. The people in the room were united and angry.

?Those temporary generators aren?t going to do nothing,? Lunnon said. ?The minute everybody plugs in the appliances they really need, the lights are going to go right back out. Fire trucks are going by left and right. There are sparks everywhere. I?m smelling gas all up and down the street. Nobody will tell us nothing. Oh, but you want your rent though!?

After the applause died down, Lunnun continued. ?I?m tired of the free blankets. I?m tired of my grandchildren going to bed cold. I?m tired of old people telling me they?re hurting because they can?t get up the stairs.

?If you can?t get no officials down here,? Lunnun told the Occupy Sandy activists facilitating the meeting, ?I got to go to City Hall and keep screaming.?

It is in rooms like this that a push for a people?s recovery is beginning to emerge. At a follow-up meeting five days later, Red Hook residents put out a call for November?s rent to be waved and began plans for a rally to pressure NYCHA into meeting their demands. While the effort is being spearheaded largely by the Red Hook community, those living in public housing across the city who lost power, heat and gas due to the storm are being encouraged to participate.

That night, at a long table on the upper floor of Occupy Sandy?s distribution hub at 520 Clinton Ave., representatives of groups concerned with the environment, housing, health care and other issues sat together with people from several unions and Occupy Sandy. It was the first time that many in the room had met one another. The meeting focused both on immediate, on-the-ground needs and on laying out the basis for a recovery in which workers are paid a prevailing wage and New Yorkers? essential needs are met. The meeting was the first of its kind, but it will not be the last.

?There has to be some form of accountability,? said Juan Carlos Ruiz, a community organizer and pastor at St. Jacobi Church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, which became Occupy Sandy?s first distribution center. He expressed concerns that FEMA and the Red Cross would be withdrawing from Coney Island and from other regions hit by the storm in the near future. ?They have all this money and resources but haven?t been meeting basic needs. We got folks out there without heat, without gas.?

He raised other concerns as well, concerns which will surely be impacted by how the city responds to this crisis: ?What about renewable sources of power? We can put solar panels on these roofs. We have an opportunity to implement real solutions with a long-term vision.?

Back in Staten Island, Robert Raimondi would have agreed. ?Lets get some solar, lets get some wind, lets get some help!? he said.

At the storm-ravaged YANA (You Are Never Alone) worker training center in Queens, Occupy Sandy has already begun implementing the long-term vision Ruiz spoke about. A week after it initially opened to serve the Rockaway community, floodwaters from Sandy inundated the center?s storefront structure. YANA later reopened its doors as a relief center. Now, activists have launched the ?Restore YANA Project? and are rebuilding it as an example of sustainable design that could be utilized across New York and New Jersey?s regions in recovery. They?re treating the building for mold and laying down copper pennies on the floor to trap heat. The lights are already back on, thanks to solar power provided by Greenpeace.

Labor and environmental historian Jeremy Brecher suggests that the ?social self-defense? Occupy Sandy is currently engaged in is forging ?a connection between a set of values and political objectives and concrete daily life problems that ordinary folks face.?

Brecher tells a parable: A group of people are walking along a stream when a drowning person floats their way. They pull him ashore and start delivering artificial respiration when another body comes bobbing by. Just as they are resuscitating that person, yet another body comes downstream. All of a sudden one guy takes off sprinting upstream. ?Hey where you going?? his friends call out after him, ?What if another body comes by??

?I?m going to see who?s pushing these people in,? he replies.

While doing the hard work of resuscitating the city, Occupy Sandy is also heading upstream toward City Hall and Wall Street, the forces it identifies as having submerged the city in deprivation to begin with. Rather than remaining splintered by the storm, communities are coming together to support one another. These bonds forged through relief will be tested in the struggle for a revitalized city ahead.
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Nov 29 08:47:02 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:47:02 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Are some of you feeling "The Pinch?"
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 29 09:40:45 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:40:45 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Face of Class Warfare
Message-ID: <C1E92CEF-A0E7-4526-BCD4-0A7A289785A4@mcn.org>


November 29, 2012
The Face of Class Warfare


Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein came to Capitol Hill this week to call for cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. As Congress and the White House are negotiating a year-end deficit deal, Blankfein blustered about the need to ?lower people?s expectations? about their retirement and health care. He was loose with his facts. He spoke with all the sympathy for someone struggling to get by on a $14,000-a-year retirement that you?d expect from a Wall Street banker paid $16 million last year. To Bernie, Blankfein?s attack on working families is obscene. ?Think about the arrogance of these guys on Wall Street who were bailed out by the middle class of this country when their greed and recklessness nearly destroyed the financial system, and now they come to Capitol Hill to lecture Congress and the American people about the need to cut programs for working families,? Bernie said. ?This is what class warfare is all about.?

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A Good Step on Social Security

Bernie welcomed White House assurances that Social Security benefits won?t be cut as part of the budget negotiations. ?This is a step in the right direction,? said the founder of the Senate?s Defending Social Security Caucus. ?The simple truth is that Social Security has not contributed a nickel to the national debt so it makes no sense for it to be part of deficit negotiations.?

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Sandy and Global Warming

A hard new look at global warming should come in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and other extreme weather events. ?We?ve been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them,? environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in The New York Review of Books.

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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Nov 29 17:00:10 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:00:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fwd: addendum: News for City Council
In-Reply-To: <50B6C139.3030800@mcn.org>
References: <50B6C139.3030800@mcn.org>
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Subject: 	[Occupymendocino] News for City Council
Date: 	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:10:19 -0800
From: 	Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>
Reply-To: 	rkarch at mcn.org
To: 	occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>



Dear Occupy,
             I found a wonderful article on C.J.s website called Ending
Foreclosures with Local Solutions by Michael Sauvante of the
Commonwealth Group that I will use to speak to the F.B. City Council,
noting what San Bernadino City Council did.

   They passed a resolution authorizing their staff to create a request
for proposal, a formal mechanism  to address the glut of underwater
borrowers by purchasing and refinancing their loans.
  You can read it yourself, an enlightening 8 pages.
Of course i will use only 3 minutes worth of it.

This article may be seen at www.nationalcommonwealthgroup.org
  Agnes


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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Nov 29 17:04:57 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:04:57 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Keep the Court Open Rally
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Come to Town Hall at 6:00 pm tonight, Thurs., to protest the closing or 
reduced services at the Ten Mile Court tonight at 6:00 pm.
Agnes


From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 29 21:05:27 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:05:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Berkeley City Council Backs Eminent Domain.
Message-ID: <DE59C80A-98E6-48EA-BF4E-C379CA91DF6C@mcn.org>

Good article! rk

Correct address for article Agnes posted:   http://berkeley.patch.com/topics/michael+sauvante

     
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According to an article in Sunday?s New York Times Magazine, Oakland is the uneasy host of the Occupy movement?s purest incarnation. That may be. But it?s Berkeley City Council that?s turning Occupy?s ideas into resolutions. 

Last week, the council voted unanimously to pass a resolution that calls on Alameda County officials to consider eminent domain as a means of keeping homeowners with troubled mortgages in their homes. An article in the Bay Citizen Monday traces the resolution?s lineage back to a self-styled Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a shaky financial past and connections to the Occupy movement. 




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 29 23:55:23 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:55:23 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Safe Harbor: Tell  Your Senators No
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https://secure.consumersunion.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2707&JServSessionIdr004=0x1wrd9jd1.app245a


Return of the bank lobbyists!
Now that the elections are over, bank lobbyists are in Washington D.C. trying to peddle their schemes once again.

This time they want total immunity from making bad loans to consumers ? that?s right, legal protection from making those same rotten loans that were at the heart of the foreclosure crisis!

The lobbyists are shopping an amendment that would shield them from any legal responsibility for making predatory loans, or making loans they know a consumer won?t be able to pay back. Worse, they want to attach it to a bill that would make it easier for homeowners to refinance at today?s low interest rates. It?s a poison-pill amendment to an otherwise good bill.

Tell your Senators to vote NO on any amendment that would grant immunity to banks for making bad loans. We don?t need to go back to the future on the foreclosure crisis!


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Oppose bank 'safe harbor' on S. 3522
Dear [Decision Maker],
The last thing our country needs is another foreclosure crisis yet a proposal being shopped by bank lobbyists could lead us down that path again. I urge you to oppose any 'safe harbor' amendment to S. 3522 that would grant legal immunity to banks for making bad or predatory loans. Pushing bad loans is exactly what got us into this financial crisis, and this amendment would once again allow banks to drive our economy into a ditch.



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From jupiter at mcn.org  Fri Nov 30 10:08:18 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:08:18 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Toy Run this Saturday
References: <00b701cdccfa$ac1e0030$045a0090$@org>
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> From: "Laura Welter" <safepass at mcn.org>
> Date: November 27, 2012 3:55:16 PM PST
> To: "'Laura'" <law at mcn.org>
> Subject: Toy Run this Saturday
>
> Bring a new, unwrapped toy to the Lions Hall on Redwood Avenue this  
> Saturday at 12:30 and you will:
> ?         Enjoy a delicious lunch featuring tri tip from Roundman?s
> ?         Support Safe Passage and the Fort Bragg Lions
> ?         Help needy kids enjoy the holidays
> ?         Have a great chance to win raffle prizes ? there are 125  
> of them!
>
> And remember ? you don?t have to ride a motorcycle to attend, but  
> you do have to be at least 21.
>
> Hope to see you there at the
> 13th Annual North Coast Toy Run!
>
>
> Laura Welter
> Safe Passage Family Resource Center
> 961-3605
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov 30 12:24:17 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:24:17 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why We Should Stop Talking About The Deficit
Message-ID: <915ABB1A-8153-42F4-840B-9168C329B6A8@att.net>

(Charlie Pierce says what a lot of us think but are too polite to say. And, if we "fix" the deficit, their millions are worth more. M.S.) 

NOV 29, 2012

The Pirates Behind The Campaign To Fix The Debt
By Charles P. Pierce
at 3:16pm


Read more: Why We Should Stop Talking About The Deficit -The Pirates Behind The Campaign To Fix The Debt - Esquire http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/why-we-should-stop-talking-about-deficit-112912#ixzz2DjrZ93pM
There are many more important topics out there than The Deficit, the scary, hairy monster that haunts the dreams of David Gregory and only the blood of the poor and elderly can appease its wrath. Climate change comes immediately to mind, as do income inequality, the vast inequities of our tax code, the ongoing upward translation of the nation's wealth, why more bankers aren't in federal prison, and whatever did I do to the baby Jeebus that he allowed Notre Dame to play for a national championship. But the biggest reason why we should shut the national piehole on the topic is not that we have more serious problems, or even that any discussion violates the blog's first rule of economics ? Fk The Deficit. People Got No Jobs. People Got No Money. The real reason we should stop talking about it for a while is that the people who are insisting that it will eat us and our posterity on toast are lying swine who would sell your white-haired granny to the Somali pirates for another three points on the Dow. Until we all acknowledge the fact that organized wealth in this country has become downright sociopathic in the heedless damage it does, any discussion of The Deficit can and will be hijacked by that quarter in order to gain absolution for its grievous sins and the right to go on committing them against the rest of us, over and over again.

Listening to these people talk about the national economy is like listening to a burglar tell you that you should really polish the silver more often.

The latest confirmation of this obvious truth comes from the good folks at the Institute Of Policy Studies, who took a look at the various plutocrats and pirates who are behind Fix The Debt, the latest scam from the phony deficit scolds, albeit one made up almost exclusively of people who helped threw the national economy into the abyss for a decade, and then came looking for government handouts when it all went to hell. In a sensible world, the whole notion of taking seriously the economic proposals emanating from this particular bag of rancid marsupials would occasion an immediate takeout order from Wanda's House Of Tar And Feathers. Instead, we have the people at IPS, to whom none of our courtier press will pay attention, but who have done us the invaluable service of showing us in detail how the folks behind Fix The Debt do business in their day jobs. These are the people, of course, who are so concerned about The Deficit because of the impact it will gave on their children and grandchildren, most of whom, of course, will not have to work a day in their lives, because Grampy stole the country back in the day. The report is a truly remarkable look at who's really running things.

The 71 Fix the Debt CEOs who lead publicly held companies have amassed an average of $9 million in their company retirement funds. A dozen have more than $20 million in their accounts. If each of them converted their assets to an annuity when they turned 65, they would receive a monthly check for at least $110,000 for life. The Fix the Debt CEO with the largest pension fund is Honeywell's David Cote, a long-time advocate of Social Security cuts. His $78 million nest egg is enough to provide a $428,000 check every month after he turns 65. Forty-one of the 71 companies offer employee pension funds. Of these, only two have sufficient assets in their funds to meet expected obligations. The rest have combined deficits of $103 billion, or about $2.5 billion on average. General Electric has the largest deficit in its worker pension fund, with $22 billion.

(Cote is the sweetheart to whom Gregory gave such an elaborate private dance in the VIP Room of his show on Sunday. When it comes to speaking mush to power, there's nobody quite like the Dancin' Master.)

Look at those numbers. Only two ? ! ? of these gombeens run companies that intend to fulfill the bargains they have made with their workers. They have feathered their own nests so luxuriously that they make the Ottoman sultans look like Franciscans. And they now have organized themselves to lobby for a program that will cut Social Security and Medicare, and they are trotting it out in public, and nobody has yet greeted them with the flying clumps of horse manure that are really the only answer to this shameless audacity. My god in heaven, the average Social Security recipient receives a little over $1200 a month, or roughly 400 times less than will David Cote who, on Sunday, said this to David Gregory who, alas, declined to spit on him.

We have a significant problem with entitlements. Medicare, Medicaid in - in particular. Those things need to get resolved together. If we could actually develop a four trillion dollar credible market credible plan that would cause everyone out there to say, wow, we can govern again. (!)

It is hard to believe, given the very real look into how these people think that was the essence of the Romney campaign, that so many people now covering our politics seem unwilling to admit what is plainly in front of their face. We need government more than ever to protect us and our political commonwealth from a rapacious business and financial elite that sees the country as something to be pillaged, and that doesn't have the basic patriotism that god gave the common sea slug. These people have no more business directing the politics of the country than does your drunk uncle who watches Fox News. These people ought to have less influence in our politics than do the people who leave the mints on their pillows every night. There is nothing for the rest of us but self-government, which occasionally must show the right people its fangs so they do not wreck the country and loot what's left. It is all that the rest of us have.


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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov 30 13:37:44 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:37:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Mediare plan G
Message-ID: <BE5BD76A-A6A6-4BE3-AF1B-89905F9D839E@att.net>




You're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you. So what do you do?

Plan G gives anyone 65 years or older a hand-gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four politicians.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!

Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That's great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They're all covered.

As a bonus, your kids can come to visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It's the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

And you get rid of 4 useless politicians while you are at it.

Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore.

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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov 30 15:46:51 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:46:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] An Educational Moment
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(I checked Snopes. They don't have anything on the veracity of this curiosity. M.S.) 
Thought you would enjoy this educational moment in American history. Can you name this strange old tool? Do you know what it is?


Tobacco Smoke Enemas (1750s ? 1810s)

The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient?s rectum for various medical purposes, 
primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims.

A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum.

The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration. 
Doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase ?blowing smoke up your ass.?


Amazingly, it is still in constant use in Washington D.C., by the best Senators and Representatives money can buy.




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov 30 16:00:08 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:00:08 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Save the Court Event on MCTV!
Message-ID: <D87E41CF-73E6-467D-9104-D1B5466FA3B0@mcn.org>

Kudos to All at the Save the Court Rally Last Night!
This was so inspiring to see.  Successful on all levels.
So nice to see a full hall with such a diverse united community
pitching in together to  preserve our courts.

I also have to thank the excellent work done by MCTV.
We should support their work and donate to their program.
These videos can easily be sent around and are really a potent tool for change 
 
Richard 




From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov 30 18:00:58 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:00:58 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] new powers to tap into emails by gov.
Message-ID: <50B964DA.5070605@mcn.org>

*http://www.legitgov.org*
All links are here:
*http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news*
*Senate bill, quietly rewritten, allows feds to read e-mail without 
warrants* 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/>20 
Nov 2012 A Senate proposal touted 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20071670-281/senator-renews-pledge-to-update-digital-privacy-law/>as 
protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving 
government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under 
current law. CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential 
Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically 
reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote 
on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002722-38.html>to Americans' 
e-mail, is scheduled 
<http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=a4bac863917e3bf68f986f7431839d3c>for 
next week. Leahy's rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies -- 
including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal 
Communications Commission -- to access Americans' e-mail, Google Docs 
files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages without a search 
warrant 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57521680-38/feds-snoop-on-social-network-accounts-without-warrants/>. 
It also would give the FBI and Homeland Security more authority, in some 
circumstances, to gain full access to Internet accounts without 
notifying either the owner or a judge.

Tell your Senators in D.C. what you think of this.
Agnes
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