From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep  1 00:21:40 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 00:21:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The man from Bloomfield.
Message-ID: <F104F0C1-59B0-4CF1-9282-4FFE58E8F47B@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqvO1biXS38&feature=player_embedded


From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep  1 10:48:57 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 10:48:57 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Here's Parading Paul Puppet.
Message-ID: <2F988149-C3FE-4BC2-ACAB-F8C311F41E90@mcn.org>

Pat's crafty puppet work for the Paul Bunyan Parade on Monday.  Babe's in the works too.
( This is my Dr. Suess style poem.)  rk

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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep  1 15:42:05 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 15:42:05 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Breaking News Alert.
Message-ID: <2B87C0ED-72EB-4F60-A555-52E91CB08C1B@att.net>

 
Saturday, September 1, 2012 -- 6:06 PM EDT
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/business/inquiry-on-tax-strategy-adds-to-scrutiny-of-finance-firms.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=na&pagewanted=all

Inquiry on Tax Strategy Adds to Scrutiny of Finance Firms

The New York attorney general is investigating whether some of the nation?s biggest private equity firms have abused a tax strategy in order to slice hundreds of millions of dollars from their tax bills, according to executives with direct knowledge of the inquiry.

The attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has in recent weeks subpoenaed more than a dozen firms seeking documents that would reveal whether they converted certain management fees collected from their investors into fund investments, which are taxed at a far lower rate than ordinary income.

Among the firms to receive subpoenas are Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, TPG Capital, Sun Capital Partners, Apollo Global Management, Silver Lake Partners and Bain Capital, which was founded by Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president. Representatives for the firms declined to comment on the inquiry.

Mr. Schneiderman?s investigation will intensify scrutiny of an industry already bruised by the campaign season, as President Obama and the Democrats have sought to depict Mr. Romney through his long career in private equity as a businessman who dismantled companies and laid off workers while amassing a personal fortune estimated at $250 million.

Some executives at the firms said they feared that Mr. Schneiderman, a first-term Democrat with ties to the Obama administration, was seeking to embarrass the industry because of Mr. Romney?s roots at Bain. Others suggested that the subpoenas, which were issued by the attorney general?s Taxpayer Protection Bureau, might be part of an effort to recover more revenue for New York under state tax law. The attorney general?s office does not have the power to enforce federal tax laws.

A spokesman for Mr. Schneiderman declined to comment.

The tax strategy ? which is viewed as perfectly legal by some tax experts, aggressive by others and potentially illegal by some ? came to light last month when hundreds of pages of Bain?s internal financial documents were made available online. The financial statements show that at least $1 billion in accumulated fees that otherwise would have been taxed as ordinary income for Bain executives had been converted into investments producing capital gains, which are subject to a federal tax of 15 percent, versus a top rate of 35 percent for ordinary income. That means the Bain partners saved more than $200 million in federal income taxes and more than $20 million in Medicare taxes.

The subpoenas, which executives said were issued in July, predated the leak of the Bain documents by several weeks and do not appear to be connected with them. Mr. Schneiderman, who is also co-chairman of a mortgage fraud task force appointed by Mr. Obama, has made cracking down on large-scale tax evasion a priority of his first term.

As a retired partner, Mr. Romney continues to receive profits from Bain Capital and has had investments in some of the funds that documents show used the tax strategy.

The campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Romney did not, however, benefit from the practice. ?Investing fee income is a common, accepted and totally legal practice,? said R. Bradford Malt, a lawyer for Mr. Romney who manages his family?s investments and trusts. ?However, Governor Romney?s retirement agreement did not give the blind trust or him the right to do this, and I can confirm that neither he nor the trust has ever done this, whether before or after he retired from Bain Capital.?

Managers at a typical private equity firm or hedge fund collect from their investors management fees based on the size of the fund. But most of their compensation comes as a share of the profits earned by the fund. The Internal Revenue Service allows those profits to be considered ?carried interest,? taxed at the capital gains rate typically reserved for investments.

The tax strategy used by Bain and other firms to convert management fees ? the compensation normally taxed as ordinary income ? into capital gains is known as a ?management fee waiver.? The strategy is widely used within the industry: 40 percent of the 35 buyout firms based in the United States surveyed in 2009 by Dow Jones said their partners used at least some of the firm?s fees to make investments in their funds.

But some prominent firms appear to avoid the practice. The Carlyle Group and Blackstone Group have stated in regulatory filings that their partners have not diverted management fees into investments in their funds.

In the varied world of private equity, some firms may have lawyers who are not aware of the strategy or have steered their clients away from it, said a lawyer at one firm who has used the strategy for his clients. Others, he said, may not have the operational capabilities to handle the complex transactions.

Apollo Global Management, the buyout firm co-founded by Leon Black and now publicly traded, is among those that employ the conversion strategy. Between 2007 and 2011, Apollo converted more than $131 million in fees into investments in its funds, according to S.E.C. filings. A spokesman for the firm declined to comment.

Likewise, K.K.R. converted more than $180 million in fees between 2007 and 2009, according to its filings. Kristi Huller, a spokeswoman for the firm, declined to comment about any regulatory matter, but said in an e-mail that K.K.R. had not used the tax strategy ?for the past few years.?

Other firms that received subpoenas include Clayton, Dubilier & Rice; Crestview Partners; H.I.G. Capital; Vestar Capital Partners; and Providence Equity Partners. Representatives for all these firms declined to comment.

Tax lawyers have justified the arrangements by arguing that converting the management fees into carried interest, which could lose some or all of its value if a fund does poorly, entitles the managers to the lower capital gains rate, which is intended to help mitigate the risks taken by investors.

?They?re risking their management fee ? they?re giving up the right to that management fee in any and all events,? said Jack S. Levin, a finance lawyer whose firm has represented Bain on some matters. Mr. Levin said he did not consider the practice risky or even aggressive.

?The I.R.S. has known that private equity funds have been doing this for 20 years,? he said.

In 2007, the agency began taking a closer look at suspected tax abuses at hedge funds and private equity firms. In a statement at the time, an I.R.S. spokesman said that management fee conversions were among several ?areas of possible noncompliance.? But no formal ruling appears to have emerged.

Some private equity firms take what tax experts consider a less aggressive approach to the conversions, waiving fees on all of a given fund?s investments over the lifetime of the fund, which can be 10 years.

But other firms choose which funds or even which particular investments to waive fees on frequently, like every year or every quarter. Such arrangements may allow the executives to apply the waiver only when they believe their funds are more likely to appreciate in value, substantially reducing their investment risk.

Executives at three of the firms subpoenaed by Mr. Schneiderman, who asked for anonymity because they were bound by confidentiality agreements, said that disclosures to their investors clearly stated that the waived fees were allocated equally to all the investments in a fund.

The leaked documents show that Bain has in recent years used management fee conversions for at least eight private equity and other funds, including one formed as early as January 2002.

Victor Fleischer, a law professor and finance expert at the University of Colorado who has been critical of the tax rules for private equity firms, said he believed Bain had waived management fees into investments with so little risk that the arrangement would not qualify for the capital gains rate if challenged by the I.R.S.

?There is a tension between economic risk and tax risk that is supposed to be inversely proportional,? Mr. Fleischer said. ?The way Bain set it up there?s not much risk at all, so it?s hard to see how this income should receive capital gains treatment.?


Michael Luo contributed reporting.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep  1 20:08:29 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 20:08:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] SEIU Numbers attending
Message-ID: <6CA9689D-41E5-4D92-8D0F-88D812A692B8@mcn.org>

Dear OM
Guess we have about 30 total?  6 going at today's meeting. 7 or 8 we think might come?

Gotta phone some more  people and ask them to join up!

FROM SEIU:
Richard. 

We have 12 attending the parade. 

Erik Larsen
SEIU ULTCW
Organizer II
10 Alexander Street
Watsonville, CA 95076
C: 831.206.4914 O: 831.724.9715
www.ultcw.org, twitter @seiuultcw

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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Sat Sep  1 20:24:56 2012
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 20:24:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] /eminent Domain to fight foreclosure catastrophe
Message-ID: <CA+MaVrAkMOAzrcqvqS8FNrro1YXmwt+DEpWiuqqbLkcUy5hyxQ@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/eminent-domain-mortgages_n_1836710.html?view=print&comm_ref=false

San Bernardino Eminent Domain Fight Closely Watched By Other Struggling
Communities

-- 
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  Sun Sep  2 08:54:15 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 08:54:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] SEIU Numbers attending
In-Reply-To: <6CA9689D-41E5-4D92-8D0F-88D812A692B8@mcn.org>
References: <6CA9689D-41E5-4D92-8D0F-88D812A692B8@mcn.org>
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Sounds great, Richard, good work!
Linda

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Linda Jupiter Productions
P.O. Box 2822
139-1/2 Jupiter Lane
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
phone 707-964-8985
www.lindajupiter.com




















On Sep 1, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Richard Karch wrote:

> Dear OM
> Guess we have about 30 total?  6 going at today's meeting. 7 or 8 we  
> think might come?
>
> Gotta phone some more  people and ask them to join up!
>
> FROM SEIU:
> Richard.
>
> We have 12 attending the parade.
>
> Erik Larsen
> SEIU ULTCW
> Organizer II
> 10 Alexander Street
> Watsonville, CA 95076
> C: 831.206.4914 O: 831.724.9715
> www.ultcw.org, twitter @seiuultcw
>
>
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep  2 09:02:45 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 09:02:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] I did not find out about tabling.
Message-ID: <5ABEFA4D-5CB8-418D-8DD4-D2CC7F6F6D4C@att.net>

I was preoccupied with a cold and forgot to ask someone else to do it.


From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep  2 11:19:12 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 11:19:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] graphic Dems vs. Repubs
Message-ID: <1FF4F1D75D0B4835B0ED5E8D1E523C09@toshibauser>

send this to your Republican friends. or print it out poster size.










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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep  2 13:49:16 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 13:49:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Top Ten Clint Eastwood Empty-Chair Falsehoods
Message-ID: <ABFC76FB-ABC7-49B4-9B8C-9FD3D40F0149@att.net>


Top Ten Clint Eastwood Empty-Chair Falsehoods
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
02 September 12
 
ou can?t see me, but I?m talking to Clint Eastwood sitting spectrally in an empty chair, and I am replying to his confused rant.

Mr. Eastwood, you called the failure to close the Guantanamo Bay penitentiary a broken promise. President Obama was prevented from closing Guantanamo by the Republicans in Congress, which refused to allocate the funds necessary to end it. Do you remember this Washington Post headline, ?House acts to block closing of Guantanamo??

Mr. Eastwood you called ?stupid? the idea of trying terrorists who attacked New York in a civilian courtroom in New York. But what would have better vindicated the strengths of America?s rule of law, the thing about the US most admired abroad? Mr. Eastwood, perhaps you spent so many years playing vigilantes who just blew people away (people who in the real world we would have needed to try to establish their guilt or innocence) that you want to run our judicial system as a kangaroo court.

You complained that there are 23 million unemployed Americans. Actually there are 12.8 million unemployed Americans. But there are no measures by which W. created more jobs per month on average during his presidency than has Obama, and there is good reason to blame current massive unemployment on Bush?s policies of deregulating banks and other financial institutions, which caused the crash of 2008.

You criticized President Obama for giving a target date for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan of 2014, and alleged that Romney said, ?Why don?t you just bring them home tomorrow morning?? But George W. Bush set a target date of 31 December, 2011, for withdrawal from Iraq, and did so in negotiation with the Iraqi parliament. Was that also a bad idea? Have you considered that NATO allies and the government of President Hamid Karzai may have demanded an announced withdrawal date as a prerequisite of continued cooperation with the US there? And, just for your information, Gov. Romney hasn?t called for US troops to withdraw from Afghanistan immediately.

Mr. Eastwood, you made fun of Joe Biden as the ?intellect of the Democratic Party.? Vice President Biden was chair or ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for decades, helped to save the Bosnian Muslims from genocide, and passed the Violence against Women Act. I haven?t always agreed with him myself, but he has been among our more thoughtful contributors to American foreign policy. You, on the other hand, like to pretend to shoot down large numbers of people over the course of a violent two-hour fantasy.

You criticized President Obama for ?talking about student loans.? The Republican Party, especially Paul Ryan, wants to take away the government-backed loans on which millions of students depend, at a time when student indebtedness is at an all-time high. Just because some people are way overpaid for play-acting doesn?t mean that ordinary people don?t need student loans to get the credentials that allow them to make a better life for themselves.

Mr. Eastwood, you criticized President Obama for saying he is an ?ecological man? but flying in Air Force One. Under President Obama, non-hydro forms ofgreen energy in the United States have doubled from 3 percent of electricity production to 6 percent. Obama?s tax credits have been a big reason why. In contrast, Mr. Romney wants to get rid of credits for wind energy, which will hurt the Iowa economy, e.g., and is in the back pocket of Big Oil, so that he will stand in the way of green energy. I think doubling renewables rather offsets an occasional jet ride. And, it is Obama?s policies that will get us to the solar-driven airplane, not Romney?s.

You made fun of Obama because he has a law degree from Harvard. I just want you to sit in your empty chair for a while, and think about that. (I forgot, Romney has a Harvard law degree too. M.S.) 

You called Mr. Romney a ?stellar businessman,? but his business appears to have been to send American jobs to China.

I don?t know who suggested to you that you address us at the end and say, ?Make my day,? with the implication that we should vote Romney-Ryan. But what I remember is, that phrase is a threat you are going to do bad things to us.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep  2 15:39:17 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 15:39:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Notes from theSept. 1,2012  OM GA meeting.
Message-ID: <A667A59564D5475380B97FBB21E9D5BD@toshibauser>

Facilitator: Cecile. Note taker: Agnes,additional attendees: Sheila, Danny, Howard, Richard, Irene.
The Facilitator for September 15th ( 3rd Sat.) will be Agnes. Please send future agenda items to agnes at mcn.org.  
We meet in the Board Room of the Senior Center.
Parade:
Richard gave a report on progress of parade props, transportation, volunteers needed, SEIU participants 12 to join us. Sheila , Dan and Agnes will come early to help with signs on car, etc. MCTV has funds from a generous donor-you know who- to film the parade with OM. Volunteers needed to carry the OM banner. 
Ananda volunteered to contact Linda for the members list so that 
Sheila, Agnes, Irene and Dan who volunteered to contact and invite absent OM members to join our contingent in the parade.
Urgent request of Richards :please, members, send a response to his emails asking for input and feedback as a courtesy.

Foreclosure committe report--unavilable.

Technical: Sheila reported on the production of the DVD about the Occupy Mendocino Street Fair for MCETV, minor adjustments to be made, credits needed at the end.

Developing needs of Occupy: Howard felt that a few spokespersons were needed for OM.like an ad hoc co-ordinating committee, a phone tree need, a list of volunteers to write monthly letters to the editor to keep us visible. 
 Frank, the FB Advocate reporter, has been contacted re a suggested point of view to cover the horizontal organization of  Occupy Mendocino. 
Publicity needs: Make a leaflet listing OM actions for interested, potential members.
HousngCom. Report: Ananda reported that any citizen can fill out a city form called a "Request for Public Records" to petition the city for alternative housing other than Hosptality House.  More information is needed in view of an expected influx of homeless and other people on probation.  St. Michaels Church has a shelter in the fall and winter months with alimited capacity. The Housing Com. will network with Reps and Dems to ask what is their position on foreclosures and growing homeless population. Ananda proposed an executive com. to have an agenda item on the next GA meeting for discussion.No volunteers spoke up.

Announment:  The one year Birthday Celebration for the Occupy Movement at the end of the Sept.15th GA meeting in the Board Room of the Sr. Center . Please bring something to share as well as eating utensils if possible.please RSVP to Agnes so we know how big a cake we need.
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep  2 17:09:29 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:09:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fairly simple concept.
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep  2 17:24:52 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:24:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FOCUS: Breitbart Occupy Film Draws Police,
	Michelle Bachmann
Message-ID: <B0F45989-13EF-4F14-9E3D-32E96D61724B@att.net>


http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/13256-breitbart-occupy-film-draws-police-michelle-bachmann

Breitbart Occupy Film Draws Police, Michelle Bachmann


By Elizabeth Flock, US News

02 September 12

 

nti-Occupy film "Occupy Unmasked," dubbed the final work of the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart, was screened Thursday at the Republican National Convention to a smattering of Breitbart fans, protesters, media and heavily armed police gathered in a giant tent.

The event could have attracted hundreds more, but the film's producer David Bossie said he was concerned about "fist fights in the theater" after his team was alerted to threats by Occupy protesters online.

Messages on Occupy Facebook pages about the film seemed mostly innocuous, but filmmakers said E-mails they received used more violent language. As a result, they turned away nearly 250 people who RSVPed.

The film, which was introduced by Minnesota Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann and will be released Sept. 21, portrays the Occupy movement as mostly anarchist, characterized by rapes, robberies and assaults. Bachmann did not talk about Occupy in her introduction but praised Breitbart as a "dear friend," and called the film his "legacy."

"The film speaks for itself," Bachmann told Whispers of her feelings on Occupy.

Breitbart is a constant, and sometimes angry, presence in the film.

"These people feel morally justified to commit crimes," Breitbart tells the camera as the film opens, before it cuts to images of violence, drug use, snake charmers and people in Anonymous masks. They are "raping pillaging and pooping," he says.

The film goes on to allege that the movement was highly organized by labor unions and other liberal groups, with support from the Obama administration. It's a claim many observers of the movement have denied, as the Occupy movement is believed to have started spontaneously and repeatedly resisted organized help.

But Breitbart is persistent, telling the camera: "They are trying to start a war on grounds of the Capitol."

Occupy protesters took up residence in parks and other public places in cities across the country over the last year, including Washington, D.C. But those occupations now are almost entirely shut down.

Protests at the Republican Convention here, headquartered in a campsite Occupiers call "Romneyville," have taken place almost without incident. A $50 million grant given to the city of Tampa for security has put police on nearly ever block close to the convention.

Although filmmakers turned away many protesters, a handful belonging to the pro-peace organization CodePink found a way in, and sat in a row close to the front of the tent. Among the protesters was prominent anti-war activist Medea Benjamin, who called the film "stupid" and said it "distorted" reality.

"Occupy was a peaceful movement that wanted fairness in this country," she said. "You can always find a small percentage of any movement that doesn't represent the views of the entire community."

But Benjamin and the film's creators agree on one thing: They don't think Occupy is over.

Benjamin thinks Occupy will keep "resurfacing in different forms," such as in people deciding to switch their money from big banks to credit unions. "Occupy is in this for a long haul," agreed "Occupy Unmasked" producer Bossie. "The anarchist movement is new to the U.S. It doesn't happen overnight."

The film is being distributed by Magnet Releasing, a company that belongs to billionaire business magnate Mark Cuban.



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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep  2 23:26:21 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 23:26:21 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Convention Commentary by a Comedian.
Message-ID: <A43C3F63-C040-49C7-B319-F49B2915174D@att.net>


http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13261-the-stealth-convention

The Stealth Convention


By Will Durst, Humor Times

02 September 12

 

nd now a few words about the Republican National Convention. AKA: Women with Big Hair and the Men in White Shoes Who Love Them. And white certainly was the operative word in Tampa. Mashed potatoes on paper plates with a side of leeks white.

Had to feel bad for the one black guy the networks kept cutting to during the speeches. They tried everything to make him look like a crowd. Different camera angles. Probably had his own wardrobe assistant. "Now put on the cowboy hat. Okay. Okay. Let's try a handlebar mustache." Must have been someone's driver.

The first day of this GOP quadrennial confab got canceled for the second consecutive conference due to a hurricane bearing down on the city of New Orleans. The only two tropical storms to threaten the Crescent City since Katrina. Hey, guys, want some crow sprinkles on that karma cone?

But any worry about the optics of unrestrained celebration while parts of the country drowned faded fairly quickly. "Oh, quit your belly aching. At least your pesky drought is over." And with that, the convention shifted into stealth mode.

The festive conservatives were so successful at concealing their core convictions, that at times it was difficult to discern which party was nominating whom. "We're saving Medicare." "The Party of Diversity." "Our Platform May Say No Abortions, No Exceptions, But We Haven't Even Read It." "Dubyah Who?" "Mitt What?"

The only speaker to mention Mitt's name out loud on purpose was Ann Romney in a gracious and endearing turn. Facing the tall task of climbing the plateau of humanizing her spousal cyborg, this mother of five boys constructed an entire flight of stairs by herself. But with a husband stiffer than Rick Santorum on a gay pride parade float, it was the basement stairwell of what needs to be skyscraper scaffolding. Baby steps.

Paul Ryan growled the requisite Veep Nominee pit-bull snarl. Then gave 40 minutes worth of credence to the Romney pollster who proclaimed earlier in the week, "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers." The Janesville Congressman trotted out more bad lies than Employees Day at St. Andrews. The Old Course.

Chris Christie solidly wedged himself into a fail-safe slot for the next round in the event of a Romney/Ryan November stumble. As did Condoleezza Rice, albeit more elegantly. But Marco Rubio stole the show, positioning himself as a possible impediment to Christie and Condi's scramble for 2016's money. If there is any money by then.

Normally these convention gatherings are to spontaneity what Richard Simmons is to mule skinning. Lots of shiny, smooth seamless spandex. A three-day holiday in a hall full of Ken dolls. But in a dubious celebrity stretch, some soon-to-be ex-staffer woke Clint Eastwood from a nap to upstage the nominee's acceptance speech by losing an argument with an empty chair.

Following Dirty Harry speaking to an imaginary president, Romney spoke of his phantom agenda. The general consensus was he needed to give the "Speech of His Life," and the good news is, he did. The bad news: that was it. Great for the base. "Meh" for everybody else.

So now it's on to Charlotte where the Democrats will throw a counter spin to their mirror image of this carefully orchestrated boogie-down. Charlotte and Tampa in the dead of summer. And these are our great political minds at work? Something indeed is horribly awry.


The New York Times says Emmy-nominated comedian and writer Will Durst "is quite possibly the best political satirist working in the country today." Check out the website: Redroom.com to buy his book or find out more about upcoming stand-up performances. Or willdurst.com.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Sep  3 08:04:20 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 08:04:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Paul Bunyan AANNOUNCEEEEMENT!
Message-ID: <AB4E6302-D69C-4887-BDA6-9DD791661A54@mcn.org>

HI ALL    
 I will be getting to the parade headquarters around 9AM. (Behind Brewery, Pine and Main)

I'll find out our exact number spot then.

Go there to the INFO table to get the exact  place we will be.  (Hopefully very close!)

See you there, 

Richard 

Be ready for Babe the Blue Ox Puppet.  Very cute and expressive.

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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Sep  3 08:18:08 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 08:18:08 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] time
Message-ID: <E37EA815F735415BBE9EE63A1096EE16@toshibauser>

Plan to leave Mendo before nine as there will be no parking spots at 10:00am.in F.B. so you wont miss our contingent.
Agnes
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From ananda at mcn.org  Mon Sep  3 10:08:32 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:08:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Paul Bunyon Parade
Message-ID: <E9D32FA0-384B-45B7-B9B7-52D3E58BD7E5@mcn.org>

Y"all come and join up and be part of the fun.

thank you


From sanutter at mcn.org  Mon Sep  3 19:42:03 2012
From: sanutter at mcn.org (susan nutter)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 19:42:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Video: Monkey angrily rejects unequal pay - CBS
	News
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Sep  3 20:01:14 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:01:14 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Rick recommends...
References: <153ec8b25faa65caedee548da780aff7.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
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...you keep an eye on the New York Times section called "538." It may be carried in the S.R. P.D. which is (I think) part of the Times' syndicate.




From marksafron at att.net  Tue Sep  4 07:53:29 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 07:53:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Grand Wizard Willard Romney
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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:33:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: 3 great iPhotos
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Sep  4 17:40:59 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:40:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Brooks: The Real Romney
Message-ID: <47B89B0A-056A-4338-BFB9-900064328471@att.net>

A real hoot!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opinion/brooks-the-real-romney.html?emc=eta1

The Real Romney

The purpose of the Republican convention is to introduce America to the real Mitt Romney. Fortunately, I have spent hours researching this subject. I can provide you with the definitive biography and a unique look into the Byronic soul of the Republican nominee:

Mitt Romney was born on March 12, 1947, in Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Virginia and several other swing states. He emerged, hair first, believing in America, and especially its national parks. He was given the name Mitt, after the Roman god of mutual funds, and launched into the world with the lofty expectation that he would someday become the Arrow shirt man.

Romney was a precocious and gifted child. He uttered his first words (?I like to fire people?) at age 14 months, made his first gaffe at 15 months and purchased his first nursery school at 24 months. The school, highly leveraged, went under, but Romney made 24 million Jujubes on the deal.

Mitt grew up in a modest family. His father had an auto body shop called the American Motors Corporation, and his mother owned a small piece of land, Brazil. He had several boyhood friends, many of whom owned Nascar franchises, and excelled at school, where his fourth-grade project, ?Inspiring Actuaries I Have Known,? was widely admired.

The Romneys had a special family tradition. The most cherished member got to spend road trips on the roof of the car. Mitt spent many happy hours up there, applying face lotion to combat windburn.

The teenage years were more turbulent. He was sent to a private school, where he was saddened to find there are people in America who summer where they winter. He developed a lifelong concern for the second homeless, and organized bake sales with proceeds going to the moderately rich.

Some people say he retreated into himself during these years. He had a pet rock, which ran away from home because it was starved of affection. He bought a mood ring, but it remained permanently transparent. His ability to turn wine into water detracted from his popularity at parties.

There was, frankly, a period of wandering. After hearing Lou Reed?s ?Walk on the Wild Side,? Romney decided to leave Mormonism and become Amish. He left the Amish faith because of its ban on hair product, and bounced around before settling back in college. There, he majored in music, rendering Mozart?s entire oeuvre in PowerPoint.

His love affair with Ann Davies, the most impressive part of his life, restored his equilibrium. Always respectful, Mitt and Ann decided to elope with their parents. They went on a trip to Israel, where they tried and failed to introduce the concept of reticence. Romney also went on a mission to France. He spent two years knocking on doors, failing to win a single convert. This was a feat he would replicate during his 2008 presidential bid.

After his mission, he attended Harvard, studying business, law, classics and philosophy, though intellectually his first love was always tax avoidance. After Harvard, he took his jawline to Bain Consulting, a firm with very smart people with excessive personal hygiene. While at Bain, he helped rescue many outstanding companies, like Pan Am, Eastern Airlines, Atari and DeLorean.

Romney was extremely detail oriented in his business life. He once canceled a corporate retreat at which Abba had been hired to play, saying he found the band?s music ?too angry.?

Romney is also a passionately devoted family man. After streamlining his wife?s pregnancies down to six months each, Mitt helped Ann raise five perfect sons ? Bip, Chip, Rip, Skip and Dip ? who married identically tanned wives. Some have said that Romney?s lifestyle is overly privileged, pointing to the fact that he has an elevator for his cars in the garage of his San Diego home. This is not entirely fair. Romney owns many homes without garage elevators and the cars have to take the stairs.

After a successful stint at Bain, Romney was lured away to run the Winter Olympics, the second most Caucasian institution on earth, after the G.O.P. He then decided to run for governor of Massachusetts. His campaign slogan, ?Vote Romney: More Impressive Than You?ll Ever Be,? was not a hit, but Romney won the race anyway on an environmental platform, promising to make the state safe for steeplechase.

After his governorship, Romney suffered through a midlife crisis, during which he became a social conservative. This prepared the way for his presidential run. He barely won the 2012 Republican primaries after a grueling nine-month campaign, running unopposed. At the convention, where his Secret Service nickname is Mannequin, Romney will talk about his real-life record: successful business leader, superb family man, effective governor, devoted community leader and prudent decision-maker. If elected, he promises to bring all Americans together and make them feel inferior.

Joe Nocera is off today.


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From jupiter at mcn.org  Tue Sep  4 17:47:22 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:47:22 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: 3 great iPhotos
In-Reply-To: <6B906ED5-0C86-4BDB-948D-A4EBD4E6D742@mcn.org>
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Thanks for the photos, RIchard.
Linda

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P.O. Box 2822
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Fort Bragg, CA 95437
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Sep  4 19:04:16 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 19:04:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Words  about our Successful Parade Work
Message-ID: <031CF340-F36D-414C-ABCC-FD7274007FE4@mcn.org>



Hi All, 
 We had 14 in our group  + 12 of the SEIU people. Expected more, but not shabby.
WE displayed a whole bunch of diverse signs and sang our song. We really got into 
chants led by Eric from SEIU. I felt the crowd heard us and gave good  attention back. 
 
John, Howard, Pat and a '5' yea rold, Oscar were in the car showing off the slogan,
 " Life's a Beach.... Get Occupied!" and  " 5-95 for liberty, justice, democracy." 

Much thanks to those who helped and marched:   Linda, Betty, Bob, Daniel, Laurie (not YOrk),
Veteran guy with beard, Agnes, Sheila, Francisco (  young boy who really helped us),
 Irene. John F, Howard, Oscar, Pat and Richard.

Please note: On  the application they said that we could choose to be at the first of the
parade if we had people who couldn't walk too far. I said we wanted that!  Stressed  over and over!
that we were an older group and some from SEIU members  might be in wheelchairs. 
 Unfortunately they didn't do this. They put us #49.  About 2  blocks from the beginning of the parade. 
It was ok, but made it hard for us to be located and long walks for  few who didn't need it. .

Anyhow, it was a fine effort and hopefully one that leaves an impression of what we stand for.

Richard   



Pat's Babe and Paul Bunyan puppets were well received!


Whoops on the Obama sign carrier from SEIU.   More pictures to come
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Sep  4 19:45:37 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 19:45:37 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] SEIU
Message-ID: <69152875-448E-4242-80EC-64BFACA13783@mcn.org>

Sorry I didn't explain about the SEIU service union group.

  They are big fighters for the 99%

SEIU - Service Employees International Union

www.seiu.org/
With 2.1 million members, the Service Employees International Union is the fastest growing union in North America, focused on uniting workers in the key ...
Contact ? Jobs at SEIU ? Members ? Local

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Sep  4 21:03:07 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:03:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Pictures from Pat
Message-ID: <6CA0FCFF-0E45-4B46-AB94-B8FA560B401A@mcn.org>

If any one else took pictures, please send to Richard.  rkarch at mcn.org   Thanks.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Sep  4 21:24:54 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:24:54 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] More Pictures from Pat
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                                                                              Move to Amend started in front of us.                 This is Irene's friend and helper   Francisco.
                                                                                                                                                                   He also carried the Big Babe puppet in the parade. Big pat on the back to him!
Paul and Babe at rest.

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This is the brother Oscar. who rode in the car with John, Howard and Pat
He was the "5 year"  old we needed. He aso gets a big pat on the back
and both are now the proud owners of Occupy Mendocino hats!

From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Sep  4 23:56:05 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 23:56:05 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Note from SEIU Organizer Eric
Message-ID: <63F3969B-17FE-4A5C-8E13-F92F1C9C5D0D@mcn.org>

> Richard. 
> 
> It was fun!  Love to do some more actions with Occupy Mendocino again. We have a few hundred members in Fort Bragg. The trick is activating them and keeping members involved.  
> 
> In Solidarity,
> 
> Erik Larsen
> SEIU ULTCW
> Organizer II
> 10 Alexander Street
> Watsonville, CA 95076
> C: 831.206.4914 O: 831.724.9715
> www.ultcw.org, twitter @seiuultcw
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2012, at 7:57 PM, "Richard Karch" <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Eric,  Thanks so much for your work.  Your chants really picked up the spirit.  Your people were sure
>> on it too.  I was impressed.  Do they live around Fort Bragg area? We'd love to have some of them get involved
>> in our Occupy Mendocino group.  We'd sure like to do a mutual event again. Keep in touch.
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Sep  5 09:19:40 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 09:19:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] GOP Defends Marianas' Sweatshops
Message-ID: <1D57E7E4-4E25-4ADA-B955-0B75EC2FB4BA@att.net>

(Helping to keep the "Great Divide" alive. M.S.) 
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13283-gop-defends-marianas-sweatshops

GOP Defends Marianas' Sweatshops


By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Consortium News

04 September 12

 

s the sun slowly sets over the Republican National Convention in Tampa, we settle back in the chairs that nice Mr. Eastwood just gave us and ponder some of the other oddities of the week. Like this item in the official GOP platform pointed out by Brad Plumer of The Washington Post:

"No minimum wage for the Mariana Islands.'The Pacific territories should have flexibility to determine the minimum wage, which has seriously restricted progress in the private sector.'"

This caught our attention (and thanks to colleague Theresa Riley for sending) because it once again reminds us of the sordid past of evangelical and political entrepreneur Ralph Reed who, as this week's edition of Moyers & Company reports in detail, has emerged from the ashes of epic career failure to reestablish himself as a powerful figure in Republican politics.

As head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Reed boasts he's building a political dynamo of five million members with a massive database, an annual budget of $100 million and full-time lobbyists in all 50 state capitals, a colossal effort aimed at putting in place a right-wing social agenda and identifying and establishing contact with what it estimates as 27 million conservative voters in America. As you can imagine, with clout like that, Reed and his coalition were in high cotton at the Tampa convention.

Which brings us to that curious Mariana Islands minimum wage plank in the Republican platform. Some years ago, our government made an effort to clean up sweatshops on the islands - including Saipan - that have been under the control of the United States since the end of World War II.

Chinese women were brought over to the islands to work under awful conditions - subject to forced abortions and prostitution and paid pennies for producing garments labeled "Made in the USA."

Corrupt local officials hired the firm of infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff - for more than $4 million - to try to stop the reforms proposed back in Washington. Abramoff, in turn, hired Ralph Reed and his political direct mail company, Millennium Marketing, to conduct a phony grassroots campaign urging Alabama Christians to write their local congressman to oppose the reforms.

Of course, Reed didn't tell those Christians he was being paid to help keep running sweatshops that exploited women. Instead, he told them the reforms were a trick orchestrated by the Left and organized labor.

Limits on Chinese workers would keep them from being "exposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ." His company explained it was just trying to encourage "grassroots citizens to promote the propagation of the Gospel" and that many of the workers were "converted to the Christian faith and return to China with Bibles in hand."

With the explosion of the Jack Abramoff scandals and exposes by Ms. Magazine and other publications, the spotlight on the Marianas sweatshops finally did lead to congressional action, including a raise of the minimum wage and a law to federalize labor and immigration rules in the Marianas. The minimum wage now is $5.05 an hour, increasing to $5.55 on Sept. 30, but many in the Marianas business sector continue to oppose the amount - hence the platform plank.

Meanwhile, increasingly vocal calls have come for the impeachment of the islands' longtime governor, Benigno Fitial, an old Abramoff pal. Nonetheless, there Fitial was in Tampa, unrepentant and front and center, head of the islands' official Republican delegation. ?

As for Reed, once exposed, his shameful ruse came back to haunt him when he tried to run for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor of Georgia in 2006 - his opponent told the Marianas story in a devastating attack ad.

Reed's was a monstrous lie by one of the monumental hypocrites of our time. Yet he marches on, Christian soldier to the end, turning the temple of faith into one big ATM. There's a word for this in the Bible: Abomination.

Bill Moyers is managing editor and Michael Winship, senior writing fellow at Demos, is senior writer of the weekly public television program "Moyers & Company." Comment at www.billmoyers.com.


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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 09:59:37 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Parade pics from Connie
References: <D1D98324-4630-426D-B893-6FCE12D3D39B@mcn.org>
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Sep  5 15:21:34 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:21:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jimmy Tingle on Labor Day
Message-ID: <B91F0062-F7B6-49B3-B708-64AEC66C012F@att.net>

Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc-VxhAjFbY&feature=youtu.be


From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep  8 19:38:40 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 19:38:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Romney's Playing Field Narrows
Message-ID: <0D5F51D2-A3B6-4934-B78C-9414C79E288D@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13366-romneys-playing-field-narrows

Romney's Playing Field Narrows


By Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine

08 September 12

 

itt Romney's team announced last night, in the immediate wake of the Democratic convention, that it was unleashing a massive swing-state ad blitz. Since the announcement came well before the lousy jobs report, and even before the mixed reviews for Obama's speech, it ought to be seen as an attempt to give Republicans a reason for enthusiasm. A closer look suggests more reason for GOP concern.

Romney is targeting eight states: Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and New Hampshire. No Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania. This is surely not because Romney is husbanding scarce cash. Campaign aides also told Fox News yesterday that they basically have so much money they have to come up with ways to get it out the door, Brewster's Millions?style, before election day. (?We have $100 million we've just raised. If you look at our burn rate to date and our cash on hand, there's not much more we can spend on infrastructure. So we've got to start spending our general election funds in a big way, because you know what the value of that money is on the day after the election? Zero.?) And it's probably not because they want outside super-PACs to spend in those states, either - they can't legally coordinate, and the super-PACs will take their cues from the Romney campaign about where to fight. (The GOP super-PACs have already pulled out of Michigan and Pennsylvania.)

The reason this looks worrisome for Romney is that he's pursuing an electoral-college strategy that requires him nearly to run the table of competitive states. The states where Romney is not competing (and which aren't obviously Republican, either) add up to 247 electoral votes. The eight states where Romney is competing add up to a neat 100 electoral votes, of which Romney needs 79 and Obama just 23. If you play with the electoral possibilities, you can see that this would mean Obama could win with Florida alone or Ohio plus a small state or Virginia plus a couple small states, and so on.

Unless I'm missing something badly here, Romney needs either a significant national shift his way - possibly from the debates or some other news event - or else to hope that his advertising advantage is potent enough to move the dial in almost every swing state in which he's competing.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Sep  9 09:57:06 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:57:06 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Street Fair Video is Ready to View on Sept
	14!
Message-ID: <6A8FEB23-002E-4232-8711-8AE71151F7C3@mcn.org>


Dear Occupy Mendocino,

The much awaited Occupy Street Fair video will be shown on  MCTV channel
3 on Friday Sept 14 at 7:30 or 8 PM. It features many interviews with people
 in the table groups attending, and also footage from the Music Stage.  

This project was funded by our own Occupy Mendocino.

Thanks,

Sheila Tracy

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Sep  9 10:17:54 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:17:54 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Our 1st Birthday Party!
Message-ID: <69F7C658-2C63-4EF7-AEB0-3E1F582DF3F0@mcn.org>

Dear 99%ers, 
Our grass roots citizen movement, serving community, will have a little Birthday Party at it's regular Assembly meeting
 on Saturday, September 15, from 3 to 5pm at the Board Room of the Ft. Bragg Senior Center. All are invited, as our issues apply to everyone. 

We will be celebrating One Year of OCCUPY with Birthday Cake and snacks, and focussing on a few of our issues: Foreclosures,
Health Care, Housing, Citizen Health, Environmental Safety, Ocean Safety and Education  on these issues and more. Please bring 
light snacks to share. We will have plates, cups and cutlery available. 

OM Birthday Committee



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From jupiter at mcn.org  Sun Sep  9 10:42:55 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:42:55 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Street Fair Video is Ready to View on
	Sept 14!
In-Reply-To: <6A8FEB23-002E-4232-8711-8AE71151F7C3@mcn.org>
References: <6A8FEB23-002E-4232-8711-8AE71151F7C3@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <4FC0F265-9747-44F7-A629-0ABEBBDFA323@mcn.org>

Great work on the video, Sheila, thanks!
Linda

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Linda Jupiter Productions
P.O. Box 2822
139-1/2 Jupiter Lane
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
phone 707-964-8985
www.lindajupiter.com




















On Sep 9, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Richard Karch wrote:

>
> Dear Occupy Mendocino,
>
> The much awaited Occupy Street Fair video will be shown on  MCTV  
> channel
> 3 on Friday Sept 14 at 7:30 or 8 PM. It features many interviews  
> with people
>  in the table groups attending, and also footage from the Music Stage.
>
> This project was funded by our own Occupy Mendocino.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sheila Tracy
>
>
> 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 agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep  9 21:20:19 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:20:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Hackers Obtain Mitt Romney's Tax Returns
Message-ID: <86F566BAB3924DA3A3A50394068D8EAB@toshibauser>

Hackers Obtain Mitt Romney's Tax Returns - Report -- Letters stated intention to publish Romney's tax returns on Sept. 28, unless $1 million is deposited in Bitcoin account 05 Sep 2012 Someone claims to have stolen years of Mitt Romney?s tax returns from a Tennessee office of the financial firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Secret Service is investigating what appears to be a ransom scheme. The local Democratic and Republican parties in Williamson County, Tenn., where the PricewaterhouseCoopers office is located, both received packages, each containing a thumb drive and a letter outlining a competitive-bidding ransom scheme that appears designed to pit Republicans and Democrats against each other over the release of Romney's taxes. [It's about time! What on earth were they *waiting for?* Post them NOW!]
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep  9 22:47:56 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:47:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] As you may have suspected,
	it appears there's more to it than a couple of planes.
Message-ID: <A88F2D61-1C0B-43E2-8EF0-4085CCE1F6BD@att.net>

Amazingly, PBS has been screening an intelligent documentary about 9/11.

It's called "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out"

It focuses on the hundreds of professional architects and engineers who have put their reputations on the line to dispute the official story of the World Trade Center collapses on 9/11.

Architects and engineers speak out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tTMMNTisBM&feature=player_embedded

Many of us doubted the legitimacy of going to war. This film raises even more questions. M.S.


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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Sep 10 11:50:06 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:50:06 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Robert Reich's Blog: Obama's Biggest Economic
	Challenge
Message-ID: <F93D0BC2-5A77-4B01-958F-F38CC5B6421F@att.net>


http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/13398-focus-obamas-biggest-economic-challenge

Obama's Biggest Economic Challenge


By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

10 September 12

 

he question at the core of America's upcoming election isn't merely whose story most voting Americans believe to be true - Mitt Romney's claim that the economy is in a stall and Obama's policies haven't worked, or Barack Obama's that it's slowly mending and his approach is working.

If that were all there was to it, last Friday's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing the economy added only 96,000 jobs in August - below what's needed merely to keep up with the growth in the number of eligible workers - would seem to bolster Romney's claim.

But, of course, congressional Republicans have never even given Obama a chance to try his approach. They've blocked everything he's tried to do - including his proposed Jobs Act that would help state and local governments replace many of the teachers, police officers, social workers, and fire fighters they've had to let go over the last several years.

The deeper question is what should be done starting in January to boost a recovery that by anyone's measure is still anemic. In truth, not even the Jobs Act will be enough.

At the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida, Romney produced the predictable set of Republican bromides: cut taxes on corporations and the already rich, cut government spending (mainly on the lower-middle class and the poor), and gut business regulations.

It's the same supply-side nonsense that got the economy into trouble in the first place.

Corporations won't hire more workers just because their tax bill is lower and they spend less on regulations. In case you hadn't noticed, corporate profits are up. Most companies don't even know what to do with the profits they're already making. Not incidentally, much of those profits have come from replacing jobs with computer software or outsourcing them abroad.

Meanwhile, the wealthy don't create jobs, and giving them additional tax cuts won't bring unemployment down. America's rich are already garnering a bigger share of American income than they have in eighty years. They're using much of it to speculate in the stock market. All this has done is drive stock prices higher.

The way to get jobs back is to get American consumers to spend again. Consumer spending is 70 percent of the nation's economic activity. Most of it comes from the middle class and those aspiring to join the middle class. They're the real job creators.

But here's the problem. Middle-class consumers won't and can't spend because their savings are depleted, their homes are worth a fraction of what they were five years ago, their wages are dropping, and they're worried about keeping their jobs.

And they're no longer able borrow against the rising values of their homes because the housing bubble burst - which means they can no longer pretend they're in better financial shape than they really are.

This is the heart of our economic dilemma.

Last Thursday night at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, President Obama suggested a way to correct this, or at least not make things worse: Raise taxes on the wealthy rather than cut programs the middle class and poor depend on (such as Medicare and Medicaid), give tax incentives to companies that create jobs in the United States, and invest in education.

It's start but America's middle class and poor need far more. They need to be able to refinance their mortgages at today's low interest rates. They need a larger Earned Income Tax Credit - a wage subsidy for lower-paying jobs. And a higher minimum wage that's automatically adjusted for inflation.

They could use a new Works Projects Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps designed to put the long-term unemployed back to work.

They need stronger unions to bargain for a larger share of the gains from economic growth. And a Social Security payroll tax that exempts the first $25,000 of income and eliminates the ceiling (now $110,100) on income subject to it.

And they need an industrial policy designed to create high-wage jobs in America.

In accepting his party's nomination for president, Obama said the "basic bargain" that once rewarded hard work and gave everyone a fair shot had come undone.

He's right. And the U.S. economy won't return to normal until that basic bargain is remade.

If Obama gets a second term, recreating that bargain - and getting enough votes from Congress to do so - will be his central challenge, and America's.


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 marksafron at att.net  Tue Sep 11 14:44:07 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:44:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] George Carlin - United States... in 40 seconds.
Message-ID: <7DB59CF7-97F6-4801-B426-D72EBF3118A8@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2xBEOQDckk&feature=related


From marksafron at att.net  Tue Sep 11 23:19:03 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:19:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How to "make change."
Message-ID: <BEF8760E-E3C2-4ABE-A3B9-03992D7353B3@att.net>

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-change/


From ananda at mcn.org  Tue Sep 11 23:34:10 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:34:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Coastal Commission Meeting
Message-ID: <38579FD8-2BCD-40E3-BEF3-7F10AB3E2470@mcn.org>

The Coastal Commission Meeting is happening tomorrow Wed, Thurs & Friday mornings.

Public intake is 9 am on wed and thurs.    The meeting will be held at the Caspar Community Center.

From marksafron at att.net  Tue Sep 11 23:39:25 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:39:25 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Coastal Commission Meeting
In-Reply-To: <38579FD8-2BCD-40E3-BEF3-7F10AB3E2470@mcn.org>
References: <38579FD8-2BCD-40E3-BEF3-7F10AB3E2470@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <13D566BB-1D7F-44DC-9BDD-F892ABAF3F29@att.net>

What's on the agenda?

On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Cecile Cutler wrote:

The Coastal Commission Meeting is happening tomorrow Wed, Thurs & Friday mornings.

Public intake is 9 am on wed and thurs.    The meeting will be held at the Caspar Community Center.

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 jupiter at mcn.org  Wed Sep 12 09:20:49 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:20:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Occupy the Economy co-author speaks locally
	this Monday
References: <74EBC3CD-F926-4790-ACE3-96790EA5368E@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <59671459-A770-49F1-BB5D-C7126DC257D3@mcn.org>

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Wodetzki Tom <tw at mcn.org>
> Date: September 12, 2012 9:07:31 AM PDT
> To: Jupiter Linda <jupiter at mcn.org>, Fremont JohnF <john at cypresshouse.com 
> >
> Cc: Ennes Howard <nsdusoir at mcn.org>
> Subject: Occupy the Economy co-author speaks locally this Monday
>
> 	Hi Linda & John. David Barsamian speaks locally this Monday. Since  
> he's promoting his new book, Occupy the Economy, I think Occupy  
> folks would like to know about his talk. Will you please send the  
> announcement below to your Occupy elist?
> 	Thanks in advance.
> 		Tom
>
>
> Author David Barsamian speaks Sept. 16-18
>
>             Noted author and radio personality David Barsamian will  
> speak three times in Mendocino County about his newest book, Occupy  
> the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, co-authored with Richard Wolff.
>             David Barsamian is the award-winning founder and  
> director of Alternative Radio, the independent weekly radio series  
> heard for years on KZYX. He has also authored numerous books with  
> Noam Chomsky and many others. He has won the Media Education Award,  
> the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the  
> Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.
>             In the new Barsamian-Wolff book, Occupy the Economy, the  
> authors show that the causes of the current recession date from the  
> 1970s when the capitalist system shifted from the century-old  
> pattern of rising wages for U.S. workers to one of economic  
> stagnation or decline for most citizens while the top 1% becomes  
> ever richer. Economic injustice has become chronic and politics  
> further corrupted. The Occupy movement, by articulating deep  
> indignation with the whole system, mobilizes huge numbers who seek  
> basic change. Occupy the Economy not only clarifies and analyzes the  
> crisis in U.S. capitalism today, it also points toward solutions  
> that can shape a far better future for all.
>             David Barsamian will speak in Ukiah Sunday, Sept. 16th,  
> at 4 PM at Mendocino College, 1000 Hensley Creek Road, room number  
> 740. North Coast folks can hear him Monday, Sept. 17th, at 7 PM at  
> the Caspar Community Center. And Barsamian will address South Coast  
> residents Tuesday, Sept 18th, at 7 Pm at the Community Library in  
> Point Arena.
>             Barsamian's three talks are benefits for KZYX, Mendocino  
> County?s public radio station, and the Move To Amend Coalition of  
> Mendocino County, which has placed on this November's county ballot  
> a proposition that lets voters clarify that constitutional rights  
> are intended only for human beings, not corporations, and that money  
> is not "free speech" and can be regulated by law.
>             For more information contact Tom Wodetzki, 937-1113, tw at mcn.org
>

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From jupiter at mcn.org  Wed Sep 12 13:47:08 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:47:08 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy party
Message-ID: <272B0F99-FB58-41AF-93C8-2936062B2F6C@mcn.org>

Hello, all,
Please let us know if you're planning on attending our Occupy birthday  
party this coming Saturday. We've accomplished a lot in the last year  
and have much to celebrate! General assembly meeting begins at 2 and  
party starts at 3, at the Senior Center.
Hope to see you there!
Linda


















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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Sep 12 15:48:30 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:48:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy turns 1
Message-ID: <5DB5C43A-ADAC-4CC5-BC9E-10C1A6EE0349@att.net>

At the last meeting it was decided to have a Birthday Bash for the 1 year old known as Occupy! Would people please contact Richard & or Linda to find out how to make this event happen.

This one's from Linda:
Hello, all,
Please let us know if you're planning on attending our Occupy birthday party this coming Saturday. We've accomplished a lot in the last year and have much to celebrate! General assembly meeting begins at 2 and party starts at 3, at the Senior Center.
Hope to see you there!
Linda
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From ananda at mcn.org  Wed Sep 12 21:07:09 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:07:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agenda for Assembly & party
Message-ID: <D2074626-40BD-47D4-B782-BA1E0267F37F@mcn.org>

Dear friends:  Agnes will facilitate the next Assembly & a one year birthday party will
occur, too.  Let's celebrate what has been accomplished, and hang out and enjoy cake
and plan our actions to improve community needs.

Please send your agenda items to Agnes.

Thank you.

Cecile

From marksafron at att.net  Thu Sep 13 10:06:13 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:06:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Teaming Up to End Homelessness
Message-ID: <C3874170-BE94-4DE1-823B-0F8CC63F4B13@att.net>

(Coalition building works. M.S.) 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/whe-one-fix-leads-to-another/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120913

Teaming Up to End Homelessness


This week in Washington, people from Detroit, Tucson, New Orleans, San Diego, Atlanta and nine other cities gathered to celebrate doing the impossible. The participants share a tough job:  getting homeless veterans off the street and into apartments and social services.  They work in cities that have large numbers of homeless vets ? but most of their cities were making only modest progress toward housing them.

Not anymore.  Before the summer, San Diego was putting 14 homeless veterans a month into apartments.  In the last 100 days, the monthly average more than doubled, to 32. In San Antonio, it used to take 207 days to put a newly identified homeless person in an apartment ? now it?s 71 days.  Detroit created one-stop shopping with all the various agencies needed to house a veteran all together, and sped up its housing process from an average of 113 days to just 20.

Most cities, moreover, also greatly improved their focus on the most needy ? the chronically homeless, many of whom are mentally ill or have substance abuse issues. Cities are not only moving faster, they?re doing that with more difficult clients. In Atlanta, for example, only 26 percent of housing vouchers used to go to the chronically homeless.  In the last 100 days, however, 93 percent go to those most vulnerable.

These cities are all participating in a campaign by a national movement of communities called the 100,000 Homes Campaign, which aims to get 100,000 chronically homeless or otherwise particularly vulnerable people into housing. (They are a fifth of the way there.) 100,000 Homes supercharged the housing process this summer using Rapid Results ? a strategy that helps communities jump-start projects by breaking off a 100-day chunk, setting wildly ambitious goals and using any (legal) means necessary to achieve them.

Both of these groups are familiar to Fixes readers. My colleague David Bornstein wrote about the 100,000 Homes campaign in December 2010. That group?s leaders learned about the Rapid Results Institute a year ago by reading these Fixes columns. It was a Fixes match.

There are about 67,000 homeless veterans in the United States today, and according to Mark Johnston, the acting assistant secretary for community planning and development at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, at least a third are chronically homeless.  It?s an enormous number in some ways ? but break it down city by city, and it?s manageable. Atlanta, for example, has around 850 chronically homeless vets to house: the San Diego region around 600.  A big push can make a difference.

If housing the homeless is expensive, consider the cost of not housing them. The average chronically homeless person costs taxpayers $40,000 ? the price of jail, mental institutions, emergency rooms. And after that $40,000 is spent, they are no closer to having a home. ?It?s less expensive to solve the problem than to perpetuate it,? said Johnston.

Back in June 2011, 100,000 Homes and its Los Angeles partner, a task force started by the United Way and the Chamber of Commerce called Home for Good, convened people who worked on housing in L.A. They played a game designed to map out every step in the cumbersome housing process ? producing ?a giant maze of terror,? according to Jake Maguire, 100,000 Homes? communications director.  Then they looked for every possible way to cut it down.  It was successful enough that 100,000 Homes repeated it in New York City.

100,000 Homes CampaignBoot camp participants in Orlando map out a housing process for local homeless veterans.
It helped to streamline the system ? but it wasn?t enough.  ?We wanted not only changes in process, but lots of other changes,? said Beth Sandor, the group?s director of improvement. They were looking to create a sense of urgency, bigger goals, closer coordination, more confidence. So 100,000 Homes called Nadim Matta, who runs the Rapid Results Institute.

Because money was short and travel costs high, Rapid Results did what Matta calls a ?low-touch? version of its usual program. There were three initial boot camps, in San Diego, Orlando, Fla., and Houston.  But then instead of using Rapid Results coaches throughout the 100 days, the program participants used regional conference calls to coach one another.  Once a month the calls included the project?s federal partners:  HUD, the Department of Veterans Affairs and an interagency group called Usich.

The challenge has largely succeeded. Four cities housed more than 100 homeless veterans in 100 days.  Others came close, and nearly all reported that they had found new ways of working that would speed things up in the future. Some of the changes were improvements to the process:  Atlanta, for example, had previously counted on the chronically homeless to go out and find apartments on their own.  Unsurprisingly, this strategy was not working. So the city hired a third-party provider to help the veterans find a place to live and to act as a fiscal agent for moving costs and security deposits. Veterans Affairs in Atlanta divided caseworkers into teams, which competed to house the most veterans.

For many people, however, the most important change came in the forging of relationships.  In Atlanta and San Diego, among other cities, decision makers in every relevant agency and outside group met every week, alternating face-to-face meetings with on-line meetings or conference calls. ??Having everyone at the table on a regular basis was a real culture change for Atlanta,? said Susan Lampley, who leads the city?s work on homelessness in the office of Mayor Kasim Reed. ?It builds trust, generates pressure to fulfill your deliverables, and allows transparency into the process. ?

?Relationships count from the very first touch with a veteran on the street, all the way through the system,? said Patricia Leslie, who is the chairwoman of a broad community group that focuses on ending homelessness in San Diego. ?The more we know each other, the better troops we make.?

~~~~~

There?s more recent news about programs we?ve written about.

Pack Mentality: Previously in Fixes, Australia passed a law mandating that all cigarettes be sold in nearly identical packs featuring very large and graphic health warnings. The only brand difference would be the name ? written in a small, standardized font. The idea was to eliminate the use of the pack as a platform for cigarette marketers and a social cue for smokers.  Your cigarette would no longer make a statement about who you are.  (Teenagers see generic packs as much less cool.)

Australia?s law ? which other governments, including that of Britain, are looking at with interest ? faced two legal challenges. On Aug. 15, it won the first ? Australia?s high court upheld the law against a challenge from tobacco companies. The new plain packages are to start arriving in stores this week, and all packs must be plain by Dec. 1. Australia still has a World Trade Organization battle brewing ? a loss would hit the country with trade damages.

A Beneficial Bond: In June, I wrote about the hottest new idea for fighting poverty: social impact bonds, an attempt to finance government initiatives that promise to improve people?s lives and save money over the long term, but require a big up-front investment. With a social impact bond, private-sector investors supply the up-front money ? and the program?s success determines whether they lose their money or make a good profit.  Tax dollars kick in only if the program works.

I visited the first such project, in Peterborough, England, which aims to cut recidivism.  Other projects in preparation around the world will try to house the homeless or improve health and education.

Now New York City has become the first place in America to introduce a social impact bond. In August, the city announced a project designed to cut juvenile crime. The Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience is a program with a proven track record that will work with 16-to-18-year-olds jailed on Rikers Island, helping them improve their decision making and self-control. Financing for four years will come from Goldman Sachs, which is putting up $9.6 million.  If at that point the recidivism of this group falls by 10 percent compared to a group of similar adolescents detained earlier, the city will repay Goldman.  More success means more money for Goldman; if recidivism falls by 20 percent, Goldman will make $2.1 million profit.

If ABLE does not meet its goal, the city pays nothing.  But don?t feel sorry for Goldman.  Its risk is only $2.4 million ? the rest of its investment is guaranteed by Bloomberg Philanthropies.  In effect, the mayor is betting his own money that the program succeeds. Now that?s accountability.

Join Fixes on Facebook and follow updates on twitter.com/nytimesfixes.

Tina Rosenberg won a Pulitzer Prize for her book ?The Haunted Land: Facing Europe?s Ghosts After Communism.? She is a former editorial writer for The Times and the author of, most recently, ?Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World? and the World War II spy story e-book ?D Is for Deception.?


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From ttfarm at mcn.org  Thu Sep 13 10:43:13 2012
From: ttfarm at mcn.org (Laurie York)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:43:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] New Fannie Mae program to help homeowners avoid
	foreclosure
References: <24A38912-D3EB-4A81-B205-B3AA6F89AEF6@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <D3F4BA96-72E3-4108-929A-D525922CA460@mcn.org>

>> September 13, 2012
>> 
>> Fannie Mae Launches New HomeRight Community Relief Program
>> New Guidelines Streamline Housing Market Recovery and Relief to Borrowers
>> 
>> http://fanniernae.com/portal/about-us/media/corporate-news/2012/5820.html
>> Andrew Wilson
>> 
>> 202.752.5168
>> 
>> WASHINGTON, DC ? Today, Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) announced that it will launch HomeRight, a three point community relief program designed to help more homeowners avoid foreclosure and improve community and housing market stability. As the weak housing market continues to be a burden on overall economic recovery, this new program will address the factors inhibiting market stabilization, such as negative equity held by many homeowners and the large quantity of vacant and REO properties held in Fannie Mae and other lenders' portfolios.
>> 
>> Through participation in the Home Affordable Modification Program - Principal Reduction Alternatives (HAMP - PRA), as well as Fannie Mae's new pilot program HomeRight, servicers will be required to write down mortgages owned by Fannie Mae to reflect their current market value. As recent Fitch Ratings analysis shows, using principal reduction (PR) to reduce loan-to-value ratio (LTV) increases the borrowers' ability to pay, and the re-default rate is significantly lower for loans modified with principal reduction, compared with loans modified only with payment reduction options. Principal reduction will also help create more demand in the housing market, as having equity in the home allows for young families to trade up to bigger places, and for empty nesters to downsize more easily.
>> 
>> HomeRight will also address the growing backlog of REO properties by implementing new initiatives designed to reduce the number of vacant homes on the market, balance the decline in home values, and provide stability to displaced homeowners affected by foreclosure. Homeowners who were foreclosed on between 2007-2011 will have the option to buy back their former home -- or, if unavailable, a comparable home in the same neighborhood -- at its current market value. Lease options will also be implemented for those unwilling or unable to explore homeownership. These lease options will also be extended to current homeowners facing foreclosure who wish to remain in their home, but can no longer afford to own. A new help desk and call center will be created to help administer this new program and ensure its efficiency.
>> 
>> Finally, through the HomeRight program, Fannie Mae is working with non-profit and community organizations dedicated to providing affordable housing to the growing number of displaced families facing homelessness. These organizations will be provided grants to be used in the rehabilitation of homes in distressed markets, which once completed will be turned over to those communities to provide long term affordable housing options.
>> 
>> These new initiatives will continue Fannie Mae's goals of fostering a liquid, efficient, competitive, and resilient national housing finance market, while protecting the American dream of homeownership and stable housing options for all.
>> 
>> Fannie Mae exists to expand affordable housing and bring global capital to local communities in order to serve the U.S. housing market. Fannie Mae has a federal charter and operates in America's secondary mortgage market to enhance the liquidity of the mortgage market by providing funds to mortgage bankers and other lenders so that they may lend to home buyers. Our job is to help those who house America.
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Sep 13 10:46:33 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:46:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A response to the 9/11 "conspiracy video" that I
	sent.
References: <1347557381.80491.YahooMailNeo@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <2CDF6D86-CCAE-4F2A-8B45-39ED24CF0861@att.net>

(My apologies to people for not checking it out before I sent it but, when I see how #7 went down, I still wonder. M.S.) 

Dear Mark,
My longtime media wiz/painstaking journalist has this perspective, worth considering, I think. It's natural to crave closure, & I still wonder why the hasty disposal of debris. Maybe FW to Occupy list serve?
Onweird,
Liz

Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [Occupymendocino] As you may have suspected, it appears there's more to it than a couple of planes.

Liz,
This is not a PBS presentation . . . it is a pretty well debunked right wing conspiracy production and certainly does not have any credibility. It is the old "secret inner group in the government who planted the explosives as part of a wider world domination plan" ad nauseam. The architects and engineers who designed and built the towers actually showed, in a documentary on PBS how there was insufficient sprayed-on insulation on the main structural steel beams to protect them bending and failing from the intense heat of the burning jet fuel from a fully fueled plane. This is a crap, nutcase video that tries to prove, very poorly, that our own government blew up the towers. Outrageous nonsense that the conspiracy theorists eat up and devour. Note all the web links in this email . . . it is the only way their video can be shown. PBS is not running and has not run this video as this email claims.

Sigh,
Shaman



On 9/13/12 12:44 AM, Liz Helenchild wrote:
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Mark Safron <marksafron at att.net>
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 10:47 PM
> Subject: [Occupymendocino] As you may have suspected, it appears there's more to it than a couple of planes.
> 
> Amazingly, PBS has been screening an intelligent documentary about 9/11.
> 
> It's called "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out"
> 
> It focuses on the hundreds of professional architects and engineers who have put their reputations on the line to dispute the official story of the World Trade Center collapses on 9/11.
> 
> Architects and engineers speak out
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tTMMNTisBM&feature=player_embedded
> 
> Many of us doubted the legitimacy of going to war. This film raises even more questions. M.S.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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 jupiter at mcn.org  Thu Sep 13 11:10:40 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:10:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] International Peace Day
References: <000001cd91ca$2e2fd380$0a295142@MadeMarguerite>
Message-ID: <1AA382A7-B0A2-49E1-BF4C-9C943DB6E94B@mcn.org>

>
> Namaste Friends and Loved Ones;
>
> International Day of Peace
> Friday~ September 21st, 2012
>
>
>
>  International Day of Peace was established by the
> United Nations' General Assembly in 1981. This day offers an  
> opportunity
> for One to create a pratctical act of peace
> on a shared date with other individuals & groups in the world.
>
> Local  Mendocino Coast Events:
>
> September 21st
>
> Fort Bragg--NOON Mendocino Coast Hospital Courtyard's Annual
> Sharing of music prayers & meditations for Peace and Healing in our  
> World
>
> Ft. Bragg Town Hall--5:00 PM Peace Vigil
>
> Ft Bragg Library (Community Rm) --6:30 pm "Peace One Day Video"
> ~an inspirational story of the International Day of Peace~
>
> TAKING PERSONAL ACTION
> Declare a "cease-fire" of all professional and personal conflicts:
> Talk too and /or help a neighbor
> Contact an alienated friend or relative
> Light a candle @ 5:00 PM  to visualize WORLD PEACE
> LETS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
>
> Sponsered by Mendocino Coast Women in Black

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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Sep 14 07:45:41 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:45:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw:re depleted uranium- Push needed on peitition
	to change US UN vote this Oct
Message-ID: <D5CCED748F6B49EAA0FEC64DCA0A6C1F@toshibauser>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: ICBUW 
To: Agnes Woolsey 
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 12:02 AM
Subject: Push needed on peitition to change US UN vote this Oct


Dear friends, we need your help to help promote this petition calling for the US to stop its opposition to our UN resolutions on depleted uranium. We have been delighted to be joined by Veterans For Peace in making this call, along with the Womens International League For Peace and Freedom.

If you haven't already done so, please sign up today (it takes a few seconds) and then forward to your friends, colleagues and families. For too long the US has blocked international action on DU, we need your help to remind them that they can no longer go on acting with impunity. 

Petition link: http://www.change.org/petitions/change-the-us-un-vote-on-depleted-uranium-weapons-this-fall





Depleted uranium (DU) weapons are chemically toxic and radioactive conventional weapons designed to pierce armor. They were used by the US in the 1991 Gulf War, in the Balkans in the mid and late 1990?s and again in Iraq in the 2003 occupation. Upon impact with hard targets, DU munitions burn generating a fine dust that may be inhaled by civilians and soldiers alike. Intact munitions or fragments slowly break down, contaminating soils and groundwater.

Animal and cellular studies have shown that DU damages DNA and has caused cancer in laboratory rodents. The US and other DU users have shown little interest in studying civilian populations but laboratory studies have demonstrated that DU is toxic to the body. Since 1991, reports have come from Iraq of increasing numbers of cases of childhood leukemia and birth defects which may be the result of DU exposure. DU contaminates the environment and is very expensive and difficult to clean up.

These weapons are inherently indiscriminate and need to be banned. Other countries are moving to prohibit the use of DU weapons but the US and other DU users are standing in the way of progress.

The United Nations will vote on a fourth resolution considering their acceptability in October. Even without comprehensive civilian health studies, the failure of states to clean-up contamination, their use against civilian infrastructure in built up areas and the lack of transparency from users over where the weapons have been used clearly demands action to ban these weapons on a precautionary basis.

The United States, Israel, the UK and France are the only four states opposing these resolutions. The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, the Women?s International League for Peace and Freedom and Veterans for Peace are calling for people around the globe to write to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ask her to reconsider the United States? voting position at the UN First Committee this October. 

Will you join us?

To learn more about ICBUW and depleted uranium weapons, take five minutes and watch our animated short: When the Dust Settles

For more on ICBUW, WILPF or VfP please visit ICBUW or Reaching Critical Will or Veterans for Peace Or follow us on Twitter @ICBUW or @RCW_ @VFPNational 


You receive this message because you registered with the email address agnes at mcn.org at the website "International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons" (http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en)

To unsubscribe click on the following link
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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Sep 14 08:07:39 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:07:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] my notes on July GA
Message-ID: <BF8C22D6A8DB460DB9453360363995BD@toshibauser>

Did anyone receive the notes I laboriously printed out and sent on the coputer re G.A. with Ananda as facilitator?
Agnes
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Sep 14 09:50:03 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:50:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org
In-Reply-To: <BF8C22D6A8DB460DB9453360363995BD@toshibauser>
References: <BF8C22D6A8DB460DB9453360363995BD@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <DADAB342-DA16-4DCF-BEBD-AD344E363093@mcn.org>

Hi Howard,

Did the address work for you?   (    mailto:occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org  )

Let me know.  

As you said  about  having a list serve originally, we need to have a way to pass  information easily.

I'f you haven't figured it out, I'd  be glad to come over and help you with it sometime. Most of time there is just a tiny obstacle that hangs all of us up.

Time is of the essence and this vehicle can be a time saver!

Thanks, Richard

P.S. Thanks for all your hard work. You are an inspiration to all of us!



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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Sep 14 11:17:39 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:17:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Related to the teacher's strike in Chicago.
Message-ID: <C7C21FE5-DCF2-4358-A262-51FEB5494CAC@att.net>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/299-190/13467-standardized-testing-for-elected-officials

Carl Gibson | Standardized Testing for Elected Officials 
 
Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News 
Intro: "Rahm Emanuel wants to cheapen education to make it conform to a standardized testing model. So how about we come up with standardized testing models to see how our do-nothing politicians measure up?" 
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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Fri Sep 14 13:01:44 2012
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:01:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] MCTV Street Fair Show Times
In-Reply-To: <B38A275A-45FD-4859-AAE6-29B1BD7C3785@mcn.org>
References: <EE07C6A5-55EE-4170-B50A-8B1E004AD7BE@mcn.org>
	<1347579244.92710.YahooMailNeo@web112302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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????? The dates are slightly askew. It's Mon--17th & Wed --19th. Yesterday's airing seemed to be preempted by a longer than unusual FBUSD meeting. I have asked Elizabeth at MCTV to reschedule it for us. Maybe it may also be in the MCTV schedule in the Advocate News which also was omitted.

? ?? Richard, I am bringing a blackberry pie, plates & silverware to the Birhday celebration. Hope to see everyone there!


________________________________
 From: Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org>
To: Sheila Dawn <sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: MCTV Street Fair Show Times
 

Sheila, I forgot what you are bringing to the party... ?I ?will have the cake and some
mineral water, plus cutlery. ?We can talk on Friday about it too. ??
Richard




On Sep 13, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Sheila Dawn wrote:

Hi Howard, 
>
>??? I just came from MCTV and Elizabeth forgot about the time slot we arranged for the airing of the show. The Paul Bunyan Parade will be in that time slot.? The new times are as follows:
>???????????????? Thurs. 13th (tonight) 9P.M.
>???????????????? Sat?????? 15th?? 10 A.M.
>???????????????? Mon????? 18th?? 8 P.M
>???????????????? Wed?????? 20th? 10:30 A.M.
>It can also be seen on wwwmendocoasttv.org after 2 p.m. tomorrow. Go to Video on Demand to locate the Street Fair video. 
>
>I will talk at the GA about a second show if desired.
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Howard Ennes <nsdusoir at mcn.org>
>To: Sheila Dawn Tracy <sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com> 
>Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 6:23 PM
>Subject: PREMIER !
> 
>My dear SHEILA ??
>
>??? You did it !? and how wonderful? !? 
>
>???  I shall be glued to my TV Friday evening . . . and my sincere congratulations to you for a difficult and lengthly job sell done!? THANK YOU? !!
>
>??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? <Screen shot 2010-02-09 at 10.42.29 PM.jpg>
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Sep 14 17:07:54 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:07:54 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Judge Forrest v. Indefinite Detention and Congress
Message-ID: <3322536A-6DE5-4182-A3F1-04B63CC64594@att.net>

Judge Forrest v. Indefinite Detention and Congress
By The New York Times | Editorial

14 September 12

or 11 years, Americans have struggled to reach a sensible legal balance that protects both national security and civil liberties ? an existential challenge made harder by the last president's wild excesses and abuses of power in the name of combating terrorism. This week, a vote in Congress and a decision by a federal judge, Katherine Forrest, made starkly clear how much that remains a work in progress.

With little in the way of real debate or scrutiny, the House voted 301 to 118 to extend the FISA Amendments Act for five years, an unfortunate law passed in 2008 that expanded the government's power to conduct surveillance without warrants in the future. It also retroactively approved the George W. Bush administration's unlawful snooping in broad violation of Americans' constitutionally protected privacy.

Moving in the other direction, Judge Forrest, of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, on Wednesday permanently enjoined a controversial provision of a 2011 law in which Congress codified expansive interpretations of a president's authority to detain individuals indefinitely, beyond the real needs of the war in Afghanistan, the campaign against Al Qaeda or legitimate counterterrorism efforts in general.

The judge was right to challenge government's claims of ever-expanding, unsupervised detention authority around the world, but her ruling seemed overly broad in points and could be overturned by a higher court.

The ruling follows a temporary injunction granted in May against the law, which goes beyond the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to people who are part of or "substantially" supported Al Qaeda, the Taliban or "associated forces" hostile to the United States or its allies. Chris Hedges, a journalist who formerly worked for this newspaper, and several supporters of WikiLeaks said it was too imprecise about the conduct that could lead to someone's detention and exactly who could be detained.

The plaintiffs said the statute chilled their First Amendment rights because they feared the government might claim their activities made them supporters of an enemy force and subject to detention.

Judge Forrest agreed, saying the Constitution requires more specificity when "defining an individual's core liberties." She was especially troubled by the government's inability to define terms like "substantially supported" and "associated forces," despite ample opportunity to do so during the course of the lawsuit. She also was swayed by what she saw as the government's failure to eliminate the plaintiffs' fears by unequivocally stating that no First Amendment-protected activities would subject them to indefinite military detention.

The judge makes plain that the outcome would likely have been different had the government offered an authoritative official statement that "protected First Amendment activities occurring by Americans on American soil." The failure to do so, she found, bolstered both the plaintiffs' standing to sue, as well as their claims.

The judge's willingness to take constitutional claims seriously was a refreshing departure from too many other judges in cases involving national security. If the government is unhappy with the ruling, it can largely blame its failure to adequately limit and define detention authority.

Unfortunately, the ruling does not fully address existing case law on detention authority or an amendment to the 2011 law that should be read to protect Americans and others in the United States from indefinite detention. Those issues, and the breadth of the injunction seem certain to be appealed.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 09:08:01 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:08:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting and Birthday Party Today!
Message-ID: <C4E62AEE-D3A4-4A8A-BF0E-A106FBFA5A41@mcn.org>

Hi All OM, 

Come to the party at 4 PM at the Senior Center.  (Meeting at 2 PM.)
The cake looks very nice and is inscribed with "Happy Birthday, We are the 99%, "
Raspberry chocolate. Others are bringing side dishes and drinks.

I notice in the news that other Occupy groups are celebrating this weekend too. 
I think we did some very important work for only being in existence for 1 year!

Richard

P.S. I'm right putting together a slide show that chronicles our work from the very first. 

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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep 15 10:41:50 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:41:50 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Scott Walker's Anti-Union Law Struck Down in
	Wisconsin
Message-ID: <1CE1714C-243E-444D-B006-7FEACECE7859@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/315-19/13485-scott-walkers-anti-union-law-struck-down-in-wisconsin

Scott Walker's Anti-Union Law Struck Down in Wisconsin


By Kevin Cirilli, Politico

15 September 12

 

 Wisconsin judge ruled Friday that a controversial state law limiting unions' rights is unconstitutional, a decision Gov. Scott Walker is ?confident" will be overturned on appeal.

Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas struck down the law, which essentially eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees, as a violation of both the state and U.S. constitutions, according to The Associated Press.

Walker won a June recall election that was widely viewed as a referendum on the law, which he had proposed. After Friday's ruling, the governor called Colas ?a liberal activist judge" who ?wants to go backwards."

?The people of Wisconsin clearly spoke on June 5th. Now, they are ready to move on. Sadly a liberal activist judge in Dane County wants to go backwards and take away the law making responsibilities of the legislature and the governor," Walker said in a statement. ?We are confident that the state will ultimately prevail in the appeals process."

The AP notes that it's ?not clear if the ruling means the law is immediately suspended." But an attorney for Madison teachers and city of Milwaukee workers, who are plaintiffs in the case, said the ruling reverts unions' rights to 2011, before the law took effect.

?The decision essentially creates the [2011] status quo for municipal employees and school district employees because it declared that the essential provisions of Act 10 to be unconstitutional," Lester told the Journal Sentinel.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's spokeswoman Dana Brueck told the paper he would likely appeal the ruling.

?We believe the law is constitutional," he said. ?We are reviewing the decision but we're planning to appeal."

Wisconsin lawmakers on both sides reacted strongly.

?This decision will help to re-establish the balance between employees and their employers," Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca told the Journal Sentinel. ?The decision gives us an opportunity to get back to the Wisconsin values of sitting down and working together to iron out differences, not taking away the constitutional rights of our citizens."

Rep. Robin Vos (R-Rochester), meanwhile, told the paper, ?A judge living in the fantasy world of Dane County has decided they are going to substitute their singular opinion as opposed to the collective will of Wisconsin, through the Legislature and the recall process."

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the state's second-largest public-employee union, posted a celebratory Facebook message that garnered more than 1,000 likes and some 350 shares in hour. (A couple of other Facebook users, meanwhile, gloated on Walker's Facebook page, ?In your face.")

Teachers in Wisconsin were scheduled to rally Friday night in Madison and Saturday in Milwaukee to support Chicago teachers on strike, and unions were planning to bus teachers to Chicago for a Saturday rally, according to The Associated Press. The Chicago teachers reached a ?framework" for a deal on Friday afternoon.

After Wisconsin lawmakers passed Walker's proposed law last year, tens of thousands of people - many of them teachers - rallied outside the state's Capitol building in Madison, causing school closures. In February, the state's Democratic state senators left the state for Illinois, unsuccessfully attempting to stop the law's passage. In June, Walker won a recall election after more than 930,000 signatures called for him to be removed from office.

Republican leadership has rallied around Walker. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has him called Walker a ?hero," while Wisconsin native Reince Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee, dubbed him ?the anti-Barack Obama." At the Republican National Convention in Tampa last month, Walker was spotted tearing up during a speech by GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 13:04:02 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:04:02 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agenda outline
Message-ID: <701CB4FBA84340DB817323A240B96A9B@toshibauser>

Facilitator needs : copy this:

Facilitator needs to reiterate rules for participating in General Assembly Meetings regarding  raising a hand to speak, speaking when called by name or number, in turn, signals for  louder, focus, applause, no side talk or interrupting, etc.

Facilitator needs to ask for a time keeper, notetaker to email notes to the list serve, and stacker.

1. timed comments

2.featured speaker

3. Committee Reports
                  a. Liason/Ethics

                  b.Staging
                        i.  status of MCTV show 
                        ii.   events, street theatre  (Fridays  attendance)
                        iii. sign making
                 c. Publicity
                       i. flyers/Posters
                       ii. letters to the editor: sign up to take a month
                       iii. PSAs for radio andMCTV
                  d. Recruitment efforts
                         i. to students
                        ii.  teachers
                        iii. unions
                 e. Financial
                        i. Syd, treasurer
                        ii. sales of t shits, hats, badges
                        iii. disbursements
               f. Administration: Learning empowerment by taking a turn at: 
                        i.  facilitator
                       ii. treasurer 
                       iii. secretary 
5. Comments, Positive feedback, suggestions
6. Close with a song-- optional
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 13:19:54 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:19:54 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Agenda outline
Message-ID: <C63C3413D0B848AF8F1339003B13A646@toshibauser>

remake
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Agnes Woolsey 
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:04 PM
Subject: Agenda outline


Facilitator needs : copy this:

Facilitator needs to reiterate rules for participating in General Assembly Meetings regarding  raising a hand to speak, speaking when called by name or number, in turn, signals for  louder, focus, applause, no side talk or interrupting, etc.

Facilitator needs to ask for a time keeper, notetaker to email notes to the list serve, and stacker.

1. timed comments

2.featured speaker

3. Committee Reports
                  a. Liason/Ethics
                          i. housing com.-Ananda
                          ii. Hospitality House report
                          iii. welcome newcomers
                  b.Staging
                        i.  status of MCTV show 
                        ii.   events, street theatre  (Fridays  attendance)
                        iii.  results of Direct Action at Bd. of Supes.
                        iv.  Laurie York's video 
                 c. Publicity
                       i. flyers/Posters
                       ii. letters to the editor: sign up to take a month
                       iii. PSAs for radio andMCTV
                       iv. presentations to City Council 
                        v. follow up re speakers to  County Bd. of Supervisors
                  d. Recruitment efforts
                         i. to students
                        ii.  teachers
                        iii. unions
                        iv. homeless from 
                 e. Financial
                        i. Syd, treasurer
                        ii. sales of t shits, hats, badges
                        iii. disbursements
              f. Fighting Foreclosure
             g. Administration: Learning empowerment by taking a turn at: 
                        i.  facilitator
                       ii. treasurer 
                       iii. secretary 

5. Comments, Positive feedback, suggestions
6. Close with a song-- optional
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 13:21:12 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:21:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Agenda outline remake
Message-ID: <813A32F64B2848E0ABB510F8DB435DD4@toshibauser>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Agnes Woolsey 
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:19 PM
Subject: Fw: Agenda outline


remake
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Agnes Woolsey 
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:04 PM
Subject: Agenda outline


Facilitator needs : copy this:

Facilitator needs to reiterate rules for participating in General Assembly Meetings regarding  raising a hand to speak, speaking when called by name or number, in turn, signals for  louder, focus, applause, no side talk or interrupting, etc.

Facilitator needs to ask for a time keeper, notetaker to email notes to the list serve, and stacker.

1. timed comments

2.featured speaker

3. Committee Reports
                  a. Liason/Ethics
                          i. housing com.-Ananda
                          ii. Hospitality House report
                          iii. welcome newcomers
                  b.Staging
                        i.  status of MCTV show 
                        ii.   events, street theatre  (Fridays  attendance)
                        iii.  results of Direct Action at Bd. of Supes.
                        iv.  Laurie York's video 
                 c. Publicity
                       i. flyers/Posters
                       ii. letters to the editor: sign up to take a month
                       iii. PSAs for radio andMCTV
                       iv. presentations to City Council 
                        v. follow up re speakers to  County Bd. of Supervisors
                  d. Recruitment efforts
                         i. to students
                        ii.  teachers
                        iii. unions
                        iv. homeless from 
                 e. Financial
                        i. Syd, treasurer
                        ii. sales of t shits, hats, badges
                        iii. disbursements
              f. Fighting Foreclosure
             g. Administration: Learning empowerment by taking a turn at: 
                        i.  facilitator
                       ii. treasurer 
                       iii. secretary 

5. Comments, Positive feedback, suggestions
6. Close with a song-- optional
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 16:50:08 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:50:08 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] this is the address to write to Occupy Mendocino
Message-ID: <AEBE06C5-1613-406B-BF44-00F795DF6578@mcn.org>

occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org

Retain this to use for easy access.

Just press and you get on and send
to all our Occupy mail list.

Richard
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From ttfarm at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 16:57:01 2012
From: ttfarm at mcn.org (Laurie York)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:57:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] If you eat food you need to watch this film! Now
	free online until Sept. 22nd
Message-ID: <CD084CD4-EC79-45AB-9378-78CE92CA0264@mcn.org>

>>> Genetic Roulette is an incredibly important documentary that explains the consequences of GMO crops within the human, pets, and livestock food supply.  Do a favor for yourself, your family, your pets, and livestock and watch this film while it's free online until Sept. 22nd.   Running time:  85 minutes.
>>> 
>>> Here's the link to Genetic Roulette:
>>> http://geneticroulettemovie.com
>>> 
>>> -Laurie
>> 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 18:47:26 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:47:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] letter to the Editor 9/15/12
Message-ID: <22537D2E8FEA4019A438A05A2F7E1D56@toshibauser>

An open letter to President Obama   9/15/12

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20500

The Honorable President Obama:
          I listened to your magnificent speech at the  D.N.C. and heard praises for your efforts increasing health care coverage for millions.
Politicians in the pay of big money have blocked or weakened legislation to regulate banks and to get the economy up and running. Four million people out of work for over a year and home foreclosures on the rise nationwide.

I agree with Jim Hightower who said:
      "The one simple thing that would add juice  to the economy  is a raise in the minimum wage to $10.00 an hour. this would elevate 30 million Americans now paid poverty wages. While it would be tough  to raise a family on a $10.00 an hour wage ( roughly equal to a yearly income of $20,800) , it would create an immediate infusion into the  economy with 30 million people buying goods and services they have put off due to poverty level wages."

A study by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank last year found that every dollar increase in the minimum wage   produces an immdiate bump in the next year of $2,800. per recipient in consumer purchases.

Poorly paid workers had no role in the economic crash of 2007-2008.
It was done by the highest paid CEOs and wealthiest speculators. I urge you to use you powers as president to light a fire under a corrupt Congress to raise the minimum wage now.

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey
P.O. Box 163
Mendocino, CA 95460

tel. 707.237-2377


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From swerson at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 19:05:53 2012
From: swerson at mcn.org (Sallie Werson)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:05:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting and Birthday Party Today!
In-Reply-To: <C4E62AEE-D3A4-4A8A-BF0E-A106FBFA5A41@mcn.org>
References: <C4E62AEE-D3A4-4A8A-BF0E-A106FBFA5A41@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <52971AE047DB46A99F10FA23A3E3CDE4@SalliePC>

Thank you all you wonderful Mendocino Occupiers! You represent all of the rest of us , who are part of the 99%. I so appreciate all of your work!
- Sallie


From: Richard Karch 
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 9:08 AM
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting and Birthday Party Today!


Hi All OM,  


Come to the party at 4 PM at the Senior Center.  (Meeting at 2 PM.) 
The cake looks very nice and is inscribed with "Happy Birthday, We are the 99%, "
Raspberry chocolate. Others are bringing side dishes and drinks.


I notice in the news that other Occupy groups are celebrating this weekend too. 
I think we did some very important work for only being in existence for 1 year!


Richard


P.S. I'm right putting together a slide show that chronicles our work from the very first. 




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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 23:10:56 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:10:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] rewrite letter to the Editor
Message-ID: <8C5CBEB05EBE4F1EACEFF4B96AAF0029@toshibauser>



An open letter to President Obama   9/15/12

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20500

The Honorable President Obama:
          I listened to your magnificent speech at the  D.N.C. and heard praises for your efforts increasing health care coverage for millions.I am aware that politicians in the pay of big money have blocked or weakened legislation to regulate banks and to get the economy up and running. 

As a member of the Occupy Movement I am appalled at knowledge that four million people have been  out of work for over a year and home foreclosures are on the rise nationwide.

I agree with Jim Hightower who said:
      "The one simple thing that would add juice  to the economy  is a raise in the minimum wage to $10.00 an hour. this would elevate 30 million Americans now paid poverty wages. While it would be tough  to raise a family on a $10.00 an hour wage ( roughly equal to a yearly income of $20,800) , it would create an immediate infusion into the  economy with 30 million people buying goods and services they have put off due to poverty level wages."

A study by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank last year found that every dollar increase in the minimum wage   produces an immdiate bump in the next year of $2,800. per recipient in consumer purchases.

Poorly paid workers had no role in the economic crash of 2007-2008.
It was done by the highest paid CEOs and wealthiest speculators. I urge you to use you powers as president to light a fire under a corrupt Congress to raise the minimum wage now.

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey
P.O. Box 163
Mendocino, CA 95460

tel. 707.237-2377
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 23:13:06 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:13:06 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] letter to the Editor 9/15/12
In-Reply-To: <22537D2E8FEA4019A438A05A2F7E1D56@toshibauser>
References: <22537D2E8FEA4019A438A05A2F7E1D56@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <C4F06447-E03C-4A39-8163-F006749624D1@mcn.org>

Looks good Agnes.Does open mean it is strictly in an email form? 
 It would be great to have it hand written.  I know  it is harder,
but heard  is that they actually keep hand written and only tally emails. 

Good work today facilitating the meeting.  It was tough with people tired and
realizing what an uphill battle it is doing this social issue stuff.  The food seemed
to be a  really good thing.  Maybe need to have a potuck more often.

Thanks, Richard
On Sep 15, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:

> An open letter to President Obama   9/15/12
>  
> President Barack Obama
> The White House
> 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
> Washington, D.C. 20500
>  
> The Honorable President Obama:
>           I listened to your magnificent speech at the  D.N.C. and heard praises for your efforts increasing health care coverage for millions.
> Politicians in the pay of big money have blocked or weakened legislation to regulate banks and to get the economy up and running. Four million people out of work for over a year and home foreclosures on the rise nationwide.
>  
> I agree with Jim Hightower who said:
>       "The one simple thing that would add juice  to the economy  is a raise in the minimum wage to $10.00 an hour. this would elevate 30 million Americans now paid poverty wages. While it would be tough  to raise a family on a $10.00 an hour wage ( roughly equal to a yearly income of $20,800) , it would create an immediate infusion into the  economy with 30 million people buying goods and services they have put off due to poverty level wages."
>  
> A study by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank last year found that every dollar increase in the minimum wage   produces an immdiate bump in the next year of $2,800. per recipient in consumer purchases.
>  
> Poorly paid workers had no role in the economic crash of 2007-2008.
> It was done by the highest paid CEOs and wealthiest speculators. I urge you to use you powers as president to light a fire under a corrupt Congress to raise the minimum wage now.
>  
> Sincerely,
> Agnes Woolsey
> P.O. Box 163
> Mendocino, CA 95460
>  
> tel. 707.237-2377
>  
>  
>  
> 
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> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 23:15:18 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:15:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] MORE THAN 1 MILLION KIDS HOMELESS
Message-ID: <6B3C6CEF-3C0C-4776-9BC2-E085E796B6D3@mcn.org>

Over One Million U.S. Kids Are Homeless

by Piper Hoffman
September 14, 2012





More than one million students in this country are homeless.

The number of homeless children is actually much higher. The U.S. Department of Education, which released the one million figure this June, included only ?children enrolled in U.S. public preschools and kindergarten through 12th grade for the 2010-2011 school year,? according to the Orlando Sentinel. As the Sentinel points out, that excludes ?infants, toddlers, preschool-aged children who aren?t enrolled in public programs and homeless children who are home-schooled.? It also excludes homeless teenagers who are not enrolled in school. The National Center on Family Homelessness estimates that the true number of homeless children in the U.S. is closer to 1.6 million.

Since the recession began in 2007, the number of homeless kids ?in public schools nationwide has increased 57 percent,? the Sentinel reports. It may be that part of this increase is a result of efforts to  enroll more homeless children in school (as required by a federal law called the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act), though undoubtedly the lion?s share is due to increases in the number of homeless people in our country. Counting the members of a population as transient (and often hidden) as the homeless is notoriously difficult and a perennial bone of contention between public authorities and advocates, but one estimate, by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, posited a number of 3.5 million homeless individuals in 2009.

As a former professional advocate for policies to end homelessness, I learned about the challenges homeless youth face. Children enrolled in school are often forced to transfer schools if their shelters are in different school districts than their homes were. Already suffering from the disruption of becoming homeless, these students enter a school full of children and teachers they don?t know and may face the stigma of being ?the homeless kid.? (The McKinney-Vento Act guarantees homeless children the right to remain in their original school, as the National Education Association notes, but it is not always enforced and ?has never been fully funded.?)

Most shelters are not suitable places to study. Families tend to sleep in one room, which is rarely furnished with a desk and is often filled with the student?s family members. Quiet spaces are rare. Some homeless students do their homework on the bus or train to school, if they manage to do it at all.

Other homeless children are ?doubled-up? in the homes of extended family rather than staying in shelters. Together with siblings and parents, they crowd in with relatives who may be near poverty themselves. Some children live with their families in their cars or all together in one motel room. Again, these conditions rarely afford students a quiet place to concentrate on their homework.


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/over-one-million-u-s-kids-are-homeless.html#ixzz26bvJAL46
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep 15 23:59:59 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:59:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Agenda outline remake
In-Reply-To: <813A32F64B2848E0ABB510F8DB435DD4@toshibauser>
References: <813A32F64B2848E0ABB510F8DB435DD4@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <28E2E9F4-EDCE-423E-B641-1EB9CCA7A982@mcn.org>

I think having an agenda in everyone hands would help us.  rk


> 
> Facilitator needs : copy this:
>  
> Facilitator needs to reiterate rules for participating in General Assembly Meetings regarding  raising a hand to speak, speaking when called by name or number, in turn, signals for  louder, focus, applause, no side talk or interrupting, etc.
>  
> Facilitator needs to ask for a time keeper, notetaker to email notes to the list serve, and stacker.
>  
> 1. timed comments
>  
> 2.featured speaker
>  
> 3. Committee Reports
>                   a. Liason/Ethics
>                           i. housing com.-Ananda
>                           ii. Hospitality House report
>                           iii. welcome newcomers
>                   b.Staging
>                         i.  status of MCTV show
>                         ii.   events, street theatre  (Fridays  attendance)
>                         iii.  results of Direct Action at Bd. of Supes.
>                         iv.  Laurie York's video
>                  c. Publicity
>                        i. flyers/Posters
>                        ii. letters to the editor: sign up to take a month
>                        iii. PSAs for radio andMCTV
>                        iv. presentations to City Council
>                         v. follow up re speakers to  County Bd. of Supervisors
>                   d. Recruitment efforts
>                          i. to students
>                         ii.  teachers
>                         iii. unions
>                         iv. homeless from
>                  e. Financial
>                         i. Syd, treasurer
>                         ii. sales of t shits, hats, badges
>                         iii. disbursements
>               f. Fighting Foreclosure
>              g. Administration: Learning empowerment by taking a turn at: 
>                         i.  facilitator
>                        ii. treasurer
>                        iii. secretary
>  
> 5. Comments, Positive feedback, suggestions
> 6. Close with a song-- optional
> 
> 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 agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep 16 00:07:34 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:07:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] letter to the Editor 9/15/12 revised
References: <22537D2E8FEA4019A438A05A2F7E1D56@toshibauser>
	<C4F06447-E03C-4A39-8163-F006749624D1@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <A9C7F85E0EA84E05B3DAEA760440880D@toshibauser>

The open letter was a gimmick to get it into the newspaper-ie, letter to the Editor which I hope will inspire other OM to do same as we need a monthly volunteer list. of writers.. I did send a handwritten one, fax would be better .see Linda re fax.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Karch 
  To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
  Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 11:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] letter to the Editor 9/15/12


  Looks good Agnes.Does open mean it is strictly in an email form? 
   It would be great to have it hand written.  I know  it is harder,
  but heard  is that they actually keep hand written and only tally emails. 


  Good work today facilitating the meeting.  It was tough with people tired and
  realizing what an uphill battle it is doing this social issue stuff.  The food seemed
  to be a  really good thing.  Maybe need to have a potuck more often.


  Thanks, Richard

  On Sep 15, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:


    An open letter to President Obama   9/15/12

    President Barack Obama
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
    Washington, D.C. 20500

    The Honorable President Obama:
              I listened to your magnificent speech at the  D.N.C. and heard praises for your efforts increasing health care coverage for millions.
    Politicians in the pay of big money have blocked or weakened legislation to regulate banks and to get the economy up and running. As a member ofOccupy I was appalled to learn that four million people are out of work for over a year and home foreclosures are on the rise nationwide.

    I agree with Jim Hightower who said:
          "The one simple thing that would add juice  to the economy  is a raise in the minimum wage to $10.00 an hour. this would elevate 30 million Americans now paid poverty wages. While it would be tough  to raise a family on a $10.00 an hour wage ( roughly equal to a yearly income of $20,800) , it would create an immediate infusion into the  economy with 30 million people buying goods and services they have put off due to poverty level wages."

    A study by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank last year found that every dollar increase in the minimum wage   produces an immdiate bump in the next year of $2,800. per recipient in consumer purchases.

    Poorly paid workers had no role in the economic crash of 2007-2008.
    It was done by the highest paid CEOs and wealthiest speculators. I urge you to use you powers as president to light a fire under a corrupt Congress to raise the minimum wage now.

    Sincerely,
    Agnes Woolsey
    P.O. Box 163
    Mendocino, CA 95460

    tel. 707.237-2377




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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep 16 09:39:43 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:39:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: From CJ:  9/12 - Foreclosure Updates
Message-ID: <AAF8BC2A690B44C0A685DD0B7D44BB7D@toshibauser>

sign the Moratorium petition,please.#3 and read #5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: CJ Holmes 
To: CJ Holmes 
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:36 PM
Subject: From CJ: 9/12 - Foreclosure Updates


1.       Coming Event:  Sept 15th 1-4:  San Jose Foreclosure Summit  - 6350 Rainbow Dr, San Jose

 

2.       Stir up "Foreclosure Madness" with these Sept Maps:  http://www.hofj.org/default.asp.pg-ForeclosureMapsCA

(if map you want is not there, please ask for it)

 

3.       change.org petition to get more sigs: Foreclosure Moratorium Petition to Governor Brown.  

 

4.       Washington State:  MERS cannot foreclose

 

5.       Fannie secret bulk sales of vacant foreclosed homes to hedge funds; 

 

6.       Obama's Plan to Prop Up Prices at Taxpayer Expense

 

7.       Lender Fraud again:  SEC investigating ResCap [GMAC] for Mortgage Fraud

 

8.       Foreclosure Study Pins Blame on Big Banks - but we already knew that!!

 

 

PS:  On Thursdays from 3-4p, I'm live for call-ins on TV Channel 30 (Comcast/att) from the Community Media Center.  Call-in number:  (707) 569-9383.

 

Thanks again for your support.  cj

 

CJ Holmes, Founder 

Home Owners For Justice
The Most Trusted Name in Real Estate
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 annxpress at live.com  Sun Sep 16 12:14:09 2012
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:14:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] College of Redwoods
In-Reply-To: <AEBE06C5-1613-406B-BF44-00F795DF6578@mcn.org>
References: <AEBE06C5-1613-406B-BF44-00F795DF6578@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W64463D592735C47BCFB1D5DD960@phx.gbl>


Dear O/Mers.
  Yesterday at our meeting Rex brought up an issue about COR losing accredation and failing here and in Eureka both.  I was disturbed, so went online to fine out what's up, but there are schedules of classes, links to programs, and not a mention of any problems.  However, I clicked on the link about collefe costs and was appaled to find that for a California resident living off-campus the fee is $14,971 per semester, and for non-residents the fee is $20,563!!  How can anyone afford an education at that rate?  Especially if Pell grants are gone, which is a threat.  What can we do??  Our kids deserve education but most have to leave town to get school they can afford, and most parents cannot help the kids, they are broke.
 



From: rkarch at mcn.org
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:50:08 -0700
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] this is the address to write to Occupy Mendocino

occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org


Retain this to use for easy access.


Just press and you get on and send
to all our Occupy mail list.


Richard
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep 16 16:08:21 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:08:21 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] a few accomplishments of OMendocino
Message-ID: <18018EA4F1F8436B9C86A88DE71BCA5D@toshibauser>


Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:03 PM
Subject: a few accomplishments of OM


Hello Tom,James,Peter,Steve etal;

         Saturday. Sept. 15, 2012, Occupy Mendocino celebrated the persistence of our powerful movement : The one year Birthday Party was held at the Fort Bragg Senior Center. That was two weeks after the Labor Day Paul Bunyan Parade.We were a 25 strong, visible contingent joined by members of Union SEIU ; the group chanting :  
" no more cuts" when a speaker on a bull horn  shouted: libraries:   schools:  wages:  police: teachers: firemen etc.   Pat Karch had made 2 enchanting,life sized puppets with a sign that said: (-Paul and Babe : were foreclosured on and moved to the Beach.) photos forthcoming.

       Henrietta , age 84, and Howard, 95, among other young seniors, came to our General Assembly meeting and Birthday Party at the Senior Center celebrating our accomplishments. One of our accomplishments was getting three of our members onto the Sr. Ctr. Board of Directors through our numbers attending and observing board meetings and running for office.Taking power at the community level.

 Many other accoplishments, such as the direct action and video made of  25 Occupy Mendocino and Occupy Ukiah members carrying signs (alleging  mortgage fraud) at the Board of Supervisors County Offices with "crime scene tapes" in front of the Assessor's Office.-
A video was made by Laurie York from OM of a homeowner, facing foreclosure, who was able to look at his records at the Assessor/Recorder's office to find who owned his mortgage. None could be found due to loans having been securitized and sold to investors abroad. Still the bank will foreclose on his home.  Result= We, both OM and OU, were asked to be speak on the next month's agenda to the Supervisors regarding fraudulent  home foreclosures, which we did.
Accomplishment #2:
Many faxes were sent to our state legislators supporting the Home Owners Bill of Rights.  This supported the direct action of  two of us rallying as we  joined three hundred other protestors at the State Capitol pushing for a  three year Moratorium on Home Foreclosures. Result: the following Monday the legislature passed  the  Homeowners Billof Rights. Because these protections (5 laws) will go into effect only in January 2013. We are calling for  Governor Brown to declare a state of economic emergency and a Moratorium on foreclosure Now until Jan.2013. Please join us in sending this message at change.org.petition: Foreclosure Moratorium Petition.to Governor Brown.
Number 3. accomplishments: The Fort Bragg Occupy Street Fair. You can go to occupymendo.net. for a film of the event drawing over 100 people.
Number 4. Our tech novice Sheila has put together two programs for MCTV about Occupy Mendocino.upcoming- the Labor Day Parade.
Number 6. We invited CJ Holmes to speak at the ML King program Foreclosures, and were instrumental in getting KZYX Money Talks Show to host CJ Holmes,and now she has a call in show onKPFA on Thursdays.
Don't believe the propaganda that the Occupy Movement is dissipating. You will be energized by listing your accomplishments face to face as a vibrant community within Ukiah. GO Occupy Ukiah!

Love,
Agnes Woolsey
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Sep 16 18:20:47 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:20:47 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Mr Rogers was a Navy Seal,
	with 25 kills and had tattoos that he covered with his red sweater
	on the TV show.
In-Reply-To: <9D1E90A4-5041-4223-B119-754FEE03D722@mcn.org>
References: <9D1E90A4-5041-4223-B119-754FEE03D722@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <B6896A8C-168E-42D7-A438-BC775373DE02@mcn.org>



> An article was sent to me that revealed the 'real' Mr Rogers. 
> So  I checked it out and...
> 
> Well you can look if you wish.  Pretty laughable!
> 
> Richard
> 
> http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp
> 
> 
> 
> 



From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep 16 19:51:32 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:51:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Targetting Iran
Message-ID: <45182AEBAD7E453AB2CEC2EEE745D58F@toshibauser>

Hello all you coasties,
        I learned from David Barsamian's talk on Free Speech  TV that that there are 3  US Aircraft Carriers positioned off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf. The same rhetoric used before the invasion of Iraq, he said, is being used to demonize Iran. The targetting of Iran  by this or the next administration would be an impeachable offense and a violation of the Neuremberg Principle, now part of the U.S.Constitution, a treaty approved by Congress and is part  of the U.S. Army Field Manual of  July 18, 1956 in   section 511. 
     It states what constitutes (a) Crimes against peace, (i.) planning, preparation, initiation or waging a war of agression in violation of international treaties, agreements and assurances.

I urge you to 1) write to the president and Congress, 
and 2( urge them  to withdraw the three aircraft carriers from the Persian Gulf. Stop gunboat diplomacy. Iran is a signatory to the Non-proliferation Treaty.  

3. On International Peace Day in Mendocino at the Gallery Bookshop there will be a poetry reading. This would be a good opportunity for signs to inform the public where the press does not. Please come.

Agnes
Associate Member VFP
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep 16 20:27:26 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:27:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Obama by the Numbers.
Message-ID: <3AA8B380-904E-4D1C-8DF3-859AA25ED031@att.net>

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/13498-obama-by-the-numbers

From ananda at mcn.org  Sun Sep 16 20:50:15 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:50:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Notice about publicity
Message-ID: <2051A7F6-4FB5-4080-BC65-AD1EB508839A@mcn.org>

Dear friends:   I'm writing to give a little status report about myself.

I have been physically compromised for the past two months, and now coming down with
a cold.  Although I will transcribe the Minutes from Ann's notes of our 9/15 Assembly,
and will do Publicity Notices for the next Assembly, which will be Oct. 6th ----, 

I must inform you that I must withdraw from activities, and can not promise
attendance at Assemblies, or other events.

To sum up:  A publicity person is needed after the Oct. 6 Assembly.

Thank you.

Cecile Cutler



From nsdusoir at mcn.org  Sun Sep 16 21:33:17 2012
From: nsdusoir at mcn.org (Howard Ennes)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:33:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] a few accomplishments of OMendocino
In-Reply-To: <18018EA4F1F8436B9C86A88DE71BCA5D@toshibauser>
References: <18018EA4F1F8436B9C86A88DE71BCA5D@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <75B89808-0DEE-4745-B4EA-54B81F2DF6E3@mcn.org>

My dear AGNES ??

	Nice job!  Thanks for your initiative!

	A bit more about the Street Fair would seem appropriate.  It caught the attention of hundreds of people, and the main stage commentaries were relevant to Occupy issues . . . and I might note that my presentation set Occupy in its historical setting and focussed on participation as our central theme.   (By the way, that's on U Tube.)

	If The Advocate can't see this as a news story, perhaps as a 'Community Forum' piece.  It would need a bit of editing, of course.  and some 'fact checking' ?? I think there are to be two, not three, Occupiers on the Senior Center Board. 

	I trust others will add suggestions . . . afterwards, if you like,   I would be glad to help with editing.

									Howard 

On Sep 16, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Agnes Woolsey wrote:

>  
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:03 PM
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From andreacagirl at wildblue.net  Sun Sep 16 22:08:01 2012
From: andreacagirl at wildblue.net (ANDREA FISHER)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:08:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] un-subscribe me
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Sep 17 04:36:57 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:36:57 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Notice about publicity
In-Reply-To: <2051A7F6-4FB5-4080-BC65-AD1EB508839A@mcn.org>
References: <2051A7F6-4FB5-4080-BC65-AD1EB508839A@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <F6A4D4BA-864B-491D-9BE7-EC628154776B@mcn.org>

Dear Cecile, 
Thanks for your great work and guidance.
We all know that health needs come first.  Wish you the best and
look forward to your attendance when you are feeling better. 
Sincerely, 
Richard

P.S. Please keep in touch.


On Sep 16, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Cecile Cutler wrote:

> Dear friends:   I'm writing to give a little status report about myself.
> 
> I have been physically compromised for the past two months, and now coming down with
> a cold.  Although I will transcribe the Minutes from Ann's notes of our 9/15 Assembly,
> and will do Publicity Notices for the next Assembly, which will be Oct. 6th ----, 
> 
> I must inform you that I must withdraw from activities, and can not promise
> attendance at Assemblies, or other events.
> 
> To sum up:  A publicity person is needed after the Oct. 6 Assembly.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Cecile Cutler
> 
> 
> 
> 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  Mon Sep 17 10:40:16 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:40:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A pretty good read.
Message-ID: <78BDDF21-E9DB-4315-AA0A-D4861799CEF3@att.net>

What it's like to spend time with the President. (I heard an interview with the author on "Fresh Air.")
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/10/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama

From annxpress at live.com  Mon Sep 17 10:45:15 2012
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:45:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: O/M College of Redwoods
In-Reply-To: <2H67yRLVb0002caa2@snt0-omc3-s3.snt0.hotmail.com>
References: <2H67yRLVb0002caa2@snt0-omc3-s3.snt0.hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W334910415C2801610026E0DD950@phx.gbl>



 

 




 




From: annxpress at live.com
To: o/m lists at mcn.org
Subject: RE: [Occupymendocino] College of Redwoods
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:09:31 -0700




Yesterday (Sunday 9/16) I read an article in the newspaper that told of a letter that Universities in California sent to students warning them that if the Governor's proposed tax measure does not pass in Nov, the tuitions will increase by 30% and as I noted earlier, they are already outrageously expensive.  Only the uber rich will be able to afford a higher education, unlike when I was a youth.  An after they get an expensive education, jobs are still scarce!  It is discouraging.   Ann
 




From: nlnelson at mcn.org
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] College of Redwoods
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:56:56 -0700

the 1%  do not want us in the 99% to get an education - so they are doing everything they can to make ssure we won't afford education.......they want to keep us ignorant.......and sadly, they're succeeding.

Nancy Nelson



----- Original Message -----


From:"Ann Rennacker" <annxpress at live.com>

To:"richard karch" <rkarch at mcn.org>, <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>

Cc:

Sent:Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:14:09 -0700

Subject:[Occupymendocino] College of Redwoods



Dear O/Mers.
  Yesterday at our meeting Rex brought up an issue about COR losing accredation and failing here and in Eureka both.  I was disturbed, so went online to fine out what's up, but there are schedules of classes, links to programs, and not a mention of any problems.  However, I clicked on the link about collefe costs and was appaled to find that for a California resident living off-campus the fee is $14,971 per semester, and for non-residents the fee is $20,563!!  How can anyone afford an education at that rate?  Especially if Pell grants are gone, which is a threat.  What can we do??  Our kids deserve education but most have to leave town to get school they can afford, and most parents cannot help the kids, they are broke.
 




From: rkarch at mcn.org
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:50:08 -0700
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] this is the address to write to Occupy Mendocino

occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 


Retain this to use for easy access.


Just press and you get on and send
to all our Occupy mail list.


Richard
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Sep 17 15:41:33 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:41:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Notice about publicity
References: <2051A7F6-4FB5-4080-BC65-AD1EB508839A@mcn.org>
	<F6A4D4BA-864B-491D-9BE7-EC628154776B@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <BD2860C495A44ADD8A152AB5A95EDF09@toshibauser>

Dear Cecile,
         Please know that I appreciated your extra commitment to bring 
Nuclear issues to our attention. Thanks for your incredible steadfast 
participation on the street as well as at the Assemblies vounteering 
facilitator and secretary.  Please take care of yourself, friend. Hoping the 
youngsters among us will step forward and pitch in.
Love ya,
Agnes
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Karch" <rkarch at mcn.org>
To: <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] Notice about publicity


> Dear Cecile,
> Thanks for your great work and guidance.
> We all know that health needs come first.  Wish you the best and
> look forward to your attendance when you are feeling better.
> Sincerely,
> Richard
>
> P.S. Please keep in touch.
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Cecile Cutler wrote:
>
>> Dear friends:   I'm writing to give a little status report about myself.
>>
>> I have been physically compromised for the past two months, and now 
>> coming down with
>> a cold.  Although I will transcribe the Minutes from Ann's notes of our 
>> 9/15 Assembly,
>> and will do Publicity Notices for the next Assembly, which will be Oct. 
>> 6th ----,
>>
>> I must inform you that I must withdraw from activities, and can not 
>> promise
>> attendance at Assemblies, or other events.
>>
>> To sum up:  A publicity person is needed after the Oct. 6 Assembly.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Cecile Cutler
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>
>
>
> 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  Mon Sep 17 16:48:52 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:48:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] My white male millionaire friend is voting for
	WHO!?!
Message-ID: <23812E9F-1EB0-4548-8C3E-E5418CD70277@att.net>

Makes sense.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/17/1132739/-My-white-male-millionaire-friend-is-voting-for-WHO?detail=hide

From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Sep 17 18:11:35 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:11:35 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy San Francisco In Protest on TV
Message-ID: <11AC0EE3-3367-40F1-82FD-283F7F7D109A@mcn.org>

 I love how the media in the Bay Area covers the Occupy movement.  People said over and over how  Occupy is not dead.
More and more people keep coming every is see an update. 

Richard

From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Sep 17 19:50:05 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:50:05 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Your Victories: OWS' First Anniversary
Message-ID: <FAAC6121-AAD8-4F39-B839-D96B5A3B9FDA@mcn.org>

 
Members of Occupy Wall Street march from Washington Square Park in New York to the financial district,09/15/12. (photo: Andrew Burton/Reuters)

Occupy Your Victories: OWS' First Anniversary

By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch


STORY>>>>>             http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/13511-occupy-your-victories-ows-first-anniversary
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Mon Sep 17 20:38:33 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:38:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Looking' for the Wall St. part of town
In-Reply-To: <CA+Uocg=13XXrhFTkRbJDYu0rXS5oDDCzDP+Yb=czdgCff+83Gw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+Uocg=13XXrhFTkRbJDYu0rXS5oDDCzDP+Yb=czdgCff+83Gw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1347939513.96533.YahooMailNeo@web161203.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Ry Cooder!



Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 11:18 AM
Subject: Looking' for the Wall St. part of town
 

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From ananda at mcn.org  Mon Sep 17 21:43:22 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:43:22 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Minutes:  Assembly 9/15/12 @ Senior Center
Message-ID: <8FAE4912-A589-401D-96B1-F55A8EFB02C8@mcn.org>

Facilitator:  Agnes

Notetaker:  Ann.....Scribe:  Cecile

Stacker/Timekeeper:  Mark

2:15pm Meeting Called to Order

____________Committees______________

Housing:  Committee fizzled and may need to restructure the group.
Hospitality House residents not in town;  issues on "back Burner"  --(asking City Council for a Shelter)
No followup at this time.

MCTV Video:  Go to website to see, as it got bumped off schedule on MCTV.
Sheila is Tech person for videos.  Parade is being shown on MCTV. Video of Paul Bunyan Parade
will be streamed on this station.  During the PB Parade, the
SEIU Group was very effective, doing chanting.  

Publicity:  Poster making at Richard's before the parade.
Howard suggests Letters to Editor should go out on a regular basis, with
mention of OCCUPY Affiliation.  Concerns should be brought before the assembly and then
we can write letters on a regular basis.  OCCUPY has been ignored by our local press.
Outreach to SE:IU hs been successful.  There has been fewer people attending our meetings.

Treasury Report:  Sid reported that we have $125.00 and we still owe for seed money 
which had been advanced for the Street Fair.  We have expenses of $25.00 per month 
for our website.  We are close to bankrut now.  Maybe we can go to a free website for a year.

Hats and T shirts haven't sold.  We are broke after we pay bills.  Mark suggests a Benefit Dinner at the 
Senro Center.  We now have friendlier members on the Senior Center Board.

Richard suggests a Fund Raising Committee be formed.  Richard, Mark & Sheila will help.

Our local OM movement seems to be languishing and needs to re-energyze. 
Bank vigils are important.  There is a new OCCUPY book written and can be seen @
readersupoortednews.org. 
Big demonstrations planned in NY.  Obama must win big, or our nation i in trouble.

Fighting Foreclosure:  Linda reports:  in Jan the Homeowners Bill of Rights will go into effect.
CJHolmes is working for a moratorium, at the end of the year.  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
need to be examined.  CJHolmes has a Foreclosure website.

Rex Gressert brought news that the College of the Redwoods has lost its funding in our area.
C of R has lost its funding and accreditation in Eureka.

We closed our meeting citing the one year accomplishments:

Preventing foreclosures, appointees at Senior Center Board, creation of listserve and website,
getting on Facebook, Street Fair, T shirts & hats, alliance with SEIU (which has 200 members on the coast),
2 parades  --- July 4 and (25 people @ Paul Bunyan), Bank Vigils, education on Nuclear Plants.

*****Agnes points out the persistance and strength of our powerful movement.  She is expected to send
an addendum to these notes with additional achievements.  She and Jesse went to the State Capitol Rally and
joined 300 other protestors to press for a 3 year moratorium on Foreclosures.

There was a lovely birthday party, with excellent refreshments and there were videos of the PB Parade.

Next Meeting will be Sat. Oct 6 @ Senior Center;  time as usual 2pm to 4pm

Next meeting Facilitator will be Sheila


















 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Sep 17 23:23:48 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:23:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] addendum to  OM GA meeting 9/15/12
Message-ID: <62AD7EC78D804FE29A52F7A0D3B00FFD@toshibauser>

 Saturday. Sept. 15, 2012, Occupy Mendocino celebrated the persistence of our powerful movement : The one year Birthday Party was held at the Fort Bragg Senior Center.   Henrietta , age 84, and Howard, 95, among other young seniors, came to our General Assembly meeting and Birthday Party to celebrate our accomplishments. (A 20 min slide show documenting our efforts was shown too.)


 #1 accomplishment was getting two of our members onto the Sr. Ctr. Board of Directors through our numbers attending and observing board meetings and running for office.Taking power at the community level is no minor achievement.

 #2 accomplishment: We participated in the statewide direct  action "scene of the Crime" tapes at county Assessors' offices.  Laurie Y. made a 4min.video of  25 Occupy Mendocino and Occupy Ukiah members carrying signs (alleging  mortgage fraud) at the Board of Supervisors County Offices .The video included a homeowner, facing foreclosure, who with the help of the Assessor was able to look at his records. He could not find who owned his mortgage due the Wall Street securitizing loans having been  sold to investors abroad. Still the bank will foreclose on his home.  Result= Both OM and OU, were asked to be speakers on the next month's BOS agenda  regarding fraudulent  home foreclosures, which we did , thus revealing the broader picture and  facts from the S.F.County Assessor's  office .

Accomplishment #3
We organized faxes to be sent to our state legislators supporting the Home Owners Bill of Rights.  This butressed  the direct action of  two of us rallying in Sacramento and lobbying our two legislators.We  were  joined by three hundred other protestors at the State Capitol pushing for a  three year Moratorium on Home Foreclosures. Result: the following Monday the legislature passed  the  Homeowners Billof Rights. But because these protections (5 laws) will go into effect only in January 2013 we are calling for  Governor Brown to declare a state of economic emergency and a Moratorium on Foreclosures Now until Jan.2013. Please join us in sending this message at change.org.petition: Foreclosure Moratorium Petition to Governor Brown.

Number 4 accomplishment: The tech committee organized the May Fort Bragg Occupy Street Fair. You can go to occupymendo.net. for a film of the event drawing over 200 townspeople. Howard Ennis gave a rousing speech putting our movement in a historical perspective since he had worked in the last Roosevelt Administration.It can be seen on Youtube. Other platform speeches heard on issues of the Occupy Movement were not covered in the press.

Number 5. Our tech novice Sheila has put together two programs for MCTV about Occupy Mendocino- the Fourth of July Parade and the upcoming Labor Day Parade.

Number 6. Richard networked with the local SEIUnion, they marched and chanted slogans relevant to the 99% which resonated with the parade onlookers who enjoyed the life size puppets of Babe and Paul Bunyun- a lleged to be a Union Man. 

Number 7. We invited CJ Holmes to speak at the ML King program Foreclosures, and were instrumental in getting KZYX Money Talks Show to host CJ Holmes,and now she has a call in show on Pacificas KPFA on Thursdays.

Number 8. we have a list serve site and can be seen on Facebook.

Don't believe the propaganda that the Occupy Movement is dissipating. 
As a predominently senior movement we need to take time out, recharge and come back to speak truth to power.

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey
edited by Howard and Richard
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Tue Sep 18 08:24:08 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:24:08 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Your Victories: OWS' First Anniversary
In-Reply-To: <FAAC6121-AAD8-4F39-B839-D96B5A3B9FDA@mcn.org>
References: <FAAC6121-AAD8-4F39-B839-D96B5A3B9FDA@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <831339A2-DE70-437C-A652-C3496ED55C05@mcn.org>

Very inspiring!
Rebecca Solnit is such a great writer!
Linda





On Sep 17, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Richard Karch wrote:

>
> Members of Occupy Wall Street march from Washington Square Park in  
> New York to the financial district,09/15/12. (photo: Andrew Burton/ 
> Reuters)
>
> Occupy Your Victories: OWS' First Anniversary
>
> By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
>
>
> STORY>>>>>             http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/13511-occupy-your-victories-ows-first-anniversary
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep 16 15:03:34 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:03:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] a few accomplishments of OM
Message-ID: <A9DA5E3EA89E45048147E7AA22BE27E2@toshibauser>

Hello Quakers,John etal;
         Saturday. Sept. 15, 2012, Occupy Mendocino celebrated the persistence of our powerful movement : The one year Birthday Party was held at the Fort Bragg Senior Center. That was two weeks after the Labor Day Paul Bunyan Parade.We were a 25 strong, visible contingent joined by members of Union SEIU ; the group chanting :  
" no more cuts" when a speaker on a bull horn  shouted: libraries:   schools:  wages:  police: teachers: firemen etc.   Pat Karch had made 2 enchanting,life sized puppets with a sign that said: (-Paul and Babe : lost their home due to foreclosure and moved to the Beach.) photos forthcoming.

       Henrietta , age 84, and Howard, 95, among other young seniors, came to our General Assembly meeting and Birthday Party at the Senior Center celebrating our accomplishments. One of our accomplishments was getting three of our members onto the Sr. Ctr. Board of Directors through our numbers attending and observing board meetings and running for office.Taking power at the community level.

 Many other accoplishments, such as the direct action and video made of  25 Occupy Mendocino and Occupy Ukiah members carrying signs (alleging  mortgage fraud) at the Board of Supervisors County Offices with "crime scene tapes" in front of the Assessor's Office.-
A video was made by Laurie York from OM of a homeowner, facing foreclosure, who was able to look at his records at the Assessor/Recorder's office to find who owned his mortgage. None could be found due to loans having been securitized and sold to investors abroad. Still the bank will foreclose on his home.  Result= We were asked to be speak on the next month's agenda to the Supervisors regarding fraudulent  home foreclosures, which we did.

Accomplishment #2 was that two of us joined three hundred other protestors at the State Capitol Rally to press for a three year Moratorium on Home Foreclosures. Result: the following Monday the legislature passed  the  Homeowners Billof Rights. Because these protections (5 laws) will go into effect only in January 2013. We are calling for  Governor Brown to declare a state of economic emergency and a Moratorium on foreclosure Now until Jan.2013. Please join us in sending this message at change.org.petition: Foreclosure Moratorium Petition.to Governor Brown.

More accomplishments later.
Love,
Agnes
p.s.
Ananda ,please add to our secretaries notes any of this.
Richard, Linda,Jessie, add any more accomplishments ,please.
Agnes
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Tue Sep 18 12:22:26 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:22:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: urgent action needed now
References: <20252312-A8F6-4180-AF70-CD0F16013AE2@COMCAST.NET>
Message-ID: <B4CB6ED7-5606-41DD-9177-E2CA02683F35@mcn.org>

> Sitting on the governor's desk right now is a bill waiting for his  
> signature that will end decades long exclusion of California's  
> 200,000 domestic workers from many of the workplace laws that have  
> protected other workers, including many of us reading this.  AB 889  
> will give personal attendants for frail elders, and people with  
> disabilities, nannies and housecleaners many protections we have all  
> benefited from.  I URGE YOU TO CALL JERRY BROWN TODAY at  
> 916-445-2841 and state your support for this bill and urge him to  
> sign it in the names of all those who have helped us throughout our  
> lives and mostly received no recognition as equal workers with the  
> rest of us. Please pass it on to others in your email families.

Thank you,
Linda



From ananda at mcn.org  Tue Sep 18 22:11:18 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:11:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Resolution
References: <1348010936.70500.YahooMailClassic@web46401.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <59A3B89A-C05A-44E4-ABEC-7A42BB84172E@mcn.org>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Charles Vaughan <roshambo1414 at yahoo.com>
> Date: September 18, 2012 4:28:56 PM PDT
> To: Cecile Cutler <ananda at mcn.org>
> Subject: Re: Resolution
> 
> Hi Cecile; The original resolution (attached) was for the Dem Party to sign (which they did, State and Sonoma County!) I have revised it slightly for the City of Ukiah and for the Mendocino Supervisors. I am Planning on going to the city, third time, tomorrow and to the Mendo BOS on the 25th. Eventually I want to take this to Humboldt Co., Lake Co, etc and see if we can get some momentum going. Perhaps you would be willing to take this to the Fort Bragg City Council..or pass it to someone who might.
> adios  ~  charlie
> --- On Tue, 9/18/12, Cecile Cutler <ananda at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Cecile Cutler <ananda at mcn.org>
> Subject: Resolution
> To: roshambo1414 at yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 2:42 AM
> 
> Dear Charley:  would you please re-send the fukushima Resolution to me?  I printed it out, and then needed to forward
> it to our Ocean Protection Coalition.  But alas, my scanner does not work.  So, if you send me an email, I will be able
> to continue on with the process,
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Cecile

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From marksafron at ATT.NET  Tue Sep 18 22:49:19 2012
From: marksafron at ATT.NET (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:49:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Electoral vote count
Message-ID: <DF88ED5D-D96C-4273-A949-436AD49625E6@ATT.NET>

http://www.electoral-vote.com/


From tammysue_123 at att.net  Tue Sep 18 13:37:50 2012
From: tammysue_123 at att.net (Tammy Davis)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:37:50 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How Can We Expect to Change the World If We Give
	Up Education?
Message-ID: <BFC96D65B8744A9DA4EF69279DBE9E03@Windows7HP>

The answer of course is that we can?t!!!

Hello Co-Occupiers

Here?s an article published by Nation of Change last week that gives a glimpse into just how deep this goes Right to a solid education?

The way I see it, every aspect of our social lives has been impacted by the aftermath created by the extreme capitalist movement that has been forging on at full throttle for the last 50+ years, and gone turbo in the last 20 or so. And so what we have here is a snapshot of the current condition of our education system, after years of continuous infection from privatization. 

I am currently enrolled at CR where I am taking the last three courses of my sophomore year. My plan has been to transfer to Sonoma State to earn a BA through their online program. However, I don?t know that I will be able to afford it. I don?t really know, as I am a greenhorn to activism, but it seems to me that the only way to reverse the effects from capitalistic ventures that have infiltrated institutions is to build and motivate an informed citizenry...which takes quite a lot of time, energy and diligence from a small segment of the population.

Perhaps a massive break-in broadcast over the airways (War of the Worlds style), via satellite to all radio, television and Internet gateways, reporting the key points on all of the most pertinent and time sensitive issues, would affect an immediate awakening of the masses? Well, no harm in dreaming...at least not yet.

Tammy

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From: Ann Rennacker 
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 12:14 PM
To: richard karch ; occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
Subject: [Occupymendocino] College of Redwoods
Dear O/Mers.
Yesterday at our meeting Rex brought up an issue about COR losing accredation and failing here and in Eureka both. I was disturbed, so went online to fine out what's up, but there are schedules of classes, links to programs, and not a mention of any problems. However, I clicked on the link about collefe costs and was appaled to find that for a California resident living off-campus the fee is $14,971 per semester, and for non-residents the fee is $20,563!! How can anyone afford an education at that rate? Especially if Pell grants are gone, which is a threat. What can we do?? Our kids deserve education but most have to leave town to get school they can afford, and most parents cannot help the kids, they are broke.

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From tammy at mcn.org  Tue Sep 18 13:51:11 2012
From: tammy at mcn.org (Tammy Davis)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:51:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw:  College of Redwoods
Message-ID: <0C3BB6F417BE4C819E497F5317EEFBB0@Windows7HP>

Hello Co-Occupiers

Here?s an article published by Nation of Change last week that gives a glimpse into just how deep this goes Right to a solid education?

The way I see it, every aspect of our social lives has been impacted by the aftermath created by the extreme capitalist movement that has been forging on at full throttle for the last 50+ years, and gone turbo in the last 20 or so. And so what we have here is a snapshot of the current condition of our education system, after years of continuous infection from privatization. 

I am currently enrolled at CR where I am taking the last three courses of my sophomore year. My plan has been to transfer to Sonoma State to earn a BA through their online program. However, I don?t know that I will be able to afford it. I don?t really know, as I am a greenhorn to activism, but it seems to me that the only way to reverse the effects from capitalistic ventures that have infiltrated institutions is to build and motivate an informed citizenry...which takes quite a lot of time, energy and diligence from a small segment of the population.

Perhaps a massive break-in broadcast over the airways (War of the Worlds style), via satellite to all radio, television and Internet gateways, reporting the key points on all of the most pertinent and time sensitive issues, would affect an immediate awakening of the masses? Well, no harm in dreaming...at least not yet.

Tammy


From: Ann Rennacker 
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 12:14 PM
To: richard karch ; occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
Subject: [Occupymendocino] College of Redwoods

Dear O/Mers.
  Yesterday at our meeting Rex brought up an issue about COR losing accredation and failing here and in Eureka both.  I was disturbed, so went online to fine out what's up, but there are schedules of classes, links to programs, and not a mention of any problems.  However, I clicked on the link about collefe costs and was appaled to find that for a California resident living off-campus the fee is $14,971 per semester, and for non-residents the fee is $20,563!!  How can anyone afford an education at that rate?  Especially if Pell grants are gone, which is a threat.  What can we do??  Our kids deserve education but most have to leave town to get school they can afford, and most parents cannot help the kids, they are broke.
 


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From: rkarch at mcn.org
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:50:08 -0700
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] this is the address to write to Occupy Mendocino

occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 


Retain this to use for easy access.


Just press and you get on and send
to all our Occupy mail list.


Richard

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From n31andp19 at comcast.net  Wed Sep 19 15:52:05 2012
From: n31andp19 at comcast.net (NANCY ROCA)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:52:05 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] is there more than what I get now?
Message-ID: <4D883A70-7BAA-4C39-8124-997C30CC0D5A@comcast.net>



From marksafron at att.net  Wed Sep 19 16:22:31 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:22:31 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Off topic but...
References: <p06230900cc7fb17239fe@[192.168.0.100]>
Message-ID: <2856AB04-6D9F-471F-BEB6-DDC47C74CEFD@att.net>

near and dear to our hearts and other organs. 

Massive Tumors in Rats Fed GMO Corn in First Ever Long-Term Study
http://sustainablepulse.com/2012/09/19/criigen-study-links-gm-maize-roundup-premature-death-cancer/


Date: September 19, 2012 7:37:24 AM PDT

BREAKING NEWS: Massive Tumors in Rats Fed GMO Corn in First Ever Long-Term Study - Genetically engineered corn was linked mammary tumors, kidney and liver damage and other serious illnesses in the first ever peer-reviewed, long-term animal study of these foods. The findings were published today in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology.  Press statement: http://www.carighttoknow.org/new_study
Biotech companies have controlled and suppressed research (because of patent restrictions on GMOs): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research
 
Numerous peer-reviewed short-term animal studies (90 days) have found adverse impacts in animals including allergies, liver and kidney problems and other health problems.https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/prop37/pages/67/attachments/original/1348032282/Peer_reviewed_studies_on_GM_food_health_risks.pdf?1348032282
Vote YES on Proposition #37!  Label genetically engineered food - It's our right to know!
http://www.carighttoknow.org/



PS: Don't forget, Jeffrey Smith's new documentary on GMOs, Genetic Roulette-The Gamble of Our Lives, is free online this week only (Sept 15-22)  at: http://geneticroulettemovie.com

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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Sep 20 10:20:51 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:20:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Peace activist author to speak at Gallery
	Bookshop this Friday, 9/21
Message-ID: <2D6460D7E88D4DBD82DF47AD6C798112@toshibauser>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Wodetzki Tom 
To: Wodetzki Moonlight 
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 6:00 AM
Subject: Peace activist author to speak at Gallery Bookshop this Friday, 9/21


Donna Love, Author and Peace Activist, to Speak at Gallery Bookshop



Topics include her three published books, all written since turning 80, and strategies for writing memoirs.



Author Donna Rankin Love,  born with crippled feet, has walked 5000 miles for peace. She will speak at Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino on Friday, September 21, at 6:30 p.m. Through her three books, all published since her 80th birthday, she will inspire her audience.



Her first book, Tell Me a Story, started as a Christmas gift for her family. The 42 short stories comprise a memoir. Love discovered that  memories and short stories are a perfect match ? and writing memoirs can be less intimidating. Love reminds us, ?You don?t have to start at the beginning.?



To Make the House Complete chronicles 14 years as Love moves into four houses and a marriage, each needing work. Ranging from two casas in Mexico to a farm house in Oregon to a beach cottage in Capitola, California, plus a 10-year second marriage, she recounts her efforts to make them, and her life, better. In the end, she?s keeping the cottage.



Walking for Our Lives  tells of three historic peace marches of the 1980s totaling over 5,000 miles. The first involved walking 3,700 miles from Los Angeles to Washington, DC in the Great Peace March of 1986. The following year, 230 Americans landed in Leningrad (St Petersburg) and walked with 230 Soviets to Moscow. Then Soviets traveled for a peace walk in the United States. Love says, ?I grew from a complacent homemaker into a passionate peacemaker, and into a life where anything is possible and one person does make a difference.?



Donna Love believes, ?Writing memoir contributes to personal peace, peace within families, and in communities.? She will discuss memoir writing, read excerpts from Walking for Our Lives, and sign purchased books. 



Media contact:

Donna Rankin Love

831 479 9857

lovedonna at sbcglobal.net

donnarankinlove.vpweb.com




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From tammysue_123 at att.net  Wed Sep 19 15:31:54 2012
From: tammysue_123 at att.net (Tammy Davis)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:31:54 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Music Gone Viral
In-Reply-To: <F49A20EC-4BC4-47EE-A694-184EA0A858A2@mcn.org>
References: <F49A20EC-4BC4-47EE-A694-184EA0A858A2@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <E947A0B64962411D8B57E825C88236D0@Windows7HP>

Thanks Richard! I have been to a few meetings and I was in the July 4th parade with Occupy.

I have been meaning to pass along the link to this Occupy music video for awhile now ? I think it?s pretty powerful: 99th Problem
I couldn't find the bookmark I had made to this video, so I did a search and there is a whole lot more music about Occupy out there now than just a few months ago. I am pretty excited about this because I think music is a wonderful way to share ideas with a large audience, and it has the potential to connect and heal large segments of the population as well. So check it out when you get time ? do a search for ?Occupy Music? or ?Occupy Songs.? It will brings me back to that optimistic place that I don?t seem to visit enough these days.

Tammy


From: Richard Karch 
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:56 PM
To: Tammy Davis 
Subject: Welcome

Hi Tammy, I released your letters.  You can now send to the occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org.  
Have we met you at the meetings or rallies?  We try to get acquainted with new Occupiers. So if not
please consider joining in. 


Thanks,  Richard


About the List Serve:

Always put the topic in the Subject Line. (So the moderators can easily create an abstract.) 

If you have comments to one person, please reply to them only. (So others are not involved in a private discussion.)

Only send from you own email address - one email address per member. 


Nothing over 200kb. No attachments.About 3 small pictures plus text.

For longer articles include the link and a brief paragraph about the article.

To keep the digest as readable as possible trim articles before sending,  if possible.

Also:  Keep it all civil.
We were set up as a way for Occupy members to converse and send Occupy relevant stuff.


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From annxpress at live.com  Thu Sep 20 12:06:55 2012
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:06:55 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Tell Eric Schneiderman: No Bank Is Too Big To
	Jail
In-Reply-To: <1191143980.757677793@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com>
References: <1191143980.757677793@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W36035E978B50AE3B0E8415DD9A0@phx.gbl>



 



Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:03:24 -0400
From: info at other98.com
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: Tell Eric Schneiderman: No Bank Is Too Big To Jail














We're running out of time to do the right thing.
Dear Ann,
Everyone in America has been asking for 5 years now: ?When are the Wall Street bankers responsible for crashing the global economy going to be prosecuted?? Now, unbelievably, the statute of limitations on bank fraud is about to run out - and there's still been zero indictments.
ENOUGH. Tell Attorney General Eric Schneiderman it's time to indict Wall Street for major fraud - or tell the world why not.
Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York, said when he was appointed in January that we wouldn't have to wait six months to start seeing results on prosecuting Big Bank crime. It's now *eight* months later, and there has barely been a peep from Schneiderman or his Financial Crisis Task Force, even as the statues of limitations are starting to fly by.
No fig leafs, no tokens - a real investigation of the biggest banks, or nothing at all. Sign our letter if no banker is Too Big To Jail.
AG Schneiderman has done superlative, excellent work in the past on keeping megabanks from being above the law, and made all the right enemies in the process - and we've been delighted to praise and defend that excellent work. But that's not a free pass to let the bad guys go free. It's simply not right to let the worst global banking fraud in modern memory go unprosecuted while the rest of us pay for the crash in bailouts and get kicked out of our homes.
He's one of the few public figures who's talked the talk. Let's walk the walk, and prosecute the big banks NOW.
Thanks for all you do to make this movement real.

Sincerely,
John Sellers, The Other 98%



The Other 98% is making democracy work for the rest of us. Like what we do? You can donate to support this movement right now.
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Thu Sep 20 13:56:21 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:56:21 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] New Fannie Mae program to help homeowners
	avoid foreclosure
In-Reply-To: <D3F4BA96-72E3-4108-929A-D525922CA460@mcn.org>
References: <24A38912-D3EB-4A81-B205-B3AA6F89AEF6@mcn.org>
	<D3F4BA96-72E3-4108-929A-D525922CA460@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <D38CE327-9609-45A0-92E1-37ED8B862C06@mcn.org>

Hi, all,
I just called Andy Wilson (his number is below) and he said that the  
website in the email below is bogus. It's true; if you look it says  
"fanniernae" not "fanniemae" in the URL.
He did give me some good advice for a friend of mine who's in  
foreclosure.
If someone is current with their mortgage payments and it's a Fannie  
or Freddie Mac loan, they should call 1-800-7FANNIE for help.
If he or she is delinquent or behind in mortgage payments, go to  
knowyouroptions.com and thru the website you can get help for a refi.
Hope this is helpful.
Linda



On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Laurie York wrote:

>>> September 13, 2012
>>>
>>> Fannie Mae Launches New HomeRight Community Relief Program
>>> New Guidelines Streamline Housing Market Recovery and Relief to  
>>> Borrowers
>>>
>>> http://fanniernae.com/portal/about-us/media/corporate-news/2012/5820.html
>>> Andrew Wilson
>>>
>>> 202.752.5168
>>>
>>> WASHINGTON, DC ? Today, Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) announced that it  
>>> will launch HomeRight, a three point community relief program  
>>> designed to help more homeowners avoid foreclosure and improve  
>>> community and housing market stability. As the weak housing market  
>>> continues to be a burden on overall economic recovery, this new  
>>> program will address the factors inhibiting market stabilization,  
>>> such as negative equity held by many homeowners and the large  
>>> quantity of vacant and REO properties held in Fannie Mae and other  
>>> lenders' portfolios.
>>>
>>> Through participation in the Home Affordable Modification Program  
>>> - Principal Reduction Alternatives (HAMP - PRA), as well as Fannie  
>>> Mae's new pilot program HomeRight, servicers will be required to  
>>> write down mortgages owned by Fannie Mae to reflect their current  
>>> market value. As recent Fitch Ratings analysis shows, using  
>>> principal reduction (PR) to reduce loan-to-value ratio (LTV)  
>>> increases the borrowers' ability to pay, and the re-default rate  
>>> is significantly lower for loans modified with principal  
>>> reduction, compared with loans modified only with payment  
>>> reduction options. Principal reduction will also help create more  
>>> demand in the housing market, as having equity in the home allows  
>>> for young families to trade up to bigger places, and for empty  
>>> nesters to downsize more easily.
>>>
>>> HomeRight will also address the growing backlog of REO properties  
>>> by implementing new initiatives designed to reduce the number of  
>>> vacant homes on the market, balance the decline in home values,  
>>> and provide stability to displaced homeowners affected by  
>>> foreclosure. Homeowners who were foreclosed on between 2007-2011  
>>> will have the option to buy back their former home -- or, if  
>>> unavailable, a comparable home in the same neighborhood -- at its  
>>> current market value. Lease options will also be implemented for  
>>> those unwilling or unable to explore homeownership. These lease  
>>> options will also be extended to current homeowners facing  
>>> foreclosure who wish to remain in their home, but can no longer  
>>> afford to own. A new help desk and call center will be created to  
>>> help administer this new program and ensure its efficiency.
>>>
>>> Finally, through the HomeRight program, Fannie Mae is working with  
>>> non-profit and community organizations dedicated to providing  
>>> affordable housing to the growing number of displaced families  
>>> facing homelessness. These organizations will be provided grants  
>>> to be used in the rehabilitation of homes in distressed markets,  
>>> which once completed will be turned over to those communities to  
>>> provide long term affordable housing options.
>>>
>>> These new initiatives will continue Fannie Mae's goals of  
>>> fostering a liquid, efficient, competitive, and resilient national  
>>> housing finance market, while protecting the American dream of  
>>> homeownership and stable housing options for all.
>>>
>>> Fannie Mae exists to expand affordable housing and bring global  
>>> capital to local communities in order to serve the U.S. housing  
>>> market. Fannie Mae has a federal charter and operates in America's  
>>> secondary mortgage market to enhance the liquidity of the mortgage  
>>> market by providing funds to mortgage bankers and other lenders so  
>>> that they may lend to home buyers. Our job is to help those who  
>>> house America.
>>>
>>
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Sep 20 15:35:51 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:35:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jon Stewart  debates  O'Reilly
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http://www.wate.com/story/19571787/jon-stewart-and-bill-oreilly-to-debate-live-in-washington

 Saturday, Oct. 6 at 8/7c at George Washington University, will take place before a live audience and will stream online for $4.95.

Probably will be on Youtube after...


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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Sep 20 16:29:15 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:29:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Canned ham AKA SPAM
References: <CDADFDDB-8EED-4741-8434-41145D158D48@att.net>
Message-ID: <A22545A0-4211-4422-8CC1-EE698537B5BB@att.net>

It has been brought to my attention by MCN that sometimes members include Occupy's address in a Cc or Bcc field along with other addresses. This can lead to Spam showing up at our listserve and, although you are protected from getting it; Richard and I have to deal with it.

I too, am guilty of having done this in the past. Now, I simply copy and paste a separate email to others and include no other addresses when I send to Occupy.

The thing to remember is: Send an email to the listserve only. Send to others separately.

Regards, Mark



From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Sep 20 16:43:40 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:43:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Wall Street marks 1st anniversary with
	marches, party hats
Message-ID: <7D7FCA3A-ED76-4E38-8F0F-605E39176E46@mcn.org>

News for occupy anniversary parties event


ABC News
Occupy Wall Street marks 1st anniversary with marches, party hats

Los Angeles Times? - 3 days ago

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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Sep 20 22:40:32 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:40:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Best critique yet of Romney's unguarded comments
Message-ID: <44FF1D72-13D0-4E31-A1DD-5346BE5476BF@att.net>

I Know Why the Caged Bird Shrieks
By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times

20 September 12



"When people show you who they are believe them; the first time."

That comes from the inimitable Maya Angelou (via the equally inimitable Oprah). And I agree.

So I'm inclined to take Mitt Romney at his word when he disparages nearly half the country to a roomful of wealthy donors on a secretly recorded tape.

As I'm sure you know by now, Romney said that the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes are people who are

dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.
He also said:

My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
There is no amount of backtracking and truth bending that can make this right. It's just wrong. It's not just the patently false implication that half the country is parasitic. It's not just the bleak view that they wallow in victimization. It is also his utter dismissal of this group: "my job is not to worry about those people."

Those people? Those miserable peasants scrounging around the castle entrance? Those lay-abouts with mouths open for a spoonful of rich folks' bounty? Those fate-forsaken unwashed with dirty hands outstretched for help unearned? Those ingrates who bring in a pittance but reap a premium?

Only a man who has never looked up from the pit of poverty could look down his nose with such scorn.

At the event Romney also said:

By the way, both my dad and Ann's dad did quite well in their life, but when they came to the end of their lives, and, and passed along inheritances to Ann and to me, we both decided to give it all away. So, I had inherited nothing. Everything that Ann and I have we earned the old-fashioned way, and that's by hard work.
Can this man truly be so blind as to believe that being the son of an auto executive and governor played no role in his development and access to opportunity? Can he truly believe that having a family with the means to send him to a prestigious boarding school and then on to some of the best colleges in the country had nothing to do with them and everything to do with him? Can he truly be willfully ignorant enough to not acknowledge the huddled masses at the bottom of the hill just because he started his climb half way up?

Now the Romney campaign is in full damage control mode, feverishly trying to convince Americans that they didn't hear what they heard, that there was some confusion. Romney first said that his comments were "not elegantly stated," then he tried to pivot to an argument against the redistribution of wealth, saying he believed in an America where "government steps in to help those in need." He continued, "we're a compassionate people."

Those in need? Would those be the ones "who believe that they are victims," the ones who it's not your job to "worry about," the ones who you'll never be able to persuade to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives"?

Romney's feeble explanations reek of insincerity and desperation.

And I think I know why: he's terrified.

Romney is trapped by a desperate desire for legitimacy. He is a square - in more ways than one - trying to squeeze himself into the conservative circle of trust.

In so doing, he says all the right things the wrong way. His facts are off. His timing is off. His pitch is off. He's just off. Try as he may, he just doesn't fit in. But he's now so lost in his thirst for high office that he has also lost himself. Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Romney, whose economic plan is titled "Believe in America," demonstrated with brutal efficiency that he doesn't in fact believe in America.

I once wrote the following:

I have no personal gripe with Romney. I don't believe him to be an evil man. Quite the opposite: he appears to be a loving husband and father. Besides, evil requires conviction, which Romney lacks. But he is a dangerous man. Unprincipled ambition always is. Infinite malleability is its own vice because it's infinitely corruptible by others of ignoble intentions.
But Romney's taped comments open the door to doubt. I'm no longer confident in the basic goodness of his constitution.

One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

Mitt Romney keeps showing America who he is. When will we start to believe him?


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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Sep 21 12:17:54 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:17:54 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] As Rodney King said,
	"Why can't we all just get along?"
Message-ID: <1933E745-314B-4184-A75A-D12EF1176065@att.net>


http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/look-how-far-weve-come-apart/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120918

Look How Far We?ve Come Apart

In the witches? brew of fearmongering, unkeepable promises and poll-tested metaphors that both parties serve up to the electorate every four years, you can always find this predictable dash of inspiration: the image of Americans uniting and working together for the sake of the country. President Obama said in Charlotte, N.C. that America is ?about what can be done by us, together.? In Tampa, Paul Ryan said, ?Whatever your political party, let?s come together for the sake of our country.? And Mitt Romney closed his convention speech with three invocations of ?That America, that united America.?

But America is not united and it is getting less and less unitable with each passing decade. You can see us coming apart in three simple graphs.

The first graph shows the intensity of the divisions in Congress. The political scientists Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal have quantified the degree to which the parties have become ideologically homogeneous and separated from each other along a single left-right dimension. High numbers mean that the parties are polarized ? House and Senate votes are very predictable, even on issues that have little to do with traditional dividing points like the size and scope of government. Low numbers mean that votes are more mixed and less predictable ? there?s more room for bipartisan coalitions and compromise on specific issues.

Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal, PolarizedAmerica.com
As you can see, both houses of Congress were quite polarized in the decades after the Civil War and Reconstruction, but then polarization plummeted after World War I, and it stayed low during the Depression, World War II and the post-war decades. Political scientists cite many reasons for the dip in the middle, including shifts in the coalitions that composed each party, the shared experiences of war and economic calamity and very low levels of immigration, which allowed a stronger sense of national identity to form. E pluribus unum takes time.

But things started to change in the 1960s and 1970s, as the Democrats became the party of civil rights and the Republicans forged an alliance with the religious right. By the 1980s, the two parties were well on their way to ideological purification: liberals and more recently moderates no longer felt at home among congressional Republicans, while conservatives felt unwelcome among congressional Democrats. The trend has been steady, continuing right up through the imminent departure from the Senate of Olympia Snowe, one of the last remaining moderate Republicans. On the bright side: it is mathematically impossible for congress to get much more polarized.

The second graph shows that it?s not just politicians who are moving further apart; it?s us ? the public ? as well. The American National Election Study has been asking Americans since the 1970s to rate different groups on what they call a ?feeling thermometer.? You can say how warm or cold you feel toward groups such as immigrants, members of the military, the Republican Party or the Democratic Party, using a scale that runs from zero (really cold, really dislike them) to 100 (really warm, really like them).

When you graph these temperature ratings from Republicans and Democrats toward each of the two parties, you see two lines that are high and steady: Democrats have always felt warmly toward the Democratic Party, and Republicans feel the same fondness for their party. But the two lower lines show a trend that is perfectly consistent with the first graph: increased hostility toward the other party, accelerating in recent years.

All data are from ANES, except Obama reading, which is from YouGov in 2011. (Thanks to Jason Reifler for sharing the latter data.) Each data point shows the average of all readings taken during that president?s time in office.
During the Carter administration, cross-party ratings were not much below 50 ? just slightly cool. But Democrats? ratings of Republicans go steadily down from there, falling to 33 degrees under George W. Bush and a frigid 17 under Barack Obama. The Republicans show a slightly different trajectory, holding steady during the twelve-year Reagan-Bush period. But beginning with the Clinton years, Republicans sour on Democrats and join them in intensifying mutual dislike (18 degrees) during the Obama administration. To put those low scores in perspective, they are even lower than Democrats? ratings of Richard Nixon in the years after Watergate.

So far the story has been quite similar for both parties. But the third graph shows us why it?s the Republicans who now seem to be more radicalized, energized and opposed to compromise.

The American National Election Study has long included a question about how much people ?trust the government in Washington to do what?s right,? with the possible answers being ?just about always,? ?most of the time,? or ?only some of the time.? In the third graph we plot the responses to this question from 1964 on, when the A.N.E.S. first started to ask the question regularly. The graph shows three major features.

First, the long term trend is down. Way down. During the Johnson years, more than two-thirds of Americans said they trusted the government either just about always or most of the time.  After Watergate and the Vietnam War, it dropped down closer to one third.

All data are from ANES, except for Obama period, which are taken from Cooperative Congressional Election Study and CBS News/New York Times polls in late 2010
Second, the graph shows that Republicans don?t trust government less than Democrats do, historically. The real difference is that Republicans are more sensitive to who controls the White House. When their man is in, they trust government more than Democrats do. When their man is out, they trust it less. Democrats hold steadier; they seem to identify ?government? less with the presidency than Republicans do.

Third, and most important for our current predicament, Republicans showed an unprecedented plunge in trust when Obama took office. They were at a 40-year-high water mark under George W. Bush, and then cascaded to a 50-year-low point ? an astonishing 5%  ? under Barack Obama. And it?s not just Tea Partiers, it?s nearly all Republicans who distrust government today.

So what can we do? Do these three graphs foretell our future? Are we going to see more cross-party cooling? Ever more distrust and paralysis? Not necessarily. In the long run, we see two possible ways out ? two reasons why polarization may be lower in a decade or two.

The first is generational change. Most Americans who lived through the Second World War were profoundly influenced by it. America was attacked and it pulled together to fight back. Americans rallied on to wage a bipartisan cold war against communism. Politics, it was said, stopped at the waters? edge. Politicians from those generations could work together and achieve compromise despite their differences, as Ronald Reagan and Tip O?Neill famously did.

On the bright side: it is mathematically impossible for congress to get much more polarized.

But as those generations aged out of leadership positions, they were replaced by baby boomers whose formative political experience was more akin to a civil war, a divisive struggle over a handful of issues that we are still fighting about today: race, abortion and women?s rights, respect for authority and protection of the environment. In a decade or two, when the millennial generation starts taking the reins, things might be very different. If their formative experiences are 9/11, a long recession and the discovery that their parents and grandparents spent all the money, leaving them a mountain of debt, they might well find the will to work together to dig themselves out.

The second reason for hope is that there are many changes we can make now, over the next few years, that might roll back the polarization by a decade or two. Several recent books contain lists of great ideas backed up by years of insider experience (see in particular Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein?s ?It?s Even Worse Than It Looks? and Mickey Edwards?s ?The Parties Versus The People?; see also the list from NoLabels.org). Some of these changes would reduce gridlock directly by making it easier for the majority party to implement its program ? and then be held accountable by the public for the results. For example: making it harder to launch and sustain a filibuster in the Senate, or making it easier for a president to obtain a quick up-or-down vote on nominations for judicial and administrative appointments.

Other changes would push the parties back from their recent strategies of ?energize the base? to the strategy that usually prevailed before 2004, which was ?win the center.? The key is to draw in more moderate and centrist voters, for example by expanding the electorate by making it easier to vote (why on Earth do we vote on a work day?). Many commentators address the need to undo the pernicious effects of the Citizens United ruling, which has opened the floodgates for nasty anonymous advertising. Nasty ads, it almost goes without saying, tend to energize partisans and turn off moderates.

Other changes would work more gradually by making it easier for politicians to recover the sort of human relationships that have always lubricated the gears of government. For example, in 1995 Newt Gingrich changed the legislative calendar to encourage House members to keep their families in their home districts, rather than moving to Washington where they often fraternized with the enemy. Nowadays, all business is conducted midweek. Many members fly in on Tuesday morning and fly home Thursday evening, leaving few possibilities for meeting members of the other party off of the battlefield and out of sight of the press. Mann and Ornstein propose changing the calendar in both the House and the Senate so that Congress is in session five days a week for three weeks each month. Such an arrangement would be both more efficient (less time wasted in transit) and more humane (more opportunities for relationships to form).

The few months after Election Day offer us the largest window we?re likely to have in the next four years to make any of these changes. Averting the fiscal cliff ? the automatic spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in 2013 if a deal isn?t reached before then ? will clearly be the top priority during those months. But if our leaders manage to avert catastrophe, and even more pressingly, if they don?t, will they then turn their attention to bridging our political canyon? Or were they just blowing smoke in our eyes when they said that America is about ?what can be done by us, together.? If ever there was a need for us all to ?come together for the sake of our country,? our ?united America,? it is now. Whatever our ideological differences, can we at least agree to push our leaders, after the election, to get their house in order?

Jonathan Haidt is a professor of business ethics at the NYU-Stern School of Business and the author of ?The Righteous Mind.? Marc J. Hetherington is a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and the author of ?Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics.? They both write for Civil Politics.org.


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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Fri Sep 21 21:39:07 2012
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene L. Malone)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:39:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: I saw Troy Davis today in California
References: <87d5f54447e340e491fe0b7d13a73adc@sm1.kintera.com>
Message-ID: <9A381BA6-E2CF-4325-A311-29FAECA18398@mcn.org>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Amnesty International USA" <alerts at takeaction.amnestyusa.org>
> Date: September 21, 2012 1:43:39 PM PDT
> To: "Irene Malone" <irenelsm at mcn.org>
> Subject: I saw Troy Davis today in California
> Reply-To: <alerts at takeaction.amnestyusa.org>
>
>
> Voting "YES" on Prop 34 means eliminating the risk of executing the  
> innocent forever!
>
> Dear Irene,
>
> I saw Troy Davis today in California.
>
> Come to think about it -- he was there when Oregon's governor  
> refused to allow another execution to take place on his watch. And  
> I'm positive that Troy was in Connecticut this past spring -- on  
> the day its legislature made it the 17th state to do away with the  
> death penalty.
>
> The state of Georgia may have executed Troy Davis one year ago  
> today, but I continue to see so much of Troy's legacy reflected in  
> our fight to end the death penalty worldwide.
>
> Now it's California's turn. This November, we have an historic  
> opportunity to pass a ballot initiative on the death penalty.  
> Amnesty International has been a proud supporter of the campaign  
> that has been heating up here. Our student and community activists  
> have been busy gathering support for Prop 34, organizing events and  
> activities to educate their communities about the sad reality of  
> California's flawed system and the chance we have to change things.
>
> Pledge to vote YES on Prop 34 -- replacing California's death  
> penalty with life without parole!
>
> California could join the growing number of states turning their  
> backs on the flawed death penalty system. Proposition 34 is a  
> ballot initiative that will not only save the state $130 million a  
> year, but it eliminates the risk of executing an innocent person  
> forever!
>
> Another Troy Davis could live right here. In fact, some say he  
> already does. A man named Thomas Thompson was executed in 1998 amid  
> serious doubts about his guilt. And five men sentenced to death  
> under current California law were later cleared of the murder  
> charges that put them on death row.1
>
> We believe the death penalty is never the right answer. And as long  
> as the death penalty is on the books, then we will always risk  
> executing the innocent.
>
> Ending the death penalty in California this year would not only be  
> a resounding victory for human rights in our state, but will make a  
> deep impact on the rest of the country.
>
> But first, we need your support. We need your pledge. We need your  
> vote in November.
>
> See you at the polls,
>
> William Butkus
> Field Organizer, Western Region
> Amnesty International USA
>
> P.S. Please share this image with your friends and family today.  
> Tell them all about Troy Davis and what his story means to California.
>
>
> 1. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Death-penalty-ban-seeks-to- 
> answer-doubts-3870291.php
>
>
> Another Troy Davis in California?
>
>
> Prop 34, the "SAFE Cailfornia Act", would replace California's  
> costly, flawed death penalty with life in prison without parole.
>
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> ? 2012 Amnesty International USA | 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001  
> | 212.807.8400
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep 22 10:17:24 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:17:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Activists Commandeer Anti-Occupy Wall
	Street Rally
Message-ID: <AB56F7CB-E22E-4EAF-A744-51B7359C6BE8@att.net>

Occupy Activists Commandeer Anti-Occupy Wall Street Rally 
Adam Gabbatt, Guardian UK 
Gabbatt writes: "Protest backed by billionaire Koch brothers fizzles out as Occupiers match numbers and attend with host of satirical signs." 

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/440-occupy/13592-occupy-activists-commandeer-anti-occupy-wall-street-rally
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep 22 11:12:44 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:12:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] For "West Wing" fans
Message-ID: <D55D048E-62D7-4A11-9707-2E325D9685B5@att.net>

"Sources tell me that the entire cast of West Wing made this for free, which means they're every bit as wonderful as the characters they played!"  BZ

This is great! For all West Wing fans, a fun walk down memory lane. The video is a reminder to vote the nonpartisan section of the ballot, and particularly for a state supreme court judge in Michigan. It's great to have all of them together!

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v52FLMOPSig&feature=share
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep 22 13:35:16 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:35:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Naomi Wolf on the Loss of the American Drem
Message-ID: <99755C43-7A84-4351-A7C7-D2D10AE3A6B9@mcn.org>

This really says it!  rk

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13598-focus-how-the-mitt-romney-video-killed-the-american-dream

From adross at mcn.org  Sat Sep 22 13:48:27 2012
From: adross at mcn.org (Ad Ross)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:48:27 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] how "campaigns" got started
Message-ID: <B6CBA085-088F-43B5-87F1-27BE9A474C65@mcn.org>


Terrific article in the new New Yorker, September 24th issue.  It's  
by Jill Lepore and it's called The Lie Factory.  Eye-opening.
I don't know if you can get it on line.  Borrow a copy from a  
friend.  (or me)


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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep 22 14:57:57 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:57:57 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Here's "The Lie Factory" online.
In-Reply-To: <B6CBA085-088F-43B5-87F1-27BE9A474C65@mcn.org>
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Message-ID: <5B7B54B2-896E-4157-871E-59D45BAAECD1@att.net>

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/24/120924fa_fact_lepore


On Sep 22, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Ad Ross wrote:


Terrific article in the new New Yorker, September 24th issue.  It's by Jill Lepore and it's called The Lie Factory.  Eye-opening.
I don't know if you can get it on line.  Borrow a copy from a friend.  (or me)


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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep 22 16:12:24 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:12:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Debt-serfdom & the Fed
Message-ID: <53E72940-564E-4D35-86C0-9D73FA2FB253@att.net>

Housing, Diminishing Returns and Opportunity Cost
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/charles-hugh-smith/housing-diminishing-returns-opportunity-cost
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From sanutter at mcn.org  Sat Sep 22 16:40:12 2012
From: sanutter at mcn.org (susan nutter)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:40:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Join SEIU members to call on Prop. 30 Wednesday,
	Sept. 26
Message-ID: <4240C3A78625497AA199508A34852E46@nutter>

There will be a phonebank run by members of SEIU this Wednesday, September 26th, at the Democratic Headquarters, 132 Redwood Ave., Fort Bragg, from 1-8 pm.They will be phoning local people to vote for Proposition 30, which protects funding for schools and local public safety. Email Erik Larsen, erikl at seiu-ultcw.org if you want to phone.  
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From sanutter at mcn.org  Sat Sep 22 16:45:29 2012
From: sanutter at mcn.org (susan nutter)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:45:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] JOIN PHONEBANK TO BATTLEGROUND STATES FOR OBAMA
Message-ID: <FDA41B1B5D6D45A984D8428627859BE6@nutter>

There will be a phonebank this Thursday,Sept. 27th, from 5-7 at Harbor Lite Lodge Conference Room, 120 N. Harbor Drive, Fort Bragg .  We will be phoning a battleground state. Scripts and information are provided.  Bring youR cell phone and charger and email Susan Nutter if you plan to attend.

The October phonebanking schedule isn't completed yet, but we will be having many phonebanks.  This is the main strategy for Californians to help President Obama get reelected.
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Sat Sep 22 17:15:42 2012
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene L. Malone)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:15:42 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Tuesday is a national holiday
References: <671321199.68163077@afl.aflDB.mail.democracyinaction.org>
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Arlene Holt Baker, AFL-CIO" <peoplepower at aflcio.org>
> Date: September 22, 2012 7:34:47 AM PDT
> To: irenelsm at mcn.org
> Subject: Tuesday is a national holiday
> Reply-To: peoplepower at aflcio.org
>
?
> Irene,
>
> In 2008, six million Americans didn?t vote because they missed a  
> registration deadline or didn?t know how to register.
>
> There?s just no excuse for that.
>
> On Tuesday, September 25th, hundreds of organizations are hosting  
> events for National Voter Registration Day--and we need you to join  
> us.
>
> The AFL-CIO is doing its part by registering potential voters at  
> labor walks every week, but we can?t reach six million people.  
> That?s why National Voter Registration Day is so important? 
> hundreds of groups are partnering to carry out this huge task. In  
> fact, if there?s not an event in your area, I encourage you to  
> host one to register voters in your community.
>
> If we register even a tenth of those six million, we could change  
> the face of the electorate in this country and make a big  
> difference on Election Day. And we?ll be doing more than just  
> registering voters.
>
> No matter what your party affiliation, voting matters. In between  
> all the hot air from political pundits and partisan bickering in  
> Congress, there lot at stake for working families this election.  
> And if we want to hold our elected officials accountable after  
> November, we first have to get out to the ballot box. That starts  
> by getting registered?and there isn?t much time left.
>
> Won?t you join us on Tuesday to make sure every eligible voter can  
> exercise their democratic right?
>
> go.aflcio.org/NVRD
>
> In Solidarity,
>
> Arlene Holt Baker
> Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
>
> P.S. I know not all of you are on Twitter, but if you tweet, use  
> the official hashtag #925NVRD.
>
> To find out more about the AFL-CIO, please visit our website at  
> www.aflcio.org.
>
> Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
>
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From ananda at mcn.org  Sun Sep 23 19:58:39 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:58:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: three mile island
References: <D7DE74AF-1319-4300-B319-2FF965EC1EC5@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <040F7EEC-DDCA-4ED4-A447-6F13FDBEED2C@mcn.org>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Cecile Cutler <ananda at mcn.org>
> Date: September 23, 2012 7:58:06 PM PDT
> To: opcsteering at lists.mcn.org
> Subject: three mile island
> 
> Three Mile Island nuclear plant shuts down unexpectedly, releasing radioactive steam --The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shut down unexpectedly this afternoon, releasing steam containing radiation. 20 Sep 2012 A reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shut down unexpectedly this afternoon because of a cooling problem, a month after it went offline because of a leak in the cooling system, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says. The NRC says a cooling pump for Unit One stopped working at 2:16 p.m. ET, triggering the automatic shutdown, as the system is designed to do. Residents near the plant, outside Harrisburg, Pa., the state capital, reported hearing a loud bang, WHTM-TV says.
> 
> Exelon investigating shutdown at TMI 20 Sep 2012 A Three Mile Island spokesman says steam was released this afternoon when the nuclear power plant unexpectedly shut down, creating a loud noise heard by nearby residents. Exelon spokesman Ralph DeSantis said the reason for the shutdown, which occurred at 2:20 p.m., was not immediately known. He told abc27 News that "something unexpected happened" and the shutdown was automatic. "We have a command center set up and we are going through our procedures to determine exactly what happened," DeSantis said.
> 
> 



From ananda at mcn.org  Sun Sep 23 20:22:30 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:22:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Notice for Calendar
References: <FFD15132-3B87-458C-A925-6B3B9461E5BA@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <D4FBD45E-8F1E-4C28-B16F-384BC18772D7@mcn.org>

> Please note that I have submitted the attached to Advocate News.  
Important to remember that a Publicity Person will be needed  (on the agenda for this Assembly)

> Subject: Notice for Calendar
> 
> Saturday, October 6, there will be an Occupy Assembly meeting at
> the Ft. Bragg Senior Center Board Room from 2-4pm. Everybody
> welcome.  Please bring your concerns about community needs,
> housing, & issues of civic importance.
> 
> 
> submitted by:  Cecile Cutler/360 N McPherson/ Ft. Bragg/ 964-7835



From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Mon Sep 24 10:22:16 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:22:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Forty-Seven Percent
In-Reply-To: <CAEuS=2HXz3xywUAd7H6hu0bW+EahENCgwtF52DhNZVzngR787Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <31999885.376.0@wordpress.com>
	<CAEuS=2HXz3xywUAd7H6hu0bW+EahENCgwtF52DhNZVzngR787Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1348507336.21437.YahooMailNeo@web161201.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>






 
franleeperbuss posted: "Many years ago my three children and I were nearly homeless. Child support wasn?t coming and I was too sick to work.  In addition, no jobs paid enough to pay child care for three children under five.  We went from a two bedroom apartment to a temporary "  
Respond to this post by replying above this line 
 
New post on franleeperbuss    
 The Forty-Seven?Percentby franleeperbuss  
Many years ago my three children and I were nearly homeless. Child support wasn?t coming and I was too sick to work.  In addition, no jobs paid enough to pay child care for three children under five.  We went from a two bedroom apartment to a temporary home in an old, unfinished, scarey basement.  I searched for housing desperately, thinking at one time I had half a World War 11 hut where I couldn?t stand up straight except in the very center of the room and another time a tiny adobe house without heating.  Both fell through and I cried from frustration and fear.  Finally, we ended up on welfare and food stamps, and I was able to get an upstairs apartment in an old house.  I began to work again, and with food stamps, our lives became more secure.
Years later I wrote a guest editorial for the Arizona Daily Star.  It wasn?t published for some weeks, then I opened my paper on Easter Sunday and it was a lead editorial.  In it I explained the circumstances under which my three children and I sunk into poverty and said that welfare assistance not only let us find a place to live, but seemed to save my sanity because I knew that at least my children would have shelter, food, and medical care.  I was a much more effective mother when I was sure of those minimal conditions.
In the editorial I mentioned quickly that my children were adults now.  One daughter is a family practice doctor who specializes in diabetes care, primarily for the under served; another daughter is a clerk of court in North Carolina; and my son is in IT management at the University of Sidney in Australia.  They are all contributing to our social system, and my children and I have paid back in taxes the help we were given when they were small. 
I also said it wasn?t necessary for children to end up being as productive as mine had been in order to make maintenance of a welfare-like system a moral and socially productive policy. 
I got several supportive letters from people who read the essay.  (This was before the wide spread use of the internet.)  Then I also got what seemed like hate mail.  They said, in effect, ?You made your bed, you lie in it,? and that I was lazy, irresponsible, and generally had a view of myself as victim and entitled to other people?s money.  The letters felt hot, like they were burning my hand.  I wanted to say I am not lazy, that I have worked since I was ten, and that as a young woman I was as a responsible and a good mother as I could be.
All this resonates, of course, with Romney?s 47% speech.  When he talked about people he wasn?t concerned with I pictured my children, the children of friends back then, and children I work with in a program for poor mothers.  He just wrote them off.
I?ve been reading a book called, Why American Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy, by Martin Gilens.  It was published in 1999, so, of course, he doesn?t have information from the Great Recession.  But he has important things to say.  He found that most Americans wanted to help the deserving poor, but what so angers people is the ?perception that most people currently receiving welfare are undeserving.  While no one factor can fully account for the public?s opposition to welfare, the most important single component is the widespread belief that most welfare recipients would rather sit home and collect benefits than work hard to support themselves.?
He also argues that ?racial stereotypes play a central role in generating opposition to welfare in America.  In particular, the centuries-old stereotype of blacks as lazy...?  He says that politically motivated, cruel, and inaccurate stereotype has been reinforced by biased coverage of both black people and poor people in the popular press.? It certainly was reinforced when Reagan described the ?welfare queen,? who received benefits from multiple identities.  No such woman existed.  The fact is that most people who receive what we call welfare do so only for a time and return to paid employment. 
Hopefully, after the Recession, when so many people?s family members or friends have been out of work and partially dependent on food stamps, the characterization of them as moochers will be lessened.  I hear real anger towards Romney in the 47% who know how hard they work.
The statistics are mentioned so often they almost fly away from us, but they are important.  Nearly 22% of children living in the U.S. are in poverty.  A higher percentage of American children are living in poverty today than in 1975.  Median household incomes are falling.  And ?every day large numbers of American families get dumped out of the middle class and into poverty.? (12/12/11 theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
Let?s hear it from the Forty-Seven Percent!
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Sep 24 16:13:13 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:13:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] John Stewart on Romney's unguarded comments
Message-ID: <0A197FA5-45CD-4DE6-94BC-B56E328E39B0@att.net>


Hopefully, you've already seen this... hopefully it'll go viral...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/20/1134497/-Fox-News-is-about-to-erupt?%20%20detail=hide
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Sep 24 19:07:10 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:07:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The GOP Is Officially a Third Party
Message-ID: <91C39AF0-0389-47F5-9277-1D6CBD2EB055@att.net>


http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13628-the-gop-is-officially-a-third-party

The GOP Is Officially a Third Party


By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News

24 September 12

 
If one political party's standard-bearer for president wrote off half of the electorate as people who would never vote for him, and his message appealed to and was catered specifically toward only 1% of the voting public, why should anyone take that party or that candidate seriously enough for them to have a shot at winning?

It's understandable that Mitt Romney wrote off half of the electorate, because he and his friends in the American corporatocracy simply speak entirely different languages. The nation's median income, which is already a statistic skewed far higher than normal by outliers at the top, is only $50,000. But according to Romney, a household making a quarter of a million dollars a year, which only 2% of households make, is "middle class." And $360,000 for speaking fees, which is greater than 6 median income families make per year combined is apparently not a lot of money. His assertion that the 47% of Americans who pay no income tax are government moochers applies to a wide swath of Americans, including working families with children making anywhere from $30,000 up to above $50,000. These families pay negative federal income tax rates thanks to programs like the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Besides, Romney himself benefited from a $10 million bailout at Bain Capital. For a family of 3 on welfare to receive as much help from Uncle Sam as Mitt Romney, they'd have to be on welfare for 328 years.

For those still convinced that the GOP should still be a major party, Romney's gaffes notwithstanding, take a look at how the Republicans in the House of Representatives have voted over the last few years, particularly for the budgets they've proposed and endorsed. While they have no problem voting down tax cuts for middle class households (those making less than $250,000 a year), Republicans have steadfastly endorsed cutting taxes for the top 1% to even lower levels in their official budget proposal. That same budget makes the bulk of its cuts from social programs that are primarily there to benefit the middle class and the poor. The House Republican budget even makes part of its $4 trillion in cuts by ending federal funding for school lunch programs, meaning 280,000 poor kids would have less to eat, all so millionaires can have even bigger tax cuts.

Not to be outdone, Senate Republicans unanimously voted down a bill that would stop taxpayer subsidies for corporations that fired American workers and shipped their jobs overseas. They voted down assistance for homeless female veterans, and even just recently voted down a bill that would have provided jobs to unemployed veterans. The American Jobs Act, which would have created around 2 million new jobs for teachers, first responders and construction workers across the US, was unanimously rejected by Senate Republicans around this time last year. The reason? To pay for all of those new jobs, taxes on millionaires would have gone up by a few percentage points. Anyone who legitimately believes the Republican Party is there to serve anyone but 1% of the public is simply delusional.

Mitt Romney is now tanking in the polls, Republicans' chances of taking back the Senate despite 33 seats up for grabs have fallen to 21%, and even John Boehner admits there's a 1-in-3 chance he won't be Speaker next year. We are witnessing a full-on implosion of the Republican Party. GOP used to stand for "Grand Old Party," but it now stands for "Greedy Old Plutocrats." The Republican Party is now no longer a major party, and there is no better indicator than their nominee for the presidency openly mocking poor people at a $50,000 per-plate fundraiser.

Since the GOP is an irrelevant third party now, and still being invited to the presidential debates, how about we let other third party candidates debate? Jill Stein, from the Green Party, has a 2% approval rating in the polls despite a fraction of the fundraising capacity, and is on the ballot in 38 states. Libertarian Gary Johnson is winning voters over as a presidential candidate who acknowledges the corporate corruption of the two major parties and the electoral process as a whole. All third parties deserve to be heard by the American voting public on the debate stage.

Carl Gibson, 24, of Lexington, Kentucky, is a spokesman and organizer for US Uncut, a nonviolent, creative direct-action movement to stop budget cuts by getting corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. He graduated from Morehead State University in 2009 with a B.A. in Journalism before starting the first US Uncut group in Jackson, Mississippi, in February of 2011. Since then, over 20,000 US Uncut activists have carried out more than 300 actions in over 100 cities nationwide. You may contact Carl at carl at rsnorg.org.

Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.


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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Sep 25 12:06:51 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:06:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] DUH!
Message-ID: <B7718869-382D-4A4B-98EE-410B1960D560@att.net>


EDITORIAL

By refusing to supply America with intelligent answers, all the reliable national polls now show that his campaign is driving voters away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/opinion/why-mitt-romney-is-slipping.html?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120925

Why Romney Is Slipping

Mitt Romney said in an interview aired on Sunday that his campaign ?doesn?t need a turnaround.? He told CBS News?s ?60 Minutes? that he is tied with President Obama; he has a ?very effective campaign; it?s doing a very good job;? and all he needs to do to win is keep repeating his plan to restore economic freedom.

That?s an outright denial of political reality, but Mr. Romney?s willingness to stray from the truth is at the root of what?s really going on. His campaign has been losing ground since the two political conventions. All the reliable national polls now show Mr. Obama ahead, and in two cases substantially so ? beyond the margin of error. A variety of polls also shows Mr. Obama with growing leads in most of the important swing states.

To some extent, Mr. Romney?s diminishing stature is because of two recent statements that revealed his deficiencies to a newly interested audience. He falsely suggested that the Obama administration was sympathetic to the violent Muslim protests in Libya and Egypt, illustrating his ignorant and opportunistic critique of foreign policy. And he was caught on video belittling nearly half the country for an overreliance on government handouts.

These moments, though, were not fumbles or gaffes. They were entirely consistent with the dismissive attitude Mr. Romney has routinely shown toward non-Americans or the nonrich. Now even long-undecided voters are starting to catch on and dismiss him.

In Wisconsin, for example, a hotly contested state that has veered Republican in recent elections, Mr. Obama leads Mr. Romney by 17 points when voters are asked who cares about their needs and problems, according to a Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll published last week of likely voters. The poll found that only 10 percent of voters said his policies would favor the middle class. (This poll was taken before the video showing his disdain for 47 percent of the country.)

Voters don?t react positively when a candidate speaks incomprehensibly about taxes, as Mr. Romney did on ?60 Minutes.? He said he would lower everyone?s tax rate by 20 percent but that everyone would wind up paying essentially the same taxes because he would limit unspecified deductions and exemptions. Even on its face, that makes little sense. If everyone will pay the same taxes, how does that stimulate growth or reduce unfairness? In fact, tax experts say the rate cut is such a huge benefit for the rich that it can?t be balanced by curbing their deductions. But listeners don?t have to do the math to calculate how fundamentally hollow the proposal is.

Asked about the government?s responsibility to the 50 million Americans without health insurance, Mr. Romney said they already have access to health care: in emergency rooms. That, of course, is the most expensive and least effective way of providing care, as someone who once advocated universal care has reason to know. But it also reeks of contempt for those left behind by the current insurance system, suggesting that they must suffer with illness until the point where they need an ambulance.

Mr. Romney is free to pursue this shallow, cavalier campaign for six more weeks, but he shouldn?t be surprised if voters increasingly choose not to pay attention.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Sep 25 14:13:03 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:13:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Occupy Worldwide
References: <21723A71-1294-4A6D-9B01-37ACCEC4C797@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <71996170-7C08-403C-AE51-DE9E0371B0CC@mcn.org>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org>
> Date: September 25, 2012 2:12:35 PM PDT
> To: Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org>
> Subject: Occupy Worldwide
> 
> Howard has reminded us over and over about the need for more publicity. 
> Here's a site that asks for Occupy Groups to report what they are doing.
> 
> You can keep the address and refer to it when ever you want. It is an 
> ongoing service by Readers Supported News and has new articles daily  =
> Richard.
> 
> Here's the site:
> 
> 
> http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/7468-occupy-wall-street-take-the-bull-by-the-horns
> 
> Here are a few of the stories today...
> 
> Occupy Activists Commandeer Anti-Occupy Wall Street Rally
> 
> By Adam Gabbatt, Guardian UK
> 
> 21 September 12
> 
> A conservative rally billed as an opportunity to &quot;stand up to Occupy =
> Wall Street extremists&quot; fell flat on Thursday when it was co-opted by =
> members of Occupy Wall Street.
> 
> Supporters of Americans for Prosperity, a Tea Party-esque group funded =
> by the billionaire Koch brothers, gathered at the Rockefeller Center in =
> midtown Manhattan to demonstrate against both Occupy Wall Street and =
> President Obama.
> 
> But almost half of the sparse crowd were Occupy Wall Street protesters, =
> smartly dressed and bearing signs parodying Americans for Prosperity's =
> ultra-conservative message.
> 
> READ MORE
> 
> =20
> Twitter Reluctantly Coughs Up Occupy Protester's Data
> 
> By David Kravets, Wired
> 
> 20 September 12
> 
> Twitter on Friday reluctantly complied with a judge's order to divulge =
> the tweets and account information connected to an Occupy protester.
> 
> The case concerns Malcolm Harris, who was among hundreds arrested last =
> October for disorderly conduct in an Occupy movement march along the =
> Brooklyn Bridge.
> 
> Prosecutors sought tweets made by Harris' account &quot;to refute the =
> defendant's anticipated defense, that the police either led or escorted =
> the defendant into stepping onto the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge.&quot; =
> The case was being closely watched as the authorities increasingly =
> monitor and move to access material posted on social networks.
> 
> READ MORE
> 
> =20
> NYPD Arrests Almost 200 Occupy Protesters, Roughs Up City Councilman =
> Again
> 
> By Frances Fox Piven, Guardian UK
> 
> 17 September 12
> 
> A good many observers wonder, is Occupy over? After all, the encampments =
> that announced the movement a year ago have largely disappeared, and no =
> obviously similar protest demonstrations of young people have taken =
> their place, at least not in the United States.
> 
> Nevertheless, I think the ready conclusion that the protests have =
> fizzled is based on a misconception of the nature of movements, a  =
> misconception influenced by the metaphors we rely on. We think of these =
> eruptions as something like explosions, Fourth of July fireworks perhaps =
> that shoot into the sky, dazzle us for a moment, and then quickly fade =
> away. The metaphor leads us to think of protest movements as bursts of =
> energy and anger that rise in a great arc and then, exhausted, =
> disappear.
> 
> READ MORE
> 
> 

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From nsdusoir at mcn.org  Tue Sep 25 21:06:34 2012
From: nsdusoir at mcn.org (Howard Ennes)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:06:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 1 & 99
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  This is from Martha Spiegelman of Friends of Thomas Paine 
< spiegelman22 at yahoo.com > :

	
		?. . . The 1%, a dead body; the 99%, a living body.?
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Sep 26 11:57:10 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:57:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Damn Fine Read: This Race Should Never Have
	Been This Close
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This Presidential Race Should Never Have Been This Close
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine
26 September 12

 
The press everywhere is buzzing this week with premature obituaries of the Romney campaign. New polls are out suggesting that Mitt Romney's electoral path to the presidency is all but blocked. Unless someone snags an iPhone video of Obama taking a leak on Ohio State mascot Brutus Buckeye, or stealing pain meds from a Tampa retiree and sharing them with a bunch of Japanese carmakers, the game looks pretty much up ? Obama's widening leads in three battleground states, Virginia, Ohio and Florida, seem to have sealed the deal.

That's left the media to speculate, with a palpable air of sadness, over where the system went wrong. Whatever you believe, many of these articles say, wherever you rest on the ideological spectrum, you should be disappointed that Obama ultimately had to run against such an incompetent challenger. Weirdly, there seems to be an expectation that presidential races should be closer, and that if one doesn't come down to the wire in an exciting photo finish, we've all missed out somehow.

Frank Bruni of The New York Times wrote a thoughtful, insightful editorial today that blames the painful, repetitive and vacuous campaign process for thinning the electoral herd and leaving us with only automatons and demented narcissists willing to climb the mountain:

Romney's bleeding has plenty to do with his intrinsic shortcomings and his shortsightedness: how does a man who has harbored presidential ambitions almost since he was a zygote create a paper trail of offshore accounts and tax returns like his?
But I wonder if we're not seeing the worst possible version of him, and if it isn't the ugly flower of the process itself. I wonder, too, what the politicians mulling 2016 make of it, and whether, God help us, we'll be looking at an even worse crop of candidates then.
The Times, meanwhile, ran a house editorial blaming Romney's general obliqueness, his willingness to stretch the truth and his inability to connect with ordinary people for his fall. David Brooks ran a column suggesting that Romney's overreliance on a message of strict market conservatism, ignoring the values message of "traditional" conservatism, was what killed him in the end.

All of these points of view have merit, I guess, but to me they're mostly irrelevant. The mere fact that Mitt Romney is even within striking distance of winning this election is an incredible testament to two things: a) the rank incompetence of the Democratic Party, which would have this and every other election for the next half century sewn up if they were a little less money-hungry and tried just a little harder to represent their ostensible constituents, and b) the power of our propaganda machine, which has conditioned all of us to accept the idea that the American population, ideologically speaking, is naturally split down the middle, whereas the real fault lines are a lot closer to the 99-1 ratio the Occupy movement has been talking about since last year.

Think about it. Four years ago, we had an economic crash that wiped out somewhere between a quarter to 40% of the world's wealth, depending on whom you believe. The crash was caused by an utterly disgusting and irresponsible class of Wall Street paper-pushers who loaded the world up with deadly leverage in pursuit of their own bonuses, then ran screaming to the government for a handout (and got it) the instant it all went south.

These people represent everything that ordinarily repels the American voter. They mostly come from privileged backgrounds. Few of them have ever worked with their hands, or done anything like hard work. They not only don't oppose the offshoring of American manufacturing jobs, they enthusiastically support it, financing the construction of new factories in places like China and India.

They've relentlessly lobbied the government to give themselves tax holidays and shelters, and have succeeded at turning the graduated income tax idea on its head by getting the IRS to accept a sprawling buffet of absurd semantic precepts, like the notions that "capital gains" and "carried interest" are somehow not the same as "income."

The people in this group inevitably support every war that America has even the slimmest chance of involving itself in, but neither they nor their children ever fight in these conflicts. They are largely irreligious and incidentally they do massive amounts of drugs, from cocaine on down, but almost never suffer any kind of criminal penalty for their behavior.

That last thing I would say is probably appropriate, except for the fact that hundreds of thousands of poor (and mostly black and Hispanic) kids get tossed by cops every year (would you believe 684,000 street stops in New York alone in 2011?) in the same city where Wall Street's finest work, and those kids do real time for possession of anything from a marijuana stem to an empty vial. How many Wall Street guys would you think would fill the jails if the police spent even one day doing aggressive, no-leniency stop-and-frisk checks outside the bars in lower Manhattan? How many Lortabs and Adderalls and little foil-wraps of coke or E would pop out of those briefcases?

For all this, when it came time to nominate a candidate for the presidency four years after the crash, the Republicans chose a man who in almost every respect perfectly represents this class of people. Mitt Romney is a rich-from-birth Ivy League product who not only has never done a hard day of work in his life ? he never even saw a bad neighborhood in America until 1996, when he was 49 years old, when he went into some seedy sections of New York in search of a colleague's missing daughter ("It was a shocker," Mitt said. "The number of lost souls was astounding").

He has a $250 million fortune, but he appears to pay well under half the maximum tax rate, thanks to those absurd semantic distinctions that even Ronald Reagan dismissed as meaningless and counterproductive. He has used offshore tax havens for himself and his wife, and his company, Bain Capital, has both eliminated jobs in the name of efficiency (often using these cuts to pay for payments to his own company) and moved American jobs overseas.

The point is, Mitt Romney's natural constituency should be about 1% of the population. If you restrict that pool to "likely voters," he might naturally appeal to 2%. Maybe 3%.

If the clich?s are true and the presidential race always comes down to which candidate the American people "wants to have a beer with," how many Americans will choose to sit at the bar with the coiffed Wall Street multimillionaire who fires your sister, unapologetically pays half your tax rate, keeps his money stashed in Cayman Islands partnerships or Swiss accounts in his wife's name, cheerfully encourages finance-industry bailouts while bashing "entitlements" like Medicare, waves a pom-pom while your kids go fight and die in hell-holes like Afghanistan and Iraq and generally speaking has never even visited the country that most of the rest of us call the United States, except to make sure that it's paying its bills to him on time?

Romney is an almost perfect amalgam of all the great out-of-touch douchebags of our national cinema: he's Gregg Marmalaard from Animal House mixed with Billy Zane's sneering, tux-wearing Cal character in Titanic to pussy-ass Prince Humperdinck to Roy Stalin to Gordon Gekko (he's literally Gordon Gekko). He's everything we've been trained to despise, the guy who had everything handed to him, doesn't fight his own battles and insists there's only room in the lifeboat for himself ? and yet the Democrats, for some reason, have had terrible trouble beating him in a popularity contest.


The fact that Barack Obama needed a Himalayan mountain range of cash and some rather extreme last-minute incompetence on Romney's part to pull safely ahead in this race is what really speaks to the brokenness of this system. Bruni of the Times is right that the process scares away qualified candidates who could have given Obama a better run for all that money. But what he misses is that the brutal campaign process, with its two years of nearly constant media abuse and "gotcha" watch-dogging, serves mainly to select out any candidate who is considered anything like a threat to the corrupt political establishment ? and that selection process is the only thing that has kept this race close.

Barack Obama is hardly a complete Wall Street stooge. The country's most powerful bankers seem genuinely to hate his guts, mainly because they're delusional and are sincerely offended by anyone who dares to even generally criticize them for being greedy or ethically suspect, as Obama has with his occasional broadsides against "fat cat bankers" and so on.

On the other hand, Obama's policy choices in the last four years have made it impossible for him to run aggressively against the corruption and greed and generally self-obsessed, almost cinematic douchiness that Romney represents.

With 300 million possible entrants in the race, how did we end up with two guys who would both refuse to bring a single case against a Wall Street bank during a period of epic corruption? How did we end up with two guys who refuse to repeal the carried-interest tax break? How did we end with two guys who supported a vast program of bailouts with virtually no conditions attached to them? Citigroup has had so many people running policy in the Obama White House, they should open a branch in the Roosevelt Room. It's not as bad as it would be in a Romney presidency, but it comes close.

If this race had even one guy running in it who didn't take money from all the usual quarters and actually represented the economic interests of ordinary people, it wouldn't be close. It shouldn't be close. If one percent of the country controls forty percent of the country's wealth ? and that trend is moving rapidly in the direction of more inequality with each successive year ? what kind of split should we have, given that at least one of the candidates enthusiastically and unapologetically represents the interests of that one percent?

To me the biggest reason the split isn't bigger is the news media, which wants a close race mainly for selfish commercial reasons ? it's better theater and sells more ads. Most people in the news business have been conditioned to believe that national elections should be close.

This conditioning leads to all sorts of problems and journalistic mischief, like a tendency of pundits to give equal weight to opposing views in situations where one of those views is actually completely moronic and illegitimate, a similar tendency to overlook or downplay glaring flaws in a candidate just because one of the two major parties has blessed him or her with its support (Sarah Palin is a classic example), and the more subtly dangerous tendency to describe races as "hotly contested" or "neck and neck" in nearly all situations regardless of reality, which not only has the effect of legitimizing both candidates but leaves people with the mistaken impression that the candidates are fierce ideological opposites, when in fact they aren't, or at least aren't always. This last media habit is the biggest reason that we don't hear about the areas where candidates like Romney and Obama agree, which come mostly in the hardcore economic issues.

It's obviously simplistic to say that in a country where the wealth divide is as big as it is in America, elections should always be landslide victories for the candidate who represents the broke-and-struggling sector of the population. All sorts of non-economic factors, from social issues to the personal magnetism of the candidates, can tighten the races. And just because someone happens to represent the very rich, well, that doesn't automatically disqualify him or her from higher office; he or she might have a vision for the whole country that is captivating (such a candidacy, however, would be more feasible during a time when the very rich were less completely besotted with corruption).

But when one of the candidates is Mitt Romney, the race shouldn't be close.You'll hear differently in the coming weeks from the news media, which will spend a lot of time scratching its figurative beard while it argues that a 54-46 split, or however this thing ends up (and they'll call anything above 53% for Obama a rout, I would guess), is evidence that the system is broken. But what we probably should be wondering is why it was ever close at all.


Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. He?s the author of five books, most recently The Great Derangement and Griftopia, and a winner of the National Magazine Award for commentary.


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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Sep 26 13:12:00 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:12:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Queen Elizabeth II Endorses Canada as a candidate
	for US election.
Message-ID: <C10CA1D9-735E-475C-AE69-22094D5794A1@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmqUh6G6lg&list=PL7C2F7E71AA017D80&index=2&feature=plpp_video
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From adross at mcn.org  Wed Sep 26 13:39:59 2012
From: adross at mcn.org (Ad Ross)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:39:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] is it all over?
Message-ID: <E2B688E5-42EA-4EBC-99CA-E9778F8343C1@mcn.org>



?

? A Letter from Ann Romney
Main
Poll: Romney Ahead in Presidential Race, Say Replacement Refs ?
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
ROMNEY IN FINAL PUSH TO ALIENATE REMAINING VOTERS
POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ

?

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)?With just forty-three days to go  
until the election, Mitt Romney is in a race against time to offend  
the few voters he has not already alienated, his campaign manager  
said today.

?So far, Mitt?s efforts to make voters dislike him have gone  
exactly as planned,? said the campaign manager Matt Rhoades. ?But  
let?s not kid ourselves?we?ve still got a few supporters out  
there and we?ve got to find ways to piss them off.?

As Mr. Romney embarked on a bus tour with the goal of spreading  
additional unease about his candidacy, his campaign manager reflected  
on a program of systematic alienation that has so far ?worked like  
clockwork.?

?We really got the ball rolling at the Olympics,? Mr. Rhoades  
said. ?I seriously doubted that Mitt could turn a visit to London  
into a show of international ineptitude, but he was like, ?Matt,  
trust me?I can do this.? ?

Mr. Rhoades also credited the addition of Rep. Paul Ryan to the  
ticket for being ?invaluable? in scaring off potential voters:  
?Mitt knew he could get booed off the stage at the N.A.A.C.P., but  
it takes someone special to get booed off the stage at the A.A.R.P.?

The campaign manager acknowledged that there were ?a few hiccups?  
in the plan to turn off voters, but that the Romney team worked  
quickly to fix them: ?At the Convention in Tampa, Clint Eastwood was  
planning to go out and read a prepared speech endorsing Mitt. I  
pulled him aside and said, ?Clint, that will ruin everything we?re  
trying to do here. Shout at a chair instead.? And then we were  
golden.?

The ?secret video? showing Mr. Romney at a fundraiser was another  
coup for the campaign, Mr. Rhoades said, adding, ?We actually shot  
that video ourselves and then ?leaked? it to Mother Jones. It was  
the simplest way we could think of to take forty-seven per cent of  
the votes off the table.?

Mr. Rhoades admitted that he is gratified by how well the campaign?s  
plan to offend different constituencies has worked so far, but with  
only six weeks to go until the election, they are leaving nothing to  
chance: ?This week, we?re releasing a video of Mitt swinging a cat  
by its tail.?

Get the Borowitz Report delivered to your inbox for free by clicking  
here.

Photograph by Lauren Lancaster.




Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/ 
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From ananda at mcn.org  Wed Sep 26 16:26:48 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:26:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [Opcsteering] more diablo opposition
References: <8468D0C1-E5B3-4CBA-A11E-04B51C99F523@mcn.org>
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: opcsteering at lists.mcn.org
> Date: September 26, 2012 10:40:36 AM PDT
> To: OPC <opcsteering at lists.mcn.org>
> Subject: [Opcsteering] more diablo opposition
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> You are here: Home ? Archives ? STATEWIDE COALITION FORMS TO SHUT DOWN CALIFORNIA NUCLEAR PLANTS
> STATEWIDE COALITION FORMS TO SHUT DOWN CALIFORNIA NUCLEAR PLANTS
> 
> More than 60 California anti-nuclear groups formed a coalition to shut down both the Diablo Canyon and San Onofre nuclear plants following the MUSE concert in Mountain View.
> Following the August 7 MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) anti-nuclear concert, more than 60 California groups met in San Mateo for the first statewide Anti- Nuclear post-Fukushima Summit. Participants committed to continuing work towards the shut-down of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant and San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, both of which are immediately adjacent to major earthquake faults. In addition, summit members focused on energy conservation and clean, safe, renewable solutions to establish a nuclear-free California.
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> Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse
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> Alliance for Survival
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> Coalition For Responsible Ethical Environmental Decisions (CREED)
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> Ecological Options Network (EON)
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> Friends of the Earth
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> Green Leap Forward
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> Greenpeace
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> Los Angeles Greens
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> No Nukes Caucus Veterans for Peace
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> No Nukes on Faults
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> Peace and Freedom Party
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> Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles
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> Redwood Alliance
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> Residents Organized for a Safe Environment (ROSE)
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> Sacred Sites Peacewalk for a Nuclear Free World
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Sep 26 17:41:39 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:41:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Non profit to sponsor our listserve?
Message-ID: <F113C3B3-8EAA-4982-9D39-E665B218E155@mcn.org>

Hi All,   At the last GA meeting we talked about the monthly charge to maintain our list serve. I contacted MCN about getting us non-profit status that would give us a free status.   It turns out we need to have a 501 C3 non profit organization sponsor us.  If you know of one who might be able to do this, please let me know. 

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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Sep 26 19:33:51 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:33:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: URGENT: Foreclosure Town Halls - take back
	our real estate NOW
Message-ID: <891E558CF0664CB0A916A637C780B022@toshibauser>

All OM,
        This is worth considering as Town Hall meeting topic especially for tech and staging as well as publicity. Is anyone with me on this. Please add this to the agenda, Sheila. Please read.
Agnes
Agnes
----- Original Message ----- 
From: CJ Holmes 
To: CJ Holmes 
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:35 AM
Subject: URGENT: Foreclosure Town Halls - take back our real estate NOW


I've just been informed that the mega-banks plan to stop all loan modifications by the end of the year.  

They will foreclose with impunity for their own riches and well-being, without a care for the people or the county they decimate.

 

And please don't forget that all foreclosures on securitized loans, and the loans themselves in the first place, are fraudulent [must read article by Catherine Austin Fitts].

 

We must beat the banks to the punch and keep our real estate for the people, not for the trillion dollar hedge funds and banks.

 

In our Foreclosure Town Halls we explain simply and completely, how local officials, backed by the people's will, can "take over" all securitized loans and vacant foreclosures for the county. 

 

This will immediately stop all foreclosures on these loans.  Period.  

 

AND keep people in their homes.

 

AND it will provide each owner a new loan at 90% of market value, 2% interest, 30 year fixed (for example).  

 

AND it will provide the county with a huge income stream as these loan payments will be made to the county bank for the next 30 years, not some sovereign wealth fund somewhere being bailed out by the Fed and our Treasury.

 

This will be the foundation of the people taking back control of their real estate and their destiny as a community.

 

Want to stop foreclosures NOW?  Then get a Foreclosure Town Hall scheduled asap so both the people and the local officials can understand as soon as possible the tremendous benefit and urgency of doing this NOW.

 

Please spread the word with our Press Release, and public service announcements for radio and tv.  

 

Call me to get a Foreclosure Town Hall on the schedule.  First come, first served!  J

 

Thanks for your support.   cj

 

CJ Holmes, Founder 

Home Owners For Justice

The Most Trusted Name in Real Estate
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  Wed Sep 26 20:19:47 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:19:47 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?What=92s_Wrong_With_Blasphemy?=
	=?windows-1252?q?=3F?=
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/whats-wrong-with-blasphemy/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120926

What?s Wrong With Blasphemy?

Suppose there had not been a single riot in response to the now infamous video ?The Innocence of Muslims,? Not a single car burned, not a single embassy breached, not a single human being physically hurt. Would the makers of this risible little clip have done anything wrong? If so, to whom, and why?

These questions are now at the center of an international debate. President Obama himself touched on the issue in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, in which he directly addressed the violent reaction in the Muslim world to the ?crude and disgusting video.? But does philosophy have anything to say to the view that many people have that there is something about this kind of speech itself ? not just its harm to public order or its adding of insult to the injury of imperialism and war ? that should not be uttered or produced?

Do our rights extend to speech that mocks, insults or lies about things that others hold sacred?

Obviously, we think this about many other kinds of speech. Most of us think that it is wrong for white people to use the ?n-word.? (Use it? I can?t even bring myself to mention it.) Personally, I would feel a shiver of guilt and shame if that word crossed my mind as a thought about another person. And it?s not hard to account for that feeling. It is a word that is intimately associated with a chain of some of humanity?s greatest historical evils ? the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the practice of chattel slavery and countless legal, social and psychological practices aiming at the effective dehumanization of persons of black African origin. To perpetuate it publicly is to harm other persons, and this matters objectively even if I don?t personally, subjectively care about the persons in question. But my feelings about this word are even deeper than this: I don?t even want to participate in the history that produced it and its meanings by letting it grow roots in my own mind.

This word is just an archetype to fix our thoughts. I feel that way about a lot of other words, even if nothing can quite rise to the level of emotion as that one. I can account in a very similar way for my disgust at similar epithets that seek to target for exclusion, suffering and disrespect gays, Jews, Arabs, Muslims, women and others. The suffering and disadvantage of humans matters, and I am doing nothing important in the world when I use such an epithet without considering the well-being of other humans. Even when it should be legal to so, I have good ? often decisive ? reasons for not using such speech.

Can the same be said not about epithets but about speech that mocks, insults or tells lies about things that others hold sacred, whether they be texts, human prophets or physical objects? What reasons do we have to censor ourselves (something we do all the time, and often for very good reasons) in how we speak about things other people hold sacred?

Most secular philosophical approaches to the morality of speech about the sacred are going to begin with three starting-points:

? Human beings have very strong interests in being free to express themselves.

? The ?sacred? is an object of human construction and thus the fact that something is called ?sacred? is insufficient itself to explain why all humans ought to respect it.

? Respect is owed to persons but not everything they value or venerate, even if other persons themselves do not uphold such a difference between their selves and their attachments.

These three premises make it hard for some common arguments about speech and the sacred to fully persuade. Here are six I find to be common.

1. Blasphemy transgresses a boundary and violates the sacred.

From the perspective of the religious, this is greatest harm in blasphemy. In Islamic law, for example, both God and the Prophet Muhammad not only have value for the believers, but also have interests and rights themselves. But what reason does this give others not to violate the sacred if they do not agree that x or y is sacred or has such awesome value? No reason at all.

2. We should respect whatever people regard as ?sacred? or treat as religious.

I have no objection to this as one principle of the morality of speech. Certainly, the fact that X is called ?sacred? by someone else should give me some reason to rethink what I am about to say. But there are two obvious problems here: (a) this gives other persons wide latitude to claim a veto over my speech by calling ?sacred? things I find anything but: the American flag, David Miscavige, Mormon underpants; (b) and it is so easy to think of examples where I am doing valuable and important things in speaking that outweigh the otherwise regrettable fact that others are injured or pained as an unintended consequence of my speech.

3. People are deeply hurt and injured by violations of the sacred or objects of love.

This matters. The pain of others always matters. But pain alone cannot explain the totality of our moral relationships. People are pained by all kinds of things. People attach themselves to all kinds of histories, symbols and institutions. Pain is sometimes deserved. At the very least, it is sometimes a reasonable cost to bear for other things we value. The religious know this better than most of us.

4. Blasphemy is dangerous.

The great Thomas Hobbes went so far as to declare insults to be a violation of natural law, even before we enter the social contract. He would not have been surprised at the reaction to the Danish cartoons, the ?Innocence of Muslims? film or any bar fight: ?Any sign of hatred and contempt is more provocative of quarrels and fighting than anything else, so that most men prefer to lose their peace and even lives rather than suffer insult.? So, yes, the fact that an offensive word will contribute to an outbreak of violence is a very good reason not to utter it, often a decisive and sufficient reason. The problem is: what kind of reason? If we think that our words were reasonable and not meant to provoke, and we still censor ourselves, we are acting out of prudence or fear, and in a way treating the other as irrational. Aren?t humans capable of more inspiring terms of association than mutual fear?

5. Blasphemy is hate speech.

There is no question that many in the West today use speech about Muhammad and ?Islam? as cover for expressing hatred toward Muslims. They know that if they are talking about ?religion? they can deny they are talking about persons. Many people doing this ? from Geert Wilders to those behind ?Innocence of Muslims? ? are indeed hate-mongers. But we should avoid the all-too-common conclusion that because much speech about Muhammad is de facto barely coded hate speech about Muslims (and much of it is), all such speech is. Many believers will in good faith testify that no one who expresses hatred for Islam?s doctrines and prophet can respect them as persons. I believe them. But from a secular moral perspective, there is no way to completely eliminate the gap between whatever qualities or value we imagine all humans to have and the many valuable attachments and beliefs actual humans are made of. After all, many religious thinkers will say that they despise secular materialism or atheism and yet still respect the misguided humans enslaved to those doctrines. I believe them then, too.

6. Blasphemy disrupts social harmony.

This is a different argument from the one that blasphemy is dangerous. Let us return to the ?N-word.? A plausible case can be made that the widespread public use of this word does more than offend, harm or intimidate African-Americans. It harms a certain kind of public good that many Americans are striving hard to attain ? the public good of a society where people feel safe, valued and at home in their social home. There is a way in which all Americans are the victims of such speech; for I as a white American have an interest in an America where my sense of belonging is not achieved at the expense of others. In Europe and North America today, lots of public blasphemy about Islam (especially in visual form) performs this function. It serves to tell Muslims: ?We don?t trust you, we don?t like you, and it?s your job to change.? All we have to do is remember speech about Catholicism in this country until quite recently. Cartoons of Catholic bishops as crocodiles coming to devour potentially Protestant children were much worse than an assault on the institution of the Bishopric or a theological disputation about where Christ?s ecclesia is embodied. It was Protestant nativism directed at Catholics as persons, not only as believers.

For all the instinctive talk about the need for ?respect for religion? or ?sensitivity toward the sacred,? this I think is what most people find most troubling about everything from the ?Innocence of Muslims? to the (much worse) ?Muslim Rage? Newsweek cover of last week. And I agree. But there are at least two caveats: (a) it leaves us with the conclusion that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the blasphemous content of such speech per se (nothing about Catholics bishops or the Prophet Muhammad that should never be maligned) and (b) we have to explain what kinds of social relationships we are obligated to care for in this way. Yes, I have an obligation not to make my Scientologist neighbor feel unwelcome ? but Tom Cruise? Bombs away.

~~~~

What I have tried to argue is that none of these common arguments alone gives us sufficient reason to refrain from blasphemous speech, merely because it is blasphemous, the way that I do feel I have more than sufficient reason to never use (and to try to never think) the n-word. But that doesn?t mean that none of the above were reasons not to violate what others hold sacred. They were reasons, just ones that might be outweighed by the value of the things I want to say.

So are we left with some crude felicific arithmetic: (amount of emotional pain) ? (value of blasphemous speech uttered) = net morality of this or that utterance? I think there is something more to be said here.

We all too often speak about the harms of speech either in abstract terms (the speech is wrong) or in attribute-sensitive terms (one should not be mocked for this). But what is missing here is the sense of relational duties that so many of us feel. The view that one just says whatever one wishes regardless of the company one is keeping is not virtuous honesty or moral heroism, but a kind of moral autism. The content of speech is just one element of its morality; the recipient is another.

While certain aspects of morality ought to apply without regard for the identity of other persons and any relationships I may have with them, many other aspects of morality are precisely relational. I care about specific persons and my relationship with them. This increases the costs to my own conscience, moral costs, in saying things that I otherwise think are worth saying. There are lots of things I would normally say that I do not say to or around specific people. This is sometimes because I am scared of them, or scared of experiencing social awkwardness. Other times it is because I care about them and our relationship. They matter to me, and our relationship is a good worth sacrificing for. This is why we don?t tell lies, or do tell lies, to certain people.

Could the morality of blasphemy be something like this? No ? there is no abstract, relation-independent wrong in mocking someone else?s prophet, even to the extent that I think there is wrong in using speech like the N-word. Instead, given the awareness of the impact such speech on others whom you might care about (even if you think it is wrong or silly for such speech to impact them in this way), the value you place on this relationships alters your moral judgment about such speech. The emotional world of someone about whom you care, or with whom you have a social relationship about which you care, matters to you when you speak.

Now, this is not a short-cut to merely condemning blasphemy. I may continue to judge my friends to be over-sensitive, or my speech to be so important, as to outweigh their emotional pain. And, of course, fellow citizens do not usually matter as much to me as people in my day-to-day life. And distant strangers matter still less. But, nonetheless, I think there is something for philosophy to encourage us to think about beyond the recycled clich?s that emerge on all sides each time some new utterance creates an international crisis. At the very least, it encourages us to see conflicts over such speech not only as a conflict between the value of free speech and the value of sensitivity, but also in terms of social and political relationships that we have some obligation to care for.

Andrew F. March is an associate professor of political science at Yale University. He is the author of the book ?Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus? and a recent paper on free speech and religion in Political Theory.


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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Wed Sep 26 22:55:48 2012
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:55:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino]
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     It is fortunate that the nations did not have to rely on
philosophers to deal with issues like the Islamophobic film clip that
caused riots around the world.  The nations have already dealt
adequately with the issue.  It's too bad that Obama, an international
lawyer, and others don't remember what the international law says
about such cases.  It is very clear.   It is stated in Article 20 of
the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, part of our constitutional
international law which has been signed and ratified by the US as well
as by a large majority of the countries in the United Nations:
     (20:2)Any advocacy of national, racial, or religious hatred that
constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, shall
be prohibited by law.
     Since the Innocence of Islam clearly constituted hatred for Islam
and indeed incited
discrimination against Muslims, who identify with their prophet
Mohammed.   Therefore, the film should be prohibited by law.   Why
doesn't the USor Denmark or any Western country  act on the
international law and avoid Muslim reactions to the discrimination?
Certainly no Muslim country would insult Moses or Jesus, for their
religion teaches them better.  The West should at least follow the
instructions of the international law that all nations have agreed to.
 Then there will be no more such problems.
          Peace for all people,
                   Ellen Rosser

On 9/26/12, Mark Safron <marksafron at att.net> wrote:
>
> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/whats-wrong-with-blasphemy/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120926
>
> What?s Wrong With Blasphemy?
>
> Suppose there had not been a single riot in response to the now infamous
> video ?The Innocence of Muslims,? Not a single car burned, not a single
> embassy breached, not a single human being physically hurt. Would the makers
> of this risible little clip have done anything wrong? If so, to whom, and
> why?
>
> These questions are now at the center of an international debate. President
> Obama himself touched on the issue in his speech to the United Nations
> General Assembly on Tuesday, in which he directly addressed the violent
> reaction in the Muslim world to the ?crude and disgusting video.? But does
> philosophy have anything to say to the view that many people have that there
> is something about this kind of speech itself ? not just its harm to public
> order or its adding of insult to the injury of imperialism and war ? that
> should not be uttered or produced?
>
> Do our rights extend to speech that mocks, insults or lies about things that
> others hold sacred?
>
> Obviously, we think this about many other kinds of speech. Most of us think
> that it is wrong for white people to use the ?n-word.? (Use it? I can?t even
> bring myself to mention it.) Personally, I would feel a shiver of guilt and
> shame if that word crossed my mind as a thought about another person. And
> it?s not hard to account for that feeling. It is a word that is intimately
> associated with a chain of some of humanity?s greatest historical evils ?
> the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the practice of chattel slavery and
> countless legal, social and psychological practices aiming at the effective
> dehumanization of persons of black African origin. To perpetuate it publicly
> is to harm other persons, and this matters objectively even if I don?t
> personally, subjectively care about the persons in question. But my feelings
> about this word are even deeper than this: I don?t even want to participate
> in the history that produced it and its meanings by letting it grow roots in
> my own mind.
>
> This word is just an archetype to fix our thoughts. I feel that way about a
> lot of other words, even if nothing can quite rise to the level of emotion
> as that one. I can account in a very similar way for my disgust at similar
> epithets that seek to target for exclusion, suffering and disrespect gays,
> Jews, Arabs, Muslims, women and others. The suffering and disadvantage of
> humans matters, and I am doing nothing important in the world when I use
> such an epithet without considering the well-being of other humans. Even
> when it should be legal to so, I have good ? often decisive ? reasons for
> not using such speech.
>
> Can the same be said not about epithets but about speech that mocks, insults
> or tells lies about things that others hold sacred, whether they be texts,
> human prophets or physical objects? What reasons do we have to censor
> ourselves (something we do all the time, and often for very good reasons) in
> how we speak about things other people hold sacred?
>
> Most secular philosophical approaches to the morality of speech about the
> sacred are going to begin with three starting-points:
>
> ? Human beings have very strong interests in being free to express
> themselves.
>
> ? The ?sacred? is an object of human construction and thus the fact that
> something is called ?sacred? is insufficient itself to explain why all
> humans ought to respect it.
>
> ? Respect is owed to persons but not everything they value or venerate, even
> if other persons themselves do not uphold such a difference between their
> selves and their attachments.
>
> These three premises make it hard for some common arguments about speech and
> the sacred to fully persuade. Here are six I find to be common.
>
> 1. Blasphemy transgresses a boundary and violates the sacred.
>
> From the perspective of the religious, this is greatest harm in blasphemy.
> In Islamic law, for example, both God and the Prophet Muhammad not only have
> value for the believers, but also have interests and rights themselves. But
> what reason does this give others not to violate the sacred if they do not
> agree that x or y is sacred or has such awesome value? No reason at all.
>
> 2. We should respect whatever people regard as ?sacred? or treat as
> religious.
>
> I have no objection to this as one principle of the morality of speech.
> Certainly, the fact that X is called ?sacred? by someone else should give me
> some reason to rethink what I am about to say. But there are two obvious
> problems here: (a) this gives other persons wide latitude to claim a veto
> over my speech by calling ?sacred? things I find anything but: the American
> flag, David Miscavige, Mormon underpants; (b) and it is so easy to think of
> examples where I am doing valuable and important things in speaking that
> outweigh the otherwise regrettable fact that others are injured or pained as
> an unintended consequence of my speech.
>
> 3. People are deeply hurt and injured by violations of the sacred or objects
> of love.
>
> This matters. The pain of others always matters. But pain alone cannot
> explain the totality of our moral relationships. People are pained by all
> kinds of things. People attach themselves to all kinds of histories, symbols
> and institutions. Pain is sometimes deserved. At the very least, it is
> sometimes a reasonable cost to bear for other things we value. The religious
> know this better than most of us.
>
> 4. Blasphemy is dangerous.
>
> The great Thomas Hobbes went so far as to declare insults to be a violation
> of natural law, even before we enter the social contract. He would not have
> been surprised at the reaction to the Danish cartoons, the ?Innocence of
> Muslims? film or any bar fight: ?Any sign of hatred and contempt is more
> provocative of quarrels and fighting than anything else, so that most men
> prefer to lose their peace and even lives rather than suffer insult.? So,
> yes, the fact that an offensive word will contribute to an outbreak of
> violence is a very good reason not to utter it, often a decisive and
> sufficient reason. The problem is: what kind of reason? If we think that our
> words were reasonable and not meant to provoke, and we still censor
> ourselves, we are acting out of prudence or fear, and in a way treating the
> other as irrational. Aren?t humans capable of more inspiring terms of
> association than mutual fear?
>
> 5. Blasphemy is hate speech.
>
> There is no question that many in the West today use speech about Muhammad
> and ?Islam? as cover for expressing hatred toward Muslims. They know that if
> they are talking about ?religion? they can deny they are talking about
> persons. Many people doing this ? from Geert Wilders to those behind
> ?Innocence of Muslims? ? are indeed hate-mongers. But we should avoid the
> all-too-common conclusion that because much speech about Muhammad is de
> facto barely coded hate speech about Muslims (and much of it is), all such
> speech is. Many believers will in good faith testify that no one who
> expresses hatred for Islam?s doctrines and prophet can respect them as
> persons. I believe them. But from a secular moral perspective, there is no
> way to completely eliminate the gap between whatever qualities or value we
> imagine all humans to have and the many valuable attachments and beliefs
> actual humans are made of. After all, many religious thinkers will say that
> they despise secular materialism or atheism and yet still respect the
> misguided humans enslaved to those doctrines. I believe them then, too.
>
> 6. Blasphemy disrupts social harmony.
>
> This is a different argument from the one that blasphemy is dangerous. Let
> us return to the ?N-word.? A plausible case can be made that the widespread
> public use of this word does more than offend, harm or intimidate
> African-Americans. It harms a certain kind of public good that many
> Americans are striving hard to attain ? the public good of a society where
> people feel safe, valued and at home in their social home. There is a way in
> which all Americans are the victims of such speech; for I as a white
> American have an interest in an America where my sense of belonging is not
> achieved at the expense of others. In Europe and North America today, lots
> of public blasphemy about Islam (especially in visual form) performs this
> function. It serves to tell Muslims: ?We don?t trust you, we don?t like you,
> and it?s your job to change.? All we have to do is remember speech about
> Catholicism in this country until quite recently. Cartoons of Catholic
> bishops as crocodiles coming to devour potentially Protestant children were
> much worse than an assault on the institution of the Bishopric or a
> theological disputation about where Christ?s ecclesia is embodied. It was
> Protestant nativism directed at Catholics as persons, not only as
> believers.
>
> For all the instinctive talk about the need for ?respect for religion? or
> ?sensitivity toward the sacred,? this I think is what most people find most
> troubling about everything from the ?Innocence of Muslims? to the (much
> worse) ?Muslim Rage? Newsweek cover of last week. And I agree. But there are
> at least two caveats: (a) it leaves us with the conclusion that there is
> absolutely nothing wrong with the blasphemous content of such speech per se
> (nothing about Catholics bishops or the Prophet Muhammad that should never
> be maligned) and (b) we have to explain what kinds of social relationships
> we are obligated to care for in this way. Yes, I have an obligation not to
> make my Scientologist neighbor feel unwelcome ? but Tom Cruise? Bombs away.
>
> ~~~~
>
> What I have tried to argue is that none of these common arguments alone
> gives us sufficient reason to refrain from blasphemous speech, merely
> because it is blasphemous, the way that I do feel I have more than
> sufficient reason to never use (and to try to never think) the n-word. But
> that doesn?t mean that none of the above were reasons not to violate what
> others hold sacred. They were reasons, just ones that might be outweighed by
> the value of the things I want to say.
>
> So are we left with some crude felicific arithmetic: (amount of emotional
> pain) ? (value of blasphemous speech uttered) = net morality of this or that
> utterance? I think there is something more to be said here.
>
> We all too often speak about the harms of speech either in abstract terms
> (the speech is wrong) or in attribute-sensitive terms (one should not be
> mocked for this). But what is missing here is the sense of relational duties
> that so many of us feel. The view that one just says whatever one wishes
> regardless of the company one is keeping is not virtuous honesty or moral
> heroism, but a kind of moral autism. The content of speech is just one
> element of its morality; the recipient is another.
>
> While certain aspects of morality ought to apply without regard for the
> identity of other persons and any relationships I may have with them, many
> other aspects of morality are precisely relational. I care about specific
> persons and my relationship with them. This increases the costs to my own
> conscience, moral costs, in saying things that I otherwise think are worth
> saying. There are lots of things I would normally say that I do not say to
> or around specific people. This is sometimes because I am scared of them, or
> scared of experiencing social awkwardness. Other times it is because I care
> about them and our relationship. They matter to me, and our relationship is
> a good worth sacrificing for. This is why we don?t tell lies, or do tell
> lies, to certain people.
>
> Could the morality of blasphemy be something like this? No ? there is no
> abstract, relation-independent wrong in mocking someone else?s prophet, even
> to the extent that I think there is wrong in using speech like the N-word.
> Instead, given the awareness of the impact such speech on others whom you
> might care about (even if you think it is wrong or silly for such speech to
> impact them in this way), the value you place on this relationships alters
> your moral judgment about such speech. The emotional world of someone about
> whom you care, or with whom you have a social relationship about which you
> care, matters to you when you speak.
>
> Now, this is not a short-cut to merely condemning blasphemy. I may continue
> to judge my friends to be over-sensitive, or my speech to be so important,
> as to outweigh their emotional pain. And, of course, fellow citizens do not
> usually matter as much to me as people in my day-to-day life. And distant
> strangers matter still less. But, nonetheless, I think there is something
> for philosophy to encourage us to think about beyond the recycled clich?s
> that emerge on all sides each time some new utterance creates an
> international crisis. At the very least, it encourages us to see conflicts
> over such speech not only as a conflict between the value of free speech and
> the value of sensitivity, but also in terms of social and political
> relationships that we have some obligation to care for.
>
> Andrew F. March is an associate professor of political science at Yale
> University. He is the author of the book ?Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The
> Search for an Overlapping Consensus? and a recent paper on free speech and
> religion in Political Theory.
>
>
>


From marksafron at att.net  Thu Sep 27 09:27:17 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:27:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] from Norman de Vall
Message-ID: <D0C8988A-79A6-4FF4-B9E2-6D132B2DC190@att.net>

http://www.nationalnotary.org/emails/bulletin_alert/the_notary_bulletin_9_27_12.html?&WT.mc_id=3527&referID=A48031?&utm_source=BULETN&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=A48031

From jupiter at mcn.org  Thu Sep 27 11:24:41 2012
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:24:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why I'm Voting Tea Party
Message-ID: <3629BD4A-7151-4B78-89A2-EDF8120B34AF@mcn.org>

Here's a clever website you might enjoy or even buy a teeshirt  
from . . .
Linda

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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Thu Sep 27 15:46:47 2012
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:46:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] New Occupy Street fair date on MCTV
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To OM members, 

???? As requested, for those who missed the previous showings, MCTV will air the Occupy Street Fair tape on Oct 3 (Wednesday) at 7 P.M. Maybe we can have a viewing party for those without TV? It also can be viewed online at the mendocoasttv.org website.??? 707 937 1372 for the fastest response.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Sep 27 22:32:41 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:32:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senior Alert  to Candidates At Debates
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action alert!
Every eight seconds another American turns 65. It's time they had their voices heard in this election.
Dear Richard,
The moderators for the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates are accepting questions. We know what topics candidates are bound to touch on-- but will they field questions about senior citizThere's a simple way of making sure we make sure the candidates give us answers. While we have the opportunity, we should ask the debate moderators to ask them this:
"In the next 10 years, 75 million Americans will reach retirement age. How will you ensure that seniors receive the support they need to age with dignity in their own homes, and create good jobs at the same time?"
With enough support, we can get some answers that will help everyone make more informed voting decisions. Ask Jim Lehrer, Martha Radditz and Bob Schieffer to make sure the candidates discuss senior care! 

	
Thanks for taking action, 

Claire K.
Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team

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From ananda at mcn.org  Fri Sep 28 09:07:17 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:07:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Foreclosure Town Hall venue,
	equipment and postage fundraiser
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Fanshen Faber <fmagic at mcn.org>
> Date: September 28, 2012 12:28:05 AM PDT
> To: Cecile <ananda at mcn.org>
> Subject: Fwd: Foreclosure Town Hall venue, equipment and postage fundraiser
> 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
>> Date: September 27, 2012 5:17:04 PM PDT
>> To: CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
>> Subject: Foreclosure Town Hall venue, equipment and postage fundraiser
>> 
>> As of now, activists in 12 more cities have expressed interest in scheduling a Foreclosure Town Hall in their area!  Special thanks to each of them.  A caller from New York asked if the Foreclosure Town Hall would work there and the answer is:  YES!   Foreclosure Town Hall solutions will work everywhere in the United States.  Pass the word. 
>>  
>> Due to the great interest in scheduling town halls, here are the venue requirements:
>>  
>> Seating for as many as are expected to attend:
>> Churches
>> School auditoriums
>>  
>> Equipment:
>> Microphone system
>> Projector screen for presentations
>> Podium to hold laptop
>> Table for projector (I have a projector)
>> Electrical cord
>>  
>> Plan approx 3 hours of use:
>> ? hr setting up
>> 1.5 hr for presentations
>> 30 min Q&A
>> ? putting things away
>>  
>> MOST IMPORTANT:
>> Please make a priority to get all county supervisors there including their staff, the county attorney(s), county recorder, and as many local citizens as possible.  I am preparing a 3m speech to be read at supervisor meetings along with succinct handouts specifically for the supervisors.  Please help push everyone in the community to attend this foreclosure solution presentation and explanation.
>>  
>> It is also imperative we get as many owners facing foreclosure to the town halls as possible.  That?s over 120k owners, so I?ve started a postage fund raiser to mail out information to each of them about the town halls.
>>  
>> Foreclosure Town Halls -  firm dates if listed:
>> San Bernardino: 10/20
>> Fresno: 10/27
>> Santa Barbara:
>> Napa:
>> Davis:
>> Fremont:
>> Berkeley:
>> Hayward:
>> Santa Rosa:
>> San Jose:
>> Richmond:
>> Oakland:
>> Pasadena:
>>  
>> Please let me know if you can help to get any of these or other Foreclosure Town Halls established.
>>  
>> Thanks, cj
>>  
>> CJ Holmes, Founder
>> Home Owners For Justice
>> The Most Trusted Name in Real Estate
>> 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 rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Sep 28 09:24:55 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:24:55 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd:  Fwd: Foreclosure Town Hall venue,
	equipment and postage fundraiser
References: <8A2984AF-E64F-44D5-8F28-89494544F77B@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <EF178DD2-11C9-4461-90C9-31821C9CF443@mcn.org>

>> Hi Ye Knowledgable Persons, 

   I understand this as meaning that  CJ Holmes will come up her to lead a Foreclosure Town Hall Meeting.  Right?   
    
Richard

What is a postage fundraiser???



>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
>>> Date: September 27, 2012 5:17:04 PM PDT
>>> To: CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
>>> Subject: Foreclosure Town Hall venue, equipment and postage fundraiser
>>> 
>>> As of now, activists in 12 more cities have expressed interest in scheduling a Foreclosure Town Hall in their area!  Special thanks to each of them.  A caller from New York asked if the Foreclosure Town Hall would work there and the answer is:  YES!   Foreclosure Town Hall solutions will work everywhere in the United States.  Pass the word. 
>>>  
>>> Due to the great interest in scheduling town halls, here are the venue requirements:
>>>  
>>> Seating for as many as are expected to attend:
>>> Churches
>>> School auditoriums
>>>  
>>> Equipment:
>>> Microphone system
>>> Projector screen for presentations
>>> Podium to hold laptop
>>> Table for projector (I have a projector)
>>> Electrical cord
>>>  
>>> Plan approx 3 hours of use:
>>> ? hr setting up
>>> 1.5 hr for presentations
>>> 30 min Q&A
>>> ? putting things away
>>>  
>>> MOST IMPORTANT:
>>> Please make a priority to get all county supervisors there including their staff, the county attorney(s), county recorder, and as many local citizens as possible.  I am preparing a 3m speech to be read at supervisor meetings along with succinct handouts specifically for the supervisors.  Please help push everyone in the community to attend this foreclosure solution presentation and explanation.
>>>  
>>> It is also imperative we get as many owners facing foreclosure to the town halls as possible.  That?s over 120k owners, so I?ve started a postage fund raiser to mail out information to each of them about the town halls.
>>>  
>>> Foreclosure Town Halls -  firm dates if listed:
>>> San Bernardino: 10/20
>>> Fresno: 10/27
>>> Santa Barbara:
>>> Napa:
>>> Davis:
>>> Fremont:
>>> Berkeley:
>>> Hayward:
>>> Santa Rosa:
>>> San Jose:
>>> Richmond:
>>> Oakland:
>>> Pasadena:
>>>  
>>> Please let me know if you can help to get any of these or other Foreclosure Town Halls established.
>>>  
>>> Thanks, cj
>>>  
>>> CJ Holmes, Founder
>>> Home Owners For Justice
>>> The Most Trusted Name in Real Estate
>>> 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  Fri Sep 28 17:44:20 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:44:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Foreclosure Town Hall venue,
	equipment and postage fundraiser
Message-ID: <22A1209C021A4404A3B4C7A70168FA39@toshibauser>

T----- Original Message ----- 
From: CJ Holmes 
To: CJ Holmes 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:17 PM
Subject: Foreclosure Town Hall venue, equipment and postage fundraiser


As of now, activists in 12 more cities have expressed interest in scheduling a Foreclosure Town Hall in their area!  Special thanks to each of them.  A caller from New York asked if the Foreclosure Town Hall would work there and the answer is:  YES!   Foreclosure Town Hall solutions will work everywhere in the United States.  Pass the word.  

 

Due to the great interest in scheduling town halls, here are the venue requirements:

 

Seating for as many as are expected to attend:

Churches

School auditoriums

 

Equipment:

Microphone system

Projector screen for presentations

Podium to hold laptop

Table for projector (I have a projector)

Electrical cord

 

Plan approx 3 hours of use:

? hr setting up

1.5 hr for presentations

30 min Q&A

? putting things away

 

MOST IMPORTANT:

Please make a priority to get all county supervisors there including their staff, the county attorney(s), county recorder, and as many local citizens as possible.  I am preparing a 3m speech to be read at supervisor meetings along with succinct handouts specifically for the supervisors.  Please help push everyone in the community to attend this foreclosure solution presentation and explanation.

 

It is also imperative we get as many owners facing foreclosure to the town halls as possible.  That's over 120k owners, so I've started a postage fund raiser to mail out information to each of them about the town halls.

 

Foreclosure Town Halls -  firm dates if listed:

San Bernardino: 10/20

Fresno: 10/27
Santa Barbara:

Napa:

Davis:

Fremont:

Berkeley:

Hayward:

Santa Rosa:

San Jose:

Richmond:

Oakland:

Pasadena:

 

Please let me know if you can help to get any of these or other Foreclosure Town Halls established.

 

Thanks, cj

 

CJ Holmes, Founder 

Home Owners For Justice
The Most Trusted Name in Real Estate
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  Fri Sep 28 17:54:30 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:54:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Fw: WDRC Help me spread the word!
Message-ID: <6C32B0DC821647C49E2B3BE9ED83B5CD@toshibauser>

  Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:18 AM
Subject: WDRC Help me spread the word!

    
  I almost can't believe it. The topics for the first presidential debate 
  have been announced and Medicare and Social Security are not included!

  Whoever wins in November will be making big decisions about the future 
  of these programs, and we deserve to know where they stand.

  I just sent a letter to moderator Jim Lehrer and the Commission for 
  Presidential Debates, telling them to make sure questions about Medicare 
  and Social Security are part of the debate on October 3rd. Will you 
  speak out too? Here's the link:

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Sep 28 22:26:17 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:26:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy the Elections
Message-ID: <AD2E7DF6-502A-4E7D-B106-C4CD46580179@mcn.org>

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http://californiagreenbacks.org/

Occupy the Elections
Initiatives
CorporateResponsibility
Buy American
Invest in Main Street
Ban Nuclear Power
Stop Foreclosures
Windfall Wealth Tax
Label GMOs
Police the Police
Voting Reform
Abolish Death Penalty
NeighborhoodLegislature
911 Truth
ConstitutionConvention
Tax Hoarding
Minimum Wage
Legalize Hemp
State Bank
Energy Independence
EducationalReform
Holistic Health
    Occupy the Elections.org 
State Ballot Initiatives for the  99%

Occupy the Elections


               Elections for the 99%

Today the issues that we debate during an election cycle are shockingly devoid of real substance.

The cost of putting an initiative on the ballot is currently around $2million dollars. Therefore only special interest groups with significant support from the 1% can afford to put initiatives on the ballot. 
      All of that is about to change!

We the 99% hereby call for an on-line assembly of 50,000 concerned citizens who are committed to collecting 20 signatures each to put specific initiatives on the ballot.               
                    It?s that simple

It is time for elections to become a more fair and open debate.
 
Please choose which initiatives you are willing to collect 20 signatures for once 50,000 other voters also sign up to support the same initiatives. 

A Brief Summary of our current list of proposed Initiatives:

  
Corporate Responsibility Corporations are out of control and are destroying our democracy, the environment and the economy. It is time to stop corporations from acting with criminal impunity. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to CorporateResponsibility at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
 
 Buy American. Mandates that state and local governments must purchase supplies that are manufactured in the United States and may not purchase supplies that are manufactured overseas. It is time to stop outsourcing our economy. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  BuyAmerican at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
Invest in Main Street. Mandates that billions of dollars of public pension funds be invested in Main Street instead of Wall Street. This initiative will dramatically increase local opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial innovation. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  InvestInMainStreet at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
Ban Nuclear Power. Requires proof of a safe way to dispose of radioactive materials before a nuclear power plant can renew an old permit or obtain a new permit for operation. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  BanNuclearPower at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.
Stop Foreclosures. Allows for the creation of a State land banks with the authority to use eminent domain to seize properties that have no legally recorded deed of trust. Encourages banks to negotiate a lower mortgage that reflects a home?s real value. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  StopForeclosures at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.  
Windfall Wealth Tax. 10-15% millionaires tax to support the general fund. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  WindfallWealthTax at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
Label GMOs. Requires that all genetically modified foods be labeled. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  LabelGMOs at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.
Police the Police. Allows for citizens groups to police the police. We the People have a right to control policing policies. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  PolicethePolice at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
Voting Reform. Requires instant runoff elections, stops electronic voting fraud, mandates a voting holiday and requires that any citizen who applies for a local ID must also register to vote. This act will dramatically increase the number of voting citizens VotingReform at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.
Abolish the Death Penalty. Mandates an end to the death penalty. This initiative will save the state money, end death penalty bias towards minorities and stop state sanctioned murder. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  AbolishtheDeathPenalty at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.
Neighborhoods Legislature. Tosses out the existing State Legislature and Assembly and replaces it with a larger neighborhoods based legislature and assembly. This would reduce the cost of the legislature, increase local representation and limit the influence of special interest and lobbyists. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  NeighborhoodsLegislature at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
911 Truth. An initiative to authorize an independent investigation of the crime of 911. Gives the independent 911 commission the power to subpoena witnesses. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  911Truth at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.    
Constitutional Convention. Citizens call for a federal constitutional convention. It is time we update the constitution so the 1% can no longer use legal double speak to enslave us all. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  ConstitutionalConvention at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
Tax Hoarding. Substitute income tax and sales tax for a land rental value tax. Discourages land speculation and investment hoarding. Encourages investment in the real economy by eliminating income tax, sales tax and property tax on sweat equity. Will be a boom to small farmers and the real economy. This initiative is based on the real Classical Economics of Adams Smith and not the rip off economics of the 1%. Tax those who hoard wealth and not those who actually work for a living! Revenue neutral. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  TaxHoarding at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.
Minimum Wage. Raise the minimum wage to $11.50 per hour. Automatically raise the minimum wage every year by pegging it to a cost of living index. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  MinimumWage at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
Legalize Hemp. Legalize the recreational use of cannabis along with growing, taxing and selling cannabis and hemp. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  LegalizeHemp at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.  
State Bank. Allows the legislature to create a public state bank that will partner with local banks to make low interest loans to small businesses. Allows the state bank to fund state bonds interest free and borrow from the Federal Reserve at the same low interest rate as Goldman Sacks. Modeled after the highly successful Bank of North Dakota. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  StateBank at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.
Energy Independence. Adds a 15% Oil and gas extraction tax to subsidize cheaper, cleaner and sustainable alternatives to gasoline, coal, nuclear energy and natural gas. The only reason we pay a high price for dirty energy is because energy corporations bought a monopoly from our politicians. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  EnergyIndependence at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.
Educational Reform. Requires our state to opt out of the national testing system called No Child Left Behind. Encourages all school districts to embrace a wide diversity of approaches to education.  To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  EducationalReform at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in.
Holistic Health Care. Mandates that licensed physicians be reimbursed by insurance companies for prescribing noninvasive therapies that are effective in reversing prescription drug dependency. To make a commitment to collecting 20 signatures for this initiative send an email to  HolisticHealthCare at OccupytheElections.com and state your full voting registration name and which state and county you will be collecting signatures in. 
Once 50,000 registered voters in California choose one or more of the same initiatives we will send you notification that the initiative you support is officially in circulation and ready to collect signatures. We will also email you instructions on how to legally collect 20 signatures and where to send completed petitions for your county and state. 

Once we collect thousands of names and emails from citizens interested in supporting similar initiatives in other states besides California we will begin to organize an Occupy the Elections website for each state that currently allows ballot initiatives. 

Disclosure: All of the above statements are based on
preliminary research about each initiative. If we missed any legal ramifications associated with any proposed initiative or this approach to putting initiatives on the election ballot in your state please bring them to our attention immediately. 
This website is an experiment in democracy. We reserve the right to change the rules in order to adapt to any attempts by the 1% to shut us down. We are not an officially registered organization. 
Sincerely website creator JeffHeaton at OccupytheElections.com 
We have day jobs, so do not expect a quick response to inquires. Volunteers who want to help organize this website or help with expenses are welcome. 

 
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep 29 00:33:20 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:33:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bill Moyers on the United States of ALEC
Message-ID: <0241B373-26E1-4CD4-B07E-5FC270AE37F6@att.net>

For those of you who missed the Bill Moyers special on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Here it is:

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/27/the_united_states_of_alec_bill

From syd at mcn.org  Sat Sep 29 09:21:35 2012
From: syd at mcn.org (SYD BALOWS)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 09:21:35 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senior Center
Message-ID: <2BCBE83C-D658-4C95-9264-24A1BF1ABA26@mcn.org>

Hi everyone,

The Senior Center board indicates there will be a minimum $20 charge for each usage, regardless of how long you use any available room.

Occupy was specifically mentioned. 

The messenger

Syd 

From vjessielee at gmail.com  Sat Sep 29 11:12:12 2012
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:12:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senior Center
In-Reply-To: <2BCBE83C-D658-4C95-9264-24A1BF1ABA26@mcn.org>
References: <2BCBE83C-D658-4C95-9264-24A1BF1ABA26@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <CA+MaVrDPTRHXHo25b7-fGjhc4wGBJTrvYcBhdHTruR4JswF15g@mail.gmail.com>

Eggg-zellent!!!!

OCCUPY was doing that anyway and feeling good about it.

Thank you Syd

JL

On Saturday, September 29, 2012, SYD BALOWS wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The Senior Center board indicates there will be a minimum $20 charge for
> each usage, regardless of how long you use any available room.
>
> Occupy was specifically mentioned.
>
> The messenger
>
> Syd
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to
> occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org <javascript:;> put "Un-Subscribe me" in the
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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*
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Sat Sep 29 11:33:54 2012
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:33:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Samuel L. Jackson has a message for apathetic
	voters
In-Reply-To: <CA+Uocgktazgw2gRRVo5uTQ+qa594BR5R5kK_s6ovmFtVtvvLNw@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Harry <twistydodds at gmail.com>
To: ghetto2 at two.pairlist.net 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:50 PM
Subject: Samuel L. Jackson has a message for apathetic voters
 

Click on link to see the video link. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?twistyd


<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/27/1137004/-Samuel-L-Jackson-to-Voters-Wake-the-F-k-Up>



THU SEP 27, 2012 AT 06:19 AM PDT
Samuel L. Jackson to Apathetic Voters: ?Wake the Fuck Up!?
byScarceFollow
?Tweet?
PERMALINK 131?COMMENTS 
Samuel L. Jackson admonishes apathetic voters for this year's presidential election, reminding them what the stakes are.
via?Mother Jones:

Jackson, 63, narrates the video in a Seussian fashion, paying homage to the audiobook he recorded for Adam Mansbach's children's book sendup?Go the Fuck to Sleep. The clip consists primarily of the actor, clad in jeans and a black beret, magically appearing in houses and hurling obscenities and Democratic talking points at unsuspecting white suburbanites.
>In one scene, for example, Jackson intones:
>Sorry, my friend, but there's no time to snore.
>And out-of-touch millionaires just declared war.
>On schools, the environment, unions, fair pay.
>We're all on our own if Romney has his way.
>And he's against safety nets, if you fall, tough luck.
>So I strongly suggest that you wake the fuck up.
>
>The civically engaged actor promptly rematerializes to shout at the disaffected teens who organized bake sales to support of Obama's 2008 bid but have since lost interest:
>STOP BULLSHITTIN'. GET OUT THERE AND SELL SOME CAKES AND COOKIES. NOOOWWWW!!!http://www.wtfu2012.com/
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep 29 11:58:13 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:58:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] There's more than one way to win an election.
Message-ID: <60AA36A3-0CED-43D0-A191-EC92693D894D@att.net>

Vote Counting Company Tied to Romney
By Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis, Free Press

29 September 12

Several Tanker trucks full of political ink have been spilled on Mitt Romney's tenure as a vulture capitalist at Bain Capital. A more important story, however, is the fact that Bain alumni, now raising big money as Romney bundlers are also in the electronic voting machine business. This appears to be a repeat of the the infamous former CEO of Diebold Wally O?Dell, who raised money for Bush while his company supplied voting machines and election management software in the 2004 election.
In all 234 counties of Texas, the entire states of Hawaii and Oklahoma, half of Washington and Colorado, and certain counties in swing state Ohio, votes will be cast on eSlate and ePollbook machines made by Hart Intercivic. Hart Intercivic machines have famously failed in Tarrant County (Ft. Worth), adding 10,000 non-existant votes. The EVEREST study, commissioned by the Ohio secretary of state in 2007, found serious security flaws with Hart Intercivic products.

Looking beyond the well-documented Google choking laundry list of apparent fraud, failure and seeming corruption that is associated with Hart Intercivic, an ongoing Free Press investigation turned its attention to the key question of who owns the voting machine companies. The majority of the directors of Hart come from the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. has been heavily invested in Hart Intercivic since July 2011, just in time for the current presidential election cycle. But who is H.I.G Capital?

Out of 49 partners and directors, 48 are men, and 47 are white. Eleven of these men, including H.I.G. Founder Tony Tamer, were formerly employed at Bain and Company, and two of those men, John P. Bolduc, Douglas Berman, are Romney bundlers along with former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve.

Additionally, four of these men were formerly employed at Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz Allen, now owned by the Bush family friendly Carlyle group, also made voting machines for the United States military. Booz Allen was also the key subcontractor for the controversial PioneerGroundbreaker program, an NSA data mining operation that gathered information on American citizens until it was shut down and replaced with even more invasive successor programs like MATRIX and Total Information Awareness.

H.I.G. Capital employees have given $338,000 to Mitt Romney's campaign. That amounts to over $1500 per employee. Bain Capital, Mitt's former company, by comparison, only gave him $268,000. H.I.G. is the 11th largest donor to the Romney Campaign. Clearly they are working really hard for their man. It appears that they will work even harder on election night. Although not boisterously promising to deliver states where their machines are to Romney as Wally O'Dell of Diebold did for Bush in 2004, they can launder hundreds of thousands of votes and swing the vote in the crucial swing state Ohio.

Will Mitt's cronies steal our democracy the way they stole our jobs? Time will tell, but they have certainly positioned themselves to do so if they choose.

In our first investigative article Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn?t in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is.

the Free Press revealed that Scytl, a Spanish-based company now contracted to count 25% of the U.S. presidential vote, has ties to Booz Allen. Scytl's start up funding comes from three European Venture Capital Firms, Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital, and Spinnaker SCR. The director of Nauta's American operations is Dominic Endicott, who went from Cluster Consulting to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) where he oversaw wireless practice. He then rejoined his former colleagues from Cluster Consulting at Nauta. In his capacity as a Nauta partner Endicott also sits on the board of CarrierIQ.

Scytl has emerged as the most mysterious election counting company in this presidential election. Scytl claims to have a Scytl USA division located in Glen Allen, Virginia. The following is a photo of the Scytl USA national corporate offices at 6012 Glen Allen Drive. The land deed records show that the ownership of the property at that address is Hugh Gallagher, now listed as the managing director of Scytl USA. The deed, which was prepared in Ohio by a relocation firm in 2002, pre-dates the creation of Scytl USA. A Scytl USA sales office is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and appears to be a Rent-an-Office, often referred to as a "virtual" office with a shared secretary that serves as a mail drop.

The ties of Hart Intercivic to Romney fund-raisers and Bain alumni should cause concern in the Obama re-election campaign. So, should the mysterious Spanish owned company, Scytl, with a U.S operation that seems to be an illusion.


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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Sep 29 14:02:46 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:02:46 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Romney's own words
Message-ID: <B5B6BAFF-0159-4CE7-99B9-11F85171ECC9@att.net>

A short video of Romney, himself talking about what Bain does best.

Reich writes: "For years, higher corporate profits have come at the expense of fewer jobs and lower wages. Business leaders and financiers have been 'harvesting' like mad, leaving most Americans behind in the dirt." 

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13700-focus-romneys-goal-harvesting-businesses

From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep 29 19:45:26 2012
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:45:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Fw: Samuel L. Jackson has a message for
	apathetic voters
References: <F45F7D0D-32FC-4823-8446-3EEA37B1C8B2@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <EA4F97A5-179F-4A0C-BAE7-7DCF770E6D25@mcn.org>


> 
> Thanks so much for this Liz.  I think it is now going viral on the net and tv.  Jackson is such a great communicator!
> There are some other ads out too. One with Sarah Silverman.  Very funny.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B5o6-qNk6Q
> 
> ww.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/sarah-silverman-fights-vo_n_1903494.html?ref=topbar
> 
> On Sep 29, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Liz Helenchild wrote:
> 
>> 
>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>> From: Harry <twistydodds at gmail.com>
>> To: ghetto2 at two.pairlist.net 
>> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:50 PM
>> Subject: Samuel L. Jackson has a message for apathetic voters
>> 
>> Click on link to see the video link.                          twistyd
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> <http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/27/1137004/-Samuel-L-Jackson-to-Voters-Wake-the-F-k-Up>
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep 30 14:23:51 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:23:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] SURPRISE! Here comes October.
Message-ID: <225E6A18-E50E-4E58-8F62-A912AC3B5100@att.net>

(Are we having a G.A. on the 1st? I wonder how many folks will attend. Many people I've spoken to are working on the election and propositions. Should we wait until after the election --11/10? M.S.) 

October Surprises
By Will Durst, Humor Times
30 September 12

 
When the end draws near and prospects darken, and polls solidify in the wrong direction, and the base sinks lower than the toenail clippings of a Galapagos turtle, does the practiced political operative give up? No sir, they whip out their secret weapon. Not the candidate's spouse. The real ace up the sleeve - The October Surprise.

Every campaign has one. Or more. It's a piece of opposition research stashed away for a rainy day. For safe-keeping, behind glass, like a fire axe: ?Open in the event of impending doom.? Something so incendiary it's concealed in an asbestos-lined box buried deep in the back of the campaign manager's underwear drawer.

A last-minute revelation guaranteed to rip the skin off the opponent's slick exterior and expose him or her to be the morally bereft, fire-breathing extremist everyone was secretly afraid they were. Then again, it could be a tax cut or lavish promise or a grandstanding, self-inflating shot of adrenaline. ?You never suspected I was this good, did you??

Even front-runners need to be prepared. After all, one good October Surprise deserves another. ?They pull a knife. You pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago Way. And that's how you get Romney.?

The October Surprise is the joker in the American electoral deck of cards. Dealt under the table and below the belt. After minds have been made up and money spent, a well-played OS can turn a game around quicker than three crews of NFL replacement refs. Here's a sample of the sort of shenanigans we can expect in the coming month.

OCTOBER 8:

Barack Obama announces a deal with Jamba Juice to place coupons for free fruit smoothies on the backs of all 1040 forms.

OCTOBER 11:

Immediately after vice presidential debate, Joe Biden disappears for rest of campaign. Nobody, including family and personal staff, notices. The police don't suspect foul play. Then again, they don't rule it out either.

OCTOBER 13:

Mitt Romney vows, if elected, to write a $250 personal check to every man, woman and child in America. Fox News calls this a game changer.

OCTOBER 15:

Donald Trump unveils a cave painting in Provence, France that portrays a figure that looks eerily like Barack Obama descending from what appears to be a space ship.

OCTOBER 18:

On way to a rally in Langley, Va., Barack Obama stops motorcade to run into burning building, saving 3-year-old twins.

OCTOBER 19:

Inspired by Larry Ellison's purchase of the Hawaiian Island of Lanai, the Koch brothers offer $200 billion for Ohio. As is.

OCTOBER 21:

On the way to church, Romney personally beats off masked bullies who are attempting to impale a litter of puppies with nail guns. Shar Pei puppies. The cutest kind.

OCTOBER 24:

Blurry YouTube video surfaces showing Barack Obama chain smoking cigarettes in the loading bay of a Toledo convention center before a fund raiser.

OCTOBER 28:

The State Comptroller of Ohio announces the Koch brothers sale cannot go through due to the fact that George Soros has already acquired 60 percent of the state.

OCTOBER 30:

The LA Times releases grainy time-lapse photographic evidence of Mitt Romney at a Portsmouth, N.H. coffee shop downing three triple espressos.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Sep 30 18:01:04 2012
From: agnes at mcn.org (Agnes Woolsey)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:01:04 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: History in 2 minutes
Message-ID: <E248D3E9B00540E3A7BC952E532D9F07@toshibauser>


Subject: Fwd: History in 2 minutes

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
Now this is brilliant!! 
Have you seen this? 
It's a final project by a high school student. 
It's worth watching a couple of times......excellent . 

  
http://marcbrecy.perso.neuf.fr/history.html 
 
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From ananda at mcn.org  Sun Sep 30 21:46:56 2012
From: ananda at mcn.org (Cecile Cutler)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:46:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: A request from Dragonfly
References: <B269BB39-693D-436A-92DB-C5A9BA42AC47@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <B2FB2929-01DF-4575-84A8-7ECE1ED5EA8C@mcn.org>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Cecile Cutler <ananda at mcn.org>
> Date: September 30, 2012 9:46:22 PM PDT
> To: opcsteering at lists.mcn.org
> Subject: A request from Dragonfly
> 
> I believe Mark has contacted Dragonfly dispensary.  Today I was there, and Jude asked
> for some literature to be brought in for them to dispense.
> 
> I don't have literature, so Mark, perhaps you can drop some cards there.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Cevcile



From marksafron at att.net  Sun Sep 30 21:53:03 2012
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:53:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: A request from Dragonfly
In-Reply-To: <B2FB2929-01DF-4575-84A8-7ECE1ED5EA8C@mcn.org>
References: <B269BB39-693D-436A-92DB-C5A9BA42AC47@mcn.org>
	<B2FB2929-01DF-4575-84A8-7ECE1ED5EA8C@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <E44478CB-C470-422D-9D47-44A00EEA58E9@att.net>

I don't have any "literature." If somebody gives me some, I'll drop it off.
On Sep 30, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Cecile Cutler wrote:



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Cecile Cutler <ananda at mcn.org>
> Date: September 30, 2012 9:46:22 PM PDT
> To: opcsteering at lists.mcn.org
> Subject: A request from Dragonfly
> 
> I believe Mark has contacted Dragonfly dispensary.  Today I was there, and Jude asked
> for some literature to be brought in for them to dispense.
> 
> I don't have literature, so Mark, perhaps you can drop some cards there.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Cevcile



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