From elained at mcn.org  Fri Mar  1 07:38:58 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:38:58 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How the Economic Quacks Promoting Austerity Will
	Increase the Deficit
Message-ID: <7CDDE137-79D1-45E3-BCA3-5A3D8EB80843@mcn.org>

AlterNet / By Marshall Auerback

How the Economic Quacks Promoting Austerity Will Increase the Deficit
The deficit has been falling, but cuts in government investment will only blow it back up.

AlterNet / By Marshall Auerback

February 28, 2013  |  
 
Congress will not avert the dreaded sequester ? the government?s latest wheeze to deal with the phony ?deficit crisis.? Never mind that the very same deficit is projected to fall under $1 trillion this year for the first time since 2008, according to the CBO. Politicians and the chattering classes rail about the deficit, while in the meantime, Americans can?t find jobs. Our neighbors, friends and fellow citizens have suffered from a persistently high unemployment rate of 8 percent through 2012, and worse, an underemployment situation of around 15 percent. Why doesn?t this very real crisis generate concern? Why all of the fuss about a nonexistent emergency?

Conservatives talk indignantly about government profligacy to justify their deficit obsession. But our large deficits (which peaked some three years ago) can almost always be expected to result from recessions because of what economists call ?automatic stabilizers.? These are safeguards that have been in place since the Great Depression ? things like unemployment insurance, welfare, food stamps and the like. These programs were introduced precisely to avoid the kind of human misery a great many of our citizens experienced during that earlier catastrophe. These income transfers are also the reasons -- not the bailouts to our banks -- why the economy has escaped the kind of freefall experienced in the early 1930s.

A major consequence of this policy choice, which is supported by the vast majority of Americans, is that budget deficits in the US are largely automatic and non-discretionary. So recessions create budget deficits, much as private sector booms reduce deficits.

True, we are not booming by any stretch today. But even against this sluggish backdrop, over the last three years, the deficit has experienced a 30 percent drop as a percentage of GDP. That suggests the patient is slowly recovering, but not fast enough. The current rate of job creation is not only insufficient to replace the jobs lost since the crisis, but can?t even keep up with labor force growth. At the recent pace of job creation, we only fall further behind. Withdrawing the medicine prematurely risks creating a relapse in the economy.

And there is much more to do. We need to use this period of historically low interest rates to borrow so as to improve our productive capacity as an economy going forward. As anybody who wanders around major American cities can see, the country has fallen into disrepair. Just ride in any New York City taxi cab and see how well your back survives the journey. But before we can rebuild our pothole-ridden roads, repair our decaying grids, or deal with energy or climate change, we must challenge and reject all of the nonsense about long-term budget deficits, national bankruptcy or insolvency, and even ?fiscal responsibility? that we are hearing from Congress and the chattering classes. 

The real fiscal responsibility lies in understanding how we invest in the future with jobs, education and decent roads and bridges. Letting our country fall apart, on the other hand, is the height of irresponsibility.

If the US continues to make headway on the jobs front, it will do even better on the deficit front, which is why any sensible economist will tell you that deficit reduction per se should never be an object of government policy. In a market economy, employment is the main source of income for most of the population. Economic growth creates jobs. Without paying jobs, individuals are unable to pay taxes.  In capitalist, wage-labor societies, therefore, joblessness creates a long list of other kinds of waste that Congress never talks about?the breakup of families, rising alcoholism and drug addiction, higher crime rates, absolute and relative poverty, damage to social status and self-respect, adverse psychological and physical health effects, stress, suicide, crime and other anti-social behavior.

During WWII, the government?s deficit -- which one year reached 25 percent of GDP -- raised government?s public debt ratio above 120 percent, much higher than the ratio expected to be achieved by 2015. Further, in spite of the siren songs warning of the evils of high national public debt, US growth in the postwar period was robust?it was the golden age of US economic growth. And guess what? The debt ratio came down rather rapidly, mostly not due to budget surpluses and debt retirement, but rather due to rapid growth that raised the denominator of the debt ratio.

There isn?t, in fact, a ?long-term deficit problem.? So long as interest rates stay below the growth rate, as they are, debt-to-GDP levels eventually stabilize and even decline. But if we start reintroducing cutbacks just as the US economy is beginning to show faltering signs of recovery, all of the recent gains on the budget deficit will go by the wayside. Why? Because fiscal austerity deflates economic activity, causing tax revenues to plunge and social welfare payments ? unemployment insurance, welfare, food stamps ? to explode.  The perverse impact, then, is that deficits get larger ? precisely the opposite of what the ?austerian? brigade desires, but which is happening in earnest in places like Greece and Spain.

At the end of the day, deficits are a symptom of a problem, rather than the problem itself. That is, when the economy slides into a recession, tax revenues start falling as economic activity declines. Social transfer payments, particularly unemployment benefits, on the other hand, increase, again automatically, as more people lose their jobs.Calling the deficit a ?national security problem? is akin to blaming the thermometer when it records the temperature of a patient suffering from the flu. Similarly, cutting government investment at a time of still high unemployment is as futile as breaking the thermometer, rather than treating the underlying illness. Your doctor would be rightly sued for medical malpractice if that was what he recommended. Shouldn?t we have a similar penalty in place for economic quacks who advocate policies designed to augment human misery?
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar  2 11:20:14 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 11:20:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Re: our meeting with the Treasurer]
Message-ID: <94ee18bb7441ce2089549f3cd3c3a1ed.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [Fwd: Re: our meeting with the Treasurer]
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Sat, March 2, 2013 11:14 am
To:      ranochas at co.mendocino.ca.us
Cc:      dangjerde at netscape.net
         vote at pacific.net
         cjholmes at cjholmes.com
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Susan,Dan G.and Dan H.,
 Thought you might like to see our progress. I urge the County to do an
Audit of a number of Foreclosures to see how much in fees that the County
has lost to fraud by robo-signers,MERS and banks.  According to the
Homeowners' Bill of Rights ,AB 2425 and SB 1471, Due Process Reform, the
County could  "Impose a $10,000  on the recordation of robosigned
documents, defined as documents that contain information that was not
verified for accuracy by the person or persons signing or swearing to the
accuracy of the document or statement"   This should galvanize the
petition to Susan Ranochak , where by she may be persuaded to send
Affidavits of Authority to foreclosing entities and allow volunteers to
help identify suspicious documents.Any comments?

Sincerely,
AgnesWoolsey


---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: our meeting with the Treasurer
From:    bodhirobin at pacific.net
Date:    Fri, March 1, 2013 9:49 pm
To:      "Agnes Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
Cc:      "Robin Cole Sunbeam" <bodhirobin at pacific.net>
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You are doing an awesome job, Agnes.? I believe this can fly!?

In Peace, Robin



>  Robin,
> I
understood Dan Hamburg gave us a charge to come up with a proposal for
a
> Public Bank. I don't think any other counties have the
visionary outlook
> of Hamburg, Gjerde and McCollum. Hamburg and I
hope to learn a lot  at  the
> PBI Conference in June from folks
who are on the same wave length.
> I contacted a progessive
lawyer-Steve Antler, in F.B.- who will be
> available and would
like to work with us pro-bono in April.
> He might research a
business plan.
>
> Only when Susan Ranochak ascertains
the owner of the mortgage by sending
> an Affidavit Of Authority
to the foreclosing entity, then and only then
> the  county needs
to start eminent domaining properties from mortgage
> holders who
could afford to pay the adjusted market rate monthly mortgages
>
and notify the banks that the properties have been seized by Eminent
> Domain. E.D. clears clouded titles and that should appeal to
owners.
>
> After we gather enough signatures to convince
Susan Ranochak to send
> Affidavits of Authority to the banks who
are foreclosing properties, and
> supported by the Home Owners
Bill of  Rights , AB 1602 and SB 1470 .
> I will send you the
wording of the petition after tomorrow's General
> assembly with
O.M. approval of my draft or anyone else's draft.
> In
Solidarity,
> Agnes
>
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Mar  3 09:58:39 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 09:58:39 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To
	Invade Countries For No Reason
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PENTAGON: CUTS COULD HAMPER ABILITY TO INVADE COUNTRIES FOR NO REASON


WASHINGTON ?The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States?s ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.

The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation?s ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.

?Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective,? said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. ?Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy.?

In the past, Mr. Dorrinson said, the Pentagon has had the resources to fight three meaningless and completely random wars at any given time, ?but now in our planning meetings we are cutting that number back to two.?

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R?S.C.) agreed about the catastrophic effects of the Pentagon cuts, telling reporters, ?The ability of the United States to project its military power in an arbitrary and totally capricious way must never be compromised.?

The cuts are already being felt in a tangible way at the Pentagon, which today cancelled an order for a nine-thousand-dollar pen.



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From elained at mcn.org  Sat Mar  2 08:27:06 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 08:27:06 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Private Jet as Security Write-Off? 10 Most Insane
	Tax Loopholes
Message-ID: <AABD2740-EC3E-475D-8D79-815BA7465CB2@mcn.org>

Private Jet as Security Write-Off? 10 Most Insane Tax Loopholes
For corporations and the 1 percent, tax season offers plenty of ways to dodge Uncle Sam.

AlterNet / By Lynn Stuart Parramore
March 1, 2013  |  
 
 With the national tax filing deadline fast approaching, Americans are once again plopping down with pen, paper and potentially Turbotax to determine just how much they owe their state and federal governments. But while the popular refrain posits that nothing in life is certain but death and taxes, for many corporations and wealthy individuals, having to pay a tax bill is anything but a certainty.
Due to the proliferation of loopholes, deductions, credits, and the growing use of offshore tax evasion, many rich Americans and corporations are able to dodge the bulk of, if not all, their taxes. Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major American corporations paid nothing in federal corporate income tax, despite making $205 billion in pretax profits. In 2011 (the last year in which data is available), corporations paid just a 12.1 percent effective tax rate, the lowest in four decades. Many wealthy individuals, meanwhile, are able to drive their tax rates down below the rate paid by middle-class families. Some drive it all the way down to zero.

There are certainly large, systemic reasons for these disparities. But part of the problem is that the rich and the biggest companies have access to a slew of tax breaks from which the average household or small business derives very little benefit. Here are 10 of the most ridiculous.

CEO ?private security.? A ?common corporate tax trick,? according to the New York Times, is corporate boards paying for private jets and other perks for their CEOs under the guise of security. As Steven Davidoff reported, typically CEOs would have to pay taxes on these benefits, but if the benefit is classified as necessary for security purposes, ?the chief executive will pay a reduced tax bill or sometimes no tax at all.?
Florida cow scam.In Florida, wealthy developers, lawmakers and even some corporations game the tax code by placing cows on their land for a limited amount of time each year, thereby qualifying for agricultural tax breaks. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-FL) has benefited from this absurd loophole for years, as has Disney World. But Florida isn?t the only offender. From rock stars in New Jersey to movie stars in Colorado, tax breaks meant for farmers get gamed by the most privileged, using everything from sheep to beehives.
Facebook stock options.The social media giant Facebook made more than $1 billion in profits last year, but paid no corporate tax thanks to a huge write-off after its initial public offering. In fact, the company received a refund of $451 million. As Citizens for Tax Justice, explained, ?Facebook?s income tax refunds stem from the company?s use of a single tax break, the tax deductibility of executive stock options.? This loophole will also allow Facebook to avoid more than $2 billion in taxes in future years. LinkedIn used the same gimmick to pay no federal taxes for the last three years.
Bluegrass boondoggle. This tax break, created by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) in 2008, gives wealthy horse owners a break worth $126 million over 10 years by allowing faster depreciation (quicker tax write-offs) of race horses. McConnell has defended the break by claiming it helps Kentucky?s ?farm economy.?
Sheryl Crow loophole.Low tax rates on investment income are one of the main reasons the wealthy are able to pay lower taxes than those in the middle-class (and are also a prime driver of income inequality). Lawmakers from America?s heartland felt it was necessary to let super-wealthy musicians get in on the action, and so ?passed a law allowing songwriters to avoid income taxes and sell their publishing catalogs at capital gains rates.? As San Francisco Weekly?s Chris Parker noted, ?Three years later, Sheryl Crow sold her publishing rights to one of Australia's largest banks for nearly $10 million. Her estimated savings courtesy of this congressional giveaway: $2 million.?
NASCAR tax break.Thanks to a provision in the 2008 bank bailout, owners of NASCAR tracks are able to write off the costs of their facilities over seven years, rather than ?over the 39 years that the government estimates it will take for the tracks to depreciate.? This particular loophole costs the government $40 million per year, but Congress reauthorizes it over and over again.
John Edwards/Newt Gingrich loophole. Both the former presidential candidate and the former Speaker of the House have taken advantage of a provision allowing them to dodge payroll taxes. By forming ?S corporations,? Edwards and Gingrich are able to classify the money they receive from various ventures as ?business profits,? rather than payments for services rendered, which exempts that money from the payroll tax. This loophole is regularly abused by lawyers, doctors and accountants, who can count the work they do every day as part of operating a ?small business? that consists only of themselves. As tax expert Seth Hanlon noted, ?Regular wage-earners can?t do this, and neither can the owners of other kinds of small businesses.?
Tax breaks for vacation homes and yachts.The mortgage interest deduction, which is supposed to boost homeownership, can be used on second homes, or even yachts, so long as they are large enough to accommodate a bathroom, along with a cooking and sleeping space. Limiting the deduction to primary residences would raise $1 billion per year in revenue.
?Double Irish? and ?Dutch Sandwich.? Many companies, from Google to Amazon to Starbucks, use offshore tax havens to drive down their corporate tax rates, sometimes down into the single digits. Some of the inventive strategies they?ve used include routing profits through Ireland, the Netherlands, Bermuda, or Luxembourg, using tax tricks with cheeky names like the ?Double Irish? and the ?Dutch sandwich.? European countries have recently attempted to crack down on some of the more flagrant abuses.
Large SUV?s.We?ve already discussed the yacht tax break, but going out and purchasing a large SUV will get a member of the 1 percent another write-off. As Bloomberg News noted, the tax code?s restrictions on write-offs for luxury vehicles don?t apply to those ?rated at 6,000 pounds unloaded gross vehicle weight or more.? This means that ?purchasing a large SUV often provides faster writeoffs than similar but smaller vehicles.?
Closing these loopholes would certainly not fix the tax code?s much larger problems or put a huge dent in the federal deficit. But they would at least get rid of some of the more egregious giveaways that plague the American tax system, while raising some money that can go to providing the critical services upon which many Americans depend.

Lynn Parramore is an AlterNet senior editor. She is cofounder of Recessionwire, founding editor of New Deal 2.0, and author of 'Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture.' She received her Ph.d in English and Cultural Theory from NYU, where she has taught essay writing and semiotics. She is the Director of AlterNet's New Economic Dialogue Project. Follow her on Twitter @LynnParramore.
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From elained at mcn.org  Sat Mar  2 08:31:38 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 08:31:38 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Federal Government Robbed 19 Million Meals
	From Senior Citizens
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AlterNet / 

The Federal Government Robbed 19 Million Meals From Senior Citizens
Sequestration means a huge dent in Meals on Wheels programs across the country.

By Steven Hsieh
March 1, 2013  |  
 
 
Across-the-board budget cuts scheduled to kick in today will eliminate 19 million meals for low-income seniors, according to the Meals on Wheels Association of America. In other words, the federal government?s incompetence will come at the cost of senior citizens nutritional wellbeing.
The immediate cuts to Meals on Wheels adds to a long list of programs helping the poor that will get squeezed by the sequester, including public rent assistance, emergency housing and farm loans.

The Obama administration says a more conservative 4 million meals under nutrition assistance programs will be cut under sequestration, but, as the Huffington Post?s Arthur Delaney explains, the president?s estimate doesn?t pass the sniff test:

The White House has not provided a detailed explanation of how it came up with its count of lost meals, but allowed there could be funding streams omitted from its estimate. The Meals On Wheels number is based not just on funding for home-delivered meals, but also funds for "congregant" meals served in group settings and funds for nutrition-service incentive programs.

While the president and congress sit back and watch across-the-board cuts go through, local media across the country have been reporting on how the cuts will hurt Meals on Wheels and other nutritional assistance programs in their respective communities.

In Columbia, South Carolina WLTX-TV spoke with a local Meals on Wheels representative, who laid out the dire effects of cuts on local seniors.

"If that meal is cut or we can't get people on the program, then they are probably not going to get any nutritional value. For many of them that's the only meal they eat all day,? said Annie Eveleigh, spokesperson for Columbia Meals on Wheels.

Meanwhile, Central Oregon?s KTVZ-TV reports that the cuts will not only harm seniors today, but could also have long-term financial consequences.

?Some of the seniors will get ill or need more care and that would in turn cost more to the taxpayer than what it currently costs,? said Pamela Norr, the Executive Director of the Central Oregon Council on Aging.

Makes you wonder: does the federal government even care about the people they screw over?

Steven Hsieh is an editorial assistant at AlterNet and writer based in Brooklyn. Follow him on Twitter @stevenjhsieh.
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From elained at mcn.org  Sat Mar  2 08:34:07 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 08:34:07 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Are Big Banks a Bunch of Organized Criminal
	Conspiracies?
Message-ID: <7E025DCA-56BA-4244-8463-A4A4927D2123@mcn.org>


AlterNet / 

Are Big Banks a Bunch of Organized Criminal Conspiracies?
The record of deceit and deception that has surfaced in just the past two months points to yes.

By Les Leopold

February 27, 2013  |  
 
Are too-big-to-fail banks organized criminal conspiracies? And if so, shouldn't we seize their assets, just like we do to drug cartels?

Let's examine their sorry record of deceit and deception that has surfaced in just the past two months:

Loan Sharking

You want to get really, really pissed off? Then read "Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States" by Jessica Silver-Greenberg in the New York Times (2/23/13). In sickening detail, she describes how the largest banks in the United States are facilitating modern loansharking by working with Internet payday loan companies to escape anti-loansharking state laws. These payday firms extract enormous interest rates that often run over 500 percent a year. (Fifteen states prohibit payday loans entirely, and all states have usury limits ranging from 8 to 24 percent. See the list.)

The big banks, however, don't make the loans. They hide behind the scenes to facilitate the transactions through automatic withdrawals from the victim's bank account to the loansharking payday companies. Without those services from the big banks, these Internet loansharks could not operate.

Enabling the payday loansharks to evade the law is bad enough. But even more deplorable is why the big banks are involved in the first place.

For the banks, it can be a lucrative partnership. At first blush, processing automatic withdrawals hardly seems like a source of profit. But many customers are already on shaky financial footing. The withdrawals often set off a cascade of fees from problems like overdrafts. Roughly 27 percentof payday loan borrowers say that the loans caused them to overdraw their accounts, according to a report released this month by the Pew Charitable Trusts. That fee income is coveted, given that financial regulations limiting fees on debit and credit cards have cost banks billions of dollars.

Take a deep breath and consider what this means. Banks like JPMorgan Chase provide the banking services that allow Internet payday loansharks to exist in the first place, with the sole purpose of breaking the state laws against usury. Then Chase vultures the victims, who are often low-wage earners struggling to make ends meet, by extracting late fees from the victims' accounts. So impoverished single moms, for example, who needed to borrow money to make the rent, get worked over twice: First they get a loan at an interest rate that would make Tony Soprano blush. Then they get nailed with overdraft fees by their loansharking bank.

For Subrina Baptiste, 33, an educational assistant in Brooklyn, the overdraft fees levied by Chase cannibalized her child support income. She said she applied for a $400 loan from Loanshoponline.com and a $700 loan from Advancemetoday.com in 2011. The loans, with annual interest rates of 730 percent and 584 percent respectively, skirt New York law.

Ms. Baptiste said she asked Chase to revoke the automatic withdrawals in October 2011, but was told that she had to ask the lenders instead. In one month, her bank records show, the lenders tried to take money from her account at least six times. Chase charged her $812 in fees and deducted over $600 from her child-support payments to cover them.

Let's be clear: JPMorgan Chase, the big bank that supposedly is run oh-so-well by Obama's favorite banker, Jamie Dimon, is aiding, abetting and profiting from screwing loanshark victims.

What possible justification could anyone at Chase have for being involved in this slimy business? The answer is simple: profit. Dimon and company can't help themselves. They see a dollar in someone else's pocket, even a poor struggling single mom, and they figure out how to put it in their own. Of course, everyone at the top will play dumb, order an investigation and then if necessary, dump some lower-level schlep. More than likely, various government agencies will ask the bank to pay a fine, which will come from the corporate kitty, not the pockets of bank executives. And the banks will promise -- cross their hearts -- never again to commit that precise scam again.

(Update: After the publication of Jessica Silver-Greenberg's devastating article, Jamie Dimon "vowed on Tuesday to change how the bank deals with Internet-based payday lenders that automatically withdraw payments from borrowers? checking accounts," according to the New York Times. Dimon called the practices "terrible." In a statement, the bank said, it was ?taking a thorough look at all of our policies related to these issues and plan to make meaningful changes.?)

Money Laundering for the Mexican Drug Cartels and Rogue Nations

HSBC, the giant British-based bank with a large American subsidiary, agreed on Dec. 11, 2012 to pay $1.9 billion in fines for laundering $881 million for Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and Colombia's Norte del Valle cartel. The operation was so blatant that "Mexican traffickers used boxes specifically designed to the dimensions of an HSBC Mexico teller's window to deposit cash on a daily basis," reports Reuters. They also facilitated "hundreds of millions more in transactions with sanctioned countries," according to the Justice Department.

Our banks got nailed as well. "In the United States, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wachovia Corp and Citigroup Inc have been cited for anti-money laundering lapses or sanctions violations," continues the Reuters report. My, my, JPMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in the U.S. sure does get around.

And the penalty? A fine (paid by the HSBC shareholders, of course, that amounts to 5.5 weeks of the bank's earnings) and we promise ? honest -- never to do it again.

Too Big to Indict?

Wait, it gets worse. Why weren't criminal charges filed against the bank itself? After all, the bank overtly violated money laundering laws. This was no clerical error. The answer is simple: "Too big to Indict," screams the NYT editorial headline. You see federal authorities are worried that if they indict, the bank would fail, which in turn would lead to tens of thousands of lost jobs, just like what happened to Arthur Anderson after its Enron caper, or like the financial hurricane that followed the failure of Lehman Brothers. So if you're a small fish running $10,000 in drug money, you serve time. But if you're a big fish moving nearing a billion dollars, you can laugh all the way to your too-big-to-jail bank.

Fleecing Distressed Homeowners

The big banks, in collusion with hedge funds and the rating agencies, puffed up the housing bubble and then burst it. Nine million workers, due to no fault of their own, lost their jobs in a matter of months. Entire neighborhoods saw their home values crash. Tens of millions faced foreclosure.

The big banks, which were bailed out and survived the crash, sought to foreclose on as many homes as possible, as fast as possible. Hey, that's where the money was. In doing so they resorted to many unsavory practices including illegal robo-signing of foreclosure documents. When nailed by the government, the big banks agreed to provide billions in aid for distressed homeowners. Were they finally forced to do the right thing? Not a chance. (See "Homeowners still face foreclosure despite billion in aid" NYT 2/22.)

The big banks, despite what they say in their press statements, found a convenient loophole in the government settlement. The banks began forgiving second mortgages, and then foreclosing on the first mortgage. That's a cute maneuver because in a foreclosure, the bank rarely can collect on the second mortgage anyway. So they're giving away something of no value to distressed sellers and getting government credit for it. Just another day at the office for our favorite banksters.

The Indictments Go On...

I could write a book about all the ways in which banks and their hedge fund cousins have turned cheating into a way of life. (In fact, I just did: "How to Earn a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away With Siphoning off America's Wealth. Here's the AlterNet interview. )

JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs have been fined over a billion dollars for creating and selling mortgage-related securities that were designed to fail so their hedge fund buddies could make billions. And then we've got the recent LIBOR scandal where the biggest banks colluded to manipulate interest rates for fun and profit.

It's not about good people or bad people running these banks and hedge funds. It's the very nature of these institutions. That's what they do. They make big money by doing what the rest of us would call cheating. As the record clearly shows, they cheat the second they get the chance.

What kind of institution would loanshark, money launder, fix rates, game mortgage relief programs, and produce products designed to fail? Answer: An institution that should not exist.

Nationalize Now and Create State Banks

There are about 20 too-big-to fail banks which have been designated "systematically significant." These should be immediately nationalized. Shareholder value should be wiped out because these banks are repeatedly violating the law, including aiding and abetting criminal enterprises. All employees should be placed on the federal civil service scale, where the top salary is approximately $130,000.

Can the government run banks? Yes, if we break up the big banks and turn them over to state governments so that each state would have at least one public bank. (North Dakota has a strong working model.) The larger states would have several public state banks. But never again would we allow banks to grow so large as to threaten our financial system and violate the public trust. Let FDIC regulate the state banks. They're actually good at it.

(We'd also have to do something about the shadow banking industry -- the large hedge funds and private equity firms. Eliminating their carried-interest tax loophole and slapping on a strong financial transaction tax would go a long way toward reining them in.)

Won't the most talented bankers leave the industry?

Hurray! It can't happen soon enough. It's time for the best and the brightest to rejoin the human race and help produce value for their fellow citizens. Let them become doctors, research scientists, teachers or even wealthy entrepreneurs who produce tangible goods and services that we want and need. What we don't need are more banksters.

Isn't This Socialism?

We already have socialism for rich financiers. They get to keep all of the upside of their shady machinations and we get to bail them out when they fail. This billionaire bailout society is now so entrenched that our nascent economic recovery of the last two years has been entirely captured by the top 1 percent. Meanwhile the rest of have received nothing. Nada. (See "Why Is the Entire Recovery Going to the Top One Percent?")

I know, I know, people say, "Next time, just don't bail them out!" Meanwhile, they get to rip us off, day in and day out, until the next crash? No thanks. Put them out of business now. If you have a better idea, let's hear it.

Les Leopold is the executive director of the Labor Institute in New York, and author of How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth (J. Wiley and Sons, 2013).
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From elained at mcn.org  Sat Mar  2 09:06:16 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 09:06:16 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 'Pervasive' Fraud by Our 'Most Reputable' Banks
Message-ID: <BCAF50B6-818B-4911-9C01-15F2142EFA07@mcn.org>

'Pervasive' Fraud by Our 'Most Reputable' Banks
By Bill Black, Reader Supported News
28 February 13
 
 recent study confirmed that control fraud was endemic among our most elite financial institutions: Asset Quality Misrepresentation by Financial Intermediaries: Evidence from RMBS Market. Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru & James Witkin (February 2013) ("PSW 2013").

The key conclusion of the study is that control fraud was "pervasive."

[A]lthough there is substantial heterogeneity across underwriters, a significant degree of misrepresentation exists across all underwriters, which includes the most reputable financial institutions.
Finance scholars are not known for their sense of humor, but the irony of calling the world's largest and most harmful financial control frauds our "most reputable" banks is quite wondrous. The point the financial scholars make is one Edwin Sutherland emphasized from the beginning when he announced the concept of "white-collar" crime. It is the officers who control seemingly legitimate, elite business organizations that pose unique fraud risks because we are so loath to see them as frauds.

The PSW 2013 study confirmed one form of control fraud and provided suggestive evidence of two other forms that I will discuss in a future column. The definitive evidence of control fraud that PSW2013 identifies is by mortgage lenders who made, or purchased, mortgages and then resold them to "private label" (non-Fannie and Freddie) financial firms who were creating mortgage backed securities (MBS). The deceit they documented by the firms selling the mortgage loans consisted of claiming that the loans did not have second liens. The lenders knowingly sold mortgages they knew had second liens under the false representations (reps) and warranties that they did not have second liens. (The authors confirm the point many of us have been making for years - the banks that fraudulently sold fraudulent mortgages did have "skin in the game" because of their reps and warranties. The key is that the officers who control the banks do not have skin in the game - they can loot the banks they can control and walk away wealthy.) The PSW 2013 study documents that the officers controlling the home lenders knew the representations they made to the purchasers as to the lack of a second lien were often false (pp. 2, 5 n. 6), that such deceit was common (p. 3), that the deceit harmed the purchasers by causing them to suffer much higher default rates on loans with undisclosed second liens (pp. 20-21), and that each of the financial institutions they studied - the nation's "most reputable" - committed substantial amounts of this form of fraud (Figure 4, p. 59).

The most interesting reaction to the PSW 2013 study is that of a fraud denier, The Economist's "M.C.K." In his January 25, 2013 column, ("Just who should we be blaming anyway?") M.C.K. argued that we should blame the victims of the fraud ("the real wrongdoers were not those who sold risky products at inflated prices but the dupes who bought them ... ").

Only three weeks later, in his February 19, 2013 column discussing the PSW 2013 study, M.C.K. admitted that fraud by banks had played a prominent role in the crisis.

BUBBLES are conducive to fraud. Buyers become less careful about doing their due diligence when asset prices are soaring and financing for speculation is plentiful. Unscrupulous sellers exploit this incaution. The victims are none the wiser as long as the bubble continues to inflate.
I will explain in a later column why I believe this passage is badly flawed, but my point here is that the fraud denier and "blame the victim" columnist has recanted.



During America's housing bubble, mortgage originators were told to do whatever it took to get loans approved, even if that meant deliberately altering data about borrower income and net worth. Many argue that the banks that bundled those loans into securities deliberately and systematically misled investors and private insurers about the risks involved. It is easy to be unsympathetic in the absence of hard evidence. As I argued in a previous post , 'investors were not forced to take the losing side of so many trades.'

While I stand by that view, a new paper by Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru, and James Witkin convincingly argues that banks deliberately misrepresented the characteristics of mortgages in securities they pitched to investors and bond insurers. The misrepresented loans defaulted at much higher rates than ones that were not - a result that would not be produced by random errors. Moreover, the share of loans that were misrepresented increased as the bubble inflated. The authors estimate that underwriters may be liable for about $60 billion in representation and warranty damages (emphasis in original).
These two paragraphs are worth savoring in some detail. The central point we have been arguing for years is now admitted - and treated as a universally known fact: "mortgage originators were told to do whatever it took to get loans approved, even if that meant deliberately altering data about borrower income and net worth." The crisis was driven by liar's loans. By 2006, half of all the loans called "subprime" were also liar's loans - the categories are not mutually exclusive (Credit Suisse 2007). As I have explained on many occasions, we know that it was overwhelmingly lenders and their agents (the loan brokers) who put the lies in liar's loans.

The incidence of fraud in liar's loans was 90 percent (MARI 2006). Liar's loans are a superb "natural experiment" because no entity (and that includes Fannie and Freddie) was ever required to make or purchase liar's loans. Indeed, the government discouraged liar's loans (MARI 2006). By 2006, roughly 40% of all U.S. mortgages originated that year were liar's loans (45% in the U.K.). Liar's loans produce extreme "adverse selection" in home lending, which produces a "negative expected value" (in plain English - making liar's home loans will produce severe losses). Only a firm engaged in control fraud would make liar's loans. The officers who control such a firm will walk away wealthy even as the lender fails. This dynamic was what led George Akerlof and Paul Romer to entitle their famous 1993 article - "Looting: the Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit." Akerlof and Romer emphasized that accounting control fraud is a "sure thing" guaranteed to transfer wealth from the firm to the controlling officers.

M.C.K. now admits that liar's loans were endemically fraudulent and that it was lenders and their agents who "deliberately" put the lies in liar's loans. Given the massive number of liar's loans and the extraordinary growth of liar's loans (roughly 500% from 200-2006) it is clear that that they were the "marginal loans" that caused the housing markets to hyper-inflate and created the catastrophic losses (in the form of loans, MBS, and CDOs) that drove the financial crisis. The key fact that must be kept in mind is that once a fraudulent liar's loan begins with the loan officer or broker inflating the borrower's income and suborning the appraiser into inflating the home appraisal the subsequent sales of that mortgage (or derivatives "backed" by the mortgage) by private parties will be fraudulent.

The authors of the PSW 2013 study expressly cautioned that their data allowed them to examine only two of the varieties of fraud. Lenders' frauds in originating and selling liar's loans were far more common, and far more harmful, than the two forms of fraud the PSW study was able to study. The many forms of mortgage frauds by lenders and their agents, of course, were cumulative and the frauds interact to produce greatly increased defaults.

The greatest importance of the PSW 2013 study is that even the fraud deniers have to admit that our most prestigious banks were the world's largest and most destructive financial control frauds. Given this confirmation that the banks engaged in one form of control fraud in the sale of fraudulent mortgages (false representations about second liens), there is no reason to believe that their senior officers had moral qualms that prevented them from becoming even wealthier through the endemic frauds of liar's loans and inflated appraisals. Appraisal fraud is almost invariably induced by lenders and their agents. Given the "pervasive" willingness of the officers controlling our most prestigious banks to enrich themselves personally by lying about the presence of second liens, they certainly cannot have any moral restraints that would have prevented them from creating the perverse incentives that caused loan officers and brokers to put the lies in liar's loans and to induce appraisers to inflate appraisals - two other control fraud schemes that were far more "pervasive" (and even likelier to produce severe losses) than the two forms of fraud studied by the PSW 2013 authors.

Once the fraud deniers have to admit that one form of control fraud involving mortgages was "pervasive" among our most prestigious banks, it becomes untenable to ignore the already compelling evidence that other forms of control fraud involved in the fraudulent origination and sale of mortgages and mortgage derivatives were even more pervasive at hundreds of financial institutions. The PSW 2013 study destroyed the myth of the Virgin Crisis. It also exposes the falsity of the ridiculous "definition" of mortgage fraud that the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) foisted on the FBI and the Department of Justice that implicitly defines control fraud out of existence for mortgage lenders. Attorney General Holder and President Obama have no excuse for their faith in the Virgin Crisis, conceived without fraud and should repudiate the MBA definition immediately and train the regulators and agents to spot and prosecute the epidemic of control frauds that drove this crisis (and the S&L debacle and Enron-era frauds).



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Mar  3 11:43:05 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 11:43:05 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] environmental-groups-slam-keystone-pipeline-report
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http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/16284-environmental-groups-slam-keystone-pipeline-report



Environmental leaders leading largest climate change rally ever. (photo: Christine Irvine)

Environmental Groups Slam Keystone Pipeline Report
By Grist Staff
02 March 13
 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar  3 13:24:55 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 13:24:55 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Public banks,yes!
Message-ID: <ed80e1f3ddf644add0fb7beee8d060aa.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

This is from Ed Oberweiser's email-Are  Big Banks Criminal enterprises?
Thanks,Ed,
Agnes


Nationalize Now and Create State Banks

There are about 20 too-big-to fail banks which have been designated
"systematically significant." These should be immediately nationalized.
Shareholder value should be wiped out because these banks are repeatedly
violating the law, including aiding and abetting criminal enterprises. All
employees should be placed on the federal civil service scale, where the
top salary is approximately $130,000.

Can the government run banks? Yes, if we break up the big banks and turn
them over to state governments so that each state would have at least one
public bank. (North Dakota has a strong working model.) The larger states
would have several public state banks. But never again would we allow
banks to grow so large as to threaten our financial system and violate the
public trust. Let FDIC regulate the state banks. They're actually good at
it.

(We'd also have to do something about the shadow banking industry -- the
large hedge funds and private equity firms. Eliminating their
carried-interest tax loophole and slapping on a strong financial
transaction tax would go a long way toward reining them in.)

Won't the most talented bankers leave the industry?

Hurray! It can't happen soon enough. It's time for the best and the
brightest to rejoin the human race and help produce value for their fellow
citizens. Let them become doctors, research scientists, teachers or even
wealthy entrepreneurs who produce tangible goods and services that we want
and need. What we don't need are more banksters.

Isn't This Socialism?

We already have socialism for rich financiers. They get to keep all of the
upside of their shady machinations and we get to bail them out when they
fail. This billionaire bailout society is now so entrenched that our
nascent economic recovery of the last two years has been entirely captured
by the top 1 percent. Meanwhile the rest of have received nothing. Nada.
(See "Why Is the Entire Recovery Going to the Top One Percent?")

I know, I know, people say, "Next time, just don't bail them out!"
Meanwhile, they get to rip us off, day in and day out, until the next
crash? No thanks. Put them out of business now. If you have a better idea,
let's hear it.
Les Leopold is the executive director of the Labor Institute in New York,
and author of How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get
Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth (J. Wiley and Sons, 2013).




From annxpress at live.com  Sun Mar  3 19:22:34 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:22:34 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] OccupyMendocino minutes 3/2/2013
Message-ID: <SNT002-W152FC296F301290A987792CDDFA0@phx.gbl>

Meeting called to order 2pm at the Ft Bragg Library community room.
Present:  Richard, Mark, Agnes, Linda, Sheila, Ann, Russ, Dan, Amanda & Robert, Irene, Howard.
 
1).  Homeless Issues
     Amanda reported on a forum on the homeless she & Robert attended on Jan 31.  There was a complaint about homeless people going to the bathrooms and finding them closed, even when they were supposed to be open.  Then when people go potty in public outside, they are looked down on as a health hazard.  The meeting was at Safe Passage, but homeless people could not speak.  The folks in charge of managing the homeless make them pay 1/3 of their salaries to get housed, and then have all sorts of rules they must obey, and they are not motivated to help the homeless get out of their situation because they are making a living "managing" homeless.  Amanda suggests that Occupy get a consortium to go together to buy some of the vacant hotels or houses in town and rent them to low income people.  We are not equipped to do this, but we agreed we can go to the City Housing Authority and ask them to look at utilizing vacancies or finding out if there are foreclosed properties which could be used for low income rentals.  We know that Mayor Dave Turner is concerned about the homeless, and we can ask for a meeting with him to discuss alternatives, and to have the issue put on the Council Agenda.  Meg Courtney is also a member of the Council we can approach.
 
2).  Foreclosure Issues
     a).  Sheila and Agnes met with Marty Lombardi about starting a Mendocino Public Bank.  Marty is experienced in banking, but does not feel we are ready to do a startup now.  The County Treasurer, Sherry Shapmire will have to advise us how to use the power of eminent domain and how to have enough of a cash flow to startup.  We need the help of a lawyer, and Steve Antler may be available when his case is finished, maybe sometime in April.    
      b). Before today's meeting a Foreclosure Committee consisting of Agnes, Richard and Ann met and created a petition we can get signatures of citizens to ask that our Recorder, Susan Ranochek start demanding any suspicious documents be sent back to the big banks for an Affadavit of Authenticity.  It cites penal code 115, which includes a penalty of perjury, and CJ says that many banks will not sign these when they have robo-signatures.  It also cites the newly passed Homeowners Bill of Rights.  We wrangled over the wording for this for over an hour, but finally got a good petition.
 
3).  Publicity- 
     a).  KNYO radio has a radio show from 3-5 on Tuesdays with John Ridman that will let an Occupy representative speak or do a show.  
      b).  Peace & Justice group offered us a $500 donation, and would like us to rent a storefront, maybe with other groups, that could be a place to hand out information and literature, get out the publicity about what we are doing, demonstrate permanence, and be a presence in the community.  Ann, Dan. Amanda & Robert all offered to help staff, we could have donations of furnishing and computers, etc but we need to have enough funding to avoid overextending ourselves, and it will cost a lot for telephone and internet services, even with donated equipment.  If there are enough other groups going in with us we could pull it off.
 
4).  Fundraising  
      The letter we sent out is starting to get results, but since Jessie was not at the meeting we do not have a figure for the Treasury Report.  We passed the hat and took in more $.
 
5).  City Council
      We want to get on the agenda when we get enough signatures on our foreclosure petition.  Maybe the 3rd week in April. Issues we wish to discuss are the homeless and we want to submit our petitions.
 
6).  Caspar Event
     On Friday March 15 there is a meet & greet of the League of Women Voters where Occupy can have a table with our petitions, and the LWV women are very much activists.  Jane Person is the president of the group, and the event starts at 5pm.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  		 	   		  
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From annxpress at live.com  Mon Mar  4 10:53:36 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:53:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Nuke industry lobbying to stop Fukushima
 fixes; make YOUR voice heard
In-Reply-To: <1447240604.626018567@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org>
References: <1447240604.626018567@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org>
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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:44:25 -0500
From: nirsnet at nirs.org
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: Nuke industry lobbying to stop Fukushima fixes; make YOUR voice heard




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NUCLEAR INDUSTRY LOBBYING SHAMELESSLY TO PREVENT POST-FUKUSHIMA SAFETY CHANGES;

RAISE YOUR VOICE TO CLOSE/STRENGTHEN DANGEROUS GE REACTORS


March 4, 2013

Dear Friends,

Shortly before Christmas, we alerted you that the NRC Commissioners were expected to vote on an NRC staff recommendation to require filtered containment vents on General Electric reactors. And, despite the busy Holiday season, more than 2500 of you did so. Well, more than two months later, the NRC Commissioners still haven't acted. And, in the meantime, the nuclear industry has vastly stepped up its lobbying effort to convince the Commissioners to reject the recommendation--and save some utilities millions of dollars.

It's time to raise more of our voices, and raise them louder. Tell the NRC--and your members of Congress--to a) permanently close these dangerous reactors and b) send a message that public safety matters by approving these filtered vents.

The nuclear reactors that exploded at Fukushima in March 2011 and released toxic radiation across our planet were designed and manufactured by General Electric. There are still 23 nearly-identical GE Mark I reactors operating in the U.S. and 8 more very similar GE Mark II reactors. All suffer from fundamental design flaws. All are dangerous to all living beings.

The NRC staff, through its Fukushima Task Force, has recommended installation of filtered containment vents that could reduce the amount of radiation released from these reactors in the event of an accident. The NRC Commissioners are expected to vote soon on whether they will implement that common-sense recommendation. But the nuclear industry has been lobbying hard against that. For example, see this March 1 article from Bloomberg News. Why? Because they just don't want to spend the money to protect public safety. Their self-serving greed must be defeated.

Our position is that all of these reactors should be closed permanently. But we also believe the Commissioners need to make a statement in favor of public protection by voting to require these filtered containment vents.

We encourage you to send a letter to the NRC in support of requiring filtered containment vents. Letters will go to your elected officials at the same time urging them to contact the NRC in support. Some legislators already have weighed in. 11 Senate Democrats and Independent Bernie Sanders sent a letter to the NRC urging them to adopt this recommendation now; so did five top House Democrats. Meanwhile, a number of Republicans, for example Sen. Vitter of Louisiana and Rep. Shimkus of Illinois, have urged the Commissioners to do the bidding of the nuclear industry. It's time to raise our voices into the mix.

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Mar  4 12:00:47 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:00:47 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] We knew this already.
Message-ID: <5E5B867A-DCEB-4CB8-AB8F-E5CA928CB401@att.net>

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


From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Mar  4 13:11:15 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:11:15 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Private Health Care is Shortening Our Lives
Message-ID: <9DC14165-6D62-43A6-8400-0DAC226D20B9@mcn.org>


Horror Care: How Private Health Care is Shortening Our Lives

By Paul Buchheit

Steven Brill's article in Time Magazine about the cost of private health care is likely to make most of his readers very angry. Angry about the prices we pay, about the lives that are devastated, and about the fact that we're one of the few developed countries without adequate health care for its citizens.

Economists have told us that the profit motive of privatization comes with an "invisible hand" that automatically corrects inequities in the market. It hasn't worked that way for health care. The personal stories recounted below, and some additional facts to complement them, make it clear that an essential human need has been turned into a product that benefits a few people at the expense of many others.

$15,000 for Blood Tests

Brill's article begins with the story of a 42-year-old Ohio man named Sean Recchi, who traveled to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He and his wife Stephanie had paid $469 a month, or about 20% of their income, for insurance that covered $2,000 per day of hospital costs. His financial troubles started when MD Anderson told him, "We don't take that kind of discount insurance."

But he had to go to the hospital. His wife recalled that he was "sweating and shaking with chills and pains. He had a large mass in his chest that was..growing. He was panicked."

Stephanie asked her mother to write a check for $48,900.

Sean waited for 90 minutes while the hospital confirmed that the check had cleared. He was also required to advance MD Anderson $7,500 from his credit card. The total cost for the initial treatment and chemotherapy was $83,900, including a $15,000 charge for lab tests for which a Medicare patient would have paid a few hundred dollars, $283 for an x-ray that Medicare categorizes as a $20 charge, and $1.50 for a generic version of a Tylenol pill.


Hospital Boss $1,845,000 -- Medicare Boss $170,000

MD Anderson provided this statement in its defense: "The issues related to health care finance are complex...[our] billing and collection practices are similar to those of other major hospitals and academic medical centers." The company made $531 million in profits in 2010, on total revenues of about $2 billion. That 26 percent profit margin was, in the author's words, "an astounding result for such a service-intensive enterprise."

It's true. A PayUpNow.org analysis of Medical Services providers showed that from 2008 to 2010, Humana had a profit margin of about 5%, United Health Group just under 7 percent, and WellPoint about 8 percent.

Last year's salary for Ronald DePinho, the president of MD Anderson, was $1,845,000. That's over twice the compensation paid to the president of the University of Texas medical complex that includes MD Anderson. It's about ten times the compensation of the federal Medicare Administrator in 2010.

Privatization Has Failed Us: The Deadly Facts

Our private health care system has indeed failed us. We have by far the most expensive system in the developed world. The cost of common surgeries is anywhere from three to ten times higher in the U.S. than in Great Britain, Canada, France, or Germany.

Everyone has their hand in the money pot: insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, physicians, hospitals, equipment suppliers, the AMA. Steven Brill notes that the medical industry has spent $5.36 billion on lobbying in the past 15 years, compared to $1.53 billion spent by the defense/aerospace industry and $1.3 billion spent by oil and gas interests.

As reported by the Census Department, 50 million Americans can't afford the price of health insurance. According to a study by the American Journal of Public Health, nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance. A 2001 survey revealed that, because of cost, forty-two percent of sick Americans skipped doctor's visits and/or medication purchases. Even careseekers with insurance can end up uncovered, as in California, where a survey found that one out of four claims were denied by private insurers, even when treatment was recommended by the patient's physician. The after-effects can be disastrous. A 2007 study at the Harvard Medical School found that 62 percent of US bankruptcies were a result of medical expenses.

Meanwhile, the evidence for incompetence in the private sector is overwhelming. Data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that since 1997 private insurance costs have risen much faster than Medicare costs. According to the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, medical administrative costs as a percentage of claims are about three times higher for private insurance than for Medicare. A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Public Citizen found that health care bureaucracy last year cost the United States $399.4 billion. The U.S. Institute of Medicine reports that the for-profit system wastes $750 billion a year on waste, fraud, and inefficiency. As a percent of GDP, we spend almost twice the OECD average.

Private Health Care Has Shortened Our Lives

When we look beyond industry malfeasance to the effects on human life, we find that Americans are paying the ultimate price. We now have a shorter life expectancy than almost all other developed countries. A National Research Council study placed the United States LAST among 17 high-income countries.

It wasn't always this way. Since 1960 there has been a close parallel between worsening life expectancy and increased health care costs as a percentage of GDP. Most disturbing is our growing infant mortality rate relative to other countries. A UNICEF study places the U.S. 22nd out of 24 OECD countries in "children's health and well-being."

In startling contrast, Americans covered by Medicare INCREASED their life expectancy by 3.5 years from the 1960s to the turn of the century.

Another Horror Story

Janice S., a 64-year-old woman in Connecticut, was rushed to the hospital in what turned out to be heartburn. She was charged $995 for the ambulance ride, $3,000 for the doctors, and $17,000 for the hospital - $21,000 for a three-hour precautionary checkup.

Part of the hospital bill was a special stress test, employing radioactive dye and a CT scan, which cost $7,997.54, about six times more than the hospital's regular stress test. Medicare would have paid the hospital $554 for the special test.

For many of the lab tests, Janice was charged about ten to fifteen times more than the Congress-supervised Medicare rate. The hospital's own filings to the Department of Health and Human Services showed that lab tests in 2010 brought in $293 million from patients, while costing the hospital just $28 million.

When confronted with the details, a hospital spokesperson said, "Those are not our real rates..It's a list we use internally in certain cases, but most people never pay those prices."

And More..

Emilia Gilbert was 62 when she fell at home and bloodied her face, spent six hours (most of it waiting) at the at the Bridgeport, CT Hospital emergency room, and received a bill for over $9,000. She even got charged for bandages and tubing, which are supposed to be part of the $900 emergency room charge. The hospital sued her for the money.

Steve H. went to Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City for back treatment. He had $45,181 remaining on the $60,000 annual payout limit from his union's health insurance plan. For basic medical and surgical supplies he was billed about $8,000, including charges for a surgical gown, a blanket warmer and a marking pen. The most significant cost was the Medtronic stimulator that was implanted in his back, which cost the hospital $19,000, but cost Steve almost $50,000. His total bill at the institution run by the Sisters of Mercy ended up at nearly $87,000.

Steven D. (a pseudonym) was diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2011. When he died eleven months later, his wife Alice was left with a bill for over $900,000.

Many of the patients, or their family members, interviewed by Mr. Brill took advantage of a growing industry called medical billing advocacy, by which outlandish bill totals can be negotiated downward. The initial hospital bill is apparently an attempt by the hospital to get all they can from a patient. Steven D's $900,000 bill for cancer treatment was dramatically reduced, to about $170,000, but Alice was forced to literally sell the family farm to pay off most of her debt.



Human Need as a Product For Sale

An underlying theme through the Brill article was the vulnerability of patient's spouses or other relatives, who were not in the appropriate state of mind to challenge, or even consider, the excessive costs of treatment. As the wife of a terminally ill patient stated, "Are you kidding? I'm dealing with a husband who had just been told he has Stage IV cancer. That's all I can focus on...You think I looked at the items on the bills? I just looked at the total."

By treating the essential human need of health care as a product, the hospitals and doctors and drug companies and insurance companies and equipment suppliers are lured toward a pot of money, with little regard for the effects of their profit-making on average Americans.

The solution, of course, is Medicare for all. If, that is, the invisible hand of the market ever reaches out to average Americans.

 This article was published at NationofChange at: http://www.nationofchange.org/horror-care-how-private-health-care-shortening-our-lives-1362411408. All rights are reserved.


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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Mon Mar  4 17:55:07 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 17:55:07 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] OccupyMendocino minutes 3/2/2013
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Corrections to minutes.
 2.a.   Robin Sunbeam and Ellen Rosser were part of the delegation
meeting with Marty Lombardi and Shari Shapmire.    Mary Lombardi
offered to be a resource for us, in other words, to look over any
proposal we draw up.  He will not be available to be part of the
public bank, however.   Shari seemed to think that we, Occupy, wanted
to start a public bank.  Of course only public officials, like Shari,
can start and run a public bank.  We can use her information, however,
to draw up a proposal indicating how county moneys could be used
differently to fund a county public bank.  For example, money for
school projects may sit for two or three years before being used.
That money could be utilized by a public bank as long as it was
available when the school needed it.    The County Retirement Fund, of
which Shari is chairperson, could be another resource.   John
Saciewicz is on on the board and might have some ideas.
          Peace and blessings,  Ellen Rosser, Point Arena


On 3/3/13, Ann Rennacker <annxpress at live.com> wrote:
> Meeting called to order 2pm at the Ft Bragg Library community room.
> Present:  Richard, Mark, Agnes, Linda, Sheila, Ann, Russ, Dan, Amanda &
> Robert, Irene, Howard.
>
> 1).  Homeless Issues
>      Amanda reported on a forum on the homeless she & Robert attended on Jan
> 31.  There was a complaint about homeless people going to the bathrooms and
> finding them closed, even when they were supposed to be open.  Then when
> people go potty in public outside, they are looked down on as a health
> hazard.  The meeting was at Safe Passage, but homeless people could not
> speak.  The folks in charge of managing the homeless make them pay 1/3 of
> their salaries to get housed, and then have all sorts of rules they must
> obey, and they are not motivated to help the homeless get out of their
> situation because they are making a living "managing" homeless.  Amanda
> suggests that Occupy get a consortium to go together to buy some of the
> vacant hotels or houses in town and rent them to low income people.  We are
> not equipped to do this, but we agreed we can go to the City Housing
> Authority and ask them to look at utilizing vacancies or finding out if
> there are foreclosed properties which could be used for low income rentals.
> We know that Mayor Dave Turner is concerned about the homeless, and we can
> ask for a meeting with him to discuss alternatives, and to have the issue
> put on the Council Agenda.  Meg Courtney is also a member of the Council we
> can approach.
>
> 2).  Foreclosure Issues
>      a).  Sheila and Agnes met with Marty Lombardi about starting a
> Mendocino Public Bank.  Marty is experienced in banking, but does not feel
> we are ready to do a startup now.  The County Treasurer, Sherry Shapmire
> will have to advise us how to use the power of eminent domain and how to
> have enough of a cash flow to startup.  We need the help of a lawyer, and
> Steve Antler may be available when his case is finished, maybe sometime in
> April.
>       b). Before today's meeting a Foreclosure Committee consisting of
> Agnes, Richard and Ann met and created a petition we can get signatures of
> citizens to ask that our Recorder, Susan Ranochek start demanding any
> suspicious documents be sent back to the big banks for an Affadavit of
> Authenticity.  It cites penal code 115, which includes a penalty of perjury,
> and CJ says that many banks will not sign these when they have
> robo-signatures.  It also cites the newly passed Homeowners Bill of Rights.
> We wrangled over the wording for this for over an hour, but finally got a
> good petition.
>
> 3).  Publicity-
>      a).  KNYO radio has a radio show from 3-5 on Tuesdays with John Ridman
> that will let an Occupy representative speak or do a show.
>       b).  Peace & Justice group offered us a $500 donation, and would like
> us to rent a storefront, maybe with other groups, that could be a place to
> hand out information and literature, get out the publicity about what we are
> doing, demonstrate permanence, and be a presence in the community.  Ann,
> Dan. Amanda & Robert all offered to help staff, we could have donations of
> furnishing and computers, etc but we need to have enough funding to avoid
> overextending ourselves, and it will cost a lot for telephone and internet
> services, even with donated equipment.  If there are enough other groups
> going in with us we could pull it off.
>
> 4).  Fundraising
>       The letter we sent out is starting to get results, but since Jessie
> was not at the meeting we do not have a figure for the Treasury Report.  We
> passed the hat and took in more $.
>
> 5).  City Council
>       We want to get on the agenda when we get enough signatures on our
> foreclosure petition.  Maybe the 3rd week in April. Issues we wish to
> discuss are the homeless and we want to submit our petitions.
>
> 6).  Caspar Event
>      On Friday March 15 there is a meet & greet of the League of Women
> Voters where Occupy can have a table with our petitions, and the LWV women
> are very much activists.  Jane Person is the president of the group, and the
> event starts at 5pm.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


From marksafron at att.net  Tue Mar  5 09:07:00 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:07:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Another way the body politic is screwed.
Message-ID: <6914D77F-CB5F-4D3A-87DE-3D6B0F6AFB6A@att.net>


A Stealth Tax Subsidy for Business Faces New Scrutiny

Bond Giveaway: The Times?s Louise Story on corporations that enjoy billions of dollars in tax-free financing.
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH and LOUISE STORY
Published: March 4, 2013 296 Comments
The last time the nation?s tax code was overhauled, in 1986, Congress tried to end a big corporate giveaway.
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United States of Subsidies: As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price(December 2, 2012)
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The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, on opening night in September 2012.
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Bank of America Tower, center, at 115 West 42nd Street in New York.
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But this valuable perk ? the ability to finance a variety of business projects cheaply with bonds that are exempt from federal taxes ? has not only endured, it has grown, in what amounts to a stealth subsidy for private enterprise.

A winery in North Carolina, a golfresort in Puerto Rico and a Corvette museum in Kentucky, as well as the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the offices of the Goldman Sachs Group and the Bank of America Tower in New York ? all of these projects, and many more, have been built using the tax-exempt bonds that are more conventionally used by cities and states to pay for roads, bridges and schools.

In all, more than $65 billion of these bonds have been issued by state and local governments on behalf of corporations since 2003, according to an analysis of Bloomberg bond data by The New York Times. During that period, the single biggest beneficiary of such securities was the Chevron Corporation, which issued bonds with a total face value of $2.6 billion, the analysis showed. Last year it reported a profit of $26 billion.

At a time when Washington is rent by the politics of taxes and deficits, select companies are enjoying a tax break normally reserved for public works. This style of financing, called ?qualified private activity bonds,? saves businesses money, because they can borrow at relatively low interest rates. But those savings come at the expense of American taxpayers, because the interest paid to bondholders is exempt from taxes.

What is more, the projects are often structured so companies can avoid paying state sales taxes on new equipment and, at times, avoid local property taxes. While some deals might encourage businesses to invest where they might otherwise not have invested, there are few guarantees that job creation or other economic benefits actually occur.

Budget analysts say these bonds amount to a government subsidy, in the form of forgone tax revenue. While it is difficult to calculate the precise dollar amount of the subsidy, given the number and variety of these bonds, experts say the annual cost to federal taxpayers could run into the billions.

?The federal government doesn?t cut a check for this, but it costs the government in terms of lower tax revenue,? said Lisa Washburn, a managing director at Municipal Market Advisors, an independent municipal research firm in Concord, Mass., that assisted The Times with its analysis.

?If these companies were to issue taxable bonds instead, then the federal government would receive tax revenues on them.?

Ms. Washburn added that the gain to companies, and bond buyers, can be big and long-lasting.

Chevron used most of its federally tax-free borrowings to expand a refinery in Pascagoula, Miss. Archer Daniels Midland, the agribusiness giant, used about $180 million in tax-exempt bonds to improve its grain-processing facilities in Indiana and Iowa. Alcoa raised $250 million to renovate an aluminum plant in Iowa.

Such financing arrangements are now worrying some state and local officials. Many are concerned that the budget battles in Washington will mean less federal money for them, and that the federal government might try to limit the scope of their own tax-free financing.

Some of the subsidized business projects are almost indistinguishable from public works. American Airlines, for instance, another big user of tax-exempt bonds over the last decade, used $1.3 billion of these securities to finance a new terminal at Kennedy International Airport. That terminal is owned by the City of New York; American is the builder, the borrower and a tenant.

As political controversy over the federal deficit has mounted, some fiscal experts have taken aim at this sort of tax-exempt borrowing. The team at the Bipartisan Policy Centerled by Alice M. Rivlin, a former member of the Federal Reserve, and Pete V. Domenici, the former Republican senator, has called for ending it. A spokeswoman for the center said that such a change could bring in $50 billion for the federal government over 10 years.

The Obama administration would take a different approach, capping the value of the tax break that wealthy bond buyers enjoy, whether they buy private activity bonds or conventional municipal bonds. Some of the bonds in The Times?s analysis are subject to the alternative minimum tax, but taxpayers who incur the A.M.T. typically do not buy those bonds. There are also tax-exempt private activity bonds that are used for hospitals and universities. The Times did not include those in the analysis, because they do not benefit profit-making companies.

It was Ms. Rivlin who, as founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, issued one of the first major reports on private activity bonds, which the report said were invented by officials in Mississippi eager to attract business during the Depression. In a 1981 report, Ms. Rivlin found that the bonds were in much wider use than previously understood. Companies were using the federal subsidy to build Kmarts, McDonald?s restaurants, private golf courses and tennis clubs ? even a topless bar and an adult bookstore in Philadelphia.

?These trends have cast into sharp relief the questions concerning the public purpose? of the subsidy, Ms. Rivlin wrote at the time. ?So far, federal legislation has left the definition of ?public purpose? to state and local governments.?

Finally, in 1986, in a sweeping tax reform signed by President Ronald Reagan, Congress set limits on qualified private activity bonds, giving each state a yearly allotment. Some projects, like airports and wharves, were not subject to the yearly limits. Others could not be financed with tax-exempt bonds at all, including golf courses, stadiums, hotels, massage parlors and tanning salons.

But over time, Reagan-era concerns about budget deficits faded, and so did some of the limits on tax-exempt private activity bonds. The Government Accountability Office reported in 2008 that use had risen to a record high and that once-forbidden projects like stadiums, hotels and golf courses were back.

?It is not clear whether facilities like these provide public benefits to federal taxpayers,? theG.A.O. stated in its report.

In the years since 1986, Congress has lifted the caps on some states? or cities? allotments, often in response to natural disasters and other emergencies.

After the terrorist attacks in 2001, for example, Congress approved $8 billion worth of tax-exempt Liberty Bonds, which were in addition to New York State?s normal allotment and could be used to keep companies from moving out of the neighborhood near ground zero. Goldman Sachs used around $1.6 billion of tax-exempt bonds under the program to help pay for its headquarters in Lower Manhattan. In a related program, Goldman agreed to keep 8,900 jobs in the city but has not met that level for the last three years, according to public records.

A spokesman for Goldman did not dispute that its jobs levels have been below 8,900 but said the bank was meeting its obligations.

The Liberty Bond program allowed for a limited amount of tax-exempt financing for projects beyond Lower Manhattan. That?s how One Bryant Park L.L.C. was able to use $650 million of tax-exempt bonds to build the Bank of America Tower in Midtown.

In 2005, Congress created a similar program to spur rebuilding in areas of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi that were ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The Times?s data shows that much of the bond proceeds went to the oil and gas industry, or to showcase projects like hotels or the Superdome. In 2008, Congress passed the Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act, a bond program to help 10 Midwestern states hit by flooding and tornadoes. The goal was to help businesses rebuild their destroyed property. But by the time the program was set to expire at the end of last year, the criteria had been expanded to include new businesses.

One of those businesses was Orascom Construction Industries of Egypt, which raised $1.2 billion of tax-exempt bonds to build a fertilizer plant in Iowa. Another was the Fatima Group of Pakistan. In December, a Fatima subsidiary raised $1.3 billion, tax-exempt, to build a fertilizer plant in Mount Vernon, Ind.

But weeks later, Indiana received alarming news: Pentagon officials said that fertilizer from Fatima?s operations in Pakistan had been turning up in Afghanistan, in homemade bombs used against American troops. Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana has delayed the project while the Defense Department investigates. The $1.3 billion is now sitting in escrow and will have to go back to the bond buyers if the project is rejected.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Mar  5 10:06:47 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:06:47 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Tell President Obama to reject the flawed
	Keystone XL review]
Message-ID: <c03d0aa5cd2e0db5e57fe50f484cf169.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Tell President Obama to reject the flawed Keystone XL review
From:    "NRDC - Frances Beinecke" <biogemsdefenders at savebiogems.org>
Date:    Mon, March 4, 2013 12:05 pm
To:      agnes at mcn.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Agnes,

The State Department has just released its environmental review of the
Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and, as we'd feared, the results
are recklessly insufficient.

Despite the President's tough talk on confronting climate
change, his State Department shrugged off the devastating climate
impacts of a pipeline that would drive dramatic expansion of
heavily-polluting tar sands development.

We must mobilize as quickly as possible to push back on this
botched review and demand that President Obama deliver on his promise
to tackle climate change.

http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=MvP_GuejOwqtmaEcaqXNLw

Tell President Obama to reject the State Department's
flawed assessment and send them back to the drawing board.

http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=G7w8xsvI1uZcug6vIb1AlQ

Producing tar sands oil generates three times as much greenhouse gas
pollution as regular crude oil production. Building the Keystone XL
would be the same as putting at least five million new cars on the
road!

Downplaying the climate impacts of this added pollution is
like ignoring the increased odds of getting lung cancer from smoking
more cigarettes.

The State Department is also aware that  the corrosive properties of
tar sands oil increases the likelihood of pipeline leaks and spills.
In fact, the Keystone XL's sister pipeline leaked more than 12
times in its first year of operation!

But that's not properly addressed in
this new review either.

We must not let the administration paper over these all-too-real
environmental threats.

President Obama has promised action on climate change. If he rejects
this pipeline, he can keep the dirtiest fuel on the planet where it
belongs: in the ground. But if he allows it to go forward, he will be
locking us into decades of increased carbon pollution and climate
disruption.

Urge the President to deliver on his climate promise

http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=AxpfNkdQoYDQUqs3Ez0-oQ

by rejecting the State Department's flawed review of the
Keystone XL.

In the weeks ahead, I'll be writing to ask you to submit a
message of opposition directly to the State Department, which w



From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Mar  5 16:15:20 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:15:20 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] What if drone attacked here?
Message-ID: <5584F020-19C0-439E-8A15-635C05E24F97@mcn.org>

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14899-what-if-a-drone-attacked-in-the-us	

What If a Drone Attacked in the US? A White Paper Justification
Tuesday, 05 March 2013 09:59
By Camillo Mac Bica, Truthout | Op-Ed


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An undated handout photo of a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper, a drone aircraft aimed with laser-guided munitions and Hellfire missiles. (Photo: Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt / US Air Force via The New York Times)
"This just in: Iran has utilized its newly developed drone capability to execute three members of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK), aka the People's Mujahideen of Iran, a terrorist organization responsible for killing and injuring many ... continues at:
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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:20:35 -0800
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Wed Mar  6 23:35:56 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie VanSant)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:35:56 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Big Banks Are Stealing Homes: End Fraudulent
	Foreclosures!
Message-ID: <576C9E0C-9453-4054-80E6-8B2A8DAAE431@gmail.com>

Hi,

Because laws are not being followed, the Mendocino County tax base is being diminished and services impacted. Banks are not in compliance with the Homeowners Bill of Rights enacted in Jan 2013. There is evidence of foreclosure fraud and Mendocino County is losing money.

That's why I created a petition to Susan Ranochak, Mendocino County Assessor, which says:

"We the voters urge Susan Ranochak to investigate suspicious foreclosures in Mendocino County CA, by sending an Affidavit of Authority to the foreclosing entity."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/big-banks-are-stealing?source=c.em.mt&r_by=7244206

Thanks!
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From bodhirobin at pacific.net  Sun Mar  3 09:57:41 2013
From: bodhirobin at pacific.net (bodhirobin at pacific.net)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 09:57:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Ukiah Presents a Public Forum on Herbicide
	Use March 10
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Occupy Ukiah is sponsoring an open public forum on
herbicide use in the county.?
The moderated panel of featured speakers include Ag Commissioner
Chuck Morse, Organic farmers Adam Gaska and Derek Dahlen, private citizen
Will Parrish, and a representative from Mendocino Redwood Company.? One issue will be herbicide use in
the proposed Mendocino Redwood Company 80-year Habitat
Conservation Plan.?
MRC is the largest private landowner in Mendocino County and
their plan calling for continued herbicide use is now open for public
comment before April 21, 2013. Another issue will be the risk of the use
of herbicides to public health.?
Public comment will follow with a question and answer period.? Our goal is to view all sides of
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our government from withing the system set up by our Founding Fathers by
amending the Constitution. 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Move-to-Amend-Ukiah/331350666895175,
http://movetoamend.org/ca-ukiah
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Mar  7 15:34:53 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:34:53 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?5TH_DISTRICT_SUPERVISOR_Dan_Ha?=
 =?windows-1252?q?mburg=92s_wife=2C_Carrie=2C_has_died=2E?=
References: <7A8534DB-B662-40D1-BECF-A69153AEB0D3@mac.com>
Message-ID: <B6F349FB-6142-4459-980F-5FFADA04F62F@mcn.org>

  Dan has been supportive of many of OM projects too.rk
>> 
>> 5TH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Dan Hamburg?s wife, Carrie, has died. Mrs. Hamburg had been ill for some time with cancer. Carrie Hamburg was much admired by many people in Mendocino County as an unfailingly kind and friendly person active in a range of liberal causes. 		 	   		  
> 



From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Mar  7 15:36:50 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:36:50 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Jury acquits Occupy protesters
References: <CB1ACE6C64BF4C209CC7C259F7668B56@omnio1yiei2jxc>
Message-ID: <33720228-8319-4D50-A3D3-FBACE014925F@mcn.org>

> 
> Subject: Jury acquits Occupy protesters
> 
> Jury acquits Occupy protesters 05 Mar 2013 A Common Pleas Court jury today acquitted 12 Occupy Philadelphia demonstrators arrested in a 2011 sit-in in a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Center City. The jury of 10 women and two men deliberated a total of about 13 hours since Friday before it returned, shortly before noon, to announce the verdicts: not guilty of conspiracy and defiant trespass against each of the 12 protesters. The 12 - one woman and 11 men - were arrested Nov. 18, 2011 when they staged a sit-in inside the Wells Fargo branch at 17th and Market Streets. The protesters said they wanted to call attention to what they called [and is] Wells Fargo's "racist predatory lending" policies that caused a disproportionately large number of home foreclosures in African American neighborhoods.
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From sanutter at mcn.org  Thu Mar  7 15:56:56 2013
From: sanutter at mcn.org (susan nutter)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:56:56 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: a must read
Message-ID: <22C382F230CF4049901AB0CC4711D342@nutter>



For a very thorough and clear explanation of why the medical care industry costs are three times greater than the military industry, read this week's (March 4) Time.

It is a long special report but well worth reading.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/
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From elained at mcn.org  Fri Mar  8 07:07:00 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:07:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Attorney General Eric Holder admits that the
	biggest banks are not just too big too fail, but above the law.
Message-ID: <8CD8D962-C0C7-4AF1-8E7F-DCEDCC0FB9C6@mcn.org>

Outrage: Some Banks Are Too Big to Prosecute
Attorney General Eric Holder admits that the biggest banks
 are not just too big too fail, but above the law.

By Robert Borosage

March 7, 2013  |    
 

For years, the Obama Administration has been pummeled for failing to bring criminal charges against a single major Wall Street bank or a single leading Wall Street banker for what the FBI termed an ?epidemic of fraud? that blew up the entire economy.  Investigations revealed the banks committed routine fraud in peddling mortgage securities they knew were garbage, trampled basic property laws, laundered money from Iran, Libya and Mexican drug lords, conspired to game the basic measure of interest rates and more.  Yet, time after time, the Justice Department and regulatory agencies settled for sweetheart deals, with no admission of guilt, no banker held accountable, and fines that were the equivalent in earnings of a speeding ticket to the average family.

Yesterday Attorney General Holder stated openly what was already apparent.  The Justice Department believes that Too Big to Fail Banks are Too Big to Jail.  Criminal indictments against banks or leading bankers might endanger the economy and thus were too big a risk.

Here?s what Holder said

?I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy,? he said. ?And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large.?

Holder was responding to questions by Republican Senator Charles Grassley about why the Justice Department brought no criminal charges against the large British bank HSBC after it admitted laundering money for parties in Iran, Libya and Mexican drug lords.  The Attorney General acknowledged that the sheer size of the big banks ?has an inhibiting impact on our ability to bring resolutions that I think would be more appropriate.  That is something you (members of Congress) all need to consider.?

Foam the Runway

Allowing the big banks to operate above the law is at one with the philosophy that guided both the Bush and the Obama administrations during the financial collapse.  Tim Geithner, former head of the New York Federal Reserve bank under Bush and Treasury Secretary under Obama, would preach that it was necessary to ?foam the runway? to protect the banks from total crackup.  That ?foam? included literally trillions in the backdoor bailout of banks organized by the Federal Reserve, abandoning the underwater homeowners who were victimized by Wall Street?s wilding, while neutering any regulatory or criminal accountability.

 Above the Law

Holder?s outrageous admission means that bankers operate ? and know they operate ? above the law.  That renders all the argument about regulations and legal limits risible.  Bankers spend tens of millions lobbying to weaken regulations and starve regulators of authority and resources.  But when the action gets hot, the bubble starts to build, the music keeps playing, they can trample the laws, mislead the regulators and defraud their customers, bolstered by the confidence that the laws will not apply to them.

Holder?s argument, however, is indefensible.  There is no reason a bank with billions of assets could not survive the indictment of its CEO or CFO.  If the Fed and Treasury can ?foam the runway? to protect otherwise insolvent banks from collapse, they surely could insure that a bank survives while its executives are held personally responsible for their crimes.  Putting a few bankers in jail and holding them personally accountable for their frauds would do much to bring sobriety back to Wall Street.

The Campaign for a Fair Settlement, of which the Campaign for America?s Future is a partner, has called on the president to repudiate Holder?s statement, and to direct the Justice Department to prosecute those who violated the law.  But Holder?s position forces a bigger issue.

Too Big to Be

So big banks operate above the law.  And as the conservative head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Richard Fischer and many others have argued, they are not disciplined by the market.  They know their losses are covered, while they pocket their winnings.  They have multi-million dollar personal incentives to leverage up, use other people?s money to make big bets on high risk operations that offer big rewards.  Their excesses blew up the economy, but they got bailed out and emerged bigger and more concentrated than ever.

And, of course, since investors know the big banks can?t fail, the big banks can attract money at much lower rates than smaller banks, a subsidy worth about $83 billion a year according to recent calculations by Bloomberg News.

Clearly, institutions that are above the law and beyond the discipline of the market cannot exist in their current form.  The Congress has only two choices.  The big banks can be nationalized and treated as public utilities.  The public would pocket their profits and cover their losses.  Or the big banks can be broken up, and be accountable to both the law and the market.

Senators Sherrod Brown and Jeff Merkley have spearheaded the drive to break up the big banks.  This takes remarkable courage.  Brown had to overcome torrents of big money poured into the effort to defeat him when he ran for re-election last year.

Now they are gaining unlikely allies.  George Will has called on conservatives to follow Brown to the barricades.  Republican Senator David Vitter has joined in calling for study of the subsidy big banks enjoy.  Retired bankers like John Reed, former president of Citibank have joined with Dallas Fed President Fischer and others to call for breaking up the banks.

Can the big banks be held accountable?  Wall Street is a leading source of funds for both parties.  The revolving door between Wall Street and Washington spins no matter what administration is in power.  The Obama administration has opposed every effort to break up the big banks.  Republicans in Congress have shamelessly offered themselves as Wall Street?s protectors in exchange for campaign money.

But Holder?s admission makes action ? however improbable ? imperative.  A nation of laws and markets cannot abide huge private financial institutions that are accountable to neither.

Robert L. Borosage is the founder and president of the Institute for America?s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America?s Future.

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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Mar  8 09:46:43 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:46:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] please sign my petition
Message-ID: <b0c0dddc405ee35e49b7f03c2daa050f.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Hi,

Unpaid Taxes by big banks using robo-signed documents have foreclosed
properties fraudulently, impacting the County budget for police, fire and
education services. Big banks must prove they own the note/mortgage
according to AB 1602 and SB 1470, effective 1/1/13. Fraudulent
foreclosures must be reported by the Recorder to the CA Attorney General.

That's why I created a petition to Supervisor Dan Hamburg, Chairman of the
B.O.S., which says:

"We, the voters of Mendocino County urge the Board of Supervisors to fund
an audit of foreclosure documents in the Assessor-Recorder's Property
Records."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/fund-the-audit-of-suspicious?source=c.em.cp&r_by=1281620

Thanks!





From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Mar  8 12:07:39 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:07:39 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Break up the Big Banks letter
Message-ID: <14539c4629c521610473233421e0511f.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>



Please send a similar letter to Congress asking them to break up the big
banks, now.


Dear Senators Fienstein and Boxer,
          Please urge the President and Congress to pass legislation to
break up the big banks .
 Ask President Obama to repudiate A.G. Holder's contention that big banks
are above the law.
Either prosecute big banks or nationalize them before they demand another
bailout.
Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey

 Above the Law by  Robert Borosage

Holder?s outrageous admission means that bankers operate ? and know they
operate ? above the law.  That renders all the argument about regulations
and legal limits risible.  Bankers spend tens of millions lobbying to
weaken regulations and starve regulators of authority and resources.  But
when the action gets hot, the bubble starts to build, the music keeps
playing, they can trample the laws, mislead the regulators and defraud
their customers, bolstered by the confidence that the laws will not apply
to them.

Holder?s argument, however, is indefensible.  There is no reason a bank
with billions of assets could not survive the indictment of its CEO or
CFO.  If the Fed and Treasury can ?foam the runway? to protect otherwise
insolvent banks from collapse, they surely could insure that a bank
survives while its executives are held personally responsible for their
crimes.  Putting a few bankers in jail and holding them personally
accountable for their frauds would do much to bring sobriety back to Wall
Street.

The Campaign for a Fair Settlement, of which the Campaign for America?s
Future is a partner, has called on the president to repudiate Holder?s
statement, and to direct the Justice Department to prosecute those who
violated the law.  But Holder?s position forces a bigger issue.

Too Big to Be

So big banks operate above the law.  And as the conservative head of the
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Richard Fischer and many others have argued,
they are not disciplined by the market.  They know their losses are
covered, while they pocket their winnings.  They have multi-million dollar
personal incentives to leverage up, use other people?s money to make big
bets on high risk operations that offer big rewards.  Their excesses blew
up the economy, but they got bailed out and emerged bigger and more
concentrated than ever.

And, of course, since investors know the big banks can?t fail, the big
banks can attract money at much lower rates than smaller banks, a subsidy
worth about $83 billion a year according to recent calculations by
Bloomberg News.

Clearly, institutions that are above the law and beyond the discipline of
the market cannot exist in their current form.  The Congress has only two
choices.  The big banks can be nationalized and treated as public
utilities.  The public would pocket their profits and cover their losses. 
Or the big banks can be broken up, and be accountable to both the law and
the market.

Senators Sherrod Brown and Jeff Merkley have spearheaded the drive to
break up the big banks.  This takes remarkable courage.  Brown had to
overcome torrents of big money poured into the effort to defeat him when
he ran for re-election last year.

Now they are gaining unlikely allies.  George Will has called on
conservatives to follow Brown to the barricades.  Republican Senator David
Vitter has joined in calling for study of the subsidy big banks enjoy. 
Retired bankers like John Reed, former president of Citibank have joined
with Dallas Fed President Fischer and others to call for breaking up the
banks.

Can the big banks be held accountable?  Wall Street is a leading source of
funds for both parties.  The revolving door between Wall Street and
Washington spins no matter what administration is in power.  The Obama
administration has opposed every effort to break up the big banks. 
Republicans in Congress have shamelessly offered themselves as Wall
Street?s protectors in exchange for campaign money.

But Holder?s admission makes action ? however improbable ? imperative.  A
nation of laws and markets cannot abide huge private financial
institutions that are accountable to neither.

Robert L. Borosage is the founder and president of the Institute for
America?s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign
for America?s Future.




From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar  8 13:41:26 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 13:41:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [OPC] Fund the Audit of Suspicious
	Foreclosures
In-Reply-To: <SNT145-DS2993902743DFE95FBAF30DDE60@phx.gbl>
References: <SNT145-DS2993902743DFE95FBAF30DDE60@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <D618617A-AFDE-4539-AB4D-A7433C0BF1D6@mcn.org>

Dear Ann, It is good to see you circulating our petition wide and far!   We should
send to our friends and neighbors or other lists to get as many signees as possible.
 We still have  to set a goal and time before sending accumulated petition names to 
the County Assessor. One month? Two months?  More?,,,,,, They put the names in groups of
50.
Thanks, 
Richard



On Mar 8, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
Re: [OPC] Fund the Audit of Suspicious Foreclosures
> ***************
> ********
> ***
> Hi,
> 
> Unpaid Taxes by big banks using robo-signed documents have foreclosed properties fraudulently, impacting the County budget for police, fire and education services. Big banks must prove they own the note/mortgage according to AB 1602 and SB 1470, effective 1/1/13. Fraudulent foreclosures must be reported by the Recorder to the CA Attorney General.
> 
> That's why I signed a petition to Supervisor Dan Hamburg, Chairman of the B.O.S., which says:
> 
> "We, the voters of Mendocino County urge the Board of Supervisors to fund an audit of foreclosure documents in the Assessor-Recorder's Property Records."
> 
> Will you sign this petition? Click here:
> 
> http://signon.org/sign/fund-the-audit-of-suspicious?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=504833
> 
> Thanks!
> ...........................
> 
> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to opc-leave at lists.mcn.org
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar  8 22:40:14 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 22:40:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Attorney General admits that the most powerful
	members of society won't be prosecuted
Message-ID: <3C16CEAE-2071-4616-AA45-2D347E1E75E3@mcn.org>

Dear MoveOn member,
The most amazing thing just happened. 

The Obama Administration finally admitted the truth of what we've been saying all along: giant Wall Street banks have become too big to prosecute. In testimony on Wed, March 6, US Attorney General Eric Holder?the nation's top cop?said,

"I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them ... I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large."1

Exactly. 

Tell President Obama to end the Administration's policy of treating Wall Street banks as too big to fail and too big to jail by taking immediate steps to break up the big banks and prosecute the criminals who used them to destroy our economy.

Now we understand why the Obama Administration has failed to bring criminal charges against a single major Wall Street bank or executive for systemic fraud that brought down our economy. When the Attorney General openly admits that the most powerful members of society won't be prosecuted for even the most egregious of crimes, we are in deep trouble as a nation. 

Remember that we gave Wall Street bankers $700 billion in TARP bailouts and $2.5 trillion in investments, loans, and guarantees to shore up their business (and outrageous bonuses)2 on the theory that letting them collapse would create a generation-long Depression. In return it seems fair to demand accountability for the actions that brought us to that point. Now it turns out the Administration never had any intention of seeking accountability.  

Stand up and add your voice in demanding the Administration end the policy of "too big to fail/jail".

That's why we're demanding an immediate end to this unconscionable policy that puts the wishes of Wall Street 1%ers above the well-being of working families, most especially those hardest hit by the criminal actions of these very same people. 

The Campaign for a Fair Settlement has pushing hard during the first hundred days of President Obama's second term for real accountability for the Wall Street criminals who stole our homes, savings, and pensions and destroyed our economy. We think this is the only way he'll secure his legacy as a champion of justice for the millions of homeowners, taxpayers and retirees harmed by Wall Street criminals. This revelation makes this all the more urgent. 

Stand up and demand President Obama take immediate steps to break up the big banks and prosecute the criminals who used them to destroy our economy.

It's break up time. Now or never.

In solidarity,

Brian Kettenring 
Executive Director?Action for the Common Good, and 
Campaign Director?Campaign for a Fair Settlement

1 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=287895&id=63933-11588-jX7Pbrx&t=8

2http://www.moveon.org/r?r=287896&id=63933-11588-jX7Pbrx&t=9

This petition was created on SignOn.org, the progressive, nonprofit petition site. SignOn.org is sponsored by MoveOn Civic Action, which is not responsible for the contents of this or other petitions posted on the site. Campaign for a Fair Settlement didn't pay us to send this email?we never rent or sell the MoveOn.org list.

Want to support our work? MoveOn Civic Action is entirely funded by our 7 million members?no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.


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From jupiter at mcn.org  Sun Mar 10 09:51:10 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:51:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Elizabeth Warren vs. Banks
References: <123783B1-6E04-47AA-BF24-430B46ADC636@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <217F6BA2-F412-4F94-ACBE-B26112968A3E@mcn.org>

>>
>>
>> Carrie,
>>
>> In a Senate hearing this week, Elizabeth Warren grilled a Treasury  
>> official about a major Wall Street bank (HSBC) that was caught  
>> laundering money for Al Quaeda and drug cartels -- repeatedly --  
>> and only got a slap on the wrist.
>>
>> In the video, it's clear that bank regulators aren't used to being  
>> told to go harder on the banks. This is why we worked so hard  
>> together to elect Elizabeth Warren!
>>
>> Click here to watch Warren -- and add your name to hrs, demanding  
>> that regulators take Wall Street banks to trial!
>>
>> (You can also watch here and donate $3 to help us mobilize support  
>> for Warren's agenda.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Warren previously grilling the top SEC official, who admitted they  
>> have no idea when they last took a bank to trial. This week, Warren  
>> underscored her point:
>>
>> "If you're caught with an ounce of cocaine, that chances are good  
>> that you're going to go to jail...but evidently if you launder  
>> nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels, your company pays a fine  
>> and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night. I think that's  
>> fundamentally wrong."
>>
>> Watch her magical performance here -- and sign our petition  
>> demanding that regulators finally take Wall Street banks to trial.
>>
>> (You can also watch here and donate $3 to help us mobilize support  
>> for Warren's agenda.)
>>
>> Thanks for being a bold progressive.
>>
>> -- Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Michael Snook, Forrest Brown,  
>> Amanda Johnson, and the PCCC team
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>>
>> Like the PCCC on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 10 10:17:32 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:17:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ] Message from Bobby Kennedy to Bradley Manning]
Message-ID: <bb13cdf1b6796a3c4f0b7b7373e479f7.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Message from Bobby Kennedy to Bradley Manning
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Sat, March 9, 2013 7:28 am
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A MESSAGE FROM BOBBY KENNEDY TO BRADLEY MANNING


Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope.  And crossing each other from a million different centers
of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance,

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of
their colleagues, the wrath of their society.

MORAL COURAGE IS A RARER COMMODITY THAN BRAVERY IN BATTLE OR GREAT
INTELLIGENCE.  YET IT IS THE ONE ESSENTIAL, VITAL QUALITY FOR THOSE WHO
SEEK TO CHANGE A WORLD THAT YIELDS PAINFULLY TO CHANGE.

And I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the
moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the
globe.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Mar 10 14:06:04 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:06:04 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Protect Medicare Petition
Message-ID: <2C3D8076-2B56-4CEB-8A58-68163C22242C@mcn.org>

Tell Paul Ryan: Protect Medicare for seniors, not tax breaks for billionaires
http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/acti...
Sign the petition telling Paul Ryan that every time he tries to turn Medicare into a voucher program, you will stand up and stop him.





http://campaigns.dailykos.com/action/wrapperProcessAction.jsp
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 10 21:46:22 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:46:22 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Natural News: Whole Foods announces
 mandatory GMO labeling by 2018]
Message-ID: <d6c6bf578ca20a6f2e543f7422966e2a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Natural News:  Whole Foods announces mandatory GMO labeling by 2018
From:    "Bob Wilkinson" <row1330 at yahoo.com>
Date:    Sun, March 10, 2013 2:26 pm
To:      "Bob Wilkinson" <row1330 at yahoo.com>
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rom a friend of mine:
Friends and "investors": ?Sell your Monsanto stock now. ?Sell Dow and
Dupont while your at it.?

I hope this is the beginning of the end for GMO in our food.

b
?


Whole Foods announces mandatory GMO labeling by 2018; here's how it
happened ?(from Annie W.)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor?

(NaturalNews) In a huge victory for the alternative media and grassroots
activism, Whole Foods announced on Friday that it would require GMO labels
on all products by 2018. (Click here for the press release.) This
announcement deals a significant blow to Monsanto, DuPont and all the GMO
pushers who openly admit that they want consumers to remain ignorant about
what they're eating.

It's a brilliant move for Whole Foods, given that by 2018, anyone who
wants to be certain whether they are avoiding GMOs will gladly choose to
do all their shopping at Whole Foods. After all, if Albertson's (for
example) doesn't require GMO labeling while Whole Foods does, in which
store would you rather shop? Whole Foods!

But the real story here is everything that led up to this. The turning
point in all this was, in my opinion, the 2012 release of the Organic
Spies video in which Whole Foods employees were caught on camera lying to
customers about GMOs.

Natural Newsbroke this story and was instrumental in getting the video
posted on our free speech protected video service TV.naturalnews.com, a
public location which could not be easily banned by Whole Foods. YouTube,
by comparison, routinely bans videos that blow the whistle on dishonest
corporate behavior, but TV.naturalnews.com hosts whistleblowing videos and
has so far resisted all attempts to have those videos banned or removed.
(We even host most of the Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory series,
including the "memory-holed" FEMA camp episode that has disappeared
everywhere else.)

This Organic Spies video proved to be hugely embarrassing to Whole Foods,
causing an uproar across the 'net and causing many customers to start
shopping elsewhere such as Green PolkaDot Box, which avoids carrying any
products containing GMOs.

Following the Organic Spies video, InfoWars reporters Aaron Dykes and
Melissa Melton launched a breakthrough video investigation that exposed
the "big Whole Foods lie" of claiming "Nothing artificial, ever" on the
side of their stores while secretly selling unlabeled GMOs in their
stores. We also documented the "Nothing artificial, ever" fraud here on
Natural News. GMOs are, of course, "artificial." They are engineered by
man, not created by nature. In this video, Whole Foods was caught in yet
another blatant, embarrassing lie.

The Prop 37 campaign was also in full swing during all this, and Whole
Foods refused to contribute a single dollar to the California ballot
measure. After being confronted and publicly shamed, a Whole Foods
executive did quietly contribute $25,000, but only after being called out
for failing to support the campaign.

Alternative media holds Whole Foods' feet to the fire
Add all this up and you get the impression that Whole Foods was actively
opposed to GMO labeling. And it was the alternative media that was holding
Whole Foods' feet to the fire. While the mainstream media refused to even
touch the issue (because mainstream media is nothing more than a
dumbed-down, cartoon-level disinfo broadcast for morons and sheeple), the
alternative media plowed full steam ahead. Natural News, InfoWars,
Mercola, the Organic Consumers Association, the Institute for Responsible
Technology and many other organizations kept hammering the issue, and tens
of millions of grassroots activists made their voices heard in a
resounding way.

Through various back channels, Whole Foods got the message loud and clear
that there was no way they were going to be able to stop this. The
alternative media can't be easily bought off because the key people who
run the alternative media aren't in it for money (unlike the mainstream
media).

If Whole Foods didn't get fully behind the mandatory labeling of GMOs, it
was going to find itself in a runaway confidence crisis. After all, if
health-conscious customers can't trust Whole Foods to be transparent with
them about what's really in their foods, there's not much of a reason to
shop at Whole Foods, is there?

Whole Foods capitulates and decides to require labeling
Sometime between November 2012 and March 2013, Whole Foods executives made
a decision to finally get behind GMO labeling. They announced that all the
foods they carry would need to be labeled with GMO content by 2018. As
StreetInsider.com reports:

Whole Foods Market announced... that, by 2018, all products in its U.S.
and Canadian stores must be labeled to indicate whether they contain
genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It is the first national grocery
chain to set a deadline for full GMO transparency.

On the surface, this was immediately heralded as a highly ethical
leadership decision by the market leader in health food retailing, but
behind the scenes an entirely different equation was being calculated.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey never makes a decision unless it's in his
financial interest to do so, and as his history of false-identity Wild
Oats blogging shows, he's not beyond engaging in wild deceptions in order
to make more money for himself and his investors.

Ultimately, Mackey and the Whole Foods executives realized what I've been
trying to tell them for months: That if they didn't get behind GMO
labeling, they were going to lose everything. Promoting GMO labeling isn't
simple a choice of ethics for Whole Foods, it's a matter of economic
survival.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 10 21:48:40 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:48:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Climate bomb is ticking--and "Run for the
 Pink" run by Susan G. Komen Foundation has ties to FRACKING. No wonder they
 are reluctant to link fracking chemicals to breast cancer . !!]
Message-ID: <9847db71729960427d0ea79baa7a3c3c.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Climate bomb is ticking--and "Run for the Pink" run by Susan G.
Komen Foundation has ties to FRACKING.  No wonder they are reluctant to
link fracking chemicals to breast cancer . !!
From:    "Janie Rezner" <jrezner at mcn.org>
Date:    Sun, March 10, 2013 2:31 pm
To:      matriarchalstudies at yahoogroups.com
         discussion at lists.mcn.org
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US Climate Bomb is Ticking.   What the Gas Industry Doesn't want you to Know

Here is a little more on the subject of FRACKING  involving the yearly
event "Run for the Pink"  which supposedly helps women avoid breast
cancer."      Even the Koch Brothers are in on it.  Janie

The Susan G. Komen Foundation--which has been influenced by an industry
representative, Jane Abraham, wife of Spencer Abraham, who was George W.
Bush's energy secretary and who serves on the board of Occidental
Petroleum, a major fracker. In addition, Komen's "million-dollar council"
includes Koch Industries' subsidiary, Georgia-Pacific, as well as General
Electric - all fracking profiteers. Perhaps this explains why the
foundation is reluctant to link chemicals such as benzene, which is
released during fracking, to breast cancer, despite evidence of a
connection."
http://clearingthefogradio.org/us-climate-bomb-is-ticking-what-the-gas-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

James Hansen's eye-opening article, "Game Over for the Climate," brought
widespread attention to the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada as a source of
carbon which, if tapped, would lead to irreversible global warming. There
is another climate bomb in the United States, shale gas hydraulic
fracking, which emits methane, more dangerous than CO2. While many
rhetorically call natural gas a bridge to the clean energy future, new
information is showing the opposite; natural gas will hasten climate
change, poisons the air, land and water, and carries unacceptable risks to
our health.

We spoke with experts - Cornell engineering professor Dr. Anthony
Ingraffea and biologist and author Dr. Sandra Steingraber - to explore
what the newest studies show and to bust common myths about gas shale
hydraulic fracking. The path out of this situation is a combination of
promoting sound science, ending the extraction economy and employing
direct action to weaken the stranglehold of industry on the political
process. It is time to end the "all of the above" energy strategy which
ensures going over the climate tipping point and instead commit to a
carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy.   read more:

http://clearingthefogradio.org/us-climate-bomb-is-ticking-what-the-gas-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

My recent interview with Sandra Steingraber on fracking at
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/61029
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Mar 11 17:16:02 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:16:02 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] News Flash: Hugo Chavez Will Remain President of
	Venezuela
Message-ID: <4995F6DC-80B9-4BEC-8162-D9A2130F7D6E@att.net>

Hugo Chavez Will Remain President of Venezuela

Venezuela?s late President Hugo Chavez will continue to serve until the next presidential election in 2019, officials said.

Chavez, a former military officer who led the country for 14 years, died Tuesday, March 5, at age 58 following a long battle with cancer.

Citing the widespread support and outpouring of grief since Chavez?s death, Vice President Nicolas Maduro and officials with Chavez?s United Socialist Party (PSUV) said the controversial firebrand will complete his fourth presidential term of six years.

?There is no need to change presidents, especially when our president has a popularity level that most living presidents can only dream of,? Maduro said. ?I believe Hugo would have wanted to continue serving the people, even in death.?

Maduro says Chavez's embalmed body will be wheeled into cabinet meetings where the display will "inspire" policy making until his term has expired.

The flamboyant and controversial Chavez used the country?s vast oil wealth to institute a number of socialist policies during his 14 years in power. Broad popular support, buoyed by Venezuela?s poor, enabled him to change the constitution and to win four presidential elections, most recently in October 2012 when he received 55 percent of the vote with a high turnout.

More than 30 world leaders attended his state funeral Friday in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Millions of supporters lined the streets, and more than 2 million people have visited his body lying in state at a military academy.

La Egoista

Maduro told news reporters that Chavez was needed as figurehead president in order for the party to successfully continue his numerous socialist reforms, known as the Bolivarian Revolution.

Venezuela?s constitution states that an election must be held within 30 days if the president dies or is unable to take office.

However, PSUV officials said they plan to follow the Chavez playbook and change the constitution to enable him to remain president.

?We have the technology to keep (Chavez) preserved for decades, much like the Russians keep Vladimir Lenin.? Maduro added. "He could run for president again in 2019 if he's still popular."

Maduro said Chavez?s national talk show, ?Alo Presidente,? which broadcasted for about six hours on Sundays, would continue to air each week with guest hosts.

La Oposicion

Opposition politicians quickly denounced plans to keep Chavez as president.

?Hugo Chavez ran this country into the ground through corruption and cronyism,? said Juan Grande Culo, an opposition member of the National Assembly. ?Now it?s our turn to do the same.?

?The good thing about Chavez?s death is that things might get back to normal in Venezuela,? said Manuel Enfermar, governor of Sucre state. ?Politicians are supposed to serve the rich, not the poor.?

Miguel Pensador, a political scientist at the Central University of Venezuela, said Chavez left an indelible mark on Venezuela's history.

?In our history, Venezuela was governed by behind-the-scenes interests and foreign companies,? Pensador said. ?The president was largely a figurehead meant to serve the elites at the expense of the majority. As a result, Venezuelans are used to cabrones as presidents. It's rare for a majority of poor Venezuelans to like their president, even if he was a bit of an autocrat like the other presidents.

?Chavez also told George W. Bush to f**k off before other world leaders started doing it,? Pensador added. ?People will love him just for that.?
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Mar 11 18:59:14 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:59:14 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Weekdays Live:  Update Friday!]
Message-ID: <89e9a535e87b66ad4b1af81526ebe5de.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Hi all,
       I just listened to Fridays Live stream radio show. C.J. put our
petition to Susan Ranochak on the end of her program with a comment
to include a petition to the County Board of supervisors to fund an
Audit. -
as we have done. we are the vanguard. She said if we could get just 100
home owners to do what Jed has done, then publish it in the newspapers we
could break the white out of corruption in the foreclosure crisis.
Agnes

--------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Weekdays Live:  Update Friday!
From:    "Gale Satrom" <gale at cjholmes.com>
Date:    Fri, March 8, 2013 10:27 am
To:      "Gale Satrom" <gale at cjholmes.com>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


Hear the latest in Corruption, Banking Pursuits, Real Estate Predictions,
Petitions and Document Fraud!  Don't miss it!

Follow Live or Archive, 'share', and 'follow' to not miss a post:  
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674
All show archives are below the Icons.

See you soon!


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Mar 11 19:09:40 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:09:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd:  Protect Medicare Petition  (Fixed)
References: <497BA4B7-F3E0-415D-95EC-66D9786ED494@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <491D6740-3250-4E14-AD21-9CB524D7D41E@mcn.org>

> 
> Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] Protect Medicare Petition
> 
> Try this:
> 
> http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/index.sjs?action_KEY=337
> 
> 
> On Mar 10, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
> 
>> Protect Medicare Petition doesn't work.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Mar 15 09:23:28 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:23:28 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: #NOKXL - this needs to be big.]
Message-ID: <041e73e4fc6c1f9cbb918c10ecbf158e.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: #NOKXL - this needs to be big.
From:    "CREDO Action" <credo-help-23419-3JfWn3x at list.credoaction.com>
Date:    Fri, March 15, 2013 9:19 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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Thanks for submitting your official public comment against the Keystone XL
pipeline.

We need a response that the Obama administration can not ignore. We've set
a goal of submitting 200,000 public comments, more than we've ever
submitted on any other environmental issue. Can you ask your friends and
family to get involved, too?

If you are on Facebook, click here to post the petition to your Wall.
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fact.credoaction.com%2Fcampaign%2Fkxl_seis%2F%3Frc%3Dshare_email

If you have a Twitter account, click here to automatically tweet:
The clock is ticking on our final comment period to urge @BarackObama to
reject Keystone XL. Take action now: http://bit.ly/10vsoJn
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?&text=The%20clock%20is%20ticking%20on%20our%20final%20comment%20period%20to%20urge%20%40BarackObama%20to%20reject%20Keystone%20XL.%20Take%20action%20now%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10vsoJn

Thanks for all you do.

--The CREDO Action Team

Here's a sample message to send to your friends:

Dear Friend,

On Friday, the State Department launched a 45 day public comment period on
their latest sham review of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

The clock is now ticking on what will likely be our last chance to
officially weigh in on the "game over for the climate" tar sands pipeline,
before the President makes his decision later this year.

The recently released Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
that is the subject of these comments is a cynical sham that ignores the
pipeline's significant risks.

We need a response that will make clear to the Obama administration that
Americans oppose the Keystone XL pipeline. Please join me in urging
President Obama to stop the sham reviews and reject Keystone XL:

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/kxl_seis/?r_by=56087-23419-_U%3Dz7_x&rc=confemail


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar 15 10:18:18 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:18:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Today's Meeting  at Senor Center   2 PM
Message-ID: <00259AE7-B01D-4CC0-9481-3A8DB1CEB900@mcn.org>

Occupy Mendocino General Assembly Meeting at the Senior Center 2 - 4 PM  TODAY.

Please note: At 1 PM, also at the Senior Center, there is an interesting speaker, Jim Berkland, who is a retired geologist who predicts earthquakes and will address fracking. He is presented by the Ocean Protection Coalition.   
 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar 15 10:25:31 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:25:31 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Whoops... Meeting is at Senior Center 2 PM
	Saturday
In-Reply-To: <00259AE7-B01D-4CC0-9481-3A8DB1CEB900@mcn.org>
References: <00259AE7-B01D-4CC0-9481-3A8DB1CEB900@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <FF6F79A4-2A50-4A8F-864B-BE3156EBB825@mcn.org>

Whoops... wrong day on previous note.

> Occupy Mendocino General Assembly Meeting at the Senior Center 2 - 4 PM  Saturday, March 16.
> 
> Please note: Also on Sat. at 1 PM, at the Senior Center, there is an interesting speaker, Jim Berkland, who is a retired geologist who predicts earthquakes and will address fracking. He is presented by the Ocean Protection Coalition.   
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar 15 13:46:31 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:46:31 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Whoops... Meeting is at Senior Center 2 PM
	Saturday
References: <FF6F79A4-2A50-4A8F-864B-BE3156EBB825@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <C9783AB6-7112-4673-9608-AB2DAF7FEE4D@mcn.org>


> 
> Subject: Whoops... Meeting is at Senior Center 2 PM Saturday 
> 
> Whoops... wrong day on previous note.
> 
>> Occupy Mendocino General Assembly Meeting at the Senior Center 2 - 4 PM  Saturday, March 16.
>> 
>> Please note: Also on Sat. at 1 PM, at the Senior Center, there is an interesting speaker, Jim Berkland, who is a retired geologist who predicts earthquakes and will address fracking. He is presented by the Ocean Protection Coalition.   
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar 16 10:44:19 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:44:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: The New York Times]
Message-ID: <1e9334d48806dc9ddf1dbad927c37390.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

-nesThis is worth watching/reading.from ag---------------------------
Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: The New York Times
From:    "GENEREUX/ALBERT ROBERTS" <genereux at wildblue.net>
Date:    Sat, March 16, 2013 8:56 am
To:      "Agnes Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
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http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/jpmorgan-executives-face-withering-qu
estions-at-senate-hearing/?nl=todaysheadlines
<http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/jpmorgan-executives-face-withering-q
uestions-at-senate-hearing/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130316>
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Mar 16 11:18:55 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:18:55 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A really cheesy video (mostly stolen from a video
	game)...
Message-ID: <FF921BA6-1FEB-4DFA-8597-0D3CA48607EE@att.net>

?causes us to spend another billion dollars? Gotta love the soundtrack, "We Are the World." 
This dream sequence causes the Pentagon nightmares? Sleep with the light on - it's cheaper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OcCXd51utKE

[FULL] North Korea Video Shows US City Under Attack! (??? ??)
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North Korea has posted a video online depicting a US city resembling New York engulfed in flames after an apparent missile attack, but its special effects are actually stolen from the popular American video game Call of Duty. The video was uploaded to YouTube by the North's official website, Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda.

The video was taken offline earlier this morning, however, when the video game publisher that owns Call of Duty, Activision, got wind of what was going on and made a breach-of-copyright claim with YouTube.

The video is shot as a dream sequence, with a young man seeing himself on board a North Korean space shuttle launched into orbit by the same type of rocket Pyongyang successfully tested in December.

As the shuttle circles the globe ? to the tune of Michael Jackson's We Are the World ? the video zooms in on countries below, including a reunified Korea.

The focus then switches to a city, shrouded in the US flag, under apparent missile attack, with its skyscrapers either on fire or in ruins.

But the graphics for this sequence use scenes from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, a first-person shooter game in which the US is attacked by Russia.

The game shows Manhattan under fire by a barrage of missiles.

There is no hint of any attribution in the North Korean video, however.

"Somewhere in the United States, black clouds of smoke are billowing," reads a caption.
"It seems that the nest of wickedness is ablaze."

The video ends with the young man concluding that his dream will "surely come true."

"Despite all kinds of attempts by imperialists to isolate and crush us ... never will anyone be able to stop the people marching toward a final victory," it says.

Call of Duty is one of the best-selling video game franchises ever.

North Korea is expected to conduct a nuclear test as a defiant response to UN sanctions imposed after a rocket launch in December.
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From: marksafron at att.net (marksafron at att.net)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:00:51 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Robert Reich On Why Raising The Minimum Wage Is
 One Of The Smartest Things We Can Do | MoveOn.Org|||marksafron@att.net has
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar 16 12:31:59 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:31:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Edited,Socially Responsible Investments]
Message-ID: <a349a9d296383776285528473f8080b0.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Socially Responsible Investments
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Sat, March 16, 2013 12:10 pm
To:      tw at mcn.org
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Dear Tom,

I and 4 other coast Occupy members as well as four from Ukiah and Potter
Valley attended the County Treasurer's Annual Financial Report by
Shari Shapmire, to hear where the county had their
investments . We came to speak up at the end about investing in a County
Public Bank.
 We received the statement "County of Mendocino Statement of
Investment Policy" and pages by the Chandler Investments, and viewed their
Asset Management of Treasury Pool Costs.  Under their management the
county had investments in HSBC USA Inc Note, noted for their billions in 
drug money laundering, it became clear to us that they were not using
socially responsible criteria.
      Shari argued "What criteria do you consider socially responsible?
She said her parents own shares in Pepsi and Cocacola and she thinks
they are socially responsible." This discounts the damage to
children's teeth done by those acidified drinks to say nothing of what
damage drugs laundered by HSBC do to children's mind,teeth and body.
        Also in attendance were members of the School Boards in the county
that the Investment portfolio Funds for upgrades to schools. t
They were asked if they were satisfied with Shapmire's investment strategy.
One representative said yes their Board of Education was satisfied. I
think they were bamboozled by the fast paced business report, charts,
graphs , computer color printouts  created by Chandler Asset management.
         After the business meeting we had a rousing dialogue, arguing
that we,voters, who had elected Shari were there to give her
citizen input on how she makes investments. She said she doesn't
have to use our recommendations but would welcome input from a
group of us attending to meet and recommend to  her names of
Socially Responsible Investments.
       We spoke about a County Public Bank as an investment option for the
county which would create an income stream and that the public bank
could do business like other banks using the Fractional Reserve
System of Banking which was  set up by the Federal Reserve Act of
1913. She could not get her head around the fact that private and
public banks create money by fractionalized Reserve  System of
Banking  -keeping a fraction, 8-10%-of their assets and multiplying
loans based on the remaining 90%, but new money would be created
without using their deposits. In other words the Retirement funds
as assets for a County Public Bank would not be used to make new
loans.

 Could you go over the list of investments  on graphs and pages I have
(pro bono)so that we could have a stronger argument for a public bank
which would keep money in the county instead of Wallmart, etc.Robin
Sunbeam hired a friend to videotape the meeting aand it will be on Youtube
after it's edited.
Cheers,
Agnes woolsey





From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 17 22:23:09 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:23:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: link]
Message-ID: <abdec63466e6cc034683173fe62da075.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: link
From:    "GENEREUX/ALBERT ROBERTS" <genereux at wildblue.net>
Date:    Sun, March 17, 2013 6:25 pm
To:      "Agnes Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/business/jpmorgans-follies-for-all-to-see-
in-a-senate-report.html?nl=todaysheadlines
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/business/jpmorgans-follies-for-all-to-see
-in-a-senate-report.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130317&_r=1&>
&emc=edit_th_20130317&_r=1&



Here is the link to the NY times article I mentioned this morning.  I think
;you can find the same column in the Santa Rosa Democrat Sunday edition.

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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Mar 18 13:00:26 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:00:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] JP Morgan Chase follies
Message-ID: <a4d2b89fa022b60d946cd4f035edd5e7.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/business/jpmorgans-follies-for-all-to-see-
in-a-senate-report.html?nl=todaysheadlines &emc=edit_th_20130317&_r=1&



From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Mar 19 12:02:24 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:02:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Not another Iraq]
Message-ID: <0cc9d213964c160c8cfea7b75210ad84.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Not another Iraq
From:    "Rebecca Griffin, Peace Action West" <alerts at peaceactionwest.org>
Date:    Mon, March 18, 2013 6:04 am
To:      "Agnes Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Agnes,

Ten years after the tragic invasion of Iraq, Congress seems to have
forgotten the lessons of that disastrous war.

We told you about a new bill that would put the Senate on record urging
military support if Israel were to attack Iran. There are now 64
senators supporting this dangerous bill.

We are teaming up with other groups for a national call-in day to
expose this bill for what it is: a reckless move that pushes us closer
to war.

Can you take a minute and call your senators today? Use the numbers
below to call, telling your senators you oppose S.Res.65, which is a
dangerous step toward war with Iran. Then email me at
rgriffin at peaceactionwest.org to tell me how your calls went. You can
see whether your senators are cosponsoring the bill by clicking here:
http://capwiz.com/peaceactionwest/utr/1/MZEYSVTZFN/HQLMSVXQEF/9366629426

Sen. Barbara Boxer (202) 224-3553
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (202) 224-3841

Email me to tell me how your calls went. rgriffin at peaceactionwest.org

We don&rsquo;t want Congress looking back a decade from now wishing
they had stopped yet another unnecessary and costly war. We need to
support senators who haven&rsquo;t cosponsored yet, and show
senators who have cosponsored that we are unhappy with their choice to
support this dangerous bill.

Please call your senators today. Then email me at
rgriffin at peaceactionwest.org to report on your calls.

Thank you for making your voices heard.

Rebecca Griffin
Political Director







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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Mar 19 16:20:30 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:20:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Next B of A and Chase Bank Rally: Friday 3-5 PM
Message-ID: <5B0E965E-E621-408E-A4DD-A942227786B8@mcn.org>

HI 99%ers, 
 At our last GA meeting we decided  to change the B of A
and Chase Banks rally back to the original time:  3-5 PM. 

Can you believe that our rally has now sustained for over a year!  
We welcome more folks joining in and have plenty of signs. Even
if you can only stay for 10 or 15 minutes it would help. (Let 'em know
we haven't given up!)

Here's a poster of the event you could print and put up in your neighborhood.

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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Mar 19 17:26:03 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:26:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A TED talk on Income Inequality by a billionaire.
Message-ID: <1C9D0160-D543-4B6D-A5D1-A641FFF536EC@att.net>

As I've said before, back in the days of "Trickle Down" economic theory, "How many waitresses can a billionaire tip?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhOXCgSunc

And just for laughs Bill Maher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RzlUjE_Lo

From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 20 16:51:18 2013
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:51:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Studio Space behind Headlands for rent
Message-ID: <1363823478.23222.YahooMailNeo@web120602.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

? ? ? Good News!
? ? ? Ann Rennacker & I checked out the studio space behind the Headlands today.? Great location. $500 1st and last to get in.? Electricity & phone extra.? 1 big room with hardwood floors-- Bathroom ( toilet & sink ) in a back room--Refrigerator(small)--Some storage in back room.
??? The idea was to share the space with Move to Amend & Ocean Protection Coalition. Carrie Durkee will check it out & get back to us.

???? I spoke with John Fremont. He said he could cut the check to get us in the door.
?? ? I encourage people to go by there to check it outso we can call a special meeting for a discussion and a vote. Anyone can open the gate and look in the window. It also has a little yard where we could have a planter box and grow something.

? ?? The owner is artist Patty Breed who will return on Monday from a trip abroad. She prefers to rent it as a business space, not as a place for someone to live full time. I think it is a great opportunity to move our group to the next level of community activism.
?? 

??? So the next step is to decide where and when to meet anytime after Thursday as Ann &I are going to a fracking workshop in Sacramento on Thursday.
? Ann's? #'s 9641420 &813-0418? Sheila's #- 937-1372

?? 

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Onward & upward in peace,
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Sheila Dawn
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Mar 20 18:39:06 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:39:06 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Is it on the alley?
In-Reply-To: <1363823478.23222.YahooMailNeo@web120602.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <1363823478.23222.YahooMailNeo@web120602.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <7C042281-883A-4F74-BF62-81F1DE2E54AA@att.net>

If it is, doesn't that defeat the purpose of being a visible presence?

On Mar 20, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Sheila Dawn <sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com> wrote:

      Good News!
      Ann Rennacker & I checked out the studio space behind the Headlands today.  Great location. $500 1st and last to get in.  Electricity & phone extra.  1 big room with hardwood floors-- Bathroom ( toilet & sink ) in a back room--Refrigerator(small)--Some storage in back room.
    The idea was to share the space with Move to Amend & Ocean Protection Coalition. Carrie Durkee will check it out & get back to us.
     I spoke with John Fremont. He said he could cut the check to get us in the door.
     I encourage people to go by there to check it out so we can call a special meeting for a discussion and a vote. Anyone can open the gate and look in the window. It also has a little yard where we could have a planter box and grow something.
     The owner is artist Patty Breed who will return on Monday from a trip abroad. She prefers to rent it as a business space, not as a place for someone to live full time. I think it is a great opportunity to move our group to the next level of community activism.
   
    So the next step is to decide where and when to meet anytime after Thursday as Ann &I are going to a fracking workshop in Sacramento on Thursday.
  Ann's  #'s 9641420 &813-0418  Sheila's #- 937-1372
   
                                                                                  Onward & upward in peace,
                                                                                           Sheila Dawn

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From jessie at mac.com  Thu Mar 21 06:41:16 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:41:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] White House site petitions
Message-ID: <BF5E02AF-4B59-45DC-8CBE-D93258754615@mac.com>

The White House has a We the People petition site much like Sign On where citizens can create petitions and have others add signature.  One has to create an account but it's simple.  Check it out and sign petitions if you haven't already done so.

<https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions>

From marksafron at att.net  Thu Mar 21 15:19:49 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:19:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] White House site petitions
In-Reply-To: <BF5E02AF-4B59-45DC-8CBE-D93258754615@mac.com>
References: <BF5E02AF-4B59-45DC-8CBE-D93258754615@mac.com>
Message-ID: <19CD1BEB-B2F6-4BEA-9955-D021DEB8EE8D@att.net>

Keep in mind that it take 100,000 for the petition to be taken seriously. I signed this one:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-congressmen-senators-wear-logos-their-financial-backers-their-clothing-much-nascar-drivers/vZBQJ18R


On Mar 21, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Jessie Lee VanSant <jessie at mac.com> wrote:

The White House has a We the People petition site much like Sign On where citizens can create petitions and have others add signature.  One has to create an account but it's simple.  Check it out and sign petitions if you haven't already done so.

<https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions>

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Mar 21 21:20:31 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:20:31 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agnes' & RK's letter ideas for newspaper article
References: <8c6e47f57f1b942d2289410ced1ea094.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <BA3688CE-CC7F-435D-AABA-EEC290F2DE68@mcn.org>

Good additional points. I think our job will be to make all of this readable
and understandable to the regular "Joe and Jane" Citizen reading the paper.

I'd also like point out that we are a grass roots non affiliated helping organization standing up
 to address issues that  benefit our community. This would be good to include with development
of a headquarters, maybe... "The 99% Learning & Justice House" 

Begin forwarded message:

> From: agnes at mcn.org
> Date: March 21, 2013 6:00:55 PM PDT
> To: "Richard Karch" <rkarch at mcn.org>
> Subject: Re: RK's letter ideas for the newspaper
> 
>> Might find a few ideas for our letter here... rk
>> 
>> What is happening This Year 2013 with Occupy Mendocino?
>> 
>> It has been an active year and a half. These  are some of our activities.
> 
>> We have continued efforts of confronting major issues
>> that affect our community. Foreclosures and the lack of
>> response from the banking industry have had us continuing
>> a presence and rallying on Main Street every Friday.We sent out 154
> letters warning homeowners targeted for foreclosure with 5 solutions to
> delay the foreclosure date. Only two homeowners responded. It was too
> late for 31 home owners whose letters were returned.
> 
> Four Occupy Mendocino attended a meeting with the office of the District
> Attorney and  Jed Davis, a farmer fighting foreclosure in support of his
> well documented fraud documents.
> 
>> Last year we spoke before the Fort Bragg City Council about Public
> Banking. In January 2013 we presented the Mendocino County Supervisors
> recommendations for a County Public Bank and eminent domain to alert
> them of
>> the need to help the extremely unfair conditions for people
>> who are foreclosed upon and the possible solution to the poor economic
> situation in the county.
> 
> Recently we have drafted petitions to be sent
>> to the Mendocino County Assessor to encourage her to act on
>> fraudulent foreclosure documents that are coming into her office with
> robosigned/fraudulent signatures, found to be prevalent all over the
> country. Over half of foreclosures over the U.S. are listed with MERS,
> depriving our County of income. The Mortgage Electronic Registration
> System is a private data base set up by big banks to avoid paying
> transfer fees to the counties.
> A second petition asks the Board of Supervisors to fund an Audit of
> foreclosures similar to San Francisco County Assessor Phil Ting's action
> which made him popularly elected to the CA Assembly.
> 
> Four of us attended with 6 Occupy Ukiah activists  at the County
> Treasurer's Annual Report  on the investments of County Funds.A report to
> the public will be forthcoming.
> 
> Three of us are joined with Transition Towns meeting on keeping
> investments local. Others energies are working with the Ocean Coalition on
> fracking.
> 
>> Some of our future goals are to start an office with a number of civic
>> organizations, to share energy and provide better access to our
> activities to the public .
> We meet the first and third Saturdays at the F.B. Library from 2-4 p.m.,
> to discuss issues of concern, and support efforts to take an active part
> in the democratic process of our wider community.We can also be seen on
> Fridays with signs protesting bank fraud and calling for a break=up of the
> big banks---B.of A, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Ally
> Bank.
> 
>> We are an issue driven organization, not a political organization
>> Our credo is : OCCUPY MENDOCINO and the global
>> Occupy Movement want government 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, jobs,
>> 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 and the needy everywhere.
> 
> 

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Mar 21 21:24:19 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:24:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] White House site petitions
In-Reply-To: <EFE8E5FE-E211-485E-B602-1A1B17B4011C@mcn.org>
References: <BF5E02AF-4B59-45DC-8CBE-D93258754615@mac.com>
	<EFE8E5FE-E211-485E-B602-1A1B17B4011C@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <1B62AEB9-0A22-498F-8F3B-75E8720DE517@mcn.org>

There are all kinds of petition sites out there. I'd like to know the
most successful.  Move On/Sign On, where we put ours,seemed 
a strong one.  Anyone out there have an idea about the best ones?

rk 
On Mar 21, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:

> thanks, Jessie, Richard
> Carrie
> On Mar 21, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
> 
>> The White House has a We the People petition site much like Sign On where citizens can create petitions and have others add signature.  One has to create an account but it's simple.  Check it out and sign petitions if you haven't already done so.
>> 
>> <https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions>
>> 
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Mar 21 23:31:18 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:31:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Masked by Gibberish,
	the Risks Run Amok - NYTimes.com
Message-ID: <5E984F55-C655-48CC-A218-A83F7BC3AC5D@att.net>


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/business/behind-the-derivatives-gibberish-risks-run-amok.html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=edit_au_20130321&_r=0&pagewanted=all

Masked by Gibberish, the Risks Run Amok

Can anyone manage a big bank these days? Should anyone try?

Or should we simply conclude that playing in the modern world of derivatives is best left to those whose survival is not critical to the nation?s economy, and who do not benefit from government-backed deposit insurance?

That question is brought to mind by a reading of the fascinating ? well, to me, anyway ? story of how JPMorgan Chase got into the mess of the London whale trades that dominated the financial news last year, as told in a report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that was released last week.

Much of the attention has focused on what Jamie Dimon, the chief executive, knew and when he knew it, and the extent to which the bank intentionally deceived regulators and investors as the investment strategy was blowing up.

I, on the other hand, was struck by the sheer incompetence and stupidity documented in the report.

Consider the following presentation written by Bruno Iksil, the whale himself, on Jan. 26, 2012, as the losses were growing. He called for executing ?the trades that make sense.?

He proposed to ?sell the forward spread and buy protection on the tightening move,? ?use indices and add to existing position,? ?go long risk on some belly tranches especially where defaults may realize? and ?buy protection on HY and Xover in rallies and turn the position over to monetize volatility.?

That presentation was made to a JPMorgan group called the International Senior Management Group of the Chief Investment Office, which seems to have approved it.

If the proposal does not make sense to you, don?t despair. It is largely gibberish.

?This proposal,? the Senate report states, ?encompassed multiple, complex credit trading strategies, using jargon that even the relevant actors and regulators could not understand.? The subcommittee asked officials of both JPMorgan?s Chief Investment Office, or C.I.O., and its regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, just what that meant. Nobody seemed to know. (Mr. Iksil, safely overseas, chose not to talk to the subcommittee staff.)

Ina Drew, the bank?s chief investment officer at the time, who supervised the group, said she did not know. One risk officer at the bank said he thought Mr. Iksil was simply proposing a strategy of buying low and selling high. Of course, that is a fine strategy if markets cooperate. But anyone who simply proposed that would have been seen to be blowing smoke. Use all that jargon, and some people will assume you are actually saying something.

The comptroller?s office was able to explain some of what was said, but no one seemed to be sure just what a ?belly tranch? might be. The subcommittee speculated it might refer to a security with more credit risk than the safest ones, but less risk than the riskiest ones.

In any case, after the meeting Mr. Iksil embarked on a disastrous strategy that led to larger and larger losses. The portfolio he was running ? which the bank initially said was a hedge to reduce its exposure to a general deterioration of credit conditions ? became one that would benefit from credit conditions improving.

Over the next two months, as the losses grew, neither senior bank officials nor regulators seem to have had a good understanding of what was happening.

The bank officials were preoccupied with making the mess seem less messy. That involved what they called defensive trading ? buying what they already owned to keep market values from falling further ? and, when that did not work, fudging the valuations. It involved changing risk models to make what was going on seem to be less risky than it was, and coming up with creative ways to calculate how much capital was really needed.

The regulators seem to have been in their own ?see no evil, hear no evil? world. When they eventually had to pay attention, the comptroller?s officials were not bothered by the bank?s withholding of information from them. Instead, one top official dismissed the entire problem as little more than ?an embarrassing incident.? Comptroller?s officials immediately said the trades were perfectly proper hedges, something that turned out to be untrue.

?The ability of C.I.O. personnel to hide hundreds of millions of dollars of additional losses over the span of three months, and yet survive internal valuation reviews, shows how imprecise, undisciplined and open to manipulation the current process is for valuing credit derivatives,? the subcommittee reports states. ?This weak valuation process is all the more troubling given the high-risk nature of synthetic credit derivatives, the lack of any underlying tangible assets to stem losses, and the speed with which substantial losses can accumulate and threaten a bank?s profitability.?

Eventually, Ms. Drew became furious and ordered the trading halted in late March. That came after she concluded she had been deceived about how much trading was going on and became upset by wildly varying estimates of just how much ?risk-weighted capital? was needed to back the trading positions. It was, she explained to the subcommittee staff, making her appear ?incompetent.?

Risk-weighted capital, by the way, is a tale unto itself. Banks calculate how much capital they need based not on total assets, but on how risky the assets are. Gaming those calculations seems to have been a preoccupation at the bank.

One way to respond to this is to say the regulators need to do a better job, and to be less willing to believe what they are told. The so-called Volcker Rule, which is supposed to stop banks from engaging in proprietary trading but allow them to hedge or engage in market-making activities, should be completed and strictly enforced.

It is hard to disagree with that prescription, but perhaps even harder to believe that it can be effectively administered.

What evidence is there that playing in these opaque and complicated derivatives markets has helped banks do the job that justifies giving them the benefit of deposit insurance? That job involves the allocation of capital, the maintenance of payment systems and the protection of depositors. Why let banks play in these markets at all?

If we are going to allow that, then there is a case for smaller banks. If one of them turns out to be as incompetent and dishonest as this one was, at least the bank would not be critical to the system, and the losses presumably would be much less than the $6.2 billion JPMorgan eventually owned up to.

I called Anat Admati, a Stanford professor and co-author of an insightful new book, ?The Bankers? New Clothes,? which advocates forcing banks to be far better capitalized than they are now, with less debt and more equity, as they were before deposit insurance was created. I asked what she thought of the Senate report. ?We discover these risks when it is too late,? she said. ?Next time it could be $10 billion.?

Back in 2008, when the financial system was starting to teeter, regulators assured us the banks were well capitalized. They were wrong then, and this report does not reassure us that the regulators have a much better handle on the situation now.

?My first stress test,? Ms. Admati told me, ?is the test of prosecution.? She noted a recent comment by Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general, that some banks were so large that he feared it would ?have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy,? if criminal charges were filed against the bank.

?If the economy cannot stand them being prosecuted,? she said, ?they fail the stress test.?

Nearly two decades ago, one of the great names in international banking, Barings, disappeared. It was destroyed by a fraud committed by Nick Leeson, a trader based in Singapore, who became a star by reporting huge profits from a trading strategy involving derivatives that, by today?s standards, were remarkably simple.

In reality, there were no profits, just big losses that he managed to conceal until the firm collapsed.

When auditors and bosses asked how he was making all that money, Mr. Leeson later explained, he responded with meaningless but impressive-sounding jargon.

?Luckily for my fraud, there were too many chiefs who would chat about it at arm?s length but never go further,? Mr. Leeson wrote in his memoir. ?And they never dared ask me any basic questions, since they were afraid of looking stupid about not understanding futures and options.?

Not much has changed.


Floyd Norris comments on finance and the economy at nytimes.com/economix.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: March 21, 2013


An earlier version of this column mischaracterized the subcommittee?s speculation on what a ?belly tranch? might be. The thought was that it might refer to a security with more risk than the safest securities and less risk than the riskiest ones, not with less risk than the safest securities and more risk than the riskiest ones.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar 22 04:49:27 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:49:27 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Please look at this Facebook logo spread
References: <F235DE65-16F3-42FC-8F89-A214DD129673@att.net>
Message-ID: <89BE3C69-87BE-413D-9E98-91AD15E17DBE@mcn.org>


> This is good news!  OM members who don't want to sign up,  can now go to Facebook, apparently.

For those of you who want to dig some of the OM things on the site:
Go to       https://www.facebook.com/occupymendocino

I work hard to update the site and respond to people.
Let me know if it works and what you think of the spread!
Thanx,  Richard
>> 
> Subject: Re: Please look at this Facebook logo spread
> 
> No, I'm not a FB member but amazingly had no trouble accessing anything on the site. That's a first.
> On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Are you a FB member?   Can you get in without signing up?
> Yeah, I attempt to put up interesting things on the site.  Usually
> thinks forwarded to OM Listserve...
> 
> On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Mark Safron wrote:
> 
>> Looks great!
>> On Mar 21, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:
>> 
>> https://www.facebook.com/occupymendocino
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar 22 05:15:56 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:15:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space could
	be (5 AM rambling)
Message-ID: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>

My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...

We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 

We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.

We could have direct action events in town, at will.

Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.

Maybe store signs and display our banner there.

The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.

Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.

Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).

I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us to repaint.

Richard





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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Fri Mar 22 08:06:26 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie VanSant)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:06:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space
	could be (5 AM rambling)
In-Reply-To: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>
References: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <1576F1F6-4360-4273-A447-9C9953E4944F@gmail.com>

Excellent ideas and 5 a.m. thoughts.

Jessie Lee
On Mar 22, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
> 
> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 
> 
> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
> 
> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
> 
> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.
> 
> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
> 
> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
> 
> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.
> 
> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).
> 
> I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
> and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
> he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
> so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us to repaint.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Mar 22 10:19:13 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:19:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: request for a state Affidavit of
 Authenticity to Foreclosure Entities]
Message-ID: <764b208447ad8c48e25fe7f11f415f3b.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Dear Occupiers,
      I urge you to write similar emails to Assemblyman Phil Ting and to
our assembly person Wesley chesbro or to his fax at 916-319-2101.


---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: request for a state Affidavit of Authenticity to Foreclosure
Entities
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Fri, March 22, 2013 10:07 am
To:      assemblymember.ting at asm.ca.gov
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Honorable Assessor Phil Ting;
       Although I am a Mendocino activist/voter and our county has
suffered economic damages due to fraudulent, securitized mortgages
as well as San Francisco County.

I watched your action as Assessor of S.F. County, in an article on your
audit of foreclosures documents in your land title records and the
discovery of mistakes,errors and fraud in 80% of  four hundred documents.
I admired your courage to fight for the people of San Francisco County as
their Assessor. Although I could not vote for you, San Franciscans are not
the only ones who feel the state needs your leadership in the CA Assembly.

 I am connected with other activists statewide and am urging you to
initiate a bill that would require Affidavits of Authenticity be sent to
foreclosing entities of securitized loans just as the state of Nevada
did. In the first month of that legislation foreclosures dropped by 75%.
We need this kind of legislation in California.

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey of OccupyMendocino.org








From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar 22 11:54:27 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:54:27 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Mike Moore House Parties THIS SATURDAY NIGHT
Message-ID: <38C64175-543F-4EBE-B7F7-279EEA74A25E@mcn.org>



http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/16597-focus-join-me-its-time-to-a
Join Me, It's Time to Act By Michael Moore, Open Mike Blog 22 March 13
 am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to watch 'Bowling for Columbine' and then hold a live "town hall" to discuss what the 310 million of us who aren't members of the NRA are going to do about our continual gun tragedies.Please, please join me and be part of this! With Senator Harry Reid this week announcing he's too afraid to bring the assault weapons bill up for a vote - "because we'll lose!" - you can see how now more than ever that if we the people, on a mass, grassroots level, don't get it together, the status quo will remain the same and we can just sit back and wait for next week's gun massacre.So, I don't know what you're doing Saturday night, but I'm asking you to please spend it with me. I need you to email or text or call a few friends, family members, neighbors or co-workers and invite them over to you home to be part of the virtual nationwide gathering - first to watch my movie, and then to participate live, online, with me and a panel I've put together to discuss a plan of ACTION. And, as Saturday is only two days away, I need you to make those calls and send those texts TODAY.Thanks to the good people at Netflix, you'll be able to watch 'Bowling for Columbine' for free this Saturday! Last night we got a call from them and they told us they will stream the movie for free starting tomorrow so everyone can watch it. If you're already on Netflix, then you're all set. If you're not, they'll give you a free one-month trial subscription so you can stream the movie into your home on Saturday.
There are many other ways to get the movie too, just click here.This nationwide movie night/town hall is being put on by a number of groups including Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. This is going to be a big night, so please be part of it. Our plan is to watch the movie at 7:00 PM ET. You can watch it then or you can watch it earlier or later, depending on when's best to have people over to your house. The only thing that's at a fixed time is the live online Q &A/discussion with me. That will happen at approximately 9:00 PM ET. It will also be available later on my website in case you can't join us until 10:00 or 11:00 PM.
Friends, this is the moment to make this happen. The gun lobby is on the ropes but they are confident of victory because there is no comparable group as big and as well-funded on our own side to fight them. What we do have is the majority of Americans who have spoken loud and clear since Newtown that we want, at the bare minimum, some sensible laws passed to bring this gun violence down.

The time is now. Call your friends today and invite them over on Saturday night. We can do this if we all start to act.

See you Saturday!


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From john at cypresshouse.com  Fri Mar 22 12:58:57 2013
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John Fremont)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:58:57 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space
 could be (5 AM rambling)
In-Reply-To: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>
References: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <514CB801.4060804@cypresshouse.com>

Good thoughts, Richard
(How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large wood 
sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
John

On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>
> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and 
> address for our organization.Yeah!
>
> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>
> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>
> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First 
> Friday in FB.
>
> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>
> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>
> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help 
> neighbors.
>
> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you 
> want to donate).
>
> /I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have 
> the initial funding/
> /and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the 
> previous renters, Roy, and/
> /he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good 
> thing is the location/
> /so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on 
> the alleyway for us to repaint./
> /
> /
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Mar 22 16:47:16 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:47:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senior citizen cheer!
Message-ID: <AD343998-EFB2-4532-9405-79D856CE41AF@att.net>


Senior citizen cheer!


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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Mar 22 18:15:28 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:15:28 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: co-sponsor a bill to require an Affiavit of
 Authenticity from banks]
Message-ID: <5cdeafefc5d1526c600c667e5bc3e781.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: co-sponsor a bill to require an Affiavit of Authenticity from banks
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Fri, March 22, 2013 6:09 pm
To:      assemblymember.chesbro at asm.ca.gov
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Honorable Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro;




 I am a Mendocino activist/voter and our county has
suffered economic damages due to fraudulent, securitized foreclosures
mortgages as well as other counties. Transfer fees for pages of
foreclosure documents have not been paid impacting the county
economy.Robosigning has been used by banks and notaries because the chain
of title has been lost in the securitization process, whereby packages of
mortgages have been sold over and over to investors.

I admired the action of S.F. County Assessor, Phil Ting who is now an
Assemblyman, in a Chronicle article on the audit of foreclosures documents
in his land title records and the discovery of mistakes,errors amounting
to fraud in 80% of  four hundred documents.
I admired his courage to fight for the people of San Francisco County as
their Assessor. San Franciscans are not the only ones who feel the state
needs  leadership in fighting foreclosures and fraud used by the banks as
a business model.

 I am connected with other activists statewide and am urging you to
initiate a bill that would require Affidavits of Authenticity be sent to
foreclosing entities of securitized loans just as the legislature in the
state of Nevada did. In the first month of that state's legislation
foreclosures dropped by 75%.
We need this kind of legislation in California.I urge you to support Phil
Ting and co-sponsor this legislation to require an Affidavit of
Authenticity from foreclosing entities or tell me why this can't be done.
The Home Owners Bill of Rights is not enough for people who can't afford
legal costs to enforce the HOBOR laws.

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey of OccupyMendocino.org






From cdurkee at mcn.org  Fri Mar 22 23:36:33 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:36:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space
	could be (5 AM rambling)
In-Reply-To: <514CB801.4060804@cypresshouse.com>
References: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>
	<514CB801.4060804@cypresshouse.com>
Message-ID: <B79D1F91-3A43-4382-B0A2-8F8141FB213B@mcn.org>

How about Democracy in Action for a name??
Carrie
On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:

> Good thoughts, Richard
> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
> John
> 
> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
>> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>> 
>> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 
>> 
>> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>> 
>> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>> 
>> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.
>> 
>> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>> 
>> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>> 
>> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.
>> 
>> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).
>> 
>> I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
>> and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
>> he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
>> so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us to repaint.
>> 
>> Richard
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
>> 
>> For listserv technical problems please contact: listmanager at mcn.org
> 
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Mar 23 00:55:51 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:55:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Stop Foreclosures Site on Facebook
Message-ID: <FB1D4F98-A30A-4632-BF00-962F7C12DA40@mcn.org>

https://www.facebook.com/sueBOA


From marksafron at att.net  Sat Mar 23 10:32:02 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:32:02 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bride Leaves Husband at Altar
Message-ID: <B8EEC4B5-1C08-4D7D-97D8-6E20CE759626@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yJOXUhB2uRA#!


From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Mar 23 19:14:12 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:14:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: sheila called me this a.m., left a message
References: <BC789FC5-8F84-4E8E-9224-924AF5BEE0A3@att.net>
Message-ID: <243F737F-DDF6-457E-BA6F-E50656A4D0B0@mcn.org>

> 9 ish would be good for me!  rk
> To: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: sheila called me this a.m., left a message
> 
> Can't meet tonight.
> Caspar tomorrow works for me. 9 or 10 AM?
> On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Okay, just let me know.
> I'll check my email in an hour.
> Cheers,
> Linda
> 
> -----------
> Linda Jupiter Productions
> P.O. Box 2822 
> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
> phone 707-964-8985
> www.lindajupiter.com
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> 
> On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
> 
>> i don't know that there is a meeting!
>> On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings, all,
>>> I plan to stop by the space and check it out, if I can; then come to the meeting.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Linda
>>> 
>>> -----------
>>> Linda Jupiter Productions
>>> P.O. Box 2822 
>>> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
>>> phone 707-964-8985
>>> www.lindajupiter.com
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>>> On Mar 23, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
>>> 
>>>> and said she sent an email about meeting to I guess discuss the possible store front.
>>>> 
>>>> I see no email (so far) and am not sure exactly what the plan might have been so far - meeting at Company Store 6 pm this eve (Sat.)
>>>> 
>>>> Also asked if there had been any feedback.
>>>> 
>>>> Sounds like a good space and rent cost reasonable.  I think it would be a great place and hope it will work out.
>>>> 
>>>> Jessie Lee
>>> 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar 23 21:04:16 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:04:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] State Affidavit of Authenticity
In-Reply-To: <1DF32425-E727-4977-AF34-544EE5ABA3D3@mcn.org>
References: <7a6be8ec1c6100f6c4742e15afc41316.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
	<1DF32425-E727-4977-AF34-544EE5ABA3D3@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <839994268518fd564ec7e071d3a1a913.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Linda, Thanks for sending a great letter and a copy to me. I wonder what
other people  sent.This is a very important action.Our Assemblyman,
Wesley Chesbro needs to hear from us at the address included in my letter
to Chesbro.
Agnes



Dear Assemblyperson Ting,
> Congratulations on being elected to the California Assembly. As an ex-
> San Franciscan, I was sorry I couldn't vote for you.
>
> We, here in Mendocino County, are working to stop illegal
> foreclosures. I've spoken with Susan Ranochak, our Mendocino County
> Recorder.
> She agrees something needs to be done to stop illegal foreclosures but
> says she's not in the position to police recordings and to figure out
> who is and who isn't recording fraudulent documents. The reason Nevada
> was so successful in reducing foreclosures is because the Affidavit of
> Authenticity edict came from the state of Nevada.
>
> As San Francisco County Recorder, you did a great job auditing
> foreclosures and documenting illegalities in our state. Now you're in
> the California Assembly, which is the perfect place to initiate a
> statewide Affidavit of Authenticity for the filing of documents.
>
> In addition, as the Democratic Caucus Chair, you'll be working as part
> of leadership to help pass important legislation such as the Affidavit
> of Authenticity. Our state is hurting from all these illegal
> foreclosures. Please help, once again.
>
> Thank you,
> Linda
>
> -----------
> Linda Jupiter Productions
> P.O. Box 2822
> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
> phone 707-964-8985
> www.lindajupiter.com
>
>
>
>




From elained at mcn.org  Fri Mar 22 15:01:30 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:01:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space
	could be (5 AM rambling)
In-Reply-To: <514CB801.4060804@cypresshouse.com>
References: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>
	<514CB801.4060804@cypresshouse.com>
Message-ID: <F8E1E503-5631-422B-9477-F95059A1053E@mcn.org>

How about the We the People community center?

Ed Oberweiser
Ocean Protection Coalition, Move To Amend Coalition of Mendocino County, Foundation of Sustainable Living


On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:

> Good thoughts, Richard
> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
> John
> 
> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
>> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>> 
>> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 
>> 
>> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>> 
>> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>> 
>> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.
>> 
>> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>> 
>> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>> 
>> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.
>> 
>> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).
>> 
>> I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
>> and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
>> he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
>> so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us to repaint.
>> 
>> Richard
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
>> 
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> 
> 
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From elained at mcn.org  Sat Mar 23 07:20:09 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:20:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space
	could be (5 AM rambling)
In-Reply-To: <B79D1F91-3A43-4382-B0A2-8F8141FB213B@mcn.org>
References: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>
	<514CB801.4060804@cypresshouse.com>
	<B79D1F91-3A43-4382-B0A2-8F8141FB213B@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <E25CD95E-CEA9-4122-968A-1313D76A294E@mcn.org>

We need to be careful not to limit the name to be only political or economic justice action oriented. If the Ocean Protection Coalition or any other group protecting the environment becomes part of this initial effort, there needs to some space in the name in reference to saving our planet. How about The Community Commons?

Ed


On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:

> How about Democracy in Action for a name??
> Carrie
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:
> 
>> Good thoughts, Richard
>> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
>> John
>> 
>> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
>>> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>>> 
>>> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 
>>> 
>>> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>>> 
>>> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>>> 
>>> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.
>>> 
>>> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>>> 
>>> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>>> 
>>> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.
>>> 
>>> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).
>>> 
>>> I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
>>> and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
>>> he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
>>> so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us             to repaint.
>>> 
>>> Richard
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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From jessie at mac.com  Sat Mar 23 15:07:41 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:07:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] sheila called me this a.m., left a message
Message-ID: <902AA6C4-40FB-45A8-9C4E-C97758F1FBC0@mac.com>

and said she sent an email about meeting to I guess discuss the possible store front.

I see no email (so far) and am not sure exactly what the plan might have been so far - meeting at Company Store 6 pm this eve (Sat.)

Also asked if there had been any feedback.

Sounds like a good space and rent cost reasonable.  I think it would be a great place and hope it will work out.

Jessie Lee

From jessie at mac.com  Sat Mar 23 15:08:52 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:08:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: End The Prefunding Of Retiree Benefits in
	USPS
References: <B0.B9.07470.B631E415@outbound.moveon.org>
Message-ID: <416C210C-F8A3-485F-85D3-FA7B37CEE563@mac.com>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jerry Stidman <noreply at list.signon.org>
> Subject: End The Prefunding Of Retiree Benefits in USPS
> Date: March 23, 2013 1:40:23 PM PDT
> To: jessie at mac.com
> Reply-To: Jerry Stidman <lwmedia2012 at aol.com>
> 
> Jessie
> 
> As of today we have a total of 77,835 signatures on all of our petitions on signon.org. You are part of the reason this is possible. Today we want to notify everyone about the "Delivering For America Rally". The rally will be held nationwide in various cities across America. It is to preserve six day delivery of Mail in America. The mailing industry generates $1 trillion dollars of business a year and employees over 8 million people. It is approximately 8% of the gross national product. Although the post office employees only about 500,000 people and takes in only $66 billion dollars it is the catalyst for the entire industry any erosion of services by the post office would have a devasting effect on the entire economy.
> 
> Delivering For America Rally (March 24th, 2013 1 p.m.) follow link below
> DELIVERING FOR AMERICA 
> 
> Our newest petition is set up to protest the prefunding of retiree healthcare benefits in the postal service. The post office is required by Congress to prefund 75 years of retiree healthcare benefits in a 10 year window at $5.5 billion dollars a year. They are the only business or government agency who is required to do this. All financial figures released by the postal service include this obligation by Congress in them. So the postal service financial crisis is a manufactured crisis. One manufactured by Congress.
> 
> Please share and sign the petition below.
> http://signon.org/sign/end-the-prefunding-of?mailing_id=10611&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=2275100
> 
> To follow our activities on facebook below is a link.
> SAVE OUR POST OFFICE  
> 
>  
> If you mail us a greeting card, postcard or letter we will share them with Congress and the President.
> 
> SAVE OUR POST OFFICE
> Post Office Box 5041
> Terre Haute, Indiana 47805.
> 
> thank you!
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
>  
> 
> This message was sent to Jessie Lee VanSant by Jerry Stidman from the SignOn.org system. MoveOn.org Civic Action sponsors SignOn.org, but does not endorse specific campaigns or the contents of this message.
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Sat Mar 23 16:28:45 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:28:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] sheila called me this a.m., left a message
In-Reply-To: <902AA6C4-40FB-45A8-9C4E-C97758F1FBC0@mac.com>
References: <902AA6C4-40FB-45A8-9C4E-C97758F1FBC0@mac.com>
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Greetings, all,
I plan to stop by the space and check it out, if I can; then come to  
the meeting.
Cheers,
Linda

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





















On Mar 23, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:

> and said she sent an email about meeting to I guess discuss the  
> possible store front.
>
> I see no email (so far) and am not sure exactly what the plan might  
> have been so far - meeting at Company Store 6 pm this eve (Sat.)
>
> Also asked if there had been any feedback.
>
> Sounds like a good space and rent cost reasonable.  I think it would  
> be a great place and hope it will work out.
>
> Jessie Lee

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From jupiter at mcn.org  Sat Mar 23 16:48:41 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:48:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] sheila called me this a.m., left a message
In-Reply-To: <ADA11D00-F56F-4387-ADD7-FC734A724B99@mac.com>
References: <902AA6C4-40FB-45A8-9C4E-C97758F1FBC0@mac.com>
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Okay, just let me know.
I'll check my email in an hour.
Cheers,
Linda

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





















On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:

> i don't know that there is a meeting!
> On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings, all,
>> I plan to stop by the space and check it out, if I can; then come  
>> to the meeting.
>> Cheers,
>> Linda
>>
>> -----------
>> Linda Jupiter Productions
>> P.O. Box 2822
>> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
>> phone 707-964-8985
>> www.lindajupiter.com
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>> On Mar 23, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
>>
>>> and said she sent an email about meeting to I guess discuss the  
>>> possible store front.
>>>
>>> I see no email (so far) and am not sure exactly what the plan  
>>> might have been so far - meeting at Company Store 6 pm this eve  
>>> (Sat.)
>>>
>>> Also asked if there had been any feedback.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a good space and rent cost reasonable.  I think it  
>>> would be a great place and hope it will work out.
>>>
>>> Jessie Lee
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Mar 23 16:51:00 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:51:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] sheila called me this a.m., left a message
In-Reply-To: <36598C86-C9F0-4913-A6B0-C5FCF847042F@mcn.org>
References: <902AA6C4-40FB-45A8-9C4E-C97758F1FBC0@mac.com>
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Can't meet tonight.
Caspar tomorrow works for me. 9 or 10 AM?
On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:

Okay, just let me know.
I'll check my email in an hour.
Cheers,
Linda

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





















On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:

> i don't know that there is a meeting!
> On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings, all,
>> I plan to stop by the space and check it out, if I can; then come to the meeting.
>> Cheers,
>> Linda
>> 
>> -----------
>> Linda Jupiter Productions
>> P.O. Box 2822 
>> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
>> phone 707-964-8985
>> www.lindajupiter.com
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>> On Mar 23, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
>> 
>>> and said she sent an email about meeting to I guess discuss the possible store front.
>>> 
>>> I see no email (so far) and am not sure exactly what the plan might have been so far - meeting at Company Store 6 pm this eve (Sat.)
>>> 
>>> Also asked if there had been any feedback.
>>> 
>>> Sounds like a good space and rent cost reasonable.  I think it would be a great place and hope it will work out.
>>> 
>>> Jessie Lee
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From jessie at mac.com  Sat Mar 23 16:23:38 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:23:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ew: getting together to talk about shop front
Message-ID: <BBCAC7D9-66B1-4E19-918B-D6801DF27040@mac.com>

We could go to Caspar Breakfast tomorrow morning and share a meal and table and talk.

Or we could meeting in FB later in the day

But we have to agree and not leave any hanging, waiting?.

Jessie Lee

From jessie at mac.com  Sat Mar 23 16:42:38 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:42:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] sheila called me this a.m., left a message
In-Reply-To: <DE7C8383-0FEB-4D32-A908-CAA2E6E2C3B0@mcn.org>
References: <902AA6C4-40FB-45A8-9C4E-C97758F1FBC0@mac.com>
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i don't know that there is a meeting!
On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:

> Greetings, all,
> I plan to stop by the space and check it out, if I can; then come to the meeting.
> Cheers,
> Linda
> 
> -----------
> Linda Jupiter Productions
> P.O. Box 2822 
> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
> phone 707-964-8985
> www.lindajupiter.com
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> On Mar 23, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
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>> and said she sent an email about meeting to I guess discuss the possible store front.
>> 
>> I see no email (so far) and am not sure exactly what the plan might have been so far - meeting at Company Store 6 pm this eve (Sat.)
>> 
>> Also asked if there had been any feedback.
>> 
>> Sounds like a good space and rent cost reasonable.  I think it would be a great place and hope it will work out.
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>> Jessie Lee
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From jessie at mac.com  Sat Mar 23 16:52:51 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:52:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] sheila called me this a.m., left a message
In-Reply-To: <BC789FC5-8F84-4E8E-9224-924AF5BEE0A3@att.net>
References: <902AA6C4-40FB-45A8-9C4E-C97758F1FBC0@mac.com>
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Caspar opens at 9 a.m. - goes to 11 a.m.

But no use if we can most make it so everyone needs to acknowledge 

JL
On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Mark Safron <marksafron at att.net> wrote:

> Can't meet tonight.
> Caspar tomorrow works for me. 9 or 10 AM?
> On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Okay, just let me know.
> I'll check my email in an hour.
> Cheers,
> Linda
> 
> -----------
> Linda Jupiter Productions
> P.O. Box 2822 
> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
> phone 707-964-8985
> www.lindajupiter.com
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> On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
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>> i don't know that there is a meeting!
>> On Mar 23, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings, all,
>>> I plan to stop by the space and check it out, if I can; then come to the meeting.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Linda
>>> 
>>> -----------
>>> Linda Jupiter Productions
>>> P.O. Box 2822 
>>> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
>>> phone 707-964-8985
>>> www.lindajupiter.com
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>>> On Mar 23, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:
>>> 
>>>> and said she sent an email about meeting to I guess discuss the possible store front.
>>>> 
>>>> I see no email (so far) and am not sure exactly what the plan might have been so far - meeting at Company Store 6 pm this eve (Sat.)
>>>> 
>>>> Also asked if there had been any feedback.
>>>> 
>>>> Sounds like a good space and rent cost reasonable.  I think it would be a great place and hope it will work out.
>>>> 
>>>> Jessie Lee
>>> 
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Sun Mar 24 11:40:39 2013
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John Fremont)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:40:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Sign up now
In-Reply-To: <E25CD95E-CEA9-4122-968A-1313D76A294E@mcn.org>
References: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>
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More important than the name is the willingness to staff the office. If 
10-20 people can commit to 3-4 hours once a week, the office will be 
fully staffed. First to commit gets his/her chosen time slot. We can 
then hang 4-5 signs from the large wooden P&J sign to promote 
participating groups. When/where is the next Occupy meeting?
John

On 3/23/2013 7:20 AM, Elaine and Ed wrote:
> We need to be careful not to limit the name to be only political or 
> economic justice action oriented. If the Ocean Protection Coalition or 
> any other group protecting the environment becomes part of this 
> initial effort, there needs to some space in the name in reference to 
> saving our planet. How about The Community Commons?
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:
>
>> How about Democracy in Action for a name??
>> Carrie
>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:
>>
>>> Good thoughts, Richard
>>> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large 
>>> wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
>>> John
>>>
>>> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
>>>> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>>>>
>>>> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and 
>>>> address for our organization.Yeah!
>>>>
>>>> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>>>>
>>>> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>>>>
>>>> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on 
>>>> First Friday in FB.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>>>>
>>>> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>>>>
>>>> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help 
>>>> neighbors.
>>>>
>>>> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what 
>>>> you want to donate).
>>>>
>>>> /I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we 
>>>> have the initial funding/
>>>> /and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the 
>>>> previous renters, Roy, and/
>>>> /he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good 
>>>> thing is the location/
>>>> /so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on 
>>>> the alleyway for us to repaint./
>>>> /
>>>> /
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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From cdurkee at mcn.org  Sun Mar 24 15:29:41 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:29:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Sign up now
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Hello all. 
I'm sticking my neck out a little here
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons?starting at 1:00?till about 4:00. .maybe more?but I can commit to that for now.
The commitment is conditional?..related to the amount of money for the overall endeavor. 

My assumptions are that there will be at least 4 groups, and we each pay our portion of the rent, electricity, phone, gas. So?.the monthly fee is something like $175-$200. I would like there to be a clause about a 6 month trial?or review at the end of 6 months or something similar. 

Who will sign the lease?and how long is it?

Do we rent the space in front of the property?the garden area?

Seems like we could accept donations for the space in the location?.and then each group could benefit from the generosity of the community to support us all being there. For example, if we collected $100 during the month, and we had 4 groups, we would all pay $25 dollars less that month. 
Carrie,  Move to Amend




On Mar 24, 2013, at 11:40 AM, John Fremont wrote:

> More important than the name is the willingness to staff the office. If 10-20 people can commit to 3-4 hours once a week, the office will be fully staffed. First to commit gets his/her chosen time slot. We can then hang 4-5 signs from the large wooden P&J sign to promote participating groups. When/where is the next Occupy meeting?
> John
> 
> On 3/23/2013 7:20 AM, Elaine and Ed wrote:
>> We need to be careful not to limit the name to be only political or economic justice action oriented. If the Ocean Protection Coalition or any other group protecting the environment becomes part of this initial effort, there needs to some space in the name in reference to saving our planet. How about The Community Commons?       
>> 
>> Ed
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:
>> 
>>> How about Democracy in Action for a name??
>>> Carrie
>>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Good thoughts, Richard
>>>> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
>>>> John
>>>> 
>>>> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
>>>>> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>>>>> 
>>>>> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 
>>>>> 
>>>>> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
>>>>> and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
>>>>> he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
>>>>> so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us to repaint.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Richard
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Mar 25 09:57:00 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:57:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Keep sending our petition around!
Message-ID: <3AA103D4-65FA-49EB-B269-8A1FC7D2C2C9@mcn.org>



http://signon.org/sign/big-banks-are-stealing?source=c.url&r_by=7244206

We are at 102 signatures and pushing for 200!




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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Mon Mar 25 10:20:52 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie VanSant)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:20:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Keep sending our petition around!
In-Reply-To: <3AA103D4-65FA-49EB-B269-8A1FC7D2C2C9@mcn.org>
References: <3AA103D4-65FA-49EB-B269-8A1FC7D2C2C9@mcn.org>
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I have (maybe 10+) physical signatures on multiple partial paper petitions.  Are we going to do an organized tabling??
How about asking Caspar if we can table at next breakfast??  I can present to board

JL

On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> http://signon.org/sign/big-banks-are-stealing?source=c.url&r_by=7244206
> 
> We are at 102 signatures and pushing for 200!
> 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Mar 25 12:58:39 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:58:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Keep sending our petition around!
In-Reply-To: <9358E877-805C-4715-94ED-FD1C6B18C8F9@gmail.com>
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Good idea to petition at the 4th Sun. breakfast if possible.
I wish volunteers would contact me re petitioning at Harvest Mkt on Friday
3-5pm.> or anywhere else. maybe Irene could tell us if we can have a
tables april 7th at the Redwood Symphony?
Love, Agnes


I have (maybe 10+) physical signatures on multiple partial paper
> petitions.  Are we going to do an organized tabling??
> How about asking Caspar if we can table at next breakfast??  I can present
> to board
>
> JL
>
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> http://signon.org/sign/big-banks-are-stealing?source=c.url&r_by=7244206
>>
>> We are at 102 signatures and pushing for 200!
>>
>>
>>
>>
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Mar 25 23:24:55 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:24:55 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
In-Reply-To: <SNT145-W65F08CB5661A3D470432C8DDD00@phx.gbl>
References: <SNT145-W49E7B240E67DA32029F4ECDDD60@phx.gbl>,
	<3360D771-FF4D-4684-84BF-FB66F4E6F1E9@mcn.org>
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I liked how Ed came right out and pledged for it.  Pat and I would do the same. 
I wonder if other people could chip in $5 or $10 a month to give it shot?
Richard

On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:

> I'm not sure if you have been following this whole dialog.  Peace & Justice wants to donate $1000 toward a center for activists and OccupyMendocino, OPC and Move to Amend are interested, but we've been wrangling over the details.  One place we found is in the alley behind Headlands for $500 and is very cute, the other is The Bookstore space across from Bernillo's which also has a lot of young people going in;.  They serve pizza by the slice at lunch, which is attractive to youth.  Bothe locations give us visiblity in the community and a place to do actions, have literature, show films, etc.  Get donations if we are known to be doing things.  With several groups we share expenses, but no one wants to spend a lot of energy fundraising.  I am glad you gave me some feedback.  So far, Ed likes the idea and even pledged donations, I like it and am willing to spend time staffing and helping, Zac is part of the original Peace & Justice which is giving us startup money, Char thinks it is not a good use of our energies, Mark has lots of questions about the cost, and I am not sure what Dave, Jim, Judy, Irene and others think.  We need to decide so the others know how many are committed to staffing the place and making it work.  Ann    
>  
> > Subject: Re: [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
> > From: ananda at mcn.org
> > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:30:20 -0700
> > To: annxpress at live.com
> > 
> > This is a good space. & we can serve coffee and tea, and have 
> > round table kinds of discussions with the public....something like
> > Myra used to do, where the community is invited.
> > 
> > Cecile

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From cdurkee at mcn.org  Mon Mar 25 23:38:52 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:38:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
In-Reply-To: <D8C35987-FB09-41DD-8C5D-26FF108DAC10@mcn.org>
References: <SNT145-W49E7B240E67DA32029F4ECDDD60@phx.gbl>,
	<3360D771-FF4D-4684-84BF-FB66F4E6F1E9@mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W709DEED5A76E2AA3CDB878DDD60@phx.gbl>,
	<01FAF39C-32D3-4EEC-BDC0-6088BE1AF682@mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W106A62612B5ADF74B7CCF2BDDD00@phx.gbl>,
	<53ACF57F-06F0-4272-A6C8-D09B307CADB3@mcn.org>
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Hello all:
If the project moves forward??..About money:  I would be responsible for the movetoamend portion of the expenses. I would assume that each of the other groups would have the same responsibility, their portion. 
If individuals want to pledge money?for the whole cause?.why not see how much has been donated at the end of each month and reduce each member groups portion accordingly.
Carrie
On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Richard Karch wrote:

>  
> I liked how Ed came right out and pledged for it.  Pat and I would do the same. 
> I wonder if other people could chip in $5 or $10 a month to give it shot?
> Richard
> 
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure if you have been following this whole dialog.  Peace & Justice wants to donate $1000 toward a center for activists and OccupyMendocino, OPC and Move to Amend are interested, but we've been wrangling over the details.  One place we found is in the alley behind Headlands for $500 and is very cute, the other is The Bookstore space across from Bernillo's which also has a lot of young people going in;.  They serve pizza by the slice at lunch, which is attractive to youth.  Bothe locations give us visiblity in the community and a place to do actions, have literature, show films, etc.  Get donations if we are known to be doing things.  With several groups we share expenses, but no one wants to spend a lot of energy fundraising.  I am glad you gave me some feedback.  So far, Ed likes the idea and even pledged donations, I like it and am willing to spend time staffing and helping, Zac is part of the original Peace & Justice which is giving us startup money, Char thinks it is not a good use of our energies, Mark has lots of questions about the cost, and I am not sure what Dave, Jim, Judy, Irene and others think.  We need to decide so the others know how many are committed to staffing the place and making it work.  Ann    
>>  
>> > Subject: Re: [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
>> > From: ananda at mcn.org
>> > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:30:20 -0700
>> > To: annxpress at live.com
>> > 
>> > This is a good space. & we can serve coffee and tea, and have 
>> > round table kinds of discussions with the public....something like
>> > Myra used to do, where the community is invited.
>> > 
>> > Cecile
> 
> 
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From myrah at mcn.org  Mon Mar 25 23:42:00 2013
From: myrah at mcn.org (Myra)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:42:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
In-Reply-To: <D8C35987-FB09-41DD-8C5D-26FF108DAC10@mcn.org>
References: <SNT145-W49E7B240E67DA32029F4ECDDD60@phx.gbl>
	<3360D771-FF4D-4684-84BF-FB66F4E6F1E9@mcn.org>
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Thanks, Cecile for remembering the conversation group.  If Occupy ever is interested in encouraging conversations among people with differing ideas and beliefs, please keep me in mind.  
Myra

 

On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

>  
> I liked how Ed came right out and pledged for it.  Pat and I would do the same. 
> I wonder if other people could chip in $5 or $10 a month to give it shot?
> Richard
> 
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure if you have been following this whole dialog.  Peace & Justice wants to donate $1000 toward a center for activists and OccupyMendocino, OPC and Move to Amend are interested, but we've been wrangling over the details.  One place we found is in the alley behind Headlands for $500 and is very cute, the other is The Bookstore space across from Bernillo's which also has a lot of young people going in;.  They serve pizza by the slice at lunch, which is attractive to youth.  Bothe locations give us visiblity in the community and a place to do actions, have literature, show films, etc.  Get donations if we are known to be doing things.  With several groups we share expenses, but no one wants to spend a lot of energy fundraising.  I am glad you gave me some feedback.  So far, Ed likes the idea and even pledged donations, I like it and am willing to spend time staffing and helping, Zac is part of the original Peace & Justice which is giving us startup money, Char thinks it is not a good use of our energies, Mark has lots of questions about the cost, and I am not sure what Dave, Jim, Judy, Irene and others think.  We need to decide so the others know how many are committed to staffing the place and making it work.  Ann    
>>  
>> > Subject: Re: [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
>> > From: ananda at mcn.org
>> > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:30:20 -0700
>> > To: annxpress at live.com
>> > 
>> > This is a good space. & we can serve coffee and tea, and have 
>> > round table kinds of discussions with the public....something like
>> > Myra used to do, where the community is invited.
>> > 
>> > Cecile
> 
> 
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Mar 25 23:55:17 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:55:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
In-Reply-To: <C23D1E41-2845-47AB-90FB-54F572328790@mcn.org>
References: <SNT145-W49E7B240E67DA32029F4ECDDD60@phx.gbl>,
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	<SNT145-W709DEED5A76E2AA3CDB878DDD60@phx.gbl>,
	<01FAF39C-32D3-4EEC-BDC0-6088BE1AF682@mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W106A62612B5ADF74B7CCF2BDDD00@phx.gbl>,
	<53ACF57F-06F0-4272-A6C8-D09B307CADB3@mcn.org>
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Thanks Carrie. Good suggestions.   I also think opportunities to bring in money could happen. We can have an artist show there. Maybe a silent auction. Yard sales out on the patio yard or plant sale occasionally...  Seems that if we the members of the various organizations can support a trial period, and find out what it will take. As Jesse said at the Caspar meeting, I also don't want to be a slave to fund raising to make it work. I think not giving it a try for 3-6 months would be unfortunate, however. 
Richard

 
On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:38 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:

> Hello all:
> If the project moves forward??..About money:  I would be responsible for the movetoamend portion of the expenses. I would assume that each of the other groups would have the same responsibility, their portion. 
> If individuals want to pledge money?for the whole cause?.why not see how much has been donated at the end of each month and reduce each member groups portion accordingly.
> Carrie
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Richard Karch wrote:
> 
>>  
>> I liked how Ed came right out and pledged for it.  Pat and I would do the same. 
>> I wonder if other people could chip in $5 or $10 a month to give it shot?
>> Richard
>> 
>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm not sure if you have been following this whole dialog.  Peace & Justice wants to donate $1000 toward a center for activists and OccupyMendocino, OPC and Move to Amend are interested, but we've been wrangling over the details.  One place we found is in the alley behind Headlands for $500 and is very cute, the other is The Bookstore space across from Bernillo's which also has a lot of young people going in;.  They serve pizza by the slice at lunch, which is attractive to youth.  Bothe locations give us visiblity in the community and a place to do actions, have literature, show films, etc.  Get donations if we are known to be doing things.  With several groups we share expenses, but no one wants to spend a lot of energy fundraising.  I am glad you gave me some feedback.  So far, Ed likes the idea and even pledged donations, I like it and am willing to spend time staffing and helping, Zac is part of the original Peace & Justice which is giving us startup money, Char thinks it is not a good use of our energies, Mark has lots of questions about the cost, and I am not sure what Dave, Jim, Judy, Irene and others think.  We need to decide so the others know how many are committed to staffing the place and making it work.  Ann    
>>>  
>>> > Subject: Re: [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
>>> > From: ananda at mcn.org
>>> > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:30:20 -0700
>>> > To: annxpress at live.com
>>> > 
>>> > This is a good space. & we can serve coffee and tea, and have 
>>> > round table kinds of discussions with the public....something like
>>> > Myra used to do, where the community is invited.
>>> > 
>>> > Cecile
>> 
>> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Mar 25 23:57:14 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:57:14 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
In-Reply-To: <654F21C5-759C-4AE3-A91F-1FF1AA0715FE@mcn.org>
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On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:53 PM, Adrienne Ross wrote:

> 
> I'm willing to donate a few bucks on a monthly basis, and also to staff there from time to time.  It's time to do this.
> 
> adrienne
> 
> ==
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Myra <myrah at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Cecile for remembering the conversation group.  If Occupy ever is interested in encouraging conversations among people with differing ideas and beliefs, please keep me in mind.  
>> Myra
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>  
>>> I liked how Ed came right out and pledged for it.  Pat and I would do the same. 
>>> I wonder if other people could chip in $5 or $10 a month to give it shot?
>>> Richard
>>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm not sure if you have been following this whole dialog.  Peace & Justice wants to donate $1000 toward a center for activists and OccupyMendocino, OPC and Move to Amend are interested, but we've been wrangling over the details.  One place we found is in the alley behind Headlands for $500 and is very cute, the other is The Bookstore space across from Bernillo's which also has a lot of young people going in;.  They serve pizza by the slice at lunch, which is attractive to youth.  Bothe locations give us visiblity in the community and a place to do actions, have literature, show films, etc.  Get donations if we are known to be doing things.  With several groups we share expenses, but no one wants to spend a lot of energy fundraising.  I am glad you gave me some feedback.  So far, Ed likes the idea and even pledged donations, I like it and am willing to spend time staffing and helping, Zac is part of the original Peace & Justice which is giving us startup money, Char thinks it is not a good use of our energies, Mark has lots of questions about the cost, and I am not sure what Dave, Jim, Judy, Irene and others think.  We need to decide so the others know how many are committed to staffing the place and making it work.  Ann    
>>>>  
>>>> > Subject: Re: [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
>>>> > From: ananda at mcn.org
>>>> > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:30:20 -0700
>>>> > To: annxpress at live.com
>>>> > 
>>>> > This is a good space. & we can serve coffee and tea, and have 
>>>> > round table kinds of discussions with the public....something like
>>>> > Myra used to do, where the community is invited.
>>>> > 
>>>> > Cecile
>>> 
>>> 
>>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
>>> 
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>> 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Mar 26 14:48:06 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:48:06 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
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So good to hear from Adrienne and Myrah.
I'd be willing to donate $5.00 monthly.
Agnes>



> On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:53 PM, Adrienne Ross wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm willing to donate a few bucks on a monthly basis, and also to staff
>> there from time to time.  It's time to do this.
>>
>> adrienne
>>
>> ==
>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Myra <myrah at mcn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Cecile for remembering the conversation group.  If Occupy ever
>>> is interested in encouraging conversations among people with differing
>>> ideas and beliefs, please keep me in mind.
>>> Myra
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I liked how Ed came right out and pledged for it.  Pat and I would do
>>>> the same.
>>>> I wonder if other people could chip in $5 or $10 a month to give it
>>>> shot?
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if you have been following this whole dialog.  Peace &
>>>>> Justice wants to donate $1000 toward a center for activists and
>>>>> OccupyMendocino, OPC and Move to Amend are interested, but we've been
>>>>> wrangling over the details.  One place we found is in the alley
>>>>> behind Headlands for $500 and is very cute, the other is The
>>>>> Bookstore space across from Bernillo's which also has a lot of young
>>>>> people going in;.  They serve pizza by the slice at lunch, which is
>>>>> attractive to youth.  Bothe locations give us visiblity in the
>>>>> community and a place to do actions, have literature, show films,
>>>>> etc.  Get donations if we are known to be doing things.  With several
>>>>> groups we share expenses, but no one wants to spend a lot of energy
>>>>> fundraising.  I am glad you gave me some feedback.  So far, Ed likes
>>>>> the idea and even pledged donations, I like it and am willing to
>>>>> spend time staffing and helping, Zac is part of the original Peace &
>>>>> Justice which is giving us startup money, Char thinks it is not a
>>>>> good use of our energies, Mark has lots of questions about the cost,
>>>>> and I am not sure what Dave, Jim, Judy, Irene and others think.  We
>>>>> need to decide so the others know how many are committed to staffing
>>>>> the place and making it work.  Ann
>>>>>
>>>>> > Subject: Re: [Opcsteering] Storefront for Activist groups
>>>>> > From: ananda at mcn.org
>>>>> > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:30:20 -0700
>>>>> > To: annxpress at live.com
>>>>> >
>>>>> > This is a good space. & we can serve coffee and tea, and have
>>>>> > round table kinds of discussions with the public....something like
>>>>> > Myra used to do, where the community is invited.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Cecile
>>>>
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Tue Mar 26 22:47:07 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:47:07 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] a corporate cartoon. Enjoy. Peace and blessings,
	Ellen
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Tue Mar 26 23:00:38 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:00:38 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ethical investing and TIA-CREFF
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt43Jwx7_03_YQThd6hT4kdgrLJ+uG6er1kX7=y4q+7eww@mail.gmail.com>

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
March 26, 2013

*Contact:* We Divest Campaign, *info at wedivest.org*

*CREF Deaf to Shareholders? Socially Responsible Investment Concerns:*
*Retirement Giant Refuses to Place Human Rights Issue on its Shareholder
Ballot*

ST LOUIS ? TIAA-CREF has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
to protect it from liability for refusing to allow its participants to vote
on a shareholder
proposal<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BblefIZLQZeVH4FvlVP%2FndFLALTtcIEO>.
The
proposal, submitted by over 200
clients<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ffp2%2FD83wz%2BoEfqSfh9MAtFLALTtcIEO>,
asks trustees to end investments in companies that profit from serious
human rights violations, including those profiting from Israel?s occupation
of Palestinian lands.

The proposal cites as one example Veolia Environnement, a company
profiting<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L12VSq2PXjFgDrlnsusHtNFLALTtcIEO>
from
the operation of settler-only buses on segregated roads and a landfill
dumping Israeli waste on Palestinian villages? lands in the West Bank. Said
Steve Tamari, a Palestinian-American educator and member of the St. Louis
Palestine Solidarity Committee, on behalf of hundreds of CREF filers who
signed onto the resolution:

?TIAA-CREF has not only ignored our moral concerns, but now refuses to let
us vote or have any voice on the issue. We are hundreds of investors who
are deeply troubled that we are forced to support segregation and other
abhorrent human rights violations in order to maintain our retirement
accounts.?

The Company has made legalistic objections to keep its clients from voting
on the issue, taking the position that pervasive segregation, widespread
land theft that deprives a farming population of its livelihoods and food,
and other major and more violent human rights violations are not
sufficiently ?significant? social policy issues to justify a shareholder
vote. This last assertion comes on the heels of President Barack Obama?s
visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories, where he
stated<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aUabLZMQNf6cYFPJ58BAUGoKt5Igk8MA>
that
?continued settlement activity is counterproductive to the cause of peace,?
and ?the Palestinian people deserve an end to occupation and the daily
indignities that come with it? (March 21, 2013).

Condemnation of the Israeli occupation on human rights grounds has swept
from Europe -- where public pension funds, banks, and other major
institutions have divested billions from companies involved in the
occupation, including Veolia, which has lost more than $15 billion in
contracts following boycott and divestment campaigns -- to the U.S.
Veolia?s bids for contracts around the country have been heavily contested,
shelved, or withdrawn completely in cities including St.
Louis<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lHEcl35W0bahpbKsMSHYR9FLALTtcIEO>,
Boston, Los Angeles, and Yolo
County<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vxEdNnGarmXkQfzykn%2F6adFLALTtcIEO>,
Calif. Three campuses<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vCsv2kkNI4eqH%2BOEEFvC4tFLALTtcIEO>
of
the University of California recently adopted divestment resolutions. And
when the Brooklyn City Council tried to squelch an event last month on
divestment and similar campaigns, the Council was strongly and widely
condemned -- by the mayor of New
York<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wl647jAjOMs01fAdKY7rxNFLALTtcIEO>,
among others -- for trying to stifle free speech. TIAA-CREF now aligns
itself with that same anti-democratic spirit.

The We Divest Campaign<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2JwKuC0rBxs8ekbj8SUTu9FLALTtcIEO>,
a coalition effort that began in 2010 urging TIAA-CREF to divest from
companies profiting from the Israeli occupation, is calling the Company?s
refusal to hear their own clients? human rights concerns a ?double
standard,? given TIAA-CREF?s otherwise active promotion of shareholder
resolutions directed at companies in which it invests.

*We Divest is a national, coalition-led initiative by
**Adalah-NY<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nFb%2FRONrL7KdpEF3qAOgndFLALTtcIEO>
**, the **American Friends Service
Committee<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9D1XzA8QZzgEVHmipdUoZNFLALTtcIEO>
**, **Grassroots
International<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=k8OpZydf%2FILjV4KC0P8l69FLALTtcIEO>
, Jewish Voice for
Peace<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IfgeC3jJsS0LPV62SfRrO9FLALTtcIEO>,
the US Campaign to End the Israeli
Occupation<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=P2mHRjy%2BP9WhVk7ILeK7WdFLALTtcIEO>,
and the US Palestinian Community
Network.<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=J7w9C%2FCdn5CauEQhCkB1ytFLALTtcIEO>
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Wed Mar 27 08:14:45 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:14:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Community Commons
Message-ID: <BB97A7B1-6B28-4C00-857D-35E56D58B56D@mcn.org>

Hi, all,
Seems like everyone is excited about having a center; it is exciting  
and I love all the ideas Richard presented about what the center could  
be. And I love Ed's name for it--The Community Commons. It's the most  
inclusive name I've heard so far.

However, I'm not excited about fundraising constantly to make it all  
happen (that's not where I want to put my energy). I can pay $10  
monthly but would donate the money to Move to Amend, as Carrie is  
carrying this on her own (and I'm a member of both groups).

So I'm hanging back with "next steps" and will jump back in once  
decisions are finalized and a plan is in place.

Thanks to you all for your enthusiasm and good thinking.

Peace,
Linda


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From llaks at mcn.org  Sun Mar 24 11:44:22 2013
From: llaks at mcn.org (Lenny Laks)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:44:22 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space
 could be (5 AM rambling)
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Iike that too !!   The Commons Center

On 3/23/2013 7:20 AM, Elaine and Ed wrote:
> We need to be careful not to limit the name to be only political or 
> economic justice action oriented. If the Ocean Protection Coalition or 
> any other group protecting the environment becomes part of this 
> initial effort, there needs to some space in the name in reference to 
> saving our planet. How about The Community Commons?
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:
>
>> How about Democracy in Action for a name??
>> Carrie
>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:
>>
>>> Good thoughts, Richard
>>> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large 
>>> wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
>>> John
>>>
>>> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
>>>> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>>>>
>>>> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and 
>>>> address for our organization.Yeah!
>>>>
>>>> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>>>>
>>>> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>>>>
>>>> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on 
>>>> First Friday in FB.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>>>>
>>>> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>>>>
>>>> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help 
>>>> neighbors.
>>>>
>>>> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what 
>>>> you want to donate).
>>>>
>>>> /I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we 
>>>> have the initial funding/
>>>> /and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the 
>>>> previous renters, Roy, and/
>>>> /he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good 
>>>> thing is the location/
>>>> /so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on 
>>>> the alleyway for us to repaint./
>>>> /
>>>> /
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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From makronizer at gmail.com  Wed Mar 27 07:48:43 2013
From: makronizer at gmail.com (Makronizer)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:48:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ethical investing and TIA-CREFF
In-Reply-To: <CAFGqSt43Jwx7_03_YQThd6hT4kdgrLJ+uG6er1kX7=y4q+7eww@mail.gmail.com>
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For your information: I REPLIED AND FORWARDED TO VEOILA'S HEADQUARTERS IN
TOULOUSE, FRANCE
Viva Israel, Viva Egipto, Viva Turquia, Vive La France avec le Canada,
Viuant *Civitates Foederatae
Americae*[1]<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae#cite_note-traupmanconvlat-1>
 vel *Americanae Civitates
Foederatae*[2]<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae#cite_note-2>
 (Anglice <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglice>: *United States of America*),
breviter *Civitates
Foederatae*[3]<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae#cite_note-3>
 et *Civitates Unitae,*[4]<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae#cite_note-4>
 raro *Respublica
Foederata,*[5]<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae#cite_note-5>
aliter
Latinitate recentiore in Civitate
Vaticana<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitas_Vaticana>
 *Foederati Status Americae
Septentrionalis,*[6]<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae#cite_note-6>
et
in Finnia <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnia>*Civitates Americae Unitae,*
[7] <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae#cite_note-7>
vulgariter
tantum *Civitates* et adeo *America,* sunt foederalis respublica
constitutionalis<http://la.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Respublica_constitutionalis&action=edit&redlink=1>
 cui quinquaginta <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/50>
civitates<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitas>
 et unus <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unus> districtus
foederalis<http://la.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Districtus_foederalis&action=edit&redlink=1>
insunt.
Rei publicae maximam partem pertinet in media America
Septentrionali<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Septentrionalis>,
ubi sui quadraginta octo civitates
confines<http://la.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quadraginta_octo_civitates_confines&action=edit&redlink=1>
 et Vasingtonia <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasingtonia_(D.C.)>(districtus
capitalis) oceanis <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus>
Pacifico<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus_Pacificus>
 et Atlantico <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus_Atlanticus>
 interiacent, Canada <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada> a parte
septentrionali <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septentrio> et
Mexico<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicum>
 ameridiana <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridies> parte sitis. Civitas
Alasca <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasca> inter septentriones et occasum
solis <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidens> spectat, Canada ab
oriente<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriens>
 etRussia <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia> ab occidente trans Fretum
Beringianum <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fretum_Beringianum>. Civitas
Havaii <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havaii> est
archipelagus<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelagus> in
medio Pacifico <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus_Pacificus> situs.
Civitates Foederatae nonnulla
terroria<http://la.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Territoria_Civitatum_Foederatarum&action=edit&redlink=1>,
vel regiones insulares<http://la.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regio_insularis&action=edit&redlink=1>,
in Mari Caribbaeo <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Caribbaeum> et Oceano
Pacifico possident. Et ita porro:

*Mexicum*[1] <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicum#cite_note-1> (ex verbo
Navatlaco <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Navatlaca> *M?xihco*
(IPA<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA>
:me??iko<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarium_Phoneticum_Internationale>
); Hispanice <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanice>: *M?xico*
(IPA<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA>
:mejiko <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarium_Phoneticum_Internationale>))
seu publica plenaque appellatione *Civitates Foederatae Mexicanae,* aut
vulgo *Res Publica Mexicana* et *Foederatio
Mexicana,*[2]<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicum#cite_note-2>
 est foederata <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foederatio>
respublica<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respublica>
 constitutionalis <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio> quae populari
ratione gubernata, ex parte meridiana Americae
Septentrionali<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Septentrionalis>
finitima,
ex triginta duabus civitatibus foederatis composita est.
Caput<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caput_(urbs)>
 est Mexicopolis <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicopolis>, maxima orbis
terrarum <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellus_(planeta)>urbs<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbs>.
Quae de septemtrione Civitatibus
Foederatis<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae>,
meridie Guatimalia <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatimalia> et
Beliza<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliza>,
orienti Sino Mexicano <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinus_Mexicanus>,
occidenti Oceano Pacifico <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus_Pacificus>
 adiacet.

Mexici terram homines plurimi incolunt, quae est secunda regnorum maxima,
ubi natu <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermo_patrius> lingua
Hispanica<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Hispanica>
 loquuntur. Hispanice <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Hispanica> quotidie
inter se confabulantur, quamquam cives multi
linguisAmerindicis<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indi_Americani>
 utuntur.[3] <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicum#cite_note-3>

Mexicum tertia maximarum civitatum <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitas>
 (post Brasiliam <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilia> et
Argentinam<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina>)
tertiaque frequentissimarum civitatum (post
Brasiliam<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilia>)
intra Americam Latinam <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Latina> est.
Anno 2011 <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011>, quarta decima est terrarum
oeconomicam <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oeconomia> auctoritatem habentium
cum PDG <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDG> 1185
milliardorum<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliardum>
dollariorum <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollarium_(CFA)> (secundum Aerarii
Monetarii Internationalis<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerarium_Monetarium_Internationale>
 numeros).


*Mexicum*[1] <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicum#cite_note-1> (ex verbo
Navatlaco <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Navatlaca> *M?xihco*
(IPA<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA>
:me??iko<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarium_Phoneticum_Internationale>
); Hispanice <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanice>: *M?xico*
(IPA<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA>
:mejiko <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarium_Phoneticum_Internationale>))
seu publica plenaque appellatione *Civitates Foederatae Mexicanae,* aut
vulgo *Res Publica Mexicana* et *Foederatio
Mexicana,*[2]<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicum#cite_note-2>
 est foederata <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foederatio>
respublica<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respublica>
 constitutionalis <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio> quae populari
ratione gubernata, ex parte meridiana Americae
Septentrionali<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Septentrionalis>
finitima,
ex triginta duabus civitatibus foederatis composita est.
Caput<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caput_(urbs)>
 est Mexicopolis <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicopolis>, maxima orbis
terrarum <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellus_(planeta)>urbs<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbs>.
Quae de septemtrione Civitatibus
Foederatis<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitates_Foederatae_Americae>,
meridie Guatimalia <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatimalia> et
Beliza<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliza>,
orienti Sino Mexicano <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinus_Mexicanus>,
occidenti Oceano Pacifico <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus_Pacificus>
 adiacet.

Mexici terram homines plurimi incolunt, quae est secunda regnorum maxima,
ubi natu <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermo_patrius> lingua
Hispanica<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Hispanica>
 loquuntur. Hispanice <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Hispanica> quotidie
inter se confabulantur, quamquam cives multi
linguisAmerindicis<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indi_Americani>
 utuntur.[3] <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicum#cite_note-3>

Mexicum tertia maximarum civitatum <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitas>
 (post Brasiliam <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilia> et
Argentinam<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina>)
tertiaque frequentissimarum civitatum (post
Brasiliam<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilia>)
intra Americam Latinam <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Latina> est.
Anno 2011 <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011>, quarta decima est terrarum
oeconomicam <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oeconomia> auctoritatem habentium
cum PDG <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDG> 1185
milliardorum<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliardum>
dollariorum <http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollarium_(CFA)> (secundum Aerarii
Monetarii Internationalis<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerarium_Monetarium_Internationale>
 numeros).

  Sincerely,

  Richard De L'MTA


*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
March 26, 2013

*Contact:* We Divest Campaign, *info at wedivest.org*

*CREF Deaf to Shareholders? Socially Responsible Investment Concerns:*
*Retirement Giant Refuses to Place Human Rights Issue on its Shareholder
Ballot*

ST LOUIS ? TIAA-CREF has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
to protect it from liability for refusing to allow its participants to vote
on a shareholder
proposal<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BblefIZLQZeVH4FvlVP%2FndFLALTtcIEO>.
The
proposal, submitted by over 200
clients<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ffp2%2FD83wz%2BoEfqSfh9MAtFLALTtcIEO>,
asks trustees to end investments in companies that profit from serious
human rights violations, including those profiting from Israel?s occupation
of Palestinian lands.

The proposal cites as one example Veolia Environnement, a company
profiting<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L12VSq2PXjFgDrlnsusHtNFLALTtcIEO>
from
the operation of settler-only buses on segregated roads and a landfill
dumping Israeli waste on Palestinian villages? lands in the West Bank. Said
Steve Tamari, a Palestinian-American educator and member of the St. Louis
Palestine Solidarity Committee, on behalf of hundreds of CREF filers who
signed onto the resolution:

?TIAA-CREF has not only ignored our moral concerns, but now refuses to let
us vote or have any voice on the issue. We are hundreds of investors who
are deeply troubled that we are forced to support segregation and other
abhorrent human rights violations in order to maintain our retirement
accounts.?

The Company has made legalistic objections to keep its clients from voting
on the issue, taking the position that pervasive segregation, widespread
land theft that deprives a farming population of its livelihoods and food,
and other major and more violent human rights violations are not
sufficiently ?significant? social policy issues to justify a shareholder
vote. This last assertion comes on the heels of President Barack Obama?s
visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories, where he
stated<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aUabLZMQNf6cYFPJ58BAUGoKt5Igk8MA>
that
?continued settlement activity is counterproductive to the cause of peace,?
and ?the Palestinian people deserve an end to occupation and the daily
indignities that come with it? (March 21, 2013).

Condemnation of the Israeli occupation on human rights grounds has swept
from Europe -- where public pension funds, banks, and other major
institutions have divested billions from companies involved in the
occupation, including Veolia, which has lost more than $15 billion in
contracts following boycott and divestment campaigns -- to the U.S.
Veolia?s bids for contracts around the country have been heavily contested,
shelved, or withdrawn completely in cities including St.
Louis<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lHEcl35W0bahpbKsMSHYR9FLALTtcIEO>,
Boston, Los Angeles, and Yolo
County<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vxEdNnGarmXkQfzykn%2F6adFLALTtcIEO>,
Calif. Three campuses<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vCsv2kkNI4eqH%2BOEEFvC4tFLALTtcIEO>
of
the University of California recently adopted divestment resolutions. And
when the Brooklyn City Council tried to squelch an event last month on
divestment and similar campaigns, the Council was strongly and widely
condemned -- by the mayor of New
York<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wl647jAjOMs01fAdKY7rxNFLALTtcIEO>,
among others -- for trying to stifle free speech. TIAA-CREF now aligns
itself with that same anti-democratic spirit.

The We Divest Campaign<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2JwKuC0rBxs8ekbj8SUTu9FLALTtcIEO>,
a coalition effort that began in 2010 urging TIAA-CREF to divest from
companies profiting from the Israeli occupation, is calling the Company?s
refusal to hear their own clients? human rights concerns a ?double
standard,? given TIAA-CREF?s otherwise active promotion of shareholder
resolutions directed at companies in which it invests.

*We Divest is a national, coalition-led initiative by
**Adalah-NY<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nFb%2FRONrL7KdpEF3qAOgndFLALTtcIEO>
**, the **American Friends Service
Committee<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9D1XzA8QZzgEVHmipdUoZNFLALTtcIEO>
**, **Grassroots
International<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=k8OpZydf%2FILjV4KC0P8l69FLALTtcIEO>
, Jewish Voice for
Peace<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IfgeC3jJsS0LPV62SfRrO9FLALTtcIEO>,
the US Campaign to End the Israeli
Occupation<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=P2mHRjy%2BP9WhVk7ILeK7WdFLALTtcIEO>,
and the US Palestinian Community
Network.<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=J7w9C%2FCdn5CauEQhCkB1ytFLALTtcIEO>
*
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Mar 27 13:32:32 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:32:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space
	could be (5 AM rambling)
In-Reply-To: <SNT145-W8980E2AE4ABFB1C7AC04FFDDD10@phx.gbl>
References: <2436BB25-D72E-47B4-8D05-358AB7AC13D1@mcn.org>,
	<514CB801.4060804@cypresshouse.com>,
	<B79D1F91-3A43-4382-B0A2-8F8141FB213B@mcn.org>,
	<E25CD95E-CEA9-4122-968A-1313D76A294E@mcn.org>,
	<514F4986.2000308@mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W8980E2AE4ABFB1C7AC04FFDDD10@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <B22C18AF-FE85-40B1-A101-0EDAA748EEDE@mcn.org>

I agree with Ann.  I think it is time to move to a new level.  What other groups might be out there?

Richard
On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:

> So far it looks like Peace & Justice put in 2 months rent, MTA wants to share expenses but with only very few members (mostly Carrie) and OPC declined, so it's up to O/M to recruit the troops or find another activist group or to try this on faith that we will expend some energy and be visible enough in town to attract members and donations this spring.  It's been more than a year now and I believe we could do it now ...  Ann
>  
> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:44:22 -0700
> From: llaks at mcn.org
> To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
> Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space could be (5 AM rambling)
> 
> Iike that too !!   The Commons Center
>  
> On 3/23/2013 7:20 AM, Elaine and Ed wrote:
> We need to be careful not to limit the name to be only political or economic justice action oriented. If the Ocean Protection Coalition or any other group protecting the environment becomes part of this initial effort, there needs to some space in the name in reference to saving our planet. How about The Community Commons?
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:
> 
> How about Democracy in Action for a name??
> Carrie
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:
> 
> Good thoughts, Richard
> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
> John
> 
> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
> 
> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 
> 
> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
> 
> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
> 
> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.
> 
> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
> 
> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
> 
> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.
> 
> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).
> 
> I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
> and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
> he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
> so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us to repaint.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From cdurkee at mcn.org  Wed Mar 27 18:50:10 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:50:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space
	could be (5 AM rambling)
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	<514CB801.4060804@cypresshouse.com>,
	<B79D1F91-3A43-4382-B0A2-8F8141FB213B@mcn.org>,
	<E25CD95E-CEA9-4122-968A-1313D76A294E@mcn.org>,
	<514F4986.2000308@mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W8980E2AE4ABFB1C7AC04FFDDD10@phx.gbl>
	<B22C18AF-FE85-40B1-A101-0EDAA748EEDE@mcn.org>
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Hello all
As much as I like the idea, and thanks to everyone for wanting it to come to fruition (Linda offering to pay some of my costs, etc. )?I think I have to bow out. I do not want to do it as the sole representative of MTA. I feel like I have my plate full with what is scheduled for MTA?and unable to accept more responsibility by maintaining an office space as well. 
Thank you for all your efforts in all you do. I wish you the best. 
Carrie


On Mar 27, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Richard Karch wrote:

> I agree with Ann.  I think it is time to move to a new level.  What other groups might be out there?
> 
> Richard
> On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
> 
>> So far it looks like Peace & Justice put in 2 months rent, MTA wants to share expenses but with only very few members (mostly Carrie) and OPC declined, so it's up to O/M to recruit the troops or find another activist group or to try this on faith that we will expend some energy and be visible enough in town to attract members and donations this spring.  It's been more than a year now and I believe we could do it now ...  Ann
>>  
>> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:44:22 -0700
>> From: llaks at mcn.org
>> To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
>> Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space could be (5 AM rambling)
>> 
>> Iike that too !!   The Commons Center
>>  
>> On 3/23/2013 7:20 AM, Elaine and Ed wrote:
>> We need to be careful not to limit the name to be only political or economic justice action oriented. If the Ocean Protection Coalition or any other group protecting the environment becomes part of this initial effort, there needs to some space in the name in reference to saving our planet. How about The Community Commons?
>> 
>> Ed
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:
>> 
>> How about Democracy in Action for a name??
>> Carrie
>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:
>> 
>> Good thoughts, Richard
>> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
>> John
>> 
>> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
>> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>> 
>> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 
>> 
>> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>> 
>> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>> 
>> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.
>> 
>> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>> 
>> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>> 
>> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.
>> 
>> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).
>> 
>> I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
>> and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
>> he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
>> so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us to repaint.
>> 
>> Richard
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Wed Mar 27 21:47:23 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie VanSant)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:47:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Need to make a decision on Alley space - we
	need an Angel to fund
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	<514F4986.2000308@mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W8980E2AE4ABFB1C7AC04FFDDD10@phx.gbl>
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Message-ID: <658A265F-CC80-4BD0-8595-5CD3A9B84A55@gmail.com>

#1 Landlord of Alley space (behind Headlands) called Sheila and asked for a decision in 48 hours.

#2 Looks like Move To Amend has decided against partnering for now so the 'pool' is down to OM and Peace & Justice.

#3 We need an Angel (in addition to P&J) to subsidize the continuing rental.

OCCUPY Mendocino has over $800 in the Mendo Lake Credit Union right now so we /could/ fund a little more of a share for a (very) short time.  BUT?.  in my very humble and carefully expressed opinion?  I believe it would be bad form(rude) to take on a rental that we can't assure at least 6 months for a caring landlord.  It's a hassle to vette potential rental applicants.  

Plus having to come up with $400 a month would I think wipe out kill OM - there are only 5 to 9 of us keeping things active.

The space behind Headlands is the least expensive --> $500 plus utilities and without a cost for WiFi cause Headlands service reaches that far and Lenore would very probably say OK, esp if we offered a few bucks and maybe create a few new customers.

I love the BookStore place but it doesn't have as many 'pros' as Alley space.  IMO

I am in favor but we have to be sensible?.

Love and Light
Jessie Lee



On Mar 27, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

> I agree with Ann.  I think it is time to move to a new level.  What other groups might be out there?
> 
> Richard
> On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
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>> So far it looks like Peace & Justice put in 2 months rent, MTA wants to share expenses but with only very few members (mostly Carrie) and OPC declined, so it's up to O/M to recruit the troops or find another activist group or to try this on faith that we will expend some energy and be visible enough in town to attract members and donations this spring.  It's been more than a year now and I believe we could do it now ...  Ann
>>  
>> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:44:22 -0700
>> From: llaks at mcn.org
>> To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
>> Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] It dawned on me how useful an office space could be (5 AM rambling)
>> 
>> Iike that too !!   The Commons Center
>>  
>> On 3/23/2013 7:20 AM, Elaine and Ed wrote:
>> We need to be careful not to limit the name to be only political or economic justice action oriented. If the Ocean Protection Coalition or any other group protecting the environment becomes part of this initial effort, there needs to some space in the name in reference to saving our planet. How about The Community Commons?
>> 
>> Ed
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>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Carrie Durkee wrote:
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>> How about Democracy in Action for a name??
>> Carrie
>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Fremont wrote:
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>> Good thoughts, Richard
>> (How does the 99% Peace and Justice Center sound -- we have a large wood sign for the P&J Center somewhere.)
>> John
>> 
>> On 3/22/2013 5:15 AM, Richard Karch wrote:
>> My thoughts on the office space behind Headlands...
>> 
>> We would have a regular meeting place, ongoing contact number and address for our organization.Yeah! 
>> 
>> We could of course meet there and collaborate with the other groups.
>> 
>> We could have direct action events in town, at will.
>> 
>> Have a featured monthly artist display on the walls. Join in on First Friday in FB.
>> 
>> Maybe store signs and display our banner there.
>> 
>> The little entry area could be spiffed up with plants.
>> 
>> Do civic stuff, like clean up the neighborhood and pitch in to help neighbors.
>> 
>> Occasional 99 cent yard sale ( anything sells for 99 cents or what you want to donate).
>> 
>> I think we should go for it, give it a shot.  Price is right, we have the initial funding
>> and enthusiasm and it is sorely needed.   I talked to one of the previous renters, Roy, and
>> he had glowing reports about the space and how it works. One good thing is the location
>> so near the Headlands.  He said he'd donate the sign he had out on the alleyway for us to repaint.
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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 28 17:02:11 2013
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Update on rental behind Headlands & Poster Info
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OM, O.P.C.& Move to Amend,
??? With OPC & Move to Amend declining to go in with Occupy Mendocino as a cooperative effort, the only way to pull this off in the timely manner required is to have a commitment , either from members or outside sources? to put up a portion of the rent & utilities (half?) for a minimum period of six months --out of consideration to the landlady, Patty Breed.? I spoke with her last evening. She said she liked the idea of an activist center but would need a commitment as others are interested in the space. I told her I would get back to her in 48 hours.
? ?? It is difficult to decide a matter such as this with our twice a month meeting schedule as there is no way to get consensus quickly and opportunities are lost.
???? For those who are cautious and need more time to ponder other possibilities, there will be other rentals to explore in the future.
I think the group (OM) could benefit by developing a procedure to call special meetings to decide important issues quickly.
??? To sum up, I think we have a commitment of time for people to manage the space, but the financial commitment is the obstacle preventing us from moving forward.

??? I can meet at The Company Store at 2 P.M. before our street protest.? Anyone else besides Richard and myself?

Rather than send a 2nd? Email, here is the info I obtained from Mendo Litho:
??? If Richard agrees to send an Email to Mendo Litho with the design graphics the cost of a quality 13 x 19 poster would be:
? Quantity:
???? 1--$3.85 plus tax
?? 10--$19.90 "???? "
?? 25--$50.????? "???? "
?100--$125.50 "??? "? 

?? When the design is sent, one poster will be made and a call will be made to both Richard and I on whether to make additional copies. We can discuss and vote on this at our regular meeting.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Onward & Upward in Peace & Justice,
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Sheila Dawn
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Mar 29 13:47:06 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:47:06 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Donation coming in... Am I missing any? MEETING 2
	PM SATURDAY, 3/29 AT COMPANY STORE.
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> $5 per month
> Irene
>>> 
>>>>>  I have seen or heard of:
>>>> 
>>>> Linda:  $10. p/m
>>>> Richard & Pat:  $10. p/m 
>>>> Ed:       $ 40 
>>>> Ann:  will contribute
>>>> Howard:  will contribute
>>>> Peace and Justice:  ?
>>      Adrianne
>>     Daniel     will contribute
>>     Irene       $5. p/m
>>     Carrie      ?  
>>>> Sheila     $10          

>>>> Am I missing any?
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>>>> Richard
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>>>> Howard thinks we should poll our list serve.  Anyone want to write a tasteful email letter to see if we have 
>>>> support from some of the other 90 OM people out there?
>>>> Here's a mock up of a sign that could be seen from alley. I know name has not been settled yet...
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>>>> <OUR-SIGN.jpeg>
>>>>> Subject: Well? re: renting a space
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't see any responses?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Are there 10 of us who could pay $50/mo? dependably?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or 5 who could pay $100?
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>>>>> as we worked on other subscribers?
>>>>> 
>>>>> jessie lee
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Fri Mar 29 14:15:07 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:15:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Donation coming in... Am I missing any?
	MEETING 2 PM SATURDAY, 3/29 AT COMPANY STORE.
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Well, I thought it was Friday before the street rally....  
Miss Communication......  Nice to meet you..  ;-)

JL

"The Time is always right to do the right thing."  MLK Jr.

On Mar 29, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

>> $5 per month
>> Irene
>>>> 
>>>>>>  I have seen or heard of:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Linda:  $10. p/m
>>>>> Richard & Pat:  $10. p/m 
>>>>> Ed:       $ 40 
>>>>> Ann:  will contribute
>>>>> Howard:  will contribute
>>>>> Peace and Justice:  ?
>>>      Adrianne
>>>     Daniel     will contribute
>>>     Irene       $5. p/m
>>>     Carrie      ?  
>>>>> Sheila     $10          
> 
>>>>> Am I missing any?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Richard
>>> 
>>>   P.S.   Sheila says landlord would like a 6 month commitment...  
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Howard thinks we should poll our list serve.  Anyone want to write a tasteful email letter to see if we have 
>>>>> support from some of the other 90 OM people out there?
>>>>> Here's a mock up of a sign that could be seen from alley. I know name has not been settled yet...
>>>>> 
>>>>> <OUR-SIGN.jpeg>
>>>>>> Subject: Well? re: renting a space
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't see any responses?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Are there 10 of us who could pay $50/mo? dependably?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Or 5 who could pay $100?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> as we worked on other subscribers?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> jessie lee
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Fri Mar 29 14:16:48 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:16:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Update on rental behind Headlands & Poster
	Info
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As stated below.....

"The Time is always right to do the right thing."  MLK Jr.

On Mar 28, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Sheila Dawn <sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Fri Mar 29 14:22:32 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:22:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Donation coming in... Am I missing any?
	MEETING 2 PM SATURDAY, 3/29 AT COMPANY STORE.
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I suggest we fund the place (in the Alley) somehow (P&J 1st and last, pledges, donations, angels, OM's bank account, etc.) for at least a few(6) months to see if we can make a go of it.  That way the other fundraising methods can be tried (successfully) to make up the monthly nut of probably close to $700 all added up.

Optimistically,
JL

"The Time is always right to do the right thing."  MLK Jr.

On Mar 29, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

>> $5 per month
>> Irene
>>>> 
>>>>>>  I have seen or heard of:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Linda:  $10. p/m
>>>>> Richard & Pat:  $10. p/m 
>>>>> Ed:       $ 40 
>>>>> Ann:  will contribute
>>>>> Howard:  will contribute
>>>>> Peace and Justice:  ?
>>>      Adrianne
>>>     Daniel     will contribute
>>>     Irene       $5. p/m
>>>     Carrie      ?  
>>>>> Sheila     $10          
> 
>>>>> Am I missing any?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Richard
>>> 
>>>   P.S.   Sheila says landlord would like a 6 month commitment...  
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Howard thinks we should poll our list serve.  Anyone want to write a tasteful email letter to see if we have 
>>>>> support from some of the other 90 OM people out there?
>>>>> Here's a mock up of a sign that could be seen from alley. I know name has not been settled yet...
>>>>> 
>>>>> <OUR-SIGN.jpeg>
>>>>>> Subject: Well? re: renting a space
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't see any responses?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Are there 10 of us who could pay $50/mo? dependably?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Or 5 who could pay $100?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> as we worked on other subscribers?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> jessie lee
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Fri Mar 29 20:38:52 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie VanSant)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:38:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: PBI Newsletter - TPP and Public Banks, Cyprus,
	Letter from a Vermont Farmer, and more...
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this is an important resource for OCCUPY to help push for PUBLIC BANKING as North Dakota did early 20th century and allows that state to be financially stable despite all.

Jessie Lee

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> From: Public Banking Institute <info at publicbankinginstitute.org>
> Subject: PBI Newsletter - TPP and Public Banks, Cyprus, Letter from a Vermont Farmer, and more...
> Date: March 29, 2013 6:04:44 AM PDT
> To: Jessie Lee VanSant <vjessielee at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Public Banking Institute <info at publicbankinginstitute.org>
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> TPP and Public Banks, Cyprus, Letter from a Vermont Farmer, and more...
> 
> PBI Newsletter, March 2013, Edition #23
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> 		
> Editor's Column -- Shifting Ground
> Two developments this past month are rapidly shifting long held beliefs about banking and markets.  Many of us, until now, believed that deposits in a bank were owned by the depositors.  Not true, as the events in Cyprus have so clearly indicated.  As Ellen Brown describes below, while the bank account is held by the depositor, the money is actually owned by the bank.  The depositor is merely an unsecured creditor with claims on the funds should the bank fail.  The depositor will be in line with all other depositors, along with other creditors, including the banks that provided credit to the failed institution.  Good luck with that.
> The second development is the revelation that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement draft will make all "local sourcing" purchasing clauses in government contracts illegal. Adding insult to injury, all government lending programs at below market rates will be illegal.  We might as well say goodbye to the nascent "Buy Local" movement, a key tenant of the New Economy movement.  TPP is clearly designed so that all expenditures on food, energy, healthcare, transportation and infrastructure development will be steered towards trans-national corporations, with all lending to be provided ONLY by the private banking sector.  Showcased below is our Featured Article, written by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese (speakers at our upcoming conference), on the vast implications of this TPP multilateral trade deal.  After reading this, you'll understand why many of us scoff at the notion of a "free market."  It's a rigged game, and TPP will make sure the trans-national corporations win.
> 
> The ground is shifting.  Banks in Cyprus are now seizing depositors' money.  The absolute power of corporations is now being further codified into law in the form of the TPP trade agreement.  Both depositors' money and public institutions are being targeted.  If this is not a wake-up call to your friends and family, what will be? 
> 
> Please be sure to join us at our Public Banking 2013 Conference and Conversation, one of the few chances you'll get this year to learn more about these very important issues.  Early bird registration ends this Monday, April 1st.
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> 
> It Can Happen Here:  The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors
> 
> By Ellen Brown
> Chair and President, Public Banking Institute
> 
> Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone ?troika? officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland (discussed earlier here); and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the banks of depositor funds.  
> 
> New Zealand has a similar directive, discussed in my last article here, indicating that this isn?t just an emergency measure for troubled Eurozone countries. New Zealand?sVoxy reported on March 19th:
> The National Government [is] pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts . . . .
> 
> Open Bank Resolution (OBR) is Finance Minister Bill English?s favoured option dealing with a major bank failure. If a bank fails under OBR, all depositors will have their savings reduced overnight to fund the bank?s bail out.
> 
> Can They Do That?
> 
> Although few depositors realize it, legally the bank owns the depositor?s funds as soon as they are put in the bank. Our money becomes the bank?s, and we become unsecured creditors holding IOUs or promises to pay. (Seehere and here.) But until now the bank has been obligated to pay the money back on demand in the form of cash. Under the FDIC-BOE plan, our IOUs will be converted into ?bank equity.?  The bank will get the money and we will get stock in the bank. With any luck we may be able to sell the stock to someone else, but when and at what price? Most people keep a deposit account so they can have ready cash to pay the bills.
> 
> The 15-page FDIC-BOE document is called ?Resolving Globally Active, Systemically Important, Financial Institutions.?  It begins by explaining that the 2008 banking crisis has made it clear that some other way besides taxpayer bailouts is needed to maintain ?financial stability.? Evidently anticipating that the next financial collapse will be on a grander scale than either the taxpayers or Congress is willing to underwrite, the authors state:
> 
> An efficient path for returning the sound operations of the G-SIFI to the private sector would be provided by exchanging or converting a sufficient amount of the unsecured debt from the original creditors of the failed company [meaning the depositors] into equity [or stock]. In the U.S., the new equitywould become capital in one or more newly formed operating entities. In the U.K., the same approach could be used, or the equity could be used to recapitalize the failing financial company itself?thus, the highest layer of surviving bailed-in creditors would become the owners of the resolved firm. In either country, the new equity holders would take on the corresponding risk of being shareholders in a financial institution.
> 
> No exception is indicated for ?insured deposits? in the U.S., meaning those under $250,000, the deposits we thought were protected by FDIC insurance. This can hardly be an oversight, since it is the FDIC that is issuing the directive. The FDIC is an insurance company funded by premiums paid by private banks.  The directive is called a ?resolution process,? defined elsewhere as a plan that ?would be triggered in the event of the failure of an insurer . . . .? The only  mention of ?insured deposits? is in connection with existing UK legislation, which the FDIC-BOE directive goes on to say is inadequate, implying that it needs to be modified or overridden.   
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> An Imminent Risk 
> 
> If our IOUs are converted to bank stock, they will no longer be subject to insurance protection but will be ?at risk? and vulnerable to being wiped out, just as the Lehman Brothers shareholders were in 2008.  That this dire scenario could actually materialize was underscored by Yves Smith in a March 19th post titled When You Weren?t Looking, Democrat Bank Stooges Launch Bills to Permit Bailouts, Deregulate Derivatives. She writes:
> 
> In the US, depositors have actually been put in a worse position than Cyprus deposit-holders, at least if they are at the big banks that play in the derivatives casino. The regulators have turned a blind eye as banks use their depositaries to fund derivatives exposures. And as bad as that is, the depositors, unlike their Cypriot confreres, aren?t even senior creditors. Remember Lehman? When the investment bank failed, unsecured creditors (and remember, depositors are unsecured creditors) got eight cents on the dollar. One big reason was that derivatives counterparties require collateral for any exposures, meaning they are secured creditors. The 2005 bankruptcy reforms made derivatives counterparties senior to unsecured lenders.
> 
> One might wonder why the posting of collateral by a derivative counterparty, at some percentage of full exposure, makes the creditor ?secured,? while the depositor who puts up 100 cents on the dollar is ?unsecured.? But moving on ? Smith writes:
> 
> Lehman had only two itty bitty banking subsidiaries, and to my knowledge, was not gathering retail deposits. But as readers may recall, Bank of America moved most of its derivatives from its Merrill Lynch operation [to] its depositary in late 2011. 
> 
> Its ?depositary? is the arm of the bank that takes deposits; and at B of A, that means lots and lots of deposits. The deposits are now subject to being wiped out by a major derivatives loss. How bad could that be? Smith quotes Bloomberg:
> 
> . . . Bank of America?s holding company . . . held almost $75 trillion of derivatives at the end of June . . . .
> 
> That compares with JPMorgan?s deposit-taking entity, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, which contained 99 percent of the New York-based firm?s $79 trillion of notional derivatives, the OCC data show.
> $75 trillion and $79 trillion in derivatives! These two mega-banks alone hold more in notional derivativeseach than the entire global GDP (at $70 trillion). The ?notional value? of derivatives is not the same as cash at risk, but according to a cross-post on Smith?s site:
> 
> By at least one estimate, in 2010 there was a total of $12 trillion in cash tied up (at risk) in derivatives . . . .
> 
> $12 trillion is close to the US GDP.  Smith goes on:
> 
> . . . Remember the effect of the 2005 bankruptcy law revisions: derivatives counterparties are first in line, they get to grab assets first and leave everyone else to scramble for crumbs. . . . Lehman failed over a weekend after JP Morgan grabbed collateral.
> 
> But it?s even worse than that. During the savings & loan crisis, the FDIC did not have enough in deposit insurance receipts to pay for the Resolution Trust Corporation wind-down vehicle. It had to get more funding from Congress. This move paves the way for another TARP-style shakedown of taxpayers, this time to save depositors.
> 
> Perhaps, but Congress has already been burned and is liable to balk a second time. Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Act specifically prohibits public support for speculative derivatives activities. And in the Eurozone, while the European Stability Mechanism committed Eurozone countries to bail out failed banks, they are apparently having second thoughts there as well. On March 25th, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who played a leading role in imposing the deposit confiscation plan on Cyprus, told reporters that it would be the template for any future bank bailouts, and that ?the aim is for the ESM never to have to be used.?
> 
> That explains the need for the FDIC-BOE resolution. If the anticipated enabling legislation is passed, the FDIC will no longer need to protect depositor funds; it can just confiscate them.
> 
> Worse Than a Tax
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> An FDIC confiscation of deposits to recapitalize the banks is far different from a simple tax on taxpayers to pay government expenses. The government's debt is at least arguably the people?s debt, since the government is there to provide services for the people. But when the banks get into trouble with their derivative schemes, they are not serving depositors, who are not getting a cut of the profits. Taking depositor funds is simply theft.
> 
> What should be done is to raise FDIC insurance premiums and make the banks pay to keep their depositors whole, but premiums are already high; and the FDIC, like other government regulatory agencies, is subject to regulatory capture.  Deposit insurance has failed, and so has the private banking system that has depended on it for the trust that makes banking work.
> 
> The Cyprus haircut on depositors was called a ?wealth tax? and was written off by commentators as ?deserved,? because much of the money in Cypriot accounts belongs to foreign oligarchs, tax dodgers and money launderers. But if that template is applied in the US, it will be a tax on the poor and middle class. Wealthy Americans don't keep most of their money in bank accounts.  They keep it in the stock market, in real estate, in over-the-counter derivatives, in gold and silver, and so forth.
> 
> Are you safe, then, if your money is in gold and silver? Apparently not ? if it?s stored in a safety deposit box in the bank.  Homeland Security has reportedly told banks that it has authority to seize the contents of safety deposit boxes without a warrant when it?s a matter of ?national security,? which a major bank crisis no doubt will be.
> 
> The Swedish Alternative: Nationalize the Banks
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> Another alternative was considered but rejected by President Obama in 2009: nationalize mega-banks that fail. In a February 2009 article titled "Are Uninsured Bank Depositors in Danger?", Felix Salmon discussed a newsletter by Asia-based investment strategist Christopher Wood, in which Wood wrote:
> 
> It is . . . amazing that Obama does not understand the political appeal of the nationalization option. . . . [D]espite this latest setback nationalization of the banks is coming sooner or later because the realities of the situation will demand it. The result will be shareholders wiped out and bondholders forced to take debt-for-equity swaps, if not hopefully depositors.
> 
> On whether depositors could indeed be forced to become equity holders, Salmon commented:
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> It?s worth remembering that depositors are unsecured creditors of any bank; usually, indeed, they?re by far the largest class of unsecured creditors.
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> President Obama acknowledged that bank nationalization had worked in Sweden, and that the course pursued by the US Fed had not worked in Japan, which wound up instead in a "lost decade."  But Obama opted for the Japanese approach because,according to Ed Harrison, ?Americans will not tolerate nationalization.?
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> But that was four years ago. When Americans realize that the alternative is to have their ready cash transformed into ?bank stock? of questionable marketability, moving failed mega-banks into the public sector may start to have more appeal.
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> Ellen Brown is an attorney, chairman of the Public Banking Institute, and the author of eleven books, including Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free. Her websites are webofdebt.comand ellenbrown.com. For details of the June 2013 Public Banking Institute conference in San Rafael, California, see here.
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> Featured Article: TransPacific Partnership Will Undermine Democracy, Empower Transnational Corporations
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> by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
> Originally published in Truthout
>  
> Our country's democratic values could be under threat if President Obama fast tracks the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
> 
> On critical issues, the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being negotiated in secret by the Obama administration will undermine democracy in the United States and around the world and further empower transnational corporations. It will circumvent protections for health care, wages, labor rights, consumers' rights and the environment, and decrease regulation of big finance and risky investment practices.
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> The only way this treaty, which will be very unpopular with the American people once they are aware of it, can be approved is if the Obama administration avoids the democratic process by using an authority known as "Fast Track," which limits the constitutional checks and balances of Congress.
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> If the TPP is approved, the sovereignty of the United States and other member nations will be dissipated by trade tribunals that favor corporate power and force national laws to be subservient to corporate interests.
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> Circumventing the Checks and Balances of US Democracy
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> President Nixon first developed the idea of "Fast Track" in 1973 as a way to secure Congressional approval of trade agreements, and it has been a key to passing many unpopular agreements such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and NAFTA. As people have caught on to the offshoring of jobs and other detrimental consequences of these agreements, civil society now understands how important it is to not allow a president to circumvent the democratic role of Congress. Fast Track expired in 2007, so President Obama must have it re-instated in order to pass the TPP. His administration is moving to have Fast Track approved and hopes it will happen by this summer.
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> Under Fast Track, the president was allowed to negotiate and sign trade agreements with whatever countries the executive branch selected - all before Congress voted on the agreement. Fast Track meant that the Congressional committee processes were circumvented and the executive branch was empowered to write lengthy implementing legislation for each trade pact without Congress. These executive-only authored bills required US law to conform to the trade agreement. For example, Glass-Steagall had to be repealed under President Clinton to conform to the WTO. And, Fast Track empowered the president to submit the executive-branch written bill for a mandatory vote within a set number of days, with all amendments forbidden, normal Senate rules waived, and debate limited in both chambers of Congress. Fast Track clearly undermined democracy.
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> Indeed, Fast Track turned the US Constitution on its head. Under Article I Section 8, Congress has exclusive authority "to regulate commerce with foreign nations" and to "lay and collect taxes [and] duties." Under the Constitution, the president is empowered to negotiate treaties, but Congress must vote to approve them. Thus, Fast Track took constitutional power from Congress and prevented the checks and balances needed to prevent an imperial presidency.
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> For most of the history of the United States, treaties and trade agreements went through the normal congressional process described in the Constitution. Fast Track is a relatively new concept that coincides with an era of increasing presidential power, which includes the power to declare war and to murder US citizens without warning or judicial oversight. If Congress had reviewed agreements such as the WTO and NAFTA beforehand and civil society had been able to participate in a democratic process, would the United States have made the mistake of passing these laws that have so injured our economy and others?
> 
> Fast Track is very unpopular, so now President Obama and others who advocate for it do not use the term. Instead they call it by the euphemism "Trade Promotion Authority." But changing the name does not change what it is - a method of ceding the constitutional power of Congress and undermining the checks and balances built into the constitutional framework.
> 
> Congress needs to consider what agreements such as the TPP will do to jobs, trade balances and the environment. Since Nixon, Fast Track has been used by presidents to go way beyond trade and tariffs. Theseagreements have been used to change US law by establishing "rules related to domestic environmental, health, safety and essential-service regulations, including deregulation of financial services; establishment of immigration policies; creation of limits on local development and land-use policy; extension of domestic patent terms; establishment of new rights and greater protections for foreign investors operating within the United States that extend beyond US law; and even limitation of how domestic procurement dollars may be spent." Thus, not only has the constitutional power of Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations been undermined, but a whole host of domestic laws have been rewritten to satisfy international trade.
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> The TPP Undermines US Law, Prevents Progressive Policy Around the World
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> The TPP is much broader than the usual trade agreement and will impact many aspects of society from the Internet to health care to regulation of risky bank speculation. For this reason alone, it is especially important to have a transparent, public debate on the agreement. The TPP contains 26 chapters, but only five of them concern traditional trade issues. The TPP has been negotiated in secret except for over 600 corporate representativeswho have been advising the US trade representative on its language. In Washington, DC K Street lobby firms have been getting involved in the process, including pushing for Fast Track. Many of those corporations that have failed to get what they want from Congress are now getting their way through the secret back door of the TPP.
> 
> Though the TPP negotiations are being conducted in secrecy, portions of the text have been leaked. Here is what is known about some of the key issues that the TPP will affect:
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> Prevent Buy America Manufacturing Preferences: The TPP's procurement chapter ends 'Buy America' preferences by requiring that all firms operating in any signatory country are provided equal access to US government procurement contracts over a certain dollar threshold, the same access that domestic firms have. To implement this, the United States would agree to waive "Buy America" procurement policies.
> 
> Undermine Environmental Laws and Regulations: Similarly, governments who are seeking to encourage localization and green manufacturing through procurement preferences will be stopped. A recent example involved Ontario, Canada, which has employed a renewable energy program that requires energy generators to source solar cells and wind turbines from local businesses so as to cultivate a robust supply of green goods, services and jobs.  The program has earned acclaim for its early success in generating 4,600 megawatts of renewable energy and 20,000 green jobs. But, the WTO ruled that this violated WTO rules. In another case, a US company Lone Pine Resources is suing the Canadian government under NAFTA for more than $250 million due to lost profits from Quebec's moratorium on fracking, which prevents Lone Pine from fracking under the St. Lawrence River. This isnot an isolated incident:
> . . . corporations such as Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Dow Chemical, and Cargill have launched 450 investor-state cases against 89 governments, including the United States. Over $700 million has been paid to corporations under US free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties, about 70 percent of which are from challenges to natural resource and environment policies. Corporations have launched attacks on a range of public interest and environmental regulations, including bans or phase-outs of toxic chemicals, timber regulations, permitting rules for mines, green jobs and renewable energy programs, and more.
> Undermine Internet Freedom: TheElectronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) argues that the intellectual property chapter (see the February 2011 draft US TPP IP Rights Chapter [PDF]) would have extensive negative ramifications for users' freedom of speech, right to privacy and due process, and hinder peoples' abilities to innovate. Its provision on copyrights will adversely affect the creator's ability to create content, the ability of technology companies to make innovative products, and the ability of users to use content in new ways. EFF summarizes the attack on Internet freedom by the TPP, writing:
> In short, countries would have to abandon any efforts to learn from the mistakes of the US and its experience with the DMCA over the last 12 years, and adopt many of the most controversial aspects of US copyright law in their entirety. At the same time, the US IP chapter does not export the limitations and exceptions in the US copyright regime like fair use, which have enabled freedom of expression and technological innovation to flourish in the US. It includes only a placeholder for exceptions and limitations. This raises serious concerns about other countries' sovereignty and the ability of national governments to set laws and policies to meet their domestic priorities.
> Destroy Food and Agriculture:Agriculture trade rules have both undermined US producers' ability to earn a fair price for their crops at home and in the global marketplace. Multinational grain-trading and food-processing firms have made enormous profits, while farmers on both ends have been hurt. The results are that hunger is projected to increase, along with illicit drug cultivation, and undocumented migration. Dairy farmers fear the TPP could decimate the US dairy industry and have urged Congress to refuse to Fast Track it. Failure to establish new agriculture terms would intensify the race to the bottom in commodity prices, pitting farmer against farmer and nation against nation to see who can produce food the cheapest, regardless of labor, environment or food-safety standards. Regarding food safety, current trade agreements contain language requiring the United States to accept imported food that does not meet our domestic safety standards and limiting inspection of imported foods and products. The TPP is expected to continue these practices.
> 
> Prevent Health, Safety, Environment, Consumer and Labor Laws:According to leaked documents, the TPP contains provisions with special rights for corporations. The provisions protect investors by providing them with compensation for loss of "expected future profits" from health, labor, environmental and other laws. The negative effect is that nations will not pass laws that threaten corporate profits in order to avoid lawsuits and heavy fines. Court cases in which corporations are suing governments over laws and regulations that cause loss of expected profit will be tried before a trade tribunal of three judges. These judges can include corporate lawyers on temporary leave from their corporate job while they serve as judges. Global Trade Watch reportsthat under previous trade agreements "Over $3 billion has been paid to foreign investors under US trade and investment pacts, while over $14 billion in claims are pending under such deals, primarily targeting environmental, energy, and public health policies." The right to sue governments will create a hurdle for governments considering actions to protect workers, consumers, health and the environment.
> 
> Privatize Health Care and Make it Unaffordable: Leaked documents show that the US Trade Representative is pressuring TPP member countries to expand pharmaceutical monopoly protections, which essentially trade away access to medicines. In a recent letter, Doctors Without Borders wrotethat the TPP will be "the most harmful trade deal ever for access to medicines in developing countries." The TPP does this damage by inflating pharmaceutical prices through lengthy patent protections, as Doctors Without Borders writes:
> One proposed TPP provision would require governments to grant new 20-year patents for modifications of existing medicines, such as a new forms, uses or methods, even without improvement of therapeutic efficacy for patients. Another provision would make it more expensive and cumbersome to challenge undeserved or invalid patents; and yet another would add additional years to a patent term to compensate for administrative processes. Taken together, these and other provisions will add up to more years of high-priced medicines at the expense of people needing treatment waiting longer for access to affordable generics.
> There is also concern that the TPP will force public health systems to open up their medication programs to pharmaceutical corporations giving them greater access and greater control over the price of medications, effectively destroying the ability of the public health system to negotiate for a low price. The same may occur with public health systems in the US such as Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare and the Veterans Health Administration, making medications more expensive and potentially out of reach for their patient populations.
> 
> In addition, countries that provide health care through a national public health program, rather than a market-based system dominated by for-profit insurance, are threatened by provisions that oppose state-owned enterprises. Corporations view state provision of services as unfair competition and therefore a violation of free trade. This will make it more difficult for the United States to adopt a single-payer health system, and it will make it more difficult for countries with such systems to protect them from privatization and health insurance domination.
> 
> Prevent Public Banks and Banking Regulation: These same provisions about state-owned enterprises will affect public banking too. North Dakota is the only state in the US to have a public state bank, although over a dozen states and cities are considering them. Public banks are used to hold taxes that are collected, administer payroll for public employees and provide loans for public projects. The advantage is that all public dollars are managed in a public institution rather than having to pay fees and interest to a private bank. But the TPP would consider public banks to have unfair advantages and therefore violate free trade.
> 
> And trade agreements protect big finance by (1) preventing regulation of the finance industry by locking in a model of extreme financial service deregulation; and (2) allowing capital to move in and out of countries without restrictions. This prevents countries from controlling the flow of capital, which has many negative consequences. Over 100 economists wrote trade representatives urging them to ensure that the TPP, unlike other trade agreements, will allow governments to control and regulate capital without the threat of investor lawsuits, writing:
> Authoritative research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the International Monetary Fund, and other institutions has found that limits on short-term capital flows can stem the development of dangerous asset bubbles and currency appreciations, grant nations more autonomy in monetary policy-making, and protect nations from the dangers of abrupt capital flight.
> See 102 Economists Issue Statement on Capital Controls and TPP
> Thus, the TPP and other corporate trade agreements will undermine the ability of governments to regulate health, safety, labor, environment and finance. The 600 corporate advisers to the TPP see this as an opportunity to do an end-run around laws and policies that they have been unable to put into effect through the normal democratic process. This is why the TPP is being called a global corporate coup that makes corporations more powerful than governments.
> 
> Corporate Trade Agreements Hurt the US Economy
> 
> The evidence is stark that so-called 'free' trade agreements, really corporate trade agreements, are bad for the US economy.
> Newly-released government trade datafor 2012 show job-eroding US trade deficits have ballooned in countries with which the US has a corporate trade agreement and have declined in the rest of the world. The numbers are stark. In countries where the US has a trade agreement, the trade deficit has grown by more than 440 percent, while in countries where there is no agreement, the deficit has declined by 7 percent. In fact, the aggregate US trade deficit with trade-agreement partners is more than five times higher than it was before the deals went into effect, while the aggregate deficit with non-trade-agreement countries has actually fallen slightly.
> 
> And, this means a tremendous loss of jobs. Using the Obama administration's net exports-to-jobs ratio, the FTA trade deficit surge means the loss of nearly one million American jobs. 
> 
> We should have learned this lesson from NAFTA because what we are seeing with corporate trade agreements since NAFTA is more of the same. Under NAFTA, the US deficit with Canada ballooned and the small US surplus with Mexico turned into a $100 billion-plus deficit. As a result of NAFTA, the United States lost 692,000 jobs according to the Economic Policy Institute.
> 
> But, instead of learning from NAFTA, President Obama pushed a trade agreement with South Korea, promising it would result in economic benefits for the United States. One year has now passed since the Korean trade agreement was put into effect and the US ended up with the same result as it experienced with NAFTA.Eyes on Trade reports:
> US goods exports to Korea have dropped 9 percent (a $3.2 billion decrease) since the Korea FTA took effect, in comparison to the same months in the year before FTA implementation. US imports from Korea have climbed 2 percent (an $800 million increase). The US trade deficit with Korea has swelled 30 percent (a $4 billion increase). The January data from the US International Trade Commission show that the US trade deficit with Korea skyrocketed 81 percent above December's level, topping $2.4 billion ? the largest monthly US trade deficit with Korea on record. The ballooning trade deficit indicates the loss of tens of thousands of US jobs."
> Exports are not as robust as advocates of trade agreements would like to believe. Between 2002 and 2012, US exports to trade-agreement partner countries grew annually at a rate of only 4.8 percent, while exports to non-trade-agreement countries grew at 6.6 percent per year on average. This has only worsened with the passage of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in 2005, which nearly doubled the number of trade-agreement countries. Since then, average US export growth to non-trade-agreement countries has topped average export growth to trade-agreement partners by 46 percent.
> 
> Advocates for corporate trade agreements manipulate statistics in order to make a false claim of economic benefit from the agreements. They create obvious falsehoods by not counting many major trade agreements put in place before 2003. This would exclude big agreements like NAFTA, count "re-exports" - goods made elsewhere that are shipped through the United States en route to a final destination, omit imports in their calculations so people do not see the trade imbalance, and not correct for inflation in order to exaggerate exports.
> 
> Sadly, rather than being honest about the failure of corporate trade, the Obama administration works overtime to mislead the public. The recently released 2012 annual trade reportleaves out critical details from the very beginning. Eyes on Trade analyzes the Obama report:
> Take the first sentence: 'Trade is helping to drive the success of President Obama's strategy to grow the US economy and support jobs for more Americans.' Almost makes you forget that last year's non-oil trade deficit rose to a five-year high, implying the loss of millions of jobs, doesn't it?  How about the second sentence: 'The Obama Administration's trade policy helps US exporters gain access to billions of customers beyond our borders to support economic growth in the United States and in markets worldwide.'  That's an interesting way to frame a year whose sluggish two percent export growth rate put us18 years behind schedulein achieving Obama's export-doubling goal."
> Time for a Democratic Revolt Against the TPP
> 
> A unique feature of the TPP is that it contains a "docking agreement." This means that other countries can sign onto the agreement after it has been negotiated as long as they are willing to accept the previously negotiated terms. The US started the negotiations with allies such as Australia and New Zealand and a number of small countries such as Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Chile and Peru. Larger countries are able to force smaller, more desperate countries to accept terms that are detrimental to them. As more countries sign on, the TPP could become an agreement that defines global trade.
> The TPP has gone through 16 rounds of negotiations in almost total secrecy. Some portions of the text have been leaked, but most remain secret. Throughout the process more than 600 corporate advisers have been working with the US Trade Representative in shaping the proposals and specific language of the text. Civil society has only been marginally involved, not provided drafts and ushered intostakeholder meetings where they can ask questions but only receive vague answers.
> 
> Despite this effort at secrecy, civil society groups have been getting organized to oppose the TPP, stop Fast Track and prevent the global corporate coup. More than 400 organizations, including our own organization, It's Our Economy, representing a diverse range of issues including labor, environment, public health, famers, Internet freedom, banking regulation, human rights, faith, Native American and much more, have signed on to a letter to Congress emphasizing how the TPP negotiations have been "inconsistent with democratic principles," opposing Fast Track and outlining expectations of how key issues should be addressed in 21st century trade agreements.
> 
> Citizens Trade Campaign summarizes writing: "The letter includes eight broad categories that the TPP, a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement and any other US trade pact must address in order to improve quality of life for Americans and people throughout the world: (1) prioritization of human and labor rights; (2) respect for local development goals and the procurement policies that deliver on them; (3) no elevation of corporations to equal terms with governments; (4) protection of food sovereignty; (5) maintaining access to affordable medication; (6) safeguards against currency manipulation; (7) space for robust financial regulations and public services; and (8) improved consumer and environmental standards."
> 
> On February 27, the AFL-CIO released an executive council statementquestioning the TPP saying "The United States cannot afford another trade agreement that hollows out our industrial base and adds to our substantial trade deficit." The executive council of the AFL-CIO went on to say, "We do not need another trade deal that simply boosts corporate profits by encouraging offshoring good jobs while undermining wages, benefits and worker rights. We must do better." Americans have clearly learned the lessons of previous trade agreements - they only work for the transnational corporations and oligarchs around the world, they undermine workers, and spur lower wages and environmental destruction.
> 
> Arthur Stamoulis of Citizens Trade Campaign summarizes the antidemocratic actions of the Obamaadministration with regard to the TPP saying, "This is a rollback in transparency, and an extremely undemocratic way to craft policy that is likely to influence jobs, health care costs, financial regulations, consumer safety, the environment and more for decades to come. The only way to prevent the public from being saddled with a bad agreement is for Congress to exert its authority."
> 
> The TPP is the battleground for defining democracy in the 21st century and setting up the rules for international commerce in the era of transnational corporate power. No matter what issues you are concerned about, if the TPP becomes law, it will undermine national sovereignty and hopes for progressive policies that put the people's needs before corporate profits. The time is now to get active, work to oppose the antidemocratic Fast Track approach in Congress and say "no" to the democracy-undermining Trans-Pacific Partnership. This is a trade agreement that will be opposed by most Americans and a battle on which the people can prevail, but only if they know it exists.
> 
> For more information and to get involved, visit:
> The Citizens Trade Campaign
> Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
> Eyes on Trade
> Flush The TPP
> Truthout
> 
> Kevin Zeese JD and Margaret Flowers MD co-host ClearingtheFOGRadio.org on We Act Radio 1480 AM Washington, DC and on Economic Democracy Media, co-direct It's Our Economy and are organizers of the Occupation of Washington, DC. Their twitters are @KBZeese and @MFlowers8.  They will be featured at the Public Banking 2013 conference June 2-4, 2013, in San Rafael, CA; details here.
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> Michael Hudson interviewed by Paul Jay on Public Banking on TheRealNews.com.10min video.
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> In this Newsletter
> Editor's Column
> It Can Happen Here:  The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors
> Featured Article:  TransPacific Partnership Will Undermine Democracy, Empower Transnational Corporations
> Upcoming Events (sidebar)
> Public Banking in the News (sidebar)
> Letter from a Vermont Farmer (sidebar)
> Corporate-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Shrouded in Secrecy(sidebar)
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> Public Banking Coalition Update:
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> These are the Public Banking Coalition state chapters and affiliates registered to-date, to be announced at Public Banking 2013:  Colorado, Washington, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Washington D.C.  Don't see your state?  Get organized -- contact Marc Armstrong at info at publicbankinginstitute.org.  Counties will be announced, too, but be sure you notify Marc Armstrong!
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> Upcoming Events
> Apr 1 -- Interview with Margaret Flowers, Progressive Radio Network, 11:45am EDT (Ellen Brown)
> Apr 2 -- Interview with Jay Taylor, VoiceAmerica, 12:30 PDT (Ellen Brown)
> Apr 6 -- Public Banking Conference Call, hosted by the Justice Party, 9am PDT, Noon EDT (Rocky Anderson and Ellen Brown) -- BE SURE TO REGISTER!
> Apr 12 -- Get Organized!  Starting Your Public Banking Coalition Chapter, Monthly 9AM PDT Conference Call (Marc Armstrong) -- BE SURE TO REGISTER BY CLICKING ON LINK!
> Apr 18 -- Democratic Party of San Fernando Valley (Ellen Brown)
> Jun 2 -- Public Banking 2013 Funding the New Economy Conversation (tickets available separately from Conference)
> Jun 2-4 -- Public Banking 2013Funding the New Economy Conference
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> Public Banking in the News
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> Huffington Post, "Yes, We Can Have Banks That Work For The People," Richard (RJ) Eskow, March 28, 2013
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> Central Penn Business Journal, ?Panelists at F&M forum advocate for local financing,? Tim Stuhldreher, March 27, 2013
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> Truth Out, ?TransPacific Partnership Will Undermine Democracy, Empower Transnational Corporations,? Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, March 27, 2013
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> Washington Post, ?BRICS Nations Plan Development Bank to Build Massive Infrastructure, Challenge to World Bank,? Associated Press, March 27, 2013
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> Phillyburbs.com, ??Be Afraid?: Pirates in Pinstripes,? Mike Krauss, March 24, 2013
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> Truth Out, "A Safe and a Shotgun or Public Sector Banks, The Battle of Cyprus," Ellen Brown, March 22, 2013
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> Truth Out, ?Corporate-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Shrouded in Secrecy,? Sam Knight, March 19, 2013
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> OpEdNews, ?Money for the People:  Grillo?s Populist Plan for Italy,? Ellen Brown, March 8, 2013
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> Truth Out, "The Financial Instrument That Could Save The Economy...," Ellen Brown, February 24, 2013
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> Courtesy, Gwendolyn Hallsmith
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> A Farmer?s Plea For a State-owned Bank in Vermont
> by Ignatio Villa
> Waitsfield, Vermont
> 
> Editor's Note: This month I had the opportunity to spend over a week in New England, with much of the time spent in Vermont.  The commonsense approach to public banking displayed by the citizens and governing officials was a source of inspiration.  "Why pay interest to Wall Street bankers when we could pay it to ourselves?" was a common refrain.  Labor leaders promoted the idea that debt servicing costs should undergo as much scrutiny as labor costs.  And citizens were pushing back on doing business as usual -- enriching Wall Street bankers at the expense of the public was no longer acceptable.  I thought that this letter, written in support of the newly formed Vermont Coalition for the New Economy, perfectly captures the spirit of both the New Economy and the support for public banking.
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> In Vermont, we have all been thinking outside the box. Let's keep doing it and create a new economy.   I moved to Vermont 3 years ago to work on an exciting piece of that new economy: a small dairy farm starting to add value to its milk by making cheese. I added another value added enterprise to this system, whey fed pigs. Our pigs use by-products from three value added, artisanal enterprises: cheese, beer, and bread. This, in my view, is part of the new economy. One that seeks to create wealth from the sunshine we harvest here in our own state, which mixed with our labor, our ingenuity, and people who appreciate what we do and are willing to buy our products, make for a good model of a new economy.
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> In giving up a higher paying job to do this, I took a significant risk that I may not be able to support myself. I tell my friends that I retired into poverty, into one of the lowest paid professions: growing food. However, I keep hoping that I am doing the right thing, and that sooner or later I will be rewarded financially.  I?m already reaping other rewards -  I love what I do, and I know it is the right thing for myself, for my neighbors, for the community, for the state, and, at the risk of being presumptuous, for the planet.
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> Vermont has been a wonderful place to take on this initiative. There is support for what I am doing everywhere I go. I have received help in the business planning process, I have received help from legal counsel for the creation of the business, and I have had nothing but encouragement from the state agencies and their staffs. If there is a good place to work on the pieces of a new economy, it has to be Vermont.
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> It is exciting for me to discover that in Vermont we are giving serious consideration to the creation of a state owned bank, much like the one and only model offered by North Dakota. It appears that I was not alone in my limited understanding of how the money supply is managed globally, and how important it could be for Vermont to be able to create its own alternative means of supporting the right kind of economic activity. It is the beauty of our size that before long, we all seem to know each other, or of each other.
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> The creation of a new state bank is just one more example of how a small and creative bunch of people can give leadership for new ways of doing things... We can be nimble, we can be creative, and in the end, others might follow. Not that being first is what matters, but it does matter that we are dealing with things that are urgent. We need to respond to the urgent needs of the people, to the urgent need to create a new economy that benefits the people and keeps the wealth that we generate where it belongs, where it can, to the extent that it may, contribute to a higher quality of life.
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> I am writing this to ask our legislators to move swiftly towards the creation of Vermont's state-owned bank.  I see it as a benefit for small farmers in the state in a couple of important ways.  First, the bank?s capital will enable the small banks in our communities to accept deposits of municipal taxes, which will give them more funds to lend to small businesses.  Second, by reducing the money we are paying out of state in the capital markets, we?ll have more money for important state budget needs like health care reform.  As a small entrepreneur, this is one of the most important services the state can provide to support the small business sector. 
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> Editor's Note:  As currently understood, TPP will prohibit the funding of the new economy by any government entity that provides loans at below market rates.  It will also prohibit any "Buy American" or "local sourcing" clauses in government purchase contracts.  Support the Public Banking Institute as we seek to establish public banks in Vermont and throughout the United States in order to support our local economies.  These banks will be transparent, accountable, and act in the public interest.  Donate today.
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> Corporate-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Shrouded in Secrecy
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> Sam Knight
> Originally published in Truthout
> The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a multilateral trade deal currently being hammered out by the United States and ten other countries, could end up affecting every human being and dollar of wealth on the planet. The extent to which it will is clear to no one, apart from negotiators. But the deal, in its current form, has been in the works since 2010, involves Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam, and is open to all 21 countries in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region. US Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk, who just left his post in early March, and other top negotiators have said that they would welcome China, and recent reports in the Japanese and Australian media indicate that Japan is set to join. Thus, even the most minor of edits to the draft text could end up making or breaking people from Brisbane to Bangor. But legislators around the world are being kept in the dark about what they're voting on until the deal is hammered out; it's expected to be completed this year. When it's finished, if the experience of Congress here is any indication, legislators will be feeling extraordinary pressure from corporate lobbyists and their heads of state to accept the deal without a fuss.
> 
> The smoke-filled room itself is no secret. Kirk and his counterparts have said that talks must be kept confidential, in Kirk's words, "to enable negotiators for various governments to share information and have frank conversations that result in progress toward concluding a trade agreement."
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> But other officials, including American legislators and their staffers, sing a different tune. They decry the opacity as a way to ram the deal through Congress.
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> "When challenged about the conflict with the Obama administration's touted commitment to transparency," TPP critic and Public Citizen trade lawyer Lori Wallach wrote in The Nation last year, "Trade Representative Kirk noted that after the release of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) text in 2001, that deal could not be completed. In other words, the official in charge of the TPP says the only way to complete the deal is to keep it secret from the people who would have to live with the results."
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> "The Doha Round of WTO [World Trade Organization] expansion, the FTAA and other corporate attacks via 'trade' agreements were successfully derailed when citizens around the world took action to hold their governments accountable," she noted.
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> While there is no evidence that multinationals themselves have access to the draft agreement, a pair of well-connected corporate lobbyists told Truthout - in response to a question about the USTR's responsiveness - that they are pleased by the direction of the talks and the way in which the USTR is keeping them abreast of developments.
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> At a February 12 panel discussion on Capitol Hill featuring Barbara Weisel, the USTR's chief TPP negotiator, Rick Johnston, a senior vice president and director for international government affairs at Citigroup, emphatically stated that he has been "very, very, pleased" with the way the USTR has dealt with the company's TPP-related concerns.
> 
> "With a trade agreement, if you don't have the business community supporting the idea of the United States participating in that agreement, it's very likely not to happen," he said. "So the Trade Representative's office, Barbara and her team have been very, very forthcoming to the extent they can, in talking with us about this agreement, how this negotiation is going forward."
> 
> "We're very grateful with the amount of time and energy that the people at USTR devote to trying to keep us apprised and trying to test us and determine what works and what doesn't work. It's difficult. Because these are negotiating texts, the negotiators are constrained in terms of what they can and can't share with us," Johnston said, describing the business community as "sort of part of a team."
> 
> "Granted, we're not first string in terms of frontlines of the negotiations," he added, "but we've got, I think, by this engagement, what's been mutually reinforcing."
> 
> Johnston appears to be well in the know, too, as one would expect a top lobbyist for a too-big-to-fail bank to be. A press release once described him as someone who "has advised both US and foreign government leaders as well as major multinational corporations on a broad array of commercial and strategic transnational issues," adding that he has served as "international trade counsel" to the Senate Finance Committee and as an adviser to the US International Trade Commission, "an independent, quasijudicial Federal agency with broad investigative responsibilities on matters of trade." At the discussion hours before Obama feted the TPP in his State of the Union address and revealed the existence of exploratory discussions about "a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union," Johnston foreshadowed the EU partnership and said the TPP would heavily influence it.
> 
> "The short and sweet of it is the TPP really is setting that high-water level for all these trade negotiations. And I would suggest that the TPP - you're going to see a lot of that in the International Services Agreement," referring to service trade liberalization negotiations Kirk revealed in January taking place between the United States, Japan, the EU and 18 other economies.
> 
> "You'll probably see a lot of it creep into the US-EU negotiation, which, rumor has it, might be endorsed by the president tonight," he correctly predicted.
> 
> Another lobbyist on the panel, Steve Lamar, the executive vice president of the American Apparel and Footwear Association, was similarly effusive in response to the question posed by Truthout.
> 
> "There have been opportunities for stakeholders to present and interact with the negotiators - not just the US government negotiators, but other negotiating teams as well in a variety of different fora," he said.
> 
> "There has been a lot of experimentation. I've heard some very positive feedback from a variety of groups" who participated, he commented, remarking that he had seen Weisel and other "chief negotiators" involved in the process.
> 
> "It's not just show. You really see engagement and discussion going on at the rounds themselves," Lamar said.
> 
> According to tax filings, the American Apparel and Footwear Association took in just over $5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2011, and, according to disclosures aggregated by the Center for Responsive Politics, spent $733,672 on lobbying in 2012. The association's web site claims that its board of directors is "comprised of top industry executives," including executives from New Balance, Haggar, Jockey, Donna Karan, Kenneth Cole, Perry Ellis, and others with an interest in the textile industry.
> 
> Weisel, however, stressed that the USTR is opening doors to all sorts of interest groups.
> 
> "We engage with stakeholders from the business community, from the NGO community, consumer groups, stakeholders that represent lots of different interests," she said after Johnston and Lamar lavished the USTR with praise.
> 
> Indeed, federal law requires the USTR to consult with bodies known as Trade Advisory Committees, which can include up to 45 members and "shall include representatives of non-Federal governments, labor, industry, agriculture, small business, service industries, retailers, nongovernmental environmental and conservation organizations, and consumer interests." Other single-issue advisory committees on labor, agriculture and other interests are also part of the process. Other interest groups can also stake a claim to some of the USTR's time by registering to participate in a "direct stakeholder engagement" process.
> 
> Weisel also insisted that the USTR has had a robust working relationship with Congress.
> 
> "We're spending quite a bit of time up here on the Hill," she said. "I personally spend quite a bit of time up here on the Hill. And we know that there are different perspectives on a lot of these issues, and they are important policy issues."
> 
> But some legislators and staffers on the Hill have been outspoken about what the deal could entail and how negotiations have been conducted. In November, 24 Senators wrote to President Obama expressing concerns about the TPP's potential effect on "job creation" and "middle class jobs," citing provisions about "Buy American" rules, "Rules of Origin" guidelines, labor rights, currency manipulation, state-owned enterprises, and incentives for off-shoring. One of those lawmakers, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told Truthout that his feelings were "mixed" about the USTR's responsiveness to his office's concerns.
> 
> "They made some improvements ensuing from our discussions on South Korea," he said, referring to the Korea Free Trade Agreement. "They have been open on some trade enforcement issues. They aren't as aggressive as I think they should be protecting American interests and American jobs and American manufacturers. But the door's open," he commented, adding that "they're better than other administrations [have been]."
> 
> Senator Brown pointed out that his recent appointment to the Senate Finance Committee should give him firmer ground to stand on in TPP discussions. Underfederal law, members of the House Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committees are designated official advisers to the USTR. In addition to every Representative and Senator, those panels' staffers ? being on "committees of jurisdiction" ? are made privy to the American delegation's proposals.
> Not a single person in Congress, however - or in any legislature of any country party to the deal - is allowed to even once-over the latest version of the actual draft agreement. In an email to Truthout, USTR spokesperson Carol Guthrie confirmed that senators and Congresspeople on committees of jurisdiction, along with their staffers, are only allowed to see the USTR proposals - not the working agreement. She added that "others at the discretion of the committees' chair and ranking member" are given access to USTR proposals.
> 
> "In addition, when a US TPP proposal may potentially affect issues that fall under other committees' jurisdictions - e.g., agriculture - then the committee staff have access to those TPP proposals," she added.
> 
> But the disconnect between the average rank-and-file staffer and the TPP is significant - even if the USTR's proposals were accepted in the final document verbatim - considering that the majority of those who make Congress run on a daily basis have little idea of what to expect, in terms of the legal minutiae that ends up being rather significant and difficult to comprehend. One staffer for Senator Brown told Truthout that "there are a lot of members that are not satisfied with the level of transparency."
> 
> Guthrie said that senators and their staffers must view proposal texts in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF.
> 
> "We bring the text in hard copy to their SCIF complex in the Capitol at their request. We also make our SCIF available for their use. Secondly, Senate rules require logging on to the secure web site from a secure workstation," she said.
> 
> House rules are less constraining, however.
> 
> "We bring [House] members and staff the text in hardcopy to their offices, at their request, or they can log in to the cleared advisers site from their desks and laptops," Guthrie said.
> 
> Nonetheless, with the updated draft itself guarded in confidentiality and the USTR proposal a forbidden fruit to a majority of staffers, there is a feeling on the Hill that Congressional oversight of the TPP is a formality.
> 
> Another Senate aide who spoke to Truthout appeared to support what Wallach wrote in The Nation - that secrecy could be used to push the TPP through Congress if it votes to renew the administration's ability to "fast track" trade deals, as expected.
> 
> The aide speculated that the pact is being pushed by USTR career bureaucrats and embraced by the Obama administration as a favor to the business community. The all-powerful Chamber of Commerce, which has lobbied extensively on the TPP, is no longer on the backfoot, as it was during debates over health care and financial reform - despite gifts to the insurance industry ingrained in the Affordable Care Act and the voluminous loopholes that lobbyists eventually helped punch into Dodd-Frank. 
> 
> The TPP will give big business additional leverage through regulatory ceilings and dispute resolution tribunals. The latter, used to enforce the former, could increase international litigation risk for new regulations - a threat that already exists, courtesy of NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO. The panels create additional legal venues in which either foreign investors can demand compensation for losses borne through "regulatory expropriation," or in which states can be awarded the right to impose retaliatory tariffs on counterparts deemed to be pushing biased regulations. They don't create additional opportunities for workers to sue a foreign country or company for allowing the murder of union leaders, nor do they offer an additional medium for a government to sue a company for environmental damage. The result is the creation of new institutions fueling the race to the bottom wrought by an interpretation of global economic integration that affords capital outsized privilege. The chilling effect on regulation is greater in poorer countries that can be cowed by the panels.
> 
> These dispute resolution tribunals, whether they mediate disputes between states or disagreements between investors and states, are said to be key to enforcing arguably the most important principal underpinning these trade agreements: "non-discrimination." If a country's own investors and companies are given preferential treatment, the deal isn't worth the paper it's printed on. But discriminatory practices aren't always at the heart of conflicts brought before tribunals. In the wake of NAFTA, for example, Mexico lost a controversial investor-state tribunal that cost its government $16 million in 2001 and cast doubt over the resilience of environmental regulations. Metalclad, an American landfill management company, had received permission from the Mexican government to operate a dump in Guadalcazar, in the state of San Luis Potosi. But while the plans had been approved by federal authorities, Metalclad had its permit to operate the landfill revoked by the state's governor in 1995. It also hadn't acquired permission from municipal authorities, which wasn't exactly an unprecedented outcome: Metalclad had purchased the site from a Mexican company called Coterin, which similarly failed to receive municipal permission to operate the landfill. There had been no sort of significant discriminatory practices in this case, but the tribunal decided that the company was not afforded a "minimum standard of treatment" that NAFTA provided to foreign investors. The decision was appealed to a Canadian court (a neutral venue). Although it disagreed with the ruling on minimum standard of treatment, it upheld most of the punitive damages. Thus, while discrimination wasn't even an issue, Metalclad was afforded a legal outlet that the Mexican company from which it acquired the asset did not have the right to.
> 
> The USTR, however, insists that these tribunals wouldn't have any sort of direct effect on regulations in the United States - that any decision made by investor state tribunals would merely levy fines and not "prevent our government or any participating government from regulating in the public interest."
> 
> "Nothing being negotiated would give any arbitration body the authority to overturn or enjoin any government measure, even one that violates the agreement," Guthrie wrote. "The neutral, international arbitration panels that can be set up under the agreement have no power or authority to direct changes to any federal, state, or local entity, period."
> 
> "US proposals recognize the right of other countries to regulate in their own public interest on financial issues, labor and the environment, and every other issue the TPP covers," she continued, "because we would never give up the right for the US government to regulate on these issues in the interest of Americans."
> 
> She added that the United States has "never lost an investor-state dispute, and never paid a penny in damages."
> 
> "The reason we can win, and do, is that these investment rules are based on the same fundamental rights already afforded to Americans and foreigners alike under the US Constitution and US laws," Guthrie continued. "Nothing in our agreements provides foreign investors with greater substantive rights than US investors already receive under US law."
> 
> She also noted that the three-mediator tribunals contain panel members selected by both a plaintiff and defendant, and one selected by both sides (failing that, "a neutral international organization" picks the mediator to round out panel).
> "Transparency is also a top priority for the United States in the arbitration process. Investment arbitration hearings under US trade agreements are public and all key documents and tribunal decisions are public, as well," said Guthrie.
> However, experts told Truthout that the USTR's public statements on tribunals have been problematic.
> 
> "Past victories are no predictor of how TPP rulings will turn out for the US," said AFL-CIO Trade and Global Policy Specialist Celeste Drake regarding the United States government's immaculate record at NAFTA investor-state resolution tribunals. "And legitimate public interest shouldn't be pared down anywhere," she added.
> 
> Public Citizen's Wallach was more dismissive of claims about the United States having never lost anything in investor-state dispute courts. Taxpayers must shoulder the burden of tribunal costs "even when cases are dismissed," she said.
> 
> On the chilling effect on regulation, Wallach said there is "no limit to the amount of money tribunals can order governments to pay corporations." She also pointed out that the United States has lost cases under NAFTA and WTO state-state tribunals - the former are held under either World Bank or UN rules; the UN has its own dispute settlement system. Wallach said that the Department of Transportation had ruled that Mexican law governing trucks didn't meet American safety and environmental standards, but NAFTA tribunals imposed $2.4 billion in retaliatory tariffs until the Obama administration eventually relented and allowed the trucks into the country (technical problems and uncertainty on the Mexican side mean that few trucks have taken advantage of the change thus far). At WTO tribunals, the US has lost decisionsthat have adversely affected labeling practices for dolphin-safe tuna and country-of-origin meat and a US ban on certain types of flavored cigarettes thought to be aimed at appealing to young people.
> 
> With respect to the USTR's claims on transparency, Wallach said that the World Bank investor-state tribunal system empowered by NAFTA doesn't release documents "or even notice a case is happening" unless plaintiffs agree to it.
> She said that there are no conflict-of-interest rules for the lawyers who are picked to mediate - some might represent corporations that could bring cases before the bodies.
> 
> If Congress approves the TPP, lawmakers could find themselves whittling away at federal rules and regulations before any TPP tribunal system is even established. The tribunals themselves may lack the power to enjoin law - retaliatory tariffs levied merely buttress an incentive-based system of liberalization - but when the United States becomes party to international treaties such as the TPP, Congress must ensure that federal law is compliant.
> 
> One area where this has been a huge concern is in the realm of intellectual property law. Doctors Without Borders has denounced US proposals, saying they "threaten to roll back internationally-agreed public health safeguards and would put in place far-reaching monopoly protections that keep medicine prices high and out of the reach of millions in the Asia-Pacific region." The group says that the proposals would extend monopoly power over medicines - "a complete repudiation of the US government's own 2007 bipartisan trade policy" - by mandating "new 20-year patents for modifications of existing medicines ... without improvement of therapeutic efficacy for patients," and by making it "more expensive and cumbersome to challenge undeserved or invalid patents."
> 
> The USTR has also proposed patenting surgical procedures - a move that would force Congress to change IP law and one that could force surgeons to obtain permission from patent-holders before performing surgery.
> 
> The draft has also been rumored to contain intellectual property provisions reminiscent of the Protect Intellectual Property and Stop Online Piracy Acts (PIPA/SOPA), bills that were tabled and then quickly yanked after dissent spread through cyberspace with cat-video-like speed. One of many wary legislators, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-California), wrote a letter to Kirk in September, expressing concern that an August leak of a draft agreement showed that the TPP would enforce "a burdensome 'three-step test' restricting the scope of limitations and exceptions" to copyright law.
> 
> Maira Sutton, a global policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - an organization opposed to the TPP - differentiated between the revealed agreement's "very broad" language and SOPA and PIPA. She did, however, describe the three-step test as a "vague guideline" that "could easily be interpreted to restrict exceptions and limitations to copyright." She said that the TPP, based on the leak, "could lead to web sites getting shut down for hosting copyrighted content."
> 
> In response to a question from Truthout after the February 12 panel discussion, Weisel said that the American delegation isn't "negotiating PIPA and SOPA again."
> 
> "We're negotiating something that is appropriate for a free trade agreement. So they're really separate issues," she told Truthout, insisting that the USTR has been well aware of the outrage that followed PIPA and SOPA.
> 
> Guthrie later wrote that TPP copyright provisions "follow the balanced approach that Congress established in the existing Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and they are complemented by market-opening provisions on digital services, data flows, and e-commerce."
> 
> She added that the IP chapter seeks to "reinforce and develop existing World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) rights and obligations" and that proposals being discussed take into account "trademarks, geographical indications, copyright and related rights, patents, trade secrets, data required for the approval of certain regulated products, as well as intellectual property enforcement and genetic resources and traditional knowledge."
> 
> "However," she wrote, "we also think it is possible to do more. In TPP, for the first time in an FTA, the United States has tabled a proposal that will obligate parties to seek to achieve an appropriate balance in their copyright systems in providing copyright exceptions and limitations for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research."
> 
> When asked about these statements, Sutton characterized the DMCA and TRIPs as stifling -  they hold Internet service providers liable for copyright infringements, allow judges to levy thousands of dollars in fines for minor violations, and extend protections to authors who have been deceased for 50 years, for example. She also described the agreements as anachronistic - both were drafted before the benefits of file-sharing (or at least the inability to prove what, if any, negative effects it has) could be appreciated. - and said that "reinforcing and developing" them, as the TPP might do, could lead to Internet service providers spying on users and blocking content with little judicial oversight. 
> But she said that the statement about obligating parties to strike "an appropriate balance" was encouraging.
> 
> "It would be great if they obligated countries to consider other fair uses than what is already permissable under the three-step test," Sutton commented, describing the comment as a "small consolation."
> But she stressed that it's impossible to assess what's going on when the working agreement itself is being kept private.
> 
> The same can be said for the other "minimum standards of treatment" that would eventually be the basis for legal challenges before panels. The USTR insists that the agreement won't hamstring legislation in the public interest, hailing the deal as a "21st-century agreement." Yet without any draft text to assess, those claims can't be verified.
> 
> Statements made at the February panel discussion, however, indicate that TPP discussions are centered around hogtying legislators and regulators. Weisel said that the USTR wants "a very deep agreement" in terms of "an ambitious outcome on services and investment, because we are still competitive in the service sectors as well as in government procurement."
> 
> "There have been lots of studies on this and all of them would demonstrate that the deeper the liberalization, the greater the benefits," she said. While that could be construed to encompass only tariffs, the scope of the vision Weisel laid out seemed to praise giving corporations a much wider berth than federal law currently allows.
> 
> "It's the non-tariff barriers and regulatory issues that companies face that we really need to do significant work on, and have been looking at carefully as key elements in TPP," she added.
> The concept of non-tariff barriers, as described by Citigroup's Johnston, "has a lot to do with regulatory control by host government."
> 
> "It has a lot to do with conditions - once you're invested, you then find it very difficult to take advantage of the capital you put into the country," he stated, adding that the TPP can be useful for "not totally removing, of course, but reducing the behind-the-border barriers."
> 
> Publicly owned enterprises, for example, are being targeted by negotiators. One such entity in the United States that has been the subject of considerable interest in recent years is the Bank of North Dakota (BND) - the only fully publicly owned financial institution in the country. The BND, which is only allowed to lend wholesale, was a stabilizing force that helped keep the already energy-rich state insulated from the shock of the financial crisis (Alaska, for example, didn't fare as well). It has also brought a small fortune to the state's treasury - $340 million in net tax gain between 1997 and 2009. Legislators in at least 13 different states have proposed studying or emulating the North Dakota model - state-owned development of central-bank style institutions guaranteed by tax revenue. But if the TPP is passed, that option might not be available. Weisel said that State Owned Enterprises (SOE) are routinely "competing directly with private enterprises, and often in a way that is considered unfair."
> 
> "Some of the advantages that can be conferred on State Owned Enterprises are things like preferential financing," Weisel said. "Those are things that wouldn't be provided to private companies - preferential provision of goods and services provided by a government."
> 
> She said that "State Owned Enterprises - which in some cases can comprise a significant percentage of an economy - can be used to undermine what we're otherwise trying to gain from this free trade agreement."
> A spokesperson for the BND declined to comment on whether or not this outlook was perceived by the bank to be an institutional threat. But, depending on the report's language, foreign bankers could claim that the BND stops them from lending to commercial banks throughout the state.
> 
> Citigroup's Johnston, in response to another question from the audience, said that corporations weren't exactly enamored of competition with publicly owned enterprises - and that they are prodding TPP delegates into doing something about it.
> 
> "The companies that are running up against the problem and the challenges of the state-owned enterprises, they obviously feel strongly enough about it that the problem is being addressed within the negotiations," he said.
> "How it's going to ultimately flesh out in my mind is one of the big question marks in the TPP negotiations," he opined, "because you've got such a diverse array of economies at the table."
> 
> Weisel added that she didn't think SOEs should be barred by the treaty, commenting that they "are created for a lot of purposes."
> 
> "We have SOEs to address market failure, or to cover certain public services that wouldn't otherwise be covered by the private sector," she pointed out.
> 
> But in a day and age in which public institutions are commonly used as a dumping ground for private failures, when every commodity under the sun - from water utilities to public education, from security to space exploration - is targeted by free-marketeers, there can be no guarantee, until the draft is finally released, that the TPP will protect entities like the BND, especially when considering, as critics have contended, that the deal's boosters are pushing an agreement that more firmly entrenches capital flow as a form of trade.
> 
> "When you hear the word 'trade' in today's business world, it doesn't just mean goods moving across borders," Johnston said. "It doesn't even mean just services moving across borders. It also means investment. And that's something where the TPP is really gonna make a big difference."
> 
> Trade, according to Black's Law dictionary, is defined as "Traffic; commerce,exchange of goods for other goods, or for money." Yet this trade pact could usher in a rash of reforms, with minimal oversight and virtually no public hearings, treating investment rules as a trade issue, even though they haven't traditionally been dealt with as such.
> 
> Non-corporate TPP stakeholders aren't hopeful about influencing the process, either - unlike their corporate counterparts. To actually participate in direct engagement, stakeholders have to apply for credentials with the USTR. Nathan White, a former communications aide to ex-Rep. Dennis Kucinich said the process involves something of a "catch-22."
> 
> "You have to say why you're interested in the TPP without knowing what the document actually says," he pointed out.
> 
> As far as the trade advisory committees go, members are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for gaining access to USTR proposals - a scenario that limits their ability to advocate. The EFF, for one, decided against lobbying to join the committees for that reason.
> 
> "We don't want to give legitimacy to process that's very closed in the first place," Maira Sutton of EFF said.
> 
> She also said that the USTR has held direct stakeholder engagement at negotiation rounds, but that these symposia are diminishing in significance. She didn't expect that delegates working on certain provisions would know where to find the stakeholders with relevant comments. As such, the EFF declined to spend money on sending a team to Singapore.
> 
> Not even members of the main Trade Advisory Committee can ascertain whether or not their input is considered. The AFL-CIO is a member of the Labor Advisory Committee. Celeste Drake, with Public Citizen has access to the USTR's proposals and said that she isn't sure what becomes of the union's commentary.
> 
> "You don't necessarily hear back about whether all of your comments and criticisms were incorporated," she said.
> 
> "Are they responsive to our concerns? That's hard to answer, given that we don't know about the text that's on the table."
> 
> She added that the AFL-CIO, in tandem with partners in other countries, wrote a model chapter on labor to submit to the USTR, though she said it was "hardly likely" that most of it will be adopted into the draft agreement.
> Drake does think that the USTR is making itself available to listen to her concerns - that someone at the USTR will actually listen to her or call her back.
> 
> "They're trying to be very accessible," she said.
> 
> Despite a recent statement by the union warning that "there is a serious risk that the TPP ... will repeat the mistakes of the NAFTA trade model," she also noted that USTR representatives "have talked publicly about a very strong labor chapter, and that's good, and I think we would appreciate what they can do."
> 
> Members of the dozens of trade advisory committees can really only hope that their appeals aren't made in vain. According to federal law, the USTR "shall not be bound by the advice or recommendations of such advisory committees, but shall inform the advisory committees of significant departures from such advice or recommendations made."
> 
> Even if law mandated that committees' advice be folded into official policy, it wouldn't necessarily be in favor of the public interest. The balance of power on the committees lies with corporate representatives - members are recommended by the USTR and appointed by the president - and the boards only meet when beckoned by the USTR or "at the call of two-thirds of the members of the committee."
> 
> To make the influence-peddling even more imbalanced, over 166 lobbying clients - the majority of which are multinationals and corporate lobbyists - have filed lobbying disclosures about the TPP between 2010 and 2012. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the Chamber of Commerce alone has filed 42 reports that mention the TPP; other top influence peddlers include the National Retail Federation (26 reports), the AFL-CIO (21), Nike (19), Google (17), Land O'Lakes (16), the American Apparel & Footwear Association (16), United Steelworkers (16), Pfizer (16), and News Corp (16). The majority of those in power are under overwhelming pressure from moneyed interests to pass the deal - perhaps one reason why Congress, by and large, hasn't made much of a fuss over being kept in the dark about the details of the deal itself.
> 
> But despite the mystery, there is substantial evidence - not least, the enthusiasm among corporate lobbyists, their intense lobbying efforts, frustration among public interest groups and disappointment on many corners of Capitol Hill - to suggest that the TPP is going to contain deregulatory initiatives and measures that usher in the privatization of publicly owned enterprises and the fencing off of the creative commons.
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.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today he will introduce legislation to break up banks that have grown so big that the Justice Department has not pursued prosecutions The 10 largest banks in the United States are bigger now than before a taxpayer bailout following the 2008 financial crisis. At the time Congress, over Sanders' objection, approved a $700 billion bank rescue because of concerns by some that the financial institutions were too big to fail. Another $16 trillion from the Federal Reserve propped up financial institutions.Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. now says the Justice Department may not pursue criminal cases against big banks because filing charges could "have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.""In other words," Sanders said, "we have a situation now where Wall Street banks are not only too big to fail, they are too big to jail. That is unacceptable and that has got to change because America is based on a system of law and justice."U.S. banks have become so big that the six largest financial institutions in this country (J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley) today have assets of nearly $9.6 trillion, a figure equal to about two-thirds of the nation's gross domestic product. These six financial institutions issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards, over half of all mortgages, control 95 percent of all derivatives held in financial institutions and hold more than 40 percent of all bank deposits in the United States.Sanders' legislation would give Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew 90 days to compile a list of commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds and insurance companies that he deems too big to fail. The affected financial institutions would include "any entity that has grown so large that its failure would have a catastrophic effect on the stability of either the financial system or the United States economy without substantial government assistance."Within one year after the legislation became law, the Treasury Department would be required to break up those banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions identified by the secretary."If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist," Sanders said. "No single financial institution should be so large that its failure would cause catastrophic risk to millions of American jobs or to our nation's economic wellbeing. No single financial institution should have holdings so extensive that its failure could send the world economy into crisis," Sanders said. "We need to break up these institutions because they have done of the tremendous damage they have done to our economy."
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From cdurkee at mcn.org  Sat Mar 30 10:21:10 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:21:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Bernie Sanders strikes again!
References: <74992882.-1491577009@kos.kosDB.mail.salsalabs.com>
Message-ID: <7E294DF1-F19A-4A1B-9081-50E4F81E5C55@mcn.org>

Thank you Bernie Sanders

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> From: "Chris Bowers, Daily Kos" <campaigns at dailykos.com>
> Subject: Bernie Sanders strikes again!
> Date: March 30, 2013 10:12:09 AM PDT
> To: cdurkee at mcn.org
> Reply-To: campaigns at dailykos.com
> 
> Carrie, you didn't hear about it in the corporate media, but last weekend U.S. senator and progressive powerhouse Bernie Sanders officially got the Senate on record opposing the use of chained CPI to calculate Social Security and veterans' benefits.
> 
> We finally have some momentum to stop chained CPI. Now, let's keep building on it.
> 
> Please click here to join Daily Kos and Sen. Bernie Sanders in demanding that the White House and House of Representatives say no to benefit cuts for Social Security recipients and disabled vets.
> 
> Chained CPI is a different measure for calculating inflation which, over time, would cut Social Security and veterans' benefits by thousands of dollars per year, per recipient. It's an idea supported by Republicans and, unfortunately, by President Obama and some Democrats.
> 
> However, last week during the floor debate on the federal budget, the Sanders amendment opposing the use of chained CPI passed on a voice vote without a single senator speaking up and objecting. While the amendment is non-binding, it's still significant because now an entire branch of Congress is on record opposing these backdoor cuts to Social Security and veterans' benefits.
> 
> Passing this amendment is a step forward, but we have a lot more work to do.
> 
> Please join Daily Kos and Sen. Bernie Sanders in demanding that the White House and House of Representatives say no to benefit cuts for Social Security recipients and disabled vets.
> 
> Keep fighting,
> Chris Bowers
> Senior Campaign Director, Daily Kos
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Mar 30 10:24:09 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:24:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nader:  big-corporations-are-unpatriotic
Message-ID: <73228486-D26F-4E02-86AC-BBAD916A5490@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16710-big-corporations-are-unpatriotic

From marksafron at att.net  Sat Mar 30 16:41:25 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:41:25 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Natural Gas Company Propaganda is BULL S*!T! The
	Ironic News Report
Message-ID: <A4A3656F-9C9D-45C7-B9F2-DEF13533B8C6@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBDTpZ2aLE

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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 31 09:19:35 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:19:35 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] about bottled water
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 31 09:46:34 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:46:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Re: [OPC] Fund the Audit of Suspicious
 Foreclosures]
Message-ID: <6ed7d7bce22334b2b78066df32c75c76.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

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Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Occupymendocino] [OPC] Fund the Audit of Suspicious
Foreclosures]
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Sat, March 9, 2013 11:41 pm
To:      waterbird at mcn.org
Cc:      omni at mcn.org
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         agnes at mcn.org
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Re:  Fund the Audit of Suspicious Foreclosures
> ***************
> ********
> ***
> Hi,
>
> Unpaid Taxes by big banks using robo-signed documents have foreclosed
properties fraudulently, impacting the County budget for police, fire
and education services. Big banks must prove they own the note/mortgage
according to AB 1602 and SB 1470, effective 1/1/13. Fraudulent
foreclosures must be reported by the Recorder to the CA Attorney
General.
>
> That's why I signed a petition to Supervisor Dan Hamburg, Chairman of
the B.O.S., which says:
>
> "We, the voters of Mendocino County urge the Board of Supervisors to
fund an audit of foreclosure documents in the Assessor-Recorder's
Property Records."
>
> Will you sign this petition? Click here:
>
> http://signon.org/sign/fund-the-audit-of-suspicious?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=504833
>
> Thanks!
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Mar 31 14:03:01 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:03:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] North Dakota
Message-ID: <C92FC8A5-CBBD-44CA-B152-6C10458CF652@mcn.org>

> Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota? It's the Banks


 The North Dakota Republican super-majority is so conservative it recently passed the nation's most severe anti-abortion resolution ? a measure that declares a fertilized human egg has the same right to life as a fully formed person.
But North Dakota is also red in another sense: it fully supports its state-owned Bank of North Dakota (BND), a socialist relic that exists nowhere else in America. Why is financial socialism still alive in North Dakota? Why haven't the North Dakotan free-market crusaders slain it dead?
Because it works.
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Appeals court: Prosecutor can't sue BofAJudge upholds ruling, orders her to
pay fees

By Bob Egelko <http://www.sfchronicle.com/author/bob-egelko>

March 29, 2013

A San Mateo County prosecutor who was arrested and chained to a jailhouse
wall for allegedly trying to pass a bad check at a Bank of America branch
in San Francisco - a charge that turned out to be groundless - not only
cannot sue the bank, she must pay $50,000 to the financial giant in
attorneys' fees, a federal appeals court says.

Sharon Henry, who was locked up for two hours, denied her diabetes
medication and barred from making a phone call until the bank realized its
mistake, sued the bank and San Francisco police for negligence and false
arrest.

But a federal judge found that Henry's suit was baseless and an attempt to
stifle the bank's freedom of speech, and ordered her to pay BofA's legal
costs, a ruling upheld by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San
Francisco.

An attorney for Henry called Wednesday's appeals court decision "a travesty
of justice" and said his client, a deputy district attorney in San Mateo
County, was considering an appeal.
Partner's check

The case dates from March 2008, when Henry went to BofA's Noe Valley branch
on 24th Street to deposit a $27,500 check from her domestic partner in her
own account and withdraw $1,000. The partner, Kathleen Wilkinson, had a
credit card account at the bank.

According to court testimony, the bank manager, Nancy Mendoza, verified
that the amount was within Wilkinson's credit card limit, then checked a
database that included bank account-holders but not those with only credit
card accounts.

She found a listing for a Kathleen Wilkinson with a notation that she was
studying abroad - but did not realize that the listing referred to a
different Kathleen Wilkinson, not Henry's partner.

Mendoza phoned the number on the listed account, was told by Wilkinson's
mother that the family didn't know Henry, then called the police. Two
officers arrived at the bank, arrested Henry and prevented her from using
her cell phone to call her partner.
No call to partner

The officers later testified that they had been trained in such cases to
call the person whose number was on the check - Henry's partner - but had
not done so in this case.

Henry was handcuffed, driven to the police station, shackled and cut off
from her phone and her medication, according to court records.

She was freed two hours later after her partner went to the bank looking
for her and spoke to the manager.

Henry's suit accused the bank of negligence that led to her false arrest.
But in a July 2011 ruling, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said
California law shields the bank from liability for any statements its
employees make while investigating a possible crime.
Arrest justified

Seeborg also said that in hindsight, police had failed to resolve the
investigation as quickly as they might have. Nevertheless, the judge said,
the officers had probable cause to arrest Henry in light of what the bank
manager had told them.

The judge also rejected Henry's claim that she had been arrested because
she is African American.

Not only was Henry's suit groundless, Seeborg said, but in going to court
to challenge BofA's report to police, she was engaging in unjustified
interference with the bank's legally protected freedom of speech. On that
basis, the judge ordered her to pay the bank's $50,000 legal costs.

The appeals court upheld Seeborg's decision in a 3-0 ruling. It said that
although "Henry's claims arise from a perfect storm of coincidences and a
case of mistaken identity, and ... her actions in this matter were
blameless," neither the bank nor the officers violated her rights.

It also upheld the order that she pay the bank's legal fees, under a state
law penalizing baseless suits that chill free speech.

Bank of America declined to comment.

Fuentes, Henry's lawyer, said the ruling was an indication that "banks are
too big to be sued."

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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 31 19:21:39 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:21:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] County Recorder in Greensboro,
	N.C. taking banks to court
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Watch Rachel Madow's show as she interviews two people , Laurie Lineer and
Jeff Thigpen,Recorder of landtitles in  Guilford County of Greensboro,
N.C.  is suing 3 big banks for screwing up his land title records. He had
a crew of volunteers trained to look for robosigned documents over several
years, no records showed who owned the original loan. He is going to be
speaker at the PBI Convention to which Jessie, Dan Hamburg and I are going
in June for three days. Madow's show is dynamite on you tube.Enjoy and
learn.
Agnes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5vpkAdRw7u8



