[Occupymendocino] Agnes' & RK's letter ideas for newspaper article

[Richard Karch]

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" 

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> 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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