From jessie at mac.com  Fri Nov  1 01:45:33 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 01:45:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FIRST FRIDAY STAND UP!!
Message-ID: <99F914B8-2030-44A4-81A3-FF30F3F23434@mac.com>

Come to Fort Bragg for First Friday, 1 Nov.  and join OCCUPY Mendocino 4 to 6 pm on the corner of Alder and Main to STAND UP for your Democracy!!

Bring your own sign (what do you have to say??) or borrow one of ours but JOIN US and show our town that we are fighting for DEMOCRACY, for them as working class citizens, for small businesses, for the MANY and not the FEW.

Come join us Friday late afternoon and show up for Democracy and our Rights.

From vjessielee at gmail.com  Fri Nov  1 01:47:44 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie VanSant)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 01:47:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FIRST FRIDAY STAND UP!!!
Message-ID: <7C97F2BE-74A7-4D9F-B2ED-E94A967B008B@gmail.com>

Come to Fort Bragg for First Friday, 1 Nov.  and join OCCUPY Mendocino 4 to 6 pm on the corner of Alder and Main to STAND UP for your Democracy!!

Bring your own sign (what do you have to say??) or borrow one of ours but JOIN US and show our town that we are fighting for DEMOCRACY, for them as working class citizens, for small businesses, for the MANY and not the FEW.

Come join us Friday late afternoon and show up for Democracy and our Rights.

From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov  2 10:04:59 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 10:04:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Food Stamp Article
Message-ID: <479BAD39-03DA-4FF9-BF80-CE166D185A4C@mcn.org>

From the Occupy Network on Facebook. A digest of Occupy happenings world wide.

* http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/us/as-cuts-to-food-stamps-take-effect-more-trims-to-benefits-are-expected.html?_r=0

Facebook book comments below.




Reality is not what it seems to be, nor is it otherwise.   
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From annxpress at live.com  Sat Nov  2 11:49:37 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:49:37 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: [OPC] Fukushima is a global threat
In-Reply-To: <CAFBwOQRtMHbSEynEKhD5XkFSAMGi9bJHki6Xyk4n893nGcyGRQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFBwOQRtMHbSEynEKhD5XkFSAMGi9bJHki6Xyk4n893nGcyGRQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W20BB5E17791B459AEF88DDDF40@phx.gbl>


 
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 09:12:17 -0700
From: edoberweiser at gmail.com
To: opcsteering at lists.mcn.org; opc at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [OPC] Fukushima is a global threat

***************
********
***

Friends: Take action today to tell the United Nations and the Japanese
Government that the crisis at Fukushima is a global threat that requires an
international intervention. Sign petition at:
*http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/fukushima
*

This petition is being managed by (Dr.) Margaret Flowers who stood up in
the Senate  health committee some 4 years ago and had to be dragged out for
demanding that Single Payer be considered; it  wasn't, but Margaret is
still in there working for World Health.   ~BC
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Friends: Take action today to tell the United Nations and the Japanese Government that the crisis at Fukushima is a global threat that requires an international intervention. Sign petition at:
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/fukushima


This petition is being managed by (Dr.) Margaret Flowers who stood up in the Senate? health committee some 4 years ago and had to be dragged out for demanding that Single Payer be considered; it? wasn't, but Margaret is still in there working for World Health.?? ~BC

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov  2 12:56:14 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 12:56:14 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] MTV
References: <mailman.31.1383414884.24261.announce@lists.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <774BAD00-B2D6-4FDD-B8A6-66910FD9F446@mcn.org>

>> 
>> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 19:03:02 -0700
>> From: "Marianne McGee" <antym at mcn.org>
>> Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Mendocino TV tackles local issues
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> You can keep up on the latest news and information on the Mendocino Coast
>> with Lindy Peters and Terry Vaughn! They are doing a weekly news broadcast
>> with video highlights of everything that is happening here on the coast!
>> Tune in, subscribe and get the latest of all that is going on here!  And, it
>> does not cost you anything, just click on www.MendocinoTV.com
>> <http://www.mendocinotv.com/>   and you can be up well informed with the
>> issues that are important to all of us!  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> While you can view the weekly news on the internet site, often there are
>> longer versions of meetings and stories that impact our lives.  See what
>> happened at the Fort Bragg City Council meeting as well as the latest
>> changes happening at the Redwood Coast Senior Center Board of Directors'
>> meeting, where they installed new members.  See who stepped up to the plate
>> and how they are going to address the aging issues this community is facing!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ------------------------------
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 21:42:11 -0700
> From: "Margaret Paul" <mpaul at mcn.org>
> Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Reminder:  Holiday Studio Jewelry Sale
> To: <announce at lists.mcn.org>
> Message-ID: <E93572C446CA4E3EAD36211F77F98644 at millcreek>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
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> 
> 
>> Sunday, Nov. 3, from 1 - 5, I will be hosting an open studio jewelry sale. 
>> My sterling silver spoon rings, pendants, bracelets, and earrings are all 
>> on sale.  Also, an assortment of handmade .999 fine silver jewelry.  Get a 
>> head start on Christmas shopping.  Visit my web site listed below to see a 
>> selection of my work.  Credit Cards accepted.
>> 
>> Come browse and enjoy some fine wine and hors d'oeurves at 32851 Mill 
>> Creek Drive in Cleone (4 mi. north of Fort Bragg).  Turn right on Mill 
>> Creek and it's the second house on the right.   964-9483
> 
>> 
>>                Margaret Paul
>>                      Artist
>> www.antiquesterlingcreations.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:07:32 -0700
> From: Monica Mankinen <daisydavispitbullrescue at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Hot Ice Cream Social-- Photos With Santa--
> 	Low Cost	Shots For Animals
> To: announce at lists.mcn.org
> Message-ID:
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> Hot Ice Cream Social--- At ---Fort Bragg Feed--880 Stewart Street in Fort
> Bragg 11-3
> 
> Join us at Fort Bragg Feed & Pet, Inc. TODAY from -11:00- 3:00-- Daisy
> Davis Pit Bull Rescue will be serving:-
> 
> Jaxon's Spiced Apple Harvest Float
> Hot apple cider, vanilla ice cream, and cinnamon stick.
> 
> Popeye's Peppermint Hot Chocolate Float
> Hot Chocolate, vanilla ice cream, peppermint stick, chocolate sprinkle
> dusting.
> 
> Myrtle the Turtle's Mocha and/or Frankie's Caramel Macchiato
> Hot coffee, hot chocolate, vanilla ice cream, cocoa powder dusting,
> pirouette wafer stick OR
> Hot coffee, caramel syrup, vanilla ice cream, sprinkles dusting, caramel on
> a stick.
> 
> There will also be photos with Santa and low cost shots for animals
> available today!!!
> For more information call 964-3333
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 09:00:09 -0700
> From: Debbi Wolfe <debbi.wolfe at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Tomorrow's Twofer
> To: announce at lists.mcn.org
> Message-ID:
> 	<CAOJ-wBjoxrt=SnZquK_oDZiaFR6mSh5AxA6UbMSq1-adDSum3g at mail.gmail.com>
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> Sunday, November 3, there will be a CRV collection at the Albion fire
> station behind the grocery between 12-2. Please bring your aluminum cans,
> beer bottles, and plastic beverage/water bottles for collection and to
> support your Fire Department.
> 
> AND when you're done, take a few steps and pick up some delicious tacos
> (pork or chicken) with rice and beans. We won't have TV, but we will have
> to-go containers, so you can either take your meal home and watch the game
> or eat in the station and chat with your neighbors.  Either way, you will
> be supporting your Fire Department. The Taco Station will be serving from
> noon till 4 or until the food runs out.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 09:12:00 -0700
> From: Doris Wier <doriswier at incatec.net>
> Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Turning Frustration Into More Intimcay
> To: announce at lists.mcn.org
> Message-ID: <C4B9E7DC-237B-4DC1-91F1-43E36419BD97 at incatec.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=windows-1252
> 
> This last Explore-Shop of the series "Conflict Resolution For Couples" is for those among you, who are tired of being stuck in "no win power games". Fights that have a tendency to spiral out of control with the result that both of you feel more alone, hurt, and sometimes even desperate. You will learn that there is another way of dealing with conflict and relationship issues. A way that leads to a better understanding of yourself and your partner, to more connection and improved communication. Conflicts are a normal and vital part of any relationship and can actually be used as a doorway to the next level of intimacy in your partnership, if you know how. You will walk away with a new road map for conflict and hopefully lots of new insight. The space will be safe and confidential. You share as much as you feel comfortable with.  
> 
> Explore Shop III: Turning Frustration Into More Intimacy
>            Date: 11/9/13
>            Time: 1-4pm
>            Place: The Muse, 30. E. San Francisco Avenue, Willits, CA
>            Costs: $100 per couple, or $50 for an individual, although coming as a couple is recommended
>                       $75 if you bring another couple along
> 
> Doris Wier, Certified Life and Relationship System Coach(ORSCC)
> For more information or to sign up, call 707-456-9246
> 
> 
> A great partnership is not when the ?perfect couple? comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
> -Dave Meurer-
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 11
> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 09:31:34 -0700
> From: heather brown <deptofimagination at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MCN-Announce]- poss wolf sighting
> To: "announce at lists.mcn.org" <announce at lists.mcn.org>,
> 	discussion at lists.mcn.org
> Message-ID:
> 	<CAGjQqjsuMqr71_aFttbNcuW29gnc=+981ew40-JQzo6U0bBm2w at mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> Early yesterday, around 7:30 am, I saw the perfectly intact body of what
> looked to be an enormous coyote or a wolf on my way to Todd's point. I
> stopped to see if it was still alive, it was not, and saw clearly that the
> legs and paws were much larger than what I would expect from a coyote. It
> was sad and very beautiful.
> 
> I felt privileged to be so close to such an animal. I considered lifting it
> into my car and (after research) donating it. It was far to large/heavy for
> me to lift so I continued on to have my coffee.
> 
> When I checked online the picture that was closest brought me to this link.
> http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/wolf/
> 
> A half hour later it was gone.
> 
> I  am not familiar with "scat" but if this interests anyone, I saw it on
> the second road west of the hwy north side, leading to Todd's point on the
> side road by the tree.
> 
> I also realized that the large herd of deer with young at Todd's would
> attract a lot of predators. So... anyone with pets in the area may want to
> be on the alert.  This thing was big.
> 
> I'm glad someone picked it up.  If anyone has heard anything more about it
> I am definitely curious about the species.
> 
> cheers
> Heather
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 12
> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:39:32 -0700
> From: Daney Dawson <daneyd at mcn.org>
> Subject: Re: [MCN-Announce]- Calls about computers needing to be fixed
> To: "David P. Russell" <drussell at mcn.org>
> Cc: announce at lists.mcn.org
> Message-ID: <1383410372.1597.33.camel at daneyBox>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> 
> What I do is tell them I'm not interested and hang up.
> 
> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 14:27 -0700, David P. Russell wrote:
>> Tell them you have a Mac or Linux computer. They are looking for Windows
>> computers to compromise.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: announce-bounces at lists.mcn.org [mailto:announce-
>>> bounces at lists.mcn.org] On Behalf Of Sylvia Gilmour
>>> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 2:21 PM
>>> To: announce at lists.mcn.org announcements
>>> Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Calls about computers needing to be fixed
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Beware of such calls, and if anyone has suggestions for how to stop them,
>> or
>>> handle them, I'm all ears. Well, in this case, eyes!
>>> 
>>> Here's to kindness,
>>> Sylvia 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Message: 13
> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 10:55:51 -0700
> From: judith greenleaf <grnleaf at mcn.org>
> Subject: Re: [MCN-Announce]- Thank you Community-
> To: Claudia Paige <claudia at satelliteresearch.net>
> Cc: announce at lists.mcn.org
> Message-ID: <94DB64F8-3994-4087-91FC-62F3293C01F0 at mcn.org>
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> Halloween was indeed awesome this year. What a wonderful community to support a donation only, fabulous block party enjoyed by all ages. What fun to see everyone acting out fantasy with their costuming. The circus entertainment was wonderful, especially the beautiful young boys who were superb performers in the silks. 
> For me, the highlight of the evening was The Druid Sisters Tree Party!! What an amazing ensemble!! Where else would you find a cellist in a boogie band?? Glorious riffs redolent of celtic and classical, and ultimately totally inspiring to dance to. And, at the risk of being totally sexist, a female drummer of amazing sensitivity as well as tremendous range and electrifying rhythms. Thank you Claudia and all the members of this incredible group. We dancers love you and will look forward to dancing with you again. warmly, Judith
> 
> On Nov 1, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Claudia Paige wrote:
> 
>> Thank you S.A. and everyone at Frankie's, and all the sponsors that made it possible for the Halloween Event in the Village of Mendocino. And thank you Peter Temple for your genius sound, Monkey for the great gear and the always UP happy attitude, and Matt Roland Productions, and Sky Nickell for her lights, as well as Bones, fire dancers, and everyone from Circus Mecca, and most of all, the community for supporting this event? I had a great time drumming out the grooves, The Druid Sisters had a blast as well as BlueSunBeat providing "live" music...
>> 
>> I love my community, all the great costumes, the kids! We had such nice weather. Not too cold, no wind.. Just a beautiful time! 
>> 
>> Have a Blessed Samhain!
>> 
>> Peace and magic,
>> 
>> Claudia
>> 
>> Claudia Paige
>> Druid Sisters Tree Party
>> druids at druidsisters.com
>> http://www.druidsisters.com
>> http://cdbaby.com/cd/dsteaparty
>> http://www.myspace.com/druidsisters
>> Universal Productions
>> 
>> 
>> 
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Sat Nov  2 21:00:01 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 21:00:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] reign in NSA spying. Contact your Congresspeople.
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt40-xUmO_PFgs-61b0rJTgYJjBSRrPLNyEN8bg16iZh1A@mail.gmail.com>

Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Action <aclu at aclu.org>
3:51 PM (5 hours ago)
to me
[image: ACLU Action]<http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=1df3746a41b3161cc5dcbae7f10a238a8df881f9ff263cecb89ebe2536b64954>


Dear Ellen,

What an incredible sight!

Last weekend, ACLU members from across the U.S. were out in full force,
joining thousands of demonstrators who descended on Washington, D.C. to
deliver a crystal-clear message to the NSA and Congress: ?Stop Watching
Us!?

This was the largest mobilization against NSA surveillance we?ve ever seen
and the energy was amazing. *Working with the Stop Watching Us coalition,
we delivered a petition with more than 570,000 signatures to Congress and
met with over 50 members? offices.*

Even more ACLU supporters participated in the ?Virtual Rally? through our
Facebook page, and we projected those photos on buildings all around the
nation?s capitol in a massive display of solidarity. *(We even met one ACLU
supporter who drove in from Detroit and saw his photo featured on a
building on U Street? Hi Scott!)*

*Now we have a key piece of legislation to support to roll back the
surveillance state?email your reps in Congress now and tell them to support
the USA FREEDOM
Act.*<http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=1df3746a41b3161cc5dcbae7f10a238a8df881f9ff263cecb89ebe2536b64954>


[image: Take action
now]<http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=1df3746a41b3161cc5107cc2c2b1fee452486e0d450913fc12d1e5e29967cfd8>
 [image: Take action
now]<http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=1df3746a41b3161cc5107cc2c2b1fee452486e0d450913fc12d1e5e29967cfd8>

Please note: If you forward or distribute, the links will open a page with
your information filled in.

Our efforts have captured prime coverage by local, national and
international media, and earned praise from leaders in Congress as well as
a message of support from Edward Snowden himself, the whistleblower
responsible for shedding light on the NSA?s secret surveillance programs.

So what?s next? *The good news is that all our work?in Congress, in the
courts, and now in the streets?is starting to pay off.*

On Tuesday, we finally got the opportunity we?ve been working for:
Representative Sensenbrenner (R-WI)?the architect of the Patriot Act?and
Senator Leahy (D-VT) introduced a bi-partisan bill, the USA FREEDOM Act, in
the House and Senate that will go a long way to reining in the NSA.

*The bill has a lot of momentum behind it, but the only way it has a chance
of reaching the floor of the Senate or House for a vote is if we get more
Senators and Representatives to support it.*

*Can you take 5 minutes to send an email through our easy-to-use system to
your Senators and Representatives asking them to co-sponsor and pass this
critical legislation?*<http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=1df3746a41b3161cd96f8819f336aeb8768dd749329633ab114c7e2da812a385>


The link above will take you to a page where you can use the pre-drafted
message or customize your own to automatically send an email to each of
your representatives.

We still have a long way to go to fully protect our privacy rights, but
getting our representatives to pass the USA FREEDOM Act is a tremendous
step forward. *Let?s make sure Congress gets it
done.*<http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=1df3746a41b3161cd96f8819f336aeb8768dd749329633ab114c7e2da812a385>


Yours in Liberty,
*Anthony for the ACLU Action team*

*P.S.* Check out all the amazing photos and video from the Stop Watching Us
rally, virtual rally and lobby day *on our Facebook
page.*<http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=1df3746a41b3161c9b2cb63dd59a3a1413c536843ef0bbd28631b495fec10b94>
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Nov  3 09:05:16 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:05:16 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: OWS - Join Nov 4 & Nov. 16 National Action]
Message-ID: <633a8d7347ed707d8a17191771c2a3cb.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: OWS - Join Nov 4 & Nov. 16 National Action
From:    "Montana Heidi" <montanaheidi at hotmail.com>
Date:    Sat, November 2, 2013 7:07 pm
To:      "A Heidi" <montanaheidi at hotmail.com>
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Greetings,
RE:  Two national actions in November
We need help in getting these actions out to every like-minded US citizen
asap.
1) Nov. 16 - National Day of Action  http://tinyurl.com/Nov16TppNatnlAction
2) Nov. 4th, (Nov. 4 -11) info below:
The first goal is to have 100% of US Representatives meeting with their
constituents, our activists, to discuss Fast Track Authority while Reps
are at home during recess fromNov. 4 - 11th.
The second goal is attain public commitment from 80% or more of the US
Reps to uphold their duty outlined by the US Constitution (Article 1,
Section 8, to negotiate international trade) and voting NO on Fast Track
(Trade Promotion Authority.) Those who do not commit will receive pressure
of being recalled, as happened recently in Colorado.
Please share this message with all like-minded activists in every state of
our Union.

Thank you,Heidi WendellGrassroots, Expose the TPP - USA

CALL to ACTION: NOV. 4th SCHEDULE U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MEETING
8:00 a.m. Mon. - SCHEDULE U.S. REP. MEETING  -  Re: FAST TRACK*
...Share this Facebook page link...  http://tinyurl.com/Nov4FastTrackAction

Prepare over the weekend. See below. ...Your U.S. Representative will be
in your home state the week of Nov. 4 - 11. Please prepare this weekend to
make this call first thing on Monday._____
STEP 1:...Get the phone numbers (DC and state) to call your US Rep.
here...http://www.contactingthecongress.org...Use that link to find your
Reps. web site. Copy and paste all his/her contact info (DC/state/twitter,
etc.) into a document for ready access.  See if your Rep. has next week's
schedule posted on his/her website. Look for Town Halls or any public
gatherings to attend as a Plan B to a meeting. In office sit-downs are
best. (Worst case scenario, track him/her down at a Veteran's Day event on
the 11th.)...Over the weekend, rally your friends and like-minded groups
in your district. Look through the "NOTES" section at 
www.facebook.com/ExposeTheTPP.USA ... for such helps as 
http://tinyurl.com/TPP-Info-Packet-Congress... the power point and other
tools._____
STEP 2:...To answer: WHAT's SO URGENT ABOUT FAST TRACK?...Share this 4
minute TPP/Fast Track overview video for those new to this
topic....http://tinyurl.com/HellNoTPP...Then, start rallying your friends
and other like minded folks (even 4-5), via phone, Facebook, email, etc.
to attend the meeting. Start this weekend to get them on board....*Bottom
line:  The TPP would undo protective bans, labeling restrictions, send
jobs overseas, weaken our economy, increase the cost of medications,
soften regulations on banksters, curb internet freedom, threaten our
nation's sovereignty,  an more (click link to learn other impacts) ....  
http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpactsYou.html)....TPP = NAFTA on
steroids. Fast Track is TPP's Achilles Heel....We must rally the nation to
stop this attempt of a Global Corporate Coup.The time is now._____
STEP 3:...JOIN YOUR STATE ACTION GROUP ...to strategize specifically for
your state and for more support materials: ...
www.tinyurl.com/StateActionGroups. ...?How to Plan an In-District? meeting
- ideas
...http://www.exposethetpp.org/How_To_Plan_an_In-District_Meeting2.pdf...Info
Packet to Take to Meeting ...http://tinyurl.com/TPP-Info-Packet-Congress

30 min. audio on getting the Face-to-Face meeting:
http://tinyurl.com/m32mbft
...Find more info: exposethetpp.org.______
STEP 4:...FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING ... MAKE YOUR CALL......Be super
POLITE and RESPECTFUL, yet FIRM and PERSISTENT....IMPORTANT...  Ask
for/write down proper SPELLING (first/last name) of  each person you speak
with and note what they say. (That may be needed in the future for
emailing, or if you or not satisfied with the assistance you receive, etc.
(Email formula:  Mary.Smith at mail.house.gov).....
Script:
...?Hi. Who am I speaking with, please? Would you please spell your first
and last name for me? (Repeat back for accuracy.) Great, (their name),
thank you!...My name is ______ , I am a constituent of Representative
_______ and I live in  ________. I am calling on behalf of myself and
several of Representative ______'s constituents.  We would like for you to
schedule us a brief appointment with Representative _______ while he/she
is in the District Office next week. We only need ten to fifteen minutes
of his/her time......Talking points, should you get push back or stalling
tactics:This is an urgent matter as I am aware that Fast Track Authority
will be voted in the near future*. I am very concerned about Fast Track
Authority and I wish to meet with him/her to discuss it this week.Our
elected representatives are paid to listen to what we constituents have to
say. That is what he/she signed up for and is being paid by my tax dollars
to do.Please put me on the phone with who can help me right now. May I 
have the full name of the District Manager, please? (Write/spell back for
accuracy.) May I please speak with the District Manager. I want to get
this scheduled today. I appreciate that, and, my time is important, too. 
I have the right to meet with my elected official. He/she needs to hear
why I am so concerned about Fast Track.Yes, I understand he/she is busy.
Who else is he meeting with? Perhaps we can combine our meetings. I am an
individual with a growing group of very concerned constituents.I am with
the ______ group. (MAM, MAAM, GMO-Free, Sierra Club, AARP, Expose the TPP
- Your State, etc.) will have the names of the others who wish to meet
with you confirmed within a day or so.
______
BEFORE I HANG UP, please tell me the Representative's position on Fast
Track.Would you please check for me now so I have that information? 
Please find out that answer and get back to me before the end of today.
Please leave a message on my voice mail if I am not home. I need this
information now, I do not wish to wait for a letter.
You may follow-up with a letter as well, but I need to know his/her
position now, please.I will call back tomorrow if I have not heard from
you.ALSO,May I please get the Representative's schedule for public events
while he/she is home? It is important that we know where the
representative is when in-state.What was your name again? ;) Right. I look
forward to your timely reply (their name).

Thank you for your kind assistance.______

* FAST TRACK...President Obama had hoped to have Fast Track passed before
October; the bill could drop into congress any day now. Historically, a
vote comes soon after. Fast Track (recently renamed "Trade Promotion
Authority" takes the Constitutional Authority (Art. 1. Sect. 8.) away from
congress and gives it to the President. It prevents "trade deals" from
being properly vetted by congress. It limits their discussion and demands
a straight yes/no vote after a limited time frame. No amendments or any
changes, what-so-ever, are allowed. It has been used to ram into law other
bad trade deals like NAFTA. Fast Track is anti-constitutional and
anti-American. Learn more here:http://www.exposethetpp.org/Fast_Track.pdf



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov  3 09:19:16 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:19:16 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] STREAMING  Money Life Extended Trailer
Message-ID: <5BD1B3D3-1D4E-424A-B74F-89B8B829A543@mcn.org>

 
You can watch the extended trailer for the film  "Money  and  Life" here>>>>         http://vimeo.com/61925237
Let me know if you think it would be good to present as an Occupy film event.
We can rent the complete film for a public showing for $17.

Richard


Money and Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?
This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary well-being that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected.
This cinematic odyssey takes us on a journey, from the origins of money to connecting the systemic dots on the current global financial crisis and how we got here.
Most importantly, Money and Life says that we owe it to ourselves to understand the fundamentals of this technology called money in order to be effective participants in the economic transformation that is happening around us, a shift more rapid and as profound as the Industrial Revolution.

Reality is not what it seems to be, nor is it otherwise.   
                                       Tibetan Buddhist teaching

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From annxpress at live.com  Mon Nov  4 10:40:35 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:40:35 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: AlterNet: Chomsky Attacks Rush to "Destroy
 the Environment as Fast as Possible" with Fracking and Tar Sands
In-Reply-To: <20131104181758.A591C180E6@vps718.getcadre.com>
References: <20131104181758.A591C180E6@vps718.getcadre.com>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W106863B44E57045B9E1AD25DDF60@phx.gbl>

Protect our water, air and land!
 
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: AlterNet: Chomsky Attacks Rush to "Destroy the Environment as Fast as Possible" with Fracking and Tar Sands
From: annxpress at live.com
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:17:58 -0500

This story has been forwarded to you from

http://www.alternet.org by annxpress at live.com





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Chomsky Attacks Rush to "Destroy the Environment as Fast as
Possible" with Fracking and Tar Sands

http://www.alternet.org/environment/chomsky-attacks-rush-destroy-environment-fast-possible-fracking-and-tar-sands



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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Mon Nov  4 21:51:26 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 21:51:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Should we cut these items from our Charter?
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt4Z35k69Gw2HKayWs5jQVWN_yhh3cJWHzmiutiER5pBzg@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Occupy,
     As you know, we have been working on writing a Charter so that we can
have a public bank and get the Mendocino County tax money out of Bank of
America.
      Some people on the committee, however, want to cut out of the charter
the Instant Runoff Voting that Tom Wodetzki strongly advocates and the
other items listed below.    If you oppose cutting these things out of the
Charter, please contact Agnes  agnes at mcn.org   and Robin Sunbeam
bodhirobin at pacific.net   and me ellen.rosser at gmail.com  as soon as
possible.    Everyone's voice counts.
                 Peace and blessings,   Ellen

*Sec. 15. *The Board of Supervisors shall implement the following sanitary
regulations:

*         a.* To protect the health of the residents of Mendocino County,
the Board of Supervisors shall allow no nuclear weapons or nuclear power
plants in Mendocino County nor shall they allow nuclear materials to be
transported across the county..

*         b.* To protect the residents of the county from environmental
hazards, especially those affecting the supply of clean water, the Board of
Supervisors shall not authorize or allow any fracking in the county nor any
other industries the Board deems harmful to the environment, to the
aquifer, to human health, or to the tourism-attracting scenic beauty of the
county,

*         c. *To conserve clean water and improve sanitary conditions in
the county, the Board of Supervisors shall authorize the installation and
use of composting toilets in government buildings, homes, and businesses in
Mendocino County.

*        d. * The Board of Supervisors shall protect county health,
agriculture, and forests by acting through the Agricultural Commissioner to
permit no genetically modified organisms to be cultivated, grown, or
produced in Mendocino County.  The Board of Supervisors shall assure that
Mendocino retailers, have the right, working in collaboration with food
producers and food manufacturers, to identify Non-GMO (organic) foods so
that buyers may exercise their right to choose the kind of food they want
to eat to maintain maximum health.

*       e. * The Board of Supervisors shall protect the agriculture of the
county by acting through the Agricultural Commissioner to prohibit the use
of neonicotinoids, a type of insecticide which is a major cause of bee hive
collapse.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov  4 23:13:45 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 23:13:45 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Dr Bronner Fights for GMO Labeling in Washington
	State
Message-ID: <910D47D7-3264-4EA9-BE52-6203AA201972@mcn.org>

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/11/dr-bronners-soap-gmo-labeling-washington
How Dr. Bronner's Got All Lathered Up About GMOs
Best known for tingly soaps with wacky labels, the company has become one of the biggest players in the battle over labeling genetically modified ingredients.


It's midmorning at the hive of cheap buildings that serves as the global HQ of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, and, as usual, David Bronner isn't working on anything to do with soap. Sure, his phone is ringing off the hook with business calls and a rep from Trader Joe's is visiting tomorrow, but the 40-year-old CEO?who looks like a 6-foot-5 raver version of Captain Jack Sparrow?could care less. A Burning Man amulet dangles on a hemp necklace over his tie-dye shirt as he leans in toward his computer screen, staring at what really matters to him: the latest internal poll results for Washington Initiative 522, a ballot measure that would require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms.
The initiative, which Washingtonians will vote on tomorrow, is one of the costliest in state history: Its proponents have spent a little more than $7 million, while their opponents in biotech and agribusiness have poured in $22 million.* Dr. Bronner's has donated a whopping $1.8 million to the Yes on 522 campaign. (That's on top of$620,000 it gave in support of a similar California ballot measure last year.) At stake, Bronner says, is consumers' right to decide what they put in their bodies. "If we don't win the right to label and enable people to choose non-GMO, then everything is going to be GMO."
?By Josh Harkinson| Mon Nov. 4, 2013 3:00 AM PST

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov  5 11:50:04 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:50:04 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Did You Know?
Message-ID: <B236FFF7-5642-4EF4-85DA-9CA569B2DC70@mcn.org>

What can be done about this?

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From nlnelson at mcn.org  Tue Nov  5 21:00:37 2013
From: nlnelson at mcn.org (Nancy Liela Wallace-Nelson)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:00:37 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Did You Know?
In-Reply-To: <B236FFF7-5642-4EF4-85DA-9CA569B2DC70@mcn.org>
References: <B236FFF7-5642-4EF4-85DA-9CA569B2DC70@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <72379BAB82B04557BBE3492E4CF13ACF@NancyPC>

GOOD question - what CAN we do besides say OMG.......

Nancy WN
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Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 11:50 AM
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Did You Know?


> What can be done about this?
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From annxpress at live.com  Wed Nov  6 17:00:01 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 17:00:01 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Secretary of the Interior is coming to Point
	Arena Fri, Nov. 8
In-Reply-To: <7C99D042-D4F7-4EAE-846F-04D50D9F243F@mcn.org>
References: <SNT145-W12247A9ADE05AFF5B5FA5B4DDF00@phx.gbl>,
	<7C99D042-D4F7-4EAE-846F-04D50D9F243F@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W58B0C46B82BD5F4C48F826DDF30@phx.gbl>

Who wants to go on a road trip Friday?  Carpool opportunity.

From: rkarch at mcn.org
Subject: Secretary of the Interior is coming to Point Arena Fri, Nov. 8
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 13:05:39 -0800
To: annxpress at live.com

Could you resend this to Occupy?  To many confusing other things on the original. Thanks. rk

Subject: Secretary of the Interior is coming to Point Arena

We've just learned the very exciting news that this Friday, November 8, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell is coming to Point Arena on the Mendocino Coast. She's coming to get a good look -- up close and personal -- at the spectacular Stornetta Public Lands, which as most of you probably know have been proposed for inclusion in the Coastal National Monument.On Friday November 8 Secretary Jewell is hosting a public meeting to discuss the community's vision for the continued protection of the Point Arena - Stornetta area, a remarkable place that provides great opportunities for outdoor recreation and important wildlife habitat under Bureau of Land Management oversight.The Sierra Club strongly supports the permanent protection of this amazing area by giving it National Monument status, and encourages all of our members who possibly can to attend the meeting and to share your own vision for conservation -- this is the kind of opportunity that comes only rarely.The meeting will be held at City Hall in Point Arena (451 School St) at 2PM, with sign-in starting at 1:30. It's free and open to everyone, but space is limited and advance reservations are needed. To RSVP, click HERE and fill out the simple form. I'd also appreciate it if you could phone (707 994 1931) or send me an email to let me know that you'll be coming.
While she is here, we could make a case for stopping Fracking in Mendocino County and putting some protection for our water, land and Ocean in as an ordinance. 
 Do you think that we can car pool and go to this and ask for fukushima attention, and monitoring our coast forradiation by testing, etc?   
Ann


 		 	   		  
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov  7 06:37:51 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 06:37:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Chase-isnt-the-only-bank-in-trouble
Message-ID: <D97F987F-8CAF-4887-9D0E-FCA78F0DE87C@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/20271-chase-isnt-the-only-bank-in-trouble
Chase Isn't the Only Bank in Trouble
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
06 November 13
 
've been away for weeks now on a non-financial assignment (we have something unusual coming out in Rolling Stone in a few weeks) so I've fallen behind on some crazy developments on Wall Street. There are multiple scandals blowing up right now, including a whole set of ominous legal cases that could result in punishments so extreme that they might significantly alter the long-term future of the financial services sector.

As one friend of mine put it, "Whatever those morons put aside for settlements, they'd better double it."

Firstly, there's a huge mess involving possible manipulation of the world currency markets. This scandal is already drawing comparisons to the last biggest-financial-scandal-in-history (the Financial Times wondered about a "repeat Libor scandal"), the manipulation of interest rates via the gaming of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor. The foreign exchange or FX market is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily trading volume of nearly $5 trillion...

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/20271-chase-isnt-the-only-bank-in-trouble


Reality is not what it seems to be, nor is it otherwise.   
                                       Tibetan Buddhist teaching

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From annxpress at live.com  Thu Nov  7 08:48:54 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 08:48:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Show your support for the Stornetta Point
	Arena public lands!
In-Reply-To: <18911107.1383772533986.JavaMail.www@app329>
References: <18911107.1383772533986.JavaMail.www@app329>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W140E7724C7A4CFBBB648F34DDF30@phx.gbl>

There is a petition which you can personalize by asking the officials to also support a ban on Fracking in Mendocino County. ANN
 
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 15:15:23 -0600
From: action at tws.org
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: Show your support for the Stornetta Point Arena public lands!





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Show your support for a Stornetta National Monument




Dear Ann,
You have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show your support for the Stornetta Public Lands.  On Friday November 8th U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Rep. Jared Huffman will come to the Point Arena City Hall to hear from local residents about adding the Stornetta public lands to the California Coastal National Monument.
We need your help to let Sec. Jewell and Rep. Huffman know that there is strong support for protecting the Stornetta Public Lands as a National Monument!
The addition of the Stornetta Public Lands to the California Coastal National Monument would be a boon for the magnificent landscape. It would increase visitor access, improve hiking trails, and better protect wildlife like the endangered Point Arena mountain beaver and the Behren?s silverpot butterfly. 
Please attend the public meeting with Sec. Jewell and Rep. Huffman, and support adding the Stornetta public lands to the California Coastal National Monument!
Where: Point Arena City Hall, 451 School Street, Point Arena, CA 95468

When: Friday, November 8 at 2 p.m.  (check-in begins at 1:30 p.m.)

What: Support Stornetta becoming part of the California Coastal National Monument
Also, please take a moment to thank Rep. Huffman and Rep. Mike Thompson for their tireless efforts to permanently protect the Stornetta Public Lands!
Sincerely,
The Wilderness Society





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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov  8 13:47:21 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:47:21 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Can Steven Lipsky Set His Water On Fire? You
	Betcha
Message-ID: <927AE8DD-E629-49C8-B443-A1311119F72A@mcn.org>

Get the Fracking Out of Here!

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19914-can-steven-lipsky-set-his-water-on-fire-you-betcha
Can Steven Lipsky Set His Water On Fire? You Betcha
Friday, 08 November 2013 11:01
By Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog | Report
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Weatherford, Texas, homeowner Steve Lipsky has nothing to hide. He is not trying to take down Range Resources, a large oil and gas company with a reputation for bullying its critics, nor is he trying to defame the company as it has accused him of in a defamation lawsuit demanding over $3 million.

Lipsky, a private, conservative man who made his nest egg in the banking industry, now finds himself playing the role of David against a modern day Goliath in a battle fraught with Kafkaesque moments. After what looked at first like an open and shut case of industrial negligence turned into a lengthy legal battle, he must either fight or accept financial ruin.

In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency determined that Range Resource?s drilling activities at a nearby fracking project had contaminated Lipsky?s well.
Lipsky can light the water coming out of his well on fire.


Story continues...     http://truth-out.org/news/item/19914-can-steven-lipsky-set-his-water-on-fire-you-betcha
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov  8 23:28:51 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 23:28:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 18 Of America's Biggest Companies Using Tax
	Havens To Skirt $92 Billion In U.S. Taxes: CTJ
Message-ID: <1EC59378-A490-47B8-B7FC-89E85842636B@mcn.org>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/03/apple-tax-havens_n_3378935.html

18 Of America's Biggest Companies Using Tax Havens To Skirt $92 Billion In U.S. Taxes: CTJ
Apple may be getting all the attention from lawmakers and the news media for its offshore tax practices, but a new report finds that other major companies are using similar tactics to avoid paying taxes on billions of dollars in profits.

At least 18 companies, including Nike, Microsoft and Apple, are stashing profits in offshore tax havens likely in a bid to avoid paying taxes, according to a new report from the Citizens for Tax Justice, a left-leaning research group. If the companies brought that money home, they would pay combined more than $92 billion in U.S. taxes, the report found.

?It?s misguided to say it?s some unique thing that Apple has created," said Matthew Gardner, the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a research partner of CTJ. "A lot of big companies are very likely doing it.?

A Nike spokesperson declined to comment on the report. Microsoft and Apple didn?t immediately return messages from The Huffington Post seeking comment.

Apple came under fire last month after a Senate hearing revealed that the company paid just 2 percent in taxes on $74 billion in profits by housing its money in an Irish subsidiary that hadn?t declared its tax residency anywhere in the world. Apple CEO Tim Cook told lawmakers that the company pays ?all the taxes we owe,? which, while technically true, offers an example of the larger issue of corporate tax avoidance that some lawmakers are targeting.

The companies on CTJ?s list disclosed in their filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that if they brought their overseas profits back to the U.S. they would pay a tax rate above 30 percent, indicating that the countries where their money is currently housed have very low tax rates.
Companies like Apple are able to use loopholes to legally keep their money in other


?When you see somebody estimated that we'd pay 30 percent or even 35 percent when we bring these profits back, that is an indirect admission that 


avoid taxes by keeping their profits in other countries. The SEC offers companies two options when disclosing their U.S. tax rate for profits housed overseas: They can either estimate what their rate would be if they brought the profits back, or they can claim that it?s too complicated to figure out, Gardner said.

The companies that made CTJ?s list are those that offered an estimate, but there are 235 other companies that told the SEC that they?re holding profits overseas but didn't disclose their hypothetical U.S. tax rate, according to the CTJ report. In total, these non-disclosing companies hold almost $1.3 trillion in non-repatriated profits abroad, CTJ found.

?In all likelihood the vast majority of these 235 companies could give you a good estimate of what they?d pay if these profits were brought back,? Gardner said. ?The idea that they can?t just figure out what they?d pay if these profits were brought back is pretty laughable.?

Many of the companies discussed in CTJ?s report, including Apple, have pushed lawmakers to grant a holiday on taxes for corporate profits brought back home, or to move towards a territorial tax system that would allow companies to effectively pay no U.S. taxes on the income they earn abroad. Supporters of such proposals argue that adopting a simpler corporate tax code would make the U.S. a friendlier place to do business, while critics say the policies could cost America billions of dollars in tax revenue.

But Gardner said it?s difficult for lawmakers to assess those proposals when they don?t know how much companies are paying in taxes abroad.

?It?s asking an awful lot for Congress to evaluate these questions without having access to this basic information,? he said. ?That?s the bottom line. Congress should have access to information that they currently don?t have access to.?...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/03/apple-tax-havens_n_3378935.html

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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Nov  9 10:01:14 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 10:01:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Critical]
Message-ID: <11848445da896292a4b914640daf9f06.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>



I hope you give time to this talk with Dr. Helen Caldicott.  This is
critical to planning for next month as well as for the next 20 years.



Be well,


Agnes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA9s1EpIzhI







Stephanie Trapasso

510 Marlene St. Apt. #5

Ukiah, California 95482

707-472-0103

Stephanie at stephanietrapasso.com



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov  9 23:54:32 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 23:54:32 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Petition:  No-4-billion-tax-break for JPMorgan.
Message-ID: <457C9028-FFF1-4468-9672-B78C469FD529@mcn.org>

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/no-4-billion-tax-break-1	

	PETITION STATEMENT
As you negotiate what is likely to be the largest bank settlement for wrongdoing in U.S. history, please don't let JPMorgan deduct the settlement from their taxes. If they are allowed to do so, it could stick American taxpayers with a $3 billion tab.
Petition Background
JPMorgan is negotiating $13 billion in settlements with the Department of Justice for mortgage lending abuses they allegedly committed during the housing crisis. However, taxpayers could end up underwriting more than $3 billion of those settlements.
That's because JPMorgan is likely to claim the settlements as tax deductions. Even though settlements like these are thought of as punishment for corporate wrongdoing, companies claim their settlement costs as tax write-offs all the time. They treat it as just another business expense.
We can?t let that happen. The financial crisis caused by banks? irresponsible practices landed us in a recession that we?re still struggling to recover from. Taxpayers shouldn?t have to pay any more for JPMorgan?s bad actions.
Just last week, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which houses Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, made a separate $5.1 billion settlement with JPMorgan. And, sadly, the FHFA let JPMorgan take that settlement as a write-off - effectively handing JPMorgan a $1.5 billion tax deduction.
We need the Department of Justice to do better. The DOJ has the power to include a provision in JPMorgan's settlement that prohibits them from taking the settlement as a tax write-off. We just need to convince the DOJ to do the right thing. They've done it before, including with one of BP's settlements for the Gulf oil spill.
The DOJ is negotiating their final settlement deal with JPMorgan right now, so we must move quickly to make sure the public doesn't get stuck footing a multi-billion dollar tab.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov 10 15:24:45 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 15:24:45 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Four Signs That Regular Folks Can Still Win
Message-ID: <7E5944C1-5BC7-4A44-8E6C-EFC6D280CE24@mcn.org>

Four Signs That Regular Folks Can Still Win (and One That Shows the Power of Money)
Sunday, 10 November 2013 11:40
By Sarah van Gelder, Yes! Magazine | Op-Ed

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Bill de Blasio. (Photo: Kevin Case / Flickr)
Here are four cases in Tuesday's election where people power won out over corporate interests. And one that went the other way.
In light of the Supreme Court decision onCitizens United, many fear that their votes will be swept aside by the overwhelming power of big corporations and the superwealthy.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19937-four-signs-that-regular-folks-can-still-win-and-one-that-shows-the-power-of-money


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov 10 21:06:58 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:06:58 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Chalk Talk
References: <201311110031.rAB0RPfj025366@mx.mcn.org.pph4a.pphosted.com>
Message-ID: <2399088D-92A6-4153-BFEF-93C4029ECA3E@mcn.org>

> Messages out in front of the banks. Check 'em out. 
> 
> Rally Chalk Talk by Sheila & Dan
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From jessie at mac.com  Mon Nov 11 11:00:44 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:00:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nine Tenths -- history and justice
Message-ID: <7C7849CC-1701-4034-982B-18044885D0A2@mac.com>

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19717-the-original-occupy-james-oppenheims-novel-the-nine-tenths-was-written-100-years-before-zucotti-park

From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 11 15:49:08 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:49:08 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Dynamic Fighters For Justice Photo
Message-ID: <543ECF41-0821-4E11-9929-A971ECBAD7DD@mcn.org>

https://www.facebook.com/BLACKDANTHEMAN










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From elained at mcn.org  Tue Nov 12 12:38:12 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:38:12 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Special fracking meeting in Fort Bragg
Message-ID: <4D7F7D57-D8F8-40A3-9AA9-2C9226B07670@mcn.org>

Special fracking meeting in Fort Bragg

The Ocean Protection Coalition (OPC) is holding a special general meeting on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 7 p.m. in the Fort Bragg Library meeting room, to address how to keep fracking out of Mendocino County. Our federal and state ?representatives? have failed to understand the environmental and human costs of this desperate grubbing for the last fossil fuel resources. They have failed to protect citizens from the ra- pacious oil and gas industry.

We will be showing a movie (Gasland Part II) on fracking starting at 5 p.m. for those who would like to learn more about the subject.

Now is the time for human society to concentrate on developing renewable energy and conservation technologies. The continuance of all life on Earth is in the balance.

What can we citizens of Mendocino and California do to stop the suicidal path the oil and gas com- panies are trying to keep us on? We already know that fracking has caused an increase in Earth- quakes in the east and the midwest. We can?t afford that in California where we have two nuclear power plants siting directly over or next to major faults.

Please come and share your expertise and knowledge with us and let?s work to stop fracking. Remember this date: November 19, 7 p.m. at the Fort Bragg Library Meeting Room.

Contact: Ed Oberweiser
OPC Chair
 964-7965, edoberweiser at gmail.com
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From ndevall at mcn.org  Tue Nov 12 14:42:55 2013
From: ndevall at mcn.org (Norman de Vall)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:42:55 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fracking
Message-ID: <23B9C2A6-4C7B-4E24-81D8-0F907779B787@mcn.org>

Good Afternoon,

After the meeting in Pt. Arena last Friday I was
left with the impression that we're not going to
get much, if any, help from the Sec. of Interior
re fracking.

Over the last few months I've worked hard on
Hamburg and Mc Cowen.  They express interest
but so far no proposed ordinance.

Having revisited our initiative passed in
1988 there may be some hope.  I've asked
for opinions from those who have written 
initiatives and read many similar to ours.

Please read:  County code section:  19.04

There is already in our code restrictions on
by-products:

	"Storage facilities: Facilities for the purpose of storing crude oil and gas, 
	including tank farms, or storing chemicals, drilling muds, cuttings, 
	produced waters and other toxic materials used in the production of oil and gas products;"

It is permissive for the Board of Supervisors to amend
the ordinance from time to time to make it more protective.

Let's give it a try.

Norman

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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 12 16:58:22 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:58:22 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Leveraged Buyout of America, Ellen Brown,
	CD, 20130826
In-Reply-To: <01b301cea671$4d8f5f40$e8ae1dc0$@pacific.net>
References: <01b301cea671$4d8f5f40$e8ae1dc0$@pacific.net>
Message-ID: <3751d5e9910aaa24231085e9dc9dc3b2.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Be sure to read the last paragraph entitled "Another Argument for Public
Banking. by Ellen Brown


> "[I]t is no coincidence that stocks have rallied as the Fed has pumped
> money
> into the coffers of the primary dealers while ICI data shows retail
> investors have pulled nearly a half trillion from U.S. equity funds over
> the
> same period. It is the banks that are propping stocks."
>
> "Small and medium-sized businesses are responsible for creating most of
> the
> jobs in the economy, and they are struggling today to get the credit they
> need to operate. That is one of many reasons that banking needs to be a
> public utility."
>
>
>
> August 26, 2013
>
>
>
> Common Dreams <http://www.commondreams.org>
>
>
> The Leveraged Buyout of America
>
>
> Giant bank holding companies now own airports, toll roads, and ports;
> control power plants; and store and hoard vast quantities of commodities
> of
> all sorts. They are systematically buying up or gaining control of the
> essential lifelines of the economy. How have they pulled this off, and
> where
> have they gotten the money?
>
>
> by Ellen Brown <http://www.commondreams.org/author/ellen-brown>
>
> In a letter
> <http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/LetterToFedGoldmanUranium.pdf>  to
> Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke dated June 27, 2013, US
> Representative
> Alan Grayson and three co-signers expressed concern about the expansion of
> large banks into what have traditionally been non-financial commercial
> spheres. Specifically:
>
> [W]e are concerned about how large banks have recently expanded their
> businesses into such fields as electric power production, oil refining and
> distribution, owning and operating of public assets such as ports and
> airports, and even uranium mining.
>
> After listing some disturbing examples, they observed:
>
> According to legal scholar Saule Omarova, over the past five years, there
> has been a "quiet transformation of U.S. financial holding companies."
> These
> financial services companies have become global merchants that seek to
> extract rent from any commercial or financial business activity within
> their
> reach.  They have used legal authority in Graham-Leach-Bliley to subvert
> the
> "foundational principle of separation of banking from commerce". . . .
>
> It seems like there is a significant macro-economic risk in having a
> massive
> entity like, say JP Morgan, both issuing credit cards and mortgages,
> managing municipal bond offerings, selling gasoline and electric power,
> running large oil tankers, trading derivatives, and owning and operating
> airports, in multiple countries.
>
> A "macro" risk indeed - not just to our economy but to our democracy and
> our
> individual and national sovereignty. Giant banks are buying up our
> country's
> infrastructure - the power and supply chains that are vital to the
> economy.
> Aren't there rules against that? And where are the banks getting the
> money?
>
> How Banks Launder Money Through the Repo Market
>
> In an illuminating series of articles on Seeking Alpha titled "Repoed!
> <http://seekingalpha.com/article/1109701-repoed-how-the-fed-and-depositors-f
> und-banks-big-bets> ", Colin Lokey argues that  the investment arms of
> large
> Wall Street banks are using their "excess" deposits - the excess of
> deposits
> over loans - as collateral for borrowing in the repo market. Repos, or
> "repurchase agreements," are used to raise short-term capital. Securities
> are sold to investors overnight and repurchased the next day, usually day
> after day.
>
> The deposit-to-loan gap for all US banks is now about $2 trillion, and
> nearly half of this gap is in Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells
> Fargo alone. It seems that the largest banks are using the majority of
> their
> deposits (along with the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing dollars)
> not
> to back loans to individuals and businesses but to borrow for their own
> trading. Buying assets with borrowed money is called a "leveraged buyout."
> The banks are leveraging our money to buy up ports, airports, toll roads,
> power, and massive stores of commodities.
>
> Using these excess deposits directly for their own speculative trading
> would
> be blatantly illegal, but the banks have been able to avoid the appearance
> of impropriety by borrowing from the repo market. (See my earlier article
> here <http://webofdebt.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/5835/> .) The banks'
> excess
> deposits are first used to purchase Treasury bonds, agency securities, and
> other highly liquid, "safe" securities. These liquid assets are then
> pledged
> as collateral in repo transactions, allowing the banks to get "clean" cash
> to invest as they please. They can channel this laundered money into risky
> assets such as derivatives, corporate bonds, and equities (stock).
>
> That means they can buy up companies. Lokey writes, "It is common
> knowledge
> that prop [proprietary] trading desks at banks can and do invest in a
> variety of assets, including stocks." Prop trading desks invest for the
> banks' own accounts. This was something that depository banks were
> forbidden
> to do by the New Deal-era Glass-Steagall Act but that was allowed in 1999
> by
> the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed those portions of
> Glass-Steagall.
>
> The result has been a massively risky $700-plus trillion speculative
> derivatives bubble. Lokey quotes from an article by Bill Frezza in the
> January 2013 Huffington Post titled "Too-Big-To-Fail Banks Gamble With
> Bernanke Bucks
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-frezza/toobigtofail-banks-gamble_b_24241
> 56.html> ":
>
> If you think [the cash cushion from excess deposits] makes the banks less
> vulnerable to shock, think again. Much of this balance sheet cash has been
> hypothecated in the repo market, laundered through the off-the-books
> shadow
> banking system. This allows the proprietary trading desks at these "banks"
> to use that cash as collateral to take out loans to gamble with. In a
> process called hyper-hypothecation this pledged collateral gets pyramided,
> creating a ticking time bomb ready to go kablooey when the next panic
> comes
> around.
>
> That Explains the Mountain of Excess Reserves
>
> Historically, banks have attempted to maintain a loan-to-deposit ratio of
> close to 100%, meaning they were "fully loaned up" and making money on
> their
> deposits. Today, however, that ratio is only 72% on average; and for the
> big
> derivative banks, it is much lower. For JPMorgan
> <http://www.valueline.com/Tools/Educational_Articles/Stocks/Getting_To_Know_
> A_Bank_With_Financial_Ratios.aspx> , it is only 31%. The unlent portion
> represents the "excess deposits" available to be tapped as collateral for
> the repo market.
>
> The Fed's quantitative easing contributes to this collateral pool by
> converting less-liquid mortgage-backed securities into cash in the banks'
> reserve accounts. This cash is not something the banks can spend for their
> own proprietary trading, but they can invest it in "safe" securities -
> Treasuries and similar securities that are also the sort of collateral
> acceptable in the repo market. Using this repo collateral, the banks can
> then acquire the laundered cash with which they can invest or speculate
> for
> their own accounts.
>
> Lokey notes that US Treasuries are now being bought by banks in record
> quantities. These bonds stay on the banks' books for Fed supervision
> purposes, even as they are being pledged to other parties to get cash via
> repo. The fact that such pledging is going on can be determined from the
> banks' balance sheets, but it takes some detective work. Explaining the
> intricacies of this process, the evidence that it is being done, and how
> it
> is hidden in plain sight takes Lokey three articles, to which the reader
> is
> referred. Suffice it to say here that he makes a compelling case.
>
> Can They Do That?
>
> Countering the argument that "banks can't really do anything with their
> excess reserves" and that "there is no evidence that they are being
> rehypothecated," Lokey points to data coming to light in conjunction with
> JPMorgan's $6 billion "London Whale" fiasco. He calls it "clear-cut proof
> that banks trade stocks (and virtually everything else) with excess
> deposits." JPM's London-based Chief Investment Office [CIO] reported
> <http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ONE/2273239192x0x628656/4cb574a0-0bf
> 5-4728-9582-625e4519b5ab/Task_Force_Report.pdf> :
>
> JPMorgan's businesses take in more in deposits that they make in loans
> and,
> as a result, the Firm has excess cash that must be invested to meet future
> liquidity needs and provide a reasonable return. The primary reponsibility
> of CIO, working with JPMorgan's Treasury, is to manage this excess cash.
> CIO
> invests the bulk of JPMorgan's excess cash in high credit quality, fixed
> income securities, such as municipal bonds, whole loans, and asset-backed
> securities, mortgage backed securities, corporate securities, sovereign
> securities, and collateralized loan obligations.
>
> Lokey comments:
>
> "That passage is unequivocal - it is as unambiguous as it could possibly
> be.
> JPMorgan invests excess deposits in a variety of assets for its own
> account
> and as the above clearly indicates, there isn't much they won't invest
> those
> deposits in. Sure, the first things mentioned are 'high quality fixed
> income
> securities,' but by the end of the list, deposits are being invested in
> corporate securities [stock] and CLOs [collateralized loan obligations]. .
> .
> . [T]he idea that deposits are invested only in Treasury bonds, agencies,
> or
> derivatives related to such 'risk free' securities is patently false."
>
> He adds:
>
> "[I]t is no coincidence that stocks have rallied as the Fed has pumped
> money
> into the coffers of the primary dealers while ICI data shows retail
> investors have pulled nearly a half trillion from U.S. equity funds over
> the
> same period. It is the banks that are propping stocks."
>
> Another Argument for Public Banking
>
> All this helps explain why the largest Wall Street banks have radically
> scaled back their lending to the local economy. It appears that JPMorgan's
> loan-to-deposit ratio is only 31% not because the bank could find no
> creditworthy borrowers for the other 69% but because it can profit more
> from
> buying airports and commodities through its prop trading desk than from
> making loans to small local businesses.
>
> Small and medium-sized businesses are responsible for creating most of the
> jobs in the economy, and they are struggling today to get the credit they
> need to operate. That is one of many reasons that banking needs to be a
> public utility. Publicly-owned banks can direct credit where it is needed
> in
> the local economy; can protect public funds from confiscation through
> <http://webofdebt.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/bail-out-is-out-bail-in-is-in-ano
> ther-argument-for-publicly-owned-banks/> "bail-ins" resulting from bad
> gambling in by big derivative banks; and can augment public coffers with
> banking revenues, allowing local governments to cut taxes, add services,
> and
> salvage public assets from fire-sale privatization. Publicly-owned banks
> have a long and successful history
> <http://www.amazon.com/Public-Bank-Solution-Austerity-Prosperity/dp/09833308
> 67/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371913558&sr=1-1&keywords=public+bank+sol
> ution> , and recent studies have found them to be the safest in the world.
>
> As Representative Grayson and co-signers observed in their letter to
> Chairman Bernanke, the banking system is now dominated by "global
> merchants
> that seek to extract rent from any commercial or financial business
> activity
> within their reach." They represent a return to a feudal landlord economy
> of
> unearned profits from rent-seeking. We need a banking system that focuses
> not on casino profiteering or feudal rent-seeking but on promoting
> economic
> and social well-being; and that is the mandate of the public banking
> sector
> globally.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>




From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Nov 12 19:42:09 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:42:09 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Mendocino Treasury deposits in Big Banks
 are at risk of loss..]
Message-ID: <4e2c43237693a32c70487b53da76ef2c.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Send this to Shari  Schapmire, our county Treasurer. Her email is
Schapmis at co.mendocino.ca.us


---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Mendocino  Treasury deposits in Big Banks are at risk of loss..

To:      schapmis at co.mendocino.ca.us
Cc:      bos at co.mendocino.ca.us
         sako4 at comcast.net
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As part of the effort to get public finance officials to consider public
banking, it is necessary to inform them how public taxpayer money under
their care and currently deposited in a big bank is at risk of loss.

This video outlines the risks to individuals and public entities and
specifically shows the government documents that outline the plans for
confiscation.

http://youtu.be/jPsOopzp7e4

Cyprus was not a one-time event! The plans for confiscation have been
developed, the plans have been approved, and they are awaiting the next
crisis.






From edoberweiser at gmail.com  Fri Nov  8 08:25:05 2013
From: edoberweiser at gmail.com (edward Oberweiser)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 08:25:05 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Special meeting to address fracking in California
	and Mendocino County
Message-ID: <CAFBwOQTQgi7+tYZb=+YSsve3uf6fM+y9RsG-tTbhyAeB2+H=iw@mail.gmail.com>

The Ocean Protection Coalition (OPC) will hold a general meeting on
November 19 at 7 p.m. in the Fort Bragg Library meeting room.

The purpose of the meeting is to form a group to keep fracking out of
Mendocino County. Both our federal and state governments have failed to
protect U.S. citizens from the extremely dirty practice of fracking. We
will have to do it ourselves.

For those who want to learn more about fracking, an informative video will
be shown at 5 p.m. It will either be Gasland, Gasland Part II or Split
Estate.

Contact person: Ed Oberweiser, OPC Chair, edoberweiser at gmail.com
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov 10 08:59:54 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 08:59:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Closing Tax Loopholes Should Be Part of the
	Budget Conference
Message-ID: <60FBE616-B78E-4F42-8090-696F8D2AE9B5@mcn.org>



Entitlement reform must begin at the top. So say we all? (Jeanene) The case is well made by Patty Murray (D-WA), in her November 8 Washington Post Opinion: Closing Tax Loopholes Should Be Part of the Budget Conference.. "The U.S. tax code clearly benefits the wealthy and well-connected. It would be unfair, and unacceptable, to ignore every last loophole and special interest carve-out yet ask seniors and families to bear the burden of deficit reduction alone." Read the complete article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/closing-tax-loopholes-should-be-part-of-the-budget-conference/2013/11/08/41df32d2-47f8-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_story.html Image thanks to Institute for Local Self Reliance: http://www.ilsr.org/four-corporate-tax-loopholes-states-should-close/


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 14 10:46:46 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:46:46 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Sweden is Closing Prisons
Message-ID: <F54C35DF-531C-4093-8308-39D94FDF584D@mcn.org>

http://gizmodo.com/sweden-is-closing-prisons-due-to-lack-of-people-to-put-1462950734

From the Occupy Network on Facebook:

As the prison population spirals out of control in the United States, Sweden finds itself with an interesting and opposite predicament: it has too many prisons and not enough prisoners. For this reason, the Scandinavian country recently decided to shutter four prisons and a remand center.

The issue isn't lack of crime in Sweden?in fact, the crime rate has actually increased slightly there?but rather a strong emphasis on rehabilitating criminals, rather than locking them up. The prison population declined 6 percent between 2011 and 2012. In the United States, by comparison, federal facilities are 40 percent over capacity.

The New York Times highlighted this contrast in an editorial last week describing what the U.S. can learn from European prisons, where the vast majority of stays are less than 12 months. In U.S. state prisons, for example, the average is three years. It's not just that prison stays are shorter in Europe, however; prisons treat prisoners differently, giving them more privacy and freedom, and generally gearing their time behind bars toward reentering society. And, at the end of the day, that produces better results than locking people up and throwing away the key. [The Guardian]


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From edoberweiser at gmail.com  Sat Nov  9 22:23:30 2013
From: edoberweiser at gmail.com (edward Oberweiser)
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 22:23:30 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] anti fracking coalition meeting
Message-ID: <CAFBwOQReCBHPZAL6pMBC1yMgRJGRPVVH76hcQvoQXhyrUZ1i5A@mail.gmail.com>

Ocean Protection Coalition Special fracking meeting in Fort Bragg

We are holding a special general meeting on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 7
p.m. in the Fort Bragg Library meeting room, to address how to keep
fracking out of Mendocino County. Our fed- eral and state ?representatives?
have failed to understand the environmental and human costs of this
desperate grubbing for the last fossil fuel resources. They have failed to
protect citizens from the ra- pacious oil and gas industry.

We will be showing a movie (either Gasland, Gasland Part II or Split
Estates) on fracking starting at 5 p.m. for those who would like to learn
more about the subject.

Now is the time for human society to concentrate on developing renewable
energy and conservation technologies. The continuance of all life on Earth
is in the balance.

What can we citizens of Mendocino and California do to stop the suicidal
path the oil and gas com- panies are trying to keep us on? We already know
that fracking has caused an increase in Earth- quakes in the east and the
midwest. We can?t afford that in California where we have two nuclear power
plants sitiing directly over or next to major faults/

Please come and share your expertise and knowledge with us and let?s work
to stop fracking. Re- member this date: November 19, 7 p.m. at the Fort
Bragg Library Meeting Room.

contact Ed Oberweiser edoberweiser at gmail.com
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From llaks at mcn.org  Sat Nov  9 17:16:57 2013
From: llaks at mcn.org (Lenny Laks)
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 17:16:57 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Critical]
In-Reply-To: <11848445da896292a4b914640daf9f06.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
References: <11848445da896292a4b914640daf9f06.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <527EDE89.2070306@mcn.org>

Helen Caldicott
She is an all time hero to me....her logic is always irrefutable....
Why she is not venerated appropriately is a mystery to me...
This is an announcement not a discussion...no replies needed.

On 11/9/2013 10:01 AM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:
>
> I hope you give time to this talk with Dr. Helen Caldicott.  This is
> critical to planning for next month as well as for the next 20 years.
>
>
>
> Be well,
>
>
> Agnes
>
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>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA9s1EpIzhI
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> Stephanie Trapasso
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> 510 Marlene St. Apt. #5
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> Ukiah, California 95482
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> 707-472-0103
>
> Stephanie at stephanietrapasso.com
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Thu Nov 14 12:33:56 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:33:56 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] http://radcast.org  --   check it out!!
Message-ID: <82E33C27-6F83-4CC2-A0E0-37C851CAA8C5@gmail.com>

http://radcast.org

a site which tracks radiation 'weather' across the US and tells of 'accidents' and 'events.

Also Japan is changing how they measure radiation in order to 'clean up' Fukushima at less cost and convince people to move back??.

Nothing had changed about the amount of (dangerous) radiation, just the measurement scale?  what could go wrong??

From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov 15 14:24:07 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:24:07 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Will be at Rally, not GA tomorrow.
Message-ID: <FD36E50C-865B-445E-9A69-8D6937F22B69@mcn.org>

HI Everyone,  I'll be making the Rally, but because of work on my new 
position with the Mendocino Com Center board will not be able to come 
to the meeting on Saturday.   I'll send a report of things I have been 
working on for OM so it can be read.

Hope to see you at the Rally today. We had fun last Friday in this 
great weather with lots of supportive people driving by.

Richard
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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov 15 14:35:08 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:35:08 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Will be at Rally, not GA tomorrow.
In-Reply-To: <FD36E50C-865B-445E-9A69-8D6937F22B69@mcn.org>
References: <FD36E50C-865B-445E-9A69-8D6937F22B69@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <04a049ad9c19855e6390eb5b326b4a9c.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Richard,and all,

On the GA agenda:
     How would you vote on using Occupy funds to pay for publicity for
Ellen Brown's talk at Crown Hall on Dec. 15th at 7:00 pm.

Also Charles Wood would like to know if Occupy would be willing to be a
co-sponsor for the Community Rights workshop that he and Transition Towns
is sponsoring. No money from us, just our illustrius name. It's to be held
on the coast on Presidents Day Weekend.

Agnes



> HI Everyone,  I'll be making the Rally, but because of work on my new
> position with the Mendocino Com Center board will not be able to come
> to the meeting on Saturday.   I'll send a report of things I have been
> working on for OM so it can be read.
>
> Hope to see you at the Rally today. We had fun last Friday in this
> great weather with lots of supportive people driving by.
>
> Richard
>
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov 15 18:59:19 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:59:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Note from Howard Ennes
Message-ID: <89DFC85E-1FE4-492C-BF83-230520F89137@mcn.org>

Howard Ennes <nsdusoir at mcn.org>

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ??

	I'm not sure this is the best way to go about this ( I've mentioned it so some folks), but because of recent bouts of depression and a persistent dropping of energy, I am strongly advised by my physicians (including cardiologists and a psychologist) to cut back on 'activities' ?? the doctors remind me that no longer am I in my fifties but am now in my 97th year. 

	The wizards tell me that I must more carefully allocate when and where to apply my efforts. 

	To my surprise, recently I've noticed that even sitting though a mundane meeting results very often in aches and pains and an immediate need for rest and a nap! . . . Nevertheless, it's very hard to resist taking in music and theatrical events; for to me, they list as 'fun'.  Of course, I'm sticking with my senior exercise program and trying hard to eat regularly.

	Over the years, as you know, I have urged all to participate in civic affairs. Personally  I have followed my own advice as to involvement in business, professional, and community relationships.  Now I am forced to recognize that at my age I have to modify my expectations and be far more selective in taking on obligations, even as to family matters.

	Thanks for your understanding of my dilemma.  No doubt each of you will face it one of these days!  I hope you will understand that sometimes I'll have to say "no".
								



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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Nov 16 07:08:05 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 07:08:05 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] vote on two items,
Message-ID: <9047cb02f61092015033fb7f91f92646.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


On the GA agenda:Will Sheila facilitate?

All,    How would you vote on using Occupy funds to pay for publicity for
Ellen Brown's talk at Crown Hall on Dec. 15th at 7:00 pm.

Also Charles Wood would like to know if Occupy would be willing to be a
co-sponsor for the Community Rights workshop that he and Transition Towns
is sponsoring. No money from us, just our illustrius name. It's to be held
on the coast on Presidents Day Weekend.

Agnes




From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Nov 16 07:19:36 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 07:19:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Proposed SB 4 Well Stimulation Treatment
	Regulations, Notice]
Message-ID: <4af7b84666b682bde3ad2ebc59824662.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Please write to the email address below how fracking would be a problem.
Agnes

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Proposed SB 4 Well Stimulation Treatment Regulations, Notice
From:    "Comments at DOC" <Comments at CONSERVATION.CA.GOV>
Date:    Fri, November 15, 2013 8:06 am
To:      DOGGR_REGULATIONS_INFORMATION at LISTSERV.STATE.CA.GOV
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The California Department of Conservation (DOC) has sent out public notice
of proposed regulations for the use of well stimulation in oil and gas
production. The public notice begins the formal rulemaking process and
marks the beginning of a 60-day public comment period. The regulations,
which are to go into effect on January 1, 2015, are designed to protect
health, safety and the environment, and supplement existing strong well
construction standards. They address a comprehensive list of issues,
including testing, monitoring, public notice, and permitting. The
Department also will have emergency regulations in place by January 1,
2014 to ensure the major requirements on SB 4 are addressed in the
interim.
To read the proposed regulations and other material, to see a schedule of
upcoming public meetings, or to learn how to make a comment on the
proposed regulations that will go into the official rulemaking record,
please visit  http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx or
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Index.aspx.

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Action is attached.

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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Nov 16 07:24:08 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 07:24:08 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Proposed SB 4 Well Stimulation Treatment
	Regulations, Notice]
Message-ID: <a4113496407c73e8afe5ceaa9089edf2.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Please write to the email address below how fracking would be a problem.
DOGGR_REGULATIONS_INFORMATION at LISTSERV.STATE.CA.GOV
Agnes

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Proposed SB 4 Well Stimulation Treatment Regulations, Notice
From:    "Comments at DOC" <Comments at CONSERVATION.CA.GOV>
Date:    Fri, November 15, 2013 8:06 am
To:      DOGGR_REGULATIONS_INFORMATION at LISTSERV.STATE.CA.GOV
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The California Department of Conservation (DOC) has sent out public notice
of proposed regulations for the use of well stimulation in oil and gas
production. The public notice begins the formal rulemaking process and
marks the beginning of a 60-day public comment period. The regulations,
which are to go into effect on January 1, 2015, are designed to protect
health, safety and the environment, and supplement existing strong well
construction standards. They address a comprehensive list of issues,
including testing, monitoring, public notice, and permitting. The
Department also will have emergency regulations in place by January 1,
2014 to ensure the major requirements on SB 4 are addressed in the
interim.
To read the proposed regulations and other material, to see a schedule of
upcoming public meetings, or to learn how to make a comment on the
proposed regulations that will go into the official rulemaking record,
please visit  http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx or
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Index.aspx.

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Action is attached.

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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Sat Nov 16 21:31:30 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:31:30 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] eminent domain in Irvington
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt6=oYy1XNhqDmkJRGQ7wdamYftY7qcKg3M=T0Vgk2h4oQ@mail.gmail.com>

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November 16, 2013  9:00PM ET
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foreclosures
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[image: Irvington, New Jersey home]
Irvington, N.J. homeowner facing foreclosure, Lavinia Curry (right), with
her daughter Paulette McQueen and two grandsons.E. Tammy Kim

IRVINGTON, N.J. ? Their narrow, two-story house on Garwood Place, tan with
white trim, could use a fresh coat of paint and new plantings for the
sidewalk flowerbed. It sits in a quiet neighborhood not far from
Springfield Avenue, the retail thoroughfare connecting this working-class
township to nearby Newark.

Paulette McQueen, 60, and her mother Lavinia Curry, 86, have lived in this
house since 2003. ?My mother always dreamed of having a home,? said
McQueen, a solidly built woman with blonde hair and dark brown skin. But
since 2010 their home has been a source of consternation as much as pride.

?We were one month behind, and I took [two payments] to Wells Fargo the
next month," said McQueen. "They told me they wouldn?t accept it. Ever
since then, they?re harassing my mother. They want me to sell her house.?

A new program, though, could provide McQueen and Curry some relief. At a
press conference on Saturday, Irvington Mayor Wayne Smith announced the
township <https://www.irvington.net/>?s plan to ?take? and revalue
foreclosed homes at market rates for the public?s benefit, using the legal
doctrine of ?eminent domain.? Should the plan move forward, Irvington could
become the first municipality to seize and re-mortgage foreclosed
properties.

?When you hear (?eminent domain?), you usually think of people being talked
out of their homes (for corporate development), but what we?re trying to do
is recast it so that people can stay in their homes,? said Smith.
Experiment and backlash

It?s a strategy spreading to cities and towns across the country. In late
July, for example, Richmond,
Calif.<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/business/in-a-shift-eminent-domain-saves-homes.html>
made
national news when it notified a group of banks that, barring their
renegotiation of existing mortgages, the city would consider taking
foreclosed properties by eminent domain.

Richmond did not intend to become the owner of these homes. Rather, it
would oversee assessments of market value and then turn over the homes to
financial partners willing to issue new, lower-cost mortgages to
homeowners. But the policy has since been embroiled in litigation by banks
opposed to the idea. Consequently, no foreclosed homes have yet been taken
by eminent domain ? in Richmond or anywhere else.

The federal government, banks and trade groups like the Mortgage Bankers
Association allege that the use of eminent domain to take homes violates
the rights of homeowners and deprives investors of properties' fair market
value. (Neither Bank of America <https://www.bankofamerica.com/> nor the
Mortgage Bankers Association wished to comment on this story.)

In an August 2013 memorandum, the Federal Housing Finance
Agency<http://www.fhfa.gov/webfiles/25419/FHFAStmtEminentDomain080813.pdf>
stated
that ?the use of eminent domain to restructure existing financial contracts
? presents a clear threat to the safe and sound operations of Fannie Mae,
Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks.? It vowed to pursue legal
challenges and ?take such other actions as may be appropriate to respond to
market uncertainty or increased costs created by any movement to put in
place such programs.?

Nevertheless, Irvington officials hope to take and re-mortgage at least 500
to 1,000 of the 1,800 homes that have been foreclosed on during the housing
crisis. During the worst of the foreclosure epidemic in 2009, Essex County
? which includes Newark and Irvington ? had the region?s highest
concentration of foreclosed homes.
[image: mp]
Supporters of the eminent domain plan protest foreclosures in front of
Wells Fargo's Irvington branch.E. Tammy Kim

Irvington?s plan would target foreclosures linked to ?private-label
securities? (PLS), a high-risk class of mortgage-backed securities.
Homeowners whose mortgages form the basis of PLS transactions often do not
know which companies own or have the power to make decisions about their
mortgages.

?These days, mortgages are cut up and sliced up," said Udi Offer, executive
director of the ACLU of New Jersey <http://www.aclu-nj.org/>, a supporter
of the Irvington plan. "There are so many owners that it?s impossible to
get everyone in a room about principal reduction.?

This is why, supporters say, so many cities ? including San Francisco,
Oakland, Pomona, Sacramento, Newark and New York City ? are contemplating
an approach to eminent domain that resembles Irvington's. The legal basis
of using the doctrine is ?crystal clear,? said Anika Singh Lemar, visiting
clinical professor at Yale Law
School<http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/ALemar.htm>,
but ?the tougher question is whether it?s a public use. There has to be an
inquiry about whether, in a particular neighborhood, amelioration of blight
would qualify.? In places like Irvington, Newark and Detroit, residents
have seen a correlation between mass foreclosures and crime, drugs and
fires.

Questions of reach and efficacy also remain. The eminent domain proposals
to date would not cover all foreclosed homes, leaving some needy homeowners
without recourse. In Irvington, for example, only about 10 percent of
mortgages would be eligible based on the criteria set by potential
financing institutions.

?The right way to use these sorts of programs is to buy mortgages in low-
and middle-income programs that are at risk of being blighted, but if you
have a profit-making motive, you won?t necessarily pick up those loans,?
Singh Lemar said. Re-mortgaging via eminent domain, she said, is akin to
yet much more complicated than the Rolling
Jubilee<http://rollingjubilee.org/> debt-cancellation
project of Occupy Wall Street, which has purchased and ?abolished? nearly
$15 million of consumer debt.

>From credit cards to home loans, banks have targeted low-income people of
color for toxic products, according to the non-profit group New Jersey
Communities United <http://unitednj.nationbuilder.com/>. In Irvington,
whose population is 85 percent African American, consumer issues resonate
in racial-justice terms.

?They know we?re poor, and they?re taking advantage of us,? said McQueen,
the Irvington resident who lives with her elderly mother. ?The neighborhood
we live in, nobody gives a damn because it?s black, Spanish, Haitian and
Jamaican. They put us in situations where, at the time, it?s presentable,
but when we go to talk to them, they aren?t willing to help.?

In a few weeks? time ? should Irvington find the right financial partners
and escape a federal lawsuit ? McQueen may get some help from her township
instead.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov 17 08:13:06 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 08:13:06 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Companies Use Obamacare Confusion To Sell 'Junk
	Insurance'
Message-ID: <B4EAC799-63E7-410C-AC57-F8CCE58E091D@mcn.org>

Companies Use Obamacare Confusion To Sell 'Junk Insurance'

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/insurance-company-using-obamacare-scare-tactics-to-sell-crappy-insuranceERIC LACH ? NOVEMBER 15, 2013, 6:00 AM EST15730
Georgene Mortimer, who runs a winery and lives in Hilton Head, S.C., was recently having trouble accessing the online health insurance exchange. So she decided to check in with the local insurance agent who in 2010 had sold her an individual health insurance policy from a company named USHealth Group. It didn't take long for Mortimer to realize something was off.

"She started to basically tell me how bad the exchanges are, and that the exchanges are only for the very sick people," Mortimer told TPM in an interview last week. "And she said, 'Have you had cancer, heart attack, you or your husband?' And I said no. And she said, 'Good, because if you said yes, I would have had to recommend...



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From edoberweiser at gmail.com  Fri Nov 15 09:57:24 2013
From: edoberweiser at gmail.com (edward Oberweiser)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:57:24 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Even the Pope is against fracking
Message-ID: <CAFBwOQTDe4HggiF=2HED+5_XnFO-tW8ewdNaXzViLC7vF1Kmdg@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.ejolt.org/2013/11/the-pope-says-no-to-fracking-and-that-w<http://www.ejolt.org/2013/11/the-pope-says-no-to-fracking-and-that-water-is-worth-more-than-gold/>
ater-is-worth-more-than-gold/<http://www.ejolt.org/2013/11/the-pope-says-no-to-fracking-and-that-water-is-worth-more-than-gold/>

*Environmental Justice Organizations, LIabilities and Trade*

Pope Francisco welcomed a group of Argentineans, including an EJOLT
member,  Antonio Gustavo Gomez, an Attorney General from Argentina,
yesterday on November 11th, 2013, in the Vatican. The meeting lasted an
hour, with the participation of the film director Pino Solanas, well known
for his film "Dirty Gold", about mega-mining. They spoke about water
contamination and the Pope mentioned that he is preparing an encyclical
about nature, humans and environmental pollution.

As an image is worth a thousand words, the Pope demonstrated his opposition
to shale gas fracking and the contamination of water due to mega mine
projects, posing for two photographs. One with a t-shirt that states that
"Water is worth more than gold: El Agua Vale mas que el Oro", and the other
stating "No to Fracking". The concern from His Holiness was clear when the
following cases were mentioned to him by Fiscal Gomez, including Barrick
Gold, Chevron in Argentina and Ecuador and Yasuni, among others.
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From jessie at mac.com  Mon Nov 18 03:43:39 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:43:39 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Strike Debt
Message-ID: <C160658E-8A95-4FC6-94AB-9B0F60AF5647@mac.com>

Amazing!!  Occupy movement is alive across our nation!

http://strikedebt.org

You are not a loan.

Strike Debt is a nationwide movement of debt resistors fighting for economic justice and democratic freedom.

Debt is a tie that binds the 99%. With stagnant wages, systemic unemployment, and public service cuts, we are forced to go into debt for the basic things in life ? and thus surrender our futures to the banks. Debt is major source of profit and power for Wall Street that works to keep us isolated, ashamed, and afraid. Using direct action, research, education, and the arts, we are coming together to challenge this illegitimate system while imagining and creating alternatives. We want an economy in which our debts are to our friends, families, and communities ? and not to the 1%.
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From jessie at mac.com  Mon Nov 18 03:46:25 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:46:25 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] another way Occupy is helping fight
Message-ID: <D18DF2A5-4CEA-4CA9-8DED-BE86575FAE67@mac.com>

http://www.popularresistance.org


From marksafron at att.net  Sun Nov 17 23:06:42 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:06:42 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy in office!
Message-ID: <632ACC9E-612C-469D-B61D-6612F4F6F9CD@att.net>

Socialist wins seat on Seattle city council
November 16, 2013  11:38PM ET
Kshama Sawant, an Occupy Seattle member, hopes to raise minimum wage to $15 and levy a ?millionaire's tax'
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/16/socialist-wins-seatonseattlecitycouncilfirstinnearly100years.html
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 18 14:14:44 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:14:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: From Susan Nutter
References: <4DA6BB82-6DB5-4413-9EB2-099CF3D17306@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <561B6698-5FFD-4B49-A375-B385C063CECC@mcn.org>

> 
> 
> Dear Friends,
>  
> Attached is the new edition of Justice Rising, written partially by Jim Tarbell.  This is an interesting issue that gives a great overview about global corporate control over such issues as climate change etc.  It certainly fits in with Occupy Mendocino's mission.  I am going to a Move to Amend meeting tonight at which Jim will be talking about this issue etc.  I am going to ask everyone if we should start working on making Fort Bragg a TPP-free zone (see the Justice Rising attached).  It fits right in with Occupy's work on public banking etc. 
>  
> It would be great if you could send the attachment out to all the Occupy Mendocino members and beyond. I can't remember any more names of the active members of Occupy Mendocino now.
>  
> Best,
>  
> Susan
>  
>  
> 

Justice Rising - Fall 2013, Vol 6, #1
World Citizenry Takes On Corporate Global Rule
Available as the full publication or as individual articles

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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Nov 18 14:48:33 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:48:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Fracking Unfocus: EPA'S Long-awaited Study
 Could Miss the Mark]
Message-ID: <c776baa9681d2042d0a655842ba71a3a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Fracking Unfocus: EPA'S Long-awaited Study Could Miss the Mark
From:    "t r u t h o u t" <messenger at truthout.org>
Date:    Mon, November 18, 2013 1:50 pm
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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t r u t h o u t | 11.18

Fracking Unfocus: How the EPA's Long-awaited Hydraulic Fracturing Study
Could Miss the Mark
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20039-fracking-unfocus-how-the-epas-long-awaited-hydraulic-fracturing-study-could-miss-the-mark
Roger Drouin, Truthout: The EPA's long-awaited study probing the fracking
industry's threats to drinking water is delayed at least two years and may
not even address core issues related to fracking-created water and air
contamination.

Europe Progresses Toward a Financial Transaction Tax
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20028-european-progress-toward-a-financial-transactions-tax
n Sunday transformed their activist power and won congressional offices in
the Chilean Congress and will take seats in March.


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From jupiter at mcn.org  Mon Nov 18 15:31:26 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:31:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] OM General Assemby Minutes 11-16-13
Message-ID: <F2320276-C12B-4E17-87C6-0C533767BC5D@mcn.org>

Occupy Mendocino General Assembly

November 16, 2013

Present: Agnes, Daniel, Irene, Jessie, Mark, Linda, Sheila

Treasurer?s report: We have $901.52 in bank account.

Senior Center room rental: We currently pay $20 per meeting. (Oops, we  
forgot to pass the hat during the meeting.) We are possibly being  
treated differently than other groups meeting at the Senior Center. We  
were originally told that it was because (1) we were a "political"  
group and (2) we didn't do outreach to the seniors who use the Center.  
It was noted that the Senior Center exercise class, singing group,  
computer room, and cribbage all include folks under 60 years old. We  
want to be considered a regular Senior Center group and want  
clarification on how we can reach out to the seniors who frequent the  
Center. Is there a genuine interest in activism at the Center? If not,  
why isn?t a political group acceptable? Linda to contact Bob Bushansky  
and ask that OM get on their BoD November agenda to discuss this.

Publicity/County Charter/Public Banking/Ending Foreclosures: Ellen  
Brown will be doing a reading, December 15 at 7 pm at Crown Hall, of  
her newest book, Public Bank Solution. Agnes contacted Charles Cresson  
Wood; he agreed to send an email of the Ellen Brown event to his  
Transition Town membership.

Motion passed to fund publicity for this event in the amount of $50.

Ellen Brown will be on Val Muchowsky?s Women?s Voices Dec. 2 to  
discuss the event. The first half of the show will be on public  
banking with Agnes and Jessie and Sheila; Ellen will be on in the  
second half of the show.

We need people to make goodies to sell at Crown Hall; the rent is $75.  
Sheila to contact Syd to see if he will organize people to donate the  
desserts.

We will also bring Occupy hats and tee shirts to sell at the event.

Mark will contact KZYX re: PSA.

League of Women Voters at their Jan 7th meeting want to see the  
current charter county PowerPoint presentation. The presentation needs  
to be revised to match the newest charter county version (#12).

We would like to have the county charter be on the June 2014 ballot.  
We?ll need to do outreach to community groups like Rotary,  
Soroptimists, etc.

Sheila emailed Carmel Angelo re: audit in county assessor?s office.  
She also contacted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding the  
money from the Homeowner?s Bill of Rights, which should have gone to  
state agencies and then to the foreclosed homeowners themselves. She  
asked: how do people apply for restitution? 2,500 people lost their  
homes thru foreclosure in Mendocino County.

Robin Sunbeam is running for Mendocino County Assessor on the June  
2014 ballot against Susan Ranochak. Mendocino Women?s Political  
Coalition is endorsing Robin.

Paul Cienfuegos: Charles Cresson Wood asked if Occupy will co-sponsor  
a Community Rights workshop led by Paul Cienfuegos on Presidents? Day  
weekend, February 16. Motion passed for OM to co-sponsor the workshop.  
Linda volunteered to work on it.

OPC group will be meeting at the Fort Bragg Library Nov. 19 at 7 pm  
re: fracking. A film on fracking will be shown at the library at 5 pm,  
before the meeting.

Film forum: Sheila to stop by KNYO and talk to Sean about setting up a  
Friday film. An Occupy film might be best to begin the film series.

Street rally: Attendance has increased since we discussed cutting down  
the rallys to one or two a month. It was decided to keep them weekly  
at the present time.

Occupy listserv: How should the listserve be used? After a discussion,  
it was decided that it?s only for relevant Occupy business, not for  
worldwide events. There are enough other venues for worldwide events.  
It?s still an effective way of connecting to the public.

OM Facebook: Daniel is now posting on Facebook. Thank you, Daniel.

Tee shirts: Agnes discussed making new tee shirts with ?We Are Working  
for You?Occupy? on the front and a list of our accomplishments on the  
back. Most of us agreed that since we still haven?t sold the tees and  
hats we already have, it doesn?t make sense. Agnes countered that we  
could perhaps make up just a dozen for core members.

Important: One thing we forgot to discuss is Martin Luther King Jr.  
Day. In 2014 it?s on January 20. Please think about organizing this  
wonderful event. We did a great job last year! Let?s put this on our  
agenda for the next GA meeting November 30.

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 18 19:31:50 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:31:50 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Permanent Slump?
Message-ID: <B2387A91-00A4-40F1-BCD2-CA2175921904@att.net>

But what if the world we?ve been living in for the past five years is the new normal? What if depression-like conditions are on track to persist, not for another year or two, but for decades?
By PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/opinion/krugman-a-permanent-slump.html?_r=0
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 19 12:34:51 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:34:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Gov't
	Responsibility
Message-ID: <74BBF5A7-FA60-4C13-A809-C6BDF56CABFC@mcn.org>

Gallup
November 18, 2013
Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Gov't Responsibility
By Joy Wilke

Poll: Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage, or that it is not the responsibility of the federal government?

Year   Yes No
2001   62  34
2002   62  35
2003   59  39
2004   64  34
2005   58  38
2006   69  28
2007   64  33
2008   54  41
2009   47  50
2010   47  50
2011   50  46
2012   44  54
2013   42  56
(Polls were taken in November each year)

The 56% of U.S. adults who now say it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage continues to reflect a record high. Prior to 2009, a clear majority of Americans consistently had said the government should take responsibility for ensuring that all Americans have healthcare.

The most recent data were collected in Gallup's annual Health and Healthcare poll, conducted Nov. 7-10. The percentage of U.S. adults who said it is the federal government's responsibility to ensure all Americans have healthcare coverage peaked at 69% in 2006. Attitudes began to shift significantly in 2007, and continued to change through the time President Barack Obama took office in 2009. Americans who feel healthcare coverage is not the federal government's responsibility have been in the clear majority the past two years.

Attitudes across all three partisan groups have shifted away from the view that ensuring healthcare coverage is a proper role of government, but most significantly among Republicans and independents. In September 2000, 53% of Republicans believed the government should not be responsible for ensuring all Americans had health coverage; today, 86% feel that way, an increase of 33 percentage points in 13 years. Over the same period, the percentage of Republicans believing the government should ensure healthcare coverage for all has fallen from 42% to 12%.

Fifty-five percent of independents currently say the government should not be involved with healthcare -- an increase of 28 points since 2000.

The percentage of Democrats who hold this view is now 30%, its highest level since Gallup first asked the question and an 11-point increase since 2000 -- with the largest change in opinion occurring between 2006 and 2008.

Implications

Americans' attitudes toward the government's role in ensuring all Americans have access to affordable healthcare have changed substantially over the past decade. These changes began before the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, and concurrently with the financial crisis of 2008 and Obama's first presidential campaign and election. Although Democrats are now somewhat more likely compared with 2000 to say the government should stay away from healthcare, much of the shift in attitudes against government intervention has stemmed from changes among Republicans and independents. It is possible that this sharp change has been caused by a politicization of the issue as it became a major part of Obama's campaign platform, and as he and other Democratic leaders pressed for and passed the ACA, sometimes called "Obamacare," in 2010.

The continuing implementation of the ACA over the coming months and years will surely continue to shape Americans' attitudes toward the federal government's role in this area. It is not clear how the ACA's troubled rollout to date will affect attitudes over the next year. But as the debate about the implementation of the new healthcare law has unfolded, Americans have become less likely than ever to agree that the federal government should be responsible for making sure that all Americans have healthcare.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/165917/majority-say-healthcare-not-gov-responsibility.aspx

Link for graph of trend since 2000:
http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/fplxc0ofzkq4zsfgrlrtka.png


Huff Post Politics
November 17, 2013
Obama's Gift to the Republicans
By Robert Kuttner

The Affordable Care Act, as a government mandate for people to purchase private insurance with an array of possible subsidies, had too many moving parts. It was an accident waiting to happen.

As many of us wrote at the time, Medicare for All would be simpler to execute, easier to understand, and harder for Republicans to oppose.

But this was not to be. Instead we got a program that was poorly understood by the public because it was almost impossible to explain and even harder to execute.

At the time the law was passed, administration leaders and many commentators compared the Affordable Care Act to Social Security and Medicare. The analogy was never apt. These great achievements are public programs, efficient to administer and testament to the fact that government can serve social objectives far more effectively than the private sector.

Obamacare, by contrast, is the inefficiency of "public-private partnerships" at its worst. It is a public subsidy for the private insurance industry. No fewer than 55 separate contractors were hired to design the software. Yet though it is not a true public program worthy of the name, Obamacare is being used to discredit government.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/obamacare-republicans_b_4293314.html?wpisrc=nl_wonk


Comment:  Although we always have to be careful that we don?t read too much into polls, this particular result showing that a majority of Americans have decided that health care is not the responsibility of the federal government does provide support to Robert Kuttner?s statement, ?Obamacare is being used to discredit government.?

Looking at the graph (link above, or use the columns of numbers above), in November of 2009 opinions shifted. This was close to the completion of the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, following a summer of vicious, partisan and tea party ?death panel? attacks on the proposed reform legislation. In the past two years, as opponents kept up their shrill attack on Obamacare, the divide became even greater. The last poll showing a 14 percent margin for those believing that health care coverage should not be a responsibility of the federal government was taken one month after the bungled rollout ofHealthcare.gov.

Many have suggested that once the computer glitches are ironed out, people will be very pleased with Obamacare, and the surge in anti-government views will subside. Anyone who has followed the reform process knows that couldn?t be true. Anger will increase when people find out that their deductibles are unaffordable, that some of their hospitals and physicians have been shut out of the provider networks, and that costs will continue to escalate for lack of adequate policies to contain costs.

For us to remain on the sidelines to let this play out can only intensify the view of the public that the federal government should not be involved, considering how badly our leaders have screwed up this effort. Especially at this time of intense anger and disgust over the botched rollout, it is imperative that we immediately intensify our efforts to get the public to understand that they are right when they critique Obamacare. Much more importantly, we need for them to understand the differences between good governance, bad governance, and too little governance, when it comes to health care.

Decades of too little governance is why our health care system is in the mess it is. Further reducing the role of government can only compound the problems of high costs, poor quality, and impaired access. We need government to be involved, but in the right way, not the wrong way.

Since the neo-liberals took over the Democratic party, ?the era of big government is over.? They rejected a model based on the most popular health care program this nation has seen - Medicare. They decided that we needed a public/private solution - private insurance with a welfare program for those who couldn?t financially support the insurance industry. The progressives lost their spine and joined in, realizing that the neo-liberals controlled their party. This set us up for bad governance. The blame does not lie with the institution of government, but it lies with bad decisions made by the people we selected to run the government.

So what should our message be to those who say that it is not government?s responsibility? The private insurers have had over half of a century to prove their worth, and they?ve failed us miserably. We need the government, but it needs to be OUR government. We need to demand Medicare for all from our politicians, or, failing that, we need to replace them.

We need the support of the people - the majority who now believe that the government isn?t the solution. Our most intensive efforts must be directed to educating people that they are spending far too much on the private insurers for too little in return. In contrast, Medicare offers us a much better deal, but it can be improved. After all, it is our government, and we should have control.

The responsibility lies with the people. We need to exercise that responsibility through a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people. We need to dump the anti-government rhetoric because we?re talking about ourselves.



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 19 15:15:32 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:15:32 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Walmart-Needs-to-Pay-Higher-Wages
Message-ID: <27849D7F-59C4-4B78-AC8F-ABCA06941630@mcn.org>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/18/1256468/-If-You-Aren-t-Sure-Walmart-Needs-to-Pay-Higher-Wages-This-Photo-Will-Erase-All-Doubt?detail=email



From jupiter at mcn.org  Wed Nov 20 15:23:05 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:23:05 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senior Center's next Board of Directors' meeting
	meets Friday, December 6 at 1
Message-ID: <4028A8B3-CF61-4705-A3CA-20E3DBE0DBAC@mcn.org>

Greetings, all,
Oops, I sent this first to the announce listserv, by mistake.

Just want to say that the Senior Center Board of Directors' meeting,  
mentioned in the minutes below, has been changed from Nov. 29 (because  
of Thanksgiving weekend) to Friday, December 6 at 1.

Message: 3
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:31:26 -0800
From: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
Subject: [Occupymendocino] OM General Assemby Minutes 11-16-13
To: "occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org Serve"
	<occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <F2320276-C12B-4E17-87C6-0C533767BC5D at mcn.org>
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Occupy Mendocino General Assembly

November 16, 2013

Present: Agnes, Daniel, Irene, Jessie, Mark, Linda, Sheila

Treasurer?s report: We have $901.52 in bank account.

Senior Center room rental: We currently pay $20 per meeting. (Oops, we
forgot to pass the hat during the meeting.) We are possibly being
treated differently than other groups meeting at the Senior Center. We
were originally told that it was because (1) we were a "political"
group and (2) we didn't do outreach to the seniors who use the Center.
It was noted that the Senior Center exercise class, singing group,
computer room, and cribbage all include folks under 60 years old. We
want to be considered a regular Senior Center group and want
clarification on how we can reach out to the seniors who frequent the
Center. Is there a genuine interest in activism at the Center? If not,
why isn?t a political group acceptable? Linda to contact Bob Bushansky
and ask that OM get on their BoD November agenda to discuss this.

Publicity/County Charter/Public Banking/Ending Foreclosures: Ellen
Brown will be doing a reading, December 15 at 7 pm at Crown Hall, of
her newest book, Public Bank Solution. Agnes contacted Charles Cresson
Wood; he agreed to send an email of the Ellen Brown event to his
Transition Town membership.

Motion passed to fund publicity for this event in the amount of $50.

Ellen Brown will be on Val Muchowsky?s Women?s Voices Dec. 2 to
discuss the event. The first half of the show will be on public
banking with Agnes and Jessie and Sheila; Ellen will be on in the
second half of the show.

We need people to make goodies to sell at Crown Hall; the rent is $75.
Sheila to contact Syd to see if he will organize people to donate the
desserts.

We will also bring Occupy hats and tee shirts to sell at the event.

Mark will contact KZYX re: PSA.

League of Women Voters at their Jan 7th meeting want to see the
current charter county PowerPoint presentation. The presentation needs
to be revised to match the newest charter county version (#12).

We would like to have the county charter be on the June 2014 ballot.
We?ll need to do outreach to community groups like Rotary,
Soroptimists, etc.

Sheila emailed Carmel Angelo re: audit in county assessor?s office.
She also contacted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding the
money from the Homeowner?s Bill of Rights, which should have gone to
state agencies and then to the foreclosed homeowners themselves. She
asked: how do people apply for restitution? 2,500 people lost their
homes thru foreclosure in Mendocino County.

Robin Sunbeam is running for Mendocino County Assessor on the June
2014 ballot against Susan Ranochak. Mendocino Women?s Political
Coalition is endorsing Robin.

Paul Cienfuegos: Charles Cresson Wood asked if Occupy will co-sponsor
a Community Rights workshop led by Paul Cienfuegos on Presidents? Day
weekend, February 16. Motion passed for OM to co-sponsor the workshop.
Linda volunteered to work on it.

OPC group will be meeting at the Fort Bragg Library Nov. 19 at 7 pm
re: fracking. A film on fracking will be shown at the library at 5 pm,
before the meeting.

Film forum: Sheila to stop by KNYO and talk to Sean about setting up a
Friday film. An Occupy film might be best to begin the film series.

Street rally: Attendance has increased since we discussed cutting down
the rallys to one or two a month. It was decided to keep them weekly
at the present time.

Occupy listserv: How should the listserve be used? After a discussion,
it was decided that it?s only for relevant Occupy business, not for
worldwide events. There are enough other venues for worldwide events.
It?s still an effective way of connecting to the public.

OM Facebook: Daniel is now posting on Facebook. Thank you, Daniel.

Tee shirts: Agnes discussed making new tee shirts with ?We Are Working
for You?Occupy? on the front and a list of our accomplishments on the
back. Most of us agreed that since we still haven?t sold the tees and
hats we already have, it doesn?t make sense. Agnes countered that we
could perhaps make up just a dozen for core members.

Important: One thing we forgot to discuss is Martin Luther King Jr.
Day. In 2014 it?s on January 20. Please think about organizing this
wonderful event. We did a great job last year! Let?s put this on our
agenda for the next GA meeting November 30.

Submitted by Linda Jupiter
Linda

Linda

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





















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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Nov 20 19:01:36 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:01:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senior Center's next Board of Directors'
 meeting meets Friday, December 6 at 1
In-Reply-To: <4028A8B3-CF61-4705-A3CA-20E3DBE0DBAC@mcn.org>
References: <4028A8B3-CF61-4705-A3CA-20E3DBE0DBAC@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <71468b11edfb8490f6268535e463731b.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Hi All,
        A word from the wise Rachel Binah re lobbying two or three board
members one-on-one before the meeting to sound out where they
stand on the issue,of rent. This was reported to me by Rachel B.
who is also a member of TM. She said the Toast Masters use the
room for free and donate $100.00 at the end of the year. Maybe we
could lobby members to allow us the same arrangement.

     We have a week or two  to find time and a board member to ask if we
could have the same arrangement. She advised we send  gray haired
persons to do the speaking. Who  would be willing to talk to
B.Bushansky, or Syd Ballows or Claire Boudreau or even Richard Miller
before the meeting?

Agnes

> Greetings, all,
>
> Just want to say that the Senior Center Board of Directors' meeting,
> mentioned in the minutes below, has been changed from Nov. 29 (because
> of Thanksgiving weekend) to Friday, December 6 at 1.
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:31:26 -0800
> From: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
> Subject: [Occupymendocino] OM General Assemby Minutes 11-16-13
> To: "occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org Serve"
> 	<occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>
> Message-ID: <F2320276-C12B-4E17-87C6-0C533767BC5D at mcn.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
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> Occupy Mendocino General Assembly
>
> November 16, 2013
>
> Present: Agnes, Daniel, Irene, Jessie, Mark, Linda, Sheila
>
> Treasurer?s report: We have $901.52 in bank account.
>
> Senior Center room rental: We currently pay $20 per meeting. (Oops, we
> forgot to pass the hat during the meeting.) We are possibly being
> treated differently than other groups meeting at the Senior Center. We
> were originally told that it was because (1) we were a "political"
> group and (2) we didn't do outreach to the seniors who use the Center.
> It was noted that the Senior Center exercise class, singing group,
> computer room, and cribbage all include folks under 60 years old. We
> want to be considered a regular Senior Center group and want
> clarification on how we can reach out to the seniors who frequent the
> Center. Is there a genuine interest in activism at the Center? If not,
> why isn?t a political group acceptable? Linda to contact Bob Bushansky
> and ask that OM get on their BoD November agenda to discuss this.
>
> Publicity/County Charter/Public Banking/Ending Foreclosures: Ellen
> Brown will be doing a reading, December 15 at 7 pm at Crown Hall, of
> her newest book, Public Bank Solution. Agnes contacted Charles Cresson
> Wood; he agreed to send an email of the Ellen Brown event to his
> Transition Town membership.
>
> Motion passed to fund publicity for this event in the amount of $50.
>
> Ellen Brown will be on Val Muchowsky?s Women?s Voices Dec. 2 to
> discuss the event. The first half of the show will be on public
> banking with Agnes and Jessie and Sheila; Ellen will be on in the
> second half of the show.
>
> We need people to make goodies to sell at Crown Hall; the rent is $75.
> Sheila to contact Syd to see if he will organize people to donate the
> desserts.
>
> We will also bring Occupy hats and tee shirts to sell at the event.
>
> Mark will contact KZYX re: PSA.
>
> League of Women Voters at their Jan 7th meeting want to see the
> current charter county PowerPoint presentation. The presentation needs
> to be revised to match the newest charter county version (#12).
>
> We would like to have the county charter be on the June 2014 ballot.
> We?ll need to do outreach to community groups like Rotary,
> Soroptimists, etc.
>
> Sheila emailed Carmel Angelo re: audit in county assessor?s office.
> She also contacted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding the
> money from the Homeowner?s Bill of Rights, which should have gone to
> state agencies and then to the foreclosed homeowners themselves. She
> asked: how do people apply for restitution? 2,500 people lost their
> homes thru foreclosure in Mendocino County.
>
> Robin Sunbeam is running for Mendocino County Assessor on the June
> 2014 ballot against Susan Ranochak. Mendocino Women?s Political
> Coalition is endorsing Robin.
>
> Paul Cienfuegos: Charles Cresson Wood asked if Occupy will co-sponsor
> a Community Rights workshop led by Paul Cienfuegos on Presidents? Day
> weekend, February 16. Motion passed for OM to co-sponsor the workshop.
> Linda volunteered to work on it.
>
> OPC group will be meeting at the Fort Bragg Library Nov. 19 at 7 pm
> re: fracking. A film on fracking will be shown at the library at 5 pm,
> before the meeting.
>
> Film forum: Sheila to stop by KNYO and talk to Sean about setting up a
> Friday film. An Occupy film might be best to begin the film series.
>
> Street rally: Attendance has increased since we discussed cutting down
> the rallys to one or two a month. It was decided to keep them weekly
> at the present time.
>
> Occupy listserv: How should the listserve be used? After a discussion,
> it was decided that it?s only for relevant Occupy business, not for
> worldwide events. There are enough other venues for worldwide events.
> It?s still an effective way of connecting to the public.
>
> OM Facebook: Daniel is now posting on Facebook. Thank you, Daniel.
>
> Tee shirts: Agnes discussed making new tee shirts with ?We Are Working
> for You?Occupy? on the front and a list of our accomplishments on the
> back. Most of us agreed that since we still haven?t sold the tees and
> hats we already have, it doesn?t make sense. Agnes countered that we
> could perhaps make up just a dozen for core members.
>
> Important: One thing we forgot to discuss is Martin Luther King Jr.
> Day. In 2014 it?s on January 20. Please think about organizing this
> wonderful event. We did a great job last year! Let?s put this on our
> agenda for the next GA meeting November 30.
>
> Submitted by Linda Jupiter
> Linda
>
> Linda
>
> -----------
> Linda Jupiter Productions
> P.O. Box 2822
> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
> phone 707-964-8985
> www.lindajupiter.com
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Wed Nov 20 19:17:11 2013
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John Fremont)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:17:11 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senior Center's next Board of Directors'
 meeting meets Friday, December 6 at 1
In-Reply-To: <71468b11edfb8490f6268535e463731b.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
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Message-ID: <528D7B37.5020601@cypresshouse.com>

I'll see them tomorrow and will support parity. I suspect Jessie will do 
the same.

On 11/20/2013 7:01 PM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:
> Hi All,
>          A word from the wise Rachel Binah re lobbying two or three board
> members one-on-one before the meeting to sound out where they
> stand on the issue,of rent. This was reported to me by Rachel B.
> who is also a member of TM. She said the Toast Masters use the
> room for free and donate $100.00 at the end of the year. Maybe we
> could lobby members to allow us the same arrangement.
>
>       We have a week or two  to find time and a board member to ask if we
> could have the same arrangement. She advised we send  gray haired
> persons to do the speaking. Who  would be willing to talk to
> B.Bushansky, or Syd Ballows or Claire Boudreau or even Richard Miller
> before the meeting?
>
> Agnes
>
>> Greetings, all,
>>
>> Just want to say that the Senior Center Board of Directors' meeting,
>> mentioned in the minutes below, has been changed from Nov. 29 (because
>> of Thanksgiving weekend) to Friday, December 6 at 1.
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:31:26 -0800
>> From: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
>> Subject: [Occupymendocino] OM General Assemby Minutes 11-16-13
>> To: "occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org Serve"
>> 	<occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>
>> Message-ID: <F2320276-C12B-4E17-87C6-0C533767BC5D at mcn.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>>
>> Occupy Mendocino General Assembly
>>
>> November 16, 2013
>>
>> Present: Agnes, Daniel, Irene, Jessie, Mark, Linda, Sheila
>>
>> Treasurer?s report: We have $901.52 in bank account.
>>
>> Senior Center room rental: We currently pay $20 per meeting. (Oops, we
>> forgot to pass the hat during the meeting.) We are possibly being
>> treated differently than other groups meeting at the Senior Center. We
>> were originally told that it was because (1) we were a "political"
>> group and (2) we didn't do outreach to the seniors who use the Center.
>> It was noted that the Senior Center exercise class, singing group,
>> computer room, and cribbage all include folks under 60 years old. We
>> want to be considered a regular Senior Center group and want
>> clarification on how we can reach out to the seniors who frequent the
>> Center. Is there a genuine interest in activism at the Center? If not,
>> why isn?t a political group acceptable? Linda to contact Bob Bushansky
>> and ask that OM get on their BoD November agenda to discuss this.
>>
>> Publicity/County Charter/Public Banking/Ending Foreclosures: Ellen
>> Brown will be doing a reading, December 15 at 7 pm at Crown Hall, of
>> her newest book, Public Bank Solution. Agnes contacted Charles Cresson
>> Wood; he agreed to send an email of the Ellen Brown event to his
>> Transition Town membership.
>>
>> Motion passed to fund publicity for this event in the amount of $50.
>>
>> Ellen Brown will be on Val Muchowsky?s Women?s Voices Dec. 2 to
>> discuss the event. The first half of the show will be on public
>> banking with Agnes and Jessie and Sheila; Ellen will be on in the
>> second half of the show.
>>
>> We need people to make goodies to sell at Crown Hall; the rent is $75.
>> Sheila to contact Syd to see if he will organize people to donate the
>> desserts.
>>
>> We will also bring Occupy hats and tee shirts to sell at the event.
>>
>> Mark will contact KZYX re: PSA.
>>
>> League of Women Voters at their Jan 7th meeting want to see the
>> current charter county PowerPoint presentation. The presentation needs
>> to be revised to match the newest charter county version (#12).
>>
>> We would like to have the county charter be on the June 2014 ballot.
>> We?ll need to do outreach to community groups like Rotary,
>> Soroptimists, etc.
>>
>> Sheila emailed Carmel Angelo re: audit in county assessor?s office.
>> She also contacted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding the
>> money from the Homeowner?s Bill of Rights, which should have gone to
>> state agencies and then to the foreclosed homeowners themselves. She
>> asked: how do people apply for restitution? 2,500 people lost their
>> homes thru foreclosure in Mendocino County.
>>
>> Robin Sunbeam is running for Mendocino County Assessor on the June
>> 2014 ballot against Susan Ranochak. Mendocino Women?s Political
>> Coalition is endorsing Robin.
>>
>> Paul Cienfuegos: Charles Cresson Wood asked if Occupy will co-sponsor
>> a Community Rights workshop led by Paul Cienfuegos on Presidents? Day
>> weekend, February 16. Motion passed for OM to co-sponsor the workshop.
>> Linda volunteered to work on it.
>>
>> OPC group will be meeting at the Fort Bragg Library Nov. 19 at 7 pm
>> re: fracking. A film on fracking will be shown at the library at 5 pm,
>> before the meeting.
>>
>> Film forum: Sheila to stop by KNYO and talk to Sean about setting up a
>> Friday film. An Occupy film might be best to begin the film series.
>>
>> Street rally: Attendance has increased since we discussed cutting down
>> the rallys to one or two a month. It was decided to keep them weekly
>> at the present time.
>>
>> Occupy listserv: How should the listserve be used? After a discussion,
>> it was decided that it?s only for relevant Occupy business, not for
>> worldwide events. There are enough other venues for worldwide events.
>> It?s still an effective way of connecting to the public.
>>
>> OM Facebook: Daniel is now posting on Facebook. Thank you, Daniel.
>>
>> Tee shirts: Agnes discussed making new tee shirts with ?We Are Working
>> for You?Occupy? on the front and a list of our accomplishments on the
>> back. Most of us agreed that since we still haven?t sold the tees and
>> hats we already have, it doesn?t make sense. Agnes countered that we
>> could perhaps make up just a dozen for core members.
>>
>> Important: One thing we forgot to discuss is Martin Luther King Jr.
>> Day. In 2014 it?s on January 20. Please think about organizing this
>> wonderful event. We did a great job last year! Let?s put this on our
>> agenda for the next GA meeting November 30.
>>
>> Submitted by Linda Jupiter
>> Linda
>>
>> Linda
>>
>> -----------
>> Linda Jupiter Productions
>> P.O. Box 2822
>> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
>> phone 707-964-8985
>> www.lindajupiter.com
>>
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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Nov 20 20:58:42 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:58:42 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: TPP Day of Action -- Dec. 3rd in Mendocino?]
Message-ID: <11ad4b12cf1b853968999a7afdcb1a8e.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Is anyone interested in planning a day of Action opposing the TPP in Fort
Bragg? Just passing this along.
AW

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: TPP Day of Action -- Dec. 3rd in Mendocino?
From:    "Cassidy Regan" <cassidar at gmail.com>
Date:    Wed, November 20, 2013 2:05 pm
To:      agnes at mcn.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Agnes,

I hope this message finds you well! My name is Cassidy, and I work with
Flush the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Thanks again for signing the pledge to
take action against the TPP.

Though I know this is last-minute, I'm writing to share an international
call to action <http://smaa.asia/call-to-action-wto/> against toxic trade
agreements for *Tuesday, Dec. 3rd* (details below) and to ask whether you
and other members of Occupy Mendocino might by any chance be interested in
planning something local. With momentum against the TPP building --
including Wikileaks' release of the intellectual property
chapter<https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html> and
nearly 200 members of Congress raising concerns in recent letters -- we
hope to have people across the U.S. (and the world) demonstrating how
possible it is for global resistance to throw a wrench in toxic trade.

A local action could be anything from snapping and sharing photos of an
anti-TPP banner in a public space to a social media campaign highlighting
how the TPP could affect your community. If you're able to plan something,
you can also register it here <http://www.flushthetpp.org/actions/> or send
it my way via email -- we're making a map to highlight all the people
throughout the U.S. raising their voices against the TPP.

If you'd like to brainstorm ideas, please feel free to contact me by phone
or email anytime. Otherwise, thanks again for your action against the TPP
-- and hope to hear from you soon!

In solidarity,
Cassidy

*stopfasttrack at flushthetpp.org <stopfasttrack at flushthetpp.org> //
(203)470-9255 <%28203%29470-9255>*

-----

 Join the International Call to End the WTO and Stop the New Wave of Free
Trade Agreements <http://smaa.asia/call-to-action-wto/> on December 3rd,
the first day of the World Trade Organization meetings in Bali, Indonesia.
The WTO meeting will be followed by another round of Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) meetings by lead negotiators in Singapore. Negotiations
for the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TAFTA) are also
underway.

All of these trade agreements share the same fundamental principle that
profits are more important than the health and needs of people and the
planet. They are destroying local economies and public infrastructure in
order to establish a global neo-liberal economic system that privatizes all
goods and services. These agreements grant transnational corporations the
power to change laws even down to the local level and challenge court
decisions in their own tribunal that operates outside of sovereign judicial
systems and cannot be challenged by domestic courts.

*On December 3, we call on all allies for fair trade, peace and justice to
gather in a public space and declare global resistance to these toxic trade
agreements.*We will not obey secret deals made by transnational
corporations that defy public interests and desires and destroy hard-won
protections of people, workers and the environment. We demand the rights of
all people to live with dignity, to meet their basic needs and to build a 21
st century sustainable green economy.

   - We are acting in solidarity with people all over the world to end the
   race to the bottom in jobs and wages.
   - We respect the right to have a job with a living wage and safe working
   conditions.
   - We want 21st century jobs that build a sustainable green energy
   economy.

Communities in the United States are starting to pass resolutions to
declare that they will not obey trade agreements that cause harm to their
communities. To learn how you can do the same in your community, visit
?Declare
Your Community a TPP-Free
Zone<http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/tppfreezones.shtml>
.?

*To participate in the international day of action:*

   1. *Endorse* the Call to End the WTO and Stop the New Wave of Free Trade
   Agreements by contacting Mary Lou Malig of La Via Campesina ? Asia at
   marylouisemalig at gmail.com.
   2. *Register *your action with Flush the
TPP<http://www.flushthetpp.org/> by
   contacting Cassidy atStopFastTrack at FlushtheTPP.org.
   3. *Find* tools for your day of action at
FlushtheTPP.org/tools<http://www.flushthetpp.org/tools/>
   .
   4. *Share* photos, videos and reports about your day of action with Flush
   the TPP <http://www.flushthetpp.org/> by contacting Margaret at
   FlushtheTPP at popularresistance.org.
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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:47:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 10 Disadvantages to Capitalism
Message-ID: <BE221087-DCEE-4EDE-83E9-02E75335D0CA@mcn.org>


From the Occupy Network:


http://listverse.com/2012/01/16/top-10-disadvantages-to-capitalism/
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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Nov 21 09:40:15 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:40:15 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: No bees, no pumpkin pie]
Message-ID: <9f07ee3063833c5287fe96ac2df1ec6b.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

News about some federal legislation to stop use of neonicotinoids killing
bees.

--------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: No bees, no pumpkin pie
From:    "Center for Food Safety" <office at centerforfoodsafety.org>
Date:    Thu, November 21, 2013 9:35 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear supporter,

What would your Thanksgiving dinner look like without pollinators?

Did you know bees are responsible for providing us more than 1/3 of the
food we eat? Whether it's pollinators like managed honey bees, or native
bees like bumble bees, these species are absolutely essential to our food
supply.

How would your Thanksgiving table look if we lost these vital pollinators?

No apples for the kids' hot cider. No cranberries for your relish. No
celery for your stuffing. No butternut squash or gourds to dress the
table. No green beans for grandma's casserole, and no almond slivers for a
topping, either. No pumpkins for that delicious pumpkin pie, and no
after-dinner coffee to go with it.

In fact, bees are responsible for pollinating nearly every fruit and
vegetable we eat every day.

While this illustration may seem dramatic, the fact is that our
pollinators are in real danger and their numbers have plummeted over the
last few years. Why? While there are a handful of likely culprits, chief
among them are rampant pesticide use and the loss of habitat and
nutritious forage as a result of industrial agriculture.

Will you donate $20 to help us protect pollinators from these threats by
industrial agriculture?
[
https://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=10509
]

Vast expansions of monocultures like corn and soy are seriously
threatening the health and continued existence of many pollinators. This
is only worsened by the exponential use of toxic herbicides, insecticides,
and fungicides, which are building up in our environment and poisoning
their habitat. The state of pollinator health is an indication of our
environment's health ??? and right now, bees are the canary in the coal
mine, sounding the alarm for bigger problems ahead.

Thankfully, with the continued support of members like you, Center for
Food Safety is taking action to protect honey bees and other critical
pollinators. In the last year, CFS:

  * Filed a ground-breaking lawsuit on behalf of beekeepers and CFS
members like you to force U.S. regulators to suspend the use of a
particularly bee-toxic class of pesticides, known as neonicotinoids;

  * Worked with Congress to introduce a landmark piece of legislation to
protect our vital bees and other pollinators from pesticides ??? known
as the Saving America's Pollinators Act;

  * Launched the BEE Protective Campaign to protect pollinators at the
local level-in city and county governments, college campuses, and
backyards across the country.


While it was a successful year for CFS, it was one of the worst for honey
bees, bumble bees, and other pollinators. Between the 40-100% losses
reported by commercial beekeepers across the country, to the massive
bumble bee kill in an Oregon parking lot (the largest ever recorded), our
bees and other pollinators are in real danger, and we need your help to
fight for them.

We have big plans ahead to broaden our campaign to protect pollinators
like honey bees, bumble bees, and other wild bees, and even butterflies.
In the next year, we'll be launching some exciting and hard-hitting
campaigns to stop the assault on our pollinators. But we won't be able to
carry out our plans without your help.

Please make a $20 donation to CFS this Thanksgiving to help us protect our
critical pollinators!
[
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Nov 22 11:52:42 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:52:42 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Settlement costs vs bank profits
Message-ID: <3222C1A2-BEF6-42C9-A133-11D9E8BA3B3A@att.net>

Here?s a nice graphic to give you an idea of the ?punishment? for wrecking the economy that?s being imposed on the banks. Do you think they?re big enough? Heck, I think there?s enough incentive for them to keep screwing us.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-financial-crisis/untouchables/how-jpmorgans-13-billion-settlement-stacks-up/?elq=8b49572083504938bd0f8a1c5dc65acf&elqCampaignId=754
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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Nov 22 15:36:33 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:36:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Please stand with me and the PCCC
In-Reply-To: <5fadd-4069-528fae2e@list.boldprogressives.org>
References: <5fadd-4069-528fae2e@list.boldprogressives.org>
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Please see E. Warren's plea for increasing S.S. benefits and sign the
petition
AW


>    Agnes,
>
>    America's retirement crisis has received far too little attention.
>
>    With family savings rates decreasing and employers cutting back private
>    pensions, Social Security is rapidly becoming the only lifeline that
>    millions of seniors have to keep their heads above water after a
> lifetime
>    of hard work and playing by the rules.
>
>    And yet, instead of taking on the retirement crisis, instead of
> increasing
>    our commitment to Social Security, some in Washington are actually
>    fighting to cut benefits.
>
>    Just this week, the Washington Post ran an editorial mocking the idea
> of a
>    looming retirement crisis. They derided "bold progressives" for wanting
> to
>    increase Social Security benefits for America's grandparents and
> veterans.
>
>    Let's be clear: Bold Progressives are right - and are speaking up for
> the
>    overwhelming majority of Americans. We need to expand Social Security
>    benefits - not cut them.
>
>    [1]Please join me, the PCCC, and a growing coalition in support of
>    protecting and expanding Social Security benefits. Sign here.
>
>    The PCCC has been a national leader in pushing our values and changing
> the
>    conversation around Social Security this year. And I am proud to stand
>    with Senators Tom Harkin, Mark Begich, Mazie Hirono, Brian Schatz,
> Sherrod
>    Brown, and a growing number in Congress who are committed to this idea.
>
>    The most recent discussion about cutting benefits has focused on
> something
>    called the Chained-CPI. Supporters of the Chained-CPI say that it's a
> more
>    accurate way of measuring cost of living increases for seniors. That
>    statement is simply not true. Chained CPI is just a fancy way of saying
>    cut benefits.
>
>    The Bureau of Labor Statistics has developed a measure of the real
> impact
>    of inflation on seniors. It's called the CPI-E. If we adopted it today,
> it
>    would generally increase benefits for our retirees--not cut them.
>
>    In the end, this is not just about math. It's about our values. If we
> want
>    a robust middle class - a middle class that continues to serve as the
>    backbone of our country - then we must take the retirement crisis
>    seriously.
>
>    We must move beyond a discussion of Social Security cuts and to a
>    discussion of expansion. [2]Please stand with me and the PCCC in moving
>    our national conversation in this direction.
>
>    Thanks so much.
>
>    -- Senator Elizabeth Warren
>
> References
>
>    Visible links
>    1.
> http://act.boldprogressives.org/go/21263?t=1001&akid=16489.391901.7VdlR8
>    2.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Nov 23 10:45:54 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:45:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Best coin ever spent.
Message-ID: <674894369bb89aec3cd8296c4a243503.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


Happy holidays,


> Subject: Fw: Best coin ever spent.
>
>
>
>> http://www.amazingoasis.org/2013/11/best-coin-ever-spent.html
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From cdurkee at mcn.org  Sat Nov 23 13:09:40 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:09:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Exceptional videos from Democracy Convention
References: <7647EFB0-BA12-40D2-883E-775957E35CFD@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <2BF8180B-7A6C-4CC7-AB1C-5D022E3C76B9@mcn.org>


> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Hello all:
> 
>> These are videos from the Democracy Convention that was held last summer in Madison, Wisconsin. I was fortunate enough to go to the convention.
>> I highly recommend this information to all interested in changing the system. 
>> 
>> These are very thought provoking, educational, interesting videos showing various ways democracy can be created in our culture.
>> Please save this e-mail and refer to it when you have time. 
>> 
>> https://democracyconvention.org/video#OpeningPlenary
> 
> all the best, Carrie Durkee
> 



From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Nov 24 19:14:37 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:14:37 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Re: Senior Center's next Board of
 Directors' meeting meets Friday, December 6 at 1]
In-Reply-To: <0546FC30-C00B-4DA8-A24C-9967A2658CA1@att.net>
References: <094ae346bc4f954ec50447477995c45b.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
	<4AEF3DD7-9E3B-417B-A760-7983833B7436@mac.com>
	<0546FC30-C00B-4DA8-A24C-9967A2658CA1@att.net>
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Mark,
       Why didn't you speak up when I sent the email re Rachel Binah's
savvy advice? Since John Freemont answered and no one objected
then, it seemed like good advice, no objections until yours. No one
else has volunteered to speak to Bd.members anyway. So the ball is
still in Linda's court. Please accept my apology, Linda.

Agnes

> Dear Agnes,
> Why are you entering into a discussion with Syd about SC rental policies?
> I don?t feel that you were given permission to speak for Occupy!? At the
> last meeting, it was decided that a limited communication was to be
> conducted by Linda Jupiter to Bob B. which was done.
>
> When Syd sends an email that says, "I suggest you meet elsewhere and not
> muddy the waters. You do have money in your account, you just don?t want
> to spend it at the Senior Center.? I feel that no further communication
> with him is warranted. (That last sentence is a lot more polite than I
> feel about the matter.)
>
> Regards, Mark
>
>
> On Nov 23, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant <vjessielee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> and this
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: agnes at mcn.org
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Occupymendocino] Senior Center's next Board of
> Directors' meeting meets Friday, December 6 at 1]
> Date: November 23, 2013 10:25:47 AM PST
> To: jessie at mac.com
> Cc: jessie at mac.com, annxpress at live.com, rkarch at mcn.org, jupiter at mcn.org
>
>
> Where should we meet on the first Sat. in December?
> Or should we pay what we owe and meet elsewhere til the new board policy
> is available in January?See Syd's response to my email. Youall may meet at
> my house in Mendo if Howard is not able to have us meet in F.B.
> Agnes
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] Senior Center's next Board of Directors'
> meeting meets Friday, December 6 at 1
> From:    "SYD BALOWS" <syd at mcn.org>
> Date:    Sat, November 23, 2013 7:08 am
> To:      agnes at mcn.org
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Agnes,
> I have very mixed feelings about how you're dealing with this issue.
> First of all, I am not a lobbyist and won't lobby for Occupy or anyone
> else.
> Since I am on the Board, who would you suggest I lobby to? If you plan to
> withhold your donation,
> I suggest you meet elsewhere and not muddy the waters. You do have money
> in your account, you just
> don't want to spend it at the Senior Center.
> Syd
> On Nov 22, 2013, at 7:32 PM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:
>
> Thank you,Syd,
>     We are with holding our donations because  our budget has been
> impacted by costs for publicity around the Ellen Brown talk about
> her book The Public Bank Solution which will be 7:00 pm, Dec. 15th
> at Crown Hall. Until we get the definitive policy and hope it will
> be retroactive from the date in January we may have to meet
> elsewhere next month or two.
> Thanks,
> Agnes
>
> Hi Agnes,
> As my e-mail below states, we will be working on comparable rental fee
> rates for all groups.
> Currently, there are no rules or guideline. Once we get that established,
> I feel certain that all rates will be comparable.
> Thanks for your support,
> Syd
> On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:21 PM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:
>
> Dear Syd,
>   Would you please lobby for a rental fee comparable with Toast
> Masters
> group which contributes $100. per year. We can't afford $40.00 a
> month.
> I am in TM group and Rachel B. told me what they give. No rental fee and
> this group has a Jr. High student participating.
> Thanks,
> Agnes
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
> Just wanted to let you know that the RCSC board is going to form a
> committee to work on room rental rates.
> As you know, there is a huge discrepancy between what different groups
> pay. I would hope to have a new policy in place sometime in January.
> Thanks for your support.
> Take care,
> Syd
> On Nov 20, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Linda Jupiter wrote:
>
> Greetings, all,
> Oops, I sent this first to the announce listserv, by mistake.
>
> Just want to say that the Senior Center Board of Directors' meeting,
> mentioned in the minutes below, has been changed from Nov. 29 (because
> of Thanksgiving weekend) to Friday, December 6 at 1.
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:31:26 -0800
> From: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
> Subject: [Occupymendocino] OM General Assemby Minutes 11-16-13
> To: "occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org Serve"
> 	<occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>
> Message-ID: <F2320276-C12B-4E17-87C6-0C533767BC5D at mcn.org>
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>
> Occupy Mendocino General Assembly
>
> November 16, 2013
>
> Present: Agnes, Daniel, Irene, Jessie, Mark, Linda, Sheila
>
> Treasurer?s report: We have $901.52 in bank account.
>
> Senior Center room rental: We currently pay $20 per meeting. (Oops, we
> forgot to pass the hat during the meeting.) We are possibly being
> treated differently than other groups meeting at the Senior Center. We
> were originally told that it was because (1) we were a "political"
> group and (2) we didn't do outreach to the seniors who use the Center.
> It was noted that the Senior Center exercise class, singing group,
> computer room, and cribbage all include folks under 60 years old. We
> want to be considered a regular Senior Center group and want
> clarification on how we can reach out to the seniors who frequent the
> Center. Is there a genuine interest in activism at the Center? If not,
> why isn?t a political group acceptable? Linda to contact Bob Bushansky
> and ask that OM get on their BoD November agenda to discuss this.
>
> Publicity/County Charter/Public Banking/Ending Foreclosures: Ellen
> Brown will be doing a reading, December 15 at 7 pm at Crown Hall, of
> her newest book, Public Bank Solution. Agnes contacted Charles Cresson
> Wood; he agreed to send an email of the Ellen Brown event to his
> Transition Town membership.
>
> Motion passed to fund publicity for this event in the amount of $50.
>
> Ellen Brown will be on Val Muchowsky?s Women?s Voices Dec. 2 to
> discuss the event. The first half of the show will be on public
> banking with Agnes and Jessie and Sheila; Ellen will be on in the
> second half of the show.
>
> We need people to make goodies to sell at Crown Hall; the rent is $75.
> Sheila to contact Syd to see if he will organize people to donate the
> desserts.
>
> We will also bring Occupy hats and tee shirts to sell at the event.
>
> Mark will contact KZYX re: PSA.
>
> League of Women Voters at their Jan 7th meeting want to see the
> current charter county PowerPoint presentation. The presentation needs
> to be revised to match the newest charter county version (#12).
>
> We would like to have the county charter be on the June 2014 ballot.
> We?ll need to do outreach to community groups like Rotary,
> Soroptimists, etc.
>
> Sheila emailed Carmel Angelo re: audit in county assessor?s office.
> She also contacted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding the
> money from the Homeowner?s Bill of Rights, which should have gone to
> state agencies and then to the foreclosed homeowners themselves. She
> asked: how do people apply for restitution? 2,500 people lost their
> homes thru foreclosure in Mendocino County.
>
> Robin Sunbeam is running for Mendocino County Assessor on the June
> 2014 ballot against Susan Ranochak. Mendocino Women?s Political
> Coalition is endorsing Robin.
>
> Paul Cienfuegos: Charles Cresson Wood asked if Occupy will co-sponsor
> a Community Rights workshop led by Paul Cienfuegos on Presidents? Day
> weekend, February 16. Motion passed for OM to co-sponsor the workshop.
> Linda volunteered to work on it.
>
> OPC group will be meeting at the Fort Bragg Library Nov. 19 at 7 pm
> re: fracking. A film on fracking will be shown at the library at 5 pm,
> before the meeting.
>
> Film forum: Sheila to stop by KNYO and talk to Sean about setting up a
> Friday film. An Occupy film might be best to begin the film series.
>
> Street rally: Attendance has increased since we discussed cutting down
> the rallys to one or two a month. It was decided to keep them weekly
> at the present time.
>
> Occupy listserv: How should the listserve be used? After a discussion,
> it was decided that it?s only for relevant Occupy business, not for
> worldwide events. There are enough other venues for worldwide events.
> It?s still an effective way of connecting to the public.
>
> OM Facebook: Daniel is now posting on Facebook. Thank you, Daniel.
>
> Tee shirts: Agnes discussed making new tee shirts with ?We Are Working
> for You?Occupy? on the front and a list of our accomplishments on the
> back. Most of us agreed that since we still haven?t sold the tees and
> hats we already have, it doesn?t make sense. Agnes countered that we
> could perhaps make up just a dozen for core members.
>
> Important: One thing we forgot to discuss is Martin Luther King Jr.
> Day. In 2014 it?s on January 20. Please think about organizing this
> wonderful event. We did a great job last year! Let?s put this on our
> agenda for the next GA meeting November 30.
>
> Submitted by Linda Jupiter
> Linda
>
> Linda
>
> -----------
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> P.O. Box 2822
> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
> phone 707-964-8985
> www.lindajupiter.com
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From nsdusoir at mcn.org  Mon Nov 25 18:19:15 2013
From: nsdusoir at mcn.org (Howard Ennes)
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:19:15 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] RCSC room rental flap
Message-ID: <8FA5E3B5-BE6F-47D5-97B1-1A7CFAC8484E@mcn.org>

FOR WHAT IT's WORTH,

	Occupy is a movement that reflects mature reflection and focus, at least as I have observed it in our Mendocino area.  My concept of Reason and Reality grows from Relationships, Ideas, Structures  and is powered by Encompassing Love.  

	If we of Occupy Mendocino presume to represent reality and responsibility; to be quibbling over such minutia as 'room rent' is beneath us.

	May I remind you that the recent episode with the Senior Center Board actually reflected a conflict of concepts of governance rather than a personnel matter.  It was triggered by a clique in the Board objecting on false and unacknowledged political grounds to a group of seniors seeking shelter in the Center facility.
							
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	P.S.:	    Perhaps this current flap offers an opportunity for Occupy to look more carefully at its own structure.  Would our progress be benefited by having a designated person or a group known to the public to occasionally 'speak for"  Occupy Mendocino ?
	





From syd at mcn.org  Tue Nov 26 13:33:56 2013
From: syd at mcn.org (SYD BALOWS)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:33:56 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] RCSC room rental flap
In-Reply-To: <8FA5E3B5-BE6F-47D5-97B1-1A7CFAC8484E@mcn.org>
References: <8FA5E3B5-BE6F-47D5-97B1-1A7CFAC8484E@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <6CF66707-29CB-48B4-86CB-A0B442AFE880@mcn.org>

Howard,
Patience and calm should be the order of the day. No sense for  judgement or accusations.
We have stated from the beginning that a committee will be formed to work out a fair and equitable fee for every group that uses the Senior Center.
We don't need to be lobbied or bullied. Please be patient and let the process work the way it is suppose to work. No one is treating Occupy unfairly. I have stated before that we hope to have an equitable room rental fee in place sometime in January. 
Thanks for your understanding and support of the RCSC.
Happy Thanksgiving
Syd    
On Nov 25, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Howard Ennes wrote:

> FOR WHAT IT's WORTH,
> 
> 	Occupy is a movement that reflects mature reflection and focus, at least as I have observed it in our Mendocino area.  My concept of Reason and Reality grows from Relationships, Ideas, Structures  and is powered by Encompassing Love.  
> 
> 	If we of Occupy Mendocino presume to represent reality and responsibility; to be quibbling over such minutia as 'room rent' is beneath us.
> 
> 	May I remind you that the recent episode with the Senior Center Board actually reflected a conflict of concepts of governance rather than a personnel matter.  It was triggered by a clique in the Board objecting on false and unacknowledged political grounds to a group of seniors seeking shelter in the Center facility.
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> 	P.S.:	    Perhaps this current flap offers an opportunity for Occupy to look more carefully at its own structure.  Would our progress be benefited by having a designated person or a group known to the public to occasionally 'speak for"  Occupy Mendocino ?
> 	
> 
> 
> 
> 



From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 26 14:48:12 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:48:12 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Obama just launched single-payer in America
Message-ID: <DF90E0C2-912D-489C-B8EB-370D31428BE4@mcn.org>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/24/1258135/-Obama-just-launched-single-payer-in-America?detail=email


Obama just launched single-payer in America
byWillinoisFollow

Did you notice? Did you see what happened when everyone was complaining about a website? Single-payer got started in America.

Vermont is using authority granted under the Affordable Care Act to start a single-payer system. Most Americans still don't know what the phrase "single-payer" even means. It had little support in Congress in 2009 and Senate "Democrats" like Nelson and Lieberman evenkilled the public option. But, ACA had this sweet little provision that allowed states to set up a single-payer system and now people will see it in action. You know what that means.

As Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) opines, "The quickest route toward a national health care program will be when individual states go forward and demonstrate that universal and non-profit health care works, and that it is the cost-effective and moral thing to do.?
Oh I know this is hard to swallow. Obama is third-way! He's dismantling the safetynet! A corporatist! He killed the public option!
Whatever else he is, Obama is a President who acts in a thoughtful, deliberate way that the chicken little headlines of the day often miss. As many predicted, ACA is already leading to the kind of transformative progressive change Obama promised. The progressive movement will be responsible for showing the nation how well single-payer works after the Vermont system goes into effect. When public and non-profit insurance becomes the national norm, we'll know where it began.


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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Thu Nov 28 19:40:10 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:40:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nader on Walmart
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt6S6SCyDUj3ZxNBaNnVQps76AnOfYyb217VsA9H3s0+Wg@mail.gmail.com>

Walmart is even worse - according to a study from the Democratic staff of
the House Committee on Education and the Workforce study, a single Walmart
Supercenter store in Wisconsin can cost taxpayers upwards of $1.75 million
in public assistance programs. If taxpayers have to cover over $1 million
for just one 300-employee superstore, consider how much Walmart is costing
taxpayers each year at their 4,135 stores in the United States. According
to the 2012 "Walmart Associate Benefits Book", which is distributed to
employees, the company also advises its workers about getting on public
assistance. Is this a fair or reasonable burden on taxpayers as Walmart
reports $17 billion in profits?
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Nov 30 23:44:31 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 23:44:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Federal form
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