From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jul  1 16:42:11 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:42:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Put some money into politics...
Message-ID: <9046925B-F92F-421E-967D-1294DC71345C@att.net>

?to get a whole lot of money OUT of politics.
https://my.mayday.us/t/cfc1-Mark-Safron
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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Jul  2 16:20:11 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:20:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Reminder of our great celebration-a myth
Message-ID: <7619872544de39a581cd76b281c5deed.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

A happy Fourth of July to you all.
Agnes

, a radical video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Xh5eN2fXY




From sharondoubiago at yahoo.com  Wed Jul  2 17:24:37 2014
From: sharondoubiago at yahoo.com (Sharon Doubiago)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:24:37 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Reminder of our great celebration-a myth
In-Reply-To: <7619872544de39a581cd76b281c5deed.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <1404347077.94723.YahooMailBasic@web122601.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Thank you agnes, all Mendocino  
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On Wed, 7/2/14, agnes at mcn.org <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:

 Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Reminder of our great celebration-a myth
 To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
 Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 4:20 PM
 
 A happy Fourth of July to you all.
 Agnes
 
 , a radical video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Xh5eN2fXY
 
 
 
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Wed Jul  2 20:20:24 2014
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:20:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Elderly Banking
References: <AC1FC28E-94B8-48A1-BAA4-85974A93F48E@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <2B3F9F88-71CB-4370-93F1-0EA0F781B702@mcn.org>

> What a good idea!
> 
>  
>  
>  
> Elderly Banking...
> Shown  below, is an actual letter that was
> sent to a bank by an  86 year old woman.
>  
> The  bank manager thought it amusing enough
> to have it published in the New York Times.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dear  Sir:
>  
> I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored to pay my plumber last month. 
>  
> By my calculations, 3 seconds must have elapsed between his presenting the check and the arrival
> in my account of the funds needed to honor it.
>  
> I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit
> of my entire pension, an arrangement which,
> I admit, has been in place for only eight years.
>  
> You are to be commended for seizing that 
> brief window of opportunity, and also for
> debiting my account $30 by way of penalty
> for the inconvenience caused to your bank.
>  
> My thankfulness springs from the manner in
> which this incident has caused me to rethink my
> errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I
> personally answer your phone calls and letters, 
> --- when I try to contact you, I am confronted
> by the impersonal, overcharging, pre-recorded,
> faceless entity which your bank has become.
>  
> From now on, I, like you, choose only to
> deal with a flesh-and-blood person.
>  
> My mortgage and loan repayments will therefore
> and hereafter no longer be automatic, but
> will arrive at your bank, by check, addressed
> personally and confidentially to an employee
> at your bank whom you must nominate.
>  
> Be aware that it is an OFFENSE under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope.
>  
> Please find attached an Application Contact which
> I require your chosen employee to complete.
>  
> I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order
> that I know as much about him or her as your
> bank knows about me, there is no alternative.
>  
> Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Notary Public,
> and the mandatory details of his/her financial
> situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities)
> must be accompanied by documented proof.
>  
> In due course, at MY convenience, I will issue
> your employee with a PIN number which
> he/she must quote in dealings with me.
>  
> I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits
> but, again, I have modeled it on the number
> of button presses required of me to access
> my account balance on your phone bank service.
>  
> As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
>  
> Let me level the playing field even further.
>  
> When you call me, press buttons as follows:
>  
> IMMEDIATELY AFTER DIALING,
> PRESS THE STAR (*) BUTTON FOR  ENGLISH.
>  
> 1. To make an appointment to see me.
>  
> 2 To query a missing payment.
>  
> #3. To transfer the call to my living
> room in case I am  there.
>  
> #4 To transfer the call to my bedroom
> in case I am sleeping.
>  
> #5. To transfer the call to  my toilet
> in case I am attending to nature.
>  
> #6.  To transfer the call to my mobile
> phone if I am not at  home.
>  
> #7. To leave a message on my computer,
> a password to access my computer is required.
>  
> Password will be communicated to you at a later
> date to that Authorized Contact mentioned earlier.
>  
> #8. To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 7 again
>  
> #9. To make a general complaint or inquiry.
>  
> The contact will then be  put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service.
>  
> #10. This is a second reminder to press* for English.
>  
> While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.
>  
> Regrettably, but again following your example,
> I must also levy an establishment fee to cover
> the setting up of this new arrangement.
>  
> May I wish you a happy, if ever so
> slightly less prosperous New Year?
>  
> Your Humble Client
> 
> And  remember:
> Don't make old people mad, it doesn't take much to piss us off.
>  
> 
> 
>  
>  
> 

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From annxpress at live.com  Thu Jul  3 10:30:56 2014
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:30:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Independence NOW! from Corporate Domination
In-Reply-To: <20140703145329.5B45BCA8152@civismtp.uas.coop>
References: <20140703145329.5B45BCA8152@civismtp.uas.coop>
Message-ID: <SNT150-W47944AA38A400962946A53DD010@phx.gbl>

I am not Jewish, but this Rabbi is a Peacenik after my own heart, and this message is right on!  Ann
 
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Thu Jul  3 15:29:47 2014
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John Fremont)
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:29:47 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Onward
Message-ID: <53B5D95B.3050809@cypresshouse.com>

Zac Zachary and I met yesterday and decided, because of our health 
issues, to fund a group whose mission is aligned with that of the Peace 
and Justice Center. Occupy came immediately to mind. We would like the 
chosen group to have or rent a storefront to further their mission. In 
addition, we would like the group to take over the annual Martin Luther 
King Jr. celebration. Finally, we would like the group to have or pursue 
members younger than 30. Approximately $2500 will be transferred to the 
group from the P&J account.

If you are interested, email me (john at cypresshouse.com) and Zac 
(workingforpeace at hotmail.com) to arrange for an interview.

Thank you.
John

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From nsdusoir at mcn.org  Thu Jul  3 16:50:14 2014
From: nsdusoir at mcn.org (Howard Ennes)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:50:14 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Supreme Court Attack on Unions
In-Reply-To: <1EBDB1BB-5284-4383-85F5-1327E7FE3B4A@mcn.org>
References: <1EBDB1BB-5284-4383-85F5-1327E7FE3B4A@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <26FF1F68-DAA1-4085-B55C-70E0C650F152@mcn.org>

Dearest IRENE ??

	B R A V O  ! ! ! 

	Well said . . . let the 'justices' buy their own black robes !!

	Seriously, this ruling is a another of the bigoted right-wing's incremental, anti-democracy treachery.   When will we the people rise up?
												


On Jul 2, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Irene L. Malone wrote:

> Editor:
> 
> 	The decision by the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court to allow home health care workers who are represented by unions to opt out of paying dues is an attack on those who represent the workers and on their fellow workers.  Before they were unionized, these workers had extremely low pay and no benefits.  Relatives of disabled people cared for them without a salary, or the clients were placed in care facilities away from their families.  Maybe the claimants in the case want to return to those days.
> 	Hard working people need true representation and don't have the time or the assets to struggle alone for fairness at the work site; our unions, with representatives chosen by the workers, stand for us and need our participation and financial support.
> 	Would an outcome of this negative decision be that taxpayers can refuse to pay the portion of our taxes that go to maintain the functioning of the U.S. Supreme Court or the salaries and benefits of politicians who do not represent us fairly?
> 											
> 
> 													IRENE MALONE
> 													Fort Bragg
> 
> 

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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Thu Jul  3 23:56:17 2014
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie VanSant)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 23:56:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] cancel Saturday, 5 July General Assembly meeting
Message-ID: <36A6BD0C-B5EF-470B-8346-4B3BD4D547AE@gmail.com>

Since this is a big holiday weekend and Friday is the 4th of July Mendocino parade, Sheila and I suggest we cancel our regularly scheduled 1st Saturday meeting.

Discuss??

jl

From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jul  2 17:38:41 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:38:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Charles Pierce: YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR NOT
	VOTING. NOT ANYMORE.
Message-ID: <88FB32A1-2D42-4C67-89F0-97C7B9CEC6C4@att.net>

(I?ve included the full article because the video link didn?t show up. M.S.) 

YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR NOT VOTING. NOT ANYMORE.
We get the government we deserve, and we are on track for one that is heedless of concern for women's health, and poised to eliminate unions.

By Charles P. Pierce on July 1, 2014

Fifty years ago, many brave souls traveled to Mississippi to register African Americans to vote. They paid dearly for it.
Hereabouts, we've long been amused by the deep thoughts of Utah's Senator Mike Lee, who is to the Constitution what Paul Ryan is to actual economics. Which is to say, he is recognized as a konztitooshinul skolar because he keeps telling people that he is ? just as the Zombie Eyed Granny Starver has become known as a "budget wonk" because enough people have called him that ? despite the fact that the full implications of the Ninth, 13th, 14th and 15th amendments seem to have eluded his notice. Anyway, Mike Lee put his very big brain to work yesterday regarding the Supreme Court's Humanae Vitae decision in favor of the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood folks. Mike Lee's very big brain labored very hard and came up with a constitutional basis for why women are basically sluts.

During an appearance on Sirius XM's The Wilkow Majority, host Andrew Wilkow argued that the real question in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., was about "whether or not a person who runs a business should be forced to provide something that is largely for recreational behavior, if it goes against their religious beliefs." Lee, responded by saying "Yea, that's right, that's right," before claiming that "this administration is using the often coercive power of the federal government to force people into their way of being and their way of existing, their way of believing and thinking and acting."
So there really isn't any excuse any more.

Over the weekend, I watched the PBS documentary on Freedom Summer, the effort 50 years ago to register African Americans to vote in the state of Mississippi, the effort that cost so many people so dearly, especially the families of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner, who were beaten and shot to death, and buried in a dam, because the state of Mississippi had local police forces shot through with the Ku Klux Klan.  Now, five decades later, with a Republican House far gone into nihilistic vandalism, and with the Senate hanging in the balance, and a Supreme Court one septuagenarian?s heartbeat away from a return to the golden days of the last Gilded Age, and a Democratic president in the White House on whom those responsible for the previous three phenomena have painted a bullseye, we keep hearing about how hard it is going to be for the Democratic party to turn out its voters this fall to take advantage of the opportunities for which Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner gave their lives, and did so in my lifetime, not in a distant antebellum episode in some backwater.


(Please take the time to watch this movie. It is inspiring. M.S.)

http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365275337/


So there really isn't any excuse any more.
Quite simply, if the Republican party gains control of the United States Senate, and if it maintains that majority in 2016, neither Barack Obama, nor Hillary Clinton, if she were to succeed him in office, will be allowed to appoint a Supreme Court justice. It will not happen. There will be nobody whose views and judicial philosophy will be satisfactory to the majority Republicans unless whoever the president is happens to nominate Antonin (Short Time) Scalia's left nut. Yesterday, the bare 5-4 majority of Federalist Society Papists demonstrated that it is heedless of concern for women's health, and poised to eliminate the ability of public employees -- and, later, any employees -- from organizing themselves.


(For an interesting historical view, I can highly recommend the redoubtable Thers at Whiskey Fire, who draws on his academic experience to explain how, in regard to human sexuality, the United States Of America is turning into the Irish Free State, circa 1935.)

So there really isn't any excuse any more.

And it's not like the raw material isn't there. In a number of states in which the Democratic candidate was thought to be in desperate trouble, those candidates remain stubbornly?and narrowly?ahead. In the newly insane state of North Carolina, Kay Hagan has opened a little daylight over Thom Tillis. It should be significant that Hagan and Tillis are on opposite sides of the Hobby Lobby ruling. In Arkansas, Tea Party heartthrob Tom Cotton is giving a master class in how a promising candidate can fail to launch, and Mark Pryor has been the beneficiary. (Hint: the farmers you represent will not be pleased if you vote against a farm bill, even if it's because freedom.) Mary Landrieu is still Mary Landrieu, but she's still in a virtual tie.  Reproductive rights?as defined yesterday by Samuel Alito?could be enough to save Mark Udall in Colorado, who is running a bit ahead of onetime Personhood champion Cory Gardner.  (Gardner already has tried to walk that back, stepping on another rake as he did so.) And, in Michigan, Terri Lynn Land put out a commercial in which she ridiculed the idea of a "war on women." She's now running behind Democratic candidate Gary Peters among the women of Michigan.

So there really isn't any excuse any more.


Mickey Schwerner was deposited in an earthen dam outside Philadelphia, MS, for taking part in Freedom Summer. (Getty Images)
I occasionally get chaffed by folks for giving out civics lessons but, seriously, we get the government we deserve. The Founders, and those brave people who came later, a group that certainly includes the three Mississippi martyrs and thousands more whose names we don't know, made sacrifices that leave us no alibis. If you live in a state that has restricted the franchise, and that has erected hoops through which you have to jump, then learn how to jump through the hoops and break down those barriers by flooding the polls. If you don't live in a state where it has been made more difficult to vote, then get off your sorry ass.

One of the most striking parts of the PBS documentary was the testimony of Rita Schwerner who, while her husband was still missing, flew to Mississippi to give witness and to make sure her husband's murder would not fade, as so many others did. (She also memorably got in the face of President Lyndon B. Johnson. I?ve defended LBJ on a lot of issues, but his response to Freedom Summer and, ultimately, to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic convention, was not his finest hour.) In a recent interview, she explained why she went to the place where her husband already had disappeared.

RITA SCHWERNER BENDER: Yes, but that was after the three of them were missing, and there was enormous attention. And the enormous attention was because two of the three men were white. Nobody had paid very much attention, either on a national level or locally, with the murders of black men and often children who had been - Mississippi had the highest rate of lynchings in the entire country. I think there was something over 500 that were documented. And there were probably many more that never made any kind of recognition.
There really isn't any excuse any more.
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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Sat Jul  5 13:20:35 2014
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 13:20:35 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Can we cancel 5 July meeting??
In-Reply-To: <CACVey3a3asvHg6nLwXeggQ352F3xsfMXZa+6Ayxnu8fqjx_Fww@mail.gmail.com>
References: <53B5D95B.3050809@cypresshouse.com>
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SO, SUNDAY?? i'm cool with that.


On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, DANIEL BAKER <blackdantheman100 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> SO, SUNDAY???
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:25 AM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:
>
>> I agree, some of us still have family here. Sunday would work, also Sunday
>> is the F.B. Grange Breakfast for $8.00.
>>
>> Agnes
>>
>>
>> > I?m not planning on going to a meeting tomorrow and hope we can cancel
>> for
>> > the holiday weekend recovery.
>> >
>> > Sheila and I discussed it last night and we both felt we wanted a ?day
>> > off? if possible.  I think a lot of folk will be weary from today?s
>> > adventures.
>> >
>> > I?d be willing to meet Sunday, 6 July  if other folk were willing? ??  I
>> > doubt we have to worry about any guests showing up.  ;-)
>> >
>> > Bob is the only concern re: not having email and needing contact /if/
>> > others decide canceling is agreed.
>> >
>> > jl
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jul 4, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I generally agree with you, Jessie.
>> >> Let?s discuss at our meeting tomorrow. I?m hoping to attend.
>> >> Happy 4th of July, all!
>> >> Linda
>> >>
>> >> -----------
>> >> Linda Jupiter Productions
>> >> P.O. Box 2822
>> >> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
>> >> phone 707-964-8985
>> >> www.lindajupiter.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Jul 4, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Jessie VanSant <vjessielee at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Well?..
>> >>>
>> >>> my problem with this idea/offer remains the same as before?.
>> >>>
>> >>> I do not see a (realistic) mechanism for having an ongoing income with
>> >>> which to pay rent month after month.  I am not willing to be involved
>> >>> in renting anything when there is no for sure $$ to keep paying the
>> >>> rent.
>> >>>
>> >>> /If/ there was an endowment which made $500/mo or /if/ some landlord
>> >>> would donate the rent per month to the ?cause? and could write it off
>> >>> at tax time (/if/ OM could take over a 501c3 status from ?P&J?)  then
>> >>> /maybe/ taking on a  rental place would be sensible but otherwise?  I
>> >>> personally am not willing to hustle for the rent every month - got
>> >>> other more important issues to face with the minimal
>> >>> energy/participation we have as it is.
>> >>>
>> >>> OM has zero monthly income and not enough people to pursue a program
>> of
>> >>> monthly fundraising.  In my opinion?.
>> >>>
>> >>> Don?t know if a coalition of the ?4? current social/political activism
>> >>> groups could band together (and get along well enough on going) and
>> >>> keep a rental paid for month to month????
>> >>>
>> >>> And recruiting people under 30 (even under 50!!) is a nice dream but
>> >>> ?they? don?t seem to have the interest or drive to be politically
>> >>> involved/active as far as it seems just observing.  The activists seem
>> >>> to be all 60 plus
>> >>>
>> >>> Just my opinion for what it?s worth?..
>> >>>
>> >>> Begin forwarded message:
>> >>>
>> >>>> From: John Fremont <john at cypresshouse.com>
>> >>>> Subject: [Occupymendocino] Onward
>> >>>> Date: July 3, 2014 at 3:29:47 PM PDT
>> >>>> To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
>> >>>> Reply-To: rkarch at mcn.org
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Zac Zachary and I met yesterday and decided, because of our health
>> >>>> issues, to fund a group whose mission is aligned with that of the
>> >>>> Peace
>> >>>> and Justice Center. Occupy came immediately to mind. We would like
>> the
>> >>>> chosen group to have or rent a storefront to further their mission.
>> In
>> >>>> addition, we would like the group to take over the annual Martin
>> >>>> Luther
>> >>>> King Jr. celebration. Finally, we would like the group to have or
>> >>>> pursue
>> >>>> members younger than 30. Approximately $2500 will be transferred to
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> group from the P&J account.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If you are interested, email me (john at cypresshouse.com) and Zac
>> >>>> (workingforpeace at hotmail.com) to arrange for an interview.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thank you.
>> >>>> John
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ---
>> >>>> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus
>> >>>> protection is active.
>> >>>> http://www.avast.com
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jul  6 10:01:45 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 10:01:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Poster Archive
Message-ID: <A90049D3-1C0A-4D29-A3D6-FAE15C495142@mcn.org>

http://www.occupytogether.org/blog/downloadable-posters/


From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Jul  7 20:01:10 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:01:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Gulf Residents Are Already Turning to DIY
	Abortions
Message-ID: <0BD4FF33-2A87-47BF-9C8B-FC3A50A02432@mcn.org>

http://truth-out.org/news/item/24805-gulf-residents-are-already-turning-to-diy-abortions
Gulf Residents Are Already Turning to DIY Abortions
Monday, 07 July 2014 09:15
By Robin Marty, Care2 | Report

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(Image: Pills drop, woman silhouette via Shutterstock)
With the closures of a number of abortion clinics in Texas, the potential closure of clinics in New Orleans and Baton Rouge due to the latest doctor admitting privileges law, and a pending identical law being debated in the court in Alabama that could close the clinic in Mobile, the entirety of abortion availability to the pregnant people in the Gulf Coast region is ebbing away.
Even though many of the bills have not yet been fully enforced, already due to previous restrictions mandating multiple...

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Jul  7 22:51:46 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 22:51:46 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Inside the Bizarre World of Anti-Feminist Women
Message-ID: <1F6DC61E-554F-4782-A5FF-E76E75BC47F8@mcn.org>

Punching Gloria Steinem: Inside the Bizarre World of Anti-Feminist Women
By Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24648-punching-gloria-steinem-inside-the-bizarre-world-of-anti-feminist-women
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jul  8 08:32:07 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:32:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Today we're going to court to save
	bees--help us win!]
Message-ID: <9c44f6dad6e6f1ebd31bb9f3d64483f4.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Today we're going to court to save bees--help us win!
From:    "Greg Loarie, Earthjustice" <info at earthjustice.org>
Date:    Tue, July 8, 2014 4:30 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Agnes,

Today we're going to court for the bees!

Despite massive bee die-offs, as recently as June 13 California expanded
the use of highly toxic bee-killing pesticides.

This indifference to bees is disastrous--but with your help, we're
fighting back.

Give now to help us see this and other battles through, and your gift will
be matched $1-for-$1 by members of Earthjustice's Board of Trustees:
http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=Pz3JSJ1A6wnEoyNWtcDIew

Bees play a critical role in our food system. Nearly one-third of our
crops--including many vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds--depend on bees
for pollination.

But across America, bee colonies are collapsing, and scientists are
pointing to toxic pesticides as a cause.

My team is fighting in court to stop the approval of toxic bee-killing
pesticides, but we are up against powerful corporate interests and we need
your help: http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=QPr6c-9ClY6KxFnFTEC3Jw

Your contribution, matched $1-for-$1 today, will be put to use immediately
to save bees, protect the natural world, and fight in court to stop the
approval of such bee-killing pesticides as:

*  Mitsui Chemical Agro's "Dinotefuran 20SG" which contains dinotefuran, a
powerful bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticide
*  Valent U.S.A. Corporation's "Venom Insecticide" shown to be highly
toxic to bees
*  Dow AgriScience's sulfoxaflor, which contributes to bee colony collapse
disorder

Will you help us win?

http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=kN0QPt7QXrRazwCTjwy4NA

As the lead attorney on many of these cases, I will not sit back and let
toxic pesticides kill bees and threaten to unravel agricultural production
nationwide, all for the sake of short-term private profit.

A world without bees is unimaginable. But with your support--matched
$1-for-$1 today--we won't let it happen:
http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=r4jX1cmTpgZfbOGyeDWXxQ

Thank you for all that you do,

Greg Loarie
Staff Attorney

P.S. We're going to court to save bees! Help us see this and other
emergency battles through, and your gift by midnight July 15 will be
matched $1-for-$1:
http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=RwNZc7ph45hn3a2ZcEn-rw

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From annxpress at live.com  Thu Jul 10 07:43:23 2014
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:43:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Pollan on Climate, Hillary Loves Monsanto
In-Reply-To: <2415200466.1898803654@salsa3.salsa3DB.mail.salsalabs.com>
References: <2415200466.1898803654@salsa3.salsa3DB.mail.salsalabs.com>
Message-ID: <SNT150-W42236EB8C29A74668E2DC7DD0E0@phx.gbl>

Hillary is pro-corporations and supports GMOs.  Tell her it is a deal breaker!
 
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:32:54 -0400
From: ronniecummins at organicconsumers.org
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: Pollan on Climate, Hillary Loves Monsanto



    
        
        
        
        
        
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                                               ESSAY OF THE WEEKHope in a Book

                                               
                                                "Hope in a book about the environmental challenges we face in the twenty-first century is an audacious thing to promise, so I'm pleased to report that Courtney White delivers on it." - Michael Pollan

                                                The debate between "saving the environment" and extracting enough food and energy from nature in order to sustain a growing population has always been framed in terms of trade-offs.

                                                Until now. 

                                                In his book, Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey through Carbon Country, Courtney White says there may just be a free lunch after all?by making the most of sunlight, grass and carbon to grow food, while also healing the land.

                                                Grass, Soil, Hope reads like a travelogue, "a journey to the grassy frontiers of agriculture," according to Michael Pollan, who wrote the foreword. The book's heroes are the farmers and scientists who are figuring out that, contrary to conventional wisdom, we can create significant amounts of new soil in the course of a single generation.

                                                Read Pollan's foreword to Grass, Soil, Hope

                                                

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                                                Another Pro-GMO President?
                                                
                                           
                                                Hillary Clinton. Former senator and secretary of state. Mother. Grandmother-to-be. Potential frontrunner for the Democratic nominee for U.S. president in 2016.

                                                And Monsanto cheerleader.

                                                From back in the days when she worked for the Rose Law Firm, which represented Monsanto, to her ongoing cozy relationships with pro-GMO appointees Michael Taylor (Deputy Commissioner for Foods) and Tom Vilsack (Secretary of Agriculture), Clinton has always  pandered to the pesticide and junk food manufacturers.

                                                She hasn't changed her tune?even though she's on the wrong side of the 93 percent   of Americans (future voters) who want mandatory GMO labeling laws.

                                                Last month, Clinton told  the pro-GMOers at the BIO International Convention that the public is "misinformed" on the safety of GMO foods. Monsanto just needs to put a more positive spin on the mounting scientific evidence against GMO crops and GMO-contaminated foods, and voil? ! Consumers will no longer need to worry their pretty little heads.

                                                It's time to tell Hillary: No amount of "spin" will convince consumers that Monsanto's toxic crops and food are good for public health and the environment.

                                                And no candidate who cheerleads for Monsanto will get the vote of the millions of consumers who believe politicians should stop taking Monsanto's money, and start protecting the public.

                                                TAKE ACTION: Hillary Clinton: It's time to dump Monsanto and support public health, and regenerative, organic agriculture!

                                                Watch Hillary promote Monsanto (approximately 29 minutes in)

                                                Read the press release

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                                                ACTION ALERT
                                                Poisoned Playgrounds
                                                
                                           
                                                As if the world's most widely used poison, Monsanto's Roundup,  didn't already pose a huge public health threat. Now, Monsanto and Scotts have teamed up  to market Roundup Ready Kentucky Bluegrass, genetically engineered to withstand massive doses of Roundup.

                                                You probably won't buy it. But what's to stop commercial landscapers from using it in parks and playgrounds?

                                                Nothing. Because it's unregulated.

                                                Scotts new GMO grass is genetically engineered to withstand massive doses of Roundup-a toxic herbicide that contaminates drinking water, and can be absorbed by your kids' clothing and skin.

                                                Let Scotts Chairman & CEO Jim Hagedorn, Chief Communications Officer Jim King, and a few other key executives know that we won't buy their Miracle-Gro products until they drop plans to market their GMO grass.

                                                TAKE ACTION: Tell Scotts You Don't Want More of Monsanto's Chemicals in Your Soil and Drinking Water, and that You're Boycotting All Scotts Products until the Company Drops Plans to Sell GMO Grass.

                                                Post on Scotts Miracle?Gro Facebook

                                                Call Jim King, Chief Communications Officer for Scotts

                                                (937) 578-5622

                                                More about Scotts GMO Grass

                                                

                                                
                                      
                                                        
                                                             
                                                        
                                                        
                                                            
                                                        
                                                        
                                                             
                                                        
                                      
                                                
                                                                
                                                                   
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                                                The Jig's Up
                                             This week the biotech cheerleaders and their indentured servants on Capitol Hill held a two-hour hearing to talk about their biggest problem-you.

                                             It seems you just don't "get" them. 

                                             From Hillary Clinton to the Big Gun lobbyists on Capitol Hill, the storyline now is that what the biotech industry suffers from is just a "failure to communicate." Once they do a better job of "educating" you about the wonderfulness of their genetically engineered (pesticide-laden, nutritionally deficient, environmentally damaging) food products, you'll embrace them with open arms.

                                             In the meantime, they've got to stop those pesky mandatory GMO labeling laws. 

                                             For decades, Monsanto has been getting away with murder. But now that consumers know the truth, and scientists are exposing genetically engineered crops and food for the dangerous fraud that they are, the biotech industry is being forced to spend millions on a massive public relations campaign to win you over.

                                             Sorry, Monsanto. The jig's up. 

                                             The Gene and Junk Food Giants are desperate to prevent Oregon from passing the nation's second mandatory GMO labeling law. They are pushing for a hearing as early as September on the "DARK" (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act, a federal law to preempt state labeling laws.

                                             Now, more than ever, we have to keep pushing back.

                                             

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                                                Pregnant Research
                                             

                                             Pregnant? Living near fields of crops sprayed with pesticides? You might want to move.

                                             A study published last month in Environmental Health Perspectives shows that babies whose moms lived within a mile of crops treated with widely used pesticides were more likely to develop autism. 

                                             According to the research, mothers who lived less than one mile from fields treated with organophosphate  pesticides during pregnancy were about 60 percent more likely to have autism than children whose mothers did not live close to treated fields. When women in the second trimester lived near fields treated with chlorpyrifos?the most commonly applied organophosphate pesticide?their children were 3.3 times more likely to have autism.

                                             And still, the pesticide-makers would have us believe all cases of autism are caused by genetics?

                                             Learn more

                                             Read the study

                                             

                                             
                                                    
                                                        
                                                             
                                                        
                                                        
                                                            
                                                        
                                                        
                                                             
                                                        
                                                  
                                                
                                                
                                                
                                                 
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                                                Autism Explained?
                                                
                                                The number of children diagnosed with autism in the U.S. has risen alarmingly over the past 15 years. So has the use of glyphosate   (Roundup) on genetically engineered corn and soy crops. Dr. Stephani Seneff,  senior research scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains why she thinks it's no coincidence.

                                                

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                                                Thanksgiving in Cuba?

                                                
                                                Looking for something more interesting to do this Thanksgiving than watch football and eat too much? How about an in-person, behind-the-scenes look at Cuba's organic revolution? 

                                                Join a group of passionate explorers and researchers, food production and policy professionals as they travel the cities and farms of Cuba, November 21-30. Be prepared to transform your vision of sustainable food chains and cooperatives, in a country with a long and colorful history of agricultural reform.

                                                Details and sign up here. 

                                                

                                                
                                                    
                                                        
                                                             
                                                        
                                                        
                                                            
                                                        
                                                        
                                                             
                                                        
                                                  
                                                                                   

                             
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jul 10 23:18:45 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:18:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 98 year old evicted in SF
Message-ID: <9F84612D-DF43-4034-B29F-60F4C9A8282B@mcn.org>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/10/mary-phillips-98-evicted_n_5573150.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

From jupiter at mcn.org  Fri Jul 11 07:59:10 2014
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:59:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How to Save the World
Message-ID: <4D743F4D-DB7B-4FB9-8D7F-DC22F7C27CA8@mcn.org>

Greetings,
Here?s an interesting blog from Dave Pollard all about activism.
Check out the June blogs, in particular.

howtosavetheworld.ca

Cheers,
Linda

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phone 707-964-8985
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jul 11 15:45:12 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:45:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Ethical Energy
Message-ID: <3CBDFE47-E23E-4DD5-B780-D72409D41D5C@mcn.org>

You can switch to only alternative energy sources.  We have solar already... Here's the link:
https://ethicalelectric.com/Partners/DailyKos?sc=DKREbullet071114#/

From moxie at mcn.org  Sat Jul 12 10:53:09 2014
From: moxie at mcn.org (moxie at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:53:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] VIA: BETTY BALL!-->Fwd: Message from Leonard
	Peltier 7/11/14
Message-ID: <4ebaa94b0d61925eaf000d39600b504a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Dear Occupants! ~

The illustrious Betty Ball! sent this to me this morning! I believe we all
need to get this message and pass it along!
Thank You, Betty! FREE LEONARD!!!  ~ K.R.!


---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Fwd: Message from Leonard Peltier 7/11/14
From:    "betty ball" <rmpjc at earthlink.net>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Silent Bear <silentbear55 at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:44 AM
Subject: Message from Leonard Peltier 7/11/14
To:


 Hi all- I received this message this morning from Leonard Peltier this
morning. I'm sharing this link in hopes that folks will help and in turn
spread the word. He said that they have 2 weeks to raise the money to
retain the lawyer. Thank you.  Many Blessings-Mark


"7/11/2014 7:47 am  GO for it put it together, you have my support. hey let
Billy know we are trying to raise Funds to pay for my new lawyer 50K, all
we need is a small amount of the millions who claim they support me, and
ONLY have to donate small amounts. we have a dead line of two weeks to
raise the funds OR we have to start to look for another Lawyer, SO time is
of importance here. SO I need everyone to donate just a small amount.
spread the word. love you doksha L.P."

http://youtu.be/8RRpO81CS5Y

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-leonard-peltier
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From nlnelson at mcn.org  Sat Jul 12 11:05:40 2014
From: nlnelson at mcn.org (nlnelson at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:05:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] VIA: BETTY BALL!-->Fwd: Message from Leonard
 Peltier 7/11/14
In-Reply-To: <4ebaa94b0d61925eaf000d39600b504a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
References: <4ebaa94b0d61925eaf000d39600b504a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <6f173a2fde462ada8e0d728ea352e04f.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

I'm glasd this got out before I would have done it - I too donated
yesterday.....oh, my heart is with Leonard and ALL minorities who suffer
in our racist land.

Nancy Wallace-Nelson



Dear Occupants! ~
>
> The illustrious Betty Ball! sent this to me this morning! I believe we all
> need to get this message and pass it along!
> Thank You, Betty! FREE LEONARD!!!  ~ K.R.!
>
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Fwd: Message from Leonard Peltier 7/11/14
> From:    "betty ball" <rmpjc at earthlink.net>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Silent Bear <silentbear55 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:44 AM
> Subject: Message from Leonard Peltier 7/11/14
> To:
>
>
>  Hi all- I received this message this morning from Leonard Peltier this
> morning. I'm sharing this link in hopes that folks will help and in turn
> spread the word. He said that they have 2 weeks to raise the money to
> retain the lawyer. Thank you.  Many Blessings-Mark
>
>
> "7/11/2014 7:47 am  GO for it put it together, you have my support. hey
> let
> Billy know we are trying to raise Funds to pay for my new lawyer 50K, all
> we need is a small amount of the millions who claim they support me, and
> ONLY have to donate small amounts. we have a dead line of two weeks to
> raise the funds OR we have to start to look for another Lawyer, SO time is
> of importance here. SO I need everyone to donate just a small amount.
> spread the word. love you doksha L.P."
>
> http://youtu.be/8RRpO81CS5Y
>
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jul 12 23:32:00 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:32:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?Phil_Donahue=92s_vindication?=
 =?windows-1252?q?=3A_Media_icon_unloads_on_Fox=2C_Cheney_and_what_happene?=
 =?windows-1252?q?d_at_MSNBC?=
Message-ID: <C43DB773-0B9D-4D20-8A1B-640B774D48B6@att.net>

As has been well-documented, and will hopefully long be taught in journalism schools nationwide, the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was not the American mainstream media?s finest hour. Perhaps the incident that best encapsulates the hysterical and illiberal atmosphere of the time is the way MSNBC treated Phil Donahue.
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/10/phil_donahues_vindication_media_icon_unloads_on_fox_cheney_and_what_happened_at_msnbc/

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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jul 12 23:44:42 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:44:42 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Tools to explore politician's financing
Message-ID: <B30DEFA3-5157-40A9-AB5A-278E0A76ED47@att.net>

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/07/great-tools-powered-by-crp-data-and-how-you-can-build-your-own/

From annxpress at live.com  Sun Jul 13 08:11:38 2014
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 08:11:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] OCCUcards order and maybe reimbursing me
In-Reply-To: <CACVey3a88ywQ4d0tUdBU4WJqVRhHUudh-NX8iWeXQbDK-jgwzw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20140627201641.4C9F2225DAE@atl41scmlw08>,
	<16500622-8D56-4892-BC8F-303E234CBC2D@gmail.com>,
	<208D9109-80C5-43EB-9C98-DFAAFB9CC14E@att.net>,
	<8fe7a7d976c21b3532682688491ad636.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>,
	<37D78D49-BE70-4A31-943A-CF2BDFB97226@mcn.org>,
	<CACVey3a88ywQ4d0tUdBU4WJqVRhHUudh-NX8iWeXQbDK-jgwzw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SNT150-W78EDA96529153271A8774CDD0B0@phx.gbl>

Happy to report that yesterday Richard, Bob, Sheila and Ann took part in the Pickadilly Flea market in Mendo and we made $97 selling hats, shirts and Occucards.  So no problem reimbursing for these awesome cards!
 
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:54:21 -0700
Subject: Re: OCCUcards order and maybe reimbursing me
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com
To: jupiter at mcn.org
CC: agnes at mcn.org; marksafron at att.net; vjessielee at gmail.com; sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com; annxpress at live.com; rkarch at mcn.org; irenelsm at mcn.org; nsdusoir at mcn.org

the cards are rad -thank you and YES YES, i'm cool with the reimburse!!!


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:

I agree, dear ones. Let?s pay Jessie for her initiative and costs.Love,





Linda
-----------Linda Jupiter Productions
P.O. Box 2822 Fort Bragg, CA 95437


phone 707-964-8985www.lindajupiter.com
























On Jul 12, 2014, at 11:51 AM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:
Good idea.yes we should reimburse Jessie for at least half,if not more

from our bank account.
Agnes


It?s fine with me Jessie Lee. Thanks for taking the initiative.
On Jul 12, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Jessie VanSant <vjessielee at gmail.com> wrote:


I recently ordered a bunch of OCCUcards, as requested, to be used to hand
out for 4th of July parade event.

I ordered ?extra? because we are headed into a campaign season and these
OCCUcards are great handouts which explain Public Banking and Fracking

very clearly plus they are wonderful graphic art  which reaches young
people and are relatively inexpensive.

Total is $129 for 1000 cards and 10 complete sets.

So I spent more money than requested..  Am willing to pay for a portion

myself say 1/2.   Is it OK for me to be reimbursed by OM for 1/2 of this
cost?

Sheila took (some of?) the full sets down to the Piccadily Market to sell
for $5/ea which will  - woo woo /make money/!!  hahahahaha


Anyhoo - if ?we can agree to reimburse me for half the cost of the
OCCUcards, that will be lovely.  If not?. c?est la vie - it was my choice
to order extra for the Charter campaign.

Love and Peace
Jessie Lee


Begin forwarded message:

From: "Occucards.com" <Occucards at gmail.com>

Subject: Thank you for your order
Date: June 27, 2014 at 1:16:41 PM PDT
To: Jessie Lee VanSant <vjessielee at gmail.com>

Hello Jessie Lee VanSant,


Thank you for your order.

Order Receipt:

Order ID: 228480896
Date: Fri Jun 27 16:16:30 -0400 2014
Payment Type: Mastercard
Order Status: Accepted

Fracking 500 - Five hundred Fracking info cards    $43.00 X 1 = $43.00

Public Banks 500 - Five hundred Public Banks info cards
                                                   $43.00 X 1 = $43.00
Complete Set 250 - Ten of each card                $22.00 X 1 = $22.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Product Total                                                  $108.00
Shipping (USPS Priority Mail Flat Med)                          $12.35
California sales tax                                             $8.74

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Grand Total                                                    $129.09

Name: Jessie Lee VanSant
Company: OCCUPY Mendocino
Email: vjessielee at gmail.com


Address 1: c/o 14780 Mitchell Creek Drive
Address 2:
City: Fort Bragg
State/Province: California
Zip/Postalcode: 95437
Country: United States

Fax:
Phone: 707-631-7050

Secondary Phone:





Comments/Special Delivery Instructions:
Thank you for your work - together we RISE!!  Need these for Mendocino
famous 4th of July parade   we are OCCUPY Mendocino.  can do??  Hope so!



Sign in now to check the status of your order:

https://www.mcssl.com/Portal/Login.aspx?mid=D70FF3DA-AE2B-45F3-8773-69263ED3276D


Not yet registered? Click the following URL to register now and check
the status of your order:

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Thank you again for your order. If you have any questions, please do not
hesitate to contact us using the information below. If you contact us
regarding this order, please quote your Order ID # 228480896


Occucards.com
(530) 378-4489
Occucards at gmail.com
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Jul 14 23:35:44 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:35:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The truth is out: money is just an IOU,
	and the banks are rolling in it
Message-ID: <C2B9276F-BE76-45CD-8755-DADECD215497@mcn.org>

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-money-iou-bank-of-england-austerity

Comment is free
The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it

Back in the 1930s, Henry Ford is supposed to have remarked that it was a good thing that most Americans didn't know how banking really works, because if they did, "there'd be a revolution before tomorrow morning".

Last week, something remarkable happened. The Bank of England let the cat out of the bag. In a paper called "Money Creation in the Modern Economy", co-authored by three economists from the Bank's Monetary Analysis Directorate, they stated outright that most common assumptions of how banking works are simply wrong, and that the kind of populist, heterodox positions more ordinarily associated with groups such as Occupy Wall Street are correct. In doing so, they have effectively thrown the entire theoretical basis for au...
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Tue Jul 15 07:35:31 2014
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:35:31 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Wisdom
References: <43F0894A-67F3-4A6A-85EC-1B297117EE9E@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <0C47EF22-6B22-4B2C-B183-55C4DA404025@mcn.org>

>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> . 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time.
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site.
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>> She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "Pardon me, sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "Morris Feinberg," he replied.
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?" 
>>> 
>>> "For about 60 years."
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims."
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop."
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults and to love their fellow man."
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "I pray that politicians tell us the truth and put the interests of the people ahead of their own interests."
>>>  
>>>  
>>> And finally "I pray that everyone will be happy".
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?"
>>>  
>>>  
>>> "Like I'm talking to a fucking wall"
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> 

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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jul 15 17:01:07 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:01:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Copy and send to Jared Huffman with your name and
	address
Message-ID: <76a84de352dbd785ff2f79716e32ecfa.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Representative Jared Huffman
231 Cannon Office Building
Washington, D.C.20515

The Honorable Jared Huffman,

I am your constituent and urge you to co-sponsor  HR 676. This bill would
create single payer national health plan in which  Medicare and
supplemental insurance would be rolled into one and a card would be given
at a person's birth instead of 65 years later.
       We would not be required to choose a doctor based on who is in our
plan's "network". Pill prices will come down closer to what they
are in Canada. It will be impossible to go bankrupt or be evicted
just because of medical bills.
People will get care because they need it , rather than only when they can
afford it or "qualify" for it.

It costs less  to cover everyone than to cover only some.
A lot of our taxes, premiums,co-pays and deductibles go to support the
processes, and pay for the consequences of saying no to sick people in
need.

Some doctors say that fifty countries have better life expectancy than we
do, even though we spend twice as much per person on health care as the
seven wealthy countries who cover everyone, even though we have some of
the world's best doctors and hospitals.

I urge you to co-sponsor HR676 now.

Sincerely,


you name and address



From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jul 16 08:34:11 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:34:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Scalia's Major Screw-Up
Message-ID: <981C2110-3420-4655-ABA0-D70BE4AF2D9C@mcn.org>

Scalia's Major Screw-Up: How SCOTUS Just Gave Liberals a Huge Gift
By Sarah Ruden, Salon
14 July 14
 
With an otherwise awful Hobby Lobby ruling, right-wing judges just said I don't have to pay for warfare! Here's why

efore a recent visit by Justice Scalia to Wesleyan University, I (a lowly research fellow) gained an invitation to a banquet in his honor by employing a typical Quaker mix of idealism, stubbornness and low cunning. Once there, I thanked the eminent jurist for his liberal ruling in Crawford v. Washington, concerning the right to confront witnesses in criminal proceedings. This remark drew from him the quip that he ought to be a pinup in every public defender's office in the nation, because sometimes he was forced by clearly established constitutional principles to rule in favor of people he couldn't stand.

With this in mind, I'm celebrating him for yet another socio-political gift to progressives and suggesting that he doesn't need to wear a thong - a modest bathing costume of 1910 vintage will do - in the poster religious pacifists like myself will want now that he and his brethren have ruled for Hobby Lobby et al., to the effect that private persons/corporations do not have to fund activities that violate their faith - such as the use of an IUD by an employee who may not even share that faith.

The upshot of the ruling is that Hobby Lobby and other businesses with conservative religious owners do not need to pay for what the Affordable Care Act mandates as full coverage for family planning. The public interest in affordable and accessible healthcare is not compelling enough to override the private belief that contraceptive methods including (but apparently not limited to) the IUD and the morning-after pill are murder. Well, I'm a pacifist, and I say that warfare is murder, and I don't want to pay for it; and in recent decades the public interest in my paying for it hardly looks compelling.

Let's go back to 2012, when the Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act's mandate for the purchase of insurance was constitutional as a tax, to fund the public good of healthcare. The issue necessarily now shifts to whether an individual or a privately held company has to pay a tax for anything religiously abhorrent that is less essential, or only as essential, to the common good as women's ability to avoid unwanted pregnancies, including from rape.

My husband, Tom, and I have been dancing gleefully with our Corgi Bessie in our modest home every evening since the Hobby Lobby ruling, because it's clear that the conservative majority of justices has written itself into a corner in which it cannot refuse religious exemptions from selected tax obligations. The same preponderance of Supremes will have no way out of ruling, for example, that I and fellow Quakers (plus the Amish, Mennonites and others) do not have to pay the roughly 20 percent of our taxes that goes toward supporting the U.S. military. I'm firing up little Bessie with talk of her own backyard goat herd, and my husband (not a Quaker) with the promise of a 1992 Jaguar and a weekend at the Saratoga racetrack once my tax savings come through.

Why wouldn't they? The conscientious objection of religious pacifists to supporting the military goes back for centuries. Just to instance my own sect, the Quaker Peace Testimony (citing the New Testament) dates from 1660, and over the years many Quakers were persecuted for their antiwar witness. George Washington had a passel of them confined in punishing conditions as draft refusers during the French and Indian War, and he admired their fortitude.

Today, some Quakers send the government only the non-military portion of their taxes owed. They attach letters explaining why, and suffer crippling monetary penalties, confiscations from their savings accounts, and sometimes the loss of their homes.

There's nothing remotely like this basis in conservative Christians' pleas that they have a religious objection to voluntary abortion (or birth control somehow resembling it) - an issue never even mentioned in the Bible, and manifesting during recent years mainly (it could be argued) as a political wedge and the cat-o'-nine-tails of anti-feminist backlash.

I look forward with mirth to the Supreme Court's deliberations on whether the portion of military spending funded by the taxes of religious pacifists represents a compelling public interest. Historians of our era - Justice Scalia is especially keen to consult history when backing up his rulings - must already be revving up to declare that it would have benefited our nation hugely had there not been as many military resources available for our government to splash out with. Even more to Scalia's taste as evidence, a delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention declared that a standing army was like an erect penis, "a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure." Crude analogy, but it's turned out to be no joke.

I foretell many blessings for our beloved homeland from the coming new dispensation. The arrangements for going to war will be more like a female Hobby Lobby employee's having to shift for herself if her circumstances, her doctor and her conscience argue for an IUD. (The court has now backed up Wheaton College's refusal even to certify in a letter its objection to paying for contraceptive coverage, though Wheaton refuses for the very reason that the federal government intended such certification to allow straightforward alternative access to birth control. The court seems to be establishing the right of a religious employer to pursue an employee outside the place of employment and make it as hard as possible for her to obtain standard healthcare he doesn't want her to have.)

As things work in Washington these days, certain individuals, weighing the options and deciding for what they personally believe is right, may set out to invade and occupy a foreign land, regardless of whether it poses any threat to our country or our allies - and they make us all pay through the nose for this choice, even those of us who believe that war is murder.

They already can't force individuals to be directly involved, pulling triggers and lobbing grenades; there's no longer a draft, and even when there was a draft, conscientious objection was allowed. Suppose funding a military deployment entailed a bureaucratic labyrinth so nasty (I'm thinking six or eight different phone trees to go through just to identify the person authorized to unlock the House door for a vote) that proponents would conclude that, since they can't pay for the undertaking out of their own pockets, they will have to drop the idea.

I think this would be great. I bet the other Quakers in Middletown, Connecticut, Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends would think so too. Bessie is wagging her butt (she doesn't have a tail) in anticipation of a better world, with her own miniature water-slide in it. And Tom (again, not a Quaker) is already on the Brooks Brothers website, shopping away.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Jul 16 09:23:16 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:23:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] please print and send with your address or copy
 it into Boxer's website.
Message-ID: <f557bb15071f73dbaa78f09350d3888b.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Senator Barbara Boxer
112 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Boxer,

I am your constituent and urge you to co-sponsor  S 1782. This bill would
create single payer national health plan in which  Medicare and
supplemental insurance would be rolled into one and a card would be given
at a person's birth instead of 65 years later.
       We would not be required to choose a doctor based on who is in our
plan's "network". Pill prices will come down closer to what they
are in Canada. It will be impossible to go bankrupt or be evicted
just because of medical bills.
People will get care because they need it , rather than only when they can
afford it or "qualify" for it.

It costs less  to cover everyone than to cover only some.
A lot of our taxes, premiums,co-pays and deductibles go to support the
processes, and pay for the consequences of saying no to sick people in
need.

Some doctors say that fifty countries have better life expectancy than we
do, even though we spend twice as much per person on health care as the
seven wealthy countries who cover everyone, even though we have some of
the world's best doctors and hospitals.

I urge you to co-sponsor S. 1782.

Sincerely,





From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jul 18 09:37:55 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:37:55 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Coming Democratic Schism - NYTimes.com
Message-ID: <BA95FE2B-A6C4-4E88-AD28-254F3EC6A8FE@att.net>

The Coming Democratic Schism

There is a striking generational split in the Democratic electorate.

This deepening division is apparent in a June Pew Research Center survey of more than 10,000 people, ?Beyond Red vs. Blue.? The Pew survey points up the emergence of a cohort of younger voters who are loyal to the Democratic Party, but much less focused on economic redistribution than on issues of personal and sexual autonomy.

(There are some troubling trends in our younger Democratic brethren. M.S.) 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/opinion/thomas-edsall-a-shift-in-young-democrats-values.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region%C2%AEion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=1
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From moxie at mcn.org  Sun Jul 20 12:05:51 2014
From: moxie at mcn.org (moxie at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:05:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] WHAT WOULD JUDI THINK???...in case anyone
 wondered whatever happened to Frank Riggs....
Message-ID: <6257be3dd62a6f5972fc0367aa8e8e71.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Remember Frank Riggs?

Repug Rep from hereabouts, who started out his Congressional reign voting
AGAINST the first gulf war & schmoozing up to the Cal. Environmentalistas
who enabled his getting his job via GREEN Darlene Comingore's strong
showing  15+% ...See, there was this horrible Dem. (Bosco) in there that
needed weeding...hey, it was a complicated situation...Ya hadda be
there... some of You were!
Anyway, ol' Frank showed his 'Rank Piggs' colours, culminating in the
horrific point blank pepperspray torture of Headwaters Forest activists,
who locked down in his Eureka office...
This is all our history. Well, Rank Piggs is still alive & kicking in AZ:
Truth can be weirder than fiction, as we know! check this out:


 *AZ-Gov: Frank Riggs (R) goes shirtless, pumps iron and vows to fight
"Obamanization" in ad* [
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/18/1314339/-AZ-Gov-Frank-Riggs-R-Goes-Shirtless-Pumps-Iron-And-Vows-To-Fight-Obamanization-In-Ad?detail=email
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From moxie at mcn.org  Sun Jul 20 12:09:24 2014
From: moxie at mcn.org (moxie at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:09:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] CORRECTION!
Message-ID: <3a1c997e2cb7a3f3673a84a24455a8a3.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


In 1990, Darlene Comingore ran for congress as PEACE & FREEDOM candidate,
not a GREEN, as I recently reported!
What would Judi think, indeed!
for the WILD!
K. Rudin
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Sun Jul 20 12:34:29 2014
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie VanSant)
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:34:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] please sign petition for expansion of post office
	services
Message-ID: <77021DD4-F7A0-4760-AD77-DDB43A2274E5@gmail.com>

http://saveourpostoffice.us/wp/2014/05/27/petition-to-offer-banking-services-at-post-offices/


Very grassroots!!  Rural areas need PO even more clearly.

From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jul 21 23:42:43 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:42:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] GOP College Chairman Slams Tea Party, Resigns,
	And Joins The Democrats
Message-ID: <F1DADD04-5B0A-4342-B1B2-802FFEB0E0F5@att.net>

The chairman of the MFCR (Mississippi Federation of College Republicans), Evan Alvarez, has opted not only to leave his position as College GOP Chairman this week, but he is joining the Republican party's arch enemy - the Democrats. In a publicly released letter, Alvarez outlines the reasons behind his decision.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/02/1311119/-College-GOP-Chairman-Slams-Republicans-Resigns-And-Joins-Democrats?detail=email
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jul 23 21:01:17 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:01:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Milking the Money Machine - NYTimes.com
Message-ID: <B2FB74EA-22A1-4050-8BB8-EB406918C270@att.net>

??a tiny fraction of the American public, just 31,385 men and women making up 0.01 percent of the population, provided over a quarter of the $6 billion spent in federal campaigns that year.?

?A tiny sliver of Americans who can afford to give tens of thousands of dollars in a single election cycle,? Drutman wrote, ?have become the gatekeepers of public office in America.?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/opinion/thomas-b-edsall-milking-the-money-machine.html?emc=edit_ty_20140723&nl=opinion&nlid=35653813&_r=0
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jul 24 12:59:32 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:59:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Noam Chomsky interview.
Message-ID: <49FAF34F-EF6B-4CA4-B3FC-624FCAE59C98@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24950-focus-chris-hedges-interviews-noam-chomsky-the-system-is-radically-anti-democratic


Chris Hedges Interviews Noam Chomsky: The System Is Radically Anti-Democratic
By Chris Hedges, The Real News Network
24 July 14
 
A fascinating, wide-ranging interview on major issues facing the public.

et's begin with a classic paradigm which is throughout the Industrial Revolution, which has been cited by theorists from Marx to Kropotkin to Proudhon and to yourself, that you build a consciousness among workers within the manufacturing class, and eventually you lead to a kind of autonomous position where workers can control their own production...


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jul 25 17:18:04 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:18:04 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Single Payer
Message-ID: <68B044CF-D095-49CA-AC53-E7FB39F7811B@mcn.org>

Crosscut.com (Seattle)
July 23, 2014

Glimmers of healthcare politics at meeting of Western Washington docs

Tough talk from Kshama Sawant and others at annual gathering of Western Washington Physicians for a National Health Program.

By Ted Van Dyk

Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant also was critical of Obamacare, arguing that the administration colluded with drug and insurance companies in framing it. Sawant spoke longest and most avidly at the meeting. She called on committed single-payer supporters to follow the example of those who sought a $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and bring tireless pressure to bear on Democratic officeholders in particular. Sawant is a committed socialist who often referred to "working class interests" and "corrupt corporations, banks, and hedge fund operators."

Kshama Sawant (video at 4:45):

"Our discussion should be formulated not on the basis of whether or not the ACA delivered something good. Maybe it did, but that's not the point. The point is, what are we not getting from it, and why didn't we win single payer health care? That's what I would like to focus on."

http://crosscut.com/2014/07/23/health-medicine/121125/western-wa-physicians-national-health-program/?page=single

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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jul 25 19:21:11 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:21:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Down the Middle No More
Message-ID: <F620A28F-3A40-4C18-BF06-EE2A541489E8@att.net>

Politico Magazine
Down the Middle No More

In the past, Tom Ricks, a straight-down-the-middle reporter on military affairs who has written for The Wall Street Journal, then The Washington Post, didn?t even vote because of concerns about bias. He finds himself shifting to the left these days, and in a brief and powerful essay, gives his reasons.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/why-am-i-moving-left-109241.html
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Jul 26 03:04:51 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 03:04:51 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Citizen United Movie  Kickstarter
Message-ID: <58435129-83D1-49A2-ADC4-49F47E62F354@mcn.org>

I like this idea. Informative and watchable preview. I wonder how or why they only went for $5000 Kickstarter? rk


Dear Friends and Activists, 

This is so amazing. We have just signed a major star to play the lead 
in Citizens United, The Movie. We just have to wait until his people 
approve the press release before we announce it officially. 

So if you have not done so already, won't you become a supporter of 
the Citizens United, The Movie, project, a dramatic full length 
feature film taking on the issues of corporate personhood and money 
as speech, on the new Kickstarter page? 

Kickstarter page: http://www.kck.st/1nMEYgs 


Citizens United, The Movie, is NOW in full production, taking on the issues of corporate personhood, money as speech , and more!

We have BIG shoot days planned for August 10th and August 11th!

Meanwhile, today we are showing off our now nearly complete founding fathers scene at the beginning of the new full length feature dramatic film now in full production mode, Citizens United, The Movie, taking on the issues of corporations as people, money as speech, and more!  In this scene, James Madison voices his troubled concern about corporations seizing political power reserved for the People.

Last time we showed it we were just starting to do the compositing of the screen screen footage with the true to historical life backgrounds.  That part is fully done, and we have added the global lighting effects and the first rendering of the actual music score.  Still more work to do before it is perfect enough for the big screen, but we're getting close.
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From annxpress at live.com  Sat Jul 26 08:57:41 2014
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:57:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Whale washes ashore and dies during Navy war
	games in Hawaii
In-Reply-To: <BB.7D.17105.C63C3D35@outbound.moveon.org>
References: <BB.7D.17105.C63C3D35@outbound.moveon.org>
Message-ID: <SNT150-W78664F2402765CF7154C64DDFD0@phx.gbl>

I oppose Navy sonar testing in whale pathways, as well as oil exploration sonar that is killing marine life indiscrimately. Ann
 
Subject: Whale washes ashore and dies during Navy war games in Hawaii
To: annxpress at live.com
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:02:19 -0700
From: noreply at list.moveon.org

Ann


Today a pilot whale washed up on the beach in Hanalei, Kauai, and soon died. Meanwhile, massive naval war games continue off the shore of the Hawaiian Islands.

In the words of marine biologists at the scene of the stranding, endangered sea turtles are showing up with their legs blown off, dead or simply disappearing.... 2,000 year old coral reefs are disintegrating into piles of rubble on the sea floor. And then, this morning, a dead whale. For every whale that washes up on the beach, it is thought that many more simply die at sea. 


The US Navy and 22 foreign navies from around the world are continuing their war games in these beautiful waters. They are sinking ships (likely releasing toxic PCBs and asbestos into the ecosystem), detonating bombs,  and deploying high-intensity sonar which seriously disrupts marine mammal behaviors, permanently damages their hearing, and can drive them onto beaches to die. 


NOAA says it will investigate this death... but if they follow previous patterns, they will not release the results until months, years or a decade down the road -- most likely on a holiday weeked, when most people will have forgotten about it. This is a tragic outcome for whales & dolphins who deserve our protection.

We need your assistance now to bring this travesty to the public?s attention. We need to demand that the Navy use more simulation software for sonar trainings and deploy safer technologies that won't destroy our natural world. 


Please sign my petition to Stop the Navy's War on Whales and Dolphins -- and pass it along to others who share your love for the oceans. Or go to our website at www.whaleanddolphinwatch.org


To learn the truth about how Navy sonar is killing whales, please check out Joshua Horwitz's new book, WAR OF THE WHALES.

Big Thanks to Marine Biologist Terry Lilley for sharing this information and being a stellar protector of the Islands. To see his report from the scene of the stranding click here.


Thank you so much for your love and support of our natural world. 


Lyndia Storey






 




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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jul 26 10:30:18 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:30:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Typical Household, Now Worth a Third Less
Message-ID: <6C4EA40B-8D0C-4B1D-910D-081D56E7A5EF@att.net>

The Typical Household, Now Worth a Third Less
By ANNA BERNASEK
The inflation-adjusted net worth for the median household fell 36 percent between 2003 and 2013, a new study says.
(Employment is back but, they?re not the jobs we lost. Just ask a recent college graduate with large debt living with their parents. M.S.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/business/the-typical-household-now-worth-a-third-less.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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From annxpress at live.com  Sat Jul 26 12:26:32 2014
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:26:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: AlterNet: Hightower: Is Citigroup's $7
	Billion Fine Bogus?
In-Reply-To: <20140726190456.4E136A413D@vps717.getcadre.com>
References: <20140726190456.4E136A413D@vps717.getcadre.com>
Message-ID: <SNT150-W62F275A8A1CC7BEC77A697DDFD0@phx.gbl>


 
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: AlterNet: Hightower: Is Citigroup's $7 Billion Fine Bogus?
From: annxpress at live.com
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:04:56 -0400

This story has been forwarded to you from

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





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Hightower: Is Citigroup's $7 Billion Fine Bogus?

http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/hightower-citigroups-7-billion-fine-bogus



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From annxpress at live.com  Sat Jul 26 13:23:26 2014
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:23:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Mendocino G/A 7/19/14
Message-ID: <SNT150-W14B34831B424467088817CDDFD0@phx.gbl>

Present:  Sheila Dawn, Dan Baker, Bob Lane, Ann Rennacker
Agnes and Jessie are doing a presentation to a Democrat group about the Public Banking Charter, Richard busy with Music Festival.
- 4th of July Parade was composed of grassroots groups, Ann shared a picture Linda took of OPC and Community Rights Network.  Sheila had some printing expenses of $20, and as she sold a Occupy shirt at the parade for $20 we allowed her to reimburse herself.  There is another $10 for material Sheila will ask Treasurer to reimburse.
- There is a video of the Parade on the website www.Mendocinotv.com.  We are about 14 minutes into this video.
- Some of us (Richard, Bob, Ann, Agnes, Sheila) took part in the Pickadilly sale at Mendocino's Recreation Center last week and we sold $97 worth of donated items, hats, T-shirts and Occucards.  Along with the proceeds of passing the hat at this meeting, we have $105.40 to add to the O/M Credit Union account which is managed by Jessie.
- Discussion of the P&J offer to donate monies to us contingent upon our agreement to recruit young members, have a plan to sustain our group, etc.  We must have this discussion when more members are present and we find out what P&J wants us to do to qualify.  We want to look for a donated space, and the Mendocino MEC near Corners of the Mouth in Mendocino was one suggestion.  Another was the Regenerative Design Center.
- Next event is Paul Bunyan Weekend - do we want to be in the Parade? If so we need a lot of participants and need to register.
- We had a question about the Banking payments that were made by the big banks regarding how much of the fine money was returned to the homeowners who got fraudulently foreclosed?   The profits of the Banks were barely touched and they gave themselves bonuses, and will get to write off 40% of the fines on their taxes.  Meanwhile lives were shattered and no Bankers went to jail.  Sheila will speak to the Chase Bank employee in a suit who seems sympathetic to our protests.
- Jim Hightower had a good article about the Bank swindle, which Ann forwarded to the O/M lists, and we will try to get him to come speak here.  Sheila will find out if the OceanView Motel will comp a room and we can offer a small speaker fee if we can get enough people to commit to go in with us and find a place to stage it (Ft Bragg Town Hall or Crown Hall??).
- Are there recent pictures posted on our website?  We want a current update to show our presence.  Dan has updated the Facebook page.
- There will be a Public Bank Institute meeting, and Ellen Rosser came back on board,  John McCowan says he wants more changes to get the proposal back on track to be ready for the Ballot.  Probably won't happen by the deadline for the November Ballot this year.  We now have revised this 14 times!  Barry Vogel is looking at it for a small fee.  After attending some BOS meetings on the Budget and finding that the Grand Jury brought charges against the County for mismanagement of the Library funds, the Mental Health outsourcing to a former employee and a private contractor he now works for, the hiring of Meredith Ford after her retirement for $440 per day to train her assistant to take over, and other questionable practices, we wonder if the Supervisors should be in charge of the Public Bank!
- Irene  asked for permission to make some Rally posters about immigration issues, in Spanish and English.  We agreed this is a Occupy issue!
Meeting adjourned at 3:45 pm.
 		 	   		  
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Jul 27 17:46:34 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:46:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Too Big to Punish?
Message-ID: <DDB5771A-713C-4B0B-89B4-9179378992DC@att.net>

Too Big to Punish?
As of this week, a single violation of prohibitions on watering your lawn in California can cost $500. I recently picked up a tourist brochure for Sierra County California which cautioned me that a medical emergency in the mountainous, rural county was likely to require air evacuation, that my insurance probably wouldn?t cover it and that the bill would begin at $15,000. I?ve also read that the rescue price tag for a climber who needs evacuation by air from Yosemite?s cliff?s can easily run $85,000. But that?s fair?we ought to pay for the costs we create.

So how much did the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fine Freedom Industries, the company whose sloppy handling of the toxic chemical MCHM caused 10,000 gallons to spill into the Elk River, poisoning the water supply of hundreds of thousands of Charleston, West Virginia residents? Pathetically, a measly $11,000, less than the cost of a single burst appendix helicopter ambulanced in Sierra County. This when 300,000 people had to find alternative water supplies for ten days. 
http://ecowatch.com/2014/07/19/too-big-to-punish/
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From clobell at mcn.org  Sun Jul 27 15:56:18 2014
From: clobell at mcn.org (Claire Lobell)
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 15:56:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] unsubscribe me
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From clobell at mcn.org  Sun Jul 27 15:59:37 2014
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From clobell at mcn.org  Sun Jul 27 16:00:07 2014
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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:00:07 -0700
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From clobell at mcn.org  Sun Jul 27 16:00:25 2014
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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:00:25 -0700
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From clobell at mcn.org  Sun Jul 27 16:07:38 2014
From: clobell at mcn.org (Claire Lobell)
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:07:38 -0700
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Jul 28 16:43:18 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:43:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Would You Like To Watch Ed Asner In Citizens
	United, The Movie
In-Reply-To: <201407281758.s6SHrQMx025590@mx.mcn.org.pph4a.pphosted.com>
References: <201407281758.s6SHrQMx025590@mx.mcn.org.pph4a.pphosted.com>
Message-ID: <52F0C457-261B-4AB0-81CB-E23A2BEA8449@mcn.org>

Maybe Occupy could get the Coast Cinema to let us sponsor a showing of  the
Citizens United, "The MOvie" when it comes out. 
Just a thought...

Richard
> 
> Dear Friends and Activists, 
> 
> We have now been cleared to officially announce that Ed Asner will 
> star in Citizens United, The Movie, which will take on the issues of 
> corporate personhood and money as speech as a full length feature 
> dramatic narrative film. 
> 
> And we just posted a new video update, our finished opening founding 
> fathers scene with all the authentic backgrounds, and with the first 
> segment of the original music scored being specially composed for 
> this activist project. And we'll have a whole bunch of new scene 
> footage in just about 2 more weeks. 
> 
> New Video Update: http://www.kck.st/1nMEYgs 
> 
> Ed Asner is in. How about you? Every reward you select from the 
> Kickstarter page above helps to support of this project, which now 
> the whole entertainment industry is taking very seriously. 
> 
> Here is our press release: 
> 
> Eminent Actor, Ed Asner, To Star In Citizens United, The Movie 
> 
> "We could not be more thrilled to have Ed Asner slated to play a key 
> role in Citizens United, The Movie," says writer and director, The 
> Pen. "We take it as an affirmation of the importance of this project 
> that an actor of Mr. Asner's stature, with so many other projects 
> competing for his kind attention, would make the time to grace ours 
> with his incomparable talent." 
> 
> Citizens United, The Movie, will take on the issues of corporate 
> personhood, and money as speech, in a full length, narrative, feature 
> film format. It will not be a documentary, as most would have 
> expected, but instead a dramatic film with a fictionalized story 
> line, though it draws from the very real events of the impact of the 
> Citizens United supreme court decision on our democracy. 
> 
> In the film, Mr. Asner will play the role of Ace Rogers, the founder 
> of the nation's second biggest defense contractor. In the end, his 
> character will experience a heroic redemption, after being confronted 
> by his activist grand-daughter over the morality of the company's 
> arms business. 
> 
> Says Pen, "The interest in this project has already been just 
> incredible. We had over 3,000 submissions from all the top agents and 
> mangers in the business for just one of our other available roles. 
> But Mr. Asner was always our first choice for the part of Ace Rogers, 
> which is why we are so excited that the part appealed to him." 
> 
> Citizens United, The Movie, is in active production now, with a 
> target of completing principal photography by the end of August. 
> 
> ****** 
> 
> If you go to the Kickstarter page now, you can get one of custom 
> embroidered Citizens United, The Movie, caps. You can get Dennis 
> Kucinich pocket constitutions (including just a few available 
> original autographed copies) while they last. 
> 
> We are set and booked for shooting in Los Angeles, Monday, August 
> 11th, in the evening, our big closing climax scene, where our heroine 
> confronts the corporate powers at the big shareholders' meeting. So 
> if you want to be an extra for that, and participate in this historic 
> movie-making event, please select that reward now (about 1/2 way down 
> in the right column). 
> 
> Be An Extra: http://www.kck.st/1nMEYgs 
> 
> We are going to be shooting in San Francisco, Sunday, August 24th, in 
> the late morning, our demonstration scene. So if you want to come out 
> and be an extra for that, please let us know now. 
> 
> And there are tons of other great rewards on the Kickstarter page, 
> too numerous to list here. 
> 
> Yes, it's all coming together in the most magical way. We will have a 
> name actor on the billing. We have discovered some amazing new stars 
> of the future that will be household names in a short time. 
> 
> And all we are asking you to do is hang in long enough for us to get 
> this movie shot and finished the way we know you would want it to be. 
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Jul 29 16:31:52 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:31:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bernie Sanders Speaks
Message-ID: <B2CD87FE-4EF2-4D86-85AE-89AFECB3E887@mcn.org>

Corporate Deserters
Friday, July 18, 2014

As more and more giant American corporations try to dodge U.S. taxes by moving overseas, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday announced legislation to ban those businesses from receiving lucrative U.S. government contracts. Sanders said that he will file an amendment to a Department of Defense authorization bill to prohibit the U.S. government from awarding federal contracts to companies that reincorporate overseas to avoid paying U.S. income taxes.  ?I have a message for these corporate deserters: You can't be an American company only when you want corporate welfare from American taxpayers or you want lucrative contracts from the federal government. If you want the advantages of being an American company then you can?t run away from America to avoid paying taxes.?

Sanders announced the legislation on the same day pharmaceutical giant AbbVie said it plans to take over Shire, its European rival, in a merger that would allow the Chicago-based drug maker to reincorporate in Britain and lower its effective U.S. income tax rate from 22 percent to just 13 percent by 2016.

Walgreen?s, the giant drugstore chain, recently announced that it is considering moving its corporate headquarters from the U.S. to Switzerland to avoid $4 billion in U.S. taxes over the next five years.  According to a recent report from Americans for Tax Fairness, nearly a quarter of Walgreen?s $72 billion in sales last year came from Medicare and Medicaid.

At least a dozen other major companies are considering abandoning America through a loophole in the tax code known as corporate inversion.  Such inversions allow U.S. companies to move their corporate headquarters overseas by merging with a foreign company in a low-tax country, even though most of their profits and sales occur in America.

Sanders last year introduced the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act (S.250) that would prohibit these companies from receiving tax breaks by shifting their headquarters to the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens. That bill would also stop rewarding companies that ship jobs and factories overseas with huge tax breaks. The Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated in the past that the provisions in this bill will raise more than $590 billion in revenue over the next decade. Nearly two-thirds of the companies who have established subsidiaries in tax havens have registered at least one in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, according to a June 2014 report from Citizens for Tax Justice.

?Companies that have received billions in corporate welfare and have made billions in profits should not be allowed to renounce their U.S. citizenship to avoid paying U.S. taxes,? Sanders said.                

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Jul 29 10:48:59 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:48:59 -0700
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jul 31 11:09:29 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:09:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jon Stewart talks about "Corporate Inversion."
Message-ID: <DD984378-D8BE-4007-BE89-305A9B21D71E@att.net>

Jon does a great job of pointing out corporate abuse.
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ehvwjx/inversion-of-the-money-snatchers

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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jul 31 13:27:18 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:27:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Bank of America ordered to pay $1.27
 Billion for 'Hustle' fraud, Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, 20140731]
Message-ID: <10328414b350bf7d045fdf36d8669262.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Bank of America ordered to pay $1.27 Billion for 'Hustle' fraud,
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, 20140731
From:    "Dan Hamburg" <vote at pacific.net>
Date:    Thu, July 31, 2014 11:19 am
To:      "Dan Hamburg" <vote at pacific.net>
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thanks to Janie?



it was the first case to impose civil penalties against a bank and
executive under FIRREA to punish mortgage fraud leading up to the 2008
financial crisis.





Bank of America ordered to pay $1.27 billion for 'Hustle' fraud





by Jonathan Stempel

Reuters

July 31, 2014



NEW YORK



A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Bank of America Corp to pay a $1.27
billion penalty for fraud over shoddy mortgages sold by the former
Countrywide Financial Corp.



U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan ruled after a jury last
October found the second-largest U.S. bank liable for the sale by
Countrywide of defective loans to government-controlled mortgage companies
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac



Rakoff also ordered former mid-level Countrywide executive Rebecca
Mairone, who was also found liable and was the only individual charged, to
pay $1 million, citing her "leading role" in the fraud and calling some of
her testimony "implausible."



While the bank's penalty was below the $2.1 billion sought by the U.S.
Department of Justice, it marks another legal defeat for Bank of America
over its disastrous July 2008 purchase of Countrywide, which has cost tens
of billions of dollars in litigation, loan buybacks and write downs.



Bank of America has also held talks on another, potentially
multi-billion-dollar settlement to resolve separate government probes into
mortgage securities, including from Countrywide and its Merrill Lynch
unit.



"BRAZEN"



The case centered on a Countrywide lending program that ended around May
2008, and which was known as "High Speed Swim Lane," "HSSL" or "Hustle." 
Investigators said the program emphasized quantity over quality, rewarding
employees for producing more loans and eliminating checkpoints designed to
ensure the loans' quality.



"While the HSSL process lasted only nine months, it was from start to
finish the vehicle for a brazen fraud by the defendants, driven by a
hunger for profits and oblivious to the harms thereby visited, not just on
the immediate victims but also on the financial system as a whole," Rakoff
wrote.



The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank's liability was based on the
$2.96 billion that Rakoff said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac paid Countrywide
for 17,611 suspect Hustle loans.



Rakoff said this was the appropriate standard under the Financial
Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA), which was
adopted after the 1980s savings and loan scandal and the basis for Bank of
America's liability.



The $1.27 billion penalty reflected findings by a government expert that
only some of the loans had material defects, while others were acceptable,
Rakoff said.



"SCAPEGOATED"



Bank of America has said no penalty was justified, and spokesman Lawrence
Grayson said the $1.27 billion award "simply bears no relation to a
limited Countrywide program that lasted several months." An appeal is
possible, he said.



According to her LinkedIn page, Mairone, who now uses her maiden name
Rebecca Steele, recently started her own firm after working at Bank of
America and then JPMorgan Chase & Co . The government had sought $1.2
million from her.



"Rebecca never intended to defraud anyone and never did defraud anyone,"
her lawyer Marc Mukasey said. "Unfortunately, more powerful people chose
her as a scapegoat because they thought she was an easy target. We will
fight on to clear her name."



U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in New York said the verdict and penalties
show that mortgage fraud "cannot be viewed as simply another cost of doing
business in the financial world."



Bharara said it was the first case to impose civil penalties against a
bank and executive under FIRREA to punish mortgage fraud leading up to the
2008 financial crisis.



"I don't see much downside to an appeal, if this is the first time a judge
has imposed liability in this context," said Carl Tobias, a University of
Richmond law professor.



The case was originally brought by former Countrywide vice president
Edward O'Donnell, a whistleblower who later joined Fannie Mae. He declined
to comment.



Rakoff began by noting that the Justice Department has not brought
criminal charges over loan practices at Countrywide, widely seen as a key
factor in the recent U.S. housing crisis.



He also noted that Countrywide's three top officials, including former
Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo, settled U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission civil charges without addressing whether they did anything
wrong.



The case is U.S. ex rel O'Donnell v. Bank of America Corp et al, U.S.
District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-01422.





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