From annxpress at live.com  Fri May  1 10:44:02 2015
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:44:02 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Be the Next to Fire Wildlife Services
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 Heads up, activists.  I signed a petition to stop Wildlife Services from killing predators in Mendocino County, which was adopted, and now the Supes are hearing the issue at the May 5 meeting in Ukiah.  We need to chime in on comment time about this.  Ann
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 13:25:37 -0400
From: atwood at biologicaldiversity.org
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: Be the Next to Fire Wildlife Services


    
        Center for Biological Diversity
    
    
        Dear Ann,

Next Tuesday afternoon, May 5, we have a chance to put Mendocino County one step closer to fully severing its ties with Wildlife Services, the rogue government program that has, for years, been killing wild animals in our county with impunity. Since you live in this area and are an activist with the Center for Biological Diversity, I thought you'd be interested in knowing about this -- and I hope you'll consider coming to an important hearing: On May 5 the county's Board of Supervisors will hold a public meeting to discuss new ways forward, and it's our hope to pack the house in support of wildlife.



This meeting is a critical step in our effort to convince Mendocino County to transition its predator-control program away from the destructive, cruel tactics of USDA's Wildlife Services to a nonlethal program like the one in Marin County, which has successfully reduced predator conflicts by 62 percent since 2000. 



At the meeting our coalition partner Camilla Fox from Project Coyote will give a presentation on these proven, common-sense nonlethal alternatives that emphasize coexistence with coyotes, bears and mountain lions. I'd love for you to come -- to meet other activists, support Camilla and, if time allows, even testify during the comment period. 



The meeting will be sometime in the afternoon in the County Administration Building, 501 Low Gap Road, Room 1010, Ukiah, CA. And while we won't know the exact time until 72 hours prior to the meeting when the agenda is finalized, if you RSVP to me I'll keep you in the loop.



Learn more about the Center's work to reform Wildlife Services nationally and in Mendocino County.  



Thanks for all you do for the wild!



Amy Atwood

Endangered Species Legal Director

Center for Biological Diversity


 


 

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From marksafron at att.net  Fri May  1 11:32:53 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 11:32:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Picking Up the Tab for Low Wages - NYTimes
	Editorial
Message-ID: <8D1B7F3E-14E8-4E27-9790-DD194B9F1CD4@att.net>

(If you don?t want a ?welfare state,? raise the minimum wage. Yes, it?s that simple. M.S.) 
> 
> 
> Picking Up the Tab for Low Wages
> 
> It is hard to overstate the extent to which work no longer results in a decent paycheck and a rising standard of living in this country. The portion of the economic pie that goes to working people is currently near the smallest on record, in data going back to 1947 (!) Similarly, the gap between worker pay and labor productivity has widened since the 1970s. In a healthy economy, wages and productivity would rise in tandem, but in recent decades, productivity gains have flowed increasingly to executive compensation and shareholder returns, rather than wages.
> 
> These dynamics are not inevitable. Low-wage employers, in particular, pay low wages because they can and the main reason they can is that Congress has failed, over decades, to adequately update the minimum wage and other labor standards, including rules for overtime pay, employee benefits and union organizing.
> 
> That failure has had deep and perverse repercussions, extending beyond harming low-wage workers. As a recent report <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/business/economy/working-but-needing-public-assistance-anyway.html> in The Times by Patricia Cohen explained, when work does not pay workers enough to get by, they are forced to rely on public assistance programs, mainly Medicaid, food stamps and low-earner tax credits.
> 
> Nearly three-fourths of the people helped by public aid for the poor are members of families headed by someone who works, according to a new study <http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/the-high-public-cost-of-low-wages/> by the Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California. It estimates that state and federal governments spend more than $150 billion a year on such aid.
> 
> In one respect, this shows that the safety net, though strained and inadequate, is functioning. Low-earner tax credits, for instance, create an incentive to work by tying cash assistance to earnings. Other programs enable people to work by subsidizing health care, child care and transportation.
> 
> The problem is that as labor standards have eroded, allowing profitable corporations to pay chronically low wages, taxpayers are not only supporting the working poor, as intended, but also providing a huge subsidy for employers by picking up the difference between what workers earn and what they need to meet basic living costs. The low-wage business model has essentially turned public aid into a form of corporate welfare.
> 
> The best corrective is to raise the federal minimum wage. A new bill introduced <http://thehill.com/regulation/labor/240301-dems-push-for-12-minimum-wage> on Thursday by congressional Democrats would lift the minimum from its current level of $7.25 an hour to $12 an hour by 2020. At that level, there would still be a need for public aid to ensure that some working families are kept out of poverty. But that aid would decline as take-home pay increases, leaving workers ? and taxpayers ? better off. If a higher minimum wage were coupled with increased tax credits for low earners, the poverty fighting effects of the higher minimum would be amplified, further reducing the need for workers to use public aid for food and health care.
> 
> A handful of states are considering ways to recover public funds from low-wage employers, say, by requiring payment of a fee to the state for each worker who makes less than $15 an hour. In 2016, California will start publishing the names of employers that have more than 100 employees on Medicaid and how much these companies cost the state in public aid.
> 
> Depressed wages are the result of outdated policies and lack of public awareness, that may, at long last, be changing for the better.
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat May  2 13:57:59 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 13:57:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How Western media would cover Baltimore if it
	happened elsewhere - The Washington Post
Message-ID: <1D25CBCF-CB40-49EF-8080-959471D29D7E@att.net>

How this might look to the rest of the world:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/04/30/how-western-media-would-cover-baltimore-if-it-happened-elsewhere/?postshare=7591430415976021 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/04/30/how-western-media-would-cover-baltimore-if-it-happened-elsewhere/?postshare=7591430415976021>

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From marksafron at att.net  Sat May  2 19:32:23 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 19:32:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A good parody.
Message-ID: <95383463-0D8A-4A22-89E9-14FF17D9498A@att.net>

Definitely worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSsBYO1oNI#t=214 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSsBYO1oNI#t=214>
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue May  5 16:33:07 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 16:33:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] from John Fremont
Message-ID: <42A1DD47-15A1-47D0-B1AB-68B3633A4F56@att.net>

Please send the following to folks on your lists:
 
A community meeting to deal with important public issues will be held on Tuesday May 12 at 6 p.m. at Town Hall in Fort Bragg (Main and Laurel Streets). After hearing from attendees, discussion will focus on charters for Fort Bragg and Mendocino County: What is a charter? What are the pros and cons of becoming a charter city/county? 
 
We'll then discuss the agenda for future meetings (Hare Creek, Coast Hotel, Transfer Station, Mill Site, Move to Amend, etc.)
 
We'll be meeting monthly on the second Tuesday of the month. Come help us shape the future of the Mendocino coast.

Thank you.
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri May  8 08:44:48 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 08:44:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Los Angeles Sues Wells Fargo,
	Alleging Fraud by Employees - NYTimes.com
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(They?re still f**cking with us. M.S.) 
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/05/us/ap-us-wells-fargo-lawsuit.html?_r=0 <http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/05/us/ap-us-wells-fargo-lawsuit.html?_r=0>
> 
> Los Angeles Sues Wells Fargo, Alleging Fraud by Employees
> 
> LOS ANGELES ? Wells Fargo Bank employees driven by strict sales pressure issued unwanted credit cards and opened unauthorized accounts that charged customers fees and damaged their credit, according to a lawsuit filed by the city of Los Angeles.
> 
> The civil complaint filed Monday contends the largest California-based bank violated state and federal laws by misusing confidential information and failing to notify customers when personal information was breached, City Attorney Mike Feuer said at a Tuesday news conference.
> 
> "In its push for growth, Wells Fargo often elevated its profits over the legal rights of its customers," Feuer said.
> 
> The bank has blamed the problems on a few rogue employees who have been disciplined or fired and said it would defend itself.
> 
> "Wells Fargo's culture is focused on the best interests of its customers and creating a supportive, caring and ethical environment for our team members," the San Francisco-based bank said in a statement.
> 
> The city's investigation found only token efforts to prevent wrongdoing, according to court papers.
> 
> The complaint was filed under a law that allows attorneys representing large California cities to seek relief for unfair business practices for customers statewide.
> 
> The lawsuit seeks a court order ending the alleged practices along with penalties up to $2,500 for every violation and restitution for affected customers.
> 
> Feuer said the number of possible violations would be determined during a discovery process. If the suit prevails in Los Angeles County Superior Court, it would apply to county residents and possibly some customers farther away, he said.
> 
> Frank Ahn, who owns a convenience store and a coin-operated laundry in the San Fernando Valley, said he was repeatedly pressured over four years to open additional accounts at Wells Fargo. When he declined, the bank opened three savings accounts in his name anyway, Ahn said.
> 
> After he complained, the accounts were deleted, only to reappear again months later, he said.
> 
> "I just feel like every time I go to the branch, it's a battle with them," Ahn said at the news conference. "I've had more than 10 accounts at Wells Fargo. I only need one."
> 
> The bank had a culture of high-pressure sales that pushed employees toward fraudulent conduct," Feuer said. Employees misused customers' confidential information and often failed to close unauthorized accounts despite complaints, the suit said.
> 
> Some employees raided customer accounts for money to open more accounts, according to court papers.
> 
> "The result is that Wells Fargo has generated a virtual fee-generating machine, through which its customers are harmed, its employees take the blame, and Wells Fargo reaps the profit," the lawsuit claims.
> 
> The lawsuit focuses mostly on what's known in the industry as bundling, also called cross-selling, where bank employees try to sell multiple bank products to a customer who may have just come in to open an account or apply for a credit card.
> 
> Bundling and cross-selling has been a widely accepted practice in consumer banking for years, mostly without controversy.
> 
> Wells Fargo has had a long history of cross-selling and bundling, averaging more than six products per household, according to its latest annual report.
> 
> The lawsuit says Wells Fargo executives pushed employees to sell more than 10 products to customers based on whether they were a regular customer, had wealth-management accounts or were a business owner.
> 
> Branch employees had to sell a certain number of financial products each day, according to the complaint, even if there wasn't the foot traffic available to meet those quotas. Employees were also encouraged to sell multiple products to family members and friends to meet quotas.
> 
> __
> 
> Associated Press reporter Ken Sweet contributed to this report from New York.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue May 12 17:32:00 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 17:32:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] senate-democrats-block-fast-track-trade
Message-ID: <39C12EA4-5EBE-4AE2-BC64-FA83A171DC14@mcn.org>

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/12/tpp-suffers-major-defeat-senate-democrats-block-fast-track-trade-authority.html
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From annxpress at live.com  Fri May 15 11:15:05 2015
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 11:15:05 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?utf-8?q?FW=3A_You_have_a_message_about_Nick_R?=
 =?utf-8?q?odman=E2=80=99s_petition?=
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Stop Nestle from bottling our water in plastic and selling it back to us in a drought!
 
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri May 15 12:03:58 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 12:03:58 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Obama quotes Marx on banking regs.
Message-ID: <627C3759-CBEC-4BFA-B65A-59E291957581@att.net>

?Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?? Groucho Marx. I?m sorry, I just couldn?t resist writing a Fox ?news? headline. M.S.)  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/canada-volcker-rule_n_7285098.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/canada-volcker-rule_n_7285098.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063>
> 
Canada Just Threw A Grenade Into Elizabeth Warren's Trade Fight With Obama
> WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have been locked <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/25/elizabeth-warren-tells-ob_n_7142850.html> in a public feud <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/24/obama-tears-into-elizabet_n_7137854.html> over whether free trade agreements can be used to undermine the 2010 Wall Street reform law. On Wednesday, the Canadian government sided with Warren.
> 
> Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver gave a speech <http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/volcker-rule-in-bank-reforms-violates-nafta-joe-oliver-argues-1.3072466> in New York arguing that the Volcker Rule -- a key tenet of the 2010 banking law -- violates the North American Free Trade Agreement. The move underscores Warren's warning that such deals, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Obama is currently negotiating, jeopardize financial reform.
> 
> The Volcker Rule bars banks operating in the U.S. from speculating in securities markets for their own profit -- a risky activity that can put taxpayers on the hook for big bailouts if the bank bets turn sour. But there are exceptions to the rule. For instance, banks are allowed to hold U.S. government debt in their own accounts.
> 
> But those same banks aren't allowed to trade in Canadian government debt. Oliver thinks that's a NAFTA violation. Although he didn't lay out his argument in detail on Wednesday, NAFTA, like the TPP, generally bans countries from discriminating against each other's financial services. NAFTA prohibits policies that limit cross-border trade in financial services and requires the U.S. to treat Canadian companies the same way that it treats U.S. companies.
> 
> The U.S. Treasury Department vociferously rejected Oliver's claim in a statement provided to HuffPost.
> 
> "The Volcker Rule is clearly not a violation of NAFTA or any other trade agreement, all of which explicitly safeguard the ability of the United States to protect the integrity and stability of our financial system," a Treasury spokesperson said. "The Volcker Rule is a key prudential financial regulation that prohibits risky proprietary trading while protecting taxpayers and the depth, liquidity, and stability of U.S. capital markets. NAFTA does not weaken our ability to implement Wall Street Reform now or in the future, and neither would any trade agreement we're negotiating."
> 
> It's true that NAFTA contains an exemption for "prudential" regulation, and financial reform watchdogs strongly agree with the Treasury Department's interpretation. But it's not an airtight case.
> 
> Sorting out whether the Volcker Rule qualifies for that exemption is the sort of thing that a court would traditionally determine under U.S. law, and U.S. courts typically give significant deference to the views of the executive branch. U.S. courts, however, don't have jurisdiction over NAFTA or any other free trade pact. International tribunals do.
> 
> "The administration can say whatever it wants about its interpretation of these trade agreements," said Marcus Stanley, policy director at Americans for Financial Reform, a Wall Street watchdog group. "The problem is, under the terms of these agreements, they are not going to be interpreting them. Private tribunals of trade lawyers are going to be interpreting them, and there are going to be plenty of openings, as this shows, to make claims that critical prudential regulations conflict with trade agreements. And eventually one of those is going to win out."
> 
> Treasury has known about Oliver's objection to the Volcker Rule for more than a year. As far back as 2011, a lobbying group representing Canadian banks claimed that the Volcker Rule runs afoul of NAFTA <http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/IIACVolckerNAFTA.pdf> in arguments presented to U.S. regulators. But none of this turmoil prevented Obama from flatly rejecting Warren's contention that trade agreements, particularly the TPP, can be used to attack financial standards.
> 
> "The notion that corporate America is going to be able to use this provision to eliminate our financial regulations and our food safety regulations and our consumer regulations -- that's just bunk," Obama told reporters <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/24/obama-tears-into-elizabet_n_7137854.html> in an April conference call. "It's not true."
> 
> In the same discussion, the president also suggested that Warren's trade warnings were "dishonest" and constituted "misinformation."
> 
> Canada may not opt to pursue a NAFTA case against the U.S. over the Volcker Rule. If it doesn't, Canadian banks won't have the right to sue on their own because NAFTA bars individual companies from suing sovereign nations over most financial services violations.
> 
> But the TPP would be different, according to congressional briefings by the U.S. Trade Representative, which are reflected in a December letter <http://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/TPP.pdf> from Warren to Ambassador Michael Froman, the top Obama trade official. The TPP wouldn't just empower foreign governments to sue the U.S. over bank regulations; it would allow individual companies and investors to bring such cases.
> 
> Under the "investor-state dispute settlement" process, an international tribunal cannot overrule a law or regulation, but it can assess financial penalties to encourage countries to change said law or regulation. In the past, under other trade deals, the mere existence of such cases has sometimes pressured governments into abandoning non-financial services regulations.
> 
> Moreover, the TPP would reportedly allow foreign banks to sue the U.S. government for failing to provide them with a "minimum standard of treatment." The term is vaguely defined, but international tribunals have interpreted it very broadly to make corporations eligible to receive damages for lost profits caused by policy changes that occurred after they invested in a country. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) raised similar concerns in her own December letter <http://democrats.financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2014.12.01_house_letter_to_administration_on_financial_services_in_ttip.pdf> to Froman over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a pending trade deal with Europe.
> 
> 
> Obama's "bunk" comments referenced investor-state dispute settlement. In the same call, he insisted that progressives should see the TPP as a major step forward from NAFTA.(?!?)
> 
> But some of the world's largest and most powerful banks are headquartered in Europe (covered under the TTIP) and Japan (part of the TPP talks).
> 
> "If our trading partners are already invoking existing U.S. trade pacts to issue clear threats against Wall Street reform, why would we undertake an unprecedented expansion of this trade model's threat to financial stability by fast-tracking TPP and TTIP?" asked Ben Beachy, research director at Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.
> 
> Financial watchdogs worry that future administrations will not share Obama's commitment to the Volcker Rule and other safeguards, making them more willing to cave in the face of trade pact pressure.
> 
> "If we have a future president who interprets this differently, we're going to be in a lot of trouble," said Stanley.
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Sun May 17 20:43:56 2015
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 20:43:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] petition about tracking police killings nationally
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt5uZJWzWSxSA9C7MK2-MhKWWuv0XMiC0ydZweyu7FDJng@mail.gmail.com>

Sign the petition: The U.S. needs to track police killings nationally
<http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/the-us-need-to-track?source=mo&id=116347-7358665-VjsGPYx>
By Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org
*Tell the U.S. Attorney General of the Department of Justice:*
<http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/the-us-need-to-track?source=mo&id=116347-7358665-VjsGPYx>

Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray. How many Black and
brown people are killed by police every year? Even as communities of color
suffer great losses, national leaders are not collecting data on the scale
of police use of force and violence, although a bill recently passed by
Congress gives the attorney general all the power necessary to gather this
critical information.

It's time for the Department of Justice to collect and publish official
nationwide data on police killings, the use of force, and arrests, broken
down by race and other demographic factors. When doing this, the DOJ must
provide key privacy protections, including the exclusion of personally
identifying information and deportation immunity for civilians.
<http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/the-us-need-to-track?source=mo&id=116347-7358665-VjsGPYx>

Sign Rashad's petition
<http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/the-us-need-to-track?source=mo&id=116347-7358665-VjsGPYx>
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue May 19 11:31:06 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:31:06 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Exciting News (If you're a banker)
Message-ID: <F31BC234-02B1-4E54-934C-588EC4A09206@att.net>

CLICK ON LINK FOR BETTER GRAPHICS:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/upshot/wall-street-is-back-almost-as-big-as-ever.html?emc=edit_th_20150519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=35653813&abt=0002&abg=0 <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/upshot/wall-street-is-back-almost-as-big-as-ever.html?emc=edit_th_20150519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=35653813&abt=0002&abg=0>
> 
> Wall Street Is Back, Almost as Big as Ever
> 
> Continue reading the main story
> Dot-com crash, 9/11 attacks
> 
> What Wall Street workers make,
> compared with all workers
> 
> 
> Despite the 2008 financial crisis, financial industry pay has maintained a much higher pay than other workers compared to most of the 20th century.
> 
> Major investment banks have raised their standard base salary this spring for recent college graduates to $85,000, the first rise after five years in which the salaries hovered near $70,000.
> 
> At the complex in Lower Manhattan formerly known as the World Financial Center, the vacancy rate ? which soared to 41 percent after Merrill Lynch consolidated offices after the financial crisis ? is now less than 5 percent.
> 
> And in a return of high-stakes deal-making, large American companies executed more mergers and acquisitions last year than they did the year before the global financial crisis, earning huge fees for their Wall Street advisers in the process.
> 
> Seven years after a crisis that shook Wall Street to its core, the financial sector?s economic imprint has largely recovered. The number of people working in the securities business nationally has returned to 2007 levels, as has the gap between the compensation of Wall Street workers and that of everyone else. The financial sector as a whole is reporting profits that are as large a share of the overall economy as in the early 2000s and more than double their average level over the 70 years ended in 1999.
> 
> Photo
> 
> 
> In Manhattan?s financial district, hiring has rebounded and vacancy rates have fallen since the financial crisis began. Credit Christopher Gregory for The New York Times
> The recovery of the biggest banks is not total. Executives of top banks complain of expansive new regulations that have led them to shed  <http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/30/us-ubs-restructure-idUSBRE89S0DM20121030>business <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/business/dealbook/general-electric-to-sell-bulk-of-its-finance-unit.html>es  <http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324682204578513583116318610>and shrink their balance sheets, potentially hindering their ability to help financial markets weather any new tremors, as JPMorgan Chase?s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, recently warned <http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/09/news/jp-morgan-dimon-next-crisis/>. The biggest pay packages for executives are rarer now, and Wall Street firms also face sharp competition from Silicon Valley for the brightest young workers. But overall measures of the financial sector?s role in the economy suggest that ? even as some individual firms and former Wall Street titans have been on their heels ? the financial industry as a whole is nearly as large as it has ever been.
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> The industry?s recovery is strong and broad enough to suggest that the great financial crisis of the early 21st century will have an effect different from that of its 20th-century counterpart. In the aftermath of the Great Depression <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/great_depression_1930s/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>, the nation?s finance industry shrank severely ? and remained in a humbled state for most of the next four decades. The economy boomed in this period, with no major financial crises and less income inequality than in recent decades.
> 
> This time, Wall Street has largely returned to a state more reminiscent of the go-go 2000s than of the middle decades of the 20th century. Average pay per full-time worker in the securities industry averaged 2.2 times that of the average American worker for the 70 years that ended in 1999 and peaked at 4.2 in 2007. It has rebounded to 3.6 times as high in 2013, and looks likely to have risen further since then.
> 
> ?Everybody thought in 2008 it was the end of the world,? said Noah Schwarz, a partner at the executive recruitment firm Korn Ferry who specializes in the financial industry. ?In 2009 and 2010 there were still all these questions of whether things would come back. It?s been a long time, but in the last 18 months or so you?ve seen a real shift for the better.?
> 
> Not everyone, however, agrees that the recovery is for the better. Last week, the International Monetary Fund released a report <http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1508.pdf> arguing that the financial sector in several major countries, including the United States, was too large. It is the latest in a growing body of research that says a large financial sector can be a negative for the overall economy.
> 
> A dominant financial sector may actually crimp economic growth and living standards for most people. It can drain talented workers from the rest of the economy and create damaging boom-and-bust cycles. A large financial sector creates lots of new vehicles through which consumers and businesses can take on debt, and the rise of debt levels creates vulnerability in which small shocks to the economy can translate into huge swings. The central job of banks, investment firms and the like is to funnel capital toward its most productive uses, and there is scant evidence that the sector did that job better when it was a bigger share of the economy, as in the 1990s and 2000s, than in the preceding decades.
> 
> Continue reading the main story
> The securities industry accounts for a larger share of private-sector jobs than a decade ago.
> 
> Securities industry employment as share of all private-sector employment
> 
> Dot-com crash, 9/11 attacks, corporate scandals
> 
> 
> Stephen Cecchetti, an economist at the Brandeis International Business School, has studied <http://www.bis.org/publ/work490.pdf> the relationship between the size of a country?s financial sector and how its economy performs, and has found <http://www.bis.org/publ/work381.pdf> that a very large financial sector tends to precede weaker growth in productivity, which is the lifeblood of economic growth.
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> ?When pay on Wall Street <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/for-the-highest-paid-ceos-the-party-goes-on.html?_r=1&gwh=D51433A95C6C10758BD7D62FBC0DEC72&gwt=pay> is so high relative to the rest of the economy, you?re creating incentives for people to go into that industry that may not be the best for society over all,? Mr. Cecchetti said.
> 
> Research from Thomas Philippon of New York University suggests the United States financial industry has become less efficient <http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/conference/2011/NYAMP/Fed_Philippon_v1.pdf> over the last 130 years at channeling capital toward productive use. And this same phenomenon may be <http://www.demos.org/publication/financialization-equal-opportunity> a major contributor to rising inequality.
> 
> ?While there is no doubt that a developed economy needs a sophisticated financial sector,? said Luigi Zingales, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, in his presidential address <http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/luigi.zingales/papers/research/Finance.pdf> to the American Finance Association this year, ?there is no theoretical reason or empirical evidence to support the notion that all the growth of the financial sector in the last 40 years has been beneficial to society.?
> 
> The proper role of the financial sector is even shaping up to be a major political clash in 2016 and beyond ? though one that cuts across the usual ideological lines. Populists on the left and right argue that finance remains too big and powerful, and that legislation should seek to clip the industry?s wings, as in a proposal from Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, aimed at making bank bailouts less likely. Financial lobbyists and their allies in Congress say that the regulations already being adopted are extremely burdensome and obstacles to growth.
> 
> People who work in recruiting for the industry describe rising opportunities, even as the details of who is hiring shift.
> 
> Continue reading the main story
> Financial Industry Profits Are Near a High Relative to the Economy
> 
> Financial sector after-tax profit as percentage of G.D.P.
> 
> 
> ?Hiring is healthy, but also selective,? said Timothy Holt, a partner at the executive recruiter Heidrick & Struggles. Banks that would once poach executives by offering guaranteed two- and three-year contracts will now commit to only one. And many of the opportunities are not in the household name Wall Street firms, many of which do still have smaller staff levels than before the crisis.
> 
> ?Candidates are open to thinking about less conventional paths,? Mr. Holt said. ?There used to be such an emphasis on the large, bulge bracket banks <http://www.streetofwalls.com/articles/investment-banking/learn-the-basics/bulge-bracket-investment-banks/>, but the crisis has served to diversify options,? including hiring in boutique investment banks, regional banks and foreign banks looking for a foothold in the United States.
> 
> It shows up in real estate in New York and other financial centers. Brookfield Place, the former World Financial Center, may have ended up with the equivalent of the Empire State Building <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/empire_state_building/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> in vacant space after Merrill Lynch consolidated with its parent company Bank of America in Midtown. But it has filled up in the last two years with new tenants, including Jane Street Capital, a proprietary trading firm, and the Bank of New York Mellon. (Other new tenants came from outside the financial world).
> 
> Major banks have lost some smart young people to the technology industry but are hardly giving up the fight. They are moving their recruiting cycles earlier, said Barbara Hewitt, senior associate director of career services at the University of Pennsylvania, where she works with undergraduates in the Wharton School. Internship offers to college juniors that once went out in the spring are now going out before Christmas. And the banks are intensifying efforts to get access to students early in their college careers, such as through casual coffees, to get their name and message out to potential future hires.
> 
> It took years after the Great Depression <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/great_depression_1930s/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> hit in 1929 for its impact to fully ripple through the financial industry. The sector actually accounted for a bigger portion of worker pay in 1933 than it did in 1929, though that probably reflects the fact that compensation for workers in other industries was plummeting during that time.
> 
> Eventually, though, more aggressive financial regulation <http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/credit_crisis/financial_regulatory_reform/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> made banking less lucrative, putting downward pressure on employment and pay. World War II <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/world_war_ii_/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> and the rebound of other sectors meant banking?s share of the economy shrank, to a modern low of less than 1 percent of total pay in 1944.
> 
> Looking at time horizons like that, the seven years since the global financial crisis isn?t so long. The question for the financial sector is whether the lower profits and aggressive regulation of postcrisis Wall Street will, over time, lead to a lower economic imprint: fewer workers making less money. But there is so far little evidence that that is actually happening.
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> ?There?s a sense on Wall Street that they still want to get the best and brightest,? Ms. Hewitt said. ?That?s something that never changes.?
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri May 22 20:02:35 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 20:02:35 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nobel laureate urges world leaders to give all
	girls 12 years at school
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http://www.trust.org/item/20150521113403-bn1x0/

Nobel laureate Malala urges world leaders to give all girls 12 years at school

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri May 22 20:18:01 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 20:18:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Supermarkets donate unsold food to charities.
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http://www.france24.com/en/20150522-france-law-supermarkets-donate-unsold-food-charities

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri May 22 20:28:19 2015
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Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 20:28:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Post on occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org
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Hey Dan,   Feel free to post your articles for  Facebook on our listserve:   occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org

Just send an email with the web address of the article. 

I've been forwarding some of the great items you post, but think others who don't use FB would like to read too.
( A bunch of Occupy people don't want to use Facebook...)


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun May 24 08:39:08 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 08:39:08 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] NSA Bulk Phone Records Collection to End Despite
	USA Freedom Act Failure
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http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/30346-nsa-bulk-phone-records-collection-to-end-despite-usa-freedom-act-failure


NSA Bulk Phone Records Collection to End Despite USA Freedom Act Failure
'It represents a quiet, unceremonious end to the most domestically acrimonious NSA program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, in a June 2013...
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon May 25 17:25:30 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 17:25:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Repeal SGR, but don't privatize Medicare
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> Action Alert
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> Health care is a human right!
> March 25, 2015
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> Dear colleague,
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> I urge you to take action today to contact your members of Congress and your medical society and urge them to stop the rush to pass the ?doc fix? bill in its current form.
> 
> As Dr. Don McCanne, PNHP?s senior health policy fellow, noted his Quote of the Day this morning, ?In the fervor to finally rid us of the flawed SGR model of setting Medicare payment rates, Congress is about to pass legislation (H.R. 1470) that includes ill-advised, misguided and detrimental policies that could cause irreparable harm to our traditional Medicare program.? (Yesterday the working version of the bill became H.R. 2 and was renamed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.)
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> Those harmful changes are summarized below, in the ?Backgrounder on the 2015 SGR ?doc fix?? prepared by Dr. Ida Hellander, our director of health policy and programs. 
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> To contact your representative or senator, call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. An operator will connect you. (You can find more ways to contact your representative here and your senators here. For detailed recommendations about needed changes to the legislation, see Dr. McCanne?s comment today.)
> 
> Please let your medical society know of your concerns as well.
> 
> Time is of the essence; the vote is likely to take place tomorrow. 
> 
> Needless to say, we wouldn?t be facing this kind of problem if Congress had enacted single-payer legislation such as H.R. 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act.
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> Cordially,
> 
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> 
> Robert Zarr, M.D., M.P.H.
> President
> pres.zarr at pnhp.org
> 
> 
> Backgrounder on the 2015 SGR 'doc fix'
> 
> Trojan horse for Medicare privatization
> 
> By Ida Hellander, M.D.
> 
> The bipartisan "Doc Fix" legislation (H.R. 1470, now H.R. 2) and proposed amendments will undermine traditional Medicare and advance the goal of privatization, according to Dr. Don McCanne in a series of posts to his popular health policy blog, the Quote of the Day. If enacted as it presently reads, it will:
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> 1. Limit choice of physician in traditional Medicare. Physicians in traditional Medicare would be subject to onerous new documentation requirements for payment and financial incentives to avoid complex patients under the proposed "Merit-based Incentive Payment System."  The additional paperwork burden will push physicians to stop seeing patients with traditional Medicare, retire, avoid older and sicker patients, or go to work for large organizations using ?alternative payment models? (which are exempt from the requirement and more likely to have contracts with private Medicare plans).
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> 2. Reduce access to care in traditional Medicare. Imposes a deductible that cannot be covered by Medigap insurance (starting in 2020) to encourage patients to join a private plan. The current Part B deductible is $147 annually, although that figure has been rising in recent years; 95 percent of traditional Medicare beneficiaries have supplemental insurance that covers the deductible and other cost sharing in Medicare. The only way to avoid the deductible in the future will be to join a private Medicare Advantage plan.
> 
> 3. Raise Medicare?s costs by driving more patients into private Medicare Advantage plans. Private plans have already cost Medicare an excess of more than $282 billion since 1985. Mandatory deductibles and reduced access to physicians in traditional Medicare will drive more patients into private Medicare Advantage plans, which are more costly than the cost of caring for patients in the traditional fee-for-service program. Although Obamacare was supposed to reduce the amount the private plans are overpaid (the ?Medicare cuts? in Obamacare), these have been mostly offset by ?adjustments? and ?quality awards? by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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> 4. Undermine Medicare's popular support by requiring higher income seniors to pay higher premiums (means testing). Under means-tested premiums, higher-income individuals will be required to pay larger premiums, undermining the support of this influential group for Medicare program. Although the income subject to extra premiums is high, it can always be reduced in the future.
> 
> 5. Ending the SGR should cost $20 billion, not $210 billion. These drastic measures aren't even necessary. According to Bruce Vladeck, a former top administrator at Medicare, ?Since the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) was implemented in 1998, total Medicare physician expenditures have exceeded the allowed amounts by only $20 billion (on a total of almost $1 trillion). To recoup that all in one year would require a 21 percent reduction in fees for one year. And those reduced fees would then become the base for payment levels in all subsequent years. In a rational world, Congress would write off the $20 billion as a relatively small policy error and establish a more realistic prospective formula. But under Congressional budget rules, the cost of doing so is not $20 billion, but $20 billion per year, compounded by inflation, times 10 years.?
> 
> 6. The GOP sees this bill as a step towards their longer-term goal of turning Medicare into a voucher program for private plans, shifting more costs onto patients. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., a staunch conservative, told the Washington Post he is supporting the bill because it will lead to much greater savings beyond the traditional 10-year time frame for estimating costs. Newt Gingrich stated the GOP?s goal succinctly in 1996: ?Now, we don't get rid of it [Medicare] in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it -- voluntarily.?
> 
> 7. Other features:
> 
> Continues funding for safety-net programs
> * Two-year extension for CHIP
> * Two-year ($7.2 billion) extension for Community Health Centers
> 
> Restricts abortion, adds funds for war
> * Makes Hyde Amendment permanent law. Since the ACA is a permanent statute, any amendment to any part of the ACA becomes part of U.S. Code.
> * $94 billion in additional military spending in an ?off-budget account.?
> 
> Dr. Ida Hellander is director of health policy and programs at Physicians for a National Health Program.
> 
> 
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon May 25 17:30:45 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 17:30:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Clearcuts, Global Warming and Sisyphus
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***  ~~~  Good Talk From Humboldt  ~~~  BC

One very special THP!                   by Dan Zimmerman...

Clearcuts, Global Warming and Sisyphus
The story of Sisyphus is a perfect metaphor for the struggle by activists to end the destructive 
practice of clearcuts and short term rotations in forests worldwide. Even when a clearcut plan is 
successfully fought, it will usually pop up again in a later plan and the trees will still be cut, but just 
like Sisyphus, activists will still push the rock back up the hill. Initially we fought to save the forests 
for their beauty as well as their biological significance. Then we learned of all the species that were 
negatively impacted by this form of intensive management, many going extinct, and fought to save 
those. Now we realize that allowing forests to grow to maturity is the only hope we have for saving all 
of life from extinction brought on by global warming, and the fight becomes a moral imperative. 

The first step in this process is awareness of the truth, but without an understanding of the lies 
that are being passed off as truth, there is no hope for true awareness, and when it comes to forestry 
there is no greater lie than the one that says cutting young forests will help end global warming, as can 
be seen in this quote from an industry website;

?Did you know that carbon accounts for around 50% the dry weight of a tree? When trees are 
harvested and manufactured into products, this carbon remains stored for the life of the wood 
product.....One of the best ways to address climate change is to use more wood, as it is the most 
abundant, biodegradable and renewable material on our planet!?

This is a lie based on three absurd concepts. One, that all of the forest will end up as a finished 
wood product. Two, that this wood will stay in use for 100 years and this is long enough to be effective 
in combating global warming, and three, that a young forest takes in the most carbon, and very little as 
the tree matures beyond that point. The following refutes these claims.

Lie #1. Very little of the carbon in a forest will end up in a finished wood product. Roughly 60%
of the carbon in a young growth redwood and fir forest is found in the leaves, branches, stump, roots 
and soil (Jandl 2007, Bonan 2008, Thomas and Martin 2012), all of which is left to decompose or be 
burned, releasing most of it's CO2 to the atmosphere in a short period of time. 

Lie #2. Of that which makes it to the mill, roughly 20% of the forest carbon will end up in a 
finished product, the rest is mill waste to be burnt or put in a landfill where it is converted to methane. 
Of that which does become a wood product, most of this will be in use for less than 40 years (Smith 
2006, Gower 2006, Ingerson 2009, Skog 2008). Of the 1% that does stay in use for 100 years, this is 
still not to be considered long term sequestration, as it only means that this carbon will enter the 
atmosphere when sequestration is most needed. The conservative IPCC states that by 2100 we need to 
be carbon neutral or carbon negative worldwide or expect the worst.

Lie #3. As a tree matures it adds ever greater amounts of carbon to it's structure. This is 
especially true for conifer forests in Northern California. The following quotes from recent research 
highlight this fact; ?The oldest tree we measured produced more heartwood in its main trunk over 651 
years (351 m3) than contained in any tree we measured <1500 years old. Increasing wood production 
as trees age is a mechanism underlying the maintenance of biomass accumulation during forest 
development and the carbon-sink capacity of old-growth forests? (Sillett 2009). ?Large, old trees do 
not act simply as senescent carbon reservoirs but actively fix large amounts of carbon compared to 
smaller trees; at the extreme, a single big tree can add the same amount of carbon to the forest within a
year as is contained in an entire mid-sized tree? (Stephenson 2014). 

If the biomass of a tree is 50% carbon, and that biomass is growing ever greater as the tree 
matures, then it's storage of carbon is also increasing as it matures, and not visa versa as the timber 
industry claims. This is an important fact to understand as it negates all rationales put forth by the 
industry to justify their actions. Intensive management of forests is allowed because the timber industry
has convinced state and federal regulators that clearcutting forests on short term rotations is good for 
the environment and helps alleviate climate change.

Not only are intensively managed forests carbon emitters, those forests, if left to grow, are the 
most important form of sequestration that we know of. Solving the climate crisis involves not only 
reducing emissions, but removing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it as well, and there are
only two natural forms of sequestration that can accomplish this as all man made forms are untested, 
exorbitantly expensive and many years away from implementation. 

The two types of natural sequestration are the ocean, and plant/soil life. For many years 
scientists believed that the oceans absorbed the greatest amount, but recent research has shown the 
opposite to be true, that forests were the greatest carbon sink on the planet (Pan 2011). They also found 
that all other forms of plant life (brush, agriculture etc) were insignificant in their role as carbon sinks. 
This is a quote from one of the lead researchers, Dr. Simon Lewis; "Humans are altering the world's 
forests in a number of ways.....Our research shows these changes are having globally important 
impacts, which highlights the critical role forests play in the global cycling of carbon and therefore the 
speed and severity of future climate change."

This point has also been stressed by Andrea Tuttle, former head of CDF. ?Forests are a huge 
carbon-storage bank, and represent our largest opportunity to remove carbon dioxide already in the 
atmosphere. When forests are lost to development, fire or degradation, they become a major source of 
emissions. (Tuttle 2015)

Of the two forms of sequestration available to us, the only beneficial one is forest sequestration,
as ocean sequestration increases acidity and kills aquatic life. Add to that the fact that a mature forest 
helps stem the extinction crisis by providing old growth dependent species with a home, while 
producing clean water and clean air, and the need to let forests mature worldwide becomes paramount. 

All of the above is especially true for redwood forests. The redwood tree can take in more 
carbon than any other living thing while sequestering that carbon longer than any other living thing, 
anywhere from 1000 to 3000 years. That is the type of long term sequestration that we desperately need
in order to solve the climate crisis, and clearcutting a forest on short rotations is the opposite of this 
type of sequestration. A young redwood tree ready for short rotation harvest might weigh roughly 
50,000 pounds. This equates to approximately 25,000 pounds of carbon. If that tree is cut down, over 
half of that carbon will enter the atmosphere in a short period of time with most of the rest emitted over
the next 40 years. If that tree is left to grow to maturity it will remove from the atmosphere 6,000,000 
pounds of carbon and sequester 2,000,000 pounds or more in the bole of the tree and the rest in the soil.

The timber industry points out that once a forest is cut the newly planted forest will begin to 
take in carbon as it grows. What they don't state is that 40 years later the cycle of cut and release of 
carbon begins all over again. None of this is beneficial, nor is it a solution for solving the climate crisis.
They are turning our forests into continuous emitters of carbon instead of letting them do the job that 
only they can do, save us from a catastrophe. If left uncut, all of the carbon in that forest will stay 
where it is, sequestered for hundreds and thousands of years, with ever greater amounts added to it as 
the forest matures. This is the truth that they try to hide from us.

At this point in time we can't wait for the timber industry or government regulators to finally 
admit the obvious and start helping us to solve the crisis we face. It is time for every citizen of this 
country to stand up and force the change that is desperately needed. The following quote is from the 
Oslo Principles; ?The biosphere, all forms of life within it and the ecological processes that maintain 
all living organisms are part of the common heritage of humanity. Human beings, because of their 
unique nature and capacities, have an essential duty as guardians and trustees of the Earth to preserve,
protect and sustain the biosphere and the full diversity of life within it....Avoiding severe global 
catastrophe is a moral and legal imperative. To the extent that human activity endangers the biosphere,
particularly through the effects of human activity on the global climate, all States and enterprises have 
an immediate moral and legal duty to prevent the deleterious effects of climate change.? 

Wildman (AKA Dan Zimmerman), 
Northcoast Ocean and River Protection Association (NORPA), Trinidad, CA.
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon May 25 18:38:09 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 18:38:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Voice From the 1%
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A good read:
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/21/1028500/-A-Voice-From-the-1?detail=emailclassic <https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/21/1028500/-A-Voice-From-the-1?detail=emailclassic>
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue May 26 19:10:12 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 19:10:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Volunteers needed for FilmFestival
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Just came in.  Save $11. and have fun behind the scenes.
Hello All!

The Mendocino Film Festival is this weekend Friday, May 29th, Saturday, May
30th and Sunday, May 31st.

There are open Volunteer Shifts each day.

This year the Film Festival celebrates it's 10th Anniversary and includes
an incredible variety of films to choose from. Come help provide a fun and
wonderful experience for our local community and for the many out of town
visitors who will be coming to this destination film festival.

If you are interested and available to volunteer,
Please e-mail us at: Volunteer at mendocinofilmfestival.org

See you at the Festival!
Sherry Bell
Volunteer Coordinator
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Sun May 31 20:58:32 2015
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene L. Malone)
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 20:58:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Pledge to wear orange for National Gun
	Violence Awareness Day
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> From: "Heidi Hess, CREDO Action" <act at credoaction.com>
> Date: May 31, 2015 7:12:44 AM PDT
> To: "Irene Malone" <irenelsm at mcn.org>
> Subject: Pledge to wear orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day
> Reply-To: "Heidi Hess, CREDO Action" <act at credoaction.com>
>
>
>
> Wear orange on June 2
> Dear Irene,
>
> Gun violence is an epidemic in the United States, with 88 people  
> killed by gun violence every day. There are countless common sense  
> strategies to help end this epidemic, but the NRA has a chokehold  
> on Congress, as well as many state legislatures, so change won?t  
> come without a fight.
>
> One powerful way to join the fight is to help make clear to  
> lawmakers and the media that a majority of Americans want an end to  
> gun violence. That?s why CREDO has joined forces with our friends  
> at Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for  
> Gun Safety to participate in the first National Gun Violence  
> Awareness Day on June 2.
>
> Next Tuesday, people who believe we must do more to end gun  
> violence in our country will wear orange to be seen and heard in  
> every community across America. Click here to join them.
>
>
> Hunters wear orange for gun safety, as a way to protect their own  
> lives and the lives of others. It's a symbol for the value of human  
> life. Wearing orange next Tuesday is a visual affirmation of the  
> right of every American to live a life free from gun violence.
>
> Wear Orange and National Gun Violence Prevention Day were inspired  
> by teens who asked their classmates to commemorate the life of a  
> slain friend ? Hadiya Pendleton ? by wearing orange. Hadiya marched  
> in President Obama?s second inaugural parade in 2013 and was shot  
> and killed a week later in a park near her home in Chicago. June 2  
> would have been Hadiya?s 18th birthday.
>
> Gun violence touches every corner of America ? in fact, just last  
> weekend 33 people were shot in Chicago alone. We don't have to live  
> in a country where shootings happen every day. If we all stand up  
> together and demand change, we will succeed. Click the link below  
> to sign the pledge:
>
> http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Wear_Orange? 
> t=5&akid=14502.2103749.Yhh5W1
>
> Thank you for being part of this movement,
>
> Heidi Hess, Campaign Manager
> CREDO Action from Working Assets
>
> Add your name:
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