From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov  1 08:26:05 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 08:26:05 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Expand Social Security
Message-ID: <A8F741C8-0EBB-4213-8B68-18822760756C@mcn.org>

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11741

Get the House on the Record

Last Spring ? thanks to your hard work ? over 90% of Senate Democrats went on record supporting Social Security expansion. Now we have a chance to do the same in the House.

As recently as 2013, many Democrats including President Obama indicated a willingness to cut Social Security benefits. But things are changing quickly in Washington.

Right now, 43 out of 46 Senate Democrats and two out of three Democratic presidential candidates are on record supporting expansion. If we can increase our numbers in the House, we can demonstrate overwhelming support for expansion within the Democratic Party.

Please email your Representative today and ask them to go on record supporting Social Security expansion.

If your Representative is already a sponsor, they still need to hear from you! Our tool will automatically load a "thank you" message to representatives who are already co-sponsors.

Current Supporters

Subject:  
Your Letter:  

Rep. Jared Huffman

District: CA02
Phone:(202) 225-5161
Fax:(202) 225-5163
Welcome back!
For your convenience, we have filled out your form with the information you provided previously from postal code 95460. 

Not rkarch at mcn.org? Please click here. Thank you! 
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Complete the steps above to send your message directly to your Representative in the House.

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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Mon Nov  2 13:49:33 2015
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (she-la)
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:49:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] KZYX Board Meeting in F.B. at Senior Center
	tonight at 6p.m.
Message-ID: <j8qytlxjna90g2tpdw4lhhq1.1446500973018@email.android.com>

  Hi, 
 Just a reminder for anyone who wants to give input to the Board on how to make the station more responsive to its listeners or anything else that concerns you. If you want to tell them what a great job their doing, I'm sure they would love to hear that as well. 
  Out of eight current Board members, only Meg Courtney live on the coast. She is currently the Board President and gets to determine what gets put on the agenda. 
   I hope to see a good showing of the coast community.
   If someone could copy this to the much listserve , I would appreciate it greatly.

    Onward in Peace, 
     Sheila Dawn

From nlnelson at mcn.org  Wed Nov  4 11:08:25 2015
From: nlnelson at mcn.org (nlnelson at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 11:08:25 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Share this: Stop the GOP lawsuit]
Message-ID: <2b63ecf2bf4c4be54980408e9471d66a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


just in case all the occupiers did not see this.....

Nancy



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Subject: Share this: Stop the GOP lawsuit
From:    "petition at endcitizensunited.org" <admin at endcitizensunited.org>
Date:    Wed, November 4, 2015 10:37 am
To:      nlnelson at mcn.org
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Thanks for signing our petition denouncing the GOP lawsuit against
President Obama.

Will you help us keep up our momentum by forwarding this and asking three
friends to add their names too?

http://act.endcitizensunited.org/republican-lawsuit

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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Fri Nov  6 13:55:36 2015
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene L. Malone)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:55:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] planning meeting
Message-ID: <3C5F7F7F-BE77-4799-82D0-3CA997FE065A@mcn.org>

Planning meeting tomorrow, Nov. 7 from 12 Noon to 2 PM at the Senior  
Center in Fort Bragg.



From marksafron at att.net  Sat Nov  7 14:13:52 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 14:13:52 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Too late
Message-ID: <C3F57840-2B42-40CB-8D40-113962535B85@att.net>

Messages need to be sent out a day earlier. This message arrived on Sat. @ 12 noon.
Regards, Mark 

From ccwood at ix.netcom.com  Sat Nov  7 22:08:43 2015
From: ccwood at ix.netcom.com (Charles Cresson Wood)
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 22:08:43 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Financial System That Works For Everybody -
	Event
Message-ID: <32362137.1446962924028.JavaMail.root@elwamui-polski.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Mendocino Coast Transition Towns Event Title: 
Prospering and Flourishing in Unpredictable Financial Times

Event Description: Come join us at the Community Center of Mendocino* on Sunday November 15th from 3:00-4:30PM to explore and learn how we can do well personally while doing good for our local and global communities.

Event Details: We live in precarious and disturbing financial times. The disconnect between what Main Street businesses need and what Wall Street actually does, the Federal Reserve?s continued unsustainable money printing efforts, astronomical levels of federal government debt that can never be repaid, our federal government?s addiction to starting and waging wars with our children?s money, and the continuing environmental degradation and depletion of our natural resources, all make our future seem markedly more precarious than it was in recent decades gone past.  

These recent events provoke the question ?For whom is the financial system working?? In this event, we will discuss how you can have the financial system work for you and our communities.  In general, when we think of investing, we think of Wall Street, stocks, bonds, etc. But we urgently need to expand our horizons to consider not just money, but also our time, attention, and energy. Are all of these resources being directed toward our desired future dreams? And what would it mean to diversify in the context of such an expanded viewpoint? This event will cover what is increasingly termed ?impact investing,? where investors consciously choose how their money is affecting the world. Three major domains of impact investing will be covered: (1) local business, and local investing, (2) using Wall Street and large financial institutions in sustainable and responsible, regenerative ways and (3) how we can shape a future that will be better than the past, redesigning social and technological systems.

Four Speakers:

Barbara Fishelson, DVM, MBA, is a financial advisor and a local veterinarian who will discuss how we can expand our view of what it means to invest. She will cover how impact investing in Wall St. can be used to support companies that are ?giving back? as part of their business model. She will additionally cover how to discover what your money is being used for when you invest in a project or organization.

Andy Schexnaydre, is a financial advisor with more than 20 years in experience based in Sonoma County. He is a frequent guest on the Truth About Money KXYZ radio show, and has been a leading proponent of local investing projects in Northern California. He will take us on a tour of the financial landscape from Wall St to Main St.

Charles Cresson Wood, MBA, MSE, is a law school student and local organizer for Mendocino Coast Transition Towns. He will discuss evolutionary investing -- a forward-looking approach to investing. He will also discuss diversification of assets in order to create community resilience, new personal networks, and sustainable local support systems that will prepare us for a healthier and ecologically-supportive future. 

John Kuhry, MS, is the Executive Director of the Economic Development & Financing Corp., a non-profit community development financial institution focused on local investing in Mendocino County. The organization operates a small business revolving loan fund. Prior to that John was the general manager of Anderson Valley Brewing Company, and business development manager for Real Green Power Company. He will speak about local and sustainable projects and how to arrange financing for those projects.

Contact Barbara Fishelson for more information about the event. She can be reached at 707-937-2834 or bfishelson at fwg.com.

* 998 School St., Mendocino, CA 95460; phone 707-937-4133




From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov  8 09:37:03 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 09:37:03 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Elizabeth Warren puts seniors before CEOs
References: <2549503851.-1883908209@wfc.wfcDB.reply.salsalabs.com>
Message-ID: <0A211B43-E30D-46F9-9C73-4D23D9B1E0A1@mcn.org>



> Dear 
> 
> Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a new bill designed to correct next year's lack of increase in Social Security benefits. Called the Seniors and Veterans Emergency Benefits Act (or SAVE Benefits Act), it would give the 70 million Americans who rely on Social Security benefits a payment of about $580 dollars. And it would pay for this by closing a loophole that allows CEOs to receive "performance pay" bonuses tax-free. 
> 
> 18 Senators have already joined Senator Warren as co-sponsors. We are building a movement to make Congress put Seniors before CEOs--and this bill is crucial. 
> 
> Please, stand with Social Security Works and our friends at CREDO Action in supporting Elizabeth Warren?s SAVE Benefits Act today!
> 
> Thank you,
> Alex Lawson
> Executive Director
> Social Security Works
>  		 
>  	 	 
>  	 	
> Richard,
> 
> As you may have heard, there will be no Cost of Living Adjustment for Social Security beneficiaries next year. Despite average annual benefits of just $14,375 and rising medical and housing costs, Social Security payments will remain flat.
> 
> CEO pay for the top 350 US Firms, meanwhile, saw their pay increase by 3.9% last year, according to data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute. Why are we stretching thin seniors and people with disabilities while CEOs whose average pay is $16.3 billion?much of it paid through a tax-free ?performance pay? loophole?are making more than ever?
> 
> Thankfully, Social Security champion Senator Elizabeth Warren has just introduced a bill which will give a 3.9% raise to Social Security beneficiaries in 2016 ? around $580 ? and pay for it for by eliminating the CEO performance pay tax break.
> 
> Stand with Elizabeth Warren today and help build support for her important piece of legislation to support seniors, surviving spouses and people with disabilities.
> 
> At a time when more than half of households 55 and older have zero retirement savings, and when two-thirds of retirees depend on Social Security for the majority of their income, Senator Warren?s legislation is critical to providing financial security to Social Security recipients in 2016.
> 
> Please, stand with Social Security Works and our friends at CREDO Action in supporting Elizabeth Warren?s SAVE Benefits Act today!
> 
> It is time for Social Security beneficiaries to receive a raise and for the wealthiest Americans to start paying their fair share.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Michael Phelan
> Social Security Works
>  	 
>  	 	 
>  	
> Homepage
> You have received this email through your subscription to this campaign's email list. 
> 
> If you did not subscribe, or would no longer like to receive email updates unsubscribe here.
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov  9 13:43:49 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 13:43:49 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] today mendo col on the coast meeting
References: <0B55096D-8496-44A7-B77D-7B1AF3805CFB@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <08DBE4A6-6CB8-4352-A0D7-1EE98BEEC259@mcn.org>

> 
> The College of the Redwoods Board of Trustees meeting approved a transfer of CR to Mendocino College. One of the steps of this transfer is a public hearing, which will be held by the County Office of Education at the Detrick Center on Dana Street in Fort Bragg on Monday, November 9, at 1pm.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 10 08:51:31 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 08:51:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Free lunch for veterans on Wed.
Message-ID: <A817C642-29E8-4748-B098-96DAEA026D80@mcn.org>


    Hey Everyone,



    As a thank you for their service, Cultured Affair Caf? would like to
    buy lunch for our military veterans and active military on Wednesday
    November 11th.

    Please remember to thank our military for their service, a handshake
    and thank you can mean everything.

    Thanks for reading,
    Laura and Art Evans

    Cultured Affair Caf?
    Albion Street (just west of Kasten)
    Mendocino
    937-1430
    11 - 4:30 PM daily

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From annxpress at live.com  Tue Nov 10 10:48:44 2015
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:48:44 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Mass Mobilization To Stop The TPP (Petition)
In-Reply-To: <1168930346.2104930.1447116635971.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
References: <1168930346.2104930.1447116635971.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com>,
	<1168930346.2104930.1447116635971.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BLUPR13MB0243C6A2C83BB47535C23B75DD140@BLUPR13MB0243.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>


Lets stop the TPP with petitions!

________________________________
From: Judy Filer <judyfiler180 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 4:50 PM
To: BEVERLY WITCHNER; Jeanie Coulson; Anne Filer; William Filer; Chelsea Filer; Connie Kays; Neville; Geri Morisky; Jim Filer; KATIE HISKEN; JEAN McCULLEY; PATRICK HEFFLEY; Edward Oberweiser; Nancy Backus-Meagher; Carrie Durkee; Chris Papciak; JUNE WHITE; SHARON ROLF; Ann Rennacker; CHAR FLUM; TONY LAVASITI
Subject: Mass Mobilization To Stop The TPP (Petition)

https://www.popularresistance.org/mass-mobilization-to-stop-the-tpp-announced-as-text-is-released/
[https://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/TPP-Its-up-to-you-and-me-to-stop-the-TPP.jpg]<https://www.popularresistance.org/mass-mobilization-to-stop-the-tpp-announced-as-text-is-released/>

Mass Mobilization To Stop The TPP Announced, As Text Is Released<https://www.popularresistance.org/mass-mobilization-to-stop-the-tpp-announced-as-text-is-released/>
www.popularresistance.org
A mass mobilization in Washington, DC from November 14th to 18th has been announced to begin the next stage of the campaign to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP was made public 1...



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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Tue Nov 10 13:36:57 2015
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:36:57 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] OCCUPY MEETING MINUTES: 10/17/2015
Message-ID: <CACVey3Z-A16HNChM9ZuDZHE5-QUjET-Oy92wGPQBdskf1Lb0Sw@mail.gmail.com>

MEETING TIME CHANGE(vote): meeting time now 12pm-2pm 1st and 3rd Saturday
of mouth.
VOTE: $90 for copy?s at MENDO Litho
JOHN FREMONT: NORMAN DEVULL WILL SPEAK at town on 10/23/2015 6pm-?
AGNES: we need 500 sigs for Charter project by nov. 1,2015
BOB: bob has put in like 5pgs of signatures
AGNES: Robin sunbean is working on the charter project inland mendo county
j. freemont: we need to reach out to old members of occupy via MCNlistserv


SORRY I'M NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS TYPE THING....
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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Tue Nov 10 13:40:05 2015
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:40:05 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Discussion]- Days of Revolt: The Death
	of Electoral Politics
In-Reply-To: <00A442E6-A3B7-4FC7-8F15-2A8997780D91@comcast.net>
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From: Carol Mattessich <medusa22 at comcast.net>
Date: Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:19 AM
Subject: [MCN-Discussion]- Days of Revolt: The Death of Electoral Politics
To: discussion at lists.mcn.org


Watch this video from The Real News Network, I think you'll find it
interesting:  Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15060

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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Tue Nov 10 13:55:45 2015
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:55:45 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Discussion]- Chris Hedges: The Most
 Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History - -very serious business
 here . .
In-Reply-To: <33DA2FF3C62940B29F9D853FD3A0B7C7@JaniePC>
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From: Janie Rezner <jrezner at mcn.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:16 PM
Subject: [MCN-Discussion]- Chris Hedges: The Most Brazen Corporate Power
Grab in American History - -very serious business here . .
To: matriarchalstudies at yahoogroups.com, discussion at lists.mcn.org


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43367.htm#.VkEleaPWdOI.facebook

The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
By Chris Hedges

November 09, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Truthdig" - The release
Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership-a trade
and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40
percent of global output-confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics
feared.

"The TPP, along with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and NAFTA [North
American Free Trade Agreement], is the most brazen corporate power grab in
American history," Ralph Nader told me when I reached him by phone in
Washington, D.C. "It allows corporations to bypass our three branches of
government to impose enforceable sanctions by secret tribunals. These
tribunals can declare our labor, consumer and environmental protections [to
be] unlawful, non-tariff barriers subject to fines for noncompliance. The
TPP establishes a transnational, autocratic system of enforceable
governance in defiance of our domestic laws."

The TPP is part of a triad of trade agreements that includes the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade in
Services Agreement (TiSA). TiSA, by calling for the privatization of all
public services, is a mortal threat to the viability of the U.S. Postal
Service, public education and other government-run enterprises and
utilities; together these operations make up 80 percent of the U.S.
economy. The TTIP and TiSA are still in the negotiation phase. They will
follow on the heels of the TPP and are likely to go before Congress in 2017.

These three agreements solidify the creeping corporate coup d'?tat along
with the final evisceration of national sovereignty. Citizens will be
forced to give up control of their destiny and will be stripped of the
ability to protect themselves from corporate predators, safeguard the
ecosystem and find redress and justice in our now anemic and often
dysfunctional democratic institutions. The agreements-filled with jargon,
convoluted technical, trade and financial terms, legalese, fine print and
obtuse phrasing-can be summed up in two words: corporate enslavement.

 READ MORE:

The TPP removes legislative authority from Congress and the White House on
a range of issues. Judicial power is often surrendered to three-person
trade tribunals in which only corporations are permitted to sue. Workers,
environmental and advocacy groups and labor unions are blocked from seeking
redress in the proposed tribunals. The rights of corporations become
sacrosanct. The rights of citizens are abolished.

The Sierra Club issued a statement after the release of the TPP text saying
that the "deal is rife with polluter giveaways that would undermine decades
of environmental progress, threaten our climate, and fail to adequately
protect wildlife because big polluters helped write the deal."

If there is no sustained popular uprising to prevent the passage of the TPP
in Congress this spring we will be shackled by corporate power. Wages will
decline. Working conditions will deteriorate. Unemployment will rise. Our
few remaining rights will be revoked. The assault on the ecosystem will be
accelerated. Banks and global speculation will be beyond oversight or
control. Food safety standards and regulations will be jettisoned. Public
services ranging from Medicare and Medicaid to the post office and public
education will be abolished or dramatically slashed and taken over by
for-profit corporations. Prices for basic commodities, including
pharmaceuticals, will skyrocket. Social assistance programs will be
drastically scaled back or terminated. And countries that have public
health care systems, such as Canada and Australia, that are in the
agreement will probably see their public health systems collapse under
corporate assault. Corporations will be empowered to hold a wide variety of
patents, including over plants and animals, turning basic necessities and
the natural world into marketable products. And, just to make sure
corporations extract every pound of flesh, any public law interpreted by
corporations as impeding projected profit, even a law designed to protect
the environment or consumers, will be subject to challenge in an entity
called the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) section. The ISDS,
bolstered and expanded under the TPP, will see corporations paid massive
sums in compensation from offending governments for impeding their "right"
to further swell their bank accounts. Corporate profit effectively will
replace the common good.

Given the bankruptcy of our political class-including amoral politicians
such as Hillary Clinton, who is denouncing the TPP during the presidential
campaign but whose unwavering service to corporate capitalism assures her
fealty to her corporate backers-the trade agreement has a good chance of
becoming law. And because the Obama administration won fast-track
authority, a tactic designed by the Nixon administration to subvert
democratic debate, President Obama will be able to sign the agreement
before it goes to Congress.

The TPP, because of fast track, bypasses the normal legislative process of
public discussion and consideration by congressional committees. The House
and the Senate, which have to vote on the TPP bill within 90 days of when
it is sent to Congress, are prohibited by the fast-track provision from
adding floor amendments or holding more than 20 hours of floor debate.
Congress cannot raise concerns about the effects of the TPP on the
environment. It can only vote yes or no. It is powerless to modify or
change one word.

There will be a mass mobilization Nov. 14 through 18 in Washington to begin
the push to block the TPP. Rising up to stop the TPP is a far, far better
investment of our time and energy than engaging in the empty political
theater that passes for a presidential campaign.

"The TPP creates a web of corporate laws that will dominate the global
economy," attorney Kevin Zeese of the group Popular Resistance, which has
mounted a long fight against the trade agreement, told me from Baltimore by
telephone. "It is a global corporate coup d'?tat. Corporations will become
more powerful than countries. Corporations will force democratic systems to
serve their interests. Civil courts around the world will be replaced with
corporate courts or so-called trade tribunals. This is a massive expansion
that builds on the worst of NAFTA rather than what Barack Obama promised,
which was to get rid of the worst aspects of NAFTA."

The agreement is the product of six years of work by global capitalists
from banks, insurance companies, Goldman Sachs, Monsanto and other
corporations.

"It was written by them [the corporations], it is for them and it will
serve them," Zeese said of the TPP. "It will hurt domestic businesses and
small businesses. The buy-American provisions will disappear. Local
communities will not be allowed to build buy-local campaigns. The thrust of
the agreement is the privatization and commodification of everything. The
agreement has built within it a deep antipathy to state-supported or
state-owned enterprises. It gives away what is left of our democracy to the
World Trade Organization."

The economist David Rosnick, in a report on the TPP by the Center for
Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), estimated that under the trade
agreement only the top 10 percent of U.S. workers would see their wages
increase. Rosnick wrote that the real wages of middle-income U.S. workers
(from the 35th percentile to the 80th percentile) would decline under the
TPP. NAFTA, contributing to a decline in manufacturing jobs (now only 9
percent of the economy), has forced workers into lower-paying service jobs
and resulted in a decline in real wages of between 12 and 17 percent. The
TPP would only accelerate this process, Rosnick concluded.

"This is a continuation of the global race to the bottom," Dr. Margaret
Flowers, also from Popular Resistance and a candidate for the U.S. Senate,
said from Baltimore in a telephone conversation with me. "Corporations are
free to move to countries that have the lowest labor standards. This drives
down high labor standards here. It means a decimation of industries and
unions. It means an accelerated race to the bottom, which we must rise up
to stop."

"In Malaysia one-third of tech workers are essentially slaves," Zeese said.
"In Vietnam the minimum wage is 35 cents an hour. Once these countries are
part of the trade agreement U.S. workers are put in a very difficult
position."

Fifty-one percent of working Americans now make less than $30,000 a year, a
new study by the Social Security Administration reported. Forty percent are
making less than $20,000 a year. The federal government considers a family
of four living on an income of less than $24,250 to be in poverty.

"Half of American workers earn essentially the poverty level," Zeese said.
"This agreement only accelerates this trend. I don't see how American
workers are going to cope."

The assault on the American workforce by NAFTA-which was established under
the Clinton administration in 1994 and which at the time promised creation
of 200,000 net jobs a year in the United States-has been devastating. NAFTA
has led to a $181 billion trade deficit with Mexico and Canada and the loss
of at least 1 million U.S. jobs, according to a report by Public Citizen.
The flooding of the Mexican market with cheap corn by U.S. agro-businesses
drove down the price of Mexican corn and saw 1 million to 3 million poor
Mexican farmers go bankrupt and lose their small farms. Many of them
crossed the border into the United States in a desperate effort to find
work.

"Obama has misled the public throughout this process," Dr. Flowers said.
"He claimed that environmental groups were supportive of the agreement
because it provided environmental protections, and this has now been proven
false. He told us that it would create 650,000 jobs, and this has now been
proven false. He calls this a 21st century trade agreement, but it actually
rolls back progress made in Bush-era trade agreements. The most recent
model of a 21st century trade agreement is the Korean free trade agreement.
That was supposed to create 140,000 U.S. jobs. But what we saw within a
couple years was a loss of about 70,000 jobs and a larger trade deficit
with Korea. This agreement [the TPP] is sold to us with the same deceits
that were used to sell us NAFTA and other trade agreements."

The agreement, in essence, becomes global law. Any agreements over carbon
emissions by countries made through the United Nations are effectively
rendered null and void by the TPP.

"Trade agreements are binding," Flowers said. "They supersede any of the
nonbinding agreements made by the United Nations Climate Change Conference
that might come out of Paris."

There is more than enough evidence from past trade agreements to indicate
where the TPP-often called "NAFTA on steroids"-will lead. It is part of the
inexorable march by corporations to wrest from us the ability to use
government to defend the public and to build social and political
organizations that promote the common good. Our corporate masters seek to
turn the natural world and human beings into malleable commodities that
will be used and exploited until exhaustion or collapse. Trade agreements
are the tools being used to achieve this subjugation. The only response
left is open, sustained and defiant popular revolt.

Chris Hedges, previously spent nearly two decades as a foreign
correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.
He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The
Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News
and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15
years.



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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Thu Nov 12 14:22:15 2015
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:22:15 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: A way to end homelessness that actually works
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Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:24 AM
Subject: A way to end homelessness that actually works
To: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com


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November 12, 2015
Today's Talking Points *Virginia became the first state in the U.S. to end
veteran homelessness.* This means there are officially no veterans who lack
housing
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except those who have refused the offer, and that the state has resources
to take in any veterans who want housing within 90 days. If you're
wondering how such a massive goal was achieved, they simply gave people
housing
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and
support instead of making them jump through hoops to earn a home.

   - It has been a big week for vets. On Tuesday, the Senate approved a bill
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that
      would allow (for the first time ever) doctors to OK medical marijuana for
      some veterans. And the White House announced Wednesday that all
recent U.S.
      military vets and their families will be offered in-state tuition
      rates
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      to public colleges and universities across the country.

*#PrayForMizzou started trending as death threats hit MU?s campus.* After
several racially charged incidents at the University of Missouri, the
chancellor and system president stepped down ? but students barely had a
chance to celebrate their victory. Soon after, a series of threats
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were
posted to the social media app Yik Yak, spreading fear throughout the
student body. Despite the panic, one professor challenged his students
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in
an email to come to class to defeat ?the bullies.? After his email went
viral, he submitted his letter of
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resignation
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Two students have been arrested
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for making the threats.

   - Hundreds of Ithaca College students joined Mizzou and Yale
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      in the fight against racism by holding their own ?Solidarity Walk Out?
      Wednesday. They?re calling for the resignation
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      of the college?s president, Tom Rochon, over several alleged racial
      injustices
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      .

*Kurdish forces launched an offensive against the Islamic State group in
Iraq.* Backed by a U.S.-led coalition, the forces are trying to take back
Sinjar
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the town seized by the extremist group last year. This is major since it's
a step toward breaking up the group's caliphate
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. *Shootings by the LAPD doubled in an "alarming trend."* Los Angeles
officers opened fire 23 times in 2014
<http://mic.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e296d233b80b1c09f9c900df7&id=4a22183ba3&e=e339022196>.
This year, that number rose to 45, and it has the police commission super
worried
<http://mic.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e296d233b80b1c09f9c900df7&id=05d90321cd&e=e339022196>.
The board plans to take a hard look at the use of force in the department,
and is calling for training, less-lethal equipment and a review of body
cameras. *Police are sweeping up your tweets and friending you on Facebook
? whether you know it or not.* Police have been using digital masks to take
down criminals on social media for years, but now that?s reached a whole
new level. Officers are using an algorithm to scrub social media posts and
map them to figure out where crime is most likely to occur. This is how
police are using social media to predict crime
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.
In One Photo
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*Outraged
people took to Twitter to slam Google for its Veterans Day Doodle. Why?
Because six of the people featured appear to be of color and just one is
light-skinned. The complaints mostly accused Google of failing to represent
the many white vets in the U.S. But here?s the thing ? while white veterans
comprise 66.3% of the veteran population, that?s down from 90.9% around
World War II, and it?s on track to change further. As a result, we?ll be
seeing an even more diverse veteran class.
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Conversation Starters

This mom?s hilarious Instagram cartoon depicts the not-so-glamorous side of
pregnancy
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. *Mic*

?Local? and ?organic? are cute buzz words, but they don?t mean sustainable
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. *Aeon*

Canada?s PM is the ultimate 21st century man ? and not just because he?s
hot as hell.
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 *Mic*

Have you noticed that Facebook is getting a little too intimate with you
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*Medium*

The 8 hilariously honest buttons social media needs right now
<http://mic.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e296d233b80b1c09f9c900df7&id=fb0356b3a0&e=e339022196>.
*Mic*

In tough times, cops start seizing way more of your stuff
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. *The Washington Post*

A little lonely? This suit lets you feel hugs from miles away
<http://mic.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e296d233b80b1c09f9c900df7&id=1054d1bc6b&e=e339022196>.
*Mic*

Science says the shape of our bodies could be even worse for us than high
BMIs
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. *Quartz*

Even big banks think that robot automation will lead to further income
inequality
<http://mic.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e296d233b80b1c09f9c900df7&id=3f6122d9a1&e=e339022196>.
*Mic*
The Last Word ?Hey everyone, *Mic*?s Mathew Rodriguez
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here.
If you've ever read Greek mythology, you know one thing: Myths stay with us
for a *very* long time. However, when you're living in America, those myths
can be extremely detrimental. I decided to examine and deconstruct two of
them: The myth of the black father and the myth of the rapper. Rappers can
be family people and family men can be rappers. Find out how your favorite
rappers
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?
from The Game to Kanye West ? have shown that they can spit rhymes and dole
out life advice at the same time.?
trivia answer!

Congrats to Jessie Evans Sweeto
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who
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Obama finally joined the rest of us
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in
Facebook-land. *If you thought sending a tweet was hard work, the president
has somewhere around 20 people
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working
on his social media presence. Meanwhile, former president Bill Clinton is
acting as a one-man team during his Clinton Foundation Instagram takeover
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.

If you can?t get enough of politician selfies, *Fusion* just built a
massive searchable database
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of
2016 presidential candidates' social media photos. Have fun!
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Sat Nov 14 12:46:34 2015
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene L. Malone)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:46:34 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: As We Approach Thanksgiving Day: CONSIDER
	THIS!
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>
> Take care, Emilia
>
>
>
> ... For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you  
> gave me drink, I was a stranger and you made me welcome, lacking  
> clothes and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and  
> you came to see me." MT 25:35, 36
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov 15 14:17:18 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 14:17:18 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Introducing postal banking
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> 
> Reply-To: action at usaction.org
> 
> 
> Dear Friend,
> 
> How do you cash a check if you don?t have a bank account?
> 
> You are forced to use a place like a payday lender, check cashers or other financial predators and spend nearly 10 percent of your income on fees and services.
> 
> Nearly 28% of U.S. households are underserved by traditional banks. The number of bank branches in the United States is declining and low-income neighborhoods have been hardest hit. Since 2008, 93% of those closings have been in neighborhoods with a median income below the national average. We need to expand the options.
> 
> There is a simple solution: postal banking. More than 30,000 branches of the U.S. Postal Service can provide affordable, nonprofit, consumer-driven financial services ranging from paycheck cashing and bill payment to savings accounts and small dollar loans.
> 
> Sign the petition to enact post banking now!
> 
> The USPS can act now to:
> 
> Install surcharge-free ATMs that make it possible for recipients of public benefits to access funds without paying a fee;
> Expand services to include payroll check cashing; and
> Provide bill paying and electronic funds transfers.
> For those without access to traditional banks as well as those looking for an alternative to the Big Banks, postal banking is a real solution that serves the public, not Wall Street.
> 
> I would love to say we came up with this brilliant idea on our own, but postal banking is not new. The Postal Savings System operated from 1911 through 1966, accepting savings deposits guaranteed through the full faith and credit of the United States. By 1947, postal banks had about 10 percent of the entire commercial banking system.
> 
> Join with us and a coalition of partners to tell the Postmaster General to implement postal banking now. This strengthens the United States Postal Service while they are under attack and provides a non profit banking option for all Americans.
> 
> Act now to make postal banking a reality!
> 
> Thanks for all you do,
> 
> Katy Griffith Boswell
> USAction
> 
> P.S. Click here to learn more about postal banking.
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov 15 18:53:12 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 18:53:12 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] mendocino-coast-fears-losing-its-only-hospital
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Wed Nov 18 17:47:36 2015
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John Fremont)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:47:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Koch Manipulations
Message-ID: <008301d1226c$444526d0$cccf7470$@com>

 EndCitizensUnited.org <https://s.bsd.net/endcitiu/main/page/-/ECU_email_header.png> 


Sign our petition telling the Koch Brothers' network to shut down their surveillance operation. 
 

 <http://act.endcitizensunited.org/koch-surveillance?source=MS_EM_SHARE_X_X_koch-surveillance_X__X__X> http://act.endcitizensunited.org/Koch-Surveillance
 

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BREAKING: Koch Brothers' Network conducting "surveillance and intelligence" on Democrats.

A brand new report spells out clear violations of privacy by the Koch Network. These outrageous actions set an incredibly dangerous precedent.

 <http://act.endcitizensunited.org/koch-surveillance?source=MS_EM_SHARE_X_X_koch-surveillance_X__X__X> SIGN YOUR NAME: Tell the Koch Brothers to shut down their "Intelligence Agency":

 


 <http://act.endcitizensunited.org/koch-surveillance?source=MS_EM_SHARE_X_X_koch-surveillance_X__X__X> SIGN IMMEDIATELY ?

Friends --

A new report revealed that the Koch Brothers? political network has a MASSIVE surveillance operation designed to ?thwart liberal groups and activists.?[1] According to POLITICO:


?The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents.?

~POLITICO,  <http://act.endcitizensunited.org/koch-surveillance?source=MS_EM_SHARE_X_X_koch-surveillance_X__X__X> 11/18/2015

The Kochs? team utilizes ?high-tech tactics to track the movements of liberal organizers? -- even gathering location data from personal social media posts.

One former official even compared the operation to the CIA.

Look -- the Koch Brothers aren?t satisfied to spend millions to defame Democrats running for office. They?re trying to gain an even stronger foothold on our Democracy by investigating liberal groups and activists.

We can?t let this stand. That?s why we?re going to deliver 1OO,OOO signatures to the Koch Headquarters demanding they shut down their ?Intelligence Agency? -- and listen, we need you to be one of them.

1OO,OOO SIGNATURES NEEDED ?  <http://act.endcitizensunited.org/koch-surveillance?source=MS_EM_SHARE_X_X_koch-surveillance_X__X__X> Demand the Koch Brothers shut down their surveillance of Democratic groups >>

It?s time to take back our Democracy. But to do it, we need you with us.

 <http://act.endcitizensunited.org/koch-surveillance?source=MS_EM_SHARE_X_X_koch-surveillance_X__X__X> http://act.endcitizensunited.org/Koch-Surveillance

Thanks for not backing down,

 <http://act.endcitizensunited.org/koch-surveillance?source=MS_EM_SHARE_X_X_koch-surveillance_X__X__X> -EndCitizensUnited.org
 

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[1] POLITICO: The Koch intelligence agency.? Ken Vogel - 11/18/2015

 


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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Fri Nov 20 13:45:20 2015
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:45:20 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Discussion]- Why They Hate Us: The Real
	American History
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From: Nicholas Wilson <nwilson at mcn.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:54 AM
Subject: [MCN-Discussion]- Why They Hate Us: The Real American History
To: discussion at lists.mcn.org


*This Is Why They Hate Us: The Real American History Neither Ted Cruz Nor
the New York Times Will Tell You*We talk democracy, then overthrow elected
governments and prop up awful regimes. Let's discuss the actual history.
*By* *Ben Norton* <http://www.alternet.org/authors/ben-norton-0> / Salon
<http://www.salon.com>


*November 20, 2015 *The *soi-disant* Land of the Free and Home of the Brave
has a long and iniquitous history of overthrowing democratically elected
leftist governments and propping up right-wing dictators in their place.

U.S. politicians rarely acknowledge this odious past ? let alone
acknowledge that such policies continue well into the present day.
In the second Democratic presidential debate, however, candidate Bernie
Sanders condemned a long-standing government policy his peers rarely admit
exists.

?I think we have a disagreement,? Sanders said of fellow presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton. ?And the disagreement is that not only did I
vote against the war in Iraq. If you look at history, you will find that
regime change ? whether it was in the early ?50s in Iran, whether it was
toppling Salvador Allende in Chile, or whether it was overthrowing the
government of Guatemala way back when ? these invasions, these toppling of
governments, regime changes have unintended consequences. I would say that
on this issue I?m a little bit more conservative than the secretary.?

?I am not a great fan of regime changes,? Sanders added.

?Regime change? is not a phrase you hear discussed honestly much in
Washington, yet it is a common practice in and defining feature of U.S.
foreign policy for well over a century. For many decades, leaders from both
sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, have pursued a bipartisan
strategy of violently overthrowing democratically elected foreign
governments that do not kowtow to U.S. orders.

In the debate, Sanders addressed three examples of U.S. regime change.
There are scores of examples of American regime change, yet these are
perhaps the most infamous instances.



*Iran, 1953 *Iran was once a secular democracy. You would not know this
from contemporary discussions of the much demonized country in U.S.
politics and media.

What happen to Iran?s democracy? The U.S. overthrew it in 1953, with the
help of the U.K. Why? For oil.

Mohammad Mosaddegh may be the most popular leader in Iran?s long history.
He was also Iran?s only democratically elected head of state.

In 1951, Mosaddegh was elected prime minister of Iran. He was not a
socialist, and certainly not a communist ? on the contrary, he repressed
Iranian communists ? but he pursued many progressive, social democratic
policies. Mosaddegh pushed for land reform, established rent control, and
created a social security system, while working to separate powers in the
democratic government.

In the Cold War, however, a leader who deviated in any way from free-market
orthodoxy and the Washington Consensus was deemed a threat. When Mossaddegh
nationalized Iran?s large oil reserves, he crossed a line that Western
capitalist nations would not tolerate.

The New York Times ran an article in 1951 titled ? British Warn Iran of
Serious Result if She Seizes Oil
<https://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/052051iran-britain.html>.?
The piece, which is full of orientalist language, refers to Iranian oil as
?British oil properties,? failing to acknowledge that Britain, which had
previously occupied Iran, had seized that oil and claimed it as its own,
administering it under the auspices of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which
later became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and eventually British
Petroleum and modern BP.

The Times article noted that the U.S. ?shares with Britain the gravest
concern about the possibility that Iranian oil, the biggest supply now
available in the Near East, might be lost to the Western powers.? The
British government is quoted making a thinly veiled threat.

This threat came into fruition in August 1953. In Operation Ajax, the CIA,
working with its British equivalent MI6, carried out a coup, overthrowing
the elected government of Iran and reinstalling the monarchy. The shah
would remain a faithful Western ally until 1979, when the monarchy was
abolished in the Iranian Revolution.



*Guatemala, 1954 *Less than a year after overthrowing Iran?s first
democratically elected prime minister, the U.S. pursued a similar regime
change policy in Guatemala, toppling the elected leader Jacobo ?rbenz.

In 1944, Guatemalans waged a revolution, toppling the U.S.-backed
right-wing dictator Jorge Ubico, who had ruled the country with an iron
fist since 1931. Ubico, who fancied himself the 20th-century Napoleon, gave
rich landowners and the U.S. corporation the United Fruit Company (which
would later become Chiquita) free reign over Guatemala?s natural resources,
and used the military to violently crush labor organizers.

Juan Jos? Ar?valo was elected into office in 1944. A liberal, he pursued
very moderate policies, but the U.S. wanted a right-wing puppet regime that
would allow U.S. corporations the same privileges granted to them by Ubico.
In 1949, the U.S. backed an attempted coup, yet it failed.

In 1951, ?rbenz was elected into office. Slightly to the left of Ar?valo,
?rbenz was still decidedly moderate. The U.S. claimed ?rbenz was close to
Guatemala?s communists, and warned he could ally with the Soviet Union. In
reality, the opposite was true; ?rbenz actually persecuted Guatemalan
communists. At most, ?rbenz was a social democrat, not even a socialist.

Yet ?rbenz, like Mosaddegh, firmly believed that Guatemalans themselves,
and not multinational corporations, should benefit from their country?s
resources. He pursued land reform policies that would break up the control
rich families and the United Fruit Company exercised over the country ?
and, for that reason, he was overthrown.

President Truman originally authorized a first coup attempt, Operation
PBFORTUNE, in 1952. Yet details about the operation were leaked to the
public, and the plan was abandoned. In 1954, in Operation PBSUCCESS, the
CIA and U.S. State Department, under the Dulles Brothers, bombed Guatemala
City and carried out a coup that violently toppled Guatemala?s democratic
government.

The U.S. put into power right-wing tyrant Carlos Castillo Armas. For the
next more than 50 years, until the end of the Guatemalan Civil War in 1996,
Guatemala was ruled by a serious of authoritarian right-wing leaders who
brutally repressed left-wing dissidents and carried out a campaign of
genocide against the indigenous people of the country.



*Chile, 1973 *September 11 has permanently seared itself into the memory of
Americans. The date has also been indelibly imprinted in the public
consciousness of Chileans, because it was on this same day in 1973 that the
U.S. backed a coup that violently overthrew Chile?s democracy.

In 1970, Marxist leader Salvador Allende was democratically elected
president of Chile. Immediately after he was elected, the U.S. government
poured resources into right-wing opposition groups and gave millions of
dollars to Chile?s conservative media outlets.

The CIA deputy director of plans wrote in a 1970 memo
<http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/10/40_years_after_chiles_9_11>, ?It is
firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup? It is
imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so
that the USG [U.S. government] and American hand be well hidden.? President
Nixon subsequently ordered the CIA to ?make the economy scream? in Chile,
to ?prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him.?

Allende?s democratic government was violently overthrown on September 11,
1973. He died in the coup, just after making an emotional speech, in which
he declared he would give his life to defend Chilean democracy and
sovereignty.

Far-right dictator Augusto Pinochet, who combined fascistic police state
repression with hyper-capitalist free-market economic policies, was put
into power. Under Pinochet?s far-right dictatorship, tens of thousands of
Chilean leftists, labor organizers, and journalists were killed,
disappeared, and tortured. Hundreds of thousands more people were forced
into exile.

One of the most prevailing myths of the Cold War is that socialism was an
unpopular system imposed on populations with brute force. Chile serves as a
prime historical example of how the exact opposite was true. The masses of
impoverished and oppressed people elected many socialist governments, yet
these governments were often violently overthrown by the U.S. and other
Western allies.

The overthrow of Allende was a turning point for many socialists in the
Global South. Before he was overthrown, some leftists thought popular
Marxist movements could gain state power through democratic elections, as
was the case in Chile. Yet when they saw how the U.S. violently toppled
Allende?s elected government, they became suspicious of the prospects of
electoral politics and turned to guerrilla warfare and other tactics.


*Modern example: Egypt, 2013 *These are just a small sample of the great
many regime changes the U.S. government has been involved in. More recent
examples, which were supported by Hillary Clinton, as Sanders implied,
include the U.S. government?s overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and
Muammar Qadhafi in Libya. In these cases, the U.S. was overthrowing
dictators, not democratically elected leaders ? but, as Sanders pointed
out, the results of these regime changes have been nothing short of
catastrophic.

The U.S. is also still engaging in regime change when it comes to
democratically elected governments.

In the January 2011 revolution, Egyptians toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, a
close U.S. ally who ruled Egypt with an iron fist for almost 30 years.

In July 2013, Egypt?s first democratically elected president, Mohammed
Morsi, was overthrown in a military coup. We now know that the U.S.
supported and bankrolled
<http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/2013710113522489801.html>the
opposition forces that overthrew the democratically elected president.

Today, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a brutal despot who is widely recognized as
even worse than Mubarak, reigns over Egypt. In August 2013, Sisi oversaw a
slaughter of more than 800 peaceful Egyptian activists at Raba?a Square.
His regime continues to shoot peaceful protesters in the street. An
estimated 40,000 political prisoners languish in Sisi?s jails, including
journalists.


In spite of his obscene human rights abuses, Sisi remains a close ally of
the U.S. and Israel ? much, much closer than was the democratically elected
President Morsi.

In the second Democratic presidential debate, when Sanders called Clinton
out on her hawkish, pro-regime change policies, she tried to blame the
disasters in the aftermath in countries like Iraq and Libya on the
?complexity? of the Middle East. As an example of this putative complexity,
Clinton cited Egypt. ?We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim
Brotherhood president installed, and then we saw him ousted and the army
back,? she said.

Clinton failed to mention two crucial factors: One, that the U.S. backed
Mubarak until the last moment
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-zunes/us-continues-to-back-egyp_b_815132.html>;
and two, that the U.S. also supported the coup that overthrew Egypt?s first
and only democratically elected head of state.



*Other examples *There are scores of other examples of U.S.-led regime
change.

   - In 1964 the U.S. backed a coup in Brazil, toppling left-wing President
   Jo?o Goulart.
   - In 1976, the U.S. supported a military coup in Argentina that replaced
   President Isabel Per?n with General Jorge Rafael Videla.
   - In 2002, the U.S. backed a coup that overthrew democratically elected
   Venezuelan President Hugo Ch?vez. Ch?vez was so popular, however, that
   Venezuelans filled the street and demanded him back.
   - In 2004, the U.S. overthrew Haiti?s first democratically elected
   president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
   - In 2009, U.S.-trained far-right forces overthrew the democratically
   elected government of Honduras, with tacit support from Washington.


The list goes on.

Latin America, given its proximity to the U.S. and the strength of
left-wing movements in the region, tends to endure the largest number of
U.S. regime changes, yet the Middle East and many parts of Africa have seen
their democratic governments overthrown as well.

>From 1898 to 1994, Harvard University historian John Coatsworth documented
<http://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/united-states-interventions> at
least 41 U.S. interventions in Latin America ? an an average of one every
28 months for an entire century.

Numerous Latin American military dictators were trained at the School of
the Americas, a U.S. Department of Defense Institute in Fort Benning,
Georgia. The School of the Americas Watch, an activist organization that
pushes for the closing of the SOA, has documented many of these regime
changes
<http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/02/11/half-a-century-of-u-s-interventions-in-latin-america-in-one-map/>,
which have been carried out by both Republicans and Democrats.

Diplomatic cables
<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/latin-america-wikileaks-hugo-chavez-rafael-correa-obama-venezuela-intervention/>
released by whistleblowing journalism outlet WikiLeaks show the U.S. still
maintains a systematic campaign of trying to overthrow Latin America?s
left-wing governments.

By not just acknowledging the bloody and ignominious history of U.S. regime
change, but also condemning it, Sen. Sanders was intrepidly trekking into
controversial political territory into which few of his peers would dare to
tread. Others would do well to learn from Bernie?s example.

--Ben Norton is a politics staff writer at Salon. You can find him on
Twitter at @BenjaminNorton <http://twitter.com/benjaminnorton>.

Source:
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-they-hate-us-real-american-history-neither-ted-cruz-nor-new-york-times-will

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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Fri Nov 20 13:51:31 2015
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:51:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Discussion]- Glenn Greenwald on blaming
	Snowden for Paris attacks
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From: Holly Tannen <htannen at mcn.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:24 PM
Subject: [MCN-Discussion]- Glenn Greenwald on blaming Snowden for Paris
attacks
To: "discussion at lists.mcn.org announce" <discussion at lists.mcn.org>


Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual
Culprits Who Empowered ISIS <
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
>
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept

Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America?s enemies (top Nixon
aides accused <
https://theintercept.com/2015/04/07/political-rhetoric-us-never-changes-nyts-attack-mlks-anti-war-speeches/>
Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans
with his leak); it?s just the tactical playbook that?s automatically used.
So it?s of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden?s
whistleblowing enabled newspapers around the world to report on secretly
implemented programs of mass surveillance, he has been accused by
?officials? and their various media allies <
https://theintercept.com/2014/08/12/nprs-dina-temple-raston-passed-cia-funded-nsa-contractor-independent-fear-monger-snowden-reporting/>
of Helping The Terrorists?
One key premise here seems to be that prior to the Snowden reporting, The
Terrorists helpfully and stupidly used telephones and unencrypted emails to
plot, so Western governments were able to track their plotting and disrupt
at least large-scale attacks. That would come as a massive surprise to the
victims of the attacks of 2002 in Bali, 2004 in Madrid, 2005 in London,
2008 in Mumbai, and April 2013 at the Boston Marathon. How did the multiple
perpetrators of those well-coordinated attacks ? all of which were carried
out prior to Snowden?s June 2013 revelations ? hide their communications
from detection?

This is a glaring case where propagandists can?t keep their stories
straight. The implicit premise of this accusation is that The Terrorists
didn?t know to avoid telephones or how to use effective encryption until
Snowden came along and told them. Yet we?ve been warned for years and years
before Snowden that The Terrorists are so diabolical and sophisticated that
they engage in all sorts of complex techniques to evade electronic
surveillance.

More:
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
<
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
>
Note particularly the 2003 Operational Security graph at the bottom: how
closely ?Jihadi? security measures match those of British spy agency GCHQ.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov 21 20:00:26 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:00:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Help the Suffering of the immigrants from the war
	torn areas of Syria petition
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> Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Help the Suffering of the immigrants from the war torn areas of Syria
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> Europe will soon be freezing as winter approaches and the desperate need of these human immigrants must be met by countries with the resources to help them. The U.S. has the resources to extend this aid.
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> That's why I created a petition to President Barack Obama, which says:
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> "The U.S. must help the immigrants from Syria find housing and aid in our country before thousands  of families and children face the bitter cold of the winter.
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> The U.S. must provide more aid and homes for the immigrants that are struggling to leave the middle east and get to a safer country.  Let the U.S. provide more homes and allow more people that are immigrants into  the U.S.  Our humanitarian effort must be increased now before winter sets in."
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Nov 24 12:00:34 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:00:34 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Mike Moore on Syrian refugees
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Dear Gov. Snyder:

I just wanted to let you know that, contrary to your declaration of denying Syrian refugees a home in our state of Michigan, I myself am going to defy your ban and will offer MY home in Traverse City, Michigan, to those very Syrian refugees you've decided to keep out. I will contact the State Department to let them know I am happy to provide a safe haven to any Syrian refugee couple approved by the Obama administration's vetting procedures in which I have full faith and trust. 

Your action is not only disgraceful, it is, as you know, unconstitutional (only the President has the legal right to decide things like this)...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/23/1453632/-Michael-Moore-to-Gov-Snyder-I-myself-am-going-to-defy-your-ban?detail=email
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From annxpress at live.com  Wed Nov 25 18:10:48 2015
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 02:10:48 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Minutes of Occupy Meeting 11/21/15
Message-ID: <BLUPR13MB0243B8DB37C0DC490BC4B880DD050@BLUPR13MB0243.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

Present: John, Sheila, Irene, Agnes, Richard, Ann, Bob, Daniel

Stacker: Dan, Facilitator: Bob, Minutes, Ann

 - Petition update by Agnes:  Charter project is doing well on the Coast, we now have 900 signatures.  Agnes needs help on the following days:

11/22 at the Caspar Breakfast,  Sat. 11/28 at Safeway or Harvest, Sun Dec 6 at the Grange Breakfast in Inglenook 8 - 11:30, Dec 12 at Piccadilly Flea Mkt outside 9 - 3 or inside craft faire.  Robin is coordinating names of volunteers inland.

 - Peace & Justice mail for Zac is now being sent to Ann's mailbox.  We have $72 in P&J Checking acct.
 - Peace Garden donations $68, after paying for plaque and such there is $40 left to get plants, etc.  We need to weed the Bermuda Grass and some volunteer Nasturtiums, Ann and Richard will do some today and Dan will do some on Monday when he volunteers at the Sr. Center.  Richard will get Carrie to help with plan when she can and get a schedule.  Volunteers Dan, Ann, Irene, Richard,Sheila.

-  Action  for occupy list.  Bank Rally at: "Come to Meetings  to be a part of planning"

- John wants to make some signage welcoming refugees on MLK Day.  He also has a spare room in his house and is willing to host a family in transition.  Bob will find out what Government employees to contact, check who is in charge of vetting refugees and he will report back next meeting.

- John wants to start a Police Advisory committee with the new Chief, Fabian L and some High School students, some O/M members and some community reps from different races and ethnicities.  The topics for discussion are body cameras, drones, gang activity, vandalism, police activities, etc.

- Discussed drones and Ann reported that the Police have some new drones to surveil the Coastal Trail and areas of possible trespass grows in remote areas. Most of us don't like the idea of drones watching us when we are on the Coastal Trail or in the Forest, and object to their impact on wildlife, especially birds, and on airplanes.  The police could watch the Trail by bicycle, and get out of their squad cars to interact with citizens in a positive manner.  Drones in private ownership will soon be registered and monitored, but not Government drones.  The Government is using them as killing machines in foreign Countries, against the due process rules in the Constitution, and we feel it is contributing to the radicalization of terrorists and people whose family members, hospitals, wedding parties and friends are being killed without being accused or charged with any crimes.

- TPP papers have been released, which show it is a Corporate takeover of our rights, worse than NAFTA, will be bad for jobs and trade, cannot be voted upon or changed by Congress, and will allow Corporations to decide in their favor with "tribunals" of Corporate lawyers that can sue if the Companies feel that laws of citizens protecting water, land or air are in conflict with the Corporations rights to make a maximum amount of profit by things like Fracking, GMOs, Drug prices, farm methods, etc.  O/M will vehemently oppose TPP and make some new signs.

- Mental Health has now changed it's name and focus to Behavioral Health, and there is an agenda item on Monday's City Council agenda about the banning of all Social Service helping organizations in Fort Bragg being voted on in the June election.  There is a group called GoFortBragg that will write information in the election papers against the ban. The people who signed the petitions did not just target the Coast Hotel project, so the City's Attorney said it is discriminatory and unenforceable, and leaves the City liable for lawsuits.  A group of Fort Bragg people needs to go speak up on the issue.

- Street Protest time is 3-5, but Sheila wants to change it to 2-4 for the winter.  Not enough people want to change, so we will keep it 3-5.  Bob will be our Santa in a Red shirt and Black trousers, with a Santa hat.  We can put out a donation bucket, and do some Climate Change activism.

- There will be a Climate Change march on Saturday 11/28 starting from Bernie Headquarters on Main Street Ft Bragg and afterward there will be a movie shown about climate change.

- At the City Council meeting two weeks ago, the 2nd Tuesday was changed from the setup where John Fremont originally had planning meetings about topics of interest to community members to an open forum that any citizen can use to book a public meeting but which has to be booked monthly on a first-come, first-served basis with a $100 deposit paid to the City Manager, refundable if the facility is left clean and neat with the chairs set up as they prefer.  That does not allow John to ask guest speakers to plan a topic in advance, and so does not work for us.  Too bad, as we had several good discussions at those meetings.  Rex Gressert wanted it open to other groups, but he did not book it for a subsequent meeting.  His main objection was that we used Occupy rules to run the meetings with Facilitators, Minute takers, taking turns to speak after raising our hands, and he said that he thought John Fremont was a "City Council Plant" and that the topics were not of interest to his base.  John will go the the College of the Redwoods after our MLK event to try to get a classroom we can meet in to have our events.

- There was a City meeting open to the public about the future of the Millsite, and the possibility of daylighting creeks and having a high level of cleanup, with the Mill Pond excavated and maybe looking into bioremediation of the toxins.  We don't have any news about when DTSC will come hold the next cleanup meeting for the Public, but it may be in the Spring.  This winter is supposed to be wet due to El Nino.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Nov 30 14:46:38 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:46:38 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Send message to get AG Harris to investigate Exxon
Message-ID: <DC4D7415-8753-4F93-AC5E-527434F26E52@mcn.org>

"Anthony Rogers-Wright, Environmental Action" <action at environmental-action.org>




Update: Dozens of our friends including 350, Climate Hawks Vote and Sierra Club are joining us to call on California Attorney General Kamala Harris to investigate Exxon Mobil for their climate change cover up. But she'll only get the message if she hears from you. Click here to tell Harris it's time to make Exxon toast from coast to coast.

Dear

I just want to make sure you saw my email from last week calling on California's Attorney General (AG) Kamala Harris to investigate Exxon. News reports show that Exxon knew about climate change in the 1970s, but instead of warning the world, they engaged in a massive cover-up. We've made some amazing progress, including a letter we just circulated to many environmental and community-based organizations across California and the world CAlling-on-Kamala to take action.

As our movement grows, we're building power and credibility. But the best way to get AG Harris to investigate Exxon is by delivering signatures from the public, and her constituents, like you.

Exxon is already feeling the pressure following the New York AG Schneiderman's announcement of his own investigation. And the Department of Justice is feeling it too after we delivered 300,000 signatures demanding they open an investigation. Exxon is feeling it so acutely, that they recently posted a job announcement for a Global Climate Change Researcher.1 But no researcher will be able to defend Exxon's climate denial. Exxon should be hiring more lawyers instead of more scientists to advocate for their climate killing agenda.

More than ever, we need to hold climate deniers accountable, especially big companies like Exxon who knew about climate change all along and made massive profits off of climate chaos. Click here to send Kamala Harris this message and let's keep the squeeze on Exxon.


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