From john at cypresshouse.com  Wed Nov  1 16:20:21 2017
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 16:20:21 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?utf-8?q?I_just_signed_this_=EF=BF=BD_will_you?=
	=?utf-8?q?=3F?=
Message-ID: <003801d35367$fd58aba0$f80a02e0$@com>

I just signed a petition calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reject coal and nuclear plant bailouts. Will you join me?

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/no-coal-handouts?sp_ref=348267869.4.184023.e.589416.3 <https://act.credoaction.com/sign/no-coal-handouts?sp_ref=348267869.4.184023.e.589416.3&referring_akid=25782.670819.TNni_n&source=mailto_sp> &referring_akid=25782.670819.TNni_n&source=mailto_sp

Thanks,

John

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From john at cypresshouse.com  Wed Nov  1 17:41:21 2017
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:41:21 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale
Message-ID: <008801d35373$4e268c90$ea73a5b0$@com>


Tax the rich: An animated fairy tale, is narrated by Ed Asner, with
animation by Mike Konopacki. Written and directed by Fred Glass for
the California Federation of Teachers. An 8 minute video about how we
arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening
economic inequality. Things go downhill in a happy and prosperous land
after the rich decide they don't want to pay taxes anymore. They tell
the people that there is no alternative, but the people aren't so
sure. This land bears a startling resemblance to our land. For more
info, www.cft.org. ? 2012 California Federation of Teachers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZsXrzF8Cc

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From marbury.1947 at gmail.com  Thu Nov  2 13:28:23 2017
From: marbury.1947 at gmail.com (Eduardo Oberweiser)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 13:28:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] please help Janie Rezer find a home
Message-ID: <CAMVrd32V5pUNO3AvEjHVLfow8q9rOydjJ3GcXdK6mT40nn3iEQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Occupy folks,

Janie Rezner is going to be homeless after November 18. I anyone knows of a
place she could rent or share that costs $800, please let her know at:
jrezner at mcn.org
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Thu Nov  2 17:35:19 2017
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 17:35:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Reminder
Message-ID: <000001d3543b$a0c8bc70$e25a3550$@com>

Occupy next meets this Sat. from 12-2 at the Sr. Center.

We're planning the celebration of MLK

and making other plans.

Join us.

John 

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From annxpress at live.com  Fri Nov  3 13:37:34 2017
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 20:37:34 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Minutes of 10/21/17 Meeting
Message-ID: <CY1PR16MB0281B9BF62B9C7199D9EE457DD5D0@CY1PR16MB0281.namprd16.prod.outlook.com>

Present: John, Linda, Richard, Irene, Jeri, Ann, Will, Daniel, Carrie, Agnes, Todd, JoeAyers, John Fletcher, Joe from Hosp Hse.

- John reported on CASA meeting he attended; foster parents are needed and will be paid. Does O/M want to have a meeting w/prospective foster parents? The partners are Children's fund with Annie Liner and Laura Welter.  We can be co-sponsors.

- Linda spoke about an event called "Walking the Migrant Trail" which is a 75 mile hike from Mexico across the desert to America. The date is 11/7 at the Casper Shul 7pm.

- Treasury:  We have $1,322.23 savings in the Peace and Justice account, and $700 in checking.  There is another Occupy account under Jesse's name with approx. $3,000 but we do not get statements. She pays the Sr. Center for our meetings every other month or so, we can speak to Jesse about rolling over the money into the P&J account.  Ann sent a check for $80 to pay for our domain name 2 years to keep our O/M website.

- MLK Day planning:  Andy and Vicki absent, and probably cannot make Sat. meetings, but still want to lead panel, co-ordinate speakers, and find young people to be involved.  We asked Ui Westerly to be M/C and Sherry Glaser can be a backup if needed. Carrie will help organize the parade route ending with a circle at the Park. Richard will find musicians, sound system and Irene has Freedom Singers. Linda is contacting CCC, Americorps, Jeri & Will contacting schools, CV Starr Center will show Will's photos of black Olympic winners 6 months. Food organizer Agnes, Kitchen Ann, Lorna, Pat, Dan.  Will can make flyers when theme decided/ Jeri will post. John Fletcher will do KNYO live broadcast, outreach to radio KZYX.

- Joe brought up issue of homeless, and he is contacting Churches that agreed to be emergency shelters to set up extreme weather shelter on a volunteer basis, to make sure the Hospitality House doesn't just pay themselves off the top and deny people shelters when the funds run low.

- Hwy cleanup is suspended for a couple of months while the weather is rainy and stormy. Bob is in the hospital with heart trouble (a card will go around to sign) and Sheila has not returned from New York.

- There was a disaster preparedness event in Casper after the wildfires inland.  We are due for a big earthquake and will be on our own, so there were barrels of supplies available such as blankets, flashlights and batteries, water, etc for $100.  zomaza at mcn.org is a site to find a fire video.

- Calendar: John Fletcher had a list of events on a Master Calendar in Grass Valley and suggests we put one together so that things coming up are on our website and cut down on conflicting dates for events. John and Richard will find O/M master list.

- Joe Ayers brought some voter registration forms, Measure B is the only issue this time.  There will be a meeting with police, social services and citizens on Tuesday 10/24 at Sr Center. This meeting will address shortcomings in the justice system that is supposed to protect the vulnerable children and adults in our community and find solutions.

- On Nov 9 at 5:30 there is a Democrat Club meeting at the Harbor Lite Lodge and O/M can have a table with info.

- Bank Protests are still happening on Fridays in front of Wells Fargo 2-3 and Chase 3-4. Agnes brought up the reason for them being MERS, bank fraud with robosigning stealing peoples mortgages and illegally foreclosing on homes.

- Linda McClure wants us to find venues for David Barsamian, who will be coming to the Coast on tour in Dec.

Adjourned 3:55 pm

Next Meeting Sat 11/4/17 12-2pm at Sr Center.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Nov  3 19:16:30 2017
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 19:16:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Obamacare open enrollment is open NOW! Help
	California get covered.
In-Reply-To: <59fc8470868bb_e54e78df54820742732@ip-10-0-0-142.mail>
References: <59fc8470868bb_e54e78df54820742732@ip-10-0-0-142.mail>
Message-ID: <A66F270E-C35C-4C5C-B895-73E094BDBB0E@mcn.org>


> 
> 
> Open  enrollment for Obamacare started THIS WEEK and will end soon. We only have until December 15th to sign up for affordable health insurance through Obamacare. 
> 
> The Trump Administration not only significantly shortened the open enrollment period, but also slashed the advertising budget for the program. That means people have very little time to get enrolled and very little information about how to do so. 
> 
> Here's how you can help, Richard: You can join an Open Enrollment Street Team! Grab some friends and neighbors, print out materials, and hit the streets to make sure your community knows Open Enrollment is November 1 - December 15. 
> 
> It's easy to join an Open Enrollment Team! Click here to sign up now. 
> 
> Can't volunteer at this time? Click here to share info about open enrollment on Facebook. 
> 
> 
> Anyone can spread the word about open enrollment, and we need your help to spread that information as far and wide as possible. We can't let Trump's inane vendetta against Obama keep people from getting affordable health insurance. 
> 
> You can talk to your local library, your favorite small business, and your local faith leaders about putting up posters and handing out brochures. You can post flyers on community boards. YOU know best how to reach the people in your community. 
> 
> So will you join us, Richard? Will you join or start an Open Enrollment Street Team? 
> 
> Can't volunteer? Then please share open enrollment info with your Facebook friends. 
> 
> 
> Keep fighting, 
> Irna Landrum, Daily Kos
> 
> 
> Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Nov  4 13:32:58 2017
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:32:58 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Next Systems website
Message-ID: <47AC317A-EF70-4510-9238-4A7AAEDBB603@mcn.org>

https://thenextsystem.org/principles <https://thenextsystem.org/principles>

Geri mentioned this website
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Nov  5 22:59:03 2017
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 22:59:03 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Posted by Daniel on OM Facebook page 213 people
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Ron Reynolds <https://www.facebook.com/ron.reynolds.9235?fref=ufi&rc=p> I wonder, does capitalism require greed?
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Bill Boyd <https://www.facebook.com/bill.boyd.1253?fref=ufi&rc=p> The higher rent will, in theory, lead to more rental inventory. This inventory will, eventually, bring down rents, but it can take a while. Impose government rent control and the inventory could shrink. Unless you want government to run everything, it?s better to stay out. Yes, there are people taking advantage. Have PG&E and insurance pony up the money for housing. Maybe then they will work harder to prevent this mess from happening!
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Debra J Pollen <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000775874725&fref=ufi&rc=p> pigs!
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Mon Nov  6 10:35:11 2017
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 10:35:11 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Humor but not
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Bill Maher explains Trump's Russia dealing:

 

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From annxpress at live.com  Tue Nov  7 09:01:22 2017
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 17:01:22 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Posted by Daniel on OM Facebook page 213
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I read that the County is cracking down on folks who are price gouging fire victims. Carrie Brown had to evacuate and has compassion for the displaced citizens.




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Can't believe how fucked up some people are... Raising rents everywhere in Sonoma county to fire victims residents, and rentals. Some people are snakes looking to come up off people who lost everything.

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Ron Reynolds<https://www.facebook.com/ron.reynolds.9235?fref=ufi&rc=p> When you have an economic system based on greed, this makes perfect since.
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Ron Reynolds<https://www.facebook.com/ron.reynolds.9235?fref=ufi&rc=p> I wonder, does capitalism require greed?
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Joe Julio<https://www.facebook.com/joe.julio.sac?fref=ufi&rc=p> Capitalism must be balanced with morals.
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Ron Reynolds<https://www.facebook.com/ron.reynolds.9235?fref=ufi&rc=p> The problem with morals is that there 6 or 7 billion different flavors. The ancient Romans thought they were incredibly moral and yet they cheered while feeding Christians to the lions.
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Bill Boyd<https://www.facebook.com/bill.boyd.1253?fref=ufi&rc=p> The higher rent will, in theory, lead to more rental inventory. This inventory will, eventually, bring down rents, but it can take a while. Impose government rent control and the inventory could shrink. Unless you want government to run everything, it?s better to stay out. Yes, there are people taking advantage. Have PG&E and insurance pony up the money for housing. Maybe then they will work harder to prevent this mess from happening!
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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:17:03 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Homeless amid the land of plenty
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http://www.theprovince.com/cars/homeless+explosion+west+coast+pushing+cities+brink/15521380/story.html <http://www.theprovince.com/cars/homeless+explosion+west+coast+pushing+cities+brink/15521380/story.html>

SEATTLE ? In a park in the middle of a leafy, bohemian neighbourhood where homes list for close to $1 million, a tractor's massive claw scooped up the refuse of the homeless - mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, an outdoor propane heater. Workers in masks and steel-shanked boots plucked used needles and mounds of waste from the underbrush.
Just a day before, this corner of Ravenna Park was an illegal home for the down and out, one of 400 such encampments that have popped up in Seattle's parks, under bridges, on freeway medians and along busy sidewalks. Now, as police and social workers approached, some of the dispossessed scurried away, vanishing into a metropolis that is struggling to cope with an enormous wave of homelessness.

That struggle is not Seattle's alone. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region's success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. All along the coast, elected officials are scrambling for solutions.

"I've got economically zero unemployment in my city, and I've got thousands of homeless people that actually are working and just can't afford housing," said Seattle City Councilman Mike O'Brien. "There's nowhere for these folks to move to. Every time we open up a new place, it fills up."

The rising numbers of homeless people have pushed abject poverty into the open like never before and have overwhelmed cities and nonprofits. The surge in people living on the streets has put public health at risk, led several cities to declare states of emergency and forced cities and counties to spend millions - in some cases billions - in a search for solutions.


San Diego now scrubs its sidewalks with bleach to counter a deadly hepatitis A outbreak that has spread to other cities and forced California to declare a state of emergency last month. In Anaheim, home to Disneyland, 400 people sleep along a bike path in the shadow of Angel Stadium. Organizers in Portland lit incense at a recent outdoor food festival to cover up the stench of urine in a parking lot where vendors set up shop.

Homelessness is not new on the West Coast. But interviews with local officials and those who serve the homeless in California, Oregon and Washington - coupled with an Associated Press review of preliminary homeless data - confirm it's getting worse. People who were once able to get by, even if they suffered a setback, are now pushed to the streets because housing has become so expensive.

All it takes is a prolonged illness, a lost job, a broken limb, a family crisis. What was once a blip in fortunes now seems a life sentence.

"Most homeless people I know aren't homeless because they're addicts," said Tammy Stephen, 54, who lives at a homeless encampment in Seattle. "Most people are homeless because they can't afford a place to live."

Among the AP's findings:

? Official counts taken earlier this year in California, Oregon and Washington show 168,000 homeless people in the three states, according to an AP tally of every jurisdiction in those states that reports homeless numbers to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. That is 19,000 more than were counted two years ago, although the numbers may not be directly comparable because of factors ranging from the weather to new counting methods.

? During the same period, the number of unsheltered people in the three states - defined as someone sleeping outside, in a bus or train station, abandoned building or vehicle - has climbed 18 per cent to 105,000.

? Rising rents are the main culprit. The median one-bedroom apartment in the San Francisco Bay Area is significantly more expensive than it is in the New York City metro area, and apartments in San Francisco are listed at a higher price than those in Manhattan.

? Since 2015, at least 10 cities or municipal regions in California, Oregon and Washington - and Honolulu, as well - have declared states of emergency due to the rise of homelessness, a designation usually reserved for natural disasters.

"What do we want as a city to look like? That's what the citizens here need to decide," said Gordon Walker, head of the regional task force for the homeless in San Diego, where the unsheltered homeless population has spiked by 18 per cent in the past year. "What are we going to allow? Are we willing to have people die on the streets?"

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With alarming frequency, the West Coast's newly homeless are people who were able to survive on the margins - until those margins moved.

For years, Stanley Timmings, 62, and his 61-year-old girlfriend, Linda Catlin, were able to rent a room in a friend's house on their combined disability payments.

Last spring, that friend died of colon cancer and the couple was thrust on Seattle's streets.

Timmings used their last savings to buy a used RV for $300 and spent another $300 to register it. They bought a car from a junk yard for $275.

Now, the couple parks the RV near a small regional airport and uses the car to get around.

They have no running water and no propane for the cook stove. They go to the bathroom in a bucket and dump it behind a nearby business. They shower and do laundry at a non-profit and buy water at a grocery depot. After four months, the stench of human waste inside the RV is overwhelming. Every inch of space is crammed with their belongings: jugs of laundry detergent, stacks of clothes, pots and pans, and tattered paperback novels. They are exhausted, scared and defeated, with no solution in sight.

"Between the two of us a month, we get $1,440 in disability. We can't find a place for that," he said. "Our income is (about) $17,000 ... a year. That puts us way out of the ballpark, not even close. It might have been enough but anymore, no. It's not."

A new study funded by the real estate information firm Zillow and conducted by the University of Washington found a strong link between rising housing prices and rising homelessness numbers. A 5 per cent rent increase in Los Angeles, for example, would mean about 2,000 more homeless people there, the authors said.

Nationally, homelessness has been trending down, partly because governments and non-profit groups have gotten better at moving people into housing. That's true in many West Coast cities, too, but the flow the other direction is even faster. And on the West Coast, shelter systems are smaller.

"If you have a disability income, you make about $9,000 a year and renting a studio in Seattle is about $1,800 a month and so that's twice your income," said Margaret King, director of housing programs for DESC, a non-profit that works with Seattle's homeless.

"So everybody who was just hanging on because they had cheap rent, they're losing that ... and they wind up outside. It's just exploded."

Nowhere is that more evident than California's Silicon Valley, where high salaries and a tight housing market have pushed rent out of reach for thousands. In ever-shifting communities of the homeless, RVs and cars cluster by the dozens in the city where Google built its global headquarters and just blocks from Stanford University.

Ellen Tara James-Penney, a lecturer at San Jose State University, has been sleeping out of a car for about a decade, ever since she lost her housing while an undergraduate at the school where she now teaches four English courses, a job that pays $28,000 a year. Home is an old Volvo.

"I've basically been homeless since 2007, and I'm really tired," she said. "Really tired."

She actually got her start in the high tech industry, before being laid off during the tech meltdown of the early 2000s. Like many who couldn't find work, she went to college, accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in student debt along the way.

Now 54, she grades papers and prepares lesson plans in her car. Among her few belongings is a pair of her grandmother's fancy stiletto pumps, a reminder to herself that "it's not going to be like this forever."

Increased housing costs aren't just sweeping up low-income workers: The numbers of homeless youth also is rising.

A recent count in Los Angeles, for example, found that those ages 18 to 24 were the fastest-growing homeless group by age, up 64 per cent, followed by those under 18. Los Angeles and other cities have made a concerted effort to improve their tallies of homeless youth, which likely accounts for some of the increase.

One of the reasons is the combined cost of housing and tuition, said Will Lehman, policy supervisor at Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. A recent study by the University of Wisconsin found that one in five Los Angeles Community College District students is homeless, he said.

"They can pay for books, for classes but just can't afford an apartment. They're choosing to prioritize going to school," Lehman said. "They don't choose their situation."

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Michael Madigan opened a new wine bar in Portland a few years ago overlooking a ribbon of parks not far from the city's trendy Pearl District.

Business was good until, almost overnight, dozens of homeless people showed up on the sidewalk. A large encampment on the other side of the city had been shut down, and its residents moved to the park at his doorstep.

"We literally turned the corner one day ... and there were 48 tents set up on this one block that hadn't been there the day before," he said.

Madigan's business dropped 50 per cent in four months and he closed his bar. There are fewer homeless people there now, but the campers have moved to a bike path that winds through residential neighbourhoods in east Portland, prompting hundreds of complaints about trash, noise, drug use and illegal camping.

Rachel Sterry, a naturopathic doctor, lives near that path and sometimes doesn't feel safe when she's commuting by bike with her 1-year-old son. Dogs have rolled in human feces in a local park; recent improvements she's made to her small home are overshadowed by the line of tents and tarps a few dozen yards from her front door, she said.

"I have to stop and get off my bike to ask people to move their card game or their lounge chairs or their trash out of the way when I'm just trying to get from point A to point B," she said. ?If I were to scream or get hurt, nobody would know.??

MORE HERE >>>>    http://www.theprovince.com/cars/homeless+explosion+west+coast+pushing+cities+brink/15521380/story.html <http://www.theprovince.com/cars/homeless+explosion+west+coast+pushing+cities+brink/15521380/story.html>
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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:10:29 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] medicaid-chief-endorses-work-requirement-schemes
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42549-trump-s-medicaid-chief-endorses-work-requirement-schemes <http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42549-trump-s-medicaid-chief-endorses-work-requirement-schemes>

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a meeting on health care reform in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday, June 05, 2017. (Photo: Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
 

States that want to force Medicaid recipients to get a job before qualifying for healthcare have an ally in the Trump administration, according to remarks made on Tuesday by the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Speaking to the National Association of Medicaid Directors, Seema Verma gave a nod to the several states across the country that had hoped to enact Medicaid work requirements only to be shot down by the Obama administration.

"Those days are over," Verma said in prepared remarks <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/11/07/states-will-be-allowed-to-impose-medicaid-work-requirements-top-federal-official-says/?utm_term=.777b28c457f1>.

"Believing that community engagement requirements do not support the objectives of Medicaid is a tragic example of the soft bigotry of low expectations consistently espoused by the prior administration," she added.

Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Utah, and Wisconsin are all seeking to implement work requirements on the low-income public health insurance program. The proposals would require non-disabled Medicaid recipients to get a job or engage in community service in order to receive health care benefits.

A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that about 60 percent of non-elderly, non-disabled Medicaid recipients are currently employed.

More than half of the states seeking waivers also accepted Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, in which the federal government footed most of the bill for expanding the program's reach to 11 million more people who make below $16,600 annually.

Verma suggested work requirements were an appropriate response to the expanded Medicaid population.

"The thought that a program designed for our most vulnerable citizens should be used as a vehicle to serve working age, able-bodied adults does not make sense," she claimed, noting that the Obama administration "fought state led reforms that would've allowed the Medicaid program to evolve to meet the needs of these new individuals."

New York Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson, who was on hand to hear Director Verma's speech, told <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/11/07/states-will-be-allowed-to-impose-medicaid-work-requirements-top-federal-official-says/?utm_term=.777b28c457f1> The Washington Post that her remarks were "completely reprehensible."

"Shocked, appalled would be the two primary reactions I have," he added.

Kentucky's Medicaid chief Stephen Miller, however, said his state was "right in sync" with Verma. Miller told the Post he expects his Kentucky's work requirement waiver to approved "soon."

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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:49:08 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?utf-8?q?Conservatives_Turn_to_Veterans?=
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The New York Times
November 9, 2017
With Obamacare Fight Lost, Conservatives Turn to Veterans? Care
By Nicholas Fandos

With their hopes of repealing the Affordable Care Act dashed for now, deep-pocketed conservative activists have turned their attention to a smaller but still potent new effort: allowing private health care to compete with Veterans Affairs hospitals for the patronage of the nation?s veterans.

Concerned Veterans for America, a little-known advocacy group backed by the conservative billionaire industrialists Charles G. and David H. Koch, is pressing Republicans to make it easier for veterans to see private doctors at government expense. The group?s voice had been lonely until recently, when a raft of Koch-connected advocacy organizations and other conservative allies joined the effort.

The relative newcomers to the world of veterans policy see in the debate an opportunity to advance their campaign against government-provided medical care. Together, they have pledged millions of dollars for advertising and outreach, and have unleashed a small army of lobbyists and donors to pressure the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers.

Republicans and conservative groups would prefer new spending be at least partly offset by cost savings and other cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Democrats and the old-line veterans groups say they are unlikely to support a plan unless it makes simultaneous investments in the agency?s own capacity. Without it, they argue, the problems that have necessitated private care in the first place will only fester.

?This is starve the beast to the point that it can?t function situation,? (Representative Tim) Walz said of the latter plan, ?because if you don?t do this, the complaints against the V.A. are going to increase exponentially. The wait lists are going to increase. And then they are going to say, ?See, we need more outside care.??

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/us/politics/obamacare-veterans-affairs-koch-brothers-health.html?_r=0 <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/us/politics/obamacare-veterans-affairs-koch-brothers-health.html?_r=0>

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San Francisco Chronicle
November 8, 2017
Battle over veterans? health care comes down to VA Choice
By Michael Blecker

Kevin Miller is a U.S. Marine Corps Iraq combat veteran who came home with a wide range of chronic health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and injuries to his neck, spine and shoulders. Thanks to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs? model of integrated care, Miller can coordinate and receive all his care at the VA hospital in San Francisco.

There he can see specialists for his physical injuries, as well as mental health practitioners who understand the unique experience of veterans. If we send veterans like Miller to private doctors for their specialty care, however, then their care would be fragmented and medical appointments scattered at facilities miles apart.

Yet that is what the federal government tried to do, setting off a battle for health care for weary warriors to wage with policymakers and a well-funded special interest over the VA and its future.

To address problems of long wait times at Veterans Health Administration hospitals, in 2014 Congress established the Veterans Choice Program, which provides private health care options for eligible veterans at government expense.

In their war against the VA, our nation?s only truly universal health care system, special interest groups such as Concerned Veterans of America backed by the Koch brothers led the federal government to adopt VA Choice. In their larger efforts to attack all government-funded programs and services, the Koch brothers led a misinformation campaign claiming the VA system ? one of the largest government agencies with 320,000 public employees ? is broken.

Advocates, however, had long warned that private-sector options increase the cost of veterans? health care.

Because health care dollars follow the veteran, the migration of dollars out of the system affected the operating budgets at the VA facility programs. VA medical and regional directors wrote in an internal VA memo that the costs of outsourcing veterans? care to the private sector has been a ?major driver, in budget shortfalls for Veterans Health Administration facilities across the country.?

The VA is a system worth saving. If we continue to divert precious taxpayer dollars to private care, we risk dismantling a veteran-centered health care system designed for their special needs.

House and Senate veterans committees are drafting legislation due for action this week to determine how much the VA outsources care. The Koch brothers and their network are pushing for a multimillion-dollar campaign to include loopholes in the legislation that will move us closer to dismantling the VA.

Write your members of Congress and urge them to keep the Koch network out of our VA.

Michael Blecker is executive director of Swords to Plowshares.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Battle-over-veterans-health-care-comes-down-to-12342715.php <http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Battle-over-veterans-health-care-comes-down-to-12342715.php>

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Comment by Don McCanne

All health care systems have problems, including the Veterans Health Administration. It is not difficult to come to the conclusion that when problems exist you try to fix them. Yet Charles and David Koch, in their anti-government fervor, would destroy the government-run VA Health system by privatizing it since effectuating their libertarian ideology is vastly more important to them than fulfilling, in the very best way we can, our fundamental moral obligation to support the health of our veterans.

Although you might think that the conservatives believe they own the copyright for the American flag, they don?t. It belongs to all of us. Tomorrow, Veterans Day, I will mount the flag on my front lawn. I will salute the flag and then kneel before it as I pay respect for not only what it stands for but also for what it should stand for.

Peace.
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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 08:17:11 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nature Has Rights
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"Nature Has Rights": Activists Call for a Legal Transformation
Friday, November 10, 2017
By Mike Ludwig <http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44659>, Truthout | Report
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The Colorado River runs through Grand Canyon National Park.

The mighty Colorado River and its watersheds are a crucial source of life in the arid Southwest, supplying water to vast ecosystems and millions of people across seven states and northern Mexico. With so much depending on its existence, the Colorado River filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against the state of Colorado last month, demanding that its right to evolve, flourish and be restored in the wake of human interference be recognized in the court of law.

Well, sort of. An activist lawyer filed the legal complaint at a federal district court in Denver, naming the river itself as a plaintiff and calling on the court to recognize its ecosystems as a "person" under the law. Still, Colorado River v. Colorado is fairly unprecedented, at least in the United States.

Bodies of water can't defend themselves in court, but they do not go untouched by the law. All the organisms -- including humans -- that depend on a river to survive can be affected when existing environmental laws fail to prevent water pollution, or when a government or corporation wins the legal right to guzzle up its life-giving resources.

Western states have fought over the Colorado River's water resources for decades, damming and diverting more than 70 percent <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-colorado-river-runs-dry-61427169/> of its water to vast cities and cropland. In 2015, two tributaries of the Colorado River suffered an environmental disaster when federal remediation workers accidently allowed 880,000 gallons of wastewater contaminated with heavy metals to spill from the defunct Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado.

"Water is life," declared the Native Water Protectors and allied activists at Standing Rock. <http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38251-the-human-right-to-water-at-standing-rock> Without clean water, clean air and a stable climate, the future of all life on Earth is in peril, including our own. This raises important questions: Is a river like the Colorado simply a collection of resources to be bought, sold and haggled over in courts and legislatures? Or do rivers and all ecosystems actually rise above monetary value?

The answer to this question is central to a growing global movement of activists and attorneys who are forging a new kind of environmental law by proclaiming the legal "rights of nature." Since nature can't directly assert legal rights itself (although the Earth may punish us for disrupting the climate and other follies), these advocates also fight for the right of local communities to protect the natural systems around them from destruction and exploitation.

That nature and its entities have the same "right" to exist and flourish as people do is not a new concept -- many Indigenous people have embraced such ideas for millennia. However, the lawsuit filed on behalf of the Colorado River is attempting to inject this thinking into the contemporary legal system, challenging Western capitalist notions such as "corporate personhood" in the process. 

"The rights of nature is all of us sitting here, because there is no separation," said Casey Camp-Horinek, a water protector, grandmother and activist from the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, at a recent symposium on the rights of nature at Tulane University in New Orleans. "When we say 'rights of nature,' are we so ego-bound that we think it is separate from human beings?"

Does Nature Have Legal Rights?

Colorado River v. Colorado outlines the basic ideas driving the "rights of nature" movement. The current system of law has failed to adequately protect the environment and the natural and human communities that depend on it, as evidenced by climate disruption and rampant pollution. Current laws fail because they treat the natural world as private property, with existing protections only regulating the rate at which it is exploited and destroyed in the name of profit.

The lawsuit traces its legal roots back to a 1971 dissent written by liberal Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who argued that "inanimate objects" are unable to represent themselves in court but are parties to lawsuits all the time. For example, a cargo ship has a legal personality for the purpose of maritime law. "Contemporary public concern for protecting nature's ecological equilibrium," Douglas wrote, is reason to give "environmental objects" standing to sue for their own preservation.

After all, if a corporation can claim the same legal rights as persons, as the Supreme Court famously held in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission and other cases, then why not a river ecosystem that has sustained human civilization in the Southwest for many thousands of years, and life for millions more? Still, the lawsuit faces a tough road ahead.

An initial hearing on the case is set for November 14, and Colorado's attorney general has already called for it to be thrown out. The lawsuit asks the court to recognize members of the radical environmental group Deep Green Resistance as "next friends" of the Colorado River who may defend its rights in court, a request that could raise eyebrows because the group has promoted Earth-defense tactics such as sabotage that are technically illegal.

The case is not without precedent, however, at least internationally. Earlier this year, the high court in India's northern state of Uttarakhand issued a ruling recognizing the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers as legal persons with certain rights in order to "preserve and conserve" water resources. The ruling came after the same court found that the rivers and glaciers that feed them are "central" to the well-being of half the Indian population, but still they suffer from pollution that threatens their very existence.

Similar rulings have come out of a number of other countries in recent years. A river in New Zealand now enjoys the same rights as a person under a law that Indigenous people?spent decades fighting for <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/16/new-zealand-river-granted-same-legal-rights-as-human-being>. In 2010, Bolivia's legislature passed a law affirming the "rights of Mother Earth." In 2008, Ecuador enshrined the rights of nature or "pachamama" <https://www.pachamama.org/journeys> into its constitution, and legal rulings there have since recognized that rivers have rights that can be violated by human activity.

While these victories are milestones for the rights of nature movement, they have not put a total halt to pollution and resource extraction in their respective jurisdictions.

Ecuador's constitutional amendment was a "top down" initiative won by NGOs and friendly lawmakers rather than a bottom-up grassroots effort, according to Natalia Green of Ecuador's Pachamama Alliance, which pushed for the constitutional amendment and also works with Indigenous groups on the ground. Empowering local communities to defend the rights of the natural systems around them is often a different story, and it's how the movement is making the most immediate impact in the US.

"We need to have everyone in the country believing that nature has rights, and that's why we start at the local level," said Ben Price, an organizer with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), during a symposium in New Orleans.

CELDF worked on the constitutional amendment in Ecuador and is at the forefront of the rights of nature movement in the US, where it's a major backer of the Colorado River lawsuit. It's also a driving force behind the "community rights movement," which has taken hold in town halls across the US as local communities take a stand against invading polluters.

A Tiny Town Takes on the Fracking Industry

In 2013, Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE) proposed a fracking wastewater injection well in Grant Township, Pennsylvania, a rural community of about 700 people. Wastewater from fracking can contain dangerous chemicals and radioactive material, and injection wells have been linked to water pollution and earthquakes. <http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15412-injection-well-linked-to-destructive-earthquake-in-oklahoma-raising-new-fracking-fears>
Residents weren't happy about the proposal, which would bring 152 million gallons of fracking waste into Grant Township to be dumped down the well over the next decade, according to CELDF. About 50 people showed up in opposition to the injection well at an initial public hearing held by the Environmental Protection Agency, but months later they learned that a permit would be issued anyway.

So, in 2014, the township adopted a "community bills of rights" ordinance that banned injection wells and asserted the community's right to self-governance, with help from CELDF.

PGE then sued the township, arguing the ordinance violated its corporate constitutional "right" to build the injection well. In response, CELDF filed a motion to intervene on behalf of residents and the local watershed, which is home to the hellbender salamander <https://www.nature.org/newsfeatures/specialfeatures/animals/amphibians/hellbender-salamander-facts.xml>, the largest aquatic salamander in North America. CELDF's assertion of the rights of nature alarmed the oil and gas industry, which feared that the move could set a dangerous precedent.

In 2015, a federal district court threw out the motion to intervene and ruled that state law preempted the local ordinance banning injection wells. The ruling put the well back on track, so local activists and township commissioners went to work knocking on doors and building opposition among their neighbors.

Within weeks, the township adopted the country's first municipal charter establishing a local "bill of rights," including the right to prohibit injection wells. Highland Township, another rural community in Pennsylvania facing a proposed injection well, worked with CELDF and passed a similar charter. The charters define local government structure and establish "home rule" in order to trump state laws seen as favorable to industry.

"What if your community could just say 'no' instead of using loopholes like industrial zoning [to stop polluters]?" said Grant Township Supervisor Stacy Long at the symposium in New Orleans.

The charters effectively stalled the state permits for the injection wells, but eventually the state relented. In March, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, which was mired in controversy for working too closely with the industry during the state's fracking boom, finally issued permits for the injection wells. Regulators then sued both townships, arguing that the charters unlawfully interfered with state oil and gas policies.

For rights of nature activists, legal battles like this one are proof of the absurdity that plagues current environmental laws and regulations, which favor the rights of big business over ecosystems and fail to protect the people living in harm's way.

"Our community wrote a new constitution, with wide community support and input, to protect our rights and our environment," Long said in a statement at the time. "And now we've been sued, not only by a corporation that wants to profit by dumping toxic waste in our community, but also by our own state 'environmental protection' agency."

PGE, perhaps wary of the community rights activism that boiled up in response to its injection well proposal, asked a federal court in July to order CELDF to pay $560,000 in compensation for the attorney fees it accrued while fighting Grant Township in court over the past three years. CELDF is a relatively small organization that provides pro bono and low-cost legal assistance, and the fees would suck up more than half of its annual budget.

However, both cases are still winding through the courts, effectively blocking the injection wells in both townships to date. Last year, Grant Township passed another ordinance recognizing the rights of local residents to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience if PGE wins the legal right to finally install the injection well. 
"This work is really about conducting civil disobedience through municipal lawmaking, challenging the system by using the system," CELDF Associate Director Mari Margil told Truthout in an interview.

If the goal is to block unwanted industrial activity, the rights of nature movement has had a number of successes. Margil said small towns in the Northeast have used community rights ordinances to ward off Nestle and other private water companies <http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36451-pennsylvania-community-defeats-nestle-s-attempt-to-privatize-its-water>. About 200 communities across the country have now passed local ordinances declaring their rights to ban fracking, wastewater injection, sludge dumping, factory farming and other sources of industrial pollution.

"For the most part, those laws are in place and prohibiting the activity that has been banned," Margil said.

In Ohio, Washington and other states where community rights initiatives have been challenged by powerful corporations and preempted by state law, networks of community activists are pushing legislation and ballot initiatives that would enshrine that right to local self-governance into state law. In Wisconsin, the Ho-Chunk Nation is considering a rights of nature amendment to its tribal constitution. A final vote is expected next year.

CELDF admits that its efforts cannot always succeed under the current legal system. However, activists say, inspiring people to challenge that system is a success all its own.

"Suddenly, people are willing to fight like hell when they didn't used to be," Price said. "For me right now, the success is that people are engaging in ways that they never have before."

Just a decade ago, the rights of nature movement occupied an odd corner on the fringe of environmentalism. Since then, its influence has grown both globally and at home, operating at the intersection of traditional legal tactics and radical environmental ideas rooted in Indigenous wisdom that have called activists to direct action for decades. Whether the rights of nature will be accepted into the broader legal system remains to be seen, but in a time of mounting ecological crises, recognizing nature's right to flourish may just be what preserves our own.

Copyright, Truthout. May not be reprinted without permission <mailto:editor at truthout.org>.
MIKE LUDWIG <http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44659>
Mike Ludwig is a staff reporter at Truthout and a contributor to the Truthout anthology, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? <http://www.truth-out.org/whodoyouserve> In 2014 and 2017, Project Censored <http://projectcensored.org/our-work/> featured Ludwig's reporting on its annual list of the top 25 independent news stories that the corporate media ignored. Follow him on Twitter: @ludwig_mike <https://twitter.com/ludwig_mike>.

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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 16:36:01 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] North Coast Anti Nuke site
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Please look at this new site sponsored by Occupy Mendocino. Built after the 
Peace Boat folks from Humboldt came to visit and did anti nuke presentations.

I hope you?ll post anti nuke articles on it. The North Korean buildup is 
especially troubling,

Thanks,
Richard


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From john at cypresshouse.com  Mon Nov 13 17:30:35 2017
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:30:35 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Planning Martin Luther King Jr.'s celebration
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Our next meeting is on 11/18 (Sat., 12-2, Sr. Ctr)

This is from Linda Jupiter:

Greetings, all,
Just a heads-up to remind you that our annual MLK Jr. Day celebration here
in Fort Bragg will be held on Monday, January 15, at Trinity Lutheran
Church, 620 E. Redwood at Corry. 
	We'll commemorate the Montgomery bus boycott by marching through
Fort Bragg from 11 to noon, our MLK program begins at noon, and we'll enjoy
a hearty lunch with music from very talented young people from 1 to 2 pm.
	We're asking you, our community, to join in and bring a potluck dish
to share. Email me (jupiter at mcn.org) or Agnes (agnes at mcn.org) to let us know
what you'll be contributing.
	As always, the more serious side of our program will focus on ending
racial divides in our country and here in Mendocino. We have not yet
finalized our program, but are looking forward to having a panel of young
people share their experiences and reveal what we can do to eliminate racism
and make Fort Bragg a welcoming town for us all.
	We look forward to hearing from you.
Linda


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From annxpress at live.com  Wed Nov 15 09:56:00 2017
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:56:00 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [globalfrackdownallies] Fwd: Paradise Papers
 Reveal U.S. Selling Russian LNG In Europe
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References: <BN6PR01MB3218258D7F37B6718CCB1534A22B0@BN6PR01MB3218.prod.exchangelabs.com>,
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It is no surprise that Trump, Ross, Tillotson et al are profiting from Russian oil. We need to get off fossil fuels asap!


Sent from my U.S. Cellular? Smartphone


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From: Andy Gheorghiu <andy.gheorghiu at mail.de>
Date: 11/13/17 5:37 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: globalfrackdownallies at fwwatch.org
Subject: [globalfrackdownallies] Fwd: Paradise Papers Reveal U.S. Selling Russian LNG In Europe


Dear all,


fyi (see also exchange down below): https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Paradise-Papers-Reveal-US-Selling-Russian-LNG-In-Europe.html


My best regards
Andy

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Von: gas-strategy-europe at googlegroups.com<mailto:gas-strategy-europe at googlegroups.com> <gas-strategy-europe at googlegroups.com><mailto:gas-strategy-europe at googlegroups.com> im Auftrag von Mark Johnston <mark.johnston.esq at gmail.com><mailto:mark.johnston.esq at gmail.com>
Gesendet: Montag, 13. November 2017 09:53
An: Gyorgy Dallos
Cc: Gas Strategy Europe
Betreff: Re: [gas eu] Paradise Papers Reveal U.S. Selling Russian LNG In Europe

Thanks Gyorgy, a good spot!
So much for Gazprom export monopoly!
My Tweet<https://twitter.com/mark_johnston/status/929994364193050625>.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross owns 35%.
Also, Google search on company name returns this website for London-based operating unit:
https://www.navigatorgas.com/
Mark

On 12 November 2017 at 13:54, Gyorgy Dallos <gyorgy.dallos at greenpeace.org<mailto:gyorgy.dallos at greenpeace.org>> wrote:
...

According to the leaked documents, four cargo carriers owned by Navigator Holdings were used to load Russian natural gas at the port of Ust Luga before heading to the Anwerp LNG terminal in Belgium.

The documents suggest that a company with U.S. ownership is buying Russian gas from petrochemical giant Sibur, and then selling it?at a profit, of course?to the European Union, which is in a rush to build as many LNG terminals as it can in a bid to reduce its dependence on Russian gas.

If the reports are true, the situation is an ironic one for Europe: while trying to reduce its dependence on Russian gas it is inadvertently increasing it and is even paying more for it than it would if it bought the extra loads directly from Gazprom.

...

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Paradise-Papers-Reveal-US-Selling-Russian-LNG-In-Europe.html

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Global Campaign Strategist
Climate & Energy
Greenpeace International
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From ccwood at ix.netcom.com  Thu Nov 16 16:26:06 2017
From: ccwood at ix.netcom.com (Charles Cresson Wood)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:26:06 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Upcoming Free Event: Regenerating Your
	Garden/Farm Soil
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Event Title: Regenerating and Building Your Soil
Event Date & Time: Thursday, December 7th, 2017, 7PM 
Location: Community Center of Mendocino, 998 School St., Mendocino

The historical record shows that the collapses of many past civilizations can be attributed to the depletion of topsoil. Since the beginning of agricultural production in the Great Plains of North America in the 1880s, about one-half of its topsoil has disappeared. Depletion of topsoil can take place through water and wind erosion, over-tillage, overuse of nutrient inputs, compaction, pH problems, and salinization. On the average, it takes 500 years to build an inch of top soil, and in many cases in California it takes 2,000 years. A recent UN Report stated that we have only 60 years of top soil remaining. As human populations continue to increase, and our need for water and soil increase, the preservation, conservation and restoration of soils has become some of the most important work on Earth. Join us to learn some simple soil-related regenerative techniques for the land you steward, so that you can better care for and rebuild this precious resource. 

Speaker: Matt Drewno, Manager of the Victory Gardens for Peace Seed Bank (in Mendocino)
For More Information: Charles Cresson Wood, Local Organizer, Mendocino Coast Transition Towns; 707 937 5572 and ccwood at ix.netcom.com




From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Nov 16 21:04:16 2017
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:04:16 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Corporate Sponsors Could Be a Miracle For
	Democracy
Message-ID: <25F2F27F-DEF1-42DF-8AD0-B91293DD206D@mcn.org>

Republicans Failing Their Corporate Sponsors Could Be a Miracle For Democracy
 <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JXSgnYgO5TulByCFFWolqxjCfRtNsXfMpyQRMNCMeSHabvETmr_K0k_dJQsNkrNfv6apqeBfHzUjORGqcffZEeHbyhObynSrud6UXcQ-TUVp4IMZiAtRNu_lIAMBxAQYWa_4R9346znt-wImm69QVA37kFSawr_qhjdzfEc0FdvagFChTVtTLsuih9hKiBM6rm4C5IyHSeStdaAzkb28IAJtv0NGUEwMbGw4Dc5xL_AR_62VlrXmqYapr-PKJQdgNHtoPXzyeSR3R4qknljSRV49kahwbYpHeZ69dnS6vhw=&c=SJCJGqUxWOOYs_MgQbzJLs4R_q7xZnX-kmfRVtY9zjjfkG1GfPLo2Q==&ch=bgbq9q0NUChHXMgE7CqbaKbM3SkV_nggvrsiGS_Ljq3rSpSOMM6Lng==>  Now, you don't hear it very much in the corporate media, but the budget bill that the Republicans passed through the House and Senate and Donald Trump signed that set the table for this tax legislation - this tax scam that is being worked out between Republicans in the House, Republicans in the Senate and the billionaires who own them all - includes a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid and a half a trillion dollar cut to Medicare.

So how do you get people to stop using Medicaid and Medicare if you're going to cut the funding for it? You can't just start saying to doctors, 'sorry we're only going to pay you 20% of what we used to pay you, or 80%, or whatever it may be.' I mean, you could, but you might as well not have a system. So what do you do?

Well, the Republicans have got an answer to that, too. You just you have to admit these guys, they're slick. They put a lot of thought into this stuff.

They want to make sure that the donor class is not paying for your health care if you happen to be working for $7.50 an hour someplace and are making so little even though you're working full-time that you qualify for Medicaid.

They want to make sure that you can no longer get that Medicaid because Medicaid is paid for out of the federal coffers and federal coffers are replenished in part by taxes from billionaires and big corporations.

And billionaires and big corporations, they want to keep all that money in Bermuda. They don't want that money messing around here.

So, how do we get people to stop using Medicaid? Because we're going to cut a trillion dollars - a thousand billion dollars - out of Medicaid, so how do we get people to stop using it?

Again, this is all predicated on the foundational notion that Republicans have that health care is not a right, it is a privilege. It's a privilege that you must earn, and you earn it by becoming wealthy, because that's the only metric that is important.

Being a good person - not important.

Being a decent parent - not important.

Being a good son or daughter - not important.

Being wealthy - oh yeah, that gets the GOP going.

So you've got the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - it's called CMS - the part of HHS that administers Medicare and Medicaid. And the woman in charge of this, her name is Seema Verma. And last week she made a rather shocking - in fact it's been called "twisted" and "absolutely awful" by health care experts - a shocking statement.

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From annxpress at live.com  Fri Nov 17 09:07:18 2017
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:07:18 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Your signature blocking KXL from JPMorgan
 Chase funding needs a share
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Date: 11/16/17 1:58 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: Ann Rennacker <annxpress at live.com>
Subject: Your signature blocking KXL from JPMorgan Chase funding needs a share

[Rainforest Action Network]

Dear Ann,

Are you willing to continue fighting climate change today? Please share our petition so others can Follow the money ? and hold banks accountable!<https://www.ran.org/chase_stop_kxl?e=e7cd3ccb9d2f2b0be8de84a15885dceaee2f94bb&utm_source=rainforestactionnetwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wrup_up_actiont&n=1>

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JPMorgan Chase is the Number One Wall Street funder of tar sands oil, one of the dirtiest oils on the planet. Working with our incredible allies in New York City, we exposed their role funding climate chaos by taking the message directly to CEO Jamie Dimon?s doorstep ? and dropping a 3-story banner at Chase global headquarters.

Because you tuned in live we reached over 700,000 people with this bold action!! If you missed it you can watch it here and share it.<https://www.ran.org/chase_stop_kxl?e=e7cd3ccb9d2f2b0be8de84a15885dceaee2f94bb&utm_source=rainforestactionnetwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wrup_up_actiont&n=3>

Hundreds of thousands watched online as the activists climbed up the flagpoles. A massive crowd gathered on the streets of Manhattan as well ? and from the street we could see JPMorgan Chase employees watching from their windows and others pouring out of the building to watch the banner unfurl![37684338314_e1c21b8b16_o.jpg]<https://www.ran.org/chase_stop_kxl?e=e7cd3ccb9d2f2b0be8de84a15885dceaee2f94bb&utm_source=rainforestactionnetwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wrup_up_actiont&n=4>



JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon talks a big game when it comes to addressing climate change. Dimon says he supports the Paris Climate Agreement ? but we've followed the money and the facts don't lie. Chase, as the number one Wall Street funder of tar sands oil, is profiting off climate change and human rights violations. Simply put, the tar sands sector spells disaster for the environment, for the climate and for Indigenous rights. That's why we took direct action at JPMorgan Chase?s global headquarters.

[37682260714_2c561641f5_o.jpg]<https://www.ran.org/chase_stop_kxl?e=e7cd3ccb9d2f2b0be8de84a15885dceaee2f94bb&utm_source=rainforestactionnetwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wrup_up_actiont&n=5>



Part of this funding goes to support disastrous projects like the Keystone XL pipeline ? and a permit decision on the KXL pipeline is only days away in Nebraska. Will you join us in turning up the heat?



We?re partnering with environmental and grassroots groups all over the country to get over 500,000 signatures to tell JPMorgan Chase and 18 other banks: Don't Fund the Keystone XL pipeline! On December 15th, these banks face a critical decision to renew the credit that will help revive the KXL pipeline.



Invite others to, tell big banks to Say NO to the KXL pipeline and NO to tar sands!<https://www.ran.org/chase_stop_kxl?e=e7cd3ccb9d2f2b0be8de84a15885dceaee2f94bb&utm_source=rainforestactionnetwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wrup_up_actiont&n=6>

In solidarity,

[Tess Geyer Climate and Energy Network Organizer]


Tess Geyer, Climate and Energy Organizer
Rainforest Action Network





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From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:18:31 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_If_you=92ve_ever_been_a?=
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Date: 11/20/17 11:30 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: Ann Rennacker <annxpress at live.com>
Subject: If you?ve ever been against KXL, the moment to resist it is NOW

[Rainforest Action Network]
Dear Ann,

The disastrous Keystone XL pipeline was just granted approval by Nebraska?s Public Service Commission in a 3-2 vote ? but the fight?s not over yet!

They need two things to build the KXL pipeline: permits and money. For the moment, TransCanada has a permit for an alternative route -- but that will continue to face fierce opposition. And now we have a chance to challenge TransCanada?s funding. That?s where you come in.

Please share our petition so others can follow the money ? and hold banks accountable!<https://www.ran.org/help_stop_kxl?e=e7cd3ccb9d2f2b0be8de84a15885dceaee2f94bb&utm_source=rainforestactionnetwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kxl_d_actiontak&n=1>

We know that this massive tar sands pipeline would be a disaster for everybody except the friends of the Trump administration who will be lining their pockets at the planet's expense. But even fossil fuel giants like TransCanada need the support of big banks to lend them the money required for such a gargantuan industrial infrastructure project.

Help push JPMorgan Chase to drop TransCanada, the company behind the KXL pipeline, by sharing this petition!<https://www.ran.org/help_stop_kxl?e=e7cd3ccb9d2f2b0be8de84a15885dceaee2f94bb&utm_source=rainforestactionnetwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kxl_d_actiontak&n=2>

JPMorgan Chase is one of TransCanada?s lead banks and the #1 US funder of extreme fossil fuels and tar sands oil. We know that extreme fossil fuels like tar sands spell disaster for the climate, the environment and human rights. We need a rapid phase-out of extreme fossil fuels now! Yet the Keystone pipeline, if built, would lock us into decades of expanded tar sands extraction.

We stopped KXL before and we can do it again ? if we follow the money. We need your help to show banks that we won?t tolerate threats to clean water, the climate and Indigenous rights.

Invite others to tell big banks to Say NO to the KXL pipeline and NO to tar sands!<https://www.ran.org/help_stop_kxl?e=e7cd3ccb9d2f2b0be8de84a15885dceaee2f94bb&utm_source=rainforestactionnetwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kxl_d_actiontak&n=3>

For people and planet,

Scott

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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Wed Nov 22 10:29:03 2017
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:29:03 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Resistance Potluck & Huddle
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To: "announce at lists.mcn.org" <announce at lists.mcn.org>


Friday December 8th at 6:00 (Potluck) / 6:30 (Speaker)
Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino

This is a special Huddle meeting! Author David Barsamian will be at
Gallery Bookshop talking about his latest book, written with Noam Chomsky,
"Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy." As
usual, Huddle members are encouraged to come 30 minutes early and bring
something to share for the Resistance Potluck. David will speak at 6:30 pm.

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From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:32:50 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Popular Resistance Newsletter - Dissent
	Under Attack
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The attacks on dissent in court and in the media are reasons for the
movement to escalate.
This newsletter is also available
on the webhttps://popularresistance.org/newsletter-dissent-under-
attack-by-government-corporations/here (http://www.popularresistance.
org/category/newsletter/) .
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It is often hard to tell how close a popular movements are to success or
whether they are even a threat to the status quo power structure. Despite
vigorous protests, it is common to worry whether or not movements are
having an impact. One tell-tale sign is when government and big business
interests take action to stop or silence a movement.

These days, there is a lot of push back against resistance movements in the
United States. While it may be riskier for us when they fight back, it is a
positive sign and means that the movement needs to escalate, build power
and increase its pressure.

One absurd example of suppression came from Los Angeles (
https://popularresistance.org/la-police-arresting-people-for-speaking-20-
seconds-over-allotted-time-at-city-meetings/)  where police are enforcing
an ordinance that makes it a crime to speak longer than your allotted time
when testifying before the city council. When someone goes 20 seconds more
than the time they are allowed, police arrest the citizen.

Escalating Punishment for Protesters

This week, the trial of nearly 200 people arrested at the inauguration of
Donald Trump began (https://popularresistance.org/as-trial-begins-trump-
protest-attendees-face-60-years-in-prison/) . Each person going to trial is
facing 60 years in prison. Their collective sentence, if convicted, would
total 12,000 years.

Those going to trial were kettled by police during the J20 protest. The US
Attorney for Washington, DC (since DC is not a state, it does not have a
district attorney, but is prosecuted by the federal government) is
prosecuting everyone, even if they were a legal observer, medic or
reporter, in a collective punishment conspiracy.

A registered nurse, who came from Pittsburg to use her medical skills (
https://popularresistance.org/registered-nurse-fights-
collective-punishment-of-trump-inauguration-protesters/)  to support
people, now finds herself facing 60 years in prison for being part of an
alleged riot conspiracy. Press freedom groups (https://popularresistance.
org/press-freedom-groups-join-defending-rights-dissent-in-
demanding-charges-be-dropped-against-journalists-arrested-
when-covering-inauguration-protest/)  have called on the prosecutor to drop
charges against journalists.

The police response against the J20 black bloc protests was extreme
violence. The DC police deployed weapons on 191 occassions (
https://popularresistance.org/d-c-police-threw-more-than-70-grenades-at-
inauguration-protesters/)  during the Trump inauguration, including 74
sting-ball grenades (explosive ?rubber-ball? style grenades), firing six 40
mm Stinger rubber bullets, five foam batons, and one 40 mm Exact impact
round and spraying large amounts of pepper spray. Even after protesters
were captured in a kettling operation, body cam footage showed the police
continued to fire tear gas at them.

A video obtained by Democracy in Crisis shows officers tossing grenades
into the crowd. Some of the more than 70 grenades thrown hit people. Those
arrested also described sexual assault (https://popularresistance.
org/as-trial-begins-trump-protest-attendees-face-60-years-in-prison/)  by
police.

The ACLU and the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund have filed civil suits
against the DC police. The DC City Council hired the Police Foundation, a
group of police criticized as having a bias in favor of police (
https://popularresistance.org/group-investigating-police-conduct-on-
inauguration-day-has-history-of-siding-with-police/) , and even they found
that the DC police may have violated their own rules. The Police Foundation
has been criticized for its reports on police violence and abuse in
Ferguson, MO and Charlotte, NC.

We urge readers to support the #J20 Resistance by donating to their legal
fund (http://www.disruptj20.org/) .

In another example, Standing Rock Sioux tribal member Chase Iron Eyes is
being prosecuted in South Dakota for his role in the protests against the
Dakota Access Pipeline. He is being charged with starting a riot. Iron Eyes
is lead counsel at the Lakota People?s Law Project (
https://www.lakotalaw.org/)  (you can donate to their defense of #NoDAPL
resisters at the Lakota People?s Law Project (https://www.lakotalaw.org/)
website.)  He and others charged in the protests plan to use a necessity
defense (https://popularresistance.org/chase-iron-eyes-pleads-
necessity-defense-against-nodpl-riot-charge/)  because of the imminent
threat to their only source of water and the ways the pipeline and actions
of the Trump administration undermine the law. It was necessary for them to
protest because there was no alternative.

It is not only criminal prosecution that protesters face, the #NoDAPL
protest is also facing a civil case alleging racketeering (
https://popularresistance.org/dakota-access-pipeline-
corp-paid-to-build-conspiracy-lawsuit-against-environmentalists/)  and
filed by the law firm founded by Marc Kasowitz, Donald Trump?s personal
attorney.  Energy Transfer Partners hired a security firm that also
gathered information for a massive conspiracy lawsuit that was filed later
against environmental groups. The suit alleges that defendants like
Greenpeace and others?  ?objective was not to protect the environment or
Native Americans but to produce as sensational and public a dispute as
possible, and to use that publicity and emotion to drive fundraising.?

The DC #J20 protest and #NoDAPL prosecutions are two egregious examples of
many. As protests increase and impact business interests and government
policies, the people in power will use whatever tools they can to try and
stop the resistance movement. This should not stop activists, but it is
something to consider when developing protest tactics so that we are
positioned to defend ourselves while still protesting effectively.

Attacks on the Media and Internet

Critical to the success of movement actions is drawing public attention to
them. A goal of popular movements is to grow by attracting more people to
the movement, and especially to divide power holders (e.g. political
parties, elected officials, business people, the media) and bring them to
support the movement. A key ingredient to accomplish these goals is the
public knowing about the protest, which requires media attention.

The corporate mass media has always been a problem for movements seeking
transformational change. At times, movements have been able to break
through corporate media blockades and get their message out, but this is
becoming increasingly difficult as mass media is further concentrated (
https://popularresistance.org/with-massive-handouts-to-
sinclair-fcc-clears-path-for-new-wave-of-media-consolidation/)  and
controlled by government and big business. The Internet has been the great
equalizer allowing people to create their own media through video,
websites, and live stream and share them through social media. Now, that is
under attack.

The founder of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee?s vision for an ?open platform
(https://popularresistance.org/founder-of-internet-on-
future-of-web-nasty-storms-are-brewing/)  [is one] that allows anyone to
share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographical
boundaries.? Today he sees the Internet going into some ?nasty storms,?
including the erosion of Net Neutrality, which will allow Internet
providers to be gatekeepers and determine where people can go, what they
can see and how quickly they can see it. He also notes the use of
algorithms to control what people can find in web searches and he worries
about click-bait advertising pushing fake news, which is sometimes done by
artificial intelligence.

Berners-Lee writes that ?Net neutrality, which some have described as the
?first amendment of the internet,?? is being threatened by Verizon employee
Ajit Pai who President Trump nominated to be FCC chairman. Pai just
announced the FCC plans to vote on December 14 to remove Net Neutrality (
https://popularresistance.org/fcc-plans-december-vote-
to-kill-net-neutrality-rules/)  rules that were won in 2015.

Join our Protect The Internet campaign (http://protectourinternet.org/)
and take action at this critical time. Sign up here (
https://popularresistance.org/save-net-neutrality-shut-the-fcc-down/)  if
you can come to DC to protest the vote.

Berners-Lee believes ?the internet should remain a ?permissionless space
for creativity, innovation and free expression.?? ISP?s should not be able
to pick winners and losers or throttle services that they oppose or who do
not pay enough money, rather they should be treated like public utilities
that provide equal service to everyone.

In addition to mass media being more concentrated, Russiagate is being used
as an excuse to weaken alternative media, like Russia Today (RT), the
US-based Russian network. Chris Hedges describes (https://popularresistance.
org/rt-america-torched-in-witch-hunt-17/)  RT being required to register as
a foreign agent as a horrendous blow to press freedom. Hedges puts it into
the context of the clamp down on dissent, writing it is ?driven by RT
America?s decision to provide a platform to critics of American capitalism
and imperialism, critics who lambast a system of government that can no
longer be called democratic. And it is accompanied by the installation of
algorithms by Google, Facebook and Twitter that divert readers away from
left-wing, progressive and anti-war websites . . .?

Popular Resistance has been affected by the new algorithms (
https://popularresistance.org/googles-new-search-protocol-is-restricting-
access-to-13-leading-leftist-web-sites/) , with a decline in our readership
by 60 percent since they were instituted. That?s why we need you to share
our articles on social media so we can reach more people.

Congress is playing its role in heightening fear in order to quiet
criticism of the government on social media. At a recent hearing, Clint
Watts, a retired Army officer who purports to be an expert on Russiagate (
https://popularresistance.org/meet-clint-watts-dubious-
russia-meddling-expert-lobbying-u-s-gov-to-quell-information-rebellions/) ,
testified that there needs to be a government-imposed censorship of the
media. He demanded that ?government news inquisitors drive dissident media
off the internet.? No elected official responded negatively to his call for
censorship.

In fact, Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate used hearings
focused on social media outlets (https://popularresistance.
org/lawmakers-demand-tech-companies-censor-journalists-
and-conduct-mass-surveillance/)  to call for censorship. They used extreme
language to describe social media with Senator Feinstein calling it ?cyber
warfare.? Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, after describing Russian
influence in the media, went on to say ?its not just foreign? accusing
Facebook and Twitter algorithms as having the ?consequence of widening
divisions among our society.?

Google testified that they fact check labels to spot fake news testifying,
?at Google search, we have updated our quality guidelines and evaluations
to help surface more authoritative content from the web.? He was describing
the new Google search algorithms that result in sites like ours being
undermined by suppressing our articles when people search terms.

The ?fake news? meme is being used to curtail foreign media, independent
media and social media even though we know that the most common source of
false news comes from the corporate mass media. They put foward the news
from the perspective of the government and big corporations to support the
concentration of wealth and militarism, among other issues. Part of our job
as activists is to point out their lies and falsehoods. Responding to the
attack on RT, peace activist and former Green Party vice presidential
candidate Ajamu Baraka wrote (https://popularresistance.
org/cnn-should-register-as-agent-of-capitalism-green-
party-vp-hits-out-at-rt-foreign-agent-tag/)  that CNN, the New York Times
and Washington Post should be required to register as ?agents of
capitalism.?

Responsibility of the Movement

These attacks on dissent in court and in the media are reasons for the
movement to escalate. The popular movement is having an impact and both
government and businesses are noticing it. While they continue their
policies of concentration of wealth, as well as environmental destruction
and war, they know people are organizing, responding and resisting. The
conflict must continue to be heightened and we must stand clearly for equal
justice under the law, freedom of speech for all, and continue to urge
economic, racial and environmental justice as well as peace.

Now that we know that government and business are concerned about movement
actions, we must expect infiltration where they try to build legal cases
against movements. Infiltration has been a common tool used against
movements (https://popularresistance.org/partiiinfiltrationofpoliticalm
ovementsisthenormnottheexceptionintheunitedstates/) . When we plan our
actions, we must expect criminal or civil prosecution and use tactics that
protect us while still allowing the movement to proceed with aggressive,
strategic and sustained actions.

When fellow activists are under attack, the movement must come to their
aide, which is why we provided links to support #J20 (
http://www.disruptj20.org/)  and #NoDAPL (https://www.lakotalaw.org/)
protesters facing prosecution. Everyone in the movement should know that
they will not be alone when the power holders go after them.

And, with the attacks on the media, it becomes an important political act
to re-post an article from Popular Resistance and other sites. It becomes a
political act to tweet or forward social media posts. Our job has always
been to spread the word and actions of the movement, now that becomes even
more important.

Let these attacks by government and big business become reasons to grow and
unify the movement. There are people in the government, including in law
enforcement, as well as people who work for corporate interests, including
corporate media, who will recognize these actions as going too far and
defect. We must pull these people into the movement, urge them to join us
and to use their position as an insider to expose what is occurring.

Every attack on the popular movement is more reason for us to join
together, grow and mobilize. Every attack must be turned into an
opportunity for us to build the strength of people power. We do not know
how close we are to victory, but there is no question if we use political
judo to turn their abuse of power against them, the movement will be
stronger.


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From: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
Date: Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: MLK update
To: Ui Weslay <ui_honu at hotmail.com>
Cc: Andy Wellspring <andywellspring at gmail.com>, Irene Malone <
irenelsm at mcn.org>, Lorna Dennis <ldennis at mcn.org>, Carrie Durkee <
cdurkee at mcn.org>, John Fremont <john at cypresshouse.com>, Richard Karch <
rkarch at mcn.org>, Agnes Woolsey <agnes at mcn.org>, Daniel Baker <
blackdantheman100 at gmail.com>, Ann Rennacker <annxpress at live.com>, Will
Beaumont <beau at mcn.org>, Geri Morisky <geri.morisky at gmail.com>, Moriah
Oliphant <mo.oliphant at gmail.com>, mrtimewells at mail.com, Barbara Moller <
mskrazykitty at yahoo.com>, Vicki Wellspring <vickic2352 at gmail.com>, Cesar
Alvarado <cesara at seiu2015.org>


Dear Ui,
Oops. We had our bi-monthly MLK meeting today. It?s the first and third
Saturdays of the month at noon at the Senior Center. Sorry no email
reminder went out. Mea culpa. Looking forward to seeing you at the December
meetings.

Andy and Vicki are heading the program part of MLK so please check in with
them. It appears that the panel will be comprised of young folks. A new
young person joined us at our meeting today, Tim (sent by Susan Nutter). He
moved to Sacramento six months ago from Georgia (if I remember correctly)
and to Fort Bragg two months ago. He?s of African heritage and might be a
good addition to the panel, too. Tim?s email is mrtimwells at mail.com. It was
lovely having a young person join us and I hope we didn?t scare you off,
Tim. Another possibility for the panel might be someone from Fort Bragg
High School.

Will Smith has been added to our program. He will be reading the *I Have a
Dream* speech.

Just to update my email below, AVID will be sending us volunteers from the
middle school and the high school to help us. AVID is now a district-wide
program, beginning in elementary school through high school. SEIU 1021 will
be putting the word out to their members and will join us for MLK day;
they?ll bring their banner for the march. Still awaiting word from the
California Conservation Corps.

People wanted to know what AVID stands for; here?s the poop from their
website.

AVID's Mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students
for college readiness and success in a global society.

*What AVID is...*

   - AVID *is an acronym that stands for Advancement Via Individual
   Determination.*
   - AVID *is an in-school academic support program for grades 4-12 that
   prepares students for college eligibility and success.*
   - AVID *places academically average students in advanced classes.*
   - AVID *levels the playing field for minority, rural, low-income and
   other students without a college-going tradition in their families.*
   - AVID *is for all students, but it targets those in the academic
   middle.*
   - AVID *is implemented school-wide and district-wide.*

*What AVID isn't...*

   - AVID *isn't a remedial program.*
   - AVID *isn't a free ride.*
   - AVID *isn't a niche program.*
   - AVID *isn't a college outreach program.*

*AVID Student Profile*

The AVID student is a student with academic potential:

   - Average-to-high test scores
   - 2.0-3.5 GPA
   - College potential with support
   - Desire and determination

The AVID student meets one or more of the following criteria:

   - First in family to attend college
   - Historically least served in four-year colleges (e.g.,
   underrepresented as a racial or ethnic group)
   - Low income
   - Special circumstances

*AVID Students*

As an AVID student, you must commit to a challenging and rigorous
curriculum. This college track will help you excel in your academics,
making college an attainable goal. As an AVID student, you will:

   - Take individual responsibility for your own success.
   - Want to succeed.
   - Believe you can succeed.
   - Exhibit positive attitudes toward yourself and others.
   - Be open to new experiences in all phases of the program.
   - Want to become an independent learner.
   - Come to class prepared.
   - Serve as a role model for other students.
   - Share your work for the purpose of improving it.
   - Be willing to study in groups.
   - Keep your parents informed of your progress.
   - Become involved in campus activities.

*AVID Parents*

As an AVID parent, there are things you can do to support your child???s
academic success. As an AVID parent, you will:

   - Support the academic goals of your student.
   - Show interest in your student???s schoolwork.
   - Provide your student a time and place to study.
   - Be insistent and supportive that your student completes homework
   assignments.

The California Department of Education (CDE) has many resources for how you
can become more involved in your child???s education. Visit CDE
Parent/Family <http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/pf/pf/> for more information.

*AVID Background *

The Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program targets
students in the academic middle ??? B, C, and even D students ??? who have
the desire to go to college and the willingness to work hard. AVID places
academically average students in advanced classes and provides them with an
elective class that prepares them to succeed in rigorous curricula, enter
mainstream activities in school, and increase their opportunities to enroll
in four-year colleges.

AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students
for college readiness and success in a global society. The AVID program
levels the playing field for minority, rural, low-income, and other
students without a college-going tradition in their families. Developed in
1980 by Mary Catherine Swanson, AVID has seen steady growth throughout
California, nationally, and internationally in the last 30 years.

   - More than 3,386 schools in 48 states and 15 foreign countries offer
   the AVID program.
   - More than 220,000 students have graduated from AVID programs.
   - 77 percent of AVID students were accepted to a four year college in
   2008.
   - Approximately 14.8 percent of AVID students in California plan to
   attend a University of California (UC) campus.
   - Approximately 41.4 percent of AVID students in California plan to
   attend a California State University (CSU) campus.
   - Approximately 88 percent of AVID students complete the a-g
   requirements for UC and CSU.

*AVID Purpose *

The purpose of AVID is to prepare students for college eligibility and
success. As AVID expands to a school-wide and district-wide program, it
impacts educators by increasing best practices for engaging all students
and increasing college readiness across the school and district. The
California Department of Education (CDE) works with the AVID regional
offices and the AVID Center to expand and support the AVID program in local
middle and high schools.

AVID regional offices also encourage (1) improved student access to
rigorous academic curriculum, including honors, Advanced Placement, and
International Baccalaureate courses; (2) effective articulation and feeder
patterns that enable students to be served by AVID programs in grades 6
through 12; and (3) increased adoption of AVID strategies on a school-wide
and district-wide basis.
Mahalo,
Linda



On Nov 18, 2017, at 11:59 AM, Uilani Wesley <ui_honu at hotmail.com> wrote:

Aloha My husband John and my daugther Anyawu would love to speak too if my
panel members are needed.  And could you tell me when the next meeting is.

Aloha and Respect
U'i


On November 18, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Andy Wellspring <andywellspring at gmail.com>
wrote:

MLK panel update:

Vicki and I have found at least 4 youth so far who want to be on the
panel!  Evan is still excited to be the moderator, he is the Mendo High
student I mentioned to this group before.  So it would still be cool to
have the theme be March for Our Future, based on the youth-led march
happening nationwide on Jan. 20th.  These youth will be telling the MLK
crowd about the march they are planning for Saturday, Jan. 20 in Fort
Bragg.  Everyone is welcome, the youth will just be the leaders of it!

Best,
Andy

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:

> Dear MLKers,
> Sorry I don?t have emails for our newcomers: Joe, Joe, and Todd but here?s
> my MLK report. (I?ll be in Livermore at a wedding celebration on Saturday.)
>
> Good news:
>
>    - Yes, Ellen Campbell will bake our MLK cake; she?s done that for the
>    past few years. She works that day at the Mendocino Clinic so we?ll have to
>    pick up the cake. Usually Bob and Daniel do that.
>    - Yes, Ui Westly will emcee our event and sing as well; she has a
>    great voice and great spirit. We scored! Richard, will you follow up with
>    Ui? I?ve added her to our MLK email list; however, she?s so busy, more than
>    likely she won?t be able to make our meetings.
>    - Yes, Thanksgiving Coffee will again donate coffee to our event.
>    - Yes, SEIU?s Cesar Alvarado and Raul Gardea (617-0129) are ?in.?
>    Cesar?s been added to our MLK email list.
>
> Have emailed these groups and am waiting to hear from them:
>
>    - California Conservation Corps
>    - AVID, the volunteer group at the Fort Bragg high school
>    - SEIU 1021 wants our MLK flyer so their head honcho can more easily
>    make a decision. Note there are two different SEIU groups serving different
>    workers but they work together regularly.
>
> Both HealthCorps and AmeriCorps have no volunteers. I got the idea that
> they?re no longer funded.
>
> Before we print out our new flyer, I?d love to see it for tweaks.
>
> I?ll be back in town late Sunday, Nov. 5.
>
> Happy Halloween,
> Linda
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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
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Subject: [Occupymendocino] Health care:Many lower and moderate income
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Axios
November 22, 2017
The biggest health issue we aren?t debating
By Drew Altman

Thanksgiving is always a time to think about those in need. How about, then, a group we don't worry about enough: the many lower and moderate income Americans who can't cover their cost sharing if they get sick? It raises the question: How much cost sharing is too much?

High deductible plans, which require people to pay large amounts out of pocket before their medical bills are covered, are a good deal for some middle and upper income people. But many lower and moderate income Americans simply don't have $1,500 to $3,000 to pay for the colonoscopy that might save their life, or a stress test that might reveal the heart disease which is the cause of their chest discomfort.

Share of non-elderly households with liquid assets less than their deductibles, among people with private insurance:

Deductible of $1500 single/$3000 family:
28%  All non-elderly households
63%  Less than 150% of federal poverty level (FPL)
44%  150-400% of FPL
10%  400% or more of FPL

Deductible of $3000 single/$6000 family:
40%  All non-elderly households
76%  Less than 1505 of FPL
60%  150-400% of FPL
20%  400% or more of FPL

The chart, drawn from a new study, tells the tale: More than four in 10 households with private coverage and incomes between 150% and 400% of the federal poverty line do not have enough liquid assets to cover a deductible of $1,500 for single people and $3,000 for families.

*  That's not a high deductible plan, but about the average in an employer-provided insurance plan.

*  Sixty percent couldn't cover deductibles double those amounts, which are not uncommon, especially in the individual insurance market.

For many families, even if they have insurance, any significant illness could wipe out all their savings, making impossible to fix a broken car to get to work, or pay for school, or make a rent or mortgage payment.

Congress has passed no law declaring that the country will go with high deductible coverage as its main approach to health insurance.

https://www.axios.com/the-biggest-health-issue-we-arent-debating-2511098849.html <https://www.axios.com/the-biggest-health-issue-we-arent-debating-2511098849.html>

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Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Thanks for signing your name!
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Nov 27 12:17:39 2017
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:17:39 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senator Franken
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A Survivor?s Defense of Al Franken

Some quotes:

"And I am sick that people like Leeanne Tweeden feel comfortable enough to take the traumas of the women and children that have been the true victims of sexual violence and used them for her own personal gains and the political goals of the Republican Party."

"Leeanne was never raped. She was never assaulted. And she was never the victim of sexual violence or harassment. She was a willing and active participant in a comedy show that involved sexualized behaviors. She consented to participating. She actively engaged in and invited similar behaviors with other performers other than Al Franken at the event."

"?. there are a number of images as well as videos appearing that show that Tweeden didn?t seem to have a problem with sexual performances on stage including that of her grabbing the butt of a Country and Western performer and rubbing her behind up against him and the singer grabbing at her butt. Additional videos of the tour have included a very sexual performance with the comedian Robin Williams as well as the real on-stage ?kiss? with Franken.

In this case, we have a woman that signed up for known sexually oriented skits and performances that she approved of, and rehearsed, and then performed many of them onstage in both a preplanned and ad hoc way.?

Leanne Tweeden was a consenting and contracted performer for the USO then, just as she is a contracted performer for the right wing now. She was not then and is not now a survivor.?

Please read the full article here:
https://medium.com/@SIIPCampaigns/a-survivors-defense-of-al-franken-ea994c5bbc9a



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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:02:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino]
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Subject: [Occupymendocino] "Trickle Down" BS
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Ever since the days of Reagan, the Republican Party has been trotting out this tired-old work-horse of a ?Theory <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics>?, to justify their Windfall Tax Cuts to the Rich.

Trickle-down economics, also referred to as trickle-down theory, is an economic principle that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term.
One gigantic problem though, Trickle-down doesn?t work, not in the Real World ? where the Rich tend to stash their extra cash, and NOT run out and spend it, as middle and lower income brackets tend to do. It is this extra spending that ?spurs? the economy (not burying it in a lockbox). Economists refer to this as the ?Multiplier Effect? ? the economic growth, that comes from spending ?unexpected? money ? and it is explained quite well by Im a frayed knot <https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/11/25/1718537/-The-Negative-Multiplier-Effect-and-the-New-Tax-Bill-Tanking-the-Economy>.

Giving $32K in ?found money <https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/11/24/1718291/-If-the-Trump-Tax-Plan-is-so-Good-Why-is-it-being-Scored-SO-Bad>? to Millionaires ? does not spur the Economy, at least according to the overwhelming majority of top Economists, surveyed by the University of Chicago?s Booth School of Business:

Out of 42 top economists, only 1 believes the GOP tax bills would help the economy <https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/22/16691016/economists-gop-tax-plan-igm-poll>
But all of them think it will increase the debt.

by  Ezra Klein <https://www.vox.com/authors/ezra-klein>? @ezraklein <https://www.twitter.com/ezraklein>, Vox.com ? Nov 22, 2017,
[...]

The first question was straightforward. Would they agree that if the US passed a tax bill ?similar to those currently moving through the House and Senate,? GDP would be ?substantially higher a decade from now??  Of the 42 economists polled, only one thought the Republican bill would boost the economy.

[...]

The second question asked whether passage of the Republican tax bills would mean ?the US debt-to-GDP ratio will be substantially higher a decade from now than under the status quo.? Here, too, the news was grim from Republicans. In this case, all but one economist agreed that the bills would blow up the deficit, and the outlier, Stanford's Liran Einav, turned out? <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/22/37-of-38-economists-said-the-gop-tax-plans-would-grow-the-debt-the-38th-misread-the-question/?utm_term=.5c1ab0fe5b72>to have misread the question ? he later clarified that he also agrees the bill would add to the debt.  
42 OUT OF 42 TOP ECONOMISTS AGREE ? THE CURRENT GOP TAX PLAN, IF PASSED, WOULD ?BLOW UP THE DEFICIT?. 

And we can all predict what that means in a year or two, when these ?so-called? Deficit Hawks get their second wind:

Bye-bye Social Security <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/16/first-republicans-want-tax-cuts-next-theyll-try-gutting-medicare-and-social-security/>, bye-bye Medicare <https://www.salon.com/2017/11/22/the-gops-tax-cut-bonanza-is-a-major-attack-on-medicare_partner/>, Medicaid;  Bye-bye Health Care <https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53300>.  Because Republicans are ?looking out for you!?

Trickle-down theory should be official dead ? but the GOP keeps retelling that bad ?joke <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics>? ? because how else are they going to pay-back ?Billions to their Benefactors <https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/11/19/1717083/-Disgruntled-Gophers-are-letting-it-slip-About-WHO-they-really-work-for>?, without anybody noticing ...

The term trickle-down originated as a joke by humorist Will Rogers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers>and today is often used to criticize economic policies which favor the wealthy or privileged, while being framed as good for the average citizen.
So much for the ?very sound under-pinnings? of the GOP?s self-serving Trickle-Down claims:

Whoops!


Will Rogers:  ?Inventor? of Trickle-down Theory. 
Origins of the term:

The money was all appropriated for the top <http://wiredpen.com/2015/01/30/will-rogers-trickle-economics/> in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn?t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands.

? Will Rogers, humorist, satirist
 ?  ? ?      ?  ? ?      ?  ? ?  

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From annxpress at live.com  Tue Nov 28 08:46:51 2017
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:46:51 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: The tax code is rigged for the rich and
	powerful
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-------- Original message --------
From: Bernie Sanders <info at BernieSanders.com>
Date: 11/27/17 1:37 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: Ann Rennacker <annxpress at live.com>
Subject: The tax code is rigged for the rich and powerful

This is not tax reform. It's an effort to radically transform American society and it must be defeated.
[Friends of Bernie Sanders]

Ann -

For the past 40 years, the financial and political elite of this country have rigged the tax code to redistribute wealth and income to some of the richest and most powerful people in this country. The result: we are moving rapidly toward an oligarchic form of society in which the top 1 percent is doing phenomenally well, the middle class continues to decline and 40 million Americans are living in poverty.

And it will probably not surprise you to learn that just as our tax code benefits the wealthiest people in this country, it also benefits some of the largest and most profitable corporations in the world with a myriad of tax breaks, deductions, credits and other loopholes. As a result, one out of five large profitable corporations today pays nothing in federal taxes.

The current Republican ?tax cut? bill, paid for by the Koch brothers and other billionaire campaign contributors, continues the push to make the rich richer at the expense of everyone else. It would raise taxes on middle class families making $75,000 a year or less and would throw 13 million Americans off of health insurance. And it would do all of these things to provide permanent tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and profitable corporations that ship American jobs to China while moving their American profits to the Cayman Islands.

But let's be clear. This legislation goes well beyond taxes. Its ultimate goal is to radically transform American society and the role that government plays in the lives of the working families of our country. This legislation will increase the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion over ten years. Mark my words. If passed, the Republicans will then rediscover the "deficit crisis," and push aggressively for massive cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education ? higher education in particular ? nutrition, affordable housing and more. They will seek to undo every major piece of legislation passed in the last 80 years designed to help working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor.

This is the Republican plan. Huge tax breaks for the rich and powerful. Massive cuts to life and death programs for the middle class and working families of our country.

This is not moral. This is not what the American people want. This is not what our country and our pledge for "liberty and justice for all" is supposed to be about.

That is why I am going on the road this week to talk directly to working people in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania about this disastrous piece of legislation. If we stand together ? black, white, Latino, Asian American, Native American, male and female, young and old, gay and straight ? we can defeat this horrific bill. But I need you to make your voice heard as well. We need to stand together.

Please sign my petition calling on Congress to REJECT the Republican ?tax cut? plan that would take from the working families in this country to give a massive tax break to people and corporations who already are doing extremely well. At a time of grotesque levels of income and wealth inequality, we must not make a bad situation even worse.<https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/bernie-gop-tax?source=em171127-b>

Today in America, more than 40 million Americans, including 20 percent of all children, live in poverty. Many in extreme poverty. Almost 28 million Americans have no health insurance. Millions of bright kids can?t afford to go to college without facing a lifetime of debt. Seniors and disabled veterans are struggling to stay alive on inadequate Social Security checks.

Despite all of that pain, the greed of the billionaire class in this country knows no limits. No. We will not allow them to take away from those in need in order to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the very rich.

Here?s a radical idea for my colleagues in the Republican Party: instead of just listening to the rich and powerful few in this country, maybe just maybe Congress should listen to the majority of the American people who want a fair tax system.

Maybe just maybe corporate tax reform should start by preventing profitable companies from sheltering profits in tax haven countries like the Cayman Islands.

Here is something you may not know:

A 2008 Government Accountability Office report found that 83 of the Fortune 100 companies use at least one offshore tax scheme to lower their taxes. A 2016 study found that one of every five large, profitable corporations paid no federal income taxes at all in 2012.

The practice of stashing profits in places like the Cayman Islands has become so absurd that one single, five-story office building there is now the official legal ?home? to more than 18,000 corporations! Our tax code has essentially legalized tax dodging for large corporations.

We must stop this bill. We must stop the Republicans from moving this country into an oligarchy.

And that starts with all of us standing up, fighting back and making our voices heard. Three weeks ago progressives from coast to coast ran for office at the local and state level ? and they won. We have to continue that progress and build on that momentum.

Please sign my petition calling on Congress to REJECT the Republican ?tax cut? plan that would take from working families in this country all to give a massive tax break to people and corporations who already have it all.<https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/bernie-gop-tax?source=em171127-b>

Brothers and sisters. We must do exactly the opposite of what Trump is attempting to do. He wants to divide us up by the color of our skin, our gender, our religion, our sexual orientation or our country of origin. He wants us fighting with each other while Wall Street and the billionaire class laugh all the way to the bank.

Our job is to bring our people together around an agenda that creates an economy and government that works for all, not just the 1 percent. Defeating this terrible piece of legislation will be an important step forward.

This bill is a moral abomination. I hope you?ll add your name if you agree.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

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From: lewallen at mcn.org (Lewallen)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:43:07 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Announcing my new website <avoidingnuclearwar.com>
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Dear friend, Warm winter solstice greetings! I'm delighted to announce the
launching of <avoidingnuclearwar.com>, devoted to the latest news and
analysis focused on avoiding nuclear war in general, and avoiding nuclear
attack against the United States in particular. Heartfelt thanks to all who
live and work for peace conversion on all levels-we, the human race, have
not used a nuclear weapon in war for over 72 years, and this year 122
nations made a treaty banning nuclear weapons!

                I believe we need a movement in the U.S. for fundamental
changes in U.S. nuclear weapons strategy. The current strategy of escalating
first-strike threat against nuclear-armed nations is putting the very
survival of our nation in great peril. The good news is that U.S. nuclear
weapons policy can be changed quickly, to a sensible strategy of deterrence
only.

                The mixed news is President Donald Trump, who is forcing all
of us to really study what is going on in the world of nuclear
confrontation. President Trump could realize he has inherited a suicidal
strategy leading ever-closer to the nuclear war which could destroy the
United States, and be revered forever as the president who led the world
away from nuclear war. Instead, by hurling threats to destroy North Korea,
he is putting us all at great peril for no good reason.

                Here's my latest post on <avoidingnuclearwar.com>. Be in
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China Draws "Red Lines" to Restrain Both North Korea and the United States

November 28, 2017

                Alarmed by escalating threats of nuclear attack being
exchanged by the United States and North Korea, China used an opinion piece
in the state-run Global Times to warn both nations of dire consequences if
either should attack the other.

                As reported in Asia Times on August 11 this year, the
opinion piece in China's Global Times repeated China's long-standing
position that the U.S. and South Korea should cease threatening statements
and military exercises threatening North Korea, and North Korea should cease
missile and nuclear weapons tests.

                "China should also make clear that if North Korea launches
missiles that threaten US soil first and the US retaliates, China will stay
neutral," the Global Times editorial said.

                "If the US and South Korea carry out strikes and try to
overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the
Korean peninsula," added the Chinese editorial, "China will prevent them
from doing so."

                There you have it: a first-strike U.S. attack to overthrow
the North Korean Government by the U.S. would be an attack on China.

                Also, if North Korea attacks "US soil" China will stay
neutral if the U.S. retaliates.

                I hope and believe this will restrain both North Korea and
the U.S. from going to war. China has a fully-developed nuclear arsenal,
focused on deterring the United States from just the sort of "nuclear
blackmail" President Trump is attempting with his threats to destroy North
Korea unless it gives up its nuclear weapons program.

                The "freeze for freeze" proposal to end the threat of war,
with the U.S. stopping threatening statements and military exercises and
North Korea suspending tests of nuclear weapons and missiles, is supported
by many thoughtful U.S. strategists. I believe we should all demand an end
to military threat against North Korea, which is putting the U.S. homeland
in increasing danger of actual nuclear attack.

                  

  

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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:18:04 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] America slow-motion-military-coup
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/09/16/america-slow-motion-military-coup/WgzYW9MPBIbsegCwd4IpJN/story.html <https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/09/16/america-slow-motion-military-coup/WgzYW9MPBIbsegCwd4IpJN/story.html>


By Stephen Kinzer   SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
In a democracy, no one should be comforted to hear that generals have imposed discipline on an elected head of state. That was never supposed to happen in the United States. Now it has.

Among the most enduring political images of the 20th century was the military junta. It was a group of grim-faced officers ? usually three ? who rose to control a state. The junta would tolerate civilian institutions that agreed to remain subservient, but in the end enforced its own will. As recently as a few decades ago, military juntas ruled important countries including Chile, Argentina, Turkey, and Greece.

These days the junta system is making a comeback in, of all places, Washington. Ultimate power to shape American foreign and security policy has fallen into the hands of three military men: General James Mattis, the secretary of defense; General John Kelly, President Trump?s chief of staff; and General H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser. They do not put on their ribbons to review military parades or dispatch death squads to kill opponents, as members of old-style juntas did. Yet their emergence reflects a new stage in the erosion of our political norms and the militarization of our foreign policy. Another veil is dropping.

Given the president?s ignorance of world affairs, the emergence of a military junta in Washington may seem like welcome relief. After all, its three members are mature adults with global experience ? unlike Trump and some of the wacky political operatives who surrounded him when he moved into the White House. Already they have exerted a stabilizing influence. Mattis refuses to join the rush to bomb North Korea, Kelly has imposed a measure of order on the White House staff, and McMaster pointedly distanced himself from Trump?s praise for white nationalists after the violence in Charlottesville.

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Being ruled by generals seems preferable to the alternative. It isn?t.

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In Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have been bungling the easy stuff for years.

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Military officers, like all of us, are products of their background and environment. The three members of Trump?s junta have 119 years of uniformed service between them. They naturally see the world from a military perspective and conceive military solutions to its problems. That leads toward a distorted set of national priorities, with military ?needs? always rated more important than domestic ones.

Trump has made clear that when he must make foreign policy choices, he will defer to ?my generals.? Mattis, the new junta?s strongman, is the former head of Central Command, which directs American wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Kelly is also an Iraq veteran. McMaster has commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan almost without interruption since he led a tank company in the 1991 Gulf War.

Military commanders are trained to fight wars, not to decide whether fighting makes strategic sense. They may be able to tell Trump how many troops are necessary to sustain our present mission in Afghanistan, for example, but they are not trained either to ask or answer the larger question of whether the mission serves America?s long-term interest. That is properly the job of diplomats. Unlike soldiers, whose job is to kill people and break things, diplomats are trained to negotiate, defuse conflicts, coolly assess national interest and design policies to advance it. Notwithstanding Mattis?s relative restraint on North Korea, all three members of Trump?s junta promote the confrontational approach that has brought protracted war in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond, while fueling tension in Europe and East Asia.

Our new junta is different from classic ones like, for example, the ?National Council for Peace and Order? that now rules Thailand. First, our junta?s interest is only international relations, not domestic policy. Second, it did not seize power in a coup, but derives its authority from the favor of an elected president. Third and most important, it main goal is not to impose a new order but to enforce an old one.

Last month, President Trump faced a crucial decision about the future of America?s war in Afghanistan. This was a potential turning point. Four years ago Trump tweeted <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/289807790178959360>, ?Let?s get out of Afghanistan.? If he had followed that impulse and announced that he was bringing American troops home, the political and military elite in Washington would have been stunned. But junta members swung into action. They persuaded Trump to announce that instead of withdrawing, he would do the opposite: reject ?rapid exit? from Afghanistan, increase troop strength, and continue ?killing terrorists.?

It is no great surprise that Trump has been drawn into the foreign policy mainstream; the same happened to President Obama early in his presidency. More ominous is that Trump has turned much of his power over to generals. Worst of all, many Americans find this reassuring. They are so disgusted by the corruption and shortsightedness of our political class that they turn to soldiers as an alternative. It is a dangerous temptation.


Stephen Kinder is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

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