From john at cypresshouse.com  Tue Apr  3 15:51:39 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 15:51:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Sinclair
Message-ID: <020101d3cb9e$53dead90$fb9c08b0$@com>

Does anyone on this list know which, if any, radio stations in the county
are owned by Sinclair?

If you've never heard of this conglomerate and its market size, Google
Sinclair radio.

The president has never called out a Sinclair station for disseminating
"fake news." 

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From john at cypresshouse.com  Tue Apr  3 15:57:36 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 15:57:36 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Sinclair
Message-ID: <020601d3cb9f$290776f0$7b1664d0$@com>

I Googled it myself and was amazed and frightened.

Oh, and there are no Mendocino stations listed, though Redding, Chico, and
other N Ca stations are force-fed immigrant lies to peddle.

 

From: John [mailto:john at cypresshouse.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 3:52 PM
To: Occupy Mendocino (occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org)
Subject: Sinclair

 

Does anyone on this list know which, if any, radio stations in the county
are owned by Sinclair?

If you've never heard of this conglomerate and its market size, Google
Sinclair radio.

The president has never called out a Sinclair station for disseminating
"fake news." 

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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Sat Apr  7 17:10:07 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 17:10:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Keep California a sanctuary
Message-ID: <86F3945B-562B-4808-89EA-D85E77E304F3@mcn.org>

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is suing California for shielding immigrant communities from the Trump administration?s terroristic immigration policies. And now a number of California cities are voting to attack our immigrant friends and neighbors by undermining the California Values Act.

The California Values Act ensures that anyone, regardless of their immigration status, can use public services like schools and courthouses without being terrorized by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Join me in signing the petition to ask your mayor and local government officials to support the California Values Act.  http://act.couragecampaign.org/call/CAValues_calls/?source=org_sp_v_CAValuesPhoneBank&sp_ref=401727660.114.187178.e.0.2&source=email
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From annxpress at live.com  Sun Apr  8 19:00:26 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Microsoft account team)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 02:00:26 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Get informed: The new wave of genetically
	engineered foods
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From: Ocean Robbins <ocean at foodrevolution.org>
Date: 4/8/18 7:42 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: Ann Rennacker <annxpress at live.com>
Subject: Get informed: The new wave of genetically engineered foods


Once upon a time, food was simple. People grew much of their own food, and made their own meals.
[Food Revolution Network]


Hi Ann,


Once upon a time, food was simple. People grew much of their own food, and made their own meals.


Now, food is a lot more complicated. And most consumers are in the dark about where their food actually comes from, and what it means for their health and for their planet.


The big agro-chemical companies like it this way. They rake in huge profits by keeping us uninformed and misinformed.


Big changes are taking place in our food supply. And you deserve to know what?s happening, and what these changes mean.


Here?s an informative report on what some people are calling GMOs 2.0.<http://foodrevolution.ontraport.net/c/s/sj3/v1Dc45oe/6/6nQ/mGI/61U3D4/vaILlNk02Y/P/P>


It?s easy to be confused about genetically engineered foods. And with a new generation of GMO crops upon us, it?s more important than ever to get informed so you can make the best choices for yourself, for those you love, and for the planet.


Yours for the real facts about food,


Ocean Robbins


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From john at cypresshouse.com  Mon Apr  9 16:05:43 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 16:05:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Another petition
Message-ID: <013301d3d057$49a35750$dcea05f0$@com>




Not that Pruitt gives a shit, but I just signed the petition, "Tell the EPA:
NO to GMO Mosquitoes!." I think this is important. Will you sign it too?

Here's the link:

https://www.change.org/p/tell-the-epa-no-to-gmo-mosquitoes?utm_medium=email
<https://click.mail.change.org/?qs=c14c6d6596de44623f4ec25a5d576030a9140ab62
9baff0420df9996bef35bc9447420e96481cae8cb647a6fb0ae4d94490f7df128ab6b3c4fc12
c7b2be83e0e>
&utm_source=petition_signer_receipt&utm_campaign=triggered&share_context=sig
nature_receipt&recruiter=1736524 

Cheers,
John


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Apr  9 23:11:47 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 23:11:47 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy' Mendocino's new site
Message-ID: <41DA457D-8B73-4D2B-AD29-31325F27B7E7@mcn.org>

https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastOccupyGroup/ <https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastOccupyGroup/>

On the site now>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Some old-timers are willing to take the big risks. 
Bravo!   RK
How Do You Tell the Kids that Grandma Is in Jail for Resisting Nuclear Weapons?
Sunday, April 08, 2018
By Frida Berrigan <http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/50599>, Waging Nonviolence <https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/kings-bay-plowshares-resisting-nuclear-weapons-racism/> | Op-ed 
font size ? <http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/44097-how-do-you-tell-the-kids-that-grandma-is-in-jail-for-resisting-nuclear-weapons#> ? <http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/44097-how-do-you-tell-the-kids-that-grandma-is-in-jail-for-resisting-nuclear-weapons#> Print? <http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/44097-how-do-you-tell-the-kids-that-grandma-is-in-jail-for-resisting-nuclear-weapons?tmpl=component&print=1>

"Our grandma is in jail," Madeline tells a woman wrestling a shopping cart at Target.

"She went over a war fence and tried to make peace," Seamus adds helpfully. "They arrested her, and she is in jail now."

"Where?" the woman asks, looking from them to me in disbelief and maybe pity.

"We don't remember," the kids say, suddenly done with their story and ready to make passionate pleas for the colorful items in the dollar section over the woman's shoulder.

"Georgia," I say, but I don't have a lot of energy to add detail to my kids' story. They hit all the high points.

"There's a lot going on these days," she says. I agree, and we move on into the store and our separate errands.

I was happy not to say more at that moment, happy to avoid a sobbing breakdown at Target, happy to wrestle one little bit of normal out of a very abnormal day.

My mom, Liz McAlister, who turned 78 in November, had been arrested deep inside the King's Bay Naval Base in St. Mary's, Georgia in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Along with six friends, she carried banners, statements, hammers and blood onto the base. They started their action on April 4: the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination.

Their statement made connections between nuclear weapons, white supremacy and deeply embedded racism. It is a long statement, but given that they were carrying it into a free-fire zone -- where military personnel are authorized to use deadly force ? there was no particular need for brevity: "We come to Kings Bay to answer the call of the prophet Isaiah (2:4) to 'beat swords into plowshares' by disarming the world's deadliest nuclear weapon, the Trident submarine. We repent of the sin of white supremacy that oppresses and takes the lives of people of color here in the United States and throughout the world. We resist militarism that has employed deadly violence to enforce global domination. We believe reparations are required for stolen land, labor and lives."

They walked onto King's Bay Naval Station just hours after Saheed Vassell <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/nyregion/police-shooting-brooklyn-crown-heights.html> was shot and killed in a barrage of bullets by New York City police officers, just hours after hundreds of demonstrators <http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article207935124.html> filled the streets of Sacramento for another day, shouting "Stephon Clark, Stephon Clark, Stephon Clark" and demanding accountability after the young father of two was killed by police officers on March 18. These seven white activists know that when you are black in this country, your own corner, your grandmother's own backyard, is a free-fire zone more dangerous than any military base.

There is indeed a lot going on these days.

The statement continues: "Dr. King said, 'The greatest purveyor of violence in the world (today) is my own government.' This remains true in the midst of our endless war on terror. The United States has embraced a permanent war economy. 'Peace through strength' is a dangerous lie in a world that includes weapons of mass destruction on hair-trigger alert. The weapons from one Trident have the capacity to end life as we know it on planet Earth."

Kings Bay is the largest nuclear submarine base <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Submarine_Base_Kings_Bay> in the world at about 16,000 acres. It is the home port of the U.S. Navy Atlantic Fleet's Trident nuclear-powered submarines. There are eight in total, two guided missile submarines and six ballistic missile submarines. These submarines were all built in Groton, Connecticut -- right across the river from our home in New London. Each submarine, my mom and her friends assert, carries the capacity to cause devastation equivalent to 600 of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima, Japan.

"Nuclear weapons kill every day through our mining, production, testing, storage and dumping, primarily on indigenous native land. This weapons system is a cocked gun being held to the head of the planet. As white Catholics, we take responsibility to atone for the horrific crimes stemming from our complicity with 'the triplets' [of evil]. Only then can we begin to restore right relationships. We seek to bring about a world free of nuclear weapons, racism and economic exploitation."

That is not the end, you can read the whole statement and their indictment of the United States on their Facebook group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1558500837566350/>.

These sorts of actions -- called Plowshares -- have a nearly 40-year history, since my father and uncle and six others broke into the King of Prussia plant in Pennsylvania in 198o to "beat swords into plowshares." They struck at nosecones with hammers and marked the weapons with blood to reveal the human costs and mess and suffering the weapons are built to wreak in the world.

My father participated in five of these Plowshares actions in his lifetime and helped organize countless others. Committed conspirers, steeped in active nonviolence, have carried out more than 100 of these actions since 1980. This is my mom's second action. She and her current co-defendant Clare Grady, were part of the 1983 Griffiss Plowshares in upstate New York.

My parents estimated that they spent 11 years of their 27-year marriage separated by prison, and it was mostly these actions that kept them apart and away from us. Countless life events in our family -- birthdays, graduations, celebrations of all kinds -- were stuttered by the absence of one of our parents. I say this with pain and loss, but no self-pity. Dad was able to attend my high school graduation, but not my brother's. We went straight from my college graduation to visit my dad in jail in Maine. I missed all the raging keggers, sweaty dance parties and tearful goodbyes that marked the end of college for my friends to sit knee-to-knee with my father in a cramped and soulless room. On chairs designed for maximum discomfort, I tried to share my momentous day and all my 22-year-old big feelings while ignoring the guards and the room crowded with a dozen others doing the same thing. We wrote thousands of letters. They often crisscrossed each other so that there was a constant weaving of story and sharing across the miles.

So, when I explained that grandma was in jail to my kids -- 11-year-old Rosena, 5-year-old Seamus and 4-year-old Madeline -- I felt the weight of a lifetime of missing and provisional family experiences, frequently lived in prison visiting rooms and through urgently scrawled letters.

I tried to figure out a way to talk to them that would make sense and, in thinking it through, I realized that none of this should make sense to anyone! Nuclear weapons? Absurd! Police brutality and white supremacy? Senseless! Plowshares actions with their symbolic transformation and ritual mess-making? A foolhardy act of David versus Goliath proportions!

So, I didn't try to make it make sense. I just forged ahead, grateful that they had some context: We had participated in the Good Friday Stations of the Cross organized by Catholic Worker friends at our local submarine base a few days earlier, and -- the night before -- we had gone to hear a dramatic reading of Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail <http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html>."

"Hey guys, know how we went to the sub base on Friday? Grandma was arrested in a place like that late last night. She is in jail now. She and her friends broke onto the base to say that nuclear weapons are wrong. Remember how Dr. King talked about just and unjust laws?" They nodded and remembered that King said "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." I told them that Grandma thinks that nuclear weapons -- things that can destroy so much life on our planet -- shouldn't be built and protected and paid for when so many people are hungry, so many kids don't have good schools to go to, so many people don't have good homes. I went on and on.

"Wait, these nuclear weapons ? They are war things?" Seamus asked.

"Yep, they are war things, bud."

"Good for grandma," he said, and that was the end of our serious conversation.

Mom and her friends are charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass and two felonies: possession of tools for the commission of a crime and interference with government property.

The kids and I didn't talk about the kind of jail time that could mean for their grandma. It is all I am thinking about right now, but they moved on, imagining out loud and with a lot of enthusiasm how grandma got by the attack dogs and police officers they had seen at the Groton Submarine Base. They were sure there was a similar set up in Georgia. "Grandma needed a ladder and a cheetah," said Madeline. "A cheetah is the only animal that can outrun dogs and police officer's bullets."

I am pretty sure no cheetahs were involved in the Kings Bay Plowshares, but I am happy my daughter sees her grandmother as a fierce and powerful anti-war activist astride a wild cat.

You shouldn't have to wade through ads and "sponsored content" to get to the real news. Keep Truthout ad-free by making a tax-deductible donation. <https://www.truth-out.org/support-us/#top>This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
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Frida Berrigan serves on the board of The War Resisters League, a 90-year-old pacifist organization, and helped to found Witness Against Torture, a nonviolent direct action group focused on shutting down Guant?namo and ending torture. She long served as a researcher at the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative in New York City, writing and speaking on the topic of militarism. She writes the "Little Insurrections" <http://wagingnonviolence.org/column/little-insurrections/> blog for Waging Nonviolence.

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From annxpress at live.com  Tue Apr 10 09:12:04 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Microsoft account team)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:12:04 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy' Mendocino's new site
In-Reply-To: <41DA457D-8B73-4D2B-AD29-31325F27B7E7@mcn.org>
References: <41DA457D-8B73-4D2B-AD29-31325F27B7E7@mcn.org>
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Thanks for posting this!



Sent from my U.S. Cellular? Smartphone


-------- Original message --------
From: Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org>
Date: 4/9/18 11:12 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy' Mendocino's new site

https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastOccupyGroup/

On the site now>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Some old-timers are willing to take the big risks.
Bravo!   RK
How Do You Tell the Kids that Grandma Is in Jail for Resisting Nuclear Weapons?
Sunday, April 08, 2018 By Frida Berrigan<http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/50599>, Waging Nonviolence<https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/kings-bay-plowshares-resisting-nuclear-weapons-racism/> | Op-ed

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"Our grandma is in jail," Madeline tells a woman wrestling a shopping cart at Target.

"She went over a war fence and tried to make peace," Seamus adds helpfully. "They arrested her, and she is in jail now."

"Where?" the woman asks, looking from them to me in disbelief and maybe pity.

"We don't remember," the kids say, suddenly done with their story and ready to make passionate pleas for the colorful items in the dollar section over the woman's shoulder.

"Georgia," I say, but I don't have a lot of energy to add detail to my kids' story. They hit all the high points.

"There's a lot going on these days," she says. I agree, and we move on into the store and our separate errands.

I was happy not to say more at that moment, happy to avoid a sobbing breakdown at Target, happy to wrestle one little bit of normal out of a very abnormal day.

My mom, Liz McAlister, who turned 78 in November, had been arrested deep inside the King's Bay Naval Base in St. Mary's, Georgia in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Along with six friends, she carried banners, statements, hammers and blood onto the base. They started their action on April 4: the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination.

Their statement made connections between nuclear weapons, white supremacy and deeply embedded racism. It is a long statement, but given that they were carrying it into a free-fire zone -- where military personnel are authorized to use deadly force ? there was no particular need for brevity: "We come to Kings Bay to answer the call of the prophet Isaiah (2:4) to 'beat swords into plowshares' by disarming the world's deadliest nuclear weapon, the Trident submarine. We repent of the sin of white supremacy that oppresses and takes the lives of people of color here in the United States and throughout the world. We resist militarism that has employed deadly violence to enforce global domination. We believe reparations are required for stolen land, labor and lives."

They walked onto King's Bay Naval Station just hours after Saheed Vassell<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/nyregion/police-shooting-brooklyn-crown-heights.html> was shot and killed in a barrage of bullets by New York City police officers, just hours after hundreds of demonstrators<http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article207935124.html> filled the streets of Sacramento for another day, shouting "Stephon Clark, Stephon Clark, Stephon Clark" and demanding accountability after the young father of two was killed by police officers on March 18. These seven white activists know that when you are black in this country, your own corner, your grandmother's own backyard, is a free-fire zone more dangerous than any military base.

There is indeed a lot going on these days.

The statement continues: "Dr. King said, 'The greatest purveyor of violence in the world (today) is my own government.' This remains true in the midst of our endless war on terror. The United States has embraced a permanent war economy. 'Peace through strength' is a dangerous lie in a world that includes weapons of mass destruction on hair-trigger alert. The weapons from one Trident have the capacity to end life as we know it on planet Earth."

Kings Bay is the largest nuclear submarine base<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Submarine_Base_Kings_Bay> in the world at about 16,000 acres. It is the home port of the U.S. Navy Atlantic Fleet's Trident nuclear-powered submarines. There are eight in total, two guided missile submarines and six ballistic missile submarines. These submarines were all built in Groton, Connecticut -- right across the river from our home in New London. Each submarine, my mom and her friends assert, carries the capacity to cause devastation equivalent to 600 of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima, Japan.

"Nuclear weapons kill every day through our mining, production, testing, storage and dumping, primarily on indigenous native land. This weapons system is a cocked gun being held to the head of the planet. As white Catholics, we take responsibility to atone for the horrific crimes stemming from our complicity with 'the triplets' [of evil]. Only then can we begin to restore right relationships. We seek to bring about a world free of nuclear weapons, racism and economic exploitation."

That is not the end, you can read the whole statement and their indictment of the United States on their Facebook group<https://www.facebook.com/groups/1558500837566350/>.

These sorts of actions -- called Plowshares -- have a nearly 40-year history, since my father and uncle and six others broke into the King of Prussia plant in Pennsylvania in 198o to "beat swords into plowshares." They struck at nosecones with hammers and marked the weapons with blood to reveal the human costs and mess and suffering the weapons are built to wreak in the world.

My father participated in five of these Plowshares actions in his lifetime and helped organize countless others. Committed conspirers, steeped in active nonviolence, have carried out more than 100 of these actions since 1980. This is my mom's second action. She and her current co-defendant Clare Grady, were part of the 1983 Griffiss Plowshares in upstate New York.

My parents estimated that they spent 11 years of their 27-year marriage separated by prison, and it was mostly these actions that kept them apart and away from us. Countless life events in our family -- birthdays, graduations, celebrations of all kinds -- were stuttered by the absence of one of our parents. I say this with pain and loss, but no self-pity. Dad was able to attend my high school graduation, but not my brother's. We went straight from my college graduation to visit my dad in jail in Maine. I missed all the raging keggers, sweaty dance parties and tearful goodbyes that marked the end of college for my friends to sit knee-to-knee with my father in a cramped and soulless room. On chairs designed for maximum discomfort, I tried to share my momentous day and all my 22-year-old big feelings while ignoring the guards and the room crowded with a dozen others doing the same thing. We wrote thousands of letters. They often crisscrossed each other so that there was a constant weaving of story and sharing across the miles.

So, when I explained that grandma was in jail to my kids -- 11-year-old Rosena, 5-year-old Seamus and 4-year-old Madeline -- I felt the weight of a lifetime of missing and provisional family experiences, frequently lived in prison visiting rooms and through urgently scrawled letters.

I tried to figure out a way to talk to them that would make sense and, in thinking it through, I realized that none of this should make sense to anyone! Nuclear weapons? Absurd! Police brutality and white supremacy? Senseless! Plowshares actions with their symbolic transformation and ritual mess-making? A foolhardy act of David versus Goliath proportions!

So, I didn't try to make it make sense. I just forged ahead, grateful that they had some context: We had participated in the Good Friday Stations of the Cross organized by Catholic Worker friends at our local submarine base a few days earlier, and -- the night before -- we had gone to hear a dramatic reading of Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail<http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html>."

"Hey guys, know how we went to the sub base on Friday? Grandma was arrested in a place like that late last night. She is in jail now. She and her friends broke onto the base to say that nuclear weapons are wrong. Remember how Dr. King talked about just and unjust laws?" They nodded and remembered that King said "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." I told them that Grandma thinks that nuclear weapons -- things that can destroy so much life on our planet -- shouldn't be built and protected and paid for when so many people are hungry, so many kids don't have good schools to go to, so many people don't have good homes. I went on and on.

"Wait, these nuclear weapons ? They are war things?" Seamus asked.

"Yep, they are war things, bud."

"Good for grandma," he said, and that was the end of our serious conversation.

Mom and her friends are charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass and two felonies: possession of tools for the commission of a crime and interference with government property.

The kids and I didn't talk about the kind of jail time that could mean for their grandma. It is all I am thinking about right now, but they moved on, imagining out loud and with a lot of enthusiasm how grandma got by the attack dogs and police officers they had seen at the Groton Submarine Base. They were sure there was a similar set up in Georgia. "Grandma needed a ladder and a cheetah," said Madeline. "A cheetah is the only animal that can outrun dogs and police officer's bullets."

I am pretty sure no cheetahs were involved in the Kings Bay Plowshares, but I am happy my daughter sees her grandmother as a fierce and powerful anti-war activist astride a wild cat.

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Subject: What the corporate media refuses to take seriously

[Bernie Sanders]

Ann -

What is the most important issue that the corporate media refuses to seriously discuss? Well, take your pick.

It could be climate change, and the fact that the fossil fuel industry believes that their short-term profits are more important than the future of our planet.

It could be health care, and why it is that the United States is the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all as a right.

It could be the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we experience, and the rather remarkable reality that three people in our country now own more wealth than the bottom 160,000,000 people.

It could be _ _ _ _. Well, your guess is as good as mine.

But let me tell you what I think. I believe the major issue not being discussed by the corporate media is the power of the Koch brothers and the movement in this country toward oligarchy ? a nation where our economic and political life is increasingly controlled by a handful of billionaires. Seen any good programs about that lately on CBS, NBC, ABC or anywhere else? I haven't.

In case you didn't know, the Koch brothers, Charles and David, are the second-wealthiest family in the country, worth over $120 billion. This year, according to various media sources, the Koch brothers network plans to spend some $400 million in the midterm elections. Yes. $400 million. That is on top of the $750 million they pledged to spend in 2016, $290 million in 2014 and over $400 million in 2012.

That's a lot of money, but that's probably only part of the story. Given the existence of super PACs and the opaque nature of campaign funding, it is quite possible that they spend much more. Further, and importantly, their political spending goes far beyond election campaigns. They make enormous investments in right-wing think tanks and in universities ? pushing students and the general population toward their extreme right-wing ideology.

They also fund numerous organizations such as Americans for Prosperity, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), FreedomWorks, Generation Opportunity, 60 Plus Association, Institute for Energy Research, Concerned Veterans of America and many more.

What do the Koch brothers want? What is their ideology? What is their legislative agenda?

Simply stated, they want to repeal virtually every major piece of legislation passed since the 1930s that protects working people, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. They believe that government should play virtually no role in protecting those in need, and that almost all services now provided by government should be privatized and handed over to large corporations.

Before the Koch brothers began their takeover of the Republican Party, David Koch was active in the Libertarian Party. In fact, in 1980, he ran as the Libertarian Party?s vice-presidential candidate.

Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:

  *   ?We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.?
  *   ?We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.?
  *   ?We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.?
  *   ?We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.?
  *   ?We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.?
  *   ?We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.?
  *   ?We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.?
  *   ?We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.?
  *   ?As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.?
  *   ?We support repeal of all laws which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.?
  *   ?We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.?
  *   ?We condemn compulsory education laws ? and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.?
  *   ?We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.?
  *   ?We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.?
  *   ?We support abolition of the Department of Energy.?
  *   ?We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.?
  *   ?We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.?
  *   ?We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.?
  *   ?We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.?
  *   ?We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.?
  *   ?We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.?
  *   ?We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ?aid to the poor? programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.?
  *   ?We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.?
  *   ?We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.?
  *   ?We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.?
  *   ?We support the repeal of all state usury laws.?

That was 1980, and the Libertarian Party national ticket received 1 percent of the vote for what most Americans considered a crazy and extremist agenda. Today, in 2018, because of the Koch brothers? power and influence, many of these ideas have now become mainstream within the increasingly right-wing Republican Party.

In that regard, let me give you an example of what is happening right now with President Trump and the Koch brothers? plan to privatize health care for millions of our nation?s veterans, and then I am going to ask you to make your voice heard to stop them.

Let?s start with something that we should all be able to agree on:

While serious people can have legitimate differences of opinion about when our country should go to war, there should never be a debate as to whether we fulfill the promises made to the men and women who served this country in the military. Planes and tanks and guns are a cost of war, but so is taking care of the men and women we send to fight them.

Now, last week President Trump made the decision to fire the former Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Dr. David Shulkin. And what I would strongly suspect is that he made that decision because Dr. Shulkin was not moving fast enough toward privatizing veterans? health care in this country.

Here is the truth: the VA is the largest integrated health care system in this country. And if you actually listen to the veterans of this country who rely on the VA, what most of them will tell you is that they are quite pleased with the care they receive.

Now, of course we must continually work to improve the VA, but what almost every single major veterans organization in this country says is that we must strengthen the VA, not privatize it.

That is because privatizing the VA would severely underfund the department and leave many veterans without easy access to quality care ? oftentimes specialized care required for service-connected injuries that VA centers are better equipped to handle than a local doctor or hospital.

On the other side, you have the Koch brothers, the second-wealthiest family in the United States, who are going to spend $400 million in the coming elections. They have enormous power because of that and what they believe is that we must privatize not just the VA, but Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Not coincidentally, privatizing the VA would also significantly enrich some of the nation?s wealthiest health care executives.

So here is where I ask you to act:

President Trump has nominated his personal physician Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson to replace former Secretary Shulkin. And while he has not said as much, I would strongly suspect that Rear Admiral Jackson?s mission is to carry out the wishes of the Koch brothers, and to oversee the privatization of the VA.

So today, I want to send a message to my colleagues who must give their consent to this nomination, and I need your help to do it:

Sign My Petition: Tell the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Donald Trump?s nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs unless he pledges to support strengthening the VA and opposes privatization. The Senate cannot approve any nominee who prioritizes the profits of a handful of health care executives over the health of our veterans.<https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/VA-nominee?source=em180409-t1-a>

The drive to privatize veterans? health care is part of a broader approach by the Trump administration, fulfilling the agenda of the Koch brothers.

We have a Secretary of Education who doesn?t support public education.

We have an EPA Administrator who doesn?t believe in environmental protection and is pursuing a massive deregulation effort.

We have a Treasury Secretary from Goldman Sachs who worked overtime to pass a massive redistribution of wealth and income from the working class to some of the richest and most powerful people in this country.

We have a Secretary of Health and Human Services who President Trump pulled from the pharmaceutical industry at a time when the United States pays the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, by far.

Now it is likely the president is nominating someone to head the Department of Veterans Affairs whose mission will be to privatize veterans? health care.

Right now, our job is to improve and strengthen VA health care on what already works reasonably well, and not to dismember it. That is a fear that many veterans service organizations have, and it is one that I share.

If you do as well, I hope that you will make your voice heard:

Sign My Petition: Tell the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Donald Trump?s nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs unless he pledges to support strengthening the VA and opposes privatization. The Senate cannot approve any nominee who prioritizes the profits of a handful of health care executives over the health of our veterans.<https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/VA-nominee?source=em180409-t1-a>

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There are few people alive today who have gotten a better deal from Hollywood than Erin Brockovich. Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film, an anthem to Brockovich's legal crusade against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company for toxic dumping in Hinkley, Calif., turned her name into a brand for flinty righteousness. Julia Roberts, who won an Oscar for playing her, needed a water-padded bra to get her dimensions right. All this has left Brockovich with an undeniably powerful, albeit peculiar, kind of fame. She has the Pentecostal tan of celebrity, and she has that name, but for the time being people don't automatically connect the two. She gets confused with Heather Locklear and Suzanne Somers. One guy approached her at a restaurant to tell her he loved her ThighMaster.

The confusion can't last too much longer. Two years after the release of Soderbergh's cinematic folk tale, the 41-year-old Brockovich has arrived on shelves, stage and the small screen. Over the course of last year, she became the most popular public-speaking client in the William Morris stable. Her recently published self-help volume, ''Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win,'' will get that best-seller stamp when it hits paperback. She is developing two television pilots, a talk show for NBC and a true-life program for Lifetime about women ''overcoming any kind of obstacles.'' Finally, there is the work that made her famous, her investigations into corporate polluting. She is finishing up the research for her first big case to go to trial since the historic $333 million Hinkley settlement in 1996, another class-action suit against P.G.&E., this time in Kettleman City, Calif., for contaminating ground water with chromium 6. The trial date is to be set next month.

On one of her ''wildly busy'' mornings, with half an hour to spare, Brockovich has suggested we meet at her favorite boutique, Nicole, on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. It's the kind of place that sells thongs with the word ''spoiled'' in sequins on the front. The saleswomen know her style (''provocative,'' they call it) and even fetch her the occasional cranberry-and-vodka from a restaurant next door.

When she glides in, nearly an hour late, she heads immediately to the dressing room. She throws on a pair of blatantly age-inappropriate, low-slung denim pants and models them in the mirror. For most, this would be a private moment, but not for Brockovich. She pulls up her shirt and suspiciously eyes her miraculous waistline. She wants to know if the jeans reveal too much skin. ''I don't like my bellybutton showing,'' she says. ''I really don't.'' She looks magnificent in everything here, which makes choosing hard. ''When I have the vodkas-and-cranberries, I come home with all kinds of stuff,'' she says, twisting her hair into curlers that have been warmed for her. ''I tell my husband, 'Don't let me shop when I've been drinking.'''

Just when I'm about to give in to the vacuity of the spree, I ask her -- through the slats on the dressing-room door -- What do you think of Michael Fumento?'' and everything changes. Fumento is a lawyer who works at the conservative Hudson Institute. Since the film, Fumento has been trying to spread the word that ingested chromium 6 does not cause cancer and that Brockovich's science is shoddy.

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She bolts out of the dressing room, cursing, and confronts me. ''C6 causes liver failure, kidney failure and can kill you,'' she tells me. ''There are reams of data on that. Fumento is just taking a dig because he protects the big company. I don't like him.'' It's an abrupt switch of subject matter, from $150 denims to legal wrangling, and I almost feel guilty for bringing it up and shattering the playful mood. But she clearly knows how to handle the dissonance.

We're used to our crusaders rejecting style and sexuality for high seriousness, as if they were mutually exclusive. But Brockovich demands to be taken seriously with her Armani suits and her breast implants (and in some cases, yes, her bellybutton showing). In the post-Enron mood of increasing suspicion of corporate goodwill, Brockovich is a real David in boot-cut Levi's. A rambunctious, loudmouthed sister to Sherron Watkins and Jane Fonda, Brockovich is a vocal enemy of bad companies at a moment when bad companies are very, very bad. ''Ralph Nader with cleavage,' they called me,'' she says. ''I don't want to picture that.''

On the lecture circuit, her audiences gasp when she first walks onstage. At one event, she sauntered on dressed in skin-tight leather pants, leather jacket, leather boots and swooping leather bustier -- in so much leather that she was practically a glove -- and the woman behind me in the audience muttered, ''Oh, my God.'' Brockovich lives for that shock response but dares you to leave it at that. When she advises in her book to ''dress for the part,'' she's talking about a role that she invented: the all-star, foxy suburban mom. Brockovich is proof of the second act in American life. The question is, What does it take to keep the curtain from falling?

Out in Agoura Hills, at the far western rim of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles sprawl recedes, for the time being anyway, into perfected suburbia. The $1-million-plus manses nestle cozily, each with its own ornately carved mailbox, and all surrounded by the Santa Monica Mountains.

With her $2.5 million bonus from the original P.G.&E. settlement, Brockovich, her third husband, Eric, and her 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, moved into a two-story corner-lot property here in 1997, only to discover that their house was thoroughly contaminated with what she calls ''tarantula fur'': toxic mold. ''I had a lake underneath the house,'' Brockovich says, giving me the tour of the place. ''It's been a nightmare.'' For almost two years, builders tore down interior walls, and major rooms of the house were ''deconned'' in bubble units and could be entered only in hazmat suits. The renovation still isn't done -- the backyard has been flayed, the front yard will be and a hammer bangs above us the entire time I'm there. But as awful as the experience has been, there's an undeniable humanizing quality to the tragedy. For all her toxic heroism, Brockovich herself is not immune.

Nor is her family. When she found out that her two oldest children, Matthew and Katie (now in their late teens), were trying drugs, she sent them to wilderness camps and boarding schools. ''Their attitude was extremely defiant,'' she tells me. ''I gave them fair warning as early as 9 years old -- you start doing drugs, I'll pop you out, and you are gone. I gave them enough rope to hang themselves.'' Her youngest, Elizabeth, lives at home and is a tomboy. ''She doesn't like baths,'' she says. ''If she has bugs on her, that doesn't bother her.''

As we tour the rooms, I expect to see a lot of memorabilia from the film. But Brockovich has kept very little, save the movie poster at the top of the stairs -- the one with Julia Roberts gritting her teeth and the tag line ''She brought a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.'' (There's another one downstairs, a gift from Jersey Films, which produced ''Erin Brockovich,'' with Brockovich superimposed over Roberts's face and beaming.) The two women -- the star and her source material -- met for the first time on the set. Brockovich was in the dressing room getting her hair done for her cameo. (She played a waitress with the name tag ''Julia.'') Roberts came in and introduced herself. ''It was odd,'' Brockovich recalls. ''She said, 'I'm Julia Roberts, and geez, I don't even have my boobs in yet.''' People often ask her if she has a continuing relationship with the star. ''She's doing her thing, and I'm doing mine,'' Brockovich says. ''But there's an unspoken bond.''

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Brockovich is no longer the single mom she was in the movie -- she has been married to the sometime actor Eric Ellis for three years -- but it can still seem as if she is. She has a third-marriage hardiness to her. She makes it clear that the house is hers, that the wealth is hers and that she can do just fine solo. Reclining on an overstuffed couch in her living room, Brockovich says, ''A lot of women make the mistake of getting married just because they are afraid to be alone.'' She pauses and looks at Eric, who is sitting, looking somewhat bored, on a couch across the room. It's unclear if she's insulting him or not until she continues: ''And that's the beauty of Eric. Because I wasn't looking for him, and there wasn't that sense of wanting to hang on to somebody or something because the fear wasn't there.''

This openness, which is essential to Brockovich's appeal, extends to her finances as well. Not so long ago, she supported three children on $300 a week. Now she talks readily about the $100,000 she got from Jersey Films for her life rights, the $2.5 million bonus that made her cry and the $500,000 she has already dumped into expunging the toxic mold. While I was at her house, she ordered her agent to secure ''the other 10 grand'' for a pilot, then agreed to transfer $400 into Eric's bank account so he could go shopping. Afterward, we discussed the $250,000 she spent on rehab for her kids (as well as the $100,000 lien on her house that a contractor filed after she refused to pay him for work she considered substandard).

The natural suspicion is that as her ''work'' becomes more and more negotiating about work -- lecture dates, new books, pilot shoots and renovations -- she has stopped really doing the work she is famous for: investigating polluters and organizing victims. But when I ask her a leading question about her legal research -- how does a nonlawyer become such a central figure in a legal case, after all? -- she pulls me into her dining room, fetches a box full of paper and sits cross-legged on the floor. She wants to show me exactly how she works.

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This box is from the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. ''Imagine getting hundreds of these boxes,'' she says, running a lacquered fingernail along the sheaves. ''You come to the 40th box, what does your attitude become? 'Forget it. There's nothing here.' Well, I go through it paper by paper. You will see me in my office, on the floor, all the files around me, and I won't talk to you, I won't take phone calls.''

She shows me her ''Hot Doc'' book, which she compiles from the mass of paper. This one looks like a college notebook of class notes, covered in hastily applied colored stickers and highlighter. She points out a single piece of paper, a report from Oct. 10, 1995, that water well 31A in Redlands, Calif., is ''inactive,'' with a trichloroethylene reading of 34.4 parts per billion. The maximum allowable level of TCE (a cleaning solvent) in drinking water is 5 P.P.B. Then she shows me another piece of paper that reveals that the well was active and producing water for the town the same day, in clear violation of environmental law. Brockovich leans back with pride, savoring the contradiction. ''That is what I do,'' she says.

Edward Masry, the menschy partner at Masry & Vititoe who used Brockovich's research in the Hinkley case and still employs her for his class-action crusades, calls her ''the best in the field,'' but he admits that he can't exactly describe what her skill is and doesn't really know any other law firms that have somebody like her. Masry gave Brockovich away to her current husband, so he is not only father figure but also fan. ''She's a workaholic,'' he tells me. ''If it comes down to watching a movie or looking at toxic cases, she'll look at the boxes.''

She turns what most lawyers would never have the patience for into her grand metier. No doubt part of the success of the Brockovich mythology is that it reaffirms the idea that lousy jobs can still make us heroes if we take them seriously enough. The fact remains, though, that she has no real credentials except moxie and friendliness.

It is this genuine amiability that makes her a lightning rod for potential plaintiffs, says Brockovich's chief critic, Michael Fumento. Brockovich claims to have challenged him to debate ''a million times,'' but he disputes it: ''I would so love to debate her. Where? When? But she has nothing to gain. It's like the leading presidential candidate agreeing to debate the fourth independent candidate.''

Beyond his complaints about Brockovich's science, Fumento argues that she's dangerous because she's so good at convincing people that corporations are to blame. ''She's a one-woman juggernaut for rounding people up,'' he says. He has a point; even as she glamorizes the reputation of personal-injury lawyers -- typically considered ethical bottom-feeders -- her brand recognition might warp a legal process vulnerable to abuse. Tort litigation is already out of proportion with evidence of harm. Currently, more than $20 billion has been spent on the 200,000 asbestos lawsuits on the books, a number that continues to rise each year though asbestos use was discontinued in the 1970's. About 90 percent of these claims are from asbestos victims who ''were exposed but are unimpaired,'' says Michael Hotra of the American Tort Reform Association.

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Brockovich can turn up plaintiffs without even trying. One Saturday, I met up with her at a book signing in Barstow, Calif., where I overheard a friend of hers (who had grown up there) say to her offhandedly, ''You know, I should have joined the Hinkley lawsuit.'' He said this not because he was sick but because, what was there to lose? Erin Brockovich now has a ''seal of approval,'' as Hotra calls it, that could sway juries and accelerate settlements. Masry & Vititoe represents about 1,000 people in the coming Kettleman case against P.G.&E., nearly twice the number as the 1996 settlement. No wonder Brockovich calls this suit ''bigger than Hinkley.'' With a landmark case behind it, Masry & Vititoe's biggest problem may not be winning the case as much as drawing the line between who gets a piece and who doesn't.

Through her work, Brockovich has met people who are real victims, which is why Fumento's attacks frustrate her so much. While I was with her in Barstow, Brockovich decided -- partly because she is so rarely there and partly because I was there to write about it -- that she wanted to visit Nola Wetterman, who lives in Hinkley, about 15 miles away. Wetterman was one of the early plaintiffs of the Hinkley case; her father was one of the first farmers out in the ''contamination plume.'' Wetterman's family has been riddled with disease: deterioration of the bones and the spine, arthritis at young ages. As we drove over to the house in Brockovich's BMW, she told me that Wetterman has had ''seven or eight'' miscarriages and that one grandson of hers was born with a ''soft neck'' -- the inability to hold up his head.

When we arrived at the modest ranch, the cheerful but clearly weathered Wetterman was watching TV with twin boys, her foster children. Nothing about the Hinkley settlement appears to have changed Wetterman's life, except to enlarge her generosity -- she has supported, in one way or another, more than 250 foster children.

Brockovich reclined on the couch and started chatting about Wetterman's imminent spinal surgery and the fact that she can't feel her feet anymore. I wanted to think of this scene as rehearsed somehow, a calculated poignancy. But for the time that we were there, Brockovich and Wetterman effectively ignored me. They swapped stories and names, names I could not keep up with -- the folks from Hinkley who have died, the kids who have done well and the ones who haven't. As Brockovich became increasingly late for dinner, a dinner for 20 friends, which she would pay for, it became apparent that she could have stayed all night.

Days later, I ask Brockovich, as someone who deals directly with irreparable human damages, if she needs to attribute blame in lawsuits to anyone specifically, if she needs a name. She answers that she's at war with a ''corporate mentality.'' She tells me about a P.G.&E. memorandum that advised employees who were drilling to determine how much chromium 6 was in the ground in Hinkley to lie and tell people that they were drilling because the water table was low. ''They made an absolute decision, and over time it becomes a corporate secret,'' she says. ''It becomes their code of ethics to keep it.''

But her anger is contained and wedded to a playful consumerism that broadens her appeal even as it diminishes her politics. She lives in a house with a lifesize Elvis statue inside the front door and a three-car garage for two adults of driving age. She smokes Capris, the itsy-bitsy, expensive cigarettes. She wears bountiful amounts of leather and uses aerosol hair spray to mount her hair. ''I'm not out to destroy corporate America,'' she says to audiences in her lectures. ''I enjoy corporate America as much as all of you.''

Brockovich is attracted to the idea of the fight and the way that enemies and obstacles get a rise out of us. The danger is that as she becomes more of a celebrity, her defiance -- maybe even her prodigious empathy -- runs the risk of turning into a pose. With as much style as she exudes, it is already hard to tell the difference.

In the dressing room before a recent lecture in New Brunswick, N.J., Brockovich coaxed her hair up into a style that she refers to as her ''Debbie Does Dallas'' look. She was dressed in her favorite black knee-high boots, a pinstripe suit that she takes with her everywhere, her ''lacy'' bustier, because the red one ''was bunching,'' and a masterful choker. From the wings, she studied two women preparing to translate her lecture into sign language. When she walked onstage, into the spotlight that catches up to her everywhere eventually, the audience roared with surprise as much as applause. Her first words were: ''I just want to thank the signers tonight. The only universal sign language I know is this.'' And she flipped all of us the bird.
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We need Erin to help us fight G/P at the Millsite and the City's Grocery Outlet Mall development! I went to the Council Meeting Monday and had them take the Water Diversion agreement with Dept of F&W about Hare Creek off the consent calendar so we would hear what was negotiated.  It turns out that they were in secret closed session meetings for months about the horrendous water diversions that kill Salmonoids when they dewater Waterfall Gulch, the source of Hare Creek. It once was a Class 1 Salmon spawning stream but now is a trickle.  I had commented many times to no avail, as they would not address the issue. Now, thanks to a new Director at F&W, the Salmon will get 25% of the water so they can survive. It is good to know that Salmon may come back someday, so the Sea Lions, Otters and Orcas don't continue to starve, and maybe we can have a fishing fleet again!  No farmed Salmon! Ann

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There are few people alive today who have gotten a better deal from Hollywood than Erin Brockovich. Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film, an anthem to Brockovich's legal crusade against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company for toxic dumping in Hinkley, Calif., turned her name into a brand for flinty righteousness. Julia Roberts, who won an Oscar for playing her, needed a water-padded bra to get her dimensions right. All this has left Brockovich with an undeniably powerful, albeit peculiar, kind of fame. She has the Pentecostal tan of celebrity, and she has that name, but for the time being people don't automatically connect the two. She gets confused with Heather Locklear and Suzanne Somers. One guy approached her at a restaurant to tell her he loved her ThighMaster.

The confusion can't last too much longer. Two years after the release of Soderbergh's cinematic folk tale, the 41-year-old Brockovich has arrived on shelves, stage and the small screen. Over the course of last year, she became the most popular public-speaking client in the William Morris stable. Her recently published self-help volume, ''Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win,'' will get that best-seller stamp when it hits paperback. She is developing two television pilots, a talk show for NBC and a true-life program for Lifetime about women ''overcoming any kind of obstacles.'' Finally, there is the work that made her famous, her investigations into corporate polluting. She is finishing up the research for her first big case to go to trial since the historic $333 million Hinkley settlement in 1996, another class-action suit against P.G.&E., this time in Kettleman City, Calif., for contaminating ground water with chromium 6. The trial date is to be set next month.

On one of her ''wildly busy'' mornings, with half an hour to spare, Brockovich has suggested we meet at her favorite boutique, Nicole, on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. It's the kind of place that sells thongs with the word ''spoiled'' in sequins on the front. The saleswomen know her style (''provocative,'' they call it) and even fetch her the occasional cranberry-and-vodka from a restaurant next door.

When she glides in, nearly an hour late, she heads immediately to the dressing room. She throws on a pair of blatantly age-inappropriate, low-slung denim pants and models them in the mirror. For most, this would be a private moment, but not for Brockovich. She pulls up her shirt and suspiciously eyes her miraculous waistline. She wants to know if the jeans reveal too much skin. ''I don't like my bellybutton showing,'' she says. ''I really don't.'' She looks magnificent in everything here, which makes choosing hard. ''When I have the vodkas-and-cranberries, I come home with all kinds of stuff,'' she says, twisting her hair into curlers that have been warmed for her. ''I tell my husband, 'Don't let me shop when I've been drinking.'''

Just when I'm about to give in to the vacuity of the spree, I ask her -- through the slats on the dressing-room door -- What do you think of Michael Fumento?'' and everything changes. Fumento is a lawyer who works at the conservative Hudson Institute. Since the film, Fumento has been trying to spread the word that ingested chromium 6 does not cause cancer and that Brockovich's science is shoddy.

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She bolts out of the dressing room, cursing, and confronts me. ''C6 causes liver failure, kidney failure and can kill you,'' she tells me. ''There are reams of data on that. Fumento is just taking a dig because he protects the big company. I don't like him.'' It's an abrupt switch of subject matter, from $150 denims to legal wrangling, and I almost feel guilty for bringing it up and shattering the playful mood. But she clearly knows how to handle the dissonance.

We're used to our crusaders rejecting style and sexuality for high seriousness, as if they were mutually exclusive. But Brockovich demands to be taken seriously with her Armani suits and her breast implants (and in some cases, yes, her bellybutton showing). In the post-Enron mood of increasing suspicion of corporate goodwill, Brockovich is a real David in boot-cut Levi's. A rambunctious, loudmouthed sister to Sherron Watkins and Jane Fonda, Brockovich is a vocal enemy of bad companies at a moment when bad companies are very, very bad. ''Ralph Nader with cleavage,' they called me,'' she says. ''I don't want to picture that.''

On the lecture circuit, her audiences gasp when she first walks onstage. At one event, she sauntered on dressed in skin-tight leather pants, leather jacket, leather boots and swooping leather bustier -- in so much leather that she was practically a glove -- and the woman behind me in the audience muttered, ''Oh, my God.'' Brockovich lives for that shock response but dares you to leave it at that. When she advises in her book to ''dress for the part,'' she's talking about a role that she invented: the all-star, foxy suburban mom. Brockovich is proof of the second act in American life. The question is, What does it take to keep the curtain from falling?

Out in Agoura Hills, at the far western rim of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles sprawl recedes, for the time being anyway, into perfected suburbia. The $1-million-plus manses nestle cozily, each with its own ornately carved mailbox, and all surrounded by the Santa Monica Mountains.

With her $2.5 million bonus from the original P.G.&E. settlement, Brockovich, her third husband, Eric, and her 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, moved into a two-story corner-lot property here in 1997, only to discover that their house was thoroughly contaminated with what she calls ''tarantula fur'': toxic mold. ''I had a lake underneath the house,'' Brockovich says, giving me the tour of the place. ''It's been a nightmare.'' For almost two years, builders tore down interior walls, and major rooms of the house were ''deconned'' in bubble units and could be entered only in hazmat suits. The renovation still isn't done -- the backyard has been flayed, the front yard will be and a hammer bangs above us the entire time I'm there. But as awful as the experience has been, there's an undeniable humanizing quality to the tragedy. For all her toxic heroism, Brockovich herself is not immune.

Nor is her family. When she found out that her two oldest children, Matthew and Katie (now in their late teens), were trying drugs, she sent them to wilderness camps and boarding schools. ''Their attitude was extremely defiant,'' she tells me. ''I gave them fair warning as early as 9 years old -- you start doing drugs, I'll pop you out, and you are gone. I gave them enough rope to hang themselves.'' Her youngest, Elizabeth, lives at home and is a tomboy. ''She doesn't like baths,'' she says. ''If she has bugs on her, that doesn't bother her.''

As we tour the rooms, I expect to see a lot of memorabilia from the film. But Brockovich has kept very little, save the movie poster at the top of the stairs -- the one with Julia Roberts gritting her teeth and the tag line ''She brought a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.'' (There's another one downstairs, a gift from Jersey Films, which produced ''Erin Brockovich,'' with Brockovich superimposed over Roberts's face and beaming.) The two women -- the star and her source material -- met for the first time on the set. Brockovich was in the dressing room getting her hair done for her cameo. (She played a waitress with the name tag ''Julia.'') Roberts came in and introduced herself. ''It was odd,'' Brockovich recalls. ''She said, 'I'm Julia Roberts, and geez, I don't even have my boobs in yet.''' People often ask her if she has a continuing relationship with the star. ''She's doing her thing, and I'm doing mine,'' Brockovich says. ''But there's an unspoken bond.''

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Brockovich is no longer the single mom she was in the movie -- she has been married to the sometime actor Eric Ellis for three years -- but it can still seem as if she is. She has a third-marriage hardiness to her. She makes it clear that the house is hers, that the wealth is hers and that she can do just fine solo. Reclining on an overstuffed couch in her living room, Brockovich says, ''A lot of women make the mistake of getting married just because they are afraid to be alone.'' She pauses and looks at Eric, who is sitting, looking somewhat bored, on a couch across the room. It's unclear if she's insulting him or not until she continues: ''And that's the beauty of Eric. Because I wasn't looking for him, and there wasn't that sense of wanting to hang on to somebody or something because the fear wasn't there.''

This openness, which is essential to Brockovich's appeal, extends to her finances as well. Not so long ago, she supported three children on $300 a week. Now she talks readily about the $100,000 she got from Jersey Films for her life rights, the $2.5 million bonus that made her cry and the $500,000 she has already dumped into expunging the toxic mold. While I was at her house, she ordered her agent to secure ''the other 10 grand'' for a pilot, then agreed to transfer $400 into Eric's bank account so he could go shopping. Afterward, we discussed the $250,000 she spent on rehab for her kids (as well as the $100,000 lien on her house that a contractor filed after she refused to pay him for work she considered substandard).

The natural suspicion is that as her ''work'' becomes more and more negotiating about work -- lecture dates, new books, pilot shoots and renovations -- she has stopped really doing the work she is famous for: investigating polluters and organizing victims. But when I ask her a leading question about her legal research -- how does a nonlawyer become such a central figure in a legal case, after all? -- she pulls me into her dining room, fetches a box full of paper and sits cross-legged on the floor. She wants to show me exactly how she works.

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This box is from the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. ''Imagine getting hundreds of these boxes,'' she says, running a lacquered fingernail along the sheaves. ''You come to the 40th box, what does your attitude become? 'Forget it. There's nothing here.' Well, I go through it paper by paper. You will see me in my office, on the floor, all the files around me, and I won't talk to you, I won't take phone calls.''

She shows me her ''Hot Doc'' book, which she compiles from the mass of paper. This one looks like a college notebook of class notes, covered in hastily applied colored stickers and highlighter. She points out a single piece of paper, a report from Oct. 10, 1995, that water well 31A in Redlands, Calif., is ''inactive,'' with a trichloroethylene reading of 34.4 parts per billion. The maximum allowable level of TCE (a cleaning solvent) in drinking water is 5 P.P.B. Then she shows me another piece of paper that reveals that the well was active and producing water for the town the same day, in clear violation of environmental law. Brockovich leans back with pride, savoring the contradiction. ''That is what I do,'' she says.

Edward Masry, the menschy partner at Masry & Vititoe who used Brockovich's research in the Hinkley case and still employs her for his class-action crusades, calls her ''the best in the field,'' but he admits that he can't exactly describe what her skill is and doesn't really know any other law firms that have somebody like her. Masry gave Brockovich away to her current husband, so he is not only father figure but also fan. ''She's a workaholic,'' he tells me. ''If it comes down to watching a movie or looking at toxic cases, she'll look at the boxes.''

She turns what most lawyers would never have the patience for into her grand metier. No doubt part of the success of the Brockovich mythology is that it reaffirms the idea that lousy jobs can still make us heroes if we take them seriously enough. The fact remains, though, that she has no real credentials except moxie and friendliness.

It is this genuine amiability that makes her a lightning rod for potential plaintiffs, says Brockovich's chief critic, Michael Fumento. Brockovich claims to have challenged him to debate ''a million times,'' but he disputes it: ''I would so love to debate her. Where? When? But she has nothing to gain. It's like the leading presidential candidate agreeing to debate the fourth independent candidate.''

Beyond his complaints about Brockovich's science, Fumento argues that she's dangerous because she's so good at convincing people that corporations are to blame. ''She's a one-woman juggernaut for rounding people up,'' he says. He has a point; even as she glamorizes the reputation of personal-injury lawyers -- typically considered ethical bottom-feeders -- her brand recognition might warp a legal process vulnerable to abuse. Tort litigation is already out of proportion with evidence of harm. Currently, more than $20 billion has been spent on the 200,000 asbestos lawsuits on the books, a number that continues to rise each year though asbestos use was discontinued in the 1970's. About 90 percent of these claims are from asbestos victims who ''were exposed but are unimpaired,'' says Michael Hotra of the American Tort Reform Association.

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Brockovich can turn up plaintiffs without even trying. One Saturday, I met up with her at a book signing in Barstow, Calif., where I overheard a friend of hers (who had grown up there) say to her offhandedly, ''You know, I should have joined the Hinkley lawsuit.'' He said this not because he was sick but because, what was there to lose? Erin Brockovich now has a ''seal of approval,'' as Hotra calls it, that could sway juries and accelerate settlements. Masry & Vititoe represents about 1,000 people in the coming Kettleman case against P.G.&E., nearly twice the number as the 1996 settlement. No wonder Brockovich calls this suit ''bigger than Hinkley.'' With a landmark case behind it, Masry & Vititoe's biggest problem may not be winning the case as much as drawing the line between who gets a piece and who doesn't.

Through her work, Brockovich has met people who are real victims, which is why Fumento's attacks frustrate her so much. While I was with her in Barstow, Brockovich decided -- partly because she is so rarely there and partly because I was there to write about it -- that she wanted to visit Nola Wetterman, who lives in Hinkley, about 15 miles away. Wetterman was one of the early plaintiffs of the Hinkley case; her father was one of the first farmers out in the ''contamination plume.'' Wetterman's family has been riddled with disease: deterioration of the bones and the spine, arthritis at young ages. As we drove over to the house in Brockovich's BMW, she told me that Wetterman has had ''seven or eight'' miscarriages and that one grandson of hers was born with a ''soft neck'' -- the inability to hold up his head.

When we arrived at the modest ranch, the cheerful but clearly weathered Wetterman was watching TV with twin boys, her foster children. Nothing about the Hinkley settlement appears to have changed Wetterman's life, except to enlarge her generosity -- she has supported, in one way or another, more than 250 foster children.

Brockovich reclined on the couch and started chatting about Wetterman's imminent spinal surgery and the fact that she can't feel her feet anymore. I wanted to think of this scene as rehearsed somehow, a calculated poignancy. But for the time that we were there, Brockovich and Wetterman effectively ignored me. They swapped stories and names, names I could not keep up with -- the folks from Hinkley who have died, the kids who have done well and the ones who haven't. As Brockovich became increasingly late for dinner, a dinner for 20 friends, which she would pay for, it became apparent that she could have stayed all night.

Days later, I ask Brockovich, as someone who deals directly with irreparable human damages, if she needs to attribute blame in lawsuits to anyone specifically, if she needs a name. She answers that she's at war with a ''corporate mentality.'' She tells me about a P.G.&E. memorandum that advised employees who were drilling to determine how much chromium 6 was in the ground in Hinkley to lie and tell people that they were drilling because the water table was low. ''They made an absolute decision, and over time it becomes a corporate secret,'' she says. ''It becomes their code of ethics to keep it.''

But her anger is contained and wedded to a playful consumerism that broadens her appeal even as it diminishes her politics. She lives in a house with a lifesize Elvis statue inside the front door and a three-car garage for two adults of driving age. She smokes Capris, the itsy-bitsy, expensive cigarettes. She wears bountiful amounts of leather and uses aerosol hair spray to mount her hair. ''I'm not out to destroy corporate America,'' she says to audiences in her lectures. ''I enjoy corporate America as much as all of you.''

Brockovich is attracted to the idea of the fight and the way that enemies and obstacles get a rise out of us. The danger is that as she becomes more of a celebrity, her defiance -- maybe even her prodigious empathy -- runs the risk of turning into a pose. With as much style as she exudes, it is already hard to tell the difference.

In the dressing room before a recent lecture in New Brunswick, N.J., Brockovich coaxed her hair up into a style that she refers to as her ''Debbie Does Dallas'' look. She was dressed in her favorite black knee-high boots, a pinstripe suit that she takes with her everywhere, her ''lacy'' bustier, because the red one ''was bunching,'' and a masterful choker. From the wings, she studied two women preparing to translate her lecture into sign language. When she walked onstage, into the spotlight that catches up to her everywhere eventually, the audience roared with surprise as much as applause. Her first words were: ''I just want to thank the signers tonight. The only universal sign language I know is this.'' And she flipped all of us the bird.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Apr 14 14:28:46 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:28:46 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Re: Greyhound is throwing passengers'
	rights under the bus]
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> 
> 
> Hi Agnes ???
> 
> Thanks to supporters like you, we've collected over 50,000 signatures on
> our petition telling Greyhound to stop letting Border Patrol agents harass
> its passengers without a warrant. Our campaign is getting strong media
> attention as more people find out about what's happening on Greyhound
> buses. Now we need you to take the next step to turn up the heat.
> 
> Share the petition with your friends and social network so we can put even
> more pressure on Greyhound to squash this unconstitutional, cruel policy
> for good.
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> https://ms.clicks.actions.aclu.org/t/gcH1AAjbaUFAdQCO-7HIHhETZjaBlBWZMVeaaaaGwBNM1ORpaa?k=A_vC~amp;U=jXwV1~25v9dle.xip~amp;c=l~amp;o=~amp;0=
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> This is urgent ??? there are so many lives on the line because of this
> latest development in Trump's racist, anti-immigrant agenda. With your
> help, we can make sure Greyhound stays out of this xenophobic,
> fear-mongering practice.
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> Thanks for speaking up with us,
> 
> Jennie
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> Hi Agnes ???
> 
> Imagine taking your regular bus to work or school. The bus pulls over and
> Border Patrol agents get on board. Row by row, they scan passengers for
> anybody deemed "suspicious" due to the color of their skin, accent, or the
> way they dress. You think you're just taking the bus home, like any other
> day ??? but you end up arrested, detained, and in worst cases, deported.
> 
> That horror story has increasingly become a reality on Greyhound buses
> throughout the country, because the company allows Border Patrol agents to
> board its buses and arrest passengers without a warrant.
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> Sign this petition telling Greyhound to stop throwing its passengers'
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> Not only is Border Patrol's practice cruel, but it's not even legal. The
> Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from entering private
> property without consent or a warrant, and it protects everyone on U.S.
> soil ??? regardless of citizenship ??? from being detained or searched
> without cause. By law, Greyhound is fully capable of saying NO to Border
> Patrol. So why aren't they?
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> Add your name to tell Greyhound to stop allowing Border Patrol agents to
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> We know what this is really about. This is all part of the Trump
> administration's shameful and hateful agenda to intimidate and expel
> immigrants from this country. It???s completely contrary to the founding
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Apr 14 15:51:28 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:51:28 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Homeless deaths surge
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I heard that the average of age of homeless people is:   see way below>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/04/13/feature/surge-in-homeless-deaths-linked-to-opioids-extreme-weather-soaring-housing-cost/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.add976d7b98e <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/04/13/feature/surge-in-homeless-deaths-linked-to-opioids-extreme-weather-soaring-housing-cost/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.add976d7b98e>


NASHVILLE
Desperate to avoid an early death, ?Michael Jenkins finally found a doctor willing to operate on his damaged liver. But Jenkins knew all along that it was the recovery that was more likely to kill him out here on the city?s streets.

Within days of the doctor creating a shunt via surgery, the 63-year-old homeless man was back in West Nashville sleeping in an abandoned van with flattened tires, a broken front?




































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From john at cypresshouse.com  Sun Apr 15 10:49:30 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 10:49:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Pepsi's palm oil scandal
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A new report shows that PepsiCo has knowingly persisted in conducting
business with the Salim Group, a company tied to reckless palm oil producers
responsible for the destruction of nearly 10,000 hectares of Borneo's
pristine peat forests, an area bigger than Manhattan!

We need to raise our voices so that PepsiCo knows it must stop its partner
from wreaking havoc on people and the planet.

https://actions.sumofus.org/a/pepsico-palm-oil-report?sp_ref=404066300.99.18
7239.e.603481.2
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Mon Apr 16 17:31:10 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:31:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Check out this TED Talk!
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This brought tears to my eye and hope to my heart.

John

 

What a world without prisons could look like (Deanna Van Buren | TEDWomen
2017) 

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From john at cypresshouse.com  Tue Apr 17 15:14:56 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:14:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: One more thing - can you spread the word?
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Dear Occupier,

Congress is considering an alarming new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that would give Donald Trump the power to declare worldwide war. Giving the president the power to declare war anywhere on earth is a fundamental abdication of Congress's constitutional responsibilities.

I signed a petition telling Congress not to support the proposed AUMF. Will you join me?

https://www.aclu.org/No-Blank-Check-for-WarTAF

Thanks.

John 

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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Tue Apr 17 19:06:09 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:06:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] National Day to Prevent Gun Violence
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> Will there be an event here?
Irene Malone
> 
> View this email in your browser
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> 
> 
> In solidarity with the National Day to Prevent Gun Violence,UESF has ordered these orange t-shirts above that members can pick up at tomorrow's Assembly meeting at 4 p.m. at Rosa Parks Elementary. T-shirts are $5 each.
> 
> You are welcome to attend the Assembly meeting or coordinate with people at your school to pick up t-shirts for educators at your school. 
>  
> Also, if you are interested in planning age-appropriate educational activities with your students, please see the links below:
>  
> PROTECT OUR SCHOOLS
> CTA - NO MORE
> Delegation to
> Wells Fargo
> UESF officers will hold a press conference at Wells Fargo Headquarters in San Francisco on April 20th to relay our deep concern with the recent findings that detail the banks' relationship as the primary lender to the National Rifle Association.
> 
> This coordinated action will take place in multiple cities across the country calling on Wells Fargo to demand the NRA take action to support reforms that would reduce the risk of gun-related deaths in this country.
> 
> 2018 UESF Standing up for Quality Public Education Conference Recap
>  
> This past Saturday, UESF members gathered at John O'Connell High School for a day of workshops, speeches and activities geared to support and strengthen SFUSD educators.
> 
> During the conference, members attended grievance and organizing 101 trainings that covered how to organize effective worksite structures to enforce the contract and defend members? rights. Members also multiple opportunities to use QTEA hours that ranged from a number of topics from Printmaking for Kids, to Cultural Competence to Restorative Practices. Every session also contained a number of interactive, political workshops as we gear up for two very important elections in June and November.
> 
> Vendors including the San Francisco Housing Clinic, The Debt Clinic, Ask a School Board Candidate, the Special Education Committee, Ask a Union Representative, Labor in the Schools Exhibit and other vendors from across California, Labor In the Schools Exhibit and many others.
> 
> It was a great day of information, resources and networking with educators from schools throughout the city.
> 
> Thanks to everyone that helped to make it a great success!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> YES ON PROP G
> Are you willing to join our efforts to push for a 7% increase to our base bay? If the answer is yes, please grab a family member and a friend to hit the streets of San Francisco with educators and community supporters who understand the need and are willing to stand in the fight. Light snacks and beverages will be provided.
>  
> Saturday, April 28, 2018
> 10 AM - 2 PM
> George Washington High School
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From robinmarie at mcn.org  Tue Apr 17 18:15:55 2018
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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Fri Apr 20 09:58:42 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:58:42 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Congratulation to the
 locally owned non-corporate owned Press Democrat for their Pulitzer
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Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Congratulation to the locally owned non-corporate
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CongratulationS to the  Press Democrat for their  Pulitzer Prize!!! They
received the most distinguished award in American journalism, for its
coverage of the most devastating wildfires in California history.Monday,

Per The PD Website," In January 2012, the Press Democrat Media Company
briefly joined Halifax Media Holdings, a Florida-based company, ending the
Press Democrat's association with The New York Times Company. In November
2012, Sonoma Media Investments, LLC, (http://sonomamediainvestments.com)
consisting of a group of local investors and community leaders, purchased
The Press Democrat along with the North Bay Business Journal and the
Petaluma Argus Courier, and all affiliated websites. This returned the
Press Democrat to local ownership after nearly three decades."

According to the Press Democrat April 16, 2018, article Press Democrat
Publisher Steve Falk,said ? We aren?t reporting to corporate types. We
aren?t reporting to Wall Street. We are reporting to readers.? Falk said.



http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8229358-181/pulitzer-
prize-awarded-to-press


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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Fri Apr 20 10:00:36 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:00:36 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Next Guest On Politics: A Love Story
In-Reply-To: <05F9D2E3-2E7D-460A-8A10-C217A206F70D@mcn.org>
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From: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 1:18 PM
Subject: Next Guest On Politics: A Love Story
To: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>



Hi Linda,
Bob's show may be of interest to the Occupy folks, Agnes in particular,  so
if you don't mind forwarding this I'd appreciate it. One of the topics will
be about Public Banking though it doesn't mention it in the promo.
M.

*PROMO:  **Next Guest On Politics: A Love Story*


On the next edition of * Politics: A Love Story* please join guest Mehrsa
Baradaran, author of ?How The Other Half Banks? Exclusion, Exploitation,
and the Threat to Democracy as she talks about her latest book. According
to Baradaran the United States has two separate systems today - one serving
the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half
Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by
highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran
examines how a significant portion of the  population, deserted by banks,
is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check cashing
services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities ? all thanks
to deregulation that began in the 1970s and continues decades later. She
also offers a solution.

*Tune in here on KZYX on THIS Friday 4/20 at 9 AM to hear the discussion.
(And **HEARD EVERY OTHER FRIDAY AT 9AM)*
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Apr 21 11:08:58 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:08:58 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] MEETING CANCELLED
Message-ID: <33AD4C53-2129-4261-A29E-D762B282176B@mcn.org>

Occupy Mendocino meeting  or today cancelled. Phone 
937-0334 for details of rescheduled meeting. 
( Maybe next Monday. 1;30 AT Senior Center. )
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Sat Apr 21 13:28:16 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:28:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] MEETING CANCELLED
In-Reply-To: <33AD4C53-2129-4261-A29E-D762B282176B@mcn.org>
References: <33AD4C53-2129-4261-A29E-D762B282176B@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <4BDA5FA2-2006-4E1A-B40F-AF0A2F17C802@mcn.org>

There was some bad communication.  John and I were waiting at the Senior Center at noon.  We weren?t sure of the start time - thought it might be at 2 again.  Then I called Ann and learned the meeting was cancelled.  Why?
I can not make a meeting on Monday at 1:30.
Maybe next Saturday?
Hope to see you soon.
Irene
On Apr 21, 2018, at 11:08 AM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

> Occupy Mendocino meeting  or today cancelled. Phone 
> 937-0334 for details of rescheduled meeting. 
> ( Maybe next Monday. 1;30 AT Senior Center. )
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Apr 22 12:19:38 2018
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 12:19:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting Cancelled ETC.
Message-ID: <104F5FAC-E8B4-4985-836E-492A8B8AFEA6@att.net>

Folks,
The listserve usually takes a day after you send a post therefore, you cannot cancel a meeting the same day. If there?s an emergency, I suggest you set up a phone tree. 
Regards, Mark 

From lewallen at mcn.org  Mon Apr 23 12:36:00 2018
From: lewallen at mcn.org (Lewallen)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:36:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Trump's Historic Opportunity: Begin Talks to End
	Korean War
Message-ID: <036401d3db3a$572fc190$058f44b0$@mcn.org>

Trump's Historic Opportunity: Begin Talks to End Korean War

--by John Lewallen, <avoidingnuclearwar.com>

April 23, 2018

                President Trump has an opportunity to begin talks with the
goal of ending the Korean War with a peace treaty, a tremendous advance in
securing the United States and avoiding war. There need be no preconditions,
and the peace treaty may take awhile to achieve. The United States has no
fundamental conflicts with North Korea. The Korean War that began in 1950
and has not ended yet was driven by the desire to "contain" Chinese and
Russian communism, a completely outdated conflict. Ongoing peace talks with
North Korea will make it less likely that the U.S. will be deliberately or
"accidentally" attacked.

                My heartfelt thanks to President Trump for preparing for
peace talks with North Korea, and for his endorsement of talks between North
and South Korea leading to a peace treaty. We can all sleep a bit easier,
with threats of war abating. President Trump, you have my full support for
peace talks with North Korea! 

 

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From annxpress at live.com  Mon Apr 23 16:46:47 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Microsoft account team)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:46:47 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Got Science? Take the quiz! (I got 5/5)
Message-ID: <CY1PR16MB02817CEC71305DE12FA1C777DD890@CY1PR16MB0281.namprd16.prod.outlook.com>

Hello -

I just took the Got Science? quiz -- and got 5/5 right! You can test your knowledge about science and learn about how the Trump administration is sidelining science and putting our health and safety at risk. And you can get a free Got Science? sticker when you're done!

Check it out here:
https://gotsci.org/?s=taf




Sent from my U.S. Cellular? Smartphone
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Mon Apr 23 17:35:59 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:35:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Body Work
Message-ID: <016d01d3db64$37573130$a6059390$@com>

I just got home from a terrific therapeutic massage by James Humecky. He has
strong hands and a calming touch and I recommend him highly.

I've had several surgeries (with more to come) and my muscle pain is hard to
bear. After James' deep tissue massage, I feel much better. 

His studio is about a mile up Highway 20.

Phone 707-813-8444 or write humecky at mcn.org. Sliding scale.

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Apr 24 07:02:43 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:02:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] May Day 2018 on Tue May 1 at Bainbridge Park,
	12 noon
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From annxpress at live.com  Tue Apr 24 14:33:58 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Microsoft account team)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:33:58 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Trump's Historic Opportunity: Begin Talks to
 End	Korean War
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I hope Trump is not lying again, and that his cabinet of Generals, war mongers and the former torturers and CIA operatives are contained in this threat of bombs and war. It is the one redeeming action Trump has proposed: talks of Nuclear treaties and nonproliferation.   Previously he raised the Military budget to almost 60% of our money, and Americans want their infrastructure repaired and jobs restored.  The big tax cuts for the Millionaires and Billionaires did not help most Trump voters.  But if he can actually broker peace, I am for that! Peace treaties are good for our economy just as much as the current war economy. This is the main reason so many people voted Trump in - they are tired of regime changes and the war economy.

________________________________
From: occupymendocino-bounces at lists.mcn.org <occupymendocino-bounces at lists.mcn.org> on behalf of Lewallen <lewallen at mcn.org>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 12:36:00 PM
To: VFP-116 at yahoogroups.com; vfpchapter71 at gmail.com; vfp at veteransforpeace.org; Bruce Gagnon; marylia at trivalleycares.org
Cc: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org; babs at mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Trump's Historic Opportunity: Begin Talks to End Korean War


Trump?s Historic Opportunity: Begin Talks to End Korean War

--by John Lewallen, <avoidingnuclearwar.com>

April 23, 2018

                President Trump has an opportunity to begin talks with the goal of ending the Korean War with a peace treaty, a tremendous advance in securing the United States and avoiding war. There need be no preconditions, and the peace treaty may take awhile to achieve. The United States has no fundamental conflicts with North Korea. The Korean War that began in 1950 and has not ended yet was driven by the desire to ?contain? Chinese and Russian communism, a completely outdated conflict. Ongoing peace talks with North Korea will make it less likely that the U.S. will be deliberately or ?accidentally? attacked.

                My heartfelt thanks to President Trump for preparing for peace talks with North Korea, and for his endorsement of talks between North and South Korea leading to a peace treaty. We can all sleep a bit easier, with threats of war abating. President Trump, you have my full support for peace talks with North Korea!


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Apr 25 08:30:10 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:30:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Hospital Parcel Task random notes and info from
	Announce list.
Message-ID: <C91A76C6-B5DE-41F9-8A59-018831E9E03E@mcn.org>


I understand how you feel, Sharon, I?m with you regarding wanting a fully functioning hospital.
Which is why I?m part of Friends of the Hospital; we?re doing our best to make the board/CEO more transparent and moving in the right direction. And they are. They?re hiring more local folks instead of visiting staff; they have a new, wonderful doctor in charge of ER; fired the harassing CFO Sturgeon, etc.

The measure indicates just where the money is going and where it is not going to go. It won?t go to administrators? salaries and the like. It will go to basic services. If the measure doesn?t pass, the people who will be most harmed will be women and children. More than likely, they?ll cut obstetrics and labor & delivery services. I don?t want to imagine what that will mean to the lives of people living here.

The naysayers are much louder than the ayes on this measure. Every time I hear another negative MCDH voice, I think of women in labor having to drive to Santa Rosa in the rain (or give birth in the ER next to accident victims, mentally ill folks, and the like), and it further pushes me to have Measure C pass.
For 40 cents a day, $12 a month, we have a fighting chance to keep our hospital and make it work well.

Peace,
Linda

On Apr 25, 2018, at 6:37 AM, Sharon Garner <sharonart_95432 at yahoo.com <mailto:sharonart_95432 at yahoo.com>> wrote:

> It is not short sided to ask that a viable plan for the hospital be presented before adding more taxes to those who live here. And, some of us can't make it to meetings because of conflicts and running for the board isn't always an option either. That takes time and many of us don't have the extra tie in our lives to be on more boards. I'm not going to vote for paying more and not knowing where the money is going. I don't like the visiting staff. The hospital used to hire locals to work as nurses and doctors...I want to know why those at the top can't look at their pay and maybe take a cut to help the bottom line. All I'm saying is that until there is a plan in place (not a promise for the future) I can't support a parcel tax; period.
>  
> Sharon Garner  
> S Squared Art Productions www.ssquaredartproductions.com <http://www.ssquaredartproductions.com/>  
> PO Box 102 ? Elk, CA 95432 
> 707.8773988
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:19 PM, Doug Nunn <dnunn at mcn.org <mailto:dnunn at mcn.org>> wrote:
> > Dear Sharon and others,
> 
> Dear Linda,
>   Thanks for adding some common sense to the Measure C debate. It is wise to remember the notion of ?penny wise and pound foolish?. If you don?t want to pay the parcel tax of $144 per parcel and the hospital goes into a limited survival mode, what will become of the emergency room? If it closes, how will an aging coastal population deal with getting to Ukiah or Willits? And yes, property values for a rural area without a hospital are bound to go down.
>   Remember Measure C will be used to maintain the emergency room, ambulance, obstetric and surgical services and attract and retain high quality doctors and nurses. An independent taxpayer oversight committee will oversee all expenditures?NO FUNDS may be spent on administrator?s salaries or pensions. It strikes me that Measure C has looked at the mistakes of the past years and is trying to remedy them.
>   If I have an emergency in the next few years I don?t want to spend hour and a half driving to Ukiah because I was too short-sighted to pay $12 a month to keep the hospital running.
>   Thanks for your common sense, Linda.
>   All the best,
>   Doug Nunn
> > On Apr 24, 2018, at 5:15 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org <mailto:jupiter at mcn.org>> wrote:
> > 
> > Why would you even think that Adventist, or any other hospital, would be interested in MCDH other than to direct patients over the hill to their facilities.
> > Going over the hill is a hardship for many of us; very costly and when you?re sick, that trip is the last thing you want to do. 
> > 
> > It would also mean that 300 or more employees of MCDH, our friends and neighbors, would be out of work. No work, no money for our economy, no money to pay rent or mortgages, property values fall, and it?s the end of the North Coast as we know it. 
> > 
> > If you don?t like the way the hospital is being run, come to the meetings. Speak your piece, run for a seat on the board of directors; there will be three or four open seats this coming November. Instead of complaining, do something for your community and for yourself.
> > 
> > Linda
> > 
> > Message: 31
> > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:28:08 +0000 (UTC)
> > From: Sharon Garner <sharonart_95432 at yahoo.com <mailto:sharonart_95432 at yahoo.com>>
> > Subject: Re: [MCN-Announce]- Response to parcel tax is not enough
> > To: Zo <zomala at mcn.org <mailto:zomala at mcn.org>>, "announce at lists.mcn.org <mailto:announce at lists.mcn.org>"
> >     <announce at lists.mcn.org <mailto:announce at lists.mcn.org>>
> > Message-ID: <2108475443.501636.1524605288295 at mail.yahoo.com <mailto:2108475443.501636.1524605288295 at mail.yahoo.com>>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> > 
> > I'm sorry. I agree that we need a new model. I'm not willing to pay more taxes for something that is unsustainable. Until they show us a plan that can actually work, my vote is no. I agree that Adventist Health WORKS and they treat their patients with respect. We can't throw money at a failing system.?Sharon Garner? S Squared Art Productions www.ssquaredartproductions.com <http://www.ssquaredartproductions.com/>? PO Box 102 ? Elk, CA 95432?707.8773988 
> > 
> > 


 More than ever, access to quality, local health care depends on a financially- healthy hospital. Today, that requires locals to take active charge of our future. Measure C asks voters to renew our four-decades commitment to the MDCH: to approve funding so this community bedrock sustains its public service mission. A financially stable hospital serves not just patient care but, with 320 employees, long-term economic stability of the North Coast population. 
Like deputy sheriffs, police, and fire fighters, medical care and emergency services define baseline thresholds for 
community health and security. The hospital?s rapid response emergency services (ambulance, paramedics, and emergency room) support public safety after accidents, health crises and disaster events. That we are a remote and rural community only increases the need for a local hospital with local control of elected Board members. Compare direct public governance to privately-run religious or corporate hospitals. We need to keep what we have: quality, local access and local control. It?s the only hospital we have.
Fact: our hospital delivers an exceptionally wide range of patient services for its size and location. 
Fact: government reimbursements create a daunting dilemma for rural medicine: how to deliver superior care when payments fall far short of baseline costs. 
Fact: When the North Coast lost its industrial base, like logging, the hospital lost much of its private, higher-paying insurance. Today Medicare and Medi-Cal pay 80% of annual revenue. 
Fact: Despite rigorous cost management programs, higher drug, equipment, and staffing costs ?added to stringent safety mandates ?magnify financial pressures. The problem isn?t local but the solution is: a community that steps up and declares, with funding, ?we support local, quality health care.?
Bottom line: Our not-for-profit 501(c)3 hospital?s public mandate is undercut by compromised government medical payment systems. A parcel tax is the best District option for stabilizing today?s variable cash flow and annual 
revenue. Local control demands the local commitment to pass Measure C. Most similar California district hospitals charge parcel taxes ? and few match our wide services, especially labor and delivery, lab and blood testing advances, comprehensive diagnostic imaging, orthopedics, ophthalmology, pain management, home health/hospice, cancer testing and care.
WHAT IS A PARCEL TAX? WHO VOTES? WHY 67% NEEDED FOR PASSAGE?
A parcel tax is a special district?s sole electoral option to increase funding for operations. All registered voters in the Mendocino Coast Health Care District may vote in the primary election. Last day to register is Monday, May 21st; voting is by mail and at polling stations. By law, Measure C only passes with 2/3s or 67% voter approval; if done, funding arrives January, 2018. 
The State offers a Property Tax Postponement Program for low-income owners. Contact the State Board of 
Equalization: (800) 952-5661. The county offers a tax waiver for owners with contiguous parcels; contact the County Assessor?s Office (707) 234-6800.
Paid for by the Yes on Measure C Campaign Committee

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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Wed Apr 25 11:55:38 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:55:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Say No to War. The World Cannot Afford More
	Victims of War.
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and arming rebel factions in Syria, including ISIS and al Qaeda, with a
view to toppling the government of  Bashar Al-Assad. That strategy did not
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?We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.?

*Wage war to create peace* is the agenda put forth by Donald Trump?s
infamous national security advisor* John Bolton. *

The threat of a wide regional war in the Middle East is accompanied by ever
more sensationalist lies by the mainstream media. The tensions are high and
the outlook is grim.

As Michel Chossudovsky *wrote
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?A sophisticated and all encompassing propaganda program supports war in
the name of World peace and global security.

The underlying scenario of Worldwide conflict goes far beyond the
diabolical design of Orwell?s 1984.

The Ministry of Truth upholds war as a peace-making undertaking by twisting
realities upside down.

In turn, the lies and fabrications of the mainstream media are presented
with various innuendos in a complex web of deceit.?

The temptation to view this tense political atmosphere as doomed is high.
Indeed, today?s modern weapons systems know no bounds in their potential
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March and Rally with us on Tue., May 1, 2018
Celebrating Workers? Day and Welcoming Spring
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LGBT and immigrants, a livable minimum wage, 
and against racism and the unfair treatment of immigrants. 
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Subject: [Occupymendocino] Museum Opening in Alabama
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cambell robinson new york times  lynchings by county

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ? In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, a place for people who have been held accountable for their crimes and duly expressed remorse.

Just a few yards up the street lies a different kind of rehabilitation center, for a country that has not been held to nearly the same standard ?

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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:07:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] forwarded letter from Laurie York
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I haven?t commented on the Hart family tragedy, until now. I?ve felt deep sadness since learning what happened only miles away from my home on the Mendocino Coast. I've followed the story to the latest news of one of the teenagers being pulled from the ocean. I?ve seen the family photos, I?ve read endless responses from outsiders and I?ve come to only one conclusion. When we experience a tragedy we humans want solid answers. If there are not clear answers then we have the option of forming our own opinions in an attempt to have control over a situation that is frightening and unimaginable.
So over the past weeks, instead of reacting (which I often do and later regret), I decided to step back and just observe and let my sadness be. A popular blog post I read this morning pointed to the ?conclusion" that the Hart family mothers were mentally ill. The comments that followed echoed this theory with much anger toward the lesbian couple. There was so much hostility in this thread that if Jennifer and Sarah (by some miracle) were still alive I think some of these folks might want the chance to stone the couple to death. I was horrified by the level of anger that had escalated into a furious frenzy - an angry mob mentality. 
Many weeks ago, when I saw the first photos of the family I immediately knew this would be a huge story - in part because it had all the makings for controversial tabloid sensationalism - the extremely photogenic married lesbian mothers and their beautiful black adopted children. Here?s a family that fit outside what has for decades been perceived as ?the social norm?. Over and over the hostile comments I read made me wonder if the issues of same-sex marriage, a bi-racial family and homophobia were fueling this thread's anger toward the mothers. I have no way of knowing, but the rage without compassion was troubling to me.
I have no answers or explanation for this tragic loss of life. Actually, the thing that meant the most to me was written by my friend, who posted the following on our local list serve. I?m grateful to my friend for her words that brought me back to my own heart and for all those who have expressed their unconditional compassion here in our community. I?ll close with this Buddhist saying and my friend's words.
"May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. May all beings live in peace, free from hatred."
My friend wrote:
"Been being with the Hart family tragedy mostly via the computer screen, mainstream media, list-serve commentary. Then a few days ago my partner and I drove up to Juan Creek north of Westport. With flowers. On a whim.
In the rain.
After we left flowers on the cliff-side altar, two people got out of their car and walked towards us. They introduced themselves, Rachel and AJ, and asked if we knew the Harts. We said no, we just live around here. These two people were close friends of the Hart family and were very touched that strangers would come out in the rain. They have been here all week grieving, holding space, sending photos of the altar to their friends back home, and helping with the search efforts as well.
As locals we have the opportunity to ground in both our hearts and this place, to go outside and honor the lives that were lost. No matter the circumstances, the spirits of the 8 young people who so recently perished on this beautiful coast deserve to be respectfully reached out to. As does your very own heart who may likely be aching from all of this too.
So I invite anyone who is compelled and able to go (carpool?) to Juan Creek (north of Westport, just before highway 1 starts to go inland) and perhaps bring an offering - some flowers, or a song or poem or whatever it is you do to honor life and death and spirit. Simply being is certainly enough.
As such may we honor ourselves as humans, in community, connected by place and all this place holds - all the beauty and all the pain."














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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Apr 30 14:37:29 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:37:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Self Serve Checkout NO
Message-ID: <25347525-A41B-415E-9418-D0C22B80D1DF@mcn.org>

https://mises.org/wire/afl-cio-demands-we-never-use-self-serve-checkout <https://mises.org/wire/afl-cio-demands-we-never-use-self-serve-checkout>



26 COMMENTS <https://mises.org/wire/afl-cio-demands-we-never-use-self-serve-checkout#disqus_thread>
TAGS Labor and Wages <https://mises.org/topics/labor-and-wages>Protectionism and Free Trade <https://mises.org/topics/protectionism-and-free-trade>
5 HOURS AGOAndrew Moran <https://mises.org/profile/andrew-moran>
There is growing concern across the globe that automation will lead us to a dystopian future. With robots becoming ubiquitous in every aspect of our lives, the marketplace will be filled with cheap goods, but the consuming population can?t acquire them because they don?t have a job. It is a legitimate worry for millions of people, especially when you see the countless videos and news articles about a robot flipping burgers, automated arms packaging goods inside a factory, and grocery stores without cashiers.

One of the latest doom-and-gloom alarmists is the Wisconsin chapter of the AFL-CIO, which is griping about self-serve checkouts. Do unions ever do anything productive?

Last week, the labor union went to Facebook <http://archive.is/tznAW> to demand its followers to ?never self checkout.? The organization whined that it doesn?t want to assist corporations in firing employees just so they can boost their bottom lines.

It?s not convenient for me to help corporations fire workers so they raise their profits. I stand in line and when the lines back up, the store calls more cashiers to the front. If we keep doing it, they?ll need to hire more people. NEVER SELF CHECKOUT??
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