From irenelsm at mcn.org  Wed Aug  1 07:32:53 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 07:32:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ?
Message-ID: <F9BA4666-BC79-4427-BF86-661FB457BF91@mcn.org>

Will we be on the street on 1st Friday?  And - there is an important event Sat. at Crown Hall to raise funds to support the families targeted and separated by ICE.  It conflicts with our meeting time.  What?s the plan?
Irene

From ldennis at mcn.org  Wed Aug  1 07:34:57 2018
From: ldennis at mcn.org (Lorna Dennis)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 07:34:57 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ?
In-Reply-To: <F9BA4666-BC79-4427-BF86-661FB457BF91@mcn.org>
References: <F9BA4666-BC79-4427-BF86-661FB457BF91@mcn.org>
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Women in Black 5 pm Friday

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> On Aug 1, 2018, at 7:32 AM, Irene Malone <irenelsm at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Will we be on the street on 1st Friday?  And - there is an important event Sat. at Crown Hall to raise funds to support the families targeted and separated by ICE.  It conflicts with our meeting time.  What?s the plan?
> Irene
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Aug  1 09:33:50 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:33:50 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Mendocino Meeting Sat. Aug. 8
In-Reply-To: <F9BA4666-BC79-4427-BF86-661FB457BF91@mcn.org>
References: <F9BA4666-BC79-4427-BF86-661FB457BF91@mcn.org>
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Note:  Mendocino meeting at the Senior Center on Saturday, Aug 8.  12 NOON
What say about the ICE meeting that would conflict?  RK


> On Aug 1, 2018, at 7:32 AM, Irene Malone <irenelsm at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Will we be on the street on 1st Friday?  And - there is an important event Sat. at Crown Hall to raise funds to support the families targeted and separated by ICE.  It conflicts with our meeting time.  What?s the plan?
> Irene
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From annxpress at live.com  Wed Aug  1 09:47:57 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Microsoft account team)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:47:57 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Mendocino Meeting Sat. Aug. 8
In-Reply-To: <6356F7C9-580B-496F-AAD7-94888CBC1636@mcn.org>
References: <F9BA4666-BC79-4427-BF86-661FB457BF91@mcn.org>,
	<6356F7C9-580B-496F-AAD7-94888CBC1636@mcn.org>
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Yes, we agreed to do street rally on 1st Fridays, 2 to 4. I would like to support the immigrant children cause too, can we move our O/M meeting up?  Who is planning to attend, chime in pls.



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Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Mendocino Meeting Sat. Aug. 8


Note:  Mendocino meeting at the Senior Center on Saturday, Aug 8.  12 NOON
What say about the ICE meeting that would conflict?  RK


> On Aug 1, 2018, at 7:32 AM, Irene Malone <irenelsm at mcn.org> wrote:
>
> Will we be on the street on 1st Friday?  And - there is an important event Sat. at Crown Hall to raise funds to support the families targeted and separated by ICE.  It conflicts with our meeting time.  What?s the plan?
> Irene
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Aug  2 08:36:15 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 08:36:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?utf-8?q?Pope_Francis_says_the_death_penalty_i?=
 =?utf-8?q?s_always_=E2=80=9Cinadmissible=22?=
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CBSN LIVE <https://www.cbsnews.com/live/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac7b>


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-says-the-death-penalty-is-never-acceptable/ <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-says-the-death-penalty-is-never-acceptable/>
Pope Francis says the death penalty is always ?inadmissible"



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Aug  2 13:31:36 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 13:31:36 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Universal Health Care for All
Message-ID: <F4A05AC8-A5D4-4384-AFCE-E0A5368664DA@mcn.org>

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medicare-extra-20180227-story.html <http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medicare-extra-20180227-story.html>

Finally, a universal healthcare proposal that would work for everyone
A progressive think tank unveils a universal health coverage plan that would work for all.
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Thu Aug  2 22:59:33 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 22:59:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Tomorrow
Message-ID: <7E257182-1684-43CC-940F-A99987039F10@mcn.org>

I will be late tomorrow.  
Irene


From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Aug  3 07:36:28 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 07:36:28 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Homeless sleep in cars near police station
Message-ID: <C00EBDE8-FE34-414E-BDC4-A144E92D5B03@mcn.org>


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Couldn?t we do this in Fort Bragg?

Safe overnight parking for Sonoma homeless gets tentative go ahead

CLARK MASON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | September 21, 2016
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A pilot program in Sonoma to allow homeless people to sleep in their vehicles overnight near the police station is moving ahead, despite misgivings about its location and limited scope.

The City Council on a 3-2 vote this week gave tentative approval to a plan allowing five parking spaces between the police department and the Council chamber to be used by homeless people to park overnight.

Advocates say the ?safe parking? program scratches the surface of homelessness, which has relatively low visibility in one of the more affluent Sonoma County cities.

?I call it a Band-Aid. But if we get five cars, we get 10 people safe. We can work with them to maybe get them permanent housing, or something else,? said Kathy King, executive director of Sonoma Overnight Support, the nonprofit that runs The Haven, the only homeless shelter in Sonoma Valley.

The 10-bed shelter two blocks north of the Plaza operates at capacity and has a waiting list that can stretch for more than a year?  More below.


https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6110585-181/safe-overnight-parking-for-sonoma <https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6110585-181/safe-overnight-parking-for-sonoma>
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Fri Aug  3 16:15:26 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 16:15:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ?
Message-ID: <20FA9417-DA8C-4C7C-B1C0-17A214271114@mcn.org>

Sorry I missed you today.  What time is the meeting tomorrow?
Irene


From john at cypresshouse.com  Sun Aug  5 09:09:38 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 09:09:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Peace
Message-ID: <010501d42cd6$b5d314c0$21793e40$@com>

Dear Occupiers,

I just signed a declaration of peace!

All individuals and organizations, all over the world, are invited to sign a
short statement in support of ending all war, and to join in the World
Beyond War movement. This is the whole statement:

I understand that wars and militarism make us less safe rather than protect
us, that they kill, injure and traumatize adults, children and infants,
severely damage the natural environment, erode civil liberties, and drain
our economies, siphoning resources from life-affirming activities. I commit
to engage in and support nonviolent efforts to end all war and preparations
for war and to create a sustainable and just peace.

To sign this, and to get involved in many different ways go to
https://worldbeyondwar.org 

To see the case against war explained clearly for anyone who has doubts,
check out the website at

https://worldbeyondwar.org

Peace,

John

 

 

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Aug  5 20:06:04 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 20:06:04 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] New Yorker editorial
Message-ID: <BF88AE14-086E-413A-B26B-1DBF36AD0362@mcn.org>

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Here?s a stunning editorial from The New Yorker Magazine, by Jonathan Schell:


?..a question has been haunting our national life. It is whether the Republic will live or die. The question has been asked in countless forms. May newspapers print whatever they wish to print, and the people read whatever they wish to read? May the people assemble without fear of injury or loss of life? Must senators and others always support the President in his difficult decisions? Are the people to be treated like children or like adults? To what extent does the government have the power to check up on what the people are doing? To what extent do the people have the right to check up on what the government is doing? How do we spend our money? When do we go to war? Who decides?

[...]

On this occasion, as on many others in recent years, the President has flouted the law. He has not merely broken the law; he has overthrown the law. But this time, since his lawbreaking seeks to remove a threat to the very survival of his Administration in office, it is not just this one act but the continuation of the Administration itself that has become lawless. The question of whether the Republic will live or die has now been decisively posed in this form: Will we remove a lawless Administration from office or will we submit to illegitimate rule? The question has probably been put in its final form, and may not be asked again.

[...]

And the only resolution the President has left to us, unless he resigns, is for Congress to begin consideration of impeachment proceedings.

The country surveys a scene of devastation. The wreckage of American institutions lies all around us. Any future under the present leadership is unthinkable. The point of no return has been passed, and the country has no choice but to take the first, dread steps toward putting its house in order. ?

This editorial was written and published on October 29th, 1973 <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/10/29/comment-richard-nixon-and-the-firing-of-archibald-cox>
And the President of which Schell speaks is Richard M. Nixon.

The actual title of the article?




I have spent some time now inquiring into the similarities between Watergate and RussiaGate, and here is what I?ve found:

1. In both, activities investigated were during a presidential election, where the Republican candidate was caught breaking the law trying to ruin his opponent.

                 How Trump is worse:  He used a foreign, adversarial government to do it

2. In both, Department of Justice officials have been fired to keep the investigation from continuing into lawbreaking.

                 How Trump is worse:  He is attempting to discredit the entire DOJ as politically motivated

3. In both, the Campaign Chairman for each president has been indicted multiple times.  Paul Manafort and John Mitchell.

4. In both, a lawyer close to the President has been implicated.  

5. In both, Nixon and Trump retained support of most Republicans over course of investigation

                 How Trump is worse:  It is likely that Republicans in Congress are also implicated in the scandal, AND they are in control.

6. In both, Nixon and Trump surrounded themselves with corrupt players.  Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, and George Papadopoulos.  Spiro Agnew, John Erlichman, John Mitchell, Bob Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, Chuck Colson.

                 How Trump is worse:  Most of his corrupt players are ALSO assets of Russia.

7. In both, Trump and Nixon have publicly called for the ending of the investigations, calling them a ?Witch Hunt?

                 How Trump is worse: Nixon waited until the investigation had gone on for two months to name it thus.  Trump started before he was even inaugurated.

8. In both, a White House that sees the investigation as a direct attack on the President.

9. In both, Witness tampering.  After Nixon?s Chief of Staff HR Haldeman ?resigned? Nixon called him on the telephone and told him,

?You?re a strong man, God damn it and I love you and I love John. ? Keep the faith, keep the faith. You?ve got to win this son of a bitch.?
 
After Michael Flynn was fired, Trump called him on the telephone

?I just got a message from the president to stay strong,? Yahoo News reported <https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-circled-flynn-got-message-trump-stay-strong-145442727.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma> Flynn told supporters following a meal in Virginia.
                         How Trump is worse:  Trump didn?t stop at mere comforting words for his friends.  He is not only holding hopes of pardons above his friends? heads, but threatening those who prove to be against him.

10. In both, there are so many players, and so much illegality, it?s difficult to keep track.

11. In both, it took years to get to the bottom of things.  The Watergate break-in happened in June, 1972, and Nixon resigned in August of 1974.  RussiaGate Mueller started in May, 2017 and is still going strong.

12. In both, Nixon and Trump petulantly denied involvement.  Nixon, ?I am not a crook?   Trump, ?NO COLLUSION!!!?

13. In both, HEAVY hypocrisy.  Remember, Nixon?s  ?72 campaign theme was ?Law and Order.? 

Watergate also resulted in the indictment of 69 people, with trials or pleas resulting in 48 being found guilty, many of whom were top Nixon officials.
                         How Trump is worse:   Trump?s hypocrisy is far too broad and deep to take account of in one diary.  I?ll just sum it up in two tweets:
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Aug  6 15:49:36 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:49:36 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout from Life in
	a Risk Society
Message-ID: <2CCD6AE3-F3D4-482A-BCEC-2334B97638E9@mcn.org>

SSRN
August 5, 2018
Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout from Life in a Risk Society
By Deborah Thorne, Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless & Katherine Porter

Abstract

The social safety net for older Americans has been shrinking for the past couple decades. The risks associated with aging, reduced income, and increased healthcare costs, have been off-loaded onto older individuals. At the same time, older Americans are increasingly likely to file consumer bankruptcy, and their representation among those in bankruptcy has never been higher. Using data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, we find more than a two-fold increase in the rate at which older Americans (age 65 and over) file for bankruptcy and an almost five-fold increase in the percentage of older persons in the U.S. bankruptcy system. The magnitude of growth in older Americans in bankruptcy is so large that the broader trend of an aging U.S. population can explain only a small portion of the effect. In our data, older Americans report they are struggling with increased financial risks, namely inadequate income and unmanageable costs of healthcare, as they try to deal with reductions to their social safety net. As a result of these increased financial burdens, the median senior bankruptcy filer enters bankruptcy with negative wealth of $17,390 as compared to more than $250,000 for their non-bankrupt peers. For an increasing number of older Americans, their golden years are fraught with economic risks, the result of which is often bankruptcy.

From the Introduction

The social safety net for older Americans has been shrinking for the past couple decades. The risks associated with aging, reduced income, and increased healthcare costs, have been off-loaded onto older individuals. At the same time, older Americans are increasingly likely to file consumer bankruptcy, and their representation among those in bankruptcy has never been higher. Using data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, we find more than a two-fold increase in the rate at which older Americans (age 65 and over) file for bankruptcy and an almost five-fold increase in the percentage of older persons in the U.S. bankruptcy system. The magnitude of growth in older Americans in bankruptcy is so large that the broader trend of an aging U.S. population can explain only a small portion of the effect. In our data, older Americans report they are struggling with increased financial risks, namely inadequate income and unmanageable costs of healthcare, as they try to deal with reductions to their social safety net. As a result of these increased financial burdens, the median senior bankruptcy filer enters bankruptcy with negative wealth of $17,390 as compared to more than $250,000 for their non-bankrupt peers. For an increasing number of older Americans, their golden years are fraught with economic risks, the result of which is often bankruptcy.

National concern for the well-being of older Americans soon declined, beginning in the early-1980s, especially as the cost of funding their social safety net strained state and federal budgets. This financial tension and emerging ideological shifts promoted an intergenerational war. Conservatives, free market advocates, and media promoted the image of older Americans as ?a threat to economic viability," as thieves of our children?s futures, and as ?responsible for the nation?s economic problems." In just a few decades, norms of privatized citizenship and individual responsibility upstaged the ideal of America?s social welfare system. Financial risks were shunted off onto individuals, regardless of age. Many older Americans suffered greatly because of this movement toward ?private responsibility,? with their Social Security, retirement, and healthcare, among other protections, coming under attack.

Since the early-1990s, scholars on the Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP) have collected data on the age of bankruptcy filers. These data are used to determine the percent of older Americans within the U.S. population who file bankruptcy, and the percent of older filers within the bankrupt population. Comparing CBP data between 1991 and now shows significant increases in both categories. The changes are so great that the broader trend of an aging U.S. population can explain only a small proportion of what is happening in the bankruptcy courts. Older Americans? reported reasons for filing strongly suggest that they are experiencing the fallout from our current individualized risk society and the corresponding shrinkage of their social safety net.

From the Results

Within the Bankrupt Population

One in seven bankruptcy filers is of retirement age, 65 years or over. This is nearly a five-fold increase over just two and a half decades. This is a notable demographic shift.

Within the oldest cohort, those age 75 and over, there has been a near ten-fold increase since 1991. In 1991, this group constituted only 0.3 percent of filers, as compared to 3.3 percent now.

The overall trend is clear. Bankruptcy filers in the youngest cohorts (18-24, 25-34, and 35-44) now comprise a much smaller segment of the bankrupt population than they did twenty-five years ago. During that same period, there has been a marked increase in the percent of filers among the older cohorts (55-64, 65-74, and 75 and above), those people who are approaching or are in their retirement years.

Older Americans? Reasons for Bankruptcy?Evidence of a Risk Shift

Regardless of age, leading data suggest that income problems and medical costs top the list of events that push households into bankruptcy.

Data from the current CBP suggest that financial struggles, namely a decline in income, was a leading reason for older Americans? bankruptcies?almost seven out of ten respondents (69.1 percent) reported that they ?very much? or ?somewhat? agreed that this was the reason for their bankruptcy.

Another respondent?s comment describes an additional financial risk that can be especially consequential for retirees?the popular defined-contribution plans, like 401(k)s, that individuals are left to manage on their own.

Just over seven out of ten respondents (71.6 percent) either ?very much? or ?somewhat? agreed that they filed because of the stress of dealing with debt collectors.

Medical expenses also were a catalyst for bankruptcy for more than six out of ten (62.2 percent) respondents.

Additionally, 40 percent of respondents reported that they ?very much? or ?somewhat? agree that missing work for medical reasons was a reason for their bankruptcies.

Finally, respondents were asked to list the single most important thing that they or their family members were unable to afford in the year before their bankruptcies. Over half of older filers (52 percent) who responded indicated that the single most important thing they had to go forego was related to medical care?surgeries, doctor visits, prescriptions, dental care, and health/supplemental insurance. These responses continue to suggest that their health care coverage is inadequate.

From the Discussion

The most effective solution to older Americans? increasing financial plight is a social safety net that obviates the need to take out debts that result in financial crises. In prior decades, Americans collectively decided that we have a responsibility to our older citizens to absorb the financial risks they face. But it appears that we have since abandoned that commitment. We can do better. Historically, we have.

At the core, the lessons of prior decades show that aid to older citizens must originate with our government. Community and charitable organizations, while having the best of intentions, are inadequate. Comprehensive policies led by our government will ensure financial stability for all elderly citizens. We appear to be in the midst of an old-fashioned game of tug-of-war. On the one hand, many Americans believe that providing a strong social safety net for our older citizens, a net that reduces their individual financial risks, is part of our collective responsibility. On the other hand, there are those who insist on policies that continue to unravel that safety net, leaving older Americans to fend for themselves.

Conclusion

How we manage the time called retirement, the span between when we stop working and when we die, is a social issue affecting the lives of tens of millions. America has come almost full circle in its attitudes toward its older citizens?from sending them to the poorhouse when they became a financial burden, to ameliorating their economic risks with pensions, a responsive social security program, and healthcare, and now to transferring financial risks to them that can drive them to financial collapse.

Absent significant policy changes that reassume the risks of aging and effectively insure the financial stability of older Americans, our data suggest that the trend of an aging bankruptcy population will continue. In 2015, almost 15 percent of the U.S. population was 65 and over. By 2050, almost a quarter of Americans, 88 million, will be over 65 (U.S. Census 2016). If current bankruptcy trends among seniors continue, our bankruptcy courts will be flooded with financially broken retirees. For older Americans, bankruptcy is too little too late. By the time they file, their wealth has vanished, and they simply do not have the enough years to get back on their feet. Our data expose the severity of the continuing financial decline of older Americans. Now that we can see the magnitude of the coming storm of broke elderly, it is time to renew our commitment to supporting our citizens as they age.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3226574 <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3226574>

===


Comment by Don McCanne

The social safety net for older Americans built up during the last century is now showing alarming trends toward shifting greater financial risk to this population. In the past two and a half decades there has been a five-fold increase in the rate of bankruptcy filings for individuals over 65.

There are multiple factors including the loss of income, the deterioration in retirement plans, and the inability to accumulate wealth before retirement, but the inadequacy of health care coverage also has been a significant factor. The authors state, "respondents were asked to list the single most important thing that they or their family members were unable to afford in the year before their bankruptcies. Over half of older filers (52 percent) who responded indicated that the single most important thing they had to go forego was related to medical care?surgeries, doctor visits, prescriptions, dental care, and health/supplemental insurance."

The authors conclude, "Absent significant policy changes that reassume the risks of aging and effectively insure the financial stability of older Americans, our data suggest that the trend of an aging bankruptcy population will continue... Now that we can see the magnitude of the coming storm of broke elderly, it is time to renew our commitment to supporting our citizens as they age," and "At the core, the lessons of prior decades show that aid to older citizens must originate with our government."



As an aside, one of the co-authors of this report, UC Irvine Professor Katherine Porter, is taking her academic credentials into the political arena by running for Congress in California's 45th District, hoping to join Senator Elizabeth Warren and others in efforts to counter the attack on our social safety net.

Katherine Porter, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/porter/ <https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/porter/>

Katie Porter for Congress
https://katieporter.com <https://katieporter.com/>

PNHP does not endorse candidates for pubic office. This statement on Katie Porter's candidacy is appropriately included in the Quote of the Day since it shows her bias on the topic of today's report (for full disclosure, a bias which Quote of the Day editor Don McCanne happens to share).

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From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:26:14 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Sex-
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Aug  9 18:21:56 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 18:21:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The-creeping-privatization-of-public-libraries
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At 17,566, there are more public libraries? <http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/quotable%20facts.2017.downloadable.pdf>in the United States than there are Starbucks coffee shops. And just like at Starbucks, patrons have access to free wi-fi. But unlike Starbucks, public libraries will usually provide the free use of a computer as well as internet access.
Perhaps it is their very ubiquitousness that makes them such a tempting target for libertarians like the Koch brothers <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/3/1508248/-How-much-is-a-library-worth> and right -wing economists like the one who recently suggested a takeover of libraries? functions by Amazon?


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/29/1783617/-The-creeping-privatization-of-public-libraries?detail=emailLL
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Aug 15 08:38:12 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:38:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino]
	Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-torches-CNN-s-Chris-Cuomo-for-slamming-Progressive-Agenda
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A must watch! rk

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <http://egbertowillies.com/tag/alexandria-ocasio-cortez> would have none of it. She did not allow CNN's Chris Cuomo to define the narrative. She turned the tables on him, and it was clear he had no comeback as he ended the interview.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/9/1787063/-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-torches-CNN-s-Chris-Cuomo-for-slamming-Progressive-Agenda?detail=emailLL
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Sat Aug 18 15:22:12 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 15:22:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- MCSL Upcoming Events
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Aug 19 11:27:01 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:27:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] World Peace Meditation Celebration
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> Sunday, August 19th, 9:15-10 am
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> Donations appreciated.
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> Also, please save the date:  September 21, for the International Day of Peace observance at the Howard Ennes Peace Garden at the Redwood Coast Senior Center, 1:30 PM.
People will gather and express ideas, poems, songs to promote peace. Singer/songwriter Danny Barca is the featured musician . Refreshments after. 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Aug 19 22:01:59 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:01:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 10 years after the crash
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Ten Years After the Crash
The financial crisis of 2008 was years in the making and has had a lasting impact on American political life.
 <https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/george-packer>
By George Packer <https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/george-packer>

Illustration by Jo?o Fazenda
The financial crisis that broke out a decade ago was a long time in the making, and a long time in the playing out. Over just a few days in September, 2008, Lehman Brothers essentially ceased to exist, the Federal Reserve took over American International Group to prevent a wider collapse, and commercial banks and mortgage lenders around the country failed. The speed and the scale of destruction were so breathtaking that only the direst analogies seemed adequate?the stock market crash of 1929, or an economic 9/11. Citigroup appeared poised to go down next, with General Motors and Chrysler to follow. Everything solid in the American economy turned out to be built on sand. But the crisis took years to emerge. It was caused by reckless lending practices, Wall Street greed, outright fraud, lax government oversight in the George W. Bush years, and deregulation of the financial sector in the Bill Clinton years. The deepest source, going back decades, was rising inequality. In good times and bad, no matter which party held power, the squeezed middle class sank ever further into debt.

You could pick up early warning signs in 2006, in states such as Florida, where the high-flying housing market, suspended in midair by irrational faith, suddenly looked down and fell to earth. Then American homeowners learned that their most valuable and tangible asset had become tangled up in obscure entities called derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, and collateralized debt obligations?financial instruments that spread around the world and, once gone bad, threatened to kill off whole banks, and to cripple countries. If a defaulted loan on a house in Tampa was used to make bonds owned by investors in Japan, the house infected the global economy.

When the crash came here, it wiped out nine million jobs, took away nine million homes, erased retirement accounts, and pushed large numbers of Americans out of the middle class. Every economic calamity creates its own imagery. The Great Recession that accompanied the financial crisis didn?t bring back breadlines or industrial strikes. This time, the desperation was quiet and lonely: a pile of mail at the doorstep of a deserted house in a brand-new subdivision; a foreclosure judge presiding over a stack of files; a middle-aged man playing video games all day with the shades drawn; a retired woman trying to get a human being on the phone at the bank.

At first, American institutions responded with signs of health: the Federal Reserve stopped the free fall of the biggest banks; the press uncovered corruption and fraud; and a bipartisan Congress passed legislation to get credit flowing and rescue the financial sector. Then the electorate turned out the party in power. The financial crisis decided the election of 2008. Americans who might never have imagined themselves choosing a black President voted for Barack Obama because he understood the scope of the disaster and offered hope for a remedy.

But our democracy turned out to be unwell. The first symptom of sickness came within three weeks of Obama?s inauguration. In February, 2009, with the economy losing seven hundred thousand jobs a month, Congress passed a stimulus bill?a nearly trillion-dollar package of tax cuts, aid to states, and infrastructure spending, considered essential by economists of every persuasion?with the support of just three Republican senators and not a single Republican member of the House. Rather than help save the economy that their party had done so much to wreck, Republicans, led by Senator Mitch McConnell, chose to oppose every Democratic measure, including Wall Street reform. In doing so, they would impede the recovery and let the other party take the fall. It was a brilliantly immoral strategy, and it pretty much worked.

The President didn?t always aid his own cause. He had campaigned as a visionary, but he governed as a technocrat. His policies helped to end the recession within months, but the recovery was excruciatingly slow. The stimulus package could have been much larger, with added money for job creation; more indebted homeowners could have been kept in their houses. Perhaps Obama made too many compromises in the hope of appealing to a bipartisanship that was already dead. But his biggest mistake was to save the bankers along with the banks. After a financial crisis caused in part by fraud, not a single top Wall Street executive was brought to trial. The public wanted to punish the malefactors, but justice was never done.

In the years after the crash, you could feel the fabric of the country fraying. The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street rose up as opposite expressions of antiestablishment rage, nourished by the sense that colluding ?lites in government and business had got away with a crime. The game was rigged?that became the consensus of the alienated. The left turned its anger on corporations and banks; the right blamed bureaucrats, minority groups, and immigrants. Rising extremism, especially among Republicans, made it impossible for important facts uncovered by the press or asserted by politicians to have an impact. Public trust in just about every American institution declined. Obama?s inspiring Presidency appeared to float high above a landscape where bands of citizens were adrift and quarrelling.

Economically, the country has changed surprisingly little since 2008. The big banks have returned to risky practices, and Republicans are trying to undo the Dodd-Frank reform law, which was enacted to prevent another collapse. The distribution of income and wealth in America is as lopsided as ever. Despite almost ten years of economic growth, real wages are stuck at their pre-crisis level, while corporate profits are soaring and stock prices have reached record highs. All the misshapen economic trends of the previous decade are still with us.

The lasting effect of the crisis is in our politics. The Presidency of Donald Trump is an overdetermined fluke, an accident with a thousand causes. Among them is the catastrophic event that gutted millions of lives and ended in no fair resolution, only cynicism. The economic indicators are strong right now, but before long there will be another financial crisis. They come every seven or ten years, each bearing the features of its time. If the previous one was the result of overconfidence in free markets, the next might be triggered?as in Turkey today?by the behavior of an authoritarian leader. When it comes, we?ll be less prepared to address it than we were in 2008. This President has made an enemy of facts, Congress no longer passes rational laws, and American democracy is ten years unhealthier. ?

This article appears in the print edition of the August 27, 2018, issue, with the headline ?Ten Years After.?

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Aug 20 06:57:12 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 06:57:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Calpers  coverage reduced
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The Sacramento Bee
August 15, 2018
14,000 CalPERS members and their families need to find a new 2019 health plan. Here?s why
By Hannah Holzer

Changes at California?s pension giant will force more than 14,000 CalPERS members and their dependents in the Sacramento region and Bay Area to find a new health plan over the coming year.

The California Public Employees? Retirement System recently negotiated its lowest premium increases in the past 21 years, which will mean lowered health premiums for 800,000 members in 2019.

As a result of the changes, CalPERS will part ways with two major providers ? Health Net and Blue Shield ? in some areas.

?The medical groups and hospitals members will have access to could change depending on their choice of health plan,? (CalPERS spokeswoman Stephanie) Buck said. ?Members can call the doctor?s office and ask if they are affiliated with the health plan and the hospital they prefer to use. They may also contact the health plans directly.?

?The primary differences between most of the HMO (health maintenance organization) plans offered through CalPERS is a plan?s network of providers.?

?Blue Shield was not the only plan that struggled with the cost of care reflecting the price within the Bay Area region,? Buck said. ?UnitedHealthcare also exited the region for contracting agencies and schools, and some other plans in the region had premium increases.? Contracting agencies are the employers that go through CalPERS for their health plans.

?We want to keep our insurance and our doctors. ...We have not received any explanations of any reasons for this harsh decision which endangers our health,? said David Lerman, who currently has insurance coverage with Blue Shield through CalPERS.

?CalPERS health plans contract with a network of providers, and each year CalPERS and its contracted health plans re-evaluate these networks,? Buck said. ?Depending on a variety of factors, not least of which is cost, providers ask that their coverage areas change for certain plans.?

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article215992375.html <https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article215992375.html>

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Comment by Don McCanne

Think back twenty years ago and try to remember what health insurance coverage you had then. Unless you are over 85 and on Medicare the chances are very great that you do not have the same coverage now. For many reasons the market for private health plans, whether employer-sponsored or individual, continually changes.

The California Public Employees? Retirement System (CalPERS), as the second largest system in the nation (next to the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program), has one of the most stable health care coverage programs in the U.S., but not even CalPERS can guarantee that you can keep your same coverage from one year to the next. Since most plans today use provider networks, and the composition of the networks varies from one plan to the next, that means that you may have to change your physicians and other health care professionals, and maybe even your hospitals, whenever your insurance changes.

(It should be mentioned that California has a "continuity of care" provision in which, in certain specific situations, a patient may continue with the same doctor or hospital for a limited period of time, making the transition less disruptive.)

Median employment tenure is now about four years (BLS), so, for that reason alone, change in insurance coverage is frequent. Besides changing jobs, other reasons for changing or losing coverage can include your employer changing plans offered, loss of employment, inability to afford coverage, retirement, income above the threshold for public coverage through Medicaid, loss of eligibility for COBRA, and the like.

The point is that since coverage is not stable, insurer designated networks are not stable either, and thus choice of physicians and other providers may be sacrificed merely because we insist on perpetuating our highly fragmented system of financing health care.

If we had a single health program that included everyone permanently, such as an improved version of our traditional Medicare program (without the private Medicare Advantage plans and their networks) then each of us would have our choice of physicians and hospitals - for life.

It seems foolish that we give up lifetime freedom of choice of our physicians and hospitals just to keep the insurance that we have only temporarily (changing an average of every four years) when virtually all of us look forward to going on Medicare permanently at age 65. Why should only our seniors and those with long term disabilities and chronic renal disease be treated so well? Why not all of us?

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From john at cypresshouse.com  Wed Aug 22 14:50:16 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:50:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?utf-8?q?The_Pentagon_Can=EF=BF=BDt_Account_fo?=
	=?utf-8?q?r_=2421_Trillion_=28That=EF=BF=BDs_Not_a_Typo=29?=
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I've just read 'The Pentagon Cant Account for $21 Trillion (Thats Not a Typo)' at https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pentagon-cant-account-for-21-trillion/

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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Sat Aug 25 09:08:22 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 09:08:22 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Tell DeVos: Arm Schools with Resources, Not Guns
Message-ID: <D39735BC-3A16-4006-BC06-2A7A2CB235DE@mcn.org>

Hi,

I signed a petition to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

https://petitions.moveon.org/aft/sign/devos-arm-schools-with?source=s.imn.em.mt&r_by=2325216

Thanks!


From annxpress at live.com  Tue Aug 28 11:36:06 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:36:06 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Time to reprioritise for people and public
	services
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References: <cm.2107477558643.nhththl.jlydhidkjj.j@cmail20.com>
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Here is a plan to put people over Corporate profits.

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From: Natalie Sharples | Health Poverty Action <media=healthpovertyaction.org at cmail20.com> on behalf of Natalie Sharples | Health Poverty Action <media at healthpovertyaction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 4:07 AM
To: Ann Rennacker
Subject: Time to reprioritise for people and public services


Welcome to the Health Poverty Action mailing list

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Hi Ann

We all deserve to have our basic needs met. Yet millions of people around the world have their human rights violated.

Our new research published today shows that every year, governments are diverting over $1 trillion worth of resources away from people and public services towards big companies. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of people face hunger every single day and at least half the world?s population are denied access to essential health services.

It is often people in the world?s poorest countries that suffer the most, while companies in Europe and North America get richer and richer.

But it doesn?t have to be this way. Today, with our partners, we launch our briefing<https://healthpovertyaction.cmail20.com/t/j-l-nhththl-jlydhidkjj-r/> calling for governments around the world to reprioritise for people and public services.

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To illustrate, the $1 trillion stolen by corporations every year is enough to:

  *   Triple the money spent on healthcare for half the world?s population
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Tue Aug 28 19:17:49 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:17:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Opinion | Why It Can Happen Here - The New York
	Times
Message-ID: <001501d43f3e$7bd25090$7376f1b0$@com>

 


 <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/trump-republican-party-authoritarianism.html?emc=edit_th_180828&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=356538130828> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/trump-republican-party-authoritarianism.html?emc=edit_th_180828&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=356538130828


Why It Can Happen Here


We?re very close to becoming another Poland or Hungary.


Aug. 27, 2018

  <https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/08/27/opinion/27krugmanWeb/merlin_142754778_285d3bc0-97c2-4522-8501-1604a620a1e5-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale> 

Admirers of President Trump saw him speak last week at an Ohio Republican Party dinner.Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

 

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a friend of mine ? an expert on international relations ? made a joke: ?Now that Eastern Europe is free from the alien ideology of Communism, it can return to its true historical path ? fascism.? Even at the time, his quip had a real edge. 

 

And as of 2018 it hardly seems like a joke at all. What  <https://freedomhouse.org/report/nations-transit/nations-transit-2018> Freedom House calls illiberalism is on the rise across Eastern Europe. This includes Poland and Hungary, both still members of the European Union, in which democracy as we normally understand it is already dead. 

                In both countries the ruling parties ? Law and Justice in Poland, Fidesz in Hungary ? have established regimes that maintain the forms of popular elections, but have destroyed the independence of the judiciary, suppressed freedom of the press, institutionalized large-scale corruption and effectively delegitimized dissent. The result seems likely to be one-party rule for the foreseeable future.

And it could all too easily happen here. There was a time, not long ago, when people used to say that our democratic norms, our proud history of freedom, would protect us from such a slide into tyranny. In fact, some people still say that. But believing such a thing today requires willful blindness. The fact is that the Republican Party is ready, even eager, to become an American version of Law and Justice or Fidesz, exploiting its current political power to lock in permanent rule.

          Just look at what has been happening at the state level. In North Carolina, after a Democrat won the governorship, Republicans used the incumbent?s final days to pass legislation  <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/us/politics/north-carolina-judges-suspend-limit-on-governors-powers.html> stripping the governor?s office of much of its power. In Georgia, Republicans tried to use transparently phony concerns about access for disabled voters to  <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/randolph-county-georgia-voting.html> close most of the polling places in a mainly black district. In West Virginia, Republican legislators exploited complaints about excessive spending to  <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/west-virginia-impeachment-supreme-court.html> impeach the entire State Supreme Court and replace it with party loyalists.

                And these are just the cases that have received national attention. There are surely scores if not hundreds of similar stories across the nation. What all of them reflect is the reality that the modern G.O.P. feels no allegiance to democratic ideals; it will do whatever it thinks it can get away with to entrench its power. 

                What about developments at the national level? That?s where things get really scary. We?re currently sitting on a knife edge. If we fall off it in the wrong direction ? specifically, if Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress in November ? we will become another Poland or Hungary faster than you can imagine.

          This week Axios created a bit of a stir with a scoop about a  <https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-republicans-preparation-investigations-180abf7b-0de8-4670-ae8a-2e6da123c584.html> spreadsheet circulating among Republicans in Congress, listing investigations they think Democrats are likely to carry out if they take the House. The thing about the list is that every item on it ? starting with Donald Trump?s tax returns ? is something that obviously should be investigated, and would have been investigated under any other president. But the people circulating the document simply take it for granted that Republicans won?t address any of these issues: Party loyalty will prevail over constitutional responsibility. 

          Many Trump critics celebrated last week?s legal developments, taking the Manafort conviction and the Cohen guilty plea as signs that the walls may finally be closing in on the lawbreaker in chief. But I felt a sense of deepened dread as I watched the Republican reaction: Faced with undeniable evidence of Trump?s thuggishness, his party closed ranks around him more tightly than ever. 

          A year ago it seemed possible that there might be limits to the party?s complicity, that there would come a point where at least a few representatives or senators would say, no more. Now it?s clear that there are no limits: They?ll do whatever it takes to defend Trump and consolidate power.

 

This goes even for politicians who once seemed to have some principles. Senator Susan Collins of Maine was a voice of independence in the health care debate; now she  <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-22/republicans-reject-delaying-kavanaugh-hearing-after-cohen-plea> sees no problem with having a president who?s an unindicted co-conspirator appoint a Supreme Court justice who believes that presidents are immune from prosecution. Senator Lindsey Graham denounced Trump in 2016, and until recently seemed to be standing up against the idea of firing the attorney general to kill the Mueller investigation; now he?s  <https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/lindsey-graham-jeff-sessions-replace/index.html> signaled that he?s O.K. with such a firing. 

          But why is America, the birthplace of democracy, so close to following the lead of other countries that have recently destroyed it? Don?t tell me about ?economic anxiety.? That?s not what happened in Poland, which  <http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=27&pr.y=14&sy=2007&ey=2017&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=964&s=NGDPRPC&grp=0&a=> grew steadily through the financial crisis and its aftermath. And it?s not what happened here in 2016:  <https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study> Study after study has found that racial resentment, not economic distress, drove Trump voters. 

The point is that we?re suffering from the same disease ? white nationalism run wild ? that has already effectively killed democracy in some other Western nations. And we?re very, very close to the point of no return.

 

Paul Krugman has been an Opinion columnist since 2000 and is also a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He won the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade and economic geography.  <https://twitter.com/PaulKrugman> @PaulKrugman

 

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Aug 30 11:07:33 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 11:07:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Golden Rule news
Message-ID: <5F08147E-37C0-4061-8E69-8249D592AABA@mcn.org>

http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org


SEASON: CALIFORNIA COAST
In early July, the Golden Rule will sail from San Diego to Humboldt Bay where the team that rebuilt her will finish preparing her for ocean sailing. Of course, there will be parties and fund raising events while we?re there!
Then we?ll port-hop back to San Diego, visiting some of our favorite cities: (TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
Eureka:	July 18 ? Sept 8
SF Bay:	Sept 13-17
Santa Cruz:	Sept 21-23
Marina del Rey:	Sept 28
San Pedro:	Sept 29-30
San Diego:	Oct 3-24
Late-October launch into the Pacific, bound for Hawaii!
BEYOND HAWAII
Once we have visited the Hawaiian Islands, we hope to continue on to the Marshall Islands, where the Quaker crew tried to sail Golden Rule to in 1958. Then we would like to visit Guam, Okinawa, Korea and Japan before returning to the US.
 <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Map-2018-21-for-Brochure-Rev-C.jpg>
SCREEN THE NEW GOLDEN RULE DOCUMENTARY!
Making Waves: The Rebirth of the Golden Rule A 25 minute documentary about the Golden Rule?s history and current mission is now available to view and download here <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/making-waves/>!  A 10-minute version can be watched directly from here.
 
Video Player

01:4410:12
 
DONATE TO THE GOLDEN RULE
Help the original nuclear protest boat and support her mission to abolish war as an instrument of national policy. You can donate via PayPal by clicking the button below or donate by check to:
VFP Golden Rule Project
P.O. Box 87
Samoa, CA 95564
 
We are looking for other boats to come with us to Hawaii! Please contact Helen at 206-992-6364 if you know of any possibilities!
Follow the Golden Rule! You can follow our progress at share.delorme.com/goldenrule <http://share.delorme.com/goldenrule>
We are so thankful for our many supporters.
Humboldt Bay VFP Chapter 56 continues to donate to the Golden Rule. San Diego VFP Chapter 93 continues with its monthly sustained donations of $100 with a challenge to other chapters to do the same.
 
?There is lots of excitement and many people are stepping up to help make the Golden Rule voyages successful,? said Helen Jaccard, Golden Rule Project Manager.
DONATE NOW <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/donate-and-help/>
 
Follow the Golden Rule on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/VFP-Golden-Rule-Project-221122271247448/>!
Nuclear News
On December 11, 2017 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1daV8n6fTY&feature=youtu.be> to see Executive Director Beatrice Fihn and Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN.
 
DOWNLOAD OUR DECEMBER 2017 NEWSLETTER <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/grdecember2017websitepdf.pdf>.
Subscribe here <http://bit.ly/GRNewsSubscribe> to receive future Newsletters in your inbox!
 
Send us your favorite photos from our 2017 journey to vfpgoldenruleproject at gmail.com! We would love to post them on our website and Facebook page.
Download our December 2017 Newsletter <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/grdecember2017websitepdf.pdf>to read more about our successful journey!
 
 <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/0708170905.jpg>In the newsletter you can also read about the Golden Rule?s reunion with her sister sailboat the Phoenix of Hiroshima after 59 years! 
 
Watch a video of the reunion <https://youtu.be/hz9_PMh4HeA>, made by film maker Brian Cowden.
 
 
Speaking Engagements
Speakers are available to talk with your group or the media about the Golden Rule and nuclear issues.  Please call Helen Jaccard, 206-992-6364 to make arrangements.
 
 
VFP GOLDEN RULE PROJECT
 
 <http://www.vfpgoldenrule.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/vfp_header_logo.png>
 
We aim to advance Veterans For Peace opposition to nuclear weapons and war, and to do so in a dramatic fashion.
 
We have recovered and restored the original peace ship, the Golden Rule, that set sail in 1958 to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and which inspired the many peace makers and peace ships that followed.
 
The reborn Golden Rule is sailing once more, to show that nuclear abolition is possible, and that bravery and tenacity can overcome militarism.
 
The Golden Rule crew spreads the word about the continuing dangers of nuclear power, and the poisoning of the air, water and soil from the entire nuclear cycle, from uranium mining to the disposal of nuclear waste.
 
?We gave a platform to local activists who are concerned about threats to the environment from proposed coal and natural liquid gas ports throughout the Northwest,? said Helen Jaccard. ?Veterans For Peace is also very concerned about the militarization of Washington state, where the Navy is conducting widespread electronic war games on the Olympic Peninsula and even invading Seattle city parks.?
 
If you would like to crew ? to Hawaii, around the Hawaiian Islands, or beyond, please submit your crew application <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/crew-application> as soon as possible!
Preparation to visit Japan Project Manager Helen Jaccard just returned from a trip to Japan! Here is the trip report <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Helen-Jaccard-Golden-Rule-Visit-Dec-2-21-Report-to-Supporters.docx>.
Many people in Japan have asked for a copy of her PowerPoint presentation in Japanese, so here <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Golden-Rule-presentation-Japan-2017-Final-Really-Recovered-4.pptx> it is.
 
You can download the Golden Rule PowerPoint presentation in English here <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Golden-Rule-presentation-generic.pptx> and there is a Script? <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Script-for-Generic-Presentation.docx>to go with it. These presentations are always changing, especially the nuclear issues parts ? so please let us know if you have suggestions for updates!
 
Event Volunteers Needed
With many educational stops, we need a lot of help, all hands on deck and there are many roles to play!
Organizers, authors, public speakers, a web master, photographers, videographers will all be needed and appreciated.
 
If you live in Hawaii, we also need help to organize events and seed money for each stop.  To volunteer, please contact Helen Jaccard at 206-992-6364 or send an email to vfpgoldenruleproject at gmail.com <mailto:vfpgoldenruleproject at gmail.com>.
 
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Fri Aug 31 09:24:27 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:24:27 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting?
Message-ID: <CBDBBD54-6345-41A1-B168-AA340A3E3505@mcn.org>

Will there be a meeting this Sat. At 12N at the Senior Center?
Irene


From annxpress at live.com  Fri Aug 31 10:10:32 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 17:10:32 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting?
In-Reply-To: <CBDBBD54-6345-41A1-B168-AA340A3E3505@mcn.org>
References: <CBDBBD54-6345-41A1-B168-AA340A3E3505@mcn.org>
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Yes, Occupy 12 to 2 then I'm volunteering at Bison and Bluegrass 2 to 4.

ann

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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 9:24:27 AM
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting?

Will there be a meeting this Sat. At 12N at the Senior Center?
Irene

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From lewallen at mcn.org  Fri Aug 31 14:16:20 2018
From: lewallen at mcn.org (Lewallen)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:16:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why the World Needs Ongoing Peace Talks Between
	North Korea and the United States
Message-ID: <00ee01d4416f$e1b02620$a5107260$@mcn.org>

Why the World Needs Ongoing Peace Talks Between North Korea and the United
States

--by John Lewallen <avoidingnuclearwar.com>

August 31, 2018

                The June 12 "summit" meeting of Kim Jong-Un of North Korea
and Donald Trump, U.S. President, ended a very dangerous, escalating nuclear
confrontation which seemed to be on the verge of starting a nuclear war for
no reason at all. Now, I believe, the world needs ongoing peace talks
between these two nuclear-armed nations to avoid a senseless conflagration
threatening all life.

                As the euphoria of the June 12 meeting falls back toward the
old pattern of threat and counter-threat, with President Trump calling off a
peace-talk meeting because North Korea was not moving fast enough to
"de-nuclearize," and Defense Secretary Mattis saying that military
exercises, the annual mock invasion "war games" that Trump had pledged on
June 12 to end, will continue, I believe it is essential that all of us
understand what happened on June 12, what didn't happen, and why we all
should do our best to keep these peace talks going and growing.

On the Verge of Nuclear War

                By the end of 2017, the game of "nuclear chicken" between
Trump and Kim Jong-Un had reached a point where the North Koreans were
threatening to detonate a high-altitude thermonuclear bomb. The entire
world-wide computerized satellite web could be damaged by such a test, which
hasn't happened for many decades. 

All year Trump's threats of military attack against North Korea unless it
would give up its nuclear weapons were countered by North Korean threats of
attack against the United States, backed up by North Korean missile and
underground nuclear bomb tests intended to show their ability and
willingness to attack the United States homeland.

As Scott D. Sagan noted in his article "The Korean Missile Crisis" (Foreign
Affairs, Nov/Dec 2017, p. 72): "North Korea, South Korea, and the United
States are all poised to launch preemptive strikes. In such an unstable
situation, the risk that an accident, a false warning, or a misperceived
military exercise could lead to a war is alarmingly high."

"The North Korean nuclear arsenal is not a bargaining chip," Sagan concluded
(p.81) "It is a potent deterrent designed to prevent a U.S. attack or
disrupt one that does occur by destroying U.S. air bases and ports through
preemption."

June 12: What Happened, What Didn't, and What Could Happen

                The June 12 executive agreement, if followed up, could be a
major positive shift in United States nuclear weapons strategy, making the
whole world a lot safer place. Even if peace talks fall prey to their many
enemies in the U.S. military-industrial complex, the raw fact that a U.S.
President has tacitly acknowledged the legitimacy of the North Korean
government with this meeting is a major shift. Previously, North Korea,
according to U.S. policy, had a "regime" in need of "regime change" by
"decapitation" or all-out military attack.

                The four-point agreement signed by the leaders began by
committing "to establish new United States-North Korea relations in
accordance with the desire of the people of the two countries for peace and
prosperity." This could be a major departure from the same-old strategy of
deterrence and economic sanctions. If North Korea is no longer an enemy, the
ongoing economic sanctions and military threats make no sense. It is
obvious, even urgent, that the Korean War which began in1950 should be ended
with a formal peace treaty.

                "Yesterday's conflict does not have to be tomorrow's war,"
said President Trump. He seems to realize there is no real conflict of
interest between the two countries, which are frozen in confrontation dating
from the Cold War. His June 12 video presented North Korea with the
possibility of major economic development resulting from peace talks.

                The second point in the agreement called for negotiating "a
lasting and stable peace regime" for the Korean Peninsula.

                The third point commits the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (North Korea) to "work toward complete de-nuclearization of the Korean
Peninsula." Note: it does not commit North Korea to eliminate nuclear
weapons.

                In my opinion, this summit never would have happened unless
Trump believed North Korea had achieved what, in nuclear strategy parlance,
is called "Second-Strike Threat Credibility": the perceived ability to hit
the United States with a nuclear counter-attack even if the U.S. obliterates
their country with a nuclear first-strike. No other reason is strong enough
to cause a U.S. President to meet North Korea on equal terms to set up peace
talks.

                The present dangerous dilemma is that Trump keeps insisting
on rapid de-nuclearization, while the North Koreans are demanding that the
United States endorse a declaration calling for a formal Peace Treaty ending
the Korean War. 

                (I believe Trump should spontaneously Tweet his endorsement
of a formal treaty ending the Korean War: what a peace coup!) 

There is virtually no chance the North Koreans will give up their nuclear
weapons until the United States also de-nuclearizes. As Sagan wrote, "Kim's
spokespeople have stressed that he will not suffer the same fate of Saddam
or Qaddafi, both of whom gave up their nuclear programs only to be attacked
later by the United States (p.81)"

                The fourth and final point of agreement is that North Korea
will assist the United States in recovering the remains of prisoners of war
and soldiers missing in action in the Korean War, which paused with a
ceasefire, not a peace treaty, in 1953. The North Koreans already are
fulfilling this pledge.

Time for a Peace Treaty Ending the Korean War

                Rising for a moment above the drama of personality and
motive involving Trump, Kim, et.al., the raw fact is that two of the world's
nine nuclear-armed nations are at war for no reason at all, a war which has
escalated into nuclear confrontation threatening to explode into nuclear war
threatening all life. No matter who leads North Korea, the United States, or
other nations, the whole world needs ongoing peace talks between the United
States and North Korea to avoid nuclear war.

                Returning to the political struggle of personality and
motive, I believe that President Trump's efforts to make peace with North
Korea are putting him in major confrontation with the U.S.
military-industrial complex which, as President and Commander-in-Chief of
U.S. armed forces, he formally leads.

Trump made two major moves toward peace apparently without informing or
consulting his closest aides, all of whom are leading members of the U.S.
military-industrial complex. First, he accepted the proposal of Kim Jong-Un
for face-to-face negotiations, an offer brought to the Oval Office by a
South Korean delegation. He even permitted the South Koreans to immediately
announce this major shift in U.S. policy. No President ever had met with the
head of the  North Korean "regime" before.

Then, on June 12, Trump made his second surprise announcement: the annual
mock-invasion military exercises involving South Korea and the U.S. would be
halted, because they are very expensive and "provocative." Recently Trump
reversed Defense Secretary Mattis' statement that military exercises would
resume, because his "very good and warm relations" with North Korean leader
Kim Jong-Un made it unnecessary to spend "large amounts of money on joint
exercises."

I believe the worldwide peace movement should support Trump's move toward
changing North Korea policy away from deterrence and sanctions-still the
basic policy today-toward peaceful and prosperous cooperation. In my
opinion, endless confrontation with North Korea is a major pillar justifying
trillions of dollars of military spending by the U.S. military-industrial
complex.

The U.S. Nuclear Posture Review issued by the U.S. Defense Department
February, 2018, justified over a trillion dollars of nuclear weapons
spending to "deter" the growing threat from four adversaries: Russia, China,
Iran, and North Korea. Immediately after his June 12 personal talk with Kim
Jung-Un, who he seems to genuinely like and admire, Trump shocked everyone
by stating what no U.S. President had said before: that the "war games"
threatening attack on North Korea might actually "provoke" an aggressive
response, or even an accidental military response. 

In short, Trump seemed to acknowledge what North Korea, Russia and China
have insistently stated for many decades: relentlessly escalating military
exercises and deployments on their borders are actually "provoking"
threatening response simply to deter a U.S. attack on their nations. In
other words, the U.S. strategy of endlessly increasing first-strike threat
force them to appear more threatening, simply to deter U.S. attack by
maintaining their "Second-Strike Threat Credibility." It is a U.S.
military-industrial complex generating its own enemies to justify endless
growth, driving the world ever-closer to actual nuclear war, which might
destroy everything.

Human survival demands that we break this military-industrial pattern of
increasing U.S. nuclear threat. Ongoing peace talks between the two warring
nuclear nations, North Korea and the U.S., are needed to avoid nuclear war
until an actual, effective peace treaty is signed by the two nations and
their allies in this outdated relic of the Cold War. Threatening military
exercises must be stopped to save us all from "accidental" nuclear war.

I am very optimistic that we, the people, can continue to avoid nuclear war,
as we have since the most recent use of a nuclear weapon in war, the August
9, 1945 bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. If Donald Trump can be the man who
shocks the U.S. military-industrial complex out of a sleepwalk to doomsday,
anything is possible! Now, I think, we all need to reject the politics of
hatred and division, and tap into the power of love that unites us all


   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

                

   

 

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Aug 31 22:14:12 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:14:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Mendocino meeting Saturday,
	12 pm at Senior Center in FB
Message-ID: <2E43F5EF-B0AE-4C66-9922-86D91C74D031@mcn.org>

Hi Occupy Mendocino,   
 Meeting at the Senior Center on Saturday. 12noon

We need to talk about things, including upcoming Peace Day and Peace Garden on Sept. 21. 

Tomorrow  at 10 AM the Garden Club .is coming to the Peace Garden 
to explain what they plan to do. Charles Bush invited us to meet them 
and find out what their plans are to have the Garden ready by Sept. 21.

I know it is Paul Bunyan weekend and lots of things are going on, but 
I hope you can make it. 

Richard


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