From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Feb  2 20:23:00 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 20:23:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] HARTMANN'S LATEST
Message-ID: <CB1E2C56-8FBA-4123-960A-AA5319701702@mcn.org>

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Thom's blog
Is Trump trying to purge the government of disloyal elements?
 <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GVim0iscaTx3hIlvsb7bngsKyNtSbCpoMvbduKLw4jqkD4ig3nZNBIBOps7eqWyMNV2Y22kQiR74hOJG7K7ok8359slUXHrP4C0wNwqZlC3mjc5J0-SU0Tx6QoXPOx6mc1cpmTN-J4f6FW1W-hhqnEKb8qb_0aZldxvZZ_ibKWKKOJMhOADqs5Zl8pqOPLasXDOq2SCSSdBZ-zWWBfRPZqSjBYXZw1V3pBU19rf9aJrhwa3T_RBY5b0OUdmWNUXcGe4h6yckOtY=&c=S4ViZWMhck_l4K78vsiqzkLBfsrhilHm9kSU9c3kDq5CC-WmWvL_0Q==&ch=FHUhlM0qaBV-ziqWDkIm-Jfki78P5hbxwI9PRcIOD3wZFgultpM7Xg==>  In his State of the Union speech this week Donald Trump asked Congress to give him the power to purge cabinet agencies <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GVim0iscaTx3hIlvsb7bngsKyNtSbCpoMvbduKLw4jqkD4ig3nZNBLgo_0n_hl18VbWeLnjF8Wc2xFrg4L40ZWKEeW7sfWqWNPxEe6-Hn0xvziWV0Sdh3mXM84WEgpYrViG--BrSJeKXWEheQnTJwUdv0vFuaHVZVzEkjYvEWS4Cr7OrUvus0CnKJq7Nu9P6S6NOpKgwKNCxkwfqPGE1tVVFV6aWCaW-4csn8-i929ptldLNyTOqI17XuAnloDfrIUTdIPCIdY18cc7pFTZMPXzvgZZL4R5M&c=S4ViZWMhck_l4K78vsiqzkLBfsrhilHm9kSU9c3kDq5CC-WmWvL_0Q==&ch=FHUhlM0qaBV-ziqWDkIm-Jfki78P5hbxwI9PRcIOD3wZFgultpM7Xg==>. He said:
"Tonight I call on the Congress to empower every Cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people."
In other words, Donald Trump is saying, "I would like Ryan Zinke over at Interior to be able to fire the government employees who are standing up for our public lands, I would like Scott Pruitt over at the EPA to be able to fire anybody who works for the Environmental Protection Agency who's really working to protect the environment. We'll replace them all with toadies provided to us by Monsanto and the big chemical companies - Koch Industries, ExxonMobil. They've got a lot of people that they'd be glad to stock the EPA with."

That's essentially what he was saying. Now, congressman Mark Pocan said on the show that he thought that this was maybe an effort to destroy the unions that represent federal employees, because he had seen Scott Walker do that with state employees in the state of Wisconsin, because the federal employees unions will go to bat for people who are arbitrarily fired.

And I think that would be a twofer, but I think the real big issue here is how you run a government. He was asking Congress to undo laws that have been passed over literally the last hundred years or more - this is not some recent unionization thing.

Read more here <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GVim0iscaTx3hIlvsb7bngsKyNtSbCpoMvbduKLw4jqkD4ig3nZNBIBOps7eqWyMNV2Y22kQiR74hOJG7K7ok8359slUXHrP4C0wNwqZlC3mjc5J0-SU0Tx6QoXPOx6mc1cpmTN-J4f6FW1W-hhqnEKb8qb_0aZldxvZZ_ibKWKKOJMhOADqs5Zl8pqOPLasXDOq2SCSSdBZ-zWWBfRPZqSjBYXZw1V3pBU19rf9aJrhwa3T_RBY5b0OUdmWNUXcGe4h6yckOtY=&c=S4ViZWMhck_l4K78vsiqzkLBfsrhilHm9kSU9c3kDq5CC-WmWvL_0Q==&ch=FHUhlM0qaBV-ziqWDkIm-Jfki78P5hbxwI9PRcIOD3wZFgultpM7Xg==>.

-Thom  

(What do you think? Tell us here <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GVim0iscaTx3hIlvsb7bngsKyNtSbCpoMvbduKLw4jqkD4ig3nZNBIBOps7eqWyMNV2Y22kQiR74hOJG7K7ok8359slUXHrP4C0wNwqZlC3mjc5J0-SU0Tx6QoXPOx6mc1cpmTN-J4f6FW1W-hhqnEKb8qb_0aZldxvZZ_ibKWKKOJMhOADqs5Zl8pqOPLasXDOq2SCSSdBZ-zWWBfRPZqSjBYXZw1V3pBU19rf9aJrhwa3T_RBY5b0OUdmWNUXcGe4h6yckOtY=&c=S4ViZWMhck_l4K78vsiqzkLBfsrhilHm9kSU9c3kDq5CC-WmWvL_0Q==&ch=FHUhlM0qaBV-ziqWDkIm-Jfki78P5hbxwI9PRcIOD3wZFgultpM7Xg==>.)

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Feb  2 20:25:42 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 20:25:42 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Congressman Huffman's letter to me
Message-ID: <3DAE3F9E-F3C4-49BD-8DB4-5D98A1449A11@mcn.org>

Dear Richard, 


Thank you for contacting me with your thoughts about investigations into President Trump's ties to the Russian government. I appreciate hearing from you on this matter. 

As you may know, the Intelligence Community, made up of seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies including the CIA and FBI, released a statement in October 2016 expressing confidence that senior officials in the Russian government directed the cyberattacks on both private citizens and several U.S. political organizations, as well as the subsequent disclosure of emails to the site WikiLeaks, with the intent to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election. Since then, the Select Committees on Intelligence in both the House and Senate have commenced investigations into a much broader range of topics relating to Russian involvement in our election, including determining whether President Trump's campaign was in contact with the Russian government. Additionally, former FBI Director James Comey has confirmed that his agency is investigating any connections between Russia and President Trump's staff and associates.

While the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russia?s interference in the 2016 election is a necessary first step, this will be an ongoing effort that involves sensitive and classified information. I will continue to work to fully understand ? and make public ? the scope of foreign intervention in our electoral process, as well as any ties between the Russian government and the Trump campaign and White House. For example, there remain many unanswered questions regarding former National Security Adviser to the President of the United States Michael Flynn, who had unexplained contacts with the Russian government and received undisclosed payments from Russian companies. Similarly, I remain very concerned by the ill-handled investigation formerly led by Congressman Devin Nunes, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who was also a member of President Trump's transition team. 

To ensure that this investigation is not hampered by partisan interference, I am a cosponsor of the Protecting Our Democracy Act to establish a National Commission on Foreign Interference in the 2016 Election. Also, I am giving weekly, one-minute "Moment of Truth" speeches on the House floor that focus on the many aspects of Special Counsel Mueller's ongoing investigation and its findings. It is important to me that the evidence of President Trump's connections to Russia is included in the official Congressional Record. You can find the videos of my speeches on my Facebook <https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=CA02JH&crop=14648QQQ8192719QQQ5846061QQQ7188599&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fRepHuffman%2f&redir_log=048995194943250> page, and transcripts of my floor remarks here <https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=CA02JH&crop=14648QQQ8192719QQQ5846061QQQ7188599&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.congress.gov%2fquick-search%2fcongressional-record%3fwordsPhrases%3d%26wordVariants%3don%26congresses%255B%255D%3d115%26dates%3ddatesCongress%26sectionDailyDigest%3don%26sectionSenate%3don%26sectionHouse%3don%26sectionExtensionsOfRemarks%3don%26representative%3dH001068%26senator%3d%26searchResultViewType%3dcompact&redir_log=855234406132194>. 

Thank you again for sharing your views on this issue. The people of California?s 2nd District are the most important voices I listen to while serving in Congress. Please do not hesitate to contact my office if I can be of assistance to you in the future.

Sincerely,

 
Jared Huffman
Member of Congress 

P.S. If you would like to stay up to date on my work in Congress, please subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here <https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=CA02JH&crop=14648QQQ8192719QQQ5846061QQQ7188599&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fhuffman.house.gov%2fcontact%2fnewsletter&redir_log=096988315494317>, friending me on Facebook <https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=CA02JH&crop=14648QQQ8192719QQQ5846061QQQ7188599&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fRepHuffman&redir_log=642453762415246>, or following me on Twitter <https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=CA02JH&crop=14648QQQ8192719QQQ5846061QQQ7188599&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2ftwitter.com%2fRepHuffman&redir_log=944828528996212> at @RepHuffman.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Feb  3 15:29:19 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 15:29:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] North Coast Anti Nuke  site
Message-ID: <649A9579-6317-4373-A811-84A311B05250@mcn.org>

Occupy Mendocino has started the NCAN site.  Check it out below.
Trump said that he wanted to increase the nuclear arsenal in his 
State of the Union speech. Do we want this? Should Occupy 
start rallying against nuclear proliferation?


https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastOccupyGroup/ <https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastOccupyGroup/>
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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Mon Feb  5 10:53:17 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 10:53:17 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- CONGRESSMAN HUFFMAN'S
	RESPONSE TO NUNES MEMO
In-Reply-To: <EB463F31-B535-475D-9699-E47195FE5B0C@mcn.org>
References: <EB463F31-B535-475D-9699-E47195FE5B0C@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <CACVey3bxT4agZjoL2bBm4y9oWCQ8DYABet6X8hXkP70PaN=L1w@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: susan allen nutter <sanutter at mcn.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:22 AM
Subject: [MCN-Announce]- CONGRESSMAN HUFFMAN'S RESPONSE TO NUNES MEMO
To: MCN Listserve <announce at lists.mcn.org>


CONGRESSMAN JARED HUFFMAN?S RESPONSE TO NUNES MEMO ON FACEBOOK:

"The skirmish over Devin Nunes' ham-handed, partisan "intelligence" memo
would be funny if it wasn't so extremely dangerous. I've read the memo --
at least the version that existed a few days ago, before he secretly
modified it again without the committee's knowledge. I also read the
Democratic rebuttal memo that Republicans are withholding, so I know the
Nunes' memo is complete bunk, riddled with exaggerations, wild
extrapolations, and outright lies (for example: it mischaracterizes a key
witnesses' testimony in a classified hearing, which would be easy to
refute... except that the GOP majority refuses to declassify the
transcript!).

Here's the bottom line, which anyone willing to think independently already
realizes: Nunes is trying to manipulate public opinion against our main
federal law enforcement agencies (FBI and DOJ) and pave the way for
President Trump to start firing people. This is the deliberate setup for a
Watergate-style Saturday Night Massacre. Nunes, Trump and their ilk are
desperately choreographing all of this -- despite the damage to our
institutions and national security, despite the fact that most people see
right through their scheme -- because they know the Russia investigation is
getting close to revealing the truth. The country will soon know the full
extent of Trump's personal, financial and political ties to Russia, and
whether he has obstructed justice or engaged in other misconduct. This
scares them so much that they've launched a disinformation campaign that
would make Goebbels blush. They're counting on the rightwing media echo
chamber and Russian bots to help them brand the Special Counsel's Russia
investigation as a "witch hunt" and change the subject to their new
pseudo-conspiracy within the FBI and DOJ.

Those of us who care about the truth -- and frankly, anyone who cares about
our country -- must step up right now, call out these insidious actions,
oppose political tampering with our law enforcement agencies, and demand
that the Special Counsel be allowed to follow the facts wherever they lead.
This is not a drill!?


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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Mon Feb  5 11:03:34 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:03:34 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Responding to your message on net neutrality
In-Reply-To: <LMBG001FpB2Hh4a85ge00007cb0@LMBG001.US.House.gov>
References: <LMBG001FpB2Hh4a85ge00007cb0@LMBG001.US.House.gov>
Message-ID: <CACVey3amCAOk+iTMXA40uBrJTqf9qoPid=cOsK+-gm4A=vgyhg@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Congressman Jared Huffman <CA02JHima at mail.house.gov>
Date: Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:20 PM
Subject: Responding to your message on net neutrality
To: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com



<https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=CA02JH&crop=14494QQQ8170073QQQ5832714QQQ7194669&report_id=&redirect=http%3a%2f%2fhuffman.house.gov%2f&redir_log=681138065629174>
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<https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=CA02JH&crop=14494QQQ8170073QQQ5832714QQQ7194669&report_id=&redirect=http%3a%2f%2fhuffman.house.gov%2f&redir_log=681138065629174>

Dear Daniel,

Thank you for contacting me with your thoughts about net neutrality. I
appreciate hearing from you on this important matter.

I am a strong proponent of net neutrality, the principle that the internet
must remain open and that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should treat
all internet users, websites, applications, and types of communication
fairly and equally. In May 2014, I joined many of my colleagues in writing
to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, appointed by President Barack Obama, in
support of strong and enforceable open internet rules. Specifically, we
urged the FCC to use its authority under Title II of the Communications Act
to reclassify ISPs as common carriers, in order to provide strong consumer
protections to prevent anti-competitive behavior. As we noted in the letter:
 ?Without strong protections, the Internet could devolve into a closed
platform in which those who pay the most can overwhelm other views and
ideas.? In February 2015, I was pleased that the FCC adopted strong,
sustainable rules to protect the open internet. This was the right decision
for consumers, and the right way to protect continued innovation and
expression.

Unfortunately, President Trump is supporting a rollback of these open
internet protections. In May 2017, the FCC under new Chairman Ajit Pai
began a new review of net neutrality rules, with the goal of eroding these
open internet safeguards and ending the classification of ISPs as common
carriers. This could have very serious repercussions for all internet users
by letting ISPs treat customers and businesses differently, increasing
costs and allowing for the uneven treatment of services and content. In
November 2017, the FCC concluded its review and in December 2017, it voted
to roll back the 2015 open internet regulations entirely. I have written to
Chairman Pai, urging him to leave net neutrality protections intact and to
ensure equal and universal access. I will explore possibilities for
overturning the FCC's decision, and I will continue to work with my
colleagues to protect the open internet from these FCC rollbacks.

Thank you again for sharing your views on this issue. The people of
California?s 2nd District are the most important voices I listen to while
serving in Congress. Please do not hesitate to contact my office if I can
be of assistance to you in the future.


Sincerely,


Jared Huffman
Member of Congress

P.S. If you would like to stay up to date on my work in Congress, please
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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Mon Feb  5 11:04:28 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:04:28 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Rolling Stone: The Rights of Nature Movement
	Goes on Trial
In-Reply-To: <63471A2F04984871BDF751C0AC3222D0@celdf.org>
References: <63471A2F04984871BDF751C0AC3222D0@celdf.org>
Message-ID: <CACVey3auWqZPEt9r0_XL-XGuOcKb6dknXGet+_igm3KF_hn-wQ@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CELDF <info at celdf.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 6:15 AM
Subject: Rolling Stone: The Rights of Nature Movement Goes on Trial
To: BLACKDANTHEMAN100 at gmail.com


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Hello Daniel,

As the Community Rights movement moves forward, we succeed in forcing
governments and corporations to defend the indefensible - a system of law
that protects the rights of corporations over the rights of people,
communities, and nature. Nowhere is that more evident than in Grant
Township, PA.

*Sanctions: A Marker of Victory*

The recent sanctions award
<http://out02.thedatabank.com/?r=MTAwMw0KSjMzMDUyMC1DNDQ4LU0yMTg1MjUtLWVtZWx5bg0KMzcxNTY0NDgzMDM0OTE0MDY3MDQ1MjE4NTI1MTA3DQpiZjAwMDAwMDAyODhhMA0KaHR0cHM6Ly9jZWxkZi5vcmcvMjAxOC8wMS9wcmVzcy1yZWxlYXNlLWZlZGVyYWwtY291cnQtc2FuY3Rpb25zLWxhd3llcnMtZGVmZW5kaW5nLWNvbW11bml0eXMtcmlnaHQtc2F5LW5vLWZyYWNrLXdhc3Rld2F0ZXItaW5qZWN0aW9uLXdlbGxzLw0KUFJTYW5jdGlvbnMNCkJMQUNLREFOVEhFTUFOMTAwQEdNQUlMLkNPTQ%3d%3d>
against
two CELDF attorneys who are defending the people's right to say "no" to a
fracking wastewater injection well in Grant Township is a victory of sorts
? it?s a marker in the Community Rights movement coming of age. No longer
is it sufficient to stop the movement by suing municipalities and elected
officials. The oil and gas industry has now been forced to try to ?chill?
lawyers from representing those municipal clients.

*Chill is Spreading, Media Takes Notice*

Grant Township
<http://out02.thedatabank.com/?r=MTAwMw0KSjMzMDUyMC1DNDQ4LU0yMTg1MjUtLWVtZWx5bg0KMzcxNTY0NDgzMDM0OTE0MDY3MDQ1MjE4NTI1MTA3DQpiZjAwMDAwMDAyODhhMA0KaHR0cHM6Ly9jZWxkZi5vcmcvMjAxOC8wMS9ncmFudC10b3duc2hpcC1wYS1zYW5jdGlvbnMtbGF3eWVycy1iYWRnZS1jb3VyYWdlLw0KR3JhbnRMZXR0ZXINCkJMQUNLREFOVEhFTUFOMTAwQEdNQUlMLkNPTQ%3d%3d>
is not alone. A number of community leaders in the U.S. are facing
punishment for daring to act on behalf of the people.

   - Read Simon Davis-Cohen's recent article in Desmog
   <http://out02.thedatabank.com/?r=MTAwMw0KSjMzMDUyMC1DNDQ4LU0yMTg1MjUtLWVtZWx5bg0KMzcxNTY0NDgzMDM0OTE0MDY3MDQ1MjE4NTI1MTA3DQpiZjAwMDAwMDAyODhhMA0KaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVzbW9nYmxvZy5jb20vMjAxOC8wMS8xNy9jb21tdW5pdHktZW52aXJvbm1lbnRhbC1sZWdhbC1kZWZlbnNlLWZ1bmQtcGVubnN5bHZhbmlhLWdyYW50LXRvd25zaGlwLWZyYWNraW5nLXdhc3RlLWJhbg0KRGVzbW9nDQpCTEFDS0RBTlRIRU1BTjEwMEBHTUFJTC5DT00%3d>
   .
   - Check out Rolling Stone Magazine's Justin Nobel and his coverage of
   Grant in *The Rights of Nature Movement Goes on Trial
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   - Read this week?s alert
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From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:05:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Is Apple really a good corporate citizen?;
 Investigate companies found in the database;
 How authorities respond to the Paradise Papers
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Date: Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 9:01 AM
Subject: Is Apple really a good corporate citizen?; Investigate companies
found in the database; How authorities respond to the Paradise Papers
To: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com


ICIJ's weekly update
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Hello!

Today, we speak with the Australian Tax Office head Chris Jordan to discuss how
his office responded
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to ICIJ?s Paradise Papers
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and Panama Papers
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projects. He offers a fascinating insight into how tax advisers use complex
diagrams and arguments to justify their actions.

We also have the final in our three-part series
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on how to explore our Offshore Leaks Database. This time we?ll take you
beyond our data and explain how to cross-reference it with other public data
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.

Our reporter, Simon Bowers, also takes a look at Apple's announcement it
will bring $38 million back to the United States. He unpacks the decision
and examines wether the decision is actually good value
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for ordinary Americans.

And, four Republican senators in the United States are using our Paradise
Papers coverage
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to push for Uzbek-Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be included
in the upcoming
list of oligarchs
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The list is due by the end of the month and those who are listed may be
subject to sanctions.

Until next week!

Amy Wilson-Chapman
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said Australian Tax Officer commissioner Chris Jordan. Jordan reveals how
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tactics.
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Our database may have more than half-a-million entities, but it?s just the
beginning of any investigation. This week?s tip: how to take the
information you find in our data and cross-reference it
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with other publicly available data.
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Apple said it would bring hundreds of billions of dollars in offshore cash
back to the United States. But how good a corporate citizen is Apple really
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by the iPhone-marker.
Senators Urge Adding Usmanov To Official Oligarch List, Citing Paradise
Papers Revelations
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Republican senators were pushing for Alisher Usmanov to be included on
the upcoming
list of Russian oligarchs
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Usmanov was revealed in the Paradise Papers to have connections to Russian
state money
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found its way to investments in U.S. social media companies.
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
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'A Fair Tax System Will Be Lost Without Public Pressure'
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The EU tax commissioner says public pressure is needed
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for efforts to create an international tax solution.
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Tips: How to explore networks, metadata in the Offshore Leaks Database
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Learn how to make sense of the hundreds of networks
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in our database and know which leak the data is from.
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ICIJ granted $1m at Golden Globes ceremony
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced a grant of $1 million to
ICIJ
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The best Paradise Papers TV moments
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Chasing political players, tracking ships, these are the number of memorable
reports
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The Long Twilight Struggle Against Offshore Secrecy
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A new leak shows how deeply offshoring is embedded
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in the global financial system.
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Panama Papers helps recover more than $500 million
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Tax authorities worldwide have recouped millions of dollars
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since the Panama Papers were published.
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Four Caribbean Tax Havens Added To Leaks Database
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Data on more than 680,000 entities in 55 secrecy jurisdictions
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can now be searched and downloaded.
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Questions Over Glencore?s $440m Congo Discount
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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Mon Feb  5 11:06:01 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:06:01 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Responding to your message
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From: U.S. Senator Kamala Harris <donotreply_harris at harris.senate.gov>
Date: Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:39 PM
Subject: Responding to your message
To: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com



January 23, 2018



Dear Mr. Baker,

Thank you for reaching out to express your support for net neutrality. I
share your enthusiasm for the freedom and openness that have made the
internet so successful.

Nearly fifty years ago, California researchers built a prototype of an
interoperable computer network. Today, that network is the internet?an
engine of unprecedented innovation, creativity, and prosperity. The
internet has transformed our society, connecting us with loved ones,
enabling entrepreneurship on a level playing field, and providing instant
access to a global audience. A free and open internet is a powerful tool,
particularly for historically disadvantaged communities. Anyone can use the
internet to make their voice heard, regardless of their gender, the color
of their skin, who they love, or where they were born. And any business, no
matter how small or new, can use the internet to connect with consumers and
thrive.

Since the dawn of the commercial internet, the federal government has
played an important role in ensuring that internet service providers don?t
get to pick winners and losers among websites, applications, content, or
devices. You do. That was the policy of both the Bush and Obama
administrations. I believe that remains the right policy.

In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) resolved a
longstanding legal ambiguity about whether that policy was enforceable, and
it adopted commonsense rules to protect the internet?s openness. Those net
neutrality rules, called the Open Internet Order, established that your
provider could not block, slow down, or otherwise interfere with lawful
online services. Those rules guaranteed that the online marketplace remains
a level playing field, where you?not your cable company or wireless
carrier?got to choose the next global sensation.

The Trump administration?s FCC recently voted to attempt a radical
regulatory reversal?eliminating the agency?s enforcement authority,
repealing all the substantive net neutrality rules, and perhaps worst of
all, preventing states like California from establishing their own net
neutrality protections. I believe the administration?s approach is wrong
for consumers, wrong for innovative businesses, wrong for content creators,
and wrong for anyone else who counts on internet access. This is a giveaway
to the cable and telecom industries, plain and simple.

As your senator, I will continue to fight to protect net neutrality. I
encourage you to do the same, and to continue making your voice heard. We
won this battle once before, and we can win again. The internet is one of
California?s greatest gifts to the nation, and to the world. As
Californians, I believe we have a special responsibility to safeguard the
internet?s freedom and openness. This battle is far from over.

Once again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. If you have any
further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call my
Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3553.

Sincerely,

Kamala D. Harris
United States Senator
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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Mon Feb  5 11:07:22 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:07:22 -0800
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Subject: #ReleaseTheMemo: What?s behind the document conservatives want you
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Mon Feb  5 18:38:52 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 18:38:52 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: [MCN-Announce]- Celebration & Dance Party for
	International Women's	Day
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Let's do this, Occupiers!

SAVE THE DATE: SATURDAY MARCH 10
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN?S DAY CELEBRATION & DANCE PARTY

Sheroes get a groove on and dance for our rights! Mark your calendars now
for the
International Women's Day Celebration & Dance Party March 10th, 6:30 -
9:30 at Fort Bragg Town Hall.

Move to the hottest-ever dance tunes by women from around the world! Come
representing your Shero with a costume, a nametag, or a photo for the Shero
collage. All ages, genders, and abilities most welcome.

The celebration will open with a short program of videos featuring women
doing heroic work, a sing-along performance, and a dance warmup led by
local dance pros. Then the dance floor opens with DJ Jennifer K! Free
snacks, soft drinks, and cooperative art projects will be on hand when you
need a break. What?s YOUR all-time favorite dance tune by a woman artist?
Nominate up to three songs by emailing mendohuddle at gmail.com.

Admission is by donation. Any proceeds will be donated to local
organizations working to empower women.

This event is offered by a mysterious cabal of people who like to dance,
with support from members and friends of the Mendocino Coast Jewish
Community Justice Group, the Mendocino Huddle, and the Women?s March. The
event will also feature information tables from a number of local advocacy
organizations. For more information or to volunteer, or for questions about
inclusion and accessibility, please contact sophieloeb2 at gmail.com.

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From annxpress at live.com  Tue Feb  6 13:18:46 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 21:18:46 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Bernie Trumps Trump
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Bernie for President!

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From: Progressive Democrats of America <info at pdamerica.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 11:24 AM
To: Ann Rennacker
Subject: Bernie Trumps Trump

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Bernie Sanders Trump Trump. We at Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) first launched our ?Run Bernie Run? petition in 2013 when our late founder, Tim Carpenter and our political director Steve Cobble urged us to call on Bernie Sanders to run for president as a Democrat in 2016. The rest, as the saying goes, is history.

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Now, although we are in a much different situation, we?re once again asking you to join us saying ?Run Bernie, Run?. The Trump regime is a terrible threat to us all. Just this past weekend, Bernie was being interviewed on CNN by Jake Tapper, and he said that if the Dreamers (the 800,000 young people covered by the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals, or DACA) are not protected. Bernie stated that will be ?a stain on this nation from which we might well never recover.? We agree. If you agree, Sign & Share The Petition Saying: ?Run Bernie, Run!?<https://pda.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Factionnetwork.org%2Fpetitions%2Frun-bernie-run&e=f25eed4140a38a00ab8dba3f5f2cc39d&utm_source=pda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2_6_trumpstrump&n=7>

Until we watched and listened to so many of the Senate Democrats cave in to the wildly disingenuous ?deal? offered by the Senate Trumpublicans to reopen the federal government, we might have thought about waiting to release any comments about the 2020 presidential race. We were absolutely disgusted by the vote, but we were also thrilled with the slate of progressive Senators who held the line.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were among our progressive champions who voted not to pass the continuing resolution unless the Dreamers were protected. No one ought see this petition as our choosing a favorite between these two incredible Senators?we honor and will stand with them both. Bernie gets our nod for now, and so we?re asking you to Sign & Share The Petition Saying: ?Run Bernie, Run!?<https://pda.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Factionnetwork.org%2Fpetitions%2Frun-bernie-run&e=f25eed4140a38a00ab8dba3f5f2cc39d&utm_source=pda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2_6_trumpstrump&n=8>.

We are proud to have been the original Berniecrats, but we also know that Bernie has helped launch thousands of new groups and campaigns all over the country and globally as his clarity, his intelligence, his courage, and his compassion resonated widely. PDA held house parties and events throughout the nation and eventually fielded 226 elected Bernie delegates to the DNC convention in Philadelphia.

When Bernie lost the primary, we followed his gracious and powerful lead in continuing to work hard for Democratic gains in the general election and to demand reforms within the Democratic Party that might better reflect a strongly progressive base. Though we are not officially a part of the DNC, we are committed to continuing to elect as many progressive Democrats to DC as is humanly possible. That won?t be a ?gimme? this year in the mid-terms?especially if the Dems fail to strongly stand up to the damage being done by Trump and his minions. Do you agree? If you do, Sign & Share The Petition Saying: ?Run Bernie, Run!?<https://pda.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Factionnetwork.org%2Fpetitions%2Frun-bernie-run&e=f25eed4140a38a00ab8dba3f5f2cc39d&utm_source=pda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2_6_trumpstrump&n=9>.

We need to be able to stand behind leaders like Senator Sanders who many media outlets have reported is the most popular Democrat in the nation but who is also one of the most trustworthy Congressional members the nation has ever had. Bernie is consistent, powerful, and unafraid of the bully in the White House.

Bernie Sanders knows that Trump?s ?populism? is nothing more than a billionaire?s ploy to appear like he is not the ultra-wealthy, racist, sexist con-man that he is and to act as though he is ?every man.? Bernie knows how to treat all people decently without pretending. We honor that leadership quality. If you agree, Sign & Share The Petition Saying: ?Run Bernie, Run!?<https://pda.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Factionnetwork.org%2Fpetitions%2Frun-bernie-run&e=f25eed4140a38a00ab8dba3f5f2cc39d&utm_source=pda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2_6_trumpstrump&n=10>

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 22:05:02 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Protect Northwest CA Treasures
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 14:34:54 -0800
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I?m done.
I really just can?t anymore.
Wells Fargo?s latest revelation is the straw that broke my back.
Yesterday, Wells Fargo disclosed <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41167-wells-fargo-scandal-deepens-bank-reveals-up-to-14-million-more-fake-accounts> that an expanded internal investigation found that the bank opened a significantly larger amount of ?potentially unauthorized? accounts than first thought.
It wasn?t the 2.1 million fake accounts that the led to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the city and county of Los Angeles handing down a $185 million fine <http://www.housingwire.com/articles/37993-cfpb-levies-100-million-fine-against-wells-fargo> against Wells Fargo.
It was actually much more than that. 1.4 million more, to be exact.
Instead of the 2.1 million ?potentially unauthorized? accounts opened by 5,000 of the bank?s former employees in order to get sales bonuses, it was actually 3.5 million potentially unauthorized consumer and small business accounts opened during the period of the expanded investigation ? from January 2009 through September 2016.
As many as 1.4 million MORE fake accounts? 3.5 million total?
ARE YOU F$*KING KIDDING ME????
Now, the bank was very careful to state that the new investigation ?erred on the side of customers? by conducting ?data-driven? analysis and looking at account usage patterns of consumer and small business checking, savings, and unsecured credit card and line of credit account data.
The bank also stated that ?since usage patterns of some authorized accounts opened with a customer?s consent can be similar to some unauthorized accounts, it is likely that some properly authorized accounts were included in the population identified as unauthorized accounts.?
Basically, Wells Fargo is trying to say that its investigation was so thorough that it?s possible that some real accounts were included in the 3.5 million total of ?potentially unauthorized? accounts.
And we use ?potentially unauthorized? because that?s how the bank puts it in its materials.
The bottom line is that Wells Fargo doesn?t know for sure how many fake accounts were actually opened. In some cases, they can?t tell the difference between a fake account and a real account.
But it?s possible that the bank?s employees actually opened 3.5 million accounts in customers? names without their authorization.
That?s disgusting.
And while the bank talks a good game, stating <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41167-wells-fargo-scandal-deepens-bank-reveals-up-to-14-million-more-fake-accounts> that all affected customers will be paid back, either via direct remediation from the bank or through a $142 million settlement <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40639-wells-fargo-142-million-fake-account-settlement-nearing-final-approval> in a class-action lawsuit, it doesn?t change the fact that the bank?s employees preyed on the innocence and ignorance of their customers and opened millions of fake accounts to get sales bonuses.
And it doesn?t change the fact that Wells Fargo cultivated an atmosphere that encouraged its employees to take advantage of their customers.
Wells Fargo?s employees used the fact that their customers trusted the bank and the fact that some of their customers don?t check their account status every single day to commit fraud.
What?s a couple fake accounts opened up in some senior citizen?s name? They?ll never notice because we?ll close the account before they get their monthly statement in the mail. They don?t bank online, so they?ll never know. And we get our bonuses. It?s perfect.
And gross.
The truth is, I?m getting sick and tired of reading about and reporting on companies taking advantage of their customers and basically getting away with it.
Sure, Wells Fargo will change how it does business <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/38926-wells-fargo-unveils-replacement-for-scandal-ridden-pay-plan>, pay its big fine <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/37993-cfpb-levies-100-million-fine-against-wells-fargo>, pay out its big settlement <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40639-wells-fargo-142-million-fake-account-settlement-nearing-final-approval>, hand out its remediation <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41167-wells-fargo-scandal-deepens-bank-reveals-up-to-14-million-more-fake-accounts>, and some of the bank?s executives will lose their jobs <http://www.housingwire.com/articles/38268-scandal-plagued-wells-fargo-ceo-john-stumpf-relinquishes-post> or their bonuses <http://www.housingwire.com/articles/39460-wells-fargo-revokes-2016-bonuses-for-top-execs-warns-there-could-be-more-fake-accounts> (LOL!), but the bank keeps on trucking. The fake account issue becomes a mere speed bump in the bank?s history.
Wells Fargo steals from its customers, pays the fines, and gets to keep doing business.
But what happens if a person steals from Wells Fargo? Oh yeah, they go to jail <https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/pr/columbus-bank-robber-pleads-guilty-after-jury-selected>.
Now, I?m not arguing that someone who breaks the law doesn?t deserve to be punished. Quite the opposite, in fact. If a person commits a crime, they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
So that makes me wonder if anyone from Wells Fargo who committed these fraudulent acts will end up in jail over this?
HAHAHAHA!
That?s hilarious. We don?t punish big bank employees for committing financial crimes in this country. We certainly didn?t after the financial crisis.
That?s the problem with these types of things. We rightfully blame the bank for its astounding lack of institutional control, but the people who actually committed these acts and oversaw them escape relatively unscathed.
Sure, some of them lost their jobs and lost their bonuses, but none of them are going to jail.
What we do instead (or at least what we used to do) is increase financial regulation to try to prevent companies from screwing over their customers, again.
And I say ?used to do? because the Republican Party seems dead-set <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40408-treasury-gut-cfpb-overhaul-residential-mortgage-lending-regulation> on rolling back <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40376-house-votes-to-abolish-dodd-frank> many of the financial regulations enacted since the financial crisis.
One of the Republicans? favorite targets <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/37213-inside-the-foundation-shattering-republican-plan-to-abolish-dodd-frank> is the CFPB, the agency tasked with protecting the people of this country from financial abuses.
But that?s not how Republicans and so many of the people in the financial services industry think of it.
They think of it as the bane of their existence; a truly unnecessary governmental nuisance that keeps the financial industry to being able to operate functionally and fully.
I?ve talked to enough people who work in the housing business to know that the CFPB made their lives much harder. Dealing with the CFPB and its various regulations impacts companies? ability to serve their customers and make money.
I get why they hate the CFPB. I really do.
But, I can?t just sit back and watch the Republican Party undo all of the financial regulation borne out of the financial crisis. I just can?t.
Situations like Wells Fargo show why the CFPB must exist.
It?s absolutely, critically important to have a government agency that can protect consumers from financial institutions that lie to them, steal from them, and prey on them.
But Republicans seem hell-bent on either killing the CFPB <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/39223-ted-cruz-introduces-bill-to-abolish-cfpb> or defanging it considerably <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40196-trump-budget-surprise-gutting-the-cfpb>.
I?m sure House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and other Republicans in Washington are counting down <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40896-hensarling-wants-cfpbs-cordray-investigated-for-potential-election-law-violations> the moments until CFPB Director Richard Cordray steps down (perhaps as soon as THIS WEEKEND <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41163-speculation-rises-as-cfpb-director-cordray-fails-to-shut-down-ohio-governor-rumors>) so they can replace him with a potted plant.
And with the Republicans? chosen potted plant in charge of the CFPB, the bureau will surely be significantly less proactive about regulating the financial services industry than it has been with Cordray in charge.
I know that Hensarling and others tried to smear the CFPB <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40446-cfpb-director-cordray-responds-to-claims-he-slowed-wells-fargo-investigation> in the wake of the original Wells Fargo investigation by suggesting <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40369-republican-staff-cfpb-director-slowing-down-wells-fargo-account-scandal-investigation> that the CFPB took too long to act.
They claim that the CFPB?s inaction <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/40369-republican-staff-cfpb-director-slowing-down-wells-fargo-account-scandal-investigation> is a signal that the bureau is a failed institution and needs to be reformed. And they?re right, but not in the way they think.
The CFPB does need to be reformed. But it needs to be strengthened, not neutered.
We need a stronger regulatory system in this country. Not a weaker one.
It needs to be smart regulation, but even with all the regulation that Dodd-Frank wrought, Wells Fargo still happened. Ocwen <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/39917-cfpb-sues-ocwen-alleges-total-failure-of-mortgage-servicing-process> still happened. CitiMortgage <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/39012-cfpb-fines-citifinancial-servicing-and-citimortgage-29-million> still happened. Flagstar <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/31517-cfpb-fines-flagstar-375-million-for-mortgage-servicing-violations>still happened. Transunion <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/38859-transunion-fined-169-million-by-cfpb-for-advertising-practices> still happened.
And?s that just a small sample.
Financial services companies are still screwing up, whether it?s on purpose or not. And it all happened on the CFPB?s watch. So make the bureau stronger, not weaker. Allow it to truly function how it was designed to function. Let the bureau really protect people.
The CFPB needs to be there to hold those companies responsible, and to work to prevent things like Wells Fargo from happening at all.
Now, I?m sure people reading this will happily slap labels on me like ?liberal,? ?Democrat,? or ?progressive? for suggesting that the CFPB needs to continue to exist and get stronger.
Heaven forbid someone disagree with one piece of the Republican Party line, lest they be branded as a ?bleeding heart liberal? or whatever.
So be it.
This is more important than labels or political parties. It?s about common sense and doing what?s right.
It?s about making sure that people don?t get screwed over by companies that they trust with their money.
Here?s the thing. It?s entirely possible that Richard Cordray could resign <https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41006-attempt-no-2-group-files-foia-request-with-cfpb-over-cordrays-alleged-ohio-governor-campaign> over the weekend. That?s what all the rumors seem to say anyway. And if he does, we?re all about to enter a whole new world of financial regulation; one that?s different than what we?ve seen over the last few years. It?s my hope that the next version of the financial regulatory system will be better and stronger than what we have now.
But forgive me if have my doubts. 
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From: lewallen at mcn.org (Lewallen)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 09:04:19 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Finding Delight in Avoiding War With North Korea
Message-ID: <000d01d3a1c8$0fe7ffb0$2fb7ff10$@mcn.org>

Finding Delight in Avoiding War With North Korea

--by John Lewallen <avoidingnuclearwar.com>

Feb.9, 2018

Howdy Neighbors,

I'm here on a beautiful day in Mendocino County, California. For me, my
sense that the risk of nuclear war is rather high just now is exacerbating
my delight in my wife, my friends, and the delightful world we share.
Psychologically, it is to me like the Reagan years. We made it through
Reagan and we can make it now!

I'm inviting you to come with me as I find delight in trying to understand
the ecology of the nuclear weapons industry, and to join with people
worldwide to avoid nuclear war and eventually eliminate the threat of
nuclear war completely. I'm 75 now, which is about the same age as the era
of nuclear weapons. All my life I have felt the terror of impending nuclear
war, and have avoided despair by studying nuclear confrontation and working
with activists to reduce the threat of nuclear war. So far, so good! There
hasn't been a nuclear weapon detonated in battle since the U.S. dropped an
atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.

                I'd love to hear from people who are thinking and organizing
to avoid nuclear war. May we enjoy each amazing day on this Earth free of
nuclear war! 

                I'll be a bit loose and reflective in this writing. It is
urgent right now to advocate for no war with North Korea! The president said
that North Korea would be able to strike the United States with nuclear
missiles "in a few months" in his State of the Union Address a few days ago.
Vice President Pence is in Japan demanding that North Korea give up its
nuclear weapons. The implication of impending U.S. military attack on North
Korea soon is obvious. 

                All my heart and soul is with the Koreans at the Olympics in
Seoul, especially the five hundred peaceful envoys from North Korea. It is a
macabre nightmare that the U.S. is imposing what Pence called the "heaviest
sanctions ever" on North Korea, and organizing nations in Vancouver.B.C. for
a possible military attack on North Korea (China and Russia, not invited,
denounced this rally of Korean War allies as "Cold War mentality"). At the
same time. North and South Korea are earnestly beginning peace talks. The
U.S. should stop threatening and sanctioning North Korea, and begin peace
talks to end the Korean War.

When the 1953 armistice in Korea stopped the bombing which had completely
leveled North Korea, neither North Korea nor its ally, China, had nuclear
weapons which could reach the United States. Now both these nations have
focused on having nuclear weapons primarily to deter attack from the U.S.,
to prevent exactly the sort of "nuclear blackmail" President Trump is using
to demand that North Korea give up its nuclear weapons. Yet President Trump
and other "experts" believe they can keep any war in Korea, as he has said,
"over there." 

The idea that North Korea can't reach the United States with a thermonuclear
weapon yet is a catastrophically dangerous misconception. Here's the lead
paragraph from Professor Scott D. Sagan's article "The Korean Missile
Crisis" in the Nov/Dec. 2017 Foreign Affairs :

"It is time for the U.S. government to admit that it has failed to prevent
North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic
missiles that can reach the United States.The gravest danger now is that
North Korea, South Korea, and the United States will stumble into a
catastrophic war that none of them wants."

We're being dragged into a war with North Korea by President Trump and
everyone who follows his military orders, and it's time to start kicking and
screaming! Trump et.al. are playing it like it is a Western movie: the bad
guys are holed up in the barn and threatening to kill attackers and
hostages, and the good guys are screaming "Drop your weapons and come out
hands up-you're surrounded and cut off from supplies!"

                The real world is an integrated global society utterly
dependent on interconnected, computer-dependent systems worldwide. Now North
Korea has the ability to use a high-altitude nuclear EMP weapon, one bomb,
to damage or destroy computerized civilization throughout the continental
United States, and in satellites in line of sight of the blast. This was the
first thing mentioned by the North Koreans when they tested what they said
was their first thermonuclear bomb on Sept 3 last year: now we could do a
high-altitude EMP attack!

                Also, China has strongly hinted in public that it would
intervene to prevent the U.S., from overthrowing the North Korean
Government, if the U.S. launched a first-strike on North Korea (see my post
"China Draws Red Lines to Restrain Both U.S. and North Korea"). China is
fully able to disable the U.S. in many ways, military, economic, and
financial.

                It is virtually unthinkable that North Korea would launch a
first-strike against the U.S. North Korea was leveled by U.S. bombers by
1953, and will do anything to avoid being destroyed again. They clearly
believe in classical Nuclear Deterrence Theory: They believe only way they
can deter overwhelming attack by the United States is by having
"Second-Strike Threat Credibility", defined as being able to strike the
United States causing unacceptable losses even if they suffer a U.S. first-
strike completely disabling their nuclear forces on land.

Trump et.al. are blindly focused on seizing land-based nuclear facilities in
North Korea, ignoring nuclear weapons and missiles possibly in orbit, on
submarines, smuggled into the U.S., or delivered some other way.
Unfortunately, deterrence theory is effective only against rational and sane
commanders, and Trump seems simply not to believe in thermonuclear EMP
weapons. Question: Is this why North Korea has threatened to do an
atmospheric H-bomb test, which inevitably would put out some damaging EMP,
maybe a lot of it?

Let's all cheer on the Koreans who are struggling for peace in their
homeland, and demand that the U.S. immediately stop all war threats against
North Korea. With the North Koreans believing they absolutely need a nuclear
force capable of reaching the U.S. to effectively deter being attacked, and
the U.S. threatening to attack unless they give up their nuclear weapons,
it's a nightmare showdown that must stop to prevent a war of "suicidal
omnicide," a thermonuclear exchange destroying the U.S. and possibly much
more. Let's have a great time working in loving nonviolence to end this
threat to our lives and homes.         

    

 

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From: lewallen at mcn.org (Lewallen)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 09:46:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Spring Mobilization Against the U.S. Wars at
	Home and Abroad
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From: VFP Chapter 71 [mailto:vfpchapter71 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 8:04 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Fwd: Spring Mobilization Against the U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad

 

A couple of people are driving down for this Monday's planning meeting. If anyone is interested in attending the meeting with us and carpooling, just let me know. 

 

When we have more details about the mobilization in April, we'll be sharing it with you on this list. - Peace, Susan Lamont

 

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY...

Dear Antiwar and Social Justice activists, 

You are invited to a Bay Area antiwar planning meeting on 

Monday, February 12, 7-9 pm at the 

Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland <https://maps.google.com/?q=6501+Telegraph+Ave.,+Oakland&entry=gmail&source=g> . 

The sole objective of the meeting is to constitute a new Bay Area coalition for the purpose of organizing a Bay Area April 14 or April 15 regional antiwar mobilization, as part of coordinated national actions on those days. (See all the details below.) 

Please make every effort to attend and join in on the ground floor as we mobilize against the U.S. wars at home and abroad. 

This past Saturday, February 3, representatives of sixty-six antiwar and social justice organizations from across the U.S. voted unanimously via a national conference call to initiate major regional demonstrations against the U.S. wars at home and abroad on the weekend of April 14-15. Initial coordinated mobilizations are being planned for New York, SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. The February 3 meeting was initiated by the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Bases and the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). The decision to recommend to the conference call participants that we mobilize on April 14-15 was unanimously adopted by the steering committees of the two coalitions representing some 35 national groups.

 Here is the new website for the Spring Action:   <http://www.springaction2018.org/> http://www.springaction2018.org/ and the resolution/call approved unanimously at the recent Baltimore national conference of the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Bases.   <http://noforeignbases.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Spring-Action-Call.pdf> http://noforeignbases.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Spring-Action-Call.pdf.

 The demands below were sent to a wide list of organizations prior to the conference.

? End U.S. overt and covert wars, drone wars, sanction/embargo wars, and death squad assassination wars.

?  Close all U.S. bases on foreign soil.  Dismantle all nuclear weapons.

?  Bring all U.S. troops home now. Self-determination not military intervention. U.S. hands off the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. End U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. Self-determination for Palestine. The U.S. cannot be the cop of the world.

? $Trillions for human needs. For jobs and social services, quality debt-free education and single payer health care. No to anti-union legislation.  For $15 and a Union Now.

? Defend the environment against life-threatening fossil fuel-induced global warming. For a rapid transition to a 100 percent clean, sustainable energy system and retraining and jobs at union wages for all displaced energy workers. 

? No to white supremacy and racist policies and actions against Muslims, immigrants, people of color, and indigenous peoples. No to police brutality/murder. End racist mass incarceration. Black Lives Matter!

? No human being is illegal. No to deportations. Yes to DACA and TPS (Temporary Protective Status) and a just and early path to citizenship. No ban, no wall!

? No to sexism, sexual violence and harassment. Yes to equal work and pay. Support women's reproductive rights.

The U.S. government and its leading Pentagon generals openly and repeatedly threaten nuclear war or massive military intervention against sovereign nations. Such is the case today with North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. Simultaneously, U.S. military forces are at war in several nations including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. Haiti and Honduras also face covert and ongoing U.S. intervention. 

More than 800 U.S. military bases circle the globe in more than 170 countries at the cost of $trillions, while these same $trillions are subtracted from critical social programs at home. $Trillions in tax cuts and corporate bailouts are granted to the super rich while the war at home takes on virulent racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and homophobic forms.

Join us on Monday, February 12 at 7-9 pm.

 

Cindy Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox

Alice Walker, author

Nancy Price, Exec. Comm., Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases  

Blanca Miss?, Labor Rising; International Women's Strike*

Alita Blanc, President, United Educators of San Francisco (UESF)*

Barbara L. Nielsen, Co-Chair, Nat'l DISARM-End Wars Committee, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, United States Section*;  Member, WILPF San Francisco Branch*

Jeff Mackler, Northern California United National Antiwar Coal; Nat'l UNAC Administrative Comm.

Ellen Schwartz, former Program co-chair, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, U.S. Section

Jack Fleck, Steering Committee, 350 Bay Area*

Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Bay View, a National Black Newspaper

Pierre La Boissiere, Co-founder, Haiti Action Committee*

Tova Fry, International Action Center

Monadel Herzallah, Labor organizer, antiwar activist

Walter Riley, Board Chair, Haiti Emergency Relief  Fund; Chair, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute

Alan Benjamin, Steering Committee, Labor Fightback Network; delegate, SF Labor Council*

David Welsh, Vets for Peace East Bay Chapter 162; Haiti Action Commi.* delegate SF Labor Council*

Don Bechler, Chair, Single Payer Now

Rick Sterling, Steering Committee, Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center; Hands Off Syria Coalition

Paul George, Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

Kamran Nayeri, Editor, Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism

Stephen Bingham, Past President, SF Bay Area Chapter National Lawyers Guild; Marin Grassroots Coalition for Immigrant and Civil Rights*

Laura Herrera, Co-coordinator, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Alicia Jrapko, U. S. Coordinator, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity.

Tom Lacey, Chair, San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party

Karl Kramer, Campaign Co-director, San Francisco Living Wage Coalition*

Dan Kaplan, Executive Sec., San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1493

Francisco Herrera, Trabajo Cultural CAMINANTE /Cultural Worker/Educator

Ron Dicks, Past International Vice President Western Region, International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees (IFPTE), retired*

Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone, Co-producers, Taking Aim, Pacifica Radio

Rhonda Ramiro, Vice Chair, BAYAN-USA

Carolina Dutton, Task Force on the Americas/Marin, 

Bill Balderston, Teacher/labor activist

Bradley Wiedmaier, SEIU Local 2015 SF Labor Council delegate*

Barry Hermanson, San Francisco Green Party

Marsha Feinland, State Executive Committee, Peace & Freedom Party

Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs 

Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10, retired

Katharine Harer, Co-VP & Organizer, AFT 1493, San Mateo Community College Fed. of Teachers

Allan Fisher, AFT 2121 SF Labor Council delegate, CISPES

Attila Nagy, Pres., Peace & Justice Ctr. Sonoma County;*;Comit? VIDA immigrant rts. organization*

Judith Mirkinson, National Lawyers Guild/ SF/Bay Area

Steve Ongerth, co-founder IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus*

 PM Press

Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma'at, Africans Deserve Reparations Campaign

Linda Ray, SEIU 1021 delegate to San Francisco Labor Council *

Susan Lamont, Veterans for Peace,* May 1st Coalition,* Green Party of Sonoma County, Police Brutality Coalition of Sonoma County*

*organization for identification only 

 

 

 

 

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From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:31:48 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Finding Delight in Avoiding War With North
	Korea
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Subject: [Occupymendocino] Finding Delight in Avoiding War With North Korea

 

Finding Delight in Avoiding War With North Korea

--by John Lewallen <avoidingnuclearwar.com>

Feb.9, 2018

Howdy Neighbors,

I'm here on a beautiful day in Mendocino County, California. For me, my
sense that the risk of nuclear war is rather high just now is exacerbating
my delight in my wife, my friends, and the delightful world we share.
Psychologically, it is to me like the Reagan years. We made it through
Reagan and we can make it now!

I'm inviting you to come with me as I find delight in trying to understand
the ecology of the nuclear weapons industry, and to join with people
worldwide to avoid nuclear war and eventually eliminate the threat of
nuclear war completely. I'm 75 now, which is about the same age as the era
of nuclear weapons. All my life I have felt the terror of impending nuclear
war, and have avoided despair by studying nuclear confrontation and working
with activists to reduce the threat of nuclear war. So far, so good! There
hasn't been a nuclear weapon detonated in battle since the U.S. dropped an
atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.

                I'd love to hear from people who are thinking and organizing
to avoid nuclear war. May we enjoy each amazing day on this Earth free of
nuclear war! 

                I'll be a bit loose and reflective in this writing. It is
urgent right now to advocate for no war with North Korea! The president said
that North Korea would be able to strike the United States with nuclear
missiles "in a few months" in his State of the Union Address a few days ago.
Vice President Pence is in Japan demanding that North Korea give up its
nuclear weapons. The implication of impending U.S. military attack on North
Korea soon is obvious. 

                All my heart and soul is with the Koreans at the Olympics in
Seoul, especially the five hundred peaceful envoys from North Korea. It is a
macabre nightmare that the U.S. is imposing what Pence called the "heaviest
sanctions ever" on North Korea, and organizing nations in Vancouver.B.C. for
a possible military attack on North Korea (China and Russia, not invited,
denounced this rally of Korean War allies as "Cold War mentality"). At the
same time. North and South Korea are earnestly beginning peace talks. The
U.S. should stop threatening and sanctioning North Korea, and begin peace
talks to end the Korean War.

When the 1953 armistice in Korea stopped the bombing which had completely
leveled North Korea, neither North Korea nor its ally, China, had nuclear
weapons which could reach the United States. Now both these nations have
focused on having nuclear weapons primarily to deter attack from the U.S.,
to prevent exactly the sort of "nuclear blackmail" President Trump is using
to demand that North Korea give up its nuclear weapons. Yet President Trump
and other "experts" believe they can keep any war in Korea, as he has said,
"over there." 

The idea that North Korea can't reach the United States with a thermonuclear
weapon yet is a catastrophically dangerous misconception. Here's the lead
paragraph from Professor Scott D. Sagan's article "The Korean Missile
Crisis" in the Nov/Dec. 2017 Foreign Affairs :

"It is time for the U.S. government to admit that it has failed to prevent
North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic
missiles that can reach the United States.The gravest danger now is that
North Korea, South Korea, and the United States will stumble into a
catastrophic war that none of them wants."

We're being dragged into a war with North Korea by President Trump and
everyone who follows his military orders, and it's time to start kicking and
screaming! Trump et.al. are playing it like it is a Western movie: the bad
guys are holed up in the barn and threatening to kill attackers and
hostages, and the good guys are screaming "Drop your weapons and come out
hands up-you're surrounded and cut off from supplies!"

                The real world is an integrated global society utterly
dependent on interconnected, computer-dependent systems worldwide. Now North
Korea has the ability to use a high-altitude nuclear EMP weapon, one bomb,
to damage or destroy computerized civilization throughout the continental
United States, and in satellites in line of sight of the blast. This was the
first thing mentioned by the North Koreans when they tested what they said
was their first thermonuclear bomb on Sept 3 last year: now we could do a
high-altitude EMP attack!

                Also, China has strongly hinted in public that it would
intervene to prevent the U.S., from overthrowing the North Korean
Government, if the U.S. launched a first-strike on North Korea (see my post
"China Draws Red Lines to Restrain Both U.S. and North Korea"). China is
fully able to disable the U.S. in many ways, military, economic, and
financial.

                It is virtually unthinkable that North Korea would launch a
first-strike against the U.S. North Korea was leveled by U.S. bombers by
1953, and will do anything to avoid being destroyed again. They clearly
believe in classical Nuclear Deterrence Theory: They believe only way they
can deter overwhelming attack by the United States is by having
"Second-Strike Threat Credibility", defined as being able to strike the
United States causing unacceptable losses even if they suffer a U.S. first-
strike completely disabling their nuclear forces on land.

Trump et.al. are blindly focused on seizing land-based nuclear facilities in
North Korea, ignoring nuclear weapons and missiles possibly in orbit, on
submarines, smuggled into the U.S., or delivered some other way.
Unfortunately, deterrence theory is effective only against rational and sane
commanders, and Trump seems simply not to believe in thermonuclear EMP
weapons. Question: Is this why North Korea has threatened to do an
atmospheric H-bomb test, which inevitably would put out some damaging EMP,
maybe a lot of it?

Let's all cheer on the Koreans who are struggling for peace in their
homeland, and demand that the U.S. immediately stop all war threats against
North Korea. With the North Koreans believing they absolutely need a nuclear
force capable of reaching the U.S. to effectively deter being attacked, and
the U.S. threatening to attack unless they give up their nuclear weapons,
it's a nightmare showdown that must stop to prevent a war of "suicidal
omnicide," a thermonuclear exchange destroying the U.S. and possibly much
more. Let's have a great time working in loving nonviolence to end this
threat to our lives and homes.         

    

 

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From john at cypresshouse.com  Fri Feb  9 10:36:44 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:36:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: FW: Spring Mobilization Against the U.S. Wars
	at	Home and Abroad
Message-ID: <014e01d3a1d4$ef6049c0$ce20dd40$@com>

 

 

From: occupymendocino-bounces at lists.mcn.org [mailto:occupymendocino-bounces at lists.mcn.org] On Behalf Of Lewallen
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 9:46 AM
To: VFP-116 at yahoogroups.com; occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org; babs at mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Spring Mobilization Against the U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad

 

 

 

From: VFP Chapter 71 [mailto:vfpchapter71 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 8:04 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Fwd: Spring Mobilization Against the U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad

 

A couple of people are driving down for this Monday's planning meeting. If anyone is interested in attending the meeting with us and carpooling, just let me know. 

 

When we have more details about the mobilization in April, we'll be sharing it with you on this list. - Peace, Susan Lamont

 

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY...

Dear Antiwar and Social Justice activists, 

You are invited to a Bay Area antiwar planning meeting on 

Monday, February 12, 7-9 pm at the 

Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 <https://maps.google.com/?q=6501+Telegraph+Ave.,+Oakland&entry=gmail&source=g>  Telegraph Ave., Oakland. 

The sole objective of the meeting is to constitute a new Bay Area coalition for the purpose of organizing a Bay Area April 14 or April 15 regional antiwar mobilization, as part of coordinated national actions on those days. (See all the details below.) 

Please make every effort to attend and join in on the ground floor as we mobilize against the U.S. wars at home and abroad. 

This past Saturday, February 3, representatives of sixty-six antiwar and social justice organizations from across the U.S. voted unanimously via a national conference call to initiate major regional demonstrations against the U.S. wars at home and abroad on the weekend of April 14-15. Initial coordinated mobilizations are being planned for New York, SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. The February 3 meeting was initiated by the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Bases and the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). The decision to recommend to the conference call participants that we mobilize on April 14-15 was unanimously adopted by the steering committees of the two coalitions representing some 35 national groups.

 Here is the new website for the Spring Action:   <http://www.springaction2018.org/> http://www.springaction2018.org/ and the resolution/call approved unanimously at the recent Baltimore national conference of the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Bases.   <http://noforeignbases.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Spring-Action-Call.pdf> http://noforeignbases.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Spring-Action-Call.pdf.

 The demands below were sent to a wide list of organizations prior to the conference.

? End U.S. overt and covert wars, drone wars, sanction/embargo wars, and death squad assassination wars.

?  Close all U.S. bases on foreign soil.  Dismantle all nuclear weapons.

?  Bring all U.S. troops home now. Self-determination not military intervention. U.S. hands off the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. End U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. Self-determination for Palestine. The U.S. cannot be the cop of the world.

? $Trillions for human needs. For jobs and social services, quality debt-free education and single payer health care. No to anti-union legislation.  For $15 and a Union Now.

? Defend the environment against life-threatening fossil fuel-induced global warming. For a rapid transition to a 100 percent clean, sustainable energy system and retraining and jobs at union wages for all displaced energy workers. 

? No to white supremacy and racist policies and actions against Muslims, immigrants, people of color, and indigenous peoples. No to police brutality/murder. End racist mass incarceration. Black Lives Matter!

? No human being is illegal. No to deportations. Yes to DACA and TPS (Temporary Protective Status) and a just and early path to citizenship. No ban, no wall!

? No to sexism, sexual violence and harassment. Yes to equal work and pay. Support women's reproductive rights.

The U.S. government and its leading Pentagon generals openly and repeatedly threaten nuclear war or massive military intervention against sovereign nations. Such is the case today with North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. Simultaneously, U.S. military forces are at war in several nations including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. Haiti and Honduras also face covert and ongoing U.S. intervention. 

More than 800 U.S. military bases circle the globe in more than 170 countries at the cost of $trillions, while these same $trillions are subtracted from critical social programs at home. $Trillions in tax cuts and corporate bailouts are granted to the super rich while the war at home takes on virulent racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and homophobic forms.

Join us on Monday, February 12 at 7-9 pm.

 

Cindy Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox

Alice Walker, author

Nancy Price, Exec. Comm., Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases  

Blanca Miss?, Labor Rising; International Women's Strike*

Alita Blanc, President, United Educators of San Francisco (UESF)*

Barbara L. Nielsen, Co-Chair, Nat'l DISARM-End Wars Committee, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, United States Section*;  Member, WILPF San Francisco Branch*

Jeff Mackler, Northern California United National Antiwar Coal; Nat'l UNAC Administrative Comm.

Ellen Schwartz, former Program co-chair, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, U.S. Section

Jack Fleck, Steering Committee, 350 Bay Area*

Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Bay View, a National Black Newspaper

Pierre La Boissiere, Co-founder, Haiti Action Committee*

Tova Fry, International Action Center

Monadel Herzallah, Labor organizer, antiwar activist

Walter Riley, Board Chair, Haiti Emergency Relief  Fund; Chair, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute

Alan Benjamin, Steering Committee, Labor Fightback Network; delegate, SF Labor Council*

David Welsh, Vets for Peace East Bay Chapter 162; Haiti Action Commi.* delegate SF Labor Council*

Don Bechler, Chair, Single Payer Now

Rick Sterling, Steering Committee, Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center; Hands Off Syria Coalition

Paul George, Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

Kamran Nayeri, Editor, Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism

Stephen Bingham, Past President, SF Bay Area Chapter National Lawyers Guild; Marin Grassroots Coalition for Immigrant and Civil Rights*

Laura Herrera, Co-coordinator, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Alicia Jrapko, U. S. Coordinator, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity.

Tom Lacey, Chair, San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party

Karl Kramer, Campaign Co-director, San Francisco Living Wage Coalition*

Dan Kaplan, Executive Sec., San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1493

Francisco Herrera, Trabajo Cultural CAMINANTE /Cultural Worker/Educator

Ron Dicks, Past International Vice President Western Region, International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees (IFPTE), retired*

Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone, Co-producers, Taking Aim, Pacifica Radio

Rhonda Ramiro, Vice Chair, BAYAN-USA

Carolina Dutton, Task Force on the Americas/Marin, 

Bill Balderston, Teacher/labor activist

Bradley Wiedmaier, SEIU Local 2015 SF Labor Council delegate*

Barry Hermanson, San Francisco Green Party

Marsha Feinland, State Executive Committee, Peace & Freedom Party

Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs 

Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10, retired

Katharine Harer, Co-VP & Organizer, AFT 1493, San Mateo Community College Fed. of Teachers

Allan Fisher, AFT 2121 SF Labor Council delegate, CISPES

Attila Nagy, Pres., Peace & Justice Ctr. Sonoma County;*;Comit? VIDA immigrant rts. organization*

Judith Mirkinson, National Lawyers Guild/ SF/Bay Area

Steve Ongerth, co-founder IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus*

 PM Press

Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma'at, Africans Deserve Reparations Campaign

Linda Ray, SEIU 1021 delegate to San Francisco Labor Council *

Susan Lamont, Veterans for Peace,* May 1st Coalition,* Green Party of Sonoma County, Police Brutality Coalition of Sonoma County*

*organization for identification only 

 

 

 

 

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From john at cypresshouse.com  Fri Feb  9 17:46:44 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 17:46:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Kick Kelley Out
Message-ID: <012c01d3a211$0210b730$06322590$@com>

Hi, 

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly needs to resign immediately. Will you
join me in signing such a petition? Here's why:

News broke Wednesday evening that not only has Kelly known that a senior
White House aide (Porter) beat two of his ex-wives, Kelly also tried to talk
him out of resigning, calling him "a man of true integrity and honor."

It's not the first time Kelly has defended men who abuse women. Two years
ago, he appeared as a character witness during the court-martial of a Marine
colonel accused of sexually harassing two women subordinates--a man who was
also later charged with sexually assaulting three children. Kelly called him
"a superb Marine officer." Kelly's disregard for this kind of behavior
disqualifies him to be in government at all, much less the second most
powerful abuser in the White House.

Enough. Kelly needs to go. Sources inside the White House say this latest
incident has dealt Kelly's White House standing "a serious blow" that could
lead to his end as Chief of Staff. If we pile on right now, we can force his
resignation. Can you join me in signing?

https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/john_kelly_resign/?referring_akid=2109
7.1212873.rtaxD-
<https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/john_kelly_resign/?referring_akid=210
97.1212873.rtaxD-&source=mailto> &source=mailto 

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Feb 12 08:26:51 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:26:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Trumps Mental Health - Brave New Films
Message-ID: <1FF6A8AB-37D0-49C3-981E-97828FA50F4A@mcn.org>

https://www.facebook.com/bravenewfilms/videos/10155011202827016/


Dear Richard,

Trump wants a military parade. He wants $30 billion to construct a physical and ideological divide between two countries. He wants to sue and silence those who don?t agree with him. Is Donald Trump?s mental health a global threat?


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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Mon Feb 12 15:30:32 2018
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:30:32 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Corinna needs a couch in Fort Bragg Wednesday
	night
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt5r=mFH95U+UUc8S0+jQxbDYiacpG7FiU0A=bYQRDxymw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Occupy,
     Corinna, who stays with me, needs to go to Traffic Court Thursday and
needs to be there very early to get on the docket.   Does anyone have a
couch she can sleep on Wednesday night?   Many thanks.
            Peace and blessings,   Ellen    271 9170
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Feb 16 09:41:52 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:41:52 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino]
	4/trump-uses-ms-13-to-sell-draconian-overhauls-of-border-issues-journalist-says
Message-ID: <AEEEF31E-8432-4E31-B493-F04F4AE90152@mcn.org>

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/15/585937834/trump-uses-ms-13-to-sell-draconian-overhauls-of-border-issues-journalist-says

TERRY  GROSS, HOST: 
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. You've probably heard President Trump say terrifying things about the predominantly Salvadoran gang MS-13 and how it's terrorizing people in some communities in the U.S. Here's the president six months after taking office, speaking at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Since January 16 - think of this - MS-13 gang members have brutally murdered 17 beautiful young lives in this area - on Long Island alone. Think of it. They butchered those little girls. They kidnap. They extort. They rape and they rob. They prey on children. They shouldn't be here. They stomp on their victims. They beat them with clubs. They slash them with machetes, and they stab them with knives. They have transformed peaceful parks and beautiful, quiet neighborhoods into blood-stained killing fields. They're animals.

GROSS: In Trump's State of the Union address, he said that many MS-13 gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors. That led into his description of his plan to overhaul the immigration system. My guest Jonathan Blitzer writes that the president has become obsessed with MS-13 But he might actually be strengthening the gang by talking about how menacing it is. And the anti-immigration policies Trump's administration is putting into effect are hurting many of the same people who were targeted by MS-13.

Blitzer is a staff writer for The New Yorker who covers immigration. We're going to talk about the history of MS-13, who the gang members are, who the victims are and where this gang fits in the current story of American immigration. We're also going to talk about the uncertain future of DACA and this week's Senate debate about overhauling the immigration system.

Jonathan Blitzer, welcome to FRESH AIR. Do you know how MS-13 became such an obsession of Donald Trump's?

JONATHAN BLITZER: It's an interesting question. I followed Donald Trump on Long Island during the Republican primaries in the spring of 2016. And you'd think that MS-13 would have been an issue for him then if he was so fixated on a gang. I mean, MS-13 has been on Long Island since the '90s. But all throughout the primary campaign and during all of these very dramatic public appearances that he made on Long Island to different towns, he never once mentioned MS-13 at the time. So the question of sort of when it burst onto his consciousness seems to have been with the murder of two girls in September of 2016. It kind of lined up all of Trump's favorite obsessions on the immigration issue. The girls were American citizens. They were sort of sympathetic teenagers. They were brutally, brutally killed.....

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Feb 16 15:03:13 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:03:13 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Consumer and Industrial Products Now a Dominant
	Urban Pollution Source
Message-ID: <763DDFBA-62C7-4F86-B343-D2ADAD36EEC6@mcn.org>

https://cires.colorado.edu/news/consumer-industrial-products-now-dominant-urban-air-pollution-source



 <>Consumer & Industrial Products Now a Dominant Urban Air Pollution Source
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2018
AUSTIN, TEXAS?Chemical products that contain compounds refined from petroleum, like household cleaners, pesticides, paints and perfumes, now rival motor vehicle-related emissions as the top source of urban air pollution, according to a surprising NOAA-led study.

People use a lot more fuel than they do petroleum-based compounds in chemical products?about 15 times more by weight, according to the new assessment. Even so, lotions, paints and other products contribute about as much to air pollution as the transportation sector does, said lead author Brian McDonald, a CIRES scientist working in NOAA?s Chemical Sciences Division.

In the case of one type of pollution?tiny particles that can damage people?s lungs?particle-forming emissions from chemical products are about twice as high as those from the transportation sector, his team found. McDonald and colleagues from NOAA and several other institutions reported their results today in the journal Science <http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0524>.

?As transportation gets cleaner, those other sources become more and more important,? McDonald said. ?The stuff we use in our everyday lives can impact air pollution.?

For the new assessment, the scientists focused on volatile organic compounds or VOCs. VOCs can waft into the atmosphere and react to produce either ozone or particulate matter?both of which are regulated in the United States and many other countries because of health impacts, including lung damage.

Those of us living in cities and suburbs assume that much of the pollution we breathe comes from car and truck emissions or leaky gas pumps. That?s for good reason: it was clearly true in past decades. But regulators and car manufacturers made pollution-limiting changes to engines, fuels and pollution control systems. So McDonald and his colleagues reassessed air pollution sources by sorting through recent chemical production statistics compiled by industries and regulatory agencies, by making detailed atmospheric chemistry measurements in Los Angeles air, and by evaluating indoor air quality measurements made by others.

The scientists concluded that in the United States, the amount of VOCs emitted by consumer and industrial products is actually two or three times greater than estimated by current air pollution inventories, which also overestimate vehicular sources. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 75 percent of fossil VOC emissions (by weight) come from fuel-related sources, and about 25 percent from chemical products. The new study, with its detailed assessment of up-to-date chemical use statistics and previously unavailable atmospheric data, puts the split closer to 50-50.

The disproportionate air quality impact of chemical product emissions is partly because of a fundamental difference between those products and fuels, said NOAA atmospheric scientist Jessica Gilman, a co-author of the new paper. ?Gasoline is stored in closed, hopefully airtight, containers and the VOCs in gasoline are burned for energy,? she said. ?But volatile chemical products used in common solvents and personal care products are literally designed to evaporate. You wear perfume or use scented products so that you or your neighbor can enjoy the aroma. You don't do this with gasoline,? Gilman said.

The team was particularly interested in how those VOCs end up contributing to particulate pollution. A comprehensive assessment published in the British medical journal Lancet <http://www.thelancet.com/gbd> last year put air pollution in a top-five list of global mortality threats, with ?ambient particulate matter pollution? as the largest air pollution risk.

The new study finds that as cars have gotten cleaner, the VOCs forming those pollution particles are coming increasingly from consumer products.

?We?ve reached that transition point already in Los Angeles,? McDonald said.



He and his colleagues found that they simply could not reproduce the levels of particles or ozone measured in the atmosphere unless they included emissions from volatile chemical products. In the course of that work, they also determined that people are exposed to very high concentrations of volatile compounds indoors, which are more concentrated inside than out, said co-author Allen Goldstein, from the University of California Berkeley.

?Indoor concentrations are often 10 times higher indoors than outdoors, and that?s consistent with a scenario in which petroleum-based products used indoors provide a significant source to outdoor air in urban environments.?

The new assessment does find that the U.S. regulatory focus on car emissions has been very effective, said co-author Joost de Gouw, a CIRES chemist. ?It?s worked so well that to make further progress on air quality, regulatory efforts would need to become more diverse,? de Gouw said. ?It?s not just vehicles any more.?

CIRES is a partnership of NOAA <http://www.noaa.gov/> and CU Boulder <http://www.colorado.edu/>.
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Fri Feb 16 15:45:22 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:45:22 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Governor Bill Haslam: Don't Resume Executions in
	Tennessee
Message-ID: <014b01d3a780$3617ac90$a24705b0$@com>

Hey, 

I just signed the petition "Governor Bill Haslam: Don't Resume Executions in
Tennessee" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 7,500 signatures and we need more support. You can read
more and sign the petition here: 

http://chn.ge/2EwaCzJ 

Thanks! 
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Sun Feb 18 11:19:36 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:19:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Student Essays
Message-ID: <00d901d3a8ed$6d423f50$47c6bdf0$@com>

At yesterday's Occupy Mendocino meeting, we decided to bring back an essay
competition geared to middle- and high-school students. Possible subjects:
Civil Rights Today; Harassment in Schools; Education Tomorrow; King and
Chavez: Similarities and Differences; etc. Your topic suggestions are
invited.

 

We'd like to discuss the essay competition with teachers and school boards
and we're counting on your help. When do boards in Mendocino and Fort Bragg
meet? Who should we contact (principals, social studies teachers)? 

 

Ideally, we'd like to announce prize winners this school year and have the
winners read their essays in class or auditorium, but much depends on what's
on the schools' agendas.

 

Thanks for your help and for all you do to support progressive values.

 

John

 

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From john at cypresshouse.com  Sun Feb 18 12:33:24 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:33:24 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why an essay competition?
Message-ID: <012001d3a8f7$b9d6b1c0$2d841540$@com>

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:

So much of our nation's history - and our present - is rooted in the
institution of slavery.

Yet, America's schools are woefully unprepared to teach children about
American slavery and all of the history related to it. That's what the
Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project discovered after a
<http://links.mp2203.com/a/585/click/5970448/742191085/_d18d72f1b2aab0c1e515
f3e68938d9c81cc34b80/9dcec2179306994bde2527e059c7c7165bd36c59>  yearlong
investigation that included surveys of more than 1,000 high school seniors,
an examination of state standards and textbooks, and questionnaires to more
than 1,700 social studies teachers.

Shockingly, just 8 percent of high school seniors could identify slavery as
the central cause of the Civil War. Most didn't know that the 13th Amendment
formally ended slavery.

https://www.splcenter.org/

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From jupiter at mcn.org  Mon Feb 19 12:48:22 2018
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:48:22 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] essay competition
In-Reply-To: <mailman.20.1519070414.10105.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
References: <mailman.20.1519070414.10105.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <34F07135-8685-4918-9655-C698847F5807@mcn.org>

Sounds like a great project.
Thanks for doing it.
Linda

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> According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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> So much of our nation's history - and our present - is rooted in the
> institution of slavery.
> 
> Yet, America's schools are woefully unprepared to teach children about
> American slavery and all of the history related to it. That's what the
> Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project discovered after a
> <http://links.mp2203.com/a/585/click/5970448/742191085/_d18d72f1b2aab0c1e515
> f3e68938d9c81cc34b80/9dcec2179306994bde2527e059c7c7165bd36c59>  yearlong
> investigation that included surveys of more than 1,000 high school seniors,
> an examination of state standards and textbooks, and questionnaires to more
> than 1,700 social studies teachers.
> 
> Shockingly, just 8 percent of high school seniors could identify slavery as
> the central cause of the Civil War. Most didn't know that the 13th Amendment
> formally ended slavery.
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> https://www.splcenter.org/
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Feb 19 23:01:31 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:01:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Robert Reich - The Meaning of America
Message-ID: <8561AD42-D0B9-487C-8A9E-C338B27C892C@mcn.org>

February 17, 2018

- The Meaning of America
By Robert Reich

When Trump and his followers refer to ?America,? what do they mean?

Some see a country of white English-speaking Christians.

Others want a land inhabited by self-seeking individuals free to accumulate as much money and power as possible, who pay taxes only to protect their assets from criminals and foreign aggressors.

Others think mainly about flags, national anthems, pledges of allegiance, military parades, and secure borders. 

Trump encourages a combination of all three ? tribalism, libertarianism, and loyalty. 

But the core of our national identity has not been any of this. It has been found in the ideals we share ? political equality, equal opportunity, freedom of speech and of the press, a dedication to open inquiry and truth, and to democracy and the rule of law. 

We are not a race. We are not a creed. We are a conviction ? that all people are created equal, that people should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, and that government should be of the people, by the people, and for the people.

That idealism led Lincoln to proclaim that America might yet be the ?last best hope? for humankind. It prompted Emma Lazarus, some two decades later, to welcome to American the world?s ?tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.? 

That idealism sought to preserve and protect our democracy ? not inundate it with big money, or allow one party or candidate to suppress votes from rivals, or permit a foreign power to intrude on our elections.

It spawned a patriotism that once required all of us take on a fair share of the burdens of keeping America going ? paying taxes in full rather than seeking loopholes or squirreling money away in foreign tax shelters, serving in the armed forces or volunteering in our communities rather than relying on others to do the work.

These ideals compelled us to join together for the common good ? not pander to bigotry or divisiveness, or fuel racist or religious or ethnic divisions. 

The idea of a common good was once widely understood and accepted in America. After all, the U.S. Constitution was designed for ?We the people? seeking to ?promote the general welfare? ? not for ?me the narcissist seeking as much wealth and power as possible.? 

Yet the common good seems to have disappeared. The phrase is rarely uttered today, not even by commencement speakers and politicians.

There?s growing evidence of its loss ? in CEOs who gouge their customers and loot their corporations; Wall Street bankers who defraud their investors; athletes involved in doping scandals; doctors who do unnecessary procedures to collect fatter fees; and film producers and publicists who choose not to see that a powerful movie mogul they depend on is sexually harassing and abusing women. 

We see its loss in politicians who take donations from wealthy donors and corporations and then enact laws their patrons want, or shutter the government when they don?t get the partisan results they seek.

And in a president of the United States who has repeatedly lied about important issues, refuses to put his financial holdings into a blind trust and personally profits from his office, and foments racial and ethnic conflict.

This unbridled selfishness, this contempt for the public, this win-at-any-cost mentality, is eroding America.

Without binding notions about right and wrong, only the most unscrupulous get ahead. When it?s all about winning, only the most unprincipled succeed. This is not a society. It?s not even a civilization, because there?s no civility at its core.

If we?re losing our national identity it?s not because we now come in more colors, practice more religions, and speak more languages than we once did.

It is because we are forgetting the real meaning of America ? the ideals on which our nation was built. We are losing our sense of the common good. 

http://robertreich.org/post/170988012325 <http://robertreich.org/post/170988012325>

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From annxpress at live.com  Tue Feb 20 08:49:52 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:49:52 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Student Essays
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Richard suggests we involve Andy Wellspring in this project.



Sent from my U.S. Cellular? Smartphone


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From: John <john at cypresshouse.com>
Date: 2/18/18 11:20 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: Occupy Mendocino <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Student Essays

At yesterday's Occupy Mendocino meeting, we decided to bring back an essay competition geared to middle- and high-school students. Possible subjects: Civil Rights Today; Harassment in Schools; Education Tomorrow; King and Chavez: Similarities and Differences; etc. Your topic suggestions are invited.

We'd like to discuss the essay competition with teachers and school boards and we're counting on your help. When do boards in Mendocino and Fort Bragg meet? Who should we contact (principals, social studies teachers)?

Ideally, we'd like to announce prize winners this school year and have the winners read their essays in class or auditorium, but much depends on what's on the schools' agendas.

Thanks for your help and for all you do to support progressive values.

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Feb 21 13:52:33 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:52:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Must read - Thomas Friedman  Code Red
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http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/20/media/thomas-friedman-new-york-times-column/index.html <http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/20/media/thomas-friedman-new-york-times-column/index.html>

Thomas Friedman doesn't scare easily.
The New York Times op-ed columnist is best known for his sober columns about foreign policy and technology.
That's why his Monday column stood out. <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/opinion/trump-russia-putin.html> "Our democracy is in serious danger," he wrote in the opening line. "President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy."
There was something about his last paragraph, in particular, that struck a chord. "This is code red," he wrote. <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/opinion/trump-russia-putin.html> "The biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office."
Friedman's column lit up on social media when it was posted on NYTimes.com on Sunday night. Thirty six hours later, it is still No. 1 on the site's "most emailed articles" list. It is also No. 1 on the site's "most shared articles on Facebook" list. There have been more than 2,700 comments so far.
"That's a personal record," Friedman told CNN.
He said he was taken aback by the intensity of the reactions.
After all, his column normally appears in print on Wednesdays. This was just a bonus column for the web. He just felt compelled to write it after Trump went on a tweetstorm over the weekend.
"Not my day. Not in print. And it may be the most widely circulated column I've ever written," Friedman said.
He titled the column "Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now." <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/opinion/trump-russia-putin.html>
Friedman felt compelled to write it on Sunday morning while driving from Washington to Baltimore for a golf lesson. On the drive, he said he was thinking about Trump's Twitter reaction to the newest indictments in Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation.
He said "there was something in Trump's reaction to Mueller that was deeply off." He called it "so unpresidential, it was frightening."
Trump's erratic tweets had assailed the FBI, the media, Democrats -- but not Moscow. "To me, it really crossed a line," Friedman said. While Trump has "broken many norms as president," these tweets were different. "He's no longer violating norms of the presidency, he's actually violating his oath to defend and protect the Constitution."
"Mueller told us the core of our democracy -- our electoral system -- had been attacked by Russia," Friedman added. "And Trump was focused exclusively on what Mueller's report said, or did not say, about him."
So he emailed a paragraph-long pitch to Times op-ed editor Jim Dao and editorial page editor James Bennet -- saying he had to write a column, just for the web, to express himself -- something he's done from time to time. "Hey, go for it," was the response from the editors, he said.
Later in the day, back at home, he wrote the column in an unusually speedy two hours and ten minutes. "What I've learned as a columnist over the years is, when you write the right column at the right time, articulating a feeling that many people have but maybe didn't know quite how to express, you can get a big reaction," he said, adding, "This doesn't happen very often."
James Fallows of The Atlantic tweeted that the piece was "remarkable, and admirable." Frank Rich of New York magazine called it the "most uncompromising column of Tom Friedman's career."
David Corn of Mother Jones responded to Rich and said "Friedman is too late. Some of us have been saying this for a year and a half. Some of us warned of this before the election. Now he is merely stating the obvious."
But that's "what's interesting" about the column, Jim Edwards, founding editor of Business Insider UK, tweeted: "It simply describes the big picture in plain English, which many of us forget to do."
CNNMoney (New York)
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Feb 21 13:29:20 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:29:20 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] March 3 rally - from Susan Nutter
Message-ID: <36378AE8-95FF-42D3-B439-A999EC770312@mcn.org>

HI Occupy, 
We?re planning to go?Hope you can make it, Getting signs together now!
NRA is having  their meeting inside Pentecost Hall, while the anti NRA folks (us)
are outside.   Hope the NRA people leave their weapons at home!

Richard


> On Feb 21, 2018, at 12:47 PM, susan allen nutter <sanutter at mcn.org <mailto:sanutter at mcn.org>> wrote:
> 
> NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOUR INPUT ON WHAT WE CAN DO FOR REALISTIC AND EFFECTIVE GUN CONTROL.
> 
> Below is a list of California Republican Congress persons and the amount of money donated to their campaigns by the NRA and also their phone numbers, published today in the NY Times.  How can we use this info?shame doesn?t do it.
> 
> Would a Facebook campaign of high school students in their districts  be effective? And if so, how does one blast Facebook sites in a geographical district. I suspect that isn?t possible.
> 
> What else can we do?  For more information, see below.  Also, show up March 3rd at 4 pm at Pentecost Hall to  protest NRA gathering (See below).
> 

> Lawmakers feel pressure on gunsFlorida students turn to activism in wake of shooting
> 
> Lawmakers say they are feeling more pressure than ever to act on gun control after the latest deadly mass shooting at a public high school.
> A large reason, aides and lawmakers alike say, is the emotional pleas from students who survived the shooting ? and who have expressed horror at the idea that nothing will be done in response to the killings of their schoolmates.
> 
> The grass-roots movement, dubbed ?Never Again,? has kept an extra layer of pressure on members to enact stricter gun laws and take other steps to prevent future massacres.
> 
> One legislative solution that appears to be gaining steam in Congress is a bipartisan bill to enhance background checks for gun purchases, which now has the support of President Trump <http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump>, many Republicans and the National Rifle Association. 
> 
> But even narrow gun measures that have the backing of the GOP and White House have stalled in Congress before, underscoring the challenge for lawmakers in overcoming the thorny politics that have long impeded efforts to address gun violence on Capitol Hill.
> 
> Still, the public outcry that followed last week?s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has fueled some hope among gun reformers that the political winds are shifting in their favor.
> 
> Rep. Mike Thompson <http://thehill.com/people/mike-thompson> (D-Calif.) said the protests in recent days constitute ?a new type of organic outcry,? one even more prominent than the demonstrations that followed a similar shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
> 
> ?There just seems to be a lot more determination to get something done ? to finally get something done,? Thompson said Tuesday by phone.
> 
> ?Maybe it?s the organic nature, I?m not sure, but it just feels different. And God knows we need it to be different.?
> 
> Congress has repeatedly grappled with how to curb gun violence following various mass shootings over the past several years, including deadly massacres at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn., an outdoor concert on the Las Vegas Strip and a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
> 
> However, the calls for action from gun reform advocates, Democratic lawmakers and victims? families have largely gone unanswered thus far. In the House, Republicans have repeatedly rejected the notion of even holding a hearing.
> 
> But after the latest deadly shooting rampage in Florida, high school students are taking the fight into their own hands ? a powerful shift that appears to be having an impact on the national conversation surrounding the emotional and heated gun control debate.
> 
> Grieving students who survived the mass shooting have mobilized to form the ?Never Again? campaign on social media to push for stricter gun laws in an effort to prevent another school shooting.
> 
> Young activists have been making impassioned pleas on national television, demanding action from their elected officials and organizing rallies, walkouts and marches ? including one planned for Washington, D.C., on March 24.
> 
> ?Every single person up here today, all these people should be home grieving. But instead we are up here standing together because if all our government and president can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it?s time for victims to be the change that we need to see,? Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said at a rally over the weekend.
> 
> In an early suggestion of the limits of such grass-roots activism ? particularly in the face of the powerful gun lobby ? Florida state lawmakers on Tuesday refused to consider a bill to ban assault weapons despite student marches in Tallahassee supporting the legislation.
> 
> Yet there are some signs that the grass-roots effort could be working on Capitol Hill.
> 
> White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump spoke Friday with Sen. John Cornyn <http://thehill.com/people/john-cornyn> (R-Texas) about the bill he co-authored with Sen. Chris Murphy <http://thehill.com/people/christopher-murphy> (D-Conn.) to bolster the federal background check system, saying ?discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered? to the measure.
> 
> Trump also announced Tuesday that he has directed the Justice Department to propose a ban on bump stocks, or devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire much more rapidly, breathing new life into an issue that has been stalled for months.
> 
> GOP leaders and Trump had embraced such a ban after the device was used in the Las Vegas shooting last October, but the effort faded amid disagreements over whether Congress or the administration was better suited to make the change.
> 
> Further raising hopes that gun control has real momentum is a new Quinnipiac poll that shows 66 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws ? the highest level of support ever measured by the university.
> 
> ?If you think Americans are largely unmoved by the mass shootings, you should think again. Support for stricter gun laws is up 19 points in little more than two years,? said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll.
> 
> But it?s unclear what far-reaching effects, if any, the latest movement will have on a polarized Congress that has spent the last year mired in gridlock over everything from health care to immigration.
> 
> In December, the House passed legislation that paired allowing people to use permits for carrying concealed weapons across state lines with the bipartisan Fix NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) Act.
> 
> The proposal to improve background checks for gun purchases enjoys widespread bipartisan support in both chambers. It would ensure authorities report criminal records to the NICS and penalize agencies that don?t provide the information to the FBI.
> 
> But House GOP leaders? decision to attach the concealed-carry reciprocity measure ? which Democrats oppose ? tanked the bipartisan background checks bill?s chances in the Senate.
> 
> A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell <http://thehill.com/people/mitch-mcconnell> (R-Ky.) noted he is a co-sponsor of the upper chamber?s version of the Fix NICS Act, but didn?t say if it would be decoupled from the concealed-carry bill as approved by the House.
> 
> There are other ideas, however, being discussed on Capitol Hill to tackle gun violence.
> 
> House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi <http://thehill.com/people/nancy-pelosi> (D-Calif.) last week laid out several proposals that are on the short list of Democratic priorities following the Florida shooting, such as expanding the federal background check system to include a broader swath of gun sales and empowering federal researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to treat gun violence as a public health issue.
> 
> Another group of Democrats ? led by Reps. Salud Carbajal <http://thehill.com/people/salud-carbajal> (Calif.), Elizabeth Esty <http://thehill.com/people/elizabeth-esty> (Conn.) and Don Beyer (Va.) ? is pushing legislation allowing law enforcement and family members to petition judges to remove firearms from gun owners showing signs of violence or instability.
> 
> Sen. Marco Rubio <http://thehill.com/people/marco-rubio> (R-Fla.), who has taken some heat from activists after the Parkland shooting, has expressed support for the so-called red flag laws.
> 
> And Sen. Dianne Feinstein <http://thehill.com/people/dianne-feinstein> (D-Calif.) and Rep. Ted Deutch <http://thehill.com/people/ted-deutch> (D-Fla.), who represents Parkland, are planning to introduce legislation to raise the minimum legal age to buy firearms to at least 21 years old.
> 
> ?Rather than hanging our hats on one specific solution, we want to look at a number of different pieces,? said a Democratic aide, adding that the ?very palpable public outrage? both de-politicizes the issue and lends the Democrats a boost.
> 
> ?You?re going to see Democrats channeling that energy,? the aide said.
> 
> If history is any gauge, they?ll have a short window in which to make their case.
> 
> Thompson, who heads the Democrats? gun violence prevention task force, said he?s hoping to host ?a national town hall? on the topic in Washington when Congress returns to town next week.
> 
> Democrats have used other tactics to keep their priorities in the spotlight before, including staging a sit-in on the House floor after a mass shooting at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub in 2016.
> 
> They could also leverage their votes for government funding bills in exchange for action on gun control, like they tried to do for immigration. The next funding deadline is March 23 ? one day before the gun reform rally scheduled in D.C.
> 
> But Thompson lamented how quickly gun violence slips out of the headlines ? and off of Congress?s radar.
> 
> ?It falls off,? he said. ?Something new happens ... and, boom, we?ll be on to the next story.?
> 
> JOIN PROTEST OF NRA FUNDRAISER, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 4:00 PM, PENTECOST HALL, 822 STEWART ST. FORT BRAGG. [BRING SIGNS AGAINST BUYING CONGRESS AND EDUCATING YOUTH ON GUNS] 
> 
>  NRA INVITATION TO NORTH COAST?S FRIENDS OF NRA
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Thu Feb 22 15:10:13 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:10:13 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] nra stuff
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The NRA event occurs when Occupy is meeting from 2:30-4:30 and many may wish
to prep for protest. Perhaps Occupy can meet from 2-4 and then regroup at
... Portuguese Hall? 
Chime in.


I was hoping to see some locals on the name list you sent. I see the saw
shop near Hare Creek  has a big sign about the NRA in front. I already
boycotted this place because of an impolite and brusque person who waited on
me.
However, maybe this guy who I think was the owner, might be a good
connection to share NRA ideas.

Sent from my iPad

> On Feb 22, 2018, at 12:13 PM, susan allen nutter <sanutter at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Richard,
> 
> In a recent email you wrote the problem with the deaf ears of NRA  people
and the protest on March 3rd. You made a good point, and mentioned that we
have people here who have a gun to protect against bears, etc.
> 
> Do you know any of these people?  ARe they reasonable?  Would they be
amenable to going to the NRA event and telling the NRA people that they have
a gun but are against assault weapons?
> 
> I am trying to find a positive way to have an effect at the protest
besides loud protest.
> 
> How would we connect with reasonable gun owners? Would a message on
Announce list for MCN be helpful/worthwhile?
> 
> susan





From annxpress at live.com  Fri Feb 23 10:49:26 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:49:26 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans
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________________________________
From: Lanphar, Tom at DTSC <Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 8:19 AM
To: Ann Rennacker (annxpress at live.com)
Cc: Setty, Asha at DTSC
Subject: Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans


Ann,

Thank you for the note.  I took a while for me to respond to your email because you sent it to T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov<mailto:T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.  My correct email is Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov<mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.

We appreciate your interest in staying updated. We are working on preparing on update to share with those who commented. I have copied our Public Participation Specialist, Asha Setty, on this email as well. In the meantime, you are welcome to contact either of us for updates anytime. Here is some information that may help answer your questions:

Georgia-Pacific asked and was granted by DTSC an extension for submitting the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study to March 2, 2018.  DTSC has not yet received a Response to DTSC comments.

As far as the ponds, DTSC has completed a risk assessment, but has not determined the final cleanup plan for the ponds.  DTSC has determined that Pond 8 sediment presents a negligible risk to a visitor of the future trail because a visitor on the trail would not be exposed to any ponds sediments.  Even if a visitor to the trail enters Pond 8 and has contact with sediment 50 times a year for 30 years, the risk continues to be extremely  low.   Even though Pond 8 and other pond sediments present a very low risk, we are required to take action to further protect public health and the environment.

DTSC is committed actively informing and involving the community in our process.  I will post the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study on DTSC?s Envirostor site soon after I receive it.    After we received the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study, DTSC will send out a community update (fact sheet) and hold a community Town Hall meeting this spring to discuss the draft final Feasibility Study.

Thank you for sharing your experiences at the mill site and reaching out for updates. We will be sending out an email to those who commented this month to provide additional information.

Sincerely,



Tom Lanphar
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From annxpress at live.com  Fri Feb 23 10:56:11 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:56:11 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: DEAL OR NO DEAL? - dioxins out on the mill
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________________________________
From: Annemarie <aweibel at mcn.org>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 10:41 AM
To: ,Ann Rennacker; ,David Gurney; Edward Oberweiser; ,Sue Boecker; Leslie Kashiwada
Subject: DEAL OR NO DEAL? - dioxins out on the mill site

Hi,
For your info, Annemarie

DEAL OR NO DEAL?

by Rex Gressett

If you are worried about the dioxins out on the mill site, you should be.

Mayor Lindy Peters has conceded that neither he nor the City Council had
the time or got paid enough to be able to keep up with all the meetings
that the administration seemed to be having regarding what to do about
the toxics at the mill site.

Marie Jones, Development Director, seems puzzled that after all these
years everybody is now asking her for information when the finish line
is so clearly in sight.

Since the crucial meetings that are mapping our toxic fate have been
conducted, as the Mayor has plainly said, it was difficult for shocked
citizens at the mayor?s informal meeting last week to readily credit the
strong assertion that these agencies and our own administrators are
making arrangements, agreements and understandings with GP that will
determine the fate of the mill and leave all existing contaminants on
the site.

In perpetuity.

Outgoing City Manager Linda Ruffing noted the pivotal decision-making
meeting in City Notes but did not discuss the content of the deal. The
three or four civic minded folk at the meeting with the mayor were
content to bask in the warmth of considerable mayoral charisma; they
just could not believe that our seaside toxic legacy had been confirmed.

Later in the day, when the meeting summary itself was presented, the
terrible done deal was still disbelieved.

The people of the City of Fort Bragg have been waiting for the mill site
FS (Feasibility Study), a final edict from the state?s Department of
Toxic Substances Control. People thought naively the feasibility study
would open the discussion.

In fact, the terms of the feasibility study are being worked out now in
interagency conference, and we are already screwed.

When they present the Feasibility Study to you, they won?t be asking for
your opinion. They?ll be telling you, Fort Bragg, what the done deal is.

The mere suggestion that a decision has been made that precludes other
options was hugely disturbing to the mayor and the four citizens who had
come to his weekly meet and greet. The secrecy had been so total, the
silence of our city administrators that went to the meeting so complete,
and the significance to the City so shocking that outrage, disbelief and
stumbling disassociation from the facts melted down productive conversation.

As the meeting participants puzzled and wondered in incredulous
defensive annoyance, Marie Jones was fetched from her work at the permit
counter to sort out the confusion. Just what had actually happened that
day in far away Santa Rosa, Ms. Jones?

Our Development Director had attended with City Manager Linda Ruffing.

?Ha ha ha,? Ms. Jones mirthlessly chuckled. A Deal? No way. Absolutely
no deal had been made. We have lots of meetings, in fact, we have them
all the time. This meeting and the one subsequently in January were but
two meetings among many. Why for heaven?s sake would we necessarily have
to tell the City Council? Why inform the mayor?

No deal has been made, she said.

The first of two significant meetings was held November 30, 2017 at the
regional headquarters of RWQCB (Regional Water Quality Control Board) in
Santa Rosa.

The other more recent meeting was in January at the Department of Toxic
Substances Control. In spite of many promises to release the summary of
the most recent meeting, the City has not yet done so.

At the November Water Quality meeting were representatives from
Department of Toxic Substances Control,  Glen Young our own Fort Bragg
toxic cleanup consultant, Linda Ruffing and Marie Jones from Fort Bragg
City Hall. The Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW), the Coastal
Commission (CC), the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), and the Department
of Safety of Damns (DOSOD) ? all the agencies that could possibly shoot
down or at a Feasibility Study had gathered to put their heads together
and make some sausage.

The meeting rolled right over the Fort Bragg City Council resolution
demanding full cleanup of the mill site.

Fort Bragg, like an unloved stepchild, was ignored as the Agencies got
down to business.

Georgia-Pacific, aka the Koch Brothers (in absentia) was disabused of
their own idea of making the area below the dam a danger area. G-P might
be trying but they were not going to wiggle out of agency jurisdiction,
DOSOD (Department of Safety of Dams) bespoke. California Law assuring
public access to our own beaches, intercepted the simple GP idea that we
just fence off the beach. And, No, GP would not be allowed to lower the
water level in the wetlands to make the dam irrelevant. Instead GP was
being commanded to fix the dam and also install a barrier across Pond 8
to further sequester toxins from possible leakage onto the beach.

The Department of Toxic Substances Control took the initiative: "If
contaminants are left in place in mill pond, DTSC would consider dam to
be a containment structure for contamination and long-term Operations
and Maintenance (O&M) would be overseen by DTSC."

In one fell stroke the carcinogenic dioxins in the mill ponds were
converted into an asset. They might be toxic but they would get us a
brand new dam from GP. That solved everything. GP repairs the dam, the
dioxins stay, and the fences go around it. The ponds shall be restored,
but not cleansed of their poisons.

The Coastal Commission representative remarked somewhat tardily that
remediation is not allowed at all in wetlands anyway, only restoration.

Who knew?

This is all low risk, the agency people assured each other and anyway it
will all be fenced off. The issue with the warning signs is a tricky
one, apparently signs will not be required at Pond 8 but will be
required everywhere else. Everything gets fenced. George Reinhardt?s
beloved vision of day-lighting the creeks died right then, although
George does not know it (far as I know). Poor guy.

According to GP the dioxins are concentrated more heavily in the
proposed day-lighting area than the worst of the ponds. They will have
to be fenced. GP is calling the shots.

Just imagine, I called that a deal. Whatever was I thinking? The mayor
is strenuously trying to tell me that a deal is something that is on
paper, it?s a contract, not a bargaining session no one knew about. I
don't know if the deal will stand. Do the people or the Council have
notice of what is intended for us? Will there be opportunity for
resistance and defiance? Yes, there will. But I don?t see the City
Council taking the lead, or even following developments.

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From sanutter at mcn.org  Fri Feb 23 11:29:34 2018
From: sanutter at mcn.org (susan allen nutter)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:29:34 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans
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WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE AT DEMANDING TOTAL TOXIN CLEANUP ON THE MILL POND. SEE BELOW. SUSAN
> On Feb 23, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Ann Rennacker <annxpress at live.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Lanphar, Tom at DTSC <Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 8:19 AM
> To: Ann Rennacker (annxpress at live.com <mailto:annxpress at live.com>)
> Cc: Setty, Asha at DTSC
> Subject: Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans
>  
> Ann,
> Thank you for the note.  I took a while for me to respond to your email because you sent it to T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.  My correct email isTom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.
> We appreciate your interest in staying updated. We are working on preparing on update to share with those who commented. I have copied our Public Participation Specialist, Asha Setty, on this email as well. In the meantime, you are welcome to contact either of us for updates anytime. Here is some information that may help answer your questions:
> Georgia-Pacific asked and was granted by DTSC an extension for submitting the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study to March 2, 2018.  DTSC has not yet received a Response to DTSC comments.
> As far as the ponds, DTSC has completed a risk assessment, but has not determined the final cleanup plan for the ponds.  DTSC has determined that Pond 8 sediment presents a negligible risk to a visitor of the future trail because a visitor on the trail would not be exposed to any ponds sediments.  Even if a visitor to the trail enters Pond 8 and has contact with sediment 50 times a year for 30 years, the risk continues to be extremely  low.   Even though Pond 8 and other pond sediments present a very low risk, we are required to take action to further protect public health and the environment. 
> DTSC is committed actively informing and involving the community in our process.  I will post the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study on DTSC?s Envirostor site soon after I receive it.    After we received the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study, DTSC will send out a community update (fact sheet) and hold a community Town Hall meeting this spring to discuss the draft final Feasibility Study.
> Thank you for sharing your experiences at the mill site and reaching out for updates. We will be sending out an email to those who commented this month to provide additional information.
> Sincerely,
>  
> Tom Lanphar

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From ttfarm at mcn.org  Fri Feb 23 12:07:42 2018
From: ttfarm at mcn.org (Laurie York)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:07:42 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans
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Thank you all for your vigilance with the pond clean-up issue.  

Tom, when you state, ?Pond 8 sediment presents negligible risk to a visitor of the future trail because a visitor on the trail would not be exposed to any ponds sediments?, he seems to not be including wildlife that swim and drink from the pond as ?visitors?.  I think this is a critical issue for birds, deer and other wildlife.  If your agency is required to protect the public and the environment, I?m assuming wildlife need to be protected as well.

When a substance is considered carcinogenic, such as the toxins/dioxins in Pond 8, I take that risk quite seriously.  Otherwise why are these toxins/dioxins labelled ?carcinogenic??   I don?t think concerned citizens of the Mendocino Coast are willing to allow you to sweep this issue ?under the rug?.  

Please proceed with a full clean-up of Pond 8.

Thank you,
Laurie York
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Lanphar, Tom at DTSC <Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 8:19 AM
>> To: Ann Rennacker (annxpress at live.com <mailto:annxpress at live.com>)
>> Cc: Setty, Asha at DTSC
>> Subject: Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans
>>  
>> Ann,
>> Thank you for the note.  I took a while for me to respond to your email because you sent it to T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.  My correct email isTom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.
>> We appreciate your interest in staying updated. We are working on preparing on update to share with those who commented. I have copied our Public Participation Specialist, Asha Setty, on this email as well. In the meantime, you are welcome to contact either of us for updates anytime. Here is some information that may help answer your questions:
>> Georgia-Pacific asked and was granted by DTSC an extension for submitting the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study to March 2, 2018.  DTSC has not yet received a Response to DTSC comments.
>> As far as the ponds, DTSC has completed a risk assessment, but has not determined the final cleanup plan for the ponds.  DTSC has determined that Pond 8 sediment presents a negligible risk to a visitor of the future trail because a visitor on the trail would not be exposed to any ponds sediments.  Even if a visitor to the trail enters Pond 8 and has contact with sediment 50 times a year for 30 years, the risk continues to be extremely  low.   Even though Pond 8 and other pond sediments present a very low risk, we are required to take action to further protect public health and the environment. 
>> DTSC is committed actively informing and involving the community in our process.  I will post the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study on DTSC?s Envirostor site soon after I receive it.    After we received the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study, DTSC will send out a community update (fact sheet) and hold a community Town Hall meeting this spring to discuss the draft final Feasibility Study.
>> Thank you for sharing your experiences at the mill site and reaching out for updates. We will be sending out an email to those who commented this month to provide additional information.
>> Sincerely,
>>  
>> Tom Lanphar
> 
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From sanutter at mcn.org  Fri Feb 23 15:37:32 2018
From: sanutter at mcn.org (susan allen nutter)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:37:32 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans
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Ditto and my interpretation of Tom?s email is "1) DTSC has completed a risk assessment, but has not determined the final cleanup plan for the ponds and  2) Even though Pond 8 and other pond sediments present a very low risk, we are required to take action to further protect public health and the environment.? i.e., Point #2 could be invoked and force GP to clean up all toxins in Pond 8.  Is this correct, Tom? 

Susan Nutter 
> On Feb 23, 2018, at 12:07 PM, Laurie York <ttfarm at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you all for your vigilance with the pond clean-up issue.  
> 
> Tom, when you state, ?Pond 8 sediment presents negligible risk to a visitor of the future trail because a visitor on the trail would not be exposed to any ponds sediments?, he seems to not be including wildlife that swim and drink from the pond as ?visitors?.  I think this is a critical issue for birds, deer and other wildlife.  If your agency is required to protect the public and the environment, I?m assuming wildlife need to be protected as well.
> 
> When a substance is considered carcinogenic, such as the toxins/dioxins in Pond 8, I take that risk quite seriously.  Otherwise why are these toxins/dioxins labelled ?carcinogenic??   I don?t think concerned citizens of the Mendocino Coast are willing to allow you to sweep this issue ?under the rug?.  
> 
> Please proceed with a full clean-up of Pond 8.
> 
> Thank you,
> Laurie York
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: Lanphar, Tom at DTSC <Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 8:19 AM
>>> To: Ann Rennacker (annxpress at live.com <mailto:annxpress at live.com>)
>>> Cc: Setty, Asha at DTSC
>>> Subject: Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans
>>>  
>>> Ann,
>>> Thank you for the note.  I took a while for me to respond to your email because you sent it to T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.  My correct email isTom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.
>>> We appreciate your interest in staying updated. We are working on preparing on update to share with those who commented. I have copied our Public Participation Specialist, Asha Setty, on this email as well. In the meantime, you are welcome to contact either of us for updates anytime. Here is some information that may help answer your questions:
>>> Georgia-Pacific asked and was granted by DTSC an extension for submitting the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study to March 2, 2018.  DTSC has not yet received a Response to DTSC comments.
>>> As far as the ponds, DTSC has completed a risk assessment, but has not determined the final cleanup plan for the ponds.  DTSC has determined that Pond 8 sediment presents a negligible risk to a visitor of the future trail because a visitor on the trail would not be exposed to any ponds sediments.  Even if a visitor to the trail enters Pond 8 and has contact with sediment 50 times a year for 30 years, the risk continues to be extremely  low.   Even though Pond 8 and other pond sediments present a very low risk, we are required to take action to further protect public health and the environment. 
>>> DTSC is committed actively informing and involving the community in our process.  I will post the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study on DTSC?s Envirostor site soon after I receive it.    After we received the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study, DTSC will send out a community update (fact sheet) and hold a community Town Hall meeting this spring to discuss the draft final Feasibility Study.
>>> Thank you for sharing your experiences at the mill site and reaching out for updates. We will be sending out an email to those who commented this month to provide additional information.
>>> Sincerely,
>>>  
>>> Tom Lanphar
>> 
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From sanutter at mcn.org  Fri Feb 23 16:19:04 2018
From: sanutter at mcn.org (susan allen nutter)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:19:04 -0800
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> On Feb 23, 2018, at 3:37 PM, susan allen nutter <sanutter at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Ditto and my interpretation of Tom?s email is "1) DTSC has completed a risk assessment, but has not determined the final cleanup plan for the ponds and  2) Even though Pond 8 and other pond sediments present a very low risk, we are required to take action to further protect public health and the environment.? i.e., Point #2 could be invoked and force GP to clean up all toxins in Pond 8.  Is this correct, Tom? 
> 
> Susan Nutter 
>> On Feb 23, 2018, at 12:07 PM, Laurie York <ttfarm at mcn.org <mailto:ttfarm at mcn.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you all for your vigilance with the pond clean-up issue.  
>> 
>> Tom, when you state, ?Pond 8 sediment presents negligible risk to a visitor of the future trail because a visitor on the trail would not be exposed to any ponds sediments?, he seems to not be including wildlife that swim and drink from the pond as ?visitors?.  I think this is a critical issue for birds, deer and other wildlife.  If your agency is required to protect the public and the environment, I?m assuming wildlife need to be protected as well.
>> 
>> When a substance is considered carcinogenic, such as the toxins/dioxins in Pond 8, I take that risk quite seriously.  Otherwise why are these toxins/dioxins labelled ?carcinogenic??   I don?t think concerned citizens of the Mendocino Coast are willing to allow you to sweep this issue ?under the rug?.  
>> 
>> Please proceed with a full clean-up of Pond 8.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Laurie York
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> From: Lanphar, Tom at DTSC <Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 8:19 AM
>>>> To: Ann Rennacker (annxpress at live.com <mailto:annxpress at live.com>)
>>>> Cc: Setty, Asha at DTSC
>>>> Subject: Georgia-Pacific cleanup plans
>>>>  
>>>> Ann,
>>>> Thank you for the note.  I took a while for me to respond to your email because you sent it to T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:T.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.  My correct email isTom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>.
>>>> We appreciate your interest in staying updated. We are working on preparing on update to share with those who commented. I have copied our Public Participation Specialist, Asha Setty, on this email as well. In the meantime, you are welcome to contact either of us for updates anytime. Here is some information that may help answer your questions:
>>>> Georgia-Pacific asked and was granted by DTSC an extension for submitting the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study to March 2, 2018.  DTSC has not yet received a Response to DTSC comments.
>>>> As far as the ponds, DTSC has completed a risk assessment, but has not determined the final cleanup plan for the ponds.  DTSC has determined that Pond 8 sediment presents a negligible risk to a visitor of the future trail because a visitor on the trail would not be exposed to any ponds sediments.  Even if a visitor to the trail enters Pond 8 and has contact with sediment 50 times a year for 30 years, the risk continues to be extremely  low.   Even though Pond 8 and other pond sediments present a very low risk, we are required to take action to further protect public health and the environment. 
>>>> DTSC is committed actively informing and involving the community in our process.  I will post the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study on DTSC?s Envirostor site soon after I receive it.    After we received the draft final Operable Unit E Feasibility Study, DTSC will send out a community update (fact sheet) and hold a community Town Hall meeting this spring to discuss the draft final Feasibility Study.
>>>> Thank you for sharing your experiences at the mill site and reaching out for updates. We will be sending out an email to those who commented this month to provide additional information.
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>  
>>>> Tom Lanphar
>>> 
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Sat Feb 24 09:46:24 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 09:46:24 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How the Elderly Lose Their Rights | The New Yorker
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Fascinating but grim.

 

 

 


 <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights


How the Elderly Lose Their Rights


Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent?and reap a profit from it.


 <x-msg://8/contributors/rachel-aviv> Rachel Aviv

For years, Rudy North woke up at 9 A.M. and read the Las Vegas Review-Journal while eating a piece of toast. Then he read a novel?he liked James Patterson and Clive Cussler?or, if he was feeling more ambitious, Freud. On scraps of paper and legal notepads, he jotted down thoughts sparked by his reading. ?Deep below the rational part of our brain is an underground ocean where strange things swim,? he wrote on one notepad. On another, ?Life: the longer it cooks, the better it tastes.?

Rennie, his wife of fifty-seven years, was slower to rise. She was recovering from lymphoma and suffered from neuropathy so severe that her legs felt like sausages. Each morning, she spent nearly an hour in the bathroom applying makeup and lotions, the same brands she?d used for forty years. She always emerged wearing pale-pink lipstick. Rudy, who was prone to grandiosity, liked to refer to her as ?my amour.?

On the Friday before Labor Day, 2013, the Norths had just finished their toast when a nurse, who visited five times a week to help Rennie bathe and dress, came to their house, in Sun City Aliante, an ?active adult? community in Las Vegas. They had moved there in 2005, when Rudy, a retired consultant for broadcasters, was sixty-eight and Rennie was sixty-six. They took pride in their view of the golf course, though neither of them played golf.

Rudy chatted with the nurse in the kitchen for twenty minutes, joking about marriage and laundry, until there was a knock at the door. A stocky woman with shiny black hair introduced herself as April Parks, the owner of the company A Private Professional Guardian. She was accompanied by three colleagues, who didn?t give their names. Parks told the Norths that she had an order from the Clark County Family Court to ?remove? them from their home. She would be taking them to an assisted-living facility. ?Go and gather your things,? she said.

Rennie began crying. ?This is my home,? she said.

One of Parks?s colleagues said that if the Norths didn?t comply he would call the police. Rudy remembers thinking, You?re going to put my wife and me in jail for this? But he felt too confused to argue.

Parks drove a Pontiac G-6 convertible with a license plate that read ?CRTGRDN,? for ?court guardian.? In the past twelve years, she had been a guardian for some four hundred wards of the court. Owing to age or disability, they had been deemed incompetent, a legal term that describes those who are unable to make reasoned choices about their lives or their property. As their guardian, Parks had the authority to manage their assets, and to choose where they lived, whom they associated with, and what medical treatment they received. They lost nearly all their civil rights.

Without realizing it, the Norths had become temporary wards of the court. Parks had filed an emergency ex-parte petition, which provides an exception to the rule that both parties must be notified of any argument before a judge. She had alleged that the Norths posed a ?substantial risk for mismanagement of medications, financial loss and physical harm.? She submitted a brief letter from a physician?s assistant, whom Rennie had seen once, stating that ?the patient?s husband can no longer effectively take care of the patient at home as his dementia is progressing.? She also submitted a letter from one of Rudy?s doctors, who described him as ?confused and agitated.?

Rudy and Rennie had not undergone any cognitive assessments. They had never received a diagnosis of dementia. In addition to Freud, Rudy was working his way through Nietzsche and Plato. Rennie read romance novels.

Parks told the Norths that if they didn?t come willingly an ambulance would take them to the facility, a place she described as a ?respite.? Still crying, Rennie put cosmetics and some clothes into a suitcase. She packed so quickly that she forgot her cell phone and Rudy?s hearing aid. After thirty-five minutes, Parks?s assistant led the Norths to her car. When a neighbor asked what was happening, Rudy told him, ?We?ll just be gone for a little bit.? He was too proud to draw attention to their predicament. ?Just think of it as a mini-vacation,? he told Rennie.

After the Norths left, Parks walked through the house with Cindy Breck, the owner of Caring Transitions, a company that relocates seniors and sells their belongings at estate sales. Breck and Parks had a routine. ?We open drawers,? Parks said at a deposition. ?We look in closets. We pull out boxes, anything that would store?that would keep paperwork, would keep valuables.? She took a pocket watch, birth certificates, insurance policies, and several collectible coins.

The Norths? daughter, Julie Belshe, came to visit later that afternoon. A fifty-three-year-old mother of three sons, she and her husband run a small business designing and constructing pools. She lived ten miles away and visited her parents nearly every day, often taking them to her youngest son?s football games. She was her parents? only living child; her brother and sister had died.

She knocked on the front door several times and then tried to push the door open, but it was locked. She was surprised to see the kitchen window closed; her parents always left it slightly open. She drove to the Sun City Aliante clubhouse, where her parents sometimes drank coffee. When she couldn?t find them there, she thought that perhaps they had gone on an errand together?the farthest they usually drove was to Costco. But, when she returned to the house, it was still empty.

That weekend, she called her parents several times. She also called two hospitals to see if they had been in an accident. She called their landlord, too, and he agreed to visit the house. He reported that there were no signs of them. She told her husband, ?I think someone kidnapped my parents.?

On the Tuesday after Labor Day, she drove to the house again and found a note taped to the door: ?In case of emergency, contact guardian April Parks.? Belshe dialled the number. Parks, who had a brisk, girlish way of speaking, told Belshe that her parents had been taken to Lakeview Terrace, an assisted-living facility in Boulder City, nine miles from the Arizona border. She assured Belshe that the staff there would take care of all their needs.

?You can?t just walk into somebody?s home and take them!? Belshe told her.

Parks responded calmly, ?It?s legal. It?s legal.?

Guardianship derives from the state?s parens patriae power, its duty to act as a parent for those considered too vulnerable to care for themselves. ?The King shall have the custody of the lands of natural fools, taking the profits of them without waste or destruction, and shall find them their necessaries,? reads the English statute De Prerogative Regis, from 1324. The law was imported to the colonies?guardianship is still controlled by state, not federal, law?and has remained largely intact for the past eight hundred years. It establishes a relationship between ward and guardian that is rooted in trust.

In the United States, a million and a half adults are under the care of guardians, either family members or professionals, who control some two hundred and seventy-three billion dollars in assets, according to an auditor for the guardianship fraud program in Palm Beach County. Little is known about the outcome of these arrangements, because states do not keep complete figures on guardianship cases?statutes vary widely?and, in most jurisdictions, the court records are sealed. A Government Accountability report from 2010 said, ?We could not locate a single Web site, federal agency, state or local entity, or any other organization that compiles comprehensive information on this issue.? A study published this year by the American Bar Association found that ?an unknown number of adults languish under guardianship? when they no longer need it, or never did. The authors wrote that ?guardianship is generally ?permanent, leaving no way out??until death do us part.? ?

When the Norths were removed from their home, they joined nearly nine thousand adult wards in the Las Vegas Valley. In the past twenty years, the city has promoted itself as a retirement paradise. Attracted by the state?s low taxes and a dry, sunny climate, elderly people leave their families behind to resettle in newly constructed senior communities. ?The whole town sparkled, pulling older people in with the prospect of the American Dream at a reasonable price,? a former real-estate agent named Terry Williams told me. Roughly thirty per cent of the people who move to Las Vegas are senior citizens, and the number of Nevadans older than eighty-five has risen by nearly eighty per cent in the past decade.

In Nevada, as in many states, anyone can become a guardian by taking a course, as long as he or she has not been convicted of a felony or recently declared bankruptcy. Elizabeth Brickfield, a Las Vegas lawyer who has worked in guardianship law for twenty years, said that about fifteen years ago, as the state?s elderly population swelled, ?all these private guardians started arriving, and the docket exploded. The court became a factory.?

Pamela Teaster, the director of the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Tech and one of the few scholars in the country who study guardianship, told me that, though most guardians assume their duties for good reasons, the guardianship system is ?a morass, a total mess.? She said, ?It is unconscionable that we don?t have any data, when you think about the vast power given to a guardian. It is one of society?s most drastic interventions.?

After talking to Parks, Belshe drove forty miles to Lakeview Terrace, a complex of stucco buildings designed to look like a hacienda. She found her parents in a small room with a kitchenette and a window overlooking the parking lot. Rennie was in a wheelchair beside the bed, and Rudy was curled up on a love seat in the fetal position. There was no phone in the room. Medical-alert buttons were strung around their necks. ?They were like two lost children,? Belshe said.

She asked her parents who Parks was and where she could find the court order, but, she said, ?they were overwhelmed and humiliated, and they didn?t know what was going on.? They had no idea how or why Parks had targeted them as wards. Belshe was struck by their passive acceptance. ?It was like they had Stockholm syndrome or something,? she told me.

Belshe acknowledged that her parents needed a few hours of help each day, but she had never questioned their ability to live alone. ?They always kept their house really nice and clean, like a museum,? she said. Although Rudy?s medical records showed that he occasionally had ?staring spells,? all his medical-progress notes from 2013 described him as alert and oriented. He did most of the couple?s cooking and shopping, because Rennie, though lucid, was in so much pain that she rarely left the house. Belshe sometimes worried that her father inadvertently encouraged her mother to be docile: ?She?s a very smart woman, though she sometimes acts like she?s not. I have to tell her, ?That?s not cute, Mom.? ?

When Belshe called Parks to ask for the court order, Parks told her that she was part of the ?sandwich generation,? and that it would be too overwhelming for her to continue to care for her children and her parents at the same time. Parks billed her wards? estates for each hour that she spent on their case; the court placed no limits on guardians? fees, as long as they appeared ?reasonable.? Later, when Belshe called again to express her anger, Parks charged the Norths twenty-four dollars for the eight-minute conversation. ?I could not understand what the purpose of the call was other than she wanted me to know they had rights,? Parks wrote in a detailed invoice. ?I terminated the phone call as she was very hostile and angry.?

A month after removing the Norths from their house, Parks petitioned to make the guardianship permanent. She was represented by an attorney who was paid four hundred dollars an hour by the Norths? estate. A hearing was held at Clark County Family Court.

The Clark County guardianship commissioner, a lawyer named Jon Norheim, has presided over nearly all the guardianship cases in the county since 2005. He works under the supervision of a judge, but his orders have the weight of a formal ruling. Norheim awarded a guardianship to Parks, on average, nearly once a week. She had up to a hundred wards at a time. ?I love April Parks,? he said at one hearing, describing her and two other professional guardians, who frequently appeared in his courtroom, as ?wonderful, good-hearted, social-worker types.?

Norheim?s court perpetuated a cold, unsentimental view of family relations: the ingredients for a good life seemed to have little to do with one?s children and siblings. He often dismissed the objections of relatives, telling them that his only concern was the best interest of the wards, which he seemed to view in a social vacuum. When siblings fought over who would be guardian, Norheim typically ordered a neutral professional to assume control, even when this isolated the wards from their families.

Rudy had assured Belshe that he would protest the guardianship, but, like most wards in the country, Rudy and Rennie were not represented by counsel. As Rudy stood before the commissioner, he convinced himself that guardianship offered him and Rennie a lifetime of care without being a burden to anyone they loved. He told Norheim, ?The issue really is her longevity?what suits her.? Belshe, who sat in the courtroom, said, ?I was shaking my head. No, no, no?don?t do that!? Rennie was silent.

Norheim ordered that the Norths become permanent wards of the court. ?Chances are, I?ll probably never see you folks again; you?ll work everything out,? he said, laughing. ?I very rarely see people after the initial time in court.? The hearing lasted ten minutes.

The following month, Even Tide Life Transitions, a company that Parks often hired, sold most of the Norths? belongings. ?The general condition of this inventory is good,? an appraiser wrote. Two lithographs by Renoir were priced at thirty-eight hundred dollars, and a glass cocktail table (?Client states that it is a Brancusi design?) was twelve hundred and fifty dollars. The Norths also had several pastel drawings by their son, Randy, who died in a motorcycle accident at the age of thirty-two, as well as Kachina dolls, a Bose radio, a Dyson vacuum cleaner, a Peruvian tapestry, a motion-step exerciser, a LeRoy Neiman sketch of a bar in Dublin, and two dozen pairs of Clarke shoes. According to Parks?s calculations, the Norths had roughly fifty thousand dollars. Parks transferred their savings, held at the Bank of America, to an account in her name.

Rennie repeatedly asked for her son?s drawings, and for the family photographs on her refrigerator. Rudy pined for his car, a midnight-blue 2010 Chrysler, which came to symbolize the life he had lost. He missed the routine interactions that driving had allowed him. ?Everybody at the pharmacy was my buddy,? he said. Now he and Rennie felt like exiles. Rudy said, ?They kept telling me, ?Oh, you don?t have to worry: your car is fine, and this and that.? ? A month later, he said, ?they finally told me, ?Actually, we sold your car.? I said, ?What in the hell did you sell it for?? ? It was bought for less than eight thousand dollars, a price that Rudy considered insulting.

Rudy lingered in the dining room after eating breakfast each morning, chatting with other residents of Lakeview Terrace. He soon discovered that ten other wards of April Parks lived there. His next-door neighbor, Adolfo Gonzalez, a short, bald seventy-one-year-old who had worked as a ma?tre d? at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, had become Parks?s ward at a hearing that lasted a minute and thirty-one seconds.

Gonzalez, who had roughly three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in assets, urged Rudy not to accept the nurse?s medications. ?If you take the pills, they?ll make sure you don?t make it to court,? he said. Gonzalez had been prescribed the antipsychotic medications Risperdal and Depakote, which he hid in the side of his mouth without swallowing. He wanted to remain vigilant. He often spoke of a Salvador Dali painting that had been lost when Parks took over his life. Once, she charged him two hundred and ten dollars for a visit in which, according to her invoice, he expressed that ?he feels like a prisoner.?

Rudy was so distressed by his conversations with Gonzalez that he asked to see a psychologist. ?I thought maybe he?d give me some sort of objective learning as to what I was going through,? he said. ?I wanted to ask basic questions, like What the hell is going on?? Rudy didn?t find the session illuminating, but he felt a little boost to his self-esteem when the psychologist asked that he return for a second appointment. ?I guess he found me terribly charming,? he told me.

Rudy liked to fantasize about an alternative life as a psychoanalyst, and he tried to befriend the wards who seemed especially hopeless. ?Loneliness is a physical pain that hurts all over,? he wrote in his notebook. He bought a pharmaceutical encyclopedia and advised the other wards about medications they?d been prescribed. He also ran for president of the residents, promising that under his leadership the kitchen would no longer advertise canned food as homemade. (He lost?he?s not sure if anyone besides Rennie voted for him?but he did win a seat on the residents? council.)

He was particularly concerned about a ward of Parks?s named Marlene Homer, a seventy-year-old woman who had been a professor. ?Now she was almost hiding behind the pillars,? Rudy said. ?She was so obsequious. She was, like, ?Run me over. Run me over.? ? She?d become a ward in 2012, after Parks told the court, ?She has admitted to strange thoughts, depression, and doing things she can?t explain.? On a certificate submitted to the court, an internist had checked a box indicating that Homer was ?unable to attend the guardianship court hearing because______,? but he didn?t fill in a reason.

The Norths could guess which residents were Parks?s wards by the way they were dressed. Gonzalez wore the same shirt to dinner nearly every day. ?Forgive me,? he told the others at his table. When a friend tried to take him shopping, Parks prevented the excursion because she didn?t know the friend. Rennie had also tried to get more clothes. ?I reminded ward that she has plenty of clothing in her closet,? Parks wrote. ?I let her know that they are on a tight budget.? The Norths? estate was charged a hundred and eighty dollars for the conversation.

Another resident, Barbara Neely, a fifty-five-year-old with schizophrenia, repeatedly asked Parks to buy her outfits for job interviews. She was applying for a position with the Department of Education. After Neely?s third week at Lakeview Terrace, Parks?s assistant sent Parks a text. ?Can you see Barbara Neely anytime this week?? she wrote. ?She has questions on the guardianship and how she can get out of it.? Parks responded, ?I can and she can?t.? Neely had been in the process of selling her house, for a hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars, when Parks became her guardian and took charge of the sale.

The rationale for the guardianship of Norbert Wilkening, who lived on the bottom floor of the facility, in the memory-care ward, for people with dementia (?the snake pit,? Rudy called it), was also murky. Parks?s office manager, who advertised himself as a ?Qualified Dementia Care Specialist??a credential acquired through video training sessions?had given Wilkening a ?Mini-Mental State Examination,? a list of eleven questions and tasks, including naming as many animals as possible in a minute. Wilkening had failed. His daughter, Amy, told me, ?I didn?t see anything that was happening to him other than a regular getting-older process, but when I was informed by all these people that he had all these problems I was, like, Well, maybe I?m just in denial. I?m not a professional.? She said that Parks was ?so highly touted. By herself, by the social workers, by the judge, by everyone that knew her.?

At a hearing, when Amy complained to Norheim that Parks didn?t have time for her father, he replied, ?Yeah, she?s an industry at this point.?

As Belshe spoke to more wards and their families, she began to realize that Lakeview Terrace was not the only place where wards were lodged, and that Parks was not the only guardian removing people from their homes for what appeared to be superficial reasons. Hundreds of cases followed the same pattern. It had become routine for guardians in Clark County to petition for temporary guardianship on an ex-parte basis. They told the court that they had to intervene immediately because the ward faced a medical emergency that was only vaguely described: he or she was demented or disoriented, and at risk of exploitation or abuse. The guardians attached a brief physician?s certificate that contained minimal details and often stated that the ward was too incapacitated to attend a court hearing. Debra Bookout, an attorney at the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, told me, ?When a hospital or rehab facility needs to free up a bed, or when the patient is not paying his bills, some doctors get sloppy, and they will sign anything.? A recent study conducted by Hunter College found that a quarter of guardianship petitions in New York were brought by nursing homes and hospitals, sometimes as a means of collecting on overdue bills.

It often took several days for relatives to realize what had happened. When they tried to contest the guardianship or become guardians themselves, they were dismissed as unsuitable, and disparaged in court records as being neglectful, or as drug addicts, gamblers, and exploiters. (Belshe was described by Parks as a ?reported addict? who ?has no contact with the proposed ward,? an allegation that Belshe didn?t see until it was too late to challenge.) Family who lived out of state were disqualified from serving as guardians, because the law prohibited the appointment of anyone who didn?t live in Nevada.

Once the court approved the guardianship, the wards were often removed from their homes, which were eventually sold. Terry Williams, whose father?s estate was taken over by strangers even though he?d named her the executor of his will, has spent years combing through guardianship, probate, and real-estate records in Clark County. ?I kept researching, because I was so fascinated that these people could literally take over the lives and assets of people under color of law, in less than ten minutes, and nobody was asking questions,? she told me. ?These people spent their lives accumulating wealth and, in a blink of an eye, it was someone else?s.?

Williams has reviewed hundreds of cases involving Jared Shafer, who is considered the godfather of guardians in Nevada. In the records room of the courthouse, she was afraid to say Shafer?s name out loud. In the course of his thirty-five-year career, Shafer has assumed control of more than three thousand wards and estates and trained a generation of guardians. In 1979, he became the county?s public administrator, handling the estates of people who had no relatives in Nevada, as well as the public guardian, serving wards when no family members or private guardians were available. In 2003, he left government and founded his own private guardianship and fiduciary business; he transferred the number of his government-issued phone to himself.

Williams took records from Shafer?s and other guardians? cases to the Las Vegas police department several times. She tried to explain, she said, that ?this is a racketeering operation that is fee-based. There?s no brown paper bag handed off in an alley. The payoff is the right to bill the estate.? The department repeatedly told her that it was a civil issue, and refused to take a report. In 2006, she submitted a typed statement, listing twenty-three statutes that she thought had been violated, but an officer wrote in the top right corner, ?NOT A POLICE MATTER.? Adam Woodrum, an estate lawyer in Las Vegas, told me that he?s worked with several wards and their families who have brought their complaints to the police. ?They can?t even get their foot in the door,? he said.

Acting as her own attorney, Williams filed a racketeering suit in federal court against Shafer and the lawyers who represented him. At a hearing before the United States District Court of Central California in 2009, she told the judge, ?They are trumping up ways and means to deem people incompetent and take their assets.? The case was dismissed. ?The scheme is ingenious,? she told me. ?How do you come up with a crime that literally none of the victims can articulate without sounding like they?re nuts? The same insane allegations keep surfacing from people who don?t know each other.?

In 2002, in a petition to the Clark County District Court, a fifty-seven-year-old man complained that his mother had lost her constitutional rights because her kitchen was understocked and a few bills hadn?t been paid. The house they shared was then placed on the market. The son wrote, ?If the only showing necessary to sell the home right out from under someone is that their ?estate? would benefit, then no house in Clark County is safe, nor any homeowner.? Under the guise of benevolent paternalism, guardians seemed to be creating a kind of capitalist dystopia: people?s quality of life was being destroyed in order to maximize their capital.

When Concetta Mormon, a wealthy woman who owned a Montessori school, became Shafer?s ward because she had aphasia, Shafer sold the school midyear, even though students were enrolled. At a hearing after the sale, Mormon?s daughter, Victoria Cloutier, constantly spoke out of turn. The judge, Robert Lueck, ordered that she be handcuffed and placed in a holding cell while the hearing continued. Two hours later, when Cloutier was allowed to return for the conclusion, the judge told her that she had thirty days in which to vacate her mother?s house. If she didn?t leave, she would be evicted and her belongings would be taken to Goodwill.

The opinions of wards were also disregarded. In 2010, Guadalupe Olvera, a ninety-year-old veteran of the Second World War, repeatedly asked that his daughter and not Shafer be appointed his guardian. ?The ward is not to go to court,? Shafer instructed his assistants. When Olvera was finally permitted to attend a hearing, nearly a year after becoming a ward, he expressed his desire to live with his daughter in California, rather than under Shafer?s care. ?Why is everybody against that?? he asked Norheim. ?I don?t need that man.? Although Nevada?s guardianship law requires that courts favor relatives over professionals, Norheim continued the guardianship, saying, ?The priority ship sailed.?

When Olvera?s daughter eventually defied the court?s orders and took her father to live at her seaside home in Northern California, Norheim?s supervisor, Judge Charles Hoskin, issued an arrest warrant for her ?immediate arrest and incarceration? without bail. The warrant was for contempt of court, but Norheim said at least five times from the bench that she had ?kidnapped? Olvera. At a hearing, Norheim acknowledged that he wasn?t able to send an officer across state lines to arrest the daughter. Shafer said, ?Maybe I can.?

Shafer held so much sway in the courtroom that, in 2013, when an attorney complained that the bank account of a ward named Kristina Berger had ?no money left and no records to explain where it went,? Shafer told Norheim, ?Close the courtroom.? Norheim immediately complied. A dozen people in attendance were forced to leave.

One of Shafer?s former bookkeepers, Lisa Clifton, who was hired in 2012, told me that Shafer used to brag about his political connections, saying, ?I wrote the laws.? In 1995, he persuaded the Nevada Senate Committee on Government Affairs to write a bill that allowed the county to receive interest on money that the public guardian invested. ?This is what I want you to put in the statute, and I will tell you that you will get a rousing hand from a couple of judges who practice our probate,? he said. At another hearing, he asked the committee to write an amendment permitting public guardians to take control of people?s property in five days, without a court order. ?This bill is not ?Big Brother? if you trust the person who is doing the job,? he said. (After a senator expressed concern that the law allowed ?intervention into somebody?s life without establishing some sort of reason why you are doing it,? the committee declined to recommend it.)

Clifton observed that Shafer almost always took a cynical view of family members: they were never motivated by love or duty, only by avarice. ? ?They just want the money??that was his answer to everything,? she told me. ?And I?m thinking to myself, Well, when family members die they pass it down to their children. Isn?t that just the normal progression of things??

After a few months on the job, Clifton was asked to work as a guardian, substituting for an absent employee, though she had never been trained. Her first assignment was to supervise a visit with a man named Alvin Passer, who was dying in the memory-care unit of a nursing home. His partner of eight years, Olive Manoli, was permitted a brief visit to say goodbye. Her visits had been restricted by Shafer?his lawyer told the court that Passer became ?agitated and sexually aggressive? in her presence?and she hadn?t seen Passer in months. In a futile attempt to persuade the court to allow her to be with him, Manoli had submitted a collection of love letters, as well as notes from ten people describing her desire to care for Passer for the rest of his life. ?I was absolutely appalled,? Clifton said. ?She was this very sweet lady, and I said, ?Go in there and spend as much time with him as you want.? Tears were rolling down her cheeks.?

The family seemed to have suffered a form of court-sanctioned gaslighting. Passer?s daughter, Joyce, a psychiatric nurse who specialized in geriatrics, had been abruptly removed as her father?s co-guardian, because she appeared ?unwilling or (more likely) unable to conduct herself rationally in the Ward?s best interests,? according to motions filed by one of Shafer?s attorneys.

She and Manoli had begged Norheim not to appoint Shafer as guardian. ?Sir, he?s abusive,? their lawyer said in court.

?He?s as good as we got, and I trust him completely,? Norheim responded.

Joyce Passer was so confused by the situation that, she said, ?I thought I was crazy.? Then she received a call from a blocked number. It was Terry Williams, who did not reveal her identity. She had put together a list of a half-dozen family members who she felt were ?ready to receive some kind of verbal support.? She told Passer, ?Look, you are not nuts. This is real. Everything you are thinking is true. This has been going on for years.?

During Rennie North?s first year at Lakeview Terrace, she gained sixty pounds. Parks had switched the Norths? insurance, for reasons she never explained, and Rennie began seeing new doctors, who prescribed Valium, Prozac, the sedative Temazepam, Oxycodone, and Fentanyl. The doses steadily increased. Rudy, who had hip pain, was prescribed Oxycodone and Valium. When he sat down to read, the sentences floated past his eyes or appeared in duplicate. ?Ward seemed very tired and his eyes were glassy,? Parks wrote in an invoice.

Belshe found it increasingly hard to communicate with her parents, who napped for much of the day. ?They were being overmedicated to the point where they weren?t really there,? she said. The Norths? grandsons, who used to see them every week, rarely visited. ?It was degrading for them to see us so degraded,? Rudy said. Parks noticed that Rennie was acting helpless, and urged her to ?try harder to be more motivated and not be so dependent on others.? Rudy and Rennie began going to Sunday church services at the facility, even though they were Jewish. Rudy was heartened by what he heard in the pastor?s message: ?Don?t give up. God will help you get out of here.? He began telling people, ?We are living the life of Job.?

At the end of 2014, Lakeview Terrace hired a new director, Julie Liebo, who resisted Parks?s orders that medical information about wards be kept from their families. Liebo told me, ?The families were devastated that they couldn?t know if the residents were in surgery or hear anything about their health. They didn?t understand why they?d been taken out of the picture. They?d ask, ?Can you just tell me if she?s alive?? ? Liebo tried to comply with the rules, because she didn?t want to violate medical-privacy laws; as guardian, Parks was entitled to choose what was disclosed. Once, though, Liebo took pity on the sister of an eighty-year-old ward named Dorothy Smith, who was mourning a dog that Parks had given away, and told her that Smith was stable. Liebo said that Parks, who was by then the secretary of the Nevada Guardianship Association, called her immediately. ?She threatened my license and said she could have me arrested,? Liebo told me.

After Liebo arrived, Parks began removing wards from Lakeview Terrace with less than a day?s notice. A woman named Linda Phillips, who had dementia, was told that she was going to the beauty salon. She never returned. Marlene Homer, the ward whose ailments were depression and ?strange thoughts,? was taken away in a van, screaming. Liebo had asked the state ombudsman to come to the facility and stop the removals, but nothing could be done. ?We stood there completely helpless,? Liebo said. ?We had no idea where they were going.? Liebo said that other wards asked her if they would be next.

Liebo alerted the compliance officer for the Clark County Family Court that Parks was removing residents ?without any concern for them and their choice to stay here.? She also reported her complaints to the police, the Department of Health Services, the Bureau of Health Care, and Nevada Adult Protective Services. She said each agency told her that it didn?t have the authority or the jurisdiction to intervene.

At the beginning of 2015, Parks told the Norths that they would be leaving Lakeview Terrace. ?Finances are low and the move is out of our control,? Parks wrote. It was all arranged so quickly that, Rudy said, ?we didn?t have time to say goodbye to people we?d been eating with for seventeen months.? Parks arranged for Caring Transitions to move them to the Wentworth, a less expensive assisted-living facility. Liebo said that, the night before the move, Rudy began ?shouting about the Holocaust, that this was like being in Nazi Germany.? Liebo didn?t think the reference was entirely misguided. ?He reverted to a point where he had no rights as a human being,? she said. ?He was no longer the caregiver, the man, the husband?all of the things that gave his life meaning.? Liebo also didn?t understand why Belshe had been marginalized. ?She seemed like she had a great relationship with her parents,? she said.

Belshe showed up at 9 A.M. to help her parents with the move, but when she arrived Parks?s assistant, Heidi Kramer, told her that her parents had already left. Belshe ?emotionally crashed,? as Liebo put it. She yelled that her parents didn?t even wake up until nine or later?what was the rush? In an invoice, Kramer wrote that Belshe ?began to yell and scream, her behavior was out of control, she was taking pictures and yelling, ?April Parks is a thief.? ? Kramer called the police. Liebo remembers that an officer ?looked at Julie Belshe and told her she had no rights, and she didn?t.?

Belshe cried as she drove to the Wentworth, in Las Vegas. When she arrived, Parks was there, and refused to let her see her parents. Parks wrote, ?I told her that she was too distraught to see her parents, and that she needed to leave.? Belshe wouldn?t, so Parks asked the receptionist to call the police. When the police arrived, Belshe told them, ?I just want to hug my parents and make sure they?re O.K.? An officer handed her a citation for trespassing, saying that if she returned to the facility she would be arrested.

Parks wrote that the Norths were ?very happy with the new room and thanked us several times,? but Rudy remembers feeling as if he had ?ended up in the sewer.? Their room was smaller than the one at Lakeview Terrace, and the residents at the Wentworth seemed older and sicker. ?There were people sitting in their chairs, half-asleep,? Rudy said. ?Their tongues hung out.?

Rennie spent nearly all her time in her wheelchair or in bed, her eyes half-closed. Her face had become bloated. One night, she was so agitated that the nurses gave her Haldol, a drug commonly used to treat schizophrenia. When Rudy asked her questions, Rennie said ?What?? in a soft, remote voice.

Shortly after her parents? move, Belshe called an editor of the Vegas Voice, a newspaper distributed to all the mailboxes in senior communities in Las Vegas. In recent months, the paper had published three columns warning readers about Clark County guardians, writing that they ?have been lining their pockets at the expense of unwitting seniors for a very long time.?

At Belshe?s urging, the paper?s political editor, Rana Goodman, visited the Norths, and published an article in the Voice, describing Rudy as ?the most articulate, soft spoken person I have met in a very long time.? She called Clark County?s guardianship system a ?(legal) elder abuse racket? and urged readers to sign a petition demanding that the Nevada legislature reform the laws. More than three thousand people signed.

Two months later, the Review-Journal ran an investigation, titled  <https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/clark-countys-private-guardians-may-protect-or-just-steal-and-abuse/> ?Clark County?s Private Guardians May Protect?Or Just Steal and Abuse,? which described complaints against Shafer going back to the early eighties, when two of his employees were arrested for stealing from the estates of dead people.

In May, 2015, a month after the article appeared, when the Norths went to court to discuss their finances local journalists were in the courtroom and Norheim seemed chastened. ?I have grave concerns about this case,? he said. He noted that Parks had sold the Norths? belongings without proper approval from his court. Parks had been doing this routinely for years, and, according to her, the court had always accepted her accounting and her fees. Her lawyer, Aileen Cohen, said, ?Everything was done for the wards? benefit, to support the wards.?

Norheim announced that he was suspending Parks as the Norths? guardian?the first time she had been removed from a case for misconduct.

?This is important,? Rudy, who was wearing a double-breasted suit, said in court. ?This is hope. I am coming here and I have hope.? He quoted the Bible, Thomas Jefferson, and Euripides, until Belshe finally touched his elbow and said, ?Just sit down, Dad.?

When Rudy apologized for being ?overzealous,? Norheim told him, ?This is your life. This is your liberty. You have every right to be here. You have every right to be involved in this project.?

After the hearing, Parks texted her husband, ?I am finished.?

Last March, Parks and her lawyer, along with her office manager and her husband, were indicted for perjury and theft, among other charges. The indictment was narrowly focussed on their double billings and their sloppy accounting, but, in a detailed summary of the investigation, Jaclyn O?Malley, who led the probe for the Nevada Attorney General?s Office, made passing references to the ?collusion of hospital social workers and medical staff? who profited from their connection to Parks. At Parks?s grand-jury trial, her assistant testified that she and Parks went to hospitals and attorneys? offices for the purpose of ?building relationships to generate more client leads.? Parks secured a contract with six medical facilities whose staff agreed to refer patients to her?an arrangement that benefitted the facilities, since Parks controlled the decisions of a large pool of their potential consumers. Parks often gave doctors blank certificates and told them exactly what to write in order for their patients to become her wards.

Parks and other private guardians appeared to gravitate toward patients who had considerable assets. O?Malley described a 2010 case in which Parks, after receiving a tip from a social worker, began ?cold-calling? rehabilitation centers, searching for a seventy-nine-year-old woman, Patricia Smoak, who had nearly seven hundred thousand dollars and no children. Parks finally found her, but Smoak?s physician wouldn?t sign a certificate of incapacity. ?The doctor is not playing ball,? Parks wrote to her lawyer. She quickly found a different doctor to sign the certificate, and Norheim approved the guardianship. (Both Parks and Norheim declined to speak with me.)

Steve Miller, a former member of the Las Vegas City Council, said he assumed that Shafer would be the next indictment after Parks, who is scheduled to go to trial next spring. ?All of the disreputable guardians were taking clues from the Shafer example,? he said. But, as the months passed, ?I started to think that this has run its course locally. Only federal intervention is going to give us peace of mind.?

Richard Black, who, after his father-in-law was placed into guardianship, became the director of a grassroots national organization, Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship, said that he considered the Parks indictment ?irrefutably shallow. It sent a strong message of: We?re not going to go after the real leaders of this, only the easy people, the ones who were arrogant and stupid enough to get caught.? He works with victims in dozens of what he calls ?hot spots,? places where guardianship abuse is prevalent, often because they attract retirees: Palm Beach, Sarasota, Naples, Albuquerque, San Antonio. He said that the problems in Clark County are not unusual. ?The only thing that is unique is that Clark County is one of the few jurisdictions that doesn?t seal its records, so we can see what is going on.?

Approximately ten per cent of people older than sixty-five are thought to be victims of ?elder abuse??a construct that has yet to enter public consciousness, as child abuse has?but such cases are seldom prosecuted. People who are frail or dying don?t make good witnesses?a fact that Shafer once emphasized at a 1990 U.S. congressional hearing on crimes against the elderly, in which he appeared as an expert at preventing exploitation. ?Seniors do not like to testify,? he said, adding that they were either incapable or ?mesmerized by the person ripping them off.? He said, ?The exploitation of seniors is becoming a real cottage industry right now. This is a good business. Seniors are unable to fend for themselves.?

In the past two years, Nevada has worked to reform its guardianship system through a commission, appointed by the Nevada Supreme Court, to study failures in oversight. In 2018, the Nevada legislature will enact a new law that entitles all wards to be represented by lawyers in court. But the state seems reluctant to reckon with the roots of the problem, as well as with its legacy: a generation of ill and elderly people who were deprived of their autonomy, and also of their families, in the final years of their lives. Last spring, a man bought a storage unit in Henderson, Nevada, and discovered twenty-seven urns?the remains of Clark County wards who had never been buried.

In the wake of Parks?s indictment, no judges have lost their jobs. Norheim was transferred from guardianship court to dependency court, where he now oversees cases involving abused and neglected children. Shafer is still listed in the Clark County court system as a trustee and as an administrator in several open cases. He did not respond to multiple e-mails and messages left with his bookkeeper, who answered his office phone but would not say whether he was still in practice. He did appear at one of the public meetings for the commission appointed to analyze flaws in the guardianship system. ?What started all of this was me,? he said. Then he criticized local media coverage of the issue and said that a television reporter, whom he?d talked to briefly, didn?t know the facts. ?The system works,? Shafer went on. ?It?s not the guardians you have to be aware of, it?s more family members.? He wore a blue polo shirt, untucked, and his head was shaved. He looked aged, his arms dotted with sun spots, but he spoke confidently and casually. ?The only person you folks should be thinking about when you change things is the ward. It?s their money, it?s their life, it?s their time. The family members don?t count.?

Belshe is resigned to the fact that she will be supporting her parents for the rest of their lives. Parks spent all the Norths? money on fees?the hourly wages for her, her assistants, her lawyers, and the various contractors she hired?as well as on their monthly bills, which doubled under her guardianship. Belshe guesses that Parks?or whichever doctor or social worker referred her to the Norths?had assumed that her parents were wealthier than they actually were. Rudy often talked vaguely about deals he had once made in China. ?He exaggerates, so he won?t feel emasculated,? Belshe said. ?He wasn?t such a big businessman, but he was a great dad.?

The Norths now live in what used to be Belshe?s home office; it has a window onto the living room which Belshe has covered with a tarp. Although the room is tiny, the Norths can fit most of their remaining belongings into it: a small lamp with teardrop crystals, a deflated love seat, and two paintings by their son. Belshe rescued the art work, in 2013, after Caring Transitions placed the Norths? belongings in trash bags at the edge of their driveway. ?My brother?s paintings were folded and smelled,? she said.

The Norths? bed takes up most of the room, and operates as their little planet. They rarely stray far from it. They lie in bed playing cards or sit against the headboard, reading or watching TV. Rudy?s notebooks are increasingly focussed on mortality??Death may be pleasurable??and money. ?Money monsters do well in this society,? he wrote. ?All great fortunes began with a crime.? He creates lists of all the possessions he has lost, some of which he may be imagining: over time, Rennie?s wardrobe has become increasingly elaborate and refined, as have their sets of China. He alternates between feeling that his belongings are nothing?a distraction from the pursuit of meaning?and everything. ?It?s an erasure,? he said. ?They erase you from the face of the earth.? He told me a few times that he was a distant cousin of Leon Trotsky, ?intellect of the revolution,? as he called him, and I wondered whether his newfound pride was connected to his conflicted feelings about the value of material objects.

A few months after the Norths were freed, Rudy talked on the phone with Adolfo Gonzalez, his neighbor from Lakeview Terrace, who, after a doctor found him competent, had also been discharged. He now lived in a house near the airport, and had been reunited with several of his pets. The two men congratulated each other. ?We survived!? Rudy said. ?We never thought we?d see each other on the other side.? Three other wards from Lakeview Terrace had died.

Rennie has lost nearly all the weight she gained at Lakeview Terrace, mostly because Belshe and her husband won?t let her lounge in her wheelchair or eat starchy foods. Now she uses a walker, which she makes self-deprecating jokes about. ?This is fun?I can teach you!? she told me.

In July, Rennie slipped in the bathroom and spent a night in the hospital. Belshe didn?t want anyone to know about her mother?s fall, because, she said, ?this is the kind of thing that gets you into guardianship.? She told me, ?I feel like these people are just waiting in the bushes.?

Two days after the fall, Rennie was feeling better?she?d had thirteen stitches?but she was still agitated by a dream she had in the hospital. She wasn?t even sure if she?d been asleep; she remembers talking, and her eyes were open.

?You were loopedy-doopy,? Scott Belshe, Julie?s husband, told her. They were sitting on the couch in their living room.

?It was real,? Rennie said.

?You dreamed it,? Scott told her.

?Maybe I was hallucinating,? she said. ?I don?t know?I was scared.? She said that strangers were making decisions about her fate. She felt as if she were frozen: she couldn?t influence what was happening. ?I didn?t know what to do,? she told Scott. ?I think I yelled for help. Help me.? The worst part, she said, was that she couldn?t find her family. ?Honest to God, I thought you guys left me all alone.? ?

This article appears in the print edition of the October 9, 2017, issue, with the headline ?The Takeover.?

 

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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:35:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Info Canada'Healthcare
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The Lancet
February 22, 2018
Canada's universal health-care system: achieving its potential
By Danielle Martin, MD, Ashley P Miller, MD, Am?lie Quesnel-Vall?e, PhD, Nadine R Caron, MD, Bilkis Vissandj?e, PhD, Gregory P Marchildon, PhD

Key messages

*  Canada's universal, publicly funded health-care system?known as Medicare?is a source of national pride, and a model of universal health coverage. It provides relatively equitable access to physician and hospital services through 13 provincial and territorial tax-funded public insurance plans.

*  Like most countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Canada faces an ageing population and fiscal constraints in its publicly funded programmes. Services must be provided across vast geography and in the context of high rates of migration and ethnocultural diversity in Canadian cities.

*  In 2017, the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, the three key health policy challenges are long waits for some elective health-care services, inequitable access to services outside the core public basket, and sustained poor health outcomes for Indigenous populations.

*  To address these challenges, a renewal of the tripartite social contract underpinning Medicare is needed. Governments, health-care providers (especially physicians), and the public must recommit to equity, solidarity, and co-stewardship of the system.

*  To fully achieve the potential of Medicare, action on the social determinants of health and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples must occur in parallel with health system reform.

*  Without bold political vision and courage to strengthen and expand the country's health system, the Canadian version of universal health coverage is at risk of becoming outdated.

Canadian lessons for a global world

Canada's most important accomplishment by far has been the establishment of universal health coverage, which is free at the point of care, for medical and hospital services. The preservation and enhancement of Medicare are due largely to Canadians' pride in caring for one another?an expression of equity and solidarity that runs core to Canadian values. Hinging on a social consensus of equitable access to health care, the simplicity of the system?no variable coverage, no means testing, and no co-payments?is easy for Canadians to understand and support.

But universal health coverage is an aspiration, not a destination. All countries must continuously consider the depth and scope of coverage that is politically achievable and fiscally feasible. In Canada, that necessary work has not been done for more than 40 years. The Canadian experience thus offers a cautionary tale on incrementalism. In the absence of bold political vision and courage, coverage expansion can be very difficult to achieve, with the result that the Canadian version of universal health coverage is at risk of becoming outdated.

A powerful mechanism such as a single-payer insurance system is only as good as the willingness of system leaders to use it for reform. In turn, reform requires a willingness on the part of governments to pursue change, rather than simply managing the status quo. Clear mechanisms are lacking to consistently realign resources to meet population needs, promote evidence-based care, reduce variation, and contain costs. Health care is ultimately a local affair, and no patient or provider wants the payer in the examination room. However, much of the potential benefit of a single-payer structure is lost when institutions are independent, with little accountability. The potential of the system is further limited by the fact that physicians function alongside but outside the system, rather than as accountable participants through employment or other contractual means. Co-stewardship and accountability should be recognised as integral parts of payment systems rather than avoided or grafted on afterwards.

Conclusion

When Tommy Douglas first established public health insurance in Saskatchewan in the late 1940s, his goal was to begin by creating insurance models that would eliminate the financial barriers to care. He intended to follow that with a second reform of health service delivery that would focus on population health needs, with an emphasis on the reform of delivery models and on the social determinants of health. His government, and subsequent governments, provincially and federally, managed to overcome fragmented institutional structures and decentralisation of power to make the first stage of his vision a reality, but not yet the second. To achieve that second stage in the 21st century, determined action on the social determinants of health and a joint effort by governments, health-care providers, and the public in achieving health system reform will be needed. With bold political vision and courage, this ambitious goal is within reach.

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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:55:28 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Buying tickets for NRA event in FB on May 3rd
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Off :   Friends of NRA website:

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 02:01:37 +0000
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We need to leave our O/M meeting early Sat to protest the NRA.



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To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Buying tickets for NRA event in FB on May 3rd

Off :   Friends of NRA website:

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 [cid:1349DB61-235E-47FD-8BD0-72F262FFB71D at hsd1.ca.comcast.net.] 325.00Coach Table
 [cid:1349DB61-235E-47FD-8BD0-72F262FFB71D at hsd1.ca.comcast.net.] 895.00Buy a Table Get a Gun!
[cid:1349DB61-235E-47FD-8BD0-72F262FFB71D at hsd1.ca.comcast.net.]1,435.002018 Table of the Year
 [cid:1349DB61-235E-47FD-8BD0-72F262FFB71D at hsd1.ca.comcast.net.] 2,018.00Freedom Warrior Table
 [cid:1349DB61-235E-47FD-8BD0-72F262FFB71D at hsd1.ca.comcast.net.] 2,995.00Safari Table with .338 Rifle
 [cid:1349DB61-235E-47FD-8BD0-72F262FFB71D at hsd1.ca.comcast.net.] 3,380.00Safari Table & .375 Rifle
[cid:1349DB61-235E-47FD-8BD0-72F262FFB71D at hsd1.ca.comcast.net.]3,750.00Hogue 1911 Table
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