From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Sep  2 20:00:00 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 20:00:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Golden Rule itinerary
Message-ID: <806BDB1F-AB43-4E07-AF36-484E4BAB3D26@mcn.org>

The Golden Rule will not be visiting the Mendocino North Coast this year.  They have and ambitious travel plan, below!
We will miss them coming through and visiting here.  rk

> SEASON: CALIFORNIA COAST
> In early July, the Golden Rule will sail from San Diego to Humboldt Bay where the team that rebuilt her will finish preparing her for ocean sailing. Of course, there will be parties and fund raising events while we?re there!
> Then we?ll port-hop back to San Diego, visiting some of our favorite cities: (TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
> Eureka: July 18 ? Sept 8
> SF Bay: Sept 13-17
> Santa Cruz:     Sept 21-23
> Marina del Rey: Sept 28
> San Pedro:      Sept 29-30
> San Diego:      Oct 3-24
> Late-October launch into the Pacific, bound for Hawaii!
> BEYOND HAWAII
> Once we have visited the Hawaiian Islands, we hope to continue on to the Marshall Islands, where the Quaker crew tried to sail Golden Rule to in 1958. Then we would like to visit Guam, Okinawa, Korea and Japan before returning to the US.
>  <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Map-2018-21-for-Brochure-Rev-C.jpg <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Map-2018-21-for-Brochure-Rev-C.jpg>>
> SCREEN THE NEW GOLDEN RULE DOCUMENTARY!
> Making Waves: The Rebirth of the Golden Rule A 25 minute documentary about the Golden Rule?s history and current mission is now available to view and download here <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/making-waves/ <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/making-waves/>>!  A 10-minute version can be watched directly from here
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Sep  2 20:42:33 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 20:42:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] scarcity of rentals
Message-ID: <C9A1AC4C-4FF9-4F1F-949C-870DD5E32EB3@mcn.org>

Know anyone LOOKING for a rental?

With the scarcity of rentals locally I?ve thought some kind of 
clearinghouse for all concerned would be a good thing. Well, it turns 
out there is such a place. I urge all landlords and those seeking a 
rental join the Facebook group "Mendocino County Roommate and Rental 
Finder?.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/438569359519277 <https://www.facebook.com/groups/438569359519277>

Just login to Facebook (or sign up if you're not already -- despite how 
awful Facebook can be, it's also very useful in exactly this kind of 
situation), search for "Mendocino County Roommate and Rental Finder" and 
ask to join. You have to answer a couple of questions to prove you're 
not a robot and they'll accept your request in a day or two. Then you 
can peruse the latest listings or add your own.

Good luck!

-- 
Ron Hock
www.hocktools.com <http://www.hocktools.com/>
16650 Mitchell Creek Drive
Fort Bragg, California  95437 USA
011+1+ 707-964-2782
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Sep  3 15:27:40 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:27:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Pursuit of Social Justice, Unions are the Answer
Message-ID: <32AD188C-0D0C-46A5-BD0F-42B50810CD05@mcn.org>

In Pursuit of Social Justice, Unions are the Answer
Some say it has been a difficult year for unions.
I say, I?m sticking with mine.
In fact, you couldn?t pry me away from it. Let?s just say the union is the great equalizer, the place where every issue is ultimately addressed in the field, in the trenches, in the workplace, where people?s rights are on the line.

RNs and caregivers at UCSF show solidarity and strength
Unions are where the very stuff of our survival???wages and benefits, workplace safety and workplace justice, human rights and bargaining rights???come into play. Unions are the only way working people have ever found the voice???and power???they need to fight and win against giant corporations, and the billionaires who control them. More on website>>>>>

https://medium.com/@NNUBonnie/in-pursuit-of-social-justice-unions-are-the-answer-bc3178c119dd
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Sep  3 22:12:30 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 22:12:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Case for Single-Price Health Care
Message-ID: <D7B7C519-D57F-4730-95D1-882562933BE9@mcn.org>

Washington Monthly
April/May/June 2018
The Case for Single-Price Health Care
By Paul S. Hewitt and Phillip Longman

Excerpts

Obamacare has taken a licking but keeps on ticking. But while progress has been made on expanding access, another problem keeps getting worse: the soaring cost of health care for those who get their insurance through their employers. For these folks?who make up the majority of middle-class, working-age Americans?the ever-rising costs of premiums, deductibles, and co-pays has turned into a full-blown crisis.

Take a median-income family of four whose members are covered by a standard employer-sponsored plan. Last year, the amount that hospitals, doctors, and other providers charged to treat such a family reached an average of $26,944, according to the Milliman Medical Index?nearly $9,000 higher than in 2010, when the ACA was enacted. Families typically paid about a fifth of that difference directly in the form of increased premiums, deductibles, and co-pays. Who exactly paid how much of the rest is not certain, but it?s axiomatic among economists that employees bear most if not all of the cost of employer-sponsored health care. To employers, health insurance is just a form of employee compensation. When the cost goes up, they typically respond by cutting back on raises and other benefits.

Fortunately, there?s a straightforward way to attack this middle-class affordability problem. The Affordable Care Act dramatically tightened existing price controls on health care purchased by the federal government. It did so by setting fee schedules for how much doctors and hospitals can charge Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs for performing specific services or, in some cases, treating specific conditions. Similar price controls apply to Medicare Advantage Plans, under which private insurers are allowed to contract with providers at Medicare prices.

The answer to the most pressing aspect of our health care crisis is simply to apply these cost controls to commercial plans as well. For a typical middle-class family, such a move, if enacted today, would drop the total price of health care by about a third in the first year, without having to pass any new taxes and without forcing anyone to change their health care plan. Proof of concept comes from the fact that we already do this for everyone covered by Medicare and Medicaid. You?ve heard of single-payer. This is the case for single-price.

For people with commercial insurance, it keeps getting worse.

How did this happen?

A major, underappreciated reason is that in most markets, medical providers have merged with each other to the point that they effectively operate as local monopolies.

Where health care consolidation is strongest, hospital prices run roughly 20 percent higher than in markets where some real competition remains. Since we first wrote about the phenomenon in these pages (?After Obamacare,? January/February 2014), a vast literature has grown up confirming that monopoly in health care is a major factor pushing up prices for Americans not covered by Medicare or Medicaid.

What would happen if we just took the single measure of applying Medicare prices to all commercial health insurance?and did nothing else? According to a study by the Congressional Budget Office, the price for a one-day hospital stay is 89 percent higher when charged to commercial insurance plans and their customers than when a Medicare patient stays in the same bed for the same amount of time. Overall, the discounts Medicare and Medicaid receive are in the 20 to 40 percent range. Thus, if done at a stroke, the first-order effect of imposing Medicare prices universally would be to reduce the price of the health care received by a typical family by about one-third. That would translate into annual savings of about $9,000 today, and much more over time. The savings would still be substantial even if we implemented the plan in phases to ease the transition.

Wouldn?t ?Medicare prices for all? cause massive disruption across the health care sector? Yes, but in a good way. Importantly, hospitals that disproportionately serve low-income and elderly patients?typically found in rural or poor, urban locations?would be the least affected. That?s because they already know how to break even or even earn a surplus at Medicare and Medicaid prices. Unable to pass inflated costs along to patients with commercial insurance, they?ve had to learn to be more efficient.

The same is true more generally of hospitals that lack monopoly power. Studies show that hospitals with real competition in their local markets have found ways to lower costs to the point that they can get by on Medicare prices. These hospitals might even welcome a move to universal Medicare prices because it would help level the playing field with monopolistic competitors when it comes to recruiting and retaining doctors.

It would be a different story, though, for hospital systems that have been living high off their ability to extract monopoly prices from commercially insured patients. These hospitals will scream that they are already losing money on every Medicare and Medicaid patient, and that unless they are able to inflate the prices they charge commercial payers, they will go broke. But the reason they lose money on Medicare and Medicaid patients is that their costs are too high. And the reason their costs are too high is that they don?t need to cut them so long as they can gouge commercial payers?which, as monopolies or near monopolies, they can. The majority of these hospitals are classified as nonprofits, so the revenue from their high prices doesn?t even have to go back to shareholders. Instead, it turns into inflated salaries for administrators, lucrative contracts for specialists, and, often, giant building projects. In order to survive on Medicare prices, they would have to become much more efficient and cost conscious.

In normal markets, price controls are seldom a good idea. But health care is not a normal market. Purchasers, whether consumers, insurers, or employers, have a hard time evaluating the quality of medical services, for example. There are also all kinds of agency problems involved with so much care being purchased with other people?s money, and a moral problem involved with the fact that a large and increasing share of the population can?t afford to pay the price of their own health care. And that?s all before you get to the problem of industry consolidation. In highly concentrated, opaque health care markets, administered prices are the only real alternative to prices dictated by the fiat of monopolists.

These are the reasons why literally every other developed country in the world uses administered prices in health care, including countries that rely on privately owned hospitals and entrepreneurial doctors. And it?s why their use in the Medicare and Medicaid programs has been successful in containing cost inflation while predatory pricing prevails everywhere else in the increasingly cartelized U.S. health care sector.

The idea of applying Medicare and Medicaid prices across the board is so compelling that it has started getting serious attention from influential policy wonks. On the conservative side, the Council for Affordable Health Coverage recently issued a white paper that calls for the expansion of Medicare prices to commercial plans. On the liberal side, Princeton?s Paul Starr broached the idea in an article in the American Prospect in January. More recently, the Center of American Progress has included the idea in a policy paper.

But there are very strong reasons to believe that starting with price controls alone is a better idea than trying to achieve them and universal coverage in one shot. 

Medicare for All advocates make the case that, despite the sticker price, the plan will actually bring down overall health care spending by imposing lower prices on providers and saving on administration. But here?s the problem: almost all of those savings will come from money that voters don?t know they?re currently spending. More than 150 million Americans have employer-sponsored group health care plans. They can see what they are forking out directly for premiums, deductibles, and co-pays, and they don?t like it. But they are largely innocent of the far greater amounts they pay in lost wages. In a typical employer-sponsored family plan, two-thirds of the premiums are nominally paid by the employer, who in turn shifts much if not all of that cost to employees by reducing other forms of compensation. Yet few employees are aware of this reality. So selling a single-payer system involves promising to save people money on costs they don?t know they pay, while at the same time telling them that they?ll have to share more of their paycheck with Uncle Sam. Not easy.

So why not just keep it simple, at least to start? A ?Medicare prices for all? plan doesn?t require tax increases or involve transfers paid for by the middle class. It doesn?t require Americans to give up their current health care plans. And it doesn?t repeal or replace the popular features of the Affordable Care Act. But it does directly attack the middle-class affordability crisis using a proven approach that the great majority of Americans might actually support.


Paul Hewitt is an economic adviser to the Council for Affordable Health Coverage. Phillip Longman is senior editor at the Washington Monthly and policy director at the Open Markets Institute and author of "Best Care Anywhere - Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours."

===

California Legislative Information

AB-3087 California Health Care Cost, Quality, and Equity Commission.

This bill would create the California Health Care Cost, Quality, and Equity Commission, an independent state agency, to control in-state health care costs and set the amounts accepted as payment by health plans, hospitals, physicians, physician groups, and other health care providers, among other things.

The bill would require the commission, beginning July 1, 2019, to annually determine the base amounts that health care entities, as defined, are required to accept as full payment for health care services, and would specify that the base amount for a health care provider shall be a percentage of Medicare rates not lower than 100% of Medicare rates.

The bill would require the commission to obtain the information necessary to determine total health care expenditures and to set a global growth cap for total health care expenditures, as specified.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3087 <https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3087>

===

California Medical Association
April 30, 2018
Physicians converge on Sacramento to oppose dangerous rate setting proposal

Over 500 physicians, medical students and stakeholders gathered in Sacramento on April 18 to bring the voice of medicine to legislators for the 44th annual California Medical Association (CMA) Legislative Advocacy Day.

Wearing white coats, physicians converged on the Capitol to educate legislators about critical health care issues, including a radical physician rate setting proposal (AB 3087) that would increase patient out-of-pocket costs, create state-sanctioned rationing of health care for all Californians and force physicians out of state or into early retirement. Informing legislators about the negative effect this dangerous rate setting proposal would have on access to care in California was the top priority for attendees.

http://www.cmanet.org/news/detail/?article=physicians-converge-on-sacramento-to-oppose <http://www.cmanet.org/news/detail/?article=physicians-converge-on-sacramento-to-oppose>

===


Comment by Don McCanne

There is broad agreement that the two most important factors that lead to our egregiously high health care costs are our high prices and the profound administrative waste in our fragmented health care financing system. Paul Hewitt and Phillip Longman, in their long Washington Monthly article (long, but worth the read), make the case for rigid price regulation.

Although they and others contend that price simplification would address the administrative waste as well, the impact would be very small since the highly inefficient, dysfunctional financing infrastructure would remain in place.

Since affordability is the number one health care concern according to many polls, would establishing a unified pricing scheme (all-payer or single-price health care) be welcome as an incremental step since it would be much less disruptive than converting to a single-payer improved Medicare for all? Hewitt and Longman seem to think so.

But we should look at California's current effort to enact a universal pricing system: AB-3087 California Health Care Cost, Quality, and Equity Commission. Use the link above to access the bill, and then click on the "Bill Analysis" tab. Though you likely don't have time now to read the 28-page analysis, just glance at the last three pages for support and opposition. Support includes the cosponsors: California Labor Federation, Health Access California, SEIU California, and UNITE HERE along with about two dozen other organizations. Opposition fills most of the three pages and includes much of the medical-industrial complex in California. The release from the California Medical Association (above) gives you an idea of the fervor of the opposition. These organizations are not convinced, to say the least, that this legislation would not be disruptive. AB-3087 is doomed.

So why don't we move forward with reform that would address both our high prices and the administrative waste, not to mention all of the other measures of a well designed single payer system - an improved Medicare for all - that would correct the deficiencies in our financing system while improving the allocation of resources within the health care delivery system?

Hewitt and Longman present an interesting twist on the argument that it is not politically feasible. Read the paragraph near the end of their excerpts above that begins, "Medicare for All advocates make the case that..."  They make the case that most individuals do not realize how much they are already spending on health care since much of it is hidden from them, whether it's the employer's contribution to their health plan or the massive amount we are already paying through the tax system - almost two-thirds of all health care spending if the purchase of plans for government employees and the huge amount of tax expenditures for employer-sponsored plans are included. Hewitt and Longman say, "So selling a single-payer system involves promising to save people money on costs they don?t know they pay, while at the same time telling them that they?ll have to share more of their paycheck with Uncle Sam. Not easy."

Now would it be that difficult to let people know about the hidden costs of health care that they are already paying? Do people really prefer being kept in the dark by an opaque financing system rather than being enlightened by the transparency of financing through an equitable tax system, especially if the amount being spent is somewhat less for all but the wealthiest of us?

Can you imagine the typical American saying, "Okay, so we're spending more now and getting less than we would be with an improved Medicare that covered everyone, but just don't tell me about it. Let me suffer in silence." Are we a bunch of masochists?
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From marbury.1947 at gmail.com  Tue Sep  4 16:09:20 2018
From: marbury.1947 at gmail.com (Eduardo Oberweiser)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 16:09:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupymendocino Digest, Vol 1588, Issue 1
In-Reply-To: <mailman.17.1535569213.8714.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
References: <mailman.17.1535569213.8714.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
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I think this article missed the fact that freedom of the press is already
suppressed by the five corporations that own all the U.S. "mainstream"
media. The judiciary is not independent because it is appointed by
Administrative Branch and confirmed by the Legislative Branch. This country
is not and never has been a Democracy. It only has the appearance of
Democracy. It is and always has been a plutocracy.

Ed Oberweiser

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> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/trump-republican-party-authoritarianism.html?emc=edit_th_180828&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=356538130828
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>
> Why It Can Happen Here
>
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> We?re very close to becoming another Poland or Hungary.
>
>
> Aug. 27, 2018
>
>   <
> https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/08/27/opinion/27krugmanWeb/merlin_142754778_285d3bc0-97c2-4522-8501-1604a620a1e5-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale>
>
>
> Admirers of President Trump saw him speak last week at an Ohio Republican
> Party dinner.Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times
>
>
>
> Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a friend of mine ? an expert on
> international relations ? made a joke: ?Now that Eastern Europe is free
> from the alien ideology of Communism, it can return to its true historical
> path ? fascism.? Even at the time, his quip had a real edge.
>
>
>
> And as of 2018 it hardly seems like a joke at all. What  <
> https://freedomhouse.org/report/nations-transit/nations-transit-2018>
> Freedom House calls illiberalism is on the rise across Eastern Europe. This
> includes Poland and Hungary, both still members of the European Union, in
> which democracy as we normally understand it is already dead.
>
>                 In both countries the ruling parties ? Law and Justice in
> Poland, Fidesz in Hungary ? have established regimes that maintain the
> forms of popular elections, but have destroyed the independence of the
> judiciary, suppressed freedom of the press, institutionalized large-scale
> corruption and effectively delegitimized dissent. The result seems likely
> to be one-party rule for the foreseeable future.
>
> And it could all too easily happen here. There was a time, not long ago,
> when people used to say that our democratic norms, our proud history of
> freedom, would protect us from such a slide into tyranny. In fact, some
> people still say that. But believing such a thing today requires willful
> blindness. The fact is that the Republican Party is ready, even eager, to
> become an American version of Law and Justice or Fidesz, exploiting its
> current political power to lock in permanent rule.
>
>           Just look at what has been happening at the state level. In
> North Carolina, after a Democrat won the governorship, Republicans used the
> incumbent?s final days to pass legislation  <
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/us/politics/north-carolina-judges-suspend-limit-on-governors-powers.html>
> stripping the governor?s office of much of its power. In Georgia,
> Republicans tried to use transparently phony concerns about access for
> disabled voters to  <
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/randolph-county-georgia-voting.html>
> close most of the polling places in a mainly black district. In West
> Virginia, Republican legislators exploited complaints about excessive
> spending to  <
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/west-virginia-impeachment-supreme-court.html>
> impeach the entire State Supreme Court and replace it with party loyalists.
>
>                 And these are just the cases that have received national
> attention. There are surely scores if not hundreds of similar stories
> across the nation. What all of them reflect is the reality that the modern
> G.O.P. feels no allegiance to democratic ideals; it will do whatever it
> thinks it can get away with to entrench its power.
>
>                 What about developments at the national level? That?s
> where things get really scary. We?re currently sitting on a knife edge. If
> we fall off it in the wrong direction ? specifically, if Republicans retain
> control of both houses of Congress in November ? we will become another
> Poland or Hungary faster than you can imagine.
>
>           This week Axios created a bit of a stir with a scoop about a  <
> https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-republicans-preparation-investigations-180abf7b-0de8-4670-ae8a-2e6da123c584.html>
> spreadsheet circulating among Republicans in Congress, listing
> investigations they think Democrats are likely to carry out if they take
> the House. The thing about the list is that every item on it ? starting
> with Donald Trump?s tax returns ? is something that obviously should be
> investigated, and would have been investigated under any other president.
> But the people circulating the document simply take it for granted that
> Republicans won?t address any of these issues: Party loyalty will prevail
> over constitutional responsibility.
>
>           Many Trump critics celebrated last week?s legal developments,
> taking the Manafort conviction and the Cohen guilty plea as signs that the
> walls may finally be closing in on the lawbreaker in chief. But I felt a
> sense of deepened dread as I watched the Republican reaction: Faced with
> undeniable evidence of Trump?s thuggishness, his party closed ranks around
> him more tightly than ever.
>
>           A year ago it seemed possible that there might be limits to the
> party?s complicity, that there would come a point where at least a few
> representatives or senators would say, no more. Now it?s clear that there
> are no limits: They?ll do whatever it takes to defend Trump and consolidate
> power.
>
>
>
> This goes even for politicians who once seemed to have some principles.
> Senator Susan Collins of Maine was a voice of independence in the health
> care debate; now she  <
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-22/republicans-reject-delaying-kavanaugh-hearing-after-cohen-plea>
> sees no problem with having a president who?s an unindicted co-conspirator
> appoint a Supreme Court justice who believes that presidents are immune
> from prosecution. Senator Lindsey Graham denounced Trump in 2016, and until
> recently seemed to be standing up against the idea of firing the attorney
> general to kill the Mueller investigation; now he?s  <
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/lindsey-graham-jeff-sessions-replace/index.html>
> signaled that he?s O.K. with such a firing.
>
>           But why is America, the birthplace of democracy, so close to
> following the lead of other countries that have recently destroyed it?
> Don?t tell me about ?economic anxiety.? That?s not what happened in Poland,
> which  <
> http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=27&pr.y=14&sy=2007&ey=2017&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=964&s=NGDPRPC&grp=0&a=>
> grew steadily through the financial crisis and its aftermath. And it?s not
> what happened here in 2016:  <
> https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study>
> Study after study has found that racial resentment, not economic distress,
> drove Trump voters.
>
> The point is that we?re suffering from the same disease ? white
> nationalism run wild ? that has already effectively killed democracy in
> some other Western nations. And we?re very, very close to the point of no
> return.
>
>
>
> Paul Krugman has been an Opinion columnist since 2000 and is also a
> Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
> He won the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on
> international trade and economic geography.  <
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From annxpress at live.com  Wed Sep  5 08:58:57 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 15:58:57 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Devastating
Message-ID: <BY2PR16MB0472D4123271E89FBE780016DD020@BY2PR16MB0472.namprd16.prod.outlook.com>

Hey,

Trump's policy to separate and imprison immigrants just claimed an 18-month-old's life.

Mariee Ju?rez died in the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia of viral pneumonitis shortly after being released from a Texas detention center. A pediatrician who reviewed her medical records revealed that Mariee was refused adequate medical care while in detention. Her mother, Yazmin, is suing the detention center's operator, CoreCivic--the massive for-profit prison company plagued with years of allegations of severe abuse.

CoreCivic is financed by Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase. So is The GEO Group, the other for-profit prison company that jails immigrants and asylum-seekers for the Trump administration.

That's why I signed this petition demanding these banks stop profiting from the unjust and inhumane jailing of immigrants and their children. UltraViolet and other progressive organizations will use these petition signatures in a confrontation at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase headquarters later in September.  Can you sign and share?

https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/banks_immigrant_detention/?referring_akid=31727.463187.OXLWMb&source=mailto

ann

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From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 08:19:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] JUST SIGN
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Sep  6 20:21:00 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 20:21:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Mendocino Survey
Message-ID: <52DBED5C-D90F-4127-8604-44A58809243E@mcn.org>

 
Occupy Mendocino and the Global Occupy Movement want government of the people, by the people, and for the people?not of the corporations, by the lobbyists, and for the wealthy. We stand with those who have lost their homes, their jobs,
 their savings, retirements, pensions, and health care. We stand with those who struggle to put food on the table, and who now work more for much less. We stand with the elderly, the vulnerable, veterans, students, workers, and the planet for
environmental, economic, and political justice.
 
Dear Friend,
            We live in difficult times, it's true. To prevail over whatever is headed our way, we need to come together as neighbors, community members, citizens. 
           Occupy Mendocino hosts a May Day gathering and rally on May 1st. and has continued the work of the Peace and Justice Center by cleaning the highway near Caspar, every year for 40 years.
           On September 21 we will again host International  Peace Day.- this year honoring local activists, the Mendocino Parents for Peace,  In January we have our annual celebration of the life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

           To help us focus on the myriad of issues, we would appreciate you taking a moment to answers some of the questions below,   Please send email to: rkarch at mcn.org <mailto:rkarch at mcn.org>,  or mail to OM,  at POB 835, Mendocino.  Phone: 937-0334_

1. Have you attended any Occupy meetings or events? ______
            If you have, which events? __________________
 
2. Will you attend future meetings or events? ______ If so, which events interest you? __________________
 
3. Are you interested in:
            a) documentary showings or feature films with a political perspective ______
            b) roundtable discussions of local issues________
            c) street fairs _______
            d) homeless situation______
            e) social media ______
 
4  Your participation in Occupy is invited. The best way to encourage our participation in your issues is to show up at our bi-monthly meetings (the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month from 12-2 pm) at the Sr. Center.  
 
5. Which of the following actions or  projects would you like to work on with us:
            a) Hare Creek project
            b) Off road vehicle park
            c) Hospital 
            d) Hospitality House
            e) Immigrant rights
            f) Affordable housing
            f) Street medicine
            g) Elections (local, district-wide, statewide, national)
            h) Other (specify) _______________________________________________________
 
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From nlnelson at mcn.org  Fri Sep  7 01:05:09 2018
From: nlnelson at mcn.org (nlnelson at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 01:05:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] AfGJ petition.....[Fwd: International
 Solidarity with Colombian and North American Prison Strikes]
Message-ID: <7a5d7a07ea36ebb2e269c2d7a72a6ead.squirrel@mail.mcn.org>

ATTN Occupy Members -

please find attached the HTML version of Human Rights Observatory
Declaration of Solidarity

This issue of prison imperialism is a very serious one, I believe. I
signed on as an individual, but wondering if any Occupy member would
propose this at SAT mtg for grp. deliberation.  On an AfGJ delegation we
were at the gates of La Tramecua - the US exports only the best!!!

Please contact me with any questions.

Nancy Wallace Nelson


---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: International Solidarity with Colombian and North American Prison
Strikes
From:    "Alliance for Global Justice" <Afgj at Afgj.org>
Date:    Fri, September 7, 2018 12:08 am
To:      "Nancy Wallace Nelson" <nlnelson at mcn.org>
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                                                  People's
Human Rights Observatory Declaration of Solidarity with
Colombian, U.S., and Canadian Prisoner Resistance - NO to
Prison Imperialism! NO to Mass Incarceration!



Click HERE if you would like to add your name to this
declaration   Para leer y firmar en espa&ntilde;ol...   Visit
our newly updated list of US Political Prisoners / Prisoners
of Empire   We, the People???s Human Rights Observatory
(Observatorio de los Derechos Humanos), declare our solidarity
with the worldwide resistance to prison imperialism and reject
the expansion of the United States model of mass
incarceration. Likewise, we express our support for the
demands of the prisoners of La Tramac&uacute;a Penitentiary in
Valledupar, Colombia, and of the prisoners of various North
American penitentiaries, and their desires for dignified
lives.   The prisoners of La Tramac&uacute;a waged a hunger
strike for more than a month, beginning on July 11, 2018.
Their demands included calls for access to water, ventilation,
and medical attention. People interned in jails of the United
States and Canada have been in the largest prison strike in
the history of the region since August 21, 2018: strikes in 17
U.S. states and some Canadian jails. The demands of the North
American prisoners are similar to those of the La
Tramac&uacute;a strikers, for medical attention and against
the excessive number of deaths due to lack of medical care and
penal system abuses. Especially, the North American strikers
denounce the racism of the penal and justice system that has
found new wayt to convert jails into centers of slavery.   The
strikes have had an emblematic significance internationally.
The United States has the largest population of the
incarcerated ??? 2.3 million inmates ??? and the highest rate
in the world of its population in jails. Meanwhile, while
non-Hispanic White people constitute 63.7% of the U.S.
population, persons of African and Latino origins represent
almost two thirds of the prisoners in the United States.
People who lack a GED (General Education Diploma) or high
school degree represent 47% of the incarcerated. With less
than 5% of the world population, the United States has 25% of
the world prison population. Apparently, the U.S. government
considers this a good situation. Today, the United States is
exporting its models of mass incarceration to the world and
has involved itself in the prison systems of at least 34
countries. In some of these countries, they are not only
financing and advising the construction of new jails, but also
restructuring whole prison systems.   Prison Imperialism began
in the year 2000 when the United States and Colombia signed an
accord to restructure the South American country???s penal
system following the US example.The first penitentiary built
as a consequence of this project was La Tramac&uacute;a,
finished in November of that same year. Since then,
overcrowding in Colombian prisons climbed to its highest level
in recent history. In 2018, overcrowding was still at an
unacceptable rate of 45.6%, according to government
statistics. From the beginning, La Tramac&uacute;a has been a
Hell for its inmates. Various prisoners have been victims of
systematic tortures, particularly political prisoners. The
lack of access to healthcare is endemic and has resulted in
the deaths of various prisoners. Despite the jail???s location
in a place where temperatures reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit,
ventilation is insufficient, and the water supply is limited
to between 10 and 20 minutes daily. Toilets rarely function,
and the inmates must evacuate in plastic bags and buckets. On
at least four occasions, governmental and non-governmental
agencies have encountered putrid food and food contaminated
with fecal matter.   The model presently developed in Colombia
is based in the U.S. model, with variations in style to adapt
to the particularities of the Latin American nation. Many of
the demands of the prisoners in the United States and Canada
are the same as those of the Colombian prisoners. In the
United States the strike has an especially anti-racist
character: the strike exposes the history of forced labor in
the United States. After the Civil War and the end of slavery,
the authorities began to detain Afro-descendants to demand
that they work with little or no remuneration and thus assure
the flow of profits to the pockets of big land owners and
industrial capitalists. This situation continues in a system
that incarcerates Afro-descendants, Latinos, indigenous
persons, and poor people at rates that exceed the percentage
of the general population that they represent, despite the
fact that the rates of crime among the different populations
are around the national average.   The People???s Human Rights
Observatory recognizes that the struggles of the prisoners of
La Tramac&uacute;a and of the U.S. and Canadian jails are not
isolated from each other, nor from the rest of the world.
Prison Imperialism is not simply an attempt to spread the U.S.
model throughout the planet. Prison Imperialism is part of the
infrastructure of the U.S. and NATO Empire in service to
global capitalism, the same as the expansion of U.S. and NATO
bases in the world, police militarization, border
militarization, and the development of neoliberal economics.
With all of this, we say to the prisoners and strikers in the
jails of Colombia, North America, and the whole world: YOUR
STUGGLE IS OUR STRUGGLE!   Organizaciones y Personas Firmantes
  Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos
Integrantes del Consejo Consultivo:   Argentina Adolfo
P&eacute;rez Esquivel Premio Nobel de la Paz, Stella Calloni
Corresponsal de la Jornada en Buenos Aires; Colombia Dra.
Piedad Esneda C&oacute;rdoba Ruiz Senadora y Defensora de
Derechos Humanos y Coordinadora Internacional del Observatorio
de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos. Vocera de colombianas y
colombianos por la Paz, Camilo Gonz&aacute;lez Posso
Presidente de INDEPAZ, Dr. Mario Hern&aacute;ndez
&Aacute;lvarez Coordinador Doctorado Interfacultades en Salud
P&uacute;blica Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Espa&ntilde;a
Ana Andr&eacute;s Ablanedo Defensora de Derechos Humanos de
Soldepaz Pachakuti, Ricardo Sanchez Andr&eacute;s miembro de
la junta de la (ACP) Asociaci&oacute;n Catalana por la Paz ???
miembro de la Asamblea de Internacional de (Comunistes de
Catalunya) y miembro permanente del consejo de Solidaridad de
la Ciudad de Manresa, Mar&iacute;a Victoria Fern&aacute;ndez
Molina Candidata a Doctora en Derechos Humanos, Estados Unidos
James Patrick Jordan Coordinador Nacional de la Alianza por la
Justicia Global y NasimChatha Activista de la Alianza por la
Justicia Global e integrantes del Observatorio de Derechos
Humanos de los Pueblos cap&iacute;tulo Estados Unidos; Suiza
Jos&eacute; Manuel Gonz&aacute;lez L&oacute;pez y Gerardo
Romero Luna de la Red Latinoamericana de Zurich integrantes
del Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos
cap&iacute;tulo Suiza; Venezuela H&eacute;ctor Orlando
Zambrano Diputado de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de
la Rep&uacute;blica Bolivariana de Venezuela y Miembro de la
Coordinaci&oacute;n Nacional de la Corriente Revolucionaria
Bolivar y Zamora, Nieves Hugo Alberto Integrante de la
Comisi&oacute;n Pol&iacute;tica de la Corriente Revolucionaria
Bolivar y Zamora ??? CRBZ, Gioconda Mota Guti&eacute;rrez Red
de Colectivos La Ara&ntilde;a Feminista, Jos&eacute; Miguel
G&oacute;mez Garc&iacute;a Movimiento Internacional de la
Econom&iacute;a de los Trabajadores; Ecuador Abg. Franklin
Columba Cuji Dirigente Nacional y Coordinador de Asuntos
Pol&iacute;ticos del FENOCIN; Bolivia Strio. General de
Confederaci&oacute;n Sindical &Uacute;nica De Trabajadores
Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB); Palestina Jamal Juma
Coordinador STOP The WALL; Guatemala Ana Laura Padgett Rojas
Red de Integraci&oacute;n Org&aacute;nica - RIO - por la
Defensa de la Madre Tierra y los Derechos Humanos; Uruguay
AnahitAharonianKharputlian Ingeniera Agr&oacute;noma y Docente
Comisi&oacute;n Multisectorial de Uruguay; Panam&aacute; Ligia
Arreaga Integrante de la Alianza por un mejor Dari&eacute;n
??? AMEDAR; M&eacute;xico Eduardo Correa Senior Profesor de la
Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de la Ciudad de M&eacute;xico ???
UACM, Carlos Fazio Analista Internacional, Dr. Gilberto
L&oacute;pez y Rivas Investigador del Instituto Nacional de
Antropolog&iacute;a e Historia, Dr. Jos&eacute; Enrique
Gonz&aacute;lez Ruiz Profesor de la Universidad Nacional
Aut&oacute;noma de M&eacute;xico ??? UNAM, Dr. Jos&eacute;
Rafael Grijalva Eternod Doctor en Derechos Humanos, Dr. Felix
Hoyo Arana Profesor de la Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de
Chapingo; Dr. John MillAckerman Rose, Daniela Gonz&aacute;lez
L&oacute;pez Coordinadora Internacional del Observatorio de
Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos, Samuel Hern&aacute;ndez
Morales CODEP ??? MNPP, Juan Torres Pereda CODECI, Herzahin
Michel L&oacute;pez ??? COIVO, Artemio Ortiz Hurtado CEND ???
SNTE, Sergio Espinal CEND ??? SNTE; Prof. Antonio Castro
L&oacute;pez Secretario General del CEND ??? SNTE, Prof.
Miguel Guerra Castillo Secretario General del CEND ??? SNTE,
Prof. Alejandro Trujillo Gonz&aacute;lez, Secretario General
del CEND ??? SNTE, Prof. Eugenio Rodr&iacute;guez Cornejo CEND
??? SNTE, Prof. Jer&oacute;nimo S&aacute;nchez S&aacute;enz
CEND ??? SNTE, Roberto Palma Ju&aacute;rez ONPP ??? Morelos,
Arquitecto Jos&eacute; M&aacute;rquez P&eacute;rez Presidente
del Patronato Pro Defensa y Conservaci&oacute;n del Patrimonio
Cultural y Natural de Oaxaca PRO ??? OAX y Lic. Hugo Aguilar
Promotor y Defensor de Derechos Ind&iacute;genas.
Organizaciones integrantes:   Observatorio de Derechos Humanos
de los Pueblos; Soldepaz ??? Pachakuti de Espa&ntilde;a; Red
Latinoamericana de Zurich de Suiza; Alianza por la Justicia
Global, SOA Watch ??? Observatorio por el Cierre de las
Escuela de la Am&eacute;ricas de Estados Unidos; Red de
Colectivos La Ara&ntilde;a Feminista de Venezuela, Corriente
Revolucionaria Bol&iacute;var y Zamora de Venezuela,
Movimiento Internacional de la Econom&iacute;a de los
Trabajadores de Venezuela; Comisi&oacute;n Multisectorial del
Uruguay; Red de Integraci&oacute;n Org&aacute;nica ??? Rio ???
Por la Defensa de la Madre Tierra y los Derechos Humanos de
Guatemala; Confederaci&oacute;n Nacional de Organizaciones
Campesinas, Ind&iacute;genas y Negras (FENOCIN) de Ecuador;
Confederaci&oacute;n Sindical &Uacute;nica De Trabajadores
Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB); Observatorio de Derechos
Humanos de los Pueblos cap&iacute;tulo Estados Unidos y Suiza;
Campa&ntilde;a Popular Palestina contra el Muro de Apartheid
(Stop the Wall), Coalici&oacute;n de la Defensa de la Tierra
Palestina; Alianza por un mejor Dari&eacute;n ??? AMEDAR de
Panam&aacute;; Movimiento Nacional del Poder Popular ???
M&eacute;xico (MNPP); Movimiento Nacional del Poder Popular
Zacatecas (MNPP ??? Zacatecas); Movimiento del Magisterio
Democr&aacute;tico Nacional, Comit&eacute; Ejecutivo Nacional
Democr&aacute;tico del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de
la Educaci&oacute;n en Lucha (CEND del SNTE en Lucha);
Asamblea de los Pueblos en Defensa del Territorio, la
Educaci&oacute;n P&uacute;blica, Laica, Gratuita y los
Derechos Humanos; Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra en
San Salvador Atenco (FPDT-Atenco); Consejo de Defensa de los
Derechos del Pueblo (CODEP-MNPP); Consejo de Organizaciones
Interdisciplinarias Vinculadas por Oaxaca (COIVO); Consejo de
Comunidades Ind&iacute;genas de la Sierra Sur (COCISS);
Comit&eacute; de Defensa Ciudadana (CODECI); Consejo de
Organizaciones Ind&iacute;genas y Populares de Oaxaca
(COIPO)&cedil; Contingentes del Comit&eacute; Ejecutivo
Nacional Democr&aacute;tico del SNTE en Lucha (CEND SNTE en
Lucha), Congreso Nacional de Bases, Movimiento del Magisterio
Democr&aacute;tico Nacional: Secci&oacute;n III de Baja
California Sur; Secci&oacute;n V de Campeche; Secci&oacute;n X
de la Ciudad de M&eacute;xico; Secci&oacute;n XIII y XLV de
Guanajuato; Secci&oacute;n XIV de Guerrero; Secci&oacute;n XV
de Hidalgo; Movimiento Magisterial Jalisciense, Secciones XVI
y XLVII de Jalisco; Secci&oacute;n XVIII de Michoac&aacute;n;
Movimiento Magisterial de Bases, Secci&oacute;n XIX de
Morelos; Consejo Democr&aacute;tico Magisterial Poblano,
Secciones XXIII y LI de Puebla; Movimiento Magisterial de
Bases de Quer&eacute;taro, Secci&oacute;n XXIV de
Quer&eacute;taro; Bases Magisteriales Democr&aacute;ticas de
Quintana Roo, Secci&oacute;n XXV de Q. Roo; Bases
Magisteriales de Tabasco, Secci&oacute;n XXIX de Tabasco,
Trabajadores del Colegio de Bachilleres de Tabasco;
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y LVI de Veracruz; Secci&oacute;n XXXVI del Valle de
M&eacute;xico; Consejo Nacional de Sistematizaci&oacute;n;
Escuelas Integrales de Educaci&oacute;n B&aacute;sica de
Michoac&aacute;n; Colectivo Pedag&oacute;gico ???Francisco
Javier Acu&ntilde;a Hern&aacute;ndez???; Promotora del Poder
Popular de Michoac&aacute;n; Caja Popular de Ahorro
???Emiliano Zapata???; Colectivo de Estudios ???Ricardo Flores
Mag&oacute;n???; Movimiento de Unidad Social por un Gobierno
del Pueblo (MUSOC-GP) Michoac&aacute;n); Coalici&oacute;n de
Jubilados y Pensionados ???Elpidio Dom&iacute;nguez Castro???;
Talleres Comunitarios del Municipio de Nezahualc&oacute;yotl,
estado de M&eacute;xico; Barz&oacute;n Federaci&oacute;n:
Estado de M&eacute;xico, Quer&eacute;taro, Morelos, Veracruz,
Guerrero y Distrito Federal; Coalici&oacute;n Nacional de
Cooperativas y Empresas Sociales (CONACyES);
Organizaci&oacute;n Nacional del Poder Popular (ONPP);
Organizaci&oacute;n Nacional del Poder Popular de Morelos
(ONPP-MORELOS); Organizaci&oacute;n Nacional del Poder Popular
del D. F.; Asamblea Permanente de los Pueblos de Morelos,
Instituto Mexicano de Desarrollo Comunitario (IMDEC); Centro
de Atenci&oacute;n en Derechos Humanos a la Mujer y el Menor
Ind&iacute;gena (CADHMMI) y Centro Regional Ind&iacute;gena en
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From nlnelson at mcn.org  Fri Sep  7 01:06:52 2018
From: nlnelson at mcn.org (nlnelson at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 01:06:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] maybe more readable..... International Solidarity
 with Colombian and North American Prison Strikes]
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MAYBE this is a more readable forward....

Nancy



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Subject: International Solidarity with Colombian and North American Prison
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We, the People???s Human Rights Observatory (Observatorio de los Derechos
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declare our solidarity with the worldwide resistance to prison imperialism
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and reject the expansion of the United States model of mass incarceration.
Likewise, we express our support for the demands of the prisoners of La
Tramac??a Penitentiary in Valledupar, Colombia, and of the prisoners of
various North American penitentiaries, and their desires for dignified
lives.

The prisoners of La Tramac??a waged a hunger strike for more than a month,
beginning on July 11, 2018. Their demands included calls for access to
water, ventilation, and medical attention. People interned in jails of the
United States and Canada have been in the largest prison strike in the
history of the region since August 21, 2018: strikes in 17 U.S. states and
some Canadian jails. The demands of the North American prisoners are
similar to those of the La Tramac??a strikers, for medical attention and
against the excessive number of deaths due to lack of medical care and
penal system abuses. Especially, the North American strikers denounce the
racism of the penal and justice system that has found new wayt to convert
jails into centers of slavery.

The strikes have had an emblematic significance internationally. The United
States has the largest population of the incarcerated ??? 2.3 million inmates
??? and the highest rate in the world of its population in jails. Meanwhile,
while non-Hispanic White people constitute 63.7% of the U.S. population,
persons of African and Latino origins represent almost two thirds of the
prisoners in the United States. People who lack a GED (General Education
Diploma) or high school degree represent 47% of the incarcerated. With less
than 5% of the world population, the United States has 25% of the world
prison population. Apparently, the U.S. government considers this a good
situation. Today, the United States is exporting its models of mass
incarceration to the world and has involved itself in the prison systems of
at least 34 countries. In some of these countries, they are not only
financing and advising the construction of new jails, but also
restructuring whole prison systems.

Prison Imperialism began in the year 2000 when the United States and
Colombia signed an accord to restructure the South American country???s penal
system following the US example.The first penitentiary built as a
consequence of this project was La Tramac??a, finished in November of that
same year. Since then, overcrowding in Colombian prisons climbed to its
highest level in recent history. In 2018, overcrowding was still at an
unacceptable rate of 45.6%, according to government statistics. From the
beginning, La Tramac??a has been a Hell for its inmates. Various prisoners
have been victims of systematic tortures, particularly political prisoners.
The lack of access to healthcare is endemic and has resulted in the deaths
of various prisoners. Despite the jail???s location in a place where
temperatures reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit, ventilation is insufficient, and
the water supply is limited to between 10 and 20 minutes daily. Toilets
rarely function, and the inmates must evacuate in plastic bags and buckets.
On at least four occasions, governmental and non-governmental agencies have
encountered putrid food and food contaminated with fecal matter.

The model presently developed in Colombia is based in the U.S. model, with
variations in style to adapt to the particularities of the Latin American
nation. Many of the demands of the prisoners in the United States and
Canada are the same as those of the Colombian prisoners. In the United
States the strike has an especially anti-racist character: the strike
exposes the history of forced labor in the United States. After the Civil
War and the end of slavery, the authorities began to detain
Afro-descendants to demand that they work with little or no remuneration
and thus assure the flow of profits to the pockets of big land owners and
industrial capitalists. This situation continues in a system that
incarcerates Afro-descendants, Latinos, indigenous persons, and poor people
at rates that exceed the percentage of the general population that they
represent, despite the fact that the rates of crime among the different
populations are around the national average.

The People???s Human Rights Observatory recognizes that the struggles of the
prisoners of La Tramac??a and of the U.S. and Canadian jails are not
isolated from each other, nor from the rest of the world. Prison
Imperialism is not simply an attempt to spread the U.S. model throughout
the planet. Prison Imperialism is part of the infrastructure of the U.S.
and NATO Empire in service to global capitalism, the same as the expansion
of U.S. and NATO bases in the world, police militarization, border
militarization, and the development of neoliberal economics. With all of
this, we say to the prisoners and strikers in the jails of Colombia, North
America, and the whole world: YOUR STUGGLE IS OUR STRUGGLE!
Organizaciones y Personas Firmantes *Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de
los Pueblos* Integrantes del Consejo Consultivo:

*Argentina* Adolfo P??rez Esquivel Premio Nobel de la Paz, Stella Calloni
Corresponsal de la Jornada en Buenos Aires; *Colombia* Dra. Piedad Esneda
C??rdoba Ruiz Senadora y Defensora de Derechos Humanos y Coordinadora
Internacional del Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos. Vocera
de colombianas y colombianos por la Paz, Camilo Gonz??lez Posso Presidente
de INDEPAZ, Dr. Mario Hern??ndez ??lvarez Coordinador Doctorado
Interfacultades en Salud P??blica Universidad Nacional de Colombia;* Espa??a*
Ana Andr??s Ablanedo Defensora de Derechos Humanos de Soldepaz Pachakuti,
Ricardo Sanchez Andr??s miembro de la junta de la (ACP) Asociaci??n Catalana
por la Paz ??? miembro de la Asamblea de Internacional de (Comunistes de
Catalunya) y miembro permanente del consejo de Solidaridad de la Ciudad de
Manresa, Mar??a Victoria Fern??ndez Molina Candidata a Doctora en Derechos
Humanos, *Estados Unidos* James Patrick Jordan Coordinador Nacional de la
Alianza por la Justicia Global y NasimChatha Activista de la Alianza por la
Justicia Global e integrantes del Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los
Pueblos cap??tulo Estados Unidos; *Suiza* Jos?? Manuel Gonz??lez L??pez y
Gerardo Romero Luna de la Red Latinoamericana de Zurich integrantes del
Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos cap??tulo Suiza; *Venezuela*
H??ctor Orlando Zambrano Diputado de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular
de la Rep??blica Bolivariana de Venezuela y Miembro de la Coordinaci??n
Nacional de la Corriente Revolucionaria Bolivar y Zamora, Nieves Hugo
Alberto Integrante de la Comisi??n Pol??tica de la Corriente Revolucionaria
Bolivar y Zamora ??? CRBZ, Gioconda Mota Guti??rrez Red de Colectivos La
Ara??a
Feminista, Jos?? Miguel G??mez Garc??a Movimiento Internacional de la
Econom??a
de los Trabajadores; *Ecuador* Abg. Franklin Columba Cuji Dirigente
Nacional y Coordinador de Asuntos Pol??ticos del FENOCIN; *Bolivia* Strio.
General de Confederaci??n Sindical ??nica De Trabajadores Campesinos de
Bolivia (CSUTCB); *Palestina* Jamal Juma Coordinador STOP The WALL;
*Guatemala* Ana Laura Padgett Rojas Red de Integraci??n Org??nica - RIO - por
la Defensa de la Madre Tierra y los Derechos Humanos; *Uruguay*
AnahitAharonianKharputlian Ingeniera Agr??noma y Docente Comisi??n
Multisectorial de Uruguay; *Panam??* Ligia Arreaga Integrante de la Alianza
por un mejor Dari??n ??? AMEDAR; *M??xico* Eduardo Correa Senior Profesor
de la
Universidad Aut??noma de la Ciudad de M??xico ??? UACM, Carlos Fazio Analista
Internacional, Dr. Gilberto L??pez y Rivas Investigador del Instituto
Nacional de Antropolog??a e Historia, Dr. Jos?? Enrique Gonz??lez Ruiz
Profesor de la Universidad Nacional Aut??noma de M??xico ??? UNAM, Dr. Jos??
Rafael Grijalva Eternod Doctor en Derechos Humanos, Dr. Felix Hoyo Arana
Profesor de la Universidad Aut??noma de Chapingo; Dr. John MillAckerman
Rose, Daniela Gonz??lez L??pez Coordinadora Internacional del Observatorio de
Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos, Samuel Hern??ndez Morales CODEP ??? MNPP,
Juan Torres Pereda CODECI, Herzahin Michel L??pez ??? COIVO, Artemio Ortiz
Hurtado CEND ??? SNTE, Sergio Espinal CEND ??? SNTE; Prof. Antonio Castro
L??pez
Secretario General del CEND ??? SNTE, Prof. Miguel Guerra Castillo Secretario
General del CEND ??? SNTE, Prof. Alejandro Trujillo Gonz??lez, Secretario
General del CEND ??? SNTE, Prof. Eugenio Rodr??guez Cornejo CEND ??? SNTE,
Prof.
Jer??nimo S??nchez S??enz CEND ??? SNTE, Roberto Palma Ju??rez ONPP ???
Morelos,
Arquitecto Jos?? M??rquez P??rez Presidente del Patronato Pro Defensa y
Conservaci??n del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural de Oaxaca PRO ??? OAX y Lic.
Hugo Aguilar Promotor y Defensor de Derechos Ind??genas.
Organizaciones integrantes:

Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos; Soldepaz ??? Pachakuti de
Espa??a; Red Latinoamericana de Zurich de Suiza; Alianza por la Justicia
Global, SOA Watch ??? Observatorio por el Cierre de las Escuela de la
Am??ricas de Estados Unidos; Red de Colectivos La Ara??a Feminista de
Venezuela, Corriente Revolucionaria Bol??var y Zamora de Venezuela,
Movimiento Internacional de la Econom??a de los Trabajadores de Venezuela;
Comisi??n Multisectorial del Uruguay; Red de Integraci??n Org??nica ???
Rio ???
Por la Defensa de la Madre Tierra y los Derechos Humanos de Guatemala;
Confederaci??n Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas, Ind??genas y Negras
(FENOCIN) de Ecuador; Confederaci??n Sindical ??nica De Trabajadores
Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB); Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los
Pueblos cap??tulo Estados Unidos y Suiza; Campa??a Popular Palestina contra
el Muro de Apartheid (Stop the Wall), Coalici??n de la Defensa de la Tierra
Palestina; Alianza por un mejor Dari??n ??? AMEDAR de Panam??; Movimiento
Nacional del Poder Popular ??? M??xico (MNPP); Movimiento Nacional del Poder
Popular Zacatecas (MNPP ??? Zacatecas); Movimiento del Magisterio
Democr??tico
Nacional, Comit?? Ejecutivo Nacional Democr??tico del Sindicato Nacional de
Trabajadores de la Educaci??n en Lucha (CEND del SNTE en Lucha); Asamblea de
los Pueblos en Defensa del Territorio, la Educaci??n P??blica, Laica,
Gratuita y los Derechos Humanos; Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra
en San Salvador Atenco (FPDT-Atenco); Consejo de Defensa de los Derechos
del Pueblo (CODEP-MNPP); Consejo de Organizaciones Interdisciplinarias
Vinculadas por Oaxaca (COIVO); Consejo de Comunidades Ind??genas de la
Sierra Sur (COCISS); Comit?? de Defensa Ciudadana (CODECI); Consejo de
Organizaciones Ind??genas y Populares de Oaxaca (COIPO)?? Contingentes del
Comit?? Ejecutivo Nacional Democr??tico del SNTE en Lucha (CEND SNTE en
Lucha), Congreso Nacional de Bases, Movimiento del Magisterio Democr??tico
Nacional: Secci??n III de Baja California Sur; Secci??n V de Campeche;
Secci??n X de la Ciudad de M??xico; Secci??n XIII y XLV de Guanajuato;
Secci??n
XIV de Guerrero; Secci??n XV de Hidalgo; Movimiento Magisterial Jalisciense,
Secciones XVI y XLVII de Jalisco; Secci??n XVIII de Michoac??n; Movimiento
Magisterial de Bases, Secci??n XIX de Morelos; Consejo Democr??tico
Magisterial Poblano, Secciones XXIII y LI de Puebla; Movimiento Magisterial
de Bases de Quer??taro, Secci??n XXIV de Quer??taro; Bases Magisteriales
Democr??ticas de Quintana Roo, Secci??n XXV de Q. Roo; Bases Magisteriales de
Tabasco, Secci??n XXIX de Tabasco, Trabajadores del Colegio de Bachilleres
de Tabasco; Comit?? Estatal Democr??tico, Secci??n XXXII y LVI de Veracruz;
Secci??n XXXVI del Valle de M??xico; Consejo Nacional de Sistematizaci??n;
Escuelas Integrales de Educaci??n B??sica de Michoac??n; Colectivo
Pedag??gico
???Francisco Javier Acu??a Hern??ndez???; Promotora del Poder Popular de
Michoac??n; Caja Popular de Ahorro ???Emiliano Zapata???; Colectivo de
Estudios
???Ricardo Flores Mag??n???; Movimiento de Unidad Social por un Gobierno del
Pueblo (MUSOC-GP) Michoac??n); Coalici??n de Jubilados y Pensionados
???Elpidio
Dom??nguez Castro???; Talleres Comunitarios del Municipio de Nezahualc??yotl,
estado de M??xico; Barz??n Federaci??n: Estado de M??xico, Quer??taro,
Morelos,
Veracruz, Guerrero y Distrito Federal; Coalici??n Nacional de Cooperativas y
Empresas Sociales (CONACyES); Organizaci??n Nacional del Poder Popular
(ONPP); Organizaci??n Nacional del Poder Popular de Morelos (ONPP-MORELOS);
Organizaci??n Nacional del Poder Popular del D. F.; Asamblea Permanente de
los Pueblos de Morelos, Instituto Mexicano de Desarrollo Comunitario
(IMDEC); Centro de Atenci??n en Derechos Humanos a la Mujer y el Menor
Ind??gena (CADHMMI) y Centro Regional Ind??gena en Derechos Humanos
?????uu-Savi??? (CERIDH).

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Sep  8 10:50:49 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 10:50:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Veterans For Peace Launches Peace Ship
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Veterans For Peace launches peace ship 

By Ed Oberweiser 
Responding to the newest threat of nuclear war from President Trump's and North Korea's hostile exchange, Veterans For Peace (VFP) has recovered and restored the original Golden Rule peace boat for a new voyage ( see http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/ <http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/> ). The ship originally set sail in 1958 to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
The peace boat began a new voyage in July and sailed from San Diego to Humboldt Bay where VFP prepared the ship for long-range ocean sailing. 
The Golden Rule was scheduled to leave Eureka, California on September 9 and will stop in the San Francisco Bay from September 13 to 17. Next, it will visit Santa Cruz on September 21 and continue down the coast, stopping in Marina Del Rey, San Pedro and San Diego.
After the California voyage, the peace boat will proceed to the Hawaiian Islands in late October. Following the Hawaiian Islands visit, VFP hopes to sail the Golden Rule to the Marshall Islands and beyond.
Veterans For Peace is also planning to sail to Guam, Okinawa, Korea and Japan to bring the call for the elimination of nuclear weapons to those countries.
The Golden Rule' s main intent is spreading the word about the dangers of nuclear war. Other concerns include the nuclear cycle which poisons the air, water and soil. Uranium mining and the disposal of nuclear waste are other hazards. Nuclear waste can last for uncounted millennia. No safe storage method of this waste has been devised.
VFP was originally founded in 1985. Its members include U.S. veterans of WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars and other military conflicts. VFP also includes peacetime veterans. Since then, it has spread its word overseas. The organization works to promote alternatives to war.
The Golden Rule visited Fort Bragg in the Summer of 2017. Its crew was hosted to a potluck dinner by the Ocean Protection Coalition (oceanprotection.org <http://oceanprotection.org/>).
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Sep 10 08:13:38 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:13:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Go Fund Me funds DACA renewals
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One of the latest efforts to help Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients pay for their costly renewal fees has already raised more than $80,000 in donations in just three weeks.
Crowdfunding site GoFundMe and FWD.us kicked off the partnership last month, <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/17/1789041/-New-GoFundMe-partnership-to-help-DACA-recipients-raise-their-renewal-fees> announcing a ?centralized hub? where immigrant youth can create their own renewal campaigns and allies can donate any amount of money they wish. More than 200 individual campaigns have already been launched, GoFundMe and FWD.us said in a statement.
?We?re grateful to GoFundMe for creating a platform for people to contribute and to those who have stepped up to help Dreamers in need,? said FWD.us President Todd Schulte. ?We encourage everyone who can to make a contribution?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/6/1793703/-In-just-three-weeks-new-GoFundMe-effort-raises-over-80-000-for-DACA-renewals?detail=emaildksp 




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Sep 13 10:13:40 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:13:40 -0700
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The Trump administration?s ?temporary? prison camp for unaccompanied migrant kids and some migrant kids kidnapped from their parents at the border isn?t just going to continue through the end of the year, it?s going to get even bigger. Officials are seeking to increase the capacity of the Tornillo, Texas prison camp by the thousands, from a reported 400 beds earlier this summer, to 3,800 beds.

?These temporary beds will be brought online incrementally as needed,? claimed <https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09/11/federal-government-greatly-expand-tornillo-shelter-unaccompanied-minor/> a Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson. ?We will continue to assess the need for this temporary shelter at Tornillo Land Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, based on the projected need for beds and current capacity of the program.? Except, the government has always called this prison camp ?temporary? because they think it doesn?t make it sound as bad.

In reality, the Trump administration?s wish has always been to detain migrant kids indefinitely?just look at the new proposal <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/6/1793759/-Trump-admin-seeking-to-eviscerate-standards-protecting-migrant-kids-under-U-S-custody> seeking to eviscerate standards protecting migrant kids under U.S. custody, and as The Texas Tribune reports, ?the decision marks the third time the facility's operations have been extended since it opened in June.? And as officials seek to detain more kids and for longer periods of time, they?re also making it harder for kids to get out of these jails.

Migrants kids can be released to relatives already in the U.S. or other sponsors, but ?immigrant rights groups have asserted all year,? The Texas Tribune continued, ?that the administration has created unnecessary barriers for families or sponsors willing to take in the unaccompanied minors. After the family separation crisis, critics complained that some families were made to undergo more vetting than others.?

The administration currently has nearly 13,000 migrant children under HHS custody, the vast majority kids who came to the U.S. on their own and seeking refuge. More than 400 are children who continue to remain separated from their parents in blatant violation of a judge?s order. All are at risk of ongoing emotional and physical trauma, and for many, the damage has already been life-altering <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/11/1795012/-One-kidnapped-migrant-child-languished-in-a-Chicago-facility-for-over-a-year-documents-reveal>, with distraught children forcibly medicated under custody.

Child detention is child abuse, and it?s on the hands of every complicit legislator and administration official doing nothing to protect these kids, especially those who are under court order to do so. ?This administration has resorted to putting kids in tents rather than pushing for comprehensive immigration reform while Congress sits complicit with inaction," said state Rep. C?sar Blanco.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre
Concentration camps for toddlers.
This is a national shame that the United States will bear for generations.

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Cruelty to children is a feature of this depraved administration. I have former friends and a few extended family members I am no longer on speaking terms with because I simply cannot associate with people who would support such a thing. (And no, I don?t feel any relief from a glory-seeking ?anonymous? mole in the White House; that just switches from chaotic evil to lawful evil.)

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Force them to see it your way. It?s worth it because we have justice and freedom on our side now. We are the bright warm light at the center of all that is good and just.

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We are the bright light at the end of the tunnel, an out of control train heading to derailing.

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remind you of something? 


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This shameful, sadistic, cruelty makes me so pissed I can?t see straight. I truly hope the monsters responsible for this are brought before a world court and thrown in jail. They deserve to rot in hell.

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Hate to be a conspiracy theorist here, but the thought has occured to me that some of these places are being built to house  protestors.  Or whomever they might deem to be a political enemy.  You know damn well Trump and the deplorables would do it in a heartbeat if they could.

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We need to surveil Miller. There are many pederasts in Trump's sphere. He may be one of them

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Pardon my rant, and sorry to unload, but there is something very wrong and evil going on with this administration. From these camps for illegally detaining children (or whoever they decide to put in them) , moving FEMA emergency response funds to fund ICE operations, all the attacks on social programs and those that advocate for them and the common good, pushing through an obviously unqualified choice for the Supreme Court  that will protect and do the  bidding of the White House, the list goes on and on and on. Do any of you honestly believe that what we are watching unfold on the East Coast isn?t really just murder in slow motion? The Administration will provide little to no help for the storm victims. They-don?t-effing-care. Let?s also not forget that there is a highly trained Russian, who hates us and what we stand for, whispering in Donnie?s ear. Giving him advice and orders. Most of the Republican Party is complicit in these atrocities.  I am barely surprised anymore by what goes on. It all seems like a puzzle to which they keep adding pieces. All I can say is thank god for Rachel Maddow and others like her. They are the only reason I can keep up with it all and keep it all in perspective. We all need to pay attention and get involved before we find ourselves unable to get out of the traps it seems they are building. if nothing else, make damned sure you let your Congress Critters know how you feel and then get out and vote. Help people to vote, if you can. It may be our last chance. 

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Evil. Simply evil. 

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I went on a rant last night about wanting to see every single person involved with this maladministration being made to pay ? & pay hard ? for their part in what the Republicans are doing to the country. But after reading this diary,  I realized that they all need to be made aware NOW that they?re operating on borrowed time & are going to pay. All the people involved in every aspect of this  ? not just the people at the top of the Republican food chain, but ALL of them, from every ICE agent to the people working inside these ?facilities? ? need to be made very aware that when the Democrats take power, retribution is going to be swift & thorough & it?s going to go from top to the very bottom-. People need to think about the actions they take today in terms of what?s going to happen to them when they no longer have the cover of a Trumpian government to hide behind & that the future will judge them on how they behaved today. 

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How fitting that the Trump WH is doing this in a town name ?Screw.? Which, I assume, is short for ?Screw all you brown people.?


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PadreMellyrn <https://www.dailykos.com/user/PadreMellyrn>September 12 ? 11:39:53 AM <https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310723#comment_71310723>
Ok we can give the Republican Party a new name The National Stupid Despicable Asshole Party

Agolf Twittler  Leader of the party

Might Punts.   Vice leader

?Handlehimselfler? Sessions for the head of  ?Departing off Justice?

Bent Kavanought as Presiding Judge in the Superficial Clutches of the Uncaring Shits.

?Pull Trying?, Spitter of the Horsecrap

Britches McGollum. Senior Major Lickspittle.

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DFWmom <https://www.dailykos.com/user/DFWmom>September 12 ? 09:14:05 PM <https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71315562#comment_71315562>
This is possible because of this nation's complete indifference to issues of Due process, liberty and privacy as it relates to the rights of children and parents. You cannot cherry pick human rights. As long as you continue to support a system that is keeping nearly half a million kids apart from their familes every day, it should come as no surprise that such a system can easily swell to gobble up a few immigrant kids. The solution is to reaffirm the rights of children to remain with kith and kin even if for some reason they cannot remain with a parent. Until we acknowledge this basic human right of children, all children will remain vulnerable to such self serving exploitation. The foster care system is a racket no less exploitative than charter schools - using children as IOUs to shift federal dollars into private pockets. Put the focus back on building families not destroying them. Everything that has been said about the deep and irreparable harm being done to children by separating children from their families and fostering them to strangers is true and has been confirmed by research. Immigrant family separation is just the wee tip of a massive iceberg mostly composed of the forcible separation of citizen families. When people continue to ignore and dismiss this much larger issue, the hypocrisy is too great to be ignored. The excitement is over a way to attack Trump and was never about the horrific trauma to the children. It is just another group of people using children's pain for their own ends. And that is exactly why it happens. No one really cares about any of these kids except for what tbey can get out of it, whether it is to attack Trump or get their greedy paws on some federal funds or punish a minority for not being White enough. Until I see someone stand up for the overarching principle that children belong with their families, immigrant or not, I remain less than impressed with these crocodile tears. Justina Pelletier had two parents as well as respectable aunts, uncles, granparents and grown siblings. As long as The State can steal a child such as that from so many loving family members no child is ever safe in this warped and callous nation!!! We should hold these things to be self evident -- that children belong with their families. One parent may be unfit but there are other family. Children do not spring onto this earth from a vacuum. They have a history. They have a legacy. They have a family! They DO NOT belong to The State.

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GlenHelen <https://www.dailykos.com/user/GlenHelen>September 13 ? 07:42:32 AM <https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71317756#comment_71317756>
Contracts for cronies!

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From: marbury.1947 at gmail.com (Eduardo Oberweiser)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:04:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupymendocino Digest, Vol 1599, Issue 1
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Someone please explain the difference  between this and the Nazi
concentration camps in WWII.


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> The Trump administration?s ?temporary? prison camp for unaccompanied
> migrant kids and some migrant kids kidnapped from their parents at the
> border isn?t just going to continue through the end of the year, it?s going
> to get even bigger. Officials are seeking to increase the capacity of the
> Tornillo, Texas prison camp by the thousands, from a reported 400 beds
> earlier this summer, to 3,800 beds.
>
> ?These temporary beds will be brought online incrementally as needed,?
> claimed <
> https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09/11/federal-government-greatly-expand-tornillo-shelter-unaccompanied-minor/>
> a Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson. ?We will continue to assess
> the need for this temporary shelter at Tornillo Land Port of Entry in
> Tornillo, Texas, based on the projected need for beds and current capacity
> of the program.? Except, the government has always called this prison camp
> ?temporary? because they think it doesn?t make it sound as bad.
>
> In reality, the Trump administration?s wish has always been to detain
> migrant kids indefinitely?just look at the new proposal <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/6/1793759/-Trump-admin-seeking-to-eviscerate-standards-protecting-migrant-kids-under-U-S-custody>
> seeking to eviscerate standards protecting migrant kids under U.S. custody,
> and as The Texas Tribune reports, ?the decision marks the third time the
> facility's operations have been extended since it opened in June.? And as
> officials seek to detain more kids and for longer periods of time, they?re
> also making it harder for kids to get out of these jails.
>
> Migrants kids can be released to relatives already in the U.S. or other
> sponsors, but ?immigrant rights groups have asserted all year,? The Texas
> Tribune continued, ?that the administration has created unnecessary
> barriers for families or sponsors willing to take in the unaccompanied
> minors. After the family separation crisis, critics complained that some
> families were made to undergo more vetting than others.?
>
> The administration currently has nearly 13,000 migrant children under HHS
> custody, the vast majority kids who came to the U.S. on their own and
> seeking refuge. More than 400 are children who continue to remain separated
> from their parents in blatant violation of a judge?s order. All are at risk
> of ongoing emotional and physical trauma, and for many, the damage has
> already been life-altering <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/11/1795012/-One-kidnapped-migrant-child-languished-in-a-Chicago-facility-for-over-a-year-documents-reveal>,
> with distraught children forcibly medicated under custody.
>
> Child detention is child abuse, and it?s on the hands of every complicit
> legislator and administration official doing nothing to protect these kids,
> especially those who are under court order to do so. ?This administration
> has resorted to putting kids in tents rather than pushing for comprehensive
> immigration reform while Congress sits complicit with inaction," said state
> Rep. C?sar Blanco.
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> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre
> Concentration camps for toddlers.
> This is a national shame that the United States will bear for generations.
>
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> Cruelty to children is a feature of this depraved administration. I have
> former friends and a few extended family members I am no longer on speaking
> terms with because I simply cannot associate with people who would support
> such a thing. (And no, I don?t feel any relief from a glory-seeking
> ?anonymous? mole in the White House; that just switches from chaotic evil
> to lawful evil.)
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> Force them to see it your way. It?s worth it because we have justice and
> freedom on our side now. We are the bright warm light at the center of all
> that is good and just.
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> This shameful, sadistic, cruelty makes me so pissed I can?t see straight.
> I truly hope the monsters responsible for this are brought before a world
> court and thrown in jail. They deserve to rot in hell.
>
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> >
>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/mickey>
> mickey <https://www.dailykos.com/user/mickey>September 12 ? 10:38:51 AM <
> https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310092#comment_71310092>
> Hate to be a conspiracy theorist here, but the thought has occured to me
> that some of these places are being built to house  protestors.  Or
> whomever they might deem to be a political enemy.  You know damn well Trump
> and the deplorables would do it in a heartbeat if they could.
>
> 3 <
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> >
>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/dyana%20auset>
> dyana auset <https://www.dailykos.com/user/dyana%20auset> mickey <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre#comment_71310092>September
> 12 ? 12:37:20 PM <
> https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71311353#comment_71311353>
> We need to surveil Miller. There are many pederasts in Trump's sphere. He
> may be one of them
>
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> >
>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/Eagle%20Keeper>
> Eagle Keeper <https://www.dailykos.com/user/Eagle%20Keeper>September 12 ?
> 11:15:07 AM <
> https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310489#comment_71310489>
> Pardon my rant, and sorry to unload, but there is something very wrong and
> evil going on with this administration. From these camps for illegally
> detaining children (or whoever they decide to put in them) , moving FEMA
> emergency response funds to fund ICE operations, all the attacks on social
> programs and those that advocate for them and the common good, pushing
> through an obviously unqualified choice for the Supreme Court  that will
> protect and do the  bidding of the White House, the list goes on and on and
> on. Do any of you honestly believe that what we are watching unfold on the
> East Coast isn?t really just murder in slow motion? The Administration will
> provide little to no help for the storm victims. They-don?t-effing-care.
> Let?s also not forget that there is a highly trained Russian, who hates us
> and what we stand for, whispering in Donnie?s ear. Giving him advice and
> orders. Most of the Republican Party is complicit in these atrocities.  I
> am barely surprised anymore by what goes on. It all seems like a puzzle to
> which they keep adding pieces. All I can say is thank god for Rachel Maddow
> and others like her. They are the only reason I can keep up with it all and
> keep it all in perspective. We all need to pay attention and get involved
> before we find ourselves unable to get out of the traps it seems they are
> building. if nothing else, make damned sure you let your Congress Critters
> know how you feel and then get out and vote. Help people to vote, if you
> can. It may be our last chance.
>
> 6 <
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> >
>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/ShootingStarNC>
> ShootingStarNC <https://www.dailykos.com/user/ShootingStarNC>September 12
> ? 11:17:58 AM <
> https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310518#comment_71310518>
> Evil. Simply evil.
>
> 3 <
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> >
>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/Skookum>
> Skookum <https://www.dailykos.com/user/Skookum>September 12 ? 11:18:11 AM
> <https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310522#comment_71310522>
> I went on a rant last night about wanting to see every single person
> involved with this maladministration being made to pay ? & pay hard ? for
> their part in what the Republicans are doing to the country. But after
> reading this diary,  I realized that they all need to be made aware NOW
> that they?re operating on borrowed time & are going to pay. All the people
> involved in every aspect of this  ? not just the people at the top of the
> Republican food chain, but ALL of them, from every ICE agent to the people
> working inside these ?facilities? ? need to be made very aware that when
> the Democrats take power, retribution is going to be swift & thorough &
> it?s going to go from top to the very bottom-. People need to think about
> the actions they take today in terms of what?s going to happen to them when
> they no longer have the cover of a Trumpian government to hide behind &
> that the future will judge them on how they behaved today.
>
> 3 <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre#
> >
>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/Turbonerd>
> Turbonerd <https://www.dailykos.com/user/Turbonerd>September 12 ?
> 11:38:08 AM <
> https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310704#comment_71310704>
> How fitting that the Trump WH is doing this in a town name ?Screw.? Which,
> I assume, is short for ?Screw all you brown people.?
>
>
> 0 <
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> >
>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/PadreMellyrn>
> PadreMellyrn <https://www.dailykos.com/user/PadreMellyrn>September 12 ?
> 11:39:53 AM <
> https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310723#comment_71310723>
> Ok we can give the Republican Party a new name The National Stupid
> Despicable Asshole Party
>
> Agolf Twittler  Leader of the party
>
> Might Punts.   Vice leader
>
> ?Handlehimselfler? Sessions for the head of  ?Departing off Justice?
>
> Bent Kavanought as Presiding Judge in the Superficial Clutches of the
> Uncaring Shits.
>
> ?Pull Trying?, Spitter of the Horsecrap
>
> Britches McGollum. Senior Major Lickspittle.
>
> 1 <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre#
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>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/DFWmom>
> DFWmom <https://www.dailykos.com/user/DFWmom>September 12 ? 09:14:05 PM <
> https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71315562#comment_71315562>
> This is possible because of this nation's complete indifference to issues
> of Due process, liberty and privacy as it relates to the rights of children
> and parents. You cannot cherry pick human rights. As long as you continue
> to support a system that is keeping nearly half a million kids apart from
> their familes every day, it should come as no surprise that such a system
> can easily swell to gobble up a few immigrant kids. The solution is to
> reaffirm the rights of children to remain with kith and kin even if for
> some reason they cannot remain with a parent. Until we acknowledge this
> basic human right of children, all children will remain vulnerable to such
> self serving exploitation. The foster care system is a racket no less
> exploitative than charter schools - using children as IOUs to shift federal
> dollars into private pockets. Put the focus back on building families not
> destroying them. Everything that has been said about the deep and
> irreparable harm being done to children by separating children from their
> families and fostering them to strangers is true and has been confirmed by
> research. Immigrant family separation is just the wee tip of a massive
> iceberg mostly composed of the forcible separation of citizen families.
> When people continue to ignore and dismiss this much larger issue, the
> hypocrisy is too great to be ignored. The excitement is over a way to
> attack Trump and was never about the horrific trauma to the children. It is
> just another group of people using children's pain for their own ends. And
> that is exactly why it happens. No one really cares about any of these kids
> except for what tbey can get out of it, whether it is to attack Trump or
> get their greedy paws on some federal funds or punish a minority for not
> being White enough. Until I see someone stand up for the overarching
> principle that children belong with their families, immigrant or not, I
> remain less than impressed with these crocodile tears. Justina Pelletier
> had two parents as well as respectable aunts, uncles, granparents and grown
> siblings. As long as The State can steal a child such as that from so many
> loving family members no child is ever safe in this warped and callous
> nation!!! We should hold these things to be self evident -- that children
> belong with their families. One parent may be unfit but there are other
> family. Children do not spring onto this earth from a vacuum. They have a
> history. They have a legacy. They have a family! They DO NOT belong to The
> State.
>
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> >
>  <>
> [new]   <https://www.dailykos.com/user/GlenHelen>
> GlenHelen <https://www.dailykos.com/user/GlenHelen>September 13 ?
> 07:42:32 AM <
> https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71317756#comment_71317756>
> Contracts for cronies!
>
> 0 <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre#
> >
>  <>Recommended list <https://www.dailykos.com/user/recommended/history>
>
> Trump hit by massive hurricane?named Maria. Now tweeting death toll denial.
> by Denise Oliver Velez
> 197 117
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/13/1795434/-Trump-hit-by-massive-hurricane-named-Maria>
>
> "3,000 People Didn't Die in Puerto Rico...It's a Conspiracy by Democrats
> to make me look bad!"
> by Verbalpaintball
> 170 123
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/13/1795442/-3-000-People-Didn-t-Die-in-Puerto-Rico-Not-on-my-watch>
>
> Lookit This Goddam Sign! I Mean LOOK AT IT! (25 Signs From Around the US)
> by freewayblogger
> 536 169
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795330/-Lookit-This-Goddam-Sign-I-Mean-LOOK-AT-IT-25-Signs-From-Around-the-US>
>
> Miami Dolphins Receivers Kneel Before Game 1, Visit Troops in Hospital
> After.
> by durrati
> 161 39
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/13/1795430/-Miami-Dolphins-Receivers-Kneel-Before-Game-1-Visit-Troops-in-Hospital-After>
>
> Vote for Cynthia Nixon.
> by subir
> 106 288
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/13/1795428/-Vote-for-Cynthia-Nixon>
>
> A decade after the financial crisis, economic scars remain, inequality
> thrives, and crooks roam free
> by Meteor Blades
> 176 133
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795374/-A-decade-after-the-financial-crisis-economic-scars-remain-inequality-thrives-and-crooks-roam-free>
>
> Is the country really 'divided'?or is it just Republicans vs. the rest of
> the nation?
> by Kerry Eleveld
> 30 18
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/13/1795383/-Is-the-country-really-divided-or-is-it-just-Republicans-vs-the-rest-of-the-nation>
>
> Willie Nelson to Headline Beto Rally in Texas
> by ruscle
> 225 97
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795408/-Willie-Nelson-to-Headline-Beto-Rally-in-Texas>
>
> ...how likely is a Trump resignation? Pretty likely, according to the
> bookies.
> by annieli
> 88 118
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/13/1795417/--how-likely-is-a-Trump-resignation-Pretty-likely-according-to-the-bookies>
>
> Pseudo-APR: Accept no substitutes (Rikon Reads)
> by Rikon Snow
> 92 33
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/13/1795437/-Pseudo-APR-Accept-no-substitutes-Rikon-Reads>
>
> The (doctored) Trump photo that needs to hang in the gallery of
> presidential portraits
> by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
> 232 58
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795316/-This-doctored-Trump-photo-needs-to-hang-in-the-gallery-of-presidential-portraits>
>
> Ceci n'est pas une APR, Sep 13, 2018
> by AKALib
> 45 43
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/13/1795438/-Twitter-News-Round-up-Sep-13
> >
>  <>Most Shared <>
>
> Republicans have their advertising strategy for 2018 locked down: Racism
> and sexism
> by Laura Clawson
>
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/9/13/1795440/-Republicans-have-their-advertising-strategy-for-2018-locked-down-Racism-and-sexism>
>
> Trump hit by massive hurricane?named Maria. Now tweeting death toll denial.
> by Denise Oliver Velez
>
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/9/13/1795434/-Trump-hit-by-massive-hurricane-named-Maria>
>
> Grassley and fellow Republicans continue slow murder of democracy in
> Kavanaugh hearing
> by Joan McCarter
>
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/9/13/1795481/-Grassley-and-fellow-Republicans-continue-slow-murder-of-democracy-in-Kavanaugh-hearing>
>
> Duck, dodge, excuse: Cowardly Republicans respond to Trump's Puerto Rico
> deaths denial
> by Laura Clawson
>
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/9/13/1795472/-Duck-dodge-excuse-Cowardly-Republicans-respond-to-Trump-s-Puerto-Rico-deaths-denial>
>
> Is the country really 'divided'?or is it just Republicans vs. the rest of
> the nation?
> by Kerry Eleveld
>
>  <
> https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/9/13/1795383/-Is-the-country-really-divided-or-is-it-just-Republicans-vs-the-rest-of-the-nation
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:10:17 +0000
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The FEMA money for Hurricane relief was raided for $1Million to pay for detention camps for immigrants just as a storm blows into the Gulf. In defiance of the Court order to reunite children taken from parents at our borders.

ann

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Someone please explain the difference  between this and the Nazi concentration camps in WWII.


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Today's Topics:

   1. Administration?s ?temporary? prison camp for unaccompanied
      migrant kids continuing (Richard Karch)


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The Trump administration?s ?temporary? prison camp for unaccompanied migrant kids and some migrant kids kidnapped from their parents at the border isn?t just going to continue through the end of the year, it?s going to get even bigger. Officials are seeking to increase the capacity of the Tornillo, Texas prison camp by the thousands, from a reported 400 beds earlier this summer, to 3,800 beds.

?These temporary beds will be brought online incrementally as needed,? claimed <https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09/11/federal-government-greatly-expand-tornillo-shelter-unaccompanied-minor/> a Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson. ?We will continue to assess the need for this temporary shelter at Tornillo Land Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, based on the projected need for beds and current capacity of the program.? Except, the government has always called this prison camp ?temporary? because they think it doesn?t make it sound as bad.

In reality, the Trump administration?s wish has always been to detain migrant kids indefinitely?just look at the new proposal <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/6/1793759/-Trump-admin-seeking-to-eviscerate-standards-protecting-migrant-kids-under-U-S-custody> seeking to eviscerate standards protecting migrant kids under U.S. custody, and as The Texas Tribune reports, ?the decision marks the third time the facility's operations have been extended since it opened in June.? And as officials seek to detain more kids and for longer periods of time, they?re also making it harder for kids to get out of these jails.

Migrants kids can be released to relatives already in the U.S. or other sponsors, but ?immigrant rights groups have asserted all year,? The Texas Tribune continued, ?that the administration has created unnecessary barriers for families or sponsors willing to take in the unaccompanied minors. After the family separation crisis, critics complained that some families were made to undergo more vetting than others.?

The administration currently has nearly 13,000 migrant children under HHS custody, the vast majority kids who came to the U.S. on their own and seeking refuge. More than 400 are children who continue to remain separated from their parents in blatant violation of a judge?s order. All are at risk of ongoing emotional and physical trauma, and for many, the damage has already been life-altering <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/11/1795012/-One-kidnapped-migrant-child-languished-in-a-Chicago-facility-for-over-a-year-documents-reveal>, with distraught children forcibly medicated under custody.

Child detention is child abuse, and it?s on the hands of every complicit legislator and administration official doing nothing to protect these kids, especially those who are under court order to do so. ?This administration has resorted to putting kids in tents rather than pushing for comprehensive immigration reform while Congress sits complicit with inaction," said state Rep. C?sar Blanco.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre
Concentration camps for toddlers.
This is a national shame that the United States will bear for generations.

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Pale Jenova <https://www.dailykos.com/user/Pale%20Jenova>September 12 ? 10:26:23 AM <https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71309990#comment_71309990>
Cruelty to children is a feature of this depraved administration. I have former friends and a few extended family members I am no longer on speaking terms with because I simply cannot associate with people who would support such a thing. (And no, I don?t feel any relief from a glory-seeking ?anonymous? mole in the White House; that just switches from chaotic evil to lawful evil.)

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GoSeahawks12 <https://www.dailykos.com/user/GoSeahawks12> Pale Jenova <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre#comment_71309990>September 12 ? 10:31:52 AM <https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310030#comment_71310030>
Force them to see it your way. It?s worth it because we have justice and freedom on our side now. We are the bright warm light at the center of all that is good and just.

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WayneC <https://www.dailykos.com/user/WayneC> GoSeahawks12 <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795224/-Trump-admin-s-temporary-prison-camp-for-migrant-kids-is-continuing-and-getting-even-bigger?detail=emaildkre#comment_71310030>September 12 ? 10:43:32 AM <https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310145#comment_71310145>
We are the bright light at the end of the tunnel, an out of control train heading to derailing.

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GoSeahawks12 <https://www.dailykos.com/user/GoSeahawks12>September 12 ? 10:29:52 AM <https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1795224/71310019#comment_71310019>
remind you of something?


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This shameful, sadistic, cruelty makes me so pissed I can?t see straight. I truly hope the monsters responsible for this are brought before a world court and thrown in jail. They deserve to rot in hell.

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Hate to be a conspiracy theorist here, but the thought has occured to me that some of these places are being built to house  protestors.  Or whomever they might deem to be a political enemy.  You know damn well Trump and the deplorables would do it in a heartbeat if they could.

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We need to surveil Miller. There are many pederasts in Trump's sphere. He may be one of them

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Pardon my rant, and sorry to unload, but there is something very wrong and evil going on with this administration. From these camps for illegally detaining children (or whoever they decide to put in them) , moving FEMA emergency response funds to fund ICE operations, all the attacks on social programs and those that advocate for them and the common good, pushing through an obviously unqualified choice for the Supreme Court  that will protect and do the  bidding of the White House, the list goes on and on and on. Do any of you honestly believe that what we are watching unfold on the East Coast isn?t really just murder in slow motion? The Administration will provide little to no help for the storm victims. They-don?t-effing-care. Let?s also not forget that there is a highly trained Russian, who hates us and what we stand for, whispering in Donnie?s ear. Giving him advice and orders. Most of the Republican Party is complicit in these atrocities.  I am barely surprised anymore by what goes on. It all seems like a puzzle to which they keep adding pieces. All I can say is thank god for Rachel Maddow and others like her. They are the only reason I can keep up with it all and keep it all in perspective. We all need to pay attention and get involved before we find ourselves unable to get out of the traps it seems they are building. if nothing else, make damned sure you let your Congress Critters know how you feel and then get out and vote. Help people to vote, if you can. It may be our last chance.

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Evil. Simply evil.

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I went on a rant last night about wanting to see every single person involved with this maladministration being made to pay ? & pay hard ? for their part in what the Republicans are doing to the country. But after reading this diary,  I realized that they all need to be made aware NOW that they?re operating on borrowed time & are going to pay. All the people involved in every aspect of this  ? not just the people at the top of the Republican food chain, but ALL of them, from every ICE agent to the people working inside these ?facilities? ? need to be made very aware that when the Democrats take power, retribution is going to be swift & thorough & it?s going to go from top to the very bottom-. People need to think about the actions they take today in terms of what?s going to happen to them when they no longer have the cover of a Trumpian government to hide behind & that the future will judge them on how they behaved today.

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How fitting that the Trump WH is doing this in a town name ?Screw.? Which, I assume, is short for ?Screw all you brown people.?


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Ok we can give the Republican Party a new name The National Stupid Despicable Asshole Party

Agolf Twittler  Leader of the party

Might Punts.   Vice leader

?Handlehimselfler? Sessions for the head of  ?Departing off Justice?

Bent Kavanought as Presiding Judge in the Superficial Clutches of the Uncaring Shits.

?Pull Trying?, Spitter of the Horsecrap

Britches McGollum. Senior Major Lickspittle.

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This is possible because of this nation's complete indifference to issues of Due process, liberty and privacy as it relates to the rights of children and parents. You cannot cherry pick human rights. As long as you continue to support a system that is keeping nearly half a million kids apart from their familes every day, it should come as no surprise that such a system can easily swell to gobble up a few immigrant kids. The solution is to reaffirm the rights of children to remain with kith and kin even if for some reason they cannot remain with a parent. Until we acknowledge this basic human right of children, all children will remain vulnerable to such self serving exploitation. The foster care system is a racket no less exploitative than charter schools - using children as IOUs to shift federal dollars into private pockets. Put the focus back on building families not destroying them. Everything that has been said about the deep and irreparable harm being done to children by separating children from their families and fostering them to strangers is true and has been confirmed by research. Immigrant family separation is just the wee tip of a massive iceberg mostly composed of the forcible separation of citizen families. When people continue to ignore and dismiss this much larger issue, the hypocrisy is too great to be ignored. The excitement is over a way to attack Trump and was never about the horrific trauma to the children. It is just another group of people using children's pain for their own ends. And that is exactly why it happens. No one really cares about any of these kids except for what tbey can get out of it, whether it is to attack Trump or get their greedy paws on some federal funds or punish a minority for not being White enough. Until I see someone stand up for the overarching principle that children belong with their families, immigrant or not, I remain less than impressed with these crocodile tears. Justina Pelletier had two parents as well as respectable aunts, uncles, granparents and grown siblings. As long as The State can steal a child such as that from so many loving family members no child is ever safe in this warped and callous nation!!! We should hold these things to be self evident -- that children belong with their families. One parent may be unfit but there are other family. Children do not spring onto this earth from a vacuum. They have a history. They have a legacy. They have a family! They DO NOT belong to The State.

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Contracts for cronies!

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Trump hit by massive hurricane?named Maria. Now tweeting death toll denial.
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Grassley and fellow Republicans continue slow murder of democracy in Kavanaugh hearing
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Duck, dodge, excuse: Cowardly Republicans respond to Trump's Puerto Rico deaths denial
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From annxpress at live.com  Mon Sep 17 14:23:46 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:23:46 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: San Clemente City Demands Answers to "Serious
 Near Miss" at San Onofre
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Send a petition to the NRC!

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From: San Clemente Green <gary at sanclementegreen.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 7:28 AM
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: San Clemente City Demands Answers to "Serious Near Miss" at San Onofre

Change only happens when YOU get involved

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It is with much gratitude that we can announce that after holding a public rally and pleading with our city council at their last two meetings, that they have delivered a strong message to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the "serious near miss" at the San Onofre nuclear waste site.

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Why should you participate?

In a recent communication with David Lochbaum, nuclear expert at Union of Concerned Scientists, he put it this way...

I am not looking forward to the NRC's exit or report. They are not a factor in spent fuel storage safety.

The community has played a larger role. Recall that the recent episode was secret until a worker revealed it during a CEP meeting. Most plants lack a CEP. Had these same events happened somewhere other than San Onofre, no one likely would have heard about them. It is the community's activity rather than the NRC's inactivity that is really driving SCE and Holtec to figure out what's going wrong
and fix it.

I sometimes write and say that NRC really stands for Nielsen Ratings Commission. When public outcry keeps a spotlight on a plant, that light enables the many NRC staffers wanting to do right to do right. Bad things happen in darkness.

So, the community asking questions and compelling SCE to explain what the problems were and why the solutions will avoid repeats is the best way to ensure safety and help the NRC be a nuclear RoboCop rather than a Sgt. Schultz.

Thanks,
Dave Lochbaum
UCS

Seems to me that
WE
are the ones we've been waiting for,
so let's get on with it!







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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 10:07:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino]
	Rolling-Stone-Reporter-is-no-Kavanaugh-Surrender-Monkey
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From annxpress at live.com  Wed Sep 26 17:35:31 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:35:31 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Pipeline that Exploded in Pennsylvania Part
 of Push to Build Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Network
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Fracking is a real danger to our environment, and there is never a pipeline that doesn't leak!
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Just before dawn Monday morning, Chuck Belczyk thought a jet had crashed near his home roughly 25 miles outside Pittsburgh ? until he heard the sound of hissing gas. ?And that?s when it all hit us what was happening,? Belczyk told NPR?s State Impact. ?You knew the pipeline went.?

"Just before dawn Monday morning, Chuck Belczyk thought a jet had crashed near his home roughly 25 miles outside Pittsburgh ? until he heard the sound of hissing gas.

?And that?s when it all hit us what was happening,? Belczyk told<https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2018/09/10/natural-gas-pipeline-blast-in-beaver-county-prompts-evacuation/> NPR?s State Impact. ?You knew the pipeline went.?

A column of fire shot 150 feet in the air and destroyed a home, a barn, and several cars. Residents of over two dozen homes, including Belczyk, were evacuated, with one family barely escaping<https://www.alleghenyfront.org/pipeline-explosion-in-beaver-county-prompts-evacuation/> the flames that engulfed their home, neighbors said.

Interstate 376 was shut down amid concern over falling power lines, including a half-dozen high tension towers, which left 1,500 people temporarily without electricity. No one was injured or killed by the blast, authorities said, and because of recent rains, the possibility of a forest fire was averted.

The 24-inch diameter pipeline responsible for the blast had gone into service just seven days earlier. It?s owned by Energy Transfer Partners, the same pipeline company behind the Dakota Access pipeline<https://www.desmogblog.com/energy-transfer-partners-bakken-oil-pipeline-through-iowa> project and the Bayou Bridge<https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/07/09/court-reaffirms-bayou-bridge-pipeline-ok-cut-through-america-s-largest-river-swamp> pipeline in Louisiana.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has said it suspects<https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2018/09/11/pipeline-explosion-part-of-line-shut-down-during-investigation/> that the blast was caused by heavy rainfall, which they believe may have caused the pipeline to slip on the saturated ground, break, and then explode.

Energy Transfer Partners dubbed its new ?gathering? line the Revolution pipeline. Revolution was built to connect individual gas wells to a new cryogenic plant, the Revolution gas processing plant, where so-called ?wet gas? from Marcellus wells would be separated into natural gas liquids and dry gas.

>From the Revolution plant, that dry natural gas, a fossil fuel made of methane that?s used for electricity and heat, would be shipped west direction on the 725 mile Rover pipeline. Natural gas liquids like ethane, which is used to make plastics and petrochemicals, would head out on the Mariner East 2 pipeline to a shipping terminal near the Atlantic Coast, where it could be shipped to the Gulf Coast or abroad.

By providing a path for the liquids and gas to flow to market, the Revolution gathering line would facilitate the drilling and fracking of roughly 500 Marcellus and Devonian wells in just one Pennsylvania County, Butler County, alone, officials from the company building the cryogenic plant said<https://www.ogj.com/articles/2015/06/etp-provides-details-on-revolution-pipeline-processing-project.html> in 2015, when the deal was announced.

Or at least that was Energy Transfer?s $1.5 billion plan. All three pipelines have been plagued by construction problems, particularly the much larger Mariner East natural gas liquids pipeline project. In the meantime, Energy Transfer Partners has faced strong pressure to finish the project from shale drillers, who aim to sell ethane for a higher price than it commands when it?s left mixed in with methane.

Drillers have publicly warned that more delays finishing the Mariner East system would impact their bottom lines. ?If it is delayed to later in the year, that certainly has some costs to it,? Glen C. Warren, CEO of Antero Resources, a drilling company which has leased<http://www.anteroresources.com/operations/marcellus-shale> nearly half a million acres in the Marcellus shale, said during an April 26 earnings call<https://seekingalpha.com/article/4166432-antero-resources-ar-q1-2018-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single>, responding to a question from investors about the impacts of delays to the Mariner East project.

In February, Thomas Long, the CEO of Energy Transfer told investors that while Revolution was ?mechanically complete,? the rest of the project was behind schedule. ?We?re evaluating other options to move residue and natural gas liquids on Revolution before Rover and ME2 are ready for service,? he said on a Feb. 22 earnings call.

Center Township Police Chief Barry Kramer Kramer told<http://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/115721-etp-natural-gas-pipeline-in-pennsylvania-explodes-prompting-evacuations> Natural Gas Intelligence, an industry trade publication, that local authorities hadn?t been aware ETP had begun using Revolution to transport any gas or liquids. An ETP spokesperson told<http://www.post-gazette.com/local/west/2018/09/10/gas-explosion-in-center-township-Beaver-County/stories/201809100067> the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the pipeline was being used as it would be commercially during a ?commissioning? or testing phase when the explosion occurred.

Natural gas liquids are expected to play a growing role in the shale industry?s plans for Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and other parts of the Rust Belt.

A planned new petrochemical corridor in the region has already attracted over tens of billions of dollars in investment, as DeSmog earlier reported<https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/07/01/state-regulators-struggle-keep-industry-pushes-multi-billion-dollar-fracked-petrochemical-projects> ? $83 billion of that in West Virginia<https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/02/06/fracking-appalachian-storage-hub-china> alone.

?I think the magnitude of some of these projects that we?re talking about here are hard for a lot of us and a lot of our communities to wrap their head around,? Chad Riley, CEO of The Thrasher Group, an oil and gas field and pipeline services firm, said at a petrochemicals conference in Pittsburgh this summer.

Not everyone is convinced that the coming plastics and petrochemicals build-out is a positive thing for the region ? or for the rest of the world.

Much of the concern centers on the expansion of plastics manufacturing using fracked gas. ?If all of this production capacity is constructed, it may lock in a massive expansion of cheap plastic production for decades,? a report<https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Fueling-Plastics-How-Fracked-Gas-Cheap-Oil-and-Unburnable-Coal-are-Driving-the-Plastics-Boom.pdf> last year by the Center for International Environmental Law found. ?With expanded plastics production and consumption will come more spills and emissions from chemical plants, more plastic clogging shorelines and killing marine life, and more micro-plastic particles ? and the pollutants they may absorb finding their way into food chains and tap water.?

At a more local level, safety concerns have fueled strong opposition<https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/06/11/following-spills-and-sinkholes-mariner-east-pipeline-opponents-call-pa-governor-wolf-stop-construction> to Energy Transfer?s Mariner East project, driven not only by the company?s troubling track record during construction but also by environmental concerns. Mariner East construction has been repeatedly shut down by the state after mishaps including sinkholes, spills and leaks. State regulators have hit the company with over $13.1 million<https://www.dep.pa.gov/Business/ProgramIntegration/Pennsylvania-Pipeline-Portal/Pages/Mariner-East-II.aspx> in fines for violating state environmental and safety laws during Mariner East construction, including a $148,000 fine in August for breaking the state?s Clean Streams Law and the Dam Safety and Encroachment Act.

State Senator Andy Dinneman reacted to the Revolution pipeline blast on Twitter, connecting it to existing concerns over the Mariner East project.

These kinds of pipelines shouldn?t be so close to our schools, residential neighborhoods & community centers. Mariner East should be permanently halted until we get real assurance that they?re being installed, inspected and operated with safety as the top priority. 2/2

? Andy Dinniman (@SenatorDinniman) September 10, 2018<https://twitter.com/SenatorDinniman/status/1039228594420113413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Read also FWW's new report "Another Petrochemical Sacrifice Zone<https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/sites/default/files/ib_1808_appalachiangasclusters-web.pdf>".


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Sep 28 09:03:49 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:03:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino]
	Kavanaugh-and-the-case-of-the-vanishing-rape-victim/
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https://www.thenation.com/article/brett-kavanaugh-and-the-case-of-the-vanishing-rape-victim/



Brett Kavanaugh and the Case of the Vanishing Rape Victim
Long before the recent charges against him, we already had evidence of Kavanaugh?s disturbing lack of empathy for rape victims.
By Bruce Shapiro <https://www.thenation.com/authors/bruce-shapiro/>

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From nlnelson at mcn.org  Sat Sep 29 01:00:27 2018
From: nlnelson at mcn.org (nlnelson at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:00:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FYI....Send a postcard to Lula in prison]
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I sent a postcard.  Site still active - I think this is important.  Voices
of democracy being squelched everywhere.  Brazil now a major support to
our dictator's rep's and to all neo-con policies.

Nancy Wallace Nelson



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Subject: Send a postcard to Lula in prison
From:    "Sharan Burrow" <press at ituc-csi.org>
Date:    Mon, September 3, 2018 5:00 am
To:      nlnelson at mcn.org
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Dear Nancy Liela,

[https://www.postbug.com/embed/?pid=530#/pb/530]

???I have been unable to travel the country I love, bringing the message
of hope
of a better and more just Brazil, with opportunities for all, as I always did
during 45 years of public life. But I have no doubt that they have put me
here
to prevent me from being with my larger family: the Brazilian people. This is
what distresses me the most, because I know that outside, every day, more and
more families are back to living in the streets, abandoned by the State that
should protect them.??? Lula Ignacio Da Silva

These are the words the former President of Brazil delivered in a message
from
his prison in the southern city of Curitiba.

Lula is a political prisoner, serving a 12 year sentence. Prisoners in
Curitiba
normally get two hours a day outside of their cells, they can see
relatives or
close friends once a week and they can ask to see their lawyers any time.

Postcards to Lula [https://www.postbug.com/r/freelula/en/]

We have 500 postcards to send to Lula in prison. You can personalise your
message and add your name, union and country to show Lula the world is
watching
and we will not give up on hope or a better and more just world.

The postcards will be printed and mailed to the prison in Curitiba.

A few weeks ago I went to visit Lula in prison, I witnessed the isolation
he is
forced into and the attempts to silence his voice. He told me, I am
standing for
President of Brazil because our democracy is in crisis and our people
don???t need
to live in poverty without jobs and social protection.

Free Lula! [https://www.postbug.com/r/freelula/en/]

Lula is Brazil???s most popular politician by a huge margin, and the judicial
persecution of him is aimed at stopping him becoming President again.

This is a threat to democracy itself.

The international trade union movement stands in solidarity with our
Brazilian
colleagues and the quest to defend democracy and reinstate the rule of law.

Send a postcard to Lula. Show him the world is watching.
[https://www.postbug.com/r/freelula/en/]

In solidarity,

Sharan Burrow
ITUC General Secretary

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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:39:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Photos from Sep 21, 2018
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