<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Did anyone attend the Town Meeting in Mendocino last night??<div><br></div><div>Wish I had gone….</div><div><br></div><div>Reportage please!!!</div><div><br></div><div>btw - the kids asked for our support and we can participate in all/any ways we choose.</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<font face="AmericanTypewriter-CondensedLight">Jessie Lee VanSant<br><a href="mailto:vjessielee@gmail.com">vjessielee@gmail.com</a><br>707-964-5511<br>"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.” MLK Jr.</font><br><br></div><div><div>On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:30 AM, <a href="mailto:nlnelson@mcn.org">nlnelson@mcn.org</a> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">so sad when stating one's opinion is represented as "telling others what<br>to do" - maybe "please" has no meaning anymore.....<br><br>I'm happy to have heard about Jose and all the students that took the ball<br>on the protest and KEPT IT AWAY FROM THE GAME TIME -<br><br>Nancy<br><br>Dear Ms Nancy Wallace-Nelson<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>If this is not important to you, then you should not participate. But<br>please do not tell anyone else what is important to them or what they<br>should do. If we can grieve over Officer Fiorentino - which we<br>rightfully and righteously did - we can grieve over the death of<br>innocent black and other people of color.<br><br>The only real heroes at the moment are the courageous young girls who<br>refused to go along with this outrageous suppression of people's<br>voices. Much more important than any game could ever be.<br><br>ruby gold<br><br><br><br>On Dec 28, 2014, at 8:24 AM, <a href="mailto:nlnelson@mcn.org">nlnelson@mcn.org</a> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> As a retired teacher who has worked in both Mendocino and Fort<br>Bragg,<br>and who has seen first hand the differences in cultural attitudes in<br>the<br>two, I urge Occupiers to stay out of this one and NOT to do<br>anything which could harm the mood of the event. We already have sad<br>recent examples of sports confrontations that turned lethal. We do NOT<br>need to risk another in FB.<br><br> In this world of video-game frenzy, and WII couch potatoes, I laud<br>all<br>students who still get out and play sports and who take them seriously.<br>And I also respect Becky Walker very highly, and the fact that she<br>mentions the murder of Officer Fiorentino is important, as she knows<br>that the emotion about that event remains high and charged. Sadly,<br>there are people who mistake protests against any officer as protest<br>against their fallen heroes, and some of those people are very likely<br>to attend this tournament. Becky said it precisely: FB does not have<br>the resources to deal with potential confrontations, so let's do<br>nothing that could invoke such arguments,and ruin the event for the<br>players who have trained hard and well.<br><br> PLEASE let the kids who have decided to participate enjoy their<br>sports<br>time, and leave those with concerns to educate their peers. They'll<br>educate peers better than we, and Occupy can work on education in other<br>venues.<br><br> People are NOT coming to the tournament for enlightenment or<br>education. Success is knowing where to choose our battles, and this<br>should NOT be one of them.<br><br>Heartfelt, Nancy Wallace-Nelson<br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Jasper N Henderson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>8:16pm Dec 27<br>Dear Occupy Folks --<br>I'm a Mendocino resident (just moved down from Fort Bragg) who has<br>long<br></blockquote>admired what you guys are doing here. I was fairly heavily involved<br>with<br>Occupy Boston, spent some time at Occupy Wall St., and helped start<br>Occupy<br><blockquote type="cite">Harvard back in 2011. I'm also a graduate of Fort Bragg High, so I'm<br></blockquote>furious about Becky Walker and Bruce Triplett banning "Black Lives<br>Matter"<br><blockquote type="cite">t-shirts at their basketball tournament. So I'm calling for a protest<br></blockquote>this<br><blockquote type="cite">coming Monday (the first day of the tournament) at 5PM. Can you share<br></blockquote>this<br><blockquote type="cite">with your many supporters? Here's the text I wrote. Feel free to<br></blockquote>edit/change it.<br><blockquote type="cite">Calling a protest for free speech and #BlackLivesMatter at the<br></blockquote>basketball<br><blockquote type="cite">tournament at Fort Bragg High School, Monday the 29th, 5PM. Making<br></blockquote>national news, the tournament organizers disinvited the Mendocino High<br>School boys and girls basketball teams out fear that they might wear<br>#ICantBreathe t-shirts during their warm-up.<br><blockquote type="cite">Come stand in solidarity with the Mendocino basketball teams and the<br></blockquote>#BlackLivesMatter movement. Let's show the world that Fort Bragg and<br>Mendocino County support the protests across the country and the right<br>of<br><blockquote type="cite">free speech.<br>Meet on the front steps of Fort Bragg High School, 300 Dana Street at<br></blockquote>5PM<br><blockquote type="cite">and marching to the tournament entrance. Bring t-shirts, signs,<br>banners,<br></blockquote>and candles.<br><blockquote type="cite">Articles published all across the internet about the ban:<br><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l/ZAQFxbB9uAQHgM7U-">http://l.facebook.com/l/ZAQFxbB9uAQHgM7U-</a><br>TUxYbxySlaZxA3L6RyeshA8Us_4Ibw/<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/27/">www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/27/</a><br>i-cant-breathe-t-shirts-high-school-basketball<br></blockquote><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l/">http://l.facebook.com/l/</a><br>cAQFOnNrGAQFBfqoAlNmPb_HqHVDt4BhEM0jqgxqYx78kyQ/<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/fort-">www.ibtimes.com/fort-</a><br>bragg-high-school-bans-i-cant-breathe-t-shirts-1768106<br><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l/">http://l.facebook.com/l/</a><br>hAQGbQL7xAQErNAVTvcTdvsfQ7SWxnbG6uujhECgdZuOJ5g/www.buzzfeed.com/<br>davidmack/high-school-bans-i-cant-breathe-shirts-basketball-<br>tournament%23.qwaG498Lk<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts see high-school basketball team disinvited<br>from event<br>www.theguardian.com<br>Mendocino High School teams out of Fort Bragg tournament after too few<br></blockquote>members of girls team promise...<br><blockquote type="cite">TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send an email to occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org put<br></blockquote>"Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject line.<br><blockquote type="cite">For listserv problems please contact: listmanager@mcn.or<br></blockquote><br><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>