Monday, July 28, 2008

Stop Arnold

Courage Campaign
"I have worked 38 years for the State and served the people with compassion and integrity. I will lose my home without my pay... Please do not use the workers to balance the budget!" Michele in Santa Barbara, writing a comment to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after signing our "Stop Arnold" petition
Dear Bella,
The numbers are astounding. But the comments are painful to read.
When we launched our "Stop Arnold" campaign on Thursday morning, we had no idea it would spark a grassroots firestorm, becoming one of the most widely supported Courage Campaign actions ever. We just knew it was the right thing to do.
Over 48 hours later, 22,051 concerned citizens have signed on, including you, thousands of our friends from True Majority and CREDO Action, and the leaders of the California State Legislature -- Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Senate President Pro-Tem Elect Darrell Steinberg.
But, with 200,000 state workers facing Gov. Schwarzenegger's plan to slash their salaries to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour, we can't stop now.
First thing Monday morning, I will be flying from Los Angeles to Sacramento to personally hand-deliver your signatures -- and comments -- to the Governor, along with State Senator Dean Florez and Assemblymember Dave Jones.
Your signatures will add significant momentum to a rapidly growing backlash to the Governor's planned Executive Order. As you may know, State Controller John Chiang -- the man responsible for processing paychecks -- has announced that he will not carry out Arnold's order to slash hourly wages to $6.55, even less than the state minimum wage of $8 per hour. Chiang's courageous acton is backed up by an opinion handed down by the Legislative Counsel, Diane Boyer-Vine.
And, just yesterday, 27 members of the California congressional delegation wrote a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger, expressing their "strong opposition" to his plan. Led by Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Los Angeles), the House members argued that "the earnings of hardworking state employees should not be leveraged for political gain" as the recession deepens, gas prices skyrocket, stores close, and home foreclosures surge.
We wouldn't email you on the weekend unless we thought it was important. So, thank you for taking action today. We really appreciate it.
Rick Jacobs
Chair
P.S. The personal comments submitted to the Governor are painful to read, from state workers facing the brink of financial disaster to outrage and remorse from folks who voted for Arnold in 2003:
"I consider myself an independent and am completely discouraged by the GOP. I don't see how I can support you if you run again." Kim in Simi Valley
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Saturday, July 26, 2008

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Friday, July 25, 2008

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Activist San Diego Film Series

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Saturday , July 26, 7 PM:
The Pornography Of Power:
Robert Scheer in person -
author, journalist
Robert Scheer brings a lifetime of wisdom and 40 years of journalism experience to one of the most overlooked and dangerous issues of our time—the destructive influence of America's military-industrial complex.
In "The Pornography Of Power. How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America," Scheer examines the quiet expansion of our military presence throughout the world, our insane nuclear strategy, the immorality of corporations profiting in Iraq, and the arrogance of our foreign policy.
First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego - Bard Hall - 4190 Front Street, Hillcrest, San Diego (opposite UCSD Medical Center). Cost: $5 - $10 donations requested. (No one will be turned away for lack of funds.)

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Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans
a new film by Upheaval Productions


Friday August 1, 2008 7:30 pm


Post-Katrina reconstruction is still in progress throughout the Gulf Coast, with much of the city of New Orleans still in ruins. Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans focuses on those rebuilding this city through interviews with some of the estimated 100,000 Latino migrant laborers who have converged in this area over the past two and a half years. Despite terrible working conditions, massive fraud, a housing crisis, severe harassment by law enforcement, and very limited resources, New Orleans' Latino-community has mushroomed since the storm and is establishing an infrastructure proportional to its size. Take a look at how this community is organizing to defend itself against numerous injustices and the attempts to bridge the gap between themselves as new residents and the pre-Katrina population, all within the context of the extremely unique and tragic context of post-Katrina New Orleans.

From the makers of the post-Katrina survivor documentary Down But Not Out
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Friday August 1, 2008 7:30pm
at the Joyce Beers Community Center:
1220 Cleveland Ave. (at Vermont just south of Univ. Ave) San Diego, Ca 92103

****This Event is Free****
(Nobody turned away for lack of funds - Donations Gladly Accepted)

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"Energy Crossroads" Screening with Debbie Cook

Peak Oil Film & Discussion
Think Gas at $4.50 is Expensive?
Tuesday, July 29th

FEATURING: Award-winning film Energy Crossroads (2007)

SPECIAL GUEST: Debbie Cook
Huntington Beach Mayor and Candidate for Congress

Film begins at 7:00pm
Discussion follows at 8:00pm
Joyce Beers Community Center
3900 Vermont St. (in Hillcrest Trader Joe's shopping center)

RSVP to: Progress@ProgressiveSD.org
Suggested Donation: $10-20 (but no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

Think gas at $4.50 is expensive? Most oil industry geologists and analysts predict that within a few years, world oil production will reach a peak and then begin an irreversible decline, as huge decades-old oil fields are depleted. This is likely to significantly increase the price of everything produced from or transported using oil, including gasoline, plastic, chemicals, and food. Join Progressive San Diego and Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook for a movie and discussion about peak oil, its impacts on our sprawling region, and what San Diego can do to mitigate its effects.

Debbie Cook, Mayor of Huntington Beach, California is an attorney and environmental activist and is currently running for U.S. Congress in California's 46th district. She serves on the boards of directors of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO-USA) and the Post Carbon Institute, and has spoken internationally about what local governments can do in response to the imminent peak in world oil production.

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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Impeachment

On Jul 18, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Martha Sullivan wrote:

Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I was so heartened to see it, I just had to send it around.  As David says, following, it's not yet a true impeachment hearing but it IS a start after literally years of pushing from the grassroots (us).  So let's keep that push going!  Everyone's on alert to do as David suggests following, and of course wear your Impeach gear wherever you can the  next week and ESPECIALLY next Frhe iday.  Our local Impeach billboard, Barbara Cummings, of course is always on message :>) 

IMPEACHMENT IS on the table -- now, let's remind our Congressional leaders how to use their flatware, so to speak --

Martha Sullivan

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:49:31 -0400
From: David Swanson <david@davidswanson. org>
To: "activists@lists. mayfirst. org" <activists@lists. mayfirst. org>
Subject: [Activists] Impeachment Begins July 25th

Impeachment Begins: Be on Capitol Hill on Friday July 25th

At 10 a.m. on Friday July 25th, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a preliminary hearing on the topic of impeachment, with a presentation by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. This is not yet a true impeachment hearing, but it is our opportunity to push for one, and it represents a tremendous victory after years of effort by millions of Americans who want to keep the Constitution alive. This never would have happened without your hard work. And we can't let up now!

The National Impeachment Network is organizing a rally and asking everyone who can to take a day off for justice and meet at 9 a.m. on Friday July 25th in front of the Rayburn House Office Building on the Independence Avenue side. Bring impeachment shirts and posters! For more information contact ningroup@gmail. com

NOTE: The hearing has not been announced, but two members of Congress closely involved in this have told us it is at 10 a.m. on the 25th, and Chairman Conyers himself has so informed Veterans for Peace.
Between now and Friday the 25th, please take these steps:

Contact your member of Congress in support of impeachment.
http://afterdowning street.org/ bushaction

Ask the media to cover the hearing.
http://afterdowning street.org/ node/1084

Sign the petition at Congressman Kucinich's website.
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Friday, July 18, 2008

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Blog post: New category: Creating Democracy


The Facts and What I can Do:

The United States government has refused to ensure free, fair, honest, transparent elections, and has ignored clear, regular and widespread evidence of election fraud and deception--the political parties and candidates ask for my vote but cannot ensure that my vote is counted. Once elected, officials no longer take my vote into consideration and cannot be held accountable, so my vote is not a voice in government and therefore not a true vote.

The United States government is comprised of a President who is in breach of his Presidential oath and of legislators and officials who have passed unlawful and unconstitutional bills and who have placed themselves above the law.

I reaffirm the final authority of the people to grant or to withhold the mandate to govern or enact laws in our name and I withdraw my vote from these compromised and discredited elections. I do not delegate power to any representative to govern or enact laws in my name. I do not consent to unjust government in which I have no voice.

I am voting instead for true government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and to this end I pledge to work to establish citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy.


(Please copy this pledge and circulate it. There is nothing to sign and no group to join, no membership drive, no fundraising, no sponsors, etc., just a citizen-owned movement for transparent participatory democracy. You own it. Make it happen!)

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Consensual Political Intercourse

Ever get the feeling that your government is screwing you? Legally, of course, that's something that it is not allowed to do unless you give your consent. Without your consent it isn't a consensual relationship and becomes rape. So my question is, did you give your consent or not?

"Of course not," my friends tell me indignantly. "Why would we consent to having our own jobs outsourced, our homes repossessed, our children's futures mortgaged to pay for wars based on lies, and allowing big corporations to poison our food?"

"I don't know why you'd consent to things like that," I tell them, "but I'm not so much concerned about your reasoning – I just want to know if you did or did not give your consent."

"No!" they answer angrily. "We did not consent!"

And I hear their echoes everywhere I go.

"We did not consent!" shout the peace activists.

"We did not consent!" scream the 9/11 Truthers.

"We did not consent!" holler the downsized and repossessed, young and old.

I hear them, but I'm not sure I'm buying it. If they didn't consent, how could things like this have happened? What if they actually had consented but are now ashamed of it and are trying to frame a perfectly innocent government for rape?

Now I'm not talking about implied consent, I'm talking about affirmative consent. Not just the failure to resist or to say no, but the act of saying, "Yes! I want it! Screw me! Take me for everything I've got! I'm yours!"

You see, our government may be aggressive abroad, but here at home it is not a rapist. It always asks you clearly and politely if you want to be screwed. And the process in which it asks is called the electoral system. Every four years our government asks us if we want to be screwed, and every four years we say yes. It even holds off-year elections every two years, and in most places citizens are asked to give their consent, at least to being screwed by state and local government, every year or several times a year.

"But we didn't say yes," people tell me. "We voted no!"

Ah, but we have secret vote counting in this country, so how can you prove that you said no? When votes are counted in secret is it the same as when intercourse takes place behind closed doors. It's your word against theirs and they say that you said yes.

"No," they tell me," it so happens that the whole thing was caught on videotape and we can prove that we said no." And sure enough, there are CD ROMS with the poll tapes, the register books, and the actual ballots, proving that the citizens did not consent. But alas, the statute of limitations has run out and it is much too late to file charges now. "Why didn't you bring this evidence forward at the time?" I ask.

"Because it was withheld from us," they whine. "The government wouldn't let us have the proof until we'd spent years in court forcing them to release the records."

"You're telling me," I say, "that you had a few drinks with them, went up to their room, they asked you politely if you wanted to get screwed, and you said no, clearly and distinctly, but that they raped you anyway, and that when you tried to get the tapes to prove it, they wouldn't give them to you until it was too late for you to file charges?"

"Uh," they respond, "we thought that as long as there was a verifiable record of what happened, it would be perfectly safe."

If I hadn't seen the evidence with my own eyes, I don't think I'd believe that there had been any rape. People that dumb are so easily seduced that it isn't usually necessary to rape them. But I have seen the evidence and they were indeed raped.*

In 2000 the people clearly said no, but the Supreme Court didn't consider the evidence (the vote count, the illegal voter purges, the voter suppression, and the rigged ballots and voting machines) to be admissible, so an unelected President was installed against the express will of the people. That's rape. But by the time the government released the evidence, it was too late to do anything about it.

In 2004 the people again clearly said no, but this time the government had become so adept at withholding the evidence that Supreme Court intervention wasn't necessary. Once again the evidence was withheld and the unelected President was installed for a second term. And once again by the time the people were able to prove they'd been raped, the statute of limitations had run out and the damage could not be repaired..

So now we are approaching the 2008 election. The same crooked elections officials are in control. The same secret vote counting machines will be used. Once more the government will ask you politely if you want to get screwed, and once more you will shmooze with them, have a few drinks together, and then go into their voting booth and say no. And once again you are going to get raped and be unable to prove it until it is much too late to do anything about it.

And yet people still berate me when I suggest that they not go to the polls this time.

"If we don't vote, we can't complain," they say.

Were they able to complain when they did vote?

"If we don't vote, the bad guys will win," they tell me.

Did the good guys win when they did vote?

"It's our civic duty and responsibility to vote," they claim.

In rigged elections with secret vote counts? Give me a break!

"This time it might be different," they say.

Well, the first time somebody tells me that they've been raped, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. But I will ask how it happened and if it seems to me that they were engaging in risky behavior, I'll suggest that they be more careful in the future.

The second time that somebody tells me they've been raped, and they explain that it happened in the exact same way because they ignored my advice, I begin to feel that they are at least partially to blame themselves.

But when it happens a third time, I have no more sympathy. Unless you enjoyed it the first two times, you wouldn't allow it to happen a third time. That's not rape – that's consensual political intercourse, so don't come crying to me.

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*The Evidence:

Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election by Richard Hayes Phillips (Hardcover with CD ROM, Canterbury Press, March 2008

How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008 by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman (Paperback - Sep 21, 2005)

What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld, and Harvey Wasserman

Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld, and Harvey Wasserman (Paperback - May 30, 2005)

Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count by Steve Freeman and Joel Bleifuss (Paperback - Jun 19, 2006)

HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in America - 11 Experts Expose the Truth by Abbe Waldman Delozier and Vickie Karp (Paperback - Sep 5, 2006)

Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 by Alan M. Dershowitz (Hardcover - 2001)

A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush V. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy by Ronald Dworkin (Hardcover - Sep 2002)

Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and The Decision That Made George W. Bush President by Renata Adler (Paperback - Jul 2004)

Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform by Mark Crispin Miller (Paperback - Jun 2007)

Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 20002008 by Mark Crispin Miller (Paperback - April 1, 2008)

Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, The Best Legal Whorehouse in Texas, The Scheme to Steal Election '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Investigations by Greg Palast (Paperback - Apr, 2007)

More evidence:  http://noinnovember.ning.com/



Thursday, July 10, 2008

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

SAVE THE DATE: Peak Oil Film & Discussion

Peak Oil Film & Discussion
Tuesday, July 29th

Featuring: Award-winning film Energy Crossroads (2007)

Special Guest: Debbie Cook
Huntington Beach Mayor and Candidate for Congress

Film begins at 7:00pm / Discussion follows at 8:00pm

Joyce Beers Community Center

3900 Vermont St. (in Hillcrest Trader Joe's shopping center)

Think Gas at $4.50 is Expensive?

Most oil industry geologists and analysts predict that within a few years, world oil production will reach a peak and then begin an irreversible decline, as huge decades-old oil fields are depleted. This is likely to significantly increase the price of everything produced from or transported using oil, including gasoline, plastic, chemicals, and food. Join Progressive San Diego and Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook for a movie and discussion about peak oil, its impacts on our sprawling region, and what San Diego can do to mitigate its effects.

Debbie Cook is the Mayor of Huntington Beach, California; is an attorney and environmental activist; and is currently running for U.S. Congress in California's 46th district. She serves on the boards of directors of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO-USA) and the Post Carbon Institute, and has spoken internationally about what local governments can do in response to the imminent peak in world oil production.

http://www.debbiecookforcongress.com/

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