I Am Looking For Candidates for Next Year

I am looking for candidates to support in next years city council ward elections.

There will be three wards up for election next year,  and you must reside in the ward that you are running in.  I am looking for candidates that can support most or all of the platform below.

You should be prepared to run a Pitino styled campaign.  Previous political experience is not needed.

In fact it is a plus.

There are serious flaws in the election process in Eureka and it would behoove the Democratic Party in Humboldt to fix these problems NOW.  The absolute worst problem is the lack of a run-off in city elections.  This often results in a minority party candidate winning election as the majority party splits. If this is not fixed by next year there is a serious chance that more Republicans may win office.  If we keep electing Republicans then our city’s problems will never be solved.

The issues below are serious to me.  I think these are things the city must do.  If you are interested in running for city council next year and you live in one of the participating wards please email me at bill@eurekaworkers.org

I am not an absolutist, if we agree on most of the below we can work together.  We will do our best to win.

have a peaceful day,

Bill

City support for clean industrial development in Eureka.

City built affordable low income housing in Eureka.

Termination of the current city manager’s contract.

Implementation of a true ward system in Eureka with instant run-off voting.

Taxation of cell towers, big box stores and high fructose corn syrup.

A complete clean up of the Balloon Tract and preservation of “public use” zoning for that parcel.

A $12.00 per hour minimum wage in Eureka for businesses with over 100 employees.

Decriminalization of marijuana in Eureka.

A city owned and operated very low cost medical and dental clinic for the people of Eureka.

A city owned and operated free detox center for the people of Eureka.

A city owned very low cost dignity campground for poor people who find themselves without shelter.

A city owned and operated very low cost food kitchen for poor people.

 

 

Free Tad!

Greetings,

Many of you probably know that tad is in jail, fasting, after being sentenced to 35 days in jail (he’ll do about 28) for speaking too long at a Humboldt  Board of Supes meeting- well, for saying things the board didn’t want to have broadcast…

Due to the fact that the Board made such a blatant move to repress tad’s message, and due to the fact that the county board ultimately locked tad up for taking up time with words they did not want to hear (or to be heard), YOU ARE INVITED TO COME SPEAK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT TIME TODAY.

The board members and police can shut up and lock up one person, but there will be many more right behind him/her.

There will be lunch from PEOPLE PROJECT (of course , no charge) outside the County courthouse where the Board of Supervisors chambers are.  Food will arrive by 1pm.
During public comment, which starts at 1:30pm, you don’t have to have anything eloquent to say – but if you choose to speak (and take up that 3 minutes), I’m sure words will come to you.

Below is info about tad, who is currently in his 12th day in jail and 17th day without food.

Also, see an article at the Redwood Curtain CopWatch website :
http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/345

Noisemakers are welcome for outside the courthouse on Tuesday.

The regular PEOPLE PROJECT meeting, which occur on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm at PARC will not take place as usual.  Instead, we will be at the courthouse refusing to be silent. Please come.

–Verbena

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Tad went to jail on October 25, on the fifth day of his hunger strike. Tad started fasting on October 20 at the County Board of Supervisors meeting.

Tad was arrested at a County Board of  Supervisors meeting on January 27 after speaking for 39 seconds past the 3-minute limit, and charged with disturbing a public meeting and resisting arrest.

In the video of the meeting, you can hear the politicians continually interrupt tad as he tries to make his case against the county supporting the “Bar-O Boys Ranch,” a juvenile detention facility in Del Norte county that uses locked up youth to do labor that they don’t get paid for, in a bootcamp setting. In 2000, a youth died there during compulsory morning exercises, resulting in a wrongful death lawsuit against the Bar-O Boys Ranch, Del Norte County, and Bar-O Boys Ranch director Allan Smith.

For tad’s account of what happened at the arrest see: http://theplazoid.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/tads-apology/

To hear an interview that an independent journalist did with tad before he turned himself in, see:indybay.org, north coast region.

 

Watch the video of his commentary during the Board of Supervisors meeting at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN_J4WXGZeE

The public comment of the next speaker is included in the video so that it can be seen that he spoke for more than five minutes, and was not arrested.

You can also send tad mail in jail at:

Theodore Robinson

Humboldt County Correctional Facility

826 4^th Street

Eureka, Ca. 95501

Railroading – Humboldt Style

Maybe this is where our legendary trainwreck pot came from, you think?

The truth-

Actually this is Guatemala after a quake in 1976 – but it is a reminder of what happens to railroads in active fault zones.

Humboldt County California Online Scanner

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=194

Humboldt County  Sheriff — Eureka Police/Fire — Arcata Police/Fire — CHP — CAL-FIRE — City and Mad River Ambulance

Hunger Strike and Jail for Tad

Hunger strikes are serious.  Please Brother Tad, survive to fight for us all, in your non-violent way.

http://theplazoid.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/tad-is-in-jail/

Report: Dr. Hany Assad’s License Revoked

http://medpotcrisis.com/hanyassad.html

California Medical Board revokes the medical license of Dr. Hany Assad, effective November 23, 2009.

A 2007 article on Dr. Hany Assad from the NC Journal:

http://www.compassionatecoalition.org/node/4171

Maybe She Meant Crescent City?

Home Depot site to hire 200

Some 200 jobs are coming to Tracy as The Home Depot gets set to open a distribution center in December.

The home improvement giant is building the 646,000- square-foot facility in north Tracy just off Interstate 205 as part of a national plan to construct 20 “rapid deployment centers.”

The Home Depot spokeswoman Kathryn Gallagher said the site, in what is called California’s transportation golden triangle of Modesto-Tracy-Stockton, will serve its stores from Bakersfield to Eureka and Reno.

http://www.modbee.com/1618/story/894066.html?storylink=omni_popular

Voluntary “Honor Tax” to benefit Wiyot People

from the North Coast Journal:

“Here, however, the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development and Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County will be placing before us another way to express thanks. They call it an “honor tax,” and they want people to pay it to the Wiyot Tribe every year if they live within the traditional Wiyot homeland — from Bear River north to Little River, and from the coast and Humboldt Bay to the mountains.”

http://urlet.com/denominated.divorce/
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2009/10/08/cost-occupation/

Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development:

http://www.7genfund.org/

Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County:

http://www.duhc.org/

Appeal to Eureka Mayor Bass – Big Winter Storm is Forecast for Humboldt County!

Big Winter Storm is Forecast for Humboldt County!

Let us remember the men, the women and the children, our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, our sons and daughters who are huddled under a bush shivering in the rain.

Please join me in contacting Eureka Mayor Virginia Bass and requesting that she use the emergency powers vested in her to open an emergency shelter in a city facility for our homeless during this rainy period, and during the rainy periods to come this winter.

Mayor Bass Office: (707) 441-4200

Mayor Bass Email: virginia@ci.eureka.ca.gov

It is the responsibility of our government to care for the vulnerable among us.

please forward this email to anyone who cares!

Thank you,

have a peaceful day,

Bill

Special Weather Statement – Redwood Coast

… Pacific storm to bring wet and windy weather early next week…

A strong Pacific storm system will move into the northeastern
Pacific Monday and move slowly inland by Wednesday. Southerly
winds will become strong and gusty along the coast and over higher
elevations beginning late Monday. Significant rains will also
accompany this storm with rainfall totals ranging from 1 to 4
inches across northwest California from Monday through Wednesday.
The combination of winds and heavy rains will bring the threat of
rock slides and localized low level and urban flooding. Interested
parties should continue to monitor National Weather Service
forecasts for the latest details regarding this storm.

http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/001.html#SPE