Humboldt CUHW (Home Care Workers Union) Endorses Kerrigan, Latour for Supervisor

Humboldt CUHW (Home Care Workers Union) Endorses Kerrigan, Latour for Supervisor

http://www.cuhw.org/2014/05/june-3-primary-election-endorsements/

Humboldt Street Life Concert #5 TODAY MAY 22 HENDERSON CENTER!

TODAY MAY 22!

Join us in Henderson Center for an afternoon delight of music outdoors!

Noon til 3 pm

FREE FREE FREE!

NOON ELECTRIC BILL

1 PM MOTHER VINES

2 PM SARAH TORRES

We will be on F st & Grotto in front of the closed pharmacy next to B of A. You will hear us.

If you are a local musician who wants to participate contact me Humboldt.organizer @ gmail.com

Bring something to sit on or join our Bucket Brigade!

have a peaceful day,

Bill

PARC NEEDS HELP

HELP…

“We all need somebody to lean on”

No matter how “together” one is, most people of this earth actually need help. Whether that be spiritual uplifting, emotional encouragement, physical assistance, or (to put it plainly) money. PARC (Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community) truly needs financial help.

It is actually very honoring and humbling that I am able to write this email asking all kinds of kind people for money donations to keep PARC’s door open. I wish I was able to donate cash for rent and bills. I do feel good while washing dishes after people have had nourishment, sweeping or mopping the floor after thankful people have come in and out from the sunshine or the rain, setting up tents for the night, giving out blankets and warm clothing, or cheering someone with singing or conversation. The PARC space also allows us to make literature and set up weekly informational displays about ending long term solitary confinement. It’s a big deal that we receive the financial help we need.

Giving of one’s time and energy helps people who come to PARC, and it  contributes to the community organizing that goes on here.  Sadly, money is the only thing to ensure that this welcoming, safe, blessing of a place can actually stay open.

So, to the gritty details.

PARC desperately needs funds for:

2 separate Phone Bills:  Each phone line services two purposes, including a jail support hotline and, recently to support people facing ICE harassment in Humboldt

PARC rent: $750 to the kindest “landlord” ever; for a space that is open almost every day of the year and almost every minute between 9:30am and 9:30pm

Electricity and Gas Bills:  at this point, payments are overdue!

Additional need this month:  A few of us from PARC have been helping someone who has no shelter and who has recently been very hurt and traumatized.  We’ve been paying for campground stays and other expenses (i.e. gasoline) and working toward setting up a more long-term and stable situation.  Although the campgrounds are cheap, we are BROKE.  Please help.

To donate to PARC online, click here:
http://www.youcaring.com/other/parc-needs-to-stay-open-for-the-people-/153592

(Please also “like” and “share” it on your facebook)To otherwise donate to PARC, one can:
Come by and drop off donations (or call & we’ll come to you!)
Address Money Orders to Kimberly Starr
Address Checks to James Decker
and/or mail any of the above to:

PARC
P.O. Box 5692

Eureka, CA  95502

(707) 442-7465Other types of donations needed:

 

-toilet paper

-socks

-hats/beanies

-blankets, sleeping bags

-soaps, shampoos

-natural dish soap

-gold or black spray paints for a new batch of stenciled sweatshirts and t-shirts! (“End Long Term Solitary Confinement”)

Thank you!  Thank you to everyone who gives money, spends time laundering towels and clothes, donates food, gives their smiles and encouragement, and fills PARC with life and the spirit of resistance.

Signed,
a friend of PARC

The Excess Energy Tax is Economic Suicide for Humboldt County – Turn Out the Lights

Yesterday I sent you my analysis from 2012 about the Arcata excess energy tax.

A couple of months ago I sat in a room with a genius who schooled me about the importance of building resilient communities through the concept of import substitution.

This is a nice way of building local economies by identifying things that are used locally but imported and then substituting if possible locally manufactured goods for the imported ones.

Now there is this proposal for an “excess energy tax” which is being sold county wide as an environmental issue.

What it is economically is, is “export substitution”, it is the hollowing out of our local economy.    It is the exact opposite of “import substitution.”

Lets assume that there are 1.000 indoor growers in Humboldt now.   After the tax, these people will leave.  They will sell their houses and relocate to another county or state.   Real estate values will drop by at least 10%.

But the most pernicious aspect is that we will turn a net positive inflow of dollars into a negative flow out of Humboldt County.   These indoor growers (I call them cottage industries)  produce a product that is both exported and used here.   After the tax they will be located elsewhere, but we will still be buying their product.   It will have gone from being a domestic product to an imported product.

And of course we will lose the direct inputs of these people and businesses into our local economies.

I get it that indoor growing uses electricity.   What kind of jobs do you propose for these people to do that pay $15 or more an hour and that don’t use electricity?  Factories consume electricity!  How many new little businesses will you have to “incubate” in Eureka, Arcata, Fortuna etc. etc to make up for the loss of 1,000 REAL small businesses, and where will that incubation money come from?

The only way that Humboldt to make up for this small business exodus would be for the big pot growers out in the sticks to ramp up their production.  Of course that could have disastrous  effects in the fragile countryside here and accomplish nothing as far as carbon loading on the planet.  Because the indoor growers will be growing in the next county or state.  That would solve the import/export imbalance but the big pot grows don’t provide any ownership or benefits to their workers besides agricultural jobs and trim jobs, all non-union and many of them low paying now.   This is not the old mom and pop days when family and a few close friends were invited over to trim the 10 plant harvest.  The same income inequality emerges.   Let’s get real.

These small business people, these entrepreneurs are my friends along with the working poor.   What am I going to say to them if I support a tax that will put them out of business?  How do you expect people in the city to make a living?  Working at Walmart?  We don’t all have 20 acres on a hilltop to grow fine sun buds.

And as a patient, a consumer of cannabis, you must know that I buy mostly from local small growers.  I can’t afford your fancy sun buds grown in Sohum or Mendo.  Those are all grown for export to LA and NY.   We cant afford that shit and its not offered to us on the streets of Eureka, where there is still no dispensary!  As a patient, we want more production to drive these ridiculous prices down, especially on the local market.

So this tax will impact us poor consumers here greatly.  As far as I am concerned this is a non starter and needs to be re-thunk.

So my question is.   What are you all thinking?

I understand the need to reduce carbon loading.  I get it that people don’t like grows in their residential neighborhood.  As an advocate for poor people I really get it that housing stock should be for people not manufacturing.   We have industrial areas of Eureka sitting abandoned.   Lets put the grows there if we don’t want them in the neighborhoods.

If you insist on this tax without accommodating real small business by moving them to the industrial areas you risk losing the support of several thousand locals whose living depends on small scale cannabis production.

have a peaceful day,

Bill

Donna Huebsch Sentenced to Time Served for Shotgun Manslaughter

shortlink here:  http://wp.me/p38Pt0-uB

mnemonic link here:  http://urlet.com/providing.begun

By ALLIE HOSTLER, Two Rivers Tribune

On Wednesday, February 26, traveling judge, Richard Scheuler sentenced Burnt Ranch resident, Donna Huebsch to time served for the killing of 39-year-old Adrian Rael in August of 2012. Donna Huebsch./Trinity County booking photo Trinity County prosecutor, Mike Harper said that in the 16 months since the homicide, Huebsch had three attorneys working her case. After she hired the fourth, Arcata-based Russell Clanton, a statement she initially gave investigators, resurfaced and she was offered a two-year sentence if she agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, a lesser charge than murder.

– See more at: http://www.tworiverstribune.com/2014/03/huebsch-sentenced-to-time-served/#sthash.bt7fPl2C.dpuf

Lost Coast Outpost August 2012  http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2012/aug/23/did-lady-shoot-someone/

It’s Time for Eureka to Pay Reparations to Indigenous Peoples

shortlink here:  http://wp.me/p38Pt0-ta

mnemonic here http://urlet.com/oilers.choices

The Eureka City Council has just shamed itself with a retraction of a mild apology to the Wiyot People for the Indian Island Massacre.

We will deal with these racist cowards at the ballot box in November.

In the meantime, it is time for the people of Eureka to bring forth an initiative to pay the Wiyot People reparations for the crimes that have been committed against them and in partial recompense for lands that have been stolen from them.

I propose as a starting point for talks the sum of one million dollars per year to be paid directly to the local Native Peoples.

Let’s get together soon and draft a simple initiative to do this and gather our signatures.  It is the right thing to do.

I know Linda Atkins personally and she is no racist so I assume she was buffaloed by some Hobson’s choice presented on short notice.  But she can speak to that.

contact me at Humboldt.organizer@gmail.com

have a peaceful day,

Bill

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/race/california-city-writes-apology-letter-1860-massacre-wiyot-tribe-deletes-apology-part

http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_25373818/eureka-city-council-offers-support-not-apology-wiyot

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2014/mar/18/eureka-redrafts-apology-letter-wiyot-tribe-deletin/

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2014/mar/17/read-eurekas-letter-apology-1860-wiyot-massacre/

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/genocide-and-extortion/Content?oid=2130748

https://tuluwatexaminer.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/the-city-council-of-eureka-dishonors-its-citizens-and-itself/

Earthquake 6.9 50 Mi West of Eureka Mar. 9 2014

update as of 1100 pm there have been 5 aftershocks ranging from 2.9 up to 4.6

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72182046#summary

Event Time

1. 2014-03-10 05:18:12 UTC
2. 2014-03-09 21:18:12 UTC-08:00 at epicenter
3. 2014-03-09 22:18:12 UTC-07:00 system time

Location

40.821°N 125.128°W depth=7.0km (4.3mi)

Nearby Cities

1. 77km (48mi) WNW of Ferndale, California
2. 81km (50mi) W of Eureka, California
3. 85km (53mi) WNW of Fortuna, California
4. 87km (54mi) W of McKinleyville, California
5. 398km (247mi) NW of Sacramento, California

000
WEHW42 PHEB 100527
TIBHWX
HIZ001>003-005>009-012>014-016>021-023>026-100727-

TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT NUMBER   1
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
727 PM HST SUN MAR 09 2014

TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT

THIS STATEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. NO ACTION REQUIRED.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

   ORIGIN TIME - 0718 PM HST 09 MAR 2014
   COORDINATES - 40.8 NORTH  124.9 WEST
   LOCATION    - OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
   MAGNITUDE   - 7.0  MOMENT

EVALUATION

 BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS
 NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. A
 DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO
 TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.

http://ptwc.weather.gov/text.php?id=hawaii.TIBHWX.2014.03.10.0527

WEAK53 PAAQ 100522
TIBAK1

PUBLIC TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT NUMBER 1
NWS NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK
1022 PM PDT SUN MAR 9 2014

...THIS IS A TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR ALASKA/ BRITISH
   COLUMBIA/ WASHINGTON/ OREGON AND CALIFORNIA...

EVALUATION
----------
 * THERE IS NO TSUNAMI DANGER FOR THE AREAS LISTED ABOVE.

 * THIS EVALUATION IS BASED ON EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION AND
   HISTORIC TSUNAMI RECORDS.

 * AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH PARAMETERS LISTED BELOW.

PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
---------------------------------
 * MAGNITUDE      7.0
 * ORIGIN TIME    2118 AKDT MAR 09 2014
                  2218  PDT MAR 09 2014
                  0518  UTC MAR 10 2014
 * COORDINATES    40.8 NORTH 124.9 WEST
 * DEPTH          7 MILES
 * LOCATION       40 MILES W OF EUREKA CALIFORNIA
                  250 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA

NEXT UPDATE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
--------------------------------------
 * THIS WILL BE THE ONLY U.S. NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER
   MESSAGE FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES
   AVAILABLE.

 * REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE NTWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV FOR
   ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

 * PACIFIC COASTAL REGIONS OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA... OREGON... 
   WASHINGTON... BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA SHOULD REFER TO THE 
   PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER MESSAGES AT PTWC.WEATHER.GOV.

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/PAAQ/2014/03/10/n27g2e/1/WEAK53/WEAK53.txt
$$

POLL: Who Is Most Responsible for Father Freed’s Murder?

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mnemonic link here: http://urlet.com/enjoys.symmetry

Local Union Asks Public “DO NOT PATRONIZE LOST COAST BREWERY”

Local Union Asks Public “DO NOT PATRONIZE LOST COAST BREWERY”

shortlink here: http://wp.me/p38Pt0-ke

mnemonic here:  http://urlet.com/choice.parent

According to a leaflet obtained by this blogger outside of the Eureka Theater tonight the United Association of Plumbers & Steamfitters is asking the public to refrain from patronizing the Lost Coast Brewery.

At issue is the claim that the Lost Coast Brewery has contracted with potentially substandard out of area contractors to build the new brewery.

The union claims that Lost Coast has contracted with Hansen-Rice out of Idaho, who has subcontracted with Cone Plumbing of Yreka.

Time for the real reporters to get busy.

Lyndsey Battle Kickstarts Her Next Album

shortlink here: http://wp.me/pbr9G-3J0 mnemonic here: http://urlet.com/unveil.seven

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/327874541/all-ways-in-a-good-way-lyndsey-battles-new-album

http://www.lyndseybattle.net/