[GPSCC-chat] Violence and Rape ... In California

[John Thielking]

I will just keep on doing what I'm doing already.  Promote nonviolent movies via www.peacemovies.com. The direct mail campaign for my Peacemovies 2011 and 2012 booklets is scheduled to launch on or about May 14th. Wish me luck. Thanks.
 
John Thielking
 
PS I should be able to find space in next month's newsletter for a bit of a discussion about this issue. That way it also ends up being published in the Peacemovies 2013 booklet.  A preview should be available on the web site in a few days from now.

--- On Sat, 4/13/13, Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net> wrote:


From: Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Violence and Rape ... In California
To: alexcathy at aol.com, sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 3:31 PM




alexcathy at aol.com wrote:
>
>
>     /"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to
>     a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit
>     motives and property rights are considered more important than
>     people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism
>     are incapable of being conquered." -- Martin Luther King /

Sounds right to me.  Might even be an understatement.

>
> Dear Old Santa Clara Green Friends,
>
> Saratoga is a very affluent upscale suburb in California's so-called
> Silicon Valley. Just goes to show the sick cult of mindless violence and
> rape is not just "over there" in India, Palestine, or Africa and not
> just the "inner city" of "those people."
>
> Needless to say, these monstrous goings-on in the context of "Silicon
> Valley" are a violation of just about all of our 10 Key values, even
> though, for reasons I do not understand, these kinds of stories never
> see to move what 'ole Alex Cockburn used to call the "pwogwessive"
> activist class. Well, I have 4 grandchildren growing up in California --
> 2 down here in L.A. and 2 up in Silicon Valley. At this stage of my
> life, I am not ashamed to say that making a better community for them
> *IS* my first priority.//

Ok.

I have not seen a response to your email yet.  Did you want one?
The sentence with "pwogwessive" in it seems to hint at wanting a
request.

I don't really know what to say.  I was a little bothered by the
story, but not a lot because, though it was an awful crime, it is
not so extreme in our society, unfortunately.  (I read about it
yesterday in the SJMN at the library yesterday.)

I hope I am wrong, but I suspect that many of us on this list
are suffering from "Activist Fatigue".  I don't know what to
do about that.  Maybe some kind of mutual support would help,
but IMHO the GP has not been good about that.

Anyways, I agree that what happened in Saratoga was terrible,
and I don't understand the boys who did it.  And I especially
don't understand them photographing it because it indicates
a cluelessness on their part.  And I think something should
be done about it.  And other kinds of violence too.

Got some suggestions?

Gerry


>
> Alex Walker
> Los Angeles Greens
>
> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>
> *Published by The San Jose Mercury News, Friday, April 12, 2013*
> *Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide*
> <http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls>
> Audrie Potts
> *By Eric Kurhi *
>
> SARATOGA -- Three 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday in the sexual
> battery of an intoxicated and unconscious 15-year-old Saratoga High
> School student, who killed herself last fall after photos of the assault
> went viral. s Angeles Community College District's Seat 6 was the only
> one with an incumbent candidate running in the March elections. It was
> also the most vigorously contested of the three races. Perhaps in the
> wake of The Times' 2011 series exposing waste and ethical lapses in the
> district's expenditure of billions of dollars of bond money on new
> construction, opponents sensed that longtime board member Nancy
> Pearlman, one of the building program's main advocates, was vulnerable.
>
> When digital photos showing what had happened "spread like wildfire,"
> the aftermath was so humiliating and torturous the gifted and well-loved
> Audrie Pott could no longer take it, said Robert Allard, the attorney
> for her family.
>
> "Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyberbullying," Allard said.
>
> She posted on Facebook, calling it the "worst day in her life," a life
> she now wanted to end -- which she did Sept. 10, eight days after the
> assault...
>
>
>
> /Link to Original Story:
> http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls
> <http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls>/
>
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