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"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
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Dear <font size="2">Old Santa Clara </font>Green Friends,
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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."
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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 <font size="2">"</font>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 <b>IS</b> my first priority.<em></em><br>
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Alex Walker<br>
Los Angeles Greens
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<strong>Published by The San Jose Mercury News, Friday, April 12, 2013</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls">
<strong>Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide</strong>
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By Eric Kurhi
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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.
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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.
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"Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyberbullying," Allard said.
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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...<br>
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Link to Original Story:<br>
<a href="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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