<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I will just keep on doing what I'm doing already. Promote nonviolent movies via <A href="http://www.peacemovies.com">www.peacemovies.com</A>. The direct mail campaign for my Peacemovies 2011 and 2012 booklets is scheduled to launch on or about May 14th. Wish me luck. Thanks.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 4/13/13, Gerry Gras <I><gerrygras@earthlink.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Gerry Gras <gerrygras@earthlink.net><BR>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Violence and Rape ... In California<BR>To: alexcathy@aol.com, sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<BR>Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 3:31 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail><BR><BR><A href="http://us.mc1229.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=alexcathy@aol.com" ymailto="mailto:alexcathy@aol.com">alexcathy@aol.com</A> wrote:<BR>><BR>><BR>> /"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to<BR>> a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit<BR>> motives and property rights are considered more important than<BR>> people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism<BR>> are incapable of being conquered." -- Martin Luther King /<BR><BR>Sounds right to me. Might even be an understatement.<BR><BR>><BR>> Dear Old Santa Clara Green Friends,<BR>><BR>> Saratoga is a very affluent upscale suburb in California's so-called<BR>> Silicon Valley. Just goes to show the sick cult of mindless violence and<BR>> rape is
not just "over there" in India, Palestine, or Africa and not<BR>> just the "inner city" of "those people."<BR>><BR>> Needless to say, these monstrous goings-on in the context of "Silicon<BR>> Valley" are a violation of just about all of our 10 Key values, even<BR>> though, for reasons I do not understand, these kinds of stories never<BR>> see to move what 'ole Alex Cockburn used to call the "pwogwessive"<BR>> activist class. Well, I have 4 grandchildren growing up in California --<BR>> 2 down here in L.A. and 2 up in Silicon Valley. At this stage of my<BR>> life, I am not ashamed to say that making a better community for them<BR>> *IS* my first priority.//<BR><BR>Ok.<BR><BR>I have not seen a response to your email yet. Did you want one?<BR>The sentence with "pwogwessive" in it seems to hint at wanting a<BR>request.<BR><BR>I don't really know what to say. I was a little bothered by the<BR>story, but not a lot
because, though it was an awful crime, it is<BR>not so extreme in our society, unfortunately. (I read about it<BR>yesterday in the SJMN at the library yesterday.)<BR><BR>I hope I am wrong, but I suspect that many of us on this list<BR>are suffering from "Activist Fatigue". I don't know what to<BR>do about that. Maybe some kind of mutual support would help,<BR>but IMHO the GP has not been good about that.<BR><BR>Anyways, I agree that what happened in Saratoga was terrible,<BR>and I don't understand the boys who did it. And I especially<BR>don't understand them photographing it because it indicates<BR>a cluelessness on their part. And I think something should<BR>be done about it. And other kinds of violence too.<BR><BR>Got some suggestions?<BR><BR>Gerry<BR><BR><BR>><BR>> Alex Walker<BR>> Los Angeles Greens<BR>><BR>> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =<BR>><BR>> *Published by The San Jose Mercury News,
Friday, April 12, 2013*<BR>> *Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide*<BR>> <<A href="http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls" target=_blank>http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls</A>><BR>> Audrie Potts<BR>> *By Eric Kurhi *<BR>><BR>> SARATOGA -- Three 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday in the sexual<BR>> battery of an intoxicated and unconscious 15-year-old Saratoga High<BR>> School student, who killed herself last fall after photos of the assault<BR>> went viral. s Angeles Community College District's Seat 6 was the only<BR>> one with an incumbent candidate running in the March elections. It was<BR>> also the most vigorously contested of the three races. Perhaps in the<BR>> wake of The Times' 2011 series exposing waste and ethical lapses in the<BR>> district's
expenditure of billions of dollars of bond money on new<BR>> construction, opponents sensed that longtime board member Nancy<BR>> Pearlman, one of the building program's main advocates, was vulnerable.<BR>><BR>> When digital photos showing what had happened "spread like wildfire,"<BR>> the aftermath was so humiliating and torturous the gifted and well-loved<BR>> Audrie Pott could no longer take it, said Robert Allard, the attorney<BR>> for her family.<BR>><BR>> "Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyberbullying," Allard said.<BR>><BR>> She posted on Facebook, calling it the "worst day in her life," a life<BR>> she now wanted to end -- which she did Sept. 10, eight days after the<BR>> assault...<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> /Link to Original Story:<BR>> <A href="http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls"
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