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Holidays 1.1
Holidays
Baby-Boomer Day
Betsy Ross Day
Black Nazarene Fiesta (Philippines) [thru 9th]
Bonza Bottler Day
Buckle-Up Day
Bulbasaur Day (Pokemon)
Celebration of Life Week [1st 7 Days]
Clay Day (French Republic)
Commitment Day
Copyright Law Day
Daddy Frost Day
Daisy Day
Daydreamers' Day
Day of Universal Brotherhood (Brazil)
Diffendoofer Day (Dr. Seuss)
Emancipation Day
Ethics Day
Euro Day
Flag Day (Lithuania)
Founding Day (China)
Get a Life Day
Global Family Day
International Nepali Dhoti and Nepali Topi Day
Jump-Up Day (Montserrat)
Kalpataru Day (Ramakrishna)
Kamakura Ebisu (Japan) [thru 1.3]
Kissing Day (Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota)
National Davis Day
National Day of Resolutions
National Ellis Island Day
National Ivanhoe Day (Sweden)
National Shepherd Day
National Tree Planting Day (Tanzania)
New Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)
New Year's Day (a.k.a. ...
Amanor (Armenia)
Amateur Hangover Day
Ano Nova (Cape Verde)
Año Nuevo (Spain)
Anul Nou (Moldova, România)
Apple Gifting Day
Día de Año Nuevo (Puerto Rico)
Draw ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)
Bad Hangover Day
Dita e Vitit të Ri (Albania)
First Day
First-Foot Day
Grandfather Frost Day (Russia, Ukraine)
Jaungads (Latvia)
Maskarada (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba)
Mummers Parade (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Navy God Day (Russia)
Nieuwjaarsdag (Suriname, Sweden)
Nova Godina (Croatia, Macedonia)
Nyårsdagen (Sweden)
Sjoogwachi (Okinawa)
Solar New Year’s Day (North Korea)
Tahun Baru (Indonesia)
Viti i Ri (Kosovo)
Yangi Yil Bayrami (Uzbekistan)
New Year’s Dishonor List Day
New Year's Banished Words List Day [ 2024 list ]
Party Party Day
Paul Revere Day
Penguin Plunge (Rhode Island)
Polar Bear Swim Day
Public Domain Day
Punch Your Tallest Friend Day
Scout’s Day (Burma)
Shogatsu (Japan)
Snake Eyes Day
Thoroughbred Day (Northern Hemisphere)
TMC Foundation Day (Trinamool Congress; India)
Tournament of Roses Parade (Pasadena, California)
Triumph of the Revolution Day (a.k.a. Liberation Day; Cuba)
Universal Fraternity Day (Macau)
White Rabbit Day
World Day of Peace
Z Day
Zygmunt Gorazdowski
Food & Drink Celebrations
Apple Gifting Day
Hangover Handicap Run (Cover d’Alene, Idaho)
National Black Eyed Peas Day
National Bloody Mary Day
National Brandy Alexander Day
National Hangover Day (UK)
National Pizza Day (Sweden)
1st Monday in January
Divorce Monday [1st Monday]
Handsel Day (Scotland) [1st Monday]
The Most Depressing Day of the Year (UK) [1st Monday]
National Rondling Day [1st Monday]
National Thank God It’s Monday Day [1st Monday; also 1st Monday in June]
National Weigh-In Day [1st Monday]
Independence & Related Days
A1 (a.k.a. Federated Republics of A1; Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Cameroon (from France & UK, 1960)
Conewiw and New HanChih (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Elim (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Free State of Sabini (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Gardenia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Haiti (from France, 1804)
Justin Republic (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Kingdom of Falcar (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Kingdom of Loveland (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Kingdom of Lovely (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]
Kingdom of Pöllömaa (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Lazonesia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
New Anglia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
Principality of the Northern Forests (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Restoration of the Czech Independence Day (Czechia)
Sudan (from UK, 1956)
Wattania (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Adalard of Corbie (Christian; Saint)
Alfred Stieglitz (Artology)
Another Friggin’ Year Day (Pastafarian)
Basil the Great (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Dabucuri assaby, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)
Day of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (Slovakia)
Day of Volos (god of pets and farm animals; Slavic Pagan)
Day Sacred to Janus (Ancient Rome)
Eighth Day of Christmas
Feast of Fools (Medieval Europe)
Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (Christian)
Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church)
Feast of the Human Sacrifice (Church of the SubGenius)
Fulgentius of Ruspe (Christian; Saint)
Giuseppe Maria Tomasi (Christian)
Goddess Fortuna's Day (Ancient Rome)
Jesus Christ Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Jupiter & Juno's Day (Old Roman)
Kalends: Day of the Moerae (Pagan)
Kalends of January (Ancient Rome)
Kwanzaa, Day 7: Imani (Faith)
The Kamu (Celebrating Nature Spirits; Shogatsu/Shinto New Yea’s Festival)
M’Moreal Day (The Season of Bob’s Nativity, which is Everyday; Church of the SubGenius)
Moonhopper Day (Shamanism)
Octave Day of Christmas
Prometheus (Positivist; Saint)
Qi Baishi (Artology)
Radish Dude (Muppetism)
Sacrifices to the Wind Gods (Ancient Greece)
Season of Chaos begins (Discordian)
Shichi Fukujin (Seven Deities of Luck Celebration)
Shusho-e Matsuri (Japanese Buddhists)
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Octave Day of Christmas (Catholic Church)
Taos Pueblo Turtle Dance (Native American)
Telemachus (Christian; Saint)
Tewa Turtle Dance (Tewa Native Americans)
Twelve Holy Days #7 (Libra, the adrenal glands; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #8; Feast of the Circumcision [Anglican, Lutheran] (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
World Day of Peace (Catholic Church)
Zygmunt Gorazdowski (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Binary Day [11] (1 of 9)
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 1 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [1 of 24]
Evil Day [1 of 32]
Fatal Day (Pagan) [1 of 24]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [1 of 53]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [1 of 71]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [1 of 32]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 37]
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Day (because born with a hangover, and you will probably end up breaking your new years resolutions before anyone else.)
Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [1 of 30]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [1 of 60]
Premieres
Alice on the Farm (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1873)
Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1607)
The Astroduck (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)
Barry Lyndon (Film; 1975)
Bay Psalm Book (Book; 1640) [1st book printed in North America]
Beau Geste, by P.C. Wren (Novel; 1924)
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (Novel; 1963)
Big Man from the North (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)
Blue Suede Shoes, by Carl Perkins (Song; 1956)
The Book of the Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (Book; c. 1645)
Brain Games (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1978)
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (Novel; 1932)
Calling Fearless Leader or Whistle for the Missile (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 191; 1963)
Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1945)
The Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1963)
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Novel; 1980)
The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (Novel; 1924)
Daffy Duck & Egghead (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)
Das Kapital, by Karl Marx (Book; 1867)
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), by Harry Belafonte (Song; 1956)
Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol (Novel; 1842)
Der Fuehrer’s Face (Disney Cartoon; 1943)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV Series; 1993)
Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)
The Faerie Queen, by Edmund Spenser (Poem; 1590)
Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)
Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne (Novel; 1863)
Flatland, by Edwin Abbot (Book; 1884)
The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi (Violin Concertos; 1725)
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (Novel; 1818)
Gigi, by Colette (Novella; 1944)
GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, by Ween (Album; 1990)
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing (Novel; 1962)
Gumby (Animated TV Series; 1960)
Heaven and Earth Magic (Animated Film; 1962)
The Hotel New Hampshire, by John IrvingJohn Irving, from "The Coder House Rules," (Novel; 1981)
I and Thou, by Martin Buber (Book; 1923)
If A Man Answers (Film; 1962)
Journey to the East, by Herman Hesse (Novella; 1932)
The King James Bible (Book; 1604)
King Solomon’s Mines, by. H. Rider Haggard (Novel; 1885)
The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern (Novel; 1959)
Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1925)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle (Novel; 1883)
The Mick (TV Series; 2017)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)
Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1990) [Discworld #10]
Mrs. Brown’s Boys (BBC TV Series; 2011)
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer (Novel; 1948)
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo (Novel; 1862)
Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (Novel; 1887)
The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (Novel; 1918)
The NeverEnding Story, by Michael Ende (English Translation of the Novel; 1983)
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1915)
Paradise Lost, by John Milton (Poetry; 1667)
Pensées, by Blaise Pascal (Book; 1670)
Pizzicato Pussycat (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï (The Bridge over the River Kwai), by Pierre Boulle (Novel; 1952)
The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli (Book; 1532)
Rocky Takes the High Road or Missile in the Thistle (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 192; 1963)
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1597)
A Room with a View, by E.M. Foster (Novel; 1908)
Samuel Pepys’ Diary began (Diary; 1660)
The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman (Comic Series; 1989)
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1811) [#1]
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot (Novel; 1861)
Songs of Innocence, by William Blake (Poems; 1789)
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1913)
The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 86; 1961)
The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 85; 1961)
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss (Novel; 1812)
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (Novel; 1938)
The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber (Fairy Tale; 1950)
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome (Novel; 1889)
Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Book; 1883)
Top of the Pops (BBC Musical Variety TV Series; 1966)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1984)
Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster (Novel; 1905)
Whose Body?, by Dorothy L. Sayers (Mystery Novel; 1923) [1st Lord Peter Wimsey]
The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (Novel; 1962)
Zip Zip Hooray! (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)
Today’s Name Days
Maria, Wilhelm (Austria)
Vasil, Vasilena, Vesela, Veselin, Veselina (Bulgaria)
Fulgencije, Marija, Raimund (Croatia)
Nový rok (Czech Republic)
Sylvester (Denmark)
Algo, Alo, Esmo, Uno, Uuno (Estonia)
Maria, Neujahr (Germany)
Telemahos, Vasiliki, Vasilis (Greece)
Fruzsina (Hungary)
Maria (Italy)
Laimnesis, Solvita (Latvia)
Masław, Mieczysław, Mieczysława, Mieszko (Poland)
Vasile (Romania)
Courtney (Slovakia)
Emmanuel, Jesús, Manuel, María (Spain)
Basil, Bohdan, David, Vasylyna (Ukraine)
Arleen, Arlen, Arlene, Arlette, Pablo, Paul, Saul (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 1 of 2024; 366 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 1 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 7 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 20 (Jia-Zi)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 20 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 19 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 1 White; Oneday [1 of 30]
Julian: 19 December 2023
Moon: 71%: Warning Gibbous
Positivist: 1 Moses (1st Month) [Prometheus]
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 7 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 12 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 11 of 31)
Calendar Changes
White (Month 1 of 12; J Calendar)
Gantan-sai (Shinto New Years)
January (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 1 of 12]
Moses (a.k.a. The Initial Theocracy) [Month 1 of 13; Positivist]
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Holidays 1.1
Holidays
Baby-Boomer Day
Betsy Ross Day
Black Nazarene Fiesta (Philippines) [thru 9th]
Bonza Bottler Day
Buckle-Up Day
Bulbasaur Day (Pokemon)
Celebration of Life Week [1st 7 Days]
Clay Day (French Republic)
Commitment Day
Copyright Law Day
Daddy Frost Day
Daisy Day
Daydreamers' Day
Day of Universal Brotherhood (Brazil)
Diffendoofer Day (Dr. Seuss)
Emancipation Day
Ethics Day
Euro Day
Flag Day (Lithuania)
Founding Day (China)
Get a Life Day
Global Family Day
International Nepali Dhoti and Nepali Topi Day
Jump-Up Day (Montserrat)
Kalpataru Day (Ramakrishna)
Kamakura Ebisu (Japan) [thru 1.3]
Kissing Day (Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota)
National Davis Day
National Day of Resolutions
National Ellis Island Day
National Ivanhoe Day (Sweden)
National Shepherd Day
National Tree Planting Day (Tanzania)
New Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)
New Year's Day (a.k.a. ...
Amanor (Armenia)
Amateur Hangover Day
Ano Nova (Cape Verde)
Año Nuevo (Spain)
Anul Nou (Moldova, România)
Apple Gifting Day
Día de Año Nuevo (Puerto Rico)
Draw ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)
Bad Hangover Day
Dita e Vitit të Ri (Albania)
First Day
First-Foot Day
Grandfather Frost Day (Russia, Ukraine)
Jaungads (Latvia)
Maskarada (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba)
Mummers Parade (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Navy God Day (Russia)
Nieuwjaarsdag (Suriname, Sweden)
Nova Godina (Croatia, Macedonia)
Nyårsdagen (Sweden)
Sjoogwachi (Okinawa)
Solar New Year’s Day (North Korea)
Tahun Baru (Indonesia)
Viti i Ri (Kosovo)
Yangi Yil Bayrami (Uzbekistan)
New Year’s Dishonor List Day
New Year's Banished Words List Day [ 2024 list ]
Party Party Day
Paul Revere Day
Penguin Plunge (Rhode Island)
Polar Bear Swim Day
Public Domain Day
Punch Your Tallest Friend Day
Scout’s Day (Burma)
Shogatsu (Japan)
Snake Eyes Day
Thoroughbred Day (Northern Hemisphere)
TMC Foundation Day (Trinamool Congress; India)
Tournament of Roses Parade (Pasadena, California)
Triumph of the Revolution Day (a.k.a. Liberation Day; Cuba)
Universal Fraternity Day (Macau)
White Rabbit Day
World Day of Peace
Z Day
Zygmunt Gorazdowski
Food & Drink Celebrations
Apple Gifting Day
Hangover Handicap Run (Cover d’Alene, Idaho)
National Black Eyed Peas Day
National Bloody Mary Day
National Brandy Alexander Day
National Hangover Day (UK)
National Pizza Day (Sweden)
1st Monday in January
Divorce Monday [1st Monday]
Handsel Day (Scotland) [1st Monday]
The Most Depressing Day of the Year (UK) [1st Monday]
National Rondling Day [1st Monday]
National Thank God It’s Monday Day [1st Monday; also 1st Monday in June]
National Weigh-In Day [1st Monday]
Independence & Related Days
A1 (a.k.a. Federated Republics of A1; Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Cameroon (from France & UK, 1960)
Conewiw and New HanChih (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Elim (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Free State of Sabini (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Gardenia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Haiti (from France, 1804)
Justin Republic (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Kingdom of Falcar (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Kingdom of Loveland (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Kingdom of Lovely (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]
Kingdom of Pöllömaa (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Lazonesia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
New Anglia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
Principality of the Northern Forests (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Restoration of the Czech Independence Day (Czechia)
Sudan (from UK, 1956)
Wattania (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Adalard of Corbie (Christian; Saint)
Alfred Stieglitz (Artology)
Another Friggin’ Year Day (Pastafarian)
Basil the Great (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Dabucuri assaby, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)
Day of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (Slovakia)
Day of Volos (god of pets and farm animals; Slavic Pagan)
Day Sacred to Janus (Ancient Rome)
Eighth Day of Christmas
Feast of Fools (Medieval Europe)
Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (Christian)
Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church)
Feast of the Human Sacrifice (Church of the SubGenius)
Fulgentius of Ruspe (Christian; Saint)
Giuseppe Maria Tomasi (Christian)
Goddess Fortuna's Day (Ancient Rome)
Jesus Christ Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Jupiter & Juno's Day (Old Roman)
Kalends: Day of the Moerae (Pagan)
Kalends of January (Ancient Rome)
Kwanzaa, Day 7: Imani (Faith)
The Kamu (Celebrating Nature Spirits; Shogatsu/Shinto New Yea’s Festival)
M’Moreal Day (The Season of Bob’s Nativity, which is Everyday; Church of the SubGenius)
Moonhopper Day (Shamanism)
Octave Day of Christmas
Prometheus (Positivist; Saint)
Qi Baishi (Artology)
Radish Dude (Muppetism)
Sacrifices to the Wind Gods (Ancient Greece)
Season of Chaos begins (Discordian)
Shichi Fukujin (Seven Deities of Luck Celebration)
Shusho-e Matsuri (Japanese Buddhists)
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Octave Day of Christmas (Catholic Church)
Taos Pueblo Turtle Dance (Native American)
Telemachus (Christian; Saint)
Tewa Turtle Dance (Tewa Native Americans)
Twelve Holy Days #7 (Libra, the adrenal glands; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #8; Feast of the Circumcision [Anglican, Lutheran] (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
World Day of Peace (Catholic Church)
Zygmunt Gorazdowski (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Binary Day [11] (1 of 9)
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 1 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [1 of 24]
Evil Day [1 of 32]
Fatal Day (Pagan) [1 of 24]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [1 of 53]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [1 of 71]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [1 of 32]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 37]
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Day (because born with a hangover, and you will probably end up breaking your new years resolutions before anyone else.)
Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [1 of 30]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [1 of 60]
Premieres
Alice on the Farm (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1873)
Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1607)
The Astroduck (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)
Barry Lyndon (Film; 1975)
Bay Psalm Book (Book; 1640) [1st book printed in North America]
Beau Geste, by P.C. Wren (Novel; 1924)
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (Novel; 1963)
Big Man from the North (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)
Blue Suede Shoes, by Carl Perkins (Song; 1956)
The Book of the Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (Book; c. 1645)
Brain Games (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1978)
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (Novel; 1932)
Calling Fearless Leader or Whistle for the Missile (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 191; 1963)
Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1945)
The Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1963)
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Novel; 1980)
The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (Novel; 1924)
Daffy Duck & Egghead (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)
Das Kapital, by Karl Marx (Book; 1867)
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), by Harry Belafonte (Song; 1956)
Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol (Novel; 1842)
Der Fuehrer’s Face (Disney Cartoon; 1943)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV Series; 1993)
Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)
The Faerie Queen, by Edmund Spenser (Poem; 1590)
Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)
Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne (Novel; 1863)
Flatland, by Edwin Abbot (Book; 1884)
The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi (Violin Concertos; 1725)
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (Novel; 1818)
Gigi, by Colette (Novella; 1944)
GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, by Ween (Album; 1990)
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing (Novel; 1962)
Gumby (Animated TV Series; 1960)
Heaven and Earth Magic (Animated Film; 1962)
The Hotel New Hampshire, by John IrvingJohn Irving, from "The Coder House Rules," (Novel; 1981)
I and Thou, by Martin Buber (Book; 1923)
If A Man Answers (Film; 1962)
Journey to the East, by Herman Hesse (Novella; 1932)
The King James Bible (Book; 1604)
King Solomon’s Mines, by. H. Rider Haggard (Novel; 1885)
The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern (Novel; 1959)
Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1925)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle (Novel; 1883)
The Mick (TV Series; 2017)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)
Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1990) [Discworld #10]
Mrs. Brown’s Boys (BBC TV Series; 2011)
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer (Novel; 1948)
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo (Novel; 1862)
Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (Novel; 1887)
The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (Novel; 1918)
The NeverEnding Story, by Michael Ende (English Translation of the Novel; 1983)
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1915)
Paradise Lost, by John Milton (Poetry; 1667)
Pensées, by Blaise Pascal (Book; 1670)
Pizzicato Pussycat (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï (The Bridge over the River Kwai), by Pierre Boulle (Novel; 1952)
The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli (Book; 1532)
Rocky Takes the High Road or Missile in the Thistle (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 192; 1963)
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1597)
A Room with a View, by E.M. Foster (Novel; 1908)
Samuel Pepys’ Diary began (Diary; 1660)
The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman (Comic Series; 1989)
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1811) [#1]
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot (Novel; 1861)
Songs of Innocence, by William Blake (Poems; 1789)
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1913)
The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 86; 1961)
The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 85; 1961)
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss (Novel; 1812)
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (Novel; 1938)
The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber (Fairy Tale; 1950)
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome (Novel; 1889)
Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Book; 1883)
Top of the Pops (BBC Musical Variety TV Series; 1966)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1984)
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What are the most common types of injuries that occur in the United States
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Nationality: Spanish
Wizarding School: Durmstrang Institute
Blood purity: Pure (ancient)
Class: Muggle Studies / sponsors a club for muggle photography (Wednesdays)
Wand: Hazel and Pear with a Dragon Heartstring core.
Patronus: California Condor
Curses and charms have always been a specialty of Rosinante, of his family’s heritage. Born into the prestigious and royal pure line, the Donquixote’s, that had resided in Spain since the early twelfth century, Rosinante sought to further expand on his family's abilities. With his father teaching abroad in Northern Europe at the Durmstrang Institute, he was left much of his early childhood with his mother, Isabelle, and elder brother, Doflamingo.
A fierce rivalry grew between the two brothers. This ever present need to be better than the other. They worked hard and meticulously to learn their family's craft. New charms. New curses. Dueling one another in deadly combat became a strange way the two bonded. Practicing their newly created spells both when it was expected and not.
Doflamingo grew a taste for torture and blood while Rosinante dove deeper into paranoia and manipulation. Eventually their curses became renowned by the other pure blood families, and in fear of their magic, pressed for an order for the two to cease their experimentations. Soon, the brothers grew to despise one another not in blame for their hypothesis’, but for the rightful reign as the master of their craft.
As adults, they went their separate ways, Doflamingo searching for more power in politics while Rosinante decided to take his work underground. Isolating himself and working on more horrific curses that would shake the world. Soon this secret would be found out by his brother, and in his anger of the other possibly knowing more than him performed a curse that tore away his speech. He then convicted his brother of meddling with the dark arts for malicious intentions and banished him to Azkaban.
But the turmoil between the brothers were too unbearable for their parents, Homing fought for his son's release in exchange for his position as a teacher for the Durmstrang Institute. Bringing him in as a professor to take over after his retirement. His notoriety in his craft was suitable for the darker knowledge the institute allowed for and seeing Rosinante as an asset to further their schools reputation hired him on.
However, the reputation and ferocity that had grown in rumor about Rosinante reflected nothing of his true personality. Quirky and playful, he was a perfect fit to teach a class regarding the anomalies of everyday muggle lives. Performing his teachings in ways unconventional and not necessarily helpful for his students, but nonetheless, an entertaining experience. If not Azkaban, an insane asylum could have been another guess as to where he had been hired from by other students.
It wasn’t till he met a student by the name of Law did his curiosity in curses rekindle.
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Harry Williams was born in 1956, exactly one hundred years after a U.S. government surveyor named A.W. Von Schmidt peppered his maps with clusters of marks indicating "fields of fine grass," with "first rate soils." At the time, Von Schmidt was unaware that he was recording ancient irrigation networks built by the Paiute tribes to cultivate massive, wild-tended botanical fields throughout the valley.
Pre-contact, Northern Paiute irrigators supported one of the densest Indigenous populations in the region by engineering seeps and marshlands to cultivate native grasses, lilies, rye, sunflower, pigweed and dozens of other edible species. Their vast gardens also supported robust communities of deer, antelope, jackrabbit, native birds and fish. Endemic brine flies, gathered by the hundred-bushelful from Owens Lake, provided critical subsistence foods for the winter.
....Today, 70% of L.A.’s water is sourced from the Owens Valley, through the annual export of hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of water. In contrast, the three Paiute tribes in the valley are allocated 8,000 acre-feet per year: a little over 3% of the original water volume their ancestors managed on behalf of all life in Payahuunadü.
As the original irrigators of Owens Valley, the Paiute should hold first users rights, a status accorded by California law to the original water users in a given area. The 1908 US Supreme Court Winters Doctrine also ruled that Congress must reserve sufficient water for any reservation created by federal law. Yet due to California’s arcane water regulations and inconsistent application of federal law, the tribes continue to struggle for groundwater, riparian water and Indian Reserved water rights.
a tribute to Bishop Paiute elder and water protector Harry Williams, who passed away last month.
#really recommend reading about the work he did in owens valley#i don't recall if i met him but he and his work were a huge presence in indigenous water protection in the last decade
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The Daily Prophet’s
2020 Supreme Mugwump Candidate Profile Guide
July 24, 2020
Learn about the candidates for Supreme Mugwump and see where they stand on key issues with The Daily Prophet’s 2020 Supreme Mugwump Candidate Profile Guide.
With the large number of candidates campaigning to become the next Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, it can be difficult to distinguish various candidates from one another.
To assist readers in finding information about the candidates in the 2020 Supreme Mugwump Election, The Daily Prophet has produced a Candidate Profile Guide.
All candidates were given the opportunity to submit a brief statement to let voters know about themselves and their platforms. The view and opinions expressed in the statements are those of the candidates and do not reflect the position of The Daily Prophet.
Ivanna Verynhora, age 34, is one of the youngest Delegates the ICW has seen out of Ukraine. Since Muggle unrest in the region took the life of the previous representative of Ukraine, Delegate Neschadymenko, Ms. Verynhora has taken upon herself to strengthen Ukrainian ties with the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Russia, Spain, and South Korea. An alum of the world-renowned Beauxbatons, Ms. Verynhora was an exemplary student with talents in charms and healing, which she put to use during the 2013 Ukrainian Crisis. With her mastery in Healing magic, she went on to found the ICW’s Committee for Cross Boundary Healers, inspired by the Muggle organization Doctors Without Borders. Funded anonymously—by whom is unclear at this time, but many believe them to be international banking financiers—the committee has expanded into the Middle East, South America, and the United States and Canada. She currently serves on the Committee for International Quidditch and the Committee for International Magical Transportation. Much of Ms. Verynhora's time is spent strengthening Ukraine and little time at ICW meetings or the committees she belongs to—which is to be expected, as the Ukraine has has experienced extreme changes in its government for the last five years, and several turnovers within the Ukranian Ministry, including the loss of Ivannas's late uncle, killed last spring during the Centaur & Giant Uprising in the northern part of the country.
Despite these tragedies, both personal and nationally, Ivanna hopes that the esteemed title of Supreme Mugwump will be but a stepping stone to her larger goal of facilitating a younger, more progressive, stronger ICW focusing on international ties and bonds between countries for the purpose of mutual aid.
Sitara Noorani, age 35, is one of the most accomplished witches of her age. A graduate of the esteemed school Uagadou, she moved quickly after her schooling to join the Pakistani Ministry of Magic, working with their Control of Magical Creatures division before transitioning into politics to succeed her elder brother in the Pakistani Senate. Since joining the ICW only 3 years ago, she has had notable success in working with Being Outreach as well as in addressing illegal creature movements and breeding across borders in partnership with the Rangers. She has found a friend in Delegate Baptiste, who shares her passion for preventing cross-border illicit activities, and together they have drafted new international law addressing the issue.
Noorani has only this to say about the upcoming election cycle: “We must continue to strengthen border security across the world, increase education about culture between wizards of all enclaves, and continue monitoring illicit activity among the lower echelons of our society.”
Continuing the procession of younger Delegates tossing their names in the ring for the title of Supreme Mugwump, Estefania Caldera, age 32, comes from one of the largest and most powerful pureblood families in the Caribbean, with branches in Mexico, California, and Brazil. The rising star of the Caldera family, Estefania attended Castelobruxo alongside fellow Caribbean Delegate and classmate Horacio Baptiste—and took special interest in the subject of Magical Eco-Tourism. Her subsequent specialization in the field and her time in the Cuban Ministry for Magic have prepared her to help bring economic prosperity to her region through her practice. Though young, she must not be underestimated by her peers. She has already forged strong connections with the Caribbean, Brazilian, Venezuelan, and Peruvian Delegates, creating a Committee around revitalizing tourism in these regions while highlighting their natural beauty and working closely with Indigenous communities to preserve and celebrate their heritage.
Caldera says about her candidacy for Supreme Mugwump, “Though I am young, I am not without passion for both Cuba and the magical world at large. For too long, we have idolized industrializing and militarizing our magical nations, but I am calling for peace and for a new age of magical understanding shared by all.”
Horacio Baptiste may be known for his booming voice in ICW meetings, his Caribbean Pride, and his ability to cross the many committee aisles of Nations across the world, but he is more than the handsome face many purport him to be. An alum of Castelobruxo, he first rose to prominence as an Auror for the Commonwealth of the Caribbean Islands. Baptiste’s ambitious track record as an Auror soon gave rise to something far more momentous, as his public image transcended his official title and Baptiste became known as something of a folk hero at the tender age of 24 during his 2010 run for President of the Caribbean Commonwealth. While Baptise lost with grace, he was subsequently offered a position on the ICW with an aging Delegate Ocasio-Cortez’s blessing. As the first-ever Muggleborn elected by the Commonwealth, Baptiste’s position as the Caribbean ICW Delegate is considered boundary-breaking by many. He has not only risen to expectations—he has shattered them. Currently, Baptiste sits on the Committees for International Magical Transportation and International Committee for Human Trafficking and Dark Wizard Tracking, and is a proponent for sanctions against magical nations for Human Rights Violations and Dark Magic Violations. Though only 34, Baptiste has garnered the respect of many other Delegates, and has contributed monumentally to the ICW’s efforts at lowering crime internationally, in collaboration with the Rangers and Delegate Caldera.
Baptist maintains no comment at this time beyond: “I am entirely too busy to talk about the Supreme Mugwump Election. Bother someone who wants to play nice with the press and has less work to do than me. They’ll be easy to find— go ask the Delegate from Sweden.” Fighting words from everyone’s favorite fighting Caribbean.
What more is there to say about Delegate Lyra Arista that she has not already demonstrated over her many years of service to the ICW? Elected to the ICW in 1958 at the age of 21, she was the youngest Delegate ever elected in America, and has only continued to be a trailblazer in her 62 years of service. Delegate Arista proved to be a powerhouse while helping create the Human Rights Act for Magical Folk, and she has been a vocal proponent for Natural Magic (or Wild Magic) and expanding Magical education across the globe. Arista is renowned for her magical masteries over charmwork, transfiguration, healing, alchemy, and potions. One of the most esteemed graduates of Ilvermorny, Arista’s been a bastion of the ICW, admired cross-generationally. In America, she has been a proponent for Being rights and education, and has helped expand the LGBT+ movement for equal rights in collaboration with Muggle political allies. In the 90's, Arista advocated to expand magical education access to American magical immigrants, refugees, and the Indigenous population. Her election to Supreme Mugwump would only be a footnote to the aggressively progressive acts she is known for.
Lyra Arista says about the upcoming election, “I am old, and though I have much to offer to the ICW as its leader, it would not surprise me if someone younger takes my place. But I have done my work for over 50 years, and if elected I will do so for another half-century, as is my duty to magical folk across America the Beautiful and Earth the Magnificent. Blessed be.”
Cyprian Patenaude has been nothing but a joy to the ICW Delegate circuit. As the newest ICW Delegate, at the age of 30 they are well-loved and well-known in the Western Hemisphere, having attended both Ilvermorny and Castelobruxo. Patenaude became a rising star in the Canadian Senate for Magic, elected from his home city of Montreal in 2013 through a grassroots campaign after leading several organizations concerned with underserved magical communities, championing early magical education, and combating Auror brutality. His ties to MACUSA through the Patenaude family helped to establish several laws concerning magical secrecy within the United States and Canada. In addressing political unrest in both regions, Delegate Patenaude became a familiar face in the media through his regular attendance at rallies and protests. On the subject, then-Senate member Patenaude said, “It's not political grandstanding that got me to this position, it is empathic standing, with people both magical, Being, and Muggle. I am not doing this for political clout. It is the right thing to help where you can, ease tensions, and create a better atmosphere for healing.” Delegate Patenaude would know a thing or two about healing after having been viciously outed as transgender by American political opponents and instigators. Patenaude took this in stride, advocating fiercely to expand Canadian magical law for privacy protection, and he was elected to the ICW by the Candian government shortly thereafter in 2018. He often jokes that his efforts in this realm are for his own safety, as there have been no less than three attempted assassinations since the debacle.
Patenaude is a proponent for Being rights, de-militarization of Aurors, blocking illicit animal sales, and raising awareness around LGBT+ issues among magical communities. Though young, Patenaude is respected by his opponents due to his gregarious ability to broker deals and swiftly end infighting in committees. Like Delegate Baptiste, Patenaude has no comment at this time, likely owing to the fact they are currently occupied dealing with political unrest in the Canadian-American district of the world.
Readers have always been fascinated by Delegate Sergio Gutiérrez, who, while proud of his long and unbroken ancestral wizarding line, quite frequently shocks the stately old families of British wizarding society with its high civility and careful social graces. After completing his formal education at the Madrid School Of Magic and Durmstrang Institute, Gutiérrez made Keeper for the Barcelona Eagles, prior to the Spanish Quidditch Association (AQE) and the Catalonian Quidditch Association (AQC) split. While amassing a large fan following with his record-breaking, jaw-dropping saves and daring high-speed maneuvers, Gutiérrez discovered his ability to attract support for political issues and a passion to change lives through his advocacy. Critical to Gutiérrez’s successful transfer into politics was the convergence of several crises within the Spanish wizarding community, which slashed public faith in the current Delegate’s ability and the wizarding political class. These events presented an opportunity for Gutiérrez to prove himself a skilled manueverer both on and off the Quidditch pitch. In addition to tapping into widespread discontent with political elites, Gutiérrez also strongly advocated for a retreat from Spain’s involvement with international affairs to focus on its own issues. At age 51, Gutiérrez, who considers himself a self-styled political outsider among his fellow Delegates, still leads a very public life (one may recall the ongoing investigation into whether Gutiérrez converted campaign funds to rather scandalous personal use in 2019), and can always be counted on for his transparent stance on issues and his commanding approach to diplomacy—in particular, his meteoric clashes with Cyprian Patenaude. To detractors, he’s a dangerous cheerleader for an insular and traditional wizarding community at both a national and international level. To supporters, he is one of the only Delegates with a strong and loud enough voice to bring about real change and unity.
On the subject of the Supreme Mugwump election, Gutiérrez said, “What I know is that people are tired. Tired and pushed beyond their limit by the demands of this new ‘modern’ wizarding world, as they say, and its politicians that push policy after policy for this new group and that new group down their throats while ignoring our real, shared issues…we have forgotten that in our history there are simple answers to complex problems.”
For Delegate Kotov, age 40, his personal life is his political life. As a young man, Kotov attended Durmstrang to study martial magic for a brief time, withdrawing the same year the institution began to admit Muggleborns and part-goblins under the leadership of Headmaster Matvey Golovin. Kotov’s parents then began his private homeschooling, although many have long speculated Kotov was in fact transferred to the secretive Scholomance to complete his education. Proud of his centuries-long wizarding heritage, and regularly extolling the values of fraternity, tradition, and legacy in his speeches, Kotov is a man who has never forgotten his past while keeping his eye firmly fixed on the future. During his homeschooling years, a group of vampires newly displaced by a freshly implemented Romanian policy attacked and killed Kotov’s childhood friend. The event, followed by sluggish and failed attempts to capture the vampires, left Kotov with a resolve to shake the wizarding world out of its stupor concerning dark creatures. Kotov would work at the Romanian Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures for all of six months before quitting; during that time it was his capture of infamously “uncatchable” vampire Sebastian Vântu which catapulted Kotov to international recognition. After resigning, Kotov pivoted immediately into politics, championing an increase in international private and public security for the wizarding world, and pledging to tackle magical creature-related violent crime rates and threats to the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy by cracking down on criminal offenders and allowing Aurors greater freedom and less government oversight. Despite his colleagues’ voiced concerns that his actions may cause further breakdowns in negotiations between the ICW and sentient magical creatures,
Kotov remains sanguine and determined about the future, though he has some choice words to offer about his fellow Delegates in advance of the upcoming election. “They have no idea what they’re dealing with,” Kotov said grimly, in his statement last Tuesday. “Half of them are idiots who follow Patenaude and his kind–magical creatures are just like us, etc, etc.—and half of them are people like Arista, heads stuck in another century and no idea how to deal with the growing number of strikes and crime rates among the magical creature communities. Either way, while the ICW tries to negotiate and sits in committees, their numbers grow and the violence continues—and something is better than nothing.” It’s a tricky dilemma he raises, and one the magical community has conveniently avoided answering head-on, though Kotov has received campaign funding from many old, well-known wizarding families that suggests he has their support.
Serving his freshman year on the ICW at a shocking 22 years of age, Sven Nordstrøm is the fresh face of Swedish international politics whose influential family name precedes his appointment to the Confederation. The Nordstrøm family have for centuries stood tall (and no, we’re not just referring to their statuesque genetics) as pillars of traditional wix values in the Scandinavian region, with generation after generation passing the political torch on from father to son. Delegate Nordstrøm’s own brother, Gunnar Nordstrøm, is a favorite to take over for current Swedish Minister Engström at the end of his term, which has led to speculation regarding the young Delegate’s novice appointment over Gunnar’s notably more cultivated experience and presence in politics. But don’t write off young Sven just yet! He may thus far be known in delegation meetings for his looming, mountain-like presence and choice few words, but Delegate Nordstrøm has a few tricks yet up those long sleeves, making several controversial statements and voting decisions without any predictable formula that seem to go against every ideal his political platform was built around. Are the boy’s wildcard antics toward shock and awe a crafty plot to attract favor and attention to his icy, old-fashioned country? Or is Delegate Nordstrøm simply having the last laugh at us all?
When asked for a comment, Nordstrøm just had this to say: “And why the [expletive] would I tell you anything? Who even are you?” Who indeed. We’ll be following Delegate Nordstrøm at the upcoming conference with keen interest.
As recognizable in the society papers as he is on the delegation floor, Atticus Ayers has been an asset to British-French wizarding political relations for upwards of twenty years. Savvy local readers will surely recognize Ayers from his meteoric post-Hogwarts rise through the ranks of Britain’s own International Magical Office of Law, or perhaps from his brief but memorable five-year stint as Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, during which time Ayers garnered widespread respect and adoration as a moderate judicial voice amongst the uproarious radicalism and reforms that swept through the Ministry of Magic following the Second Wizarding War. After presiding over a number of landmark Wizengamot proceedings, Ayers settled in the magical district of Montmartre in France with his family, but he’s been a staple French Delegate since day one, where he’s continued his campaigning for Being equality as well as amendments to the Statute of Secrecy in favor of privacy and protection of magicfolk, their livelihoods, and their assets.
Nowadays, Delegate Ayers is known throughout Europe for throwing outrageous fundraisers in support of the causes he’s backing, with some of the most famous faces in the international magical community making regular appearances. Some may raise brows at Ayers’ “party for politics” methodology, but there’s no arguing that beauty, popularity, and a knack for entertaining are powerful tools when it comes to reaching the upper echelon of magical folk with the means to enact change.
The Daily Prophet will continue to run extended profiles of candidates and bring you updates on the September 9th election.
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Okay everyone: This is it. This is our moment to act. Please, to whatever degree is possible for you, take an hour on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning of this coming week, 9:00AM-10:AM, to call the California governor’s office and demand release of all medically fragile people, all pregnant women, and all people over 60 years old from California’s prisons.
When COVID-19 hits the prisons it will spread like wildfire. California needs to decarcerate before that happens. This is a matter of days, not months. We have to protect our incarcerated elders from a virus that could kill them. WE MUST BRING OUR PEOPLE HOME. Call and email to demand mass release!
Share this. Do this. Pressure your friends into doing this. In this moment of growing fear and chaos it is easy to feel isolated, to feel powerless. We are not powerless. Even under these repressive conditions, we must and can stand together. We can protect each other.
Dates:
9am-10am Monday, March 23.
9am-10am Tuesday, March 24.
9am-10am Wednesday, March 25.
Phone numbers:
(916) 445-2841
(916) 557-5438
Phone script and background information are here.
Facebook event is linked above but also here.
The Justice Collaborative’s letter to Newsom is here.
For those of you who are new to call-in campaigns: the campaign is intended to apply pressure. Yes, you’re delivering information, but it’s information that the governor’s office already has. They’ve already read the letter demanding decarceration, and all the sources that back it up. Your job is to show them that people are paying attention to what they do, and that people are demanding a response. SO, if they hang up on you before you finish what you’re saying, that’s okay. Just call again. And again. And again. If you go to voicemail, leave a voicemail. And if they take the phone of the hook and you start getting a busy signal because they’re getting so many calls, call the second phone number: that’s why we gave you two.
Please contact me with any questions; my askbox is open. Anon is not on but if you have a question you don’t want published, say so and I will answer it privately.
Note: this is a California campaign, but there are similar campaigns all across the country. Visit The Justice Collaborative’s website for information about decarceration calls where you live.
Text of the call-in script is below the read-more, in case anyone has trouble with the links:
Call in script
We have pulled out and adapted some talking points from this open letter; feel free to explore others. You will probably only have time for one or two. Pick the ones you feel most moved by.
I am calling/emailing to urge Governor Newsom to respond to the call signed by 30 community organizations to take immediate action to protect the lives of all people in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The lives of all incarcerated people as well as all CDCR employees and the families and extended communities of employees are in danger if the governor’s office fails to act quickly and decisively to reduce the population of people incarcerated.
I urge Governor Newsom to use the powers granted to him under California Government Code section 8550, the Emergency Services Act, to immediately release all medically fragile adults and adults over the age of 60 to parole supervision
This must include those serving “Life Without the Possibility of Parole” and those on Death Row.
People in this age group are at the greatest risk for death from COVID-19 yet pose the least public safety risk to our communities.
The state of California will have many deaths on its hands if it does not release all elders within the week.
I urge Governor Newsom to release all pregnant women in CDCR custody.
I urge Governor Newsom to eliminate parole revocations for technical violations and prohibit all new prison sentences.
Social distancing is impossible in an overcrowded prison. The CDCR (California Dept of Corrections and Rehabilitation) currently has 123,000 people in prison, in facilities designed to hold 85,000 at most. Prison conditions are unsanitary and dangerous. Once the virus enters the prisons, if it has not already, it will spread like wildfire unless the governor takes immediate action to release thousands of people, right now.
Prisons will act as incubators for the virus. Prison employees will get sick and carry the virus home to their families and communities. The existence of overcrowded prisons will make COVID-19 impossible to control in the state of California. If Governor Newsom wants to protect the people of California from a devastating epidemic, he must drastically decrease prison populations, and he must do it fast, before the virus has a chance to spread inside the prisons.
Governor Newsom claims a record of “sticking his neck out and doing the right thing.” On his website, he claims that this courage and vision has “often led to sweeping changes when his policies were ultimately accepted, embraced, and replicated across the state and nation.” If Governor Newsom wants to keep that record, he must massively decarcerate California immediately. This is an unparalleled opportunity to show leadership and vision which will not only save California from disaster, it will lead the country to follow in his footsteps.
Background docs
Justice Collaborative Covid 19 Response and Resources
New York City Department of Corrections calls for release of high-risk inmates, including those over 60
Letter to Governor Newsom signed by Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, ACLU of Northern California, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian Solidarity Collective, Bail Project, California Public Defenders Coalition, Californians for Safety and Justice, California Prison Moratorium, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, Critical Resistance, Color of Change, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Initiate Justice, Justice Collaborative, La Defensiva, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, National Organization for Women, The Peace Alliance, Pillars of the Community, Policy Link, Reboot & Rebound, Resisting Injustice, San Francisco Rising, Smart Justice California, UnCommon Law, Young Women’s Freedom Center
Second Letter to Governor Newsom
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Two BLM wild horses begin new careers with the National Park Service
This spring, the National Park Service welcomed two former BLMers to its Yosemite National Park law enforcement team – a pair of geldings known as Sandman and Drifter. Just a few years ago, they were two of the more than 70,000 wild horses on America's public lands.
Their story began in June 2014 during another California drought. A herd of wild horses living on BLM-managed lands in northern California's Red Rock Lakes Herd Management Area began encroaching on private property in search of water. The landowner contacted BLM, who transported the herd to a regional BLM preparation center for wild horses and burros.
Two years later, Joe Misner, a horse trainer with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, recruited the pair for an inmate-led horse training program at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Sacramento County. He christened the elder horse Sandman given the animal's sleepy nature. He named the second horse Drifter, believing him to be of Driftwood lineage.
While more attentive than Sandman, Drifter faced his own period of adjustment to the program as he recovered from a hoof injury. The horses proved themselves fast learners however and quickly advanced through the program.
Then in 2018, the National Park Service wanted to add additional horses to its Yosemite National Park patrol. Park Service Ranger Justin Fey was familiar with the training program and knew the horses to be of the highest caliber. He began his search there.
The Park Service needs animals who possessed a calm demeanor, friendliness and nerves of steel. Keeping these requirements in mind, Misner recommended Sandman and Drifter and began preparing them for their April adoption.
The recruits are quickly adapting to their new responsibilities. The officers take them out regularly, and they are often exposed to cyclists, dogs and other visitors to the park.
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Truly Uniting Against Hate
Dear City Council,
I want to express my gratitude for the City of Alameda seeking unity against hatred. I appreciate the good intention and direction this resolution seeks to move this city.
However, there are a few inaccuracies and myths within the resolution and background that I wish to address. I also wish to propose a few activities and policy solutions to bring inclusivity towards fruition.
In an era of alternative truth, fake news, and false “truth and lies,” it is important to distinguish between our situation and our aspirations, between tales and the facts we tell, and between our mythical stories and our history.
The United States is NOT a nation of immigrants
The resolution begins with the statement, “The United States is a nation of immigrants.” While this may be true for some, this does not include me or my ancestors. My African ancestors did not immigrant to the shores of Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana, and the other places we are unable to trace, they were kidnapped and forcibly brought here, enslaved, and not valued as humans. Our indigenous ancestors did not immigrate here on the Mayflower. They were displaced by the European colonist and settlers. As Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, professor emerita, of Cal State Hayward wrote in 2006, “This is a convenient myth developed as a response to the 1960s movements against colonialism, neocolonialism, and white supremacy. The ruling class and its brain trust offered multiculturalism, diversity, and affirmative action in response to demands for decolonization, justice, reparations, social equality, an end of imperialism, and the rewriting of history — not to be “inclusive” — but to be accurate.”
Alameda does not have a century-long tradition of embracing diversity
Second, the agenda item background states, “Alameda has a century-long tradition of embracing diversity and respecting the civil and human rights of its residents, while acknowledging and understanding that many historic laws, at every level, were often at odds with progress.”
History and memory
In July, I spoke at a meeting of the Democratic Club of Alameda. The presentation, “History, memory, public policy, and the hidden narrative of race in Alameda” focused on the role of of memory and history and the legacy of white supremacy in public policy formation and maintenance in Alameda, specifically related to housing, policing, and public space. It is available online.
I spoke about “white supremacy” as a historically based system of exploitation and oppression. People of color, nations, whole continents have been victimized by this system in ordre to develop and defend a system of power, privilege, and wealth exclusively for white people. Now why this occurs, you can take your pick and read Theodore Allen or Frances Cress Welsing. The point being, this is based on institutions and is a system which benefits a group of people to the detriment of others.
Alameda: City of Homes and Exclusion
I also shared a few historical truths about Alameda in housing, policing, and public space. I will recount a few here:
Alameda has a legacy of racially restrictive covenants which barred non-white people from purchasing or living in homes in a number of areas of Alameda;
The northern part of Alameda was redlined, making it difficult and near to impossible for non-white people to receive mortgage insurance for homes or purchase homes in other areas;
During WW2, the Alameda Housing Authority intentionally segregated war time housing projects, and then-Mayor Milton Godfrey promised keeping Negroes out of Alameda would “receive the unceasing vigilance” of government;
In 1964, 73 percent of Alameda residents voted in favor of Proposition 14; this was a statewide initiative that sought to overturn the Rumford Fair Housing Act.
Finally, in 1973, the majority white electorate passed Measure A, banning apartment construction in Alameda. There is evidence that it was seen as discriminatory at the time of its passage; and there have been two lawsuits targeting it as discriminatory by race and class.
In regards to policing, I shared information about the 1991 computer text message scandal in which officers exchanged racist messages, as well as data shows unequal policing in Alameda:
The disparities in marijuana-related felony arrests from 1997-2017
The disproportionate traffic stops of African Americans over the past five years
Finally, I discussed the recent efforts to remove white supremacists symbols from public spaces in Alameda, including:
Jackson Park, named after Andrew Jackson was an enslaver of humans that also earned the name, “Indian Killer,” and his actions led to the “Trail of Tears.” (http://bit.ly/renamejackson)
Henry H. Haight Elementary, a white supremacist former California Governor who opposed Black and Chinese suffrage and opposed Asian immigration (See http://renamehaight.wordpress.com)
These are public spaces where children learn and elders gather–not to mention the numerous streets named after slaveholders and white supremacists.
This is the Alameda we’ve inherited. So the clause that, “recently, deep divisions across the country spread to our own community and led to a rise in expressions of hate,” denies this island’s own legacy.
I agree with the clause that education is part of true healing, and I add education is a part of developing a society where people can truly belong. That’s why I’m sharing this information today. However, if we only share mythology and engage in shallow feel good activities and not address root cause of white supremacist ideology, hatred, intolerance, bigotry, and violence will continue.
Condemn white supremacy.
We can mask it and call it “hate,” but until we name it we will not dismantle it.
Second, to “build inclusive and equitable communities for all”, it is important to have benchmark data to see where we are and plot a place where we wish to be. This can be done by:
Examine the ranks of city staff and examine the racial diversity, across departments, at both rank and file and managerial levels
Examine pedestrian and traffic stop data for Alameda police, regularly; and
Examine current housing programs and include race in your variables of data collection;
And create a space for a conversation about the white supremacist monuments hidden in plain sight here in Alameda.
Lastly, I want to share an opportunity for engagement next week. Students, parents, teachers, and alumni of Haight Elementary School have an opportunity to rename their school. Next Thursday, there will be an election, a survey to decide if they will rename and reclaim their school, or maintain Haight. We will see if that community is United Against Haight.
Again, I commend you for your intention and desire to be more inclusive. I encourage you to go deeper. As policy makers, it is important to be informed about historical injustices to enable us to create better policies that are inclusive.
Thank you.
Rasheed El Shabazz
November 7, 2018
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How Should Republicans Vote In California
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Voxs German Lopez is here to guide you through the Biden administrations burst of policymaking. .
A Republican win would havemajor implications for the states pandemic response policies over the next year . But the biggest consequence could be national: The United States Senate is divided 50-50, and the oldest senator is 88-year-old Dianne Feinstein of California. If she were to die in office, as , Californias governor would choose her replacement and a Republican governor could flip control of the Senate to Mitch McConnells GOP.
Democrats are optimistic that all of these challenges will be overcome, and that the fundamental partisan dynamics of California will reassert themselves and save Newsom. Most polls show Newsom narrowly leading on the recall question. But that outcome can hardly be taken for granted. In oddly-timed elections, weird things can happen, as Democrats learned when Scott Brown won a Massachusetts Senate seat in January 2010, or as Republicans learned from Doug Joness Alabama Senate seat victory in December 2017.
So there is a possible slow-motion disaster unfolding in California for Democrats but theres also still time for them to avert it, if they can communicate the stakes to their base voters.
What Happens After Sept 14
Counties can begin releasing results on election night at 8 p.m.;
Like other elections in California, the race may not be decided on election night if there are still a large number of outstanding mail-in ballots.;
Counties must finish counting ballots and certify their results by Oct. 14. The Secretary of State will certify the results on Oct. 22. If the governor is recalled, he will need to vacate the office by that date and the winning replacement candidate will be sworn in.;
If Newsom is recalled, his replacement will finish the rest of his term, which ends in early 2023. They would have to run for re-election in 2022 if they want to stay in office after that.
What Do Party Preferences Mean When Listed With Candidates’ Names On The Ballot What Are The Qualified Political Parties And Abbreviations Of Those Party Names
The term “party preference” is now used in place of the term “party affiliation.” A candidate must indicate his or her preference or lack of preference for a qualified political party. If the candidate has a qualified political party preference that qualified political party will be indicated by the candidate’s name on the ballot. If a candidate does not have a qualified political party preference, “Party Preference: None” will be indicated by the candidate’s name on the ballot.
Similarly, voters who were previously known as “decline-to-state” voters are now known as having “no party preference” or known as “NPP” voters.
Abbreviations for the qualified political parties are:
DEM = Democratic Party
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How Are Primary Elections Conducted In California
All candidates for voter-nominated offices are listed on one ballot and only the top two vote-getters in the primary election regardless of party preference – move on to the general election. Write-in candidates for voter-nominated offices can only run in the primary election. A write-in candidate will only move on to the general election if the candidate is one of the top two vote-getters in the primary election.
Prior to the Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, the top vote-getter from each qualified political party, as well as any write-in candidate who received a certain percentage of votes, moved on to the general election.
The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act does not apply to candidates running for U.S. President, county central committee, or local office.
Who Can Run In A Recall
Candidates to replace the governor must be U.S. citizens registered to vote in California, and must pay a filing fee of about $4,000 or submit signatures from 7,000 supporters. They cannot be convicted of certain felonies, and they cannot be the governor up for recall. They have until 59 days before the election to file.
The ballot asks voters two questions: Should the governor be recalled? And if so, who should be the new governor? If the majority of voters say no to the first question, the second is moot. But if more than 50 percent vote yes, the challenger with the most votes becomes the next governor.Critics of the recall contend this is a major flaw because 49.9 percent of the voters could theoretically vote to keep Mr. Newsom, and he could still lose and be replaced by a challenger whose plurality makes up a far smaller sliver of voters. A legal challenge to this effect is pending in federal court in Los Angeles.
The 2003 winner, Mr. Schwarzenegger, had only 48.6 percent of the vote.
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Newsom Has Been Hit With A Perfect Storm Of Bad Timing
At any given moment, there are always recall petitions circulating against every California governor. But they generally fail to obtain the number needed to secure a ballot line in the limited time made available . The Republicans who began a recall drive against Newsom because of his generally progressive views got very lucky in two respects. First, a state judge gave them a four-month extension of the qualification deadline because of the difficulties in signature collection created by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a bit ironic since Newsoms support for COVID-19 prevention policies soon became central to the recall campaign.
But what really sent the campaign into overdrive was a gaffe committed by the governor on November 6, 2020, when he violated his own policies restricting indoor gatherings by attending a birthday party for a wealthy lobbyist friend at one of the states most exclusive restaurants, the French Laundry, in the Napa wine region. Aside from Republicans, small-business owners and public-school parents who were already chafing at Newsoms stay-at-home orders and restrictions on in-person instruction exploded in anger at his apparent hypocrisy, and the petition campaign reached its goals with relative ease.
Why Isnt Californias Lieutenant Governor Automatically Made Governor After A Recall
In some states, such as Oregon and Michigan, if a governor is recalled by voters, the lieutenant governor automatically gets the job. But California law states that voters must choose who replaces the governor in an election.
Of the 19 states that allow recalls of state officials, most leave the choice of replacement in the hands of voters.
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How Californias Gavin Newsom Could Lose His Job To A Republican In A Recall
How does a relatively popular Democratic governor in one of the bluest states in the country find himself at serious risk of losing his job to a Trump-supporting Republican?
The answer in the case of Californias Gavin Newsom is a mix of excitement among conservatives, apathy from everyone else, a confusing process and tensions heightened by the pandemic. Californians will vote by Sept. 14 on whether to kick Newsom out of office three years into his first term. If they do, the candidate currently most likely to replace him is an anti-mask-mandate conservative radio host who cuts against the states liberal slant.
Heres what you need to know to follow the California gubernatorial recall election.
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Larry Elder: A conservative talk radio host based in Los Angeles. Compared to other candidates, Elder jumped into the race late but has surged in fundraising, bringing in nearly $4.5 million in July. The longtime broadcaster is an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump. He has said the minimum wage should start at $0 and be negotiated between workers and employers.
Kevin Faulconer: Before the recall, the former mayor of San Diego was widely seen as a Republican frontrunner to challenge Newsom in 2022. Faulconer has campaigned on his experience leading one of Californias largest cities and working with Democrats on the San Diego City Council. The Republican has proposed zeroing out income taxes for the first $50,000 in earnings. He also says he would increase funding for wildfire prevention.
John Cox: The San Diego businessman faced Newsom in the 2018 governors race and lost by a historic margin. Cox is self-funding his recall bid and has brought props on his statewide tour, including a live bear and an eight-foot ball of trash. Like Faulconer, the CPA and business owner has also proposed a large tax cut for Californians. In a recent debate, he advocated for the completion of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Former Congressman Doug Ose dropped out Aug. 17 after experiencing a heart attack.
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What Are The Key Issues Driving The Recall
Initially, the Republicans who started the recall disagreed with Mr. Newsom on issues like the death penaltyand his opposition to President Donald Trumps policies. The effort was widely viewed as a long shot.
Then two particular factors boosted the campaign: A judge allowed more time for leaders of the recall to gather signatures because of pandemic lockdowns. And growing frustration among some Californians over health restrictions came to a head when Mr. Newsom was seen dining maskless with lobbyists at an expensive, exclusive Napa Valley restaurant called the French Laundryafter asking Californians to wear masks and stay home.
As the pandemic dragged on, recall supporters focused their arguments on the governors response, criticizing it as overly restrictive. Prolonged school closuresdrew ire during the last school year, as did pandemic unemployment fraud.
More recently, proponents have argued that broader social ills such as homelessness have worsened during Mr. Newsoms tenure, that Democrats have de facto one-party rule in California and that the high cost of livingis driving Californians out.
Mr. Newsoms Democratic allies charge that the effort is an undemocratic far-right power grab by Trumpian extremists who would otherwise never see a Republican elected to Californias top state office.
Why Pick On Newsom
Mr. Newsom, 53, the former mayor of San Francisco, has long been a favorite target of Republicans.
His liberal pedigree and deep Democratic connections push an array of G.O.P. buttons. His aunt, for instance, was married for a time to Speaker Nancy Pelosis brother-in-law. Mr. Newsom, a wine merchant, got his start in politics and business with support from the wealthy Getty family. In 2004, he and his first wife, the cable news legal commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle, appeared in a spread for Harpers Bazaar shot at the Getty Villa and titled The New Kennedys.
As mayor, Mr. Newsom made headlines for sanctioning same-sex marriage licenses before they were legal. As governor, he has remained a progressive standard-bearer. He championed ballot initiatives that legalized recreational marijuana and outlawed possession of the high-capacity magazines often used in mass shootings. One of his first acts as governor was to declare a moratorium on executions.
Mr. Newsom is now married to Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker, and is the father of four small children. Ms. Guilfoyle is Donald Trump Jr.s girlfriend.
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Isnt It Hard To Recall A Democrat In California
California is less liberal in the aggregate than its reputation. Some six million Californians voted for Donald J. Trump in the 2020 election. Thats roughly quadruple the number of signatures proponents needed to put a recall onto the ballot, and those were the voters who were targeted.
And increasingly, California races have drawn national money and interest as both parties have come to view the Democratic-dominated state as a stand-in for liberal governance on the national level.
But Democratic voters outnumber Republicans nearly 2-1 in California. The math alone gives Democrats an advantage statewide.
And although Mr. Heatlie and his group describe themselves as mainstream, a significant portion of the energy behind the recall is coming from the fringes. Early rallies to promote it were heavily populated by Proud Boys and anti-vaccination activists. Backers of Mr. Heatlies campaign have made social media posts bashing immigrants and depicting the governor as Hitler.
Microchip all illegal immigrants. It works! Just ask Animal control, Mr. Heatlie himself wrote in a 2019 Facebook post. He now says that the remark was a conversation starter that he did not intend to be taken literally. Polls have shown Mr. Newsom holding his seat handily among all voters, but it is unclear who will vote in this unusual, off-year special election. Polls of likely voters show a far tighter race.
Should California Republicans Unite Behind Larry Elder
The radio host is leading GOP polls ahead of the recall election
California Republicans are not falling in line behind a single candidate in the recall against Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The California Republican party voted not to endorse any of the candidates running in the states upcoming recall during a Saturday morning online convention. The decision comes as right-wing firebrand Larry Elder has surged in recent polling, overshadowing the establishment favorite, former San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer. The candidate who received the endorsement would have been given additional funding and campaign infrastructure. Instead, none of the candidates on the September 14 ballot will have the partys backing.
Originally, party delegates were set to choose between four candidates in different voting rounds where each candidate would be eliminated until the final round. To receive the state partys endorsement, the candidate must meet a 60 percent support threshold among the delegates. Twenty-four hours before the convention, however, party leaders began lobbying delegates to scrap the vote and issue no endorsement, GOP state officials told The Spectator.
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The Mail Ballot Factor Is A Wild Card
Early on, California election authorities decided to proactively send mail ballots to all registered voters, just as they did in the pandemic general election of 2020. They can be returned via enclosed postage paid envelopes or dropped off at voting centers on September 14. So, if California Democrats do become motivated to vote, it wont be hard for them to do so. And you do have to wonder if Donald Trumps demonization of mail ballots during and after the 2020 presidential election might still inhibit Republicans from voting that way, even if there remains an option for turning in ballots in person.
Republicans Introduce 253 Bills To Restrict Voting Rights In States Across The Us
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Republican lawmakers in 43 states have introduced a total of 253 bills aimed at restricting access to the ballot box for tens of millions of people. Republican-controlled states, including Southern states that employed lynch law terror to block African Americans from voting during the decades-long period of Jim Crow segregation, are flooding their legislatures with measures to effectively disenfranchise working class, poor and minority voters.
The laws largely focus on tightening voter ID requirements, purging voter rolls and restricting absentee and mail-in ballots.
In the United States, state governments have the authority to oversee elections and determine election procedures and rules, including for national elections. Within each state, individual counties have a great deal of latitude in the conduct of elections.
Republicans control both the lower and upper legislative houses in 36 of the 50 states, and both the legislatures and governorships in 23 states, making it very possible for far-reaching barriers to the ballot box to be imposed across much of the country.
Despite opening the door for a return to restrictive and discriminatory voting practices, the 2013 ruling met with little resistance on the part of the Democratic Party. Neither the Obama White House nor the congressional Democrats mounted any serious effort to reverse the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act by enacting new legislation in the years since the reactionary Shelby ruling.
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What If Governor Newsom Is Recalled But He Still Has More Support Than Any Challenger On The Ballot
It doesnt matter. The recall question is determined by majority vote. If more than 50 percent of the voters vote yes on the recall, Mr. Newsom must step down as governor.
The replacement question is determined by who gets the most votes among the challengers on the ballot. So 49.9 percent of the voters can back Mr. Newsom, and he can still lose to someone who is supported by only, say, 20 percent of the electorate. On the replacement question, the winner does not need a majority to be named the next governor.
What Parties And Others Are Saying
California Recall: How Democrats and Republicans are getting out the vote
California Democratic Party: The state’s Democrats urge you to vote “no” on Question 1 and leave Question 2 blank.
California Republican Party: The state’s Republicans want you to vote “yes” on Question 1, but it did not endorse a candidate to replace Newsom.
President Biden:Biden released a statement saying registered California voters should vote no on the recall election by September 14 and keep California moving forward.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:Pelosi said that recalling Newsom would “not good for children and other living things,” and urged Californians to vote “no” in the election.
Los Angeles Times Editorial Board: The Times Editorial Board urged voters to say “no” to Question 1. The boards suggestion for a replacement? Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer “the least terrible of all … bad options.” The board, which is a group of opinion journalists who are not part of Times’ news coverage, said voters should not skip Question 2: Leaving it blank “would hand the decision-making power to others who do vote and those voters may be uninformed, irrationally angry and looking for someone to take a far-right turn on issues like climate change, environmental protection, civil rights, policing and vaccination. Thats too great a gamble. Were left to conclude that voters who oppose the recall should also vote for a replacement even if they have to hold their noses to do so.”
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A Republican win would havemajor implications for the states pandemic response policies over the next year . But the biggest consequence could be national: The United States Senate is divided 50-50, and the oldest senator is 88-year-old Dianne Feinstein of California. If she were to die in office, as , Californias governor would choose her replacement and a Republican governor could flip control of the Senate to Mitch McConnells GOP.
Democrats are optimistic that all of these challenges will be overcome, and that the fundamental partisan dynamics of California will reassert themselves and save Newsom. Most polls show Newsom narrowly leading on the recall question. But that outcome can hardly be taken for granted. In oddly-timed elections, weird things can happen, as Democrats learned when Scott Brown won a Massachusetts Senate seat in January 2010, or as Republicans learned from Doug Joness Alabama Senate seat victory in December 2017.
So there is a possible slow-motion disaster unfolding in California for Democrats but theres also still time for them to avert it, if they can communicate the stakes to their base voters.
What Happens After Sept 14
Counties can begin releasing results on election night at 8 p.m.;
Like other elections in California, the race may not be decided on election night if there are still a large number of outstanding mail-in ballots.;
Counties must finish counting ballots and certify their results by Oct. 14. The Secretary of State will certify the results on Oct. 22. If the governor is recalled, he will need to vacate the office by that date and the winning replacement candidate will be sworn in.;
If Newsom is recalled, his replacement will finish the rest of his term, which ends in early 2023. They would have to run for re-election in 2022 if they want to stay in office after that.
What Do Party Preferences Mean When Listed With Candidates’ Names On The Ballot What Are The Qualified Political Parties And Abbreviations Of Those Party Names
The term “party preference” is now used in place of the term “party affiliation.” A candidate must indicate his or her preference or lack of preference for a qualified political party. If the candidate has a qualified political party preference that qualified political party will be indicated by the candidate’s name on the ballot. If a candidate does not have a qualified political party preference, “Party Preference: None” will be indicated by the candidate’s name on the ballot.
Similarly, voters who were previously known as “decline-to-state” voters are now known as having “no party preference” or known as “NPP” voters.
Abbreviations for the qualified political parties are:
DEM = Democratic Party
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How Are Primary Elections Conducted In California
All candidates for voter-nominated offices are listed on one ballot and only the top two vote-getters in the primary election regardless of party preference – move on to the general election. Write-in candidates for voter-nominated offices can only run in the primary election. A write-in candidate will only move on to the general election if the candidate is one of the top two vote-getters in the primary election.
Prior to the Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, the top vote-getter from each qualified political party, as well as any write-in candidate who received a certain percentage of votes, moved on to the general election.
The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act does not apply to candidates running for U.S. President, county central committee, or local office.
Who Can Run In A Recall
Candidates to replace the governor must be U.S. citizens registered to vote in California, and must pay a filing fee of about $4,000 or submit signatures from 7,000 supporters. They cannot be convicted of certain felonies, and they cannot be the governor up for recall. They have until 59 days before the election to file.
The ballot asks voters two questions: Should the governor be recalled? And if so, who should be the new governor? If the majority of voters say no to the first question, the second is moot. But if more than 50 percent vote yes, the challenger with the most votes becomes the next governor.Critics of the recall contend this is a major flaw because 49.9 percent of the voters could theoretically vote to keep Mr. Newsom, and he could still lose and be replaced by a challenger whose plurality makes up a far smaller sliver of voters. A legal challenge to this effect is pending in federal court in Los Angeles.
The 2003 winner, Mr. Schwarzenegger, had only 48.6 percent of the vote.
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Newsom Has Been Hit With A Perfect Storm Of Bad Timing
At any given moment, there are always recall petitions circulating against every California governor. But they generally fail to obtain the number needed to secure a ballot line in the limited time made available . The Republicans who began a recall drive against Newsom because of his generally progressive views got very lucky in two respects. First, a state judge gave them a four-month extension of the qualification deadline because of the difficulties in signature collection created by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a bit ironic since Newsoms support for COVID-19 prevention policies soon became central to the recall campaign.
But what really sent the campaign into overdrive was a gaffe committed by the governor on November 6, 2020, when he violated his own policies restricting indoor gatherings by attending a birthday party for a wealthy lobbyist friend at one of the states most exclusive restaurants, the French Laundry, in the Napa wine region. Aside from Republicans, small-business owners and public-school parents who were already chafing at Newsoms stay-at-home orders and restrictions on in-person instruction exploded in anger at his apparent hypocrisy, and the petition campaign reached its goals with relative ease.
Why Isnt Californias Lieutenant Governor Automatically Made Governor After A Recall
In some states, such as Oregon and Michigan, if a governor is recalled by voters, the lieutenant governor automatically gets the job. But California law states that voters must choose who replaces the governor in an election.
Of the 19 states that allow recalls of state officials, most leave the choice of replacement in the hands of voters.
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How Californias Gavin Newsom Could Lose His Job To A Republican In A Recall
How does a relatively popular Democratic governor in one of the bluest states in the country find himself at serious risk of losing his job to a Trump-supporting Republican?
The answer in the case of Californias Gavin Newsom is a mix of excitement among conservatives, apathy from everyone else, a confusing process and tensions heightened by the pandemic. Californians will vote by Sept. 14 on whether to kick Newsom out of office three years into his first term. If they do, the candidate currently most likely to replace him is an anti-mask-mandate conservative radio host who cuts against the states liberal slant.
Heres what you need to know to follow the California gubernatorial recall election.
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Larry Elder: A conservative talk radio host based in Los Angeles. Compared to other candidates, Elder jumped into the race late but has surged in fundraising, bringing in nearly $4.5 million in July. The longtime broadcaster is an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump. He has said the minimum wage should start at $0 and be negotiated between workers and employers.
Kevin Faulconer: Before the recall, the former mayor of San Diego was widely seen as a Republican frontrunner to challenge Newsom in 2022. Faulconer has campaigned on his experience leading one of Californias largest cities and working with Democrats on the San Diego City Council. The Republican has proposed zeroing out income taxes for the first $50,000 in earnings. He also says he would increase funding for wildfire prevention.
John Cox: The San Diego businessman faced Newsom in the 2018 governors race and lost by a historic margin. Cox is self-funding his recall bid and has brought props on his statewide tour, including a live bear and an eight-foot ball of trash. Like Faulconer, the CPA and business owner has also proposed a large tax cut for Californians. In a recent debate, he advocated for the completion of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Former Congressman Doug Ose dropped out Aug. 17 after experiencing a heart attack.
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What Are The Key Issues Driving The Recall
Initially, the Republicans who started the recall disagreed with Mr. Newsom on issues like the death penaltyand his opposition to President Donald Trumps policies. The effort was widely viewed as a long shot.
Then two particular factors boosted the campaign: A judge allowed more time for leaders of the recall to gather signatures because of pandemic lockdowns. And growing frustration among some Californians over health restrictions came to a head when Mr. Newsom was seen dining maskless with lobbyists at an expensive, exclusive Napa Valley restaurant called the French Laundryafter asking Californians to wear masks and stay home.
As the pandemic dragged on, recall supporters focused their arguments on the governors response, criticizing it as overly restrictive. Prolonged school closuresdrew ire during the last school year, as did pandemic unemployment fraud.
More recently, proponents have argued that broader social ills such as homelessness have worsened during Mr. Newsoms tenure, that Democrats have de facto one-party rule in California and that the high cost of livingis driving Californians out.
Mr. Newsoms Democratic allies charge that the effort is an undemocratic far-right power grab by Trumpian extremists who would otherwise never see a Republican elected to Californias top state office.
Why Pick On Newsom
Mr. Newsom, 53, the former mayor of San Francisco, has long been a favorite target of Republicans.
His liberal pedigree and deep Democratic connections push an array of G.O.P. buttons. His aunt, for instance, was married for a time to Speaker Nancy Pelosis brother-in-law. Mr. Newsom, a wine merchant, got his start in politics and business with support from the wealthy Getty family. In 2004, he and his first wife, the cable news legal commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle, appeared in a spread for Harpers Bazaar shot at the Getty Villa and titled The New Kennedys.
As mayor, Mr. Newsom made headlines for sanctioning same-sex marriage licenses before they were legal. As governor, he has remained a progressive standard-bearer. He championed ballot initiatives that legalized recreational marijuana and outlawed possession of the high-capacity magazines often used in mass shootings. One of his first acts as governor was to declare a moratorium on executions.
Mr. Newsom is now married to Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker, and is the father of four small children. Ms. Guilfoyle is Donald Trump Jr.s girlfriend.
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Isnt It Hard To Recall A Democrat In California
California is less liberal in the aggregate than its reputation. Some six million Californians voted for Donald J. Trump in the 2020 election. Thats roughly quadruple the number of signatures proponents needed to put a recall onto the ballot, and those were the voters who were targeted.
And increasingly, California races have drawn national money and interest as both parties have come to view the Democratic-dominated state as a stand-in for liberal governance on the national level.
But Democratic voters outnumber Republicans nearly 2-1 in California. The math alone gives Democrats an advantage statewide.
And although Mr. Heatlie and his group describe themselves as mainstream, a significant portion of the energy behind the recall is coming from the fringes. Early rallies to promote it were heavily populated by Proud Boys and anti-vaccination activists. Backers of Mr. Heatlies campaign have made social media posts bashing immigrants and depicting the governor as Hitler.
Microchip all illegal immigrants. It works! Just ask Animal control, Mr. Heatlie himself wrote in a 2019 Facebook post. He now says that the remark was a conversation starter that he did not intend to be taken literally. Polls have shown Mr. Newsom holding his seat handily among all voters, but it is unclear who will vote in this unusual, off-year special election. Polls of likely voters show a far tighter race.
Should California Republicans Unite Behind Larry Elder
The radio host is leading GOP polls ahead of the recall election
California Republicans are not falling in line behind a single candidate in the recall against Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The California Republican party voted not to endorse any of the candidates running in the states upcoming recall during a Saturday morning online convention. The decision comes as right-wing firebrand Larry Elder has surged in recent polling, overshadowing the establishment favorite, former San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer. The candidate who received the endorsement would have been given additional funding and campaign infrastructure. Instead, none of the candidates on the September 14 ballot will have the partys backing.
Originally, party delegates were set to choose between four candidates in different voting rounds where each candidate would be eliminated until the final round. To receive the state partys endorsement, the candidate must meet a 60 percent support threshold among the delegates. Twenty-four hours before the convention, however, party leaders began lobbying delegates to scrap the vote and issue no endorsement, GOP state officials told The Spectator.
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The Mail Ballot Factor Is A Wild Card
Early on, California election authorities decided to proactively send mail ballots to all registered voters, just as they did in the pandemic general election of 2020. They can be returned via enclosed postage paid envelopes or dropped off at voting centers on September 14. So, if California Democrats do become motivated to vote, it wont be hard for them to do so. And you do have to wonder if Donald Trumps demonization of mail ballots during and after the 2020 presidential election might still inhibit Republicans from voting that way, even if there remains an option for turning in ballots in person.
Republicans Introduce 253 Bills To Restrict Voting Rights In States Across The Us
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Republican lawmakers in 43 states have introduced a total of 253 bills aimed at restricting access to the ballot box for tens of millions of people. Republican-controlled states, including Southern states that employed lynch law terror to block African Americans from voting during the decades-long period of Jim Crow segregation, are flooding their legislatures with measures to effectively disenfranchise working class, poor and minority voters.
The laws largely focus on tightening voter ID requirements, purging voter rolls and restricting absentee and mail-in ballots.
In the United States, state governments have the authority to oversee elections and determine election procedures and rules, including for national elections. Within each state, individual counties have a great deal of latitude in the conduct of elections.
Republicans control both the lower and upper legislative houses in 36 of the 50 states, and both the legislatures and governorships in 23 states, making it very possible for far-reaching barriers to the ballot box to be imposed across much of the country.
Despite opening the door for a return to restrictive and discriminatory voting practices, the 2013 ruling met with little resistance on the part of the Democratic Party. Neither the Obama White House nor the congressional Democrats mounted any serious effort to reverse the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act by enacting new legislation in the years since the reactionary Shelby ruling.
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What If Governor Newsom Is Recalled But He Still Has More Support Than Any Challenger On The Ballot
It doesnt matter. The recall question is determined by majority vote. If more than 50 percent of the voters vote yes on the recall, Mr. Newsom must step down as governor.
The replacement question is determined by who gets the most votes among the challengers on the ballot. So 49.9 percent of the voters can back Mr. Newsom, and he can still lose to someone who is supported by only, say, 20 percent of the electorate. On the replacement question, the winner does not need a majority to be named the next governor.
What Parties And Others Are Saying
California Recall: How Democrats and Republicans are getting out the vote
California Democratic Party: The state’s Democrats urge you to vote “no” on Question 1 and leave Question 2 blank.
California Republican Party: The state’s Republicans want you to vote “yes” on Question 1, but it did not endorse a candidate to replace Newsom.
President Biden:Biden released a statement saying registered California voters should vote no on the recall election by September 14 and keep California moving forward.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:Pelosi said that recalling Newsom would “not good for children and other living things,” and urged Californians to vote “no” in the election.
Los Angeles Times Editorial Board: The Times Editorial Board urged voters to say “no” to Question 1. The boards suggestion for a replacement? Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer “the least terrible of all … bad options.” The board, which is a group of opinion journalists who are not part of Times’ news coverage, said voters should not skip Question 2: Leaving it blank “would hand the decision-making power to others who do vote and those voters may be uninformed, irrationally angry and looking for someone to take a far-right turn on issues like climate change, environmental protection, civil rights, policing and vaccination. Thats too great a gamble. Were left to conclude that voters who oppose the recall should also vote for a replacement even if they have to hold their noses to do so.”
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It’s a true, Inland Southern California-Southern Paiute/Chemehuevi story that took place in the fall 1909 in a geographic area including the San Gorgonio Pass and southern Mojave Desert, told and retold for more than 100 years, perpetually shrouded in a gray space between fiction and reality.
Ruth Nolan grew up in the Mojave Desert and now teaches creative writing at College of the Desert. (Courtesy of Pablo Aguilar)
It’s the story of Willie Boy and his escape from a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s posse, billed for decades as our region’s last manhunt, in which Willie was killed by the posse in a gun battle at Ruby Mountain. But, as more of the story has emerged over time, an entirely different version has surfaced, particularly as told by our region’s Native people themselves: Willie Boy actually escaped.
I became interested in this epic event as a child, after my father took our family to see the movie “Tell Them Willie Boy is Here” in 1973, starring Robert Redford and Robert Blake. Years later, as a scholar of California desert literature, I began to compile everything I could find. The body of work on this event, including essays, short stories, films, plays, songs and artwork, is voluminous.
Now, prolific Indigenous scholar-author Clifford Trafzer, with oral testimony from Southern Paiute-Nuwuvi elders – some of them family members of those involved — has written an up-to-date, accurate, and critically important rendering of this long-told story in “Willie Boy & the Last Western Manhunt,” published by Coyote Hill Press.
With care and masterful storytelling, Trafzer provides a Native cultural-historic context to the story of Willie Boy, noting in his preface that “the divergence in the stories told about Willie Boy especially concerning actions following the death of William Mike, are rooted in cultural disparities. The Chemehuevi story surrounding the Willie Boy affair differs greatly from that of the posse.”
With extensive input and support from tribal elders, members of the Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians, Chemehuevi people living today near Havasu Landing, California, and Parker, Arizona, Trafzer details that “to fully understand what occurred … cultural issues inherent to Native culture, especially tribal marriage laws …. must be appreciated.” His book also conveys a powerfully expressed rendering of the knowledge, culture, landscape, power, song, ceremony and family inherent to the Nuwuvi people.
This story has captured the attention of people locally and afar. Details — often vastly incorrect — have been written about primarily by non-Native authors in many news outlets, including the New York Times and the old Desert Magazine, and in the 1960 novel “Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt” by UC Riverside historian Harry Lawton, to name a few.
Until now, the only literary book that included Nuwuvi testimony — which disputes the claim that Willie Boy killed himself, and establishes the truth, that he escaped capture, to live many more years in the northern Mojave – is “Willie Boy: Indian Hating and Popular Culture,” by James Sandos and Larry Burgess, published in 1994.
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Trafzer’s book discusses the life of Willie Boy – a Chemehuevi Spirit Runner – as he negotiated his way between his traditional culture and the rapid encroachments of Anglo cultures into his Mojave Desert homeland, and his romantic involvement with the teenaged Carlota Mike, a cousin. Due to strict tribal laws forbidding their romance because they were too closely related, they were separated by family members, and yet continued to pursue one another. Trafzer’s telling of the Chemehuevi creation story and discussions of culturally-impactful influences upon the Chemehuevi people of the early 20th century — including the teachings of the Ghost Dance Prophet Wovoka, a Northern Paiute man, as well as rapid urbanization and presence of non-Natives — provide deep insights into the tragic events that transpired in 1909 from an Indigenous perspective. This is a perspective that has long been sidelined and has now found its rightful voice in the pages of this book.
In addition to offering the correct telling of this story — Carlota was killed accidentally by a member of the sheriff’s posse, not by Willie Boy, and, critically, Willie Boy escaped the posse following a shootout at Ruby Mountain — Trafzer goes into great detail to depict what happened to Willie Boy after he escaped. He continues the story to trace Willie Boy’s journey into the northern Mojave, where he finds a home and, critically, spiritual re-connections and healing with the Pahrump Band of the Chemehuevi.
He also discusses the little-publicized impacts — many of them difficult — of this “watershed” event on the Chemehuevi and other Indigenous people in the fallout that followed, particularly those living at the Twentynine Palms Oasis. In this book, Trafzer conveys how the behaviors and actions of Willie Boy greatly impacted, and continue to impact, the lives of Chemehuevi people then and now.
“Willie Boy & the Last Western Manhunt” also continues the story into the present day: Trafzer dedicates a good part of his book to the inception and production of a new major film, “The Last Manhunt,” dedicated to telling the story of Willie Boy from its rightful and accurate Chemehuevi perspective.
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In 2019, Indigenous actor Jason Momoa and Native Hawai’an screenwriter Thomas Pa’a Sibbett reached out to Dean and Darrell Mike to ask permission to begin discussions with Trafzer as a starting base for this film. With extensive involvement and participation in the making of this film from Chemehuevi people and a primarily Native cast of actors, including members of the Mike family, the film is the next chapter of this story, set in its rightful place.
Trafzer’s book is a critical read for all who are aware of the story of Willie Boy and Carlota, and an important landmark in Native people voicing their own versions of deeply impactful events directly involving them. For in this book, colorfully written in engaging narrative prose, the story has finally come home to where it belongs: the storied Indigenous landscape of the Mojave Desert and the Nuwuvi, who have lived and loved here for so very long.
Ruth Nolan grew up in the Mojave Desert and now teaches creative writing at College of the Desert. She’s a desert conservationist and author and editor of “No Place for a Puritan: the Literature of California’s Deserts.”
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762 – Baghdad is founded.
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
1656 – The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
1866 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the then longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
1971 – Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1978 – The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
1981 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
1990 – Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2011 – Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
2014 – Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
2020 – NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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As Canada sees record temperature of over 118 degrees amid heat wave, police warn of deaths
(Washington Post) Lytton, a village in British Columbia, became the first place in Canada to record a temperature above 113 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, with the thermometer hitting 116 degrees. But that national record did not last for long. On Monday, according to government weather agency Environment Canada, Lytton saw temperatures soar to just above 118 degrees on Monday. That is one degree higher than the record in Las Vegas, the desert city more than a thousand miles south of Lytton. In Burnaby, neighboring Vancouver in British Columbia, local law enforcement announced Tuesday that they had responded to more than 25 “sudden death” calls in 24 hours. Though the causes of death were still being investigated, police said that many of the victims were elderly and that the heat was suspected to be a contributing factor. In nearby Surrey, police had responded to 22 sudden-death calls Monday and 13 by midday Tuesday. Canada’s record comes amid a severe heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, with records Monday of 116 degrees in Portland, Ore., and 108 degrees in Seattle.
The power grid problem
(Washington Post) In the punishing heat wave that has struck the Pacific Northwest, about 17,000 electricity customers were without power Monday evening. Nearly 20,000 more were in blackouts in Idaho, Oregon, California and Nevada. Those aren’t devastating numbers, but they are a reminder that the electric grid in America is frayed and always operating close to the edge. The high temperatures come just four months after Texas power was poleaxed by the February freeze, and only two weeks after the Texas grid wobbled again in its own heat wave. A year ago, California experienced failures on a wide scale. A compromise reached in the Senate would pump billions of dollars into upgrading the nation’s electricity system, if it becomes law, but the need is immense. And at the same time the Biden administration is pushing for electric cars, trucks and buses, and a widespread conversion to electric heating, all while slashing the emissions of greenhouse gases. The nation’s already strained power grid is either at a turning point or poised to dash all those clean-power visions as it crumbles under the new stresses being placed on it.
Millions skipped church during pandemic. Will they return?
(AP) With millions of people having stayed home from places of worship during the coronavirus pandemic, struggling congregations have one key question: How many of them will return? As the pandemic recedes in the United States and in-person services resume, worries of a deepening slide in attendance are universal. Some houses of worship won’t make it. Smaller organizations with older congregations that struggled to adapt during the pandemic are in the greatest danger of a downward spiral from which they can’t recover, said the Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School and co-pastor of a church in Boston. On the Maine coast, the pandemic proved to be the last straw for the 164-year-old Waldoboro United Methodist Church. Even before COVID-19 swept the world, weekly attendance had dipped to 25 or 30 at the white-clapboard New England church that could hold several hundred worshippers. The number further dwindled to five or six before the final service was held Sunday, said the Rev. Gregory Foster. About three-quarters of Americans who attended religious services in person at least monthly before the pandemic say they are likely to do so again in the next few weeks, according to a recent AP-NORC poll. That’s up slightly from the about two-thirds who said in May 2020 that they would if they were allowed to do so. But 7% said they definitely won’t be attending. Some may continue online. Eight in 10 congregants in the U.S. reported that their services were being streamed online, Pew said.
America’s workers are exhausted and burned out—and some employers are taking notice
(Washington Post) Meg Trowbridge’s plans for the week are pretty simple. She’ll take long, meandering walks and explore some new parks and visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the first time since 2019—all on company time. In pre-pandemic times, Trowbridge would have joined colleagues from around the world at Mozilla’s annual two-week off-site meeting—last held in Berlin in January 2020—a mix of creative work and networking that left her both exhilarated and exhausted, she said. Instead of shifting that program online for a week of Zooms, Mozilla is shutting down the entire company for a “Wellness Week,” which will lead into the Fourth of July weekend. It dovetails with another initiative the company formalized this past January, a “Wellness Day,” or companywide day off, once a month every month this year. All 12 are scheduled for Fridays to tack onto the weekend. It’s not just Mozilla. Employers across the country, from Fortune 500 companies such as PepsiCo and Verizon to boutique advertising firms and nonprofit organizations, are continuing pandemic benefits such as increased paid time off and child- or elder-care benefits as well as embracing flexible work schedules and remote work in recognition that a returning workforce is at high risk of burnout. About 40 percent of Americans say they felt burned out while working at home this past year, according to a March Ipsos poll. Some 42 percent said they would look for another job if required to return to the office full-time, and 72 percent said they wanted more flexibility regarding going back into work.
British CCTV
(CNN/UK News) The British government has been handed an embarrassingly disturbing reminder that leaks will always happen, and people outside of government will always want to see them. Last Friday, Matt Hancock, a married senior cabinet official, was caught on a security camera in his private office canoodling with an also-married female adviser. The tape was leaked to the press, and a newspaper published photos of the tryst. The now-former Health Secretary, who resigned on Saturday, said he had no idea there was a CCTV camera in his office; it was reportedly hidden inside a smoke detector. What’s freaking out his Westminster colleagues isn’t the fact that the woman wasn’t Hancock’s wife, or that the pictures meant Hancock was breaking his own government’s Covid rules. It’s the enormous security implications surrounding the kinds of sensitive conversations that take place in the official offices of the most senior people in the government of a G7 nation. The fact a camera ended up in the office of a senior cabinet minister could just as easily have been an error rather than conspiracy. But even if the camera’s existence was a mistake, and the content of the leak wasn’t of huge national importance, anyone with a top-level government job should know they are always at risk of being watched. Modern espionage often preys on weak links and amateurish mistakes. If the camera footage had been exploited by an enemy, Hancock could have been open to blackmail.
U.S. military commander in Afghanistan warns of chaotic civil war
(Washington Post) The top American military commander in Afghanistan expressed deep concern Tuesday that the country could slide into a chaotic civil war and face “very hard times” unless its fractious civilian leadership united and the haphazard array of armed groups joining the anti-Taliban fight were controlled and made “accountable” for their actions in battle. The bleak assessment by Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller, who met with journalists, came as Taliban forces continued their rapid advance across northern Afghan provinces and expanded into other rural regions. The insurgents also began drawing closer in a circle around the capital city. In the past several days, officials and Afghan media reported, Taliban fighters have overrun parts of three provinces, all just short drives from Kabul on highways running north and south. They also attacked security posts in a third area that hugs the city’s western border. By some experts’ estimates, Taliban forces control as many as 140 of the country’s 370 districts and are active or influential in 170 others. U.S. and Afghan military officials alike have given much lower estimates, but more districts continue to fall to the Taliban almost daily.
China remakes Hong Kong
(NYT) With each passing day, the boundary between Hong Kong and the rest of China fades faster. The Chinese Communist Party is remaking this city, permeating its once vibrant, irreverent character with ever more overt signs of its authoritarian will. The very texture of daily life is under assault as Beijing molds Hong Kong into something more familiar, more docile. Residents now swarm police hotlines with reports about disloyal neighbors or colleagues. Teachers have been told to imbue students with patriotic fervor through 48-volume book sets called “My Home Is in China.” Public libraries have removed dozens of books from circulation, including one about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Hong Kong is now a montage of scenes unfamiliar and, for many, unsettling. Police officers have been trained to goose-step in the Chinese military fashion, replacing decades of British-style marching. City leaders regularly denounce “external elements” bent on undermining the country’s stability. Armed with the expansive national security law it imposed on the city one year ago, Beijing is pushing to turn Hong Kong into another of its mainland megacities: economic engines where dissent is immediately smothered.
Kim Jong Un’s shakeup
(Foreign Policy) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accused officials of causing a “great crisis” in the country’s COVID-19 response that would lead to “grave consequences,” North Korean state media reported on Wednesday, a rare acknowledgement of the pandemic as North Korea officially claims to be free of the virus. State media said that several Workers Party members had been replaced over the unspecified incident, including one of its powerful five-member Politburo standing committee known as the Presidium. The publication of Kim’s remarks comes soon after the leader admitted to a “tense” food situation in the country.
Lockdown measures extended in Australia amid COVID-19 outbreak
(Reuters) Australian officials extended lockdown and social distancing measures to more of the country on Wednesday, with four major cities already under a hard lockdown in a race to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant. Around one in two Australians are under stay-at-home orders, with millions of others subjected to movement curbs and mandatory mask-wearing amid COVID-19 flare-ups in several locations.
Economic crisis, severe shortages make Lebanon ‘unlivable’
(AP) Ibrahim Arab waits in line several hours a day in the hot summer sun to buy gas for his taxi. When he’s not working, the 37-year-old father of two drives from one Beirut pharmacy to another, looking for baby formula for his 7-month-old son—any he can find—even though the infant got severe diarrhea and vomiting from an unfamiliar brand. He worries what would happen if his children got really sick. Once among the best in the region, Lebanon’s hospitals are struggling amid the country’s economic and financial crisis that has led to daily power outages that last for hours, shortages of diesel fuel for backup generators, and a lack of medical equipment and drugs. After 20 months of suffering with no end in sight, a new reality is setting in for most of Lebanon’s estimated 6 million people: Days filled with severe shortages—from spare parts for cars to medicine, fuel and other basic goods in the import-dependent country. “My life was already difficult, and now the gasoline crisis only made things worse,” Arab said on a recent day. To survive, he works a second job at a Beirut grocery store, but his monthly income in Lebanese pounds has lost 95% of its purchase power. “I wish I had the opportunity to leave. This country is unlivable,” Arab said.
Anger in the West Bank
(Washington Post) Palestinians and advocacy groups continued Tuesday to protest the recent death of a local anti-corruption activist in custody of Palestinian security forces. For days, marchers have braved beatings and intimidation to rally in cities across the West Bank. In Ramallah, Hebron and Bethlehem, demonstrations have called for an independent investigation of the death of Nizar Banat, a vocal critic of the governing Palestinian Authority, and for President Mahmoud Abbas to step down from his 16-year rule. Banat was beaten by security officers when they pulled him from bed in a predawn raid on June 24, witnesses said. Officials announced two hours later that he had died, blaming an unspecified health problem. The official pushback against the demonstrations has been violent, with riot police deploying tear gas and reportedly assaulting female protesters. Video showed plainclothes security officers and Fatah supporters attacking protesters with rocks and clubs at a weekend rally of several hundred in Ramallah. Officers confiscated cellphones from marchers shooting video and reporters have had cameras broken.
Trapped in Ethiopia’s Tigray, people ‘falling like leaves’
(AP) The plea arrived from a remote area that had so far produced only rumors and residents fleeing for their lives. Help us, the letter said, stamped and signed by a local official. At least 125 people have already starved to death. Trapped in one of the most inaccessible areas of Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region, beyond the reach of aid, people “are falling like leaves,” the official said. The letter dated June 16, obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by a Tigray regional health official, is a rare insight into the most urgent unknown of the war between Ethiopian forces backed by Eritrea and Tigray’s former leaders: What’s the fate of hundreds of thousands of people cut off from the world for months? The letter that reached the regional capital, Mekele, this month from the cut-off central district of Mai Kinetal was just the second plea of its kind. But the letter from Mai Kinetal offered badly needed, well-compiled data that lay out the devastation line by line: At least 440 people have died, and at least 558 have been victims of sexual violence. More than 5,000 homes have been looted. Thousands of livestock have been taken. Tons of crops have been burned.
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