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Boujou!
We have a slightly abbreviated version this morning, but it's all in service of a good cause.
Later today, I'll be posting a diary announcing this year's blogathon to fight hunger in America. And this year, we're taking a bit of a different approach: We're focusing on food justice specifically for underserved populations, including those in Indian Country, and on local community programs designed to help provide nutritious food raised in sustainable ways. It's a two-fer: fighting hunger while supporting food sovereignty and food justice.
We know from the experiences described by Native Kossacks that national and international programs often fail miserably at both. We've heard about established groups, founded, funded, and run by outsiders, whose idea of "charity" is to drop off cases of soda at some of our most economically-depressed reservations. We've heard about the nationally acclaimed "anti-hunger" organizations whose state affiliates supply local food banks, who often had nothing available by candy, chips, and soda for Okiciyap, which serves a population devastated by diabetes. And we know that the big programs routinely impose from without, rather than helping local underserved communities as the fight to serve their own specific needs.
So this year, we're going to bring some of those local programs, and their organizers and activists, to you. You'll get a chance to learn about what they do, and how you can help. And this week, you can make a real difference in supporting food justice and food sovereignty. And you can help save lives.
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS ELECTS BRIAN CLADOOSBY PRESIDENT FOR 2014 TERM
As noted in last week's edition, the National Congress of American Indians [NCAI], the nation's oldest and largest organization dedicated to tribal nations, held its 70th Annual Convention & Marketplace last week in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At each annual convention, the NCAI chooses its leadership for the coming year. This year, NCAI delegates chose Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Chair Brian Cladoosby as their 2014 President.
Mr. Cladoosby has long been an activist on environmental, sovereignty, and treaty rights issues. He also has extensive experience with tribal governance, having spent 29 years in the Swinomish Senate and 17 as the Community's most recent President. He has a background in intertribal relations, serving a recent three-year term as president of The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, as well as a stint on the NCAI Board of Directors, on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Tribal Operations Committee, and on Washington State's Skagit Council of Governments.
"Chairman Cladoosby has just what it takes to run NCAI. I just watched Brian in action last week as he ran the annual summit between Washington’s 29 tribes, Governor Jay Inslee, and his agency heads," said Chris Stearns, a Navajo lawyer with Hobbs Straus and advisor to former NCAI President Tex Hall. "He did a masterful job and it shows that he not only has the respect of some of the country’s most important leaders but that he knows how to get work done and do so in a way that makes everyone walk away feeling empowered."
Once he made the decision to run for the office, Mr. Cladoosby did so with his usual dedication to certain causes. He issued a statement explaining some of his reasons for running, which he posted on his Facebook page and which Indian Country Today Media Network reproduced in part in its coverage of his candidacy:
"I believe that we live in historic times. When my grandfather's grandfather signed the Point Elliott Treaty [in 1855], he probably could not have imagined the world that we live in today, but he thought about my grandchildren, Bella and Nathaniel. They are the seventh generation since our treaty was signed. Today, we are called to think about the seven generations to come and the world we will leave for them."
Cladoosby said indigenous nations "have been blessed by our Creator with tremendous gifts" with which to confront the challenges of the day: Tribal governments' ability to tax activities within reservation borders, ensuring there are educational opportunities for young people and quality health services for families and elders, protection of natural resources, and responding appropriately to climate change.
"Our teachings, our spiritual ways, the wisdom of our elders, the inspiration of our children and strong tribal leaders from across Indian country lift us up and give us strength to meet these challenges every day," he said.
The challenges, of course, are legion. Economic disparity and poverty present an ongoing enormity, one that threatens to worsen in the very short term for many tribes as winter approaches and funding sources remain out of reach. Environmental degradation and climate change are very real threats to all tribes, but for some (including some in Mr. Cladoosby's part of the country), they present an actual, imminent existential crisis. And as resources grow ever scarcer, we can expect increasing attacks on sovereignty and on treaty rights across the board. And if 2013 is any indicator, American Indians will be faced with major battles in the halls of both the U.S. Congress and the SCOTUS, to say nothing of the 50 states.
Mr. Cladoosby appears to be one of those rare individuals who has truly been able to walk in two worlds: He brings a sense of vibrancy, youth, and progressivism to the organization and its agenda, while remaining a traditional through and through, one who already enjoys the respect afforded to tribal elders. His election is exciting and encouraging, and should make Indians look forward to his 2014 term with hope for a "new day" for Indian Country, as well.
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AT 2013 CONVENTION, NCAI HONORS DUSTEN BROWN
Speaking of last week's NCAI Convention, the group took the unusual step of honoring Dusten Brown [Cherokee], the father of now-stolen Baby Veronica, in a special ceremony on Tuesday evening.
The ceremony also recognized and honored Mr. Brown's status as a warrior: A veteran of the Iraq War, he is currently attached to a unit of the Oklahoma National Guard.
During a ceremony that featured drumming and Native American songs, tribal members wrapped a brightly colored prayer quilt around Brown. The gift is intended to comfort him on the days he misses his daughter. Brown was also presented with an eagle feather to honor his service in the military.
"He is a good man, a good soldier and a good father," said S. Joe Crittenden, deputy principal chief of the Tahlequah-based Cherokee Nation. "Veronica will always be a Cherokee citizen, and we look forward to the day she comes home to Dusten."
As also noted in last week's edition of this series, Mr. Brown and his family were at last forced by circumstances to drop their battle to save his daughter. It has to be difficult for a warrior to engage in what must feel like a retreat, but a military strategist has one eye firmly on the long-term result, and in this case, that was trying to do what was best for his daughter.
Sandy White Hawk, who works on Native American adoption cases, called on attendees to pray for Brown and for Matt and Melanie Capobianco, Veronica's adoptive parents.
"Pray for all the Veronicas in our communities; all the Dustens in our communities," she also said.
According to reports, Mr. Brown did not speak throughout the entire ceremony.
This community knows well the power of quilts. Perhaps the prayer quilt wrapped around him will keep both Dusten and Veronica enfolded in each others' hearts until she's old enough to return on her own.
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More "This Week In American Indian News" & Latest Updates on Kossack Regional Meet-Up News Below the Frybead Thingey
GOVERNMENT REOPENS, BUT TRIBES STILL FEEL SHUTDOWN'S FALLOUT
I wrote here two weeks ago about the effects that the Republicans' childish tantrum irresponsible shutdown would have on tribes throughout Indian Country. Predictably, tribal nations were among the first and the hardest hit.
In addition to direct federal assistance for foster care, health, education and other programs, many of them rely on the U.S. government to oversee and disburse revenues generated by reservation activities such as oil and gas development. Those funds, too, were tied up by the shutdown because the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs lacked the manpower to process payments.
Now that the government has re-opened, for most of the country, it's back to business more or less as usual. But for too many Indian nations, that's not the case.
Many Indian tribes are among the nation's poorest demographics already. As I noted on Labor Day, at least 15 tribal nations have unemployment rates of more than 80%; two exceed 90%. The so-called "Great Recession of 2008" (a/k/a the Bush Recession) has had grossly disparate negative impacts on American Indians, whether living on or off a reservation. The percentage of Native Americans reported as part of the national labor force is the lowest of any ethnic group, as is the percentage classified as "employed"; they have the second-highest rate of unemployment (as defined by federal standards) of any ethnic group in the country, second only to that of African Americans.
Against this backdrop, this year's sequester has been devastating for many tribes. In many areas, the cuts have decimated — and in some cases, have utterly destroyed — programs to feed the hungry; protect women, children, and elders from domestic violence; provide care for children and elders in need; maintain housing and furnish heat; provide basic medical care; keep suicide prevention programs running; and even keep schools open. Now, the shutdown has left in its wake an even greater swath of destruction of basic services.
On Montana's Crow Indian Reservation, about 30 home health providers were among employees that remained furloughed Thursday with no word on when they might return to work, said Todd Wilson, director of the tribe's health department.
The indefinite loss of those jobs leaves families with elderly or disabled members few options for care, tribal officials said.
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On Montana's Fort Belknap Reservation, the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes are considering taking out a loan of almost $2 million to cover the cost of home heating for the poor, medical transportation, meals for seniors and other programs that were continued through the shutdown with tribal money, said tribal President Tracy "Ching" King.
In places like Spirit Lake, already suffering from devastating economic poverty and struggling to survive under the microscope of white Republican politicians looking for any excuse to steal their children and their sovereignty, the shutdown has worked to keep families apart, just as it has for a catastrophically ill Crow child:
Three children from the Spirit Lake Tribe will not be reconciling with their mom this week because the Bureau of Indian Affairs social worker required to be present at a custody hearing on Friday had been furloughed. A boy from the Crow Tribe with a rare form of cancer can expect his parents to be with him at the hospital for just one month of his six-month treatment regime because the tribe’s medical assistance program does not anticipate having enough money to keep them in a Ronald McDonald House any longer.
This was entirely predictable. Among Indians, it's safe to say that it was expected.
"When things like this happen, it usually trickles down to the poorest of the poor, and Native Americans, per capita, are in the lowest spectrum of income in the U.S.," said Brian Cladoosby, president-elect of the National Congress of American Indians and chairman of Washington state's Swinomish Tribe.
"D.C. has to get their act together. They have to quit running the government by chaos," he said. "We are getting impacted by that type of government."
"Government by chaos" is being generous. It's actually government by vendetta.
Tribal leaders are relieved that the shutdown is over for now, but they realize the risk that another one may be inflicted on the country in a matter of months. It makes planning difficult, particularly when winter is on the way (and in some areas, apparently already here).
California's Yurock Tribe expects to have 60 furloughed workers back on the job within 48 hours, said the tribe's vice chairman, Susan Masten. That comes after the tribe shut down a wide range of programs Oct. 7, including tutoring programs for students, funds for the elderly, college scholarships, and general assistance payments to about 50 families.
Masten said she fears that in a few months, when the current budget deal expires, those programs could be threatened yet again.
And Mr. King, the President of the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes, remains worried about the consequences of taking out a loan. But they desperately need to cover their $2 million shortfall, and if things go bad in the Beltway again, the lack of this small safety net could be ruinous:
A loan would sap the tribes' budget since they would have to pay an unspecified amount of interest. But King said there was little choice, and that the money would protect against a repeat scenario should congressional budget negotiations again unravel in coming months.
Meanwhile, as a result of the sequester, the Impact Aid that funds Indian schools remains out of reach. A new cycle of grant funding, on which a multitude of tribal schools and programs depend, begins November 1, but no one knows the extent to which the shutdown will effect the availability of that funding beginning next month. And with WIC funds halted during the shutdown and SNAP funds set for reduction effective November 1, Native children and families both on and off reservations are at greatly increased risk of going hungry.
And this is why what we do here — the Food Justice Blogathon, the Propane Project, raising funds for Okiciyap — is so important. When the other side is doing its best to ensure that government cannot perform its most basic functions, sometimes efforts like these are all that stand between too many people and starvation, freezing, and worse.
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NEZ PERCE FIGHTING EXTRACTIVE CORPORATIONS
TO PRESERVE ENVIRONMENT, SACRED LANDS
In recent weeks, we've covered stories of multiple tribal nations fighting back hard against the rapacious land and resource consumption of extractive corporations. This week, it's the Nez Perce — or, as they call themselves, the Nimi'ipuu, the French "Nez Perce" label being predictably inaccurate anyway.
The tribal nation has resolved to take on some of the world's largest, most powerful energy companies, all in the service of protecting their lands and their rights.
US Highway 12 runs through the Nez Perce reservation and the tribe’s historic cultural territory, along the Clearwater and Lochsa rivers. It’s also the cheapest route for the Exxon Mobil, Conoco Phillips and General Electric corporations to transport giant oil-processing equipment, from manufacturers in Asia for use in the tar sands of Alberta, in Canada. The shipments, called “mega-loads”, are too big to fit beneath overpasses on larger highways. They take up the entire width of the two lane highway.
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Meanwhile, worry that megaloads would harm the habitat of salmon that swarm in the Clearwater and Lochsa got the Nez Perce involved. Aaron Penney runs the tribe’s state of the art fish hatchery on the banks of the Clearwater.
"The river system here has been our lifeblood for thousands and thousands of years," he says. "My worry about the megaloads is that it’s the tip of the iceberg leading to something bigger and possibly more dangerous to the environment."
In August, hundreds of Nez Perce blocked the highway inside the reservation, halting a General Electric mega load. This cellphone video was recorded by one of the demonstrators. Over several nights of peaceful protest, dozens were arrested by Idaho state troopers and Triabl police. Alicia Oatman, a Nez Perce mother of two, was one of them.
"I was picked up, by two state police officers, and manhandled," she says. "I was bruised severely and my arms were hurt."
Ms. Oatman's experience, of course, will come as no surprise to the thousands of other Native activists who have staged blockades of convoys, equipment, and other assets belonging to Keystone XL and similar corporations. Violence against the activists, including women, is by now an anticipated side effect.
But Ms. Oatman's bruises were not in vain. Thus far, that convoy was the last megaload to traverse Highway 12. Eleven days ago, a federal judge enjoined the corporations from transporting any more megaloads along highway 12 until appropriate environmental and cultural impact studies have been completed and analyzed.
It was, of course, the tribe's own Chief Joseph who, in 1877, sought to protect his surviving people by announcing: "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
His descendants have adopted that most famous "no more" and repurposed it to protect their people once again:
"We are not gonna stand by and let this happen," declares Nez Perce tribal chairman Silas Whitman.
"We are not gonna go away. It affects our homeland, and our resources, and our way of life, our treaty culture, everything that we are about, and we are not going to see a re-visit of what happened to us in the past. No more."
I have to think that Chief Joseph would be proud.
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CITING DISCRIMINATORY SENTENCING PRACTICES, FEDERAL JUDGE URGES RELEASE OF NATIVE WOMAN FROM PRISON
A 94-year-old white federal judge has taken up the cause of an American Indian woman from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, convicted six years ago in the death of her child and now in her sixth year of a ten-year prison sentence.
The case is not entirely what it seems from the above description, nor is its disposition — and those are precisely the points that the Honorable Myron Bright sought to make in a speech before a University of North Dakota School of Law forum on disparities in sentencing of American Indians compared to non-Indians convicted of comparable crimes.
The woman is Dana Deegan, now 40. In 1998, when she was 25, she gave birth to a son, her fourth child. Suffering from severe postpartum depression, she wrapped him in a blanket and laid him in his crib. She then gathered her other three children and left her trailer home. In the throes of her illness, she failed to return for two weeks; when she did, of course, the infant was dead.
Authorities didn't charge Ms. Deegan until several years had passed. When they did, they charged her with first-degree murder, which would have carried a sentence of anywhere from decades to life in prison. Faced with that choice, she agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder, and was sentenced to ten years in the federal women's prison in Waseca, Minnesota.
A horrible case? Of course. A tragedy? Certainly. A crime? Ah, you see, that depends.
On what? Well, for one, on the race of the mother involved.
Keep in mind that this is not speculation. This can shown from sentencing records (and some examples appear in Judge Bright's dissent).
In often strong tones showing anger, Bright described how unjust Deegan’s sentence seems to him.
In 1998, a North Dakota State University student was convicted in state court in Fargo in a comparable death of her infant and was sentenced to probation, Bright said. In 2009, a Bismarck woman was sentenced in her baby’s death to two years behind bars, he said.
When Deegan appealed her sentence to the 8th Circuit in 2010, the court rejected her appeal 2-1. Bright’s was the dissenting vote.
In his dissent, he wrote that the history of violence against Indian women only added to the phenomenon doctors call “neonaticide,” of mothers under post-partum mental strain causing their babies’ deaths shortly after birth.
“The violence against women and children on Indian reservations is a national scandal,” he wrote, saying it must be solved by fixing a broken system.
When the mother is white, mitigating circumstances post-partum depression is taken into account. The whole affair is labeled a tragedy, and great care is taken that the "incident" not "ruin the mother's whole life."
When the mother is Indian, it's evidence of mens rea, of a being not merely a bad parent but a bad person, of pure criminality. There are no mitigating circumstances.
The lawyer in me — particularly, the specialist in judicial ethics that I used to be — is shocked that a sitting judge would involve himself so personally in a case that came before him.
The realist in me knows that it happens all the time in the dominant culture, in ways large and small. There's nearly always a thumb on the scale, and the race of the defendant is all too often the determining factor in whether that thumb is weighted in favor of the defendant or the system.
And the Indian in me wants to stand up and cheer because at last, someone on the bench is willing to say publicly what we've all always known privately: that that thumb is indeed on the scale, and weighting it against Native defendants. More, that someone is actually fighting for one of us.
Do not, for one moment, mistake what I'm saying here. Ms. Deegan committed a crime, and an especially tragic one. A little Indian boy who today would have been fifteen years old, very nearly a young man, died as a result of her actions. But even in 1998, we knew what severe post-partum depression could do, and had Ms. Deegan been white and living in a non-reservation environment, resources would much more likely have been readily available to protect her child and help her cope; failing that, compassion would have been shown in whether and how she was prosecuted, much less convicted and sentenced.
For the real Dana Deegan, however, a Native woman living on one of the country's poorest reservations, not only were such resources inaccessible, but she was guaranteed prosecution, conviction, and a harsh sentence.
And that is obscene.
You can read Judge Bright's dissent here, beginning on page 17 [.pdf].
Dana Deegan's family and allies have launched a petition drive seeking clemency. You can learn how to support that effort here.
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:: COMMUNITY BUILDING UPDATES ::
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Let's build communities!
Every region needs a meatspace community like SFKossacks.
We take care of each other in real life.
I urge YOU to take the lead and organize one in your region.
Please tell us about it if you do and we're here for advice.
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THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY
>>>Instructions on HOW TO FORM A NEW DAILY KOS GROUP
NEW GROUPS IN THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZING:
Send a Kosmail to the organizers and ask for an invitation to the group.
• Northern Indiana Area: Kosmail Tim Delaney
• Long Island: Kosmail grannycarol
• Northern Michigan: Kosmail JillS
• Nebraska: Kosmail Nebraska68847Dem
• Westburbia Chicago Kossacks: Kosmail Majordomo
• New York Hudson Valley Kossacks: Kosmail boran2
• North Carolina Triangle Kossacks: Kosmail highacidity
• Caprock Kossacks (Panhandle/Caprock/Lubbock/Amarillo area) : Kosmail shesaid
• West Texas Kossacks (including Big Bend Region and El Paso) : Kosmail Yo Bubba
Note to the above new leaders: Feel free to leave a comment any day reminding readers about your new group. Also, tell us about your progress in gathering members. Kosmail me when you've chosen a good name for your group and have created a the group. Then I'll move you to the NEW GROUPS LIST. When you've planned a date for your first event I'll make a banner for you to highlight your event in our diaries and your diaries.
These are the groups that have started since * NEW DAY * began. Please Kosmail navajo if you have started a group before that.
NEW GROUPS LIST:
• California Central Valley Kossacks - Formed: Jul 29, 2012, Organizer: tgypsy
• New England Kossacks - Formed: Aug 6, 2012, Organizers:
Clytemnestra for Lower New England (Conneticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island)
nhox42 for Upper New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont)
• Houston Area Kossacks - Formed: Aug 7, 2012, Organizer: Chrislove
• Kossacks in India - Formed: Aug 14, 2012, Organizer: chandu
• CenTex Kossacks - Formed: Sep 9, 2012, Organizer: papa monzano
• Central Ohio Kossacks - Formed: Sep 26, 2012, Organizer: VetGrl
• Kansas City Kossacks - Formed Oct 15, 2012, Organizer: [Founder stepped down]
• Phoenix Kossacks - Formed Oct 16, 2012, Organizer: arizonablue
• Chicago Kossacks - Formed: Oct 31, 2012, Organizer: figbash
• Koscadia the Pacific Northwest coast from Northern California to Alaska
- Formed Oct 17, 2012, Oganizer: Horace Boothroyd III based in Portland, OR
• Boston Kossacks - Formed: Nov 7, 2012, Organizer: GreyHawk
• Motor City Kossacks South East Michigan (Detroit) Area - Formed: Nov 10, 2012, Organizer: peregrine kate
• Pittsburgh Area Kossacks - Formed: Nov 12, 2012, Organizer: dweb8231
• Salt Lake City Kossacks - Formed: Nov 17, 2012, Organizer: War on Error
• Twin Cities Kossacks - Formed: Nov 17, 2012, Organizer: imonlylurking
• Dallas Kossacks North Texas - Formed: Nov 21, 2012, Admins: Catte Nappe and dalfireplug. Please contact them to join the group. An Event Organizer needed.
• The Southern California Inland Empire Kossacks - Formed: Dec 3, 2012, Organizer: SoCaliana
• Los Angeles Kossacks - Formed: Dec 17, 2012, Organizer: Dave in Northridge
• Northeast Ohio Kossacks - Formed: Jan 16, 2013, Organizer: GenXangster
• Kansas & Missouri Kossacks - Formed: Jan 17, 2013, Organizer: tmservo433
• I-77 Carolina Kossacks who live from Columbia, SC to north of Winston-Salem, NC. - Formed: Jan 30, 2013, Organizers: gulfgal98 and eeff
• Indianapolis Kossacks - Formed: Feb 6, 2013, Organizer: CityLightsLover
• Southwest Ohio Kossacks - Formed: May 10, 2013, Organizer: Dr Erich Bloodaxe RN
• Northern Arizona Kossacks - Formed: Jul 5, 2013, Organizer: Sam Sara
• Mexican Kossacks - Formed: Apr 14, 2013, Organizer: roberb7
ESTABLISHED GROUPS LIST: (List will grow as we discover them)
• SFKossacks Founded by navajo, Formed: May 2, 2005
• Maryland Kos Founded by timmyc, Formed: Feb 23, 2011. Contact: JamieG from Md for a group invite.
• New York City Founded by Eddie C - Contact the group organizer for meet-up events: sidnora
• Baja Arizona Kossacks, Event Organizer: Azazello
• Three Star Kossacks Tennessee, Founded by maryKK, Formed: Apr 8, 2011
• Nashville KosKats, Founded by ZenTrainer Formed: Jan 30, 2012
• Virginia Kos Founded by JamieG from Md, Formed: May 3, 2011
• Kos Georgia Founded by pat208, Formed: Feb 13, 2011
• Colorado COmmunity Founded by Leftcandid, Formed: Feb 13, 2011
• New Mexico Kossaks Founded by claude
• Philly Kos Founded by mconvente Formed: Aug 29, 2011
• DKos Florida Founded by ThirstyGator, Formed: Feb 14, 2011, Currently organizing: Kosmail Vetwife to be included in next event.
• Oklahoma Roundup Founded by BigOkie, Formed: Feb 13, 2011, Currently organizing: Kosmail peacearena to be included.
• DKos Asheville Founded by davehouck, Formed: Feb 13, 2011 - Organizing Assist by: randallt
:: Events Currently on the Books for ALL Kossacks ::
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Friday, October 25th
LAKossacks & SoCal Inland Empire See Lewis Black!
TIME: 9:00 PM
LOCATION: Agua Caliente Casino Resort & Spa
32-250 Bob Hope Dr. • Rancho Mirage
ORGANIZER: Send 714day a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. 714day
2. jakedog42
3. susans
4. Otoelbc
5. Chiwere
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Maybees:
Shockwave
SoCaliana
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Latest diary: L.A. Kossacks, Lewis Black Fans in So Cal
Friday, October 25th
Meet the Daily Kos Editorial Staff!
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Daily Kos HQ
Address given privately to RSVP'ers • Berkeley
ORGANIZER: Send navajo a kosmail to attend.
You will need to bring Potluck.
HQ will be providing the main course; Salvadoran pupusas queso y loroco, (thick corn masa tortilla stuffed with cheese & Salvadoran vegetables and served with curtido & salsa) tamales de sal, (chicken tamales with potato & gravy steamed in plantain leaves) tamales de elote, (white ground corn served steamed) fried yucca and plantain.
Please volunteer for beverages & side dishes needed below.
- POTLUCK SIGNUP -
Beverages:
20 bottles of wine [13 down, 7 to go]
16 six-packs of beer [9 down, 7 to go]
8 six-packs soft drinks [1 down, 7 to go]
6 six-packs bottles of water [6 complete]
Appetizers:
5 appetizers, anything goes here. Whatcha' got? [3 down, 2 to go]
Side Dishes:
4 green salads needed, each to feed 10 [4 complete]
3 black bean side dishes needed, each to feed 10 (need Salvadoran inspiration?)
3 rice side dishes needed, each to feed 10 (need Salvadoran inspiration?)
Desserts:
6 desserts, a dozen hand-held desserts each [5 down, 1 to go]
ANNOUNCING: A Carved Pumpkin Contest with 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prizes. Feel free (or not) to bring an already carved pumpkin complete with candle. They will be placed on the tables for decoration and then voted on by attendees. Remember, a PRE-carved pumpkin.
RSVPs:
1. Markos
Editorial Staff:
2. Susan Gardner
3. Meteor Blades
4. Joan McCarter
5. Hunter
Staff:
6. Faith Gardner
7. Will Rockafellow
8. Jen Hayden
Activism Team:
9. Paul Hogarth
10. Chris Bowers
11. Rachel Colyer
12. Michael Langenmayr
Tech Team:
13. Jason Libsch
14. Scott
15. John
16. elfing
SFKossacks:
17. navajo + large ice chest with ice + 4 bottles of red wine
18. Lusty + dessert
19. side pocket + four 6pks beer + 2 wines + stuffed mushrooms appetizer
20. paradise50 + four 6pks beer
21. smileycreek + 4 wines
22. citisven + beer + beet dip
23. norm + pumpkin bars
24. Lorikeet + big bowl of fruit
25. kimoconnor + appetizer
26. remembrance and TLO + 1 wine
27. Glen the Plumber + Pasta Mystery Dish
28. madhaus
29. dharmasyd + brownies
30. ceebee7 + green salad
31. lineatus
32. Dave in Northridge + 2 bottles of wine
33. linkage
34. LinSea + six 6pks of bottled water
35. Shockwave
36. catilinus
37. FogCityJohn
38. justiceputnam + grilled balsamic veggies
39. zmom
40. exlrrp + souvenirs ;) !
41. shanikka + salad
42. DAH
43. BroadBlogs
44. jpmassar + dessert
45. PatG + dessert
46. LaughingPlanet + one 6pk of juice drinks
47. Mrs. side pocket
Maybees:
Cedwyn
Saturday, October 26th
Drinks and Dinner at Lefty O'Doul's
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Lefty O'Doul's
333 Geary St • San Francisco near Union Square
ORGANIZER: Send navajo a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. navajo
2. smileycreek
3. paradise50
4. dharmasyd
5. kimoconnor
6. Glen the Plumber
7. remembrance
8. norm
9. Dave in Northridge
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Maybees:
Eyesbright
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Saturday, October 26th
Houston Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Cafe Mezza
6100 Westheimer Road • Houston
ORGANIZER: Send Chrislove a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. Chrislove
2. suesue
3. Mr. suesue
4. Mary
5. Alan
6. doraphasia
7. htowngenie
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Maybees:
Delilah
Mr. doraphasia
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Latest diary: Houston Area Kossacks: Meet-Up Scheduled for Saturday, October 26!
Saturday, October 26th
New England Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: 10:30 AM
LOCATION: Silly’s
40 Washington Avenue • Portland, ME
ORGANIZER: Send nhox42 a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. nhox42
2. rebereads
3. Portia Elm (a potential mileage winner!)
4. bjedward
5. nailbender
6. Bill in Portland Maine
7. Common Sense Mainer
8. mdevine
9. theMarti
10. patmoshimer
11. commonmass
12. Actbriniel
13. LoreleiHI
14. mayim
15. Jane in Maine
16. Padula
17. bluesheep
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Latest diary: C+J Kossack Fall Meetup (Updated 9/25/13)
Saturday, November 2nd
SFKossacks BBQ in the Wine Country
TIME: NOON
LOCATION: Andrew McGuire's home in the Wine Country
Address to be given privately to RSVPs • Windsor
Andrew McGuire is Executive Director of California One Care
We will also be honoring Día de los Muertos with an altar, feel free to bring something to place there.
ORGANIZER: Send navajo a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. Andrew McGuire
2. navajo
3. Shockwave
4. Hunter
5. elfing
6. Hunter/elfling offspring
7. smileycreek
8. paradise50
9. dharmasyd
10. maggiejean
11. norm
12. Lusty
13. dksbook
14. Mr. dksbook
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15. kimoconnor
16. jpmassar
17. side pocket
18. Mrs. side pocket
19. ceebee7
20. ceebee7's sister
21. leema (will carpool from Marin)
22. Meteor Blades
23. Glen The Plumber
24. remembrance
25. TLO™
Maybees:
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Send navajo a kosmail if you post a diary about an event so we can update our round-up.
Okay. Floor's open.
Tell us what you are doing on this NEW DAY?