"Don't turn your back on the ocean" say many California pundits over footage of people being swept away by rogue waves today. I mumble, shouldn't a turned your back on the ocean last few decades, stupid humans, and I prepare for more extreme weather in next few years.

My 'counter culture reach-out project' for Jimmy Carter 1976, to get Vietnam war era 'dropouts' to drop back in and vote for him

I got an A ++ on the paper I wrote about the project, which I found in a box last week after months of searching, scanned below:

I had wanted Carter for President since Spring '76 so I asked the professor of a course "Introduction to Public Relations" if I could do this project for credit. He said yes if I could arrange it with local Democrats, and I did. Here is the report:

"I have an idea," I said. "Why not create a counter culture reach-out project to bring in 'drop out' voters for Carter?" 

I put in LOTS of hours. I was living with PTSD "since age five" as years later psychiatrists explained to me. My form of PTSD helped me survive; by filling my life always with so much work, I could never think about the trauma I was running from. Most of my life, I panted in a state of frenzy, rarely sleeping. I lived "Faster Than the Speed of Life" as I blogged about it a few years back. 

I left out of the scan of a work sheet with phone numbers...  

Many persons we approached were "hostile about the election, cursing us and the whole political system." 

Similarities between then and now abound. 

Post Vietnam war, a sizable number in my generation (I was born 1948) did not trust the government or want to participate in an election they did not trust. Hmm. 

Winging it, I learned persuasion skills as I discovered them

Somehow I had money to pay for the ad below from my own pocket, to run three key days before election in The Sun, local counter culture tabloid. I was living only on low income grants and student loans... ah the seventies... 

I did get results, and learned how to deal with bad reactions too

Some of this is kinda embarrassing, like my interactions with The Sun and with Daily Texan editor Mary Grant, who nonetheless hired me the next semester. Also politically I'm not that same person I was in 1976... 

Oh yeah. I was still going by the name "Sunshine" then. Long story ...

Some of the above I do not believe anymore... 

I forgot I had done this: The Fritz Efaw press conference and other connections with Vietnam Veterans and draft amnesty activists. 

Working jointly with National Amnesty Council 

Statesman article mentioned above doesn't seem to be in the box... 

In Conclusion

Posted by Kay Ebeling

Producer of City of Angels Blog since January 2007

Not just L.A., the city of angels is everywhere 

Preview: 1976 Jimmy Carter Campaign project report, Travis County Texas, UT Austin internship

There is a story behind this flyer I designed and distributed, when I worked for Jimmy Carter for President in 1976. Last week after months of searching, I found the 20-plus page paper in a box, the report on my internship with Travis County Texas Democrats as a student at UT Austin. I will be scanning more in a few days, hope to find a way to make the image more sharp first. Meanwhile here is a preview, flyer to be handed out at places where counter culture persons would go. Goal of the project was to reach voters who had dropped out and convince them that it was worth it to drop back in to vote for Jimmy Carter.  

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Story posted here https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2023/12/my-counter-culture-reach-out-project.html 

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Bethlehem is being bombed to dust, L.A. my home town looks like Calcutta; as for merry and bright, I ain't feeling it.

My reply to Democratic fundraiser w/subject line: 'We’ve tried so many times, Kathryn'

I've tried so many times to get a Democrat to notice what is happening to me and other seniors, mostly women, whose social security amounts are so low that we are deemed to live at the lowest level of poverty in the USA. Old Women, we never got paid enough when we worked so now- I live on $827 a month. I have neighbors in senior housing who live on less, all of us female. No One Has Mentioned This Unfairness Since Hillary Clinton in 2016. We American senior women just keep getting poorer. What will Democrats do to raise the minimum of SS so I can have some entertainment and fun in my final years, and not just pay for a tiny room then sit in it all month. YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME yet you hound my email asking for money several times a day. No Wonder Democrats are going down instead of saving this country. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS LIKE to live like us so you ignore us. 

 If we have more volcanoes, will Earth cool back down?

Landlords use Ellis Act to displace people, demolish affordable housing, and build luxury condos, plus other current injustices (Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger to LA City Council 12/15/23)

City Attorney: Next speaker, Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger

1:50:27 (see video below)

Good morning.  Which items would you like the speak to?

SGB:  All items.

 CA:  So, you have three minutes for the items, please begin. 

SGB: Great. Item 33 is just Referencing that closed session items are going to be heard because of significant exposure To litigation regarding three potential cases.

1:50:53

It's kind of amazing how often this body has to recess into closed session to litigate what's usually liability claims where the city has failed to meet certain obligations like making sure sidewalks are safe and accessible, or making sure the police aren't Setting off explosives on the sidewalk or, you know, all these myriad things the city might have a claim against them and they have to pay out millions out In liability and when you want to do something like fix the sidewalk, they say we have no money for that. So it's an interesting sort of cycle.  Item 21 is regarding Funding to support operational and capital costs for Jewish family services.

1:51:38

I really like this motion because this organization is one Of the few in Los Angeles that offers 24/7 support For domestic violence victims. They actually pick up the phone when you Call. I've completed presentations and workshops about domestic violence and what resources exist locally.

We have this thing called dart with the LAPD and the thing is it's pretty ineffective, so it's good we have These programs that are run by private or religious institutions so that Someone has someone to call or a place to go when they're a victim of domestic violence. Because as we Know domestic violence is one of the main reasons why people, particularly women, become Homeless. So, I’m glad to see this on the agenda.

We'll just go to Item 29.  I like this item although I wish it were a little bit more expansive. Also I would appreciate more specific language when We're talking about an interim control ordinance prohibiting the issuance of demolition permits On rent stabilized multifamily housing and converted affordable housing units. 

01;52;50

And then It goes on specifically to mention other permits affecting contributing features Of historical districts and things like that and it mentions Boyle Heights, the Brooklyn Corridor historic center and specific area,. So I’m curious if this Demolition permit prohibition applies to everywhere and then the specific neighbors apply to  second half of that? Or if This is all just within the Boyle Heights region because we really need this throughout Los Angeles. 

We can't keep having landlords using like the Ellis Act as an illegitimate reason to displace people and demolish affordable housing to build luxury condos, and what's affordable to someone making 70 or 80 thousand dollars a year. Thank you.

1:53:46

 CA :          Next speaker, please. 

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Watch Stacey’s public comment from December 15 in L.A. City Council session on YouTube here:  Https://www.youtube.com/watch?V=uzyzivr2fwy&t=6618s or at the bottom of this post at City of Angels Blog. 

Please come back to CofA Blog soon to read and see more coverage of the L.A. City Council’s handling of L.A.’s homeless crisis.  This blog also covers significant testimony in front of the council during public comment sessions.

I especially want to feature testimony of Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger on this blog, because since I've been watching L.A. City Council meetings online last two years, she stands out with her comments.  She’s always Right On, hits the nail On The Head, and sums up everything that the city is doing wrong in a few sentences, with originality and often even with song.

Since Segarra-Bohlinger  may run for City Council someday, this blogged record of what she says in front of council will live here in perpetuity.  Her comments are almost always brilliant and when I finally come up for the housing I've been waiting for more than five years near my family in my hometown Hollywood CA, I hope Stacey is a city councilmember by then. 

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Producing City of Angels Blog since 2007

More at CofA Blog about recent LACC meetings

• With 2.5 vacant units for every unhoused resident,... 
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• TRANSCRIPT: Public speakers beg for housing; L.A. ...

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Other comment of interest from meeting: Brock Landers private investigator called in, as he often does, to say:

"On the agenda item 26, maybe the the reason there's been an open seat on the ethics commission for six months is Paul doesn't know anybody ethical.... Why shouldn't the people that own the property be able to demolish what's on the property and build what they want?" 

 "Movements can really scramble your personal life."

-Thom Hartmann this AM amen

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Carbon dioxide becomes more potent as climate changes. Phys.org

This article explains in part why climate change is happening so much faster than originally predicted. Since CO2 is becoming "more potent as more released into atmosphere," climate changes we see in near future will likely also be exponential... wow

PHYS.ORG

Carbon dioxide becomes more potent as climate changes, study finds

A team of scientists found that carbon dioxide becomes a more potent greenhouse gas as more is released into the atmosphere.

our uncertain future

So now along with financial / climate catastrophes, we'll have Israeli vigilantes scouring the world for Hamas?