BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18717323 SEQUENCE:18813808 CREATED:20120711T195700Z DESCRIPTION:Live coverage of Occupy Bohemian Grove this Saturday July 14 will be on:\n\nLive Video: 12-4 PM PST http://noliesradio.org/\nLive Radio coverage: 2-4 PM PST http://www.kpfa.org/\n\nOccupy Activists Join Social Justice Organizations to Protest the 1% at the Bohemian Grove July 14\n \nOccupy groups from Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Portland, Sebastopol, and Petaluma, are joining some twenty other social justice activist organizations to protest the powerful one-percent elites partying at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California July 14-29.\n\n2,000-3,000 rich and wealthy men have gathered every summer for 133 years in a private 2,800 acre ancient redwood retreat to celebrate themselves with parties, entertainment, and speakers. The men, Bohemian Club members and their guests, will hold a cremation of care ceremony July 14, where they symbolically burn the cares of the world before a giant owl in a bizarre annual ritual.\n\nThis year’s protest against the gathering of the world’s political and economic elite is called “Occupy Bohemian Grove, Expose the 1%. Occupy groups across America, and increasingly the world, are working to expose the one percent in control of global resources who are bringing human rights repression, environmental destruction, and war to humankind.\n\nThe Fukushima Mothers and Cindy Sheehan are joining the twenty-four co-sponsors for a Creation of Care ceremony, speakers, and music, Saturday, July 14, at the Monte Rio Amphitheater, just outside the gates of the Bohemian Grove. Kris Welsh will MC the day, and Dennis Bernstein, host of Flashpoints on KPFA/Pacifica radio will broadcast live from the event. Russia Today-TV with Abby Martin will film and John Rees with No-Lies Radio will video-cast the day on the Internet.\n\nThe protest will feature Occupy groups as well as other organizations including Code Pink, Peace and Justice Center, ANSWER Coalition, Project Censored, Bohemian Grove Action Network, Veterans for Peace, National Lawyers Guild, Round Valley Indians for Justice, and various others groups focused on key issues, such as climate change, human rights, Palestine, Cuban Five, and a living wage. Representatives from these organizations and more will speak joining in coalition to create a vast cornucopia of care as a counter to the one-percent elites less than a mile away. In addition to the speakers, the program at the amphitheater will include musical performances by Dave Lippman, Teresa Tudury, Jim Ocean, Scott Gerber, Attila Nagy, Keith Blackstone and the Hubbub Club.\n\nAdmission to the Creation of Care is free. It will run from noon to 4 p.m. at the Monte Rio amphitheater, which is located at 9925 Main Street in downtown Monte Rio.\n\nPlease see the complete list of endorsements and speakers on our flyer.\n \nMedia Contacts:\nSusan Lamont: Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County: 707-575-8902\nAttila Nagy: Occupied Press/Prensa Ocupada North Bay: 707-795-1044\nPeter Phillips: Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored: 707-874-2695\nMary Moore, Bohemian Grove Action Network: 707-874-2248\nInformation at: occupybohemiangrove.com\n\nOpen Letter to San Francisco Bohemian Club\n \nJuly 4, 2012\n \nMr. Robert J. Boesch\nPresident San Francisco Bohemian Club\n624 Taylor Street\nSan Francisco, CA 94102\n \nDear Mr. Boesch,\n \nMedia Freedom Foundation/Project Censored has joined a coalition of some twenty-five social justice organizations and occupy groups to protest the San Francisco Bohemian Club’s practices at your annual summer encampments.\n \nWe are holding an Occupy Bohemian Grove protest in Monte Rio on July 14, 2012. For publicity and information on this event see: http://www.occupybohemiangrove.com/ \n \nOccupy groups from five cities are involved in protesting your annual summer encampment of the rich and powerful 1%. Given that it takes $588,000 in assets to be in the top 1% of the world richest people, we believe that a significant portion of your members fit this category.\n \nOur group has attended the planning meetings for this protest, and want to inform you about the days events and make some policy recommendations for the Club to consider.\n \nThe Occupy Bohemian Grove coalition is planning a four hour public assembly from noon to 4:00 on July 14. During that time there will be speakers, music and a creation of care ceremony in opposition to your cremation of care and private talks by policy elites at the Grove. KPFA radio will broadcast live from Monte Rio, No Lies Radio will video feed the proceedings on the internet, and Russia Today TV will be filming and interviewing activists.\n \nWe are not planning or promoting civil disobedience or trespassing on Grove property as part of the protest. We are not organizing a march on the Grove, as has been done in the past. Some curious participants may walk up the Bohemian Highway to see your gates.\n \nRecommendations to the San Francisco Bohemian Club in a time of Occupy the 1%.\n \nWhereas:\n \nThe 2,000 acre retreat, now privately held near Monte Rio, California, is in part an ancient old growth redwood forest with trees over one thousand years of age and;\n \nThe San Francisco Bohemian Club continues to exclude women from membership and;\n \nSignificant public leaders in the world give private keynote addresses (chats) on a daily basis on important policy issues, and;\n \nThe private happenings inside the summer retreat boundaries face continuing unproven rumors regarding nefarious behaviors and insider deals made by powerful elites.\n \n \nWe Recommend that:\n \n1. The Bohemian Grove recognize the rights of humankind to enjoy a fair share of the common heritage of the ancient redwood forest by opening the Grove to tours on a regular basis when club members are not assembled—\n \n2. The Bohemian Club begin a policy of admitting women and arranging the Grove to accommodate both genders—\n \n3. The lakeside chats and other addresses by key policy officials be made public on-line and transcripts prepared and published—\n \n4. The Cremation of Care ceremony be transformed into a building of unity of care in the world and the ceremony be made public on-line—\n \n5. The Bohemian Club set up an on-line live feed from the main stage and field circle, as events are occurring.\n \nWe strongly believe in full transparency of public figures giving lectures to a select few men and we believe that the privacy of your events is unnecessary in a time of increasingly inequality between the 1% and the 99%.\n \nWe think that the San Francisco Bohemian Club can demonstrate a belief in an open transparent democratic society by simply changing a few of your historical policies. As symbolic representatives of the top 1% in the world, it is time for you to exercise a responsibility to help build a fair sharing of the world’s resources starting with your own Club.\n \nThis letter has been publicly released. We trust you will take our recommendations seriously.\n \n \nSincerely,\n \nPeter Phillips\nPresident Media Freedom Foundation\n \nMickey Huff\nDirector of Project Censored\n \nMary Lia\nFair Share of the Common Heritage\n \nAndy Lee Roth\nAssociate Director of Project Censored\n \nBill Simon\nVeterans for Peace, Chapter 71\n \n \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/11/18717323.php SUMMARY:Live coverage of Occupy Bohemian Grove LOCATION:Live coverage of Occupy Bohemian Grove this Saturday July 14 will be on:\n\nLive Video: 12-4 PM PST http://noliesradio.org/\nLive Radio coverage: 2-4 PM PST http://www.kpfa.org/ URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/11/18717323.php DTSTART:20120714T190000Z DTEND:20120714T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR