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Fairfax pot club needs your support!
Fairfax Planning Commission wants to give in to US-wide pressure to close pot club- go Thurs night to voice your support for keeping it open!
"We need help and support this Thursday night in Fairfax. The Planning Commission is considering closing my club down because of the latest injunction. Since I have had an injunction against us for four years previous to this, it does not seem I need to shut down right now.
We need Everyone Possible to come to this meeting! 6/20/02 7:30 pm Fairfax Women's Club 49 Park Road, downtown Fairfax. Take Central San Rafael exit, take "3 rd" street, follow signs to Fairfax. (we need volunteers to hold direction signs on the four corners you have to navigate to get to the meeting.)
The need to insist upon State's Rights and Local Control is in the people's hands on this. I believe the Town Council will support standing up to the Feds but these small minded Commissioners have been really mean , rude and discriminatory. They repeatedly torture me and denigrate my character over my license every six months. Everyone else in Fairfax supports us.
I believe we will prevail in our Appeal in the 9th circuit and will not need to shut the Club through the Federal civil process. Keeping the Club open through our appeal process is a matter of life and death for many of our members. It would be a shame to have my license pulled and the Club closed by petty locals who are not serving the people's will.
The Fairfax Town Council has the final say on this, but a large turnout at the PC meeting will influence the Commission to stand behind the patients and the Club in a show of unity against excessive Federal intervention.
I need even those guys to support us. The Town Attorney has advised the PC that it is not their job to enforce Federal law, their job is to uphold the will of the community. Right now it looks like they actually may vote us closed, but they are impressed by large attendance and that will help change their minds about it. I don't need this kind of stress in the midst of the Federal case but that is how it is. My health is suffering. I am so worried about all my members and so appalled that government, local or federal, would torture the sick and dying like this.
I know this is a last minute SOS but my attorney just advised me to get a crowd of supporters. I am going to send out a brief general press release you will receive on email, but wanted to advise you and ask for your assistance ASAP."
HELP please!
love and pot peace,
lynnette shaw
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http://www.safeaccessnow.org
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ASA LINKS. Such as for June 6 2002 DEA Direct Action Day protests at DEA outposts in 55 cities. For safe medical cannabis access.
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Please distribute. The email addresses are easily visible here:
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41678
Americans for Safe Access (ASA).
http://safeaccessnow.org --ASA Homepage.
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=73 --Local Action Contacts.
http://safeaccessnow.org/newswire_detail.php?all=1 --Media reports.
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/asa --ASA email list homepage.
http://safeaccessnow.org/newswire_detail.php?id=22 --DC Direct Action and 10 arrests. Reports, PHOTOS, VIDEO. Also, many 6/6 DEA protest reports nationwide linked in left column.
DRCNet; June 6th Medical Marijuana Actions: One Week Later. "According to press reports compiled by ASA and the Media Awareness Project [MAP], ... and Mintwood Media, the protests garnered at least 17 stories in local newspapers (12 of them major dailies) and at least 34 local TV news reports. But Mintwood's Eidinger told DRCNet that if syndicated news services, such as Conus, which feed stories to small local TV stations are included, the number of stories is probably greater than one hundred."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/145 --DRCNet article.
http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0243.html --MAP article.
Emergency response list for medical marijuana rights' defense. Americans for Safe Access (ASA) email list and public archive. Only the moderators can send email to the list. You might try sending email to hilary [at] riseup.net
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/asa --List homepage and public archive.
Please email after-action June 6! reports (both personal and media reports) and attached photos to the ASA website via
update [at] safeaccessnow.org
Also, CC-email June 6! reports and photos to the Cannabis Action MMM email list and public archive. Some ASA-related email is publicly archived there:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction --List homepage and archive. Send email directly (if subscribed), or send indirectly using this address:
tents444 [at] yahoo.com
Also, CC-email June 6! MEDIA reports to CannabisNews.com by using this address:
submissions [at] cannabisnews.com
CannabisNews.com - Many 6/6 media, web, and other reports on DEA protests in 55 cities for medical cannabis. Also, the CannabisNews.com media articles are followed by MANY comments. Many of those are 6/6 reports, too.
http://www.cannabisnews.com
Some Indymedia.org city sites have some June 6 2002 DEA protest reports. Add more! Don't hate the media. BE the media!
http://www.indymedia.org
Pass on 6/6 reports! Copy and paste these email addresses into your email:
hilary [at] riseup.net, update [at] safeaccessnow.org, tents444 [at] yahoo.com, submissions [at] cannabisnews.com
---------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6---------7-----
Please distribute. The email addresses are easily visible here:
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41678
Americans for Safe Access (ASA).
http://safeaccessnow.org --ASA Homepage.
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=73 --Local Action Contacts.
http://safeaccessnow.org/newswire_detail.php?all=1 --Media reports.
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/asa --ASA email list homepage.
http://safeaccessnow.org/newswire_detail.php?id=22 --DC Direct Action and 10 arrests. Reports, PHOTOS, VIDEO. Also, many 6/6 DEA protest reports nationwide linked in left column.
DRCNet; June 6th Medical Marijuana Actions: One Week Later. "According to press reports compiled by ASA and the Media Awareness Project [MAP], ... and Mintwood Media, the protests garnered at least 17 stories in local newspapers (12 of them major dailies) and at least 34 local TV news reports. But Mintwood's Eidinger told DRCNet that if syndicated news services, such as Conus, which feed stories to small local TV stations are included, the number of stories is probably greater than one hundred."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/145 --DRCNet article.
http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0243.html --MAP article.
Emergency response list for medical marijuana rights' defense. Americans for Safe Access (ASA) email list and public archive. Only the moderators can send email to the list. You might try sending email to hilary [at] riseup.net
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/asa --List homepage and public archive.
Please email after-action June 6! reports (both personal and media reports) and attached photos to the ASA website via
update [at] safeaccessnow.org
Also, CC-email June 6! reports and photos to the Cannabis Action MMM email list and public archive. Some ASA-related email is publicly archived there:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction --List homepage and archive. Send email directly (if subscribed), or send indirectly using this address:
tents444 [at] yahoo.com
Also, CC-email June 6! MEDIA reports to CannabisNews.com by using this address:
submissions [at] cannabisnews.com
CannabisNews.com - Many 6/6 media, web, and other reports on DEA protests in 55 cities for medical cannabis. Also, the CannabisNews.com media articles are followed by MANY comments. Many of those are 6/6 reports, too.
http://www.cannabisnews.com
Some Indymedia.org city sites have some June 6 2002 DEA protest reports. Add more! Don't hate the media. BE the media!
http://www.indymedia.org
Pass on 6/6 reports! Copy and paste these email addresses into your email:
hilary [at] riseup.net, update [at] safeaccessnow.org, tents444 [at] yahoo.com, submissions [at] cannabisnews.com
Rumor has it that three months after Idriss Stelley was shot at the Sony Metreon in SF, the Ross PD, probably in conjunction with Marin Sheriffs, Twin Cities and San Anselmo PDs, fatally shot an incoherent, gun-wielding, suspect at the Woodlands Market in Kentfield. It didn't make any of the local papers - i.e., it wasn't even reported if the rumors are true! We need more details on this incident. I believe it occurred in the fall of 2001, possibly mid-September.
Ross, population 2,300, has its own police dept. of nine officers (including a canine unit) - that's one cop for every 255 citizens (I don't know how many dogs per citizen). This is an exclusive bedroom community, virtually without a commercial area, and virtually no crime regardless of how many officers are employed. Median income is over $150k and minimum lot sizes appear to be a half-acre (you'd have to check with their three-person planning dept. to confirm). The only activity, legal or illegal, is on a one-mile stretch of Sir Francis Drake that runs through the town. The thoroughfare narrows to one lane each way and the speed limit slows to 25. This is virtually their sole source of revenue.
Ross is well known for being unaccountable - i.e., uncooperative with the media. They don't publish police reports, give interviews and apparently don't keep records, believing the law doesn't apply to them or that the public has no interest. A "pot club" would make their day and provide a purpose for their existence.
There are similar towns in Marin - e.g, Belvedere, but Ross is the only of the 10 Marin police departments that I've heard of with a fatal shooting. Does anyone have any more info on this incident or the Ross/Marin PDs?
Ross, population 2,300, has its own police dept. of nine officers (including a canine unit) - that's one cop for every 255 citizens (I don't know how many dogs per citizen). This is an exclusive bedroom community, virtually without a commercial area, and virtually no crime regardless of how many officers are employed. Median income is over $150k and minimum lot sizes appear to be a half-acre (you'd have to check with their three-person planning dept. to confirm). The only activity, legal or illegal, is on a one-mile stretch of Sir Francis Drake that runs through the town. The thoroughfare narrows to one lane each way and the speed limit slows to 25. This is virtually their sole source of revenue.
Ross is well known for being unaccountable - i.e., uncooperative with the media. They don't publish police reports, give interviews and apparently don't keep records, believing the law doesn't apply to them or that the public has no interest. A "pot club" would make their day and provide a purpose for their existence.
There are similar towns in Marin - e.g, Belvedere, but Ross is the only of the 10 Marin police departments that I've heard of with a fatal shooting. Does anyone have any more info on this incident or the Ross/Marin PDs?
"They repeatedly torture me and denigrate my character over my license every six months. Everyone else in Fairfax supports us. "
If the board of supervisors were the "only" ones not supporting you, don't you think the supervisors would be elected out of office by now?
If the board of supervisors were the "only" ones not supporting you, don't you think the supervisors would be elected out of office by now?
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