Tribe.net. Local Connections Michael-Abram-zero http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net/thread/e5cd78a1-36c2-49e4-873b-fb9b016f18b9 2007-03-21T07:01:59Z 2007-03-21T07:01:59Z

<div>a new tribe has been created to organize and plan the up and coming Mother's Day Gathering at Wolf Creek Sanctuary. feel free to join up and to join in the conversation. contribution is requested and encouraged. we are seeking 30 facilitators and organizers. it's not nearly as daunting as you'd like to think. many hands make light work. <br/> <br/>thank you for your contribution and your commitment to the evolution and transformation of Life as we know it. <br/> <br/>tribes.tribe.net/mary_faeriemothersday <br/> <br/>blissed be, <br/>Micahl Abrahm <br/> <br/>"You must be the change that you want to see in the world." <br/>-Ghandi </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net">Yesss!Gurlz!</a> - 0 replies </div>

Michael-Abram-zero 2007-03-21T07:01:59Z steveargue2 http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net/thread/378d6feb-c940-4340-94f7-a58f35a32cf9 2006-05-05T01:39:40Z 2006-05-05T01:39:40Z

<div>The following is a letter of protest sent to the Santa Cruz City Council for the police assault of Shane (Tammy) Maxfield. <br/> <br/> <br/>Santa Cruz City Council, <br/> <br/>I am writing to protest the assault and false arrest carried out against Shane (Tammy) Maxfield by Santa Cruz Police Officer Brierly. A description of that arrest from an eyewitness follows this letter. <br/> <br/>You as the City Council are the boss of the police and hold direct responsibility for the outrageous violations of civil liberties that are routinely carried out by your police department. <br/> <br/>Yours is a police a department that has been successfully sued for its violations of free speech rights, a department that has violently broken up a protest against the war in Yugoslavia, a department that purposely targets activists for harassment, brutality and false arrests, a department that murdered activist John Dine in cold blood, a department that has been caught spying on and infiltrating anti-war organizations, a department that purposely targets the poorest of the poor for harassment, brutality and false arrests under the direct orders of the anti-homeless laws that you as a City Council have passed, a police department that targeted the Blue Lagoon, a gay bar, for special homophobic treatment eventually costing the City in a settlement of well over a million dollars. <br/> <br/>The homophobic hate crime that Officer Brierly has now carried out against Shane (Tammy) Maxfield is just one in a long list of crimes carried out by your police department. Your encouragement of past crimes has led directly to this most recent one. The Santa Cruz Police department is sending out a strong message that Santa Cruz is not safe for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender community and that the City no longer wants their tourism dollars. <br/> <br/>I demand that Officer Brierly be immediately fired from the police force for his hate crime against Shane (Tammy) Maxfield and that Officer Brierly be jailed on the charge of felony assault for his criminal violence and reckless endangerment of the life of a person suffering with HIV/AIDS. <br/> <br/>Sincerely, Steven Argue <br/>Liberation News <br/>http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news <br/> <br/> <br/>Protest Messages Can Be Sent To: <br/>City Council: citycouncil@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>Cynthia Mathews: cmathews@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>Ryan Coonerty: rcoonerty@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>Emily Reilly: ereilly@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>Tim Fitzemauric: tfitzmaurice@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>Tony Madrigal: tmadrigal@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>Ed Porter: eporter@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>Mike Rotkin: mrotkin@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>Police Auditor: PoliceAuditor@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>CC Steven Argue: Steveargue2@yahoo.com <br/> <br/> <br/>Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:16:07 -0700 (PDT) <br/>From: <br/>Subject: case #065-04163 <br/>To: dao@co.santa-cruz.ca.us <br/>District Attorney Bob Lee: May 3, 2006 <br/> <br/>I am a witness in the case of Shane(Tammy) Maxfield, case #065-04163. Shane was handcuffed and forced to sit down against the chainlink fence on Pacific Ave/Church for "directing traffic." He was actually helping a friend and another witness, David Bliss jump David's battery to move his van out of the handicapped space. <br/> <br/>The officer refused to give me his name and badge number. I begged him twice not to arrest Shane as he is severely ill with AIDS and has just started a dibilitating HIV cocktail of Trevada and Sustiva. He laughed at me and said "That's not gonna happen." I told him Shane might die of stress in jail and he guffawed and shrugged me off. <br/> <br/>It was apparent the officer realized he hadn't charged Shane with anything yet as he pulled Shane up by his coat, slammed him against the fence and forced the top of Shane's head to barely touch him. He said: "Now I've got you for battery." This was in full public view of at least 40 witnesses at 1 PM on April 25,2006. Before the sergeant could take stories from witnesses Shane was put in the police car and taken to jail. His arraignment is May 15, 2006. The jail personnel were sympathetic and thought the whole incident ridiculous. <br/> <br/>It is a travesty of justice to allow a police officer with NO communication skills arrest a severely ill man for helping a friend (the van was already jumped and ready to go when the arresting officer on the beat got there) This officer should be removed from the police force as he is nothing more than a thug in a uniform. He is guilty of police brutality, false arrest and battery upon Shane not the other way around.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net">Yesss!Gurlz!</a> - 0 replies </div>

steveargue2 2006-05-05T01:39:40Z Michael-Abram-zero http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net/thread/4f7b2b0b-5ff8-40b0-8e91-d4a07c688252 2005-08-08T22:14:14Z 2005-08-07T20:52:44Z

<div>alright, so just today did i realize i wasn't a member of this tribe. i had assumed i was and there you have it...i also was assuming that high process was taking place in my momentary absence from tribe.net. i allowed myself to get scared away from this cute little community in the wake of last year's genderbased (red herring) civil wars...whatever, i'm back marys. i'm not sure how much time i'm going to be able to put into the online reality of tribe as i am still without stable home nor computer access, but i'm as back as i can be. <br/> i have faith that i am not the only qween who's been putting mental and emotional energy toward processing this in hir heart and not finding the time to share it here in our pixelated meeting spaces. this is ok, we have license to not type our raw process out to offend others unneccesarily and to wait for it to make some sense to us first so we can at least hope it will bring about something remotely constructive in the techno-ethers. i type this as a catalyst of sorts; are we going to use tribe for the tool that it is to work out raw processes with one another to continue working toward something cohesive? <br/> i mean, fuck the qweens who are looking to us as 'the rebelious little grrlz who aren't getting anything done, my my what noise they've made'. we have been given over 20 years of history ande mistakes and successes from which to learn, but what are we trying to learn to do? what are we accomlishing here? is this honestly needing to be a 'sister organization', something seperate? what do we need/want out of this? like on an individual level... let's start there and then try and work up to the macrocosmic view; cuz i don't know about you bitches, but it's overwhelming for me to try and be thinking about where i want this "new organization" to go...i just keep finding myself falling into old patterns of thinking and then spinning circles and then wanting to give it up and smoke a bowl. so what do i want out of this.... <br/> i want some dialogue, both online and in person, regarding how we're hoping to surpass these old meme's of gender and race and sex and class, etc. i want to share skills of sustainability and learn more. i want to build trust with my sisters such that we can begin to work some serious community spell work. i want to get over the fears i have that are based in the transient nature of our community and the difficulties that have been posed for us in the past in trying to acheive cohesiveness because if it. i want to balls up and settle in some where for a few months so as to be able to acheive some of this. i want to continue to call myself out when i use chemicals to run from fears of my power and of my dreams, i want to be able to depend on y'all to call me out too. i want to help myself and those around me to feel comfortable in walking into our power. i want to learn new ways of loving. i want to stop beating off in this post and i want to hear from some of you all. <br/> i love you qweens, thanks for the time and energy you've already invested into this, keep it up and let's kick it up. onward and spiraling upward we are bound and commited. mote it be. <br/> <br/>have a super sacred day, <br/>mz. ender</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net">Yesss!Gurlz!</a> - 1 reply </div>

Michael-Abram-zero 2005-08-07T20:52:44Z http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net/thread/663d9215-17ba-4f83-a9f6-85050fb1a173 2005-07-15T16:58:53Z 2005-07-15T16:58:53Z

<div>....without a single new post. Is this group actually going anywhere or have you all just decided to stop posting to Tribe?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net">Yesss!Gurlz!</a> - 0 replies </div>

2005-07-15T16:58:53Z http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net/thread/7c588cb4-c616-4334-bf45-e566c8c4264f 2005-05-17T21:27:43Z 2005-05-16T13:03:38Z

<div>I have a longer post about this at "sisters of Nomenus tribe. <br/>The name radical faerie sisters of Nomenus is a little misleading. Our biological sisters are not currently allowed into membership. <br/>One possible name is Mixed gender faeries for inclusion. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net">Yesss!Gurlz!</a> - 3 replies </div>

2005-05-16T13:03:38Z ladybugdouglas http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net/thread/5215579a-95b6-4a83-94f3-0fcaafbbd0ee 2005-05-16T05:04:45Z 2005-05-15T07:45:02Z

<div>whats the difference, excepting name and moderation (thank you, timschell) between this tribe and the sisters of nomenus?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net">Yesss!Gurlz!</a> - 1 reply </div>

ladybugdouglas 2005-05-15T07:45:02Z Prizmatika http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net/thread/83a51390-a6db-45dc-a8af-6e0a3df27845 2005-05-13T22:25:02Z 2005-05-13T22:25:02Z

<div>Yesss!Gurlz!!! meeting May 12th, 2005 House of Wag, Notes by Prizm <br/> <br/>Present: Prizm, LucyFur, Ladybug, Stella Maris, Jerako, Wing and Ampersand, Arcanna arriving at the end. <br/> <br/>***These notes are taken and will be taken in the future in such a way that individuals are not directly quoted.*** <br/> <br/>Brief heart circle <br/> <br/>Discussion: <br/>* Concern with current mission statement; being a part of Nomenus. We wish to be our own entity. <br/> -People of all genders to gather frequently to do magic. Continuing the power of Samhain and Beltaine throughout the year. <br/> -A group that supports reality; all genders, races, classes <br/>* Posting on Tribe <br/> - What to post what not to post. Using tribe for information, not discussion <br/>*Statement of Intent instead of Mission Statement <br/> <br/>"Strange flowers grow from the desert" <br/> <br/>Agenda Items for next meeting: <br/>Funds for Midsummer Night's Magic Gathering <br/>Consideration of gatekeeping <br/>Fundraiser for Samhain <br/>A new form of Consensus <br/>Focus on Involvement <br/>Open spaces <br/> <br/> <br/>Next Yesss!Gurlz!!! meeting to be held at the house of Stella Maris and Ampersand (address will be posted shortly). Thursday, May 19th. 7-10 PM <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://yesssgurlz.tribe.net">Yesss!Gurlz!</a> - 0 replies </div>

Prizmatika 2005-05-13T22:25:02Z