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LUNCHTIME DISCOURSE WITH JANE KIMEMIA NECHI Vanguard
You will find trees everywhere in this issue, from the cover to Mat Weir’s story about breakout Santa Cruz musician Oliver Tree. The latter was a complete coincidence, I swear, but it does lend some pleasing thematic symmetry to this issue. Especially when right between them is Erin Malsbury’s cover story about the recovery of Big Basin State Park, and the surprising ways it is making officials rethink the very nature of how we as big, clumsy, impact-leaving humans interact with forests. I love a lot of things about this story—it’s a scientific look at how forests recover from fire, as well as a history lesson, and an intellectually curious consideration of how we should be stewarding our most treasured natural resources—but I think my favorite is how it starts. It’s just Erin and a State Parks environmental scientist all alone in the still-closed legendary park, having an experience of humbled wonder at what surrounds them, even as they’re considering how the future of those surroundings should be managed.
Here at GT, we’ve been humbled by your response to our Santa Cruz Gives campaign. When I recorded a video update on the campaign on Monday (you can find my weekly videos by going to the Santa Cruz Gives Facebook page or @scgives on Twitter.), I mentioned that in two weeks, Gives had raised $627,000 for our 80 participating nonprofits. Well, as I write this one day later, we’ve jumped to $641,000. By the time you read this, I hope we’ll have passed the $650,000 mark. So go to santacruzgives.org and be a part of this! I’ll also be talking about the Gives campaign on the Cruz, News and Views show on KSQD on Wednesday from 3-4pm. It’s a great show that covers a lot of local issues and reporters’ top stories every week. Tune in!
STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
RE: HIP-HOP
The Serendipity Project was not mentioned hmmm … We toured the entire country and Canada with Del the Funky Homosapien and Hiero for over 5 years in the 2000s. We also were some of the first to throw shows and pay to bring acts in, like KRS-One at Moe’s and Shock G at the Cat, members of Pharcyde and Jurassic 5, Souls of Mischief etc. etc. We did a lot. In fact, the reason you can’t post fliers on poles in Santa Cruz is because of us. We did so much promotion for shows they made it illegal to post on telephone poles. Also started rap battles at the Catalyst and super early on did hip-hop nights at the Med. Don’t know how you missed that! I played bass for the band and still love and play hip-hop. Been into playing upright bass and trying to get some acoustic hip-hop cyphers back on the corner. Peace.
— Finn Stobbe
The past several years have been a trying time for our country, our state and our local community.
Many more people have become increasingly involved in what is going on in our community. This includes going to public meetings such as the Sanders County Board of commissioners meetings, School Board meetings and other events where we can share our ideas.
I have been to several BOC meetings and have found them to be very
informative and very civilized about 90% of the time. I think most people would agree that it is a good thing for people to get involved in what is happening here in Sanders County.
There have been, unfortunately, a few times when things got heated. A couple of times it was sad to see some conservatives say some inappropriate things to the Commissioners. Another time it was very disturbing to witness a liberal person stand up, addressing the conservatives and start yelling “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE, ARE YOU ALL CRAZY?”
The commissioners handled these instances very tactfully.
Recently, at a peaceful demonstration by local conservatives, an angry liberal ran across the street and confronted one of the participants and began yelling at her aggressively. Sadly, there were children present.
What kind of behavior is this??
When a person puts a LABEL on another person, it is a way of trying to rob them of any credibility and silence their voice. It is a way of saying “I am putting a label on this person so I don’t have to listen to anything
they say, and neither should you.”
If you label someone a ‘Sheeple” are you saying they are gullible and you don’t have to listen to them. If you label someone a “bully” are you saying they are mean and I won’t listen to them.
If you label conservatives as being racists or White Supremacists you are using a cheap smear tactic label, hoping to silence the voices of all conservatives. If you label someone as a conspiracy theorist you are saying that everything they say is wrong, I won’t listen to anything they say.
Jim Elliott’s article of November 17 made me very sad. Dredging up 30 and 40 year old wounds and trying to open them up and create more friction is not, in my opinion a good way to move forward.
As a “BOOMER” I sadly remember the incidents Mr. Elliott described. The younger generations may not remember or even know about these events, but they most certainly remember recent violent demonstrations by Antifa and BLM.
Fear mongering contributes to Civil Discord and can damage our community.
When Mr. Elliott described “….a young man with his belly hanging out under a dirty T-Shirt…..” at a 1988 rally. I was appalled that Mr. Elliott would talk about the young man’s appearance no matter what his sign said. This was ‘hate speech’ in my opinion.
In short, I believe in Civil Discourse and polite behavior. We need to be careful in what we say and how we act, We need to treat one another with dignity and respect.
Catherine Santisteban DeWitt, Thompson Falls
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