Worth Noting:

The Sierra Club voting for the group and chapter executive committee and the group executive committees ends at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, December 13, 2023.

Voting online is the easiest and fastest way to vote. Faxed and emailed ballots are NOT accepted. https://www.sierraclub.org/sfbay/chapter-elections

In order to vote you need your 8 digit membership number (it is above your name on the back of the ballot in the Yodeler). If you can't find the winter edition of the Yodeler with the candidate statements, ballot and your membership number call (415) 977-5653 or email member.care@sierraclub.org

The two scheduled City Council meetings (3 pm and 6 pm) on Tuesday December 12th are the GOTO meetings of the week.,

Council Winter Recess is from December 13, 2023 – January 15, 2024. The agenda for the regular meeting is posted at the bottom of this email. -more-

Monday feels like it was a month ago. There is so much to cover and I can’t take my eyes off the Israel – Hamas War and the genocide and domicide (destruction of housing) in Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/07/widespread-destruction-in-gaza-puts-concept-of-domicide-in-focus -more-

After sitting through the November 28, 2023 City Council meeting on ZOOM from 6 pm until 11:55 pm and reading the string of emails complaining about Hopkins not being included in the 5-year paving plan, I drove the entire length of Hopkins before starting to write this December 3, 2023 Activist’s Diary. -more-

The innocuous title of Item 30 on the Berkeley Council’s December 12 agenda—“Letter to AC Transit Regarding Draft Realignment Scenarios”—downplays an issue that is anything but innocuous: the transit agency’s proposed changes to bus routes in Berkeley. The agency says it is responding to changes in rider travel patterns and community input. Its board will decide what to do at its meeting on Wednesday, December 13. -more-

This week's edition could be short, less filtered and more spontaneous than my usual. I've got health and business issues going on and I need to tend to them. But I figured it wouldn't do me any harm to type a few paragraphs.

In the past, being highly psychotic took you away from a "normal reality" and thrust you into a horrible quasi reality produced by the illness. Yet, nowadays, if you are psychotic, it would almost be a self-protective escapism because you don't have to face the dismal events that are happening in our world. Sometimes living in denial of the facts is needed to prevent having a meltdown.

Because of how bad reality is, it could be much harder for a delusional person to come back to it. We are in the midst of serious war. We are dealing with politics at home that threaten basic human rights, at the very least. At the worst, the situation could be far more horrible than you could imagine. Even now, we face a lot of social unrest and a lot of hate in Americans. -more-