May-Sumner 2020
Inside •Covid-19 Update •FIGHT BACK! Tenants Together/Homes For All •It's a Trump Like Life •Dekkoo Wants Queer Filmmakers •Armed Conflict Location Project US Report •#YouAreEssential Campaign •Letter to the editor Do You Remember An exclusive US. Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit That Will Make You Gay Cry and more.
Inside
•Covid-19 Update
•FIGHT BACK! Tenants Together/Homes For All
•It's a Trump Like Life
•Dekkoo Wants Queer Filmmakers
•Armed Conflict Location Project US Report
•#YouAreEssential Campaign
•Letter to the editor
Do You Remember An exclusive US. Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit That Will Make You Gay Cry and more.
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SUMNER <strong>2020</strong> LOCAL Bars | Lodging | Restaurants | Events | Classifieds | Business Listings | Massage | Maps<br />
PALM SPRINGS<br />
INSIDE<br />
Covid-19 Update FIGHT BACK! Tenants Together Union<br />
It's a Trump-Like-Life<br />
Dekkoo Wants Queer Filmmakers<br />
Armed Conflict Location Report<br />
#YouAreEssential Campaign<br />
LETTER TO THE EDITOR<br />
Holocaust Memorial Exhibit<br />
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COVER<br />
Cover image tenantstogether.org<br />
Alex Borland<br />
“Coronavirus Covid-19 Face Masks”<br />
Covid 19 Update<br />
The CDC and cdph.ca.gov are the main sources<br />
for information While we applaud opening the<br />
DDG will remain vigilant to unsafe practice,<br />
NOTE: NO inference should be made that<br />
any business is open but they remain here<br />
to remind us of the diverse and vibrant<br />
community we have built ! We stand ready<br />
to support them and hope for safe speedy<br />
recovery. Some may be open so call first.<br />
The DDG also continues to support our<br />
community by offering 30 days free after the<br />
stay at home order is lifted. The 30 days will<br />
start when that businesses is open and it will<br />
be transferable as needed.<br />
But for now, lets reform this COMMUNITY!<br />
Its a Trump-Like-Life.<br />
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, A tale<br />
of a fateful trip that started from a tropic port<br />
aboard a tiny planet.<br />
A parody of that catastrophic failure of the<br />
American Dream. Some see baseball and apple<br />
pie, others see continuous oppression that<br />
literally made them die as victims of societies<br />
broken complex systems and safety nets.<br />
The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle now mirrors our<br />
story too.<br />
To understated the great debate to open without<br />
a safety net or wait a few more days to offer less<br />
lives be taken. The answer to that question was<br />
written in the Continued on page 6<br />
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Continued from page 4<br />
Magna Charta , not just a boast of freedom.<br />
Habeas Corpus was birthed by its existence.<br />
This great act developed protection of the<br />
people's rights and of human freedom, That<br />
no man's liberty may be restrained one<br />
moment until a charge can<br />
be substantiated. The weakness of the<br />
Habeas Corpus is certain malice may divert<br />
it from its promise of equity and poison<br />
its purity. For which there may be no easy<br />
antidote and subjugate us to more desperate<br />
suffering.<br />
Unfortunately while we look after ourselves,<br />
there are other forces more complex that<br />
will threaten us like a bad flu.<br />
In the future we need to reexamine our<br />
societies complex system. The flay indicate<br />
a pending collapse that will more then<br />
hurt us. We are bursting at the seams with<br />
broken pipes sprouting every day from<br />
our complex system. We are talking about<br />
systems designed to mitigate suffering. and<br />
recover from a disaster. We can have a<br />
President sit there and go woe is me.<br />
In fact, some might argue Gilligan’s Isle as<br />
Trumps playbook, that and Mein Kampf.<br />
Yup, our president is reenacting his<br />
imagined childhood memory from being<br />
a lonely rich boy no one likes that watched<br />
Gilligan’s Island but grew into a meek man<br />
no one likes. So lacking in critical thinking<br />
skills, he tanked our nation over a virus.<br />
He called it unseen, but it was not unseen<br />
We were planning and preparing for it until<br />
HE got elected, We could not stockpile<br />
anything because we did not know it form<br />
it would take. Many expected HIV2 but it<br />
was airborne transmission. In face of it, he<br />
shut off the WHO! And his band cheered<br />
on. He silenced the scientists and suggested<br />
we violate the law and show our guns. And<br />
his band cheered on.<br />
Now more than ever, we are impacted by<br />
climatic instability, wealth and political<br />
inequality, Cliodynamics and the<br />
accumulated complexity and bureaucracy<br />
impacted from war, natural disasters,<br />
famine and plagues.<br />
If you look up the Red Queen hypothesis,<br />
you will agree all organisms constantly<br />
adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order to<br />
survive, so here actual evidence proves we<br />
are pitted against an ever-evolving opposing<br />
organisms like a virus that keeps changing<br />
for the worse for us, but displays a measure<br />
of success for them.<br />
But there is hope, and it will end and<br />
there will be a new normal and sadly it<br />
might look like the old normal. But I will<br />
share this. When a condition of Society<br />
renders the unrestrained use of some writ,<br />
dangerous to the state , it must require<br />
some controls upon its restraint.<br />
When the danger has passed it must be<br />
It cool not everyone is on board with<br />
choosing a better society, but we<br />
cannot suspend Habeas Corpus! That<br />
is by ignoring the evidence for personal<br />
benefits to the exclusion of a few billion lifted. Our own Habeas Corpus.<br />
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funny, sad, romantic, sexy - anything.<br />
PRIZES<br />
The Dekkoo Jury Award<br />
Here Its more like Animal crossing fucked<br />
a Dekkoo rubix cube Launches and oursociety One Week was Short hatched. Film<br />
A Challenge cube can with be solved $10,000 many in Cash ways Prizes but only to<br />
because Ease Pandemic it applies Hardships!!!! different rules to different<br />
tiles. Open Originally to Queer Shorts designed about to solve "Love a and structural<br />
Distance" study One of moving Jury Winner many and parts Four independently<br />
Audience Favorites without the entire mechanism<br />
falling apart. Equality was never a goal so<br />
some Philadelphia, tiles where PA--In treated this differently time of global . Each<br />
one hardship, of our Dekkoo complex is systems committed can to usually giving<br />
accommodate back and inspiring one system creativity. failure To help by adjusting<br />
creators, another Dekkoo system. is launching Each adjustment a one-week risks<br />
breaking short film the challenge. core systems Creators often could called win the a<br />
backstop, cut of $10,000.00 Their only in prizes! function is to keep our<br />
society going. But when these backstops<br />
begin The pandemic to crumble has millions put a spotlight of lives will be<br />
crushed on our relationships by the very complex with others system and we<br />
created. ourselves. What do relationships in the<br />
time of quarantine look like? How do<br />
they function? Therefore the theme of<br />
the competition is Love and Distance.<br />
Possibilities: Dating from a distance.<br />
Home alone and loving it. Dealing with<br />
romance and heartbreak while social<br />
distancing. Far-away flirting.<br />
One film will be selected. The winning<br />
film will be decided by the Dekkoo staff<br />
based on artistic merit. The winner will<br />
receive a cash award of $2,500.00 and the<br />
opportunity to direct a Dekkoo-original<br />
short film with a production budget of<br />
$5,000.00.<br />
Audience Favorites<br />
Four films will be selected. The four<br />
films that receive the most comments<br />
on that films page on Dekkoo.com will<br />
win $1,000.00 each! Filmmakers are<br />
encouraged to ask fans to comment often!<br />
Voting will be tallied through <strong>May</strong> 18th.<br />
Winners will be announced <strong>May</strong> 20th.<br />
How to Submit your Film:<br />
First, complete this entry form.<br />
Next, send us your film via Dropbox.<br />
You can also submit your film by sending a<br />
password protected link to digital@dekkoo.<br />
com.<br />
All submissions are due no later than<br />
Sunday, <strong>May</strong> 10 at 11:59pm Eastern.<br />
For complete rules and details, please visit:<br />
Shoot and submit a 5-minute maximum dekkoo.blog/<strong>2020</strong>/05/01/short-film-contest/<br />
length short film telling a queer story that<br />
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The Armed Conflict Location &<br />
Event Data Project (ACLED) is a<br />
disaggregated data collection,<br />
analysis, and crisis mapping<br />
project.<br />
Sadly they don't have funding for the<br />
US but they should.<br />
In a recent communication they sent<br />
the following:<br />
Thanks for your message and your interest<br />
in ACLED's work.<br />
Northeastern University found that<br />
the “US suffered more mass killings in<br />
2019 than any year on record,” with 41<br />
attacks resulting in 211 fatalities (BBC, 29<br />
December 2019). According to the latest<br />
statistics from the FBI, violent hate crimes<br />
hit a 16-year high in 2018 (Al Jazeera, 13<br />
November 2019), while that same year a<br />
database tracking violence perpetrated by<br />
law enforcement agencies reported that<br />
“police brutality in America is getting<br />
worse” (The Appeal, 17 April 2018).<br />
Unfortunately, we do not currently cover<br />
the United States. However, we conducted<br />
a pilot program collecting real-time data<br />
on political violence and demonstrations<br />
in the US last summer -- you can find the<br />
preliminary results in link attached. (and<br />
we included some additional analysis in our<br />
special report on 10 crisis situations to keep<br />
an eye on in <strong>2020</strong>). We're ready to expand<br />
and re-launch the program as soon as we<br />
secure necessary funding, hopefully before<br />
the <strong>2020</strong> election.<br />
They ended with the following: If you're<br />
aware of any institutions interested in<br />
supporting such work, please let us know!<br />
Here is a summary from 2019<br />
United States: Developed, democratic<br />
political system at risk of turning violent.<br />
Violent political instability is on the<br />
rise in the US. A study conducted by<br />
the Associated Press, USA Today, and<br />
SOURCE: https://acleddata.com/<strong>2020</strong>/01/23/ten-conflicts-to-worry-about-in-<strong>2020</strong>/#UnitedStates<br />
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Form a Tenants' Union!<br />
What is a Tenants' Union?<br />
Tenants' unions are building, neighborhood<br />
or city-based organizations made up of and<br />
led by renters themselves to fight for our<br />
collective interests and rights.<br />
that is powerful enough to win rent control<br />
for all and tenant and community control<br />
of our housing and land.<br />
Why form a Tenants Union? - Because you<br />
can win!<br />
(Organizing committee with the Concord<br />
Tenants Union)<br />
Building-based tenants unions are generally<br />
made up of tenants who live in the<br />
same building and/or have the same landlord.<br />
Neighborhood and city-based tenant<br />
unions are networks of tenants who often<br />
have similar issues and stand in solidarity<br />
with each other, but may live in different<br />
buildings or have different landlords.<br />
Tenants Together/Homes For All tenant<br />
unions share a common vision and principles<br />
(see bottom), and unite with other<br />
tenant unions across our cities, states and<br />
country to build a movement of millions<br />
Everyone is talking about passing rent<br />
control and eviction protections, but where<br />
do you start? How do we build enough<br />
power to stay in our homes, communities<br />
and thrive?! We do this by organizing. We<br />
must organize because overcoming fear and<br />
isolation is impossible to do on our own.<br />
We organize because we seek to transform<br />
people's fear and isolation into dignity and<br />
solidarity both in your home, community<br />
and on a statewide level. Organizing<br />
isn’t just sending out an email or creating<br />
a social media page, although those will<br />
likely be steps that you take. Organizing<br />
is building real face-to-face relationships<br />
between you and your neighbors over time.<br />
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Celebrities Support Launch of<br />
#YouAreEssential Campaign to Fund<br />
Grassroots Organizations Affected by<br />
COVID-19<br />
By Vic Gerami<br />
Powerhouse media personality Ashlee<br />
Mari Preston partners with creative<br />
agency Revolve Impact to launch You Are<br />
Essential (YAE), a social impact campaign<br />
& national relief fund that awards grants<br />
to grassroots organizations and mutual aid<br />
networks working directly with vulnerable<br />
communities disproportionately impacted<br />
by the COVID-19 pandemic.<br />
“#YouAreEssential was launched with the<br />
understanding that the most vulnerable<br />
people within our society are often doing<br />
the most vulnerable work; while lacking<br />
adequate resources to help sustain their<br />
efforts—presenting barriers to progress for<br />
them and those they serve. No one knows<br />
what vulnerable communities need more<br />
than those who’ve been carrying grassroots<br />
movements on their backs and of course<br />
individuals living along the margins long<br />
before this pandemic,” said Ashlee Marie<br />
Preston.<br />
Preston, a renowned award-winning media<br />
personality, cultural commentator, and<br />
civil rights activist is often at the forefront<br />
of grassroots activism. She is historically<br />
the first trans woman to become Editor in<br />
Chief of a national publication and the first<br />
openly trans person to run for state office<br />
in California. Ashlee Marie was named<br />
one of The Root 100’s “Most Influential<br />
African Americans of 2017”, profiled as<br />
one of LOGO/NewNowNext’s 30 Most<br />
Influential LGBTQ Influencers of 2017 &<br />
2018, PopSugar’s top 40 LGBTQ’s of 2017,<br />
OUT Magazine’s OUT100 of 2018, made<br />
her TED talk debut in September of 2018,<br />
and was chosen as one of Coca-Cola’s<br />
“Next Generation LGBTQ Leadership”<br />
influencers of 2018. Also, she was honored<br />
as one of Essence Magazine’s “WOKE 100”<br />
of 2019 and is a former national surrogate<br />
for Elizabeth Warren’s <strong>2020</strong> Presidential<br />
Campaign.<br />
“My vision for the #YouAreEssential<br />
campaign was to center and support<br />
those at greater risk of losing their jobs,<br />
housing, and even their lives- and to<br />
expand our definition of what it means<br />
to be “essential,” she added. “We want<br />
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR<br />
Over the last few months, we have been soliciting our groups and organizations that have<br />
supported quality of life issues based on equality and trust. The response has been great<br />
and we are open to any group and organization that treats their clients and staff with<br />
respect, equality and loyalty. If you are or know some group or organization that would<br />
like to send our readers a letter, please address it to will@desertdailyguide.com.<br />
Dear DDG Readers,<br />
Since the start of the pandemic, we have been bombarded with messages meant<br />
to incite fear, anxiety and hatred. But we know better! This is a time to show that<br />
we are less motivated by fear and instead inspired by courage.<br />
It’s time to take care of one another, bring each other up rather than tear each<br />
other down. We must have a society that cares about everyone, not just the<br />
chosen few, not just the one percent, not just your neighbor who looks like you or<br />
worships like you or loves like you.<br />
Dennis and I continue to push for a society that takes care of everybody, because<br />
that is how the world works – THAT IS HOW WE BEAT THIS PANDEMIC AND<br />
SHUT OUT HATE. THE TRUTH IS, WE ALL PROSPER WHEN WE TAKE<br />
CARE OF ONE ANOTHER WITH COMPASSION IN OUR HEARTS AND<br />
LOVE FOR OUR NEIGHBOR.<br />
With Hope,<br />
Judy<br />
EDITOR Notes:<br />
The Matthew Shepard Foundation’s longstanding mission is to erase hate<br />
by replacing it with understanding, compassion and acceptance.<br />
Because if who he loved, On October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old<br />
student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally attacked and tied to a<br />
fence in a field outside of Laramie, Wyo. and left to die.<br />
HELP! Due to program cancellations, the Matthew Shepard Foundation has lost over<br />
$59,000 of earned income that allows Judy and Dennis to connect directly with individuals<br />
in efforts to change hearts and minds. You can support our mission to create more<br />
understanding, accepting and compassionate communities by making a secure gift today.<br />
www.matthewshepard.org<br />
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The DDG has obtained exclusive rights to reprint Do You Remember, When<br />
from Permissions Team Office of General Counsel<br />
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<br />
www.ushmm.org<br />
NEVER AGAIN: WHAT YOU DO MATTERS<br />
The Campaign for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<br />
What was it like to live as a young Jew in Berlin during the Nazi deportations? This<br />
exhibition details the life of Manfred Lewin, a young Jew who was active in one of<br />
Berlin’s Zionist youth groups until his deportation to and murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau.<br />
Manfred recorded these turbulent times in a small, hand-made book that he gave to his<br />
Jewish friend and gay companion, Gad Beck. Mr. Beck, a Holocaust survivor who again<br />
lives in Berlin, donated the booklet to the Museum in December 1999. The exhibition<br />
centers around the 17-page artifact, which illustrates the daily life of the two friends, their<br />
youth group, and the culture in which they lived.<br />
To understand why Manfred Lewin, a young Jew in Nazi Berlin, wrote this book in 1941<br />
for his friend Gad Beck—to understand why Gad, 19 and Jewish, risked his life attempting<br />
to save Manfred from deportation—read these words from the play that brought them<br />
together. German writer Friedrich von Schiller’s Don Carlos: No Matter what you plan on<br />
doing, will you promise to undertake no act without your friend? Will you make me this<br />
promise? Friendship, valor, and the fight for freedom were the ideals of this 18th-century<br />
German drama. In 1941, Gad and Manfred played the starring roles in their Jewish youth<br />
group’s reading of the play.<br />
Special thanks to Gad Beck and Jizchak Schwersenz.<br />
Thanks to Carol Brown Janeway for her translation of the German text, and to the Zemer<br />
Chai Choir for the performance of the song “Ba'a menucha layageya.”<br />
Thanks also to:<br />
Beate Kosmala, Zentrum für Antisemitismus-Forschung Berlin<br />
Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag<br />
Friedrich Veitl, Metropol Verlag, Wichern Verlag<br />
Christine Zahn, Jüdisches Museum Berlin<br />
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Manfred Lewin was born on September 8,<br />
1922, in Berlin where he lived with his parents<br />
and four siblings in the predominantly Jewish<br />
section of the city. The family lived in poverty<br />
in three little rooms not far from the Beck<br />
house at Dragoner Strasse 43. Manfred’s<br />
father was a barber and his mother Jenny, a<br />
former secretary, took care of the family. She<br />
often had to find other sources of food to<br />
supplement the family’s insufficient Jewish<br />
food ration cards.<br />
Gad Beck was born on June 30, 1923, together<br />
with his twin sister Miriam. Gad’s mother<br />
Hedwig came from a Protestant family, but<br />
converted to Judaism before the marriage<br />
with Heinrich Beck in 1920. The children<br />
were raised according to Jewish traditions,<br />
supported by the Christian relatives. In<br />
1934 Gad changed to the Jewish school<br />
in the Grosse Hamburger Strasse. In 1939<br />
his parents were forced to move into the<br />
predominantly Jewish section of Berlin. They<br />
could no longer afford the school fees; Gad<br />
started to work as an apprentice.<br />
Book Translation: Do you remember, when<br />
Cover to the small, hand-made book that Manfred<br />
Lewin gave to his Jewish friend and gay companion,<br />
Gad Beck<br />
Part 1 See page 1 on page 29<br />
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HENRI DAUMAN A PHOTOGRAPHER OF 20 CENTURY LIFE FOR LIFE<br />
AdamsArtExpose’<br />
AdamsArtExpose’ ART<br />
A survivor of the holocaust in which<br />
his parents were killed, Henri<br />
Dauman emigrated from Paris to New<br />
York in 1950 to join his uncle. He<br />
began his first work as a professional<br />
photographer with a French/American<br />
newspaper France-Amerique. He<br />
then worked for the New York Times<br />
magazine documenting the city of<br />
New York. This assignment provided<br />
him the notoriety he deserved for his<br />
work and introduced him to LIFE<br />
magazine. During his years with<br />
LIFE from 1958 to 1972, he was the<br />
photographer who documented the<br />
20th Century politically, socially and<br />
photographing celebrities more than<br />
any one photographer.<br />
Celebrities he has shot include Elvis<br />
Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bridgette<br />
Bardot, Jane Fonda, Martha Stewart,<br />
and Andy Warhol to name only a few.<br />
He was a prolific photographer of John<br />
F. Kennedy as president and of his wife<br />
Jackie Kennedy. His photographs of<br />
the JFK funeral procession, following<br />
his assassination in 1963, show Jackie<br />
Kennedy from a very human side in her<br />
grieving for her husband.<br />
He did a series of photo essays of<br />
Jackie Kenedy during the JFK funeral<br />
procession and the years after the<br />
assassination. In 1972 he filed a lawsuit<br />
against the Andy Warhol Estate for his<br />
use of Jackie Kennedy photo portraits<br />
Dauman had taken and Andy Warhol<br />
used in creating a series of images<br />
in the exhibit titled "Sixteen Jackies"<br />
Henri discovered the use of his work<br />
when a work titled "Sixteen Jackies"<br />
was sold by Sotheby's for $418,000 and<br />
a photo of the art appeared in the New<br />
York Times. This case is famous in the<br />
history of Copywrite law.<br />
Photos of Dauman's work was<br />
scheduled to be on exhibit at the KP<br />
Project gallery in Los Angeles until<br />
the end of March. The COVID-19<br />
shut down prevented the exhibit<br />
to be shown live but it is available<br />
on info@kpprojects.net. You may<br />
also view photos by Henri Dauman<br />
on the website: Henri Dauman<br />
photojournalist. A documentary film<br />
titled "Henri Dauman, Looking Up"<br />
began streaming this week on, Apple,<br />
Vudu, and Amazon. It is scheduled for<br />
release on Goldman Films for theaters,<br />
pending the end of the Pandemic.<br />
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The organization of tenant unions are the<br />
building blocks to our translocal, statewide,<br />
and international movement.<br />
Currently tenant unions have fought off<br />
rent increases, evictions, and displacement<br />
in California and around the country without<br />
rent control and just cause eviction laws<br />
in place. A well organized tenant union can<br />
win rent control by being well organized<br />
and making bold demands up to collective<br />
ownership of the building by the tenants.<br />
Even if the politicians in your city don’t<br />
have the political will to do pass meaningful<br />
protections you can still organize with<br />
your neighbors and community to protect<br />
yourselves.<br />
Current Renters Rights Movement Moment<br />
statewide. They have money, but we have<br />
power in numbers, if we organize ourselves.<br />
How did we get here/Roots of the Housing<br />
Crisis<br />
The current crisis we are facing didn’t come<br />
out of nowhere: it is a result of intentional,<br />
racist and classist housing policy dating<br />
back to the New Deal era and even colonial<br />
times. For more on the roots of the housing<br />
crisis read this statement from TT's Rent<br />
Control Toolkit. These videos from KCET<br />
City Rising are also a good resource: https://<br />
www.kcet.org/shows/city-rising<br />
Step 1: PLANT A SEED -<br />
FORM an Organizing Team and Join<br />
Tenants Together/Homes For All<br />
California is in the worst housing crisis in<br />
recent memory. Tenants in cities across<br />
California are organizing tenants' unions in<br />
their buildings and communities and beginning<br />
to pass new rent control ordinances<br />
for the first time in over 30 years. Landlord<br />
lobbyists, corporate developers, and realtors<br />
oppose rent control and have a lot of power<br />
in the state, so passing rent control isn’t<br />
easy. Despite this challenge, we know we<br />
must fight to keep our homes.<br />
Statewide movement - Join Tenants<br />
Together as a Member Organization or<br />
Partner https://www.tenantstogether.<br />
org/member-organizations-0<br />
National Movement - Take Homes For<br />
All pledge https://homesforall.org/<br />
pledge/<br />
Principles: Solidarity, Democracy<br />
Believe it or not, tenants are close to half of<br />
the population of the state of California, 17<br />
The Organizing Team is the seed.<br />
million and counting. The California Apartment<br />
Association (the statewide landlord<br />
Your are the seed.<br />
lobbyist group) claims 15,000 members<br />
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Living Free rescues dogs & cats from public<br />
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spay/neuter, pet adoptions, animal welfare.<br />
Tax-deductable Visitors Welcome! OPEN<br />
DAILY 11:00am to 4:00pm CLOSED<br />
WEDNESDAYS. We are NOT licensed to<br />
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54250 KEEN CAMP ROAD MOUNTAIN<br />
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Mental Health Services.<br />
Cat City Psychotherapy Corp. Mental<br />
Health Services. Individual & Group<br />
therapy. LGBT Affirming. Specializing in<br />
Depression, Anxiety & Trauma. Licensed<br />
Psychologist Mark Charles.<br />
catcitypsc@gmail.com.<br />
www.catcitypsc.com . 760-878-7102.<br />
MATRIMONY SPIRITUALITY<br />
Bloom In the Desert Ministries<br />
760 327-3802<br />
St. Giles 442-282-8333<br />
Idyllwild Guest House<br />
Escape desert temperatures for cool<br />
breezes. Visit Idyllwild Guest House<br />
for spectacular sunsets and beautiful<br />
mornings. Relaxing private location<br />
with hot tub and clothing optional sundecks.<br />
Idyllwildgayguesthouse.com<br />
Mark Lonsbury 760-406-9699<br />
Idyllwild Nature Center The center provides<br />
an array of environmental education<br />
programs, guided tours, and field study.<br />
trips. 951-659-3850<br />
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY<br />
MOVING HERE?<br />
Starland Community Desert retreat<br />
Gas 800-427-2200<br />
STARLANDCOMMUNITY.ORG<br />
Water 760-323-4971<br />
Electric 800-990-7788<br />
Help Verified <strong>2020</strong><br />
Trash 800-973-3873<br />
Recycling 760-327-1351<br />
AMVETS Express free bus service to Loma<br />
Free Trolley Buzz 760 260-8104<br />
Linda VA(909) 735-5065<br />
GROUPS/ORG/HELP<br />
CDC<br />
LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER<br />
If you or someone you know may be<br />
760-416-7790 www.thecenterps.org contemplating suicide, call the National<br />
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 800- Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-<br />
227-2345<br />
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AMVETS: 760-324-5670<br />
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BLOOM IN THE DESERT MINISTRIES: or seek care from a local hospital or mental<br />
760-327-3802<br />
health provider.<br />
Coachella Valley Sexual Assault Services Riverside County Department of Public<br />
Rape Crisis Center (760) 568-9071<br />
Social Services: Kinship Warmline<br />
Democrats of the Desert<br />
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desertdemocrats.org<br />
raising grand children<br />
DESERT LEGAL AID: 760-832-9770 ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project 212-549-<br />
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community information and services.<br />
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800 243-7692<br />
Gay Men’s Health Crisis Hotline<br />
Transgender community transcc.org<br />
American Association of Poison Control<br />
PALM SPRINGS GAY MEN’S CHORUS Centers (800) 222-1222<br />
760-219-2077<br />
Rape, Sexual Assault, Abuse, and Incest<br />
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to include everyone willing and able to<br />
help protect vulnerable communities<br />
independent of their socio-economic<br />
status,” she continued. “Your occupation<br />
and income bracket aren’t what make you<br />
valuable; kindness and compassion are. We<br />
are essential to someone else’s well-being<br />
and they are essential to ours.”<br />
The organization’s objective is to inspire<br />
cross-cultural, collaborative efforts that<br />
yield abundant resources, resilience, and<br />
reignite hope in a time of despair. Funds<br />
raised will help combat food insecurity,<br />
housing instability, and barriers to access<br />
encountered by the elderly, disabled,<br />
immunocompromised, and the deeply<br />
marginalized.<br />
Microgrants range from $250 to $5,000.<br />
Microgrants do not typically exceed $5,000<br />
and are specific to identifiable need(s).<br />
However, applicants may also apply for an<br />
amount not listed in the application for<br />
the review committee’s consideration. A<br />
diverse body of individuals will evaluate<br />
applications and base their decision on<br />
urgency and need.<br />
Other key organizers of the<br />
#YouAreEssential campaign include singer<br />
and songwriter Justin Tranter, writer and<br />
producer Taj Paxton, and Rogers and<br />
Cowan PMK senior vice president of<br />
multicultural communications, Stephen<br />
Macias.<br />
“Revolve Impact is honored to be working<br />
on #YouAreEssential, a critically important<br />
campaign and emergency fund to support<br />
mutual aid networks and grassroots<br />
organizations on the frontlines of this<br />
unprecedented crisis. #YouAreEssential will<br />
ensure that organizations doing lifesaving<br />
work in the most vulnerable communities<br />
are supported and resourced,” said Mike de<br />
la Rocha, Co-Founder & CEO, of Revolve<br />
Impact.<br />
Actress, producer, author Gabrielle<br />
Union, and basketball star Dwyane Wade<br />
were among the first to make a generous<br />
donation to the cause. Other notable<br />
figures have pledged to make contributions<br />
to the fund and are slated to appear in an<br />
upcoming video series in support of the<br />
campaign.<br />
#YouAreEssential is an initiative of<br />
Accelerate Impact Fund, a sponsored<br />
program of the Social Impact Fund,<br />
a 501©3 non-profit organization. All<br />
donations are tax-deductible and can be<br />
made.<br />
For more information,<br />
please visit<br />
YouAreEssential.org<br />
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PART<br />
ONE<br />
Reprint by permission<br />
by Office of<br />
General Counsel<br />
United States<br />
Holocaust<br />
Memorial Museum<br />
all right reserved.<br />
www.ushmm.org<br />
Book Translation:<br />
Dear, kind Gad, I owe you a present, no, I want to give you<br />
one, not just so that you get something from me that you can<br />
glance through and then lay aside forever, but something that<br />
will make you happy whenever you pick it up.<br />
Gad and Manfred sometimes would spend the night together on cots in the<br />
basement of the Jewish school in the Choriner Strasse, as part of an obligatory<br />
air raid patrol. One of these evenings, Manfred gave Gad his book.<br />
Manfred wrote and made this book because he wanted to give something<br />
meaningful to Gad, who wrote poems. Gad was touched by the gift, though<br />
he was initially critical of Manfred’s lyrical writing style. Later, Manfred’s<br />
words took on new meaning.<br />
Left: Jizchak Schwersenz, director of the Jewish school at Choriner Strasse<br />
74, and three of his pupils carry helmets, tools, and books for their obligatory<br />
air raid patrol shift in early summer 1941. All public buildings in Berin<br />
had to be patrolled. Gad and Manfred began their shifts in late summer<br />
1941, after the school building had been evacuated due to bomb damage.<br />
After the war, many streets disappeared or their names were changed. The<br />
Choriner Strasse still exists today, but the former Jewish school has been<br />
replaced by a modern apartment complex.<br />
Interview with Gad Beck<br />
MR. BECK: “It was very interesting. He was not so sure this would be the<br />
right gift for me. It’s very simple book, booklet, very simple. … and he’s not<br />
an artist. So he gave me this paper and said to me, 'Later, look later, what I<br />
gave you in this moment.' I took it with me, and I’m not sure, even if I know<br />
I’m not sure. In the same evening I didn’t read this book, just in the morning.<br />
I was alone Ah!.... and I remember he have me something. And so I<br />
was, I read this book.”<br />
QUESTION: “What was your first impression?<br />
MR. BECK: The impression was not so deep like in this moment, because I<br />
didn’t, I couldn’t understand what will be our next future. So this book said<br />
to me, some wonderful words coming from his heart, not more. He was a<br />
very poor boy, they had no money. And most of the money they had was<br />
only going for food. He wanted to bring me something from his spirit. It<br />
was very spiritual gift for me.”<br />
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ADRIAN’S PICKS FOR THE MAN THAT<br />
NEEDS EVERYTHING.<br />
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