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Alex Borland 

“Coronavirus Covid-19 Face Masks” 

Covid 19 Update 

The CDC and cdph.ca.gov are the main sources 

for information While we applaud opening the 

DDG will remain vigilant to unsafe practice, 

NOTE: NO inference should be made that 

any business is open but they remain here 

to remind us of the diverse and vibrant 

community we have built ! We stand ready 

to support them and hope for safe speedy 

recovery. Some may be open so call first. 

The DDG also continues to support our 

community by offering 30 days free after the 

stay at home order is lifted. The 30 days will 

start when that businesses is open and it will 

be transferable as needed. 

But for now, lets reform this COMMUNITY! 

Its a Trump-Like-Life. 

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, A tale 

of a fateful trip that started from a tropic port 

aboard a tiny planet. 

A parody of that catastrophic failure of the 

American Dream. Some see baseball and apple 

pie, others see continuous oppression that 

literally made them die as victims of societies 

broken complex systems and safety nets. 

The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle now mirrors our 

story too. 

To understated the great debate to open without 

a safety net or wait a few more days to offer less 

lives be taken. The answer to that question was 

written in the Continued on page 6 



Continued from page 4 

Magna Charta , not just a boast of freedom. 

Habeas Corpus was birthed by its existence. 

This great act developed protection of the 

people's rights and of human freedom, That 

no man's liberty may be restrained one 

moment until a charge can 

be substantiated. The weakness of the 

Habeas Corpus is certain malice may divert 

it from its promise of equity and poison 

its purity. For which there may be no easy 

antidote and subjugate us to more desperate 

suffering. 

Unfortunately while we look after ourselves, 

there are other forces more complex that 

will threaten us like a bad flu. 

In the future we need to reexamine our 

societies complex system. The flay indicate 

a pending collapse that will more then 

hurt us. We are bursting at the seams with 

broken pipes sprouting every day from 

our complex system. We are talking about 

systems designed to mitigate suffering. and 

recover from a disaster. We can have a 

President sit there and go woe is me. 

In fact, some might argue Gilligan’s Isle as 

Trumps playbook, that and Mein Kampf. 

Yup, our president is reenacting his 

imagined childhood memory from being 

a lonely rich boy no one likes that watched 

Gilligan’s Island but grew into a meek man 

no one likes. So lacking in critical thinking 

skills, he tanked our nation over a virus. 

He called it unseen, but it was not unseen 

We were planning and preparing for it until 

HE got elected, We could not stockpile 

anything because we did not know it form 

it would take. Many expected HIV2 but it 

was airborne transmission. In face of it, he 

shut off the WHO! And his band cheered 

on. He silenced the scientists and suggested 

we violate the law and show our guns. And 

his band cheered on. 

Now more than ever, we are impacted by 

climatic instability, wealth and political 

inequality, Cliodynamics and the 

accumulated complexity and bureaucracy 

impacted from war, natural disasters, 

famine and plagues. 

If you look up the Red Queen hypothesis, 

you will agree all organisms constantly 

adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order to 

survive, so here actual evidence proves we 

are pitted against an ever-evolving opposing 

organisms like a virus that keeps changing 

for the worse for us, but displays a measure 

of success for them. 

But there is hope, and it will end and 

there will be a new normal and sadly it 

might look like the old normal. But I will 

share this. When a condition of Society 

renders the unrestrained use of some writ, 

dangerous to the state , it must require 

some controls upon its restraint. 

When the danger has passed it must be 

It cool not everyone is on board with 

choosing a better society, but we 

cannot suspend Habeas Corpus! That 

is by ignoring the evidence for personal 

benefits to the exclusion of a few billion lifted. Our own Habeas Corpus. 

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funny, sad, romantic, sexy - anything. 

PRIZES 

The Dekkoo Jury Award 

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A Challenge cube can with be solved $10,000 many in Cash ways Prizes but only to 

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tiles. Open Originally to Queer Shorts designed about to solve "Love a and structural 

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backstop, cut of $10,000.00 Their only in prizes! function is to keep our 

society going. But when these backstops 

begin The pandemic to crumble has millions put a spotlight of lives will be 

crushed on our relationships by the very complex with others system and we 

created. ourselves. What do relationships in the 

time of quarantine look like? How do 

they function? Therefore the theme of 

the competition is Love and Distance. 

Possibilities: Dating from a distance. 

Home alone and loving it. Dealing with 

romance and heartbreak while social 

distancing. Far-away flirting. 

One film will be selected. The winning 

film will be decided by the Dekkoo staff 

based on artistic merit. The winner will 

receive a cash award of $2,500.00 and the 

opportunity to direct a Dekkoo-original 

short film with a production budget of 

$5,000.00. 

Audience Favorites 

Four films will be selected. The four 

films that receive the most comments 

on that films page on Dekkoo.com will 

win $1,000.00 each! Filmmakers are 

encouraged to ask fans to comment often! 

Voting will be tallied through May 18th. 

Winners will be announced May 20th. 

How to Submit your Film: 

First, complete this entry form. 

Next, send us your film via Dropbox. 

You can also submit your film by sending a 

password protected link to digital@dekkoo. 

com. 

All submissions are due no later than 

Sunday, May 10 at 11:59pm Eastern. 

For complete rules and details, please visit: 

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The Armed Conflict Location & 

Event Data Project (ACLED) is a 

disaggregated data collection, 

analysis, and crisis mapping 

project. 

Sadly they don't have funding for the 

US but they should. 

In a recent communication they sent 

the following: 

Thanks for your message and your interest 

in ACLED's work. 

Northeastern University found that 

the “US suffered more mass killings in 

2019 than any year on record,” with 41 

attacks resulting in 211 fatalities (BBC, 29 

December 2019). According to the latest 

statistics from the FBI, violent hate crimes 

hit a 16-year high in 2018 (Al Jazeera, 13 

November 2019), while that same year a 

database tracking violence perpetrated by 

law enforcement agencies reported that 

“police brutality in America is getting 

worse” (The Appeal, 17 April 2018). 

Unfortunately, we do not currently cover 

the United States. However, we conducted 

a pilot program collecting real-time data 

on political violence and demonstrations 

in the US last summer -- you can find the 

preliminary results in link attached. (and 

we included some additional analysis in our 

special report on 10 crisis situations to keep 

an eye on in 2020). We're ready to expand 

and re-launch the program as soon as we 

secure necessary funding, hopefully before 

the 2020 election. 

They ended with the following: If you're 

aware of any institutions interested in 

supporting such work, please let us know! 

Here is a summary from 2019 

United States: Developed, democratic 

political system at risk of turning violent. 

Violent political instability is on the 

rise in the US. A study conducted by 

the Associated Press, USA Today, and 

SOURCE: https://acleddata.com/2020/01/23/ten-conflicts-to-worry-about-in-2020/#UnitedStates 


Form a Tenants' Union! 

What is a Tenants' Union? 

Tenants' unions are building, neighborhood 

or city-based organizations made up of and 

led by renters themselves to fight for our 

collective interests and rights. 

that is powerful enough to win rent control 

for all and tenant and community control 

of our housing and land. 

Why form a Tenants Union? - Because you 

can win! 

(Organizing committee with the Concord 

Tenants Union) 

Building-based tenants unions are generally 

made up of tenants who live in the 

same building and/or have the same landlord. 

Neighborhood and city-based tenant 

unions are networks of tenants who often 

have similar issues and stand in solidarity 

with each other, but may live in different 

buildings or have different landlords. 

Tenants Together/Homes For All tenant 

unions share a common vision and principles 

(see bottom), and unite with other 

tenant unions across our cities, states and 

country to build a movement of millions 

Everyone is talking about passing rent 

control and eviction protections, but where 

do you start? How do we build enough 

power to stay in our homes, communities 

and thrive?! We do this by organizing. We 

must organize because overcoming fear and 

isolation is impossible to do on our own. 

We organize because we seek to transform 

people's fear and isolation into dignity and 

solidarity both in your home, community 

and on a statewide level. Organizing 

isn’t just sending out an email or creating 

a social media page, although those will 

likely be steps that you take. Organizing 

is building real face-to-face relationships 

between you and your neighbors over time. 



Celebrities Support Launch of 

#YouAreEssential Campaign to Fund 

Grassroots Organizations Affected by 

COVID-19 

By Vic Gerami 

Powerhouse media personality Ashlee 

Mari Preston partners with creative 

agency Revolve Impact to launch You Are 

Essential (YAE), a social impact campaign 

& national relief fund that awards grants 

to grassroots organizations and mutual aid 

networks working directly with vulnerable 

communities disproportionately impacted 

by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“#YouAreEssential was launched with the 

understanding that the most vulnerable 

people within our society are often doing 

the most vulnerable work; while lacking 

adequate resources to help sustain their 

efforts—presenting barriers to progress for 

them and those they serve. No one knows 

what vulnerable communities need more 

than those who’ve been carrying grassroots 

movements on their backs and of course 

individuals living along the margins long 

before this pandemic,” said Ashlee Marie 

Preston. 

Preston, a renowned award-winning media 

personality, cultural commentator, and 

civil rights activist is often at the forefront 

of grassroots activism. She is historically 

the first trans woman to become Editor in 

Chief of a national publication and the first 

openly trans person to run for state office 

in California. Ashlee Marie was named 

one of The Root 100’s “Most Influential 

African Americans of 2017”, profiled as 

one of LOGO/NewNowNext’s 30 Most 

Influential LGBTQ Influencers of 2017 & 

2018, PopSugar’s top 40 LGBTQ’s of 2017, 

OUT Magazine’s OUT100 of 2018, made 

her TED talk debut in September of 2018, 

and was chosen as one of Coca-Cola’s 

“Next Generation LGBTQ Leadership” 

influencers of 2018. Also, she was honored 

as one of Essence Magazine’s “WOKE 100” 

of 2019 and is a former national surrogate 

for Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 Presidential 

Campaign. 

“My vision for the #YouAreEssential 

campaign was to center and support 

those at greater risk of losing their jobs, 

housing, and even their lives- and to 

expand our definition of what it means 

to be “essential,” she added. “We want 


LETTER TO THE EDITOR 

Over the last few months, we have been soliciting our groups and organizations that have 

supported quality of life issues based on equality and trust. The response has been great 

and we are open to any group and organization that treats their clients and staff with 

respect, equality and loyalty. If you are or know some group or organization that would 

like to send our readers a letter, please address it to will@desertdailyguide.com. 

Dear DDG Readers, 

Since the start of the pandemic, we have been bombarded with messages meant 

to incite fear, anxiety and hatred. But we know better! This is a time to show that 

we are less motivated by fear and instead inspired by courage. 

It’s time to take care of one another, bring each other up rather than tear each 

other down. We must have a society that cares about everyone, not just the 

chosen few, not just the one percent, not just your neighbor who looks like you or 

worships like you or loves like you. 

Dennis and I continue to push for a society that takes care of everybody, because 

that is how the world works – THAT IS HOW WE BEAT THIS PANDEMIC AND 

SHUT OUT HATE. THE TRUTH IS, WE ALL PROSPER WHEN WE TAKE 

CARE OF ONE ANOTHER WITH COMPASSION IN OUR HEARTS AND 

LOVE FOR OUR NEIGHBOR. 

With Hope, 

Judy 

EDITOR Notes: 

The Matthew Shepard Foundation’s longstanding mission is to erase hate 

by replacing it with understanding, compassion and acceptance. 

Because if who he loved, On October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old 

student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally attacked and tied to a 

fence in a field outside of Laramie, Wyo. and left to die. 

HELP! Due to program cancellations, the Matthew Shepard Foundation has lost over 

$59,000 of earned income that allows Judy and Dennis to connect directly with individuals 

in efforts to change hearts and minds. You can support our mission to create more 

understanding, accepting and compassionate communities by making a secure gift today. 

www.matthewshepard.org 


The DDG has obtained exclusive rights to reprint Do You Remember, When 

from Permissions Team Office of General Counsel 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

www.ushmm.org 

NEVER AGAIN: WHAT YOU DO MATTERS 

The Campaign for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

What was it like to live as a young Jew in Berlin during the Nazi deportations? This 

exhibition details the life of Manfred Lewin, a young Jew who was active in one of 

Berlin’s Zionist youth groups until his deportation to and murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau. 

Manfred recorded these turbulent times in a small, hand-made book that he gave to his 

Jewish friend and gay companion, Gad Beck. Mr. Beck, a Holocaust survivor who again 

lives in Berlin, donated the booklet to the Museum in December 1999. The exhibition 

centers around the 17-page artifact, which illustrates the daily life of the two friends, their 

youth group, and the culture in which they lived. 

To understand why Manfred Lewin, a young Jew in Nazi Berlin, wrote this book in 1941 

for his friend Gad Beck—to understand why Gad, 19 and Jewish, risked his life attempting 

to save Manfred from deportation—read these words from the play that brought them 

together. German writer Friedrich von Schiller’s Don Carlos: No Matter what you plan on 

doing, will you promise to undertake no act without your friend? Will you make me this 

promise? Friendship, valor, and the fight for freedom were the ideals of this 18th-century 

German drama. In 1941, Gad and Manfred played the starring roles in their Jewish youth 

group’s reading of the play. 

Special thanks to Gad Beck and Jizchak Schwersenz. 

Thanks to Carol Brown Janeway for her translation of the German text, and to the Zemer 

Chai Choir for the performance of the song “Ba'a menucha layageya.” 

Thanks also to: 

Beate Kosmala, Zentrum für Antisemitismus-Forschung Berlin 

Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag 

Friedrich Veitl, Metropol Verlag, Wichern Verlag 

Christine Zahn, Jüdisches Museum Berlin 


Manfred Lewin was born on September 8, 

1922, in Berlin where he lived with his parents 

and four siblings in the predominantly Jewish 

section of the city. The family lived in poverty 

in three little rooms not far from the Beck 

house at Dragoner Strasse 43. Manfred’s 

father was a barber and his mother Jenny, a 

former secretary, took care of the family. She 

often had to find other sources of food to 

supplement the family’s insufficient Jewish 

food ration cards. 

Gad Beck was born on June 30, 1923, together 

with his twin sister Miriam. Gad’s mother 

Hedwig came from a Protestant family, but 

converted to Judaism before the marriage 

with Heinrich Beck in 1920. The children 

were raised according to Jewish traditions, 

supported by the Christian relatives. In 

1934 Gad changed to the Jewish school 

in the Grosse Hamburger Strasse. In 1939 

his parents were forced to move into the 

predominantly Jewish section of Berlin. They 

could no longer afford the school fees; Gad 

started to work as an apprentice. 

Book Translation: Do you remember, when 

Cover to the small, hand-made book that Manfred 

Lewin gave to his Jewish friend and gay companion, 

Gad Beck 

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HENRI DAUMAN A PHOTOGRAPHER OF 20 CENTURY LIFE FOR LIFE 

AdamsArtExpose’ 

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A survivor of the holocaust in which 

his parents were killed, Henri 

Dauman emigrated from Paris to New 

York in 1950 to join his uncle. He 

began his first work as a professional 

photographer with a French/American 

newspaper France-Amerique. He 

then worked for the New York Times 

magazine documenting the city of 

New York. This assignment provided 

him the notoriety he deserved for his 

work and introduced him to LIFE 

magazine. During his years with 

LIFE from 1958 to 1972, he was the 

photographer who documented the 

20th Century politically, socially and 

photographing celebrities more than 

any one photographer. 

Celebrities he has shot include Elvis 

Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bridgette 

Bardot, Jane Fonda, Martha Stewart, 

and Andy Warhol to name only a few. 

He was a prolific photographer of John 

F. Kennedy as president and of his wife 

Jackie Kennedy. His photographs of 

the JFK funeral procession, following 

his assassination in 1963, show Jackie 

Kennedy from a very human side in her 

grieving for her husband. 

He did a series of photo essays of 

Jackie Kenedy during the JFK funeral 

procession and the years after the 

assassination. In 1972 he filed a lawsuit 

against the Andy Warhol Estate for his 

use of Jackie Kennedy photo portraits 

Dauman had taken and Andy Warhol 

used in creating a series of images 

in the exhibit titled "Sixteen Jackies" 

Henri discovered the use of his work 

when a work titled "Sixteen Jackies" 

was sold by Sotheby's for $418,000 and 

a photo of the art appeared in the New 

York Times. This case is famous in the 

history of Copywrite law. 

Photos of Dauman's work was 

scheduled to be on exhibit at the KP 

Project gallery in Los Angeles until 

the end of March. The COVID-19 

shut down prevented the exhibit 

to be shown live but it is available 

on info@kpprojects.net. You may 

also view photos by Henri Dauman 

on the website: Henri Dauman 

photojournalist. A documentary film 

titled "Henri Dauman, Looking Up" 

began streaming this week on, Apple, 

Vudu, and Amazon. It is scheduled for 

release on Goldman Films for theaters, 

pending the end of the Pandemic. 


Questions, comments, suggestions, 

contact - adamsartexpose@gmail.com or 

adamsartexpose@desertdailyguide.com 


The organization of tenant unions are the 

building blocks to our translocal, statewide, 

and international movement. 

Currently tenant unions have fought off 

rent increases, evictions, and displacement 

in California and around the country without 

rent control and just cause eviction laws 

in place. A well organized tenant union can 

win rent control by being well organized 

and making bold demands up to collective 

ownership of the building by the tenants. 

Even if the politicians in your city don’t 

have the political will to do pass meaningful 

protections you can still organize with 

your neighbors and community to protect 

yourselves. 

Current Renters Rights Movement Moment 

statewide. They have money, but we have 

power in numbers, if we organize ourselves. 

How did we get here/Roots of the Housing 

Crisis 

The current crisis we are facing didn’t come 

out of nowhere: it is a result of intentional, 

racist and classist housing policy dating 

back to the New Deal era and even colonial 

times. For more on the roots of the housing 

crisis read this statement from TT's Rent 

Control Toolkit. These videos from KCET 

City Rising are also a good resource: https:// 

www.kcet.org/shows/city-rising 

Step 1: PLANT A SEED - 

FORM an Organizing Team and Join 

Tenants Together/Homes For All 

California is in the worst housing crisis in 

recent memory. Tenants in cities across 

California are organizing tenants' unions in 

their buildings and communities and beginning 

to pass new rent control ordinances 

for the first time in over 30 years. Landlord 

lobbyists, corporate developers, and realtors 

oppose rent control and have a lot of power 

in the state, so passing rent control isn’t 

easy. Despite this challenge, we know we 

must fight to keep our homes. 

Statewide movement - Join Tenants 

Together as a Member Organization or 

Partner https://www.tenantstogether. 

org/member-organizations-0 

National Movement - Take Homes For 

All pledge https://homesforall.org/ 

pledge/ 

Principles: Solidarity, Democracy 

Believe it or not, tenants are close to half of 

the population of the state of California, 17 

The Organizing Team is the seed. 

million and counting. The California Apartment 

Association (the statewide landlord 

Your are the seed. 

lobbyist group) claims 15,000 members 



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to include everyone willing and able to 

help protect vulnerable communities 

independent of their socio-economic 

status,” she continued. “Your occupation 

and income bracket aren’t what make you 

valuable; kindness and compassion are. We 

are essential to someone else’s well-being 

and they are essential to ours.” 

The organization’s objective is to inspire 

cross-cultural, collaborative efforts that 

yield abundant resources, resilience, and 

reignite hope in a time of despair. Funds 

raised will help combat food insecurity, 

housing instability, and barriers to access 

encountered by the elderly, disabled, 

immunocompromised, and the deeply 

marginalized. 

Microgrants range from $250 to $5,000. 

Microgrants do not typically exceed $5,000 

and are specific to identifiable need(s). 

However, applicants may also apply for an 

amount not listed in the application for 

the review committee’s consideration. A 

diverse body of individuals will evaluate 

applications and base their decision on 

urgency and need. 

Other key organizers of the 

#YouAreEssential campaign include singer 

and songwriter Justin Tranter, writer and 

producer Taj Paxton, and Rogers and 

Cowan PMK senior vice president of 

multicultural communications, Stephen 

Macias. 

“Revolve Impact is honored to be working 

on #YouAreEssential, a critically important 

campaign and emergency fund to support 

mutual aid networks and grassroots 

organizations on the frontlines of this 

unprecedented crisis. #YouAreEssential will 

ensure that organizations doing lifesaving 

work in the most vulnerable communities 

are supported and resourced,” said Mike de 

la Rocha, Co-Founder & CEO, of Revolve 

Impact. 

Actress, producer, author Gabrielle 

Union, and basketball star Dwyane Wade 

were among the first to make a generous 

donation to the cause. Other notable 

figures have pledged to make contributions 

to the fund and are slated to appear in an 

upcoming video series in support of the 

campaign. 

#YouAreEssential is an initiative of 

Accelerate Impact Fund, a sponsored 

program of the Social Impact Fund, 

a 501©3 non-profit organization. All 

donations are tax-deductible and can be 

made. 

For more information, 

please visit 

YouAreEssential.org 


PART 

ONE 

Reprint by permission 

by Office of 

General Counsel 

United States 

Holocaust 

Memorial Museum 

all right reserved. 

www.ushmm.org 

Book Translation: 

Dear, kind Gad, I owe you a present, no, I want to give you 

one, not just so that you get something from me that you can 

glance through and then lay aside forever, but something that 

will make you happy whenever you pick it up. 

Gad and Manfred sometimes would spend the night together on cots in the 

basement of the Jewish school in the Choriner Strasse, as part of an obligatory 

air raid patrol. One of these evenings, Manfred gave Gad his book. 

Manfred wrote and made this book because he wanted to give something 

meaningful to Gad, who wrote poems. Gad was touched by the gift, though 

he was initially critical of Manfred’s lyrical writing style. Later, Manfred’s 

words took on new meaning. 

Left: Jizchak Schwersenz, director of the Jewish school at Choriner Strasse 

74, and three of his pupils carry helmets, tools, and books for their obligatory 

air raid patrol shift in early summer 1941. All public buildings in Berin 

had to be patrolled. Gad and Manfred began their shifts in late summer 

1941, after the school building had been evacuated due to bomb damage. 

After the war, many streets disappeared or their names were changed. The 

Choriner Strasse still exists today, but the former Jewish school has been 

replaced by a modern apartment complex. 

Interview with Gad Beck 

MR. BECK: “It was very interesting. He was not so sure this would be the 

right gift for me. It’s very simple book, booklet, very simple. … and he’s not 

an artist. So he gave me this paper and said to me, 'Later, look later, what I 

gave you in this moment.' I took it with me, and I’m not sure, even if I know 

I’m not sure. In the same evening I didn’t read this book, just in the morning. 

I was alone Ah!.... and I remember he have me something. And so I 

was, I read this book.” 

QUESTION: “What was your first impression? 

MR. BECK: The impression was not so deep like in this moment, because I 

didn’t, I couldn’t understand what will be our next future. So this book said 

to me, some wonderful words coming from his heart, not more. He was a 

very poor boy, they had no money. And most of the money they had was 

only going for food. He wanted to bring me something from his spirit. It 

was very spiritual gift for me.” 


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May-Sumner 2020

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