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==Politics==

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[[File:Biden 2020.png|right|350px|thumb|The Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, California was defaced with [[swastika]]s, [[Biden 2020]], upside down crosses and [[BLM]] imagery.<ref>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/chaldean-catholic-cathedral-vandalized-in-san-diego-with-white-power-blm-and-swastikas-29343]</ref>]]

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[[File:Biden 2020.png|right|350px|thumb|The Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, California was defaced with [[swastika]]s, [[Biden 2020]], upside down crosses and [[BLM]] imagery.<ref>[https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/chaldean-catholic-cathedral-vandalized-in-san-diego-with-white-power-blm-and-swastikas-29343]</ref>]]

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From 2003-2011 California's governor was liberal Republican [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. This is the same position that was once held by conservative icon [[Ronald Reagan]] in ~~1966-74~~. California is considered to be one of the [[blue state|"blue-est" states]], consistently voting for Democratic legislative and Presidential candidates since 1992, mixed in with numerous Republican governors. Los Angeles and San Francisco are the centers of liberalism, while San Diego and other cities outside these localities are much more conservative. Prior to 1992, California was consistently a [[red state]].

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From 2003 to 2011 California's governor was liberal Republican [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. This is the same position that was once held by conservative icon [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1966–74. California is considered to be one of the [[blue state|"blue-est" states]], consistently voting for Democratic legislative and Presidential candidates since 1992, mixed in with numerous Republican governors. Los Angeles and San Francisco are the centers of liberalism, while San Diego and other cities outside these localities are much more conservative. Prior to 1992, California was consistently a [[red state]].

[[Image:Reagangovernor.jpg‎|left|thumb|250px|Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan at the Victory celebration for California Governor at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California 11/8/66.]]

[[Image:About arnold img-2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican. The 38th Governor of California From: November 17, 2003 - January 3, 2011]]

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:{{See also|Revolutionary Vanguard}}

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The Committees of Correspondence (CoC), also known as the [[Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism]] (CCDS) was formed in 1992 after the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>https://keywiki.org/Committees_of_Correspondence</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140518231419/http://www.ccds-discussion.org/?p=4</ref> Several prominent party [[Communist Party USA]] ruderless without the Soviet Union to offer funding and instructions, and disillusioned with the dictatorial rule of CPUSA General Secretary [[Gus Hall]], split off and to form their own group.<ref>https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/committees-of-correspondence-for-democracy-and-socialism-ccds/</ref><ref>"The Communist Party of the United States has disintegrated, as has the party in [[Minnesota]], as a result of its own failures and misdeeds. The political and ideological crisis that brought down the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Eastern Europe]]an [[socialist]] countries produced crises in Communist Parties throughout the world from which none have emerged unscathed. The CPUSA survives at present only as a shell, with many of its most active members and best-known national leaders having given up the attempt to reform from within and leaving to work in a new form. These reform forces have regrouped as the Committees of Correspondence, for the exchange of information, promotion of education and discussion and coordination of activities.... On February 9, the Northern [[California]] district, with the second largest (after [[New York]]) membership in the CPUSA, declared its independence from the national party and joined the Committees of Correspondence. Retaining its [[Marxist-Leninist]] ideological and political framework, the Northern California organization stated: "We desire to be a working-class, [[multiracial]], [[internationalism|internationalist]], anti-[[imperialist]] organization of women and men, regardless of [[sexual orientation]], with a commitment to [[coalition]] politics and mass struggle and a goal of participating in the leadership of such movements. Our work will be based upon participation with people and organizations in struggle, earning leadership through our concrete deeds. "The struggles of working people, the [[racial]]ly and [[Nationalism|national]]ly oppressed, and women are central to the struggle for [[social progress]], indispensable to fundamental [[economic]] and [[political]] change. The growing alliance of these forces is central to the building of a broad coalition of democratic forces that will challenge the rule of [[monopoly]] [[capital]] in this country. The victory of such an anti-monopoly coalition and the establishment of an anti-monopoly government is a necessary step toward the development of socialism in the [[United States]]." ...Dissent and disaffection within the CPUSA became an outright split because party chair Gus Hall blamed the crisis in the world Communist movement entirely on attacks by imperialism and the weakness of [[Gorbachev]]. He did not acknowledge the corrosive role of the [[Autocracy|autocratic]], [[bureaucrat]]ic, [[Paternalism|paternalistic]] administrative structures passed down from the [[Stalin]] period through the [[Communist International]] (Comintern) to most of the Communist Parties in the world, including the CPUSA. In reality, these undemocratic structures were ultimately responsible for the inability of the socialist economies to develop to a level that would enable them to counteract the economic offensives of the industrialized capitalist countries against them. A second major division arose over domestic political strategy. The Gus Hall leadership wanted to continue a policy of concentrating primarily on [[blue-collar]] workers in basic industry, on the grounds that they are most exploited and the sole source of capitalist [[profit]]. Critics of this narrow focus argued that the majority of workers contributing to capitalist profit are no longer industrial workers in basic industry, that Marxists must pay particular attention to those sectors of the [[working class]] in which there is the greatest opportunity to develop [[militant]] [[resistance]] to [[corporate]] onslaught on [[living standards]], whether in industry, trade, or services, in the private or public sector. The most militant labor struggles, they say, are now emerging where there are the greatest concentrations of the most oppressed sections of the working class, particularly [[African-American]]s, [[Latino]]s and women. A labor policy ignoring these realities of the contemporary U.S. work force is, in practical effect, [[racist]] and [[sexist]]. The first significant criticism of Gus Hall's political leadership came with near unanimity from leading African-American members. The rigged convention subsequently purged most African-Americans, including [[Angela Davis]], Charlene Mitchell, Kendra Alexander and Carl Bloice, from the national committee. No one among over one-third of the Party's members who had signed a call for reform in the party, including [[Herbert Aptheker]], was safe; all were purged. As more and more U.S. Communists re-thought their understanding of socialism and political [[activism]], they confronted a blank wall at the top of the party. Those seeking reform were branded as enemies. The effective lack of inner-party democracy became impossible to ignore. The doctrinaire rigidity of party policies that had rejected rank-and-file union reform groups (unless party-led), denigrated labor organizing of service and clerical workers, lagged in supporting the [[Feminist movement|women's movement]], ignored [[gay]] and [[lesbian]] issues, branded other socialist and progressive organizations as the "phony [[left]]" and have been blind or dishonest about "existing socialism," was intolerable if members could not hope to change these policies....The Committees of Correspondence provide hope for new ways of drawing together [[progressive]]s to work for the replacement of [[capitalism]] with a just, humane and [[democratic socialism]], created by and for the working people of this country." -Erwin Marquit is a Professor in Physics, Doris G. Marquit is on the adjunct faculty in the English and [[Women's Studies]] Departments.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311011756/http://www.mndaily.com/daily/gopher-archives/1992/02/19/Party_survives%2C_but_as_a_shell.txt "Party survives, but as a shell"], ''Minnesota Daily'', February 19, 1992. (Archive.org copy)</ref>

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The Committees of Correspondence (CoC), also known as the [[Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism]] (CCDS) was formed in 1992 after the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>https://keywiki.org/Committees_of_Correspondence</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140518231419/http://www.ccds-discussion.org/?p=4</ref> Several prominent party [[Communist Party USA]] ruderless without the Soviet Union to offer funding and instructions, and disillusioned with the dictatorial rule of CPUSA General Secretary [[Gus Hall]], split off and to form their own group.<ref>https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/committees-of-correspondence-for-democracy-and-socialism-ccds/</ref><ref>"The Communist Party of the United States has disintegrated, as has the party in [[Minnesota]], as a result of its own failures and misdeeds. The political and ideological crisis that brought down the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Eastern Europe]]an [[socialist]] countries produced crises in Communist Parties throughout the world from which none have emerged unscathed. The CPUSA survives at present only as a shell, with many of its most active members and best-known national leaders having given up the attempt to reform from within and leaving to work in a new form. These reform forces have regrouped as the Committees of Correspondence, for the exchange of information, promotion of education and discussion and coordination of activities.... On February 9, the Northern California district, with the second largest (after [[New York]]) membership in the CPUSA, declared its independence from the national party and joined the Committees of Correspondence. Retaining its [[Marxist-Leninist]] ideological and political framework, the Northern California organization stated: "We desire to be a working-class, [[multiracial]], [[internationalism|internationalist]], anti-[[imperialist]] organization of women and men, regardless of [[sexual orientation]], with a commitment to [[coalition]] politics and mass struggle and a goal of participating in the leadership of such movements. Our work will be based upon participation with people and organizations in struggle, earning leadership through our concrete deeds. "The struggles of working people, the [[racial]]ly and [[Nationalism|national]]ly oppressed, and women are central to the struggle for [[social progress]], indispensable to fundamental [[economic]] and [[political]] change. The growing alliance of these forces is central to the building of a broad coalition of democratic forces that will challenge the rule of [[monopoly]] [[capital]] in this country. The victory of such an anti-monopoly coalition and the establishment of an anti-monopoly government is a necessary step toward the development of socialism in the [[United States]]." ...Dissent and disaffection within the CPUSA became an outright split because party chair Gus Hall blamed the crisis in the world Communist movement entirely on attacks by imperialism and the weakness of [[Gorbachev]]. He did not acknowledge the corrosive role of the [[Autocracy|autocratic]], [[bureaucrat]]ic, [[Paternalism|paternalistic]] administrative structures passed down from the [[Stalin]] period through the [[Communist International]] (Comintern) to most of the Communist Parties in the world, including the CPUSA. In reality, these undemocratic structures were ultimately responsible for the inability of the socialist economies to develop to a level that would enable them to counteract the economic offensives of the industrialized capitalist countries against them. A second major division arose over domestic political strategy. The Gus Hall leadership wanted to continue a policy of concentrating primarily on [[blue-collar]] workers in basic industry, on the grounds that they are most exploited and the sole source of capitalist [[profit]]. Critics of this narrow focus argued that the majority of workers contributing to capitalist profit are no longer industrial workers in basic industry, that Marxists must pay particular attention to those sectors of the [[working class]] in which there is the greatest opportunity to develop [[militant]] [[resistance]] to [[corporate]] onslaught on [[living standards]], whether in industry, trade, or services, in the private or public sector. The most militant labor struggles, they say, are now emerging where there are the greatest concentrations of the most oppressed sections of the working class, particularly [[African-American]]s, [[Latino]]s and women. A labor policy ignoring these realities of the contemporary U.S. work force is, in practical effect, [[racist]] and [[sexist]]. The first significant criticism of Gus Hall's political leadership came with near unanimity from leading African-American members. The rigged convention subsequently purged most African-Americans, including [[Angela Davis]], Charlene Mitchell, Kendra Alexander and Carl Bloice, from the national committee. No one among over one-third of the Party's members who had signed a call for reform in the party, including [[Herbert Aptheker]], was safe; all were purged. As more and more U.S. Communists re-thought their understanding of socialism and political [[activism]], they confronted a blank wall at the top of the party. Those seeking reform were branded as enemies. The effective lack of inner-party democracy became impossible to ignore. The doctrinaire rigidity of party policies that had rejected rank-and-file union reform groups (unless party-led), denigrated labor organizing of service and clerical workers, lagged in supporting the [[Feminist movement|women's movement]], ignored [[gay]] and [[lesbian]] issues, branded other socialist and progressive organizations as the "phony [[left]]" and have been blind or dishonest about "existing socialism," was intolerable if members could not hope to change these policies....The Committees of Correspondence provide hope for new ways of drawing together [[progressive]]s to work for the replacement of [[capitalism]] with a just, humane and [[democratic socialism]], created by and for the working people of this country." -Erwin Marquit is a Professor in Physics, Doris G. Marquit is on the adjunct faculty in the English and [[Women's Studies]] Departments.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311011756/http://www.mndaily.com/daily/gopher-archives/1992/02/19/Party_survives%2C_but_as_a_shell.txt "Party survives, but as a shell"], ''Minnesota Daily'', February 19, 1992. (Archive.org copy)</ref>

[[File:Democrat rioters Compton, CA.png|right|250px|thumb|Democrat riots in Compton, California, during the [[2020 presidential election]].<ref>https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/09/10/the-united-states-its-constitution-have-two-months-left/</ref>]]

The group's first organizational conference was held in [[Berkeley]], California, July 17–19, 1992. Charlene Mitchell, who had been a leader of the California Communist Party, spoke at the conference. Mitchell said "the collapse of [[socialism]] in [[Eastern Europe]] left the [[United States]] in a near unchallenged position of world leadership." She continued,

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Former congressional investigator Herbert Romerstein said the CCDS has "a close working relationship with the [[Stalin]]ist remnants in the former [[East Germany]], now called the Party of Democratic Socialism..." Romerstein points out these were the people who ran the [[concentration camp]]s and the [[Communist Party]] apparatus in East Germany.

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===Black Liberation Army===

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===Bay Area===

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People Organized to Win Employment Rights or POWER (Garza) evolved from the now defunct communist group STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement). [[Obama]]’s former “green jobs czar” and [[CNN]] contributor, the self-described “[[communist]]” and “rowdy black nationalist” [[Van Jones]], served on ~~STORM’s~~ board. In January 2015, POWER merged with another [[Liberation Road]] group, Causa Justa,<ref>Causa Justa/Just Cause – a Black-Latino solidarity organization allied with the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Right to the City Alliance, and others. Its 2013 revenues, $1.6 million, included $689,484 in government grants. Causa Justa has received over $2.3 million since 2010, mostly from the California Endowment, Marguerite Casey, and a few others.</ref> and Garza left.<ref>https://capitalresearch.org/article/blm-roots/</ref> Garza wrote at about the same time,

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People Organized to Win Employment Rights or POWER (Garza) evolved from the now defunct communist group STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement). [[Obama]]’s former “green jobs czar” and [[CNN]] contributor, the self-described “[[communist]]” and “rowdy black nationalist” [[Van Jones]], served on STORM's board. In January 2015, POWER merged with another [[Liberation Road]] group, Causa Justa,<ref>Causa Justa/Just Cause – a Black-Latino solidarity organization allied with the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Right to the City Alliance, and others. Its 2013 revenues, $1.6 million, included $689,484 in government grants. Causa Justa has received over $2.3 million since 2010, mostly from the California Endowment, Marguerite Casey, and a few others.</ref> and Garza left.<ref>https://capitalresearch.org/article/blm-roots/</ref> Garza wrote at about the same time,

{{quotebox|"When I use Assata [Shakur]'s powerful demand in my [[Community organizing|organizing]] work, I always begin by sharing where it comes from, sharing about Assata’s significance to the Black Liberation Movement, what its political purpose and message is, and why it’s important in our context."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Garza|first1=Alicia|title=A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement|url=http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/|website=The Feminist Wire|publisher=|accessdate=}}</ref>}}

[[Assata Shakur]] is the former "queen" of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) terrorist group, who was convicted of the first-degree murder of a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973. She was convicted of [[murder]] and seven other [[felon]]ies. While serving a life sentence, she escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in 1979. She was granted political asylum in [[Cuba]] in 1984 where she has lived ever since, despite US government efforts to have her extradited. She is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list, under her maiden name [[Joanne Deborah Chesimard]]. BLM founders openly admit to being "trained Marxists".<ref>https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1273739801464725504</ref>

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[[Bay Area]] Democrats rioted in [[Oakland]],<ref>https://calwatchdog.com/2013/12/18/actually-jim-jones-cult-was-bay-area-democrats/</ref> California.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQq1Kv2UNpo</ref> Nearly 10,000 people took to the streets of the California community, looting stores like Target and Walgreens,<ref>https://streamable.com/y9s4x9</ref> and setting fire to a Chase bank. A Black officer from the [[Department of Homeland Security]] was [[murder]]ed and another officer shot.<ref>https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/one-of-two-federal-officers-shot-friday-night-dies-from-injuries/2299729/</ref><ref>https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/federal-police-officer-shot-dead-another-injured-in-oakland/</ref>

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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf ordered a [[hate crime]] investigation after Oakland Police identified five ropes they described as “nooses” hanging from trees at Lake Merrit, with the city government apparently believing that the ropes were akin to racial intimidation tactics and allusions to lynchings carried out by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI was called in support of the investigation. A black man stepped forward stating that he and some of his friends installed the rope and small nooses merely for use as swings and exercise equipment. The nooses were used to attach a makeshift swing. “It’s unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to create a good time got misinterpreted," stating that he ~~couldn’t~~ see how anyone would view the small ropes as a ~~hangman’s~~ noose. The Democrat mayor however, refused to accept the word of a Black man and continued to claim the findings are indicative of a hate crime and continued the [[witchhunt]] for white supremacists invading Oakland.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/racial-panic-erupts-in-oakland-over-nooses-that-were-actually-exercise-equipment/</ref>

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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf ordered a [[hate crime]] investigation after Oakland Police identified five ropes they described as “nooses” hanging from trees at Lake Merrit, with the city government apparently believing that the ropes were akin to racial intimidation tactics and allusions to lynchings carried out by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI was called in support of the investigation. A black man stepped forward stating that he and some of his friends installed the rope and small nooses merely for use as swings and exercise equipment. The nooses were used to attach a makeshift swing. “It’s unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to create a good time got misinterpreted," stating that he couldn't see how anyone would view the small ropes as a hangman's noose. The Democrat mayor however, refused to accept the word of a Black man and continued to claim the findings are indicative of a hate crime and continued the [[witchhunt]] for white supremacists invading Oakland.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/racial-panic-erupts-in-oakland-over-nooses-that-were-actually-exercise-equipment/</ref>

===San Francisco===

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===Election fraud===

:{{See also|Democrat election fraud|Biden Putsch}}

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According to [[CBS]] LA, Ellen Swensen with the Election Integrity Project California says they found more than 277,000 questionable ballots were mailed in the [[2020 presidential election]] in Los Angeles county before election day. ~~That’s~~ 63% of all the questionable ballots mailed statewide. It includes more than 4,800 duplicate ballots mailed to the same person, and 728 ballots mailed to people who likely have died. In 2016 their investigation found many dead voters still registered. Four years later, there were more.<ref>https://theredelephants.com/there-is-undeniable-mathematical-evidence-the-election-is-being-stolen/</ref>

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According to [[CBS]] LA, Ellen Swensen with the Election Integrity Project California says they found more than 277,000 questionable ballots were mailed in the [[2020 presidential election]] in Los Angeles county before election day. That's 63% of all the questionable ballots mailed statewide. It includes more than 4,800 duplicate ballots mailed to the same person, and 728 ballots mailed to people who likely have died. In 2016 their investigation found many dead voters still registered. Four years later, there were more.<ref>https://theredelephants.com/there-is-undeniable-mathematical-evidence-the-election-is-being-stolen/</ref>

==Economy==

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===Green jobs===

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Green environmental policies scrapped the centuries old practice of creating firebreaks in forests between clumps of trees that would limit fire outbreaks in hot weather. By 2020, far from “protecting the trees” and wildlife, the ending of windbreak spaces instead allowed forest fires to blaze on an unprecedented scale and at record speed. At the same time, multiple millions of people sweated in even luxury [[suburb]]s through the rolling heat waves without any air conditioning relief because the state electric grid repeatedly collapsed, unable to generate the necessary reliable requisite power levels at vital times. Liberal suburbanites who have relentlessly voted for and imposed these polices over the past decades began fleeing California as property values crash and taxes become too crushing.

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Green environmental policies scrapped the centuries-old practice of creating firebreaks in forests between clumps of trees that would limit fire outbreaks in hot weather. By 2020, far from “protecting the trees” and wildlife, the ending of windbreak spaces instead allowed forest fires to blaze on an unprecedented scale and at record speed. At the same time, multiple millions of people sweated in even luxury [[suburb]]s through the rolling heat waves without any air conditioning relief because the state electric grid repeatedly collapsed, unable to generate the necessary reliable requisite power levels at vital times. Liberal suburbanites who have relentlessly voted for and imposed these polices over the past decades began fleeing California as property values crash and taxes become too crushing.

==Energy==

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