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Journal, President of North Africa and Syria --Charge D Affair (St Yv Sound, Burnham Point,) Chicago, --HMSS

Dear Val

I am parsing out, more and more the story of, my tree, i can write a time line,

whether or not, its a great suitable one for the books as of yet,

I am not so sure,

Some where along the lines, it;s like this,

My great great grandparents, were from Ocampo Sorsogon, near Goa Gubat, with roots, in Illocos Norte and ancestry, maybe near Tagudum around there 

and with these lines, 

my grandfathers sister married a Muscat, which can trace its roots from Oman and Switzerland

where my grandfather worked for Zuillig, as well as the Central Bank, he was a Swiss Legionnaire, 

let me tell you about his father, 

He worked in Textiles and studied in Japan, 

his last notable memory of him, was, when he took my grandfather to 

see the New York Yankees at Rizal Park,

he’d died when he was 11 you see,

I think Lou Gherig and Babe Ruth, were there

My grandfather, Eli was orphaned at the age 13, not long after his father died, 

his mother, Segunda passed on two years later, of..according my grandfather and mentor, “A Broken Heart” : Her heart failed her

They owned some units in a building, 

she told him

“Collect the rent!, from the tenants,:

My mother, studied at Fribourg 

with her sister, eventually working for SwissAir

iniitally she worked for PAL, upon making an announcement, in French, AirFrance tried to recruit her

Somwhere along the lines, Silvina Ocampo intertwined, when she came to the Philippines intermittenly to write about the Pearl of the Orient, and the wonderful, secret, places which she compared to the place near Salvador Brazil,

near there she always mentioned it, in the tapes, in her poem, her biographers did so too

We have the same line,

Us, Pitzarek, Cesares, Dosteyevski, Muscat,  

My mother ‘s father, Emilio D. Bejasa was born in Buan, Sorsogon where my grandmother Cordia was born, where after law school was recruited by the US State Department

while the Philippines was still commonwealth, (and now is)

his first post after having schooled by the US State Department Foreign Service School,

was to open the Hong Kong Consulate, the first one...his last post was ambassador to India, prior to that was Brazil,

Cordia died in Jaffa srael, where my mother studied French and danced, for Golda Meir, 

in service, of my past rich jewish latin and Filipino Illustrado intellectual circles, of the Hardackers, McAllisters, and Garridos, not to mention the Marquez’ Sanchez who are of North African and Palestinians Legion Writers who also inspired me to do my first 

manuscript, Becoming Neruda -- changing it later to Dialekt of Humble for dedications to my mother, in context of a long long long apology

Somewhere along the line, we intermingled, with

great writers, like Pitzarek, Cesares, Doesteyevski, all of Silvina Ocampo, linea our blood, we intermarried, Pitzarek married a Doesteyevski 

The Silvina line -- of  Argentina to Paris, along wiht Eluard  and Rene Char, Dali and Gala, and Duras, and God knows who else leading the  Surrealist Communist ... Camus et al...Absurdist Movement

somewhere, I was gifted with Georgina of Iowa Writers Circle’s soul, and blood, after I was born when 

I was trained, by Georgina Dubois,  Iowa Writers Circle and University of Chicago -dans Ryerson

not just in a class, but we have blood, an Mississippi Dubios Lousiana Blood,

we kept furthering our learning and experienes together in the bunker, our experience, and in the cafe..we left it at the bunker...

not recently also, I met the Ocampo, Pitzarek, Doesteyevski line of my paternal side and had a wonderful time at the cafe have begun writing our narrative

What is not said, as well, I worked at the Art Institute, and met Katie Sanchez of the Kennedy, who is a cousin of my step sister Erica, whose children I take as my own since the loss of their father through a bad divorce and seperation, and from my grandfather who died, her real actual father, (His daughter --nee Ocampo) with him or her rather, I have a couple of children as .....a dutiful legionnaire...

Katie, She is a Kennedy

We worked at the Art Institute together, and I am trained by Art Institute MFA School of Writers who led me to Bevington Penguin Circle, of the greatest Shakespeare Program in the World, at University of Chicago dans Ryerson 

I had a daughter, named Leaf  -- Leaf Monte Ciela (I myself was the crushed leaf once, or more than once, and so was my mother)

The last time I saw her, It was the bunker, make shift cafe, where I sang an Adelle song for her, 

a legionnaire song -- All I ask!

Ocassionally, 

I will sing it, when I am not too somber

and

by the by I was appointed English Speaking Union’s,  Executive Secretary whilst 

my Writing Seminars and Studies regarding Aids issues in Thailand and studies regarding Development Trade Regimes and in Africa

There I met, my writing circle, who gave me the Poetry Foundation

I inherited, the love of Bevington let alone Shakespeare as well as your love, including Mountbatten, becoming, later worthy of your services as a legionnaire and secret service offer to you our countrymen and the Roosevelts, especially John, my personal assignment in the Bunker

, and other great mentors, like Papadapolous, head of Greece Intelligence, the greatest Geographer in the EU

and studied, Coding and GIS under Patrick McAffie who adopted me too

who is in my linea

There I met, Melissa Lofthouse Benoist, and Agnes Malec

had children, we were in the same circles, same program, my June as a Henry,

or the other the Gala to my life as an Eluard,

later one or the other a Curie will be to my Pastuer who

But, during the war, I did see them, sparingly ..and were absent from my life, passing glances

until I met, someone,

who, was like, me as a child, as I waited in vain

in Yvonne, was from the place, where my area of focus was

in Thailand, rural area working as a missionary teacher protecting youth

by the Burma border at the Golden Triangle at St Mary’s in Chiangrai

now as an officer in the military, in the navy is taking surigical nursing, but in secret, is developing her skills, as an aspiring writer

under, yours truly Val -- Val, I am LaAmant Consul --

I was, then, on my mercy mission, as a writer, here in what was then what became a penal colony

til liberation

afterwhich, 

I became head of Aids Research, and French Studies at Rhodes Kings

and a member of the International Aids Foundation, and with Nobel and Fields

the Nobel Family

I did some remediation work for my school at Monmouth-Smith,  as Dean Father, won the Paris Arts Exhibition

just like my father won the 1972 Philippine Photography Art Competition

I married, im 2014, 

had children with my wife, when I conceived in Howe, Indiana after a weekend trip to Michiana seeing, in parituclar the Beautiful Tulip Gardens  

In memory, 

In memoriam, to all, we wrote our first Saga, Alia Crimea

I retired at St Yv Sound, with irony voted as North Africa’s President and Syria’s President, which parts of my scripts yield attends to....

The manual at the smithsonian, allows me some leverage, 

Seen, once as a Crushed Leaf, now, as a lawyer, legionnaire doctor,

sweet man sweet sweet man, til, the ax is pulled on me with theft in mind,

I am then the most dangerous Karl! 

But further to the point, I was born, with jaundice, 

needing, blood from a nun, and legionnaires, to stay alive,

and legionnaire writers, and mountain men,

I was named, Justin, after a Dillaneauve, of the line --

Sir Hillary Edmund, to get me through...life, 

that the milestones, that with my family tree, 

for example, the first sculpture i can recall my dad made

was a Christmas Tree, and I tried to replicate...

that .......my children, from Ann (Queenie), to Yv, Liberte, Leaf, Lilly, 

Hom, all those I yielded from my escapade at Howe, to Alia, and Elle

Tigre, Michelle, the children of White Cross, my children of Kings Rowe, and La Paz, my Children at Mindoro -- my memories of the songs sung, in French, 

to Ivo, Ivo Malec, and, lastly, .......How can I forgot my first born, along the way, I had triplets

Justine, Tallia, Marissa et al.. All, Her majesty,

Arc -View -Jennifer, of Audobon, How Two Roads Divurge on a Wood, we chose the one least travelled, who difficult it was -- it was longer, but we lived to see this day... 

The day that I became JOB, I read purpose driven life, 

where My children of White Cross and Kings Row, of La Paz...

You.....will bring together, gifts under the same way

Order! build, a sculpture, not of the last liberals who gave up everything, to overthrow Kampala, including the brothers convinced me to wake up, In the Reyes, Lei, Pia, Eric Reyes, Et Al.build rather a Christmas Tree first ---

Rene Justin Dove Ocampo --(Nee Roosevelt Nobel) - HMSS (President of Syria and North Africa)

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Artist Town Hall subgroup 9 notes:

Group 9 TOPIC: Local/State Government & Civic Action ATA Town Hall Scribe: Moderator:

ATA Opening Statements & Points of Concern:

●  Sciences and arts coming together in the stem and steam movement and how the two work together and somehow they are not correlating the two

●  Gentrification and people being moved around what happens to old people losing

●  Need for creative voter registration efforts & get out the vote campaigns

●  Concern about govt. ethics violations, but phone calls and emails feel ineffective

●  Need to ensure that voices are heard

●  Desire to see indigenous led prayers and camps be established in texas

●  Interested in seeing artists going out and raising awareness

●  Example of street action: In 1992 artist went through River Oaks discussing politics

●  Need for cultural accessibility outside museum district

●  Need for a collective museum efforts to create networks outside of the museum district

●  Putting ideas into an actual space not about the creative space but the transient nature

of artists in houston and across the world

●  Civil disobedience with artists bringing artists into the activist community artists

supporting the activists

●  Moved by Anthony Bordain’s show talking about how houston is the city of the future

message that houston is one of the most accepting places in the world to put out facts including rice survey cohort that works with pushes the facts that are there and creating messaging for our diversity

●  Getting art into neighborhoods houston is huge and diverse there is always the drive to bring people in to see the work what if we worked on getting more work into local neighborhoods (combine with access to museums)

●  Healthcare for artists, making healthcare affordable to artists and everyone

●  Influencing legislation and writing representatives

●  Creating govt. pay systems for artist similar to European model - looking at legacy

clauses if you passway a percentage of your art goes back to the state - in ny freelancers union and have a little bit of protection, sawyer yards they force close galleries while they have events

●  Actually call and annoy representatives express yourself

●  How as artists we can initiate better public transportation i think our scene suffers major

because we are not very mobile

●  Pop up gallery shows or finding funding to get publicity on the administration and get the

work out there business and financial education for arts people

●  Circular design and sustainability getting ideas into school districts with compost

●  Inter collaborative-cultural-faith project

●  Develop agency to support ideas and action a real place owned by artists in a neighborhood and community - privately owned artists spaces - artist co-op

●  Making houston more friendly for people with disabilities and special needs

Breakout Session/Group Notes

For Registered voters: Get people to in a red state vote creative solutions

(Kelly rachel mat jessica, jennifer, caroline) The reason i was interested in this i thought the whole thing was going to be a part of this That is my number one thing is to get rid of ted cruz it is possible I recently found out that ted poe is in montrose that the lines are drawn haphazardly Making his little red spot in montrose Learn more about city council members and get them take attention Mayor who is arts friendly The council members are swayed by mayor and has show he is arts friendly People may be registered and they just don’t bother they focus on presidential and miss out on the little one People who get their feet wet in politics and get people excited Republicans say just nasty things that are going through Other than arts funding the afta bill texas is going to start refusing refugees There is so many things it’s not like democrats are perfect One meeting BLM they endorse a candidate and they held that you get them to vote I became a registrar because i teach at hcc and got people registered but to get people to actually vote had to go during class to get people to vote only how do you do that in a larger scale you actually cancel class what was the feedback they were excited because it was the first time they voted It was great but you make it such in effort to register then to get to the voting it is a whole nother thing it is hard to get to the polls you have to work there is an education gap the artist are more liberally minded an education of the things that are going to affect us is that the trickle effect the museums would be more accessible if people learned more about them and from their council member connecting their issues to a person who can enact that change there are moments that are other communities that there are things going on at the local level that people in the arts appreciate about about their city they have just figured out a way to get invested in portland you can vote by mail so there are systems in place for easier voting Voter term limits a you can’t really get to know the person who is there and To stay invested in a local level what is t that these people do and it is kind of square and perception with young people that I think people think that way about artists that is similar Do you guys know of any organization s that are

TOP texas organizing project Article in harper's bazaar One shining beacon after the trump election swayed a lot of texas communities for being blue whether it was driving people around to get them to vote knock on peoples door and explain issues and go to high schools to register them to vote untapped population would be good for us to partner with another organization or we all become deputy voters it is really easy an hor long thing i just got re registered i didn’t do outreach but just for my students now i feel like i have two years or a year The next local election that is really soon in may just went to get deputized and there was an election that i didn’t even know about School board up for office and wonder if it might be worthwhile to target a particular district was excited by looking at numbers and culberson who went for hillary we think we are more powerful than we think we are there are small increments what is an area that has somewhere where we can see the needle move a couple of notches, it is the ted poe district of find a neighborhood that had really low numbers and one of the projects i gave my students was a get out the vote poster it might raise the chances that they would actually get out and vote It is about being a part of the process you are apart of the process even if you don’t vote Educating people and making people to have a comfort level you don’t have to be an expert to have an option about these things if we are focusing on people who are supportive of the artist and that directly affects our community Raising the profile of people that vote Creative messaging around staying engaged to reform Educate regular people about who your council person is text and image gifs when i found out ted was in my district i was like i don’t understand and you feel dumbfounded and they are so far off the mark Geting with the other agency maybe we can get a page on their website to get visibility Ellen city council member sends out newsletter all of the people write a story about it there is more There is a way to affect change immediately we should get it in there and empower people to be a part of the process

A link to find out more about your representatives

Actionable items

1. All get deputized to register voters

2. Find out what is on the ballot for the next election and when is the next election

3. Research districts where we could move or impact the vote that was a few points off

from going blue

a. Power to move the needle

b. Research voter turnout

c. Particularly district 7 which has been identified as swing

d. Within high traffic areas - high schools or reach out to orgs with information of the

neighborhood and ties

4. Research organizations that are getting out the vote and strategies - TOP (texas

organising project) - mission is to get people in urban areas interested and information

5. Cheat sheet with information

6. Make a cool sticker or button that says I registered or I voted

All of the organizations work together eventually the media was going to them for the news they were at the meetings Voter registration table t is always ghost town is there a way to do a hybrid of do you know your official is there a graphic way to do that or checkbox

Or show them how to google it If we are looking at people who are registered it would be easy for them to walk past the table and say i oted or i am registered I am sure that art collector see the artists names and don’t know who is who and how do you break that wall and introduce people to the artists with more information and I would be interested to see a google doc that you can go through and see who is on the ballot who has been in office to communicate that more broadly to a group Initiate change culberson that has most potency for change - they are gerrymandered that way District 7 What is a graphic interesting way to catch people's attention for those who are registered to vote and gets people to come to the table with an activity to make more engaging or inviting Bar and council people finding places in that location to be able to do the education Calling volunteers and saying hey we found this area and send people wiht materials An invitation for people to learn something is a better way to bring people in Everyone has friends that don’t vote and i have trump friends and people who don’t believe in climate change but it is interesting to hear the other side and he watches the news but what news I like the idea of targeting a specific district and simplifying the information houston matters breaks down the issues really easily - but either they are long or hard to read Information about how legislators are impacting the art world that dialog is important too even if it is just adding Colberson said he would not want arts funding cut or get rid of the nea he said that but Some of his answers were surprising i know he is lobbying for the arts I keep just thinking about my students are spanish speaking and when they started to vote they told their family members and they became interested if there is a way we can target or provide a curriculum to go over information distributing a project or a powerpoint and then it would dipser through and informative maybe it is a voting day cheat sheet here is everyone and quick facts about both sides of the table here is everything you need to know Connect them to people close to them it is a nice experience getting together and bringing family Along with a super cool i voted sticker - create a cool sticker or button that can be reusable and wear everyday I feel like to me that was a limitation for those who didn’t speak english and the voter id issue

The organization does it have numbers to make a small effort at the local high school in that area we are going to come in and show you how cool this is and put together something really simple to build up the numbers in that area One registered and one is in the mail - how do you do that?

That is a cool actionable item of how to do that - search voter deputization houston a list of all of the upcoming trainings that they have 2 or 3 a week and spread out all over I was hoping to get involved in something like this Harris county democratic - they need people to sit at tables and register people

What is the most doable goal i like the idea of finding a particular neighborhood with in district 7 and we get deputized and we pick an event to go to and register voters a prototype of a cheat sheet and see how people respond to it and see if it creates a higher level of activity that just a list to sign up to vote

We don’t have to be googling and there are issues listed if you have your list you would know and call them to ask what is going on with funding etc. make sure there is enough topics in there and contact information Even if you don’t vote or are not registered you are still a part of it You have to give people power

● Rachel - Start a cheat sheet ● Jennifer - Research target areas ● Kelly - List of upcoming elections

What council members have voted for in the past I feel like people are so concerned about themselves and not about what affects everyone around them he support s They have pitted us against each other i am thinking about the postcard writing party Easy flli books with name of representative Dan had a one on one with ted poe - israel, lgbt, arts funding followed up with chief of staff and starting a millennial advisory board Involved at individual o2 montrose Smaller elections Getting the hispanic vote and translating material I don’t know the org off the top of my head but there was a huge push for voter and voter registration affiliating themselves with Made a difference in harris county I am hoping that if we say we are going to go to this neighborhood and say we are going door to door that we can get more people to come with us Email list of friend in local politics will just blast the info of who to contact for each issue or each politician and contact information could be something so easy to post on facebook and showing their friends Coordinating and figuring out how you can already add on to what is going on in the neighborhood each on of these neighborhoods they are going to be doing this work that is tied to the neighborhoods and tied to the people but if someone knows the people

Postcard party it was really succinct and wonderful way to trigger issues that you care about and tie it to a person(council member) template so that people can change it up Can we look stuff up - why A lot of people my age don’t vote but have an opinion 25 and just when you ask they say the don’t want to vote

Hard to find out what the vote is for - but found the next date Hispanic population doesn’t vote but they will if there is something they care about Why do you think they don’t vote Why did you vote - because my mom took me to vote and it is how we group The processes for it haven’t been incorporated Doing anything about community hard to feel invested in a system that doesn't help you Idea that like being relevant is essential If you are existing in a community outside of that sphere you are still subject to the laws there is a lot of people working on people are being represented or in your neighborhood The least likely voter is their orientation is hyper local for COH it is statewide city council and they are the ones who got the new DA and Tax assessor and sheriff this is TExas organizing project Are they mobilizing - they ride people hard once you get on their email they email you all the time once you vote they fold you into community organizing stuff They are the ones who pushed the sheriff and protesting outside and hold these people accountable Did you join the group once you join you are going to be working they have a dedicated We are talking about affiliating or finding a group to join there is swing left, democratic party there is a lot of good energy You can’t get all of them but if you get all the rural people statewide you focus on local issues and elections Battlegroundtexas.org information about how to get deputized