AUGUST 25, 2023 PUZZLES GROUNDCOVER NEWS 9 Groundcover Vendor Code While Groundcover is a non-profit, and paper vendors are self-employed contractors, we still have expectations of how vendors should conduct themselves while selling and representing the paper. The following is our Vendor Code of Conduct, which every vendor reads and signs before receiving a badge and papers. We request that if you discover a vendor violating any tenets of the Code, please contact us and provide as many details as possible. Our paper and our vendors should be positively impacting our County. • Groundcover will be distributed for a voluntary donation. I agree not to ask for more than the cover price or solicit donations by any other means. • When selling Groundcover, I will always have the current biweekly issue of Groundcover available for customer purchase. • I agree not to sell additional goods or products when selling the paper or to panhandle, including panhandling with only one paper or selling past monthly issues. • I will wear and display my badge when selling papers and refrain from wearing it or other Groundcover gear when engaged in other activities. • I will only purchase the paper from Groundcover Staff and will not sell to or buy papers from other Groundcover vendors, especially vendors who have been suspended or terminated. • I agree to treat all customers, staff, and other vendors respectfully. I will not “hard sell,” threaten, harass or pressure customers, staff, or other vendors verbally or physically. • I will not sell Groundcover under the influence of drugs or alcohol. • I understand that I am not a legal employee of Groundcover but a contracted worker responsible for my own well-being and income. • I understand that my badge is property of Groundcover and will not deface it. I will present my badge when purchasing the papers. • I agree to stay off private property when selling Groundcover. • I understand to refrain from selling on public buses, federal property or stores unless there is permission from the owner. • I agree to stay at least one block away from another vendor in downtown areas. I will also abide by the Vendor Corner Policy. • I understand that Groundcover strives to be a paper that covers topics of homelessness and poverty while providing sources of income for the homeless. I will try to help in this effort and spread the word. If you would like to report a violation of the Vendor Code please email contact@groundcovernews. com or fill out the contact form on our website. Lions need Kaepernick SCOOP STEVENS Groundcover contributor Autumn is near and another Detroit Lions football season is here. The Lions need two quality quarterbacks, not just one. The Lions should acquire Colin Kaepernick because he has Super Bowl experience. Even if the Lions were to have a great season and make it to the Super Bowl, they would probably lose. With Kaepernick on the team they are increasing their odds of winning. Kaepernick has been putting himself out there recently to attract offers from major league teams, but so far unsuccessfully. The likely reason for this is that in 2016 he “took a knee” during the National Anthem to protest police profiling and police brutality, which resulted in being blasted by the public, including presidential candidate Donald Trump. He was shunned by NFL owners after that. But times have changed since then. Trump is no longer in power, there has been a pandemic and reaction to it, and we are well into the World Economic Forum’s Reset 2.0 with its implications for human freedom and agency. (For more on this, see Robert Kennedy’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”) Wearing masks like subservient slaves became the new normal. The top 1% benefited greatly from people being homebound — think Jeff Bezos and Amazon. None of this would have been possible without the police state. For the first time white Americans have experienced something of what Black Americans have always experienced in America. The Antebellum slave patrols kept African-American slaves in their place; the postmodern police state keeps Americans under house arrest. It wasn’t legitimate back then and it isn’t legitimate now. Maybe there is a lesson for all of us in Kaeperick’s symbolic act of protest. And maybe the Detroit Lions could benefit from recognizing the legitimacy of that act. Time is running out for the Lions to win a Super Bowl. We are on the verge of a new-age consciousness; football will become obsolete. The Lions should sign a one year contract with Kaepernick and see what happens.
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