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Panama City Local Post Goes into Space
August
19, 2012 Panama City, Florida. Douglas Sandler postmaster announces that several covers will be sent into space via Moscow,
Russia. The covers will be then sent on to the International Space Station (ISS) to the Russian Crew doing mission ISS-33
there (see attached ISS-33 mission information). When the picture of the astronauts holding them is received by the local
post they will be released which maybe in December 2012. The website for the mission information for ISS missions 1-34 is
at http://www.spacefacts.de/iss.htm See the attached e-mail for how the postmaster found out about
this stamp and free Tibet collector.
Tibet
has been oppressed since 1951 by the Peoples Republic of China; Tibetans have been murdered by the Chinese occupation forces,
several monks have set themselves on fire in protest. This is remicient of the 1960’s Vietnam War photo of the Buddhist
monk in Saigon setting himself on fire. This set of stamps is issued in support of the Tibetan people and their struggle for
freedom.
The
covers will be mailed and sent to the ISS because one of the astronauts is a stamp collector and likes the Tibetan theme.
Further information will be released when it is received by the local post.
Fourth Issue Tribute to Harvey Milk
September 12, 2012. Panama
City, Florida, Panama City Private local Post and Douglas Sandler Postmaster announce the first Harvey Milk tribute postage
stamp. Established June 9, 2012 the local post was started to let the postmaster and stamp collector be on a postage stamp
and to help foster an interest in stamp collecting.
Harvey Bernard Milk (May
22, 1930 Woodmere, NY – November 27, 1978 San Francisco, CA) was an American politician who became the first openly
gay man to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics
and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters
until around the age of 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960s. Milk moved from New York City to settle
in San Francisco in 1972 amid a migration of gay men to the Castro District. He took advantage of the growing political and
economic power of the neighborhood to promote his interests, and ran unsuccessfully for political office three times. His
theatrical campaign earned him increasing popularity, and milk won a seat as a city supervisor in 1977, part of the broader
social changes the city was experiencing.
Milk served 11 months in
office and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor
George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back.
Milk’s election was made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics. The assassinations
and the ensuing events were the result of continuing ideological conflicts in the city. Despite his short career in politics,
Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community. In 2002, Milk was called “the most famous and
most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States”. Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager,
wrote of him: “What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside
his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us.” Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential
Medal of freedom in 2009. Since the USPS will not issue a postage stamp in tribute to Harvey Milk
the Panama City Private local Post will. Stamp will be issued November 27, 2012.
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