Vol. 1, No. 5
Monday, September 22, 2003
Green news
Upcoming events
Green Action: call Congress; write a letter
Good reads
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GREEN NEWS....
CALIFORNIA: The League of Women Voters, CNN, LA Times,
and San Diego Union plan to bar Peter Camejo, Green candidate for Governor
of California, from three upcoming debates. Peter made Green history
by participating in two nationally televised debates so far and in the
so-called 'Superbowl Debate' to air around the US and the world on
Wednesday, September 24. (Suggestion: organize Green debate-viewing
parties, raise money for Peter Camejo and other Green causes.) Peter
will denounce his exclusion during the Superbowl Debate and launch a
letter-writing campaign. More: http://www.votecamejo.org
(news of the letter-writing campaign to appear soon on this site)
SOUTH & NORTH CAROLINA: Four members of the
Charlotte Area Green Party, including Gray Newman, the state's only
elected Green, have filed suit with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to
stop government plans to use bomb grade plutonium in local nuclear power
plants. A fifth Green Party supporter and Sierra Club member from
also entered the law suit. A consortium of three companies, Duke
Energy, Stone and Webster and COGEMA, a French firm, wants to import
plutonium fuel in the form of "lead test assemblies" to use in
an experimental program without conducting an Environmental Impact
Statement on the possible effects of accidental release during
Trans-Atlantic shipments. The four Greens are represented in the
suit by the Nuclear Information Resource Service, a nuclear watchdog
group.
More:
http://charlottegreens.org
http://nirs.org
http://bredl.org
http://www.SCGreenParty.org
WASHINGTON: Brita Butler-Wall, a Seattle Green and
executive director of Citizens for Commercial-free Schools, defeated the
incumbent Seattle school board president in the primary on September
16. She must run against the school board president in the November
general election.
More:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/election/2001733067_seaskul17m.html
Contribute to Brita's campaign at http://www.electbrita.org/get_involved/
CALIFORNIA: Matt Gonzalez, a Green who currently serves
as president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, got a strong
endorsement from SF Greens on September 11 in his bid for Mayor.
This is a crushing defeat for Demogreens (Democrats who register Green to
influence Green Party endorsements).
More:
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/
http://www.sf-frontlines.com/
Contribute to Matt's campaign at http://www.mattgonzalez.com/donate.html
COLORADO: The Green Party of Colorado endorsed a House
bill, 'The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003' (HR
2239), which would require a voter-verifiable paper audit record. Colorado
Greens thanked Rep. Rush Holt for proposing paper that voters can use to
verify the accuracy of their votes. Under the 'Help America
Vote Act of 2002,' states are scrambling to replace punch card and
lever-action voting machines, but voting technology and computer
security experts warn that the direct-recording electronic voting machines
electronic voting machines are susceptible to malfunction and fraud.
More: http://www.greens.org/colorado/
GEORGIA: The Georgia Green Party has announced the
opening of its first office. The party will hold a reception (date
TBA) to celebrate a Grand Opening and to thank the Party's Sustaining
Contributors who have made the office possible, as well as a fundraising
drive to prepare for the next election.
More: http://www.greens.org/georgia/
NATIONAL: Kent P. Mesplay, PhD, has announced his Green
candidacy for President of the United States. Kent, one of four to be on
the Green primary ballot in California in 2004, joins four other announced
Green presidential candidates: David Cobb (from Texas), Carol Miller (New
Mexico), Lorna Salzman (New York), and Paul Glover (New York). Ralph
Nader has not announced, but has asked to have his name placed on the
primary ballot in California.
Contact: kentmesplay@yahoo.com
NATIONAL: US Greens, represented by Annie Goeke and Jim
Polk at the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial in Cancun, called
the breakdown of the WTO talks a victory for developing nations, farmers,
and workers in their resistance to privatization, imposed price reductions
and subsidies, overpriced medicine, and other corporate enrichment
schemes. Goeke and Polk also took part in the protests against the
WTO. More:
http://www.gp.org/articles/goeke_polk_09_12_03.html
http://www.gp.org/articles/goeke_polk_09_14_03.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_09_17_03.html
NATIONAL: Job opening: African American Affairs
Director for the Green Party's Black Caucus. Applicants should forward
resumes and cover letters to the Black Caucus Outreach Director Search
Committee, Green Party US, 1700 Connecticut Av NW, 4th floor, Washington,
DC 20009, or send an e-mail (strongly preferred) to <info@greenpartyus.org>
with 'Black Caucus Outreach Director' in the subject line. More
information & job description: http://www.gp.org/committees/black/outreach.html
CANADA: Ontario's Green Party is threatening legal
action over its exclusion from the televised leaders' debate that will be
held nine days before the October 2 election. Green Party Leader
Frank de Jong cited a party-commissioned survey that found 61% of 404
Ontario residents surveyed wanted the Greens in the TV debate.
Ontario Greens filed to run candidates in 102 of the province's 103
ridings (parliamentary districts). More:
http://greenparty.on.ca/news/press_release/fulltext.shtml?x=206
http://greenparty.on.ca/
AUSTRALIA: Green Senator Bob Brown is leading the
effort for changes in Australia's superannuation law that would grant
same-sex couples the same legal rights as heterosexual couples. The
changes would allow a partner in a same-sex relationship access to his or
her partner's superannuation (pension benefits) when he or she died.
Senator Brown is confident the bill will pass through the Australian
Senate with the combined force of Labor, the Democrats, and the
Greens.
More: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/16/1063625016574.html
UPCOMING EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24: Peter Camejo, Green candidate
for Governor of California, will participate in the 'Superbowl Debate' to
be broadcast around the US and the world. See the California news
item above.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28: Los Angeles Greens and San
Fernando Valley Greens will have a mega double booth at Worldfest
2003, Woodley Park, Van Nuys, California. Green gubernatorial
candidate Peter Camejo is a featured event speaker at 1 pm.
Worldfest <http://www.worldfestevents.com>
is a solar-powered celebration of music, food, the environment, and
animals.
Volunteer at the Green Party booth: ltaylor@cagreens.org
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 will be a BAD Day in DC (BAD =
Budget Autonomy for the District), as the DC Statehood Green Party, the
Stand Up For Democracy! in DC Coalition, and other DC democracy supporters
are planning various actions. Rally 12 noon at the Capitol South
Metro Station, across from the GOP headquarters. More: http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org/pr/2003/bad.php
and http://www.standupfordemocracy.org
OCTOBER 4-5: Green Reel Film Festival at Raleigh
Studios' Chaplin Theater, Hollywood, CA. Movies made by progressive
filmmakers from across the US and around the world, covering the
environment, politics, LGBT issues, racism, and corporate power.
More: http://www.greenreel.org/
OCTOBER 4-11: Keep Space For Peace Week,
international days of protest to stop the militarization of space.
Stop 'Star Wars' research & development (national missile defense) and
other uses of space for military purposes. More: Global Network
Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, http://www.space4peace.org
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11: First mass mobilization and
National March on the Bradley Foundation at its headquarters in Milwaukee,
WI. Sponsored by the 180/Movement for Democracy and Education and
Education for The People. The Bradley think tank funds pro-corporate
& racist ideologues like Charles Murray ("The Bell Curve")
and has lots of influence over government and educational
policy.
More:
http://www.campusdemocracy.org
http://www.educationforthepeople.org
GREEN ACTION
CALL CONGRESS
* Call, fax, write a letter, or pay a visit
* Contact information: Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121
US House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/
US Senate: http://www.senate.gov
* Write a letter to the editor, a guest op-ed column, essay, or article.
==> Tell your Senators to oppose the Bush's assault
on the Clean Water Act. Bush wants to weaken the Act's protections
for streams, wetlands, small pond, and other waters throughout the
US. Ask them to sign on to the "Dear
Colleague" letter that's circulating around the House and
Senate. Send an e-mail to Congress: http://www.savethecleanwateract.org/
GOOD READS
Recommended articles, books, web sites
'Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond'
by Rahul Mahajan (Green candidate for governor of Texas in
2000). Seven Stories Press, $9.95, 208 pages.
Mahajan on the deception behind the Iraq invasion, the
inevitability of the invasion after 9/11 in the absence of massive
resistance, Rumsfeld's orders to implicate Iraq within hours of the 9/11
attacks, and plans for war that were already in the works at that
moment.
More: http://www.sevenstories.com/
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