Vol. 1, No. 6
Monday, September 29, 2003
Green news
Upcoming events
Green Action: call Congress; write a letter
Good reads
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GREEN NEWS....
CALIFORNIA: The Camejo For Governor campaign says, keep
Peter Camejo in the debates! A recent poll showed 69% of Californians
(poll by KXTV in Sacramento during the 2002 election) want Greens in the
debates; 2/3 of voters say they have not made a final decision on
who they'll vote for in the recall. Peter is the only candidate calling
for a Fair Tax, requiring the rich to pay at least as much as the middle
class, and for Free Elections, including Instant Runoff Voting. The
Camejo campaign has announced a web-based action to challenge his
exclusion from upcoming debates by the LA Times and the League of Women
Voters.
Visit http://www.votecamejo.org to
help out. See also the write-up at Michael Moore's web site http://www.michaelmoore.com;
see recent poll results (with 4-5% for Camejo) in USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2003-09-28-recall-poll.htm.
MISSISSIPPI: Lee Dillon of the Green Party, who's
running for governor, and gubernatorial candidates from the Reform and
Constitution Parties filed a lawsuit in US District Court against their
exclusion from the candidates' debates, naming the League of Women
Voters among the defendants. The plaintiffs note that in the August 5
Republican and Democratic primaries, only about 600,000 people voted,
leaving over 1.2 million Mississippi voters unrepresented. The three
candidates, seeking $3 million in damages, seek equal status with the Dem
& Repub nominees so that voters can be informed about all five
candidates on the ballot for Mississippi governor.
More:
http://www.dillon4gov.com
http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0309/25/m11a.html
DELAWARE: Greens working with several community groups celebrated the
Wilmington City Council's passage of a resolution on September 22 calling
for the repeal of the USA Patriot Act. Delaware Greens are urging
Dover and Newark city councils to consider similar measures.
More: http://www.gpde.org
MICHIGAN: The Green Party of Michigan, which has joined
other organizations protesting the Nestle Corporation's extraction of
Mecosta County water from the Lake Michigan watershed, declared its
objection to threats of property destruction against the pumping plant.
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) and the Sweetwater
Alliance have filed a lawsuit against Nestle in Mecosta County Circuit
Court, with a request for an injunction to limit pumping. According to
news reports, incendiary devices were found at the pumping facility;
the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility for them. Michigan
Greens stressed the Green dedication to nonviolence, noting that the
threats have diverted attention from the real issue.
More:
http://www.savemiwater.org
http://www.migreens.org
CALIFORNIA: On September 23, Matt Gonzalez, Green
president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, asked the City
Attorney to draft a charter amendment that would allow non-citizens with
children in SF schools to vote in school board elections. Currently,
non-citizen parents of SF school children have no voice
in electing the School Board, even though they pay taxes and are bound by
the same laws as citizens. At least five cities in Maryland allow
non-citizens to vote; New York City allows non-citizens to vote in school
board elections; Chicago allows non-citizens to vote and run for local
school council elections.
INDIANA: St. Joe Valley Green members have been
appointed to city committees working on long-term projects. Dave Vollrath,
an Indiana Green delegate and SJVGreen, is now on the City Advisory
Committee on Combined Sewer Overflow, and will handle sewer rate
structures and future eco challenges in the South Bend area. Victoria
Webb, an IGP Media coordinator and SJVGreens coordinator, was appointed to
the Civic Alliance, a group working on South Bend's twenty year proposed
City Plan. St. Joe Valley Greens are developing 'GreenTV', programming on
Comcast's channel 03, broadcast from Mishawaka.
More:
vic@furiousreams.com
http://www.sjvgreens.org/
NATIONAL: The Annual National Meeting Committee is
preparing for the 2004 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention in
Milwaukee, June 24-27, 2004, and just held its first conference call since
the national meeting in DC in July. The committee is open to up to three
Green Party members per state/caucus, with the exception of the host state
that year. The committee also seeks representatives from other
national committees. Interested in serving on the committee? Get the
approval of your state party, caucus, and/or committee, then contact the
Annual National Meeting Committee co-chairs:
Ruth Weill (Trujillo) moondog@execpc.com
George Martin georgemartin@core.com
Lynne Serpe Lynneserpe@aol.com
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: Peter Elgie, Deputy Leader of the Green Party
of Ontario, today announced the launch of a subversive new high-tech
web-base youth advertising campaign.
View the toon at http://www.greenparty.on.ca/cartoon/.
More: http://www.gpo.ca/
UPCOMING EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 20 to OCTOBER 4: Immigrant Worker Freedom
Ride (IWFR), focusing public attention on immigrant rights and the
injustices of current immigration policies, and inspired by the Freedom
Riders of the Civil Rights Movement. Immigrant workers and their allies
set out from nine major US cities-Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las
Vegas, Houston, Miami, Boston, Chicago, and Minneapolis, and are crossing
the US on their way to DC and New York. Details, updates, itinerary,
contact information: http://www.iwfr.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
http://www.standupfordemocracy.org
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1: Author and 2002 Texas Green Party
gubernatorial candidate, Rahul Mahajan, PhD will speak at 7:30 pm in
Auerbach Auditorium, Hillyer Hall on the University of Hartford's main
campus, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford in Connecticut. Dr. Mahajan,
the author of 'The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism' (Monthly
Review Press), is on a tour to promote his new book, 'Full Spectrum
Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond' (Seven Stories Press).
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
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18: Great Black Peace March and
Rally, in Washington, DC. Assemble 11:30 am in Lincoln Park, 11th and East
Capitol Streets NE. Speakers, musicians, poets, dancers, information,
voter registration, and a Children's Peace Pavilion.
More: Black Voices for Peace, (202) 232-5690, http://www.bvfp.org
NOVEMBER 15: Visiting Florida for FTAA Ministerial
Meetings in November? John Howes <humanbeing@webtv.net>, chair of
the Green Party of Florida's Blue/Green Alliance Building Committee,
invites you to a 'Globalize This!' rally in protest of the FTAA's
antidemocratic and destructive 'free trade' policies, to be held in
Williams Park, Saint Petersburg, from noon to 3 pm on November 15. For
more information, click on this e-flyer:
(front page)
http://community-2.webtv.net/humanbeing/flyer0/
(back page)
http://community-2.webtv.net/humanbeing/flyer/
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
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Tell Senators to amend the USA Patriot Act: Earlier
in September, the House voted overwhelmingly during consideration of
an appropriations bill to bar Ashcroft's Justice Department from using
the 'sneak and peek' warrants authorized in the Patriot Act.
Despite the 309 to 118 vote in the House against the use of black bag
searches, the Senate has yet to act. The Senate is about to
consider its version of the Justice Department appropriations measure.
More: http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=13691&c=24
(send a free fax to your Senator at this site)
GOOD READS
Recommended articles, books, web sites
Counting the human cost of invasion of Iraq:
visit the Iraq Body Count web site, with an update of reported
civilian deaths in the war on Iraq. General Tommy Franks of the US Central
Command says "We don't do body counts." Commentary, analysis,
and a tally of the mounting deaths Gen. Franks would rather ignore. http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
The Multinational Monitor:
published 10 times a year, is the leading source of investigative and
critical reporting on multinational corporations and the international
globalizing authorities, such as the WTO, IMF, and World Bank.
Older issues are archived at http://www.multinationalmonitor.org.
Subscription information: http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/subscribe.html
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