Vol. 1, No. 16
Monday, December 08, 2003
Green news
Upcoming events
Green Action: call Congress; write a letter
Good reads
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GREEN NEWS
CAMPAIGN ALERT: On Tuesday, December 9, Greens all over
the US will eagerly watch for the San Francisco run-off election results
to see if Green candidate Matt Gonzalez wins in his dead-heat race against
conservative Democrat Gavin Newson. Read the latest articles about the
race at http://web.greens.org/news/.
Help Matt beat the Democratic machine by making a contribution: visit http://www.mattgonzalez.com,
or mail a check to Gonzalez for Mayor, 168 Seville St, San Francisco, CA
94112. The more, the better: the donation limit is $250. More: http://www.mattgonzalez.com
http://www.gp.org/makemattmayor.html
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The DC Statehood Green Party
elected new at-large members to its steering committee on Thursday, Dec.
4: David Best, Steve Donkin, Adam Eidinger, Chris Otten, and Michele
Tingling-Clemmons (who is also co-chair of the Green Party's national
Black Caucus). (The steering committee also has ward and campus
representatives.) Statehood Greens will hold an election year kick-off on
Saturday, January 10 at the University of the District of Columbia, in the
UDC auditorium lobby. More: http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org
INDIANA: Tune into GreenTV and watch local news on
Comcast channel 03, 4 pm on Channel 03. (check your local cable access
listings for schedule in your area). Upcoming shows: environmental lawyer
Marty Lucas interviewed on Dec. 11; removal of obsolete dams, Dec. 18;
'Fear and Favor in the Newsroom' narrated by Studs Terkel (in 2
parts), Jan. 8-15. More: http://www.sjvgreens.org/
IOWA: Iowa Green Daryl Northrop announced his candidacy
for the US Senate in the 2004 election, in a campaign kickoff at Drake
University in Des Moines on December 6. Daryl is co-founder and co-chair
of the Polk County Green Party. He works full time in the financial
services industry and is pursuing a degree in international
relations at Drake. Northrop is challenging his Democratic and Republican
(incumbent Senator Grassley) opponents to begin holding debates with
Northrop included, and also challenged them clean money campaigns, saying
"When nearly half of your funding comes from political action
committees, it is hard indeed to say that you do not serve two
masters."
More: http://www.NorthropForSenate.org
daryl@northropforsenate.org
MICHIGAN: The Green Party of Michigan yesterday lent
its voice to the chorus praising peace activist Rebecca Shelley, who will
be honored with a bronze plaque in Battle Creek's Quaker Park. The plaque
is a joint project of the PeaceWay Friends circle of area Quakers and
Heritage Battle Creek. Shelley, who founded PeaceWays in Pennfield
Township in 1959 and lived there until her death in 1984, intended
PeaceWays to become a center to "promote World Peace and the practice
of Universal Human Brotherhood... to build a world community free from
ignorance, poverty and war." Into her 80s and 90s, Shelley continued
to march in protest of US involvement in wars and against nuclear weapons.
More: http://www.migreens.org
MICHIGAN: The Detroit Green Party is putting up a
billboard with the message: Bring Our Troops Home Now! To help with the
billboard expense, send a check today to the Detroit Green Party , PO Box
241083, Detroit MI 48224-1083, or visit http://www.detroitgreens.org/billboard.
CHESAPEAKE REGION: The national Coordinated Campaign
Committee and Greens in Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are
organizing a two-day Campaign School in Baltimore, at the University of
Baltimore on January 31 and February 1, 2004. See the listing under
Upcoming Events below.
NATIONAL: The number of elected Greens has surpassed
200, with 205 elected officials in 26 states, as of November 18. The
number of Americans registered in the Green Party has topped 300,000, with
302,120 in 22 states according to Ballot Access News. The Green Party has
ballot access in 21 states, with Nebraska close to becoming the 20nd. 43
state Green Parties are now affiliated with the Green Party of the United
States.
More:
http://web.greens.org/stats/,
http://www.gp.org/patience.html
http://www.ballot-access.org/
NATIONAL: http://www.VoteNader.org,
Ralph Nader's official 2000 presidential website, has been recently
registered and paid for by the 'Nader 2004 Presidential Exploratory
Committee, Inc.' Mr. Nader promises to announce his intentions (whether to
run, whether to run as a Green or independent candidate) by the beginning
of the new year.
The Green Party of the United States will hold its 2004
National Nominating Convention in Milwaukee in June, at which the party
will decide whom, whether, and how to run nationally, with the democratic
participation of all state Green Parties that are affiliated with the
national party. In preparation for the convention, many states are
discussing what kind of national strategy to pursue; for a good example,
see the web site of the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party Strategic
Electoral Plans for 2003/2004: http://www.green-rainbow.org/.
INTERNATIONAL: According to a Green Party International
Committee intelligence source (namely Mike Feinstein, who just visited
Vienna), US Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has been
courting Greens in the European Parliament, telling them that the Dean
campaign is very Green and that EuroGreens should support Dean in 2004
instead of the US Green Party and its nominee.
UPCOMING EVENTS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11: 'People v. Ashcroft'
demonstration at the Justice Department in Washington, DC, noon to 1:30
pm, in protest of the surveillance of peace/anti-war organizations by the
FBI and to call attention to the plight of the detainees and the
harassment of passengers via "no or slow fly lists" utilized by
the airlines and airport security agents. (December 12 is also the
anniversary date of the infamous Bush v. Gore decision that delivered the
White House to Bush.) Read the People vs. Ashcroft charges (a project for
the Center for Constitutional Rights) at http://www.peoplevashcroft.org/home.asp
and sign the petition at http://www.peoplevashcroft.org/indictment/indictment.asp.
JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 1, 2004: The national Coordinated
Campaign Committee and Greens in Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are
organizing a two-day Campaign School in Baltimore. Intensive workshops,
classes and training exercises will be held at the University of
Baltimore. Who should attend: any Greens, anywhere, planning to run for
office or serve as a campaign manager, press secretary, fundraiser,
volunteer coordinator or other campaign principal in 2004. There will be a
fee for materials, but no Greens with serious plans to be involved in a
2004 campaign will be turned away for lack of funds. Save the dates and
stay tuned for more information. To subscribe to a weekly announcement
list or to sign up for overnight home-stays with local Greens, contact Ann
Forno, annforno@jhu.edu.
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
Repeated from earlier Greensweeks but still current:
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Tell your Senators to vote NO on the Senate's
version of HR 1904, the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 and
instead to support efforts that protect communities from forest fires
without weakening environmental protections.
More: http://wildforests.com/wildforests.asp?id=181&id3=wildforests&id4=ES&
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House Republican leaders are trying to block a
resolution overturning the FCC's media deregulation plan from reach
the floor for a vote. Urge Reps to force the vote and pass the
resolution.
More:
http://www.mediareform.net
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1010-13.htm
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Tell Congress to support a $215 million increase
for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). More: The Save ADAP
Committee, a working group of the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC)
http://www.atac-usa.org
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Tell Senators to keep student information private!
Under a little known provision of the 'No Child Left Behind' Act,
schools are required to turn over their entire student rolls,
including confidential contact information, to military recruiters.
The only way to prevent military recruiters from getting this student
information is if a parent 'opts-out' -- but the unfunded No Child
Left Behind Act has no allocated budget to tell parents about this
option.
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Tell Senators and Reps to respect Indian claims:
The House has put into serious jeopardy billions of dollars in
American Indian Trust Funds, when members of the House Appropriations
Subcommittee on the Interior put last minute language into the HR 2691
conference report on Interior appropriations.
More: http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=3937026&type=CO
GOOD READS
Recommended articles, books, web sites
"War and Peace in the Twilight of the Nation-State
System: Two Directions for the American People, Two Different
Histories." Article by John Rensenbrink in Green Horizon Quarterly. http://www.green-horizon.org/archives/000028.shtml
War Of The Worlds: I. "Big World: How Clear
Channel programs America" by Jeff Sharlet; II. "Small World: Why
one town stays unplugged" by Bill McKibben. Clear Channel is a giant
media conglomerate that, thanks to deregulation, has gobbled up radio
stations across the US. In Harper's Magazine, December 2003 issue (now at
newsstands).
Green Holiday Stocking Stuffers.... Here are some
suggestions from Rachel Treichler, who runs Eco Books, 7988 Van Amburg
Road, Hammondsport, NY 14840, 607-569-2114, <http://www.ecobooks.com>:
Radical Democracy. By C. Douglas Lummis, Cornell
University Press (September 1997), Paperback, $16.95.
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial
Societies. By Richard Heinberg, New Society (April 2003), Paperback,
$17.95.
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global
Dominance. By Noam Chomsky, Metropolitan Books (November 2003), Hardcover,
$22.00.
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