From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Aug 8 23:55:59 2004 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 03:55:59 +0000 Subject: {news} fundraiser with VP candidate Pat LaMarche 8/12 in Westport Message-ID: ----Original Message Follows---- From: "David Bedell" Reply-To: FairfieldCountyGreens at yahoogroups.com To: fairfieldcountygreens at yahoogroups.com CC: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org, ctgp-announcements at lists.riseup.net Subject: [FairfieldCountyGreens] fundraiser with VP candidate Pat LaMarche 8/12 in Westport Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 02:38:29 +0000 CT GREEN PARTY FUNDRAISER with special guest GREEN PARTY VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PAT LAMARCHE also present will be CT Green Party candidates JOHN AMARILIOS and NANCY BURTON WHEN: Thursday, August 12 TIME: 7:00 - 9:00 PM WHERE: RUBB Natural Bath & Beauty Compo Shopping Center (CVS Plaza), 385 Post Road East, Westport (203-454-RUBB) www.rubbnatural.com DONATION: suggested $25 per person (but no donation is too large or too small). REFRESHMENTS: Dessert, coffee and other refreshments will be served. RSVP to David Bedell, dbedellgreen at hotmail.com - 203-972-7194 Let us know if you can help out with refreshments or housing. PAT LAMARCHE moved south to Portland, Maine, in 1996 to take a job as the first and only female host at the venerated heritage talk radio station, WGAN. She soon became known for her liberal views and was approached to run for governor of the state of Maine in 1998 on the Green Independent Party ticket. Despite a grassroots campaign, the death of her mother midway through, and raising her two children as a single mother, LaMarche led a respectable campaign that generated seven percent of the vote from a budget of just $20,000. She became the first woman in the history of the state of Maine to gain ballot access for a political party due to her campaign. Pat was selected by David Cobb to be his running mate in this year's Presidential election. To learn more about Pat please go to http://www.votecobb.org/index.php JOHN AMARILIOS is a general practice attorney from New Canaan who is running for State Senate, District 36 (Greenwich, Stamford, New Canaan) in order to address the problem of consumer debt and predatory lending, as well as traffic congestion and other quality-of-life issues. http://www.ctgreens.org/fairfield/2004Candidates/JohnAmarilios.htm NANCY BURTON is an anti-nuclear activist and attorney from Redding who won a weeklong shutdown of a nuclear power plant on environmental grounds. She is running for State Assembly District 135 (Easton, Weston, Redding) to work for the permanent closing of Millstone and Indian Point nuclear plants, for judicial reform, and to put people and the environment first in Connecticut. _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx From capeconn at comcast.net Mon Aug 9 20:02:36 2004 From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:02:36 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: "A Green World is Possible" Message-ID: <01dd01c47e6d$5a342b80$f90eac43@sevigny8wcbjrd> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 7:52 PM Subject: "A Green World is Possible" > A Green World is Possible! > A Festival of Non-Violence, Ecology, Democracy, Social and Economic Justice > Saturday, August 28th 2004 - New York City > Presented by Green Party Office Committee in Manhattan and the Green Focus > Activism Education Center > 139 Fulton St. Ste. 215, New York, NY 10038 (212) > 240-0501--www.greenpartyoffice.org > > > To All Green Organizations: > > This is an open invitation to Greens and Green Party members from around the > country and all over the world to join us on Saturday, August 28th, 2004 in > New York City for "A Green World is Possible: A Festival of Non-Violence, > Ecology, Democracy, Social and Economic Justice" at Washington Square Park > in the West Village of Manhattan. > > This is the opportunity for Greens to gather with other progressive > organizations to focus on the four key pillars and the ten key values of the > worldwide Green Party movement. We need Greens from around the country to > help support our festival with funds, volunteers and attendance. Please > plan your logistics with A Green World is Possible in mind. We are > committed to finding housing for all Green Party members and groups. If you > need housing please email greenpartynyc at hotmail.com. > > We will have live music and speakers, an open art space, along with tables > for like-minded progressive organizations to not only protest the > Republicans coming to New York City, but to show the world a strong and > viable Green alternative! We will have a number of speakers including Jason > West, David Cobb, Media Benjamin and Peter Camejo. We are hopeful that > Greens from around the country will share our excitement for A Green World > Is Possible. > > If you or your organization is interested in attending, participating, > volunteering, or donating to making our A Green World is Possible Festival a > reality, please feel free to contact us at 212-240-0501 or via email: > info at greenpartyoffice.org. > > While the festival is taking place in New York City there are Greens around > the country organizing this event. This is a chance for Greens to have > national exposure. To make this event successful we need your support and > attendance. > > Sincerely, > > > Robyn Sklar > Co-Chair > Green Party Office in Manhattan > 139 Fulton St. Ste. 215 > New York, N.Y. 10038 > 212-240-0501 > www.greenpartyoffice.org > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - - - - - - - > A Green World is Possible! > A Festival of Non-Violence, Ecology, Democracy, Social and Economic Justice > Saturday, August 28th 2004 - New York City > Presented by Green Party Office Committee in Manhattan and the Green Focus > Activism Education Center > 139 Fulton St. Ste. 215, New York, NY 10038 (212) > 240-0501--www.greenpartyoffice.org > > ___Yes, I would like to attend the festival. > ___Yes, I would like to volunteer at the festival. > ___Yes, My organization would like to attend the festival. > ___Yes, My organization would like to table at the festival. > ___Yes, I would like to contribute toward organizing the festival > by________________________ > ___Yes, send more information. > ___Yes, my organization needs housing and plans to email > greenpartynyc at hotmail.com > > _______________________________name > ____________________________organization > _______________________________address > __________________________city, state, zip > ________________________________phone > __________________________email address > ________________________website address > > _________________________________________________________________ > On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to > get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement > > From capeconn at comcast.net Thu Aug 12 08:54:19 2004 From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:54:19 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: Green Benefit - 9/11/04; "Woody Guthrie's American Song" - Sherman Playhouse Message-ID: <007b01c4806b$7be0c2c0$f90eac43@sevigny8wcbjrd> > For immediate publication/release: > > > The Connecticut Green Party is pleased to announce a collaboration with The > Sherman Players on Saturday, September 11, 2004. The Sherman Players will > be presenting "Woody Guthrie's American Song", conceived and adapted by > Peter Glazer. An exuberant musical celebration of America, Woody Guthrie's > American Song tells the life of the rambling folk singer through his words > and music. > > In addition to enjoying an evening of fantastic music, you will be able to > help support the Connecticut Green Party. $15 from each $25 ticket sold > will go directly to help the Connecticut Green Party. Local candidates, > including the award-winning playwright Bill C. Davis, > will be attending, and will be available at a reception which will > immediately follow the performance. Please call The Sherman Playhouse for > tickets at 860-354-3622. For more information regarding the Connecticut > Green Party or the benefit itself, you may contact Kaye Ward at > 860-307-7941. Thank you for your support and we hope to see you there! > > > From capeconn at comcast.net Mon Aug 30 14:47:29 2004 From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:47:29 -0400 Subject: {news} Attention College and High School student Message-ID: <00ea01c48ec1$cda65980$1906a543@sevigny8wcbjrd> ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Neville To: cobb4president at yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 11:00 PM Subject: [Cobb4President] Cobb/LaMarche Student Coordinator Cobb/LaMarche Supporters: The Cobb/LaMarche team is moving forward with our goals of growing the Green Party on campuses nationwide and inspiring students to support our campaign for peace and social justice. 1) We're proud to announce that Jennifer Walling of the University of Ilinois will be our national Student Coordinator. She brings many talents to our team-- enthusiasm, professionalism and a passion for progressive politics to highlight a few. 2) Jennifer and I have set up a new website "Students for Cobb/LaMarche" on the main site. Students can find out about how to get involved in the campaign, and how to get a free "campus starter" kit from Jennifer. Jen and I will also be working with state coordinators to ensure excellent communication between state campaigns and active campus chapters within states. Please check out our site VoteCobb.org/students or email Jen for more information: jwalling at law.uiuc.edu With thanks and in peace, ===== Jason Neville Field Director, Cobb/LaMarche '04 504.338.3683 Jason at VoteCobb.org "Green and Growing!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Aug 30 22:44:55 2004 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:44:55 +0000 Subject: {news} GREEN SPOTLIGHT: Joyce Chen, Alderwoman, New Haven, CT Message-ID: >From "Greenline," the monthly GP e-newsletter: GREEN SPOTLIGHT: Joyce Chen, Alderwoman, New Haven, CT Right Chemistry to Represent When Joyce Chen was a sophomore at Yale, a friend encouraged her to run for Alderman. At that time, Chen was a chemistry major with dreams of going to medical school, becoming a doctor and starting a neighborhood clinic. In some ways, her dream is coming true, but in a different way than she first envisioned. Now in her second term as Alderwoman, Chen has been improving the health of her community the old-fashioned way - listening to her constituents and finding the right cure for their concerns. Chen is busy addressing the real issues that they care about most. Before winning her first election, and still a student at Yale, Joyce worked with the homeless and helped start a community center called "Harmony Place." Harmony place, which serves the homeless community, is jointly run by students, people who are homeless and other members of the community. By the time she was a senior, her friend's words reverberated in Chen's mind, and she decided to explore the possibility of running for Alderman, a city-council type position in which the elected official represents a city ward. Chen represents New Haven, Connecticut's Ward 2G, a diverse neighborhood that is predominantly African American and Latino, with approximately 1500 voters. Acting on the advice of a former Alderman, Chen knocked on doors in Dwight neighborhood, speaking with the people and trying to gauge the need for her service. Seeing an obvious need, Chen decided to run and spent most of her campaign time visiting with people in her ward and listening to their concerns. The Democrat incumbent, perhaps feeling a sense of entitlement to her post, was no longer in touch with most members of her community. Chen, who knew many of her constituents by name, won the election with 55% of the vote. "As a little girl I watched my mother's struggle for survival in Harlem: a single woman getting no alimony, an Asian in an unfamiliar culture, working late hours to put food on the table. This hardship only fueled my desire to serve the most needy, throughout high school and then at Yale University, where I embraced the New Haven community as my own. When I decided to run for Ward 2 Alderwoman, nobody believed I had any chance of winning: a 22-year old novice to political campaigns, an Asian-American in a primarily African-American Ward, a Green Party candidate in a city dominated by the Democratic machine. I did not let these hardships stop me. I went out and knocked on a thousand doors. I truly listened to my neighbors and I have not stopped fighting for them since." During the next election two years later, the Democrat machine brought in another candidate to run against Chen. Spending approximately $25,000 (as though it were an assembly race), the powerful machine and its candidate lost the race to Chen, who spent about $1,500 and won 60% of the vote once again. Chen is pleased with many of her achievements as Alderwoman. She has a shared experience with many other elected Greens across the nation. "A lot of what we do is keep things from happening," she said, referring to fact that elected Greens often find themselves fighting against policies that have torn apart communities, taken away jobs and further disenfranchised the poor. On Howe Street, a former haven for prostitution, small business owners had transformed the area into a thriving district with ethnic grocery stores, restaurants and cafes filled with students. Then suddenly all this effort seemed for naught, when the mayor decided to tear down the Howe Street section to build a school. While Chen was not opposed to building a school, she felt there were much more suitable places for one. She felt it didn't make sense to destroy this thriving section of town. Chen helped negotiate with the mayor to find a better location for the school and Howe Street was rescued from the wrecking ball. Now, Chen wants to represent her constituents and the Green Party values in the Connecticut General Assembly. Joyce Chen is taking the Green Party agenda door-to-door in an unprecedented grass-roots effort. "As Alderwoman, I fought for environmental justice, championed the cause of labor unions, created a commission on slavery reparations, established programs to combat street violence, and promoted public and alternative forms of transportation. In 2004, I won my re-election bid and rose to my position as Minority Leader. Now I want to bring grassroots democracy to the state level." For more information about Joyce Chen's campaign, visit www.votejoycechen.com. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Aug 30 22:47:52 2004 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:47:52 +0000 Subject: {news} John Amarilios in Aug 8 Greenwich Time Message-ID: Green Party's uphill battle for senate seat By Neil Vigdor Staff Writer Greenwich Time August 8, 2004 Green Party candidate John Amarilios said he would love to have the Democratic Party help his bid to capture the 36th District state Senate seat from longtime incumbent William Nickerson, a Greenwich Republican. Greenwich Democrats say they are willing to talk, but have yet to hear from the third-party candidate, according to Jim Himes, chairman of the Democratic Town Committee. "If he approached us and wanted the DTC to support him, heck, we'd consider it," Himes said. "I wish we had a Democratic opponent. We don't and that sort of puts a Democrat in a quandary." Democrats have not fielded a challenger to Nickerson, 65, since 1994. Greens represent less than a fraction of a percent of the electorate in the 36th District, which covers Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan. Amarilios, 46, needs the signatures of at least 300 registered voters to get on the ballot, names he said he submitted last week. Both Himes and Amarilios, a Westport bankruptcy lawyer, acknowledged that there is still some bad blood between the two parties over the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. "The biggest problem with Democrats is they somehow feel that Greens were responsible for the debacle in 2000," said Amarilios, referring to the last presidential election, in which Green Party candidate Ralph Nader won nearly 3 percent of the national vote in a dead heat between then-Vice President Al Gore and George W. Bush. Himes said those problems would not rule out the possibility of aiding Amarilios. Himes would not say who he would vote for in the state Senate race, saying he didn't yet know enough about Amarilios or his platform to make an educated choice. Asked about the prospect of a Green-Democratic alliance, Nickerson said simply that he is looking forward to running on his record. If elected, Amarilios said he would call for caps on interest rates charged by credit card companies and other lending institutions. He criticized the state's political establishment and its banking regulators for failing to address what he described as the threat posed by rising interest rates. "Many families throughout the entire economic spectrum basically have been cajoled and invited to take on huge amounts of debt by teasers and zero percent interest rates," Amarilios said. "I don't think people have given thought to the likelihood of increasing rates on their family budget. I'm sure the banking industry would be horrified at my suggestion on this." The third-party candidate also supports what is known as a full homestead exemption in bankruptcy cases, which he said would allow families to keep their home if they declare themselves bankrupt. He noted that only Florida and Texas have such provisions. Amarilios graduated from New Canaan High School, received a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in international marketing from Lehigh University and earned a law degree the University of Bridgeport. He is single and works for the Westport law firm of Carron & Fink. Universal health care sponsored by the state, tax exemptions for the owners of hybrid energy vehicles and economic disincentives for sport utility vehicle owners are also pillars of Amarilios' platform in the areas of insurance and transportation. Nickerson, who is a ranking member of the General Assembly's Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee opposes disincentives for SUV owners. "The (state) income tax should not be used a social engineering vehicle, as the federal income tax code is," said Nickerson, who is chief deputy minority leader in the Senate. Nickerson cited his support of Public Act 04-231, which provides tax credits for hybrid vehicle owners and those who use alternative fuel products, as an example of his work in the area of conservation. The law went into effect on July 1. The incumbent defended his record on transportation, quality-of-life issues and the environment, saying that he looked forward to highlighting his accomplishments in the campaign. Amarilios, a former Republi-can and later a Libertarian, is no stranger to uphill political battles. He received less than 2 percent of the vote in New Canaan's election for first selectman last year, running as the Green Party candidate. Copyright ? 2004, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar ? get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ From TDayan at aol.com Tue Aug 31 17:22:16 2004 From: TDayan at aol.com (TDayan at aol.com) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:22:16 EDT Subject: {news} John Amarilios in Aug 8 Greenwich Time Message-ID: <9.326ba4cc.2e664608@aol.com> Pretty good report on John! Has John been invited to debate anywhere? The League of Women Voters in Greenwich is quite active, I know. And some private schools, and even public, put on debates for their students. I think last time they contacted the CT Greens, but don't know how to go about getting John onto their lists. We're members of the North Stamford Assoc which usually has candidate debates - I'll do what I can there. 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