From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Mon May  2 08:46:57 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 08:46:57 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Italian media reveals details of Baghdad killing
	censored by Pentagon (BBC News)
Message-ID: <02c601c54f15$07481840$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott McLarty" <scottmclarty at yahoo.com>
To: <usgp-media at gp-us.org>; <natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org>; 
<usgp-int at gp-us.org>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:56 AM
Subject: USGP-INT Italian media reveals details of Baghdad killing censored 
by Pentagon (BBC News)


> Italy media reveals Iraq details
> By David Willey
>
> BBC News in Rome
> 1 May, 2005
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4504589.stm
>
>
> Italian media have published classified sections
> of an official US military inquiry into the
> accidental killing of an Italian agent in
> Baghdad.
>
> The 40-page report was censored by the Pentagon
> before being officially published on Saturday.
>
> Italy has refused to accept the US report's
> findings and is to publish its own version of
> events later this week.
>
> Details of the official report were published in
> newspapers on Sunday with censored material
> restored in full.
>
> Missing text
>
> A Greek medical student at Bologna University who
> was surfing the web early on Sunday found that
> with two simple clicks of his computer mouse he
> could restore censored portions of the report.
>
> He passed the details to Italian newspapers which
> immediately put out the full text on their own
> websites.
>
> The missing text contains the names and ranks of
> all of the American military personnel involved
> in the killing of Nicola Calipari, the Italian
> agent who was given a state funeral and awarded
> Italy's highest medal of valour.
>
> It also reveals the rules of engagement in
> operation at the military checkpoint near Baghdad
> airport which have been contested by the Italian
> authorities.
>
> The censored sections include recommendations
> that the American military modify their
> checkpoint procedures to give better and clearer
> warning signs to approaching vehicles.
>
> The official Italian report on the incident
> expected to be published this week will accuse
> the American military of tampering with evidence
> at the scene of the shooting.
>
> The Americans invited two Italians to join in
> their inquiry, but the Italian representatives
> protested at what they claimed was lack of
> objectivity in presenting the evidence and
> returned to Rome.
>
> Relations between Rome and Washington remain
> tense.
>
>
> DIFFERING ACCOUNTS
>
> US military:
> Car approaches checkpoint at high speed
> Troops attempt to tell driver to stop with arm
> signals, lights and warning shots
> Soldiers shoot into engine
>
> Italian government:
> Italy makes all necessary contacts with the US
> for safe passage
> The driver stops immediately when a light flashes
> 10m away
> At the same time, shots are fired into car for
> 10-15 seconds
>
> Accounts in full
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4325253.stm
> [below]
> Profile: Nicola Calipari
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4334617.stm
> Italy's papers reject US findings
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4485839.stm
>
>
> *  *  *  *  *
>
>
> Iraq shooting: Differing accounts
>
> BBC News, March 9, 2005
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4325253.stm
>
>
> Italian secret agent Nicola Calipari was killed
> when US troops opened fire as he escorted freed
> journalist Giuliana Sgrena to Baghdad airport. He
> had just helped to secure her release after more
> than a month held hostage in Iraq. The US, the
> Italian government and Ms Sgrena have differing
> accounts of what happened.
>
>
> US MILITARY
>
> The US military says the car carrying Mr Calipari
> was speeding as it approached a coalition
> checkpoint in western Baghdad at 2055 (1755 GMT)
> on Friday.
>
> Soldiers used "hand and arm signals, flashing
> white lights and firing warning shots" to get the
> driver to stop.
>
> When the car did not stop, soldiers shot into its
> engine block.
>
> US Lt Col Clifford Kent of the 3rd Infantry
> Division in Baghdad said the checkpoint where the
> shooting happened was a temporary set-up.
>
> According to the Associated Press news agency,
> when asked how easy it would be to see US troops
> at the checkpoint at night, he said: "Depending
> on where it is, that could be difficult."
>
> He added: "But if you're seeing soldiers in
> military uniform with military equipment, if you
> know it's a dangerous area, then... you need to
> maintain your awareness.
>
> "The event was very tragic, and my condolences go
> out to those killed and injured."
>
> Senior White House official Dan Bartlett called
> it "a horrific accident" and pledged a full
> investigation.
>
> "As you know, in a situation where there is a
> live combat zone, particularly this road to the
> airport has been a notorious area for car bombs,"
> he told CNN's Late Edition on Sunday.
>
> "People are making split-second decisions and
> it's critically important that we get the facts
> before we make judgements."
>
>
> ITALIAN GOVERNMENT
>
> Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says an
> Italian agent who was in the car with Mr Calipari
> has given his version of events.
>
> "A light was flashed at the vehicle from 10m
> away," Mr Berlusconi said. "The driver at this
> point stopped the car immediately and at the same
> time there was gunfire for about 10 or 15
> seconds.
>
> "A few shots reached the vehicle - one killed Mr
> Calipari and another bullet injured Ms Sgrena in
> the shoulder."
>
> The prime minister went on: "This reconstruction
> of events has been made according to what has
> been witnessed by another agent who was with Mr
> Calipari and does not coincide totally with what
> has been communicated so far by the US
> authorities."
>
> Italy had made all necessary contacts for safe
> passage, advising the US military at the airport
> as Sgrena was en route, Mr Berlusconi said.
>
> His statement contradicted preliminary accounts
> from the US military that it had no knowledge of
> the rescue mission.
>
> Mr Berlusconi said Italy, as an ally of the US,
> had "the duty to demand from them the utmost
> truth" about what happened. A joint inquiry will
> be held.
>
>
> GIULIANA SGRENA
>
> She wrote in her newspaper, Il Manifesto:
>
> "The driver twice called the embassy and Italy to
> say that we were heading towards the airport that
> I knew was heavily patrolled by US troops.
>
> They told me that we were less than a kilometre
> away... when... I only remember fire.
>
> At that point, a rain of fire and bullets hit us,
> silencing forever the cheerful voices of a few
> minutes earlier.
>
> The driver started yelling that we were Italians.
> "We are Italians, we are Italians."
>
> Nicola Calipari threw himself on me to protect me
> and immediately, I repeat, immediately I heard
> his last breath as he was dying on me.
>
> I must have felt physical pain. I didn't know
> why.
>
> But then it came to me in a flash, and my mind
> went immediately to the things the captors had
> told me.
>
> They declared that they felt fully committed to
> freeing me but I had to be careful, 'Out there
> are the Americans, who don't want you to go
> back'.
>
> Then, I had considered those words superfluous
> and ideological. But at that moment, they risked
> acquiring the flavour of the bitterest of truths.
> At this time I cannot tell you the rest."
>
> "There was no bright light, no signal," she told
> Italian La 7 TV in response to a US military
> account.
>
> "We were driving slowly, about 40-50 km/h
> (25-30mph)," the driver, an unidentified Italian
> agent, said according to Italy's Corriere della
> Sera.
>
> Ms Sgrena's editor, Gabriele Polo, said he was
> told by Italian officials that 300 to 400 rounds
> were fired at the car.
>





From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com  Tue May  3 20:30:02 2005
From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 00:30:02 +0000
Subject: {news} Miguel makes the Courant!
Message-ID: <BAY106-F209AB71F0832F28AFC331ED6190@phx.gbl>

Go Miguel!

http://www.courant.com/news/local/nb/hc-nebmayor0430.artapr30,0,1727129.story

Mayoral Hopeful Tries Green Party Bid
Nieves Says Third Party Can `Bring The City Back To The People'

By JOANN KLIMKIEWICZ
Courant Staff Writer

April 30 2005

NEW BRITAIN -- He ran for city alderman, tried to launch a new political 
party, and led a grass-roots organization for Latinos.

Now Miguel Nieves is going Green. And he's running for mayor.

Nieves, 40, officially kicked off his campaign as a Green Party candidate at 
the Puerto Rican Society Friday night. Surrounded by about a dozen 
supporters in a banquet hall festooned with the party's color, he said it 
was time New Britain had a choice beyond the two-party system.

"We see Democrats and Republicans fighting each other and actually not doing 
anything for the city," said Nieves, a manager for Family Dollar chain 
stores. "I think it's time for a third party to really bring the city back 
to the people."

Nieves knows it's an uphill battle. He's trying to unseat first-term 
Republican Mayor Timothy Stewart while Democrats, the city's dominant party, 
are launching a campaign to put City Treasurer Jason Jakubowski into the 
seat.

And while there are more than 16,000 registered Democrats in New Britain, 
there are 22 Greens.

Friday's announcement was sparsely attended - there were more folks hunkered 
at the bar downstairs. And most in the Nieves crowd were Green Party members 
from out of town.

But, said Nieves, "That's just a start." He said he'll be walking the city 
streets, knocking on doors to get his message out: The city needs to cut 
municipal spending, bring in more jobs and improve the quality of life for 
its residents.

Nieves said he approached the Green Party last year at a meeting in 
Hartford. He said he wanted to do in New Britain what the Greens were able 
to do in Hartford with Elizabeth Horton Sheff. She made headlines in 1999 
when she was first elected to the city council on the Green Party line, 
becoming a local and national symbol that the party was making headway as a 
third-party option.

Horton Sheff has since resigned from the party.

The party has been organizing in New Britain since January, said Mike 
DeRosa, co-chairman of the Connecticut Green Party. He said the party is 
also planning to announce several candidates for the common council.

Nieves ran unsuccessfully for alderman on the Democratic Party ticket in 
1999. He was one of 10 people who began the United Party, a third party that 
had little success. About three years ago, he created Latinos in Action, a 
volunteer organization that has hosted festivals.

But the festival will be on hiatus this year, Nieves said.

"All our efforts will be going into my campaign," he said.

Copyright 2005, Hartford Courant





From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Wed May  4 08:44:16 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 08:44:16 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw:EU Constitution 1) European Green position;
	2) The French are At It Again - The Vote On the European
	Union Constitution
Message-ID: <04d701c550a6$fc011610$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>

Dear CT Greens,

RE: European Constitution

1) Press release with position of European Green Party
2) Analysis of the treaty and growing opposition among French progressives

Peace,
Justine
      http://www.europeangreens.org/news/press.html#07; 
http://www.europeangreens.org/info/resolutions/brussels2005.pdf
      Resolution of the European Green Party on the EU Constitutional Treaty
      17th February 2005
      In an extraordinary Council meeting of the European Green Party in 
Brussels, the European Greens said "yes" to the EU Constitution text by a 
majority of 51 votes for, 7 against and no abstentions. The European Greens 
are made up of 32 member parties. The parties that asked to register their 
"no" to the resolution were: Milj?partiet de Gr?na - Sweden, De Gronne - 
Denmark, Milj?partiet De Gronne - Norway, Ecologists Greens - Greece.
      The GPEW, who are also committed to campaigning for 'no' to the EU 
Constitution and who made this clear during the Extraordinary Council 
Meeting, voted for the given text because of the inclusion of clause (i). 
This clause ensures and guaranties freedom to those parties who campaign for 
the 'no' position under the umbrella of the EGP.

      Grazia Francescato, Co- Spokesperson of the European Green Party, 
said: "A good majority of the Greens in Europe believe that a "yes" to the 
Constitution is of extreme importance for the development of a more 
democratic Europe. Despite its defects, the Constitution will be a step 
forward towards more transparent and people friendly European politics. With 
the adoption of the Constitution, the nightmare Nice Treaty, a result of 
behind the scenes horse-trading, is now over.

      Pekka Haavisto, Co-spokesperson of the European Green Party, added: 
"Of course this text of the Constitution can only be a first step, since the 
Constitution as it is, in particular Part III, is still far from the ideal 
democratic standards, which we Greens envisage. The job of the Greens will 
be to start reforming the Constitution text in an even more democratic 
direction, as soon as this is ratified".

      Resolution of the European Green Party on the EU Constitutional Treaty


      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Subject: The French are At It Again - The Vote On the European 
UnionConstitution


 Revolt or Revolution?
 The French are At It Again

 By Diana Johnstone

 CounterPunch - April 26, 2005

 http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone04262005.html

 Paris, France

 There are echoes of 1789 in the spring air. "Is this a
 revolt?" the powerful ask in consternation. "No, sire,"
 comes the historic reply, "it's a revolution".

 At least, if a revolution is a reversal of policy
 brought on by popular revolt against a self-satisfied,
 arrogant elite that has lost touch with people's lives
 and concerns, another revolution could indeed be
 brewing in France. If so, it starts in the ballot box,
 in the national referendum to be held next May 29 to
 ratify the Treaty establishing a Constitution for
 Europe.

 The French government is one of only nine out of 25
 European Union members that have dared submit the
 Constitution to a popular referendum. The political and
 media elite never doubted that voters would obediently
 vote "yes for Europe". They were victims of their own
 Europhoria, which has made them deaf to the rising
 revolt of the masses against a policy of "competition
 ?ber alles" that subordinates all human concerns to
 "the free market". . .






From capeconn at comcast.net  Wed May  4 08:54:01 2005
From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 08:54:01 -0400
Subject: {news} Dem switches to GP
Message-ID: <004201c550a8$588b0200$a3970218@sevigny8wcbjrd>

Longtime Napa City Councilmember re-registers with Green Party, says he's 'disgusted' with GOP, Democratic parties.

NAPA (April 29, 2005) - Three-term Napa City Councilmember Harry Martin - founder and owner of the Napa Sentinel - announced this week that he has re-registered as a member of the Green Party.

The decision by Martin boosts Green Party officeholders to 69 elected seats in California, and 221 offices in the U.S. There are now four Green Party mayors, a mayor pro-tem and vice mayor in the state. Greens also hold majorities on several city councils in California. 

First elected to the Napa City Council in 1994, and re-elected in 1996 and 2003, Martin is the longest-serving council member in Napa's history and has served as vice mayor three times. He is a native of San Francisco.

"I selected the Green Party because it represents the direction this nation, state and regional needs. The voice of the environment is being muted now and I thought I could help revive it once again through the Green Party," said Martin, who added that he was the first full-time environmental writer in the U.S. 

Martin - who for nearly five decades has been registered as both Democrat, Republican and Decline-to-State - said he has watched the Green Party for a while, and chose it because it has the "zeal for what is really important." 

"I have supported the concepts of the Green Party, and I have been disgusted with the Democrats and Republicans - sometimes they seem to be one party. I could not honestly tell a Republican from a Democrat. Their central focus is money and  greed. It is not about the people, but about winning and control," he explained. 

"Harry Martin has been successful because he stands up for the local people, the environment and the social needs of the Napa community. He has never been happy with Democrats or Republicans. He looks forward to participating with us," said Lowell Downey, a member of the Napa Green Party County Council.






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From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Fri May  6 08:19:55 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 08:19:55 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT U.K. Green Party sees vote share double in May
	5th election
Message-ID: <06ea01c55235$ea08d980$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>

FYI,
Justine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Feinstein" <mfeinstein at feinstein.org>
To: <usgp-int at gp-us.org>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:28 AM
Subject: USGP-INT U.K. Green Party sees vote share double in May 5th 
election


> Dear all,
>
> Here are the first reports out of the UK on how the Green Party did in the 
> May 5th House of Commons elections:
>
> BBC -
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4519869.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/flash_map/html/map05.stm
>
> The Guardian -
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election2005/map/
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election2005/stateofparties/0,15991,1473522,00.html
>
> Green Party of England & Wales website -
> http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/1964
> http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/1963
> http://www.greenparty.org.uk/elections/38
> http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news
>
> Scottish Green Party website -
> http://www.scottishgreens.org.uk/site/id/4585/title/ANOTHER_POSITIVE_STEP_FORWARD_FOR_GREENS_AS_VOTE_GROWS.html
> http://www.scottishgreens.org.uk/site/id/4409/title/Westminster_05.html
>
> politics.co.uk
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050504/362/fi2ey.html
>
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From Ehscouts at aol.com  Wed May  4 18:45:39 2005
From: Ehscouts at aol.com (Ehscouts at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 18:45:39 EDT
Subject: {news} Fundraising Letter
Message-ID: <1e0.3ba21c2d.2faaaa93@aol.com>

 
Miguel Angel Nieves for Mayor of New  Britain 

Dear Nieves  Friend, 
Although you wouldn?t know it by watching  television news, elections are 
battlegrounds of ideas.  Elections are how a free people make  choices about 
their future.   
I?m proud to be a part of the process of  self-government and proud to be a 
Mayoral Candidate.  And I?d be proud to have your  support. 
My message is clear -- a positive, forward  looking conservative vision of 
New Britain.  A New Britain of hope and opportunity,  limited government, family 
values and safety for all our  citizens. 
Can we reform welfare and halt the endless  cycle of poverty?  Can we toughen 
 our laws to give police officers the upper hand in the war against crime?  
And can we stop the runaway spending in  the City Hall before it bankrupts our 
city?  
If we don't stop the madness soon, our  children and our grandchildren will 
be forced to pay the price for our  failures.  If changes aren't made,  the 
things we take for granted -- home ownership, good jobs, safe streets, fair  
taxes, our high quality of life, and the American dream -- will become only a  
memory for the next generation. 
I can't sit by and let the City Hall  status-quo politicians continue to 
arrange the deck chairs on the sinking ship  of our city.  That's why I am  
running for Mayor. 
Why me?  Because I can win in November.  Because I?ve got a proven track 
record  of helping small business, creating jobs, and standing up for conservative 
 principles.  Because I will work  hard to win...I?ll rise with the chickens 
and campaign till late into the  night.  As long as it?s honest and  ethical, I
?ll do what it takes.  
Another reason I'm running is that I think  we don't need a professional 
politician representing us in the City Hall.   I've worked in the private sector  
for most of my life.  I've paid a  lot of taxes here in New Britain.  I  
understand the problems people face here because I face them  too. 
The professional politicians will never understand  us and the challenges we 
face. But when all is said and done, I'm running  because I have to.  The 
people of  New Britain deserves leadership that reflects our values and our  
principles.  I will fight for us in  the City Hall, not for the special interests. 
So I am asking you today to sign on to my  campaign with your pocketbook.  If 
you can, please send my campaign -- I should say OUR campaign -- a  
contribution. 
Frankly, I can't win without your help.  Your donation of $15, $25, $50 or 
even  $100 the helps get our campaign into high gear and keep it there.  Your 
dollars will pay for signs, bumper  stickers, flyers, brochures and the other 
things our campaign  needs. 
Time is of the essence.  The election is just a few short months  away.  So 
in addition to your money,  I need your vote on November 8th. 
With your help we will raise the money we  need to achieve success.  With 
your  help we will begin the process of making this city of New Britain one of 
the  best places to live and raise a family in America.  With your help, we will 
 win. 
Thanks for your  consideration. 
Sincerely, 
Miguel Angel  Nieves 
P.S. Your contribution to my campaign is an  investment in good government 
that will pay dividends for your children and  grandchildren.  Please send what 
you  can today, and please give me your vote on November 8th.  Thanks. 
Paid by: Nieves for Mayor campaign, Annette  Alicea-Treasurer
Immediate Contribution  Reply 
To Miguel Angel Nieves for  Mayor 
Subject:  Raising money for signs, bumper  stickers, flyers, brochures and 
the other things our campaign needs to  win. 
From:  ___________________________
___________________________ 
___________________________ 
Dear  Miguel, 
You can count on me to do my part to help raise $_______ to help buy  signs, 
bumper sticker, flyers, brochures and the other things our campaign needs  to 
win.  I am rushing you my best  contribution in the amount of: 
c  $15            c  $25            c  $50            c  $100 
c  other amount $_______ 
Please write your contribution check to:  Nieves for Mayor  Campaign. 
Your e-mail address  ___________________________________ 
(If you would like to receive breaking  developments in the Mayoral race.) 
Nieves for Mayor campaign
Annette Alicea, Treas.
55 Brittany Farms Road  #314 
New Britain CT.  06053 


Miguel Angel  Nieves
New Britain Mayoral Candidate
New Britain Green Party Co-Chairman  

_www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ (http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com/) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen) 
Tel:  (860) 832-8141

Paid by Nieves for Mayor Campaign, Annette Alicea  -Treasurer
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From Ehscouts at aol.com  Thu May  5 21:49:04 2005
From: Ehscouts at aol.com (Ehscouts at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 21:49:04 EDT
Subject: {news} Taking Back New Britain
Message-ID: <54.43b74c20.2fac2710@aol.com>


Here is the flyer. If you want to help us pass this flyer out please let us  
know how many you want. Please call 860-832-8141 thank you.
 
Miguel Angel  Nieves
New Britain Mayoral Candidate
New Britain Green Party Co-Chairman  

_www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ (http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com/) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen) 
Tel:  (860) 832-8141

Paid by Nieves for Mayor Campaign, Annette Alicea  -Treasurer
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From Ehscouts at aol.com  Sat May  7 20:19:30 2005
From: Ehscouts at aol.com (Ehscouts at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 20:19:30 EDT
Subject: {news} Very Imortant Please Help
Message-ID: <1fa.82225a5.2faeb512@aol.com>

(1) Many people have come to me and ask me to give them a discription of  the 
Green Party. I have share with them the 10 Keys value in order to explain  
what the Green Party is, but today at the Green Campaign School I learn a  
simple way of discribing the Green Party which is Green = Independent  Democrat.
 
(2) I need two giant man puppets and a frog puppet for the Taking  Back New 
Britain Walk on May 21st. Can any one create them for the Campaign?  Please 
reply ASAP.
 
(3) I need a bunch of Taking Back New Britain Letters to be send out to  
Newspaper inviting the Reporters and explaining how you feel about this event.  
When writing mention our web site _www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ 
(http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com)  Please  help me in this regard. Send as much as 
you can ASAP to:
 
The Hartford Courant
Joann Klimkiewicz
40 South Street
New Britain CT. 06051
 
El Reportero
99-A Hanmer Street
Hartford CT. 06114
 
WRYM 840 AM
1056 Willard Avenue
Newington CT. 06111
 
The New Britain Herald
One Herald Square
New Britain CT. 06050
 
WXCT Super Max 990
Hipolito Cuevas
3 Constitution Plaza
Hartford CT. 06103
 
Telemundo
886 Maple Avenue
Hartford CT 06114
 
La Voz Hispana
35 Elm Street
New Haven CT. 06510
 
Hartford Advocate
100 Constitution Plaza
Hartford CT. 06103
 
El Tiempo
11 Crown Street
Meriden CT. 06450
 
WFSB-TV/DT
3 Constitution Plaza
Hartford CT 06103
 
WUVN-TV 18
One Constitution Plaza
7th Floor
Hartford CT 06103
 
 
 
Miguel Angel  Nieves
New Britain Mayoral Candidate
New Britain Green Party Co-Chairman  

_www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ (http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com/) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen) 
Tel:  (860) 832-8141

Paid by Nieves for Mayor Campaign, Annette Alicea  -Treasurer
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From Ehscouts at aol.com  Sun May  8 08:37:25 2005
From: Ehscouts at aol.com (Ehscouts at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 08:37:25 EDT
Subject: {news} Please Pass it on!
Message-ID: <205.12bfedb.2faf6205@aol.com>

 
For Immediate Release                                                         
  Contact: Miguel A. Nieves 
(860) 832-8141 

Taking  Back New Britain Walk
New Britain - At the Puerto Rican Society of New  Britain lasts Friday, April 
29th, Miguel Angel Nieves announced his intention to  run for Mayor of New 
Britain. 
"I'm running because I have to, because I've had  enough, and because the 
time has come to take back New Britain." Nieves said in  his announcement. 
In his statement Nieves blamed many of New Britain  problems on the 
Republican and Democratic Party.  "They can't balance the city budget and  they can't 
balance their own checkbooks," Nieves stated. 
Nieves further blasted the actual Mayor Timothy  Stewart for failing to act 
on the major problems facing the city, listing jobs,  education, drug abuse and 
crime as areas the Stewart has failed to address. In  2003 Nieves as 
President of Latinos In Action help Timothy Stewart get elected.  
"Mayor Timothy Stewart has lost touch with New  Britain," Nieves said, "And 
the only way to change the way the City Hall works  is to change the System." 
Nieves also blasted Democrat Jason Jakubowski for  failing to do his job as 
City Treasurer.  "Jason Jakubowski has done nothing to help the City but envy 
the Mayoral  position, He can?t even help balance our City budget." said 
Nieves, "If you are  not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." 
A graduate of Hartford Public High School, Nieves  earned a business degree 
from Morse School of Business.  A native of Rio Grande Puerto Rico,  Nieves 
live in New Britain for more then 15 years. 
?Saturday, May 21st is not a day for  Politicians, is not a day for Political 
Parties, is a day for all New Britain  residents to come together in to one 
body and walk to re-claim New Britain.?  Said Nieves. Make your team and sign 
up today by calling  860-832-8141. 
GREEN = INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT


Miguel Angel Nieves
New Britain Mayoral Candidate
New  Britain Green Party Co-Chairman 

_www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ (http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com/) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen) 
Tel:  (860) 832-8141

Paid by Nieves for Mayor Campaign, Annette Alicea  -Treasurer

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From capeconn at comcast.net  Mon May  9 09:23:55 2005
From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:23:55 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: Millstone Events
Message-ID: <001601c5549a$59fb10d0$a3970218@sevigny8wcbjrd>




ANTI-MILLSTONE COALITION AND CT SIERRA CLUB
ANNOUNCE RALLY AND CONCERT
TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR
?CLEAN BEACHES - CLOSE MILLSTONE?



For Release: May 9, 2005
Contact: Nancy Burton Tel. 203-938-3952
              John Calandrelli Tel. 860-236-4405

     Niantic ? The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone and the Connecticut Chapter of the Sierra Club announced plans today to jointly sponsor a rally and concert this month to launch a ?Clean Beaches ? Close Millstone? campaign to create a clean energy future for Connecticut.
     The campaign will include a rally at Liberty Park in Niantic on Thursday, May 26, at 11 A.M. and a concert at the Garde Arts Center in New London on Saturday, July 2, at 7 P.M. Sign-ups for clean, non-nuclear energy will be available.
     ?The Connecticut Chapter of the Sierra Club is standing for clean beaches and clean energy for everyone,? said John Calandrelli, state program director.
     ?Nuclear power, with its inherent problems of waste and security, deserves no place in our clean energy future,? Calandrelli said. ?It?s time to start living with this earth as if our lives depended on it.?
      The campaign will draw attention to the radioactive and toxic chemicals routinely released to the Long Island Sound and surrounding beaches by the Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford.
     ?Until Millstone closes, swimming at the public beaches in East Lyme and Waterford will be hazardous to health and will endanger unborn children? said Nancy Burton, a leader of the Coalition.
     ?Everyone who uses these beaches is at risk and children are most vulnerable,? Burton said. ?At the very least, we will ask the towns to post signs warning of the hazards.?
     ?Members of PACE (People?s Action for Clean Energy) are deeply concerned about the ongoing releases of the radioactive isotopes from the Millstone plants,? said Judi Friedman, chairperson of PACE, a Coalition member. 
     ?Of particular concern is the release of tritium directly to the air and water ? 13,000 curies between 1991 and 2001,? Friedman said. ?Tritium is a known cancer-causing radioactive toxin, causing birth defects and genetic damage for as long as 120 years after being released.?
     As part of the May 26 rally at Liberty Park in Niantic, the Coalition will donate signs for town officials to post prior to the official opening of the beaches on Memorial Day weekend warning of the hazards of swimming at public beaches in East Lyme.
     Following the rally, participants will march to the ?Hole-in-the-Wall Beach? in Niantic, where they will conduct a symbolic closing of the beach to draw attention to the presence of life-threatening radiological and chemical effluents that wash ashore from the Millstone Nuclear Power Station?s discharge pipes every day.
     The rally will honor Zachary M. Hartley, age 7, whose mother swam at Hole-in-the-Wall Beach in 1997 during her pregnancy. Zachary was born with a rare jawbone cancer. His jawbone was removed during life-saving surgery when he was an infant and he is scheduled for major surgery again in June.
     The concert at the Garde Arts Center on July 2 will feature musical performances by the award-winning singer-songwriters Emma?s Revolution and Stefko, a New York City-based acoustic folk-rock singer-songwriter.
     Emma?s Revolution is comprised of Pat Humphries and Sandy O, whose music has been featured on National Public Radio?s ?All Things Considered? and Pacifica?s ?Democracy Now!? and whose songs ?Peace, Salaam, Shalom? and ?Keep on Moving Forward? are sung at vigils and demonstrations around the world. 
     Emma?s Revolution performed before thousands at the May 1, 2005 Global Disarmament Rally in New York City, the day before the 5-year review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty began at the United Nations. They will travel to the Nevada Test Site this August for commemoration vigils during this 60th anniversary year of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 
      Emma?s Revolution has been called the ?epitome of great, contemporary political music? by Sing Out! Magazine. The duo?s debut CD, ?One X 1,000,000 = Change,? includes ?If I Give Your Name,? Grand Prize Winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. The duo?s website address is www.emmasrevolution.com.
     Stefko, based out of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, plays a mix of folk-rock, indie, and alt-country in both English and Ukrainian. He has been performing, composing and writing lyrics for over ten years.  
     While attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, Stekfo often appeared either solo and/or as part of the duo Sicksided & Burned, at coffee houses and various college venues.  After graduating in 2003, he recorded an EP as part of Sicksided & Burned titled ?Jessica the Vulture,? a solo acoustic single backends and a Ukrainian language EP titled ?Sumni Pisni? (Sad Songs) at Wheatsheaf Studios in New Jersey.  All of the recordings were of original material.
     A second-generation Ukrainian-American, Stefko organized a benefit concert in support of freedom in Ukraine as the Orange Revolution swept over the former Soviet republic last December. The concert was held in New York City?s East Village to honor the hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians who stood at the vanguard of the Orange Revolution and to support the activities of election observers in the third round of voting which resulted in the election of Viktor Yushchenko as president.  Stefko performed at a rally in Washington DC on April 6 to welcome President Yushchenko on his first official visit to the United States the day he addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
     In addition to the musical performances, the evening concert will include speakers and other performers. Tickets are $20 for adults, children under 12 free. Adults accompanied by a child under 12 may purchase a half-price ticket at the Box Office the evening of the concert.
     ?The goal of the ?Clean Beaches ? Close Millstone? campaign is to promote and increase public awareness of how Millstone operations contaminate the Connecticut shoreline with invisible and insidious pollution, including long-lived radionuclides,? said Burton. ?These are substances which, once ingested, trigger cancer and other diseases.?
     ?The beaches are a great natural resource which belong to the people,? said Mitzi Bowman, a member of the Coalition. ?We should not have to be afraid to enjoy summer recreation at the beach with our families.?
     Public beaches near Millstone are within the 8,000-foot-radius ?mixing zone? where the facility is allowed to dump radiological, chemical and thermal waste, according to Burton.
     In reports filed with federal and state authorities, Millstone?s operators have admitted contaminating fish in Niantic Bay with cesium-137, a cancer-causing radionuclide with a half-life of 30 years that decays into an array of harmful substances.
     The nuclear plant is also responsible for buildup of cobalt-60 and other radionuclides in shoreline sediments, according to reports filed with federal and state agencies.
     The Coalition seeks a permanent shutdown of the two operating nuclear reactors at Millstone because in addition to the pollution that they cause, the simple fact is that the electricity they produce is not needed.
     ?When Millstone Unit 3 declared a Class II emergency on April 17 and was shut down for two weeks while Unit 2 was also shut down for refueling, the electric grid serving Connecticut and New England did not notice the missing 2,000 megawatts, Burton said.
     ?We call for the immediate shutdown of Millstone Units 2 and 3 because they are a hazard to our health and the health of our unborn children? Burton said. Millstone Unit 1 was permanently closed in 1996.
     "Contamination of our beaches is only one part of the harm caused by the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining to radioactive waste management,? said Peter Bowman, co-director of Don?t Waste Connecticut, a member of the Coalition. ?Safe beaches and clean water are the people's right, not to be usurped by Dominion for use as a dumping ground for their toxic and radioactive poisons.?
     ?The dangerous experiment with nuclear power in all its forms has had its time,? Calandrelli said. ?It?s time to evolve into a cleaner energy future.?
     For updates on the rally and concert, go to www.mothballmillstone.org and www.connecticut.sierraclub.org.

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From jherkimer at snet.net  Mon May  9 12:33:09 2005
From: jherkimer at snet.net (Judith Herkimer)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:33:09 -0400
Subject: {news} Environmental Groups to Challenge GE's New Ad/Image Campaign
Message-ID: <14b001c554b4$cc4be6e0$b9f73ccc@k8h9a3>

Environmental Advocates of New York
Housatonic Environmental Action League
Housatonic River Initiative
Scenic Hudson
Sierra Club

M E D I A   A D V I S O R Y

May 9, 2005
Albany, New York

Contact:
Chris Ballantyne - Sierra Club: 518-253-0717
Rich Schiafo - Scenic Hudson: 845-473-4440 ext. 274
Jeff Jones - Environmental Advocates of NY: 518-462-5526 ext. 233
Tim Gray - Housatonic River Initiative: 413-446-2520
Audrey Cole - Housatonic Environmental Action League:  860-672-6867

Environmental Groups to Challenge GE's New Ad/Image Campaign

Details: In a noon speech in Washington, D.C. today, General Electric
Company CEO Jeffrey Immelt plans to announce a major new company initiative
known as "ecomagination." The idea is to promote the company's innovative
environmental technologies as a contribution to the fight against global
warming.

Meanwhile the Hudson and Housatonic Rivers remain plagued by GE PCBs. GE had
effectively delayed the efforts to clean up these rivers for many years. The
company has spent millions of dollars arguing against cleaning up and
millions more on public relations distorting the facts about PCBs, in an
effort to convince the public that no action is necessary.  GE also
continues its attempt to undermine the federal Superfund program by
challenging key provisions of the statute in federal court.

Representatives from leading environmental organizations in New York,
Massachusetts and Connecticut, supporting the cleanup of GE PCB's, are
available to discuss the company's lack of ecomagination in removing toxic
poisons from their communities and rivers.

"GE's effort at an environmental makeover won't pass the laugh test unless
and until the company commits to cleaning up America's Hudson River," said
Chris Ballantyne of the Sierra Club. "They have done everything in their
power to minimize and delay the long overdue cleanup of the Hudson River."

"To be a true environmental innovator, GE must change its ways," said Rich
Schiafo of Scenic Hudson. "One need not look beyond the Hudson River to see
the other side of GE's environmental legacy. It is time for the company to
fully and finally commit to the cleanup and restoration of the upper Hudson
River."

"GE should be commended for a bold approach to climate issues," said Jeff
Jones of Environmental Advocate of New York. "However, the company has a
long way to go before it can legitimately claim to be an environmentally
progressive company. The GE environmental record on the Hudson is a sad
chapter in the annals of corporate responsibility."

"The Housatonic River has some of the highest levels of PCBs in the fish,
ducks, and sediments in the world," said Tim Gray of the Housatonic River
Initiative. "At the recent PCB risk assessment meetings GE's eco-imagination
team told residents that everything is fine, we have nothing to worry about.
We expect GE to challenge any further clean up orders."

"Ecomagination" is General Electric's new corporate marketing doublespeak
which is just another attempt to redirect the public's focus from years of
despicable PCB pollution that they have yet to adequately remediate," says
Audrey Cole of the Housatonic Environmental Action League.

The five groups from the tri-state area are calling upon GE to use its
ecomagination to clean up and restore the Hudson and Housatonic Rivers, drop
legal challenges to the federal Superfund program, and fully disclose the
costs of its long-standing effort to quash these cleanups. ####




From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Wed May 11 10:24:19 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:24:19 -0400
Subject: {news} Study Reveals TV News Vastly Underreports Palestinian
	Children's Deaths
Message-ID: <02ce01c55635$1f2faa00$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>





Study Reveals TV News Vastly Underreports 
Palestinian Children's Deaths 

WASHINGTON, May 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Capitol Hill yesterday, a two-year study of network news coverage of Israel/Palestine revealed extensive underreporting of Palestinian deaths, particularly of children's deaths.
The study, conducted by media watchdog organization If Americans Knew, shows that in 2004 eight Israeli children and 179 Palestinian children were killed.

In reporting on this situation, the organization found that the networks reported on Israeli children's deaths at rates up to 13 times greater than Palestinian children's deaths. In reality, 22 times more Palestinian children were being killed than Israeli children.

"Since American taxpayers give Israel over $10 million per day, it is essential that we be accurately informed on this issue," says executive director Alison Weir, who discussed the study in a briefing in the Rayburn House Office Building yesterday "Unfortunately, our study shows that in many cases we're being misinformed, rather than informed."

The study, which examined ABC, CBS, and NBC news coverage of the first year of the current Palestinian uprising and of 2004, found "pervasive patterns of distortion" in which Israeli deaths were emphasized and Palestinian deaths largely unreported.

During the first year of the uprising, when four times more Palestinians were being killed than Israelis, the study found that two out of three networks reported on more Israeli deaths than Palestinian deaths. All three networks reported Israeli deaths at rates three to four times greater than Palestinian deaths.

In contrast, the study found that Israeli deaths were often reported in multiple news stories, creating the impression that far larger numbers of Israelis were being killed than was actually the case -- sometimes by a factor of two.

The study found that in every category Israeli deaths were reported in much higher rates than Palestinian deaths. In addition, the report describes a "chronological reversal" in coverage of the current Palestinian uprising, in which viewers were led to believe that Israelis had died first, whereas in reality, 82 Palestinian children were killed by Israeli forces before the first Israeli child - and months before any suicide bombings.

This report and a similar statistical study of New York Times coverage can be read in full online at http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/report_cards.html.

EDITOR'S NOTE: A graphic supporting this story is available for free editorial use at http://www.usnewswire.com/attach/IfAmericansKnew001.jpg 

For more information contact: If Americans Knew, 310-441-8580 or email contact at ifamericansknew.org.

www.IfAmericansKnew.org
914 Westwood Blvd., #235
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-441-8580
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From chapillsbury at igc.org  Thu May 12 11:38:32 2005
From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:38:32 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: DU bill
Message-ID: <007901c55708$a745c6d0$6901a8c0@EXDIR04>

----- Original Message ----- 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: DU bill


Dear All,

Thanks for the support for the work on HB 6008.  We still have lots more work to do before this bill passes the full house.  So lets focus on taking this step.  We have to get people to agree to pay 3M in testing before anything else.

Remember the longest journey starts with one step.  So with that in mind;  Please send e-mails to the CT HOUSE only not the Senate.  Connecticut has an unusual legislature structure.  Short e-mail that talks about sick vets and the need for a diagnostic tool.  

Please please please do not speak of anything else that will allow the other side to have a reason to kill the bill.  If people think that testing sick vets will shut down the nuclear industry they will kill the bill.

We are very close to passing this bill.  Thanks for your assistance.  Melissa

Melissa Sterry
Political Team Director, New Haven Meet Up
Democracy For Connecticut
www.democracyforct.com
(203)605-7893 
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From chapillsbury at igc.org  Sun May 15 14:54:51 2005
From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:54:51 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: Silence in Uzbekistan - Why it Matters for Peace-in-Space
	Activists
Message-ID: <00c501c5597f$9363b130$841efea9@S0031616584>

fyi, charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Global Network 
To: Global Network 
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 6:25 PM
Subject: Silence in Uzbekistan - Why it Matters for Peace-in-Space Activists


Silence in Uzbekistan - 

Why it Matters for Peace-in-Space Activists


We can thank the BBC, the Russian Interfax news agency, and various 
human rights organizations for getting the truth out about Uzbekistan, 
after its government, the US government, and various Western news 
agencies tried to put the "fix" in Friday night.  Here's what really 
happened: an armed group of local residents of Andijan (NOT IMU or 
Hizb-ut Tahrir militant supporters) stormed the local prison to release 
local business leaders.  Local civic activists charged that the Uzbek 
government had been advised by the US government, without evidence, 
that these leaders were IMU "terrorists" and should be held in prison 
indefinitely.  The prison doors were opened and everyone was freed.  
Later, more than 10,000 mostly-unarmed citizens, with a high percentage 
of children, gathered in the public square to demand the resignation of 
Islam Karimov.

The BBC accurately reported as of noon Eastern time on Friday that 
security forces had opened fire on protesters with submachine guns, 
killing at least 500, including at least 100 children.  Condoleezza 
Rice and State Dept. spokesman Richard Boucher said that they did not 
believe the reports, and in any event, these people were probably 
supporters of terrorists.  Sure enough, on Saturday morning all the 
Western news reports from AP, Reuters, etc. said that only 10 were 
dead, and that these were "armed rebels".  The BBC had warned Friday 
afternoon that bodies were being taken to Uzbek government hospitals, 
the hospitals were being closed, and that bodies would no doubt 
"disappear." Isn't it funny how some Russian news outlets told the 
truth, while virtually all Western sources outside BBC served as Uzbek 
government mouthpieces?

Luckily, by Saturday afternoon, reports were emerging that 500 dead was 
probably an understatement.  This should be a warning to all Stalinist 
governments that, in the Internet age, hidden massacres are simply 
impossible to maintain.  It should also be a warning to the US to watch 
out for its seamier friends.

This issue is of immediate relevance to Global Network and all working 
for peace in space, because the US maintains a major space and 
intelligence base, a so-called "Forward Operating Location", at 
Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan.  Consequently, we will support Islam 
Karimov unflaggingly.  But the position of Condi Rice and the US 
government will look more and more untenable over the next few days.

Loring Wirbel
CPIS/PPJPC
Colorado Springs



Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 729-0517
(207) 319-2017 (Cell phone)
globalnet at mindspring.com
http://www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com (Our blog)
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From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com  Sun May 15 19:08:35 2005
From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 23:08:35 +0000
Subject: {news} local control of pesticides
In-Reply-To: <E1DXOQC-0004YR-00@gandhi.greens.org>
Message-ID: <BAY106-F5B907BA650B41BDD8021DD6140@phx.gbl>

This appalling situation engineered by the lawn-care industry is described 
in an article from the Fairfield County Weekly (was it in the New Haven or 
the Hartford Advocate?).  State Sen. Ed Meyer represents the Shoreline towns 
of Branford, Guilford, etc.  "It's basically the tobacco issue all over 
again."   This would be a good issue for local and state candidates to take 
up.


http://fairfieldweekly.com/gbase/News/content.html?oid=oid:110643
The Health Risks of a Green Lawn

State Sen. Ed Meyer and a coalition of public health officials want local 
control of lawn-care pesticides, but they're meeting with stiff resistance 
from industry and leaders of the state's environment committee

by LuAnne Roy - May 5, 2005

Two years ago, state Sen. Ed Meyer lost Adora to cancer. His normally spry 
10-year-old Labrador retriever had suddenly become lethargic. Meyer's 
veterinarian ran tests that revealed that Adora's organs were riddled with 
cancer, which the vet was certain was caused from ingesting poisonous 
lawn-care pesticides. Meyer said he had used pesticides on his lawn in 
Westchester (where he lived before he moved to Guilford, Conn., two years 
ago), and he often walked with Adora on the neighboring golf course.

>From that devastating moment on, Meyer has been on a mission to regulate the 
use of lawn-care pesticides in Connecticut by introducing bills in the 
General Assembly. After two years of hard work, Meyer, along with the other 
28 members of Connecticut's environment committee, managed to raise two 
bills regarding pesticide use. One would allow municipalities to regain 
control of pesticide use in the state; the other would enforce stricter 
guidelines about pesticide use near schools and day-care facilities. 
However, getting the bills introduced was only half the battle.

"It has been intense," Meyer said of his efforts to get his bills heard. 
"The industry lobbyists are using heavy artillery."

What most Connecticut residents don't realize is that they no longer have 
the right to decide where and how much pesticide can be applied in their 
community. A few years ago, the lawn-care industry pressured legislators to 
insert a "preemption" clause in the existing law that "effectively den[ies] 
local residents and decision makers their democratic right to better 
protection when the community decides that minimum standards set by state 
law are insufficient to protect local public and environmental health," 
according to www.protectlocalcontrol.org, an activist website that instructs 
local groups how to remove such clauses once they've been inserted into 
legislation.

... Read full story at 
http://fairfieldweekly.com/gbase/News/content.html?oid=oid:110643





From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Sun May 22 14:54:16 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 14:54:16 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: Galloway: non-racist,
	non-identity politics--how refreshing
Message-ID: <039e01c55eff$a7cf9dc0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>

Fowarded by the USGP International Committee: 

Some concluding comments from an article about Galloway:

http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=7081&grp=66&cat=228 

"Ultimately, however, Galloway unseated a black MP because the majority of the 
black community of Bethnal Green and Bow chose him. That community made its 
decision, not on the basis of race, religion or gender, but instead on the basis 
of politics.

They deemed that a white, left-wing MP with a track record in defending the 
rights of Palestinians, opposing wars on the Muslim community, and fighting for 
social justice in areas of social housing, education, crime, workers' rights and 
so on, was a better representative of their views and interests than a pro-war, 
right-wing black MP pursuing US foreign policy."


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From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Mon May 23 13:27:03 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:27:03 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: Rally Tuesday,
	May 24 in West Hartford - oppose the anti-immigrant Minuteman
	Project
Message-ID: <050701c55fbc$a2c49610$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sadanand, Nanjundiah (Physics) 
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:17 AM
Subject:  Rally Tuesday, May 24 in West Hartford - oppose the anti-immigrant Minuteman Project



>We will mobilize en masse on May 24 against the anti-immigrant forces 
>meeting in West Hartford. It will be an action that is safe for immigrants 
>to attend, as it will be peaceful and without threat of physical 
>confrontation.
>
>Contact: Marela Zaccarias, 860-538-3921

>The newly-formed Ad Hoc Committee for Immigrant Rights, a coalition of
>community groups, has called for a march and demonstration in West
>Hartford on May 24, 2005, at 5:30PM. Participants will march on New
>Britain Avenue from Shield Street to Newington Road, and rally outside  of
>the Elmwood Community Center. The theme of the march will be "No  Human
>Being is Illegal."

>The action began as a response to the announcement that a right-wing,
>anti-immigrant group will hold a meeting at the Elmwood Community Center
>that evening. "When people learned that the Connecticut Citizens for
>Immigration Control was targeting West Hartford, there was immediate
>outrage," said Peter Goselin, an attorney with the National Lawyers  Guild
>and member of the new Committee for Immigrant Rights. "People felt  the
>need to organize a strong response showing support for immigrants in  our
>community." CCIC's members blame immigrants for virtually every  social
>problem in the U.S., from crime to low wages to terrorism. CCIC's  leader
>Paul Streitz has led the attack on Latino immigrants, proclaiming  his
>support for the Minuteman Project, a vigilante gang that has
>conducted patrols of the U.S./Mexico border.

>But the West Hartford march is not just a protest against the CCIC, says
>Goselin. "On May 24, the real story will not be that a small group of
>racists held a meeting to bash immigrants; it will be that working  people
>turned out in numbers to say that we support equal rights for all
>immigrants, regardless of their citizenship status."

>"Groups like the CCIC are always claiming that immigrants are bad for  the
>U.S., that immigrants steal jobs or make taxes go up," said Marela
>Zaccarias, an organizer for the Hartford group Latinos Against the War /
>Latinos Contra La Guerra. "That's a lie. A National Academy of Sciences
>study shows that immigrants add $10 billion a year in value to the
>economy. It's hypocritical to attack immigrants for being a drain on the
>economy, when the government's war on Iraq has wasted $200 billion so
>far, with the cost in money and in human lives going up every day."

>Kathy Hucks, a member of West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice,
>believes it is especially important for people from the local community
>to come out on May 24. "Our community has room for a lot of different
>ideas. But we have no room for bigots and no room for people who
>advocate violence against immigrants."
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From karinlee1 at mindspring.com  Mon May 23 13:57:17 2005
From: karinlee1 at mindspring.com (Karin Lee Norton)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:57:17 -0400
Subject: {news} Fwd: Medea Benjamin 6/2 Hartford
Message-ID: <p06110405beb7c9c91017@[4.245.128.51]>


--- john humphries <jhumphries at igc.org> wrote:
>  From: "john humphries" <jhumphries at igc.org>
>  To: <ReclaimingthePropheticVoice at yahoogroups.com>
>  Subject: Medea Benjamin 6/2 Hartford
>  Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:42:45 -0400
>
>  PLEASE POST and DISTRIBUTE
>  (flyers coming soon!)
>
>  Thursday, June 2 @ 7:30 p.m.
>
>  Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice
>  will host
>
>  MEDEA BENJAMIN
>  (co-founder of Global Exchange and
>  founder of CODE PINK)
>
>  at 1st Presbyterian Church in Hartford
>  (136 Capitol Ave, one block east of the Capitol)
>
>  $5 donation requested at the door
>
>  For more information about Medea:
>
http://www.speakersandartists.org/People/MedeaBenjamin.html
>
>  This event will be part of her new book tour:
>  STOP THE NEXT WAR NOW!
>  Effective Responses to Violence & Terrorism
>
>  see:
>  http://store.gxonlinestore.org/codepinkbook.html
>
>
>  We are also organizing a mid-day book-signing event
>  in the New Haven area.
>  Details to follow.  For more info, contact aperry7247 at aol.com.



From capeconn at comcast.net  Tue May 24 15:22:05 2005
From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 15:22:05 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: ALERT..."Clean the Beaches--Close Millstone" Rally
Message-ID: <001201c56095$df219200$a3970218@sevigny8wcbjrd>


----- Original Message ----- 

Subject: ALERT..."Clean the Beaches--Close Millstone" Rally


Please look at www.mothballmillstone.org   and please consider attending the rally on May 26 in Niantic.

The radioactive and toxic chemicals routinely released to Long Island Sound are a source of grave danger.

We live in a beautiful state; we must not accept poisoning it further.

Judi Friedman
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From capeconn at comcast.net  Wed May 25 16:22:42 2005
From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 16:22:42 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: Rally - June 9
Message-ID: <003d01c56167$8183a020$a3970218@sevigny8wcbjrd>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: NancyBurtonEsq at aol.com 
To: upthesun at cshore.com 
Cc: JFriedeco at aol.com ; Nomlstn at aol.com ; coreynolds at myeastern.com ; blackrainpress at hotmail.com ; capeconn at comcast.net ; VantageTax at aol.com ; alyssa at toxicsaction.org ; jayrasku at toxicsaction.org ; smangiagli at comcast.net ; ctcan at comcast.net 
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:55 PM
Subject: Rally - June 9


The rally has been postponed to Thursday June 9 because of adverse weather conditions. Please spread the word!
Nancy
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From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Thu May 26 07:34:45 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 07:34:45 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT: NZ Greens release Energy Policy calling for
	Peak Oil awareness
Message-ID: <085c01c561e6$eb372800$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>

FYI,
Justine
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


(forwarded by: Leenie Halbert Green Party of Louisiana)

05.25.05

NZ Green Party releases comprehensive Energy Policy calling for Peak Oil 
Awareness

To read the comprehensive Policy, click here:

http://greens.org.nz/searchdocs/PR8708.html


A summary of the Greens Party?s 2005 Energy Policy

Key initiatives at a glance

* Half a million solar water heating panels
* Sustainable Energy Commission
* Alternatives to pylons
* One-stop energy advisory shop for households
* No new coal
* Pay for what you use ? no fixed charges

Critical Energy Issues facing New Zealand
* Peak oil
* Climate change
* Maui depletion
* Growing demand
* Fuel poverty
* Short-term thinking

Our Vision

1. Energy services reliably and affordably provided from renewable energy.
2. Smarter use of energy, with less waste and less adverse effects
3. All New Zealanders play a part in shaping our energy future


Getting there ? The Greens? proposals to address the six key issues above

Peak Oil ? facing up to the end of cheap oil

1. Acknowledge the issue, inform the public and plan the transition
2. Act now to prepare for the future: fuel efficiency standards for 
vehicles, develop biofuels, invest in public transport, cooperate 
internationally


Climate change - facing up to the risk of global catastrophe

* Make it clear there will be no new use of coal for energy, cap CO2 
emissions from electricity generation, and introduce a carbon charge
* Plan a transition to renewables, continuing the use of carbon credits for 
renewables and create a minimum ?green energy? contribution for electricity 
sales
* Significantly improve energy efficiency (see below)


Maui depletion ? facing up to the end of cheap gas for electricity 
generation

1. Increase use of gas directly for heating and cooking rather than 
electricity
2. Install half-a-million solar water heating panels over five years and 
expand training in solar building design
3. Plan better for wind energy and encourage the use of waste wood as a fuel
4. Accelerate R&D into wave, current and tidal energy


Growing demand ? facing up to the need to use energy smarter

1. Strengthen the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and 
accelerate the National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy
2. Encourage SOEs to develop business strategies based around energy 
efficiency and stable energy demand
3. Increase energy efficiency standards for buildings, upgrade the building 
code to encourage solar design in new buildings, and require home energy 
labelling at time of sale
4. Expand support for home energy efficiency retrofits
5. Increase energy efficiency standards for appliances and products
6. Initiate a Government leadership programme for energy efficiency in 
public buildings and vehicles
7. Require Land Transport New Zealand to ensure its decisions support the 
transition to a sustainable energy future


Fuel poverty ? facing up to the fact that everyone needs a warm home

1. Remove fixed charges for household power
2. Insulate and damp-proof more homes and create a local home advisory 
service with a focus on energy efficiency
3. Install solar water heating on low-income homes
4. Investigate ?progressive pricing?

Planning and coordination ? facing up to the need to think beyond tomorrow

* Electricity Commission becomes Sustainable Energy Commission with a 
mandate to look at all fuels, and ensure consumers and small producers have 
input to decisions.
* Require new large capital projects to be tested against sustainable 
alternatives
* Independent review of Transpower?s expansion plans and ensure Transpower 
focuses on alternatives to expanding transmission lines
* New electricity market rules:
* Facilitate distributed generation
* Facilitate demand side participation in market
* Net metering or billing
* Dry winter conservation plan




Tell   US   Congress   to   wake   up!   Sign   the   Peak  Oil
Awareness--Solutions  for a Post Carbon Economy Petition go to:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/EndofOil/petition.html







From riverbend2 at earthlink.net  Thu May 26 08:59:01 2005
From: riverbend2 at earthlink.net (John Battista)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:59:01 -0400
Subject: {news} 052405StamfordADVOCATE-House Dems unveil plan to reform
	campaign finance
Message-ID: <002401c561f2$b08f7a20$1102a8c0@newm2.ct.charter.com>

Message




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http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-reform5may24,0,4870472.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines 

House Democrats unveil plan to reform campaign finance
        
By Tobin A. Coleman
Staff Writer

May 24, 2005

HARTFORD -- State House Democrats yesterday announced a compromise campaign finance reform bill, but Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell immediately blasted it as looking "more like tinkering than it does serious reform."

Rell's dismissal of the bill and Senate Democratic leaders' acknowledgment that it needs more work before a vote mean it is unlikely the package proposed yesterday will move forward without changes.

Still, after meeting in a Democratic House caucus, Speaker James Amann, D-Milford, Majority Leader Christopher Donovan, D-Meriden, and Government Administration and Elections Committee Chairman Christopher Caruso, D-Bridgeport, held an afternoon news conference saying they had reached agreement with the Senate on combining separate House and Senate bills and were prepared to move forward this week with a vote.

Caruso said there were some concerns of individual Democratic caucus members with the proposal, "But hopefully we can resolve them and move forward with the bill."

The Legislature has been moving in fits and starts on lining up a campaign finance bill vote this year, despite Gov. John Rowland's guilty plea on a corrupt ethics charge for actions that some say were aided by inappropriate campaign finance practices.

At the heart of the compromise is a ban on contributions from state contractors to candidate campaigns if they do business with state departments related to the officeholder's duties. Municipal contractors would be banned from contributing to any municipal campaigns.

Lobbyist contributions would be limited in any race to $100, a significant decrease from limits now, where a lobbyist can contribute, for example, $2,500 to a gubernatorial campaign. Lobbyists also would be banned from soliciting candidate contributions from clients.

Contributions to campaigns also would be limited from individuals, political action committees sponsored by businesses and labor, and from so-called political leadership PACs controlled by politicians or PACs made up of two or more people. Town Democratic or Republican town committees could give unlimited donations to state legislative races, something leaders said they would fix before putting the proposal to a vote.

Tom Swan, director of the Connecticut Citizens' Action Group, a watchdog group that has been active in negotiating campaign finance reform in the Legislature this year, said the Democrats' proposal could be a first step toward real reform. He said the contribution limits in the bill strike a good balance, allowing newcomers to raise enough money to get their names recognized.

"We did not want them to set the limits so low that it became an incumbent protection act, which I don't believe that this does," Swan said.

No actual bill was proposed yesterday, simply a summary of what the House leaders said had been agreed upon. They said bill language was expected later this week.

The proposal also would institute public campaign financing for statewide races in 2010 and for legislative races in 2008. In a compromise between the separate House and Senate bills, public financing, at a cost of about $5 million annually, would be paid for by surcharges on criminal and civil fines and an increase in court filing fees.

To get public financing, candidates would have to agree to spending limits. For example, a gubernatorial candidate would have to agree to spend no more than $1.25 million for a primary and $3 million in a general election. House candidates would agree to a limit of $20,000 in a primary and $30,000 for a general election.

Opponents who did not agree to the spending limits and who spent more would trigger "catch up" public financing under most conditions for the candidate who had agreed to abide by the limits. But bill proponents have offered no mechanism for quickly equalizing spending if a non-limited candidates dumped tens of thousands of dollars into a campaign in its last few days.

Senate Democratic leaders said they still have some reservations.

"I don't have any significant disagreements," said Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn. "I want to make sure that it all works."

Williams said his concern is there are "some very progressive and ambitious proposals" in the bill, for example, the ban on lobbyists soliciting campaign contributions from clients, and he wants to "make sure it doesn't unravel in an untoward way."

The so-called leadership PACs --contributions from many legislators bundled into one committee -- would be dissolved under the Democrats' plan and there would be one PAC allowed per legislator. It is acknowledged by many lawmakers that the PACs, which currently have no limits on how much they can contribute to campaigns, are one way special interests have gotten around contribution limits.

The PACs are often controlled by high-ranking members of the legislature from both parties and can quickly funnel last-minute contributions into floundering campaigns. And their power lives on. Former Speaker of the House Moira Lyons, D-Stamford, for example, who left office in January, still controls a PAC that has $135,000. By law, candidate campaign committees must disperse their funds soon after that campaign is over and not carry money forward to the next campaign. Sometimes that money goes to PACs, which can, in turn, contribute back to that candidate's campaigns in the future.

Rell said she opposed the proposal because it still asks for public expenditures to pay for the campaigns, something she is against with the exception of being seeing if a pilot program could work on a municipal level. Rell said she is "more than disappointed" that the Democrats' plan did not contain her January proposals for reform that would ban in any form campaign contributions from lobbyists and state contractors.

"We have an opportunity of a lifetime. I said that back in January. Everyone agreed that we needed to do something to improve our ethics standing, to make sure that campaign finance was on top of the list of things to be done.," Rell said. "If this is all they can do, I'm deeply disappointed."

Rep. Livvy Floren, R-Greenwich, who is the top House Republican on the GAE committee that has been crafting the bill, said the Democrats proposal doesn't do the job.

"If you want real reform you make the contributions level small and finite, you make them from individuals only," Floren said. "You get rid of all PACs, all ad books, and all contributions from anybody doing business with the state, i.e. contractors and lobbyists." Floren said she is philosophically opposed to public financing of campaigns but would support a local-level pilot program.

Floren also represents part of Stamford.

Rep. Gerald Fox III, D-Stamford, said he likes many parts of the bill, but still has concerns over public financing of political campaigns.

"The bill's evolving and I like it better than I did two weeks ago," Fox said.

Rep. Joseph Mann, D-Norwalk, thinks he probably would vote against the bill based on its public financing provisions.

"My experience is most individuals don't want to pay for our campaigns," Mann said. "I don't like the idea of imposing that on them, even though instead of taking the money out of the budget we would take it when people pay various fines."

House leaders said they hoped a bill would be voted on this week in the Senate and come to them later in the week. But Williams said he could not say when the Senate would be ready to vote on a bill. 
Copyright ? 2005, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. 

 

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From capeconn at comcast.net  Thu May 26 15:21:14 2005
From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:21:14 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: Please distribute this rally flyer widely!
Message-ID: <005001c56228$15e1a350$a3970218@sevigny8wcbjrd>


Subject: Please distribute this rally flyer widely!


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From greenpartyct at yahoo.com  Thu May 26 15:51:36 2005
From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:51:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: {news} new CT Greens Blog with a few pictures
Message-ID: <20050526195136.5938.qmail@web81405.mail.yahoo.com>

http://ctgreens.blogspot.com
 
This is my new Blog that I am starting. It has several pictures of events including the Anti- war protest in Hartford, a Green Party planning session , and the recent Nieves campaign in New Britian.
 
If anyone wants to use these pictures feel free to use them.
 
Tim McKee





      THE GREEN PARTY OF CONNECTICUT is the third largest political party in CT. The Greens are also the third largest political party in the US, with 220 Greens officeholders in 27 states. Over 80 countries in world have Green Parties. Wangari Maathai, the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is Kenya's assistant minister for environment and an elected Green Party member.
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From karinlee1 at mindspring.com  Fri May 27 01:28:43 2005
From: karinlee1 at mindspring.com (Karin Lee Norton)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 01:28:43 -0400
Subject: {news} new CT Greens Blog with a few pictures
In-Reply-To: <20050526195136.5938.qmail@web81405.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20050526195136.5938.qmail@web81405.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <p06110411bebc5f73090f@[192.168.1.101]>

Hey, y'all! Check this site out 
<http://ctgreens.blogspot.com/>http://ctgreens.blogspot.com, it's way 
cool! Great work, Tim!


>
><http://ctgreens.blogspot.com/>http://ctgreens.blogspot.com  This is 
>my new Blog that I am starting. It has several pictures of events 
>including the Anti- war protest in Hartford, a Green Party planning 
>session , and the recent Nieves campaign in New Britian.
>
>If anyone wants to use these pictures feel free to use them.
>
>Tim McKee




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From greenpartyct at yahoo.com  Fri May 27 11:10:34 2005
From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:10:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: {news} Wisconsin Greens seek referendum on US troop withdrawal
Message-ID: <20050527151034.65353.qmail@web81410.mail.yahoo.com>



Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at yahoo.com> wrote:From: Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at yahoo.com>
To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org, media-states at lists.gp-us.org,
organize at lists.votecobb.org, lavender-caucus at green.gpus.org
Subject: [media-states] RELEASE Wisconsin Greens seek referendum on US troop withdrawal
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:55:57 -0700 (PDT)

Wisconsin Green Party
http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25th, 2005

Contact: Jeff Peterson, Campaign Coordinator,
Referendum on Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
715.472.2728
Jill Bussiere, Co-Chair, Wisconsin Green Party
920.388.0529, cell - 920.255.2175,
jdt at wisconsingreenparty.org


Greens Launch Effort for Referendum on Troop
Withdrawal


The Wisconsin Green Party announced today that it
will work with citizens across the state to place
an advisory referendum on as many local ballots
as possible in next spring's election asking
voters the question, "Should the United States
begin an immediate, phased withdrawal of its
troops from Iraq?"

Jeff Peterson, of Luck, will coordinate the
various efforts around the state, most of which
will involve convincing county boards to give
their constituents the opportunity to weigh in on
the war. "We intentionally crafted a referendum
that is neutral in its language," said Peterson.
"We?re not trying to put local elected officials
on the spot by forcing them to take a stand on
the war. We just think that, after two years, it
would be the democratic thing to do to allow
average citizens to weigh in on the Iraq
situation."

Peterson, who was the Green Party's candidate for
lieutenant governor in 2004, said he expects the
idea of a voter referendum to receive an
enthusiastic response not only from local Green
Party chapters, but also from the informal
network of peace and justice groups that have
sprung up around the state in recent years. They
will also reach out, he said, to families with
loved ones in the military.

Wisconsin law permits statewide referenda of an
advisory nature, but only with the legislature's
approval. Because that can be difficult, many
referenda questions are submitted at the county
level. In last April's election, for example, the
Wisconsin Counties Association succeeded in
getting two questions regarding state funding of
court and social service systems on the ballot in
almost every county. Both questions passed
overwhelmingly.

Cities and villages may also vote to put
referenda on their ballots; they are obliged to
do so when presented with petitions containing
signatures totalling 15% of the vote for governor
in the last election.

Wisconsin Green Party Co-Chair Jill Bussiere of
Kewaunee thinks people are ready to have a say on
the war. "We've had countless vigils and marches
and protests," she said, "but too often they go
unreported by the media. I think if the majority
of those voting next April 4 vote in favor of
withdrawing our troops from Iraq, that will send
a strong message to our national elected
representatives in Washington."

While their proposed referendum may be worded in
neutral language, the Green Party is anything but
neutral on issues of war and peace. One of what
they call their "key values" is nonviolence, and
Greens were among the earliest and most outspoken
critics of the Bush administration's decision to
invade Iraq. And while theirs may have been the
minority view two years ago, Bussiere says she
thinks people are growing weary of a war that
appears as if it has no end.

"There are still some people who think that, to
support the troops, you have to support the war,
too," she said. "I think the best way to show
support for our troops is to make every effort to
bring them home as soon as possible."


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From chapillsbury at igc.org  Fri May 27 12:26:00 2005
From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:26:00 -0400
Subject: {news} Medea Benjamin is coming to Hartford Thursday, June 2nd
Message-ID: <00d601c562d8$c4dea230$6901a8c0@EXDIR04>

Medea Benjamin

Leader of U.S. Peace Movement and Green Party Activist

Coming to Hartford

Thursday, June 2nd

7:30 pm

First Presbyterian Church

 136 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT

 

Co-founder of the international human rights organization

GLOBAL EXCHANGE and the women's peace group 

CODE PINK, Medea Benjamin has been a tireless advocate 

for social justice for more than 20 years. 


Medea Benjamin will be discussing why the occupation of Iraq is failing, and how we can bring the troops home in conjunction with CODE PINK'S  recently released book, STOP THE NEXT WAR NOW: 

EFFECTIVE RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM

     
     $5 donation requested

            no one will be turned 

            away for lack of funds

             
           
        
 

 

 

 

 



www.ReclaimingthePropheticVoice.org

  

Contact: Allie Perry - aperry7247 at aol.com, 203/865-6575 or 

John Humphries - jhumphries at igc.org, 860/236-5175
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From chapillsbury at igc.org  Fri May 27 12:26:50 2005
From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:26:50 -0400
Subject: {news} Medea Benjamin is also coming to New Haven Thursday, June 2nd
Message-ID: <00dd01c562d8$e2cfbbd0$6901a8c0@EXDIR04>

        Medea Benjamin
Leader of U.S. Peace Movement and Green Party Activist

Coming to New Haven

 

Thursday, June 2nd

12:00 Noon


Program Room

New Haven Free Public Library

133 Elm Street

New Haven, CT


Co-founder of the international human rights organization

GLOBAL EXCHANGE and the women's peace group 

CODE PINK, Medea Benjamin has been a tireless advocate 

for social justice for more than 20 years. 


Medea Benjamin will be discussing why the occupation of Iraq is failing, and how we can bring the troops home in conjunction with CODE PINK'S  recently released book, STOP THE NEXT WAR NOW: 

EFFECTIVE RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM

 

www.ReclaimingthePropheticVoice.org

  

Contact: Allie Perry - aperry7247 at aol.com, 203/865-6575 or 

John Humphries - jhumphries at igc.org, 860/236-5175
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From edubrule at sbcglobal.net  Fri May 27 13:13:21 2005
From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:13:21 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: [newhavengreens] Seminars [etcetera] this weekend [in
	Hartford]
Message-ID: <002a01c562df$689213c0$fea4f504@edgn2b574u14bi>

I received the below in my inbox.   I'd recommend reading both the 
attachment and the schedule in the body of the e-mail--I note that the 
10:30am "Radical walking tour of Hartford" is not in the body of the e-mail. 
(I'm going to find out, for myself, if that tour is still scheduled.)  The 
attachment indicates that ArtSpace Hartford is at 555 Asylum Street.
     I've added asterisks to delineate the Day 1 versus Day 2 versus Day 3 
events.
--Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ralph ferrucci" <ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net>
To: <newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com>; <Ctgp at lists.riseup.net>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:35 AM
Subject: [newhavengreens] Seminars this weekend


>> Sorry the flyer in the last post was bad, here is the flyer for
>> Outgrowing Capitalism. It will be at Art Space in Hartford.
Ralph

Here is also the schedule for anyone interested.
*********************
Day 1: Friday, May 27
4:30 PM Critical Mass meets at Bushnell Park
9:00 PM Open Mic/Open Art Show
**********************
Day 2: Saturday, May 28
10:45 - 11:45 AM
* Urban Gardening/Composting (meet at 10:00 to plan some gardening
projects)
* Social Manipulation-Every Day Stereotypes
* Radical Menstruation
* Mutual Aid
* Beer and Wine Makin

12:00 - 1:00 PM
* Radical Cheerleading
* Avoid Getting Locked Out: You Don?t Have to Call a Locksmith
* Parenting on the Fringe: Free School and Alternatives to
Conventional Education and more
* Start an FNB, Critical Mass, etc. in your Community: How to
Dumpster Dive like a Pro
* How to get the press to print what you want them to. (Ralph)


1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch
3:00 PM Food Not Bombs in Bushnell park by the carousel
2:15 - 3:45 PM
* Self Defense
* DIY Fashion, Jewelry Making, and Hairdressing
* Propaganda
* Eco-Feminist View of Belly Dance
* Street Theater workshop with the Hartbeat Ensemble
http://www.hartbeatensemble.org/


4:00 - 5:30 PM
* Counter Recruitment with Latinos Contra La Guerra
* Silk-screening
* Cob Workshop for Kids
* Start Your Own Newspaper


5:30 - 8:00 PM Radical walking tour of Hartford
8:00 PM Punk Rock Prom
Bands include: Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, Jack Off Jerk Off,
Frigface, Kenesaw, Mantits, f-thndr, Tom Frampton, Ryan Harvey and
more...
********************************
Day 3: Sunday, May 29
12:00 PM
Discussion
A roundtable, consensus based discussion to discuss our strengths and
weaknesses as a force of tangible resistance again the oppressive system
of
capitalism, and all of it's various evils (war, coercion, police state
mentality etc.) We, who value human life over profit, are clearly
getting
our collective asses kicked by the ruling class, how can we stand up to a
dominating system, reclaim our freedom, and fight for the good of
humanity.
We have come up with several forms of resistance that work, how can we
play
to these strengths? How can we empower people to think and act for
themselves, as well as for the good of humanity? We will discuss that as
well as plan actions, or an action which can be performed on a local
level,
in your own community and on a broader geographic scale, as well as a
structure to easily disseminate information, resources and knowledge.

3:00 PM Food Not Bombs, Street Theater and Fun at Bushnell Park
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From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Fri May 27 15:09:15 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:09:15 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: HOUSE VOTES ON IRAQ TROOP WITHDRAWAL
Message-ID: <0b4401c562ef$93c4c820$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/052705Zeese/052705zeese.html

            The House votes on withdrawing troops from Iraq: Now we know where they stand 


            The historic debate and vote on the Lynn Woolsey amendment

            By Kevin Zeese
            Online Journal Contributing Writer



            May 27, 2005-On the evening of May 25, the U.S. House of Representatives considered an amendment offered by Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) calling for an exit strategy from Iraq. Amendment No. 26 simply stated:

              "It is the sense of Congress that the president should-
              (1) develop a plan as soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act to provide for the withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Iraq; and 
              (2) transmit to the congressional defense committees a report that contains the plan described in paragraph (1)."

            The simple resolution was a moderate one. It set no specific timetable for withdrawal-in an effort to make it easy for members of Congress to agree. After all, we always claim we intend to leave Iraq. This amendment was an opportunity to make leaving Iraq the policy of the United States. The amendment, part of the debate on the authorization for the Department of Defense was allotted 30 minutes on the floor of the House of Representatives-15 minutes for each side.

            In the end the amendment failed-by a vote of 300 to 128 with 5 not voting. Because Rep. Woolsey insisted on a roll call vote we now know who needs to be convinced. There were some disappointing votes including the Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, as well as members generally seen as liberals, including Rep. Cardin (D-MD), Rep. Stenny Hoyer (D-MD), Rep. Sanchez (D-CA) and Rep. Udall (D-CO). Five Republicans voted for the amendment, most notably Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) who is well known for insisting that the french fries sold in the Capitol be re-named "Freedom Fries." 

            Rep. Woolsey opened the debate noting that her amendment was in honor of the "brave men and women who are serving in Iraq" as "the best way to support them is to establish a plan to bring them home." She went on to point out:

              " . . . our continued presence in Iraq after the election has caused America to be seen by the Iraqi people as an occupying power, not as a liberating force. Our continued presence in Iraq works against efforts for democracy, provides a rallying point for angry insurgents, and ultimately makes the United States less safe."
            She also made it clear she does not want to abandon Iraq, recognizing it is a country that has been devastated, saying, "We must assist Iraq, not through our military but through international humanitarian efforts to rebuild their war-torn economic and physical infrastructure."

            Leading the opposition to the amendment was Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA). He portrayed the amendment as sending a message to U.S. opponents:

              "This amendment is a message-sender. It is a message-sender to people like Al Sadr who are considering even now continuing to foment rebellion against the elected government in Iraq. It is a message-sender to Zarqawi and his followers, who think that perhaps the United States doe not have the stomach to continue to oppose them. It is a message-sender to our troops, who might, in seeing if this amendment should pass, feel that the resolve of the American people is fading away."
            In an ironic use of Mohandas Gandhi, certainly no advocate of war, Rep.Geoff Davis (R-KY) argued that because Iraqis have shown they want democracy we should continue our occupation of Iraq, saying: "Mohandas Gandhi said, 'The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.' The people have democracy in their hearts. They can feel it within their grasp. They can look up and see it shining near them. We just have to stand and give them a hand to reach it." Rep. Davis made clear what the exit strategy of war supporters is:

              "Let our foes understand one thing. Our exit strategy from Iraq is simply this: winning the war on terror. We must hold firm to the course and be resolved in our determination to with this fight."
            Perhaps the most important speech in favor of an exit strategy came from Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC). His district in North Carolina is one that is very supportive of the military. His opposition to the continuation of the war is of interest because he had been a supporter of the war, a point he highlighted in his opening: "This is about a policy, that I believed when I voted 2 years ago to commit the troops that I was making my decision on facts. Since that time I have been very disappointed in what I have learned about the justification for going into Iraq." He explained:

              " . . . all this amendment does is just say that it is time for the Congress to meet its responsibility. The responsibility of Congress is to make decisions whether we should send our men and women to war or not send them to war. What we are saying here tonight is we think it is time for the Congress to begin, to start the debate and discussion of what the exit strategy is of this government . . ."
            Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) echoed Rep. Jones's concern for Congress doing its "constitutional duty." She pointed out that it "is a constitutional duty by this Congress to declare war. We failed in that duty a couple of years ago." She argued, now, by debating withdrawal the Congress would be correcting that constitutional error. 

            A majority in Congress requires 218 votes. From this vote, it is evident that those advocating an end to the war-a view that now represents the majority of the people of the United States-are 90 votes away from success in the House of Representatives. With an election year coming in 2006, support for the war diminishing, the cost in human lives and the U.S. treasury escalating, a concerted effort by the antiwar movement to convince members of Congress should be the focus. Success is achievable.

            As Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA), noted: " . . . when he was Governor of Texas, this is the advice that George W. Bush gave President Clinton about the war in Kosovo. Victory, he said, means exit strategy, and it is important for the President of the United States to explain to us what the exit strategy is."

            The case for an exit strategy in Iraq is even stronger than for Kosovo. The current strategy is failing. As Rep. Meehan said: "Without an exit strategy to win the peace and bring our troops home, our policy is going in circles." Let us hope that President Bush listens to the advice of Governor Bush.

            Kevin Zeese is Director of Democracy Rising. You can comment on this column by visiting his blogspot on DemocracyRising.US.
           
      



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From greenpartyct at yahoo.com  Fri May 27 17:10:43 2005
From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:10:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: {news} Green Mayor West will face trial for Gay Marriage
Message-ID: <20050527211043.85059.qmail@web81401.mail.yahoo.com>

N.Y. Court Rules Mayor Will Face Trial 
By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press WriterFri May 27, 1:27 PM ET 



The village mayor who challenged New York law by attempting to marry gay couples last year will face trial, the state's highest court ruled Friday.

Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, the high court there rejected a Roman Catholic activist's bid to halt gay marriages in that state until after voters have weighed in on a constitutional ban.

New Paltz, N.Y., Mayor Jason West faces 24 misdemeanor counts of violating the state's domestic relations law by marrying couples without licenses in late February 2004. He faces fines and up to a year in jail if convicted.

West's actions came amid a flurry of efforts in various states to wed gay couples after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed gay couples there to marry in February 2004. Those efforts have largely been put on hold by the courts.

West has maintained he was upholding the gay couples' constitutional rights to equal protection ? and thus his oath of office ? by allowing them to wed in the Hudson Valley college town in late February 2004.

But top state officials, including Gov. George Pataki and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, have said same-sex ceremonies violate state law.

"Mayor West stood up for the constitutional rights of people being treated unfairly and unconstitutionally," said West's attorney, E. Joshua Rosenkranz. "If he is wrong about that judgment, of course he will stand trial and we'll pay whatever penalty and he's prepared to do so."

Before making its decision, the state Court of Appeals refused West's request to first hear arguments on the constitutionality of the state's gay marriage ban. West had argued that the high court should take up the issue now because the case was unique, novel and critical to the state.

But Assistant District Attorney Joan Lamb argued that other cases brought by gay couples are already wending through the court system, and those couples have better legal status to contest the law because it affects their own rights, while West was acting as a public official.

In Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit by C. Joseph Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League, to halt gay marriages in the state until the voters could decide on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The vote could happen in November 2006 at the earliest.

The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, became the first to authorize same-sex weddings with its landmark November 2003 ruling. The ruling took effect in May 2004.

Doyle had appealed to the full court after a single justice dismissed his claim last year. Justice Roderick Ireland said same-sex couples shouldn't be denied the right to marry based on the possibility that voters would approve the amendment.

"The single justice was correct and well within his discretion" in denying Doyle's request, the high court wrote Friday.







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From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com  Sat May 28 01:35:30 2005
From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 05:35:30 +0000
Subject: {news} RE: HOUSE VOTES ON IRAQ TROOP WITHDRAWAL (Justine McCabe)
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And here's where they stand:  
http://democracyrising.us/content/view/229/165/

Among the CT delegation, only John Larson voted for the amendment.  Simmons, 
Delauro, Shays, and Johnson all voted against.

David Bedell


----Original Message Follows----
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/052705Zeese/052705zeese.html

             The House votes on withdrawing troops from Iraq: Now we know 
where they stand





From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Sun May 29 06:37:25 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 06:37:25 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: OP-ED published in THE DAY: What American Indians and
	Palestinians Share 
Message-ID: <018c01c5643a$67b36ce0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>


           
                  Featured in Columns & Editorial 

            What Indians And Palestinians Share 
                       
                  
                             Kevin Frayer 
                              Palestinians salvage belongings in the rubble of destroyed buildings and houses in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, in this Oct. 16, 2004 file photo. Amnesty International on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 accused Israeli soldiers operating in the Palestinian territories of committing war crimes, including unlawful killings, torture, destruction of property and targeting medical personnel. The London-based human right's group's report for 2004 also condemned the deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians by Palestinian militants as a crime against humanity. 
                       
                 
            By JUSTINE MCCABE
            Published on 5/29/2005

            Controversy over Indian rights in Connecticut recently intensified when the federal government reversed its recognition of Stonington's Eastern Pequots and Kent-based Schaghticoke tribes. Overall, officials and the public appear pleased. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said, "One reason this is so historic is because no positive recognition decision has been reversed before. This is a first for the nation, which makes it all the more significant and satisfying," according to The Litchfield County Times. 

            Clearly, it's not satisfying for Connecticut's indigenous peoples as their rights and attachment to the land continue to be challenged even centuries after first contact with European settlers. 

            Due-process arguments put into high relief the irony experienced by America's native peoples in obtaining recognition: they must prove they exist. They must demonstrate that their people and cultures actually survived government intentions to eradicate them and seize land on which survival depended. 

            Meanwhile, the original injustice is submerged in a bureaucratic system organized to disavow it: even applying for BIA recognition costs millions, encouraging many tribes to resort to casino investors despite their corruption of traditional native values. Indian participation (let alone success) in this admittedly suspect process arouses only insecurity and hostility among my non-Indian Kent neighbors. Tellingly, references to original dispossession and the enduring traumatic impact of European contact are circumvented. Expressions of collective responsibility or apologies are absent. 

            Most Americans experience a kind of collective denial about our shameful history. Yet its legacy lives dangerously on - not just at home but also in our foreign policy. 

            As Attorney General Blumenthal began challenging Schaghticoke recognition, then-Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas was visiting some of the 400,000 Palestinian refugees in camps in Lebanon, reassuring them that their right to return to their homes in what is now Israel would not be abandoned in future negotiations. 

            There are more than 6 million Palestinian refugees who have been waiting to go home since the 1947-49 Naqba("catastrophe"). Most refugees live within 60 miles of their former homes, some close enough to see and weep for lost orchards and fields. 

            Like America's native peoples, Palestinians bear the burden of proof of their existence and right to their ancestral lands. 

            Possession of keys and deeds, or official registration as refugees with the U.N. haven't succeeded. Neither has international law. In fact, in keeping with several bodies of law, the U.N. explicitly conditioned Israel's 1949 U.N. admittance on its implementation of Resolution 194 affirming Palestinians' inalienable right to return home. Despite this, Israel has refused to allow its native peoples to return. The U.S. has implicitly supported this since the Truman administration.

            Indeed, American Indian dispossession is older than that of the Palestinians. But the same national formative act - and its denial - constitute a significant component of the "special relationship" touted between the U.S. and Israel. This denial begs attention to fully explicate the complacency of American foreign policy in the face of undeniable antipathy toward the U.S. that has only grown since the invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

            Like Americans, Israelis "know" what their own historians have amply documented: Palestinian dispossession is the foundation of their state. Between 1947 and 1949, more than 75 percent of the native population was expelled by Zionist forces that seized their lands for exclusive Jewish-Israeli use. Then, in 1967, 35 percent of the population of Palestinian Gaza and the West Bank were forced out, some made refugees twice in a generation. 

            But for Palestinians and Israelis, this colonial past is present.

            Every day since 1967, the 3.3 million Palestinians in the Occupied Territories continue to experience the post-modern version of manifest destiny: 400,000 Jewish settlers facilitate an ongoing Israeli land grab - 200,000 during the Oslo "peace" period. In the past four years alone, Israel confiscated over 56,000 acres of Palestinian land, razed another 18,000 acres of farmland, uprooted over 1.1 million trees. Over 250 miles of Israeli-only bypass roads and hundreds of checkpoints have created more than 200 disconnected Palestinian reservations. Even if Israel evacuates Gaza, Prime Minister Sharon insists that the huge (illegal) West Bank settlements will stay. His intention is underscored by the soon-to-be-completed "separation" wall, which will seize another 15 percent of West Bank land and leave 600,000 Palestinians in an open-air prison between it and the Green Line.

            Meanwhile, Israel's non-Jewish citizens cannot rent, own or live on "state" lands reserved exclusively for Jews - 93 percent of the country. Under Israel's Law of Return, any Jew born anywhere can immigrate to Israel and become a citizen, yet indigenous refugees cannot go home. 

            Why does Israel continue violating international law? Its answer embraces that historically familiar - but no less ethnocentric - assertion: to maintain its "Jewish" character. Yet even within the Green Line, Israel is now, and has always been, a multicultural land where about 28 percent of its citizens are non-Jews, including at least 20 percent who are Palestinian.

            But to the world's formerly colonized people - the vast majority of the world's population-there's strong identification with the injustice to Palestinians that sustains hostility toward Israel and the U.S., and threatens the security of Americans as well as Israelis. At the deepest psychological level, American Indians and Palestinians bear witness to the fact that human attachment to home and land can neither be dismissed nor divided by politicians with impunity. 

            But it's not too late. Israel has not reached the entrenched U.S. condition that reduced American Indians to less than 1 percent of our population (about a third of whom live on reservations to which they were confined over a century ago). Instead, 78 percent of Jewish-Israelis occupy only 15 percent of the country, making it feasible for Palestinian refugees to return to largely unoccupied land with little displacement of Israelis living there now. Sharing the land is a matter of fairness and international will, not viability. 

            Like the European colonization of America, the colonization of Palestine began with the imperial mindset that particularly flourished in the 19th century. We give Israel billions of dollars annually in aid, weapons and political support to underwrite those 19th-century colonial practices for which, surely, most 21st century Americans and Europeans are ashamed, however much they may want to forget. 

            We cannot return to colonial America to undo the degradation of our own native peoples. But we can act to make sure ethnic cleansing doesn't continue in Palestine, now, in our names and with our money. 

            Justine McCabe, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist and clinical psychologist who lives in New Milford. 
             

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From riverbend2 at earthlink.net  Thu May 19 19:38:17 2005
From: riverbend2 at earthlink.net (John Battista)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 19:38:17 -0400
Subject: {news} Summary of Major Health Care Bills in CT 2005.doc
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Message
 Summary of Major Health Care Bills in 2005
Status as of 05/16/05



Universal Health Care:



HB 6303 Would require CT to establish a single payer health care system ? one something like the Canadian system.  

Status: Heard in Public Health.  Died in Committee.



SB-1147 Would require large employers (100+ employees) to pay a fee to cover their employers if they don?t already.

Status:  Passed out of Labor.  Passed out of Finance Committee with defn of large employer as 5000 full-time employees.  Passed out of Insurance.  Still needs to go to Insurance and Judiciary as written.  May be amended.



SB-1034 Started as the Insurance Committee version of Universal Health Insurance that would cover everybody through tax credits, ?flexible benefits? and health savings accounts.  Changed to allow individuals to buy into the Municipal Employees? Health Insurance Plan.  Still includes ?flexible benefits? 

Status:  Passed out of Insurance and Real Estate Committee.  No fiscal impact to the state.



SB-1353 Started as a large expansion.  Stripped to a full-cost buy-in to the HUSKY program for the uninsured.

Status:  Passed out of Public Health.  Went to Approps.  Died.





Protection and Expansion of Public Programs:



HB-6438 Extends coverage until June30, 2005 for adults over 100% of the federal poverty level who would otherwise have lost coverage April 1, 2005.

Status:  Passed Human Services, Appropriations, the House and the Senate.   



SB-1323 Restores HUSKY coverage for parents and caretaker relatives up to 185% of the federal poverty level.

Status:  Passed out of Human Services.  Died as a separate bill.  Many provisions including HUSKY to 150% in Approps budget



HB-6927  Restores funding and coverage of services such as medical transportation for the State Administered General Assistance Program.

 Status:  Passed out of Human Services.  Died in Approps.  Most provisions not in budget.



Wiser use of resources:



SB 1237 ?Budget neutral? expansion to mental health coverage using the Medicaid? an option used by every state but Connecticut.

Status: Passed out of Public Health and Human Services and Appropriations.



HB-6542 Allows for Medicaid coverage of family planning services.  This coverage has a 90% federal match.

Status:  Passed out of Human Services and  Appropriations.  Passed the House with only one NO vote.



 HB 6880 Establishes a pilot program to provide home care services to disabled persons aged 18-64. 

Status:  Passed out of Human Services.  Went to Appropriations.  Died.



SB 707 Nursing Home Provider Tax ? in both the Governor?s and the Approps budget



Cost Savings:



HB-6655 The Comptroller?s recommended changes to the Municipal Employees? Program expected to save 15% or more on health insurance for small businesses.

Status:  Passed out of Insurance and Real Estate, Labor and Finance. No fiscal impact to the state.



SB-46 Requires various state agencies to consider options for buying prescriptions together in bulk.  The state currently spends about $850 million for all Rx programs.

Status:  Passed out of Public Health and Human Services.  Passed the Senate with 3 No votes.  Sent by the House to the Committee on Legislative Management where it passed.



HB- 6854 UConn School of Pharmacy will do outreach and provide information related to patient assistance programs and discount drug cards of pharmaceutical companies.

Status:  Passed out of General Law, Approps, Public Health and Higher Ed.  Expected cost to state $750,000.



Consumer Protections:



HB 6846  Makes sure ConnPACE and Medicaid recipients are made ?whole? with wrap-around coverage when the new Medicare prescription drug benefit begins.

Status:  Passed out of Human Services, Appropriations, and Public Health.  Will probably be negotiated in the budget.



SB 607  Provides basic consumer protections for enrollees in state programs that require prior authorization through a preferred drug list.

Status:  Passed out of Human Services.  Died in Appropriations.








 



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share their problems and to advise other  callers. 
?Contacto Con El Pueblo? reaches the  Hispanic/Latino population in 
Hartford, New Britain, Newington, Plainville,  Bristol, Southington, Meriden and 
Waterbury, and in Connecticut entirely through  Super Max 990 AM Radio and the Zap 
secondary channel of  WFSB-TV. 
30 Second AD  Spots: 
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75/Month 
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Job Listing  Service: 
$ 5.00 per job, per mention 
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We will do a live program from your office,  business or location. 
$ 250.00 
For advertisement please give Miguel Angel Nieves  a call at 
860-832-8141. 
Contacto Con El Pueblo 
Super Max 990 
3 Constitution Plaza 
Hartford CT 06103
 
 
"Taking Back New Britain"


Miguel Angel Nieves
New Britain Mayoral Candidate
New  Britain Green Party Co-Chairman 

_www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ (http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com/) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen) 
Tel:  (860) 832-8141

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From greenpartyct at sbcglobal.net  Fri May 20 21:14:44 2005
From: greenpartyct at sbcglobal.net (Green Party-CT)
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:14:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: {news} Would anyone like to go to National Meeting of the Green
	Party in Tulsa?
Message-ID: <20050521011444.45300.qmail@web81410.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello Everyone,

The Annual Meeting Committee of the GPUS would like you to fill out 
this survey in regard to the meeting in Tulsa on July 21-24th, 2005.  The 
committee is just trying to get an idea of attendance and food 
preferences and other ideas people may have.

Please visit the link below to fill out the survey.  We appreciate your 
extra time, it should only take a couple of minutes.  Please note this 
is not a registration form, it is only a survey.  Please also send this 
to your state and local lists.

Thanks,

The ANC

http://gp.org/forms/tulsa/






      THE GREEN PARTY OF CONNECTICUT is the third largest political party in CT. The Greens are also the third largest political party in the US, with 220 Greens officeholders in 27 states. Over 80 countries in world have Green Parties. Wangari Maathai, the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is Kenya's assistant minister for environment and an elected Green Party member.
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From Ehscouts at aol.com  Sat May 21 18:30:32 2005
From: Ehscouts at aol.com (Ehscouts at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 18:30:32 EDT
Subject: {news} Taking Back New Britain Continues
Message-ID: <d7.26ffe631.2fc11088@aol.com>

Hello
 
I want to give thanks to all of you that came out today and walk with me. I  
appreciate the Green Party support. The fight on taking back New Britain is 
not  easy but together we can do it. We can take back New Britain. The people in 
this  City is starting to realize that is time to say NO to the professional 
politics.  Please sign up today to continue our walk. On June 4th we will be 
knocking on  every door in the Community between Osgood Avenue and Nelson 
Street. We need  more people to join our effort. We will be meeting in the corner 
of Slater Road  and Osgood Ave at 2:00pm. If you are interested in walking with 
me please give  me a call at 860-832-8141. 
 
Please write to Newspapers and to your contact list and let them know about  
our effort and that we are taking back New Britain. Thank you!
 
 
"Taking Back New Britain"


Miguel Angel Nieves
New Britain Mayoral Candidate
New  Britain Green Party Co-Chairman 

_www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ (http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com/) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen) 
Tel:  (860) 832-8141

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From riverbend2 at earthlink.net  Wed May 25 14:59:09 2005
From: riverbend2 at earthlink.net (John Battista)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:59:09 -0400
Subject: {news} A little help needed in Connecticut on Bolton.
Message-ID: <000d01c5615b$d743f340$1102a8c0@newm2.ct.charter.com>




      Connecticut activists can really turn the tide for the final vote on Bolton!

      We are coming down to the wire on preventing John Bolton, a long time opponent of the UN, from becoming the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  I wanted to personally ask for your help -- one last time -- in this incredibly close contest.  

      As you probably know Bolton's confirmation was sent to the Senate Floor by the Foreign Relations Committee without their recommendation.  We are expecting a vote any time now.  I've listed below where we believe your senators stand on the Bolton confirmation, who their foreign relations staffers are, and a phone number to contact them. You can make a huge difference by calling the staffers and giving them the simple messages below.  This is much more powerful than leaving a message at the front desk.  (You might want to confirm with the receptionist that the staffer still handles foreign policy as Senate staff often turns over quicker than we can keep up with.)

      Senator Dodd opposes the Bolton nomination and has worked hard on the Foreign Relations Committee to show why Mr. Bolton is the wrong man to send to the United Nations.  Please call 202-224-2823 and ask for Senator Dodd's foreign policy staffer, Janice O'Connell.  Let Janice know that you appreciate Senator Dodd's opposition and urge him to talk with colleagues about the vote.  

      Senator Lieberman has not made public his position on the Bolton nomination.  Please call 202-224-4041 and ask for Senator Lieberman's foreign policy staffer, Fred Downey.  Let Fred know that you urge the Senator to oppose Bolton and ask if there is any particular information that would help Senator Lieberman to do so.

      Leaving a voice mail is ok.  If you learn any new information, please let me know by replying to this email.

      In addition (this is real important) if you know of any way (or anyone) who can communicate directly with any of the senators who support Bolton or are undecided, please let me know.  We want to leave no stone unturned at this late date.

      This battle will be won or lost by only a few votes, so your efforts really can make a difference.  Thank you so much.

      In Peace,

      Don Kraus

      PS  Please feel free to forward this friends and family.  If they live in another state, I'll be glad to let them know their senators' positions if they are willing to make calls. 

      +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
      Mr. Don Kraus
      Executive Vice President
      Citizens for Global Solutions
      418 Seventh Street, S.E.
      Washington, DC 20003
      202 546 3950 ext. 103
      202 546 3749 (f)
      http://www.globalsolutions.org/
      ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 

       
     


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From greenpartyct at sbcglobal.net  Fri May 27 11:06:22 2005
From: greenpartyct at sbcglobal.net (Green Party-CT)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:06:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: {news} Wisconsin Greens seek referendum on US troop withdrawal
Message-ID: <20050527150622.70193.qmail@web81402.mail.yahoo.com>



Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at yahoo.com> wrote:From: Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at yahoo.com>
To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org, media-states at lists.gp-us.org,
organize at lists.votecobb.org, lavender-caucus at green.gpus.org
Subject: [media-states] RELEASE Wisconsin Greens seek referendum on US troop withdrawal
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:55:57 -0700 (PDT)

Wisconsin Green Party
http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25th, 2005

Contact: Jeff Peterson, Campaign Coordinator,
Referendum on Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
715.472.2728
Jill Bussiere, Co-Chair, Wisconsin Green Party
920.388.0529, cell - 920.255.2175,
jdt at wisconsingreenparty.org


Greens Launch Effort for Referendum on Troop
Withdrawal


The Wisconsin Green Party announced today that it
will work with citizens across the state to place
an advisory referendum on as many local ballots
as possible in next spring's election asking
voters the question, "Should the United States
begin an immediate, phased withdrawal of its
troops from Iraq?"

Jeff Peterson, of Luck, will coordinate the
various efforts around the state, most of which
will involve convincing county boards to give
their constituents the opportunity to weigh in on
the war. "We intentionally crafted a referendum
that is neutral in its language," said Peterson.
"We?re not trying to put local elected officials
on the spot by forcing them to take a stand on
the war. We just think that, after two years, it
would be the democratic thing to do to allow
average citizens to weigh in on the Iraq
situation."

Peterson, who was the Green Party's candidate for
lieutenant governor in 2004, said he expects the
idea of a voter referendum to receive an
enthusiastic response not only from local Green
Party chapters, but also from the informal
network of peace and justice groups that have
sprung up around the state in recent years. They
will also reach out, he said, to families with
loved ones in the military.

Wisconsin law permits statewide referenda of an
advisory nature, but only with the legislature's
approval. Because that can be difficult, many
referenda questions are submitted at the county
level. In last April's election, for example, the
Wisconsin Counties Association succeeded in
getting two questions regarding state funding of
court and social service systems on the ballot in
almost every county. Both questions passed
overwhelmingly.

Cities and villages may also vote to put
referenda on their ballots; they are obliged to
do so when presented with petitions containing
signatures totalling 15% of the vote for governor
in the last election.

Wisconsin Green Party Co-Chair Jill Bussiere of
Kewaunee thinks people are ready to have a say on
the war. "We've had countless vigils and marches
and protests," she said, "but too often they go
unreported by the media. I think if the majority
of those voting next April 4 vote in favor of
withdrawing our troops from Iraq, that will send
a strong message to our national elected
representatives in Washington."

While their proposed referendum may be worded in
neutral language, the Green Party is anything but
neutral on issues of war and peace. One of what
they call their "key values" is nonviolence, and
Greens were among the earliest and most outspoken
critics of the Bush administration's decision to
invade Iraq. And while theirs may have been the
minority view two years ago, Bussiere says she
thinks people are growing weary of a war that
appears as if it has no end.

"There are still some people who think that, to
support the troops, you have to support the war,
too," she said. "I think the best way to show
support for our troops is to make every effort to
bring them home as soon as possible."


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From greenpartyct at earthlink.net  Fri May 27 17:46:48 2005
From: greenpartyct at earthlink.net (TollandCountyChapter Green Party of Connecticut)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:46:48 -0400
Subject: {news} Skill Share Gathering in Hartford this weekend sponsored by
 Outgrowing Capitalism
Message-ID: <p06110406bebd41318202@[192.168.1.101]>


www.OutgrowingCapitalism.org

For immediate release May 24, 2005
	                                                                          
For more information, please contact David Rozza at 860-978-3562
	              

Hartford-On Friday, May 27th, the Outgrowing Capitalism: A Gathering 
of Existing Structures; Northeast Mutual Aid, Food Not Bombs, 
Independent Media Centers, and more SkillShare Gathering will take 
place at ArtSpace Hartford (555 Asylum Street). Activists from around 
the country will gather for over a dozen "Do it yourself" workshops 
such as Counter Recruitment in response to aggressive armed forces' 
recruitment tactics of students, Starting A Newspaper, and Street 
Theater.  "We are expecting a huge turnout and we're very excited 
that Hartford's strong activist community can come together to create 
this event," says Dave Rozza, a participant in the gathering, "People 
are tired of corporate domination in our culture, and we hope that 
this skillshare will serve as a catalyst for change. Another world is 
possible, right now!"   

The weekend will kick off on Friday with a Critical Mass bike ride 
departing from Bushnell Park and will lead into an open mic session 
at ArtSpace.  Saturday will be a day of workshops followed by a 
radical walking tour of Hartford and a "Punk Rock Prom" with bands 
such as Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains and Tom Frampton

The Outgrowing Capitalism schedule in Hartford is as follows:

Friday, May 27th

4:30 Meet up at ArtSpace/Bushnell Park by the carousel.  Critical 
Mass bike ride.

9:00 Open mic/Open Art Show

Saturday, May 28th

10:45 to 5:30 Workshops

(Meet at 10 a.m.  for  Urban Gardening/Composting  to plan some 
gardening projects)

10:45 - 11:45 AM
*Urban Gardening and Composting
* Social Manipulation-Every Day Stereotypes
* Radical Menstruation
* Mutual Aid
* Beer and Wine Making

12:00 - 1:00 PM
* Radical Cheerleading
* Avoid Getting Locked Out: You Don't Have to Call a Locksmith
* Parenting on the Fringe: Free School and Alternatives to
Conventional Education and more
* Start an FNB, Critical Mass, etc. in your Community: How to
Dumpster Dive like a Pro
* How to get the press to print what you want them to. (Ralph)


1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM Food Not Bombs in Bushnell park by the carousel

2:15 - 3:45 PM
* Self Defense
* DIY Fashion, Jewelry Making, and Hairdressing
* Propaganda
* Eco-Feminist View of Belly Dance
* Street Theater workshop with the Hartbeat Ensemble
http://www.hartbeatensemble.org/


4:00 - 5:30 PM
* Counter Recruitment with Latinos Contra La Guerra
* Silk-screening
* Cob Workshop for Kids
* Start Your Own Newspaper



5:30 to 8:00  Radical walking tour of Hartford

8:00 Punk Rock Prom Bands include: Johnny Hobo and the Freight 
Trains, Jack Off Jerk Off,  Frigface, Kenesaw, Mantits, f-thndr, Tom 
Frampton, Ryan Harvey, and more

Sunday, May 30th

10:30 Radical walking tour of Hartford

12:00  Organizing Resistance Discussion
A roundtable, consensus based discussion to discuss our strengths and 
weaknesses as a force of tangible resistance against the oppressive 
system of capitalism (war, coercion, etc.) 

3:00 Food Not Bombs serving in Bushnell park by the carousel/street 
theater presentation





-30-

-- 
Karin L. Norton-O'Connor
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From justinemccabe at earthlink.net  Mon May 30 09:20:19 2005
From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 09:20:19 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT What France's rejection of the Euro Constitution
	means (Doug Ireland)
Message-ID: <039901c5651a$5432af10$0402a8c0@JUSTINE>

FYI.  See mention of French Greens below.

BTW, I recently met Swedish Green MP Lotte Hedstrom who was in NY 
representing her country at the nuclear non-proliferation meetings. (NY 
Green Julia Willebrand, co-chair of the GPUS International Committee hosted 
a potluck for IC members and NY Greens to meet Lotte). Lotte and the Swedish 
Greens voted against the European Constitution which the European Green 
Party did pass by a very slim vote.  Accordingly to Lotte, this issue 
highlights the ongoing/frequent tension between European Green Party members 
and Greens elected to government who then must work in coalition.  For 
example, she said that the significant opposition by European Green party 
members to passing the Constitution in its current form was overwhelmed at 
the Euro Greens meeting by a push for a "yes" vote particularly by Germany's 
Green Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer (among others).

Justine


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott McLarty" <scottmclarty at yahoo.com>
To: <usgp-media at gp-us.org>; <usgp-int at gp-us.org>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 3:26 AM
Subject: USGP-INT What France's rejection of the Euro Constitution means 
(Doug Ireland)


A POLITICAL REVOLT IN FRANCE -- What Rejection of
 the European Constitution Means (Updated)

 DIRELAND [Journalist Doug Ireland's web log]
 May 29, 2005
 http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/05/the_massive_def.html


 The massive defeat of the new European
 Constitution by the French in today's referendum
 means a virtual political revolution in France --
 a rebellion by the people against the political
 elites of both left and right. The No vote won by
 a wide margin of nearly ten points -- the latest
 figures show 54.87% for the No, 45.13% for the
 Yes. Despite an overwhelming campaign for a Yes
 vote by the mainstream French media (including a
 major pro-Yes bias in TV coverage), and tireless
 stumping for a Yes vote by nearly all the major
 political leaders of left, right, and center -- 
 a scare campaign that tried to (falsely) tell the
 overwhelmingly pro-European French that they
 would be responsible for destroying construction
 of a united Europe if they voted against this
 anti-democratic Constitution -- the French
 electorate's working and middle classes, by their
 No vote, rejected the unregulated free-market
 policies, aimed at destroying the welfare state
 and the social safety net, embodied in the
 Constitution. (see my earlier analysis, "The New
 European Constitution: Should Americans Care?"
 <http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/04/the_new_europea.html>)

 Today's vote confirms the enormous gap between
 what the French call "La France d'en haut et la
 France d'en bas" -- the France of above and the
 France of below. And this rejection of France's
 political and media elites will bring
 extraordinary changes to the country's political
 landscape:

 1. President Jacques Chirac, who called for this
 referendum (rather than letting parliament alone
 ratify it and bypass the voters, as German
 Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder did), has taken a
 slap in the face from which he cannot recover
 before the presidential elections of 2007. Right
 after his two, carefully staged, prime-time TV
 appearances to campaign for a Yes vote, the No
 went up several points in the polls each time.
 Not only is he incredibly enfeebled on the
 European and world stages, it will now be
 quasi-impossible for Chirac to seek a third
 presidential term -- and he won't run again, as
 my friend Claude Angeli (editor of the
 investigative-satirical weekly Le Canard
 Enchaine, dean of French investigative
 journalists, and author of numerous authoritative
 insider books on Chirac) just told me from Paris
 on the phone as the results of the referendum
 became known.

 (Angeli also has the view -- as I do -- that, had
 it not been for the extraordinary beating of the
 drums for the Yes by the mainstream media, the No
 vote would have been even larger. For example,
 when the largest newsweekly, the mildly-left
 Nouvel Observateur, ran a cover photo of a
 finger-ponting, respected former European
 Commission president Jacques Delors, with the
 demagogic headline against the No, "THEY'RE LYING
 TO YOU!'' the mag's editor, Laurent Jofrin,
 rewrote and deformed Delors' words to strenghen
 their anti-No content -- much to the dismay of
 much of the magazine's editorial staff, which was
 quite divided on the referendum. As a result,
 Delors felt obliged to make a much-publicized
 declaration that -- contrary to what the Nouvel
 Obs' article made him say -- there was a "Plan
 B," a way forward toward a more united Europe
 even if the Constitution was defeated. This
 Delors turnabout was a major media victory for
 the No forces, and it helped persuade a lot of
 moderate and left voters that they were, indeed,
 being lied to -- but by the Yes camp and the
 media.)

 2. Today's vote means that the presidential
 candidate of the right in two years will be, not
 Chirac, but Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious
 chairman of the conservative UMP party. In a
 televised declaration broadcast just after the
 exit poll results were announced that had the
 accents of a presidential campaign speech,
 Sarkozy said that there must now be a "rupture"
 with the French economic and social model -- by
 which he means a break with the mixed economy,
 and more ultra-conservative, deregulatory
 economic and social policies than Chirac has been
 willing to adopt. Just a few days before the
 vote, Sarkozy was called "an American" by the
 head of the center-right UDF party in Chirac's
 conservative coalition, Francois Bayrou, for
 Sarkozy's support of Bush's war in Iraq and
 hard-right economic policies that also resemble
 Bush's.  But Sarkozy (seen at right as his puppet
 character on the satirical TV show "Les
 Guignols"), who has led every public opinion poll
 as the presidential choice of the French for the
 last two years, is being weakened by the marital
 scandal which is engulfing him (see my earlier
 article, "Is France's 'Future President' In
 Trouble? Nicolas Sarkozy Faces a Crisis."
 <http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/05/frances_future_.html>)

 3. Chirac will immediately change his prime
 minister, fire the highly unpopular incumbent
 Jean-Pierre Raffarin (whose popularity in the
 polls is only in the low 20s) -- and, my friend
 Angeli just told me, the new prime minister will
 be ex-Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin (the
 voice of France at the UN against the Iraq war),
 who is currently Interior Minister -- despite a
 lot of pressue from the ranks of Chirac's
 parliamentary party to name Sarkozy. (Tomorrow's
 Le Monde is also now reporting that De Villepin
 "appears to be" the next p.m.) De Villepin, an
 aristocrat who is Chirac's former chief of staff,
 is seen by Chirac as the best  hope of defeating
 Sarkozy as the right's candidate in the coming
 presidential elections. But de Villepin has never
 been elected to anything and has never faced the
 voters -- and his less than lustrous performance
 as Interior Minister, where Chirac placed him to
 give him a public profile on domestic policy as a
 law-and order champion (in the ministry where
 previously Sarkozy had cemented his reputation
 with repressive law-and-order, anti-immigrant
 policies) has not exactly done de Villepin much
 good with the electorate (especially by
 comparison with his predecessor, Sarkozy).

 4. The political revolution flowing from today's
 vote encompasses the French left. The Socialist
 Party's top leaders -- including its chief,
 Francois Hollande (see photo at left) , and
 former Mitterand Culture Minister Jacques Lang
 (the most popular left pol in the opinion polls,
 thanks to his incessant TV appearances (see photo
 at right) -- campaigned for a Yes vote. But the
 Socialist electorate, the exit polls showed,
 voted hugely for the No by 56-44%. Even though
 the uncharismatic Hollande has control of the
 Socialist Party apparatus (at least for the
 moment), it will now be very difficult for him to
 be his party's standard-bearer in '07, and Le
 Canard Enchaine's Angeli told me this afternoon
 he thinks Hollande's presidential ambitions
 cannot recover from today's
 revolt-from-the-bottom of the left electorate.

 The Socialist Party's left wing, led by member of
 parliament Henri Emmanuelli (a former party
 chief-- see photo at right)  and Senator Jean-Luc
 Melanchon, leaders of the "Nouveau Monde"
 tendency within the party -- who campaigned hard
 for the No against the wishes of their party's
 executive committee -- finds itself reinforced by
 today's vote. But neither Emmanuelli nor
 Melanchon have the "heft" of a serious
 presidential candidate.

 Their ally in the campaign for the No vote -- a
 former Socialist Prime Minister under Francois
 Mitterand, Laurent Fabius, who was the target of
 constant barbs from Hollande and the Socialist
 leadership during the referendum campaign for
 breaking party "unity" -- is also reinforced. But
 Fabius is best remembered in France as the prime
 minister who carried out Mitterand's break with
 socialist economics to embrace a free-market
 program of austerity and privatization in 1982  -
 and it is precisely that sort of economics which,
 the exit polls show, French voters (and
 particularly the left electorate) have rejected
 today. Fabius' campaign for the No was widely
 perceived as political opportunism designed to
 enhance his presidential ambitions -- and, while
 he has the "stature" of a possible president,
 it's hard to see him eliciting much enthusiasm
 from "La France d'en bas" and the traditional
 left electorate.

 5. Today's vote also is a victory for what is
 known as "the left of the left" --  there was a
 united and coordinated campaign for the No vote
 by the Trotskyist LCR (Revolutionary Communist
 League), and its popular, media-charismatic
 spokesman Olivier Besancenot, a young postman who
 was the party's presidential candidate in 2002
 (see photo at right) ;  by the French Communist
 Party, led by its general secretary,
 Marie-Georges Buffet, a former Minister of Sports
 and Youth in a coalition government with the
 Socialists; and by the large "associative left"
 of extra-party social movements and groups, like
 the anti-globalization ATTAC, and the leader of
 the Confederation paysanne, the popular Jose Bove
 (photo left) , who is appreciated by left
 militants of all stripes. Even a significant
 segment of gay and lesbian leadership issued a
 gay manifesto for the No, arguing the
Constitution would be bad for LGBT people. The
smaller, hardline, ultra-sectarian Trotskyist
group Lutte Ouvriere (Workers' Struggle), led by
 its perennial presidential candidate Arlette
 Laguiller, also urged a No vote--but did not join
 the coordinated campaign by the "left of the
 left."

 There have been discussions and proposals about
 uniting the "left of the left" in a single
 electoral formation ever since the presidential
 elections of 2002, when the surprisingly large
 protest vote for the two Trotskyist candidates by
 defecting Socialist and Communist voters caused
 the defeat of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel
 Jospin's presidential candidacy for a place in
 the runoff, in which he was displaced by
 neo-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen. Now, with the
 momentum from their successful campaign for the
 No, the "left of the left" may well finally
 achieve that organizational unity for the 2007
 presidential campaign that has long been talked
 about -- and with the probable participation of
 the decimated Communists (now less than 3.5% of
 the electorate), who used to be part of the
 "governing left" coalition led by the Socialists,
 and which included the Greens. The faction-ridden
Greens, by the way, were sharply divided over the
European Constitution, although the party
supported a Yes vote by a narrow majority -- and
today's vote will likely provoke a new internal
debate that could lead to a rejection of the
current Green leadership over the issue of
whether or not the Greens should join an
electoral coalition of the "left of the left."
And it is not entirely out of the question that
some elements of the Socialist Party's left wing
-- particularly Melanchon's faction -- could
split from the Socialists and join that
coalition. There will certainly be an emergency
Socialist Party Congress called in the wake of
> today's vote, which disavowed the Pary's adopted
Yes position -- the party's left wing includes
the moderate-left, process-oriented Nouveau Parti
Socialiste tendency led by the hyperambitious
deputy Arnaud Montebourg (photo right), which
favors a new French Constitution for a VIth
Republic, and was also for the No but much less
active in campaigning -- and Montebourg will
undoubtedly join the Emmanuelli-Melanchon group,
which led the campaign for a "Non socialiste," in
challenging the current leadership of the party's
"elephants," as the old guard in power are known.

Finally, today's vote in France is a good thing
for those who oppose the American imperium. Under
the Constitution -- which sets in concrete a
united Europe's subordination in military and
security policy to NATO -- it would take a
unanimous vote by every single one of the
European Union's 25 countries to adopt a foreign
policy position similar to the Franco-German
opposition to Bush's war in Iraq. Moreover, any
EU country that is a member of the UN Security
Council (like France -- or, as in a proposed
future enlargement of the Security Council,
Germany) would be hobbled in its ability to take
an anti-Washington position without consensus
approval by all the EU countries as represented
in the (un-elected) EU Commission headquartered
in Brussels.

So, I couldn't be happier with today's rejection
of the European Constitution by the French
electorate. If Germany's voters had been given a
choice in a referendum, they would probably have
voted No as well. However, in the Netherlands --
where polls are also showing the No winning in a
referendum to be held there in three days -- the
Dutch will probably join the popular movement of
refusal of a Europe constructed for the benefit
of the multinational corporations. Get out the
champagne!

 Posted by Doug Ireland at 06:44 PM





From riverbend2 at earthlink.net  Mon May 30 11:55:53 2005
From: riverbend2 at earthlink.net (John Battista)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 11:55:53 -0400
Subject: {news} Wisconsin Greens call for corruption investigation of
	governor, legislators
Message-ID: <012e01c56530$10d41fe0$1102a8c0@newm2.ct.charter.com>



The Democratic governor and the Republican legislature flouted state clean
government laws in Wisconsin.  The Wisconsin Green Party is going after
them. Green Party Alderman King has written a formal complaint.  Read all
about it below:
>
>  - - - - - -
>
> 1. Ald. King's complaint letter:
>    http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=37764
>
> 2. Accompanying Wisconsin Green Party press release:
>    http://wisconsingreenparty.org/blogs/WIGPnews/archives/000409.shtml
>
> 3. Capital Times coverage (articles have appeared in many other
> newspapers as well):
>    http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=41673&ntpid=0
>
> WISCONSIN GREEN PARTY
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                        May 27th, 2005
>
> Contact:
> Ald. Austin King, Madison Common Council
> Ben Manski
> Jill Bussiere, Co-Chair, WI Green Party
>
> Complaint filed against Gard, Schultz, Doyle, and others for felony
> logrolling violations
> Wisconsin Green Party calls for a thorough investigation and punishment
>
> (Madison) - Madison Ald. Austin King today filed the attached nine-page
> complaint with Attorney General Peggy Lautenschlager, along with a
mountain
> of evidence described in the letter.  The letter accuses Assembly Speaker
> Gard, Senate Majority Leader Schultz, and Governor Doyle of having a quid
> pro quo agreement whereby Governor Doyle would sign the municipal minimum
> wage preemption bill, AB 49, in exchange for legislative acceptance of a
DWD
> rule increasing the state minimum wage.  Such backroom dealing is a direct
> violation of Wisconsin State Statutes 13.06, which classifies the
commission
> of such an act as a Class I Felony.  The Wisconsin Green Party supports
Ald.
> King's actions, and is calling for a thorough investigation of his
> allegations, along with the effective punishment of any state elected
> officials who broke the law.
>
> "The deal worked out between Doyle, Gard, and Schultz isn't just bad for
> low-wage workers, it's illegal.  It's clear that Wisconsin Manufacturers
and
> Commerce brokered a deal between the Governor and the Republican
leadership,
> and it's time for Wisconsin's Attorney General to clean house," said Jill
> Busierre, Co-Chair of the Wisconsin Green Party.
>
> Wisconsin's anti-logrolling statutes were the work of the progressive
> leadership in the 1911 Wisconsin State Legislature, which also passed the
> first workers' compensation law in this country, the first workable income
> tax in the country, a state life insurance program, legislation that aided
> farm cooperatives and agricultural education, and a corrupt practices act
> that was designed to clean up political activity, among other things.
> Wisconsin's heralded Home Rule statutes and constitutional amendments soon
> followed.  The Wisconsin Green Party, as a direct descendent of the
> independent progressive political movements of the teens, twenties, and
> thirties, calls for the enforcement of Wisconsin's progressive-era clean
> government laws.
>
> "The State Capitol, Fighting Bob LaFollette's 'Temple of Democracy,' needs
a
> cleaning once again," said Ben Manski, a longtime Wisconsin Green Party
> activist.  "The burden is on the Attorney General to take up that charge
and
> work with reformers to make Wisconsin government transparent and
accountable
> once again."
>
> Ald. King is one of three Greens serving on the Madison Common Council,
and
> one of eighteen Greens serving in elected office in Wisconsin today.
>
> The Wisconsin Green Party is affiliated with the Green Party of the United
> States, and stands on the four pillars of Social & Economic Justice,
> Grassroots Democracy, Nonviolence, and Ecological Wisdom.  For more
> information, visit http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org .  The Green Party
of
> the United States' website is http://www.gp.org .
> # # #
>
> _______________________________________________
>




From riverbend2 at earthlink.net  Mon May 30 12:18:49 2005
From: riverbend2 at earthlink.net (John Battista)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 12:18:49 -0400
Subject: {news} Conyers needs 100,
	000 to sign letter on Downing Street memo [please sign petition)
Message-ID: <019c01c56533$451d1b00$1102a8c0@newm2.ct.charter.com>

MessageYou may sign the petition by clicking on "viewable here" below.
Congressman seeks 100,000 to sign letter on Downing Street memo inquiry
RAW STORY 

A Michigan congressman has decided to take his case for an Iraq inquiry to the people. 

Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) seeks to amass 100,000 signatures from U.S. citizens calling on President Bush for more answers about a 2002 meeting during which a senior British official said intelligence was "being fixed" to present a case for the Iraq war, RAW STORY has learned.

The congressman's office says Conyers hopes to present the letter to the President in person, in what may be a media event; they believe the letter could have a "viral effect" and spark new interest in the steps taken by the Bush Administration in the run-up to the Iraq war and the so-called "Downing Street Memo."

The memo, official minutes of a 2002 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair, members of British intelligence MI-6 and various members of the Bush administration, noted that MI-6 director Richard Dearlove said, Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.

The following was posted on the Congressman's website; the petition is viewable here.

Conyers and eighty-eight other members of Congress issued a letter to the White House on May 5 requesting an explanation and answers to questions about whether the President misled Congress into voting for the Iraq war.

The White House has ignored the letter. 

White House press secretary Scott said he had no need to respond, according to the New York Times.

Conyers has indicated that he may send a delegation to London to further investigate the memo.

###

First, the memo appears to directly contradict the Administration's assertions to Congress and the American people that it would exhaust all options before going to war. According to the minutes, in July 2002, the Administration had already decided to go to war against Iraq.

Second, a debate has raged in the United States over the last year and one half about whether the obviously flawed intelligence that falsely stated that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction was a mere "failure" or the result of intentional manipulation to reach foreordained conclusions supporting the case for war. The memo appears to close the case on that issue stating that in the United States the intelligence and facts were being "fixed" around the decision to go to war.

These are not routine questions within a partisan give and take. Under the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8), the Congress has the sole power to declare war. If the Executive Branch deceives the Congress in this duty, it represents an attack of our democracy of the most serious nature. These Constitutional questions are not going away and must be answered forthrightly and completely by this Administration.

I and 88 of my colleagues (that number is growing - more on that soon) asked the Administration to come clean about these troubling allegations. Our inquiries have been met with silence.

The press has also been negligent is giving this matter the attention it deserves.

I am committed to seeing this through until we get the answers we deserve. But I need your help.

The conventional wisdom, which unfortunately governs Washington's political discourse, hold that the American people have long ago made peace with the mistakes or deceptions which led us into war. Help me prove them all wrong. I want to show the White House, the Press and my congressional colleagues that nothing could be further from the truth.

That is why today I am giving you the opportunity to sign on to a letter asking the same questions of the President that now nearly 100 Members of Congress have asked. If I get at least 100,000 signatures on this, I will personally deliver the letter to the White House.

If you want to sign on to this letter, go to my website ( www.johnconyers.com).

I also want you to know that I am exploring many, many avenues to get to the truth about this matter.

Thank you in advance for your help and assistance.
http://rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_petition_downing_street_527 







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From edubrule at sbcglobal.net  Mon May 30 19:40:55 2005
From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 19:40:55 -0400
Subject: {news} agenda/location of May SCC meeting
Message-ID: <001301c56571$b32392d0$5ed7f504@edgn2b574u14bi>

 

Agenda:  May 31, 2005 SCC meeting

 

  TTiTime:  7 to 9pm

 

Lo Location: Portland Library

 

Directions:

>From library's website:  Via Route 72 Eastbound from New Britain: At Exit 22, turn on to Route 9 South. ** Turn right at traffic light in Middletown beneath the Arrigoni Bridge. At the traffic light, turn right on to Route 66. Cross bridge to Portland. Turn right at the second traffic light on to Freestone Avenue. Turn left in to Library's drive.

 

Via Route 66 Eastbound from Meriden: After crossing the Arrigoni Bridge, Turn right at the second traffic light on to Freestone Avenue. Turn left in to Library's drive.

 

Via Route 2 Westbound from Norwich: In Colchester, take Route 16 West to Route 66 in Cobalt. After you cross the railroad tracks in Portland, turn right on to Cross Street. Go one block. Turn Left on to Freestone Avenue. The library is three blocks on the right.


Via I-91 Southbound from Hartford: In Cromwell, take left exit (22S) on to Route 9. Follow directions from ** above.


Via Route 9 Northbound from Old Saybrook: Turn left at traffic light in Middletown beneath the Arrigoni Bridge. At the traffic light, turn right on to Route 66. Cross bridge to Portland. Turn right at the second traffic light on to Freestone Avenue. Turn left in to Library's drive.

 

[from www.portland.lib.ct.us/directions.htm;  map at www.portland.lib.ct.us/directionsmap.htm]

 

>From looking at a map:

The library is on Freestone Ave.

     If crossing the Arrigoni Bridge across the Connecticut River (coming from Middletown), you end up going north on Main St. (Route 17A) in Portland and you will soon see Route 66/Route 17 on your right.  Do not  turn right onto Route 66/Route 17;  instead go one block further and you'll see Freestone Ave. on your right.  The library is on Freestone Ave.

     Coming west on Route 66 in Portland, you'll come to the intersection of Route 17 with Route 66.  As you continue west, you are then travelling on both Routes 66 and Route 17.  Keep going on Route 66/Route 17 until you reach Route 17A (Main St.)  Take a right onto Route 17A/Main St and go one block;  turn right onto Freestone Ave.  

  

Fa  Facilitator:   Thomas Sevigny

 

A.   P A. Preliminaries:

1. (2 minutes): Introductions/identify chapters, recruit timekeeper & stacker.

2. (1 minute): Identify people present who are NOT voting reps.

3. (1 minute): Adopt ground rules.

4. (2 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, additions & deletions

5. (2 minutes): Comments and approval of April 2005's SCC minutes.

6. (10 minutes): Presentation of Treasurer's report.

7. (30 minutes): Guest speaker slot (Ralph Morelli, True Vote Connecticut Coalition)

8. (60 minutes): Presentation/discussion of a restructuring plan & goals: 2005-2006

 

B.    RB. Reports:

1.     Chapter reports: (2 minutes each).

2.     Internal Elections Committee: (10 minutes).

3.     U.S. Green Party representative report: where we are: past/present and

future (15 minutes).

4.     V.O.T.E.R. report from Mike DeRosa: (5minutes).

5.     Legislative report from Mike DeRosa: (5 minutes).

6.     Report from the 5-23-05 EC meeting from officers: (2 minutes). 

 

 C.   Announcements
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From capeconn at comcast.net  Mon May 30 20:00:47 2005
From: capeconn at comcast.net (Tom Sevigny)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 20:00:47 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-coo] National Vision Survey
Message-ID: <00dc01c56573$cce4d380$a3970218@sevigny8wcbjrd>

CT GREENS,

Please take the time to fill out this survey.  We need as much input as
possible.

Thanks,

Tom

> Looking To The Future - The Green Party 2005 National Shared
> Vision Survey!
>
> The good folks that represent you on the National
> Committee (NC) of the Green Party understand that organizations and
> campaigns are successful because of careful planning and
> effective organizing
>
> This winter, the NC called for the formation of a Strategic Planning
> Working Group, which has nine members and two advisors. This
> working group has designed a survey that will provide the
> information needed to create a shared vision and long -range plan
> for our party.  We'll be unveiling the results of this survey at the
> National Committee meeting in Tulsa on July 23rd.
>
> We need as many Greens as possible to take this survey between
> now and June 19!  Please tell us what you want, and see, for the
> Green Party five, ten, twenty years from now. Give yourself at
> Least 30 minutes to fill out the online survey form.
>
> Here's the link: http://www.gp.org/survey/
>
> If you have any questions or problems, contact us at:
> survey at gp.org
>
> Thanks in advance for participating in this important process!
>
> Peace,
>
> Members of the Strategic Planning Working Group:
>
> Karen Young  IL   karen.young at rcn.com
> Starlene Rankin  Lavender Caucus   starlene at greens.org
> Brent McMillan  DC   brent at gp.org
> Christopher Fink VA  verdicorps at adelphia.net
> Jeff Turner  HI  emerald at konacoast.com
> Brian Lutenegger WI  brian.lutenegger at gmail.com
> Tom Sevigny CT  capeconn at comcast.net
> Jason Jones LA  Polytyk at aol.com (liaison to Annual Meeting Com)
> Rosalie Donatelli NJ pelog4 at aol.com
>
> Advisors:
>
> Jeff Sutter  IN  jsutter at igc.org
> Gray Newman  NC dibloc at aol.com  (liaison to Officeholders)
>
> * We'd like to give a special thanks to the Green Codeweavers for
> all their help!
>
>
>
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> To send a message to the list, write to:
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> To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to:
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>
> If your state delegation changes, please see:
> http://gp.org/committees/cc/documents/delegate_change.html
>
> For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see:
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From Ehscouts at aol.com  Mon May 30 22:45:02 2005
From: Ehscouts at aol.com (Ehscouts at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 02:45:02 -0000
Subject: {news} Please Re-Schedule
Message-ID: <90.5ed55d1c.2fcd26e4@aol.com>

Hello Team
The Taking Back New Britain walk schedule for June 4th has been cancelled  
the new date is June 12 at 2:00 pm. Please remember that our monthly meeting is  
on schedule for June 6 at 7:00 pm. The new campaign flyer is as follow and it 
 will have Miguel Angel Nieves picture. Also Miguel officialy turns 40  
tomorrow May 31st.
 
Say No! To The Professionals  Politicians 
Vote Nieves For  Mayor 
 
Taking Back New  Britain


Miguel Angel Nieves And No Body  Else

_www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ (http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com/)  
Tel: 860-832-8141 

Nieves is here to put New Britain back to work and live  up to the value of 
our City. I intend to fight for the middle-income class, I  intend to fight for 
the low-income class, I intend to fight for the people that  are getting 
squashed, and I intend to create more and better community services  for seniors, 
veterans and people with disabilities. New Britain residents  deserve a Mayor 
that will fight twice as hard for their jobs as he will fight  for his own 
job. It?s time for health care for all Residents that will be  affordable and 
achievable. It?s time to put the people back in the driving seat.  Nieves will 
make New Britain stronger and safer for everyone. WE CAN DO BETTER  AND WE WILL 
DO BETTER! 
Paid by: Nieves For Mayor Campaign, Annette Alicea  Treasurer
 
 
 
"Taking Back New Britain"


Miguel Angel Nieves
New Britain Mayoral Candidate
New  Britain Green Party Co-Chairman 

_www.nieves.politicalgateway.com_ (http://www.nieves.politicalgateway.com/) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nievesformayor) 
_www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen_ 
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nbgreen) 
Tel:  (860) 832-8141

Paid by Nieves for Mayor Campaign, Annette Alicea  -Treasurer 

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From aaron at easy-designs.net  Tue May 31 22:47:40 2005
From: aaron at easy-designs.net (Aaron Gustafson)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:47:40 -0000
Subject: {news} Restructuring Plan Working Draft
Message-ID: <200506010247.j512lTe07676@easy-designs.net>

Hello,
 
Attached is the revised Strategy Plan (which incorporates facets the Action
Plan) discussed tonight at the SCC meeting. Many thanks to Kelly for
compiling this and all those involved in the Action Plan development as well
as those involved in the Strategy Sessions, both of which had a big impact
on this plan.
 
Have a great night.
 
Cheers,
 
Aaron Gustafson
Co-chair, Green Party of Connecticut
webmaster at ctgreens.org
 <mailto:aaron at easy-designs.net> 
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