From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Jan 5 02:25:11 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:25:11 +0000 Subject: {news} Drug war opponent to speak at Burroughs Center, Bridgeport In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Press release - For Immediate Release - January 3, 2006 Contact: David Bedell, dbedellgreen at hotmail.com, 203-581-3193 DRUG WAR OPPONENT TO SPEAK AT BURROUGHS CENTER BRIDGEPORT, JAN 3--"The Drug War Is Meant to Be Waged Not Won" is the title of a talk to be given by Clifford Thornton at the Burroughs Community Center on Thursday, January 12, at 7:00 PM. Thornton is founder of the Hartford-based organization Efficacy, which seeks peaceful alternatives to the War on Drugs. He will talk about the effects of our failed drug policies on crime, the economy, and the lives of our youth. Clifford W. Thornton, Jr., is a retired African-American businessman, whose mother died of a heroin overdose when Mr. Thornton was 18. As a result of this loss, he wanted drug laws to be harsher. Now he believes that if heroin use had been legal, and supervised by doctors, his mother might have lived a relatively safe and healthy life. In his provocative presentations, Mr. Thornton explains how the Drug War harms all Americans, especially people of color: Although the majority of users are white, most of the people who are in prison for drug offenses are minorities, and most of these are young African-American men. Mr. Thornton argues that the Drug War is "worse for blacks than slavery." "I watched, decade after decade, my native Hartford go downhill, and I began to delve into the drug problem to see what was wrong. More and more people were using drugs and more and more people were going to jail, with no apparent stop to the flow of drugs into the city." Thornton believes that the solution to the drug epidemic must involve legalization, medicalization and decriminalization of all illegal drugs plus a focus on the medical problem of abuse and addiction. "Treatment reduces drug abuse better than imprisonment, and covers six recovering patients for the annual cost of one recidivist prisoner," he claims. Since 1998, Thornton has spoken to over 300,000 people in civic organizations, community forums, debates and college presentations, always receiving rave reviews. Thursday's event is sponsored by the CT Green Party, which has discussed with Thornton a possible run for Governor in 2006. More information about Efficacy can be found at www.efficacy-online.org. From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Jan 5 02:52:02 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:52:02 +0000 Subject: {news} Pat LaMarche is governor candidate in Maine Message-ID: http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/12/08/former_green_vice_presidential_candidate_runs_for_governo Former Green vice presidential candidate runs for governor By Glenn Adams, Associated Press Writer | December 8, 2005 AUGUSTA, Maine --Pat LaMarche, who ran on the national Green Party ticket for vice president in 2004, announced her candidacy for Maine governor on Thursday. At a news conference in the State House, LaMarche said she has started the process to qualify for public financing for her Blaine House campaign under the state's Clean Elections Act. A capital-area radio personality known for her past political activity in the state, LaMarche listed jobs, education, health care and reforming Maine's tax structure as the top issues. "Maine is losing young people to better jobs outside of Maine," said LaMarche. "We are losing whole industries -- not just businesses -- due to the unacceptable business and tax climate in Maine, and we are losing the ability to keep families healthy and well-fed." The 45-year-old Yarmouth resident ran for Maine governor in 1998 on the Green Independent ticket, winning 7 percent of the vote and helping her party to gain official state recognition. The national Green ticket received less than 1 percent of Maine's statewide vote in last year's presidential election. La Marche joins five other candidates -- including four Republicans and an independent -- who have launched campaigns to oust Democratic Gov. John Baldacci in next year's election. The chairman of the state Democratic Party, Pat Colwell, called LaMarche's entry "a reckless misguided decision" because Baldacci's record makes him the best candidate. At her announcement Thursday, LaMarche put more emphasis on her effort to run as a Clean Election candidate than on her affiliation with the Green party. Her written announcement doesn't mention her Green background until the fifth paragraph, and the blue letterhead doesn't mention her party at all. But LaMarche said she intends to run as a Green with her party's nomination, and noted that she remains active as a co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "I believe that the Green party (in Maine) will never have its status at risk again," said LaMarche. "It's fair to infer that I'm playing up all of the other aspects of my life." ? Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Jan 5 21:14:40 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:14:40 +0000 Subject: {news} Ralph Ferrucci takes on Joe Lieberman In-Reply-To: <20060105200006.25D256CC007@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/News/content.html?oid=oid:138865 The Serial Candidate Ralph Ferrucci's running for office. Again. Time to put up your dukes, Joe. by Ryan Kearney - January 5, 2006 Ralph Ferrucci's got balls. Grant him that. A New Haven artist and delivery truck driver, he's never met a political race he didn't like--or want to join. First, in 2003, he took on Mayor John DeStefano on the Guilty Party ticket, and lost. A year later, as a Green, he went after Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro. Again, he lost. Now he's back, and aiming higher than ever. Senator Lieberman, meet your very first '06 challenger. "Joe Lieberman has been so bad for this country and this state," says Ferrucci, 33, wearing a black suit and matching button-down, with a white tie, at the Book Trader Cafe on a recent afternoon. "There needs to be someone to run against him." Ferrucci's not the only one who thinks so. Websites like Dumpjoe.com and Timetogojoe. com have sprung up this year, and cars in the area--not just Ferrucci's Hyundai Elantra--have begun sporting bumper stickers such as anti-war, anti-joe and anybody but joe! For all that fervor, though, no one other than Ferrucci has stepped forwardyet. Former governor Lowell Weicker may run as an independent if no credible anti-war candidate surfaces. Howard Dean's brother Jim, a Fairfield resident who runs Democracy for America and has been critical of Lieberman, says that he supports the idea of a primary challenger but that his group is not actively recruiting anyone. For now, it's just Ferrucci. And while his opponent has changed, his agenda hasn't. He wants to pull our troops out of Iraq, provide free education at state universities, establish a nationwide health-care system, repeal the Patriot Act, stop giving tax cuts to the rich, and raise the minimum wage, to name a few of his progressive initiatives. On long-standing issues, he stands exactly where you'd expect a liberal third-party candidate to stand: He's pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and anti-death penalty. There is one notable change. This time around, Ferrucci may not be a third-party candidate. Instead, he may go right after Lieberman, challenging him in the Democratic primary. And, populist that he is, he's going to let his supporters decide. F errucci's first foray into politics came in 1996, when he distributed fliers in support of Ralph Nader's first presidential bid, but Ferrucci didn't catch the bug until Nader's second bid four years later. The Nader campaign's lead New Haven organizer, Ferrucci collected around 12,000 signatures--more than enough to plant the Green Party candidate on the ballot in Connecticut. That year also marked the birth of the local Greens, who gained two seats on the Board of Aldermen in 2001. In 2003, Ferrucci ran his first race, opposing DeStefano on the Guilty Party ticket. He describes the campaign as "sitting at a bar stool at Rudy's and getting 15 percent of the vote." Encouraged by those numbers, but unwilling to do more than minimal campaigning, he challenged Rosa DeLauro the following year in what he calls his first "serious race." It didn't turn out as well; he garnered less than 3 percent. Unfazed, Ferrucci announced in February 2005 that wanted a rematch with DeStefano, but he dropped out in the summer to devote more time to his day job--delivering Pepperidge Farm goods--and to earning a degree in illustration from Paier College of Art in Hamden. Even still, he didn't leave politics altogether, becoming campaign manager for the Green Party's mayoral candidate, Eric Brown. If he couldn't even get 3 percent against DeLauro, how is Ferrucci going to fare against the state's best-known politician? "The opposition against DeLauro is very, very small," says Ferrucci. "I had some problems with Rosa, but she's been really good on a lot of the issues." In other words, he shared too many similarities with DeLauro to stand out. Not so with Lieberman. Ferrucci says that, perhaps with the exception of Lieberman's record on the environment, most of the senator's stances are contrary to his. Add to that the growing opposition to Lieberman within the Democratic ranks, and Ferrucci thinks he's got a shot. Ferrucci says that when he told people he was running against DeLauro, people would ask, "Why?" Now, when he tells people he's taking on Lieberman, they say, "Good." "I've had a few Democrats I know ask me to run as a Democrat," he says. "There are a lot of progressive Democrats that are looking for a candidate against him." That's why he's open to the idea of challenging Lieberman in the primary, which, given Lieberman's fame and fund-raising power, could prove much more difficult than a fight in the general election. Ferrucci plans to poll visitors to his website, Ferrucciforsenate.org (which right now has no content on it), asking them which ticket he should run on. Visitors will also be able to make online contributions. "A lot of little donations," he says. "We don't take any big money." It'll take an unprecedented number of little donations to close the current gap. According to Opensecrets.org, Lieberman has raised nearly $5 million thus far, compared to Ferrucci's $125. Like all candidates, Ferrucci says he's running to win. But would he be happy if he got, say, 25 percent of the vote? "Of course," Ferrucci says. "Any kind of opposition to Lieberman would be a win." And if he loses this election, too? "I will run again," he says, without hesitation. From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Fri Jan 6 16:06:46 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:06:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Bill Davis drops out of Congress race??? Message-ID: <20060106210646.67121.qmail@web81410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> His web site says he is no longer running. =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Fri Jan 6 16:14:14 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:14:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} DeStefano's office misstep Message-ID: <20060106211414.31342.qmail@web81411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 01/06/2006 DeStefano?s office admits misstep Angela Carter , Register Staff NEW HAVEN ? Mayor John DeStefano Jr.?s secretary and her City Hall extension should not have been used to receive RSVP calls for a gubernatorial campaign event earlier this week, the mayor?s spokesman acknowledged Thursday. An invitation was recently circulated for coffee and dessert at DeStefano?s 150 Judwin Ave. home following the New Year?s Day swearing-in ceremony for municipal elected officials, including the mayor, city clerk and the 30-member Board of Aldermen. Advertisement on error resume next For mp_i=11 To 6 Step -1 If Not IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." & mp_i)) Then Else mp_swver=mp_i Exit For End If Next '); } //--> The invitations had a disclaimer saying they were paid for by "DeStefano for Connecticut" but did not indicate whether the event was tied to the inaugural ceremony or a gubernatorial campaign effort, such as a fund-raiser. DeStefano is in a contest with Stamford Mayor Dannel P. Malloy for the Democratic nomination to run against Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell in November. Derek Slap, the mayor?s spokesman, said the disclaimer was a means of being transparent about who paid for the printing, but no gubernatorial campaign contributions were collected. The invitations directed those who planned to attend to RSVP to the mayor?s secretary, Rosemarie Lemley, at her direct city extension. "It was a gubernatorial event and her name, it seems, should not have been there," Slap said in response to a New Haven Register inquiry. When asked why Lemley?s name appeared, instead of someone from the "DeStefano for Connecticut" headquarters, Lemley and gubernatorial campaign manager Shonu Gandhi said they did not know. "That?s a very good question," Lemley said. Gandhi confirmed Slap?s statement that the reception was a gubernatorial, rather than a municipal, activity. "I don?t know why another person wasn?t listed," she said. "It just as easily could have and would have been easier." Slap said Lemley handled only six RSVP calls. As for the other attendees, "I think they just showed up," he said. Albert Lenge, deputy director and assistant general counsel for the state Elections Enforcement Commission, said the commission discourages the use of public facilities, equipment or employees in matters related to campaigns. It has tried to get restrictions passed through the General Assembly but none have made it into law. "When a public employee is doing political work instead of public work, that becomes an issue of job performance. It becomes a public policy matter of the municipality. It?s a question of: Is that an appropriate way to spend publicly paid time?" Lenge said. Chris Cooney, campaign manager for "Dan Malloy for Governor," said the committee has built an infrastructure that prevents blurring the lines between government activities and campaign activities. "We built an appropriate wall between a political campaign and a city office," Cooney said. "I think there is only one clear approach: Keep the government side and the campaign side separate." Rell has promised to restrict her stumping events to after-business hours. Rell suspended her chief of staff, M. Lisa Moody, for two weeks for distributing fund-raising invitations to state commissioners and asking them to hand them out to others. Rell has imposed a 12-page ethics and elections policy that prohibits employees from encouraging others to attend fund-raising events or using state equipment for anything other than state purposes. Aldermanic President Carl Goldfield, D-29, husband of DeStefano?s gubernatorial campaign treasurer, Gaylord Bourne, said aldermen are not allowed to use the board?s staff or equipment in the Office of Legislative Services for campaigns. "It seems to me that?s reasonable. It would be an unfair advantage (over challengers) and it?s inappropriate," said Goldfield, who went to the mayor?s event but did not comment on the invitation?s language. "I know nothing about it, and I didn?t have anything to do with it," he said. --------------------------------- Angela Carter can be reached at 789-5614 or acarter at nhregister.com . =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sat Jan 7 00:48:27 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:48:27 +0000 Subject: {news} Green Party's Hatch to Take on Sen. Hatch Message-ID: (I thought this was a clever gimmick. Find a Green with the same last name to run against the incumbent, and you're sure to get some media attention. Not to mention getting votes from confused voters.) Green Party's Hatch to Take on Sen. Hatch The Associated Press Friday, November 11, 2005; 10:01 PM SALT LAKE CITY -- Five-term incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, will face a challenge from a distant member of his own family, Green Party candidate Julian Hatch, in the November 2006 election. The Green Party of Utah announced Friday that the 51-year-old environmental activist and disabled veteran accepted the party's nomination at a convention this week. "I am opposing my own relative so citizens of Utah will finally have a real choice since Democrats have adopted so many Republican policy positions in recent years," said Hatch, a lifelong Utah resident. He works as the state's coordinator for the Western Watersheds Project, a public lands policy group based in Hailey, Idaho. Julian Hatch opposes the war in Iraq and will also campaign for abortion rights, affordable health care, tax reform and public land protection. "We are building a populist third party to challenge the ruling two-party system that has become immersed in big money and entrenched in fascist ideology," he said. From kumfry at yahoo.com Sat Jan 7 10:23:35 2006 From: kumfry at yahoo.com (Kenneth Humphrey) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 07:23:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Green Party's Hatch to Take on Sen. Hatch In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060107152335.98145.qmail@web32811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> This has a good ring to it. No place more needful of challenging the established order than the State of Utah. Ken --- David Bedell wrote: > (I thought this was a clever gimmick. Find a Green > with the same last name > to run against the incumbent, and you're sure to get > some media attention. > Not to mention getting votes from confused voters.) > > > Green Party's Hatch to Take on Sen. Hatch > > The Associated Press > Friday, November 11, 2005; 10:01 PM > > SALT LAKE CITY -- Five-term incumbent Sen. Orrin > Hatch, R-Utah, will face a > challenge from a distant member of his own family, > Green Party candidate > Julian Hatch, in the November 2006 election. > > The Green Party of Utah announced Friday that the > 51-year-old environmental > activist and disabled veteran accepted the party's > nomination at a > convention this week. > > "I am opposing my own relative so citizens of Utah > will finally have a real > choice since Democrats have adopted so many > Republican policy positions in > recent years," said Hatch, a lifelong Utah resident. > He works as the state's > coordinator for the Western Watersheds Project, a > public lands policy group > based in Hailey, Idaho. > > Julian Hatch opposes the war in Iraq and will also > campaign for abortion > rights, affordable health care, tax reform and > public land protection. > > "We are building a populist third party to challenge > the ruling two-party > system that has become immersed in big money and > entrenched in fascist > ideology," he said. > > > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Jan 5 06:16:45 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 03:16:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} (PRESS RELEASE) CT. GREENS APPLAUD R.I. MEDICAL MARIJUANA PASSAGE Message-ID: <20060105111645.77319.qmail@web81401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Press release- For Immediate Release- January 5th, 2006 Contact: Tim McKee, CT Green Party National Committee Person, (860) 643-2282 or cell (860) 324-1684 Mike DeRosa, State Co-Chair (860)956-8170 or (860) 919-4042 (cell) Cliff Thornton, candidate for Governor,(860) 657-8438 CT. GREENS APPLAUD R.I. MEDICAL MARIJUANA PASSAGE Rhode Island Is 11th State To Legalize Medical Marijuana Hartford, CT- Green Party leaders welcomed the news that Rhode Island has passed a Medical Marijuana law for the seriously ill. Cliff Thornton, a Green Party candidate for Governor called this passage a compassionate act for people with cancer and AIDS and stated that Connecticut should be the 12th state to pass a Medical Marijuana law. Thornton, founder of the Efficacy, a national drug reform group, said many people in Connecticut would benefit from such a law as part of a doctor supervised treatment. He said he has spoken to medical patients across the world about this issue, and Connecticut should follow the lead of the other 11 states and countries from across the world. Thornton called for the other candidates for Governor to clearly state their position on a CT medical marijuana law. Thornton said he will make reforming the drug war a major issue in the up coming state campaign. Thorton said the Federal government should not arrest any patient that uses medical marijuana for a serious illness. The Green Party of the United States has a platform position favoring the use of medical marijuana. ADVERTISERS --------------------------------- Advertise on marijuana -->-30- Background: Rhode Island on Tuesday became the 11Th state to legalize medical marijuana and the first since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that patients who use the drug can still be prosecuted under federal law. The House overrode a veto by Gov. Don Carrier, 59-13, allowing people with illnesses such as cancer and AIDS to grow up to 12 marijuana plants or buy 2.5 ounces of marijuana to relieve their symptoms. Those who do are required to register with the state and get an identification card. Federal law prohibits any use of marijuana, but Maine, Vermont, Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington allow it to be grown and used for medicinal purposes. The U.S. high court ruled June 6 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it can still be prosecuted under federal drug laws, even if their states allow it. 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URL: From smderosa at cox.net Sat Jan 7 19:55:38 2006 From: smderosa at cox.net (smderosa) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 19:55:38 -0500 Subject: {news} FW: EC Meeting for Jan 2006 Message-ID: <20060108005331.VSKN29285.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@userb649154f63> _____ From: smderosa [mailto:smderosa at cox.net] Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 7:54 PM To: 'Green Party-CT'; 'Judith Herkimer'; 'Barry DeRosa Barbara'; 'smderosa at cox.net' Subject: EC Meeting for Jan 2006 Dear All: I propose that the EC meet on Monday 1/9/06 at the Greater Hartford Green Party office(418A New Britain Ave. Hartford, CT) at 7PM. Please let me know if this is OK. If you have an alternate date in mind please forward this information asap. Thanks, Mike DeRosa co-chair, GPCT -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.15/223 - Release Date: 1/6/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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URL: From smderosa at cox.net Sun Jan 8 21:38:36 2006 From: smderosa at cox.net (smderosa) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:38:36 -0500 Subject: {news} Some Legal Arguments Against Discriminatory Legislation Found In The CT Campaign Finance Law That Adversely Impact Third Parties Message-ID: <20060109023530.GGWV19943.eastrmmtao04.cox.net@userb649154f63> Some Legal Arguments Against Discriminatory Legislation Found In The CT Campaign Finance Law That Adversely Impact Third Parties We view certain parts of the recent CT campaign finance law as being discriminatory against the Green Party of CT and others. We feel that sections of the new CT campaign finance law(those that force us to collect 20% of the signatures of voters in a district in order to qualify for full matching funds, while NOT requiring the major parties to fulfill this requirement) give unconstitutional favor to incumbents and give unfair advantage to Democratic and Republican backed candidates. It is no secret that in many cities in CT the primary election of one major party or more likely the nomination meetings of one of the two major parties are where candidates are elected to our legislature and to other elected positions. Since no other clean election fund in the US requires a discriminatory signature requirement for third parties it is hard to understand what the CT legislature was thinking when they attached this to this legislation. The ability of our candidates to petition their way on to the ballot (1% to 2% requirement on a state mandated and controlled petition), get the nomination of our party, and collect a large number of small donations should be sufficient to allow us legitimate access to CT clean election fund matching funds. The discriminatory addition of collecting an additional 10% for partial funding and 20% for full funding is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment and 14th Amendment rights of insurgent third party candidates. Furthermore, forcing non-major party candidates to solicit discriminatory public support in the form of signatures before participation in the clean election fund is tantamount to a state imposed "public support" qualification that violates the constitutional Qualifications Clause. Also, because of the historical record in CT (Weicker's third party election to Governor in 1990) the US Supreme Court's decision under Buckley vs. Valeo that "the government can discriminate when it awards public funds to presidential nominees" does not apply. Also under Greenberg vs. Bolger, (497 F. Supp. 756, 1980) a U.S. District Court ruled unconstitutional a law that gave cheaper postal rates to political parties that had polled 25% for president in the last election. Another case is Socialist Workers Party vs. Rockefeller(314 F. Supp. 984, 1970) that ruled that if the government gives a free list of the registered voters to qualified parties, it must give it to the unqualified parties as well. The U.S. Supreme Court summarily affirmed this decision. Also helpful are decisions from New York, New Jersey, Colorado, and Oklahoma, that say if voters are permitted to register as members of qualified parties, they must be allowed to register as members of unqualified parties. For over 50 years CT's discriminatory laws have kept third party candidates off the ballot thereby reducing their ability to form effective free associations and making it difficult to find one another. We have developed here in CT a set of laws that creates two tiers for political parties (i.e. major parties and minor parties). While all political parties in CT are equal, some political parties are more equal than others. The recent provisions of this law only further delineate in an unconstitutional way this unequal status for entry and participation in the electoral process. The sections of the law in question may make this new law the "No CT incumbent left behind law of 2005". While we will try to "reform" aspects of the law in the upcoming session of the CT General Assembly, we are keenly aware that the legislators are unlikely to vote to change something that allows them to essentially silence those who compete against them on the ballot. It is critical that a credible judicial challenge be in place in order to encourage the CT legislature to allow third parties equal treatment under the law. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.15/223 - Release Date: 1/6/2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Mon Jan 9 00:01:41 2006 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:01:41 -0500 Subject: {news} 12-12-05 EC meeting of CTGP Message-ID: <20060109050139.HBIN14098.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@BarbaraBarry> 12-12-05 EC meeting at Greater Hartford Chapter's office, 12-12-05 Place: 418-A New Britain Avenue, Hartford, CT. Time: 7:35PM Attendee's: Barbara Barry, Secretary of CTGP; Michael DeRosa, Co-chairperson. Not attending: Judy Herkimer, treasurer, who was aware of time and place of this meeting; Resigned co-chairpersons: Aaron Gustafson and Kelly McCarthy. No observers. General discussion: last SCC meeting of 11-29-05: concencus: have today's EC meeting and 12-27-05 SCC Meeting. Agenda for 12-27-05 SCC meeting: Preliminaries: Do usual including: approval of 11-29-05 SCC and 12-12-05 EC meetings; Treasurer's monthly reports from 10-05; 3rd quarter treasurer's report to CT Secretary of State office; Reports: Usual chapter reports; Women's Caucus to report on the recent Modified concencus training; U.S. Green Party report from Tim McKee, CT rep. to GPUS. Tom Sevigny apparently has resigned from Green Party activities: reason: unknown. V.O.T.E.R. report from Mike DeRosa including potential CTGP lawsuit against State of CT; discuss election laws. Budget Committee suggestions/talking points. David Bedell: discuss CTGP potential candidates for 2006. Fill vacancies of Process Committee. Discuss possible speakers at SCC meetings. Internal Elections committee needs to start up for election of CTGP officers. Make meeting a social event, too. Bring food/beverage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Mon Jan 9 00:24:16 2006 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:24:16 -0500 Subject: {news} 111-21-05 EC meeting of CTGP at Torrington Town Hall Message-ID: <20060109052148.MBMO9108.eastrmmtao06.cox.net@BarbaraBarry> Executive Committee of CTGP Meeting of November 21, 2005 Torrington Town Hall Rm 206A,Torrington CT Meeting started at 7:15PM Submitted by GPCT Secretary Barbara Barry DeRosa Attending: Judy Herkimer, Northwest chapter and CTGP Treasurer: Mike DeRosa Co-Chair, Barbara Barry DeRosa, Secretary: both from Greater Hartford chapter. Bob Eaton observer from Northwest chapter; acted as timekeeper. Justine McCabe facilitator. A. Preliminaries: 1. Introductions and roles of the attendees to one another: Mike DeRosa, Barbara Barry DeRosa, Judy Herkimer. Observer: Bob Eaton. Facilitator: Justine McCabe. 2. Adoption of ground rules: modified consensus process; need for attendees to raise hand so facilitator can recognize the person and allow that person to speak. 3. Discussion and development of agenda for 11-29-05 SCC meeting. Proposals of: organizational restructuring/action plan per Kelly McCarthy and Aaron Gustafson: co-chairs; storage and cataloging of SCC meetings and tape recording; usual chapter reports; committee reports are on agenda. a) Additions were added to agenda: JH: should the EC meet in December 2005? JH: should the SCC meet on 12-27-05? BB: review and approval of minutes from 10-25-05 SCC meeting, non-quorum; Facilitator: review and approval of 6-05 and 7-11-05 EC meeting minutes. BB and MD advised that they were approved by a quorum at SCC meeting of 9-29-05. JH was under the impression that only the EC could approve the EC minutes. BB advised that at the suggestion of JH and with the approval of all EC members since 5-05, EC meeting minutes had been put on SCC meeting agenda for approval. All EC and SCC minutes are on the listserv. By consensus: the 6-05 and 7-11-05 EC meeting minutes were not put on agenda. JH: process committee: does the EC wants to do a proposal regarding person not in good standing in CTGP? JH: discussion of Secretary's minutes in general. MD: treasurer's monthly report. MD: discussion regarding recruitment and vetting of CTGP state and federal candidates for 2006. MD: discussion of budget committee suggestions/talking points. Is not a proposal. Facilitator requested that secretary allocate 5minutes for each report and not 2 minutes. MD: secretary of state and voting regulations; discussion of whether minor political parties will get campaign financing from state. BB: modified consensus process training session that was done 11-13-05. JH: what is CTGP going to do about voters who have lost their party affiliation after the CTGP did not garner 1% of voters in municipal elections. This happened to a Litchfield Green. The register of voters, removed this voters party designation as CTGP. JH contact at Secretary of State's office indicated that there is a statute to support the register's actions. BB: treasurer's quarterly report to Secretary of State's election office. JH: annual meeting and internal elections: get venue, date established. JH: develop list of chapter representatives to SCC. b) no deletions. Writing of this proposed EC agenda by facilitator, determining how long to talk about each item and setting order of EC agenda: 15 minutes. 4. Discussion about next EC and SCC meetings in 12-05: 1. JH: suggest no EC and SCC meetings in 12-05 due to difficulty getting a quorum, the holidays and there is not much business to attend to right now. Would this EC committee want to come forward with a proposal for no EC or SCC meetings in 12-05, and start again in January? BB: willing to have EC and SCC meetings in 12-05. However, I have to work until 7pm on 12-12-05 in Glastonbury. However, I can be available after that especially if the EC meeting is in the greater Glastonbury area or greater Hartford area, as I have access to Routes 2 and 3. I am sorry but this is per my employer. I have no control over this. MD: suggest: have EC and SCC meetings and that EC reaffirm meeting the 2nd Monday of month. JH: allow SCC to decide if EC and SCC should meet in 12-05. MD: suggests an hour social prior to 12-05 SCC meeting. Facilitator: requested members follow the process and raise hands. EC meeting time: Kelly and Aaron can meet 1st and 2nd Monday of every month but not the 3rd Monday of each month. 3rd Monday of each month is JH: though EC was to meet the 3rd Monday prior to the next SCC meeting? BB: we discussed that but settled on the 2nd Monday of every month knowing that some months are shorter and other months are longer so the EC meeting might be closer to the SCC meeting (last Tuesday of every month) than some other months. JH: 2nd Monday of every month is fine for me for the EC meeting. Question for BB: why did you not put out a notice put out for the EC meeting? BB: not solely the provision of the secretary. Each of the CTGP officers can initiate the EC meeting arrangements. I was under the impression, that since the next EC meeting was to be in Torrington, per prior agreed upon rotation, Judy was arranging it and would advice us as soon as she had finalized plans. No one (of officers) contacted or emailed me about any arranging an EC meeting for 11-05. Facilitator: need clarification from the by-laws what the secretary's role is regarding this. MD: we are all adults. Numerous emails have been sent out regarding whether or not people have availability for today or tomorrow or on such and such days of the month. We have sent emails and get no response. We have no phone numbers (for each other). Not everyone looks at their emails all the time. We heard (from Kelly and Aaron) at 4:15pm today, that they were not available tomorrow either (in addition to today). I have a commitment to Middletown GP on 12-12-05 but I can easily delegate responsibility to Vic in that chapter. Facilitator: any blocking concerns to extend this discussion? Consensus: no. JH: I booked this room for 8-05 and 9-05 and 10-05 for the 2nd Monday of all 3 of those months. I have emailed everyone. I have emails from Mike and Barbara that they were available but they have chosen not to come. Kelly and Aaron were very clear that their focus was on Kelly's campaign. Also Kelly booked one of those Mondays with a student and she chooses not to reschedule that. I have been available as we committed from the beginning and I find communication from me sending out emails to people have not be responded to in a timely fashion. At all. We agreed to a certain Monday and need to agree to it. JH: change location of the venue of the next meeting to accommodate Barbara's work restraint. Agreeable to another date but let's target the 1st of the year to get back on track. Everyone is an adult and has an obligation to block it out on their calendar and to come to meetings. MD: perhaps we can choose for next month between Monday, 12-12-05 or Tuesday, 12-13-05. If it is Monday, 12-12-05, that will allow you, Barbara, to make the meeting at 7:15pm perhaps in Hartford at the (Greater Hartford Green Party) office Facilitator: time is pressing. Kelly and Aaron are available for 2nd Monday of the month. Do you want to consider the 1st Monday of next month? BB: I have a doctor's appointment on the 1st Monday of next month, 12-5-05. I think we have agreed to the 2nd Monday of each month. The 2nd Monday of January is 1-9-06. Facilitator: 2nd Monday of the month is the EC meeting, 12-12-05 pending approval from next SCC meeting. MD: Barbara cannot make the 12-12-05 meeting until 7:15pm. Facilitator: do we want more time to continue this discussion. Consensus: yes. Must raise hands to talk and be recognized by facilitator. MD: need to clarify if the EC meeting can start at 7:15pm so Barbara can make it. Facilitator: you are proposing that all EC meetings start at 7:15pm. MD: no. Only start at 7:15pm for 12-12-05 meeting. JH: I am not willing to start a meeting at 7:15pm. It is okay if we bring the tape and start the meeting. Facilitator: are you willing to start at 7pm and Barbara can come late. Any objection? BB: I have a clarifying question. Facilitator: do you have an objection to the consensus of what has been agreed upon? BB: I have a clarifying question. Facilitator: it is not appropriate at this point. So please put your hand down. MD: there is no consensus. Facilitator: we will begin at the meeting at 7pm on the 2nd Monday of the month. Barbara who cannot come at 7pm will come late. Is there any objection to that? BB: yes. Facilitator: Do you want to give more time? MD: I do. I believe there are 2 people in this room, who do. Facilitator: are you willing to stand aside? BB: no. Facilitator: the meeting next month will begin at 7:15pm. BB: no. So from 7pm to 7:15pm on 12-12-05 EC meeting, there will be no secretary recording. Facilitator: someone else will have to take notes. BB: I have a clarifying question. Facilitator: Barbara, I do not think you understand the process here. I'm sorry. I hope I can help educate and we all can educate, about this. We haven't assigned more time to this. Consensus: 3 more minutes. BB: My concern is that as a duly authorized recorder of the meeting from the CTGP members, you will not have a recorder of the meeting on 12-12-05 for 15 minutes. That was my clarifying question. MD: I do not think 15 minutes will make or break a meeting. I do not understand your objection to this. Perhaps you (JH) can explain it to me? JH: I'm satisfied with you taping the 15 minutes. I travel a long distance and I need set times that I come and go and you already said taping is okay. Facilitator: Barbara are you willing to stand aside and come at 7:15pm? BB: I am willing to come about 7:15pm. That is the earliest. I usually work later actually. If it is within about a 15 mile radius of Glastonbury, I should be able to make it at 7:15pm. Facilitator: we seem to be at a stalemate about this. If there is no consensus to this, the proposal is to start at 7pm and Barbara you will come late. Proposal: EC meeting to start at 7pm on 12-12-05. Vote: majority opposed. BB: if we cannot get consensus about the 12-12-05 meeting, then perhaps we need to meet another time. Facilitator: Judy: are you willing to start at 7:15pm? JH: can we take this off the agenda tonight and take it to the email to allow Kelly and Aaron to discuss this. Facilitator: anyone opposed to this? Consensus: no. (Total time to discuss date and time of next EC meeting: 30 minutes.) 5. Discussion regarding Treasurer's report: 10 Minutes was allocated for the Treasurer's report. JH: This is a very straight forward part of treasurer's report, there is nothing extraordinary on the numbers (gives hand out to EC). Down below are a few items. We have conference call capabilities (using our 800 line number). I need receits from people. For tapes, for copying, postage. If it is considered an in-kind donation, that's fine. And that's it. I working to make it easier and accessible for people to do it (credit card donations) autonomously and to get down those monthly costs (for credit card charges). BB: Will we have estimated time when the billing and crediting process for our 800 number (whose offices are located in New Orleans) will be more functional. JH: It's all being transferred out of New Orleans to Florida. It is well on its way for the billing and crediting process. BB: We have talked about using teleconferencing in the past and we have talked about having meetings open to members, there are positive and negatives in everything and that might be one of the negatives because not everyone may be able to attend to see state officers in action (using teleconferencing). JH: Conference calls can be set up so there are speakers, people who can interact, and those who can just listen. They have that capability. MD: Judy, I went on the internet to get the monthly report that you sent into the state. I notice a donation by Ed Savage of West Hartford CT for $80.00. Will that be credited to the Greater Hartford Green Party total because 30% of all state donations go back to chapters? JH: It went to the West Hartford Chapter. MD: There is no West Hartford Chapter. BB: There has not been a WH chapter for over a year and half. They came back and folded back into Greater Hartford. Facilitator: Excuse me please raise your hand, Mike you asked Judy a question Judy are you want to respond. JH: It went into West Hartford's. BB: We don't have any West Hartford chapter as noted on this treasurer's report. Facilitator: Since we have a previous treasurer here, Bob, Bob Eaton: it was always credited to the West Hartford chapter. BB: West Hartford voted to not be a chapter anymore and they voted to join the Greater Hartford Chapter. That's why we are called Greater Hartford. BE: I was not aware of that, it never was brought up at last year's executive meeting, I talked to Ed Savage about it. So I understood there was a West Hartford chapter. MD: There's actually a moment when the change happened. Ed sent a hundred dollars to the State Treasurer and said that money should be deposited in the Hartford chapter's account total. Which it never was. I will get a copy of the check from him. It was probably two years ago. It never went to our Hartford's two person PAC at the time because we did not have a two person PAC at the time. And that is the reason he sent it through, and that hundred dollars was never deposited into our (Greater Hartford chapter) totals. But that is the moment at which the West Hartford chapter dissolved and if you call Ed he will tell you that all those members re-joined our chapter. I am not saying anyone is doing it maliciously. I am just pointing this out. Facilitator: Is there a way just to get on with this, that you in consultation with Bob and the previous past treasurers can confirm the time and get this clarified? BE: Maybe Judy could call Ed (Savage). Facilitator: Clarify when that changes over took place. JH: It's bigger than that. What he's saying is correct, in that there is a big code map and there are two other things , there are existing chapters ,probationary chapters, chapters that no longer exist, but they still have headings. And there is a corresponding zip code map that obviously needs to be updated because if the zip code map that this created off of saying that West Hartford zip code is going under the West Hartford chapter, that no longer exists. Then the zip code map needs in the software to be recreated. And make all of those zip codes go into the Hartford chapter. Facilitator: Any more on this? MD: I have one other thing. I was able to get to the (quarter) report that you put out to the state through a series of steps that Chris Reilly sent to me, otherwise I would not have been able to find it. I am just throwing this out as a suggestion. Since you don't want to give reports out at meetings or to me, that maybe you could just do the steps on paper so people would know how to get in there, the state site. For the sake of transparency it might be appropriate or easier for the members to that. Facilitator: Do you want to respond to that? JH: Duly noted. MD: I have another question. $600 was deposited from Rachel Goodkind for the specific use of the Women's Caucus. This is brand new as far as I can tell. My understanding is that if money comes in identified from a specific source from the outside. It can be identified for a specific source from the inside of the organization. That has been the pattern we have had since day one. So in the old days our chapters did not have individual two person PACs. Consequently, if the Greater Hartford chapter had an event the past treasurer's would put this aside and say this money is allocated for Hartford because they raised this money on their own. But I have never heard of someone on the outside giving money without it going through the SCC. In my opinion, any money that comes through for a specific purpose should be passed by SCC. Because we on the EC do not have the authority to spend more that $50. Facilitator: Judy, do you want to respond? JH: Donations was researched, request was researched with previous treasurers, and through the documentation of the minutes of the state, of the SCC, and it was ascertained and determined that the money can be earmarked and targeted. And that's why that decision was made. And as treasurer when donations come in they don't necessarily have to go through the SCC. MD: Can I ask you one question? Facilitator: How much time do we have? BE: We're overtime. MD: So we need another two minutes? Facilitator: Hang on. Do you want to have another two minutes? Consensus is reached for another two minutes. MD: Can you name me one other example of this happening and could you name the specific example of when this happened in the past? That someone from the outside designated a specific amount of money for a specific task, not from inside the organization. Facilitator: Judy can, hold it. BB: I am waiting for the answer. And then I have a question. Facilitator: Look . I am the facilitator. We don't operate that way. If you want to ask a question ask a question. BB: I am waiting for the answer. JH: Our observer, the previous past treasurer, might be able to answer that because I can't off the top of my head, if there is any earmark of funds before. And I think there has been. BE: One case I know of, ask Bruce (Crowder) a question with the Hartford chapter, all the money went to the Hartford chapter specifically. Bruce told me that can be earmarked. MD: Can I clarify that? MD: As I said, in the years past we have had a lot of the local chapters, that do not have two person PACs. Therefore they would have an event; they have to legally declare that money, that can't say to the state," were writing this off the books".' So they would run it through the state PAC and it was put aside (for chapter usage). Because it was an event that happened only in Hartford, or only in New Haven, it didn't just happen just in Hartford. That was an internal allocation of money for the convenience of the chapters, until Hartford got a two person PAC. New Haven got a two person PAC. This is something completely different. This is money coming from the outside that is designated for a specific purpose, but isn't being authorized by anybody. BB: What was the situation when moneys went to Hartford event or a Hartford chapter that you're talking about? There are events that the state participates in that we (Greater Hartford chapter) have no knowledge of. BE: When ever I talked to past treasurers' about whether money can be designated, I have been told that it can be designated. Someone from Torrington can designate that they want all the money to go for. BB: So. Facilitator: Excuse me , please raise your hand. BB: I just raised my hand. Facilitator: You don't seem to understand. I am trying to educate you of this process. Its different from Robert's rules. OK. You all are getting off about a particular discussion that is not raised by Judy's report. Just to remind you that Rachel Goodkind as a person within the party to the caucus. Just so you remember that and she moved subsequently. So this is another agenda item , you have a bunch of other things on the agenda, do you want to spend more time talking about. MD: I just want to make one more comment. Facilitator: Excuse me. Do you want to give more time to talk about this? MD: Absolutely Facilitator: Are you willing to put it aside? You have other things on the agenda. BB: I would like to have an answer to my question. Facilitator: We're beyond that, Barbara. We have allotted an amount of time for this. BB: The consensus is we want answers to our questions. Facilitator: At certain times. After you have allotted time. You have to stop. MD: Sure. Let's move on, will bring it up at another time. If we can't get answers now we will get answers later. 6. Discussion On Minutes: Facilitator: Okay. We're going to move on. We have the elections, and the minutes to go over. JH: The minutes that the secretary has been putting out do not fit any format that I have ever experienced. They certainly don't follow structure for modified consensus. I would like to read the one blurb from the proposal on minutes: The Secretary of the Green Party will take the minutes of all SCC and a tape recorder may be provided as a backup, the minutes should include the following date, time and place of the meeting. List of people attending, people eligible to vote, time meeting was called to order, approval of previous minutes, and any amendments, reports, and announcements and other information. Proposals amendments and final results of any votes taken. Time of adjournment next meeting, time and location. Main person taking the minutes. Proposals with any friendly amendments shall be recorded, and accurately transcribed. Minutes should be sent to chapter representative within one week after the meeting. Copies of the minutes will be distributed at the next meeting. Corrections should be recorded in meetings and approved. Minutes that I have been reading have been holding a quality a lack of objectivity to them. They are not factually based. You are interjecting your own personal bias into the minutes. I am asking that you follow, if you need an example to follow, I will provide that to you. That you follow the outline and try to hold on to your objectivity. BB: I take minutes and then I take my notes and then I enhance them by listening to the tapes. As I told you before, that I have taken minutes that are verbatim from the tapes, and sometimes people forget what they have said. But instead of putting things in quotes, I have not. So it's a little hard to be biased when you're doing something that literally, what someone is saying. I would appreciate having that format because I haven't seen it. The only thing that is different is sending things out to reps a week later. It is a little hard to do, since we don't have a list to send to the reps. as you indicated earlier in this meeting. So if you share that with me, that would be great. JH: I would like to put this on the agenda for the SCC. BB: Do you have a proposal? JH: I have one right here. BB: If I can have an e-mail address that would be great. Sooner rather than later. Facilitator: Barbara, one of the things that might be helpful to you that came out of this workshop , the trainers say that what you actually report , proposals, amendments, and the upshot, could be pretty concise. That means decisions that were made. Registered opposition, there is a vote, one person wanted to vote for that. I will be happy to dig out something. BB: As you can see, there are notes that say, consensus was achieved, something was deferred for time constraints. When votes are taken, I say: 4 against , so many abstentions, so many for. Maybe we need to use bold letters so that people can see them easier. JM: So Judy you're going to provide that to Barbara, and were going to talk about this further. MD: I didn't get a lot of questions answered about the Treasurer's report. I would like to put that on the agenda for the SCC also. Facilitator: Just hang on will get to that. 20 minutes left. 7. Discussion of Elections 2006 Facilitator: You wanted to talk about elections, Mike. MD: We have a lot of e-mails floating around about what we're going to do in 2006. I think that it is important that we give leadership to this organization. Positive leadership. So that we can accomplish our real goals. And our real goals are to win elections. We came real close to winning elections this time. And in a couple of places we fell down. There are two people now within the Green Party who want to run for U.S. Senate. Ralph has announced his candidacy and there is another person who may want to primary Ralph. So I think it is incumbent upon this committee to begin the process of finding candidates, or if possible maybe we need to set up a candidate committee. And that may want to be something that we talk about in December and January. Who ever is going to take over this organization has to give leadership to having good candidates running. There's talk on e-mail by David Bedell, he has put forward about running an entire state slate: Governor, Secretary Of State, Treasurer, Controller etc. So do we want to do this? Or don't we. I think the advantages of doing this are that we can get permanent ballot access status, and address some of the things that came up that Judy have mentioned on numerous occasions about our folks being short changed. Have the ability to call themselves Greens and register as Greens. I also think this is a nice campaign to raise the anti-war specter. There was a vote yesterday in the congress. Our Democratic party colleagues are saying "oh we have to stop the war" but then when it comes to a vote only 3 of them voted against the war last week. So I think this is an opportunity for us in 2006 to compare and contrast our opponents and what our position is on the war in Iraq, on single payer, on election reform , on breaking through the barriers that we have for minor parties, and so forth. I think that's where we should be. I would propose that we ad hoc, or we should go through David Bedell, set up a committee that will encourage people to run for office in 2006. Facilitator: Is that what you would like your fellow EC people to consider here? MD: I would like to hear what they think we ought to do. And the other thing is whether they want to set up a committee, either inside or outside this committee to look for candidates. JH: I have been involved in an e-mail exchange. I think the dialogue needs to start as he said. I don't feel I am a leader in this party. I feel I am a servant of the SCC. And that we are a community based organization. And if the SCC, I would always defer back to them. Maybe in the form to create a committee. Or instead of creating one more committee, try and get it into a committee that already exists. And we have the opportunity to join that committee. Facilitator: Mike proposals having some structure that would do this, act on it, your saying to have it part of the SCC. BB: I think if I remember Kelly's action plan. There is something about a candidate's committee. So this would be the place for this. MD: I would suggest that we bring David Bedell to our next meeting, if he is willing to talk about this issue, quite frankly a lot a stuff, and I agree with you the SCC should be the place where this goes. But quite frankly there is such a back log of things, and we get into the minutiae of process, instead of focusing in on results, because results are going to make the difference between life and death of this party and the world that we live in. If we don't stop this war soon, this war is going to destroy this country. And I think there are a lot of people out here, according to the polls, over 58% of the people want out of Iraq as soon as possible. Are they willing to back Democrats who essentially support this war? To me that is our function right now. We should be articulating in every aspect of our party the fact that our political opponents refuse to take action. They want to talk about these things but they don't want to take action. I am going to make a proposal that at the next EC meeting that we ask David Bedell to come to our SCC meeting to speak about getting candidates in place for 2006. JH: You should approach him to come to SCC meeting. Get him on the agenda. David Bedell needs to speak to a broader group than SCC. BB: I can't see why he can't come to our meeting and send the message to the chapters to jump start this effort. JH: Do you want him to come to this SCC meeting in December? MD: I think both, I don't think there is a problem. November 2006 is a hop, skip ,and a jump away. In my opinion we have to have in place, a petitioning campaign, we have to find candidates, if were going to have stand-in candidates they have to be approached now. This is stuff that has to be done immediately. My proposal is: Go to the SCC, have David come, and come to the EC meeting if there is an EC meeting in December. Facilitator: Your proposing that he come to the November SCC meeting? MD: Yes, and if we can fit him in to speak fine. But what ever it is, will put him in as part of a report or what ever. Then he could back to the EC meeting. If people here don't think this is an important issue, fine. But I think he should speak to us about this. Facilitator: We have six minutes left. JH: The EC is not a place for strategy. We are administrators. We have the function to make agendas, to smooth out problems. We're not the body, that's the SCC. The SCC to committee and then report back. Facilitator: Let me stop you here for a moment. Do you want David to come to the November meeting and see how it goes. MD: Sure. BB: If David can come, and make it, he can tell us what has happened already. Consensus is reached on having David Bedell come to the November meeting with an update. 8. Discussion On Budget: Facilitator: We have the last thing which is our budget. We have our guest, Bob Eaton. BE: I sent this e-mail out to get the ball rolling. Just to stimulate about thinking about it. You can say it is horrible. I would like to get feed back from. Have you seen this? (passes out copies). I sent this e-mail to you guys and others and so you can pass that along. If you would like a spread sheet so you do your own manipulation, we could that. This is just to get it started. This may not go the SCC. MD: I suggest that we talk about putting in money for a newsletter that would first start off as an e-mailed delivered newsletter. BE: How much would that cost? MD: We would need to get someone to collect e-mails from our members. Whatever that costs. Maybe you could hire someone to call our members and get their e-mails or put all e-mails into a list for an e-mail newsletter blaster. I would like to see a printed newsletter in the future, but we are probably not able to afford that as we have in the past. BE: I don't even know what people want out of budget. And let me be honest, some of the things from my research, we never had an actual budget in the past. Don't be afraid to come forward with ideas or take on the budget yourselves. JM: Is there anything else before we close the meeting. BE: If you get it out and you know anybody who you want to be involved in the process more, ideas, to help with the processes so, don't be shy, let's talk about it. If you want me to put something up with what's changed before then. I'll certainly make that available. MD: I had some questions about the Treasurer's report. What I will do is ask those questions when she gives her report. Facilitator: We're almost out of time. BB: Judy, you have another item. Would the Executive committee reach out to the Process committee regarding people not in good standing. Is that what your talking about. MD: Judy, you can discuss it, we have 2 more minutes. It's on the agenda let's talk about it. JM: You want to talk about it Judy? BB: Judy she said she wanted to on the agenda. She wanted it on this EC agenda JH: Not interested in discussing. MD: One final word. My questions of the treasurer are not malicious questions. I am not saying You're doing anything wrong. I just want some answers to some of these questions. I will raise them when you give your report and in a respectful way. Just a procedural issue that should be clarified one way or the other. So we're all on the same page. Meeting ends at 9PM. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Jan 11 09:12:02 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:12:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Davis is out of race Message-ID: <20060111141202.93777.qmail@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Davis is out of race Wednesday, January 11, 2006 BY DAVID PARKER Copyright ? 2006 Republican-American PLYMOUTH -- Bill C. Davis, prize-winning playwright and local resident, is no longer a candidate for Congress. Davis confirmed Tuesday he has withdrawn as a Green Party candidate for the 5th Congressional District seat held for 12 terms by Republican Nancy Johnson of New Britain. The dramatist, whose "Mass Appeal" and other works have played to full houses and strong reviews both in this country and overseas, launched his political campaign late last summer. Davis decided to drop the effort, he said, after seeing disarray in Green ranks that he felt would disrupt the campaign. He said the recent decision of longtime Green leader Tom Sevigny of Canton to resign his party roles was a big factor in his own thinking. "); //--> "Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me," Davis said. Davis' decision leaves Johnson, who is expected to seek a 13th term this November, with at least two announced challengers, both Democrats. They are state Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Cheshire, and Paul Vance Jr., chairman of the Board of Aldermen in Waterbury. As for Davis, he said that "I will just keep doing what I do, writing plays, many of which have both a political element and a personal story." Current projects, he said, include a new drama, "Spine," which recently had a workshop performance in New York, and another work, "The Sex King =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Jan 11 13:54:47 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:54:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} PA Governor race(- Growing Greens) Message-ID: <20060111185447.58921.qmail@web81402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> GOVERNOR'S RACE: Yorker plans Green run Daily Record/Sunday News York Daily Record/Sunday News Jan 11, 2006 ? York resident Marakay Rogers has announced her intention to run for state governor next year as the Green Party candidate. Rogers, 43, has a law practice in downtown York and served as state chairwoman of the Pennsylvania Green Party in 2005. She ran unsuccessfully for state attorney general as a Green Party candidate in 2004. She will be running against Democratic incumbent Gov. Ed Rendell. Former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann has announced his intention to run as a Republican. "What I'm particularly interested in is presenting the public with an alternative to a football player and a governor who believes in turning our state into a giant slots parlor as a way to save our school system," Rogers said. =========================================================== 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. 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The meeting will take place @ the CT Citizen Action Group office at 139 Vanderbilt Ave. West Hartford CT. (860-947-2200) We will be attending their CFR meeting(Campaign Finance Reform) where we will have an opportunity to make our case that the law as written is discriminatory against third parties and independent candidates. Our objective (in my opinion) is to try to get CCAG and other groups attending to support a legislative change of the 20% rule and other aspects of the bill that discriminate against us and are probably unconstitionional. This meeting will also allow us an opportunity to speak with Mr. Vann about the American Civil Liberties Union-CT's position on this issue. Atty. Steve Fornier continues his legal research on our behalf and is preparing the structure of a legal case for us on a pro-se and pro-bono basis. Important national and international attorney's who might help us have been contacted and we hope they will assist us in our legal case. 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(860-947-2200) We will be attending their CFR meeting(Campaign Finance Reform) where we will have an opportunity to make our case that the law as written is discriminatory against third parties and independent candidates. Our objective (in my opinion) is to try to get CCAG and other groups attending to support a legislative change of the 20% rule and other aspects of the bill that discriminate against us and are probably unconstitionional. This meeting will also allow us an opportunity to speak with Mr. Vann about the American Civil Liberties Union-CT's position on this issue. Atty. Steve Fornier continues his legal research on our behalf and is preparing the structure of a legal case for us on a pro-se and pro-bono basis. Important national and international attorney's who might help us have been contacted and we hope they will assist us in our legal case. All Greens are welcome and encouraged to come and express their opinion on this important issue. 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The agenda will include a presentation by Anstress Farwell of the New Haven Urban Design League concerning developments at Yale/New Haven Hospital and the proposed Cancer Center. Also present to discuss the Cancer Center will be Gwen Mills of CCNE and CORD. In addition, Kelly McCarthy and Aaron Gustafson, formerly of the Hamden Greens will be present to discuss the reasons for their resignations from the CT Green Party Executive Committee. Below are the minutes from the last chapter meeting. ------------------------------------------------- New HavenReminder: Chapter meeting - Thurs. Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at NeverEndingBookStore - 812 State Street (on the west side, between Pearl and Eld Streets, and across the street from Ralph Ferrucci's apartment, in case you were wondering). Special guests: Anstress Farwell, Urban Design League, and Gwen Mills, CCNE/CORD, to talk about the Cancer Center and the Hill, followed by conversation with Aaron Gustafson and Kelly McCarthy. Please join us in this new venue in this new year, and thanks to Roger for inviting us to use the BookStore as a meeting place. ----- Original Message ----- From: allan brison Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:17 PM Subject: [newhavengreens] Chapter meeting - Thurs Jan 19 at NeverEndingBookStore - 812 State Street Green Party Meeting - 12/15/05 - Minutes First Draft Format Note: actions approved by the meeting are shown in Bold Italics. Meeting was opened shortly after 7:30. In attendance were: Linda Muirhead from DFA Bob Bloch Robin Schafer Charlie Pillsbury David Eliscu Daniel Sumrall Jerry Martin Allan Brison Mary Anne (arrived late) 1. Introductions, Review Agenda, Appoint Secretary and Facilitator for Meeting. Allan was appointed Secretary and Charlie was appointed Facilitator for meeting. 2. State Meeting Report (Daniel and Allan) State Party Finances. The state party was left some money in a will which has enabled the recent Modified Consensus Procedure workshop and will enable the chapters to receive the money owed by the state due to the Hartford office loans. Our chapter is owed about $1200. The state agreed to pay an outstanding debt also in conjunction with the Hartford office. Campaign Finance Legislation. The anti-3rd party aspect to this legislation were brought to our attention. A press release will put out on the GP position. Candidates for 2006. The state is hoping to run candidates for Governor and other state offices. Next Meeting. The next meeting will be on Dec 27 and will be more of a social meeting than business. 3. Resignations from State party (David, Allan and others) David expressed concern about the recent resignations from the Green Party of two of the three State Co-Chairs, Aaron Gustafson and Kelly McCarthy; and long time member and state delegate to the USGP, Tom Sevigny. There was a difference of opinion as to what Kelly had said in her resignation statement. Allan agreed to provide those present with her statement via email. Most present had not seen Tom's explanation post and Allan agreed to provide that as well. We agreed that some overtures should be made to Kelly and Aaron. Charlie agreed to invite them to our January meeting. 4. Report on Ad Hoc meeting to discuss electoral strategy (Daniel, Allan, and Jerry) Daniel, Jerry, Allan, and Mary Anne met on Wed (Dec 14), as per last month's chapter meeting, to discuss various aspects of party functioning. Ralph Ferrucci was unable to attend due to his father's illness. As we each had a different idea as to what we were meeting for, we neglected to cover what was apparently the main mission, ie, that of planning for our Jan 21 retreat meeting. What we discussed instead were: a. New Haven Green's website page Jerry and Daniel are working together to develop this page. Aside from general outreach, the importance includes having a place where policies can be stored as such policies are developed. (See next topic). Also, monitoring hits on the website is a good way of determining the effectiveness of our various actions, outreach efforts, letters to media, etc. Jerry and Daniel could use help from people with website-creation expertise. b. Policy Development Forums If the GP is indeed to be a party of issues rather than personalities, it seems evident that we need to develop platform policies. One way to do that and, at the same time, to combine Outreach and Educational objectives, is to have public Policy Development Forums. The idea would be to pick a topic, such as City Development Strategy, and to invite several experts to speak on this subject. The meetings would be open to the public and would provide for the public to ask questions of the speakers and to make comments. The speakers would usually represent community organizations with whom we either have, or would like to have, a partnering relationship. The GP would take notes on all comments, ask questions ourselves, and then, in private, hash out a GP position on that topic. The positions would be developed by consensus, or possibly by Modified Consensus Procedure (MCP). This process would engage the speakers, the organizations they represent, and the public, in helping us to develop such policies. It would serve both educational and outreach objectives. c. Media The committee feels that the GP would benefit from a much more organized response to media articles. The current situation is that on rare occasion one of us may write a letter to the editor, such as Allan's recent letter in response to Andy Bromage's Register election article; or Daniel's as yet unpublished letter in response to the GP bashing letter in a recent Advocate. Ideally we would have several members writing letters and press releases on a much more frequent basis. To this end, we suggest that one or more GP members subscribe to the Register and scan it daily for articles that we ought to comment on, and to have designated members ready to put out press releases and write letters. This process would work best if there were several people involved who could bounce ideas off each other. It would be good if there were multiple responses, each covering a different aspect of the issue involved, and each one clearly stated as coming from a GP member. d. informal meet-ups The committee feels that our current chapter meetings, emphasizing business aspects, should not be expected to serve as an outreach tool. Chapter meetings have not proven effective for inspiring new members. Nor are chapter meetings ideal for developing new ideas. This can require more informal discussions with less time constraints. To address both these points, the committee feels that it would be good to have regular informal meetings in a public place. The chapter, as a whole, agreed to the idea of these meetings. The first one will be at Book Traders, on Chapel near York (??) on Tuesday, Jan 3 at 7pm. Allan and Jerry are committed to being present. The goal is to hold these meetings weekly. 5. CORD Rally (Robin, Daniel, Jerry and Allan) Robin, Allan, Daniel, Jerry, and Mary Anne participated in the Rally which was on Tues (12/13/05). The event consisted of a march from Career High to the Hospital for a rally. About 400 people turned out despite the extreme cold (wind chill around 0 degrees F.) Both the march and the rally were extremely spirited. The Green Party was responsible for turning out, at last count, 23 people to the rally. There may have been more because the winter clothing made recognition difficult and there were people coming that I didn't know. Robin expressed concern that the rally had been too narrowly focused on the unionization issue at the expense of the other CORD issues (affordable housing, affordable health care, environment concerns, traffic and parking, tax base erosion, etc). The chapter decided to have Allan address this issue with Scott Marks and to report back at the next meeting and by email. 6. **David's alternative development suggestion (David) 7. NE Greenhouse Gas Initiative (Robin) Robin reported that Governor Rell has announced that she will sign on to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Robin and Daniel agreed to put out a press release to praise her for that action. As Mitzi has pointed out in her recent posts there is an important caveat here. If greenhouse gas emission reduction is achieved by reliance on nuclear energy, as the Republicans are trying to push, it will be a dangerous, pernicious, and self-defeating policy. 8. New Haven Democracy Fund proposal for Public Financing of Municipal Elections (Charlie) The New Haven Democracy Fund has developed an excellent proposal for campaign finance reform for municipal elections. Daniel Weeks, a Yale grad student has been prominent in this endeavor. This plan does NOT discriminate against 3rd party or independent candidates as the recently passed state legislation does. (see next topic.) Up until now, the plan could not be implemented without enabling legislation from the state. This enabling legislation was passed as a part of the new state campaign finance reform bill. This means that NHDF proposal could be immediately effective. Charlie proposed and the chapter agreed to have Charlie, on behalf of the chapter, join the NHDF coalition and sign on to a statement urging the Board of Alderman and the Mayor to adopt this plan. 9. Green Party challenge to the state Campaign Finance Reform legislation. (Charlie) The state has just passed much needed and sweeping Campaign Finance Reform legislation. This is being hailed around the country by Common Cause and others as a landmark bill, the first time any state legislature has tackled this issue. The bill, however, royally screws 3rd party and independent candidates, in effect making public financing only available to Dems and Repugs. Charlie proposed and the chapter agreed to place on the agenda for the next State GP meeting a proposal to fight to amend this legislation, or, if necessary, to join in a law suit against the anti-3rd party clauses. 10. Exploratory Discussion with non-GP candidates. (Allan) At the last chapter meeting, Allan and Daniel and Ralph were going to seek meetings with ward 23 independent candidate, Clarissa Brown, and Guilty Party candidate for mayor, Leslie Blateau. These meetings have not yet taken place due to Ralph's intense exam schedule followed closely by his father's illness, and to Daniel's judgment that we should wait to talk to Clarissa. (Daniel lives in her ward and met with her during her campaign.) 11. Election Post-Mortem (David) David suggested and the chapter agreed to set up a special meeting with Eric Brown to discuss the mayoral election. Charlie volunteered to contact Eric. 12. Announcements and Coming Events (various) -Jan 3, Tuesday, 7pm - First of our planned series of informal meet-ups at Book Traders. -Jan 19, Thursday, 7:30pm - NHGP chapter meeting -Jan 21: Retreat to discuss Electoral Strategies for 2006-2007 (details to come). (DATE HAS CHANGED - TBD) *-(Robin) care2 air quality EJN. -(Bob) Nelson Lichtenstein who has written a good book on Wal-Mart will be at Yale soon (details to come). 13. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 9:15pm. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nectgreens at hotmail.com Sun Jan 15 13:02:35 2006 From: nectgreens at hotmail.com (NECT Greens) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:02:35 +0000 Subject: {news} FW: Beat Lieberman! Message-ID: >From: "Owen Sullivan" >To: VantageTax at aol.com >CC: nectgreens at hotmail.com >Subject: Beat Lieberman! >Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:12:56 +0000 > _________________________________________________________________ Don?t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- Dear Sir or Madam, I'm willing to bet Connecticut Republicans won't even put up a candidate to contest Lieberman's US Senate seat this year. And why should they? Now that Zell Miller has apparently left the stage, Joe Lieberman easily fills the pro-war, pro-Bush, pro-Likud bill for them. If ever there was a merger of Democrats and Republicans...this is it. There isn't even a pretense of substantive difference between the two. At best it's just coke vs. pepsi. So it's high time to point out the lie in Lieberman. Will the Green Party of Connecticut consider a Draft Ralph Nader or Draft Jennifer Harbury anti-war Senatorial candidacy to defeat Joe Lieberman this Fall? Nader from Winsted and Harbury from Woodbridge are both Connecticut natives. You will need a candidate who has instant name recognition (unlike Cobb) that most of the anti-war progressive left can get behind happily and noisely. If you're interested...then so am I. Let me know. In the meantime, have a look at the news article below that was published recently in the Waterbury Republican. Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, but I smell blood in the water (aka opportunity). Sincerely, Owen M. Sullivan, Esq. Lieberman loses party support, still favorite Thursday, January 12, 2006 associated press Copyright ? 2006 AP Wire HARTFORD -- U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's support of the war in Iraq has cost him some support in his home state, but most voters believe he should be re-elected, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Sixty-two percent of Connecticut voters approve of the way the Democratic senator is handling his job, while 24 percent do not and the rest don't know, according to the telephone survey. Meanwhile, 64 percent said Lieberman should be re-elected in November, 24 percent said he should not and the remainder didn't know. Seventy-five percent of Republicans, 61 percent of unaffiliated voters and 59 percent of Democrats said Lieberman deserves re-election. "While Sen. Lieberman has lost support among some Democrats, probably because of his strong support for the war in Iraq, he helps make up for it with support from Republicans," said Quinnipiac pollster Douglas Schwartz. Lieberman is seeking his fourth term in the U.S. Senate. A former state attorney general, he has enjoyed strong popularity, with approval numbers typically hovering around 70 percent, Schwartz said. Yet during the last presidential election, when Lieberman sought the Democratic nomination, some liberal Democrats openly backed former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean instead of rallying behind their homegrown candidate. The new poll shows that Connecticut voters strongly oppose the war and give President George Bush low approval ratings. Sixty-one percent of voters disapprove of the job Bush is doing, compared to 35 percent who approve. Although the latest poll results show a dip for Lieberman, Schwartz said the senator still appears to be politically healthy. "Any senator running for re-election this year would be extremely happy to have Lieberman's poll numbers," he said. A spokeswoman for Lieberman said the senator appreciates the continued support of his constituents. "We generally don't comment on specific polls, but there's no question many people in Connecticut admire Senator Lieberman for having the courage of his convictions, and for his service to our state and nation," said Casey Aden-Wansbury, the senator's communications director. "The senator is grateful for that support and intends to continue working hard everyday for the people of Connecticut." No candidate, Republican or Democrat, has yet filed the necessary paperwork to oppose Lieberman in November. http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=1412 From JeandeSmet at galaxyinternet.net Sun Jan 15 15:50:56 2006 From: JeandeSmet at galaxyinternet.net (Jean de Smet) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:50:56 -0500 Subject: {news} Green Party Internal Elections and Convention Message-ID: <003901c61a15$6d7298e0$72b2d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> At the December State Green Meeting, it was decided to hold Internal Elections at the same time as a Convention to endorse candidates for statewide and federal offices, in March. We will do a mailing to all Green members whom we can find through chapter and/or secretary of state's lists. This is a good opportunity to reach out to and organize those members we've never met. Please let your members know that we need: Candidates for internal offices: Co-Chairs, Treasurer, Secretary and GP Reps and Alternates See attached. Candidates/suggestions for State and Federal Officers Help on the Internal Elections Committee: Mostly getting a mailing out in timely manner, then counting. Your latest chapter mailing lists. Let me know who your listkeeper is, and I'll email our format out, so we can all merge easily. Muchos Gracias for your cooperation. Jean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: invitation to run.doc Type: application/msword Size: 28160 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kumfry at yahoo.com Sun Jan 15 17:32:00 2006 From: kumfry at yahoo.com (Kenneth Humphrey) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:32:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} FW: Beat Lieberman! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060115223200.55706.qmail@web32804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Lieberman must be ousted from office. Do you have sources for more personal background on Jennifer Harbury, i.e., age, her growing up years, etc. Sort of a bio for candidacy purposes, since her background concerning Guatemala and her ordeal in dealing with the treatment of her husband is more readily accessible. Ken Humphrey --- NECT Greens wrote: > > > > >From: "Owen Sullivan" > >To: VantageTax at aol.com > >CC: nectgreens at hotmail.com > >Subject: Beat Lieberman! > >Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:12:56 +0000 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don?t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN > Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I'm willing to bet Connecticut Republicans won't > even put up a candidate to > contest Lieberman's US Senate seat this year. And > why should they? Now that > Zell Miller has apparently left the stage, Joe > Lieberman easily fills the > pro-war, pro-Bush, pro-Likud bill for them. > > If ever there was a merger of Democrats and > Republicans...this is it. There > isn't even a pretense of substantive difference > between the two. At best > it's just coke vs. pepsi. > > So it's high time to point out the lie in Lieberman. > > Will the Green Party of Connecticut consider a Draft > Ralph Nader or Draft > Jennifer Harbury anti-war Senatorial candidacy to > defeat Joe Lieberman this > Fall? Nader from Winsted and Harbury from > Woodbridge are both Connecticut > natives. > > You will need a candidate who has instant name > recognition (unlike Cobb) > that most of the anti-war progressive left can get > behind happily and > noisely. > > If you're interested...then so am I. > > Let me know. In the meantime, have a look at the > news article below that > was published recently in the Waterbury Republican. > Maybe it's just wishful > thinking on my part, but I smell blood in the water > (aka opportunity). > > Sincerely, > > Owen M. Sullivan, Esq. > > > Lieberman loses party support, still favorite > > Thursday, January 12, 2006 > > associated press > > > Copyright ? 2006 AP Wire > > HARTFORD -- U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's support of > the war in Iraq has cost > him some support in his home state, but most voters > believe he should be > re-elected, according to a Quinnipiac University > poll released Wednesday. > > Sixty-two percent of Connecticut voters approve of > the way the Democratic > senator is handling his job, while 24 percent do not > and the rest don't > know, according to the telephone survey. > > Meanwhile, 64 percent said Lieberman should be > re-elected in November, 24 > percent said he should not and the remainder didn't > know. > > Seventy-five percent of Republicans, 61 percent of > unaffiliated voters and > 59 percent of Democrats said Lieberman deserves > re-election. > > "While Sen. Lieberman has lost support among some > Democrats, probably > because of his strong support for the war in Iraq, > he helps make up for it > with support from Republicans," said Quinnipiac > pollster Douglas Schwartz. > > > Lieberman is seeking his fourth term in the U.S. > Senate. A former state > attorney general, he has enjoyed strong popularity, > with approval numbers > typically hovering around 70 percent, Schwartz said. > > Yet during the last presidential election, when > Lieberman sought the > Democratic nomination, some liberal Democrats openly > backed former Vermont > Gov. Howard Dean instead of rallying behind their > homegrown candidate. > > The new poll shows that Connecticut voters strongly > oppose the war and give > President George Bush low approval ratings. > > Sixty-one percent of voters disapprove of the job > Bush is doing, compared to > 35 percent who approve. > > Although the latest poll results show a dip for > Lieberman, Schwartz said the > senator still appears to be politically healthy. > > "Any senator running for re-election this year would > be extremely happy to > have Lieberman's poll numbers," he said. > > A spokeswoman for Lieberman said the senator > appreciates the continued > support of his constituents. > > "We generally don't comment on specific polls, but > there's no question many > people in Connecticut admire Senator Lieberman for > having the courage of his > convictions, and for his service to our state and > nation," said Casey > Aden-Wansbury, the senator's communications > director. "The senator is > grateful for that support and intends to continue > working hard everyday for > the people of Connecticut." > > No candidate, Republican or Democrat, has yet filed > the necessary paperwork > to oppose Lieberman in November. > > > http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=1412 > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Jan 16 10:45:18 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:45:18 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Greens still exercise power in Germany, despite 2004 election results (Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation) Message-ID: <09df01c61ab3$e839d450$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: ; Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:55 PM Subject: USGP-INT Greens still exercise power in Germany, despite 2004 election results (Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation) > Green Power > > By Mark Hertsgaard > The Nation, posted January 11, 2006 (January 30, > 2006 issue) > http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/hertsgaard > > > Last fall's elections in Germany knocked the > Green Party out of the government but not, it > seems, out of power. From 1998 to 2005, the > Greens had helped govern Germany as the junior > partner in a red-green coalition led by the > Social Democratic Party. Following inconclusive > elections this past September, the red-green > government was replaced by a so-called grand > coalition between the SPD and an alliance of two > conservative parties, the Christian Democratic > Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union, > headed by Angela Merkel. The Greens were left > out. Yet their influence on public policy > persists, as illustrated by one of the first > actions Merkel took as Chancellor. > > Embracing a green jobs program the Greens had > long championed, Merkel decreed that from now on > 5 percent of all pre-1978 German housing would be > made energy efficient every year. Toward that > end, the government will spend 1.5 billion euros > a year subsidizing the installation of more > efficient insulation, heating and electricity > systems in houses and apartment buildings across > the nation. That is a major outlay of money, > especially considering widespread calls to trim > Germany's budget deficit, but the program is seen > as a win-win-win. The 1.5 billion euros will be > recouped through lower energy bills. Lower energy > use will mean less air pollution and lower > greenhouse gas emissions. And, most important of > all for a nation fighting double-digit rates of > unemployment, the efficiency upgrades will create > thousands of jobs that cannot be outsourced > overseas. Because efficiency renovations are > highly labor-intensive and by their nature > localized, the program will provide jobs for > countless German carpenters, electricians and > other construction workers. Since much of > Germany's pre-1978 housing is located in the > former East Germany, most of the new jobs will be > created there, where unemployment and the social > tensions it fosters are greatest. > > "The new government is clearly following our > lead," says Reinhard Bütikofer, Green Party > chair. "This will not only strengthen climate > policy but create many new jobs. We in fact > started that program while in the [red-green] > government, and we had to defend it a couple of > times against the SPD finance minister." > > Twenty-five years after their founding, the > German Greens remain without question the most > influential environmentally based party ever. > They have exercised decisive effect not only on > government policy but on the underlying terrain > of social values and beliefs that shape policy, > and they have done so both at home and abroad. > During the 2005 election campaign, recalls Patrik > Schwarz of the German weekly Die Zeit, who has > written extensively about the party, "the Greens > would say, half-jokingly, that if they had not > helped to usher in changes in German politics and > society over the past twenty years, you never > would have seen a woman [Merkel] heading the CDU > ticket or an openly gay man [Guido Westerwelle] > leading the [business-based] Free Democratic > Party." One month after Merkel's announcement, > the European Bank for Reconstruction and > Development also copied the Greens when its > president, Jean Lemierre, announced that Eastern > European countries would have to improve their > energy efficiency in order to continue receiving > loans. > > During their years governing the world's > third-biggest economy, the Greens also showed > they could be trusted with the reins of power > without losing their edge. They demanded and won > an internationally unprecedented phaseout of > nuclear power--nineteen reactors, which supply 30 > percent of Germany's electricity, are scheduled > to close by 2020--and made up the shortfall by > sponsoring a renewable energy sources law that > has already doubled German production of solar, > wind and other renewable energies and is > projected to raise their share of German energy > consumption to 65 percent by 2050. Under the > leadership of the party's most popular figure, > Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, the Greens > transformed Germany's foreign policy and global > image, leaving behind their own historical > pacifism and the nation's historically reflexive > pro-Americanism. Fischer enraged both the Greens' > left wing, by supporting international > peacekeeping missions in the Balkans and > Afghanistan, and the Bush Administration, by > leading European resistance to the Iraq War. > > But if the Greens are so clever, why were they > voted out last September? Bütikofer insists > the defeat wasn't the Greens' fault, and the data > support him. Since joining the government in > 1998, the Greens have increased their share of > the vote in national elections from 6.7 percent > to 8.1 percent. It was the decline of former > Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's SPD, whose > support fell from 40.9 to 34.2 percent over the > past seven years thanks to a failure to conquer > Germany's unemployment crisis, that doomed the > red-green government. In the lead-up to the > election, polls showed the SPD trailing the CDU > by as much as twenty points. Thus, says Schwarz, > "The Greens didn't have the functional argument > going for them this election. They couldn't > campaign saying, 'Vote Green and you'll get a > red-green government.'" > > Looking forward, the Greens face the challenge of > replacing Fischer (who announced his retirement > from the party leadership) and, above all, > sharpening their appeal on economic issues. "Ask > Germans which party is the most competent on > consumer or energy or especially environmental > issues, and it's the Greens," says party chair > Bütikofer. "But on the economy we're not > respected a lot, so that's where we have to do > the most work." > > The Greens are, after all, implicated in the > economic shortcomings of the red-green > government, whose reform of Germany's social > welfare state went too far for many on the left > but not far enough for business and others on the > right. (The new Left Party capitalized on > workers' dissatisfactions with the red-green > reforms to win 8.7 percent of the 2005 vote, > nosing ahead of the Greens.) Arguing that wealth > cannot be distributed unless it is first created, > the Greens now present themselves as the party of > market-friendly modernizations. "We must find > answers to globalization, to independence from > oil, to integration of foreigners" into German > society, says Renate Künast, the new > co-leader of the party's parliamentary faction. > "We don't want to leave this up to the market > alone, because the market follows and rewards > only the interests of shareholders. The > government must set rules...so that a worker is > not just a pawn in the game of economic > interests. That is modern left politics." > > The green jobs program that Chancellor Merkel > borrowed from the Greens is a key example of the > larger argument the Greens will continue to push, > says Bütikofer--that "what has traditionally > been called 'industrial policy' should instead be > renamed and pursued as 'environmental policy.'" > The Greens' Renewable Energy Sources law likewise > "sent the message that ecological innovation and > jobs go together," Bütikofer adds. The > renewable energy industry now employs 130,000 > workers in Germany. Because parts of the law on > renewables have since been copied by forty-one > other nations, including China, German exports of > renewable energy technology should grow, yielding > even more jobs in the future. > > At age twenty-five the Greens have left behind > their militant past to become a center-left > party; Green leaders speak as critically of the > alleged "demagoguery" of the Left Party as they > do of the "market radicalism" of the right-wing > Free Democratic Party. Much of what the party has > accomplished at home is not transferable to > countries with nonparliamentary electoral > systems; in the winner-take-all United States, > getting 8 percent of the vote is a ticket to > nowhere. But Germany is rich and powerful enough > that its actions have a global effect. In the > past seven years the Greens seeded a worldwide > renewable energy revolution while helping to > weaken the Bush Administration's drive to war in > Iraq. Those are impressive achievements, and if > the party can further find its voice on economic > matters, they could be just the beginning. From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Jan 16 14:06:34 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:06:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Thornton For Gov. Updates- filing Committee Tuesday! Message-ID: <20060116190634.73432.qmail@web81411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Folks, Some important updates for you! Thornton For Governor will be official Tuesday with the filing at the Sec of State office at 9 am.!! Donna Byrne-McKee will be the Treasurer of the Committee with the address of the committee as: Thornton for Governor 13 Conestoga Way Glastonbury, CT 06033 The website is : www.votethornton.com email: info at votethornton.com We also now have a yahoo group! please sign up>> votethorton at yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VoteThorton/?yguid=217140910 More information coming soon about an announcement! Tim McKee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Jan 16 15:54:14 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:54:14 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw:1/19/06, Yale Event against historian who supports American Indian genocide Message-ID: <0b4f01c61adf$0444ba40$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> For immediate release Middle East Crisis Committee January 16, 2006 Contact: Stan Heller, 203-934-2761 Committee to Picket Genocide Apologist at Yale The Middle East Crisis Committee will hold informational picketing at Yale University to protest the appearance of Israeli historian Benny Morris, who has defended the genocide of American Indians and supports ethnic cleaning of Palestinians. The event will take place outside Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. on Thursday, January 19 at 3:45 p.m. Morris's talk is sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Stanley Heller, MECC chairperson, cited Morris's comments supporting the genocide of American Indians in an interview in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz as one reason to protest his appearance at the ivy league campus. "Benny Morris has made outrageous statements about what was done to American Indians. In the interview he said, 'Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history,' " Heller said.*. Heller said that Morris uses his "Nazi-like defense of the genocide of Indians" to justify the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians who were uprooted and driven from their homes in 1948 when the state of Israel was created. The Ha'aretz interview quotes Morris as saying, "When the choice is between ethnic cleansing and genocide -- the annihilation of your people -- I prefer ethnic cleansing... A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians." But Morris's support of ethnic cleansing is not a thing of the past, Heller said. "Morris even has stated that under certain circumstances he would support ethnic cleaning of Palestinians today -- even Israeli Arab citizens. He called them `a time bomb' and an 'emissary of the enemy that is among us,' " Heller said. Morris's appearance at Yale comes less than two months after the university awarded its first Henry Roe Cloud Medal in honor of the first American Indian who graduated from Yale in 1910, aid Gale Courey Toensing, a representative of Al Awda CT. Al Awda, which means ``Return," advocates for the rights of ethnically cleansed Palestinians to return to their homes and lands in historic Palestine, a right upheld in international law and dozens of United Nations resolutions. Henry Roe Cloud, Winnebago, was a champion of Indian rights and became a spokesman in Washington on American Indian policy issues. Yale presented the Henry Roe Cloud Medal to Philip ''Sam'' Deloria, Standing Rock Sioux, a leading Indian legal and human rights activist, who comes from a family of religious leaders, scholars and writers. Deloria has made outstanding contributions in forwarding human rights for Indians, advancing and preserving tribal sovereignty, developing tribal self-government, and defining the relationship between sovereign tribal governments and states. "How ironic that Yale would now honor a man who supports the historic annihilation of Red Cloud and Deloria's people -- the indigenous people of America. Hopefully, there are no historians at Yale or any American university who would support Morris's claim that the annihilation of American Indians was justified," Courey Toensing said. Heller called on the university to cancel the Morris event. "There's no place for this racist garbage at a university. The invitation to Morris should be withdrawn." For more information contact Stanley Heller at 203-934-2761. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Arnold Schwarzenegger Julia Willebrand USGP International Committee Co-chair FPVA Co-president 212 877-5088-- ------ Forwarded Message From: Fred Hosea III Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:54:52 -0800 (PST) To: intcomm at gp-us.org Cc: CA Delegates Subject: 2 proposed actions: for Pres. Evo Morales and against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Attn: Time Value Dear members of the GPUS International Committee, I would like to submit two very different draft resolutions for the GPUS/IC to consider in the coming days. These drafts have been circulated for review within the GPCA International Protocol committee as well as our other state-level working groups and committees, and there have been no objections to submitting them to the GPUS/IC for your consideration and action. Evo Morales - In light of the recent election of Sr. Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia, I've drafted a Resolution of congratulation and support on behalf of the GPUS. Sr. Morales is the first indigenous person to be elected to the Bolivian presidency, and his election marks a significant cumulative turn in Latin American politics, along with Chavez in Venezuela, to a lesser degree Lula in Brazil and Kirschner in Argentina, and today's election of Socialist Michelle Bachelet as Chile's first woman president. In my new role as a GPCA delegate to the GPUS, I'm hoping to develop an active program for alliance building with indigenous and unrepresented peoples around the world, and I see this triumph of indigenous people in Bolivia as a great place to start. Sr. Morales will be inaugurated on Jan. 22nd, and I'm hoping the GPUS Int. Committee can approve this in time to send to him for that date, or as soon thereafter as possible. I'd like to request that the final document be sent in English, Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua, and copies be sent to a selected list of indigenous coalitions in Latin America. I'll be glad to assist with finding the translators. It's my hope that we can have a standing process by which we can quickly send similar resolutions to other foreign officials who are elected on the basis of programs and principles that are substantially in harmony with those of the Green Party, and where no Green Party candidate has run in opposition. Today's runoff election in Chile, where Michelle Bachelet is now being declared victorious, is a prime example. I would invite the GPUS/IC to work on a resolution in her honor as well. And on another, less pleasant subject ... Arnold Schwarzenegger - Tomorrow might (Jan. 16th) brings yet another dismal vigil for a San Quentin execution in California, at the hands of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - the 3rd of his short career. This resolution expresses support for the call by Austrian Greens last year to revoke the Austrian citizenship of Arnold Schwarzenegger for his participation in acts that are forbidden to Austrian citizens. By continuing to focus international attention upon the death penalty in the US, and shaming its practitioners, we will help re-inforce the important message that not all Americans are barbarians, and that the Green Party is the leading political advocate internationally for abolition of the death penalty. ============================================ The People of the Green Party of the United States salute the People of Bolivia and your newly elected President, His Excellency President Evo Morales. The People of the Republic of Bolivia have expressed their strong political will through the revolutionary election of Mr. Evo Morales as President of the Republic, and The Green Party celebrates this election as a powerful demonstration of the growing strength of democratic processes in Bolivia and of the leadership of indigenous peoples, which we see as a promising and construtive force in social political, and economic life. We celebrate the Bolivian People and President Morales as part of a growing movement in the hemisphere that is demanding a new era of government that will serve all the people, and not just a privileged minority. The Green Party of the United States affirms with the Bolivian people your deep community values and your aspirations for peace, human rights, social justice, and sustainable economic development, and we share with you the imperatives: ? To end the use of armed forces and police violence as instruments of political control and oppression of the poor, of dissidents, of indigenous peoples, of unions, of advocates for environmental protections and protectors of human rights. ? To increase controls over multi-national corporations in all affairs impacting the health, safety, and wellbeing of Bolivia's people, your natural resources, your natural environment, and your models for economic development. ? To reject the destructive influence of international lending bodies and trade organizations whose neoliberal and imperial agendas have increased poverty, debt, and national vulnerability worldwide. ? To end the legacies of colonialism, racism and ethnic discrimination, and expand political processes to involve all citizens in the local and national decisions that affect them. ? To establish regional economic alliances that protect the people against the economic vulnerabilities of the globalized economic system, and that serve as a counter-force to fight the destructive economic forces of globalism. We extend our strongest congratulations to you all and send our wishes for your brave efforts to create an "Axis of Good" that will be an inspiring example not only for Latin America, but for all peoples of the world. We extend our hand of friendship and solidarity, and offer our support for the progressive political agenda you have declared. ===================================== Resolution of the International Protocol Committee of the Green Party California December 28thth, 2005 The International Protocol Committee of the Green Party of California with due consideration hereby approves and issues this Resolution in support of an Austrian Greens proposal to revoke the Austrian citizenship of the current Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. We understand that the revocation of citizenship has been formally requested by Green Party members of the Austrian Parliament as a consequence of the California Governor's recent official involvement in permitting the execution of Citizens of the United States and the State of California, actions which are illegal as an activity of either a State or a person in Austria. Whereas Arnold Schwarzenegger has dual citizenship in the United States and Austria, and whereas the death penalty is illegal in Austria, and no Austrian citizen is legally permitted to participate in or order the execution of another human being, and Whereas the Green Party is locally and internationally dedicated to values of human life which oppose the death penalty as a matter of principle and rejects use of the death penalty as a policy of a modern and civilized society, and Whereas Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his current position as duly elected Governor of the State of California did on multiple occasions willfully and knowingly exercise his official executive powers as Governor to permit the execution of the death penalty against Donald Beardslee and Stanley Williams, persons incarcerated in California, and Whereas Green Parties around the world have a shared and continuing interest in the collective assertion and exercise of our fundamental values in the protection and advancement of human rights worldwide, in the advancement of high and maturing standards of civilization, and in the advancement of personal accountability for political actions, and Whereas we, as citizens of the State of California have a moral right and obligation to act both locally and globally in the vigorous prosecution of illegal conduct by all government officials, and in the criticism of official policy and conduct which offends the principles for which we stand, We hereby resolve to affirm and express our support, through the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States, for the proposed action in the Parliament of the Republic of Austria to revoke the Austrian Citizenship of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and for other pertinent and appropriate sanctions which the Austrian Parliament may enact in this regard. Affirmed, this 28th day of December, 2005. The Green Party of California, International Protocol Committee Fred Hosea, Ph.D. Green Party of California (Alameda) California Delegate to the Green Party of the United States Coordinator: International Protocol Committee Activator: Diversity Outreach, Speaker/Entertainer Bureau 6925 Snake Road Oakland, CA 94611 Home 510-339-6781 Cell 510-684-6925 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ------ End of Forwarded Message -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Jan 16 21:51:07 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:51:07 +0000 Subject: {news} USGP-INT FW: 2 proposed actions: for Pres. Evo Morales In-Reply-To: <20060116215103.811D46CD2A8@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: President Morales has also stated he would not continute to enforce the drug war policy of eradicating coca farms in Bolivia. This came up in discussion with Cliff Thornton about international aspects of the drug war. Chilean Greens appear to support Bachelet: http://www.iepe.org/ Ecologistas Celebran Triunfo Electoral de Michelle Bachelet "Hoy se comienza a escribir otra historia de Chile, aquella donde el medio ambiente por fin tiene la relevancia que merece, estamos confiados en que Michelle Bachelet dar? cumplimiento a todos los compromisos asumidos con nuestro sector y nos har? avanzar en esta lucha por la protecci?n de nuestro medio ambiente y nuestros recursos naturales", as? Manuel Baquedano, Presidente del Instituto de Ecolog?a Pol?tica se refiri? al triunfo electoral de la Candidata de la Concertaci?n, sobre el candidato de la Alianza Sebasti?n Pi?era. [M?s Info] Peace & Power, David Bedell From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Jan 16 23:12:19 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:12:19 +0000 Subject: {news} RE: Green Party Internal Elections and Convention In-Reply-To: <20060115205150.C7E566CD29C@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: Jean, I'm reposting your announcement as plain text: Please notify as many of your chapter members as possible that Elections to State Green Offices will be held in March. All members are encouraged to run for office. The following one-year positions are available: Three CO-CHAIRS. Both genders must be represented Two Representatives and one alternate for REPRESENTATIVE to the GREEN PARTY of the UNITED STATES One SECRETARY One TREASURER Nominations or candidacies must be announced prior to or at the February 21st, 2006 State Central Committee meeting. Please contact: Jean de Smet 39 Davis St. Willimantic, CT 06226 860 456-2188 JeandeSmet@ galaxyinternet.net Please also note that there are openings on the Internal Elections Committee for anyone who would like to participate. We will also need volunteers to count the ballots at the Annual Meeting. ----Original Message Follows---- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:50:56 -0500 From: "Jean de Smet" Subject: {news} Green Party Internal Elections and Convention To: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: invitation to run.doc Type: application/msword Size: 28160 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://ml.greens.org/pipermail/ctgp-news/attachments/20060115/4c8228e0/invitationtorun.doc From smderosa at cox.net Tue Jan 17 01:16:54 2006 From: smderosa at cox.net (smderosa) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:16:54 -0500 Subject: {news} LA Weekly article on G.I. Joe Lieberman and his discontents Message-ID: <20060117061657.UZGV19943.eastrmmtao04.cox.net@userb649154f63> Here is an article that is a bit dated but still full of interesting facts about our favorite republican by journalist Doug Ireland. It might be of use in understanding Corporate Joe and his views. Sincerely, Mike DeRosa HYPERLINK "http://www.laweekly.com/commonimages/logos/lalogo.gif" JULY 11 - 17, 2003 Holy Joe, Corporate Joe, G.I. Joe Will the real Senator Lieberman please stand up? by Doug Ireland HYPERLINK "http://www.laweekly.com/images/ink/03/34/sm34news2.jpg" (Illustration by Ismael Roldan) As Joe Lieberman spoke at Jesse Jackson?s Rainbow/PUSH forum for presidential contenders last month, the overwhelmingly black audience clapped when he quoted Martin Luther King Jr. Yet how many would have applauded if they?d known that the candidate from the Nutmeg State was a fan of the author of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, which promoted the junk-science-for-bigots theory that blacks are genetically inferior to whites? How many realized that he had declared affirmative action to be ?un-American,? called on the Democrats to abandon it and supported a California ballot initiative to ban it ? all of which once caused the Rev. Jesse Jackson to travel to New Haven for a rally to denounce ?Jesse Helms?Lieberman deals?? ?We submit to the senator of this state,? Jackson roared in 1995, ?that we have marched too long, and have died too young. We have been to too many funerals to turn back now! No, Mr. Lieberman, we are moving forward!? As recently as 1998, Lieberman?s Senate voting was so bad that the NAACP gave him a ?D? rating on its report card. This is just part of the record that Lieberman now tries to run away from. Most of the mainstream press corps keeps presenting a sanitized version of Lieberman?s bio, but some of the things he?d rather forget are well worth remembering now that he?s a national candidate. On March 9, 1995, in remarks at the National Press Club, as chairman of the pro-corporate Democratic Leadership Council, Lieberman denounced the case for affirmative action as ?an un-American argument because it?s based on averages, not individuals,? and went on to praise Ward Connerly?s Proposition 209, the misnamed ?California Civil Rights Initiative,? which outlawed affirmative action: ?I can?t see how I could be opposed to it, because it basically is a statement of American values.? The year before, the New Haven Advocate?s excellent Paul Bass ? who?s covered Lieberman for 22 years ? wrote, ?After meeting with racist scholar [and Bell Curve author] Charles Murray, Lieberman promoted Murray?s idea of taking children away from mothers on welfare and putting them in new government-run orphanages (rather than, for instance, boosting support for agencies seeking to keep together families in crisis).? Lieberman didn?t always talk that way ? he started out in politics as a supporter of Robert F. Kennedy and an opponent of the Vietnam War. When he represented a half?African-American New Haven district in the state Senate, he paraded himself as a liberal friend to the poor. What changed? Ambition, pure and simple. In the Reagan-landslide year of 1980, Lieberman ran for Congress ? and lost to a GOPer who cut Lieberman?s 17-point lead in the polls by attacking him as ?too liberal.? ?After he lost, Joe was advised by party stalwarts he couldn?t continue to be a progressive across the board if he wanted to move up,? recalls Irv Stolberg, the liberal former speaker of the Connecticut House, and later the founder of the state?s progressive Caucus of Concerned Democrats. It?s hardly surprising that Lieberman listened to the party bosses: His undergraduate thesis ? published in 1966 as a book, The Power Broker ? was a hagiography of the tough and cynical John Bailey, Connecticut?s legendary ham-fisted Democratic boss, whose creed was ?You do whatever you have to do to win.? Take the 1988 campaign in which Lieberman won a U.S. Senate seat by defeating liberal GOPer Lowell Weicker. In that campaign, Lieberman attacked Weicker ? who espoused views Lieberman once held ? from the right. He was so conservative in that race that William F. Buckley Jr., founder of the conservative National Review and a Connecticut native, formed a political action committee to raise money for Lieberman. For example, Lieberman redbaited Weicker for opposing the trade embargo against Cuba (and, then as later, raked in significant campaign cash from ultraright Cuban exiles). As a senator, Lieberman continued his path to the right. For example, Lieberman has a long record of political homophobia. Lieberman, who told the New Haven Advocate that ?homosexuality is wrong,? joined with notorious homo-hater Jesse Helms in voting to take away federal funding from schools that counsel suicidal gay teens that it?s okay to be gay. On gays in the military, Lieberman has enunciated the now-discredited canard that ?homosexual conduct can harm unit cohesion and effectiveness.? (Tell that to the dozens of countries, from England to Israel, that permit openly gay troops in their armed forces.) In fact, Lieberman worked with Georgia?s Sam Nunn to fashion the destructive ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy, which resulted in escalating expulsions of gays from the military every year after it took effect. Its Catch-22 provisions have directly stimulated a rising wave of violent gay bashing and harassment in the military because victims can?t complain without ?telling.? This is just part of the record that has made Lieberman his party?s most notorious theocrat. The Scripture-quoting Lieberman made God-bothering a staple of his 2000 vice-presidential campaign: That August, Holy Joe told a Detroit congregation never to imagine ?that morality can be maintained without religion.? This position was denounced as ?unsettling? by no less than the Anti-Defamation League of B?nai Brith (ADL), which released a letter to him arguing tartly that ?To even suggest that one cannot be a moral person without being a religious person is an affront to many highly ethical citizens.? Prayer in the schools? Holy Joe lined up with the GOP?s religious zealots to push it repeatedly in the Senate. Subsidizing parochial schools at the expense of public education? Holy Joe has sponsored legislation to give parents vouchers to send their kids to parochial schools, draining money from the public schools to which most Americans send their kids. And Lieberman just last year joined with rabid gay basher Rick Santorum ? the Pennsylvania Republican who compared same-sex love to bestiality and incest ? to co-sponsor George Bush?s faith-based initiatives, praising Bush?s ?leadership? in tearing down the constitutional barrier between church and state. The faith-based initiatives turned out in practice to be a political-patronage operation for churches and ministers that support Bush. Lieberman?s censorious partnership with slot-machine addict Bill Bennett in attacking the entertainment industry has been widely publicized. Less well known, however, are Lieberman?s ties to a skein of religious-right and conservative organizations. Holy Joe has been closely involved with The Empowerment Network (TEN), which proclaims that it ?provides the winning edge? on ?the unleashing of faith-based initiatives and cultural remedies.? Lieberman and his buddy Rick Santorum are listed by TEN as Empowerment Caucus chairmen. As Bill Berkowitz has reported in his ?Working for Change? column, TEN was ?founded in 1992 by a coterie of right-wing ideologues.? They include Clint Bollick of the anti?affirmative action, pro?school voucher Institute for Justice; David Caprara, TEN?s current president, lately the American Family Coalition?s national director, and a former top aide to Housing Secretary Jack Kemp in the Bush I administration; and Sam Brunelli, national finance chairman of the Republican Liberty Council. Lieberman, in 1995, joined with Lynne Cheney ? the wife of Dubya?s veep and a longtime left-baiter of academics in universities ? to found the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA, formerly the National Alumni Forum), whose mission was to fight ?political correctness? on campus. ACTA, which has helped whip up anti-intellectual hysteria in the post-9/11 period, came to public prominence when it issued and widely publicized a McCarthyite blacklist of 117 so-called ?anti-American academics? who questioned America?s infallibility in wartime. One of them was Douglas J. Bennet, the president of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. After this incident was aired in the Connecticut press, Holy Joe expressed ?regrets? to the university prez and asked ACTA to stop identifying him as a ?founder? on its Web site. But have-it-both-ways Joe didn?t resign from the group. Then there?s Lieberman?s long record of coddling Corporate America, as befits a DLC ideologue who benefits from corporate campaign cash. If the Democrats failed to make political hay out of the corporate scandals when they still had control of the Senate ? and thus blew a chance to revive their waning electoral fortunes ? it was in large measure due to the conciliatory spinelessness of Lieberman as former chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, which has primary jurisdiction over fraud and corruption within the executive branch. In an article, ?The Tyranny of Triangulation: Can Joe Lieberman Lead?,? in the May 20, 2002, issue of The American Prospect, Nicholas Confessore related how ?Three months after Lieberman said he would launch an investigation of Enron?s collapse, his committee has held only a handful of hearings and has yet to subpoena a single Bush administration official. Contrast [this] with [his predecessor, GOPer] Fred Thompson?s wide-ranging probe into fund-raising abuses during the 1996 election: The committee held 33 days of hearings, interviewed 200 witnesses, and issued dozens of subpoenas to Clinton administration officials.? When Lieberman gave what aides billed as a major Enron-related speech in New York entitled ?Business Ethics in the Post-Enron Era,? Lieberman told his audience that Enron was ?a grand metaphor? ? not for the dangers of market fundamentalism or crony capitalism, but ?for the real human problems that profit pressure can produce when it is unchecked by personal principles or business ethics.? No mention from Lieberman of the many incestuous contacts Texan Ken Lay and his corrupt cronies had with top Bushies, including Vice President Dick Cheney, the husband of Joe?s pal. Holy Joe, of course, had taken Enron campaign cash, and his ex?chief of staff had become a pricey Enron lobbyist, as the AP later reported. There?s so much corporate water carrying in the senator?s record it?s hard to do it justice. A little-noticed Jim VandeHei story in the September 11, 2000, Wall Street Journal detailed how Lieberman was the insurance industry?s ?go-to guy on the Democratic side of the aisle.? He teamed up with Dick Armey to successfully limit lawsuits stemming from auto accidents by permitting lower rates for drivers who forfeit their right to sue for pain and suffering; and sponsored bills that limited legal damages against tobacco producers, HMOs and drug companies as well as against asbestos manufacturers and any business that manufactured a defective product ? and, by extension, protecting their insurance companies. The chief lobbyist for the American Tort Reform Association ? a lobby funded by manufacturers ? told the National Law Journal, ?If it were not for Lieberman, there would never have been a Biomaterials Access Act,? which immunized corporate giants such as Dow and Dupont against lawsuits for defective components used in the manufacture of medical implants. Some of the worst corporate abuses and fraud were traceable to Lieberman?s 1993 success in squelching an attempt to make companies report executives? stock options as part of their expenses. The Advocate?s Bass reported that Lieberman ?went to bat for West Coast Silicon Valley high-tech execs to lead a fight against President Clinton?s promised curbs on runaway executive pay; the execs responded with a fund-raiser for Joe?s re-election.? And the list goes on . . . The Lieberman who opposed the Vietnam War also became, over the years, G.I. Joe. He?s never met a weapons system he didn?t like ? consistently voting during the Clinton years for more money for the Pentagon than the administration requested. G.I. Joe is a firm supporter of Ronald Reagan?s favorite movie-inspired fantasy, Star Wars. It?s now disappeared from his Web site, but when he was running for veep, his site?s ?legislative accomplishments? section boasted: ?Breaking with many in his party, Senator Lieberman was an original co-sponsor of legislation to spur the deployment of a missile defense system capable of protecting the U.S. against a limited attack.? Star Wars, of course, is a military-industrial boondoggle riddled with outright fraud and stratospheric cost overruns ? and it still doesn?t work. G.I. Joe has willingly inclined toward every imperative of Bush?s national-security state ? for example, he was a strong supporter of John Ashcroft?s notorious TIPS program, which would have turned America into a nation in which neighbor spied upon neighbor. When Vermont liberal Pat Leahy tried to include an amendment to the Homeland Security bill forbidding TIPS, Lieberman blocked the amendment. When the conventional wisdom turned against TIPS, as he was planning his national candidacy, Lieberman ? in a typical finger-in-the-wind performance ? withdrew his support for the program. (This was reminiscent of his pirouette on Clarence Thomas? confirmation to the Supreme Court: Having promised his ?yes? vote to the White House if they needed it, he waited until the end of the roll call, when Thomas had enough votes to be confirmed, and then voted ?no? to keep the liberals and women?s groups at home off his back.) But the quintessential Lieberman act of opportunism was his mad dash to the Rose Garden to stand shoulder to shoulder with Dubya and co-sponsor the resolution that gave away Congress? constitutional power to declare war on Iraq ? a war launched on a sea of Bush-Powell mendacities that Lieberman has yet to criticize. All in all, as a Democrat, Lieberman makes a great Republican. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 1/14/2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lalogo.gif Type: image/gif Size: 2684 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sm34news2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 9943 bytes Desc: not available URL: From apbrison at hotmail.com Tue Jan 17 12:05:24 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:05:24 -0500 Subject: {news} USGP-INT FW: 2 proposed actions: for Pres. Evo Morales In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JeandeSmet at galaxyinternet.net Tue Jan 17 16:46:05 2006 From: JeandeSmet at galaxyinternet.net (Jean de Smet) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:46:05 -0500 Subject: {news} Thornton For Gov. Updates- filing Committee Tuesday! In-Reply-To: <20060116190634.73432.qmail@web81411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <003401c61baf$6f1b1370$b4b0d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Thank you so much to Donna for stepping in! Jean -----Original Message----- From: Green Party-CT [mailto:greenpartyct at yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:07 PM To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com Subject: {news} Thornton For Gov. Updates- filing Committee Tuesday! Dear Folks, Some important updates for you! Thornton For Governor will be official Tuesday with the filing at the Sec of State office at 9 am.!! Donna Byrne-McKee will be the Treasurer of the Committee with the address of the committee as: Thornton for Governor 13 Conestoga Way Glastonbury, CT 06033 The website is : www.votethornton.com email: info at votethornton.com We also now have a yahoo group! please sign up>> votethorton at yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VoteThorton/?yguid=217140910 More information coming soon about an announcement! Tim McKee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Jan 18 01:11:28 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:11:28 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [Enlace_Puerto_Rico] Puerto Rico: Bearing Her Chains Message-ID: I don't usually forward items on national or international politics to this list, but the complex issue of Puerto Rican colonialism and sovereignty is one that's not discussed enough in peace & justice activist circles. Since Connecticut has one of the largest Puerto Rican voting blocs of any state, CT Greens should be informed on the issue and consider taking a position in support of sovereignty, if not independence, for Puerto Rico. I'm not as familiar with the history as I ought to be, and was surprised to see the amount of attention the US Govt. is currently devoting to the future of Puerto Rico. David Bedell ----- Original Message ----- From: joboriken at aol.com To: JOBoriken at aol.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 12:35 AM Subject: [Enlace_Puerto_Rico] Puerto Rico: Bearing Her Chains Puerto Rico: Bearing Her Chains by Juan Antonio Ocasio Rivera joboriken at aol.com December 27, 2005 nyc.indymedia.org Cadets of the Republic, of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico - modeled after Connolly's Citizen Army The great Irish patriot and socialist James Connolly once wrote, "The needs of our time call for a frank recognition of the fact that our Slogan must be All for the Cause and The Cause over All. Shall we see another year and Ireland patiently bearing her Chains?" The centuries-old Irish freedom movement, at one known historical juncture, intersected with another freedom movement across the globe. In the 1920s, as the Irish Free State surged forward under the leadership of Eamon De Valera, a Harvard-educated lawyer and Doctor of Engineering, Pedro Albizu Campos, lent his nascent internationalism, knowledge, and commitment to the Irish Free State in the development of the Republic's Constitution. Albizu Campos, who would later go on to become not only the President of Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (and who was an admirer of the revered James Connolly), would also go on to become the most influential (and perhaps controversial) figure in modern Puerto Rican history. Scorned by critics for his use of armed struggle and adored by most Puerto Ricans for his passionate defense of Puerto Rican sovereignty, cultural values, and forgotten history, Albizu has become today the symbol of Puerto Rican dignity, nationalism, and sacrifice for a higher cause. Today, as Northern Ireland embarks on a new future without the armed campaign of the IRA, Puerto Rico continues to languish in a political vacuum even as George Bush's White House releases a new report calling for federal action to decolonize the island. The new report by the President's Task Force On Puerto Rico's Status, released just days ago, briefly analyzes the current political status of the island and its prospective political future vis a vis its relationship with the United States. Among its more significant assertions is the open declaration that Puerto Rico is merely a territory of the United States, "subject to congressional authority, under the Constitution's Territory Clause" and reminds that "Congress may continue the current system indefinitely, but it may also revise or revoke it at any time." It describes the current status of the archipelago as "often described as a Commonwealth, and this term recognizes the power of self-government that Congress has allowed. (page 5, section titled Continuing Territorial Status)" It discusses the Statehood option by including a reminder that current tax exemptions for Puerto Ricans would be eliminated under statehood and by describing how the Democratic/Republican balance of power in Congress would be affected. It also mentions that "Congress may set conditions for admission of a territory as a state (page 7, 'Statehood')", an ominous reminder of the English language requirements included in the failed 1998 Congressional bills for Puerto Rico's status change. Under the Independence framework, the report makes clear that "Congress thus may determine whether and upon what conditions a territory may receive independence and its authority to regulate those conditions remains until the point of independence (page 8, 'Independence')", using the example of the Philippines as a case in point. It also discusses the tricky issue of citizenship in the case of independence. In a blow to the current territorial status, the Task Force states that "the Federal Government may relinquish United States sovereignty by granting independence or ceding the territory to another nation; or it may, as the Constitution provides, admit a territory as a State...But the US Constitution does not allow other options.(page 6, 'Continuing Territorial Status')" In friendlier terms, the report describes that "...there are only two non-territorial options recognized by the US Constitution that establish a permanent status between the people of Puerto Rico and the Government of the United States. One is Statehood...The other is Independence. (page 10, 'Task Force Recommendations')" There is no other option. For several years now, more and more Puerto Ricans have loudly complained about the colonial nature of the current political relationship. Indeed, in the 1990s, all three political parties in Puerto Rico demanded action on the issue. But local referenda have always produced results that showed a preference for the status quo. How is this explained? And why such low numbers for independence, an option that is supposed to contain so much dignity and international value? It all lies in the presentation. The pro-Commonwealth party is split between those who advocate for a version of the internationally defined Free Association status and those who insist that the Commonwealth is not a colonial status (make this the island's final status). The party, knowing that it maintains majority support of the electorate, refuses to take the next step, refuses to take a risk, refuses to gamble on altering its platform and presenting it to the people of Puerto Rico. It is a deer caught in the headlights of decolonization. It is terrified that dismantling the fraudulent and ineffective colonial relationship will mean its loss of governance and historical dominance. Power corrupts. And so it repeatedly presents the populace with misleading definitions of "Commonwealth" at the polls. Presented with this bag of tricks, the electorate, a people subject to over 500 years of colonialism, sees perfection and pulls the lever. Indeed, a January 18, 2001 letter to the Chairman of US Senate's Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (which is the Committee that has jurisdiction over Puerto Rico) from Assistant Attorney General Robert Raben shreds the impossible version of the "New Commonwealth" promoted by the party, calling it's elements "...constitutionally unenforceable. (Appendix E, Report By The President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status, December 2005)" This blow to the Commonwealth status coming from the White House has produced, not surprisingly, standard reactions from Puerto Rican politicians but may also provoke movement on the issue from the island itself. The pro-Commonwealth governor, Anibal Acevedo Vila, blasted the Administration's report, denouncing what he saw as the United States' retracting of the Commonwealth compact created in 1952 and of lying to the international community in 1953 when it was able to have Puerto Rico's name removed from the UN list of colonial territories (claiming that decolonization had just occurred). The governor's highly publicized case of denial showcases how many Puerto Ricans actually believed that the Commonwealth status was a real compact between two countries of equal standing, instead of an imbalanced colonial status predicated on the supreme authority of the US Congress, a condemnation heard consistently from pro-independence forces from 1952 through today. Indeed the armed campaigns of the Nationalist Party led by Albizu Campos in 1950 and 1954, including the famous attack in Congress, were an effort to denounce this reality to the international community. Truly, the raging debate over how to define the status options is not new. Earlier this year, the Congressional Research Service produced a report for Congress titled, "Political Status of Puerto Rico: Background, Options, and Issues in the 109th Congress (June 6, 2005)" in anticipation of the White House's report. Among a more detailed analysis of the history and issues involved it recognized that "Standard definitions of the [status] options do not exist. Some argue Congress should define the terms. Others, however, advocate direct involvement by the people of Puerto Rico, or their elected leaders, in setting the definitions. (page 18)" Politicians on the island debate what this process might be, including a possible national Assembly to delineate status options and negotiate with the US government. The Puerto Rican Independence Party is publicly soothsaying the demise of the colonial status and of the pro-Commonwealth party, while other independence supporters lend no credibility to the document, saying that it is yet another tease, another initiative that highlights the colonial nature of the United States government in stipulating the conditions of Puerto Rican self-determination without involving the United Nations, its Decolonization Committee, or its known steps and resolutions toward decolonization. They hedge their bets on international jurisdiction and on a national process started and driven and decided locally. Those who advocate statehood, themselves in denial of a Congress that will not admit into the Union a Spanish-speaking Latin American nation that refuses to give up its linguistic and cultural identity, are lining the pockets of their Washington lobbyists, salivating over the prospects of increased federal dollars under statehood. The Task Force actually recommends that a Federally sponsored plebiscite be held on the archipelago ? a first - to ask the electorate if they wish to remain under the territorial status or move to a permanent status. If the permanent option wins, then Puerto Rico would choose between Statehood and Independence. If the territorial option wins, the issue will be revisited every several years. It is unclear if Congress will act on these recommendations. So the question then becomes, as Connolly once demanded, as we wait for this process to draw out yet again, Shall we see another year and Ireland patiently bearing her Chains? Shall we see another year and Puerto Rico patiently (and for some, proudly) bearing her chains? Something has got to give. In the case of Puerto Rico, democracy does not require allowing her people to choose slavery over freedom, colonialism over independence, Commonwealth over other options. In the case of Puerto Rico, democracy requires the justice of undoing the injustice of invasion, conquest, violent political repression, medical and environmental experimentation, and intelligence techniques to shape mass opinion through fear. The only option for justice and democracy is a political independence where Puerto Ricans can officially join the international community as an equals. This may seem a long shot to some, a dark remote possibility to others in light of the Bush White House and Republican controlled Congress. The bright side is that, in recent years, while the Bush neo-cons slyly planned and acted to take over the world, Puerto Ricans successfully removed the Navy from their beloved Vieques. Even the murder of venerated Machetero leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios has sparked a silver lining of increased nationalistic fervor and re-awakening of the need for self-determination. Given these bright possibilities amidst such dark forces at work, the possibility of freedom for Puerto Rico is never truly that far off. Our freedom movement could well heed Connolly's message of unified struggle as well as the fortitude expressed by his great predecessor Wolfe Tone, who in darkened days in 1796, wrote, "Nothing on earth could sustain me now but the consciousness that i am engaged in a just and righteous cause." No matter the mechanism or the cost, Puerto Rico's just and righteous cause will be victorious. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Hacer es la mejor manera de decir" - Jose Mart? "I have been frequently asked if i believed i would see the independence of my country. Systematically i answer that i have already seen it. Whoever fights with all he has for the independence of Puerto Rico lives independence, is free, is sovereign, is independent, as all our people will be on the day of victory." - Comandante Juan Antonio Corretjer (1908-1985), September 23, 1978 "Nosotros iremos hacia el sol de la libertad o hacia la muerte; y si morimos, nuestra causa seguir? viviendo. Otros nos seguir?n." - Augusto Sandino -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 27870 bytes Desc: not available URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Wed Jan 18 16:58:02 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:58:02 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT (MLK Day Greetings) Fwd: from European Greens Message-ID: <00c601c61c7a$44151ce0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Affigne" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:35 PM Subject: USGP-INT (MLK Day Greetings) Fwd: from European Greens > > --- begin forwarded text > > Subject: from European Greens - Arnold > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:16:56 +0100 > From: "European Greens" > To: "Tony Affigne" > > We know of the historical significance of the Martin Luther King day > for all of you in the US. We hope that this day was a fruitful one > for all US greens and all American citizens. Hopefully, this day was > the beginning of a rosier future for al US greens, US citizens, and > all of us. > > Best Regards, > > Arnold Cassola > Secretary General > European Green Party > 31 Rue Wiertz > 1050 Brussels > Belgium > > --- end forwarded text > > > > --- > | Sent via usgp-int > | To unsubscribe, please send a message to usgp-int-request at gp-us.org > | with ONLY unsubscribe in the message > --- > From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sat Jan 21 00:57:09 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:57:09 +0000 Subject: {news} FW: The misleading war on drugs--Record-Journal-Meriden Connecticut Message-ID: ----Original Message Follows---- From: "clifford thornton" Subject: The misleading war on drugs--Record-Journal-Meriden Connecticut Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:53:37 -0500 "If one does not understand racism, classism, white privilege, terrorism, and the war on drugs--what these terms mean--how these concepts work, then everything else you do understand will only confuse you" This editorial is written by long time friend and reformer Bill Collins. Bill was the Former Mayor of Norwalk Connecticut http://www.record-journal.com letters@ record-journal.com. The misleading war on drugs By William A. Collins The other day the cops pinched a couple of guys in our town for drugs. Thought they might be planning to sell. The 16 tidy little bags of marijuana in their car could give you that impression. Also they were in a school zone, where mere possession, let alone selling, is illegal. Think of all the little tykes who were thus rescued from a life of addiction. Well, maybe. But for one thing, it was 8:45 p.m., and all the tykes had long since decamped for home. For another thing, the site was not that close to the school. Tykes don't normally hang around there in any case. Third, in Connecticut the term "school zone" is a trifle misleading. The law defines it as any place within 1,500 feet of the schoolyard, including your living room. This covers virtually all of Norwalk or any other major Nutmeg city. The results of this law have been painfully predictable. Whites get arrested too, of course, but the bulk of suspects are black and Latino. That's who lives there. Even sitting in their own homes they're charged with school zone violations. They often end up in jail, and unable to vote. This is not exactly an unintended consequence. It helps suppress the Democratic vote in central cities. And to a large degree, it is marijuana that we're talking about here. Cocaine and heroin arrests have sagged while pot pinches have proliferated. Since pot is largely non-addictive, and overall usage has remained very steady over the years whatever the law, one has to wonder what this current excessive legislation is all about. And sadly, our otherwise commendable General Assembly still won't even let patients in horrendous pain have the stuff prescribed for them. The rationale for this mindless foolishness seems to spring more from ideology and politics than from pharmacology. Politicians love to make their constituents afraid, and then save them from the threat. (Terrorism is another example.) In this case, the hysteria is that the scourge of drugs will visit our children if we don't maintain our harsh laws and draconian enforcement. Though remember, this whole war did not even surface until well after Prohibition, our earlier moral scourge, was repealed. Neither crusade, of course, has cut down much on usage of any substance. It's just put a lot of poor people in jail. In time though, conservative politicians noted that the war had the above-mentioned beneficial effect. It cut down on voting. Especially among minorities. In the South, in tandem with other devices to retard black franchise, tough discriminatory drug enforcement with long sentences has helped make that region safely Red. Even in Connecticut, which is definitely not Red, liberals are often reluctant to promote the repeal of mandatory sentencing for fear of being tagged as "soft on drugs." So what happens is, life goes on, skirting around the law. While heroin and coke users gradually become outcasts, pot use continues in popular profusion. Nice folks grow their own, or find discreet sources, usually more than 1,500 feet from a school. No one is the worse or the wiser. The biggest middle class danger is to the gravely ill and their doctors. All could go to jail for relieving pain. Meanwhile the poor pile up in prison. Not surprisingly, most of Europe and Canada do better. The trend there is for pot to be regulated, like tobacco and alcohol, but not prohibited. And several cities are even using heroin itself, in a controlled environment, to treat heroin addiction. Incarceration rates are but a fraction of ours. So naturally, the U.S. State Department uses every device it can muster to roll back these foreign advances. But pity the poor department's plight now that the new president of Bolivia is a coca grower. Here at home our pointless crusade continues in the overzealous persecution of all marijuana users, especially the sick. Talk about sending the wrong message to society. And as they say in the counseling biz, you can cure an addiction, but you can't cure a conviction. Columnist William A. Collins is a former state representative and a former mayor of Norwalk. See: www.minutemanmedia.org Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy@ msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sun Jan 22 10:41:18 2006 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:41:18 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: Connecticut Events [AFSC calendar] Message-ID: <003301c61f6a$640c9b20$a58cf504@edgn2b574u14bi> 6-Story Newsletter Template + Images ----- Original Message ----- From: AFSC Connecticut To: edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 5:22 PM Subject: Connecticut Events American Friends Service Committee Connecticut In This Issue: . AFSC Connecticut Calendar of Events . Week of Feb 3 - Feb 9 . Week of Jan 20 - 26 . BUY Citgo Gas - Join the BUY-cott! . Week of Jan 27 - Feb 2 AFSC Connecticut Calendar of Events The AFSC online calendar is up and running - and folks from around the state are utilizing it to post their peace and justice - related events. Please visit the calendar online and subscribe to post your own events and get notice of events of interest to you: www.afsc.org/ct I have pasted brief descriptions of upcoming events below - the full details can be viewed at www.afsc.org/ct Also please scroll to the end of this email to learn about the Citgo Buy-Cott initiated by the Connecticut Citizens for Peace and Justice and to find a Citgo gas station near you. Visit the Calendar Now Week of Jan 20 - 26 Jan/20 FRI Roe v. Wade Anniversary Press Conference (Details) CT Legislative Office Building, Room 2B, Hartford, CT 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Jan/20 FRI Friday Vigil Against the War - Hartford (Details) 450 Main St., Hartford, CT 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Jan/20 FRI The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/21 SAT Southern New England Regional Consulta for Civil Resistance to End the War in Iraq (Details) Sponsor(s): CLASH collective, Voluntown Peace Trust and the Hartford Catholic Worker Capital Community College, 950 Main St., 11th floor, Hartford, CT 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Jan/21 SAT Westport Peace Vigil (Details) Ferguson Library, Bedford & Broad Sts.,, Stamford, CT 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Jan/21 SAT Noam Chomsky: A Rebel Without a Pause (Details) New Haven Public Library, 133 Elm St., New Haven, CT 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Jan/21 SAT VIGILS: EVERY SATURDAY IN WEST HARTFORD CENTER (Details) Farmington Avenue and Main Street, West Hartford, CT 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Jan/21 SAT Stamford Peace Vigil (Details) Ferguson Library, Bedford & Broad Sts.,, Stamford, CT 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Jan/21 SAT NORWALK Peace Vigil (Details) Ferguson Library, Bedford & Broad Sts.,, Stamford, CT 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Jan/21 SAT The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 2:30 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/21 SAT The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/22 SUN Bethlehem Peace Vigil (Details) junction of routes 132 and 61, Bethlehem, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Jan/22 SUN JOIN US TO PLAN A MASSIVE CONNECTICUT DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WAR! (Details) Church of the Holy Trinity, 381 Main St., Middletown, CT 2:00 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/22 SUN The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 2:30 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/23 MON Sacred Sound and Rhythm Circle (Details) First Baptist Church, West Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/24 TUE The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/24 TUE Town Hall Forum with Scott Ritter (Details) Sponsors: AFSC, CT Coalition for Peace & Justice, Pax Educare, Bookworm, and others TBA. West Hartford Town Hall Auditorium, 50 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Jan/25 WED The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/26 THU The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Visit the Calendar for Details Week of Jan 27 - Feb 2 Jan/27 FRI Friday Vigil Against the War - Hartford (Details) 450 Main St., Hartford, CT 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Jan/27 FRI Caring Hearts, Healing Hands, 1199 Creative Writing Performance (Details) 77 Huyshope Avenue, Hartford, CT 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/27 FRI Hope Out Loud Coffeehouse (Details) Sponsors: AFSC, Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice 555 Asylum Avenue,, Hartford, CT 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Jan/27 FRI The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/28 SAT Faith and Our Community (Details) Omni New Haven Hotel, 155 Temple Street, New Haven, CT 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Jan/28 SAT VIGILS: EVERY SATURDAY IN WEST HARTFORD CENTER (Details) Farmington Avenue and Main Street, West Hartford, CT 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Jan/28 SAT The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 2:30 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/28 SAT Hartford Independent Media Center's Third Birthday Anniversary! (Details) 555 Asylum Avenue,, Hartford, CT 7:00 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/28 SAT The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/29 SUN Bethlehem Peace Vigil (Details) junction of routes 132 and 61, Bethlehem, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Jan/29 SUN The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 2:30 PM - 11:59 PM Jan/31 TUE The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/01 WED Guantanamo Prisoners, U.S. 'War On Terror' and Cuba's Right To Its Territory (Details) Founder's Hall*, CCSU, New Britain, CT 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Feb/01 WED The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/02 THU The Testimonies Wal-mart Doesn't Want You to Hear (Details) Founder's Hall, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Feb/02 THU THE UNENDING CRISIS OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN HAITI (Details) 37 Howe St, New Haven, CT 7:00 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/02 THU The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Visit the Calendar for Details Week of Feb 3 - Feb 9 Feb/03 FRI Friday Vigil Against the War - Hartford (Details) 450 Main St., Hartford, CT 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Feb/03 FRI The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/04 SAT Trans Lobby Training (Details) Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Feb/04 SAT VIGILS: EVERY SATURDAY IN WEST HARTFORD CENTER (Details) Farmington Avenue and Main Street, West Hartford, CT 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Feb/04 SAT The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 2:30 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/04 SAT The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/05 SUN Bethlehem Peace Vigil (Details) junction of routes 132 and 61, Bethlehem, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Feb/05 SUN The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 2:30 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/07 TUE Public Hearing for a Living Wage in Manchester (Details) Lincoln Center, 494 Main Street, Manchester, CT 6:30 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/07 TUE The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/08 WED The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Feb/09 THU The Exonerated - Theaterworks (Details) 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 11:59 PM Visit the Calendar for Details BUY Citgo Gas - Join the BUY-cott! 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URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Sun Jan 22 12:12:24 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:12:24 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT: "SWEDEN PLANS ON BEING THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO BE FREE FROM OIL" Message-ID: <02ec01c61f77$065fd1b0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "juliawillebrand" To: Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:37 PM Subject: USGP-INT What our Swedish cousins are up to > Swedish Press Dec 2005 > > SWEDEN PLANS ON BEING THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO BE FREE FROM OIL > IN 2020 > > Minister for Sustainable Development Mona Sahlin has declared that Sweden > is going to become the first country in the world to break the dependence > on fossil energy. Sweden will stop using oil by 2020 and eventually the > energy supply of the country will be based on renewable energy only. > > The goal is to gradually rid the country of gasoline-run cars and > oil-heated homes. This is going to be achieved through tax discounts, more > efficiency in energy and by large-scale investments in renewable energy > and > in research. Already next year there will be tax incentives for single > family > homeowners to switch from oil to renewable energy to heat their homes. > > Such financial incentives are already available to libraries, aquatic > facilities and hospitals that want to switch to more efficient renewable > energy. > The expansion of distant heating continues to be an important tool in this > process. The Swedish government also wants to make environmental cars more > affordable. One of the ways it is doing this is by not subjecting fuel > that > is free of carbon dioxide to the energy tax or 10 the carbon dioxide > emission tax. Environmental cars will also not have to pay the congestion > tax that will be introduced in Stockholm in January and many > municipalities > allow free parking for such cars. > > Swedish industry and the economy as a whole are already benefiting from a > lower dependency on oil in an international comparison. Since 1994 the > use > of oil in residences and in the service sector has dropped by 15.2 TWH. > The > consumption of oil in industries has remained at the same level since > that > year, even though industrial production has increased by 70 percent. A > growing number of households make use of the advantages of distant > heating > as well as of pellets. > > Minister Sahlin's latest statement on the abolition of oil in 2020 is > actually just a confirmation of a goal set a long time ago. Sweden has > been > a pioneer in the environmental field and has introduced many innovative > measures through the years to achieve its goals. > > Already in 1990 Swedes implemented a "green tax shift". Taxes on energy > and > on carbon dioxide emissions were raised, while other taxes, such as those > on payroll were decreased by an equivalent amount. Sweden also invested > heavily in its cities and towns. Municipalities receive grants to conduct > long-term > climate research and make investments in environment-friendly technology. > Not only has this helped cut local pollution, it has also raised the > level > of public awareness of environmental issues. > > In 1999 a unanimous national goal was established for all the country's > major environmental problems to be solved within one generation, by the > year > 2020. The Swedish Parliament gave unanimous approval to 15 national > targets > including a phasing out of all use of hazardous chemicals by 2020; > ensuring > that all lakes and watercourses are ecologically sustainable, > their habitats and ecological and water-conserving function preserved; > providing a safe and sustainable supply of drinking water and > contributing > to viable habitats for flora and fauna; pro-lection of the value of > forests > for biological production, while biological diversity, cultural heritage > and recreational assets are safeguarded, and a healthy living environment > to be provided by cities and towns where buildings and > amenities must be located and designed with sound environmental > principles. > > There are interim objectives for each target, regional and local > objectives > to match, and an Environmental Objectives Council to monitor progress > towards the goals. Progress is charted through 70 national indicators, > which track results and verify whether the country is heading in the right > direction. > -- > > Rainforest Information Centre > Box 368, Lismore 2480 NSW > (02) 66213294 > http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/ > ruthr at ozemail.com.au > > > --- > | Sent via usgp-int > | To unsubscribe, please send a message to usgp-int-request at gp-us.org > | with ONLY unsubscribe in the message > --- > From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Jan 23 01:07:49 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:07:49 +0000 Subject: {news} Declaration of Energy Independence (Cleanpeace.Org) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Cleanpeace.Org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Bill Garrett (203) 372-6166 bill.cleanpeace@ gmail.com or January 6, 2005 Roy McAlister (602) 328-4238 roy.cleanpeace@ gmail.com Declaration of Energy Independence, Security and Sustainability Demands Transition to Renewable Energy Cleanpeace.org Calls for Individuals to Sign Declaration that demands permanent Pollution and Greenhouse Gas reductions, Solutions for Peak Oil Problems and Elimination of incentives for Oil Wars Cleanpeace.org calls for individuals to sign its newly unveiled Declaration of Energy Independence Energy Security and Sustainability, the group?s latest step in its campaign to empower citizens throughout the world to shape energy policies that enhance energy security, permanently reduce pollution and global warming gas production, overcome the risks of prolonged wars over shrinking oil reserves and provide real competition to oil barons and OPEC. The Declaration can be signed electronically at www.cleanpeace.org ?US energy policy leads the world in a dangerously wrong direction,? said Bill Garrett, president and co-founder of the non-profit educational and advocacy group which supports replacement of depletable energy with domestic, renewable energy. He continued, ?Current policy focuses on rapidly using up domestic oil reserves and other depletable energy. The US holds less than 3% of world oil reserves, imports 80% of the radioactive fuels used in power stations, 60% of its oil, and burns 26% of world oil supplies. Most industrialized Democracies face similar conditions to varying degrees. ?But the US and its allies continue doling-out taxpayer dollars and policies that favor depletion of vital oil reserves while increasing vulnerability to oil-rich dictators and profit seeking oil barons. We must act now to reverse this dangerous policy,? Garrett said. ?The energy industry will not change this policy for us; they seek to extract higher profits from diminishing oil supplies. Leaving this industry and its lobbyists in charge of energy policy because they?re good at the energy business, is like appointing sharks as lifeguards because they?re good swimmers.? said Roy McAlister, Chairman and co-founder of Cleanpeace.org and an engineer, scientist, author and world authority on energy and materials science. McAlister continued, ?The oil industry would like us to believe there?s no alternative to fattening their profits at our expense; that?s just nonsense. Direct solar energy and its off spring in wind, waves, falling water and biomass are the most abundant energy resources on earth and can be harnessed to make clean-burning, renewable fuels. These energy resources are non-polluting, unlimited in supply and don?t leave us dependent on oil barons and the despotic leaders of oil-rich nations? The Declaration sets out the Four Principles of Energy Independence, Security and Sustainability and demands a practical and timely transition to renewable energy. By signing the Declaration, supporters urge their elected officials in Legislatures, Congresses and Parliaments to change course and rapidly develop domestic, renewable energy. In Congressional Districts that garner over 300 Declaration signers, Cleanpeace.org will provide scientific and technical support to the signers and their elected officials. The Declaration?s First Principle provides for a transition to renewable energy as a strategic goal of all energy policies. Existing gasoline and diesel engines burn over 70% of oil supplies and therefore must become the prime target for oil conservation and replacement. It also advocates the designation of hydrogen-based fuels made from renewable resources as a preferred replacement for gasoline and diesel oil because it burns clean, can be made from most all renewable resources and can readily fuel gasoline, diesel and combustion turbine engines. ?Failure to focus on conserving and replacing oil in existing gasoline and diesel engines bypasses the world?s most wasteful and vulnerable applications; Its like missing a banquet to buy a popsicle.? said McAlister The Second Principle requires adoption of equal funding and policy advantages for renewable energy. Equal treatment would put alternatives such as direct solar, wind, waves, and biomass on a level playing field with depletable energy. The Second Principle also calls for strong anti-trust protection for scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs engaged in renewable energy activities. ?The US government has bet your tax dollars and its policies on radioactive nuclear energy, oil and other depletable energy while shortchanging renewables.? said McAlister. He continued, ?These unfair actions discourage investment in renewable energy and put the US government in league with the anticompetitive practices of the OPEC oil cartel and world energy barons. Few people will invest in renewable energy when they have to take on the US government and the energy industry. This paucity of private investment in renewables leaves depletable energy interests free to dominate world markets.? The Third Principle calls for highway improvements funded by fuel taxes to include infrastructure development for convenient distribution of renewable fuels and generous incentives for commercialization of technologies that support transition from depletable to renewable fuels. The Fourth Principle advocates development of a United Nations treaty that provides for future oil allocations based on each nation?s record of replacing depletable energy with renewable energy, efficiency improvements, greenhouse gas reductions, and past oil consumption. ?World oil exports will either be allocated by war or law as the peaking of world oil creates increasingly more harmful oil shortages.? said Garrett. ?Inadequate oil supplies lead to recession, depression and extreme hardship. As history has proven, nations fight for oil if there are no alternatives. The Fourth Principle provides a peaceful alternative to endless wars plus incentives to replace oil faster than peak oil can diminish its supply.? ?The Cleanpeace.org Declaration is a tool for individuals to counter the influence of energy lobbyists and begin shaping energy policy in the public interest. It also lets the giant energy conglomerates know that energy policy can no longer be their private preserve? said McAlister. Cleanpeace.org will present the Declaration and signer comments to members of Congress from any Congressional District with a significant number of signers. In districts with 300 or more signers, Cleanpeace.org will also provide scientific and technical support to the signers as well as their elected officials. For signers outside the US whose nation provides 5,000 or more Declaration signers,, Cleanpeace.org will deliver the Declaration and the signers? comments to the appropriate Ambassador at the United Nations in New York as well as to U.S. energy policy makers to inform them of the energy policy goals the signers expect from the world?s largest energy consumer. Scientific and technical assistance will also be provided to these Declaration signers. A copy of the Declaration follows and is also available electronically at www.cleanpeace.org. For a poster version of the Declaration, visit www.cleanpeace.org and click on POSTER Cleanpeace is located in Bridgeport, CT and Mesa, AZ ##### MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES: Cleanpeace.org spokespersons are available for print and electronic interviews. In addition, Cleanpeace.org has background material on sustainable energy resources, as well as depletable energy and energy politics. Call Bill Garrett at (203) 372-6166 or Roy McAlister at (602) 328-4238 or email bill.cleanpeace@ gmail.com or roy.cleanpeace@ gmail.com Declaration Declaration of World Energy Independence, Energy Security and Sustainability Energy policies in the US and throughout the world lead to hardships, conflicts and wars over diminishing oil reserves. They cause greater air and water pollution, increase global warming and fuel costs while dangerously enhancing the powers of oil-rich dictators, nations and cartels. We, the undersigned people of the world community declare these policies a threat to human health, global stability, ?democracy?, ?human rights? and Civilization. We therefore demand new energy policies based on the Four Principles of Energy Independence, Security and Sustainability set out below: The Four Principles of Energy Independence, Security and Sustainability Principle One Make Transitioning to Renewable Energy a Strategic Objective of all Energy Policies Focus energy policy goals on transitioning from depletable to renewable energy. Initially concentrate this policy on conserving and replacing fuel in existing gasoline and diesel engines because these engines burn over 70% of world oil. Designate hydrogen fuel made from renewable energy as the preferred replacement for gasoline and diesel oil because it emits only water and can be made from all renewable energy. Focus new or expanded electric power generation on distributed heat and power facilities designed to conserve fuel and use renewable energy. Principle Two Require Equal Funding, Competition and Fair Play in Energy Markets Require energy policies that grant subsidies, policy advantages, tax breaks, and other benefits for renewable energy that at least equal those available to depletable fossil and nuclear energy. Provide ?anti-trust and technology protection? for scientists, engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs engaged in renewable energy development and commercialization. Principle Three Accelerate Construction of Sustainable Energy Infrastructures Require all highway improvements funded by gasoline or diesel fuel taxes to include infrastructure development that facilitates convenient distribution of renewable fuels. Provide generous incentives to induce investment in commercialization of technologies that accelerate transition from depletable to renewable fuels . Principle Four Provide for Peace and Prosperity in Times of Oil Shortages To overcome violent conflicts over remaining oil resources, establish an international policy for replacing oil faster than ?Peak Oil? can create major oil shortages. Develop a United Nations treaty to allocate future oil consumption while maintaining world prosperity. Allocate oil supplies based on each nation?s record of replacing depletable energy with renewable energy, efficiency improvements, greenhouse gas reductions, and past oil consumption. From apbrison at hotmail.com Mon Jan 23 11:02:10 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:02:10 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT: "SWEDEN PLANS ON BEING THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THEWORLD TO BE FREE FROM OIL" In-Reply-To: <02ec01c61f77$065fd1b0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Jan 23 15:15:26 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:15:26 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: GP ADVISORY: US Greens to attend the World Social Forum in Caracas Message-ID: <043901c62059$c1c725b0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES > http://www.gp.org > > For Immediate Release: > Monday, January 23, 2006 > > Contacts: > Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, > mclarty at greens.org > Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, > starlene at greens.org > Ben Manski (on site in Caracas), 608-239-6915, > Manski at LibertyTreeFDR.org > > > U.S. Greens to attend the 2006 World Social Forum in > Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 24-29 > > > WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Members of the Green Party of the > United States will be among the 100,000 social > activists from nations throughout the Americas > attending the World Social Forum (WSF) in Caracas, > Venezuela, January 24 to 29. > > Greens heading to Caracas for the WSF include Patrick > Barrett, Peter Camejo, James M Leas, Ben Manski, and > George Martin. > > Mr. Camejo, former Green candidate for Governor of > California and independent candidate Ralph Nader's > 2004 running mate for the White House, will speak at a > January 27 meeting of U.S. participants during the > WSF. Mr. Martin will represent United For Peace and > Justice , a coalition > of U.S. organizations that oppose the U.S. invasion > and occupation of Iraq. > > "The World Social Forum convenes as a popular response > to the annual meeting of heads of state and corporate > leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, > Switzerland," said Julia Willebrand, co-chair of the > Green Party's International Committee. "The WSF's > dedication to social and economic justice, democracy, > and environmental concerns stands in opposition to the > Davos agenda based on corporate profit, 'free market' > ideology, and use of military and police forces, > government subsidies, and international treaties to > advance the power of wealthy ruling elites. The Green > Party's mission and platform are consistent with the > WSF's -- Greens in the U.S. and other nations are the > political arm of the movement that unites every year > at the WSF." > > Greens attending the WSF will not officially represent > the U.S. Green Party, because the WSF's Charter of > Principles states that it is a non-governmental and > non-party entity. Mr. Manski is a fellow with the > Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution > ; Mr. Barrett is > organizer for the Midwest Social Forum > . > > "Growing numbers of people in the U.S. are looking to > the democratic developments in the rest of the > Americas and asking how similar changes might happen > here. The growth of a democratic alternative to the > so-called Washington Consensus is a sign of hope for > Americans across the hemisphere," said Mr. Manski, a > former co-chair of the Green Party of the United > States. > > Simultaneous WSFs are planned for Bamako, Mali, and > Karachi, Pakistan. The three meetings in 2006 follow > the single global meeting that was held in Porto > Alegre, Brazil, in 2005. > > The meeting in Caracas is significant in 2006 because > it recognizes the challenges that some governments in > South America (especially those led by Presidents Hugo > Chavez in Venezuela, Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva in > Brazil, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and President-elect > Michelle Bachelet of Chile) pose to the U.S., > especially to the Bush Administration's pro-corporate > agenda and attempt to control fossil fuel industries > in the Western Hemisphere; U.S. military incursions in > Colombia and threats against Venezuela and Cuba; and > U.S.-backed international trade agreements that have > damaged democracy, worker and environmental > protections, and economic conditions throughout the > Americas. > > Ben Manski will speak on two panels at the WSF: > "Prospects for a Democracy Movement in the U.S.", and > "An Internal Clash of Civilizations: Corporatization > of Public Services in the U.S." Patrick Barrett will > speak on three panels: "New Forms of Participatory > Democracy in the Americas", "The Latin American Left", > and "Social Forums Around the World." > > > MORE INFORMATION > > Green Party of the United States > http://www.gp.org > 1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404 > Washington, DC 20009. > 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN > Fax 202-319-7193 > > World Social Forum > Caracas, Venezuela, January 24-29, 2006 > (Media credentialing and information at this site) > http://www.forosocialmundial.org.ve/Ingles/ > > On site coverage by Sari Gelzer of the WSF in Caracas, > in truthout.org > http://truthout.org/worldsocialforum2006.shtml > > U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007 > http://www.ussocialforum.org/ > > Project South: Institute for the Elimination of > Poverty and Genocide > http://www.projectsouth.org/ > > "World Social Forum: The Great Debate in a Land of > Change" > By Humberto M?rquez, Inter Press Service, January 18, > 2006 > http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0118-05.htm From apbrison at hotmail.com Mon Jan 23 20:12:00 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:12:00 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT: "SWEDEN PLANS ON BEING THE FIRST COUNTRY INTHEWORLD TO BE FREE FROM OIL" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Tue Jan 24 16:06:12 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:06:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Ralph Nader's Mother Dies Message-ID: <20060124210612.41355.qmail@web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Ralph Nader's Mother Dies ADVERTISERS --------------------------------- Advertise on ctnow -->Associated Press January 24 2006 WINSTED -- Rose Bouziane Nader, a Lebanese immigrant and author who raised a family of civic activists including her son, consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, has died. She was 99. She died Friday at her Winsted home "peacefully and in no pain" just 18 days before her 100th birthday, Ralph Nader said Monday. The cause was congestive heart failure. "It's just breaking us up," Nader said. "The heart that's been beating since 1906 couldn't make it until [Feb. 7]. She put a lot of forces into motion directly and through her children that I think created a lot of improvement in our country." Born in Zahle, Lebanon, Rose Nader became a high school teacher of French and Arabic. She married Nathra Nader in 1925, and emigrated to the United States a short time later, settling in Danbury and then in Winsted, where they raised four children. Her husband, a businessman, died in 1991. Rose Nader was active in adult education in Connecticut. Her first son, Shafeek Nader, who died in 1986, was the principal founder of Northwestern Connecticut Community College. She was involved in Peace Action and Co-op America, and she served as president of The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest. In 1991 she authored "It Happened in the Kitchen," which explained her philosophy of raising children and the connection between good food and diverse family dinner conversations. Ralph Nader founded numerous consumer groups, including the Public Interest Research Group and Center for Auto Safety. In 2000 he was the Green Party presidential candidate. He ran for president in 2004 as an independent. He recalled his mother's advice when entering the national political scene. "She always said if you think there's anything more difficult than becoming well-known in our country, it's learning how to endure it," Nader said. In addition to her son, Rose Nader is survived by two daughters, Dr. Claire Nader of Washington, D.C., and Winsted, and Laura Nader of Berkeley, Calif.; a sister, Angele Bouziane Mokhiber, of Pittsburgh; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A memorial service has yet to be scheduled. Copyright 2006 Associated Press =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Tue Jan 24 19:53:42 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:53:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Nick Berg's father to seek U.S. House seat in Delaware (as a Green!) please forward Message-ID: <20060125005342.37954.qmail@web81402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Posted on Mon, Jan. 23, 2006 Nick Berg's father to seek U.S. House seat in Del. Green Party peace candidate Michael Berg, whose son was beheaded in Iraq, will oppose seven-term Rep. Mike Castle. By Sandy Bauers Inquirer Staff Writer Michael Berg, father of independent contractor Nick Berg, who was beheaded in Iraq in 2004, is turning his emotional antiwar crusade into a political battle against one of Delaware's most popular elected officials. The retired West Chester teacher, who moved to Wilmington in May, is expected to become the Green Party candidate for Delaware's lone U.S. House seat when the party's coordinating council votes tonight. "My head count says we're good to go," John Atkeison, the party's Delaware chairman, said last week. Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Castle, a former two-term governor, has held the seat for seven terms. He won 69 percent of the vote in 2004 and has a 70 percent approval rating, according to a Republican Party spokeswoman. Berg, 60, last fall expressed his interest in running on a platform focused on his antiwar views. The videotaped murder of Berg's 26-year-old son, who was kidnapped by Islamic insurgents, shocked an international audience. Berg blamed White House policy in Iraq and received wide media attention for his accusation that his son "died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld." Berg turned his anguish into a plea for peace and an end to what he sees as a cycle of political retribution. His run for office, he said, is inspired by his activism. "The biggest choice that I expect to give people is... whether they want to have war or peace," Berg said last week. Only 621 of Delaware's 545,000 registered voters are members of the Green Party. Atkeison said Berg, however, would have strength among voters disenchanted with the major parties. Scott McLarty, national media coordinator for the Green Party, called the Delaware race the Greens' "flagship" campaign in 2006. The liberal grass-roots party supports the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Even if Berg loses, Atkeison said, the publicity from the race could have an impact. Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, who met Berg in July, said that while a Berg victory was "a very long shot," Castle "might wind up sweating a bit." Berg's candidacy could force debate about Iraq throughout the campaign, Solomon said. Asked to summarize Castle's position on the war, Priscilla B. Rakestraw, national committeewoman for the Delaware GOP, said only that he had "always been supportive of the war on terror." Rakestraw said Castle "takes every election seriously." She said she expected most of Berg's votes to come from Democrats, however. "All of us empathize with his grief," she said, "but he has a mighty challenge ahead of him." The Democrats have not yet selected a candidate. Besides name recognition - "the most of any of our candidates outside of Ralph Nader," Atkeison said - the Delaware party chairman cited Berg's "stealth charisma." "He's an ordinary guy, a high school teacher," he said. "But when he tells the story of what he went through, he just gets you. He's very inspiring." Berg has ties to the national and international peace movements. He has traveled and spoken in South Korea, France and England and has been arrested for civil disobedience several times at demonstrations. He doubts the arrests will be an issue. "I don't think people see me as criminal," Berg said. "I think they see me as a man of principle." So far, the lone position on his campaign Web site is his opposition to the war. "I was against war in 1965," Berg wrote. "I was against it in 1991. I was against it in 2003. And I have been especially against it since May 10, 2004, when I learned that my son Nick, who had been in Iraq to help with the reconstruction effort, had been brutally murdered. The cost of war is too high." Last week, Berg said he would also focus on jobs, education, national health insurance, and the environment - areas he feels have suffered due to the distraction and expense of the conflict in Iraq. Though Molly Jurusik, executive director of the Democratic Party in Delaware, said she was unaware of it, Berg said the Democrats initially had approached him. He wasn't interested in being their candidate. "They would be saying, 'Well, you don't want to come out against the war. That would be unpopular,' " Berg said. "I don't think the Democratic Party knows how the people feel... . The Democratic Party, like the Republican Party, knows how the corporations feel." He plans to meet voters by "touring the state on my bike," said Berg, who rides about 20 miles a day. He'll signal his difference from the major parties by campaigning in his signature outfit - jeans and an antiwar T-shirt. "I consider the suit and the tie the sheep's clothing that the wolves wear," said Berg, speaking on a cell phone as he pedaled along Route 52 north of Wilmington. "That's kind of what's wrong with Congress right now... . They should all be wearing overalls and jeans. Who do they think they're representing?" It seems certain Berg's wife will not campaign publicly for him. Suzanne Berg, an intensely private woman, was outraged by the nearly weeklong presence of reporters outside the couple's home when Nick was killed. "I know that America wants to see a family man," Berg said, "but because I am a family man, I won't be posing my wife next to me... . I care about her too much to expose her to that kind of pain. She's had enough pain." --------------------------------- Contact staff writer Sandy Bauers at 610-701-7635 or sbauers at phillynews.com. email this print this reprint or license this =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(15 minutes): Presentation of Treasurer's 3rd quarter and 4th quarter reports to Secretary of State's Office. Reports: 1. (5 minutes, each for): Chapter reports. 2. (15 minutes): Women's Caucus report including recent Modified Consencus Training. 3. (10 minutes): U.S. Green Party report by CTGP representatives: Tim McKee. 4. (10 minutes): V.O.T.E.R. report from Mike DeRosa. 5. (15 minutes): Budget Committee suggestions. 6. (25 minutes): Internal Elections committee for CTGP officers. 7. (25 minutes): Discussion about CTGP candidates for federal, statewide and municipal elections. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Jan 25 10:52:08 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:52:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} US Greens to attend the world social Forum in Caracas Message-ID: <20060125155208.58300.qmail@web81401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Press Release Home | Press | Print US Greens to Attend the World Social Forum in Caracas GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org Monday, January 23, 2006 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org Ben Manski (on site in Caracas), 608-239-6915, Manski at LibertyTreeFDR.org U.S. Greens to attend the 2006 World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 24-29 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Members of the Green Party of the United States will be among the 100,000 social activists from nations throughout the Americas attending the World Social Forum (WSF) in Caracas, Venezuela, January 24 to 29. Greens heading to Caracas for the WSF include Patrick Barrett, Peter Camejo, James M Leas, Ben Manski, and George Martin. Mr. Camejo, former Green candidate for Governor of California and independent candidate Ralph Nader's 2004 running mate for the White House, will speak at a January 27 meeting of U.S. participants during the WSF. Mr. Martin will represent United For Peace and Justice , a coalition of U.S. organizations that oppose the U.S. invasion andoccupation of Iraq. "The World Social Forum convenes as a popular response to the annual meeting of heads of state and corporate leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland," said Julia Willebrand, co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee. "The WSF's dedication to social and economic justice, democracy, and environmental concerns stands in opposition to the Davos agenda based on corporate profit, 'free market' ideology, and use of military and police forces, government subsidies, and international treaties to advance the power of wealthy ruling elites. The Green Party's mission and platform are consistent with the WSF's -- Greens in the U.S. and other nations are the political arm of the movement that unites every year at the WSF." Greens attending the WSF will not officially represent the U.S. Green Party, because the WSF's Charter of Principles states that it is a non-governmental and non-party entity. Mr. Manski is a fellow with the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution ; Mr. Barrett is organizer for the Midwest Social Forum . "Growing numbers of people in the U.S. are looking to the democratic developments in the rest of the Americas and asking how similar changes might happen here. The growth of a democratic alternative to the so-called Washington Consensus is a sign of hope for Americans across the hemisphere," said Mr. Manski, a former co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. Simultaneous WSFs are planned for Bamako, Mali, and Karachi, Pakistan. The three meetings in 2006 follow the single global meeting that was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2005. The meeting in Caracas is significant in 2006 because it recognizes the challenges that some governments in South America (especially those led by Presidents Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva in Brazil, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and President-elect Michelle Bachelet of Chile) pose to the U.S., especially to the Bush Administration's pro-corporate agenda and attempt to control fossil fuel industries in the Western Hemisphere; U.S. military incursions in Colombia and threats against Venezuela and Cuba; and U.S.-backed international trade agreements that have damaged democracy, worker and environmental protections, and economic conditions throughout the Americas. Ben Manski will speak on two panels at the WSF: "Prospects for a Democracy Movement in the U.S.", and "An Internal Clash of Civilizations: Corporatization of Public Services in the U.S." Patrick Barrett will speak on three panels: "New Forms of Participatory Democracy in the Americas", "The Latin American Left", and "Social Forums Around the World." MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404 Washington, DC 20009 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 World Social Forum Caracas, Venezuela, January 24-29, 2006 (Media credentialing and information at this site) http://www.forosocialmundial.org.ve/Ingles/ On site coverage by Sari Gelzer of the WSF in Caracas, in truthout.org http://truthout.org/worldsocialforum2006.shtml U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007 http://www.ussocialforum.org/ Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide http://www.projectsouth.org/ "World Social Forum: The Great Debate in a Land of Change" By Humberto M?rquez, Inter Press Service, January 18, 2006 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0118-05.htm search: gbl, spol, fpol =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Jan 25 11:32:38 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:32:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} UConn Student newspaper "A Greener Side of Politics" (Cliff Thornton for GOV.) 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The big guy was at a window in the corner perusing some documents. Among stock traders and truck drivers we discussed politics and narcotics over pancakes. DC: Why are you running for Governor of Connecticut, and why as a Green? CT: If one does not understand racism, classism, white privilege, terrorism and the War on Drugs - what these terms mean, how these concepts work - then everything else you do understand will only confuse you. I feel that the War on Drugs is at the center of most problems and is two degrees from everything in our society. No candidates talk about it, except for being "tough on crime" and that\'s it. The Green Party has been asking me to run for years, so I thought that this was a prime opportunity to expose the problem. I am running to be a voice for people who want change. I\'m interested in attracting the tens of thousands who have dropped out and aren\'t even registered to vote. I want to leave an impression. The Green Party has stated it is looking to get 1 percent of the vote, but I am interested in getting 5 percent to 10 percent. I think that\'s possible, but it\'ll be very important to energize students at the major universities, people who are going to have a very hard time finding employment in this state soon. DC: You\'ve called for Connecticut to follow Rhode Island in permitting medicinal marijuana. What are your opinions on other drugs, and what inspired your conclusions? CT: It\'s been a long journey, one that began two weeks before I was to graduate high school when there was a knock at the door and my grandmother told me to accompany a police detective to a field of abandoned cars. In one of those cars was the body of a naked woman - my mother - who had died from an apparent heroin overdose. There are no thoughts to describe how I felt after that, except that all illegal drugs should be eradicated from the face of the earth. Yet, as I watched my native Hartford going downhill decade after decade, I began to question what authorities were doing. Eventually I met these two surgeons at Hartford Hospital in the late 1970s/early 1980s and told them about my mother. They said that they used heroin to steady their nerves for surgeries. Obviously surgery is complicated and, in order to stay steady, they used pharmaceutical heroin and didn\'t become addicted. DC: There seems to be many contradictions in drug laws. Even though medical-marijuana is permitted in 11 states, the federal government still considers it illegal inside U.S. borders. Colorado is a medical-marijuana state, but their police have arrested Denver citizens even after a referendum made small quantities of pot permissible in that city. CT: Right, Denver decriminalized it, which is different from medicalization and legalization. Most people use these terms interchangeably, but they mean different things. In Denver, if you possess more than a decriminalized amount, you\'re breaking the law. Medicalization means putting something under the control of doctors and legalization would be something like cigarettes or alcohol. I advocate outright legalization of marijuana and hemp. I want to see marijuana, alcohol and cigarettes all being sold at a single place to limit children\'s access-the proper age being 18. I want to see heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy medicalized. I want to see other illegal drugs decriminalized and debated publicly. DC: I\'ve read that you used to be a businessman. CT: I worked with Southern New England Telephone for 20 years in middle management, in charge of internal telecommunications. DC: How do you view the relationship between government and the marketplace? CT: I believe in free trade. I believe all markets should be open, but there have to be restrictions to let the little guy compete. Major corporations can implement restrictions to cut out small competition and absorb profits. We have five corporations that basically own print media in this country, which causes pretty myopic news. Another example is the telephone companies where, after there was some divestiture, littler businesses had grown. Eventually, though, those with the largest coffers came to completely control the telecommunications industry. Our country once fought off monopolies and we need to do it again. In order to go back to that, there needs to be divestiture. DC: So what is the underlying problem facing our society? CT: We have been lulled to sleep. The authorities orchestrate fear campaigns, terrorize the populace and make people believe everything that they hear. You have to understand that the drug wars are built on three phenomena: greed, racism and fear. It\'s a perfectly volatile mixture and most people are just too busy working to contemplate or challenge it. We are given a simple equation - On one side we have drug dealers and cartels, on the other side we have the authorities - bureaucracies of law enforcement, courts and prisons. Supposedly both sides are diametrically opposed to each other, yet both are completely against what I advocate. What\'s wrong with that picture? DC: Well, the paramount concept in political philosophy seems to be individual versus collective interests - liberal against conservative, libertarian against populist, capitalist against communist, anarchist against fascist. What are your thoughts on the principle dynamics of that relationship? CT: Diversity is our strength. Out of all the groups, Democrats and Republicans are the ones in power. What we need is another voice because Democrats and Republicans espouse the same values and do not effectively address public concerns. They have become Republocrats like, in this state, Joe Lieberman. Having different political interests is a good thing, but when two factions remain securely in power it becomes a lot harder to get things done. Elections only uphold fairness when individuals have the liberty to express authentic beliefs. When free choice is inhibited, the inner workings of government become corrupted and cancerous. Third parties are blamed for Bush\'s rise to power, despite him actually losing the 2000 election and winning an entire majority in 2004. Independents will forever ignore denigration and continue supporting people like Ralph Nader, Michael Badnarik, Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot because they symbolize a third way in politics-ballots of rebellion cast against stagnant duopoly. For his part, Cliff Thornton isn\'t offering Connecticut a winning ticket, only a sincere rally for democracy and freedom. 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CT: If one does not understand racism, classism, white privilege, terrorism and the War on Drugs - what these terms mean, how these concepts work - then everything else you do understand will only confuse you. I feel that the War on Drugs is at the center of most problems and is two degrees from everything in our society. No candidates talk about it, except for being "tough on crime" and that's it. The Green Party has been asking me to run for years, so I thought that this was a prime opportunity to expose the problem. I am running to be a voice for people who want change. I'm interested in attracting the tens of thousands who have dropped out and aren't even registered to vote. I want to leave an impression. The Green Party has stated it is looking to get 1 percent of the vote, but I am interested in getting 5 percent to 10 percent. I think that's possible, but it'll be very important to energize students at the major universities, people who are going to have a very hard time finding employment in this state soon. DC: You've called for Connecticut to follow Rhode Island in permitting medicinal marijuana. What are your opinions on other drugs, and what inspired your conclusions? CT: It's been a long journey, one that began two weeks before I was to graduate high school when there was a knock at the door and my grandmother told me to accompany a police detective to a field of abandoned cars. In one of those cars was the body of a naked woman - my mother - who had died from an apparent heroin overdose. There are no thoughts to describe how I felt after that, except that all illegal drugs should be eradicated from the face of the earth. Yet, as I watched my native Hartford going downhill decade after decade, I began to question what authorities were doing. Eventually I met these two surgeons at Hartford Hospital in the late 1970s/early 1980s and told them about my mother. They said that they used heroin to steady their nerves for surgeries. Obviously surgery is complicated and, in order to stay steady, they used pharmaceutical heroin and didn't become addicted. DC: There seems to be many contradictions in drug laws. Even though medical-marijuana is permitted in 11 states, the federal government still considers it illegal inside U.S. borders. Colorado is a medical-marijuana state, but their police have arrested Denver citizens even after a referendum made small quantities of pot permissible in that city. CT: Right, Denver decriminalized it, which is different from medicalization and legalization. Most people use these terms interchangeably, but they mean different things. In Denver, if you possess more than a decriminalized amount, you're breaking the law. Medicalization means putting something under the control of doctors and legalization would be something like cigarettes or alcohol. I advocate outright legalization of marijuana and hemp. I want to see marijuana, alcohol and cigarettes all being sold at a single place to limit children's access-the proper age being 18. I want to see heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy medicalized. I want to see other illegal drugs decriminalized and debated publicly. DC: I've read that you used to be a businessman. CT: I worked with Southern New England Telephone for 20 years in middle management, in charge of internal telecommunications. DC: How do you view the relationship between government and the marketplace? CT: I believe in free trade. I believe all markets should be open, but there have to be restrictions to let the little guy compete. Major corporations can implement restrictions to cut out small competition and absorb profits. We have five corporations that basically own print media in this country, which causes pretty myopic news. Another example is the telephone companies where, after there was some divestiture, littler businesses had grown. Eventually, though, those with the largest coffers came to completely control the telecommunications industry. Our country once fought off monopolies and we need to do it again. In order to go back to that, there needs to be divestiture. DC: So what is the underlying problem facing our society? CT: We have been lulled to sleep. The authorities orchestrate fear campaigns, terrorize the populace and make people believe everything that they hear. You have to understand that the drug wars are built on three phenomena: greed, racism and fear. It's a perfectly volatile mixture and most people are just too busy working to contemplate or challenge it. We are given a simple equation - On one side we have drug dealers and cartels, on the other side we have the authorities - bureaucracies of law enforcement, courts and prisons. Supposedly both sides are diametrically opposed to each other, yet both are completely against what I advocate. What's wrong with that picture? DC: Well, the paramount concept in political philosophy seems to be individual versus collective interests - liberal against conservative, libertarian against populist, capitalist against communist, anarchist against fascist. What are your thoughts on the principle dynamics of that relationship? CT: Diversity is our strength. Out of all the groups, Democrats and Republicans are the ones in power. What we need is another voice because Democrats and Republicans espouse the same values and do not effectively address public concerns. They have become Republocrats like, in this state, Joe Lieberman. Having different political interests is a good thing, but when two factions remain securely in power it becomes a lot harder to get things done. Elections only uphold fairness when individuals have the liberty to express authentic beliefs. When free choice is inhibited, the inner workings of government become corrupted and cancerous. Third parties are blamed for Bush's rise to power, despite him actually losing the 2000 election and winning an entire majority in 2004. Independents will forever ignore denigration and continue supporting people like Ralph Nader, Michael Badnarik, Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot because they symbolize a third way in politics-ballots of rebellion cast against stagnant duopoly. For his part, Cliff Thornton isn't offering Connecticut a winning ticket, only a sincere rally for democracy and freedom. =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Jan 25 14:01:57 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:01:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} (NH Register) "Glastonbury Man Seeks Green Party Nomination Message-ID: <20060125190157.81942.qmail@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15993899&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=31007&rfi=6&xb=jadud 01/25/2006 Glastonbury man seeks Green Party nomination Angela Carter , Register Staff NEW HAVEN ? At the age of 18, Clifford Wallace Thornton Jr. lost his mother to a heroin overdose. At first, he wanted harsher enforcement of drug laws. '); } //--> Now, at the seasoned age of 61, he is advocating the controversial position that the multibillion-dollar "War on Drugs" has resulted in failed drug policies, a waste of public resources and an inability to "stop the flow of drugs" into the heart of the nation?s neighborhoods, such as those in his native Hartford. As the founder of the nonprofit organization Efficacy, he has spoken to more than 300,000 civic groups in the United States, New Zealand and Europe about what he says are connections between race, class, white privilege and the drug war. "The driver behind this is money. But the glue that holds it together are race and class. This is a worldwide, $500 billion-a-year underground economy. Of that, $165 billion to $250 billion is here in this country," said Thornton, a salt-and-pepper haired African American from Glastonbury who wants to be Connecticut?s next governor. He is seeking the Green Party nomination in the 2006 race that pits Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell against the winner of a heated battle between New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy for the Democratic nomination. "The most important thing about that (the drug trade) is black and brown people cannot support this economy. Illegal drug use crosses all socioeconomic classes. But black and brown people are the ones going to jail," he said. Thornton will be speaking on the topic of "Perceptions of Race/Class and the Drug War" at noon today at Yale University?s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, 87 Trumbull St. The event is open to the public by RSVP only to (203) 432-6188. Thornton believes new drug policies must include legalization, medicalization and decriminalization of illegal drugs. He does not call for dismantling the criminal justice system, but for control of the distribution and use of drugs. "Drug policy starts with one question. Are people ever going to stop using illegal drugs? The overwhelming response is no. If that is the case, the next question is, how do we create an atmosphere where those people cause the least harm to themselves, and second, the least amount of harm to society as a whole?" he said. "We have to answer these questions in their entirety before we go anywhere else. The answer definitely is not the war on drugs." Thornton is convinced that political change must precede drug law reforms and he plans to devote a significant amount of time in his gubernatorial campaign showing taxpayers the consequences of diverting funds from public education, health, transportation and other needs to fight the drug war. "It?s time to bring the drug war into the political arena," he said. Michael Kozik, managing attorney for the Legislation and Elections Administration Division of the Secretary of State?s office, said Thornton needs 7,500 valid signatures by Aug. 9 to be the first Green Party candidate to make it onto the ballot for a governor?s election. Beyond that, becoming the first Green and the first African American to defeat major party contenders, particularly a vastly popular incumbent, is the monumental hurdle. Far back in the annals of state colonial history, slaves had special elections for black governors or kings who served as liaisons between blacks and whites. Tim McKee, Thornton?s campaign manager and Green Party spokesman in Connecticut, said the all-volunteer campaign team plans to collect 10,000 to 12,000 signatures "as a safety zone" by the deadline. "Cliff?s got an extremely controversial point of view and we know that. He?s gotten a great reaction. We?re going to run a hard-hitting, clean campaign," he said. McKee said Thornton also has concerns about other issues affecting voters such as skyrocketing energy costs and the availability of health insurance. He also will address breaking and mainstream news events and will push for participation in any gubernatorial debates. ### =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Jan 26 09:01:38 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:01:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} (ACTION) PLEASE respond to "Clean and Green"- Hart. and NH Advocate Message-ID: <20060126140138.41247.qmail@web81411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Clean and Green Third parties aren?t so happy with the new campaign finance law by Carole Bass - January 26, 2006 COURTESY ACLU Roger Vann of the ACLU. Through the tireless work of reformers, the state formerly known as Corrupticut now has one of the cleanest election laws in the country so stunning that one good-government activist likens it to ?a beautiful bride.? Connecticut also has a brand-new election slush fund so self-serving that one critic calls it ?the No Incumbent Left Behind Law.? Both are the same law, passed through a special legislative session by Democratic honchos in the middle of the night, and signed by Republican Gov. Jodi Rell. Depending on whom you talk to, the law is either the best election-reform bill ever adopted, or an abomination masquerading as real reform. And both reactions come from members of the Clean Up Connecticut Campaign, a coalition that has pushed for election reform for a decade. The law won?t kick in until the 2008 election cycle. Already, though, reformers are hotly debating whether and how the legislature should change the law in the session that begins Feb. 8. Actually, the reformers agree that they like aspects of the new campaign-finance law: ♦ It bans campaign contributions by lobbyists and state contractors. (The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut objects to the outright ban on lobbyist contributions, but executive director Roger Vann acknowledges that other reformers love the ban.) ♦ It ushers in public funding for candidates who qualify. In return, they must agree to spending limits. Together, public financing and the restrictions on fat-cat donors should make politicians less beholden to private contributors. ♦ It contains a loophole that reformers agree about closing: Political action committees run by legislative leaders can make ?in-kind? contributions to candidates they favor. The major disagreement revolves around minor parties specifically, the hurdles they must leap before qualifying for public campaign funding. Democrats and Republicans can get the public money simply by raising a set amount from small donors. But third-party candidates who already have to collect voters? signatures to get on the ballot must round up even more signatures to receive public money. To get full funding, they need signatures equaling 20 percent of the turnout in the last election. For statewide office, that adds up to more than 200,000 signatures. ?This is partisan, self-serving politics at its worst,? fumes Mike DeRosa, co-chairman of the Connecticut Green Party. ?Show me the fairness.? The Greens, calling the third-party requirements unconstitutional, are threatening a lawsuit. DeRosa was disappointed not to find more support for that view at a Clean Up Connecticut meeting this month. ?I think these folks are so eager to pass a reform bill that they close their eyes to the fact that this is a ?deform? bill,? he says. He contends that his party is ?absolutely? worse off under the new system than under the old, because incumbents can help themselves to public money while also getting fat handouts from party leaders through the PAC loophole. That?s nonsense, says Tom Swan of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group. Swan calls the petition requirements for third-party legislative candidates ?reasonable.? In the Hartford-area Senate District 1, where DeRosa has thrice challenged the incumbent Democrat, the Green could get full public funding with about 3,600 signatures. ?When in the hell has a minor party ever had that kind of money?? Swan asks. Striking a more moderate tone are two other Clean Up Connecticut Campaign members: the ACLU?s Vann, and Andy Sauer of Common Cause Connecticut. ?The hurdles that are put in the path of third-party candidates are excessive,? Vann says, and he will work to change them in the coming legislative session. Send comments to to BOTH papers and Carole Bass! Email editor at hartfordadvocate.com editor at newhavenadvocate.com cbass at newhavenadvocate.com Short letters are more likely to get printed than longer ones! Mention Tom Swan should have been labeled as "Democrat activist" and he is hardly unbias. He is working to get Ned Lamont to run, for example. Getting 3, 600 signtures for one State Senate race is quite a hurdle. Many elections do not even have that many total VOTES. 200,000 signtures may be MORE than the Primary election total votes!! Please respond to both papers! =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Jan 26 09:09:12 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:09:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} ( ACTION)"token challenge from young Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci, " Message-ID: <20060126140912.10027.qmail@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS ARTICLE IN THE NH AND HARTFORD ADVOCATE; "a token challenge from young Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci," Taking Aim at Joe Can a Greenwich millionaire unseat Lieberman? by Meir Rinde - January 26, 2006 MEIR RINDE PHOTO Ned Lamont met with progressive Dems last week at Hartford?s La Paloma Sabanera. The left-wing realms of Connecticut?s blogosphere have been buzzing the last few weeks over Ned Lamont, a Greenwich Democrat and millionaire cable company owner who appears increasingly ready to run against Sen. Joseph Lieberman in a primary election. Lamont?s experience with political office is limited to an unsuccessful run for state Senate in 1990, but Lieberman?s strong support for the Iraq War is very unpopular with Democratic activists and they?re champing for a challenger. Lamont has called the war ?an enormous foreign policy blunder.? Lieberman remains popular, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released two weeks ago. Connecticut voters approved of him 62 to 24 percent, and about the same percentage thought he should be reelected. Republicans in particular love him -- 75 percent said he should be reelected -- but his numbers were not as strong among Democrats, who favored his reelection 59 to 24 percent. And some in the ?Dump Joe? faction are excited by another statistic from the poll: Asked whether the party should renominate Lieberman for a reelection run, only 52 percent of Democrats surveyed said yes, with 39 percent saying no. Combine that figure with a tendency for primary voters to lean left and you?ve got a shadow of a possibility that Lamont or another challenger, like former governor Lowell P. Weicker, could best Lieberman for the nomination in the August primary. --------------------------------- Lamont hasn?t even officially declared himself a candidate, but there are signs that Lieberman and his supporters consider him a real threat. For example, the top liberal blog Daily Kos claimed that Lieberman is ?freaking out? and reaching out for support among Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C. While that may be wishful thinking, Lieberman also told the Republican-American he was prepared to run as an independent if he lost the primary. And when Lamont had a meet-and-greet with progressives at a Hartford caf? last week, Mayor Eddie Perez took the trouble to show up and tell him not to run. ?As mayor and an activist involved in progressive causes for decades, I cannot ask any of my fellow progressive Democrats to support Mr. Lamont against Sen. Lieberman,? Perez told the Hartford Courant . Writers on the Connecticut Local Politics Blog came up with some reasons why Perez would bother to take notice of Lamont. The mayor is tight with the Democratic Leadership Council, the centrist organization whose members include Lieberman and Bill Clinton. Perez?s chief of staff is related to a Lieberman aide. And, probably most importantly, it benefits Hartford and the mayor personally if he has a good relationship with an influential senior senator. Perez, despite his progressive credentials, is an establishment politician who would not quixotically support a dark horse candidate. That raises a practical question: even if Lamont decides to run and does draw interest among registered Democrats, could he get the support of the local Democratic Party activists who will attend the primary convention? Fairfield University politics professor John Orman said that to get on the primary ballot so voters have a chance to pick him over Lieberman, Lamont would first need to receive the support of 15 percent of the town committee members who are convention delegates. Orman, who briefly ran against Lieberman last year until it was clear he had little support, said he?s only heard of two or three Democratic Town Committee chairs who have spoken up against Lieberman, out of some 200 town committees. The strong institutional resistance to challengers helps explain why Lieberman is in his 18th year as senator and will probably serve another six years. ?In Connecticut, if you?re the type of person who has a career in politics and wants to move up the ladder, you?d be crazy to run against Joe Lieberman,? Orman said. ?That would be the end of your political career. ?So it takes a party outsider or a maverick to pull off a huge political upset and get all the citizen action groups together and all the progressive groups and get people who are really upset with Joe,? Orman said. A millionaire like Lamont might be able to do it, Orman said, as could a celebrity on par with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But genuinely viable insider candidates like Attorney General Richard Blumenthal or state Rep. Rosa DeLauro won?t even try. --------------------------------- Lieberman?s defenders, and even some Democrats who have qualms about the war, make another point: why are Democrats so eager to oust one of their own leading senators? Especially these days, with Republicans dominating all branches of the federal government, every Democratic vote in Congress is precious. Maybe all those liberal activists who are so angry that President Bush once gave Lieberman a kiss on the cheek should instead focus their energy on helping Democrat Chris Murphy in his campaign against Republican Congresswoman Nancy Johnson, or Diane Farrell in what?s likely to be a close rematch with Congressman Chris Shays, the Lamont skeptics say. Even Lieberman may need their help. In addition to a token challenge from young Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci, Joe could face a fight with maverick former governor Weicker, and the Hartford Courant has mentioned an unnamed millionaire Greenwich Republican who is supposedly considering running in the general election. Joe probably won?t end up losing to anyone come November, but it looks like he?s facing a tough year. He?ll surely take whatever help he can get. Tell us what you think. Email mrinde at hartfordadvocate.com Email editor at hartfordadvocate.com editor at newhavenadvocate.com PLEASE RESPOND TO BOTH PAPERS AND MRINDE!! =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim McKee (860) 324-1684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kumfry at yahoo.com Thu Jan 26 10:54:41 2006 From: kumfry at yahoo.com (Kenneth Humphrey) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:54:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} ( ACTION)"token challenge from young Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci, " In-Reply-To: <20060126140912.10027.qmail@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060126155441.39395.qmail@web32809.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I guess many who get the Courant will have noticed that suddenly Jingo/Corprate/Holy Joe Lieberman is trying to remake his image by attempting to show his differences with the Bush regime. Lieberman is publicized by his mesmerized promoter David Lightman, the Courant's Washington man, as 'leading the effort to get the Bushies to cooperate with the investtigation over what happened when Katrina hit'. This is typical Lieberman opportunism and phoniess, and exactly how, with major help from the Courant and other Connecticut media, Lieberman manages to bamboozle unalert voters into thinking he's 'on their side' when he's actually catering to corporate interests at the expense of the people's (and his constituents') interest. When Joe ran in 1988 he was totally supportive of the Contras-Reagan's 'Freedom Fighters' while Weicker was outspoken against the Contras and Reagan's complicity with brutality and murder by the rightwing regimes in Central America. And Lieberman rabidly savaged, with one big point being that Weicker was on the go in his quizotic campaign for president, and failing to serve his constitutents. Lieberman also had the enthusiastic support of the Buckleys and Tom Scott and Republicans in general, who knew that Lieberman was way to the right of Weicker. And the Republicans have been very content with Joe ever since. In 2000 they had no problem letting the already shaky mayor of Waterbury become the GOP opponent to Joe. And the GOP has really made no serious attempt to run a serious candidate against Joe since 1988. And it will be the same this year, in fact, I can even see the GOP running JOe if Joe should lose or show signs of losing a Dem primary. Referring back to Joe's savaging Weicker over never being on the job and not serving his constituents, we wxperienced Phony Joe disappearing for weeks while he ran his quizotoc primary campaign for the presidency. He was far worse as an absentee than Weicker ever was. Nope, the key fact about Joe Lieberman is that he's a hawk of hawks, totally subservient to rightwing Israel's bellicose policies in the Middle East and brutal intransigence in dealing with the occupied Palestinians, and completely DLC, and the corporate/Wall Street's man and not yours and mine. He has a very superslick promotional setup and is the worst sort of rank opportunist. This zilch of a Senator badly needs to get booted out of office. Better he makes an honest man of himself and join up with his rightwing GOP friends as one of them. As has been noted, Joe has long been Dino Joe, Democrat In Name Only. Ken Humphrey --- Green Party-CT wrote: > PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS ARTICLE IN THE NH AND > HARTFORD ADVOCATE; > > "a token challenge from young Green Party > candidate Ralph Ferrucci," > > > Taking Aim at Joe > Can a Greenwich millionaire unseat Lieberman? > by Meir Rinde - January 26, 2006 > MEIR RINDE PHOTO Ned > Lamont met with progressive Dems last week at > Hartford?s La Paloma Sabanera. The left-wing realms > of Connecticut?s blogosphere have been buzzing the > last few weeks over Ned Lamont, a Greenwich Democrat > and millionaire cable company owner who appears > increasingly ready to run against Sen. Joseph > Lieberman in a primary election. Lamont?s experience > with political office is limited to an unsuccessful > run for state Senate in 1990, but Lieberman?s strong > support for the Iraq War is very unpopular with > Democratic activists and they?re champing for a > challenger. Lamont has called the war ?an enormous > foreign policy blunder.? Lieberman remains popular, > according to a Quinnipiac University poll released > two weeks ago. Connecticut voters approved of him 62 > to 24 percent, and about the same percentage thought > he should be reelected. Republicans in particular > love him -- 75 percent said he should be reelected > -- but his numbers were not as strong > among Democrats, who favored his reelection 59 to > 24 percent. And some in the ?Dump Joe? faction are > excited by another statistic from the poll: Asked > whether the party should renominate Lieberman for a > reelection run, only 52 percent of Democrats > surveyed said yes, with 39 percent saying no. > Combine that figure with a tendency for primary > voters to lean left and you?ve got a shadow of a > possibility that Lamont or another challenger, like > former governor Lowell P. Weicker, could best > Lieberman for the nomination in the August primary. > > --------------------------------- > > Lamont hasn?t even officially declared himself a > candidate, but there are signs that Lieberman and > his supporters consider him a real threat. For > example, the top liberal blog Daily Kos claimed that > Lieberman is ?freaking out? and reaching out for > support among Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C. > While that may be wishful thinking, Lieberman also > told the Republican-American he was prepared to run > as an independent if he lost the primary. And when > Lamont had a meet-and-greet with progressives at a > Hartford caf? last week, Mayor Eddie Perez took the > trouble to show up and tell him not to run. ?As > mayor and an activist involved in progressive causes > for decades, I cannot ask any of my fellow > progressive Democrats to support Mr. Lamont against > Sen. Lieberman,? Perez told the Hartford Courant . > Writers on the Connecticut Local Politics Blog came > up with some reasons why Perez would bother to take > notice of Lamont. The mayor is tight with the > Democratic Leadership Council, the > centrist organization whose members include > Lieberman and Bill Clinton. Perez?s chief of staff > is related to a Lieberman aide. And, probably most > importantly, it benefits Hartford and the mayor > personally if he has a good relationship with an > influential senior senator. Perez, despite his > progressive credentials, is an establishment > politician who would not quixotically support a dark > horse candidate. That raises a practical question: > even if Lamont decides to run and does draw interest > among registered Democrats, could he get the support > of the local Democratic Party activists who will > attend the primary convention? Fairfield University > politics professor John Orman said that to get on > the primary ballot so voters have a chance to pick > him over Lieberman, Lamont would first need to > receive the support of 15 percent of the town > committee members who are convention delegates. > Orman, who briefly ran against Lieberman last year > until it was clear he had little support, said he?s > only heard of two or three Democratic Town > Committee chairs who have spoken up against > Lieberman, out of some 200 town committees. The > strong institutional resistance to challengers helps > explain why Lieberman is in his 18th year as senator > and will probably serve another six years. ?In > Connecticut, if you?re the type of person who has a > career in politics and wants to move up the ladder, > you?d be crazy to run against Joe Lieberman,? Orman > said. ?That would be the end of your political > career. ?So it takes a party outsider or a > maverick to pull off a huge political upset and get > all the citizen action groups together and all the > progressive groups and get people who are really > upset with Joe,? Orman said. A millionaire like > Lamont might be able to do it, Orman said, as could > a celebrity on par with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But > genuinely viable insider candidates like Attorney > General Richard Blumenthal or state Rep. Rosa > DeLauro won?t even try. > > --------------------------------- > > Lieberman?s defenders, and even some Democrats who > have qualms about the war, make another point: why > are Democrats so eager to oust one of their own > leading senators? Especially these days, with > Republicans dominating all branches of the federal > government, every Democratic vote in Congress is > precious. Maybe all those liberal activists who > are so angry that President Bush once gave Lieberman > a kiss on the cheek should instead focus their > energy on helping Democrat Chris Murphy in his > campaign against Republican Congresswoman Nancy > Johnson, or Diane Farrell in what?s likely to be a > close rematch with Congressman Chris Shays, the > Lamont skeptics say. Even Lieberman may need their > help. In addition to a token challenge from young > Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci, Joe could face > a fight with maverick former governor Weicker, and > the Hartford Courant has mentioned an unnamed > millionaire Greenwich Republican who is supposedly > considering running in the general election. Joe > probably won?t end up losing to anyone come > November, but it looks like he?s facing a tough > year. He?ll surely take whatever help he can get. > Tell us what you think. > > Email mrinde at hartfordadvocate.com > > Email editor at hartfordadvocate.com > > editor at newhavenadvocate.com > > > PLEASE RESPOND TO BOTH PAPERS AND MRINDE!! > > > =========================================================== > 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. > =========================================================== > National Committee member from Connecticut: Tim > McKee (860) 324-1684 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Jan 27 03:13:53 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:13:53 +0000 Subject: {news} Keeping jobs local: Burlington city law bans use of outsourcing Message-ID: This and a living wage ordinance would go far. http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/122005/BanOutsourcing.shtml Keeping jobs local: Burlington city law bans use of outsourcing By Shay Totten | Vermont Guardian posted December 2, 2005 Officials in Burlington have a message for companies that outsource jobs to faraway countries: Don?t come looking for business at City Hall. A resolution adopted unanimously by the city council on Nov. 21 sets a policy that the city will not give service contracts to contractors, subcontractors, and vendors who are not performing that work in the United States or Canada. An amendment to strike Canada from the ordinance failed on an 8-3 vote. The new city law was spurred by Progressive Phil Fiermonte, who represents the city?s working class Old North End and is a longtime aide to Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-VT. It is the first such ordinance to be passed in Vermont. The ordinance ?is a modest but important step that our city can take to help protect workers in Burlington, and to send a message that Burlington public officials are not going to stand by idly as corporations ship jobs overseas,? said Fiermonte. Fiermonte, and others, are not sure if this ordinance will impact any of the city?s current contracts. In the past decade, Vermont has lost more than 10,000 manufacturing jobs, and many in-state, large companies are now outsourcing white collar jobs to India and China. Area labor organizers, who had lobbied for the measure, applauded its passage. They had argued that tax dollars should not be used to send jobs overseas. A concerted effort to support the measure was made by Vermont Alliance at IBM activists, the Champlain Valley Central Labor Council, and the Vermont State AFL-CIO. ?The city has taken a significant move to support working people by acknowledging that public funds should not be used to pay for public services that will be performed by workers outside the country unless no alternative is available,? said Ralph Montefusco of Burlington, an organizer with Alliance at IBM, a group trying to organize a union at IBM, which has made it company policy to send good-paying, white collar information technology jobs to China and India in recent years. ?The city outsourcing ordinance is not an issue of international trade policy; rather it is a question of how public funds, our money, are used to pay for our services. When local jobs are lost, the costs are absorbed by all of us in terms of loss of tax revenue, unemployment payments, loss of medical insurance,? Montefusco said. The new law does not apply to the Burlington School District, and only covers contracts valued at $50,000 or more. Prior to getting a contract with the city, a vendor must state, in writing, that they will not outsource any services overseas. If they violate the law, they could be fined up to $500 a day. The law does provide an out, but only if the city?s chief administrative officer determines that the services to be provided are not available in the United States and Canada at a reasonable cost. However, the council?s Board of Finance can overrule that decision. Fiermonte is concerned that Vermont companies are following a national trend by outsourcing jobs and more may be on the way. In recent years, National Life, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), and Capitol City Press have all sent jobs overseas. Due to public pressure, Fletcher Allen and SVMC reversed their decisions to outsource medical transcriptionists. Even the State of Vermont outsources some of its work related to administering the federal Food Stamp program to a company that uses a call center in India. Fiermonte hopes that other cities will follow Burlington?s lead. ?I believe that the city of Burlington can play an important role in standing up for American workers against the growing trend of outsourcing good paying jobs. The ?outsourcing ordinance? is an excellent first step,? he said. Similar proposals have been introduced in the state Legislature, but have stalled for lack of support. One proposal would prohibit the state from contracting with a call center outside of the United States. The other would require state contracts to be performed only in the United States by U.S. citizens or legal residents. Both bills were introduced in the 2003-2004 session, but were not acted upon or reintroduced in the current legislative biennium. From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Fri Jan 27 14:05:52 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:05:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Tony Harp was the first GREEN Candidate? or was she a Democrat? Message-ID: <20060127190552.58062.qmail@web81408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> New Haven Advocate- letter THIRD PARTY FROM THE SUN Okay, someone is bound to call me a raving historian, again, but Ryan Kearney dates the birth of the Green Party in New Haven to 1996 ["The Serial Candidate," Jan. 5], and to be accurate that would be the rebirth . Matt Borenstein and I signed the papers filed with the Connecticut secretary of state forming the New Haven Green Party in mid 1985, and we got over 10 percent of the citywide vote for our mayoral candidate that year. One alder candidate (we coined a gender-neutral term) did even better, but Ralph did us one better with 15 percent in his Guilty Party run. The first Green elected to the Board, though I suppose she'd prefer to deny it, was Toni Harp. She ran as both a Green and a Democrat, aligned with the rebellious Bill Jones primary challenge to Ben DiLieto and with the Progressive Alliance, which cross-endorsed Greens in the general election of 1987. That earlier incarnation of the party provided a platform for the growth of the national movement that eventually allowed Nader to co-opt and nearly destroy it, but which also seeded the newer incarnation here. End of history lesson. At this point, locally I'm kind of partial to the Guilty Party. They sure ran a more credible candidate last year! Too bad I couldn't vote for her. Chris Gray Branford =========================================================== 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. 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Percentage nationally: 4.5% Number of votes: 665,940 Best province: Alberta, 6.6% Best riding (percentage): Bruce--Grey--Owen Sound, 12.9% Best riding (number of votes): Ottawa Centre, 6,766 votes Best riding percentage-wise in: Newfoundland and Labrador: Random--Burin--St. George's, 1.4% Prince Edward Island: Egmont, 5.2% Nova Scotia: Halifax, 5.2% New Brunswick: Madawaska--Restigouche, 3.3% Quebec: Westmount--Ville-Marie, 8.3% Ontario: Bruce--Grey--Owen Sound, 12.9% Manitoba: Winnipeg Centre, 7.0% Saskatchewan: Souris--Moose Mountain, 5.2% Alberta: Calgary Centre-North, 11.8% British Columbia: British Columbia Southern Interior, 11.3% Territories: Nunavut, 5.9% For more results, you may visit the Elections Canada website. 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URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Sun Jan 29 11:47:56 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:47:56 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Hait's Pere Jean-Juste Message-ID: <045101c624f3$c433f4b0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leenie Halbert" To: Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 6:21 PM Subject: USGP-INT Pere Jean-Juste > From: bill quigley > Subject: Update on and Letter from Pere Jean-Juste > > 1.27.06 > Update on and Letter from Pere Jean-Juste > by Bill Quigley. Bill is a law professor at > Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans and > assists Mario Joseph of BAI in Haiti as one of Fr. > Jean-Juste's lawyers. Bill's phone number in Haiti is > 509. 401.4822. The phone number for Dr. Jennifer > Furin is 509.425.2953 in Haiti and 857.998.1768 in the > US. > > Pere Jean-Juste wrote the following letter from > the Pacot Prison in Port au Prince. The Prison is > guarded by Jordanian troops in grey camoflauge. They > have heavy weapons including a big machine gun mounted > on a white UN jeep loaded with belts of big brassy > bullets. > Fr. Jean-Juste is moist and feverish, occasionally > coughing and sniffling. As he writes mosquitoes > circle his exposed feet arms and neck. There was no > water in the prison last night or this morning. > Despite this, he remains in good spirits as a constant > stream of people visit him. One little girl with > white ribboned hair, bends over him as he writes and > silently and gently kisses his bald head. > Dr. Jennifer Furin of Harvard Medical School > examined him yesterday and pronounced him very ill and > his health deteriorating from leukemia and pneumonia. > After her examination Dr. Furmin went to the US > Embassy to press for Fr. Gerry's release. > The US Embassy says there is little they can do - > this is a matter for the Haitian government. "The US > has no say in the internal affiars of Haiti or any > other sovereign country," the say. > Dr. Furin is very, very worried. She concludes > Fr. Jean-Juste needs immediate hospitalization and > treatment. "We do not have the luxury of time > anymore." > > > > > Letter from Fr. Jean-Juste > Pacot Prison Port au Prince, Haiti > > Friends, Brothers and Sisters, Compatriots> > Once more I would like to bring you up to date on > my case. My physicians, to whom I remain most > grateful, have done wonders. They checked on me just > in > time. I was unable to breathe freely due to some > pneumonia the last 4 days. Two good strong > medications from Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Jennifer > Furin bring me in better shape today. Health wise, > apart from the leukemia and pneumonia, I am holding > on. A friend visited me today an said his sister > suffered leukemia and with quick treatment she was > able to > live for 3 years. Early medical treatment, not > available in Haiti, may allow me to survive for a > while. > Secondly, on the legal level, we are moving > forward. The investigating judge has dropped two > major charges and now charges me with two leser ones. > I am innocent of all the charges. As elections will > probably take place o February 7, 2006, I am sure > these frivolous charges will be dropped soon. In the > meantime, I will not accept any kind of guilty plea or > kangaroo trial by the de facto government in order to > get released. Forget it. I want fair treatment. I > will fight for my innocence and my principles. If I > die for it, I want everyone to keep fighting. > Thirdly, understand that I wish you all to extend > your support not only to me but to as many political > prisoners as possible wherever on planet earth. > Probably, you are aware that there are quite a number > of political prisoners around the world. Think of > them an keep them in your heart. Amnesty > International has done a wonderful job. I am real > proud of Amnesty from my first years in contact with > them, in the late seventies until now. AI members > have comforted me with more than 4000 letters and > cards. Please know that I am very grateful to AI and > to all of you for helping fight for the human rights > of all political prisoners, here in Haiti and across > the world. > Let's keep the momentum on for justice, peace, > love, and sharing to prevail all over the world as God > wants it. > Sincerely yours, > Gerard Jean/Juste njeranjeri at yahoo.com > > --- > | Sent via usgp-int > | To unsubscribe, please send a message to usgp-int-request at gp-us.org > | with ONLY unsubscribe in the message > --- > From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Jan 30 13:58:46 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:58:46 +0000 Subject: {news} Norwalk protest featured in The Hour In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This was on the front page of the Norwalk Hour last Monday. Living her beliefs Publication The Hour Date January 23, 2006 By JAMES WALKER Hour Staff Writer NORWALK -- It's hard to know what will inspire a child and set him or her on a lifelong mission to make the world a better place. Years ago, a young girl eavesdropped on a conversation in her grandmother's kitchen and learned relatives in Germany were being persecuted and massacred in camps because they were Jewish. She never forgot that conversation -- or the reason why members of her family were being systematically destroyed. She decided to spend her life battling injustice. When she was 28 years old, the young woman headed to North Carolina to join demonstrators in her first national protest. It was against the Ku Klux Klan and a local police department and their persecution of three young black children who were jailed and charged with victimizing a white girl. "We won," said Berta Langston. "They released the kids. Things had to be changed. But it's still not good. Look at what happened in Louisiana." During the next 50 years, Langston would raise her picket sign to fight for racial equality and stomp-out injustice. She joined tens of thousands during the 1960s march on Washington to protest the Vietnam War. The 79-year-old Norwalk woman no longer marches on Washington, but she was right in step with a small group of protesters outside City Hall Saturday. She was still sending a message to the White House that war -- this time in Iraq -- is wrong. "I won't give up until there is an end to all oppression and discrimination," Langston said. "I'll die with my boots on." The fiery, diminutive senior citizen, who is recovering from pneumonia, scoffed at suggestions she should take it easy. Langston said she has no time for sick beds, rocking chairs or sitting at home while there is still injustice in the world. She helped organize the small group that has demonstrated outside City Hall from 12:30 to 2 p.m. every Saturday for three years. Her present illness aside, studies show Langston is doing what many seniors should do to help impede the effects of aging. Experts are urging seniors to remain active, read, hold healthy discussions and have social interaction, along with daily physical exercise to stay mentally alert and physically fit. Langston knows time is catching up to her, but the years have taught her it's the voice of people that can help change the world. "You have to fight against injustice," she said. "I really feel strongly we can change the world." So does Sally Hasted. Born into the comfort of affluence, Hasted was a student attending Smith College when she decided to join hundreds of thousands of other students nationwide in the battle for civil rights in the 1960s. The move prompted arguments with her parents who wanted Hasted to be a "proper society girl who would stay at home and take care of a husband." "I shocked my family," she said. "I wanted to be an activist. I was fighting for racial equality and living it everyday." Hasted, 60, said she was so involved in the furious battle for civil rights, she never made it to the march in Washington to protest the Vietnam War. "I really regret it," she said. The wind whipped furiously around Langston and Hasted as they held onto signs that read "Peace" and "Bring Them Home Now" while waving to dozens of people who blew their horns in support from behind the wheels of cars, trucks, SUVs and 18-wheelers. "I want them to yell and scream, no more injustice, no more war," Langston said. "There were not many people protesting before the war got started. We need to see more people spreading the word. It works." David Bedell, secretary of the Fairfield County chapter of the Green Party, who joined the demonstrators, said it's an "unjust war." "It was poor planning all around," he said. "There was a plan to go in, but no plan to get out." Robert Stanton said protesting is his way to "express my outrage." "I could write to my elected officials or take a bus to D.C. one weekend, but it would only be the status quo," he said. For Hasted, the protest is personal. A one-time teacher at the United Nations International School in New York, she said her classes were filled with students from Iraq, as well as other countries. And as she watches images of the destruction in Iraq on television, she wonders about the fate of her former students and those of their children in the war-torn country. "I think of them being blown up," she said. "It just breaks my heart." Much has changed for Langston since the days she traveled to North Carolina and marched on Washington. Granny dresses have been replaced by the moniker "grandma" and sneakers have replaced sandals. Her hair is snow-white and her eyes now look through horn-rimmed glasses. Occasionally, she has to sit down in her carry-along chair to rest. But her passion to crush injustice and end discrimination is as torrid as the day it was ignited in her grandmother's kitchen. Pulling the hood of her jacket over her head to ward off the cold, Langston raised her picket sign and continued waving to supporters to protest for "poor people who have always been cannon fodder for wars." And the senior citizen, who is aging with attitude, said she'll be standing in the same place at the same time next Saturday. "It makes me feel virtuous," she said. "It gives me a reason to live." Staff writer James S. Walker can be reached at (203) 354-1004 or jswalker@ thehour.com From vogel at myeastern.com Sun Jan 8 21:20:38 2006 From: vogel at myeastern.com (Robert Vogel) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:20:38 -0000 Subject: {news} Draft Weicker Message-ID: <001b01c614c3$16612000$0300a8c0@your55e5f9e3d2> Now that we know that Lieberman is a Democrat in name only consider Weicker : http://www.draftlowellweicker.com/ http://www.draftlowellweicker.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vogel at myeastern.com Mon Jan 9 22:07:55 2006 From: vogel at myeastern.com (Robert Vogel) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:07:55 -0000 Subject: {news} Nobel Prize Speech Message-ID: <000001c61592$f90daf70$0300a8c0@your55e5f9e3d2> I didn't see this in the press anywhere. Did you ? http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From embrancato at netzero.com Mon Jan 16 18:32:10 2006 From: embrancato at netzero.com (Elizabeth M. Brancato) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:32:10 -0000 Subject: {news} Re: [gpcwc] USGP-INT FW: 2 proposed actions: for Pres. Evo Morales and against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger In-Reply-To: <0d8101c61ae6$ddd45c00$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> References: <0d8101c61ae6$ddd45c00$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: <43CC2CC8.4080001@netzero.com> Not only do I have no objection, I strongly support both of these resolutions. Elizabeth Brancato Justine McCabe wrote: > Dear all, > I'm forwarding 2 actions sent to the USGP International Committee (IC) > by CA delegate to the IC, Fred Hosea. > Any opposition to these? > Justine McCabe > > > > Original Message ----- > *From:* juliawillebrand > *To:* usgp-int at gp-us.org > *Sent:* Monday, January 16, 2006 9:04 AM > *Subject:* USGP-INT FW: 2 proposed actions: for Pres. Evo Morales and > against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger > > > Julia Willebrand > USGP International Committee Co-chair > FPVA Co-president > > 212 877-5088-- > > > ------ Forwarded Message > *From: *Fred Hosea III > > *Date: *Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:54:52 -0800 (PST) > *To: *intcomm at gp-us.org > *Cc: *CA Delegates > > *Subject: *2 proposed actions: for Pres. Evo Morales and against > Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger > > > > Attn: Time Value > > > > Dear members of the GPUS International Committee, > > > > I would like to submit two very different draft resolutions for > the GPUS/IC to consider in the coming days. These drafts have > been circulated for review within the GPCA International Protocol > committee as well as our other state-level working groups and > committees, and there have been no objections to submitting them > to the GPUS/IC for your consideration and action. > > > > *Evo Morales *- In light of the recent election of Sr. Evo > Morales to the presidency of Bolivia, I've drafted a Resolution of > congratulation and support on behalf of the GPUS. Sr. Morales is > the first indigenous person to be elected to the Bolivian > presidency, and his election marks a significant cumulative turn > in Latin American politics, along with Chavez in Venezuela, to a > lesser degree Lula in Brazil and Kirschner in Argentina, and > today's election of Socialist Michelle Bachelet as Chile's first > woman president. > > > In my new role as a GPCA delegate to the GPUS, I'm hoping to > develop an active program for alliance building with indigenous > and unrepresented peoples around the world, and I see this triumph > of indigenous people in Bolivia as a great place to start. > > > > Sr. Morales will be inaugurated on Jan. 22nd, and I'm hoping the > GPUS Int. Committee can approve this in time to send to him for > that date, or as soon thereafter as possible. I'd like to request > that the final document be sent in English, Spanish, Aymara, and > Quechua, and copies be sent to a selected list of indigenous > coalitions in Latin America. I'll be glad to assist with finding > the translators. > > > > It's my hope that we can have a standing process by which we can > quickly send similar resolutions to other foreign officials who > are elected on the basis of programs and principles that are > substantially in harmony with those of the Green Party, and where > no Green Party candidate has run in opposition. Today's runoff > election in Chile, where Michelle Bachelet is now being declared > victorious, is a prime example. I would invite the GPUS/IC to work > on a resolution in her honor as well. > > > > And on another, less pleasant subject ... > > > > *Arnold Schwarzenegger* - Tomorrow might (Jan. 16th) brings yet > another dismal vigil for a San Quentin execution in California, at > the hands of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - the 3rd of his short > career. This resolution expresses support for the call by > Austrian Greens last year to revoke the Austrian citizenship of > Arnold Schwarzenegger for his participation in acts that are > forbidden to Austrian citizens. By continuing to focus > international attention upon the death penalty in the US, and > shaming its practitioners, we will help re-inforce the important > message that not all Americans are barbarians, and that the Green > Party is the leading political advocate internationally for > abolition of the death penalty. > > > > > > ============================================ > > > > > The People of the Green Party of the United States salute the > People of Bolivia and your newly elected President, His Excellency > President Evo Morales. > > > > The People of the Republic of Bolivia have expressed their strong > political will through the revolutionary election of Mr. Evo > Morales as President of the Republic, and The Green Party > celebrates this election as a powerful demonstration of the > growing strength of democratic processes in Bolivia and of the > leadership of indigenous peoples, which we see as a promising and > construtive force in social political, and economic life. We > celebrate the Bolivian People and President Morales as part of a > growing movement in the hemisphere that is demanding a new era of > government that will serve all the people, and not just a > privileged minority. > > > > The Green Party of the United States affirms with the Bolivian > people your deep community values and your aspirations for peace, > human rights, social justice, and sustainable economic > development, and we share with you the imperatives: > > > > ? To end the use of *armed forces and police violence* > as instruments of political control and oppression of the poor, of > dissidents, of indigenous peoples, of unions, of advocates for > environmental protections and protectors of human rights. > > > > ? To increase controls over *multi-national corporations* > in all affairs impacting the health, safety, and wellbeing of > Bolivia's people, your natural resources, your natural > environment, and your models for economic development. > > > ? To reject the destructive influence of international > lending bodies and trade organizations whose *neoliberal and > imperial agendas* have increased poverty, debt, and national > vulnerability worldwide. > > > ? To end the *legacies of colonialism, racism and ethnic > discrimination*, and expand political processes to involve all > citizens in the local and national decisions that affect them. > > > ? To establish *regional economic alliances* that protect > the people against the economic vulnerabilities of the globalized > economic system, and that serve as a counter-force to fight the > destructive economic forces of globalism. > > > > We extend our strongest congratulations to you all and send our > wishes for your brave efforts to create an "Axis of Good" that > will be an inspiring example not only for Latin America, but for > all peoples of the world. We extend our hand of friendship and > solidarity, and offer our support for the progressive political > agenda you have declared. > > > > ===================================== > > > > > > > > *Resolution > * > *of the International Protocol Committee > * > *of the Green Party California > * > *December 28thth, 2005 > * > > > > The International Protocol Committee of the Green Party of > California with due consideration hereby approves and issues this > Resolution in support of an Austrian Greens proposal to revoke > the Austrian citizenship of the current Governor of California, > Arnold Schwarzenegger. We understand that the revocation of > citizenship has been formally requested by Green Party members of > the Austrian Parliament as a consequence of the California > Governor's recent official involvement in permitting the execution > of Citizens of the United States and the State of California, > actions which are illegal as an activity of either a State or a > person in Austria. > > > Whereas Arnold Schwarzenegger has dual citizenship in the United > States and Austria, and whereas the death penalty is illegal in > Austria, and no Austrian citizen is legally permitted to > participate in or order the execution of another human being, and > > > > Whereas the Green Party is locally and internationally dedicated > to values of human life which oppose the death penalty as a matter > of principle and rejects use of the death penalty as a policy of a > modern and civilized society, and > > > > Whereas Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his current position as duly > elected Governor of the State of California did on multiple > occasions willfully and knowingly exercise his official executive > powers as Governor to permit the execution of the death penalty > against Donald Beardslee and Stanley Williams, persons > incarcerated in California, and > > > > Whereas Green Parties around the world have a shared and > continuing interest in the collective assertion and exercise of > our fundamental values in the protection and advancement of human > rights worldwide, in the advancement of high and maturing > standards of civilization, and in the advancement of personal > accountability for political actions, and > > > > Whereas we, as citizens of the State of California have a moral > right and obligation to act both locally and globally in the > vigorous prosecution of illegal conduct by all government > officials, and in the criticism of official policy and conduct > which offends the principles for which we stand, > > > > We hereby resolve to affirm and express our support, through the > International Committee of the Green Party of the United States, > for the proposed action in the Parliament of the Republic of > Austria to revoke the Austrian Citizenship of Arnold > Schwarzenegger, and for other pertinent and appropriate sanctions > which the Austrian Parliament may enact in this regard. > > > > Affirmed, this 28th day of December, 2005. > > The Green Party of California, International Protocol Committee > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Fred Hosea, Ph.D.* > > Green Party of California (Alameda) > California Delegate to the Green Party of the United States > Coordinator: International Protocol Committee > > Activator: Diversity Outreach, Speaker/Entertainer Bureau > > 6925 Snake Road > Oakland, CA 94611 > > Home 510-339-6781 > Cell 510-684-6925 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo! 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