From efficacy at msn.com Thu Feb 1 06:47:52 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:47:52 -0500 Subject: {news} Statement From Marge Nichols--KK Message-ID: POLITICS Statement From Marge Nichols January 30, 2007 The Hartford Courant The Hartford police are wrong. I was standing right next to Ken Krayeske at Jodi Rell's inauguration parade on Jan. 3. My sister-in-law and I had walked down Pearl Street on our lunch hour and were standing on a small traffic island when a young man materialized on my right. There was no one else around us and just the three of us on the island. He had arrived so quietly that I mainly became aware of his presence because I found myself admiring his long telephoto lens. I'm an amateur photographer with an SLR camera sporting a more modest 28-70 zoom, so it interested me. I didn't have my camera that day, but if I'd brought it, both he and I would have been doing exactly the same thing -- standing there quietly taking photos of the parade. This man did not rush into the parade at Rell as the Hartford police have said. Jodi Rell passed by us on the far side of the road, walking right to left toward the brownstone Arch. I said to my sister-in-law, "There's Jodi Rell." Rell seemed to have heard me because she turned toward us, smiled, waved and continued to our left. But at the same moment, this young man, still next to me on my right, was pulled behind us into a parking lot, searched, handcuffed and led away. My sister-in-law and I were very surprised and couldn't figure out what he'd done. We had certainly not felt threatened by this photographer nor in any danger. I remember being impressed by how calmly he stood as he and his camera bag were being searched. He did not resist. Now I did not know who this young man was then and I don't care what his views are now. But at the time he was arrested, he was not doing anything illegal, unless there is a law that prohibits photographing parades. If so, the police should take note that there were other people walking right along among the marchers holding up digital and video cameras. This man, on the other hand, had remained standing quietly next to me on the island. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Thu Feb 1 08:41:28 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:41:28 -0500 Subject: {news} Consumers protest rising energy costs Message-ID: http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17792877&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=590581&rfi=6 Consumers protest rising energy costs Angela Carter, Register Staff 02/01/2007 Email to a friendPrinter-friendly Jim Duarte of New Haven, dressed as a shark, mingles with a crowd protesting United Illuminating's high electric rates in Hartford Wednesday. Arnold Gold/Register (Buy Register photos) -HARTFORD - A grass-roots consumer group rallied at the entrance of the Legislative Office Building Wednesday, demanding immediate reform to the state's electricity delivery system during the current session. The "Fight the Hike" coalition traveled to Hartford by bus and several members expressed disappointment that few legislators spoke with them during their lobbying trip. "The bottom line is - these folks aren't listening," said Mike DeRosa, a coalition member and co-chairman of the Connecticut Green Party. He opposed deregulation when it was approved by the General Assembly in 1998. Fight the Hike was joined by state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, state Sen. Leonard Fasano, R-North Haven, state Rep. Vickie Orsini Nardello, D-Prospect, and New Haven Alderman Robert Lee, D-11, of the Foxon neighborhood. Blumenthal reiterated proposals he made in 2006 for windfall profits refunds and a Connecticut Electric Authority that would build and operate power plants and return money to consumers. He said legislators need to "feel the heat" of consumer anger over skyrocketing utility rates. "Take back control. That's the message we have to take to the legislators," he said. "We're going to carry on the fight as long and as hard as necessary and I will be there with you ... all around the state." The state Department of Public Utility Control last month approved a phased-in rate increase of 24 percent on Jan. 1 and another 25 percent over the remainder of 2007 for UI's residential customers. DPUC also allowed Connecticut Light & Power Co., the state's largest electric utility, to raise rates by 7.7 percent starting Jan. 1, on top of a 22 percent increase that took effect last year for CL&P customers. Anita Steeves, communications specialist for The United Illuminating Co., observed the rally and said afterward that state laws must change to make rate relief a reality. Steeves said UI would like more flexibility in the procurement process, so the company can enter contracts with longer terms and therefore at lower costs, or be allowed to once again generate power locally. "Everybody agrees prices are too high. I think we should put all the options out there and look at everything and see what works best for the customers," she said. Meanwhile, the General Assembly's Energy and Technology Committee voted Wednesday to consider several bills aimed at energy reforms. A public hearing is set for Feb. 13 but the specific LOB meeting room was not yet available. "I share your frustration," said Nardello, a member of the energy committee. "We need to go back to having state control of the generation in Connecticut." Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said there would be negotiations and revisions around the bills. "We're looking to the energy committee to give us a vehicle we can work with," he said. In an attempt to meet with Gov. M. Jodi Rell, four Fight the Hike members instead met with her policy counsel, Philip Dukes, because Rell was formulating her budget proposal at the governor's mansion. "We've seen no action from the legislature for us to even join in with," Dukes said, adding that components of the governor's energy plan will be reflected in the budget package she unveils next Wednesday. Lee and Frank Panzarella, a Fight the Hike founder, told Dukes they do not want the governor to reappoint any DPUC commissioners whose terms may expire this year. Dukes said the governor recommends people for appointments that are confirmed by the legislature. When Wendy Hamilton, also a coalition member, asked for citizen participation in the appointment process, Dukes said Rell is proposing to add two advocate seats on the commission, one for citizens and another for businesses. "The governor's been swinging with both hands to get DPUC to slow down the increases," Dukes said. The group gave Dukes petition sheets with 1,700 names of ratepayers who want a moratorium on rate increases. Lee, Panzarella and DeRosa continued to push for a future meeting with Rell and Dukes suggested they call her office again and request an appointment. "We don't care when it is. She can pick the day, we'll show up," Lee said. "I want to leave on the note we really do understand how this is affecting people," Dukes said. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: email_this_article.gif Type: image/gif Size: 101 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: printversion.gif Type: image/gif Size: 101 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Our demand has been "to cut off funds to stop the killing in Iraq and use those funds to stop the killing at home." On Friday, February 16, we propose that there be a similar vigil in front of the CT office of each member of Congress in CT, senators and representatives. Groups which form to organize each presence could adapt the materials on the attached list for their own particular situation. Please contact Charlie Pillsbury or Henry Lowendorf with your responses and questions. Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT) Main District Office: 100 Great Meadow Rd. Wethersfield, CT 06109 Phone: (860) 258-6940 Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (I-CT) Main District Office: 1 Constitution Plz., 7th Fl. Hartford, CT 06103 Phone: (860) 549-8463 John B. Larson (D-CT 1st) Main District Office: 221 Main St., 2nd Fl. Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: (860) 278-8888 Congressman Joe Courtney (D-CT-2nd) Main District Office: 2 Courthouse Sq., 5th Fl. Norwich, CT 06360 Phone: (860) 886-0139 Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT 3rd) Main District Office: 59 Elm St. New Haven, CT 06510 Phone: (203) 562-3718 Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT 4th) Main District Office: 10 Middle St., 11th Fl. Bridgeport, CT 06604 Phone: (203) 579-5870 Congressman Christopher S. Murphy (D-CT 5th) Main District Office: 1 Grove Street New Britain, CT 06053 Phone: (860) 223-8412 Friends: Please forward. Thanks. We will gather again this Fri. Feb. 2 at noon in front of 59 Elm Street (where Rosa DeLauro's local office is located), read names of those killed in New Haven and in Iraq from 12:15-12:45pm, and finish by 1:00pm - to urge Congress to cut off funds to stop the killing in Iraq and use those funds to stop the killing at home. Please contact me if you would like to read names tomorrow in front of Representative DeLauro's office. And please brings signs and banners. peace, salaam, shalom, charlie Charlie Pillsbury 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 chapillsbury at igc.org p.s. We also will continue this vigil on Friday Feb. 16, when we hope to be joined by other vigils at other local political offices around the State. __._,_.___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sun Feb 4 11:12:47 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:12:47 -0500 Subject: {news} Plenty of fingers can be pointed in Krayeske issue--ken dixon a friend? Message-ID: http://www.connpost.com/kendixon/ci_5155736 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plenty of fingers can be pointed in Krayeske issue KEN DIXON Article Last Updated: 02/04/2007 09:39:04 AM EST Ken Krayeske, pseudo- journalist, itinerant rabble-rouser and impotent political provocateur, is no poster boy for the First Amendment. And yet, too many issues around his arrest and confinement by Hartford police really stink to high heaven. First, beware of people who call themselves "journalists." It's a highfalutin appellation. Real journalists are too busy working, gathering information to share with readers, to cop existential 'tudes. I know a journalist who's in Baghdad right now and nowhere near the relative safety of the Green Zone. I hope he's not bleeding somewhere as I write this. He calls himself a reporter, not a journalist. Krayeske, whose resume reads like the table of contents for "A Slacker's Guide to the Galaxy," is no journalist. He is, however, a bit of a counter-cultural Renaissance man, having written about Amsterdam hash bars for High Times and taught snowboarding and non-violent civil disobedience for mass protesters. An occasional freelance writer who has a computer, a digital camera and blahg, maybe, but he's neither reporter nor working journalist. "I was acting under the color of a journalist," he says, in one of the many things I find amusing as if the First Amendment, in his case, was more than a fig leaf. He's a 34-year-old student at the Quinnipiac University School of Law who parlayed a sore-loser attitude after the November elections into a self-promotional tour of Hartford court houses, howling like a banshee about the First Amendment. He's even tried to shame the Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists into funding his little winter promo campaign. Krayeske should be happy that the Hartford police did not massage his noggin when he peddled the bike up to Gov. M. Jodi Rell's Jan. 3 inaugural parade, put the thing down on the ground and squeezed off photos as Rell headed south, toward the Civil War Arch on Trinity Street on her way to the Capitol. There are a few things I find interesting about his arrest. First, breach of peace and interfering with officers seems way overstated, since he apparently never said anything until he was startled from behind by man in a bomb squad jumpsuit and readily surrendered when he figured out it was a cop. During a recent hearing before the Legislature's Public Safety Committee, Hartford Police Chief Daryl Roberts defended the bust, then showed extensive ignorance of the facts, all the while insisting that Krayeske had "breached" a parade route where marchers outnumbered the scattered spectators. Krayeske's name and two driver's license photos, were on a pre-parade list of possible troublemakers. Handed out to officers assigned to the parade route, it referred to him as a Green Party organizer and included reports from State Police who monitored his blahg. So while voters generally ignored the Green Party in November, State Police listed him as a person of interest and Hartford police were all over him in January. The $75,000 bond was hilarious, since Krayeske (pronounced cray-ES-key) presented less potential escalation to the ambient danger of Hartford streets, than his former boss, Green Party gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton, was to Connecticut's political status quo. Krayeske was way too intense during the campaign, a true believer who never recovered when New Haven Mayor John DeStefano intimidated The Day newspaper of New London into dropping Thornton from a televised gubernatorial debate with Rell. One of the things that eroded my patience with Krayeske during the campaign was when he crossed the line and literally got into Rell's face late in the campaign. It was at a Rell "event" in Windsor, at the train station there, when she issued a proclamation about responsible growth late in the election campaign as part of her rose garden election strategy. Some union activists were assembled across the street, along with Thornton. Krayeske, who has a weird intensity in the field, pushed the envelope and actually joined a few reporters for a brief Q and A with the governor. This is a no-no and working reporters don't like civilians - let alone opposing campaign managers - chiming in as if they were reporters too. I also find humor in the way police detained the 34-year-old Hartford resident long enough for him to miss the inaugural ball. They were nice enough to keep him in a meeting room, not the usually crowded lockup. On Krayeske's blahg, he had issued a call to arms for other sore losers to demonstrate outside the Connecticut Expo Center, a concrete and corrugated-aluminum dump that was a desperate back-up plan for a ball. Those who didn't get there early, were consigned to park their cars in the hinterlands of Hartford's North End, where more than one guest, who paid $150 each for the event, trashed their dancing pumps in the mud on the way in, even before knocking down their first cocktail at one of the cash bars. So why should you taxpayers care about the criminal record of a Green Party whack job who uses the title of journalist like a bath towel, when he needs it? For one thing, that state police officer who saw Krayeske's blahg on the Internet and wrote him up as a potential threat, could have helped us a lot more if he were stopping speeders on Interstate 95. Ken Dixon's Capitol View appears Sundays in the Connecticut Post. You may reach him in the Capitol at 860-549-4670 or e-mail him at kdixon at ctpost.com Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Mon Feb 5 23:09:30 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:09:30 -0500 Subject: {news} agenda for the 2-7-07 EC meeting of GP of CT, at Cinco Demayo in Willimantic Message-ID: <20070206040930.LEHP23750.eastrmmtao01.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> at Fiesta Cinco Demayo Restaurant 1228 Main Street, Willimantic, CT P: 860-423-9509 1. CT Green Times newspaper status: Theme for the newspaper articles; are more articles needed from chapters about their positions? 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Feb 6 02:18:52 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:18:52 +0000 Subject: {news} Stamford Advocate: Eminent domain reform is overdue In-Reply-To: <002001c748c5$0be9b010$861f5743@compaqzwerqee7> Message-ID: Today's editorial: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/opinion/editorial/scn-sa-editorial25feb05,0,6878187.story Eminent domain reform is overdue February 5, 2007 It's human nature to play for time when big issues need to be resolved. But big issues - like eminent domain reform - are what state lawmakers were elected to confront. Putting that subject on the back burner of still another legislative session would represent a failure in that responsibility. It's not as though the state Legislature is unfamiliar with how eminent domain powers have become an affront to private property rights. The issue has been around in Connecticut for more than four years. The notorious New London property condemnation case that wended its way through the legal system to an unfortunate decision by the U.S. Supreme Court goes back at least that far. In a nutshell, the courts upheld the notion that governments can take property from one private owner and give it over to another for development that would increase the tax base or provide jobs. It was an interpretation of "public uses" that went far beyond the widely accepted view that such condemnation should only be done when government needs to build a road, or school, or other public project. After the 2005 high court ruling upholding such seizures, concern was such in Connecticut that state legislative leaders asked municipalities to put a moratorium on them until lawmakers could act. But not only did legislation die last year. It isn't even on the Democratic House majority's high-priority list for the current session, according to a report from Staff Writer Brian Lockhart. And the House speaker says no one need bother about the moratorium request, either. Oh, the issue has not been forgotten, said the speaker, James Amann of Milford. It's just a "tier- two" priority. Sounds like "forgotten" to us, as far as the speaker is concerned. "We have so many challenges," Mr. Amann said of the lawmakers' priorities. Indeed, they do. Some of those challenges, like energy costs and education funding, are now critical in part because they have languished during years past - as eminent domain is doing. To be sure, there are some lawmakers who maintain that eminent domain could be addressed in the current session. Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's announcement she intends to pursue reforms may help make that come to pass. On the Senate side, for example, Judiciary Co-Chairman Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, said he plans to "take another run" at passing a compromise reform bill. Then he added: "But there are other issues that have more immediate impact on the entire population of the state, such as energy, the education-cost-sharing formula and universal health care. You've got to remember, (the New London case) gained a lot of notoriety, but involved seven or eight plaintiffs." We hope that Mr. McDonald was not suggesting that an attack on bedrock rights is a matter less pressing because relatively few people have been affected by it thus far. Further, it's doubtful that the situation would be viewed in that way by some other property owners, such as Nancy Esposito. Her Norwalk business, Casey's Sheet Metal Service, operates in an area targeted for redevelopment. "I'm in the midst of this whole issue in a big way," she said. "I have a lot of contact with the public, and hear from people time and time again (who are) totally outraged." According to the libertarian-orient-ed Heartland Institute, 18 states enacted laws restricting eminent domain in the year following the high court's New London ruling. News reports also said ballot measures favoring restrictions passed in at least eight others last November. And it is likely some states already had protections in place that made new laws unnecessary. People in other states understood there was a big issue that had to be confronted. Connecticut needs to do the same. Copyright ? 2007, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. _________________________________________________________________ Search for grocery stores. Find gratitude. Turn a simple search into something more. http://click4thecause.live.com/search/charity/default.aspx?source=hmemtagline_gratitude&FORM=WLMTAG From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Tue Feb 6 11:34:53 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:34:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Nader in 08? Message-ID: <401214.58622.qm@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sun Feb 4, 5:30 PM ET Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Sunday left the door open for another possible White House bid in 2008 and criticized Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton as "a panderer and a flatterer." Asked on CNN's Late Edition news program if he would run in 2008, the lawyer and consumer activist said, "It's really too early to say. ... I'll consider it later in the year." Nader, 72, said he did not plan to vote for Clinton, a Democratic senator from New York and former first lady. "I don't think she has the fortitude. Actually she's really a panderer and a flatterer. As she goes around the country, you'll see more of that," Nader said. On whether he would be encouraged to run if Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, Nader said, "It would make it more important that that be the case." He added that Clinton may face a challenge in her own state from wealthy Republican New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "I think her main problem may well be right in New York City, Michael Bloomberg. They're talking in the Bloomberg camp of a possible run. I'm saying he'll give more diversity, for sure, and he'll focus on urban problems. But I might say, he's got the money to do it," Nader said. He also criticized focusing on campaign fund-raising to judge candidates' prospects. "The press and the polls are gravitating on cash-register politics ... who's going to raise the $100 (million) or $200 million, McCain or Obama or Hillary. That's very unhealthy. That's rancid politics," he said. Nader ran for president as an independent in 2004 and as the Green Party candidate in 2000. Copyright ? 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Copyright ? 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Send Feedback ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Tue Feb 6 11:39:31 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:39:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Outlaw Fusion in CT? Message-ID: <939861.89826.qm@web81408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Connecticut Senator Wants to Outlaw Fusion January 25th, 2007 Connecticut has three types of political parties. Qualified major parties nominate by primary; qualified minor parties nominate by convention; unqualified parties nominate by primary. Currently, Connecticut permits fusion for the first two types of party, although not the third type. Connecticut State Senator Mary Ann Handley, Deputy Majority Leader of the Senate, has introduced Proposed Bill No. 556, to outlaw all types of fusion. Her action is surprising, since she herself was the beneficiary of fusion in last November?s election. She received 20,969 votes on the Democratic line and 1,118 on the Working Families line; her only opponent received 14,064 votes solely on the Republican line. Although she didn?t need the Working Families votes in order to win, one would think she appreciated them. No Commen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Tue Feb 6 14:41:00 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:41:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} The Nation cites Greens on impeachment Message-ID: <983614.22669.qm@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Back to Story - Help Holding Bush to Account for Climate Lies, Neglect John Nichols2 hours, 41 minutes ago The Nation -- Viewers of Fox News, listeners to Rush Limbaugh and all the other sorry deadenders who choose Bush administration propaganda over perspective will be shocked to learn that the debate about global warming has been over for a long time. Climate change is real. And the cynical ploy by conservative politicians and commentators of suggesting otherwise has slowed the American response to a crisis scientists say has grown so severe that -- no matter what is now done to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases -- gases that have already been produced or are in production will continue to contribute to global warming and the rise of oceans for more than 1,000 years. The message from the world's top scientists is sobering. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level,'' argues a new report from the climate scientists working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change formed by the United Nations' Environment Program and World Meteorological Organization. The Bush administration has consciously and intentionally failed for six years to address the crisis. Worse yet, the president and his aides have actively attempted to foster the fantasy that global warming: a. does not exist, b. is a natural phenomenon, c. is a good thing or d. all of the above. The combination of deliberate inaction and delusional denial has earned this president a place in history alongside all the past Neros who have fiddled while their Romes burned. But the evidence that the Bush administration tampered with scientific research on global warming in order to advance its agenda calls for more immediate sanction. The president and those around him have, as evidenced by their actions over the past six years, proven that they cannot be trusted with power. Yet, without an intervention, they will retain power for another two years. That is not a prospect to be considered casually. "The Bush Administration is doing to the whole world what it did to New Orleans as Katrina began to descend on the city," says Green Party co-chair Rebecca Rotzler, who has been in the forefront of demanding an official response to the administration's assault on science. "By altering scientific research on global warming to fit his political agenda and refusing to take necessary steps to protect the public, President Bush has aggravated an impending environmental, public health, and security crisis. What to do? The Green Party, for reasons both of its environmental commitment and the seriousness with which it approaches issues of political accountability, has proposed a proper response. Responding to complaints from more than 120 scientists from seven federal agencies that they have been pressured to remove references to global warming from research reports, press releases, and communications with Congress, the Greens have accused the Bush administration of conspiring to deceive Congress and the America people about fundamental issues facing the nation. And there is a proper sanction for so serious an offense. "Congress must recognize the Bush Administration's tampering with studies on global warming and other scientific research as an impeachable offense," says Jody Grage, who serves as treasurer of the Green Party. "Ever since Vice President Cheney initiated private meetings with oil company representatives to determine energy policy, the administration has placed the demands for corporate profits over urgent human and environmental needs." Just as there are still those who debate whether climate change is actually taking place, there are still those who debate whether this president has committed acts that merit impeachment and removal from office. But the Greens are right on this one. The founders intended impeachment not as a legal process but as a tool for the protection of the nation and its citizens from irrational, irresponsible and immoral executives. The point of creating a procedure that allowed the Congress to interrupt a presidential term was not to punish minor acts of wrongdoing, it was to preserve the republic -- both structurally and physically -- from a president whose actions, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, might be "productive of cruel distress to our country." The European kings and queens against whom American revolutionaries took up arms had attacked science and free thought in order not merely to advance their pet theories but to improve their fortunes. A president who did the same, Jefferson argued, was no different from a monarch -- except that his tenure was constitutionally limited. That did not mean, however, that Americans should accept a king for four years. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others," explained the author of the Declaration of Independence who would make himself the steadiest advocate for democratic principles in the early days of the republic. Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason and their circle fought to assure that the Constitution would include a broad power of impeachment. It was, these men of the enlightenment knew, the essential corrective against an elective despotism that might see an imperial president reject even the logic of science in pursuit of whims, fantasies and self-interest. The founders knew that the impetus for impeachment might not be an act, but rather an inaction. And if that inaction was the result of a choice by the president and his aides to serve their oil-industry partners and contributors rather than their country and their planet, then surely it is a high crime against the republic -- an impeachable crime in the sense intended by the authors of the Constitution -- that has been committed. The Greens have wisely recognized this fact, and made an appropriate argument for booting a pathetic president from the Oval Office. Perhaps if those of us who still retain a Jeffersonian regard for science begin to speak of denying climate change as the impeachable offense that it is, we can begin to put the issue in proper perspective for the folks at Fox -- who seem only to feel a sense of urgency when their dear leader is threatened with sanctions more immediate than those of history. We may, as well, answer the most poignant of the questions left us by Thomas Jefferson. "Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic," observed the third president, who then turned his attention to those who would inherit that republic and asked: "But will they keep it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Nichols' new book is THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson hails it as a "nervy, acerbic, passionately argued history-cum-polemic [that] combines a rich examination of the parliamentary roots and past use of the 'heroic medicine' that is impeachment with a call for Democratic leaders to 'reclaim and reuse the most vital tool handed to us by the founders for the defense of our most basic liberties.'" Like this article? Try 4 issues of The Nation at home (and online) FREE. Copyright ? 2007 The Nation Copyright ? 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Send Feedback | Help -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net Tue Feb 6 15:18:12 2007 From: jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net (Jean de Smet) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:18:12 -0500 Subject: {news} agenda for the 2-7-07 EC meeting of GP of CT, at Cinco Demayo in Willimantic In-Reply-To: <20070206040930.LEHP23750.eastrmmtao01.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <013701c74a2b$f0d134c0$9fb3d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Barbara, et al, There was no time listed, but 7's OK with me. Jean -----Original Message----- From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of B Barry Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:10 PM To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: {news} agenda for the 2-7-07 EC meeting of GP of CT,at Cinco Demayo in Willimantic at Fiesta Cinco Demayo Restaurant 1228 Main Street, Willimantic, CT P: 860-423-9509 1. CT Green Times newspaper status: Theme for the newspaper articles; are more articles needed from chapters about their positions? Estimated date it will be going to publisher and availability for distribution via Albert Marceau. 2. Treasurer's updates from 1-30-07 SCC Meeting from Christopher Reilly. 3. Any bylaws committee proposal. 4. ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT "campaign finance reform" law. 5. GPUS updates. 6. CTGP website. 7. Updates re: Political issues the CTGP wants to/is addressing with CT legislature. 8. Place and agenda for 2-27-07 SCC meeting. 9. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 3-07. 10. Any proposals. 11. Other -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: 2/5/2007 4:48 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From westerfield at sysmatrix.net Tue Feb 6 15:25:06 2007 From: westerfield at sysmatrix.net (Michael Westerfield) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:25:06 -0600 (CST) Subject: {news} agenda for the 2-7-07 EC meeting of GP of CT, at Cinco Demayo in Willimantic In-Reply-To: <013701c74a2b$f0d134c0$9fb3d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> References: <20070206040930.LEHP23750.eastrmmtao01.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> <013701c74a2b$f0d134c0$9fb3d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Message-ID: <1338.69.0.97.248.1170793506.squirrel@webmail.sysmatrix.net> I'll be busy til about 8, but will try to get there shortly afterwards. Michael > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.orgBarbara, et al, > > > > There was no time listed, but 7's OK with me. > > > > Jean > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org > [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of B Barry > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:10 PM > To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org > Subject: {news} agenda for the 2-7-07 EC meeting of GP of CT,at Cinco > Demayo > in Willimantic > > > > at Fiesta Cinco Demayo Restaurant > > 1228 Main Street, Willimantic, CT P: 860-423-9509 > > > > > > 1. CT Green Times newspaper status: Theme for the newspaper articles; > > are more articles needed from chapters about their positions? > > Estimated date it will be going to publisher and availability for > > distribution via Albert Marceau. > > 2. Treasurer's updates from 1-30-07 SCC Meeting from Christopher > Reilly. > > 3. Any bylaws committee proposal. > > 4. ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT "campaign finance reform" law. > > 5. GPUS updates. > > 6. CTGP website. > > 7. Updates re: Political issues the CTGP wants to/is addressing with CT > legislature. > > 8. Place and agenda for 2-27-07 SCC meeting. > > 9. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 3-07. > > 10. Any proposals. > > 11. Other > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: 2/5/2007 > 4:48 PM > > > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this > transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete > the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or > face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or > legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal > legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of > the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is > solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party > hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post > confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, > and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is > always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party > under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, > misdirection, or general mischief. > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please > immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail > transmission may contain confidential information. This information is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is > intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files > if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Tue Feb 6 19:35:00 2007 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:35:00 -0500 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens to Congress: Stop Bush from attacking Iran Message-ID: <11dc01c74a4f$cd45e450$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Greens to Congress: Assert constitutional war powers, stop Bush from attacking Iran . Greens urge Congress, media, and public to be skeptical about 'Yellow Cake Propaganda' -- a Bush Administration disinformation campaign to justify going to war, similar to deception behind Iraq invasion in 2002-2003 . Impeachment is necessary to halt Bush's war agenda, restore the rule of law to the executive branch WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders appealed to Congress members today to prevent the Bush Administration from launching military attacks and a possible war on Iran. "We urge Congress to take immediate steps against President Bush's obvious plans for a war on Iran," said Jim Coplen, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "Congress alone has the constitutional power to block the White House from launching a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, and Congress can also cut off military aid to Israel if Israel initiates the military confrontation." Greens warned that the White House has stepped up a propaganda campaign to build public support for war against Iran, claiming that Iran is behind much of the civil strife now taking place in Iraq and that Iran intends to use its nuclear capability for military purposes, including production of nuclear weapons for use against Israel and the West. "The Bush Administration has claimed that intelligence proves Iran is aiding attacks on Americans in Iraq, but has had to concede that such intelligence is either weak or nonexistent," said Sarah 'Echo' Steiner, co-chair of the Green Party. "President Bush and Vice President Cheney are playing the same games they played in 2002 and 2003. We urge Congress to pay close attention to intelligence experts and Pentagon officials who are disputing White House claims about Iran." Greens challenged the media to question and investigate Bush Administration accusations that Iran has engaged in acts of provocation against the U.S., citing the administration's history of misinformation, including the 2003 State of the Union speech and other public communications that led up to the beginning of the Iraq War. Green Party leaders also noted that, while demanding that Iran halt its development of nuclear power, the Bush Administration has promoted nuclear power in other nations in the region, including India and Pakistan, and has tolerated Israel's nuclear arsenal, and that continued construction of nuclear weapons in the U.S. has encouraged nuclear proliferation around the world. Greens have called for diplomacy and international cooperation instead of sabre-rattling and military confrontation. "We ask Congress not to sign away its constitutional war powers," said Nan Garrett, co-chair of the Green Party's National Women's Caucus and co-chair of the Georgia Green Party. "The last time Congress did so, in October, 2002, it handed President Bush a blank check to wage war on Iraq. The result was a war based on fraudulent justifications, leading to a civil war in Iraq, over 3,000 dead U.S. service members and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians, and no end in sight. War with Iran will be an even greater disaster, leading to a likely regional or global conflict. The President's plans have nothing to do with a 'war on terror' and everything to do with a reckless strategy to assert U.S. control over the region, access to oil resources, and collusion with a belligerent Israeli government." The Green Party of the United States has already called for immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and a cutoff of military funding for the war, and has endorsed impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. "Congress could quickly frustrate President Bush's plans for war on Iran by beginning impeachment proceedings," said Justine McCabe, co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee. "It's likely that Republicans in Congress would block impeachment. But a public presentation of evidence that the Bush Administration has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, especially in its numerous deceptions about the reasons for invading Iraq, will call into question the President's assertions about Iran. We're telling Democrats, now is not the time for bipartisan compromise and retreat." 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 Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml "U.S. can't prove Iran link to Iraq strife: Despite pledges to show evidence, officials have repeatedly put off presenting their case." By Maura Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2007 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-iran3feb03,0,1950135.story "Ghost of Judith Miller: NYT Drinks the Kool-Aid on Claims Iran is Behind Attacks on U.S. Soldiers in Iraq" By Mark Weisbrot and Robert Naiman, January 31, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070201/cm_huffpost/040120 "US ex-generals reject Iran strike: Three former high-ranking American military officers have warned against any military attack on Iran" BBC News, February 6, 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6328801.stm ~ END ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CT Green Times newspaper status: Theme for the newspaper articles; > > > > are more articles needed from chapters about their positions? > > > > Estimated date it will be going to publisher and availability for > > > > distribution via Albert Marceau. > > > > 2. Treasurer's updates from 1-30-07 SCC Meeting from Christopher > > Reilly. > > > > 3. Any bylaws committee proposal. > > > > 4. ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT "campaign finance reform" law. > > > > 5. GPUS updates. > > > > 6. CTGP website. > > > > 7. Updates re: Political issues the CTGP wants to/is addressing with >CT > > legislature. > > > > 8. Place and agenda for 2-27-07 SCC meeting. > > > > 9. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 3-07. > > > > 10. Any proposals. > > > > 11. Other > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: >2/5/2007 > > 4:48 PM > > > > > > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > _______________________________________________ > > CTGP-news mailing list > > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > > > ATTENTION! > > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > > intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this > > transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete > > the original message. 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Thank you for your compliance. > > > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > >To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >_______________________________________________ >CTGP-news mailing list >CTGP-news at ml.greens.org >http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > >ATTENTION! >The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and >intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this >transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the >original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or >face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or >legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal >legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of >the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is >solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party >hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > >NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential >messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a >message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible >that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally >assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general >mischief. > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please >immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail >transmission may contain confidential information. This information is >intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is >intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files >if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From roseberry3 at cox.net Tue Feb 6 21:58:58 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:58:58 -0500 Subject: FW: {news} agenda for the 2-7-07 EC meeting of GP of CT, at Cinco Demayo in Willimantic Message-ID: <20070207025903.JSYL24316.centrmmtao01.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> time: 7:30pm to about 9pm _____ From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of B Barry Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:10 PM To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: {news} agenda for the 2-7-07 EC meeting of GP of CT,at Cinco Demayo in Willimantic at Fiesta Cinco Demayo Restaurant 1228 Main Street, Willimantic, CT P: 860-423-9509 1. CT Green Times newspaper status: Theme for the newspaper articles; are more articles needed from chapters about their positions? Estimated date it will be going to publisher and availability for distribution via Albert Marceau. 2. Treasurer's updates from 1-30-07 SCC Meeting from Christopher Reilly. 3. Any bylaws committee proposal. 4. ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT "campaign finance reform" law. 5. GPUS updates. 6. CTGP website. 7. Updates re: Political issues the CTGP wants to/is addressing with CT legislature. 8. Place and agenda for 2-27-07 SCC meeting. 9. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 3-07. 10. Any proposals. 11. Other -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: 2/5/2007 4:48 PM -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: 2/5/2007 4:48 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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URL: From efficacy at msn.com Wed Feb 7 07:28:20 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:28:20 -0500 Subject: {news} Rell Campaign Under Fire Message-ID: What does all this mean in the broader context??? http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-ctrellfundraising0207.artfeb07,0,4377441.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state POLITICS Rell Campaign Under Fire Auditors, Blumenthal Urged To Probe Whether Lists Misused For Fundraising February 7, 2007 By JON LENDER, Courant Staff Writer State auditors and the attorney general Tuesday received a request to look into whether Gov. M. Jodi Rell's office improperly used state resources last year to obtain addresses for use by Rell's campaign in soliciting financial contributions by mail. An investigation appeared imminent after Democratic State Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo faxed a letter to State Auditors Robert G. Jaekle and Kevin P. Johnson, asking that they "investigate the use of state employees' time and state resources for the sole purpose of raising campaign funds for Gov. Rell's political campaign." DiNardo based Tuesday's letter on what she said were troubling disclosures in Sunday's Courant by columnist Kevin Rennie. Even though DiNardo released a copy of her letter to The Courant, Jaekle said he could not confirm that the auditors had received it because of restrictions in the state's "whistleblower's law," under which the auditors and attorney general investigate allegations of waste, fraud and abuse in state government. But he did say, without reference to DiNardo, that if the bipartisan auditors receive a letter alleging misuse of state resources, then "we have an obligation to investigate it" under the whistleblower's law. The auditors then would submit a report on their investigation to the attorney general, who can conduct his own probe. DiNardo sent a copy of the letter to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who said he already was reviewing the matter - and, "if there's a letter alleging some misuse of state resources or other impropriety, we might well have to regard it as a whistleblower complaint and consult with the auditors." Rennie wrote in his column Sunday that last August, a lawyer in Rell's office, Philip L. Dukes, asked the state's Commission on Culture and Tourism for the lists it maintains for mailing announcements to people in arts and tourism groups. After the agency sent Dukes the lists, Dukes turned them over to Rell's chief of staff, M. Lisa Moody, and not long after that, people on the lists received letters from the Rell campaign soliciting contributions up to $2,500, Rennie wrote. Rell's office said it had no knowledge of any campaign activities involving the mailing lists - which, it said, were used for "official business" to inform the arts committee of a new $10-million-a-year "Cultural Treasures" program Rell announced Aug. 16. Rell and Moody, Republicans, spent much of 2006 in a scandal over a Dec. 7, 2005, Rell fund-raising event at the Marco Polo Restaurant in East Hartford - a scandal that led to months of investigation as well as $500 fines for 16 top Rell-administration appointees who obeyed Moody's instructions to hand out fundraiser invitations to subordinates. Rell suspended Moody for two weeks, saying she insisted that her staff maintain high ethical standards. Contact Jon Lender at jlender at courant.com. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at 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. 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Name: blackpix.gif Type: image/gif Size: 35 bytes Desc: not available URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Feb 8 14:56:15 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:56:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Green Party choses Reading, Pa. for annual meeting Message-ID: <20070208195615.43231.qmail@web81407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Scott McLarty wrote: From: Scott McLarty To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org, media-states at lists.gp-us.org, lavender-caucus at green.gpus.org Subject: [media-states] ADVISORY Press conf., Feb. 7: Green Party choses Reading, Pa. for annual meeting Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:58:46 -0800 (PST) MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release, Tuesday, February 6, 2007 EVENT: Press Conference announcing the confirmation of Reading, Pennsylvania, as the host city for the next Annual National Meeting of the Green Party of the United States, to be held in the Abraham Lincoln, a Wyndham Historic Hotel, July 12-15, 2007 TIME/DATE: 3 pm, Wednesday, February 7 PLACE: Wyndham Abraham Lincoln Mezzanine, 100 N. 5th Street, Reading, Pa. PARTICIPANTS: Liz Arnone, Co-Chair, Green Party of the United States; Dave Baker, Pennsylvania State Green Party Steering Committee; Jennaro Pullano, Candidate for Mayor; Dave Kurzweg, Berks County Green Party Co-Chair; Robert Lepore, General Manager of the Abraham Lincoln CONTACT: Dave Baker, 2007 Green Party Annual National Meeting Coordinator: 1-800-647-4685, daveb at gpanc.org ** Excellent photo and TV opportunity! ** SUMMARY: The National Committee of the Green Party has voted to hold the party's 2007 Annual National Meeting in Reading, Pennsylvania. Delegates from state Green Parties chose Reading over Olympia, Washington, after Greens from both locations submitted proposals. Greens meeting in Reading July 12-15, 2007, will make decisions about the party's upcoming political activities, including plans for Green participation in the 2008 presidential election. 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URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Thu Feb 8 22:59:24 2007 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:59:24 -0500 Subject: {news} Annual Meeting/ Elections of Officers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ARE BALLOTS GOING OUT BY MAIL ELECTIONSTO THOSE UNABLE TO ATTEND? ENTIRE LIST NOT JUST REGISTARED GREENS? iF NOT I DO NOT THINK IT IS OPEN TRANSPARENT OR DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS, DID WE SPEND ALL THE MONEY THE CTGP HAD FOR BALLOTS AND FUND RAISING LETTERS TO PAY KEN? THOUSAND OF DOLLARS! WHO IS RUNNING FOR OFFICES WHEN WILL WE KNOW, WHEN IS THE DEADLINE? tHANKS, AMY >From: >To: , >Subject: {news} Annual Meeting/ Elections of Officers >Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:37:35 -0500 > >Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >to unsubscribe click here >mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > >Please notify as many of your chapter members as possible that Elections to >State Green Offices will be held in April (tentatively scheduled for Sat., >April 21) at the Annual Meeting. 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 >26th, 2007 State Central Committee meeting in order to be included in any >printed mailings. > > > >Please contact: > >Jean de Smet > >39 Davis St. > >Willimantic, CT 06226 > >860 456-2188 > >JeandeSmet at 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. > > > > > > > > > > > ><< winmail.dat >> >To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >_______________________________________________ >CTGP-news mailing list >CTGP-news at ml.greens.org >http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > >ATTENTION! >The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and >intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this >transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the >original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or >face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or >legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal >legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of >the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is >solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party >hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > >NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential >messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a >message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible >that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally >assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general >mischief. > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please >immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail >transmission may contain confidential information. This information is >intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is >intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files >if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From roseberry3 at cox.net Fri Feb 9 10:20:15 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:20:15 -0500 Subject: {news} Bylaw proposal to be reviewed by chapters. This will be voted on at the 2-27-07 SCC meeting. Message-ID: <20070209152011.XTVP28701.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Proposal for Amending the Bylaws January 29, 2007 Proposal for a bylaws amendment for consideration at the April 2007convention Submitted by: The Bylaws Committee Patricia Kane, Coordinator Caleb Kleppner, Draftsman Section X. Amending the bylaws 1. These bylaws may be amended by proposals originating from a chapter or from members. 2. A chapter shall propose an amendment to the bylaws by submitting a written proposal to the State Central Committee for distribution either to the chapters or to the Annual Convention. If the chapter elects submission to the chapters, the Secretary shall distribute the proposal to the chapters within two (2) weeks of the submission date. 3. a. If an individual member submits a bylaw amendment to the State Central Committee, the State Central Committee shall immediately refer it to a Bylaws Committee for review. b. The Bylaws Committee, within 60 days of its charge, shall then recommend that the State Central Committee 1) submit the amendment to the chapters for consideration, 2) submit the amendment to an annual meeting/convention, or 3) reject the proposal. The State Central Committee may modify the amendment and shall then submit the proposal to the chapters or the next annual/meeting convention or reject the proposal. 4. To be adopted, a bylaws amendment must be approved by at least two-thirds of the chapters within 90 days of the communication of the proposal by State Central Committee to the chapters or by a 60% vote at an annual meeting/convention. **************************************************************************** ************************************************************************ Notes intended to clarify what we?re trying to accomplish and what the section means. 1. It takes at least 2/3 of chapters (as defined in the bylaws) to adopt a bylaws amendment or a majority vote at annual meeting/convention. 2. The idea behind this process is that if a chapter proposes a bylaws amendment, the State Central Committee does not have the power to block it from going to chapters or annual meeting for consideration. 3. If an individual without chapter support proposes an idea, the state central committee reviews the proposal through a bylaws committee and then the State Central Committee decides whether to submit the proposal to chapters or to convention or to kill the proposal. The State Central Committee may amend the proposal and shall either submit it to chapters or annual meeting for consideration or kill the proposal. 4. Chapters must follow a reasonable process of noticing their meetings, allowing pro and con speakers to present, keeping minutes and maintaining a list of members as defined in the bylaws. 5. Chapters follow their own decision making process (consensus, majority vote, 60% vote, whatever) to support or oppose the proposal. 6. If someone challenges the process used by a chapter to approve or reject a bylaws amendment, the State Central Committee has to evaluate whether or not the chapter was in compliance with the state bylaws when it made its decision. 7. There?s an assumption of good faith and communication. State Central Committee should solicit input from chapters before deciding to kill a proposal or forward it to chapters or submit it to annual meeting/convention. class=Section2> 8. When a chapter submits a proposal to the State Central Committee, the State Central Committee should forward it to chapters or annual meeting without delay, but if a chapter submits a proposal after a reasonable deadline before an annual meeting/convention, the State Central Committee does not have to add the proposal to the agenda. 9. At a convention, a 60% vote will be the percentage required of those voting yes or no. Abstentions will not be included in the total. Barbara Barry, Secretary of Green Party of CT -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: 2/5/2007 4:48 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From westerfield at sysmatrix.net Fri Feb 9 11:04:14 2007 From: westerfield at sysmatrix.net (Michael Westerfield) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:04:14 -0600 (CST) Subject: {news} Bylaw proposal to be reviewed by chapters. This will be voted on at the 2-27-07 SCC meeting. In-Reply-To: <20070209152011.XTVP28701.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> References: <20070209152011.XTVP28701.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Message-ID: <2532.69.0.97.248.1171037054.squirrel@webmail.sysmatrix.net> Oh, my. I'm not sure that I like the possibility of by-passing approval by the Chapters for by-laws changes. As we all know, attendance at the Annual Meeting/Convention can be rather sporatic/eccentric/unrepresentative/poor. I think that all proposed by-law changes should be submitted to the Chapters for review. Perhaps if they fail to act upon them by either accepting or rejecting, then perhaps they should go to the Annual Meeting. Michael Westerfield > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > Proposal for Amending the > Bylaws > > January 29, 2007 Proposal for a bylaws amendment for consideration at the > April 2007convention > > Submitted by: The Bylaws Committee > > Patricia Kane, Coordinator > > Caleb Kleppner, Draftsman > > > > > > Section X. Amending the bylaws > > > > 1. These bylaws may be amended by proposals originating from a > chapter or from members. > > 2. A chapter shall propose an amendment to the bylaws by submitting > a > written proposal to the State Central Committee for distribution either to > the chapters or to the Annual Convention. If the chapter elects submission > to the chapters, the Secretary shall distribute the proposal to the > chapters > within two (2) weeks of the submission date. > > > > 3. a. If an individual member submits a bylaw amendment to > the > State Central Committee, the State Central Committee shall immediately > refer > it to a Bylaws Committee for review. > > b. The Bylaws Committee, within 60 days of its charge, > shall then recommend that the State Central Committee 1) submit the > amendment to the chapters for consideration, 2) submit the amendment to an > annual meeting/convention, or 3) reject the proposal. The State Central > Committee may modify the amendment and shall then submit the proposal to > the > chapters or the next annual/meeting convention or reject the proposal. > > > > 4. To be adopted, a bylaws amendment must be approved by at > least > two-thirds of the chapters within 90 days of the communication of the > proposal by State Central Committee to the chapters or by a 60% vote at an > annual meeting/convention. > > **************************************************************************** > ************************************************************************ > > > > Notes intended to clarify what we?re trying to accomplish and what the > section means. > > > > 1. It takes at least 2/3 of chapters (as defined in the bylaws) to adopt > a > bylaws amendment or a majority vote at annual meeting/convention. > > > > 2. The idea behind this process is that if a chapter proposes a bylaws > amendment, the State Central Committee does not have the power to block it > from going to chapters or annual meeting for consideration. > > > > 3. If an individual without chapter support proposes an idea, the state > central committee reviews the proposal through a bylaws committee and then > the State Central Committee decides whether to submit the proposal to > chapters or to convention or to kill the proposal. The State Central > Committee may amend the proposal and shall either submit it to chapters or > annual meeting for consideration or kill the proposal. > > > > 4. Chapters must follow a reasonable process of noticing their meetings, > allowing pro and con speakers to present, keeping minutes and maintaining > a > list of members as defined in the bylaws. > > > > 5. Chapters follow their own decision making process (consensus, > majority > vote, 60% vote, whatever) to support or oppose the proposal. > > > > 6. If someone challenges the process used by a chapter to approve or > reject a bylaws amendment, the State Central Committee has to evaluate > whether or not the chapter was in compliance with the state bylaws when it > made its decision. > > > > 7. There?s an assumption of good faith and communication. State Central > Committee should solicit input from chapters before deciding to kill a > proposal or forward it to chapters or submit it to annual > meeting/convention. > > class=Section2> > > > > 8. When a chapter submits a proposal to the State Central Committee, the > State Central Committee should forward it to chapters or annual meeting > without delay, but if a chapter submits a proposal after a reasonable > deadline before an annual meeting/convention, the State Central Committee > does not have to add the proposal to the agenda. > > > > 9. At a convention, a 60% vote will be the percentage required of > those voting yes or no. Abstentions will not be included in the total. > > > > > > > > > > > > Barbara Barry, > > Secretary of Green Party of CT > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: 2/5/2007 > 4:48 PM > > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this > transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete > the original message. 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Thank you for your compliance. > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From apbrison at hotmail.com Fri Feb 9 14:39:36 2007 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:39:36 -0500 Subject: {news} FW: FIGHT THE HIKE- Feb. 13th Hearing on CT Energy Plan Message-ID: ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Frank Panzarella" To: various Subject: FIGHT THE HIKE- Feb. 13th Hearing on CT Energy Plan Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:36:36 -0500 The campaign to fight for rate relief and a rational energy plan for CT is moving forward. After a successful opening salvo in Hartford, where we met with several members of the energy committee, the governor's energy point person, and held a spirited rally, we are now getting to the nitty-gritty work of broadening our message state-wide, while continuing to press the legislature for substantive change. We will not accept mediocre bandaids on a shark bite or window dressing to cover over the rate increases. We continue to demand: Reverse the rate increase, fire the DPUC, re-regulate the industry, and protect consumers by creating a publicly owned utility with full transparency in the buying and billing processes. We also continue the fight for clean, sustainable energy. On Tuesday, February 13th we will bring our demands once again to the Capitol/Legislature and speak out at a public hearing of the energy and technology committee. The hearing takes place at the LOB (legislative Office Building) right next door to the Capitol Bldg. at 9:30am. However the public portion only begins at Noon. We need everyone possible to join us to speak out against the disaster created by de-regulation. The proposals currently being floated by both sides only add insult to injury as they do not seriously address the rate increase, they leave out major components for re-regulation, and are far too vague to be trustworthy. We would like to see every environmental and community organization represented at this hearing to show the resolve of the people of CT for significant and innovative energy policy change. Please join us on February 13th or help out in other ways. We also need people to help us broaden the campaign, help us with a phone calling campaign to legislators, help us build ties to other groups around the state in your own communties, circulate our petition and more. To join our carpool to Hartford on Feb. 13th call Allan Brison at 203-782-6808 or email to apbrison at hotmail.com To get involved in other ways email to Frankpanzarella at hotmail.com or call me at 203-562-2798 and don't forget to leave a number for me to return your call. To sign up to speak at the hearing on Tuesday Feb. 13th please call David Serkosky at 860-836-0256 Please post this message to any list appropriate. _________________________________________________________________ >From predictions to trailers, check out the MSN Entertainment Guide to the Academy Awards? http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2007/?icid=ncoscartagline1 _________________________________________________________________ Check out all that glitters with the MSN Entertainment Guide to the Academy Awards? http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2007/?icid=ncoscartagline2 From apbrison at hotmail.com Fri Feb 9 14:44:47 2007 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:44:47 -0500 Subject: {news} FW: March on the Pentagon Mar Message-ID: ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Dennis Hamilton" To: various Subject: e-mails from ANSWER eg Permits Secured for Pentagon Demonstration Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:26:08 -0500 Attached is the information regarding the Sat Mar 17 march on the Pentagon. _________________________________________________________________ Don?t miss your chance to WIN 10 hours of private jet travel from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0540002499mrt/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- Do you all get these e-mails? If not, can I recommend you (or someone else) to Tahnee and Neil so that at least priority info gets wider distribution i.e thru your e-mail lists? Peace ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tahnee Stair tahnee at answercoalition.org Date: Feb 8, 2007 2:38 PM Subject: Fwd: Victory for free speech! Permits Secured for Pentagon Demonstration Help spread the word quickly - repost to lists and distribute widely: From: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition < ANSWER at internationalanswer.org> *Subscribe* [image: ANSWER logo2] [image: tell a friend 1] *Free Speech Victory! Permits Secured for Pentagon Demonstration March on the Pentagon, Saturday March 17* **please circulate widely to your friends, family, and email lists** [image: Pentagon_march_200]We have all won a tremendous victory! Contrary to what many people told us was possible, or impossible, we have secured the permit at the Pentagon for the March 17 demonstration. This has been a long, hard fought battle for months. Now there are nearly *100 transportation centers *bringing people to Washington, D.C. on March 17. *The last thing that Bush and the Pentagon high command want is a mass march on the Pentagon *on the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 March on the Pentagon. The powerful symbolism of a March on the Pentagon is something that the war-makers fear and want to divert. They tried to make people think that the March on the Pentagon would be blocked or diverted using all sorts of logistical, administrative and political tactics to create obstacles. We refused to back down. We made it clear that people had the right to march on the Pentagon and that we intended to pursue that right through legal and political struggle. The First Amendment is not a gift that can be given or taken away by politicians or bureaucrats. *Tens of thousands will now exercise this right directly at the Pentagon.*This is the only route to end this criminal war. We can't wait for the politicians. They talk and talk and maneuver for advantage while the death toll grows every day. The politicians and their vapid non-binding resolutions are working to harness the outrage of the anti-war movement to their own electoral ends. They want to defuse the potential of powerful mass opposition that can shake the foundations and end the war. *Standing Together at the Pentagon* Recently returned veterans from Iraq, veterans from Vietnam, and military families will be standing tall at the Pentagon on March 17. So will young people from college campuses and high schools who are mobilizing to come to the Pentagon. The Muslim and Arab-American community are organizing. Survivors from New Orleans are conducting a dramatic bus and car caravan throughout the south to be at the Pentagon demanding: "From Iraq to New Orleans Fund Peoples Needs Not the War Machine." *All will be marching together in a united showing* in this historic demonstration. Be there March 17 March on the Pentagon! Help spread the word and get involved today: *Endorse *, *Volunteer *, *Organize Transportation* , *Find a Bus near you * , *Join the Student Mobilization *, *Download Flyers and Posters *, go to *MarchOnPentagon.org* for more information. *We need your donation for the March on the Pentagon* *Please make an urgently needed donation today *. Thanks to everyone who donated a few weeks ago to give travel scholarships to young people who wanted to attend the antiwar demonstration in DC. Due to your generous giving, we were able to fulfill many of the scholarship requests from cities and towns across the country. If you're unable to come to Washington on March 17th, but would like to sponsor the travel of a young or low-income person -- or several people -- *please make a much needed online donation, or click for information to write a check *. We need funds not only for people to come to Washington, but for the many expenses of printing flyers, stickers, and posters, and to pay for the stage and sound on the 17th. ------------------------------ *A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition* http://www.answercoalition.org/ dc at internationalanswer.org National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389 Click here to unsubscribe from the ANSWER e-mail list. If you have a problem unsubscribing, email dc at internationalanswer.org with "Unsubscribe" as your subject line. -- viva la Revoluci?n! The Revolution lives! Dennis Dennis Raymond Hamilton, MPH ' 71 Associate Director Program Amman Imman 281 Saint John Street New Haven, CT 06511-4916 % Friendship Caravan 5301 Carlin Springs Road Arlington, VA 22203 13 Avenue Albert Sarraut 91430 Igny Paris, France % American Embassy Niamby, Niger West Africa www dot waterforniger dot org dennis at ammanimman dot org Treasurer Friends of Afghanistan P.O. Box 620673 Woodside, California % "Afghan Connections" 4104 Dauphine Drive Austin TX 78727 % Schools & Futures for Afghan Children House 53, Street #4 Taimany District 10 Kabul, Afghanistan http://friendsofafghanistan.org bones dot hamilton at afghanconnections dot org - Peace Corps, Afghanistan 1965-67 Secretary Coalition for People coalitionforpeople at hotmail dot com 1996 - present Treasurer Connecticut Peace Coalition / New Haven connecticutpeacecoalition at hotmail dot com +1 203 772 280 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sat Feb 10 01:04:18 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:04:18 +0000 Subject: {news} Ralph Nader documentary: An Unreasonable Man In-Reply-To: <1170170824.328.76807.m16@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: Opened Jan 31 in New York. http://www.anunreasonableman.com About the film January 4, 2007 ? 1:15 pm In 1966, General Motors, the most powerful corporation in the world, sent private investigators to dig up dirt on Ralph Nader, an obscure thirty-two-year-old public interest lawyer, who had written a book critical of one of their cars, the Corvair. The scandal that ensued after the smear campaign was revealed, launched Ralph Nader into national prominence and established him as the leader of the modern Consumer Movement. Over the next thirty years and without ever holding public office, Nader built a legislative record that rivals any contemporary president. Many things we take for granted including seat belts, airbags, product labeling, no nukes, even the free ticket you get after being bumped from an overbooked flight are largely due to the efforts of Ralph Nader and his citizen groups. Yet today, when most people hear his name, they think of the man who cost the Democrats the Presidential election. After sustaining his popularity and effectiveness over an unprecedented amount of time, he now has become a pariah even among former friends and allies. An Unreasonable Man traces the life and career of Ralph Nader, one of the most unique, important, and controversial political figures of our time. _________________________________________________________________ FREE online classifieds from Windows Live Expo ? buy and sell with people you know http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwex0010000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://expo.live.com?s_cid=Hotmail_tagline_12/06 From efficacy at msn.com Sat Feb 10 07:57:56 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:57:56 -0500 Subject: {news} Fightin' Words Fly Over Tax Plan Message-ID: http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-rellbudget0209.artfeb09,0,7750778story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state The cigerette tax will spur more hijacking of cigerette trucks. At present, the hijacking of cigerette trucks are in the top three for hijacaking. This plan sounds a lot like what we Greens were talking about. Our Ideas have permeated the Republican party. POLITICS Fightin' Words Fly Over Tax Plan Amann, Rell Open '07 Budget Battle February 9, 2007 By CHRISTOPHER KEATING, Capitol Bureau Chief A day after Gov. M. Jodi Rell's stunning proposal to increase the state income tax, the House speaker on Thursday charged she "didn't have the guts to tell people" during last fall's election campaign that she planned to raise taxes. The allegation by Democratic House Speaker James Amann was part of a sometimes fiery, sometimes condescending exchange of statements between him and the governor over funding her plan for sweeping improvements to the state's public schools. Amann had questioned Rell's plan to raise $1.3 billion in new income taxes over the next two years when the state already has $1 billion in a "rainy day" fund and anticipates a surplus of more than a half-billion dollars in the current fiscal year. Referring to remarks Amann made Wednesday, the governor - during an unexpected visit to the Capitol press room - dismissed using a surplus to pay for an ongoing schools program because the money may not be there in the future. "Frankly, the speaker is the speaker of the House. He knows better," Rell chided. "That's not how you operate." Told of that remark, Amann retorted, "I don't need Mother Rell to wag her finger in my face about budgets." Then he assailed her for not talking about tax increases before an election she ultimately won in a landslide. In presenting her budget Wednesday, the governor proposed raising the state income tax from its current 5 percent to 5.5 percent over two years. She would use the $1.3 billion in new revenue for a dramatic increase in education spending, coupled with wide-ranging improvements in programs from early childhood education to college. Amann questioned the need for so much new tax revenue and complained that the bulging state surplus indicated residents already are overtaxed. That touched off Thursday's rhetorical ping-pong match. During her visit to the Capitol press room, Rell was asked about her position on the "millionaires' tax." She responded by volunteering that Amann's statements about surpluses had been off-base. "My comment to that is this is exactly the mistake that was made in the early '80s, when people said we have this money, let's go ahead and pay for this new program," Rell said. "And the next year, it wasn't there. The worst thing we could do now is use one-time revenue for any ongoing program." She added: "It's just not feasible to do that. ... There's some tough decisions to be made." Amann said the state could never have generated surpluses on a regular basis in recent years without the tax revenues from hard-working citizens. "First of all, she's all wet," Amann said of Rell. "We raised too many taxes already or else we wouldn't have a surplus. Somebody's being overtaxed, and I think the governor should understand that. I don't need to be lectured by someone who was part of the Rowland-Rell administration. Give me a break!" Amann said he was trying to make a broader point that the state's coffers have been filling up lately. All indications are that the surplus will only grow larger from capital gains taxes, he said, because the Dow Jones industrial average has broken records multiple times in recent months. As a result, he said, the projections that the state could have a deficit as much as $800 million next year, based on the current services that are being offered, are inflated and erroneous. Amann also criticized Rell for proposing the elimination of the estate tax for those who die with more than $2 million. He said her plan for hiking the cigarette tax to $2 per pack would disproportionately hurt those who could least afford the increase. "She's also taxing the same people who got nailed with huge utility increases, and the middle class is tired of it," said Amann, a Milford Democrat who was first elected to the legislature in 1990. "She's taxing the wrong people. Don't put a cigarette tax on the middle class." Instead, Amann called again for the so-called millionaires' tax that he said should be imposed on "the rich of the rich - those making $500,000 or more." He added that Rell is proposing the estate-tax elimination so that "all her millionaire buddies" would benefit. Despite the rhetoric of the day, Amann predicted that the Democrats and the Rell administration would eventually reach a budget compromise as they have in the past. Thursday's comments were reminiscent of Amann's April 2005 statement that he didn't care if Rell developed carpal tunnel syndrome - a condition caused by repetitive motion - from vetoing so many Democratic budgets. Less than two months later, the two sides reached a final budget agreement. When asked if the budget unveiled Wednesday would be finished before the legislature adjourns June 6, Amann said, "We're going to be fine." During her discussion with reporters Thursday, Rell did not rule out the millionaires' tax that many expect the Democrats to propose. She said the issue would be open to discussion over the next four months. Asked again for her position on it, Rell said, "That subject has not been broached to me publicly, except in the paper. Do I want it? Nah." Contact Christopher Keating at ckeating at courant.com. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: blackpix.gif Type: image/gif Size: 35 bytes Desc: not available URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Sun Feb 11 07:40:28 2007 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:40:28 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: Haaretz & Jerusalem Post: ICAHD brings Pinochet Judge to investigate war crimes/home demolitions Message-ID: <022301c74dd9$cfc8bdf0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: Angela Godfrey-Goldstein To: angela at icahd.org Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 5:02 AM Subject: Haaretz & Jerusalem Post: ICAHD brings Pinochet Judge to investigate war crimes/home demolitions w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last update - 01:51 11/02/2007 Just like life under Pinochet By Nir Hasson "The Palestinians' lives under the occupation are reminiscent of the lives of Chile's citizens under the dictatorship," says Chilean Judge Juan Guzman, who is visiting Israel, last week. "There, too, people who thought differently were considered enemies: They were imprisoned, tortured and killed. There, too, people couldn't move from place to place, they didn't have freedom and they didn't have equality before the law. But here it's harder. It has been going on for longer," he added. Guzman, 68, became known at the end of the 1990s as an investigative judge pursuing Augusto Pinochet, Chile's military dictator between 1973 and 1990. Guzman waged a long legal battle against Pinochet. Despite the former dictator's immunity, Guzman succeeded in filing several indictments against him and bringing him to trial. Pinochet's trial was never completed because of his health, and he died two months ago at age 91. Last week Guzman came to Israel as a guest of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and the Alternative Information Center (AIC) to examine indicting Israelis responsible for house demolitions in European courts. Thus far, legal proceedings have been initiated only against military officers. The committee wants to indict civilians as well. ICAHD has a list of three officials from the Civil Administration, the Jerusalem municipality and the Interior Ministry who ordered the demolition of houses. It is seeking to submit investigation requests against the officials in a European country where the courts have the authority to address international human rights violations. Guzman is slated to give the international seal of approval to the move. If such an investigation is opened, presumably arrest orders will be issued against the three and they will encounter difficulties in visiting Europe. Guzman's great antagonist, Pinochet, died on December 10, International Human Rights Day. "I did not feel satisfaction, but I wasn't sad either," he says. "Chile lost a historic opportunity to rebuild itself," he says. "After the justice system was destroyed during the 17-year-long dictatorship, this was an opportunity to demonstrate its independence and to prove to Chile and to the entire world that no one is above the law, that even Pinochet can be tried." Guzman disagrees with the Chilean Supreme Court, which ruled that Pinochet was not mentally able to stand trial. He says Pinochet was lucid until his last day. Guzman has been a judge for 36 years. In January 1998, when he was serving as a judge in the Supreme Court of Santiago, he was chosen to investigate human rights charges filed against Pinochet and his officers. Guzman received 98 cases involving Pinochet. He traveled throughout Chile and conducted a comprehensive investigation into Pinochet's crimes. Several months later, Pinochet was arrested in London by order of a Spanish judge, over Spanish citizens killed under the dictatorship. Pinochet returned to Chile a year and five months later, after a British court ruled that because of his poor health, he could not be extradited to Spain. Soon after that, Guzman field his first indictment on charges of responsibility for the "death squad," a secret police unit that murdered 75 regime opponents. Guzman also ordered the house arrest of the former dictator. The decision aroused a storm in Chile: Rightist elements and military officials took Pinochet's side, whereas the left took to the street to celebrate. "It was no simple matter to bring Pinochet to trial," explains Hebrew University political science professor Mario Sznajder. "For some of the country's inhabitants, Pinochet was considered the nation's savior from the Communists." In addition, Pinochet enjoyed immunity after appointing himself a senator for life, and by virtue of the "amnesty law" he legislated. This law granted "automatic amnesty" to anyone who committed crimes before 1978, but Guzman circumvented this in a sophisticated way. "I proved the law does not cover disappearances (the fates of more than 1,000 regime opponents are still unknown - N.H.). Thus, as in cases of kidnapping, this is a matter of a crime that did not end in 1978, but rather is ongoing, and until we find out what happened to those people, even if the amnesty law covers part of the crime, it does not cover all of it. The Supreme Court accepted my opinion," Guzman says. In 2001, the Chilean Supreme Court ordered the proceedings against Pinochet cancelled due to his mental unfitness. Two years later, Guzman came across an interview Pinochet gave a Cuban television station in the United States on the 30th anniversary of the military coup. "He spoke about 158 different subjects and appeared to be in very good and lucid shape," recalls Guzman. In the wake of the interview, which proved the dictator was fit to stand trial, Guzman reopened the investigation. The Supreme Court again revoked Pinochet's immunity, and Guzman filed another indictment against him, this time for Operation Condor - the South American military regimes' cooperation in persecuting opponents, which resulted in hundreds of murders. Guzman went to Pinochet's home and interrogated him. "He could tell the difference between good and evil, and he could also tell the difference between what was convenient for him to answer and what was not convenient," relates Guzman. "This time he was less nice to me than he had been the first time. He understood I was prosecuting him. But he did not insult me and he was not aggressive." Half a year later Guzman succeeded in filing yet another indictment, this time for what was called Operation Colombo, during the course of which 119 Communist activists disappeared. Their bodies were never found. These legal proceedings, like others opened by other investigative judges, were not completed by the time Pinochet died. "These investigations did the country a great favor. They openly showed what had happened during the time of the dictatorship," says Guzman. "Many Chileans did not believe things like that had indeed happened, and thought they were an invention of the Communists. But when the investigations began, they started to believe. I believe that thanks to those investigations, my country will never again fall into a dictatorship. In Spanish we say nunca mas - never again." Professor Sznajder agrees. "Guzman's importance was that he tried to get to Pinochet, not as a journalist or as a political opponent, but rather by virtue of the authority of democratic law. He contributed to eliminating Chile's black hole, to erasing the second version of what had happened during those years. He touched upon the most painful things, opened wounds, uncovered facts and brought about a change, even if no verdict was obtained." Guzman has no doubt that like Pinochet's officers and officials, Israeli officers and officials will pay the price of the crimes he believes are being committed against the Palestinians. "If we learn from history, it appears that ultimately those who commit crimes against humanity and violate human rights are judged, whether by a special international court or in a country. Sooner or later, human right violations come to court," he says. During his trip, Guzman visited two Palestinian families whose homes in Issawiyeh and A-Tur were demolished. One of the families has been living in a tent near the ruins for two weeks. "I saw them crying. Every home demolition is the demolition of a person's dignity and intimacy, and is prohibited by international law. I have also seen the wall built in occupied territory. I don't understand this, and I don't believe it is connected to security. It isn't logical. I am certain there are other ways to protect the Israelis, and at the same time, the Palestinians must be protected. "I admire the Jewish people for the suffering it has endured and for its achievements in science, literature and music," he continues. "I identify with the Israelis, but my heart is with the people living under occupation and whose rights are being violated. Israel feels it is the victim of terror, but when you are here, you realize that what the Palestinians are doing is resisting occupation. The Palestinians are the victims, they are being exploited, their homes are being demolished, they are being detained under administrative orders, their property is being damaged, they need permits to move from place to place and their cities are becoming large prisons. There is no doubt they are the victims." Guzman does not make any commitment that indictments will be filed against those responsible for demolishing homes. "I will study the issue, I will consult and I will see how the process can be advanced," he says, "but there is no doubt that with respect to international law, civilians directly responsible for human rights violations can be indicted, just like soldiers." Meir Margalit, the field coordinator for ICAHD and the person who invited Guzman to visit Israel, says he has despaired of the Israeli justice system. "We feel we have exhausted the option of an Israeli investigator. Salvation won't come from here, and things are getting worse. Every year, about 400 houses in East Jerusalem and the territories are demolished." "I am here on a peace mission," says Guzman. "I want my activities to awaken discussion of whether what is happening here is justified. From the Chilean experience, we know activity like this can cease human rights violations. I implore the Israeli government to stop the house demolitions, for the sake of its good reputation and for the sake of the good reputation of the entire human race." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=824148 close window Jerusalem Post URL: www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359797839&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.33/678 - Release Date: 2/9/2007 4:06 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 73 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Jean -----Original Message----- From: Amy Vas Nunes [mailto:amyvasnunes at hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:59 PM To: demac at galaxyinternet.net; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; CTGP-internal-elections at yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: {news} Annual Meeting/ Elections of Officers ARE BALLOTS GOING OUT BY MAIL ELECTIONSTO THOSE UNABLE TO ATTEND? ENTIRE LIST NOT JUST REGISTARED GREENS? iF NOT I DO NOT THINK IT IS OPEN TRANSPARENT OR DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS, DID WE SPEND ALL THE MONEY THE CTGP HAD FOR BALLOTS AND FUND RAISING LETTERS TO PAY KEN? THOUSAND OF DOLLARS! WHO IS RUNNING FOR OFFICES WHEN WILL WE KNOW, WHEN IS THE DEADLINE? tHANKS, AMY >From: >To: , >Subject: {news} Annual Meeting/ Elections of Officers >Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:37:35 -0500 > >Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >to unsubscribe click here >mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > >Please notify as many of your chapter members as possible that Elections to >State Green Offices will be held in April (tentatively scheduled for Sat., >April 21) at the Annual Meeting. 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 >26th, 2007 State Central Committee meeting in order to be included in any >printed mailings. > > > >Please contact: > >Jean de Smet > >39 Davis St. > >Willimantic, CT 06226 > >860 456-2188 > >JeandeSmet at galaxyinternet.net > > > >Please also note that there are openings on the Internal Elections >Committee >for anyone who would like to participate. 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Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net Sun Feb 11 13:39:40 2007 From: jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net (Jean de Smet) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:39:40 -0500 Subject: {news} Internal Elections Message-ID: <00ce01c74e0c$00ecc700$b9b0d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> A reminder to everyone that we will have elections for our officers in April. A mailing will be sent, we hope to all members. But we need candidates! 3 Co-Chairs, one of whom must be of a different sex than the other 2 1 Treasurer 1 Secretary 2 Representatives to the USGP and 1 alternate. There are no declared candidates for all seats, so please speak up? So far, 1 person declared for Co-Chair (Jean de Smet) and one for USGP (Amy Vas Nunes). To be included in the mailing, please let me know if you are running by the February 26th State meeting (or before, of course!)? We will take nominations from the floor as well. Jean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net Sun Feb 11 13:39:40 2007 From: jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net (Jean de Smet) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:39:40 -0500 Subject: {news} Fightin' Words Fly Over Tax Plan In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <00d901c74e0c$059196f0$b9b0d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Should we endorse her proposal? Let's think about it and discuss it at the meeting. Jean -----Original Message----- From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of clifford thornton Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 7:58 AM To: ctgp-news Subject: {news} Fightin' Words Fly Over Tax Plan http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-rellbudget0209.artfeb09,0,7750778.st ory?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state The cigerette tax will spur more hijacking of cigerette trucks. At present, the hijacking of cigerette trucks are in the top three for hijacaking. This plan sounds a lot like what we Greens were talking about. Our Ideas have permeated the Republican party. POLITICS Fightin' Words Fly Over Tax Plan Amann, Rell Open '07 Budget Battle February 9, 2007 By CHRISTOPHER KEATING, Capitol Bureau Chief A day after Gov. M. Jodi Rell's stunning proposal to increase the state income tax, the House speaker on Thursday charged she "didn't have the guts to tell people" during last fall's election campaign that she planned to raise taxes. The allegation by Democratic House Speaker James Amann was part of a sometimes fiery, sometimes condescending exchange of statements between him and the governor over funding her plan for sweeping improvements to the state's public schools. Amann had questioned Rell's plan to raise $1.3 billion in new income taxes over the next two years when the state already has $1 billion in a "rainy day" fund and anticipates a surplus of more than a half-billion dollars in the current fiscal year. Referring to remarks Amann made Wednesday, the governor - during an unexpected visit to the Capitol press room - dismissed using a surplus to pay for an ongoing schools program because the money may not be there in the future. "Frankly, the speaker is the speaker of the House. He knows better," Rell chided. "That's not how you operate." Told of that remark, Amann retorted, "I don't need Mother Rell to wag her finger in my face about budgets." Then he assailed her for not talking about tax increases before an election she ultimately won in a landslide. In presenting her budget Wednesday, the governor proposed raising the state income tax from its current 5 percent to 5.5 percent over two years. She would use the $1.3 billion in new revenue for a dramatic increase in education spending, coupled with wide-ranging improvements in programs from early childhood education to college. Amann questioned the need for so much new tax revenue and complained that the bulging state surplus indicated residents already are overtaxed. That touched off Thursday's rhetorical ping-pong match. During her visit to the Capitol press room, Rell was asked about her position on the "millionaires' tax." She responded by volunteering that Amann's statements about surpluses had been off-base. "My comment to that is this is exactly the mistake that was made in the early '80s, when people said we have this money, let's go ahead and pay for this new program," Rell said. "And the next year, it wasn't there. The worst thing we could do now is use one-time revenue for any ongoing program." She added: "It's just not feasible to do that. ... There's some tough decisions to be made." Amann said the state could never have generated surpluses on a regular basis in recent years without the tax revenues from hard-working citizens. "First of all, she's all wet," Amann said of Rell. "We raised too many taxes already or else we wouldn't have a surplus. Somebody's being overtaxed, and I think the governor should understand that. I don't need to be lectured by someone who was part of the Rowland-Rell administration. Give me a break!" Amann said he was trying to make a broader point that the state's coffers have been filling up lately. All indications are that the surplus will only grow larger from capital gains taxes, he said, because the Dow Jones industrial average has broken records multiple times in recent months. As a result, he said, the projections that the state could have a deficit as much as $800 million next year, based on the current services that are being offered, are inflated and erroneous. Amann also criticized Rell for proposing the elimination of the estate tax for those who die with more than $2 million. He said her plan for hiking the cigarette tax to $2 per pack would disproportionately hurt those who could least afford the increase. "She's also taxing the same people who got nailed with huge utility increases, and the middle class is tired of it," said Amann, a Milford Democrat who was first elected to the legislature in 1990. "She's taxing the wrong people. Don't put a cigarette tax on the middle class." Instead, Amann called again for the so-called millionaires' tax that he said should be imposed on "the rich of the rich - those making $500,000 or more." He added that Rell is proposing the estate-tax elimination so that "all her millionaire buddies" would benefit. Despite the rhetoric of the day, Amann predicted that the Democrats and the Rell administration would eventually reach a budget compromise as they have in the past. Thursday's comments were reminiscent of Amann's April 2005 statement that he didn't care if Rell developed carpal tunnel syndrome - a condition caused by repetitive motion - from vetoing so many Democratic budgets. Less than two months later, the two sides reached a final budget agreement. When asked if the budget unveiled Wednesday would be finished before the legislature adjourns June 6, Amann said, "We're going to be fine." During her discussion with reporters Thursday, Rell did not rule out the millionaires' tax that many expect the Democrats to propose. She said the issue would be open to discussion over the next four months. Asked again for her position on it, Rell said, "That subject has not been broached to me publicly, except in the paper. Do I want it? Nah." Contact Christopher Keating at ckeating at courant.com. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 68 bytes Desc: not available URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Sun Feb 11 17:42:40 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:42:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Norwich Bulletin: :Third Parties fill void Message-ID: <20070211224240.54936.qmail@web81407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Article published Feb 11, 2007 Third parties fill void By JULIE A. VARUGHESE Norwich Bulletin When the traditional Democrat and Republican parties don't satisfy them, some people start independent parties. The Jewett City Party, for instance, wants to tackle some issues in the borough its members believe have been ignored or need fixing, said party founder and borough warden candidate Ron Ward. Experts say although independent parties are begun with the right intentions, once they accomplish their goals, they tend to fade away. They also are heavily personality-driven, as in the case of former Gov. Lowell Weicker Jr.'s A Connecticut Party, which dismantled after he left office in 1995. Two basic types Christopher Barnes, director of project development at the University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy, said independent parties fall into two categories: Those that are on the ballot every year and sometimes have a national presence and an ideology, such as the Green Party, and others created because a group is frustrated at the local level. The latter type, if successful, tends to win seats only a few times before the party fades out of existence. Barnes said, within towns, independent parties spring up from a few residents who attend meetings regularly to complain or are created by a person who has been elected to a town office in the past. "They can really change the dynamics," he said, explaining third parties can take votes from the traditional parties, making it harder for either party to win. Laurie Soulor, owner of Second Chance Consignments in Jewett City, said she plans to support Ward in the May 7 election against incumbent Democrat Cynthia Kata and Republican Melinda Brooks. But she also believes the party would fall apart without Ward's leadership. "If he stops doing what he's doing, everything's going to stop," she said. No 'one-man show' Ward, who moved to Jewett City last year, said he wasn't interested in being a "one-man show" and hoped the party, even if it eventually fades away, would invigorate residents to be more proactive. Democrat Kata has run unopposed for warden in the past several borough elections. Voter turnout in recent elections has been low, possibly reflecting the lack of choice on the ballot. This year she has two opponents and the Jewett City Party has a slate of other candidates as well, including burgesses and baliff. Canterbury First The Canterbury First political party was started by Canterbury residents who said they wanted to hold officials' feet to the fire on a number of issues, including government openness and accountability. Party Chairman Robert Noiseux said the party is made up of people who felt disenfranchised by the town's Democratic and Republican parties. "We represent a centrist group where Republicans and Democrats come together and work together," he said. Ray Sulich, chairman of the Canterbury Republican Town Committee, described Canterbury First as "nothing more than an arm of the Democratic Party," however. "Canterbury First is a bad representative for third parties. I think that a third party has the potential for doing things, for bringing new issues to a town and getting additional residents for input," he said. "But they're all about being disruptive and negative." Sulich said the state needs to address the "hole" in the state statutes that allows members of local third parties to register with national parties. He said that allows third-party members to sabotage local Republican and Democratic campaigns, by electing the "weakest" candidate at a town's party primary to run against the third party candidate. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz could not be reached for comment. Barnes said third parties also tend to fall apart because they lack an infrastructure, or a solid base of supporters. "It's a reminder that all politics is a pyramid structure," Barnes said. --------------------------------- if (!window.print) { document.write(' To print this article open the file menu and choose Print. 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URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Sun Feb 11 21:27:36 2007 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:27:36 -0500 Subject: {news} Internal Elections References: <00ce01c74e0c$00ecc700$b9b0d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Message-ID: <008f01c74e4d$5c0fdbe0$6400a8c0@S0031616584> Jean & co.: after some thought, I have decided to run for USGP rep for one more year. Charlie Pillsbury 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 chapillsbury at igc.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Jean de Smet To: 'ctgp-news' Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 1:39 PM Subject: {news} Internal Elections A reminder to everyone that we will have elections for our officers in April. A mailing will be sent, we hope to all members. But we need candidates! 3 Co-Chairs, one of whom must be of a different sex than the other 2 1 Treasurer 1 Secretary 2 Representatives to the USGP and 1 alternate. There are no declared candidates for all seats, so please speak up? So far, 1 person declared for Co-Chair (Jean de Smet) and one for USGP (Amy Vas Nunes). To be included in the mailing, please let me know if you are running by the February 26th State meeting (or before, of course!)? We will take nominations from the floor as well. Jean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Feb 12 00:25:58 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:25:58 +0000 Subject: {news} impeachment resolution in New London Tuesday In-Reply-To: <20070211124028.C295133C0B9@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: This will be presented to the New London City Council Tuesday, 7 PM--please copy in your town! http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=87 New London, Connecticut, Resolution to Impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney WHEREAS, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney conspired with others to defraud the United States of America by intentionally misleading Congress and the public regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 371; and WHEREAS, George W. Bush has admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to conduct electronic surveillance of American civilians without seeking warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, duly constituted by Congress in 1978, in violation of Title 50 United States Code, Section 1805; and WHEREAS, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney conspired to commit the torture of prisoners in violation of the "Federal Torture Act" Title 18 United States Code, Section 113C, the UN Torture Convention and the Geneva Convention, which under Article VI of the Constitution are part of the "supreme Law of the Land"; and WHEREAS, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney acted to strip American citizens of their constitutional rights by ordering indefinite detention without access to legal counsel, without charge and without the opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the President of a U.S. citizen as an "enemy combatant," all in subversion of law; and WHEREAS, In all of this George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have acted in a manner contrary to their trust as President and Vice President, subversive of constitutional government to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of New London, Connecticut, and of the United States of America; and WHEREAS, Petitions from the country at large may be presented by the Speaker of the House according to Clause 3 of House Rule XII; Be it resolved that George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrant impeachment and trial, and removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States; Be it resolved further by the City of New London, Connecticut, that our senators and representatives in the United States Congress be, and they are hereby, requested to cause to be instituted in the Congress of the United States proper proceedings for the investigation of the activities of the George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, to the end that they may be impeached and removed from such office. Be it resolved further, that the Clerk of the City of New London, Connecticut, be, and is hereby, instructed to certify to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, under the seal of the City of New London, Connecticut, a copy of this resolution and its adoption by the City of New London, Connecticut, as a petition, and request that this petition be delivered to the Office of the Clerk and entered in the United States Congressional Journal. The copies shall be marked with the word "Petition" at the top of the document and contain the original authorizing signature of the petitioner. _________________________________________________________________ Check out all that glitters with the MSN Entertainment Guide to the Academy Awards? http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2007/?icid=ncoscartagline2 From efficacy at msn.com Mon Feb 12 03:10:34 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:10:34 -0500 Subject: {news} Deconstructing Nader Message-ID: Deconstructing Nader By Robert Kuttner February 10, 2007 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/10/deconstructing_nader/?p1=email_to_a_friend I HAVE NEVER seen a stronger field of Democratic presidential candidates, nor a weaker Republican one. Yet, as a Red Sox fan, I am always wary of this-could- be-the-year fever. I was thinking about the Democrats as I watched a new, compelling and even-handed film about the odyssey of Ralph Nader. The independent movie, "An Unreasonable Man," opened yesterday at the Coolidge Corner Theatre . The movie begins with assorted liberals making enraged, scathing comments. "Outside of Jerry Falwell, no one in the world is on a bigger ego trip," says James Carville. "Thank you, Ralph, for the Iraq War," says Nation magazine columnist Eric Alterman, "Thank you for the destruction of the Constitution." Former talk show host Phil Donahue adds, with deep regret, that Nader's role in the 2000 election "is going to be the first line of his obituary." But the makers of this superb movie, while giving plenty of air-time to Nader's many critics, set out to make sure that doesn't happen. For people younger than I, it's too easy to forget who Ralph Nader was -- and still is. As a lawyer not yet 30 years old, Nader began writing about a subject that literally did not exist as a public issue until he invented it -- cars that were dangerous by design. Detroit had popularized a one-liner that the leading cause of accidents was "the nut behind the wheel." By definition, death and disfiguring injury had be to the driver's fault, not the automakers'. When Nader exposed the systematic dangers in Detroit's cars, first in magazine articles, then in his 1965 book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," General Motors Inc. put detectives on his tail, tried to set him up with women, investigated whether he might be gay or smoked pot, pretended to be conducting job reference interviews. An incensed Senator Abe Ribicoff called GM President James Roche to testify. Roche defended GM's "legal right to ascertain the facts." Ribicoff shot back that Nader's sex life had nothing to do with his criticisms of GM's cars. Roche huddled with his lawyers, apologized to the committee and to Nader, and later settled an invasion of privacy lawsuit. The proceeds, deliciously, went to underwrite the Center for Responsive Law, soon made famous as Nader's Raiders. The David vs. Goliath saga, deftly shown in the film, put Nader and auto safety on the map. Just two months after the Ribicoff hearings, Lyndon Johnson signed the nation's first auto safety bill. In the aftermath of Nader's abortive presidential runs, it's easy to forget all that he accomplished. It's also easy to forget that Nader was a relative conservative in an era of radicals. He and his raiders were the clean-scrubbed idealists determined to make the system work. Seat belts alone, according to government statistics, saved 195,382 lives over 30 years. One by one, dozens of landmark pieces of consumer legislation resulted from Nader's efforts. "An Unreasonable Man" preserves that remarkable record, in entertaining and witty fashion. Nader's leadership of that reform era, in which public interest legislation restrained the excesses of capitalism, lasted barely a decade. By the late 1970s, organized business had gathered its latent political influence and mounted a fierce counter offensive. With the exception of the occasional environmental bill, little more consumer legislation would pass Congress. Nader watched for two decades as his and the public's handiwork was undone, with many Democrats serving as corporate enablers along with the Republicans. This frustration, in the end, led him to run for president, also recounted in the movie, warts and all. I wish he hadn't. Or, if he had to run, Nader could have run in the Democratic primaries, where they could not have kept him out of the debates. He would have energized the progressive base, inspired independents, and forced Al Gore to speak with a more populist voice. But it's not so clear that Nader cost Gore the 2000 election. Because if Nader hadn't run at all, Gore might have been even worse. At one point in that campaign, when Nader was accused of risking a George W. Bush presidency, he replied with a cavalier phrase that sounded as if he was running as a spoiler -- that maybe the Democrats needed "a cold shower for at least four years." Now, Democrats seem to be emerging from their wilderness, tougher and smarter. That's not to Nader's credit, but not exactly to his blame, either. See the film, and you'll appreciate more about the blockage of reform in America, and this complex and still valuable public citizen. ------------------------- Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos. His column appears regularly in the Globe. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Imagine that; the only antiwar candidate in the 2004 elections was not an invited speaker, even though he and Cindy Sheehan drew tremendous applause at the last mass rally in 2005 (Notice how these rallies occur now only in only non-election years, nicely tailored to get activists to work for Dems, but not to pressure the Dems to take a strong anti-war stand.) The non-invitation removed Nader from the movement every bit as effectively as the censors armed with air brushes removed dissidents in the "socialist" Czech republic chronicled by Milan Kundera. Nor was there anyone who spoke as a representative of the Green Party, even though at least one speaker was in fact a Green and even though an informal survey showed an enormous number of people in the crowd were Greens or Green sympathizers. Yes, the Greens were "permitted" a feeder march but their only organized presence on the Mall that this writer could find was a small card table with three women staffing it. There was not a single Libertarian speaker even though the Libertarians and Old Right have been far more outspoken in opposing the war than the liberal "Left." Compare the pages of The American Conservative or Antiwar.com with the editorials of The Nation, which endorsed the pro-war Kerry candidacy in 2004. This writer tried for months to get Ron Paul, the Libertarian/Republican Congressman from Texas, now a Republican presidential candidate, invited to speak at the rally and did so also in 2005. Several of us made an appeal to get Justin Raimondo, the Libertarian editor of Antiwar.com invited to speak. We got no response from UFPJ, and still have received none. In contrast, Raimondo advertised the UFPJ demonstration in a prominent place on his web site, and he even offered to pay his own air fare to D.C. to speak. But no response was forthcoming from whatever committee decides on the speakers, a committee which is none too visible. UFPJ was just plain rude to Raimondo. In general it appears that the liberal "Left" has scant knowledge about the Libertarians and less desire to acquire it. Libertarians are just "a bunch of selfish people," according to the PC liberals. But there are more things in heaven and earth than the very PC have dreamed of. There were far fewer kaffiyas in evidence than in the past, the inevitable result of reading ANSWER out of the official antiwar movement. (To be fair, Noura Erekat and Joshua Reubner, both from the same organization, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, spoke.) The only reason given for UFPJ's severing relations with ANSWER is that their members were "impossible to deal with in meetings." That is hardly a political reason. Bad manners are not a reason for excommunication. If so, the antiwar forces would not be talking to the crotchety Barney Frank. I do not know a lot about ANSWER, but I do have a great deal of respect for Ramsey Clark, one of its leaders. And I also have a lot of respect for ANSWER's ability to turn out young people and its boldness in organizing events like the demonstration against Bush on the occasion of his inauguration. At the demonstration I heard no mention of AIPAC's obvious role in ginning up the war on Iraq or Iran. At this point in the development of the movement after the paper of Measheimer and Walt and after Jimmy Carter's book, this is indeed a troubling omission. What is the matter with Democratic politicians, you may say. Nothing, as such. And the politicians speaking at the rally were among the best that the timid Dems have to offer - Maxine Waters, John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich, for example. But these Democrats do not represent the Democratic Party; they are an idealistic few on its fringe. To have only Democrats and no others is to create the false impression that the Democratic Party is a vehicle for peace. And it creates false hopes about what the Dems will do without mighty pressure. So the peace movement is being increasingly tied to the Democratic Party. This is certainly the strategy of MoveOn.org and of "P"DA ("Progressive" Democrats of America) ? and now apparently also UFPJ. This may be why the rally seemed far smaller and certainly far less spirited, stodgy I would say, than in the past. Let's hope that the hard working and committed people working in UFPJ turn from this path and do more to bring the splintered movement together. Because if the antiwar movement is divided, we are subject to being conquered ? just as surely as the Sunni and the Shia. It is time for the Democratic Party to serve the Peace Movement and not the other way around. We shall see what course UFPJ takes to turn this around. Right now, it does not look good. John V. 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Along with two other Green Party candidates who have already announced, the Greens have a great pool of candidates, Co-Chair Jean de Smet said in a statement released today. ?The 2008 Green Party Presidential nomination is an open process with Kat Swift, a Green from Texas, and Nan Garrett, of Georgia running so far, but if Nader were to run his support would be strong, too? explained Tim McKee, who is on the Green National Committee. He added ?Some Greens want a new candidate for President such as Elaine Brown and we welcome those new candidates to come to Connecticut and make their case. We have an open and democratic process for choosing our 2008 candidate.? At last year?s National Committee meeting, Greens voted for a full ?all out? Presidential race in 2008, McKee added. Many Greens think a goal of 5% in 2008 with millions of matching funds as a reward for that goal for the Greens would be historic and really put the new party on the political map. McKee said ?You can ask almost any Green and they will tell you they won?t be voting for Democrat or Republican candidates.? ?With almost 3 million national votes and over 65,000 Greens voters in Connecticut in 2000, The Green vote totals show a strong interest in political reform, anti-war and single-payer national health care system issues, which we feel only Greens will address.? McKee added. Greens added they hoped any candidate would decide about running soon because of the many different ballot access laws in other states that would take many volunteer hours. Connecticut Presidential ballot access requires 7,500 valid signatures which have been met by the Greens in past state and federal races. ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Feb 14 11:14:35 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:14:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Inaugual Arrest Prompts Proposal Message-ID: <241203.50068.qm@web81414.mail.mud.yahoo.com> http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-judiciary3feb13,0,478495.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines Inaugural arrest prompts proposal By Brian Lockhart Staff Writer February 13, 2007 After last month's arrest of a political activist at the governor's inaugural parade, the co-chairmen of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee are drafting bills that would require law enforcement to use greater care in assessing the potential threat posed by political dissidents. State Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, and state Rep. Michael Lawlor, D-East Haven, will launch their effort tomorrow when the Judiciary Committee meets at 11 a.m. in Hartford. "No one's saying you can't keep track of people on the (Internet) saying they're trying to disrupt an event," Lawlor said. "But you can't just go and arrest people." On Jan. 3, Kenneth Krayeske, a political activist and blogger, was arrested after attempting to take pictures of Gov. M. Jodi Rell during the inaugural parade in Hartford. He was held on $75,000 bond and released that night, after Rell's inaugural ball. Norwalk Police Chief Harry Rilling, president of the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, said he hopes the Judiciary Committee will include his group in its discussions. "We consider ourselves the professionals who know the difficulties involved in VIP protection," Rilling said. "We'd hope we'd have an opportunity to express concerns and work out something that would be more effective and still protect the rights of citizens." In a recent memo to Rell, Public Safety Commissioner Leonard Boyle explained the circumstances surrounding Krayeske's arrest. Boyle wrote that a detective with the state's criminal intelligence unit saw a blog entry by Krayeske on Dec. 29 urging a protest of the ball. The Internet post, coupled with Krayeske's 2004 arrest on charges of obstructing free passage at the launch of a nuclear submarine in Groton, landed the activist on a list of "approximately 10 individuals" to look for at the inaugural events, Boyle wrote. State troopers were briefed on the list the morning of Jan. 3, and Hartford police and members of the governor's security detail received the information at noon, Boyle wrote. "At this briefing, members of the governor's security detail recognized Mr. Krayeske's photo and advised that he previously had approached you at a public event in a manner that caused some alarm," Boyle wrote Rell. According to the Hartford police report, a detective with Rell's security detail saw Krayeske "suddenly ride a mountain bike at a high rate of speed directly up to the parade route," jump off and run up to the procession "directly in front of where the governor was passing." Krayeske was stopped by Hartford police as he stepped off the curb into the route, according to the police report. It states Krayeske tried to pull away from police and, after identifying himself, was handcuffed and arrested. Krayeske, who pleaded not guilty Jan. 30 and will return to court March 2, has said he was a freelance journalist trying to take photos of Rell. According to the police report, Krayeske had his bike, a wallet, plastic cards, a personal check and a nylon bag containing photographic equipment,. In his memo, Boyle downplayed the role of state police in the arrest, writing the detective from Rell's security detail blocked Krayeske from the parade but moved on once Hartford police became involved. Lawlor said he is concerned state police oversold Krayeske as a threat to their Hartford counterparts. The legislation he and McDonald are proposing could prevent a reoccurrence by defining political dissidents versus threats; limiting the circumstances for surveillance on dissidents; ensuring that security briefings include reminders to respect constitutional rights; and creating a legislative oversight committee to review the procedures every few months, Lawlor said. "The problem here is there was nothing about Ken Krayeske's history that would lead one to believe he's an actual, physical threat to the governor," Lawlor said. "The most he'd be a candidate for is heckling or trying to talk to the governor in the parade. I have no problem . . . if a cop stood next to him as the governor went by, asked him for ID or hassled him for a little bit. But they didn't. They arrested him on sight." Lawlor and McDonald also are pursuing legislation to better control bail amounts and ensure they are not artificially inflated to detain individuals. Boyle's memo to Rell does not explain why his bail was set at $75,000. Lawlor, a former prosecutor with the state's attorney's office in New Haven, said the amount is "ridiculous." "Something extraordinary happened in the Krayeske situation where, by all accounts, it appears bail was used to deprive (him) of his liberty long enough to get past the governor's ball," McDonald said. Lawlor said he has "anecdotal evidence" that such actions are becoming more routine in Connecticut. Certain circumstances might warrant it, but he and McDonald want better oversight and guidelines, he said. "Some states have a procedure called 'preventative detention' where you could hold people in prison, without bail, pre-trial, but you have to make a showing at a hearing that they present a danger to other people," Lawlor said. Rilling said the state needs to gather the most accurate data possible on a potential threat. "If it indicates a person has displayed no violence in the past, certainly that needs to be taken into consideration," he said. But "just because somebody has never been violent before does not necessarily take them off that 'person to watch' list." Police must be concerned with protecting people, Rilling said. "The bottom line is you have to do everything within your power to protect those people who may be targets for people who disagree with them, have a different political philosophy or want to make a name for themselves," he said. "You'd rather make a mistake and have it corrected than not act quickly enough and have someone able to seriously injure or, worse, kill a political figure." Copyright ? 2007, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. =0)document.write(unescape('%3C')+'\!-'+'-') //--> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Wed Feb 14 12:50:29 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:50:29 -0500 Subject: {news} Black America's Real Issue With Barack Obama Message-ID: http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81 Black America's Real Issue With Barack Obama by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon The spurious claim that Black Americans oppose Barack Obama because of his white mother, African father, and Harvard Law degrees is a racist slur against Black Americans by the mainstream news media, designed to trivialize and divert attention from real issues African Americans care about, but which are not addressed by Obama supporters OR their Republican opponents. Black America's Real Issue with Barack Obama by Bruce Dixon Both Barack Obama's Republican opponents and the centrist Democrats who support his presidential candidacy agree on one thing. They all agree that black opinion on the senator is both uninformed and irrelevant. To hear the mainstream media, black dissatisfaction with Senator Obama is all about his black African father, his white American mother, his light complexion and his Columbia and Harvard Law degrees. The day after Rush Limbaugh called the senator a "half-frican" on the air, the term was in the mouths of ignorant black talk show hosts in multiple cities. Black America was then admonished and chided by white Republicans and Democrats of all colors for not embracing Senator Obama based on some foolish standard of black authenticity. This is a racist calumny and slur of the first magnitude against all of black America. Our people have never rejected leading figures because of light complexions, immigrant parents or advanced degrees. Black America emphatically did not reject Thurgood Marshall or W.E.B. DuBois, or Julian Bond or Adam Clayton Powell. Nor did the movement turn away immigrants like Stokley Carmichael or Roger Toussaint. Black opposition to Barack Obama on account of his parentage and Harvard Law degree is every bit as much a fabricated political issue as the wall to wall coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's death and family issues are fabricated news. Both are served up to us by the same mainstream media, and for similar reasons. In many quarters of black America there are sane, solid and sensible reasons for black voters to question whether Barack Obama will represent them at all. Many remember that his first act as a US Senator was to refuse to stand with California Senator Barbara Boxer in opposition to Ohio's nullification of hundreds of thousands of black votes. Obama's second, third and fourth significant acts were when he declined to ask any difficult, pointed or revealing questions of Condoleezza Rice and two of the president's disastrous Supreme Court nominees, and he actually voted for two out of three of these. Obama's sixth and seventh important acts as a senator were to vote for a bill that made it nearly impossible for ordinary people to sue giant corporations who rob, defraud, maim or kill, and another vote to renew the hated Patriot Act which he vigorously campaigned against. And though Senator Obama now claims to oppose the war in Iraq, he remains advocate of bombing Iran to start yet another. This commentator was at Obama's 2004 Illinois primary election victory party. The white and black people there that night imagined that they had elected another Paul Wellstone or a Harold Washington, a senator who would bring their concerns to the halls of power, whether the powerful were ready to hear them or not. One wonders what they think today. Black America is rightly worried. We are an eighth the nation's population and half its prisons, but we cannot get a member of the black caucus, Senator Obama included, to question the nation's policy of racially selective mass incarceration in public. We do have issues that matter to us, and if Barack Obama does not address them, he is truly somebody else's candidate, not ours. For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Bruce Dixon. TO LISTEN to this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click the mic. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: mic01.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2912 bytes Desc: not available URL: From eaton at spazmo.com Thu Feb 15 14:04:56 2007 From: eaton at spazmo.com (Bob Eaton) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:04:56 -0500 Subject: {news} Fwd: INVITE - Yale Event on Images of Iran and America In-Reply-To: <200702141819.l1EIDD0c000470@pantheon-po08.its.yale.edu> References: <200702141819.l1EIDD0c000470@pantheon-po08.its.yale.edu> Message-ID: ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Seth Green" Yale Law School Americans for Informed Democracy ---- Americans for Informed Democracy at Yale presents Images of Iran and America: What's real? What's not? Where do we go from here? A Live Videoconference Dialogue Between the U.S. and the Middle East featuring * Reza Aslan, author of No god but God * Bahman Farmanara, Iranian filmmaker * And student leaders from Yale, the University of Jordan, and the University of Qatar 8:15 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. February 19th (Monday) Yale Law School Room 127 Breakfast Will Be Served RSVP to yale at aidemocracy.org More information: This videoconference will allow students at Yale to speak via live video link-up with peers in the Middle East about the future of relations between the U.S. and Iran. The global videoconference will take place on Monday, February 19th, from 8:15 to 10:00 a.m. EST. The videoconference will begin with live presentations from Reza Aslan, author of No god but God, and Bahman Farmanara, Iranian filmmaker, who will be at the Doha, Qatar, site of the videoconference. Subsequently, students at Yale will have the opportunity to ask questions to the speakers and to peers at the University of Qatar and the University of Jordan. During this tense time in U.S.-Iranian relations, this global conversation aims to give the next generation of leaders at Yale and in the Middle East the opportunity to talk with one another about the future of relations. -------------------- -- Bob Eaton / Head Spazmo http://www.spazmo.com Patriot ? Lemming From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Thu Feb 15 15:56:54 2007 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:56:54 -0500 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens to Congress: address Iraq War as crime, not strategic blunder Message-ID: <052d01c75143$d354fed0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Thursday, February 15, 2007 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Greens to Congress: Debate over Iraq must address the war as an impeachable crime, not as a strategic blunder requiring more U.S. troops to correct . Congress must cut off funding for all U.S. military actions in Iraq, compelling President Bush to call the troops home, say Greens, citing Vietnam War precedent WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders urged Congress, as it debates a nonbinding resolution on President Bush's proposal to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq, to reject a discussion of the war on strategic grounds, and instead address the war as a criminal act of military aggression. Greens called on Democrats and Republicans in Congress who claim to oppose the war to interrupt President Bush's agenda in Iraq by cutting off funding for the U.S. occupation. "If antiwar Democrats and Republicans limit their discussion to whether the U.S. should commit more troops, then President Bush will have won the debate," said Liz Arnone, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "The question Congress should ask isn't how many U.S. service members should be sent to Iraq, it's how to end the Iraq disaster as quickly as possible, how to hold the Bush Administration accountable for its abuses of power and the deaths of over 3,000 U.S. troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and how to prevent such abuses in the future." Congress must address the following points in its current discussion, said Greens: . The Iraq War didn't fail because the White House and Pentagon botched it strategically, although it's evident that the invasion was undertaken without regard for the protection of many U.S. service personnel (e.g., inadequate body armor; illegal use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus, which also harm civilians), the need to secure Iraq's borders, and other basic military necessities. The Iraq War was an inevitable disaster, said Green Party leaders, because it was a preemptive invasion of one nation by another, justified before the public by manipulated intelligence estimates and a disinformation campaign (false claims about WMDs; Saddam Hussein's collusion with al-Qaeda; Saddam's purported threat to neighboring countries and the U.S.), with minimal consideration of the outcome (mass Iraqi civilian deaths; probably civil war; international outrage, especially among Muslim and Arab nations; empowerment of radical religious and terrorist groups in the region). "Preemptive invasion is illegal under international law. Congress must treat the Iraq invasion as a criminal atrocity, requiring impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and investigation and criminal prosecution of those responsible for the war," said Rebecca Rotzler, co-chair of the Green Party and Deputy Mayor of New Paltz, New York. Ms. Rotzler will participate in the Emergency Summit to Impeach Bush for War Crimes, February 17-18 in New York City (more information at ). . Congress must cancel all future funding for the Iraq War, compelling the White House to withdraw U.S. troops and return them home safe and sound. "It's obvious by now that the continued presence of U.S. forces in Iraq will not improve the situation for the Iraqi people or lead to peace, stability, or democracy," said Gretchen Dutschke of the Green Party's International Committee. "If Congress members merely address President Bush's strategic plan to send more troops, then Congress is debating according to the White House's own terms, with a false choice between victory and defeat for the U.S. Congress must reject the Bush Administration's frame of the debate, and instead demand immediate withdrawal. As in the 1970 Cooper-Church amendment, which prohibited further funding for military action in Cambodia and Laos, Congress can force a withdrawal from Iraq by preventing the White House from spending another dime on the occupation." . Congress must address the Bush Administration's numerous abuses of power in connection with the Iraq War: Defense Department policy that clearly encouraged torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib, as well as sites in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and secret sites in Europe; 'extraordinary rendition' of prisoners to countries that allow torture to extract information; favoritism for profiteering corporations and privatized military operations like Halliburton and Blackwater USA, as well as for U.S. and U.K. oil companies that are about to profit from the new Iraqi 'Hydrocarbon Law' ("Shock and oil: Iraq's billions & the White House connection," The Independent, January 14, 2007 ). . Congress must address its own complicity in President Bush's decision to wage war on Iraq, through October 2002 legislation that transferred war power to President Bush. "The Iraq Resolution gave President Bush a blank check to launch the invasion of Iraq -- contrary to the U.S. Constitution, which limits war power to Congress itself, a necessary check on executive power," said Katey Culver, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States and co-chair of the Green Party of Tennessee. "We ask Congress to repudiate the Bush-Cheney doctrines of unitary executive power and perpetual warfare, and restore the Constitution's checks and balances." . In order to achieve stability in Iraq and the surrounding region and security for the U.S. and the world, Congress must support an integrated policy based on negotiation, diplomacy, and respect for human rights instead of military force. "Withdrawal from Iraq, diplomacy with Iran in combination with global nuclear disarmament, and pressure on Israel to end its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and observe human rights and equality are the necessary starting points for peace in the Middle East and western Asia," said Green Party co-chair Jim Coplen. "Anything else will only encourage future war and violence, including terrorism against the U.S." 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 Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml "How Congress Helped End the Vietnam War" By Julian E. Zelizer, The American Prospect, February 6, 2007 http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12438 ~ END ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In some cases there may have been contact about the questionnaire being forthcoming, but in most cases, we have not heard anything. So if you are in one of these 21 states, please look into getting the questionnaire in to us. If you have any questions, please email me. Alabama Alaska Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawai'i Indiana Louisiana Mississippi Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Carolina Oklahoma Oregon Tennessee Washington Phil Huckelberry Illinois Green Party Co-Chair, PCSC Co-Chair, BAC QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STATE GREEN PARTIES This questionnaire has been prepared based on the input of three standing committees Coordinated Campaign Committee (CCC), Presidential Campaign Support Committee (PCSC), and Ballot Access Committee (BAC) and GPUS staff. Our intention is to use the information gathered in this questionnaire to update party records and to provide the basis for much of our campaign work through the 2008 election cycle. IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that state parties return this questionnaire as soon as is feasible, and as thoroughly as is possible. It is understood that it may require the input of several people to answer all of the questions, and so we understand that it may take some time to get all of the questionnaires back. Still, we must ask that the state parties please make a top priority of returning this questionnaire. Members of the PCSC are intending to follow up with state parties shortly after the questionnaire is circulated by email. Initially this questionnaire will be sent on the National Committee list to the delegates from the various states. In some cases, the delegates may be able to handle the questionnaire themselves. In other cases, it will be officers of the state party; and in some cases, it will require a group of people working together. Delegates, we ask that you please forward this message immediately upon receipt to any relevant individuals or groups within your state party. As you will see from the questions asked, this information will largely provide the basis for much of our electoral work in 2007, especially regarding ballot access and aspects of early presidential campaign support. There is a common belief that one of the biggest failings from the 2004 election cycle was the lack of information about state party processes and the lack of communication between state parties and GPUS. We believe that this questionnaire will go a long way to opening those lanes of communication. GENERAL REMARKS ON FILLING OUT THE QUESTIONNAIRE Some of the questions may not seem relevant to your state party, or may seem like commonly known information. Please consider the questionnaire as serving the purpose not only of informing our electoral committees and staff today, but also as providing vitally necessary institutional memory into the future, and answer all questions that can be answered. If a question does not at all apply to your state party, please specify as much. For each question asking for a name of a person, please include appropriate contact information especially email and phone so we can have an up to date contact list available. For ease of reading, we ask that you either copy and paste the text of the questionnaire into a separate file and then copy and paste back into a fresh email, or attach a clean file to an email, rather than hitting reply and leaving in reply marks. The questionnaire is available in both .txt and .rtf format upon request from Phil Huckelberry (phil at mcgreens.org). PLEASE RETURN THE QUESTIONNAIRE BY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, by emailing your completed questionnaire, either in the body of a message or as an attachment, to all four of the following individuals: Emily Citkowski (emily at gp.org) GPUS Operations Director Brent McMillan (brent at gp.org) GPUS Political Director Greg Gerritt (gerritt at mindspring.com) Co-Chair, CCC Phil Huckelberry (phil at mcgreens.org) Co-Chair, PCSC & BAC If at any time you have any questions or need any clarification, please contact Phil Huckelberry. OFFICE QUESTIONS What is the formal name of your state party? (e.g. Green Party of California, Illinois Green Party, etc.) What is the formal contact address and phone number for your state party; is the phone number a party office, a voicemail line, or a private phone belonging to a member of the party; and, if not a PO Box, is the contact address a party office or a home address for a member of the party? What is the best way to route phone calls for general inquiries and volunteers to your state? What is the URL of your state party's website, and what is the contact email address for general questions? Does your state party maintain a list of local contacts online? Does your party have compensated staff and/or contractors; and, if so, who are they and what are their titles? Who are the officers of your state party, potentially including, but not limited to, co-chairs, secretary, treasurer? Besides staff, contractors, and officers, most state parties have key people in roles such as media coordinator, fundraising coordinator, membership coordinator, outreach coordinator, webmaster, and potentially several others. Who are your other key people in such roles and what are their titles? Who are the current members of your state party's delegation to the Green National Committee (including alternates)? To whom in your state party should questions be directed regarding the status of members of your state's GNC delegation and representatives from your state to various GPUS committees? To whom in your state party should volunteer information be sent? To whom in your state party should Green Party Card information be sent? To whom in your state party should donation sharing information be sent? To where should state sharing checks be sent? Does your state party have a standing order for Green Pages? To where should Green Pages bundles be sent? To where should invoices for Green Pages and other merchandise be sent? BALLOT ACCESS COMMITTEE QUESTIONS The Ballot Access Committee (BAC) exists to promote Green Party organizations' and candidates' efforts to attain petition signature goals, reduce excessive petition signature requirements, help state parties attain and retain ballot access where possible, and promote fair ballot access laws. Who in your state party is the primary contact for questions regarding ballot access? Does your state party currently have a guaranteed ballot line for 2008? If so, how was the ballot line secured? If your state party does not have a ballot line for 2008, what will be required to secure this ballot line? Include all known information, including but not limited to: alternative ballot access methods; signature requirements; signature deadlines. Will your state party be participating in a state-administered primary election in 2008, and if so, on what date? Often state parties facing high signature requirements look to neighboring states for help collecting signatures. Would your state party be able to recruit volunteers to visit neighboring states to help on signature drives? COORDINATED CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE QUESTIONS The Coordinated Campaign Committee (CCC) is a standing committee consisting of ten elected members which cooperates with state and local chapters in the support of federal, state, and local Green Party electoral campaigns. See http://www.gp.org/committees/campaign/ for more information on the committee's activities. One of the CCC's projects is to assist state parties in conducting regional campaign schools where experienced Greens can lead seminars on aspects of running campaigns, recruiting candidates, etc. Is your state party interested in hosting a regional campaign school? Does your state party have a campaign committee, candidates committees, or something similar, and if so, who are the contacts and what is the function of the group? Does your state party actively recruit local candidates? Does your state party need some help in figuring out how to recruit candidates? PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SUPPORT COMMITTEE QUESTIONS The Presidential Campaign Support Committee (PCSC) is the committee of GPUS that, among other things, coordinates communication with Green presidential candidates. It also serves as a communications point regarding the presidential campaign for other committees and for state parties and caucuses. Among its other delineated tasks, the PCSC is responsible for some aspects of helping state parties through the preference/nomination process. In April 2006, the Green National Committee approved by a wide margin a resolution declaring GPUS's intention to "run electoral campaigns full out. including running in all states possible as actively and as eagerly as possible, running on all Green Party ballot lines possible, participating in Green Party primary elections wherever possible, and running for all levels of public office for which the party is able to find credible candidates to run as Greens and sustain Green Party campaigns." Based on this mandate, PCSC is working to assemble the information necessary to follow through on the party's commitment to running a "full out" campaign for President in 2008. PCSC would like to have a list of Initial Points of Contact (IPCs) in each state - the people within a state party that prospective presidential candidates would first approach with questions about ballot requirements for the state, etc. Who in your state party will be the Initial Point of Contact? If your state has a candidates/campaign committee, does its scope include the presidential campaign? Or does your state have a separate group in place to deal specifically with the presidential campaign, and if so, who are the contacts and what is the function of the group? The PCSC is also compiling information about the primary/preference processes that will be used in each state for the 2008 nomination process. It is understood that some state parties will not have answers for several of these questions at this time, and it is important to know this as well. What process will your state party use to poll its membership on their preference for a presidential nominee? What process will your state party use to select its convention delegation? What process will your state party use for directing its delegation as to how to vote at the national convention? In 2004 several state parties expressed that they really did not know what sort of process they should be using and as a result several states used somewhat arbitrary processes. In some cases the preference vote took place at a state convention and the processes were not even approved until that state convention, not only giving candidates but even state party members no advance notice as to what methods would be employed. Would your state party like assistance from PCSC in developing the above processes? In a best-case scenario, what would your start party be able and willing to do to support the presidential ticket? Based on an evaluation of the current strength and sentiment within your state party, what is your state party likely to be able and willing to do to support the presidential ticket? What kinds of resources that GPUS might be able to provide would enhance the ability of your state party to support the presidential ticket? Are there any specific factors unique to your state or state party that PCSC should be aware of? Examples might include: availability of ballot line fusion, internal state party rules governing disposition of ballot lines, highly unusual statutory procedures and/or paperwork requirements relative to ballot lines, etc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Feb 20 19:37:56 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:37:56 +0000 Subject: {news} New London Day: "Councilors, Vote To Impeach Bush" In-Reply-To: <1171767128.5c71ca65642bad38.1c960f16@persist.google.com> Message-ID: Nice op-ed in the New London Day! http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=45f5ce21-d085-4b01-9d5a-82cdc1067db4 Councilors, Vote To Impeach Bush By Laura Natusch Published on 2/17/2007 in Home ?Editorial ?Perspective On Tuesday, Ron Suresha and Rick Buell presented to the New London City Council a resolution calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Before the resolution comes up for a vote, councilors must ask themselves three questions: Have the president and vice president committed impeachable offenses? If so, is it appropriate for a city council to pass a resolution calling for their impeachment? And finally, would such a resolution be in the best interests of the residents of New London? The answers to these questions are yes, yes and yes. ? First, there is little doubt that Bush and Cheney have violated the Constitution and broken numerous laws. They have twisted, suppressed and fabricated intelligence in order to drum up support for the Iraq war. They have authorized torture. They have denied citizens the right of habeas corpus. The president has admitted to personally ordering the illegal electronic surveillance of American citizens. ? Second, U.S. law and tradition makes clear that not only is it appropriate for municipalities to weigh in on national issues, it's routine. Clause 3, section 12, Section 819 of the Rules of the House of Representatives specifically allows local governments to present petitions and requests to Congress. The Congressional Record shows that municipalities make use of this clause daily. Since Bush has taken office, many city councils have voted on issues of national importance. More than 400 municipalities have passed resolutions opposing the Patriot Act. Two hundred and seventy five have passed resolutions calling for ?immediate? or ?rapid and orderly? withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. In March 2003, New London became one of more than 165 cities that passed resolutions opposing the war with Iraq before it began. Furthermore, this tradition predates the Bush/Cheney administration. During the Cold War, cities passed resolutions calling for a nuclear weapons freeze. Cities have even weighed in on international affairs, as when cities across the country voted to condemn South African apartheid. ? Third, a resolution calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney would be in the city's best interests because this administration's illegal actions have harmed and continue to harm New London residents. Some harm is financial. According to www.costofwar.org, New London's financial share of the cost of the Iraq war through March 2007 is $42.4 million. Worse, the federal government pays for this war by cutting social programs such as home heating assistance and children's health insurance. Gov. M. Jodi Rell has said, ?These cuts interfere with the fundamental responsibility of government: to safeguard the lives of its citizens. ... The cuts to these programs place extraordinary burdens on the states.? Some harm is life-threatening ? particularly for New London residents stationed in Iraq. Some harm is less tangible. Local peace activists and dissidents, for example, have no protection against illegal domestic spying. Before voting, councilors should consider that we are all witnesses to the historic and ongoing crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration. Are we to turn away? Is it somebody else's responsibility to intercede? Or do we have an obligation to say, as forcefully and in as many ways as possible, that we will not tolerate illegal wars, we will not tolerate indefinite detentions, we will not tolerate the erosion of civil liberties and the unchecked power of the executive branch? Last Tuesday, one councilor said that although he believes this is the worst administration in history, if he were to vote for impeachment, some of his constituents would feel betrayed. But it cannot be a betrayal to defend the Constitution. The New London City Council will be acting appropriately, patriotically and in the best interests of both New London and the country by calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. I urge city councilors to pass this resolution ? and I urge their constituents to support them. Laura Natusch lives in New London. _________________________________________________________________ Find what you need at prices you?ll love. Compare products and save at MSN? Shopping. http://shopping.msn.com/default/shp/?ptnrid=37,ptnrdata=24102&tcode=T001MSN20A0701 From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Wed Feb 21 19:59:14 2007 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:59:14 -0500 Subject: {news} The Fierce Urgency of Impeachment by David Swanson Message-ID: <063501c7561c$ac8b45b0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> "The Green party publicly stands for impeachment. Every other party should join them." http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1004/32/ The Fierce Urgency of Impeachment Tuesday, 20 February 2007 by David Swanson Remarks at Emergency Impeachment Conference in New York City, February 17, 2007 It's an honor to be speaking with these panelists and it's great to be back in New York. But I want to ask you one thing about New York, because there's something I heard Senator Hillary Clinton say and I want to know if it's true. Is it true that if you live in New York you have to support this war? Can you live in New York and work for peace? That's what I thought. I got up at 2 a.m. this morning in Charlottesville, Va., my town and the town of Thomas Jefferson, the man whose greatest fear for our republic was of elected despotism. Jefferson and Madison and Mason and the others who drafted the most influential Constitution the world has seen, created a system of elections, but devoted much more attention and many more words to creating a system for maintaining our democracy in between elections. They gave this essential power to the House of Representatives, as the branch most subject to popular control, and they called this power impeachment. The founders knew that democracy could only be maintained through eternal vigilance. But we - or perhaps more G.E. and Disney than we - have substituted for eternal vigilance an eternal election season. I don't know if the founders could have imagined the way in which elections are killing our democracy, but they certainly imagined that the loss of the power of impeachment would mean a return to tyranny. No one can say exactly how long our window of opportunity is to get impeachment up and running before it's effectively blocked by the November 2008 election. Is it too late already? Do we have two months? Three months? Four months? Wiser minds than mine seem inclined to think we may have until roughly the end of April to get the impeachment process up and running. That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing until January 2009 if need be. But it does mean that if you or your organization are on the edge of accepting the need for impeachment you should bear in mind that it will be much more helpful for you to make that decision right now than later this year or next year. Seventeen Republicans took a tiny step forward against the war on Friday. They did that because Republican voters are turning against Bush and Cheney. Republicans should think very hard about something. Do you, as a Republican, want future Democratic presidents to have the ability to rewrite laws with signing statements? Do you want them to have the ability to spy on you with no legal oversight? I know Libertarians don't want that. Congressman Ron Paul says Bush should be impeached, but Congressman Paul has not found the nerve to do anything about it - yet. The Green party publicly stands for impeachment. Every other party should join them. Impeachment is not a means of empowering a party. It's a way to empower the American people and the first branch of our government, the Congress. But the fact is that if the Democratic Party takes a stand for impeachment, it will gain the respect and support of Americans and of people all over the world, and it will be rewarded. When the Democrats failed to impeach Reagan for Iran-Contra, thinking they could thereby win elections, they lost elections and put George Bush I in power - and we are suffering from that still. Americans do not vote for cowardice. They voted for Democrats post-Nixon, but not post-Reagan. The current crop of Democrats has shown that it will not act to end the war without some sort of kick-start, something to strengthen the hand of opponents of Bush and Cheney. Impeachment is the one thing that might shift the balance. A labor union member and peace activist sent me an Email yesterday that said: If the peace movement wants to succeed, we can't fail to employ the threat of impeachment any more than a union can promise never to go on strike. Right now, unions are lobbying hard to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, which would restore the right to effectively organize unions in this country. But Cheney has promised to have Bush veto it. It is time for unions to threaten a strike. In politics a strike is called impeachment. Environmental organizations are concerned that we only have to many years to reverse our energy policy if we are going to reverse global warming. But any bills to do that will be vetoed or signing statemented. You cannot tell me that you care about global warming and that you're willing to sit on your hands for two full years because impeachment is not your focus. It had better become your focus or the rest of us are going to learn about global warming the hard way. Pick an issue, any issue, and a compelling case can be made that your priority for the next few months should be impeachment. Failing to pursue impeachment will mean two more years of war, detention, torture, and abuse, and the defunding of every useful public project. Two years is a quarter of the Bush, Cheney presidency. Pick any past two years of that presidency, and you have an idea of the catastrophe we're facing. The results of it will last well beyond the end of the two years. To recognize the gravity of the impeachable offenses that Cheney and Bush have committed and yet not work to end them because your focus is elsewhere is, in many cases, to lose your focus. A citizen who does not work for impeachment when it is merited is a neighbor who watches a murder and does not intervene. We're all busy. We all have vitally important missions. But that's a murder outside the window. You wouldn't watch and do nothing. But the Bush Administration is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by acts of commission and omission, people of Iraq, of Africa, of New Orleans, of the world. And if we fail to impeach, we will establish the precedent to allow future presidents to do the same and worse. Impeachment is the nonviolent answer to this crisis. We should feel no animosity toward any human being, and we should condemn all acts of violence. This is absolutely essential if we are to succeed. But we should act with deliberateness and determination to restore the rule of law and hold accountable those who would place themselves above it. _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.gp-us.org http://lists.gp-us.org/mailman/listinfo/peace -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/694 - Release Date: 2/20/2007 1:44 PM From roseberry3 at cox.net Thu Feb 22 00:58:27 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:58:27 -0500 Subject: {news} proposed agenda for the 2-27-07 SCC meeting of the GP of CT...in a location in Portland, CT Message-ID: <20070222055829.EJI2327.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Location: to be determined as either Portland Public Library or Portland Senior Center. (No other chapter offered a location by this time.) Time: 7PM to 9PM Facilitator/Moderator: to be determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 1-30-07 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 2-9-07 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report by Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals by chapters, committee or members. C. Reports: 1. (5 minutes): CT Green Times: articles, publishing, likely date of availability, distribution; number of copies each chapter wants. 2. (10 minutes): GP of CT internal elections for 4-21-07 convention; declared candidates; ballot mailing date; site of convention. 3. (5-10 minutes): GPUS updates, survey and report from CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury. 4. (15 minutes): Chapter reports regarding the proposed Bylaws Committee Proposal for the 4-21-07 convention vote. 5. (2-4 minutes): GP of CT Website. 6. (2 minutes): ACLU lawsuit. 7. (5-10 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has or will address with legislators during the 2007 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike. 8. (5 minutes): Connecticut Anti-war Marches on 3-17-07 at various locations; Washington, D.C. March on the Pentagon on 3-17-07 which is the 40th anniversary of the 3-17-67 March on the Pentagon. 9. (5 minutes): Volunteers needed to help organize and run the 4-21-07 convention. 10. (2-5 minutes, each): other chapter reports. 11. (1-2 minutes): Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 3-07. 12. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 3/27/07. 13. Any additions. -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: 2/5/2007 4:48 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Thu Feb 22 17:55:16 2007 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:55:16 -0500 Subject: {news} proposed agenda for the 2-27-07 SCC meeting of the GP ofCT...in a location in Portland, CT In-Reply-To: <20070222055829.EJI2327.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Message-ID: CTGP reps to COW to plan 2/17,possible affinity groups from CTGP for CD that day. am attending next COW meeting Amy >From: "B Barry" >To: >Subject: {news} proposed agenda for the 2-27-07 SCC meeting of the GP >ofCT...in a location in Portland, CT >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:58:27 -0500 > >Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >to unsubscribe click here >mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >Location: to be determined as either Portland Public Library or Portland >Senior Center. > > (No other chapter offered a location by this time.) > >Time: 7PM to 9PM > >Facilitator/Moderator: to be determined > > > >A. Preliminaries: > >1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting >attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. > >2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any >deletions >or additions. > >3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 1-30-07 SCC >meeting. > >4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 2-9-07 EC >meeting. > >5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report by Christopher Reilly. > > > >B. Any proposals by chapters, committee or members. > > > > C. Reports: > >1. (5 minutes): CT Green Times: articles, publishing, likely date of >availability, distribution; number of copies each chapter wants. > >2. (10 minutes): GP of CT internal elections for 4-21-07 convention; >declared candidates; ballot mailing date; site of convention. > >3. (5-10 minutes): GPUS updates, survey and report from CTGP >representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury. > >4. (15 minutes): Chapter reports regarding the proposed Bylaws Committee >Proposal for the 4-21-07 convention vote. > >5. (2-4 minutes): GP of CT Website. > >6. (2 minutes): ACLU lawsuit. > >7. (5-10 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has or will address >with legislators during the 2007 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike. > >8. (5 minutes): Connecticut Anti-war Marches on 3-17-07 at various >locations; Washington, D.C. March on the Pentagon on 3-17-07 > >which is the 40th anniversary of the 3-17-67 March on the Pentagon. > >9. (5 minutes): Volunteers needed to help organize and run the 4-21-07 >convention. > >10. (2-5 minutes, each): other chapter reports. > >11. (1-2 minutes): Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 3-07. > >12. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 3/27/07. > >13. Any additions. > > > > > > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.27/671 - Release Date: 2/5/2007 >4:48 PM > >To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >_______________________________________________ >CTGP-news mailing list >CTGP-news at ml.greens.org >http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > >ATTENTION! >The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and >intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this >transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the >original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or >face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or >legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal >legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of >the CT Green Party. 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Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Feb 22 20:28:06 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:28:06 +0000 Subject: {news} 2/25 Solar Energy talk in E Hartford In-Reply-To: <000c01c7569d$ab5bc1c0$0201a8c0@NEWDELL> Message-ID: Gerry is a Green Party member from Stamford. For a printable event poster, visit http://www.SolarEnergyOfCT.org The Solar Energy Association of Connecticut invites you to A Seminar and Discussion Meeting on "Practical, Innovative Solar Energy Systems" for Electricity, Heat, and Hot Water Sunday, February 25, 2007 ( 1:30 PM ) East Hartford Public Library 840 Main Street, East Hartford, Connecticut featuring a presentation by Gerald Falbel President, Optical Energy Technologies, Inc.; Experienced Solar Energy Designer/Engr from the 70?s Gerald Falbel has designed solar energy systems starting in the 1970?s. The practical solar energy systems designed in the 1970?s were mainly Solar Thermal systems. At that time, Gerald Falbel designed and manufactured a system with an innovative, concentrating solar collector. Since then he has designed different types of systems -- PV Solar Electric systems as well as combined solar electric and solar thermal systems. In this seminar, he will discuss both solar electric and solar thermal systems, in terms of selected examples. His presentation will focus on three different applications. First ? a 100% Solar-heated house, which provides all heating and hot-water needs, and part of the electricity needs, from solar energy. The second will be Falbel?s most recent invention -- the pyramid optic concentrator, which can form the basis for a combined solar electric system and a solar thermal domestic hot water system. The third part of the presentation will outline a global scheme for large-scale utilization of solar energy, and point out the accompanying political and economic questions. The presentation will be followed by an open discussion. Those attending are invited to bring in their questions and ideas, and information about other relevant systems they know of. ************************************************************************* DIRECTIONS:The Library is on Main St in East Hartford (opp a White Church),close to where Conn Blvd meets Main St. >From Rte I-84 East ? Exit 53 ? Turn RIGHT on to Conn Blvd -- about 3/4 mile -- Conn Blvd ends in Main St ?turn RIGHT on to Main St ? go 50 yds ? (the Library is on your left ) -- Next Light ? turn left on to Central Ave ? 50 yds -- turn left into Parking Lot behind the Library. Walk up to the side or front entrance ---- go to the Meeting Room downstairs. >From Rte I-84 West ?Exit 56 ? Bear Right on to Governor St ? thru 1st light ? go to Main St ? turn Right on to Main St ? 2 lights ? At 2nd Light, turn left on to Central Ave - 50 yds - turn left into Lib Parking. Go to the Meeting Room downstairs. >From Rte 91 South ? Near Hartford, get on to Rte I-84 East ? follow directions above. From Rte 91 N ? In Hartford, take Exit 32 on to Trumbull St -- End of Ramp, turn LEFT -- go 1/4 mi -- go under Rte 84 -- Turn Left to get on to Rte I-84 East ? follow directions above. ************************************************************************* This event is organized by the Solar Energy Association of Connecticut, Inc., a nonprofit, educational organization ( active since 1976) which supports and promotes the use of renewable energies and environmentally benign technologies. It is open to all interested persons, free of charge. Please register for this event by calling one of the following: (860) 233-5684 or (860) 489-9555 or (203) 613-4363 or (845) 669-8341 Solar Energy Assoc. of Conn. Inc. P.O. Box 541 Hartford CT 06101 http://www.SolarEnergyOfCT.org _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates as low as 4.625% - Refinance $150,000 loan for $579 a month. Intro*Terms https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h27f6&disc=y&vers=743&s=4056&p=5117 From roseberry3 at cox.net Thu Feb 22 21:20:33 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:20:33 -0500 Subject: {news} proposed agenda for the 2-27-07 SCC meeting at****** Portland Senior Center, Portland, CT Message-ID: <20070223022032.PVEZ19407.centrmmtao04.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT (a block east of the Portland Public Library). Phone: 860-342-6760 (No other chapter offered a location by this time.) Time: 7PM to 9PM Facilitator/Moderator: to be determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 1-30-07 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 2-9-07 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report by Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals by chapters, committee or members. C. Reports: 1. (5 minutes): CT Green Times: articles, publishing, likely date of availability, distribution; number of copies each chapter wants. 2. (10 minutes): GP of CT internal elections for 4-21-07 convention; declared candidates; ballot mailing date; site of convention. 3. (5-10 minutes): GPUS updates, survey and report from CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury. 4. (15 minutes): Chapter reports regarding the proposed Bylaws Committee Proposal for the 4-21-07 convention vote. 5. (2-4 minutes): GP of CT Website. 6. (2 minutes): ACLU lawsuit. 7. (5-10 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has or will address with legislators during the 2007 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike. 8. (5 minutes): Connecticut Anti-war Marches on 3-17-07 at various locations; Washington, D.C. March on the Pentagon on 3-17-07 which is the 40th anniversary of the 3-17-67 March on the Pentagon. 9. (5 minutes): Volunteers needed to help organize and run the 4-21-07 convention; raffle. 10. (2-5 minutes, each): other chapter reports. 11. (1-2 minutes): Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 3-6-07. 12. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 3/27/07. 13. Any additions. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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Feb 25: East Coast regional Meeting to Organize Against ICE Raids on the Immigrant Community Feb 24: Connecticut town meetings to Oppose the War in Iraq On February 24 there will be town meetings in over 25 Connecticut cities and towns. They are organized by people in those communities with the support of Connecticut Opposes the War, a state-wide coalition of labor unions, faith based groups, and community organizations that want to end the war in Iraq. Testify and hear from each other on the cost of the war, why we need to leave, how to support our troops! Work with the CT AFL-CIO, State Legislators, Local Religious Leaders, Community Organizations, Veterans and other Neighbors and Friends. The Town Meetings have two purposes. 1) To build local organization to support ongoing anti-war work in every corner of the State. Wherever our Congressional Delegation goes to meet with voters, in every newspaper's letters section, and every day on their voicemail and in their mailbox, we want them to know we're here, and here, and here, and everywhere! 2) To organize for the March 17 rally in Hartford, at the Old Statehouse. We want every town in CT to have a presence (and a sign!) at this rally, telling our Congressional Delegation that its most important job is to STOP THE WAR. People will be demonstrating in Washington AND locally, all over the country on that day, so that everyone can participate, and Bush and Congress can see what they're really up against! Meeting Agenda: 1. What's going on in Iraq and in Congress? 2. What can a local group do to help end the war? (A Lot!) 3. Connect with all the other Town Meetings via Conference Call with a surprise speaker! 4. Organize the town to go to Hartford on Saturday, March 17, the anniversary of the invasion, to Protest the War! Bring all the Troops and the Money Home! Contact ctopposeswar at yahoo.com or call 860 655-4179 or 203 979-4676 for more info. www.ctcow.org March 17: Connectiuct Opposes the War. State-wide rally in Hartford On Saturday, March 17th, building off the energy of the February 24th town meetings Connecticut Opposes the War will hold a state-wide rally in Hartford at the Old State House, 800 Main St from 3:00-4:30pm. The rally will tell the U.S. Congress and President Bush to stop the war in Iraq. Over $400 billion has been spent and it has resulted in the deaths of over 3,100 U.S. military personnel and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. We will tell Connecticut's Congressional delegation and the Bush Administration that we also need to change our priorities by making our cities safe; provide health care, education, and jobs for everyone; and offer full financial and medical support for returning U.S. troops. The rally is endorsed by a large number of elected officials, labor unions, churches and congregations, and peace and community organizations. Please contact ctopposeswar at yahoo.com or 860 655-4179 or 203 979-4676 for more information www.ctcow.org Feb 25: East Coast regional Meeting to Organize Against ICE Raids on the Immigrant Community EAST COAST REGIONAL MEETING TO ADDRESS THE FEDERAL CRACKDOWN ON IMMIGRANTS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH @ 4PM WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, IVES CONCERT HALL (Inside of White Hall on the Main Campus) 181 WHITE ST. (WHITE STREET and FIFTH AVENUE) DANBURY, Conn. The Department of Homeland Security is detaining thousands of immigrant workers from their homes and workplaces. Since Sept 2006 35 immigrant workers have been detained in Danbury by local police and federal agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) Its agents are forcibly breaking up families, trampling civil liberties, and violating due process rights. They have attacked union worksites and day laborer centers and tried to bust union organizing drives. Raids, arrests, and deportations have become a regular feature of life in towns which not one year ago witnessed historic mobilizations for immigrant rights. Supporters of immigrant rights need to regroup and think out how best to address this national crackdown. Immigrants in Danbury have led the struggle in Connecticut, including the defeat of Mayor Boughton's proposal in 2005 to deputize state troopers to deport immigrants. But Homeland Security has disappeared 35 immigrant workers from Danbury in 6 months. Mayor Boughton encourages the arrests and lends the resources of City Hall to terrorize the immigrant residents of Danbury. Join forces from across the region to discuss an effective response to these ongoing attacks, and hear a panel featuring: Speakers (List in formation): ? Ana Avenda?o, Associate General Counsel and Director, AFL-CIO Immigrant Workers Program ? Anabel Pimentel and Reina Campos, Victims of Raids in the Swift Meatpacking Plant in Hyrum, Utah ? Lawyer for the Immigrants of Hazelton, Pa. from the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund ? Carola Otero Bracco, Director, Day Laborers Center, Mount Kisco, NY Endorsed by the Western CT Central Labor Council, The Latin American Student Organization of Western Connecticut State University, and the Graduate Employees Student Organization of Yale University For more information call 203-512-3452 www.stoptheraids.org Save the date: May 19 AFSC-CT Annual Dinner with Anthony Arnove Save the date of Saturday May, 19, 2007. AFSC-CT is holding its Annual dinner on that date. More information will be forthcoming, but we are excited to announce that the main speaker is acclaimed writer and activist Anthony Arnove, author of "Iraq: the logic of Withdrawal". We will also be honoring various Connecticut activists for their work in support of peace and social and economic justice. Tabling space will be available for community organizations. The dinner will be held at the Polish National Home, 60 Charter Oak Ave, Hartford, CT. Please contact the Connecticut AFSC office at connecticut at afsc.org or at 860-523-1534 and check our webpage afsc.org/ct for further updates www.afsc.org/ct American Friends Service Committee Connecticut Area Office 56 Arbor Street, Suite 213 Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860.523.1534 Fax: 860.523.1705 Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Confirm | Forward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Feb 26 00:28:11 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:28:11 +0000 Subject: {news} November candidates In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I've listed eight candidates so far intending to run in the November 6 municipal elections. Any more? http://216.92.191.78/elections/races.php?stateId=8&year=2007 # David A. Bedell: Constable, Stamford # Allan Brison: Alderman, New Haven # Andrew Cote: Constable, Norwalk # Jean M. de Smet: Selectman, Windham # Erik Eisenberg: Constable, New Canaan # Ralph A. Ferrucci: Mayor, New Haven # David M. Ionno: City Council, Hartford # Hector Lopez: Constable, New Canaan David _________________________________________________________________ Find what you need at prices you?ll love. Compare products and save at MSN? Shopping. http://shopping.msn.com/default/shp/?ptnrid=37,ptnrdata=24102&tcode=T001MSN20A0701 From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Feb 26 15:35:24 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:35:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Elaine Brown seeking Green Party Presidential Ticket - February Green Line Message-ID: <20070226203524.4155.qmail@web81413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Green Party of the United States wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:35:06 -0500 (EST) From: Green Party of the United States To: tollandcountygreens-owner at yahoogroups.com Subject: Elaine Brown seeking Green Party Presidential Ticket - February Green Line February 2007 News Headlines Elaine Brown to Seek Green Party Presidential Ticket Former Black Panther Party leader, noted author, community and prison justice activist Elaine Brown announced this week that she intends to seek the Green Party?s nomination for a presidential bid in 2008. "The 2006 elections signified a mass rejection of Bush?s policies--not a shift to the Democrats. We have arrived at a powerful moment when the majority of the country is seeking a political alternative, toward embracing progressive values and realizing a progressive agenda. I haven?t seen this potential since the 1960s." Brown, who ran as a Green in the 2005 Brunswick, Georgia, mayoral election where Republicans succeeded in illegally removing her name from both the ballot and the voter roll, intends to run on a platform that addresses the interests of poor and working families, in terms of living wages, free healthcare, decent housing and increased funding for public education and higher education; ending the war in Iraq; restoring the environment and bringing about economic parity. Strategically, she intends to target non-voters, specifically women under 30 and African Americans, constituencies she believes are not represented by the nearly identical agendas of the Democrat and Republican parties, stating these crucial constituencies "have the power to build up an alternative party to truly challenge the status quo." "I believe I have the ability to raise consciousness among disaffected and disenfranchised poor and working people, women and blacks, to galvanize them to vote for a real second party. Such a broadening of the Green Party base will allow us to start winning big time, at the state level and nationally, so that we can overturn some of the most egregious policies and laws (like the three strikes crime bill which has so devastated black communities) and introduce progressive legislation. There are a lot of great community organizations working for change, performing Sisyphean tasks that cannot address the fundamental problems. I believe the time is right to use the ballot to make the kinds of changes we know must be made to serve the people we represent." Brown stated she is running as a Green because: "Not only does the Green Party support reparations for slavery, but the party?s ten key values represent the values and interests of poor and working people. Only the Green Party offers clear positions on the needs of the people, in terms of a living wage, decent housing, food, education, and medical care. The Democrats and Republicans offer black and poor people nothing." When asked what she hopes to achieve with her run, Brown said: "I know the party can earn a significant increase in votes and membership, which will increase our viability to take congressional seats, state house seats, and local offices; so that we can really start changing the way government operates." The Green Party will nominate our Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates at our 2008 Convention. Anyone interested in seeking the Green Party nomination should contact Greg Gerritt, on behalf of the Presidential Campaign Support Committee, at (401) 331-0529 or Gerritt at mindspring.net. Get Ready for Reading, Pa! Register early and save $$$ The Green Party National Committee (GNC) voted on Reading, PA as the host site for this year's national meeting taking place from July 12-15. The meeting promises to be an educational, inspiring and fun time for all. We will offer an expanded campaign school, skills building workshops, an Americana music festival and a chance to meet hear from Green Party presidential candidates. The Berks County Green Party and the Annual National Meeting Committee (ANMC) are working hard to ensure that an inspiring, educational and fun time is had by all! The ANMC is offering a discounted pre-registration rate of $75 until March 31st. To take advantage of this discount click here. ? Maryland Passes Clean Cars Bill Some very good news from Maryland. The House of Delegates has passed the Clean Cars Bill, a key piece of legislation in the Maryland Green Party's lobbying effort this year, by a wide margin, and the Senate is expected to follow suit. A victory for Greens and Marylanders! Mother Nature says there's still time to place your order for merchandise for your Earth Day event and promote the Green Party to boot. Tote bags normally selling for $12, going for $9 each if you buy 10 or more, plus shipping. T shirts normally selling for $20, going for $15 each if you buy 5 or better yet, $10 each if you buy 10 or more plus shipping (can mix and match Earthflower, Kelly Green and Women's tanks). Place your order by Feb 28th to receive by Earth Day. Call the Green Party office at 1-866-GREEN or email emily at gp.org with "State Merchandise Discount Offer" in the subject line. Green Party online shopping just got easier! For regular orders please go here: online store. Green Party Initiates Impeachment Petition The Geen Party has been opposed to the war in Iraq from before it started and we have called for impeachment almost as long. You can now sign the recently created Green Party Petition to Impeach Bush and Cheney here. Please go here to write your congress person or local newspaper using the Green Party automated system. Register Green. Vote Green. Give Green. The Green Party does not accept corporate donations. We depend entirely on donations from people who are committed to building a powerful and progressive alternative to the two corporate parties. We ask you to challenge corporate influence in politics by supporting the Green Party of the United States! Show your resistance to the status quo by enabling us to continue organizing and mobilizing for real change. Please help us get out our positive, progressive values to new communities, and to deepen our involvement where we're already anchored. 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Feb 26 16:16:55 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:16:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} GPNews RELEASE Greens: Clinton & Dems are obstacles to real health care reform Message-ID: <955471.7390.qm@web81402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Scott McLarty wrote: From: Scott McLarty To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org, media-states at lists.gp-us.org, lavender-caucus at green.gpus.org Subject: [media-states] GP RELEASE Greens: Clinton & Dems are obstacles to real health care reform Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:09:47 -0800 (PST) GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Monday, February 26, 2007 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org John Battista, M.D., 860-354-1822 Sen. Hillary Clinton and other Democratic leaders are obstacles to real health care reform, say Greens ? Greens assert need for single-payer national health insurance, which top Democrats and Republicans reject because of corporate HMO, insurance, and pharmaceutical contributors WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders called on Congress to reject health care reform plans that maintained corporate-based insurance and HMO coverage, and urged passage of a single-player national health insurance program. "America is ready for single-payer," said Maria Allwine, former Green candidate for Maryland State Senate and U.S. Senate and member of the Maryland Universal Health Care Action Network . "We're not ready for another Republican or Democratic proposal that guarantees profits for HMOs and insurance firms, while doing little for America's 46 million uninsured and millions more under-insured. We appeal to Congress, the American people, unions, and health-care providers to reject corporate-friendly managed-care plans and demand national health insurance." Greens were especially critical of Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-N.Y.) continuing role in obstructing needed health care reforms. "Hillary Clinton should be banished from the room when health coverage is discussed," said Rebecca Rotzler, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States and Deputy Mayor of New Paltz, New York. "Ms. Clinton's favoritism towards major insurance companies undermined real health care reform when her husband's administration crafted its managed-care monstrosity in 1993. She and other Democrats remain at the top of the list of recipients of contributions from insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies [http://www.opensecrets.org]." In the 2006 race for the U.S. Senate, New York Green candidate Howie Hawkins sharply criticized Ms. Clinton for pandering to private health insurance companies and endorsing a Massachusetts bill mandating that consumers buy inadequate private health insurance. Greens running for office in New York, Massachusetts, and numerous other states promoted state-based plans to provide all residents with health care services through publicly-funded coverage. "Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, and other prominent Democrats are the greatest obstacle to universal health coverage. Except for a few mavericks like Rep. John Conyers [D-Mich.], who has regularly introduced single-payer bills, Democrats have joined Republicans in favoring HMO and insurance corporations over guaranteed publicly-financed quality health care for every American. It's a safe bet that the 2008 Democratic nominee will -- like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry before them -- follow the same pattern," said Kat Swift, spokesperson for the National Women's Caucus of the Green Party. Greens noted that Democrats and Republicans alike were responding to the growing health care crisis in recent years by siding with corporate insurers and rejecting the principle that federal or state governments should provide coverage, despite poll numbers showing growing majority support for single-payer. During the Clinton-Gore Administration, the Democratic Party deleted national health insurance from its national platform; national health insurance had been a Democratic promise since 1948. In November, 2003, Republicans in Congress passed a complex Prescription Drug bill that mostly benefits drug firms and advances the long-time Republican ambition to replace Medicare with private coverage . More recently, President Bush has cut $28 million from Medicaid to pay for the Iraq War. Greens noted that profits for the private health insurance industry now consume as much as 30? of every health dollar, and that pay for insurance and HMO executives is now in the multimillion-dollar stratosphere, e.g., $29,061,599 for Stephen Wiggins, CEO of Oxford Health Plans, Inc.; $11,568,410 for Wilson Taylor, Chairman and CEO of CIGNA Corporation . According to a 2000 study by Harvard Medical School and the Canadian Institute for Health Information , U.S. pays 31 cents on every dollar for administrative costs; Canada, under its single-payer system, pays half this amount. Greens further noted that taxpayers and health care providers are already paying health care costs for the uninsured. "We urge unions and other civil groups to demand single-payer, instead of falling into lockstep with Democrats, or we'll repeat the health care reform debacle of 1993," said John Battista, M.D., former Green candidate for state representative in Connecticut and co-author of his state's single-payer legislation in 1999 (the Connecticut Health Care Security Act). "It's time to reject vaguely defined corporate-friendly 'affordable' health care plans." "Single-payer will provide quality health coverage for every American regardless of income, ability to pay, residence, age, or prior medical condition at a cost that's far less than working Americans currently pay for private coverage, while providing full choice of physician and hospital," added Dr. Battista. "That's why the Green Party supports single-payer." 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 Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml "Seeking Coverage For All" By John R. Battista and Justine McCabe (Green Party members), The Hartford Courant, October 31, 2006 http://www.pnhp.org/news/2006/november/seeking_coverage_for.php "Why Obama, Edwards, Hillary, Romney, Schwarzenegger Don?t Support Single Payer? It Would Mean the Death of the Health Insurance Industry, and Reduced Profits for Big Pharma" Corporate Crime Reporter 9, February 21, 2007 http://www.healthcare-now.org/shownews.php?nid=394&sid=&subid http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com Physicians for a National Health Program http://www.pnhp.org ~ END ~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 _______________________________________________ media-states mailing list media-states at lists.gp-us.org http://lists.gp-us.org/mailman/listinfo/media-states ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net Mon Feb 26 22:08:36 2007 From: jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net (Jean de Smet) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:08:36 -0500 Subject: {news} Internal Elections Message-ID: <00d401c75a1c$99354de0$45b4d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> A reminder to everyone that we will have elections for our officers in April. A mailing will be sent, we hope to all members. But we need candidates! 3 Co-Chairs, one of whom must be of a different sex than the other 2 Mike DeRosa and Jean de Smet are the only candidates at present. 1 Treasurer No candidates 1 Secretary No candidates 2 Representatives to the USGP and 1 alternate. Charlie Pillsbury and Amy Vas Nunes are the only candidates at present To be included in the mailing, please let me know if you are running by the February 26th State meeting (or before, of course!)? We will take nominations from the floor as well. Jean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From creilly1952 at hotmail.com Wed Feb 28 14:04:52 2007 From: creilly1952 at hotmail.com (Christopher Reilly) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:04:52 -0500 Subject: {news} 10th annual convention? Message-ID: If I'm not mistaken, the upcoming annual convention will be the CT/GP's 10th annual convention. I believe the first one took place in March, 1997 and featured Ralph Nader as the keynote speaker. Could people check their memories? _________________________________________________________________ Don?t miss your chance to WIN 10 hours of private jet travel from Microsoft? Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0540002499mrt/direct/01/ From chapillsbury at igc.org Wed Feb 28 22:06:41 2007 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:06:41 -0500 Subject: {news} Nader Doc. coming to Hartford 3/30/2007 References: <45E5074F.5080908@yahoo.com> <8C929C266EDFD1D-D2C-2924@FWM-R19.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <004201c75bae$a31555b0$6500a8c0@S0031616584> * 3/30/2007 * Hartford, CT * Real Artways ----- Original Message ----- From: vantagetax at aol.com To: jkafoury7 at yahoo.com ; aaron.wodinschwartz at gmail.com ; ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net Cc: apbrison at hotmail.com ; chapillsbury at igc.org Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:42 PM Subject: Re: Hey Peter and Ralph, Nader Doc. coming to Hartford Hi Jason! Great to hear from you. I am ccing Allan Brison and Charlie Pillsbury who are the co-chairs of the New Haven Greens. I saw the movie in New York City. It is awesome! Yes - I would like to help get the word out about the Hartford showing. Pete -----Original Message----- From: jkafoury7 at yahoo.com To: aaron.wodinschwartz at gmail.com; vantagetax at aol.com; ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net Sent: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:38 PM Subject: Hey Peter and Ralph, Nader Doc. coming to Hartford Hey Peter and Ralph, Hope all is well these days, I'm crazy busy down here law school style at Tulane in New Orleans but I wanted to let y'all know that Nader's doc. is opening in Hartford on 3/30 and I wanted to put together a ground operation to help get the word out about it, I'm cc'ing Aaron who is coordinating our grassroots promotion of the movie nationwide, we should put together a conf. call in the next week to discuss how to spread the word, looking forward to working again w/the CT crew, I know you guys will really enjoy the movie... Jason * 3/30/2007 * Hartford, CT * Real Artways -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Feb 28 22:52:50 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:52:50 +0000 Subject: {news} 10th annual convention? In-Reply-To: <20070228200005.8B8A889C0F0@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: Yes, March 1997 was the founding convention. That actually makes this the 11th annual convention--but we can bill it as the 10th anniversary of the founding. David ----Original Message Follows---- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:04:52 -0500 From: "Christopher Reilly" Subject: {news} 10th annual convention? To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org If I'm not mistaken, the upcoming annual convention will be the CT/GP's 10th annual convention. I believe the first one took place in March, 1997 and featured Ralph Nader as the keynote speaker. Could people check their memories? _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates as low as 4.625% - Refinance $150,000 loan for $579 a month. 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