From efficacy at msn.com Fri Jun 1 10:19:10 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:19:10 -0400 Subject: {news} There's only one Peace Party! Message-ID: May 2007 News Headlines In case you had any doubt . . . . There's only one Peace Party! Are you as outraged as we are about the Democrats capitulation to Bush when they voted to continue to fund the war in Iraq ? A CBS/NYT poll released last week shows that only 23% of the public approves of the way George Bush is handling the war in Iraq. Despite overwhelming public opposition to the war in Iraq, Democrats once again chose to represent the interests of the oil corporations and military contractors over the lives of our troops and the will of the American public. How many more Iraqi and American lives will be lost because of this cowardice ? Last November, the public sent a message when they voted "No War" at the polls. Did the Democrats forget? By supporting the continued funding of the war without any kind of timeline for troop withdrawal, Congressional Democrats made it clear that they will not excercise leadership to get us out of the war in Iraq. You understand that any true "peace party" must be free of the corporate interest that drives the government's decision to go to war in the first place. You understand that in order to realize a truly sustainable, secure, and prosperous future for all, we must build a party that refuses corporate cash. But what about your friends , neighbors , spouse, parent, child, aunt, roommates or coworkers ? If they oppose the war, have they switched to Green yet? Ask them to get involved in the nation's only true peace party. You can access our automated Tell-A-Friend link by clicking here. Its up to us to represent the majority of the American public as the peace party. To do that, we need your support, If you are not yet a Green Party Sustainer, please sign-up today by clicking here. If the Green Party doesn't take leadership to end the war in Iraq, who will? Please act today. You can access our automated Tell-A-Friend link by clicking here. National Green Party Speakers Looking for a Green Party speaker for your event? Contact the National Green Party Media Committee today to schedule a Green Party speaker for your show or event at http://www.gp.org/committees/media/index.shtml. Green Party speakers offer a provocative counterpoint to the status quo. Whether speaking about universal, single-payer health care, support for local economies, immediate withdrawal from Iraq, or other pressing concerns, our speakers provide expert analysis and solutions. Green Party speakers include elected officials, political candidates, grassroots activists, and everyday people who chose to become part of the solution. Committed to environmentalism, nonviolence, and social justice, Greens are renewing democracy without the support of corporate money. For more information go to http://www.gp.org/speakers. Head-Roc to Headline Music Fest at Green Party National Meeting The Green Party National Meeting, taking place in Reading, PA July 12-15th, will be a great chance to learn the skills to build effective campaigns, network with Greens from across the country and worldwide; and, most of all, to have fun! Noted progressive Hip-Hop artist and Green Party member Head-Roc and his crew will headline the Music Fest with a performance on Saturday night. Head-Roc will also make a solo apperance on Thursday. Highlights include: a.. Global Greens: Presentations from Juan Behrend, Co-Secretary General of the European Green Party; Janet Eaton from the Green Party of Canada talking about the NAFTA Super Corridor, and representatives from the Green Party of the Dominican Republic and the Green Party of New Zealand. b.. Presidential Forum: Any candidate currently seeking the Green Party nomination for President in 2008 will have an early opportunity to address party delegates c.. Catherine Austin Fitts, President of Solari, Inc. a socially responsible investment firm, and former Federal Housing Director in the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development d.. Workshops: Numerous workshops on topics such as "media relations," "running for office," and "building an effective campaign organization" e.. Special three-day workshop on "Dismantling Racism" - open to the general public. *Please Note: Registration for the "Dismantling Racism" Workshop has been extended to June 15th. For more information go to: http://www.gpanc.org/pix/DRW.pdf f.. Musical groups: Noted Hip-Hop artist and Green Party member Head-Roc and his DJ's Eurock and Noyeek will headline the Music Fest with a performance on Saturday night. Head-Roc will also make a solo apperance on Thursday. The four day event will also include performances by the Juggling Suns, Green Onions, Hexbelt, Uncle Skip, and the Robin Irvin All Star Band. More musical groups TBA soon?. Stay tuned! On-line registration will be available until July 6th at: http://www.gp.org/meeting2007/index.shtml. We have arranged a discount room rate with the Abraham Lincoln hotel. If you are interested in staying at this historic hotel call 610-372-3700, or 877-999-3223 and be sure to mention the Green Party Meeting in order to receive the discount. The discounted rate is available until June 15th. Election Update The Green Party won four races this month bringing the total number of victories this year to 20 for a win rate of 45%! Congratulations to Rudy Heller elected as Selectman in Brookfield, MA; Tom Flittie, reelected to Town Meeting in Amherst, MA; Rome Celli reelected to the Brighton, NY School Board; and Edgar Rodriguez, elected to the New Paltz, NY School Board. Renee Bowser did not win her bid for DC Ward 4 City Council coming in fifth out of a field of 19 but she built up a great campaign team and had an unprecedented number of supporters out at the polls on Election Day. Jason West did not win his bid for reelection as Mayor of New Paltz, NY. As one of our most renowned office holders, Jason gained the world's attention and risked criminal prosecution when he officiated the marriages for 25 same-sex couples. Jason West also helped move municipal buildings to use solar power and implemented a sewage treatment system using natural reed beds. Rebecca Rotzler, the Deputy Mayor of New Paltz, did not seek a second term in office and will end her term this month. Rebecca has been an unyielding voice for peace and justice and has been one of the Green Party's most public spokespersons against the War in Iraq. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Green Party of the United States. Thank you Rebecca and Jason for bringing innovative Green change to New Paltz, and for inspiring Greens everywhere. Sign the Green Party 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. 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In two upcoming Connecticut events she will speak about her experiences in the Alternatives to Violence program in Colombia, her work in peacemaking, human rights, trauma healing, and how faith has led her to seek new ways of dealing with old problems. Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 7:00 PM Unitarian Universalist Society: East 153 West Vernon St. Manchester, CT 06042 Contact: Mike Winterfield (860) 232-5528 or mikewinterfield at comcast.net Monday, June 4, 2007 at 7:00 PM Storrs Friends Meetinghouse 57 Hunting Lodge Rd. Storrs, CT 06248 Contact: Anna Andrews (860) 742-1231 or annaandrews at comcast.net Background innformation: Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales is a Presbyterian woman, an educator and a theologian. She is a very active woman in her church Iglesia Presbiteriana San Bernab?, in Bogot?, Colombia, as a Christian education teacher, facilitator of workshops and as a preacher. Alba is also the board president of The Ecumenical National Network of Women for Peace, an ecumenical institution whose main work is referred to women and families displaced by the social conflict armed in the north coast of Colombia. She worked with the Mennonite church in Justapaz, a Christian Center for Peace, Justice and Non-violent Actions, where she was the coordinator of Teaching Training Material on Peace building and Conflict Resolution. In Justapaz she received training on Alternatives to Violence, (a non-violence program held by a Quaker North American team). She facilitates workshops on these three areas: Conflict resolution, Alternatives to violence and Gender and Bible, to church women leaders, ecumenical groups and displaced women and men. She is the National Correspondent of the WCC Ecumenical Scholarships Committee in Colombia and is also a board member (for Latin America) of Dignity International, an international institution whose main work is on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR). Alba studied Modern Languages at La Salle University in Bogot?, Colombia, and Theology in Mexico and Costa Rica, at the Latin American Biblical Seminary, today Latin American Biblical University. She is also a postgraduate on Human Development and Values and started studies on Research and Curriculum. In 2005 she participated as a team investigator in a research about The social action of evangelical Christian churches in Colombia during the years 1995-2005, a research approved by the Evangelical Confederation of Christian Churches in Colombia. As an active member of the Presbyterian Church in Colombia for many years, she has participated in several consultations in the US : Peacemaking Program, Louisville, KY,1996; Mission to the US Program: A year with Latin Americans, Appleton, WI, 1996; Presbyterian Women Gathering: A cloud of witnesses around the world, Louisville, KY, 1997; Global Village Conference, Des Moines, IOWA, 1997; Workshop on Economic Justice, Stony Point Center, New York, NY, 1997; International Women Meeting, Stony Point Center, New York, NY, 1997; Conferences on Mission, Seattle, WA, Houston, TX, Falls Church, VA, 1999. On the other side, she has also participated on consultations held by the WARC as follows: Women and men in partnership in God's Mission, Caracas, Venezuela, 1995; Consultation on Gospel and Cultures, Tana Toraja, Indonesia, 1996; Women Conference and General Council of Reformed Churches Break the chains of injustice, Debrecen, Hungary, 1997. She has also attended seminars and training courses like: Course Practitioners of Peace, Oslo, Norway, 2001 and Training Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Alcochete, Portugal, 2003 and 2004. Alba has been Moderator of the Central Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia and at present she is an Elder with pastoral functions in her church in Bogot?. She is divorced and has three sons and four grandchildren. Her main personal task as theologian, educator and workshop facilitator is continuing working on peacemaking, gender justice and human rights, subjects in which she has got some expertness. June 10 and 11: Mobilization in Washington D.C. Against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine On June 10 and 11 the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is organizing a mobilization to mark the 40th anniversary of Israel's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem Please join the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and United for Peace and Justice in Washington, DC, June 10-11, 2007 for a protest, teach-in, and lobby day. AFSC nationally is endorsing the event and AFSC-CT encourages people to attend this important mobilization. The Middle East Crisis Committee is organizing a bus from Connecticut to attend the weekend's events. Bus tickets may by purchased from MECC in the following ways: $50 tickets online by going to http://www.thestruggle.org. You can pay by credit card. Pay Pal handles the secure transaction. Your personal and credit card information is safe. You may also pay by check and mail it in. Please note that Monday June 4th is last day to get your check in. Make it payable to "MECC" and mail to MECC, Box 3626, Woodbridge, CT 06525. Include your name, phone and email. Otherwise call us at 203-934-2761. There are some reduced price and even some free tickets. You must reserve a ticket. Get to Long Wharf by 11:30 p.m. on Sat. June 9th. The bus will meet us in the parking area that is in back of the La Quinta Inn (formerly the Fairfield Inn), 400 Sargeant Drive, New Haven. The parking area is to the right of the restaurant Brazzi's. People have left cars overnight for demos there without any problems. Highlight: Some of the speakers at the rally include Mazin Qumsiyeh and Cindy and Craig Corrie from Rachel Corrie's family. The full list is here http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1391 Here is the schedule of events: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1351 Full details about the rally at: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=162 www.endtheoccupation.org 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 efficacy at msn.com Sat Jun 2 07:49:03 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 07:49:03 -0400 Subject: {news} HB6715 Passed In the Freaking Senate Message-ID: POLITICS http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-medimari0602.artjun02,0,656752.story?coll=hc-headlines-home Cannabis Measure Passes Senate Seriously Ill Would Be Allowed To Grow Pot June 2, 2007 By COLIN POITRAS, Courant Staff Writer After five years of on-again, off-again debate, Connecticut lawmakers Friday passed landmark legislation allowing seriously ill people to grow marijuana at home to ease their pain or reduce unpleasant side effects of treatment. The bill passed by a 23-13 bipartisan vote in the state Senate, where it appeared people's personal experience with pain and loss trumped politics on this occasion. The House of Representatives passed the bill last week, 89-58. The bill now goes to Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who has already expressed concerns about its broad reach but is waiting to review the bill's final language before deciding whether to sign it into law. Rell has said she would feel better if the bill were limited to people diagnosed as terminally ill. State Sen. Andrew J. McDonald, D-Stamford, introduced the bill on the Senate floor Friday. "This legislation is tightly constrained to help a clearly defined group of people who are suffering," McDonald said. "These people who are suffering shouldn't have to suffer the threat of criminal prosecution in seeking treatment." McDonald pointed out that a 2004 survey by the University of Connecticut Center for Survey Research and Analysis showed 83 percent of Connecticut residents support allowing adults to use marijuana for medical purposes if a doctor prescribes it. Although he wasn't sure how Rell would act, McDonald said he didn't believe she was "in the 17 percent minority." Republican opponents of the bill worried about the message the legislature was sending to children and whether a political body was the best place to decide appropriate medical remedies. State Sen. Sam F.S. Caligiuri, D-Waterbury, said the bill may ultimately "do more harm than good." "We'll be sending a mixed message to young people about whether marijuana is good or bad," Caligiuri said. "We're going to undercut our ability to keep children away from this gateway drug." "This is definitely an emotional tug," said Sen. John McKinney, R-Southport, whose father, U.S. Rep. Stewart B. McKinney, died of AIDS. "To those who support this bill, I say your cause is noble, I just don't think this is the right way to get there." Under the bill, patients with certain serious or chronic medical conditions such as cancer, AIDS, epilepsy, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis could grow as many as four 4-foot-tall marijuana plants in their homes, provided they obtain a doctor's prescription to do so. Those patients would have to register with the state Department of Consumer Protection, which would enforce the policy should it become law. The bill does not limit legal use of marijuana to the terminally ill, nor does it address how sick individuals or their caregivers would obtain the marijuana seeds to grow the plants. Local pharmacies do not stock marijuana or its seeds because of current restrictions under federal law. Connecticut already has a law legalizing marijuana, but it is virtually useless. Current law allows doctors to prescribe marijuana to ease the pain and discomfort of chemotherapy or for those suffering glaucoma. But no prescriptions have been written because doctors don't want to risk prosecution under federal law. Twelve states currently allow the palliative use of marijuana. Rhode Island has one of the most liberal laws, allowing as many as 12 plants. Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, said she has seen research that shows marijuana use among young people declined in states that allowed medical marijuana. "When you start using it as medicine, it starts losing its tempting attraction," Handley said. The Connecticut Nurses Association, the National Academy of Science, the Lymphoma Foundation, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health have all come out in favor of medical marijuana, according to Sen. Andrew J. McDonald, D-Stamford. "People are suffering and medical professionals in the field tell us this drug, under controlled circumstances, can provide some relief," McDonald said. But the American Cancer Society, the Connecticut State Medical Society and the national Multiple Sclerosis Society are silent on the issue, McKinneysaid. "The very doctors charged with taking care of all of us have said `we can't support it,'" McKinney said. "That in itself is extremely persuasive." Sen. Judith G. Freedman, R-Westport, led the Republican Party's opposition. Freedman said commercial drugs on the market can provide equal relief for pain. "It hasn't been proven to me that this is the only route available to people who are suffering," Freedman said. Freedman also expressed concern about the message the bill was sending children who have been taught that illegal drugs are wrong and bad. "What are we telling our children when we stand here in this circle saying let's legalize in Connecticut what the federal government says is illegal?" Freedman asked. Contact Colin Poitras at cpoitras at courant.com. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" 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... 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Name: &cc=USD&ch=Hartford%20Courant%3Anews&server=courant.com&v0=hc-headlines-home&events=event5%2Cevent10&h1=Hartford%20Courant%3Anews%3Apolitics&h2=TI%3AHartford%3AHartford%20Courant%3Anews%3Apolitics&v20=Hartford%20Courant&v21=story&c30=N&c33=Saturday&c34=7%3A00AM&c35=AM&c38=story&c44=hc-medimari0602.artjun02&s=800x600&c=16&j=1.3&v=Y&k=Y&bw=800&bh=403&ct=lan&hp=N&[AQE] Type: application/octet-stream Size: 43 bytes Desc: not available URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sat Jun 2 13:30:37 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:30:37 -0400 Subject: {news} Your workshop has been accepted Message-ID: How many people in Connecticut are going to this meeting?? Please pass it to your lists Dear Mr. Thornton, Thank you for submitting a workshop proposal to the Green Party of the United States's Annual National Meeting Committee for our July 12-15, 2007 meeting in Reading, Pennsylvania. We received numerous excellent proposals. Your proposal for the workshop below was accepted and it will be scheduled on either Thursday, July 11 or Friday morning July 12. We'll be in touch with you about your time and meeting room assignment as soon as possible. Workshop title: Reparations for the Drug War Presenter: Clifford Thornton Jr. The inner cities have been in a war for over thirty years. We have spent over a trillion dollars and yet there are more illegal drugs on our streets than ever before, even among the upper class. Most people think the reason is the drugs, but in all actuality it is the drug policies. We as a people, as a country, have to be thoroughly educated on this issue called the "war on drugs". Learn what the current policies are, why they don't work, what can be done instead, why there should be reparations for drug war maladies, and how to get it done. Please let me know if you have any questions. 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Please call Governor for House Bill 6715: An Act Concerning the Palliative Use of Marijuana (the Medical Marijuana bill) Contact Information Web Site: www.state.ct.us/governor E-mail: governor.rell at po.state.ct.us 210 Capitol Ave. Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: (860) 566-4840 Fax: (860) 524-7395 800-842-1423 Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" 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: step_one.gif Type: image/gif Size: 698 bytes Desc: not available URL: From chapillsbury at gmail.com Wed Jun 6 23:11:06 2007 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:11:06 -0400 Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] 5-1/2 weeks to annual national meeting- sign up now!!! In-Reply-To: <46642754.1020501@execpc.com> References: <46642754.1020501@execpc.com> Message-ID: <10859a090706062011s33c38712ma5e7eed0456c2f07@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ruth Weill Date: Jun 4, 2007 10:53 AM Subject: [usgp-nc] 5-1/2 weeks to annual national meeting- sign up now!!! To: Natlcomvotes Are you going to the annual national meeting in Reading PA this July? For information and to register, purchase meal and music tickets tickets visit: www.gpanc.org. _*Please click on the register for the meeting link to sign up for meals and purchase music event tickets.*_ The theme is Green for a Change! The host hotel is The Abraham Lincoln - A Wyndham Historic Hotel on 5th and Washington St. in downtown Reading. Twenty-one workshops on topics such as "Local Candidate Recruitment" and "Media in Campaigns" will be available on Thursday July 12 and Friday morning July 13. In addition to electoral track workshops there will be issue track workshops such as "Public Transportation" and "Stress Management." These workshops are not restricted to national delegates. They are open to anyone. A special 18-hour workshop on Dismantling Racism begins with dinner at 5PM on Wed, July 11, runs all day Thurs, and ends Friday at 12:00 PM. This workshop does not conflict with national delegate plenary session, which are held Friday afternoon, Saturday, and Sunday morning. Separate registration for this workshop is required by June 15. For information, and to register for this workshop, contact: isabellebuonocore at hotmail.com. Thursday night is shaping up to be an International night. Friday or Saturday night is the presidential candidate forum. There will also be a silent auction, vendors and exhibitors, and a music festival! Go to Reading for the national meeting and network with Greens from around the country and the world! Spread the word to state and county party list serves! For more info, visit www.gpanc.org. Isabelle Buonocore Workshop Subcommittee Annual National Meeting Committee Ruth Weill Chair ANMC -- " One person can make a difference, and every person must try." John F. Kennedy " Be the change you want to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi "If I can't dance, I do not want to be a part of your revolution." 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URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Thu Jun 7 19:52:11 2007 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:52:11 -0400 Subject: {news} Statutory Notice of Meeting to Nominate Minor Party Candidate In-Reply-To: <006601c790cf$8a8f36e0$1901a8c0@CMI.local> References: <003a01c7794b$ddddb0b0$1901a8c0@CMI.local> <006601c790cf$8a8f36e0$1901a8c0@CMI.local> Message-ID: <000601c7a95e$df21c220$1901a8c0@CMI.local> Sec. 9-452a. Notice of party meetings. Not later than five days before a minor party holds a party meeting to nominate a candidate for public office, the presiding officer of such meeting shall give written notice of the date, time, location and purpose of the meeting to, in the case of a municipal office, the town clerk of the municipality served by such office.. June 8, 2007 Subject: Statutory Notice of Meeting to Nominate Minor Party Candidate To Whom It May Concern: Pursuant to CT General Statutes Sec. 9-452a, as Co-Chair of the New Haven Green Party, I hereby provide statutory notice of a Green Party meeting, as the presiding officer of such meeting, to be held: Date: Thursday, July 14, 2007 (Flag Day) Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: 608 Whitney Avenue New Haven (first floor - The First Unitarian Universalist Society of New Haven) Purpose: Nominate Green Party Candidate for Mayor of the City of New Haven and for any other municipal office. Nominations shall be accepted from the floor. Only registered Greens who are residents of the City of New Haven and are present at the meeting may be nominated. Only registered Greens who are present at the meeting are eligible to vote. The nominee must receive support from a simple majority of those who actually vote. If there is more than one person nominated, instant runoff voting will be used and abstentions will not be counted as votes. Refreshments will be provided. Respectfully submitted, Charles A. Pillsbury, Co-Chair, New Haven Green Party 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Fri Jun 8 06:00:12 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:00:12 -0400 Subject: {news} Vermont--Lawyers, cops spar over the war on drugs Message-ID: http://timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070608/NEWS01/706080365/1002/NEWS01 More Top News Lawyers, cops spar over the war on drugs June 8, 2007 By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER - If you ask Windsor County State's Attorney Robert Sand, the war on drugs is a bit like the war in Iraq. Both are wars based on misinformation that have led to extreme human suffering, Sand said during a forum in Montpelier Thursday on drug policies. And both wars have no end in sight and are escalated by unsustainable surges, he said. "It is time for peace talks in the war on drugs," said Sand, who supports decriminalizing marijuana and using a public health approach to rehabilitate addicts of harder illegal substances. The law enforcement approach to drugs such as marijuana cause more harm than the use of the drug itself, Sand said. It's also expensive, he said, pointing out that a traffic stop for speeding may take 30 minutes while a stop that involves "a small amount of dried plant material" jumps to three hours. "If the harm of our response outweighs the harm of the use of the drug itself, then we need to change our response," said Sand, who added that violence is only associated with marijuana when "transactions go awry." Several of the panelists in the morning could not disagree with Sand more. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Darrow compared the war on drugs to efforts to stop domestic violence or fraud. Those two societal problems also continue to exist, but it doesn't mean that law enforcement should stop its "ongoing response," he explained. Darrow also told of a South Hero couple whose recent experimentation with OxyContin has resulted in severe addiction, prison, several trips to rehab and the state taking away their child. He said that is the reality of addiction of Vermont."If that sounds like 'Reefer Madness' to say drugs are poisonous and toxic - but they are," he added, referring to the 1936 propaganda film that depicts casual marijuana use as leading to insanity, violence and death. Barre Police Chief Tim Bombardier agreed, saying that decriminalizing marijuana would lead to companies marketing the drug to teenagers as it has tobacco and alcohol. He endorsed expanding prevention and treatment efforts, including expanding the drug court program to all of Vermont's counties. "I have a one-word answer to the question of legalizing drugs," said Bombardier. "No." But Sand found support in an unlikely place: Barre Mayor Thomas Lauzon, a public accountant who was elected in May 2006 and recently came out in support of legalizing marijuana and instituting the death penalty for heroin and cocaine dealers. Picking up on a metaphor used earlier by Sand that if the drug war was a public company then its stockholders would be revolting, Lauzon said that it would have long ago been delisted for its results. But the Barre mayor also endorsed the controversial idea of killing people who "mix methamphetamines with strawberry Kool-aid because 14-year-olds will ingest it easier." He said some people are evil and have no social value. "At the end of the day, I think we are going to have to consider (the death penalty)," he said. Many attending the forum at Capitol Plaza Thursday seemed to endorse adjusting drug laws, including Cliff Thornton, who ran for governor in Connecticut with the Green Party on a platform of taking a new approach to the drug war. Thornton, whose mother died of a heroin overdose when he was in high school, heaped praise on Sand for his position on drugs. "You are one of the first who are looking at things in a practical and logical way," Thornton said. "You have tremendous courage and I just want to say, God bless you." Allen Gilbert, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont and the organizer of the forum, said he hoped this discussion would prompt a larger, statewide talk on how Vermont approaches drug use. The ACLU supports ending "punitive drug policies that cause the widespread violation of constitutional and human rights, as well as unprecedented levels of incarceration," according to the national organization's Web site. "Drug policy is a topic that everyone thinks we should be talking about," Gilbert said. "And when we do sit down and do that it is very difficult because the way we think about this issue colors our views on the issue." Indeed, sparks flew between Darrow and Sand as the assistant U.S. attorney accused the state's attorney of supporting the decriminalization of all illegal drugs. To support his contention, Darrow quoted from several newspaper articles on Sand's position. "It states very clearly in this article that you support legalizing all drugs," Darrow said. "Please don't base my position on a characterization in the newspaper," Sand responded at the end of an exchange that featured some interrupting and raised voices. "You were here to hear my speech." Thursday's forum concluded with a panel on alcohol abuse and a presentation by former Middlebury College President John McCardell, who is now the founder of Choose Responsibility, an organization that advocates reducing the legal drinking age to 18. Using a PowerPoint presentation and graphs from federal traffic organizations, McCardell set out to show that the reduction of alcohol-related traffic fatalities has more to do with safer cars than the 1984 federal law that forced states to increase the drinking age to 21. McCardell said his research suggests that the rise in binge drinking on college campuses has resulted from the "legal age 21" law. Teaching alcohol education and treating 18-year-olds like adults who can make their own alcohol-related decisions will help stem that behavior, he said. He did concede that his proposal is controversial. But he said it is a discussion that the country needs to have if it wants young adults to begin using alcohol responsibly. "This discussion hasn't happened in 20 years," McCardell said. "And I'm na?ve enough to believe that if it does, my side has a reasonable chance of succeeding." An early-afternoon panel with substance abuse professionals focused on a closer look at addiction. Rory Malone, an attorney with the Vermont Defender General's Prisoner's Rights Office, noted that nearly all the cases he reviews involve some form of abuse of drugs or alcohol. Addicts often relapse, he said, and since staying sober is often tied to their release, they end up incarcerated again, he explained. "You don't treat an illness by punishment," he said. Contact Daniel Barlow at Daniel.Barlow at rutlandherald.com. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" 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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Not later than five days before a minor party holds a party meeting to nominate a candidate for public office, the presiding officer of such meeting shall give written notice of the date, time, location and purpose of the meeting to, in the case of a municipal office, the town clerk of the municipality served by such office.. June 8, 2007 Subject: Statutory Notice of Meeting to Nominate Minor Party Candidate To Whom It May Concern: Pursuant to CT General Statutes Sec. 9-452a, as Co-Chair of the New Haven Green Party, I hereby provide statutory notice of a Green Party meeting, as the presiding officer of such meeting, to be held: Date: Thursday, June 14, 2007 (Flag Day) Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: 608 Whitney Avenue New Haven (first floor - The First Unitarian Universalist Society of New Haven) Purpose: Nominate Green Party Candidate for Mayor of the City of New Haven and for any other municipal office. Nominations shall be accepted from the floor. Only registered Greens who are residents of the City of New Haven and are present at the meeting may be nominated. Only registered Greens who are present at the meeting are eligible to vote. The nominee must receive support from a simple majority of those who actually vote. If there is more than one person nominated, instant runoff voting will be used and abstentions will not be counted as votes. Refreshments will be provided. Respectfully submitted, Charles A. Pillsbury, Co-Chair, New Haven Green Party 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Fri Jun 8 21:01:50 2007 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:01:50 -0400 Subject: {news} DC ADVISORY Statehood Greens endorse June 10 rally against Israeli occupation Message-ID: <112801c7aa31$c3470780$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> THE DC STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org For immediate release: Friday, June 8, 2007 Contact: Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org DC Statehood Green Party endorses " The World Says No to Israeli Occupation" rally on June 10 in Washington, DC WASHINGTON, DC -- The DC Statehood Green Party has endorsed and will participate in a rally in Washington, DC, planned for Sunday, June 10, in protest of 40 years of Israel's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and the Syrian Golan Heights. Titled " The World Says No to Israeli Occupation," the rally has been organized by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and United for Peace and Justice , and endorsed by more than 300 organizations. The Green Party of the United States , of which the DC Statehood Green Party is an affiliate, has called for an end to the occupation and for full human rights and equality for Palestinians. See the Green Party's platform section on the Middle East conflict . The party also supports the Palestinian right of return, favors a cut-off of US aid to Israel until Israel ends the occupation and guarantees human rights, and has endorsed economic divestment from Israel until these goals are achieved . Greens have supported the nonviolent efforts of Palestinian and Israeli peace groups to persuade both sides to lay down arms and negotiate. The rally begins at 2 pm on Sunday on the West Lawn of the Capitol. The list of speakers features at least three Green Party members: Julia Willebrand, co-chair of the party's International Committee ; George Martin, Wisconsin Green leader and National Co-Chair of United for Peace and Justice; and Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, Connecticut Green and Executive Committee of the Palestinian American Congress . At 4 pm, participants will march to the Washington Monument. MORE INFORMATION The DC Statehood Green Party http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org "Letter to Black America on Palestinian Rights and June 10th March & Rally" http://www.endtheoccupation.org/modinput4.php?modin=105 ~ END ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sat Jun 9 09:02:56 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 09:02:56 -0400 Subject: {news} Connecticut editorial--medicinal marijuana in today's Norwich Bulletin Message-ID: http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070609/OPINION01/706090321/1014/OPINION NORWICH BULLETIN (CT) June 9, 2007 Our view: Feds should settle debate regarding medical marijuana A bill allowing terminally and chronically ill people with certain conditions to grow and use marijuana for medical purposes is making its way to the governor's desk, where it is anyone's guess whether it will get a veto or a signature. It may seem like a radical bill for Connecticut, but it is not. Connecticut has allowed doctors to prescribe marijuana to treat glaucoma and cancer patients since 1981. Not one doctor in the state has ever written a prescription. Federally, marijuana is not an acceptable treatment, even though 46 states have a law of some kind acknowledging its use for medicinal purposes or granting patients the legal right to possess and use it. Numerous high-profile medical groups have come out in support of the use of medical marijuana and the bill. Almost as many groups have withheld comment on the issue. More of the same? We wonder if this new law is different enough to change anything. Under the 1981 law, doctors had to register with the Department of Consumer Protection to prescribe marijuana. No one did. The new law requires physicians to certify patients who can use medical marijuana, and the patient then registers with Consumer Protection. Patients can then grow four 4-foot plants of marijuana and use them for their treatment. Nowhere in the bill does it explain where patients will get the seeds to grow the marijuana, nor does it establish a legal way of selling them. The bill is a more conservative version of a Rhode Island law that passed last year as a one-year experiment and has now been made permanent. More than 250 patients have used the program and the response was overwhelmingly positive. But this issue will never be settled until it is dealt with on the federal level. It cannot be an issue that is political or centered on the nation's battle with drug use. There is no evidence that allowing medicinal use of marijuana promotes recreational drug use in any way. Gov. M Jodi Rell should sign the bill if she wants to make it clear this is an issue she believes needs broader debate. Only as states challenge the federal law will Congress be forced to evaluate the issue. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" 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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URL: From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sun Jun 10 17:08:24 2007 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:08:24 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: Immigrant Rights Action Alert & Upcoming Social Justice Events Message-ID: <002c01c7aba3$d037b840$5d834c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> 6-Story Newsletter Template + Images ----- Original Message ----- From: AFSC Connecticut To: edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:30 PM Subject: Immigrant Rights Action Alert & Upcoming Social Justice Events American Friends Service Committee Connecticut In This Issue: June 7 2007 . Action Alert on Immigrant Rights and New Haven ICE Raids . Trials of Drayl Hunt at Real Art Ways June 15-21 . No to Free Trade and War in Colombia: . June 16: Voices of Iraqi Workers Solidarity Tour in East Hartford . June 11: Call Congress and say End the Israeli occupation Action Alert on Immigrant Rights and New Haven ICE Raids Call the Connecticut Congressional Delegation: Genuine Immigration Reform Now and No More ICE Raids Background: On June 6 agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) conducted early morning raids in the Fairhaven neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. At least 29 immigrants were detained, some of them in front of their children. Most have now been transported out of state to either Massachusetts or beyond and are separated from their families. Only two days before the ICE raids the New Haven City council approved legislation that would create a municipal ID card municipal ID card that would also be available to undocumented residents. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano does not think the timing of the raid was a coincidence. "This was a symbolic act of law enforcement by an agency that is not able to control its mission or how it executes its responsibilities. ... This was an act of intimidation," DeStefano said of the raid by six immigration officers.1 A flawed immigration reform being debated in Congress: The U.S. Senate is currently debating a troubling immigration reform bill. It is loaded with increased and more draconian security provisions, a guest worker program that will recreate the infamous Bracero program of the 1940s through the 1960s, and will seriously impede familial reunification which has been part of U.S. immigration policy for over 40 years. There is a need for immigration reform in this country, but a substantive one that includes a path to permanent residency for undocumented immigrants, family reunification, demilitarizing the U.S.-Mexico border, and a halt to worksite raids and detention. The ICE raid in New Haven is a clear sign that Congress must act and approve a genuine immigration reform. Call Congress now: It is vital to contact the 2 U.S. Senators and 5 Congressional representatives from Connecticut. Their local and Washington D.C. office numbers are listed below. Ask the Senators and your Congressional rep to: . Issue a statement condemning the New Haven raids . Write the Department of Homeland Security to request an explanation for the timing and conduct of these raids . Ask ICE to exercise prosecutorial discretion and decline to pursue removal proceedings against any of yesterday's arrestees without a prior removal order, or immediately release on their own recognizance or minimal bond all arrestees. Further, request that ICE not remove any of yesterday's arrestees who it does detain from New England and defer any future enforcement actions planned for New Haven. . Work for a genuine immigration reform in Congress They should support initiatives that decrease the militarization of the U.S-Mexican border; that support family reunification and continue a 40 plus year history of this immigration policy; that include a path to permanent residency for undocumented immigrants in the U.S.; that calls for a halt to worksite raids and detentions; and a reform that includes genuine support for the labor and human rights of all working people and immigrants in this country and does not contain a guest worker program. Here are the phone numbers of the Connecticut Congressional delegation Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro New Haven office: 203-562-3718 DC Office: 202-225-3661 Congressman John Larson Hartford office: 860-278-8888 DC: 202-225-2265 Congressman Joe Courtney Norwich: 860-886-0139 DC: 202-225-2076 Congressman Chris Shays: DC: 202-225-5541 Congressman Chris Murphy New Britain: 860-223-8412 DC: 202-225-4476 Senator Christopher Dodd Hartford office: 860-258-6940 / 800-334-5341 (CT only) DC: (202) 224-2823 | Senator Joseph Lieberman Hartford office: 860-549-8463 / 800-225-5605 (CT only) DC: (202) 224-4041 1-New Haven Register, June 7, 2007 http://afsc.org/immigrants-rights/default.htm No to Free Trade and War in Colombia: It is time to take a new course on trade and U.S. aid to Colombia We need to spread the word that U.S. aid and trade should alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Colombia, not support a military solution to problems arising from political, social, and economic inequalities. To learn more about the American Friends Service Committee's work on trade and war in Colombia, please visit http://www.tradeandwar.org/ . View our Audio Slide Show on Trade and War in Colombia. You can find out how to tell Congress to vote "NO" on the U.S. - Colombia Free Trade Agreement and stop funding military aid to Colombia. Please contact the Connecticut AFSC office at 860-523-1534 or at connecticut at afsc.org if you want to get involved locally. http://www.tradeandwar.org/ June 11: Call Congress and say End the Israeli occupation On June 10 and 11, people around the world are joiningtogether in a global Day of Action as " The WorldSays No to Israeli Occupation" to mark the 40th year of Israel's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. Tens of thousands will march in Washington D.C. on June 10. If you can't join us in Washington, please call in! Participate in a National Call-in day on June 11. Hundreds of activists will lobby Congress on June 11, please add your voice to theirs. Call your representative and Senators Dodd and Lieberman Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro DC Office: 202-225-3661 Congressman John Larson DC: 202-225-2265 Congressman Joe Courtney DC: 202-225-2076 Congressman Chris Shays: DC: 202-225-5541 Congressman Chris Murphy DC: 202-225-4476 Senator Christopher Dodd DC: (202) 224-2823 | Senator Joseph Lieberman (202) 224-4041 If you're not sure who your representatives are, try this link, http://capwiz.com/fconl/directory/congdir.tt Tell them we want: An end to US military, economic, diplomatic, and corporate support for Israel's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem and a change in US policy to one that supports a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis based on equality, human rights and international law, and the full implementation of all relevant UN resolutions. Lobbying Tip: Ask to speak to the Legislative Director or the aide who works on foreign policy or the middle east. If you only get the answering machine, leave a message, ask them to call you back. There isn't a lot of specific legislation seriously pending right now, but They need to hear from us anyway!...especially! One specific set of bills to encourage them on is a for a reckoning for Israel's horrific cluster munitions bombardment in the last 3 days of the Lebanon war last year. In the Senate: S. 594, Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007. Sponsor: Feinstein (D-CA). In the House: HR 1755, to limit the use, sale, and transfer of cluster munitions. Sponsor: McGovern (D-MA). You can see more extensive lobbying points on grassroots issues that we are encouraging people to discuss with their legislators on June 11 at http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1394 . Go to http://www.endtheoccupation.org for more information about June 10 and 11. http://endtheoccupation.org Trials of Drayl Hunt at Real Art Ways June 15-21 Showing at Real Art Ways Cinema in Hartford June 15-21.The Cinema is located at 56 Arbor St, Hartford Ct 06106 Call 860.232.1006 or email infor at realartways.org for more info In 1984 a young woman who worked for the local paper in Winston-Salem was found brutally murdered and raped. The only evidence was a hazy description of a young black man seen walking in the area around the same time. 19-year-old Darryl Hunt was the man picked up for the crime and with only circumstantial evidence he was convicted to a life sentence and locked away, seemingly forever. A young white lawyer named Mark Rabil and some African-American community activists were the only people who believed young Darryl innocent. For 19 years almost to the day they worked diligently, and with quite a bit of courage and stamina, to get Darryl released. This heartfelt film, directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg uses television news footage, voice-over radio broadcasts and reminiscences to take us back that 19 years and examine what went wrong with the American justice system that a completely innocent man should not only be convicted once but twice after appeals. That should have been sufficient to get an innocent man free. Even with negative DNA evidence prosecutors and judges remained adamant that Darryl should serve his time. Along the way, young Darryl turned into middle aged Darryl, who became a devout Muslim and even married a supporter's daughter while on a brief furlough during an appeal. The inspiring partnership between Hunt and Rabil and the black community of Winston-Salem gives this story its meat and its affirmation of life and justice. Structured more like a thriller than a documentary, Stern and Sundberg's film is an amazing piece of work seamlessly made from found footage and the filmmakers' own footage when they discovered the case 10 years in to Hunt's sentence. You will never see a film with more soul than TRIALS. http://www.realartways.org/cinema.htm#trials June 16: Voices of Iraqi Workers Solidarity Tour in East Hartford U.S. Labor Against the War, the American Friends Service Committee, and United for Peace and Justice are sponsoring a national tour of Iraqi trade unionists. Here in Connecticut there will be a local event on Saturday, June 16th at 12:00 noon. The event will be held at the International Association of Machinists (IAM) hall at 357 Main St, East Hartford. It is sponsored by the Connecticut State Council of Machinists. For more information contact Bill Shortell of IAM Local 700 at 860-345-3098 The event will be a rare opportunity to dialogue directly with Iraqi workers and labor leaders about current attempts to control Iraq's oil, women's issues under occupation, and the role of unions in creating a non-sectarian, progressive Iraq. Biographies of Visiting Iraqi Labor Leaders and their Organizations Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary, Southern Oil Company Union, Iraqi Federation of Oil Workers' Unions Faleh Abood Umara was one of the six Iraqi trade union leaders who visited 26 cities in the U.S. in June 2005, in a tour sponsored by USLAW. He is 48 years old, married with two sons and two daughters. He is a founding member of the oil workers union and worked for the Southern Oil Company in Basra for 28 years. He is also a member of the local council in the Al-Hadi district in Basra. In 1998, he was detained by the Hussein regime for his activities on behalf of his coworkers. He has served on the union's negotiating team with both the Oil Ministry and British occupation authorities to defend the rights and interests of oil industry workers in the post-Saddam era. General Union of Oil Employees (Basra) and Iraq Federation of Oil Unions The GUOE is an independent, secular union representing 23,000 oil workers in Basra, Amara, and Nassirriyah. The union grew out of the Southern Oil Company Union and now encompasses ten trade union councils in nine Iraqi oil companies. GUOE forced KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary, out of refinery workplaces shortly after the invasion despite Cheney's award of a 'no bid' contract. Members also went on a two-day strike last August, winning their demands for higher pay. The union has taken a strong stand against any plans for privatization and foreign domination of the oil sector. It is leading the fight to prevent imposition of a "hydrocarbon law" drafted by the Bush administration that would lead to foreign corporate control of more than two-thirds of Iraq's oil reserves. After GUOE's first anti-privatization conference last summer, the U.S. and Iraqi governments responded by freezing the union's bank accounts. ____________________________________________________________________________ Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, President, Electrical Utility Workers Union- GFIW Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein is the first woman to head a national union in Iraq. She was born in Basra in 1955. Following high school, she went to work at the Southern Company for Electricity. There she became active in the labor movement. She rose to leadership of the Electricity Workers Union in Basra and recently was elected its national president. She serves on the executive committee of the Basra Work Unions Coalition. She is head of the Women Workers' Bureau and is a leader in the Iraqi Women's Association. She and her 7-year old son have received death threats as a result of her activism. General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) Her union is affiliated with the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW). In January 2004, workers in the Najibeeya, Haartha and Al Zubeir electrical generating stations mounted a wildcat strike, stormed the administration buildings, declared the lower September wage schedule void, and vowed to shut off power if salaries were not raised. The ministry agreed to return to the old scale. Last June the union organized large demonstrations to protest government decisions to hire private contractors to do reconstruction work, replacing the industry's own employees. The problem persists. In the late 1970s Saddam outlawed independent unions and forced union leaders underground or into exile. It their place, he imposed state-controlled unions. The GFIW grew out of an underground workers' organization, the Workers' Democratic Trade Union Movement (WDTUM), which resisted Ba'athism. The WDTUM publicized Hussein's crimes from exile until the collapse of his regime. Shortly after the collapse, the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) was formed; it was later renamed the General Federation of Iraqi Workers. The GFIW now claims 200,000 members from Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious population, representing Iraq's core industries. The GFIW is committed to creating independent trade unions and improved conditions for working people. http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?list=type&type=103 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 chapillsbury at gmail.com Sun Jun 10 23:07:40 2007 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:07:40 -0400 Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Most Greens holding elected office in a single county In-Reply-To: <466BC207.6090107@feinstein.org> References: <466BC207.6090107@feinstein.org> Message-ID: <10859a090706102007q4fa43715t73d9170adf14e70a@mail.gmail.com> fyi, charlie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Feinstein Date: Jun 10, 2007 5:19 AM Subject: [usgp-nc] Most Greens holding elected office in a single county To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Dear all As many of you know, I have helped compile our annual national election and officeholder statistics since 1994. In addition over the last couple of years, Brent McMillan has taken on a *major* role in doing this as well. We also benefit from input from a variety of state party-based associates coordinated through the GPUS Coordinated Campaign Committee, the latter of which was a process accelerated by Juscha Robinson, when she was CCC Coordinator. That election history is summarized on http://www.greens.org/elections. With this as background, I bring you this interesting fact - since we just recently learned about two more Maine Greens holding elected school board office there, it appears now that Cumberland County, Maine has the most Greens holding elected office in a single county. Currently Cumberland County has ten Greens holding elected office, and earlier in the year before Green Portland School Committee Jason Toothaker resigned, there were 11. That would have been the most in any county in the US, at any time in our history. Of course, there are many differences among counties in terms of the number, types and sizes of elected office, so comparisons are not all between apples and apples. Still, that being said, what the Greens in Cumberland County have done is quite an accomplishment (and here are two links to Green Pages articles about them): http://www.gp.org/greenpages/content/volume10/issue1/elections5.php http://www.gp.org/greenpages/content/volume11/issue1/elections5.php Following this success story is a list below of the top counties in the United States in terms of Greens holding elected office ======================================================================== Top eight counties across the US with the most Greens currently holding elected office As of June 2007 1) Cumberland County, Maine (ten) 2) Jackson County, Oregon (eight) 2) Los Angeles County, California (eight) 3) Dane County, Wisconsin (seven) 3) Jackson County, Oregon (seven) 3) Marin County, California (seven) 3) Alameda County, California (seven) 3) York County, Pennsylvania (seven) Top eight counties across the US with the most Greens currently holding elected office As of June 2007 List of Green officeholders in each county 1) Cumberland County, Maine (ten) - Kevin Donoghue, City Council, Portland District 1 - David Marshall, City Council, Portland District 2 - Susan Hopkins, School Committee At-Large, Portland - Ben Meiklejohn, School Committee At-Large, Portland - Rebecca Minnick, School Committee At-Large, Portland - Jane Meisenbach, Board of Directors, School Administrative District #75 - Andrea Narajian, Board of Directors, School Administrative District #75 - John Fillmore-Patrick, School Board, School Administrative District, Bridgton - Erek Gaines, Water District, Portland - David Margolis-Pineo, Water District, Portland 2) Jackson County, Oregon (eight) George Grosch, Ward 3, City Council, Corvallis Emily Hagen, Ward 7, City Council, Corvallis Alice Hardesty, City Council, Ashland Eric Navickas, City Council, Ashland Position 2 Wendy Siporen, City Council, Talent Ruth Alexander, School Board, Ashland District 5 Matthew Donahue, School Board, Position 4, Corvalis Matt Marr, School Board, Position 3, Ashland 2) Los Angeles County, California (eight) - Hilary Bradbury-Huang, Board of Trustees, Pasadena City College - Vahe Peroomian, Board of Trustees Community College District, Glendale - Jeff Sklar, Chair, Rent Control Board, Santa Monica - Deacon Alexander, Vernon/Main Neighborhood Council, Los Angeles - Ginny Case, Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council - Historic Core Resident, Los Angeles - Eugene Hernandez, Sylmar Neighborhood Council, Los Angeles - Jeff Horne, Mid City West Neighborhood Council, Los Angeles - Michael McCue, Studio City Neighborhood Council, Los Angeles 3) Dane County, Wisconsin (seven) - Ashok Kumar, Board of Supervisors, District 5 - Barbara Vedder, Board of Supervisors, District 2 - Brenda Konkel, Common Council, Madison, District 2 - Satya Rhodes-Conway, Common Council, Madison, District 12 - Marsha Rummel, Common Council, Madison, District 6 - Brian Solomon, Common Council, Madison, District 10 - Robbie Webber, Common Council, Madison, District 5 3) Jackson County, Oregon (seven) - George Grosch, Ward 3, City Council, Corvallis - Emily Hagen, Ward 7, City Council, Corvallis - Alice Hardesty, City Council, Ashland - Eric Navickas, City Council, Ashland Position 2 - Wendy Siporen, City Council, Talent - Ruth Alexander, School Board, Ashland District 5 - Matthew Donahue, School Board, Position 4, Corvalis - Matt Marr, School Board, Position 3, Ashland _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html To report violations of listserv protocol, write to forummanagers at lists.gp-us.org For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mrdweezel at yahoo.com Tue Jun 12 23:28:22 2007 From: mrdweezel at yahoo.com (MaryAnne Davis) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Irish Greens in coalition government Message-ID: <282098.87045.qm@web60512.mail.yahoo.com> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6746969.stm Irish Greens join Ahern coalition Bertie Ahern has led coalition governments since 1997 The Republic of Ireland's Green Party has agreed to join Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail in forming a coalition government. If ratified by the party's membership on Wednesday, the agreement will see the Greens in an Irish government for the first time. The deal means it is now likely that Mr Ahern will be re-elected taoiseach when the parliament convenes on Thursday. The election on 24 May returned Mr Ahern but without a clear majority. Fianna Fail won 78 of the country's 166 parliamentary seats last month, but Mr Ahern's coalition partners the Progressive Democrats saw their tally drop from eight to two. So Mr Ahern needs the Greens to give him the margin he needs. New allies The backing of the Greens' six legislators was secured after nine days of tough negotiations. Concessions from Fianna Fail on environmental and transportation policy finally secured their support. Fianna Fail made policy concessions to win the Greens Green Party leader Trevor Sargent said his negotiators "believe that we have a basis for an agreement on a programme for government which we are now going to present to our members." Fianna Fail won 78 seats in the 166-seat assembly, but a decline in the vote of its previous coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats, forced Mr Ahern to look for more new allies. Besides the Greens, Mr Ahern can count on several independents and two surviving Progressive Democrats. The main opposition Fine Gael polled well, winning 51 seats, but its potential coalition partner Labour fared less well. Even if the Greens had instead agreed to join Fine Gael and Labour, the three parties combined could not have overtaken Fianna Fail and the PDs. The Republic of Ireland's system of proportional representation means that parties' representation in the Dail (lower house of parliament) closely matches their percentage of the vote. Bertie Ahern has led a coalition government since 1997 - a period of sustained economic growth for the Republic. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Jun 14 23:46:04 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:46:04 -0400 Subject: {news} Brennan Center Urges Federal Court to Dismiss Challenge to Connecticut Campaign Finance Law Message-ID: The Brennan Center claims the CT campaign finance law is fair to minor parties. But see my next post from Ballot Access News. http://www.brennancenter.org/press_detail.asp?key=51&subkey=49046 For Immediate Release Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Contact Jonathan Rosen, BerlinRosen Public Affairs (646) 452-5637 Brennan Center Urges Federal Court to Dismiss Challenge to Connecticut Campaign Finance Law Bridgeport - The fate of Connecticut's groundbreaking public finance program for political campaigns came before a federal judge in Bridgeport on Wednesday. Arguing on behalf of three former candidates and two good government groups as well as the State of Connecticut, an attorney from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law urged the court to dismiss a suit brought by the ACLU, the Green Party and others that seeks to invalidate key provisions of Connecticut's Citizens' Election Program (CEP). Enacted in late 2005, the Citizens' Election Program does not distribute funds to any and all candidates, but rather distributes funds based on demonstrations of public support. Minor party candidates and others have challenged that and other portions of the law - alleging that it discriminates against their right to be heard at election time. On Wednesday, the Brennan Center rejected that contention. "The U.S. Supreme Court has clearly held that a candidate can reasonably be required to demonstrate some minimal level of public support before taxpayers are called upon to finance her campaign," said Suzanne Novak, Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center who argued the case today on behalf of the State of Connecticut, three former candidates and two good government groups - Common Cause and Citizen Action - seeking to defend the CEP. Novak noted that in 1976 the Supreme Court in Buckley v. Valeo upheld a federal public financing system for presidential elections that is very similar to Connecticut's Citizens' Election Program in its treatment of minor party candidates. Plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the law have argued that minor party candidates would be unable to qualify for public financing under the program. Recent history of minor party election performance in Connecticut shows otherwise. In urging the court to dismiss the Green Party' s challenge to this portion of the Citizens' Election Program, attorneys for the State and good government groups noted that at least ten minor party candidates (two candidates for state senate and eight candidates for state representative) received more than 10% of the vote in their respective races for the Connecticut Legislature in 2006 --making them or another candidate from their parties eligible for public funding in 2008 under the CEP program. Moreover, a 2006 research report by the Connecticut Legislature's Office of Legislative Research entitled "Past Performance of Petitioning and Minor Party Candidates in Connecticut" reveals that from 1998-2004 twenty-four minor or petitioning candidates received at least 10% of the vote in their respective races. The motion argued today points out that one former minor party candidate seeking to strike down the program would have, himself, qualified for public financing under the CEP program. In 2004, S. Michael DeRosa received 11.36% of the vote in his race for State Senator on the Green Party line in the First District - more than the amount needed to qualify under the CEP. Had the CEP program existed in 2004, DeRosa or another Green Party candidate running in that district in 2006 would have been eligible to receive up to $28,333 - nearly fifty times more money than the $573 that Mr. DeRosa raised for his own 2004 Senate run. "Not only is the public financing system in Connecticut's Citizens' Election Program constitutional, it will put real money into the campaigns of scores of minor party candidates in Connecticut each election year," said Andy Sauer, Executive Director of Common Cause Connecticut, and a defendant intervenor in the case. One of the founders of Connecticut's Green Party, who is seeking to join the lawsuit in defense of the program, called for the court to uphold the program - despite the limits minor parties would face accessing public financing under the law. "I think the public financing program would allow people like me, who are interested in public service, but don't have wealthy friends, to have a real shot at public office," said Tom Sevigny a former candidate for State Representative and State Senate on the Green Party line. "While all viable candidates should be permitted to participate in the program, I believe it's perfectly reasonable to require minor parties to demonstrate that they have the support of enough people before we start handing out our tax dollars to them." The Brennan Center has successfully defended state public financing laws in Arizona and Maine and North Carolina. Joining the Brennan Center as co-lead counsel in the Connecticut case are a team of lawyers from the New York office of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., a leading national law firm, based in Washington, with substantial experience in litigation concerning voting rights and campaign finance. Attorneys from the Campaign Legal Center, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry LLP, WilmerHale and Democracy 21 in Washington, DC also are part of the litigation team representing the defendant intervenors. In addition to challenging the public financing provisions, the suit by the Green Party and other groups seeks to strike down the contribution limits and contribution restrictions imposed under the Citizens' Election Program. Briefing on those matters will occur later in the summer.. Read the Motion to Dismiss and the Reply in Support of the Motion to Dismiss submitted by the State of Connecticut, Common Cause and Citizen Action. From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Jun 14 23:47:08 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:47:08 -0400 Subject: {news} Ballot Access News covers Connecticut Green Party Court Hearing Message-ID: http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/06/06/connecticut-green-party-court-hearing-today Ballot Access News edited by Richard Winger Connecticut Green Party Court Hearing June 6th, 2007 On June 6, U.S. District Court Judge Stefan Underhill, a Clinton appointee, held a hearing in Green Party of Connecticut v Garfield, 3:06cv-1030. The judge seemed to give no indication of his thoughts, but he did indicate he would probably rule in a week or two. The issue is the discriminatory aspects of Connecticut's public funding law for candidates for state office. All candidates who seek public funding are required to collect a certain number of $5 contributions (the number of contributions depends on which office is being sought). However, independents and candidates of new parties need a petition signed by 20% of the voters as well as meeting the contribution requirement. Connecticut, assisted by the Brennan Center, argued that the case should not even receive a trial. The Brennan Center issued a press release on June 6, titled, "Brennan Center Urges Federal Court to Dismiss Challenge to Connecticut Campaign Finance Law." The press release says "In 1976 the Supreme Court in Buckley v Valeo upheld a federal public financing system for presidential elections that is very similar to Connecticut's law in its treatment of minor party candidates." This sentence is not true. The federal law treated all presidential candidates seeking the nomination of a party exactly alike. They all had to raise $5,000 in each of 20 states. Their party affiliation was irrelevant. The federal law limited general election public funding to parties that had polled 5% of the vote in the last election (or, if they got 5% in the current election, they got funding immediately after the election was over). It is true that part of the federal program meant that certain parties received this type of funding and certain other parties didn't. But the standard was objectively non-discriminatory. It was the same standard for every party. By analogy, if Connecticut required the same number of $5 contributions for every candidate, that would match the federal system. Some candidates would get the public funding and others wouldn't, but the standard is the same for all. By contrast, Connecticut has a lower standard for Democrats and Republicans, and a higher standard for independents and new parties. The Brennan Center press release also mislead its readers, by saying that Tom Sevigny, described as a founder of the Connecticut Green Party, supports the law. The press release does not mention that Sevigny is no longer a member of the Green Party. He is a registered independent. The Brennan Center was very helpful to minor parties from its founding in the 1990's, through 2003. It has new leadership and has become an enemy of minor party members and independent voters. From roseberry3 at cox.net Fri Jun 15 14:25:17 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:25:17 -0400 Subject: {news} proposed agenda for 6-19-07 EC meeting of CTGP in Glastonbury, CT. Message-ID: <20070615182517.EMOY8179.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Agenda for 6-19-07 EC meeting of CTGP in Glastonbury, CT. Luna?s Pizza, 88 Hebron Avenue, Glastonbury, CT 06033, p: 860-659-2136 Time: 7pm to 9pm 1. CT Green Times newspaper status: Will it be available for the 6-26-07 SCC meeting for distribution? 2. Results of political actions by the GP of CT with the CT legislature: medical marijuana; issues GP of CT wants to address in 2008. 3. ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT ?campaign finance reform? law. 4. CTGP website. 5. Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. 6. GPUS issues 7. Place and agenda for 6-26-07 SCC meeting. Which Key Value will be discussed. 8. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 7-07. 9. Date and place for next SCC meeting 7-31-07 SCC meeting . 10. Any proposals. HYPERLINK "HYPERLINK "http://www.google.com/"http://www.google.com/"www.google.com No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.17/850 - Release Date: 6/15/2007 11:31 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Jun 17 14:20:10 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:20:10 -0400 Subject: {news} Lindsay Mathews in NY Times Message-ID: Look for Lindsay Mathews and David Adams of the Shoreline chapter in the Connecticut section of today's New York Times--the story is "On the Fence, War Protest Signs" (not available online). It tells about the series of signs Lindsay has displayed at their home in Branford. Keep resisting! David Bedell From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Jun 17 15:33:37 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:33:37 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: [newhavengreens] Another great Yes Men hoax Message-ID: This from Allan Brison--a stunt worthy of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin! ----- Original Message ----- From: allan brison To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ; greenpartyct at yahoo.com ; CTpeace-activists at yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 2:08 PM Subject: FW: [newhavengreens] Another great Yes Men hoax Folks, The Yes Men strike again. On Thurs posing as National Petroleum Council representatives, they delivered the keynote speech at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta. The theme of this speech was the idea of a new product for the petroleum industry called "vivoleum". Click on the link for a great hoax with a great message. Allan http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0706/S00281.htm From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Mon Jun 18 23:20:50 2007 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:20:50 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: Call Congress now to change U.S. policy towards Colombia Message-ID: <002701c7b221$0bab9e90$46844c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> 6-Story Newsletter Template + Images ----- Original Message ----- From: AFSC Connecticut To: edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:00 PM Subject: Call Congress now to change U.S. policy towards Colombia American Friends Service Committee Connecticut In This Issue: June 18 2007 . Call Congress today to change U.S. policy towards Colombia Call Congress today to change U.S. policy towards Colombia American Friends Service Committee-Act Now! Calls are needed today and through this Thursday to the 5 members of the Connecticut House delegation. Ask your representative to support changes to the Colombia aid package and to work to change the entire direction of US policy towards Colombia. Thanks to your work and your calls Congress has taken a big step in the right direction on Colombia military aid. This year's foreign aid bill contains a number of changes that reflect our hard work for peace in Colombia, including a significant shift from aid for war to aid for development and peace. Some congressional representatives are even urging that a vote on the trade deal be delayed until President Alvaro Uribe proves he is serious about reducing violence. We need to make sure that Congress doesn't go back on the changes they've presented so far. We also need to let them know we appreciate the changes but the policy needs more work. Please call your Congressional Representative today. If you live outside of Connecticut and do not know the phone of your Congressional representative please call the the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to the office of your representative. When calling ask to speak with the staffer who deals with foreign affairs. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro New Haven office: 203-562-3718 DC Office: 202-225-3661 Congressman John Larson Hartford office: 860-278-8888 DC: 202-225-2265 Congressman Joe Courtney Norwich: 860-886-0139 DC: 202-225-2076 Congressman Chris Shays: DC: 202-225-5541 Congressman Chris Murphy New Britain: 860-223-8412 DC: 202-225-4476 Here is a sample message "I am a constituent calling to encourage Rep. _________ I support the shift to increase economic and social assistance for Colombia included in this year's foreign aid bill, and I urge the representative to vote "no" on any amendments that might reverse these changes. I want to encourage Rep. ___________ to continue on this path and change the entire direction of US military and trade policy towards Colombia. US aid and trade should alleviate the humanitarian crisis, support sustainable development and a peaceful solution to the conflict." The current aid package is still directed towards reducing drug production. Though it contains significant changes it still maintains the current counterdrug strategy which is not working. See WOLA's fact sheet: http://www.wola.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewp&id=447&Itemid=8%20 For more information on AFSC's work in Colombia please go to http://www.tradeandwar.org http://www.tradeandwar.org 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 Tue Jun 19 22:02:34 2007 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:02:34 -0400 Subject: {news} 2007 candidates page Message-ID: I've created an index webpage for our 2007 municipal candidates, starting with Ralph Ferrucci and Allan Brison. I will add more as their nominations are confirmed: http://www.ctgreens.org/2007candidates.shtml David Bedell From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Jun 20 21:38:44 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:38:44 -0400 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 6-26-07 SCC meeting of the Green Party of CT. Starts at 7:00PM sharp Message-ID: <20070621013839.VUWP29750.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Proposed agenda for the 6-26-07 SCC meeting of the Green Party of CT Place: Middletown Russell Public Library; Reading Room #3; 123 Broad Street, Middletown, CT 06457 P=860-347-2528 ******** Time: 7:00PM to 8:30 PM. (closing time for the library in summer: 8:30PM) ************* Facilitator: 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 5-29-07 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 6-19-07 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report by Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee or members. * EC Proposal for fundraiser position. C. Reports: 1. (10-15 minutes): GPUS: selection of delegates to the 7-12-07 GPUS Convention in Reading, PA; updates/reports; CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury 2. (3 minutes): CT Green Times: articles, publishing, likely date of availability, distribution; mailing expense. 3. (10 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2007 Legislative Session: medical marijuana; Fight the Hike/universal health coverage 4. (3 minutes): ACLU lawsuit 5. (2-5 minutes, each): other Chapter reports. 6. (2-5 minutes): Green Party Key Value: non-violence. 7. (1 minute): Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 7-07. 8. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 7-31-07. 9. Any additions HYPERLINK "http://www.google.com/"www.google.com No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.1/857 - Release Date: 6/20/2007 2:18 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vogel at ct.metrocast.net Wed Jun 20 22:01:58 2007 From: vogel at ct.metrocast.net (Robert Vogel) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:01:58 -0400 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 6-26-07 SCC meeting of the GreenParty of CT. Starts at 7:00PM sharp References: <31817359.1182390106723.JavaMail.root@m48> Message-ID: <00bf01c7b3a8$2ae55a20$0200a8c0@your55e5f9e3d2> Consider making an effort for IRV. SusanBysiewicz favors it and so do many other legislators. Most people would agree that we should have an election process that we can trust. That's increasingly not the case. Election machines have massive vulnerabilities, voter registration lists have been 'cleansed' for effect, media is extremely biased, fund raising is more important now than votes, and the two party system is itself a spoiler. Here's an example: New Mexico had a Senatorial election in which a Green Party candidate ran strong. Although the majority would not have wanted it, the Republican won. This would not happen using Instant Runoff Voting. Using Instant runoff voting (IRV) "voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives an overall majority of first preferences, the candidates with fewest votes are eliminated one by one, and their votes transferred according to their second and third preferences (and so on) and all votes retallied, until one candidate achieves a majority. The term 'instant runoff voting' is used because this process resembles a series of run-off elections." (wikipedia points out a number of places IRV is being used. Today an independent candidate, like Michael Bloomberg, could enter the national election and be a spoiler. With ten candidates in each party, if democracy is an American value, we should go to IRV before the primaries. See http://www.seconnecticut.com/elections.htm for more details. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Jun 20 22:09:25 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:09:25 -0400 Subject: {news} Minutes of the 3-27-07 SCC meeting of the Green Party of CT: quorum met Message-ID: <20070621020918.XDRA29750.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Minutes of the 3-27-07 SCC meeting of the Green Party of CT: quorum met Place: EAST ROCK MAGNET SCHOOL ON WILLOW STREET, NEW HAVEN CT. School land numbers: 203-946-8875 or 8867 Time: 7:00PM to 9PM. Facilitator: Charlie Pillsbury Voting Attendees by Chapter: Fairfield: David Bedell, Richard Duffee, Patricia Kane; Greater Hartford: Barbara Barry, Secretary of Green Party of CT; Michael DeRosa, Co-chairperson of Green Party of CT; Steve Fourier, Christopher Reilly, Treasurer of Green Party of CT; New Haven: Allan Brisson, Jerry Martin and Charlie Pillsbury; Northeast: Jean DeSmet, Co-chairperson of Green Party of CT. Non-voting attendees: none A. Preliminaries: 1. 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: deletion of proposals and past Anti-war events; no additions. 3. Review and approval of minutes of 2-27-07 SCC meeting. 4. Review and acceptance of minutes from the 3-14-07 EC meeting. 5. Treasurer?s report by Christopher Reilly: assets of $2542.86. B. Deleted due to no: proposals/referendums by chapters, committee or members. C. Reports: 1. GP of CT internal elections/balloting for 4-21-07 convention at the New Haven Labor Council Headquarters: JdS: 4 declared candidates for co-chairperson: Mike DeRosa, Jerry Martin, Jean deSmet and Cliff Thornton; for GPUS representatives: Tim McGee, Amy Vas Nunes and Charlie Pillsbury; Secretary: Barbara Barry; Treasurer: Christopher Reilly. Ballot mailing date: CR: the U.S. Post Office has an updated service: if a mailing list is provided to it, the mailing list will be checked for accuracy of the mailing addresses going back 4 years. The Post Office will print up to 4 double-sided pages, fold them and place into an envelope, then seal with a return address and the accurate mailing addresses and seal the envelope and mail. Paper and envelopes are also provided by the Post Office. Cost of 2500 names on 2-double-sided pages at $0.326 a page: $1,472.50. The cost of 2500 names on 3-double-sided pages at $0.326 a page is: $1,610.00. (See the handout.) That is the cost is $0.326 for good addresses or 39 cents for bad addresses. The mailing list has roughly 2300 names. The mailing for the convention is likely to 4 double-sided pages due to need for cover letter, ballots, and candidate profiles. Deadline for ballot to be included for counting: 3 days prior to the 4-21-07 Convention i.e. by Wednesday, 4-18-07. Consensus: authorize the expenditure of up to $1800 for the ballots/convention via the Post Office service. 2. Convention Committee: JM: need a copy of the mailing list for when people check in at the 4-21-07 Annual Convention. It will be supplied. to help organize and run the 4-21-07 convention: BB: proposed agenda: Noon: CP, co-chair of NH chapter welcomes everyone; elect facilitator; adoption of rules. 12:15pm?candidate speeches followed by questions and answers. 1:10PM: Votes are collected and the vote counting is started by the Internal Elections Committee Monitors: Caleb Klappner, Richard Duffee, Steve Fournier. 1:15PM break for lunch ( a $15 box lunch is a fundraiser for Cliff Thornton?s 11-07 campaign for Governor, which still has a debt of about $1000). check in volunteers are still needed to check in people. The monitors will check the handing out of ballots. BB: there will be tables for: literature and merchandize so chapter can bring these items if they wish. 1:30PM: former 11-07 candidates will talk (for 3 minutes each) about our Historic Green Party statewide slate, followed by questions and answers. 2:15PM anti-war speaker: David Ionno, Veterans for Peace. 2:50PM: results of the voting. 2:55pm wrap-up/adjourn. 3. CT Green Times: MD: Eric DeVos is publishing just enough for it to be available at the 4-21-07 Convention; Ken Doust is doing the layout. The paper will not be mailed. But it will be printed for distribution to the chapter at a future time. Goal: is to use it as an open vehicle to promote the GP of CT. 4. GPUS: AB: The Candidate School for the nation-wide Green Party which took place in Reading, PA on 3-30-07, was very informative. CP: the National Convention is 7-07; GPUS wants to encourage more diversity of state reps to the CPUS. GPUS needs more secure sources of funding from states so has proposed that: all states request donations to their state go to GPUS. If the major request for donations is from the state chapter, the state will get 60% of the donation with the other 40% going to the GPUS. If the major request for donations if from the GPUS then the 60% will go to GPUS. We need to decide in the near future, what CT would like to suggest. GPUS budget was voted down. So the GPUS if requesting that the states forgive the set-asides from the GPUS. Richard Duffee got the endorsement of the SCC in 1-07 and sent his biography to Justine McCabe (CT), co-chairperson of the GPUS International Committee. Richard is now on the GPUS International Committee after Charlie Pillsbury, of the GPUS Mediation Committee, got involved. CP: there does not appear to be any GPUS bylaws about term limits for how long people may serve on GPUS committees i.e. nothing appears to preclude people for serving for life. 5. Bylaws Committee Proposal for the 4-21-07 convention vote: PK: it does not appear that there will ever be any by-law meetings or changes in time for the 4-21-07 goal. So it appears nothing will ever be done. BB: the 4-21-07 goal of the By-Laws Committee presenting proposals at the 4-21-07 was a self-imposed goal set at the end of 12-06. The committee met once, chapters presented concerns and the committee did not meet as a group to discuss chapter concerns. So the rewrites were done by Caleb Klappner, We need to enhance our by-laws and in the spirit of our 10 key values, address the diverse concerns of our chapters and continue on with the work that needs to be done. Just because there are no by-law proposals for the 4-21-07 Convention does not mean that we give up what needs to be done. We can extend our self-imposed deadline onward past the convention so concerns and feedback can be addressed. However, we need to meet as a committee not via e-mail. SF: have committee meetings to discuss concerns. E-mails do not. PK: will send out an e-mail for meeting availability. 6. Political issues the GP of CT is addressing with legislators during the 2007 Legislative Session: AB: Fight the Hike: will be at the 4-19-07 legislative meeting in LOB regarding the bills in the committee and the bills that are likely to come out of the committee. There will also be a 4-4-07 daytime rally in North Haven about Fight the Hike concerns. MD: we were unable to meet with Senate Pro Tem, Donald Williams but did meet with his aid. We need to press on. We promote municipal utility districts (MUDs) and the need to decentralize energy power of the CT DPUC. JdS: we continue to talk with legislators, mostly their aids about universal health coverage. Various groups have various versions of this so term. CT: I continue to promote the medical marijuana bill but it is unlikely to be passed. 7. Deleted: Connecticut Anti-war Marches on 3-17-07 at various locations; Hartford; Washington, D.C. March on the Pentagon on 3-17-07 which was the 40th anniversary of the 3-17-67 March on the Pentagon. 8. GP of CT Website: MD: CT Green Times will be put on the GP of CT website by Eric DeVois. 9. ACLU lawsuit: MD: discovery phase of this lawsuit is to be done in 8-07. So CCAG, Common Cause and Tom Sevigny (former member and co-chair of GP of CT and GPUS) can questioned for discovery as can they also question (i.e. discover) the GP of CT and all plaintiffs such as Mike DeRosa, current co-chair and founder of GP of CT. 10. Chapter reports a) Fairfield: RD: is setting up impeachment committees in towns; some have had meetings with their towns. Goal is to get towns to pass impeachment resolutions against Bush and Cheney. There are 4 articles of impeachment. NOTE: any state legislature can fore congress to take up impeachment proceedings. Only 1 Congressional representative or Senator is needed to bring this to Congress. b) Northeast: JdS: I did kick off my campaign for 1st selectman of Willimantic. The Republicans want to cross endorse me. Some people in my (NE) chapter oppose this. We continue with our every other week cable show. 3rd Thursdays are to start up soon. c) Greater Hartford: SF: David Ionno is running for City Council of Hartford. Chapter is circulating a questionnaire about potential issues/concerns of people in Hartford and we are also looking for other candidates to vet for other GP campaigns in our chapter; whether or not we will have a slate of candidates, is yet to be determined. d) New Haven: AB: GP is still very involved with Fight the Hike coalition; I am running for Alderman in my Ward (for City Alderman). There is potential for other GP candidates for Alderman. Ralph Ferruci is running for Mayor of New Haven. All candidates need the endorsement of the New Haven chapter. Per the State of CT pilot program in New Haven about electoral campaign finances, if the municipal candidates raise $2500, then the State of CT will match that amount of money. Caleb Klappner is on the New Haven Committee about Campaign Finance. 11. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 4-07: deferred until some time in May i.e. after the 4-21-07 convention. 12. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 4/24/07: cancelled because it is 3 days after the 4-21-07 convention. Next SCC meeting to be 5-29-07 (day after Memorial Day Holiday) and the place will be the East Rock Magnet School in New Haven. For years the GP of CT has had SCC meetings in Portland or Middletown, so we will continue with SCC meetings in New Haven in deference to the shoreline chapters of Fairfield, New Haven and New London. 13. No additions. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.1/857 - Release Date: 6/20/2007 2:18 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Jun 20 22:11:17 2007 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:11:17 -0400 Subject: {news} Minutes of the 5-9-07 EC meeting of CTGP in Glastonbury, CT. Message-ID: <20070621021111.GJMN8257.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Minutes of the 5-9-07 EC meeting of CTGP in Glastonbury, CT. Luna?s Pizza, 88 Hebron Avenue, Glastonbury, CT 06033, p: 860-659-2136 Time: 7:15pm to 9pm Attendees: Co-chairpersons: Jean deSmet, Mike DeRosa, Cliff Thornton; Secretary: Barbara Barry; Treasurer: Christopher Reilly A. State of the SCC meetings of GP of CT: JdS: need to energize them. BB suggestions: have a Key Value discussed for a minute or two at each SCC meeting. This could enhance or enlighten members various thoughts about a value and can be tied into the work (of a re-constituted) Platform Committee. It may open the opportunity to learning, from attendees, if other groups are out there working on Key Value type issues which the GP of CT may wish to join. We could also look into having speakers at SCC meetings to educate or update SCC attendees about issues or concerns to the GP. Consensus: agreed to have this done periodically at SCC meetings. MD: to enhance chapter building: perhaps one or more of the GP of CT officers may go to chapters, one at a time to help chapter build. We can get ads on: radios such as ESCU, Wesleyan, UCONN and on community TV shows (some of which are GP shows). MD will contact Tim McGee of Manchester Chapter and Vic Lancia of Middletown Chapter to ask if this would be something that they would wish to have done at their chapters. If the chapters are agreeable, the officers will continue this pursuit. Consensus: agreed. B. Proposal to reactive the following committees: BB: a) Platform Committee; b) Strategy Committee; c) Budget Committee: CT: need a full-time person to be an organizer. JdS: we need someone to enhance our membership, enhance our monthly donations, such as other groups do. BB: such as associates, major donors and contributors. MD: we do not have the money for a full-time staff person. MD proposed that we at first try to acquire a part-time fundraiser, advertise this position at the SCC meeting and by mouth, have potential candidates submit their resumes by the time of the 6-26-07 SCC meeting, have a Hiring Committee vet the candidates. The SCC is the only body which choose the candidate and approve the rate of commission and goals. Consensus: agreed: to the EC proposals for the 5-29-07 SCC meetings: restart the a) Platform Committee; b) Strategy Committee c) Budget Committee and d) seek SCC approval to hire a part-time fundraiser as proposed above. C. CT Green Times newspaper status: MD: to be become available from the publisher frequently in the future. BB: could it to done monthly? Even if it is only a single double-sided page, a newspaper to be given to the chapters every month, would be great. MD: agreed to strive to have the newspaper published monthly in time for the SCC meetings. However, he needs articles. D: deferred to the 5-29-07 SCC meeting: * Results of political actions by the GP of CT with the CT legislature; issues GP of CT wants to address in 2008.. * ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT ?campaign finance reform? law. * CTGP website. * GPUS issues E. Treasurer?s Report: CR: GPUS sent an unsigned check to GP of CT. CR is trying to get it signed. Check is for set-aside money. F. GP of CT listserv was fixed by Demitri. Place and agenda for 5-29-07 SCC meeting: East Rock Magnet School. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 6-07: to be determined. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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Second, Governor Rell's veto message was taken straight from the Bush Administration playbook. With regard to medical marijuana, the Bush Administration has continued to play politics with the lives of patients and their families. And now Rell has placed political games above compassion in Connecticut. Her veto message, which you can read here, is full of inaccuracies and distortions. We have produced a detailed point-by-point rebuttal of the Governor's weak veto message. As State Senator Andrew McDonald (D-Stamford) told the New York Times, the Governor never raised any of these concerns while the bill was being drafted, when modifications could have been made. Third, support for medical marijuana is overwhelming in Connecticut. Over 83 % of CT residents supported this legislation in polls. The State Legislature passed HB 6715 by wide margins. Dozens of medical, legal, community and faith based groups supported this bill, including the CT Nurses Association and community groups like A Better Way Foundation. You and hundreds of residents across Connecticut-including patients, doctors, and caretakers-sent letters, faxes, and phone calls to the Governor, urging her support. Indeed, Connecticut stood up to support patients, but Gov. Rell ducked out the back door, abandoning her constituents and forgoing an opportunity to protect patients from state prosecution. But we will not be turned back from our effort to enact sensible, common sense protections for patients. If you are frustrated, send the Governor your thoughts and comments. You can also send letters to the editor and opinion editorials to your local paper. Let the press and the Governor know what you think. Despite the Governor's wrongheaded, politically-motivated veto, we should all feel proud for what we accomplished this year-together, for the first time in CT history, we sent a workable medical marijuana bill to the Governor's desk. And together, we will prevail in our efforts to end the criminalization of patients in need. Gabriel Sayegh Drug Policy Alliance Governor Rell local phone: 860-566-4840 toll free: 800-406-1527 fax: 860-524-7396 email: Governor.Rell at po.state.ct.us Contact the Drug Policy Alliance: Drug Policy Alliance 70 West 36th Street, 16th Floor New York, NY 10018 For subscription problems please contact Jeanette Irwin, Director, Internet Communications jirwin at drugpolicy.org | 202.216.0035 In this DPA Action Network Alert you can make a difference: To view other actions, see actions you've completed, or edit your profile please visit the DPA Personal Action Center DrugPolicy.org | Take Action | Donate | Privacy Policy ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Fri Jun 22 08:21:34 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:21:34 -0400 Subject: {news} Is Your Politician a CREEP? Message-ID: Do your elected officials get a little crazy around election time? Do they seem worried that they haven't done enough to win voters' trust and ensure another term? They might be suffering from Chronic Re-Election Paranoia (CREEP). Maybe they've been taking Incarcerex. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" 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 apbrison at hotmail.com Fri Jun 22 11:50:46 2007 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:50:46 -0400 Subject: {news} protest Joe's Bomb Iran statement Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sat Jun 23 06:24:16 2007 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:24:16 -0400 Subject: {news} Connecticut--Governor Vetoes Palliative Pot Message-ID: EDITORIALS Governor Vetoes Palliative Pot June 22, 2007 Much was made during last year's state election about the Democrats having a veto-proof majority in the General Assembly, meaning enough votes to override a bad decision by the governor. Well, now's their chance to do so and relieve suffering at the same time. They should override Gov. M. Jodi Rell's veto of a bill permitting the palliative use of marijuana. The bill would have made it legal in the state for doctors to prescribe marijuana to relieve pain and nausea in people with certain serious illnesses, such as AIDS or cancer. It would have allowed patients or caregivers to grow a certain number of plants. It was humane and compassionate. Mrs. Rell, a cancer survivor, said that she agonized over the veto, but that legal alternatives are available to manage pain, and she didn't want to force law-abiding citizens to seek out drug dealers to make a purchase or doctors to break federal law. Can't the qualified simply share seeds? The governor also questioned the effectiveness of the pain and nausea remedy. It is legal in some other states, such as Rhode Island, for certain people to grow the stuff and smoke it. No runaway abuse of the law has been reported, and it is more liberal than Connecticut's. In fact, so grateful were the registered recipients in Rhode Island that the law was made permanent this year. That is as good a sign as any of its effectiveness. Mrs. Rell has made her point. We disagree. So do the majority of lawmakers. Now it's their turn to restore relief for the sick. POST A COMMENT ? Please Review Our Posting Rules Read all 6 comments ? 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June 27 4-6pm in New Haven: Tell Senator Joe Lieberman: No U.S. Attack on Iran June 27 4-6pm in New Haven: Tell Senator Joe Lieberman: No U.S. Attack on Iran Wednesday, June 27 -- 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM 900 Chapel Street -- New Haven 06510 (near corner of Chapel and Temple Streets; across from the New Haven Green) Last week Senator Joseph Lieberman advocated U.S. military attacks against Iran. Such military actions would only worsen the massive political and military crisis the U.S. has caused in the Middle East. Please join AFSC-CT, Connecticut United for Peace, the Middle East Crisis Committee, and Connecticut Opposes the War in New Haven as we picket in front of Senator Lieberman's residence. We will be gathering to raise our voices against Sen. Lieberman's call for U.S. military attacks on Iran and to call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. For more information contact: Stanley Heller of CTUP/MECC @ mail at TheStruggle.org or 203-934-2761 John Murphy of CCAG/COW @ murphy at ccag.net or (860) 233-2181 http://www.ctup.8k.com 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 amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Sun Jun 24 21:27:02 2007 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:27:02 -0400 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 6-26-07 SCC meeting of the GreenParty of CT. Starts at 7:00PM sharp In-Reply-To: <20070621013839.VUWP29750.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Message-ID: BARB, i AM UNABLE TO ATTEND TUESDAY AND WILL ALSO BE UNABLE TO ATTEND usgp CONVENTION DUE TO SURGERY , BUT SOON i WILL BE MUCH BETTER.I AM CONCERNED WHO MAY GET ELECTED AS A DELAGATE TO USGP AND ASK THIS BE PUT ON AGENDA. FIRSTLY JUST BECAUSE PERSONS CAN AFFORD TO GO SHOULD MAKE THEM IN THE RUNNING.MY FEAR IS AFTER 3 YEARS OF NO NW CHAPTER AND NO ATTENDANCE AT SCC I AM SURE JOHN AND JUSTINE WILL BE ATTENDINGCONVENTION AND PRECIEVED BY SUM AS ALIGNED WITH OUR STATTE IN ANY WAY.JUSTINE NEEDS TO BE IMMEDIATELY REMOVED FROM CHAIR/MEMBER OF THE IC AS HER VIEWS AND THOSE OF THE USGP PLATFORM ARE NOT SHARED BY THE MAJORITY OF CT GREENS AND WE WERE NEVER CONSULTED OR NOTIFIED OF HER CHAIRMANSHIP.WE STILL HAVE NO INFO OUR COUNT FROM OUR CURRENT REPS OF WHAT COMMITTEES ARE OPEN AND THEIR VARIOUS CRITERAS. AMY >From: "B Barry" >To: >Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 6-26-07 SCC meeting of the >GreenParty of CT. Starts at 7:00PM sharp >Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:38:44 -0400 > >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 >Proposed agenda for the 6-26-07 SCC meeting of the Green Party of CT > >Place: Middletown Russell Public Library; Reading Room #3; > > 123 Broad Street, Middletown, CT 06457 P=860-347-2528 > > ******** Time: 7:00PM to 8:30 PM. (closing time for the library >in summer: 8:30PM) ************* > > > >Facilitator: 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 5-29-07 SCC >meeting. > >4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 6-19-07 EC >meeting. > >5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report by Christopher Reilly. > > > >B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee or members. > >* EC Proposal for fundraiser position. > > > > C. Reports: > >1. (10-15 minutes): GPUS: selection of delegates to the 7-12-07 GPUS >Convention in Reading, PA; updates/reports; CTGP representatives: Tim >McKee and Charlie Pillsbury > > > >2. (3 minutes): CT Green Times: articles, publishing, likely date of >availability, distribution; mailing expense. > > > >3. (10 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with >legislators during the 2007 Legislative Session: medical marijuana; Fight >the Hike/universal health coverage > > > >4. (3 minutes): ACLU lawsuit > > > >5. (2-5 minutes, each): other Chapter reports. > > > >6. (2-5 minutes): Green Party Key Value: non-violence. > > > >7. (1 minute): Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 7-07. > > > >8. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 7-31-07. > > > >9. Any additions > > > > > > > >HYPERLINK "http://www.google.com/"www.google.com > > > > > > > > > > >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.1/857 - Release Date: 6/20/2007 >2:18 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. 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Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Jun 25 12:11:17 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} This is a report about a POSSIBLE change in delegates to National Meetings(Not Presidental conventions) Message-ID: <645431.28671.qm@web81402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> This is a proposal,, NOT A FINAL change. still to be voted on .. We still have two for July meeting! Tim McKee Gary Novosielski wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:48:31 -0400 From: "Gary Novosielski" To: GNC , "Holly Hart" CC: Charlie Green , Cat Woods Subject: [usgp-nc] Final amendments to Proposal 295 The Apportionment Standing Committee, having had under consideration the matter of the GNC Apportionment, as charged by Proposal 272, hereby submits its R E P O R T: Synopsis: The GPUS Apportionment Standing Committee has approved the final apportionment of delegates to state parties (below) by consensus. This apportionment includes final corrections received from state parties as well as all sustained challenges. The net impact is that 3 state parties lose one delegate and 3 state parties gain one delegate, relative to the estimates previously submitted. Challenges: The committee received only two challenges, both from Phil Huckelberry of Illinois: 1. Correction of data entry for DC percentage -- A number was entered that was for a race not contested by both major parties. The number needed to be changed from 14.4% to 4.1%. 2. Correction of spreadsheet formula in the State Voting Strength category -- The calculation in the spreadsheet was a holdover from when DAC had listed votes for local candidates as a separate option from votes for statewide candidates. Votes for all Green Party candidates, local and state, should be totaled and calculated as a percentage of the overall total, rather than the local and statewide score being calculated separately. Again, this was a simple correction of an error. Both challenges were sustained by the committee and are incorporated into the final apportionment numbers below. Reference: The final spreadsheets are available at: < http://www.seattlegreens.org/gpus-dac/index.html> Conclusion: The numbers below implement the apportionment formula adopted by the GPUS National Committee on April 16, 2007. The committee has completed its assigned tasks and has made every effort to faithfully and accurately calculate the result of the adopted formula. The Secretary is hereby requested to cause the voting page to be amended as soon as possible (but in any case prior to the start of the voting period of Proposal 295) by replacing the existing delegate numbers with those shown below. Submitted by: GPUS Apportionment Standing Committee Gary Novosielski, Co-Chair AMENDED NUMBERS FOR 295: Alabama 2 Alaska 2 Arizona 2 Arkansas 2 California 42 Colorado 3 Connecticut 5 Delaware 2 District of Columbia 4 Florida 4 Georgia 2 Hawaii 2 Idaho 2 Illinois 11 Indiana 2 Iowa 2 Kansas 2 Louisiana 2 Maine 11 Maryland 4 Massachusetts 8 Michigan 6 Minnesota 3 Mississippi 2 Missouri 2 Montana 2 Nebraska 2 Nevada 2 New Jersey 3 New Mexico 2 New York 10 North Carolina 2 Ohio 3 Oklahoma 2 Oregon 6 Pennsylvania 8 Rhode Island 2 South Carolina 2 Tennessee 2 Texas 3 Utah 2 Vermont 2 Virginia 2 Washington 3 Wisconsin 6 Wyoming 2 Lavender Caucus 1 Black Caucus 1 Women's Caucus 1 TOTAL 200 _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html To report violations of listserv protocol, write to forummanagers at lists.gp-us.org For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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... 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But it is tons of work..lot of emails..lots of compromise Greg Gerritt wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:41:27 -0400 From: Greg Gerritt To: national comm votes Subject: [usgp-nc] Report from the pcsc Report from the GPUS Presidential Campaign Support Committee to the GPUS National Committee July 2007 Members of the Committee Julia Aires (FL), Liz Arnone (NJ), David Berenson (OH), Larry Cafiero (CA), Tom Cleland (MN), David Cyr (NY), Bill Delp (NY), Greg Gerritt (RI), Forrest Hill (CA), Phil Huckelberry (IL), Susan King (CA), Maria Kuriloff (NY), Rachel Lagodka (NY), Jared Laiti (CA), John Miglietta (TN), Harley Mikkelson (MI), Gary Novosielski (NJ), Kristen Olson (MN), Jeff Peterson (WI), Starlene Rankin (LC), Barbara Rodgers-Hendricks (FL), Kai Schwandes (NC), Roger Snyder (NY), Andrew Spencer (AZ), Fred Vitale (MI), Ian Wilder (NY), Cat Woods (CA) With debates among the multiheaded hydras of Democratic and Republican candidates already going on, the full time campaign machine we sort of refer to as American politics is barreling full speed ahead into the trainwreck that will be the 2008 elections. Expect the dirtiest, most well funded corporate sham in the history of the planet where windup millionaires will do the killing and other nefarious deeds for the billionaires and call it moral and good while the media pretend it is a horse race as the issues are too scary to touch. Within the insanity lies the GPUS PCSC, looking for a way to find the right kernel of a Green presidential campaign and turn it into an earthshattering/healing experience. It is a wicked tall order. Still in recovery from 2000 and 2004, Green presidential politics is a strange beast. While Greens can and do win non-partisan races, we continue to face the threats of the entrenched plurality voting system when running partisan candidates. Nowhere does this threat loom larger than in the presidential race. Yet change does not happen by waiting for systems to change themselves or from hoping that the corporate parties and media will treat us more fairly, but by insisting on change by using our electoral power: the power of running inspiring candidates and campaigns and the power of casting our votes or what we believe. We are aware of the pitfalls the Greens face in 2008, have some concerns about the health of the party, but the GPUS NC was very clear in Proposal 218, which was adopted with 80% approval, and at the PCSC forum in July 2006 that they want a great Green Party presidential campaign in 2008, and we on the committee would all love to see the same thing. Our job is to create the context in which that can happen. We can not create the larger world context, the war, economy, state of global warming, but we can create a nurturing place for Green candidates, helping them begin running and develop good campaigns, and we can work with state parties so they are prepared for the trail. The Greens are popular enough that about 14 people have over the last year expressed interest in running for our nomination. Some of these folks continue to run, and you will get to hear them at the forum the PCSC has been developing that will take place on July 13 during the GPUS Annual Meeting in Reading PA. Every active declared candidate is being invited, and they will all get an equal opportunity to address the assembled. The committee is paying attention to ballot access deadlines and trying to coordinate with other efforts to track those as well as keep the candidates informed. The committee has maintained at least somewhat regular communications with all of the candidates and potential candidates, though that goes much more smoothly when the candidates write back or return calls. Communications are much more frequent with those who reply than with those who do not. The committee is just beginning to get serious about helping state parties be prepared for what they will go through in 2008. We need to talk to the state parties more and individually assess their readiness. We used a questionnaire to begin that assessment and establish who the contacts are, but the forum has taken much of our energy and we are just getting back to this. In Reading we are going to be sitting down with just about every state party, at least informally, and trying to figure out where we can help. We will have model state convention rules and delegate selection rules available this fall. With campaigns on the road, and despite the fact that more candidates expected to declare in the next few months, the committee will turn more and more of its attention to preparing the state parties for the national convention. We shall also be a node in the development of candidate forums around the country, willing to work with any state or regional effort. A political committee can not avoid politics, nor should it. The committee as a whole will maintain neutrality as to who the nominee should be, making sure that all potential nominees have access to the information they need, but it would be more than passing strange if the political junkies on the committee did not start peeling off to help particular candidates more and more as it closes in on state and national conventions. All of us are going to be involved in campaigns in our home states, and are critical communication links in the development of successful campaigns in our neighborhoods. If we do not get involved, who will? You need us in dual roles. We shall try to keep that straight, serving the party by doing the informational and coordinating work the party needs while helping candidates who grab our attention in our neighborhoods. Recently a campaign worker for an undeclared candidate asked a committee observer to be the campaign?s eyes and ears on the committee. Probably will happen again soon now that the dam has breached. In the 16 months between now and November 08, all hell will break loose. We are working hard to help the party prepare to unite behind the eventual Green Party nominee, whoever that will be. Over that time we hope every one can find a potential candidate that causes you to jump for joy (well maybe not jump for joy). The larger world will do everything it can to marginalize us. But the issues will continue to come our way even if the corporate media will not talk about it, put our candidate on TV or anything else we want. But the PCSC will work on that which we can influence and do what we can to help create a great 2008 campaign for the Green Party. And if you are a hard core political junkie with a wish to build the party, consider joining the PCSC. _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html To report violations of listserv protocol, write to forummanagers at lists.gp-us.org For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jun 25 13:32:06 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} U.S.Coalition for free and open elections report_ CT's bad election "reforms" mentioned Message-ID: <795460.41916.qm@web81401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Phil Huckelberry wrote: Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:37:20 -0500 To: bac at gp-us.org,natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org From: Phil Huckelberry Subject: [usgp-nc] COFOE Meeting Report On Saturday, June 16, I attended the annual meeting of COFOE (Coalition for Free and Open Elections) on behalf of GPUS. The meeting was held at a law office in midtown Manhattan and lasted about four hours. The COFOE board consists of a representative from several parties, including the Green Party, Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, and Socialist Party. At this meeting there were also representatives from the Working Families Party and Unity08. Most of the raw work of the organization is done by Richard Winger, who doubles as the representative of the Libertarian Party. COFOE is closely related to Ballot Access News (see www.ballot-access.org). The COFOE board doesn't conduct a lot of business - therefore a need to meet for only four hours a year - and what substantial business is conducted usually involves using COFOE funds to help support ballot access lawsuits. Often these suits are brought by independent candidates and are encouraged up front by Richard Winger to go after particularly onerous laws. A recent example demonstrates this well. A lawsuit in Illinois, Lee v. Keith, challenged the Illinois law regarding signature requirements for independent candidates for state legislature. The suit was lost at the lowest level but won on appeal, and the result is that Illinois is forced to amend the relevant statutes. A bill was actually introduced that would have not only fixed this problem but also lowered ballot access across the board, and the bill even passed the Illinois Senate unanimously, but was scuttled in the Illinois House. Since the suit was won, the $1,000 COFOE put up to help cover attorney fees will eventually be returned to the organization. One other COFOE suit was won in the last year. The Ohio law governing the number of signatures a political party needed was ruled unconstitutional, leading to a rule from the Secretary of State essentially cutting the number in half. Since this took place at the federal level, and Tennessee is in the same circuit, a comparable Tennessee law will almost certainly be found unconstitutional as well. One outstanding suit COFOE has regards the signature requirements for independent candidates for US House in North Carolina. This has yet to go to trial. In 2006, COFOE approved $500 to help offset the costs of one of the ballot access suits in Pennsylvania. That suit lost but is currently on appeal, and this year, COFOE approved $750 for the cost of publication of an amicus brief to help with the case. The suit is Rogers v. Cortes; the original lead plaintiffs were the Green Party and Constitution Party in Pennsylvania, and the Rogers referenced in the name of the case is Marakay Rogers, former GPPA chair and Green candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2006. COFOE also approved three resolutions this year. One resolution put COFOE on record as insisting that any public financing legislation should not discriminate against candidates based on their partisan affiliation or lack thereof. Such legislation was passed recently in Connecticut, is being considered in California, and is also being considered in the form of a federal bill called "Fair Elections Now Act" which sets significantly higher bars for qualification for most third party and indepenent candidates. It is worth noting that the Libertarian and Constitution Parties are in general opposed to public financing and the Green Party of course supports it, so the common ground here had to be drawn in a very specific manner. A second resolution involved fusion. This was the most discussed item, in part because a representative from the Working Families Party was present. I expressed that while GPUS does not have a formal position on fusion, to the extent that there is sentiment within the Green Party, that sentiment is mostly anti-fusion. The Libertarian Party is essentially pro-fusion and the Constitution Party has no strong position but is generally supportive. Eventually, the way in which the resolution was worded expressed support for the basic concept that a political party should have the right to nominate whichever candidate it wishes to nominate. Had the resolution gone so far as to endorse fusion per se instead of just the general principle, I would have abstained, but as written, a statement affirming a political party's right was something that I considered very much in line with the key value of Grassroots Democracy. The third resolution involved the status of American citizens residing in U.S. territories (not including the District of Columbia). In short, a U.S. citizen residing in any state who moves overseas retains the ability to cast votes in presidential elections by voting as a de facto resident of the last state in which he or she resided; but such a citizen does *not* retain that right if he or she resides in Puerto Rico, Guam, or another U.S. territory. A recent case which the Supreme Court did not hear involved a U.S. Magistrate sent to serve in the U.S. Virgin Islands. After some discussion, the resolution put COFOE on record as generally supporting the rights of all U.S. citizens to vote for president and/or presidential electors regardless of residence status in a U.S. territory. The most productive aspects of COFOE meetings, in my opinion, are the camaraderie and institutional memory that the participants are able to enjoy. When a meeting of less than 10 people involves people from all across the political spectrum, it might be expected that the group would be acrimonious, but nothing could be further from the truth. There is a broad understanding among participants that the fight for real democracy is something that everyone outside of the duopoly shares, and we can set aside our vast differences to focus on the critical work where we share similar visions: opening up the democratic process, ending discrimination based on partisan affiliation or lack thereof, and a great deal more. Above and beyond the meeting itself, the critical importance of being able to establish personal rapport with Richard Winger can not be overstated. Richard is the nation's leading authority on third party ballot access and his assistance has been indispensible to the Green Party and to other third parties as well. Our ability to work well with him and to utilize his expertise is critical as a building block for the development of our own ballot access strategies. Respectfully submitted, Phil Huckelberry Co-Chair, GPUS Ballot Access Committee _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html To report violations of listserv protocol, write to forummanagers at lists.gp-us.org For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 chapillsbury at igc.org Mon Jun 25 18:26:21 2007 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:26:21 -0400 Subject: {news} New Haven Green Party to Co-Sponsor New Haven Lieberman Protest In-Reply-To: <00d601c7b775$4140f060$6601a8c0@PAVILION523N> References: <00d601c7b775$4140f060$6601a8c0@PAVILION523N> Message-ID: <010501c7b777$de213d20$1901a8c0@CMI.local> Add the New Haven Green Party as a sponsor. Thanks, Charlie The start of summer protests! Wednesday, June 27 -- 4 PM No Joe, We Should Not Bomb Iran Bring the Troops Home, Now Joe Lieberman is working closely with the Bush Administration to try to whip up feeling against Iran, to expand the war and to throw away more American and Iraqi lives. His demand that we should attack Iran because it is arming Iraqis to fight our troops is garbage. * We wouldn't be attacked by any Iraqis if we stopped meddling in their business and brought our troops home. * Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, said in March he had no evidence the Iranian government had been sending military equipment and personnel into neighboring Iraq. * Lieberman's plan to bomb Iran to win victory in Iraq will fail just like Nixon's plan to win in Vietnam by bombing Cambodia. The other charge that Bush and Lieberman make is that a nuclear armed Iran is a terrible danger. Yet Iran has no nuclear weapons and there's no evidence that it is even trying to make them. It is the US and Israel that threaten to use nuclear weapons against Iran. Iran's government is bad news, but that's no reason for more war. CNN polls show that Americans are overwhelmingly against attacking Iran. Protest Wednesday, June 27 -- 4 PM -- Picketing at Joe Lieberman's apartment in the Chapel Square Mall, 900 Chapel St., New Haven The action is called by Connecticut United for Peace. Co-Sponsors: Code Pink, Middle East Crisis Committee, People of Faith For more information mail at TheStruggle.org 203-934-2761 _____ From: newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com [mailto:newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stan H Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 6:08 PM To: ctpeace ctpeace; awda awda; New Haven Greens; ctunited4peace at lists.riseup.net Subject: [newhavengreens] Code Pink to Co-Sponsor New Haven Lieberman Protest Code Pink is very active in DC protesting Lieberman's (Wed. in New Haven 4-6) call for more war. They're cosponsoring Wed.'s demo. We'd like lots more cosponsors. Reply here. See an interview with Madea Benjamin in Chicago this weekend about what they did in DC http://www.thestrug gle.org/madea1.htm Finally we're changing the post-meeting to the Library community room in anticipation of a larger crowd. We have it from 6 to 8. We'll supply some cold drinks. 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URL: From chapillsbury at gmail.com Tue Jun 26 22:36:49 2007 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:36:49 -0400 Subject: {news} Information about Reading In-Reply-To: <46809360.10704@execpc.com> References: <46809360.10704@execpc.com> Message-ID: <10859a090706261936p8df11b7p41c082de130d2d5f@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ruth Weill Date: Jun 26, 2007 12:17 AM Subject: [usgp-nc] Information about Reading To: convention committee , Natlcomvotes < natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org>, USGP Discussion The 2007 Annual Meeting in Reading is almost here. As some of you already know, the Abraham Lincoln Wyndham Hotel's rooms are sold out. *The week of our convention will be a big week in Reading for hotels. Be sure to make your reservations now. We have reserved blocks of rooms at several motels that will only be held until July 3. Please e-mail Dave Kurzweg, our meeting coordinator, at davidbkurzweg at hotmail.com for more information about this. More specific information coming this week on how to reserve those rooms.* Also visit the http://www.gpanc.org/ for links to the needing and offering housing and for a list of area hotel/motels. If you are flying into the Philly airport July 11th and 12th there will be a shuttle service that will drop off at the hotel for $25.00 per person one way plus a $10.00 a van drop charge to be divided among the passengers , this is a special rate so please let us know asap if you are interested. The company would like to get 6 passengers per van. Please contact Dave Kurzweg at davidbkurzweg at hotmail.com if you will need these services. We need to get the reservations in by July 7th. Shuttles run every couple of hours. There will also be some car shuttling during in between times and after Thursday, which will depend on need. Please contact Hillary Aisenstein at hillarya at pobox.upenn.edu Please also visit the http://www.gpanc.org/ and check the need and offering rides links to see if something works for you. Later this week or early next week we will send out information regarding local mass transit as well. If you have not registered yet please do so, the $100 on line registration stops on July 6th. On site registration is $115. If you have not registered for the meal plan please do so right away. You will not be able to purchase the meal plan on site, it must be purchased ahead of time. Please visit the site again at http://www.gpanc.org/ . The plan is offering breakfast and lunch on Friday-Sunday. Dinner is on your own. Do you like good music? Want to support GPUS and see some great bands? Check out the shows on both Thursday and Friday evenings. They will both be held in the ballroom of the Ab. Lincoln hotel. Saturday evening's activities involve a Ballot Access Rally featuring Ralph Nader, our own Diane White's reggae band Unbroken and DC Green Head Roc along with some other great music. Sounds like quite an amazing event. Please purchase your tickets for the following shows on the site at http://www.gpanc.org/ If you would like to volunteer sometime during the week we would welcome you. There are various needs from set up and breakdown of tables and chairs to delegate packet production and everything in between. Please contact Jay Sweeney at jnln at epix.net if you are willing to give a couple of hours. Thanks! We look forward to seeing you in Reading and watch your inbox for more information. Thanks! Ruth Weill Chair ANMC -- " One person can make a difference, and every person must try." John F. Kennedy " Be the change you want to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi "If I can't dance, I do not want to be a part of your revolution." 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Jun 27 10:09:38 2007 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Nader- "Michael Moore and Health Care Refom" Message-ID: <209932.75299.qm@web81402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Published on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 by CommonDreams.org Michael Moore and Health Care Reform by Ralph Nader He sat there dejected and indignant?twenty years ago?in our office. His position as editor of the monthly muckraking magazine, Mother Jones, had broken up. He was looking for a job that would allow him to bring his conscience to work. We gave him a place and support to start Moore?s Weekly?a media critique. Michael Moore has gone a long way since that short-lived publication. He went on to do documentary films, starting with Roger and Me?meaning of course, Michael Moore. Rich, famous and Hollywood chic, Moore will open his latest film??Sicko? in theatres around the country on June 29, 2007. To many of those who have already seen this indictment and conviction of the corporations that sell health care under an array of tricky conditions, it is his best move yet. He was in Washington, D.C. last week, for a preview at the large Uptown Theatre and for testimony before a House Committee. The media followed him with a frenzy hitherto reserved for Paris Hilton. But Michael Moore is no Paris Hilton from any dimension you wish to choose. He is a heavyweight reformer, pitching his film toward full Medicare for everyone. This also means displacing the health insurance industry the way Medicare partially did in the mid-Sixties for the elderly. ?I think one movie can make a difference; .I believe it will be a catalyst for the type of real change people want,? Moore told the New York Times. Great movies and documentaries raise people?s latent indignation levels?for a short time. Norma Rae, The China Syndrome and The Grapes of Wrath had this effect. But films do not usually move either people or legislators to action. Their effect does not reach enough people. Their urgent 2 hour impact tends to diminish quickly, as compared with the omnipresent and powerful corporate or commercial interests determined to preserve the status quo. Will ?Sicko? be any different? Certainly the giant HMOs, hospital chains and drug companies are firmly entrenched with all the sinews of power that have left this country, alone among western nations, without health care for all. They have endured easily many mainstream print and television expos?s (see the New York Times, AP, 60 Minutes and the nightly evening news, for example) year after year. Authoritative reports documenting over $200 billion a year in computerized billing fraud and abuse or the loss of 18,000 American lives yearly due to the unaffordability of health care (The Institute of Medicine) bounce off this two trillion dollar industry like marshmallows. Having been a taught community organizer in Michigan, (see the new book, Citizen Moore by Roger Rapaport) Moore has prepared with all this in mind. He allied himself with the great California Nurses Association and their nationwide colleagues to demonstrate in favor of the film, contact legislators and other large unions. The anticipatory media for the movie have been generous; citing the U.S. government?s move against Moore for what it claims was an unauthorized trip to Cuba. Right wing think tanks, funded by this hyper-profitable, subsidized industry, pour out inane rebuttals and offer quotes against Moore for reporters. Unlike for other social justice movies, there is even a bill in Congress, H.R. 676 with 74 cosponsoring legislators, led by Cong. John Conyers (Dem. Mich.), to establish full Medicare for all. That is a number of lawmakers considerably less that those who signed on to a similar bill in 1993. There are 17 million more Americans uninsured today than in that year, totaling nearly 48 million without coverage in 2006. So you see where that trend is heading. If Moore is serious about getting ?real change,? as he phrases his goal, he will have to make at least two more contributions. First, he will need to make a comprehensive effort to get many of the 6 million or more people, who will see the film, to sign up as they enter or leave the theatres so that they can be given a chance to connect with each other for a cohesive change constituency. Secondly, some of the millions he will make from this movie should be put into a full time lobbying organization in Washington and back in the Congressional districts to press for enactment of H.R. 676. With all his super-rich Hollywood contacts and admirers, Moore should be able to multiply this proposed group?s budget several fold. Michael can even call it ?Moore?s Miracle!? Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, and author. 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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:28:59 -0700 (PDT) GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Green Party of Pennsylvania: Hillary Aisenstein, 267-971-3559, hillarya at pobox.upenn.edu Dave Kurzweg, 610-823-5770 Green Party to introduce Green presidential candidates at 2007 national meeting in Reading, Pa., July 12-15 ? Ralph Nader is slated to appear at the meeting; Greens will make Reading an 'oasis of democracy' in Pennsylvania, a state with some of the most antidemocratic ballot access rules for third party candidates in the US ? Meeting site: The Abraham Lincoln Wyndham Hotel in downtown Reading ? Media credentialing site: http://www.gp.org/forms/media WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party will feature declared and potential Green candidates for President of the United States at 'Green for a Change' , the party's 2007 national meeting, to take place in Reading, Pennsylvania, July 12-15. Greens will meet at the Abraham Lincoln Wyndham Historic Hotel, 100 North Fifth Street in downtown Reading, 877-999-3223 . Reporters interested in covering the meeting may sign up at the Green Party's Media credentialing page . A schedule of press conferences at the Reading meeting will be announced soon. Several candidates for the Green Party's presidential nomination have already announced their campaigns, and plan to attend the meeting in Reading. The Green Party has planned a Presidential Candidates' Forum for Friday, July 13, 5:30-7 pm, open to the public, at which the attending candidates will be introduced. Below is a current list of declared Green presidential candidates, including their states of residence. The Green Party also expects more candidates to announce soon. ? Alan Augustson (Illinois) http://augustson2008.us ? Elaine Brown (Georgia) http://www.elainebrown.org ? Michael Jingozian (Oregon) http://www.resetamerica.com ? Jesse Johnson (West Virginia) (web site TBA) ? Jerry Kann (New York) http://kannforpresident.net ? Paul Kangas (California) (web site TBA) ? Kent Mesplay (California) http://www.mesplay.org ? Gail Parker (Virginia) http://www.gailparker.us ? Joe Schriner (Ohio) http://www.voteforjoe.com ? Kat Swift (Texas) http://www.prezkat.info One Green candidate has announced for the Vice Presidential nomination: KCM Curry (California). Ralph Nader, who ran for President in 2000 on the Green Party ticket, will also attend and will headline an event on the evening of Saturday, July 14, at the Sovereign Performing Arts Center, 8th and Penn Streets, in Reading. Mr. Nader has not yet made his intentions known for 2008. The Green Party of Pennsylvania will host the meeting, which is expected to draw delegates, party officials, candidates, and observers from state Green Parties all over the US. Mr. Nader will discuss ballot access during his appearance. In 2004, Mr. Nader, running for the White House as an independent, was forced off the Pennsylvania ballot after a challenge by Democratic Party lawyers. In 2006, Carl Romanelli, Green candidate for the US Senate, was denied a ballot line after Democratic lawyers persuaded a court to invalidate many of the 90,000 signatures he handed in to comply with a Pennsylvania law requiring more than 67,000 signatures for third party candidates. Democratic and Republican candidates are only required to collect 2,000 signatures in Pennsylvania. Democratic lawyers also convinced courts to fine both Mr. Nader nearly $89,0000 and Mr. Romanelli more than $80,000 for failing to qualify. Greens have sharply criticized Pennsylvania election law and the court-ordered fines, calling them a bipartisan ploy to intimidate and discourage third party and independent candidacies from running. Mr. Romanelli will also speak at the Saturday evening event. "One of the reasons Greens are eager to meet in Pennsylvania is that the state's laws typify the unfair ballot access rules, enacted by Democrats and Republicans, to keep other parties and independents off the ballot," said Jim Coplen, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "Pennsylvania, the so-called cradle of democracy, should be ashamed to have such laws on the books. But Pennsylvania isn't the only state with unfair ballot access laws. Greens throughout the US are challenging state legislatures and courts to abolish such obstructions. We plan to make Reading an oasis of democracy in July." 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 Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers 'Green for a Change': 2007 Green Party National Meeting in Reading, Pennsylvania, July 12-15 http://www.gp.org/meeting2007/ Media credentialing page http://www.gp.org/forms/media ~ END ~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! 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URL: From chapillsbury at gmail.com Wed Jun 27 22:46:19 2007 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:46:19 -0400 Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Pre-order Green Pages bundles In-Reply-To: <410774.15222.qm@web58612.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <410774.15222.qm@web58612.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <10859a090706271946u5224738cwa89b830a4ff3ff09@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David McCorquodale Date: Jun 27, 2007 11:01 AM Subject: [usgp-nc] Pre-order Green Pages bundles To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Green Pages, the newspaper of the Green Party of the United States, is now accepting pre-orders for the Summer 2007 issue. Pre-order a bundle of the Summer issue now to ensure that you qualify for the bulk discount--and the printers will ship the papers straight to you via UPS. Green Pages is available in bulk discount to all. Details for ordering is at the bottom of this message. 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URL: From demac at galaxyinternet.net Thu Jun 28 22:19:13 2007 From: demac at galaxyinternet.net (demac) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:19:13 -0400 Subject: {news} FW: Making Connecticut Sicko [CT Working Families] Message-ID: <005501c7b9f3$e4159680$31b1d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Some Greens were considering petitioning or otherwise contacting people outside "Sicko." WFP is organizing a similar effort. We can join 'em or we can do it on our own, but I wanted everyone to be aware of this effort. Jean -----Original Message----- From: Jon Green [mailto:jgreen at workingfamiliesparty.org] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:08 PM To: demac at galaxyinternet.net Subject: Making Connecticut Sicko [CT Working Families] CT Working Families Logo CT Working Families Action Alert: Healthcare Making Connecticut Sicko 6/28/07 Michael Moore Michael Moore's Sicko opens in Connecticut this weekend. We want you to join us at a screening. We'll be outside, asking folks to sign a petition to our legislators, urging them to pass real healthcare reform. Take a look at showtimes . Most people understand the failures in our current healthcare system. Hundreds of thousands of us in Connecticut are living through those failures every day. Our healthcare system puts profits before people. So what happened? In the state legislature, a few tweaks, but nothing to address the inequality or inefficiencies fundamental to our system. And in the coming years, the system will strain further and further, if we don't do something. Luckily, we've got a great opportunity to keep the campaign alive after the session and to build the movement for healthcare reform. Sicko shows the severity of the healthcare crisis across the country. And he even takes the insurance industry to task.Thousand and thousands of people will see this movie, and they'll want to know what they can do. Let's show them. We're building volunteer teams to stand outside the film on opening weekend, to talk to people, hand out flyers, gather information, and plug people into the campaign. If you think that next year, the campaign for healthcare reform has to be twice as big, volunteer for a half hour this weekend. We'll supply all the materials. If you're angry, (and you should be) get out and volunteer to build the campaign . It'll be fun. We might even break out our old Aetna banner and our barf bags . And hey -- if you can't volunteer, now would be a great time to contribute to help us pay for all the work we've done, and all we've got ahead of us to bring real comprehensive healthcare reform to Connecticut. That's all for now. Pay your dues, read the papers -- and organize. Sincerely, Jon Green Executive Director Connecticut Working Families Connecticut Working Families is a coalition of labor unions, community organizations and neighborhood activists who have come together because we believe that we can create a Connecticut that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well connected. On the Blog: Why one State Rep. voted no on the budget. Read his statement here . Labor The US Senate killed labor's top priority bill, The Employee Free Choice Act. Why? Nutmeg Mill Nutmeg Mill Working Families sends out a weekly digest of news clips and progressive commentary, called the Nutmeg Mill. Want to be on the list? Sign up here . Working Families CT WF Blog Healthcare Stories CONTRIBUTE! VOLUNTEER! Join Our Mailing List Forward email This email was sent to demac at galaxyinternet.net, by jgreen at workingfamiliesparty.org Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe T | Privacy Policy . Email Marketing by Connecticut Working Families | 621 Farmington Avenue | Hartford | CT | 06105 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From great_land_trust at sbcglobal.net Fri Jun 29 14:15:54 2007 From: great_land_trust at sbcglobal.net (Colin Bennett) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} FW: Making Connecticut Sicko [CT Working Families] In-Reply-To: <005501c7b9f3$e4159680$31b1d942@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Message-ID: <698088.6692.qm@web82802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I definitely do not have the time to take any kind of lead role, but I can help for a few hours over the weekend if anyone can organize something. Also, I highly reccomend working with Working Families. -Colin demac wrote: 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 Some Greens were considering petitioning or otherwise contacting people outside ?Sicko.? WFP is organizing a similar effort. We can join ?em or we can do it on our own, but I wanted everyone to be aware of this effort. Jean -----Original Message----- From: Jon Green [mailto:jgreen at workingfamiliesparty.org] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:08 PM To: demac at galaxyinternet.net Subject: Making Connecticut Sicko [CT Working Families] CT Working Families Action Alert: Healthcare Making Connecticut Sicko 6/28/07 Michael Moore's Sicko opens in Connecticut this weekend. We want you to join us at a screening. We'll be outside, asking folks to sign a petition to our legislators, urging them to pass real healthcare reform. Take a look at showtimes. Most people understand the failures in our current healthcare system. Hundreds of thousands of us in Connecticut are living through those failures every day. Our healthcare system puts profits before people. So what happened? In the state legislature, a few tweaks, but nothing to address the inequality or inefficiencies fundamental to our system. And in the coming years, the system will strain further and further, if we don't do something. Luckily, we've got a great opportunity to keep the campaign alive after the session and to build the movement for healthcare reform. Sicko shows the severity of the healthcare crisis across the country. And he even takes the insurance industry to task.Thousand and thousands of people will see this movie, and they'll want to know what they can do. Let's show them. We're building volunteer teams to stand outside the film on opening weekend, to talk to people, hand out flyers, gather information, and plug people into the campaign. If you think that next year, the campaign for healthcare reform has to be twice as big, volunteer for a half hour this weekend. We'll supply all the materials. If you're angry, (and you should be) get out and volunteer to build the campaign. It'll be fun. We might even break out our old Aetna banner and our barf bags. And hey -- if you can't volunteer, now would be a great time to contribute to help us pay for all the work we've done, and all we've got ahead of us to bring real comprehensive healthcare reform to Connecticut. That's all for now. Pay your dues, read the papers -- and organize. Sincerely, Jon Green Executive Director Connecticut Working Families Connecticut Working Families is a coalition of labor unions, community organizations and neighborhood activists who have come together because we believe that we can create a Connecticut that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well connected. On the Blog: Why one State Rep. voted no on the budget. Read his statement here. Labor The US Senate killed labor's top priority bill, The Employee Free Choice Act. Why? Nutmeg Mill Working Families sends out a weekly digest of news clips and progressive commentary, called the Nutmeg Mill. Want to be on the list? Sign up here. Working Families CT WF Blog Healthcare Stories CONTRIBUTE! VOLUNTEER! Forward email This email was sent to demac at galaxyinternet.net, by jgreen at workingfamiliesparty.org Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe? | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by Connecticut Working Families | 621 Farmington Avenue | Hartford | CT | 06105 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. 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The plan is so sweeping in nature it must receive a proper, judicious vetting. >From the Journal Sentinel Posted: June 27, 2007 The timing isn't good, but the bold plan for universal health care coverage approved by Senate Democrats is definitely good enough for the Legislature to consider to fix Wisconsin's hopelessly broken health care system. Health Plan for State Legislators, Officials and Employees Premiums: Monthly premiums vary, based on such factors as relative efficiency of the plans. Benefits are the same. Most employees choose Tier 1. Tier 1: $27 single, $68 family. Tier 2: $60 single, $150 family. Tier 3: $143 single, $358 family. Deductibles: No deductibles or co-insurance. Coverage: Covers one routine eye exam per year but no dental coverage. Covers 30 days inpatient per participant per year for mental health/alcohol/drug abuse services and $1,800 per participant per year in outpatient services. Prescriptions: Co-pays range from $5 to $15, depending on drugs. Source: Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds Assembly Republicans are steadfastly opposed, arguing this isn't the time or place for a decision this far-reaching, especially at budget time. The Republicans are right about the timing. The plan represents a major policy change and has all sorts of financial and other implications. It needs to be properly vetted and separated from the often acrimonious and partisan 11th-hour budget deliberations. But based on the plan's merits and the urgency of the problem, it must not be given short shrift or put into permanent cold storage by Republicans. That would be a huge mistake since, as the Democrats say, the Republicans themselves have yet to come up with their own plan of this scope, with the exception of such things as health savings accounts and greater transparency - sensible ideas, yes, but hardly a real fix. The Republicans unfairly call the plan "a jobs killer" and say the state and its employers can't afford the estimated $15.2 billion first-year cost. But neither can the state afford having private and public employers vainly trying to stanch the hemorrhaging of dollars for employee health care. It's economically unsustainable and in the long run costs society even more money, especially when those without health insurance avoid medical care or seek it in emergency rooms. The Senate proposal, borrowing from existing plans, would be paid for with a payroll tax - an average monthly cost of $140 for employees and $370 for employers, all of whom would have to participate, thus spreading the cost of health care. Democrats say everyone should enjoy the same health care as legislators. They're right, which is why the plan, like the one drafted by Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee) and consultant David Riemer, would use the successful state purchasing pool concept to provide quality health care and in turn save everyone money through such things as rewarding the most efficient providers, sharply reducing administrative costs and buying drugs in bulk. Among other pluses, participants would be able to pick their own doctors and health plans, regardless of pre-existing conditions, and keep the coverage if they lose their job. Annual deductibles would be a modest $300 per adult and $600 per family. There would be no cost-sharing for preventive health services or no co-pays for minors to encourage appropriate medical attention. The plan's called Healthy Wisconsin. That's appropriate. >From the June 28, 2007 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Leon Todd 414-444-9490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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