From timmckee at mail.com Wed Apr 2 17:53:02 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:53:02 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-dx] Red Pepper - Greens on trial (London Greens) Message-ID: <20080402215302.74E7332675A@ws1-8.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Manski" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] Red Pepper - Greens on trial Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:36:28 -0500 >From my friends at Red Pepper in the UK . . . this piece has some relevance and may seem familiar to those on the independent left and/or in the Greens in the U.S.A. . . . . - Ben Manski http://www.redpepper.org.uk/article1168.html Greens on trial The Greens can justifiably claim to be the largest progressive party in the UK, but often meet with suspicion from the left. Are they given a fair hearing ? Alex Nunns weighs the evidence There is a party, ostensibly of the left, that has more than 100 councillors (and rising), holds seats in the European Parliament and London Assembly, and might just drop an electoral bombshell by securing its first MP in the next general election. It's called the Green Party. But for reasons either of jealousy or good socialist sense, it is regularly hauled up before the Court of Left Opinion, suspected of being overly electoralist, unduly white, middle class, and Not Sufficiently Left. It doesn't even have factions that hate each other. Confusingly for the presiding judges of the court, none of this seems to matter too much to the public jury, who are giving favourable verdicts to the Greens in growing numbers. Quietly, unassumingly, the Green Party of England and Wales has been making strides over the past few years, propelled by the ever-increasing urgency of the climate catastrophe. Nevertheless, Red Pepper proposes a retrial -- a trial by media, after a fashion. *A party of the left ?* One of the main reasons why the left is suspicious as to whether the Greens _ can be counted among its number is that it contains many people who simply do not associate themselves with the British left and its glorious history of defeat. One such man is Chris Rose, the party's national election agent, who points out that 'many Green Party members wouldn't like to describe themselves as left. If we positioned ourselves as explicitly left it would be dangerous, with no guarantee of success. We need to keep our reputation on the environment.' But London Assembly member Darren Johnson, who is not on the left of the party, takes a different view : 'I'm not a socialist but I feel comfortable about being on the progressive left. Not the far left -- we never will be. But we're the serious party of the left and a potential power broker working with centre left parties, like the SNP in Scotland and Labour in some areas.' One thing is beyond doubt. Whether or not they see themselves as left, the Greens have a manifesto as radical as any other, based on sustainability and equality, which if implemented would constitute nothing short of a revolution. Their espousal of an end to economic growth is unique, and has resulted in attacks from parties who believe in either capitalism or the traditional Marxist model of growth leading to a world of plenty. Instead, the Greens promote economic localisation, and say wealth should be measured not in GDP but in overall wellbeing. And the party's policies stretch far wider than the environment. They would (if they could) make income tax more progressive ; replace VAT with eco-taxes ; replace benefits with a non-means tested citizens' income for everyone ; increase the pension ; nationalise the railways ; welcome asylum seekers ; stop the privatisation of council housing ; reverse the privatisation of health and education ; scrap PFI ; scrap prescription charges ; scrap tuition fees ; scrap ID cards ; scrap nuclear weapons and scrap wars. *Coalitions* So far so good. But other leftists squeal that when it comes down to electoral politics the Greens can be bloody uncooperative, as when they refused to make a pact with Respect before the last general election. Darren Johnson is defiant : 'We often get criticised by left groups for standing against them, but they can't even sustain coalitions with each other ! It would have been a disaster if we had had a coalition with Respect -- look where they are now.' But hang on. The Greens do form alliances on councils -- and have even been known to work with Tories. Most controversial was a coalition with the Conservatives and Lib Dems on Leeds City Council. The Greens eventually pulled out over plans for a new waste incinerator in 2006, after two years, but in many other places the Greens co-operate informally with other parties, including Tories. Chris Rose doesn't care : 'We say none of the mainstream parties are worth anything. So, if the situation demands it, it doesn't really matter which one we work with, just what the outcome is. We can't sit on the sidelines forever.' Others on the left of the party, like the party's male principal speaker Derek Wall, are much less keen on such arrangements and are clearly embarrassed by the Leeds example, but in a decentralised party they have had to learn to live with it. The potential for such unholy alliances goes further than just the council level. In December David Cameron announced that he wanted a 'progressive alliance' with the Lib Dems and the Greens to push for decentralisation. They rejected the offer as a publicity stunt, but it pointed to a new and unexpected problem for the Greens -- they're suddenly very popular with the other parties. For Caroline Lucas, MEP for South-East England and the party's female principal speaker, this is a double-edged sword : 'If the mainstream parties really were going green we'd react with delight, but there are no signs that it's anything more than words. In fact it's dangerous that they are using the rhetoric without taking action -- just look at Labour with coal-fired power stations.' 'But on the other hand, look at how our vote has gone up since Cameron started talking green,' she says. 'I think people are savvy, they see through the empty words, but they are alerted to the issues and go looking for the real Greens.' Darren Johnson believes the existence of the Green Party over the years has contributed to people taking the environment seriously, but that this is not enough. 'We have put pressure on the other parties to green up their act,' he says, 'but we aren't just a pressure group. In terms of making things happen you need Greens elected -- not necessarily in government but in a position to really push the agenda.' *Concrete green advances* For Chris Rose, what matters is the outcome -- the 'need to make concrete green advances'. He points to Kirklees and London as examples. Five per cent of all the solar energy generated in the UK is concentrated in Kirklees, the west Yorkshire borough that includes Huddersfield. The Greens hold four of the 69 seats on the council, which is under no overall control. This position has been sufficient to put some of their ideas into practice. Their latest success is a scheme for 30,000 homes to receive free cavity wall and loft insulation. The policy was voted through on a combined Green, Conservative and Lib Dem motion and means households will receive ?400 of insulation measures free of charge. The project is funded jointly by the council and private company Scottish Power -- something that might alarm many on the left, but which most Greens seem comfortable with. In London, the Greens' two Assembly members have found themselves in a pivotal position. Since Labour lost four seats in 2004, mayor Ken Livingstone has had to rely on the Greens to get his budgets through each year, giving Darren Johnson and Jenny Jones great bargaining power. They claim the credit for tripling the cycling budget from ?21 million to ?62 million and increasing the climate change budget for greener homes from just ?100,000 to ?12 million in four years. *Electoralist ?* So the Defence can present the court with evidence of creditable achievement. But now the Prosecution brings a new charge : electoralism. Chris Rose still doesn't care : 'We need to ensure that in everything we do we make the maximum electoral advantage. I've been on plenty of demos but I'd rather put people in power who don't need to be demonstrated against.' Even some on the left of the party, like health spokesman Stuart Jeffery, would prefer more electoralism : 'I do a shed-load at grass-roots level in Maidstone, like Keep Our NHS Public and community groups. We're not wholly electoralist. We're probably not electoralist enough. We should be more targeted and systematic.' Perhaps one of the reasons why many Greens aren't too bothered about being called electoralist is that they're getting pretty good at it. In last year's local elections the party increased its number of councillors by 20 per cent to 110. This year, in May, the party expects a further 10 per cent boost to that number, and is looking to increase its London Assembly representation from two seats to three. But what the Greens are most excited about is the prospect of their first MP. Their sights are set on Norwich, where they are likely to be the second biggest party on the council after May ; Oxford, where uber-activist Peter Tatchell will stand as a Green candidate in the next general election ; and most importantly Brighton, where Caroline Lucas stands a real chance of winning. In the Brighton Pavilion constituency at the last general election, Keith Taylor finished third for the Greens with 22 per cent of the vote, only marginally less than the second-placed Conservatives. Support in the city has been increasing ever since -- 27 per cent in the European elections ; 30 per cent in the locals ; and 41 per cent in the last council by-election before Christmas. Added to that, the incumbent Labour MP is standing down. 'In theory 26 per cent would win it,' says Chris Rose, who really does care about this. 'The big worry is that the Tories will come through. So we need to convince progressive people in Brighton to vote Green not Labour.' Greens hope the Brighton electorate will be inspired by the significance of the choice before them. On Caroline Lucas's election leaflets the appeal 'Help us make history' is emblazoned across a picture of the Houses of Parliament. 'All the evidence suggests that once you get the first Green elected to a council or authority, you break the credibility barrier and more follow,' Lucas comments. 'Remember Labour's first MP was elected in 1900, and by 1924 they were forming a government.' *First past the post* One of the reasons why the Greens have so far failed to break through that credibility barrier at the national level is the first-past-the-post voting system. In Germany, and more recently in Ireland and Scotland since devolution (where there is a separate Green Party), the Greens have fared well under proportional representation. Ironically, the experience of these successes suggests that the barriers erected by the electoral rules might be one reason why the English and Welsh Green Party tends to be more left than its European cousins, which have often been sucked into the prevailing system. But ideological purity has limited appeal against success, so in Brighton the Greens are thinking tactics. The obvious response is to throw resources at the city. This will happen, but the Green version of targeting is less severe than that practised by, for example, Respect, which focuses relentlessly on a few core areas. At the last general election the Greens stood candidates in more than 200 constituencies. Part of the reason is that the Green Party is more decentralised. Its 170 branches all sign up to national policy but retain a high degree of autonomy. But it is also a deliberate decision. Chris Rose explains : 'In the British political system you'll be laughed at if you only stand ten candidates. Unlike Respect we're a proper national party.' The first-past-the-post system is also forcing the Greens to tailor their political message. 'The threshold is so much higher that we have to think about how we appeal to people who don't see themselves as Greens,' Caroline Lucas says. 'We need to be far more creative in the way we communicate to win in a first-past-the-post election.' But does this mean a compromise with electoralism, that the programme will be sanitised and weakened in the fashion perfected by New Labour ? Lucas claims not : 'Our roots are so strong in the social movements that there is no risk that our policies will be watered down. We offer integrity in our policy package, which is entirely decided at party conference. That's what people buy into when they join the Greens. It's just about how to communicate those policies.' *Leadership* This feeling that the Greens need to communicate better with the public and the media was the main factor behind an upheaval in autumn last year. In a referendum the party decided by 73 to 27 per cent to change its structure and adopt a leader, replacing the strictly non-hierarchical system of two principal speakers. The debate echoed previous divisions between 'fundis' (fundamentalists) and 'realos' (realists), terms first coined in relation to splits in the German Green Party in the 1980s which have since been used to describe similar conflicts elsewhere. On the 'fundi' side was one principal speaker, Wall, and on the 'realo' side was the other, Lucas. 'The leadership question was simply about how we get the message across,' Lucas says. 'Social change is still also about building on the ground outside parliament, but having a leader, a recognisable figure to articulate our views to the public, is not in any way incompatible with that.' But others saw the move as substituting 'the "eco" of serious ecological commitment with the dreary "ego" of conventional, shallow, careerist British politics,' as Green Party London Assembly member Jenny Jones put it in the heat of the leadership battle. In response Lucas insists that the Greens 'should always be involved in non-violent direct action and consciousness-raising'. This, she says, is not in conflict with her own aspiration to be an MP. 'Having a Green MP would scale up the impact of what the social movements and campaigns do outside parliament. It would be an incredible breakthrough. It would send shockwaves through the political establishment.' *Factions ?* In any other left party such a fundamental question as whether to adopt a leader would have been marked by fierce faction fighting. But the Green Party is curiously lacking in this department. It has survived for more than 30 years without splitting up into five different sets of acronyms. The closest thing to a faction in the Green Party today is a group called the Green Left. Conceived by, amongst others, Derek Wall, Peter Tatchell and Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry in 2006, the group's job is to reach out to the wider left and link up with other socialists, with the added hope of bringing more left activists into the Green Party. Through its email list the Green Left also loosely coordinates action in the party. It comprises hundreds of eco-socialist activists, but represents nowhere near a majority in a party of 7,500 members. Nevertheless, as Wall points out, he has been elected to the principal speaker position twice on a platform of 'eco-socialism without apology', suggesting that the group does have some organisational strength. On a practical level Wall believes that Green Left has been 'very successful in bringing through policies and bringing socialists into the party'. He believes passionately in forging links with committed activists of the Labour left, Respect (both versions), the Communist Party of Britain, the Socialist Party, and beyond to what he sees as the eco-socialist movements of Latin America, especially in Venezuela and Bolivia. The unions are a particular focus. In February, Wall and Green MEPs Caroline Lucas and Jean Lambert addressed a trade union conference on climate change. The Green Party supports the TUC's proposed trade union freedom bill, which would roll back Thatcher's anti-union laws. And unions that are not affiliated to Labour, like the FBU and the RMT, have already funded Green Party activities. But Wall aspires to the example of Australia where Green-union links are far more developed, to the extent that construction unions have imposed 'green bans' and refused to work on certain developments on environmental grounds. *White, middle class academics* One obstacle to closer relations is the suspicion in the trade union and labour movements that the Greens are just a bunch of white, middle class academics. A cursory glance around the Green Party's conference in Reading in February revealed that delegates were indeed overwhelmingly white and well-spoken ; many of them boasted a Dr before their name ; and an improbably high proportion of members seemed to have a perfect grasp of the most intricate details of green energy technologies. But this is unfair. Something similar is true of most party conferences (with the exception of Respect), and the Greens had a higher proportion of women than is usually seen. Away from conference, Greens insist they have been picking up support in ethnic minority and working class areas. The best example of this is Lewisham in south-east London where the Greens occupy six of 54 seats on the council. Darren Johnson, who has been a Lewisham councillor since 2002, as well as a London Assembly member, tells how he 'started campaigning in Lewisham in the mid-1990s. By 1998 we got 30 per cent in my ward. That was the Guardian-reading middle classes, but it proved enough of a base to then widen our support. The big difference now is that we're getting votes on the council estates, which make up about a quarter of the ward. You can't get 50 per cent in Lewisham without significant support from ethnic minorities and the working class.' Meanwhile, Stuart Jeffery thinks the class accusation is outrageous. 'We're not middle class idiots,' he barks (as your intrepid questioner ducks for cover). 'That's quite offensive. I don't mind being called an idiot but don't call me middle class.' *The verdict* Back in the courthouse both sides have finished presenting their arguments. The judge bangs his gavel and addresses the court. 'Members of the jury, it would be difficult for any leftist to read the Greens' last election manifesto (Exhibit A) and not agree with the vast majority of it. At the heart of the party's policies is a desire to stop all exploitation, not only of the planet but of the people too. 'Yet the Greens will clearly never satisfy some on the left. They do have an electoral slant, they do encompass a range of political traditions and they do take a pragmatic attitude that, while refreshing, can lead to alliances with Tories.' The jury retires. In the public gallery, Derek Wall looks nervous. Chris Rose still doesn't care. In the visitors' section, a fight breaks out between a member of Respect and someone from Respect Renewal. The jury returns -- it has failed to reach a verdict. The judge declares a retrial ... by you, the readers. Let us know what you think in our forums _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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This edition is all in English so you can leave your English-French dictionary on the shelf. Sincerely, Mike DeRosa http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-842180934463681887 Description: On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE - French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. Maggie vient flotte pied Face full of black soot Visage plein de suie noire Talkin' that the heat put Talkin 'que la chaleur met Plants in the bed but Plantes dans le lit mais The phone's tapped anyway Le t?l?phone de l'appel de toute fa?on Maggie says that many say Maggie dit que beaucoup dire They must bust in early May Ils doivent buste au d?but de mai Orders from the DA Commandes par le DA Look out kid Look out kid Don't matter what you did Ne pas ce que vous avez fait affaire Walk on your tip toes Marcher sur votre bout des orteils Don't try, 'No Doz' Ne pas essayer, 'Non Doz' Better stay away from those Mieux rester ? l'?cart de ceux That carry around a fire hose Qui transportent autour d'un tuyau d'incendie Keep a clean nose Conservez une nettoyer le nez Watch the plain clothes Regarder la plaine v?tements You don't need a weather man Vous n'avez pas besoin d'un m?t?orologue homme To know which way the wind blows. Pour savoir dans quel sens souffle le vent. From cpr101 at hotmail.com Thu Apr 3 19:18:06 2008 From: cpr101 at hotmail.com (Christopher Reilly) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:18:06 -0400 Subject: {news} Annual Convention Ballots at Printer Message-ID: I just finished submitting the Annual Convention letter and ballot to our printer (USPS Mailing Online). We are sending out a three-page letter/ballot to 1,699 addresses at a total cost of $1,365.60 ($752.66 for printing and $612.94 for postage). The letters are scheduled to be printed and mailed this Saturday (April 5). --Chris Reilly _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Apr 4 11:57:33 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:57:33 +0000 Subject: {news} Jean de Smet opposes diesel plant In-Reply-To: <0016e642d64a044a08f28e16c25fc39@google.com> References: <0016e642d64a044a08f28e16c25fc39@google.com> Message-ID: http://www.wfsb.com/money/15788295/detail.html Power Plant Opponents: CL&P Bullying Us Utility Proposes Building Power Plant In Lebanon POSTED: 8:32 pm EDT April 3, 2008 LEBANON, Conn. -- Some opponents of a proposal to build a power plant in Lebanon believe they're being bullied by the utility company. The proposed diesel-powered plant would only kick in during periods of high electricity demand, according to Connecticut Light and Power, which has a proposal to build on land it owns in Lebanon. An electrical substation currently sits on the utility's land. People in the neighborhood said they oppose the plant in their neighborhood or in anyone else's. "I feel that in this day and age, people are very conscious of what's happening to their health and the health of their children, and it's unacceptable," said Luanne Llanes, of Lebanon. "We feel that CL&P is bullying us and we're not going to have it." Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Dan Kain reported the site is about 19 feet from the Windham town line and downtown Willimantic is a half-mile away. "Willimantic is in a valley, Windham is in a valley, and the pollution from the power plant, which will be running on hot, humid days, will come down off the mountain and lay over our city," Windham First Selectman Jean de Smet said. "We're very concerned about the health aspects." Kain said the issue is over the need for the plant or more peak power plants in general. "My understanding from state agencies is that we don't have a peak-power problem and won't have one for 10 years, at least. I think that we're missing the boat if we don't concentrate on energy conservation. That's what we're trying to do here," de Smet said. If the state Department of Public Utility Control approves the project, the state's Siting Council will hold a public hearing. ? 2008 by WFSB.com. _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up?use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. Learn how. hthttp://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_packup_042008 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Apr 4 12:00:25 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:00:25 +0000 Subject: {news} Annual Convention Ballots at Printer Message-ID: That's great, Chris. Can you send me a copy of the list you used for Fairfield County? I may have a few new members who will need ballots. David Bedell ----------Original message---------------- I just finished submitting the Annual Convention letter and ballot to our printer (USPS Mailing Online). We are sending out a three-page letter/ballot to 1,699 addresses at a total cost of $1,365.60 ($752.66 for printing and $612.94 for postage). The letters are scheduled to be printed and mailed this Saturday (April 5). --Chris Reilly _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Apr 4 13:11:36 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:11:36 +0000 Subject: {news} Four Greens Fight for Their Party's Nomination In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is an article about the Rhode Island Green Party from the Phoenix, a Boston alternative newsweekly. Would Tim or anyone like to get a press release out about the CT convention? David Bedell Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:59:16 -0400 Subject: Green convention From: gerritt at mindspring.com To: gerritt at mindspring.com Green convention For my friends who do not know about my secret life. Greg http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid59116.aspx FOUR GREENS FIGHT FOR THEIR PARTY?S NOMINATION Alternative Politics By TIM LEHNERT April 2, 2008 4:25:41 PM Supporters of Cynthia McKinney, an African-American who served 12 years in Congress as a Georgia Democrat, say that choosing a presidential nominee doesn?t have to mean selecting between a black and a female candidate. McKinney is one of four people seeking the Green Party presidential nomination. The others are Kent Mesplay, a San Diego air quality inspector; West Virginian Jesse Johnson (who has been endorsed by former senator and Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel); and Texan Kat Swift. McKinney appears to be the frontrunner; the contest will be decided at the Green Party?s national convention in Chicago in July. Noticeably absent from the Green slate is Ralph Nader, who is running as an independent, even though he won the Califor?nia primary as a Green (the Greens were able to run candidates in four state primaries). Nader ran as a Green in 1996 and 2000, and is perhaps as controversial a figure within the Green Party as outside it. Some feel that the party would be best served by new leadership, while other Greens have defected to the Nader camp or are urging that the Greens draft Nader to run on their behalf. For his part, Nader says he stresses many of the same issues as the Greens. Of key interest to Nader, and to independent and small party candidates in general, is gaining ballot access, so that voters can actually choose non-major party candidates when it counts. Locally, the Green Party of Rhode Island will meet on Saturday, April 5 at 2 pm at the William Hall Library, 1825 Broad St., Cranston, to choose delegates for the Chicago convention. Rhode Island Greens will send at least four delegates, and possibly as many as eight, to the national meeting. ?The state convention,? says Greg Gerritt, secretary of the local party, ?is where people have an opportunity to caucus and really vote with their feet.? Prospective Rhode Island delegates will indicate their support for a given presidential candidate, and state meeting attendees will literally line up behind them. Delegate votes for July?s national convention will then be allocated proportionally. The Greens have no illusions about their hopes for capturing the presidency in 2008. ?All we can do,? says Gerritt ?is run good campaigns.? Gerritt sees a chasm between the Greens and the major parties on the issues of defense spending and the environment. ?It?s time to not only stop the war,? he says, ?but also the war machine.? Gerritt says that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans appreciate the scope of the climate crisis, and that neither party is willing to tackle environmental problems in a comprehensive way. Come November, the Greens may end up splitting those voters to the left of the Democrats with Nader. Fertile ground for both Nader and the Greens could be disaffected Obama supporters, should Hilary Clinton capture the Democratic nomination. ?If Clinton gets the nomination,? says Gerritt, ?we may pick up some people. We?re not going to pick up Hilary?s people.? _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sat Apr 5 01:57:26 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:57:26 +0000 Subject: {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals Message-ID: The National GP Platform Amendment Proposals have been posted for comment. These proposals have been accepted, but corrections may be submitted two months prior to the July national convention. Delegates at the July convention will vote on the platform. Here are the topics of the amendments. Follow the link to download individual proposal documents: http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/draft/work 2008 Platform Amendment Proposals Multiple sections Multiple sections Preamble Democracy (I.A-C) Opposition to Draft (I.C. Community) Foreign Policy (I.D.[New Plank]) Foreign Policy (I.D.1.) Foreign Policy - Peace in the Middle East (I.D.2.) Foreign Policy - Space (I.F.) Foreign Policy - Trade (I.D.3.) Social Justice (II.A-C) Women's Rights (II.A.1.) Youth Rights (II.A.8.) Education (II.E.) Health Care (II.F.) Labor (II.G.) Criminal Justice (II.H.) Criminal Justice (II.H.) - Drugs Population (II.I.) Population (II.I.) Housing and Homelessness (II.L.) Immigration / Emigration (II.K.) Ecological Sustainability (III.A-F.) Animal Rights issues in multiple sections (mostly III.J.) Animal Rights (III.H-L.) Nuclear (III.B.) Water (III.G.) Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Rights, Ocean Protection, Biological Diversity (III.H-L.) Economic Sustainability (IV.A-H.) Citizen Control Over Corporations (IV.C.) National Debt (IV.M.) Note the following rules: http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/format.pdf 4. Corrections to website amendments must come from your [State] Steering Committee or Caucus, not from one person. We will use a simple rating system to evaluate support or opposition for a proposed amendment. (SEE RATING FORMULA BELOW.) 5. Final draft by two months prior to 2008 convention. There should only be a few, if any, unresolved issues at this point. Unresolved amendments will be circulated back to states/caucuses at least two months prior to the convention for last-minute feedback, informing them that they could be voting on these at the final platform hearings, to be scheduled as close as possible to the day preceding the presidential nominating convention. Any items and language that remain to be determined at the final hearings, if such are needed, will be made available to all convention delegates as part of the convention packets (as well as available online). http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/schedule.pdf 1 April to 10 May - Grace Period so the Platform Committee can compile the Amendments ? The website 'closed' but still ?up? and visible so as not to cause alarm to Party members. Contents will change as complete, negotiated and compromised amendments are put up on it. Materials which are not considered at this point to have a reasonable estimation by the Platform Committee and its interlocutors will be excluded from the Draft Platform. 11 May to July Assembly Date -- Final Draft Reading Period This is the beginning of the two month period in which the complete Platform as Amended is available on the National Green Party website and can be viewed and read by all interested parties. July ? Nominating Convention in Chicago This will include one plenary and voting period for the National Party to approve its Platform. In the event of major disagreement or failure of vote to approve, the points of contention are to be resolved in a final session between the conflicting factions, mediated by the Platform Committee, with the outcome to be approved by the Steering Committee. While in a difficult situation, one or two planks might be decided, the Platform as a whole will be adopted by an up or down vote. All the above information is from the Green Party Platform Committee, http://gp.org/committees/platform Committee Co-Chairs are: John Ely - johnbethany at earthlink.net Jenefer Ellingston - jellingston at greens.org _________________________________________________________________ Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic. http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N1653A From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Sat Apr 5 14:58:52 2008 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:58:52 -0400 Subject: {news} =?windows-1252?q?FW=3A_=5Busgp-nc=5D__Bigotry_and_prejudice_rear?= =?windows-1252?q?_it=92s_ugly_head_in_the_Green_Party?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I GUESS I AM NOT ALONE.........LONG AND TRUE. WHAT ROLE DOES MCCABE HAVE IN THIS? I HAVE BEEN ON AL WADA LISTSEREV IT WAS RIFE WITH LIES, HATE AND SUPPORTED BOMBER AS FREEDOM FIGHTERS>>>>>>>>AMY> From: ncanaan at hotmail.com> To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:12:46 -0400> Subject: [usgp-nc] Bigotry and prejudice rear it?s ugly head in the Green Party> > > > Bigotry and prejudice rear it?s ugly head in the Green Party> > TO: GPUS National Office> GP Steering committee.> GP International committee.> GP Peace Action Committee.> GPUS Press Release office.> David J. Kalbfleisch, - Green congressional candidate in Illinois' 10th district dave at electdave.org> Mohammed K. Abed, Wisconsin Green Party mkabed at wisc.edu > Kathleen Culver, Green candidate for Congress in Tennessee newtribe at hughes.net> Ruth Weill, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party.> ruthweill at gmail.com> > > > RE: Objection to press release: Greens urge economic pressure and cutoff of all military aid to Israel as Gaza situation worsens> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES> http://www.gp.org> For Immediate Release:> Monday, March 3, 2008Re-Release as follows> Home | Press | Print> Greens, Calling for Palestinian Rights, Urge Divestment from Israel> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES> http://www.gp.org > Monday, November 28, 2005> Contacts:> Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org > Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org > Mohammed K. Abed, Wisconsin Green Party, 608-332-9900, mkabed at wisc.edu > Justine McCabe, International Committee, 860-354-1822, justinemccabe at earthlink.net > > > RE: Objection to: The peace action committee> Posting their support of Al-Awda, and the following purpose of said group.** This can be found on the Peace Action WIKI page: > > 1. Political and material isolation of the Genocidal Zionist State> > > > > As a Green Party member committed to finding solutions for peace, I strongly object to the one sided inflammatory verbiage contained in the above releases and endorsements by the Green Party. > I call for the Green Party to discontinue their obvious anti-Israel policy for the following reasons.> > At this very moment, and for the past 60 years, 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Palestinians, the PLO, Hezbollah* - and Hamas **- have undeniably waged war both politically and militarily as well as religiously against the state of Israel and it?s Jewish population.> *(Hezbollah leaders have made numerous statements calling for the destruction of Israel, which they describe as an unlawful "entity". {Wikipedia.} Six countries, list Hezbollah, or its external security arm, as a terrorist organization)> **(Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization by Canada, Israel, Japan, and the United States, and is banned in Jordan. Australia and the United Kingdom list only the militant wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as a terrorist organization. The European Union lists Hamas as a group 'involved in terrorist attacks' and has implemented restrictive measures against Hamas. {Wikipedia}.)> > With the above in mind, I suggest the Green Party has no right to attack the only democratic country in the Middle East for defending itself for the past six decades. > I also suggest that there appears to be a disconnect in the minds of many greens on the matter of religious freedom. The state of Israel happens to be the only place on this planet where Jews are safe from religious persecution both theoretically, by political intent and in actual practice. But sadly, Israel is not safe from the bigotry or religious persecution from the Arab world.> Religious freedom should sound familiar to any Green, to any American. Yet, our Green Party makes no attempt to condemn religious persecution in the form of religious venom spewing across Israel?s borders (from the Arab world) whether it?s rockets being dropped on Israel?s Jewish civilians or political perfidy from the floor of the UN. > > Consider for a moment> Maybe the Arabian Peninsula, which was divided up into separate countries should be forced to coalesce and become one nation? Maybe the United States should retreat behind its original 1776 borders? Or maybe America should be given back to the American Indians whose claim to ownership is unquestionable.> > Consider for a moment, the actions of the UN dividing up Yugoslavia into three separate countries. There is no outcry from the Green Party over the millions of displaced people separated ethnically, who will never be able to return to their homes (across newly drawn borders;) or to Sarajevo, a magnificent city which is now subject to ethnic restrictions. > Consider the UN?s military barriers that have been placed between them to keep them separated and segregated. Why hasn?t the UN created a military barrier between the Arab world and Israel?> Why the opposition from the entire Arab world, America and Great Britain to this almost standard UN procedure?> > Take into consideration what happened when Cuba invited communist Russia onto its shore. Missiles were aimed at Cuba, which would have decimated the tiny island. In other words America went ballistic! America even helped Cuban exiles wage a military action against Cuba, a country that didn?t even fire one bullet at America?s mainland nor made any move to attack America. > The invasion failed, so instead of building a wall between the two countries America used a fortuitously placed natural barrier, called the Atlantic Ocean to keep the two nations separate.> The American Coast Guard vigorously patrols this natural barrier and shots down, takes prisoners or returns anyone coming from Cuba. > And there?s no one in America who would disagree, that missiles would have been launched if Cuba had made a serious move against America, as the communist world kept saying it would do. > We still have no political relationship with Cuba. We still have our gunships aimed at them. Why isn?t the Green Party actively engaged in this important issue, which is right here in our own backyard?> > Why doesn?t the Green Party condemn China, call for boycotts on every single product on our shelves that is made in China? Why doesn?t the Green Party call for an all out cessation of any and all economic aid and ties to a country that is loathsome when it comes to civil rights and human rights? Why doesn?t the Green Party put out one press release after another after another, against a country that mows down its citizens with assault weapons, is still is acquisition colonial mode in Tibet, throws it?s citizens into jail for speaking out against the government and has a population of undocumented, uneducated, unrecognized and displaced 2nd or 3rd children?> > One of the major jobs of a government is to protect its citizens from assault within its borders. The United States has a government at the moment, who not only failed to do this, but with Cheney pulling away the air defenses we had (for war games) on 9/11 and Bush saying he sat outside the classroom watching one of the towers being hit, it appears Bush/Cheney and Company have been complicit in the attack. The American Congress has not impeached this tag team, nor stopped the funding for this tag team?s military action in Iraq, which is 70% outsourced to private companies such as Blackwater and Halliburton. > Israel is being attacked. It?s the job of its government to stop this and safeguard its citizens. You will have to excuse me, but it?s plain hubris for Americans to sit comfortably in their homes and decide how much force they find acceptable for any country to use to protect itself from an immediate and imminent proven threat. > > Why does the Green Party give credence and support to 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Arabs of Gaza, the Arabs of The West Bank, Hezbollah and Hamas, and those anti Israel people here in America, who refuse to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist in peace without daily threat of death and destruction. Why doesn?t the Green Party cry out against this religious persecution? Even Ray Hanania, from the Arab Writers Group Syndicate calls for an end to all forms of violence against Israeli civilians, calling Arab violence ?a terrorism that is immoral and inhumane and illegal?.> The press releases issuing out of GPUS are abysmally one sided, prejudicial and smacks of anti-Israel bigotry. The Resolution Adopted by the Green Party of the United States, on November 21, 2005, Whereby The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) publicly calls for divestment from and boycott of the State of Israel also unfairly targets Israel. > > The Jews of Israel are up against 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Palestinians, the PLO, Hezbollah, (a terrorist organization) and Hamas. (A group 'involved in terrorist attacks.)> Why are the Jews of Israel facing these astronomically dire odds? > For their right to remain in Israel, a country they emerged from in 1671 BCE, and inhabited since 1272 BCE and gained statehood in 1948; for their right to be free from religious persecution.> > The Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank, originally from what used to be called Palestine, (forced into tent cities and not welcomed by the Islamic world who built walls both physically and politically, to prevent them from crossing into neighboring Arab nations) have remained in limbo for 60 years. During these 60 years they have been exploited and subjected to the special agenda of the Arab world at-large while the UN has been thwarted at every turn from accomplishing any relocating efforts. In fact the refugee catastrophe is one of the UN?s most shameful and inexcusable failures. > There?ve been no refugees left for 60 years like the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have. Nor has there been any way so far, to reconcile, as I will go into below. > > Contrary to innuendo and outright claims by some Greens, Israel is not a racist nation. But, if the label needs to be placed with anyone, then Racism is an Arab Policy.> My assertion that racist policy lies at the doorstep of the Arab world is unequivocally backed up by 60 years of instigated and perpetuated aggression specifically directed against Israel?s Jewish population.> > And if it?s not Arab Racism that should be looked at and condemned, it?s Arab Sexism of the worst possible kind that runs rampant in the Middle Eastern Arab nations, and should be addressed most ardently by the world, and especially by the Greens. The subservient, powerless nature of females in Arab society is well documented, as are the wars of aggression perpetrated upon Israel by its surrounding Arab neighbors. > Not only did 21 Arab nations declare their intent to destroy Israel in ?48 but they also called on every Arab living in Palestine to wage war on the Jews; and then proceeded to invade Israel from all sides while the world stood back and watched.> What Green has the right to condemn Israel for it?s rigorous and yes, deadly defensive actions; that Israel feels absolutely necessary in order to defend its borders and protect its citizens?> Consider for a moment, the only reason North and South Korea aren?t at each others throats is due to the enormous military barrier in place. Who?s paying for that barrier? If this barrier were removed wouldn?t it be likely the north would move on the south? Is this barrier acceptable to the Greens since they are not protesting the use of military power this way?> Does the Green Party condone gunships leveled against Cuba and military barrier walls against North Korea while in the same breath condemning Israel for protecting itself? Where is the incessant outcry from the Greens against China?s human rights and civil rights violations that are too numerous to count? Where is the outcry from the Green Party against human and civil rights abuses in the Arab world against it?s female population and interestingly enough against the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank? > The slant and intent of the press releases as well as the call for a boycott is unwarranted and is weighted down with anti Israel sentiment. > > The Jewish people lived in Israel for thousands of years before Muslim Arabs came onto the scene. Furthermore Jews are the indigenous population of Israel, being thrown out of their homeland by war and conquerors and continually returning.> > For your reference, a brief history follows:> 1671 BCE Abraham & Sarah (in present day Israel)> 1428 BCE Egyptian slavery begins (Israelites)> 1312 BCE Exodus and Ten Commandments> 1299 Ottoman Empire established> 1272 BCE Jewish People re-enter Israel> 825 BCE First Temple built> First Temple destroyed; > 422 BCE Babylonian exile begins > 352 BCE Second Temple built> Second Temple destroyed;> 70 CE Roman exile begins> 571 CE Mohammad born > 620 CE Islamic Renaissance> 633 CE Mohammad died> 1096 CE First Crusade> 1420 CE Italian Renaissance > 1492 CE Expulsion of Spanish Jewry> 1923 Ottoman Empire dismantled into separate nations> 1939 CE Holocaust> 1948 CE Jewish people reinstated in Israel> 1967 CE Reunification of Jerusalem> > During thousands of years of history, the Jewish people fought with other nations and tribes in the area just as African nations went to war with their neighbors, just as one American Indian nation fought with another Indian Nation. > Wars were not uncommon, but their outcome doesn?t fall into the definition of apartheid then or now.> > Yet apartheid seems to be today?s flavor of the month word. A word flung about indiscriminatingly and incorrectly by many Greens. Apartheid was a political system in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990?s that gave empire building people of white European origin both political, cultural, social and economic privileges while keeping the indigenous African black population segregated. This type of segregation was for the purpose of forcibly acquiring South Africa?s natural resources for profit.> Israel, on the other hand, built a wall between themselves and people who blow up their children. This is not apartheid.> Israel has been in defensive mode for decades. That this defensive mode necessitated their acquiring tactically necessary land in order to prevent attaches from high ground and then taking land to create a buffer against this attack is necessary for Israel?s survival, but wouldn?t be necessary anymore if the Arab world ended their war on Israel. Am I the only person who can see Arab and Jew living side by side in one land? Or even side by side in two lands? Or side-by-side in any way the two parties themselves decide?> > GPUS is calling for cutting off aid to Israel, but doesn?t take into account or seem to object to the lethal policy of military aggression towards Israel conducted by Arab nations. Nations who receive billions of dollars from the American taxpayer every year. GPUS doesn?t seem to object to the stupendous military buildup in Saudi Arabia that rivals anything in the area, and the military aid to other Arab countries for weapons that have been and are continually used against Israeli citizens? > GPUS doesn?t seem to object to the largest growing industry world wide, that of the private military outsourcing industry which is crawling all over the Middle East. This industry has put America into triple billion-dollar debt and is growing at record speeds to trillion dollar cost status worldwide. > The press releases make no mention of the ongoing bill American citizens pay for arming the Arab world, yet the Green Party is calling for an end to economic aid to the only free democratic country in the region. Why isn?t the Green Party running a vigorous campaign to stop funding the Arab world, or even to stop Blackwater, Halliburton and all other private military outsourcing companies whose financial windfalls are crushing the American taxpayer?> Are there many Greens in America who feel it?s ok to exclusively arm the Arab world? Or to arm the Bush/Cheney and company?s private military worldwide that might very well bring about WW III?> Furthermore, does the Arab world have the right to maim, kill, murder and use deadly force towards the Jews of Israel or towards anyone who supports the nation of Israel, even if it?s another Arab?> > Are there many Greens in America who feel the Arab nations, including the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have the right to be a deadly daily threat to every citizen in Israel, every day of every year in perpetuity? > > What If the Arab world actually stopped exploiting their brethren in Gaza and the West Bank, who they?re using as their front line suicide pawns? What if the Arab world stopped this exploitation, which is both economical, and political, would peace be possible? Of course! But it means America must stay out of the picture, the whole picture, regardless of the issue of oil in the Middle East. > One of the serious questions the Green Party needs to ask is why does the Arab world segregate the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank? Are they some sort of threat to the Arab world? Is there some history that?s beneath the surface which makes these particular Arabs dangerous or is Gaza and the West Bank being punished for not standing and killing every Jew in the state of Israel? Why the animosity from the Arab world? > Why would Egypt, for instance, carry on an inhuman and immoral action, which it recently did, against Gaza?s Arabs who tried to flee into Egypt?> > Is war ok? No, > But it appears that no one wants to deal with the fact that there can be peace in the Middle East tomorrow. So there will continue to be Arab aggression against Israel - with no end in sight. > Are refugee camps ok? No.> but even though the UN has dealt successfully with refuges in many difficult and complex situations over the years, the opposition they?ve encountered from the entire Arab world is why there is a refugee Gaza and a refugee West Bank ? with no end in sight.> > War decimates human rights as it escalates down into its inevitable outcome. It?s no different in the Middle East. War becomes an atrocity, and in the Middle East both sides have compiled and published detailed corroborated incidents delineating the only outcome of war, that being abuses and death at every corner, no matter which way you turn. But I pose a question to the Green Party. Aren?t the human rights as well as the civil rights of every young person being brain washed into committing suicide, while becoming murders, being violated? Isn?t this an urgent issue that desperately needs light shown on it? Maybe more so than any other issue?> > The landscape of war is one of destruction. The loss of a child, a mother, a father, a brother, an aunt, an uncle, and/or robbing children of their childhood by turning 12 to 18 year olds into killers and murderers, is the only outcome of war. > No matter which side you turn to, there is loss, suffering and pain. No matter whether it?s Africa, the Middle East or across the steppes of Russia to Asia, or even here in the United States that has an unending trail of broken treaties with it?s native American People, > War is poisonous policy, with profits going to old men while our young people, with their blood and their lives, pay the bill.> > Israeli?s have been attached, their young mutilated and murdered from the very moment of statehood so many decades ago to the present day. Arabs have suffered great losses in retaliation and their young killed.> Is the Palestinian family suffering over the loss of their loving and wonderful young son? Yes. Is the Israeli family who had their beautiful young daughter physically maimed for life and brain damaged in a suicide bombers attack suffering? Yes. Is war totally destructive to all sides? Yes.> Does war push the opposing sides into desperately lethal waters? Yes. Does war wind up being brutal, filled with atrocities as it engages in its inevitable blood bath? Yes.> > Presently, Israel has built it?s own wall, and the incident of alarmingly young Arab children or mentally challenged woman committing suicide at the moment they become murderers has been drastically reduced. Will there be more walls?> > The silence from the Green Party all these years concerning the attacks by 21 Arab nations, SADR, the West Bank and Gaza plus the military/religious Arab extremist groups, and the funding they engage in to wage this war on Israel is reprehensible in my estimation. > To be silent is to condone. > > The road out of this quagmire of killing, retaliation, revenge and death is squarely laid out on the peace table. But peace has to travel through:> Algeria > Bahrain> Comoros> Djibouti> Egypt> Iraq> Jordan> Kuwait> Lebanon> Libya> Mauritania> Morocco> Oman> Palestinians> Qatar> Saudi Arabia> Somalia> Sudan> Syria> Tunisia> United Arab Emirates> Western Sahara (SADR)> and Yemen> Whose political policy is the total and unequivocal annihilation of Israel. > > In the end, peace must come from within, from grassroots pressure exerted on both sides demanding that the landscape not be painted with the blood of their children, but with the colors of peace. > > How can the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank sue for peace, be returned to their homes, or receive adequate compensation if they?re continually waging an active violent destructive campaign against Israel? How can the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank and the state of Israel find peace if the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank refuse to acknowledge Israel?s right to exist? > > What if Israel said fine, Mr. And Mrs. ? here is you house back. Will that work? Will Mr. and Mrs. Returned Property join Israeli society, become good citizens and contribute to the well being of all? Will Mr. and Mrs. Returned Property declare that Israel has nothing to fear from them now or in the future and that they will change their political policy so that the Jews of Israel and the Muslims of the Arab world (or at least Gaza and the West Bank) can co exist in peace and harmony? > They say not. > > And here in America the Green Party and its members take pot shots at Israel; while with their stupendous silence they condone the ongoing war of aggression perpetrated by the Arab world upon Israel. > > Both Israelis and the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have been put in an untenable position. It must be akin to living in a fishbowl. There is no room to maneuver and the waters are getting murkier and poisonous. > For the Greens, maybe their part is stopping Cheney who it?s been recently revealed removed America?s air defenses on September 11, 2001. For the Greens, maybe their part is stopping Cheney who went fishing off the Sultan of Oman's royal yacht on the 5th anniversary of the ?manufactured war? he and Bush started in Iraq? A war that?s stolen the lives of four thousand American young men and women. A war that?s put America another trillion dollars in debt. > Maybe the Green Party should be stopping Bush who said he sat outside a schoolroom watching one of the twin towers being hit and for hideously rendering the word patriot unrecognizable by using it to name one of the most repugnantly undemocratic and unconstitutional political orders this country has ever been responsible for. > Maybe the Green Party needs to put all its efforts into stopping another election being stolen through computer manipulation, by any candidate? > Maybe the Green Party needs to elect a President ? VP ? and Congress who will reinstitute the Constitution and The Bill of Rights to it?s rightful place within our political body in order to protect individual rights against corporate new world order right wing fanatics? > Maybe this is what the Green Party needs to do in order to help bring about peace not only in the Middle East but also around the world.> > The Greens, if they take any stand, must first and foremost call for the Arab world to acknowledge Israel?s right to exist.> To take this stand would be monumentally positive, since this one act, if accomplished, would instantly remove the aggression and antagonism from all the people, Arab Muslim, Christian or Israeli Jew, Muslim or Christian in and around Israel. > Once the threat to Israel?s survival is removed anything is possible, compensation, return of property, roads opened up and a free flow of industry and learning. > Can the world imagine children from Gaza and the West Bank going to school with Israeli children? Can the Arab world imagine this? Can the Green Party envision this?> I can envision peace tomorrow, can the Green Party? > > > > > > __________________________________> Furthermore!> The peace action committee> Posted this on their WIKI page: **> > 1) Political and material isolation of the Genocidal Zionist State> > With this endorsement, and the incorrect and inflammatory use of language, you?re looking at the face of bigotry and racism. What?s looking back is the Green Party of the United States!> > > **Nowhere did the Peace committee condemn Arab and/or Palestinian religious bigotry towards the Jews of Israel nor did the Peace committee condemn the continual human rights and civil rights violations by the surrounding Arab countries against the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank. > The full script on the WIKI site can be found in GPAX Notices> > > > > > _________________________________________________________________> Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger.> http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008> _______________________________________________> 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... 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Please reply with jist of contents of these submissions if we need to be concerned?> From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com> To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:57:26 +0000> Subject: {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals> > 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> > The National GP Platform Amendment Proposals have been posted for comment. These proposals have been accepted, but corrections may be submitted two months prior to the July national convention. Delegates at the July convention will vote on the platform.> > Here are the topics of the amendments. Follow the link to download individual proposal documents:> http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/draft/work> > 2008 Platform Amendment Proposals> > Multiple sections> Multiple sections> Preamble> Democracy (I.A-C)> Opposition to Draft (I.C. Community)> Foreign Policy (I.D.[New Plank])> Foreign Policy (I.D.1.)> Foreign Policy - Peace in the Middle East (I.D.2.)> Foreign Policy - Space (I.F.)> Foreign Policy - Trade (I.D.3.)> Social Justice (II.A-C)> Women's Rights (II.A.1.)> Youth Rights (II.A.8.)> Education (II.E.)> Health Care (II.F.)> Labor (II.G.)> Criminal Justice (II.H.)> Criminal Justice (II.H.) - Drugs> Population (II.I.)> Population (II.I.)> Housing and Homelessness (II.L.)> Immigration / Emigration (II.K.)> Ecological Sustainability (III.A-F.)> Animal Rights issues in multiple sections (mostly III.J.)> Animal Rights (III.H-L.)> Nuclear (III.B.)> Water (III.G.)> Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Rights, Ocean Protection, Biological Diversity (III.H-L.)> Economic Sustainability (IV.A-H.)> Citizen Control Over Corporations (IV.C.)> National Debt (IV.M.)> > Note the following rules:> > http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/format.pdf> > 4. Corrections to website amendments must come from your [State] Steering Committee or Caucus, not> from one person. We will use a simple rating system to evaluate support or opposition for a> proposed amendment. (SEE RATING FORMULA BELOW.)> > 5. Final draft by two months prior to 2008 convention. There should only be a few, if any,> unresolved issues at this point. Unresolved amendments will be circulated back to> states/caucuses at least two months prior to the convention for last-minute feedback, informing> them that they could be voting on these at the final platform hearings, to be scheduled as close as> possible to the day preceding the presidential nominating convention. Any items and language> that remain to be determined at the final hearings, if such are needed, will be made available to> all convention delegates as part of the convention packets (as well as available online).> > http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/schedule.pdf> > 1 April to 10 May - Grace Period so the Platform Committee can compile the Amendments ?> The website 'closed' but still ?up? and visible so as not to cause alarm to Party members.> Contents will change as complete, negotiated and compromised amendments are put up on it.> Materials which are not considered at this point to have a reasonable estimation by the Platform> Committee and its interlocutors will be excluded from the Draft Platform.> > 11 May to July Assembly Date -- Final Draft Reading Period> This is the beginning of the two month period in which the complete Platform as Amended is> available on the National Green Party website and can be viewed and read by all interested> parties.> > July ? Nominating Convention in Chicago> This will include one plenary and voting period for the National Party to approve its Platform. In> the event of major disagreement or failure of vote to approve, the points of contention are to be> resolved in a final session between the conflicting factions, mediated by the Platform Committee,> with the outcome to be approved by the Steering Committee. While in a difficult situation, one> or two planks might be decided, the Platform as a whole will be adopted by an up or down vote.> > > All the above information is from the Green Party Platform Committee, http://gp.org/committees/platform> Committee Co-Chairs are:> John Ely - johnbethany at earthlink.net> Jenefer Ellingston - jellingston at greens.org > > _________________________________________________________________> Going green? 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Sun Apr 6 07:12:41 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:12:41 -0500 Subject: MOVE TO DISCUSSION LIST** {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals Message-ID: <20080406111242.0D60A103C3@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> emails like this should be moved to the discussion list serve not the news list serve personal attacks are not allowed by the consenus of the Greens ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Vas Nunes" To: "David Bedell" , ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: RE: {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:57:24 -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 David, I have trouble getting on Platform site saaaaaaaand my eyes are lousy. I am worried about Foriegn Policy submissions especially "Peace in the Middleast" Is any of this emimating indirectly from Justine and circumventing her reporting responsibility/sources to CTGP of what shes doing and what States shes "using". FYI Justine is on the "Peace" Nat com. She tried to help block Mike and Richards being on this com. At convention she sat in front of Mike at this Com and refused to aknowledge him when he stuck out his hand to shake and said hello to her! How two faced can a person be? A..... Please reply with jist of contents of these submissions if we need to be concerned? > From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com > To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org > Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:57:26 +0000 > Subject: {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals > > 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 > > The National GP Platform Amendment Proposals have been posted for comment. These proposals have been accepted, but corrections may be submitted two months prior to the July national convention. Delegates at the July convention will vote on the platform. > > Here are the topics of the amendments. Follow the link to download individual proposal documents: > http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/draft/work > > 2008 Platform Amendment Proposals > > Multiple sections > Multiple sections > Preamble > Democracy (I.A-C) > Opposition to Draft (I.C. Community) > Foreign Policy (I.D.[New Plank]) > Foreign Policy (I.D.1.) > Foreign Policy - Peace in the Middle East (I.D.2.) > Foreign Policy - Space (I.F.) > Foreign Policy - Trade (I.D.3.) > Social Justice (II.A-C) > Women's Rights (II.A.1.) > Youth Rights (II.A.8.) > Education (II.E.) > Health Care (II.F.) > Labor (II.G.) > Criminal Justice (II.H.) > Criminal Justice (II.H.) - Drugs > Population (II.I.) > Population (II.I.) > Housing and Homelessness (II.L.) > Immigration / Emigration (II.K.) > Ecological Sustainability (III.A-F.) > Animal Rights issues in multiple sections (mostly III.J.) > Animal Rights (III.H-L.) > Nuclear (III.B.) > Water (III.G.) > Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Rights, Ocean Protection, Biological Diversity (III.H-L.) > Economic Sustainability (IV.A-H.) > Citizen Control Over Corporations (IV.C.) > National Debt (IV.M.) > > Note the following rules: > > http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/format.pdf > > 4. Corrections to website amendments must come from your [State] Steering Committee or Caucus, not > from one person. We will use a simple rating system to evaluate support or opposition for a > proposed amendment. (SEE RATING FORMULA BELOW.) > > 5. Final draft by two months prior to 2008 convention. There should only be a few, if any, > unresolved issues at this point. Unresolved amendments will be circulated back to > states/caucuses at least two months prior to the convention for last-minute feedback, informing > them that they could be voting on these at the final platform hearings, to be scheduled as close as > possible to the day preceding the presidential nominating convention. Any items and language > that remain to be determined at the final hearings, if such are needed, will be made available to > all convention delegates as part of the convention packets (as well as available online). > > http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/schedule.pdf > > 1 April to 10 May - Grace Period so the Platform Committee can compile the Amendments ? > The website 'closed' but still ?up? and visible so as not to cause alarm to Party members. > Contents will change as complete, negotiated and compromised amendments are put up on it. > Materials which are not considered at this point to have a reasonable estimation by the Platform > Committee and its interlocutors will be excluded from the Draft Platform. > > 11 May to July Assembly Date -- Final Draft Reading Period > This is the beginning of the two month period in which the complete Platform as Amended is > available on the National Green Party website and can be viewed and read by all interested > parties. > > July ? Nominating Convention in Chicago > This will include one plenary and voting period for the National Party to approve its Platform. In > the event of major disagreement or failure of vote to approve, the points of contention are to be > resolved in a final session between the conflicting factions, mediated by the Platform Committee, > with the outcome to be approved by the Steering Committee. While in a difficult situation, one > or two planks might be decided, the Platform as a whole will be adopted by an up or down vote. > > > All the above information is from the Green Party Platform Committee, http://gp.org/committees/platform > Committee Co-Chairs are: > John Ely - johnbethany at earthlink.net > Jenefer Ellingston - jellingston at greens.org > > _________________________________________________________________ > Going green? 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I HAVE BEEN ON AL WADA LISTSEREV IT WAS RIFE WITH LIES, HATE AND SUPPORTED BOMBER AS FREEDOM FIGHTERS>>>>>>>>AMY > From: ncanaan at hotmail.com > To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org > Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:12:46 -0400 > Subject: [usgp-nc] Bigotry and prejudice rear it?s ugly head in the Green Party > > > > Bigotry and prejudice rear it?s ugly head in the Green Party > > TO: GPUS National Office > GP Steering committee. > GP International committee. > GP Peace Action Committee. > GPUS Press Release office. > David J. Kalbfleisch, - Green congressional candidate in Illinois' 10th district dave at electdave.org > Mohammed K. Abed, Wisconsin Green Party mkabed at wisc.edu > Kathleen Culver, Green candidate for Congress in Tennessee newtribe at hughes.net > Ruth Weill, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party. > ruthweill at gmail.com > > > > RE: Objection to press release: Greens urge economic pressure and cutoff of all military aid to Israel as Gaza situation worsens > GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES > http://www.gp.org > For Immediate Release: > Monday, March 3, 2008Re-Release as follows > Home | Press | Print > Greens, Calling for Palestinian Rights, Urge Divestment from Israel > GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES > http://www.gp.org > Monday, November 28, 2005 > Contacts: > Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org > Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org > Mohammed K. Abed, Wisconsin Green Party, 608-332-9900, mkabed at wisc.edu > Justine McCabe, International Committee, 860-354-1822, justinemccabe at earthlink.net > > > RE: Objection to: The peace action committee > Posting their support of Al-Awda, and the following purpose of said group.** This can be found on the Peace Action WIKI page: > > 1. Political and material isolation of the Genocidal Zionist State > > > > > As a Green Party member committed to finding solutions for peace, I strongly object to the one sided inflammatory verbiage contained in the above releases and endorsements by the Green Party. > I call for the Green Party to discontinue their obvious anti-Israel policy for the following reasons. > > At this very moment, and for the past 60 years, 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Palestinians, the PLO, Hezbollah* - and Hamas **- have undeniably waged war both politically and militarily as well as religiously against the state of Israel and it?s Jewish population. > *(Hezbollah leaders have made numerous statements calling for the destruction of Israel, which they describe as an unlawful "entity". {Wikipedia.} Six countries, list Hezbollah, or its external security arm, as a terrorist organization) > **(Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization by Canada, Israel, Japan, and the United States, and is banned in Jordan. Australia and the United Kingdom list only the militant wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as a terrorist organization. The European Union lists Hamas as a group 'involved in terrorist attacks' and has implemented restrictive measures against Hamas. {Wikipedia}.) > > With the above in mind, I suggest the Green Party has no right to attack the only democratic country in the Middle East for defending itself for the past six decades. > I also suggest that there appears to be a disconnect in the minds of many greens on the matter of religious freedom. The state of Israel happens to be the only place on this planet where Jews are safe from religious persecution both theoretically, by political intent and in actual practice. But sadly, Israel is not safe from the bigotry or religious persecution from the Arab world. > Religious freedom should sound familiar to any Green, to any American. Yet, our Green Party makes no attempt to condemn religious persecution in the form of religious venom spewing across Israel?s borders (from the Arab world) whether it?s rockets being dropped on Israel?s Jewish civilians or political perfidy from the floor of the UN. > > Consider for a moment > Maybe the Arabian Peninsula, which was divided up into separate countries should be forced to coalesce and become one nation? Maybe the United States should retreat behind its original 1776 borders? Or maybe America should be given back to the American Indians whose claim to ownership is unquestionable. > > Consider for a moment, the actions of the UN dividing up Yugoslavia into three separate countries. There is no outcry from the Green Party over the millions of displaced people separated ethnically, who will never be able to return to their homes (across newly drawn borders;) or to Sarajevo, a magnificent city which is now subject to ethnic restrictions. > Consider the UN?s military barriers that have been placed between them to keep them separated and segregated. Why hasn?t the UN created a military barrier between the Arab world and Israel? > Why the opposition from the entire Arab world, America and Great Britain to this almost standard UN procedure? > > Take into consideration what happened when Cuba invited communist Russia onto its shore. Missiles were aimed at Cuba, which would have decimated the tiny island. In other words America went ballistic! America even helped Cuban exiles wage a military action against Cuba, a country that didn?t even fire one bullet at America?s mainland nor made any move to attack America. > The invasion failed, so instead of building a wall between the two countries America used a fortuitously placed natural barrier, called the Atlantic Ocean to keep the two nations separate. > The American Coast Guard vigorously patrols this natural barrier and shots down, takes prisoners or returns anyone coming from Cuba. > And there?s no one in America who would disagree, that missiles would have been launched if Cuba had made a serious move against America, as the communist world kept saying it would do. > We still have no political relationship with Cuba. We still have our gunships aimed at them. Why isn?t the Green Party actively engaged in this important issue, which is right here in our own backyard? > > Why doesn?t the Green Party condemn China, call for boycotts on every single product on our shelves that is made in China? Why doesn?t the Green Party call for an all out cessation of any and all economic aid and ties to a country that is loathsome when it comes to civil rights and human rights? Why doesn?t the Green Party put out one press release after another after another, against a country that mows down its citizens with assault weapons, is still is acquisition colonial mode in Tibet, throws it?s citizens into jail for speaking out against the government and has a population of undocumented, uneducated, unrecognized and displaced 2nd or 3rd children? > > One of the major jobs of a government is to protect its citizens from assault within its borders. The United States has a government at the moment, who not only failed to do this, but with Cheney pulling away the air defenses we had (for war games) on 9/11 and Bush saying he sat outside the classroom watching one of the towers being hit, it appears Bush/Cheney and Company have been complicit in the attack. The American Congress has not impeached this tag team, nor stopped the funding for this tag team?s military action in Iraq, which is 70% outsourced to private companies such as Blackwater and Halliburton. > Israel is being attacked. It?s the job of its government to stop this and safeguard its citizens. You will have to excuse me, but it?s plain hubris for Americans to sit comfortably in their homes and decide how much force they find acceptable for any country to use to protect itself from an immediate and imminent proven threat. > > Why does the Green Party give credence and support to 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Arabs of Gaza, the Arabs of The West Bank, Hezbollah and Hamas, and those anti Israel people here in America, who refuse to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist in peace without daily threat of death and destruction. Why doesn?t the Green Party cry out against this religious persecution? Even Ray Hanania, from the Arab Writers Group Syndicate calls for an end to all forms of violence against Israeli civilians, calling Arab violence ?a terrorism that is immoral and inhumane and illegal?. > The press releases issuing out of GPUS are abysmally one sided, prejudicial and smacks of anti-Israel bigotry. The Resolution Adopted by the Green Party of the United States, on November 21, 2005, Whereby The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) publicly calls for divestment from and boycott of the State of Israel also unfairly targets Israel. > > The Jews of Israel are up against 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Palestinians, the PLO, Hezbollah, (a terrorist organization) and Hamas. (A group 'involved in terrorist attacks.) > Why are the Jews of Israel facing these astronomically dire odds? > For their right to remain in Israel, a country they emerged from in 1671 BCE, and inhabited since 1272 BCE and gained statehood in 1948; for their right to be free from religious persecution. > > The Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank, originally from what used to be called Palestine, (forced into tent cities and not welcomed by the Islamic world who built walls both physically and politically, to prevent them from crossing into neighboring Arab nations) have remained in limbo for 60 years. During these 60 years they have been exploited and subjected to the special agenda of the Arab world at-large while the UN has been thwarted at every turn from accomplishing any relocating efforts. In fact the refugee catastrophe is one of the UN?s most shameful and inexcusable failures. > There?ve been no refugees left for 60 years like the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have. Nor has there been any way so far, to reconcile, as I will go into below. > > Contrary to innuendo and outright claims by some Greens, Israel is not a racist nation. But, if the label needs to be placed with anyone, then Racism is an Arab Policy. > My assertion that racist policy lies at the doorstep of the Arab world is unequivocally backed up by 60 years of instigated and perpetuated aggression specifically directed against Israel?s Jewish population. > > And if it?s not Arab Racism that should be looked at and condemned, it?s Arab Sexism of the worst possible kind that runs rampant in the Middle Eastern Arab nations, and should be addressed most ardently by the world, and especially by the Greens. The subservient, powerless nature of females in Arab society is well documented, as are the wars of aggression perpetrated upon Israel by its surrounding Arab neighbors. > Not only did 21 Arab nations declare their intent to destroy Israel in ?48 but they also called on every Arab living in Palestine to wage war on the Jews; and then proceeded to invade Israel from all sides while the world stood back and watched. > What Green has the right to condemn Israel for it?s rigorous and yes, deadly defensive actions; that Israel feels absolutely necessary in order to defend its borders and protect its citizens? > Consider for a moment, the only reason North and South Korea aren?t at each others throats is due to the enormous military barrier in place. Who?s paying for that barrier? If this barrier were removed wouldn?t it be likely the north would move on the south? Is this barrier acceptable to the Greens since they are not protesting the use of military power this way? > Does the Green Party condone gunships leveled against Cuba and military barrier walls against North Korea while in the same breath condemning Israel for protecting itself? Where is the incessant outcry from the Greens against China?s human rights and civil rights violations that are too numerous to count? Where is the outcry from the Green Party against human and civil rights abuses in the Arab world against it?s female population and interestingly enough against the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank? > The slant and intent of the press releases as well as the call for a boycott is unwarranted and is weighted down with anti Israel sentiment. > > The Jewish people lived in Israel for thousands of years before Muslim Arabs came onto the scene. Furthermore Jews are the indigenous population of Israel, being thrown out of their homeland by war and conquerors and continually returning. > > For your reference, a brief history follows: > 1671 BCE Abraham & Sarah (in present day Israel) > 1428 BCE Egyptian slavery begins (Israelites) > 1312 BCE Exodus and Ten Commandments > 1299 Ottoman Empire established > 1272 BCE Jewish People re-enter Israel > 825 BCE First Temple built > First Temple destroyed; > 422 BCE Babylonian exile begins > 352 BCE Second Temple built > Second Temple destroyed; > 70 CE Roman exile begins > 571 CE Mohammad born > 620 CE Islamic Renaissance > 633 CE Mohammad died > 1096 CE First Crusade > 1420 CE Italian Renaissance > 1492 CE Expulsion of Spanish Jewry > 1923 Ottoman Empire dismantled into separate nations > 1939 CE Holocaust > 1948 CE Jewish people reinstated in Israel > 1967 CE Reunification of Jerusalem > > During thousands of years of history, the Jewish people fought with other nations and tribes in the area just as African nations went to war with their neighbors, just as one American Indian nation fought with another Indian Nation. > Wars were not uncommon, but their outcome doesn?t fall into the definition of apartheid then or now. > > Yet apartheid seems to be today?s flavor of the month word. A word flung about indiscriminatingly and incorrectly by many Greens. Apartheid was a political system in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990?s that gave empire building people of white European origin both political, cultural, social and economic privileges while keeping the indigenous African black population segregated. This type of segregation was for the purpose of forcibly acquiring South Africa?s natural resources for profit. > Israel, on the other hand, built a wall between themselves and people who blow up their children. This is not apartheid. > Israel has been in defensive mode for decades. That this defensive mode necessitated their acquiring tactically necessary land in order to prevent attaches from high ground and then taking land to create a buffer against this attack is necessary for Israel?s survival, but wouldn?t be necessary anymore if the Arab world ended their war on Israel. Am I the only person who can see Arab and Jew living side by side in one land? Or even side by side in two lands? Or side-by-side in any way the two parties themselves decide? > > GPUS is calling for cutting off aid to Israel, but doesn?t take into account or seem to object to the lethal policy of military aggression towards Israel conducted by Arab nations. Nations who receive billions of dollars from the American taxpayer every year. GPUS doesn?t seem to object to the stupendous military buildup in Saudi Arabia that rivals anything in the area, and the military aid to other Arab countries for weapons that have been and are continually used against Israeli citizens? > GPUS doesn?t seem to object to the largest growing industry world wide, that of the private military outsourcing industry which is crawling all over the Middle East. This industry has put America into triple billion-dollar debt and is growing at record speeds to trillion dollar cost status worldwide. > The press releases make no mention of the ongoing bill American citizens pay for arming the Arab world, yet the Green Party is calling for an end to economic aid to the only free democratic country in the region. Why isn?t the Green Party running a vigorous campaign to stop funding the Arab world, or even to stop Blackwater, Halliburton and all other private military outsourcing companies whose financial windfalls are crushing the American taxpayer? > Are there many Greens in America who feel it?s ok to exclusively arm the Arab world? Or to arm the Bush/Cheney and company?s private military worldwide that might very well bring about WW III? > Furthermore, does the Arab world have the right to maim, kill, murder and use deadly force towards the Jews of Israel or towards anyone who supports the nation of Israel, even if it?s another Arab? > > Are there many Greens in America who feel the Arab nations, including the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have the right to be a deadly daily threat to every citizen in Israel, every day of every year in perpetuity? > > What If the Arab world actually stopped exploiting their brethren in Gaza and the West Bank, who they?re using as their front line suicide pawns? What if the Arab world stopped this exploitation, which is both economical, and political, would peace be possible? Of course! But it means America must stay out of the picture, the whole picture, regardless of the issue of oil in the Middle East. > One of the serious questions the Green Party needs to ask is why does the Arab world segregate the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank? Are they some sort of threat to the Arab world? Is there some history that?s beneath the surface which makes these particular Arabs dangerous or is Gaza and the West Bank being punished for not standing and killing every Jew in the state of Israel? Why the animosity from the Arab world? > Why would Egypt, for instance, carry on an inhuman and immoral action, which it recently did, against Gaza?s Arabs who tried to flee into Egypt? > > Is war ok? No, > But it appears that no one wants to deal with the fact that there can be peace in the Middle East tomorrow. So there will continue to be Arab aggression against Israel - with no end in sight. > Are refugee camps ok? No. > but even though the UN has dealt successfully with refuges in many difficult and complex situations over the years, the opposition they?ve encountered from the entire Arab world is why there is a refugee Gaza and a refugee West Bank ? with no end in sight. > > War decimates human rights as it escalates down into its inevitable outcome. It?s no different in the Middle East. War becomes an atrocity, and in the Middle East both sides have compiled and published detailed corroborated incidents delineating the only outcome of war, that being abuses and death at every corner, no matter which way you turn. But I pose a question to the Green Party. Aren?t the human rights as well as the civil rights of every young person being brain washed into committing suicide, while becoming murders, being violated? Isn?t this an urgent issue that desperately needs light shown on it? Maybe more so than any other issue? > > The landscape of war is one of destruction. The loss of a child, a mother, a father, a brother, an aunt, an uncle, and/or robbing children of their childhood by turning 12 to 18 year olds into killers and murderers, is the only outcome of war. > No matter which side you turn to, there is loss, suffering and pain. No matter whether it?s Africa, the Middle East or across the steppes of Russia to Asia, or even here in the United States that has an unending trail of broken treaties with it?s native American People, > War is poisonous policy, with profits going to old men while our young people, with their blood and their lives, pay the bill. > > Israeli?s have been attached, their young mutilated and murdered from the very moment of statehood so many decades ago to the present day. Arabs have suffered great losses in retaliation and their young killed. > Is the Palestinian family suffering over the loss of their loving and wonderful young son? Yes. Is the Israeli family who had their beautiful young daughter physically maimed for life and brain damaged in a suicide bombers attack suffering? Yes. Is war totally destructive to all sides? Yes. > Does war push the opposing sides into desperately lethal waters? Yes. Does war wind up being brutal, filled with atrocities as it engages in its inevitable blood bath? Yes. > > Presently, Israel has built it?s own wall, and the incident of alarmingly young Arab children or mentally challenged woman committing suicide at the moment they become murderers has been drastically reduced. Will there be more walls? > > The silence from the Green Party all these years concerning the attacks by 21 Arab nations, SADR, the West Bank and Gaza plus the military/religious Arab extremist groups, and the funding they engage in to wage this war on Israel is reprehensible in my estimation. > To be silent is to condone. > > The road out of this quagmire of killing, retaliation, revenge and death is squarely laid out on the peace table. But peace has to travel through: > Algeria > Bahrain > Comoros > Djibouti > Egypt > Iraq > Jordan > Kuwait > Lebanon > Libya > Mauritania > Morocco > Oman > Palestinians > Qatar > Saudi Arabia > Somalia > Sudan > Syria > Tunisia > United Arab Emirates > Western Sahara (SADR) > and Yemen > Whose political policy is the total and unequivocal annihilation of Israel. > > In the end, peace must come from within, from grassroots pressure exerted on both sides demanding that the landscape not be painted with the blood of their children, but with the colors of peace. > > How can the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank sue for peace, be returned to their homes, or receive adequate compensation if they?re continually waging an active violent destructive campaign against Israel? How can the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank and the state of Israel find peace if the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank refuse to acknowledge Israel?s right to exist? > > What if Israel said fine, Mr. And Mrs. ? here is you house back. Will that work? Will Mr. and Mrs. Returned Property join Israeli society, become good citizens and contribute to the well being of all? Will Mr. and Mrs. Returned Property declare that Israel has nothing to fear from them now or in the future and that they will change their political policy so that the Jews of Israel and the Muslims of the Arab world (or at least Gaza and the West Bank) can co exist in peace and harmony? > They say not. > > And here in America the Green Party and its members take pot shots at Israel; while with their stupendous silence they condone the ongoing war of aggression perpetrated by the Arab world upon Israel. > > Both Israelis and the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have been put in an untenable position. It must be akin to living in a fishbowl. There is no room to maneuver and the waters are getting murkier and poisonous. > For the Greens, maybe their part is stopping Cheney who it?s been recently revealed removed America?s air defenses on September 11, 2001. For the Greens, maybe their part is stopping Cheney who went fishing off the Sultan of Oman's royal yacht on the 5th anniversary of the ?manufactured war? he and Bush started in Iraq? A war that?s stolen the lives of four thousand American young men and women. A war that?s put America another trillion dollars in debt. > Maybe the Green Party should be stopping Bush who said he sat outside a schoolroom watching one of the twin towers being hit and for hideously rendering the word patriot unrecognizable by using it to name one of the most repugnantly undemocratic and unconstitutional political orders this country has ever been responsible for. > Maybe the Green Party needs to put all its efforts into stopping another election being stolen through computer manipulation, by any candidate? > Maybe the Green Party needs to elect a President ? VP ? and Congress who will reinstitute the Constitution and The Bill of Rights to it?s rightful place within our political body in order to protect individual rights against corporate new world order right wing fanatics? > Maybe this is what the Green Party needs to do in order to help bring about peace not only in the Middle East but also around the world. > > The Greens, if they take any stand, must first and foremost call for the Arab world to acknowledge Israel?s right to exist. > To take this stand would be monumentally positive, since this one act, if accomplished, would instantly remove the aggression and antagonism from all the people, Arab Muslim, Christian or Israeli Jew, Muslim or Christian in and around Israel. > Once the threat to Israel?s survival is removed anything is possible, compensation, return of property, roads opened up and a free flow of industry and learning. > Can the world imagine children from Gaza and the West Bank going to school with Israeli children? Can the Arab world imagine this? Can the Green Party envision this? > I can envision peace tomorrow, can the Green Party? > > > > > > __________________________________ > Furthermore! > The peace action committee > Posted this on their WIKI page: ** > > 1) Political and material isolation of the Genocidal Zionist State > > With this endorsement, and the incorrect and inflammatory use of language, you?re looking at the face of bigotry and racism. What?s looking back is the Green Party of the United States! > > > **Nowhere did the Peace committee condemn Arab and/or Palestinian religious bigotry towards the Jews of Israel nor did the Peace committee condemn the continual human rights and civil rights violations by the surrounding Arab countries against the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank. > The full script on the WIKI site can be found in GPAX Notices > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. > http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008 > _______________________________________________ > 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/ 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! 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URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Sun Apr 6 13:57:59 2008 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:57:59 -0400 Subject: MOVE TO DISCUSSION LIST** {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals In-Reply-To: <20080406111242.0D60A103C3@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20080406111242.0D60A103C3@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: Tim et al,I am a member of the USGP Platform Com and recently I found out some VERY DISTURBING news from Jennifer Ellington a coch of this Com from Ga. She informed me the current[2004] Platform laqnguage on Mideast/Palistine /Israel was submitted by McCabe. Platform Com rules state the submitter should get approvel of their State Steering committee. CTGP and our SC never knew or approved this The USGP does not check approvel it takes submitter at "word " AS "TRUTH"they went tru this process I belive any submissions should also pass tru chapters/Scc/ State Platform Com votes before rubber stamp of CTGP Steering Com. McCabe indirectly took submission to a DC delagate he then had the admendment voted/passed via GAGP! Ellington who is from GA voted no. CTGP was NEVER informed of this circumvision/decption. What was McCabe doing was she afraid of people questioning HER who KNEW her true beliefs? These are FACTS about top down, non transparent, undemocratic, secretive, process. Its all true Tim, facts not personal! CHECK ME< I DARE YOU! This is why I want new submissions and origins/sumitter/State checked. This iswhy its news and NOT discussion.This is why term limits should be on Committees. I DARE McCabe to come to convention IN PERSON for public questioning on MANY issues! She has irressponibly never appeared for 4 yrs to questiion to any group f CTGP. AMY From: timmckee at mail.comTo: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com; dbedellgreen at hotmail.com; ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgDate: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:12:41 -0500Subject: MOVE TO DISCUSSION LIST** {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals emails like this should be moved to the discussion list serve not the news list serve personal attacks are not allowed by the consenus of the Greens ----- Original Message -----From: "Amy Vas Nunes" To: "David Bedell" , ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgSubject: RE: {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment ProposalsDate: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:57:24 -0400Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUShttp://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/to unsubscribe click heremailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org David, I have trouble getting on Platform site saaaaaaaand my eyes are lousy. I am worried about Foriegn Policy submissions especially "Peace in the Middleast" Is any of this emimating indirectly from Justine and circumventing her reporting responsibility/sources to CTGP of what shes doing and what States shes "using". FYI Justine is on the "Peace" Nat com. She tried to help block Mike and Richards being on this com. At convention she sat in front of Mike at this Com and refused to aknowledge him when he stuck out his hand to shake and said hello to her! How two faced can a person be? A..... Please reply with jist of contents of these submissions if we need to be concerned?> From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com> To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:57:26 +0000> Subject: {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals> > 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> > The National GP Platform Amendment Proposals have been posted for comment. These proposals have been accepted, but corrections may be submitted two months prior to the July national convention. Delegates at the July convention will vote on the platform.> > Here are the topics of the amendments. Follow the link to download individual proposal documents:> http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/draft/work> > 2008 Platform Amendment Proposals> > Multiple sections> Multiple sections> Preamble> Democracy (I.A-C)> Opposition to Draft (I.C. Community)> Foreign Policy (I.D.[New Plank])> Foreign Policy (I.D.1.)> Foreign Policy - Peace in the Middle East (I.D.2.)> Foreign Policy - Space (I.F.)> Foreign Policy - Trade (I.D.3.)> Social Justice (II.A-C)> Women's Rights (II.A.1.)> Youth Rights (II.A.8.)> Education (II.E.)> Health Care (II.F.)> Labor (II.G.)> Criminal Justice (II.H.)> Criminal Justice (II.H.) - Drugs> Population (II.I.)> Population (II.I.)> Housing and Homelessness (II.L.)> Immigration / Emigration (II.K.)> Ecological Sustainability (III.A-F.)> Animal Rights issues in multiple sections (mostly III.J.)> Animal Rights (III.H-L.)> Nuclear (III.B.)> Water (III.G.)> Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Rights, Ocean Protection, Biological Diversity (III.H-L.)> Economic Sustainability (IV.A-H.)> Citizen Control Over Corporations (IV.C.)> National Debt (IV.M.)> > Note the following rules:> > http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/format.pdf> > 4. Corrections to website amendments must come from your [State] Steering Committee or Caucus, not> from one person. We will use a simple rating system to evaluate support or opposition for a> proposed amendment. (SEE RATING FORMULA BELOW.)> > 5. Final draft by two months prior to 2008 convention. There should only be a few, if any,> unresolved issues at this point. Unresolved amendments will be circulated back to> states/caucuses at least two months prior to the convention for last-minute feedback, informing> them that they could be voting on these at the final platform hearings, to be scheduled as close as> possible to the day preceding the presidential nominating convention. Any items and language> that remain to be determined at the final hearings, if such are needed, will be made available to> all convention delegates as part of the convention packets (as well as available online).> > http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/schedule.pdf> > 1 April to 10 May - Grace Period so the Platform Committee can compile the Amendments ?> The website 'closed' but still ?up? and visible so as not to cause alarm to Party members.> Contents will change as complete, negotiated and compromised amendments are put up on it.> Materials which are not considered at this point to have a reasonable estimation by the Platform> Committee and its interlocutors will be excluded from the Draft Platform.> > 11 May to July Assembly Date -- Final Draft Reading Period> This is the beginning of the two month period in which the complete Platform as Amended is> available on the National Green Party website and can be viewed and read by all interested> parties.> > July ? Nominating Convention in Chicago> This will include one plenary and voting period for the National Party to approve its Platform. In> the event of major disagreement or failure of vote to approve, the points of contention are to be> resolved in a final session between the conflicting factions, mediated by the Platform Committee,> with the outcome to be approved by the Steering Committee. While in a difficult situation, one> or two planks might be decided, the Platform as a whole will be adopted by an up or down vote.> > > All the above information is from the Green Party Platform Committee, http://gp.org/committees/platform> Committee Co-Chairs are:> John Ely - johnbethany at earthlink.net> Jenefer Ellingston - jellingston at greens.org > > _________________________________________________________________> Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic.> http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N1653ATo be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org> _______________________________________________> CTGP-news mailing list> CTGP-news at ml.greens.org> http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news> > ATTENTION!> The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members.> > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief.> > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance.> > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.orgTo be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org_______________________________________________CTGP-news mailing listCTGP-news at ml.greens.orghttp://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-newsATTENTION!The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members.NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief.CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance.To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Green Party of CT, National Committee 860-643-2282 -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From crashnewberg at netscape.net Sun Apr 6 18:22:05 2008 From: crashnewberg at netscape.net (crashnewberg at netscape.net) Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:22:05 -0400 Subject: {news} Re: CTGP-news Digest, Vol 45, Issue 7 In-Reply-To: <20080406190009.54F548DC594@gandhi.greens.org> References: <20080406190009.54F548DC594@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: <8CA664BC72A082A-904-18B9@mblk-d50.sysops.aol.com> Ok, This is getting ridiculous, This belongs on the Discussion List serv. This is not news. Amy, Knock it off!! To all others please do not engage her in debate on this serv. Thanks, Steve Newberg -----Original Message----- From: ctgp-news-request at ml.greens.org To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 3:00 pm Subject: CTGP-news Digest, Vol 45, Issue 7 Send CTGP-news mailing list submissions to ctgp-news at ml.greens.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ctgp-news-request at ml.greens.org You can reach the person managing the list at ctgp-news-owner at ml.greens.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CTGP-news digest..." Today's Topics: 1. RE: MOVE TO DISCUSSION LIST** {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals (Amy Vas Nunes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:57:59 -0400 From: Amy Vas Nunes Subject: RE: MOVE TO DISCUSSION LIST** {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals To: Tim McKee , David Bedell , Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Tim et al,I am a member of the USGP Platform Com and recently I found out some VERY DISTURBING news from Jennifer Ellington a coch of this Com from Ga. She informed me the current[2004] Platform laqnguage on Mideast/Palistine /Israel was submitted by McCabe. Platform Com rules state the submitter should get approvel of their State Steering committee. CTGP and our SC never knew or approved this The USGP does not check approvel it takes submitter at "word " AS "TRUTH"they went tru this process I belive any submissions should also pass tru chapters/Scc/ State Platform Com votes before rubber stamp of CTGP Steering Com. McCabe indirectly took submission to a DC delagate he then had the admendment voted/passed via GAGP! Ellington who is from GA voted no. CTGP was NEVER informed of this circumvision/decption. What was McCabe doing was she afraid of people questioning HER who KNEW her true beliefs? These are FACTS about top down, non transparent, undemocratic, secretive, process. Its all true Tim, facts not personal! CHECK ME< I DARE YOU! This is why I want new submissions and origins/sumitter/State checked. This iswhy its news and NOT discussion.This is why term limits should be on Committees. I DARE McCabe to come to convention IN PERSON for public questioning on MANY issues! She has irressponibly never appeared for 4 yrs to questiion to any group f CTGP. AMY From: timmckee at mail.comTo: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com; dbedellgreen at hotmail.com; ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgDate: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:12:41 -0500Subject: MOVE TO DISCUSSION LIST** {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals emails like this should be moved to the discussion list serve not the news list serve personal attacks are not allowed by the consenus of the Greens ----- Original Message -----From: "Amy Vas Nunes" To: "David Bedell" , ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgSubject: RE: {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment ProposalsDate: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:57:24 -0400Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUShttp://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/to unsubscribe click heremailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org David, I have trouble getting on Platform site saaaaaaaand my eyes are lousy. I am worried about Foriegn Policy submissions especially "Peace in the Middleast" Is any of this emimating indirectly from Justine and circumventing her reporting responsibility/sources to CTGP of what shes doing and what States shes "using". FYI Justine is on the "Peace" Nat com. She tried to help block Mike and Richards being on this com. At convention she sat in front of Mike at this Com and refused to aknowledge him when he stuck out his hand to shake and said hello to her! How two faced can a person be? A..... Please reply with jist of contents of these submissions if we need to be concerned?> From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com> To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:57:26 +0000> Subject: {news} 2008 National Platform Amendment Proposals> > 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> > The National GP Platform Amendment Proposals have been posted for comment. These proposals have been accepted, but corrections may be submitted two months prior to the July national convention. Delegates at the July convention will vote on the platform.> > Here are the topics of the amendments. Follow the link to download individual proposal documents:> http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/draft/work> > 2008 Platform Amendment Proposals> > Multiple sections> Multiple sections> Preamble> Democracy (I.A-C)> Opposition to Draft (I.C. Community)> Foreign Policy (I.D.[New Plank])> Foreign Policy (I.D.1.)> Foreign Policy - Peace in the Middle East (I.D.2.)> Foreign Policy - Space (I.F.)> Foreign Policy - Trade (I.D.3.)> Social Justice (II.A-C)> Women's Rights (II.A.1.)> Youth Rights (II.A.8.)> Education (II.E.)> Health Care (II.F.)> Labor (II.G.)> Criminal Justice (II.H.)> Criminal Justice (II.H.) - Drugs> Population (II.I.)> Population (II.I.)> Housing and Homelessness (II.L.)> Immigration / Emigration (II.K.)> Ecological Sustainability (III.A-F.)> Animal Rights issues in multiple sections (mostly III.J.)> Animal Rights (III.H-L.)> Nuclear (III.B.)> Water (III.G.)> Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Rights, Ocean Protection, Biological Diversity (III.H-L.)> Economic Sustainability (IV.A-H.)> Citizen Control Over Corporations (IV.C.)> National Debt (IV.M.)> > Note the following rules:> > http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/format.pdf> > 4. Corrections to website amendments must come from your [State] Steering Committee or Caucus, not> from one person. We will use a simple rating system to evaluate support or opposition for a> proposed amendment. (SEE RATING FORMULA BELOW.)> > 5. Final draft by two months prior to 2008 convention. There should only be a few, if any,> unresolved issues at this point. Unresolved amendments will be circulated back to> states/caucuses at least two months prior to the convention for last-minute feedback, informing> them that they could be voting on these at the final platform hearings, to be scheduled as close as> possible to the day preceding the presidential nominating convention. Any items and language> that remain to be determined at the final hearings, if such are needed, will be made available to> all convention delegates as part of the convention packets (as well as available online).> > http://gp.org/committees/platform/pdf/schedule.pdf> > 1 April to 10 May - Grace Period so the Platform Committee can compile the Amendments ?> The website 'closed' but still ?up? and visible so as not to cause alarm to Party members.> Contents will change as complete, negotiated and compromised amendments are put up on it.> Materials which are not considered at this point to have a reasonable estimation by the Platform> Committee and its interlocutors will be excluded from the Draft Platform.> > 11 May to July Assembly Date -- Final Draft Reading Period> This is the beginning of the two month period in which the complete Platform as Amended is> available on the National Green Party website and can be viewed and read by all interested> parties.> > July ? Nominating Convention in Chicago> This will include one plenary and voting period for the National Party to approve its Platform. In> the event of major disagreement or failure of vote to approve, the points of contention are to be> resolved in a final session between the conflicting factions, mediated by the Platform Committee,> with the outcome to be approved by the Steering Committee. While in a difficult situation, one> or two planks might be decided, the Platform as a whole will be adopted by an up or down vote.> > > All the above information is from the Green Party Platform Committee, http://gp.org/committees/platform> Committee Co-Chairs are:> John Ely - johnbethany at earthlink.net> Jenefer Ellingston - jellingston at greens.org > > _________________________________________________________________> Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic.> http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N1653ATo be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org> _______________________________________________> CTGP-news mailing list> CTGP-news at ml.greens.org> http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news> > ATTENTION!> The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members.> > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief.> > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. 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URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Apr 7 14:13:07 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:13:07 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Some Czech Greens MPs oppose U.S. base even after NATOsummit Message-ID: <098c01c898db$085a6220$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: jdt at itol.com To: usgp-int at gp-us.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:10 AM Subject: USGP-INT Some Czech Greens MPs oppose U.S. base even after NATOsummit Some Czech Greens MPs oppose U.S. base even after NATO summit http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=305888 Prague- Two of the six MPs for the Greens, the smallest Czech government coalition party, continue to oppose the possible stationing of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil after NATO's Bucharest summit where the allies took an accommodating attitude towards the project, the two MPs told. Moreover, Greens MP Ondrej Liska, who is party deputy chairman and education minister, said he had doubts about the construction of the radar in the Czech Republic. Greens MPs Olga Zubova and Vera Jakubkova said the summit did not change their negative stance on the base. Jakubkova said a majority of the Green Party rank-and-file seemed to be against the project, which is why she opposed it. Zubova said the base was "unacceptable" for her. She pointed out that the condition of the Greens congress had not been fulfilled. The party congress held in February 2007 demanded that the radar base be part of the NATO structures and missile defence systems. Jakubkova said the NATO summit did not result in any binding decision on the issue. However, Jakubkova said she would make her final decision only after studying the Czech-U.S. treaties on the base. Zubova said she would take into consideration the recommendations of her party. The allies agreed at the summit on Thursday that the U.S. radar base would be an integral part of any future NATO-based missile defence architecture. The summit also acknowledged that the radar on Czech soil and interceptor missiles in Poland would markedly strengthen the protection of the allies. The United States wants to station the radar at the Brdy military district some 90 km southwest of Prague. The centre-right government of Mirek Topolanek (Civic Democrats, ODS) supports the project, while the left-wing opposition is against it. Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (for the Greens) said he believed the summit's conclusions met the demands that the Green Party formulated. Greens leader Martin Bursik, too, said he believed the condition that the U.S. radar base is related to NATO was fulfilled. But Liska said though the summit's statement was a positive step, NATO did not clearly state that the radar base would be part of its structures. Liska previously admitted that not all Green MPs might support the radar base in the lower house. Apart from this, Christian Democrat MP Ludvik Hovorka said he had some reservations about the base. Hovorka was the only coalition MP who did not support the government finance reform, the major reform the government proposed last year. The government coalition is able to push bills through parliament only thanks to the support of two MPs who left the opposition Social Democrats (CSSD). The Czech-U.S. treaties on the base need to be ratified by the parliament to take effect. The radar project is unlikely to be passed in the lower house unless all coalition MPs vote for it. 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District Convention April 12th Message-ID: <20080407222122.9CB851158EB@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> The Green Party of CT will hold a Nominating Convention on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at 2:00 pm, at the Otis Library, 2 Cliff St., Norwich, CT, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the 2nd Congressional District. All members of the Green Party who reside in the 2nd Congressional District are eligible to vote at the convention. For more information, check < www.nlgreens.org>. Green Party of CT, National Committee 860-643-2282 -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cpr101 at hotmail.com Tue Apr 8 09:29:00 2008 From: cpr101 at hotmail.com (Christopher Reilly) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:29:00 -0400 Subject: {news} Legal notice required to be published? Message-ID: Several people have mentioned to me that we are required to print in the newspapers a legal notice of our upcoming convention. I've been trying to find the statute so that I can find out what the time requirements are and also which newspapers we need to print the notice it in. While we are required to provide written notice to the Secretary of State (Chapter 153 - Sec. 9-452) at least five days before the convention I can't find any additional requirements. The only thing that I can find that remotely approaches this is the obligation to print a legal notice in a local paper for nominating conventions for municipal office. However, that section applies only to major parties (Chapter 153 - Sec. 9-390). Any help would be appreciated. --Chris Reilly _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up?use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Tue Apr 8 16:06:59 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:06:59 -0500 Subject: {news} RELEASE Illinois Green Party files record number of candidates Message-ID: <20080408200659.E3A8832675A@ws1-8.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] RELEASE Illinois Green Party files record number of candidates Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:06:25 +0000 Forwarded by the Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org Illinois Green Party http://www.ilgp.org Monday, April 7, 2008 CONTACTS Patrick Kelly, Chair, Media Committee, media at ilgp.org, 773-203-9631 Phil Huckelberry, Chair, Government & Elections Committee, phil.huckelberry at ilgp.org, 309-268-9974 ILLINOIS GREEN PARTY FILES RECORD NUMBER OF CANDIDATES By the end of today's slating deadline, the Illinois Green Party expects to have some 60 candidates for offices across the state, concluding a major statewide recruiting effort for candidates at federal, state and county levels. Since the slating period began in early March, the party has added 7 candidates for U.S. Congress and 1 candidate for U.S. Senate for a total of 15 federal legislative offices. A total of 16 state legislative candidates were added for a total of 19. At the county level, the party recruited 10 new candidates, including 5 in Cook County, to bring the total to 26 county candidates across the state. Illinois ballots will also feature a presidential candidate chosen at the Green Party National Convention in Chicago, July 10-13, 2008. "Our hard work to establish the party in 2006 has led to the Green Party becoming more competitive in 2008," said Rich Whitney, the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor, who received more 10% of the vote. "I'm encouraged by not only the number of candidates, but the high caliber of candidates for offices at all levels of government." FULL LIST OF CANDIDATES * = slated since Feb. primary U.S. Senate Kathy Cummings* (Chicago) U.S. Congress 3 - Jerome Pohlen (Chicago) 4 - Omar L?pez* (Chicago) 5 - Alan Augustson (Chicago) 8 - Iain Abernathy* (Round Lake Beach) 9 - Morris Shanfield (Chicago) 10 - Dave Kalbfleisch* (Arlington Heights) 11 - Jason Wallace (Normal) 12 - Rodger Jennings (Alton) 13 - Steve Alesch (Warrenville) 14 - Robert Hill* (DeKalb) 16 - Scott Summers* (Harvard) 17 - Troy Dennis* (Mount Zion) 18 - Sheldon Schafer* (Peoria) 19 - Vic Roberts (Taylorville) State Senate 7 - Tom Durkin* (Chicago) 21 - John Basco* (Downers Grove) State Representative 2 - Ante Marijan* (Chicago) 12 - Tim Quirk* (Chicago) 14 - John Beacham* (Chicago) 15 - Drew Valkanas* (Chicago) 21 - Rita Maniotis* (Berwyn) 39 - Jeremy Karpen* (Chicago) 40 - Heather Benno* (Chicago) 41 - Kevin O'Connor (LaGrange Park) 43 - Dane Willman* (Carpentersville) 50 - Sandra Lezon* (Plano) 53 - Rob Sherman* (Buffalo Grove) 55 - Dan Kairis* (South Elgin) 68 - Gerry Woods (Machesney Park) 70 - James Dunsing* (Sycamore) 95 - Gerard Schmitt* (Aurora) 96 - Jen Witt* (Naperville) 115 - Charlie Howe (Carbondale) County Offices (slated candidates not confirmed) Boone 1 - Doug Silberhorn* Champaign 7 - Walter Pituc Champaign 7 - Kostas Yfantis Champaign 8 - Joe Futrelle Champaign 9 - Mike Lehman* Coles Coroner - Michael Snow Coles State's Attorney - Todd Reardon Cook Board of Review 2 - Howard Kaplan* Cook Board of Review 3 - Tony Cox* Cook Circuit Clerk - Paloma Andrade* Cook Recorder - Terry Gilhooly* Cook State's Attorney - Thomas O'Brien* Cook MWRD - Jack Ailey Cook MWRD - Rita Bogolub Cook MWRD - Nadine Bopp DuPage 4 - Bill Edgar Fayette 7 - Don Crawford Iroquois 5 - Vince LaMie Iroquois State's Attorney - Dale Strough Kane 20 - Julie Schmitt Kendall 1 - Adrian Frost Kendall 2 - Andrew Wistrand* Macon State's Attorney - Mark Bradley Marion 5 - Alicia Snyder* McHenry 5 - Frank Wedig Whiteside 1 - AJ Segneri* ~ END ~ _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up?use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. 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Thanks, Tamar Yager Fundraising Manager, Direct Mail, Events and Personal Solicitations Green Party of the United States Position Description Job Title: Fundraising Assistant (several positions are open in all regions) Supervisor(s): Fundraising Manager for Direct Mail, Events and Personal Solicitations Please send questions or comments to, Tamar Byczek Yager, tamar at gp.org Resumes should be emailed as an attachment to: tamar at gp.org Closing date is April 30, 2008. Contract position which will run until December 31, 2008 The Green Party of the United States needs someone to help with our fundraising program in selected regions. At this time the position will primarily involve phone solicitations with minimal administrative tasks. This is a part-time consultant position (paid as an independent contractor) with the following pay schedule. Months 1-2 - $200 per month plus 20% commission on all donations received within 30 days of pledge. It is expected that this position obtain at least $750 in the first month and at least $1000 in the second month. All other months will be paid on a commission basis as follows: 40% - Credit/debit card donations or donations with no follow-up or tracking needed. 33% - Donations received within 30 days of pledge. 20% - Donations received after 30 days from date of pledge and up to 90 days after the pledge. All sustainer donations will receive 25% commission for every month (up to 12 months) a donation is received as long as the coordinator is employed as a coordinator. First payment must be received within 60 days of pledge to qualify for commission. The position requires that the Coordinator work with Staff and Fundraising Committee to set realistic goals and fundraising targets. Continuation of the contract will, in part, be determined by whether or not a monthly target is reached -within the context of an overall evaluation of the strength of the monthly work package. The contract can be cancelled with 30 days notice by either the Coordinator, or the Green Party of the United States. Responsibilities: The Coordinator will work with the Fundraising Manager on the development of a monthly work package and progress of phone campaigns. The Coordinator will complete required database and paperwork. The Coordinator will target donors under and up to the $500 level (occasionally the coordinator may target larger donors) and prospects with the goal of raising their commitment level and/or building our Sustainer Program. Qualifications: Experience with phone banking or other fundraising is essential. The Coordinator should have previous experience working with the Green Party and/or similar organizations and be able to enthusiastically promote the Green Party and Green campaigns. Work schedule is flexible, although the Coordinator should be able to spend most of their time during early evenings and weekends -when people can be reached at home. The Coordinator must have access to a computer and necessary office equipment. The Green Party of the United States will reimburse for up to $25 per month for long distance and for actual postage and copy expenses that can be documented. Women and People of Color are strongly encouraged to apply. Please send cover letter and resume in an e-mail attachment, to: tamar at gp.org. 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URL: From rstuller at snet.net Tue Apr 8 17:42:25 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:42:25 -0400 Subject: {news} Legal notice required to be published? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9DADCC51-DC16-4AF6-80B4-917B490BD498@snet.net> Chris, David Bedell distributed this last year, and it may be what you're looking for. It's certainly not relevant for the internal elections part of the convention, but may apply for our choice of Presidential candidate (I'm not sure... may be a question to ask the SOTS office). Hope this helps. Ronna A new act passed by the legislature, SB 1311, has several implications for minor parties. First, we should be aware that starting with nominations for the 2008 elections, not only will we have to notify election officials (SotS or town clerk) about the meeting, but we will also have to announce it in newspapers. This does not affect this year's nominations, but will affect next year's. It may require purchase of an ad in the "Public Notices" section. http://cga.ct.gov/2007/ACT/PA/2007PA-00194-R00SB-01311-PA.htm Substitute Senate Bill No. 1311 Public Act No. 07-194 AN ACT CONCERNING THE INTEGRITY AND SECURITY OF THE VOTING PROCESS. Sec. 44. Section 9-452a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2007): 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, or in the case of a state office or district office, the Secretary of the State. Concomitantly, the presiding officer of such meeting shall cause the written notice of such meeting to be published in a newspaper with a general circulation in the applicable town for such office. As used in this section, the terms "minor party", "state office", "district office" and "municipal office" have the meanings assigned to such terms in section 9-372. On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Christopher Reilly wrote: > Several people have mentioned to me that we are required to print in > the newspapers a legal notice of our upcoming convention. > > I've been trying to find the statute so that I can find out what the > time requirements are and also which newspapers we need to print the > notice it in. > > While we are required to provide written notice to the Secretary of > State (Chapter 153 - Sec. 9-452) at least five days before the > convention I can't find any additional requirements. > > The only thing that I can find that remotely approaches this is the > obligation to print a legal notice in a local paper for nominating > conventions for municipal office. 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District Convention April 12th From: Tim McKee timmckee at mail.com Date: Mon Apr 7 15:21:22 PDT 2008 The Green Party of CT will hold a Nominating Convention on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at 2:00 pm, at the Otis Library, 2 Cliff St., Norwich, CT, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the 2nd Congressional District. All members of the Green Party who reside in the 2nd Congressional District are eligible to vote at the convention. For more information, check < www.nlgreens.org>. Green Party of CT, National Committee 860-643-2282 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Apr 9 14:19:47 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:19:47 -0400 Subject: {news} Presidential nomination and petition Message-ID: I've added links to the Presidential candidates and a link to the Presidential petition on our homepage at http://www.ctgreens.org On Monday I received my ballot for the April 26 state convention. Thanks to Chris for getting these mailed out in time. David Bedell From cpr101 at hotmail.com Wed Apr 9 14:34:24 2008 From: cpr101 at hotmail.com (Christopher Reilly) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:34:24 -0400 Subject: {news} Ballot report for Wed. 4/9 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We received 6 ballots today (Wed. 4/9) and one yesterday for a total of 7 ballots received to date. --Chris Reilly _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Sun Apr 13 09:59:42 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:59:42 -0500 Subject: {news} (Norwich Bulletiin) Green Party hopes to take Courtney's seat Message-ID: <20080413135942.C7B33478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> Green Party hopes to take Courtney?s seat ========================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By MICHAEL GANNONNorwich BulletinPosted Apr 12, 2008 @ 11:41 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norwich, Conn. ? The Green Party came out swinging Saturday at its convention for the 2nd Congressional District. G. Scott Deshefy, 56, of Lebanon was nominated by 17 party members gathered at the Otis Library for the seat held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney. He took on both major parties in his acceptance speech. ?We are an unsustainable locomotive, and Democrats and Republicans are asleep at the switch,? Deshefy said. He called Iraq an illegal war, saying he would end it ?tomorrow? if he could and would redirect military spending to education, infrastructure and health care. He said he would press issues of social and economic justice, including regional living wages for workers. About the environment, Deshefy spoke of his 26 years as a scientist in the enforcement division of the state Department of Environmental Protection. ?I have a track record,? he said. ?I?ve gone after polluters. And I?ve fined them when necessary.? He served on the Montville Board of Education from 1982 to 1987, including two years as chairman. Among those at the convention was Windham First Selectman Jean de Smet, the highest-ranking elected Green Party official in the state. Attendee Ralph Judkins of Columbia said he is a former Democrat. ?I see the Green Party as more connected with regular people and more willing to meet their needs,? he said. Beth Angel of East Hampton said her town has a track record of electing third-party candidates and is not deterred by an uphill battle. ?It?s hard work,? she said. ?But it can be done.? Reach Michael Gannon at 425-4231 or mgannon@ norwichbulletin.com PROFILE G. Scott Deshefy Age: 56 Candidacy: Green Party member seeking Connecticut?s 2ndCongressional District. Personal: Married with one daughter; native of Montville and a resident of Lebanon. Profession: Scientist, retired after more than 26 years with Connecticut?s Department of Environmental Protection. Experience: Served three terms on the Montville Board of Education, 1982-87, including the last two years as chairman. On the Web: Campaign Web site is www.newmenu.org/ deshefy4congress_ct Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. 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Deshefy, 56, of Lebanon, has a wide-ranging agenda, with goals that include ending the war in Iraq as soon as possible, providing single-payer universal health care and changing the nation's agricultural policies to favor a greater diversity of crops and family farms over corporate agriculture. To do that requires viable third-party candidates, said Deshefy, who describes the Republican and Democratic parties as having converged on major issues into a "uniparty." "We need a viable alternative," he said. "Somebody in Congress who isn't your run-of-the-mill lawyer and career politician." Deshefy was nominated at a convention ? the party's first ever in the district ? at the Otis Library in Norwich. Contact Arielle Levin Becker at alevinbecker at courant.com. Copyright ? 2008, The Hartford Courant Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Sun Apr 13 12:00:10 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:00:10 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Irish Green Leader John Gormley's Keynote Speech Message-ID: <050501c89d7f$757b9560$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Feinstein" To: "GP-US International Committee" Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 5:06 PM Subject: USGP-INT Irish Green Leader John Gormley's Keynote Speech The Green Party/Comhaontas Glas in Ireland is having its annual national meeting this weekend. http://www.greenparty.ie/en/convention_08__1 Below is Green Party leader John Gormley's keynote speech http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0412/gormleyspeech.html Friends: It's great to be here in Louth. This has been our best Conference yet. You can sense the enthusiasm and excitement. So far we have had great ideas, energy, debate, discussion and friendship. And it's not over yet. Can I thank most sincerely Councillor Mark Dearey and his team for doing such an exceptional job here in Dundalk. I know this is a joyous occasion for the Green Party. But today also we have received news of the death of former President Patrick Hillery. He was a very honourable statesman and we extend our sympathy to his family. Stocktake It has been an 'interesting' year. A year which has seen our transformation from a Party of opposition to a Party of Government, a year in which we translated vision into reality, words into actions, policies into legislation. A year which has seen a major growth in our Party membership. And it is you, the Party members, who supported overwhelmingly our policy to enter Government, and it is you, the Party members, who will ensure at all times that we remain true to our founding principles and that we, in the words of John F Kennedy, 'use power, but that power does not use us'. And there is one person who understands that better than most - a man of deep principle and unswerving integrity, a man to whom the Green Party owes a great debt of gratitude. He is my friend and former Party Leader, Minister for Food, Trevor Sargent. Managing radical change is always difficult. It brings with it challenges and understandable fears. The Green Party understands the nature of political power, its opportunities and its limitations. We knew, and recognised honestly, that we could never get everything we hoped for in Government, but equally we knew that outside of Government we could achieve nothing. What remains unchanged and steadfast is our vision of a better society and, with each and every day, more and more people can relate to our vision of better planned communities, with good quality and well-insulated houses where people have access to good public transport, and to schools and playgrounds and cr?ches for their children, where there is real local government and not just local administration, where our energy comes from renewable sources, where we have clean food, clean water and a healthy environment for present and future generations. It is a vision of hope and common sense from the Party of common sense and hope, or, as Eamon Ryan put it today: a party with a purpose. Tackling climate change My friends, we know that we are still a long way from achieving that society, but let's examine this evening what we have achieved already in Government in a very short space of time. You all know that when we made that momentous decision to enter Government, our primary motivation was a desire to tackle the defining issue of our age - climate change. We knew that all of the scientific evidence was now showing that we had a 10-year window of opportunity to stabilise CO2 emissions globally, and that this required a major policy shift, a change in attitude, a new way of political thinking, a new generosity, a new sense of partnership. We set up the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Change and we gave the chair of that Committee to a member of the opposition. We appointed members of other opposition parties to key positions on State Boards dealing with this issue because, frankly, these individuals were the best people for the job and because climate change is far too important to play politics with. This evening I appeal to members of the opposition to reciprocate that generosity, put away the petty squabbling and the cheap shots, forget the negative nonsense, and come on board and work with us in the best interest of this country and our planet. Let us all agree on the targets and measures required to tackle climate change. It is vital that climate change now forms a part of social partnership discussions. There is so much to be done. But we know that, if we as a people put our minds to it, we can achieve anything. It means that as citizens, as workers, as employers and business people, as farmers, as voluntary organisations and NGOs, we all need to play our part. I believe that our system of social partnership offers the opportunity for a new cross-sectoral approach complementing a strong cross-party approach to tackle climate change. We need to empower environmental NGOs to become part of social partnership and that is why, as Minister for the Environment, I tripled the funding for NGOs and made more money available for this purpose. We in the Green Party value the contribution of the environmental NGOs and we will do everything we can to secure their position. Achieving in Government Through our participation in Government, we have already changed attitudes and behaviour; we have changed the nature of public discourse on the issue of climate change. Just listen to the advertisements on the radio for cars, which now use lower CO2 emissions as a selling point. People are beginning, my friends, to think carbon - so much so that the majority of people would now support the introduction of a carbon levy. A new ?13m awareness-raising campaign, the first ever of its kind, which I recently launched, has revealed that people in our society are beginning to understand that climate change is the biggest issue facing humanity. It is our task to persuade them that having the Green Party in Government and in council chambers across the country, is by far and away the best means of ensuring that energy, security and climate change issues are effectively tackled. We acted promptly to introduce the country's first ever carbon budget and set up a special Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security. We implemented new rules to ensure that new houses will be 40% more energy efficient, and this is only the beginning. We will improve this to a 60% reduction in carbon dioxide by 2010, with the ultimate aim of reaching zero carbon emissions by 2016. New residential guidelines for urban areas will combat urban sprawl in our villages, towns and cities, by ensuring that public transport and schools and other facilities are provided when, and not after, the new homes are built. My friends, as long as the Green Party is in Government, the days of bad and irresponsible planning are over. For car owners, we have made it cheaper for them to buy low emission vehicles by changing the motor tax and VRT systems. These are now based on CO2 emissions. From 1 January next, we will ensure that only low-energy light bulbs are on sale in shops. All of these measures show that Green politics is not only good for the planet, it is also good for people's pockets. Energy security and climate change will define how we live in the 21st century. It will affect our economy and quality of life. Already, all over the world, people are experiencing severe pressure as a result of climate change - in a world that is running out of oil. In Ireland, spiralling fuel and food prices are putting families under pressure. We recognise this reality and are doing everything possible to plan for the future. Minister Eamon Ryan is leading the way. He has increased subsidies for off-shore wind from ?57 to ?140 per megawatt hour. He has announced a ?26m investment in ocean energy and a ?200m investment in energy efficient research. Only two weeks ago Eamon Ryan secured a ?22bn investment in the ESB to revolutionise the company, making it a leading, green utility in the world. These are remarkable achievements by any standard. They show clearly how we are translating vision into action, and vindicate over and over again our decision to enter Government. Our Minister for Food and horticulture, Trevor Sargent, has been working diligently, and he bas been delivering. He has announced a ?21m investment in sustainable agriculture, he initiated a new organic food strategy to be published very soon, and he has sent potato-growing kits to over 4,000 schools to teach our children about the value of food security. He is progressing the network of farmers' markets, working with local authorities and my department. When you open the Farmers' Journal - as I do every week now that I'm a Minister - you frequently see Trevor's picture is staring out at you. And it is because of Minister Trevor Sargent's work that the farmers, the food producers and the consumers of this country know that, in the Green Party, they have a real friend in Government. I want to take this opportunity this evening to thank our other members of the Parliamentary Party in Oireachtas ?ireann for their invaluable contributions to making our participation in Government a success - our Deputy Leader, Mary White, Ciar?n Cuffe TD and Paul Gogarty TD, as well as our Senators Dan Boyle and Deirdre de B?rca. We form a very tight and disciplined unit based on collegiality. I would also like to thank our Councillors from around the country, who know better than most what the Green Party is achieving in Government. They know we have succeeded in getting more investment in water treatment plants, in sewage treatment plants, in preserving our green spaces through more special areas of conservation, special protection areas, special amenity orders, more investment in recycling facilities and the roll-out of brown bins for biodegradable waste. Our Councillors know that we have succeeded in getting a massive 43% increase in the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency and a 37% increase for the National Parks and Wildlife Service, which will result in better enforcement of environmental legislation. They have seen the success and they know it's good for the country that the Greens are in Government. Our Councillors and local election candidates understand the importance of real local government. One of our founding principles states clearly that decision making should take place at the lowest effective level. Yet over the last number of years in this country, we have seen decision making powers shift to the centre; we have witnessed the disempowerment of local councillors and local communities. How many times have we heard people at public meetings complain about the lack of local democracy and about the failure to listen to their voices? With the Green Party in Government, this trend towards centralisation will cease. Our vision of local government will become a reality. The forthcoming publication of the Green Paper on Local Government Reform will start a process which will lead to the election of a mayor, with real powers, for the Dublin region in 2011. This will be followed with the election of mayors in other parts of the country. It represents the biggest advance in local government reform in the history of this state and it is happening because we are turning vision into action in Government. But there are so many other areas where our presence in Government is having a positive influence on Government policy. Our Programme for Government recognises the huge contribution to society made by our senior citizens over many years. They deserve our support and that is why we honoured our commitment to increase the old age pension. Next week my Department will approve ?15m for local councils to improve public access for people with disabilities. We also ensured that the Programme for Government commitment to recognise the 12 existing ABA schools. In Government, we are using our position to improve the lives of children with autism and the lives of their dedicated parents. It is also clear that ever since the Green Party's participation in Government, there has been a distinct change in the attitude to the problem of alcohol in our society. I said it in opposition and I repeat it as a Government minister, it is time to deal comprehensively with a problem that has left so much tragedy in its wake. We will use our influence to ensure that the necessary measures are introduced to tackle the alcohol problem. Alcohol has contributed significantly to our health problems and progress in reforming our health service has been slow. The health section of the Programme for Government contains a clear commitment negotiated by this Party to improve the access of public patients to our health system. Access to health can never become a commodity, we expect to see tangible improvements in access for public patients at the end of our five years in Government. Delivering health care begins at an early age and that is why we in the Green Party are so pleased that Minister Eamon Ryan has today indicated his intention to introduce legislation to for a code curbing advertising of junk food to children. Europe Much of the legislation which we use has its origins in EU Directives. We are very proud to be a pro-European Party, working closely with our counterparts in the European Greens. There are now Green Ministers in Finland, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Italy. This evening I would like to extend a very warm welcome to the Czech Minister for Education, Ondrej Liska. Ondrej is one of the youngest Ministers in Europe and an inspiration to all young greens and to all young people interested in politics. Mar is eol daoibh go l?ir, is teanga oiifigiuil ? an Ghaeilge san Eoraip anois. D? bharr sin, is minic a bh?onn deis agam labhairt as Gaeilge sa Bhruis?al agus t?muid br?d?il as an m?id sin. T? muidne sa Ch?mhaontas Glas go l?idir ar son polasa? an d?-theangachais. Sa rialtos ta muid ag cur an f?s seo i bhfeidhm. The Irish Green Party is not just a European party, it is also an all-island party. I am delighted therefore to welcome Brian Wilson, Member of the Northern Assembly, and our Northern colleagues here this evening. I have no doubt that Brian will be joined by others in Stormont after the next elections. The Good Friday Agreement - 10 years old this weekend - has established the Stormont Assembley and now allows us to move beyond sectarian politics. Respect for human rights must extend to all cultures and countries. One country which has been exploited and suppressed and suffered for far too long is Tibet. We condemn unequivocally the flagrant abuse of human rights by the Chinese government and call on the Chinese government to enter dialogue with the Dalai Lama. It is our dedication to human rights, social justice and ecological sustainability which has motivated this Party since its foundation. It is this dedication which has also motivated our insistence on high standards in public life. Unlike other parties, the Green Party has taken a principled position, perhaps to our own disadvantage, to refuse donations from big business. We have always said that we would look after our political morality. It has been said that when we were faced with the choice between looking after other parties' ethics and saving the planet, we took the easier option and decided to save the planet. And, rightly so - and we make no apologies. Our position since entering Government on standards in public life has not changed one iota. The Green Party has consistently expressed full confidence in the Mahon Tribunal and expressed the hope that it will reach its conclusions quickly. And it is our fervent hope that all of the tribunals of inquiry will root out forensically every last morsel of corruption from Irish political life. Conclusion We are entering more uncertain times. At several points during our country's history, we have faced major challenges and found the vision to change. When our economy was on its knees in the 1950s, TK Whittaker and others had the vision to modernise and open our markets. In the 1980s, faced with a crippling national debt, the opposition and Government worked together to help lay the foundations for a new prosperity. Over the last decade, we showed the world what an enthusiastic, educated and entrepreneurial country could achieve. Our nation, more used to emigration, has welcomed many thousands of hard-working immigrants to our shores. But there are major new challenges ahead of us and these are made more urgent by the tightened global economy. I am certain that in this Party, and in this Government and across the rest of this island, there are people who share my love of this country and who share my strong desire to change it for the better. We now have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together. And yet this crisis offers our country enormous opportunities as we move to a low carbon society. In the past ten months we have shown that we are a Party of discipline, of competence, of innovation, a Party that has the necessary skill to deal with the most pressing issues that humanity now faces. The three green ministers are working from early morning until late at night, squeezing every minute out of every day for the betterment of our country. We are so aware of the privilege we have been given and of the weight of responsibility and expectation on our shoulders. There are times when we may fall short and we ask for your understanding. But I believe that so far our tenure has been a success story. We have a list of achievements to our name and that list will continue to grow as long as we are in Government. We have a very good story to tell, so leave this Conference tomorrow refreshed and re-energised. Be ready to tell our story. Be ready to put our ideas - our vision - into action. And be ready to build a better Ireland for present and future generations. Thank you. From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Apr 13 19:11:28 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:11:28 +0000 Subject: {news} The Day: 2nd Takes On A Shade Of Green In-Reply-To: <00163600ca7f044aa018b029522033a1@google.com> References: <00163600ca7f044aa018b029522033a1@google.com> Message-ID: http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=d77be5c4-3218-42a3-81fa-597480f0dd41 2nd Takes On A Shade Of Green By David Collins , Published on 4/11/2008 in Home ?Region ?Region Columns EIGHTY-THREE VOTES. That's all it took, by the time the last town finished its recount, for Democrat Joe Courtney to snatch the 2nd District congressional seat away from Rob Simmons in 2006. It's probably a number neither one of them will soon forget. Ever wonder what would have happened had there been a third candidate in such a close race? Well, stay tuned. Because for this fall's election there could well be a Green Party candidate on the ballot in the 2nd District, long known for its razor-thin margins of victory. This Saturday, the Greens will hold their first 2nd District convention, at 2 p.m. at Otis Library in Norwich, and will likely nominate a candidate. It's expected to be Scott Deshefy, a 56-year-old retired supervising environmental analyst from the state Department of Environmental Protection. Deshefy will then need to collect the signatures of 2,500 registered district voters, from any party, to get on the ballot in November. That shouldn't be too daunting, given that there are active chapters of the Green Party in the southern end of the district, in New London, and in the north, in Willimantic, to help. Deshefy said this week the petitions are circulating with volunteers, and he's pretty confident he'll have all he needs by mid-August. ?I'm not losing sleep over it ? yet,? he said. At a time when the country has turned ?going green? into a marketing phenomenon, it's not hard to see how a green politician might have a lot of voter appeal. And Deshefy, who likes to call himself a ?poor country scientist,? would be an intriguing candidate. He lives in rural Lebanon, where he says he was the first person in town to register in the Green Party. He is a native of Montville and was once chairman of Montville Board of Education. He was a Democrat then. He has bachelor's degree in biology, a master's degree in zoology and has also written a couple of books of poetry. His full resume is on his Web site, newmenu.org/deshefy4congress_ct. If elected, he says he would work to withdraw all American troops from Iraq, to impose six-year congressional term limits, to enact ethics rules with zero tolerance for any kinds of gifts to members of Congress, to end predatory mortgage lending practices, to increase aid for education and to stop the erosion of the middle class. ?We have the widest gap between rich and poor that we have had in the 20th and 21st centuries,? he said. He would also, if elected, give away 30 percent of his salary to charity, because he says he has enough from his pension to support his family. I don't think Deshefy, no matter how appealing a platform he builds, has much credible chance of overcoming the entrenched political reality of the two-party system here in eastern Connecticut. But he could certainly change the dynamics of a close race. I asked him if he worries about people calling him a spoiler. ?I think the spoilers are the Republicans and Democrats who are running the country,? he answered. ?I think the time is right. This is a nation in a state of flux. We have to adapt if we are going to overcome the economic peril that the planet is under right now. The Green Party is the agency of change, and I am going to be the congressional candidate of change here.? Indeed, at the very least, he could change the outcome in a 2nd District race. This is the opinion of David Collins. Regional _________________________________________________________________ Going green? 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URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Tue Apr 15 18:28:48 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:28:48 -0400 Subject: {news} USGP-INT 16 days until Global Greens: Please contribute what you can Message-ID: <046501c89f48$134a3070$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Dear CT Greens, I'm forwarding this message from our IC fundraising chair, Marnie Glickman concerning our participation in the 2nd Global Green Conference in Sao Paolo, May 1-4 in which 70+ Green parties from around the world will be present. The main topic is climate change. http://www.globalgreens.org/index.php In addition to the expenses Marnie refers to, each Green party is asked to contribute money to fund participation of Greens in the developing countries. For example, the European Green Party will contribute about $12,000. We're trying to make some contribution to this as well. I appreciate the generosity of those who have already contributed to this effort. Please give what you can. Thanks, Justine Co-Chair, International Committee, USGP ----- Original Message ----- From: Marnie Glickman To: USGP Committee Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:31 PM Subject: USGP-INT 16 days until Global Greens Dear Green friends, The Global Greens conference begins in 16 days. There are six people representing our party from the International Committee. We do not yet have enough money to pay for the pricey registration fees. (It costs $285 per person.) We have raised $1,220 so far. We need to raise at least another $500. Give today at: https://secure.democracyinaction.com/dia/organizations/Greens/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=1933. We are paying for our own airfare and accommodations. Contribute at: https://secure.democracyinaction.com/dia/organizations/Greens/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=1933. Please be generous. By building partnerships with Greens around the world, we strengthen our party and candidates in our country. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Apr 16 12:30:59 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:30:59 -0400 Subject: {news} Fairfield County Weekly interviews Richard Duffee on impeachment Message-ID: http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=7282 News County Fair: Impeach and a Pair Thursday, April 17, 2008 By FCW Editorial In 2006, Richard Duffee, the Green Party candidate for Connecticut's fourth congressional district, dropped out and endorsed Democrat Diane Farrell when a Quinnipiac poll put her in a dead heat with Republican incumbent Chris Shays. This year, Duffee says he's running again and has no plans to back likely Democratic nominee Jim Himes since he won't run on a promise to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Impeachment, says Duffee is more vital in post-Bush 2009 than it was in 2007. Please stay with us for an explanation. "In the last two years, the Bush administration has continued to push the boundaries of executive power to a nearly imperial state," Duffee says. "Someone needs to hold them accountable, preferably by [an impeachment] prearrangement before January 20." He adds that "power is not an easy thing to give up. It doesn't extinguish itself. Let's say Barack Obama is our next president, and he's a great guy; he'd never do the things Bush and Cheney did. Unless congress acts, those powers that Bush appointed for himself"-the suspension of habeas corpus, warrant-less wiretapping, the use of torture, preemptive warfare (to name a few)-"will still be there for the president after him, and the president after him." Duffee, a Stamford-based poet, essayist and law professor, displays an encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. and international law, and his complaints about American government don't end with the Bush administration. In fact, they predate the Washington administration. "What I would really like to do is have a constitutional convention," Duffee says. He wants to replace the winner-take-all voting system, insert guarantees of economic fairness into the Constitution and dump the two-senators-per-state rule, saying that it gives the 500,000 residents of Wyoming as much say in the Senate as the 36 million Californians. But back to the issue at hand: The impeachment of the president (which all of a sudden seems reasonable and doable). Himes, the former chair of the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee, says "as a matter of principle, we should hold any officials who've broken the law to task. God knows, Chris Shays has taken no action. But for a guy like me who won't have Bush and Cheney leaving office by the time I get to Washington, I don't see it as a worthy use of time." Himes says he's more invested in restoring the Constitution by bolstering congressional oversight, clarifying habeas corpus regulations, closing Guantanamo Bay, strictly banning the torture, and wrangling with the next president over disregard for parts of legislation he or she signed. "I respect Richard Duffee," says Himes, who has met with Duffee several times. "He's a thoughtful and passionate activist. We care about many of the same things but we clearly differ on focus." And Duffee, when asked if the two main-party candidates were the Pepsi and Coke of the fourth district, says firmly, "No, Jim Himes is much better; Chris Shays is a true believer in the war and the imperial presidency." Himes, hoping to throw that knock-out blow Farrell almost delivered twice to the 15-full-term congressman (she got 48 percent of the vote in 2004 and 2006), doesn't see Duffee as a potential spoiler. "I think the people in this district can see that there is a clear choice between me, someone who cares deeply about the Constitution, and Chris Shays, someone who's voted to help destroy it." From cpr101 at hotmail.com Wed Apr 16 14:04:02 2008 From: cpr101 at hotmail.com (Christopher Reilly) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:04:02 -0400 Subject: {news} Ballot report for 4/16 Message-ID: We received 1 ballot today bringing the grand total to 29 ballots received to date. --Chris Reilly _________________________________________________________________ Get in touch in an instant. Get Windows Live Messenger now. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_getintouch_042008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee at mail.com Thu Apr 17 17:17:05 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:17:05 -0500 Subject: {news} what CT greesn should be doing.. VIDEO: Green Party of California Press Conference, April 5th, 2008 Message-ID: <20080417211705.EB6D4BE4078@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Feinstein" To: "USGP Discussion" Subject: [usgp-dx] VIDEO: Green Party of California Press Conference, April 5th, 2008 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:04:25 -0700 VIDEO: Green Party of California Press Conference, April 5th, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZhE40cxUU 40:35 November 2008 Green candidates Mark Sanchez (SF Board of Supervisors), Carol Wolman (US House, District 1), Carol Brouillet (US House, District 14) and Bruce Wolfe (SF Community College Board) speak at the Green Party of California Press Conference, April 5th, 2008. 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Last week, Drug War Chronicle examined the alternative on the right, the Libertarian Party, and its presidential campaign. This week, we turn our view to the left, to the Green Party and the independent campaign of Ralph Nader. While third-party alternatives like the Greens or Libertarians have not succeeded in winning large percentages of the popular presidential vote -- the 2000 Nader Green candidacy garnered only 2.7% of the national vote, and the 2004 competing Nader and Green candidates combined for little more than half a million votes nationally -- in a close election, third parties could throw a state's electoral votes to one or the other of the major party candidates. Just to take one example, countless Democrats are still fuming that the 2000 Nader campaign cost them the election by garnering slightly under 100,000 votes in Florida. "A third-party campaign could make a difference in a tight race," said Bill Piper of the Drug Policy Action Network, the lobbying arm of the Drug Policy Alliance. "In this election, it could come from either side of the political spectrum." While conservatives and libertarians interested in drug reform have the Libertarian Party, for liberals and progressives, the Green Party comes closest to a palatable drug policy. In its most recent social justice platform, adopted at the 2004 national convention, the party calls for -- among other things -- repealing "Three Strikes" laws and mandatory sentencing, an end to asset forfeiture for unconvicted suspects, a moratorium on prison construction, the decriminalization of victimless crimes including marijuana possession, the legalization of industrial hemp, and "an end to the war on drugs." "Law enforcement is placing too much emphasis on drug-related and petty street crimes, and not enough on prosecution of corporate, white collar, and environmental crimes," said the platform. "At the same time, we must develop a firm approach to law enforcement that directly addresses violent crime, including trafficking in hard drugs. Violence that creates a climate of further violence must be stopped. Police brutality has reached epidemic levels in the United States and we call for effective monitoring of police agencies to eliminate police brutality." While the Green Party platform has its contradictions -- it calls for marijuana decrim and an end to the drug war, but also defines selling drugs as "violent crime" -- it is miles ahead of the major parties on drug policy. And the current crop of Green Party presidential candidates appear to be ahead of the party platform. Former Democratic Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney looks to be the front-runner for the party nomination at this stage, primarily because of her high name recognition and national reputation. On her web site, McKinney says bluntly, "We want to end the war on drugs now!" In addition to targeting communities of color, "the War on Drugs has become a war on truth, taxpayers, civil liberties, and higher education for the poor and middle class, and sadly, it has also become a war on treatment, addicts, and reason," says her statement. It also "provides cover for US military intervention in foreign countries, particularly to our south, and that this increased militarization is used to put down all social protest movements in countries like Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and elsewhere." "This is a big issue for Cynthia, especially as it impacts communities of color and regarding the prison industrial complex," said John Judge, a McKinney press spokesman. It's also a big issue for other Green candidates. "Drug policy is a big issue for me, it affects my daily life," said contender Kat Swift, a San Antonio-based political activist and former co-chair of the Texas Green Party. "I work at a homeless center, and we deal with drug issues all the time. We're across the street from a park with a lot of illegal drug sales. I've also had friends and family members arrested for having a joint." Swift said she is looking to long-time drug reform activist and former Connecticut Green Party gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton, and his group, Efficacy for guidance on drug policy issues. "Cliff has submitted an amendment to our drug policy plank that would call for legalizing and regulating all drugs, and I don't know that I differ with him on this at all," she said. For Swift, drug policy is a pivotal issue. "This is an area where race and class and even how we treat women and children is at play," she said. "This is about the prison-industrial complex and keeping people in their class." "I am opposed to the war on drugs," said contender Kent Mesplay, who came up in California Green Party politics and now serves as a delegate to the Green National Committee. Calling the drug war a "vestige of Puritanism," he added that "it is, in effect, a war on poor people with terror for us all when we realize how completely the US government attempts to micro-manage our lives. It would be far better to have governmental agencies put money and effort into actually educating people as to the science of drug use." And just in case that wasn't clear enough, Mesplay added, "Yes, I have smoked marijuana and I favor its decriminalization." Neither the other Green Party presidential contender, Jesse Johnson, nor the Nader campaign responded to Chronicle requests for information on their drug policy positions. Johnson's campaign web site does not mention drug policy, nor does Nader list it among his "Twelve Issues that Matter in 2008," although his web site says it is open for more issues and he has embraced drug reform in past campaigns. According to the Green Party web site, McKinney stands alone at the head of the pack in the delegate count, but that's with only three states having decided. The contest for the party's nomination will be on until the party national meeting later this summer. Once again, people for whom drug reform is a major issue will have a choice, whether on the left or the right. They can vote for parties and candidates who support their drug policy positions, but who have little to no chance of winning, or they can vote for a Democrat in hopes of obtaining reforms on the margins, or they can vote for the Republican despite their drug policy convictions. 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Sun Apr 20 14:45:12 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:45:12 -0500 Subject: {news} (Manchester J.I.) Green enters race in 1st Congessional Message-ID: <20080420184512.4CE39BE407F@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> Connecticut ----------- Green Party candidate enters race in 1st Congressional District =============================================================== By Kimberly Phillips Journal Inquirer Published: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:12 PM EDTA Green Party challenger has announced that he will run for U.S. Rep. John B. Larson?s seat, saying the five-term Democrat hasn?t done enough to fight President Bush. ?He?s a very nice fellow, thoughtful and caring and all the things you?d want in a public official ? except resolve,? candidate Stephen Fournier of Hartford said Thursday of the Larson. ?He was lacking in that.? Fournier, who is a lawyer and only recently joined the Green Party after having been a Republican for the last five years, said his candidacy is something he agreed to after participating in a discussion group that focused on talk of presidential impeachment. The informal group came to the conclusion that there?s ?ample evidence they?ve committed serious crimes,? Fournier said of Bush and Vice President Cheney. After reaching this conclusion, Fournier said, he met with Larson to discuss the matter further and presented him with a dozen questions asking Larson what could be done and whether he?d be willing to do anything. But, Fournier said, he didn?t get a satisfactory answer, prompting his campaign for the 1st Congressional District seat, which he said is rooted in fighting against ?lawlessness in government.? ?I?m not unrealistic; I certainly wouldn?t expect to win,? Fournier said of his campaign in the Democrat-heavy district, adding that he hopes only to shift discussions ?leftward.? He noted, however, ?Of course, I would like to win the election, but I?m a nobody.? Fournier?s resume is extensive. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a Hungarian language voice-intercept processing specialist from 1966 to 1970, and went on to graduate from the University of Connecticut in 1973 and its law school in 1978. Among other jobs, he?s been Hartford?s assistant corporation counsel and legal editor and managing editor of Business & Legal Reports Inc. He also is a self-taught painter, cartoonist, and computer programmer. Fournier served on Hartford?s Board of Education from 1995 to 1997. While he joined the Green Party only within the last year, Fournier said, he worked on Ralph Nader?s last two presidential bids and on campaigns for others running for state office, having been active with the party for the last decade. In addition to Larson, of East Hartford, West Hartford Republican Joe Visconti has announced his candidacy in the 1st District, which includes East Hartford, East Windsor, Manchester, South Windsor, Windsor, and Windsor Locks. Fournier said he hasn?t met Visconti but said that ?West Hartford politicians have been very effective in getting things done.? Visconti is a first-term town councilman who describes himself as an ?activist? and unsuccessfully led the fight against the public financing of Blue Back Square. He is likely to receive the party?s nomination during the convention May 10. Two years ago, New Canaan resident Miriam Masullo unsuccessfully contested the Republicans? choice, sending the nomination to a primary. Copyright ? 2008 - Journal Inquirer Tim McKee, Manchester CT, Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. 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He did so at the request of Kennebunkport resident and Maine US Senate Candidate Laurie Dobson, who March, 2008 announced her support of a "Kennebunkport Indictment" against President GW Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney for war crimes committed against the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Charter and the Geneva Conventions, in violation of the US Constitution, which makes these human rights treaties the supreme law of the land. The draft ordinance incorporates the Nuremberg Charter, and specifically creates town authority to investigate, arrest, indict, prosecute and refer for further legal action any suspected or known war criminal within Kennebunkport. The Bush family have had a Kenenbunkport summer home for generations. Burbank published the proposed ordinance last week at a Concord, New Hampshire event he organized advocating impeachment of Bush-Cheney featuring Pentagon Papers icon Daniel Ellsberg, former Star Wars missile defense shield program director Dr. Robert Bowman, author John Nichols, and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Ellsberg and Bowman, staunch advocates of impeaching Bush and Cheney for crimes against the Constitution and humanity, have publicly announced their support of Burbank's 5th District US House campaign versus incumbent Chris Murphy, who refuses to support impeachment, and who continues to vote for budgets for the Iraq occupation. "At Chris Murphy's September, 2007 New Britain town meeting on Iraq, I asked him publicly why he was not supporting impeachment of Bush-Cheney, given that he agreed the Iraq war and many other administration policies were the results of their criminal actions," Burbank said. "Chris had no answers, which was inexcusable, since he swore the same oath I did as a Connecticut attorney, and another when he entered the US House, to uphold and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I then decided I had to run for his seat. Chris was denying his obligation to protect my family and my country by protecting the Constitution from fascism. My model ordinance, which incorporates the Nuremberg Charter, in effect since August 7, 1945 and never repealed, is a logical extension of my oath and campaign to protect the Constitution from war criminals and war crimes of the Bush-Cheney administration." Burbank is a Kennebunk native who was recommended to law school by the President's father, President GHW Bush. The family also recommended young Burbank to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, to which he was later nominted. In 1986 the senior Bush helped Burbank's law school Amnesty International group gain release of a Thai political prisoner. Burbank corresponds to this day with President GHW Bush on war and peace issues, including possible US war with Iran. "I am a human rights lawyer specializing in international law, which includes war crimes. Kennebunk, Maine is my hometown, where I grew up golf caddying and grounds keeping for the Bush family. As a Maine and Connecticut licensed attorney I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, which makes all US treaties like the Nuremberg Charter the supreme law of the land. The American people, and people of the Middle East, need the benefit of the Nuremberg Charter now, not after Bush administration attacks and occupies a new country like Iran, which will surely plunge us into WW III. The Kenenbunkport war crimes ordinance is designed to give Americans and all others the maximum authority to prevent WW III from starting," Burbank said. "If the Congress will not stop current imperilaist US wars, and prevent future ones, especially in Iran, the people will have to do it, even if we have to build a ground-up system of local policing and enforcement," Burbank said. President GW Bush comes to the 5th District this Friday to raise funds for likely Republican US House candidate David Cappiello, at a $1000 plate dinner hosted by Henry Kissinger of Kent. Burbank will seek to hold an ice cream fundraiser in Kent the same day and play his tape of Dan Ellsberg's April 14, 2008 speech given in Concord, New Hampshire in support 87 year old New Hampshire State Representative Betty Hall's HR 24, a bill to impeach Bush and Cheney for crimes against the Constitution an humanity. "Ellsberg challenged all Americans to consider what it took to stop the Vietnam War; that it took great sacrifice by peace activists like Randy Kehler who went to Danbury, Connecticut Federal Prison for two years rather than serve in the immoral and illegal Vietnam War, or seek CO status, or escape to Canada. Randy went to prison to make the maximum moral statement that the war was wrong, that everyone had a moral duty to confront that issue, and do what they could to peacefully end the war. Randy was Dan Ellsberg's inspiration for his release of the Pentagon Papers. Dan faced over 100 years in prison for treason for what he did (he was released after Nixon had Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office burglarized). That is the kind of legal, moral and spirtual heroism it takes to build a war crime free world, and that is what I am for. It is terribly ironic that President Bush is coming to the 5th District to promote his immoral and illegal wars this week - the same District in which Randy served his time for peace which moved Dan Ellsberg to spark the end of the Vietnam War," Burbank said. "I am afraid that our major parties have yet to learn anything from what Randy and Dan taught my generation, but I am hoping to speak up for them in my 5th District campaign, for the sake of my children and theirs." _________________________________________________________________ More immediate than e-mail? Get instant access with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_instantaccess_042008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Sun Apr 20 22:16:44 2008 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:16:44 -0400 Subject: {news} (Manchester J.I.) Green enters race in 1st Congessional In-Reply-To: <20080420184512.4CE39BE407F@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20080420184512.4CE39BE407F@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: Another MAN all 5 districts how GREEN !! iTS NOT JUST "RECRUITING" A MINORITY ITS WHAT YOU SHOW TO PLUBIC AND ATTITUDE!!!! From: timmckee at mail.comTo: ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgDate: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:45:12 -0500Subject: {news} (Manchester J.I.) Green enters race in 1st Congessional Connecticut Green Party candidate enters race in 1st Congressional District By Kimberly PhillipsJournal Inquirer Published: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:12 PM EDT A Green Party challenger has announced that he will run for U.S. Rep. John B. Larson?s seat, saying the five-term Democrat hasn?t done enough to fight President Bush.?He?s a very nice fellow, thoughtful and caring and all the things you?d want in a public official ? except resolve,? candidate Stephen Fournier of Hartford said Thursday of the Larson. ?He was lacking in that.?Fournier, who is a lawyer and only recently joined the Green Party after having been a Republican for the last five years, said his candidacy is something he agreed to after participating in a discussion group that focused on talk of presidential impeachment.The informal group came to the conclusion that there?s ?ample evidence they?ve committed serious crimes,? Fournier said of Bush and Vice President Cheney.After reaching this conclusion, Fournier said, he met with Larson to discuss the matter further and presented him with a dozen questions asking Larson what could be done and whether he?d be willing to do anything.But, Fournier said, he didn?t get a satisfactory answer, prompting his campaign for the 1st Congressional District seat, which he said is rooted in fighting against ?lawlessness in government.??I?m not unrealistic; I certainly wouldn?t expect to win,? Fournier said of his campaign in the Democrat-heavy district, adding that he hopes only to shift discussions ?leftward.?He noted, however, ?Of course, I would like to win the election, but I?m a nobody.?Fournier?s resume is extensive. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a Hungarian language voice-intercept processing specialist from 1966 to 1970, and went on to graduate from the University of Connecticut in 1973 and its law school in 1978.Among other jobs, he?s been Hartford?s assistant corporation counsel and legal editor and managing editor of Business & Legal Reports Inc. He also is a self-taught painter, cartoonist, and computer programmer. Fournier served on Hartford?s Board of Education from 1995 to 1997.While he joined the Green Party only within the last year, Fournier said, he worked on Ralph Nader?s last two presidential bids and on campaigns for others running for state office, having been active with the party for the last decade.In addition to Larson, of East Hartford, West Hartford Republican Joe Visconti has announced his candidacy in the 1st District, which includes East Hartford, East Windsor, Manchester, South Windsor, Windsor, and Windsor Locks.Fournier said he hasn?t met Visconti but said that ?West Hartford politicians have been very effective in getting things done.?Visconti is a first-term town councilman who describes himself as an ?activist? and unsuccessfully led the fight against the public financing of Blue Back Square. He is likely to receive the party?s nomination during the convention May 10.Two years ago, New Canaan resident Miriam Masullo unsuccessfully contested the Republicans? choice, sending the nomination to a primary. Copyright ? 2008 - Journal Inquirer Tim McKee, Manchester CT, Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please visit and play around at http://network.greenchange.org. It is still very basic and has a bunch of bugs and bumps. We will be building patches and rolling out new features every week. Let me know if you need help finding your way around. Peace, Marnie Glickman - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Marnie Glickman Executive director Green Change www.greenchange.org http://network.greenchange.org 503.313.7919 w 707.313.7919 f skype: marnieglickman _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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"Yet more than a million Iraqis have been killed since the invasion of Iraq," said a second protester. The six were immediately removed from the church, arrested, and held for felony charges of battery and destruction of property. They were released on up to $30,000 bond, and could face up to 5 years in prison. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1170/t/3151/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=9 84 &t=&limit=25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cpr101 at hotmail.com Wed Apr 23 14:01:47 2008 From: cpr101 at hotmail.com (Christopher Reilly) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:01:47 -0400 Subject: {news} Ballot report for 4/23 Message-ID: We received no ballots today. The grand total remains at 34 ballots received to date. --Chris Reilly _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself wherever you are. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Apr 24 15:08:28 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:08:28 -0400 Subject: {news} Nader speaks on impeachment, Sunday, 4-27-08, Waterbury, CT Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Burbank II" Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:48 PM Subject: Fw: Ralph Nader, Sunday, 4-27-08, Waterbury, CT PS - Start time is 6 PM. > Ralph Nader's staff called me to announce Ralph will appear this Sunday, > 4-27-08, 193 Grand St., Cass-Gilbert Bldg., Waterbury, CT, to lecture on > impeachment. Please notice widely. This is part of the Nader for > President Campaign's National Impeachment Tour. > > Admission is free. Bring your friends! > > HB > > Attorney Harold H. Burbank, II > 84 N. Mountain Rd. > Canton, CT 06019 > 860.693.2687 > email haroldburbank@ comcast.net From timmckee at mail.com Thu Apr 24 16:53:32 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:53:32 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-dx] Green candidate McKinney vs. the 2-party system (Matt Cardinale, Atlanta Prog. News/IPS) Message-ID: <20080424205332.C2807BE4078@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] Green candidate McKinney vs. the 2-party system (Matt Cardinale, Atlanta Prog. News/IPS) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:38:55 +0000 [First & second of two articles; the second is an interview] Outspoken War Critic Poised for Green Party Run By Matthew Cardinale Atlanta Progressive News / Inter Press Service April 23, 2008 http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0321.html http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42081 http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/23/8468/ ATLANTA - With media attention focused almost exclusively on the dramatic contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, millions of U.S. voters probably have no inkling that there is a ballot option beyond the Democratic and Republican Parties. ?There needs to be room for a lot of policy threads in American discourse. But the corporate media is not informing the people,? Cynthia McKinney, the front-runner for the Green Party presidential nomination, told IPS during a rare 90-minute interview. Founded in 2001 as the successor of the Association of State Green Parties, the party?s platform revolves around environmentalism, non-violence, social justice and grassroots organising. It has slightly more than 300,000 registered voters nationwide, and a standing ballot line in 20 states plus Washington, DC. In other states, the party must circulate petitions to get its candidates on the ballot. McKinney, a former congressional representative from Georgia, abandoned the Democratic Party last year in disgust at its failure to end the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, and is now poised for a presidential run on the Green Party ticket. She has won Green Party primaries in Arkansas, Illinois, and Washington, DC. Ralph Nader, who gave the party national stature as its candidate in 2000, won in California and Massachusetts, prior to announcing he is running as an Independent instead. McKinney also won the Green state caucuses in Wisconsin and Rhode Island, and has a total of 71 delegates. Trailing candidates include Kent Mesplay (10 delegates), Howie Hawkins (8), Jesse Johnson (2) and Kat Swift (2). The likelihood of McKinney winning the nomination at the party?s national convention in Chicago this summer is ?very high?, Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News, told IPS, although he added that the Green Party will have a ?one in a million? chance of winning the presidency this November. ?This country, even though it claims to be such a model, is one of the least democratic countries because election laws, campaign finance laws, and laws around debates openly discriminate against all parties except two parties [Republican and Democrat],? Winger said. ?In other countries, there is one set of [ballot access] laws,? instead of 51 sets governing the 50 states and the capital, he said. ?This is the only country that exempts the two biggest parties from having to qualify.? Scott McLarty, the national Green Party spokesperson, told IPS, ?We would like to see our presidential ticket get five percent of the vote.? Despite the fact that winning is pretty much out of the question, many party activists are excited by the prospect of McKinney?s campaign inspiring a ?Black-Brown-Green Coalition?. ?Of course you?ve got the situation that the Green Party is basically a party of whites. So they are extremely aware of that fact, except in Massachusetts and DC where they merged with the Rainbow Party. You have a little more people of colour in those two states,? McKinney, who is African American, told IPS. ?There is a real need of the values of the Green Party to be known among all people of the country, not just a few,? she said. The Green Party admits this problem. ?That?s true except in certain locations. In DC, the Green Party membership is mostly black. Among leaders, there?s a lot of diversity,? said McLarty. ?Over the past couple decades, there has been a belief that the environmental movement is a white phenomenon and the Green Party has been associated with the environment even though we cover other things like health care and the war,? he told IPS. ?On top of that, a lot of black voters have felt a very strong loyalty to the Democratic Party. When people feel strong loyalty to one party, they are less likely to support start-up parties,? McLarty said. ?It?s always been true of minor parties in U.S. You?d think African Americans would have been angry enough to leave the two major parties. Tradition goes back 100 years ago that African Americans are not interested in other parties,? Winger said. McKinney, McLarty, and Winger each have different ideas of how the Green Party should approach its political development. ?I asked for candidate recruitment because the purpose of a political party is to win office. They have successfully recruited more than 500 candidates,? McKinney said. However, the fact that the Green Party is not on the ballot in McKinney?s home state ?looks weak?, Winger pointed out. Georgians will need to collect over 40,000 signatures by July to get McKinney on the ballot, Winger said, and they?ve only collected about 3,000. ?Some people have been out of the political system for a very long time,? McKinney noted. ?They made a choice to not be involved in the political process. After a series of disappointments, people made a rational choice. Unfortunately, the U.S. participation rates are well below that of other countries.? In recent years, Green parties have been racking up electoral successes around the world, particularly in Europe. ?The Green Party participated in the coalition that led in Germany and in Ireland and in the Kenyan Parliament,? McKinney said. ?The Green Party is international.? ?We have a winner-take-all system in the U.S. that pushes conformity,? she added. ?Regressive ballot access laws in Georgia [and other states] prevent candidates from getting on the ballot.? ?The Green Party is a political entity that deserves to be built,? she said. * * * * * Interview Pt 2: McKinney Takes on 2-Party System By Matthew Cardinale Atlanta Progressive News / Inter Press Service http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42099 http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0322.html ATLANTA, Apr 23 (IPS) - "Politics in the U.S. is at a crisis level," Green Party presidential hopeful Cynthia McKinney told IPS during a rare sit-down interview. "Disillusionment, lack of participation, and establishment of false choice -- what is one to do? For me, I can't give up hope. I said yes when the Green Party said 'okay, now you want to do it?'." McKinney served as a Democratic Georgia State legislator from 1988 to 1992, and as a U.S. congressperson from Georgia from 1993 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2007. Now she is the frontrunner for the U.S. Green Party nomination, although the candidate has yet to be formally decided. "There are important issues, national in scope, that need to be addressed," McKinney said. "Unfortunately, they're not being addressed now. These issues include a livable wage, single payer health care, and of course the wars. And the rollback of our civil liberties and the infrastructure needs of our country." Always outspoken, she lost her seat in 2003, after commenting on KPFA radio: "We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on Sep. 11... Those engaged in unusual stock trades immediately before Sep. 11 knew enough to make millions of dollars from United and American airlines, certain insurance and brokerage firms' stocks. What did the [George W. Bush] administration know, and when did it know it about the events of Sep. 11?" Corporate media outlets only played the last part of her lengthy quote and called her loony, a nut, and a conspiracy theorist, among other things. After gaining back her seat in 2005, McKinney was targeted again after another much-publicised incident in 2006 in which she physically protected herself after being assaulted by a Washington, DC police officer who did not recognise her as a Congresswoman when she was entering the Capitol building. Democratic leaders dissociated themselves from McKinney and would not support her after the incident, in which she was never charged despite a full investigation. Since then, McKinney has remained active in politics at home and abroad, participating in the Hurricane Katrina Tribunal about the effects of the storm that devastated the Gulf Coast states in 2005, and the official neglect that followed in the aftermath. "That was a particularly moving moment because we had people from all over the world descend on New Orleans to hear from survivors," McKinney said. "The situation with Hurricane Katrina is something no one's talking about. When the Democrats [upon winning back a majority in Congress in 2006] came up with the 100-Hour Agenda, nowhere in that agenda were the Katrina survivors," she noted. "Instead of a livable wage, she [Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi] put an increase in the minimum wage. If the minimum wage had kept up with the stratospheric height of CEO remuneration, the minimum wage would be 22 dollars an hour," McKinney said. The federal minimum wage is now 5.85 dollars, up in 2007 from 5.15 dollars, which it had been at for the 10 previous years. "It is not sufficient given the income inequality that exists in our country and the erosion of value of workers' wages," McKinney said. McKinney announced her resignation from the Democratic Party on Mar. 17, 2007, at an anti-war rally in front of the Pentagon. "As an American of conscience, I hereby declare my independence from every bomb dropped, every threat leveled, every civil liberties rollback, every child killed, every veteran maimed, every man tortured. And I sadly declare my independence from the leaders who let it happen," McKinney said, according to a video of the event obtained by IPS. One of the U.S. House votes in 2007 to authorise funding for the U.S. occupation of Iraq passed by only one vote, McKinney said during the interview. "Had I been there, it would have failed," she noted, seeing as how her Democratic replacement in Congress, Rep. Hank Johnson, voted to continue funding the war. "The war party, which has two wings, Democratic and Republican... The Democratic wing counted their votes. They got rid of a sure 'no' vote and ensured war funding," McKinney said. Today, in addition to campaigning for president in more than 20 states, McKinney is completing a PhD in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation topic is on the role of assassination as a political tool of the state. "I know as a result [of my candidacy] a lot of people are looking. Hopefully, they will give the Green Party a look. In order to have choice, you have to vote that choice. If you haven't voted in the past, maybe this is the time to vote," she said. "We have to pay attention to these issues... because while no one is talking about it in this presidential campaign, the rest of the world is consolidating to oppose greed. You have to look at the power of the vote of people in Latin America, in Haiti, Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, and sometimes Brazil," McKinney said. "Through the power of the vote they change their circumstances. If they can do it in Nicaragua, you know we can do it here," she said. *This is the second of two articles about the U.S. Green Party and the 2008 elections. About the author: Matthew Cardinale is the News Editor for The Atlanta Progressive News and may be reached at matthew at atlantaprogressivenews.com. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself wherever you are. Mobilize! http://www.gowindowslive.com/Mobile/Landing/Messenger/Default.aspx?Locale=en-US?ocid=TAG_APRIL _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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David Bedell ----- Original Message ----- From: dave bonan To: newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com ; dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [newhavengreens] Nader speaks on impeachment, Sunday, 4-27-08, Waterbury, CT someone please change this! it's not free. ralph ferrucci told me it's $10 minimum donation. dave From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Apr 23 23:37:33 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:37:33 -0400 Subject: {news} Proposed Agenda for the 4-26-08 CT Green Party Annual Meeting Message-ID: <20080424033731.NNBD13948.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> 11am to 12noon: Social hour; ability to order box lunch from Jerry Martin for $15; review literature and any merchandise. Monitors will review credentials for anyone seeking a ballot. Noon to 12:10PM: Greetings by facilitator, Scot Deshefy, CT Green Party Candidate for 2nd Congressional District. Timekeeping by Vic Lancia. Approval of agenda. Review of the election procedures and explanation of today?s voting process for internal officers for CT Green Party and vote for your presidential preference for GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago, starting July 10, 2008. 12:10PM to 1:15PM: a) Any nominations from the floor for CT Green Party Officers. Five (5) minutes will be allotted to each candidate to speak and answer and questions from meeting participants. Positions need to be filled for the CTGP: Three (3) Co-chairpersons; Secretary; Treasurer; Five (5) GPUS National Party representatives. 1:30PM to 1:45PM Break for lunch. Food may be provided by participants to share with others. 1:45PM to 2:00PM: Discussion of the presidential candidates for GPUS. Some candidates will have provided literature about themselves. 2PM: The start of counting of the provided ballots by the Internal Elections Committee of the CTGP with monitors. 2PM to 2:10PM: Speech by Allan Brison, Green Party New Haven Alderman with question and answer period. 2:10PM to 2:25PM: Speech by S. Michael DeRosa about the CT Green Party?s lawsuit against the State of CT 2005 Campaign Finance Reform Law. Questions and answer period. 2:25PM to 2:40PM: Speech by Green Party member: Jean deSmet, First Selectperson for Windham, Questions and answer period. 2:40PM to 2:55PM: Speech by Paula Panzarella, from Fight the Hike. Questions and answer period. 2:55PM to 3:05PM: Speech by Steven Fournier, endorsed CT Green Party candidate for 1st Congressional District. Question and answer period. 3:05PM to 3:15PM: Speech by Scott Deshefy, endorsed CT Green Party candidate or 2nd Congressional District. Question and answer period. 3:15PM to 3:25PM: Speech by Richard Duffee, endorsed CT Green Party candidate or 4th Congressional District, Question and answer period. 3:25PM to 3:35PM: Speech by Harold Burbank, running for CT Green Party 5th Congressional District candidacy. Question and answer period. 3:35PM: Results of: a) internal elections for CTGP and b) number of votes received for GPUS Presidential candidate. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.4/1394 - Release Date: 4/23/2008 7:16 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstuller at snet.net Sat Apr 26 18:54:33 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:54:33 -0400 Subject: {news} May 21 action In-Reply-To: <20080424033731.NNBD13948.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> References: <20080424033731.NNBD13948.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> Message-ID: <34D29C9D-AFC1-45CB-B199-4C560055B8E6@snet.net> Hi fellow CT Greens, This year's US Coast Guard Academy graduation will be held on Wednesday, May 21, and Vice President Dick Cheney will be the commencement speaker. The SECT Peace and Justice Network will gather at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in New London (intersection of Bank and State Sts.) at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21. Rally with music by the Raging Grannies at 9:15. Silent procession carrying tombstones with names of ~4,000 (~100 tombstones, 40 each) to the US Coast Guard Academy. 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We Greens disagree with the Constitution Party on many issues, but they oppose the "Patriot" Act and the Iraq war. From what I've read on Third Party Watch, Baldwin's opposition to the war was crucial in defeating Alan Keyes for the nomination. Keyes supports the war. The final score: Riekse 4.5 Baldwin 383.8 Ducey 1 Imperato 1* Keyes 125.7 We should work with other third parties on getting access to the debates, and if we can't get in with the major parties, hold our own debates. * Yes, it's the same Daniel Imperato who showed up to our Presidential candidate forum at Reading in July 2007. He was also trying to get the Libertarian nomination recently! -- Tom Yager GPVA Alternate _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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URL: From rstuller at snet.net Sun Apr 27 10:43:40 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:43:40 -0400 Subject: {news} Chuck Baldwin is the Constitution Party nominee In-Reply-To: <20080427113138.D204E478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20080427113138.D204E478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: I know that the CT Libertarian Party (which of course is also a party to the campaign finance lawsuit) is interested in working with us to promote IRV... and I feel certain that access to debates can be another area of cooperation. The state Libertarian Vice Chair is Marc Guttman, who lives in Niantic and keeps in contact with the NL Greens and the SECT P&J folks. Ronna On Apr 27, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Tim McKee wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "T Yager" > To: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org > Subject: [usgp-dx] Chuck Baldwin is the Constitution Party nominee > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:15:37 -0400 > > > The Constitution Party is having their convention in Kansas City. > They just > nominate Chuck Baldwin to be their Presidential candidate. We Greens > disagree with the Constitution Party on many issues, but they oppose > the > "Patriot" Act and the Iraq war. From what I've read on Third Party > Watch, > Baldwin's opposition to the war was crucial in defeating Alan Keyes > for the > nomination. Keyes supports the war. > > The final score: > > Riekse 4.5 > Baldwin 383.8 > Ducey 1 > Imperato 1* > Keyes 125.7 > > We should work with other third parties on getting access to the > debates, > and if we can't get in with the major parties, hold our own debates. > > * Yes, it's the same Daniel Imperato who showed up to our Presidential > candidate forum at Reading in July 2007. He was also trying to get the > Libertarian nomination recently! > -- > Tom Yager > GPVA Alternate From timmckee at mail.com Mon Apr 28 19:17:42 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:17:42 -0500 Subject: {news} (NEWS RELEASE) Cynthia McKinney wins CT Green Party vote for President Message-ID: <20080428231742.33FFD478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Green Party-CT" To: timmckee at mail.com Subject: (NEWS RELEASE) Cynthia McKinney wins CT Green Party vote for President Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Green Party of Connecticut News Release Contact: Tim McKee, CT Green Party National Committee Person, cell (860)860-778-1304 or (860)-643-2282, Mike DeRosa, State Co-Chair (860)956-8170 or (860) 919-4042 (cell) -------------------------------------------------------------------- CYNTHIA MCKINNEY WINS CT GREEN PARTY VOTE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ----------------------------------------------------------- NEW HAVEN, CT- Former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney won the majority of vote casts for the Presidential nomination at the Green Party of Connecticut's Annual Convention on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council, New Haven, CT. . CT Green Party members voted for a Presidential candidate, and delegates to the Green National Convention in Chicago July 10-13th. Those votes will be apportioned according to the vote. Candidates for President under the Green Party banner include: Cynthia McKinney,- former Democrat Congresswoman from Georgia, http://www.runcynthiarun.org Jesse Johnson, activist and actor for West Virgina,http://www.jesse08.org Kent Mesplay, Air Quality scientist from L.A.,California, http://www.mesplay.org Kat Swift, Green activist from Texas, http://www.voteswift.org McKinney had 33 votes, Swift 3 votes, Johnson 2 votes, and Mesplay 2 votes. Those vote will be divided among the delegates to the convention. Write in votes included 6 for Independent candidate and native son Ralph Nader and one each for 2 others. Also speaking at the event was first time Congressional candidates,, U.S. Representative, 1st Congressional District: Stephen Fournier of Hartford,(Candidate website), 2nd Congressional District: Scott Deshefy of Lebanon (Candidate website) 4th Congressional District: Richard Duffee of Stamford (Candidate website) Also running but who did not attend is for the U.S. Representative, 5th Congressional District: Harold Burbank(Candidate website). The Convention also elected State Party officers as well as National Committee representatives. Elected as Co Chairs were Mike Derosa, Steve Fournier and Phoebe Godfrey. Elected to the Green National Committee were Charles Pillsbury. Richard Duffee, Tim McKee, Michael DeRosa and Steve Fournier. #End of Release# Tim McKee, Manchester CT, Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. 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The SECT Peace and Justice Network will gather at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in New London (intersection of Bank and State Sts.) at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21. Rally with music by the Raging Grannies at 9:15. Silent procession carrying tombstones with names of ~4,000 (~100 tombstones, 40 each) to the US Coast Guard Academy. There the group will "plant" the tombstones and unfurl the banner with our slogan ("War is Death" or something else TBD) wherever we are permitted to be present, and stand in silence. We invite other individuals and groups to join us. Peace, Ronna No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.6/1402 - Release Date: 4/28/2008 1:29 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.6/1402 - Release Date: 4/28/2008 1:29 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Apr 29 00:58:27 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:58:27 -0400 Subject: RE {news} (NEWS RELEASE) Cynthia McKinney wins CT Green Party vote for President Message-ID: I posted it in the press release section of the website (http://www.ctgreens.org/press.shtml ), with slight modifications. Let me know if any changes are needed. Green Party of Connecticut CTGP Article Home | Press Releases NEWS April 28, 2008 Contact: Tim McKee, CT Green Party National Committee Representative, (860)778-1304 (cell) or (860)643-2282 Mike DeRosa, State Co-Chair, (860)956-8170 or (860)919-4042 (cell) Cynthia McKinney Wins CT Green Party Vote for President NEW HAVEN, CT-Former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney won the majority of votes cast for the Presidential nomination at the Green Party of Connecticut's annual convention on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council, New Haven, CT. CT Green Party members voted for a Presidential candidate, and delegates to the Green National Convention in Chicago July 10-13th will be apportioned according to the vote. Candidates for President under the Green Party banner include: * Cynthia McKinney, former Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia - www.runcynthiarun.org * Jesse Johnson, activist and actor from West Virgina - www.jesse08.org * Kent Mesplay, air quality scientist from Los Angeles, California - www.mesplay.org * Kat Swift, Green activist from Texas - www.voteswift.org McKinney had 33 votes, Swift 3 votes, Johnson 2 votes, and Mesplay 2 votes. Those votes will be divided among the delegates to the convention. Write-in votes included 6 for Independent candidate and native son Ralph Nader and one each for several others. Also speaking at the event was were candidates for U.S. Representative, 1st Congressional District: Stephen Fournier of Hartford (www.fournierforcongress.org), 2nd Congressional District: Scott Deshefy of Lebanon (www.newmenu.org/deshefy4congress_ct), and 4th Congressional District: Richard Duffee of Stamford (www.richardduffee.com). Also running but not in attendance is a candidate for U.S. Representative, 5th Congressional District: Harold Burbank (www.newmenu.org/haroldburbank). The Convention also elected State Party officers as well as National Committee representatives. Elected as Co-Chairs were Mike Derosa, Steve Fournier and Phoebe Godfrey. Elected to the Green National Committee were Charles Pillsbury, Richard Duffee, Tim McKee, Michael DeRosa and Steve Fournier. # # # From timmckee at mail.com Tue Apr 29 16:04:45 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:04:45 -0500 Subject: {news} can Phoebe Godfrey contact me off list?? Message-ID: <20080429200445.1D0EC326819@ws1-8.us4.outblaze.com> i need information for press releasees for her contact me off list please Tim McKee, Manchester CT, Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee at mail.com Wed Apr 30 10:41:09 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:41:09 -0500 Subject: {news} Call for election of first GP House Campaign Committee Message-ID: <20080430144112.6C44811581F@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> would any local Greens like to serve or be elected to this committee? ----- Original Message ----- From: "brent white" To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-nc] Call for election of first GP House Campaign Committee Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:43:09 +0000 Madame Secretary and Honorable members of the Green National Committee, The Green Senatorial Campaign Committee decided tonight, by consensus, to issue a call for nominations and election of the first Green Party House Campaign Committee. We request that the Steering Committee hold this election expeditiously, so that the newly-composed GPHCC has time to meet all the benchmarks during 2008 to qualify for FEC national committee status by early 2009. Further stalling on the holding of this election may prevent the GPHCC from qualifying for national committee status before 2011. Thanks you for your attention to this matter. --brent White Secretary, Green Senatorial Campaign Committee Call for nominations for and election of first Green Party House Campaign Committee Proposer: Green Senatorial Campaign Committee Background Proposal #223, Creation of National Green Party House and Senatorial campaign committees, was adopted by the GPUS National Committee on 6/19/06. The first Green Senatorial Campaign Committee was elected soon thereafter, and the second GSCC was elected in July of 2007. The GSCC feels that the time has come to launch the Green Party House Campaign Committee (referred to originally as the National Green Party House Campaign Committee), and provide the sort of backup for House races that the GSCC provides for senate races. Call for nominations and election: The GSCC requests that the Steering Committee set a period of time for nominations of candidates for the first Green Party House Campaign Committee, to last at least three (3) weeks, commencing as soon as practicable. According to the original bylaws of the National Green Party House Campaign Committee, any member of the GNC may nominate any candidate for the GPHCC. However, nobody may serve simultaneously on the GPHCC and the GSCC, or on the GPHCC and the GPUS Steering Committee. The main preferred qualifications for candidates are experience in federal elections or in fundraising. Each candidate will get to submit a 500-word statement making the case for electing her or him to the committee. This statement must be turned in to the Party Secretary by midnight Pacific Time, within one week after the end of the nomination period. The election shall then occur as soon as practicable after the deadline for candidate statement submissions, with nine members elected proportionally using the method of single-transferable vote. References: Resolution creating Green Senatorial Campaign Committee and Green Party House Campaign Committee: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=223 This link includes the original bylaws of the National Green Party House Campaign Committee. Resources: None _________________________________________________________________ Make i'm yours. 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Help us change the terms of the debate by adding your vision and voice. Saturday, May 3rd, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Sheraton 4-Points, 275 Research Parkway, Meriden, CT For more information and to REGISTER NOW click here! Forward this invitation to your colleagues The summit is expected to draw Latino advocates, union workers, business executives, clergy, lawyers, journalists, medical professionals and others from a cross-section of industries. We will exchange stories and ideas, identify opportunities and tools to engage in the debate at the national and state level, and develop working groups and action plans. 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