From timmckee at mail.com Tue Jul 1 08:32:06 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:32:06 -0500 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens at Chicago convention to gather, donate items to homeless shelters Message-ID: <20080701123207.0B55C16429D@ws1-4.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens at Chicago convention to gather, donate items to homeless shelters Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:12:26 +0000 GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Ruth Weill, National Convention Coordinator, 414-350-2107, ruthweill at gmail.com Greens at the Chicago convention, July 10-13, to collect and donate items to homeless shelters ? Media credentialing page for the Green National Convention: http://www.gp.org/forms/media Updated convention information and schedule: http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=68 Convention press kit: http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml General information on the convention: http://www.greenparty2008.org Green Presidential Candidates: http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party members attending the Green National Convention in Chicago, July 10-13, will bring donations for area shelters. The collection is a project organized by Pat LaMarche, the Green Party's vice presidential nominee in 2004. During her 2004 campaign, Ms. LaMarche, who ran with presidential nominee David Cobb, went on a two-week cross country tour of urban homeless shelters, staying overnight at many of them or sleeping along side the homeless in the street in an effort to bring attention to veterans issues, the need for a living wage, affordable housing, and universal access to health care. "I would like for folks with less agreeable resting places for their heads to know that Greens came to town and that we did not forget them," said Ms. LaMarche, who wrote a book about her 2004 experiences, 'Left Out in America, the State of Homelessness in the United States' (Portland, Maine: upalaPress, 2006). "The last time I stayed in Chicago was in 2004 at a shelter for women and their children. There's a big difference between where I'll be staying this time and where the homeless folks like the ones I met last time will be staying," added Ms. LaMarche. Ms. LaMarche has already contacted food suppliers in her home state of Maine. Wyman's Blueberries of Cherryfield, Maine, has led the way by committing donations of canned berries to the shelter in Chicago. Greens from around the country who will not be attending the convention have begun food drives to support their local shelters in solidarity with the collection efforts in Chicago, with satellite shelter drives confirmed in Utah, Pennsylvania, and Maine. "As in the 'Left Out' tour we undertook in 2004, we want to bring the plight of the poor and the need to restore the social safety net into the election year debate," said Ms. LaMarche. "The Green Party calls adequate housing and health care a human right. As our economy falters, as this winter's heating costs soar, as the gap between the rich and the poor grows ever wider, and as our middle class recedes to join the ranks of the poor, it is no less important today than four years ago that we focus on the issues of poverty." Pat LaMarche can be reached at 207-671-0190. During the convention, hundreds of delegates from Green Parties in nearly every state will choose the Green nominees for President and Vice President of the United States. The nomination process will take place on Saturday, July 12, at the Chicago Symphony Center. The four candidates -- Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, and Kat Swift -- will participate in a forum Friday, July 11, at the Palmer House Hilton beginning at 7 pm. Other candidates, including Green congressional hopefuls, will be featured during press conferences and other events throughout the weekend. MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? 2008 Green National Convention: Live Green, Vote Green http://www.greenparty2008.org ? Media credentialing http://www.gp.org/forms/media ? Video of Green presidential candidates http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php ? 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Tue Jul 1 09:02:26 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:02:26 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-dx] Release: Green Party of Hawaii regains ballot status (fwd) Message-ID: <20080701130226.6DB5716429D@ws1-4.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] Release: Green Party of Hawaii regains ballot status (fwd) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:52:18 +0000 (forwarded) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July, 2008 GREEN PARTY OF HAWAII REGAINS BALLOT STATUS The Green Party of Hawaii has regained ballot status for the 2008 elections, after gathering more than twice the number of petition signatures required. "Thanks go out to the tireless efforts of local Green activists as well as supporters who traveled to Hawaii to help with the petition drive," said Hawaii Green Party Secretary Claire Mortimer. Locally, Greens and progressive Independents, with help from supporters from the Mainland, simultaneously gathered signatures to help the Green Party of Hawaii and the new Independent Party in Hawaii gain ballot status. It was a joint signature gathering effort to give Hawaii voters the opportunity to cast their ballot for progressive candidates?offering real alternatives to the two dominant political parties, that Greens and Independents alike believe are dominated by corporate influence to the detriment of Hawaii's people. The Green Party presidential candidate will be decided by delegates from state parties at the Green Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, July 10 to 13, 2008. At its State Party Convention in Honolulu, the Green Party of Hawaii elected party officers and delegates to the national Green Party Convention. Officers elected to the State Coordinating Committee were: Mary Stone and Jim Brewer - State Party Co-Chairs, Claire Mortimer - Secretary, Julie Jacobson - Treasurer and Renee Ing - Membership Chair. Results from the Hawaii Green Party Primary mean that 50% of Hawaii delegates will vote for former six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney for the Green Party presidential candidate, and 50% will vote for Ralph Nader. Nationally, all candidates for the Green Party's presidential nomination oppose the war in Iraq, urge impeachment of Bush and Cheney, support single payer national health care, support organic agriculture, oppose GMO's, and support alternatives to global warming fossil fuels used for home heating, electricity generating power plants and transportation. The Green Party U.S. has vowed to achieve 51 ballot lines in 2008 in all the states and the District of Columbia, and has committed party resources for this purpose. Greens currently have ballot access in 21 state Green Parties (including DC) "We're especially proud of the diversity and depth of political experience represented by our candidates. We look forward to a vigorous and friendly competition for the nomination," said Ruth Weill, co-chair of the Green Party's Annual National Meeting Committee. Locally, on the Big Island, Greens have helped push forward Voter Owned C.L.E.A.N. Elections?free from the influence of corporate money. Green Party elected official Bob Jacobson is running for re-election to the Hawaii County Council for a fourth and final time this year due to term limits. The council seat Jacobson has held for six years has been occupied by a Green for fourteen years, though the race has been non-partisan since 2002. O'ahu Greens Jim Brewer and Renee Ing, the Green Party Candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor in 2006, are leading the campaign to educate the public on the clear advantages of clean, quiet hydrogen fuel cell powered, advanced magnet-guided public rapid transit vehicles, with super-express capabilities, on a dedicated elevated fixed guideway, as today's best mass transit option for the City and County of Honolulu. Kauai Green, Carol Bain, was elected to the Board of Kauai Island Utility Cooperative in 2007. Globally, the Green Party has been busy internationally as well, with candidates in 91 countries. Wangari Maathai of the Kenyan Green Belt Movement received worldwide attention when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. For more information about the Key Green Values visit http://www.greenhawaii.org and http://www.gp.org _________________________________________________________________ The other season of giving begins 6/24/08. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Jul 1 13:34:30 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:34:30 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: notice of party nominating meeting Message-ID: July 1, 2008 Legislation and Elections Administration Division Secretary of the State PO Box 150470 Hartford CT 06115-0470 To Whom It May Concern: Pursuant to CT General Statutes Sec. 9-452a, as Secretary of the Fairfield County chapter of the CT Green Party, I hereby provide statutory notice of a Party nominating meeting to be held: Date: Monday, July 7, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM Location: UConn Stamford Branch (2nd floor lounge), 1 University Place, Stamford, CT Purpose: Nominate candidates for public office, including Stamford Board of Education; State Senate District 36, State Assembly District 135, and local Registrars of Voters. Nominations shall be accepted from the floor. Anyone who meets the requirements of membership as defined by the rules of the Fairfield County Green Party, who resides within Fairfield County and is present at the meeting is eligible to vote. The nominees must receive support from a simple majority of those who actually vote. If there is more than one person nominated for the same office, instant runoff voting will be used and abstentions will not be counted as votes. Respectfully submitted, David Bedell, Secretary Fairfield County Chapter, CT Green Party cc: Donna Loglisci, Stamford Town Clerk From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Tue Jul 1 17:19:44 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:19:44 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Bush & Co., preparing attack on Iran, step up secret moves (Seymour Hersh, New Yorker) Message-ID: <01ec01c8dbc0$2f65bea0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: ; ; Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:24 PM Subject: USGP-INT Bush & Co., preparing attack on Iran,step up secret moves (Seymour Hersh, New Yorker) > Annals of National Security > Preparing the Battlefield > > The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran. > > Operations outside the knowledge and control of commanders have eroded > ?the coherence of military strategy,? one general says. > > By Seymour M. Hersh > The New Yorker, July 7, 2008 > http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh > > > Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a > major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current > and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These > operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million > dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are > designed to destabilize the country?s religious leadership. The covert > activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups > and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering > intelligence about Iran?s suspected nuclear-weapons program. > > Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special > Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from > southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These > have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian > Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the > pursuit of ?high-value targets? in the President?s war on terror, who may > be captured or killed. But the scale and the scope of the operations in > Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special > Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according > to the current and former officials. Many of these activities are not > specified in the new Finding, and some congressional leaders have had > serious questions about their nature. > > Under federal law, a Presidential Finding, which is highly classified, > must be issued when a covert intelligence operation gets under way and, at > a minimum, must be made known to Democratic and Republican leaders in the > House and the Senate and to the ranking members of their respective > intelligence committees?the so-called Gang of Eight. Money for the > operation can then be reprogrammed from previous appropriations, as > needed, by the relevant congressional committees, which also can be > briefed. > > ?The Finding was focussed on undermining Iran?s nuclear ambitions and > trying to undermine the government through regime change,? a person > familiar with its contents said, and involved ?working with opposition > groups and passing money.? The Finding provided for a whole new range of > activities in southern Iran and in the areas, in the east, where Baluchi > political opposition is strong, he said. > > Although some legislators were troubled by aspects of the Finding, and > ?there was a significant amount of high-level discussion? about it, > according to the source familiar with it, the funding for the escalation > was approved. In other words, some members of the Democratic > leadership?Congress has been under Democratic control since the 2006 > elections?were willing, in secret, to go along with the Administration in > expanding covert activities directed at Iran, while the Party?s > presumptive candidate for President, Barack Obama, has said that he favors > direct talks and diplomacy. > > The request for funding came in the same period in which the > Administration was coming to terms with a National Intelligence Estimate, > released in December, that concluded that Iran had halted its work on > nuclear weapons in 2003. The Administration downplayed the significance of > the N.I.E., and, while saying that it was committed to diplomacy, > continued to emphasize that urgent action was essential to counter the > Iranian nuclear threat. President Bush questioned the N.I.E.?s > conclusions, and senior national-security officials, including Secretary > of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, made > similar statements. (So did Senator John McCain, the presumptive > Republican Presidential nominee.) Meanwhile, the Administration also > revived charges that the Iranian leadership has been involved in the > killing of American soldiers in Iraq: both directly, by dispatching > commando units into Iraq, and indirectly, by supplying materials used > for roadside bombs and other lethal goods. (There have been questions > about the accuracy of the claims; the Times, among others, has reported > that ?significant uncertainties remain about the extent of that > involvement.?) > > Military and civilian leaders in the Pentagon share the White House?s > concern about Iran?s nuclear ambitions, but there is disagreement about > whether a military strike is the right solution. Some Pentagon officials > believe, as they have let Congress and the media know, that bombing Iran > is not a viable response to the nuclear-proliferation issue, and that more > diplomacy is necessary. > > A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record > lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus > in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the > consequences if the Bush Administration staged a pre?mptive strike on > Iran, saying, as the senator recalled, ?We?ll create generations of > jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in > America.? Gates?s comments stunned the Democrats at the lunch, and another > senator asked whether Gates was speaking for Bush and Vice-President Dick > Cheney. Gates?s answer, the senator told me, was ?Let?s just say that I?m > here speaking for myself.? (A spokesman for Gates confirmed that he > discussed the consequences of a strike at the meeting, but would not > address what he said, other than to dispute the senator?s > characterization.) > > The Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose chairman is Admiral Mike Mullen, were > ?pushing back very hard? against White House pressure to undertake a > military strike against Iran, the person familiar with the Finding told > me. Similarly, a Pentagon consultant who is involved in the war on terror > said that ?at least ten senior flag and general officers, including > combatant commanders??the four-star officers who direct military > operations around the world??have weighed in on that issue.? > > The most outspoken of those officers is Admiral William Fallon, who until > recently was the head of U.S. Central Command, and thus in charge of > American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In March, Fallon resigned under > pressure, after giving a series of interviews stating his reservations > about an armed attack on Iran. For example, late last year he told the > Financial Times that the ?real objective? of U.S. policy was to change the > Iranians? behavior, and that ?attacking them as a means to get to that > spot strikes me as being not the first choice.? > > Admiral Fallon acknowledged, when I spoke to him in June, that he had > heard that there were people in the White House who were upset by his > public statements. ?Too many people believe you have to be either for or > against the Iranians,? he told me. ?Let?s get serious. Eighty million > people live there, and everyone?s an individual. The idea that they?re > only one way or another is nonsense.? > > When it came to the Iraq war, Fallon said, ?Did I bitch about some of the > things that were being proposed? You bet. Some of them were very stupid.? > > The Democratic leadership?s agreement to commit hundreds of millions of > dollars for more secret operations in Iran was remarkable, given the > general concerns of officials like Gates, Fallon, and many others. ?The > oversight process has not kept pace?it?s been co?pted? by the > Administration, the person familiar with the contents of the Finding said. > ?The process is broken, and this is dangerous stuff we?re authorizing.? > > Senior Democrats in Congress told me that they had concerns about the > possibility that their understanding of what the new operations entail > differs from the White House?s. One issue has to do with a reference in > the Finding, the person familiar with it recalled, to potential defensive > lethal action by U.S. operatives in Iran. (In early May, the journalist > Andrew Cockburn published elements of the Finding in Counterpunch, a > newsletter and online magazine.) > > The language was inserted into the Finding at the urging of the C.I.A., a > former senior intelligence official said. The covert operations set forth > in the Finding essentially run parallel to those of a secret military task > force, now operating in Iran, that is under the control of JSOC. Under the > Bush Administration?s interpretation of the law, clandestine military > activities, unlike covert C.I.A. operations, do not need to be depicted in > a Finding, because the President has a constitutional right to command > combat forces in the field without congressional interference. But the > borders between operations are not always clear: in Iran, C.I.A. agents > and regional assets have the language skills and the local knowledge to > make contacts for the JSOC operatives, and have been working with them to > direct personnel, mat?riel, and money into Iran from an obscure base in > western Afghanistan. As a result, Congress has been given only a partial > view of how the > money it authorized may be used. One of JSOC?s task-force missions, the > pursuit of ?high-value targets,? was not directly addressed in the > Finding. There is a growing realization among some legislators that the > Bush Administration, in recent years, has conflated what is an > intelligence operation and what is a military one in order to avoid fully > informing Congress about what it is doing. > > ?This is a big deal,? the person familiar with the Finding said. ?The > C.I.A. needed the Finding to do its traditional stuff, but the Finding > does not apply to JSOC. The President signed an Executive Order after > September 11th giving the Pentagon license to do things that it had never > been able to do before without notifying Congress. The claim was that the > military was ?preparing the battle space,? and by using that term they > were able to circumvent congressional oversight. Everything is justified > in terms of fighting the global war on terror.? He added, ?The > Administration has been fuzzing the lines; there used to be a shade of > gray??between operations that had to be briefed to the senior > congressional leadership and those which did not??but now it?s a shade of > mush.? > > ?The agency says we?re not going to get in the position of helping to kill > people without a Finding,? the former senior intelligence official told > me. He was referring to the legal threat confronting some agency > operatives for their involvement in the rendition and alleged torture of > suspects in the war on terror. ?This drove the military people up the > wall,? he said. As far as the C.I.A. was concerned, the former senior > intelligence official said, ?the over-all authorization includes killing, > but it?s not as though that?s what they?re setting out to do. It?s about > gathering information, enlisting support.? The Finding sent to Congress > was a compromise, providing legal cover for the C.I.A. while referring to > the use of lethal force in ambiguous terms. > > The defensive-lethal language led some Democrats, according to > congressional sources familiar with their views, to call in the director > of the C.I.A., Air Force General Michael V. Hayden, for a special > briefing. Hayden reassured the legislators that the language did nothing > more than provide authority for Special Forces operatives on the ground in > Iran to shoot their way out if they faced capture or harm. > > The legislators were far from convinced. One congressman subsequently > wrote a personal letter to President Bush insisting that ?no lethal > action, period? had been authorized within Iran?s borders. As of June, he > had received no answer. > > Members of Congress have expressed skepticism in the past about the > information provided by the White House. On March 15, 2005, David Obey, > then the ranking Democrat on the Republican-led House Appropriations > Committee, announced that he was putting aside an amendment that he had > intended to offer that day, and that would have cut off all funding for > national-intelligence programs unless the President agreed to keep > Congress fully informed about clandestine military activities undertaken > in the war on terror. He had changed his mind, he said, because the White > House promised better co?peration. ?The Executive Branch understands that > we are not trying to dictate what they do,? he said in a floor speech at > the time. ?We are simply trying to see to it that what they do is > consistent with American values and will not get the country in trouble.? > > Obey declined to comment on the specifics of the operations in Iran, but > he did tell me that the White House reneged on its promise to consult more > fully with Congress. He said, ?I suspect there?s something going on, but I > don?t know what to believe. Cheney has always wanted to go after Iran, and > if he had more time he?d find a way to do it. We still don?t get enough > information from the agencies, and I have very little confidence that they > give us information on the edge.? > > None of the four Democrats in the Gang of Eight?Senate Majority Leader > Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Intelligence Committee > chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, and House Intelligence Committee chairman > Silvestre Reyes?would comment on the Finding, with some noting that it was > highly classified. An aide to one member of the Democratic leadership > responded, on his behalf, by pointing to the limitations of the Gang of > Eight process. The notification of a Finding, the aide said, ?is just > that?notification, and not a sign-off on activities. Proper oversight of > ongoing intelligence activities is done by fully briefing the members of > the intelligence committee.? However, Congress does have the means to > challenge the White House once it has been sent a Finding. It has the > power to withhold funding for any government operation. The members of the > House and Senate Democratic leadership who have access to the Finding can > also, if they choose > to do so, and if they have shared concerns, come up with ways to exert > their influence on Administration policy. (A spokesman for the C.I.A. > said, ?As a rule, we don?t comment one way or the other on allegations of > covert activities or purported findings.? The White House also declined to > comment.) > > A member of the House Appropriations Committee acknowledged that, even > with a Democratic victory in November, ?it will take another year before > we get the intelligence activities under control.? He went on, ?We control > the money and they can?t do anything without the money. Money is what it?s > all about. But I?m very leery of this Administration.? He added, ?This > Administration has been so secretive.? > > One irony of Admiral Fallon?s departure is that he was, in many areas, in > agreement with President Bush on the threat posed by Iran. They had a good > working relationship, Fallon told me, and, when he ran CENTCOM, were in > regular communication. On March 4th, a week before his resignation, Fallon > testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that he was > ?encouraged? about the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Regarding the > role played by Iran?s leaders, he said, ?They?ve been absolutely > unhelpful, very damaging, and I absolutely don?t condone any of their > activities. And I have yet to see anything since I?ve been in this job in > the way of a public action by Iran that?s been at all helpful in this > region.? > > Fallon made it clear in our conversations that he considered it > inappropriate to comment publicly about the President, the Vice-President, > or Special Operations. But he said he had heard that people in the White > House had been ?struggling? with his views on Iran. ?When I arrived at > CENTCOM, the Iranians were funding every entity inside Iraq. It was in > their interest to get us out, and so they decided to kill as many > Americans as they could. And why not? They didn?t know who?d come out > ahead, but they wanted us out. I decided that I couldn?t resolve the > situation in Iraq without the neighborhood. To get this problem in Iraq > solved, we had to somehow involve Iran and Syria. I had to work the > neighborhood.? > > Fallon told me that his focus had been not on the Iranian nuclear issue, > or on regime change there, but on ?putting out the fires in Iraq.? There > were constant discussions in Washington and in the field about how to > engage Iran and, on the subject of the bombing option, Fallon said, he > believed that ?it would happen only if the Iranians did something stupid.? > > Fallon?s early retirement, however, appears to have been provoked not only > by his negative comments about bombing Iran but also by his strong belief > in the chain of command and his insistence on being informed about Special > Operations in his area of responsibility. One of Fallon?s defenders is > retired Marine General John J. (Jack) Sheehan, whose last assignment was > as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command, where Fallon was a > deputy. Last year, Sheehan rejected a White House offer to become the > President?s ?czar? for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ?One of the > reasons the White House selected Fallon for CENTCOM was that he?s known to > be a strategic thinker and had demonstrated those skills in the Pacific,? > Sheehan told me. (Fallon served as commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in > the Pacific from 2005 to 2007.) ?He was charged with coming up with an > over-all coherent strategy for Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and, by law, > the > combatant commander is responsible for all military operations within his > A.O.??area of operations. ?That was not happening,? Sheehan said. ?When > Fallon tried to make sense of all the overt and covert activity conducted > by the military in his area of responsibility, a small group in the White > House leadership shut him out.? > > The law cited by Sheehan is the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, known as > Goldwater-Nichols, which defined the chain of command: from the President > to the Secretary of Defense, through the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of > Staff, and on to the various combatant commanders, who were put in charge > of all aspects of military operations, including joint training and > logistics. That authority, the act stated, was not to be shared with other > echelons of command. But the Bush Administration, as part of its global > war on terror, instituted new policies that undercut regional > commanders-in-chief; for example, it gave Special Operations teams, at > military commands around the world, the highest priority in terms of > securing support and equipment. The degradation of the traditional chain > of command in the past few years has been a point of tension between the > White House and the uniformed military. > > ?The coherence of military strategy is being eroded because of undue > civilian influence and direction of nonconventional military operations,? > Sheehan said. ?If you have small groups planning and conducting military > operations outside the knowledge and control of the combatant commander, > by default you can?t have a coherent military strategy. You end up with a > disaster, like the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.? > > Admiral Fallon, who is known as Fox, was aware that he would face special > difficulties as the first Navy officer to lead CENTCOM, which had always > been headed by a ground commander, one of his military colleagues told me. > He was also aware that the Special Operations community would be a > concern. ?Fox said that there?s a lot of strange stuff going on in Special > Ops, and I told him he had to figure out what they were really doing,? > Fallon?s colleague said. ?The Special Ops guys eventually figured out they > needed Fox, and so they began to talk to him. Fox would have won his fight > with Special Ops but for Cheney.? > > The Pentagon consultant said, ?Fallon went down because, in his own way, > he was trying to prevent a war with Iran, and you have to admire him for > that.? > > In recent months, according to the Iranian media, there has been a surge > in violence in Iran; it is impossible at this early stage, however, to > credit JSOC or C.I.A. activities, or to assess their impact on the Iranian > leadership. The Iranian press reports are being carefully monitored by > retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, who has taught strategy at the > National War College and now conducts war games centered on Iran for the > federal government, think tanks, and universities. The Iranian press ?is > very open in describing the killings going on inside the country,? > Gardiner said. It is, he said, ?a controlled press, which makes it more > important that it publishes these things. We begin to see inside the > government.? He added, ?Hardly a day goes by now we don?t see a clash > somewhere. There were three or four incidents over a recent weekend, and > the Iranians are even naming the Revolutionary Guard officers who have > been killed.? > > Earlier this year, a militant Ahwazi group claimed to have assassinated a > Revolutionary Guard colonel, and the Iranian government acknowledged that > an explosion in a cultural center in Shiraz, in the southern part of the > country, which killed at least twelve people and injured more than two > hundred, had been a terrorist act and not, as it earlier insisted, an > accident. It could not be learned whether there has been American > involvement in any specific incident in Iran, but, according to Gardiner, > the Iranians have begun publicly blaming the U.S., Great Britain, and, > more recently, the C.I.A. for some incidents. The agency was involved in a > coup in Iran in 1953, and its support for the unpopular regime of Shah > Mohammed Reza Pahlavi?who was overthrown in 1979?was condemned for years > by the ruling mullahs in Tehran, to great effect. ?This is the ultimate > for the Iranians?to blame the C.I.A.,? Gardiner said. ?This is new, and it?s > an > escalation?a ratcheting up of tensions. It rallies support for the regime > and shows the people that there is a continuing threat from the ?Great > Satan.? ? In Gardiner?s view, the violence, rather than weakening Iran?s > religious government, may generate support for it. > > Many of the activities may be being carried out by dissidents in Iran, and > not by Americans in the field. One problem with ?passing money? (to use > the term of the person familiar with the Finding) in a covert setting is > that it is hard to control where the money goes and whom it benefits. > Nonetheless, the former senior intelligence official said, ?We?ve got > exposure, because of the transfer of our weapons and our communications > gear. The Iranians will be able to make the argument that the opposition > was inspired by the Americans. How many times have we tried this without > asking the right questions? Is the risk worth it?? One possible > consequence of these operations would be a violent Iranian crackdown on > one of the dissident groups, which could give the Bush Administration a > reason to intervene. > > A strategy of using ethnic minorities to undermine Iran is flawed, > according to Vali Nasr, who teaches international politics at Tufts > University and is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign > Relations. ?Just because Lebanon, Iraq, and Pakistan have ethnic problems, > it does not mean that Iran is suffering from the same issue,? Nasr told > me. ?Iran is an old country?like France and Germany?and its citizens are > just as nationalistic. The U.S. is overestimating ethnic tension in Iran.? > The minority groups that the U.S. is reaching out to are either well > integrated or small and marginal, without much influence on the government > or much ability to present a political challenge, Nasr said. ?You can > always find some activist groups that will go and kill a policeman, but > working with the minorities will backfire, and alienate the majority of > the population.? > > The Administration may have been willing to rely on dissident > organizations in Iran even when there was reason to believe that the > groups had operated against American interests in the past. The use of > Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former > C.I.A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia > and the Middle East, told me. ?The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who > hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda,? > Baer told me. ?These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelievers?in > this case, it?s Shiite Iranians. The irony is that we?re once again > working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we did in Afghanistan in the > nineteen-eighties.? Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the > 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is > considered one of the leading planners of the September 11th attacks, are > Baluchi Sunni > fundamentalists. > > One of the most active and violent anti-regime groups in Iran today is the > Jundallah, also known as the Iranian People?s Resistance Movement, which > describes itself as a resistance force fighting for the rights of Sunnis > in Iran. ?This is a vicious Salafi organization whose followers attended > the same madrassas as the Taliban and Pakistani extremists,? Nasr told me. > ?They are suspected of having links to Al Qaeda and they are also thought > to be tied to the drug culture.? The Jundallah took responsibility for the > bombing of a busload of Revolutionary Guard soldiers in February, 2007. At > least eleven Guard members were killed. According to Baer and to press > reports, the Jundallah is among the groups in Iran that are benefitting > from U.S. support. > > The C.I.A. and Special Operations communities also have long-standing ties > to two other dissident groups in Iran: the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, known in > the West as the M.E.K., and a Kurdish separatist group, the Party for a > Free Life in Kurdistan, or PJAK. > > The M.E.K. has been on the State Department?s terrorist list for more than > a decade, yet in recent years the group has received arms and > intelligence, directly or indirectly, from the United States. Some of the > newly authorized covert funds, the Pentagon consultant told me, may well > end up in M.E.K. coffers. ?The new task force will work with the M.E.K. > The Administration is desperate for results.? He added, ?The M.E.K. has no > C.P.A. auditing the books, and its leaders are thought to have been lining > their pockets for years. If people only knew what the M.E.K. is getting, > and how much is going to its bank accounts?and yet it is almost useless > for the purposes the Administration intends.? > > The Kurdish party, PJAK, which has also been reported to be covertly > supported by the United States, has been operating against Iran from bases > in northern Iraq for at least three years. (Iran, like Iraq and Turkey, > has a Kurdish minority, and PJAK and other groups have sought self-rule in > territory that is now part of each of those countries.) In recent weeks, > according to Sam Gardiner, the military strategist, there has been a > marked increase in the number of PJAK armed engagements with Iranians and > terrorist attacks on Iranian targets. In early June, the news agency Fars > reported that a dozen PJAK members and four Iranian border guards were > killed in a clash near the Iraq border; a similar attack in May killed > three Revolutionary Guards and nine PJAK fighters. PJAK has also subjected > Turkey, a member of NATO, to repeated terrorist attacks, and reports of > American support for the group have been a source of friction between the > two governments. > > Gardiner also mentioned a trip that the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri > al-Maliki, made to Tehran in June. After his return, Maliki announced that > his government would ban any contact between foreigners and the M.E.K.?a > slap at the U.S.?s dealings with the group. Maliki declared that Iraq was > not willing to be a staging ground for covert operations against other > countries. This was a sign, Gardiner said, of ?Maliki?s increasingly > choosing the interests of Iraq over the interests of the United States.? > In terms of U.S. allegations of Iranian involvement in the killing of > American soldiers, he said, ?Maliki was unwilling to play the blame-Iran > game.? Gardiner added that Pakistan had just agreed to turn over a > Jundallah leader to the Iranian government. America?s covert operations, > he said, ?seem to be harming relations with the governments of both Iraq > and Pakistan and could well be strengthening the connection between Tehran > and Baghdad.? > > The White House?s reliance on questionable operatives, and on plans > involving possible lethal action inside Iran, has created anger as well as > anxiety within the Special Operations and intelligence communities. JSOC?s > operations in Iran are believed to be modelled on a program that has, with > some success, used surrogates to target the Taliban leadership in the > tribal territories of Waziristan, along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. > But the situations in Waziristan and Iran are not comparable. > > In Waziristan, ?the program works because it?s small and smart guys are > running it,? the former senior intelligence official told me. ?It?s being > executed by professionals. The N.S.A., the C.I.A., and the D.I.A.??the > Defense Intelligence Agency??are right in there with the Special Forces > and Pakistani intelligence, and they?re dealing with serious bad guys.? He > added, ?We have to be really careful in calling in the missiles. We have > to hit certain houses at certain times. The people on the ground are > watching through binoculars a few hundred yards away and calling specific > locations, in latitude and longitude. We keep the Predator loitering until > the targets go into a house, and we have to make sure our guys are far > enough away so they don?t get hit.? One of the most prominent victims of > the program, the former official said, was Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior > Taliban commander, who was killed on January 31st, reportedly in a > missile strike that also killed eleven other people. > > A dispatch published on March 26th by the Washington Post reported on the > increasing number of successful strikes against Taliban and other > insurgent units in Pakistan?s tribal areas. A follow-up article noted > that, in response, the Taliban had killed ?dozens of people? suspected of > providing information to the United States and its allies on the > whereabouts of Taliban leaders. Many of the victims were thought to be > American spies, and their executions?a beheading, in one case?were > videotaped and distributed by DVD as a warning to others. > > It is not simple to replicate the program in Iran. ?Everybody?s arguing > about the high-value-target list,? the former senior intelligence official > said. ?The Special Ops guys are pissed off because Cheney?s office set up > priorities for categories of targets, and now he?s getting impatient and > applying pressure for results. But it takes a long time to get the right > guys in place.? > > The Pentagon consultant told me, ?We?ve had wonderful results in the Horn > of Africa with the use of surrogates and false flags?basic > counterintelligence and counter-insurgency tactics. And we?re beginning to > tie them in knots in Afghanistan. But the White House is going to kill the > program if they use it to go after Iran. It?s one thing to engage in > selective strikes and assassinations in Waziristan and another in Iran. > The White House believes that one size fits all, but the legal issues > surrounding extrajudicial killings in Waziristan are less of a problem > because Al Qaeda and the Taliban cross the border into Afghanistan and > back again, often with U.S. and NATO forces in hot pursuit. The situation > is not nearly as clear in the Iranian case. All the > considerations?judicial, strategic, and political?are different in Iran.? > > He added, ?There is huge opposition inside the intelligence community to > the idea of waging a covert war inside Iran, and using Baluchis and > Ahwazis as surrogates. The leaders of our Special Operations community all > have remarkable physical courage, but they are less likely to voice their > opposition to policy. Iran is not Waziristan.? > > A Gallup poll taken last November, before the N.I.E. was made public, > found that seventy-three per cent of those surveyed thought that the > United States should use economic action and diplomacy to stop Iran?s > nuclear program, while only eighteen per cent favored direct military > action. Republicans were twice as likely as Democrats to endorse a > military strike. Weariness with the war in Iraq has undoubtedly affected > the public?s tolerance for an attack on Iran. This mood could change > quickly, however. The potential for escalation became clear in early > January, when five Iranian patrol boats, believed to be under the command > of the Revolutionary Guard, made a series of aggressive moves toward three > Navy warships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. Initial reports of the > incident made public by the Pentagon press office said that the Iranians > had transmitted threats, over ship-to-ship radio, to ?explode? the > American ships. At a White House news > conference, the President, on the day he left for an eight-day trip to the > Middle East, called the incident ?provocative? and ?dangerous,? and there > was, very briefly, a sense of crisis and of outrage at Iran. ?TWO MINUTES > FROM WAR? was the headline in one British newspaper. > > The crisis was quickly defused by Vice-Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, the > commander of U.S. naval forces in the region. No warning shots were fired, > the Admiral told the Pentagon press corps on January 7th, via > teleconference from his headquarters, in Bahrain. ?Yes, it?s more serious > than we have seen, but, to put it in context, we do interact with the > Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their Navy regularly,? Cosgriff said. ?I > didn?t get the sense from the reports I was receiving that there was a > sense of being afraid of these five boats.? > > Admiral Cosgriff?s caution was well founded: within a week, the Pentagon > acknowledged that it could not positively identify the Iranian boats as > the source of the ominous radio transmission, and press reports suggested > that it had instead come from a prankster long known for sending fake > messages in the region. Nonetheless, Cosgriff?s demeanor angered Cheney, > according to the former senior intelligence official. But a lesson was > learned in the incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, > and was even asking why the U.S. didn?t do more. The former official said > that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President?s > office. ?The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and > Washington,? he said. > > In June, President Bush went on a farewell tour of Europe. He had tea with > Queen Elizabeth II and dinner with Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, the > President and First Lady of France. The serious business was conducted out > of sight, and involved a series of meetings on a new diplomatic effort to > persuade the Iranians to halt their uranium-enrichment program. (Iran > argues that its enrichment program is for civilian purposes and is legal > under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.) Secretary of State Rice had > been involved with developing a new package of incentives. But the > Administration?s essential negotiating position seemed unchanged: talks > could not take place until Iran halted the program. The Iranians have > repeatedly and categorically rejected that precondition, leaving the > diplomatic situation in a stalemate; they have not yet formally responded > to the new incentives. > > The continuing impasse alarms many observers. Joschka Fischer, the former > German Foreign Minister, recently wrote in a syndicated column that it may > not ?be possible to freeze the Iranian nuclear program for the duration of > the negotiations to avoid a military confrontation before they are > completed. Should this newest attempt fail, things will soon get serious. > Deadly serious.? When I spoke to him last week, Fischer, who has extensive > contacts in the diplomatic community, said that the latest European > approach includes a new element: the willingness of the U.S. and the > Europeans to accept something less than a complete cessation of enrichment > as an intermediate step. ?The proposal says that the Iranians must stop > manufacturing new centrifuges and the other side will stop all further > sanction activities in the U.N. Security Council,? Fischer said, although > Iran would still have to freeze its enrichment activities when formal > negotiations begin. > ?This could be acceptable to the Iranians?if they have good will.? > > The big question, Fischer added, is in Washington. ?I think the Americans > are deeply divided on the issue of what to do about Iran,? he said. ?Some > officials are concerned about the fallout from a military attack and > others think an attack is unavoidable. I know the Europeans, but I have no > idea where the Americans will end up on this issue.? > > There is another complication: American Presidential politics. Barack > Obama has said that, if elected, he would begin talks with Iran with no > ?self-defeating? preconditions (although only after diplomatic groundwork > had been laid). That position has been vigorously criticized by John > McCain. The Washington Post recently quoted Randy Scheunemann, the McCain > campaign?s national-security director, as stating that McCain supports the > White House?s position, and that the program be suspended before talks > begin. What Obama is proposing, Scheunemann said, ?is unilateral cowboy > summitry.? > > Scheunemann, who is known as a neoconservative, is also the McCain > campaign?s most important channel of communication with the White House. > He is a friend of David Addington, Dick Cheney?s chief of staff. I have > heard differing accounts of Scheunemann?s influence with McCain; though > some close to the McCain campaign talk about him as a possible > national-security adviser, others say he is someone who isn?t taken > seriously while ?telling Cheney and others what they want to hear,? as a > senior McCain adviser put it. > > It is not known whether McCain, who is the ranking Republican on the > Senate Armed Services Committee, has been formally briefed on the > operations in Iran. At the annual conference of the American Israel Public > Affairs Committee, in June, Obama repeated his plea for ?tough and > principled diplomacy.? But he also said, along with McCain, that he would > keep the threat of military action against Iran on the table. ? > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > usgp-int mailing list > usgp-int at gp-us.org > http://forum.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/usgp-int > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1528 - Release Date: 7/1/2008 7:26 AM From efficacy at msn.com Tue Jul 1 23:05:44 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:05:44 -0400 Subject: {news} [usgp-media] Join the Green Party Nominating Convention in Chicago - July 10-13 Message-ID: July 2008 News Headlines Join us in Chicago to nominate the Green Party Presidential Candidate The Green Party's presence has never been more significant. We invite you to be an active part of the Green political movement. The Green Party Convention this year will be held from July10th to 13th in Chicago, Illinois, a beautiful city with an active, vibrant Green movement and rich history of progressive activism. The main attraction this year is the nomination of the Green Party Presidential Candidate. On Saturday, the party will choose a candidate from four recognized contenders; Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay and Kat Swift. The Convention will host an impressive array of speakers, including peace activist Kathy Kelly, community activist Malik Rahim and drug policy activist Cliff Thornton, as well as more than 60 inspirational and fascinating workshops and caucuses. Kathy Kelly Kathy Kelly, co-founder of the Voices in Wilderness, is a dedicated leader for peace. A determined war tax resister, Kathy's courage to take direct action up for peace led to arrest for her protest against the School of the Americas (SOA). 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Active in the Green politics as Steering Committee Co-Chair and Gubernatorial Candidate for Connecticut in 2006, he persuasively advocates for Legalization, decriminalization and medicalization of controlled substances as a way to make the society more just and humane. Workshops are interactive and participatory for all attendees, empowering you to build a better world. A wide range of Green issues are covered in the workshops, such as ecology, local economy, voting system reform, and dismantling the military-industrial complex, as well as practical sides of Green campaigning. . Discounted registration is available until July 1st. The application form is available online at http://www.greenparty2008.org/. See you in Chicago! More States in struggle to achieve ballot access - need your help. The perennial issue of securing ballot access for Green candidates remains a challenge as Greens continue working to place representatives in elected office. 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URL: From efficacy at msn.com Wed Jul 2 08:47:58 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:47:58 -0400 Subject: {news} US NY: Editorial: Not Winning the War on Drugs Message-ID: There are two basic questions I ask during lectures and that is; Do you think we are winning the war on drugs? and Do you think people will ever stop using illegal drugs? The overwheliming response is not to both questions. What do you think? Newshawk: Please Write a LTE www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides Pubdate: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 Source: New York Times (NY) Page: 18, Section A Copyright: 2008 The New York Times Company Contact: letters at nytimes.com Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298 NOT WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS According to the White House, this country is scoring big wins in the war on drugs, especially against the cocaine cartels. Officials celebrate that cocaine seizures are up -- leading to higher prices on American streets. Cocaine use by teenagers is down, and, officials say, workplace tests suggest adult use is falling. John Walters, the White House drug czar, declared earlier this year that "courageous and effective" counternarcotics efforts in Colombia and Mexico "are disrupting the production and flow of cocaine." This enthusiasm rests on a very selective reading of the data. Another look suggests that despite the billions of dollars the United States has spent battling the cartels, it has hardly made a dent in the cocaine trade. While seizures are up, so are shipments. According to United States government figures, 1,421 metric tons of cocaine were shipped through Latin America to the United States and Europe last year -- 39 percent more than in 2006. And despite massive efforts at eradication, the United Nations estimates that the area devoted to growing coca leaf in the Andes expanded 16 percent last year. The administration disputes that number. The drug cartels are not running for cover. Mexico and parts of Central America are being swept up in drug-related violence. Latin Americans are becoming heavy consumers of cocaine, and traffickers are opening new routes to Europe through fragile West African countries. Some experts argue that the rising price of cocaine on American streets is mostly the result of a strong euro and fast-growing demand in Europe. Workplace drug tests notwithstanding, cocaine use in the United States is not falling. About 2.5 percent of Americans used cocaine at least once in 2006, the same percentage as in 2002, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. While cocaine use has fallen among younger teenagers, 12th graders are using more: 5.2 percent used cocaine last year -- up from 4.8 percent in 2001 and 3.1 percent at the low point in 1992, says a Monitoring the Future survey done by the University of Michigan. All this suggests serious problems with a strategy that focuses overwhelmingly on disrupting the supply of drugs while doing far too little to curb domestic demand. Washington spent $1.4 billion on drug-related foreign assistance last year -- mostly to equip Colombia's security forces and spray coca crops in the Andes. It spent another $7 billion on drug-related law enforcement and interdiction efforts at home and abroad. It spent less than $5 billion on education, prevention and treatment programs at home to curtail substance abuse. The counternarcotics effort has produced some successes. Marijuana use in the United States has declined since 2002, the earliest year for which the government has comparable data. Teenage use of other drugs, like methamphetamine, has fallen sharply. With American aid, Colombia's armed forces have severely weakened the FARC guerrillas, a major player in the drug trade. The next administration should continue to help Latin American governments take on the traffickers. But it must learn from the current strategy's shortcomings. Eradication efforts are most likely to have more success if more money is spent on programs to wean coca growers from the business and improve the lives of their families and communities. Mexico, in particular, is in deep trouble, and the next American president should build on the Bush administration's plans to provide counternarcotics aid. There needs to be a different mix: less money for equipment for security forces and more for economic development and programs to reform and strengthen Mexico's judicial system. Above all, the next administration must put much more effort into curbing demand -- spending more on treating drug addicts and less on putting them in jail. Drug courts, which sentence users to treatment, still deal only with a small minority of drug cases and should be vastly expanded. Drug-treatment programs for imprisoned drug abusers, especially juvenile offenders, must also be expanded. Over all, drug abuse must be seen more as a public health concern and not primarily a law enforcement problem. Until demand is curbed at home, there is no chance of winning the war on drugs. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Wed Jul 2 17:21:30 2008 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:21:30 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: notice of party nominating meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: David , I heard "NWGP" had a nominating convention for Harold? How could this be when the chapter was disolved abd has not met with any active members? aLSO A NUMBER OF FORMER NWGP "members" comitted crimes agaist CTGP we did not pursue { seizing PO Box, bank account and flasified signatures to Sec of State} Were any of these people or any CTGP officers at this "convention"> Was notice sent out on CTGP list sereve or given to SCC of this event? I AM NOT QUESTIONING hAROLDS CREDINTIALS OR RUNNING JUST AS USUAL FOR NW SECRET ANTI BYLAWS PROCESS by a fake chapter not having 5 people who met at least 3X per bylaws. with notice.AMY> From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com> To: FairfieldCountyGreens at yahoogroups.com; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:34:30 -0400> CC: > Subject: {news} Fw: notice of party nominating meeting> > 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> July 1, 2008> > > Legislation and Elections Administration Division> Secretary of the State> PO Box 150470> Hartford CT 06115-0470> > To Whom It May Concern:> > Pursuant to CT General Statutes Sec. 9-452a, as Secretary of the Fairfield> County chapter of the CT Green Party, I hereby provide statutory notice of a> Party nominating meeting to be held:> > Date: Monday, July 7, 2008> Time: 7:00 PM> Location: UConn Stamford Branch (2nd floor lounge), 1 University Place,> Stamford, CT> Purpose: Nominate candidates for public office, including Stamford Board of> Education; State Senate District 36, State Assembly District 135, and local> Registrars of Voters.> > Nominations shall be accepted from the floor. Anyone who meets the> requirements of membership as defined by the rules of the Fairfield County> Green Party, who resides within Fairfield County and is present at the> meeting is eligible to vote. The nominees must receive support from a simple> majority of those who actually vote. If there is more than one person> nominated for the same office, instant runoff voting will be used and> abstentions will not be counted as votes.> > Respectfully submitted,> > > David Bedell, Secretary> Fairfield County Chapter, CT Green Party> > > > cc: Donna Loglisci, Stamford Town Clerk> > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org> _______________________________________________> CTGP-news mailing list> CTGP-news at ml.greens.org> http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news> > ATTENTION!> The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Scott McLarty Subject: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE: US Greens celebrate Colombian Green leader Betancourt's rescue Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:09:24 +0000 Size: 7573 URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Fri Jul 4 12:21:47 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:21:47 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT War crimes tribunal to convene Message-ID: <09ca01c8ddf2$0ecc3ff0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: a.gronowicz at att.net To: usgp-int at gp-us.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:28 AM Subject: USGP-INT War crimes tribunal to convene Bush 'war crimes conference' to convene in Mass., plan prosecution of admin. officials 06/22/2008 @ 6:34 pm Filed by Stephen C. Webster On September 13-14, 2008, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, plans to convene a 'convention' at the school's facilities; the attendees of which will plan strategies to prosecute members of the Bush administration for war crimes. "This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," stated Velvel in a press release. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth. "We must try to hold Bush administration leaders accountable in courts of justice. And we must insist on appropriate punishments, including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war-criminals in the 1940's." The dean specifically criticizes Justice Department officials who wrote legal opinions designed to provide political cover for administration figures to carry out torture. However, Velvel's sharpest words were saved for President Bush, according to a passage from ABA Journal. "The man ultimately responsible for the torture had a unique preparation and persona for the presidency," wrote Velvel. "He is a former drunk, was a serial failure in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy's friends and wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know the meaning of truth." MORE: PRESS RELEASE. 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It was obviously a personal reply in response to the news I posted earlier. Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: Justine McCabe To: Justine McCabe Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:50 PM Subject: Re: {news} Fw: USGP-INT War crimes tribunal to convene Judy, I assume so--one of the IC members just posted it. Harold may know about it. Thanks for phone call the other day. Forgive my delay in responding earlier. Sorry to hear about Audrey's Dad and your own, and that you didn't get to Sundance this year. How is your father now? We're back and forth with my Mom whom we convinced to try to spend some time at the Cape with her younger (87) sister who was also recently widowed. Now we learned this morning that my aunt is in hospital there with UT infection, low blood pressure (89/40) and fever. She's in ICU on respirator. Her sons are there with them. Given that it's 4 hours there, we're waiting to see what happens in next few hours and will probably go either tonight or tomorrow am. My poor mom was not expecting this. I just talked to my aunt on Wednesday evening and she was chipper and good energy. Hopefully the antibiotics will work and her pressure will continue to rise. Keep us in your prayers as I do for all of you. Love, Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: Justine McCabe To: CTGP-NEWS ; CTGP Women's Caucus Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:21 PM Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT War crimes tribunal to convene 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: a.gronowicz at att.net To: usgp-int at gp-us.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:28 AM Subject: USGP-INT War crimes tribunal to convene Bush 'war crimes conference' to convene in Mass., plan prosecution of admin. officials 06/22/2008 @ 6:34 pm Filed by Stephen C. Webster On September 13-14, 2008, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, plans to convene a 'convention' at the school's facilities; the attendees of which will plan strategies to prosecute members of the Bush administration for war crimes. "This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," stated Velvel in a press release. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth. "We must try to hold Bush administration leaders accountable in courts of justice. And we must insist on appropriate punishments, including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war-criminals in the 1940's." The dean specifically criticizes Justice Department officials who wrote legal opinions designed to provide political cover for administration figures to carry out torture. However, Velvel's sharpest words were saved for President Bush, according to a passage from ABA Journal. "The man ultimately responsible for the torture had a unique preparation and persona for the presidency," wrote Velvel. "He is a former drunk, was a serial failure in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy's friends and wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know the meaning of truth." MORE: PRESS RELEASE. 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URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Sun Jul 6 22:05:16 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:05:16 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Iran countdown: mixed signals, cooked intelligence (Prorev.com) Message-ID: <007901c8dfd5$e9936c00$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: ; Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:25 PM Subject: USGP-INT Iran countdown: mixed signals,cooked intelligence (Prorev.com) > UNDERNEWS > July 6, 2008 > > FROM THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW > Washington's Most Unofficial Source > Editor: Sam Smith > REVIEW INDEX http://prorev.com/ > UNDERNEWS http://prorev.com/indexa.htm > > > IRAN COUNTDOWN > > > Gareth Porter, Antiwar (http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=13085) A > senior Iranian official reportedly told members of the Iranian parliament > that Iran has agreed to freeze its enrichment program for six weeks and > begin negotiations with the P5+1 group of states as early as next week, > according to reports of that decision by the Iranian Student News Agency > and by a Farsi-language website in Iran. Remarks by Iranian Foreign > Minister Manoucher Mottaki and a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah > Ali Khamenei Tuesday also seemed to indicate that decision to accept a > "freeze for freeze" proposal from the P5+1 to begin at least preliminary > negotiations. > > > Think Progress > (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/01/hersh-cheney-privately-says-he-would-prefer-the-us-not-israel-strike-iran/) > On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell asked [Seymour] Hersh if the U.S. was "planning > military action" against Iran or "planning to support Israeli military > action?" > > "Oh, you know, how the hell do I know," replied Hersh. "What I can tell > you is we're loaded for bear. And we've been looking at it for three > years." He then said that Vice President Dick Cheney "privately" is > against an Israeli attack because the U.S. will "be blamed anyway". . . > > On Jan. 20, 2005, Cheney went on the "Imus in the Morning" show and > discussed another Hersh article about U.S. war posture towards Iran. "Why > don't we make Israel do it?" asked Imus. "We don't want a war in the > Middle East, if we can avoid it," replied Cheney. But, he said, "Israel > might do it without being asked," leaving the world to clean up "the > diplomatic mess afterwards". . . > > Asked by Mitchell if it was "possible this would happen before the > election," Hersh said he didn't think so, but that what he thinks "means > nothing" because "this could happen tomorrow, the president could have a > bad hair day and say, ?to hell with it, let's go.'" > > > Peter Spiegel, LA Times > (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-usiran3-2008jul03,0,2674505.story) > Despite Iran's official public positions, the country's leadership fears > both a possible military attack and heightened sanctions and isolation, > many analysts say. In recent days, Iran has rolled out a diplomatic > initiative meant to ease U.S. pressure by currying favor with other world > powers. Iran is considering a package of economic and political incentives > being offered by Western diplomats to pave the way for wide-ranging talks > if it halts its uranium enrichment program. Diplomats have also suggested > a less formal "freeze-for-freeze" package, a six-week period of > preliminary talks during which Iran would stop adding new > uranium-enrichment capability while the West stops pushing for sanctions. > > Many Iranian political heavyweights have sought to change the popular > Western view that the country is run by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, > whose remarks calling for the destruction of Israel have been cited as > evidence of Iran's ultimate intentions. > > In an unusual article published Wednesday in the French daily Liberation, > a powerful Iranian foreign policy official emphasized the role of supreme > leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, not Ahmadinejad, as the ultimate authority > in Iran. > > "In key strategic issues, it's the supreme leader that the Constitution, > approved by universal suffrage, [says] has the final decision," wrote Ali > Akbar Velayati, a highly placed advisor to Khamenei and a former foreign > minister who appears on Iran's political scene during peak crisis moments. > > He urged readers to look at Khamenei's track record to "predict the future > course" of Iran's diplomacy. > > "A compromise could be made using concerns common to Iran and other > states," Velayati said. > > > Paul Reynolds BBC > (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7486971.stm) The warning by > the senior US military commander Adm Mike Mullen that an attack on Iran > would be "extremely stressful" for US forces must lessen the chances of > the US taking part in any strike against Iran. But the admiral, who is > chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and who has just visited Israel, > spoke of Israel's vulnerability to "very real threats". > > So the possibility remains that Israel might undertake an operation > against Iran by itself. Recent large-scale Israeli air force exercises > have strengthened this possibility, according to military observers. > > Nor does Adm Mullen's intervention resolve the ambiguity of the Bush > administration's position that "all options" are on the table. But his > views do indicate that the body of US military opinion is that they have > their hands full in Iraq and Afghanistan. > > Adm Mullen's opinion echoes what the then head of Central Command, Adm > William Fallon, said last November, that an attack on Iran was not "in the > offing". . . > > While Adm Mullen did not diverge from the Bush administration's line that > the military option remains for the US and also said that in his view Iran > was working to develop nuclear weapons, he stressed that "the solution > still lies in using... diplomatic, financial and international pressure". > . . > > An Israeli cabinet minister and former chief of staff, Shaul Mofaz, has > said that an attack on Iran is "unavoidable" if it "continues with its > nuclear program". > > > Washington Post > (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202010.html) > Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said > insurgent Taliban and extremist forces in Afghanistan have become "a very > complex problem," one that is tied to the extensive drug trade, a > faltering economy and the porous border with Pakistan. Violence in > Afghanistan has increased markedly over recent weeks, with June the > deadliest month for U.S. troops since the war began in 2001. "I don't have > troops I can reach for, brigades I can reach, to send into Afghanistan > until I have a reduced requirement in Iraq," Mullen told reporters at the > Pentagon. "Afghanistan has been and remains an economy-of-force campaign, > which by definition means we need more forces there.". . . > > Mullen and President Bush also addressed the possibility of a conflict > with Iran in separate appearances yesterday, with both saying they favor > diplomacy over the use of military force. Asked directly about the > possibility of an Israeli strike against Iran, Bush, in an appearance in > the White House Rose Garden, said: "I have made it very clear to all > parties that the first option ought to be solve this problem > diplomatically." But he refused to rule out the use of force in the > standoff over Iran's effort to develop nuclear weapons. > > > Washington Post > (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001940_pf.html) > - [A] onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using > his real name, filed a motion in federal court asking the government to > declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate > suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the > time. > > The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that the CIA fired him > after he repeatedly clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file > reports that challenged the conventional wisdom about weapons of mass > destruction in the Middle East. Key details of his claim have not been > made public because they describe events the CIA deems secret. > > The consensus view on Iran's nuclear program shifted dramatically last > December with the release of a landmark intelligence report that concluded > that Iran halted work on nuclear weapons design in 2003. The publication > of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran undermined the CIA's > rationale for censoring the former officer's lawsuit, said his attorney, > Roy Krieger. "On five occasions he was ordered to either falsify his > reporting on WMD in the Near East, or not to file his reports at all," > Krieger said in an interview. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > usgp-int mailing list > usgp-int at gp-us.org > http://forum.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/usgp-int > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1537 - Release Date: 7/6/2008 5:26 AM From timmckee at mail.com Mon Jul 7 21:01:11 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:01:11 -0500 Subject: {news} Fwd: Final request for Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention Delegate Credentials Message-ID: <20080708010111.5CCBB104F0@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> NOT SURE WHERE THE STATE CREDENTIAL ARE AND WHO IS GOINGTHE DECISON TO INCLUDE TWO LATE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING WAS LEFT TO THE EXEC. COMMTIEE (jUSTINE MCCABE AND MAZIN) BUT TIME IS FLEETING,,PLEASE POST TO THE STATE LIST TIM MCKEE --- On Sat, 7/5/08, Sanda Everette wrote: > From: Sanda Everette > Subject: Fwd: Final request for Green Party Presidential > Nominating Convention Delegate Credentials > To: delapp at gp-us.org > Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 11:01 PM > Can it really be that your state is not submitting a > delegation for the > nominating convention. Since I know you as an activist, I > am finding this > hard to believe. > curious from CA > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sanda Everette > Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:55 PM > Subject: Final request for Green Party Presidential > Nominating Convention > Delegate Credentials > To: delapp at gp-us.org > > > > > > Dear NC delegate, > > The following information was sent to those identified in > your state as > contacts for your state. We have not heard from anyone in > your state. In > case we sent it to the wrong people, we are now sending it > to those of you > listed as National Committee delegates. Note, that we are > sending this to > every listed delegate, so you will need to talk amongst > yourselves. While > you, or the appropriate person in your state, are gathering > all the > information to complete your application, please send your > list of attending > delegates immediately. Your complete application will have > both those in > attendence and those for whom your delegates will be > carrying > proxies...using your own state's procedure, as well as > other information as > described in the attachment. We need your complete > application by > Saturday, July 5 at noon PST to give us time to look at it > and make sure it > is complete, so we can remind you of any missing details. If we do not have > a complete application by Monday, July 7, you may not be > able to have any > credentialed delegates at the nominating convention. We > need to submit our > report of those meeting credentialing requirements by > Thursday, July 10, and > it will be virtually impossible to credential anyone at a > later time. > > Your prompt attention to this will be greatly appreciated. > Please do not > respond to me individually, but rather to the committee at > delapp at gp-us.org > > Thank you, > > Sanda Everette > Credentials Committee member > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: > Date: Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:35 AM > Subject: Request for Green Party Presidential Nominating > Convention Delegate > Credentials > > > > Please submit your state's delegate credentials as > requested in the > attached letter. 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David Bedell, Secretary Fairfield County chapter, CT Green Party http://www.ctgreens.org From timmckee at mail.com Thu Jul 10 09:42:49 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:42:49 -0500 Subject: {news} Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green Party Bid Message-ID: <20080710134249.AE3B2BE4079@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Johnson" To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-nc] FW: Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green Party Bid Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:46:43 -0700 (PDT) ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [GPCA-MediaComm] Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green Party Bid From: "Hank Chapot" Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 16:11 To: "gpca forum" "GPCA Media comm comm" Cc: "Hank Chapot" ------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=4427 Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green Party Bid 7/9/2008 11:59:05 AM by Davey D Rosa Clemente accepting a bid to run as VP on Cynthia McKinney's Green Party ticket is big news. In fact its great news. First Rosa is no joke. This Bronx born-Puerto Rican-African sista is sharp on the issues and uncompromising on the principals she stands for. She stands tall and fights fiercely for the communities and people she has long represented. She is more than qualified. The other thing that is equally important is that Rosa gives voice to a variety of issues impacting the community that have been increasingly put on the back burner during this election season. many of us have waited eagerly for important issues like the prison industrial complex, media justice, gentrification, a just immigration policy, police brutality (i.e Sean Bell), war crimes and impeachment proceedings being levied on those in high office responsible and the Palestinian perspective in the Middle East to be addressed. With each passing day they seem to be tossed under the bus with the conventional wisdom being middle of the road white voters from small towns need to be appeased. Hence important issues like the aforementioned keep getting sacrificed. The other day, a prominent TV News commentator made a highly offensive, arrogant remark when addressing the recent shift to the right by Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He was talking about how those who see themselves as progressive and grassroots and played significant roles in the success of the Obama campaign, were feeling disenchanted and had gone so far as to stage a financial protest by withholding campaign donations until Obama reversed himself. The pundit was asked if this will hurt Obama, he said it would not. Obama can afford to sacrifice those issues because that group of people have nowhere else to go. In other words they (we) can be taken for granted. That is never a good way to go into a campaign. See the way things work is like that. We start off making the sacrifice as our candidate goes for these so called middle of the road white rural voters. The game plan is once he/she gets in office he/she will start addressing our issues. Unfortunately what usually happens is that as soon as they get into office they have to continue making sacrifices to make sure the party gets people re-elected in Congress and the Senate. We saw this with Bill Clinton. In his attempt to get folks re-elected he led the charge dismantling welfare, building up more prisons and of course shuttling in media consolidation. Wanna know how Fox News and crazed racist right wing talk show hosts came into power? Look at the media policies of Bill Clinton. All this happened when we were all being told to hush up and let him do these things to help make sure the house and senate are won by Democrats. Well this is what happened. The house and Senate were not won by democrats. All that sacrificing to appeal to white middle of the road rural voters didn't do a damn thing except lay the foundation for problems we are dealing with today. When I see Obama who I've supported cave in on FISA, give a luke warm response to Sean Bell, support faith based Initiatives, do an about face on campaign reform and 'refine' his position on the war, I start having flashbacks to Bill Clinton. When will the sacrifices stop? Hell lets look back to 2006 when the Democrats took over the house and senate. The victories was a mandate from voters to immediately end the war and start impeachment proceedings against George Bush for lying about our reasons for going to War. Well as we know that never happened. Progressives and grassroots people were told to pipe down and sacrifice because we needed to make sure the white house was taken back and hence impeachment and ending the war was not feasible if we wanted to make that happen. The sacrifices never stop. Whether McKinney and Clemente stand a snowball's chance in winning is not the issue as much as it is making sure large bodies of people go on record to say there are important issues that need to be addressed. Instead of appealing to fickle middle of the road voters who more often than not don't even support us, how about going after the 30-40% of the people who don't vote? How about really being a candidate of change and figuring out innovative ways to appeal to them. Trying to out Bush Bush and his croonies has never ever worked. So right on Rosa Clemente. we wish you luck and we can count on you to ALWAYS speak truth to power and not cave in. Lastly Clemente, reps a trend of young Hip Hop generation folks making big moves. First we have BET correspondent Jeff Johnson possibly being the next commentator on the Tom Joyner morning show. He may be the voice to replace Tavis Smiley. Next we have Dr Lamont Hill getting a permanent spot on the Fox News Team where he is frequent talking head. Hill is by no means a right winger and he always hold it down. He most recently shut down Bill O'Reilly during an on air debate. In Brooklyn's 10th congressional district, longtime Hip Hop activist Kevin Powell has a really good shot at unseating a 26 year incumbent. So good are Kevin's chances is that the democratic machine that has long backed this Congressman Ed Towns has all but abandoned him. Kev is the man with the momentum. In Atlanta Hip Hop generation head 31 year old Rev. Markel Hutchins is mounting a serious challenge to iconic civil rights figure John Lewis. In a recent debate, Lewis was ano show which did not bode well with people in his district who are beginning to wonder if he's out of touch. Most importantly, Hutchins campaign forced Lewis to stop backing Hillary Clinton and get behind Obama. Hutchins called Lewis out for being in opposition with 85% of the district. Below is a recent speech Clemente gave at the media reform conference. http://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=mmBrj1PRgkU Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Slot to Run w/ Cynthia McKinney JULY 9th, 2008 Today Rosa A. Clemente released the following statement: "I am honored and excited to accept this invitation to run with Cynthia McKinney. Cynthia McKinney is a hero to me and many others across this country and around the world for her courage in standing up to George Bush while the Democratic Party establishment caved. "This campaign is the opportunity the Hip-Hop generation has been working for. This is our time to address the issues affecting our communities ? rising unemployment, the high cost of food and housing, a lack of quality public education and access to higher education, the prison-industrial complex, and unaccountable corporate media. These issues are not being addressed by either the Republican or Democratic nominee. "I choose to do this, not for me, but for my generation, my community and my daughter. I don't see the Green Party as an alternative; I see it as an imperative. I trust that my Vice Presidential run will inspire all people, but especially young people of color, to recognize that we have more then two choices. Together, we can build the future we've been wanting." Hip-hop artist M1 says, "I've never voted in the Presidential election; I've never felt strongly enough about a candidate to. Knowing that Rosa Clemente is down with Cynthia McKinney's run, I feel that now is the greatest opportunity for the Hip-Hop community to put our collective strength and power to the test and vote for someone who represents who we are and what we stand for." For more info visit: www.rosaclemente.com www.runcynthiarun.org # SourceDavey D Hank Chapot - Oakland CA hchapot at igc.org 510.654.5311 http://hchapot.blogspot.com/ Cogito Ergo Green _______________________________________________ GPCA-MediaWG mailing list GPCA-MediaWG at lists.cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-mediawg _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html To report violations of listserv protocol, write to forummanagers at lists.gp-us.org For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 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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Ralph --- ctgp-news-request at ml.greens.org wrote: > 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. minutes of 7/7 party nominating meeting > (David Bedell) > 2. Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for > McKinney's Green Party > Bid (Tim McKee) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:10:07 -0400 > From: "David Bedell" > Subject: {news} minutes of 7/7 party nominating > meeting > To: , > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Minutes from the 7/7/08 Nominating Meeting of the > Fairfield County Green > Party > > Location: UConn-Stamford > In attendance: Paul Bassler, David Bedell, Zaac > Chaves, Remy Chevalier, > Richard Duffee, Mary Farrell, Hector Lopez, German > Tedesco > > The following candidates for public office were > individually nominated and > approved by unanimous consensus: > - Zaac Chaves for State Senate District 36 > (Greenwich, part of Stamford and > New Canaan) > - David Bedell for Stamford Registrar of Voters > - Mary Farrell for Stamford Board of Education > > The following office, for which we have ballot > access, remains vacant but > may be filled at a later date if a candidate is > identified: > - State Assembly District 135 (Easton, Weston, part > of Redding) > (Background: Nancy Burton ran for this office in the > past and established > the ballot line, but this year she is unable to run > due to her all-consuming > work for the CT Coalition Against Millstone, the > Mothers Milk Project, and > CT Residents Opposed to Relicensing of Indian > Point.) > > David Bedell, Secretary > Fairfield County chapter, CT Green Party > http://www.ctgreens.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:42:49 -0500 > From: "Tim McKee" > Subject: {news} Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for > McKinney's Green > Party Bid > To: "CT Greens News" > Message-ID: > <20080710134249.AE3B2BE4079 at ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Drew Johnson" > To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org > Subject: [usgp-nc] FW: Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP > Bid for McKinney's > Green Party Bid > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:46:43 -0700 (PDT) > > > ---------------------------- Original Message > ---------------------------- > Subject: [GPCA-MediaComm] Hip Hop Activist Accepts > VP Bid for McKinney's > Green Party Bid > From: "Hank Chapot" > Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 16:11 > To: "gpca forum" > "GPCA Media comm comm" > Cc: "Hank Chapot" > ------------------------------------------------ > -------------------------- > > http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=4427 > > > > Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green > Party Bid > 7/9/2008 11:59:05 AM by Davey D > > > Rosa Clemente accepting a bid to run as VP on > Cynthia McKinney's Green > Party ticket is big news. In fact its great news. > First Rosa is no > joke. This Bronx born-Puerto Rican-African sista is > sharp on the > issues and uncompromising on the principals she > stands for. She stands > tall and fights fiercely for the communities and > people she has long > represented. She is more than qualified. > > > > The other thing that is equally important is that > Rosa gives voice to > a variety of issues impacting the community that > have been > increasingly put on the back burner during this > election season. many > of us have waited eagerly for important issues like > the prison > industrial complex, media justice, gentrification, a > just immigration > policy, police brutality (i.e Sean Bell), war crimes > and impeachment > proceedings being levied on those in high office > responsible and the > Palestinian perspective in the Middle East to be > addressed. With each > passing day they seem to be tossed under the bus > with the conventional > wisdom being middle of the road white voters from > small towns need to > be appeased. Hence important issues like the > aforementioned keep > getting sacrificed. > > > > The other day, a prominent TV News commentator made > a highly > offensive, arrogant remark when addressing the > recent shift to the > right by Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He was > talking about how > those who see themselves as progressive and > grassroots and played > significant roles in the success of the Obama > campaign, were feeling > disenchanted and had gone so far as to stage a > financial protest by > withholding campaign donations until Obama reversed > himself. > > > > The pundit was asked if this will hurt Obama, he > said it would not. > Obama can afford to sacrifice those issues because > that group of > people have nowhere else to go. In other words they > (we) can be taken > for granted. That is never a good way to go into a > campaign. See the > way things work is like that. We start off making > the sacrifice as our > candidate goes for these so called middle of the > road white rural > voters. The game plan is once he/she gets in office > he/she will start > addressing our issues. > > > > Unfortunately what usually happens is that as soon > as === message truncated === From timmckee at mail.com Sat Jul 12 18:22:39 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:22:39 -0500 Subject: {news} Presidential Campaigns Message-ID: <20080712222239.C5814478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> Dear Greens,, just got back from the Greens Nominating convention,,,the excitement was overwhelming! the First Africa- American women nominated by a Partythe First PR Latino woman for VP. the energy is back,, we need your help more than ever!! We need Nader on the ballot, we need McKinney. We will be working with all third parties!! We need your help more than ever!! please hit the streets,, we have until August 5!I will keep your informed Tim McKeeGO GREEN GO!! Chicago good vibes all around ----- Original Message ----- From: "RALPH FERRUCCI" To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: {news} Presidential Campaigns Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:47:13 -0700 (PDT) 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 It has been brought to my attention that there is a good chance that Cynthia will not have ballot access in CT. I need your help to get Ralph Nader on the ballot. We are out doing Sail Fest this weekend on Sat 10AM-11PM and Sun. 10AM-6PM and will have a booth on Bank ST. If you will help me this weekend get Ralph on the ballot I will help coordinate to get Cynthia on the ballot. Also if you like you can double petition at this event. Ralph --- ctgp-news-request at ml.greens.org wrote: > 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. minutes of 7/7 party nominating meeting > (David Bedell) > 2. Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for > McKinney's Green Party > Bid (Tim McKee) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:10:07 -0400 > From: "David Bedell" > Subject: {news} minutes of 7/7 party nominating > meeting > To: , > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Minutes from the 7/7/08 Nominating Meeting of the > Fairfield County Green > Party > > Location: UConn-Stamford > In attendance: Paul Bassler, David Bedell, Zaac > Chaves, Remy Chevalier, > Richard Duffee, Mary Farrell, Hector Lopez, German > Tedesco > > The following candidates for public office were > individually nominated and > approved by unanimous consensus: > - Zaac Chaves for State Senate District 36 > (Greenwich, part of Stamford and > New Canaan) > - David Bedell for Stamford Registrar of Voters > - Mary Farrell for Stamford Board of Education > > The following office, for which we have ballot > access, remains vacant but > may be filled at a later date if a candidate is > identified: > - State Assembly District 135 (Easton, Weston, part > of Redding) > (Background: Nancy Burton ran for this office in the > past and established > the ballot line, but this year she is unable to run > due to her all-consuming > work for the CT Coalition Against Millstone, the > Mothers Milk Project, and > CT Residents Opposed to Relicensing of Indian > Point.) > > David Bedell, Secretary > Fairfield County chapter, CT Green Party > http://www.ctgreens.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:42:49 -0500 > From: "Tim McKee" > Subject: {news} Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for > McKinney's Green > Party Bid > To: "CT Greens News" > Message-ID: > <20080710134249.AE3B2BE4079 at ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Drew Johnson" > To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org > Subject: [usgp-nc] FW: Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP > Bid for McKinney's > Green Party Bid > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:46:43 -0700 (PDT) > > > ---------------------------- Original Message > ---------------------------- > Subject: [GPCA-MediaComm] Hip Hop Activist Accepts > VP Bid for McKinney's > Green Party Bid > From: "Hank Chapot" > Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 16:11 > To: "gpca forum" > "GPCA Media comm comm" > Cc: "Hank Chapot" > ------------------------------------------------ > -------------------------- > > http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=4427 > > > > Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green > Party Bid > 7/9/2008 11:59:05 AM by Davey D > > > Rosa Clemente accepting a bid to run as VP on > Cynthia McKinney's Green > Party ticket is big news. In fact its great news. > First Rosa is no > joke. This Bronx born-Puerto Rican-African sista is > sharp on the > issues and uncompromising on the principals she > stands for. She stands > tall and fights fiercely for the communities and > people she has long > represented. She is more than qualified. > > > > The other thing that is equally important is that > Rosa gives voice to > a variety of issues impacting the community that > have been > increasingly put on the back burner during this > election season. many > of us have waited eagerly for important issues like > the prison > industrial complex, media justice, gentrification, a > just immigration > policy, police brutality (i.e Sean Bell), war crimes > and impeachment > proceedings being levied on those in high office > responsible and the > Palestinian perspective in the Middle East to be > addressed. With each > passing day they seem to be tossed under the bus > with the conventional > wisdom being middle of the road white voters from > small towns need to > be appeased. Hence important issues like the > aforementioned keep > getting sacrificed. > > > > The other day, a prominent TV News commentator made > a highly > offensive, arrogant remark when addressing the > recent shift to the > right by Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He was > talking about how > those who see themselves as progressive and > grassroots and played > significant roles in the success of the Obama > campaign, were feeling > disenchanted and had gone so far as to stage a > financial protest by > withholding campaign donations until Obama reversed > himself. > > > > The pundit was asked if this will hurt Obama, he > said it would not. > Obama can afford to sacrifice those issues because > that group of > people have nowhere else to go. In other words they > (we) can be taken > for granted. That is never a good way to go into a > campaign. See the > way things work is like that. We start off making > the sacrifice as our > candidate goes for these so called middle of the > road white rural > voters. The game plan is once he/she gets in office > he/she will start > addressing our issues. > > > > Unfortunately what usually happens is that as soon > as === message truncated === To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Jul 13 00:47:16 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:47:16 +0000 Subject: {news} Harold Burbank in Torrington Register Citizen In-Reply-To: References: <20080406111242.0D60A103C3@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: I think the reporter did Harold a disservice by reporting his remarks about 9-11 without fuller context. Harold posted an explanation below the article. http://www.registercitizen.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19846955 07/12/2008 Green Party candidate campaigns in Litchfield By DAVID HUTTER LITCHFIELD - A dozen people conversed with Green Party candidate Harold Burbank at a fund-raiser Friday. Dorothea and Mario DiCecco hosted the 5th Congressional District candidate and those who wanted to learn more about his campaign at their 68 Norfolk Road house. Guests were asked to donate $50 to Burbank's candidacy. A retired professor from the University of Connecticut at Waterbury, Dorothea DiCecco cited the Constitution in her support of third-party candidates. "(It) does not say anything about the United States being allowed to have only two political parties," she said. A human rights lawyer who works in Canton, Burbank condemns President George W. Bush as a war criminal who is breaking international law by waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Burbank, 51, blames the Democratic-majority Congress for failing to take a vote about initiating impeachment hearings on the second-term Republican president. "We oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," DiCecco said. "We do not want to go to war with Iran." Burbank contends that high-ranking members of the American government, oil companies and banks knew that Islamic fundamentalists planned to hijack American commercial airplanes and attack the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. He rejects the label "terrorist" in referring to the 19 Muslim hijackers who killed nearly 3,000 people by flying airplanes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. "One man's freedom fighters is another man's terrorists," Burbank said. "9/11 was not an act performed by people who had lived in caves in Afghanistan." Making his first foray for elected office, Burbank is seeking to unseat Democratic incumbent Chris Murphy and fend out Republican candidate and state Sen. David Cappiello in a district that represents about 681,000 people from Danbury to southern Torrington to northern Waterbury and New Britain. Burbank describes his candidacy as one based on principle and truth, whereas the Democratic and Republican parties are unfairly influenced by wealthy donors, media attention and corporate influence, he said. Janet Buonaiuto, a registered Republican, said she votes for candidates based on their merits rather than their party affiliation. She said she supports the impeachment of George W. Bush, who she said has eroded civil liberties and childhood education, engaged in reckless overspending and dealt a severe blow to America's standing in the world. "Harold Burbank is exactly what we need at this time," she said. "Chris Murphy refuses to move to impeach Bush. We need a Congress to look into articles of impeachment." David Hutter can be reached by e-mail at torrington@ registercitizen.com. ?The Register Citizen 2008 Reader Comments Added: Saturday July 12, 2008 at 09:49 AM EST Thanks David Thanks to David Hutter for attending my 7-11-08 fundraiser and writing about my supporters and me. To clarify that article, I wish to add that David and I have spoken at some length about the alleged facts surrounding 9-11 and I have stressed that the American people have been deceived by our government, our media and others on the full nature of these facts. We have been lied to by Congress, and many others, about 9-11. I think that every Congressman knows this and refuses to talk about it. Every serious former government official critical of the so called congressional 9-11 investigation, men like former SDI Director Dr. Robert Bowman, CIA analyst Ray McGovern and former RI US Senator Lincoln Chafee, know that the 9-11 Commission Report was incomplete at best and a whitewash of the truth at worst (I think the latter). Bowman, one of my campaign advisors and an endorser, has said 9-11 was a military impossibility unless someone high up in the chain of command, probably in the White House, ordered our best in the world air defenses to stand down on 9-11. McGovern has given countless lectures on the real reasons we went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan, having nothing to do with 9-11 or US security. Chafee lost his US Senate seat in part because he had the courage to say that the 9-11 Commission Report was "incomplete". These facts and more are covered in great detail on many 9-11 websites and in many books and articles today. Sadly, Chris Murphy and all congressmen refuse to call for a full 9-11 investigation, which the City of New York will finally do for itself by city-wide referendum this fall, to establish a city-based international 9-11 investigation commission, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other champions of the truth, peace and civil rights ,so the world and America will finally know the full truth of 9-11 - the greatest single criminal act in US history. As I told David Hutter, my study of this event led me long ago to conclude that a few men in caves in Afghanistan lacked the sophisticated network of political access, espionage and computer expertise, pilot skills, and finance to have implemented 9-11. As former Italian president Gladio Francesco alleged in 2007 in Corriere della Serra, Italy's most widely read and respected newspaper, 9-11 was an "inside job" by US and other forces and has been known as such to international intelligence agencies for years. Google "Gladio Francesco 9-11" for details. Sadly, our media follow the Bush line of attaching inflammatory words like "terrorist" to such crimes, without full analysis of who and what caused the crime. "Terrorist" is a word meant to scare people into thinking that, in the case of 9-11, the criminals were all from hostile Arab groups desiring to kill and firghten innocent Americans. Much evidence exists that 9-11 actors (all criminals) were recruited, trained and financed and by non-Arabs, including US, UK , Pakistan and Israel intelligence agencies like CIA. Branding 9-11 criminals "terrorists" does not tell us who these people are and what motivated them. Congress needs to reopen the 9-11 investigation for this purpose. Harold Burbank, Canton, CT _________________________________________________________________ Need to know now? Get instant answers with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_072008 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Jul 13 01:12:40 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:12:40 +0000 Subject: {news} Background on McKinney/Nader relationship In-Reply-To: References: <8CAB1920D50FC86-1058-BB4@webmail-db09.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Howie Hawkins of NY State Greens distributed this info, which includes an explanation of why Nader withdrew from consideration for the Green nomination. David Bedell ________________________________ From: GreenPartySC_Unmoderated@ yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of Howie Hawkins Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:36 PM To: GreenPartySC_Unmoderated@ yahoogroups.com; GreenPartyNYExCom@ yahoogroups.com Subject: [GPSCUnmd] Why I'm Running as "Green Populist" Responding to questions raised on these lists about me running as a "Green Populist" for Congress in the 25th District: I'm still registered/enrolled in the Green Party. We are building the Green Party organization through my congressional campaign by developing working relationships with new forces, asking them to enroll in the Green Party, to become regular financial contributors to the Green Party, etc. The decision to run with the label "Green Populist" comes out of months of local discussion on how to approach this race among local Greens and other supporters of the campaign, including rank-and-file Teamsters and disaffected progressive Dems and antiwar Republicans. One reason for adding Populist to the label is that it adds the metaphor of economic justice. Greens, of course, fight for economic justice, but Green is still widely taken as a metaphor for environmentalism, even here in the 25th District where the Greens are well-known for their work on public power, living wage, and progressive tax reform. The economy is the top concern of the people of this district, which had the highest proportion and absolute number of workers in the US receiving trade adjustment benefits due to NAFTA. The City of Syracuse has the third highest overall poverty rate and the highest black poverty rate of center cities in the top 100 US metro areas. The 25th District is a traditional rust-belt manufacturing region that is reeling from factory closures and layoffs that have been steady for 25 years. I'm sending separately an oped I wrote yesterday responding to the latest layoffs this week. The political demographics of the 25th are close to one-third each for Dems, Republicans, and independents (no party and third party) and the last poll before I announced showed the Dem, the Republican, and undecided all at about one-third support. Perot got 25% in 1992, expressing the anger at both parties more than enthusiam for old Ross. So there is a political opening. We are confident of defining the debate in this race. We are hopeful of making it a competitive three-way race. The Populist label in addition to the Green label will hopefully broaden our support. It's like when Gloria Mattera ran for Brooklyn Borough President in 2005 as "Green/No To War." It's also like Cynthia McKinney endorsing the Reconstruction Party platform and also seeking the Green nomination. It's about multiplying our forces, not letting them be divided. Which brings up the other reason for Green Populist, which is to be in solidarity with and support of both the McKinney and Nader presidential campaigns. We want to help both campaigns to force our demands into the center of the presidential debate by helping them both get on the ballot in NY. We want the activists in both campaigns to be working together in the Green Party after Nov. 4. Nader is peititioning for a "Populist" line in New York. After reading the relevant sections of the NY Election Law and then talking to both my county BOE and the state BOE, it is clear to me that we can collect and witness signatures for both McKinney and Nader. You can collect and witness signatures for both candidates until you sign the petition for one of them. From that date on, you can only witness for the one whose petition you signed. So we are asking people to collect and witness signatures for both and not sign a petition until the final turn in. Then they should sign the petition of the candidate that most needs the signatures. Finally, I want to address two issues issue that spun off in this thread related to Nader: why Nader did not seek the Green nomination and his relation to third party building. What follows is mainly based on a three-hour meeting I had with Nader in DC after he announced his decision to run as an independent in March. This perspective has been corroborated independently without my solicitation by close associates of Nader. Nader wanted McKinney to run as a Green. He personally urged her to do so in Spring 2007. When it was clear she was staying in by March 2008, he withdrew from consideration for the Green nomination. He wanted to keep his word to McKinney. He wanted Cynthia running as a Green. Yes, there were the Greg Gerritts and others in the Green Party who urged him not to run and some of whom tried to bend state party convention delegate selection rules against Nader. But that was not a factor in Nader's decision. Nader did not stop us in the Draft Nader movement in the latter half of 2007 because McKinney had hestitated and was in and out for a while, because of the positive reception he received at July 2007 national Greens meeting in Reading PA, and because the Draft Nader movement was swelling. Things got complicated. But when it was clear in March when Nader, for ballot access reasons, had to make a decision one way or the other and it was clear that McKinney was staying in for the Green nomination, Nader withdrew from the Green nomination process. Nader wants to see parallel progressive campaigns pushing our issues into the debate. As for Nader's views on third party building: He supports the development of one or more strong independent progressive parties. He is dissappointed at the low level of Green organizing and at the incessant infighting in the Greens. But he has and will support Green candidates, as well as other independent progressives (e.g., Cindy Sheehan against Pelosi), as well as do fundraisers, etc. for the Greens or other independent progressive parties. But Nader is not going to be a member of any party. He doesn't want to spend time on intra-party politicking. He wants to focus his limited time and resources on directly challenging the corporate power structure. -- Howie Hawkins _________________________________________________________________ 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_072008 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Jul 13 03:05:04 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:05:04 +0000 Subject: {news} RE: Harold Burbank in Torrington Register Citizen In-Reply-To: <000f01c8e4a8$aa5895b0$6401a8c0@HaroldII> References: <20080406111242.0D60A103C3@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> <000f01c8e4a8$aa5895b0$6401a8c0@HaroldII> Message-ID: Here's a better story by the same reporter; this one appeared on Friday just before the fund-raiser event. http://www.registercitizen.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19844811 07/11/2008 Green Party candidate critical of Dems, GOP By DAVID HUTTER LITCHFIELD - A Green Party candidate for the Fifth Congressional District accuses the president of committing war crimes and criticizes Congress for not impeaching him. Harold Burbank II, a lawyer specializing in human rights cases, won the nomination as the Green Party candidate for the Fifth Congressional District at a meeting held May 23. Seeking to be elected to public office for the first time, the 51-year-old Burbank condemns President George W. Bush for waging the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the U.S. Congress for funding the wars and for failing to impeach Bush. "I say both wars are violations against the Nuremburg Charter, the U.N. Charter, and the Geneva Conventions," Burbank said. "They are crimes against humanity. They are the greatest crimes ever conceived." Burbank will be campaigning at the home of Litchfield resident Dorothea DiCecco on Friday from 5:30 to 9 p.m. in a fund-raiser event that costs $50 per person. DiCecco, a retired University of Connecticut at Waterbury professor, hosted Independent Party presidential candidate and consumer rights advocate Ralph Nader at her house June 29. Burbank wants to reopen the investigation into the 9/11 terror attacks, believing that the United States military could have intercepted the Islamic fundamentalists who hijacked airplanes and crashed them into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. DiCecco said she used to be a Democratic supporter but now decries the Democratic party because it does not condemn the wars. DiCecco, 71, said she now judges political candidates and politicians individually to decide who she supports these days. DiCecco met Burbank in April after he spoke about his campaign at a public library in Cornwall. "I heard him; I like him; I'd like to help him raise some money," DiCecco said, about the rapid time frame between when she met Burbank and from when she decided she wanted to support his candidacy in a concrete way. "I am not a big party person. I've been a big Democrat person throughout my life." "I vote on principle - even if the candidate does not win," she continued. "I'd rather vote for the person I really support." DiCecco identifies the most important issues facing the United States as ending the wars, introducing universal health care, upholding The Constitution, increasing the salaries of schoolteachers and offering free college education. DiCecco notes that she does not have any formal role in Burbank's campaign. As for Burbank, he acknowledges he faces a challenge as a third-party candidate. He has to collect at least 2,197 signatures in order to get his name to appear on the ballot. He estimates he has collected at least 2,300 signatures to date and plans to collect as many as 4,000 in total. He has conversed with thousands of people at supermarkets and other public venues in the last six weeks. He prides himself on being accessible to the people to whom he seeks to represent. The Fifth Congressional District represents about 681,000 people, stretching from Danbury to southern Torrington to northern Waterbury and New Britain. State Sen. David Cappiello, a Republican representing Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman, and part of Bethel in the 24th state district, is campaigning for the Fifth Congressional seat. Chris Murphy is seeking re-election to the seat he won over Nancy Johnson in 2005. Burbank decries both the Republican and Democratic parties as being heavily influenced by rich donors and corporate interests. Burbank said that the news media often fails to report as much about third-party candidates as it does on the Democratic and Republican counterparts. Burbank accuses Chris Murphy of failing to uphold the duties to which he promised to do when he entered the office after winning election in November 2005. "Chris Murphy does not like The Constitution," Burbank said about the incumbent Democratic occupant of the Fifth Congressional District seat of Connecticut. "He has voted to support two illegal wars. I talked to him at an event in New Britain in September 2007. Chris Murphy stated that George Bush is the most impeachable president in American history." Burbank asks people who are interested in learning more about his candidacy to visit his Web site at http://www.newmenu.org/haroldburbank . People who wish to attend the fund-raiser on Friday are asked to call Burbank at 693-2687 or DiCecco at 567-5763. David Hutter can be reached by e-mail at torrington@ registercitizen.com. ?The Register Citizen 2008 _________________________________________________________________ It?s a talkathon ? but it?s not just talk. http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_JustTalk From rstuller at snet.net Tue Jul 15 07:11:42 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:11:42 -0400 Subject: {news} Presidential Campaigns In-Reply-To: <20080712222239.C5814478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20080712222239.C5814478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: Sounds like we have a few weeks of intense petitioning ahead for ballot access. Sadly, I've been kind of out of the loop. Does our state party have any kind of coordinated effort going to get those signatures? Do we have a booth at 3rd Thursday (this week!), and, if not, is it too late to get one? What other events are coming up statewide? Would it work to compile a list of 100 Greens (& friends) who might commit to getting 100 sigs apiece? I can work on materials (& could provide a handout by tomorrow), but have limited time to be out there petitioning. Just a bit of brainstorming here. Time is short. Peace, Ronna On Jul 12, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Tim McKee wrote: > Dear Greens,, > > just got back from the Greens Nominating convention,,,the excitement > was overwhelming! > > the First Africa- American women nominated by a Party > the First PR Latino woman for VP. > > the energy is back,, we need your help more than ever!! > > We need Nader on the ballot, we need McKinney. > > We will be working with all third parties!! > > We need your help more than ever!! > > please hit the streets,, we have until August 5! > I will keep your informed > > Tim McKee > GO GREEN GO!! > > Chicago good vibes all around From ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net Tue Jul 15 15:07:19 2008 From: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net (ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:07:19 +0000 Subject: {news} Re: CTGP-news Digest, Vol 48, Issue 13 Message-ID: <875309919-1216148896-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1502489100-@bxe191.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Handouts are the last thing you want. You are not trying to get votes until you have ballot access. You need to spend no more than 15 seconds with a potential signature and it is the right to be on the ballot-nothing else. If you are talking to potentials about the candidate than you will never make ballot access. Take my advice, do not talk about the candidate or even the party. Say to potential are you registered to vote in ct? Would you be willing to sign a petition to give. An independent the right to be on the ballot. Ralph ------Original Message------ From: ctgp-news-request at ml.greens.org Sender: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ReplyTo: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Sent: Jul 15, 2008 3:00 PM Subject: CTGP-news Digest, Vol 48, Issue 13 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: Presidential Campaigns (Ronna Stuller) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:11:42 -0400 From: Ronna Stuller Subject: Re: {news} Presidential Campaigns To: CT Greens News Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Sounds like we have a few weeks of intense petitioning ahead for ballot access. Sadly, I've been kind of out of the loop. Does our state party have any kind of coordinated effort going to get those signatures? Do we have a booth at 3rd Thursday (this week!), and, if not, is it too late to get one? What other events are coming up statewide? Would it work to compile a list of 100 Greens (& friends) who might commit to getting 100 sigs apiece? I can work on materials (& could provide a handout by tomorrow), but have limited time to be out there petitioning. Just a bit of brainstorming here. Time is short. Peace, Ronna On Jul 12, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Tim McKee wrote: > Dear Greens,, > > just got back from the Greens Nominating convention,,,the excitement > was overwhelming! > > the First Africa- American women nominated by a Party > the First PR Latino woman for VP. > > the energy is back,, we need your help more than ever!! > > We need Nader on the ballot, we need McKinney. > > We will be working with all third parties!! > > We need your help more than ever!! > > please hit the streets,, we have until August 5! > I will keep your informed > > Tim McKee > GO GREEN GO!! > > Chicago good vibes all around ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news End of CTGP-news Digest, Vol 48, Issue 13 ***************************************** Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T From timmckee at mail.com Wed Jul 16 07:47:14 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:47:14 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-dx] Newsweek Interviews Cynthia McKinney Message-ID: <20080716114715.1640C1CE834@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Seeman" To: "GPUS DX" Subject: [usgp-dx] Newsweek Interviews Cynthia McKinney Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:22:48 -0400 ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 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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"I want to congratulate Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente on winning the > Green Party nomination for the Presidency of the United States. I wish them > well and hope they go into all 50 states and spread the message of the Green > Agenda. The country needs a diversity of voices that are unrelentingly > progressive, forthright, candid, and documented in good sound civic values > and the wellbeing of all the people. > > "Third party candidates usually are more forthright and they highlight > social justice issues that are regularly ignored or contravened by the two > major parties. As history shows from the anti-slavery Liberty Party of the > 1840's to the women's suffrage and farmer and labor parties up to the early > 20th century, eventually the big ideas of these little parties break > through. > > "Although the Nader/Gonzalez and Green Party platforms have many > similarities, we are not competing for votes, but instead we are allies > joined in a common struggle to tap the huge and growing numbers of millions > of unsatisfied voters who want to vote for something better than the lesser > of two-evils. The more progressive voices and choices, the more widespread > will be the definition of freedom as participation in power. > > "In Cynthia McKinney, the Greens have an energetic and courageous candidate > unafraid to challenge America to be better for the millions who are > marginalized, overcharged, underpaid and ignored by the two-party duopoly. > Her vim and vigor offers the Green Party an excellent chance to break > through in 2008 and provides voters one more viable alternative to the > DemReps. I wish her and Ms. Clemente good luck." -30- * * *click to view original source* _______________________________________________ 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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At the summit will be a Ferris Wheel and a Carousal. Read below. Allan It?s here! The coolest event of the year? This Saturday, July 19, New Haven will host the first ever Summer Cycling Celebration in our very own East Rock Park. Brought to you by the City of New Haven Office of Cultural Affairs, Elm City Cycling, The Devil?s Gear Bike Shop, and of course the Friends of East Rock Park. 9 ? Race Registration (College Woods) 10-12 ? Time Trials (College Woods) 12 ? Neighborhood Ride to summit* ? (starts at Nica?s Grocery Store on Orange Street) 12-5 - A Ferris Wheel and Carousel (Summit) - Kite Flying* (bring your own or make your own?we?ll have the fixins ? N. Meadow) - A Bike Jamboree (Summit) - Live music and Street Performers ? (Summit and N. Meadow) - Food vendors ? (Summit and N. Meadow) - Mountain Biking tours - Recycling Outreach and Education* ? (Summit and N. Meadow) 2:00 - A Geology Walk by World Famous Cope MacClintock* (East Rock Road Bridge) 4:00 - A Kid?s Nature Walk by Justin Pegnataro from Two Coyotes** (North Meadow) 5:00 ? Bicycling for Ladies Musical (Summit) And much more! See below map for all locations. *Friends of East Rock Park sponsored ** Co-sponsored by Friends of East Rock Park and URI WE NEED VOLUNTEERS and $100,000 ? you choose which one you'd like to do! - Work with other cool folks at the recycling centers teaching New Haveners how to recycle. - Help kids make kites and judge for our kite flying contests. - Calculate complicated math equations (just kidding!) You give us two hours, we?ll give you the world, a free Friends of East Rock Park t-shirt, some seriously good times, the chance to make a child smile, a life-sized wax statue of yourself and a set of ginsu knives. Call Justin Elicker at 203-500-2969 or email us at: info at friendsofeastrockpark.org. Nervous about biking up to the top? DON?T BE! It?s easier than you think, they?ll be drinks and music along the way, we?re all in it together, even your mom could do it, and if you really get tired or have a hernia, you can give your bike to the bike valet and take the shuttle to the top. Still not convinced? Check out this chart brought to you by the National Holiday Statistical Agency: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please donate to Friends of East Rock Park. It?s okay, it?ll only be just a little pin prick. It's tax deductible and completely free of charge! The Urban Resources Initiative has been kind enough to give us home for our funds. 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Name: image010.png Type: image/png Size: 30247 bytes Desc: not available URL: From timmckee at mail.com Thu Jul 17 20:48:55 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:55 -0500 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens seek more ballot lines after McKinney-Clemente nomination in Chicago Message-ID: <20080718004855.9730C32675A@ws1-8.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens seek more ballot lines after McKinney-Clemente nomination in Chicago Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:36:23 +0000 GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 17, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Greens, after the nomination of the McKinney-Clemente ticket at the Chicago convention, begin aggressive ballot access effort ? Links to speeches by presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney and VP nominee Rosa Clemente below ? McKinney 'Power to the People' campaign site, with media contact information: http://www.runcynthiarun.org Clemente site: http://www.rosaclemente.com Extensive information, media coverage, blogging on the convention on the Green Party's home page http://www.gp.org WASHINGTON, DC -- Green leaders, after the party's successful national convention last weekend in Chicago, have turned their attention towards placing nominees Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente on the ballot in every state. Greens are also organizing efforts to demand that Ms. McKinney be allowed to participate in the presidential debates beginning in September. To contact Ms. McKinney and Ms. Clemente for interviews and other media requests, visit the campaign web site: http://www.runcynthiarun.org "We have 22 state ballot lines, and are aiming to have Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente on as many ballot lines as possible on Election Day," said Cliff Thornton, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "Greens in states with secure ballot lines are assisting other states with petition circulating, organizing, and fundraising." Cynthia McKinney, a former Democrat who served six terms in the US House and has since converted to Green, competed with Jesse Johnson, Kent Mesplay, and Kat Swift for the presidential nomination. Ms. McKinney won with 324 votes out of 542 cast by delegates after one round of voting in the Chicago Symphony Center, the convention site, on Saturday, July 12 (http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/2008-Presidential-Ballots_1.htm). Jesse Johnson will continue to participate in the 2008 election -- as the Mountain Party's nominee for Governor of West Virginia (http://www.jesse4wvgov.org). The Mountain Party is the West Virginia affiliate of the Green Party of the United States. Green Party leaders noted that unprecedented radio, video, and Internet coverage made it possible for viewers and listeners to follow the unfolding of the Chicago convention and the nomination. "We thank the Illinois Green Party, Cook County Greens in particular, and the people of Chicago for hosting the convention," said Jill Bussiere, who was elected co-chair of the Green Party during the Chicago convention. "We're especially grateful to the convention organizers, with Lynne Serpe of New York and Ruth Weill of Milwaukee at the top of the list." The Green Party's home page (http://www.gp.org) displays links to information, media coverage, and blogging on the convention. Links to convention speeches and press conferences: ? Pre-nomination speeches by Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, July 12 (choice of low, medium, HD viewing) http://exposureroom.com/members/cseeman.aspx/assets/e257ce0e6da7472c9df4e5f9532d2a6e/ YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzXB98dp9xM ? Ms. Clemente's nomination speech, July 12, shot by MoonSunProductions http://exposureroom.com/members/cseeman.aspx/assets/2d6fee03b7c841b2bc94d8e114966b64/ ? Ms. McKinney's nomination speech, July 12, shot by MoonSunProductions http://exposureroom.com/members/cseeman.aspx/assets/49f535df8477457c9c9423b3b3237128/ The first few minutes are missing from this clip, but can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14HYcopWEU (recorded by C-SPAN) ? Press conference with Ms. McKinney and Ms. Clemente after the nomination, July 12 http://exposureroom.com/members/cseeman.aspx/assets/6dd27d9142484bc598a3860cc610d0d0/ ? Extensive C-SPAN footage of the convention, including nominees' complete speeches rtsp://video1.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_071208_greens.rm (Linked also on the Green Party's home page, http://www.gp.org) MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections 2008 Green National Convention, July 10-13 in Chicago, Illinois http://www.greenparty2008.org ~ END ~ _________________________________________________________________ Time for vacation? 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McKinney represented Dekalb County, Georgia's 4th district, for six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. Journalist, activist and community organizer Rosa Clemente will be McKinney's running mate. Clemente has remarked that "Cynthia McKinney is a hero to me and many others across this country and around the world for her courage in standing up to George Bush while the Democratic Party establishment caved." McKinney is known for initiating legislation to impeach Bush during her last days in Congress. Media Resources: rosaclemente.com; runcynthiarun.org; greensforgreens.org; Associated Press 12/8/06 _______________________________________________ Womens-caucus mailing list Womens-caucus at lists.gp-us.org http://lists.gp-us.org/mailman/listinfo/womens-caucus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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(1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 6-24-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the 7-22-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Chapters, to provide feedback for SCC vote today about the proposals presented by the Fairfield Chapter on 5-27-08. 1. PROPOSAL from Fairfield County chapter. CONTACT: David Bedell, 12 Ardsley Rd, Stamford, CT 06906, 203-581-3193, dbedellgreen(at)hotmail.com SUBJECT: Definition of party membership. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: At its February 2008 meeting, the Fairfield chapter adopted a somewhat stricter definition of membership than that in the state bylaws. New Haven has also adopted a stricter definition. The purpose of this proposal is to make party membership contingent on a simple written declaration, just like membership in the major parties, instead of the current definition, which includes vague criteria such as what constitutes a volunteer activity or what is a "coalition partner." This proposal also addresses the contingency of losing minor party status, which happened in some towns during 2004-2006. Further comments can be read at HYPERLINK "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldCountyGreens/message/839"http://grou ps.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldCountyGreens/message/839 PROPOSAL(To be distributed to chapters for discussion): In the CT Green Party bylaws (HYPERLINK "http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml"http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml ), the section under "Individual Membership" shall be revised to read: If the Green Party has minor party status in a town, then: A person enrolled on their town voter list as a Green Party member is a member of the Green Party for all purposes. If the Green Party does not have minor party status in a town, then a person may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions: 1. The person must be an unaffiliated voter and must not have been registered with any other party affiliation during the past ninety (90) days. 2. The person shall fill out and sign a CT Voter Registration Form declaring enrollment in the Green Party and submit this to an officer of the local or state Green Party. 3. Upon submission of such declaration, the person's membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days. A person not yet old enough to vote under state law may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions: 1. The person will turn 18 and be eligible to vote before the next General Election Day. 2. The person has applied to vote by filling out and signing a Voter Registration Form with declaration of enrollment in the Green Party and submitted this to their town hall or to an officer of the local or state Green Party. 3. If the form is submitted to a local or state Green Party officer, membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days. Party members shall receive announcements of State Party general meetings, and shall be entitled to vote when attending State Party general meetings. When an active Member of a Chapter, the member shall be entitled to vote at all general meetings of the Chapter. No member, however, shall be entitled to vote in more than one Chapter. Chapters may institute their own requirements for membership different from those for State Party membership. C. Reports: 1. (30 minutes): Reports about GPUS and the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago, IL from: Clifford W. Thornton, Jr., Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Timothy L. McKee and Charles Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Z. Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa and other CTGP delegates: Allan Brison, Vittorio E.Lancia,, G. Scott |Deshefy, Mazin Qumsiyeh and Justin McCabe. 2. (5 minutes): Current count of collected CTGP petition signatures for the GPUS Presidential Candidate: Cynthia McKinney. 3. (10-15 minutes): CTGP literature, outreach kit. 4. (10-15 minutes): Fundraising for CTGP. 5. (5-10 minutes): Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate; petitioning sheets, campaign issues. 6. (5-10 minutes): Scott Desefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: petitioning sheets; campaign issues. 7. (2-10 minutes): Any endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line. 8. (5-10 minutes): Richard Duffee, 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; petitioning sheets for the petitioning candidates, campaign issues. 9. (2-10 minutes): Harold Burbank, potential Green Party of CT candidate for 5th Congressional District. 10. (5 minute): ACLU lawsuit update. 11. (2 minutes): CT Green Times newspaper and website. 12. (2-5 minutes, each): Other Chapter reports. 13. Place for next SCC meeting to be 7pm 8-26-08. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 6-08: to be determined. 14. Any additions Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and gender equality No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.5.3/1563 - Release Date: 7/20/2008 12:59 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyone who is a registered Green Party voter in the 39th or 40th District and is present at the meeting is eligible to vote in his respective district. The nominee(s) must receive support from a simple majority of those who actually vote. If there are more than two persons nominated for the same office, instant runoff voting will be used and abstentions will not be counted as votes. Respectfully submitted, Andrew Derr, Secretary New London Chapter, CT Green Party -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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David Bedell ---------------------------------------- As you know, the Cynthia McKinney 2008 campaign is trying to get on the ballot here in CT. We need petitioners to hit the street NOW to get Cynthia on the ballot. We need a minimum of 10,000 signatures (7500 valid signatures) to make it. We have already collected many signatures but we need your help now. This is the time for all of us to come to the aid of Cynthia in her important run for the presidency. If you are a CT resident or in a nearby state and would like to help please contact Mike DeRosa at 860-919-4042 (e-mail: smderosa@ cox.net) ASAP for petition sheets and/or to connect with a CT petitioner. We have until Aug 6, 2008 to hand in signatures so this is your last change to make a difference and make a change. We have identified various places in CT where petitioning can be conducted successfully. Let?s work together to make it happen. Sincerely, Mike DeRosa Co-Chair Green Party of CT Here is a contact in New London: Ronna Stuller: rstuller@ snet.net Also in Fairfield: David Bedell 203-581-3193 : dbedellgreen@ hotmail.com ---------------------------------------- Posted by: "RALPH FERRUCCI" ralphferrucci@ sbcglobal.net Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:57 am (PDT) > > The Nader campaign is now paying petitioners. > > If interested please contact a coordinator > > New Haven Area > Ralph > 203-430-9342 > > Hartford > Area _ > Ken > 860-995-5842 > > Waterbury > Mike > 203-982-8578 > > _________________________________________________________________ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_family_safety_072008 From rstuller at snet.net Mon Jul 21 17:23:26 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:23:26 -0400 Subject: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <33B68317-E0C8-466E-94CA-F60DEDA1ECBA@snet.net> On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:09 PM, David Bedell wrote: > I've recently received appeals for both Cynthia McKinney, Green > Party candidate for President, and Ralph Nader, Independent > candidate for President, to help get them on the ballot in > Connecticut. > > If you don't have McKinney or Nader petitions and would like them, > please ask me or one of the contacts below for copies. If you need > financial support, the Nader campaign is paying petitioners (call > one of the numbers below). > > The McKinney petition can also be downloaded from http://www.ctgreens.org/candidates/president.petition.2008.pdf > > Deadline for all petitions is August 6. > > David Bedell How much is the Nader campaign paying petitioners? I'm not wealthy, but I would be happy to pay into a fund that would compensate petitioners for McKinney at a comparable rate. It's a sad commentary (to me) that petitioning for our progressive candidates may be coming down to a bidding war. Of course, Nader's values are green, but his presence on the ballot does not support our CT candidates running on the Green line the way McKinney's would. Just my 2?. Ronna From efficacy at msn.com Mon Jul 21 17:30:42 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:30:42 -0400 Subject: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader In-Reply-To: <33B68317-E0C8-466E-94CA-F60DEDA1ECBA@snet.net> References: <33B68317-E0C8-466E-94CA-F60DEDA1ECBA@snet.net> Message-ID: You are correct!! Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: Ronna Stuller To: CT Greens News Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:23 PM Subject: Re: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader 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 On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:09 PM, David Bedell wrote: > I've recently received appeals for both Cynthia McKinney, Green > Party candidate for President, and Ralph Nader, Independent > candidate for President, to help get them on the ballot in > Connecticut. > > If you don't have McKinney or Nader petitions and would like them, > please ask me or one of the contacts below for copies. If you need > financial support, the Nader campaign is paying petitioners (call > one of the numbers below). > > The McKinney petition can also be downloaded from http://www.ctgreens.org/candidates/president.petition.2008.pdf > > Deadline for all petitions is August 6. > > David Bedell How much is the Nader campaign paying petitioners? I'm not wealthy, but I would be happy to pay into a fund that would compensate petitioners for McKinney at a comparable rate. It's a sad commentary (to me) that petitioning for our progressive candidates may be coming down to a bidding war. Of course, Nader's values are green, but his presence on the ballot does not support our CT candidates running on the Green line the way McKinney's would. Just my 2?. Ronna 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 smderosa at cox.net Tue Jul 22 00:22:42 2008 From: smderosa at cox.net (Mike DeRosa) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:22:42 -0400 Subject: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader In-Reply-To: <33B68317-E0C8-466E-94CA-F60DEDA1ECBA@snet.net> References: <33B68317-E0C8-466E-94CA-F60DEDA1ECBA@snet.net> Message-ID: The Ballot Access Committee of the GPUSA would be open to put forward 2k-3K for hiring petitioners. Is anyone interested? Can we identify some people who are interested? Sincerely, Mike DeRosa -----Original Message----- From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Ronna Stuller Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:23 PM To: CT Greens News Subject: Re: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader 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 On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:09 PM, David Bedell wrote: > I've recently received appeals for both Cynthia McKinney, Green > Party candidate for President, and Ralph Nader, Independent > candidate for President, to help get them on the ballot in > Connecticut. > > If you don't have McKinney or Nader petitions and would like them, > please ask me or one of the contacts below for copies. If you need > financial support, the Nader campaign is paying petitioners (call > one of the numbers below). > > The McKinney petition can also be downloaded from http://www.ctgreens.org/candidates/president.petition.2008.pdf > > Deadline for all petitions is August 6. > > David Bedell How much is the Nader campaign paying petitioners? I'm not wealthy, but I would be happy to pay into a fund that would compensate petitioners for McKinney at a comparable rate. It's a sad commentary (to me) that petitioning for our progressive candidates may be coming down to a bidding war. Of course, Nader's values are green, but his presence on the ballot does not support our CT candidates running on the Green line the way McKinney's would. Just my 2?. Ronna To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From timmckee at mail.com Tue Jul 22 20:20:48 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:20:48 -0500 Subject: {news} National money will be coming, , , can u help?? Connecticut Ballot Access Message-ID: <20080723002048.506F6BE4078@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent McMillan" To: "national comm affairs" Subject: [usgp-dx] Connecticut Ballot Access Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:11:12 -0400 Dear NC Delegate: The deadline for petitioning to get the Connecticut Ballot Line is fast approaching. We need to get 7,500 valid signatures by Aug 6. Currently we have 3,000. We can still do this if we can bring in some help. That takes money. I am about to send a check for $50 to help with this effort. If you are willing to join me in getting this ballot line by either traveling to Connecticut to help or by sending money please do the following: If you are willing to petition in Connecticut contact Mike DeRosa. You will need to accompany a resident of Connecticut to petition. He can help match you up with a resident petitioner and to find a home stay for you. He can be contacted at: smderosa at cox.net or call him on his cell phone at: (860) 919-4042. If you are willing to send a donation: The Green Party of Connecticut does not have a secure way of making an online donation but you can make out a check and mail it to: The Green Party of Connecticut PO Box 231214 Hartford, CT 06123 In the memo line of your check write: McKinney Campaign. This way they will know that this is for the petitioning effort. http://www.ctgreens.org/donate.shtml In service: Brent McMillan, Political Director Green Party of the United States 202-319-7191 brent at gp.org _______________________________________________ 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 roseberry3 at cox.net Tue Jul 22 22:21:12 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:21:12 -0400 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7-29-08 SCC meeting at 7PM at Portland Senior Center, Portland, CT Message-ID: <20080723022102.DDWX4226.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> Proposed agenda for the 7PM 7-29-08 SCC CTGP meeting. Site: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverley Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 P: 860-342-6760 Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 6-24-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the 7-22-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Chapters, to provide feedback for SCC vote today about the proposals presented by the Fairfield Chapter on 5-27-08. 1. PROPOSAL from Fairfield County chapter. CONTACT: David Bedell, 12 Ardsley Rd, Stamford, CT 06906, 203-581-3193, dbedellgreen(at)hotmail.com SUBJECT: Definition of party membership. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: At its February 2008 meeting, the Fairfield chapter adopted a somewhat stricter definition of membership than that in the state bylaws. New Haven has also adopted a stricter definition. The purpose of this proposal is to make party membership contingent on a simple written declaration, just like membership in the major parties, instead of the current definition, which includes vague criteria such as what constitutes a volunteer activity or what is a "coalition partner." This proposal also addresses the contingency of losing minor party status, which happened in some towns during 2004-2006. Further comments can be read at HYPERLINK "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldCountyGreens/message/839" \nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldCountyGreens/message/839 PROPOSAL(To be distributed to chapters for discussion): In the CT Green Party bylaws (HYPERLINK "http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml" \nhttp://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml ), the section under "Individual Membership" shall be revised to read: If the Green Party has minor party status in a town, then: A person enrolled on their town voter list as a Green Party member is a member of the Green Party for all purposes. If the Green Party does not have minor party status in a town, then a person may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions: 1. The person must be an unaffiliated voter and must not have been registered with any other party affiliation during the past ninety (90) days. 2. The person shall fill out and sign a CT Voter Registration Form declaring enrollment in the Green Party and submit this to an officer of the local or state Green Party. 3. Upon submission of such declaration, the person's membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days. A person not yet old enough to vote under state law may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions: 1. The person will turn 18 and be eligible to vote before the next General Election Day. 2. The person has applied to vote by filling out and signing a Voter Registration Form with declaration of enrollment in the Green Party and submitted this to their town hall or to an officer of the local or state Green Party. 3. If the form is submitted to a local or state Green Party officer, membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days. Party members shall receive announcements of State Party general meetings, and shall be entitled to vote when attending State Party general meetings. When an active Member of a Chapter, the member shall be entitled to vote at all general meetings of the Chapter. No member, however, shall be entitled to vote in more than one Chapter. Chapters may institute their own requirements for membership different from those for State Party membership. C. Reports: 1. (30 minutes): Reports about GPUS and the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago, IL from: Clifford W. Thornton, Jr., Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Timothy L. McKee and Charles Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Z. Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa and other CTGP delegates: Allan Brison, Vittorio E.Lancia,, G. Scott |Deshefy, Mazin Qumsiyeh and Justin McCabe. 2. (5 minutes): a) Current count and final push for the collection of CTGP petition signatures for the GPUS Presidential Candidate: Cynthia McKinney. b) GPUS Ballot Access, subcommittee for litigation. 3. (10-15 minutes): CTGP literature for CTGP candidates, chapters and public libraries; outreach items desired by candidates and chapters: e.g. banners, buttons, bumper stickers. Contact people for outreach items: Phoebe Godfrey, Mike DeRosa and Barbara Barry. 4. (10-15 minutes): Fundraising for CTGP: the Impeachment Peach Party in 8-08 in Hartford. Fundraising with peaches for impeachment of Cheney/Bush. 5. (5 minutes): Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate; petition numbers, campaign issues. 6. (5 minutes): Scott Desefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: petition numbers; campaign issues. 7. (2-10 minutes): Any endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line. 8. (5 minutes): Richard Duffee, 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; petition numbers, campaign issues. 9. (2-10 minutes): Harold Burbank, potential Green Party of CT candidate for 5th Congressional District. Need the date/place/time/minutes/agenda/political party affiliation of attendees at the nominating Convention for Harold Burbank. 10. (2 minutes): ACLU lawsuit update. 11. (2 minutes): Updates about CT Green Times newspaper and CTGP website. 12. (2-5 minutes, each): Other Chapter reports inclusive of any more candidates; 13. Place for next SCC meeting to be 7pm 8-26-08. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 8-08: to be determined. 14. 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If anyone would like advice on petitioning for Cynthia or other Green Party candidates I'll be glad to relay what I know on the listserve or individually. Pete _____ From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Thornton Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:31 PM To: CT Greens News; Ronna Stuller Subject: Re: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader You are correct!! Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: Ronna Stuller To: CT Greens News Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:23 PM Subject: Re: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader 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 On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:09 PM, David Bedell wrote: > I've recently received appeals for both Cynthia McKinney, Green > Party candidate for President, and Ralph Nader, Independent > candidate for President, to help get them on the ballot in > Connecticut. > > If you don't have McKinney or Nader petitions and would like them, > please ask me or one of the contacts below for copies. If you need > financial support, the Nader campaign is paying petitioners (call > one of the numbers below). > > The McKinney petition can also be downloaded from http://www.ctgreens.org/candidates/president.petition.2008.pdf > > Deadline for all petitions is August 6. > > David Bedell How much is the Nader campaign paying petitioners? I'm not wealthy, but I would be happy to pay into a fund that would compensate petitioners for McKinney at a comparable rate. It's a sad commentary (to me) that petitioning for our progressive candidates may be coming down to a bidding war. Of course, Nader's values are green, but his presence on the ballot does not support our CT candidates running on the Green line the way McKinney's would. Just my 2". Ronna 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 efficacy at msn.com Wed Jul 23 09:56:40 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:56:40 -0400 Subject: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: All, I am planning on going to the meeting this month on the 29th at the Portland Senior Center 7 Waverley Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 P: 860-342-6760 Please come and give your take as we need any and all suggestions but more importantly we need the bodies to get Cynthia on the Ballot. I think most of you will be impressed with her vice Pres. pick Rosa Clemente. Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: vantagetax at aol.com To: 'Clifford Thornton' ; 'CT Greens News' ; 'Ronna Stuller' Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:39 PM Subject: RE: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader Cliff, Ronna, David, Tim, Mike and others, I am an experienced petitioner. I'm petitioning volunteer for Nader. If anyone would like advice on petitioning for Cynthia or other Green Party candidates I'll be glad to relay what I know on the listserve or individually. Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Thornton Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:31 PM To: CT Greens News; Ronna Stuller Subject: Re: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader You are correct!! Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: Ronna Stuller To: CT Greens News Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:23 PM Subject: Re: {news} Appeals For Help In Petitioning for McKinney and for Nader 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 On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:09 PM, David Bedell wrote: > I've recently received appeals for both Cynthia McKinney, Green > Party candidate for President, and Ralph Nader, Independent > candidate for President, to help get them on the ballot in > Connecticut. > > If you don't have McKinney or Nader petitions and would like them, > please ask me or one of the contacts below for copies. If you need > financial support, the Nader campaign is paying petitioners (call > one of the numbers below). > > The McKinney petition can also be downloaded from http://www.ctgreens.org/candidates/president.petition.2008.pdf > > Deadline for all petitions is August 6. > > David Bedell How much is the Nader campaign paying petitioners? I'm not wealthy, but I would be happy to pay into a fund that would compensate petitioners for McKinney at a comparable rate. It's a sad commentary (to me) that petitioning for our progressive candidates may be coming down to a bidding war. Of course, Nader's values are green, but his presence on the ballot does not support our CT candidates running on the Green line the way McKinney's would. Just my 2". Ronna 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 chapillsbury at igc.org Wed Jul 23 15:01:52 2008 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:01:52 -0400 Subject: {news} FW: "The Nationwide Movement to Impeach Cheney and Bush" Message-ID: <001201c8ecf6$929cf910$b7d6eb30$@org> Jacob Park sent a message to the members of The Nationwide Movement to Impeach Cheney and Bush. -------------------- Subject: Support the Kucinich Impeachment Hearing on Friday Tell your Representatives to support impeachment by cosponsoring H. Res. 1345: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/142 Rep. Dennis Kucinich has led the fight for impeachment since April 2007, when he courageously introduced 3 Articles of Impeachment (H.Res. 333/799) against Vice President Cheney. On June 10, Kucinich introduced 3 5 Articles of Impeachment (H.Res. 1258) against President Bush. When Speaker Pelosi refused to allow hearings on any of the 38 Articles, Kucinich returned to the floor of Congress to introduce one more Article of Impeachment against President Bush (H.Res. 1345). Thanks to massive pressure from Democrats.com and our pro-impeachment allies, Speaker Pelosi finally allowed Chairman Conyers to hold a hearing this Friday. Kucinich will get a few minutes to argue for impeachment along with Rep. Robert Wexler, former Rep. Liz Holtzman, and former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson. Kucinich made a video to thank us for our efforts. H.Res. 1345 focuses on Bush's ultimate crime - invading Iraq on the basis of lies. The evidence is overwhelming that George Bush and other top officials manufactured those lies to "sell" an invasion whose real purpose was to gain control of Iraq's oil and establish military bases in the heart of the Middle East - the agenda of the Project for a New American Century that Bush and McCain fully embraced. When Kucinich testifies on Friday, he will naturally face hostile questions from rightwing Republicans who impeached President Clinton. But Kucinich will also face hostile questions from key Democrats who oppose impeachment. Some of these Democrats supported the invasion of Iraq: Howard Berman (CA28), Rick Boucher (VA09), Adam Schiff (CA29), Brad Sherman (CA27), and Anthony Weiner (NY09). But most of these Democrats oppose impeachment because they are cowering in fear of a counterattack from the White House and FOX News: John Conyers (MI14), Artur Davis (AL07), Bill Delahunt (MA10), Zoe Lofgren (CA16), Jerry Nadler (NY08), Linda Sanchez (CA39), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL20), Bobby Scott (VA03), Betty Sutton (OH13), and Mel Watt (NC12). Only a few Judiciary Democrats understand that the Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of impeachment as the only way to stop a President from defying the Constitution and becoming a dictator, as Bush has done: Robert Wexler (FL19), Tammy Baldwin (WI02), Steve Cohen (TN09), Keith Ellison (MN05), Luis Gutierrez (IL04), Sheila Jackson Lee (TX18), Hank Johnson (GA04), and Maxine Waters (CA35). If anti-impeachment Democrats get their way, Friday's 2-hour hearing will be the only "impeachment" hearing for this entire Congress - and then Bush will try to pardon himself and everyone else before leaving office next January, just as his father pardoned six Iran-contra criminals. So it is crucial for all of us - now over 500,000! - to tell our Representatives today to support impeachment by cosponsoring Kucinich's H. Res. 1345: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/142 And if you can do more, please make free calls to every Judiciary Democrat who opposes impeachment through CauseCaller: http://www.causecaller.com/causes.php?c=House_Judiciary_Democrats_Impeachment Simply enter your phone number and click the "Start Calling" button. (Click "Call me back if I accidentally hang up" in case you hang up by mistake.) In a few seconds, your phone will "magically" ring and CauseCaller will say the name of the first Representative on the list. Listen carefully for the name of each Member so you can repeat the name to the receptionist - or just say "The Representative." Don't hang up between calls - let the receptionists hang up and CauseCaller will dial the next Representative. If you want to do even more, call your favorite radio or TV talk shows and tell them how important Friday's hearings will be, and how strongly you support impeachment for whichever reasons are most important to you. Prepare your thoughts in advance so you sound informed and determined. And if you're near Washington DC, join Veterans for Peace to lobby Congress on Thursday and hold a pro-impeachment rally on Friday: http://www.democrats.com/node/17211 Lots more details and actions here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34943 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee at mail.com Wed Jul 23 18:03:56 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:03:56 -0500 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens urge quick action on Ohio, Pa. election crimes Message-ID: <20080723220356.A2967478092@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens urge quick action on Ohio, Pa. election crimes Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:52:36 +0000 GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Greens urge quick action on Ohio, Pennsylvania election crimes, seek assurance of 2008 ballot access fairness and election integrity ? Pennsylvania: 12 indicted after Statehouse Democrats staffers were given taxpayer-funded bonuses to keep 2004 presidential candidate Ralph Nader (Ind.) and 2006 US Senate candidate Carl Romanelli (Green) off the state ballot ? Ohio: Evidence of massive fraud by GOP operatives in the 2004 election, with possible Karl Rove involvement; Greens were the first to probe the 2004 vote theft WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders urged swift and aggressive court action to ensure fair elections and enforcement of legal campaign practices in the wake of election scandals in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Green Party, which nominated Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente for President and Vice President during the 2008 Green National Convention in Chicago on July 12, has a special interest in the integrity of the US election system. Greens are currently working to get the nominees on as many state ballots as possible, an effort rendered difficult by grossly biased and unfair ballot access rules designed by Democrats and Republicans to hinder other parties' candidates and independents in many states. ? In the Pennsylvania scandal, twelve Democratic officials have been indicted for paying staffers big taxpayer-funded bonuses for their efforts to keep 2004 independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader and 2006 Green candidate Carl Romanelli, who ran for the US Senate, off the Pennsylvania ballot. The twelve charged with misusing $4 million for partisan campaign work include the former Pennsylvania House Majority Whip, the current House Majority Whip, and the Chief of Staff of the House Majority Leader. Mr. Romanelli's lawyers are asking for a new hearing regarding the appeal of the $80,000 in legal costs that were assessed against him after Democratic Party lawyers succeeded in persuading a court to remove him from the 2006 ballot. Democrats have claimed that the Nader and Romanelli campaigns falsified signatures on their ballot petitions. Mr. Romanelli was blocked from defending the validity of the signatures in 2006. Nader attorney Oliver Hall noted that "only a tiny number of signatures on the Nader petitions -- 687 or 1.3 percent of the total -- were counted as 'forgeries' by their signers, and in the words of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas Saylor, there is 'no evidence' to support Democrats' claims that the Nader campaign was even aware of such signatures. Furthermore, no allegation of fraud was ever raised against Romanelli's petitions. There is, however, evidence that the Nader petitions were the target of widespread and deliberate sabotage: specifically, petition circulators discovered and removed about 7,000 obviously fake signatures prior to submitting the petitions." (Philadelphia Inquirer, July 17, http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080717_Letters__One_Reader_s_View.html) "We support Carl Romanelli's request for the court to drop the $80,000 legal fee costs that were imposed on him. The assessment of these costs is unprecedented and meant to intimidate non-Democrat and non-Republican candidates from running for office," said Holly Hart, secretary of the Green Party of the United States. "The leveling of punitive and exorbitant costs for disqualified signatures is as outrageous as Pennsylvania's ballot access rule that requires 2,000 valid signatures from Democratic or Republican candidates for President and other top offices, while requiring over 67,000 signatures for candidates from other parties or independents to get on the ballot." ? The Ohio case involves the possible theft of the 2004 presidential election. Widespread evidence first collected by Greens showed that thousands of Ohio voters, especially African Americans and students, were either blocked from voting or their votes were uncounted or miscounted. David Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 presidential nominee, joined with Libertarian nominee Michael Badnarik to investigate the complaints and demand a recount, after John Kerry quickly conceded the race to George W. Bush and his fellow Democrats took no action on the emerging scandal. Greens raised most of the money for legal and other fees for the Ohio recount. A commission called by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) later collected and published evidence of massive irregularities in the Ohio election and attempts to thwart the recount, much of it based on evidence collected by Mr. Cobb and Mr. Badnarik. In January, 2007, two Cuyahoga County election officials were convicted of manipulating the recount. Green Party leaders called for an expanded investigation of the 2004 Ohio election fraud, expressing support for attorneys in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case who have filed a motion to "lift the stay in the case [and] proceed with targeted discovery in order to help protect the integrity of the 2008 election." Greens said that the investigation should especially target evidence that GOP operatives tampered with computer voting machines and the roles of White House advisor Karl Rove and former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell in the alleged vote theft. The Green Party endorses voter-verified paper ballots to provide an auditable record of votes cast on computer voting machines, as well as voting machine source codes that are designed to allow public inspection. "Voters deserve to see the candidates they support on the ballot, and deserve to know that the votes they cast will be counted. Unless the full weight of the law comes down on those who try to manipulate elections, and until we repeal ballot access rules designed to rig the vote in favor or one or two political parties, we're in danger of seeing more damaged and stolen elections," said David Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 candidate for President of the United States. MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org 2008 Green National Convention, July 10-13 in Chicago, Illinois http://www.greenparty2008.org "Ohio Attorney Files to Lift Stay on '04 Election Case, Cites Allegations, Evidence of Massive Fraud by a Number of GOP Operatives" Brad Blog, July 17, 2008 http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6189#more-618 ~ END ~ ... _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. http://www.windowslive.com/mobile/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_mobile_072008 _______________________________________________ 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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An assistant to the field director. This would be a part time stipend position reporting directly to the field director. Resumes with contact phone numbers should be sent to me. Greg Gerritt gpri, McKinney/Clemente 08 _______________________________________________ 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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Rice Vice Chairman of GE and President & CEO of GE Infrastructure Speakers will discuss the critical issue of global warming and the cutting-edge alternative energy initiatives currently used and developed by U.S. businesses Event is Open to the Public WHEN: 11 a.m. - July 28, 2008 WHERE: Auditorium at The Mark Twain Museum Center 351 Farmington Ave, Hartford, CT 06112 To RSVP, please call Paul Mounds in Congressman Larson's District Office at: 860-278-8888 or email at Paul.Mounds@ mail.house.gov For More Information on the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming- http://globalwarming.house.gov/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Fri Jul 25 20:35:47 2008 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:35:47 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: Connecticut Public TV intern--wants to interview Greens Message-ID: <004701c8eeb7$95b93d30$25984c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> Sent to CT Green Party website. I replied I'd let her know. Contact me (Ed) for her contact information if you'd like to contact her--I didn't want to put her information out on the internet. --Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: [intern at CPTV] To: Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:37 PM Subject: CPTV > My name is [deleted], and I am an intern for Connecticut Public > Television. > Currently I am working on a short web series about youth and the 2008 > presidential > election. I was wondering if there are any young staffers (18-24) that I > could interview about their experiences and insights on this very > important topic. Please let me know as soon as possible if there is any > interest in this project. Thank you so much! > [contact information] From timmckee at mail.com Mon Jul 28 09:59:01 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:59:01 -0500 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens: McKinney, not Obama, is the real anti-war candidate Message-ID: <20080728135902.068C5478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens: McKinney, not Obama, is the real anti-war candidate Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:12:52 +0000 GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Monday, July 28, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Greens warn that antiwar Americans will waste their votes if they vote for Obama, citing his positions on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Middle East ? Votes for Green nominees McKinney and Clemente will build a permanent alternative to the bipartisan war agenda, say Green Party leaders WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders said today that antiwar voters will not get an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by voting for presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama on Election Day. Green leaders urged Americans who oppose the wars started by the Bush Administration with bipartisan support in Congress to vote instead for Green nominee Cynthia McKinney, running mate Rosa Clemente, and Green congressional candidates. "Millions of voters plan to vote for Barack Obama in the hope that he'll bring peace to Iraq and other nations in the region," said Omar N. L?pez, Green candidate for the US House in Illinois (4th District) (http://www.omarlopez2008.org). "But his positions are really 'McCain-Lite' -- he'll continue many of the same belligerent foreign policies as the Bush-Cheney Administration that John McCain would. Mr. Obama supports a larger military in terms of both spending and personnel. We want to stop the US from being the world's bully, and instead fund a peace dividend to deal with the economic, energy, and global warming crises." "We appeal to voters to take a look at the Green Party's 'Peace Slate' of candidates, with Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente on the Green presidential ticket. A vote for a candidate who doesn't represent your own ideals is a vote wasted," said Mr. L?pez. Green Party leaders compared the Green antiwar agenda to Barack Obama's positions: IRAQ ? Despite the popular impression that Sen. Obama intends to end the Iraq War, he plans only to reduce troops over a 16-month period. He would maintain an 'under the radar' occupation to protect US interests, which is code for the US and British corporate demand for control over Iraqi oil. (No-bid contracts have already been anounced for ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and Total.) Sen. Obama promises to shift troops around the region, placing US forces in countries surrounding Iraq. ? The Green Party and Green candidates support an immediate and full withdrawal of US troops and military contractors from Iraq, and control over Iraqi oil resources returned to the Iraqi people. http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=37 http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=18 AFGHANISTAN ? Sen. Obama intends to expand the disastrous US war on Afghanistan, which has already left the country in ruins and continues to destabilize the region. ? Greens support full US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and an internationally cooperative investigation and prosecution of those behind the 9/11 attacks. http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=37 http://gp.org/press/pr_2006_09_11.shtml ISRAEL-PALESTINE ? Sen. Obama has repeatedly promised unqualified and uncritical support for Israel, despite the Israeli government's illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and massive abuses of human rights, including Israel's recent violation of a pledge to the US not to construct new homes in a West Bank settlement (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/24/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast). ? Greens have called for the withholding of all US assistance, especially billions of dollars in military aid, until Israel reverses its current policies and adheres to international law, human rights protections, and UN directives, including withdrawal from occupied lands and recognition of the Palestinian right of return. http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=61 IRAN ? Despite promises of diplomacy, Sen. Obama has signed on to the Bush Administration's threat of a US or US-backed Israeli assault on Iran, even though intelligence confirms that the Iranian government is not using its nuclear power to build weapons. ? Greens have warned that an attack on Iran would bring untold consequences, including a greater regional or global conflict, and that the threat itself is an incentive for Iran and other nations to seek a nuclear arsenal. Greens call for an end to such threats, for diplomacy and friendship with Iran, and for an aggressive effort towards regional and global nuclear disarmament, noting the menace posed by Israel's and Pakistan's possession of nuclear weapons. http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=67 http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2007_10_08.shtml The Green Party has also urged impeachment and criminal investigation of the Bush-Cheney Administration's numerous abuses of power in launching the Iraq invasion as well as other actions. Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership have rejected all attempts to hold the latter accountable for its crimes. As US Representative from Georgia in 2006, Cynthia McKinney was the first member of Congress to introduce motions for impeachment. "Many Obama supporters don't realize that the differences between Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain on foreign policy are actually quite narrow and based on the same assumptions. Both believe that the US has a right to occupy other countries, place political demands on their leaders, and take control of their resources. But other voices are getting frozen out of the debate, including the Green nominees for the White House and Congress, whose campaigns are building America's permanent peace party alternative," said Carol Brouillet, Green candidate for Congress in California's District 14 and founder of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance (http://www.communitycurrency.org). MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org 2008 Green National Convention, July 10-13 in Chicago, Illinois http://www.greenparty2008.org ~ END ~ ... _________________________________________________________________ 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_072008 _______________________________________________ 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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Or, if they preferred, given their political leanings, stage left. Ferrucci - a New Haven political activist who has run for mayor and U.S. Senate and Congress on the Green Party ticket - is no stranger to flyering and collecting signatures on petitions at public events, such as last Saturday's city-sponsored Squirrel Nut concert on the Green. He didn't think he was breaking any rules when he brought a team of six petitioners to gather signatures of voters to place presidential candidate Ralph Nader's name on the state's November ballot. The cops thought otherwise. Ferrucci said the "lieutenant in charge" approached him "and told me I'll be arrested if I didn't get the petitioners off the Green." Ferrucci said he protested that he had a right to be on public land. "This isn't owned by the city," the cops told him, according to Ferrucci. (It's true; a not-for-profit organization known as the Proprietors of the Green controls the space.) "But this is a public space," Ferrucci said he (correctly) pointed out. "My rights apply." For at least three decades, volunteers and staffers from political campaigns - including those of Mayor John DeStefano and Democratic candidates like U.S. Senate hopeful Ned Lamont - have routinely circulated petitions or handed out flyers at summer events on the Green. Which lieutenant was it who threatened the arrest? "I should have gotten his name," Ferrucci said. "But I was more concerned about getting arrested. I didn't mind taking the bust," but he worried about his crew of volunteers. So he sent them off the Green, to surrounding sidewalks (uncontested public space), where they harvested signatures from a smaller, less compact field of passersby. Ferrucci said he remained by the middle of the Green, where he received "nasty looks" from five cops on duty. Since the weekend, Ferrucci brought his complaints to the mayor's chief of staff, Sean Matteson. According to Ferrucci, Matteson confirmed that the petitioners should be allowed to work the Green. Matteson promised to investigate the matter, Ferrucci said. Ferrucci asked for a letter confirming the permission to petition. "That way if the cops bother us I have a letter saying we're allowed to be there." Matteson didn't return repeated phone calls to confirm the conversation. "There is no letter," mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said. "There's no discussion about a letter." Mayorga said Matteson "has had a discussion" with Assistant Police Chief Stephanie Redding about the matter. She said Redding "has agreed to look into it." Mayorga said that while it's Matteson's "personal opinion" that the Nader campaign should be able to petition on the Green, the city does not yet have a position on whether it can at another concert this coming weekend. She said she wants to wait to hear back from Redding. "I don't know what the turnaround will be on that," Mayorga said. "We're not trying to make things difficult for anyone. We're trying to make sure we're on the same page." Mayorga said it would not be possible to identify the lieutenant who threatened Ferrucci with arrest. (Update: Reached at a press event at City Hall Wednesday afternoon, Matteson said he plans to make clear to the cops that the Nader campaign may petition at Saturday's concert.) One member of the Proprietors of the Green, Anne Calabresi, was surprised that a petitioner would be removed or threatened with arrest. "How could they?" she asked when told of the incident Wednesday. "The Green is dedicated to free speech. It's that simple." A Trend This is the latest in a string of embarrassing cases of city government flouting the constitution or the public's right to know. Some incidents have occurred at the hands of mid-level or lower-level employees who acted on their own (though in the spirit of higher-ups). City government lawyer Dinella Dodd, for instance, last month booted the press from a public hearing on parking ticket appeals. The city's elderly services chief suspended an employee for, in part, speaking to the press on off hours, without first checking in with the mayor 's spokeswoman. The mayor has implemented a press policy - blasted as flagrantly unconstitutional by the ACLU - which forbids thousands of city employees from speaking about anything with reporters at any time without express prior authorization from his press office; that has set a chill over government. The DeStefano administration has also subverted the intent of a ruling by the State Freedom of Information Commission that required that job evaluations of top administrators be publicly available. The administration has basically stopped doing written evaluations as a result. He's Back Ralph Nader is running as an independent in this year's presidential race rather than as a Green. Nader ran in 1996, 2000, and 2004 as well. He didn't win. Ferrucci said the campaign technically needs 7,500 valid signatures of voters to make the Connecticut ballot. In actuality it probably needs to collect more like 12,000, he said, because election officials often eliminate many signatures as invalid. The deadline is Aug. 6. "We're at 5,500 signatures," Ferrucci reported. He said he's confident the campaign will make its goal. Assuming the law doesn't shut them down. (Nader, a former Green candidate, is running as an independent this year.)