From efficacy at msn.com Wed Jun 4 12:09:20 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:09:20 -0400 Subject: {news} War without end Message-ID: Friends, A new Irish documentary on the drug war premiered last night. You can watch it online at the link below. > >The Irish exploration of the foundations of the war on drugs was as good as >we thought it might be: > >Prime Time Investigates: War without end > >An extraordinary documentary marking a new level in broadcast journalism in >critiquing the international war on drugs was shown on Irish TV last night >(3 June 2008). >Filmed in Colombia, Ireland, England, the US, The Netherlands, Switzerland >and many more, it includes a veritable who's who of drug policy experts on >all sides of the debate. >It is absolutely unequivocal in demonstrating the futility and massive costs >of fighting the war on drugs, as well as suggesting legal regulation as a >viable alternative. A must see for anyone interested in the debate > http://www.rte.ie/news/primetimeinvestigates/ 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 chapillsbury at igc.org Wed Jun 4 18:17:53 2008 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:17:53 -0400 Subject: {news} Next NHGP Meeting TUESDAY June 10 8pm at Claire's! In-Reply-To: <266777.35634.qm@web82301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <00c601c8c293$bb2bcc90$318365b0$@org> <266777.35634.qm@web82301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <002101c8c690$d604acc0$820e0640$@org> We are meeting next Tuesday, instead of Thursday, next week to encourage you to attend an important talk. On Tues. at 6:00 p.m., Melinda Tuhus is showing a film and then speaking at the Public Library (main branch-corner of Elm & Temple) about her recent trip to Israel and Palestine. See an excerpt from your trip diary below. To allow sufficient time for this, we will begin our meeting at 8:00 p.m. (and will end by 9pm) on the other side of the GREEN at Claire's Corner Copia www.clairescornercopia.com 1000 Chapel St New Haven. The main agenda item will be to discuss what offices we will be seeking in November and whether/when to schedule a nominating meeting in July. Come to one or both. See you next Tuesday. Charlie 203-640-3889 chapillsbury at igc.org So far I've done one short magazine article and two radio pieces about things I researched on my trip. I plan to pitch at least half a dozen more stories, and hope most or all of them will be accepted. I'm also doing my first (short) speaking gig on Saturday, at a fundraising event organized by some New Haveners who are taking a circus to Palestine this fall. Both the Palestinians and the pro-peace and justice Israelis I met say their paramount concern is breaking the Israeli/AIPAC media monopoly. It's hard to generalize too much from my experience interviewing a few dozen people, and I'm very conscious of not wanting to practice what we call "parachute journalism" - a foreigner who drops in to another country for a short time and becomes an "instant expert." But I know what I saw and, because I kept my focus pretty specific, I know quite a lot about a few things. And these are the things I can write/speak about. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Jun 5 18:03:58 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:03:58 +0000 Subject: {news} Harold Burbank in the Litchfield County Times In-Reply-To: <0016e6460262322ccc044ef10f99@google.com> References: <0016e6460262322ccc044ef10f99@google.com> Message-ID: (The article incorrectly identifies Harold's supporter Robert Bowman as a "Star Wars movie director"; actually, Bowman directed a missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter, popularly known as "Star Wars.") http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19748785 06/05/2008 Green Party Enters Race By: Scott Benjamin Harold Burbank II of Canton, the Green Party candidate in the Fifth Congressional District, is calling on Congress to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney for waging an illegal war in Iraq. He said that he decided to enter the race for the seat now held by U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-Cheshire) after Mr. Murphy told him at a forum in New Britain last year that "despite the Bush administration's being the most impeachable regime in U.S. history, he would not support impeachment." In a news release, Mr. Burbank, an attorney who specializes in human rights issues, stated that Mr. Bush "is conducting criminal wars of aggression and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and threatening a nuclear war in Iran." "Except for a very few in Congress, representatives like Chris Murphy have not only done nothing about these criminal wars but are accessories to them by consistently voting to fund them," he wrote. Mr. Burbank said in a phone interview that the Bush administration entered Iraq illegally since it never verified that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The candidate, who will be opposed by Mr. Murphy and State Sen. David Cappiello (R-Danbury) in the Nov. 4 election, said that he agreed with the congressman's recent comments that it would be difficult to remove all of the armed forces in Iraq immediately since the troop levels have been at 110,000 or more since Mr. Bush started a surge early last year. However, he said that steps should be taken immediately to have the United Nations establish a "multi-lateral" peacekeeping force in Iraq. Regarding Mr. Burbank's call for the impeachment of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, Kristen Bossi, Mr. Murphy's spokeswoman, said, "With six months to go on the Bush administration, our focus has to be on working together to push legislation that needs action by the end of the year. "We have a looming economic crisis and skyrocketing gas prices that need attention now," she added. Adam Bauer, Mr. Cappiello's communications director, said that the GOP candidate would decline comment on Mr. Burbank's entry into the race and his criticisms of Mr. Murphy's efforts to impeach Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. Mr. Burbank, 51, said that he has the support of presidential candidate Ralph Nader of Winsted, who has been a recognized consumer advocate for more than 40 years. Some observers believe that Mr. Nader's campaign in 2000 took enough support away from then-Vice President Al Gore to enable Mr. Bush to win the election. He said that his list of backers also includes human rights activist Daniel Ellsberg, as well as Star Wars movie director [sic] Robert Bowman and renowned legal scholar Francis Boyle. On another topic, Mr. Burbank said that he believes that the United States could resolve its energy crisis in "five years" through the use of green technologies, including fuel cells. U.S. Rep. John Larson (D-East Hartford) has said that fuel-cell technology would become Connecticut's biggest export, since the state already has at least five companies doing research and development in the field. "If President [John F.] Kennedy could come into office and set up a program that would get us to the moon in eight years, then I think we can take care of the energy problem even quicker, particularly if we [have] public funding and public-private partnerships," Mr. Burbank said, making reference to the former Democratic president who started the Mercury space program in the early 1960s. He said that he opposes expansion of nuclear power, which has been a staple in Connecticut for decades, because that "no solution has been found for storing the waste from the reactors." Regarding integrated trade, Mr. Burbank said that he opposes the North American Free Trade Agreement and Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China, because neither pact enforces labor and environmental standards. Opponents of those agree?ments, including Mr. Murphy, have said that they have established an uneven playing field for American workers and in some cases have resulted in job losses. Mr. Burbank has bachelor's degree from Tufts University in Massachusetts, a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a law degree from Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire. He worked in the state attorney general's office in the 1980s when it was headed by U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-New Haven) and has had a private law practice in Canton for the last five years. Mr. Burbank and his wife, Marianne, a kindergarten teacher in Winsted, have two teen-aged children. He said Monday that he already had collected 1,300 of the 2,197 signatures that are required to appear on the election ballot this fall. Mr. Burbank said that he is hoping to build up the base that the Green Party developed in Connecticut during the 2006 campaign, when the Hartford Courant reported that the Green Party gained a greater presence in the state. Cliff Thornton of Glastonbury ran as the party's candidate for governor and Ralph Ferrucci of New Haven campaigned for the U.S. Senate. Mr. Ferrucci, for example, participated in statewide televised debates with the other candidates, including Mr. Lieberman, Democrat Ned Lamont of Greenwich and Republican Alan Schlesinger of Orange. ?Litchfield County Times 2008 _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy 5 GB of free, password-protected online storage. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_062008 From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Sat Jun 7 10:40:26 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:40:26 -0400 Subject: {news} Green is the Conservatives' new favorite color in Germany Message-ID: <109501c8c8ac$6d5b28c0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> >From USGP International Committee's Marnie Glickman http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2678 Green is the Conservatives' new favorite color in Germany The Conservatives' New Favorite Color; An alliance of Germany's Christian Democrats and the Greens suggests a potentially radical political realignment Stefan Theil | Newsweek International | 05.26.2008 While the future effects of global warming are still hotly debated, the one very real thaw it has already produced is between the world's environmentalists and their foes on the political right. Think John McCain's embrace of the climate-change issue, or the greening of Britain's Tories under their leader, David Cameron. The latest ice to break is between Germany's once radical, antiestablishment Green Party and their erstwhile archenemy, Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU). In a formerly unthinkable and possibly far-reaching realignment of German politics, conservatives and the Green Party have been entering alliances in local and regional parliaments, creating new power options for both parties-and a laboratory for breaking the logjam that has paralyzed German politics. The latest and most significant test case of novel coalition-building has come in Hamburg, one of Germany's 16 federal states. In a replay of the national election in 2005 that brought Merkel to power at the head of an unwieldy grand coalition of CDU and Social Democrats (SPD), Hamburg's voters in February failed to give either the CDU or the SPD the needed majority to form a government. But instead of opting for another grand coalition of the two major parties-which in Berlin has led to predictable bickering and blockage-the CDU has hammered out a coalition agreement with the Greens. Together, the parties on May 7 reinstalled incumbent Hamburg Governor Ole von Beust. The first such hookup at the state level had strong backing from Merkel, who sees it as widening the CDU's options for future coalitions, possibly at the national level. Ditto for Renate K?nast, the Greens' leader in Parliament and main strategic thinker. Even the ?minence grise of Germany's archconservatives, former Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber, gave his blessing to a marriage he once said was impossible. "The Greens aren't political street urchins anymore," Stoiber said earlier this month. To understand what a radical shift this means for both parties, it helps to flash back to the 1980s, when the Greens first appeared on the scene. The CDU was a bastion of small-town, church-going, law-and-order conservatism that had happily ignored the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. In the CDU's weltanschauung, there was little place for immigrants, gays, or even working women. The contrast to the Greens couldn't have been starker. When their deputies first won election to the Bundestag in 1983, the Greens were a hodgepodge of Maoists, street fighters and radical counterculturalists who'd vowed to overturn "the system." The established parties treated them as freaks-and no one more so than the conservatives. To the CDU establishment, the hippie-haired, sneaker-wearing Greens were "terrorists" and "forest hermits." CDU legislators pressed, unsuccessfully, to have them observed by Germany's domestic intelligence as an alleged threat to the democratic order. To many Greens, in turn, the conservatives under then Chancellor Helmut Kohl were nature-despoiling, women-oppressing, foreigner-hating capitalists-political barbarians, a virtual throwback to the Nazis. The sudden and remarkable shift in sentiment is part cultural change, and part political expediency. Today's Greens have now come of age. The 1980s protest generation is now in its 40s and 50s, with families and mortgages. Educated and rich (Green voters have higher incomes than those of any other party), the now established Greens have also shed many of their more radical policies. Far-left members and voters bolted the party after then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, once a hard-core left street fighter, supported German military deployment in Kosovo and Afghanistan. While many of their instincts and sympathies are very much old left, they've built a reputation for sensible pragmatism once in power. The CDU, in turn, has abandoned not a few of its more conservative positions. Under Merkel, the conservatives have not only moved far to embrace environmentalism, but they have also expanded child-care benefits and increased welfare spending, and launched new efforts to integrate immigrants. Just as unthinkable among conservatives during the Kohl era: the CDU governor of Hamburg is openly gay. Just as they've merged on some of their policies, it helps that Greens and conservatives share a similar middle-class, educated background, says Thomas Petersen, political analyst at the Allensbach Institute. Neither party's membership or core voters have much in common with the working-class, union-member-dominated SPD. But the most pressing reason for the shift is necessity-and here it may have the most lasting effect on German politics. This alliance is part of the realignment of German politics following the growth of the radically left-wing, populist Linkspartei. Because the vote is now divided between five parties-the CDU, SPD, Greens, Linkspartei and the pro-business Free Democrats-it has become ever harder for one party to rule alone, or even with its one traditional small-party ally. What's more, with the implosion of the Social Democrats (the Greens' traditional allies) to only 25 percent in a mid-May poll, the Greens are abandoning what seems, for now, a rapidly sinking ship. Of course, there's no guarantee the Hamburg experiment will succeed either. Most Green voters would prefer to share power with the Linkspartei and SPD, rather than the conservatives. But at least for the moment, the Green leadership is resisting because it is reluctant to tie its fortunes to a struggling SPD-and it fears joining up with the rabble-rousing far left will return the party to the fringe-movement ghetto from which they've worked so hard to escape. One question is whether the Hamburg alliance could be a harbinger of things to come even beyond Germany's borders. After all, environmentalism became mainstream in Germany long before the climate-change debate put it on the international agenda. And it was a conservative government-Helmut Kohl's-that set up the country's first Ministry for the Environment back in 1986. Could the rest of the world again follow Germany's example? Ferdinand M?ller-Rommel, a professor at L?neburg University who has studied Green movements for 25 years, says Green-conservative coalitions have emerged in a handful of other governments, including Ireland and France, and argues this melding is a natural process that is long overdue. "I've been telling the Greens since the 1980s that their issues-environmentalism, individualism, grass-roots decision-making-are at heart conservative issues," he says. In Germany, coalitions like the one in Hamburg have fomented much talk of a new post-ideological age. Petersen says the Green-conservative rapprochement may signal the end of the confrontational post-1968 culture wars that have so sharply polarized the political debate. "People are sick of clinging to political positions that might have been right 30 years ago but have been overcome by reality today," von Beust said of his new coalition in a mid-May interview with Die Zeit. If this kind of attitude empowers the pragmatists and problem solvers in the political parties, then Hamburg's newfangled alliance will prove to be truly radical. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ne%20german%20green%20party%20logo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6095 bytes Desc: not available URL: From apbrison at hotmail.com Sat Jun 7 11:44:20 2008 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:44:20 -0400 Subject: {news} Green is the Conservatives' new favorite color in Germany In-Reply-To: <109501c8c8ac$6d5b28c0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> References: <109501c8c8ac$6d5b28c0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: So is this what we have to look forward to? A day when we "mature" and become "pragmatic" and, like Fischer, embrace the wars of the day as in Kosovo and Afghanistan? From: justinemccabe at earthlink.netTo: gpcwc at lists.riseup.net; ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgDate: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:40:26 -0400CC: Subject: {news} Green is the Conservatives' new favorite color in Germany >From USGP International Committee's Marnie Glickman http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2678 Green is the Conservatives' new favorite color in Germany The Conservatives? New Favorite Color; An alliance of Germany?s Christian Democrats and the Greens suggests a potentially radical political realignment Stefan Theil | Newsweek International | 05.26.2008 While the future effects of global warming are still hotly debated, the one very real thaw it has already produced is between the world?s environmentalists and their foes on the political right. Think John McCain?s embrace of the climate-change issue, or the greening of Britain?s Tories under their leader, David Cameron. The latest ice to break is between Germany?s once radical, antiestablishment Green Party and their erstwhile archenemy, Chancellor Angela Merkel?s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU). In a formerly unthinkable and possibly far-reaching realignment of German politics, conservatives and the Green Party have been entering alliances in local and regional parliaments, creating new power options for both parties?and a laboratory for breaking the logjam that has paralyzed German politics.The latest and most significant test case of novel coalition-building has come in Hamburg, one of Germany?s 16 federal states. In a replay of the national election in 2005 that brought Merkel to power at the head of an unwieldy grand coalition of CDU and Social Democrats (SPD), Hamburg?s voters in February failed to give either the CDU or the SPD the needed majority to form a government. But instead of opting for another grand coalition of the two major parties?which in Berlin has led to predictable bickering and blockage?the CDU has hammered out a coalition agreement with the Greens. Together, the parties on May 7 reinstalled incumbent Hamburg Governor Ole von Beust.The first such hookup at the state level had strong backing from Merkel, who sees it as widening the CDU?s options for future coalitions, possibly at the national level. Ditto for Renate K?nast, the Greens? leader in Parliament and main strategic thinker. Even the ?minence grise of Germany?s archconservatives, former Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber, gave his blessing to a marriage he once said was impossible. ?The Greens aren?t political street urchins anymore,? Stoiber said earlier this month.To understand what a radical shift this means for both parties, it helps to flash back to the 1980s, when the Greens first appeared on the scene. The CDU was a bastion of small-town, church-going, law-and-order conservatism that had happily ignored the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. In the CDU?s weltanschauung, there was little place for immigrants, gays, or even working women. The contrast to the Greens couldn?t have been starker. When their deputies first won election to the Bundestag in 1983, the Greens were a hodgepodge of Maoists, street fighters and radical counterculturalists who?d vowed to overturn ?the system.? The established parties treated them as freaks?and no one more so than the conservatives. To the CDU establishment, the hippie-haired, sneaker-wearing Greens were ?terrorists? and ?forest hermits.? CDU legislators pressed, unsuccessfully, to have them observed by Germany?s domestic intelligence as an alleged threat to the democratic order. To many Greens, in turn, the conservatives under then Chancellor Helmut Kohl were nature-despoiling, women-oppressing, foreigner-hating capitalists?political barbarians, a virtual throwback to the Nazis.The sudden and remarkable shift in sentiment is part cultural change, and part political expediency. Today?s Greens have now come of age. The 1980s protest generation is now in its 40s and 50s, with families and mortgages. Educated and rich (Green voters have higher incomes than those of any other party), the now established Greens have also shed many of their more radical policies. Far-left members and voters bolted the party after then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, once a hard-core left street fighter, supported German military deployment in Kosovo and Afghanistan. While many of their instincts and sympathies are very much old left, they?ve built a reputation for sensible pragmatism once in power.The CDU, in turn, has abandoned not a few of its more conservative positions. Under Merkel, the conservatives have not only moved far to embrace environmentalism, but they have also expanded child-care benefits and increased welfare spending, and launched new efforts to integrate immigrants. Just as unthinkable among conservatives during the Kohl era: the CDU governor of Hamburg is openly gay. Just as they?ve merged on some of their policies, it helps that Greens and conservatives share a similar middle-class, educated background, says Thomas Petersen, political analyst at the Allensbach Institute. Neither party?s membership or core voters have much in common with the working-class, union-member-dominated SPD.But the most pressing reason for the shift is necessity?and here it may have the most lasting effect on German politics. This alliance is part of the realignment of German politics following the growth of the radically left-wing, populist Linkspartei. Because the vote is now divided between five parties?the CDU, SPD, Greens, Linkspartei and the pro-business Free Democrats?it has become ever harder for one party to rule alone, or even with its one traditional small-party ally. What?s more, with the implosion of the Social Democrats (the Greens? traditional allies) to only 25 percent in a mid-May poll, the Greens are abandoning what seems, for now, a rapidly sinking ship. Of course, there?s no guarantee the Hamburg experiment will succeed either. Most Green voters would prefer to share power with the Linkspartei and SPD, rather than the conservatives. But at least for the moment, the Green leadership is resisting because it is reluctant to tie its fortunes to a struggling SPD?and it fears joining up with the rabble-rousing far left will return the party to the fringe-movement ghetto from which they?ve worked so hard to escape.One question is whether the Hamburg alliance could be a harbinger of things to come even beyond Germany?s borders. After all, environmentalism became mainstream in Germany long before the climate-change debate put it on the international agenda. And it was a conservative government?Helmut Kohl?s?that set up the country?s first Ministry for the Environment back in 1986. Could the rest of the world again follow Germany?s example? Ferdinand M?ller-Rommel, a professor at L?neburg University who has studied Green movements for 25 years, says Green-conservative coalitions have emerged in a handful of other governments, including Ireland and France, and argues this melding is a natural process that is long overdue. ?I?ve been telling the Greens since the 1980s that their issues?environmentalism, individualism, grass-roots decision-making?are at heart conservative issues,? he says.In Germany, coalitions like the one in Hamburg have fomented much talk of a new post-ideological age. Petersen says the Green-conservative rapprochement may signal the end of the confrontational post-1968 culture wars that have so sharply polarized the political debate. ?People are sick of clinging to political positions that might have been right 30 years ago but have been overcome by reality today,? von Beust said of his new coalition in a mid-May interview with Die Zeit. If this kind of attitude empowers the pragmatists and problem solvers in the political parties, then Hamburg?s newfangled alliance will prove to be truly radical. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Tue Jun 10 05:46:26 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:46:26 -0400 Subject: {news} The War on Drugs Has Failed ~ Should America Legalize Drugs? Message-ID: Richard Burton---Chairman of the NAACP Prisoner Rights Sub-committee The war on drugs has failed; We must make peace, heal our wounds, and change our laws. In 2005, InterNational Activist Cliff Thornton invited me as Chairman of the NAACP Prisoner Rights Sub-committee, to participarte in a drug conference in Hartford, Conn and after several years of research as it relates to drugs and its side effects, I offer these thoughts. The drug war can't be won, and we have lost. We merely repeat the mistake of Prohibition. The harder we try to stop this evil, the more lucrative we make it, and the more it spread. The war on drugs cannot be eradicated by making it more profitable and at the same time creating more jails/prisons, disparities, casualties and tax burdens. This view is shared by activists like Jack Cole a conference participant, a retired police lieutenant who worked on the front lines of the war on drugs, and who feels that prohibition causes more damage than the drugs themselves do. According to Cole, "The war on drugs was really responsible for about 99% of all the things that we attribute to the, quote, `drug problem.'" Furthermore, Cole maintains that the federal government's attempts to stamp out the drug trade merely "inflates the values of these products virtually by up to 17,000 percent" and "creates an obscene profit margin, making many people willing to kill." Rutgers University professor Douglas Husak gives more detailed statistics, citing studies that have shown that the types of crimes generated by illegal drug use occur "when drug users and dealers battle over drug sales, turf, and other aspects of illegal drug sales." Husak maintains that the crimes caused by the drug trade "would be virtually eliminated if drugs were available at retail stores." Jack Cole, the retired policeman, expresses much the same sentiment when he says that drugs need to be legalized "so that you can control it and regulate it and keep it out of the hands of our children." The goal of legalization is not to encourage drug use, but to discourage the victimization of drug users, as well as society, at the hands of the illegal drug trade. Cliff Thornton the founder and president of Efficacy, a drug reform organization based in Hartford Thornton called for a three-pronged approach to deal with the various drugs that are now illegal: legalization of marijuana, medicalization of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines, and decriminalization of the rest. He said the so-called drug war is a war on people, especially people of color, that has cost billions of dollars and has destroyed families and communities, but has done nothing to curb the flow of drugs into the country. Cliff has shared with me, his life story on this issue and his ongoing advocacy, as well as other like minded national advocates and I think we must signal a "Code Blue". The rash of recent crimes and murders in Chicago, Philadelphia, DC and other major cities across the country, are thought to be drug related, lend to this conversation "The War on Drugs Is Destroying Lives." Richard P. Burton, Sr., Director PROJECT R.E.A.C.H., INC. P.O. BOX 440248 Jacksonville, FL 32244 Bus:904-786-7883 Cell:610-349-3358 E-mail:PROJECTREACHINC at msn.com PROJECT R.E.A.C.H., INC., A Non-Profit 501 (c)(3)Organization: To Reach Out To The "At Risk Community" In Areas Of: Re-enfranchisement, Education, Advancement, Counseling and Housing. Your Gifts And Donations Are Tax Deductible. Please Send A Donation Today. Resources Cole, Jack. "The War on Drugs Is Destroying Lives." Legalizing Drugs. Cliff Thornton. "Under The Influence" --edited by Preston Peet 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 efficacy at msn.com Wed Jun 11 06:54:29 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:54:29 -0400 Subject: {news} Bongs Over Bridgeport--another reformer running for office Message-ID: http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/blogs/home.cfm?uid=83 Tuesday, June 10, 2008 . 3:40 PM Post a Comment Bongs Over Bridgeport posted by Erin Lynch Picture this: Bridgeport's 130th District transformed into a drug-tolerant zone. Think of it as a mini Amsterdam, in which cannabis cafes and safe-injection rooms are the norm, and the use of pot, cocaine and heroin within the city is regulated and controlled. You'll be able to stroll into coffeeshop, take a gander at the menu, order a joint or two of Purple Haze and light up without the threat of Johnny Law. If you are struggling with an addiction to coke or heroin, afforded to you will be clinics where you will have access to the drug, under strict medical supervision, to help ease your pain and possibly control your addiction. Sounds like a dope fiend's utopia, doesn't it? It's actually the brainchild of Sylvester Salcedo, a Democrat and political neophyte who is looking to represent the district in Hartford's House of Representatives. (Currently he is trying to secure enough John Hancocks to get approval to run in the August primary.) Salcedo says the War on Drugs isn't working. In fact, it's failing on every possible level. It has failed law enforcement, filled our prisons to maximum capacity and torn apart families and communities. The plan, he says, is simple, "I am floating around this idea of the Covenant of the 130th District, which is to declare the district as a zone of tolerance? "What we want to do is focus not on law enforcement, not on criminalizing addiction, not on arrest and incarceration but to shift the effort towards a public health initiative," Salcedo says. The status quo, Salcedo says, does not make drugs disappear from our streets; instead it makes the issue worse. "I feel the War on Drugs is your root of most urban issues, whether you're talking about public education reform, affordable housing, job creation, social justice, fairness and equality," he says. Salcedo says the tough 130th is a perfect example of the drug war backlash. "Whoever is there has been in jail, heading to jail or coming back from jail. It's all drugs, so any politician who is running for this district really should say, 'I'm running because of drugs and that is exactly my platform.'" Salcedo looks at drug addiction as a public health issue, not a criminal one. In this zone, heroin addicts would come in, "be properly screened and their heroin intake would be managed and supervised by a public health official, not a law enforcement official." Also on-site, he says, would be social workers and addiction specialists. Salcedo is very different from the stereotypical anti-drug renegade. He is soft spoken, clean-cut and generally appears to be a follow-the-rules type of guy. He is a lawyer and a 20-year Navy veteran. The 51-year-old moved to Bridgeport in 2000 with his then-wife, Sonia (she's the former Bridgeport schools superintendent). It was also the year he began publicly protesting the War on Drugs by sending back his Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medal to President Bill Clinton. In a letter, Salcedo told Clinton: "Narcotics use and abuse is our problem here at home. The solutions should be applied here and not in Colombia or elsewhere. To spend this additional amount of money overseas is wasteful and counterproductive." He went on to say that the drug war "is senseless, wasteful and counterproductive." Salcedo says many local politicians look to Washington, D.C. to handle the issue. But, he says, the only way to tackle it is by community activism. "Martin Luther King did not wait for Congress to move on civil rights. The women suffragettes did not wait for some congressman in Washington, D.C. to take the initiative to give women the right to vote. It started from one neighborhood in the community level to force the issue into a national issue," he says. Not surprisingly, Bridgeport mayor Bill Finch strongly disagrees with Salcedo: "This is not something I want to seriously pursue? I would encourage people to look to a candidate who wants to [fix] the system of school funding, rather than creating initiatives that will only create more violence," Finch says. The way to combat drugs, Finch says, is through education, treatment and law enforcement, not by tolerance. While other cities murder rates are increasing, Finch says, the Park City's has had a significant decrease in homicides and violent crimes. "We are on track to reducing these serious crimes by 10 to 20 percent," Finch says. "We can reduce violence without Sylvester's ideas." But Finch adds, "I do admire Sylvester for his out-of-the-box thinking, but I don't think we can create an Amsterdam here in Bridgeport. Drugs are highly addicting and they promote violence. If we reform the way we fund our schools than there is a better chance for kids to stay away from drugs or gang violence." Cliff Thornton feels Salcedo's pain. Thornton attempted to unseat Gov. M. Jodi Rell in 2006 on a platform of decriminalizing drugs. According to recent U.S. Department of Justice stats, "The rate of drug abuse in Connecticut is slightly higher than the national average? 7.1 percent of individuals surveyed in Connecticut reported having abused an illicit drug in the previous month compared with approximately 6.3 percent nationwide." That's a lot of petty drug offenses. "Look at how much money we are spending on the criminal justice system versus the education system," says Thornton. "Look at how much we are spending versus universal healthcare." The state, Thornton says, spends "$600 million to $800 million a year to operate the prison system in Connecticut. What if we can take that and use it for health care for every resident? What I am talking about is the redistribution of income and wealth." Thornton cites figures that say there are at any time between 18,000 and 22,000 people locked up in Connecticut prisons, 70 percent of whom are in for a wide range of drug-related offenses, including "robbery, possession, prostitution and manufacturing." The way to fix the epidemic, Salcedo and Thornton say, is to first admit the system is broken. "You have to bring in some sort of regulatory control," Thornton says. The state has to focus more on drug abuse and addiction, rather than locking up offenders. Legalization, regulation and control, he asserts, could solve the problem. But critics say that even a regulated-drugs scheme could lead to more organized crime and gangs into Bridgeport. "I am against keeping those guys in business," says Finch. "In fact, I want them out of here." - Erin Lynch 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 dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Jun 11 08:53:00 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:53:00 -0400 Subject: {news} Mothers Milk Project in the Weekly Message-ID: http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=8219 Milky Sway The Mothers Milk Project and the Radiation and Public Health Project look for radiation poisoning from a nearby nuke plant. Pro-nuke feds say it's an exercise in junk science. Comments (0) Thursday, June 12, 2008 By Nick Keppler Nick Keppler photo Many area residents are calling for the end of Westchester's nuclear program There's no middle ground here. The Mothers Milk Project's mission is to test breast milk from human moms and other mammals near Indian Point Energy Center in Westchester County, New York. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission totally dismisses the premise behind it in a wholehearted rejection of a similar effort. So the whole idea is either vital or foolish. And then it becomes a matter of who do you trust: A group of activists and independent researchers with a predisposition against nuclear power, or a government body with a vested interest in it? First, the details: The Mothers Milk Project aims to sample mothers' milk in a 50-mile radius of Indian Point for traces of strontium-90, a beta particle produced through nuclear fission. The radioactive isotope is linked to cancer, especially leukemia. Once in the body, it acts like calcium, getting into both breast milk and baby teeth. The discovery of it in baby teeth near nuclear test sites was a key to several nuclear-testing bans. The project aims to create a database correlating strontium-90 levels to proximity to Indian Point. The Westchester plant has faced growing calls for its closure, due to its aging equipment and potential as a terrorist target. Some 20 million people, including every resident of Fairfield County, live within 50 miles of the plant, more than in a 50-mile radium of any other nuclear plant in the U.S. The project was unveiled last week in organizer Gail Merrill's New Canaan backyard by Merrill and co-founder Nancy Burton. (Burton's the outspoken Green Party candidate for Connecticut Attorney General and president of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone.) Indian Point itself sampled the milk of nearby dairy cows until the early 1990s, when the farm where they lived closed down, says a spokesman for the plant's owner, the Entergy Corporation. The Radiation and Public Health Project released a report in May finding that levels of strontium-90 in Fairfield County baby teeth-which, like breast milk, absorb the particle easily-are the highest in the New York metro area, excluding the N.Y. counties closest to Indian Point. It also uses above-average infant mortality and underweight birth rates in the county as evidence. "Even without a major meltdown, every nuclear reaction must release radioactive particles," says RHPH executive director Joseph Mangano. And although the release is much less than in bomb testing or nuclear disasters, Mangano compares the risk to smoking four cigarettes compared a smoker's usual intake: It's still unhealthy and we should know how unhealthy. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a "backgrounder" document, says it "finds there is little or no credibility in the studies published by the Radiation Public Health Project." "These studies have been widely discredited in peer-reviewed journals," says spokesman Neil Sheehan. "They essentially go backwards, assuming that strontium-90 is coming out of these plants and harming people and then looking for evidence for their foregone conclusions." The commission says the amount of the radioactive isotope produced in fission is minimal. It claims that, annually, all 103 power plants in the U.S. combined produce 1/1,000th of a curie, compared to the 216,000 curies of strontium-90 released in the Chernobyl disaster. And the commission says strontium-90 is everywhere because of nuclear testing. It flows in streams, travels on the wind and is attached to migrating populations. There is no way to tell if the strontium-90 in an area can be linked to a nearby nuclear plant, says the NRC. This is one reason why the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection says it doesn't test for strontium-90. A DEP spokesperson added that the department does not do any testing besides the usual soil and water sampling near Indian Point. The NRC cites several studies to justify its trashing of the Radiation Public Health Project, including a 1990 National Cancer Institute report finding no excess cancer deaths in the areas surrounding 62 nuclear facilities and a 2001 Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering report saying that emissions from the Haddam Neck plant were "so low as to be negligible." But none of them test strontium-90 levels in the bodies of people living near power plants, as Mothers Milk Project will and the Radiation Public Health Project has. "They weren't expecting the strontium-90 levels in the baby teeth around nuclear testing sites either," says Mangano. 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It is a place where we will reveal all of his hawkish, conservative policies and ties to corporations and lobbyists. Happy reading! Marnie Glickman Executive director Green Change www.greenchange.org 503.313.7919 w 707.313.7919 f skype: marnieglickman Green Change is a community of people with Green values: justice, grassroots democracy, sustainability and non-violence. We work together to share Green art, politics and culture. _______________________________________________ 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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According to a recently released report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 2 million offenders were either in jail or prison in 2006, the most recent year studied in an annual survey. Another 4.2 million were on probation, and nearly 800,000 were on parole. The cost to taxpayers, about $45 billion, is causing states such as California to reconsider harsh criminal penalties. In an attempt to relieve overcrowding, California is now exporting some of its 170,000 inmates to privately run corrections facilities as far away as Tennessee. "There are a number of states that have talked about an early release of prisoners deemed non-threatening," said Rebecca Blank, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank. "The problem just keeps getting bigger and bigger. You're paying a lot of money here. You have to ask if some of these high mandatory minimum sentences make sense." The bureau's report comes on the heels of a Pew Center on the States report showing 1 percent of U.S. adults behind bars, a historic high. The United States has the largest number of people behind bars in the world, according to the Pew report. Black men, about one in 15, were most affected, and Hispanics, one in 35, were well represented among offenders. The number of women in prison "rose faster in 2006 than over the previous five years," mostly in Hawaii, North Dakota, Wyoming and Oklahoma, the Bureau of Justice Statistics report said. In 1980, about the time that tough sentencing laws, particularly for drug offenses, began to be passed by federal and state legislators, 1.8 million people were in the system and $11 billion was spent on corrections. "It's really like a runaway train," said Ryan King, policy analyst for the liberal Sentencing Project. "Nobody's taking a step back and asking where all these billions of dollars are going." With so much overcrowding, King said, states "need billions of dollars to build enough beds to catch up to where they need to be." Defenders of the system argue, however, that the rise in the prison population means that more dangerous criminals have been taken off the streets. "If you look at the fact that these are people who are committing a crime, creating a danger to the public, you can't look at it as wrong," said Scott Thorpe, chief executive of the California District Attorneys Association. "What is the appropriate number of people to be incarcerated to ensure public safety? I don't know if you can answer that." State contracts with private prisons to house offenders grew by 6 percent, or about 6,000 inmates, the report said. Nearly 114,000 state and federal prisoners were in private institutions in 2006. Tim Lynch, director of the criminal justice project for the libertarian Cato Institute, called the numbers "scandalous" and said states have resorted to "tinkering" to solve prison overcrowding. "I think these numbers demonstrate that we've lost our way," Lynch said. "We've lost our way when our laws require such a massive scale of incarceration." Lynch and others said the drug war is destroying American inner cities almost as much as the drug trade. "When you lock up a bank robber, a child molester or a mugger, you're removing a career offender from the street. "When you lock up a drug dealer, he is immediately replaced," Lynch said. "We tried this with alcohol during Prohibition and it didn't work. We're not reaching the same conclusion with the drug war. It's slowly sinking in, but it will take politicians some time to turn this around." 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MORE DETAILS TO COME> > HUFFINGTON POST> Political Comedian/Activist Randy Credico Arrested Documenting Marijuana Arrests> > > Posted June 13, 2008> NEW YORK POST> 'REEFER' MADNESS> > By IRENE PLAGIANOS and MURRAY WEISS> > June 14, 2008 -- A drug-law reform activist spent a night in jail after hurling abuse at cops in an attempt to stop them from collaring pot-smokers outside his Greenwich Village home, police said.> As undercover cops nabbed the two dopers Thursday night, Randy Credico allegedly burst from his Gay Street home and screamed, "You guys are really solving murders out here? Why don't you guys get a life! F- - - you all! You can't tell me what to do!"> Credico admitted to The Post he was trying to prevent the arrest of the teens.> "I'm constantly warning kids not to smoke pot on that street," Credico said. "These cops are making Mickey Mouse pot arrests - what a waste of time and money."> Credico is the director of the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, which documents arrests for marijuana violations.> He was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.> > > NY DAILY NEWS> BY ELIZABETH BENJAMIN> June 13, 2008> Two Political Worlds Collide> Drug law reform activist and comedian Randy Credico was arrested yesterday and spent the night in a cell at NYPD central booking after getting into a shouting match outside his West Village building with police officers who were arresting some teenagers who were smoking pot.> Credico called me late this morning after he had been arraigned and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest to give his account of the incident. Guess which judge he appeared before?> Noach Dear.> Credico said he has been warning people not to smoke marijuana in this particular spot because it's a location of frequent police sweeps. He has documented prior arrests, which did not make him too popular with the cops who showed up last night.> There was a verbal altercation during which Credico, as he put it, "used strident language" to denounce the war on drugs, suggesting that a better use of police time would be to "solve some murders."> It probably didn't help matters that after his arrest, while waiting in the cell, Credico said he "counted down the 50 shots that killed Sean Bell."> Credico is due back in court in August. He said he plans to file a criminal suit against the NYPD in the meantime.> > > GOTHAMIST> JUNE 14, 2008> > Drug Law Reform Activist Arrested Over Stopping Cops' Pot Arrests> > A drug law reform activist was arrested in the West Village on Thursday night for trying to stop police officers from arresting two teens who were smoking pot outside his house. The Post reports that Randy Credisco, who heads the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, allegedly yelled, "You guys are really solving murders out here? Why don't you guys get a life! F--- you all! You can't tell me what to do!"> The plot thickens, because it seems Credisco had a similar altercation with one of the cops when, per the Huffington Post's Anthony Papa, "Credico documented the arrest of some other young adults accused of simple marijuana possession." Recently, the NY Civil Liberties Union released a study showing arrests for small amounts of marijuana possession have increased tenfold. Credisco, who was charged with disorderly conduct, told the Post, "I'm constantly warning kids not to smoke pot on that street. These cops are making Mickey Mouse pot arrests - what a waste of time and money."> Credisco was very busy and also called the Daily News' Elizabeth Benjamin. He told her that it probably didn't help things when he "counted down the 50 shots that killed Sean Bell" after his arrest. He added he is going to file a civil lawsuit against the police.> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Sun Jun 15 15:55:40 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:55:40 -0400 Subject: {news} proposed agenda for the 6-17-06 EC meeting at: Lena's First and Last Pizzeria, 2053 Park Street, Hartford, CT Message-ID: <20080615195542.ENSI26883.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Proposed agenda for the 7PM 6-17-08 EC meeting in Hartford, CT for the Green Party of CT Location: Lena?s First and Last Pizzeria, 2053 Park Street (near Prospect Street), Hartford, CT 06106-2025 P: 860-232-4481 1. Any business/concerns from last SCC meeting of 5-27-08 2. Any proposed short and long term goals for the CTGP by the executive committee officers? 3. Develop the agenda for the 6-24-08 SCC meeting. Template is below. Proposed agenda for the 7PM 6-24-08 SCC CTGP meeting. Site: to be determined 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 5-27-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the 6-17-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: C. Reports: 1. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 2. (10-15 minutes): CTGP literature, outreach kit. 3. (20 minutes): Vetting and selection of the twenty (20) people who will be CTGP official delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago. 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; petitioning sheets for the petitioning candidates, campaign issues. 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 6-24-08. 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. Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1476 - Release Date: 5/31/2008 12:25 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Godfrey Assistant Professor-in-Residence Department of Sociology University of Connecticut Manchester Hall 344 Mansfield Road Unit 2068 Storrs, CT 06269-2068 (860)486-4279 -----Original Message----- From: B Barry [mailto:roseberry3 at cox.net] Sent: Sun 6/15/2008 3:55 PM To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: Godfrey, Phoebe; 'Steve Fournier'; 'Mike DeRosa'; 'Christopher Reilly'; 'B Barry' Subject: proposed agenda for the 6-17-06 EC meeting at: Lena's First and Last Pizzeria, 2053 Park Street, Hartford, CT Proposed agenda for the 7PM 6-17-08 EC meeting in Hartford, CT for the Green Party of CT Location: Lena's First and Last Pizzeria, 2053 Park Street (near Prospect Street), Hartford, CT 06106-2025 P: 860-232-4481 1. Any business/concerns from last SCC meeting of 5-27-08 2. Any proposed short and long term goals for the CTGP by the executive committee officers? 3. Develop the agenda for the 6-24-08 SCC meeting. Template is below. Proposed agenda for the 7PM 6-24-08 SCC CTGP meeting. Site: to be determined 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 5-27-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the 6-17-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: C. Reports: 1. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 2. (10-15 minutes): CTGP literature, outreach kit. 3. (20 minutes): Vetting and selection of the twenty (20) people who will be CTGP official delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago. 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; petitioning sheets for the petitioning candidates, campaign issues. 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 6-24-08. 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. Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1476 - Release Date: 5/31/2008 12:25 PM From timmckee at mail.com Tue Jun 17 16:48:03 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:48:03 -0500 Subject: {news} usgp-nc] US Greens-Ballot Access Summary - June 16, 2008 Message-ID: <20080617204807.E607532675A@ws1-8.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Huckelberry" To: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-nc] Ballot Access Summary - June 16, 2008 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:38:08 -0500 This is a shortened version of the Ballot Access Report, focusing on the states which are still in play from a ballot access perspective. WE NEED HELP ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. Top priorities right now are Virginia, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania; it would be fantastic to help Virginia and Connecticut knock their drives out before the convention. Phil Huckelberry Co-Chair, GPUS Co-Chair, BAC Delegate, Illinois GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES BALLOT ACCESS SUMMARY PREPARED BY THE GPUS BALLOT ACCESS COMMITTEE JUNE 16, 2008 ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF 2008 BALLOT STATUS This summary is limited to an evaluation of securing ballot lines for President in 2008, and does not extend to holding those lines beyond 2008. As of June 16, 2008, the Green Party has ballot access in 22 states: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawai'i, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Of the remaining 29 states, 9 are either are already lost or are about to be lost: Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. The 20 remaining states range from fairly easy (New Jersey, 800 signatures) to quite difficult (Pennsylvania, almost 25,000 signatures). Many of the remaining states will require outside assistance, likely financial assistance. Based on the current Tier 1 budget without major outside help for some states, only the 12 easiest states are likely to be successful, and right now the Ballot Access Committee's Tier 1 funds are not even available because of party revenue shortfalls. Realistically, to get as high as 40 ballot lines, about $50,000 would have to be raised, and currently, the National Committee shows very little interest in securing these ballot lines. The National Committee must take greater responsibility for helping to make 2008 a successful year. The following is a short breakdown of the known status in each of the other 20 states, listed alphabetically. ALABAMA Contact(s): Matthew Hellinger Requirements: 5,000 signatures by September 8 for an independent presidential line. Current Status: There is no known activity in Alabama. ALASKA Contact(s): Jim Sykes Requirements: 7,124 registrants for a full party line, or 3,128 signatures for a party line, due August 6. Current Status: Alaska is very weak and would likely need top petitioners to be sent there. There is not a known ballot drive underway in Alaska. CONNECTICUT Contact(s): Mike DeRosa Requirements: 7,500 signatures are required for the presidential line, with an August 6 deadline. Current Status: GPCT is actively petitioning, with one full-time person on the presidential petition and people double-petitioning for congressional candidates. They have a reported 2,500 signatures as of June 16. IOWA Contact(s): Holly Hart Requirements: 1,500 signatures needed for a single statewide candidate; signatures must come from 10 different counties; deadline is August 15. Current Status: IAGP has recently begun its ballot drive, but the drive is effectively temporarily suspended due to the extreme flooding across the state. KANSAS Contact(s): Paul Krumm Requirements: 5,000 signatures for an independent candidate with an August 4 deadline. Current Status: No drive is underway. The state party is too small and weak. KENTUCKY Contact(s): None Requirements: 5,000 signatures for a presidential line with a September 2 deadline, plus a $500 fee. Current Status: There is no Green Party organized in Kentucky and no petition has been created. MINNESOTA Contact(s): None Requirements: 2,000 signatures for a single statewide office, with a September 9 deadline. Current Status: Petitioning has not begun in Minnesota; they are expected to wait for the nomination. MISSOURI Contact(s): Dee Berry Requirements: The signature requirement is 10,000 for the party line with a July 29 deadline. Current Status: There is a petition, but BAC has not been able to get the petition or any information about progress. Offers to help have come from neighboring states but have not been responded to. MONTANA Contact(s): Steve Kelly Requirements: 5,000 signatures for an independent line, with a July 30 deadline. Current Status: GPMT tried collecting for the party line, didn't come close, and so far as is known, have not created an independent presidential petition yet. NEW HAMPSHIRE Contact(s): None Requirements: 3,000 signatures for a single statewide candidate, with an August 6 deadline. Current Status: There is no state party in New Hampshire, so petitioning will likely have to be coordinated by people in Maine or Massachusetts. There has been no work on this to date. NEW JERSEY Contact(s): George DeCarlo Requirements: 800 signatures are required for a statewide candidate with a July 28 deadline. Current Status: No petitioning has begun, but they can wait until after the convention to begin. NEW YORK Contact(s): Gloria Mattera Requirements: 15,000 signatures are required to secure the presidential line in New York. The window does not open until July 8, and the deadline is August 19. Current Status: GPNYS intends to hire a coordinator and probably hit the ground running immediately after the national convention. OHIO Contact(s): Paul Dumouchelle , Anita Rios Requirements: An independent presidential line requires 5,000 signatures, with an August 21 deadline. Current Status: A petition has been created but BAC does not have it. The drive has only recently gotten started. PENNSYLVANIA Contact(s): Blyden Potts Requirements: Individual statewide candidates will need 24,666 signatures, with an August 1 deadline. Current Status: An estimated 5000 signatures have been collected as of June 16. They will need outside help. RHODE ISLAND Contact(s): Greg Gerritt Requirements: A single statewide candidate needs 1,000 signatures; window opens July 1 and deadline is September 5. Current Status: GPRI is ready to petition when the window opens. TENNESSEE Contact(s): Martin Pleasant Requirements: Confusing. State of Tennessee has given differing explanations. Current understanding is 275 signatures are required. The deadline is August 21, 2008. Current Status: No information known. The requirement is low but the situation is bizarre. UTAH Contact(s): Tom King Requirements: A single statewide candidate needs 1,000 signatures with a September 2 deadline. Current Status: Not clear if the candidate petition has been created. VERMONT Contact(s): Jim Hogue Requirements: 1,000 signatures for a single statewide candidate; deadline not available. Current Status: GPVT argues that the Secretary of State should have accepted their party filing and is still pursuing that. An independent petition is being prepared and Craig Hill is in contact with people from Connecticut and Maine about assisting. VIRGINIA Contact(s): Audrey Clement, Tom Yager Requirements: 10,000 signatures are required for individual state-level candidates, with at least 400 signatures from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts. The deadline is August 22. Current Status: GPVA has collected about 6,200 signatures as of June 16 and are doing well on the district requirement also. WASHINGTON Contact(s): wagreens at gmail.com Requirements: The state mechanism is unusual. Voters sign forms stating that they have attended "nominating conventions". This has not been a challenge in the past and is the method the party will use. There is also a candidate mechanism with 1,000 signatures required for individual state-level candidates and a July 26, 2008 deadline. Current Status: GPWA has not begun petitioning, though the weird mechanism means that the work will be done later. _______________________________________________ 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, Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. 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June 21: Protest launching of Nuclear Sub U.S.S. New Hampshire . For Hartford residents: Call City Council & ask them to support immigrant rights Take ACTION: Ask Congress to Stand by Colombia's Victims of Violence. Take ACTION: Ask Congress to Stand by Colombia's Victims of Violence. Last year you encouraged Congress to make many positive changes in U.S. policy towards Colombia and it did! It's time to make that call again. The foreign aid subcommittees in the House and Senate are set to "mark up" their respective bills in mid-July and we must urge them to stand by Colombia's victims of violence and continue to cut military aid. Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 today - or anytime in the next three weeks - to be connected to your representative or senators. When you call, ask to speak to their foreign policy aide. Here is a sample call script: "I am a constituent calling to encourage Rep./Senator ____________ to ensure that this year's foreign aid bill stands by Colombia's victims of violence. Last year, the Congress moved U.S. policy in the right direction by reducing military aid. Now, reports linking the Colombian military to assassinations of civilians have surfaced. Congress must continue to cut military aid to Colombia. The U.S. can have a positive effect in Colombia if it continues to support those most affected by the conflict. Indigenous and Afro-Colombians are some of the most affected by the humanitarian crisis and we want to encourage you to support them by sharing your concerns with the chair of the foreign operations subcommittee before the aid bill goes to mark up." Other Talking Points: Afro-Colombians make up 30% of the 4 million who have already been made homeless by the conflict. In many cases the military working in tandem with paramilitary groups have caused the displacement of entire communities. Today, you can make a difference in this situation by voting to make cuts to U.S. military aid and sharing your concerns with the chair of the foreign operations subcommittee before the aid bill goes to mark up. High-level corruption is part of a pattern of widespread human rights abuses in Colombia. Today more than 60 members of the Colombian Congress are under investigation for ties to right wing death squads. Former intelligence officer Rafael Garcia, himself imprisoned for his role in covering up the criminal histories of paramilitary leaders, testified that members of the armed forces and government ministries, too, are enmeshed with the illegal militias. Please cut military aid to Colombia and share your concerns with the chair of the foreign operation subcommittee before the bill goes to mark up. We've already achieved some changes in U.S. policy towards Colombia, but we've got to keep building on our work! Thank you for your help. www.tradeandwar.org June 21: Protest launching of Nuclear Sub U.S.S. New Hampshire Vigil in protest at launching of USS New Hampshire fast attack submarine 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Saturday, June 21, 2008 Electric Boat Shipyard Groton, CT Protest the endless war and this machine built to wage it. Meet at Fort Griswold State Park, 9:30 a.m. March to Main Gate of Electric Boat, 10 a.m. Directions to Fort Griswold from the south, I-95, exit 85, Thames Street. Go straight at bottom of exit, through two lights, then second right, Park Avenue, two blocks to Fort Griswold from the north, I-95, exit 87, Clarence Sharp Highway, follow to Meridian Street intersection, turn right, follow to Mitchell Street intersection, turn left, then second right, Park Avenue, two blocks to Fort Griswold Call 203-777-3849 or 860-724-7066 for further information or email skobasa at snet.net Nonviolence Guidelines (adapted from the Iraq Pledge of Resistance) 1. Our attitude will be one of openness and respect toward all we encounter in our actions. 2. We will use no violence, verbal or physical, toward any person. 3. We will not destroy or damage any property. We do nonetheless recognize that certain objects, such as nuclear weapons or other instruments of mass killing, cannot be considered property in any legitimate sense, and we fully support nonviolent actions of Ploughshares activists and others offered in resistance to such instruments or war. 4. We will carry no weapons. 5. We will not bring any drugs or alcohol. For Hartford residents: Call City Council & ask them to support immigrant rights We welcome immigrants into our neighborhoods and our workplaces. Generation of immigrants have made Hartford strong and we value our proud immigration heritage. Let Hartford City Council Members know we want to live in a City of Hope, not a City of Fear. We want Hartford to be safe for everyone. Ask them to act now to pass a law stating that Hartford city government will not concern itself with immigration status. Immigration laws are federal laws and not the business of our city. Please call our elected representatives today: City Council Member Phone Number All calls are in 860 area code, but Hartford residents only please call. Councilwoman Veronica Airey-Wilson 757-9575 Assistant Majority Leader James M. Boucher 757-9578 Councilperson Luis E. Cotto 757-9573 Minority Leader Larry Deutsch 757-9577 Councilperson Kenneth Kennedy, Jr. 757-9571 Councilperson Matthew D. Ritter 757-9572 Councilperson Pedro E. Segarra 757-9579 Assistant Majority Leader Calixto Torres 757-9576 Majority Leader R-Jo Winch 757-9574 And join the effort to establish rights for immigrants in Hartford: Our next meeting is Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 5:30pm @ Hartford City Council For more information on the work of the Hartford Immigrant Rights Coalition please contact any one of these member organizations. Organizations Involved: ACORN 860-232-2675 Alianca Brasileira 860-236-0788 American Friend's Service Committee 860-523-1534 Center for Callaborative Justice 860-692-3066 Connecticut Center for a New Economy 860-280-7320 Hartford Areas Rally Together 860-525-3449 Interfaith Coalition for Equity and Justice 860-548-1744 National Lawyer's Guild - CT Chapter 860-570-4638 SEIU Local 32bj 860-951-6614 UNITE HERE Local 217 860- 246-2561 Working Families Party 860-523-1699 Hartbeat Ensemble: Plays in the Park Series free! plays about people and health care family activities & live music at 4:00 pm performances begin at 5:00 pm Bring a picnic or buy food from local vendors! Visit www.hartbeatensemble.org or call 860.548.9144 for more information. 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Wed Jun 18 08:14:21 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:14:21 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-dx] GP Presidential Candidates Debate THIS SATURDAY ON WEB 8p ET Message-ID: <20080618121421.E3131BE4078@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Johnson" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] GP Presidential Candidates Debate THIS SATURDAY ON WEB 8p ET Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:59:45 -0700 (PDT) WHEN: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 8:00 PM (ET), lasting approximately 90 minutes WHERE: http://www.blogtlkradio.com/millerpolitics. ____ From: Miller Politics Subject: Re: Green Party Presidential Candidates Debate Three of the four candidates for the 2008 Green Party presidential nomination will debate this Saturday online. Cynthia McKinney, Kat Swift and Kent Mesplay will be taking part in the debate hosted by Miller Politics. The debate will air from http://www.blogtlkradio.com/millerpolitics. If you have a question can email it in advance to millerpolitics at gmail or call in or use the webchat during the debate. MORE: Saturday, June 21, 2008, starting at 8:00 PM (ET), lasting approximately 90 minutes. This will be the second Green Party presidential candidates debate that I have moderated and the 12th over all presidential debate I have moderated this campaign season, you can find the other debates by going HERE : http://www.millerpolitics.com/presidential-debates.html . The debate will air live from http://www.blogtalkradio.com/millerpolitics. > SNIP< The debate will focus on the issues and there will be no strict time limit to how long each candidate will have to respond to questions but it is asked that the candidates keep answers as short as possible to allow for the most issues to be covered. There will be no opening statements but each candidate will receive time at the end for closing comments. The phone lines will be open for call in questions as well and questions from listeners will also be able to be sent in via the BlogTalkRadio webchat or in advanced by emailing questions to millerpolitics at gmail.com. > SNIP< ** Sincerely, Ben Miller Host, Miller Politics Radio _______________________________________________ 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 Wed Jun 18 20:59:35 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:59:35 -0400 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 6-24-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center, Portland, CT Message-ID: <20080619005932.ARK26883.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Proposed agenda for the 7PM 6-24-08 SCC CTGP meeting. Site: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 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 5-27-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the 6-17-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: C. Reports: 1. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 2. (10-15 minutes): CTGP literature, outreach kit. 3. (20-30minutes): Vetting and selection of the twenty (20) people who will be CTGP official delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago. 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; petitioning sheets for the petitioning candidates, campaign issues. 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 6-24-08. 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: 270.4.0/1506 - Release Date: 6/17/2008 4:30 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Fri Jun 20 06:40:06 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:40:06 -0400 Subject: {news} Feature: Amsterdam, Connecticut? Drug Reformer With Bold Vision Seeks State Office, Radical Change Message-ID: Feature: Amsterdam, Connecticut? Drug Reformer With Bold Vision Seeks State Office, Radical Change Like the rest of inner city America, Bridgeport, Connecticut's 130th District has for decades been ground zero in the war on drugs. Mostly black and Latino, like other majority minority neighborhoods across the land, it has suffered the twin ravages of drug abuse and drug prohibition. Now, a former drug-fighting Navy officer turned drug reformer is seeking to change all that with a bold vision and an upstart bid for the state House of Representatives. Sylvester Salcedo (2nd from right)In late May, Bridgeport attorney Sylvester Salcedo announced he was seeking the Democratic Party nomination for November's House race in the 130th. Salcedo is best known in drug reform circles for being the first and only former military officer to protest the drug war by sending back his Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medal to then President Bill Clinton. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/540/sylvester_salcedo_bridgeport_amsterdam "Narcotics use and abuse is our problem here at home," he wrote at the time in a letter sent to Clinton. "The solutions should be applied here and not in Colombia or elsewhere. To spend this additional amount of money overseas is wasteful and counterproductive." Fast forward eight years and little has changed. The war on drugs continues apace, drug arrests and drug war prisoners reach new highs every year. The violence associated with drug prohibition continues to plague cities like Bridgeport. And Salcedo has had enough. "The war on drugs is one of our nation's longest wars, at home and abroad," he said as he announced his candidacy May 29. "It is senseless, wasteful and counterproductive. It is highly discriminatory on a racial and economic basis. I said so on the steps of the US Congress in Washington, DC flanked and supported by Minnesota Republican Congressman Jim Ramstad and California Republican Congressman Tom Campbell in the summer of 2000," he said. "Eight years later, the conditions are the same, if not worse, especially for the isolated and abandoned residents of ethnic minority enclaves and neighborhoods like the 130th District," Salcedo continued. "I want to win this State Representative seat to be a leader of change. I want to lead the way to peace, understanding and cooperation, not through the politics of fear, and racial and ethnic discord and conflict. This senseless war on the poor and the voiceless must end." Salcedo is not one for half-measures. He is proposing turning the 130th District into a sort of mini-Amsterdam, a zone of drug tolerance replete with safe injection sites, opiate maintenance facilities, and taxed and regulated marijuana sales. "I'm floating around this idea of the Covenant of the 130th District, which is to declare the district as a zone of tolerance," he said. "I want to borrow from models like Amsterdam or Frankfort," he elaborated. "I'm not pushing legalization legislation, but acknowledging the fact that the 130th is a high drug trafficking and consumption area, from marijuana to heroin to cocaine. I want to try those approaches here. If you live in the district and are a heroin addict, we would work with you, whether it's a treatment and rehabilitation regime or a maintenance regime. If you select maintenance, you get the level of pharmaceutical grade heroin you need. In either case, you get medical, psychological, and social services, an intake exam, a social worker and a drug counselor to work with you. But this won't be a coercive or punitive program; instead it will be designed to develop the relationship with the addict." Citing Bridgeport's chronically under-funded schools, libraries, and other services, Salcedo also called for regulated marijuana sales as a revenue raiser. "I want to open up a number of marijuana coffee shops in this district," he said. "They could be city sponsored, or they could be a joint private-public project. If people want to come here and imbibe, we will welcome them, let them pay the market price, and tax their purchases. The profits can go to the city general fund, or, if it's a joint venture, a share to the entrepreneurs," he said. "We will follow the experience of Amsterdam, with the police working collaboratively, so they're not arresting people coming from the coffee shops." Salcedo's will undoubtedly be an uphill battle against the entrenched Bridgeport Democratic Party political establishment and to convince skeptical voters that more of the drug war same old same old is not the solution. But he has already passed the first hurdle by getting 290 district residents to sign his nominating petitions. Now he has to raise $5,000 by August to show he is a viable candidate and qualify for another $20,000 in primary funding from the state of Connecticut. At least 150 Bridgeport residents must donate to his campaign for him to qualify. (That doesn't mean people from outside Bridgeport or Connecticut cannot donate -- they can.) He can do it, Salcedo said. "The primaries are eight weeks away, and nobody expected me to even get the required signatures, but I did. And I met every person who signed my nomination papers. I think I can meet this challenge, too." He's going to need some help, from the drug reform community at large and from Connecticut activists in particular if he is to have a chance. One prominent Connecticut drug reformer, Efficacy founder and 2006 Green Party gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton is among the first to step up. "I'll definitely be going down there and doing a few things for Sylvester," said Thornton. "I have to help the reformer." One thing he will advise Salcedo to do is put his drug reform message in the background. "We'll try to sharpen his message," Thornton said. "He doesn't have to lead with drug policy. He's already known as the drug reformer, and he won't have to talk about it because people are going to ask him about it. Another thing Salcedo can do is try to tie drug reform into other issues facing the community, Thornton said. "We're spending somewhere between $600 million and $800 million on prisons in Connecticut every year," he said. "If we took that and put it toward health care, we could take care of everyone in the state. That's the kind of connection we need to be drawing." It would be a good thing if national drug reform organizations provided more than token support, Thornton said, looking back at his 2006 campaign. "When it came to actually supporting that run, everybody disappeared," he said. "The flagship organizations sent a few bucks here and there, but not enough to make a difference. And that's a shame. We are starting to elect good drug reform politicians, like Roger Goodman in Washington state and Chris Murphy here in Connecticut. Their opponents attack them as soft on drug policy, and they go up in the polls. We can elect people, if we support them," Thornton said. Salcedo could use the help, he said. "Right now this is basically a one-man campaign, and I have a full-time job." Still, he said, he may be able to pull off a surprise victory. "This is going to be a low turnout election, no other issues on the ballot here, and the only reason people are likely to go to the ballot box is to vote for me for change or because they're tied to one of the establishment candidates," he said. "In this district in this election, maybe 200 or 300 votes can win it. I'll be beating the bushes and talking face to face with people. I'll do everything I can, and then it's up to the voters. (This blog post was published by StoptheDrugWar.org's lobbying arm, the Drug Reform Coordination Network, which also shares the cost of maintaining this web site. DRCNet Foundation takes no positions on candidates for public office, in compliance with section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and does not pay for reporting that could be interpreted or misinterpreted as doing so.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The litany of documented High Crimes and constitutional abuses by the Bush administration took over five hours to recite. I wish to take this opportunity to thank and commend Rep. Kucinich for his courage and tenacity, for the comprehensiveness of his research, and for the leadership he exhibited to press forward the democratic demands of the People for accountability and justice. Under House Rule 9, which Rep. Kucinich invoked in introducing H.Res. 1258 -- "a question of the privileges of the House" -- the full House of Representatives was compelled within 48 hours to bring the matter to a vote. Consequently, two days later, on Wednesday, June 11th, our Congressional Representatives voted overwhelmingly (by a 251-166 margin) to refer the matter to the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Congressman John Conyers. Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment effectively lay out the case against a lawless, degenerate regime that places corporate power and profits above the good and welfare of the U.S. Citizenry. In great detail they show that Bush & Co.: * manufactured a fraudulent case for the Iraq war, lying to Congress and the American People; * invaded Iraq illegally for the purpose of occupying a sovereign nation indefinitely and expropriating its public oil reserves and other natural resources for their billionaire cronies of corporate America; * negligently failed to provide protective gear to our troops; * outsourced the functions of the U.S. military and created a no-bid, private-contractor mercenary force which killed Iraqis with impunity and looted the treasuries of both the Iraqi and U.S. governments; * tore up the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other binding international treaties to which the U.S. is signatory; * retaliated against government whistleblowers attempting to shine a light on corruption, malfeasance and unconstitutional abuse of power; * began illegal detentions without trial or access to counsel of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals alike; * countenanced kidnapping and torture; * created secret laws; * unconstitutionally spied on American citizens without a court order; and the list goes on and on. Each fact exhibited in Rep. Kucinich's 35 Articles of Impeachment is true beyond dispute, and each by itself is sufficient to demonstrate the need to remove this criminal President and his gang of thugs from the Executive Branch -- not least of all because most if not all of the crimes are still ongoing. But, as a Black woman from the South familiar with the struggle against discrimination and racism, I am moved most profoundly, in particular, by three of the Articles of Impeachment that I think serve to point out the real sickness of this regime -- the fact that for Blacks, for Latinos, for Native Americans, for all peoples of color, and for much of the white working class, democracy has never really existed in the United States, and that today the limited gains in the direction of "a more perfect Union" that were won in struggle two generations ago are now being reversed through the deliberate, illegal policies of the gang that has taken over the government. I'm referring to: * Article 28 -- Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice; * Article 29 -- Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and * Article 31 -- Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency. Therefore, I am hereby putting out an urgent call to all the progressive forces throughout this country -- including first and foremost the democratic forces of the Black community, together with my supporters in the Green Party, organizers of the Reconstruction Party, and most especially Katrina survivors -- to mobilize specifically around these three Articles. During the 2008 presidential campaign, one thing we have learned through Barack Obama's success in capturing the Democratic Party nomination -- when everyone knows Hillary Clinton had been anointed by the Democratic Party apparatus -- is that the People, when they mobilize at the grassroots, can "flip the script" on the Power Structure. This past Monday, backed up by the sustained pressure of a persistent mass movement for impeachment, Dennis Kucinich succeeded in "flipping the script" on the House Democratic leadership, and now the Articles of Impeachment are before the Judiciary Committee -- precisely the result that the impeachment movement has been fighting for over the last five years! Today we find that the ball is back in our court. It's up to the People now to "flip the script" once again. A massive grassroots movement of the People must coalesce very quickly, which can move Chairman Conyers and the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on H.Res. 1258. I call upon all the forces of the Black movement nationwide -- whether they currently support my presidential bid or the candidacy of Senator Obama, along with all my Green and Reconstructionist supporters, Katrina survivors and their supporters, the election protection movement, and all progressive forces -- to organize a mass mobilization to push the House Judiciary Committee to move on the 35 Articles of Impeachment, with an explicit emphasis on the Black demands for fairness, equality and justice as laid out in Articles 28, 29 and 31. I propose that all these social movements immediately combine in their local Congressional districts to organize street demonstrations, send delegations to their Congress members, and take any and all other steps necessary, including the formation of ad-hoc action committees, to publicize Articles 28, 29 and 31 and convince their representatives to co- sponsor H.Res. 1258. Time is of the essence, brothers and sisters; it's necessary that we all swing into motion now. Such efforts must especially focus on our Black members of Congress. Most important, activists in districts represented by the Black members of the House Judiciary Committee must most energetically target their representatives: Chairman John Conyers of Detroit; Bobby Scott of Richmond, Virginia; Mel Watt of Western North Carolina; Sheila Jackson-Lee of Houston; Maxine Waters of Los Angeles; my own distinguished successor in office, Hank Johnson of Atlanta; Luis Guti??rrez of Chicago; Artur Davis of Black-Belt Alabama; and Keith Ellison of Minneapolis-St. Paul. In the coming days and weeks, I will be announcing some concrete steps I intend to take to assist in the development of the mass movement it will take to ensure that accountability and justice are imposed upon the lawless Bush gang. Immediately, I am instructing my campaign staff to assist by setting up internet resources through my campaign website, RunCynthiaRun.org, that will be useful to local activists in conducting their organizing. We have seen in this very election cycle how the mobilized masses, with Black America as their indispensable animating force, can "flip the script" on the Powers That Be. The time is now for us to do it again. Keep the faith, my beautiful, powerful People! To read more of Cynthia McKinney??Ts writings, please visit www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com. _____________________________________________ Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. 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Companies buy or sell permits > based on whether they overshoot or come in beneath their pollution > targets. > > Although the system also underpins Europe's claim to be leading global > environmental policy, EU officials acknowledge that establishing such a > vast market has been more complicated than they anticipated, and that its > effectiveness so far has been limited. > > "Of course it was ambitious to set up a market for something you can't see > and to expect to see immediate changes in behavior," said Jacqueline > McGlade, the executive director of the European Environment Agency. "It's > easy, with hindsight, to say we could have been tougher," she said. > > A major stumbling block arose at the outset, when some EU governments > participating in the effort allocated too many trading permits to > polluters when the market was created. That led to a near-market meltdown > after the value of the permits fell by half, and called into question the > validity of the entire system. > > Since then, EU officials have promised tough reforms to fight against > special interests, and the price of carbon permits has largely recovered. > > Yet a ferocious lobbying battle is under way as EU regulators seek to > overhaul the dysfunctional parts of the market by charging polluting > companies more and reducing the oversupply of pollution permits traded > within the system. > > Brussels is also seeking to consolidate its oversight of the market, > rather than leave it partly in the hands of EU governments that, in some > cases, enabled companies to profit from the system by allocating them more > pollution permits than they needed. > > "The politics you're now seeing in Europe now are the real politics of > carbon," said David Victor, the director of the Program on Energy and > Sustainable Development at Stanford University. "The central lesson from > Europe is that governments must find ways of managing the allowances that > clearly are going to be one of the most valuable pieces of public property > in the 21st century," he said. > > Energy-intensive industries like power, steel and aluminum have geared up > their lobbying machines to challenge proposals that would force them to > buy many more permits than in the past. During the three years in which > they participated in the first phase of the new market, carbon emissions > from the iron and steel sector in Britain alone rose more than 10 percent > while emissions in the cement industry rose more than 50 percent, > according to transcript from the British Parliament. > > The electricity industry in particular is rejecting proposals that would > force it to buy all of its allowances. That could prevent utilities like > E.ON and RWE in Germany and Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, from > continuing to earn extra money from the system. > > Meanwhile, major multinationals like the Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal > Dutch Shell and the steel giant ArcelorMittal have threatened to freeze > some investments in Europe unless the plan is reviewed. Airlines like the > German carrier Lufthansa say the regulations are unworkable without a > global deal on greenhouse gas regulations. > > And poorer countries in the EU, led by Hungary, are clamoring to overturn > emissions allowances that they say are too stingy and risk undermining > their economic growth. > > The proposals also are under attack from environmentalists, who want to > restrict polluters from using large numbers of permits from an offsetting > program, the Clean Development Mechanism. > > They are concerned that offsets might undermine tight caps and delay > efforts to shift Europe to a low-carbon economy because European > industries would be rely too heavily on other parts of the world to make > reductions. > > "The sheer amount of lobbying creates so much uncertainty about the way > these markets operate that nobody really is investing in cleaner > technologies in Europe," said Robinson of Open Europe. > > Carbon markets, also known as cap and trade systems, have come into vogue > because they are more politically palatable than imposing new carbon > taxes. > > Americans pioneered pollution markets in the 1970s and used them on a > broader scale with some success during the 1990s to control emissions from > power plants that produced acid rain. American officials also pushed hard > for emissions trading to be included in the Kyoto climate protocol on the > grounds that markets are the most effective way of encouraging innovative > emission-reducing technologies. > > But the momentum in the United States to create a nationwide carbon market > ground to a halt in 2001, when President George W. Bush withdrew support > for the Kyoto protocol. Bush said carbon-controls would put an undue > burden on the U.S. economy unless fast-growing countries like China and > India also made commitments to cut emissions. > > Now the tide is turning again in favor of carbon markets in the United > States. Although the Senate earlier this month blocked a bill that would > have imposed a cap and trade system to slash greenhouse gases by 2050, > both candidates for the presidency have pledged support for market-based > systems like the one in Europe. > > Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has said he supports the use of > a market to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by > 2050. His proposal would require pollution credits to be auctioned rather > than given away to big industries, including coal and oil companies. > > McCain favors giving permits away to big polluters before moving to an > "eventual" auctioning of permits to reduce emission levels 60 percent > below 1990 levels by 2050. > > Victor, the Stanford director, said Americans were likely to undergo many > of the same challenges already experienced in Europe. > > "Government largess on a vast scale was actually one of the main reasons > that the European system actually got off the ground," said Victor. "The > challenge for the United States now will be to have enough pork to get > people to the meal, but not to give away so much that we end up > squandering public resources," said Victor. > > A question that hangs over the European system - and that is likely to be > of major concern to U.S. policy makers - is whether the rules still can be > tightened up sufficiently so that industries eventually emit less and > adopt cleaner technologies. > > For Heinz Zourek, the director general for Enterprise and Industry at the > European Commission, polluters of all sizes, not just energy-intensive > industries, should be seen to be participating in efforts to lower carbon, > and to reduce pleading by special interests. > > "As long as you treat them badly," said Zourek, referring to different > sectors of the economy, "it's better to treat them equally badly." > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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: 270.4.0/1509 - Release Date: 6/19/2008 > 8:00 AM > From efficacy at msn.com Sun Jun 22 14:36:32 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:36:32 -0400 Subject: {news} 3 in 10 Americans admit to racial bias Message-ID: We have seen what this bias has done to the drug war and the criminal justice (JUST ICE) system. Please take note of the age group at the bottom. Most if not all are over thirty. By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta updated 2:44 a.m. ET, Sun., June. 22, 2008 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25310337 As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Lingering racial bias affects the public's assessments of the Democrat from Illinois, but offsetting advantages and Sen. John McCain's age could be bigger factors in determining the next occupant of the White House. Overall, 51 percent call the current state of race relations "excellent" or "good," about the same as said so five years ago. That is a relative thaw from more negative ratings in the 1990s, but the gap between whites and blacks on the issue is now the widest it has been in polls dating to early 1992. More than six in 10 African Americans now rate race relations as "not so good" or "poor," while 53 percent of whites hold more positive views. Opinions are also divided along racial lines, though less so, on whether blacks face discrimination. There is more similarity on feelings of personal racial prejudice: Thirty percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks admit such sentiments. At the same time, there is an overwhelming public openness to the idea of electing an African American to the presidency. In a Post-ABC News poll last month, nearly nine in 10 whites said they would be comfortable with a black president. While fewer whites, about two-thirds, said they would be "entirely comfortable" with it, that was more than double the percentage of all adults who said they would be so at ease with someone entering office for the first time at age 72, which McCain (R-Ariz.) would do should he prevail in November. Obama 'risky'? Even so, just over half of whites in the new poll called Obama a "risky" choice for the White House, while two-thirds said McCain is a "safe" pick. Forty-three percent of whites said Obama has sufficient experience to serve effectively as president, and about two in 10 worry he would overrepresent the interests of African Americans. Obama will be forced to confront these views as he seeks to broaden his appeal. He leads in the Post-ABC poll by six percentage points among all adults, but among those who are most likely to vote, the contest is a tossup, with McCain at 48 percent and Obama at 47 percent. His campaign advisers hope race may prove a benefit, that heightened enthusiasm among African Americans will make Obama competitive in GOP-leaning states with large black populations. But to win in November, Obama most likely will have to close what is now a 12-point deficit among whites. (Whites made up 77 percent of all voters in 2004; blacks were 11 percent, according to network exit polls.) This is hardly the first time a Democratic candidate has faced such a challenge -- Al Gore lost white voters by 12 points in 2000, and John F. Kerry lost them by 17 points in 2004 -- but it is a significantly larger shortfall than Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton encountered in their winning campaigns. Many think Obama has the potential to transform current racial politics. Nearly six in 10 believe his candidacy will shake up the racial status quo, for better or worse. And by nearly 3 to 1, those who think Obama's candidacy will affect race relations said it will have a positive impact. (Four in 10 said it probably will not make much of a difference.) African Americans are much more optimistic than whites on this score: Sixty percent said Obama's candidacy will do more to help race relations, compared with 38 percent of whites. Two-thirds of those supporting him for president think it will improve the situation. But sorting out the impact of these and other racial attitudes on the presidential election is not straightforward. About a fifth of whites said a candidate's race is important in determining their vote, but Obama does no worse among those who said so than among those who called it a small factor or no factor. Nor are whites who said they have at least some feelings of racial prejudice more or less apt to support Obama than those who profess no such feelings. 'Racial sensitivity index' Putting several measures together into a "racial sensitivity index" reveals that these attitudes have a significant impact on vote preferences, independent of partisan identification. Combining answers to questions about racist feelings, perceptions of discrimination and whether the respondent has a close personal friend of another race into a three-part scale shows the importance of underlying racial attitudes. Whites in the top sensitivity group broke for Obama by nearly 20 percentage points, while those in the lowest of the three categories went for McCain by almost 2 to 1. A similar pattern holds among Democrats. Obama scores more than 20 points better among nonblack Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents in the "high" group than he does among those in the "low" group. Obama has some convincing to do among the 29 percent of whites who fall into the scale's lowest category. (Twenty-one percent were in the top grouping, 50 percent in the middle.) Almost six in 10 whites in the low-sensitivity group see him as a risky choice, and a similar percentage said they know little or nothing about where he stands on specific issues. Nearly half do not think his candidacy will alter race relations in the country; 20 percent think it will probably make race relations worse. But McCain's challenges are also an important part of the equation. Numerous polls, for example, have indicated that McCain's age may be a bigger detractor than Obama's race. And more are now concerned that McCain will heed too closely the interests of large corporations than said so about Obama and the interests of blacks. The poll was conducted by telephone June 12 through June 15 among a national random sample of 1,125 adults. The results from the full poll have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. The error margin is larger for subgroups; it is four points among whites and seven points among African Americans. 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Cindy Sheehan's campaign for Congress released this today: For Immediate Release June 22, 2008 CYNTHIA McKINNEY JOINS CINDY FOR CONGRESS! -- (San Francisco) Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Joins Cindy for Congress as Honorary Co-Chair as No-Strings Occupation and War Funding, Telecom Immunity Bills Are Ushered Through Democrat-controlled Congress McKinney: "The point was to change Washington, DC, but instead Washington, DC changed Nancy Pelosi" As a sign of tightening opposition to the string of hope-reversing policies being put forward by Speaker Pelosi, Green Party Presidential and pro-peace candidate Cynthia McKinney agreed to serve as an Honorary Co-Chair of Cindy Sheehan's campaign to oust Nancy Pelosi from Congress. "Nancy Pelosi needs to phone home, because it's clear that she's forgotten the values of the people of California who sent her to Congress. The point was to change Washington, DC, but instead Washington, DC changed Nancy Pelosi," commented McKinney, a former colleague of Pelosi. McKinney first declared her independence from the national leadership that voted its complicity in war crimes, torture, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the peace at an anti-war demonstration in front of the Pentagon in March of 2007. At that time, McKinney lamented that the Democratic majority in Congress had failed to repeal the Patriot Acts and the Bush tax cuts, introduce and pass legislation for a livable wage and investigate the Pentagon's admitted "loss" of $2.3 trillion. McKinney bolted the Democratic Party afterwards, declaring her candidacy for the Green Party's nomination in December 2007. Today, McKinney adds to that list Democratic leadership's failure to pass legislation providing for a single payer health care system in our country and its inaction on the foreclosure crisis gripping homeowners. McKinney first publicly endorsed Cindy's Congressional campaign last year in Kennebunkport, Maine near the home of George Herbert Walker Bush. According to McKinney, "Cindy's campaign is increasingly important today as the only way left to put peace, impeachment, and our values back on the table." McKinney added, "Cindy continues to show us the power of one, the power that is within every one of us. Moreover, Cindy Sheehan can win." "Having Cynthia on board is a significant gain for my campaign. She has experience in tough campaigns and brings a wealth of knowledge. I am running to win, we have already raised close to $200,000 and everyday we get more and more support as people get more fed up with Pelosi's mis-leadership," says Sheehan. Since the Democrats assumed control of Congress, according to some reports, an additional 1,200 U.S. troops have died and nearly 10,000 more have been wounded, with tens of thousands more Iraqi civilians killed. Hundreds of billions of additional dollars have been appropriated for war and occupation under Pelosi's watch and she took impeachment "off the table." Both Cindy and Cynthia are members of the New Broom Coalition, founded by Dr. Carol Wolman, the California Green Party's First Congressional District candidate, a Coalition that seeks to empower the people by putting a clean sweep to Congress. Currently, McKinney is preparing to head to Chicago for the Green Party Convention July 10 - July 13. Sheehan is anchored in San Francisco campaigning for the first hurdle of collecting 10,198 signatures needed to get on the ballot in November as a "Decline to State / Independent" candidate. More information is available at http://www.CindyForCongress.org or http://www.RunCynthiaRun.org _________________________________________________________________ The i?m Talkathon starts 6/24/08. For now, give amongst yourselves. http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_LearnMore_GiveAmongst _______________________________________________ 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. If you can't figure out how to unsubscribe, as a last resort only, send a message OFF LIST to steveh at olypen.com 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 National Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ Tim McKee, Manchester CT, Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. 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Daley, Rod Blagojevich, The Boss, Todd Stroger, Off The Bus News http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-escobar/democrats-beware-the-gree_b_108203.html CHICAGO -- Like a mythical beast haunting the imagination, in recent years the Illinois Green Party has re-emerged on election day to the consternation of local Democratic party officials. Though as is often the case in Illinois, the Democratic challenger, (who now happens to be the city's homestate senator Barack Obama), would most certainly make quick work of winning the state come November. Nevertheless, bothersome chatter from the far left is noise the Dems probably wish to drown out if they can leading to the general election, when the party aims to draw in moderates and independents and so-called Reagan Democrats. The Green Party national convention, scheduled to open here in a little more than two weeks, will certainly produce exactly that kind of needling chatter. Although the story is outin the blogosphere that Obama may have centrist underpinnings, to anti-war and left wing voters this reads like a headline from "Life"magazine: old news. In addition, many locals on the left remain cautiously skeptical about the senator's ties to Democrat officials such as six-term Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Daley is said to wield enormous influence over the city and its future. Many left voters are understandably wary and seem concerned over how much power and influence Daley would gain with Obama in residence on Pennsylvania Avenue. Richard M. Daley was elected mayor of the city in 1989 and is the son of Richard J. Daley, the the notoriously powerful Democratic Party deal maker columnist Mike Royko described in his book "Boss". The Daleys make other family political dynasties seem subtle by comparison. In Chicago, the idea that one could virtually christen one's own offspring with political positions is nothing new or surprising. Further examples include Todd Stroger, current Cook County Board President, who stepped in to fill the position his father vacated after he suffered a stroke, only days before the primary election held. In addition, the state's current Governor, Rod Blagojevich, is the son-in-law of a man many describe as the most powerful alderman in Chicago, Richard Mell of the 35th ward. When I grew up on the city's northside, Mell's name was a fixture on campaign yard signs in my family's 35th ward neighborhood as far back as I can remember. The message of the signs was evident. Imposing at nearly 4 feet high and almost as wide with bold yellow letters on dark blue spelling out the single word: MELL. Party affiliation and office were understood. In a few short weeks, the Green Party's 2008 nominating convention will be be held in downtown Chicago at the Palmer House Hilton -- though you'll find little about the event from local media until at best the convention commencement on July 10th. Granted, many people still snicker at the idea of a Green Party exerting any real influence in the United States, but the environmental ideals of the party's platform are gaining currency as the eco movement becomes increasingly mainstream. Since Gore's loss in 2000, the Green Party has also worked hard to put the Ralph Nader spoiler myth to rest, focusing instead on building the party through state races. The Green Party has made a few inroads in Illinois' well-oiled Democratic machine locally. As of 2006, when downstate lawyer Rich Whitney took 10 percent of the primary vote in his bid for governor, the Green Party earned established party status in the state and now enjoys the same ballot access as the Republican and Democratic parties do. Despite reports of suspect voting "irregularities" during the Feb. 5th 2008 primary in which Green Party ballots were either non-existent or altered in several area polling places, their candidate numbers are growing. Now, if some Illinoisans know little about the Green Party, it's also no secret that there are many who know little about Obama as a politician. After all, he has not been our state senator for all that long and local papers rarely cover routine Senate votes avoiding the nitty gritty of issues such as war funding and surveillance measures. In his defense, Obama has said a few things activists and environmentalists, who lobbied hard against Chicago transit cuts, want to hear. But when the senator continues to vote to fund the war under the pretense that he is for the troops, but not the war, anti-war voters and many of these same activists scoff. In the past month, state ballot challenges facing the Illinois Green Party have been attributed to the state Democratic party. This month four candidates from the Green Party have been removed from the Illinois general election ballot. The Green Party has called foul placing the blame squarely on Democratic election officials. In the weeks leading up to the Green convention, one thing is certain: Illinois Green Party activists and supporters will turn up the heat on local, state and national Democratic leaders, perhaps drawing in wider circles of the left in the process. Obama and city Democratic party bosses may work to contain that influence, hoping their problems just blow away, as political troubles so often do in the Windy City. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Of course medical marijuana should be legal. For adults, everything should be legal. I'm amazed that the health police are so smug in their opposition. After years of reporting on the drug war, I'm convinced that this "war" does more harm than any drug. Independent of that harm, adults ought to own our own bodies, so it's not intellectually honest to argue that "only marijuana" should be legal - and only for certain sick people approved by the state. Every drug should be legal. "How could you say such a ridiculous thing?" asked my assistant. "Heroin and cocaine have a permanent effect. If you do crack just once, you are automatically hooked. Legal hard drugs would create many more addicts. And that leads to more violence, homelessness, out-of-wedlock births, etc!" Her diatribe is a good summary of the drug warriors' arguments. Most Americans probably agree with what she said. But what most Americans believe is wrong (http://tinyurl.com/5fo2eo). Myth No. 1: Heroin and cocaine have a permanent effect. Truth: There is no evidence of that. In the 1980s, the press reported that "crack babies" were "permanently damaged." Rolling Stone, citing one study of just 23 babies, claimed that crack babies "were oblivious to affection, automatons." It simply wasn't true (http://tinyurl.com/r922k). There is no proof that crack babies do worse than anyone else in later life (http://tinyurl.com/5zvow6). Myth No. 2: If you do crack once, you are hooked. Truth: Look at the numbers - 15 percent of young adults have tried crack, but only 2 percent used it in the last month (http://tinyurl.com/68d5yj). If crack is so addictive, why do most people who've tried it no longer use it? People once said heroin was nearly impossible to quit, but during the Vietnam War, thousands of soldiers became addicted, and when they returned home, 85 percent quit within one year (http://tinyurl.com/6ojfpr). People have free will. Most who use drugs eventually wise up and stop. And most people who use drugs habitually live perfectly responsible lives, as Jacob Sullum pointed out in "Saying Yes" (http://tinyurl.com/689rw2). Myth No. 3: Drugs cause crime. Truth: The drug war causes the crime. Few drug users hurt or rob people because they are high. Most of the crime occurs because the drugs are illegal and available only through a black market. Drug sellers arm themselves and form gangs because they cannot ask the police to protect their persons and property. In turn, some buyers steal to pay the high black-market prices. The government says heroin, cocaine and nicotine are similarly addictive (http://tinyurl.com/5f7z25), and about half the people who both smoke cigarettes and use cocaine say smoking is at least as strong an urge (http://tinyurl.com/5kl8n7). But no one robs convenience stores for Marlboros. Alcohol prohibition created Al Capone and the Mafia. Drug prohibition is worse. It's corrupting whole countries (http://tinyurl.com/y63lot) and financing terrorism (http://tinyurl.com/4kjyzm). The Post wrote, "Stossel admitted his own 22-year-old daughter doesn't think [legalization] is a good idea." But that's not what she said. My daughter argued that legal cocaine would probably lead to more cocaine use. And therefore probably abuse. I'm not so sure. Banning drugs certainly hasn't kept young people from getting them. We can't even keep these drugs out of prisons. How do we expect to keep them out of America? But let's assume my daughter is right, that legalization would lead to more experimentation and more addiction. I still say: Legal is better. While drugs harm many, the drug war's black market harms more. And most importantly, in a free country, adults should have the right to harm themselves. John Stossel is co-anchor of ABC News' "20/20" and the author of "Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity," which is now out in paperback. 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Tim McKee at 860-778-1304 We need to get credentials for all Green s going as soon as possible ************************************************************************************************************************* Tim McKee, Manchester CT,Main number Cell-860-778-1304 Home-860-643-2282 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee at mail.com Tue Jun 24 22:43:44 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:43:44 -0500 Subject: {news} NEWS ADVISORY: Greens formally endorse Cindy Sheehan over Rep. Pelosi in SF Message-ID: <20080625024344.2076C478088@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Green Party-CT" To: timmckee at mail.com Subject: Fwd: [media-states] NEWS ADVISORY: Greens formally endorse Cindy Sheehan over Rep. Pelosi in SF Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:42:15 -0700 (PDT) greenparty-press at comcast.net wrote: From: greenparty-press at comcast.net To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [media-states] NEWS ADVISORY: Greens formally endorse Cindy Sheehan over Rep. Pelosi in SF Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:06:15 -0700 News Advisory THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA www.cagreens.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Contact: Erika McDonald, SF spokesperson, 415.337-1499 emcdonald at cagreens.org Susan King, GPCA spokesperson, 415.823-5524 sking at cagreens.org Cres Vellucci, GPCA press secretary, 916.996-9170 cvellucci at cagreens.org San Francisco Green Party endorses Cindy Sheehan run against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; Greens will be strong ally in longshot bid SAN FRANCISCO (June 24, 2008) ? The San Francisco Green Party ? a powerful force in progressive San Francisco politics ? has endorsed the independent run by peace activist Cindy Sheehan against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D) in November. The SFGP decision means Sheehan ? who lost her son Casey in the war in Iraq ? will have a strong ally in her bid to upset Pelosi in the 8th Congressional District. Greens hold several key San Francisco elected positions, including SF Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, and Mark Sanchez, president of the SF Board of Education, who is running for a supervisor slot. "We are glad she is taking on Speaker Pelosi, who has been a huge disappointment even to her Democratic Party base," said Erika McDonald, spokesperson for the SFGP. "We admire Sheehan's bravery in standing up to the corrupt two-party system. She has suffered immeasurable loss because of the unwillingness of our government to stand up for justice," added McDonald. The Greens, who are not putting up a candidate of their own in the race, hope to provide some needed muscle for Sheehan, who must collect about 10,000 signatures by Aug. 8 to have her name put on the ballot. As of this past week, she had about 3,500 signatures. The goals of the Green Party and Sheehan are similar ? protect U.S. troops in Iraq by ending the war now, a position rejected by Pelosi and other Democrats in Congress who say they are opposed to the war, but continue to fund billions for it. Greens, like Sheehan, have endorsed the impeachment of Pres. George Bush, vice-president Dick Cheney and other Bush Administration officials. Sheehan also comes from working class roots, which compares favorably to the Green Party's strong social justice platform. -30- _______________________________________________ media-states mailing list media-states at lists.gp-us.org http://lists.gp-us.org/mailman/listinfo/media-states ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This email is for press and media notices for the CT Greens Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! 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DID NW VOTE THEM AS REPS NW DOES NOT EXIST, HAS jUSTINE REPORTED at all TO US ABOUT THE NEW VERY DAMAGING pLATFORM ADMISSION SHE CO WROTE ACCORDING TO USGP PLATFORM RULES OUR STEERING COMM I AM USG[;ATCOMM AND IC AND HAVE CONSULTED SECS OF BOTH ABOUT THESE FACTS.SHOULD HAVE VOTED IT UP.CTGP PLATFORM COMM NEVER SAW ANY OF IT. ONCE AGAIN OTHER THAN MCCABE THERE ARE NO WOMAN GOING AS CONVENTION REPS. I CAN NOT AFFORD TO GO BUT WOULD LIKE PROXY[ WE HAVE 20 SLOTS] TO CONSULT TO CARRY MY VOTE.Once agin abbility to pay seems to determine who/what attends AND OPINION. AMY I TRIED TO MAKE MEETING TONIGHT TO REPORT ON PLATFORM BUT PHEOBES CAR BROKE DOWN . pHEOBE IS NOT GOING TO CONVENTION. PLEASE ALL CONVENTION REPS READ 2004 OLD PLATFORM LANGUAGE ON MIDEAST{ ALSO CO WRITTEN BY MCCABE AND SUBMITTED WITH OUT C5GP KNOWLEDGE] READ PURPOSED NEW MIDEAST LANGUAGE ABOUT BANNING ALL ISRAELI GOODS AND " APARTIED WALL" NONE OF THIS LANGUAGE IS PEACEFUL OR UNBIASED.THATS WHAT HAS PUT USGP/CTGP AND CTGP ON ADL "WATCH LIST"ONCE AGAIN TIM THIS IS NOT "PERSONAL" AMY From: timmckee at mail.comTo: efficacy at msn.com; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; phoebe.godfrey at uconn.eduDate: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:58:40 -0500CC: Subject: {news} Who is going to Chicago Presidentail Convetnion from CT? Dear Greens Last night (Tuesday) the state aproved the following people as delegates to the Presidential Convention in Chicago. Are there others who can go? We have 20 delegates . so far we approved: Tim McKee Mike deRosa New Haven Adlerman Allen Brison Steve Fournier Richard Duffee Vic Lanica Cliff Thornton Charlie Pillsbury and possible people: Scott Desfhey Justine McCabe John Bapsitisa can everyone confirm ? can anyone elese go? If so please call me.. Tim McKee at 860-778-1304 We need to get credentials for all Green s going as soon as possible *************************************************************************************************************************Tim McKee, Manchester CT,Main number Cell-860-778-1304 Home-860-643-2282 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com!Choose From 200+ Email AddressesGet a Free Account at www.mail.com! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Wed Jun 25 07:36:28 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:36:28 -0500 Subject: {news} LA Times Poll Obama huge lead- Nader at 4 % Message-ID: <20080625113628.87F1C1CE833@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/timespoll/la-na-poll25-2008jun25,0,5686875.story >From the Los Angeles Times TIMES/BLOOMBERG POLL Obama holds 12-point lead over McCain, poll finds ================================================= In a two-man contest, 49% of respondents favor Barack Obama, 37% John McCain. With Ralph Nader and Bob Barr added to the mix, Obama holds a 15-point edge.By Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 25, 2008 WASHINGTON -- ? Buoyed by enthusiasm among Democrats and public concern over the economy, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has taken a sizable lead over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the opening of the general election campaign for president, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. In a two-man race between the major-party candidates, registered voters chose Obama over McCain by 49% to 37% in the national poll, conducted Thursday through Monday. On a four-man ballot that included independent candidate Ralph Nader and Libertarian Bob Barr, voters chose Obama over McCain by 48% to 33%. Obama's lead -- bigger in this poll than in most other national surveys -- appears to stem largely from his positions on domestic issues. Both Democrats and independent voters said Obama would do a better job than McCain at handling the nation's economic problems, the public's top concern. In contrast, many voters said McCain was the more experienced candidate and better equipped to protect the nation against terrorism -- but they ranked those concerns below economic issues. McCain suffers from a pronounced "passion gap," especially among conservatives who usually give Republican candidates a reliable base of support. Among voters who described themselves as conservative, 58% said they would vote for McCain; 15% said they would vote for Obama, 14% said they would vote for someone else, and 13% said they were undecided. By contrast, 79% of voters who described themselves as liberal said they planned to vote for Obama. "I'm a Republican . . . but I don't like some of the things McCain voted for in the Senate, especially immigration," said poll respondent Mary Dasen, 77, a retired United Way manager in Oscoda, Mich., who said she was undecided. "There's a big chance I might stay home and not vote." Even among voters who said they planned to vote for McCain, more than half said they were "not enthusiastic" about their chosen candidate; 45% said they were enthusiastic. By contrast, 81% of Obama voters said they were enthusiastic, and almost half called themselves "very enthusiastic," a level of zeal found in 13% of McCain's supporters. "McCain is not capturing the full extent of the conservative base the way President Bush did in 2000 and 2004," said Times Poll Director Susan Pinkus. "Among conservatives, evangelicals and voters who identify themselves as part of the religious right, he is polling less than 60%. "Meanwhile, Obama is doing well among a broad range of voters. He's running ahead among women, black voters and other minorities. He's running roughly even among white voters and independents." Among white voters, Obama and McCain are each at 39%, the poll found. Earlier this year, when Obama ran behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) among whites in some primary elections, analysts questioned whether the African American senator could win white voters in the general election. But the great majority of Clinton voters have transferred their allegiance to Obama, the poll found, with 11% of Clinton voters defecting to McCain. Both Nader -- a consumer advocate who was the Green Party candidate in 2000 and an independent candidate in 2004 -- and former Rep. Barr (R-Ga.) appear to siphon more votes from McCain than from Obama. When Nader and Barr are added to the ballot, they draw most of their support from independent voters who said they would otherwise vote for the Republican. Nader was the choice of 4% of respondents, Barr of 3%. Nader is seeking to place his name on the ballot as an independent in at least 45 states and so far has succeeded in four. Barr's Libertarian Party is on the ballot in 30 states and is working on the remaining 20. Obama's strong showing seems to stem from a general trend of increased support for Democratic candidates and Democratic positions after almost eight years of an increasingly unpopular Republican administration. In this national poll's random sample of voters, 39% identified themselves as Democrats, 22% as Republicans and 27% as independents. In a similar poll a year ago, 33% identified themselves as Democrats, 28% as Republicans and 30% as independents. Such numbers often ebb and flow with the popularity of each political party. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when Bush's popularity soared, the number of voters who described themselves as Republicans rose too. During the last three years, as his popularity slumped, the number who identify themselves as Republicans also dropped. The survey found public approval of the president's job performance at a new low for a Times/Bloomberg poll: 23%, compared with 73% disapproval. Fifty-one percent of voters said they had a "positive feeling" about the Democratic Party; 29% said that of the Republican Party. "It appears to be a Democratic year," Pinkus said. "This election is the Democrats' to lose." On domestic issues, voters preferred Obama's healthcare proposals to McCain's by a margin of almost 30 percentage points: 53% to 26%. They also preferred Obama's proposals on taxes, 45% to 31%, and on relief for homeowners facing foreclosure, 44% to 32%. But voters considered McCain better equipped to protect the country from terrorism, 49% to 32%. And though 68% favored withdrawing troops from Iraq within the next year or even sooner, a position close to Obama's, many were not sure Obama was the right candidate to lead that effort. When asked which candidate would be best at handling the war in Iraq, voters split about evenly: 44% named McCain and 42% named Obama. That result reflected persistent doubts among many voters as to whether Obama is sufficiently experienced to be president. Voters split about evenly on that question too, with 46% agreeing that Obama is "too naive and inexperienced for the job" and 50% disagreeing. Among independents, 54% said Obama was too inexperienced -- a potential vulnerability for him. McCain, by contrast, was seen as better prepared for the presidency. Asked which candidate has the right experience for the White House, 47% picked McCain, 27% Obama. The Times/Bloomberg poll, conducted under Pinkus' supervision, interviewed 1,115 registered voters. Its margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. doyle.mcmanus at latimes.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you want other stories on this topic, search the Archives at latimes.com/archives. TMS Reprints Article licensing and reprint options Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! 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If you have questions contact any Green Leader or me Tim McKee 860-778-1304 ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Committee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Wed Jun 25 09:22:26 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:22:26 -0400 Subject: {news} Re: Who is going to Chicago Presidentail Convetnion from CT? References: <20080625015840.BE4D632675A@ws1-8.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <03a401c8d6c6$831131f0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Hi Time, I will be going and would like to be a delegate. Also CT Green Mazin Qumsiyeh will be going and I believe is interested in being a delegate. John Battista is not going to the convention. Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: Clifford Thornton To: CT Greens News ; Phoebe Godfrey ; Tim McKee Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:55 AM Subject: {news} Re: Who is going to Chicago Presidentail Convetnion from CT? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I will be there. Out of town at present Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim McKee To: Cliff Thornton ; CT Greens News ; Phoebe Godfrey Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:58 PM Subject: Who is going to Chicago Presidentail Convetnion from CT? Dear Greens Last night (Tuesday) the state aproved the following people as delegates to the Presidential Convention in Chicago. Are there others who can go? We have 20 delegates . so far we approved: Tim McKee Mike deRosa New Haven Adlerman Allen Brison Steve Fournier Richard Duffee Vic Lanica Cliff Thornton Charlie Pillsbury and possible people: Scott Desfhey Justine McCabe John Bapsitisa can everyone confirm ? can anyone elese go? If so please call me.. Tim McKee at 860-778-1304 We need to get credentials for all Green s going as soon as possible ************************************************************************************************************************* Tim McKee, Manchester CT,Main number Cell-860-778-1304 Home-860-643-2282 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! 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Dr. Oliver Fein (pictured) is taking the reins at Physicians for a National Health Program, a 20-year-old organization of more than 15,000 doctors who support a single-payer plan for all, similar to Medicare for those over 65. He told about 30 doctors and medical students over dinner Monday night at Mory's (that "fabled Yale drinking club," as one diner described it) that under the current system, the U.S. ranks highest in the number of preventable deaths among 19 developed nations. That's because 45 million Americans are uninsured, and more than 50 million are underinsured. One of those attending was Yale historian Jennifer Klein, who wrote a book about what she called "our screwed-up health care system." She said that back in the 1930s people were organizing health care as a community benefit; it wasn't a profit-based system. "It had nothing to do with insurance companies, and it had very little to do with employers," she said. Click here to hear a two-minute lesson in how the system evolved to its current state. Responding to those flaws, Fein, a practicing physician and professor of public health at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, said health coverage must be universal, covering everyone. As for undocumented immigrants, he proposed the wording of any new health insurance law should stipulate that "residents" are covered, but then lawmakers should decide what length of residency is required to be eligible for coverage. Fein enumerated other requirements of a new paradigm of health insurance. "It must be comprehensive. Would there be any exclusions? Yeah, probably, you know, tummy tucks, botox for wrinkles. I might even exclude a private room in the hospital unless medically indicated," such as if a patient has a roommate with tuberculosis. "It must be tier-free. Now we have one tier for the elderly, another tier for the poor, another tier for those who are employed, another for those who are uninsured. We really need to think of a single tier of care." That's when he proposed eliminating co-pays and deductibles, "because what they do is cut demand for needed services equal to the amount they cut for unneeded services." Another tenet of a tier-free system, he said, is that private insurance can supplement, but not duplicate, public coverage. He said public funding should replace the "regressive" funding of premium-based financing for health insurance. "Right now, the president of a company usually pays the same premium as the secretary in the company. Are their incomes equal? Absolutely not." And finally, the new system must have low administrative costs, for which the U.S. has to look no further than its own health care program for elders. "Medicare has an administrative cost of three percent," he pointed out, "whereas the average commercial insurance in this country has an overhead and profit of roughly 19 to 20 percent." For some insurers, that number goes up to 30 percent of medical costs. This reporter was seated next to Veronica Marer (pictured above), a Canadian-born solo private practitioner in Connecticut. She said with her roots in Canada (and relatives also in France), she's learned a lot about the single payer health systems in those countries, which she believes are better for more people than the U.S. system. But, she added, "Of course it's not perfect; there's rationing of care and waiting for non-emergency procedures." But she supports single payer not only because it covers more people, but because it's much more cost-effective. She said with such a system in place, she could do with one fewer of her 2.5 employees. "Not that I want to get rid of anyone," she hastened to add. "I love my employees." One goal of the gathering was to resuscitate the dormant state chapter of PNHP that had existed in the 1990s. John Battista (pictured), a psychiatrist and one of the leaders of that chapter, recounted a brief history of their efforts, from "giving talks at churches and all that," to drafting a single payer bill in 1999; to do that PNHP spun off the Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care. The bill failed to pass in the General Assembly, for which Battista blamed the influence of the insurance industry on key lawmakers. When those present introduced themselves, Michael Connair, an orthopedic surgeon in private practice and an associate clinical professor at the Yale School of Medicine, said he hoped the organization would "modify its spiel slightly to have more appeal." Asked to elaborate after the event, Connair (pictured) replied, "I think there is a knee-jerk prejudice against a single payer system -- rightly so, looking at Medicaid or the Canadian system or the deteriorating aspects of the Medicare system. So to use that phrase unnecessarily alienates people. I think the message this organization is trying to get across is that we should have universal health care sponsored by the government, controlled by the government, with the elimination of skimming by the insurance companies and the unnecessary administrative barriers that make life difficult for doctors and patients. I think this organization wants an enlightened European system. "The Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut has a similar message," Connair continued, "but it seems to be a little more readily accepted -- universal health care for all. I think they should unite with the foundation which has the support of providers, consumers and businesses. It would be a shame to duplicate efforts -- I think a common presentation of ideas would benefit both. PR [public relations] is important here. You've gotta get your foot in the door before people will listen, and you don't want to turn them off before they've heard your message. Americans probably wouldn't tolerate the Canadian or British systems, but would probably accept some of the European models." (Disclosure: The Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut grants money to the Online Journalism Project, which publishes this website.) Fein said he hoped one positive outcome of the nation's economic downturn would be that more people would start thinking about taking the profit out of health care. He also said PNHP is supporting House bill 676 in Congress that would create a single payer system. A contingent of Connecticut Green Party members was in attendance, including Battista and his wife, psychologist Justine McCabe from New Milford. After Fein's talk, she pointed out that the Green Party has been a consistent and staunch supporter of single payer health insurance, moreso than almost all the Democrats in Congress (and none of the Republicans). From crashnewberg at netscape.net Wed Jun 25 19:16:28 2008 From: crashnewberg at netscape.net (crashnewberg at netscape.net) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:16:28 -0400 Subject: {news} Re: Another tirade on the NEWS Listserv In-Reply-To: <20080625044425.D00788DC58F@gandhi.greens.org> References: <20080625044425.D00788DC58F@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: <8CAA530A129912B-660-275E@WEBMAIL-MA12.sysops.aol.com> Once again, This is inappropriate for the News Listserv. A simple request for proxy to express your views would have been fine.? I gave serious consideration before adding this: In addition, it is rambling and at times incoherent. Steve Newberg Message: 4 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:44:04 -0400 From: Amy Vas Nunes Subject: RE: {news} Who is going to Chicago Presidentail Convetnion from CT? To: Tim McKee , Cliff Thornton , CT Greens News , Phoebe Godfrey Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" osMcCabe and Battista belong to NO chapter and have attended NO SCC meetings or reported in person for almost 4 yrs chapters as well. According to new rules are they legallly a CTGP member? I object. WHO DO THEY REPRESENT BUT THEMSELVES AND THEIR OWN BIASED VIEWS? DID NW VOTE THEM AS REPS NW DOES NOT EXIST, HAS jUSTINE REPORTED at all TO US ABOUT THE NEW VERY DAMAGING pLATFORM ADMISSION SHE CO WROTE ACCORDING TO USGP PLATFORM RULES OUR STEERING COMM I AM USG[;ATCOMM AND IC AND HAVE CONSULTED SECS OF BOTH ABOUT THESE FACTS.SHOULD HAVE VOTED IT UP.CTGP PLATFORM COMM NEVER SAW ANY OF IT. ONCE AGAIN OTHER THAN MCCABE THERE ARE NO WOMAN GOING AS CONVENTION REPS. I CAN NOT AFFORD TO GO BUT WOULD LIKE PROXY[ WE HAVE 20 SLOTS] TO CONSULT TO CARRY MY VOTE.Once agin abbility to pay seems to determine who/what attends AND OPINION. AMY I TRIED TO MAKE MEETING TONIGHT TO REPORT ON PLATFORM BUT PHEOBES CAR BROKE DOWN . pHEOBE IS NOT GOING TO CONVENTION. PLEASE ALL CONVENTION REPS READ 2004 OLD PLATFORM LANGUAGE ON MIDEAST{ ALSO CO WRITTEN BY MCCABE AND SUBMITTED WITH OUT C5GP KNOWLEDGE] READ PURPOSED NEW MIDEAST LANGUAGE ABOUT BANNING ALL ISRAELI GOODS AND " APARTIED WALL" NONE OF THIS LANGUAGE IS PEACEFUL OR UNBIASED.THATS WHAT HAS PUT USGP/CTGP AND CTGP ON ADL "WATCH LIST"ONCE AGAIN TIM THIS IS NOT "PERSONAL" AMY From: timmckee at mail.comTo: efficacy at msn.com; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; phoebe.godfrey at uconn.eduDate: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:58:40 -0500CC: Subject: {news} Who is going to Chicago Presidentail Convetnion from CT? Dear Greens Last night (Tuesday) the state aproved the following people as delegates to the Presidential Convention in Chicago. Are there others who can go? We have 20 delegates . so far we approved: Tim McKee Mike deRosa New Haven Adlerman Allen Brison Steve Fournier Richard Duffee Vic Lanica Cliff Thornton Charlie Pillsbury and possible people: Scott Desfhey Justine McCabe John Bapsitisa can everyone confirm ? can anyone elese go? If so please call me.. Tim McKee at 860-778-1304 We need to get credentials for all Green s going as soon as possible *************************************************************************************************************************Tim McKee, Manchester CT,Main number Cell-860-778-1304 Home-860-643-2282 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news End of CTGP-news Digest, Vol 47, Issue 21 ***************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Jun 25 21:44:44 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:44:44 -0400 Subject: {news} Approved minutes from the 7PM 5-27-08 SCC CTGP meeting Quorum was met. Message-ID: <20080626014444.BCVH10620.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Approved minutes from the 7PM 5-27-08 SCC CTGP meeting Quorum was met. Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverley Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 860-342-6760 Facilitator: Tim McKee. Voting Attendees by Chapter: Central: Vic Lancia, Fairfield: David Bedell and Richard Duffee; Greater Hartford: Barbara Barry, Secretary of CTGP; Co-chairpersons: Steve Fournier and S. Michael DeRosa, Treasurer: Christopher Reilly; New Haven: Jerry Martin; Northeast: Co-chairperson: Phoebe Godfrey. Scott Deshefy; Tolland: Tim McKee. Non-voting attendee: Tina Shirshac of Northeast. A. Preliminaries: 1. Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; quorum was met; timekeeper=V. Lancia; ground rules. 2. Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, no deletions or additions. 3. Approval of minutes of 3-25-08 SCC meeting with the inclusion of written comments by Jerry Martin. 4. Acceptance of the minutes of the 5-19-08 EC meeting. 5. Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly: balance as of 5-31-08: $1626.97 Consensus: authorization of $40 to Vic Lancia for printing of about 500 CTGP pamphlets to assist with petitioning. B. 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: 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. Consensus regarding all the above provisions: approval. BAB: Email from New London chapter which reminds this SCC body to have the above provisions returned to the chapters so chapters may vote on this proposal on 6-24-08 SCC meeting. C. Reports: 1. GPUS reports from: a) Tim McKee, CTGP representative, GPUS platform is being developed; might be hard for the GPUS to get on ballot in GA. b) Cliff Thornton, GPUS Co-chairperson and Charlie Pillsbury, GPUS representative were both absent; c) National Committee Members: S. M. DeRosa of GPUS Ballot Access Committee: of the $10,000 allotted for petitioning across the US, $2000 has been allotted for WV; and $1000 was used by HI to get on the ballot. Phil Huckleberry, Co-chair of this Ballot Access Committee has indicated that no further money will be available in the future. He also did not call any more meetings. Committee members called the last meeting on 5-26-08. At the 7-10-08 GPUS Convention some workshops may have to be combined or only allotted 10minutes. Proxy votes do not represent named delegates but rather CTGP people. Richard Duffee: CTGP is allowed 20 delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention. CTGP has previously determined that the CTGP delegates assigned to specific candidates are committed to vote for those candidates in the 1st 2 rounds of voting. The following CTGP members have voiced a desire to be delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention: Allan Brison, CTGP Alderman on the New Haven Board of Alderman; Mike DeRosa, Richard Duffee, Steve Fournier, Vic Lancia, Tim McKee, Charlie Pillsbury, Cliff Thornton and perhaps: Scott Deshefy and Phoebe Godfrey. (CTGP may have a total of 20 delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention.) 2. Final report about the 4-26-08 CTGP Convention from the Internal Elections Committee: a) final count re: CTGP candidates for officers and GPUS Representatives: no change from 4-26-08 CTGP Meeting. b) final count of how CTGP members voted in the 4-26-08 CTGP Convention is as follows: Candidates currently seeking the Green nomination: 33 - Cynthia McKinney - HYPERLINK "http://www.runcynthiarun.org/"http://www.runcynthiarun.org 3 - Kat Swift - HYPERLINK "http://www.voteswift.org/"http://www.voteswift.org 2 - Jesse Johnson - HYPERLINK "http://www.jesse08.org/"http://www.jesse08.org 2 - Kent Mesplay - HYPERLINK "http://www.mesplay.org/"http://www.mesplay.org A number of write-in votes were cast for others not seeking the Green nomination. While there is a delegate bloc for Nader, the others will probably be assigned to "Uncommitted" or "None of the Above" (NOTA): 6 - Ralph Nader - HYPERLINK "http://www.draftnader.org/"http://www.draftnader.org 1 - Noam Chomsky 1 - Mike DeRosa 1 - Al Gore - HYPERLINK "http://www.algore.org/"http://www.algore.org 1 - Barack Obama - HYPERLINK "http://www.barackobama.com/"http://www.barackobama.com (If it makes any difference, the one vote for Obama was actually written "NOTA - Obama," so might be assigned to NOTA.) ------------- 50 ? TOTAL c) Proportionate number of votes for each presidential candidate, for each of the 20 CTGP delegates for the 7-10-08 GPUS Convention. See 1 above, under Duffee and Martin. d) Criteria for the selection delegates and vetting of delegates to the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention from CTGP members: deferred until 6-24-08 SCC meeting. e) Encourage chapters to bring to the 6-24-08 SCC meeting, the names of CTGP members who would be willing to be considered to be CTGP delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention. Final decision will be done by the 6-24-08 SCC membership. f) petitioning for GPUS presidential candidate is a priority. 3. Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate; has about 120 signatures for himself. He needs help petitioning for himself and for GPUS presidential candidate. 4. Scott Deshefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: has about 1100 signatures for himself and a lesser number for GPUS presidential candidate. 5. No endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line. 6. Richard Duffee, endorsed 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; has about 1400 signatures for himself and about 250 for GPUS presidential candidate. Has about 25 people working for him. Fairfield Chapter is also seeking potential CTGP candidate for the U.S. Representative line acquired when Nancy Burton ran two years ago. 7. Harold Burbank, potential Green Party of CT candidate for 5th Congressional District; petitioning sheets for the petitioning candidates, campaign issues: deferred due to time. 8. Report about the 2008 CT Legislative Session: S. M. DeRosa: most bills did not get out of committees such as the energy bills proposed by Fight the Hike. 9. ACLU lawsuit update: S. M. DeRosa: awaiting the written report from the judge. 10. CT Green Times newspaper and and CT Green Times link to website: S.M. DeRosa: need articles especially from candidates. 11. No summer intern for GP of CT because he did not get the grant from his college. 12. a) Paid CTGP positions: fundraiser: deferred due to time. b) Consensus: Generic CTGP pamphlets to be completed by Phoebe Godfrey, CTGP Co-chairperson. 13. Chapter reports. New Haven: Jerry Martin: new co-chairpersons of this chapter are: Charlie Pillsbury and myself. Other chapter reports: deferred due to time. 14. Place for next SCC meeting on 6-24-08: to be determined. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 6-08: to be determined. 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. 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Any proposed short and long term goals for the CTGP by the executive committee officers: no change from 6-17-08 EC meeting. 3. Develop the agenda for the 6-24-08 SCC meeting. Template is below. Proposed agenda for the 7PM 6-24-08 SCC CTGP meeting. Site: to be determined 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 5-27-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the 6-17-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: C. Reports: 1. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 2. (10-15 minutes): CTGP literature, outreach kit. 3. (20 minutes): Vetting and selection of the twenty (20) people who will be CTGP official delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago. 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; petitioning sheets for the petitioning candidates, campaign issues. 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 on 6-24-08: to be determined.. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 7-08: 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: 270.4.1/1519 - Release Date: 6/25/2008 4:13 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Jun 25 21:48:26 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:48:26 -0400 Subject: {news} FW: Who the 6-24-08 SCC attendees authorized to be CTGP delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention Message-ID: <20080626014824.FWMO26184.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> _____ From: B Barry [mailto:roseberry3 at cox.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:23 PM To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: 'Christopher Reilly'; 'Charlie Pillsbury'; 'Godfrey, Phoebe'; 'Steve Fournier'; 'Mike DeRosa'; 'Tim McKee'; roseberry3 at cox.net; 'Richard Duffee'; 'Clifford Thornton'; vittorio_lancia at sbcglobal.net Subject: Who the 6-24-08 SCC attendees authorized to be CTGP delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention The 6-24-08 SCC attendees vetted and authorized, by consensus and vote, the following CTGP members to be delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago. These CTGP members are: Allan Brison, Green Party Alderman for New Haven; S. Michael DeRosa, a Co-Chairperson for CTGP and GPUS National Committee Member; Richard Duffee, GPUS National Committee Member and CTGP endorsed 4th Congressional District candidate; Steve Fournier, a Co-Chairperson for CTGP and GPUS National Committee Member; Vittorio Lancia, Central Chapter member since 1999; Timothy McKee, a CTGP Representative to the GPUS; Clifford Thornton, a GPUS Co-chairperson; And the following CTGP members are also authorized to be CTGP delegates, if they decide to go to the GPUS Presidential Convention: Scott Deshefy, CTGP endorsed 1st Congressional District candidate; Charlie Pillsbury, a Co-chairperson of the New Haven Chapter of CTGP. Barbara Barry, Secretary of the CTGP No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1519 - Release Date: 6/25/2008 4:13 PM No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1519 - Release Date: 6/25/2008 4:13 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1519 - Release Date: 6/25/2008 4:13 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chapillsbury at gmail.com Wed Jun 25 22:48:11 2008 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:48:11 -0500 Subject: {news} Re:Who is going to Chicago Presidential Convention from CT? Message-ID: <10859a090806251948w783a76f5v51c510f9594f02df@mail.gmail.com> Unfortunately, I'm not able to go. Instead, Allie and I leave next week for on a UCC church delegation to Colombia to visit the Mennonite Peace and Justice work that the CT UCC supports in northern Colombia. Charlie On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Justine McCabe wrote: > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > Hi Time, > I will be going and would like to be a delegate. Also CT Green Mazin > Qumsiyeh will be going and I believe is interested in being a delegate. > John Battista is not going to the convention. > Justine > > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:* Clifford Thornton > *To:* CT Greens News ; Phoebe Godfrey; Tim > McKee > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:55 AM > *Subject:* {news} Re: Who is going to Chicago Presidentail Convetnion from > CT? > > 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 > > ------------------------------ > > I will be there. Out of town at present > > Cliff > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Tim McKee > *To:* Cliff Thornton ; CT Greens News; Phoebe > Godfrey > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:58 PM > *Subject:* Who is going to Chicago Presidentail Convetnion from CT? > > Dear Greens > > Last night (Tuesday) the state aproved the following people as delegates to > the Presidential Convention in Chicago. Are there others who can go? We have > 20 delegates . so far we approved: > > Tim McKee > > Mike deRosa > > New Haven Adlerman Allen Brison > > Steve Fournier > > Richard Duffee > > Vic Lanica > > Cliff Thornton > > Charlie Pillsbury > > > > and possible people: > > Scott Desfhey > > Justine McCabe > > John Bapsitisa > > can everyone confirm ? can anyone elese go? > > If so please call me.. 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URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Jun 25 21:22:31 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:22:31 -0400 Subject: {news} Who the 6-24-08 SCC attendees authorized to be CTGP delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention Message-ID: <20080626012230.ULU10620.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> The 6-24-08 SCC attendees vetted and authorized, by consensus and vote, the following CTGP members to be delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago. These CTGP members are: Allan Brison, Green Party Alderman for New Haven; S. Michael DeRosa, a Co-Chairperson for CTGP and GPUS National Committee Member; Richard Duffee, GPUS National Committee Member and CTGP endorsed 4th Congressional District candidate; Steve Fournier, a Co-Chairperson for CTGP and GPUS National Committee Member; Vittorio Lancia, Central Chapter member since 1999; Timothy McKee, a CTGP Representative to the GPUS; Clifford Thornton, a GPUS Co-chairperson; And the following CTGP members are also authorized to be CTGP delegates, if they decide to go to the GPUS Presidential Convention: Scott Deshefy, CTGP endorsed 1st Congressional District candidate; Charlie Pillsbury, a Co-chairperson of the New Haven Chapter of CTGP. Barbara Barry, Secretary of the CTGP No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1519 - Release Date: 6/25/2008 4:13 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee at mail.com Thu Jun 26 12:04:22 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:22 -0500 Subject: {news} Who the 6-24-08 SCC attendees authorized to be CTGP delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention Message-ID: <20080626160422.3CE26BE4078@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> I propose that both Justine Mcccabe and Mazin Qumsiyeh be added as delegates to Presidenetial Convetion. Both have attened as past delagtes to the Presidential Convtions and are long time well known Greens. With Charlie Pilbsury not going we need as many delgates as possible to attend, We have a possible 20 availble. plea Tim McKeePS my email is now timmckee at mail.complease add or correct all address lists Convention----- Original Message ----- From: "B Barry" To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: {news} Who the 6-24-08 SCC attendees authorized to be CTGP delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:22:31 -0400 Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org The 6-24-08 SCC attendees vetted and authorized, by consensus and vote, the following CTGP members to be delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago. These CTGP members are: Allan Brison, Green Party Alderman for New Haven; S. Michael DeRosa, a Co-Chairperson for CTGP and GPUS National Committee Member; Richard Duffee, GPUS National Committee Member and CTGP endorsed 4th Congressional District candidate; Steve Fournier, a Co-Chairperson for CTGP and GPUS National Committee Member; Vittorio Lancia, Central Chapter member since 1999; Timothy McKee, a CTGP Representative to the GPUS; Clifford Thornton, a GPUS Co-chairperson; And the following CTGP members are also authorized to be CTGP delegates, if they decide to go to the GPUS Presidential Convention: Scott Deshefy, CTGP endorsed 1st Congressional District candidate; Charlie Pillsbury, a Co-chairperson of the New Haven Chapter of CTGP. Barbara Barry, Secretary of the CTGP No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. 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To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org ****************************************** 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. BLOG- http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Fri Jun 27 10:43:06 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:43:06 -0400 Subject: {news} How Long Does an Experiment Need to Continue Before It's Declared a Failure? (e.g. Drug Prohibition) Message-ID: Editorial: How Long Does an Experiment Need to Continue Before It's Declared a Failure? (e.g. Drug Prohibition) David Borden, Executive Director David BordenHow long does an experiment need to continue before it's declared a failure? For alcohol prohibition, our US version, it was about 13 years. Between mafia crime, poisonings from adulterated beverages, and the dropping age at which people were becoming alcoholics, Americans decided that the "Noble Experiment" -- whether it should actually be regarded as noble or not -- was a bad idea. And they ended it. New York State did its part 75 years ago today, ratifying the 21st amendment to repeal the 18th amendment, bringing the Constitution one state closer to being restored. It took another half a year, until December 5th, to get the 36 states on the board that were needed at the time to get the job done. But Americans of the '30s recognized the failure of the prohibition experiment, and they took action by enacting legalization of alcohol. Industrialist John D. Rockefeller described the evolution of his thinking that led to the recognition of prohibition's failure, in a famous 1932 letter: "When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognized. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before." In the context of today's leading prohibition -- the drug war -- it's important to realize that those other drugs were made illegal even before alcohol was. It was December 17th, 1914, when the Harrison Narcotics Act passed the US Congress -- ostensibly a regulatory law to synchronize America's system with a new one being adopted by countries around the world. But law enforcement interpreted it as prohibiting drugs -- coca and opium, and derivatives of them such as heroin and cocaine, were the ones in question then -- and law enforcement got its way. Which means that drugs have been illegal for almost a century. And yet despite a century of prohibition -- a century of fighting opium -- the Taliban could somehow make a hundred million off of it last year, that's how much of it is still being used. Our addiction rate in the US is higher today than it is believed to have been at the turn of the 20th century, and while other things that have certainly changed that could affect drug use, if you're fighting a "drug war" to end drug use, if addiction goes in completely the opposite direction, then you have a problem. A recent example of things going in the completely opposite direction as intended is cocaine prices on the streets of our cities, which according to DEA data is about a fifth of what it was in 1980 when adjusting for inflation and purity. The goal of the eradication-interdiction-arrest-incarceration strategy is to raise prices, in order to discourage use. Oh, and the drugs have gotten worse too -- who had ever heard of crack cocaine before 1986 -- 72 years after passage of the Harrison Act? Marijuana prohibition, enacted in 1937, is an even less successful experiment than opiate and cocaine prohibition. For the harder drugs one might say at least that some young people have trouble getting them, although that's really just the kids who aren't into drugs. But marijuana can be purchased by virtually any high school student in the country, at virtually any high school in the country, and generally from other students. When kids are dealing drugs to other kids, and that is happening EVERYWHERE, what is the result of the experiment? What is its conclusion? Is further research really necessary at that point? No, it's not. The findings are on the drug prohibition experiment are conclusive -- it's a failure. And while many of the people waging the drug war believe it's noble, that belief is misguided -- with half a million people incarcerated in US jails and prisons for drug offenses, the prohibition experiment is anything but noble. The day we legalize drugs is the day we can begin to clean up the mess that the drug prohibition experiment has created. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. 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