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Weekly Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. I, No. 6 -- June 9, 2001
(This newsletter distributed to 3,009)
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F E A T U R E D I
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1) GREEN PARTY OF OHIO STATE PARTY PETITION
2) THE CULTURAL CREATIVES
3) GREEN PHYSICIAN RUNS FOR CONGRESS IN VIRGINIA
4) NADER SPEAKS TO NATIONAL
PRESS CLUB
5) INSURING PARENTS MAY HELP INSURE MORE CHILDREN
6) GREEN
PARTY OF OHIO NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
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1) GREEN PARTY OF OHIO STATE PARTY PETITION
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The Green Party of Ohio (GPO) seeks to acquire 80,000
signatures on a petition
to achieve official state
party status with the state of Ohio in 2002. Your
assistance is needed. Information is available on the
Ohio Greens Web site
at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/petition.htm
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2) THE CULTURAL CREATIVES
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The Cultural Creatives by Paul H. Ray and Sherry
Ruth Anderson "draw[s]
upon thirteen years of survey
research studies on more than 100,000 Americans,
plus more than 100 focus groups and dozens of in-
depth interviews. They reveal
who the Cultural
Creatives are and the fascinating story of their
emergence
over the last generation. . . .
"The
Cultural Creatives care deeply about ecology
and saving the planet, about
relationships, peace,
and social justice, about self-actualization,
spirituality,
and self-expression. Surprisingly,
they are both inner-directed and socially
concerned;
they're activists, volunteers, and contributors to
good causes
more often than other Americans. But
because they've been so invisible, they
are
astonished to find out how many others share both
their values and
their way of life. Once they realize
their numbers, their impact on America
promises to be
enormous, shaping a new agenda for the twenty-first
century."
The
above quotes are from the blurb of this book
published last year. For more
information on "The
Cultural Creatives," you may want to visit
http://www.culturalcreatives.org.
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3) GREEN PHYSICIAN RUNS FOR CONGRESS IN VIRGINIA
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The Virginia 4th congressional district election on
June 19 will be among
a Democrat, a Republican, an
Independent and a Green. This will be the first
elec-
tion in Virginia (other than for President) in which
party labels
(cues) will appear on the ballots. How-
ever, the Green Party candidate, D.
C. Amarasinghe,
has been labeled "Independent" on the ballot because
the law passed last year authorizing party labels,
has no means for an unqualified
party to have its
name on the ballot. A party cannot be "qualified"
until it has polled 10% for statewide office.
Visit
D. C. Amarasinghe's Web site at:
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/dalee1/votedc/
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4) NADER SPEAKS TO NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
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On Tuesday, June 5, Ralph Nader was the keynote
speaker at the National Press
Club. His speech was
titled "Conceit & Consent: The Two Party Duopoly."
A video of the event is available for viewing at
http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/gdrive/npc060501_nader.rm.
Ralph talks about the election, the two party system,
the Green Party, along
with a little on his future plans.
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5) INSURING PARENTS MAY HELP INSURE MORE CHILDREN
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According to a new report from the New York City-based
Commonwealth Fund (http://www.cmwf.org),
extending
health insurance to parents may be the best way to
cover more
uninsured children. The report, "Health
Insurance: A Family Affair,"
by Jeanne M. Lambrew of
George Washington University, finds that in states
that have expanded Medicaid and State Children's
Health Insurance Program
(CHIP) coverage to parents
as well as children, uninsured rates for eligible
children are far lower than in states that have not
expanded coverage to parents.
Current
state Medicaid and CHIP income eligibility
rates for parents are less than
50% of the federal
poverty level in some states, which means that many
low-income, working parents make too much to qualify
for state coverage but
too little to afford private
coverage. Extending Medicaid or CHIP to parents
not
only gives them an important coverage option, it also
removes the
fear of losing affordable coverage when
parents leave welfare for full-time
employment.
To download
the complete 16-page report, visit:
http://www.cmwf.org/programs/insurance/lambrew_familyaffair_464.pdf
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6) GREEN PARTY OF OHIO NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
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Miss an issue of our newsletter? You can now read
past newsletters of the
Green Party of Ohio by
visiting the newsletter archives at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/newsletters/
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You
can view the latest weekly segment of the
Association of State Green Parties
(ASGP) News
Circulator by visiting the ASGP Web site
at http://www.green-party.org
and selecting "ASGP
News Circulator" from the menu at the top of
the
left column.
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