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Weekly Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. I, No. 17 -- September 1,
2001
(This newsletter distributed to 2,947)
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F E A T U R E D I
N T H I S I S S U E
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1) WES FLINN FOR CINCINNATI CITY COUNCIL
2) VICKY KNIGHT FOR CLEVELAND HEIGHTS
SCHOOLS
3) DARBY PETITION DRIVE UPDATE
4) IN SUPPORT OF OHIO'S OLD GROWTH
FORESTS
5) CAMPUS GREENS INTERNSHIP NOW AVAILABLE
6) CAMPUS GREENS ANNOUNCE
DIRECTORS AND SC
7) REPORT SHOWS AMERICANS HAVE MORE "LABOR DAYS"
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1) WES FLINN FOR CINCINNATI CITY COUNCIL
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Wes Flinn of Clifton, 28, on Thursday officially
announced his candidacy for
Cincinnati City Council.
Flinn is running on the Green Party ticket, and is
the first ever candidate for Cincinnati City Council
for the Greens.
Flinn,
who is working on a Ph.D. in music theory at
the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of
Music and is an adjunct faculty member at Northern
Kentucky University, is focusing on housing, police/
community relations,
and a more responsive city govern-
ment. In the aftermath of the recent unpleasantness,
it is Flinn’s belief that most of the effort has been
channeled toward
returning to status quo, instead of
addressing the real issues. Flinn says,
"As long as
the powers-that-be are more interested in the econo-
mics of the situation rather than the people involved,
there will be no real
change in the way the city
operates. This will only lead to more problems.
We
need to be focusing on the people, not the money."
Flinn
was born in Bedford, Indiana, and holds degrees
from Morehead [KY] State University
and the University
of Cincinnati. He has lived in the Cincinnati area
since beginning graduate school several years ago,
and has stayed because
of the vibrant arts community,
the friendliness of the people, and the tremendous
potential for a truly world-class city here.
Visit
Flinn's Web site at http://wesflinn.tripod.com.
To work on Flinn's campaign, contact him at
wfmusic@rocketmail.com
or 513-221-6683.
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2) VICKY KNIGHT FOR CLEVELAND HEIGHTS SCHOOLS
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Vicky Knight, who has spent a lifetime in the
struggle for civil rights, workers'
rights, women's
rights, welfare rights and world peace is running
for
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Board of
Education in the November 6
election endorsed by the
Green Party of Cuyahoga County. She is running on
a
program which calls for a school system in which
every child receives
equal respect, dignity, and
educational opportunities; a full-time nurse and
aides in every school; alternatives to proficiency
testing; reduced class
size, especially for kinder-
garten through third grade; and a curriculum
that
includes peace, alternatives to violence, human rights
education,
and the study of law and democracy. She is
an advocate of free public education
from pre-school
through college so that every person, regardless of
income,
has access to education at all levels. She
also advocates ending reliance
on property taxes to
fund our schools.
Vicky
has been a teacher and educator in public
schools and universities including
Cleveland State
University and Capital University. She is co-chair,
Women
for Racial and Economic Equality; Board convener,
Women Speak Out for Peace
and Justice; member, Peace
House Steering Committee; newly elected to the
Board
of the Cleveland Food Co-Op; and member, Human Rights
Platform Committee,
Greater Cleveland Empowerment
Center. She has been active in Jobs with Justice,
Peace Action, American Friends Service Committee, and
the Ohio Committee on
Corporations, Law and Democracy.
She has been recognized by the Ohio General
Assembly
for service to Ohio youth through the Cleveland Alter-
native
Education program. She has served as Vietnam
veterans' crisis counselor.
Vicky
is a longtime trade unionist. She is a member
of Musicians Local 4 and the
American Association of
University Professors.
If
you would like to help in Vicky's campaign, call
her at 216-381-1372 or email
Valerie Robinson at
vcrobinson@yahoo.com.
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3) DARBY PETITION DRIVE UPDATE
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Endorsed by the Central Ohio Green Party, the Darby
Petition Drive is critical
to the progressive move-
ment in Central Ohio. Getting the Darby Petition
on
the ballot and winning the vote in May, 2002 will
weaken the hold of
entrenched money power in Central
Ohio like the defeat of the soccer stadium/arena
tax
did in 1997.
If
you are in central Ohio and have 2-3 hours to push
the Green Party cause further,
please help on the Darby
Campaign. The drive needs 2,500 signatures quickly.
If
you can help, please contact Paul Dumouchelle at
pauld@columbus.rr.com
or 614-766-4511.
Canvassing times are as follows:
Sept.
4 (Tu) - 6 PM - Location TBA
Sept. 5 (W) - 6 PM - Northland:
meet at Karl Rd. Library
Sept. 6 (Th) - 6 PM - Location TBA
Sept.
9 (Su) - 5 PM - Location TBA
Sept. 10 (M) - 6 PM - Far Northwest:
meet at Karl Rd. Library
Sept. 11 (Tu) - 6 PM - Northland: meet at Karl
Rd. Library
Sept. 12 (W) - 6 PM - Location TBA
Sept. 13 (Th) -
6 PM - Location TBA
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4) IN SUPPORT OF OHIO'S OLD GROWTH FORESTS
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Yesterday, the Central Ohio Green Party called for
the immediate suspension
of the King Hollow Timber
Sale in the Zaleski State Forest and voiced support
for Susan Heitker and the other forest activists
from the Buckeye Forest Council
and Hock-Hocking
Earth First! who are staging a tree-sit action to
halt
the logging.
Friday
morning, concerned citizens took to the trees
to stop the logging of the Zaleski
State Forest in
southeastern Ohio. The protesters suspended themselves
in trees to impede further cutting of the public forest.
They have vowed not
to come down until their concerns
about the mismanagement of Ohio's 20 state
forests are
addressed.
Members
of the Buckeye Forest Council and Hock-Hocking
Earth First! are working to
stop the sale calling it
"one of the most damaging sales the Ohio Division
of
Forestry has planned yet." This action is designed to
prevent
any further logging.
"The
Division of Forestry is logging the heart out of
one of the most biologically
rich forests we have left
in this state," says Susan Heitker, from her
perch high
above the ground. "But it goes beyond this one sale.
Less
than 2% of the forests in Ohio are publicly-owned
state forests. This land
must be protected for wildlife
habitat and recreation, not cut down to make
paper or
pallets," said Heitker.
This
particular sale, known as the King Hollow Timber
Sale, is less than 2 miles
away from the popular Lake
Hope State Park in Vinton County and is adjacent
to the
Zaleski backpacking trail, one of the most popular
hiking trails
in the state.
Many
view the King Hollow sale as the last straw in
the continued abuse of Ohio's
state forests. At 292
acres, this cut is approximately three times the size
of the average state forest timber sale. The King
Hollow sale is divided into
six sections with one sec-
tion being a clearcut and numerous smaller clearcuts
being scattered throughout other sections. Clearcutting
is a logging practice
that involves cutting every single
tree. Clearcutting causes soil erosion
into adjacent
streams, degrades the forest by allowing invasive edge
species
access into the forest interior, and displaces
wildlife that requires interior
forest habitat. Studies
suggest that each time a forest is logged it will
never
fully recover.
"The
Division of Forestry claims to be managing for
'multiple use' yet they are
logging one of the most
biologically diverse, and well-hiked forests in the
state," said Sabrina Gorbett of the Buckeye Forest
Council. "Adding
insult to injury, the logging road
for this sale actually crosses the Zaleski
Backpacking
Trail, one of only two backpacking trails in the state
forest
system," she said.
The
Division of Forestry (DOF) also claims that logging
increases wildlife diversity.
However, the DOF has
failed to reveal that the wildlife that is benefited
by
logging is already abundant in the state. Conversely,
the wildlife
that is harmed by DOF logging depends on
large areas of healthy forest and
is rare throughout
the state. The DOF is therefore reducing wildlife
diversity
by degrading the last large areas upon which
the interior forest dependent
species rely.
The
DOF is not required to do any environmental assess-
ment before cutting public
land and current law does
not allow for public input into the DOF's decision-
making process.
Directions
to the action are available at:
http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org.
Images
of the rally and tree-sitters are available
by email at info@buckeyeforestcouncil.org.
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5) CAMPUS GREENS INTERNSHIP NOW AVAILABLE
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Excited about building a powerful student movement
around Green politics and
involving more students in
political action? Want to help build Campus Greens
nationally at this critical early stage of develop-
ment? Willing to work
to ensure that civic values
reign over corporate values? Serious about using
your
time, resources, and energies to build a better world?
If
YES, spend this semester interning with Campus
Greens at the new national
headquarters in Chicago.
Full- and part-time internships are now available
for
the fall and spring semesters.
Full-time
interns must commit 10 weeks and will re-
ceive a minimal living stipend.
Housing costs are not
covered, however you will be assisted in finding afford-
able housing in Chicago. Part-time interns must be
willing to commit 15 hours
per week.
College
credit for your internship is possible. Campus
Greens will assist you in providing
appropriate infor-
mation requested by your university.
Intern
positions are available in the following areas:
field organizing, network/information
technology, Web
design, newsletter production, media/communications,
materials/publicity,
fundraising/special events, and
accounting/finance.
Most
internships require that you are available to
work at the Chicago headquarters.
However, certain
positions (viz., tech-oriented areas) may be avail-
able
to individuals outside of Chicago.
If
you have any questions regarding internships or
would like to receive an application,
please email
intern@campusgreens.org.
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6) CAMPUS GREENS ANNOUNCE DIRECTORS AND SC
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Carolyn Danckaert will be starting as Campus Greens
National Director on September
1. Carolyn became
actively involved with the Green Party while working
as the Nader 2000 National Volunteer Coordinator last
year and is eager to
get more students involved with
Green politics. Carolyn can be reached at
carolyn@campusgreens.org.
Briel
Johnson will be starting as Campus Greens Develop-
ment Director on September
1. Briel worked as one of the
Montana coordinators for the Nader 2000 campaign
and,
more recently, as the campaign manager for a Green can-
didate who
was elected to office in Missoula, Montana.
Briel can be reached at briel@campusgreens.org.
Carolyn
and Briel will be working out of the new Campus
Greens national office in
Chicago.
The election
of the first democratically elected Steering
Committee is also a very significant
event for Campus
Greens. The new members were elected at the Founding
Convention for one-year terms. The new members are as
follows:
Karla
Aguilar - yurbaca@campusgreens.org
- University of Houston
John Brett - john.m.brett@dartmouth.edu
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Corey Eastwood - corey@campusgreens.org
- New York University
Katherine Fisher - katherine@campusgreens.org
- Brown University (RI)
Matt Hancock - hancock@campusgreens.org
- Skidmore College (NY)
William Justice - william@campusgreens.org
- University of Kansas
Kai Newkirk - kai@campusgreens.org
- Hampshire College (MA)
Erika Noriega - erikan@campusgreens.org
- Int'l School of the Americas (TX)
Hannah Sandmeyer - hannah@campusgreens.org
- University of Oregon
Lauren Schwartz - lauren@campusgreens.org
- Barnard College (NY)
Contact
any of the above steering committee members
with comments, questions, or concerns
regarding the
Campus Greens.
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7) REPORT SHOWS AMERICANS HAVE MORE "LABOR DAYS"
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A U.N. agency provided some discouraging news yester-
day to Americans who
believe they are overworked,
finding that American workers have increased
their
substantial lead over Japan and all other industrial
nations in
the number of hours worked each year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/01/national/01HOUR.html?todaysheadlines
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