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Weekly Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. I, No. 22 -- October 6,
2001
(This newsletter distributed to 2,886)
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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) URGENT! STOP FAST TRACK!
2) RALPH NADER IN CLEVELAND: WED., OCT. 10
3) VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR NADER VISIT
4) VOLUNTEER FOR A GREEN CANDIDATE
5) ACLU SAYS SENATE TERRORISM BILL DANGEROUS
6) ABANDONED ANTHRAX DUMP SITE
SITTING UNGUARDED
7) GREENS CALL FOR JUSTICE WITHOUT VENGEANCE
8) NAFTA
ALLOWS CORPORATIONS TO SUE GOVERNMENTS
9) SUPPORT GREEN PARTY CANDIDATES IN
OHIO
10) "GRANNY D" COMING TO OHIO
11) U.S. VEHICLE FUEL ECONOMY
HITS RECORD LOW
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1) URGENT! STOP FAST TRACK!
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Congress is using the September 11th tragedy to push
through Fast Track legislation
that would give Presi-
dent Bush sweeping powers to implement the Free Trade
Area of the Americas (FTAA). Under Fast Track, Congress
gives up its authority
to change the content of trade
agreements. The bill could come up for a vote
in Con-
gress as soon as next week. Call your Representatives
and tell
them not to sign away their power on trade
issues. Tell Congress to vote NO
on Fast Track.
TAKE
ACTION
Urgent: Stop Fast Track!!
For more details, see:
http://www.corpwatch.org/action/2001/025.html
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2) RALPH NADER IN CLEVELAND: WED., OCT. 10
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Ralph Nader will bring his "People Have the Power
Tour" to Cleveland's
Lakewood Civic Auditorium on
October 10. Nader returns to support local efforts
for universal health care, public education, and
organized labor, to be a
strong voice for global
justice and peace, and to build greater Ohio civic
activism.
The rally
at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium begins
at 7:00 PM (doors open at 5:30 PM),
Oct. 10. Event
ticket prices are $10 General Admission, $8 Students.
To
order tickets, to volunteer or for further event
information, call (216) 973-8824.
Visit
Democracy Rising at:
http://www.democracyrising.org
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3) VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR NADER VISIT
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TABLING VOLUNTEERS: There will be over 40 groups
tabling at the Nader event
for which 3-4 volunteers
are needed to help set up.
To help, contact:
Julie Coyle, musicjcoyl@aol.com or 419-474-2572
TICKET
SELLERS/USHERS: About 15 people are needed
to sell tickets to walk-ins, hand
out will-call tickets,
and make sure those entering have purchased tickets.
To help, contact:
Matt Zawisky, mattzawisky@hotmail.com
or 202-486-6409
SECURITY:
Six people are needed to help secure the
facility, both backstage, up front
and in the audi-
torium itself.
To help, contact:
Matt Zawisky, mattzawisky@hotmail.com
or 202-486-6409
There
will be a meeting Mon., Oct. 8 at the Lakewood
Civic Auditorium for all those
who would like to help.
Meet at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium, 14100 Franklin
Blvd. at Bunts Rd. in the lobby at 7:00 PM.
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4) VOLUNTEER FOR A GREEN CANDIDATE
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Across Ohio, Green Party candidates and endorsed can-
didates are running
for local office. Candidates
are asking for volunteers to work with their
campaigns.
Please join in this important endeavor.
SIGN
UP TODAY! at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/newsletter/register.htmlvolunteer.htm
Outreach
weekends:
Oct. 12-14 Cleveland Heights and Toledo
Oct. 19-21 Athens and
Cincinnati
Oct. 24-26 Kent and Dublin
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5) ACLU SAYS SENATE TERRORISM BILL DANGEROUS
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The ACLU is urging the Senate to reject the newest
version of proposed anti-terrorism
legislation, say-
ing that it poses significantly more danger to civil
liberties than the measure adopted earlier this week
by the House Judiciary
Committee. The ACLU reports
that the Senate legislation will allow for indefinite
detention of non-citizens, even if they have success-
fully challenged a government
effort to deport them;
minimize judicial supervision of federal telephone
and Internet surveillance by law enforcement; expand
the ability of government
to conduct secret searches;
give the Attorney General and the Secretary of
State
the power to designate domestic groups as terrorist
organizations
and block any non-citizen who belongs
to them from entering the country (paying
member-
ship dues to a designated organization would be a
deportable offense);
grant the FBI broad access to
sensitive business records about individuals
without
having to show evidence of a crime; and lead to large-
scale investigations
of American citizens for
"intelligence" purposes.
For
more information, see:
http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/
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6) ABANDONED ANTHRAX DUMP SITE SITTING UNGUARDED
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The Toronto Globe & Mail reported yesterday that
buried on Vozrozhdeniye
Island, a former Soviet bio-
logical weapons test site, is tons of powdered
anthrax,
the deadliest bacteria on Earth. There are also lesser
quantities
of plague, typhus, smallpox and a host of
other disease-causing organisms
at the site. The
island is abandoned and unguarded.
For
the complete story, see:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1005-02.htm
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7) GREENS CALL FOR JUSTICE WITHOUT VENGEANCE
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The Green Party of the U.S. calls for the Sept. 11
attacks to be treated as
an international crime
against humanity instead of a motivation for war.
To
read the entire news release, see:
http://www.greenpartyus.org/press/pr_10_03_01.html
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8) NAFTA ALLOWS CORPORATIONS TO SUE GOVERNMENTS
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In the Oct. 15 edition of The Nation, William Greider
reports on a provision
of NAFTA that allows corpora-
tions to sue governments if new laws threaten
future
corporate earnings. Greider claims that this sets a
troubling precedent
for the negotiations for the Free
Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
To
read the interview, visit:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11635
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9) SUPPORT GREEN PARTY CANDIDATES IN OHIO
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Send your contribution directly to the candidate of
your choice as outlined
below:
Dublin City
Council Ward 1: Alan Amstutz, *
Contact: 614-761-1308 or aamstutz@columbus.rr.com
Send contributions to:
"Vote Amstutz," 5303 Erin Isles Ct., Dublin
OH 43017
Dublin
City Council Ward 3: Paul Dumouchelle *
Contact: 614-766-4511 or pauld@columbus.rr.com
Send contributions to:
"Vote Dumouchelle," 8832 Nairn Ct., Dublin
OH 43017
Kent City
Council: Patricia A. Fridrich *
Contact: 330-678-4695 or PattiForCouncil@msn.com
http://www.pcgreens.org/fridrich
Send contributions to:
"Friends of Patricia Fridrich," PO Box 851,
Kent OH 44240
Kent
City School Board: Bob Gragson *
Contact: 330-678-3266 or bob@gragson.com
http://www.gragson.com
Send contributions to:
"Friends of Bob Gragson," PO Box 851, Kent
OH 44240
Cincinnati
City Council: Wes Flinn *
Contact: 513-221-6683 or wfcampaign@fuse.net
http://wesflinn.tripod.com
Send contributions to:
"Friends of Wes Flinn," 512 Howell Ave.,
#1 West,
Cincinnati OH 45220
Toledo
City School Board: Steve Steel *
Contact: (419) 242-0563 or Steel4TPS@hotmail.com
Send contributions to:
"Steel for School Board," 2041 Parkwood,
Toledo OH 43620
Southern
Local School Board: Cindy Dubielak Yeager *
Contact: (740) 347-4363 or yeager_c@hocking.edu
Not soliciting contributions.
Athens
City Council: Paul Wiehl
Contact: 740-592-3745 or pwiehl@hotmail.com
Send contributions to:
"Wiehl for Council," 56 Mound St., Athens
OH 45701
Cleveland
Heights-University Heights School Board: Vicky Knight
Contact: 216-381-1372
Send contributions to:
"Vicky Knight for Board of Education," 1519
Crest Rd.,
Cleveland Heights OH 44121
Cleveland
Heights City Council: Judy Botwin
Contact: 216-371-1945
Send contributions
to:
"Botwin for Council," 1909 Staunton Rd. OH 44118
* denotes Green Party Member
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10) "GRANNY D" COMING TO OHIO
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Doris "Granny D" Haddock, 91, the nationally known,
highly respected
supporter of campaign finance reform,
will be in Ohio this month. "Granny
D" captured the
hearts and imaginations of Americans when she decided
to walk across the U.S. to demonstrate her concern for
the issue of campaign
finance reform. She began her
walk on Jan. 1, 1999, and after logging 3,200
miles
at about 10 miles per day, arrived in Washington D.C.
on Feb. 9,
2000. She wore out 4 sets of shoes, cele-
brated 2 birthdays, and talked to
thousands of other
Americans on her journey across America.
Akron:
Thursday, October 11
"Granny D" will appear at a Yes on Issue 7
march/
rally on Thurs., Oct. 11, at St. Bernard’s Church (on
the
corner of Broadway and State in downtown Akron).
The march will start at St.
Bernard’s at 3:30 PM, stop
at City Hall, and return to St. Bernard’s.
A rally will
take place in St. Bernard’s Social Hall at 5 PM. The
Yes on Issue 7 campaign supports passage of "clean
money" public
financing of elections in Akron. For more
information about Granny D’s
Akron visit, contact 330-253-7151.
Cincinnati:
Sunday, October 21
"Granny D" will appear at an EarthSave Cincinnati
Vegetarian Potluck Dinner on Sun., Oct. 21 at 6 PM at
St. John's Unitarian
Church, 320 Resor Ave., Clifton.
Program will begin at 7:30 PM. For more information,
contact 513-591-3003 or cincinnati@earthsave.org.
Visit
"Granny D's" Web site at:
http://grannyd.com
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11) U.S. VEHICLE FUEL ECONOMY HITS RECORD LOW
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The average fuel economy of all car and truck models
sold in the U.S. has
fallen to 20.4 miles per gallon,
the lowest level in two decades, the U.S.
Environ-
mental Protection Agency reported this week.
For
full text and graphics visit:
http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2001/2001L-10-05-06.html
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