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Weekly Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 1 -- January 12,
2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,879)
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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)
10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 2001
2) ZALMAY KHALILZAD AND THE BUSH AGENDA (OIL)
3) OHIO CAMPUS GREENS CONVENTION - FEB. 15 & 16
4) CARTER TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR
IN MAINE
5) PALECEK TO RUN FOR CONGRESS IN IOWA
6) MINING COMPANY PROTECTED
BY DASCHLE LEGISLATION
7) CIA-BACKED ANALYSIS TOOL FOR PASSENGER CHECKS
8) GPO NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
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1) 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 2001
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Multinational Monitor has named Abbott Laboratories,
Argenbright, Bayer, Coke,
Enron, Exxon Mobil, Philip
Morris, Sara Lee, Southern Co. and Wal-Mart as
the
10 worst corporations of 2001.
For
the complete article, see:
http://63.111.165.25/01december/dec01corp1.html
For
a condensed article, see:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0103-08.htm
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2) ZALMAY KHALILZAD AND THE BUSH AGENDA (OIL)
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The appointment by the Bush Administration of Zalmay
Khalilzad as special
envoy to Afghanistan was
announced on December 31, 2001. Khalilzad's appoint-
ment means oil. Oil for the United States. Oil for
Unocal, a U.S. company
long criticized for doing
business in countries with repressive governments
and rumored to have close ties to the Department of
State and the intelligence
community.
To read
more, see:
http://www.truthout.com/01.14A.Zalmay.Oil.htm
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3) OHIO CAMPUS GREENS CONVENTION - FEB. 15 & 16
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The Ohio Campus Greens Convention will be February
15th and 16th in Columbus,
Ohio. Two possible
keynote speakers are Winona LaDuke and media expert
Robert McChesney! To register, follow the link below.
Established
Chapters:
If you haven't received a call from the
Coordinator of the Ohio Campus Greens yet, please
send her your phone number.
Budding
Chapters:
There are a number of campuses out there trying to
start up
Green campus organizations, but to start a
chapter officially, your main contact
person needs to
fill out the form at:
http://www.campusgreens.org/organizers/info_sheet.php.
To
register for the convention, sign up at:
http://www.osu.edu/students/CGP/OH/
Visit
Campus Greens at:
http://www.campusgreens.org
Visit
the OSU Campus Green Party at:
http://www.osugreens.org
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4) CARTER TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR IN MAINE
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Jonathan Carter will run for governor under the state's
Clean Election fund.
Carter, 50, a member of the Maine
Green Independent Party, is well-known around
the state
for his stands on forestry issues and his previous runs
for
Congress and the Blaine House. He is a trained
botanist, a teacher of many
years and directs the Forest
Ecology Network. He grew up in Connecticut and
has degrees
from Williams College, where his grandfather was once
college
president, and the University of New Hampshire.
Carter
has a political background. His mother's father
and cousin were both U.S.
senators. Carter ran two un-
successful high-profile statewide referendum
votes to
limit and manage forestry practices in Maine. Carter ran
ran
unsuccessfully for Congress in 1992 and for governor
in 1994, when he received
6.4% of the vote.
To
be eligible for the Clean Election Fund, Carter has to
collect 2,500 donations
of $5 each, gather 2,000 signatures
of registered Greens and then beat Farmington
minister and
fellow Green candidate Steven Farsaci in the primary. If
all that happens, Carter will likely be eligible for more
than $900,000 in
public funds for his campaign; in 1994,
he spent less than $35,000.
Carter
supports a single-payer universal health-care system.
He backs creating a
federal park in Maine's North Woods. He
thinks the state's university system
needs to teach more
technology and computer skills. He believes the government
should encourage alternative energy, and says the state
should focus on attracting
businesses that pay "livable
wages." And he thinks the tax system
should be revamped
to make it fairer for working people.
Greens
in Maine have had gubernatorial candidates before.
Green candidates received
more than 6% of the vote in 1994
and close to 7% in 1998. The party has 8,743
registered
voters representing less than 1% of the Maine electorate
last
November.
For more
information, see:
http://www.maineprogressive.org/112001/lam_carter.htm
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5) PALECEK TO RUN FOR CONGRESS IN IOWA
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From Sioux City Journal, Fri., 14 Dec 2001
HEADLINE:
PALECEK, FORMER DEMOCRAT, SEEKS GREEN PARTY
NOMINATION FOR CONGRESS
BYLINE:
By Kate Thompson, Journal Staff Writer
"Mike
Palecek of Sheldon will run again for Congress,
this time as a member of the
Green Party. Two years ago,
he ran as the Democratic candidate against U.S.
Rep.
Tom Latham, R, Alexander, for the 5th District seat.
"Thursday
morning, outside the gates of the 185th
Fighter Wing of the Iowa Air National
Guard, he
announced his intention to seek the nomination of
the Green
Party.
"'I
am doing this because of the war,' he said.
'There has never been a more important
time to speak
truth to power.'
"Four
Republicans are competing for their party's
nomination, state Sen. Steve King
of Kiron, state
Sen. John Redwine of Sioux City, House Speaker Brent
Siegrist
of Council Bluffs and Council Bluffs business-
man Jeff Ballenger. Council
Bluffs businessman Paul
Shonishor is seeking the Democratic nomination.
"Palecek,
46, said the attacks on the World Trade
Center and Pentagon were wrong because
it is always
wrong to kill. But he added they should have served
as a
wake up call, forcing Americans to ask why they
are hated.
"'Not
because we have democracy,' he said. 'But because
we have wealth -- a grossly
disproportionate amount of
the world's wealth. . . We have answered one terrorist
act with another, raining down bombs on the poorest
people on earth.'
"Patecek
said much of the world sees the United States
as the leading terrorist nation
on earth as a result of
actions in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iraq, Grenada,
Panama,
Chile, Guatemala, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
"He
said instead of choosing the side of the Republicans
or the Taliban, there
is a third choice --- that of the
poor child.
"'I
stand here against terrorism in all forms -- either
by suicide bomber or state-of-the-art
F-16s and stealth
war planes,' Palecek said. 'In this Christmas season, it
should not seem out of fashion to say that the side of the
poor baby in the
manger is the side to be on. That is the
side of love and authentic Christianity.'
He added that
he opposes the killing of innocents anywhere in the world.
"'We
will not eradicate terrorism by waging war on the
ravaged people of the earth,'
Palecek said. 'And it will
not be achieved by depriving ourselves of civil
liberties.'
"Palecek
is a former newspaper reporter, editor and pub-
lisher who has won awards
for his work. His novel, 'KGB,'
will be released in early 2002. He has served
time in
several federal prisons for protesting against nuclear
weapons.
He and his wife, Ruth, have two children."
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6) MINING COMPANY PROTECTED BY DASCHLE LEGISLATION
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The NY Times reported Jan. 3 that Homestake Mining,
a South Dakota mining
company turned to Sen. Tom
Daschle to obtain valuable help for a project in
his
state.
The
Senate agreed to relieve the company of any legal
liability that it might
have for damage done to the
environment in digging gold from the Black Hills
over
the last 125 years.
The
company had been planning to close the mine this
month. Scientists said it
would be a good site for an
underground physics laboratory. But Homestake,
now owned
by Barrick Gold of Toronto, insisted that it first had
to be
protected against lawsuits.
Sen.
Tom Daschle (D-SD) was the chief sponsor of the
bill under which the federal
government will assume
liability for any environmental damage. Rep. John Thune
(R-SD), recruited by President Bush to run against South
Dakota's other senator
(Tim Johnson, D-SD), also claims
credit for the legislation.
The
Homestake legislation was one of the "miscellaneous
provisions"
tacked onto the 2002 appropriations bill for
the Defense Department. The House
and the Senate approved
the bill on Dec. 20, hours before adjourning for the
year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/politics/03MINE.html
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7) CIA-BACKED ANALYSIS TOOL FOR PASSENGER CHECKS
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Data analysis software backed by the CIA and used by
some casinos to catch
gambling cheats is now being
tested for its potential to detect suspected
terror-
ists and their associates when they make airline,
hotel or rental-car
reservations.
To read more on this, see:
http://www.idg.net/ic_784613_1794_9-10000.html
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8) GPO NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
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All Green Party of Ohio (GPO) email newsletters from
2001 are on the GPO Web
site at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/newsletters/
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