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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 4 -- February 9, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,828)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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1) NEWS FROM THE
GPO COORDINATING COMMITTEE
2) DODEN ENDORSED FOR CONGRESS IN 7TH DISTRICT
3) PROTESTORS NOW TO BE CALLED TERRORISTS
4) DOCUMENTARY EXPOSING
NAFTA'S CHAPTER 11
5) GREEN PARTY JOINS 9-11 EMERGENCY NETWORK
6)
TELEVISION ADDICTION
7) TOP 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ENRON
8) ENRON, NUCLEAR TERRORISM & OUR SOLAR FUTURE
9) ENRON? NADER
IS GLAD YOU ASKED
10) MICHAEL MOORE ON ENRON AND BUSH
11) ALERT: NATIONAL
ID CARDS FROM DMV?
12) OHIO CONSUMER'S COUNCIL
13) RED CROSS: DETAINEES
ARE POWs
14) BUSH ALLOWS OIL DRILLING NEAR UTAH PARKS
15) RISING TREND:
UNINSURED AMERICANS
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1) NEWS FROM THE GPO COORDINATING COMMITTEE
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At its meeting on Jan. 25, the Green Party of Ohio
(GPO) Coordinating Committee
(CC) decided to seek
recognition by the Federal Election Commission as a
State Committee of a Political Party affiliated with
the FEC-recognized Green
Party of the United States.
Twenty-six delegates from throughout Ohio were
in
attendance.
The
CC also selected Daryl Davis from Cleveland as a
delegate to the Green Party
of United States to join
Anita Rios from Toledo. Anita currently serves on
the
Steering Committee of the national party. Bob Gragson,
Logan Martinez
and Paul Dumouchelle serve as alternate
delegates to the national party from
Ohio.
Anita is compiling
the list of local activity to show
that the GPO can qualify for four delegates
to the
national party that Ohio is eligible for beginning
this month.
The GPO needs to show local activity in
four Congressional districts for each
national
delegate to be allocated to the state party.
Plans
continue for the 2002 State Party Convention
to be held this summer. The convention
committee in-
cludes David Ellison, Paul Dumouchelle, Hillary
Tinapple,
Patty Fridrich, Gwen Marshall and Tim Newman.
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2) DODEN ENDORSED FOR CONGRESS IN 7TH DISTRICT
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The Green Party of West Central Ohio has endorsed
Frank Doden for US Congress
from the 7th Congressional
District. The newly redrawn district includes two
major military bases. The current incumbent is David
Hobson, a Republican
who is currently the chair of
the House Appropriations subcommittee on Military
Construction.
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3) PROTESTORS NOW TO BE CALLED TERRORISTS
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The Utah state legislature just passed Utah House
Bill 100 (an amendment to
Utah's criminal code)
which defines protestors as terrorists. The bill
states that a person is guilty of commercial ter-
rorism if he enters or remains
unlawfully on the
premises or in a building of any business with the
intent
to interfere with the employees, customers,
personnel, or operations of a
business.
This bill
was amended and passed by the Utah House
of Representatives and referred to
the Utah Senate
on Feb. 4 in order to limit protests at the Olympics.
The Senate will vote on the bill soon.
To
read the full text of this Utah bill, see:
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2002/bills/hbillint/hb0100.htm
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4) DOCUMENTARY EXPOSING NAFTA'S CHAPTER 11
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On Tues., Feb. 5, the latest segment in TRADING
DEMOCRACY, a collaboration
between Bill Moyers and
producer Sherry Jones, was aired. The documentary
shown on PBS reveals how an obscure provision hidden
in the North America
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
can cost taxpayers millions of dollars and subvert
democracy when multinational corporations sue the
government over environmental
and health laws that
threaten their profits.
To
read more on the report, see:
http://www.globalexchange.org/ftaa/2002/moyers010702.html
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5) GREEN PARTY JOINS 9-11 EMERGENCY NETWORK
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The Green Party of the United States has voted to
join the 9-11 Emergency
National Network (ENN), a
broad-based national peace coalition. Green partici-
pation in ENN will add the political force of the
U.S.'s most prominent third
party to the growing
peace movement, and will encourage Green partici-
pation in the March on Washington scheduled for
April 20.
Read
the entire news release at:
http://www.greenpartyus.org/press/pr_02_08_02.html
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6) TELEVISION ADDICTION
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"The term "TV addiction" is imprecise and laden with
value
judgments, but it captures the essence of a
very real phenomenon. Psychologists
and psychiatrists
formally define substance dependence as a disorder
characterized
by criteria that include spending a
great deal of time using the substance;
using it more
often than one intends; thinking about reducing use
or making
repeated unsuccessful efforts to reduce use;
giving up important social, family
or occupational
activities to use it; and reporting withdrawal symptoms
when one stops using it."
To
read the entire article about television addiction
from the February 2002
issue of Scientific American, see:
http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202kubey.html
For
more information about television, see Commercial
Alert's web page at:
http://www.commercialalert.org/television/index.html
Also,
see the TV-Turnoff Network at:
http://www.tvturnoff.org/
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7) TOP 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ENRON
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Enron's meltdown is more than a lone business scandal,
it's an indictment
of our entire financial and poli-
tical system. This smart, simple Enron primer
ex-
plains why.
To
read this entire AlterNet article, see:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12326
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8) ENRON, NUCLEAR TERRORISM & OUR SOLAR FUTURE
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Harvey Wasserman, author and internationally known
expert adviser to the anti-nuclear
movement, will
speak Sat., Feb. 16 in the Ohio Union Stecker Lounge,
3rd
Floor (1738 N. High St.), Columbus. His latest
book is titled, "The Last
Energy War: The Battle
Over Utility Deregulation." Mr. Wasserman is a
writer
for magazines and journals around the world, and
regularly appears
on radio shows like "Radio Nation"
and "Democracy Now!"
He is a Columbus resident who
participated in the successful fights against
a
regional nuclear waste dump and to shut down Columbus's
dioxin-emitting
trash burning power plant, and is a
columnist for "Columbus Alive"
magazine.
For more
information, see:
http://www.osu.edu/students/CGP/OH/wasserman.html
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9) ENRON? NADER IS GLAD YOU ASKED
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Why, yes, Ralph Nader would be delighted to discuss
the Enron scandal. But
don't expect the once and
possibly future presidential candidate to do so
with
a straight face. "I hate to say 'I told you so,'" he
begins,
barely cloaking his glee over what could be
the greatest corporate scandal
in the lifetime of
America's greatest corporate critic. "But"--and
now
the 67-year-old consumer activist pauses with an
unexpectedly theatrical
flair--"I told you so!"
To
read the 2/25/02 article from The Nation, see:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0208-01.htm
To
read "Nader Had It Right All Along" published in
the Boson Globe
(2/5/02), visit:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0206-01.htm
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10) MICHAEL MOORE ON ENRON AND BUSH
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Michael Moore says that because he allowed Enron to
rip a huge hole in our
political system and in so
many people's lives, it is time for George W. Bush
to resign.
See Michael
Moore's comments at:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/2002_0129.html
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11) ALERT: NATIONAL ID CARDS FROM DMV?
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The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administra-
tors (AAMVA) Special
Task Force on Identification
Security has recommended that the driver's license
become the functional equivalent of a national ID card
and has requested that
Congress adopt and fund the
Driver Record Information Verification System
(DRIVerS),
so that "state agencies and federal agencies such as
the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Social
Security Administration,
the Bureau of Vital Statistics,
and, if necessary, the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
can share information."
For
more information, see:
http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020116_eff_dmv_natl_id_alert.html
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12) OHIO CONSUMERS' COUNSEL
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The Ohio Consumers' Counsel is a residential utility
advocate.
For
more information, see:
http://www.pickocc.org
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13) RED CROSS: DETAINEES ARE POWs
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The Bush Administration calls it a "war on terrorism,"
but fails
to acknowledge that all detainees from this
"war" are "prisoners
of war." On Friday, the Inter-
national Red Cross disagreed with the
administration.
To
read the story from CNN, see:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/02/08/ret.cuba.redcross/index.html
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14) BUSH ALLOWS OIL DRILLING NEAR UTAH PARKS
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The Bush administration is opening the red rock
country near two of Utah's
popular national parks to
oil and gas drilling, over the objections of some
park rangers in the Southwest and government scien-
tists. As part of the
president's energy plan to ex-
pand development on federal lands, 50,000-pound
trucks
have been pounding the ground between Arches and
Canyonlands National
Parks, searching for oil with
seismic measuring instruments. At the same time,
oil
companies have bought leases to drill on federal land
outside Canyonlands
park.
To read the
entire 2/8/02 NY Times article, see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/politics/08UTAH.html
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15) RISING TREND: UNINSURED AMERICANS
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At least two million people lost their health insur-
ance in the last 13 months
as the economy continued
a downward spiral. A coalition has formed to reverse
the rising trend of uninsured Americans.
Read
the NY Times article by visiting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/national/09INSU.html?todaysheadlines
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necessarily reflect the opinions of the Green Party
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