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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 15 -- May 4, 2002
(This
newsletter distributed to 2,792)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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1) UPDATE: FRANK
DODEN FOR CONGRESS
2) UPDATE: CHAD PERRY FOR CONGRESS
3) UPDATE:
ALAN AMSTUTZ FOR STATE HOUSE
4) UPDATE: MANSOUR BEY FOR TOLEDO CITY
COUNCIL
5) MA GREEN AND RAINBOW COALITION PARTIES MERGE
6)
CARTER FOR GOVERNOR IN MAINE: 2 STORIES
7) GREEN PARTY POISED FOR MAJOR
PUSH IN MA
8) NH FIRST STATE TO TACKLE GLOBAL WARMING
9) AKRONOHIO.NET
ALTERNATIVE NEWS SITE LAUNCHED
10) WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL ON DAVIS-BESSE
11) U.S. TO INVADE IRAQ NEXT YEAR
12) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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Join the Green Party of Ohio:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/register.html
List of current Green Party members:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/.
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1) UPDATE: FRANK DODEN FOR CONGRESS
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Frank Doden, Green Party candidate for US Congress
(7th District) had more
than 1,500 signatures a week
ago, but is seeking 2,500 to ensure there are
suffi-
cient valid signatures to achieve ballot status.
The
campaign is looking for additional help on Sunday,
May 5 in the afternoon.
Petitioners are to meet at
Frank Doden's house at 1640 Spillan Road in Yellow
Springs at 12:30 PM. Petitioning will be in nearby
communities in parking
lots and door-to-door. Call
Frank at 937-767-8135 immediately if you are willing
to help. Petitions must be turned in to the Board of
Elections by 4 PM on
Mon., May 6.
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2) UPDATE: CHAD PERRY FOR CONGRESS
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Chad Perry, Green Party candidate for US Congress
(18th District) is seeking
more signatures on peti-
tions to achieve ballot status.
Petitioning
will be held Sunday, May 5. Contact Chad
Perry at (740) 588-1933 or John Hommel,
his campaign
manager, at (740) 453-5262 for more details.
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3) UPDATE: ALAN AMSTUTZ FOR STATE HOUSE
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Green Party candidate Alan Amstutz is running for
Ohio House of Representatives
in District 22 (Clinton-
ville, Beechwald, Dublin & NW Columbus). He is
endorsed
by the Central Ohio Green Party.
Please
help the candidate petition to be on the ballot.
Opportunities to help this
weekend include petitioning
at the following locations on Sunday, May 5:
a)
Whetstone library, 3909 N. High St., Columbus, 1-5 PM
b) Door-to-door petitioning
in Dublin with Alan Amstutz, 1-5 PM
c) The Columbus Metro library in Dublin
at 75 N. High St.
Please
call Alan Amstutz (614-761-1308) or Jack Byrom
(614-784-1780) to confirm your
participation so that
they can coordinate petitioning. Make sure that Alan
or Jack have all your signatures by Monday morning,
May 6. The petitions must
be turned in by 4 PM, Monday,
May 6.
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4) UPDATE: MANSOUR BEY FOR TOLEDO CITY COUNCIL
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A door-to-door campaign for Mansour Bey for Toledo
City Council continues
this weekend through Monday
and there will be human billboarding at various
street
corners on Sunday and Monday. Anyone interested in
helping out
should contact Anita Rios at 419-243-8772
(messages) or 419-297-3719 (no messages).
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5) MA GREEN AND RAINBOW COALITION PARTIES MERGE
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The Massachusetts Green Party and the Rainbow Coali-
tion Party united their
memberships into a single
political entity at a statewide meeting last weekend.
The merged party also endorsed candidates for state
political office: Dr.
Jill Stein for Governor, Anthony
Lorenzen for Lt. Governor, and James O’Keefe
for
Treasurer. "The Green Party isn't only growing through
the incremental
process of persuading and registering
new members, one by one," said
Ben Manski, a member of
the steering committee of the Green Party of the United
States and an activist working on building ties between
the Green and Progressive
Parties in Wisconsin. More:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020504/massachusetts2.html
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6) CARTER FOR GOVERNOR IN MAINE: 2 STORIES
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The Portland Press Herald reported Thursday that a
state agency has cleared
the way for Jonathan Carter,
the Green Independent Party's candidate for governor
in Maine, to receive public financing for his campaign
over the objections
of the Maine Democratic Party,
which questioned Carter's eligibility for the
money.
The Democratic Party cannot appeal the decision by the
Commission
on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices.
John Baldacci, the Democratic
candidate for governor,
could challenge it, but he will not, according to
a
spokeswoman. Carter will get $41,885 from the state
this week for his
primary campaign, even though he is
unopposed for his party's nomination.
After the June 11
primary, Carter will receive at least $286,910 more for
the general-election campaign and possibly as much as
$860,730 more, depending
on how much money his privately
funded opponents spend on their campaigns.
More:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020504/maine1.html
The
Bangor News reported Wednesday that Jonathan Carter,
the Green Independent
Party's candidate for governor in
Maine, has purchased an 18,000 gasoline-
and electric-
battery-powered Honda Insight that he ill use as his
campaign
car. Using his personal savings to buy the car,
Carter aid he's getting a
lot of smiles and "thumbs up"
from those he meets on Maine highways
as he tools along
in the aerodynamically sleek little vehicle.
During
a press conference Tuesday at Blouin's Honda in
Augusta, where he bought the
car, Carter offered some
of his thoughts on a state energy policy. The featured
attraction for the event was the Honda with its electri-
fying Monte Carlo
Blue paint. More:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020504/maine2.html
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7) GREEN PARTY POISED FOR MAJOR PUSH IN MA
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Making its first major push in Massachusetts electoral
politics, the Green
Party of Massachusetts on April 27
endorsed three candidates for statewide
office and
seven for the Legislature, with all of them counting
on public
campaign funding to reach a wider audience
than ever. The Clean Elections
Law, with its promise
of millions of dollars in public support for candidates
for statewide office, will give those committed to a
liberal agenda on the
environment and social and eco-
nomic policy an unprecedented vehicle to reach
the
public, said Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate
for governor. More:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020504/massachusetts1.html
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8) NH FIRST STATE TO TACKLE GLOBAL WARMING
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New Hampshire lawmakers became the first in the
country to pass a law to reduce
global warming. The
measure is aimed at reducing emissions of carbon di-
oxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide – thus ad-
dressing global
warming, acid rain, smog and airborne
mercury poisoning contributions by fossil-fuel
power
plants. Although some environmentalists have opposed
a part of the
bill that allows credit-trading with
out-of-state utilities for those unable
to cut local
emissions by 2007, others have supported the plan and
called
the compromise a major step forward. Even though
the new rules for emissions
pale in comparison to the
Kyoto Protocol, the measure will serve as a model
for
other states and the federal government to follow New
Hampshire’s
initiative and take action in curbing our
role in climate change. More:
http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-22-06.html
and
http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/local2002/clean_air_law7466_2002.shtml
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9) AKRONOHIO.NET ALTERNATIVE NEWS SITE LAUNCHED
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A newly formed collection of grassroots organizations
and individuals in the
Akron-area has launched a new
media outlet. The Independent Akron Media [IAM]
Pro-
ject publishes alternative news stories and events on
the website
AkronOhio.net.
Due
to the mass media's tendency to misportray, omit,
and marginalize important
voices and stories in Akron's
many communities, IAM hopes to empower people
to report
news stories from the grassroots. IAM strives to expand
the
range of ideas, information, and news that helps to
inform and activate Akron-area
residents on issues of
social, economic, and environmental justice, diversity,
peace, and the collective humanity of all.
The
media project will be strictly non-corporate; no
advertisers or media headquarters
in some other state
will have any influence over anything published by IAM.
The influence of power and money will not corrupt or
inhibit the desire and
ability of people to talk about
issues of importance to them and their communities.
Send
news tips or story ideas to afscdmw@yahoo.com. For
contributions to the "Rubber
City Rumors" column, email
afscmmp@yahoo.com.
Visit
AkronOhio.Net at:
http://AkronOhio.net
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10) WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL ON DAVIS-BESSE
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The Washington Post published April 28 an excellent
editorial on the recent
disaster at the Davis-Besse
nuclear power plant operated by FirstEnergy near
Toledo:
"You
wouldn't know it from the bland pronouncements
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC), but the
U.S. nuclear industry just had its closest brush with
disaster
since the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.
The Davis-Besse nuclear power plant,
located about 30
miles east of Toledo, Ohio, was operating with a rust
hole in the top of its reactor pressure vessel -- a
hole wide and deep enough
to put your fist into. All
that was left to contain the reactor's highly pres-
surized supply of cooling water around the reactor
core was a three-eighths
inch liner of stainless steel,
and the liner had started to bulge ominously.
If the
liner had burst, it would have drained cooling water
vital for
safety and also threatened the reactor's
emergency shutdown system."
More:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020504/davis-besse.html
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11) U.S. TO INVADE IRAQ NEXT YEAR
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The Bush administration is contemplating a major air
campaign and ground invasion
against Iraq, with ini-
tial estimates requiring 70,000 to 250,000 troops.
More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/international/middleeast/28MILI.html?todaysheadlines
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12) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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American Navy 'Helped Venezuelan Coup'
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0429-01.htm
NRC
Warns of Missing Radioactive Materials
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29869-2002May3.html
Bush
Administration Approves Most Damaging Change
to Clean Water Act in Decades
http://www.commondreams.org/news2002/0503-13.htm
Occidental
Petroleum Abandons Oil Development on U'wa Land
http://ens-news.com/ens/may2002/2002L-05-03-01.html
Bush
Administration to Permit Mining Waste in Streams
http://ens-news.com/ens/may2002/2002L-05-03-09.html#anchor1
Bush
Chokes Reactive Chemical Regulations
http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-30-05.html
Wyoming
Coalbed Methane Leases Ruled Illegal
http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-30-06.html
Mushroom
Cloud License Plate to be Tested
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2002/04/23/12805.php
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of the author or organization
noted and do not
necessarily reflect the opinions of the Green Party
of
Ohio.
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