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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 18 -- June 1, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,787)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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1) DONATE TO DODEN
AND AMSTUTZ CAMPAIGNS
2) GREEN PARTY CLOSES IN ON CLEAN ELECTION FUNDS
3) PLATTS CHALLENGED BY THIRD PARTIES INC. GREEN
4) GREEN PARTY
NEWS FROM NEW YORK
5) CAMEJO FOR GOVERNOR IN CALIFORNIA
6)
FINLAND GREENS LEAVE COALITION GOVERNMENT
7) GREEN PARTY OF NEW ZEALAND
IN THE NEWS
8) MICHIGAN GOVERNOR CANDIDATE SPEAKS FROM JAIL
9)
THE PROGRESSIVE: GREENS GO AFTER WELLSTONE
10) OHIO TOPS POLLUTION RANKING
11) HALLIBURTON LIKE ENRON?
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) DONATE TO DODEN AND AMSTUTZ CAMPAIGNS
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Frank Doden is the Green Party candidate for U.S.
Congress in the 7th District.
Send contributions to
support Frank's campaign to FRANK DODEN FOR CONGRESS,
Richard Donnelly, Treasurer, 422 N. Walnut St., Yellow
Springs, OH 45387,
or visit Frank's Web site at
http://www.dodenfordemocracy.com
to make an online
contribution.
Alan
Amstutz is the Green Party candidate for Ohio
House of Representatives, District
22 (Clintonville,
Beechwald, Dublin & NW Columbus). Send contributions
to support Alan's campaign to VOTE AMSTUTZ, Greg Richey,
Treasurer, 2363 N.
4th St., Columbus OH 43202.
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2) GREEN PARTY CLOSES IN ON CLEAN ELECTION FUNDS
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In what could be a major blow to Democrats' hopes of
regaining the governor's
office, Green Party guberna-
torial candidate Jill Stein is on the verge of
quali-
fying to receive up to $3.4 million in taxpayer-funded
Clean Election
campaign funds in Massachusetts.
***More: http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/massachusetts.html
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3) PLATTS CHALLENGED BY THIRD PARTIES INC. GREEN
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U.S. Rep. Todd Platts of Pennsylvania, flush with a
landslide primary victory,
may have no Democratic
opponent in the fall, but third-party candidates are
lining up to challenge his effort for a second term.
***More: http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/pennsylvania.html
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4) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM NEW YORK
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Green Party representatives from across New York
selected candidates May 25
to represent the party in
the November gubernatorial election.
***More:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/new_york.html#1
and http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/new_york.html#2
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5) CAMEJO FOR GOVERNOR IN CALIFORNIA
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He's a financier who wants to become governor, thinks
Californians are overtaxed
and says he is disgusted
that Gray Davis failed to follow basic business princi-
ples during the energy crisis. The candidate is not
Republican Bill Simon
Jr., but the Green Party's nominee
for governor, Peter Miguel Camejo. He is
probably the
only person on the ballot in November who has sailed
in the
Olympics, been expelled from Berkeley, run for
president as a Socialist and
founded his own money
management firm.
***More: http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/california.html
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6) FINLAND GREENS LEAVE COALITION GOVERNMENT
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Finland's Green Party has walked out of the country's
coalition government
after parliament voted to pro-
ceed with controversial plans to build the
country's
fifth nuclear reactor.
***More: http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/finland.html
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7) GREEN PARTY OF NEW ZEALAND IN THE NEWS
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The Greens in New Zealand said they would not enter
into a coalition with
any party that did not extend
the moratorium on genetically engineered organisms
indefinitely.
***More: http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/new_zealand.html#1,
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/new_zealand.html#3,
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/new_zealand.html#4,
and
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/new_zealand.html#5
Unconventional
Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos has added
a new dimension to campaigning. He
expects to shore up
support for the Greens with a CD of New Zealand music,
which goes on sale at music shops next week.
***More: http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/new_zealand.html#2
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8) MICHIGAN GOVERNOR CANDIDATE SPEAKS FROM JAIL
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Letter from the Brighton Jail from Douglas Campbell,
Green Party candidate
for governor in Michigan, who
was expelled and arrested May 25 from the Guberna-
torial Candidate Forum on the Environment at Brighton
High School.
***Read
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/michigan.html
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9) THE PROGRESSIVE: GREENS GO AFTER WELLSTONE
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Ed McGaa won the Minnesota Green Party endorsement,
with a two-thirds majority,
despite an effort by their
former Vice Presidential candidate Winona LaDuke
and
others to get the party to forego a Senate race against
Wellstone.
At the Minnesota Green Party convention,
the "none of the above"
option for Senate got less
than 12 percent of the vote. The Democrats put
so much
negative pressure on the Greens not to run a candidate
in Wellstone's
race, says Green spokesperson Holle Brian,
that the Greens got mad. "People
came to the convention
with the goal of endorsing a candidate come hell or
high
water," she says. There was already a fair amount of
progressive
grumbling in Minnesota over Wellstone's votes
authorizing Bush's military
response to the terrorist
attacks of September 11, as well as past votes supporting
military actions in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq.
***More: http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxrc052402.html
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10) OHIO TOPS POLLUTION RANKING
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Ohio was the No. 1 source of toxic chemical releases
and transfers in the
United States and Canada in 1999,
according to a new study. That top ranking
was a result
of air emissions from coal-burning power plants and
heavy
industries across Ohio. Releases to the environ-
ment in 1999 from 1,504 Ohio
plants represented 7.5%
of the U.S.-Canada total. Ohio was also No. 1 in 1998.
***More: http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/prevention/ohio_tops.htm
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11) HALLIBURTON LIKE ENRON?
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An Enron-like accounting scandal is threatening to
erupt around Halliburton,
the multi-billion dollar
oil company that Vice President Dick Cheney used
to
run. It emerged this week that the Securities and
Exchange Commission
is investigating Halliburton's
accounting methods while Cheney was its chief
execu-
tive. Halliburton adopted new accounting methods in
1998 which
allowed it to hide possible losses of hun-
dreds of millions of dollars. Halliburton
didn't tell
its investors of the change for more than a year. The
company's
auditor Arthur Andersen gave Halliburton the
green light.
Halliburton
is the world's largest oil services company,
with more than $13 billion in
annual revenues. Cheney
made a fortune off of Halliburton, raking in more
than
$30 million in stock options alone. Wall street analysts
have praised
him for turning the company into a global
giant with soaring revenues and
business in more than
130 countries."
Full
story on Real Audio file:
http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020531.html
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12) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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Cloning Bill Bans Abortion Too?
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,52838,00.html
Corporations
are inventing people to rubbish their
opponents on the Internet
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020601/corporations.html
FBI
Given More Latitude
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30427-2002May29.html
Why
has the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks
stalled? The evidence points
one way.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4417654,00.html
Patriot
Act's supposed justification is gone
http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/2848003.html
The
huge transnational companies that produce toxic
chemicals found in pesticides,
herbicides and industrial
and household products profit not only from the
sale of
these products, but also from the symptoms and chronic
illnesses
that they can trigger.
http://www.mercola.com/2002/may/29/poison_profit.htm
India
Set to Launch 'Small War'
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0531/p01s04-wosc.html
State
lawmakers investigating California's $95 million
no-bid software contract
have brokered an agreement
to hear testimony from five Oracle officials involved
in the deal.
http://newsletter.varbusiness.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHSs0BnbQ80hk0BdE60A7
Law's
Sponsors Fault Draft of Campaign Finance Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/politics/31DONA.html
How
Big a Corporate Disaster Is Needed?
by Arianna Huffington
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0531-01.htm
US
plan to strike enemy with Valium
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,722395,00.html
British
military prepare for nuclear war aftermath
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-305877,00.html
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