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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 20 -- June 15, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,795)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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1) HELP GREEN PARTY
CANDIDATES IN OHIO
2) URGENT APPEAL: COMFEST 2002 VOLUNTEERS
3)
GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
4) CONSERVATIVE MEETING HEARS
FROM NADER
5) WEB SITE TRACKS NUCLEAR WASTE'S PATH
6) FLOC
LAUNCHES PICKET AGAINST WALMART
7) GRANNY D AT CITY CLUB IN CLEVELAND
JUNE 21
8) COMPANIES FRET THEIR SNACKS
9) FEDERAL ELECTION
WRECKING CREW
10) EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NEAR YUCCA MOUNTAIN
11) PROGRAM ON
CORPORATIONS, LAW & DEMOCRACY
12) CLEAN AIR VILLAIN OF THE MONTH IN CLEVELAND
13) CONSUMER REPORTS EXAMINES HEALTH INSURANCE
14) U. S. CENSUS
15)
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) HELP GREEN PARTY CANDIDATES IN OHIO
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We have two Green Party candidates in Ohio this year.
They need your support
of money and time.
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) URGENT APPEAL: COMFEST 2002 VOLUNTEERS
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Comfest (see http://www.comfest.com)
is less than
two weeks away! The Central Ohio Green Party (COGP)
still
needs help at its booth particularly for the
following times:
FRI.,
JUNE 28: 8-11 PM
SAT., JUNE 29: 4-7 PM, 7-10 PM
SUN., JUNE 30: 1-4 PM,
7-10 PM
Contact Bill Kerwin at wkerwin@hotmail.com
immedi-
ately if you can help.
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3) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
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MAINE: LOOKING AHEAD TO BLAINE HOUSE
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020615/news.html#Maine
PENNSYLVANIA:
GREEN APPOINTMENT
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020615/news.html#Penn1
TEXAS:
THIRD PARTIES HOPE TO BE HEARD: LIBERTARIAN,
GREEN CONVENTIONS TRY TO APPEAL
TO THE DISENCHANTED
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020615/news.html#Texas
NEW
JERSEY: LOCAL FAMILY FINDS IT EASY BEING GREEN
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020615/news.html#NJ
PENNSYLVANIA:
IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020615/news.html#Penn2
NEW
YORK: BEING GREEN - PROGRESSIVE PARTY CATCHES ON,
BUT CAN IT GAIN WIDESPREAD
SUPPORT?
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020615/news.html#NY
CALIFORNIA:
A LITTLE EASIER TO BE GREEN
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/Green_020614.html
WISCONSIN:
FULL DAY OF ALTERNATIVE VOICES (Conference of Mayors)
(Note: Benford, Zipperer,
and Feinstein are all Greens)
http://www.madison.com/wisconsinstatejournal/mayors/27630.html
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4) CONSERVATIVE MEETING HEARS FROM NADER
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On the other side of the conventional Washington di-
vide, the less famous,
but perhaps as influential,
conservative Grover Norquist holds sway over his
fa-
mous "Wednesday Meetings," where the capital's most
powerful
Republican groups wage war, trying to decon-
struct nearly every piece of
legislation Nader has
pushed Congress to pass over the years. Nader and
Norquist are in many ways the yin and yang of America's
Beltway ideological
battles. Civility, a sense of irony,
and a bit of mischievousness helped convince
Norquist
to invite Nader to his meeting this week. Nader took
full advantage,
urging some of those conservatives to
rethink their fundamental political
beliefs and reclaim
the Republican Party from the grip of corporate interests.
***More: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/Nader_020612.html
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5) WEB SITE TRACKS NUCLEAR WASTE'S PATH
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With the transcontinental shipping of nuclear waste for
storage in Yucca Mountain,
The MapScience Center, a
public interest research group, has created a Web
site
(http://www.mapscience.org)
that allows citizens to
find out how close their home, work or children's
school is to the path of that radioactive waste. The
site enables visitors
to get maps of transportation
routes by simply putting their address into
a form.
***More: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0611-01.htm
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6) FLOC LAUNCHES PICKET AGAINST WALMART
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The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) will launch
a picket campaign at
the Bowling Green Walmart on
S. Main St. on Sat., June 29 at 1 PM to demand
that
they remove Mt. Olive pickles from their shelves. FLOC
will continue
to picket Walmart the second and fourth
Saturday of every month this summer
and into the fall
if necessary. Walmart is the only store in northwest
Ohio that refuses to honor the Mt. Olive boycott. The
Green Party of Ohio
(GPO) Coordinating Committee endorsed
FLOC's boycott of Mt. Olive Pickles
two years ago (see http://www.ohiogreens.org/endorsements/floc.html).
The
intolerable conditions of farmworkers in North
Carolina motivated FLOC's boycott.
Workers are packed
into their housing far over capacity; they do not have
port-a-potties or handwashing facilities in the fields;
they are not getting
the free water which is legally
required and necessary for their survival
in the 98 degree
humidity of eastern North Carolina. Urbano Ramirez Miranda
was 35 years old when he died last summer on June 27 of
heat-stroke related
causes. A subsequent Department of
Labor investigation found the farmer had
been selling beer
to workers for $4 a bottle instead of giving them drinking
water. Only a union contract will guarantee the oversight
and accountability
to prevent tragedies like this from
happening again. FLOC will boycott Mt.
Olive until the
company agrees to negotiate.
This
summer's actions in northwest Ohio are particularly
critical as FLOC fights
to defend its union contracts in
the region. Bowling Green lawyer Jodie Stearns,
owner of
a large Vlasic-contracted cucumber farm who has developed
a relationship
with Mt. Olive CEO Bill Bryan, is trying
very hard to sabotage FLOC's negotiations.
FLOC needs an
outpouring of support from this area in order to avoid
losing
the gains they have fought so hard to defend on
their home turf.
As
preparation for FLOC's pickets and to branch out in the
community, FLOC is
holding a house meeting campaign. The
way it works is that you invite a small
group to your
home or another appropriate gathering place to hear a
very
brief presentation about farmworkers, ask any ques-
tions they want to, and
figure out if and how they can
support the summer's campaign. FLOC wants to
reach people
who have not heard the story and are not yet involved. If
you would like to consider doing a house meeting, email
Morgan Guyton, FLOC
Communications Director, at
mguyton@floc.com ASAP.
***More: http://www.floc.com/boycott.htm
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7) GRANNY D AT CITY CLUB IN CLEVELAND JUNE 21
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Campaign Finance Reform is gaining steam these days.
Back a few years (1999-2000),
Granny D was gaining
steam by walking 10 miles a day across the country
from Pasadena to Washington, D.C., talking about the
issue at each stop. "Granny
D", also known as Doris
Haddock, has been an activist since the 1960s,
when
she and her husband helped stop planned atmospheric
testing of hydrogen
bombs in Alaska. During the McCain-
Feingold debates in 2001, she walked around
the Capitol
building for seven days, walking 24 hours a day during
the
last three (with breaks for catnaps and food).
Today, at 92, she continues
working for campaign finance
at the state and local level. She'll appear June
21 at the
Cleveland City Club, 850 Euclid Avenue, at 12 Noon.
Tickets
$15 members, $20 non-members; corporate and
non-profit tables also available
at 216-621-0082. If
you can't make it to hear this genuine American hero,
remember that the City Club forums are heard in real
time on WCLV-FM (104.9)
and are broadcast on WVIZ-PBS
(Channel 25) on the Sunday following each forum.
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8) COMPANIES FRET THEIR SNACKS
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A major battle is brewing in the United States and
across the globe about
the marketing of junk food and
how to reduce the incidence of marketing-related
dis-
eases such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular
disease. Fearing
they may be held responsible for the
nation's expanding waistline, U.S. food
and beverage
makers are going on the defensive with obesity.
***More:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020615/wsj.html
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9) FEDERAL ELECTION WRECKING CREW
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Nearly four months have passed since enactment of the
most important election
fund-raising reform in a gene-
ration. Now the McCain-Feingold law is threatened
with
evisceration at the hands of operatives in both the
Democratic and
Republican Parties who for many years
tried to block its passage. They have
gotten the Federal
Election Commission, a supposedly independent body that
actually dances like a puppet to the tune of the parties
it is supposed to
regulate, to propose ridiculously
elastic rules on the law's execution that
open up the
very loopholes it explicitly closed. The commission's
sneak
attack could be approved next week. That must not
be allowed to happen.
***More: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/opinion/15SAT1.html
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10) EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NEAR YUCCA MOUNTAIN
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An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter Scale was
recorded early Friday
morning deep beneath the desert
near the site chosen by the Bush administration
for
the nation's permanent high-level nuclear waste repository.
***More:
http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2002/2002-06-14-03.asp
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11) PROGRAM ON CORPORATIONS, LAW & DEMOCRACY
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The Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD)
is twelve activists
who have spent the last several
years researching corporate, labor and legal
histories,
rethinking past organizing strategies and talking with
people
about democracy movements. They work in the
tradition of people's struggles
to replace illegitimate
and tyrannical institutions with democratic ones that
disperse, rather than concentrate, wealth and power.
Visit POCLAD at: http://www.poclad.org
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12) CLEAN AIR VILLAIN OF THE MONTH IN CLEVELAND
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The Ohio-based nonprofit Clean Air Trust on June 12
named Catholic Charities
of Cleveland as the clean
air "villain of the month" for June 2002.
***More: http://www.commondreams.org/news2002/0612-13.htm
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13) CONSUMER REPORTS EXAMINES HEALTH INSURANCE
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The current issue of Consumer Reports "explains the
new cost burdens"
for workers with employer-sponsored
health insurance and offers advice on
how to select
an appropriate health plan. The article outlines three
emerging
strategies employers are using to lower their
health-related costs. These
strategies include imple-
menting or raising subscriber copayments and deducti-
bles, creating personal health accounts and starting
disease-management programs.
Consumer Reports states
that personal health accounts -- recently endorsed
by
President Bush -- have the potential to "undermine the
adequacy
of health coverage" in the United States and
leave employees "significantly
underinsured when they
are injured or sick."
***See: http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=157033
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14) U. S. CENSUS
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America
can now take a look at itself in a snapshot
of 2000 and take stock of the
impact of one of the
longest economic booms and highest immigration rates
in our history. Slight improvements in poverty rates
for families and children
may be cause to celebrate,
but the concentration of affluence at the top and
the
failure of the economic boom to lift all boats is
cause for serious
concern among those looking to
widening opportunities for low-income families.
***See: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/date.html
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15) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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Unions say Bush blocking them; Security plan concerns critics
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020613/4189985s.htm
S.F.
attorney: Bush allowed 9/11
http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.lawyer.0611w
The
Route to Ruin: Enron Snared U.S. Support for Pipeline
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=pipeline13&date=20020613&query=enron
Plutocracy
and Politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/14/opinion/14KRUG.html
Deadly
Floods Surprise Drought Stricken China
http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2002/2002-06-14-01.asp
Dirty
Bombs, Blowback and Imperial Projections
http://www.counterpunch.org/shor0612.html
Signs
of attacks well-known
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/3387673.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
FBI
& Bush Administration Sued Over Anthrax Documents
http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml
Rev.
Al, Madison seems to love you
http://www.madison.com/captimes/news/report/27536.php
A
Watcher for the Watchers
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13384
New
Study Adds to Debate on E.P.A. Rules for Pesticide
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/politics/02POLL.html?todaysheadlines
Pak
signs trilateral gas pipeline agreement
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/300502/dlfor80.asp
Secretive
organization holds powwow in Virginia
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27814
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