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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 22 -- June 29, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,801)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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1) JOIN THE GREEN
PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP AT 457
2) COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN
JULY 13
3) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
4) HELP
GREEN PARTY CANDIDATES IN OHIO
5) STEIN CAMPAIGN SEEKS CAMPAIGN MANAGER
6) SUIT SAYS WAL-MART DIDN'T PAY WORKERS
7) RECENT NADER COLUMNS
ON CORPORATE CORRUPTION
8) STRIKERS AS TERRORISTS?
9) NADER
TO BORDERS: DON'T LIMIT ACCESS TO BOOKS
10) PUBLIC HEALTH PREVENTION EFFORTS
UNDERMINED
11) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS***************************************************
1) JOIN THE GREEN PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP AT 457
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457 Ohio citizens have registered as members of the
Green Party of Ohio (GPO)
during the first four months
of registration. Add your name to the list at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/.***************************************************
2) COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN JULY 13
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The Green Party of Ohio (GPO) Coordinating Committee
will meet Saturday, July
13 from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM
at the Clintonville Community Resource Center,
14 West Lakeview Ave., Columbus. Business will include
planning for the 2002
state convention, national co-chair
stipends, suspending non-participating
members’ status
for purpose of quorum, state door-to-door campaign,
Supreme Court petition to hear ballot labeling case,
and more.The
meeting is open to all registered GPO members.
A list of registered members
can be found at
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/.
Those intend-
ing to observe the meeting should contact Convener
Paul
Dumouchelle at pauld@columbus.rr.com
or
614-766-4511. Any observers who want to address dele-
gates at the
meeting, should also notify the convener
to be added to the agenda.***************************************************
3) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
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MINNESOTA: WILL VOTERS EVER AGAIN SETTLE FOR 2 CHOICES?
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020629/index.html#MN***************************************************
4) 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.***************************************************
5) STEIN CAMPAIGN SEEKS CAMPAIGN MANAGER
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Dr. Jill Stein, the Massachusetts Green Party guber-
natorial candidate will
be hiring a Campaign Manager.
The Campaign Manager will be the chief executive
officer of the campaign. This is a full-time paid
position. Salary is $3,000
a month.The Campaign Manager manages the office staff and
ensures
that the strategy of the campaign is translated
into effective execution.
The Campaign Manager handles
the finances of the campaign and the purchasing
of
supplies, media, etc. The Campaign Manager oversees the
field structure
and the recruitment of volunteers. The
Campaign Manager has hiring and firing
authority, sub-
ject to approval of the candidate. Interested individuals
should have previous experience in political campaigns,
the ability to work
well with staff and volunteers, work
collaboratively and authoritatively,
prioritize and track
key tasks, and confront politics as usual with Green
values.Send resume and cover letter to: vfrocchio@earthlink.net
http://www.JillWill.org/***************************************************
6) SUIT SAYS WAL-MART DIDN'T PAY WORKERS
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The NY Times reported Tuesday that over 40 current
and former Wal-Mart workers
interviewed over the
last four months say Wal-Mart has forced or pressured
employees to work hours that were not recorded or paid.
Federal and state
laws bar employers from making hourly
employees work unpaid hours. Wal-Mart's
policies forbid
such work. But many current and former workers and mana-
gers said an intense focus on cost cutting had created
an unofficial policy
that encouraged managers to request
or require off-the-clock work and avoid
paying overtime.
***More: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/national/25WALM.html***************************************************
7) RECENT NADER COLUMNS ON CORPORATE CORRUPTION
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Corporate Appropriation of Public Resources (6/26)
http://www.nader.org/interest/062602.html***************************************************
8) STRIKERS AS TERRORISTS?
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At the rate things are going, it won't be long before
labor organizers are
being thrown into military prisons,
held without warrant as "enemy combatants."
Tom Ridge,
director of the Office of Homeland Security has been
phoning
Jim Spinosa, head of the West Coast's Longshore-
men's Union, saying that
a strike would be bad for the
national interest. Next Monday sees the expiration
of
the current three-year contract between the Longshoremen
and the employers,
grouped in the Pacific Maritime Associ-
ation. If the 10,000-strong longshoremen
go on strike,
ports from Seattle to San Diego could shut down, meaning
a big jolt to the already floundering US economy.
***More: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn0627.html***************************************************
9) NADER TO BORDERS: DON'T LIMIT ACCESS TO BOOKS
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Ralph Nader, Commercial Alert and 26 authors and
scholars sent a letter Wednesday
to Borders Group CEO
Gregory P. Josefowicz, asking him to reconsider his
"category management" plan which will likely reduce
the range of
ideas in print and put small publishers
out of business.
***More: http://www.commercialalert.org/PDFs/borders.pdf***************************************************
10) PUBLIC HEALTH PREVENTION EFFORTS UNDERMINED
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Legislators, health advisers and General Accounting
Office (GAO) officials
said at a House hearing Tues-
day that President Bush's proposal to move public
health responsibilities from HHS to the proposed
Department of Homeland Security
could "undermine the
basic effort to keep Americans healthy" in
part because
public health concerns would "take a backseat" to bio-
terrorism threats, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reported
Wednesday. Congress
must approve the department, which
would absorb operations, employees and
funds from exist-
ing federal agencies, including parts of the CDC and
the NIH, and would have an annual budget of $37.5
billion and 170,000 employees.
The proposal would trans-
fer programs that "help state and local governments
cope
with outbreaks of naturally occurring diseases and patho-
gens"
-- including the Office of Emergency Preparedness,
the Strategic National
Stockpile and CDC divisions --
from HHS to the new department, a GAO report
released
June 25 stated.***************************************************
11) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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FBI checking out Americans' reading habits:
Bookstores, libraries can't do
much to fend off search warrants
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2002%2F06%2F23%2FMN75593.DTLLast
weekend the Ohio Conference of the United Church
of Christ approved a resolution
opposing the death
penalty -- 79%-21%.***************************************************
The views expressed in this newsletter are those
of the author or organization
noted and do not
necessarily reflect the opinions of the Green Party
of
Ohio.
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Green Party of Ohio, complete the form at
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To see the membership list of the GPO, see
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/.
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