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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 28 -- August 17, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,857)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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11)
REGISTER NOW FOR STATE CONVENTION AUGUST 24:
1
1 1DELEGATE DEADLINE
TODAY!
12) JOIN THE GREEN PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP
AT 572
13) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
14) FUNDS STILL NEEDED FOR SUPREME COURT CASE
15) PRESIDENTIAL SURVEY CONTINUES THROUGH AUGUST
16) THE 2002 CANDIDATE PLEDGE
17)
PRESUMPTION OF GUILT: A REPORT ON DETAINEES
18)
HIV/AIDS: EPIDEMIC STAGE IN SOME NYC AREAS
19)
STUDS TERKEL ON DONAHUE MONDAY NIGHT
10) THE HISPANIC HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT
11) COSTS OF LOW HEALTH LITERACY
12) MODEL HEALTHY KIDS PROGRAM IN SANTA CLARA
CA
13) HEALTH CARE HAS SMALLER ROLE IN 2002 ELECTIONS
14) MISCELLANEOUS
ITEMS***************************************************
11) REGISTER NOW FOR STATE CONVENTION AUGUST 24:
1 1 1DELEGATE
DEADLINE TODAY!
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Today,
August 17, is the deadline for delegate regis-
trations to the Green Party
of Ohio first state con-
vention next Saturday, August 24, 2002. Observers
may
continue to register up until the convention begins.You can now
register online with your credit card
for this event. But hurry!
Complete information on the convention can be found
at http://www.ohiogreens.org/convention/.
The online registration form is located at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/convention/register_online.html
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12)
JOIN THE GREEN PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP AT 572
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572 Ohio citizens have registered as members of the
Green Party of Ohio (GPO)
during the first 25 weeks
of registration. Add your name to the list at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/.***************************************************
13) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
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http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020817/MARYLAND:
GROUP PROTESTS COUNCIL MEETING
MINNESOTA: GUBERNATORIAL HOPEFULS MOSTLY AGREE
TO AGREE
NEW MEXICO: GREENS ON BALLOT
CALIFORNIA: EX-BERKELEY RADICAL
AIMS TO SHAKE UP
GOVERNOR RACE; GREEN PARTY SEEKS A PART IN BIG DEBATES
COLORADO: INDEPENDENTS STRESS CHOICE
FLORIDA: GREEN PARTY HOLDS WAL-MART "FUNERAL"
MINNESOTA: CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR PLAY MONEY GAME IN DEBATE
MINNESOTA: GREENS
ON COUNCIL MEET WITH GROUP OPPOSING BIERNAT***************************************************
14) FUNDS STILL NEEDED FOR SUPREME COURT CASE
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Late in the summer of
2000, the Nader/LaDuke campaign,
along with the Green Party, filed suit in
the U.S.
District Court in Columbus, Ohio in order to challenge
Ohio’s
ballot cue statute (Nader, et al v. Blackwell).
Although Nader won this suit
on October 13, 2000,
Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell received a stay
from a panel of the 6th Circuit Court before the election,
and on January
30, 2001, the same panel found Nader’s
case to be without merit. A subsequent
effort to get
the entire 6th Circuit Court to rehear the case was
denied
on March 28, 2002. However, in late June, Terry
Lodge, attorney for the Green
Party of Ohio, petitioned
the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.The
Green Party of Ohio needs to raise $3,000 for this
case. Please send your
$35, $50, $100 or more contribution
today to the Green Party of Ohio Federal
PAC, Paul
Dumouchelle, Treasurer, 8832 Nairn Ct., Dublin OH 43017.
Contributions
to the Green Party of Ohio Federal PAC
are not deductible for federal tax
purposes.***************************************************
15)
PRESIDENTIAL SURVEY CONTINUES THROUGH AUGUST
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We will continue to accept submissions of the Presi-
dential Exploratory Committee
(PEC) Survey through
the end of the month. If you haven't completed the
survey, please take a few minutes to let us know what
you think. The Green
Party of Ohio would like to hear
from you in order to complete our survey
to the
national party.***************************************************
16) THE 2002 CANDIDATE PLEDGE
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The 2002 Candidate Pledge:
A Green Commitment to America
http://www.greenpartyus.org/candidate_pledge.html***************************************************
17) PRESUMPTION OF GUILT: A REPORT ON DETAINEES
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Human Rights Watch has
issued on Thursday a 99-page
report entitled "Presumption of Guilt: Human
Rights
Abuses of Post-September 11 Detainees." The report
says that
the U.S. government's investigation of the
September 11 attacks has been marred
by arbitrary
detentions, due process violations, and secret arrests.***************************************************
18) HIV/AIDS: EPIDEMIC STAGE IN SOME NYC AREAS
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According to a report
released Wednesday by United
Way of New York City, in conjunction with local
public
officials, academics and agency leaders, HIV/AIDS has
passed the
epidemic stage among minority women and
children in certain New York City
neighborhoods,
creating an urgent need for health and human services
to
address their unique living conditions and improve
their quality of life.HIV/AIDS
is the leading cause of death in women ages
25-34 and the second-leading cause
of death for women
ages 35-44 in New York City, affecting primarily women
of color, according to the New York City Department of
Health. For instance,
in East and Central Harlem, HIV/
AIDS is the third-leading cause of death
with death
rates of 50.7 and 68.7 per 100,000, respectively. In
addition,
more adolescents are becoming infected and
at an earlier age. At least one
half of all those who
are newly infected are under 25, according to the Cen-
ters for Disease Control. One-quarter are adolescents,
the report states.***************************************************
19) STUDS TERKEL ON DONAHUE MONDAY NIGHT
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Phil Donahue will feature a special one-hour inter-
view with 90-year-old
"guerilla journalist" Studs
Terkel on Donahue at 8 PM and 11 PM
ET on MSNBC,
Monday, August 19.***************************************************
10) THE HISPANIC HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT
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The Hispanic Health Needs Assessment (HHNA) instru-
ment represents almost
15 years of work using the HHNA
process to document and advocate for the health
needs
of Hispanic communities. The HHNA process is unique in
two ways.
One it provides Hispanic communities with
tools to self-identify critical
health issues and pri-
orities thought existing public health data systems
as
well as community surveys. This process of self-identi-
fication is
critical to the success of HHNA as more than
collecting information, it serves
as an organizing ve-
hicle for a community health team. Secondly, HHNA uses
the Healthy People objectives to document current com-
munity health status
and progress to goals. The Healthy
People objectives are set every 10 years
by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services as health goals
for
the Nation for the decade ahead. State and local
health departments must show
progress to these goals.
By using these objectives, HHNA can help communities
hold State and local health departments accountable for
collecting Hispanic
specific data and achieving progress
in health status and services.***************************************************
11) COSTS OF LOW HEALTH LITERACY
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Health literacy refers to the set of skills needed
to read, understand, and
act on basic health care
information. Over 90 million adults with low health
literacy skills have limited ability to read and
understand the instructions
contained on prescrip-
tions or medicine bottles, appointment slips, informed
consent documents, insurance forms, and health educa-
tional materials. Poor
health literacy skills have
profound economic consequences. Using data from
a
nationally representative sample of the U.S. adult
population age 16
and older, the National Academy on
an Aging Society examined the impact of
literacy on
the use of health care services. The study found that
people
with low health literacy skills use more health
care services, have longer
hospital stays, have an
ineffective use of prescriptions or misunderstandings
about treatment plans, and have estimated additional
health care expenditures
of about $73 billion (1998
dollars). (This includes an estimated $30 billion
for
the population that is functionally illiterate plus
$43 billion for
the population that is marginally
literate.) Also, employers may be financing
as much
as 17% of the additional health care expenditures due
to low health
literacy skills.The survey reported that some 40 to 44 million of the
191 million adults in the country are functionally
illiterate. They read at
or below a fifth-grade level,
or cannot read at all. Another 50 million are
margin-
ally illiterate. They are generally able to locate and
assimilate
information in a simple text, but are un-
able to perform tasks that require
them to assimilate
or synthesize information from complex and lengthy texts.Because
of the literacy demands upon patients in the
increasingly complex health care
system, adults who
are functionally illiterate or marginally literate are
likely to have low health literacy skills.***************************************************
12) MODEL HEALTHY KIDS PROGRAM IN SANTA CLARA CA
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The Santa Clara County (CA) Healthy Kids program,
which announced last week
that enrollment had in-
creased to more than 10,000, began in January 2001
as an "unrealistic dream" to provide universal health
coverage for
county children but has become the "flag-
ship for similar efforts"
statewide, according to a
San Jose Mercury News (CA) editorial. Alameda County,
San Mateo County, San Francisco and Los Angeles have
moved to implement similar
programs, which also help
to enroll low- and middle-income children in Medi-Cal
and Healthy Families, the editorial states. The edi-
torial adds that Healthy
Kids serves as a "monument
to coalition-building," as health care
advocacy groups
and providers convinced government officials to fund
the
program with part of the county's share of the
tobacco settlement and cigarette
tax revenue. The
editorial concludes that Healthy Kids "can take pride
in leading the way toward the day when every Cali-
fornia child has access
to affordable health care."***************************************************
13) HEALTH CARE HAS SMALLER ROLE IN 2002 ELECTIONS
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Health care "may play even less of a role" in the
2002 mid-term
elections than it did in the 2000
presidential election because Americans
are more
concerned about the economy and terrorism, according
to a new
article published Aug. 14 on the Health
Affairs Web site.***************************************************
14) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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Humanity Loses $250 Billion a Year in Wild Habitat
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0812-06.htm***************************************************
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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