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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 29 -- September 7, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,894)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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1) JOIN THE GREEN
PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP AT 606
2) PLATFORM APPROVED AT STATE CONVENTION
3) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
4) COORDINATING COMMITTEE
CHALLENGE
5) FUNDS STILL NEEDED FOR SUPREME COURT CASE
6)
UPCOMING GREEN PARTY MEETINGS AROUND OHIO
7) CAMPAIGN SCHOOL VIDEO AVAILABLE
8) ECOLOGICAL DECLINE FAR WORSE: GRIM WARNING
9) GREENS FOR GREENS
KICKOFF IN SPRINGFIELD 9/21
10) AMSTUTZ DOOR-TO-DOOR LITERATURE DROPS 9/14
11) MT. OLIVE BOYCOTT HAS SECOND VICTORY
12) BALLOT INITIATIVES FOR NOVEMBER
13) NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON OCTOBER 26
14) ANOTHER RENEWABLE ENERGY VICTORY
IN CALIFORNIA
15) CLAMOR MAGAZINE
16) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS***************************************************
Join the Green Party of Ohio:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/register.html
List of current Green Party members:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/. ***************************************************
1) JOIN THE GREEN PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP AT 606
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606 Ohio citizens have registered as members of the
Green Party of Ohio (GPO).
Add your name to the list at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/. Join
the Green Party of Ohio today by completing the
form at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/register.html
OR
Print a registration form and mail it in:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/membership.pdf
or
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/membership.doc ***************************************************
2) PLATFORM APPROVED AT STATE CONVENTION
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The first state platform of the Green Party of Ohio
was approved at the state
convention August 24. To
read the state platform, see:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/platform/ To
read the national platform, see:
http://www.gp.org ***************************************************
3) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
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http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020907/ IN:
GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE FALLS SHORT OF SIGNATURES
CO: THIRD-PARTY ACTIVISTS
CONDEMN MARCH TOWARD WAR WITH IRAQ
NY: GREEN CANDIDATE: I FATHERED THREE
OUT OF WEDLOCK
AK: CANDIDATE CAMPAIGNS BY BICYCLE; THE GREEN PARTY'S
DEFOREST
BRAVES RAIN, WIND TO MEET VOTERS.
NY: GREEN HOPEFUL WANTS TAX HIKE
MT:
TWO DEBATES CANCELED: BAUCUS WANTS ALL CANDIDATES IN
NY: ETHNICITY DEBATE
OVER FLUSHING SEAT
MA: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; DON'T IGNORE THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES
MA: TRAIL REPORT
CT: CONNECTICUT'S DRAW-IN CANDIDATE; DOONESBURY FOR
CONGRESS? ALMOST
MD: VISIONS CLASH IN DISTRICT 2 PRIMARY
ME: CANDIDATES
FOR BLAINE HOUSE URGE: CONSOLIDATE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
PA: FISHER, RENDELL
AGREE TO SEVEN DEBATES
PA: PANEL CHAIRMANSHIP DRAWS LITTLE INTEREST
NJ: SHE WANTS TO TURN BOUND BROOK GREEN
MN: CANDIDATES WOO POTENTIAL VOTERS
AT STATE FAIR
MA: FORUM; OP-ED; BEWARE OF THE GREEN MONSTER;
PARTY'S
PREACHY NAIVETE IS FRIGHTENING
IA: GREEN PARTY COULD TIP BALANCE TO GROSS
AK: GREEN PARTY SUPPORTS BALLOT MEASURE 1 FOR GOOD
DC: GREENS TO LIBERALS:
DROP DEAD!
AK: GREENS, REPUBLICAN MODERATES SUE OVER PRIMARY ***************************************************
4) COORDINATING COMMITTEE CHALLENGE
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The Green Party of Ohio Coordinating Committee (CC)
today approved a proposal
to challenge the local
Green party groups throughout the state of Ohio to
see how many pieces of campaign literature each local
can distribute on the
following designated canvassing
days for our two candidates: Kick
off for Alan Amstutz Sat. Sept. 14 2002 Columbus
contact info: 614-791-9933 Kick
off for Frank Doden Sat. Sept. 21 2002 Springfield
contact info: dodenfordemocracy@hotmail.com Whichever
local green group's representatives are
determined by the candidates to have
distributed
the most literature over those two Saturdays, that
local green
group will receive an award and special
recognition from the GPO CC. Results
will be announced Monday, September 23. ***************************************************
5) 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. ***************************************************
6) UPCOMING GREEN PARTY MEETINGS AROUND OHIO
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MID-OHIO GREEN PARTY
September 9, 2002 -- Monday -- 7:00 PM
Buy The Cup
Coffee Shop
1531 Lexington Ave., Mansfield SOUTHWEST
OHIO GREEN PARTY
http://www.swohgp.org
September 10, 2002 -- Tuesday
7:00 PM -- Dinner
7:30 PM -- Meeting
243 Parkway, Hartwell GREEN
PARTY OF PORTAGE COUNTY
September 10, 2002 -- Tuesday -- 7:00 PM
Wild
Goats Coffee & Cafe, 319 W. Main, Kent
More information: 330-678-3269 CENTRAL
OHIO GREEN PARTY
http://www.centralohiogreens.org
October 3, 2002 -- Thursday
Social 6:30 PM
Coordinating Committee 7:00
PM
General Membership 7:30 PM
Location to be announced ***************************************************
7) CAMPAIGN SCHOOL VIDEO AVAILABLE
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The Green Party of the United States Coordinated
Campaign Committee is planning
a nationwide Elections
2002 Mobilization to kick off on October 5th. The
campaign will focus on encouraging Green supporters
who have not yet done
so to find and volunteer for
Green candidates in their area. More details
will be
available in a week. In
the meantime, the video from the Campaign School
held at the Midterm Convention
last July in Philadel-
phia will be available shortly to any Greens who would
like it. Those who request a copy will be asked to con-
tribute the cost of
the video tape and postage (probably
around $6). State and local parties may
order one video
and then copy it for campaigns. If you would like to
order
a copy, please email Juscha Robinson at
juscha@greens.org. ***************************************************
8) ECOLOGICAL DECLINE FAR WORSE: GRIM WARNING
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The real level of world inequality and environmental
degradation may be far
worse than official estimates,
according to a leaked document prepared for
the
world's richest countries and seen by the UK's Guardian.
It includes
new estimates that the world lost almost
10% of its forests in the past 10
years; that carbon
dioxide emissions leading to global warming are expected
to rise by 33% in rich countries and 100% in the rest
of the world in the
next 18 years; and that more than
30% more fresh water will be needed by 2020.
The background
paper for last month's Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development
pre-Johannesburg
meeting on sustainable development draws on many pre-
viously unseen UN, World Bank, World Trade Organisation,
and academic papers. For
more information:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldsummit2002/story/0,12264,780730,00.html ***************************************************
9) GREENS FOR GREENS KICKOFF IN SPRINGFIELD 9/21
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September 21 marks the Greens for Greens kickoff
outreach in Springfield.
Green Party members from
all over the state are going to Springfield to help
campaign for U.S. House candidate Frank Doden. Please
plan to attend. Things
will kick off at Perkins on S. Limestone at
10 AM. Perkins is just north of
I-70 on Hwy. 72 head-
ing into Springfield.) Then folks will head out to
neighborhoods, parking lots, etc. The more people
participating, the greater
the impact will be. If
you haven't joined Doden's campaign yet, this
would be a terrific time to
start -- lots of people,
lots of companionship, and more. If
you plan to attend, email Frank Doden at
dodenfordemocracy@hotmail.com. Visit
Frank Doden's Web site at:
http://www.dodenfordemocracy.com ***************************************************
10) AMSTUTZ DOOR-TO-DOOR LITERATURE DROPS 9/14
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Help distribute door to door literature for Alan
Amstutz on Sat., Sept. 14.
Meet at Scottie McBeans
Beechwold (see directions below) from 10 AM to Noon.
Literature, a walking list and a T-shirt will be pro-
vided. (If you are not
able to help on Saturday but
would like to assist on another day, contact
Alan
via e-mail at aamstutz@columbus.rr.com
or by phone,
614.791.9933.) Directions
to Scottie McBeans Beechwold: From I-71
exit Morse Rd., go west to High St.
and turn south
(left); it will be on the right side of the street a
few
blocks down. From 315 exit Henderson Road and go
east to High St., turn north
(left); it will be on
the left a few blocks up. Visit
Alan Amstutz's Web site at:
http://voteamstutz.org ***************************************************
11) MT. OLIVE BOYCOTT HAS SECOND VICTORY
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On Aug. 24 after a lively pickle picket by more than
20 members of Farm Labor
Organizing Committee (FLOC),
the New Hope Commons Wal-Mart in Durham, NC took
Mt.
Olive pickles off its shelves. This makes it the second
Wal-Mart in
the month of August to do this after a
Bowling Green Wal-Mart stopped carrying
Mt. Olive Aug. 8,
2002. FLOC is asking supporters nationwide to call
1-800-WALMART
to thank Walmart for the Durham store's
decision and encourage them to stop
carrying Mt. Olive
Pickles nationwide until Mt. Olive addresses deplorable
living and working conditions in the eastern North
Carolina fields that supply
its cucumbers by giving
farmworkers a voice in contract negotiations. It's
time
for Walmart to learn that what's cheap is not what's
right! It's
time for Walmart to dump sweatshop pickles! FLOC
has been boycotting Mt. Olive Pickles since 1999
after two years of dialogue
failed to convince the
company of its responsibility for the working condi-
tions of North Carolina farm workers that harvest
the company's pickles. FLOC
insists that the company
sign a three-way contract with farmers and farm-
workers that would insure a fairer distribution of
profits, clear standards
for farmworker conditions,
and a process for resolving grievances. So far,
Mt. Olive has refused to negotiate. For
more information: http://www.floc.com ***************************************************
12) BALLOT INITIATIVES FOR NOVEMBER
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The Ohio Drug Treatment Initiative would be an
amendment to the Ohio Constitution
to provide an
opportunity for treatment instead of incarceration
for individuals
charged with or convicted of illegal
possession or use of a controlled substance,
and,
in some cases, additional non-violent offenses. Find
out more at
http://www.ohiodrugreform.org.
The Darby Creek
Initiative would protect and preserve
the Big Darby Watershed by preventing
the City of
Columbus from extending sewer and water services
further into
the watershed for a period two years.
Find out more at http://www.peerohio.org. ***************************************************
13) NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON OCTOBER 26
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On Sat., Oct. 26 -- the first anniversary of the
signing of the so-called
USA Patriot Act -- anti-war,
civil rights, labor, student and other forces
are
joining together to launch a massive international
mobilization in
opposition to a new war against the
people of Iraq. Mass marches and rallies
will be held
in Washington DC and San Francisco in the U.S., and
in many
other countries. For
more information:
http://www.internationalanswer.org ***************************************************
14) ANOTHER RENEWABLE ENERGY VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA
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California Senate Bill 1078, the Renewables Portfolio
Standard (RPS), passed
through the state legislature
this week and is expected to be signed into
law by
Governor Davis. The RPS will force California’s pri-
vate
utilities to sell more renewable energy to Cali-
fornians. The bill mandates
that utilities increase
the amount of renewable energy they sell by 1% per
year up to and beyond 20%. The goal is to have all
private utilities selling
20% renewable energy by 2017.
This is a great step forward for the renewable
energy
industry in California, it will create clean jobs
while providing
reliable energy for years to come. For
more information:
http://www.californiasolarcenter.org/legislation.html
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15) CLAMOR MAGAZINE
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The Utne Reader highlighted several activists "under
30 years of age"
across the country and two of them
are right here in Ohio - Jen Angel and
Jason Kucsma
of Bowling Green, Ohio. They
are founders and editors of "Clamor" - described
in Utne as "a
magazine that celebrates do-it-yourself
journalism for a growing audience
of politically and
socially aware youth." Check
it out at www.clamormagazine.org. ***************************************************
16) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml Poll
shows support for free speech down
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/nation/story/516894p-4102578c.html Shaming
Young Mothers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/opinion/23KRIS.html Next
question: Why weren't the slip-ups at avis-Besse
discovered earlier?: 3 investigations
direct scrutiny
at the federal watchdog agency
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20020901&Category=NEWS08&ArtNo=109010086&Ref=AR Ohio
Atomic Plant Is Investigated Over Acid Leak
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/national/01NUKE.html Ford
pulling plug on electric car
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/30/ford.electric.car.reut/index.html AIDS
Scourge in Rural China Leaves Villages of Orphans
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/international/asia/25ORPH.html Drowning
Freedom in Oil
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/opinion/25FRIE.html ***************************************************
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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