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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 30 -- October 5, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,945)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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1) JOIN THE GREEN
PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP AT 636
2) HELP GREEN PARTY CANDIDATES IN OHIO
3) DODEN IN DEBATES IN U.S. HOUSE 7th DISTRICT
4) GREEN PARTY
NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
5) ANTI-WAR SENTIMENT GROWS
6)
FUNDS STILL NEEDED FOR SUPREME COURT CASE
7) CAN YOU SPOT THE DIFFERENCE?
8) CLEAN ENERGY FOR SAN DIEGO AND CALIFORNIA
9) MENTAL ILLNESS
AWARENESS WEEK -- OCT. 7-13
10) EXCHANGE EMAILS THROUGH A HANDSHAKE
11)
EMPLOYEE HEALTH PLANS TO JUMP 15% IN COST
12) CHILD POVERTY UNCHANGED BUT
DATA IS TROUBLING
13) 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 636
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636 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) 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. ***************************************************
3) DODEN IN DEBATES IN U.S. HOUSE 7th DISTRICT
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Frank Doden in TV Debate
Saturday Oct. 12, LIVE
WHIO-TV CH 7 in Dayton-Springfield
at 1 PM
Frank Doden has been included in the US House 7th
District
TV debate. This is everyone's opportunity
to see our candidate in action.
Frank was a state
champion debater in his home state of Iowa. ***************************************************
4) GREEN PARTY NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
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http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/021005/ NJ:
TIRED OF RACE'S CRY? TRY THIS PARTY'S HUE
CO: SALAZAR DEFENDS RECORD DURING
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEBATE
ME: 2 GUBERNATORIAL RIVALS CHIDE BALDACCI FOR MISSING
DEBATES
MA: CAMPAIGN 2002/THE GUBERNATORIAL DEBATES PROTEST;
GREENS DECRY
STEIN EXCLUSION
CA: PETER MIGUEL CAMEJO; IT'S EASY TO BE GREEN FOR THIS ACTIVIST
MA: OPEN-AIR DEBATE OVER DEBATE IS SPIRITED
NM: GOVERNOR RACE
MI: CANDIDATES
BRING ADVANTAGES TO GUBERNATORIAL RUNNING MATES
WI: SHERIFF HOPEFULS CALL
DRUG WAR A BUST
MD: MARYLAND COURT ALLOWS GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE ON;
CARROLL
COUNTY BALLOT
VA: SURGEON FACES UPHILL FIGHT TO UNSEAT SCHROCK IN HOUSE
MN: MINNESOTANS PREFER HAVING MORE THAN TWO MAJOR
POLITICAL PARTIES
PA:
CANDIDATES FROM OUTSIDE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM DESERVE
MORE COVERAGE
PA: GREEN
PARTY GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE OPPOSES SLOTS
FL: DEMOCRATS SEE GREEN IN HOUSE
CONTEST
NJ: EDITORIAL ATTEMPTS BY GLICK TO INVOLVE HIMSELF
IN DEBATES
SERVE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT'S WRONG
WITH THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM.
TX: GREEN
PARTY SEES MODEST GROWTH IN ITS RANKS
PA: MAN WITH KIN IN SNYDER COUNTY RUNNING
FOR SEAT
NY: GREEN CANDIDATE WARNS OF WAR
ME: CARTER TO EMBARK ON AD BLITZ
CA: A VOTE THAT COUNTS
KS: GREEN PARTY TO PUSH FOR OFFICIAL STATUS
CA:
IT'S A SMALL WORLD THE GREENS: IN SANTA MONICA
AND FREIBURG, GERMANY
MN:
NADER RAILS ON BUSH'S IRAQ-ATTACK PLAN AS POLITICAL GAME
PA: COUNTY GREEN
PARTY URGES PEACE NOT WAR WITH IRAQ ***************************************************
5) ANTI-WAR SENTIMENT GROWS
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Green Party of Ohio Denounces War Policy on Iraq
in First State Convention
http://www.ohiogreens.org/pdf/020827news.pdf Anti-war
fever awoke over the weekend, as about
8,000 protesters in San Francisco joined
brethren
across the country in a rising rumble against
President Bush's
drive to disarm Iraq.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/07/BA209438.DTL Also,
over the weekend: 25,000
in Central Park in NYC
10,000 in Los Angeles
11,000 in Portland, OR
1,200 in Austin, TX
10,000 in Seattle
1,000 in Corvallis, OR
1,000
in San Diego
250 in Buffalo, NY
400 in Salt Lake City
300 in Milwaukee
200 in La Crosse, WI
600 in Corvallis, OR
1,000 in Eugene, OR
3,000
in Santa Fe
4,000 in Chicago
200 in Tulsa
1,000 in San Diego
450
in Brattleboro, VT
1,000 in Boston And,
in Italy... 1.5
Million March Against Attack on Iraq:
Anti-War Rallies Change Italy on Iraq?
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1006-01.htm ***************************************************
6) 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. ***************************************************
7) CAN YOU SPOT THE DIFFERENCE?
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Worth a look:
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/canyouspotthedifference.htm Let
it completely load and then wait a few seconds.... ***************************************************
8) CLEAN ENERGY FOR SAN DIEGO AND CALIFORNIA
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San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy is following through with
his energy independence
goal he set at the start of
his term. The San Diego City Council approved
a pilot
solar electricity project that will provide 20% of the
Metropolitan
Operations Center building's energy, while
also reducing the City's energy
bill by $10,200 a year.
The Greenpeace Clean Energy Now! campaign is urging
the
Mayor to also take the next step and champion a first-
rate solar
revenue bond that will make San Diego the
nation's leader in solar energy.
Learn more about
Greenpeace's campaign in San Diego:
http://www.cleanenergynow.org/california/sdsolaryes.html To
read more about the solar project, go to:
http://www.californiasolarcenter.org/solareclips/2002.10/20021001-10.html Solar
energy is here to stay in California. Governor
Davis finally signed Assembly
Bill 58 into law. This
legislation has huge implications for the solar economy
in California, allowing large solar-based electricity
generating systems to
hook into the grid and receive
retail electricity rates for the electricity
produced
-- thereby making solar energy much more affordable. To
read more, go to:
http://www.cleanenergynow.org/features/ab58victory.html ***************************************************
9) MENTAL ILLNESS AWARENESS WEEK -- OCT. 7-13
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Mental Illness Awareness (MIA) Week, Oct. 7-13, is a
time to consider the
perceptions of people who struggle
with mental illness. A new perception of
mental illness
is emerging, one that focuses on early intervention,
effective
treatment, rehabilitation and recovery. One
in 5 Americans, or 44 million people, suffer from a
mental disorder in any
given year. 20% of our children
experience a diagnosable mental illness each
year. For information
on MIA Week:
http://miaw.nami.org The
Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/ ***************************************************
10) EXCHANGE EMAILS THROUGH A HANDSHAKE
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Two Japanese telecoms giants have developed techno-
logy that turns the human
body into a broadband-paced
link that allows e-mail addresses to be exchanged
through a simple handshake. http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5239758%255E13762,00.html ***************************************************
11) EMPLOYEE HEALTH PLANS TO JUMP 15% IN COST
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Large companies will pay on average 15% more to pro-
vide health plans for
their employees in 2003 than
they did this year, according to a survey by
consult-
ing firm Towers Perrin that found health costs are
increasing
"even faster than feared," the Wall Street
Journal reports. The
survey is based on responses from
268 large companies regarding the amount
they agreed
to pay for employee health plan premiums in 2003. Jim
Foreman,
managing director of Towers Perrin' global
health practice, said businesses
are unlikely to find
quick solutions for the increasing costs. He added,
"It's really a conundrum. Businesses can't charge their
customers 15%
more." The survey indicates that many
large companies are likely to seek
out "consumer-driven"
health plans, which shift much of health plan
cost
increases to employees. Some companies also might con-
sider employee
health plans under which workers receive
a lump sum to spend on health care.
"Most of our clients
have investigated it. We'll see most big organizations
move forward next year," Foreman said. According to the
survey, employees
will be responsible for 22% of the
cost for family coverage in 2003, compared
with 21% in
2002. On average, large business employees will pay
$160 per
month for family coverage in 2003, compared
with $134 per month in 2002. Employees
purchasing
individual health plans will pay 19% of their health
costs
in 2003, up from 17% in 2002 the survey says.
Those employees will pay about
$48 per month for
coverage in 2003, compared with $38 in 2002. ***************************************************
12) CHILD POVERTY UNCHANGED BUT DATA IS TROUBLING
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The latest Census Bureau data show the share of chil-
dren in poverty remained
relatively stable between
2000 and 2001, growing to 16.3% from 16.2%, while
black and Hispanic child poverty fell slightly during
that period, to 30%
and 27.4%, respectively. This
good news is overshadowed by increases in overall
U.S.
poverty, which expanded to 11.7% in 2001 from 11.3%
in 2000. Poverty
increased only among whites and in
the South. This is the first increase in
poverty in
eight years. Poverty is still low by historical
standards --
and minority child poverty is the lowest
it's been in 20 years although Wendell
Primus, director
of income security at the Center on Budget & Policy
Priorities, expects it to get worse. Based
on unpublished census data, children in poverty
got poorer between 2000-2001.
Poor families' incomes
fell farther below the federal poverty line than they
have since 1979, the center says in a report, Census
Data Show Increases in
Extent & Severity of Poverty
& Decline in Household Income. Poverty
is increasing because of the 2001 recession
and the job losses it caused.
About 2 million people
have lost their jobs in the past two years. Visit
the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities at:
http://www.cbpp.org Also,
according to the Children's Defense Fund, the
number of kids living in extreme
poverty (50% of the
official poverty line or below) increased by over 300,000.
***Fore more information:
http://www.childrensdefense.org/release020924.php ***************************************************
13) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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Two Acres of Farm Lost to Sprawl Each Minute, New Study Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/national/04FARM.html Ralph
Nader Takes on Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1005-01.htm Alternative
Weeklies Divide Turf
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/business/media/07PAPE.html McDermott
Accuses Bush of Plotting to be Emperor
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=mcdermott07m&date=20021007&query=mcdermott Scramble
to Carve Up Iraqi Oil Reserves Lies Behind
US Diplomacy: Maneuvers shaped
by horsetrading between
America, Russia and France over control of untapped
oilfields
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1006-02.htm Perils
of Capitalism? Think Water Distribution by Molly Ivins
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1003-03.htm Markey
Releases Study Showing Big Drop in EPA Policing
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/274/nation/Markey_releases_study_showing_big_drop_in_EPA_policing+.shtml Report
predicts AIDS epidemic for five nations
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/274/nation/Report_predicts_AIDS_epidemic_for_five_nations+.shtml ***************************************************
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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