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** Greens/Green Party USA Members: Send us your updates and Announcements!
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### Announcements
* Special Forum - April 20, 2006 IVORY PERRY & the Struggle for a Lead Free St. Louis
http://www.gateway-greens.org/2006/06-apr20.htm
* The Spring 2006 Issue of our print newsletter "Green Politics" was recently
published. G/GPUSA Members receive regular issues by mail. Join or Renew
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Articles in this issue of "Green Politics":
% Greens Stand Up Against Police Violence
% Lead Poisoning Still Persists As Serious American Health Problem
% Local Cooperative Recycles Bikes to Support a Sustainable Earth
% Bush and Cheney Should Be Impeached
% Green Activist Runs for Governor of Maine
% Incinerating Iraqis: The Napalm Cover Up in Fallujah
% A 12 Step Program to Achieve Energy Indepenence
% Talking Points: Fallacy of Bush Doctrine Concerning the War In Iraw
% Salute to a Warrior -- Paki Mahdee
* Call for articles on "Lead: The Poisoning Continues"
Lead poisoning is 100% preventable. Then why does it continue to affect huge numbers of Americans a century after it was first recognized and decades after the first legislative efforts? Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought seeks to address these and related topics in its Fall 2006 issue. The S/R Editorial Board invites submissions relating to local, state, national and international aspects of lead. Possible themes may include, but are not limited to:
% Effects of lead on organ systems.
% Effects of lead on learning and behavior.
% Ingestion of lead from dust, paint flakes, dirt, water and other sources.
% History of lead and humanity.
% History of corporations profiting from lead.
% Use of lead in industrial and consumer products (especially cars and computers).
% Recycling, reusing and reducing lead.
% Drilling for lead on public lands.
% Story of lead mining, including Doe Run in Peru and the US.
% Jobs for lead workers if production is reduced or halted.
% Lead poisoning as environmental racism.
% Why so many progressive and environmental organizations ignore lead poisoning.
% Claims that city governments are removing lead from homes.
% Making paint companies liable and other needed lawsuits.
% Groups working on lead poisoning, how much money each has, what they are doing with it,.
% Cities that are models for addressing the lead paint issue.
% Lead poisoning, poverty and adequate housing.
% Legislative goals for lead removal.
% The need to declare a Lead Emergency.
In order to be included in the Fall 2006 issue, we will need to RECEIVE submissions by May 30, 2006. Articles should generally be 500 to 2500 words.
Authors are invited to tackle tough questions (which may require more than 2500 words), such as:
% How can efforts to make landlords accountable for lead in rental property avoid gentrification?
% How much lead money are US municipalities diverting into other budgets?
% How much can lead mining truly be reduced?
Please send submissions to: fitzdon@aol.com
Visit the S/R website at: http://www.greens.org/s-r/
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### From the Inbox -- Email & Mail from our Members, Supporters and Collegues
* Map that displays informations on US cities and towns that have voted for a
quick withdrawal of US Army from Iraq -- sent by Laurent
http://www.lastingnews.com/maps/iraq_withdraw.php
* Jesse Invites Participation in his new online forum:
http://www.democracyforums.com/
* From member J.C. in Florida: "... I am 80 years old this year. I have
served 7 years in the US Navy during WW II and in the Berlin Airlift. I joined
in the patriotic protests against the war in Vietnam. I respect the positive,
patriotic intent of our military grunts and many career officers, but I know
how military leadership can be corrupted by politics."
"The war in Iraq is a disgrace. Our overwhelming national debt is a disgrace.
Our neglect of social services, the working poor, the elderly, and the ill in
my beloved country while we indulge corporations and the wealthy extreme with
entitlement places us in an irresponsible category uncharacteristic of what
our founding fathers envisioned. "
* From D.H. in PA: "Enclosed is a check for $100 ... The contribution is to
celebrate the life and work of Elizabeth Fattah; to honor her unwavering
committment to politics of peach with justice; and to express thankfullness
for her personal kindness when I was in need."
* PROTEST AT COCA-COLA SHAREHOLDERS MEETING
DuPont Hotel, 11th and Market St, Wilmington, Delaware
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:30 am
Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center T:+1 415 336 7584
:info@IndiaResource.org
WHY: The Coca-Cola company management is misleading its shareholders by not
disclosing the full extent of the liabilities it has incurred in India.
Communities in India living around Coca-Cola bottling plants are experiencing
severe water shortages as well as contaminated groundwater and soil - directly
as a result of the company’s bottling operations. Thousands of community
members, primarily from rural India, are demanding that Coca-Cola cease
operations immediately and provide compensation to affected communities who
have lost their livelihoods.
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### Updates from Elsewhere:
* The New Yorker: Full Text of Seymour Hersh on US intentions in IRAN
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact
* From ORGANIC BYTES #78
http://www.organicconsumers.org/organicbytes.htm
ORGANIC CONSUMERS GETTING MILKED: TAKE ACTION TO SAVE ORGANIC STANDARDS The
watchdog group Cornucopia Institute has published a long-awaited report
ranking organic dairy companies in the USA, and the facts are rather sobering.
The good news is that most organic dairies in the U.S. are following strict
organic standards, including giving animals regular access to pasture. The bad
news is that several major players in the organic dairy sector are blatantly
violating organic standards, with a wink and a nod from the USDA and the
industry-controlled Organic Trade Association. Two of the largest organic
dairy companies in the nation, Horizon Organic (a subsidiary of Dean Foods);
and Aurora Organic, a supplier of private brand name organic milk to Costco,
Safeway, Giant and others, who together control 65% of the market, are
purchasing the majority of their milk from feedlot dairies where the cows have
little or no access to pasture. In addition, a routine practice on these giant
dairy feedlots, many with thousands of cows, is to continuously import calves
from conventional farms, where animals have been weaned on blood, fed
slaughterhouse waste and genetically engineered grains, and injected or dosed
with antibiotics. Send a message to the National Organic Program of the USDA
to stop the labeling of factory farm milk as "organic."
http://www.organicconsumers.org/nosb2.htm
* From The Washington Spectator
http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20060401cleanmoney_1.cfm
A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
Let's Save Our Democracy by Getting Money Out of Politics
By Bill Moyers
Money is choking our democracy to death. Our elections are bought out from
under us and our public officials are doing the bidding of mercenaries. So
powerful is the hold of wealth on politics that we cannot say America is
working for all Americans. The majority may support such broad social goals as
affordable medical coverage for all, decent wages for working people, safe
working conditions, a secure retirement, and clean air and water, but there is
no government "of, by, and for the people" to deliver on those aspirations.
* Update on Anti-Palestinian Legislation
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/
To date, more than 300 US-based organizations have endorsed an open letter
to Members of Congress against the so-called Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act
of 2006, which would impose draconian economic and diplomatic measures
against the Palestinian people.
While Members of Congress are in their home districts and states this week
and next, it’s more important than ever for constituents to express their
opposition to the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act.
* SATURDAY, MAY 20 March to demand HANDS OFF VENEZUELA & CUBA!
http://www.may20coalition.org/
* The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article354940.ece
Agent Orange: legacy of a weapon of mass destruction
Thirty-five years after the US sprayed the jungles of Vietnam with toxic
defoliant, thousands of babies are still being born with horrific defects.
But unlike the American veterans, no one in the war-ravaged country has
received any compensation.
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### Resources:
* International Journal of Green Economics (IJGE)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijge
The objectives of IJGE are to establish an effective channel of communication
between policy makers, government agencies, academic and research institutions
concerned with the running, involvement and impact of the economy on all
sections of society. It aims to bridge the gap between academic economic
theory and the literature and suggestions for the implementation of modern
concepts in the political economy and the general economic debate, structures
of political power and public discussion.
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