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An Activist’s Life, by Thomas Leavitt » 2003 » July

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Archive for July, 2003

July 30th, 2003

SF Bay Guardian rips into Democratic Central Committee for anti-Green resolutions

[As Sam Smith says… the Greens are the only constituency the Democrats seem to believe can be convinced by insult. Nonsense like this just accelerates the defection of progressives away from the Democratic Party. Which, from a Green perspective, isn’t that bad… but doesn’t do much for cross-party progressive alliances. -Thomas]
No more Green bashing
IF THE […]

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July 30th, 2003

Peter Camejo on Arianna Huffington candidacy

[Who says Greens are unpragmatic and impractical? Peter has his head
screwed on straight… I don’t know how he is going to manage this process,
but it should be interesting. -Thomas]
There has been some confusion around what I have said about Arianna
Huffington’s potential entry into the campaign for Governor. First I would
like to take responsibility […]

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July 30th, 2003

CA State Senate passes Republican budget plan…

[All I can say is that I hope the Assembly Democrats have more spine, and don’t blink first like their colleagues in the State Senate… Davis’ political hide and a 14 point pop to his poll numbers isn’t worth the pain that this budget will inflict on poor and working folks. -Thomas]
California Budget Project
Email Update
7/28/03
On […]

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July 30th, 2003

Ariana for Governor?

[What is it with progressive and their fear of “splitting” the vote? Who says a progressive can’t beat a moderate and a conservative straight up? Does Darrell Issa give a damn about splitting the vote between him and Riordan? No. Why should we? -Thomas]
Brentwood bombshell

It’s not official yet, but she’s off and running. That was […]

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July 30th, 2003

Dean: “moderate or centrist”

Oliver Willis comments approvingly on Dean’s real record in Vermont.
So this is the guy that America’s mainstream progressive movement is getting all hot and bothered by?
And yeah, I’m vaguely annoyed by the Dean campaign’s apparent willingness to embrace the idea that a candidate should be judged by their ability to raise money (must be the […]

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July 30th, 2003

Software Archeology

[Another argument for standards, open source, and open source code repositories.
What value do these provide? All the information available on my original personal web site, at http://www.armory.com/~leavitt/ is still accessible. Why? Because it was created and deployed using open, standard data standards (HTML and ASCII text).
-Thomas]
Prowling the ruins of ancient software
[…]
With new programs replacing […]

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July 30th, 2003

Sacramento blows a million to intimidate protestors.

Mobilization Activists Blast Sacramento City Council For Suppressing Free Speech With Unconstitutional Ordinances
by Dan Bacher
Dissident Voice
July 29, 2003

The Sacramento City Council appears to be doing John Ashcroft’s dirty work
by passing two unconstitutional ordinances, 2003-026 and 2003-028, that
suppress freedom of speech. The Council unanimously voted for the secretive
resolutions on June 17, just prior to the USDA […]

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July 29th, 2003

NYC High School for Queer students

[This is cool. -Thomas]
1st public gay high school set for NY
NEW YORK, July 28 — New York City is creating the nation’s first public high school for gays, bisexuals and transgender students.The Harvey Milk High School will enroll about 100 students and open in a newly renovated building in the fall. It is named […]

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July 26th, 2003

Great Shrub quote from Michael Moore’s “Stupid White Men” desktop calendar

“It’s amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency. It wasn’t exactly a landslide, you know?” –George W. Bush, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling on June 14th, 2001.

… yes, quite amazing. And the Democrats blame us Greens instead of their own […]

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July 26th, 2003

Horrific quote in Michael Moore’s “Stupid White Men” desktop calendar

“I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable…. I’ve always thought that under-populated countries in AFrica are vastly under-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.” –Laurence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank in 1991

… these […]

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July 26th, 2003

Quote from MLK, Jr. in Michael Moore’s “Stupid White Men” desktop calendar

“A nation that continues year after year to spent more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is appoaching spiritual death.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

… and he said this well neigh upon fourty years ago. Could he have ever imagined what would transpire between now and then? The staggering level of waste […]

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July 25th, 2003

Say goodbye to a large chunk of fastfood service sector jobs…

From Dave Farber’s “Interesting People” list:
>Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:19:38 +0300
>From: Peter Nixon

>Subject: Robotic Nation
>
>
>I thought IP might find this interesting…
>
>http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
>
>I went to McDonald’s this weekend with the kids. We go to McDonald’s to eat
>about once a week because it is a mile from the house and has an indoor play
>area. Our normal routine […]

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July 24th, 2003

Gnostic Yahoo Groups

gnosticism2 · Learn the history and ideas of Gnostics
“Gnosis” means “knowledge”— not simply the number of facts held in one’s head, but a conjunction of knowledge with wisdom and perspective that culminates in spiritual insight. “Gnosticism” is, specifically, a category derived to express the emphasis of “Gnosis” in the belief system held by any one […]

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July 24th, 2003

Sign the BuzzFlash.com Declaration of Independence

[Damn straight I signed it! -Thomas]
A BuzzFlash Declaration of Independence for 2003
An Independence Day Declaration
Of the People of
The United States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to reform the political bands which have governed them at home, and to assume among the powers of […]

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