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Archive for March, 2004

March 30th, 2004

SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND GENDER EXPRESSION (SO/GI/GE) PLATFORM of CA Green Party

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PROPOSAL (MARCH 27 2004)
SPONSOR: PLATFORM WORKING GROUP
PRESENTERS/CONTACTS:
Paul Quick, 285 Rose Street, San Francisco 94102 (415)626-9134. PabloQ@aol.com
Shane Que Hee, 923 Levering Avenue Unit 102, Los Angeles CA 90024 (310)208-1624. squehee@ucla.edu
SUBJECT: SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND GENDER EXPRESSION (SO/GI/GE) in the Social Justice & Liveable Communities […]

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March 30th, 2004

Letter from Jack O’Connell (CA State Supt. of Schools)

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March 26th, 2004

THE UNMAKING OF A PRESIDENT-2004

THE UNMAKING OF A PRESIDENT-2004
By Carl Jensen
Howard Dean supporters across the country were surprised when they
woke up Tuesday morning, January 19, to read reports of Dean’s
unexpected third place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
What happened?
Gov. Dean started 2003 with little name recognition and even less
campaign funding. Through the summer he spread the old familiar theme
of power […]

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March 26th, 2004

Excerpt from discussion of my Church’s apostolic succession/legitimacy…

[… my Church has as strong a claim to being a legitimate heir to the Christian tradition as any “orthodox” church (better than most). -Thomas]
Dear [deleted],
I am a Priest in the Ecclesia Gnostica, and I believe you fail to
understand that the Ecclesia Gnostica is different than most other
independent Gnostic Churches. Not only do we have […]

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March 26th, 2004

(un)Common Sense discussion of public policy in re: the economy.

[Read the whole article. This guy is dead on target with his analysis. Another gem from Dave Farber’s IP list. -Thomas]
The Economy Summed Up: Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden, to Avoid Creating Jobs
-http://markschmitt.typepad.com/decembrist/2004/03/the_economy_sum.html
The political analyst Charlie Cook’s weekly column, available by e-mail
subscription http://nationaljournal.com/about/cookcolumn.htm is a real
treasure, and usually offers much more than just the […]

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March 23rd, 2004

Open voting consortium demonstrates free election software on 4/1

Monday, March 22, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts
Alan Dechert 916-791-0456
Jan Krrman +46 18 509 507 (Sweden, 10a-1p Pac.)
Arthur Keller 650-424-0202
Fred McLain 206-679-2198 (Washington)
Doug Jones 319-335-0740 (Iowa)
David Mertz 413-863-4552 (Massachusetts)
Laird Popkin 917-453-0700 (New York)
all can be reached via email: firstname@openvoting.org
GRANITE BAY, CALIFORNIA The Open Voting Consortium will demonstrate a
version of its free election software on the 1st […]

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March 23rd, 2004

Greensweek excerpts re: GP Presidential Nomination

NATIONAL: Listen to the Green Party presidential candidates’ debate at the
Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. in January, featuring Kent
Mesplay, David Cobb, and Lorna Salzman, with Matt Gonzalez moderating, and
other real audio recordings (Ralph Nader, Desmond Tutu, Arundhati Roy,
Randall Robinson, Peter Camejo debating Norman Solomon, etc.) at
http ://www.usgreens.org/audio.
NATIONAL: Lynne Serpe has stepped […]

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March 17th, 2004

Rebuttal to attacks against consensus as a decision making process.

In reaction to a flame about the dysfunctional nature of “consensus” based decision making processes by the editor of Politics in the Zeros, I posted the following comment:
Consensus is an essential aspect of the Green perspective on the political process, and crucial to the movement’s identity as an authentic alternative to the status quo. Abandoning […]

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March 17th, 2004

Boycott Union Busting Coca-Cola!

[Please write, folks. The only way we’ll be able to preserve our rights here at home, is to support the rights of workers in other countries to organize and defend themselves. -Thomas]
Coke Workers on Hunger Strike in Colombia
From: StopKillerCoke@aol.com
(Please share this action-alert with others; and stay
tuned for more communications.)
Dear Friends,
This morning, Monday March 15, Coca-Cola […]

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March 17th, 2004

[If anything ever fit this category of my web log better, I haven’t seen it! Oh… my… god… -Thomas]
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20040317/1440651968.htm&photoid=20040311BOS03D
Tenn. County Wants to Charge Homosexuals
DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) - The county that was the site of the Scopes “Monkey
Trial’’ over the teaching of evolution is asking lawmakers to amend state
law so the county can […]

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March 17th, 2004

New Blog: CritterBlog

http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/critterblog/
A record of the critters we see as we wander around Santa Cruz.

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March 16th, 2004

Great quote…

“The tactics we choose are less important than the tenacity we demonstrate.” –Ricardo Levins Morales

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March 10th, 2004

Black Box Voting in Seattle Weekly

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0410/040310_news_blackbox.php
March 10 - 16, 2004
Black Box Backlash
Bev Harris of Renton created a firestorm with her national Internet campaign
against electronic voting. Now she’s trying to persuade people in the real
world that their democracy is on the line.
by George Howland Jr.
photo (Rick Dahms)
Bev Harris at home in Renton: “I’ve never […]

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March 8th, 2004

Goerge Bush: “the poor are lazy”.

[Another great item from Dave Farber’s IP email list. This man is our President? Scary. Scary that he managed to finagle his way into Harvard Business School! -Thomas]
From: Adam Peake
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:33:59
To:dave@farber.net
Subject: George Bush and the Gilded Age — comments by his business school
professor
Dave,
This essay might be of interest “President […]

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