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June 30th, 2004
Progressive Issues, Social Justice

Million Worker March

Statement by the Organizing Committee of the Million
Worker March on Washington in Reply to Letter from AFL-CIO
National Field Mobilization Director Marilyn G. Sneiderman
MILLION WORKER MARCH ON WASHINGTON
ILWU Local 10 Attention: Clarence Thomas 400 North Point
Street San Francisco, CA 94133 www.millionworkermarch.org
On June 23, 2004, at the behest of John Sweeney and the
leadership of the AFL-CIO, Marilyn […]

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June 30th, 2004
Work, Random, Home and Family

Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle article on The Enron Tapes

[Here’s the article, with pictures. The second quote really needs some context… I was speaking, in general, about the fact that these folks really truly believed in Enron, the company, as a power for good in the Universe. They believed they were on the side of God, mom and apple pie, and that Enron’s role […]

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June 24th, 2004
Blogging

Denial of Service Attack

It appears that someone launched a denial of service attack on my personal weblog last night - the post at this URL: http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/blog/index.php?p=530, accounted for 150 out of the last 200 accesses, and 670 out of the last 1000 when I noticed this… most of them from a small number of similar IP addresses. Given […]

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June 24th, 2004
Voting Machine Security

League of Women Voters drops support of paperless voting machines

League of Women Voters drops support of paperless voting machines
By Rachel Konrad, The Associated Press Jun 14 2004 8:16PM
The League of Women Voters rescinded its support of paperless voting machines on Monday after hundreds of angry members voiced concern that paper ballots were the only way to safeguard elections from fraud, hackers or computer […]

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June 24th, 2004
Green Party

Ross Mirkarimi breaks through as political consultant.

Campaigns & Elections Magazine Breaks Tradition - Names
Progressive, Green Party Consultant:
National Rising Star
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 5,
2004
Contact: Windy Chien: (415) 359-5791
Washington, DC — The 21st annual National Campaign Training
Convention, a three-day conference bringing together hundreds of
political consultants, legislative staffers and public relations
specialists from around the country and abroad, […]

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June 24th, 2004
Green Party

Latest twist in Terry Baum case…

Terry Baum for Congress
8TH Congressional District www.terrybaum.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Contact: Baum Campaign 415.424-5881 or 415.424-2993
Attention: News Desk
Saga continues: Judge postpones hearing
on fate of Green Party Congressional
nomination; new hearing July 15
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court judge Ronald E. Quidachay Tuesday delayed -
again - a hearing to determine whether Green […]

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June 24th, 2004
Green Party

Lavender Caucus Report to CC

June 15, 2004
Report of Lavender Green Accomplishments in support of
the gay,lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersexed and
queer communities.
* In December of 2002, the caucus discussed and
issued a press statement in opposition to the war in
Iraq noting our opposition as both glbtiq people and
Greens. The statement generated international press
coverage- including coverage in the largest
circulation glbtiq […]

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June 22nd, 2004
Social Justice

Rep. Sam Farr, D-17/Santa Cruz, defends comments re: “open shop” vs. “union shop”

My original letter, auto-generated by ProgressiveSecretary.Org:
Note: This letter supports a campaign of the AFL-CIO Working Families
e-Activist “Union Voice”. It goes to Congress.
From: Thomas Leavitt

To: Senator Barbara Boxer
Subject: Protect workers’ rights
Dear Congressman Farr:
It has become increasingly difficult for American workers to form and join unions. It […]

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June 18th, 2004
Work

Archival postings on The Enron Tapes now easily available.

I’ve created a section under my personal web site (with the very capable assistance of Godmoma, my wife and in-house web designer) to make the various postings related to The Enron Tapes that I’ve made on this blog more easily accessible. I encourage folks to link back to this site, and of course to Seeing […]

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June 18th, 2004
Death of the Planet

Koala’s headed for extinction…

[This prompts rage and tears of sadness.
Where are our leaders? Why the vast silence from the corridors of power?
How can I be anything but a Green, given what is happening? How can anyone?
-Thomas]
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5442289
Koalas, an iconic symbol of Australia, face extinction as rapid urbanization along the eastern seaboard destroys their fragile habitat, environmental activists have […]

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June 18th, 2004
Death of the Planet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4949299-103690,00.html
Oil chief: my fears for planet
Shell boss’s ‘confession’ shocks industry
David Adam, science correspondent
Thursday June 17, 2004
The Guardian
The head of one of the world’s biggest oil companies has admitted that the threat of climate change makes him “really very worried for the planet”.
In an interview in today’s Guardian Life section, Ron Oxburgh, chairman of Shell, says […]

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June 17th, 2004
Politics

The Seventh Sign

[tbill informs me that, right after the article came down, they tore his sign down again. he’s up to #7 now. -Thomas]
Santa Cruz Metro Nuz Column, June 16th, 2004
Turf Wars II
Political activist Thomas Leavitt advised Nüz that his buddy TBill “has had four, count ‘em four separate Kerry for President signs torn down, apparently […]

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June 17th, 2004
Social Justice

A recent site created by my wife Gunilla for a client: BushRat.org

http://www.bushrat.org/
This might amuse some of you.

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June 17th, 2004
Social Justice

A Must See Movie: The Agronomist

Why, oh why, oh why are the friggin’ movie studios so obsessed with using Flash for their web sites? It is just annoying.
But, that said, you still need to go see The Agronomist.
Here’s the synopsis:
From Academy-Award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme, THE AGRONOMIST tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, […]

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