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July 30th, 2004
Free Speech

The Fairness Doctrine: not dead.

It appears that when you search for “Fairness Doctrine” on Google, my web page on the Fairness Doctrine at SavageStupidity.com comes up #2… just ahead of the Heritage Foundation’s! :)
It appears that the Fairness Doctrine isn’t totally dead, either…
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) is interested in bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, via a current bill: […]

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July 30th, 2004
Green Party

KINSEY STAYS IN THE RACE DESPITE OFFER FROM ‘DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA’

***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
July 25, 2004
BOB KINSEY FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
Contact information: Hollie Kopp, (970) 224-5683
KINSEY STAYS IN THE RACE DESPITE OFFER FROM ‘DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA’
FORT COLLINS, CO – Worried by a relatively unknown Green candidate
already polling 34% after three months of early campaigning, Democracy
for America, a Democratic Party PAC, pressured Green Bob Kinsey […]

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July 29th, 2004
Green Party

Appears likely that Baum won’t be on fall ballot.

Terry Baum for Congress
8TH Congressional District www.terrybaum.com
BREAKING NEWS: News Conference Advisory
Thursday, July 29, 2004 (12:37 a.m.)
Contact: Baum Campaign 415.424-5881 / Press office 916.996-9170
S.F. Superior Court Judge Refuses
To Put Green Party Congressional
Candidate on November Ballot
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court judge late Wednesday ruled -
after more than 3 months […]

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July 27th, 2004
Queer

More on Cho controversy

a) BuzzFlash Article
This is from the introduction of a great interview with Cho about the
debacle, published today in Buzzflash:
“We had interviewed Margaret recently, for a second time, about her new
“State of Emergency tour http://www.margaretcho.com/tour” and her new
DVD, “Revolution
http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/04/06/pre04021.html,” when news
broke about the Kerry campaign apparently asking the Human Rights
Campaign to nix her appearance, out of […]

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July 25th, 2004
Queer

Letter written to all co-sponsoring entities of “Unity” 2004

Dear [enter name of person here],
As you’re no doubt well aware by now, one of the leading members of the
bi/queer community, Margaret Cho (* whose image appears on your organization’s
home page), has been disinvited from the Unity 2004 event that you
are co-sponsoring (as I see from this page:
http://www.margaretcho.com/unity.htm).
[* optional: applies to NCTE, SLDN, and […]

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July 25th, 2004
Queer

HRC fucks over Margaret Cho

Attn: Cheryl Jacques, Executive Director
Dear Cheryl,
There is really no polite way to say how throughly bleeped I think your
organization’s decision to dump Margaret Cho from “Unity” 2004 is. Just when
I was beginning to think that HRC might have turned a new leaf, and be an
organization that bisexuals and other marginalized folks within the greater
GLBT […]

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July 25th, 2004
Work, Geek stuff

Sources for Internet History.

-Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999) (recommended by
several IP’ers)
-Peter Salus’s little 1995 book, “Casting the Net” (recommended by
several IP’ers)
-”Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet” by Katie
Hafner (recommended by several IP’ers)
-FCC working papers that discuss Internet/Policy issues, beginning with
Kevin Werbach’s Digital Tornado paper and Jaxon Oxman’s.
-CSTB’s _Internet’s Coming of Age_ […]

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July 21st, 2004
Green Party

Another report on the 2004 national GP convention…

http://geocities.com/cpeacesigns/GreenParty2004
Very detailed (if difficult to read at time). Lots of pictures. Lots and lots of pictures. :)

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July 21st, 2004
Green Party

Sam Smith on the Greens

[Saw this on a list. Sam Smith is consistently one of the most perceptive and empathetic commentators on the Greens … I still love his comment that the Greens are the only constituency that the Democrats think they can win over by insult. -Thomas]
Sam Smith of the Progressive Review has written an excellent critique
of politics-as-usual […]

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July 20th, 2004
Green Party

Purely informational…

[Update: for those of you who don’t read beyond the first few paragraphs, the author of this document is Marc Solomon, a San Francisco area Green. -Thomas]
Folks,
It has come to my attention that Carlos Petroni has been peppering various
Green lists with his uniquely seasoned view of San Francisco politics.
Here is some background on Carlos.
1. […]

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July 19th, 2004
Green Party

Tedd Rall on Anybody But Bush

http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/02/28/
Brilliant, as usual.

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July 17th, 2004
Social Justice

N.Y. woman gets 6 months in jail for ‘obnoxious’ activism

[Country is going to hell in a handbasket. -Thomas]
N.Y. woman gets 6 months in jail for ‘obnoxious’ activismElena Sassower couldn’t bring herself to say, “I’m sorry, I was wrong.” Convicted of disrupting Congress, the judicial activist from New York refused to accept probation with conditions imposed by the judge that she believed were onerous and […]

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July 17th, 2004
Green Party, War

More you can do: Donate to Kucinich and/or Cobb

I’m still a Green (not to mention broke), and matched my contribution to Dennis with one to the Green Party’s nominee for President, David Cobb, but I felt compelled to do something to impact the course of events at the DNC and within the Democratic Party and Kerry campaign in light of the events below.
By […]

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July 16th, 2004
War

New Meme: We Apologize for Abu Ghraib

Neal Pollack convined people across the web to declare April 15th, “Fair and Balanced Day” to protest Fox News’ decision to sue Al Franken for using the words “fair and balanced” in the title of his book, and add the phrase “Fair and Balanced” to their web site, either in the title, or in a […]

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