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An Activist’s Life, by Thomas Leavitt » Activism

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November 6th, 2004
Green Party, Death of the Planet

Great posting on drawbacks of Genetically Modified Organisms

Saw this in the middle of a Slashdot thread about David Cobb’s candidacy and the Green Party. This is one of the most lucid outlines of why, from a scientific perspective, GMO’s are a bad idea that I’ve ever seen.
basic understanding of GM crop risks

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October 15th, 2004
Queer, Green Party

An open letter on the McReynolds Senate Campaign - for the GLBT Community (I signed)

[Please pass this on. -Thomas]
From: “David Mcreynolds” david.mcr@earthlink.net
Subject: An open letter on the McReynolds SenateCampaign - for the GLBT Community
Friends,
Not all of you getting this agree with my
politics (and why should you - I don’t always
agree with myself) but all of you are friends,
members of the GLBT community.
Please look through the enclosed statement, which
was […]

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October 15th, 2004
Queer

Quoted!

[I’m quoted in this. :)
P.S. in case you’re curious, I’ve been mostly offline for the past month, taking a college course in Pre-Calculus, busting my ass emptying storage units and cleaning/organizing house, etc.
-Thomas]
http://www.presspassq.com/detail.cfm?id=41#Feature
PRESS PASS Q
A Newsletter for the Gay and Lesbian Press Professional
October 2004 (Vol. 6, No. 7)
A Publication of Rivendell Media and Q […]

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September 15th, 2004
Queer

Gays forging creative paths to parenthood

Gays forging creative paths to parenthood
Couples turn to co-parenting to build and raise families
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/06/MNG1Q8KH241.DTL
excerpt relevant to step-parents and the polyamory community:
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Legally, co-parenting arrangements occupy confusing in-between ground. Traditionally, contracts between adults can’t create or negate parenthood, said Deborah Wald, an attorney who specializes in nontraditional families.
Ten years ago, co-parenting contracts — which can spell […]

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August 23rd, 2004
Politics

Cheney Speaks to the Reptile Brain

Filed for future reference…
Interesting use of simplified political neuroscience:
http://www.opednews.com/hartmann_081804_cheney_reptilian.htm
BEGIN QUOTE
Cheney Speaks to the Reptile Brain
by Thom Hartmann
OpEdNews.com
“I am not unaware of the effect of the ridicule cast on this instrument of
defence by those who wished for engines of offence.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison referencing damage done to
morale by jokes about the US Navy, […]

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August 21st, 2004
Voting Machine Security

Security experts have radically different concerns than the general public on e-voting.

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,95094,00.html
“AUGUST 06, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Security experts are
substantially more skeptical about e-voting than the public, but their
greatest worry is system and programming errors, not malicious hacker
attacks, according to a survey released this week by the Ponemon
Institute.
The study, conducted in July and early August, aimed to measure public
opinion about electronic voting systems and then compare the […]

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August 20th, 2004
Social Justice

40 years…

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/20/wrongful.conviction.ap/index.html
Wrongfully convicted man free after 40 years behind bars
Friday, August 20, 2004 Posted: 11:45 AM EDT (1545 GMT)
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — A 76-year-old man who spent nearly every day of the last four decades in prison walked free after a judge found that deputies extracted his confession to a 1962 robbery by crushing his fingers […]

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August 17th, 2004
Death of the Planet

SCIENTISTS ALARMED AT INCREASE IN MELT RATE OF ICE By Hamish Macdonell

SCIENTISTS ALARMED AT INCREASE IN MELT RATE OF ICE By Hamish Macdonell
The Scotsman August 4, 2004
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=891712004
Greenland’s cover of ice is melting ten times quicker than previously
thought, an increase that could lead to floods across the world, scientists
have found.

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August 17th, 2004
Death of the Planet

Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution

Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution
A huge wake-up call…..
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=546761
Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution
August 1, 2004 -The Independent
Oceans absorbing half of carbon dioxide released, slowing global warming,
but causing catastrophic changes in the marine environment
The world’s oceans are sacrificing themselves to try to stave off global
warming, a major international research […]

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August 13th, 2004
Social Justice

U.S. Prison population explodes after requested research ignored.

Fred Nold’s Legacy
Why We Send So Many Americans to Prison and Probably Shouldn’t
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040812.html
By Robert X. Cringely
The interface between science and public policy is awkward at best.
Scientists and academics need money for research, while politicians need
research to build better weapons and sometimes to justify intended policy
changes. But what happens if you look for scientific support for […]

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August 3rd, 2004
Green Party

What is going on in the San Francisco Green Party?

The latest commentary and reporting from San Francisco Frontlines on the state of the San Francisco Green Party matches no reality that I’m aware of. However, where there is smoke, there is usually fire, so I’m curious about what thin thread of truth the obviously ideological spinjob being pitched by SF Frontlines is based on.
I […]

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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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