From: "Russell P.D. Burton"Add to Address Book To: greensd@occ.washburn.edu Subject: RE: [WU and Topeka Greens] State Meeting Update & City Council Ellection Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:44:40 -0600 Of course, who else??? Peace, Love, and Solidarity Dr. RPDB -----Original Message----- From: greensd-admin@occ.washburn.edu [mailto:greensd-admin@occ.washburn.edu]On Behalf Of Ryan Pratt Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:36 PM To: greensd@occ.washburn.edu Subject: Re: [WU and Topeka Greens] State Meeting Update & City Council Ellection Who are the progressive candidates exactly, the ones we are looking to help? -Ryan Pratt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell P.D. Burton" To: "Peace@Postrockcountry. Com" ; "Introsoc@Occ. Washburn. Edu" ; "hotpinkGARBAGE@yahoogroups. com" ; "Greensd@Occ. Washburn. Edu" Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:17 AM Subject: [WU and Topeka Greens] State Meeting Update & City Council Ellection > To all: > > Sorry I have been so late in responding to the list, however, I am afraid that life and world events have gotten me a bit down and I have not been able to do much of anything for the last few weeks...Yet, I am striving to > fight the good fight in spite of my twisted mind!!!!! > > Anyway, I am currently looking for the official minuets for the state > meeting, which took place in Topeka the other week, to post on the list > (Ryan do you have a copy?)...The short version is that we will be pressing > on with the petition to officially get the Greens on the state ballot...that > is when we are successful we will be able to register as a Green in the > state of Kansas and run candidates without a petition. > > We will need about 20,000 signatures to get on the ballot...the drive starts > on the 15th of April and runs through the summer. We will have a training > session or two, in the next few weeks, for our group so that we can make a > meaningful contribution to this important state event!!! More to come in the > next week or so. > > ALSO, please note that the Equal Justice Coalition has asked for our help in > walking districts for progressive candidates THIS weekend (see note below my > signature). Anyway, I hope that if you can find time, please respond to Ryan > and offer your help...this one of the times that we are really called to > help and NEEDED to help. > > MOREOVER, Clark and Lisa and I have been in contact and they have asked > (knowing that we are supportive of progressive candidates) for our help in > any number of ways over the next few weeks!!!!! PLEASE let ME know if you > have even the smallest amount of time to help Clark, Lisa or the other > progressive candidates for the city council election. I will forward our > support to them and coordinate our efforts with them...WE NEED TO WIN A > MAJORITY IN THE CITY COUNCIL AND HERE IS HOW WE CAN REALLY HELP!!!!!!!!!! > > Peace, Love, and Solidarity > > Dr. RPDB > > > Hello all. > > My name is Ryan Freed - I am the Chair of the Elections Committee for the > Equal Justice Coalition (EJC). As you know, EJC is an organization > determined to elect fair-minded leaders for the Topeka City council in order > to pass progressive legislation to disallow discrimination on the basis of > sexual orientation or gender identity in the City of Topeka. > > To achieve our goal - we need volunteers, and LOTS of them!!! > > This weekend EJC will be walking the district for several city council > people, and we're looking for people to join us. We will be walking Lisa > Hecht's district and we will most likely be walking John Nave's as well > (John still has to get back to us). We need your help to do this. If we > are going to get fair-minded leaders in office, they need to have their > names out there. Door-to-door campaigning is the best way we can do this. > > We will be walking from 10:00 - 2:00 on Saturday and Sunday (March 8 and 9). > After the district walk on Sunday we will be having a phone bank to get > more volunteers for the next weekend to walk districts again. If you are interested in joining EJC in walking districts, please email me at > peacefulresolution@msn.com -or- wuamnesty@hotmail.com. You may also call > me if you have any questions. > > I look forward to hearing from you - thank you for your support. > > Sincerely, > > > Ryan Freed > Chair - Elections Committee > Equal Justice Coalition > Ph: 233-8030 > Cell: 845-7624 > -----Original Message----- From: answer.general@action-mail.org [mailto:answer.general@action-mail.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:04 PM To: answer.general@action-mail.org Subject: [ANSWER]: Denounce government ban on Feb. 15 Peace March in NYC! A.N.S.W.E.R. DENOUCES GOVERNMENT BAN ON FEBRUARY 15 PEACE MARCH IN NEW YORK A.N.S.W.E.R. denounces Federal Judge Barbara Jones's refusal to grant a march permit for the huge February 15 peace march in New York City as a dangerous and politically-motivated assault on the movement's most basic right to freedom of speech and assembly. The New York City Police claim that they won't allow the march on Feb. 15 in New York because of security concerns. For months the police have been routinely invoking "security concerns" as a reason to deny march permits for political demonstrations, large and small, but not for other assemblies and huge parades that don't have a political point of view in opposition to government policies. The right to join together with thousands of other individuals in common cause and march on our streets is a unique and powerful form of political expression no less important than speech, and it is fully protected by the Constitution. We demand that the courts reject the "security" pretext used to deny the march permit for Feb. 15, and to deny other marches. The real reason that New York City Mayor Bloomberg, the police and the courts are trying to ban the anti-war march is because Feb. 15 is going to be a powerful international day of protest against the war on Iraq and the United States government. The security concerns they really have are not a threat of "terrorism" but the threat posed to Bush's political agenda. Fearful of the political impact of the march the government is trying to suppress the event. The peace movement, along with everyone who is threatened by this outrageous violation of the rights of protestors, must fight the march ban. A.N.S.W.E.R. joins with all other groups in fighting for and exercising our right to march in New York on Feb. 15, and in any other city where the antiwar movement chooses to take to the streets in order to stop the war. For all of those who are planning to join the many feeder marches to the rally, we encourage everyone to stay strong and defy the city and federal government's attempts to discourage participation. The most important thing is that people come out in large numbers to show the country and the world that the people of the United States are mobilizing in opposition to a war of aggression. The court system, working in cahoots with the police and the Bush administration, is attempting to discourage people's efforts to exercise their First Amendment Right on February 15. The best way, again, to oppose this is to come to the demonstration. The New York City demonstration on Saturday, February 15 will assemble on 1st Ave. starting at 49th St. and going north. The permitted rally will begin at 12 noon. --------------------------------------- FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT UPCOMING ACTIONS: http://www.InternationalANSWER.org http://www.VoteNoWar.org dc@internationalanswer.org New York 212-633-6646 Washington 202-544-3389 Los Angeles 213-487-2368 San Francisco 415-821-6545 To make a tax-deductible donation, go to http://www.internationalanswer.org/donate.html Sign up to receive updates (low volume): http://www.internationalanswer.org/subscribelist.html ------------------ Send replies to answer@action-mail.org This is the ANSWER activist announcement list. Anyone can subscribe by sending any message to To unsubscribe Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:32:49 -0600 From: "Rhoda Vanderhart" Add to Address Book To: "O'Conner, George" , "Oberhaus, Jean" , "Purtell, Keith" , "Ring, Stephanie" , "Rutledge, Kasia" , "Strelow, Justin" , "Suellentrop, Ann" , "Vogelweid, Anne" CC: "Allison, Andy" , "Atkinson, Dennis" , "Beard, Christy" , "Bonilla, Robert" , "Burrows, Ryan" , "Callison, Herb" , "Cather, Bill" , "Corcoran, Shawn" , "Davis, Kate" , "Eib, Kevin" , "Enlow, Brad" , "Ensley, Jeff" , "Evans, Andrew" , "Goldy, Scott" , "Gurss, David" , "Hepner, Chris" , "Hummer, Jonathan" Subject: KCK Nader Visit Next Week!!!!!!!!! Greetings from Lawrence! I am proud to announce that Ralph Nader will be visiting Kansas City, KS on Friday, June 23. Nader has decided to achieve his goal of visiting all 50 states before the Denver convention, and it looks like Kansas is the last (but not least) pit stop. To update some of you who are hearing this for the first time, Nader's scheduling representative informed us today that he would like to visit Kansas City, KS because it is close to MCI. Nader will be flying from MCI to Denver at 4:15 on June 23. As for an exact arrival time, I have yet to receive a confirmation from DC. Gina Penn, who handles scheduling, reviewed two possible incoming flights into MCI at approximately 9:00 am and noon on June 23. Either way, she said we should plan an event in Kansas City, KS from 12-3, which will consist of a rally with 4 or 5 local speakers and music, a speech by Ralph Nader,and a press conference. Because this is Nader's 50th state, campaign headquarters is pushing for nationalmedia coverage. Wyandotte High School Auditorium is available on June 23, and it can accommodate 1800 supporters for 5 hours for around $400. The superintendent has "penciled us in" for that day, but the place is notofficially ours to rent until I complete some paperwork tomorrow andfind a way to pay for it. As soon as I have the "official" word, feelfree to start working on flyers. Rhoda and I suggest that we make this event a bit of a fundraiser. In other words, if the two groups in Missouri and Kansas can cover the initial cost, we can request donations at the door to reimburse our organizations for this expense. We might consider reserving a sectionin the front for petitioners and donors. Any ideas or thoughts? In any case, we will probably need the school from 11-4, which allows a one-hour setup and cleanup buffer for a 12-3 PM event. As far as speakers, I hope we can get Craig Volland to address our supporters onbehalf of environmental concerns (thanks to Terry & Rhoda for this suggestion). We also have the talent of a Lakota folk singer from Lawrence named Natalie Cox. I had the pleasure of hearing her play lastnight, and she would love to contribute 2 or 3 songs between speakers. Rhoda suggested that we look into activists who can talk about theWTO. Any ideas? And does anyone suggest someone who would make a good mc for this? No confirmation from DC yet as to when Nader will be flying in. As Gina pointed out, he will be at our event by 1:30 at the latest. Mostof his time beforehand will likely be spent with interviews. I shouldknow in a couple days whether we will need to provide transportationduring his visit. There are several areas in which we can use all the help we can get: Local Issues: One area in which the DC folks could really use our helpis with providing resources on local environmental or social issues. If anyone knows of any organizations, websites or other resources,please email them to Jennifer in Washington, DC jenthang@concentric.net. Speakers: Ideally, we would like to schedule four or five 10-minute speeches covering local angles on the following issues: labor, environment, poverty, and indigenous rights. We have some great leadson Native American speakers via Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence and Adam Spak, who will be in contact with the Native American elders on the Global Peace Walk. Also, we will be attending the Juneteenth Parade on Saturday to scout potential speakers who can represent the local African-American community. Frank Neff had a good suggestion for Bill Onash to speak on behalf of local labor concerns. And we have a lead on a Lawrence environmental activist who specializes in water issues. If anyone has any suggestions for local leaders who would like to support our cause, please email their telephone numbers and any other information about them. We also think it would be nice to recognize local petitioners at the rally. Publicity: As soon as we receive confirmation on a place and time, we will create some flyers. Feel free to generate any type of flyer thatcan help publicize this event. Also, suggestions for opportunities to publicize, such as the Global Peace Walk and the Juneteenth Parade,would be especially helpful. Please update everyone involved on local happenings in the coming week. Also concerning publicity, it would be helpful for people to contact friends, fellow activists, and greens in neighboring states or communities who might be attend or know others who would drive 3 hours to see Ralph. Please feel free to email any organizations that wouldhelp publicize or support the event, as soon as the specifics time and place have been confirmed. (I will notify www.kcactivism.org and all of their links.) As far as media are concerned, the campaign has asked that we not contact media organizations. They will be sending press releases to local media. Any names of newspapers DC might overlook and their telephone & fax would be helpful, and I will forward DC this information. As far as the actual event, we will need representatives from the counties in Kansas and Missouri to help man petition tables. I would really like to extend thanks to the folks who provided the great feed back today, namely Rhoda, Dee, Frank, Jerry, and Helen. Please forward this message to your local greens and feel free to callus (Nicole Jackel & Cy Routh) at home 785 842 4852 or email any suggestions cyrouth@aol.com. It's been wonderful working with you all and I know we can make Ralph's 50th visit a national success! Nicole Jackel and Cy Routh Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:40:06 -0400 From: "Nader 2000 Campaign" Add to Address Book Subject: Action Alert: Democracy on Death Row To: NEWSLETTER@LIST.VOTENADER.ORG Dear Citizen Activist: Our hard-work is starting to have an impact. The incredible turnout at our Super-Rallies, and the constant protests to Let Ralph Debate have raised the eyebrows of the establishment media who had declared our campaign dead in the water. We are also moving up in the polls. We are at 7% in California, 9% in Maine, 7% in Connecticut, and an astounding 17% in Alaska. We must now broaden our focus to include efforts that demonstrate our strengths at the grassroots level. Simple things like wearing a Nader Button, putting that bumper-sticker on your car, and helping distribute literature in your neighborhood or putting up yardsigns will be critical to our success. Most people don't know that Ralph is in the campaign or that there is an alternative to the tired old politics as usual. DIRECT ACTION MISSION: This week we need to protest that Texas prisoners aren't the only ones on death row, by excluding Ralph Nader from the debates the two parties are placing democracy on death row. Hold silent vigils, mock funeral processions, and show trials for the corrupt major party candidates who also support the death penalty, the drug war, and the for profit prison industry. These events can be held in front of your local Rep. or Dem. office to highlight the placing of American democracy on death row. Alert local media, dress in black, build caskets, and put tape over your mouths to show that you've been silenced. Have fun, but always be polite and peaceful. OUTREACH MISSION: This week we need to reach out to local community groups that are holding candidate forums. You don't need to have public speaking experience to explain why the current political system isn't working for you. Two ideas that are important to express are : 1) That the campaign finance system is corrupting the political system and the two major parties are marinating in corporate money. 2) If you are not in one of the half dozen "battleground" states, a vote for Ralph Nader is not a wasted vote. The winner take all system of the electoral-college means that if Bush is going to win your state anyway a vote for Gore is a wasted vote. If Gore is going to win your state then a vote for Ralph Nader won't hurt and you can be free to vote your hopes and dreams instead of your fears. FUNDRAISING MISSION: The Nader 2000 Campaign Needs You to Party! With the election only 5 weeks away you may be wondering "What can I do to get involved in the Nader 2000 Campaign?" One great way to contribute is to raise funds and awareness about the campaign by throwing a campus or neighborhood houseparty! Houseparties are small-scale fundraiser/time-raisers held in homes, campuses, or community centers by folks who want to help spread the word about the only Presidential team with an authentic record of reform - Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke. Houseparties are a great way to get involved in the grassroots political process to organize a truly progressive third party while having fun with your friends, family and co-workers. During the month of October the campaign will be sponsoring a "Get Out and Vote-Houseparty Rally Contest". Between the dates of October 1-28, the states that raise the most money, volunteers, and support, through house-parties, will win a rally the weekend before the election hosted by one of our Citizen Committee Members. For more information about hosting a house-party and contest guidelines, please visit our website: http://www.votenader.org/materials/houseparty/ PRINT MISSION: The topic for this week's letter to the editor is the connection between the failed war on drugs, the death penalty, and the for-profit prison industry. Both major party candidates are supportive of these failed policies and are taking money from the prison industrial complex. Some points to include: * The War on Drugs: Nader: The War on Drugs unfairly targets people of color and the poor. Drug abusers do not need to be incarcerated-they need opportunity and treatment. Opposes the criminalization of drugs, and the incarceration of nonviolent drug offenders. Gore and Bush: The Clinton-Gore Administration has shown little creativity in coming up with new approaches to drug problems. Neither Gore nor Bush have shown any inclination or ability or the courage necessary to come up with new approaches that would reduce the drug problem. * The Death Penalty: Nader: Has opposed the death penalty since he was a law student at Harvard. Opposes the death penalty because it does not deter and is discriminatory against people of color and those who cannot afford competent legal counsel. Supports moratorium on the death penalty Bush: Supports the death penalty. Texas has one of the highest execution rates in the United States. People of color are disproportionately represented on death row in Texas. Gore: Supports the death penalty. Has been silent on the injustices of the death penalty, such as the disproportionate representation of people of color on death row. * Prison Industrial Complex: Nader: Calls for corporations, such as the Corrections Corporation of America-the largest multinational prison corporation operating in the United States-to get out of the prison industry; human dignity should come before profits. Corporations wrongfully exploit prisoners, who are disproportionately people of color. Prisoners are used as cheap labor to increase corporate profits. He believes that public policy should be aimed at reducing the incarceration rate through treatment and rehabilitation-not locking people up by the masses. Bush and Gore: Both encourage the growth of the corporate prison industry. Both have accepted more than $100,000 in soft money that corporations running for-profit prisons have given to both the DNC and RNC. The corporate-prison industry has grown tremendously under the eight years of the Clinton administration, particularly in George W. Bush's state of Texas. From: "Russell P.D. Burton" Add to Address Book To: "Peace@Postrockcountry. Com" , "Greensd@Occ. Washburn. Edu" Subject: [WU and Topeka Greens] FW: [Kansas-Greens] Reads like extortion Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:07:30 -0600 ;;;;;; Peace, Love, and Solidarity Dr. RPDB -----Original Message----- From: kansas-list-admin@kansasgreens.org [mailto:kansas-list-admin@kansasgreens.org]On Behalf Of Richard Heckler Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:50 PM To: kansas-list@kansasgreens.org; kawgreens@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Kansas-Greens] Reads like extortion A threat on eve of U.N. vote 02/24/03 Dafna Linzer Associated Press United Nations- Senior U.S. officials have been quietly dispatched in recent days to the capitals of key Security Council countries where they are warning leaders to vote with the United States on Iraq or risk "paying a heavy price." For some of the countries, such as Angola, Guinea and Cameroon - poor African nations whose concerns drew little attention before they landed seats on the council - there is the possibility that supporting Washington's drive for a new U.N. resolution authorizing war may reap benefits down the line. From Our Advertiser "For a long time now, we have been asking for help to rebuild our country after years of war," said Angolan Ambassador Ismael Gaspar Martins. "No one is tying the request to support on Iraq but it is all happening at the same time." Angola's president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, met in Luanda Thursday with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Walter Kansteiner, who was diverted from a trip to South Africa to meet with the leaders of the council's three African nations. "In Africa, the message is simple: Time is running out and we think they should support us," said one U.S. diplomat on condition of anonymity. The United States and Britain plan to submit their resolution to the Security Council this week and will ask for a vote by the middle of March. In the meantime, the State Department has sent some of its top people to the world's capitals to lobby for support even as President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Prime Minister Tony Blair work the phones. The Bush administration has also recruited the leaders of Australia and Spain to help push for votes. "The order from the White House was to use 'all diplomatic means necessary,' " another U.S. diplomat said. "And that really means everything." In the past three weeks, the administration has sent Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman and Kim Holmes, the assistant secretary of state for international organizations, to Mexico City. Mexican diplomats described the visits as hostile in tone and complained that Washington was demonstrating little concern for the constraints of the Mexican government, whose people are overwhelmingly opposed to a war with Iraq. "They actually told us: 'Any country that doesn't go along with us will be paying a very heavy price,' " said one Mexican diplomat. To get its resolution through, the United States must secure nine votes in the 15-member council while preventing France, Russia or China - which are pushing for continued weapons inspections - from using their vetoes. The United States and Britain hold the two other vetoes. While Washington and London believe they already have the necessary authorization to forcefully disarm Iraq, many key allies - Turkey included - have said a new resolution would help them overcome opposition at home. But so far, Washington is at least five votes short with support guaranteed only from Britain, Spain and Bulgaria. Since both Germany and Syria have said they would not support the resolution, and Pakistan is almost certain to abstain, the United States must persuade the African trio as well as Chile and Mexico to vote yes. Otherwise, the resolution will fail. Diplomats said there was little the Bush administration could use to scare or entice Mexico now since it does not receive U.S. aid and the one thing it had wanted most - legalizing the status of undocumented Mexicans in the United States - was taken off the table more than a year ago. ) 2003 The Plain Dealer. Used with permission. __________________________________________________ From: "Russell P.D. Burton" Add to Address Book To: "Socio-Majors@Occ. Washburn. Edu" , "Greensd@Occ. Washburn. Edu" Subject: WU Greens Discussion ListFW: [REDYOUTH] CALIFORNIA VOTERS ROUT RACISM Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:34:19 -0500 Peace, Love and Solidarity Dr. RPDB -----Original Message----- From: William Mandel [mailto:wmmmandel@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:08 AM To: anarch3m Subject: [REDYOUTH] CALIFORNIA VOTERS ROUT RACISM The most important result of the California election was the two-to-one vote against racism, by defeating Proposition 54, which would have prevented the state from collecting information on differences by ethnicity in education, employment, housing, health, or anything else. That margin is, by electoral standards, not a landslide but an avalanche. This vote is a sea change. Less than a decade ago, the voters passed a proposition, by the same man, prohibiting affirmative action. Most encouraging, A majority of whites voted against Prop. 54 on Tuesday, as well as, of course, Latinos and Blacks. The election of Schwarzenegger, who won by a plurality, not even a majority, was fundamentally a vote against politicians. How can one run a democracy without them? Democracy is based on compromise, and that is the skill that makes a competent politician. The answer would seem to be reforming the Democratic Party, if that is possible, to reflect the views of presidential candidates Kucinich and Sharpton instead of the oil, computer, and financial oligarchs. Another answer is to win major-party status, in the eyes of voters, for a presently minor party. A third answer is to establish a new one, as was the case when the Republican Party was founded just one presidential election before Lincoln, running as its candidate, won. The under-three-percent vote for the Green candidate in California, and the only slightly larger combined poll showings of Kucinich plus Sharpton provide no reason to hope for any of these changes in the situation as it now exists. Two things can change that. One would be ultimate defeat in Iraq as occurred in Iran, which is not just around the corner. There is another. Foreign investors now fund the operation of the U.S. government by purchase of its bonds, because Bush has substituted an unprecedented deficit for the previous surplus. Asia, very largely China, alone holds 600 BILLION in such paper. Any time those investors conclude that our deficit is too large for us to be a safe investment, they will shift their money to where it is safer. That always happens in accelerating panic mode. If and when that occurs, the bottom will drop out of the U.S. economy overnight, as I well remember from the Great Depression. Under those circumstances, everything in politics will be up for grabs. William Mandel ======================================================== The title of my autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER (Introduction by Howard Zinn), is based on my demolition of Sen. Joe McCarthy and later of HUAC in hearings of 1953 and 1960. It is a history of how the American people fought to defend and expand its rights since the 1920s (I'm 86) employing the form of the life of a 30s AND 60s activist, one who was involved in most serious movements: student, labor, 45 years of efforts to prevent war with the USSR and Cuba, civil rights South and North, women's liberation [my late wife appears on 50 pages], 37 years on Pacifica Radio [where I reinvented talk radio, of whose previous existence I had been unaware], civil liberties, and opposition to anti-Semitism and to Zionism. You may hear/see my testimonies before McCarthy and, later, HUAC on my website, http://www.billmandel.net I am the author of five books in my academic field, have taught at UC Berkeley, and earlier held a postdoctoral fellowship, by invitation, at Stanford's Hoover Institution. The book may be ordered through all normal sources. For an autographed copy, send me $24 at 4466 View Pl.,#106, Oakland, CA. 94611 ======================================================== -- Red Youth is a mailing list sponsored by the Young People's Socialist League. To unsubscribe, send email to redyouth-request@ypsl.org with "unsubscribe" in the Subject line.