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We, the members of the Green Party of Mississippi, affirm as
our first principle that government may only exist as an instrument whereby the
People may govern themselves. Governments may exist only with the consent of the
People which the People may withdraw or withhold at any time. The purpose of
government is to secure and preserve to the People as individuals the inherent
rights of all individual human beings. These rights include, in the words of
Thomas Jefferson, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." We affirm our
intention to work for the respect and acknowledgement of individual human rights
by all people and governments consistent with the values and principles set
forth in this Platform. We affirm that we do this work as one small part of the
greater work of all Greens and their progressive allies towards the
establishment and/or maintenance of free and democratic government in all our
respective states throughout the world.
1.We believe that the state of Mississippi should support publicly owned
county and regional hospitals as a step towards universal healthcare.
2.We support state-financed malpractice insurance to enable doctors and
nurses to practice in the state of Mississippi without unreasonable expenses and
without fear of unfair malpractice claims.
3.We support state-financed healthcare provider education at
in-or-out-of-state accredited programs to be reimbursed by practice in the
underserved rural areas of Mississippi after graduation.
4.The state of Mississippi should not interfere with reproductive freedom.
Abortion should be covered by state healthcare funding.
5.We support initiatives to address the epidemic of AIDS and HIV disease,
including education, availability of condoms, and access to healthcare for
HIV-infected individuals.
C.Economic Justice/Social Safety Net
1.We support an immediate increase of the legal hourly wage to at least
$2.00 over the federal minimum wage in all municipalities and counties in the
state of Mississippi and in all state funded hourly wage positions. Corporations
receiving state, county, and municipal contracts should be required to pay their
employees a living wage.
2.We support state funding of living wage jobs in community and
environmental service.
3.We oppose the use of the state of Mississippi's eminent domain powers to
acquire land or other property for the use of corporations or other for-profit
entities. The power of eminent domain must be used for the public good and not
for the enrichment of private interests.
4.We favor financial and technical incentives for the creation of worker or
consumer cooperatives or democratic public enterprises.
5.We favor financial and technical incentives for the creation of publicly
owned community banks or consumer credit unions.
6.We favor the elimination of sales taxes on food, utilities for
residential consumption, pharmaceuticals and other basic necessities.
7.We favor an increase to 8% of the oil severance tax.
8.We support an increase in the tobacco tax.
9.We propose that the Mississippi State Legislature fully match the federal
child care block grant so that Mississippi can avail itself of all federal funds
available for this purpose.
10.We believe that corporations and wealthy property owners should be taxed
to provide restricted funds for vocational, academic, and extracurricular
education.
1.Mississippi right-to-work laws must be repealed. We support the right of
employees to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
2.We support the enactment of "labor peace laws" requiring employers to
allow union organizers access to their premises and employees for organizing
purposes without interference or reprisals against employees or organizers.
3.We support the passage of a law requiring employers to provide a written
statement of cause before they may fire an employee.
4.We support the passage of a law prohibiting camera surveillance of
employees and surveillance of employee Email traffic.
5.Temporary employment agencies and other contractors should be regulated,
and fair treatment, pay, and security should be guaranteed for their
employees.
6.A State Labor Commission should be created to oversee union elections for
workers not covered by the NLRA (as amended) and not allowed NLRB elections.
This definition would include state and municipal employees and farm labor. It
could also include employees of some medium-sized businesses with 10 or more
employees.
7.We contend that workers have a basic human right to a safe and healthful
workplace. Thus, workplace health and safety regulations must be enforced
rigorously; workplaces should be open to state safety inspection without advance
notice; health and safety whistleblowers must be protected from discharge and
harassment; accidents or death on the job should be subject to investigation and
possible criminal prosecution.
E.Criminal Justice
1.Abolish private prisons. Allowing private individuals to profit by
subjecting their fellow citizens to involuntary servitude is suggestive of
slavery.
2.We favor rehabilitation of prisoners. To that end, we support access to
education and job training for prisoners.
3.We support halfway houses, fines, restitution, and community service as
alternatives to the continued expansion of the prison-industrial complex.
4.We call for the repeal of Mississippi's "three strikes" law. This law has
crowded our prisons with nonviolent offenders and devoured revenue that could be
spent on education or the protection of the environment.
5.We oppose damage caps for lawsuits. We favor the repeal of all laws
imposing them. Individuals and businesses that commit illegal acts must be
brought to account.
6.We condemn the doctrine of sovereign immunity and favor legislation
making it illegal for state officials and agencies to invoke it. If private
individuals are to be answerable for their crimes in courts of law then public
officials must be also. No government has the right to expect its citizens to
obey its laws if it does not obey them itself.
7.We support vigorous enforcement of laws against cruelty to animals,
especially the anti-dog fighting and anti-cockfighting laws.
8.We support independent civilian review of complaints of police
misconduct.
9.We support the legalization of industrial hemp.
10.We oppose mandatory drug testing by employers except in situations
involving the operation of vehicles and equipment where there is a danger to
human life. We favor the passage of laws making such testing illegal in the
state of Mississippi.
11.We support the abolition of the death penalty in the state of
Mississippi.
12.We condemn the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act as steps
towards the creation of a police state. We call on all state, county, and
municipal law enforcement organizations to refuse to cooperate with the Federal
government in the enforcement of all unconstitutional provisions of this
legislation. We also call for all county and municipal governing bodies to pass
resolutions condemning the Patriot Act as unconstitutional and dangerous to
democracy.
13.We call for the establishment of a state commission to investigate the
feasibility of decriminalizing, taxing, and regulating private possession and
use of marijuana.
1.We support the formation of a State Commission on Civil Rights to examine
and recommend action on past and present injustices and inequities among
Mississippians.
2.We support comparable worth legislation to equalize the pay of women and
minorities with that of white males.
3.We support the formation of a State Commission on Reparations to study
the question of reparations for slavery.
4.We support legislation guaranteeing gays and bisexuals the same access to
civil marriage as heterosexuals. Laws denying them such access are unjust and
unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution.
5.We call for immediate passage of legislation banning job discrimination
on the basis of sexual orientation or gender.
6.We support legislation prohibiting discrimination in housing, hiring, or
health care based on HIV status or AIDS diagnosis.
7.We call for a change in the state child support laws to make unearned
income part of the basis of the calculation of court-ordered child support.
8.No one should be denied the right to adopt or hold custody of children on
the basis of gender, race, religion, ethnic origin, age, national origin,
disability, or sexual orientation.
G.Free Speech
1.The right of the individual to freedom of speech is inherent in his or
her existence as a human being and should in no way be abridged by the state of
Mississippi. This principle includes state government employees and teachers and
students in public schools.
2.The airwaves are a valuable public property. We thus support the
cultivation of "community radio." We believe that the FCC should allow for a new
service of small, locally-owned FM stations.
3.We also call for the creation and funding of genuine public access TV
channels by all the cable providers in the state and for the creation of modest
production facilities in at least one network TV station in each major media
market in the state to facilitate citizen access. To fund such access, we call
for a state surcharge to be paid by all corporate broadcast entities and cable
or satellite TV providers in the state. This surcharge would be proportional to
the power and reach of their signals, or, in the case of cable or satellite TV
providers, the number of households enrolled. These monies would be made
available to applicants for public access airtime to be used for the discussion
of public issues and paid to the originating broadcast facility to cover the
expense of production and broadcasting.
1.We support the self-determination of the Choctaw and any other Native
American tribe indigenous to Mississippi and resident in the state before 1900.
2.We support legislation allowing the state of Mississippi to grant
official recognition to Mississippi Native American tribes.
3.We recognize the sovereignty of Native American tribal governments.
I.Immigration
1.State laws allowing employers to import employees from foreign countries
and pay them less than minimum wage by hiring them as temporary workers are a
form of peonage. We favor and call for their immediate repeal.
J.Housing
1.We support passage of equitable landlord-tenant laws in all counties and
municipalities.
K.Community Involvement
1.We support legislation and public policies that encourage establishment
of consumer co-ops, micro loan funds, and local currencies.
2.We support direct democracy through town meetings. We favor the passage
of municipal ordinances requiring public officials to hold such meetings. Such
meetings should be empowered to pass and/or repeal municipal ordinances, as well
as to monitor, instruct, and recall representatives elected to municipal, state,
and federal office.
L.Banking for People
1.We support a law capping interest rates on all loans including credit
cards in the state of Mississippi at 1% over the Prime lending rate.
2.We support a law against rollovers whereby a late payment causes the
interest rate on a loan to double. Rollovers are a form of extortion and all
lenders who engage in this practice should be imprisoned for no less than five
years and be required to make restitution to their victims.
3.We support the promotion of credit unions as an alternative to the
legalized swindling practiced by easy credit lenders. Every Mississippian,
regardless of employer or place of residence, should have access to a credit
union.
4.We support a cap on fees for cashing checks at 0.1% of the value of the
check, but no more than $5.
1.We support the use of tax-exempt bonds to allow publicly owned utilities
to finance conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy project.
F.Transportation Policy
1.We support publicly financed mass transit in Mississippi's metropolitan
areas.
2.We advocate the use of existing highway corridors when new highways are
constructed. Rather than exercising eminent domain to acquire land for highway
construction, Highway Department planners should first examine the feasibility
of widening existing roadways.
G.Clean Air
1.We favor state legislation on the California model requiring stricter
clean air and fuel efficiency standards.
2.We favor state legislation underwriting low interest loans for the
replacement of high-pollution older vehicles which have been licensed in
Mississippi for at least the preceding five years with low-pollution vehicles,
to be available to each owner of such an older vehicle.
H.Land Use
1.We support the full funding and expansion of our state parks system.
2.We propose to overhaul Forestry Commission rules with the aim of
protecting all our remaining old-growth forests, The revised rules will prohibit
clear cutting on public land and promote sustainable forestry practices on both
public and private lands.
3.We support a review of all state land-use policies.
4.We call for stricter public scrutiny and control over wetlands reduction,
flood control and river-redirection projects.
5.We call for a moratorium on the cutting of mature deciduous trees on all
public lands and call for the creation of incentives to protect and preserve
these native species on private lands throughout Mississippi.
6.We will implement an immediate ban on the building of logging roads in
state forests at taxpayer expense. These roads cost more to build than they
bring in revenue and contribute to soil erosion and silting of streams.
7.End any state subsidies that encourage the export of raw logs and other
minimally processed forest products (pulp, chips, carts, slabs, etc.) to
out-of-state mills. Instead, provide incentives to local mills and in so doing
create jobs for the people of Mississippi.
1.We support the promotion of water conservation by the state of
Mississippi.
2.We oppose the privatization of municipal water services.
3.We acknowledge Native American rights regarding water and urge that
courts and state water engineers do the same.
4.We support the creation of green belts around our urban areas to rein in
sprawl and promote development of the inner city.
J.Agriculture
1.We support organic farming methods and endorse the efforts of
Mississippi's organic farmers to organize statewide to promote them.
2.We support cooperative farming and oppose agribusiness. We support
farmers markets and on-site and u-pick-em operations.
3.We propose to abolish all state subsidies and tax breaks for agribusiness
while maintaining them for small farmers and cooperative farmers. We support
incentives to promote small-scale family farms, biological diversity in crop
cultivation, and regional approaches to food supplies rather than the
transportation of food over long distances to markets.
4.We wish to create incentives to increase diversity in forest plantings to
promote wildlife habitat, the diversity of our ecosystems, and the natural
beauty of our rural lands.
5.We propose to institute the teaching of organic and sustainable farming,
including permaculture methods, in Mississippi's agricultural colleges. State
universities should be given a mandate to perform research into organic farming
methods and integrated pest management as a way to replace chemical biocides and
fertilizers.
6.We propose incentives to promote the use of integrated pest management
and the phasing out of biocides.
7.We propose a ban on genetic engineering and the release of genetically
engineered organisms in the state of Mississippi. This ban includes "terminator
gene" plants that produce sterile seeds.
8.Farmers have the right to save viable seed they have grown. This right
contributes to sustainable farming. Contracts that prohibit farmers from saving
seeds from their harvest for planting the following season should be made
illegal.
9.We support pollution fees for the use of non-organic fertilizers, the
resulting revenue to pay for environmental restoration.
10.We support rapid completion and implementation of state regulations
defining "organic food," including both produce and livestock.
11.We support the use of work projects, goats, and other sustainable methods
to control undergrowth rather than spraying herbicides, especially near
communities.
12.We support a state program, including incentives and research at the
state's agricultural schools, to promote the growing of industrial hemp, kenaf,
and other non-tree sources of raw material for the manufacture of paper.
CDC/Kaiser 'Groundbreaking' Morgellons Study A
Fraud!By Cliff
Mickelson
CMicke1065@aol.com
1-19-8
Much sound and fury is currently being generated by mainstream
media concerning the recent CDC announcement that Kaiser Permanente has been
selected by the CDC to conduct a "groundbreaking" study into the causes and
nature of what the CDC and Kaiser both euphemistically (and erroneously) term
Morgellons "syndrome."
In the opening news conference statement to the press, The
CDC's principle investigator
Dr. Michele Pearson, with his Kaiser counterpart, Dr. Joe
Selby at his side, sets the tone for a CDC position on this issue that can only
be described as disingenuous at best.
"There is insufficient information," intones Dr. Pearson, "to
determine whether persons who identify themselves as having this condition, have
common cause for their symptoms or may share common risk factors."
This statement speaks volumes. One can only suppose that the
good doctor is either stunningly under-informed or is a deliberate liar. In
light of readily available information that has come into the possession of this
writer, Dr. Pearson and his friends over at Kaiser Permanente appear to be
fully informed as to the scope and nature of this affliction.
Furthermore, the CDC is quite clearly aware that there already
exists a large body of professional Morgellons research that has been done under
the organized auspices of former Morgellons Research Foundation scientist Dr.
Randy Wymore.
Dr.Wymore, the current head of Morgellons research at the
prestigious school of pharmacology at Oklahoma State University, has personally
briefed CDC officials in the past. Nonetheless, the Atlanta based organization
showed very little interest in the subject of Morgellons or in Dr. Wymore's
revolutionary findings concerning the growing danger this affliction poses to
society at large.
The CDC is also aware that there exists a large compendium
of additional work available for referencing. A great deal of research has been
performed in the last few years by a select number of other professionally
qualified medical-field researchers including such well known notables
as Dr.William Harvey, Dr Hildegard Stannigar, and Dr. Rahim Karjoo
In his opening CDC press conference statement Dr. Pearson uses
the term "common risk factors" as a descriptive term... For those who are the
uninitiated, that is CDC doublespeak for drug abuse or delusional mental
illness.
This denigrating and underhanded remark is a direct slap in
the face of Morgellons patients, many of whom are children, senior
citizens, teachers, nurses or other medical professionals. Such eye-opening
statements belie the truth behind the thought processes taking place in the
halls of the CDC. They give the astute observer an inkling of what lays in store
for "Morgies" who are trusting enough to ignore the telegraphed meaning of such
implied signals.
For reasons they have apparently chosen not to make public,
the CDC has therefore deliberately decided to ignore, negate and
suppress the considerable body of nearly three years worth of ongoing, highly
qualified field work by others outside the CDC nexus. They have chosen instead
to form an unholy alliance with the largest HMO/insurer in the world, Kaiser
Permanente.
By marginalizing professional research that has already taken
place during the CDC's long and curious absence from the Morgellons issue, they
are now seen to be suddenly setting themselves up as the sole judge of any
consequence in the public eye. This is a very dangerous and powerful position
for an organization with a track record like the CDC to be allowed to place
itself in. Morgellons sufferers had best beware.
In what is probably the biggest conflict of
interest since convicted felon Henry Blodget was hired as a Wall Street
securities analyst, the Kaiser "fox" is now being given the keys to the CDC's
hen house. In return, it appears that the CDC expects the obliging chickens
to gratefully invite him in for dinner.
It may well be that the CDC announcement concerning the much
ballyhooed Morgellons research grant is little more than
self-serving bureaucratic sound and fury...or it may be that a much darker and
deadlier game is being played. A cursory study of the CDC's woeful lack of past
interaction with the Morgellons community will open a Pandora's box of questions
that beg answers .
There is little doubt that the CDC knows how to play the
political game. Based on past experience, many Morgies are of the opinion that
the Kaiser "study" is little more than under-funded pork, a shuck, a jive,
political chicanery and, at worst, a cynical lip service designed to throw
a fog over the clever methodology of how bureaucracies with something to
hide engage in issue assassination.
So why, we might wonder, would the Mandarins of the CDC engage
in such transparently duplicitous behavior? Why would they spend hard earned tax
dollars for information that already exists and could be had with a
simple conference call or two? Well, the answer is at once simple and yet
Byzantine.
It is germane to note that by their own malfeasant admission,
over the last eight years the CDC has received thousands upon thousands of
requests for help from Morgellons victims. All of these pleas, until now,
fell upon deaf ears. Not one red cent was ever spent to determine what it was
that was taking place not only across America but around the world as well.
Meanwhile the CDC has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on an unending parade
of fizzled "non-event" epidemics that have come and gone during that same time
frame. A number of these high dollar non-event epidemics affected less than a
dozen people across the country while others never materialized at all!
As the white rabbit would say: Curiouser and curiouser!
Now, at the behest of the Morgellons study, the CDC is
dipping into the trough of public tax dollars once again. This time however, the
bucket has come up woefully short. A pitiful $360 K is all that is earmarked for
this study!
Let's think about that for a moment. $360 K is less than the
price of an average split-level home in Los Angeles County. What will 360 K buy
in today's world of bloated research budgets? The salaries of the research
staff alone should total more than that. What can we assume will be the cost of
high technology tests and other high tech equipment needed to insure accurate
Morgellons test results? Modern research tests can easily run into the hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Private researcher, Dr.Hildegaard Stannigar, reports
that she has independently spent $39,000 of private money on such tests and
that many more tests are still in need of performing.
It doesn't take an accountant to figure out that three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars is not going to buy much in the way of a reliable
study...and..It doesn't take a Weatherman to figure out which way the wind is
blowing in the halls of the CDC.
Morgellons activists need to wake up and smell the coffee. The
CDC has no intention of solving the Morgellons mystery. Those who think
otherwise need to review the history of the CDC's hostile and
dismissive interaction with the Morgellons community over the span of the
last eight to ten years. Under modest scrutiny it becomes painfully apparent
that this study is a farce and a fraud.
What it is actually being sold to the gullible among us is
smoke and mirrors. For a variety of hidden reasons the CDC is offering up the
public expedient of having done their "part."
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the daggers are being sharpened
in the dark hallways of Kaiser and the CDC. Morgellons victims who, in their
current desperation, rush to embrace these bureaucratic assassins of Faith and
Hope would do well to wear extra body armor.
Green Party of California endorses
state and national protests Saturday against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan;
Greens also call for humane treatment, release of WikiLeaks suspect
GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE
SACRAMENTO (Mar 18,
2011) - The Green Party of California endorsed the statewide and national
demonstrations March 19 and next month opposing the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, as well calling for the inhumane treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning,
who is being held incommunicado in connection with the WikiLeaks release of
documents to the public.
Demonstrations are scheduled this weekend in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities throughout the U.S., including
many in California such as Grass Valley, Davis and parts of Los Angeles. Sunday,
protests urging Manning's release are set in Quantico, Va. Other protests are
scheduled next month against the never-ending wars.
"Greens believe every
dollar spent on war is a dollar taken away from good-paying green jobs we
desperately need," said Barry Hermanson, the co-chair of the Green Party of
California state coordinating council.
"Today, we are facing massive cuts
to service in our communities. Tens of thousands of teachers and other school
employees have been pink-slipped. We believe we should spend our money on
education and developing alternative energy - not wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,"
he said, noting that Republican and Democratic lawmakers voted to fund the wars.
Hermanson urged voters to re-register with the Green Party because "together we
can build a Green future, independent of corporate interests."
In calling
for the humane treatment of Manning, and his release, the Green Party has urged
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Nancy Pelosi to investigate charges that Manning
is being made to sleep naked, isn't allowed to exercise adequately and has been
subjected to other subtle modes of torture.
"We deplore the treatment of
PFC Bradley Manning. He has a right to a speedy trial and humane treatment. But
he is being punished without trial, and being treated like detainees in
Guantanamo, with little or no outside contact, according to his legal counsel.
This is not acceptable," said Cres Vellucci, a Vietnam veteran and GPCA press
secretary.
These 'Morgellon worms? all 'popped out' between yesterday and Today. This Morgellons has become 'systemic' affecting my skin, diegestive track (they cover the inside of d-track causing digestive dysfuntion), going into and covering my lungs (damage functiioning of villi and aveoli), fatigue, cognitive issues (it is in skull), eye sight problems, sore (+ 'worms shown above', they actualy 'pop' up to 2-3 feet and you here them hit the ground), joint ploblems, both major joints and minor including pain in fingers. It, Morgellons, "CIRCULATES" and causing muscle deterioration, with "Morgellons Jell" creating resiviors in legs, calves and thighs and arms...)
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Joel (who i went to youth group @ age 17, as his father, John, was Our Pastor) Osteen on "Money", "wealth" and "No Church Salery". His father, John, who originally preached in India, before moving to Houston, ALWAYS emphasize the TV program was "an Outreach", and they would NEVER ask for money (though there is a bookstore for tapes and literature).
Dr. Jill Stein is a mother, housewife, physician, longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate.
She is the co-author of two widely-praised reports, In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, published in 2000, andEnvironmental Threats to Healthy Aging, published in 2009. The first of these has been translated into four languages and is used worldwide. The reports promote green local economies, sustainable agriculture, clean power, and freedom from toxic threats.
Her "Healthy People, Healthy Planet" teaching program reveals the links between human health, climate security, and green economic revitalization. This body of work has been presented at government, public health and medical conferences, and has been used to improve public policy.
Jill began to advocate for the environment as a human health issue in 1998 when she realized that politicians were simply not acting to protect children from the toxic threats emerging from current science. She offered her services to parents, teachers, community groups and a native Americans group seeking to protect their communities from toxic exposure.
Jill has testified before numerous legislative panels as well as local and state governmental bodies. She played a key role in the effort to get the Massachusetts fish advisories updated to better protect women and children from mercury contamination, which can contribute to learning disabilities and attention deficits in children. She also helped lead the successful campaign to clean up the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts, an effort that resulted in getting coal plant regulations signed into law that were the most protective around at that time. Her testimony on the effects of mercury and dioxin contamination from the burning of waste helped preserve the Massachusetts moratorium on new trash incinerator construction in the state.
Jill has appeared as an environmental health expert on the Today Show, 20/20, Fox News, and other programs. She was also a member of the national and Massachusetts boards of directors of the Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her efforts to protect public health has won her several awards including: Clean Water Action's "Not in Anyone's Backyard" Award, the Children's Health Hero" Award, and the Toxic Action Center's Citizen Award.
Having witnessed the ability of big money to stop health protective policies on Beacon Hill, Jill became an advocate for campaign finance reform, and worked to help pass the Clean Election Law. This law was approved by the voters by a 2-1 margin, but was later repealed by the Massachusetts Legislature on an unrecorded voice vote.
In 2002 ADD activists in the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party approached Dr. Stein and asked her to run for Governor of Massachusetts. Dr. Stein accepted, and began her first foray into electoral politics. She was widely credited with being the best informed and most credible candidate in the race.
She has twice been elected to town meeting in Lexington, Massachusetts. She is the founder and past co-chair of a local recycling committee appointed by the Lexington Board of Selectmen.
In 2003, Jill co-founded the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, a non-profit organization that addresses a variety of issues that are important to the health and well-being of Massachusetts communities, including health care, local green economies, and grassroots democracy.
Jill represented the Green-Rainbow Party in two additional races – one for State Representative in 2004 and one for Secretary of State in 2006. In 2006 she won the votes of over 350,000 Massachusetts citizens – which represented the greatest vote total ever for a Green-Rainbow candidate.
In 2008, Jill helped formulate a "Secure Green Future" ballot initiative that called upon legislators to accelerate efforts to move the Massachusetts economy to renewable energy and make development of green jobs a priority. The measure won over 81 per cent of the vote in the 11 districts in which it was on the ballot.
Jill was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Highland Park, Illinois. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, and from Harvard Medical School in 1979. Jill enjoys writing and performing music, and enjoys long walks with her Great Dane, Bandita. Dr. Stein lives in Lexington with her husband, Richard Rohrer, also a physician. She has two sons, Ben and Noah, who have graduated from college in the past few years.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein might not have a good chance against Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, but she has one edge they don’t: her campaign has qualified for federal matching funds.
On July 1, Stein, a physician, became the first Green Party presidential candidate to quality for federal matching funds. Stein joins Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, another third-party candidate who has also qualified for federal matching funds.
Johnson has already received $230,059 in federal matching dollars. Reform Party candidate Buddy Roemer, who has suspended his campaign, received a total of $351,961. As soon as possible, Stein intends to submit her qualifying papers to the Federal Elections Commission, which has 15 days to vet her donations and approve her application.
The matching funds come from a $3 donations that taxpayers can make on their annual tax return. To become eligible for the match, a presidential candidate must be nominated by a political party and raise at least $5,000 in each of at least 20 states. The federal government then matches up to $250 of a donor’s total contributions.
Neither Obama nor Romney receive matching funds because their campaigns plan to raise and spend more than the matching fund limits allow. However, the elections commission has approved about $418 million each for the Republican and Democratic conventions.
“It is a big deal,” said Ben Manski, campaign manager for Stein. Achieving matching-fund status will build the Green Party’s credibility and visibility, Stein said. “I think what it shows is that the Green Party continues to matter and has staying power.”
Florida is among 22 states where Stein raised enough money to qualify for matching funds. She has not yet filed campaign finance reports naming her Florida donors. However, her website reports that as of July 1 she collected $187,412 in contributions, including $5,839 in Florida.
Although various incarnations of the Green Party of the United States have been around since 1996, the party’s most notable presidential candidate was Ralph Nader, who earned the party’s nomination in 1996, 2000 and 2004. In August 2011, actress/comedian Roseanne Barr announced her candidacy on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, declaring that she would not run as a Democrat or a Republican, “because they both suck and they’re both a bunch of criminals.”
Stein, 60, a Lexington, Mass. woman who once ran against Romney for governor, secured a majority of Green Party delegates after the California primary on June 5 and she is expected to officially accept the party’s nomination at its convention, which begins today in Baltimore.
Stein’s platform, called the Green New Deal, includes: creating private and public sector jobs programs; wiping out student loan debt and providing tuition-free education through college; breaking-up Wall Street’s big banks and nationalizing the private-bank dominated Federal Reserve Bank; abolishing the Electoral College and requiring voter-marked paper ballots; cutting military spending in half; promoting green technologies and businesses; and overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizen’s United case, which paved the way for unlimited spending by corporations and labor unions in elections for Congress and the president, as long as the dollars are independent of the campaigns they are intended to help.
After speculation that Stein might name Barr as her running mate, Stein announced on Wednesday that Cheri Honkala, an advocate for the homeless, was her choice for vice president. Honkala is the national coordinator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. She grabbed headlines in 2011 when she unsuccessfully ran for sheriff of Philadelphia and vowed to end evictions if elected. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill-stein-qual/nPrMX/
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Internationally Renowned Environmentalist Launches Run For U.S. Congress Citing
Need For Massive Reorganization Of Government And Business To Deal With World
Crises
(Distributed by the Green Party of the United Sates, http://www.gp.org)
A New York City author whose
book and documentary film No Impact Man helped bring climate change into popular
consciousness today announces his candidacy for the United States House of
Representatives. Colin Beavan PhD will run on the Green Party ticket in New
York's 8th Congressional District, following the vacancy left by the retirement
of Representative Edolphus Towns.
Beavan rose to prominence as a
spokesman for the international environmental movement after worldwide press and
media interest followed the release of his film and book. His campaign, citing
"growing world crises" in climate, environment, economics, and energy
production, calls for a complete change in priorities including an end to
consumption-based economics, massive decentralization of government and
business, and huge investment in local communities.
"The economic system
is supposed to make people safer and happier, but it can no longer do that
because it wasn't designed to deal with our new planetary crises," says Beavan.
"The tired old Democratic/Republican debate over taxation isn't going to fix it.
We need to create a new, more stable system based on investment in people and
local communities instead of shareholders and corporations. We have to face up
to climate change, the end of oil, and the failure of consumption to make people
happy. Robust local economies help solve all these problems."
Government
investment in local businesses creates ten times more jobs than investment at
the national level. Local economies have lower reliance on foreign oil and
create less climate pollution. Creating conditions to allow people, talent and
profits to stay within their communities lowers crime, increases access to
education and provides support to at-risk populations like children and the
elderly.
"We have a crazy system where our communities' human and
financial capital are siphoned away by far-away corporations and government.
Then, we beg the same institutions to send us jobs and services. What if we
strengthened our communities and didn't have to send our wealth away in the
first place? We'd have healthier communities, happy and safer people, much less
crime and a greater quality of life for all."
Colin Beavan's campaign
organization is an all-volunteer group of citizens who have decided to leave
their previous party affiliations out of disillusionment with the lack of
solution-based conversation in American politics. Beavan's campaign will issue a
series of policy positions in the coming weeks, all of which will be based on
strengthening community health, happiness and security in the 8th Congressional
District. The campaign will launch a series of listening meetings, to solicit
the views of the community in two weeks.
Meanwhile, basic campaign
policies, based on strengthening local community include:
Corporate money out of politics
A constitutional amendment making the right to vote inalienable
Massive voter registration and civic engagement promotion
Keeping youth out of prison (treatment not incarceration)
An end to stop and frisk
Food stamps for use at farmer's markets
Tax breaks for sole proprietorships
Massive shift of military spending towards education
U.S. leadership on climate change mitigation and adaptation
Community-based assisted living programs for the elderly
Encouragement of service rather than product-based economies
Prioritizing human connection before goods
consumption
The non-electoral goals of Beavan's
campaign include:
Instigating conversation about emergent world issues effectively ignored by
Democrats and Republicans
Modeling civility and cooperation in politics
Massive voter registration
By running a volunteer campaign organization, modeling renewed civic
participation to community, nation, and world
Promoting community self-determination
All the relevant
documentation has been filed with Federal Elections Commission to make Beavan's
candidacy official. He is uncontested in his congressional district's Green
Party primary and will go straight to general election in November. The Green
Party's ballot status in New York State means his name will appear on the
ballot.
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Colin Beavan rose to prominence as a
spokesperson on environmental and quality of life issues after his year-long
experiment in extreme environmental living, No Impact Man, exploded in the
international media. He is the founder and executive director of No Impact
Project, an international non-profit that empowers citizens to make choices that
support the planet, their communities, and help them live a happier, healthier
life.
A long-time activist, he sits on the board of directors of New York
City's Transportation Alternatives, and is on the advisory councils of Just Food
and 350.org , a global organization dedicated to solving the climate crisis.
Prior to becoming a champion of the environment, Colin earned his PhD at the
University of Liverpool, spent a decade helping social housing providers, drug
treatment agencies and hospitals get funding, and wrote books.
Green Party to Democratic apologists: The message of the Wall Street protests is
not 'Vote Democrat'
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org
For Immediate
Release:
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Contacts:
Scott
McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator,
916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org
WASHINGTON,
DC -- Green Party leaders sharply criticized Democratic Party supporters online
and in the media who have tried to turn the ongoing Occupy Wall Street, Occupy
America, and October 2011 demonstrations across America into an appeal to vote
Democrat and reelect President Obama in 2012.
Many of the protesters have
expressed their disgust with two-party politics (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wall-street-protesters-disgusted-parties-14687840)
and the influence of corporate money. Organizers have rejected attempts to
shoehorn the movement into any party and assert that the protesters come from
diverse political persuasions.
The Green Party offers a platform
for peace, economic security for working people, millions of new green jobs in
conservation and clean energy development, an end to fossil fuel addiction, real
steps for curbing global climate change and restoring the health of the planet,
universal health care (Medicare For All), and reforms that would limit the power
of corporations and restore the promise of participatory democracy and fair
elections. Green candidates do not accept corporate money.
Mark
Dunlea, co-founder of the Green Party of New York State: "The Democratic
Party does not speak for the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October
2011 protesters. No political party speaks for the protesters, not even the
Green Party. The protesters speak for themselves. The Green Party has endorsed
and joined the demos because we share the same frustration and anger as the
other protesters. Greens are there because we bring alternative ideas like the
Green New Deal. And we're there because we encourage the 99 percent -- We The
People -- to organize, end pro-corporate two-party rule, and replace the
politicians in public office who enabled Wall Street's theft of America's
future. This can only happen through an independent alliance with the same
diversity we're seeing at the protests: labor activists, Greens, progressives,
anarchists, libertarians, nonvoters, disappointed Democrats and Republicans, and
all others who want real change."
Sanda Everette, co-coordinator
of the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of California: "If pro-Democrat
web sites and the media believe that the message of the protests is 'Vote
Democrat' and 'Reelect Obama' in 2012, they've missed the point. The current
demonstrations became necessary after Election Day 2008, when too many liberal,
progressive, and antiwar Democrats declared 'Mission Accomplished' with Barack
Obama's election victory. The Democratic Party has proved itself as dedicated to
Wall Street as the GOP. We look forward to more protests and direct action as
the election season unfolds, especially during the 2012 Democratic and
Republican conventions."
Farheen Hakeem, Green candidate for the
Minnesota State Senate in District 61 (http://www.farheenhakeem.org) and co-chair of the Green Party
of the United States: "Say no to the parties of war and corporate money! That's
our message to all Americans who are worried about the dangerous direction that
the two Titanic Parties have steered our country. If the field of presidential
candidates is limited to incumbent Obama and the Republican nominee after the
primaries, then everything the Wall Street protesters are talking about will be
erased from the election season debate and from the media. Hopes for a
progressive challenge in the Democratic primaries are unrealistic. The
challenger will inevitably be defeated by the Obama campaign juggernaut, which
is already loaded with corporate campaign checks, and the challenger's
supporters will find themselves muzzled, with the expectation that they'll vote
Democrat."
Terry Baum, Green candidate for Mayor of San Francisco
(http://terryjoanbaum.com):
"Barack Obama received more Wall Street money than any other candidate in US
history. Instead of change, the Obama Administration gave us Phase 2 of the
Bush-Cheney agenda: more Wall Street bailouts, more endless war, more offshore
oil drilling and the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline, more mountaintop detonation
mining. Instead of financial security for Americans, we got plans to slash
Social Security and Medicare. We got minimal assistance for people facing home
foreclosures and more crushing debt for college students. We got silence about
the racist death penalty and record-high mass incarceration of young black,
brown, and poor people in a greedy private prison system. We got a health care
bill with mandates that are a direct public subsidy for the insurance industry
(originally a Republican proposal), but no universal health care or controls for
skyrocketing medical costs. We got impunity for Bush officials who authorized
torture and other war crimes -- and more extraordinary rendition, more
warrantless surveillance of US citizens, more erosion of due process, more
persecution of whistleblowers, and even a secret presidential hit list of
Americans targeted for assassination."
Cheri Honkala, Green
candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia (http://www.cherihonkala.com) running on an anti-foreclosure
platform, speaking at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC on October 6: "What I'm
doing is not symbolic. It's concrete and Bill and Aida and Glenn who's here with
me today, like millions of people across this country are gonna lose their
homes... unless you take this seriously and not just march about it, pray about
it, and sing about it but help me fill every damn poll in Philadelphia where
there's a birthplace of revolution and change... We can do this again in this
country and take our country back!"
See also:
"Green
Party of the US endorses, joins 'October 2011' protest against the Afghanistan
and Iraq wars and 2012 austerity budget"
Green Party media advisory,
September 27, 2011 http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=450
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George Carlin on 'Big Picture' & Ignorance of Large Issues ny distractions of Propaganda w/out "Critical Thougt"...
"Citisens capable of Critical Thought"
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http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/vision.cfm
i have mogellons and Hope to be traveling to Tulsa, OK, to meet with the Health Science Department and Dr Wymore. We have to get the Property for sale by Century 21 before i go to Tulsa & OK State University. Here is the 18 acres and house for sale. We have been "God/Allah/Spirit of the Universe, /the Almighty One" tending this property with Love and Care for 7 years Now. >>>... but, "When the Lord says you gotta move, you better Move"!
The video below the Picassa Pictures is Dr Wymore followed by video on the City halfway, 40 miles each, Jackson, MS, the State Capital and Hattieburg South twords the Coast & Home of "Southern Misss" (University)
(pictures that are for the 18 acres and for Sale, but also to turn over the Care of it to "Some One(s)" that emerses in the Beauty of this Place called "HOME" (New 'caretakers'), and of this Community of Magee, with its , Clean Air and Peaceful Rural Natural Beauty!
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Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
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Morgellons – A Response from Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D.
May 12, 2009 ( update:http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/docs/Wymore-position-statement-2-19-07.pdf )
From Here : http://www.morgellons-uk.net/
Some of what I do know (or at least what I think if a philosopher argues with the word “know):
Morgellons is a physical pathology. It is not a simple subset of a psychiatric disorder Multiple forensic tests (FTIR, mass-spec, etc) at multiple locations have confirmed that the Morgellons fibers are not identifiable as a known compound. The fibers are a fairly pure organic compound containing: carbon (single & double bonds), hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, at least one methyl group, maybe a sulfur group and a few unclear FTIR peaks. They are quite heat resistant and not dissolvable in lab-type solvents or detergents. The red & blue colors of the analyzed fibers are neither dyes nor pigments in any conventional sense.
Attempts to use fixatives for EM analysis have been ongoing for months ( have not been trivial lab exercises) and will hopefully yield results in the near future. Thanks to a large donation outside commercial labs will be doing analyses that we cannot do “inhouse” as soon as non-trivial details can be worked out. We are looking at a possible connection with Agro-bacterium. Multiple physicians are participating in this.
Morgellons is not a skin disease. It is a systemic condition affecting multiple organs. It does not seem to be highly contagious. People who “fight Morgellons” seem to do better than those who isolate themselves and resign themselves to a downward spiral. This is true of most chronic conditions. Just an observation.
Cure is a word I am hesitant to use, but I have met one person who has been symptom free for about 3 years after discontinuing treatment. That person reported that they did a long-term course of high-dose antibiotic, anti-fungal and anti-helmenthic meds. Several people have claimed to be cured, but this is the only one I have personally met that has remained symptom-free for multiple years after discontinuing all treatments. I am not a physician and can give no recommendations for treatment. This person was not seen or treated by any physicians at OSU-CHS. I am merely passing this information on as a personal observation. I will keep working to try to identify the cause of Morgellons. At the moment I have no research-based, front-runners for the cause.
With respect,
RSW
Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D.
Director,
OSU-CHS Center for the Investigation of Morgellons Disease
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Oklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences
( 2012 Updated : http://www.thecehf.org/morgellons-learning-center.html )
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This Land Is Your Land Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
This land is your land This land is my land From California to the New York island; From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and Me.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless skyway: I saw below me that golden valley: This land was made for you and me.
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As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me.