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Transfered from old site <!--break--> Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</A> <BR> <BR>Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</A> <BR> <BR>Atrazine more toxic than previously thought <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</A> <BR> <BR>NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives <BR>Dominate Nationwide <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</A> <BR> <BR>Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</A> <BR> <BR>Early Results Show Growth for Green Party <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</A> <BR> <BR>Preventing Cancer <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</A> <BR> <BR>Quito: People confront the FTAA <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</A> <BR> <BR>The crisis in housing <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</A> <BR> <BR>Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</A> <BR> <BR>2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</A> <BR> <BR>Open Letter to the Democratic Party <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race <BR> <BR>Pete Meyers, the Green Candidate for Sheriff in Tompkins County, got 26% <BR>of the vote county-wide. In Ithaca, Pete got 38% of the vote. Pete, a <BR>social worker whose campaign focused on restorative justice and stopping <BR>a proposed $20 million jail expansion set a new record for a Green <BR>Sheriff candidate -- the previous record was 20%, set by Geralid J. M. <BR>Amato in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Last year, James Caldwell of <BR>Monroe County ran for sheriff and got 11% of the vote. Pete's <BR>performance was almost equalled this year by Adam Benedetto, who got 23% <BR>of the vote in Dane County, Wisconsin. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats <BR> <BR>The mid-term elections are over. After spending hundreds of millions of <BR>business dollars, the Republicans now control the Senate and hold on to <BR>the House of Representatives. It is amazing that the Democrats did not <BR>do worse. They had decided months ago on a strange strategy --that they <BR>were going to defeat the Republicans by not criticizing their <BR>belligerent leader, George W. Bush. <BR> <BR>In their ads, literature and debates between Senatorial and <BR>Representative candidates, mention of Mr. Bush by them was to praise not <BR>to challenge, or to expose the hypocrisy, and the damage to American <BR>workers and consumers by this corporation President. <BR> <BR>Listening to the debate from around the country on C-Span radio, I was <BR>astonished to see Democratic candidates in tight races eager to show <BR>their support for Bush's 2001 tax cut for the wealthy, for the <BR>give-a-way war resolution authority on Iraq, and for Bush's federal <BR>drive to take over the historical role of the states in personal injury <BR>law by restricting Americans' right to their full day in court. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Atrazine more toxic than previously thought <BR> <BR>Controversy erupted over new findings that atrazine may be linked to <BR>global demise of frogs. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho review the <BR>evidence on the endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic effects of <BR>atrazine, especially in the light of the non-linearity of biological <BR>activities, and call for a global ban of the herbicide. <BR> <BR>Atrazine is an herbicide registered in the United States for the control <BR>of broadleaf weeds and some grassy weeds. It is currently used on corn, <BR>sorghum, sugarcane, wheat (to get rid of wheat stubble on fallow land <BR>following wheat harvests; wheat is not the target crop), guava, <BR>macadamia nuts, orchard grass and hay, range grasses, and southern turf <BR>grasses. Atrazine is most widely used on corn followed by sorghum and <BR>sugarcane. Atrazine is registered for use on range grasses for <BR>establishing permanent grass cover on rangelands and pastures under the <BR>Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in four states: Oklahoma, Nebraska, <BR>Texas, and Oregon. The CRP is administered by the US Department of <BR>Agriculture (USDA). <BR> <BR>There are prohibitions against grazing on these CRP lands, and cutting <BR>the grasses for hay, except in national emergencies, such as severe <BR>drought, and there are "right-of-way" uses with grazing restrictions. <BR>Atrazine is also registered for use on the following non-agricultural <BR>sites: lawns, golf courses, and sod farms. Worlwide, atrazine is a <BR>leading agricultural chemical, and so extensively used that it has been <BR>identified as a significant pollutant in surface water, groundwater, in <BR>offshore areas and in the atmosphere. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives <BR>Dominate Nationwide <BR> <BR>With 99% of the New York precincts reporting, Republican George Pataki <BR>has cruised to a third term as New York Governor. Even more <BR>heart-wrenching to many progressives, the NY Greens may have fallen <BR>short of the 50,00 votes needed to receive an automatic line on the <BR>ballot for the next four years. Lack of mainstream media coverage, <BR>competition from the center-left Working Families Party, and poor voter <BR>turnout may have been contributing factors. <BR> <BR>The Libertarian Party reported about nine cases of missing or broken <BR>levers for Libertarian and Green Party candidates and some upstate <BR>ballot errors which omitted candidates from these parties. <BR> <BR>Nationwide, the Democrats were largely routed, and the election <BR>post-mortem has begun. "It is time for the Democrats to wake up to the <BR>reality that they do not win elections by pretending to be Republicans <BR>and 'centrists.' The Republicans will beat them at this game every <BR>time," writes one IMC commentator. "It is time to look upon the <BR>Democrats as a failed party that has allowed itself to be squeezed into <BR>the center by the debate-narrowing media." <BR> <BR>Meanwhile, debates about the point of voting continue on IMC-Global and <BR>on this website. <BR>[ St. Louis IMC Election Coverage | Minnesota IMC Election Coverage | <BR>Houston IMC Election Coverage ] <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics <BR> <BR>I am campaigning for governor at a time when the limitations of liberal <BR>democracy have never been more apparent. The boundaries of public debate <BR>grow ever narrower. Corporate money rules the electoral process. The <BR>Republican and Democratic parties quarrel over details but are <BR>essentially united in support of fiscal conservatism, austerity, <BR>protecting the wealth of corporations and rich people, privileging the <BR>private market over public goods and economic growth over ecological <BR>sanity, �welfare reform,� the defunding of cities and urban <BR>education systems, punitive drug laws, and a post-9/11 program of <BR>permanent war. Liberal Democrats often have �good positions� on <BR>questions of civil liberties, feminism, gay rights, and the environment, <BR>but faced with an intransigent right their impulse is always to give <BR>ground rather than fight. Anyone who seriously challenges this state of <BR>affairs is derided as a utopian crank. The left, meanwhile, has been <BR>paralyzed, bogged down in a wrongheaded dispute about what is more <BR>important, economics or culture. <BR> <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Early Results Show Growth for Green Party <BR> <BR>With most results still pending in western states, Greens took a strong <BR>step to higher level office with John Eder's two-to-one landslide <BR>victory in the Maine state house, district 31. Eder's Democratic Party <BR>opponent conceded earlier in the evening. <BR> <BR>In Providence, Rhode Island, where Greg Gerritt ran a strong grassroots <BR>campaign for Mayor, David Segal has taken a seat on the City Council <BR>with 38%. <BR> <BR>In northwest Pennsylvania, District 3, Congressional candidate AnnDrea <BR>Benson set a new record for a Green Congressional campaign with 22% of <BR>the vote total. Benson had been endorsed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson last <BR>Friday. <BR> <BR>For statewide races, Green candidates for Governor in Maine, Jonathan <BR>Carter, and Jim Sykes for Senate in Alaska both earned about 9%. <BR> <BR>Greens also elected their first local officeholder in Texas, George <BR>Rice, to the San Antonio Water Board. And in Madison, Wisconsin, Green <BR>candidate for Sheriff Adam Benedetto received over 32,000 votes. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Preventing Cancer <BR> <BR>Breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancers, bladder cancer, <BR>Hodgkin's Disease and all cancers combined mortality rates for the adult <BR>population of New York State far exceed the United States average (from, <BR>"Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States" 1950-94, National <BR>Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute). <BR> <BR>New York State has large numbers of in-state major source smoke stacks, <BR>emitting human carcinogens, including: benzene, formaldehyde, <BR>benzo(a)pyrene, dioxins, furans, PCBs and hexachlorobenzene. Added to <BR>these cancer causing emissions are releases from smoke stacks to the <BR>North in Ontario (second worst source of air pollution in North America) <BR>and to the West, in the Great Lakes Basin and the Ohio River Valley. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Quito: People confront the FTAA <BR> <BR>by Justin Rubin <BR> <BR>Please accept this [unedited] bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I <BR>don't know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I <BR>saw today, because my mucous membranes are all shot to hell from too <BR>much tear gas, or out of sheer exhaustion. But I want to get this out <BR>while it is still fresh in my mind, and tomorrow will be another insane <BR>day. Tonight I watched some of the most oppressed people in this world <BR>confront some of the most influential. Tonight I watched a group of poor <BR>farmers, indigenous people, and workers speak, shout, sing truth to <BR>power. Tonight, I think, I think, although we will not know for a few <BR>days, I watched the terrain of hemispheric politics shift before my <BR>eyes. I feel so inspired, and so humbled. <BR> <BR>When the day started, I was 20km south of Quito with maybe 300 <BR>ind�genas, one of two protest caravans that had crossed the country <BR>spreading the word about the protest against the Free Trade Area of the <BR>Americas summit in Quito. As we crowded into buses to head north, I <BR>called the other caravan, who reported that they had 80 people. " And <BR>this is how it ends," I thought. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>The crisis in housing <BR> <BR>New York City is facing its greatest housing shortage since the Second <BR>World War. There are more homeless families, more homeless children now, <BR>than at any time since the Great Depression. Over 35,000 people live in <BR>the streets or in homeless shelters, and the number continues to rise. <BR> <BR>The latest Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS) relying on 1999 data, shows <BR>that the vacancy rate is the lowest it�s been for the 1990s -- at <BR>3.19%. More ominous is the fact that 825,000 households pay over 30% of <BR>their incomes for rent, with almost 450,000 of that total paying more <BR>than 50%. Before the Reagan/Cuomo/Koch years, it was a rule-of-thumb <BR>that you never paid more than one week�s salary for a month�s rent. <BR>For many years now, neither major party has demonstrated any capacity <BR>for providing affordable housing. <BR> <BR>215,000 renter households are overcrowded, at more than one person per <BR>room. It it the highest number of overcrowded households since 1970. <BR>More than 75,000 are severely overcrowded (more than 1.5 person per <BR>room). That is the highest number since the HVS began the count in 1960. <BR>Almost 170,000 households are living doubled-up with a non-relative. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party <BR> <BR>WASHINGTON, DC -- "There's so much bipartisan agreement and overlap on <BR>many major issues of the day, that voters across the U.S. have begun to <BR>recognize Greens as a viable alternative -- often, the only viable <BR>alternative," said Rachel Treichler, Green Party candidate for the House <BR>of Representatives in New York's 29th Congressional District. "Our <BR>candidates for the U.S. House and Senate have established the Greens in <BR>2002 as America's party of choice, of re-enfranchisement and giving <BR>people a reason to come out and vote. We're the alternative to the two <BR>major parties, which represent the interests of those funding their <BR>campaigns -- the large corporations, PACS, and wealthy donors." <BR> <BR>Over 60 Greens are competing in congressional races, out of more than <BR>530 Green campaigns across the U.S. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war <BR> <BR>by Jack A. Smith, Mid-Hudson National People's Campaign <BR> <BR>The new Bush-era antiwar movement took a giant step forward Saturday, <BR>Oct. 26 with massive peace demonstrations in New York and San Francisco <BR>-- and a huge protest, relatively speaking, in Kingston, N.Y. <BR> <BR>Demonstrations were held in scores of cities and towns in the U.S. and a <BR>number of foreign countries. <BR> <BR>A total of 2,000 took part in Kingston's rally and march despite cold <BR>rains much of the day. The event was organized by the Mid-Hudson <BR>National People's Campaign and was backed by some 30 local groups. <BR>Observers said the spirited and militant demonstration was the largest <BR>peace protest in Kingston in anyone's memory. The 2,000 figure was based <BR>on final headcounts as the rally ended plus a fairly scientific analysis <BR>by two people trained in crowd estimates. In addition, five buses filled <BR>with activists from the Capital District and Mid-Hudson region left in <BR>the very early morning hours to attend the Washington protest. <BR> <BR>15 photos from the demonstration, taken by Fred Nagel, appear on the <BR>website of the Dutchess Greens, <A HREF="http://www.dutchessgreens.org">http://www.dutchessgreens.org</A> (click on <BR>Stop the War). <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Open Letter to the Democratic Party <BR> <BR>The Democrats should have an easy time winning control of the House of <BR>Representatives and the Senate in next week's election. Recession is <BR>deepening, unemployment is rising, and corporate corruption headlines <BR>are proliferating. Health care costs, drug prices and the number of <BR>Americans without health care coverage are all increasing. Median <BR>household incomes are falling. Corporate crime has heavily depleted <BR>401Ks and other pension losses. <BR> <BR>These should all help the Democrats win against the corporate-indentured <BR>Republicans marinated in corporate cash, soft on corporate and <BR>environmental crimes and demonstrably anti-labor. <BR> <BR>Why then is the overall contest for Party control of Congress too close <BR>to call? Because Democrats are not clearly, relentlessly and <BR>aggressively emphasizing these fundamental issues to distinguish <BR>themselves from the Republicans. Why? Are they unaware, neglectful or <BR>torpid? No, their chronic ambiguity flows from being largely indentured <BR>to the same monied commercial interests as the Republicans. <BR> <BR>http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html
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<p>Transfered from old site</p> <!--break--><p>Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine more toxic than previously thought<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives<br /> <br />Dominate Nationwide<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Early Results Show Growth for Green Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Preventing Cancer<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Quito: People confront the FTAA<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />The crisis in housing<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Open Letter to the Democratic Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Pete Meyers, the Green Candidate for Sheriff in Tompkins County, got 26%<br /> <br />of the vote county-wide. In Ithaca, Pete got 38% of the vote. Pete, a<br /> <br />social worker whose campaign focused on restorative justice and stopping<br /> <br />a proposed $20 million jail expansion set a new record for a Green<br /> <br />Sheriff candidate -- the previous record was 20%, set by Geralid J. M.<br /> <br />Amato in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Last year, James Caldwell of<br /> <br />Monroe County ran for sheriff and got 11% of the vote. Pete's<br /> <br />performance was almost equalled this year by Adam Benedetto, who got 23%<br /> <br />of the vote in Dane County, Wisconsin.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The mid-term elections are over. After spending hundreds of millions of<br /> <br />business dollars, the Republicans now control the Senate and hold on to<br /> <br />the House of Representatives. It is amazing that the Democrats did not<br /> <br />do worse. They had decided months ago on a strange strategy --that they<br /> <br />were going to defeat the Republicans by not criticizing their<br /> <br />belligerent leader, George W. Bush.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In their ads, literature and debates between Senatorial and<br /> <br />Representative candidates, mention of Mr. Bush by them was to praise not<br /> <br />to challenge, or to expose the hypocrisy, and the damage to American<br /> <br />workers and consumers by this corporation President.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Listening to the debate from around the country on C-Span radio, I was<br /> <br />astonished to see Democratic candidates in tight races eager to show<br /> <br />their support for Bush's 2001 tax cut for the wealthy, for the<br /> <br />give-a-way war resolution authority on Iraq, and for Bush's federal<br /> <br />drive to take over the historical role of the states in personal injury<br /> <br />law by restricting Americans' right to their full day in court.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine more toxic than previously thought<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Controversy erupted over new findings that atrazine may be linked to<br /> <br />global demise of frogs. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho review the<br /> <br />evidence on the endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic effects of<br /> <br />atrazine, especially in the light of the non-linearity of biological<br /> <br />activities, and call for a global ban of the herbicide.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine is an herbicide registered in the United States for the control<br /> <br />of broadleaf weeds and some grassy weeds. It is currently used on corn,<br /> <br />sorghum, sugarcane, wheat (to get rid of wheat stubble on fallow land<br /> <br />following wheat harvests; wheat is not the target crop), guava,<br /> <br />macadamia nuts, orchard grass and hay, range grasses, and southern turf<br /> <br />grasses. Atrazine is most widely used on corn followed by sorghum and<br /> <br />sugarcane. Atrazine is registered for use on range grasses for<br /> <br />establishing permanent grass cover on rangelands and pastures under the<br /> <br />Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in four states: Oklahoma, Nebraska,<br /> <br />Texas, and Oregon. The CRP is administered by the US Department of<br /> <br />Agriculture (USDA).<br /> <br /><br /> <br />There are prohibitions against grazing on these CRP lands, and cutting<br /> <br />the grasses for hay, except in national emergencies, such as severe<br /> <br />drought, and there are "right-of-way" uses with grazing restrictions.<br /> <br />Atrazine is also registered for use on the following non-agricultural<br /> <br />sites: lawns, golf courses, and sod farms. Worlwide, atrazine is a<br /> <br />leading agricultural chemical, and so extensively used that it has been<br /> <br />identified as a significant pollutant in surface water, groundwater, in<br /> <br />offshore areas and in the atmosphere.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives<br /> <br />Dominate Nationwide<br /> <br /><br /> <br />With 99% of the New York precincts reporting, Republican George Pataki<br /> <br />has cruised to a third term as New York Governor. Even more<br /> <br />heart-wrenching to many progressives, the NY Greens may have fallen<br /> <br />short of the 50,00 votes needed to receive an automatic line on the<br /> <br />ballot for the next four years. Lack of mainstream media coverage,<br /> <br />competition from the center-left Working Families Party, and poor voter<br /> <br />turnout may have been contributing factors.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The Libertarian Party reported about nine cases of missing or broken<br /> <br />levers for Libertarian and Green Party candidates and some upstate<br /> <br />ballot errors which omitted candidates from these parties.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Nationwide, the Democrats were largely routed, and the election<br /> <br />post-mortem has begun. "It is time for the Democrats to wake up to the<br /> <br />reality that they do not win elections by pretending to be Republicans<br /> <br />and 'centrists.' The Republicans will beat them at this game every<br /> <br />time," writes one IMC commentator. "It is time to look upon the<br /> <br />Democrats as a failed party that has allowed itself to be squeezed into<br /> <br />the center by the debate-narrowing media."<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Meanwhile, debates about the point of voting continue on IMC-Global and<br /> <br />on this website.<br /> <br />[ St. Louis IMC Election Coverage | Minnesota IMC Election Coverage |<br /> <br />Houston IMC Election Coverage ]<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics<br /> <br /><br /> <br />I am campaigning for governor at a time when the limitations of liberal<br /> <br />democracy have never been more apparent. The boundaries of public debate<br /> <br />grow ever narrower. Corporate money rules the electoral process. The<br /> <br />Republican and Democratic parties quarrel over details but are<br /> <br />essentially united in support of fiscal conservatism, austerity,<br /> <br />protecting the wealth of corporations and rich people, privileging the<br /> <br />private market over public goods and economic growth over ecological<br /> <br />sanity, �welfare reform,� the defunding of cities and urban<br /> <br />education systems, punitive drug laws, and a post-9/11 program of<br /> <br />permanent war. Liberal Democrats often have �good positions� on<br /> <br />questions of civil liberties, feminism, gay rights, and the environment,<br /> <br />but faced with an intransigent right their impulse is always to give<br /> <br />ground rather than fight. Anyone who seriously challenges this state of<br /> <br />affairs is derided as a utopian crank. The left, meanwhile, has been<br /> <br />paralyzed, bogged down in a wrongheaded dispute about what is more<br /> <br />important, economics or culture.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Early Results Show Growth for Green Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />With most results still pending in western states, Greens took a strong<br /> <br />step to higher level office with John Eder's two-to-one landslide<br /> <br />victory in the Maine state house, district 31. Eder's Democratic Party<br /> <br />opponent conceded earlier in the evening.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In Providence, Rhode Island, where Greg Gerritt ran a strong grassroots<br /> <br />campaign for Mayor, David Segal has taken a seat on the City Council<br /> <br />with 38%.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In northwest Pennsylvania, District 3, Congressional candidate AnnDrea<br /> <br />Benson set a new record for a Green Congressional campaign with 22% of<br /> <br />the vote total. Benson had been endorsed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson last<br /> <br />Friday.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />For statewide races, Green candidates for Governor in Maine, Jonathan<br /> <br />Carter, and Jim Sykes for Senate in Alaska both earned about 9%.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Greens also elected their first local officeholder in Texas, George<br /> <br />Rice, to the San Antonio Water Board. And in Madison, Wisconsin, Green<br /> <br />candidate for Sheriff Adam Benedetto received over 32,000 votes.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Preventing Cancer<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancers, bladder cancer,<br /> <br />Hodgkin's Disease and all cancers combined mortality rates for the adult<br /> <br />population of New York State far exceed the United States average (from,<br /> <br />"Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States" 1950-94, National<br /> <br />Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute).<br /> <br /><br /> <br />New York State has large numbers of in-state major source smoke stacks,<br /> <br />emitting human carcinogens, including: benzene, formaldehyde,<br /> <br />benzo(a)pyrene, dioxins, furans, PCBs and hexachlorobenzene. Added to<br /> <br />these cancer causing emissions are releases from smoke stacks to the<br /> <br />North in Ontario (second worst source of air pollution in North America)<br /> <br />and to the West, in the Great Lakes Basin and the Ohio River Valley.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Quito: People confront the FTAA<br /> <br /><br /> <br />by Justin Rubin<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Please accept this [unedited] bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I<br /> <br />don't know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I<br /> <br />saw today, because my mucous membranes are all shot to hell from too<br /> <br />much tear gas, or out of sheer exhaustion. But I want to get this out<br /> <br />while it is still fresh in my mind, and tomorrow will be another insane<br /> <br />day. Tonight I watched some of the most oppressed people in this world<br /> <br />confront some of the most influential. Tonight I watched a group of poor<br /> <br />farmers, indigenous people, and workers speak, shout, sing truth to<br /> <br />power. Tonight, I think, I think, although we will not know for a few<br /> <br />days, I watched the terrain of hemispheric politics shift before my<br /> <br />eyes. I feel so inspired, and so humbled.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />When the day started, I was 20km south of Quito with maybe 300<br /> <br />ind�genas, one of two protest caravans that had crossed the country<br /> <br />spreading the word about the protest against the Free Trade Area of the<br /> <br />Americas summit in Quito. As we crowded into buses to head north, I<br /> <br />called the other caravan, who reported that they had 80 people. " And<br /> <br />this is how it ends," I thought.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The crisis in housing<br /> <br /><br /> <br />New York City is facing its greatest housing shortage since the Second<br /> <br />World War. There are more homeless families, more homeless children now,<br /> <br />than at any time since the Great Depression. Over 35,000 people live in<br /> <br />the streets or in homeless shelters, and the number continues to rise.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The latest Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS) relying on 1999 data, shows<br /> <br />that the vacancy rate is the lowest it�s been for the 1990s -- at<br /> <br />3.19%. More ominous is the fact that 825,000 households pay over 30% of<br /> <br />their incomes for rent, with almost 450,000 of that total paying more<br /> <br />than 50%. Before the Reagan/Cuomo/Koch years, it was a rule-of-thumb<br /> <br />that you never paid more than one week�s salary for a month�s rent.<br /> <br />For many years now, neither major party has demonstrated any capacity<br /> <br />for providing affordable housing.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />215,000 renter households are overcrowded, at more than one person per<br /> <br />room. It it the highest number of overcrowded households since 1970.<br /> <br />More than 75,000 are severely overcrowded (more than 1.5 person per<br /> <br />room). That is the highest number since the HVS began the count in 1960.<br /> <br />Almost 170,000 households are living doubled-up with a non-relative.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />WASHINGTON, DC -- "There's so much bipartisan agreement and overlap on<br /> <br />many major issues of the day, that voters across the U.S. have begun to<br /> <br />recognize Greens as a viable alternative -- often, the only viable<br /> <br />alternative," said Rachel Treichler, Green Party candidate for the House<br /> <br />of Representatives in New York's 29th Congressional District. "Our<br /> <br />candidates for the U.S. House and Senate have established the Greens in<br /> <br />2002 as America's party of choice, of re-enfranchisement and giving<br /> <br />people a reason to come out and vote. We're the alternative to the two<br /> <br />major parties, which represent the interests of those funding their<br /> <br />campaigns -- the large corporations, PACS, and wealthy donors."<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Over 60 Greens are competing in congressional races, out of more than<br /> <br />530 Green campaigns across the U.S.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war<br /> <br /><br /> <br />by Jack A. Smith, Mid-Hudson National People's Campaign<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The new Bush-era antiwar movement took a giant step forward Saturday,<br /> <br />Oct. 26 with massive peace demonstrations in New York and San Francisco<br /> <br />-- and a huge protest, relatively speaking, in Kingston, N.Y.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Demonstrations were held in scores of cities and towns in the U.S. and a<br /> <br />number of foreign countries.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />A total of 2,000 took part in Kingston's rally and march despite cold<br /> <br />rains much of the day. The event was organized by the Mid-Hudson<br /> <br />National People's Campaign and was backed by some 30 local groups.<br /> <br />Observers said the spirited and militant demonstration was the largest<br /> <br />peace protest in Kingston in anyone's memory. The 2,000 figure was based<br /> <br />on final headcounts as the rally ended plus a fairly scientific analysis<br /> <br />by two people trained in crowd estimates. In addition, five buses filled<br /> <br />with activists from the Capital District and Mid-Hudson region left in<br /> <br />the very early morning hours to attend the Washington protest.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />15 photos from the demonstration, taken by Fred Nagel, appear on the<br /> <br />website of the Dutchess Greens, <a href="http://www.dutchessgreens.org">http://www.dutchessgreens.org</a> (click on<br /> <br />Stop the War).<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Open Letter to the Democratic Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The Democrats should have an easy time winning control of the House of<br /> <br />Representatives and the Senate in next week's election. Recession is<br /> <br />deepening, unemployment is rising, and corporate corruption headlines<br /> <br />are proliferating. Health care costs, drug prices and the number of<br /> <br />Americans without health care coverage are all increasing. Median<br /> <br />household incomes are falling. Corporate crime has heavily depleted<br /> <br />401Ks and other pension losses.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />These should all help the Democrats win against the corporate-indentured<br /> <br />Republicans marinated in corporate cash, soft on corporate and<br /> <br />environmental crimes and demonstrably anti-labor.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Why then is the overall contest for Party control of Congress too close<br /> <br />to call? Because Democrats are not clearly, relentlessly and<br /> <br />aggressively emphasizing these fundamental issues to distinguish<br /> <br />themselves from the Republicans. Why? Are they unaware, neglectful or<br /> <br />torpid? 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Transfered from old site <!--break--> Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</A> <BR> <BR>Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</A> <BR> <BR>Atrazine more toxic than previously thought <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</A> <BR> <BR>NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives <BR>Dominate Nationwide <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</A> <BR> <BR>Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</A> <BR> <BR>Early Results Show Growth for Green Party <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</A> <BR> <BR>Preventing Cancer <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</A> <BR> <BR>Quito: People confront the FTAA <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</A> <BR> <BR>The crisis in housing <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</A> <BR> <BR>Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</A> <BR> <BR>2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</A> <BR> <BR>Open Letter to the Democratic Party <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race <BR> <BR>Pete Meyers, the Green Candidate for Sheriff in Tompkins County, got 26% <BR>of the vote county-wide. In Ithaca, Pete got 38% of the vote. Pete, a <BR>social worker whose campaign focused on restorative justice and stopping <BR>a proposed $20 million jail expansion set a new record for a Green <BR>Sheriff candidate -- the previous record was 20%, set by Geralid J. M. <BR>Amato in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Last year, James Caldwell of <BR>Monroe County ran for sheriff and got 11% of the vote. Pete's <BR>performance was almost equalled this year by Adam Benedetto, who got 23% <BR>of the vote in Dane County, Wisconsin. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats <BR> <BR>The mid-term elections are over. After spending hundreds of millions of <BR>business dollars, the Republicans now control the Senate and hold on to <BR>the House of Representatives. It is amazing that the Democrats did not <BR>do worse. They had decided months ago on a strange strategy --that they <BR>were going to defeat the Republicans by not criticizing their <BR>belligerent leader, George W. Bush. <BR> <BR>In their ads, literature and debates between Senatorial and <BR>Representative candidates, mention of Mr. Bush by them was to praise not <BR>to challenge, or to expose the hypocrisy, and the damage to American <BR>workers and consumers by this corporation President. <BR> <BR>Listening to the debate from around the country on C-Span radio, I was <BR>astonished to see Democratic candidates in tight races eager to show <BR>their support for Bush's 2001 tax cut for the wealthy, for the <BR>give-a-way war resolution authority on Iraq, and for Bush's federal <BR>drive to take over the historical role of the states in personal injury <BR>law by restricting Americans' right to their full day in court. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Atrazine more toxic than previously thought <BR> <BR>Controversy erupted over new findings that atrazine may be linked to <BR>global demise of frogs. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho review the <BR>evidence on the endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic effects of <BR>atrazine, especially in the light of the non-linearity of biological <BR>activities, and call for a global ban of the herbicide. <BR> <BR>Atrazine is an herbicide registered in the United States for the control <BR>of broadleaf weeds and some grassy weeds. It is currently used on corn, <BR>sorghum, sugarcane, wheat (to get rid of wheat stubble on fallow land <BR>following wheat harvests; wheat is not the target crop), guava, <BR>macadamia nuts, orchard grass and hay, range grasses, and southern turf <BR>grasses. Atrazine is most widely used on corn followed by sorghum and <BR>sugarcane. Atrazine is registered for use on range grasses for <BR>establishing permanent grass cover on rangelands and pastures under the <BR>Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in four states: Oklahoma, Nebraska, <BR>Texas, and Oregon. The CRP is administered by the US Department of <BR>Agriculture (USDA). <BR> <BR>There are prohibitions against grazing on these CRP lands, and cutting <BR>the grasses for hay, except in national emergencies, such as severe <BR>drought, and there are "right-of-way" uses with grazing restrictions. <BR>Atrazine is also registered for use on the following non-agricultural <BR>sites: lawns, golf courses, and sod farms. Worlwide, atrazine is a <BR>leading agricultural chemical, and so extensively used that it has been <BR>identified as a significant pollutant in surface water, groundwater, in <BR>offshore areas and in the atmosphere. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives <BR>Dominate Nationwide <BR> <BR>With 99% of the New York precincts reporting, Republican George Pataki <BR>has cruised to a third term as New York Governor. Even more <BR>heart-wrenching to many progressives, the NY Greens may have fallen <BR>short of the 50,00 votes needed to receive an automatic line on the <BR>ballot for the next four years. Lack of mainstream media coverage, <BR>competition from the center-left Working Families Party, and poor voter <BR>turnout may have been contributing factors. <BR> <BR>The Libertarian Party reported about nine cases of missing or broken <BR>levers for Libertarian and Green Party candidates and some upstate <BR>ballot errors which omitted candidates from these parties. <BR> <BR>Nationwide, the Democrats were largely routed, and the election <BR>post-mortem has begun. "It is time for the Democrats to wake up to the <BR>reality that they do not win elections by pretending to be Republicans <BR>and 'centrists.' The Republicans will beat them at this game every <BR>time," writes one IMC commentator. "It is time to look upon the <BR>Democrats as a failed party that has allowed itself to be squeezed into <BR>the center by the debate-narrowing media." <BR> <BR>Meanwhile, debates about the point of voting continue on IMC-Global and <BR>on this website. <BR>[ St. Louis IMC Election Coverage | Minnesota IMC Election Coverage | <BR>Houston IMC Election Coverage ] <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics <BR> <BR>I am campaigning for governor at a time when the limitations of liberal <BR>democracy have never been more apparent. The boundaries of public debate <BR>grow ever narrower. Corporate money rules the electoral process. The <BR>Republican and Democratic parties quarrel over details but are <BR>essentially united in support of fiscal conservatism, austerity, <BR>protecting the wealth of corporations and rich people, privileging the <BR>private market over public goods and economic growth over ecological <BR>sanity, �welfare reform,� the defunding of cities and urban <BR>education systems, punitive drug laws, and a post-9/11 program of <BR>permanent war. Liberal Democrats often have �good positions� on <BR>questions of civil liberties, feminism, gay rights, and the environment, <BR>but faced with an intransigent right their impulse is always to give <BR>ground rather than fight. Anyone who seriously challenges this state of <BR>affairs is derided as a utopian crank. The left, meanwhile, has been <BR>paralyzed, bogged down in a wrongheaded dispute about what is more <BR>important, economics or culture. <BR> <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Early Results Show Growth for Green Party <BR> <BR>With most results still pending in western states, Greens took a strong <BR>step to higher level office with John Eder's two-to-one landslide <BR>victory in the Maine state house, district 31. Eder's Democratic Party <BR>opponent conceded earlier in the evening. <BR> <BR>In Providence, Rhode Island, where Greg Gerritt ran a strong grassroots <BR>campaign for Mayor, David Segal has taken a seat on the City Council <BR>with 38%. <BR> <BR>In northwest Pennsylvania, District 3, Congressional candidate AnnDrea <BR>Benson set a new record for a Green Congressional campaign with 22% of <BR>the vote total. Benson had been endorsed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson last <BR>Friday. <BR> <BR>For statewide races, Green candidates for Governor in Maine, Jonathan <BR>Carter, and Jim Sykes for Senate in Alaska both earned about 9%. <BR> <BR>Greens also elected their first local officeholder in Texas, George <BR>Rice, to the San Antonio Water Board. And in Madison, Wisconsin, Green <BR>candidate for Sheriff Adam Benedetto received over 32,000 votes. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Preventing Cancer <BR> <BR>Breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancers, bladder cancer, <BR>Hodgkin's Disease and all cancers combined mortality rates for the adult <BR>population of New York State far exceed the United States average (from, <BR>"Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States" 1950-94, National <BR>Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute). <BR> <BR>New York State has large numbers of in-state major source smoke stacks, <BR>emitting human carcinogens, including: benzene, formaldehyde, <BR>benzo(a)pyrene, dioxins, furans, PCBs and hexachlorobenzene. Added to <BR>these cancer causing emissions are releases from smoke stacks to the <BR>North in Ontario (second worst source of air pollution in North America) <BR>and to the West, in the Great Lakes Basin and the Ohio River Valley. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Quito: People confront the FTAA <BR> <BR>by Justin Rubin <BR> <BR>Please accept this [unedited] bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I <BR>don't know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I <BR>saw today, because my mucous membranes are all shot to hell from too <BR>much tear gas, or out of sheer exhaustion. But I want to get this out <BR>while it is still fresh in my mind, and tomorrow will be another insane <BR>day. Tonight I watched some of the most oppressed people in this world <BR>confront some of the most influential. Tonight I watched a group of poor <BR>farmers, indigenous people, and workers speak, shout, sing truth to <BR>power. Tonight, I think, I think, although we will not know for a few <BR>days, I watched the terrain of hemispheric politics shift before my <BR>eyes. I feel so inspired, and so humbled. <BR> <BR>When the day started, I was 20km south of Quito with maybe 300 <BR>ind�genas, one of two protest caravans that had crossed the country <BR>spreading the word about the protest against the Free Trade Area of the <BR>Americas summit in Quito. As we crowded into buses to head north, I <BR>called the other caravan, who reported that they had 80 people. " And <BR>this is how it ends," I thought. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>The crisis in housing <BR> <BR>New York City is facing its greatest housing shortage since the Second <BR>World War. There are more homeless families, more homeless children now, <BR>than at any time since the Great Depression. Over 35,000 people live in <BR>the streets or in homeless shelters, and the number continues to rise. <BR> <BR>The latest Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS) relying on 1999 data, shows <BR>that the vacancy rate is the lowest it�s been for the 1990s -- at <BR>3.19%. More ominous is the fact that 825,000 households pay over 30% of <BR>their incomes for rent, with almost 450,000 of that total paying more <BR>than 50%. Before the Reagan/Cuomo/Koch years, it was a rule-of-thumb <BR>that you never paid more than one week�s salary for a month�s rent. <BR>For many years now, neither major party has demonstrated any capacity <BR>for providing affordable housing. <BR> <BR>215,000 renter households are overcrowded, at more than one person per <BR>room. It it the highest number of overcrowded households since 1970. <BR>More than 75,000 are severely overcrowded (more than 1.5 person per <BR>room). That is the highest number since the HVS began the count in 1960. <BR>Almost 170,000 households are living doubled-up with a non-relative. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party <BR> <BR>WASHINGTON, DC -- "There's so much bipartisan agreement and overlap on <BR>many major issues of the day, that voters across the U.S. have begun to <BR>recognize Greens as a viable alternative -- often, the only viable <BR>alternative," said Rachel Treichler, Green Party candidate for the House <BR>of Representatives in New York's 29th Congressional District. "Our <BR>candidates for the U.S. House and Senate have established the Greens in <BR>2002 as America's party of choice, of re-enfranchisement and giving <BR>people a reason to come out and vote. We're the alternative to the two <BR>major parties, which represent the interests of those funding their <BR>campaigns -- the large corporations, PACS, and wealthy donors." <BR> <BR>Over 60 Greens are competing in congressional races, out of more than <BR>530 Green campaigns across the U.S. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war <BR> <BR>by Jack A. Smith, Mid-Hudson National People's Campaign <BR> <BR>The new Bush-era antiwar movement took a giant step forward Saturday, <BR>Oct. 26 with massive peace demonstrations in New York and San Francisco <BR>-- and a huge protest, relatively speaking, in Kingston, N.Y. <BR> <BR>Demonstrations were held in scores of cities and towns in the U.S. and a <BR>number of foreign countries. <BR> <BR>A total of 2,000 took part in Kingston's rally and march despite cold <BR>rains much of the day. The event was organized by the Mid-Hudson <BR>National People's Campaign and was backed by some 30 local groups. <BR>Observers said the spirited and militant demonstration was the largest <BR>peace protest in Kingston in anyone's memory. The 2,000 figure was based <BR>on final headcounts as the rally ended plus a fairly scientific analysis <BR>by two people trained in crowd estimates. In addition, five buses filled <BR>with activists from the Capital District and Mid-Hudson region left in <BR>the very early morning hours to attend the Washington protest. <BR> <BR>15 photos from the demonstration, taken by Fred Nagel, appear on the <BR>website of the Dutchess Greens, <A HREF="http://www.dutchessgreens.org">http://www.dutchessgreens.org</A> (click on <BR>Stop the War). <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Open Letter to the Democratic Party <BR> <BR>The Democrats should have an easy time winning control of the House of <BR>Representatives and the Senate in next week's election. Recession is <BR>deepening, unemployment is rising, and corporate corruption headlines <BR>are proliferating. Health care costs, drug prices and the number of <BR>Americans without health care coverage are all increasing. Median <BR>household incomes are falling. Corporate crime has heavily depleted <BR>401Ks and other pension losses. <BR> <BR>These should all help the Democrats win against the corporate-indentured <BR>Republicans marinated in corporate cash, soft on corporate and <BR>environmental crimes and demonstrably anti-labor. <BR> <BR>Why then is the overall contest for Party control of Congress too close <BR>to call? Because Democrats are not clearly, relentlessly and <BR>aggressively emphasizing these fundamental issues to distinguish <BR>themselves from the Republicans. Why? Are they unaware, neglectful or <BR>torpid? No, their chronic ambiguity flows from being largely indentured <BR>to the same monied commercial interests as the Republicans. <BR> <BR>http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html
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<p>Transfered from old site</p> <!--break--><p>Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine more toxic than previously thought<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives<br /> <br />Dominate Nationwide<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Early Results Show Growth for Green Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Preventing Cancer<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Quito: People confront the FTAA<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />The crisis in housing<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Open Letter to the Democratic Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Pete Meyers, the Green Candidate for Sheriff in Tompkins County, got 26%<br /> <br />of the vote county-wide. In Ithaca, Pete got 38% of the vote. Pete, a<br /> <br />social worker whose campaign focused on restorative justice and stopping<br /> <br />a proposed $20 million jail expansion set a new record for a Green<br /> <br />Sheriff candidate -- the previous record was 20%, set by Geralid J. M.<br /> <br />Amato in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Last year, James Caldwell of<br /> <br />Monroe County ran for sheriff and got 11% of the vote. Pete's<br /> <br />performance was almost equalled this year by Adam Benedetto, who got 23%<br /> <br />of the vote in Dane County, Wisconsin.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The mid-term elections are over. After spending hundreds of millions of<br /> <br />business dollars, the Republicans now control the Senate and hold on to<br /> <br />the House of Representatives. It is amazing that the Democrats did not<br /> <br />do worse. They had decided months ago on a strange strategy --that they<br /> <br />were going to defeat the Republicans by not criticizing their<br /> <br />belligerent leader, George W. Bush.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In their ads, literature and debates between Senatorial and<br /> <br />Representative candidates, mention of Mr. Bush by them was to praise not<br /> <br />to challenge, or to expose the hypocrisy, and the damage to American<br /> <br />workers and consumers by this corporation President.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Listening to the debate from around the country on C-Span radio, I was<br /> <br />astonished to see Democratic candidates in tight races eager to show<br /> <br />their support for Bush's 2001 tax cut for the wealthy, for the<br /> <br />give-a-way war resolution authority on Iraq, and for Bush's federal<br /> <br />drive to take over the historical role of the states in personal injury<br /> <br />law by restricting Americans' right to their full day in court.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine more toxic than previously thought<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Controversy erupted over new findings that atrazine may be linked to<br /> <br />global demise of frogs. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho review the<br /> <br />evidence on the endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic effects of<br /> <br />atrazine, especially in the light of the non-linearity of biological<br /> <br />activities, and call for a global ban of the herbicide.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine is an herbicide registered in the United States for the control<br /> <br />of broadleaf weeds and some grassy weeds. It is currently used on corn,<br /> <br />sorghum, sugarcane, wheat (to get rid of wheat stubble on fallow land<br /> <br />following wheat harvests; wheat is not the target crop), guava,<br /> <br />macadamia nuts, orchard grass and hay, range grasses, and southern turf<br /> <br />grasses. Atrazine is most widely used on corn followed by sorghum and<br /> <br />sugarcane. Atrazine is registered for use on range grasses for<br /> <br />establishing permanent grass cover on rangelands and pastures under the<br /> <br />Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in four states: Oklahoma, Nebraska,<br /> <br />Texas, and Oregon. The CRP is administered by the US Department of<br /> <br />Agriculture (USDA).<br /> <br /><br /> <br />There are prohibitions against grazing on these CRP lands, and cutting<br /> <br />the grasses for hay, except in national emergencies, such as severe<br /> <br />drought, and there are "right-of-way" uses with grazing restrictions.<br /> <br />Atrazine is also registered for use on the following non-agricultural<br /> <br />sites: lawns, golf courses, and sod farms. Worlwide, atrazine is a<br /> <br />leading agricultural chemical, and so extensively used that it has been<br /> <br />identified as a significant pollutant in surface water, groundwater, in<br /> <br />offshore areas and in the atmosphere.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives<br /> <br />Dominate Nationwide<br /> <br /><br /> <br />With 99% of the New York precincts reporting, Republican George Pataki<br /> <br />has cruised to a third term as New York Governor. Even more<br /> <br />heart-wrenching to many progressives, the NY Greens may have fallen<br /> <br />short of the 50,00 votes needed to receive an automatic line on the<br /> <br />ballot for the next four years. Lack of mainstream media coverage,<br /> <br />competition from the center-left Working Families Party, and poor voter<br /> <br />turnout may have been contributing factors.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The Libertarian Party reported about nine cases of missing or broken<br /> <br />levers for Libertarian and Green Party candidates and some upstate<br /> <br />ballot errors which omitted candidates from these parties.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Nationwide, the Democrats were largely routed, and the election<br /> <br />post-mortem has begun. "It is time for the Democrats to wake up to the<br /> <br />reality that they do not win elections by pretending to be Republicans<br /> <br />and 'centrists.' The Republicans will beat them at this game every<br /> <br />time," writes one IMC commentator. "It is time to look upon the<br /> <br />Democrats as a failed party that has allowed itself to be squeezed into<br /> <br />the center by the debate-narrowing media."<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Meanwhile, debates about the point of voting continue on IMC-Global and<br /> <br />on this website.<br /> <br />[ St. Louis IMC Election Coverage | Minnesota IMC Election Coverage |<br /> <br />Houston IMC Election Coverage ]<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics<br /> <br /><br /> <br />I am campaigning for governor at a time when the limitations of liberal<br /> <br />democracy have never been more apparent. The boundaries of public debate<br /> <br />grow ever narrower. Corporate money rules the electoral process. The<br /> <br />Republican and Democratic parties quarrel over details but are<br /> <br />essentially united in support of fiscal conservatism, austerity,<br /> <br />protecting the wealth of corporations and rich people, privileging the<br /> <br />private market over public goods and economic growth over ecological<br /> <br />sanity, �welfare reform,� the defunding of cities and urban<br /> <br />education systems, punitive drug laws, and a post-9/11 program of<br /> <br />permanent war. Liberal Democrats often have �good positions� on<br /> <br />questions of civil liberties, feminism, gay rights, and the environment,<br /> <br />but faced with an intransigent right their impulse is always to give<br /> <br />ground rather than fight. Anyone who seriously challenges this state of<br /> <br />affairs is derided as a utopian crank. The left, meanwhile, has been<br /> <br />paralyzed, bogged down in a wrongheaded dispute about what is more<br /> <br />important, economics or culture.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Early Results Show Growth for Green Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />With most results still pending in western states, Greens took a strong<br /> <br />step to higher level office with John Eder's two-to-one landslide<br /> <br />victory in the Maine state house, district 31. Eder's Democratic Party<br /> <br />opponent conceded earlier in the evening.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In Providence, Rhode Island, where Greg Gerritt ran a strong grassroots<br /> <br />campaign for Mayor, David Segal has taken a seat on the City Council<br /> <br />with 38%.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In northwest Pennsylvania, District 3, Congressional candidate AnnDrea<br /> <br />Benson set a new record for a Green Congressional campaign with 22% of<br /> <br />the vote total. Benson had been endorsed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson last<br /> <br />Friday.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />For statewide races, Green candidates for Governor in Maine, Jonathan<br /> <br />Carter, and Jim Sykes for Senate in Alaska both earned about 9%.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Greens also elected their first local officeholder in Texas, George<br /> <br />Rice, to the San Antonio Water Board. And in Madison, Wisconsin, Green<br /> <br />candidate for Sheriff Adam Benedetto received over 32,000 votes.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Preventing Cancer<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancers, bladder cancer,<br /> <br />Hodgkin's Disease and all cancers combined mortality rates for the adult<br /> <br />population of New York State far exceed the United States average (from,<br /> <br />"Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States" 1950-94, National<br /> <br />Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute).<br /> <br /><br /> <br />New York State has large numbers of in-state major source smoke stacks,<br /> <br />emitting human carcinogens, including: benzene, formaldehyde,<br /> <br />benzo(a)pyrene, dioxins, furans, PCBs and hexachlorobenzene. Added to<br /> <br />these cancer causing emissions are releases from smoke stacks to the<br /> <br />North in Ontario (second worst source of air pollution in North America)<br /> <br />and to the West, in the Great Lakes Basin and the Ohio River Valley.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Quito: People confront the FTAA<br /> <br /><br /> <br />by Justin Rubin<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Please accept this [unedited] bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I<br /> <br />don't know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I<br /> <br />saw today, because my mucous membranes are all shot to hell from too<br /> <br />much tear gas, or out of sheer exhaustion. But I want to get this out<br /> <br />while it is still fresh in my mind, and tomorrow will be another insane<br /> <br />day. Tonight I watched some of the most oppressed people in this world<br /> <br />confront some of the most influential. Tonight I watched a group of poor<br /> <br />farmers, indigenous people, and workers speak, shout, sing truth to<br /> <br />power. Tonight, I think, I think, although we will not know for a few<br /> <br />days, I watched the terrain of hemispheric politics shift before my<br /> <br />eyes. I feel so inspired, and so humbled.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />When the day started, I was 20km south of Quito with maybe 300<br /> <br />ind�genas, one of two protest caravans that had crossed the country<br /> <br />spreading the word about the protest against the Free Trade Area of the<br /> <br />Americas summit in Quito. As we crowded into buses to head north, I<br /> <br />called the other caravan, who reported that they had 80 people. " And<br /> <br />this is how it ends," I thought.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The crisis in housing<br /> <br /><br /> <br />New York City is facing its greatest housing shortage since the Second<br /> <br />World War. There are more homeless families, more homeless children now,<br /> <br />than at any time since the Great Depression. Over 35,000 people live in<br /> <br />the streets or in homeless shelters, and the number continues to rise.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The latest Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS) relying on 1999 data, shows<br /> <br />that the vacancy rate is the lowest it�s been for the 1990s -- at<br /> <br />3.19%. More ominous is the fact that 825,000 households pay over 30% of<br /> <br />their incomes for rent, with almost 450,000 of that total paying more<br /> <br />than 50%. Before the Reagan/Cuomo/Koch years, it was a rule-of-thumb<br /> <br />that you never paid more than one week�s salary for a month�s rent.<br /> <br />For many years now, neither major party has demonstrated any capacity<br /> <br />for providing affordable housing.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />215,000 renter households are overcrowded, at more than one person per<br /> <br />room. It it the highest number of overcrowded households since 1970.<br /> <br />More than 75,000 are severely overcrowded (more than 1.5 person per<br /> <br />room). That is the highest number since the HVS began the count in 1960.<br /> <br />Almost 170,000 households are living doubled-up with a non-relative.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />WASHINGTON, DC -- "There's so much bipartisan agreement and overlap on<br /> <br />many major issues of the day, that voters across the U.S. have begun to<br /> <br />recognize Greens as a viable alternative -- often, the only viable<br /> <br />alternative," said Rachel Treichler, Green Party candidate for the House<br /> <br />of Representatives in New York's 29th Congressional District. "Our<br /> <br />candidates for the U.S. House and Senate have established the Greens in<br /> <br />2002 as America's party of choice, of re-enfranchisement and giving<br /> <br />people a reason to come out and vote. We're the alternative to the two<br /> <br />major parties, which represent the interests of those funding their<br /> <br />campaigns -- the large corporations, PACS, and wealthy donors."<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Over 60 Greens are competing in congressional races, out of more than<br /> <br />530 Green campaigns across the U.S.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war<br /> <br /><br /> <br />by Jack A. Smith, Mid-Hudson National People's Campaign<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The new Bush-era antiwar movement took a giant step forward Saturday,<br /> <br />Oct. 26 with massive peace demonstrations in New York and San Francisco<br /> <br />-- and a huge protest, relatively speaking, in Kingston, N.Y.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Demonstrations were held in scores of cities and towns in the U.S. and a<br /> <br />number of foreign countries.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />A total of 2,000 took part in Kingston's rally and march despite cold<br /> <br />rains much of the day. The event was organized by the Mid-Hudson<br /> <br />National People's Campaign and was backed by some 30 local groups.<br /> <br />Observers said the spirited and militant demonstration was the largest<br /> <br />peace protest in Kingston in anyone's memory. The 2,000 figure was based<br /> <br />on final headcounts as the rally ended plus a fairly scientific analysis<br /> <br />by two people trained in crowd estimates. In addition, five buses filled<br /> <br />with activists from the Capital District and Mid-Hudson region left in<br /> <br />the very early morning hours to attend the Washington protest.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />15 photos from the demonstration, taken by Fred Nagel, appear on the<br /> <br />website of the Dutchess Greens, <a href="http://www.dutchessgreens.org">http://www.dutchessgreens.org</a> (click on<br /> <br />Stop the War).<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Open Letter to the Democratic Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The Democrats should have an easy time winning control of the House of<br /> <br />Representatives and the Senate in next week's election. Recession is<br /> <br />deepening, unemployment is rising, and corporate corruption headlines<br /> <br />are proliferating. Health care costs, drug prices and the number of<br /> <br />Americans without health care coverage are all increasing. Median<br /> <br />household incomes are falling. Corporate crime has heavily depleted<br /> <br />401Ks and other pension losses.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />These should all help the Democrats win against the corporate-indentured<br /> <br />Republicans marinated in corporate cash, soft on corporate and<br /> <br />environmental crimes and demonstrably anti-labor.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Why then is the overall contest for Party control of Congress too close<br /> <br />to call? Because Democrats are not clearly, relentlessly and<br /> <br />aggressively emphasizing these fundamental issues to distinguish<br /> <br />themselves from the Republicans. Why? Are they unaware, neglectful or<br /> <br />torpid? No, their chronic ambiguity flows from being largely indentured<br /> <br />to the same monied commercial interests as the Republicans.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html</a></p>
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<p>Transfered from old site</p> <!--break--><p>Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine more toxic than previously thought<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives<br /> <br />Dominate Nationwide<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Early Results Show Growth for Green Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Preventing Cancer<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Quito: People confront the FTAA<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />The crisis in housing<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Open Letter to the Democratic Party<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Pete Meyers sets record in Sheriff Race<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Pete Meyers, the Green Candidate for Sheriff in Tompkins County, got 26%<br /> <br />of the vote county-wide. In Ithaca, Pete got 38% of the vote. Pete, a<br /> <br />social worker whose campaign focused on restorative justice and stopping<br /> <br />a proposed $20 million jail expansion set a new record for a Green<br /> <br />Sheriff candidate -- the previous record was 20%, set by Geralid J. M.<br /> <br />Amato in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Last year, James Caldwell of<br /> <br />Monroe County ran for sheriff and got 11% of the vote. Pete's<br /> <br />performance was almost equalled this year by Adam Benedetto, who got 23%<br /> <br />of the vote in Dane County, Wisconsin.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052843142.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Mid-term Elections: Free Ride for Bush Ruined Democrats<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The mid-term elections are over. After spending hundreds of millions of<br /> <br />business dollars, the Republicans now control the Senate and hold on to<br /> <br />the House of Representatives. It is amazing that the Democrats did not<br /> <br />do worse. They had decided months ago on a strange strategy --that they<br /> <br />were going to defeat the Republicans by not criticizing their<br /> <br />belligerent leader, George W. Bush.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In their ads, literature and debates between Senatorial and<br /> <br />Representative candidates, mention of Mr. Bush by them was to praise not<br /> <br />to challenge, or to expose the hypocrisy, and the damage to American<br /> <br />workers and consumers by this corporation President.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Listening to the debate from around the country on C-Span radio, I was<br /> <br />astonished to see Democratic candidates in tight races eager to show<br /> <br />their support for Bush's 2001 tax cut for the wealthy, for the<br /> <br />give-a-way war resolution authority on Iraq, and for Bush's federal<br /> <br />drive to take over the historical role of the states in personal injury<br /> <br />law by restricting Americans' right to their full day in court.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111052208599.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine more toxic than previously thought<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Controversy erupted over new findings that atrazine may be linked to<br /> <br />global demise of frogs. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho review the<br /> <br />evidence on the endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic effects of<br /> <br />atrazine, especially in the light of the non-linearity of biological<br /> <br />activities, and call for a global ban of the herbicide.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Atrazine is an herbicide registered in the United States for the control<br /> <br />of broadleaf weeds and some grassy weeds. It is currently used on corn,<br /> <br />sorghum, sugarcane, wheat (to get rid of wheat stubble on fallow land<br /> <br />following wheat harvests; wheat is not the target crop), guava,<br /> <br />macadamia nuts, orchard grass and hay, range grasses, and southern turf<br /> <br />grasses. Atrazine is most widely used on corn followed by sorghum and<br /> <br />sugarcane. Atrazine is registered for use on range grasses for<br /> <br />establishing permanent grass cover on rangelands and pastures under the<br /> <br />Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in four states: Oklahoma, Nebraska,<br /> <br />Texas, and Oregon. The CRP is administered by the US Department of<br /> <br />Agriculture (USDA).<br /> <br /><br /> <br />There are prohibitions against grazing on these CRP lands, and cutting<br /> <br />the grasses for hay, except in national emergencies, such as severe<br /> <br />drought, and there are "right-of-way" uses with grazing restrictions.<br /> <br />Atrazine is also registered for use on the following non-agricultural<br /> <br />sites: lawns, golf courses, and sod farms. Worlwide, atrazine is a<br /> <br />leading agricultural chemical, and so extensively used that it has been<br /> <br />identified as a significant pollutant in surface water, groundwater, in<br /> <br />offshore areas and in the atmosphere.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021111051630327.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />NY Greens Automatic Ballot Line Hanging by a Thread; Conservatives<br /> <br />Dominate Nationwide<br /> <br /><br /> <br />With 99% of the New York precincts reporting, Republican George Pataki<br /> <br />has cruised to a third term as New York Governor. Even more<br /> <br />heart-wrenching to many progressives, the NY Greens may have fallen<br /> <br />short of the 50,00 votes needed to receive an automatic line on the<br /> <br />ballot for the next four years. Lack of mainstream media coverage,<br /> <br />competition from the center-left Working Families Party, and poor voter<br /> <br />turnout may have been contributing factors.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The Libertarian Party reported about nine cases of missing or broken<br /> <br />levers for Libertarian and Green Party candidates and some upstate<br /> <br />ballot errors which omitted candidates from these parties.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Nationwide, the Democrats were largely routed, and the election<br /> <br />post-mortem has begun. "It is time for the Democrats to wake up to the<br /> <br />reality that they do not win elections by pretending to be Republicans<br /> <br />and 'centrists.' The Republicans will beat them at this game every<br /> <br />time," writes one IMC commentator. "It is time to look upon the<br /> <br />Democrats as a failed party that has allowed itself to be squeezed into<br /> <br />the center by the debate-narrowing media."<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Meanwhile, debates about the point of voting continue on IMC-Global and<br /> <br />on this website.<br /> <br />[ St. Louis IMC Election Coverage | Minnesota IMC Election Coverage |<br /> <br />Houston IMC Election Coverage ]<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108052228856.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Radical Democracy and Sexual Politics<br /> <br /><br /> <br />I am campaigning for governor at a time when the limitations of liberal<br /> <br />democracy have never been more apparent. The boundaries of public debate<br /> <br />grow ever narrower. Corporate money rules the electoral process. The<br /> <br />Republican and Democratic parties quarrel over details but are<br /> <br />essentially united in support of fiscal conservatism, austerity,<br /> <br />protecting the wealth of corporations and rich people, privileging the<br /> <br />private market over public goods and economic growth over ecological<br /> <br />sanity, �welfare reform,� the defunding of cities and urban<br /> <br />education systems, punitive drug laws, and a post-9/11 program of<br /> <br />permanent war. Liberal Democrats often have �good positions� on<br /> <br />questions of civil liberties, feminism, gay rights, and the environment,<br /> <br />but faced with an intransigent right their impulse is always to give<br /> <br />ground rather than fight. Anyone who seriously challenges this state of<br /> <br />affairs is derided as a utopian crank. The left, meanwhile, has been<br /> <br />paralyzed, bogged down in a wrongheaded dispute about what is more<br /> <br />important, economics or culture.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021108051921243.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Early Results Show Growth for Green Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />With most results still pending in western states, Greens took a strong<br /> <br />step to higher level office with John Eder's two-to-one landslide<br /> <br />victory in the Maine state house, district 31. Eder's Democratic Party<br /> <br />opponent conceded earlier in the evening.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In Providence, Rhode Island, where Greg Gerritt ran a strong grassroots<br /> <br />campaign for Mayor, David Segal has taken a seat on the City Council<br /> <br />with 38%.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In northwest Pennsylvania, District 3, Congressional candidate AnnDrea<br /> <br />Benson set a new record for a Green Congressional campaign with 22% of<br /> <br />the vote total. Benson had been endorsed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson last<br /> <br />Friday.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />For statewide races, Green candidates for Governor in Maine, Jonathan<br /> <br />Carter, and Jim Sykes for Senate in Alaska both earned about 9%.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Greens also elected their first local officeholder in Texas, George<br /> <br />Rice, to the San Antonio Water Board. And in Madison, Wisconsin, Green<br /> <br />candidate for Sheriff Adam Benedetto received over 32,000 votes.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050820315.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Preventing Cancer<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancers, bladder cancer,<br /> <br />Hodgkin's Disease and all cancers combined mortality rates for the adult<br /> <br />population of New York State far exceed the United States average (from,<br /> <br />"Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States" 1950-94, National<br /> <br />Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute).<br /> <br /><br /> <br />New York State has large numbers of in-state major source smoke stacks,<br /> <br />emitting human carcinogens, including: benzene, formaldehyde,<br /> <br />benzo(a)pyrene, dioxins, furans, PCBs and hexachlorobenzene. Added to<br /> <br />these cancer causing emissions are releases from smoke stacks to the<br /> <br />North in Ontario (second worst source of air pollution in North America)<br /> <br />and to the West, in the Great Lakes Basin and the Ohio River Valley.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021107050132464.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Quito: People confront the FTAA<br /> <br /><br /> <br />by Justin Rubin<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Please accept this [unedited] bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I<br /> <br />don't know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I<br /> <br />saw today, because my mucous membranes are all shot to hell from too<br /> <br />much tear gas, or out of sheer exhaustion. But I want to get this out<br /> <br />while it is still fresh in my mind, and tomorrow will be another insane<br /> <br />day. Tonight I watched some of the most oppressed people in this world<br /> <br />confront some of the most influential. Tonight I watched a group of poor<br /> <br />farmers, indigenous people, and workers speak, shout, sing truth to<br /> <br />power. Tonight, I think, I think, although we will not know for a few<br /> <br />days, I watched the terrain of hemispheric politics shift before my<br /> <br />eyes. I feel so inspired, and so humbled.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />When the day started, I was 20km south of Quito with maybe 300<br /> <br />ind�genas, one of two protest caravans that had crossed the country<br /> <br />spreading the word about the protest against the Free Trade Area of the<br /> <br />Americas summit in Quito. As we crowded into buses to head north, I<br /> <br />called the other caravan, who reported that they had 80 people. " And<br /> <br />this is how it ends," I thought.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021106044941553.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The crisis in housing<br /> <br /><br /> <br />New York City is facing its greatest housing shortage since the Second<br /> <br />World War. There are more homeless families, more homeless children now,<br /> <br />than at any time since the Great Depression. Over 35,000 people live in<br /> <br />the streets or in homeless shelters, and the number continues to rise.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The latest Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS) relying on 1999 data, shows<br /> <br />that the vacancy rate is the lowest it�s been for the 1990s -- at<br /> <br />3.19%. More ominous is the fact that 825,000 households pay over 30% of<br /> <br />their incomes for rent, with almost 450,000 of that total paying more<br /> <br />than 50%. Before the Reagan/Cuomo/Koch years, it was a rule-of-thumb<br /> <br />that you never paid more than one week�s salary for a month�s rent.<br /> <br />For many years now, neither major party has demonstrated any capacity<br /> <br />for providing affordable housing.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />215,000 renter households are overcrowded, at more than one person per<br /> <br />room. It it the highest number of overcrowded households since 1970.<br /> <br />More than 75,000 are severely overcrowded (more than 1.5 person per<br /> <br />room). That is the highest number since the HVS began the count in 1960.<br /> <br />Almost 170,000 households are living doubled-up with a non-relative.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105063525348.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congressional Candidates Establish Greens As America's Opposition Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />WASHINGTON, DC -- "There's so much bipartisan agreement and overlap on<br /> <br />many major issues of the day, that voters across the U.S. have begun to<br /> <br />recognize Greens as a viable alternative -- often, the only viable<br /> <br />alternative," said Rachel Treichler, Green Party candidate for the House<br /> <br />of Representatives in New York's 29th Congressional District. "Our<br /> <br />candidates for the U.S. House and Senate have established the Greens in<br /> <br />2002 as America's party of choice, of re-enfranchisement and giving<br /> <br />people a reason to come out and vote. We're the alternative to the two<br /> <br />major parties, which represent the interests of those funding their<br /> <br />campaigns -- the large corporations, PACS, and wealthy donors."<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Over 60 Greens are competing in congressional races, out of more than<br /> <br />530 Green campaigns across the U.S.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021105062927804.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />2,000 gather in Kingston, NY to oppose war<br /> <br /><br /> <br />by Jack A. Smith, Mid-Hudson National People's Campaign<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The new Bush-era antiwar movement took a giant step forward Saturday,<br /> <br />Oct. 26 with massive peace demonstrations in New York and San Francisco<br /> <br />-- and a huge protest, relatively speaking, in Kingston, N.Y.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Demonstrations were held in scores of cities and towns in the U.S. and a<br /> <br />number of foreign countries.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />A total of 2,000 took part in Kingston's rally and march despite cold<br /> <br />rains much of the day. The event was organized by the Mid-Hudson<br /> <br />National People's Campaign and was backed by some 30 local groups.<br /> <br />Observers said the spirited and militant demonstration was the largest<br /> <br />peace protest in Kingston in anyone's memory. The 2,000 figure was based<br /> <br />on final headcounts as the rally ended plus a fairly scientific analysis<br /> <br />by two people trained in crowd estimates. In addition, five buses filled<br /> <br />with activists from the Capital District and Mid-Hudson region left in<br /> <br />the very early morning hours to attend the Washington protest.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />15 photos from the demonstration, taken by Fred Nagel, appear on the<br /> <br />website of the Dutchess Greens, <a href="http://www.dutchessgreens.org">http://www.dutchessgreens.org</a> (click on<br /> <br />Stop the War).<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104052335648.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Open Letter to the Democratic Party<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The Democrats should have an easy time winning control of the House of<br /> <br />Representatives and the Senate in next week's election. Recession is<br /> <br />deepening, unemployment is rising, and corporate corruption headlines<br /> <br />are proliferating. Health care costs, drug prices and the number of<br /> <br />Americans without health care coverage are all increasing. Median<br /> <br />household incomes are falling. Corporate crime has heavily depleted<br /> <br />401Ks and other pension losses.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />These should all help the Democrats win against the corporate-indentured<br /> <br />Republicans marinated in corporate cash, soft on corporate and<br /> <br />environmental crimes and demonstrably anti-labor.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Why then is the overall contest for Party control of Congress too close<br /> <br />to call? Because Democrats are not clearly, relentlessly and<br /> <br />aggressively emphasizing these fundamental issues to distinguish<br /> <br />themselves from the Republicans. Why? Are they unaware, neglectful or<br /> <br />torpid? No, their chronic ambiguity flows from being largely indentured<br /> <br />to the same monied commercial interests as the Republicans.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021104051232372.html</a></p>
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