tcgreens] Cops knock down 80-yr old Woman; Freezing For Peace

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PEGASYS: DC Protests, Tax the Rich
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030127051154949.html
 

 
Massive Anti-War Protest in San Francisco
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030127050615970.html
 

 
Tompkins Greens, Working Families Support Public Access Television
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030124061615381.html
 

 
Greens urge Election Reform in Delaware
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030124060939931.html
 

 
Maine: Carter had money, but little support
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030123065540552.html
 

 
Medicare in Danger
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030123063554850.html
 

 
Badgeless Police Knock Down 80 Year Old Protestor
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030123063015333.html
 

 
Reclaiming Martin Luther King
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030122121145259.html
 

 
DC: The Joy of Freezing for Peace
 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030122113711790.html
 

 
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PEGASYS: DC Protests, Tax the Rich
 

 
The Luminary News: Hundreds of thousands of people in DC Saturday,
 
January, 18th. We are there. Sunday January, 19th; civil disobedience
 
near the White House.
 

 
Ch 13: Mon (12/27) 10pm, Fri 5pm; Ch 78: Tues 7pm
 

 
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents (#96):
 

 
"Tax the Rich" Petra Hepburn interviews Tim Joseph, Chair of the
 
Tompkins County Board of Representatives, about our taxes. New York
 
State has been cutting income taxes on high incomes, giving huge tax
 
cuts to the very rich, and making up the deficit by paying less and less
 
for the services that local governments provide. Local government can
 
only collect property and sales taxes, which hurt ordinary working
 
people far worse than do graduated income taxes. People need to
 
understand what is happening and organize to resist it.
 

 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030127051154949.html
 

 
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Massive Anti-War Protest in San Francisco
 

 
A massive anti-war protest happened today in downtown SF calling for no
 
war on Iraq. The crowd stretched continuously from the foot of Market
 
St. and filled the Civic Center to capacity.
 

 
On an unusually warm, very clear sunny day, in San Francisco, January
 
18, 2003, people of all ages and colors slowly moved up Market Street,
 
starting at 10:30 a.m. on a grand peace march that was estimated at
 
350,000.
 

 
I would like to emphasize that ALL age groups were in attendance and
 
people of ALL colors were also there in great numbers. We have NO
 
generation gap or ethnic gap in the peace movement.
 

 
The labor contingent included the longshore workers, the ILWU; a
 
teachers' union delegation from Los Angeles, a flight attendant's
 
delegation, the hospital workers' SEIU 250, the gay/lesbian labor
 
organization Pride at Work, the Operating Engineer's union and members
 
of various other labor unions and their supporters.
 

 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030127050615970.html
 

 
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Tompkins Greens, Working Families Support Public Access Television
 

 
The Tompkins County Green Party and leaders in the Local Working
 
Families Party endorsed a joint statement yesterday supporting public
 
access television, pledging to oppose any city council members who vote
 
for a franchise agreement that curtails public access.
 

 
Statement on Public Access (1/23/03) The vote that Common Council
 
members will cast on the cable franchise with Time Warner Cable at its
 
meeting on Wednesday, January 29, 2003, will determine the availability
 
of public access for the next ten years. This critical vote will show
 
the character of elected officials and the degree that they are devoted
 
to the public interest.
 

 
The proposed franchise agreement will reduce the number of access
 
channels (including the government and educational channels) from five
 
to three. The present continuous use of Channel 76 for foreign language
 
news programs (SCOLA) will be eliminated, as well as Channel 78, a
 
second public access channel, which now regularly carries the
 
alternative news program Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.
 

 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030124061615381.html
 

 
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Greens urge Election Reform in Delaware
 

 
Wilmington, DE -- In response to the 2002 elections which saw a pivotal
 
3-way race for the office of Attorney General, the Green Party of
 
Delaware has initiated discussion with Delaware's ballot qualified
 
parties to establish Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). While all other
 
parties support an IRV initiative, the Democratic and Republican parties
 
ignored the Green's invitation to open a dialogue on IRV election
 
reform.
 

 
"The need for IRV in Delaware is very clear", said Vivian Houghton, 2002
 
Green Party candidate for Attorney General. "The failure of the
 
Democratic and Republican parties to respond is a symptom of their
 
bankruptcy with Delaware's voters and rigamortis approach to a changing
 
political scene. IRV is a 'win-win' measure for all parties and a needed
 
reform to improve democracy in our state", said Houghton.
 

 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030124060939931.html
 

 
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Maine: Carter had money, but little support
 

 
In Maine, Jonathan Carter is a household name. For a decade he has run
 
electoral campaigns and referendums on forestry issues. So when he ran
 
for governor this year with $900,000 in Clean Elections money and good
 
media coverage, state and national Greens alike expected great things.
 

 
But only 9.2 percent of Mainers voted for Carter this year, just 2
 
percent over his previous low-budget campaigns. The question many Greens
 
are asking is "why?" The three-part answer says a lot about why people
 
don't vote Green and what Greens need to do to encourage them.
 

 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030123065540552.html
 

 
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Medicare in Danger
 

 
By Heather Cottin
 

 
Whenever the Bush administration talks "reform," workers had better
 
watch out.
 

 
President George W. Bush is planning to eviscerate Medicare, the
 
government health plan for the elderly that workers pay into all their
 
lives. And he has the support of powerful Democrats in Congress. With
 
millionaire Bill Frist now the Senate majority leader--he's part of a
 
for-profit hospital dynasty--a bipartisan plan that would gut Medicare
 
and force elderly Social Security recipients to pay more for health care
 
is moving ahead.
 

 
Sen. Frist, a Tennessee Republican, is a surgeon. He has been getting a
 
lot of publicity portraying him as a doctor who knows first-hand about
 
the problems of the sick. It's more important, however, that his family
 
owns Columbia/HCA, the biggest chain of for-profit hospitals in the
 
country.
 

 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030123063554850.html
 

 
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Badgeless Police Knock Down 80 Year Old Protestor
 

 
"What caused the use of force to occur? Civil disobedience. If there was
 
no civil disobedience, there would have been no injury and there would
 
have been no use of force. If we don’t have that civil disobedience, you
 
don’t have the use of force by police." Lt. Jeffrey Harold, Metropolitan
 
Police Dept, During Demonstration in front of the White House, 1/19/03
 

 
During the Jan. 19 MLK day actions for peace, Clara Sinclair, 80, from
 
Sandy Springs Retirement Home, was pushed by police and knocked
 
unconscious while she participated in a peaceful sit-down protest
 
against a war in Iraq, in front of the White House. She was taken to the
 
hospital and her condition has not yet been confirmed. The non-violent
 
civil disobedience was sponsored by Iraq Pledge of Resistance and United
 
For Peace. The police officer responsible for knocking Sinclair down has
 
not yet been identified, as he had removed his Badge Number. The
 
incident occurred at the intersection of 16th and H Streets, bordering
 
Lafayette Park, which was closed to the public by police.
 

 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030123063015333.html
 

 
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Reclaiming Martin Luther King
 

 
In a marathon day of peace and justice work, consisting of workshops and
 
5 hours of inspiring and controversial speeches, Plymouth Congregational
 
Church, Black Voices for Peace, and WPFW radio station sponsored a to
 
Martin Luther King program for over a thousand people.
 

 
The program was broadcast live on WPFW and immediately became a radical
 
political edge from which African-American and progressive groups can
 
take lessons. Many speakers pushed to the outer limits, the meaning of
 
MLK's work and words, and reminded people that King was a Drum Major for
 
justice as opposed to the quotable milquetoast on McDonald's cups.
 

 
Supporters of the political right are turning King's words into their
 
opposite meaning. Rev. Hagler denounced the Lt. Governor of Maryland for
 
trying to pervert King's words by saying that King would have hated
 
Affirmative Action. Further, Rev. Hagler said Bush distanced himself
 
publicly from Trent Lott's recent racist comments, yet on the actual
 
birthday of Dr. King, (Jan. 15), Bush "blinked" to Lott's followers,
 
telling them 'Everything is all right.'
 

 
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030122121145259.html
 

 
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DC: The Joy of Freezing for Peace
 

 
David McReynolds, staff emeritus of War Resisters League, Socialist
 
Party candidate for President, 2000.
 

 
I don't know how many people were at the rally in Washington on
 
Saturday. The organizers said a half million - that seems too large. But
 
certainly over 100,000. Maybe the best thing to be said is there were
 
"enough" - more than enough.
 

 
As a veteran of demonstrations, including the March on Washington in
 
August 1963 (where I heard King's historic speech), this demonstration
 
was one of the largest I've been to. And not in spring or autumn, when
 
the weather is pleasant and the marching is easy, but in the dead center
 
of January. I had thought I might skip this one, telling myself that age
 
must surely have some advantages and if, at 73, I could go to movies for
 
a cut rate, maybe I could skip the long ride to Washington. But in the
 
end I went and am delighted I did.
 

 
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