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Transfered from old site <!--break--> Sign up for this weekly e-mail newsletter: <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php</A> <BR> <BR>NYPD Approves Feb 15 Rally but not March <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210055453988.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210055453988.html</A> <BR> <BR>Ithaca Unanimously Condemns PATRIOT Act <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210060015152.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210060015152.html</A> <BR> <BR>16 Peace Activists Arrested in Syracuse <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207112151107.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207112151107.html</A> <BR> <BR>Security Lax at Indian Point <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207111711577.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207111711577.html</A> <BR> <BR>Corporate Money was the Winner in 2002 Elections <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207110404308.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207110404308.html</A> <BR> <BR>Segal Wins with Student Help <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003020604531131.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003020604531131.html</A> <BR> <BR>Congress to Decide Fate of DoD Data-Mining Program <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206044616320.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206044616320.html</A> <BR> <BR>Canada Rejects Patents on Higher Life Forms <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206043759919.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206043759919.html</A> <BR> <BR>Oil and the War on Iraq <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205123313271.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205123313271.html</A> <BR> <BR>US Greens: Reject Bush-Frist Plan, Enact Single Payer <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205122621960.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205122621960.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>NYPD Approves Feb 15 Rally but not March <BR> <BR>Organizers of the Feb. 15 anti-war rally, United for Peace and Justice, <BR>have announced the NYPD has granted a permit to rally near the United <BR>Nations (First Avenue stretching north from 49th Street) beginning at <BR>noon. <BR> <BR>Says United for Peace: "This is an important victory, and we are <BR>confident that February 15 will be a day of massive, peaceful, powerful <BR>protest in New York City. The Police Department has, however, so far <BR>refused to approve a permit for a march. We insist on our right to <BR>march, as well as to rally, to express our opposition to this war. We <BR>expect to be successful in our vigorous political and legal efforts to <BR>obtain a march permit. We will not be distracted from our objective of <BR>mobilizing for February 15. Nor will we capitulate to the NYPD's attempt <BR>to curtail our rights of expression and assembly: Military aggression <BR>abroad is entangled with restriction of civil liberties here in the <BR>United States, and we reject both." <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210055453988.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210055453988.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Ithaca Unanimously Condemns PATRIOT Act <BR> <BR>By DAVID HILLIS <BR> <BR>The city of Ithaca unanimously passed a resolution expressing opposition <BR>to the PATRIOT Act at the City Common Council meeting at City Hall last <BR>night. Ithaca is the thirty-second locale to pass such a resolution. <BR> <BR>Ithaca Mayor Alan Cohen '81 expressed his support for the resolution. "I <BR>think it's a well balanced resolution," he said. "[America] is a magnet <BR>to the rest of the world, and people flood to our borders. I just wanted <BR>to express my whole-hearted support." <BR> <BR>The Resolution to Defend the Civil Rights and Liberties of the People of <BR>Ithaca proved to be controversial on two major points. One point of <BR>contention was a resolve which initially barred city employees from <BR>complying with the federal government in any action that violated the <BR>Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment. The updated resolution, giving <BR>more discretion to the individual, now reads that city employees are <BR>required to "defend all civil liberties as outlined by the Bill of <BR>Rights and Fourteenth Amendment." <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210060015152.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210060015152.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>16 Peace Activists Arrested in Syracuse <BR> <BR>January 16, 2003, By Renee K. Gadoua Staff writer Syracuse Post-Standard <BR> <BR>Syracuse police on Wednesday arrested 16 people protesting possible war <BR>with Iraq after they refused to leave the entrance to the Federal <BR>Building. "Their consciences say many more people will die if there's <BR>war," Margaret Birdlebough said. Officers put plastic bands on the <BR>protesters and escorted them to police vans after the protesters stood <BR>at the entrance of the Federal Building for nearly an hour and declined <BR>several requests to move. Some protesters wore masks, including one <BR>depicting George Bush. One protester sat on the cold sidewalk, rocking a <BR>doll and feigning crying. Another protester, dressed in a black robe and <BR>papier-mache mask, stood in front of a 3-foot cardboard "missile," and <BR>bent and picked up a doll covered with ashes. She lifted the doll above <BR>her head, then rocked it and wailed as if in mourning. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207112151107.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207112151107.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Security Lax at Indian Point <BR> <BR>By Mike Burke <BR> <BR>The security guards work up to 16 hours a day, sometimes for seven days <BR>straight. Morale is low. Their confidence in management may be even <BR>lower. They admit being under-qualified and under-trained in key <BR>security aspects. Also, they often have very little experience. Some <BR>even show up for work drunk <BR> <BR>These are not the security guards at the local shopping mall, but the <BR>men and women entrusted to protect perhaps the most sensitive facility <BR>in the New York area, the Indian Point nuclear power plant. <BR> <BR>Twenty million people live within a 50-mile radius of Indian Point's <BR>reactors. An attack on the facility could have apocalyptic consequences <BR>and could render the entire New York City metro area uninhabitable. And <BR>such an attack is no longer inconceivable to many: on Sept. 11 the two <BR>hijacked planes that crashed into the Twin Towers flew directly over the <BR>Indian Point nuclear site in Buchanan. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207111711577.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207111711577.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Corporate Money was the Winner in 2002 Elections <BR> <BR>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Latest figures from the FEC show that the biggest <BR>determinant of whether a candidate won in 2002 fall elections was not <BR>their position on the issues, but the amount of money spent on their <BR>campaign, said Greens. The Green Party of the United States supports <BR>'Clean Money, Clean Elections' -- public campaign financing, especially <BR>for congressional elections. <BR> <BR>Data from candidates on contributions through Oct. 16, 2002 posted at <BR>the Center for Responsive Politics show that out of 445 house races, <BR>over 90% of the winners outspent the losers, with 299 winning candidates <BR>outspending their opponents by 10 to 1. Only 14 candidates who spent <BR>less than their opponents won. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207110404308.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207110404308.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Segal Wins with Student Help <BR> <BR>by Ken Sain <BR> <BR>Newly elected office holders usually get a honeymoon period where even <BR>voters who supported other candidates wait and see what the new person <BR>will do. <BR> <BR>Not so for David Segal, who won election to the Providence City Council <BR>to become the first Green elected in Rhode Island. <BR> <BR>Segal won the District 1 seat, which includes Brown University. The <BR>22-year-old Segal actively sought out help from students in winning his <BR>election. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003020604531131.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003020604531131.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Congress to Decide Fate of DoD Data-Mining Program <BR> <BR>Congress is now facing a key decision about the Pentagon's development <BR>of a massive tool to "mine" the data of innocent Americans looking for <BR>suspicious conduct - the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program. <BR> <BR>Last month, the US Senate adopted an amendment ("the Wyden amendment") <BR>holding up deployment of TIA until basic questions are answered about <BR>its potential for error and abuse of privacy. But the amendment hasn't <BR>passed the House yet, and the Pentagon has begun to lobby against it. <BR> <BR>CDT has set up a special web page where concerned citizens can find out <BR>who their Members of Congress are, with phone numbers, to call them and <BR>urge them to put some limits on TIA until basic questions about its <BR>effectiveness and privacy implications are answered. <BR> <BR>The web site is <A HREF="http://www.cdt.org/action/tia/.">http://www.cdt.org/action/tia/.</A> <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206044616320.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206044616320.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Canada Rejects Patents on Higher Life Forms <BR> <BR>by Lim Li Ching <BR> <BR>Canada’s ruling on 5 December 2002 makes her the only industrialized <BR>country to prohibit patents on higher life forms. The test case was <BR>Harvard University’s 17-year quest for ownership of its genetically <BR>engineered "oncomouse". Researchers inserted a cancer-promoting gene <BR>(oncogene) into fertilised mouse eggs, producing transgenic mice more <BR>susceptible to tumours, thus facilitating clinical work and faster <BR>experimental results for cancer research. <BR> <BR>The oncomouse was patented in the US in 1988, and has patent protection <BR>in Australia, Japan and several European countries. The patents give <BR>Harvard exclusive rights to create the mice and charge licensing fees <BR>for their use. The "invention" is licensed to Du Pont, which sells the <BR>mice to research labs. <BR> <BR>In its application, Harvard sought to protect both the process by which <BR>the oncomice are produced and the end product of the process, i.e. mouse <BR>and offspring whose cells contain the oncogene. The process and product <BR>claims extend to all similarly altered non-human mammals. <BR> <BR>Canada allows single-celled organisms, such as yeasts and bacteria, and <BR>GM crops to be patented. It also allows patents for modified human genes <BR>and cell lines. The Supreme Court, Canada’s highest court, however <BR>conceded that ownership of more complicated life forms is a radically <BR>different concept, thus ending the legal battles over the oncomouse. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206043759919.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206043759919.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>Oil and the War on Iraq <BR> <BR>Despite well-known ties to Big Oil, Bush Administration officials have <BR>managed to keep a straight face as they insist that the drive to war <BR>against Iraq is motivated only by an effort to eliminate weapons of mass <BR>destruction and establish democracy. <BR> <BR>Tomorrow we'll see what evidence Secretary of State Powell presents to <BR>the United Nations. It is not credible that there would be such a strong <BR>push for war if there were no oil in Iraq. Oil is power and this is in <BR>significant measure a struggle over that power. <BR> <BR>The connections between the Bush administration and the oil industry are <BR>clear and pervasive. A remarkable 41 members of the administration have <BR>ties to the industry, and both the President and the Vice President are <BR>both former oil executives. National Security Adviser Condaleeza Rice is <BR>a former director of Chevron. President Bush took more than $1.8 million <BR>in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industries in the 2000 <BR>election. The Bush people and the oil moguls do agree with one another <BR>in part because they are one another. With influence like that, it's no <BR>surprise that big oil corporations like ExxonMobil (with an annual <BR>lobbying budget of nearly $12 million) and Halliburton (the Vice <BR>President's former employer) have had an unprecedented role in <BR>determining the nation's energy policies. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205123313271.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205123313271.html</A> <BR> <BR>--------- <BR> <BR>US Greens: Reject Bush-Frist Plan, Enact Single Payer <BR> <BR>WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States urged Congress to <BR>reject the Bush-Frist corporatization proposals for Medicaid and <BR>Medicare and instead enact national health insurance to guarantee the <BR>right to health care in the wealthiest country in the world. <BR> <BR>"Greens have always made single-payer national health insurance a major <BR>goal of the party," said Carol Miller, public health activist and New <BR>Mexico Green. "The U.S. is the only democracy on earth that doesn't <BR>guarantee access to health care, which is why 41 million Americans are <BR>uninsured, tens of millions more are under-insured, and nearly half of <BR>all personal bankruptcies each year are caused by health problems or a <BR>large medical debt, even though 79% of the families filing for <BR>bankruptcy had at least some health insurance coverage. It's time to get <BR>health care decisions out of the hands of corporations, whose only <BR>concern is maximization of profits, and back into the hands of patients <BR>and physicians. Medicare should not be turned into the next Enron." <BR> <BR>http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205122621960.html
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<p>Transfered from old site</p> <!--break--><p>Sign up for this weekly e-mail newsletter:<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />NYPD Approves Feb 15 Rally but not March<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210055453988.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210055453988.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Ithaca Unanimously Condemns PATRIOT Act<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210060015152.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210060015152.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />16 Peace Activists Arrested in Syracuse<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207112151107.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207112151107.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Security Lax at Indian Point<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207111711577.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207111711577.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Corporate Money was the Winner in 2002 Elections<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207110404308.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207110404308.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Segal Wins with Student Help<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003020604531131.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003020604531131.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congress to Decide Fate of DoD Data-Mining Program<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206044616320.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206044616320.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Canada Rejects Patents on Higher Life Forms<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206043759919.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206043759919.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />Oil and the War on Iraq<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205123313271.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205123313271.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />US Greens: Reject Bush-Frist Plan, Enact Single Payer<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205122621960.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205122621960.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />NYPD Approves Feb 15 Rally but not March<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Organizers of the Feb. 15 anti-war rally, United for Peace and Justice,<br /> <br />have announced the NYPD has granted a permit to rally near the United<br /> <br />Nations (First Avenue stretching north from 49th Street) beginning at<br /> <br />noon.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Says United for Peace: "This is an important victory, and we are<br /> <br />confident that February 15 will be a day of massive, peaceful, powerful<br /> <br />protest in New York City. The Police Department has, however, so far<br /> <br />refused to approve a permit for a march. We insist on our right to<br /> <br />march, as well as to rally, to express our opposition to this war. We<br /> <br />expect to be successful in our vigorous political and legal efforts to<br /> <br />obtain a march permit. We will not be distracted from our objective of<br /> <br />mobilizing for February 15. Nor will we capitulate to the NYPD's attempt<br /> <br />to curtail our rights of expression and assembly: Military aggression<br /> <br />abroad is entangled with restriction of civil liberties here in the<br /> <br />United States, and we reject both."<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210055453988.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210055453988.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Ithaca Unanimously Condemns PATRIOT Act<br /> <br /><br /> <br />By DAVID HILLIS<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The city of Ithaca unanimously passed a resolution expressing opposition<br /> <br />to the PATRIOT Act at the City Common Council meeting at City Hall last<br /> <br />night. Ithaca is the thirty-second locale to pass such a resolution.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Ithaca Mayor Alan Cohen '81 expressed his support for the resolution. "I<br /> <br />think it's a well balanced resolution," he said. "[America] is a magnet<br /> <br />to the rest of the world, and people flood to our borders. I just wanted<br /> <br />to express my whole-hearted support."<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The Resolution to Defend the Civil Rights and Liberties of the People of<br /> <br />Ithaca proved to be controversial on two major points. One point of<br /> <br />contention was a resolve which initially barred city employees from<br /> <br />complying with the federal government in any action that violated the<br /> <br />Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment. The updated resolution, giving<br /> <br />more discretion to the individual, now reads that city employees are<br /> <br />required to "defend all civil liberties as outlined by the Bill of<br /> <br />Rights and Fourteenth Amendment."<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210060015152.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030210060015152.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />16 Peace Activists Arrested in Syracuse<br /> <br /><br /> <br />January 16, 2003, By Renee K. Gadoua Staff writer Syracuse Post-Standard<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Syracuse police on Wednesday arrested 16 people protesting possible war<br /> <br />with Iraq after they refused to leave the entrance to the Federal<br /> <br />Building. "Their consciences say many more people will die if there's<br /> <br />war," Margaret Birdlebough said. Officers put plastic bands on the<br /> <br />protesters and escorted them to police vans after the protesters stood<br /> <br />at the entrance of the Federal Building for nearly an hour and declined<br /> <br />several requests to move. Some protesters wore masks, including one<br /> <br />depicting George Bush. One protester sat on the cold sidewalk, rocking a<br /> <br />doll and feigning crying. Another protester, dressed in a black robe and<br /> <br />papier-mache mask, stood in front of a 3-foot cardboard "missile," and<br /> <br />bent and picked up a doll covered with ashes. She lifted the doll above<br /> <br />her head, then rocked it and wailed as if in mourning.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207112151107.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207112151107.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Security Lax at Indian Point<br /> <br /><br /> <br />By Mike Burke<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The security guards work up to 16 hours a day, sometimes for seven days<br /> <br />straight. Morale is low. Their confidence in management may be even<br /> <br />lower. They admit being under-qualified and under-trained in key<br /> <br />security aspects. Also, they often have very little experience. Some<br /> <br />even show up for work drunk<br /> <br /><br /> <br />These are not the security guards at the local shopping mall, but the<br /> <br />men and women entrusted to protect perhaps the most sensitive facility<br /> <br />in the New York area, the Indian Point nuclear power plant.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Twenty million people live within a 50-mile radius of Indian Point's<br /> <br />reactors. An attack on the facility could have apocalyptic consequences<br /> <br />and could render the entire New York City metro area uninhabitable. And<br /> <br />such an attack is no longer inconceivable to many: on Sept. 11 the two<br /> <br />hijacked planes that crashed into the Twin Towers flew directly over the<br /> <br />Indian Point nuclear site in Buchanan.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207111711577.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207111711577.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Corporate Money was the Winner in 2002 Elections<br /> <br /><br /> <br />WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Latest figures from the FEC show that the biggest<br /> <br />determinant of whether a candidate won in 2002 fall elections was not<br /> <br />their position on the issues, but the amount of money spent on their<br /> <br />campaign, said Greens. The Green Party of the United States supports<br /> <br />'Clean Money, Clean Elections' -- public campaign financing, especially<br /> <br />for congressional elections.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Data from candidates on contributions through Oct. 16, 2002 posted at<br /> <br />the Center for Responsive Politics show that out of 445 house races,<br /> <br />over 90% of the winners outspent the losers, with 299 winning candidates<br /> <br />outspending their opponents by 10 to 1. Only 14 candidates who spent<br /> <br />less than their opponents won.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207110404308.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030207110404308.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Segal Wins with Student Help<br /> <br /><br /> <br />by Ken Sain<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Newly elected office holders usually get a honeymoon period where even<br /> <br />voters who supported other candidates wait and see what the new person<br /> <br />will do.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Not so for David Segal, who won election to the Providence City Council<br /> <br />to become the first Green elected in Rhode Island.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Segal won the District 1 seat, which includes Brown University. The<br /> <br />22-year-old Segal actively sought out help from students in winning his<br /> <br />election.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003020604531131.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003020604531131.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congress to Decide Fate of DoD Data-Mining Program<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Congress is now facing a key decision about the Pentagon's development<br /> <br />of a massive tool to "mine" the data of innocent Americans looking for<br /> <br />suspicious conduct - the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Last month, the US Senate adopted an amendment ("the Wyden amendment")<br /> <br />holding up deployment of TIA until basic questions are answered about<br /> <br />its potential for error and abuse of privacy. But the amendment hasn't<br /> <br />passed the House yet, and the Pentagon has begun to lobby against it.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />CDT has set up a special web page where concerned citizens can find out<br /> <br />who their Members of Congress are, with phone numbers, to call them and<br /> <br />urge them to put some limits on TIA until basic questions about its<br /> <br />effectiveness and privacy implications are answered.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The web site is <a href="http://www.cdt.org/action/tia/.">http://www.cdt.org/action/tia/.</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206044616320.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206044616320.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Canada Rejects Patents on Higher Life Forms<br /> <br /><br /> <br />by Lim Li Ching<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Canada’s ruling on 5 December 2002 makes her the only industrialized<br /> <br />country to prohibit patents on higher life forms. The test case was<br /> <br />Harvard University’s 17-year quest for ownership of its genetically<br /> <br />engineered "oncomouse". Researchers inserted a cancer-promoting gene<br /> <br />(oncogene) into fertilised mouse eggs, producing transgenic mice more<br /> <br />susceptible to tumours, thus facilitating clinical work and faster<br /> <br />experimental results for cancer research.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The oncomouse was patented in the US in 1988, and has patent protection<br /> <br />in Australia, Japan and several European countries. The patents give<br /> <br />Harvard exclusive rights to create the mice and charge licensing fees<br /> <br />for their use. The "invention" is licensed to Du Pont, which sells the<br /> <br />mice to research labs.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />In its application, Harvard sought to protect both the process by which<br /> <br />the oncomice are produced and the end product of the process, i.e. mouse<br /> <br />and offspring whose cells contain the oncogene. The process and product<br /> <br />claims extend to all similarly altered non-human mammals.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Canada allows single-celled organisms, such as yeasts and bacteria, and<br /> <br />GM crops to be patented. It also allows patents for modified human genes<br /> <br />and cell lines. The Supreme Court, Canada’s highest court, however<br /> <br />conceded that ownership of more complicated life forms is a radically<br /> <br />different concept, thus ending the legal battles over the oncomouse.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206043759919.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030206043759919.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Oil and the War on Iraq<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Despite well-known ties to Big Oil, Bush Administration officials have<br /> <br />managed to keep a straight face as they insist that the drive to war<br /> <br />against Iraq is motivated only by an effort to eliminate weapons of mass<br /> <br />destruction and establish democracy.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />Tomorrow we'll see what evidence Secretary of State Powell presents to<br /> <br />the United Nations. It is not credible that there would be such a strong<br /> <br />push for war if there were no oil in Iraq. Oil is power and this is in<br /> <br />significant measure a struggle over that power.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />The connections between the Bush administration and the oil industry are<br /> <br />clear and pervasive. A remarkable 41 members of the administration have<br /> <br />ties to the industry, and both the President and the Vice President are<br /> <br />both former oil executives. National Security Adviser Condaleeza Rice is<br /> <br />a former director of Chevron. President Bush took more than $1.8 million<br /> <br />in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industries in the 2000<br /> <br />election. The Bush people and the oil moguls do agree with one another<br /> <br />in part because they are one another. With influence like that, it's no<br /> <br />surprise that big oil corporations like ExxonMobil (with an annual<br /> <br />lobbying budget of nearly $12 million) and Halliburton (the Vice<br /> <br />President's former employer) have had an unprecedented role in<br /> <br />determining the nation's energy policies.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205123313271.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205123313271.html</a><br /> <br /><br /> <br />---------<br /> <br /><br /> <br />US Greens: Reject Bush-Frist Plan, Enact Single Payer<br /> <br /><br /> <br />WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States urged Congress to<br /> <br />reject the Bush-Frist corporatization proposals for Medicaid and<br /> <br />Medicare and instead enact national health insurance to guarantee the<br /> <br />right to health care in the wealthiest country in the world.<br /> <br /><br /> <br />"Greens have always made single-payer national health insurance a major<br /> <br />goal of the party," said Carol Miller, public health activist and New<br /> <br />Mexico Green. "The U.S. is the only democracy on earth that doesn't<br /> <br />guarantee access to health care, which is why 41 million Americans are<br /> <br />uninsured, tens of millions more are under-insured, and nearly half of<br /> <br />all personal bankruptcies each year are caused by health problems or a<br /> <br />large medical debt, even though 79% of the families filing for<br /> <br />bankruptcy had at least some health insurance coverage. It's time to get<br /> <br />health care decisions out of the hands of corporations, whose only<br /> <br />concern is maximization of profits, and back into the hands of patients<br /> <br />and physicians. Medicare should not be turned into the next Enron."<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205122621960.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030205122621960.html</a></p>
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