Everybody Knows with Dr. Bob and Dan-o
On Wednesday 11/15, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice
heard
sponsor testimony from Sen. Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown) on S.B.
74, which
will protect seriously ill Ohio patients from the threat of
arrest and
imprisonment for using marijuana to treat their conditions.
Thank you to everyone who attended the hearing and took action over the last several days. But we don't have time to let up! The Criminal Justice Committee needs to hear just how important S.B. 74 is to the well-being of the critically ill. Here's what you can do right now to help us get a hearing with patient testimony:
1) Call the members of the Criminal Justice Committee. Legislators regularly tell us that a phone call from their constituents is very influential on their decisions regarding legislation.
The message can simple: "I strongly support S.B. 74, Sen. Hagan's compassionate medical marijuana bill. People suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses should not go to jail if they use medical marijuana on their doctors' advice. Please schedule S.B. 74 for a hearing with patient testimony."
Thank you to everyone who attended the hearing and took action over the last several days. But we don't have time to let up! The Criminal Justice Committee needs to hear just how important S.B. 74 is to the well-being of the critically ill. Here's what you can do right now to help us get a hearing with patient testimony:
1) Call the members of the Criminal Justice Committee. Legislators regularly tell us that a phone call from their constituents is very influential on their decisions regarding legislation.
The message can simple: "I strongly support S.B. 74, Sen. Hagan's compassionate medical marijuana bill. People suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses should not go to jail if they use medical marijuana on their doctors' advice. Please schedule S.B. 74 for a hearing with patient testimony."
Plan Events on December 10th, Human Rights and Impeachment Day - December 10 is Human Rights Day, and this year we're making it Human Rights and Impeachment Day. Slogan: "Putting Impeachment on the Table." We encourage you to organize a town hall forum or rally on this day for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. You can create a public listing of your event here. You will be able to communicate with the people who sign up for your event, and to edit the listing for your event, changing or filling in details later. Be sure also to invite your Congress Member or newly elected future Congress Member to speak.
Here are resources that will make your event easy and effective:
December 10
Collect Signatures on Petitions - Collect millions of them, especially in front of your Congress Member's offices. Use this to build local organizations as well as a national list of names.
Petition
Join a Congressional District Impeachment Committee -Organize locally to lobby your Representative:
Here are resources that will make your event easy and effective:
December 10
Collect Signatures on Petitions - Collect millions of them, especially in front of your Congress Member's offices. Use this to build local organizations as well as a national list of names.
Petition
Join a Congressional District Impeachment Committee -Organize locally to lobby your Representative:
Report Election Day Irregularities
Send your election day reports to: democracy@freepress.org and we will post them to our website and use them for future reference.
Send your election day reports to: democracy@freepress.org and we will post them to our website and use them for future reference.
There are several ways that YOU can help protect the vote in 2006:
VIDEO THE VOTE: Help document irregularities on election day, join the team. Video records will be immediately uploaded to the web. If you are interested in the video project, please contact Melissa Giraud at melissa@columbusvotes.org. See Video the Vote on YouTube
PARALLEL ELECTION VOLUNTEER: Learn how hand-counted paper ballots are the most accurate way to count votes by helping in a citizen-run Parallel Election. For more information, contact Rady Ananda at rady.j30@gmail.com or Marj Creech at 740.940.5038 or risenregan@earthlink.net. See Parallel Elections
VIDEO THE VOTE: Help document irregularities on election day, join the team. Video records will be immediately uploaded to the web. If you are interested in the video project, please contact Melissa Giraud at melissa@columbusvotes.org. See Video the Vote on YouTube
PARALLEL ELECTION VOLUNTEER: Learn how hand-counted paper ballots are the most accurate way to count votes by helping in a citizen-run Parallel Election. For more information, contact Rady Ananda at rady.j30@gmail.com or Marj Creech at 740.940.5038 or risenregan@earthlink.net. See Parallel Elections
The NAICCO online auction opens for bidding on September 5, 2006 at 8:00 AM, Eastern Daylight Time. Our goal this year is to raise $10,000 to support the operation of the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio. We need your support! This is an exciting and fun way to help us, and at the same time have a chance to win cool items! We'll continue adding new items to our catalog for you to preview as the auction proceeds. Check back often to see what's new. Feel free to place a Watch on your favorites, so that you'll know as soon as bidding begins!
Entire auction catalog
ACTION NEEDED: Contact your Governor NOW!
The Senate version of the FY 2007 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill (HR 5427), approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 29, 2006, authorizes the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to take irradiated nuclear fuel currently housed at commercial reactors and temporarily store it at federal sites. The “interim” storage sites, termed Consolidation and Preparation (CAP) facilities, would be located within a state or regional site for up to 25 years, without the possibility of license extensions. Current DOE sites would be the most likely locations. If enacted, this provision would result in a dangerous transformation of the nation’s nuclear waste policy without the prospect of a public debate or hearings.
Currently, more than 50,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is piling up at nuclear power plants in 31 states, awaiting geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. However, a series of scientific, political and technical problems have delayed the opening of Yucca Mountain.
The Senate version of the FY 2007 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill (HR 5427), approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 29, 2006, authorizes the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to take irradiated nuclear fuel currently housed at commercial reactors and temporarily store it at federal sites. The “interim” storage sites, termed Consolidation and Preparation (CAP) facilities, would be located within a state or regional site for up to 25 years, without the possibility of license extensions. Current DOE sites would be the most likely locations. If enacted, this provision would result in a dangerous transformation of the nation’s nuclear waste policy without the prospect of a public debate or hearings.
Currently, more than 50,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is piling up at nuclear power plants in 31 states, awaiting geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. However, a series of scientific, political and technical problems have delayed the opening of Yucca Mountain.
The NAICCO online auction opens for bidding on September 5, 2006 at 8:00 AM, Eastern Daylight Time. Our goal this year is to raise $10,000 to support the operation of the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio. We need your support! This is an exciting and fun way to help us, and at the same time have a chance to win cool items! We'll continue adding new items to our catalog for you to preview as the auction proceeds. Check back often to see what's new. Feel free to place a Watch on your favorites, so that you'll know as soon as bidding begins!
Entire auction catalog
With September being National Women's Health month and election
season is in full swing! Help is needed to talk to the thousands of Ohio
voters who support family planning services and reproductive choice.
Planned Parenthood in cooperation NARAL, Pro-Choice Ohio and America Votes
is seeking participation for Choice Days of Action. The days of action will
include going door to door to chat and educate voters on the Ohio
Prevention First Act and the opportunities they have to protect the
reproductive health and privacy of all Ohioans.
The Ohio Prevention First Act is an act aimed at reducing the amount of pregnancies. Features of the act include forbidding health insurers from limiting or excluding coverage for FDA-approved prescription contraception if the policy covers other prescription drugs or devices; . emergency contraception access and education; guaranteeing women's access to prescriptions from pharmacists; honest sexuality education and teen pregnancy prevention; and state funding for family planning services.
Worthington
Worthington
The Ohio Prevention First Act is an act aimed at reducing the amount of pregnancies. Features of the act include forbidding health insurers from limiting or excluding coverage for FDA-approved prescription contraception if the policy covers other prescription drugs or devices; . emergency contraception access and education; guaranteeing women's access to prescriptions from pharmacists; honest sexuality education and teen pregnancy prevention; and state funding for family planning services.
Worthington
Worthington
The founders of our nation believed that all Americans should have the right to worship according to their own beliefs, or not to worship at all. So strong was their commitment to religious freedom that they enshrined it in the first sentence of the Bill of Rights.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
This constitutional guarantee is often known as the "first freedom."
Please sign our petition at: Petition
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
This constitutional guarantee is often known as the "first freedom."
Please sign our petition at: Petition
Stratford Ecological Center has the following volunteer opportunities available. Please contact Jane Walsh at 740-363-2548 or SECVolunteer@aol.com to find out more.
Volunteer Opportunity - Educational Guides
Love to work with kids and be outdoors? Combine the two as a volunteer education guide at Stratford Ecological Center for the Fall education season! We are looking for dedicated volunteers for Educational Guides who lead a small group of children on an adventure around our farm and nature preserve on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings. No experience necessary. We will train you. Contact Jane at 740-363-2548 or SECVolunteer@aol.com
Volunteer Opportunity - Trail Maintenance & New Trail Building
We are looking for volunteers who would like to make a strong commitment for perhaps once or twice a week for the reconstruction and new trail building. Contact Jane at 740-363-2548 or SECVolunteer@aol.com
Volunteer Opportunity - Invasive Species Teams
Volunteer Opportunity - Educational Guides
Love to work with kids and be outdoors? Combine the two as a volunteer education guide at Stratford Ecological Center for the Fall education season! We are looking for dedicated volunteers for Educational Guides who lead a small group of children on an adventure around our farm and nature preserve on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings. No experience necessary. We will train you. Contact Jane at 740-363-2548 or SECVolunteer@aol.com
Volunteer Opportunity - Trail Maintenance & New Trail Building
We are looking for volunteers who would like to make a strong commitment for perhaps once or twice a week for the reconstruction and new trail building. Contact Jane at 740-363-2548 or SECVolunteer@aol.com
Volunteer Opportunity - Invasive Species Teams