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According to the Cincinnati Post, Democratic Party presidential
candidate Rev. Al Sharpton will be at Joseph-Beth bookstore tomorrow
(Friday) from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. for a book signing. Joseph-Beth is
located in the Rookwood Pavilion in Norwood.
The Coalition For A Just Cincinnati (CJC) will be there to collect signatures on the "Citizen Empowerment and City Council Neighborhood District Act". We are trying to do two major things. First, we want to change the Charter of Cincinnati to allow us to recall the mayor. Second, we want to change the way we elect council members from at- large to neighborhood districts.
Click the following link to read the petition. www.boycottcincinnati.org/districtpetition.pdf
Click this link to see a general outline of the neighborhood districts. www.boycottcincinnati.org/districtmap.pdf
The Coalition For A Just Cincinnati (CJC) will be there to collect signatures on the "Citizen Empowerment and City Council Neighborhood District Act". We are trying to do two major things. First, we want to change the Charter of Cincinnati to allow us to recall the mayor. Second, we want to change the way we elect council members from at- large to neighborhood districts.
Click the following link to read the petition. www.boycottcincinnati.org/districtpetition.pdf
Click this link to see a general outline of the neighborhood districts. www.boycottcincinnati.org/districtmap.pdf
The Ohio House of Representatives is considering legislation, House Bill 218, that would transfer thousands of acres along our coast to private landowners.
For those of us who enjoy Ohio's outdoors, this could severely restrict our right to fish, swim, wade and walk near the shore.
Lake Erie, its shoreline and coastal waters belong to the people of Ohio. Please take a moment to ask your state representative to keep it that way and reject House Bill 218. Then, ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click on this link or paste it into your web browser: pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=426&id4=OHFreep
Background
Some property owners along the Lake Erie shore want to gain a legal foothold to fence off vast stretches of now-public beach for themselves. If they get their way, the public can look forward to a shoreline cluttered with sprawling million-dollar estates, private clubs and even oil drilling derricks - and fences and "keep out" signs to restrict public access to the Lake Erie shore.
For those of us who enjoy Ohio's outdoors, this could severely restrict our right to fish, swim, wade and walk near the shore.
Lake Erie, its shoreline and coastal waters belong to the people of Ohio. Please take a moment to ask your state representative to keep it that way and reject House Bill 218. Then, ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click on this link or paste it into your web browser: pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=426&id4=OHFreep
Background
Some property owners along the Lake Erie shore want to gain a legal foothold to fence off vast stretches of now-public beach for themselves. If they get their way, the public can look forward to a shoreline cluttered with sprawling million-dollar estates, private clubs and even oil drilling derricks - and fences and "keep out" signs to restrict public access to the Lake Erie shore.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 5 - The company that ate America is now
swallowing Mexico.
Wal-Mart, the biggest corporation in the United States, is already the biggest private employer in Mexico, with 100,164 workers on its payroll here as of last week. Last year, when it gained its No. 1 status in employment, it created about 8,000 new positions - nearly half the permanent new jobs in this struggling country.
Wal-Mart's power is changing Mexico in the same way it changed the economic landscape of the United States, and with the same formula: cut prices relentlessly, pump up productivity, pay low wages, ban unions, give suppliers the tightest possible profit margins and sell everything under the sun for less than the guy next door.
"This is the game that Wal-Mart has played in the United States," said Diana Farrell, director of McKinsey Global Institute, a policy research group run by the international business consultancy McKinsey & Company. "They've changed the name of the game in Mexico."
Wal-Mart, the biggest corporation in the United States, is already the biggest private employer in Mexico, with 100,164 workers on its payroll here as of last week. Last year, when it gained its No. 1 status in employment, it created about 8,000 new positions - nearly half the permanent new jobs in this struggling country.
Wal-Mart's power is changing Mexico in the same way it changed the economic landscape of the United States, and with the same formula: cut prices relentlessly, pump up productivity, pay low wages, ban unions, give suppliers the tightest possible profit margins and sell everything under the sun for less than the guy next door.
"This is the game that Wal-Mart has played in the United States," said Diana Farrell, director of McKinsey Global Institute, a policy research group run by the international business consultancy McKinsey & Company. "They've changed the name of the game in Mexico."
Christmas Comes Early for Bush and GOP Contributors at Americans' Expense
The MoveOn.org Voter Fund has launched a national cable network television and newspaper ad buy exposing "The most outrageous Christmas list in America," - a laundry list of early Christmas gifts from George W. Bush and the Republican Congress to their special interest friends and contributors in Washington, snuck into the proposed $820 billion omnibus bill.
"So who does President Bush think is naughty and nice?" asks the ad that appears in today's Washington Post. Both the national TV spot-which runs Tuesday through Thursday on cable stations-and the print ad challenge Bush Administration giveaways hidden in the omnibus bill: clearance for employers to strip 8 million workers of overtime pay, an FCC rules change that will permit epic media consolidation, and the renewal of no-bid contracts to Halliburton and other Administration-friendly companies.
The TV ad can be received tomorrow on the following satellite coordinates:
First Feed:
The MoveOn.org Voter Fund has launched a national cable network television and newspaper ad buy exposing "The most outrageous Christmas list in America," - a laundry list of early Christmas gifts from George W. Bush and the Republican Congress to their special interest friends and contributors in Washington, snuck into the proposed $820 billion omnibus bill.
"So who does President Bush think is naughty and nice?" asks the ad that appears in today's Washington Post. Both the national TV spot-which runs Tuesday through Thursday on cable stations-and the print ad challenge Bush Administration giveaways hidden in the omnibus bill: clearance for employers to strip 8 million workers of overtime pay, an FCC rules change that will permit epic media consolidation, and the renewal of no-bid contracts to Halliburton and other Administration-friendly companies.
The TV ad can be received tomorrow on the following satellite coordinates:
First Feed:
Phone Your Representative to Co-sponsor H. Con. Res. 327 to End Rights
Violations in Aceh
The Indonesian Government has extended martial law in Aceh for another six months. As the civilian death toll mounts, governments of the world remain quiet. Act now to urge the U.S. Congress to send a loud and clear message that the Indonesian military's slaughter of Acehnese must be stopped. Urge your Representative to cosponsor H. Con. Res. 327.
H. Con. Res. 327 calls on the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) to immediately declare a ceasefire and halt hostilities in Aceh, end all human rights violations, and return to negotiations with significant Acehnese civil society and international involvement. The resolution further urges Indonesia to refrain from using U.S.-supplied weapons in Aceh. The Indonesian military has used F-16 fighter jets and OV-10 Bronco planes against civilians, as well as C-130 cargo planes.
The Indonesian Government has extended martial law in Aceh for another six months. As the civilian death toll mounts, governments of the world remain quiet. Act now to urge the U.S. Congress to send a loud and clear message that the Indonesian military's slaughter of Acehnese must be stopped. Urge your Representative to cosponsor H. Con. Res. 327.
H. Con. Res. 327 calls on the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) to immediately declare a ceasefire and halt hostilities in Aceh, end all human rights violations, and return to negotiations with significant Acehnese civil society and international involvement. The resolution further urges Indonesia to refrain from using U.S.-supplied weapons in Aceh. The Indonesian military has used F-16 fighter jets and OV-10 Bronco planes against civilians, as well as C-130 cargo planes.
I suggest you get a drug test you must be high on something. For one minute you actually think truck drivers are going to help you in the I-270 shootings. I think it will snow in hell first. Until your state reverses it's revenue seeking agenda directed towards trucks your not going to get the help you seek. It would be like Hitler asking the Jews to help eliminate themselves. The Gestapo like tactics to fill the state's treasury and the state police retirement fund must cease. I myself refuse to buy anything made in Ohio. I don't shop at Sears or Value City or buy anything made in Ohio at all. I always had respect for law enforcement until I traveled in Ohio. I always gave law enforcement the benefit of the doubt until I personally observed different. Well I can honestly say I have witnessed some highly questionable tactics and dealings by law enforcement officials in your state. Many in a unfavorable determination in my opinion and a few in a positive manner. I no longer have to go to your state or thru it but my boycott of your goods and services remain.
In a post today under the above title, David McReynolds of the
Socialist Party writes that we should "continue the fight to close down
the Guantanamo Base entirely, including its return to Cuba". It reminded
me of the last time that was an issue, during the Cuba Missile Crisis of
1962, which younger readers need to learn about. I describe it as
follows in my autobiography:
"American nuclear missiles had been stationed in Turkey, right on the Soviet border, for years. Now, however, American spy planes discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba. President Kennedy announced a naval blockade against Soviet ships en route to that island, a flat violation of freedom of the seas, which is a long-standing, universal principle of international law. Its acceptance would mean Soviet surrender to domination of the world by the United States. Moscow could not accept that. The world was on the verge of nuclear destruction for the first and only time ever.
"American nuclear missiles had been stationed in Turkey, right on the Soviet border, for years. Now, however, American spy planes discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba. President Kennedy announced a naval blockade against Soviet ships en route to that island, a flat violation of freedom of the seas, which is a long-standing, universal principle of international law. Its acceptance would mean Soviet surrender to domination of the world by the United States. Moscow could not accept that. The world was on the verge of nuclear destruction for the first and only time ever.
October 10, 2003
Dear President Bush,
Scouting for All joins with you in wanting "No Child Left Behind", as you stated in your Education bill and your 2003 State of the Union Address. I ask you, as honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America, to have the BSA join you in ensuring that gay and atheist children are not left behind by the Boy Scouts of America. The current national leadership of the BSA, located in your own home state of Texas excludes membership to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and atheist children and adults.
Dear President Bush,
Scouting for All joins with you in wanting "No Child Left Behind", as you stated in your Education bill and your 2003 State of the Union Address. I ask you, as honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America, to have the BSA join you in ensuring that gay and atheist children are not left behind by the Boy Scouts of America. The current national leadership of the BSA, located in your own home state of Texas excludes membership to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and atheist children and adults.
In a speech recently in Washington D.C., John Bolton, Undersecretary of State warned that Syria's WMDs threaten U.S. interests.
In the same speech, Bolton said that Iran and the rest of the "Axis of Evil" should know that all options are open against those "rogue states" that have WMDs. He also included Cuba, Libya and North Korea.
www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/december/12_04_2.html
In the same speech, Bolton said that Iran and the rest of the "Axis of Evil" should know that all options are open against those "rogue states" that have WMDs. He also included Cuba, Libya and North Korea.
www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/december/12_04_2.html
Howard Dean is asking for media trouble.
On Dec. 1, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination went where few national politicians have dared to go -- directly challenging the media conglomerates.
Don’t get me wrong. Dean’s record in Vermont hardly reflects an inclination to take on corporate power. His obsession with balancing budgets and coddling big business often led him to comfort the already comfortable and afflict the afflicted. Low-income people suffered the consequences of inadequate social services.
But let’s give the doctor-turned-politician some credit for a new direction. Midway through his Dec. 1 appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” show, Dean said that he wants to “break up giant media enterprises.”
Dean went well beyond the hold-the-line stance adopted last summer by large majorities in Congress, who voted to prevent more media deregulation by the Federal Communications Commission. He declared that maintaining the media status quo isn’t good enough.
On Dec. 1, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination went where few national politicians have dared to go -- directly challenging the media conglomerates.
Don’t get me wrong. Dean’s record in Vermont hardly reflects an inclination to take on corporate power. His obsession with balancing budgets and coddling big business often led him to comfort the already comfortable and afflict the afflicted. Low-income people suffered the consequences of inadequate social services.
But let’s give the doctor-turned-politician some credit for a new direction. Midway through his Dec. 1 appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” show, Dean said that he wants to “break up giant media enterprises.”
Dean went well beyond the hold-the-line stance adopted last summer by large majorities in Congress, who voted to prevent more media deregulation by the Federal Communications Commission. He declared that maintaining the media status quo isn’t good enough.