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Speak out for clean air

The president's air pollution legislation currently pending in Congress is a disaster for eastern and southeastern Ohio. It ensures that the old, dirty power plants in the Ohio River Valley, like the Gavin, Sammis and Cardinal plants, continue to trigger asthma attacks, endanger public health and pollute the environment.

On *Friday, Nov. 7*, you can do something to stop it. You can meet directly with Congressman Strickland and tell him how you feel about it.


A face to face meeting is the single most effective way to make sure your voice is heard. We are organizing a meeting with U.S. Representative Ted Strickland of the sixth congressional district on Friday, Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. in Athens for citizens from all over eastern and southeastern Ohio to speak up against air pollution and the administration's misnamed "Clear Skies" plan.

You can sign up now to participate by sending an e-mail to ErinB@ohiopirg.org

Please include the following information:

Name:
Phone number:
E-mail address:  
Address:
Occupation:

Coulter's Right-Wing Drag

Ann Coulter is the Right kind of woman. Strutting her political stuff, all flowing hair and short skirts, Coulter validates right-wing misogynist bluster and class arrogance. Ms. Coulter mistakes capitulation for independent thinking, when in fact, as long as she echoes Dennis Miller or Bill O'Reilly-attacking anyone who questions American aggression abroad, claiming that Bill Clinton lies with ease, and chanting "classic liberal scandal!"-she'll have a job. To be sure, it is a lucrative career move; reactionary polemic pays well.  

Like Dennis Miller, whose transformation from liberal stand-up to conservative rant man boggles the senses, Ann Coulter has broken the code for success in the American hyper-conservative media: embrace the ideology of the moment and claim it as one's own. In the world of mostly male, self-important talk television, female collusion makes an if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em kind of sense. In this case, like Camille Paglia, for example, a woman spouts the illiberal ideas most damaging to other women and earns access to those prizes-wealth, television face time, book contracts-largely controlled by men.

Call for Housing Nov. 7 - 9

As the Third National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement rapidly approaches, members of the Accommodations Committee are currently trying to determine how many students and activists we can offer low-income housing options to during the weekend of the conference.

Guests will be staying anytime from Friday night until Sunday afternoon, and will require space to sleep and safely store belongings.  If you are in the Columbus area and are willing to provide housing it will certainly be much appreciated!

Please provide all of the following information to Rachel Machesky at :

1. Your name, phone number, and street address

2. Number of guests that you can accommodate

3. Dates your space is available

4. Forms of transportation available to and from the campus area (e.g.    if you will be able to provide transportation for your guests, or    if nearby and easily accessible bus routes are running)

5. What guests may need to bring in order to sleep at their assigned    housing (i.e. how may beds are available, if guests will need    sleeping bags, pillows, towels, etc.)

Krugman's world

Enter the world of Paul Krugman, a world either dark (the eras of Bush One and Bush Two) or bathed in light (when Bill was king). "What do you think of the French Revolution?" someone is supposed to have asked Chou En-Lai. "Too soon to tell," Chou laconically riposted. Krugman entertains no such prudence. Near the beginning of his collection of columns, "The Great Unraveling," Krugman looks back on Clinton-time. A throb enters his voice. He becomes a Hesiod, basking in the golden age.

Protesters Want U.S. Out of Iraq

In Washington, DC, it was a highly reenergized Anti-War Movement that rallied on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 25, 2003. Under a blue sky, with temperatures hovering in the mid-60s, they marched by the thousands. They demanded that all U.S. troops get out of Iraq and chanted slogans, like: "No more lies. Bush has got to go. Bring the troops home."

      The route took the protesters from the Washington Monument, to north on 17th St., crossing H. St., near fabled Lafayette Square, (which sits in front of the White House), then down 15th Street to Pennsylvania Ave, while passing the Justice Department on their right, and the FBI Building on their left, to finish off on Constitution Ave., in front of "The Ellipse".

More issues in the business section

AUSTIN, Texas -- Holy smoke! I know hellzapoppin' with the news here lately, but let's try keeping our eye on the shell with the pea under it. Fascinating as all this inside-D.C. stuff is about Rummy and Cheney, and who leaked the CIA agent's name, there's some major stuff being buried in the business section.

            The manipulation of mutual funds  -- nice, safe, comfortable old mutual funds -- is a story heating up nicely. In addition, if you are following the trial of Frank Quattrone in the nasty case of manipulating high-tech IPOs, you already have been whomperjawed over the goings on.

            Add The New York Times Sunday account of how states and municipalities have been talked into bond issues by investment banking firms to cover pension costs, with highly unfortunate results, and you have a creepy and getting-creepier picture of the entire financial services industry.

Help Leonard Peltier

We are asking that supporters worldwide write to the 10th Circuit of Appeals to urge that the Court grant a pardon to Leonard Peltier. The volume of letters received by the court will demonstrate the wide support for justice for Leonard Peltier.

Please do not attempt to contact the judges directly or interfere with the Court in any way.

Please be sure to demonstrate your knowledge of the intricacies of the case. Please also focus only on the substance of the appeal currently before the court.

Use the following sample letter as your guide. You may also cut and paste the text into your personal stationary.

Clerk of the Court
10th Circuit Court of Appeals
Byron White U.S. Court House
1823 Stout Street
Denver, Colorado 80257

To Whom It May Concern,

As you know, Leonard Peltier is a federal prisoner serving two consecutive life sentences at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, in connection with the 1975 deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

QBliss takes on hate and plans its future five years later!

The not-for-profit site QBliss, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersexed and Allies Community and Life Site! (www.qbliss.net) has launched a new anti-hate campaign. QBliss' Stop Hate Campaign Which began this month with launching the sites first multi-cover story that includes, 15 features done by 13 QBliss' writers all dealing with Hate. (www.qbliss.net/hate/intro/)  

The QBliss' Stop Hate Campaign will also continue throughout the rest of this year and all of 2004, with more features, information, profiles, programs, sponsored events and an ad campaign of public service announcements.  

The Hate features include:  

  a.. Legacy Of A Scarecrow, Five Years Later... Matthew Shepard, by QBliss Editor in Chief - R. Olivera Jr.
  b.. Turning Point - Harvey Milk, by QBliss writer and author - Paul D. Cain.
  c.. This Little Light -The Legacy Of Sakia Gunn, by QBliss writer, columnist and author - R. A. Melos.

Re: 'Senator Byrd, Major Media...'

Regarding the article by Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis - (freepress.org, October 21, 2003), some Republicans may be leaning towards fascism, but the majority of Democrats have been leaning towards socialism for many decades. Both are forms of statism that will ultimately destroy our inalienable rights and liberties.

The solution is to get rid of both philosophically bankrupt political parties' powers and invest in a new American political party that really recognizes the Constitution instead of paying it lip service while undermining and diminishing it.

For lack of a better name, I would call it, "The Jeffersonian Party."  It would outlaw subjective laws that tend to subvert individual and property rights, diminish and phase out government social-engineering agencies, phase out the taxation (and chokeholds on the creation of wealth) on individual income, and divest itself of the unConstitutional powers it has acquired over the past 100 years at the expense of individual rights, property rights and state rights.

Senator Byrd, major media spread coverage of Bush-Nazi nexus

Sirs,

I thought your recent article regarding the media coverage of Bush-Nazi connections was brilliant. Please continue to do what you are doing, we're all doing what we can to spread the word.

Regime change begins at home.

Regards,
Allan Giles
Rowlett, TX
USA

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