[Sosfbay-discuss] Round-Up of News Bits for Greens

[Andrea Dorey]

Have you heard that Congress is right now trying to stop the  
importation of cheaper-priced Canadian medicines because they're  
afraid of dangerous chemicals that might be hidden in the shipments  
by terrorists?   Yup, that's what the big-pharma-controlled  
politicians are worried about!  Uh-huh.

Do you know that we pay the insurance companies to cover our health,  
dental, and drugs, our cars and motorcycles, houses and summer  
cabins, recreation vehicles and boats, luggage and travel (like  
flight insurance), life, our burial costs...is there anything these  
guys have forgotten to insure?  Can you spell "protection racket"?



Save Our Democracy!
Common Ground for June 2006 notes that D.C. has a habit of  
interfering in foreign elections by use of an agency known as the  
National Endowment for Democracy (NED).    NY professor of politics  
Bertell Ollman jokingly suggested that we need an INTERNATIONAL  
Endowment for Democracy (IEFD) that would allow foreigners to  
contribute funds to restore democracy inside the U.S.  The idea "took  
off."  Ollman is now heading a board of directors that includes  
author Gore Vidal, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and  
National Lawyers' Guild President Michael Rattner.  To check out  
their mission and their blogs, cartoons, and videos, see iefd.org.



The Electric Automobile Association (EAA) is urging the public who  
like to breathe (without asthma or other pulmonary obstructions) to  
write or email Toyota to make "plug-in" hybrids.  It can be done by  
the auto makers and it has been done by one member who participated  
in the recent drive from Santa Clara to Sacramento, a 117 mile trip.   
The road-worthy hybrid Prius with the home-made plug-in kit got 100+  
miles per gallon (BTW, beating Honda's 2000 Insight rated at 60-71  
miles per gallon).



Save California's Water!
Have you heard of S 912?  It's the Clean Water Authority Restoration  
Act of 2005.  Urge Senator DiFi to cosponsor it!  For more info, see  
environmentcalifornia.org.


Aren't these all Green Party concerns?  Shouldn't they be?
Andrea


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"We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have  
democracy, but we cannot have both."
---Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis


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