From WB4D23 at aol.com  Wed Apr  1 14:57:57 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:57:57 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] agenda items
Message-ID: <d44.425cb6ba.37053d65@aol.com>

Did not see recruiting delegates and alternates for the May  16-17th Plenary 
in Venice (Los Angeles County) in Carolines draft agenda for  tonight's GPSCC 
meeting.  Warner
**************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 or 
less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Thu Apr  2 10:55:34 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:55:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd FYI:] Menlo Park Drive Less Challenge
In-Reply-To: <49D2D593.1080009@aceweb.com>
Message-ID: <12918.63721.qm@web81205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Tian,
There's nothing to stop any of us from participating. We can keep our logs, give ourselves prizes and pats on the back if we make a difference, and maybe get togther with other people who did it for a celebration and group hug when it's over. Whaddaya think?
Caroline
Bike to Work Day is May 14.

--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Tian Harter <tnharter at aceweb.com> wrote:

From: Tian Harter <tnharter at aceweb.com>
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd FYI:] Menlo Park Drive Less Challenge
To: "Post South SF Bay discus" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 7:46 PM

Posters note: I almost wish something like this was going on down here.

Tian
_______________________Begin forwarded material:

  Menlo Park is sponsoring a Drive Less Challenge that launches on
Earth Day. I've provided the email we are using to spread the word.

I'm forwarding this for two reasons:

1) We'd love to have you join us!
2) We thought you
may be interested to see what we are doing. This is a pilot of what
will hopefully become an annual event! Check out the website Adina
Levin, the champion of this event, has created. It's a great template
that could easily be used in other cities.

We'll keep you posted on how it goes.

Carol McClelland
Co-Chair - Green Ribbon Citizens' Committee - Menlo Park

I'm writing to invite you to join me in
Menlo Park's "Drive Less Challenge" from April 22 - April 28. As
someone who is concerned about the environment and global warming, I
want to make a difference. Driving is the single biggest source of
greenhouse gas pollution in California, and many of us drive alone much 
of the time.
  Small changes in how we drive add up to a big difference.

The Drive Less Challenge is a chance to think about how we get from
place to place, and try out some changes. It starts on Earth Day and
continues for a week. Every day you log your trips, and look for
practical alternatives to driving alone. Is it practical to carpool to
the meeting? Bike to the store? Take the train to the city? This is a
chance to look for opportunities in our daily life to make the biggest
impact that is in our hands.

Participants will be publicly recognized and there will be prizes for
people who take green trips (bike, walk, carpool, or transit). We'll be
able to see how others are doing and challenge each other to do more.
I'm proud of what we're doing here in Menlo Park to be proactive on
climate change, and think that this is a great way to have a greater
impact as a community.

I'm looking forward to taking action by committing to the Drive Less 
Challenge myself, and hope you will join me.   Go to http://www.driveles 
schallenge. com and sign up there to take the Drive Less Challenge.

You can help achieve more change by spreading the word:

* Please forward this email to 5 more people

* Please forward this email to a list of people who would want to know
about the challenge - at work, school, neighborhood, organization,
faith community

* Print a poster and put it a window. Or print cards and hand them out. 
  Printing files are here:  http://drivelesscha llenge.com/ ?page_id= 11

* If you are a local business, or know local business people who want
to sponsor with prizes, ask them for sponsorship, using this form: 
http://drivelesscha llenge.com/ ?attachment_ id=154

For more information about spreading the word and sponsorship, contact 
Adina Levin, alevin at alevin. com

_______________________End forwarded material.
-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Invitation to make something good from fossil fools day!
Iceland has a population around 300,000, similar to that of Peoria, IL.
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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Thu Apr  2 10:56:53 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:56:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Re: An Idea
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--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net> wrote:

From: Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net>
Subject: Re: An Idea
To: "Fred Duperrault" <fredd at freeshell.org>
Cc: "Caroline Yacoub" <carolineyacoub at att.net>
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:45 AM







My neighbor across the street gave me a book to read called "Food Not Lawns". I haven't had time to read it yet, but since its subtitle is "How to turn your yard into a garden and your neighborhood into a community", I think one of us should. Would you like to borrow it?
Caroline

--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Fred Duperrault <fredd at freeshell.org> wrote:

From: Fred Duperrault <fredd at freeshell.org>
Subject: An Idea
To: "Caroline Yacoub" <carolineyacoub at att.net>
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 12:27 AM

hello Caroline,

Here is what I think I suggested for a possible GPSCC project:

First, research what and how much space some local cities and the county  have
already designated for public gardens.  If it seems that there is a definite
need for more gardens in any of these communities, the GPSCC could publicly urge
(lobby) the particular city councils to provide more gardens for their
constituencies.  (The party would have to state a good case for doing so,
however.)

The citizen gardeners, the environment and the community would be the
beneficiaries of  "A Garden for Everyone Movement."

Also, it would be great if individual home owners and condo complexes would
convert some of their water sucking lawns into  productive gardens that would
probably use less water and would be just as - or more - beautiful.

Yipes, it's after Midnight.

Nighty night,

Fred
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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Fri Apr  3 10:24:10 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:24:10 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Harper's's Scott Horton at Stanford Law School
	Wednesday
Message-ID: <BAY140-W538A8AC6DDE07BEBA288299E890@phx.gbl>




I'm told that "The Accountability Imperative", a speech  Harper's's Scott Horton gave at Amnesty Int'l on 3/28/09 greatly resembles his remarks at Stanford Law School Wednesday.    I've cut his text from almost 2800 words to a bit over 1600 below in hopes of achieving a wider audience.  For his original, unvandalized work, see   
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004641
 


The Accountability Imperative   (abridged version)

      Obama's campaign rhetoric opposed torture as
strongly as that of McCain, who said ?Torture is the defining issue
of our age.?  In his first two days as president, Obama banned
torture techniques, terminated the Bush Administration?s practice
of extraordinary renditions through which persons were snatched and
sent off to other countries to be tortured, and suspended the
Guant?namo tribunals. He fulfilled his campaign commitments, but
we're not done yet.  How we close this question will define us to the
world and to future generations.

    Consider these developments:

Criminal Investigations Begin in Spain
March
28, Spanish newspapers reported that the Audencia Nacional Espa?ola,
the Spanish national security court, has opened a criminal
investigation into the Bush Administration?s torture practices at
Guant?namo. Targets include:

John Yoo, former
	deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department?s
	Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), now a professor of law at UC
	Berkeley; 
	
	David Addington,
	former legal counsel and chief-of-staff to Cheney;
	Jay Bybee, former
	assistant attorney general at the OLC and now a federal appeals
	judge for the Ninth Circuit; 
	
	Alberto Gonzales,
	former White House legal counsel and attorney general;
	William J. Haynes II,
	former general counsel at the DoD,  now a lawyer at Chevron; 
	
	Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense,
	now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute 
	


     What inspired Spain, a NATO ally of the USA which
actively supported Bush's war on terror and sent troops to Iraq and
Afghanistan, to a criminal investigation of Bush?s torture lawyers?
In July 2006, the Spanish Supreme Court concluded that the evidence
of torture at Guant?namo was substantial; it labeled the facility a
?legal black hole,? and barred official Spanish cooperation with
its operation. The current investigation grows out of a probe of the
mistreatment of Spaniards held at Guant?namo. The prosecution's
cache of 6,000 pages of Bush Administration documents includes
extensive evidence that the targets conspired to introduce torture at
Guant?namo by crafting a legal ?golden shield? for those who
implemented the torture policies. The criminal complaint quite
properly views the torture memoranda as evidence of a conspiracy to
introduce and authorize a regime of torture, and notes that the team
met and conspired together regularly.

    The investigation is managed by Judge Baltasar Garz?n
Real, who prosecuted Basque terrorist groups and is  credited with
having broken Basque separatist terrorism, headed a criminal probe
into Al Qaeda in North Africa, and prosecuted Chilean General Augusto
Pinochet.  Garz?n is not the sort to be stymied or bullied by
politicians.

A Criminal Probe in Britain, Too
     On March
26, Lady Scotland (Attorney General for England and Wales) answered a
parliamentary inquiry by announcing that she had conferred with the
Crown Prosecution Service about the start of a criminal investigation
in Britain of the CIA's  rendition of Binyam Mohamed to Morocco and
Pakistan for torture.  Mr. Mohamed has said CIA agents or British
intelligence agents were frequently present during the periods in
which he was tortured. Demands by High Court judges and pressure from
parliament has yielded a British criminal probe into these crimes.

A Steady Stream of Confessions from Bush
Officials
    Lately Bush Administration officials ave begun
acknowledging that torture occurred with Bush?s  approval. Susan J.
Crawford, the senior Bush Administration figure responsible for
detainee treatment at Gitmo told the Washington Post  that her
legal conclusion was that a prisoner had been tortured in a regime
approved by Donald Rumsfeld. (1) Colin Powell?s chief-of-staff Col.
Lawrence Wilkerson acknowledged that the Bush Administration knew all
along that 90 percent of the Guant?namo detainees were guilty of
nothing, but held them, presumably because admitting their innocence
would be bad politics.  March 27 Vijay Padmanabhan, a State
Department lawyer responsible for detainee cases, publicly labeled
Bush?s ?enhanced interrogation techniques? as "torture".
(2)

    Articles 4, 5 and 7 of the Convention Against
Torture, to which the United States is a party, require the USA  to
make torture a serious crime and to investigate any credible reports.
Under 18 U.S.C. sec. 2340 and 2340A torture and conspiracy to commit
torture are felonies. Are Ms. Crawford's quasi-judicial determination
that torture occurred and public admissions by other officials not
?credible evidence?? When our closest allies do criminal
investigations of Bush's crimes, how can our own Justice Department
do nothing?

    We know part of the answer. The former attorney
general, Michael B. Mukasey, improperly blocked any investigation of
torture done under Bush's authority. At Justice Department premises,
criminal acts were plotted, supervised and implemented--and suspects
in the latest Spanish case include Mukasey?s predecessor as
attorney general and two other senior Justice Department officers.

    A senior foreign dignitary who recently asked Eric
Holder why he does nothing characterized Holder's answer as
?senseless twaddle.? Even calls for a commission of inquiry on
Bush?s torture program?which remains enshrouded in secrecy and
lies?draw scoffs from TV chatterboxes: "the Republicans will
bring Washington to a stand-still," they say.  Childish tantrums
must not hold sway.  Spare the rod and spoil the child. 


    Leave well enough alone, turn the page, we are told.
Forget it, move along.  But accountability is essential to our nation
and our world. I?ll give you three reasons why.

Ending Torture Precedents
    While we're
celebrating Obama's executive orders ending torture, let's remember
that what a President does by executive order, he or his successor
can undo with a stroke of the pen. Our society is governed by
precedent.  If we don't call Bush to account for eight years of
torture, its precedent can be cited and followed by subsequent
administrations, lodged like some lethal bacillus in the fabric of
our society, dormant, ready to emerge again.   Obama's orders can't
protect us from this torture legacy.  That is not an acceptable
resolution, or any resolution at all.  Only a process of formal
accountability can end the precedential effect.

Security
   America?s last warrior-president
understood that our national security cannot be grounded in force. 
?Only justice, fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally
lead men to the dawn of eternal peace,?  insisted Dwight D.
Eisenhower.  His view was unswerving that America must not give up
its values to achieve ?security.? 


    America emerged on the international stage before
World War II holding high the banner of human rights, leading by
combining its strength, wealth, and technology with its fundamental
ideals of ?inalienable rights?, of a ?decent respect? for the
opinion of our fellow nations, of a command to know and observe the
?laws of nations.? In the war years, America invoked the Four
Freedoms, and in victory called for a restatement of the rights and
obligations of nations in terms that commanded respect for the
individual. That dawn of the true era of human rights glowed with the
cinders of the holocaust.

    No nation can always live up to its ideals, but none
of our slips and falters have ever shamed and soiled our banner as
Bush's stain of torture. It can not be swept aside easily, but  must
be worked at with attention and care. 


    Barack Obama's promises to once more take up
leadership among nations, demonstrating again our  respect for human
dignity and the rule of law can be credible only if we purge the Bush
taint through accountability. If America truly upholds the laws of
war, and truly believes torture is a crime, then those who while
occupying positions of power and trust consciously violated the law
must be held to account.  We must ferret out the truth and apply the
punishments the law requires.  The process must respect the accuseds'
rights and afford them every opportunity to make a defense. It may
entail clemency or pardon for some.  To ?move on? and ignore what
happened is not justice?it is a decision to spurn accountability, a
wink to those who may engage in torture and abuse in the future.

Are We All Torturers Now?
    Gross human
rights abusers in the modern era have a tried and proven defense:  by
implicating society as a whole, as Mark Danner argues, they spread
the guilt and blame as broadly as possible to inoculate themselves
against future accountability. Since April 2004 we have known of the
Abu Ghraib photos, but we've done little to stop such practices. We
elected a government committed to end torture, but is torture really
ended without accountability?

    The Obama Administration can?t address every
problem at the start, and our current crises take priority.
Accountability may take time. But with every day that passes in which
Obama's team uses Bush tricks to cover up past abuses; every crime it
perceives and fails to  investigate, Obama slowly takes ownership of
the Bush crimes. America need not take on the shame and guilt of the
Bush years. Upholding the law and holding accountable those who
violated it need not be a traumatic process, and may forge a new
national consensus as past sins are expiated. Turning away from this
important duty would be a grave error.

    Amnesty International has existed for more than three
decades. It has documented and memorialized past  wrongdoing,
protected the victims, and held those in positions of power and
authority to account for their lawlessness.  Amnesty?s broad-based
call for action provides the essential map to take America out of her
current dilemma. We can, we must demand accountability, seeking not
vengeance but justice we owe to ourselves and to future generations.
We are defining the world they will inhabit. We can't eradicate
torture, but we can ensure that it's a crime and torturers and their
abettors will be held to account. That is within our grasp, if we
fight for it.







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From fredd at freeshell.org  Fri Apr  3 11:05:33 2009
From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault)
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:05:33 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Harper's's Scott Horton at Stanford Law School
 Wednesday
Message-ID: <49D64FED.8080909@freeshell.org>


    The Green Party should make accountability of Bush-Cheney
    Adminiatration an important item of the action agenda.

The "Harpers" article  reveals how  Obama is  backing out of his 
"intention" to take up the issue of accountability. The Green Party 
called for impeachment early on.  Shouldn't we, now, be raising hell 
about Obama's evasion of bringing justice and allowing the dangerous 
precedent to remain unchallenged?
Fred D.
 


    *I'm told that "The Accountability Imperative", a speech  Harper's's
    Scott Horton gave at Amnesty Int'l on 3/28/09 greatly resembles his
    remarks at Stanford Law School Wednesday.    I've cut his text from
    almost 2800 words to a bit over 1600 below in hopes of achieving a
    wider audience.  For his original, unvandalized work, see   *

    http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004641

    * *




    The Accountability Imperative   (abridged version)

      Obama's campaign rhetoric opposed torture as strongly as that of 
McCain, who said ?Torture is the defining issue of our age.? In his 
first two days as president, Obama banned torture techniques, terminated 
the Bush Administration?s practice of extraordinary renditions through 
which persons were snatched and sent off to other countries to be 
tortured, and suspended the Guant?namo tribunals. He fulfilled his 
campaign commitments, but we're not done yet. How we close this question 
will define us to the world and to future generations.
    Consider these developments:
*Criminal Investigations Begin in Spain*
March 28, Spanish newspapers reported that the Audencia Nacional 
Espa?ola, the Spanish national security court, has opened a criminal 
investigation into the Bush Administration?s torture practices at 
Guant?namo. Targets include:

    *

      John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice
      Department?s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), now a professor of law
      at UC Berkeley;

    *

      David Addington, former legal counsel and chief-of-staff to Cheney;

    *

      Jay Bybee, former assistant attorney general at the OLC and now a
      federal appeals judge for the Ninth Circuit;

    *

      Alberto Gonzales, former White House legal counsel and attorney
      general;

    *

      William J. Haynes II, former general counsel at the DoD, now a
      lawyer at Chevron;

    * Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense, now a senior
      fellow at the Hudson Institute

     What inspired Spain, a NATO ally of the USA which actively 
supported Bush's war on terror and sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, 
to a criminal investigation of Bush?s torture lawyers? In July 2006, the 
Spanish Supreme Court concluded that the evidence of torture at 
Guant?namo was substantial; it labeled the facility a ?legal black 
hole,? and barred official Spanish cooperation with its operation. The 
current investigation grows out of a probe of the mistreatment of 
Spaniards held at Guant?namo. The prosecution's cache of 6,000 pages of 
Bush Administration documents includes extensive evidence that the 
targets conspired to introduce torture at Guant?namo by crafting a legal 
?golden shield? for those who implemented the torture policies. The 
criminal complaint quite properly views the torture memoranda as 
evidence of a conspiracy to introduce and authorize a regime of torture, 
and notes that the team met and conspired together regularly.
    The investigation is managed by Judge Baltasar Garz?n Real, who 
prosecuted Basque terrorist groups and is credited with having broken 
Basque separatist terrorism, headed a criminal probe into Al Qaeda in 
North Africa, and prosecuted Chilean General Augusto Pinochet. Garz?n is 
not the sort to be stymied or bullied by politicians.
*A Criminal Probe in Britain, Too*
     On March 26, Lady Scotland (Attorney General for England and Wales) 
answered a parliamentary inquiry by announcing that she had conferred 
with the Crown Prosecution Service about the start of a criminal 
investigation in Britain of the CIA's rendition of Binyam Mohamed to 
Morocco and Pakistan for torture. Mr. Mohamed has said CIA agents or 
British intelligence agents were frequently present during the periods 
in which he was tortured. Demands by High Court judges and pressure from 
parliament has yielded a British criminal probe into these crimes.
*A Steady Stream of Confessions from Bush Officials*
    Lately Bush Administration officials ave begun acknowledging that 
torture occurred with Bush?s approval. Susan J. Crawford, the senior 
Bush Administration figure responsible for detainee treatment at Gitmo 
told the /Washington Post/ that her legal conclusion was that a prisoner 
had been tortured in a regime approved by Donald Rumsfeld. (1) Colin 
Powell?s chief-of-staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson acknowledged that the 
Bush Administration knew all along that 90 percent of the Guant?namo 
detainees were guilty of nothing, but held them, presumably because 
admitting their innocence would be bad politics. March 27 Vijay 
Padmanabhan, a State Department lawyer responsible for detainee cases, 
publicly labeled Bush?s ?enhanced interrogation techniques? as 
"torture". (2)
    Articles 4, 5 and 7 of the Convention Against Torture, to which the 
United States is a party, require the USA to make torture a serious 
crime and to investigate any credible reports. Under 18 U.S.C. sec. 2340 
and 2340A torture and conspiracy to commit torture are felonies. Are Ms. 
Crawford's quasi-judicial determination that torture occurred and public 
admissions by other officials not ?credible evidence?? When our closest 
allies do criminal investigations of Bush's crimes, how can our own 
Justice Department do /nothing/?
    We know part of the answer. The former attorney general, Michael B. 
Mukasey, improperly blocked any investigation of torture done under 
Bush's authority. At Justice Department premises, criminal acts were 
plotted, supervised and implemented--and suspects in the latest Spanish 
case include Mukasey?s predecessor as attorney general and two other 
senior Justice Department officers.
    A senior foreign dignitary who recently asked Eric Holder why he 
does nothing characterized Holder's answer as ?senseless twaddle.? Even 
calls for a commission of inquiry on Bush?s torture program?which 
remains enshrouded in secrecy and lies?draw scoffs from TV chatterboxes: 
"the Republicans will bring Washington to a stand-still," they say. 
Childish tantrums must not hold sway. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
    Leave well enough alone, turn the page, we are told. Forget it, move 
along. But accountability is essential to our nation and our world. I?ll 
give you three reasons why.
*Ending Torture Precedents*
    While we're celebrating Obama's executive orders ending torture, 
let's remember that what a President does by executive order, he or his 
successor can undo with a stroke of the pen. Our society is governed by 
precedent. If we don't call Bush to account for eight years of torture, 
its precedent can be cited and followed by subsequent administrations, 
lodged like some lethal bacillus in the fabric of our society, dormant, 
ready to emerge again. Obama's orders can't protect us from this torture 
legacy. That is not an acceptable resolution, or any resolution at all. 
Only a process of formal accountability can end the precedential effect.
*Security*
   America?s last warrior-president understood that our national 
security cannot be grounded in force. ?Only justice, fairness, 
consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of 
eternal peace,? insisted Dwight D. Eisenhower. His view was unswerving 
that America must not give up its values to achieve ?security.?
    America emerged on the international stage before World War II 
holding high the banner of human rights, leading by combining its 
strength, wealth, and technology with its fundamental ideals of 
?inalienable rights?, of a ?decent respect? for the opinion of our 
fellow nations, of a command to know and observe the ?laws of nations.? 
In the war years, America invoked the Four Freedoms, and in victory 
called for a restatement of the rights and obligations of nations in 
terms that commanded respect for the individual. That dawn of the true 
era of human rights glowed with the cinders of the holocaust.
    No nation can always live up to its ideals, but none of our slips 
and falters have ever shamed and soiled our banner as Bush's stain of 
torture. It can not be swept aside easily, but must be worked at with 
attention and care.
    Barack Obama's promises to once more take up leadership among 
nations, demonstrating again our respect for human dignity and the rule 
of law can be credible only if we purge the Bush taint through 
accountability. If America truly upholds the laws of war, and truly 
believes torture is a crime, then those who while occupying positions of 
power and trust consciously violated the law must be held to account. We 
must ferret out the truth and apply the punishments the law requires. 
The process must respect the accuseds' rights and afford them every 
opportunity to make a defense. It may entail clemency or pardon for 
some. To ?move on? and ignore what happened is not justice?it is a 
decision to spurn accountability, a wink to those who may engage in 
torture and abuse in the future.
*Are We All Torturers Now?*
    Gross human rights abusers in the modern era have a tried and proven 
defense: by implicating society as a whole, as Mark Danner argues, they 
spread the guilt and blame as broadly as possible to inoculate 
themselves against future accountability. Since April 2004 we have known 
of the Abu Ghraib photos, but we've done little to stop such practices. 
We elected a government committed to end torture, but is torture really 
ended without accountability?
    The Obama Administration can?t address every problem at the start, 
and our current crises take priority. Accountability may take time. But 
with every day that passes in which Obama's team uses Bush tricks to 
cover up past abuses; every crime it perceives and fails to investigate, 
Obama slowly takes ownership of the Bush crimes. America need not take 
on the shame and guilt of the Bush years. Upholding the law and holding 
accountable those who violated it need not be a traumatic process, and 
may forge a new national consensus as past sins are expiated. Turning 
away from this important duty would be a grave error.
    Amnesty International has existed for more than three decades. It 
has documented and memorialized past wrongdoing, protected the victims, 
and held those in positions of power and authority to account for their 
lawlessness. Amnesty?s broad-based call for action provides the 
essential map to take America out of her current dilemma. We can, we 
must demand accountability, seeking not vengeance but justice we owe to 
ourselves and to future generations. We are defining the world they will 
inhabit. We can't eradicate torture, but we can ensure that it's a crime 
and torturers and their abettors will be held to account. That is within 
our grasp, if we fight for it.



1. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372_2.html


2. 
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjD0weHpCkMwMc94iRSiCgw0UAMQD976KNNG0


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From rob.means at electric-bikes.com  Fri Apr  3 20:12:51 2009
From: rob.means at electric-bikes.com (Rob Means)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:12:51 -0800
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] "The Accountability Imperative"
Message-ID: <000001c9b4d3$3da655a0$6701a8c0@INTERBIKE06>

I agree that Bush administration torturers must be tried and punished.
I'm hoping that Obama's reluctance to act is actually a decision to use
one of Sun Tsu's tactics of war called "Kill with a borrowed knife."
Why should he take on the grief of trying Bush himself when someone else
will do it for him?  By not opposing the Spanish and Brits, he is
already giving tacit approval to the prosecution.  Before Bush is
arrested, Obama would be well advised to get on board and add the U. S.
as another nation seeking justice through the Spanish Court.  IMO,
anything less would be dishonorable.

Rob Means, Electro Ride Bikes and Scooters
408-262-8975   rob.means at electric-bikes.com
1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913
Discover cycling that's Easy, Safe, Fast - and FUN!
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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Sat Apr  4 10:50:08 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:50:08 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] "The Accountability Imperative"
In-Reply-To: <000001c9b4d3$3da655a0$6701a8c0@INTERBIKE06>
References: <000001c9b4d3$3da655a0$6701a8c0@INTERBIKE06>
Message-ID: <BAY140-W39432C6E94F8550D874E519E860@phx.gbl>



Hi Rob,

   Andrew Sullivan recently put forth the theory that by appearing to do
nothing, Obama was making Cheney crazy with waiting so he "puts
his head in the noose".  (1)

   Noting that Bush and Rice had declined to criticize the new president, 
Sullivan said that for Cheney to comment at all was "unseemly and 
unusual," and added that Cheney's remarks were were tantamout to 
accusing Obama of treason.  Sullivan says that "coming out so 
forcefully and so publicly.... intent on asserting that the torture 
programme he set
up was legal, moral and defensible.... he may come 
to regret making that move...."

    Sullivan also discusses the impending release of three "ugly" 2005 
memos about torture practices.  Now CIA director Leon Panetta is 
trying to block their declassification.  Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU lawyer, 
said "This is arguably the most important
test thus far of the Obama 
administration's commitment to transparency." (2)

   Though Horton seems to credit Obama with ending the extraordinary 
rendition program; Sullivan says it was only rolled back to Clinton-era 
standards--which sucked.  I am not very confident that we will get
Congress to undertake an investigation of Bush tortures, because any
honest probe will uncover Pelosi's complicity and the history under 
Clinton.

    Clinton started such renditions in 1995 after Gore said "Of course it's 
illegal. That's why it's a covert op."  They flew a kidnapped prisoner to 
Egypt in that year, and George Tenet told the 9/11 Commission that 
several dozen renditions were done before 9/11.  The CIA's Michael 
Scheuer said they could send a question to the Egyptian interrogators 
in the morning and get an answer from the detainee by the afternoon. 
Later he told a subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign 
Affairs:  

   "I have read and been told that Mr. Clinton, Mr. Berger and Mr. Clarke

    have said, since 9/11, that they insisted that each receiving country

    treat the rendered person it received according to U.S. legal
standards. 
    To the best of my memory, that is a lie."

    I can't resist a buit of moralizing:  This is what's wrong with just even a 
little bit of wrong-doing, even for a good cause. Your doings will be cited by 
those who come after you as justification for much greater wrongs done for 
bad causes, and will help them escape accountability.

1.  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article5992569.ece

2.  http://www.newsweek.com/id/192314/page/1


   




> From: rob.means at electric-bikes.com
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:12:51 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] "The Accountability Imperative"
> 
> I agree that Bush administration torturers must be tried and punished.
> I'm hoping that Obama's reluctance to act is actually a decision to use
> one of Sun Tsu's tactics of war called "Kill with a borrowed knife."
> Why should he take on the grief of trying Bush himself when someone else
> will do it for him?  By not opposing the Spanish and Brits, he is
> already giving tacit approval to the prosecution.  Before Bush is
> arrested, Obama would be well advised to get on board and add the U. S.
> as another nation seeking justice through the Spanish Court.  IMO,
> anything less would be dishonorable.
> 
> Rob Means, Electro Ride Bikes and Scooters
> 408-262-8975   rob.means at electric-bikes.com
> 1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913
> Discover cycling that's Easy, Safe, Fast - and FUN!
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> 
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Sat Apr  4 14:29:16 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:29:16 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Spaghetti flyer, hopefully good version]
Message-ID: <49D7D12C.8010501@aceweb.com>

IF you want any changes to this version, please let me know soon.
Hopefully this one is good enough that we can print off a few for
such handing out opportunities as come around between now and Monday,
when I hope to get a batch printed out professionally.

BTW: How many copies do you want? I figure I can hand out a hundred,
and I'm still adding orders for them from others to size stack to print.

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Subject: 	Spaghetti flyer, hopefully good version
Date: 	Sat, 4 Apr 2009 17:06:05 EDT
From: 	TNHarter at aol.com
To: 	tnharter at aceweb.com




Please see attached,

Tian
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying... "I will try again tomorrow."

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
In honor of fossil fools day, I got a haircut. My shower is shorter now.
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From JGSHURT69 at aol.com  Sat Apr  4 11:36:32 2009
From: JGSHURT69 at aol.com (JGSHURT69 at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:36:32 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd:....Got Hope?
Message-ID: <ca1.52c9fac1.370902b0@aol.com>


**************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 or 
less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sat Apr  4 20:07:46 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:07:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Close the Millionaire Corporate Farm Subsidy
	Loophole
Message-ID: <832865.98200.qm@web81208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Food Democracy Now! <Food_Democracy_Now at mail.vresp.com> wrote:

From: Food Democracy Now! <Food_Democracy_Now at mail.vresp.com>
Subject: Close the Millionaire Corporate Farm Subsidy Loophole
To: carolineyacoub at att.net
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 5:17 PM



Act Now to: 
Close the Millionaire Corporate Farm Subsidy Loophole 
If you care about family farmers having equal access to opportunities and the land you need to act in the next 48 hours. The USDA is taking comments on the farm payment limitation rule until the end of Monday, April 6, 2009, so send yours in now (a sample letter is provided below or here on our website). 
In his (non)state of the union speech, President Obama courageously brought up one of the most contentious issues from the 2008 Farm Bill debate when he called for ending "direct payments to large agribusinesses that don't need them." 
As part of his 2010 budget, the President proposed phasing-out direct payments in an attempt to save $9.8 billion over 10 years. Currently direct payments, which total $5.2 billion a year, are paid regardless of crop prices and are not tied to need. 
This means: Even in times of high commodity prices, corporate farmers still get a paycheck from the government. 
End Unfair Subsidies Now! 
In mentioning unfair agribusiness subsidies, the President let supporters and agribusiness know that he?s serious about defending the rights of family farmers and giving them access to fair market conditions. 
Today?s current subsidy system allows large corporate farms to take advantage of subsidy loopholes that place independent family farmers at a serious competitive disadvantage. 
Because of loosely written management and labor requirements in the Farm Bill, corporate farmers are allowed to use multiple partnerships, passive investors and sham ?paper? farms to funnel huge multimillion dollar annual subsidy payments to corporate entities that don?t do any real work on the farm, but use the ownership as an entitlement to bilk payments from the government. 
As a result, giant corporate millionaire ?farmers? are driving independent family farmers off the land, using their ill-gotten gains, supplied courtesy of taxpayers, to outbid small, midsized and new farmers who want to buy or rent new crop ground. 
Please act now to help end the corporate farm bailout. 
Best, 
Dave 
If you?d like to see Food Democracy Now!?s grassroots work continue, please consider donating as little as $10 or $25. 
COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS APRIL 6, 2009 
Send an email to Dan McGlynn at the USDA: dan.mcglynn at wdc.usda.gov? 
Sample Letter ? (Please cut and paste) 
Mr. Dan McGlynn
FSA-USDA
Stop 0517, Room 4754
1400 Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC? 20250-0517
Emailed to: DanMcGlynn at wdc.usda.gov
or FAX to: 202-690-2130

RE:? Comment on Farm Program Payment Limitation Rule, Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 23, February 5, 2009 
Dear Mr. McGlynn, 
I appreciate President Obama?s courageous call for subsidy reform and stand firmly behind his decision to end "direct payments to large agribusinesses that don't need them." By reforming the rules on subsidy payments to farmers, this Administration can finally create a level playing field for independent family farmers that allows them to thrive, and grows opportunities for rural America and midsized farms. 
In order to do this, I encourage the USDA to close the biggest payment loophole available under the current rules by providing a strong and effective definition for those ?actively engaged in agriculture?. 
Currently, wealthy corporate ?partners? with minimal management involvement, in some cases, as little as two conference calls per year can qualify for payments.? I urge you to correct this problem. 
For those who qualify solely by providing active personal management and no personal labor, the rule should require that person to: 
??? 1. Provide at least half of the total management required to run the farm; or
??? 2. Provide at least half of the total management that would be necessary to conduct a farming operation commensurate in size with his/her requisite share of the operation. 
Closing the ?actively engaged in farming? management loophole will strengthen family farms and rural communities and help restore integrity to a program which is rife with abuse.? 
Sadly, for decades, both Republican and Democratic Administrations have allowed this abuse to continue. This Administration, which campaigned on commodity program payment reform, needs to end business as usual, clean up the system, and restore good government.? Enacting a quantifiable test for farm management is the best place to start. Sincerely, 
[Your name & city here] 







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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Apr  5 09:21:16 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:21:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] April 1, Green Party Meeting
Message-ID: <997039.47601.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Those present: Valerie Face, Andrea, Tian, Drew, Caroline, Warner, Valerie, Merriam, Carol, Fred, Roy
?
Facilitator: Carol
Notetaker: Caroline
Vibes Watcher: Drew
Time Keeper: Tian
?
Smriti Rana, Coordinator for the Peace and Justice Center, told us about a tax protest and gave us postcards to fill out.
?
Tian will prepare the agenda for the next meeting
?
Treasurer's report: We have $1,673
?
Fundraising: We passed the hat. We decided to give Carol a check for $300 now for the seeds. Merriam will donate $25 for the bookmarks. Carol will donate money for the postcards. Carol already got the seeds. The company included several packages that are not supposed to be sold for us to plant. Warner will grow some seeds. Several people took boxes of seeds to put in their tabling kits. Caroline brought some painted rocks as examples. They make cute paperweights and cost us nothing. Drew is growing sunflower seeds now. We should have some seedlings for Earth Day tabling.
?
Spaghetti Dinner--Food 4 Thought
We have the speakers and entertainment lined up. We decided to use Fred's clubhouse as a venue, as he already signed up for it, and we were having trouble finding another venue that was affordable.The food will be organic. Tian had brought some sample flyers, but we couldn't pass them out as we hadn't selected a venue in time for him to include it. He has put the flyer with the correct information on-line so we can print some up for distribution. He will have more printed up professionally on Monday.
?
Tabling literature: Caroline will bring the rest of the pink pages to the May meeting so we will have them for Mother's Day. Carol is going to provide literature to go with the seeds, bookmarks, and information on HR 875. If you haven't already?urged your Representative to vote "No" on this, please do.
?
Tabling Events: We have people who will coordinate some of these events, and workers for some, but, if you see something you would like to be involved in, please contact the coordinator, or, if there isn't one, Jim Doyle or Caroline. If you need more literature or buttons, or would like to make up a tabling kit, please contact Caroline. Let us know about any events we missed.
?
April 15--Wednesday Tax Due Date--Rally or Delegation from Peace and Justice
April 18--Sunnyvale Farmer's Market--Caroline and Tian
April 20-21--Sunnyval Library--Caroline
April 22-Wednesday, Earth Day, SJSU--Roy, Tian, Carol
April 24-26--Junior State--Drew and others
April 29--Santa Clara University Earth Day--Caroline
May 5--Cinco de Mayo--we don't seem to be doing anything for this
May 9--Berryessa Art and Wine Festival--Warner, Roy, Caroline
May 10Sunday--Mother's Day
May 16-17--Plenary in Venice--Drew, Warner, Tian, Andrea
May ? Bike to Work Day--It's in here somewhere, but I've lost the date--Tian
May 19--Special Statewide Election re Budget
May 23-25--Sat-Mon--Memorial Day Weekend
?
GPCA County Polling on Ballot Measures: We reached consensus "No" on measures 1A-1E. On 1F, we voted 2 "Yes", 5 "No", no abstentions, and 3 "No Position." Our delegates to the Plenary in Venice will be Andrea, Warner, Tian, and Drew.
?
Coalition for Downtown Hospital, Use of Website, and Santa Clara County voter database were not discussed, as Jim and Cameron were not present. BUT, if you want to use the database, you need to see Cameron.
?
Long Term Project: Jim was not present to talk about solar panels on schools, but we were so excited by Carol's seeds, Drew's seedlings, and Warner's volunteering to grow the extra seeds we got from Seeds of Change that we decided gardening should be a long term project, too. Roy had an idea to fight the ordinance that says you can't plant vegetables in the parking strips.Tian says he is growing vegetables although he isn't supposed to--sort of organic cilvil disobedience, and Fred said he thought there was some gardenable land in his complex, too. Warner volunteered his yard for a garden. We discussed having another yard sale and actually working on the garden during the sale.
?
We got a lot done. It was fun. There were brownies and veggies. We have a lot to do in May. If you weren't at the April meeting, please come to the one on May 6 at the Peace and Justice Center. Y'all come now, hear?
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From fredd at freeshell.org  Sun Apr  5 14:20:47 2009
From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault)
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:20:47 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss]  April 1, Green Party Meeting
Message-ID: <49D920AF.10007@freeshell.org>


Caroline, You did a great job covering a lot o/f organic /territory.  
Two things could be added, however: How much $ the hat collected at the 
meeting  and, it was suggested for consideration, that GPSCC could 
research as to how much public garden area of various local cities (and 
the county?) has been alloted, and then publicly propose what the 
advantages  would be, in the appropriate cities, to designate more 
unused public lands for public gardening. It would be a /green, /unique, 
positive, and popular action the GP could initiate.  (The research could 
be done this summer and the proposals could be made in the fall.)  Fred

Those present: Valerie Face, Andrea, Tian, Drew, Caroline, Warner, 
Valerie, Merriam, Carol, Fred, Roy
 
Facilitator: Carol
Notetaker: Caroline
Vibes Watcher: Drew
Time Keeper: Tian
 
Smriti Rana, Coordinator for the Peace and Justice Center, told us about 
a tax protest and gave us postcards to fill out.
 
Tian will prepare the agenda for the next meeting
 
Treasurer's report: We have $1,673
 
Fundraising: We passed the hat. We decided to give Carol a check for 
$300 now for the seeds. Merriam will donate $25 for the bookmarks. Carol 
will donate money for the postcards. Carol already got the seeds. The 
company included several packages that are not supposed to be sold for 
us to plant. Warner will grow some seeds. Several people took boxes of 
seeds to put in their tabling kits. Caroline brought some painted rocks 
as examples. They make cute paperweights and cost us nothing. Drew is 
growing sunflower seeds now. We should have some seedlings for Earth Day 
tabling.
 
Spaghetti Dinner--Food 4 Thought
We have the speakers and entertainment lined up. We decided to use 
Fred's clubhouse as a venue, as he already signed up for it, and we were 
having trouble finding another venue that was affordable.The food will 
be organic. Tian had brought some sample flyers, but we couldn't pass 
them out as we hadn't selected a venue in time for him to include it. He 
has put the flyer with the correct information on-line so we can print 
some up for distribution. He will have more printed up professionally on 
Monday.
 
Tabling literature: Caroline will bring the rest of the pink pages to 
the May meeting so we will have them for Mother's Day. Carol is going to 
provide literature to go with the seeds, bookmarks, and information on 
HR 875. If you haven't already urged your Representative to vote "No" on 
this, please do.
 
Tabling Events: We have people who will coordinate some of these events, 
and workers for some, but, if you see something you would like to be 
involved in, please contact the coordinator, or, if there isn't one, Jim 
Doyle or Caroline. If you need more literature or buttons, or would like 
to make up a tabling kit, please contact Caroline. Let us know about any 
events we missed.
 
April 15--Wednesday Tax Due Date--Rally or Delegation from Peace and Justice
April 18--Sunnyvale Farmer's Market--Caroline and Tian
April 20-21--Sunnyval Library--Caroline
April 22-Wednesday, Earth Day, SJSU--Roy, Tian, Carol
April 24-26--Junior State--Drew and others
April 29--Santa Clara University Earth Day--Caroline
May 5--Cinco de Mayo--we don't seem to be doing anything for this
May 9--Berryessa Art and Wine Festival--Warner, Roy, Caroline
May 10Sunday--Mother's Day
May 16-17--Plenary in Venice--Drew, Warner, Tian, Andrea
May ? Bike to Work Day--It's in here somewhere, but I've lost the date--Tian
May 19--Special Statewide Election re Budget
May 23-25--Sat-Mon--Memorial Day Weekend
 
GPCA County Polling on Ballot Measures: We reached consensus "No" on 
measures 1A-1E. On 1F, we voted 2 "Yes", 5 "No", no abstentions, and 3 
"No Position." Our delegates to the Plenary in Venice will be Andrea, 
Warner, Tian, and Drew.
 
Coalition for Downtown Hospital, Use of Website, and Santa Clara County 
voter database were not discussed, as Jim and Cameron were not present. 
BUT, if you want to use the database, you need to see Cameron.
 
Long Term Project: Jim was not present to talk about solar panels on 
schools, but we were so excited by Carol's seeds, Drew's seedlings, and 
Warner's volunteering to grow the extra seeds we got from Seeds of 
Change that we decided gardening should be a long term project, too. Roy 
had an idea to fight the ordinance that says you can't plant vegetables 
in the parking strips.Tian says he is growing vegetables although he 
isn't supposed to--sort of organic cilvil disobedience, and Fred said he 
thought there was some gardenable land in his complex, too. Warner 
volunteered his yard for a garden. We discussed having another yard sale 
and actually working on the garden during the sale.
 
We got a lot done. It was fun. There were brownies and veggies. We have 
a lot to do in May. If you weren't at the April meeting, please come to 
the one on May 6 at the Peace and Justice Center. Y'all come now, hear?

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From fredd at freeshell.org  Sun Apr  5 14:26:25 2009
From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault)
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:26:25 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss]   April 1, Green Party Meeting
Message-ID: <49D92201.8030208@freeshell.org>


Caroline,  You did a great job covering a lot o/f organic /territory.  
Two things could be added, however: How much $ the hat collected at the 
meeting  and, it was suggested for consideration, that GPSCC could 
research as to how much public garden area of various local cities (and 
the county?) has been alloted, and then publicly propose what the 
advantages  would be, in the appropriate cities, to designate more 
unused public lands for public gardening. It would be a /green, /unique, 
positive, patriotic and popular action the GP could initiate.  (The 
research could be done this summer and the proposals could be made in 
the fall.)  Fred

Those present: Valerie Face, Andrea, Tian, Drew, Caroline, Warner, 
Valerie, Merriam, Carol, Fred, Roy
 
Facilitator: Carol
Notetaker: Caroline
Vibes Watcher: Drew
Time Keeper: Tian
 
Smriti Rana, Coordinator for the Peace and Justice Center, told us about 
a tax protest and gave us postcards to fill out.
 
Tian will prepare the agenda for the next meeting
 
Treasurer's report: We have $1,673
 
Fundraising: We passed the hat. We decided to give Carol a check for 
$300 now for the seeds. Merriam will donate $25 for the bookmarks. Carol 
will donate money for the postcards. Carol already got the seeds. The 
company included several packages that are not supposed to be sold for 
us to plant. Warner will grow some seeds. Several people took boxes of 
seeds to put in their tabling kits. Caroline brought some painted rocks 
as examples. They make cute paperweights and cost us nothing. Drew is 
growing sunflower seeds now. We should have some seedlings for Earth Day 
tabling.
 
Spaghetti Dinner--Food 4 Thought
We have the speakers and entertainment lined up. We decided to use 
Fred's clubhouse as a venue, as he already signed up for it, and we were 
having trouble finding another venue that was affordable.The food will 
be organic. Tian had brought some sample flyers, but we couldn't pass 
them out as we hadn't selected a venue in time for him to include it. He 
has put the flyer with the correct information on-line so we can print 
some up for distribution. He will have more printed up professionally on 
Monday.
 
Tabling literature: Caroline will bring the rest of the pink pages to 
the May meeting so we will have them for Mother's Day. Carol is going to 
provide literature to go with the seeds, bookmarks, and information on 
HR 875. If you haven't already urged your Representative to vote "No" on 
this, please do.
 
Tabling Events: We have people who will coordinate some of these events, 
and workers for some, but, if you see something you would like to be 
involved in, please contact the coordinator, or, if there isn't one, Jim 
Doyle or Caroline. If you need more literature or buttons, or would like 
to make up a tabling kit, please contact Caroline. Let us know about any 
events we missed.
 
April 15--Wednesday Tax Due Date--Rally or Delegation from Peace and Justice
April 18--Sunnyvale Farmer's Market--Caroline and Tian
April 20-21--Sunnyval Library--Caroline
April 22-Wednesday, Earth Day, SJSU--Roy, Tian, Carol
April 24-26--Junior State--Drew and others
April 29--Santa Clara University Earth Day--Caroline
May 5--Cinco de Mayo--we don't seem to be doing anything for this
May 9--Berryessa Art and Wine Festival--Warner, Roy, Caroline
May 10Sunday--Mother's Day
May 16-17--Plenary in Venice--Drew, Warner, Tian, Andrea
May ? Bike to Work Day--It's in here somewhere, but I've lost the date--Tian
May 19--Special Statewide Election re Budget
May 23-25--Sat-Mon--Memorial Day Weekend
 
GPCA County Polling on Ballot Measures: We reached consensus "No" on 
measures 1A-1E. On 1F, we voted 2 "Yes", 5 "No", no abstentions, and 3 
"No Position." Our delegates to the Plenary in Venice will be Andrea, 
Warner, Tian, and Drew.
 
Coalition for Downtown Hospital, Use of Website, and Santa Clara County 
voter database were not discussed, as Jim and Cameron were not present. 
BUT, if you want to use the database, you need to see Cameron.
 
Long Term Project: Jim was not present to talk about solar panels on 
schools, but we were so excited by Carol's seeds, Drew's seedlings, and 
Warner's volunteering to grow the extra seeds we got from Seeds of 
Change that we decided gardening should be a long term project, too. Roy 
had an idea to fight the ordinance that says you can't plant vegetables 
in the parking strips.Tian says he is growing vegetables although he 
isn't supposed to--sort of organic cilvil disobedience, and Fred said he 
thought there was some gardenable land in his complex, too. Warner 
volunteered his yard for a garden. We discussed having another yard sale 
and actually working on the garden during the sale.
 
We got a lot done. It was fun. There were brownies and veggies. We have 
a lot to do in May. If you weren't at the April meeting, please come to 
the one on May 6 at the Peace and Justice Center. Y'all come now, hear?

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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Mon Apr  6 12:32:20 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:32:20 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Obama DOJ Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless
 Wiretapping and Secrecy
Message-ID: <BAY140-W51C1147D65B587492FE24B9E840@phx.gbl>




"President Obama promised the
American people a new era of transparency, accountability, and
respect for civil liberties," said Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. "But with
the Obama Justice Department continuing the Bush administration's
cover-up of the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance of
millions of Americans, and insisting that the much-publicized
warrantless wiretapping program is still a 'secret' that cannot be
reviewed by the courts, it feels like deja vu all over again."


The Obama administration filed a motion
to dismiss EFF's lawsuit challenging NSA dragnet surveillance of
millions of ordinary Americans. The DOJ motion repeats Bush
administration claims that litigation would require the government to
disclose privileged "state secrets." 

http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/05

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From georgecattermole at earthlink.net  Sat Apr  4 18:52:49 2009
From: georgecattermole at earthlink.net (George Cattermole)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 18:52:49 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [gpsmc-d] Fwd:....Got Hope?
In-Reply-To: <ca1.52c9fac1.370902b0@aol.com>
References: <ca1.52c9fac1.370902b0@aol.com>
Message-ID: <095EB3C6-5358-4061-8399-0A38C311AF54@earthlink.net>

Yes, still for the man.   Still have the bumper sticker on my car.    
He is listening.  He started out with what he knew.  He is  
learning.   We need to yell even louder.    Thanks Jeffery.  George
On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:36 AM, JGSHURT69 at aol.com wrote:

>
>
> Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less.
>
> From: cord macguire <cordymac at hotmail.com>
> Date: April 4, 2009 9:28:29 AM PDT
> To: cord macguire <cordymac at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Green_All_Views] O's Millionaires
> Reply-To: Green_All_Views at yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
> Financial Industry Paid Millions to Obama Aide
> ///////////////////////////////////////
> by Jeff Zeleney
> New York Times
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/politics/04disclose.html?hp
> April 4, 2009
>
>
>
> WASHINGTON - Lawrence H. Summers, the top economic adviser to  
> President Obama, earned more than $5 million last year from the  
> hedge fund D. E. Shaw and collected $2.7 million in speaking fees  
> from Wall Street companies that received government bailout money,  
> the White House disclosed Friday in releasing financial information  
> about top officials.
>
> Mr. Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, wields  
> important influence over Mr. Obama?s policy decisions for the  
> troubled financial industry, including firms from which he recently  
> received payments.
>
> Last year, he reported making 40 paid appearances, including a  
> $135,000 speech to the investment firm Goldman Sachs, in addition  
> to his earnings from the hedge fund, a sector the administration is  
> trying to regulate.
>
> The White House released hundreds of pages of financial disclosure  
> forms, which are required of all West Wing officials. A White House  
> spokesman, Ben LaBolt, said the compensation was not a conflict for  
> Mr. Summers, adding it was not surprising because he was ?widely  
> recognized as one of the country?s most distinguished economists.?
>
> Mr. Summers?s role at the White House includes advising Mr. Obama  
> on whether ? and how ? to tighten regulation of hedge funds, which  
> engage in highly sophisticated financial trading that many analysts  
> have said contributed to the economic collapse.
>
> Mr. Summers, a former president of Harvard University, was Treasury  
> secretary in the Clinton administration. He appeared before large  
> Wall Street companies like Citigroup ($45,000), J. P. Morgan  
> ($67,500) and the now defunct Lehman Brothers ($67,500), according  
> to his disclosure report. He reported being paid $10,000 for a  
> speaking date at Yale and $90,000 to address an organization of  
> Mexican banks.
>
> While Mr. Obama campaigned on a pledge to restrict lobbyists from  
> working in the White House, a step intended to reduce any influence  
> between the administration and corporations, the ban did not apply  
> to former executives like Mr. Summers, who was not a registered  
> lobbyist. In 2006, he became a managing director of D. E. Shaw, a  
> firm that manages about $30 billion in assets, making it one of the  
> biggest hedge funds in the world.
>
> ?Dr. Summers was not an adviser to or an employee of the firms that  
> paid him to speak,? Mr. LaBolt said.
>
> He added, ?Of course, since joining the White House, he has  
> complied with the strictest ethics rules ever required of  
> appointees and will not work on specific matters to which D. E.  
> Shaw is a party for two years.?
>
> A review of hundreds of pages of financial disclosure forms on  
> Friday evening offered an extensive portrait of the wealth of top  
> officials in the Obama administration. The forms detail the  
> salaries, bonuses and investments of the president?s circle of  
> advisers, many of whom took deep pay cuts from the private sector  
> and sold their companies to work at the White House.
>
> David Axelrod, who was the chief campaign strategist to Mr. Obama  
> and now serves as a senior adviser to the president, reported a  
> salary of $1 million last year from his two consulting firms. Over  
> the next five years, according to his disclosure form, he will get  
> $3 million from the sale of the two firms, which provide media and  
> strategic advice to political clients. He listed assets of about $7  
> million to $10 million, and reported a long list of Democratic  
> clients and a few corporate concerns, including AT&T and the Exelon  
> Corporation, a nuclear energy company.
>
> The disclosure forms also shed further light on the compensation  
> received by a top Obama aide who previously worked for Citigroup,  
> one of the largest recipients of taxpayer bailout money. The aide,  
> Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser for international  
> economic affairs, received more than $7.4 million from the company  
> from January 2008 to when he joined the White House this year.
>
> That money included a year-end bonus of $2.25 million for work in  
> 2008, which Citigroup paid him in January. Such bonuses have  
> prompted political controversy in recent months, including sharp  
> criticism from Mr. Obama, who in January branded them as ?shameful.?
>
> The White House had previously acknowledged that Mr. Froman  
> received such a year-end bonus and said he had decided to give it  
> to charity, but would not say what it was.
>
> The administration said Friday that Mr. Froman was working on  
> giving the $2.25 million to a combination of charities related to  
> homelessness and cancer, which took the life of his son this year.
>
> The remainder of Mr. Froman?s earnings from Citigroup included  
> deferred compensation and bonuses for work performed in prior  
> years, as well as a $2 million payment for waiving his carried- 
> interest stake in several private equity funds.
>
> The White House said Mr. Froman decided to take the buyouts to  
> avoid having to recuse himself from foreign-policy issues related  
> to the funds? investments, like India infrastructure, which means  
> he would be taxed at ordinary income rates on the money.
>
> Millionaires work in a variety of positions across the  
> administration, and they include Desir?e Rogers, the White House  
> social secretary. Ms. Rogers, a close Chicago friend of the Obama  
> family, reported income of $2.3 million last year. She earned a  
> salary of $1.8 million from People?s Gas & North Shore Gas, along  
> with three other sources of income from serving on insurance  
> company boards.
>
> Thomas E. Donilon, the deputy national security adviser, reported  
> earning $3.9 million as a partner at the Washington law firm  
> O?Melveny & Myers. His disclosure form says major clients included  
> Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Apollo Management, a private equity  
> firm in New York that specializes in distressed assets and  
> corporate restructuring.
>
> Mr. Donilon is also entitled to future pension payments from Fannie  
> Mae, where he worked from 1999 to 2005.
>
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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Tue Apr  7 21:00:03 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:00:03 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Obama's DOJ Claims Radical New Wiretap Immunities
Message-ID: <BAY140-W42CB858901FFE72DD1ECF19E820@phx.gbl>



    Last week the government filed a motion to dismiss in the NSA surveillance 
suit that reaffirmed Bush arguments that state secrets trumped the right
to sue.  Further analysis shows that the government goes far beyond that
to claim that the state's sovereign immunity ("divine right of kings") means
the citizen has no recourse to force the government to adhere to its
own wiretapping statutes.

   Jonathan Turley gives his usual cogent analysis on Olbermann tonight. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7uomucNU8E

   He says the Bush people have gotten Obama to
protect Bush and Cheney from 
any criminal investigation of torture,
but now Obama's even exceeded Bush's
extremist arguments in protecting
unlawful surveillance.

    The government is claiming sovereign
immunity--that they can not be sued 
for violating federal
surveillance statutes unless there is willful disclosure of

intelligence information.  Unless they use it, you have nothing to say about
it.

    This is a breathtaking claim.  The
original rule was that no one could sue the
king, but the government had waived elements of this sovereign
immunity 
through legislation and before this case it was assumed that
you could sue 
these agencies.

    The law Obama voted for last summer to
protect the telecom companies is 
now being claimed to   protect not
just the telecoms but the gov't as well.  This 
leaves citizens with a right with
no protection. It's impossible to have a 
constitutional right that
can never be enforced.

    We can no longer suggest that Obama is
advancing the civil liberties that 
he promised to advance.  The Obama people are arguing that Bush
was a bad 
person doing bad things, but it doesn't matter if you say
you're a good person 
doing bad things.   Our president is more
interested in programs than principles, 
and he never intended to
fight on issues like torture and electronic surveillance.

    The people need to tell Obama they will
not let him eviscerate privacy and 
fritter away our rights simply
because a cult of the personality permits him to 
do anything he
wants.


    There are further details in the following articles:



http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2009/04/dojs-brief-in-jewel-v-nsa.html



http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/obama/index.html


http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/obama-doj-worse-than-bush





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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Wed Apr  8 10:22:13 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:22:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: UPDATE: Close the Millionaire Corporate Farm
	Subsidy Loophole
Message-ID: <114022.29863.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Food Democracy Now! <Food_Democracy_Now at mail.vresp.com> wrote:

From: Food Democracy Now! <Food_Democracy_Now at mail.vresp.com>
Subject: UPDATE: Close the Millionaire Corporate Farm Subsidy Loophole
To: carolineyacoub at att.net
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 11:22 AM



Last Day to Comment on Payment Limitations!? 
? 
We regret to inform you that Dan McGlynn has been on vacation since Thursday. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of responses, Mr. McGlynn's USDA email box has exceeded capacity. This is highly unusual, but a testament to our successful efforts.

As this is the last day for the comment period on payment limitations and many of you have expressed concern that your voice is not being heard, the USDA has provided an alternative email address to send your comments.

Please send you comments to: Dan McGlynn via Mara Villegas at: mara.villegas at wdc.usda.gov

Like President Obama, we believe this is an important issue and appreciate your continued efforts and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. We very much appreciate your continued efforts and support. 

At this point you can do 1 of 3 things:

1. You can resend your comments to mara.villegas at wdc.usda.gov 
2. Fax the letter in at: (202) 690-2130
3. Go to Regulation.gov and send your letter in using that website form. 
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=0900006480847a79 
If you go to Regulations.gov please realize that it is a several step process in order to submit your comments.

We have provided the proper steps to follow on our website.

http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/2009/04/06/to-send-a-your-comments-in-through-regulationsgov/

Thanks again for all you do, we appreciate your continued efforts on this important subject.

Best,
Dave
Food Democracy Now! 
If you?d like to see Food Democracy Now!?s grassroots work continue, please consider donating as little as $10 or $25.

COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS APRIL 6, 2009

Send an email to Dan McGlynn via Mara Villegas at the USDA: mara.villegas at wdc.usda.gov

Sample Letter ? (Please cut and paste)

Mr. Dan McGlynn
FSA-USDA
Stop 0517, Room 4754
1400 Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC? 20250-0517
Emailed to: mara.villegas at wdc.usda.gov
or FAX to: 202-690-2130

RE:? Comment on Farm Program Payment Limitation Rule, Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 23, February 5, 2009

Dear Mr. McGlynn,

I appreciate President Obama?s courageous call for subsidy reform and stand firmly behind his decision to end "direct payments to large agribusinesses that don't need them." By reforming the rules on subsidy payments to farmers, this Administration can finally create a level playing field for independent family farmers that allows them to thrive, and grows opportunities for rural America and midsized farms.

In order to do this, I encourage the USDA to close the biggest payment loophole available under the current rules by providing a strong and effective definition for those ?actively engaged in agriculture?.

Currently, wealthy corporate ?partners? with minimal management involvement, in some cases, as little as two conference calls per year can qualify for payments.? I urge you to correct this problem.

For those who qualify solely by providing active personal management and no personal labor, the rule should require that person to:

??? 1. Provide at least half of the total management required to run the farm; or
??? 2. Provide at least half of the total management that would be necessary to conduct a farming operation commensurate in size with his/her requisite share of the operation.

Closing the ?actively engaged in farming? management loophole will strengthen family farms and rural communities and help restore integrity to a program which is rife with abuse. 

Sadly, for decades, both Republican and Democratic Administrations have allowed this abuse to continue. This Administration, which campaigned on commodity program payment reform, needs to end business as usual, clean up the system, and restore good government.? Enacting a quantifiable test for farm management is the best place to start.

Sincerely, 
[Your name & city here] 








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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Apr  8 16:41:34 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:41:34 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] earth day at sjsu
Message-ID: <49DD362E.9000603@sbcglobal.net>

Here is an email I have received re the SJSU Earth Day tabling

Hi Jim,
  As a refresher, I have The Green Party confirmed with 1 parking
permit, 1 table, and 2 chairs. Let me know if this is correct or
incorrect with your needs.  I have included the flier we are using
around campus for your information and use if you should wish.  On Earth
Day we are having everyone check in at the 7th street turn about, it is
there that you will receive your parking permits and table assignment. 
Points of interest have been marked on this map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&t=h&msid=117668772193437252185.00046695051471eb5ce5f&ll=37.336316,-121.880071&spn=0.008206,0.013819&z=16 
<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&t=h&msid=117668772193437252185.00046695051471eb5ce5f&ll=37.336316,-121.880071&spn=0.008206,0.013819&z=16> 



Thank you and I look forward to seeing you there,
  Jennifer Ralston

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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Apr  8 16:44:24 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:44:24 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] SJSU earth day flyer
Message-ID: <49DD36D8.1000008@sbcglobal.net>

The Earth Day flyer from San jose State is attached.
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Wed Apr  8 17:37:22 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:37:22 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Updated flyer
Message-ID: <49DD4342.4030502@aceweb.com>

Attached is the latest final version of the flier. If you have any 
suggestions on how to make it better, get back to me ASAP!

I've still not got a clear idea how many to print. Unless I get any 
other feedback, this version is going to the printer tomorrow. I'll get 
250 copies, and we can use those and print more if necessary.
-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Monday I saw Courting Condi, a funny musical docu-tragi-comedy. See it!
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From wrolley at charter.net  Wed Apr  8 21:03:15 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:03:15 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Earth Day and Morgan Hill Times
Message-ID: <49DD7383.1030207@charter.net>

My most recent column for the Morgan Hill Times.. It should run on Friday.

April 22, 2009 is Earth Day. It is almost 40 years since the first Earth 
Day celebrations in 1970. That gives ample reason to look back to the 
beginning of this event and to look forward to what much be accomplished 
in the next year, as Earth Day turns 40.

The first Earth Day was the idea of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. 
The first national celebration (1970)  became a bi-partisan affair with 
two CoChairs. Senator Nelson, a Democrat and California's Representative 
Pete McCloskey, a Republican. The politics of the environment, and 
specifically that of climate change, is now such that any show of 
bipartisanship would probably not be possible.

Even from the perspective of only a decade,. Sen. Nelson felt the need 
to respond to rumors that the environmental movement was dead.

?So long as the human species inhabits the Earth, proper management of 
its resources will be the most fundamental issue we face. Our very 
survival will depend upon whether or not we are able to preserve, 
protect and defend our environment. We are not free to decide about 
whether or not our environment 'matters.' It does matter, apart from any 
political exigencies. We disregard the needs of our ecosystem at our 
mortal peril.?

Once again, we are being told that the environmental movement is dead. 
It would seem that all of the movement is going another way. Never 
before have environmental issues been so clearly a matter for partisan 
politics with a significant split between Republicans and Democrats on 
the issue of climate change... no I would rather use a more accurate 
term... climate disruption.

There is no better time that Earth Day to consider the implication of 
that change of language. To call what is happening to this planet as 
?climate change? is to imply that it is gradual and might even be 
benign. There are those who claim to welcome it as bringing warmer 
weather to the colder climes where they live.

In fact, earth's climate is changing at a rate that is unprecedented. 
Fluctuations that once took a thousand years are happening in less than 
a century. In fact, as scientists accumulate more knowledge, they find 
that there are factors, such as the release of methane now trapped in 
Arctic permafrost, which will force even more rapid changes that 
originally forecast... changes that will make Al Gore's Inconvenient 
Truth look as if he had been wearing rose tinted glasses.

Neither will these changes be benign. We are on the brink of a new 
series of water wars in California. The nation has not yet grasped the 
extent to which they depend on California grown food products. Without 
the water, there is no alfalfa. Without alfalfa, there are no cows. Got 
milk? It will be evident all too soon.

We are fortunate to live in a community that is beginning to take this 
seriously. Morgan Hill is making an attempt to reduce it's carbon (C02) 
contribution to the atmosphere. Our city government even sponsors carbon 
dieting clubs. That is a small step for Morgan Hill. We need a giant 
step for mankind.

Earth Day in Morgan Hill is now an annual event with an Art and Science 
Fair. I hope that the emphasis is increasingly on science. In fact, I 
would love to see the MH Times devote as much space to learning as they 
do to athletics. Just to run one story a month on student intellectual 
achievement. That would be a start.

We seem to live in an era in which there are two cultures, one that 
recognizes the role of science in understanding our physical world and 
one which is all to willing to put aside science when the answers it 
gives are threatening to dearly held beliefs.

Ads from American Petroleum Institute tells us that we need to drill 
more for energy freedom since we have enough oil and natural gas in 
North America for 60 years. They don't tell us what we will do then. 
That's OK. They will have our money and the Earth will be a little 
warmer. We are not good at dealing with a future that is over six months 
from now.

It is time to stop listening to the liars, the lobbyists, the 
ideologues. They are the ones who found science so inconvenient that 
they convinced Congress to do away with the Office of Technological 
Assessment, not because they wanted to save money but because they could 
not control the answers.

You don't have to go somewhere special on Earth Day. The environment is 
where we live, and work, and play. Stop anywhere. Look at a tree, or a 
cloud. . Think a while about what you want this earth to become. It is 
in your hands.

-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024


From rosasirius at yahoo.com  Thu Apr  9 13:36:19 2009
From: rosasirius at yahoo.com (jodi embry)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Earth Day
Message-ID: <29509.6392.qm@web55608.mail.re4.yahoo.com>


Hi:
When is E. Day? I could not download flyer!

Thanks.
I was working a tble for Silicon Valley Friends of Ferals last year.

Jodi (408)354-2948


      


From jims at greens.org  Thu Apr  9 13:48:44 2009
From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:48:44 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [ProChoiceOrNoChoice] Fw: Help Prevent
 Censorship at San Jose Libraries!]
Message-ID: <49DE5F2C.3020307@greens.org>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[ProChoiceOrNoChoice] Fw: Help Prevent Censorship at San Jose
Libraries!
Date: 	Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:26:48 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: 	Mona D'Astarte <mdastarte at earthlink.net>


     Subject: Help Prevent Censorship at San Jose Libraries!

     *Right now, access to sexual health information at the San Jos?
     Public Library system is under attack.
     **Make your voice heard by emailing your City Council member and
     Mayor Reed!*

     The San Jos? City Council is considering whether to install blocking
     software on library computers and endanger access to important
     information about healthcare and sexuality. *This proposal could
     potentially block teens', and others', ability to learn vital
     information about contraceptives, puberty, breast cancer, and other
     topics related to reproductive health.*

     Please tell the San Jos? City Council and the Mayor that library
     Internet access must not be censored.

         * *Email Mayor Reed and District 7 Councilwoman Madison Nguyen
           at **mayoremail at sanjoseca.gov*
           <mailto:mayoremail at sanjoseca.gov>* and
           **District7 at sanjoseca.gov* <mailto:District7 at sanjoseca.gov>*
           to oppose Library Censorship.*
         * *We have prepared a draft email message below which you can
           customize and send!*

     Let the Mayor and City Council know that our libraries should be
     places for people to access the information they need to be healthy.

     *Studies show that Internet filters used to block access to
     pornography websites can often also block access to websites with
     health information, especially sexual health.*  One study by the San
     Jos? Public Library revealed that such software blocked access to
     items in the library's own health and wellness databases and its
     online encyclopedia. If the City Council approves the plan to place
     filters on our public library computers, people could lose access to
     vital health information, including information on STDs and birth
     control options.

     Please protect our access to important information on our health.
     Send an email to the Mayor and City Council today.

     For more information about library Internet censorship, click here
     <http://www.ppaction.org/ct/11qvT3F1FU2R/>.

     Sincerely,

     /Christina Lokke
     /Public Affairs Director, Silicon Valley
     Planned Parenthood Mar Monte




     *Sample Email Draft:*

         Dear Decisionmaker (Mayor Reed, City Council member),

         I count on the San Jos? Libraries as a resource for important
         information, like my health.  Millions of San Jos? residents
         like me also rely on the library Internet for learning and
         research.

         I ask that you ensure everyone continues to have this access in
         our libraries by opposing any plans to install blocking software
         on library computers.

         Our libraries are safe places to learn, research, read and
         discover.  Research has shown that Internet filters used to
         block access to pornography websites can often also block access
         to websites with health information, especially sexual health.
         This access is especially important for teens and young adults
         who use the public libraries to find information about their
         bodies and their health.  For example, a recent study found that
         filtering software improperly blocks access to sites as diverse
         as the American Urological Association, Victims of Pornography
         (an anti-pornography support group) and PFLAG (Parents, Families
         and Friends of Lesbians and Gays -- a LGBT support and advocacy
         group). The software also blocked access to items in the
         library's health and wellness databases.

         Internet use at San Jos? libraries is very high, and problems
         associated with Internet content are extremely rare. There were
         only 13 formal complaints from patrons from throughout the
         entire library system last year. Any limited problems can, and
         should, be properly dealt with by the use of privacy screens,
         recessed seating, and the continued work of staff to enforce
         library rules. Censoring Internet access in the libraries is not
         the right path.

         The inability to access websites and other important resources
         at the public library will particularly impact youth and
         low-income community members, who often do not have other
         alternatives for Internet access.

         Please do not restrict our access to important information.
         Libraries are meant to be a place of learning.  Please oppose
         any plans to censor Internet access in the library by installing
         Internet blocking software.

         Sincerely,
         Name
         Address
         Library I use most:



From tnharter at aceweb.com  Thu Apr  9 16:24:40 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:24:40 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Earth Day
In-Reply-To: <29509.6392.qm@web55608.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
References: <29509.6392.qm@web55608.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <49DE83B8.9050501@aceweb.com>

I've put a picture of the thing on my website at:

http://tian.greens.org/SantaClaraCounty/GreenParty/Spaghetti.html

Thanks for

jodi embry wrote:
> Hi:
> When is E. Day? I could not download flyer!
> 
> Thanks.
> I was working a tble for Silicon Valley Friends of Ferals last year.
> 

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Monday I saw Courting Condi, a funny musical docu-tragi-comedy. See it!


From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Apr  9 18:15:17 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:15:17 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: [GPCA Official Notice] GENERAL ASSEMBLY -
	Proposal Agenda PacketAvailable
Message-ID: <262429324B0C4BB9933B59528179D341@JIMSDESKTOP>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "County Contacts" <contacts2006 at lists.cagreens.org>
To: "County Contacts" <Contacts2006 at cagreens.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:38 PM
Subject: [GPCA Official Notice] GENERAL ASSEMBLY - Proposal Agenda 
PacketAvailable


> GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE
>
> This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  For more information, 
> or questions related to the topic of the posting, please do not hit reply. 
> Follow the contact directions
> stated in the email.
>
>
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The proposal agenda packet for the May 16-17 General Assembly in Venice,
> Los Angeles is now available for downloading from the plenary web site:
>
>             http://www.cagreens.org/plenary/
>
> You will need the common password for access to the agenda packet.
> Please contact your County Council or Regional Representative if you
> don't have it.
>
> This agenda packet contains proposals, meeting schedule, and county
> delegate allocation. Please read it ASAP. If you have concerns about any
> proposal, please send them to the people listed as the contact persons
> and/or sponsors *before* the meeting begins.
>
> The General Assemblies in the "off years" of the election cycle tend to
> focus on internal party issues. This GA will decide the annual budget
> and deal with proposals for restructuring certain aspects of our
> organizational structure, among other issues.
> ---------------------
>
>
> The target date for the logistics packet and opening online registration
> is April 16.
>
> The logistics packet contains information on the meeting site, housing,
> registration and host contact information.
>
> NOTE: Counties are also required to submit their list of General
> Assembly delegates online. Use the Delegates link on the plenary page
> cited above.
>
> Online registration and delegate submission closes on Wednesday, May 13.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>                    IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
>                   -------------------------
>
>
> ** Site Volunteers **
>
> The host committee is in need of volunteers, especially in food service
> (breakfast and lunch). The hosts are offering free admission to the GA
> in exchange for helping with the various food tasks. Contact Will
> Yeager, 310-804-9916, gardenbeekeeper at yahoo.com, if you are interested.
>
> ------------------
>
>
> ** Note Taker **
>
> We are looking for people with note-taking skills for the upcoming
> plenary. This is a paid position and a valuable service to the GPCA.
>
> The skills of a good note taker include being a good listener and a
> competent typist. Familiarity with the Green meeting process is also
> helpful. Having previous note-taking experience in your Local or in a
> GPCA committee is advantageous.
>
> There is a Note Taker Guidelines document available at
> http://cagreens.org/gap/NoteTaker.rtf.
>
> The note taker job can be shared among several people. You can serve for
> a morning or afternoon session, a whole day, or the entire weekend.
>
> The note taker position is budgeted for $250. This breaks down to $100 a
> day for the raw notes and $50 for the final editing of the raw notes.
>
> If you are interested, please send your name and phone number to
> agenda-team at cagreens.org.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>                      HOST COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> [The following announcement has been circulated around the LA area to
> recruit volunteers and attendees. The General Assembly (plenary) will be
> held in the Venice United Methodist Church.]
>
>
>
> COOL, COOL VENUE FOR PLENARY IN LA AREA....
>
> Proving that Venice is the coolest place to be, its United Methodist
> Church folks re-named their social hall "The Center for Peace, Justice,
> and The Arts." For the young and young at heart there's a skate ramp
> available for use until 11pm. They feed folks and teach folks and have
> multiple opportunities for community building. The site of one of LA's
> biggest al-anon meetings every Saturday night, so it's not
> available....so we're looking to create some great options for the
> plenary's Saturday night event(s).
>
> All are invited to come sign up and network toward making this a great
> plenary. There's a HOSTEL RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET with really great
> sleep-over rates. It's the stop-off place for the famous "hippy bus"
> that goes up and down the state ("The Green Tortoise")
>
> Contact Glenn Hopkins (Mootney123 at aol.com).
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Contacts2006 mailing list
> Contacts2006 at lists.cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/contacts2006 



From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Apr  9 19:05:16 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:05:16 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] car scrapping
Message-ID: <49DEA95C.10005@sbcglobal.net>

I first heard of something similar in a report of a letter to the editor.
Originally I thought it was a little bit off the wall although it sounded
to me like a good idea in principle.

Now look at what there is in other parts of the globe
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=90905&sectionid=3510213

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:52 GMT
The German government increases the budget for its car-scrapping plan 
with goal of turning over up to two million cars, not just 600,000.

The government will triple the amount of money it originally set aside 
from 1.5b to 5b euros under a program which has been welcomed in the 
country.

The new car purchase incentive scheme came amid signs that the German 
economy still suffers from the contraction of international demand, as 
new figures show the country's exports continued to fall for the fifth 
month in a row.

The 2,500 euro bonus is for car owners who scrap cars at least nine 
years old and buy new ones. It was set up earlier this year in order to 
boost the country's auto industry as part of a wider 50b euro economic 
stimulus.

The number of applications for car-scrapping in Germany increased by the 
end of last week to 1.2 million. The government meanwhile announced that 
the program would be expanded, but has not yet clarified the details.

The German car industry, like those in many other countries, has been 
attempting to deal with a decrease in sales during the economic recession.

Scrapping schemes are now in operation in Austria, Portugal, Italy, 
Spain and France, while the UK is reportedly looking into a similar 
program.



From WB4D23 at aol.com  Fri Apr 10 11:49:57 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:49:57 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] April 1,
	Green Party Meeting/Plenary Delegates Correction
Message-ID: <c5b.42dd7cd4.3710eed5@aol.com>

 
In a message dated 4/5/2009 9:21:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
carolineyacoub at att.net writes:

Our  delegates to the Plenary in Venice will be Andrea, Warner, Tian, and  
Drew.


The above was a tentative list.  Roy said he might be an  alternate.  Part of 
our discussion was that we are looking for new people  to attend the state 
party meetings and that we have a need to have a better  gender balanced 
delegation.  We agreed that this is a tentative list that  will be reviewed at the 
May GPSCC meeting since we will still have time to  submit a final list after 
that meeting.  Drew and I discussed having an  agenda review meeting at my 
house, as we have done in the past.   Warner
**************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 or 
less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Fri Apr 10 12:02:19 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:02:19 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Invitation to Review the Plenary Agenda Sunday
	April 26th
Message-ID: <cf1.53db3a3f.3710f1bb@aol.com>

GPSCC members are invited to meet 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, April  26th, to review 
the May 16-17th Plenary agenda to make recommendations for  GPSCC instructions 
to our delegates at the general monthly meeting on May  5th.  Persons 
planning to be a delegate or alternate should try to make  this meeting.  The meeting 
will be held at the home of Warner Bloomberg,  867 North Fifth Street, San 
Jose, CA 95112 (cross-street Hedding).  The  location is five blocks from the 
Civic Center light rail statation on First  Street between Mission and Hedding 
Streets and near bus stops for the 62 (Taylor  and 4th Street) and 66 (Hedding 
and 5th Street) routes.   
 
As noted in another announcement on this list, the Plenary  agenda packet is 
now available at _www.cagreens.org/plenary_ (http://www.cagreens.org/plenary)  
and requires  specific a specific user name and password.  If you do not have 
this  information, contact a County Council member or Warner.  This 
information  should NOT  be communicated by email or other on-line  communications.
 
For more detailed directions or information call Warner at 
(408) 295-9353.
 
Please let me know in advance if you plan to attend (call or  send email to 
_wb4d23 at aol.com_ (mailto:wb4d23 at aol.com) ).
 
Warner
 
**************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 or 
less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Fri Apr 10 12:11:05 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:11:05 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Speaker Request for May 6th GPSCC Meeting
Message-ID: <d1f.458ebc34.3710f3c9@aol.com>

I am listed as a contact on the GPSCC web page and recently  received 
a telephone call from 
 
Blair Bobier 
Deputy Director, Political Reform  Program
New America Foundation
office:  415.682.4819
mobile:   415.601.7052
web:  www.newamerica.net <http://www.newamerica.net/>  
email: _bobier at newamerica.net_ (mailto:bobier at newamerica.net) 

who requested time at our next GPSCC meeting to report on his  
organizations efforts to move towards use of IRV in Santa Clara County elections  and in 
the City of San Jose (would require the City Council to approve a vote on  
a Charter Amendment).  I suggested a 10 minute presentation with 5 minutes  
for Q&A at the beginning of the meeting, and he was agreeable to that.  
 
Someone on the County Council let me know i I can contact him  back to 
confirm this will be part of our next meeting agenda.
 
Warner
 
 
**************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 
or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
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From cls at truffula.sj.ca.us  Fri Apr 10 15:01:42 2009
From: cls at truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:01:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] security expert: support your trees
Message-ID: <20090410220142.811B16A920@truffula.sj.ca.us>


Bruce Schneier was quoted in an AP story about the fiber cuts
in south San Jose.  Vandalism is very rare compared to trees
falling over on suspended lines.

"Before you lock up your manholes, you should support your trees," Schneier said.



From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Sat Apr 11 00:04:08 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:04:08 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] A North Carolina Community Currency on Democracy
	Now
Message-ID: <BAY140-W37F77413FCBC746413D47A9E810@phx.gbl>









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHSTzlxpKMIt's called the "Plenty".  You can exchange your Federal ReserveNotes for it at the local bank, and the idea is that it circulates in 
the local community, instead of instantly heading for China viaWal-Mart.











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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Sat Apr 11 11:15:38 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:15:38 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Earth Day at SCU 4/29
Message-ID: <49E0DE4A.9020000@sbcglobal.net>

Here are the emails that confirm Wednesday April 29-th  as the day
of the Earth Day celebration at Santa Clara University.

I have also confirmed our participation.

Jim Doyle

Hi,
Yes, we will be having a celebration on April 29th and we would love
for you to participate! Are you available on April 29th?
Thank you!
Katrina Jaber
SCU Green Club
 
 > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:18:48 -0700
 > From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net
 > To: scugreen at gmail.com
 > Subject: [GREENSTAFF]: earth day
 >
 >
 > Greetings,
 > Will there be a celebration of Earth Day on the Santa Clara University
 > campus this year?
 > When will it be?
 > Who do we contact to participate?
 >
 > Jim Doyle
 > Green Party of Santa Clara County
 >



From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Sun Apr 12 09:22:17 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:22:17 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Wicked Cartoon on Wiretaps
Message-ID: <BAY140-W9C979B5D76A3B218B03119E7E0@phx.gbl>









http://thisishistorictimes.com/2009/04/all-the-better-to-hear-you-with/

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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Apr 12 09:28:29 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:28:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Meeting Agenda and Reminder Single Payer
	Coalition Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 -4/16
Message-ID: <197252.88253.qm@web81203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Subject: Meeting Agenda and Reminder Single Payer Coalition Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 -4/16
To: "Essie WILPF" <wurldhope at yahoo.com>, "Caroline Yacoub-Green Party" <carolineyacoub at att.net>
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 12:01 AM




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Health Care Activists,

?
We are trying to get more folks to our meetings to help us with passing Single Payer. Please take a few minutes to answer this quick survey. We realize that we all have busy lives but we feel that this is the time while so many folks are joining the SP movement. Thanks for your time. 
?
1)????? I would attend if the meetings were held on a different day_____My preference would be____________________???
?
2)????? I would attend if the meetings were held at a different time______My preference would be_________________
?
3)????? I have other reasons why I don?t/can?t attend______________________________________
?
4)????? I would be willing to help with copying flyers,etc._________
?
5)????? I would be willing to do phone banking from home for finding groups who would like speakers, let folks know about events,etc. __________________
?
6)????? I would like to become a speaker _________________
?
Thanks, Lynn, Co-Chair, Santa Clara County Single Payer Health Care Coalition
?




?
?










Santa Clara Single-payer Healthcare Coalition meeting 

Thursday April 16 from 4:30 to 6:30?

?At LISHC, Low Income Self-Help Center
525 W. Alma, San Jose, CA 95125




http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=San+Jose&state=CA&address=525+W.+Alma+Ave
??
?
Please remember that your donation of a healthy snack for the potluck table will be appreciated . Our center will provide Tea and Coffee.? 

Proposed Agenda -?

??



Welcome and check-in ?
National Scene

?


Report on LA Single Payer Rally outside White House healthcare forum of April 6.


Update/discussion Senate single-payer bill, S. 703.? Compare with Conyers House Bill 676. (Please see comparison Lynn sent below.)


Report from special committee re: planning a viewing of Frontline piece or other.?????????????? Joan, Martha, Katherine



Report from special committee re: further education with Obama groups we have spoken to.? Collaborate with them to plan a forum or viewing/forum?????? 
?????????????? Greg, Katherine, Lynn



Update from Greg and Sandy re: Labor Party's plans for another forum collaborating with labor groups??


PDA(Progressive Democrats of America)'s Action????? ?????????????????????????????? HR 676 Week of Action: April 18 - 25
???????????????????????????????????????? ?Plan an event or join in one near you!?? Lynn






Event in San Francisco this month?/ 



Truth Commission WEAP, Women's Economic Agenda Project, Teach-In, Sat. April 18 10A-2P "Health Care: It's What Ails Us"?
State Scene
????? Report on Senate Health Cmte. hearing and vote on SB810? April 15 Lynn



Other Committee Reports?? Outreach, Education, Legislation,? Action, Media


Announcements


Katherine Bock
The Low-Income Self-Help Center
525 W. Alma
San Jos?, CA 95125
(408) 363-1368 home
phone (408) 977-1275 / fax (408) 977-1650

?
?Fw: Comparison of the 2 Federal Single Payer bills, S. 703 and HR676

--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Subject: Comparison of the 2 Federal Single Payer bills, S. 703 and HR676
To: "Lynn Huidekoper" <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 6:58 PM




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>From yet another good SP website: http://www.phimg.org/V2/
?
Key differences beween S703 and HR676 

 
 
 



Written by Administrator ?? 

Thursday, 09 April 2009 17:02 

>From Healthcare-Now! comes the following analysis detailing the key differences between the recently introduced Senate single-payer bill and HR 676:


With the introduction of Senate Bill 703, the single-payer movement is gearing up to support a Senate strategy.? We applaud Senator Sanders [VT] for introducing S703 "the American Health Security Act," a comprehensive single-payer bill, though not a direct companion bill to HR 676. Differences between the bills are noted in the attached document created by Dr. Len Rodberg, PNHP.? 

Healthcare-NOW! recognizes that HR 676 has aspects that are preferable to S703.? For example, HR 676 builds on the existing structure of Medicare, which should allow for an easier, quicker, and less expensive transition to universal single-payer.? Also, the taxing structure set up in 676 is preferable--a more equitable split between employer and employee, plus the higher tax on the wealthiest 5% and the small transfer tax on stocks and bonds transfers helps to address the huge gap between the rich and working class & poor. ? HR 676 legislation is more inclusive of ALL residents, which emphasizes our mission of implementing a health care system that respects health as a human right.
S703 also has preferable points to HR 676. S703 stresses the need for community health centers to be fully funded, giving the 60 million Americans now living in rural and underserved areas access to care.? It also addresses the critical shortage of primary care physicians and dentists, the bill provides resources for the National Health Service Corps to train an additional 24,000 health professionals.? 

We urge you to look over the differences and prepare to support S703 to bring single-payer into the dialogue of the Senate.? In the coming months, Healthcare-NOW! and allied organizations encourage you to lobby your Representatives to continue support and cosponsorship of HR 676 as well as your Senators to cosponsor S703.? There are currently no cosponsors of S703, so we challenge you to bring the first Senator on board! 

The next national call-in day is April 15th.? We will be sending you an announcement and sample script to contact your Senators to cosponsor S703.? The bill has been referred to the Senate Finance Committee, so contacting Senators serving on this committee urging support of S703 is also strategic.

Physicians for a National Health Program has submitted highlights of S703:


Patients go to any doctor or hospital of their choice. 

The program is paid for by combining current sources of government health spending into a single fund with modest new taxes amounting to less than what people now pay for insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. 

Comprehensive benefits, including coverage for dental, mental health, and prescription drugs. 

While federally funded, the program is to be administered by the states. 

By eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private, investor-owned insurance industry, along with the burdensome paperwork imposed on physicians, hospitals and other providers, the plan saves at least $400 billion annually - enough money to provide comprehensive, quality care to all. 

Community health centers are fully funded, giving the 60 million Americans now living in rural and underserved areas access to care. 

To address the critical shortage of primary care physicians and dentists, the bill provides resources for the National Health Service Corps to train an additional 24,000 health professionals. Sanders, who serves on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, is a longtime advocate of fundamental health care reform. His new bill draws heavily upon the single-payer legislation introduced by the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) in 1993, S. 491, and closely parallels similar legislation pending before the House, H.R. 1200, introduced by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.).

There is no summary available yet, but the full text of legislation is found here: http://pnhp.org/PDF_files/American-Health-Security-Act-single-payer.pdf

Lynn Huidekoper, RN 
Legislative Liaison 
Health Care for All Californians-Silicon Valley Coalition 
Senator Mark Leno's Single Payer bill, SB810
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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:51:37 -0700 (PDT)
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From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:15:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Positive News Weekly Inspiration
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--- On Sun, 4/12/09, leedobell at aol.com <leedobell at aol.com> wrote:

I guess we need to get going on our garden.












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?


?The Daffodil Principle
by Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards


?

Several times my daughter, Julie, had telephoned to say, "Mom, you must come see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from my place by the beach to her lakeside mountain home.? 
"I will come next Tuesday," I promised, a little reluctantly, on her third call. The next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I got in the car and began the long, tedious drive.? 
When I finally walked into Julie's house and hugged and greeted my grandchildren, I said, "Forget the daffodils,20Julie! The road is invisible in the clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and the children that I want to see bad enough to drive another inch!"? 
My daughter smiled calmly, "We drive in this all the time, Mom."? 
"Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears and then I'm heading straight for home!" I said, rather emphatically.? 
"Gee, Mom, I was hoping you'd take me over to the garage to pick up my car," Julie said with a forlorn look in her eyes.? 
"How far will we have to drive?"? 
Smiling she answered, "Just a few blocks, I'll drive ... I'm used to this."? 
After several minutes on the cold, foggy road, I had to ask "Where are we going? This isn't the way to the garage!"? 
"We're going to the garage the long way," Julie smiled, "by way of the daffodils."? 
"Julie," I said sternly, "please turn around."? 
"It's all right, Mom, I promise, you will never forgive yourself if you miss this exp erience."? 
After about twenty minutes we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church I saw a hand-lettered sign ...? 
"Daffodil Garden" 
We got out of the car and each took a child's hand, and I followed Julie down the path. As we turned a corner of the path, and I looked up and gasped.? 
Before me lay the most glorious sight. It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it down over the mountain peak and slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, saffron, and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted as a group so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue.? 
Five acres of the most beautiful flowers I had ever seen!? 
"Who planted all these?" I asked Julie.? 
"It's just one woman," Julie answered, "She lives on the property. That's her home," and she pointed to a well-kept A-frame house that looked small and modest in the midst of all that glory. 
We walked up to the house and on the little patio we saw a poster ...? 
Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking? 
50,000 bulbs
one at a time
by one woman
2 hands, 2 feet
and very little brain
Began in 1958? 
There it was ... "The Daffodil Principle"? 
For me that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than thirty-five years before, had begun - one bulb at a time - to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountain top.? 
Still, this unknown, old woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. She had created something of magnificent beauty, and inspiration.? 
The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration:? 
learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time, (often just one baby-step at a time)? learning to love the doing,? learning to use the accumulation of time? When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world.? 
"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Julie, "What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years. Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"? 
My daughter summed up the message of the day in her direct way, "Start tomorrow, Mom," she said, "It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of our yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson a celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask ... "? "How can I put this to use today?"? 
~Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards, Author 
http://atthewell.com/daffodils/


?


The story of "The Daffodil Principle" originally appeared nearly ten years ago in Jaroldeen Edwards' book Celebration! It is now availa ble for the first time as an illustrated gift book, with artwork by Anne Marie Oborn. You can find the gift book here - http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/1590382242.html


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From eameece at sfo.com  Fri Apr 10 10:49:07 2009
From: eameece at sfo.com (Eric A. Meece)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:49:07 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] car scrapping
In-Reply-To: <49DEA95C.10005@sbcglobal.net>
References: <49DEA95C.10005@sbcglobal.net>
Message-ID: <AC9674A819C9402CA11FD7E8CB613464@eameecePC>

It might be a great idea if they are swapping old cars for plug-in 
electrics, etc.
Eric M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Doyle" <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
To: "sosfbay discussion group" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:05 PM
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] car scrapping


>I first heard of something similar in a report of a letter to the editor.
> Originally I thought it was a little bit off the wall although it sounded
> to me like a good idea in principle.
>
> Now look at what there is in other parts of the globe
> http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=90905&sectionid=3510213
>
> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:52 GMT
> The German government increases the budget for its car-scrapping plan
> with goal of turning over up to two million cars, not just 600,000.
>
> The government will triple the amount of money it originally set aside
> from 1.5b to 5b euros under a program which has been welcomed in the
> country.
>
> The new car purchase incentive scheme came amid signs that the German
> economy still suffers from the contraction of international demand, as
> new figures show the country's exports continued to fall for the fifth
> month in a row.
>
> The 2,500 euro bonus is for car owners who scrap cars at least nine
> years old and buy new ones. It was set up earlier this year in order to
> boost the country's auto industry as part of a wider 50b euro economic
> stimulus.
>
> The number of applications for car-scrapping in Germany increased by the
> end of last week to 1.2 million. The government meanwhile announced that
> the program would be expanded, but has not yet clarified the details.
>
> The German car industry, like those in many other countries, has been
> attempting to deal with a decrease in sales during the economic recession.
>
> Scrapping schemes are now in operation in Austria, Portugal, Italy,
> Spain and France, while the UK is reportedly looking into a similar
> program.
>
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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Mon Apr 13 14:19:18 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:19:18 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] car scrapping
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References: <49DEA95C.10005@sbcglobal.net>
	<AC9674A819C9402CA11FD7E8CB613464@eameecePC> 
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   One thing to consider is that according to Michael Ruppert it takes
12% of the energy a car will consume in its lifetime to manufacture
the car.    
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Research.html

   At the least we should demand that our new eco-mobiles be built 
for easy maintenance and repair, and for a hundred-year lifetime.

  I'd like to see a conversion industry that rebuilds and converts a 
popular model (the Camry has sold over 400,000 a year since 2000) 
on an industrial scale.  

  Battery conversion might also be a practical proposition for some
used SUVs if their high fuel consumption tends to limit their range 
anyway.  The world is likely to be awash in SUVs built to take on
the desert but never driven off road, which have a great potential 
to achieve hundred-year lifetimes.  Their engines will wear out 
long before their suspensions will.

 




> From: eameece at sfo.com
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:49:07 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] car scrapping
> 
> It might be a great idea if they are swapping old cars for plug-in 
> electrics, etc.
> Eric M
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Doyle" <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "sosfbay discussion group" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:05 PM
> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] car scrapping
> 
> 
> >I first heard of something similar in a report of a letter to the editor.
> > Originally I thought it was a little bit off the wall although it sounded
> > to me like a good idea in principle.
> >
> > Now look at what there is in other parts of the globe
> > http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=90905&sectionid=3510213
> >
> > Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:52 GMT
> > The German government increases the budget for its car-scrapping plan
> > with goal of turning over up to two million cars, not just 600,000.
> >
> > The government will triple the amount of money it originally set aside
> > from 1.5b to 5b euros under a program which has been welcomed in the
> > country.
> >
> > The new car purchase incentive scheme came amid signs that the German
> > economy still suffers from the contraction of international demand, as
> > new figures show the country's exports continued to fall for the fifth
> > month in a row.
> >
> > The 2,500 euro bonus is for car owners who scrap cars at least nine
> > years old and buy new ones. It was set up earlier this year in order to
> > boost the country's auto industry as part of a wider 50b euro economic
> > stimulus.
> >
> > The number of applications for car-scrapping in Germany increased by the
> > end of last week to 1.2 million. The government meanwhile announced that
> > the program would be expanded, but has not yet clarified the details.
> >
> > The German car industry, like those in many other countries, has been
> > attempting to deal with a decrease in sales during the economic recession.
> >
> > Scrapping schemes are now in operation in Austria, Portugal, Italy,
> > Spain and France, while the UK is reportedly looking into a similar
> > program.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss 
> 
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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Mon Apr 13 17:12:04 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:12:04 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] what is feed in tariff?
Message-ID: <49E3D4D4.5080801@sbcglobal.net>

Why is the renewable energy market in Gainesville booming while it's
collapsing elsewhere in the country?

The answer boils down to policy. In early February, the city became the
first in the nation to adopt a "feed-in tariff" -- a clunky and 
un-descriptive
name for a bold incentive to foster renewable energy.

Under this system, the local power company is required to buy renewable 
energy
from independent producers, no matter how small, at rates slightly 
higher than the
average cost of production.

This means anyone with a cluster of solar cells on their roof can sell 
the power they
 produce at a profit.

The costs of the program are passed on to ratepayers, who see a small 
rise in their
electric bills (in Gainesville the annual increase is capped at 1 
percent). While rate hikes are
seldom popular, the community has rallied behind this policy, because 
unlike big power
plant construction -- the costs of which are also passed on to the 
public --

everyone has the opportunity to profit,

either by investing themselves or by tapping into the groundswell of 
economic activity
the incentive creates.

The full article is at  *http://tinyurl.com/cclc48*

Jim Doyle



From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Mon Apr 13 20:09:53 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:09:53 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Spanish Prosecutors Will Pursue Criminal Probe
 Against Gonzales and Five Henchmen
Message-ID: <BAY140-W324271EAA1B1C5433811749E7C0@phx.gbl>



Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal

investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish

citizens held at Guant?namo, several reliable sources close to the

investigation have told The Daily Beast.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-13/the-bush-six-to-be-indicted


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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Tue Apr 14 14:39:58 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:39:58 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] July 4-th festival cancellation
Message-ID: <49E502AE.7060004@sbcglobal.net>

The way I read this is that the entire festival is cancelled.
I received this notice via email from the producer of the festival.

*April 13, 2009

2009 SAN JOSE AMERICA FESTIVAL & FIREWORKS SHOW CANCELLED

*Citing current economic conditions leading to decreased levels of 
public and private funding, Filco Events regretfully announces the 
cancellation of the 2009 America Festival and Fireworks Show, scheduled 
for the 4th of July weekend in San Jose.

?The public safety costs of producing a free fireworks show over the
downtown streets and freeways are staggering,? says producer
Fil Maresca of Filco. ?I have always been astounded at the coordinated
efforts of our city, county, and state safety officers to bring hundreds of
thousands into the area for a 20 minute show, then get them safely home
in less than an hour. But those efforts don't come cheap.?

Traditionally, these costs are paid for by the festival itself, through 
city grants,
local sponsorships, and festival revenue. This year, with an alarming 
reduction
in both public and private support, the festival revenue can no longer 
expect
to make up this significant shortfall.

?This is certainly a year where we could all use some great free 
entertainment,?
Maresca says. ?But the money just isn't there.?




From wrolley at charter.net  Tue Apr 14 15:18:19 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:18:19 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Just Say No on May 19]
Message-ID: <49E50BAB.40308@charter.net>

As a bit of background. This is the "editorial position" of one of the 
more progressive, but basically Democratic, blogs in the state. This is 
not to endrose their position, only to explain it.

Wes

-------- Original Message --------
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Date: 	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:13:48 -0400 (EDT)
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To: 	wrolley at charter.net



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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Tue Apr 14 17:47:17 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:47:17 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Saving the Planet One City at a Time
Message-ID: <49E52E95.3070302@aceweb.com>

 >
 > Bruce Karney 

 > Saving the Planet One City at a Time
 >
 >
 > For the last several years, city governments around the world have
 > asked residents to help develop plans to make them more sustainable.
 > Mountain View's Environmental Sustainability Task Force was active
 > from February to September 2008 and produced 89 specific
 > recommendations in its 300-page report, which can be found on the
 > city?s web site. The City Council is currently in the process of
 > deciding which recommendations to pursue.
 >
 > Bruce Karney, the Chair of the Task Force and a long time Mountain
 > View resident, will discuss the lessons he learned during and after
 > the Task Force was active and will answer questions about "what's
 > next."
 >
 > is also known for organizing a group purchase of solar panels in 2007
 > in which 119 families bought solar PV from a single vendor at a deep
 > discount.  Most recently, he worked in marketing and customer finance
 > at SolarCity, California's leading residential solar design,
 > installation and financing company.
 >
Bruce began his presentation by asking each of us to project something
about the future 190 years down the road. On each plate was a page of
puzzles for grown ups and crayons. There were three charts on the page,
world population, life expectancy at birth, and CO2 Concentration. Each
chart was filled in from 1800 to now, and our job was to fill in the
other half of the chart. After we did that, he showed us two charts, one
where population and life expectancy crash and CO2 goes up and up, and
one where population stabilizes, life expectancy stays long, and CO2
concentration stabilizes around 420 PPM. He guessed that most of us
probably produced charts somewhere between those.

Then Bruce asked why, if Mountain View's carbon foot print is only a
small percentage of humanity's carbon footprint, should we care about
making it smaller? He pointed out that we are a relatively rich city in
a relatively rich State in a remarkably wealthy nation. We have the
resources to find better ways of doing things. Since it is much easier
to copy a good idea than it is to come up with one, if we can find
something others will adopt it. That could have a huge multiplying
effect on reducing CO2 emissions, far beyond our direct impact.

A couple of years ago, Step It Up had created a national campaign to get
Mayors all across America to sign climate protection agreements. One of
the points was to set up a citizens task force to look into ways to make 
the city's carbon footprint smaller. Mayor Macias signed the agreement
near the end of her term, and Mayor Means implemented it.  Mountain View
had an Environmetal Sustainability task force of 50 to 80 people,
depending on how you count them. The steering committee was just a
dozen, and the city budgeted six months and $30,000 dollars for its
work. In the end, Mtn View's task force took seven months or so, but
never needed all of the money allocated.

Some members of the task force worked very hard on the project. In the
end, they came up with 89 recommendations, explained over a 300 page
report. These were handed off to a newly formed Council Sustainability 
Committee consisting of Mayor Abe-Koga, Ronit Bryant, and Jac Siegal.
After several meetings, the Council Sustainablity Committee forwarded
about 20 recommendations to the full City Council for their approval,
and that approval was given in March.

A copy of the task force report can be downloaded from the FINAL REPORT 
link on:

http://www.mountainview.gov/services/learn_about_our_city/environmental_sustainability_task_force.asp

Which page can also be visited by using this much shorter URL:

http://tinyurl.com/cve5my

During Q&A a lot of interesting things came up.

Bruce said that a lot of the report's recommendations revolved around
transportation. He explained that a pie chart of a typical person's
energy consumption looks like a peace sign, with the small slices being
electricity and gas, and the large slices being driving and flying.
Mountain View can't do much about flying, but driving is certainly
something the city can influence.

A lot of the suggestions that affect the built environment are being
folded into the next increment of Mountain View's ten year plan. Others,
like "use drought tolerant plants", can only be adopted on a voluntary
basis, except in City owned parks and places like that.

One reason that solar panels are more popular in this area than most
is because PG&E prices power so that baseline usage is sold at about
12 cents per KWHr, the next increment of power costs 22 cents per KWHr,
and so on. The sweet spot for solar panel sales is replacing power that
customers are now paying 44 cents per KWHr for. After rebates, that
investment can have as little as a five to seven year pay back time.

It may be that we are going to have to build dikes along the bay front
to prevent sea level rise from shrinking Mtn View. Obviously we will
have to partner with the cities around us to make that happen.

Getting Apartment building owners to add insulation and such is a
challenge, since they don't pay the bills. Bruce wishes that the city 
would look into ways to make it required when ownership changes hands,
but there is no movement in that direction yet. Sales of rental property
happens much more slowly than with owner occupied residences.

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From wrolley at charter.net  Tue Apr 14 21:14:22 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:14:22 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Managing the media
Message-ID: <49E55F1E.6000201@charter.net>

I was really PO'd after reading a George Will column in the MurkyNews.   
In fact, started to write a response and put in a call to Barbara 
Marshman, Opinion Page Editor, to make sure it would stand a chance of 
being published.

Along the way, I heard that Chris Mooney was writing a response to the 
same George Will Swill as it was originally published in the Washington 
Post.  So, I wrote Marshman and suggested that, since they ran the Will 
column in syndication, that they also run Mooney's if WaPo did.  I put 
Chris in touch with Marshaman and bowed out.

Well, the Mooney <http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12041499> response 
showed up in both.


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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Wed Apr 15 09:40:44 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:40:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: county council meeting
Message-ID: <617472.53701.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I didn't see this posted, so I'm sending it on. The County Council meeting is at my house. I think we said 3:00. Address: 323 N. Murphy Ave (between Arques and Maude), Sunnyvale. If you get lost, my phone number is (408)530-0118. We have stuff to pass out and logistics to plan, so come if you can.
Caroline

--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: county council meeting
To: "andrea dorey" <andid at cagreens.org>, "Carol Brouillet" <cbrouillet at igc.org>, carolineyacoub at att.net, "dana St George" <danasg at greens.org>, "gerrygras" <gerrygras at earthlink.net>, "Jim Doyle" <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>, "tian harter" <tnHarter at aceweb.com>, "Wesley Rolley" <wrolley at charter.net>
Cc: "merriam" <MKmusic03 at aol.com>
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 12:49 PM

Greetings All,

We would like to have a county council meeting
Sunday April 19-th and since it should be an open meeting
we need to announce it.
Of course, there should be enough of us there to have a quorum.
So I ask, will you be able to be there?
Please report on your status, rsvp, be it yes, no, or maybe.

Merriam has made contacts that could enable some joint effort with a
combination of Green Party, Peace and Freedom Party, and the
Labor Party.

Jim Doyle
P.S.  for my part my response is no because my wife and I will be out of town.


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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Apr 15 21:05:28 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:05:28 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Drew's operation
Message-ID: <49E6AE88.9070704@sbcglobal.net>

Drew has had his operation.  He is in the VA hospital in Palo Alto.
To call him, call (650) 493-5000
then, when asked if you know the patient's extension, press 1
his extension is 66522.

His operation involved the diaphragm, he finds it uncomfortable to breathe,
and he gets a liquid diet. 

Jim Doyle



From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Thu Apr 16 13:03:49 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:03:49 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Torture Memos Released
Message-ID: <BAY140-W81D169C41141CB0E55DC69E7A0@phx.gbl>



The CIA wanted to hold them back, but they're being released 
unredacted except to hide the identities of the interrogators.  

Apparently they include an 8-1-02 memo authored by John Yoo 
and
signed by Jay Bybee, and some 2005 memos by Steven G. 
Bradbury.   According
to the Wall Street Journal, one of these 
memos said "a prisoner's head could be struck against a wall
as 
long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was

controlled by the interrogator."

MSNBC reports the story under a headline that seems to exonerate 
the CIA: "CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding;  Holder 
gives first definitive assurance officials are legally in the clear".  

Obama's statement reserves all rights
with respect to retaining the
classified nature of secret
activities, and seems to suggest that he 
will leave any prosecutions
to the Spanish court.  "[N]othing
will be 
gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the
past."  

Bybee is now a Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 
reportedly posted to
Las Vegas.  According to Sourcewatch, Bradbury 
got
an English degree in 1980 from Stanford, where he had been a 
resident
at Synergy House.

Editorial comment:  While Obama's statement claim that  "these
methods 
of interrogation are already a thing of the past"
may technically true, it 
fails to acknowledge that only prosecution and punishment can
prevent 
them from being a thing of the future as well.  


http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123975168816518691-lMyQjAxMDI5MzE5NDcxNTQxWj.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30249847
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/04/obama_explains_memo_release_decision.php
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_G._Bradbury




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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Apr 16 18:46:47 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:46:47 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Caltrain advisory committee
Message-ID: <49E7DF87.5000204@sbcglobal.net>



*OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS TO WORK ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY***

The Caltrain Board is currently seeking applicants for its Citizens 
Advisory Committee (CAC). The CAC is comprised of nine volunteer 
members, who serve in an advisory capacity to the board of directors, 
providing input on the needs of current and potential rail customers.

Applicants should be residents of Santa Clara, San Mateo, or San 
Francisco County. Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Monday, May 11. The 
CAC meets the third Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. in San Carlos, 
just one block from the San Carlos Caltrain Station. All meetings are 
open to the public. Interested persons can download an application at 
www.caltrain.com <http://www.caltrain.com> or call (650) 508-6223.



From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Fri Apr 17 00:29:27 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:29:27 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fun Finance Facts
Message-ID: <BAY140-W303AB63DF8E7D2DBF4DF3B9E7B0@phx.gbl>



US stock of money:  $1.596 trillion (31 December 2007)  (1)

US GDP: $14.29 trillion (2008 est.)  (1)

US publicly traded shares:  $19.95 trillion (31 December 2007) (1)

World publicly traded shares: $66.82 trillion (31 December 2007 est.) (2)  
 
World GDP: $69.49 trillion (2008 est.)  (2)

Derivatives (innovative financial products) market before meltdown:  $683 trillion (3)




https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/us.html



https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/xx.html


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a3GVhIHGyWRM&


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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Sat Apr 18 20:35:27 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:35:27 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Garden Report/Sprouts for tabling
Message-ID: <c5e.5342067d.371bf5ff@aol.com>

At the last County meeting I took home seeds and set them up  for sprouting 
as starter plants for sales (I mean donations) items at  tabling.  The 
sunflower seeds were the first to germinate and I can make at  least one egg 
carton if someone wants to pick it up for Earth Day tabling.   Call and talk to 
me about this at (408) 295-9353.  BTW, it looks like one  kind of sweet 
pepper is beginning to show...  Still waiting for squash and  other plants..  
hopefully warm weather this week will encourage  growth...
 
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Sun Apr 19 11:37:49 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:37:49 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Tax Day Tea Party in San Jose
Message-ID: <49EB6F7D.40301@aceweb.com>

This crowd had a somewhat different character from most of the ones 
where I've taken pictures. For one thing, I had friends among the 
counter protesters.

For another, the creativity of the sign wavers hadn't been diminished
by eight years of being ignored by the powers that be. I ended up
with a lot of good pictures, maybe even more than I was expecting.

See my pictures at:

http://tian.greens.org/SanJose/TaxDay09/index.html
-- 
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Latest change: added pictures and commentary of SJ's tax day tea party.


From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Sun Apr 19 12:09:51 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:09:51 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] NYT Editorial Calls for Impeachment of Judge Bybee
Message-ID: <BAY140-W41C33B84143374B17810C59E790@phx.gbl>



     Bybee was John Yoo's boss.

    The editorial, entitled "The Torturers? Manifesto" calls the four recently-released
memos "a journey into depravity.... like the plot of a mob film.... [A]s far as Mr. Bush?s 
lawyers were concerned, it was not really torture
unless it involved breaking bones, 
burning flesh or pulling teeth." 


    
    It says that until we get to the bottom of Bush lawlessness--not just torture,
but the wiretaps too, "there is no hope of fixing a profoundly broken system of 
justice
and ensuring that that these acts are never repeated."

   It says investigations should start with Yoo, Bybee, and Steven Bradbury. 

    "Mr. Bybee is unfit for a job that
requires legal judgment and a respect for the 
Constitution. Congress
should impeach him. And if the administration will not conduct 
a
thorough investigation of these issues, then Congress has a
constitutional duty to 
hold the executive branch accountable. If that
means putting Donald Rumsfeld and 
Alberto Gonzales on the stand, even
Dick Cheney, we are sure Americans can handle 
it.   

    "After eight years without transparency or accountability, Mr.
Obama promised 
the American people both. His decision to release
these memos was another sign of 
his commitment to transparency. We
are waiting to see an equal commitment to 
accountability."     

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/opinion/19sun1.html?_r=1

    While I celebrate the Times's outrage, it's a bit late in coming.  It reminds me of 
Captain Renault's line "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"  
For too many years it seemed that the only ones willing to take a stand were the ACLU, 
Amnesty Int'l, and the Communists.  The news media have a lot to be accountable for, 
too.  Heads need to roll.

   ACLU released this shocking table in 2005!  Where was the Times then?

http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/



   
















 

 

 



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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Tue Apr 21 09:09:16 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:09:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Schwag production
Message-ID: <210228.46245.qm@web81203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Happy Earth Week, Green people!
The rocks are selling very well. In fact, I've sold more rocks than buttons. Does anybody out there like to paint shirts? I bought five white tee shirts in various sizes, and I would buy more if anybody feels like having a shirt-painting party. I think we should have some new, attractive, thought-provoking stuff to sell at the spaghetti feed. I have never painted a shirt, but, as the feed is before Mother's Day, I think something pretty with a slogan like "Take Care of Your Mother" would go well. Come on. I know there are creative people out there. Will you donate a couple of hours to raise money? If you feel a shirt is beyond you, perhaps you'd like to have a go at some rocks.
Caroline
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From cbrouillet at igc.org  Tue Apr 21 14:00:18 2009
From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:00:18 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Organic seeds/seedlings & H.R. 875- One pager
Message-ID: <E1LwN4l-0008T1-IE@elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

I tried to do an umbrella issue/one pager on 
Organic Seeds/Seedlings and the larger political 
issues.  I sent this to Cres for the California 
Green Party publication and was surprised when he 
began arguing with me on it.  I also sent it to 
my son who had an opportunity to ask Ralph Nader 
about it (Ralph hadn't looked into 
it).  Apparently it is a controversial issue, and 
many articles/videos are posted on the internet 
on this topic.  So, in addition to my one pager, 
I will follow it with the press release from the 
National Green Party, an article by Stephen 
Lendman, and the full text of the statement that 
I received from John Jeavons (whom I deeply 
respect considering his experience in this area). 
If anyone wants to use the one pager- feel free- 
but if you want to come up with something better- 
fine by me!!!! I also have a one pager from Seeds 
of Change which we can use when tabling- if you 
want any of this in a word document- let me 
know.  (Carol Brouillet cbrouillet at igc.org)

Going Organic- Great Idea!
H.R. 875 Food Safety Modernization Bill- Bad Idea!

      The loss of biodiversity, topsoil, small 
farmers over the last century, and the increase 
of pollution, chemicals, pesticides, factory 
farms, mono-culture has impoverished the quality 
of our food, the environment, life.  According to 
William Engdahls Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden 
Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, genetically 
modified organisms, pose an unprecedented threat to human health.

      Genetic manipulation and the patenting of 
life forms are being used to gain corporate 
control over food production. In the US, foods 
are not required to be identified as genetically 
modified or disclose if they contain GMOs. An 
estimated 75% of processed foods include them. 
The standards of the organic label which once 
assured people that those foods were produced 
without antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, 
irradiation or bioengineering have been lowered 
by the pressures of industry, wishing to 
capitalize on the trust generated by the term. 
Gardening, local farmers markets, community 
supported agriculture are increasingly popular as 
trust in brands, corporations and government 
wane.  Deceptive labeling includes not only foods, but legislation.

      H.R. 875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 
2009, introduced in February, raises alarms.  The 
legislation would create a Food Safety 
Administration within the Department of Health 
and Human Services.  John Jeavons, Executive 
Director of Ecology Action, author of How to Grow 
More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, 
and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On 
Less Land Than You Can Imagine; a pioneer of the 
biointensive method of mini-farming (See 
growbioinstensive.org & johnjeavons.info.) 
encourages public debate on food issues and notes that-

      ?Overall the Bill strikes me as a Patriot 
Act for Food. It vests a lot of power in one 
agency, and specifically the Administrator of the Food Safety Administration.

       ?The reason many people are demanding 
organic products is exactly because the health of 
the American population has been seriously 
compromised through chemicals that unbalance the 
human body and the environment. This is not 
addressing the real problem, but rather layering another problem on top?

      His concerns include:
*Inadequate oversight on the Food Safety Administration.
*Need for more independent and unbiased research 
and data for sustainable agricultural practices, 
which also      promote improved health.
*Classifications for Food Establishments or Food 
Production Facilities are too broad and subject 
all producers of food to the same standards and 
requirements, regardless of size.
*Administrative requirements for compliance with 
standards to be created, which are as yet vague, 
appear to be burdensome for small producers.
*Substantial fines and penalties, without needed 
language to differentiate between size of producers.
*Language related to what constitutes an outbreak 
needs to be considered and defined more carefully 
so as to avoid excessive response that may be 
ultimately counter to the public good.

      Jeavons asks: ?Why is there verbiage in 
this Bill about protection of trade secrets if 
this is truly about food safety? The only time 
trade secrets would come into play would be if 
there were a concern over public health as a 
result of chemical use or genetically modified 
products. Given that the process of genetic 
modification requires the use of viruses to 
introduce a foreign gene into an organism, and 
that this could pose a threat to public health, 
these secrets should not be protected under this Bill.?

       He adds: ?Once an outbreak is declared it 
seems extreme measures are taken to contain it, 
both through this newly formed Administration and 
perhaps the other government agencies to whom the 
list was provided. This seems excessive for 2 
people getting sick from ingesting a common food. That happens all the time.

      We need to protect organic farmers, seed 
savers, not burden them with more regulations and 
threats of fines, inspections, 
confiscations.  Greater oversight is needed over 
GMOs, which the US has been trying to push on the 
rest of the world and the factory farms which are 
a major source and cause of disease causing 
foods.  We should recognize and encourage 
healthy, sustainable methods.   The healthiest, 
best tasting, most satisfying produce, is the 
freshly picked variety that comes from organic 
heirloom seeds, lovingly grown, and devoured in your own organic garden.

(By Carol Brouillet)

US Green Party Press release:
Green Party Logo

Greens urge amendment to food safety bills, 
citing need to protect family farms and organic farming

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

Monday, April 6, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders voiced 
concerns about the "Food Safety Modernization 
Act" (HR 875 and S 425) and, while supporting the 
goal of food safety and farm inspections, urged 
amendments in the bill to protect small and 
family farms, farmers' markets, and organic farming.

"America needs national food safety guarantees in 
the age of genetic modification, misleading 
labeling, food-borne illnesses and contaminants, 
especially pesticides. But the 'one size fits 
all' approach of the bills endangers family farms 
and local, organic agriculture. Without 
amendments, the result of HR 875 and S 425 may be 
the demise of small farms and organic 
agriculture, increased profits and the expansion 
of giant agri-businesses," said Nancy Allen, 
farmer and member of the Maine Green Independent Party.

"Rather than crushing protocols and penalties, we 
call for regulation that ensures food safety by 
working with family farms, farmers markets, and 
similar small businesses and promotes the selling 
of locally, organically, and sustainably grown produce," Ms. Allen added.

Greens noted that the bills do not address the 
problems of the large corporate farms: poor 
working conditions, limitations on fast marketing 
because of large quantities of produce, 
long-distance markets, overuse of chemicals, 
petroleum dependence, and lack of quality, nutrition, taste, and freshness.

Recent breakdowns in food safety have been the 
result of major corporate farming practices that 
fail to control pathogens, because of indequate 
regulatory oversight caused by the influence of 
agricultural monopolies on state and national 
agencies responsible for protecting consumers. 
Greens said that all farms should be held to 
strict standards and undergo inspections, but 
warned that the cost of paperwork and oversight 
protocols would be prohibitive to small farms and 
would ultimately harm consumers if small farms 
were subjected to the same requirements as huge agribusiness farms.

The Green Party's national platform advocates 
"legislation that assists new farmers and 
ranchers, that promotes widespread ownership to 
small and medium-sized farms and ranches, and 
that revitalizes and repopulates rural 
communities and promotes sustainable development 
and stewardship" 
(<http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/ecology.html#753970>http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/ecology.html#753970).

For more information on the Food Safety bills and 
concerns about their effect on small farms, visit 
the Cornucopia Institute's web pages: "Farmers 
Fear Being Run over by Food Safety Juggernaut" 
(April 2, 2009) 
(http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_17451.cfm); 
Action Alert: Critical Pending Food Safety 
Legislation 
(<http://www.cornucopia.org/2009/03/action-alert-critical-pending-food-safety-legislation>http://www.cornucopia.org/2009/03/action-alert-critical-pending-food-safety-legislation).

See also "Food Safety Hits the Fan: Regulatory 
Action, Inaction and Over-reaction and the 
Effects on Small Scale Growers" by Steve Gilman, 
Northeast Organic Farm Association - Interstate 
Council Policy Coordinator 
(<http://www.nofa.org/policy/leafygreens.php>http://www.nofa.org/policy/leafygreens.php).

(From Global Research.ca - 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13025 )
Unsafe Genetically Modified Food
GMO Proliferation Bills in the US Congress

by Stephen Lendman

Four in all so far plus another authorizing 
funding under a 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act. 
One is HR 875: "Food Safety Modernization Act of 
2009." Introduced in the House on February 4 by 
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, (D, CT) whose husband has ties 
to Monsanto, with 39 co-sponsors, it's been 
referred to the Agriculture and Energy and 
Commerce Committees for consideration as follows:

-- discussion,

-- possible hearings,

-- "mark-up" to make changes and add amendments,

-- then a vote on further action - to either 
table or send to the full chamber for a vote, the 
regular procedure for House and Senate legislation.

The bill's text is deceptively innocuous. Its header reads:

"To establish the Food Safety Administration 
within the Department of Health and Human 
Services to protect the public health by 
preventing food-borne illnesses, ensuring the 
safety of food, improving research on 
contaminants leading to food-borne illness and 
improving security of food from intentional 
contamination, and for other purposes."

Related bills include:

S 425: "Food Safety and Tracking Improving Act." 
Introduced on February 12 and referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry. It purports: "To amend the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the 
establishment of a traceability system for food, 
to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the 
Poultry Inspections Act, the Egg Products 
Inspection Act. and the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act to provide for improved public 
health and food safety through enhanced enforcement, and for other purposes."

HR 814: "Trace Act of 2009." Introduced on 
February 3 and referred to the House Energy and 
Commerce Committee. It's: "To amend the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat 
Inspection Act, the Poultry Inspection Act, and 
the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the 
safety of food, meat, and poultry products 
through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes."

HR 759: "Food and Drug Administration 
Globalization Act of 2009." Introduced on January 
28 and referred to the House Energy and Commerce 
Committee. It's: "To amend the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improved the safety of 
food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics in the global 
market, and for other purposes."

If its critics are right, HR 875 (and the others) 
are what Linn Cohen-Cole calls "Monsanto's dream 
bill" to proliferate the world with GMO 
contamination and control its entire food supply.

In 2007, F. William Engdahl wrote an important 
book on the topic called "Seeds of Destruction: 
The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation." He 
explained how Washington and four agribusiness 
giants plan world domination by patenting all 
life forms to control food production globally - everything, crops and animals.

In 2003, Jeffrey Smith's "Seeds of Deception" 
explained the dangers of untested and unregulated 
GM foods exposing those who eat them to potential 
health risks. Reliable studies show that rats fed 
GM potatoes had smaller livers, hearts, 
testicles, brains, damaged immune systems, and 
showed structural changes in their white blood 
cells making them more susceptible to infection 
and disease than other rats fed non-GM potatoes. 
They also had thymus and spleen damage, enlarged 
tissues, including the pancreas and intestines, 
liver atrophy, and other serious problems.

Humans may be harmed the same way because GMOs 
saturate our diet. Over 80% of all processed 
foods contain them as well as rice, corn, 
soybeans, soy products, vegetable oils, soft 
drinks, salad dressings, vegetables, fruits, 
dairy products, meat, and other animal products 
plus an array of hidden additives and ingredients 
in products like tomato sauce, ice cream and peanut butter.

Because labeling in America is prohibited, 
consumers don't know what they're eating or the 
risks from foods they believe safe. It makes 
everyone part of a mass human experiment, the 
results of which are unknown. Health problems may 
take years to show up. They'll be no way to trace 
the cause, and they may be serious, irreversible, 
and potentially life threatening.

Wheat so far is GM-free, and according to an 
April 1 Reuters report, Monsanto formally 
withdrew "submissions for its genetically 
modified wheat from all regulatory agencies 
except the US Food and Drug Administration, a 
company spokeswoman said. The withdrawal is the 
last step in Monsanto's (earlier) announcement 
that it would" delay but not shelve plans to 
introduce the world's first GM wheat.

Monsanto sought approval in America, Canada, 
Australia, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa and 
Colombia. It's now delayed, not halted. The 
company wants GM control over wheat and all other 
foods, but its official pronouncements deny it.

Monsanto Answers Its Critics

"Monsanto According to Monsanto" is a company 
blog site. Responding to critics on March 20, it 
headlined, "HR 875: Monsanto's Dream Bill - Or 
Just a Hallucination?" It dismisses the notion 
that it's behind the bill that will "give 
incredible power to Monsanto by criminalizing 
seed banking, requiring 24 hour GPS tracking of 
animals, stripping away of property rights, and 
forcing industrialized farming on America."

Not so it says or that "Monsanto is behind the 
bill. (Further), nowhere is there any mention of 
seed banks, loss of property rights, or GPS 
tracking of animals. The bill seems to be nothing 
more egregious than a well-intentioned effort to 
improve food safety laws and processes."

The bill's presumed intentions will be discussed 
below, but one thing is clear. Businesses, not 
politicians, write and/or control virtually all 
legislation affecting them to assure their 
interests are served. Monsanto is an influential 
Ag giant, directly involved in all food-related 
laws, the company's denials notwithstanding. It's 
so powerful, it has virtual veto power over 
anything related to its operations and laws affecting them.

Yet it dismissively claims that the bill stems 
from "public concerns with relatively recent 
incidents with peanut butter, ground beef, (and) 
spinach, etc." False. The way to deal with these 
and related problems is simply enforce existing 
laws, not enact new ones. They're not because 
food giants object at a time they matter, not 
public health and safety that's of no concern to lawmakers.

Case in point: the USDA is woefully understaffed, 
under-budgeted, and only perfunctorily carries 
out inspections. A recent OMB Watch report 
highlights the problem. Headlined, "Federal Meat 
Inspectors Spread Thin as Recalls Rise," it 
explains that USDA's Food Safety and Inspection 
Service (FSIS) is charged with ensuring safe 
meat, poultry and eggs, but its budget and staff 
haven't kept pace with its mandate.

In FY 1981, it had about 190 workers per billion 
pounds of meat and poultry inspected. By FY 2007, 
it was fewer than 88 or less than half as many. 
Yet under federal law, FSIS must inspect all 
meat, poultry, and egg products intended for 
commercial use. Its web site states: "Slaughter 
facilities cannot operate if FSIS inspection 
personnel are not present (and) Only Federally 
inspected establishments can produce products 
that are destined to enter commerce."

Reality, however, belies the mandate as 
processors and manufacturers easily circumvent 
procedures, and according to inspectors 
interviewed, understaffing and lax policies 
contribute to the problem. An unsafe food supply 
results. Government policy is to blame, and 
current legislation is for other purposes, not a 
way to fix things. HR 875 and companion bills are 
for agribusiness, not improved food safety.

Some Likely Truths about HR 875

Several recent articles and the Pennsylvania 
Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) 
offered their analyses. They believe this and 
companion bills are vehicles to let agribusiness 
control the entire US food supply, destroy 
independent local farming, and end the production 
of healthy organic food. They may be right.

Linn Cohen-Cole calls HR 875 "monstrous on level 
after level - the power it would give to Monsanto 
(and other Ag giants), the criminalization of 
seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory 
fines for farmers, the 24 hour GPS tracking of 
animals, the easement on their property to allow 
for warrantless government entry, the stripping 
away of their property rights, the imposition 
(of) "industrial" standards, (and) planned 
elimination of (independent) farmers through all (the above) means."

It's no secret that Ag giants want all foods to 
be GMOs so they have total control. It's an 
agenda going back decades that Engdahl explained 
in his book. The science came out of US research 
labs in the 1970s when no one noticed or paid 
attention. It became apparent when the Reagan 
administration decided to make America dominant 
in a friendly unregulated environment, unmindful 
of safety and public health concerns, that's 
persisted ever since under Republican and Democrat administrations.

Monsanto is the dominant producer, a company with 
a long record of fraud, cover-up, bribery, 
deceit, and disdain for the public interest, yet 
it has enormous clout in Washington. In the 
1980s, and especially under GHW Bush, it got 
unregulated free reign for its operations. A Bush 
Executive Order assured it. It ruled GMO plants 
and food to be "substantially equivalent" to 
ordinary ones of the same varieties, such as 
corn, wheat or rice. "Substantial equivalence" 
became the standard for the GMO revolution by 
sweeping away all regulatory restraints in spite 
of early concerns about safety that were confirmed overwhelmingly later on.

PASA says don't be fooled by the bill's deceptive 
language that hides its true intentions. Code 
words like "traceability, source verification, 
and best farming practices with proven scientific 
results" will force farmers to tag every animal 
(the requirement for industrial farms is one per 
800,000) and use drugs, pesticides and GM seeds.

Already an Ohio state agricultural department 
swat team raided an organic food coop. The same 
thing happened to Pennsylvania Mennonite farmers 
and Wisconsin Amish ones. Other independents have 
been terrorized by home break-ins, burglaries, 
and treetop helicopter over-flights scaring 
animals to death. Conventional seed farmers like 
North Dakota's Rodney Nelson have been sued by 
Monsanto for infringing on its patent rights 
because wind currents landed GM seeds on his 
land. In Poland, pro-agribusiness laws eliminated 
60% of small farmers. Ones in the UK led to 60 
suicides and in India to over 180,000.

 From 1996 - 2004, worldwide GMO plantings 
expanded to 167 million acres, a 40-fold increase 
on 25% of global arable land. Over two-thirds of 
US farmland grows GMOs, more than 106 million 
acres. Argentina has 34 million acres, and 
production is expanding in Brazil, China, Canada, 
South Africa, Indonesia, Spain, Eastern Europe, 
and wherever else Ag giants have clout. They want 
it all, everywhere, and have complicit government 
allies to help them, here and abroad.

In Iraq, Paul Bremer's Order 81 covers patents, 
their duration, and stated: "Farmers shall be 
prohibited from re-using seeds of protected 
varieties or any (designated) variety." It gave 
Ag giants absolute control over farmers' seed 
usage for 20 years. They're now GMO, owned by the 
transnationals, and Iraqi farmers had to sign an 
agreement to pay a "technology fee" as well as an 
annual license fee. Plant Variety Protection 
(PVP) made seed saving and reuse illegal, and 
even "similar" seed plantings can result in 
severe fines and imprisonment. Agribusiness wants 
the same rights everywhere, including in America. 
If they get it, the future of organic and 
independent farming will be threatened.

PASA says HR 875 doesn't regulate, prohibit or 
penalize private gardens or farmers markets 
directly. It focuses solely on ensuring 
supermarket food safety. But it regulates seeds, 
harvesting, transporting, seed storage 
facilities, and seed cleaning equipment under 
"food safety" provisions to prevent contamination 
- from agricultural water and manure, not 
pesticides, fertilizers, or unsafe GM seeds.

Seed cleaning equipment is crucial as it's how 
organic seed is saved. It's used after plants "go 
to seed" to separate them from plant material so 
farmers can harvest and store them for future 
plantings. HR 875 doesn't mention seeds but PASA 
believes its intent is to criminalize their 
banking through code language and bill 
provisions. Already, some areas of the country 
ban seed cleaning. Monsanto is likely involved, 
and the scheme is to claim the equipment produces contamination.

To prevent it, Ag giants want provisions that 
require expensive storage facilities, per line of 
seed. Organic farmers can't afford them, and this 
has nothing to do with food safety. But HR 875 claims it does.

PASA says FDA and USDA targeted organic and other 
independent farmers for years, at least since the 
early 1980s when high interest rates drove many 
out of business. Today, pro-industry laws have 
the same effect because Ag giants like Monsanto 
demand them. If they succeed, biodiversity and 
organic farming are at risk along with public 
health and safety to a greater degree than 
already given the amount of tainted and dangerous 
foods allowed, not addressed in HR 875.

While bill language doesn't prohibit organic or 
independent farming, that's the likely aim. Its 
provisions are Ag business-friendly, but 
destructive to small competitors by establishing 
heavy fines, imprisonment, onerous rules, and 
letting regulators interpret them as they wish.

Bill language also doesn't mandate a national 
animal ID system (NAIS) but does it by claiming 
it's in current law. It's so deceptive that 
Congress and consumer and food safety groups 
support it. But some are industry funded so look 
the other way when they should know better.

HR 875 and its companion bills are under 
consideration in committees, not yet voted into 
law. Activists feel now is the time to stop them 
before it's too late. Agribusiness wants total 
control over every step in the production, 
processing, distribution, storage, and marketing of foods to consumers.

Using the ruse of food safety and security, they 
aim to eliminate competition to have it all and 
replace wholesome foods with unsafe GMOs. 
Congress is willing to go along. And why not. 
Representatives like DeLauro get large Ag 
business contributions. In return, they assure 
bills like HR 875 are passed. It's for concerned people to stop them.

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the 
Center of Research on Globalization.

The following is the personal assessment of H.R. 
875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 by 
John Jeavons of Ecology Action. It is his desire 
that these comments be considered as a part of 
the public debate on this very important Bill. 
Further, the issue is serious enough that he 
encourages others to read the Bill in its 
entirety and formulate their own opinions from 
their perspective. This is will provide a broader 
scope of concerns for consideration for those in 
positions to appropriately revise the legislation 
in the best interest of their 
constituencies.  Any statements taken in part 
from the entirety of this assessment should be 
stated as the views of the person referencing the 
comment. To review the entire Bill go to: 
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgibin/query/C?c111:./temp/~c111gv58l2

Points of Concern:

    * Inadequate oversight on the Food Safety Administration.
    * Need for more independent and unbiased 
research and data for sustainable agricultural 
practices, which also promote improved health.
    * Classifications for Food Establishments or 
Food Production Facilities are too broad and 
subject all producers of food to the same 
standards and requirements, regardless of size.
    * Administrative requirements for compliance 
with standards to be created, which are as yet 
vague, appear to be burdensome for small producers.
    * Substantial fines and penalties, without 
needed language to differentiate between size of producers.
    * Language related to what constitutes an 
outbreak needs to be considered and defined more 
carefully so as to avoid excessive response that 
may be ultimately counter to the public good.


Elaboration on the Points of Concern:
    * Broad categories of inclusion for what is a 
Food Establishment or Food Production Facility. 
There is no qualification for the size of the 
operation and, in fact, this Bill seems to target 
smaller growers or facilities. It states in many 
of the classifications that they pertain to those 
that are not otherwise regulated, which large 
commercial operations already are.
    * There is concern that too much power for 
determining appropriate methods of food 
production, regulating, and penalizing are given 
to the Administrator of the Food Safety 
Administration. The language of this Bill in many 
ways is too vague and sweeping to engender 
confidence on the part of the public as to the 
true intention of the newly formed agency.  This 
feels similar to the Patriot Act in that it seems 
like an over reaction based on fear, and the 
levels of control that stem from it may be 
excessive and detrimental to the greater good. In 
particular, the determination that 2 or more 
cases of a similar illness from eating a common 
food will be classified as an outbreak, which 
then gives the Administration authority for 
extreme measures, seems excessive. More 
reasonable and specific language about what constitutes an outbreak is needed.
Further, the statement that ?IN GENERAL- The 
Administrator, in person or by such agents as the 
Administrator may designate, may prosecute any 
inquiry necessary to carry out the duties of the 
Administrator under the food safety law in any 
part of the United States? gives this agency too 
much power. Any legal actions should be handled 
within the court system and the accused afforded 
their standard rights for due process and representation.
There should be some type of oversight committee, 
including citizen advocacy representatives, as 
well as more language in the Bill itself that 
provides checks and balances on Administrative power.
    * Why is there verbiage in this Bill about 
protection of trade secrets if this is truly 
about food safety? The only time trade secrets 
would come into play would be if there were a 
concern over public health as a result of 
chemical use or genetically modified products. 
Given that the process of genetic modification 
requires the use of viruses to introduce a 
foreign gene into an organism, and that this 
could pose a threat to public health, these 
?secrets? should not be protected under this Bill.
    * There is language in the Bill that 
indicates a ?standard? will be determined for 
safe production of food that will include things 
like fertilizer use, nutrients, and 
hygiene.  This is all fine so long as that 
standard is not weighted in favor of current, 
large-scale agrochemical methods. The Bill says 
that a variance can be applied for, but again, if 
we are truly talking about health of our food 
supply and our soil, the standard should be for 
the methods that best support that. The burden 
for applying for variances would then be on 
chemical agriculture and not organic farming. 
There are also many small-scale organic growers 
for whom the time and expense of complying with 
obtaining scientific proof for the safety of 
their methods in order to obtain a variance would 
be prohibitive. In general, the time and 
financial requirements for registering, reporting 
and regular inspections, applying for variances, 
and otherwise meeting the stated objectives set 
forth by the Food Safety Administration will be 
too burdensome for small farmers. We need to 
ensure that the valuable resource we have in these farmers is safeguarded.
Additionally, a stated purpose of this Bill is 
the need to protect ?a growing number of people 
at high risk for food-borne illnesses, including 
an increasing population of aging and 
immune-compromised consumers, together with infants and children.?

The demand for organically produced food has 
grown out of the need to address increasing 
health challenges and compromised immune systems. 
Both the health of the environment and humans has 
suffered from chemical agriculture. To then opt 
in favor of chemical production, antibiotics, or 
things like irradiation as a standard for food 
safety would be counterproductive to say the 
least. Therefore, there should be more specific 
language in the Bill in favor of organic 
agriculture. Otherwise, it is hard to believe 
that the basis for introducing this piece of legislation is food safety.


Annotated Review Comments
H.R. 875


NOTE: Text in quotes is taken directly from the 
Bill. Where quoted text has been bolded, it is 
for this assessment?s emphasis. Additionally, 
bracketed text is for comment or clarification.

Overall the Bill strikes me as a Patriot Act for 
Food. It vests a lot of power in one agency, and 
specifically the ?Administrator? of the Food 
Safety Administration. This will be a 
consolidation of various entities who have 
previously played a role in this regard.
Justification for this consolidation and focused effort is:

    * ?lapses in the protection of the food 
supply and loss of public confidence in food 
safety are damaging to consumers and the food 
industry, and place a burden on interstate commerce and international trade;?

    * ?the safety and security of the food supply 
require a system wide approach to prevent 
food-borne illness involving the integrated 
efforts of Federal, State and local agencies; a 
thorough, broad-based, and coordinated approach 
to basic and applied science; and intensive, 
effective, and efficient management of the Nation?s food safety program;?
    * ?the Food and Drug Administration, an 
agency within the Department of Health and Human 
Services, has regulatory jurisdiction over the 
safety and labeling of 80 percent of the American 
food supply, encompassing all foods except meat, 
poultry, and egg products, as well as drugs, medical devices, and biologics;?
    * ?the Food and Drug Administration?s 
effectiveness is further impaired by 
fragmentation of leadership and management within 
the Administration, as major food safety 
responsibilities are dispersed across the 
Administration?s Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition, Center for Veterinary 
Medicine, and Office of Regulatory Affairs;?

The new Food Safety Administration is to: 
?provide a single focal point with the Department 
of Health and Human Services for food safety 
leadership, both nationally and internationally; 
and provide an integrated food safety research 
capability, including internally generated, 
scientifically and statistically valid studies, 
in cooperation with academic institutions and 
other scientific entities of the Federal and State governments;?

More emphasis on independent research or testing 
is needed. Control is basically in the hands of the ?Administrator.?

Further rationalization for the need for this 
massive effort is: ?a growing number of people at 
high risk for food-borne illnesses, including an 
increasing population of aging and 
immune-compromised consumers, together with infants and children;?

The reason many people are demanding organic 
products is exactly because the health of the 
American population has been seriously 
compromised through chemicals that unbalance the 
human body and the environment. This is not 
addressing the real problem, but rather layering 
another problem on top. This Bill suggests:

    * ?include, with respect to growing, 
harvesting, sorting, and storage operations, 
minimum standards related to fertilizer use, 
nutrients, hygiene, packaging, temperature 
controls, animal encroachment, and water;?
    * ?include, with respect to animals raised 
for food, minimum standards related to the 
animal?s health, feed, and environment which bear 
on the safety of food for human consumption;?

This is too vague and anyone that does not comply 
with the required standards must apply for a 
variance, describing the reasons it is necessary 
and the procedures, processes, and practices that 
will be followed to ensure produce is not 
adulterated. There is strong probability for 
standards being set that would include things 
like chemical fertilizers, pesticides, 
irradiation, and antibiotics for animals.

It is stated that the Act would:
    * ?provide a reasonable period of time for 
compliance, taking into account the needs of 
small business for additional time to comply;?

There are 5 categories of Food Establishments 
that will be required to register with Secretary 
within 90 days of the enactment of this Act.

Category 1 Food Establishment ? A food 
establishment (other than seafood processing) 
that slaughters, for the purpose of producing 
food, animals that are not subject to inspection 
under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or poultry 
that are not subject to inspection under the 
Poultry Products Inspection Act.  It seems this 
would mean ranchers or poultry operations that 
are too small to be regulated by the USDA.

Category 2 Food Establishment ? Seafood 
processing establishment or other food 
establishment (other than Category 1) not subject 
to inspection under the Federal Meat Inspection 
Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the 
Egg Products Inspection Act, that processes raw 
seafood or other raw animal products, whether 
fresh or frozen, or other products that the 
Administrator determines by regulation to pose a 
significant risk of hazardous contamination.

Category 3 Food Establishment ? A food 
establishment (other than a category 1 or 2) that 
processes cooked, pasteurized, or otherwise 
ready-to-eat seafood or other animal products, 
fresh produce in ready-to-eat raw form, or other 
products that pose a risk of hazardous contamination.

Category 4 Food Establishment ? A food 
establishment that processes all other categories 
of food products not described in paragraphs (5) 
through (7) [Categories 1, 2 or 3.]

Category 5 Food Establishment ? A food 
establishment that stores, holds, or transports 
food products prior to delivery for 
resale.  [Co-Ops such as the folks in Ohio that 
recently had their food confiscated? If that sort 
of thing is already being done without this Act, 
what will happen with giving more muscle to the government in this regard?]

?FOOD ESTABLISHMENT-
(A)   IN GENERAL ? The term ?food establishment? 
means a slaughterhouse (except those regulated 
under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the 
Poultry Products Inspection Act), factory, 
warehouse, or facility owned or operated by a 
person located in any State that processes food 
or a facility that holds, stores, or transports food or food ingredients.?

Restaurants, retail food establishments, fishing 
vessels (other than those engaged in processing) 
and nonprofit food establishments in which food 
is prepared and served to the public are excluded 
as ?Food Establishments.? It seems that the Food 
Establishment categories in this Bill have been 
created to monitor any operations that were 
otherwise ?outside? of the regulatory domain.

?FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY- The term ?food 
production facility? means any farm, ranch, 
orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.?

?(c) Program Elements- In carrying out the program, the Administrator shall?
(1)   adopt and implement a national system for 
the registration of food establishments and 
foreign food establishments, as provided in section 202 of this Act;
(2)   adopt and implement a national system for 
regular unannounced inspection of food establishments;
(3)   require and enforce the adoption of 
preventive process controls in food 
establishments, based on the best available 
scientific and public health considerations and 
the best available technologies;?

(6)  implement appropriate surveillance 
procedures and requirements to ensure 
the     safety and security of imported 
food;   [How extensive of surveillance to be and how is it to be regulated?]

(10) implement an applied research program to 
further the purposes of this Act;?
[Headed by whom and including what groups?]

?REGISTRATION- Registration under this section 
shall begin within 90 days of the enactment of this Act.?
It appears that all categories of Food 
Establishments or Food Production Facilities are 
required to register and then reregister 
annually. What happens to small growers who do 
not register?  What are the costs involved?

A ?List? will be compiled annually of domestic 
and foreign food establishments. ?The 
Administrator may establish the manner of and any 
fees required for reregistration and any 
circumstances by which either such list may be 
share with other governmental authorities. Who 
are the other governmental authorities that would potentially need said list?

?The Administrator may suspend the registration 
of a domestic food establishment or foreign food establishment . . .
The Administrator shall provide notice of an 
intent to suspend the registration of an 
establishment under this paragraph to a 
registrant and provide the registrant with an 
opportunity for an administrative hearing within 3 days. . .?

Is this a reasonable timeframe, particularly for 
farmers living rurally? Where would they have to 
go to request a hearing or for the actual hearing?

?Performance Standards-
(A)   health-based standards that set the level 
of a contaminant that can safely and lawfully be 
present in food;  [chemicals, pesticides, and antibiotics?]
(B)   zero tolerances, including any zero 
tolerance performance standards in effect on the 
day before the date of the enactment of the Act, 
when necessary to protect against significant 
adverse health outcomes;? [what are the zero tolerance performance standards?]

?Enforcement-
(1)    IN GENERAL- In conjunction with the 
establishment of a performance standard under 
this section, the Administrator shall develop a 
statistically valid sampling program with the 
stringency and frequency sufficient to 
independently monitor whether food establishments 
are complying with the performance standard and 
implement the program within 1 year of the promulgation of the standard.
(2)    INSPECTIONS- If the Administrator 
determines that a food establishment fails to 
meet a standard promulgated under this section, 
the Administrator shall, as appropriate?
(A)  detain, seize, or condemn food from the food 
establishment under section 402;
(E) take other appropriate enforcement action 
concerning the food establishment, including withdrawal of registration.

The schedule for inspections seems excessive:

Category 2 Food Establishments ?randomly 
inspected at least weekly? ? Raw dairy operations
Category 3 Food Establishments ?randomly inspected at least monthly? ? Farms

?The Administrator may adopt alternative 
inspection frequencies for increased or decreased 
inspection for a specific establishment and shall 
annually publish a list of establishments subject 
to alternative inspections.?  [Could be fine. 
Depends on who is targeted, for what reasons and how it is implemented.]

?MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS- The records in paragraph 
(1) shall be maintained for a reasonable period 
of time, as determined by the Administrator.
REQUIREMENTS- The records in paragraph (1) shall include records describing?
(A) the origin, receipt, delivery, sale, 
movement, holding, and disposition of food or 
ingredients;?  [Is this applied to every Food 
Establishment category? Is it also relative to the size of the operation?]

The recurring question here is what is the effect 
of all of this on the small grower, i.e., those 
producing for local farmer?s markets?

?IN GENERAL- The Administrator shall develop and 
maintain procedures to prevent the unauthorized 
disclosure of any trade secret or commercially 
valuable confidential information obtained by the 
Administrator?  [What does this have to do with 
food safety for contaminants, unless it is to 
protect companies, e.g., Monsanto from having to 
say what is in their products?]

SEC. 207. FEDERAL AND STATE COOPERATION.
(1)   AUTHORITY- The Administrator shall 
strengthen and expand food-borne illness 
surveillance systems. [What kind of surveillance?]
(2)   FOOD-BORNE ILLNESS OUTBREAK ? For purposes 
of this section, the term food borne illness 
outbreak? means the occurrence of 2 or more cases 
of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food.

Once an ?outbreak? is declared it seems extreme 
measures are taken to contain it, both through 
this newly formed Administration and perhaps ?the 
other government agencies? to whom the ?list? was 
provided. This seems excessive for 2 people 
getting sick from ingesting a common food. That happens all the time.

Further measures include:
    * ?conducting rapid and more standardized 
interviewing of cases associated with major 
enteric pathogens, including prior to designation 
of clusters as food-borne illness 
outbreaks;  [More detail on what this could potentially look like is needed.]
    * conducting and evaluating rapid and 
standardized interviews of healthy control 
persons;?  [Who are the healthy control persons?]

SECTION 303. RESEARCH

    * Identify ways that animal production 
techniques could improve the safety of the food supply;  [antibiotics?]
    * Develop methods to reduce or destroy 
harmful pathogens before, during, and after processing;  [irradiation?]
    * Analyze the incidence of antibiotic 
resistance as it pertains to the food supply and 
develop new methods to reduce the transfer of antibiotic resistance to humans;


SEC. 401. PROHIBITED ACTS

    * To refuse to permit access to a food 
establishment or food production facility for the 
inspection and copying of a record as required 
under sections 205(f) and 206(a);
    * To fail to establish and maintain any 
record or to make any report as required under sections 205(f) and 206(b);
    * To refuse to permit entry to or inspection 
of a food establishment as required under section 205;
    * To slaughter an animal that is capable for 
use in whole or in part as human food at a food 
establishment processing any food for commerce, 
except in compliance with the food safety law;

SEC. 402. FOOD DETENTION, SEIZURE, AND CONDEMNATION.

(1)   EXPANDED AUTHORITY- The Administrator shall 
have authority under section 304 of the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 334) to 
administratively detain and seize any food 
regulated under this Act that the Administrator 
has reason to believe is unsafe, is adulterated 
or misbranded, or otherwise fails to meet the 
requirements of the food safety law.

?FOOD SUBJECT TO AN ORDER- A food subject to a 
detention order under this subsection shall not 
be transferred by any person from the place at 
which the food is removed, until released by the 
Administrator or until the expiration of the 
detention period applicable under the order, whichever occurs first.?

Appeal of Detention Order-
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATOR- Not later than 5 
days after an appeal is filed under paragraph 
(1), the Administrator, after providing an 
opportunity for an informal hearing, shall 
confirm, modify, or terminate the order involved.

[What are the larger implications of this if food 
is detained on a routine basis and not available 
for transfer with an administrative process that 
could potentially be bogged down?]

SEC. 405. CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
(a)    Civil Sanctions-
?        IN GENERAL- Any person that commits an 
act that violates the food safety law (including 
a regulation promulgated or order issued under 
the food safety law) may be assessed a civil 
penalty by the Administrator of not more than $1,000,000 for each such act.
?        SEPARATE OFFENSE- Each act described in 
subparagraph (A) and each day during which that 
act continues shall be considered a separate offense.

(b)   Criminal Sanctions-
OFFENSE RESULTING IN SERIOUS ILLNESS-
. . . with respect to an adulterated or 
misbranded food results in serious illness, the 
person committing the violation shall be 
imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined in 
accordance with title 18, United States Code, or both.

This needs some clarifying language about 
premeditated contamination, malicious intent, etc.






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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Wed Apr 22 00:55:08 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:55:08 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Rebecca Kaplin for Oakland!
Message-ID: <49EECD5C.40408@aceweb.com>

Monday I went up to Oakland for this Rebecca Kaplin event:

http://tian.greens.org/California/Oaksterdam/42009Near12thStBART.html

Thank You Oaksterdam! You restored my faith in the color green!
-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
I 4/20ed in Oaksterdam yesterday. There is still THC in my system.


From carolineyacoub at att.net  Fri Apr 24 09:17:42 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:17:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] FW: Healthcare-NOW! Update to Activists
Message-ID: <661798.50443.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Fri, 4/24/09, Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Subject: FW: Healthcare-NOW! Update to Activists
To: "Lynn Huidekoper" <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Date: Friday, April 24, 2009, 2:23 AM




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Greetings Single-Payer Activists,

A lot has been happening in a short amount of time in health care reform.? We thank everyone for all the work you are doing!? Another cosponsor to HR 676 signed on this week, Rep Donna Christensen [VI], for a total of 75 cosponsors..

Here are a few articles of interest and updates that you might find useful in spreading the word for single-payer.? 

Health & Justice,

Katie Robbins
Healthcare-NOW!



Single-Payer Expert Testifies in Congress

Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of PNHP, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care doctor at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts tells the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions that only a major overhaul of the existing system, one which replaces the wasteful, for-profit, private insurance industry with a publicly financed, single-payer program similar to Medicare, can rein in costs while guaranteeing universal, comprehensive coverage.





http://edlabor. house.gov/ documents/ 111/pdf/testimon y/20090423DavidH immelsteinTestim ony.pdf





Mike Ferrell stars in single-payer PSA 

TV spots have been put together by Clark Newhall starring Mike Ferrell advocating for single-payer.? Help raise funds to get these on the air!? Also, consider using these on local public access stations that take submissions from local residents.? Thanks for getting the word out!
http://www.1payer.net/videos/medicare-for-all.html




Round Tables on health in Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, Chair


The first Round Table discussion already occurred this week, and no single-payer experts were included.? Two more round tables are slated for May.: 


May 5: Roundtable Discussion #2 on expanding health care to? all Americans-focus on uninsured

?May 14: Roundtable Discussion #3 on financing health care reform

?June: Senate Finance Committee will begin to mark up legislation
?
The roundtable series will be open to the public and web cast on the Finance Committee website, www.finance.senate.gov. 
You can also see them on CSPAN who often repeats them at night


If you are a constituent in a state with a Senator who serves on the Finance Committee, consider calling and urging local coalition members to call and ask them to include Single-Payer experts in these Hearings.? 


Here is a link to the Press Release from Senate Finance Committee with information on Hearings - http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2009/prg041509.pdf


Here is a list of Senate Finance Committee Members - http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/committee.htm




Elderly Used as Front in Letter Writing Scam - AHIP behind it. Background info: Obama is looking for ways to cut money from the budget. He has said that he wants to eliminate the fed. subsidy that the insurance companies' Medicare Advantage Plans currently get( Kaiser has it for seniors). ?It was announced last week that AHIP(Ins. Plans) would be holding 90 meetings across the country in an attempt to block this effort(they have made bundles off of these). The problem is that seniors who have them have better benefits than traditional Medicare because the plans are subsidized so they can afford to offer these. This article shows fradulent activity by the insurance companies sending false letters with seniors names on them claiming they don't want their MA plan dropped. They are really desperate!



http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_103032149.html


Colorado State Bill short 1 vote on final House vote - 
report back from Michele Swenson 


Believing we have to work at both state and federal levels, Health Care for All Colorado wrote a single-payer bill this year, a year after the CO Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform buried the Single Payer proposal in its final report - even though the SP proposal evaluated by the Lewin Group was the only one demonstrating?net savings for the state of $1.4 billion and comprehensive coverage for all. With?support from one of our congressional reps, 2 previous federal?bills introduced?to support state pilot projects for reform, and even Pres. Obama's statement before the election endorsing state pilot health care reform?projects, our CO Guaranteed Health Care Act (HB 1273) was guided by supportive legislators through 2 House commitees and a voice vote on the House floor. It was short 1 vote on final House vote, so was tabled.
?
We are planning to ask friendly legislators to introduce a joint Resolution in support of HR 676 like that recently passed by both houses of the Maine legislature - see http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billtexts/HP100401.asp? Several of our counties have passed similar resolutions. What if a number of states and cities did so?? 
?
Michele Swenson
Denver





Healthcare-NOW! and Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care Nationwide Day of Action being planned in over 20 cities around May 30th


Great events are being planned around the country!? Please submit logistics for your events so we can help promote them.? Check out the May 30th web page here: http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/may-30th-day-of-action/
?
Note: Our local Santa Clara County Single Payer Coalition is planning an event. More info to follow




Direct Actions for Single Payer

Single-payer activists are planning more direct actions to bring the single-payer message to Members of Congress.?? Check out these great ideas!

Belly Dance for Single Payer - http://www.singlepayeraction.org/index.php

We Aren't Covered!? - http://www.healthcare-now.org/2009/04/report-from-demo-at-rep-rangels-office/


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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Fri Apr 24 10:56:13 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:56:13 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Krugman on Looking Forward
Message-ID: <BAY140-W49A4201E53E74EAA59CF7C9E720@phx.gbl>



   "[S]ome of the people who should have spoken out against what was

happening, but didn?t, now declare that we should forget the whole 
era
? for the sake of the country, of course.  

   "Sorry, but what we
really should do for the sake of the country is
have investigations
both of torture and of the march to war. These 
investigations should,
where appropriate, be followed by prosecutions ? 
not out of
vindictiveness, but because this is a nation of laws. 

    "We need
to do this for the sake of our future. For this isn?t about 
looking
backward, it?s about looking forward ? because it?s about 
reclaiming
America?s soul."


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/opinion/24krugman.html?ref=opinion


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From the_alliance47 at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 24 12:12:34 2009
From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com (Edward)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:12:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Domestic Partnership Initiative
Message-ID: <718633.2742.qm@web54301.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

What do we all think about the Domestic Partnership Initiative that people are circulating petitions for? Where does the Green Party stand?

http://dompar.org/

I think it is the brilliant solution that many crucial middle-of-the-road voters have been waiting for. Had this been on the ballot in November instead of Prop. 8, we would all have equal rights.

-edward



      
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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Fri Apr 24 17:32:45 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:32:45 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Reminder: Invitation to Review the Plenary Agenda
	Sunday April 26th
Message-ID: <c7f.2af07328.3723b42d@aol.com>

 
In a message dated 4/10/2009 12:03:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
WB4D23 at aol.com writes:

GPSCC members are invited to meet 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, April  26th, to 
review the May 16-17th Plenary agenda to make recommendations  for GPSCC 
instructions to our delegates at the general monthly meeting on May  5th.  Persons 
planning to be a delegate or alternate should try to make  this meeting.  The 
meeting will be held at the home of Warner Bloomberg,  867 North Fifth 
Street, San Jose, CA 95112 (cross-street Hedding).  The  location is five blocks 
from the Civic Center light rail statation on First  Street between Mission 
and Hedding Streets and near bus stops for the 62  (Taylor and 4th Street) 
and 66 (Hedding and 5th Street) routes.    

As noted in another announcement on this list, the Plenary  agenda packet 
is now available at _www.cagreens.org/plenary_ 
(http://www.cagreens.org/plenary)  and  requires specific a specific user name and password.  If you do 
not have  this information, contact a County Council member or Warner.  This  
information should NOT  be communicated by email or other on-line  
communications.
 
For more detailed directions or information call Warner at  
(408) 295-9353.
 
Please let me know in advance if you plan to attend (call or  send email to 
_wb4d23 at aol.com_ (mailto:wb4d23 at aol.com) ).
 
Warner



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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Sat Apr 25 11:22:47 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:22:47 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] FW: PROTEST TORTURE! JOHN YOO SPEAKS TONIGHT IN
	SF (Sat. 4/25/09)
In-Reply-To: <713477.29360.qm@web65604.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
References: <713477.29360.qm@web65604.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BAY140-W79B85F81415183D1207669E730@phx.gbl>





> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:03:53 -0700
> From: 
> Subject: PROTEST TORTURE! JOHN YOO SPEAKS TONIGHT IN SF (Sat. 4/25/09)
> 
> 
> Dear Friends,
> The following is going out in an hour or so to the World Can't Wait mass email list.  Wanted you to have it earlier.  Hope you can join us tonight.  (We just learned of this Yoo appearance last night.)  Please call Curt (818-480-1860) or Stephanie (415-290-8448) to let us know you're coming.  If you can arrive at the Hyatt at 6:45 to help set up, that would be a big help.  [NOTE: Arrive in time to find parking in the area.  If you want to BART over and want to be picked up at 6:00 sharp at the Civic Center BART, CALL STEPHANIE before 3:00 PM to reserve a ride spot.]
> Best,
> Stephanie
> 
> EMERGENCY PROTEST:  NO TO TORTURE!  PROSECUTE THE TORTURERS!
> 
> EVENT:    ?TORTURE PROFESSOR? JOHN YOO TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER  AT CALIFORNIA COLLEGE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE 
> 
> WHERE:    HYATT HOTEL at Fisherman?s Wharf, San Francisco
> 555 North Point Street (between Bay and Beach)
> 
> WHEN:     Saturday, April 25, 7:00 PM
> 
> Tonight (Saturday) the World Can?t Wait, FireJohnYoo.org, and others will confront John Yoo, one of the legal architects of U.S. torture policies, at the California College Republican Conference.  This year John Yoo was temporarily spirited away from Berkeley, to ?teach? (hide out) in Orange County at Chapman University ? where he?s continued to be surrounded by anti-torture protest actions (see http://FireJohnYoo.org for great coverage of the news and the protests).  But he is headed back to UC Berkeley Law School this fall ? and TONIGHT he speaks before the state conference of the College Republicans (yes, the same David Horowitz-Bill O'Reilly-Marine Recruiters Fan Club who often counter-protest to defend torture, war and empire).
> 
> While the Obama administration just released more ?torture memos? ? revealing even more how the torture was justified and orchestrated, in horrendous detail, the world demands that those responsible for these crimes must be prosecuted and brought to justice.  Obama is doing all he can to avoid doing the right thing: arresting and prosecuting the war criminals for torture, a crime against humanity.  So this demand must even more loudly be raised by people of conscience, and this is the demand we will voice, including everywhere the war criminals go.
> 
> PROTEST TONIGHT!  All are welcome.  You can join an orange jumpsuit contingent.  You can carry signs bearing the message: Torture is a War Crime / Prosecute the War Criminals / UC ? Fire John Yoo?Join us to tell the world why you refuse to live in a torture state.
> 
> Go to http://www.worldcantwait.org to learn more, and also go to WarCriminalsWatch.org (a new project of World Can?t Wait):
>  
> ?Key actors in the Bush administration must be held accountable and prosecuted for the crimes they stand accused, in the eyes of world public opinion, of having committed. Editorialists may demand action. Politicians will call for it. But only an energized and politically active public can make those prosecutions happen. They need to be publicly shamed and prevented from occupying powerful or influential positions within our society. As in other cases where authorities have gone beyond US and international law as well as the laws of decency, only a public accounting will restore lawful conduct.?
> 
> END
> 
> 
> 
>       

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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Sat Apr 25 13:03:40 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:03:40 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Ronald Reagan Weighs In On Torture
Message-ID: <BAY140-W17AACF8C28AE4DBE4A82869E730@phx.gbl>


>From his signing statement ratifying the UN Convention on Torture from 1984: 
   "The United States participated actively and effectively in the
negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant step in the
development during this century of international measures against
torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the
Convention by the United States will clearly express United States
opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately still
prevalent in the world today.


    

    

    
       "The
core provisions of the Convention establish a regime for international
cooperation in the criminal prosecution of torturers relying on
so-called "universal jurisdiction." Each State Party is required either
to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite
them to other countries for prosecution....
   "By giving its advice and consent to ratification of this Convention,
the Senate of the United States will demonstrate unequivocally our
desire to bring an end to the abhorrent practice of torture."


http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1079/is_n2137_v88/ai_6742034/


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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Sat Apr 25 21:12:57 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:12:57 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Earth Day at SCU 4/29 -- Sunflower seedlings
Message-ID: <cea.54a3bf8a.37253949@aol.com>

This afternoon I transplanted six sunflower seedlings to  yogurt cups... 
which are available for pick-up to use at the Santa Clara  University Earthday 
tabling on April 29th.  Warner
 
BTW  Tian reports that he had to give away the 15 or so  seedlings in paper 
eggshell cartons that were delivered for the SJSU  Earthday tabling on 
Wednesday.  I hope there is a better response to the  seeds packets.
 
 
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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sat Apr 25 21:42:51 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:42:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Spaghetti Feed & Town Hall
Message-ID: <118862.67734.qm@web81208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I just want to be sure that all of you know about the Spaghetti Feed next Saturday, May 2. We will have speakers on Health Care for All, Sustainability, and Clean Election Financing. Additionally, we will have live music, organic pasta and salad, and Carol's cookies (you know you love them). 
It will be at Fred's clubhouse, which is the Willow Park Condo Clubhouse, 500 W. Middlefield Rd., Mt. View 94043 (enter the parking area from Moffett Blvd.) from 5:00-9:00.
?
We could use some help setting up (2:00), we could use some extra folding chairs, and we could use some wholesome drinks. Please let Merriam (MKMusic03 at aol.com) or Caroline (carolineyacoub at att.net) know if you can provide any of these things. Even if you can't, please come.
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Sat Apr 25 22:37:34 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:37:34 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Earth Day at SCU 4/29 -- Sunflower seedlings
In-Reply-To: <cea.54a3bf8a.37253949@aol.com>
References: <cea.54a3bf8a.37253949@aol.com>
Message-ID: <49F3F31E.1040109@aceweb.com>

I sold two seed packets today. Maybe I could have sold more, but I 
forgot the other batch of the things.

WB4D23 at aol.com wrote:
> This afternoon I transplanted six sunflower seedlings to yogurt cups... 
> which are available for pick-up to use at the Santa Clara University 
> Earthday tabling on April 29th.  Warner
>  
> BTW  Tian reports that he had to give away the 15 or so seedlings in 
> paper eggshell cartons that were delivered for the SJSU Earthday tabling 
> on Wednesday.  I hope there is a better response to the seeds packets.
>  
>  
> 
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responsibilities and obligations." Archbishop Desmond Tutu & James Leape
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From alexcathy at aol.com  Sun Apr 26 21:11:47 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:11:47 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] BREAKING NEWS: California Dems in Chaos! Prop 1A
	REJECTED by Convention
Message-ID: <8CB95056AD0F76D-14E8-372A@WEBMAIL-DZ36.sysops.aol.com>

Breaking News: The California State Democratic Party Convention failed
to endorse May 19th initiatives agreed to by State Legislative leaders
to deal with the budget crisis. The leading California Democratic
politicians, the unions, and most independent liberal interest groups
are sharply divided, but leaning against the measure. Just months after
Barack Obama's landslide victory here in November, California Democrats
are in disarray. 

Now more than ever, we need the California Green Party.  Can California Greens rise to the challenge in 2010? 

Read More At: http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2009/04/democrats-in-disarray-can-greens-rise.html
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From fredd at freeshell.org  Tue Apr 28 00:31:29 2009
From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:31:29 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Spaghetti Heaven
Message-ID: <49F6B0D1.1010907@freeshell.org>

Last call for dinner in the diner!

On Saturday, May 2nd,  the Green Party of Santa Clara County is holding 
a "SPAGHETTI FEED" FUND RAISING EVENT that begins at 5:00 pm.  
Discussions of three topics: "Health Care for All,"  "Sustainability" 
and "Clean Money"  will be led, in that order, by LYNN HUIDEKOPER, DAVID 
JONES and NANCY NEFF.  For entertainment, the creative twosome,  REBECCA 
and GARY PARKS,  will  charm the crowd with their original lyrics and 
melodic scores.  The mainly or cookeruppers.

To help make this unique and green event a success, the "Green Big Six" 
who are producing and hosting the event, will need a few more volunteers 
to help set up, clean up and close up.

If you would like to pitch in, we'll need help from _two "Set-up" people 
between 3 and 5 pm, two "Servers" between 5 and 8 pm and three "Closers" 
between 9 and 10 pm._

We are very optimistic that a good percentage of the remaining Santa 
Clara County Greens will also come and enjoy the festive, intellectually 
stimulating and friendly happening, as well as the DARN GOOD FOOD.

If you will volunteer, _please indicate which shift - or shifts - you'd 
like to participate in,_ and reply to me by phone or email.  If we get 
more volunteers than we need, we'll enlist the first seven good people 
who sign on. 

3 - 5 pm Shift    Name                         Phone Number          
       Email Address                        

                         
______________________;_________________________;______________________________

5 - 8 pm Shift                                  

                         ______________________; 
________________________ ;______________________________

9 - 10 pm Shift                       

                         
______________________;_________________________;______________________________

THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE in the Willow Park Condo Clubhouse, located at 
the intersection of W. Middlefield Road and Moffett Blvd, in Mountain 
View.  Enter the parking area from Moffett Blvd., just 100 feet north of 
Middlefield Rd.  (Park in any uncovered space or on the condo side of 
Moffett Blvd.)

Get yourself over here Saturday evening.   Yah!!!   And bring a crowd 
with you.

At yer service,

Assistant Cook and Bottle Washer,  Fred Duperrault - On behalf of  the 
"Green Big Six."
650-691-1215 or fredd at freeshell.org

P.S.  The Price to Pay! will be $5 through $20, on a sliding scale.  
Slide up, if you can.             
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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Wed Apr 29 06:42:44 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:42:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: No More Excuses
Message-ID: <339614.34396.qm@web81201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Ralph Nader <noreply at noreply.com> wrote:

From: Ralph Nader <noreply at noreply.com>
Subject: No More Excuses
To: carolineyacoub at att.net
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 6:31 AM



Good morning.

There are no more excuses for the Democrats. 
??????????????????? 
The Democrats now admit that they control the procedure in Congress and can pass whatever health care reform they want.

Without one Republican vote.

And President Obama can sign it.

What should they do?

They should pass single payer.

Everybody in. Nobody out.

For prevention and treatment.

For free choice of doctors and hospitals.

No more premiums, deductibles, exclusions, co-pays, in-network, out-of-network rigamarole.

No more family medical bankruptcies.

No more pay or die. 

No more pay or become sicker.

Single payer is the only system that will work.

It's the most efficient.

Single payer will cut out literally hundreds of billions in administrative fat, billing fraud and unconscionable profits.

These savings will be used instead to insure the 50 million uninsured and the millions more underinsured.

This will save lives. 

Starting with the more than 21,000 Americans who die every year from lack of health insurance.

According to recent polls, the majority of the American people want single payer.

So do the majority of doctors, nurses, and health economists.

So, what will the Democrat leadership do? 

They will keep single payer off the table. 

Because they fear the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry - and want their campaign money - more than they fear the American people.

Or as Speaker of the House Pelosi told reporters last week:
"Over and over again, we hear single payer, single payer, single payer. Well, it's not going to be a single payer."

Who is Nancy Pelosi speaking for? 

Not for the American people.

Not for those who will die or get sicker month after month.

How are we to respond?

Focus our collective creative energy on Congressional offices around the country -- offices of all 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate.

That's why we have set up Single Payer Action.

Less than two months old - and already Single Payer Action is making waves.

In front of Congressional offices from Martinsburg, West Virginia to Seattle, Washington.

On Capitol Hill, standing up to the corporate lobbyists and their lackeys in Congress.

And on the web, challenging the corporate controlled media to put single payer back on the table of public debate.

There is support in Congress for single payer.

Already, 76 House members support HR 676 - the single payer bill in the House.

But the Democratic leadership in Washington has taken single payer off the table. 

They meet regularly behind closed doors with insurance and drug industry lobbyists - to thwart single payer. 

Time to turn up the heat - and get the word out to the American people. 

(Just last week, I was at the University of Colorado in Boulder where I spoke to an enthusiastic audience. Topic: Single payer, full Medicare health insurance for all.)

We need your help now.

To send speakers to all four corners of this country.

To fund organizing drives at Congressional offices around the country.

To shake up the system for single payer.

Last week, many of you responded enthusiastically to a note from my colleague Jason Kafoury by donating $10,000 to Single Payer Action.

Thanks to you, we are a third of the way to our goal of $30,000 by May 14.

This week, we need to expand the base again. 

If you have not donated yet to Single Payer Action, please donate now whatever you can -- $10, $25, $50, $100.? 

And notice - if you donate $100 or more by May 14, 2009, we will send you two galvanizing books that concisely detail the case for single payer in America.??? 

Health Care Meltdown by Robert LeBow, MD, revised and updated by Dr. C. Rocky White - a Republican doctor so fed up with the needless suffering caused by the insurance industry that he has become a leading advocate for single payer..

and


Ten Excellent Reasons for National Health Care, Edited by Mary O'Brien and Martha Livingston.
The goal: raise $30,000 by May 14th for Single Payer Action.

To make single payer a reality in America. 

Together, we can break the logjam in Congress - and deliver health care to all.

Let's get it done.

Onward to single payer.



Ralph Nader


PS: This two book offer ends 11:59 p.m. May 14, 2009.
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So don't miss out. Donate now. 
??????????? 
We're building toward one million Americans strong for single payer.
??????????????? 
Please share this e-mail with friends and family.

Urge them to sign up and donate at singlepayeraction.org.
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