[Sosfbay-discuss] Is Tesla Nuts?

Sat Dec 5 17:54:20 PST 2009

Not to mention that Tesla is spending taxpayer dollars to develop a ritzy, 
glitzy electric sports car that few can afford rather than an affordable, 
short range commuter car that everyone could use for most of their driving.

Jim

alexcathy at aol.com wrote:
>   Wow!  Thanks for posting this.  I think this is a powerful Green Party 
> issue. 
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> I am forwarding it to the South San Francisco Bay Green Party List 
> because Tesla also has a facility in San Jose.
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> Alex Walker
> Los Angeles Greens
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> Subject: [Fulcrumsofchange] Is Tesla Nuts?
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> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:31:12 -0800
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> From: Steve Zeltzer <lvpsf at igc.org <mailto:lvpsf at igc.org>>
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> To: Fulcrums of Pacifica <fulcrumsofchange at pacificana.org <mailto:fulcrumsofchange at pacificana.org>>
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> Is Tesla Nuts?
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> The "green" electric car auto company Tesla is planning to build a non-
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> union auto plant at the Downey Toxic dump site with $465 million of US
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> Department of energy funds. The California Coalition For Workers
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> Memorial Day is demanding that no US government funds go to a non-
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> union auto maker to build a "green plant" at the site owned by crooked
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> toxic Downey developer Stuart Lichter. Lichter recently lost a SLAPP
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> suit against injured workers and injured worker advocates who had gone
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> public about the injuries of workers at the site.
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> Is Tesla Nuts?
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> Stop the Tesla Non-union Auto Plant at Downey and The Cover-up Of The
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> Downey Toxic Dump Site’s Injured Workers
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> Defend Injured Biotech Worker David Bell and Call For Criminal Action
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> Against Agraquest owner Pam Marrone!
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> California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day Statement
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> http://www.workersmemorialday.org
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> 12/2/2009
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> In the midst of this deep economic crisis, crooked toxic site
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> propterty developers are developing long time military and commercial
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> radioactive and toxic dumps without properly cleaning them up. One of
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> the most deadly is in Downey, California where Stuart Lichter owned
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> Downey Studios and Dreamworks workers from IATSE, LIUNA, were sickened
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> by the failure to properly clean it up. Downey developer Stuart
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> Lichter has even sued injured workers to shut them up but his SLAPP
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> suit was recently dismissed with prejudice by an LA judge.
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> Additionally the Kaiser Hospital chain has built a $700 million
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> hospital complex on this same toxic dump site.
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> http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/02/business/fi-ct-downey2
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> The latest news is that the non-union Tesla Motors may build an
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> “green” electric car assembly plant at the toxic site with a US
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> government DOE energy efficiency loan of $465 million. Their cars will
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> be sold for $115, 000 each to the rich.
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> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla25-2009nov25,0,3683681.story
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> Is this crazy or what? We are using US Federal funds to build a non-
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> union auto plant at a toxic dump site. At the same time, the Toyota
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> corporation is closing a unionized modern automobile plant in Fremont,
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> Califronia that produces some of the most efficient and
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> environmentally improved cars in the country because it is a union
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> plant.
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> The injured Downey workers are asking you to support:
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> *No Federal, State or Local funding for building new businesses on a
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> dangerous toxic dump site where workers are still getting sick. Call
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> your State and Congressional representative to demand the end of the
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> use of Federal funds for Tesla at Downey.
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> *An immediate NIOSH epidemiological study on all workers and community
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> people who have been on the site or near the Downey site.
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> *Free medical care and compensation for all Downey workers and members
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> of the community sickened by these sites
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> *Congressional Hearings on the privatization of Superfund US/Military
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> sites into "Brownfield" sites including testimony from injured workers
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> and people in the Downey community who have been made ill by this site.
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> *Report from all insurance companies in the United States on their
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> workers compensation and personal insurance claims that have been made
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> by workers and community people at toxic dump sites, the acceptance or
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> rejection of these claims and how many of there workers and people in
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> the community are now having their healthcare costs being paid for by
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> SSI or other US government agencies.
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> *Criminal prosecution of all insurance companies and employers who
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> have shifted healthcare costs from the Brownfield sites to Local,
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> State and the Federal government.*The elimination of all privatized
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> Brownfield sites nationally and the clean-up by union labor of the
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> sites with community-labor oversight on this clean-up.
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> We are also asking you support the case of injured biotech Davis
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> Agraquest worker David Bell. The Agraquest plant in Davis was
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> genetically engineering pesticides without proper health and safety
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> protection and when worker David Bell was sickened the owner Pam
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> Marrone and the insurance company Liberty Mutual denied the workplace
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> injuries and committed criminal fraud by forcing SSI and the US
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> government to pay for David Bell’s healthcare costs.
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> http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=870890
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> The lack of proper Federal regulation of biotech and nanotech
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> industries and the systemic destruction of CA-OSHA with the
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> elimination of nearly all the doctors in California is a national
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> issue that needs to be addressed by organized labor and the US
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> Congress. We also ask you to support the call for a criminal
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> investigation by CA Attorney General Jerry Brown and US attorney
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> general Eric Holder of this Federal and state fraud and the systemic
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> cost shifting by employers and the insurance industry on the Federal
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> government and government agencies. The control by the insurance
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> industry of workers compensation and all healthcare must be eliminated
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> if American’s health & safety as well as healthcare are going to be
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> protected.
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> California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
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> http://www.workersmemorialday.org
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