[Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: GPLAC-Forum Digest, Vol 41, Issue 39: Healthcare; The Economy; Toddd Cretien Speaks in LA; AIG; Amy Goodman; Death Penalty
Caroline Yacoub
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Fri Mar 20 12:02:39 PDT 2009
--- On Fri, 3/20/09, Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu> wrote:
From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
Subject: GPLAC-Forum Digest, Vol 41, Issue 39: Healthcare; The Economy; Toddd Cretien Speaks in LA;AIG;Amy Goodman; Death Penalty
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>Today's Topics:
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> 1. John Goodman hides the rest of the story (Shane Que Hee)
> 2. A Modest Proposal: Nationalize the Banks, Thursday, March 26,
> 7:30pm (Shane Que Hee)
> 3. Free Money in the USA! [ you'll love this timely piece (3 min
> 36 sec) ] (Shane Que Hee)
> 4. LINK: Free Money in the USA! [ you'll love this timely piece
> (3 min 36 sec) ] (Shane Que Hee)
> 5. March 25 - War & Crisis in the Obama Era: How can we win
the
> change we need? Green Party Socialist Presents (Shane Que Hee)
> 6. Bill Moyers asks: "Why will Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
> never show up on 'Meet The Press?'" (watch video)
(Shane Que Hee)
> 7. Media Alert!! - Foreclosure Protest (Shane Que Hee)
> 8. Death penalty system in California costs more than $125
> million per year (Shane Que Hee)
>
>
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>
>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:09:50 -0800
>From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] John Goodman hides the rest of the story
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> >Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:31:00 -0700
> >From: Don McCanne <don at mccanne.org>
> >Subject: John Goodman hides the rest of the story
> >
> >Health Affairs Blog
> >March 19, 2009
> >The U.S. Health System: The Rest Of The Story
> >By John Goodman
> >
> >Here is a paper (link below) with as many as 100 references that you
> >almost never see cited in Health Affairs, or in the Journal of the
> >American Medical Association (JAMA), or in the New England Journal
> >of Medicine (at least not in their public policy articles). In fact,
> >if you are a regular reader of these publications, I think you are
> >going to be very surprised.
> >
> >My colleagues Linda Gorman, Devon Herrick, Robert Sade and I
> >discovered that public policy articles in the leading health
> >journals (especially the health policy journals) tend to cite poorly
> >done studies over and over again in support of two propositions: (1)
> >Our health care system needs radical reform and (2) the reform needs
> >to be modeled along the lines of the systems of other developed
> >countries. At the same time, these articles tend to ignore
> >contravening studies that are often published in economics journals
> >and subject to much more rigorous peer review.
> >
> >In our rest-of-the-story literature review, we focus on eight
questions:
> >
> >1. Does the United States spend too much on health care?
> >
> >2. Are U.S. outcomes no better and in some respects worse than those
> >of other nations?
> >
> >3. Is the large number of uninsured in the U.S. a crisis?
> >
> >4. Does lack of health insurance cause premature death?
> >
> >5. Are medical bills causing bankruptcy?
> >
> >6. Are administrative costs higher for private insurance than public
> >insurance?
> >
> >7. Are low-income families more disadvantaged in the U.S. system?
> >
> >8. Can the free market work in health care?
> >
> >****
> >
> >Response to "The U.S. Health System: The Rest Of The Story"
> >By Don McCanne
> >
> >John Goodman says that he wants us to hear the rest of the story,
> >but then he doesn't tell it to us.
> >
> >He and his colleagues have pieced together a document using classic
> >Goodman rhetorical deceptions. They pull out of the literature
> >isolated items that support their position without identifying them
> >as exceptions to the great body of information available in the
> >health policy literature. They repeat the use of many studies that
> >have been discredited as manipulations or distortions based on
> >libertarian ideology, even though they are aware of the highly
> >credible challenges to those reports. They use silly diversions to
> >attack some of the most solid and important studies in the health
> >policy literature. Patching these deceptions together creates
> >magical conclusions that would seem to refute the most fundamental
> >principles that can be gleaned from a couple of decades of solid
> >health policy science research.
> >
> >Using health policy reports retrieved from the refuse bin, they then
> >end with the conclusion that we should adopt their favored proposal
> >for reform, health savings accounts, a non sequitur to the specious
> >arguments they have presented. Even though the policy community has
> >dismissed HSAs as a serious response to the tragic dysfunction of
> >our health care system and its financing mechanisms, the authors
> >persist in abandoning their academic purity in pushing their cause.
> >
> >"The Rest of the Story" might appeal to ideologues, but it
is
> >repulsive to those of us who are outraged by the the physical
> >suffering and financial hardship faced by the millions of U.S.
> >residents who are victims of a flawed financing system, unable to
> >afford or receive the care that they need in a $2.5 trillion health
> >care industry.
> >
> ><http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/03/19/the-us-health-system-the-
>
rest-of-the-story/comment-page-1/#comment-24954>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/03/19/the-us-health-system-the-rest-of-the-story/comment-page-1/#comment-24954
> >
> >Paper on health care reform by John Goodman et al:
> ><http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/sp_Do_Other_Countries_Have_the_Answers.pd
> f>http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/sp_Do_Other_Countries_Have_the_Answers.pdf
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:12:10 -0800
>From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] A Modest Proposal: Nationalize the Banks,
> Thursday, March 26, 7:30pm
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> >Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:54:26 -0700
> >Subject: A Modest Proposal: Nationalize the Banks, Thursday, March
> 26, 7:30pm
> >From: fsp los angeles <fsplosangeles at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >Dear Friend,
> >
> >
> >
> >Does the theft of trillions of dollars in
> >workers? money, resources and public services?to
> >line the pockets of bankers and bosses?make you
> >see red? You are invited to bring your ideas
> >and opinions to A Modest Proposal: Nationalize
> >the Banks, a public meeting on how workers can
> >stop this robbery by taking over the banks and
> >running them for our own benefit. Find out how
> >Russian Revolutionary V.I. Lenin demystified and
> >explained how to successfully accomplish this task.
> >
> >
> >
> >Thursday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.
> >
> >Solidarity Hall, 2170 W. Washington Blvd., in Los Angeles.
> >
> >Off the 10 freeway on bus lines #30, 31 &35
> >
> >
> >
> >A mouth-watering home cooked dinner with
> >vegetarian option will be served at 6:30 p.m. for an $8.00 donation.
> >
> >
> >
> >For more information call 323-732-6416, email
> ><mailto:fsplosangeles at gmail.com>fsplosangeles at gmail.com
> >or visit <http://www.socialism.com/>www.socialism.com
> >
> >
> >
> >Auspices: Freedom Socialist Party
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:44:00 -0800
>From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Free Money in the USA! [ you'll love this
> timely piece (3 min 36 sec) ]
>To: gplac-forum at lists.cagreens.org
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>
> >
> >Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:14:57 -0700
> >Subject: Free Money in the USA! [ you'll love this timely piece (3
> >min 36 sec) ]
> >From: Peter Thottam <peterthottam at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> ><http://www.peterthottam.com/RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.htm#Roubi
>
ni>http://www.peterthottam.com/<http://www.peterthottam.com/RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.htm#Roubini>RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.<http://www.peterthottam.com/RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.htm#Roubini>htm#Roubini
> >
> >Paul Finn is an an old friend from my 2002-03 antiwar days. A
> >timely piece from
> >him re AIG and the bankster takeover of the US govt, military and
> >media has been added to
> >my Economic Forecast page. Enjoy... (see the top of page - center
> >youtube clip)...
> >
> >Peter
> >
> >--
> >Peter Thottam (JD MBA)
> >Mobile: (310) 497-7255
> >Website: <http://www.peterthottam.com>www.peterthottam.com
> >
> >"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we
realize."
> >- Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Monk, Activist and Writer. b.1926)
> >
> >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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> >
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>
>
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>
>Message: 4
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:44:55 -0800
>From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] LINK: Free Money in the USA! [ you'll love this
> timely piece (3 min 36 sec) ]
>To: gplac-forum at lists.cagreens.org
>Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20090320024419.046cbd60 at mail.ucla.edu>
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>
> >
> >Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:17:33 -0700
> >Subject: LINK: Free Money in the USA! [ you'll love this timely
> >piece (3 min 36 sec) ]
> >From: Peter Thottam <peterthottam at gmail.com>
> >
> >
>
><http://www.peterthottam.com/RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.htm>http:
> //www.peterthottam.com/RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.htm
> >
> >correct direct link above... (clip at center top of page)
> >
> >On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Peter Thottam
> ><<mailto:peterthottam at gmail.com>peterthottam at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> ><http://www.peterthottam.com/RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.htm#Roubi
>
ni>http://www.peterthottam.com/<http://www.peterthottam.com/RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.htm#Roubini>RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.<http://www.peterthottam.com/RoubiniMarch82009_Highlights.htm#Roubini>htm#Roubini
> >
> >Paul Finn is an an old friend from my 2002-03 antiwar days. A
> >timely piece from
> >him re AIG and the bankster takeover of the US govt, military and
> >media has been added to
> >my Economic Forecast page. Enjoy... (see the top of page - center
> >youtube clip)...
> >
> >Peter
> >
> >--
> >Peter Thottam (JD MBA)
> >Mobile: (310) 497-7255
> >Website: <http://www.peterthottam.com>www.peterthottam.com
> >
> >"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we
realize."
> >- Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Monk, Activist and Writer. b.1926)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
> >This message is sent to you via the "Thottam Activist Group"
> >listserve. For more options, visit this group at
> >http://groups.google.com/group/peterthottam
> >
> >-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 5
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:08:27 -0800
>From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] March 25 - War & Crisis in the Obama Era: How
> can we win the change we need? Green Party Socialist Presents
>To: gplac-forum at lists.cagreens.org
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>
> >Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:55:56 -0700
> >From: josmand at yahoo.com
> >Subject: March 25 - War & Crisis in the Obama
> >Era: How can wewin the change we need?
> >
> >*** PLEASE FORWARD ***
> >
> >War & Crisis in the Obama Era: How Can We Win the Change We Need?
> >
> >Wednesday, March 25th - 7pm
> >University of Southern California?Leavey Library
> >651 West 35th Street
> >Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571
> >
> >Will Obama end the war or do we have to? Over a
> >trillion dollars spent on the wars on Iraq and
> >Afghanistan so far. The worst economic crisis
> >since the Great Depression. Will Obama's
> >solutions work? Have we left the era of
> >neoliberalism? Is the war really ending August 31, 2010?
> >
> >For people who want to see an end to the
> >occupation and a bailout for working people,
> >what do we do now in the Era of Obama? What
> >kinds of solutions would be big and bold enough
> >to actually force the policy makers and economic
> >elite to pay for their own crisis? How can we get there?
> >
> >Join us with guest speaker, Todd Chretien
> >frequent contributor to the International
> >Socialist Review and a Bay Area organizer.
> >
> >For more information contact the L.A. I.S.O.
> >(213) 309-2713 or email lacityiso at yahoo. com
> >
> >
> >www.socialistworker .org
> >
> >www.socialismconference.org
> >
> >sponsored by the Los Angeles Branch of the
> >International Socialist Organization.
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 6
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:10:17 -0800
>From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Bill Moyers asks: "Why will Amy Goodman of
> Democracy Now! never show up on 'Meet The Press?'"
(watch video)
>To: gplac-forum at lists.cagreens.org
>Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20090320040854.0495b380 at mail.ucla.edu>
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>
>
> >From: mdgv2002 at yahoo.com <mdgv2002 at yahoo.com>
> >Subject: DN!: Bill Moyers asks: "Why will Amy Goodman of
Democracy
> >Now! never show up on 'Meet The Press?'" (watch video)
> >Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 4:52 PM
> >
> ><mailto:mdgv2002 at yahoo.com>Mike Varady has sent you a blog post
from
> ><http://www.democracynow.org/>Democracy Now!, a daily
independent
> >radio and TV news program:
> >In this week's Bill Moyers Journal, Moyers talks with prominent
> >bloggers Jay Rosen and Glenn Greenwald on the role of the
> >establishment media in the dysfunctional political system.
> >
> >rightwing George Will on every week but rarely has anyone progressive
> >
> >To read the whole post:
> ><http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/2/9/bill_moyers_asks_why_wil
>
l_amy_goodman_of_democracy_now_never_show_up_on_meet_the_press_watch_video>http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/2/9/bill_moyers_asks_why_will_amy_goodman_of_democracy_now_never_show_up_on_meet_the_press_watch_video
>
> >
> >The person who sent you the blog post added the following comments:
> >Hi -- If you're not familiar with Amy Goodman, she's a major
> >progressive journalist known for the depth of her reportage, for
> >being hardhitting, and for being thoroughly honest with no
> >compromise. She'll never appear on the major tv shows, as Bill
> >Moyers points out, and I've often wondered why George
Stephanopolis
> >almost constantly has (he does, occasionally, of course -- but
it's
> >not nearly well-balanced. In fact, you could say that because of all
> >the Will apeearances, Stephanopolis's Sunday morning show is
> >subliminally rightwing in its politics, no matter how hard it tries
> >to avoid looking like it.) -- Mike
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 7
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:12:59 -0800
>From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Media Alert!! - Foreclosure Protest
>To: gplac-forum at lists.cagreens.org
>Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20090320041231.04958100 at mail.ucla.edu>
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>
> >Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:08:08 -0700
> >From: iacenterla at action-mail.org
> >Subject: Media Alert!! - Foreclosure Protest
> >
> >ATTENTION ASSIGNMENT DESK!
> >
> >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> >
> >PRESS CONFERENCE & RALLY
> >
> >In Front of At-Risk Home -
> >Homeowners Eligible for President Obama?s Plan
> >Ask Aurora Loan Services:
> >
> >WHY ARE YOU AUCTIONING OFF OUR HOMES?!
> >
> >DEMAND AURORA STOP EVICTING, START NEGOTIATING
> >
> >
> >
> >WHEN: FRIDAY, March 20, 2009, 12 Noon
> >
> >WHERE: Home of Mauricio Alas - 1121 E. 113th St., Los
> Angeles, CA 90059
> >
> >CONTACT: GLORIA SAUCEDO, Director, Hermandad Mexicana ? (818)
989-3019
> >
> > ROSIE MARTINEZ,
> > Executive Board, SEIU Local 721 ? (213) 351-1397
> >
> > JOHN PARKER,
> > International Action Center ? (310) 677-6407
> >
> > MARTHA ROJAS,
> > Labor/Community Coalition ? (818) 989-3019
> >
> >Why is Aurora Loan Services, owned by Lehman
> >Brothers Bank, FSB, sabotaging the ?Making Homes
> >Affordable Program? and unwilling to wait for
> >the soon-to-be-announced plan by the Treasury
> >Department to buy up toxic loans, which may
> >assist these very same homeowners they are in a rush to foreclose?
> >
> >With more than 1 in 11 homeowners in the U.S.
> >currently in default on their loans and with
> >over 3 million foreclosures occurring in the
> >U.S. last year, millions of homeowners and
> >residents facing foreclosure and eviction were
> >hoping that President Obama?s, ?Making Homes
> >Affordable Program?, would afford them relief so
> >they could stay in their homes. However, many
> >financial institutions are refusing to abide by the plan.
> >
> >Angry homeowners and residents will be holding a
> >press conference outside of the home of Mauricio
> >Alas who, like many families across the nation,
> >is in jeopardy of losing his home even though he
> >is eligible for the President?s plan.
> >
> >These homeowners will be providing testimony on
> >this lender?s refusal to negotiate using the government?s guidelines.
> >
> >?How can it be that these financial institutions
> >that caused this crisis in the first place and
> >receive our tax dollars are allowed to ignore
> >federal mandates to modify loans and refinance
> >homes,? said Gloria Saucedo of Hermandad
> >Mexicana Transnacional, which, along with the
> >Labor/Community Coalition of SEIU Local 721
> >offers free loan modification and counseling
> >assistance to homeowners and residents.
> >
> >Rosie Martinez, executive board member of SEIU
> >Local 721 stated her frustration with Aurora:
> >?Many of our union members are facing the same
> >problems with their home loans. This is a
> >national crisis and we are in a state of
> >emergency. Since these companies are getting
> >away with ignoring federal guidelines we need at
> >least a 2-year moratorium on all foreclosures,
> >especially here in California where the
> >unemployment rate has reached over 10 percent.?
> >
> >#30#
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 8
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:14:24 -0800
>From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] Death penalty system in California costs more
> than $125 million per year
>To: gplac-forum at lists.cagreens.org
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>
> >Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:24:40 -0400
> >Subject: Death penalty system in California
> >costs more than $125 million per year
> >From: daytonbear at gmail.com
> >
> >
> >Death penalty system in California costs more than $125 million per
year
> >
> >http://www.aclunc.org/news/press_releases/california_still_the_high
> est_spender_on_the_death_penalty;_new_mexico_abolishes.shtml
> >
> >California Still the Highest Spender on the
> >Death Penalty; New Mexico Abolishes
> >
> >Other States Reconsider Budget Implication of Death Sentences
> >
> >Per-prisoner price rises to $175,000 more each year
> >
> >For Immediate Release: March 18, 2009
> >
> >SAN FRANCISCO?New Mexico will become the 15th
> >state in the U.S. to replace the death penalty
> >with the effective alternative of permanent
> >imprisonment. While states across the country
> >reconsider the death penalty in light of its
> >high costs and failure to provide any benefit,
> >California continues to spend even more money on
> >the most dysfunctional death penalty in the
> >country. New Mexico is the first western state
> >to end its death penalty, with Montana and
> >Colorado also reviewing their death penalty
> >systems. Kansas has also introduced legislation to end death
sentences.
> >
> >Following Gov. Richardson?s announcement, the
> >ACLU of Northern CA (ACLU-NC) released a new
> >report revealing that California continues to
> >spend more money on the death penalty, even
> >while fewer counties actually send anyone to
> >death row. Only five counties?Alameda, Los
> >Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San
> >Bernardino?sentenced more than one person to
> >death in 2008, setting themselves apart as the
> >five most active death penalty counties in the state.
> >
> >?Gov. Schwarzenegger should follow Gov.
> >Richardson?s lead. Ending the death penalty in
> >California would free up more than $125 million
> >for other public safety needs, including helping
> >victims and solving more murders,? said Natasha
> >Minsker, Death Penalty Policy Director for
> >ACLU-NC. ?With teachers receiving layoff
> >notices, and police and prosecutors forced to
> >cut staff, California cannot afford to continue
> >with business as usual when it comes to the death penalty.?
> >
> >In March 2008 the ACLU of Northern California
> >produced the first comprehensive analysis of the
> >costs of the death penalty in California. The
> >Hidden Death Tax revealed that the state pays
> >$90,000 more per year per inmate to house people
> >on death row than it would pay if all those
> >individuals were condemned to permanent
> >imprisonment instead. When the costs of
> >mandatory appeals are included, the per-prisoner
> >price rises to $175,000 more each year.
> >
> >In one year since that report was released, the
> >population of California?s death row has grown
> >by 11, to a total of 680 people, adding almost
> >$1 million to the annual cost of housing people on death row.
> >Death row housing costs alone now total $61.2
> >million more each year than the cost of housing
> >in the general prison population. Once the
> >mandatory appeals begin in these cases, the
> >added cost to the state will be almost $2
> >million each year, on top of the $57 million we
> >already pay each year for court, prosecution,
> >and defense costs in death penalty cases. The
> >recently approved state budget also continues to
> >include $136 million in funds to begin
> >construction of a new death row facility, a
> >project that will cost more than $400 million to complete.
> >
> >Data from death sentencing in 2008 also reveals
> >that fewer California counties are sentencing
> >more people to execution, creating huge burdens for the entire
> state to bear.
> >
> >Last year, the ACLU-NC analyzed county-by-county
> >trends in death sentencing in California. Death
> >by Geography revealed that a small minority of
> >counties actively pursue death sentences; in
> >fact, only 10 counties accounted for nearly 83%
> >of death sentences from 2000 to 2007. Figures
> >updated to include 2008 demonstrate that even
> >fewer counties continue to send more people to California?s death row.
> >
> >?It?s shocking that states as diverse as New
> >Mexico, Montana and Kansas re-evaluate the costs
> >and benefits of the death penalty, California
> >continues to waste money,? said Delane Sims,
> >Death Penalty Outreach Coordinator for the
> >ACLU-NC. ?As someone who lost loved ones to
> >murder, I can tell you that there are more important uses for that
money.?
> >
> >
> >ACLU of Northern California
> >39 Drumm Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
> >T (main): 415.621.2493 | T (civil liberties
> >counselor): 415.621.2488 | F: 415.255.1478
> >
> >
>
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