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postings.)
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Common
Dreams News Center (Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community)
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Cursor.org
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Democracy
Now!
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Pacifica
Radio
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FAIR,the
national media watch group
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MotherJones
magazine online
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From
the Wilderness Publications (News & Views from the left)
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InformationTimes.com
(America's Daily International Newspaper)
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TomPaine.commonsense(mostly
commentary)
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CounterPunch("the
stories that the corporate press never prints")
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Al-Jazeerah
in English
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Howard
Zinn (commentary)
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Independent
Media Center
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What
Really Happened ("The history the government hopes you don't learn."
A great source for news, updated frequently.)
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INFORMATION
CLEARING HOUSE ("News you won't find on CNN or Fox.")
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Keystone
Report (The real alternative news source for the people of Pennsylvania)
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AlterNet.org
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provides headlines, news, and commentary for a geographically-diverse,
politically-savvy, pro-democracy, anti-hypocrisy web audience, reaching
a million visitors a month and growing."
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spin.")
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July 14
Quote-apalooza
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"I want my husband home.
I am so on edge. When they first left, I thought yeah, this will be bad,
but war is what they trained for. But they are not fighting a war. They
are not doing what they trained for. They have become police, in a place
they're not welcome."LUISA LEIJA, whose husband is a soldier in Iraq.
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The ultimate measure
of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.--Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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Liberty, taking the word
in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. --Simone Weil
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Never apologize for showing
feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.--Benjamin Disraeli
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And we should consider
every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should
call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.--Friedrich
Nietzsche
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Consciously or unconsciously
we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If you do not tell the
truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.--Virginia Woolfe
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The problem to be faced
is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different
traditions.--Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I believe that we are
solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences
of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.--Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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When motherhood becomes
the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident,
its children will become the foundation of a new race.--Margaret Sanger
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When we blindly adopt
a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
We cease to grow.--Anais Nin
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Chase after the truth
like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.--Clarence Darrow
News
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Will
Nader Run? It Depends in Part, He Says, on 2 Others
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Ralph Nader said that he would
decide later this year whether to seek the White House as a Green Party
candidate or an independent.
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Agreement
Reached With State Workers
Announcement Made About 1 House
Before Contracts Were Due To Expire
POSTED: 11:41 a.m. EDT July 1,
2003
UPDATED: 11:45 a.m. EDT July 1,
2003
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- There's a last-minute
agreement with three Pennsylvania state workers' unions covering tens of
thousands of employees.
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Americans
Alternate Doubt, Belief On U.S. Iraq Claims
POSTED: 9:06 a.m. EDT July 1, 2003
WASHINGTON -- A new poll shows
what Americans do and don't believe about the war in Iraq.
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Nuclear
worker suspended for being intoxicated on the job
06/29/2003
LIMERICK (AP) -- An employee at
two Pennsylvania nuclear power plants has been suspended for being intoxicated
on the job, according to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission report.
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June 27, 2003
THE STATE
Fertility
Study Finds DDT's Legacy
Women Exposed to Pesticide Prenatally
Have More Trouble Getting Pregnant Decades Later
By Marla Cone, Times Staff Writer
Women who were exposed while still
in the womb to the pesticide DDT are more likely to experience delays in
getting pregnant, according to a study of California mothers and daughters
published today in an international medical journal.
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Pentagon
Delays Releasing 5 Syrians Hurt in U.S. Raid
By DOUGLAS JEHL and ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON, June 27 — The Defense
Department has delayed the release of five Syrian border guards wounded
last week in an American attack on an Iraqi convoy near the Syrian border,
American officials said today.
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San
Francisco Drops Charges Against Most War Protesters
By DEAN E. MURPHY
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27 — The district
attorney's office today dismissed infractions against 407 people arrested
in March in antiwar protests here and also indicated that it would not
pursue charges against all but about 20 of the others who were arrested.
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Pitting
Fuel Economy Against Safety
By DANNY HAKIM
DETROIT, June 27 — For years, automakers
have cited studies contending that thousands of people die annually because
fuel economy regulations force the companies to make cars that are not
heavy enough.
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SUPREME COURT ROUNDUP
Justices
Extend Decision on Gay Rights and Equality
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON, June 27 — In an immediate
application of its new protective approach to gay rights, the Supreme Court
today vacated the sodomy conviction of a Kansas teenager who received a
17-year sentence for having oral sex with a younger boy.
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Fund-Raising
Puts Dean in Top Tier of Contenders
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Howard Dean announced yesterday
that he had raised close to $9 million this year, establishing himself
as a top-tier candidate in the Democratic presidential field. The figure
stunned his rivals and transformed Dr. Dean from a maverick into a more
traditional contender.
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For
Backward Thinking on Gun Policies, Dean is Wrong for the White House
6/23/2003
Brady Campaign
united with the Million Mom March
1225 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
www.bradycampaign.org
Contact:
Peter Hamm
Phone: 202-898-0792
Americans Who Care About Responsible
Gun Policies Should Reject the Former Vermont Governor
Washington DC -- Howard Dean is
running for President. He believes that that gun laws should be at the
state level, not the federal level.
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New
Jersey Foster Children Lingering in Mental Wards
By RICHARD LEZIN JONES and LESLIE
KAUFMAN
At Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth,
N.J., roughly three dozen patients are in the children's psychiatric ward,
and more than half of them are foster children stuck there simply because
the state has nowhere else to put them.
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Suit
Says State Is Segregating Mentally Ill
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
Lawyers for thousands of mentally
ill residents of New York adult homes, many of which have long served as
little more than psychiatric flophouses, plan to file a federal lawsuit
today to force the state to make the kind of wide-ranging improvements
in care that were won for the mentally retarded through the courts a generation
ago.
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Flier
from senator angers Muslims
By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff,
6/27/2003
Senator Guy W. Glodis has angered
Muslims and a civil rights group over a flier he sent to fellow senators
that says terrorist attacks could be deterred if convicted Muslim extremists
were buried with pig entrails.
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Police
Raid Gone Awry: A Muddled Path to the Wrong Door
By JIM DWYER
Early on a Wednesday morning in
May, officials from two law enforcement agencies broke down the door to
an apartment of a frail man, Timothy Brockman, threw a stun grenade inside
— setting a carpet on fire — then ordered him out of bed and handcuffed
him as he lay face down. His two cats, Rocky and Tito, vanished for hours.
His next-door neighbors, afraid that the building had been bombed by terrorists,
fled with their pajama-clad children.
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Deeper
weapons probe is planned
Democrats question prewar intelligence
By Ken Guggenheim, Associated Press,
6/28/2003
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the
Senate Armed Services Committee announced yesterday plans to stage their
own inquiry on the credibility of prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction and its links to the Al Qaeda terror network.
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FEATURE
- Iraq's children bear brunt of unexploded munitions
UK: June 10, 2003
LONDON - The war in Iraq has left
the country littered with explosives - landmines, ammunition left behind
by Iraqi forces and live bomblets from U.S. and British attacks - which
have injured at least 15 people a day since Saddam Hussein's government
fell on April 9.
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The
Bush Administration has stepped up its war against women, with remote,
impoverished Nepal the epic center of the attack.
By Frederick Sweet
Over half of Nepal's women listed
as maternal mortalities have died from unsafe abortions. This makes Nepal's
the fourth highest maternal mortality rate in the world. But today, George
W. Bush's anti-abortion crusade is directly connected with increasing the
death rate among the women and girls in Nepal. By contrast, officials at
the Nepalese Ministry of Health had recently concluded that legalizing
abortion in Nepal is the first step towards reducing the country's maternal
mortality.
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Enumerated
Powers Act Seeks to Limit Role of Federal Government
By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
June 26, 2003
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Rep.
John Shadegg (R-AZ) and five Republican co-sponsors are pushing a bill
in Congress that would require every new law created to specify which part
of the U.S. Constitution it derives its power from.
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Wal-Mart
Sets a New Policy That Protects Gay Workers
By SARAH KERSHAW
Wal-Mart Stores has quietly revised
its anti-discrimination policy to protect gay and lesbian employees.
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Jobless
Rate Hits 6.4%, Highest Level in 9 Years
By DANIEL ALTMAN
The Labor Department also said
job losses were much more severe in May than originally reported. The economy
has lost 236,000 jobs this year.
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French
Student Visitors Get the Cold Shoulder
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
First it was French wines. Then
French fries. Now it's French exchange students who are getting an icy
reception from Americans.
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PETA
files suit against KFC alleging the fast food giant is misleading the
public by denying it mistreats chickens headed for its restaurants. Washington
Post
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O'Connor
Indicates She Will Remain on Court
By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr.
Responding to speculation that
she was ready to retire, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor indicated that she
would serve out the next term of the Supreme Court.
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Bid
to Recycle TVs and E-Waste Gains
With tentative backing of electronics
firms, a bill to require television and computer monitor recycling may
be signed.
By Miguel Bustillo, Times Staff
Writer
A campaign to make California the
first state to require recycling of old computer monitors and televisions
is beginning to win the tentative backing of the nation's biggest electronics
manufacturers, raising the likelihood that it will result in a new state
law this year.
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Suit
Says School Ordered Girls Tested for Diseases After Party
By SUSAN SAULNY with ABBY GOODNOUGH
The "hooky party," which attracted
about a dozen students who cut classes at their intermediate school in
Washington Heights on a Friday in mid-April, might have gone unnoticed,
except for one thing: word of midday debauchery somehow got back to the
school.
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Florida
Court Voids a Law on Abortion
By ADAM LIPTAK
The Florida Supreme Court struck
down a law requiring minors seeking abortions to notify their parents first.
The court held that the law violated the minors' right to privacy.
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Gun
Used in Plant Shooting Once Belonged to Missouri State Highway Patrol
Thursday, July 03, 2003
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The
semiautomatic pistol a factory worker used to kill three co-workers and
wound five others before turning it on himself once belonged to the Missouri
State Highway Patrol, authorities said.
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Blacks
Lose Better Jobs Faster as Middle-Class Work Drops
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
Unemployment among blacks is rising
twice as fast as that of whites, and faster than in any downturn since
the mid-1970's.
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Texas
Search for Democrats Is Ruled Illegal
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A judge has ruled the Texas Department
of Public Safety lacks the legal authority to track down and arrest rebellious
state lawmakers who block a quorum.
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Verizon
Is Told It Must Reinstate 2,300 Workers It Had Laid Off
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
While union officials hailed the
decision, company officials said it underlined Verizon's need to gain more
flexibility in contract talks.
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Critics
Say E.P.A. Won't Analyze Some Clean Air Proposals
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
In the last several months, the
E.P.A. has delayed or refused to do analysis on proposals that conflict
with the president's air pollution agenda.
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U.S.
Will Defy Court's Order in Terror Case
By PHILIP SHENON
The decision could force the dismissal
of the indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person facing trial
in the U.S. in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
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No-Show
Equals No Vote, Irate N.A.A.C.P. Hosts Say
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
N.A.A.C.P. leaders attacked three
Democratic presidential candidates who missed a forum at the group's convention.
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Bloomberg
Defends His Stance on Nonpartisan City Elections
By JONATHAN P. HICKS
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg insisted
that removing party labels from the ballot broadens political opportunity.
Articles(new
ones in red)
Emails
(Forwards/Actions)
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Dear PennPIRG supporter,
On June 19th, we
had our first big victory in the fight to overturn the FCC's decision to
weaken media ownership rules when the Senate Commerce Committee approved
a bi-partisan proposal that we support, S. 1046, that would reinstate the
previous limit on how many TV stations a media giant can own. The committee
also approved, with minor changes, an amendment reinstating the ban on
cross-ownership between the dominant newspaper and television station in
most markets.
This happened in
part because of the public outcry over the FCC's decision and the large
number of people contacting the FCC and their U.S. Senators.
I will keep you informed
of where this legislation stands in the Senate, but for now the focus shifts
to the U.S. House.
The powerful chairman
of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA), still
supports the FCC decision. After the Senate committee vote, Bloomberg News
reported that Rep. Tauzin had vowed to "kill" the Senate bill if it were
sent over to the House. Despite over 146 sponsors for the House version
of the Senate bill, HR 2052, Rep. Tauzin has blocked its consideration
in his committee.
Please take a minute
to ask your representative to support this legislation and urge Rep. Tauzin
and Speaker Hastert to let the House vote on the important issue of who
controls the public airwaves. Then, ask your family and friends to help
by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click
on this link or paste it into your web browser:
http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=28&id4=ES
The Supreme Court,
in its most important ruling on broadcasting, once said that the "rights
of the viewers and listeners are paramount." Three FCC commissioners -
Chairman Michael Powell, Kevin Martin and Kathleen Abernathy - voted against
the public interest on June 2 and for the financial interests of a handful
of corporate media giants.
As you recall, on
June 2, the FCC voted 3-2 to weaken the public interest rules that limit
how many TV stations a media giant can own and prevent conglomerates from
owning newspapers and TV stations in the same market, despite receiving
more than one million citizen comments in opposition to these changes.
Unless their action
is overturned, the FCC has handed over our publicly owned airwaves to huge
media conglomerates without getting anything in return - no commitment
for better news reporting, no commitment to cover local issues, no commitment
to present unbiased information, no meaningful commitment for more children's
programming, no commitment for anything in the public interest. If allowed
to stand, these changes will have a negative effect on the variety of news,
the amount of local news and culture, and the diversity of views presented
to viewers and listeners.
Allowing a merger
between a dominant newspaper and a large TV station in local communities
across the country, as the FCC does, is likely to create news giants that
stifle reporting of local or different points of view. Such a news and
information giant is a frightening prospect for democracy. Public policy
should err in favor of more competition, not less, so communities around
the nation can enjoy a greater diversity of viewpoints so critical to democratic
dialogue and debate.
On June 19, the Senate
Commerce Committee approved a bi-partisan proposal that we support, S.
1046 sponsored by Sen. Stevens (R-AK) and Sen. Hollings (D-SC), to reinstate
the 35 percent limit on the size of an audience the nation's largest broadcasters
may control nationwide, reversing the FCC's change to 45%. The committee
also approved, with minor changes, an amendment from Sen. Dorgan (D-ND)
reinstating the ban on cross-ownership between the dominant newspaper and
television station in most markets.
I will keep you informed
of where this legislation stands in the Senate, but for now the focus shifts
to the U.S. House where Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA), the powerful chairman
of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, still supports the FCC decision.
After the Senate committee vote, Bloomberg News reported that Rep. Tauzin
had vowed to "kill" the Senate bill if it were sent over to the House.
Despite over 146 sponsors for the House version of the Senate bill, HR
2052, Rep. Tauzin has blocked its consideration in his committee.
Please take a minute
to ask your representative to support this legislation and to urge Rep.
Tauzin and Speaker Hastert to let the House vote on the important issue
of who controls the public airwaves. Then, ask your family and friends
to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click
on this link or paste it into your web browser:
http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=28&id4=ES
Sincerely,
Beth McConnell
PennPIRG State Director
BMcConnell@PennPIRG.org
http://www.PennPIRG.org
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BREAKING NEWS!Court Invalidates
DEA Interpretive Rule on Hemp Foods DEA Rule "Legislative" and "Inconsistent
with THC Regulation"
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- U.S. COURT of APPEALS for the NINTH CIRCUIT - The Hemp Industries Association
(HIA), member food and body care companies, and their customers applauded
a decision issued today by the US Court of Appeals in San Francisco, invalidating
the Drug Enforcement Administration's October 2001 "Interpretive Rule"
that would have construed the Controlled Substances Act to ban edible hemp
seed, oil and oil and seed products.
Writing for the majority
opinion, Judge Betty Fletcher said, "Because the DEA rule is inconsistent
with the THC regulation at the time of promulgation, it is a rocedurally
invalid legislative rule, not an interpretive rule. The petition
requesting that we declare the rule to be invalid and unenforceable is
granted." The opinion is available at www.Votehemp.com.
"This is great news, but because the court narrowly declared the DEA 'Interpretive
Rule' invalid on procedural grounds, hemp food remains in legal limbo until
the court decides on the industry's challenge to the DEA's 'Final Rule'
which is virtually identical to the 'Interpretive Rule,'" said Eric Steenstra,
President of Vote Hemp, a non-profit organization dedicated to the acceptance
of and free market for Industrial Hemp. "However, today's court ruling
not only ensures hemp foods will continue to be legally available to consumers
in the meantime, but also strikes a major blow to the ultimate validity
of DEA's Final Rule," added Steenstra. On March 28, 2003 the HIA, several
hemp food and cosmetic
manufacturers and
the Organic Consumers Association filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit asking
for a review of the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) "Final Rule"
regarding hemp foods. If this new "Final Rule" were to take effect,
it would ban hemp seed and oil and consequently destroy the multimillion-dollar
hemp food industry. Due to a Court ordered Stay, hemp foods remain perfectly
legal to import, sell and consume while the Court hears arguments from
the HIA and DEA and renders a decision. The HIA brief charges that the
DEA's "Final Rule" should be invalidated because the agency is exercising
arbitrary and capricious authority by attempting to outlaw hemp seed and
oil without holding formal hearings on the issue or finding any potential
for abuse. Because trace infinitesimal THC in hemp seed is non-psychoactive
and insignificant, Congress exempted non-viable hemp seed and oil from
control under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), just as Congress exempted
poppy seeds from the CSA, although they contain trace opiates otherwise
subject to control. The brief also charges that the DEA acted in an arbitrary
and capricious manner in exempting hemp
seed mixed with animal
feed, although Congress made no such distinction in the CSA.
Additionally, the
brief elucidates other major failures by the DEA-namely, the lack of hearings
on this issue and the failure to comply with the Regulatory Flexibility
Act, which requires assessing effects of the proposed change on small businesses.
The brief and other court documents are available at
http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/HIAvDEA_finalrules_petition.pdf
Final Legal Schedule
in Hemp Food Fight
July 24, 2003: Deadline
for DEA's response to HIA brief.
August 8, 2003: Deadline
for HIA's reply to DEA's response.
September 17, 2003:
Oral Arguments begin in San Francisco, CA.
North American hemp
food companies voluntarily observe reasonable THC limits similar to those
adopted by European nations as well as Canada and Australia. These
limits protect consumers with a wide margin of safety from any psychoactive
effects or workplace drug-testing interference (see hemp industry standards
regarding trace THC at http://www.testpledge.com).
The DEA has hypocritically not targeted food manufacturers for using poppy
seeds (in bagels and muffins, for example) even though they contain far
higher levels of trace opiates. The recently-revived global hemp market
is a thriving commercial success. Unfortunately, because the DEA's
Drug War paranoia has confused non-psychoactive industrial hemp varieties
of cannabis with
psychoactive "marihuana"
varieties, the U.S. is the only major industrialized nation to prohibit
the growing of industrial hemp.
Vote Hemp is a 501(c)4
non-profit group dedicated to the acceptance of and free market for Industrial
Hemp. To make a donation to help uscontinue our work, please visit: http://www.votehemp.com/contribute.html
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From: Matt Howes, National
Internet Organizer, ACLU
To: ACLU Action Network
Members
Date: June 30, 2003
The House is expected
to soon vote on a proposed school vouchers program that would allow taxpayer
money to support private schools in the District of Columbia.
While proponents
of the program argue that it will give children a choice of education,
the choice would only be available to a small segment of the children:
religious schools and other private schools are not required to comply
with many federal civil rights laws and can exclude students based on their
religion, gender, learning or physical disabilities. Consequently this
program would funnel taxpayer funds into private schools that discriminate
in accepting students.
The voters of Washington
D.C. have consistently voted against school vouchers for the last 20 years.
Instead of observing their wishes, some Members of Congress are seeking
to push vouchers down their throats. And if this bill becomes law, we can
expect Congress to use it to establish similar discriminatory programs
across the country.
Click
here for more information and to send a free fax to your Representative.
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Dear Friend,
I thought you might
be interested in this Ocean Action Network e-activism campaign. If you
go to the URL below you can check out what is at stake and send your own
message directly
to the relevant decision makers. Take action on this action alert from
Ocean Action Network at http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/POC?rk=FpzTxB71UqDIW
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Kayly Newcomer thought
you would be interested in this action alert from ActForChange.com
- the resource center for people with progressive values.
Restore International
Family Planning Funds
To take action on
this issue, click this link or copy and paste it into your browser:
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=15225
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Dear Mrs Kayly,
In only two or three
minutes, you can help set the terms of the debate in the 2004 presidential
election by adding your name to a rapidly growing Petition for a New Foreign
Policy addressed to all of the candidates.
Sign the petition
at:
http://www.peace-action.org/camp/cnfp/petition/petition.php
Like never before
in our history, our current foreign policy is taking our nation, and the
world, in a radical and reckless direction. The Bush administration has
turned our country into a global renegade.
Without your active
participation there won't be a meaningful debate about our nation's role
in the world and we may be left with a choice between a bad or a less bad
foreign policy.
This is an absolutely
crucial time to demonstrate to all presidential candidates that millions
of Americans demand a better direction for our country. We want positive,
constructive leadership toward a foreign policy that isn't foreign to our
values.
In less than three
years, radical unilateralists in the Bush administration have redefined
America's relationship with the world. The administration has employed
US forces to preemptively invade Iraq, recklessly putting hundreds of thousands
in harms way. They have used our country's resources to provide arms and
expand military training to governments that abuse the human rights of
their own citizens. They have put us on a road toward reviving the arms
race through their plans for a new breed of nuclear weapons and missile
defense. Along the way, a host of international agreements have been thrown
out the window.
Take these three
actions right now:
1. Sign the Petition
for a New Foreign Policy
Help us swamp the
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strong leadership toward a new foreign policy. Sign the petition and we'll
send an email to every presidential candidate's campaign on your behalf.
In addition to sending every signed petition to the campaigns, we'll organize
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2. Build the Campaign
Send this letter
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take responsibility for building the campaign we can generate half a million
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3. Make the Organizing
Happen
Peace Action's Campaign
for a New Foreign Policy is demonstrating to Democrats, Republicans, and
others that the American people insist on a more constructive path for
our nation. Millions of us wrote our members of Congress opposing an invasion
of Iraq. We marched in the streets. We spoke out in our communities. Now
it is time to use the campaign season to build public pressure for a real
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For every $5,000
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citizens the tools to change the world.
To donate, please
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The candidates must
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human rights and democracy by ending arms sales to dictators; a vision
that will lead us to a new era free from the threat of weapons of mass
destruction; a vision that cherishes international cooperation as both
the means and the end.
With your help, we
can build better leadership for a New Foreign Policy. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Kevin Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action
PS: Find out how
to support the Campaign for a New Foreign Policy in your own community.
Go to: http://www.peace-action.org/camp/cnfp/cnfp.html
