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"There is a contemporary form of violence to which the idealist
fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs:
activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are
a
form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To
allow
oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting
concerns, to
surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many
projects,
to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to
violence. More
than that, it is cooperation in violence. The frenzy of the activist
neutralizes his or her work for peace. It destroys one's own inner
capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work,
because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work
fruitful."
Thomas Merton
Peace & Justice (meets) Mental Health
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Ohio Voting Machines and the Potential of
Product Liability Lawsuits for Recall Refund:
Sample Lawsuits Delivered by Ohio Election Justice Campaign
to the Secretary of State and other Elected Officials on
November 30, 2007
By Patricia "Paddy" Shaffer
Director, OEJC
December 2, 2007
A Voting Machine Jingle:
It was the final day of testing and all through the state, voters
were praying that the machines would just go away, up on the
tables they saw with a grin, a package of real paper ballots and
pencils and pens, hand counted at the precincts, by locals they
knew, and the outcome was auditable, no longer would the
voters be screwed.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
2970925220524280238&hl=en
On November 30, 2007, the final day of the testing of Project
Everest, the 1.8 million dollar HAVA taxpayer funded testing of
Ohio's Voting Machines by Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer
Brunner, hopeful packages from The Ohio Election Justice
Campaign were delivered in the capital city of Columbus Ohio.
The deliveries were to Governor Ted Strickland via a staff
member named Peg; the Ohio Senate and the Ohio Controlling
Board who approved the money for this project; to Attorney
General Marc Dann via Assistant Chief Damian W. Sikora; and to
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, via Executive
Assistant Bobbie Gilbert who said the package was on her own
desk.
Marj Creech, Victoria Parks, and Paddy Shaffer assembled and
delivered these packages including two product liability
lawsuits: one by Paul Lehto for Washington, one by Patricia
Axelrod for Nevada. We also included in these packets, two
hand-outs, one a synopsis of some of the recent testing done
across the country, and another hand-out of some of the many
machine failures in OHIO reported by voters, and a few poll
workers, in the Nov. 06 election. See attached.
Product liability interview is at this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
2641535466633314591&hl=en
In delivering the packages, it was explained that the purpose of
us providing these packages to them is to raise awareness that
Ohio can request it's money back, to have a recall and refund on
the voting machines. These lawsuits can serve as a sample or a
template for what Ohio may need to do after the testing of our
voting machines. Now that these elected officials have the
sample product liability lawsuits, the topic has been raised for
recall and refund. Plausible deniability is no longer a reason to
continue to keep machines, if the only strong reason given after
the testing reports have been viewed is because we have such a
large financial investment in them, and that we must keep them.
In this case the deciders of the fate of our voting machines will
be fully aware they could ask for a recall and refund. The flawed
reasoning of throwing good money after bad is devoid of good
fiscal judgment. These vendors have been decertified in
California after exhaustive testing by the Secretary of State
Debra Bowen. Why then should we expect different results in
Ohio? They are the same vendors being tested. One only hopes
that the testing Brunner conducted will have proven just as
rigorous. One recalls the words of our founder Benjamin
Franklin who said, "the definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over and expecting different results." He was a
wise man.
The package also contained several items including information
on other lawsuits in the US and documents from Leonard
Samuelson, an Electrical Engineer and software developer for
thirty years. Leonard covered a variety of important topics
regarding electronic voting machines, including:
Voter verification
Count auditing required.
Testing only validates expected behavior.
Hidden capability is easy to prepare.
Hidden capability is easy to use.
It's possible to limit access to hardware.
Paper and pen are very reliable.
Testing cannot prove "no tricks." (OEJC's favorite)
All offices were informed that we shall follow up in about a week
to make sure the package was reviewed, and will be seeking
comments.
At the office of the Attorney General Marc Dann, we supplied the
package to Assistant Chief Damian W. Sikora. In the past,
Damien has done defense work on behalf of J. Kenneth
Blackwell regarding election justice cases such as Northeast
Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Blackwell, and the League of
Women Voters v. Blackwell. He is listed on the papers as being
in the Constitutional Offices Section.
These packages were delivered on the final day of testing for
Project Everest, for which The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
has repeatedly requested both verbally and in writing, to have
observers for. All requests heretofore had gone unanswered.
We were told permission would have to come from Assistant
Secretary of State Christopher Nance. Christopher never
returned our phone calls or letters regarding our request. Sadly
he was unable to come out and speak with us while we were
there at his office. He was said to be in a meeting with the SOS at
that very moment. While there, we were told that he was writing
us a letter, and would send it soon. That was Friday November
30, 2007, and the letter arrived via email on Sunday afternoon,
December 2, 2007 at 4:06 p.m. This is that letter:
November 30, 2007
Dear Ms. Shaffer:
Thank you for your recent correspondence and request to have
observers from the Ohio Elections Justice Campaign observe
the EVEREST testing process.
While I understand your interest in observing the testing
process, I am respectfully denying your request to observe the
testing process.
In a recent email (dated November 22, 2007), you also made
numerous requests of information. Please note, that any
specific public record requests you made are being addressed
and Brian Green, Elections attorney for our office, will be
sending you information shortly.
If you have any questions, you may contact my office at 614-644-
0764.
Sincerely,
Christopher B. Nance
Assistant Secretary of State
cc: Jennifer Brunner
Kellye Pinkleton
Brian Green
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The link below is for the area in the community blogs for
Progress Ohio where I have written today regarding the
decisions to be made about Ohio's voting machines. Paddy
Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
Please add your comments, and help to tell Ohio's election story.
http://www.progressohio.
org/page/community/post/paddyshaffer/C3Ns
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Courage to Resist volunteers will send this letter on your behalf
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Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an
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In collaboration with War Resisters Support Campaign (Canada),
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Dear steve,
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In 1971, over one hundred members of Vietnam Veterans
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Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime.
Over three days in January, these soldiers testified on the
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Over thirty years later, we find ourselves faced with a new war.
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Once again, our country needs Winter Soldiers. In March of
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There is a massive bipartisan ground swell of public opposition
building against the attempt of the FCC chairman on accelerated
notice to sneak through the most devastating decimation of
media diversity ever. Multiple groups are mobilizing around this,
including more than 10,000 submissions to the FCC and your
members of Congress from our first alert on this last week.
Stop The FCC Action Page: http://www.usalone.
com/stop_media_consolidation.php
Facebook Action Page: http://apps.facebook.
com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum738
Though deliberately been rushed through to try to evade critical
analysis, it is now clear that the proposed rule changes would
affect every city and hamlet in every market, not just the 20
biggest as deceptively advertised. It's nothing but a giant cave in
to the media moguls who have already degraded the public
discourse with systematic propaganda masquerading as news.
But the good news is that members of both sides of the aisle in
Congress are acting to stop this last minute bum rush, by
bringing forward the Media Ownership Act of 2007, to tell the
FCC in no uncertain terms, "Whoa horsey!" Please submit the
action page above so we can turn the tide on this eminently
winnable struggle, just as we did in 2003, turning back virtually
the same attack by then FCC chairman Powell.
We need to really pour it on. We need every voice we can muster
to tell our members of Congress we stand behind them as one
on this, and to tell the FCC that we the people unanimously
oppose our media being sold out to those who have sold the
public interest so short.
We only have until December 11, to make our voices heard.
Please bring the weight of your personal comments to bear at
this pivotal time for the future of our public media. You can
submit either of the action pages above, the second being the
new Facebook alternate option.
OpedNews Brings Their Numbers To Join The Fight
Coming through in a major way in this mobilization is the entire
contributing writer staff at OpedNews, who have submitted
seven pieces on this policy crisis in the last couple days alone.
The articles below contain much insightful analysis and
information, for example the fact that FCC Chairman Martin has
been nothing but a Bush political hatchet man since day one,
including a stint as a Bush campaign attorney.
Please read and promote these articles of truth as well, on any
networks you participate in like Digg, Reddit and so on, to get
the word out that it's time for the people to be heard again.
Censored: Media Consolidation Debate
by Steve Fournier
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_steve_fo_071127_censored_3a_media_con
s.htm
Cross Ownership Proposal
by Kenneth Briggs
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/life_a_kenneth__071127_cross_ownership_prop.
htm
Confronting the FCC Monolith
by Kevin Gosztola
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_kevin_go_071127_confronting_the_fcc_.
htm
The Bush Push To Take Control Of Our Media and What You
Can Do About It
by Cliff Carson
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_cliff_ca_071127_the_bush_push_to_tak.
htm
Stopping the FCC from Consolidating Media Ownership
by Mike Kuykendall
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_mike_kuy_071127_stopping_the_fcc_fro.
htm
When Fox News Brags.....and the FCC
by Michael Shaw
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_michael__071126_when_fox_news_brags_.
htm
Media for the Masses, not amassed media monopolization
by Richard Mathis
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_richard__071127_media_for_the_masses.
htm
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Thanks to the efforts of Ohio Majority Radio and longtime radio
executive Gary Edwards, central Ohioans will once again hear
progressive talk from favorites like Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz,
and Randi Rhodes. We'll also hear coverage of local high
school football, boys and girls basketball, and other local sports.
Now that it's back, click here to support WVKO's Progressive
Programming.
It all starts at 6 AM this Monday, December 3rd. Tune to AM 1580
WVKO.
How can an individual listener like you help keep Progressive
Talk radio on the air?
Contribute to Progress Ohio's radio ad campaign fund!
By donating to Progress Ohio's radio ad campaign fund, you will
not only be helping keep Progressive Talk on the air, you'll be
supporting Progress Ohio's 112 community partnerships.
Now that it's back, click here to support WVKO's Progressive
Programming.
It's been a long road to secure Progressive Talk radio in
Columbus. After all this hard work, let's do everything we can to
keep it on the air.
Thank You!
Brian Rothenberg
Executive Director
ProgressOhio.org
Please forward to your friends and colleagues!
ProgressOhio - "We're Powered By You"
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Through the efforts of Progress Ohio, Ohio
> > Majority Radio, and well-connected Progressives,
> > WVKO 1580 AM will start broadcasting the
> > Progressive Talk format Monday, December 3, at
> > 6 AM. This marks the return of a format
> > much-loved by listeners, but much-neglected
> > by the managers of the "old station", WTPG.
> >
> > Tune in to 1580 AM to hear:
> >
> > 6-9 AM Bill Press
> > 9-noon Stephanie Miller
> > noon-3 Ed Schultz
> > 3-6 Randi Rhodes
> > 6-9 Rachel Maddow
> >
> > Weekends:
> >
> > Ring of Fire
> > Sam Seder Show
> >
> > View the full (interim) schedule here:
> >
> > http://www.wvko1580.com/schedule.html
> >
> > The station's website is:
> >
> > http://www.wvko1580.com/
> >
> >
> > I want to thank all of you for your interest in
> > returning Progressive Talk to the region.
> > But we're not out of the woods yet. The WVKO-AM
> > agreement is only until a contract renegotiation
> > in July 2008. The prospect of getting a full
> > licensing agreement looks good for that time,
> > but the station could be sold at any time,
> > because the owners would really like to sell
> > the station. To anyone.
> >
> > Thus, there is still the need to be on offense,
> > and continue to look for a buyer of WVKO-AM
> > or another facility. Once the station owner is
> > a like-minded progressive, only then can we
> > truly rest.
> >
> > But for the time being, let's celebrate the
> > return of Progressive Talk to the air, and
> > new life breathed back into WVKO-AM.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Russ Childers, Chairman
> > Ohio Majority Radio
> >
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We all know or knew someone like this!!
One day, when I was a freshman in high school,
I saw a kid from my class walking home from school.
His name was Kyle.
It looked like he was carrying all of his books.
I thought to myself,
"Why would anyone bring home all his books on a
Friday?
He must really be a nerd."
I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football
game with friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged
my shoulders and went on.
As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward
him.
They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms
and tripping him so he landed in the dirt.
His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the
grass about ten feet from him
He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes
My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he
crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear
in his eye.
As I handed him his glasses, I said, "Those guys are
jerks. "
They really should get lives.
" He looked at me and said, "Hey thanks!"
There was a big smile on his face.
It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.
I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he
lived.
As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I
had never seen him before.
He said he had gone to private school before now.
I would have never hung out with a private school kid
before.
We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his
books.
He turned out to be a pretty cool kid.
I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my
friends
He said yes.
We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know
Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the
same of him.
Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the
huge stack of books again.
I stopped him and said, "Boy, you are going to build
some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday!
" He just laughed and handed me half the books.
Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best
friends.
When we were seniors we began to think about college.
Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke.
I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles
would never be a problem.
He was going to be a doctor and I was going for
business on a football scholarship.
Kyle was valedictorian of our class.
I teased him all the time about being a nerd.
He had to prepare a speech for graduation.
I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and
speak
Graduation day, I saw Kyle.
He looked great.
He was one of those guys that really found himself
during high school.
He filled out and actually looked good in glasses.
He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him.
Boy, sometimes I was jealous!
Today was one of those days.
I could see that he was nervous about his speech.
So, I smacked him on the back and said, "Hey, big guy,
you'll be great!"
He looked at me with one of those looks (the really
grateful one) and smiled.
" Thanks," he said.
As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and
began
"Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you
make it through those tough years.
Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a
coach..but mostly your friends...
I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to
someone is the best gift you can give them.
I am going to tell you a story.
I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the
story of the first day we met.
He had planned to kill himself over the weekend.
He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his
Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his
stuff home.
He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile.
"Thankfully, I was saved.
My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable."
I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this
handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest
moment.
I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that
same grateful smile.
Not until that moment did I realize it's depth.
Never underestimate the power of your actions.
With one small gesture you can change a person's life.
For better or for worse.
God puts us all in each others lives to impact one
another in some way.
Look for God in others.
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our
wings have trouble remembering how to fly."
There is no beginning or end.. Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
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Iraq Veteran singing "A Prayer for Strenght." http://video.google.
com/videoplay?docid=-1855858519745688644
"There is a contemporary form of violence to which the idealist
fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs:
activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are
a
form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To
allow
oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting
concerns, to
surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many
projects,
to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to
violence. More
than that, it is cooperation in violence. The frenzy of the activist
neutralizes his or her work for peace. It destroys one's own inner
capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work,
because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work
fruitful."
Thomas Merton
Peace & Justice (meets) Mental Health
http://redpeacecross.com/ISS.html
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Ohio Voting Machines and the Potential of
Product Liability Lawsuits for Recall Refund:
Sample Lawsuits Delivered by Ohio Election Justice Campaign
to the Secretary of State and other Elected Officials on
November 30, 2007
By Patricia "Paddy" Shaffer
Director, OEJC
December 2, 2007
A Voting Machine Jingle:
It was the final day of testing and all through the state, voters
were praying that the machines would just go away, up on the
tables they saw with a grin, a package of real paper ballots and
pencils and pens, hand counted at the precincts, by locals they
knew, and the outcome was auditable, no longer would the
voters be screwed.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
2970925220524280238&hl=en
On November 30, 2007, the final day of the testing of Project
Everest, the 1.8 million dollar HAVA taxpayer funded testing of
Ohio's Voting Machines by Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer
Brunner, hopeful packages from The Ohio Election Justice
Campaign were delivered in the capital city of Columbus Ohio.
The deliveries were to Governor Ted Strickland via a staff
member named Peg; the Ohio Senate and the Ohio Controlling
Board who approved the money for this project; to Attorney
General Marc Dann via Assistant Chief Damian W. Sikora; and to
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, via Executive
Assistant Bobbie Gilbert who said the package was on her own
desk.
Marj Creech, Victoria Parks, and Paddy Shaffer assembled and
delivered these packages including two product liability
lawsuits: one by Paul Lehto for Washington, one by Patricia
Axelrod for Nevada. We also included in these packets, two
hand-outs, one a synopsis of some of the recent testing done
across the country, and another hand-out of some of the many
machine failures in OHIO reported by voters, and a few poll
workers, in the Nov. 06 election. See attached.
Product liability interview is at this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
2641535466633314591&hl=en
In delivering the packages, it was explained that the purpose of
us providing these packages to them is to raise awareness that
Ohio can request it's money back, to have a recall and refund on
the voting machines. These lawsuits can serve as a sample or a
template for what Ohio may need to do after the testing of our
voting machines. Now that these elected officials have the
sample product liability lawsuits, the topic has been raised for
recall and refund. Plausible deniability is no longer a reason to
continue to keep machines, if the only strong reason given after
the testing reports have been viewed is because we have such a
large financial investment in them, and that we must keep them.
In this case the deciders of the fate of our voting machines will
be fully aware they could ask for a recall and refund. The flawed
reasoning of throwing good money after bad is devoid of good
fiscal judgment. These vendors have been decertified in
California after exhaustive testing by the Secretary of State
Debra Bowen. Why then should we expect different results in
Ohio? They are the same vendors being tested. One only hopes
that the testing Brunner conducted will have proven just as
rigorous. One recalls the words of our founder Benjamin
Franklin who said, "the definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over and expecting different results." He was a
wise man.
The package also contained several items including information
on other lawsuits in the US and documents from Leonard
Samuelson, an Electrical Engineer and software developer for
thirty years. Leonard covered a variety of important topics
regarding electronic voting machines, including:
Voter verification
Count auditing required.
Testing only validates expected behavior.
Hidden capability is easy to prepare.
Hidden capability is easy to use.
It's possible to limit access to hardware.
Paper and pen are very reliable.
Testing cannot prove "no tricks." (OEJC's favorite)
All offices were informed that we shall follow up in about a week
to make sure the package was reviewed, and will be seeking
comments.
At the office of the Attorney General Marc Dann, we supplied the
package to Assistant Chief Damian W. Sikora. In the past,
Damien has done defense work on behalf of J. Kenneth
Blackwell regarding election justice cases such as Northeast
Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Blackwell, and the League of
Women Voters v. Blackwell. He is listed on the papers as being
in the Constitutional Offices Section.
These packages were delivered on the final day of testing for
Project Everest, for which The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
has repeatedly requested both verbally and in writing, to have
observers for. All requests heretofore had gone unanswered.
We were told permission would have to come from Assistant
Secretary of State Christopher Nance. Christopher never
returned our phone calls or letters regarding our request. Sadly
he was unable to come out and speak with us while we were
there at his office. He was said to be in a meeting with the SOS at
that very moment. While there, we were told that he was writing
us a letter, and would send it soon. That was Friday November
30, 2007, and the letter arrived via email on Sunday afternoon,
December 2, 2007 at 4:06 p.m. This is that letter:
November 30, 2007
Dear Ms. Shaffer:
Thank you for your recent correspondence and request to have
observers from the Ohio Elections Justice Campaign observe
the EVEREST testing process.
While I understand your interest in observing the testing
process, I am respectfully denying your request to observe the
testing process.
In a recent email (dated November 22, 2007), you also made
numerous requests of information. Please note, that any
specific public record requests you made are being addressed
and Brian Green, Elections attorney for our office, will be
sending you information shortly.
If you have any questions, you may contact my office at 614-644-
0764.
Sincerely,
Christopher B. Nance
Assistant Secretary of State
cc: Jennifer Brunner
Kellye Pinkleton
Brian Green
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The link below is for the area in the community blogs for
Progress Ohio where I have written today regarding the
decisions to be made about Ohio's voting machines. Paddy
Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
Please add your comments, and help to tell Ohio's election story.
http://www.progressohio.
org/page/community/post/paddyshaffer/C3Ns
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Please sign the online appeal
"DEAR CANADA: LET U.S. WAR RESISTERS STAY!"
Help end the war by supporting the troops who have refused to
fight it. This action is now more urgent after Canada court denial.
Sign the appeal & learn more here.
"I am writing from the United States to ask you to make a
provision for sanctuary for the scores of U.S. military service
members currently in Canada, most of whom have traveled to
your country in order to resist fighting in the Iraq War. Please let
them stay in Canada..."
Courage to Resist volunteers will send this letter on your behalf
to three key Canadian officials—Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Diane Finley, and
Stéphane Dion, Liberal Party—via international first class mail.
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an
appeal from our war resisters. Supporters in Canada
immediately staged protests in six cities and announced plans
to ramp up pressure for a political solution, focusing on a
forthcoming debate in the Canadian Parliament. By adding our
voices now to this debate already underway in Canada, our
actions could make the difference between sanctuary and
deportation for war resisters.
In collaboration with War Resisters Support Campaign (Canada),
and the support of World Can't Wait—Drive Out the Bush
Regime, this effort comes at a critical juncture in the international
campaign for asylum for U.S. war resisters in Canada.
Dear steve,
I'm asking you to support and sign two statements backing up
the resistance of US military against the war today.
If you sign and forward these messages now, we can:
Get thousands more letters to the government of Canada in
favor of sanctuary for war resisters at a time when the Supreme
Court of Canada is refusing to hear their appeal.
Give early support to the March 2008 "Winter Soldier"
investigation of Iraq Veterans Against the War, putting testimony
on the reality of the war crimes before people living in this
country.
We Support the Troops Who Oppose the War
Sign the statement of support for Winter Solider: Iraq &
Afghanistan
On the weekend of 13-15 March, 2008, Iraq Veterans Against the
War will assemble history's largest gathering of US veterans of
Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as Iraqi and Afghan survivors.
They will provide first hand accounts of their experiences and
reveal the truth of occupation.
We support Iraq Veterans Against the War and their Winter
Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan Investigation. Join us in supporting
the effort to reveal truth in the way that only those who lived it
can.
In 1971, over one hundred members of Vietnam Veterans
Against the War gathered in Detroit to share their stories with
America. Atrocities like the My Lai massacre had ignited popular
opposition to the war, but political and military leaders insisted
that such crimes were isolated exceptions. The members of
VVAW knew differently.
Profiles of Iraq War Resisters:
Camilo Mejia, author, Road from Ar Ramadi became the new face
of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a
discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After
serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known
Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the
war and occupation. His principled stand helped to rally the
growing opposition and embolden his fellow soldiers.
Liam Madden served as a Communications Electronics
Specialist in the Marine Corps from January 2003 to January
2007. While enlisted he was deployed to Iraq, Kuwait, Thailand,
Okinawa, Japan, and Korea. During his last year in the Marines,
Sergeant Madden co-founded the Appeal for Redress, a
campaign of service members demanding that congress halt the
war in Iraq, and serves on the Advisory Board of The World
Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime.
Over three days in January, these soldiers testified on the
systematic brutality they had seen visited upon the people of
Vietnam. They called it the Winter Soldier investigation, after
Thomas Paine's famous admonishing of the "summer soldier"
who shirks his duty during difficult times. In a time of war and
lies, the veterans who gathered in Detroit knew it was their duty
to tell the truth.
Over thirty years later, we find ourselves faced with a new war.
But the lies are the same. Once again, American troops are
sinking into increasingly bloody occupations. Once again, war
crimes in places like Haditha, Fallujah, and Abu Ghraib have
turned the public against the war. Once again, politicians and
generals are blaming "a few bad apples" instead of examining
the military policies that have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan.
Once again, our country needs Winter Soldiers. In March of
2008, Iraq Veterans Against the War will gather in our nation's
capital to break the silence and hold our leaders accountable for
these wars. We hope you'll join us, because yours is a story that
every American needs to hear. Sign and support here.
Debra Sweet,
Director, The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime
World Can't Wait
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There is a massive bipartisan ground swell of public opposition
building against the attempt of the FCC chairman on accelerated
notice to sneak through the most devastating decimation of
media diversity ever. Multiple groups are mobilizing around this,
including more than 10,000 submissions to the FCC and your
members of Congress from our first alert on this last week.
Stop The FCC Action Page: http://www.usalone.
com/stop_media_consolidation.php
Facebook Action Page: http://apps.facebook.
com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum738
Though deliberately been rushed through to try to evade critical
analysis, it is now clear that the proposed rule changes would
affect every city and hamlet in every market, not just the 20
biggest as deceptively advertised. It's nothing but a giant cave in
to the media moguls who have already degraded the public
discourse with systematic propaganda masquerading as news.
But the good news is that members of both sides of the aisle in
Congress are acting to stop this last minute bum rush, by
bringing forward the Media Ownership Act of 2007, to tell the
FCC in no uncertain terms, "Whoa horsey!" Please submit the
action page above so we can turn the tide on this eminently
winnable struggle, just as we did in 2003, turning back virtually
the same attack by then FCC chairman Powell.
We need to really pour it on. We need every voice we can muster
to tell our members of Congress we stand behind them as one
on this, and to tell the FCC that we the people unanimously
oppose our media being sold out to those who have sold the
public interest so short.
We only have until December 11, to make our voices heard.
Please bring the weight of your personal comments to bear at
this pivotal time for the future of our public media. You can
submit either of the action pages above, the second being the
new Facebook alternate option.
OpedNews Brings Their Numbers To Join The Fight
Coming through in a major way in this mobilization is the entire
contributing writer staff at OpedNews, who have submitted
seven pieces on this policy crisis in the last couple days alone.
The articles below contain much insightful analysis and
information, for example the fact that FCC Chairman Martin has
been nothing but a Bush political hatchet man since day one,
including a stint as a Bush campaign attorney.
Please read and promote these articles of truth as well, on any
networks you participate in like Digg, Reddit and so on, to get
the word out that it's time for the people to be heard again.
Censored: Media Consolidation Debate
by Steve Fournier
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_steve_fo_071127_censored_3a_media_con
s.htm
Cross Ownership Proposal
by Kenneth Briggs
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/life_a_kenneth__071127_cross_ownership_prop.
htm
Confronting the FCC Monolith
by Kevin Gosztola
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_kevin_go_071127_confronting_the_fcc_.
htm
The Bush Push To Take Control Of Our Media and What You
Can Do About It
by Cliff Carson
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_cliff_ca_071127_the_bush_push_to_tak.
htm
Stopping the FCC from Consolidating Media Ownership
by Mike Kuykendall
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_mike_kuy_071127_stopping_the_fcc_fro.
htm
When Fox News Brags.....and the FCC
by Michael Shaw
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_michael__071126_when_fox_news_brags_.
htm
Media for the Masses, not amassed media monopolization
by Richard Mathis
http://www.opednews.
com/articles/opedne_richard__071127_media_for_the_masses.
htm
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possible.
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Thanks to the efforts of Ohio Majority Radio and longtime radio
executive Gary Edwards, central Ohioans will once again hear
progressive talk from favorites like Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz,
and Randi Rhodes. We'll also hear coverage of local high
school football, boys and girls basketball, and other local sports.
Now that it's back, click here to support WVKO's Progressive
Programming.
It all starts at 6 AM this Monday, December 3rd. Tune to AM 1580
WVKO.
How can an individual listener like you help keep Progressive
Talk radio on the air?
Contribute to Progress Ohio's radio ad campaign fund!
By donating to Progress Ohio's radio ad campaign fund, you will
not only be helping keep Progressive Talk on the air, you'll be
supporting Progress Ohio's 112 community partnerships.
Now that it's back, click here to support WVKO's Progressive
Programming.
It's been a long road to secure Progressive Talk radio in
Columbus. After all this hard work, let's do everything we can to
keep it on the air.
Thank You!
Brian Rothenberg
Executive Director
ProgressOhio.org
Please forward to your friends and colleagues!
ProgressOhio - "We're Powered By You"
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Through the efforts of Progress Ohio, Ohio
> > Majority Radio, and well-connected Progressives,
> > WVKO 1580 AM will start broadcasting the
> > Progressive Talk format Monday, December 3, at
> > 6 AM. This marks the return of a format
> > much-loved by listeners, but much-neglected
> > by the managers of the "old station", WTPG.
> >
> > Tune in to 1580 AM to hear:
> >
> > 6-9 AM Bill Press
> > 9-noon Stephanie Miller
> > noon-3 Ed Schultz
> > 3-6 Randi Rhodes
> > 6-9 Rachel Maddow
> >
> > Weekends:
> >
> > Ring of Fire
> > Sam Seder Show
> >
> > View the full (interim) schedule here:
> >
> > http://www.wvko1580.com/schedule.html
> >
> > The station's website is:
> >
> > http://www.wvko1580.com/
> >
> >
> > I want to thank all of you for your interest in
> > returning Progressive Talk to the region.
> > But we're not out of the woods yet. The WVKO-AM
> > agreement is only until a contract renegotiation
> > in July 2008. The prospect of getting a full
> > licensing agreement looks good for that time,
> > but the station could be sold at any time,
> > because the owners would really like to sell
> > the station. To anyone.
> >
> > Thus, there is still the need to be on offense,
> > and continue to look for a buyer of WVKO-AM
> > or another facility. Once the station owner is
> > a like-minded progressive, only then can we
> > truly rest.
> >
> > But for the time being, let's celebrate the
> > return of Progressive Talk to the air, and
> > new life breathed back into WVKO-AM.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Russ Childers, Chairman
> > Ohio Majority Radio
> >
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WARNING: Pursuant to the USA / Patriot Act, passed by YOUR
Congress
in 2001, which has now been extended indefinitely, all electronic
transmissions are now being read by federal and state law
enforcement
agencies. So, don't forget the Miranda warnings: "ANYTHING
you say (
type ) can and will be..." when sending e-mail because NONE
ARE
PRIVATE since the passage of the tyrannical and potentially
oppressive, unconstitutional, anti-American, anti-free speech,
anti-civil liberties U.S.A. / P.A.T.R.I.O. T. law - a.k.a. the
"Useless State sponsored Action Purporting to Attack Terror
while
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We all know or knew someone like this!!
One day, when I was a freshman in high school,
I saw a kid from my class walking home from school.
His name was Kyle.
It looked like he was carrying all of his books.
I thought to myself,
"Why would anyone bring home all his books on a
Friday?
He must really be a nerd."
I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football
game with friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged
my shoulders and went on.
As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward
him.
They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms
and tripping him so he landed in the dirt.
His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the
grass about ten feet from him
He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes
My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he
crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear
in his eye.
As I handed him his glasses, I said, "Those guys are
jerks. "
They really should get lives.
" He looked at me and said, "Hey thanks!"
There was a big smile on his face.
It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.
I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he
lived.
As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I
had never seen him before.
He said he had gone to private school before now.
I would have never hung out with a private school kid
before.
We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his
books.
He turned out to be a pretty cool kid.
I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my
friends
He said yes.
We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know
Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the
same of him.
Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the
huge stack of books again.
I stopped him and said, "Boy, you are going to build
some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday!
" He just laughed and handed me half the books.
Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best
friends.
When we were seniors we began to think about college.
Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke.
I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles
would never be a problem.
He was going to be a doctor and I was going for
business on a football scholarship.
Kyle was valedictorian of our class.
I teased him all the time about being a nerd.
He had to prepare a speech for graduation.
I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and
speak
Graduation day, I saw Kyle.
He looked great.
He was one of those guys that really found himself
during high school.
He filled out and actually looked good in glasses.
He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him.
Boy, sometimes I was jealous!
Today was one of those days.
I could see that he was nervous about his speech.
So, I smacked him on the back and said, "Hey, big guy,
you'll be great!"
He looked at me with one of those looks (the really
grateful one) and smiled.
" Thanks," he said.
As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and
began
"Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you
make it through those tough years.
Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a
coach..but mostly your friends...
I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to
someone is the best gift you can give them.
I am going to tell you a story.
I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the
story of the first day we met.
He had planned to kill himself over the weekend.
He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his
Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his
stuff home.
He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile.
"Thankfully, I was saved.
My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable."
I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this
handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest
moment.
I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that
same grateful smile.
Not until that moment did I realize it's depth.
Never underestimate the power of your actions.
With one small gesture you can change a person's life.
For better or for worse.
God puts us all in each others lives to impact one
another in some way.
Look for God in others.
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our
wings have trouble remembering how to fly."
There is no beginning or end.. Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
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