rBGH

Dear Editor:

Despite the fierce opposition that was raised by consumers and the dairy industry at a March 12 public hearing, I was disappointed to learn that the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) and Governor Strickland still plan to limit the use of ‘rBGH- free’ milk labels. 

Fitrakis: City of Peace

Bob,

I agree that the war in Iraq is the moral issue of our time.  I also agree that the Columbus City Council has ample reason to pass the "City for Peace" resolution.

However, I must also agree with the Dispatch that passing the resolution would be largely an empty gesture.  As evidence, I would point to the 283 cities, 10 counties, and 17 state legislatures which have already passed such resolutions, with no discernible effect.

I think it's time -- no, past time -- to do something more concrete.  My idea was published in The Free Press a few weeks ago.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/13/2008/3047

I'm open to a better one.

Sincerely,
Gregg Gordon

I could not disagree more with Bob Fitrakis' City of Peace article

I have friends and children of friends fighting in the middle east today.  

I also have business associates of middle eastern descent that has family members in Iraq.

I have seen with my own eyes and been told of the gratitude most people in Iraq has for our troops and the freedom they are bringing.

So I would ask Bob this question.  What dollar amount would you put on the freedoms of these people?

One last thing.  When people using the term "illegal war" reminds me of a small child's tantrum.  If it was illegal, we wouldn't be there.  But hey ... that's just my opinion.

Keith Shamblin
www.EasyFirstStep.com

Fire and race

What could be more brittle than “Americanism”? What could be more tedious than the mass defense of its teary-eyed, ahistorical ignorance?

We are still in the toddler stage of national awareness, apparently, too young to be told how we got here. Thus the fiery Rev. Jeremiah Wright, proclaiming the bitter truths of ghetto America — skewering the ugly and cruel side of our righteousness, challenging the saintliness of our military might, railing about slavery and poverty and Nagasaki, committing the ultimate sacrilege of uttering “God damn America … for killing innocent people” — is just too, too much for the purveyors of genteel know-nothingism in the media who work so hard to make sure our presidential elections are intellectually stress-free and who have denounced him en masse with the all-purpose condemnation “anti-American.”

Ohio State students call on political leaders to help oust Coke from OSU

Attached is a letter and flyer sent by student leaders at Ohio State University to 156 Ohio political leaders, including state legislators, Gov. Ted Strickland and members of Congress. The letter is asking political leaders to support their efforts to have the university end its business relationship with The Coca-Cola Co. and to remove all Coke machines and products from the OSU campus.

OSU is believed to have the largest single university contract in the nation. That contract expires in June. It has been reported that in an exclusive contract arrangement, OSU has received $30 million over the past 10 years. It was also reported in 1999 that Coke received $29 million in revenues in just the first year of the contract. In addition, Coke benefits from free advertising and promotion of its brand name throughout the campus and at sports and other events.

City of Peace

The great moral issue of our era is the illegal war in Iraq. Like the issues of slavery, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War in past epochs, silence on this issue equals complicity.

On March 17, the Citizens Grassroots Congress presented a Columbus "City for Peace" resolution to the Columbus City Council. Notably, 283 cities, 10 counties and 17 states across the nation have passed peace resolutions, from Arrowsic, Maine to South Charleston, West Virginia to Missoula, Montana.

Yet, the Columbus Dispatch, in a March 22 editorial, denounced the peace resolution as an "Empty gesture." They cautioned Council to "focus on city issues," not the war in Iraq. The Dispatch calls the resolution "symbolic and ineffectual."

In 1838, when Angelina Grimke became the first woman to address a legislative body in the U.S., her plea for a resolution from the Massachusetts legislature against slavery met with similar scorn from the mainstream media.

Will Al Gore help shut the nuke power loophole?

Today Al Gore is unveiling a massive campaign to fight climate chaos.

But the hugely funded atomic power industry has jumped on global warming with the Big Lie that its failed reactors can somehow help. It's a sorry replay of the 1950s promise that atomic power would be "too cheap to meter."

Just before the 2000 election, as senior advisor to the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, I wrote then-Vice President Gore asking that he help delete from the Kyoto Accords any reference to nukes as a possible solution to global warming. On November 3, 2000 (the letter is posted at the www.nirs.org web site) Gore wrote back:

Antioch College Alumni Outraged at University's Rejection of Bid; Vow to Continue to Fight and to Support "Nonstop Antioch"

March 28, 2008– Antioch College alumni working through the College Revival Fund, Inc. (CRF), restated their unwavering support for Nonstop Antioch today, in response to news that the University Board of Trustees had rejected a significant and viable offer by a group of major donors and educational leaders that would have enabled Antioch College to continue operating past the University's June 30, 2008 date of closure. 

Ellen Borgersen, Acting President of the CRF, said today in a statement: "The suspicion that the University Board of Trustees was negotiating in bad faith and not interested in saving the College has, unfortunately, been confirmed. Over the past four months, the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (AC3) labored mightily to put together an offer that would be a win-win solution for the University and the College, as well as for the community and for everyone who believes in what Antioch stands for."

Dispatch smear campaign against Brunner is about delivering Ohio to the GOP

The Columbus Dispatch is in the middle of its most blatant editorial propaganda campaign since the questioning of the late Columbus School Board member Bill Moss' sanity in a front page article.

Their new target is Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. The capitol city's daily monopoly and political bludgeon for the multimillionaire Wolfe family's real agenda is ensuring that the Republican Party control Ohio's Apportionment Board after the 2010 census. The party that controls apportionment gerrymanders the state.

The Wolfe family has not allowed a Democrat to be endorsed for President since the re-election of Woodrow Wilson in 1916. In that campaign, the Wolfe's pro-German sentiments won out over their time-honored role as Republican operatives.

The Republican Party believes that Brunner is the most politically vulnerable of the five-member Apportionment Board. The Secretary of State serves along with the Governor, the State Auditor and two members of the state legislature – one from each party by law. Do the math. Brunner's a Dem, so is Governor Strickland. Mary Taylor, the Auditor, is a Republican. It's now 3-2 for the Dems.

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