Mumia needs your help

It is with great concern that we report to you that Mumia has developed a potentially serious health condition affecting his feet, which have swollen painfully, making him unable to walk. Mumia suspects it may be due to blood clotting, a situation which can be very dangerous.

Health conditions are serious matters for prisoners, and blood clotting can be fatal. Please flood the prison's phone lines and demand that Mumia be allowed to be examined by an outside doctor of his choice.

SCI Greene prison: (724) 852-2902 During the Day from 8:00am to 5:00pm, ask for Superintendent Folino

During the Night, 5:00pm to 8:00am ask for Captain Hall. If gone during late night, ask for current Shift Director.

In light of Mumia's health condition, please also contact these elected officials who are supportive of Mumia and ask that they put pressure on SCI Greene Prison and demand that Mumia be allowed to be examined by an outside doctor of his choice.

Remind them that even simple health conditions can turn serious in prison conditions, and that sickness brought about by incarceration is one of the leading killers of

Stop the Approval of Genetically Engineered (GE) Rice!

BACKGROUND

On August 15th a public comment period began on Bayer's (formerly Aventis) petition to the EPA for final tolerances of their herbicide Glufosinate (aka Liberty) for use on rice and cotton. This is the final step in the regulatory process. If their request is approved, GE rice could be planted as soon as 2004. You can read the petition at www.epa.gov/EPA-PEST/2003/August/Day-15/p20897.htm.

PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO THE EPA TODAY!

 * All comments must be received by September 15th, 2003.

 * Comments may be sent by e-mail to opp-docket@epa.gov or by mail to:

    Public Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB) (7502C),     Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW 20460

 * In the subject line put: Docket ID Number OPP-2003-0274.

***SAMPLE TALKING POINTS***

 1) Glufosinate has been classified by the EPA as a "persistent" chemical, and has been found in the edible parts of food, including spinach,

The World Is Waiting For Americans to Take Back America, To Rescue Her. But you Don't Enable Co-Dependents

Most of the billions of people on this planet have been in shock. They are as disappointed, as disgusted and horrified by what the Bush coup d'etat regime has been doing. But finally, the tide has turned, and now, the majority of Americans, according to the latest Newsweek poll, want George W. Bush replaced.

Throughout Europe, the middle east, and most of the third world, the people have been let down by America the Great. It has been replaced by America the oaf, America the bully, America the rapist, America the corrupt and America the dishonest thief.

So these billions of humans, awed by the super power of the US, are waiting, waiting for the good people of the US tto rescue the America they used to know from the clutches of the goons who have been screwing her up, to rescue the world from a USA gone mad and stupid.

Labor Day Blues

AUSTIN -- This poignant Labor Day, when the numbers are bad, the policies are worse and the jobs are disappearing, it's not so much the economy that riles me as the disrespect and the gratuitous contempt with which this administration treats working Americans. The old insult to injury.

            If we've had an administration so blinkered by class blinders before, it is not within my memory. What these people know about working-class Americans would fit in a gnat's eye. In the summer of 2002, when Ted Kennedy and the late Paul Wellstone were working to get an emergency extension on unemployment benefits -- something that has been largely pro forma under earlier administrations -- Majority Whip Tom DeLay protested that Democrats want "unlimited unemployment so people could stay out of work for the rest of their lives." Actually, one million unemployed workers had already exhausted their benefits before the House finally acted in January 2003, and were simply left in the streets with nothing under the too-little, too-late Bush bill.

            The idea that workers lead the life of Riley on unemployment

Kofi Annan, De Mello and the U.H.

"One has to be careful," said U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan earlier this month, "not to confuse the U.N. with the U.S." If the Secretary General had taken his own advice, then maybe his Brazilian subordinate, Vieira de Mello, might not have been so summarily blown to pieces in Baghdad two days earlier.

            Whichever group sent that truck bomb on its way had made the accurate assessment that de Mello and his boss Annan were so brazen in allowing the United Nations to play a fig leaf role in the U.S. occupation of Iraq that drastic action was necessary to slow down the process. So the U.N. man handpicked by the White House paid with his life.

            To get a sense of how swift has been the conversion of the United Nations into after-sales service provider for the world's prime power, just go back to 1996, when the United States finally decided that Annan's predecessor as U.N. Secretary General, Boutros Boutros Ghali, had to go.

            In a curious foreshadowing of Annan's plaintive remark cited above, Boutros-Ghali told Clinton's top foreign policy executives, "Please

Re: Phony 'Black-Outs', solutions therefore, etc.] Harvey Wasserman

Good Article!Yes, and there are literally dozens of free energy devices that work and would be available ..except for the suppression by death threats(for example Tom Brown' 50 Kilwatt nuclear battery which is completely safe using only a small amt of a naturally decaying element which is amplified into 50 KW!!. I have a picture of him holding it ..he sold a few to the military and when his co. -Peripheral Systems-tried to sell to us 'masses', he got death threats and his mother's car was bombed..Then there are the ZPE batteries of John Hutchison (see him and others on Lightworks video called "Race to Zero Point"1-800-795 -tape)that never need to be charged that when placed in series(voltage) and parallel(for current)provide a box that could power your home/car etc forever for FREE..etc.) .

Arnold: Politics as showbiz

AUSTIN -- One problem I have with Arnold Schwarzenegger is that he looks like a condom stuffed with walnuts. I realize that is superficial, shallow and unbecoming to a semi-serious-minded liberal like myself, but there it is. The other is that he doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to public policy.

            And therein lies our thesis for the day: Politics as showbiz versus what actually happens to real people's lives as a result of stupid public policies. When 200,000 poor children get knocked off a federal health insurance program because a state decides it can't afford the one-fifth co-pay, what happens? In fact, children rarely die, because when they are finally horribly ill and burning up with fever, their parents take them to an emergency room, where they receive excellent care at a very high cost to the rest of us. In the meantime, their teeth aren't attended, and their hearing and eyesight are never checked. As a result, many of them try to function in school with tooth pain or without being able to see or hear clearly. Those little kids aren't celebrities, but they're just as real as

SPECIAL COLUMN: Dean Hopes and Green Dreams: The 2004 Presidential Race

Part I: Progressives and the Dean Campaign

     Let’s take Howard Dean at his word: “I was a triangulator before Clinton was a triangulator. In my soul, I’m a moderate.”

     Plenty of evidence backs up that comment by the former Vermont governor to the New York Times Magazine a few months ago. The self-comparison with Clinton is apt. “During his five two-year terms as governor,” the magazine noted, “Dean was proud to be known as a pragmatic New Democrat, in the Clinton mold, boasting that neither the far right nor the far left had much use for him.”

     Of course, what a mainstream publication is apt to call “the far left” often includes large progressive constituencies. In the battle for the ’04 Democratic presidential nomination, Dean clearly finds grassroots progressives to be quite useful for his purposes. But is he truly useful for ours?

     This summer, many news stories have identified Howard Dean with the left. But Dean’s actual record verifies this assessment from University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson: “He’s really a classic

Storm and Strife

I had an epiphany last night.

  What began as a nightmare transformed itself into a vision of hope.  I dreamt I was plodding my way through a horrific sandstorm.  This ill wind was so dense I was incapable of seeing my own hand before my face. Yet farther into the distance I could discern an incessant incandescent glimmering of light; a solitary beacon in this all-encompassing velvet darkness.  

A rivalry existed between every breath and step I took both possessing the inherent uncertainty of its predecessor and its sequel. Finally, after what seemed an endless journey there before me at my feet, tempest tossed, was a flame whose life force could not be denied.  

I dropped to my knees, the blanket that served to give me shelter in this perilous storm, now as I hovered above and slowly descended upon the flame it availed itself as a tent. Using my hands and feet I anchored the blanket into the sand. Shrouded below it, I and this magnificent flame, both of us existing amidst nature's will and storm.  

The Ill-Begotten: Reflections of Unconstitutional Precedence

There's been, and still exists, a concerted and systematic effort to disregard and eliminate our civil liberties in the name of terrorism. We are witnessing an assault upon our heritage, our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. Liberty is not a partisan issue - and once given up we will once again have to take up arms and battle to regain them.  As Benjamin Franklin so eloquently pronounced, "Those who would give up essential liberties for a measure of security, deserve neither liberty nor security."

Fear has replaced reason and logic. As Americans, when discussing the issue of preserving liberty while providing security, our foremost concern should be human rights, civil rights and civil liberties.

Since the first strike on the twin towers in 1993, the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing in 1995, as well as the events of September 11th, 2001 and the Anthrax scare, collectively we've had to grapple with the devastating scope and scale of these attacks.  It has forced each of us to re-assess our understanding of believable and unbelievable - of what's thinkable and unthinkable. Our reality makes the best Hollywood script pale in comparison.

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