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Green Party Candidate for Governor Howard Switzer Calls for Healthcare for All Tennesseans |
by Katey Culver
Email: Katey (nospam) GP.org |
29 Sep 2006
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 Howard Switzer Refers to the Major Party Candidates for Governor as 'Killer Bs'
Referring to both the Democrat and Republican candidates for governor, Bredesen and Bryson, the Green Party candidate, Howard Switzer, said "These guys are killer Bs because they both support policies that kill people unnecessarily." Primarily Mr. Switzer was referring to the estimated 18,000 people who die each year due to lack of access to the much touted great American, for-profit, healthcare system. Governor Bredesen has refered to single-payer insurance as "socialism," which it is not, and claims no one has died because he dropped them, 330,00 of them, from TennCare. "We need to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide healthcare for our people, said Switzer, "We have the most unhealthy population in the industrialized world because of our leader's penchant for profits." |
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News :: Elections & Legislation |
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Green Party Files to Form Senatorial Campaign Committee |
by Scott McLarty
Email: mclarty (nospam) greens.org |
22 Sep 2006
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 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Green Party became the first alternative political party in history to register a national senatorial campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission last week. The filing sets further precedent because the Democratic and Republican Senate campaign committees were grandfathered in when the FEC was formed. The FEC has never dealt with a request to form such a committee. "We are taking this step because Americans need a viable alternative to the two old parties, and the Green Party is serious about offering that alternative," said Teresa Keane, a former Green Senate candidate from Oregon and Chair of the eight-member Green Senatorial Campaign Committee. "Voters are upset with both the Republican and Democratic parties this year, and are looking for candidates who take principled positions on issues that are important to them." |
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Why We Can't Afford Another Ford |
by Richard Aberdeen
Email: richard (nospam) freedomtracks.com |
20 Sep 2006
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 "Ford has voted to outlaw gay marriage, to repeal the estate tax and, he apparently considers it more important to amend the Constitution to ban flag burning, than to push for healthcare, better jobs and better wages. Ford supports getting rid of the handgun ban in Washington, D.C. He supports the ongoing carnage for promised, but yet to be delivered, cheap oil in Iraq and argues for even more of our fine young men and women to be put in harms way. He wants to seal the border with Mexico, which would cause even more poor Mexican men, women and children to perish in our deserts and do about much to curtail immigration as Bush Junior's war has done to secure the peace in Iraq." - Richard Aberdeen |
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News :: Elections & Legislation |
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Green Party Senate Candidate Chris Lugo Urges Inclusion in Senate Debates |
by Anna Thompson
Email: annathompson32 (nospam) yahoo.com |
18 Sep 2006
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 Nashville, TN: Green Party of Tennessee candidate for US Senate Chris Lugo is urging the League of Women Voters and other organizations sponsoring debates in Tennessee to open up the debates to all candidates on the ballot,"This is a democracy and the only way the voters can know who they are voting for is if they have a chance to see them and hear them. It is of vital importance in this important statewide election that the media not exclude candidates and thereby hand the elections over to the campaigns with the most money." |
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PETA Calls for Federal Investigation At Vanderbilt After Whistleblowers Report |
by Debra Durham
Email: DebraD (nospam) peta.org |
09 Sep 2006
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 Leaked Memo Indicates That Monkeys’ Skulls Were Drilled Into While Animals Were Conscious
Nashville, Tenn. — PETA is urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to investigate a whistleblower complaint that experimenter Jeffrey D. Schall performed brain surgeries on macaque monkeys at Vanderbilt University without properly anesthetizing them. In addition to demanding that immediate disciplinary action be taken against Schall if he is found to have violated the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA), PETA has also written to the national Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare to demand that Schall’s federal funding be revoked. |
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News :: Protest Activity |
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Nashville Tells Bush To Go Home |
by Anna Thompson
Email: annathompson32 (nospam) yahoo.com |
06 Sep 2006
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 Nashville, TN: Four hundred protesters turned out on Wednesday, August 30th to protest Bush's visit to Nashville. Members the Nashville Peace Coalition gathered on the occasion of President Bush's appearance at a $2100 a plate fundraiser for Senate Candidate Bob Corker. The protesters gathered on the public sidewalks in the area around Loews Vanderbilt Plaza calling for an end to the war in Iraq. Members of the Peace Coalition and concerned voices gathered to give voice to the President's unacceptable domestic and international policies. "President Bush's policies have been unacceptable with regard to spying on US citizens, torture and detainment without trial and excessive secrecy about government actions," says Eric Schechter of the Nashville Peace Coalition, "He has been taxing the poor and not the rich, pretending that global warming does not exist, and selling out the environment to big corporations." |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Peace |
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Why the Case of Lieutenant Watada Matters |
by Joey King
Email: jbkranger (nospam) aol.com |
24 Aug 2006
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 One of the most important cases to wind its way through the military justice system since the Nuremburg trials at the end of World War II began in mid-August at Fort Lewis Washington. It involves the case of Honolulu-native First Lieutenant (1LT) Ehren Watada. In June 2006, he refused to deploy (known in the military as “missing movement”) to Iraq on the basis that doing so would be a war crime. He insists the war itself is illegal. He is the first officer to miss movement in this conflict. It is important to note that 1LT Watada agreed to deploy to Afghanistan. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Nashville Homeless Power Project Hosts Vigil for Missing Woman |
by Anna Thompson
Email: annathompson32 (nospam) yahoo.com |
17 Aug 2006
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![88136628_3bf25d6b69[1].jpg](http://web.archive.org./web/20061004025435im_/http://www.tnimc.org/usermedia/image/2/thumb/16099_88136628_3bf25d6b69[1].jpg) In response to the horrific crime on young homeless woman believed to be named “Tasha” or “Tyra”, the Nashville Homeless Power Project organized a vigil at the Riverfront Park at on Monday. Ann Denton, formerly homeless woman and Leadership Team member of the Nashville Homeless Power Project shares: “As long as we as a society continue to allow a shortage of housing, a shortage of safe places to sleep, and a shortage of outreach workers and other services, homeless people will continue to be at risk of these violent crimes.” |
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