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#3609

From: "Charlie" <excelsior@...>
Date: Fri May 18, 2012 5:40 pm
Subject: Magnolia Bridge Meeting | THURSDAY | May 24th | Fairgrounds Black/Gold room

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PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING

Regional Planning Commission Task No. A 4.12

FHWA Contract No. PL-0011 (035)

State Project No. H.971845.1

Magnolia Pedestrian Bridge

Stage 1 Environmental Analysis

New Orleans, Louisiana

Orleans Parish

Notice is hereby given that the Regional Planning Commission (RPC) will conduct a Public Meeting in support of the Magnolia Pedestrian Bridge Stage 1 Environmental Analysis in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.

The Public Meeting will be an Open House format; interested citizens are invited to arrive at any time between 6:00pm and 8:00 pm on the date and at the location listed below. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Fairgrounds Black & Gold Room

1751 Gentilly Blvd.

New Orleans, LA 70118

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#3610

From: "Charlie" <excelsior@...>
Date: Wed May 23, 2012 2:48 am
Subject: WALK AGAINST CRIME | WEDNESDAY | 5:30 pm

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http://fsjna.org/2012/05/crime-walk-wednesday-530/

N.O.P.D's First District monthly WALK AGAINST CRIME will be held on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 5:30pm.

START: 2100 block of Ursulines Ave. walk down to N. Tonti Street; turn right and go down one block to Gov. Nicholls; turn right onto Gov. Nicholls Street. Walk down Gov. Nicholls Street back to N. Johnson Street; turn right onto N. Johnson Street to Ursulines.

END: The total number of blocks for the crime walk will be eight.

http://fsjna.org/2012/05/crime-walk-wednesday-530/

Charlie London

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#3611

From: "Charlie" <excelsior@...>
Date: Thu May 24, 2012 8:18 pm
Subject: Million Dollar Ride

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http://fsjna.org/2012/05/million-dollar-ride/

If you haven't used public transportation in
New Orleans, you really are missing out.

http://fsjna.org/2012/05/million-dollar-ride/

Charlie London
http://fsjna.org

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#3612

From: OrleansGreens@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri Jun 1, 2012 9:55 am
Subject: File - info.txt

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#3613

From: OrleansGreens@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri Jun 1, 2012 9:57 am
Subject: File - info.txt

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#3614

From: "Charlie" <excelsior@...>
Date: Fri Jun 8, 2012 2:19 pm
Subject: Over 13,000 Trees Planted!

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Over 13,000 trees have been planted in New Orleans since "the storm".

http://fsjna.org/2012/06/hike-for-katreena-grows/

Charlie London

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#3615

From: "Charlie" <excelsior@...>
Date: Fri Jun 8, 2012 8:38 pm
Subject: Energy Smart

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http://fsjna.org/2012/06/energy-smart-2/

Energy Smart is a local program created by the City Council in partnership with Entergy New Orleans. It offers energy audits and instant rebates to resident and business owners for making their homes and businesses more energy efficient. Please visit the link to learn more about two upcoming ENERGY SMART events!

http://fsjna.org/2012/06/energy-smart-2/

Charlie London

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#3616

From: OrleansGreens@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun Jul 1, 2012 11:26 am
Subject: File - info.txt

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#3617

From: Rick Kissell <rick@...>
Date: Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:00 am
Subject: NPR's "On Point" Tues., July 17: Dr. Jill Stein interviewed

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On Tuesday, July 17, the NPR program "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" will interview Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party's newly-nominated candidate for president.

http://onpoint.wbur.org/

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#3618

From: OrleansGreens@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed Aug 1, 2012 11:08 am
Subject: File - info.txt

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this takes a while, so post those announcments early!  If your
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#3619

From: "Charlie" <excelsior@...>
Date: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:47 pm
Subject: Be a Tree Trooper!

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http://fsjna.org/2012/08/be-a-tree-trooper/

Partners to Announce Five-Year Plan to Further Reforest
Orleans Parish and Strengthen Neighborhoods.

http://fsjna.org/2012/08/be-a-tree-trooper/

Charlie London - making FSJNAdotORG the place you want to visit!
http://fsjna.org

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#3620

From: "Charlie" <excelsior@...>
Date: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:22 pm
Subject: Share Your Thoughts with the Mayor TONIGHT

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http://fsjna.org/2012/08/community-meetings-on-the-budget/

Dear Residents and Friends of District A,

I would like to invite you to participate in the Mayor's Annual Budgeting For Outcomes Meeting which Will Focus on 2013 Budget Priorities.

This is your opportunity to let the Mayor hear your concerns. We will be joined by Deputy Mayors, NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas, NOFD Superintendent Charles Parent and department and agency heads.

District A - Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 6pm
Lakeview Christian Center, 5885 Fleur De Lis Drive
Meeting starts at 6:00pm. From 5:30-6pm, the City will host a Resource Center with representatives from City departments and agencies.

The meeting will gather community input as part of the Budgeting for Outcomes process. The Budgeting for Outcomes process is aimed at producing a more citizen-driven budget and ensuring improved government performance and accountability.

Thank you,

Susan G. Guidry

New Orleans

Councilmember, District "A"

(504) 658-1010

(504) 658-1016 (fax)

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http://fsjna.org/2012/08/community-meetings-on-the-budget/

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#3621

From: "Charlie" <excelsior@...>
Date: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:43 pm
Subject: City Park Receives Big Surprise

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Atlanta Based corporation gives City Park big boost.

http://fsjna.org/2012/08/city-park-receives-surprise-10000-donation/


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#3622

From: Rick Kisséll <rick@...>
Date: Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:58 pm
Subject: Tell Gallup to include Jill Stein in their polling!

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Rick --

Perhaps you’ve noticed that not only is much of the corporate media failing the public by ignoring independent party candidates, but the major polling organizations are too.

Unfortunately, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) - created and controlled by the Republicans and Democrats - requires 15% support among five public opinion polls in order for a candidate to be included in the debates. But, they don’t name which polls or even when they’ll gather such evidence.

One thing we do know is that the Gallup Organization is the only official advisor on polling to the CPD.

So, let’s make some noise and tell Gallup to take 3 important actions:

Include Jill Stein in ALL Gallup polling. (The last mention of her was waaay back on July 6th.)
Encourage other polling organizations to include Jill Stein. (They are an industry leader and should be promoting responsible polling and reporting.)
Advise the CPD to only consider polls that have included all legitimate candidates. (The Stein campaign made history and secured Federal matching funds! Doesn’t that demonstrate significant public support?)

Here’s how you can contact them - and we strongly encourage you contact them repeatedly.

Write a good, old-fashioned letter or postcard and mail to: The Gallup Organization, 502 Carnegie Center, Suite 300, Princeton , NJ 08450
Contact: Alyssa Brown at 1.202.715.3104, alyssa_brown@...
Contact: Zach Bikus at 1.202.715.3100, zach_bikus@...
Post on their Facebook wall: http://www.jillstein.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgallup&utm_campaign=polling_action&n=1&e=b2caf30f33e23827eae5a80f3b7a72593d2b20ff&utm_source=jillstein&utm_medium=email
Tweet them: Hey @gallupnews! Don’t be so biased! Include @JillStein2012 in your #Election2012 polling!

Thanks for helping us fight the media blackout! We will not be silent.

Janelle Sorensen
http://www.jillstein.org/?e=b2caf30f33e23827eae5a80f3b7a72593d2b20ff&utm_source=jillstein&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=polling_action&n=2&recruiter_id=46610

Please take an immediate step by making a donation: http://www.jillstein.org/donate

Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President
PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217
http://www.JillStein.org%20, the essential toolkit leaders.

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#3623

From: OrleansGreens@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat Sep 1, 2012 12:06 pm
Subject: File - info.txt

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YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A MODERATOR

OrleansGreens is a moderated list, meaning that a human being
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this takes a while, so post those announcments early!  If your
message does not fit the list policy described above, it will
not be approved.

OTHER LISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

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We also have some local lists.

You can subscribe to these lists via the Yahoo Groups website,
or you can just send an e-mail.  It's very easy -- see the
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-- Bart Everson <b@...>


STATE LISTS

* LouisianaGreens

   This is the list for ANNOUNCEMENTS of general interest to
   Greens in the state of Louisiana.  EVERY GREEN SHOULD BE ON
   THIS LIST or you may miss important information.

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   It is currently unmoderated.  The volume of mail on varies.
   You should be on this list if you want to discuss building
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   E-mail: LouisianaGreens-D-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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idea is that these are for announcements of interest to LOCAL Greens.

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* Baton Rouge Greens

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#3624

From: Rick Kissell <rick@...>
Date: Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:43 pm
Subject: Watch this Jill Stein commercial! Help launch our first TV campaign , if you can.

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Dear Jennifer,

Help us break through the media blackout and get this ad in front of millions of Americans!

We hired one of the most famous political advertising firms in the country. We cut the ads. And now we need your support to get on the air.� Please donate now!� You can see our first ad -"Enough!"� - by clicking on the image below:

We have until Thursday, September 6th, to raise at least $80,000.� If we succeed in doing that, our ads will run in college town media markets from the Pacific to the Mississippi to the Atlantic.� If we raise $120,000, we'll have viewership in medium sized cities of population 500,000 to 2 million. And if you help us raise $200,000, we'll be on in at least a couple major metropolitan areas.

We know millions of voters agree with the sentiment of this video and have had enough!� Donate today� so we can show them there IS a better choice!

Please take an immediate step by making a donation: http://www.jillstein.org/donate

Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President
PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217
http://www.jillstein.org%20/ or Facebook.

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#3625

From: Rick Kissell <rick@...>
Date: Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:50 am
Subject: Open (Presidential) Debates Update

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Nicholas Snavely <nsnav589@...>
To:
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 10:15 PM
Subject: [greens] Open (Presidential) Debates Update

Excellent summary of the upcoming 2012 Presidential Debates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NXhoP5bQ2M

http://opendebates.org/CounterSpin090712G.mp3

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Open Debates <info@...>
To: alerts@...
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 7:41 AM
Subject: Open Debates Update

Dear Open Debates Supporters,

We are working this election cycle to expose the Commission on Presidential Debates for what it is: an anti-democratic institution that is more concerned with appeasing the wishes of the Republican and Democratic parties, than serving the needs of the American people.

First, Open Debates issued a press release last week calling on the Commission to make public the secret contract negotiated by the Obama and Romney campaigns that will dictate the terms of the 2012 debates: http://opendebates.org/makepublic.html. We will keep pressuring the Commission and the Romney and Obama campaigns to release the contract. At the very least, voters deserve to see the rules governing our most important election events.

Second, during the past week, Executive Director George Farah participated in 21 radio interviews in an effort to educate the public and policymakers about the flawed presidential debate process. Follow George on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FarahFindings

Third, last week, The Nation magazine editorialized in support of opening up the presidential debates and endorsed the work of Open Debates: http://www.thenation.com/article/169635/open-presidential-debates

Thank you for all your support.

- The Open Debates Team
www.OpenDebates.org

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#3626

From: Rick Kissell <rick@...>
Date: Sat Sep 8, 2012 11:13 pm
Subject: THIS WEEKEND on PBS: Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala on Bill Moyers

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http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-challenging-power-changing-politics/#disqus_thread

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#3627

From: Rick Kissell <rick@...>
Date: Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:47 pm
Subject: peace / social justice radio programs & podcasts

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Citizen Radio is a weekday internet radio show “for young people disillusioned with corporate media and a political system that doesn't speak to them.” It is hosted by Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein. http://wearecitizenradio.com/

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Free Speech TV ch. 348 and Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the most popular on the web. http://www.democracynow.org

Free Speech Radio News is an independently produced half hour daily national and international radio news program focusing on peace and social justice issues in the US and around the world. FSRN is collectively run by its workers and reporters. It is a non-profit organization, with funding from the Pacifica Radio Network, as well as community radio stations across the US and listener-donors. The newscast is hosted by Dorian Merina, and is independently distributed by FSRN, as well as by the Pacifica radio network. http://www.fsrn.org

Majority Report started on Air America as a daily radio program co-hosted by Janeane Garafolo and Sam Seder. In November 2010 it was relaunched by Seder as a self-produced online podcast. http://majority.fm/

The Rick Smith Show In 2005, The Rick Smith Show stepped into a local radio world devoid of progressive talk. On a small country & western station, Rick took his Teamster-member outlook to the air and started mixing it up with conservatives from one of the reddest areas north of the Mason Dixon line. His show grew steadily, attracting listeners starved for a voice that spoke to working stiffs who felt the economic floor crumbling beneath them. http://ricksmithshow.com/

Uprising [daily edition] Uprising Radio was founded in July 2003 by Sonali Kolhatkar, host and lead producer of Uprising. Uprising emphasizes connecting global issues with local ones. Simply informing listeners of the problems in the world and our communities is not enough – we hope to motivate our listeners to take an active role in their communities. Uprising airs daily on KPFK, Pacifica in Southern California from 8-9 am on weekdays, Pacific Standard Time (If you live outside the Southern California area, you can listen to Uprising live every day by clicking here). Uprising also has a Weekly Edition that uses the best of our national and international programming from the daily show. http://uprisingradio.org/home/

Workers’ Independent News A nationwide news service focusing on issues that affect the daily lives of working people and their communities. News by and about working people. WIN producers gather news from labor unions and activists from across the country. WIN then packages the material for distribution to radio stations and for print publication. Our producers and reporters come from a diverse background encompassing all fields of media journalism, from print to radio, video to the Web. We share one common goal: to create media that puts people over profits and empowers citizens to become journalists in their own right. http://www.laborradio.org

The Young Turks is an Internet talk show distributed via live-stream and You Tube. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, it previously aired on Air America and Sirius Satellite Radio. http://www.theyoungturks.com/

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Activist Radio is a weekly program for all Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the US population. Activist Radio attempts to show how the wealthy few lie to the rest of us to expand their power and wealth. http://www.classwars.org/

Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program featuring speakers like Chip Berlet, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Robert Fisk, Bill Fletcher, Glenn Greenwald, William Greider, Chris Hedges, Seymour Hersh, Jonathan Kozol, Naomi Klein, George Lakoff, Manning Marable, Bill Moyers, Greg Palast, Michael Parenti, Kevin Phillips, Frances Fox Piven, Jeremy Scahill, Robert Scheer, Cornel West, and Howard Zinn. Alternative Radio provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media. http://www.alternativeradio.org

America’s Disappeared Produced by Gary Idleburg, this program looks at the justice system in America. The program looks at the problems faced by prisoners, the community, society and the justice system and offers suggestions on how it could be made fairer and more just. http://www.kser.org/content/americas-disappeared

Behind the News: Economics from a Left perspective is an hour-long, weekly program aired on KPFA. It has been hosted since 1996 by Doug Henwood, the editor of the Left Business Observer. Behind the News covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Shows typically consist of some opening comments by host Doug Henwood on the recent news, followed by two or three interviews with authors, activists, academics, and other knowledgeable sorts. Since mystification is one of the tricks that power uses to maintain itself, emphasis is always placed on clarifying the complex. http://www.kpfa.org/behindthenews

Topics covered include the broad economy and the financial markets, trade and globalization, income distribution and poverty, political candidates (with an emphasis on their general bogosity), Latin American resistance to neoliberalism, crime and imprisonment, financing health care, environmental economics, and the culture of money. Of course, that list will evolve as circumstances warrant.

Between the Lines Since 1991, non-commercial, listener-supported WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has produced a weekly, award-winning public affairs show called Between the Lines. A four-time winner of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcast Award for Best Feature in the non-commercial category, this syndicated, half-hour program provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media. Between the Lines covers a wide range of political, economic and social topics. http://www.btlonline.org/

Each program begins with a five-minute summary of some of the week's under-reported news stories gathered from the alternative press. This summary is followed by three five-minute interview segments focusing on significant international, national and regional issues.

Building Bridges: Your Community Labor Report Our beat is the labor front, broadly defined, both geographically and conceptually. We examine the world of work and workers on the job as well as where they live. We examine the issues that affect their everyday lives, with a particular sensitivity towards human rights abuses, environmental concerns and the U.S. drive for global domination. We record their global struggles and provide analysis of their efforts to empower themselves and transform society to provide greater democratic, human, social, political and economic rights. Each program consists of feature stories, generally interviews, within a historical context, often accompanied by sound from demonstrations, rallies or conferences, and complemented and enhanced by poetry and instrumental or vocal -- people's culture. http://www.buildingbridgesonline.org/

CounterSpin is a weekly radio show hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart. It is a project of FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=5

CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism and homophobia in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news' narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.

Economic Update A revolutionary take on a massive set of problems: Capitalism's failings and today's global economic crisis. Every Saturday, Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis. They focus on wages, jobs, taxes, and debts - and on interest rates, prices, and profits. The goal is to explain why certain economic changes are happening and other changes get postponed or blocked and they will explore alternative ways to organize enterprises, markets, and government policies. The show is for people who want to understand and change not only their own financial situation but also the larger economy we all depend on. http://www.truth-out.org/economic-update-your-weekly-dose-revolutionary-economics/1310498361

Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. http://www.flashpoints.net/

Freethought Radio is a weekly radio show produced by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. It airs live every Saturday on The Mic 92.1 in Madison, Wis. and (as of Saturday 6 October 2007) on Air America, streamed online, and available as a podcast. http://www.freethoughtradio.com/

Green Revolution http://greenrevolutionradio.com/ The Green Revolution radio show focuses on the world of green products, services, lifestyles and issues. The program's goal is to facilitate ecological balance, and is intended for individuals that wish to do the same. The host is Jon McLane, an expert in clean water systems. Guests are professionals in sustainability, resource conservation, and quality green products and services.

Guns and Butter: The Economics of Politics is a weekly hour-long program hosted by Bonnie Faulker and broadcast on KPFA in Los Angeles. It investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics.

Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Guns & Butter reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state. http://www.kpfa.org/guns-and-butter

The Heartland Labor Forum is a weekly hour-long program on workplace and economic issues produced by the Institute for Labor Studies at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. http://cas.umkc.edu/labor-ed/radio.htm

Labor Express is a production of the Chicago Committee for Labor Access that airs weekly on WLUW. It covers the labor movement locally, nationally, and internationally, including living wage campaigns, health care, education, immigrants’ rights, the environment, and issues of race and gender. http://www.laborexpress.org/

Law and Disorder is a weekly, independent radio program airing on several stations across the United States and podcasting on the web. The program gives listeners access to rare legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and the horrendous practices of torture exercised by the US government. This program examines the political forces and legislation that are moving the United States into a police state. http://lawanddisorder.org/

Making Contact is a weekly radio program of the National Radio Project that focusses on criminal justice and prisons, the environment, globalization, labor issues, and women’s issues. http://www.radioproject.org

Media Matters with Bob McChesney Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The media are central to all our lives," he says. "Yet the media are the most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people understand the role of media in society." http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/

New World Notes is both a blog and a weekly radio program. Each examines political & social issues from a progressive perspective and with humor. The content includes commentary from the program's creator, Kenneth Dowst ... recorded talk from others ... stories from the alternative press read aloud ... graphics ... and music with a message. http://www.newworldnotes.blogspot.com/

The Progressive Radio is a weekly half-hour radio show hosted by Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine. Since 2003, Rothschild has been interviewing activists, scholars, and artists who are making the world a better place. http://www.progressive.org

Radio Ecoshock http://ecoshock.org/eshock09.html

Uprising [weekly national edition] Uprising Radio was founded in July 2003 by Sonali Kolhatkar, host and lead producer of Uprising. Uprising emphasizes connecting global issues with local ones. Simply informing listeners of the problems in the world and our communities is not enough – we hope to motivate our listeners to take an active role in their communities. Uprising also has a weekly edition that uses the best of our national and international programming from the daily show. The Weekly Edition is syndicated nationally. http://uprisingradio.org/home/

War News Radio is a weekly, 29-minute program established in 2005 by students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. It seeks to fill the gaps in the media’s coverage by airing new perspectives, both personal and historical, in a balanced and in-depth manner. http://warnewsradio.org/

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Date: Wed Oct 3, 2012 6:27 pm
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From: Rick Kissell <rick@...>
Date: Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:49 am
Subject: "Slouching toward the ballot box" by Andrew Levine / Counter Punch

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Slouching toward the ballot box

by Andrew Levine

CounterPunch.org

10/15/12

A year ago, thanks to Occupy Wall Street and the movements it spawned, American politics took a turn for the better. People were in motion – a small minority, of course, but enough to put change on the agenda, not in the meretricious Obama sense, but for real.

Occupy got it right: one percent of the population, or perhaps just a fraction of one percent, owns just about everything, to the great and growing detriment of everyone else. A new consciousness was taking hold.

The thought then was that leaderless spontaneity was key to the movement’s success. Perhaps so. But without political leadership, the inevitable happened; after flourishing briefly, Occupy sputtered to a halt.

It didn’t help that the authorities clamped down. The Obama White House was almost certainly complicit, though the extent of its involvement is still impossible to determine.

This is not to say that Occupy was only a flash in the pan or that it changed nothing. By no means. But, for now, pre-Occupy politics is back.

The ninety-nine to one split is as real as it ever was, and the consequences of taking consciousness of it are momentous. But, for the time being, that consciousness is politically inert.

The lackluster electoral circus currently underway is both a symptom and a cause of this unfortunate turn of events. And it is a dreary spectacle indeed.

Thanks to the attention lavished upon every detail of the horse race, the politically salient division now is not between the very few who own almost everything and everyone else, but between the almost fifty percent of likely voters who usually vote for Democrats and the almost fifty percent who usually vote for Republicans.

The Republican Party is worse of course, by any relevant measure, and the differences are consequential for peoples’ lives. Without exception, however, they fall at the margins of political life.

Because, like Republicans, Democrats too are bought and paid for, they are as hell-bent as their rivals on doing all they can for the one percent. The difference is that they talk a good earful when it is expedient to do so, and liberals eat it up. The will to believe is a mighty force.

So is the capacity for self-deception. The constituencies that comprise the Democratic base are especially adept at it. Labor leaders are the worst of all. They empty their unions’ coffers and mobilize their rank-and-file to do yeoman’s work getting Democrats elected, demanding nothing in return and getting back even less. It is as if their aim is to demonstrate the futility of supporting the lesser evil.

It is telling that in those instances when Democrats actually do act to advance the interests of the people who vote for them, it is typically in areas where the interests of the one percent are not involved and where popular demands have a conservative cast. Obama’s words – only words! — supporting gay marriage is a case in point.

To be sure, Democrats are less indifferent than Republicans to the fate of the ninety-nine percent, and less driven to dismantle the institutions of the affirmative state. The Republican Party is the natural home for libertarian ideologues — or, worse, Ayn Rand style proponents of unbridled egoism like Romney’s pseudo-smart guy running mate, Paul Ryan.

In the “bipartisan” war on progress now raging in Washington, the Democrats’ lack of fervor and ideological commitment is arguably a mark in their favor. But it also speaks ill of their character. It is one of those many instances in our world where, as Yeats put it, “the best lack all conviction.”

And so it is that Democrats minister to the interests of the one percent for reasons that are more “pragmatic” than ideological. No doubt, the less compromised among them are embarrassed by their party’s, and their own, retrograde politics; they would rather move forward than back. It hardly matters, though; whatever is in their hearts, when it comes down to it, they are on the wrong side.

Paradoxically, this makes them even more useful to the one percent than their Republican rivals.

The reason is plain. When their corporate paymasters demand it and conditions are opportune, they can deliver their constituencies or at least diminish popular opposition to corporate and bankster predations.

Bill Clinton did more to implement the so-called Reagan Revolution (actually a counter-revolution) than Reagan himself or either Bush. Should he win next month, as he likely will, count on Barack Obama to leave his predecessor standing in the dust.

For reasons of tradition and life-style affinities, plutocrats usually prefer Republicans to Democrats. This is very evident this electoral cycle, where Romney is the favorite of the grandees. How could it be otherwise? He is one of them, while Obama is only a fan.

They can live with that, though. Greed conquers all.

Plutocrats know too that they don’t need their favorites to win. Even when Democrats hold all the levers of power, Republican true believers lead the way. Recall how the Tea Party called the shots after 2009, despite massive Democratic victories the year before.

In short, Republicans are good at putting noxiousness on the agenda, but not at making it happen. They are good too at playing defense; but their offense is pathetic.

Thanks to their dumb obstinacy and the pusillanimity of their opponents, they have proven themselves eminently capable of blocking modest Democratic efforts at milquetoast reforms.

But when Republicans in power propose something more than usually reactionary — dismantling the remnants of New Deal and Great Society advances, for example, or undoing environmental protections or other obviously useful regulations – a miracle happens: Democrats grow backbones.

This is bad news for the one percent. They do best when Democrats are in their usual invertebrate condition.

This was apparently their thought in 2008. It was enlightened self-interest, not any sense of noblesse oblige that brought so many of them into the Obama fold. They got what they paid for too, and not just at the policy level. Had the rule of law not gone missing in Obama’s Justice Department, many of them would now be doing time at Club Fed.

What ingrates! They are as bad as the Cheneys and other Bush era war criminals. Could it be, as reported, that the tycoons jumped ship because Obama doesn’t ask them over to the White House enough or solicit their opinions as much as they’d like, or because he hurt their itsy-bitsy feelings when he once or twice uttered a “populist” word – again, just a word?

They really ought to get over it if they’re serious about privatizing and deregulating to their hearts’ content. Obama can do more for them than Romney can; and, if they encourage him right, maybe he will.

It’s not just that he can bring Democrats and the constituencies they represent along. He can also keep Occupy consciousness at bay; something Romney cannot do.

More than the usual Republican princeling – more than George W. Bush, for example – Romney, in every word and gesture, suggests government of, by and for the one percent. His authenticity is admirable, but it is the very last thing plutocrats need.

To be sure, Obama is no longer the Rorschach figure he used to be; there are none so foolish still as to project their hopes for “change” on him. But at least he doesn’t ooze with contempt for “the forty-seven percent” of us who are irresponsible moochers in the eyes of self-pitying vulture capitalists (“job creators”!) like Mitt Romney. And, when it comes down to it, he is no more likely to irk all but the most benighted segments of the rest of the ninety-nine percent either.

Needless to say, some of the yahoos enlisted into service by the pillars of the GOP will never reconcile to the fact that the President of the United States is a person of color with a Muslim name and an elite education. But leaving them aside, there is a torrent of salutary and urgently needed class hatred out there waiting to be released. Occupy revealed it, and the plutocrats fear its eruption. Central casting could not come up with a more apt figure than Mitt Romney for setting it off.

This is why I think it is an open question who the lesser evil is. I confess that in my heart, I feel, as does most everyone who is not a Tea Party wingnut or a corporate poltroon, that it somehow must be President Drone. But the evidence doesn’t unequivocally back this belief.

So long as Romney devotes himself to shoring up his base, and so long as we focus only on the candidates themselves and not on the larger consequences of electing one or the other, it is easy enough to see Obama as the less bad of the two.

The October 22 edition of The Nation magazine contains ten articles and an editorial that tell all there is to tell about how awful a Romney presidency would be. But since just accentuating the negative can never make for a ringing endorsement, some of The Nation writers also exercise all the ingenuity at their command to find positive things to say about Obama’s governance. It’s a fool’s errand.

In the end, the lesser evil argument is all Obama boosters have. And, again, it’s not even clear that it’s true – that, taking all the consequences into account, a second Obama term really would be better (less bad) than a Romney administration. What is clear is just that lesser evil thinking is what has gotten us to this sorry state.

Bear in mind too that here in what Gore Vidal called the United States of Amnesia memories are short. Should Romney and his handlers decide that his base is sufficiently secure – in other words, that the yahoos hate Obama enough – he can always try to put his governor of Massachusetts persona back on.

With enough super fund money behind him, he might even succeed. If he does, he would undercut almost everything The Nation writers and editors have to say. Compared to a “moderate” Republican, which is what Romney used to be, Obama is no prize.

* * *

The impending election has been, at best, a regrettable detour, no matter who the lesser evil is, and no matter who wins. This is because it has taken political initiatives consistent with the consciousness the Occupy movement raised off the agenda.

In its place, we have had imposed upon us a fixation on the electoral process and its outcomes, and a conventional wisdom, according to which what matters, for both presidential candidates, are just two things: keeping their respective bases on board, enough so that sufficient numbers will turn out to vote; and winning the hearts and minds of “independents.”

Independents are like potential consumers in marketing campaigns. They don’t know enough or care enough to have firm views about which piece of schlock to buy, and are therefore prone to the manipulations of advertisers and other assorted hucksters.

In that regard what matters most is how much money advertisers have to spend. Obama’s and Romney’s both have obscene amounts, but Romney’s have more. However they also have a harder sell, inasmuch as their piece of schlock has so far done his level best to alienate everyone except stupid white geezers and the women who love them. That’s why, at this point, it’s probably a wash.

Keeping the base on board has so far been easy for Democrats, and will remain so unless Romney finds a way to etch-a sketch his way out of the hole he has dug for himself. Romney, or rather the useful idiots he has had to placate, are scary enough to give the constituencies that normally vote Democratic all the reason they needed to stand by their man.

Meanwhile, Obama aversion is enough to keep those useful idiots and the one per-centers whose interests they champion in the same matrimonial bed.

Of course, apathy is a problem for both sides. Tea Partiers hate Romney too; they just hate Obama more. And even the most ardent Obama supporters concede that he has been, to put it mildly, a major disappointment. An enthusiasm deficit is universal.

But, unlike two years ago, when Tea Party passions ran high, there is no enthusiasm gap. Apart from a few unenlightened one per centers who just can’t get their heads around the idea that an Obama victory would be good for them, no one will be voting for anyone, only against the guy they like even less.

Even so, I still think it’s Obama’s election to lose. We’ll know soon enough if he’s up to the task.

The one sure thing is that no matter who wins – not just the White House but Congress as well – we will end up getting more or less the same thing. This was true in 2008, when large numbers of people thought they had elected “change” and “hope” and found that, although the cast of characters had changed, they ended up getting a third George W. Bush term with only cosmetic modifications.

This time the choice is between a devil we know and a thoroughly loathsome devil we’d be better off never having met, but whose attempted depredations will elicit resistance and who will look to all the world like the face of the ruling class, which is exactly what he is.

Fortunately, for me and for the residents of forty other states where the Electoral College results are already effectively known, this is more a theoretical than a practical dilemma. That is why I will vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party without any hesitation or (irrational but unavoidable) second thoughts, and why I urge others to do so as well.

It’s a futile gesture, but it’s better than not voting at all, and better by far than piling on votes for a lesser evil. If I lived in a so-called battleground state, I expect I would hesitate more, but I would probably end up doing the same thing.

The Occupy movements augured hope for a different kind of politics. But that was before this awful election season cast hope aside. Elections do that; when they are held in unsettled conditions, they tend to quash popular ventures. Because the Occupy movements had no organized political expression, it was all but inevitable that that tendency would be expressed this time around.

But the storm will pass; it has less than a month left to work its nefarious effects. When it’s over, we’ll find ourselves with an Obama or a Romney in the White House and with Democrats or Republicans running the Senate and House; in other words, we’ll be more or less back where we were.

Or in an even worse place, as the one percent escalates the class war it has been waging relentlessly, and as Democrats and Republicans, each in their own way, continue to do what they can to assure that its will be done.

But maybe Occupy consciousness can get back on track too; and not just for “the worse, the better” reasons.

After November 6, a major obstacle in its way will finally be removed.

Time will tell. It’s too soon now to know what damage has been done. But it’s not unreasonable to hope. And it is indeed something to hope for.

Unlike the Obama-Romney contest and nearly every other race to be decided next month, a revived Occupy movement or, better still, an Occupy movement that moves on to a yet uncharted but more expressly political phase could change everything – not just to the relief of self-deceived liberals, but genuinely for the better.

ANDREW LEVINE is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, the author most recently of THE AMERICAN IDEOLOGY (Routledge) and POLITICAL KEY WORDS (Blackwell) as well as of many other books and articles in political philosophy. His most recent book is In Bad Faith: What’s Wrong With the Opium of the People. He was a Professor (philosophy) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Research Professor (philosophy) at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press).

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/15/slouching-toward-the-ballot-box/

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From: Rick Kissell <rick@...>
Date: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:10 pm
Subject: "Voting Green in a swing state" by B. Sidney Smith 10/25/12

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Voting Green in a swing state

by B. Sidney Smith

10/25/12

(Preface: This article isn't really meant for everyone, so I might be able to save you some time. If you think climate change isn't a serious electoral issue, this probably wasn't written for you. If you think American presidents should conduct wars on their own authority and that it's okay if they secretly assassinate whomever they (secretly) decide are bad people who might hurt us then you needn't concern yourself with what follows. If you think the Bill of Rights of the Constitution doesn't necessarily apply when terrorism is involved, or that letting gays have civil rights should be decided on a state-by-state basis like slavery before the civil war, or that the health of the environment isn't more important than economic growth, or that whistleblowers who expose governmental and corporate crimes should go to prison but that privileged lawbreakers shouldn't, or that whether a candidate is electable should depend on how much she pleases wealthy donors--if any of these approximates your own take on the issues, please read no further. You'll be bored. Honestly.)

I live in a purple part of the country (Virginia) and move in academic circles, so of course I know many, many people who will be voting for Obama. If that doesn't strike you as funny, then you are the person I have written this for.

Of course it is impossible to know, but if I murdered Santa Claus in front of their children, the look on my Obama-voter friends' faces could scarcely be much different than the look they get when I say I am voting for Jill Stein.

"But this is a swing state...you have to vote for Obama...what if Romney wins?!?"

The pain in their voices tugs at my sympathies; their fear is very real. I want to reassure them, but I was cured a few presidential elections ago. I won't be drinking from that cup again.

At first they assume I don't understand what's at stake. They tell me about the Romney/Ryan agenda. They tell me about Obamacare. They tell me about DOMA and the Fair Pay Act. But the conversation wanes when I am not only unsurprised by the information but able to supply amplifications and corrections. I've read the (detailed summary of) the Affordable Care Act. I know about Romney's probable agenda. I even know the age and bodily afflictions of key members of the Supreme Court. In short, I know what's at stake.

This is awkward, and for some there is no plan B, but experienced partisans know where to take it next. There is something wrong with me. I'm a purist, a liberal elitist who won't be satisfied, arrogantly "engaging in a form of rhetorical narcissism and ideological self-preoccupation."¹ I indulge in a "pernicious idealism that wants the world to be perfect and is disgruntled that it isn't."² I trade the common good for private conceit.

Fortunately my friends are mature people with trained minds, so for most it is enough to mention the ad hominem fallacy, to remind them that my personal faults --which I stipulate are legion-- aren't relevant to the validity or otherwise of my position in this debate. Usually we can agree to leave that brand of "discourse" to the professional bloviators.

So at last we come down to it. What are the arguments? There seem to be only two reasons for a progressive (you're still reading, so I suppose that includes you) to vote for Obama. Either (1) you think Obama is not so bad, really, and has done a lot of good and could do more, or (2) Obama's record makes you green about the gills, but the thought of Romney winning is intolerable.

Obama enthusiasts have by heart a widely-circulated³ list of his achievements: The Fair Pay Act, the auto bailout, legislation for credit card reform and hate crimes and student loans, some tax cuts, repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, raising fuel efficiency standards, and ending the war in Iraq. Some also add killing bin Laden, the stimulus, and a new Start treaty with Russia. Everyone adds Obamacare.

Some of these really are achievements. The Fair Pay Act is a no-brainer, for one. Others are marginal. Credit card reform stopped some abuses but left millions imprisoned by usurious interest rates on their debt, with their homes and futures at the mercy of predatory lenders. If you are drowning it is definitely better to have fewer stones around your neck. You still drown though.

Some of the "achievements" are problematic at best. The Affordable Care Act introduces crucial reforms and increases access to healthcare for many, but it does so by placing a new tax on labor and small business to underwrite private insurance and pharmaceutical corporations' complete capture of the nation's healthcare system. The phrase "lipstick on a pig" comes to mind. (One could say something about the spectacle of progressives celebrating the plan corporate conservatives were pushing until Obama swiped it. One could.)

Some of these are not achievements, or not Obama's. U.S. troops ultimately left Iraq not because Obama wanted them out, but because Iraq wouldn't sign a Status of Forces agreement to allow them to stay, despite the Obama administration's efforts. Hard to see how it is honest to give credit to Obama for doing something he was forced to do against his will. (Iraq's intransigence was owing in part to the revelations allegedly leaked by Bradley Manning, so if anyone is responsible for getting us out of Iraq it is he. For this he was locked up under Obama's direct authority under conditions that for many months met the international definition of torture, and now faces life in prison.)

But enough: he's done some good things. Is that enough, or should his merit be judged on the whole of his record? This matters, because the weight on the other side of the scale is not insignificant.

Some of these are marginal too. He's deported more people than ever, but made some concessions on immigration. Others are not entirely his doing. (Congress helped, passing the NDAA for instance.) Some, like making life hell for medical marijuana growers, are difficult to understand. But unfortunately the seriousness of some of his actions is on a different scale entirely.

The country has been bankrupted by war and its reputation ruined, but the lies that got us there will never even be investigated; that was ruled out by Obama practically the moment he took the oath of office, the first of many betrayals of expectations he engendered in his supporters. The banksters who tanked the economy and destroyed the nation's wealth likewise received blanket immunity. The "stimulus package" given to financial elites was many, many times bigger than the one the rest of us had to share, locking in the material ruin of the working class. He expanded the pointless war in Afghanistan and extended military assaults to many other countries in Nixonian secrecy. He continued every Constitutional excess of the previous administration and extended them to include new grants of executive-branch secrecy and extra-judical power, to include not just war-making, kidnapping, and indefinite detention, but assassination even of American citizens.⁴ Obama has done more to render the U.S. Constitution a dead letter than every previous right-wing administration combined.

If that is something you can put on the same scale with credit-card reform and call it even, I respectfully suggest you re-examine what is usually meant by the words "progressive" and "liberal." And "American," while you're at it. The presidential oath of office is to defend the Constitution, and this president knowingly betrayed it. That issue isn't even partisan: Some, no, every future president is going to use these precedents, and when they are used against you you will have no judicial recourse thanks to Barack Obama.

So if you think Obama is not so bad, really, and has done a lot of good and could do more, then by all means vote for him. And you can stop reading now--the rest of this essay will be of no interest to you.

The rest of us, reviewing this administration's record and its likely future course with dread, face just one question. Must we reelect Obama to save the country from something worse? This is a serious question, and calls for considered analysis.

Notice first that "Romney's worse so we have to vote for Obama" isn't an argument, or even a syllogism. What people really mean is something like this. (1) A Romney presidency would be worse than a second Obama administration, and (2) if Obama isn't elected then Romney will be, so therefore (3) we should vote for Obama, at least in any state where our vote might make a difference.

Certainly one can't quibble with the second premise. The probability that neither Obama nor Romney gets elected is exactly zero. The first premise too at first blush looks irreproachable from a progessive perspective. Mere common sense seems to endorse the conclusion once the premises are stipulated, and most folks think no further.⁵ They don't have to agitate their consciences over voting for the war criminal, corporate lackey Obama, they can just vote against the likely greater war criminal (and proudly greater corporate lackey) Romney. And all the rest of it follows too: maybe Obamacare is a sell-out to big-insurance and big-pharma, but at least they won't get their greedy mits on Medicare. (Well, this time. Probably.) And so on.

Those of us growing gray about the temples are struck most by the argument's familiarity. We have heard it--and consented to it--often before, in fact about once every four years. Replace Romney/Obama with McCain/Obama, Bush/Kerry, Bush/Gore, Dole/Clinton, Bush/Clinton, Bush/Dukakis, Reagan/Mondale, Reagan/Carter, Ford/Carter--no wonder it rings bells. In every election for 36 years a center-left Democrat has run against a center-right Republican, each campaign pandering to their more ideological supporters, and in each case the elected administration tossed a few bones to their left/right base while dutifully serving elite interests.

Meanwhile, as elections come and go, both ideological conservatives and ideological progressives find the country moving away from them; not towards their ideological counterparts, but towards a corporatist, oligarchic security-state. The electorate is apparently not in charge.

Those who are in charge find the partisan electoral process useful because it keeps a potentially dangerous population quiescent, occupied like loyal sports fans not with what is actually being done to them, but with the business of "winning." This is a classic method of control, used by elites in one form or another throughout the ages. Tiny little England built a global empire using it. It works equally well on the unsophisticated and the ostensibly educated. Check yourself: if you have mentally colored yourself red or blue, if you see the country as made up of red, blue, and purple blotches, then your political identity is no longer yours. You have been co-opted. Occupied.

Welcome to the game.

By itself this doesn't disprove the partisan argument, and many progressives point to such achievements as increased LGBT rights as proof that voting for the less-bad can result in genuine positive change; that likewise the assault on women's reproductive freedom shows the danger in allowing the other side to win. These are excellent examples, but those using them to urge partisan loyalty omit the essential point that these changes have been occurring independently of which party is in power, because the motive force behind them is serious activism, not partisanship. Gay rights activists have fought a long and sometimes brutal campaign characterized not by loyally supporting the Democratic Party but by confronting it, by being prepared to play hardball with politicians who won't get in line. Anti-abortion forces have done likewise.

That point deserves a double-take: The core activists driving actual political change don't hesitate to imperil a nominally allied candidate's election if that candidate appears insufficiently committed to their cause.⁶ This fact is obviously a key to their success, and it strongly suggests there is a problem with the partisan argument. But what, then, is the error in that argument? As it happens, this very week's news reports furnish an example that illuminates it completely.

In 2002 the Total Information Awareness program was created within the Defense Department to gather and coordinate intelligence to support the War on Terror.⁷ The Bush administration had to abandon this project in the face of determined opposition, especially from the left, to what was rightly seen as a grave peril to civil liberties.

However, components of the planned program lived on under separate authorities until Obama took office. Like the other elements of Bush's "anti-terror" activities, the TIA program was then consolidated and expanded under new guise. We now know that domestic surveillance and data-mining has not only been greatly accelerated within a burgeoning military-security complex, but it is also now combined with the extra-judicial detention and assassination program (dubbed "the disposition matrix")--at least insofar as both have been bureaucratized within the same agency, an agency whose activities are shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.⁸

The relevant point is not the seriousness of this developement--which I hope goes without saying--but that no Republican president could have gotten away with it. It's the "only Nixon can go to China" principle: in a democracy only a nominally liberal leader can put in place the machinery of a totalitarian state, just as only a nominally liberal leader could gut the social safety net (Clinton), or put privatizing Social Security and Medicare on the table (Obama).

This is a clear counterexample to the claim of the first premise--that a Red president is bound to be So Much Worse than a Blue president--and thereby reveals that the partisan argument is unsound.

Let me be quite clear: it is not unsound because of the differentials on some set of policies or issues. Partisans will argue that in this election there are issues--the Supreme Court, Medicare, etc.--where there is a clear choice, and that is true. It is always true, every four years, as sure as the tides. That is by design: the political gamesmanship the argument draws us into is itself the trap. By constraining our discussion to the acknowledged differences between the sides, partisanship tricks us into supposing their similarities aren't an issue, when in fact their similarities are the most critical issue. This is because their differences will remain in contention regardless of who gets elected, but their similarities assuredly will not.

If Romney is elected, he will re-empower neocons and serve the interests of the national security state with (perhaps) greater zeal than Obama would, but with this difference: his every move will be scrutinized and hampered by a determined opposition. Also if Romney is elected, he will try to privatize Social Security and Medicare and transfer even what little remains of the nation's wealth to the oligarchs--but he will face the same wall of opposition that stymied Bush on these issues. Obama, on the other hand, can continue to negotiate away Social Security and Medicare and progressive taxation and face only whimpers from his own base. Romney may nominate a justice likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, but it would be with the certain knowledge he was engendering an electoral tsunami against Republicans that would last a generation, if not forever. Obama will nominate another corporatist jurist certain to further indenture flesh-and-blood citizens to their corporate-citizen betters, and pay no political price. From the bank bailouts to climate change to Israel/Palestine to the Patriot Act--one could go on for pages, and the story would in every case be the same.

This dynamic at work in American politics is now evident even to the willfully blinkered. It is a dynamic that will not change if Obama is re-elected with solid liberal support. Why would it? It will also not change if Romney eeks out a victory despite solid support for Obama, because whatever new reactionary or militaristic policies Romney succeeds in perpetrating will be loudly condemned by the next Democratic presidential candidate, who, if elected, will then adopt them.

The only point of leverage is here: whether Obama wins or loses, if progressive third party candidates get enough support to scuttle the Democrat in a close race, change is possible. This is not wishful thinking, but an empirical observation. Every successful progressive movement in our history has illuminated this path to change. Politicians are not ideologues but pragmatists. They need your vote to get elected. If you deny it to them, the next one will learn to whistle your tune.

The partisan argument for progessives to hold their nose with one hand and vote for Obama with the other is thus refuted, but the larger point introduced above bears emphasis.

As I have documented elsewhere⁹, the partisan duopoly disenfranchises the entire electorate, left, right, and center. The American people as a whole, irrespective of ideology, have been locked out of running their own country as the writers of the Constitution intended they would. The mechanism at its root is dead simple and works in exactly the same way on both "liberal" and "conservative" voters. You are offered two choices, each of whom has been carefully vetted by the owners and is dedicated to serving elite interests. You are then pursuaded that one of them is bad and must be voted against.

This is not to say that there aren't real issues between the two; on the contrary, without the presence and validity of such issues the trick wouldn't work. People aren't stupid. But from the point of view of those whose interests the elected candidate will first serve, those issues are of minor importance.

Once voters are pursuaded of the validity of a vote-against it only remains to ensure that the two political "sides" remain in approximate parity, a task ably handled by the corporate media in collusion with the parties themselves.

The only escape from this trap is to understand that the call of civic duty is a call to active participation (activism) in the political process. To those who answer such a call, voting-against doesn't even make sense, because it means giving up on one's own commitment to self-government. It is only when voting for the actual changes one wishes to see that it is rational to hope those changes will someday happen.

As I have shown in my book The Good American: A Situation Report for Citizens, the real challenges facing America and the world are far more dire than most people realize, even those who make an effort to be informed. Unless Americans reclaim their government, and soon, we stand to lose everything; our democracy, our livelihoods, our liberty, and the ecological foundation of civilization. It will not require a wholesale conversion of the electorate to political activism. It only requires enough of us refusing to play the partisan game to break the duopoly's lockdown on political discourse. At that point the gates of the political arena are unlocked, and the course of the nation can once more become subject to the will of the people.

My vote for Jill Stein in swing-state Virginia isn't a protest vote, it isn't an angry vote, and it isn't elitist. It is a well-informed vote for the political agenda I think is best for my country. The United States of America is (or can be) a Jeffersonian democracy, and I am a citizen. Casting this vote is my civic responsibility. What's yours?

Footnotes:

1. Michael Eric Dyson http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/7/effective_evil_or_progressives_best_hope

2. Rebecca Solnit http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/leftists_explain_things_to_me_20120928//

3. http://www.fishink.us/?p=6518

4. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

5. It is formally valid by disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens): ((O or R) and notR) implies O.

6. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/same-sex-marriage-debate-many-of-obamas-top-fundraisers-are-gay/2012/05/09/gIQASJYSDU_story.html

7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_information_awareness

8. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/plan-for-hunting-terrorists-signals-us-intends-to-keep-adding-names-to-kill-lists/2012/10/23/4789b2ae-18b3-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_story.html

9. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Voting-For-Voting-Against-by-B-Sidney-Smith-121004-303.html

B. Sidney Smith is a recovering math professor, gardener, and creative loafer living near Appomattox, Virginia. His autobio, curriculum vitae, favorite recipes, and much more besides can be found on his website, bsidneysmith.com.

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"more information in the links" to read Dr. Mielke's article about

the lead problem:

http://fsjna.org/2012/11/get-the-lead-out/

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MotherShip Foundation, the nonprofit that presents The Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo, is announcing a new campaign to replace four live oak trees along Bayou St. John between Dumaine and Lafitte streets. Two live oaks were lost during Hurricane Katrina, while Hurricane Isaac has taken another two. These trees have provided shade and improved the quality of life for neighborhood residents for decades, if not centuries! They add to the picturesque view along Bayou St. John.

The MotherShip Foundation is seeking partnerships to help plant four new live oak trees and ensure that they are cared for properly. MotherShip hopes to plant sizable trees to fit the scale of the location. Initial plantings are expected to cost nearly $30,000. However, the job does not stop there. Parks and Parkways requires any tree planted in a public space to be covered by a service contract, which ensures proper watering and guarantees the trees for one year.

This is where we need your help. The service contract alone will exceed $10,000 in the first year. Our bayou's landscape needs your help to keep these trees watered, pruned, and cared for in times of inclement weather. Rather than spending time and resources trying to find new sponsors every year, MotherShip Foundation is hoping for neighborhood leaders to step up to this call and become long-term Tree Sponsors.

Tree Sponsors will receive an engraved plaque placed near the trunk of the tree and can choose to have their own name or business name engraved, or they can dedicate the trees to a loved one or a meaningful cause. All Tree Sponsors will also be acknowledged in all press releases and at a formal tree dedication ceremony, which will be held in the spring of 2013. Sponsorship levels are as follows:

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If you have ever felt the magic of an afternoon walk, canoe trip, or sunset gathering along Bayou St. John, then please consider making this tax-deductible donation and becoming an active part in preserving this pristine piece of nature in the heart of our city. This is your opportunity to be a part of the magic!

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Faubourg St. John is blessed with soil and weather that produces soft-ball-sized lemons and oranges. Satsumas and grapefruit grow well here too!

Some might say too well. You've made gallons of fruit juice, given aways dozens of pieces of fruit to your neighbors, friends and family but there are still hundreds of that fruit staring at you everytime you go out in the yard.

What to do?

Register your tree with the New Orleans Fruit Tree Project! Your fruit tree will be picked and the fruit gets distributed to folks who want and need it.

So, what are you waiting for? Click on the link and get that fruit out of your yard.

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Subject: Life Giving You Lemons?

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Call the NOLA Fruit Tree Project!

The tree in the link below yielded 118 pounds