Public polls count! Vote to preserve current rules on the filibuster! Vote to preserve the minority voice in our Senate! Poll happening NOW. See mid-way down...
I apologize for two blank notes appearing here, after I, as co-moderator, incorrectly edited/shortened those. Here are the shortened/edited notes again....
Wings and Dialog I like the parental advice: "Give your kids two things -- roots & wings." I feel like a bird these days and am especially conscious of having...
Harry, Have you noticed that some religions do not proselytize? I think that less trouble emanates from religions that do not proselytize. I am not very ...
Jack and Elsa Shartsis
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May 21, 2005 4:40 pm
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Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), of the sort favored by Minnesota's League of Women Voters and by the Green Party (and maybe by the Independence Party), here in...
... John et al, Will let you & others here know what results from tonight's Green Party discussion of IRV at 7pm at Austin Library. Another proponent of IRV,...
I was unable to attend the meeting in Austin but am interested in the results. If anyone has time to send a summary, I'll be grateful. Thank you. Elaine Leach...
Elaine L. Leach
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May 27, 2005 6:32 pm
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If Watergate Happened Now By Jonathan Alter Newsweek June 13 issue From a distance, Watergate seems like a partisan affair. But that's because we tend to look...
Sending attachments doesn't work when you email Saveourdemocracy@yahoogroups.com -- so I copied & pasted text. Those not on SOD list, please send a blank...
Bush continues to insist on Bolton to represent us in the United Nations, as then the rest of the world will be manipulated through his thuggish ways and...
Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., as quoted in the Star Tribune on June 21, observed that the president and his administration "claim the right to seize anyone,...
Contact info: www.senate.gov, www.house.gov Reach your Congressman through the Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 1. Stop John Bolton! Please call and email...
Unlawful detention. Human rights violations. Monitoring, tracking, and detention of peaceful protestors. Retaliation against government whistleblowers. This is...
********** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3 August 2005 4:30 p.m. CONTACT: Harry Stevens, (507) 437-2974 FRIENDS OF UKRAINE IN AUSTIN, MINNESOTA, HOSTS UKRAINIAN...
If you are an organization, respond appropriately wihout getting your organization smeared. That is, avoid doing anything in the name of your organization. -...
The following "report" was written by me, representing Friends of Ukraine, about a project we just completed for the National Peace Foundation, which paid for...
What a great story! Thank you for sharing. This is a remarkable example of international understanding and respect. I wonder if the Iraq war was discussed...
Elaine Leach , Harry ...
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Aug 19, 2005 10:30 pm
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Harry....thanks for the report. A real tour de force! Dave David W. Packer Systems Thinking Collaborative 781.275.4056 www.stcollab.com ...
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Thank you, Harry. I didn't live in MN during the Hormel strike but I would surely like to see the documentary American Dream. I taught at Shaw School in...
... Heidi, that report, posted by me on SOD on Aug 19, was too long. Here is a much better and shorter article on that same subject: Ukrainians seek a new path...
Call, FAX, email your Congressmen, Senators, Governors, Mayors, etc, especially to all of those that are close to the affected areas in Louisiana, Alabama,...
The great Galveston hurricane of 1900 helped lead to the progressive party movement. Similarly, the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 helped lead to dissolution of ...
KATRINA VOLUNTEERS Katrina, a category-five hurricane, was more than a disaster. Richard Clarke, the former anti-terrorism czar for both Presidents Clinton &...
Harry, What a good deed you are doing....I should say good deeds! I would like very much to have your Journal printed somewhere! Would you consider it as a...
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KATRINA/RITA VICTIMS by Chandler Harrison Stevens (10/1/2005) Four of us -- Bob, Priscilla, Walt & I, from our 11-person Crisis Corps subgroup9a of Peace Corps...
1. URGENT- Vote on the Defense Appropriations Bill continues on Thurs in the Senate at 9:30 EST (aired on C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org ) You can call their...
Today is the last day of my Peace Corps Katrina 30-days with Crisis Corps USA1. I'll miss the people we are helping and with whom I work. But I won't miss...
DeLay had better keep an eye on his friends, October 16, 2005 My Dear Mr. DeLay: I have been waiting two weeks for one Republican to leap to your defense and...