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On the 3rd Anniversay of the Iraq War : 2,400+ dead, 20,000+ wounded, 300+ billion dollars; a war fabricated under false pretenses....
Contents: I. Events
II. Actions
I. Events
Contents: I. Events
II. Actions
I. Events
March 19 and 22 in NYC: Protest the Iraq War: March 22: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/451919/
11 Days of Global Unity: Sept. 11-Sept. 23, UN International Day of Peace
Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping: Buy Nothing Day Parade www.revbilly.com
2nd Fridays NY Shaman Circle 219 Sullivan St. Childrens Aid Society
2nd Tues Green Drinks www.green-links.org
2nd Tues NYC Fair Trade Coalition www.fairtradenyc.org
Green Party in Manhattan: http://www.idealist.org/en/org/110993-210
Brooklyn Green Party: http://gpbk.org/about/
Brooklyn Greens http://www.geocities.com/brooklyngreens/ monthly meetings
Nassau County Greens: http://members.aol.com/ligreens/myhomepage/index.html
In New York, look for the Food Coops (coopdirectory.org) At the Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket, 782 Union St.: 2/3 Grand Army Plaza Flatbush Ave to Seventh Ave to Union St.
Also, 4th Street Food Coop, Flatbush Food Coop, East New York Food Coop Some great movies: The US vs John Lennon; Black Gold (Fair Trade documentary); Commune (documentary of a 1970's communal effort that has transformed and lasted) ; I Heart Huckabees ; A Civil Action ; Boycott
More events: http://wakeupdemocracy.org/cgi-bin/util/sitebuilder/edit?editpage=about.html; www.wetheworld.org
II. Actions
Urge Representatives to Support Progressive Legislation:(see environmental legislation further below:)
.1) As discussed by many authors, like William Greider in The Soul of Capitalism and Marjorie Kelly in the Divine Right of Capital, much corruption comes from an irresponsible obsession with short term notions of "Shareholder Value":
.2) News sources like World Watch Institute and Democracy Now
Support the Socially Responsible Economy: Health Food Stores, Green Products, Organic Foods, Fair Trade, www.coopdirectory.org , http://www.coopamerica.org/, http://www.ecomall.com/ , www.buyblue.org / Boycott Bush ; http://www.usworker.coop/ , http://www.ncba.coop/ , www.ica.coop , COPAC (UN interagency coop committee) , http://www.eurocoop.org/ , history of worker coops: http://www.red-coral.net/WorkCoops.html , Fuel Buyer's Group: http://www.nypirg.org/fbg/ , Argentine Worker Coops: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/21/32/ ; New York Cooperative Business Law: http://law.onecle.com/new-york/cooperative-corporations/index.html ; Federation of Egalitarian Communities: http://thefec.org/
Consumer Actions:
1) Green Internet ISP (Service Providers): http://www.redjellyfish.com/ , EcoISP.com, EarthTones.com
Website hosting: http://www.na.domain.coop/ ; www.thinkhost.com
2) Green Banking with interest: Shorebank Pacific http://www.eco-bank.com/ , NCBA, the National Cooperative Bank, Amalgamated Bank, owned by employee labor unions, HSBC (uses windpower for English branches) http://www.hsbc.com/ ; Wainright Bank/Equal Exchange CD http://www.equalexchange.com/eecd , Credit Unions
3) Green Shareholding: http://www.greencentury.com/ , http://www.newalternatives.com/
4) Progressive Higher Learning: New School for Social Research: http://www.newschool.edu/ , Antioch New England Graduate School http://www.antiochne.edu/ , Naropa College , Hampshire College, ; Audobon Expedition Institute: www.lesley.edu/info/sierra ; Monterey Institute of International Studies: www.miis.edu ; Vermont Law School: www.vermontlaw.edu ; Brown University: http://envstudies.brown.edu ; University of California Santa Cruz Environmental Studies: http://envs.ucsc.edu/graduate/
5) Activist Telephone: http://www.workingassets.com/ now Credo, EarthTones.com
6) Renewable Energy: Community Energy, through NYPIRG's fuel buyer's group with discounted fuels and potential windpower rebate: http://www.nypirg.org/ , Sterling Planet: http://www.sterlingplanet.com/ ; Buy your own: http://store.altenergystore.com/Wind-Systems/c389/ ; http://www.gaiam.com/retail/product/80363 ; http://www.abcrealgoodssolar.com/about.php
7) Cutting Edge, Fair Trade, Eco Businesses: www.interrupcion.com , http://nosweatstore.com/ , http://www.nosweatapparel.com/ , equalexchange.com, mamasearth.com , ecomall.com , goodhumans.com
[Check the Current Status of Legislation at http://thomas.loc.gov/ or www.govtrack.us]
Amnesty International Campaigns:
Help Peace Marchers in Myanmar; Human Rights Activists in Guatemala and Honduras;
Moroccan Human Rights Association members; EU approach to "Rendition"
Ongoing Actions:
1)a) i. Investigate Impeachment of Bush: They altered intelligence on the war, and misrepresented it! Spying without warrants! Robbing the poor to give to the Rich! (See the Bush Administration's and the War's basic costs a little further below) Send a letter and support impeachment investigation HR 635: http://www.ccr.org/ ; also see petition: www.impeachbush.org
ii. Censure Bush for spying a. petition for Censure: http://www.moveon.org/ b. Three actions at www.workingforchange.com
bi. Letter to Senators for Censure bii. Attorney General Gonzalez can appoint a special prosecutor to investigate spying biii. Investigate the Bush Administrations failures with Katrina
b) i. Keep Congress in charge of any military action against Iran: Oregon Rep DeFazio's HCR 391 to reestablish this Constitutional Principle http://www.workingforchange.com/ ii. Petition to prevent Nukes against Iran: http://www.moveon.org/
c) There is still no effective timetable to leave Iraq, in spite of the costs: send letters at: http://www.workingforchange.com/ :
i. support Senator Feingold's call for a timeline
ii. HJR 55 "Homeward Bound" would call for a specific plan of withdrawal
As of 5/5/06: Bush's Financial Record: $2.6 trillion government debt (back to 1988 levels and climbing!) , $193 billion interest on debt
National Debt $8.3 trillion
Economic Cost of War: $278.433 billion total, $5.6 billion monthly
War's cost as of 12/07: $475.8 billion
| As of 5/8/06 | ||
| United States | Per Taxpayer | $2,379 |
| United States | Per Hour | $10.18 million |
| United States | Per Day | $244 million |
Human Cost: 5/5/06: 2,431; 12/5/07: Dead: 3,886+ Wounded: 28,582+
More Impeach Bush/Costs of War links here
d) consider War Tax Resistance: For example, the Federal Excise Tax on phone bills was initiated after the Spanish-American War as a war tax, according to the War Resister's League: www.warresisters.org
3) Greenpeace
Let's Make Cape Wind
The nation is watching a project proposed off
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Deforestation accounts for a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Three agribusiness giants, ADM, Bunge, and Cargill, don't seem to care.a) Winter Soldier: US Vets, Active-Duty Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan Testify About the Horrors of War
b) Global Economy Shaken by Fall of Bear Stearns
The Federal Reserve took dramatic action last night on multiple fronts to avert a crisis of the global financial system. On Sunday, the Fed helped JPMorgan purchase the investment bank Bear Stearns in an effort to save the nation’s fifth largest investment bank from collapse. The Fed also announced an emergency quarter-point cut in its discount rate. It has also agreed to become the lender of last resort for other investment banks in effort to prevent firms from going under. The Wall Street Journal reports this marks one of the broadest expansions of the Fed’s lending authority since the 1930s. The fall of Bear Stearns has shocked the business community. JPMorgan bought the company for just $270 million. A year ago Bear Stearns was valued at $20 billion. As part of the deal, the Federal Reserve agreed to lend JPMorgan $30 billion to secure some of Bear Stearns’s mortgage investments. If the assets decline in value, the
C) As Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Dominates Headlines, a Look at the Plight of Sex Workers
What happens to the escort? While the Eliot Spitzer story has dominated the news media for the past two days, little coverage has been paid to the plight of sex workers in this country. We speak with Juhu Thukral, director of the Sex Workers Project of the Tibetans Express Impatience With Dalai Lama's Approach
Tibetan protest leaders are disappointed that their exiled spiritual leader has taken a conciliatory approach to
9) Nassau Financial Credit Union
History of Nassau
Nassau Financial Federal Credit Union was originally chartered as the Nassau County Court House Employees Federal Credit Union on May 18, 1936. Over the years our charter was expanded to include other local government jurisdictions and entities in our field of membership and our name was changed to Nassau County Employees FCU in 1969 and eventually to Nassau County FCU in 1991. In 2004 we converted to a community charter, allowing us to serve anyone who lives, works, worships, volunteers or attends school in Nassau County and, in 2005, we therefore changed our name again to Nassau Financial Federal Credit Union. We have grown to over $260 million in assets, serving over 27,000 members in four locations with additional offices available through the shared service center network.10) Why ShoreBank Pacific?
ShoreBank Pacific is the first commercial bank in the 11) Green Century Mutual Funds
About Us: HistoryGreen Century Capital Management, Inc. (GCCM) is the administrator of Green Century Funds, a family of environmentally responsible mutual funds. It was founded by non-profit environmental advocacy organizations and is wholly owned by non-profit advocacy groups.
When the Green Century Funds were founded in 1991, there were only a handful of socially and environmentally screened mutual funds. Since then, many funds with social and/or environmental screens have been introduced. But today, the Green Century Funds remain among a small number of fund families that focus primarily on environmentally responsible investing. We are proud of our role in helping to grow the number of environmentally conscious investors. We think every investor should understand how their investments are being put to use. Similarly, we think every company should understand its impact on the earth.
As a result of GCCM's non-profit ownership, 100% of the net profits earned by GCCM on the fees it receives for managing the Funds belong to the non-profit advocacy organization founders. These earnings will help to further efforts to preserve and protect the environment - efforts that include: campaigning for the protection of clean air, clean water, and open space; filing lawsuits against companies that ilJapanese 8legally pollute; and advocating for reduced use of toxic chemicals and reduced emissions of global warming gases.
12) Amalgamated Bank
Amalgamated Bank, founded in 1923 by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, is a commercial bank chartered in New York with nationwide service.
As a result of a merger in 1995 between the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) and a merger in 2004 between UNITE and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE), the Bank is owned by UNITE HERE.
At Amalgamated Bank - America's Labor Bank - we work hard to make your life easier. For more than 80 years, we have provided working men and women, as well as unions, associations and businesses, with affordable banking services.
Today, the tradition continues with innovative services that help families manage their funds and help unions and businesses meet their increasing financial demands.
In addition to a full line of commercial and individual banking services, Amalgamated Bank has been providing trust, investment advisory, custodial, and benefit remittance services for Taft-Hartley and public sector employee benefit plans since 1973.
Our mission is to bring affordable banking and investment services to working men and women and to the United States labor movement. As former CEO and President Gabriel Caprio explains, "At Amalgamated Bank, we never lose sight of our heritage, and we never forget that our charter is to provide affordable banking services to all workers."
We invite you to explore our site to learn more about Amalgamated Bank, our services, and how we can help you with your banking and financial needs.
