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661 So CA ADA and Gephardt -- rank: 1000

hmmm...maybe one of the lawyers on the list can answer this one. marta >Is there a legal process that enables voters to commence House or Senate >member repeal or impeachment? > >Steven > > >Is this more productive? >marta > >SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION [SoCalADA] CALLS FOR >RESIGNATION OF HOUSE MINORITY LEADER RICHARD GEPHARDT > by Don White > LOS ANGELES Oct. 15 -- In a stinging denunciation o ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Oct 17 15:57:45 PDT 2002

662 So CA ADA and Gephardt -- rank: 1000

Is this more productive? marta SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION [SoCalADA] CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF HOUSE MINORITY LEADER RICHARD GEPHARDT by Don White LOS ANGELES Oct. 15 -- In a stinging denunciation of his role in the recent House vote empowering the president to wage war in Iraq and citing the repudiation of his leadership by the majority of House Democrats, the Southern California chapter of Americans For Democratic Action (ADA) called for the immediate resignation of min ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Oct 16 22:10:53 PDT 2002

663 Stopping the War, this week's assignment -- rank: 1000

It was pissing in a rain storm to call my congressperson Brad Sherman, that A-hole voted for Bush's resolution but I did it anyway. I'm sure open to any suggestions you think would be better. marta >At 01:44 PM 10/15/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >>Ok since I posted that UN petition I have recieved this info which >>gives some direct contacts for raising objections to Bush's war. >>Marta >> > >isn't sending anything to john dimitri negroponte, especially >agains ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Oct 16 22:05:11 PDT 2002

664 Stopping the War, this week's assignment -- rank: 1000

Ok since I posted that UN petition I have recieved this info which gives some direct contacts for raising objections to Bush's war. Marta = = = Subj: Stopping the War: This week's assignment Date: 10/14/2002 2:35:44 PM Pacific Standard Time From: dkoff at pacbell.net (david koff) To: dkoff at pacbell.net (activism) Friends & Family, During the past week, many of you probably watched or heard some of the debates on the floor of the House and Senate. It was a sad week for those of us who li ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Oct 15 13:44:55 PDT 2002

665 Petition / UN -- rank: 1000

Mourn the Victims. Stand for Peace. Islam is not the Enemy. War is NOT the Answer. Today we are at a point of imbalance In the world and are moving toward what may be the beginning of a THIRD WORLD WAR. If you are against this possibility, the UN is gathering signatures in an effort to avoid a tragic world event. Please COPY (rather than Forward) this e-mail in a new message, sign at the end of the list, and send it to all the people whom you know. If you receive this list with more than 500 nam ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 11 15:34:49 PDT 2002

666 Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Bill -- rank: 1000

>On the same day that Bush spoke to the Nation on Iraq, he threatens to >Veto the $380B defense authorization bill that will pay for that war... >seems Bushie doesn't want to pay for new pension benefits for disabled >military retirees. > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51794-2002Oct6.html > > > > > >Steven He is preparing for war in the cruelist way. Bush is going to be lean and mean to those injured doing his dirty work. The Gulf War ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Oct 9 11:02:43 PDT 2002

667 Libertarian Blue Boy -- rank: 1000

>In a message dated 10/4/02 2:13:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >ap888 at lafn.org writes: > >Thank you, I think. Let me restate my points: > >This guy, Mr Kelleher, the guy with the huge eyebrows, has been >running singlehandedly for one office after another SINCE I WAS IN >MIDDLE SCHOOL in MT. ALL I can remember about his many campaigns, >besides the number of them and his single-mindedness, is the >eyebrows. That alone says something I THINK about his credibility ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 5 16:22:28 PDT 2002

668 Libertarian Blue Boy -- rank: 1000

> >ItThe Green Party candidate is Mr. Bob "Eyebrows" Kelleher, someone >known for truly prodigious and enormous eyebrows. Mr Eyebrows has >been a perennial off-beat also-ran for decades in various MT races. >Poor Green Party! I finally made my way to the MT Green Party >website and for whatever freaky reason, Mr Eyebrows is not even >listed. The only names shown are 3-4 guys running for the state Leg. > >Dorene Cornwell > >I Dorene, What the **** do lar ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 4 14:13:35 PDT 2002

669 Firewall / US Weapons of mass destruction -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Examiner Firewall By Conn Hallinan When 200 people showed up at the gates of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory last month demanding the right to "inspect" the sprawling complex for "weapons of mass destruction," the press either ignored it or dismissed it as clever political theater. But people had better start paying attention to what Livermore, and its sister labs at Los Alamos and Sandia, are up, which includes: - Undermining the 1972 Nuclear Non-prolife ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Nov 30 21:27:26 PST 2002

670 A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell -- rank: 1000

>>> >> >>I'm going soon. Already my crip friends are saying that the film >>overlooks the fact that she had polio as a child and was impaired >>before the railroad accident that damaged her spine. Being a long >>time fan of hers I will go see for myself whether the filmmaker is >>so ignorant as to not include that as a BIG part of who she was. >> > >well, i can tell you right now that there's no polio. Given what I've read about the film ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Nov 27 09:46:26 PST 2002

671 Frida -- rank: 1000

>At 02:01 AM 11/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>At 10:17 PM -0800 11/26/02, Marta Russell wrote: >>>I'm going soon. Already my crip friends are saying that the film >>>overlooks the fact that she had polio as a child and was impaired >>>before the railroad accident that damaged her spine. Being a long >>>time fan of hers I will go see for myself whether the filmmaker is >>>so ignorant as to not include that as a BIG part of who she was. > > ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Nov 27 09:34:31 PST 2002

672 Frida (2002) -- reviewed by Manohla Dargis -- rank: 1000

>MOVIE REVIEW > >A portrait of 'Frida' that's all in the framing > >By Manohla Dargis >Times Staff Writer > >October 25 2002 > >The artist Frida Kahlo was famous for a lot of things -- her >glorious paintings, her grotesque pain, an illusion to her "deformity" here? >you get the sense that even when her body was held hostage by >infirmity, as it was for long stretches of her difficult life, Kahlo >wanted the world to know that part of her was f ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Nov 27 09:26:11 PST 2002

673 A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell -- rank: 1000

> >Peter: >Anyone see Frida yet? I tried but something came up. I'm going soon. Already my crip friends are saying that the film overlooks the fact that she had polio as a child and was impaired before the railroad accident that damaged her spine. Being a long time fan of hers I will go see for myself whether the filmmaker is so ignorant as to not include that as a BIG part of who she was. Marta --

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Date:	Tue Nov 26 22:17:19 PST 2002

674 Bad guys and burdens of proof (Was H Rap Brown) -- rank: 1000

> > > > budge wrote: > >I'm not sure what you mean. They both play(ed) at being >cowboys, neither one of them actually ever ranched. They >are both big phonies in that sense. I agree that Bush comes >across as being mean, and I agree that he bought his 'ranch' >in one of the uglier parts of Texas that's not in the West >or the Panhandle. I think Reagan was probably more >'cosmopolitan' as a result of hanging out in H-wood all >those years. > >But ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 26 10:34:18 PST 2002

675 Texas energy firms push for rain forest pipeline -- rank: 1000

Here we go -- wonderous fortunes for the Bush clan and business associates. This administration is about very little but lining its own pockets and "getting set" at the taxpayers expense. They have become experts at making fortunes using the revolving door of government and private enterprise. marta http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/11/22/MN193666.DTL Texas energy firms push for rain forest pipeline Peru's natural gas project upsets conservationists, isola ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 24 10:58:06 PST 2002