Environmental Press # 186

Subj: Arianna: Power of the people+OLD GLORY
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:14:34 -0800
From: Doug Korthof <doug@seal-beach.org>
To: voiceforveterans@aol.com (via HellmanMesa@SealBeach.org)

1. Arianna's latest column: bush bon fire
2. SAVE OLD GLORY: PROTEST Friday 11:00 a.m.
3. Old Glory plan: Forwarded from the Bigracoon

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1. Why people are saying, Arianna for governor...

"By Arianna Huffington "The battle between the public interest and the special interests can be a demoralizing one....A judge appointed by President Bush rules that Dick Cheney can keep all the secrets he wants. Major GOP donor Eli Lilly gets a legislative gift worth billions...The president's pick to take over the Treasury is CEO of a company that... paid not a penny in federal taxes in [3 of last 4] years... "...Then along comes a week like the last one. And you think, maybe there is a Santa Claus. "Bam, Kissinger resigns! Boom, Cardinal Law quits!

Chomp, Trent Lott goes from smug Senate majority leader to bloody political chum floating in a tank of hungry sharks! Whoosh, President Bush stuns the crowd by

 

  

supporting an extension of unemployment...and also reverses course by boosting the budget of the [S.E.C.]! "Score five for the power of the people...none of these things would have happened if it weren't for the torrent of public outrage, protest, and criticism..."...it was the mainstream media that were asleep at the wheel on the Lott story. No fewer than a dozen reporters were present when Lott waxed nostalgic about Jim Crow at Strom Thurmond's birthday bash, but only one, ABC News producer Ed O'Keefe, thought it newsworthy. "His bosses...didn't use it...major media outlets also initially reacted with a collective shrug. "...It was in cyberspace that scores of bloggers -- including Josh Marshall of http://talkingpointsmemo.com, Glenn Reynolds of http://instapundit.com, Mickey Klaus of http://klausfiles.com, and Andrew Sullivan of http://andrewsullivan.com -- continued hammering away at the story... "...these cyber-pundits -- the vast majority of whom are unpaid amateurs...were instrumental in helping connect the dots of the Majority Leader's long history of racist stances..."

FOR THE LATEST ARIANNA, http://ariannaonline.com
TO SUBSCRIBE, http://ariannaonline.com/columns/maillist.html

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2. SUPPORT QUIGLEY: JOIN THE PROTEST TOMORROW AT 11:00!
Stupervisor Antonovich has been used by JOHN LAING HOMES as an excuse for being "forced" to cut down the 400 year old Oak known as "Old Glory". Details and pics on http://LAWetlands.org"...Please join Rene Russo in a public rally Fri. Dec. 20th at 11 am at
LA County Supervisor Antonovich's office downtown.
869 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration,
500 West Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90012,
tel (213) 974-5555, fax (213) 974-1010
Directions: Take the Temple St. Exit from 101 (1st exit east of 110), turn left. County Building
on your right." MONDAY: PROTEST AT JOHN LAING HOMES HQ IN NEWPORT BEACH Map and pics on http://LAWetlands.org

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3. OLD GLORY PLAN: Forwarded from the Bigraccoon CONTRA COSTA TIMES Road May Pass Around Tree By Patricia Farrell Aidem "...Environmentalists battling to save a centuries-old oak in the path of a proposed highway unveiled a plan Wednesday to build the roadway around the tree."
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/weather/environment/4773135.htm

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