E-Newsletter of the Green Party of Maricopa County, AZ, USA
 
   Issue # 6.       2006 June 1.
 
   El boletín electrónico del Partido Verde del Condado Maricopa, Arizona, EEUU.  Si usted no lee inglés, podemos ponerle en contacto con alguien que habla español.  Por favor, escríbanos por correo electrónico o puede buscar gratis una traducción aproximada en el Internet, por exemplo, en www.freetranslation.com.
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Events.
Green notices.
Other notices.
Articles:
   1.  Great chance to attend a national Green meeting in Arizona!
   2.  Citizens' assembly is grassroots democracy:  All at once could fix duopoly, vote rigging, vote buying.  (Opinion)
   3.  What I Did At Camp . . . Camp Wellstone, That Is!  by Solomon Truthteller.
   4.  My Vision of Growing the Green Party--opinion by Solomon Truthteller.
   5.  Shekerjian wins Tempe run-off; 5 bonds pass; More roads will harm environment, endanger lives.
   6.  Humor:  Outsourcing poverty--Bush announces plan (report by Peter Porcupine); Bio-fuel?; Funniest real headlines; I guess we lost; From the Unite-ifier; Another Bush blooper clarified.  (Comedy)
   7.  Blood and Oil:  Why Democrats and Republicans don't stop trading one for the other, opinion by Claudia Ellquist.
   8.  GDI Looks at the Outcome of the Tulsa National Convention of 2005.  (Opinion)
   9.  Mixed Greens (short news)  AZ Citizens for Electoral Reform want correct vote counting; Green "shadow cabinet" planned; Women in Bharat; Random voter would win a million $; Recycling really odd things.
Articles sought for future issues.
Masthead:  publication identity, address, owners, etc.
End of TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Events

2006 June

   June 1, Thursday, 7 p.m.  Tom Zoellner discusses and signs his book The Heartless Stone; from the deadly mines and smuggling rings of Africa to India’s polishing mills, where teenagers cut stones that eventually find their way to the shopping malls of America.  Zoellner also co-wrote An Ordinary Man, the autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina, whose life was portrayed in the movie Hotel Rwanda.  At Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ; telephone 480-730-0205.  www.changinghands.com.
 
   June 2, Friday, 6 - 11 p.m.  In central Phoenix, AZ.  First Friday Art Walk (first Friday of each month).  The Green Party usually has a table in the parking lot just west of Modified Arts, 407 East Roosevelt Street, from about 6 to 10 p.m.
   Free shuttle bus all around central Phoenix to participating art galleries, etc., such as the Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Avenue.  Free admission to most galleries.  www.cenpho.com/journal/2005/11/5/first-fridays-art-walk.html  and  www.maricopagreens.org.
 
   June 2 to 4, Friday to Sunday.  Flagstaff, AZ.  National Democracy School with Thomas Linzey.  Workshop 275 $ and up.  Northern Arizona University.   www2.nau.edu/community/com_events.htm www.constitution411.org/natl_dem_schl/main/natl_ds.html

   June 4, Sunday, 2 to 4:30 p.m.  General meeting of Maricopa County Greens and visitors.  (Our Steering Committee meeting, open to all members, is 1 to 2 p.m.)  At Counter Culture Café, 2330 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, AZ.  Free.  Please bring your used printer cartridges and cell phones to recycle.  We also need Green candidates.  For car pool, call (602) 417-0213.   www.maricopagreens.org.  Followed by event below.
 
   June 4, Sunday, 7:30 to 9:45 p.m. (following above event).  Video/film "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" followed by discussion on organic & progressive farming issues.  Free.  (The film will air on PBS Tuesday, June 13).  At The Farm at South Mountain, 6106 South 32nd Street (1/2 block south of Southern Avenue, s.w. corner), Phoenix, AZ.
 
   June 5 to 7, Monday to Wednesday.  "Arizona Indian Town Hall" for better relations between First Nations and all others (26th annual).  Theme "Preserving Arizona's Tribal Cultural Resources, Sites and Languages".  DoubleTree Paradise Valley Resort, 5401 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ.  Sponsorships available:  Vera Phillips 602-542-3123. vera.phillips@indianaffairs.state.az.us.
 
   June 13.  KAET.  See June 20.
 
   June 14, Wednesday.  Last day to collect signatures for our Green Party candidates in Maricopa County.  Donations needed, too.  See Notices, T. Doran, below.
 
   Tentatively June 14, Wednesday, 7 - 9 p.m.  Meeting of Arizona Citizens for Election Reform.  Fortnightly.  In Bookmans back meeting room:  8034 North 19th Avenue (n.w. corner of West Northern Avenue)  Map. www.aceronline.org.  See article # 11 below.
 
   June 15, Thursday.  Last day for less expensive early registration for the Greens' national meeting in Tucson, AZ:  75 $.  See July 27 below.
 
   June 15, Thursday.  Due date for articles for the next issue of this e-newsletter.  Later submissions are welcome–we'll try to squeeze them in.
 
   June 19, Monday, 7 p.m.  Documentary film showing The Corporation, by Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar. Hosted by Concerned Citizens Movie Night and local activist Jason Williams.  Free.  At Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ; telephone 480-730-0205.  www.changinghands.com.

   June 19, Monday, 7 p.m.  Socrates Cafe.  Share ideas and explore alternative philosophical viewpoints in a group inspired by Christopher Phillips’ bestselling book Socrates Café.  Free.  At Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ; telephone 480-730-0205.  www.changinghands.com.  Wendy Shepherd at tantricdish@yahoo.com.
 
   June 20 (or maybe June 13), Tuesday, 11 p.m. to midnight.  KAET-PBS television shows "The Real Dirt on Farmer John".  (For free public showing and discussion after a Green meeting, see June 4 above.)  Epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer who--in spite of local condemnation--transforms his farm amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and arson.  He creates a bastion of free expression and a revolutionary form of agriculture in rural America. www.kaet.asu.edu/pressroom/2006/june/june06_web.htm
 
   June 24, Saturday, 1:30 p.m.  (Optional lunch 1 p.m.)  Sustainable Energy Alliance (SEA) meeting at La Madeleine Restaurant, 3102 East Camelback Road, Phoenix.  2 p.m.:  speaker Paavo Wright, who spent most of his professional life in power plants, particularly electric utilities.  A detailed and engaging presentation that includes pricing structures and energy expenditures.   1 $ donation, plus food ordered.  (4th Saturday of each month).  Contact Karen Bauernschmidt, specialklyb@yahoo.com; or 602.993-0452.
 
   Tentatively June 28, Wednesday, 7 - 9 p.m.  Meeting of Arizona Citizens for Election Reform.  Fortnightly.  In Bookmans back meeting room:  8034 North 19th Avenue (n.w. corner of West Northern Avenue)  Map. www.aceronline.org.  See article # 11 below.
 
Recurring events
 
   Mondays, 5 - 6 p.m.  Tempe, AZ.  Peace Vigil outside 740 South Mill Avenue (n.w. corner of West University Drive).  Free.
 
   Every second Saturday:  May 6, 20, June 3, 17, July 1, etc., 10 a.m. to noon.  Phoenix, AZ. Grandma's for Peace protest.  Free.  West Bell Road and 99th Avenue.  www.codepinkphx.org/local_groups.html
and www.grandmothersforpeace.org/directory/
 
   Sundays, 6 - 7 p.m. (new day and time)  Cold Turkey on television Channel 51, i Network.  10 unwitting volunteers try to quit smoking.  www.ionline.tv/shows/coldturkey/.

2006 July – and later
   July 1, Saturday (or earlier).  Next issue of this newsletter.
 
   July 1, Saturday.  Last day for less expensive advance registration for the Greens' national meeting in Tucson, AZ:  100 $.  See June 15 above, July 27 below.
 
   July 21, Friday.  Last day for late registration for the Greens' national meeting in Tucson, AZ:  115 $.  After that, please register at the event.  See June 15 and July 1 above, July 27 below.
 
   July 27 to 30, Thursday to Sunday.  Tucson, AZ.  Annual National Meeting of the Green Party of the US, hosted by the Pima County Green Party.  In the Historic YWCA Building, 738 North 5th Avenue.
   Early Registration:  75 $ until June 15.
   Advance Registration:  100 $ until July 1.
   Late Registration:  115 $ available on-line until July 21; after that, please register at the event.
   Or you can get in free by arranging in advance to volunteer to help.  Ask the hosts:  www.pimagreens.org/gpusanm/index.html.
   To register:  www.gp.org/meeting2006/register.shtml.
   Map:  www.maricopagreens.org.
 
   September 9, Saturday.  Arizona state meeting of the Green Party.  Free.  Prescott, AZ.
 
   September 12, Tuesday.  Arizona.  Primary election for AZ state and federal offices.*
 
    November 7, Tuesday.  Arizona.  General election for AZ state and federal offices and others.  See Green candidates in Notices, above, and Article # 1, 2006 April issue.*
 
   *See also the Maricopa County Recorder http://recorder.maricopa.gov/electioncalendar.aspx and
http://recorder.maricopa.gov/candcamp.aspx, and the Arizona Secretary of State's website at www.sosaz.gov.
 
End of Events.

Green notices

   Our Green Party candidate in Maricopa County

   Tom Doran for the Riverside Elementary School Board in southwest Phoenix.   Everyone can help in some way or another, regardless of your place of residence.
   That district is mostly between Van Buren Street on the north and the Salt River on the south, and between 39th Avenue on the east and 67th Avenue on west.
   We can help him collect signatures now.  He also needs 5 $ donations.  Please e-write to tdoranaz@hotmail.com.

   Maricopa County Green Party:  The county party.  Telephone voice-mail and hot-line:  (602) 417-0213.  P.O. Box 60173, Phoenix, AZ, USA  85082-0173.  www.maricopagreens.org.