GOP's Kill a Druggie for Christ day. Today, August 1. Schedule for Drug Reform day of
Shadow Convention.
In honor of Ronald Wilson Reagan, and to counter the August 1 Drug Reform day of the
Shadow Convention, and in search of a more pro-active message than "Just Say No," we,
the Republicans (GOP), have said "Just Say Yes" to capital punishment for druggies.
Our leader, George "fry 'em" Bush, will pull the switch today for a few druggie
executions from the floor of the convention. Be a part of this family values
celebration. Here follows the enemy's schedule at the Shadow Convention. For their
August 1 drug orgy day.
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The Annenberg Center - 3680 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19104.
[Register] [Directions to Venue] [Steering Committee]
Tuesday August 1, 2000 -----------
http://www.shadowconventions.com/pstue.htm
THE FAILED DRUG WAR
Conveners: Ethan Nadelmann, Lindesmith Center
Drug policy reform is rapidly emerging as a new movement for political and social
justice in the United States. The Shadow Convention assembly on August 1 will be the
most significant gathering to date of citizens calling for an end to the failed war on
drugs.
10:00 - 10:05 AM Arianna Huffington opens the day with Conveners from Monday and
Wednesday events
Video: Short highlight package from Monday events
10:05 - 10:20 Opening remarks by Ethan Nadelmann, Lindesmith Center/Drug Policy
Foundation
10:20 - 10:35 Reverend Edwin Sanders, Opening Benediction
10:40 - 11:00 Speaker: Gov. Gary Johnson (R-NM)
11:00 - 11:05 Slide Presentation highlighting faces of non-violent drug offenders
11:05 - 11:15 Speaker: Gus Smith, Father of Kemba Smith
11:15 - 11:25 Speaker: Deborah Small, Drug Policy Foundation Community Outreach
11:25 - 11:35 Music: Children s Choir from Minnesota, composed of children whose
parents are incarcerated for drug-related offenses.
11:40 - 12:00 PM Speaker: Reverend Jesse Jackson, National Rainbow Coalition
12:30 - 12:45 Speaker: Nora Callahan, Executive Director of The November Coalition,
introducing family members of incarcerated non-violent drug offenders
12:50 - 1:05 Video: "Warzone" introduced by filmmaker Layla Law-Gisiko-Demay
1:05 - 1:20 Speaker: Graham Boyd, ACLU Drug Policy Litigation Project
1:20 - 1:30 Speaker: Sylvester Salcedo, retired U.S. Navy Commander
1:30 - 1:50 Speaker: Ethan Nadelmann, Lindesmith Center/Drug Policy Foundation
Interactive Discussion: Join Ethan online immediately after his speech for a Firetalk
Discussion
1:50 - 2:00 Video: Walter Cronkite Special on government money wasted on drug war
2:00 - Urban Recovery Tour - Randy Primas, former Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, will
lead a tour leaving the Annenberg Center for the inner city neighborhoods of Camden.
Read More >>
2:05 - 2:15 Speaker: Eric Sterling, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
2:20 - 2:30 Video: Excerpts from the film "Grass," a film by Ron Mann
2:30 - 3:30 PM Interactive Discussion Online with:
Holly Catania
Katherine Hoffman
Kristy Gomes, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy
Read More >>
3:00 - 4:00 Panel: MANDATORY MINIMUMS
Moderator: Catherine Crier, Court TV
Panelists: Jedonna Young, Jailed due to boyfriend s drug conviction
Karen Garrison, Twin sons imprisoned as first time offenders
Julie Stewart, Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Ernie Preate, Pennsylvania Attorney General
Sol Wachtler, CADRE Inc. of New York
Pat Nolan, former California Assembly Speaker
4:00 - 4:15 Speaker: Al Franken, Author of "Why Not Me?"
5:00 - 5:45 Panel: CRIMINALIZATION AND STIGMATIZATION
Panelists: Wyndi Anderson, South Carolina Advocates for Pregnant Women
Carol Tracey, Women s Law Project
Jennifer Johnson, Drug case defendant
Michele Giordano, Student Activist
6:00 - 7:00 Panel: CULTURE JAM ON THE DRUG WAR
Moderator: Farai Chideya, Journalist and Author
Panelists: Michael Franti, Spearhead
Akilah Watkins, Youth Leader
DJ Spooky
Kristy Gomes, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy
Interactive Discussion: Join Michael Franti and DJ Spooky online immediately after his
speech for a Firetalk Discussion
8:00 - 9:00 SHADOW CABARET
Hotline Comedy Festival (Part 1)
Performers: Will Durst
Bob Somerby
Jim Morris
Game: IPOcracy
Join in the fun as America goes public, sells out, and everyone gets rich... It s
IPOcracy
Peter Hirshberg, Co-founder IPOcracy
Michael Markman, Co-founder IPOcracy
Drew Youngs, Musical Director and Composer
Spoken Word: Michael Franti, Lead singer of Spearhead
9:00 - 10:30 RAPID RESPONSE PANEL
This panel will respond to a live telecast of Republican Convention coverage.
Moderator: Harry Shearer
Panelists: Matt Cooper, Time Magazine
Walter Shapiro, USA Today
Paul Krassner, The Realist
Lewis Lapham, Harper s Magazine
Jonathan Alter, Newsweek Magazine
Al Franken, Author of "Why Not Me?"
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Introductory notes. POLITICS 101. Harm reduction drug reform is a "big-tent"
philosophy.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/index.htm
"The only difference between Bush and Gore is the velocity with which their knees hit
the floor when corporations knock at the door."
--Ralph Nader (Green Party presidential candidate)
*Greens and the Drug War. Worldwide. LINKS. Green Party candidates, positions,
platforms, etc.. Concerning the Drug War, cannabis, marijuana, etc.. Ralph Nader info,
links.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/greens.htm
*GREENS.ORG - Green List2. Green Parties world wide. Links to everything green.
Platforms, values, organizations, message boards, Green Party elected politicians
worldwide, and much more.
http://www.greens.org/
*Yahoo! Government. Politics. Elections. Electoral Systems. How GREENS get power!
Worldwide. (GREENS and some other political parties that are more progressive
concerning cannabis, hemp, and drug reform). Voting systems. Proportional
representation, plurality.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Elections/Electoral_Systems/
*Critiques Of Libertarianism. Anti-Libertarian Party 101! Even the parts I disagree
with are funny! The Libertarian Party (LP), like the ACLU, is good on civil liberties
and is against prohibition. But the LP = No genuine, public health, Harm Reduction
drug policy, since the LP is against the safety net and universal healthcare.
Libertarian Party opposes nearly all aspects of the safety net. Such as universal
healthcare, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, welfare, etc.. The safety net has
been essential to the successful harm reduction cannabis and drug policies in Western
Europe and elsewhere. Concerning economic policy and the safety net, the LP is more
corporate, and farther to the right, than even many of the most far-right rabid
Republicans. Profits and property. Over people. Universal healthcare in other nations
actually gets better national health statistics. It costs less per person on average,
than the public and private healthcare systems in the USA. Total U.S. hea!
lthcare costs, versus other nations, are much more per person on average (when
totaling taxes, premiums, and expenses).
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/onelesson.html
*U.S. Rightist Republican-led (GOP) Drug War. GOP fascists lead, Democrat flunkies
follow. Huge LINKS list! Revised edition. GOP's holy war. Drug war leaders: rabid
right, hate radio, hate television, NRA (National Rifle Association), religious right,
(snortin') George Bush the hypocrite, etc.. Amnesty 2000.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gop.htm
*GOT COKE? Banners. George W. Bush, drug-free since 1974? Hypocrisy with bravado.
Republican drug warrior extraordinaire. PHOTOS and BANNERS! Free! For your webpages!
Amnesty 2000.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gotcoke.htm
*Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan - The Dark Side. Pat Buchanan's Skeleton Closet.
Vastly detailed. With many references at the end.
http://www.realchange.org/buchanan.htm
*The American Liberal Party. Drug war views.
"... nowhere in this 'war' is found any program to deal with the root causes of the
drug use in the United States: poverty, lack of opportunity, and a pervasive sense of
hopelessness. ... We support ending this 'war' and decriminalizing voluntary,
recreational drug use."
http://cann.com/b1/messages/26/26150.shtml
*Year-round, and especially during the election "silly season," Drug Warriors spin
their lies. [Ideology, Idiot-ology, political parties, and the Drug War. Several
tables. And healthcare.]|
http://www.drugtext.org/articles/Ideology.htm and
http://members.tripod.com/~cpconrad/
*7-00. Portugal. Socialists legalize drug use! BBC. The funny thing in this article is
that relative to the Socialists, the Social Democrats are considered conservative. :-)
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread6323.shtml
*MAP/DrugNews search SHORTCUT for Portugal press articles. CLICK!
http://www.mapinc.org/find?BK=portugal&YY1=1997
Harm reduction is a "big-tent" drug reform philosophy that includes the whole range of
drug reform options. All the way from complete "hard-drug-in-the-candy-aisle"
legalizers, to forced-treatment decriminalizers. All these drug reform options cause
less harm than the Rightist-Republican-led, all-out, U.S. drug war.
*POWER LINKS. [INTERNATIONAL. Saner Cannabis and Drug Policies worldwide. Many world
press articles. Many with Green Party info. Click table of contents (TOC) names, not
the TOC URLs.]:
http://homepages.go.com/homepages/m/a/r/marthag1/power_links.htm and
go to the "research" section at:
http://www.cannabis.com/linkscgi/#research
*Harm Reduction at the planetary level. Scorecard Home. "Just enter your zip code and
find out what pollutants are being released into your communities - and who is
responsible."
http://www.scorecard.org/
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of
state and corporate power." --Mussolini
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BLACK AND WHITE MALE PRISONERS per 100,000 male residents in the U.S. (of same race as
inmate). Compared to apartheid South Africa. The USA rates do not include jail inmates
(which would further increase the US rates).
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>____________________________South_
>_____________USA_____USA____Africa
>Year_________White___Black__Black_
>1985_________246_____1,559________
>1990_________339_____2,376________
>1993________________________851___
>1995_________461_____3,250________
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> http://www.sproject.com/rep3.htm _____________
> http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/p96.txt
*Greens and the Drug War. Worldwide. LINKS. Green Party candidates, positions,
platforms, etc.. Concerning the Drug War, cannabis, marijuana, etc.. Ralph Nader info,
links.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/greens.htm
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