[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Chilling Example of Curtailment of Civil Rightsunder Fast Track legislation

[Axel Roselius <axelerator@mac.com>]

i just got this reply from another list.
the national green party which had ralp nader as candidate is actually at

http://www.greens.org/na.html


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> ----------
> From: Gus diZerega <dizerea@whitman.edu>
> Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 15:54:08 -0800
> To: "M. Macha NightMare" <herself@machanightmare.com>
> Subject: Re: Green Party Coordinator Detained At Airport
>
> Dear Macha  -and others-
>
> A Green member sent me this when I forwarded your email to her
>
> blessings,
>
> Gus
>
> ******************************************************
> The following message was posted to wagreens-active:
> ******************************************************
>
> Hi all,
>
> I hate talking about individuals on a list like this, but the
> misleading
> statements being put out by one Nancy Oden need rapid rumor
> control.
> Defending her half-truths would make us look silly.
>
> I got to meet Nancy three years ago when she was in Seattle for the
> national
> committee meeting of the activist organization known as "the
> Greens/Green
> Party USA," which should not be confused with the national
> electoral
> organization, "the Green Party of the United States," which
> nominated Ralph
> Nader for President and helped get him on the ballot in 44 states.
>
> Nancy was incredibly rude to her fellow activists.  She talked
> endlessly
> about how mean the Maine Green Party had been to her, and about how
> evil the
> Greens from "that other Green organization" were.  I dismissed her
> as a
> run-of-the-mill kook.
>
> Then, this past spring, she somehow got elected to the three-member
> Coordinating Committee of G/GPUSA.  Her tenure involved a string of
> 2-1
> decisions taking authority away from the larger Green National
> Committee,
> and shutting down various processes in the bylaws that were used to
> try to
> overrule her.  Eleven of the 13 state parties then affiliated with
> G/GPUSA
> had called for a membership referendum on the "Boston Proposal for
> Unity."
> (Only six are needed to call such a referendum.)  Nancy used her
> power on
> the CC to prevent any money being spent to hold the referendum, and
> continually threatened to fire the two staffers who were trying
> their best
> to obey the bylaws.  To say that Nancy was abusive toward the staff
> would be
> an understatement.
>
> When the pro-unity supermajority was unable to ever get a vote
> called on the
> Boston Proposal, most of the state parties started disaffiliating.
> G/GPUSA
> is now down to four state parties, two of which are still in the
> process of
> disaffiliation.
>
> Meanwhile, GP-US, which is expected to finally be recognized as
> "the
> national committee of the Green Party" by the Federal Elections
> Commission
> some time in the next two weeks, has 33 affiliated state parties.
>
> Nancy Oden got elected to the G/GPUSA CC on a platform of "real
> democracy,
> where We the People ..."  Instead, she ran the organization with an
> iron
> fist and sent nearly everyone fleeing to more productive ground.
>
> Nancy's latest heavy-handed rhetoric does not match up with what
> I've been
> reading in the Bangor news.  She was not targeted at the airport
> because she
> was a leader of the G/GPUSA.  She was targeted because she was rude
> to the
> security officers.  Indeed, the FBI say they had no idea who she
> was.  Other
> Green Party leaders have had no trouble whatsoever flying.
>
> Nancy was not banned from flying.  She was simply not allowed to
> fly that
> day.  Nancy said she did not put up resistance to having her purse
> searched
> (a standard procedure long before 9/11) or personal search.  She
> just went
> crazy at the metal-detecting wand.  I know Nancy well enough to
> know why she
> would freak out at the use of such a radioactive instrument around
> her body.
>   She is a long-time anti-nuke activist.
>
> We risk delegitimizing ourselves by defending Nancy Oden's
> hysterical
> account of airport security.  We'd also be causing more
> well-intentioned
> Green-Party-activist wannabes to go to G/GPUSA's web site and pay
> dues to
> G/GPUSA, not knowing that it is not the national Green Party that
> put
> together the convention in Denver and nominated Ralph Nader for
> president.
>
> If GP-US puts out a press release today, I hope it presents a more
> balanced
> account of what really happened between Nancy and airport security,
> and
> points out that Nancy's organization is *not* the national Green
> Party.
>
> Sorry to rag on fellow activists.
>
> Cheers,
> Brent White
> former dues-paying member of the activist organization known as
> "the
> Greens/Green Party USA"


on 11/3/01 10:41 PM, Dimitri Devyatkin at devyatkin@earthlink.net wrote:

> It looks like fascism has really come to America.
> 
> GREEN PARTY USA COORDINATOR DETAINED AT AIRPORT
> PREVENTED BY ARMED MILITARY FROM FLYING TO GREENS MEETING IN CHICAGO
> "I was targeted because the Green Party USA opposes the bombing of innocent
> civilians in Afghanistan."
> --Nancy Oden
> 
> 
> (The Green Party USA statement on the war against Afghanistan is at
> http://www.greenparty.org/911.html
> They are the original Green Party in the U.S. since 1986)
> ==========
> 
> The Greens / Green Party USA
> 226 South Wabash, 6th floor
> PO Box 1406,
> Chicago, Illinois 60690
> Toll-free Phone: 1-866-GREENS-2
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> November 2, 2001
> 
> MEDIA ALERT:
> 
> GREEN PARTY USA will hold press conference in CHICAGO
> SATURDAY, NOV.  3
> 10 a.m.
> at the J. Ira and Nicki Family Hostel
> 24 East Congress Parkway (at Wabash), 2nd floor
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> GREEN PARTY USA COORDINATOR DETAINED AT AIRPORT
> PREVENTED BY ARMED MILITARY FROM FLYING TO GREENS MEETING IN CHICAGO
> 
> Armed government agents grabbed Nancy Oden, Green Party USA coordinating
> committee member, Thursday at Bangor International Airport in Bangor Maine,
> as she attempted to board an American Airlines flight to Chicago.
> 
> "An official told me that my name had been flagged in the computer," a
> shaken Oden said. "I was targeted because the Green Party USA opposes the
> bombing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan."
> 
> Oden, a long-time organic farmer and peace activist in northern Maine, was
> ordered away from the plane. Military personnel with automatic weapons
> surrounded Oden and instructed all airlines to deny her passage on ANY
> flight. "I was told that the airport was closed to me until further notice
> and that my ticket would not be refunded," Oden said.
> 
> Oden is scheduled to speak in Chicago Friday night on a panel concerning
> pesticides as weapons of war. She had helped to coordinate the Green Party
> USA's antiwar efforts these past few months, and was to report on these to
> The Greens national committee. "Not only did they stop me at the airport
> but some mysterious party had called the hotel and cancelled my
> reservation," Oden said.
> 
> The Greens National Committee -- the governing body of the Green Party USA
> -- is meeting in Chicago Nov. 2-4 to hammer out the details of national
> campaigns against bio-chemical warfare, the spraying of toxic pesticides,
> genetic engineering, and the Party's involvement in the burgeoning peace
> movement.
> 
> "I am shocked that US military prevented one of our prominent Green Party
> members from attending the meeting in Chicago," said Elizabeth Fattah, a
> GPUSA representative from Pennsylvania who drove to Chicago. "I am outraged
> at the way the Bill of Rights is being trampled upon."
> 
> Chicago Green activist Lionel Trepanier concluded, "The attack on the right
> of association of an opposition political party is chilling. The harassment
> of peace activists is reprehensible."
> 
> For further information, please call 1-866-GREENS-2  (toll-free)
> 
> -30-
> 
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