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New call to oppose Fast Track
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Solidarity Network issues urgent call to oppose Fast Track legislation
[7-15-02]
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE MEXICO SOLIDARITY NETWORK
URGENT ACTION ALERT ON FAST TRACK
July 16-19 National All Call Week Against Fast Track:
No Blank Check for Corporate Interests!
AFL-CIO Sponsored Toll Free #: 877-611-0063
Join workers, environmentalists, family farmers and concerned
citizens everywhere in telling the Congress to say NO to Fast Track!
Fast Track is a sneaky maneuver that gives corporations and their
government cronies a free ride to go over the heads of the American
people and devise trade agreements in their own best interests. Under
Fast Track, trade agreements (like NAFTA, the WTO and the proposed Free
Trade Area of the Americas/FTAA) are delivered signed and sealed to
Congress AFTER they have been negotiated for an up or down vote by
Congress with no amendments allowed and only 20 hours of debate.
Fast-tracked agreements like NAFTA and the WTO brought us lost jobs,
attacks on local environmental laws, the "race to the bottom"
in labor and environmental standards here and abroad and the destruction
of more than 33,000 family farms.
Bush-appointed U.S. trade negotiators are "advised" by more
than 500 multinational corporations. Before its recent blowup, Enron was
a key advisor to U.S. negotiators promoting trade in
"services" - including energy deregulation - at the WTO! Under
NAFTA, foreign corporations have sued for billions of dollars in
compensation when public interest laws, like bans on chemicals or Buy
America requirements, cut into their profit margin. Fast Track is a way
to make sure that the public remains uninformed about how US trade
policy puts corporations over people. When an agreement is
"Fast-Tracked," the final product of these corporate-driven
negotiations is steamrolled through Congress without any chance for
debate or changes.
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SAY YOU WANT DEMOCRACY, NOT FAST TRACK!
Call the DC Capitol switchboard and ask to be connected to your Rep:
AFL-CIO Toll Free #: 877-611-0063 OR Capitol direct line: 202-224-3121
CHECK HERE FOR YOUR REGIONAL ALL CALL DAY!
 | TUESDAY 7/16 - SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST (AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, KY, LA,
MS, NC, NM, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV) |
| WEDNESDAY 7/17 - MID-WEST (IA, IN, IL, KS, OH, OK, MI, MN, MO,
NE, WI) |
| THURSDAY 7/18 - WEST COAST AND WESTERN PLAINS (CA, CO, ID, MT,
ND, NV, OR, SD, WA, WY, UT) |
| FRIDAY 7/19 - EAST COAST (CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA,
RI, VT) |
More information? Contact any member of the Global Trade Watch field
team at gtwfield@citizen.org
Phone 202-546-4996
Web site: www.tradewatch.org
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Mexico Solidarity Network
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org
E-mail: mexicosolidaritynetwork@mexicosolidarity.org
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For more background on this issue, check
an earlier report.
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GA actions
ratified (or not) by the presbyteries
A number of the most important actions of the 219th
General Assembly have now been acted upon by the presbyteries,
confirming most of them as amendments to the PC(USA) Book of Order.
We provided resources to help inform the
reflection and debate, along with updates on the voting.
Our three areas of primary interest have been:
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Amendment 10-A,
which removes the current ban on
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender persons being considered as
possible candidates for ordination as elder or ministers.
Approved! |
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Amendment 10-2,
which would add the Belhar Confession to our Book of
Confessions. Disapproved, because as an amendment
to the Book of Confessions it needed a 2/3 vote, and did not
receive that. |
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Amendment
10-1, which adopts the new Form of Government
that was approved by the Assembly. Approved. |
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Some blogs worth visiting |
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PVJ's
Facebook page
Mitch Trigger, PVJ's
Secretary/Communicator, has created a Facebook page where
Witherspoon members and others can gather to exchange news and
views. Mitch and a few others have posted bits of news, both
personal and organizational. But there’s room for more!
You can post your own news and views,
or initiate a conversation about a topic of interest to you. |
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created
this new blog for Voices of Sophia, introduces it:
After fifteen years of scholarship
and activism, Voices of Sophia presents a blog. Here, we present the
voices of feminist theologians of all stripes: scholars, clergy,
students, exiles, missionaries, workers, thinkers, artists, lovers
and devotees, from many parts of the world, all children of the God
in whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
thoughtful community. |
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John Harris’ Summit to
Shore blogspot
Theological and philosophical
reflections on everything between summit to shore, including
kayaking, climbing, religion, spirituality, philosophy, theology,
politics, culture, travel, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), New
York City and the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive
New York City Presbyterian Pastor. John is a former member of the
Witherspoon board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian
Church in Flushing, NY. |
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John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
A Presbyterian minister, currently
serving as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton,
Tenn., blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized
and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus, and
lightening up. |
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