----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul" <webmaster at globalcircle.net> To: <ActionGreens at yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 10:18 PM Subject: Oden a Victim of Dirty Politics
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> Oden a Victim of Dirty Politics
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> As a member of both Green parties, I must protest Starlene Rankin's "USGP
> advisory on detention of a Green at Maine airport" at
> http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=83634&group=webcast . Her
> failure to support a
> fellow Green manhandled by the military and barred from her flight raises
> disturbing questions about Rankin herself.
> The GPUSA statement on Nancy Oden's airport ordeal needs no "correction"
> from Rankin, as it is clearly labeled "GREEN PARTY USA COORDINATOR
DETAINED
> AT AIRPORT" (GPUSA) -- SEE http://www.greenparty.org/bangor.txt .
> The real confusion arises from Rankin's attempt to conceal the fact there
> are TWO Green parties. She is NOW working for Green Party of the United
> States - GPUS, but in fact she WAS the office secretary for Green Party
USA
> -- GPUSA-- until recently-- when she deserted under a cloud of allegations
> of embezzlement and sabotage against her employer, GPUSA. She fails to
> mention these publicly known facts. Also missing is any mention of her
> long-running war against Nancy Oden, the very subject of the Maine airport
> ordeal. Some have called Rankin's post dirty politics.
> Yet Rankin made the astounding claim: "The Green Party of the United
> States is the only Green political organization organized nationally as a
> party". One can imagine why she would like people to believe that.
> The confusion over party names is not the fault of the Green Party USA.
> The Green Party USA has been the Green Party for years, and held national
> conventions since 1984. SEE http://www.greenparty.org/intro.html
> But it wasn't until July 1, 2001 that the Association of State Green
> Parties formed a national party called Green Party of the United States
> --GPUS. SEE GPUS own page at http://www.greenparties.org/fec/fec.html .
> "7.01.01 - In our annual meeting in Santa Barbara on July 27 and 28, the
> Association of State Green Parties will vote on whether to form the
> national Green Party of the United States" And SEE GPUS own page at
> http://gpus.org>/press/pr_07_30_01.html "July 30, 2001: Greens Create
> National Party - Santa Monica, Calif. -- Green Party leaders today
> celebrated the formation of the Green Party of the United States"
> The choice of party name, Green Party of the United States, is
> unfortunate. But of course the confusion was predicted by the 16-year old
> Green Party USA when GPUS announced themselves last July as THE ONLY Green
> Party of the United States.
> For those interested in facts, there's an interview with Nancy Oden at
> http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/03/1813233 -- AND The
> Bangor, Maine paper report is at
> http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.html?ID=44958 . Even
AFTER
> she was completely searched and cleared, and her baggage, she was STILL
> barred from her flight, or any other flight out of there. Officials did
not
> report that she refused any search. IF she had, you can be certain they
> would have told the paper, and the paper would have reported it. The
> officials did not report any kind of disturbance or prohibited items on
her
> or in her baggage, nor any abusive language or threats from her. Note:
> Nancy Oden is a 60-year old activist. Does anyone seriously believe they
> had any legitimate reason to bar her from her flight to her party
> convention, and forfeit hundreds of dollars she paid for her ticket?
> Some political enemies are claiming it would be happening to others, if
> her account is true. But it IS happening to others, and probably far more
> often that we hear about. People lose their jobs when it gets back. But
> here's one such story, from a Sacramento reporter.
> http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2001-10-25/cover.asp#
> A Green Party leader in Canada --Joan Russow, PhD-- was "tagged" as a
> terrorist threat and barred from the APEC convention THREE YEARS ago
> http://www.green.ca/english/news/nr980929.htm . She found out by accident
> that she was on a secret hit list.
> We know thousands of activists have been stopped at border crossings,
> airports, train stations etc where WTO meetings were scheduled in
different
> countries. We saw police using video cameras to record marchers. We know
> they use face recognition computers for matching records on people.
> Bangor International Airport is a jumping off point for Canada.
> Nancy's enemies on the Right insist she wasn't on any target list. THEY
> haven't had problems with the law. Yet Nancy is a well known, highly
> visible activist in Maine, a veteran of Monsanto campaigns and antiwar
> efforts, among others, and her signed articles have been published in
Maine
> newspapers. Of course the FBI knows who she is. They know who everybody
is.
>
> Unfortunately, Nancy's flight plans were public information in advance,
> and serious activists have serious enemies who work covertly with
> intelligence and law enforcement.
>
> --paul, webmaster http://globalcircle.net
> networking for ecology, justice, and all our relations
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