The Bush administration has announced plans to open 60 million acres of America's last pristine wild forests to logging, drilling, and mining. It's the biggest single giveaway to the timber industry in the history of our national forests. It's time to speak up -- the official comment period on Bush's proposal is now open. Let the Bush administration know you want them to protect our last remaining wild forests, at:
http://www.moveon.org/roadless/
The Clinton administration issued a new rule protecting the last wild and intact roadless areas in our national forest system in 2001. The "Roadless Area Conservation Rule" was the product of more than two decades of broad debate and three years of official review and public participation. According to then Secretary-of-Agriculture Daniel Glickman:
Never before have the American people so actively participated in helping to decide how their public lands should be managed. The fact that more than 1.5 million comments were received from Americans shows that these truly are all of the people's lands, not just a few, and they care deeply about how they are cared for.
But the Bush administration's actions demonstrate clearly that they care only for the few and not the many. Since the year 2000, the timber industry has given $25 million in political donations to President Bush and his allies in Congress. According to The Salt Lake Tribune:
The proposed policy favors local loggers' interests over many Americans justifiable expectation that their last surviving forests will be protected by federal oversight. The national forests are, after all, owned by all Americans, not merely those who stand to gain economically or politically from logging.
Tell the Bush Administration that America's National Forests belong to ALL of us, not just the timber corporations. Let them know we won't be silent while America the Beautiful is threatened.
SAVE AMERICA AND DEFEAT BUSH! Great Articles Pertaining To NYC, Signs & The Upcoming Invading RNC.
GOP Delegates Met With Anti-Bush Signs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
by Sara Kugler
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0825-10.htm
Signs, Signs Everywhere: Activists Welcome Convention With Bush-Bashing Banners
NY NEWSDAY
by Sara Kugler
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--convention-signso0824aug24,0,972969.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
[Graphic artist Thomas Gallagher leaves a Motor City bar on the Lower East Side, Wednesday, August 18th, in New York, after posting one of the 3,000 anti-Bush posters he printed for storekeepers to display during the upcoming RNC. Throughout the city protesters like Gallagher are making their discontent clear with signs expressing anti-Bush sentiment. (photo by Kathy Willens)]
NEWS FROM THE PDA [PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA]
By now, you know about the PDA - Progressive Democrats of America, the "progressive wing of the Democratic Party." In the New York Times, Tim Carpenter, a former Kucinich Campaign staffer and the new Director of the PDA was quoted thus:
"Support for serious, sustained progressive effort to transform the Democratic Party is striking a real chord--both with rank and file Party activists, progressive activists and with the media."
The PDA is our natural continuation as supporters of Dennis Kucinich, and we are looking to this organization to bird dog John Kerry into a more humanistic and progressive president. There is a matching grant going on RIGHT NOW - they must raise about $4,000 to get a lump sum BY FRIDAY. Don't delay, Kucitizens. $20 or $30 apiece ought to do it. Please circulate this widely, too. Thank you so much! Here's the link:
http://pdamerica.org/donate.php
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