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New Haven, Hamden, WH Communities - Take Action - Insist
on being able to see intelligent TV programs.  Please! See our
Reading List on Recommendations

We the people need to get really informed.  Read the alternative press:
The  Nation,  Harpers, Mother Jones.  Watch "21st Century" TV progs.
The mainstream media has been coopted!             

Participate in America's democracy - PLEASE! Get involved with us!

Learn more about Gov. Rell's plans for the future of CT!

Does Gov. Rell have a comprehensive Energy Strategy for the future?  
The UI is getting a 35% increase in its rate!  Are you getting a 35% increase in
your income?  Have you ever gotten a 35% increase.  Why is this allowed?

  • Does Gov. Rell have a plan for universal health care?
  • Do you understand why it is important that everyone has access to good
    quality, comprehensive health care?  Go to:
    www.healthcare4every1.org - Learn more; become involved.

  • Do you know anything about how your state representative votes on issues
    you care about?

  • Have you ever taken an issue of interest to you to your state senator?

  • Participate in our valued democracy!  Pay more attention to what is
    happening in your state legislature before 2008 election comes around.

  • Do you know what issues the candidates are concerned about? Are those
    the issues you care about?

  • We the people need to hold our government officials accountable.  We can
    only do that if we participate in the political process.

  • To know what type of leader a politician will make, take a look at the leader
    he has been.  Get the facts people.  Do your home work!   CT has a higher
    min. wage than most states, but how many people can feed, shelter and
    clothes a family of four on $7.15 per hour?  

  • The electric bill is going up by 35%!  How will the poor manage?

  • Making Universal Health Care Affordable for workers and Businesses is
    Essential.  
  • Working people in the USA should not be worst of than people in some
    Third World countries.

  • Growing Better Jobs Is Critical - We Live In A Global World with Global
    Competition
  • A Global Education System Is A Must for the USA

What are your state senator's position on Universal Health Care for all
CT   citizens?  Do you know?  WE NEED Universal Health Care in CT!

What are their positions on the minimum wage?

What are their positions on property tax relief?

CT has one of the highest tax rate on gasoline; it went up again on July
1st!
Why is this the case?  Do you know?  

What is each candidate's plan to address the energy cost to CT
consumers?

Visit the website of each of your representative; read what they have to
say.

Write to your senator; ask questions; look at the details; participate!

Have your property risen by 50 or 60 percent?  Do you know why?

Who is making the decisions that are so adversely affecting your
pocketbook?  In a true democracy, the citizens participate!

Get the facts!  Ask tough questions!
Think carefully; it is important.  
We have a right to question the motives of our leaders.
What are the real effects of Iraq on the USA?  Do you know?

How many more American lives will be lost before we say
- No MORE!  NO MAS! Finito!  Look at the escalation people!

"The Hottest Places in HELL are reserved for those who, in time of great
moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."  
Dante Alighieri

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought."  John F. Kennedy.

Let us fight for our real democracy!  GET UP! STAND UP!
American Media Lacks Objective Perspective

Is America ready to deal with the candidates in this election year?
Race (Barack Obama), Gender (Hillary Clinton), and Age
(John McCain).  What are the issues to be addressed?

  • Is the mainstream media doing a good investigative job?
  • Are we being provided with factual data about what is going
    on around the country?
  • What about issues voted on by Congress this year?
  • Why is the price of everything going up sp quickly?
  • How is the WAR in IRAQ affecting our economy?
  • Where is the valuable economic information we need?

  • Has Hillary Clinton been treated fairly and equitably by the
    media, the political establishment & by the other candidates?

  • Has she been held to a different standard?
  • Why hasn't the political establishment supported Clinton?
  • What about all the foundational work she has done?
  • Had she been a white male, do you think she would have
    been treated in the same manner by the media?

  • What do you think of how Barack Obama has been treated?
  • Has he been challenged to the same degree as Clinton?
  • Is the media afraid to deal with the issue of "race" in a
    meaningful way? So far, how has the media dealt with race?
  • Is the manner in which Obama been treated (the awe and
    admiration afforded him) to do with race? To do with the
    fact that he does not fit the usual stereotype assigned to
    blacks? Is that an aspect of racism with a positive bent?

  • How has the media been dealing with John McCain?
  • Does it seem to you that Mr. McCain has a free reign?
  • What about the issue of the minister whose support McCain
    sought, then when it was revealed that this minister said
    some despicable things about Jews, he disavowed him?
  • Do you believe that Senator McCain did not know this
    man's views before?  Why hasn't he been challenged?
  • Does the fact that Senator McCain was a war hero qualifies
    him to be president?
  • How has Senator McCain demonstrated his overall
    competence?  Exactly what has he done nationally?

  • What are the main issues this election year?
  • What are the issues of importance to you?
  • Are any of those issues being addressed & by whom?

Be Aware of Breast Cancer Every Month -

  • The Amer. Cancer Society reports that approx. 3 mil women are living with
    cancer in the USA.  
  • Congress NEEDS to pass the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act that will
    ensure a min. hospital stay of 48 hours to any woman who has had a
    mastectomy.  Please go to:
LifetimeTV.com: Breast Cancer Awareness Petition.  
Let's end "drive-through" mastectomies in the USA, the leader of the FREE World.

If you meet the age guidelines below, and you have not had a Mammogram
in the past one year, please call your primary care provider for an
appointment.  Early detection is essential to effective treatment & survival

If you do not have a primary care provider,
call 789-3275- the hospital of St. Raphael, or call
785-4095,  Yale and ask for an appointment.

  • All women 50 & over should get screened for Breast &
    Cervical Cancer; get a pap test
  • Black women & women with a family history of Breast
    Cancer should start screening at age 35
  • Start monthly breast self-examination in your teens; learn the
    feel of your breast; know what feels normal.

There is a special effort to reach African-American and Latina underserved
women.  Watch "21st Century Conversations" TV programs of your public
access station for valuable educational information about all kinds of
Health Care Literacy

  • With cancer you cannot play the waiting game. The key to
    power is reliable & up-to-date information.

  • Men should get screened for Prostate Cancer.  Women
    should get screened for Breast and Cervical Cancers.  If you
    are 50 years and older, do it now!

  • Men should have a prostate check (a blood test & a digital
    rectal exam - DRE) performed by a urologist, and give a stool
    sample to be screened for colorectal cancer.  Avoiding
    getting tested is not responsible!

  • Call your primary care provider, St. Raphael at789-3275, or
    Yale at 785-4095 for an appointment today.

Visit: www.yalecancercenter.org to learn more.

Resources: Nationwide - www.cancer.org
American Cancer Society   1-800.ACS-2345

Local Support:    Smart Sisters with Linda Dickey-Saucier (203) 785-62087
Promote a 60-day spiritual journey in health, nutrition and exercise

Yale:     WiseWoman Breast Cancer Program - 688-2572 or  688-4563
www.cbccf.org/wisewoman

Sister's Journey - A Breast Cancer Support Group - (203) 288-3556
Advocates for early detection and good treatment (Meets at St. Luke's)

Hospital of St. Raphael - Sister-to-Sister 789-3517

www.healthywomen.org/newsroom/medicalexperts

www.ynhh.org/cancer/diagnosis/breast

www.med.yale.edu -
Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening

www.yalecancercenter.org
A CALL TO ACTION
There are many ways that you can promote tolerance and fight hate.  
Try some of the following for starters.

  • Speak up when you hear slurs. Let people know that bias
    speech is unacceptable (to you).  Apathy is as dangerous as
    hate.  Racial slurs are NEVER funny regardless of who is
    using them.  We need to be consistent in our opposition

  • Cross social boundaries.  Seek out opportunities to interact
    with people who are different from you.  Eat lunch with
    someone new (and different from yourself in ethnicity or
    culture).
  • Encourage your local police force to identify bias-motivated
    criminal acts as hate crimes.
  • Complain to media outlets when they promote stereotypes.
  • Look inside yourself for hidden biases.
  • Stand up against bullies, dictators, manipulators and evildoers

  • Do NOT allow yourself to be used against those who are
    powerless, or who have less resources!
Whatever happened to the:
CT Clean Energy Fund &
CT Energy Efficiency Fund?

How will the next Governor's
policies affect the
environment?

Why does the CT electric
rates keeps going up?

Who will best protect the CT
consumer?  Find out.
Stop Health Care Disparities!

  • We need to imporove the
    health care outcomes for the
    poor, the disenfranchised
    and people of color?

  • Why in the USA do we have
    health care statistics that are
    worse than those in some
    Third World countries?

Can you answer these          
questions for yourself?
The Demand of Citizenship: BE INFORMED!

Most of us seemed to be over worked with too little time
to be involved as citizens. We figure that those whom we
have elected will to the "right thing" as we would want
them to.  NOT TRUE!  Know the voting record!

GET INVOLVED!  We need a new type of thinking in
Washington DC;  2008 offers new opportunities.

  • Take a few minutes to communicate with your
    US Senator.  Make sure that he/she
    understands your views on important issues.

  • Being a senator is not a lifetime appointment.
    Elections are intended to hold elected
    officials accountable to voters.  

  • Keep track of the voting record of your reps.

  • We need new dynamic and creative thinkers;
    24 years are too long to serve.  The president
    serves for a max of 8 years!  Senators should
    have a max 18 yrs.

Are you concerned about what is happening to our
environment?  Do you think there is a serious
problem?

Do you know where your state senator stands on
this issue?  Do you care what kind of environment
your children or grandchildren will inherit from us?
We need more alternative media!

  • We need people in media who
    have the courage to speak up!

  • Resist bullies who seek to use
    lies, manipulation and volume to
    intimidate & silence others.

  • Help to make your community
    strong; contribute positively

  • Participate in politics; let your
    voice be heard by politicians

  • Join the National Democratic
    Senatorial Campaign Committee.

  • Help to elect senators who will
    serve the national interest
  • A small Democratic majority in
    Congress is not enough to
    change the direction of the US.

As a tax payer, are you satisfied with
how your dollars are spent?
Do you know how they are spent?
What is the real test of a
person's character?


  • Are we better off today than we
    were before we went into Iraq?

  • Are Americans safer than we were
    before we invaded Iraq?

  • What accounts for the price of
    gas in 2008?  Do you know?

  • Are we holding our political
    leaders accountable in this
    election season?
PLEASE DO NOT BE APATHETIC ABOUT
The Political Process.

Your vote is VERY important in Local, State & National
elections

Please be sure you are informed before you vote.

Democracy is a participative, thinking, reasoning,
mental process. Take it seriously!

Register and VOTE in your Election Primaries

Read Mother Jones Magazine for Sept/Oct. 2006:
Find it in your local library

"Lie by Lie - How Our Leaders Used Fear & Falsehood
to Dupe Us Into a Mideast Quagmire."
The Southern Poverty Law Center reminds
us to: Take a Stand Against Bigotry.  

See  article in The New York Times
NATIONAL Friday, July 7, 2006 Titled:
"Hate Groups Infiltrating The Military,
Group Asserts."

The article, written by John Kifner states-

  • "A decade after the Pentagon declared a
    zero-tolerance policy for racial hate
    groups, recruiting short-falls caused by
    the war in Iraq have allowed "large
    numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead
    extremists" to infiltrate the military,
    according to a watchdog organization."

  • The Southern Poverty Law Center,
    which tracks racist and right-wing militia
    groups, estimated that the numbers could
    run into the thousands, citing interviews
    with Defense Dept. investigators and
    reports and poatings on racist Web sites
    and magazines."

The above is an excerpt from The New York Times
article supplied by The Southern Poverty Law Center.
Copyright (C) 2006 by The New York Times Co.
Reprinted with permission

For more ideas, visit: www.tolerance.org

Above information provided through
membership in The Southern Poverty Law
Center
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effective advocate for yourself and your loved
ones.  Invest time in research and in acquiring
information.  Do not allow yourself to be intimi-
dated by bullies, those who use lies and vindic-
tiveness to smear others, or by the power elites.

  • Being knowledgeable and being
    informed gives you power over
    ignorance. Stay centered; stay focused.

  • Speak your peace with truth, honesty
    and fairness.

  • In illness, if you are given a diagnosis,  
    do not panic.  

  • Get as much information as you can
    about that diagnosis.  

  • Use reliable Internet resources
  • Use the public library.  

  • Find knowledgeable third parties who
    have either experienced this illness,
    surgery, or treatment and learn all
    that you can.

  • Knowledge IS POWER! Be informed.
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WE SHOULD BE ALL BE OUTRAGED!

  • In the month of April, in the year
    2007, in the country that considers
    itself to be the leader of the free
    world, a 12 year old African-
    American boy died from a tooth
    abscess which poisoned his body!
  • Why did this happen in the USA?

  • His mother is poor; she cannot
    afford to buy the very expensive
    health insurance that is available to
    her.  

  • Her son was on Medicaid.  But in
    this filthy rich country, there are few
    dentists and doctors who will see
    Medicaid patients because they
    complain that the reimbursement
    level is too low.

  • Although they charge those of us
    who have insurance twice as much
    as they should, some of these
    greedy,