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Green Party Coordinator Prevented from Flying by Armed Military
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| SOURCE: Green Party USA |
POSTED: 11/04/01 14:07:57 EST |
This calls for the greatest possible outcry -- we cannot allow our most basic rights to be trampled with such ease so early into the long struggle that faces us. Please forward as widely as possible!
Craig Gingold
Midpines CA
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To: actiongreens@yahoogroups.com
From: "Paul"
Date sent: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 20:26:20 -0700
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PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL MEDIA AND LISTSERVES.
THANX (Mitchel Cohen)
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:
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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 [was] scheduled to speak in Chicago 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 -- [met] 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 outraged at the way the Bill of Rights is being trampled upon." [Elizabeth Fattah, a Greens Party USA rep from Pennsylvania.]
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)
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| OUR REVIEW OF THIS ARTICLE |
| REVIEWED BY: Rick Rohe |
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Natural Health Links is not formally attached to any political party, Green or otherwise. This does not prevent us from being politically active, and we are alarmed at the Gestapo-like event described by the Green Party. We take it as an admonition for all Americans, of whatever political persuasion, to be active in the preservation of our Bill of Rights. Freedom is our most precious asset. |
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