Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.981112093712.11766A-100000@ux1.cyberenet.net> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:14:30 -0500 From: mailto:tuandbob@CYBERENET.NET Subject: Re: DEVEL-L Digest - 10 Nov 1998 to 11 Nov 1998 To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:32:15 -1000
> From: Jay Hanson <mailto:j@QMAIL.COM>
> Subject: A place to start
>
> http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/charter-petition.html
>
> Revoking Philip Morris's Charter--Petition
>
> Sign the online petition to revoke the charter!
>
> SINCE the first American corporations were chartered in 1776,
> their lawyers and lobbyists have been sneaking around in our
> courtrooms and state capitols, reconfiguring the law to better
> suit their needs.
Diatribes like this have no place in a newsletter like this. This newsletter is dedicated to development, not destruction.
The measure described below presents a clear and present danger to every doctor, dentist, independent druggist and other locally based professional (such as SunFrost) seeking to protect their family from the excessive zeal of people like the "we know better than you what's good for you" instigators of the measure by becoming a corporation. Insurance increases, based on the increased possibility of suit, may prevent new businesses from starting in Arcata, and could well be cause for established businesses to relocate outside Arcata.
Perhaps I was mistaken. Maybe articles like the above and below will support the development of areas just across the Arcata border. Imagine the Samoa Business Center as a haven for business refugees from Arcata. (Samoa is a very small town on the peninsula south of Arcata. It used to be known for a small lumber mill and the Samoa Cookhouse.)
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:59:46 -0400
> From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@NS.SYMPATICO.CA>
> Subject: ARCATA PASSES MEASURE F (was: A place to start
>
> If the state won't do it, the city can.
>
>
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> Date sent: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:29:05 -0600 (CST)
> From: Sid Shniad <mailto:shniad@sfu.ca>
> Subject: CAL: ARCATA PASSES MEASURE F ON DEMOCRACY &
> CORPORATE IMPUNITY
>
>
> To: Journal and Newspaper Editors, Social Movement Allies, and Friends,
> From: Paul Cienfuegos, Founding Director, Democracy Unlimited of
> Humboldt
> County (California)
>
> The following article contains 683 words. We would be very appreciative if
> you would reprint it in your next issue and/or share it widely with your
> friends and allies. We want very much for a huge number of Americans, of
> all political stripes, to become aware of the ground-breaking work that we
> are doing in Arcata, CA. If you do choose to reprint the article, we ask
> that you send us THREE FREE COPIES.
>
> Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
>
> Paul Cienfuegos
> Director, Democracy Unlimited
>
> POB 27, Arcata CA 95518
> 707-822-2242, fax 3481
> mailto:cienfuegos@igc.org
> new web site: www.monitor.net/democracyunlimited
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> Article Title:
> ARCATA VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORT BALLOT "MEASURE F" ON DEMOCRACY
> AND CORPORATIONS
>
> (THE FIRST BALLOT INITIATIVE OF ITS KIND IN U.S. HISTORY)
>
> On Tuesday, November 3rd, the small city of Arcata, CA made history. By a
> vote of 3193 to 2056 (60.83% to 39.17%), the citizens of Arcata left no
> doubt that they consider the power of large corporations in our society and
> in our community to be a very significant issue which needs to be addressed
> in a meaningful way.