November 7, 2006
You know you’ll do it eventually…so pick a number…any number.
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Letter to Judge Charles Wittenberg
Judge Charles Wittenberg
Lucas County Court of Common Pleas
Toledo, Ohio
Dear Judge Wittenberg, This letter contains the statements that I would make prior to sentencing on August 4 in your courtroom. But since some of what I have to say might influence your deliberations, it seems appropriate that I get this to you ahead of time.
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The Courage to Develop Democracy
May 25, 2005
Surely we must revolutionize how we produce and consume energy, developing energy-efficient buildings, mass transit, and renewables. But deep down we know we must do more. We must figure out why we don’t govern ourselves, what we must do to change, and how to win the power needed to democratically run our government and our economy.
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An open letter to Hon. Walter B. Jones Jr.
April 11, 2005
by Mike Ferner
An Open Letter to:
Hon. Walter B. Jones Jr.
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
Dear Congressman Jones,
Your remarks condemning Richard Perle at the April 6 House Armed Services Committee hearing show your heart has clearly been touched by the senseless tragedies spilling from this war. Your words give encouragement to those of us who long to see our country get out of Iraq and end the death and suffering of countless thousands, including our fellow citizens. Your words give us hope that perhaps your heart and your mind will be open to knowing truths you could not earlier recognize.
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Activists Should Focus On Corporations
Open Letter to 15 of the Biggest Environmental NGOs
(Signed by over 400 grassroots leaders, sent 11-17-94, never answered)
In July of 1994, the leaders of 15 of the larger environmental groups sent a mass mailing to their joint membership about the sad state of the struggle to save the biosphere.
The following letter is a challenge to those leaders by a group of other environmental leaders. It asks them to change their focus to the real problem — Corporate influence on legal systems world-wide.
173 grassroots leaders initially signed on to the letter and were then joined by about 240 more. Except for a polite reply from the Sierra Club, there has been no other response in word or deed.
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