Month October 2004

Via a California Green Party listserv posting by Mike Feinstein Our latest Green voter registration total, as of 9/03/04 is 156,914  making up 1.00% of the CA statewide total Our last total, as of 2/17/04 was 157,749  making up 1.05% of…

Bush’s internal polling paints dire picture for him

Little evidence of Qaeda plot timed to vote In early July, the Homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, declared that credible intelligence showed Al Qaeda intended to launch a “large-scale attack” inside the United States to “disrupt our democratic process.” Or maybe…

Greg Shaw pioneered indie rock labels back when no one thought it could be done. He died this week at 55. The LA Times has a comprehensive obit. “He was an extraordinarily important individual in the history of rock ‘n’ roll,”…

More than 800 former soldiers have failed to comply with Army orders to get back in uniform and report for duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Army said Friday. That is more than a third of the total who were…