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Sunday, July 26, 2009
CLEVELAND SECRET CLUB MEMBERS AND FRIENDS - IT'S DECISION TIME
Hey Members and Dear Friends,
Our friends and members are growing nationwide and we are even being recognized on a more global scale.
We've come to a crossroad and you're going to have to make a decision.
For the past year we have been focused on making our African American communities, and the larger community, healthier, safer and prosperous. We changed the balance of power in Congress, the Senate and the White House. We now need to keep pressuring Congress/Senate and the White House to do what is best for the African American community and the larger community.
What we will not do, is sacrifice the health and safety of our communities for monetary greed and corruption. That is why we have fully embraced a commitment to a "GREEN" economy, health care reform, and to financial reform (so we never again have a total economic melt-down).
Now there are special interest groups and lobbyists that are sending huge amounts of money to Congress and the Senate to stop reform legislation or to negatively influence legislation that would make quality, affordable, comprehensive health care available to every American.
There are outright lies being disseminated. For instance: Lie: If Congress passes this healthcare bill, it will get rid of Medicare and old people will lose their insurance.
Our friends and members are growing nationwide and we are even being recognized on a more global scale.
We've come to a crossroad and you're going to have to make a decision.
For the past year we have been focused on making our African American communities, and the larger community, healthier, safer and prosperous. We changed the balance of power in Congress, the Senate and the White House. We now need to keep pressuring Congress/Senate and the White House to do what is best for the African American community and the larger community.
What we will not do, is sacrifice the health and safety of our communities for monetary greed and corruption. That is why we have fully embraced a commitment to a "GREEN" economy, health care reform, and to financial reform (so we never again have a total economic melt-down).
Now there are special interest groups and lobbyists that are sending huge amounts of money to Congress and the Senate to stop reform legislation or to negatively influence legislation that would make quality, affordable, comprehensive health care available to every American.
There are outright lies being disseminated. For instance: Lie: If Congress passes this healthcare bill, it will get rid of Medicare and old people will lose their insurance.
In an interview with The New York Times, conservative pollster Frank Luntz admitted that he would continue raising the false specter of a ”Washington takeover” of health care—whether or not that was Obama’s actual proposal. “I’m not a policy person. I’m a language person,” Luntz said.
Click here for a detailed look at the blueprint for the propaganda campaign against health care reform.
Read: Here Come the Big Lies About Health Care Reform
We will boycott and we urge you to stop doing business with any business or individual or group that is trying to negatively influence or stop us from moving forward with quality, affordable, comprehensive health care for every American, and a "GREEN" economy.
We will boycott and we urge you to stop doing business with any business or individual or group that is trying to negatively influence or stop us from moving forward with quality, affordable, comprehensive health care for every American, and a "GREEN" economy.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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Our next project will focus on increasing the number of African American women (and women of color) in media.
We have, for the first time, an African American First Lady (Michelle Obama). We thought there would an immediate change in broadcast media, and that we would be seeing more African American women (and women of color) and especially attractive African American women in positive roles. It hasn't happened. For instance, if you watch the cable channel USA, you will notice that there are hardly any African American women, none in leading roles. In terms of featured or leading television roles in broadcast media, with the exception of Jada Pinkett Smith in "Hawthorne" (on TNT), and a few black sitcoms, there are very few African American women.
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WHAT IF NURSE HAWTHORNE WERE WHITE AND NURSE JACKIE BLACK
BLACK AMERICANS IN LOVE
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With the exceptions of broadcast media founded by Ted Turner (CNN, TBS, TNT), African American women are under-represented or absent altogether. The following scenario is what is prevalent: white female, white male or white male, white female, black male. These are the Hollywood formulas/models.
We want to change that formula; therefore, we will join with groups who want to change that model to include African American women and women of color. We will single out every network and every business that is advertising on a network or television show where there are no women of color or where women of color are under-represented.
We need you to get the word out and be critiquing to see what networks or television shows are under-representing women of color, and who the advertisers are. Ask your friends and family to critique these networks and television shows. In order to change the formula, we need to seriously stop the flow of money to these television networks. Money talks.
Once these networks, television shows and advertisers are identified, we will focus on boycotting these entities. You, of course, don't have to wait. You can do it on your own. Simply refuse to watch the television show or channel or refuse to buy the advertiser's product.
So you've got to make a decision.
1. If you want things to remain the same with rising health care costs, rising health insurance premiums, unequal access to health care and denial of health care, do nothing.
2. If you want to keep on seeing the same old Hollywood formula where women of color are under-represented or absent altogether, do nothing.
3. If you want things to change, then you have to change your behavior. Refuse to do business with a company who puts their interests (profits) first above your health and safety ... refuse to buy their product or use their service ... refuse to watch a television program or television station that has no positive roles for African American women or no positive leading roles for attractive African American women ... support movies and television shows that depict African American women in positive roles ... email or call your representative and voice your opinion on legislation ... use your vote to elect people who will do what you want (esp. on major legislation) ... don't vote for them again if they fail to do what they said they would do (the reason why you voted for them)
WHAT IF NURSE HAWTHORNE WERE WHITE AND NURSE JACKIE BLACK
BLACK AMERICANS IN LOVE
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With the exceptions of broadcast media founded by Ted Turner (CNN, TBS, TNT), African American women are under-represented or absent altogether. The following scenario is what is prevalent: white female, white male or white male, white female, black male. These are the Hollywood formulas/models.
We want to change that formula; therefore, we will join with groups who want to change that model to include African American women and women of color. We will single out every network and every business that is advertising on a network or television show where there are no women of color or where women of color are under-represented.
We need you to get the word out and be critiquing to see what networks or television shows are under-representing women of color, and who the advertisers are. Ask your friends and family to critique these networks and television shows. In order to change the formula, we need to seriously stop the flow of money to these television networks. Money talks.
Once these networks, television shows and advertisers are identified, we will focus on boycotting these entities. You, of course, don't have to wait. You can do it on your own. Simply refuse to watch the television show or channel or refuse to buy the advertiser's product.
So you've got to make a decision.
1. If you want things to remain the same with rising health care costs, rising health insurance premiums, unequal access to health care and denial of health care, do nothing.
2. If you want to keep on seeing the same old Hollywood formula where women of color are under-represented or absent altogether, do nothing.
3. If you want things to change, then you have to change your behavior. Refuse to do business with a company who puts their interests (profits) first above your health and safety ... refuse to buy their product or use their service ... refuse to watch a television program or television station that has no positive roles for African American women or no positive leading roles for attractive African American women ... support movies and television shows that depict African American women in positive roles ... email or call your representative and voice your opinion on legislation ... use your vote to elect people who will do what you want (esp. on major legislation) ... don't vote for them again if they fail to do what they said they would do (the reason why you voted for them)
Thanks guys. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Clevelands Secret Club
new website:
Clevelands Place of Dreams (and Truth)
http://clevelands-place-of-dreams.org/
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Americans Against Food Taxes Are Trying to Influence Health Care Reform- Stop Them With a Boycott
Congress may be considering taxing soda pop to help pay for health care, and coalition members from Americans Against Food Taxes are already trying to stop it.
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The Facts:
A Harvard School of Public Health review of 40 years of scientific nutritional studies implicates soft drinks as a major factor in the nation's obesity epidemic.
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Regular soft drinks today are sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup almost entirely, the introduction of which in the 1970s has been tied to the explosion of overweight people in America in at least one study, which appeared in the April 2004 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. A characteristic of fructose is that it does not affect appetite. One has no sense of being satiated in consuming fructose-sweetened drinks, encouraging over-consumption.
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Harvard also states that Obesity is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, causing some 2.6 million deaths worldwide each year. In the U.S., survey data on obesity on a national and state level is obtained using information gathered by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), which uses telephone interviews; national data is also collected using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which does in-person interviews and follow-up height and weight measurements on people who agree to a clinical exam. Lead author Majid Ezzati , Associate Professor of International Health at HSPH, and his colleagues analyzed and compared the data from the two surveys in order to quantify the level of bias when people self-report their height and weight, especially in a telephone interview. The prevalence of obesity in the U.S. states has been greatly underestimated. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) analyzed data from health surveys, which are used to estimate obesity levels in states. Because people tend to provide incorrect information about their weight and height, especially in telephone surveys, the researchers concluded that estimates of obesity in individual states have been too low, by more than 50%. Their study, which corrects for misreporting in those surveys, appears in the May 2006 issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
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While fat in American diets has decreased in recent years owing to the public’s response to this nationwide epidemic, obesity is still a growing concern. While removing fat from their diets, people will often increase their intake of sugar, high density carbohydrates, and starches. Low protein and fat meals often leave people feeling hungry, leading them to fill their stomachs as soon as possible.
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Cardiovascular disease has been linked to obesity. The treatment of heart disease puts a burden on our health care system, which adds to higher health care costs. The consumer pays the price for the obesity of others, in higher health care costs and higher health insurance premiums.
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Americans Against Food Taxes say:
"Discriminatory and punitive taxes on soda and juice drinks do not teach our children to have a healthy lifestyle and have no meaningful impact on child obesity or public health. They just further burden working families already struggling in this trying economy."
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We say BULL, BULL, BULL! There are obese children and adults, and obesity can lead to heart disease and other illnesses. The consumer pays the price (for their own obesity or the obesity of others) in higher health care costs and higher premiums.
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A lot of us are getting sick and tired of business and association lobbyists and special interests trying to derail or influence health care reform legislation. We are a government of the people, by the people, and not a government of the corporations, associations, and big business.
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We were particularly dismayed to see ads on television today from "Americans Against Food Taxes" trying to influence health care legislation.
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If you are as upset as we are, then we urge you to refuse to do business with Coalition members. If the coalition member is an association, refuse to do business with the association's members. When Coalition members stop trying to influence health care legislation, then and only then should you consider doing business with them again.
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Here's a short list of COALITION members:
Arkansas Beverage AssociationArkansas Grocers and Retail Merchants AssociationBernick’s Beverages and VendingBeverage Association of MississippiBeverage Association of TennesseeBeverage Association of VermontBeverage Truck & Trailer, LLC
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Clark Beverage GroupCoca-Cola Bottling Co. ConsolidatedCoca-Cola Bottling Co. High CountryCoca-Cola Bottling Co. United, Inc.Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Fort Wayne, INCoca-Cola Bottling Co. of Minden, Inc.Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Winona, MNCoca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc.Coca-Cola Company, TheCoca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.
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Kwik Trip, Inc.L & E Bottling CompanyLakeside Pepsi-ColaLancer CorporationLinPepCo PartnershipLouisiana Beverage AssociationLouisiana Retailers Association
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Ohio Chamber of CommerceOhio Council of Retail MerchantsOhio Grocers AssociationOhio Restaurant AssociationOhio Soft Drink AssociationOregon Beverage Recycling CooperativeOregon Soft Drink AssociationOriginal Roadhouse GrillPace Global Energy ServicesPennsylvania Beverage Association
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For the complete list of members:
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
BOYCOTT SHELL
BOYCOTT SHELL OIL
See previous post or go to http://clevelandssecretclub.blogspot.com/2009/04/case-against-shell-landmark-human_11.html to read why you need to boycott.
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***Check out this blog too: http://freefufu.com/blogs/finally/archive/2008/12/12/oil-spills-in-nigeria-boycott-shell.aspx ***
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