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Gateway Green Alliance Archives - 2003
Released December 28, 2003. The Gateway Greens are in solidarity with the grocery employees' union striking against Shop 'n' Save stores and locted out of Dierbergs and Schnucks stores. The Gateway Greens are committed to restoring community-directed public education in the city of St. Louis and oppose privatization. The Gateway Greens are committed to restoring community-directed public education in the city of St. Louis and oppose privatization. The Green Party of St. Louis supports students, teachers and parents in rejecting the actions taken by the St. Louis School Board and its management team. Vector Control representative Larry Kettelhut refused a Green Party invitation to come to its August 6 forum to outline the City's policy on pesticide spraying. Green Party representatives will join other University City residents to ask its City Council not to use pesticides for mosquito control in summer 2003. The Green Party has called for Forest Park Community College to apologize and recognize the right to free speech on campus. DeVivo and Deraps favor a civilian police oversight board with subpoena power. A February 5 forum may feature only critics.
Noted researcher and Biodevastation 7 organizer Michael K. Dorsey will speak at the Gateway Green Alliance's largest annual gathering. A public forum featuring Irving Clay, Jason Murphy, Jeannette Mott Oxford and Willie Marshall. Speakers will describe repression by the St. Louis City police before, during and after Biodevastation 7 and the World Agricultural Forum. The website for the controversial gathering that the Gateway Greens hosted in May.
Don DeVivo for President of the Board of Aldermen; Bud Deraps for 24th Ward Alderman.
A schedule of Gateway Green meetings for the month of November. Last updated 4 February 2004. Contact: contact@gateway-greens.org. |