Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor

Today is the day that Utah voters will elect mayors in almost all municipalities, along with city council members.

Today’s Utah Election News reports in one article that statewide about 10 percent of voters turned out for the primary elections, with inconsistencies in turnout throughout the state, and voter turnout today is expected to ramin inconsistent.

All municipal races in Utah are non-partisan.

The Boston Globe reports that Republicans will be put on line at polls today in governor and mayoral races throughout the country.

There are many Greens around the country in races today and I am sure that Ken Sain will have the latest results in those elections.

If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United States, it would be now.

-Barbara Streisand

607,829 people have voted in the online Impeach Bush Campaign.
Barabara Streisand has come out in favor of this inititiave.

She continues:

In my opinion, it is two years too late … Shouldn’t war be an absolute last resort? We went to war because we were misled. And we should be angry because of the 2,000 American soldiers and the 200 armed coalition forces that have died. We should be livid because of the 15,000 American soldiers that have been horribly maimed and wounded. We should be disgusted because of the 30,000 innocent Iraqi civilians that have been killed and the 20,000 that are wounded after administration officials claimed that the US was going to liberate the Iraqi people. When does it stop? It stops with the indictment and impeachment of this corrupt, power-hungry, greedy group of incompetent leaders. How many more have to die before this happens?

An article appeared today in NetXNews – Utah Valley State College’s online Newspaper entitled
UVSC College Republicans show “This Divided State”.

The article has a one line quote from GPUT co-coorindator Shane Cutler, who was a panelist in the discussion following the showing of the film.

Nov. 12-Dec. 31, 2005: Buy Local, Organic, and Fair Made–Boycott Wal-Mart and the Chains. You can sign the pledge at: Organic Consumers.

A new program called Buy Local First has begun. It was started by the Utah Vest Pocket Business Coalition, a group of Utah busienss owners. Business members of the Buy Local First Campaign total more than 300. It’s free to join and it promotes a healthy community by advocating for consumers to spend their money in their local communities.

My friend has an activist retail shop that is part of this network.

Tom and I have a 501(c)(3) organization called Blue Sky Institute which has an arm on local consumerism. We had attempted to start a “Green Values Program” a few years ago but did not have the resources to continue it. We are happy to see that such a program has been initiated and implemented here in Utah.

The more of us that push this concept and educate people on why it is not a good idea to shop at the large corporations, the more likely there will be a paradigm shift back to the concept of local, community based economics.

I keep repeating this, but it needs to be repeated: Sometimes Davey wins……Eventually Davey will win.

The first
Carnival of the Green has begun.

In my links on the left sidebar of this blog is a link to the
Carnival of the Green Schedule.

The first one is at City Hippy.
I had submitted my article on Utah’s Dumping Grounds but it wasn’t included the collection of articles. I submitted it within the time frame but when
I wrote to the organizers I found out that even though I sent it on Friday (the 4th – the criteria was to have articles submitted that were posted on our blogs between 10/21 and 11/4) my email wasn’t received or therefore opened until Saturday and so I didn’t qualify for the first session. Dang. Email delivery is so quirky sometimes! However, it will be in session #2. Yay! The bottom line is, though, this is a great thing that is happening. The more things like this that are organized, the more the green messages get out.

Jen’s Green Journal‘s article on Toxic Neighborhoods did get in to the first session!

I had experienced a very hectic and emotional week so I was behind on getting things done they way I want, including timelines for submissions of things required of me, therefore I was doing things almost all week at the last minute! Oh well, better luck next time!

It looks like Carnival of the Green will be a big success and very valuable. What a great concept!

Mary MacElveen, a VHeadline commentator, has written a poignant piece on the .recent attacks on Bush in Argentina.

It speaks for itself.

Jen’s Green Journal has a post on it today about a place where you can take a survey to see what color your blog is. I took it. Mine turned out the same as hers, so I guess we have a lot in common!

Your Blog Should Be Red

Your blog is full of intensity and passion. You are very opinionated – and people love or hate you for it. You have the potential to be both a famous and infamous blogger.