[Imc] Fwd: [mayday] Racist GOP drug law. Student aid cut. 40,000 this year alone. HEA bill.

Michael Walcher solaraycer at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 8 19:06:30 UTC 2001 

 
  eco-man <eco at lycos.com> wrote: To: eco at lycos.com
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From: "eco-man" 
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:00:44 -0500
Subject: [mayday] Racist GOP drug law. Student aid cut. 40,000 this year alone. HEA bill.
Reply-to: mayday at yahoogroups.com


Racist GOP drug law. Student aid cut. 40,000 this year alone. HEA bill. GOP = Republican Party. 

A quote from the MPP (Marijuana Policy Project) email farther down:
"The HEA drug provision has a disparate impact on different
  races. African Americans, for example, who comprise 13% of
  the population and 13% of all drug users, account for more
  than 55% of those convicted of drug possession charges."

Another in a long line of racist Republican-led drug laws. Much of the history of the drug war, past and present, here and abroad, has been as a means to exercise the racism of corporate right-wing white males in power. See timeline of some of these rightist-led drug laws and actions here: 
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gop.htm and  
http://corporatism.tripod.com/gop.htm 


---- MPP email begins -------- 

Date:  Sun,  2 Dec 2001 17:12:30 +0000 
From:  Marijuana Policy Project <mpp at mpp.org> 
Subject:  ALERT: Keep HEA Reform on the Congressional Agenda  
To:  mppupdates at igc.topica.com 
Reply To:  mpp at mpp.org 


[The following important message is being forwarded by the Marijuana
Policy Project on behalf of the Drug Reform Coordination Network.
Please direct any questions to drcnet at drcnet.org ]



                                                     12/02/01

Dear reader:

Many of you have helped our campaign to repeal the Higher
Education Act's drug provision by using our web site --
http://www.raiseyourvoice.com -- to send e-mail and faxes to
your representatives and senators in the US Congress. The HEA
drug provision has stripped about 40,000 would-be students of
their college financial aid this year alone.

Your help is needed again to help us keep HEA reform on the
Congressional agenda. Even in the midst of war and terrorism,
Congress is still tending to other business, including
education policy. But potential supporters in Congress need
to know that Americans still care about this issue, if they
are to devote their time to it amidst everything else that is
going on. Student governments have continued to speak out
against the drug provision -- nine new endorsements have been
garnered for our campaign this semester alone, bring the
total to 81 -- but your help in the form of grassroots
support -- letters, faxes and phone calls -- is needed too.

So please visit http://www.raiseyourvoice.com to tell
Congress you want them to remove the drug war from education
and repeal the anti-drug financial aid ban. When you're done,
please call your US Representative on the phone to make an
even stronger impact -- you can call them via the
Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121, or visit
http://www.house.gov to look up their direct numbers.

Students, visit http://www.raiseyourvoice.com and check out
the student involvement section to find out how to do more.
Also please download an online copy of our activist packet.
If you're already at work on this, please write us at
heareform at drcnet.org and let us know what's happening.

Please forward this alert to your friends or use the tell-a-
friend form that will come up on your screen after you send
your letter. And please consider making a donation -- large
or small -- to keep this effort moving forward at full speed.
Though our funding situation for 2002 is very promising,
we've had a shortfall of the non-tax-deductible lobbying
funds that we need for the campaign during the second half of
2001. Visit http://www.drcnet.org/donate/ to help, or mail
your check or money order to: DRCNet, P.O. Box 18402,
Washington, DC 20036. Contributions of stock can be made
through our Ameritrade account, account # 772973012, company
name Drug Reform Coordination Network, Inc.

Again, visit http://www.raiseyourvoice.com to write to
Congress and get involved in the campaign! Here are some
reasons the HEA drug provision is wrong:

* The vast majority of Americans convicted of drug offenses
  are convicted of nonviolent, low-level possession.

* The HEA drug provision represents a penalty levied only on
  the poor and the working class; wealthier students will not
  have the doors of college closed to them for want of
  financial aid.

* Judges already have the power to rescind financial aid
  eligibility as individual cases warrant. The HEA drug
  provision removes that discretion.

* The HEA drug provision has a disparate impact on different
  races. African Americans, for example, who comprise 13% of
  the population and 13% of all drug users, account for more
  than 55% of those convicted of drug possession charges.

* No other class of offense carries automatic loss of
  financial aid eligibility.

* Access to a college education is the surest route to the
  mainstream economy and a crime-free life.

            --- http://www.raiseyourvoice.com ---

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------- MPP email ends ---------

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*Republicans lead U.S. Drug War. Revised. Democrats follow Republican evil. Huge LINKS list! U.S. Drug-war Industrial Complex. Republican fundamentalist holy war. Friendly Fascism. Drug war leaders are the rabid right, hate radio, hate television, NRA (National Rifle Association), religious right, (snortin') George Bush the hypocrite, etc.. Republican-led drug war disenfranchises (no voting rights) millions of voters (mostly Democrat-voting blacks). 
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gop.htm and  
http://corporatism.tripod.com/gop.htm 

*Terrorism of USA. Death Squads, Drug War. LINKS worldwide. Revised. Millions killed over decades. Mostly US-run or US-aided terrorist death squads worldwide. Other death squads, too. Today's death squads, and older ones such as the US-run Phoenix Program during the Vietnam war. Terrorism and corruption at all levels of politics, police, society, media, business, unions, government, etc.. Lists in alphabetical and chronological order. Huge LINKS list. 
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/squads.htm and  
http://corporatism.tripod.com/squads.htm  


*U.S. Federal Mandatory-Minimum Drug Sentences. Most states also have mandatory minimums. 
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mandatory.htm  and 
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mandatory.htm 

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> http://www.famm.org/about1.htm  and 
> http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mandatory.htm ___  
> 1 kilo is 1 kilogram, which equals 1000 grams. 
> 1 pound equals 454 grams. 1 ounce equals 28.35 grams.  

> http://www.bop.gov/fact0598.html#Drug and 
> http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gop.htm and 
> http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x23279 

The federal sentences above are for NON-VIOLENT possession only. Similar laws exist at the state level. One must serve 80% of the sentence before parole is even considered. 1 gram of powder cocaine is turned into 0.89 grams of crack. Per capita use of crack is higher among whites than blacks.

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