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Pacifica Activists Hang Banner in DC 6-9-01 |
from: http://pacificacampaign.org/ 6/9 Pacifica Activists Hang Banner on National Association of Home Builders HQ
- Sat., June 9,2:00PM
---------------- from the list at: http://savewbai.tao.ca Pacifica Activists Hang Banner on National Association of Home Builders HQ at 14th and M Streets in Washington, DC, across from the Wyndham Hotel See the banner [pictured above] live at the NAHB's own website: http://nahb.com/cam/default.htm see the banner at http://pacificacampaign.org (the banner was up for over an hour, at which time Saturday workers on the construction site removed it). In the predawn hours of Saturday, June 9th, Pacifica activists stealthily achieved the upper floors of the headquarters of the National Association of Home Builders in Washington, DC. A banner was affixed to the exterior of the building and the messengers disappeared into the dawn of Dupont Circle. The banner reads "KEN FORD off the BOARD - NAHB OUT OF PACIFICA", and was placed to coincide with the NAHB's Spring Board of Directors' meeting. Ken Ford is the Vice Chair of the Pacifica Board, and embodies many of the problems that riddle the board and necessitate its removal. He has overstayed his legal term on the Board, he supported the illegal bylaw changes that made the Board self-selecting, he claims ignorance of glaring problems created by the management that is accountable to the Board, while simultaneously claiming that he, the mere Vice Chair, has no control whatsoever over the network's management. He assigns total responsibility to Board chair David Acosta. Ken Ford is a named defendant in the three current lawsuits, and his resignation will be relentlessly pursued by the Pacifica Campaign. The NAHB is one of the country's most egregious perverters of the political process, pouring $2 million dollars into the coffers of pro-business candidates every election cycle (70% Republican, 30% Democrat). The NAHB opposes the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, disability access laws, and anti-sprawl initiatives. They are very forthcoming with their agenda, laid out at http://nahb.org. An individual activist has organized an email facilitation website through which you may send a message about Ken Ford to hundreds of his colleagues at NAHB affiliate organizations nationwide. While http://progressiveportal.org has been accused of launching a "Spam Campaign" against the NAHB, this form of facilitated remailing is not spam (bulk junkmailing from one source), but simply offers a collection of email addresses that the NAHB posts themselves on their websites, and offers a routine that sends your email, with your email address as the sender, to that publicly-available list. To send these people an email with your concerns about Ken Ford, go to http://www.progressiveportal.org/letters/pacifica/ |
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