- Upcoming Events
- Libertarians of Macomb County Has New Meeting Location
- Ottawa County Libertarian Party Elects Officers
- Michigan Millennium Marijuana March
- BARC Could Use a Helping Hand
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- Upcoming Events
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May 2, 2000
- Wayne County LP - Monthly Meeting. Dinner 6:30pm Program 7:45pm. Nomination of Candidates for Public Office
- Location: La Trattoria Restaurant Michigan Avenue near Schaffer Dearborn MI
- Contact: Joann Karpinski Phone: (313) 925-6917 E-mail: MOMJOANN@aol.com
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May 2, 2000 - 6:30 PM
- Kalamazoo Libertarian Party Meeting
- Location: TGI Friday's 5650 W. Main Street Oshtemo, MI 49009
- Contact: Tim Miley Phone: (616) 668-3951 E-mail: thmiley@yahoo.com
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May 4, 2000 - 7:00 PM
- LP of Washtenaw County business meeting, including planning for LPM State Convention
- Location: Dominick's Restaurant, 812 Monroe St., Ann Arbor
- Contact: James Hudler Phone: (734) 475-9792
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May 6, 2000
- Rally at the Capitol to support PRA 2000
- Location: Lansing
- Contact: Kathy Kennedy Phone: (517) 628-3915 E-mail: mikybaby@aol.com
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May 8, 2000 - 7:00 PM
- LP of Livingston County invites you to attend our monthly meeting. Dinner at 7 p.m. and business begins at 8 p.m.
- Location: Mexican Jones Restaurante, 675 W. Grand River, Brighton, MI
- Contact: Matt Dickinson Phone: (810) 231-1254
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May 8, 2000 - 7:00 PM
- South Central LP, Hillsdale-Branch county meeting to complete candidate paper work and plan for election and other activities.
- Location: Filmore's Restaurant on US-12 on the west side of Jonesville at the railroad tracks (about 1/2 mile west of M-99).
- Contact: James Parker Phone: (517) 439-0643 E-mail: jamesp@hillsdale.epcorp.com
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May 9, 2000 - 6:30 PM
- Monthly Meeting of the Lapeer/Genesee Libertarian Party; if you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Be there! All are welcome!
- Location: Whitey's Restaurant, Davison MI, Whitey's is about 1 mile North of I-69, on M-15 in Davison. (Just N. of the railroad tracks)
- Contact: Trish Marie Phone: (810) 742-7268 E-mail: Trishmare@aol.com
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May 10, 2000 - 6:00 PM
- Libertarians of Macomb County monthly meeting. Drinks and dinner at 6:00 PM, business begins at 7:00 PM. Our speaker this month will be Gaile Rice of Beacon Education Management. Gaile was instrumental in the legislation that made charter schools possible in Michigan as well as running one of the first schools in the state.
- Location: NEW LOCATION! Miles World Resturant, 17689 Masonic, Fraser, MI 48026, 810-415-4500
- Contact: Diane Barnes Phone: (810) 774-1625 E-mail: DBarnes98@aol.com
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May 11, 2000 - 6:30 PM
- South Central Meeting, Calhoun County. Topics will include time and place for future meetings, ideas for building a strong Libertarian Party in Calhoun County, candidates, and election year activities.
- Location: Moonraker Lounge and Restaurant, 11401 17 Mile Road, Marshall (just south of Marshall, 2 mi. or so south of the traffic circle).
- Contact: Al McCallum Phone: (517) 857-2531 E-mail: admccallum@columnist.com
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May 11, 2000 - 7:00 PM
- LP of Washtenaw Co. business meeting, with planning for LPM State Convention
- Location: Dominick's Restaurant, 812 Monroe St., Ann Arbor
- Contact: James Hudler Phone: (734) 475-9792
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May 11, 2000 - 7:30 PM
- The monthly meeting of the Libertarian Party of West Michigan
- Location: Brann's in Grand Rapids at Leonard and 131.
- Contact: Bill Gelineau Phone: (616) 249-9735 E-mail: gelinea@iserv.net
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May 12, 2000
- Deadline for article submission for the printed May/June Michigan Libertarian newsletter.
- Location: Send articles to Keith Edwards.
- Contact: Keith Edwards Phone: (810) 777-7468 E-mail: keithmarni@aol.com
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May 16, 2000 - 7:00 PM
- Monthly Meeting of the Libertarians of Allegan County
- Location: The Blue Heron Coffeeshop -- Downtown Allegan on the riverfront - - Directions: Driveway to riverfront is at corner of Hubbard & Chestnut, drive behind Docherty’s. -
- Contact: Rick Dutkiewicz Phone: (616) 673-5503 E-mail: rdoogie@datawise.net
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May 17, 2000
- Monthly meeting of the St. Clair County affiliate.
- Location: Armbrusters Sports Bar and Grill located at 1211 Griswold, Port Huron, MI 48060. TX: (810) 982-2255. Join us for dinner at 6:00 PM. Business begins at 7:00 PM.
- Contact: Richard Friend Phone: (810) 982-7178 E-mail: rfriend2000@advnet.net
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May 18, 2000 - 7:00 AM
- LP of Washtenaw business meeting, with Convention preparations.
- Location: Dominick's Restaurant, 812 Monroe St., Ann Arbor
- Contact: James Hudler Phone: (734) 475-9792
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May 19, 2000
- The Libertarian Party of Michigan will hold its state nominating convention on the weekend of May 19-21, 2000. At this convention the LPM will nominate candidates for public office, elect state party officers, and select delegates to the National LP presidential nominating convention in Los Angeles. In addition, exciting activities and speakers are planned for both Libertarian activists and the general public.
- Location: Clarion Hotel, 2900 Jackson Rd., Ann Arbor
- Contact: Emily Salvette Phone: (734) 668-2607 E-mail: salvette@aol.com
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May 22, 2000 - 6:30 PM
- Meeting of the LPM Ballot Access Retention Committee
- Location: Home of Barb Goushaw, 19514 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield MI (between Southfield and Evergreen Roads. Call or e-mail Barb Goushaw if you need better directions.)
- Contact: Barb Goushaw Phone: (248) 355-5058 E-mail: bgoush@aol.com
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- For more events, see the online calendar at:
- http://www.michiganlp.org/lpmonline/events.php
- Libertarians of Macomb County Has New Meeting Location
The Libertarians of Macomb County will begin meeting at
a new location starting with its May 10, 2000 monthly
meeting. The new location is Miles World Resturant, 17689
Masonic, Fraser, MI 48026, 810-415-4500.
Our speaker at this meeting will be Gaile Rice of
Beacon Education Management. Gaile was instrumental in the
legislation that made charter schools possible in Michigan
as well as running one of the first schools in the state.
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- Ottawa County Libertarian Party Elects Officers
by Jason C. Miller
The Libertarian Party of Michigan's newest affiliate
elected a slate of officers on April 25th. The officers of
the OCLP are:
Chair
Jason C. Miller
Vice Chair
Tim Campbell
Secretary and Treasurer
Mark Logsdon
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- Michigan Millennium Marijuana March
For Immediate Release
Release date: Monday May 1, 2000
Contact: Gregory Carl Schmid Phone (517) 799-4641 Fax
(517)799-6850 www.ballot2000.net
Re: Michigan Millennium Marijuana Marchers Walk to
Capitol Steps in Lansing May 6, 2000
Thousands of people from all walks of life will join
together for a march to the state capitol next Saturday,
where there will be a demonstration for the acceptance of
medical marijuana at the steps of the capitol building in
Lansing on May 6, 2000. The sponsoring organization is Cures
Not Wars, which organizes simultaneous marches in over a
hundred locations all over the world for the first Saturday
in May.
"As the War On Drugs has escalated, many truly innocent
people have been affected in tragic ways; these tragedies
have served increase support for the movement to end the
current substance abuse policy. We would like to see a move
toward a policy that helps people and diminishes drug abuse
instead of exacerbating it. The Millenium Marijuana March
gives the public an opportunity to become better informed on
these issues.", said the MMMarch Organizer and Michigan
Cures not Wars spokesperson Kathy Kennedy. (517) 628-3915
The march in Lansing will begin at 11 AM at Olds Park,
proceed to the Capitol Building to hear speakers on the
Capitol steps at noon, and disperse at 2 PM for a block
party on Washington Square, ending at 5 PM. The march is
intended as a show of solidarity for by people who know
about the life-saving benefits of medical marijuana. Tommy
Chong, of Cheech and Chong fame, will be in town performing
that night, and is invited to participate in the parade.
City and State officials, with the cooperation of local
businesses, have granted parade and rally permits to the
group, and will close off Michigan Avenue for the duration
of the march. "Despite the controversial nature of medical
marijuana, or maybe because of it, the government is duty
bound to give these peaceful demonstrators their day in the
sun. That's the law in America, and that's why reformers in
our great country can work within our system without
resorting more desperate measures. Our system can work if we
have the political will to make it work. It's our
government-it's not our master! Besides, there are darn few
people in government, business, or the media these days who
can honestly swear they have never smoked pot. The time has
come to stop pretending.", said Saginaw Attorney Gregory
Carl Schmid, a keynote speaker at the event and the Author
and Director of the Michigan Personal Responsibility
Amendment Initiative. "PRA will bring peace with honor in
the war on drugs by repealing 60 year old prohibition laws
against compassionate medical and adult responsible use of
marijuana away from kids, cars, and the public. PRA will end
the asset forfeiture nightmare by earmarking drug, alcohol,
and gambling related forfeitures for voluntary education and
treatment programs. Forfeiture money should be used on
education, which is the key to preventing drug abuse. Police
can get all the money they need from the government
appropriations process, and should not have access to
forfeiture funds as an unaccountable "collars for dollars"
incentive program." said Schmid.
Also speaking at the March will be George Griffith and
Renee Emory Wolfe, the M.S. sufferer who once received
medical marijuana legally as part of a pilot study in
Michigan in the eighties, when Senator (now Governor) Engler
was spearheading a popular legislative initiative to get the
federal government to legalize marijuana for all its medical
benefits. She gained the national spotlight last year when
she smoked marijuana in a congressman's office in Washington
D.C. She was convicted in a week long trial on a possession
charge this winter, and received a token $50 fine from the
trial judge who said, "If the purpose of this trial was to
educate, then consider me educated". "This kind of
enlightened thinking is why Marijuana prohibition is about
to be thrown on the ash heap of history, where it will be
remembered as the 'McCarthyism of the 90's'!", said Schmid.
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- BARC Could Use a Helping Hand
The Ballot Access Retention Committee will be preparing
the mailing to promote their June "Slash the Pork" fund
raising event this Wednesday, May 3, at Brab Goushaw's
house.
You know the old saying: "Many hands make light work."
Please try and come by and help out -- even if you can only
spare an hour or two.
They plan to start at 6:30 and will have pizza, beer
and soft drinks available (although B Y'ing your Own B is
always appreciated).
Barb's address is:
19514 W. 9 Mile
Southfield
(west of Greenfield, east of Telegraph)
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