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Sheila Parks, Ed.D., is a former college professor. She had a spiritual awakening many years ago and left her career to do peace and justice work full time. She is the founder of the grassroots group On Behalf of Planet Earth (found on FB). The group vigiled at the Japanese Consulate/Boston in 2014, standing in solidarity with the people of Japan about the tragic and disastrous meltdown of nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi, The group now focuses on closing all nuclear power plants now. We are also focusing now on boycotting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The entire country of Japan is radiated and is not a place where we should be sending our young athletes or anyone else. Nuclear power plants are crimes against humanity, all living creatures, and our beautiful and so troubled planet Earth. They leave radioactive waste that lasts hundreds of thousands and even millions of years. They cause leukemia and other cancers. We stand in solidarity with all our sisters and brothers working to keep all fossil fuels in the ground, stop fracking, close all pipelines, halt the construction of new pipelines - that includes all the corporations that do this work for the oil and gas industries. She spent many years in the struggle against nuclear weapons with the Catholic Left. Many of those years involved lots of non-violent civil disobedience against nuclear weapons and other evils of the USA society. She spent a year in prison for a Plowshares action against first strike nuclear weapons, Trident II. Defending the abortion clinics with her body for many years was a part of her feminist activities. Parks spent 13 years working for voting rights, against all electronic voting machines and for the solution of hand-counted paper ballots. She is the author of a book, published September 6, 2012: "WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB)Elections" and the Founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots. She lives in Watertown, MA, and is an ardent socialist feminist, internationalist, investigative journalist and peace & justice activist/organizer.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013SCANDAL ABC: Defiance Is Not Dead and What About the Voting Rights Act? Even Olivia finally says, "The things we did to get you [Fitz] here. We went too far." I'll say! The same is true in the real life backstory because it is impossible that those in power do not know what voting rights activists, including myself, and computer scientists have been writing about election rigging since the presidential election of 2000 in Florida.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013For Crime of Century Scandal ABC Needs an Activist in the Writing Room "I have reason to believe that you were part of this conspiracy... and you had co-conspirators, possibly ones at the highest reaches of the White House"I will be talking with these individuals, looking to make a deal in exchange for their cooperation in revealing the details of this scheme to rig the election and subvert the will of the American people."
Saturday, May 10, 2014Open Letter to Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe We will tell our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and all the children of the world that we did everything we could possibly do to have no nuclear power plants become a reality on this planet.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015Listen Shinzo Abe: Do You Hear the Cries of the Children? I would have thought that you Shinzo Abe, who is the government of Japan, would care about all the children of the world and would be very concerned that so many of our world's children would get cancer from radiation from Fukushima. I know you yourself do not have children. But I wonder if you have ever seen a child suffer day after day after day and ultimately die from cancer? You are perpetrating this horror on the world
Friday, May 13, 2016Dear Hillary, your nuclear power plan is unacceptable - here's why Nuclear power plants are never safe; cannot prevent/fix disasters at npp: 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima. Nuclear plant catastrophe will surely happen. No way know where/when. Nobody wants radioactive waste in their yards. You must not, know you do not want, to leave this legacy of leukemia/other cancers to our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and their children, more than 7 generations out into eternity.
Series: Nuclear Power - Hillary Plans and Bernie Plans (2 Articles, 5053 views)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008SORT AND STACK ELECTIONS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE This articles discusses sort and stack elections in New Hampshire (NH), including real time observations of two sort and stack elections in NH. It also compares the sort and stack method of hand-counting paper ballots (HCPB) with the read and tally method of (HCPB).
Tuesday, November 13, 2012Your Vote Got Counted. Here's Why I believe that my side -- your side, the women's side -- won in part because voting rights activists were vigilant. They kept Americans watching, to make sure to document irregularities at the polls. As the result of a fair election, women now have a far better opportunity to lead and influence. More glass ceilings were shattered, although we still await total demolition.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018Voting and Hand Counting Ballots Can Bring Us Gun Control, No B.S. [Thank you Emma Gonzalez] I am very excited that the Parkland youth and all your allies are taking on the issue of voting. Thanks to you, I am imagining hundreds of thousands of youth from across the country counting all our paper ballots by hand".Parkland youth and all your allies, we the people need you to call for and demand that you yourselves hand count the paper ballots (HCPB) to ensure honest elections. Insisting on transparent HCPB elections wi
Tuesday, October 30, 2018Georgia And Texas On My Mind Moreover, "The Voting Machines In The [Emmy nominated] Feature Film 'HACKING DEMOCRACY' Counted America's Votes In The November 2016 Elections," the film website starkly reminds us. These voting machines will again be used to count our votes on November 6, 2018, in the upcoming midterms.
Monday, February 20, 2012In Honor of the Anniversary of the Wisconsin Uprising, February 11, 2011 - Wisconsin: The New Florida and Ohio? The 1% who own the electronic voting machine corporations are rigging the elections of "we the people," the 99%.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016Dear All Our Governors - I Am Asking Your Help to Save Planet Earth Now All governors of all states, especially you in the CoaIition, I am asking you to call for clean energy now AND for acting now for: the immediate closing of all nuclear power plants in your state and the country and leaving all fossil fuels in the ground - which includes stopping all fracking in your state, closing all pipelines in your state, and the permanent halting of all pipeline construction in your state.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012Crashing at the Intersection of Women's Rights and Voting Rights I defended the abortion clinics with my body for a very long time. I do not want to do that again and fervently hope that those of you who have not done so, never have to.
Sunday, December 10, 2017Dear Doug Jones, all our rights depend on our right to vote and have our vote counted as cast Hope you win /w lanslide. I try very hard not 2 do worst case scenarios. So I will mention this briefly. If it comes to your losing in such a close election, do not concede, please. It could be a chapter. Kerry did not learn from Gore. Did we get anything good with both of their concessions? Demand a recount. A hand-counted paper ballot recount, publicly observed and w/ security of chain of custody ballots and memory cards.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013Healing the Wounds: An Activist's Notes for a Scandal Episode Alika, while appreciating Olivia's honesty and courage in making her confession, is not sure her sponsee sees the big picture. She wonders if Olivia understands that by rigging the election, she played a big role in causing more years of climate change. Finally, Alika says to Olivia, gravely but gently, "Do you understand that the climate crisis is one of the most dire consequences of the rigging of the 2000 Florida electio
Thursday, January 18, 2018Dear Governor Baker, why do you give your moral authority over to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission? Please, let us listen to what you think about Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station rather than giving away all your moral power to the NRC. Please, let us talk with you, face-to-face, about what we think about nuclear power and Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. Please, let us collaborate on this crucially important issue to all of us. I am borrowing a hashtag from another group I am involved with #TimesUp CLOSE PILGRIM NOW
Friday, April 28, 2017What could you have been thinking of, Nuclear Regulatory Commission? To the Nuclear Regulatory Commission What could you be thinking of in transporting high level radioactive waste, the most toxic substance in the universe, across many miles in many states? What could you be thinking of in wanting to bury this high level radioactive waste in low income communities? This is not environmental justice,in fact - just the opposite. Bury it in your own yards instead of theirs.
Friday, October 5, 2018Dear Senator Collins, I am a nice Jewish woman sending you a Hail Mary pass. I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so,'" Kavanaugh wrote after reviewing a draft of what was intended to be an op-ed in favor of a judicial nominee.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008Cheney Indicted So, YES, Cheney et al deserve to be indicted now for the murder here at home of so many, not only for their immoral wars in Iraq and all over the planet. The war at home on people of color in our holding cells, jails, and prisons and death penalty is no less important than that war everywhere else.
