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Skin! Eeeeeeeek!

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U.S. House of Representatives David Weldon (R) of Florida has proposed a bill to outlaw nudism (HR2107). His strategy is to overlay local laws over federal land. This means that any law on the books of a city, county, or state applies to federal park lands as well. If local laws were to say you cannot be naked, under the bill, they apply to neighboring federal park land too. What is it about the U.S. Constitution that Weldon does not seem to understand?

I guess we'd better hide our privates, before the courts remove them. Please contact your Congressperson, or we may lose our shorts over this one.

--traveler@serv.net

Ed. note: Hmmm. Since babies come into the world naked, does this mean Rep. Weldon wants to ban births? And if so, will he and fellow conservative Republicans be promoting abortion--which, is, after all, the only legal alternative that prospective mothers will have to being responsible for their minor's crimes under new tough-on-crime laws? The prospects boggle...

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Re: "Organized Crimes": Adolph Shicklegruber a.k.a. Hitler said it best. "The first essential for success is the perpetually constant and regular employment of violence."

--David Wright, Seattle

Knowledge is Power

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Two new initiatives for your information:

A new project sponsored by the NW Women's Law Center called "Young Women and the Law" will provide legal education to at-risk and homeless young women in the Puget Sound area. Topics covered will include: legal rights as they relate to welfare reform and parental control legislation; health care; sexual harassment; sex and race discrimination; and family issues such as paternity, child support, custody and visitation rights. For more info contact Mary Hanneman at 206-682-9552.

The Street Legal Advocates of Washington (SYLAW) is launching a project to provide Seattle area homeless and at-risk youth, male and female, with legal education and representation. SYLAW intends to educate on all areas of law, including criminal law. Representation will be confined to issues concerning civil law. For more info contact Casey Turpin at 206-543-3434.

--Thalia Syracopoulos, Seattle

Power To The People (Magazine)

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Princess Di was more than just another celebrity airhead. I was shocked to learn how, in England, she was vilified by the Tories because of her work to draw attention to and to ban land mines. This "birdbrain" doesn't know what she's talking about, etc. Yeah, leave military matters to us men.

I think almost all of us feel something--much to our surprise. We can harness this feeling and the world's outrage by campaigning like mad to ban land mines--petition, write newspapers and your Congressperson, etc.

This mass upwelling of public feeling--in an age when voting seems to many to be irrelevant--is an important indicator. The personal is political.

--Barbara Tomlinson, Seattle

Ed. note: For more info on the issue and what can be done, contact the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines: 202-483-9222.